Sweater Weather Productions

So, tonight was our event for our Music Business Enterprise module! Our concept behind our event was not to do a large club night, as they happen in Newcastle all the time, and instead to showcase what’s going  on in Newcastle’s live scene instead. We wanted to bring together bands from different genre’s from the local area who wanted to gig to a new audience. We were doing the whole thing for charity which was better for us as it encouraged the bands to agree to playing for free as the money was going to a good cause instead.

We headed down at about 4pm to go and buy the rider for the bands and to set up. They Cluny is such a nice venue, I cant believe I haven’t seen it before…! They bands arrived for sound check at 5pm and our sound engineer Kev was amazing and did everything for us so that bands were really comfortable as they had someone really professional doing the sound.

Whilst the bands set up we prepped the place with posters, set up the ticket desk and organised the backstage area. The bar and doors opened at 7.30pm and everyone slowly began to arrive.

Hannah D’Arcy was our first act on and she did a little guitar and vocals acoustic set. She’s been off the music scene for a while as she had a baby and took some time out for about a year, so she was super nervous gigging again! She sounded great though, her lyrics are hilarious…!

Next on was Deep South who’re a student based band from Newcastle made up of several of my course friends. By now more people had arrived so there was a bit more of an atmosphere and they did a 45min set and sounded ace with their added brass section!

After them, we had Tissue Culture come on to do an hour set who’re a well known rock band from Newcastle. They sounded amazing and had really good stage presence for 18 year olds! They’re music was a little too heavy for my taste but they brought in a good bunch of their fan base and everyone seemed to enjoy them.

Finally we finished off with James Joys and Pete Devlin who did a long hour set. Their music is predominantly quite weird beat-based live dj and vocals stuff. Not something to everyone’s taste but everyone was in complete awe of what was going on on stage - it was amazing! My friend Jake was in total shock, he’d never seen anything like them.

This last shot of us I absolutely love but sadly one of the Dream Team is missing because he left early to go on to another night. Shame!

All in all the night went really smoothly and we ended up getting about 100 people down which was really good! We covered all our costs and actually made a profit of about £132 which we’re giving to Marie Curie. Was really exciting to put on our own event and we’ve actually been approached by another band who want to work with us (Sweater Weather Productions) if we do anything in the future…! A massive thanks to Ol for taking such good photos, he managed to borrow a camera from the photography department really last minute which had a proper flash on it with loads of different filters and the photos have come out so well. Love!

(And this is a little shot of me, looking a little bit pissed, when Oli was practicing with the flash filters...)