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| 11th Jan. |
Rocksoc 'do' The Graduate
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The Barfly
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| Rocksoc will be taking over The Barfly/Graduate main bar to play our usual mix of Rock & Metal.
FREE ENTRY! DRINKS OFFERS! FREE SHOT VOUCHER FOR MAS LATER!
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| 12th Jan. |
Pub Meet
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King Street Run
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| Come along and meet with like-minded individuals in a relaxed atmosphere and drink to the sound of a rock/metal jukebox!
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| 15th Jan. |
The Calling
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The Kambar
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| Fortnightly Gothic/Industrial/EBM club night, entry £3 before 11, £4 after
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| 17th Jan. |
Pub Meet
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The Pickerel
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| Pub Meet! In The Pickeral around 8pm onwards.
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| 18th Jan. |
MAS 'do' The Graduate
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The Barfly
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| Every third Friday of the month MAS will be taking over The Barfly/Graduate main bar to play the usual great mix of Rock & Metal.
FREE ENTRY! DRINKS OFFERS! BIG SCREEN GAMING!
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| 19th Jan. |
Pub Meet
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King Street Run
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| New Day! New Venue! Our weekly pub meeting. Come along and meet with like-minded individuals in a relaxed atmosphere and drink to the sound of a rock/metal jukebox!
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| 22nd Jan. |
Wake Up Screaming
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The Kambar
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| Rocksoc's Rock, Metal, Punk and Alternative club night
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| 23rd Jan. |
Darkest Hour + Glamour of the Kill + Malefice
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The Barfly
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| Darkest Hour are notorious for on-stage ferocity, taut guitar interplay and enraged vocals that outline the hypocrisy and casual brutality of politics and society. £9 for 3 great metal bands.
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| 25th Jan. |
Fault & Fracture 'do' The Graduate
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The Barfly
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| Every Fourth Friday of the month Fault & Fracture will be taking over The Barfly/Graduate main bar to play a great mix of Rock & Metal.
FREE ENTRY! DRINKS OFFERS!
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| 26th Jan. |
Pub Meet
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University Social Club
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| Come along and meet with like-minded individuals and drink lots of beer!
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| 29th Jan. |
The Calling
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The Kambar
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| Fortnightly Gothic/Industrial/EBM club night, entry £3 before 11, £4 after
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| 2nd Feb. |
Her Name is Calla + Transitional
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The Man on the Moon
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| Arguably the hottest post-rock band in the UK at the moment, Her Name is Calla have received much high praise from many quarters. Epic, long-journeyed tracks build to stunning crescendos. Support comes from electronic/guitar-driven post-rock/metal duo Transitional, who sound not a million miles from Jesu (and indeed contain a touring member of that very band!). Other bands TBC.
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| 5th Feb. |
Wake Up Screaming
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The Kambar
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| Rocksoc's Rock, Metal, Punk and Alternative club night
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| 7th Feb. |
Digital Wonderland
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The Kambar
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| Digital Wonderland returns once more to The Kambar for a night of Electro, Neu-Rave and associated beats. Cheap drinks, free glowsticks and an awesome night!
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| 8th Feb. |
MAS 'do' The Graduate
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The Barfly
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| Every third Friday of the month (second Friday this month only) MAS will be taking over The Barfly/Graduate main bar to play the usual great mix of Rock & Metal.
FREE ENTRY! DRINKS OFFERS!
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| 12th Feb. |
The Calling
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The Kambar
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| Fortnightly Gothic/Industrial/EBM club night, entry £3 before 11, £4 after
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| 13th Feb. |
Pub Meet
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The Pickerel
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| For those who don't know, a new Rocksoc committee is voted in every year and on March 6th this shall happen again. So this meeting on the 13th we encourage ANYONE who would like to find out more about running for a Rocksoc committee post to come along and chat to the current committee
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| 14th Feb. |
Pub Meet - Anti-Valentines!
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King Street Run
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| As all the loved up couples head to posh restaurants we shall be hitting The King Street Run to drink beer and moan about being single. Everyone welcome but if you are in a couple we may grumble at you
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| 15th Feb. |
Rocksoc 'do' The Graduate
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The Barfly
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| Every second Friday of the month Rocksoc will be taking over The Barfly/Graduate main bar to play our usual mix of Rock & Metal.
FREE ENTRY! DRINKS OFFERS!
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| 15th Feb. |
MAS
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Cambridge United Football Ground
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| MAS is a new club playing a great mix of rock, metal, punk and goth! Cheap beer!
Come to The Graduate first to support Rocksoc and get a free shot voucher!
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| 19th Feb. |
Wake Up Screaming
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The Kambar
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| Rocksoc's Rock, Metal, Punk and Alternative club night
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| 22nd Feb. |
We All 'do' The Graduate
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The Barfly
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| This week Fault & Fracture, MAS & Rocksoc team up to take over The Barfly/Graduate main bar to play a great mix of Rock & Metal.
FREE ENTRY! DRINKS OFFERS!
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| 26th Feb. |
The Calling
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The Kambar
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| Fortnightly Gothic/Industrial/EBM club night, entry £3 before 11, £4 after
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| 29th Feb. |
Fault & Fracture 'do' The Graduate
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The Barfly
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| Every Last Friday of the month Fault & Fracture will be taking over The Barfly/Graduate main bar to play a great mix of Rock & Metal.
FREE ENTRY! DRINKS OFFERS!
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| 4th March |
Wake Up Screaming
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The Kambar
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| Rocksoc's Rock, Metal, Punk and Alternative club night
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| 6th March |
Rocksoc Annual General Meeting
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The Castle Inn, Castle Hill
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| The Annual General Meeting. Elect (or join) the new committee, argue about how Rocksoc should be run, drink beer and eat free food.
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| 8th March |
Panic Cell + Speedtheory + Smokescreen + Gamarra
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The Barfly
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'What Doesn't Kill Us' album reviews:
"their finest hour to date!!" KKKK - Kerrang!
"What Doesn't Kill Us...it kills verily!" 8/10 - Metal Hammer
"Bitter, brooding and bloody brilliant!" 4/5 - The Sun
4/5 - Guitarist
Stronger Together tour 2007 reviews:
"not many show a passion and enthusiam onstage to match this experienced and highly talented posse" 9/10 - Rock Sound
KKKK - Kerrang!
Download 2007 review:
"Panic Cell are fiercer and sharper than ever, powering through hook laden, guitar driven slabs of no-nonsense metal from their forthcoming album before the classic 'Save Me' has the masses in full swing. Panic Cell embody why homegrown metal just won't die off in the face of overblown, over-hyped fads and in a packed Tuborg tent they do it in style." - Skiddle.com |
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| Panic Cell are now arguably the UK's foremost thrash/metalcore outfit. Their second album, 'What Doesn't Kill Us', has recently been released to many excellent reviews and along with their much lauded recent tour to support the release of that album they are now riding the crest of a wave which will surely bring them even bigger and better things. Includes support from Speed Theory + Smokescreen and Gamarra. Tickets available from WeGotTickets.com.
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| 11th March |
The Calling
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The Kambar
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| Fortnightly Gothic/Industrial/EBM club night, entry £3 before 11, £4 after
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| 12th March |
Wychweed+Canaveral+Thirteen Motions
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The Portland Arms
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| Earplugs are for wimps. Come along at the end of term for what I'm sure will be an amazing(ly loud) gig. http://www.myspace.com/wychweed, http://www.myspace.com/canaveralcanaveralcanaveral, http://www.myspace.com/thirteenmotions.
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| 14th March |
Rocksoc 'do' The Graduate
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The Barfly
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| Rocksoc will be taking over The Barfly/Graduate main bar to play our usual mix of Rock & Metal.
FREE ENTRY! DRINKS OFFERS!
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| 18th March |
Wake Up Screaming
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The Kambar
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| Rocksoc's Rock, Metal, Punk and Alternative club night
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| 22nd March |
Youthmovies @ The Portland Arms + Rolo Tomassi + The Tupolev Ghost
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The Portland Arms
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| Amongst others Youthmovies have toured with iForward, Russia!, 65daysofstatic, Hope of the States, Oxes, Redjetson, Adam Gnade and Blood Red Shoes... Prog Rock at it's best. With support from the fantastic local band The Tupolev Ghost.
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| 24th March |
As I Lay Dying + Glamour of the Kill
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The Barfly
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| Formed in 2001, this five-piece metal powerhouse has already completed three albums: BENEATH THE ENCASING OF ASHES, FRAIL WORDS COLLAPSE, and SHADOWS ARE SECURITY. Support from Emo Rockers Glamour of the Kill - THIS GIG IS SOLD OUT!
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| 25th March |
The Calling
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The Kambar
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| Fortnightly Gothic/Industrial/EBM club night, entry £3 before 11, £4 after
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| 27th March |
Tokyo Dragons + Chasing Black Aces
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The Barfly
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| Tokyo dragons have been described as “faithful heirs to the glorious tradition of old school ‘70s hard rock”. Too right. Fittingly hirsute, with twin lead guitars they take rock‘n’roll back to its roots – unadulterated and uncluttered rawk with simple lyricism allowing magnificent plucks and screaming riffs to take precedence
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| 1st April |
Wake Up Screaming
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The Kambar
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| Rocksoc's Rock, Metal, Punk and Alternative club night
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| 8th April |
The Calling
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The Kambar
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| Fortnightly Gothic/Industrial/EBM club night, entry £3 before 11, £4 after
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| 9th April |
Poison The Well + The Plight + The Uncovering
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The Barfly
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| Florida's Poison the Well arose quickly within the underground hardcore
punk scene. They play a style of metalcore that evokes the
guitar histrionics of Slayer and the brutal stomp of Hatebreed, while
balancing the proceedings with a heaping helping of warmth and melody.
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| 11th April |
Rocksoc 'do' The Graduate
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The Barfly
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| Rocksoc will be taking over The Barfly/Graduate main bar to play our usual mix of Rock & Metal.
FREE ENTRY! DRINKS OFFERS!
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| 15th April |
Wake Up Screaming
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The Kambar
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| Rocksoc's Rock, Metal, Punk and Alternative club night
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| 18th April |
MAS 'do' The Graduate
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The Barfly
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| Every third Friday of the month MAS will be taking over The Barfly/Graduate main bar to play the usual great mix of Rock & Metal.
FREE ENTRY! DRINKS OFFERS!
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| 22nd April |
The Calling
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The Kambar
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| Fortnightly Gothic/Industrial/EBM club night, entry £3 before 11, £4 after
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| 25th April |
Fault & Fracture 'do' The Graduate
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The Barfly
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| Every Last Friday of the month Fault & Fracture will be taking over The Barfly/Graduate main bar to play a great mix of Rock & Metal.
FREE ENTRY! DRINKS OFFERS!
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| 29th April |
Wake Up Screaming
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The Kambar
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| Rocksoc's Rock, Metal, Punk and Alternative club night
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| 1st May |
BeerOnThursday
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King Street Run
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| For the rest of this term (and longer if it works out) your glorious committee have proclaimed that thursday is a good day for beer.
There are many fine pubs in Cambridge and they deserve to be drunk in.
This week we will be in the KSR. Join us.
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| 2nd May |
Church of Noise
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The Graduate
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| Cambridge's original and best classic rock night celebrates its 5th anniversary. As well as the usual booze, bonhomie and proper rock action, there's an EXCITING MYSTERY GIFT for the first 50 people at the DJ booth. Also, you can win tickets to see Queensryche in July. FREE ENTRY before 11pm, rock out until 2am.
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| 6th May |
The Calling
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The Kambar
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| Fortnightly Gothic/Industrial/EBM club night, entry £3 before 11, £4 after
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| 8th May |
BeerOnThursday (2)
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Live & Let Live
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| This week we will be in the Live & Let Live.
Come and join in the beer!
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| 8th May |
Digital Wonderland
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The Kambar
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| Digital Wonderland returns once more to The Kambar for a night of Electro, Neu-Rave and associated beats. Cheap drinks, free glowsticks and an awesome night!
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| 9th May |
Rocksoc 'do' The Graduate
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The Barfly
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| Rocksoc will be taking over The Barfly/Graduate main bar to play our usual mix of Rock & Metal.
FREE ENTRY! DRINKS OFFERS!
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| 13th May |
No Wake Up Screaming this week - venue holiday
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The Kambar
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| Rocksoc's Rock, Metal, Punk and Alternative club night returns on the 10th of June.
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| 15th May |
BeerOnThursday (3)
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The Mitre
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| This week we will be in the Mitre.
Come and join in the beer!
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| 16th May |
MAS 'do' The Graduate
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The Barfly
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| Every third Friday of the month MAS will be taking over The Barfly/Graduate main bar to play the usual great mix of Rock & Metal.
FREE ENTRY! DRINKS OFFERS!
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| 23rd May |
Fault & Fracture 'do' The Graduate
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The Barfly
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| Every Last Friday of the month Fault & Fracture will be taking over The Barfly/Graduate main bar to play a great mix of Rock & Metal.
FREE ENTRY! DRINKS OFFERS!
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| 24th May |
Screaming Banshee Aircrew + Corrosion + Fire & Forget
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The Barfly
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| Tickets: £4 advance / £5 door
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| 27th May |
No Wake Up Screaming this week - venue holiday
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The Kambar
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| Rocksoc's Rock, Metal, Punk and Alternative club night returns on the 10th of June.
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| 10th June |
Wake Up Screaming
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The Kambar
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| Rocksoc's Rock, Metal, Punk and Alternative club night
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| 14th June |
The Rotted (formerly Gorerotted) - MAY BRAWL
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The Man on the Moon
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| Having left behind a name (Gorerotted) that had become synonymous with the highest quality of extreme metal The Rotted pick up the mantle of one of the fore-runners of the UK extreme metal scene for the past 10 years. Gone are the ‘gore’ image and lyrics that Gorerotted purveyed so well and they are replaced by a more ‘personal’ approach to the music, so the band can now really spread its wings and cause the musical carnage they have always wanted. Founded in 1998 and drawing influences from not only 1990’s death metal and grind but also punk and hardcore Gorerotted had always sought to push the boundaries of what can seem an otherwise rather restricted genre. Having released material on the highly influential Relapse Records both their previous release and the new album, ‘Get Dead or Die Trying’, are on the legendary Metal Blade Records.Expect a schizophrenic hybrid of extreme metal and punk hardcore violence, riddled with a melancholic darkness and cynical humour that spits in the face of life itself.
Main support band will be Centurion’s Ghost, who originated as a doom band in the vein of Candlemass but have since drawn in influences from bands such as Celtic Frost (“...have produced a golden and ‘great work’, 9/10 Terrorizer; “Awesome British Steel”, KKKK Kerrang).
Death-core outfit Burning Skies and local cyber-gore grind band Malignant Germ Infestation complete the bill.
www.therotted.com
www.myspace.com/therotted
www.myspace.com/centurionsghost
www.burningskies.co.uk
www.myspace.com/malignantgerminfestation
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| 17th June |
36 Crazyfists
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The Junction
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| Despite the state of today's tumultuous world, the Anchorage, Alaska-bred band 36 CRAZYFISTS are inspired to look beyond the negative and aggressively emphasize the positive. They are able to distance themselves from the pack by never resorting to stereotypical metal rage while maintaining their heavy roots.
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| 17th June |
The Calling
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The Kambar
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| Fortnightly Gothic/Industrial/EBM club night, entry £3 before 11, £4 after
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| 24th June |
Wake Up Screaming
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The Kambar
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| Rocksoc's Rock, Metal, Punk and Alternative club night
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| 1st July |
The Calling
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The Kambar
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| Fortnightly Gothic/Industrial/EBM club night, entry £3 before 11, £4 after
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| 4th July |
Nekkrosis + Archaic Decadence + Diminished Fifth
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The Portland Arms
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| A night of Extreme metal. NEKKROSIS (Grind/Death), ARCHAIC DECADENCE (Hardcore), DIMINISHED FIFTH (Doom).
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| 8th July |
Wake Up Screaming
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The Kambar
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| Rocksoc's Rock, Metal, Punk and Alternative club night
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| 15th July |
The Calling
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The Kambar
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| Fortnightly Gothic/Industrial/EBM club night, entry £3 before 11, £4 after
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| 22nd July |
Wake Up Screaming
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The Kambar
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| Rocksoc's Rock, Metal, Punk and Alternative club night
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| 29th July |
The Calling
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The Kambar
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| Fortnightly Gothic/Industrial/EBM club night, entry £3 before 11, £4 after
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| 5th Aug. |
Wake Up Screaming
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The Kambar
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| Rocksoc's Rock, Metal, Punk and Alternative club night
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| 12th Aug. |
The Calling
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The Kambar
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| Fortnightly Gothic/Industrial/EBM club night, entry £3 before 11, £4 after
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| 19th Aug. |
Soulfly
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The Junction
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"Upon his exit from Sepultura in late 1996, singer/guitarist/songwriter Max Cavalera almost automatically set out to form his next musical endeavor, the ultra-heavy Soulfly. Besides leaving one of the most popular heavy metal bands in the world, which he co-founded in the early '80s, he also had to deal with the unsolved murder of Dana Wells, his stepson and best friend. Using music as therapy to overcome his depression, Cavalera put together a band that included Roy "Rata" Mayorga on drums (ex-Thorn), Jackson Bandeira on second guitar (ex-Chico Science), while former Sepultura roadie Marcello D. Rapp rounded out the quartet on bass.
Their self-titled debut album was released in the spring of 1998. Besides fronting Soulfly, Cavalera has branched out into other areas usually not associated with heavy metal musicians. He became a much-sought-after speaker at music conventions, as evidenced by his appearances at CMJ's New Music Marathon in New York and Holland's Crossing Boarder Festival, both in late 1997. He also guested on Deftones' breakthrough album Around the Fur, and signed on to sing a TV commercial for Sprite in his native land of Brazil.
Soulfly's second album, Primitive, was released in the fall of 2000. The album was met with a split reaction, and Cavalera found himself the object of criticism from factions of his fanbase. The heavy amount of guest appearances and preference towards nu-metal lyrics were the main complaints, but Cavalera maintained his pride in his work and kept going, hitting the road and touring behind the album. He handled the production for 2002's III, and Soulfly returned again in 2004 with Prophecy. A year later Roadrunner reissued their self-titled first album as part of the label's 25th anniversary celebration. Then, in October, Soulfly's fifth album Dark Ages appeared in October 2005. Keeping with his style of switching up the lineup, Cavalera was backed this time out by bassist Bobby Burns, guitarist Marc Rizzo (ex-Ill Nino), and drummer Joe Nunez, who had previously played on Primitive." Greg Prato, All Music Guide |
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| Max Cavalera, ex-Sepultura songwriter/frontman, brings his tribe to Cambridge to support the release of their sixth album.
Support from local southern-rock outfit General Lee and Federal Black 40.
NOTE: Rocksoc members get entrance for £10 on the door (that's £4 off advance price) with presentation of valid membership card.
FREE ENTRY to all those holding a valid ticket stub to Wake Up Screaming (at the Kambar) afterwards!
(read more...)
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| 19th Aug. |
Wake Up Screaming
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The Kambar
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| Rocksoc's Rock, Metal, Punk and Alternative club night.
Runs after the Soulfly gig in The Junction, with FREE ENTRY to all those holding valid ticket stubs!
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