As you are surely aware, Long Division was built on the back
of Rhubarb Bomb’s long term support of Wakefield
bands and a desire to get them heard by more people.
Some raised eyebrows were directed towards our seeming
preferential treatment of a particular Wakefield
based record label. Whilst I have no problem with declaring that, yes, we have
put on a shedload of absolutely awesome Philophobia bands, it did feel like it
was the time to spread the net a little wider. Different styles, different
sounds, different faces.
So we asked bands based in the WF postcode who hadn’t played
our main day before to send us some links and words and picked a selection of
them for our warm up gigs, which will take place in March.
The bands were offered the chance for us to charge an entry
fee, which would have gone 100% to the artists, but they preferred to make the
gigs free. I’m sure there is an article in that decision somewhere, but I’ll
come back to it later.
So, instead we have four gigs of four bands over four weeks.
And here they are, with at least four of the bands ending up playing the
Saturday of Long Division on June 8th. I’m properly looking forward
to seeing and hearing some new stuff, I hope you can make it down too.
The Hop, March 8th
The Hop, March 21st
Velvet, March 28th
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