FIGHTBACK on Venues Day, October 17th
"Without grassroots music venues, music dies. It's that simple."
FIGHTBACK 2017, Tuesday 17th October at Camden Electric Ballroom, London.
This Feeling announced as Music Venue Trust's event partners.
Fightback Tickets are available now: ticketweb.co.uk/event/289175 - A limited number are upgrades with access to exclusive VIP/After Show area - in association with Jack Daniels, Red Stripe, Watneys IPA and Jack Daniel's Tennessee Cider - are also on sale. All proceeds from this event go to support the work of the Music Venue Trust Emergency Response Service, which has already fought 40 potential venue closures since it launched in October last year.
Venues Day was one of last year's most impressionable days in TheZineUK's story last year. It's the annual convention of the extremely essential, grass roots music industry. Results are always achieved. Pictured below; Bang Bang Romeo at FIGHTBACK on Venues Day 2016 (This Feeling Stage)
Following the announcement of Fightback 2017 in the first week of September, Music Venue Trust has been deluged with offers to help out and support the event. This Feeling, the UK’s most acclaimed club night for future Rock and Roll stars, has joined the search for artists to play at the event. “We’re on the hunt for the artists that want to play at Fightback and support Grassroots Music Venues” says Mark Davyd, MVT CEO, “and now we’ve got one of the best promoters in the UK behind us.”
Mikey Jonns, head of of This Feeling explains:
"Without grassroots music venues, music dies. It's that simple. The Libertines, Kasabian, Catfish, Blossoms, every fucking band, they'd be nowhere without these venues, these venues are Rock n Roll's heritage and lifeblood. Bands big and small, punters, media, labels, festival promoters, we need everyone to come together.
Let's show we aren’t going to take the closure of our music venues, our lifeblood, our love, lying down. We know there are bands out there who feel strongly about this and will want to come and support venues threatened with closure right now. There's apathy everywhere, it's dangerous. EVERYONE needs to get behind Fightback - without it our future will be very different."
This is not a time in history to be damaging Britain's economic hopes. Tim Hopkins, owner of The Cellar in Oxford recently spoke to the local press, and could be talking for all the small venues of the nation, many of them come together with supportive industry on Venues Day.
“There’s a lot of history and it’s been a stepping stone for a lot of bands. There is already a shortage of venues, and to close a place of this size would leave a massive gap. It’s used by breakthrough bands, students, different sections of the community and for fundraisers. . . “It stands for freedom of speech and independence. . . “They would be robbing the next generation and depriving musicians of the future a place to hone their craft.”
This Feeling delivers riotous, guitar powered events in more than forty cities across the UK in such venues. October 1st to 15th is the 'Alive' tour, their biggest yet. "It's us against prime time and all that shit..." says Tom Newman, of tour headliners, The Shimmer Band.
October 2017 is also when This Feeling goes up to 11, anniversary wise.
“In a world where our legendary venues are being mercilessly snatched by developers, This Feeling offer one of the few consistent platforms for up and coming bands. If you're going to see the emergence of a new great band you'll see them at This Feeling first.” (Carl Barat)
“What This Feeling is doing at the moment is vital. When Rock and Roll makes its glorious comeback, you can bet your arse you will have heard it first at This Feeling.” (Noel Gallagher)
FIGHTBACK will be the perfect finale party to the ALIVE tour, and This Feeling is the perfect partner for Music Venue Trust. Want to go? Want to play? Get involved with Venues Day. Artists wishing to appear live at Fightback can contact the charity vie email: fightback[at]musicvenuetrust [dot]com
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