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Hello,
Any of you who are familiar with London music venues, or having a good night out in West London will be familiar with the venue Ginglik.
Formally an underground gents toilet, the local government seems to have other plans for the site.
For all you Facebookers out there who are interested in saving this important venue there is this group you can join:
http://www.new.facebook.com/profile.php?id=532554330#/group.php?gid=35587928336
It gvies you email addresses to send messages of support and such, plus a couple of events to save the venue.
I wrote to the coucil folk stated in the group and put my best grown up voice on. Don't send some ranty message, just something stating why you think it's important for the venue to stay:
Hello council folk,
Apologies if these messages are becoming a pain, however I thought it would be important to highlight the importance of the Ginglik venue from both a music industry and local community perspective.
Working as a talent scout for a major label gets me to pretty much every venue in London. The Ginglik's accessibility to both emerging acts and promoters makes this an invaluable resource of new music to the local population and music industry. Also, it's placing means that many people from areas such as Ealing, Acton and Shepherds Bush have easy access to a solid grass-roots multicultural music venue. I do not no of one A&R person or artist who does not know the venue well. I also have many friends and colleagues who live in the surrounding area who are very concerned that the venue is under threat.
To remove this as a venue would further fence off live music to the areas of central, north and east London, remove yet another accessible venue for new and out of town acts and also remove a valuable asset that forms part of the area's cultural image. In the years I have lived in London I have seen local governments efforts to tidy up Shepherds Bush green and surrounding areas which have been noticed. However removing this important cultural centrepiece of Shepherds Bush Green would have a detrimental effect to both the area's image and micro economy.
kind regards
So be sure to join the group and let's see if we can save the venue! :-)
Hope all is well with you.
Reports of my demise have been greatly exaggerated. Always wanted to say that.
I've had man-flu. It's like a cold but involves a lot more whinging and shuffling about at attempts to gain sympathy. So the last thing on my mind was writing blogs n such.
As a result I am way behind on just about everything (you should see my house). I have heaps to listen to, reply to and lots more planning to do aswell.
I was too ill to attend the Ulysees gig on the weekend. They were one of our first ever submissions through the blog. Up there with Beverly Williams and Stine Richard.
I still look like a lepar but am able to move about now.
Anyhoot, let's get this going again. I have a new toy, I've found an online calendar thing in response to Kang's suggestion on the Columbia page.
Click THIS LINK, and add your dates, radio/TV/PR, or whatever to this calendar then everyone can see when you are playing. To be honest, it looks a bit naff but it works well and it's free so I can't complain. Have a look, click the link and start adding events. Don't spam it as it will end up being scrapped.
This is the first experimental tool of a few I'm looking at more to follow. I'm looking at how I can invade facebook and myspace now aswell. I made a sort of Facebook widget thing that I'm playing around with. Don't get me wrong, I'm no technical wiz with programming, app building or anything but I'm still thinking of ways of expanding. Ideas/contributions always welcome.
Right, I've got about 100 tracks to listen to so I better get on with it. Hope all is well out there.
