http://chipmusic.org/forums/topic/6441/ … henry-hom/

Thanks sir - I REALLY wish I could make that but I am away for work that week :-(

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I'd be interested to hear about any plans for UK events, regular or otherwise.  Also Blipfest UK surely needs to happen at some point?  We should at least have a London chip artist pub meet for plotting / scheming I reckon...

If there's a gig in London then I'm there. Public Life was the most quirkiest but awesome place I've been too.

A while back I was looking at setting up something like this up but at the time someone was already planning something so didn't bother.

Where I live in Wandsworth (Tooting, Putney, Clapham/Battersea, Balham, Earlsfield) there's loads of roomy pubs and clubs that hold gigs, not sure on how free they are to play though. Down the road in Wimbledon and Kingston there's some more 'alternative' venues like The Peel, The Watershed and The Fighting Cocks. I think they're more suitable as already pull in big crowds of people looking for something interesting. I also have close ties with Kingston College who hold an exhibition for it's BA Digital Arts degree so could have a spot doing the opening night.

Is anyone interested in meeting up and talking shop and organising a regular event?

Haha, isn't it. The track is 'No use thinking' by Maru's 'Lo-bit Animal Mutation' album. It's on his myspace too.

This track is awesome! Where can I get it??

Not really connected to London or the South though having put on a few events over the years around the area here, the challenges I found with event running was finding enough of a key/loyal audience that was active enough to keep the nights running.

That said, on a national scale I'm sure there's enough of an inside and outside-audience that's able that gain enough interest to hold a successful yearly night (i.e. UltraChip). 

I don't know the American scene so well, though from an outside observation it seems there's quite an active interest, willing set of individuals and audience that keeps its scene secure and going. 

When Maru and BSK visited Newcastle earlier last year, we set up speakers in a public space which spontaneously got a large and appreciative outside-audience. So it's not that it cannot be done.   

Wow, I'm really glad this thread got some good dialogue going. If anyone would like an administrative hand with setting something a bit more permanent up in London, I would be keen to get involved, not masses of experience but very keen to promote and get in involved with more like minded people!

I'm also retiring from being French-Canadian, as Britons think I'm either Russian or Californian. For real.

I'm moving to England and will therefore retire from chipmusic as there is no such thing as English chipmusic, just awesome rock and will therefore become a rockstar.
Who am I kidding? I was never "in" chipmusic, but just "that girl who works the door at Toy Company omg she looks just like Morena Baccarin".
Therefore, I'm retiring from looking like that whore in Firefly.

Stevens, are you talking about Tom aka Annoying Ringtone?

This whole thread applies to quite a few other places too.
I'm in the quite part of Belgium. I have the choice between 4 hours of train up to the EINDBAAS guys in The Netherlands, or jumping of one hour sooner for 8Bit Heroes.

Or France, but let's not mention France.

To organise regular events, I'd think you'd have to form an org. first. Most underground events here are organised by starter dj's/producers, who then work behind the counter for your entrance (no idea how to express this in normal terms, we call it "doing the entrance" but that sounds way off:P.), and work behind the bar.
Hey, this could be a let's organise a party thread!

theres been times over the last decade where a regular night of sorts has been run.. for example we had a great bi-monthly set of nights at a club called The Asylum in Soho which (if we are honest) was run by Tryst from micromusic. there was certainly interest - place was packed everytime. since then i've organised one or two events a year, and others have dabbled. people always come to them!

the problem is the stress and work of organising these things. its nice the first few times, but there has never been enough responsible organisers to sustain a regular event.

Well, the turnout depends on who runs the event, and not the venue itself.
I don't want to get involved in this yet, I just moved here and I don't know too many people, I want to do it right.

Chipmusic nights aren't the only ones that have difficulty starting up...I have a friend who runs a breakcore/acid/etc night (chipmusic artists have played too) and he had to settle for Thursday nights ending at 11pm, and even then they've had to move venues three times because of a weird xenophobia towards the music they've played disguised by stupid 'oh yeah, we're concentrating on bands now' excuses.

They bring in the punters, the promotion is top, even the branding is excellent (one of the organisers is a VJ), but it's still been a struggle. However they've found a new venue, and are collaborating with other nights; they are still moving up and great parties are happening.

Having put on nights myself now, I've decided that the venue argument is a lazy one. I reckon it's silly to suggest that legislation has had any effect on the decrease in chipmusic events too. I remember groups of us trying to organise nights with ridiculous demands...all age late nighters with lineups made up exclusively of chipmusic artists in the heart of London weren't happening before or after any change in the law, but London's still the easiest city in the UK (and one of the best in Europe/the world) to put on an event showcasing 'alternative' music of any type.

You get what you put in. If people committed to a regular night there's no reason why it couldn't happen.