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psypig	Date: September 14, 2005 @ 5:31 AM If any UK DMusic-ers want to organise some kind of meet-up, send me a note and we'll try to get something arranged. Trains and buses are quite cheap so there isn't really any reason not to just do it. And maybe it'll kickstart everyone else into getting something sorted! Oh, and if any of you folks in the US particularly want to get on a plane (well i don't know, it might happen...) feel free to note me and be part of the action.
hantu	Date: September 14, 2005 @ 6:23 AM folks in the US get on a plane.. yeh i'd like to see that happen. So how many of us are actually in the UK, and where are we? Im in East-London, with building structures and hard concrete floors, although i have a childhood memory of some patches of grass... but that could just be memory implants
MindSculpture	Date: September 14, 2005 @ 7:59 AM sunny Glasgow
rhthesinner	Date: September 14, 2005 @ 8:21 AM Sunny Southend-On-Sea!
2step-4eva	Date: September 14, 2005 @ 8:22 AM i'd be up for some sort of meet if its in the UK...i'm in...er...sunny leeds!
gimpnipples	Date: September 14, 2005 @ 9:06 AM Preston here, yeaaaahh boooyyyeeeee!!!!!
vladb	Date: September 14, 2005 @ 10:33 AM Less than constantly sunny York (dawg)
wailingmiserere	Date: September 14, 2005 @ 11:29 AM windy Edinburgh... I might consider going to London, though, if I could drag the other half of my 'band' (i.e. Tom) along...
DeadraveN	Date: September 14, 2005 @ 11:36 AM i think all you UK Dmer's should meet in Seattle.
Intergalacti...	Date: September 14, 2005 @ 11:47 AM Valleyish Wales near pontypridd near cardiff
Intergalacti...	Date: September 14, 2005 @ 11:48 AM Daedraven your just mean
Traf	Date: September 14, 2005 @ 11:49 AM Dover... The gateway to hell..
Intergalacti...	Date: September 14, 2005 @ 11:50 AM Wales the gateway to england
MindSculpture	Date: September 14, 2005 @ 12:38 PM wooooaaa boyooooo
RMP	Date: September 14, 2005 @ 1:23 PM http://www.dmusic.com/forum/interact/18110#32 420
FraDonaghy	Date: September 14, 2005 @ 1:35 PM I and Chrismacmanus can be found in Belfast, Northern Ireland Not sure if I'd be up for a dmusic meet though, I think I see enough of you guys on here
psypig	Date: September 15, 2005 @ 5:31 AM bump going by the response i've had so far it looks like it'd be something quite small. I could use some suggestions as to what people would want to do. Don't expect anything marvelous - i don't want to organise any huge events - but i'm sure i can sort something out. Also it would help if people who are interested could let me know how old they are (note me) - i don't wanna organise strippers and beer if everyones 15... I'm not promising an awesome event but if anyones just interested in meeting some other dmusic folk and having a bit of a laugh then let me know.
hantu	Date: September 15, 2005 @ 5:47 AM damn everyone is soo far away... i keep thinking maybe just maybe there will be a DMer round the corner from me... like minutes away... with a kick ars studio... and a spare guitar for me to snatch... and and .. At this point i usually slap myself folowed my the following words "snap out of it you stupid fuk". aanywhooo, i am 20 btw, beer you say... oh great ur all gonna get pissed out of ya heads aren't ya... lol im gonna be the only sober one left that should be relatively amussing. Oh i know.. whoever has the biggest studio... we all meet up at their studio and make complete crap... then we burn our crap on cd and parade their neighbourghood advertising DM and playing the crap we made aa what a day that would be. Anwway that prolly won't happen... this seems like such a headache.. everyone is scattered everywhere.. and erm i dunno.. lol i get tired just thinking about how we gonna sort it out.
Firefly	Date: September 15, 2005 @ 7:29 AM Well I'm definatley over 15, beer and strippers you say? Hmm sounds like my kinda party. I'm between Leeds and Manchester, travelling easy for me. I'll drag Fran with me tottering in his stilletoes.
DaveWL	Date: September 15, 2005 @ 7:59 AM I’m originally from East London but live just south of London near Croydon now. London is good for me. I don’t have a studio but I do have a garden shed. There are quite a lot of creepy crawlies running around in it though plus a lot of rusty junk. You do have to unplug the pump to the fish pond to be able to plug an amp in and the fish kinda get upset when you do that. Yeah my shed is probably not a good venue for a convention, but I’d be up for something in London or nearby.
hantu	Date: September 15, 2005 @ 8:49 AM we dont wanna upset the fish now do we near croydon huh? i used to live in croydon for a short time
DeadraveN	Date: September 15, 2005 @ 11:40 AM Come to Seattle. I'll strip. and I got beer...
Intergalacti...	Date: September 15, 2005 @ 11:45 AM Hmm I don't think it'd be too small, if shes allowed I'll put ICF in the back of my car with some ducktape over her mouth.... Oh she could come to the dmusic meet as well I think if we all went to london people would make an effort and don't forget those from local countries like I got a feeling abortivemind would come along and maybe one or two others from west europe
hantu	Date: September 15, 2005 @ 11:46 AM erm okaay, as tempting as that is i think i can't afford it.. yeh, thats why i don't wanna come and enjoy the show, coz i can't afford it.. yeh i can't afford it.. yeh
hantu	Date: September 15, 2005 @ 11:47 AM yeh.. i agree we should all go to london... ur a genius IWH
Intergalacti...	Date: September 15, 2005 @ 11:47 AM I wanna go out to seattle and maybe in one or two years i will but for the moment no dice unless you are willing to pay raven
gimpnipples	Date: September 15, 2005 @ 11:48 AM yeah, raven should pay for all the uk european dmusic people to go over there
hantu	Date: September 15, 2005 @ 11:50 AM lol well im sure raven has loads saved up from his extra activities.. no?
Intergalacti...	Date: September 15, 2005 @ 11:50 AM hey i forgot about you gimp you'll come along wont ya and rh might hes british right?
gimpnipples	Date: September 15, 2005 @ 11:52 AM yeah id come it would be cool, im 22 btw phypig beer beeerr beeeerrr!
ebarbarella	Date: September 15, 2005 @ 11:52 AM i wish i can take an now to the lovely UK .... and meet all the lovely ppl there you guys rock so hard please take a lot of pics
ChaosSurfer	Date: September 15, 2005 @ 11:54 AM I'm down in Brighton, so I vote for...Brighton. Maybe we should take over an open mic night somewhere and just lavish huge support on each other even if we suck. Which I do.
Intergalacti...	Date: September 15, 2005 @ 11:55 AM I'm 17 but can get served most places and have been served many a time in london before, well twice but I've only been there three times and I was eight the third time
ChaosSurfer	Date: September 15, 2005 @ 11:55 AM I'm down in Brighton, so I vote for...Brighton. Maybe we should take over an open mic night somewhere and just lavish huge support on each other even if we suck. Which I do.
ChaosSurfer	Date: September 15, 2005 @ 11:55 AM Ooops.
Intergalacti...	Date: September 15, 2005 @ 12:04 PM Cool for some treason I thought you were in America chaos but yeah I definitely think we should like book a gig in a pub and we should all go down That is an excellent idea.
ChaosSurfer	Date: September 15, 2005 @ 12:06 PM Probably that bad fake american accent I sing in.
psypig	Date: September 15, 2005 @ 12:08 PM seriously though what do you do at these kinds of things? I don't mind putting in some effert to get people together but.. well... i have no idea what we'd do. btw so far the majority are from the north. i need people to send me a note saying where they're from and how far they'd be willing/able to travel. That way i can start getting an idea of where it might be.
Intergalacti...	Date: September 15, 2005 @ 12:11 PM Well I personally think London is the best place to do it simply cos everyone has a rough idea where it is. I will only just pass my test by the time it gets sorted I'm only 17 if I get lost I'm screwed but everywhere point sto London just my feelings on it but I am willing to go anywhere. I seriosuly think we should book out like a music club or somethin and play a gig at a regular music venue so there will be people there and will find out that dmusic rocks!!! I see your bad american accent chaos and raise you a welsh person singing in a bad american accent
psypig	Date: September 15, 2005 @ 12:16 PM Mate - i promise you - you do NOT want to drive to london soon after passing your test.
Intergalacti...	Date: September 15, 2005 @ 12:16 PM If its to see you guys? I will. It will not be pretty I will not be a nice person when you meet me because of it but I will get there if I have to
gimpnipples	Date: September 15, 2005 @ 12:21 PM londoan...ALL the trains go there.... looandoaaannnn
Intergalacti...	Date: September 15, 2005 @ 12:28 PM i vote london but am willing to go anywhere
gimpnipples	Date: September 15, 2005 @ 12:32 PM only problem in london is it can be kinda expensive... and its not very central to anywhere... unless you live there lol, but id go if i had the cash (which at the moment i dont)
hantu	Date: September 15, 2005 @ 12:32 PM yeh if i wasn't such a lazy fuk, i would have sorted out my driving by now and would be able to go anywhere... but oh well if its in london then great, if not i will have to join the next gathering
Intergalacti...	Date: September 15, 2005 @ 12:44 PM We're not talking about like next week this is for you know around christmas time or just after or somethin, so people will have lotsa cash......
SimonWaldram	Date: September 15, 2005 @ 12:49 PM I'd try and come to it. London would be alright, I guess. I'm a midlander, myself, but a trip to the capital is usually good fun
gimpnipples	Date: September 15, 2005 @ 12:51 PM ah roudnd christmas id probably be able to afford it
Intergalacti...	Date: September 15, 2005 @ 1:05 PM cool lets go for then
hantu	Date: September 15, 2005 @ 1:24 PM oh joy!
psypig	Date: September 16, 2005 @ 5:05 AM I'm still gonna push forward with a northern UK meet. It might work out for the best if we did 2 - one north and one south. Any thoughts?
Intergalacti...	Date: September 16, 2005 @ 5:07 AM I'm up for havin one someone else but I honestly do think and I know you hate me for this psy but London would be best for everyone for the first one, simply because everyone knows where it is.
psypig	Date: September 16, 2005 @ 5:31 AM ok... where in london?
Traf	Date: September 16, 2005 @ 6:22 AM Where's London?
EvilPicnic	Date: September 16, 2005 @ 6:39 AM ^^Near Gomorrah. It's relatively easy to find, if you remember to take the left turn past Sainsbury's. I'm in NW London, but might not be able to make it - I'm a bit short on cash atm.
ChaosSurfer	Date: September 16, 2005 @ 10:05 AM Hey folks, this gave me an idea. I've assembled a 'Best of British' playlist on my page. I think I got something from everyone here and other I know of. I've also submitted a promotional article - you never know, it might make the front page. Go have a listen and support you fellow countrymen. Let me know if I missed anyone, or I picked the wrong songs, etc. I haven't had the chance to listen to everything you've all posted...turns out there's a lot of prolific limies out there.
ChaosSurfer	Date: September 16, 2005 @ 10:06 AM Some s's and r's fell off that submit, but you get the point
Intergalacti...	Date: September 16, 2005 @ 10:49 AM Evilpicnic don't worry about that it won't be happening for a few months yet. Correct me if I'm wrong but it will take some time to get it all together i mean i can't just say to my parents im poppin down london to meet a couple of strangers now can i?
DaveWL	Date: September 16, 2005 @ 10:58 AM Cool idea Chaos – I can think or a couple of notable exceptions but I’ll note you – that way you can sneak them in and no one will know you missed them.
psypig	Date: September 16, 2005 @ 11:13 AM IWH - that's kinda why i think london's a bad idea. This is more likely to happen if it's something low-key. I don't mind spending an evening supping some ale ( Northerner... ) with a few random people i've never met but i don't wanna go miles away from home to spend a loada time with a bunch of strangers. I think a London meet would propbably be on the cards for the future but i'm talking about doing something small just to prove it can be done.
gimpnipples	Date: September 16, 2005 @ 11:20 AM manchester, or funtime leeds!
gimpnipples	Date: September 16, 2005 @ 11:21 AM or come to preston yeah!
2step-4eva	Date: September 16, 2005 @ 2:08 PM i dunno why ur all so keen on london...yeah its a great place, and everyone knows where it is, but who in the UK doesnt know where birmingham is? who doesnt know where manchester is?(or even better, leeds) these places are a lot more central, well ok leeds/manchester is up north but geographically its much more central than london. and pretty much all trains go to manchester or birmingham, cos they are big cities. and london has 3 disadvantages, 1)once u get there u spend about a year crawling through miles and miles of gridlocked streets to get to the middle 2)it was named officially the second most expensive city in the world (dunno what was no. 1 tho) and 3)its not very close to me!
gimpnipples	Date: September 16, 2005 @ 2:11 PM manchester! manchester! manchester!
psypig	Date: September 16, 2005 @ 2:30 PM howzabout we pick the next decent metal concert at the m.e.n. arena and all go there? seriously though i can think of much better places than london.
hantu	Date: September 16, 2005 @ 3:45 PM ok so it should stay small, soo people in the same areas should meet up, and then those people will meet up with another bunch of people next time, so we build small "Webs" (if ya like) everywhere and eventually it will slowly build into a big web... and this can happen nice and slowly, next 2-4 years.... and in that time i might actually have a car and a job which helpes. make sense ... no?
hantu	Date: September 16, 2005 @ 3:48 PM errr or maybe im looking at it in the wrong way i dunno
AbortiveMind	Date: September 16, 2005 @ 3:50 PM I wanna come too Why not have it in... Canterbury hihi ,loved that place, sometimes feels as you get into the Middle Ages again
psypig	Date: September 16, 2005 @ 4:44 PM shamprod that's actually a pretty good idea. Right, hows this - I'm gonna send out an invitation - Anyone who wants to come to york for a day let me know. This is sorta an experiment to see if this works. York is a good place for this because: 1: i live there (ok now on to the serious reasons) There's 2 of us in york (me and vladb) and we know all the things to do and all the places to hang out. there are more pubs and bars per square mile than anywhere else in the country and we have a fucking HUGE train station (for quite a small city that is) with trains running everywhere at most times (possibly even to the moon.) we could do it on a saturday - have people come down in the afternoon and take over the corner of some pub then stay out till the night. anyone who wants to leave can drive/get a train whenever they want (so if people do feel awkward they don't have to stay.) If anyone got stuck overnight i'm sure i could house 1 or 2 people (but only really in an emergency.) Feel free to bring a friend or two. So - any thoughts on that?
hantu	Date: September 16, 2005 @ 5:01 PM yeh, lets do that... it does eem a bit more realistic at the moment. ok so reason to come to london: there is loads of traffic, thus lack of fresh air there are loads of people the way you see cats and dogs on the street you will soon be seeing mice and/or rats what else is there i could go on forever. ok but seriouse then lets keep this in small getherings for now, and then we will move on ffrom there So anyone in london or close enough with appropraite travel let me know or just post it here... i dunno what the hell we gonna do but wel will see.... lol aaa screw it lets go chesington i will bring me laptop we can perform there.. oo oo we can perform while on a ride how cool would that be? huh? hmm i wonder if chessington have a wireless unprotected router lol i don't think i will be good at organising the whole thing though, if i do it we will end up wardriving round london or should i say warwalking ok but seriouse, get in touch, unless ur a psychopath, coz there can only be one
Intergalacti...	Date: September 16, 2005 @ 7:23 PM If we're goin to a meet I would like it to be more than a day at a pub, I'm gonna be driving about 200 miles at 17 years of age to siomply have a pint with some buddies off the net thats why i want it to be a bit more than that. Maybe spend a night in a youth hostel or somewthi. I got no prblem going anywhere in the UK but I would sure like to it to be more than a couple of drinks in a local pub for one of you guys. No offence meant I'm a bit drunk and may not make much sense
Traf	Date: September 17, 2005 @ 5:31 AM As long as it's got a zimmer frame ramp, I don't mind where it is... But preferably in the pub just up the road from me..
psypig	Date: September 17, 2005 @ 8:15 AM IWH - i think you're getting close to uncovering the secret behind me wanting to do this - i think a day at the pub is possible to organise. it means no one is committed to stay with a bunch of people they don't even know and it's fairly straightforward to get a day-return ticket on a train. I sure as shit aint gonna spend a load of time and money to go somewhere to stay a night with a bunch of strangers. Consider this a test to see if it works. if it does, THEN we could organise something big. We've got to be realistic.
psypig	Date: September 17, 2005 @ 8:16 AM Oh and this is also why i've been asking what you do at these things - I need to know if anyone's expecting any huge events.
Intergalacti...	Date: September 17, 2005 @ 9:01 AM Hmm well, I'm just gonna tell you about past experiences of these, My mate is on this placebo fan site, and its a good little community like ours ya know? Well Placebo were playing in london and my mate asked me to go along with him. They all went to see the gig, we spent 1 day and two halves there, we had an immense time I'm not even that bit a fan of placebo but we had people from londond people from wales people from all over the uk then people from sweden people from germany people from belgium etc, it was awesome, we spent most of the time together. One girl lived in london a short distance from the youth hostel me and my mate stayed in so me and my mate spent a lot of time there with two other girls and one of their fathers (she was only 14 and from france so understandable her dad was there). First night we just hung out in a pub like, then went back to our hostel second night they went to the placebo gig, and back to hang out with mates and on the third day we went home it was an awesome weekend i think we do something like that. If the first night we just hang out get to know eachother then the second night we could all play a gig somewhere and everyone who wants to play gets to play kiklje a certain number of songs. Third day we go home all wishsing we could stay for another day longer and makin new friends, with a face.
psypig	Date: September 17, 2005 @ 6:18 PM bump Anyone interested in my offer? (a few posts above this)
AbortiveMind	Date: September 17, 2005 @ 7:15 PM I'm interested, but I'm afraid I won't make it
vladb	Date: September 18, 2005 @ 2:29 PM i'm interested, and not just 'cause it would take little to no effort...
Intergalacti...	Date: September 18, 2005 @ 7:39 PM Hmm I'm still interested but startin to think it wouold be a bit of a waste of time unless we did somethin
hantu	Date: September 18, 2005 @ 10:07 PM lol yeh well doing something would be a good idea, we don't wanna meet up just to stand around watching the world go by
psypig	Date: September 19, 2005 @ 4:27 AM On october 11th Alec Empire is playing at Joseph's Well in Leeds. If anyone wants to go i'm gonna be there. And the offer is still open of a booze up in york. Or even a coffee-up during the day. I don't mind helping people plan how they'd get here and I'll also get the first round in!
Intergalacti...	Date: September 19, 2005 @ 9:27 AM Going to see someone is a good idea or gettin somewhere where we couild perform ourselves is cool. Any Uk dmusicians on here playing a gig they'd like us all to come and see?
psypig	Date: September 19, 2005 @ 10:09 AM Well i'm putting a new band together so i imagine it'll be ready to go in the next few months. And we're going to be doing a few of the songs on my artist page. I know that's a bit vague but when i (eventually) get some gig dates i'll post them. [PSY]pig might be coming to a town near YOU! (eventually )
Intergalacti...	Date: September 19, 2005 @ 10:44 AM YAY!!