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Sotones is a community, and these are some of our neighbours. These guys aren't just here for padding, they're there cos we trust them and think they're ace...
Band recording and rehearsal
Music business advice
Club nights and promoters
Ace media types
Other labels that are cool
Other good mates in bands not on Sotones for one reason or another
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Other good mates in bands not on Sotones for one reason or another
Band Recording And Rehearsal
- Planet Sounds Rehearsal Studios
Tim is a god! Rehearsal space in central Southampton at great prices, and good quality rooms too.
- Shelter Studios
The Gaffer Neil Kennedy does great recording at great prices. Thomas Tantrum, The Beaux Hardts and Lonely Joe Parker have all recorded with him, and he mastered the 'Vol.11' sampler...
'nuff said!
- Valley Studios
Based in Winchester, Ben Startup's music production offers rehearsal, recording, mixing and mastering all at good rates.
- Orange & Blue
Based in South London, O&B offer rehearsal and very high quality tracking, mixing and mastering plus tea.
- Fret Music
For generations of Shirley troubadours, Fret has been the place to go to ogle guitars and try and cheek Eddie out of plectrums...
- Square Monkey
Soton based fast-turnaround CD duplication and printing service at good rates.
- Digital Village (Southampton)
If you're after seriously hi-tech kit, you NEED to go into Digital Village (in St Mary's for some reason) and have a play on it first.
Music business advice
- Association of Independent Music
Trade association for makers of independent music, ie, bods like us.
- OneMusic - Jobs
BBC R1 guide to getting your foot in the door.
- OneMusic
Pretty wide-ranging guide to doing pretty much anything in music.
- MusicWeek
Indispensable industry daily journal / annual bible that includes contact details (MW Directory) for basically EVERYONE.
- AIM
AIM is the trade body for indie labels and they're great
- Bemuso.com
An awesome DIY music guide, a must read for anyone who wants to go it alone.
Club nights and promoters
- Access Festival
The Access Festival is a yearly open-air festival in Southampton's Mayflower Park to raise money for the Society Of St. James homeless charity...
- Ejector Seat
Mac & Andy are fucking dons, running the acclaimed Ejector Seat out of their own gaff but managing to put on exciting, new and DAMN cool music that you'd never get to see in Southampton and Winchester otherwise.
- Kench
Kench do multi-media-nutty-art-interface things with music, DJs, live painting and all manner of nuttiness... ACE
- ClubFleeingNewYork
Sleazy thrills n spills from CFNY in Southampton and London with lots of surprises and glamness...
- Long Live Rock & Roll
Southampton legends that somehow find time to manage Six Nation State and Glad Rags as well as put on GREAT nights at Lennons.
- The Brixton Windmill
Tim and the Windmill gang might just run one of the last honest venues in London and always a pleasure to play for. xx
- A Badge Of Friendship
Good london promoters
- The Joiners
Let's face it, still *the* venue in town
- The Railway Inn
Winchester's bloody, smelly, beating live heart
Media types
- Artrocker
Zany, edgy, concatenatedly-named online zine.
- Factotum Zyne
Dublin-based webzine
- Kruger Mag
Fresh, feisty, full of pictures. Our kinda reading...
- DV8 Magazine
Monthly Soton-based lifestyle glossy. Free online and in bars an such
- Drowned In Sound
let's be honest, they're it, aren't they? i mean, IT!!!
Other labels that are cool
- Lockjaw Records
Caesura and Kingston band They Died Too Young's label.
- Bleak Mouse Records
Loose Caboose's label
- De Soto
Long-lived label for a reason.
- Dischord
What would we do without them?
- Warp
One of the pioneers of electronica. That's the bleepy noises, luddites!!
- Anticon
Jimi's faves
- Arts&Crafts
Canadian alt/indie label (Broken Social Scene, Stars, etc)
- Domino
It's a mystery how Domino can keep put out as much music as they do, as diverse as it is, as good as it is...
- OYT South
Well, they're not actually a lable but they ARE a kickass sail training charity... always fun and on the lookout for volunteers to join ship!
- Society Of St. James
The good people behind Access are Southampton's own local homelessness charity desde 1975!
- ondryland
Birmingham-based indie working with, among others, Blakfish and Caesura
- Ground Level Records
Awesome Derby-based breaks n electro label run by nice peeps
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