Cheltenham music scene is a brand new free web forum for music makers and music lovers in and around Cheltenham and Gloucester to meet and chat.
I hope that over time the forum will become established as a focal point for the musicians community in Cheltenham and provide a place for musicians to promote gigs, find new members and equipment and keep up to date with happenings on the local scene.
The only was this is going to happen is with the participation of the local bands and musicians by posting on the board and spreading the word to other local acts and music lovers as we work together to grow and expand the music scene in Cheltenham. I hope to secure enough of a foothold to run CMS nights in local venues where newer bands can support more established local acts and get a chance to perform to people who may otherwise not get to see them. It is my hope that members of the board with more experience will offer their knowledge and wisdom to those starting out, and that the younger bands can use the board to search for useful link such as PA hire or simply as a springboard to promote gigs.
I will be building a forum based 'myspace directory' for local bands to make it easy for acts and music fans to check out each others work.
So pop along to CMS and start posting and spreading the word, from small acorns an all that!
Take it easy
Saturday 21st July, Undiscovered Youth the Festival at The Bandstand, Stratford Park, Stroud.
11am to 6pm.
Headlining are Irritant and they are supported by TWiG (on at 11.40), Joy Box, Monks Milk, Measured Pleasure and Exocet plus 12 singers / musicians and an actor.
Come see us playing bar Riga in Stroud this Saturday supporting South African band the Parlotones (signed to Universal) and a DJ set from the Mystery Jets.
Bar Riga has kindly offered to put on free transport from Cheltenham to Stroud and back if there is enough interest in going, but we need to find out soon so please message us back if you are interested in coming.
Once again, please message us back quickly so we can see if there's enough interested to sort out transport. Also the first 5 to get back to us get free tickets to get in. Hope to see you there
