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Any chance of getting Alkaline Trio to do an instore thing? Can't be toooo hard if they're playing New Slang already :) by DougTrio
we're certainly trying... if we do that will be under 18s only
this isn't really a question. But thanks for having us play the other day! by petepirates
pleasure. what a strange place to do it!
please can you get the king blues to do another in-store soon?
we'd love to sort this out but until they release any new stuff its unlikely to happen
Does banquet have a spotify playlist to subscribe to?
yeah, there's one linked from the front page of Banquetrecords.com - its not always 100% up to date tho.
I heard Tera Melos are coming to the UK in April. Any chance of them playing Kingston?
first we've heard of it...
Are you still continuing with the New Slang label 7" series?
as and when. we've only put them out sporadically when the right bands have come along. as soon as a band we love wants to get involved with us again. then no doubt we'll do so again.
Favourite Banquet-related event/gig/night EVER?
i dont think there's been much better than NYE last year. We do literally hundreds of nights a year, but that one was insane.
also, Friendly Fires, anyone of the Set Your Goals shows at the sell out Peels, Skream at The Works, White Lies instore, Broadway Calls at The Cocks... all good times
Don't you think Let's Wrestle had the best album of 2009? I mean sure The Horrors,The XX, Animal Collective and the like were great. But I mean truly great?
www.banquetrecords.com/2009
I think a messageboard on the Banquet site would be a good idea. They often help to build stronger communities. What do you think?
we did used to have one back in the day but it was pretty poorly used so we took it off. maybe we should get it back? i'll bring that up
I think that last person meant fave. Will Foals be back soon?!
we hope so.
realisitically not until there's new material
Alice Practice got kicked out of new slang? Can you explain? :)
i cant remember too much about it now, Aaron could tell you more, but after the show she was all in and out of the venue without showing her pass... nothing too bad. the door staff asked for her pass and she was a bit "dont you know who i am"...
with no sarcasm the doormen actually didnt.
so he was like "i dont care if you're michael bloody jackson" you're not coming in here... it all got a bit messy and there was a lot of shouting and then it ended up being at me and aaron in the end. it was after the gig tho.. no massive drama looking back but at the time it was a mess.
i should have mentioned in that autiobi-blog-raphy about the time when the Cut Off Your Hands singer broke his ankle too. forgot that one.
Do you think with all this 'Properslang' lark that you've actually given them more promotion than anything? I hadn't even heard of the event until you guys brought it up. by mattcoxonline
on the contrary.
Firstly, its not like we could have let them get on with what they were doing without saying anything... they were aggressively advertising to our customer base and we had to do something to show that we weren't cool with it and to distance ourselves from them
the fact is that whilst people close to us would have followed us wherever, the kid on the street could easily have gotten confused by the word 'slang' and 'new name, same night' etc. We had to distance ourselves.
But now everyone has gotten fully behind us. Punks who don't go to New Slang but can tell its a Banquet night. Under 18s who have never been to New Slang but understand that we're the ones that provide their all ages shows for ATL or YM@6, the drum n bass world, they're all against this and are helping to spread the word.
And as for the indie world. well an anti-propaslang group was set up by fans and is significant in number already.
People need to know why its wrong and this is our side of the story. then we'll let people decide which night they want to go to
