Its been 6 months since we re-entered The Vic.

Its been tough – weve been had….. But we LOVE it.

Derby is once again a main player on the Uk music circuit, to see why head over to http://www.thevictoriainnderby.co.uk and take a look at what we have done in such a short space of time……

Micky x

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The Auditorium Presents with Michael Sheehan Promotions


Half Man Half Biscuit
+Echolocation


The band was formed in 1984 by Nigel Blackwell (vocals, guitar), his brother Simon (guitar), Neil Crossley (bass, vocals), David Lloyd (keyboards), and Paul Wright (drums). Simon Blackwell and Wright had previously been members of the band Attempted Moustache.^[1] Their debut album, 1985′s Back in the DHSS topped the UK Indie Chart and reached number 60 in the UK Album Chart.^[1][2] The band’s first single, “The Trumpton Riots”, topped the British independent chart in 1986, and they went on to perform at Glastonbury Festival.^[2] They were post-punk, similar to Josef K or The Fall. The second single, “Dickie Davies Eyes”, also topped the indie chart.^[2] In late 1986, the band split up, with a collection of radio sessions and unreleased tracks following.


The band reformed in 1990, with a performance at the Reading Festival following, and a new single, “Let’s Not” issued before the year was out, followed in 1991 by a collaboration with Margi Clarke on a version of Edith Piaf‘s “No Regrets“. The third album was McIntyre, Treadmore And Davitt, released in October 1991. By the time This Leaden Pall was released in 1993, Wright and Lloyd had left the band, with Carl Alty joining on drums. Simon Blackwell left the following year, with Ian Jackson joining. Jackson and Alty departed in 1996, to be replaced by Ken Hancock (guitar) and Carl Henry (drums), this line-up remaining to this day. Since reforming, the band have produced an album every two or three years.


Half Man Half Biscuit were championed by DJ John Peel, for whom they recorded twelve sessions and it was on his programme in 1990 that the band announced their return.


References to Half Man Half Biscuit can be found on episodes of Brookside, Hollyoaks and Byker Grove, as well as an episode of Football Focus and the BBC serial “Elidor”..


The band played live more infrequently. Half Man Half Biscuit turned down the chance to appear on The Tube, as Tranmere Rovers were playing that night, even though Channel Four offered to fly them by helicopter to the game.


The band’s styles parody popular genres, while their lyrics allude to UK popular culture and geography (Blackwell often refers to North Wales, often in the context of hillwalking in Snowdonia; he also appears fond of Shropshire, East Anglia, The West Country, and Oxfordshire) and British or international football. Sylvia Plath, Thomas Hardy, and the Bible are referenced in his lyrics.


Event Details
Thursday 28th April
8pm-12am
16yrs +


Tickets Information
£18.50 Advance
More On The Door
Tickets online from: http://www.michaelsheehanpromotions.co.uk/tickets
micky@michaelsheehanpromotions.co.uk

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The Auditorium in association with Michael Sheehan Promotions presents:

35 YEARS OF PUNK - PUNK ALL DAYER

12 HOURS
1pm 1am

UK SUBS
GOLDBLADE
LURKERS
POUNDAFLESH
THE GUILTY PLEASURES
ED TUDOR POLE
KUNT AND THE GANG
CERTIFIED
FIRST WAVE
SOUTHSIDE REBELLION
B MOVIE BRITZ
COMMON SIDE EFFECTS

The Auditorium
Leicester City Centre
3 tiered Venue

750+ Capacity ??
Funktion One

Good Friday 22nd April 2011
1pm-1am
16+ ID May be required
£17.50 advance
More On the Door

Online tickets  http://www.michaelsheehanpromotions.co.uk/tickets

Tickets in store @ Rockaboom/2funky

The Auditorium
40 Market Place
Leicester Market
Leicester City
LE1 5GF

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This Is How It Feels launch night

Friday March 18th 2011

Feat Tom Hingley (inspiral carpets) with support from locals The Falling Leaves + The Eaves

We’ve booked the best remaining survivors from the greatest era of British music EVER to play at our shows and club nights.

We are please to announce that TOM HINGLEY, CHRIS HELME and MARK MORRISS will play shows in Leicester

The format is simple. This Is How It Feels starts off at 8pm with a good old fashioned QUALITY show from an artist/band with a 100% relationship with the music. When the shows over the night goes into the classic THIS IS HOW IT FEELS clubnight till 3am.

RE-LIVE THE BEST TIMES OF YOUR LIFE – ALL UNDER ONE VENUE ROOF!

FIREBUG LEICESTER

FRIDAY MARCH 18TH 2011

TOM HINGLEY [THE INSPIRAL CARPETS]

THE FALLING LEAVES

THE EAVES

DOORS 8PM :: £8 [INC CLUB TILL 3AM] £5 FROM 11PM

FRIDAY APRIL 15TH 2011

MARK MORRISS [THE BLUETONES]

DOORS 8PM :: £8 [INC CLUB TILL 3AM] £5 FROM 11PM

FRIDAY MAY 20TH 2011
CHRIS HELME [THE SEAHORSES/THE YARDS]
DOORS 8PM :: £8 [INC CLUB TILL 3AM] £5 FROM 11PM

PRICE

£8 TO GET INTO THE GIG AND STAY FOR CLUB NIGHT [8PM]

£5 TO GET INTO JUST THE CLUBNIGHT [11PM]

VENUE
FIREBUG LEICESTER http://firebugbar.net/

PROMOTER AND INFORMATION
MICKY SHEEHAN http://www.michaelsheehanpromotions.co.uk/

TICKETS

MICHAEL SHEEHAN PROMOTIONS http://www.michaelsheehanpromotions.co.uk/
THIS IS HOW IT FEELS http://www.thisishowitfeels.co.uk/

GIGANTIC TICKETS http://www.gigantic.com/gigantic/search.aspx?o=startdate&l.parcname=michael_sheehan_promotions

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LOSTALONE ANNOUNCE ONE OFF HOME TOWN SHOW MID TOUR.

Michael Sheehan Promotions is delighted to announce that LOSTALONE will play their hometown of Derby on 20th Feb 2011.

We have been working hard with the bands management and agents to secure this show, which is right in the middle of the bands arena tour supporting MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE.

With the bands second studio album release imminent this may be the last time that you will be able to see the band in the intimacy and superb surroundings of venues like The Venue on Abbey Street in Derby.

Support comes from recent album debutants WHITEMOOR, the intriguing duo CRUSHING BLOWS, and new comers DOWN TO A SCIENCE. Please visit all the bands pages linked below and show them your support buy downloading/buying their music and more importantly coming to the show.

Tickets are limited – here’s all the information . . . . .

LOSTALONE http://www.lostalone.com
+ WHITEMOOR  http://www.myspace.com/whitemoor
+ CRUSHING BLOWS http://www.myspace.com/crushingblowsmusic
+ DOWN TO A SCIENCE http://www.myspace.com/downtoascienceuk

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VENUE INFORMATION
THE VENUE, 47-49 ABBEY STREET, DERBY, DE22 3SJ
01332 203 545
enquiries@thevenue-derby.co.uk

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LOCATION MAP
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/place?cid=17190086211119348276&q=THE+VENUE+DERBY&gl=uk

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TRAVEL
EAST MIDLANDS AIRPORT
http://www.trentbarton.co.uk/service_times.aspx?serviceid=197

NOTTINGHAM AND CHESTERFIELD
http://www.trentbarton.co.uk/service_times.aspx?serviceid=159

MANCHESTER
http://www.trentbarton.co.uk/service_times.aspx?serviceid=169

LOUGHBOROUGH
http://www.trentbarton.co.uk/service_times.aspx?serviceid=197

ASHBOURNE
http://www.trentbarton.co.uk/service_times.aspx?serviceid=167

RAILWAY NETWORKS
http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/

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DOORS OPEN 7:30PM

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AGES 14+

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TICKETS FROM
GIGANTIC TICKETS
http://www.gigantic.com/gigantic/home_lostalone.html

MICHAEL SHEEHAN PRMOTIONS
http://www.michaelsheehanpromotions.co.uk/

BPM RECORDS, SADDLERGATE, DERBY
[over the counter, available Monday 10am]

TICKETS ARE £5

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PROMOTED, BOOKED AND LOOKED AFTER BY . . . .

http://www.michaelsheehanpromotions.co.uk/

micky@michaelsheehanpromotions.co.uk

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INFORMATION STATIONS

FIREBUG LEICESTER
FRIDAY APRIL 1ST 2011
KID BRITISH + GUESTS + UP THE BRACKET DJ’S

As British as a great day out by the seaside, as British as fish and chips, as British as broken families and sink estates, as British as laughing in the rain, as British as banter in the face of adversity, as British as the classic pop that echoes through the decades, as British as the multiracial music that soundtracks our lives- Kid British are the 21st century punky reggae party.

They are the sound of the mash up of music styles that fast forward their way throughout modern UK. They are the party political broadcast from the 24-hour party people. A multiracial, multi ethnic reflection of modern Blighty.

Kid British manage to take the grit and grime of real life, of their lives and turn it into a celebration. These are songs of growing up in the confusion of the modern big city, of kitchen sink dramas and street politics in a country now run by its Eton paymasters.

Kid British is a party and the bands infectious onstage energy and raucous bonhomie is guaranteed to get this socially conscious bash started.

DOORS 8PM :: £9 [INC CLUB TILL 2AM]

PRICE
£9 TO GET INTO THE GIG AND STAY FOR CLUB NIGHT [8PM]

VENUES
FIREBUG LEICESTER http://firebugbar.net/

PROMOTER AND INFORMATION
MICKY SHEEHAN http://www.michaelsheehanpromotions.co.uk/

TICKETS
MICHAEL SHEEHAN PROMOTIONS http://www.michaelsheehanpromotions.co.uk/
GIGANTIC TICKETS http://www.gigantic.com/gigantic/search.aspx?o=startdate&l.parcname=michael_sheehan_promotions

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This Is How It Feels is BACK!!!!!

We’ve booked the best remaining survivors from the greatest era of British music EVER to play at our next run of shows and club nights.

We are please to announce that TOM HINGLEY, CHRIS HELME and MARK MORRISS will play shows in Leicester and Nottingham. Below are full details for both the partaking venues FIREBUG and THE CENTRAL.

The format is simple. This Is How It Feels starts off at 8pm with a good old fashioned QUALITY show from an artist/band with a 100% relationship with the music. When the shows over the night goes into the classic THIS IS HOW IT FEELS clubnight till 3am.

RE-LIVE THE BEST TIMES OF YOUR LIFE – ALL UNDER ONE VENUE ROOF!

INFORMATION STATIONS

THE CENTRAL NOTTINGHAM

FRIDAY FEB 11TH 2011

THE CEDARS + THE KINGSMANSHIP + THE SIGHTS

DOORS 8PM :: £4 [INC CLUB TILL 3AM] £5 FROM 11PM

FRIDAY MARCH 11TH 2011

CHRIS HELME [THE SEAHORSES/THE YARDS]

DOORS 8PM :: £8 [INC CLUB TILL 3AM] £5 FROM 11PM
FRIDAY APRIL 8TH 2011

TOM HINGLEY [THE INSPIRAL CARPETS]

DOORS 8PM :: £8 [INC CLUB TILL 3AM] £5 FROM 11PM
FRIDAY MAY 13TH 2011

MARK MORRISS [THE BLUETONES]

DOORS 8PM :: £8 [INC CLUB TILL 3AM] £5 FROM 11PM

FIREBUG LEICESTER
FRIDAY MARCH 18TH 2011

TOM HINGLEY [THE INSPIRAL CARPETS]

DOORS 8PM :: £8 [INC CLUB TILL 3AM] £5 FROM 11PM

FRIDAY APRIL 15TH 2011

MARK MORRISS [THE BLUETONES]

DOORS 8PM :: £8 [INC CLUB TILL 3AM] £5 FROM 11PM

FRIDAY MAY 20TH 2011

CHRIS HELME [THE SEAHORSES/THE YARDS]

DOORS 8PM :: £8 [INC CLUB TILL 3AM] £5 FROM 11PM

PRICE

£8 TO GET INTO THE GIG AND STAY FOR CLUB NIGHT [8PM]

£5 TO GET INTO JUST THE CLUBNIGHT [11PM]

VENUES

FIREBUG LEICESTER http://firebugbar.net/

THE CENTRAL NOTTINGHAM http://www.centralmusicvenue.co.uk/
PROMOTER AND INFORMATION

MICKY SHEEHAN http://www.michaelsheehanpromotions.co.uk/

TICKETS

MICHAEL SHEEHAN PROMOTIONS http://www.michaelsheehanpromotions.co.uk/

THIS IS HOW IT FEELS http://www.thisishowitfeels.co.uk/

GIGANTIC TICKETS http://www.gigantic.com/gigantic/search.aspx?o=startdate&l.parcname=michael_sheehan_promotions

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The Auditorium in association with Michael Sheehan Promotions presents
BUZZCOCKS

PLUS FULL SUPPORTING PROGRAMME TO BE CONFIRMED

There are hardly any bands performing today that genuinely deserve the adjective ‘legendary’. Buzzcocks are one of those very few. Their achievements are staggering: one of the original holy trinity of British punk (with the Sex Pistols and the Clash), innovators of the independent record scene and genuine punk rock superstars who have been cited as inspirational by bands as diverse as REM, Nirvana and Green Day. Eight studio albums, over twenty singles and EPs, a constellation of compilations, covers by other bands and songs on film soundtracks and advertisements have put Buzzcocks among the top echelons of British recording artists. A Mojo Inspiration award in 2006 is just one of the many accolades they have received for their work.

Buzzcocks have been thrilling audiences for over thirty years. Once called ‘the Beatles of punk’, their music blends high-octane guitar, bass and drum power with heartrending personal statements of love won and lost or dismay at the modern world to create a unique catalogue of unforgettable and immortal music – music they continue to deliver to fans old and new around the world with undiminished passion and energy.

Buzzcocks have forged a unique relationship with their public and are deeply loved and revered by a global audience. They are simultaneously true to their original ideals and open to new ideas – a happy result of their own uncompromising and individual standing.

Over the years, generations of musicians have tried the Buzzcocks methodology and have made their own variations of it. Most are generous in their thanks to the band that started it all. Those impressed by the recent waves of ‘punk’ bands would do well to spend an afternoon with Buzzcocks’ seminal pop treasure Singles Going Steady, consistently the band’s biggest seller and a masterclass in genre-busting songcraft. This compilation of their first UK Top 40 hits is a classic album in every sense, an astounding collection of stunning moments such as ‘Orgasm Addict’, ‘What Do I Get?’ the anthemic ‘Harmony In My Head’ and, of course, the song that has become their calling card: ‘Ever Fallen In Love With Someone (You Shouldn’t’ve Fallen In Love With?)’. These songs have been covered by dozens of groups in many styles, a testament to the originals’ strengths not as slices of punk rock history but as examples of songwriting craft.

Buzzcocks are the true godfathers of punk-pop, having laid down that infinitely superior archetype. They are also a band with a past, present, and future. It is a history the group’s members could never have imagined back in the hot punk rock summer of ’76. Says Pete Shelley: “Looking back on it now, what’s going on is like echoes of the Big Bang. You look around you in society and the culture; so many things would not have been the same if there never was punk rock. It’s strange; it’s like a science fiction novel. But to us at the time, it just sprung naturally.”

They’re still doing it, better than anyone. Sometimes the archetype is clearly the best. Buzzcocks – no. 1 in people’s hearts. Icons, superstars, legends.

Buy your tickets now !

Saturday 29t Janurary 2011
18+
8pm-12am
£16.50 Advance

Tickets online

@ 2funky:

<LINE COMING SOON>

@ Gigantic

http://gigantic.com/gigantic/home_buzzcocks.html

Tickets in store this next week !

Tickets with FATSOMA.com REPS

The Auditorium
40 Market Place
Leicester
LE1 5GF

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The Auditroium in association with Michael Sheehan Promotions presents

TWISTED WHEEL

A rare chance to see the Wheel push the pedal to the floor before the headline new album tour next year. The Manchester band, renowned for their punk energy and tight songs have been ripping up venues the length and breadth of the UK over the past two years, keen to keep closer to you all and as far from the bullshit as possible.

Playing old favourites plus a few new songs, this is an opportunity to see the new line-up (Jonny Brown – guitar and vocals, Eoghan Clifford – drums, Stephen Evans – bass) embody the full-on revolution TW always hinted at.

There’s a reason why most gig sells out despite no major media support to date.

Buy your tickets now !

Saturday 27th November
16+
8pm-12am
£9 Advance

Tickets online
Gigantic www.gigantic.com/gigantic/event_gce_22379a.html
2funkytickets and the ticketsellers info up soon

Tickets in store
rockaboom/2funky

Tickets with FATSOMA.com REPS

The Auditorium
40 Market Place
Leicester
LE1 5GF

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