12/5 - GROTESQURY, HAVE YOU SEEN MY GHOST, BACKFOOT TRAILER, ANCIENT OF DAYS, TOMORROW AND TOMORROW, HER NAME WAS HOLLYWOOD, THE AQUARDS 6:00, $10
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12/11 - THAT NEW RETRO (EX MEAN GIRLS AND MR. MACHINE), FRIENDS FOR HIRE (MYSPACE RECORDS), SUNDAY NIGHT SCENE (CHAMBERLAIN RECORDS), THE PRIVATE LIFE OF DAVID REED (CHAMBERLAIN RECORDS), SHOOTOUT THE STARS, SATURDAY AGAIN 6:30PM, $10
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12/12 - WITHIN DEVASTATION, THIS COULD SPELL DISASTER, UNDEAD VIKING MAFIA, WAKING ATLANTIS, MY CURSE YOUR BLESSING, SELF SACRIFICE, SANCTIMONIUM 6:30PM, $10
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1/1 - NEW YEARS DAY METAL FEST with STORM THE SHORELINE, BLAME IT ON THURSDAY, CITADEL OF THE CONDEMNED, RAPE THE WILLING, PSYCHOTIC SIN
1/2 - I, THE CAPTIVE (& FRIENDS) with A FIGHT FOR LIFE
1/3 - BURY ME BREATHING, FEEDING THE FOXES, CITY OF IFA, GORED BY A DEER
1/4 - WORD TRAVELS FAST, THE RED CLICHE, HANDGUNS, BEYOND CITY LIGHTS, VICTORY BY REVENGE
1/8 - CITY LIGHTS, SWING THE COAST, THE TIRED AND TRUE
1/9 - THIS COULD SPELL DISASTER, WAKING ATLANTIS, RAPE THE WILLING, SIMATIC, HURDLE THE DEAD
1/10 PARANOIA DANCE PARTY!
1/11 - THE UPWELLING (DOGHOUSE RECORDS), FLORAL TERRACE, COLLIDE AND SCOPE, DEBUTAUNTS
1/15 - FRESHMAN 15 (STANDBY RECORDS), THE STATUS (DOG HOUSE RECORDS), THE ALUMNI CLUB, MEADOWOOD, THE PROMISE DRIVE, THE LEGENDARY TEAM
1/16 - UNDEAD VIKING MAFIA, SUBDIVISIONS, A PATH LESS TRAVELED
1/19 - FRIDAY NIGHT FEVER, THE SUMMER HIGHLIGHT
1/22 - IONIA
1/26 - ON PARADISE BOULEVARD, DID YOU MEAN AUSTRALIA?
1/27 - THE GUNSHOW, TO THE LIONS (Formerly A Stained Glass Romance), THE CONTORTIONIST
2/2 - EVERY YOU
2/3 - ANNIVERSARY - www.myspace.com/anniversaryclub, TRUNK AND TALES - www.myspace.com/trunkstales
2/7 - SOUTHSHORES, LOVERS BALL
2/11 - LIFE ON REPEAT (EQUAL VISION RECORDS), NINEBALL, LEO, I THE CAPTIVE
2/12 - STAGES AND STEREOS, THE TIRED AND TRUE
2/13 - IONIA
2/19 - SENT BY RAVENS (TOOTH AND NAIL RECORDS), SHUT UP AND DEAL, CHASING THRILL, CIRCLE OF CHAIRS
3/7 - "The Beer Pong TOUR-nament" with THE GREAT AMERICAN BEAST (TRUSTKILL RECORDS), VEGAS MASQUERADE (STANDBY RECORDS), HEY BASTARD, UNDEAD VIKING MAFIA, STORM THE SHORELINE
3/14 - IONIA
DIRECTIONS:
Swayze's
2543 Bells Ferry Rd. Suite 650
Marietta, GA 30066
From Atlanta: Take I-75 North. Get off at Barrett Parkway / Kennesaw (exit 269). Turn right. Swayze's is 1/2 of a mile on the right just past a Quick Trip gas station and BB&T Bank. We're at the corner of Barrett Parkway and Bells Ferry.
If you get lost please call us at 770-590-0111.
INFORMATION:
For general information e-mail swayzesvenue@gmail.com
Our website is www.swayzesvenue.com
Search Swayze's Venue on Facebook and become a fan for up to the minute updates on what's going on at Swayze's.
Follow us on Twitter.com/swayzesvenue
All shows are all ages, all the time.
Tickets are sold at the door the night of the show.
Advance tickets can be purchased at www.swayzesvenue.bigcartel.com
Shows with larger touring bands can and will sell out (but usually later in the night), so please arrive on time or buy tickets in advance at www.swayzesvenue.bigcartel.com
Swayze's is the best of breed and longest running all ages music club in the Southeast United States. We have an excellent reputation for being the friendliest place to play and are world renowned for being a music career launching pad for many of today's top emerging independent artists.
Swayze's offers a safe place for kids of all ages to enjoy original live music from various national touring and local acts.
Swayze's is not publicly funded by your tax dollars and represents no religion or political cause. In other words, Swayze's has no agenda, just shows.
We're not a bar or eating establishment. There's no alcohol or smoking allowed inside of Swayze's.
Swayze's is a private club that reserves the right to refuse service to anyone for any reason. Loitering on our property is strictly prohibited. If you come here to loiter, to fight, to use drugs, or to damage our property, please plan on us calling the police and pressing charges against you.
SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL SCENE!
THE PERFORMANCE OF COVER SONGS OR COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL OF ANY KIND IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED AT SWAYZE'S.
SWAYZE'S DOES NOT PERMIT LIVE AUDIO OR VIDEO RECORDING WITHOUT A SIGNED AGREEMENT BETWEEN ALL PARTIES INVOLVED IN ADVANCE.
BOOKING:
Please read all our booking and payment information before contacting us.
Contact us through our Myspace page from your band's Myspace page -- www.myspace.com/swayzesvenue
OR
through e-mail at swayzesvenue@gmail.com
No booking calls please.
We specialize in booking a very small and specific musical niche -- SCENE and UNDERGROUND MUSIC, which means punk, indie, emo, sreamo, pop punk, ska, power pop, scene pop, scene metal, metalcore, deathcore, hardcore, acoustic, folk, experimental, noise, alternative comedy and spoken word.
We do not book "old man metal / alterna rock". Basically, if you sound like NICKELBACK, GODSMACK, AUDIOSLAVE, SEVENDUST, PUDDLE OF MUDD, etc., we WILL NOT be able to help you out. Please don't be offended by this notion as there many other opportunities for these sounds in the Atlanta area.
We DO NOT book artists that play or sample copyrighted music.
We do not have a bar or allow alcohol, so bands that cater to an older audience should look to play at other establishments.
Our booking priorities are to our locals (those who live in the Metro Atlanta area within 45 minutes of our club) and to touring bands on actual tours.
Swayze's stays booked up in advance. So, if you're touring and writing about a show that's less than 2 months away, we probably won't be able to help.
It never hurts to ask, but we usually book all our shows up to capacity -- making it impossible for your band that got "screwed over" to "jump on" one of our shows.
We get a heavy amount of messages daily, so we cannot promise everyone a response.
Band load in is usually around 6:00 p.m. and sometimes earlier (especially on Saturdays). Please check with us or your show's promoter if you have any questions.
Bands arriving late (that haven't talked to us prior or during load in) are assumed not to be showing up for the show. After the door time for your particular show, if you haven't called 770-590-0111 and actually talked to us, or made prior arrangements with us, please don't plan on showing up to play.
PAYMENT:
We generally offer door deals or guarantees to touring artists and packages. We will not negotiate guarantees with artists / packages who cannot sell 100 tickets.
We do not offer local bands guarantees (because what's to stop a local from playing other local dates around the date booked here?).
Local bands can make money off the door after the club hits its nightly expenses. Obviously, if a show has touring bands, the expenses for that particular show are higher than a show with just local bands. Locals wanting to get paid off the door need to stick around for the entire show and support their fellow musicians. You should be nice, undemanding, approachable, and civilized to whoever is working your show. Artists that pitch fits, cause scenes, have bad or ridiculous attitudes, etc., will be asked to leave without pay.
We do not require bands to pay to play -- that's ridiculous. Never pay to play anywhere.
We do offer a completely optional ticket selling program for local bands. Currently, local bands make $5 per advance ticket they sell. That's 2 to 5 times what other clubs pay their local bands. Basically, all you do is come by and pick up tickets for your band, sell them to friends, fans, family, etc., and then we settle up the money and extra tickets with your band at load in. It costs your band nothing to participate. Again, this opportunity is completely optional and is not required. Write us for more details if you're interested.
Be realistic. You're not going to get rich playing here or anywhere. All veteran musicians know that the real money in playing music is made off of merchandise sales. So, make t-shirts, make CDs, make anything that you can sell and sell it here. Swayze's never charges bands a merchandise rate (artists keep 100% of all their sales).
Every show is promoted heavily at Swayze's. We're established. Kids know where we're at and they know what's happening on our schedule. Sometimes a show's turn out just depends on who's playing (as cold as it sounds, some bands are just more popular than others). But with your help, every show can be be a success.
Here are a few tips for promoting your Swayze's shows...
-Don't play too much. If you play too much in one area you'll saturate any following that you have. You can't play Masquerade one weekend, Swayze's the next weekend, Triangle the weekend after that, the Warehouse the weekend after that, The Local the week after that, etc., and expect to draw the same crowd. You won't because you'll kill your band's demand playing that much. It not only hurts your band when you do this, but also hurts all the clubs you're playing at as well. Just imagine how big your band's shows would be if you spent the same amount of time promoting your shows as you did playing a show every weekend.
-Promote your shows for at least a month in advance. Have the show posted online with an online flier at least one month in advance. Have hard fliers to hand out. Two weeks before the show, start pushing really hard. One week before the show, start pushing harder.
-Make actual fliers and hand them out to actual people at shows, at school, work, etc. Believe it or not, real fliers still work. They probably work better now than ever, because less people are using them. But you can't just leave your fliers on a counter somewhere and expect people to pick them up, because they won't.
-We let local bands flier their Swayze's shows at Swayze's for free (limit 2 band members per non-capacity show -- write us if you have any questions). This is a great opportunity to listen to some music, meet some new friends, and network with other bands. Please don't just show up to the bigger shows that you want to see for free, we'll know that you're full of it.
-Give us a copy of your CD. We'll play it in the club between bands.
-Consider selling advance tickets. You'll make $5 every ticket you sell. When you sell tickets for your show, the people that buy from you always show up and they tell their friends to come out as well.
-Keep writing music. If you never put out new songs for your fans to enjoy, they'll grow tired of your band. The same goes for your set list, so change your set list up every show. You should always try to make your set entertaining -- at least look like you're having fun while your on stage.
-Have a positive attitude. Be supportive of the other artists you play with and the clubs you play at. No one likes a band full of jerks or a band with that one guy that constantly injects drama wherever he / she goes.
Thanks you for supporting Swayze's -- the longest running all ages music venue in the Southeast!
SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL SCENE!
THE PERFORMANCE OF COVER SONGS OR COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL OF ANY KIND IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED AT SWAYZE'S.
SWAYZE'S DOES NOT PERMIT LIVE AUDIO OR VIDEO RECORDING WITHOUT A SIGNED AGREEMENT BETWEEN ALL PARTIES INVOLVED IN ADVANCE.
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