NoSolos - a new UK based music resource

[Pod]

NoSolos - a new UK based music resource

Apologies for the downright spammyness of this post, but it may interest a lot of you on here, especially those who are 'into' their music, even more so if you make it!

www.nosolos.co.uk aims to be a web-based resource for fans of left-of-centre bands, promoters, and the bands themselves, the country over; where you can discuss what's cool, what's not cool, swap ideas, swap gigs, and generally enjoy music. In other words, this is a community resource that we want to gear towards a national level, and it's mainly for bands that are what we term "left of centre" - a bit off-kilter, into pushing generic boundaries, yet not the kind of thing you'd find as house hold names, progressive - but we're in no way elitist scum! We embrace everything as long as it's in someway new, fresh, exciting, not-shit and generally up for having a good time and telling 'the man' to stick it.

The domain name itself, nosolos, is something of a joke. We're not trying to ban or dissuade guitar solos at all - infact we downright love 'em when done right - and we're not trying to kill off rock 'n' roll either; it's more of a nuance or general connotation of how we dislike the way music is turning very much into form over function. All style - no substance. All gob and no kecks. We're into punk, post-punk, new wave, hard indie, experimental, dance, rock 'n' roll, hip hop, anything... so long as it pushes the boundaries a bit. The last thing we want to see at a gig is a band thinking they can get away with the same three chords that've been played since 1972...

Sign up, get doing and enjoy yourselves. But the most important thing is that you pass this website address on to everyone and anyone you think would be interested. If you're at university in a different town to the one you're currently in, take this with you in September.

Let's really push this forward. Get enough people involved, and something could really happen here!

Cheers,
The Mod Staff at www.nosolos.co.uk

[Chicky]

Well i posted the site on the local gigs website (www.sheermusic.co.uk *athem*) and have managed to get 3 members to  sign up. Hope the site takes off.

[Pod]

Thankyou very much for that!
At the moment it's mainly populated by people in the preston area, as most of the members know each other from the www.prestone.co.uk boards [a big resource for local music in preston ] but we're slowly attracting people from other lands.

Thanks for that though! Every little helps.

[Chicky]

heh, it's strange that you always post at 1-2am pod. Any reason for this?

[Evil]

He works from one to two.

Great find it seems. Being from the US it doesn't help me much, but I'm sure there are plenty of people on the forums that will find use it.

[m0ds]

Cool, it's a forum.

Will there be a website with some content on at some point? I'd certainly find that more useful