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 Directory: ROCK, POP & DANCE MUSIC
MAJOR VENUES
Rock & pop bands (touring): Venues for touring bands in & around Stoke are: Britannia Stadium (very occasional large
'big name' concerts such as Elton John); The Sugarmill (400 capacity); Staffordshire University SU
(1700 capacity, but NUS card is needed for entry);
The Underground in Hanley;
The Glebe in Stoke town;
The Rigger in Newcastle-under-Lyme;
Keele University (1500 capacity? - enough to host the Pet Shop Boys and The Levellers in recent years);
Queen's Theatre, Burslem (1300 capacity); and the
King's Hall in Stoke town.
Country Music: Bidds is a large country music venue in Longton, Stoke.
Another is Drovers in Hanley.
Folk & Jazz: See Creative Stoke's Classical & traditional music page.
(See also: BBC Staffordshire's music venues listings.)
INDIVIDUAL BANDS
Our area has around 250 bands and singers who create original material. Other local music listing websites include: BBC Stoke Subculture;
Crafty magazine; the Stoke Sounds website and
associated Stoke Bands Network. There is also the excellent
Subsonik free weekly podcast, featuring new local bands and the music being made across North Staffordshire and South Cheshire.
ORGANISATIONS & PROMOTERS
:: Industry Music Group - supporting local bands.
:: StaffsMetal - promoting heavy metal
in Staffordshire.
:: BlackStar Stoke.
:: Stoke Gothic - promoting
"goth, cyber, industrial and darkwave scenes" in Stoke. See their site
for details of the Resurrection nights.
:: BitJam - bringing together audio and visual artists, media companies and anybody interested in experimental music, across
North and Mid Staffordshire.
:: Staffordshire Music Net - from the
County Council, aimed at school and college teachers. If you want to start an after-school band club, point likely teachers here for advice about how it's done.
:: Sellaband - an innovative idea for making aand promoting an album, with the help of your fans.
RECORD LABELS
:: Psychophonic Records.
:: pro2Type Records.
:: Broken Branch Records.
:: ngr.
:: SONS: Soul of North Staffordshire - based in Hanley.
:: RIP Records - based in Stoke-on-Trent.
:: Owd Dear Recordings - based in Stoke-on-Trent.
PRODUCERS & COMPOSERS
:: All4One Music - provides production music for film, TV, video productions and websites.
:: Andy Moor.
:: Adam White.
:: Poco a Poco Music - a freelance music composer
specialising in music for corporate video, documentaries and short films. Based in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent.
GIG/CONCERT/FESTIVAL LISTINGS
:: BBC Radio Stoke - 'SubCulture'.
RECORDING STUDIOS
:: Clock House Recording Studio
- based in the Music Dept. at Keele University.
:: Sub Sound Studio - based in Stoke.
:: Prism Recording Studios - based in Stoke.
:: Big Dan Studios - based in Stoke-on-Trent.
:: VenomBase - affordable studios in Stoke. Also lessons.
:: Summer Bank Studios - a large-sized recording studio in Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent.
:: Cross Rhythms Radio -
offers recording sessions for independent bands.
:: Orchard Studios - a rural recording studio at Oakhanger, near Crewe.
:: Anger Management.
:: Prism Recording Studios.
:: Cosmic Studios is a professional recording studio,
located in the heart of the beautiful and extensive grounds of Trentham Lakes and Gardens
in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
:: Inspire Music Recording Studio - Matt Bishop's recording studio and music school in Stone, Staffordshire.
Also online here.
:: Lizard Lounge Studio.
:: The Toilets - band rehearsal rooms in Stoke.
Silence Studios (aka Goldphone Recordings)
Mad House Recording Studios. "Professional but affordable"
16/24 track digital studio, with "tons of valve gates compressors",
and engineers who are "specialists in achieving
the authentic punk/oi sound".
Tremolo Studios.
Large six-room studio & rehearsal complex in Stoke-on-Trent.
Blue Lizard Studio. Down
in the basement of the Burslem School of Art, Stoke-on-Trent.
Studio Q - based at the Queensberry Youth Centre (Old school buildings on corner of Queensberry Rd.
/ Furnace Rd., just off the A50 at Normacot).
Provides subsidised recording studios and rehearsal
space. Free of charge, or at nominal cost,
if you're younger than 25.
SPECIALIST SHOPS, SERVICES & INSTRUMENT REPAIRS
:: Cookies - based in Longport, Stoke-on-Trent.
Well-known DJ superstore. They also offer DJ training, and
maintain a register of local DJ's who can be hired.
:: Synth Repair Services.
:: Global Groove - specialist stockists of dance music.
:: Living Design
- sound & acoustics design. Based in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent.
:: Madhouse Music -
based in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent. Specialist record collector's service.
:: The Guitar Doctor.
:: Musical Lines - based in Leek.
Sheet-music specialist.
VOICE COACHING & MUSIC TUITION
:: Sally Rivers, a highly experienced vocal and singing coach,
based in Trentham, Stoke-on-Trent.
:: Monkey Music - based in Stone.
:: Gifted - offer music training workshops in Stoke-on-Trent and area.
'ZINES
:: Songs in the Kiosk of Life
is a Stoke paper 'zine, club night and radio service.
LIGHTING, VJ's, PHOTOGRAPHERS & MUSIC-INSPIRED ARTISTS
:: no.ground.processes -
a co-op for experimental music + filmmaking, and also
interested in DJ's/VJ's, interactive-media
artists, photographers etc.
:: Peripheral Anomaly
- specialist rock & pop band photographer. Has a very extensive online portfolio,
featuring just about every band that's played in North Staffordshire in the last 18 months!
:: Jon Weinel - based at Keele University, doing all sorts of interesting things with sonic art, interactive video and games.
:: Visualade - video projection and visuals.
:: dirtee - video projections.
TRADITIONAL, FOLK & CLASSICAL
(See Creative Stoke's Classical directory page.)
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