Wierd Coincidence or was it a doom gig

Newbie Number of posts : 13 Registration date : 2006-11-16

I have always said my best gig I ever went to was Hope of the states at keele uni Nov 04 supported by The Open and The upper room

this is pretty irrelavent your thinking

well this is the wierd coinsidence

all of the bands split this year and pretty close together really

The Open - june or july 06

Hope of the states - august 06

The Upper room - novemebr 06

what do you think?

Know my way around Number of posts : 81 Age : 36 Registration date : 2006-11-15

it's all your fault!! you cursed it!! Razz

heehee, just kidding. quite odd though.

Quite scary actually... I really liked the Upper Room, probabæy as the only Dane liking them. They were very special.

Get in there! Number of posts : 11 Registration date : 2006-11-15

Well the time for renewing (or in these cases non-renewing) of Sony-Bmg contracts (Upper Room & Hope of the States) was at the same time so that explains that.

As for the Open....

*cue Twilight Zone theme tune*

Convincing amateur Number of posts : 38 Registration date : 2006-11-15

I can explain this.....Sony BMG are fuckwits

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What Pete said.

Newbie Number of posts : 2 Registration date : 2006-11-19

Oh er! Please dont go to any more gigs - especially of the bands I love as well! Smile

ark

Newbie Number of posts : 7 Location : Bristol Registration date : 2006-11-18

It goes to show that major labels such as Sony Columbia don't really understand bands like the Upper Room. I think they'd have been better off on a smaller label such as Domino, Jeepster, Rough Trade etc.

Sometimes you don't get instant success with the first album. For example Clearlake have made 3 albums for Domino, and none of them have sold many copies, but the label are still retaining them for a 4th! A major label would have given up on them long ago.

Certainly Sony could have used a lot more of their financial muscle to promote the Upper Room and it seems they didn't bother.