Friday 25th July 2008

Club Fuzz:- The Shebeats + The Alfonz + The City Riots +

Club Fuzz is the only night of its kind in Swindon.
A monthly indie/pop/electro club night held at the Vic in Swindon, Wiltshire.
It's hosted by the 5 Shebeats, Holly, Alice, Polly, Sophie and Ciara, who play at each event and are there also just to make sure you have a spiffing time.

This is what to expect:
BLOODY BRILLIANT BANDS
DELIGHTFUL DJ's,
TUCK-OFF SHOP,
RETRO FILMS,
ROLLERGIRLS,
CHEAP THRILLS,

Sunday 27th July 2008

Open Mic Night

All seated chilled out night
Adm Free all welcome,Solo Artists, Duo`s, Full Bands.
No need to book just turn up.
Full backline provided

The format of the night is as follows.........
Graham arrives, sets up, and sticks on a cool acoustic music cd. He leave`s a form out which people put their names on to play 15 min slots. If there are less people, you can do longer. Between 8-8.30pm, Graham will play some of his own stuff, and covers, just to kick the night off. After that, at 9pm, he will call people's names out to get up and play. Anyone is welcome to use the house guitar, but you can bring your own if you want to. All the PA and Backline is set up. You just have to play, sing, tell jokes / poems, or whatever, in your 15minutes (which is 3 songs). The night ends at 11pm, and everyone goes home fulfilled / drunk / sober etc.
You should bring.........
Plectrums, vocal chords, any other instrument you wish to play

Wednesday 30th July 2008

THE BIG QUIZ

The Vics very own fun quiz, all serious quizers need not apply.
Free entry fun quiz with snakes and ladders, spot prizes, Deal or No Deal, Picture round on the big screen, music and film clips and much more.
The fun starts at 8.30pm in the venue dont miss out get in early.
Dont forget hissses for the snakes weeees for the ladders cheers for getting a question right pain for getting it wrong, dont worry youll soon get the hang of it.

Saturday 2nd August 2008

Melting Pot Club Night

Various DJ`s expect Anything!

Wednesday 6th August 2008

THE BIG QUIZ

The Vics very own fun quiz, all serious quizers need not apply.
Free entry fun quiz with snakes and ladders, spot prizes, Deal or No Deal, Picture round on the big screen, music and film clips and much more.
The fun starts at 8.30pm in the venue dont miss out get in early.
Dont forget hissses for the snakes weeees for the ladders cheers for getting a question right pain for getting it wrong, dont worry youll soon get the hang of it.

Sunday 10th August 2008

SWINDON SHUFFLE PRESENTS: + Beatbullyz + Lighterthief + Hip Route + Matt Kilford + Bailey & Bowles + The Dacoits + The Knott + The Listening Device

BEATBULLYZ
In a world of genetically-modified clone bands, singing haircuts and serious scenesters, thankfully we're seeing a renaissance of live urban music.

LIGHTERTHIEF
Lighterthief is a Swindon based music collective formed in the late 1990s by musician/producer Stuart Rowe. It operates somewhere between a band , a record label and a production company and it is an output for the work of a continually evolving group of musicians ,singers and producers.

HIPROUTE
Feel. Write. Play. Play some more. We are jusy trying to do the same as everyone else - play as much as possible to as many people that will listen! Individually and collectively we have shared the stage with Newton Faulkner, The Hoosiers, Alabama 3, Them Is Me (ex-Reef and Basemant Jaxx) and Carvin Jones among others.

Matt Kilford
Matthew Kilford is a singer/songwriter who currently resides in the relative serenity of the Oxfordshire countryside. Matt once played guitar in the highly acclaimed indie rock outfit Belarus, but all that's in the past. The future, as they say, is where it's at.

BAILRY & BOWLES
Lets resume the madness Bob and Chip return to the Vic to once again confuse and amaze you with their unique show.
Is it a gig, Is it a drum workshop, is it cabaret, or is it a comedy show, Yes its all of them.

THE DACOITS
"The Dacoit's creations are often as dark and fragie as they are raw and cutting. Passing through haunting soundscapes, strange ballads, fullblown rock and roll and all points inbetween".

THE KNOTT
The Knott have been causing local media and press sit up and take notice of them, not least due to their "Best Band Runner Up" title in the Southwest Regional Finals of the Live & Unsigned competition.

THE LISTENING DEVICE
WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF TOM WAITS BECAME LEAD SINGER OF COLDPLAY? The answer perhaps is The Listening Device, each song tells a story, emotive and thought provoking..... We leave the rest to your perception....

Wednesday 13th August 2008

THE BIG QUIZ

The Vics very own fun quiz, all serious quizers need not apply.
Free entry fun quiz with snakes and ladders, spot prizes, Deal or No Deal, Picture round on the big screen, music and film clips and much more.
The fun starts at 8.30pm in the venue dont miss out get in early.
Dont forget hissses for the snakes weeees for the ladders cheers for getting a question right pain for getting it wrong, dont worry youll soon get the hang of it.

Friday 15th August 2008

Swindon Shuffle Official After Party

The Swindon Shuffle is returning to The Vic for the official After Party, hosted by SwindonMusic.co.uk. The evening of live music will include a second one-off reunion in the space of a week for legendary outfit The Carter Affair and veterans of the local music scene, Buswell.

SwindonMusic.co.uk will be holding a vote starting this Monday 21 July for the opening slot of the event, with voting from Monday 21 July until Monday 3 August 2008 with the winner announced exclusively on the website.

SwindonMusic.co.uk will be holding a vote starting this Monday 21 July for the opening slot of the event, with voting from Monday 21 July until Monday 3 August 2008 with the winner announced exclusively on the website.

Monday 18th August 2008

Socialist Unity Party Film NightTaking Liberties

Taking Liberties
Chris Atkins Documentary carrys some interesting accounts of the erosion of civil liberty's in great Britain, some of it I've seen before, such as the use of control orders on entirely innocent people and also the banning of protests outside the house of commons, though there is certainly a lot to focus on and even get you angry in certain parts. Taking a Michael Moore esquire approach with the use of archive footage, from silent films and also a cynical yet witty narration (provided by actors David Morrisey and Ashley Jensen), some have described the film as our version of Fahrenheit 9/11, which it is'nt as that film set out to show the incompetence of George W Bush, TAKING LIBERTIES exposes the fundamentally flawed and fear mongering policy of the British government led under Blair, to slowly erode civil liberty's and bring in new laws and change existing laws, that eventually let pensioners on peaceful protests become arrested under the terrorism act, putting them in the same league as Taliban extremists, destroying the right to protest outside of military basis', weapons factory's and the house of commons itself, and causing the police to swoop in vast numbers on anyone even thinking of waving a placard and most disturbingly of all putting control orders on Muslims who have been convicted in a court of law, as innocent and forcing them to remain in a designated area and effectively making them prisoners in there own home. The film approaches this in light hearted at times yet essentially serious manner, and my only criticism of it is that I would have liked to have more views on the other side of the coin, from the politicians who implement these laws, to at least argue there point, though in retrospect, probably no politician would want to appear in front of the camera for this film for fear of embarrassing themselves. Will civil liberty's change under Gordon Brown now that Blair has left, it's hard to tell and if your like me, i'm cynical and think, no, nothing will probably change, if you have a threat of terror, the best way to assure the public is to keep this threat up and then the public will be behind any change in law as long as it stops the extremists from blowing us up (see Adam Curtis' documentary series THE POWER OF NIGHTMARES to get a full picture on the use of terror and fear). Though one thing we can do, and in many respects the one prevailing factor in LIBERTIES is to keep a chin up and laugh at the absurdity of it all.

Thursday 21st August 2008

The Acoustic Sessions Featuring:- Layla & Simon + Tbc +

Acoustic music from Swindon`s bottomless pit of talent, all seated chilled out evening of quality music.