2 posts tagged “hammersmith”
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.
Not as bad, but still pretty grotty. Still waiting for this Indian summer the paper mentioned.
In a sickeningly smug mood, well I was last night as I actually kept to my healthy routine. Walked to Hammersmith, got home, ran to the shops, bought healthy stuff, did more exercise and Yoga once I got in AND did my homework. So, ooooh, get me. I remembered to change my shopping habits too.
Rather than shopping like I'm a mother of four, getting loads of stuff which takes ages to prepare but is quite wonderful. I shopped like a 20 something singleton who rarely gets home in time to cook. So it was all cold meats, salad, scotch egg(?!?!) n stuff. So I might cut down on the takeaways now. :-)
I was looking through my diary and noticed that I'm experiencing a drought of gigs this week, probably a good thing as I'm running short on cash but if you're playing this week let me know and I'll try to make it down. I fancy a good night out and decent music.
Nearly finish 'The Alchemist', someone has recommended the 'Celestine Prophecies' to me, anyone read that? I always appriciate a review.
I can't stop listening to Ben Kweller at the moment. 'On My Way' is great, not the usual sort of thing I listen to but I saw him play at Dingwalls a while back and it was great. Have a listen if you get chance. I'm back onto Fionn Regan after a break and Audioslave too, the first album. Didn't really like the second.
Anyhoo, I'm waffling now. Jujitsu night tonight so I need to get my stuff ready, another new student tonight.
Hope all is well out there.
