Perhaps every first friday for a certain month this summer? Have 2-3 chip acts play every week?
Anyways I'll send you a PM about this later tonight!

yea first uni chip shows would be rad haha. r5 would be a good place to start. here's their contact info (straight from their last email blast) :
S E A N  A G N E W  * R 5  P R O D U C T I O N S
611 Washington Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19147
sean@r5productions.com /  215-821-R5R5 (brand new number!)
http://www.r5productions.com for complete info

i have no problem initiating contact, but it'd probably be better if someone with more experience in the scene did. any volunteers?

I have some R5 connections (I used to basically live on the couch at 611 on weekends, but I don't actually know Sean too well), and I hope I don't disappoint anyone by saying this, but I'm not too keen on pursuing them just this moment. I wouldn't be shy to contact Sean about setting something up, only that the church is one of the bigger venues and I'd like to strengthen ties with some of the other spots in the city before hitting him up.

I have some decent connections at KFN, my band Brown Recluse has played there several times and my brother DJs weekly there (although he doesn't book bands). Unfortunately for some it's 21+, but it's certainly the first non-studio-34 venue I'll be hitting up.

^ you should probably not post that publicly, they may not like that

pretty sure it's on their site.

also: kung fu necktie=21+=lame.

but first unitarian church would be fuckin awesome. I hear the head of R5 is a cool guy, so if there was a plan i'm sure he'd hear it.

also, something we might wanna look into for just maybe a one time deal, look into a public free show, like open air type deal over the summer. I don't know how that would work at all, but if it's somewhere people would see it just passing by it would be awesome. then like pass out fliers for 8static etc. dunno if it would really work, but it could be cool

i have no problem initiating contact, but it'd probably be better if someone with more experience in the scene did. any volunteers?

Also: Chip shows at the Church is actually a kind of genius idea, especially considering it's all ages. I've seen, um, weirder shows there than most of what I see at 8static -- not to mention a few relatively poorly attended shows. I do believe we'd have to break in with R5 though... Time to bust out those connections, fools. I have some ideas of friends/bands that could help out  but someone else might know better.

Keep those ideas coming.

likeluke wrote:

i think in order to expand the possibility of chip shows in philly, just as it needs to be all places, artists just need to do a lot of playing out with NON-chip acts at other venues.

Nailed it! I don't think Chromelodeon ever did a single chip show, and at the opposite end of the spectrum, Cheap Dinosaurs is now mainly doing chip shows. We've realized this and are going to be stepping our shit up.

Finding venues can be tricky. We really ought to be playing at Kung Fu Necktie and Johnny Brenda's and the like...

kung fu necktie is a rad place. and yeah, you cheap dinos have such awesome crossover potential/musicianship/songwriting/badass that it would be a really strong entrance point to the chip scene for an uninitiated local. same goes for animal style and mister jon baken. both glad and not at all surprised that you fellas have the right idea.

also,

this. someone book starscream at the first uni church asap.