Guildford Scene

mondays child · Post by **mondays child** » Thu May 14, 2009 2:56 pm

Ha ha.

I live in Surrey, down the road from Guildford about halfway between there and Kingston.

You think Guildford is bad!!!

Don't bother with Leatherhead/Epsom/Woking/Cobham/Dorking or any of them then. Unless you want to raise a family or retire out to pasture. Oh and if you're not 'LOCAL' ("there'll be no trouble here, this is a local town for local people") and look a bit different, you'll stand out a mile.

Its nice and green here though.

The whole area is a bit of a culture bunker really. And is redolent of cheese.
I remember growing up and having to go to 'That London' for thrills.

Would be nice to see someone step up to the plate, I can bring dubs and spin tunes, just lemme know, don't mind doing it for a few beers and wouldn't want paying for what is essentially a few hours playing other peoples music as well as my own. Plus it all helps to build up a buzz and represent the music to the Mason and Kylie brigade.
You might want to think about a couple of fookin' big bouncers though to expell drunk twats!
Good luck.

kingofthedub · Post by **kingofthedub** » Thu May 14, 2009 3:08 pm

I live in Surbiton which is five minutes from Kingston. Its dreadful. It was all just cheese, which is awful enough. Now the indie "scence" kids have turned up so its a poor mixture of cheese and indie kids. BAD

Im classified as London but really its Surrey. Fortunately, the bright lights of London aren't too far away. Going to Uni in Bristol was the best thing I ever did.

Back to the topic, a dupstep night in Guildford would be great. I would definitely go but not generally sure how many people would. Good luck with it!

deamonds · Post by **deamonds** » Thu May 14, 2009 3:14 pm

KingOfTheDub wrote:dupstep

hackman · Post by **hackman** » Thu May 14, 2009 3:19 pm

the only reason i ever go to guildford is for the cinema

dubble · Post by **dubble** » Thu May 14, 2009 3:19 pm

Like I said before, we've held dubstep events before. I had loads of people coming up to me asking what it was. If you take the time to explain, people become intrigued and end up coming.

kingofthedub · Post by **kingofthedub** » Thu May 14, 2009 3:21 pm

deamonds wrote:
KingOfTheDub wrote:dupstep

?

ELLFIVEDEE · Post by **ELLFIVEDEE** » Thu May 14, 2009 4:50 pm

We're working on something for the next couple of months in Guildford, Will give more details when everything is sorted but things are looking good

akilles · Post by **akilles** » Thu May 14, 2009 7:34 pm

deamonds wrote:
mediumbeats wrote:unless it's round their ankles! Ya get me.

no chance of that bruv, stuck up fassy's, all of them

HAHAH terrible that the first thing that came to mind from this post was a Jay-from-the-inbetweeners-esque line involving me being stuck up their fassy's.

Well good to hear that there are people about, even if it is the 10 or so people who are replying to this thread. Hey, thats how DMZ started.

@ L5D, if you're putting something on can I set you a mix of mine?

sigha · Post by **sigha** » Thu May 14, 2009 11:10 pm

There was a wicked free party scene around Guildford /the Surrey hills when I was at college there.
That was about seven years back though so got no idea what its like now... any of you lot know what its saying these days?

sigha · Post by **sigha** » Thu May 14, 2009 11:14 pm

mediumbeats wrote:unless it's round their ankles! Ya get me.

Fred Fred Fred, you had to lower the tone LOL

mondays child · Post by **mondays child** » Thu May 14, 2009 11:21 pm

Yep, there was. Loads of squat parties and the like. Actually there were some wicked raves in the Dorking area around Leith Hill and in the sticks.

Aah, golden days......

Not like that any more though mate, sad to say.

ELLFIVEDEE · Post by **ELLFIVEDEE** » Thu May 14, 2009 11:45 pm

Akilles wrote:@ L5D, if you're putting something on can I set you a mix of mine?

PM'd dude

deamonds · Post by **deamonds** » Fri May 15, 2009 8:18 am

boys and girls, I have a few friends who still go 2 surrey uni & are well into dubstep, so if you wanna put on a night or if anyone fancies starting something up, PM me & I'll be well interested in helping man...

area sounds like an un-tapped oil rig

promo · Post by **promo** » Fri May 15, 2009 8:25 am

I played a gig once at Platform 9 ... did a whole mash up of different stuff from disco/funk through to jungle. Was a fun little gig. But yeah Guildford seems to be pretty dead musically. I seem to recall bumping into a few techno crusties around the late 90s but that's as far as it goes. Also there use to be a couple of good little techno/jungle record shops but they appear to have all gone.

wascal · Post by **wascal** » Fri May 15, 2009 8:30 am

Spaniard wrote:Those are the old events, the uni is pretty against all music that isnt cheese which is annoying

My sister used to work for the Students Union there helping to organise events etc and I can confirm this

LEQ · Post by **LEQ** » Fri May 15, 2009 8:49 am

Only just clocked this thread, the guys from Banquest records do nights in Kingston, I live about 20 mins away towards Epsom. It's green, very, very green.

I'd be willing to help out though if anyone puts a night on

jshod3 · Post by **jshod3** » Fri May 15, 2009 10:20 am

I grew up round there. Good luck setting up. I remember people like Cause4Concern just about pulling off little nights in the upstairs of what used to be bojanglez years back

d-code · Post by **d-code** » Fri May 15, 2009 10:40 am

I lived in Guildford for a couple of years. Played a handful of gigs and they were cool. But there is nothing really going on in gtown, it's pretty dead.

Jak The lad · Post by **Jak The lad** » Fri May 15, 2009 10:48 am

mondays child wrote: Don't bother with Leatherhead/Epsom/Woking/Cobham/Dorking or any of them then. Unless you want to raise a family or retire out to pasture. Oh and if you're not 'LOCAL' ("there'll be no trouble here, this is a local town for local people") and look a bit different, you'll stand out a mile.

Oight, I used to live there

lucky_strike · Post by **lucky_strike** » Fri May 15, 2009 11:11 am

i am based in camberley, i have been playin with the idea of putting on something big in guildford for about 2 years now, i just cant see it ever working.

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