Wall of Mouths

I work in Preston - I’d be there like swimwear, and I know half a dozen others who would too. I think T? played in Preston about 10 years ago - I nearly went with an ex but we split before the gig and it would have been way too weird.

Manchester is more likely becuase it is bigger, has more of a catchement area and they could fill the gig - the last couple of T? gigs I’ve been to have been tiny!

I’ve seen T? in Preston twice now.

Once at the Mill (2003/2004 ish) and once at the Students Union (1999/2000 ish).

Its not bad - there are pillars throughout the room so can be a little awkward. I’d say its somewhere between the club academy and academy 3 in Manchester.

Last time I was there though, they’d partitioned half the bar off and it made the room quite a lot smaller.

I’ve seen some great gigs there, I’ve seen Killing Joke, Bleeding Through / Cult of Luna, The Wildhearts, Therapy?… I think it depends who is running it and promoting it cause I’ve not seen anything on there in a while.

student unions ruin live music and clubbing scenes in most towns whilst actively trying to undercut their “competition” by running nights at a loss on the same night as they have no need or desire to make any profit, refuse to allow any non “su approved” night flyers on campus property, and most their staff are people with no clue about how promoting an event actually works without the help of the universitys ents budget which is paid by the government out of peoples taxes and are only involved to boost their c.v so run a mile colin and get a few mates together start small and gradually build your own night and focus on building up a crowd of “regulars” make the money to book therapy? yourself then you dont have the uni taking all the credit and you’ve actually achieved a much better feat however you will have to put up with them booking zebrahead or someone like that the same night thinking they’re raping you by putting on a guitar based band (they have no idea about genres) the same night as you

Grant, believe it or not, my SU don’t book the worst gigs ever: Chase & Status, Birthday Massacre, Tinie Tempah, Ellie Golding, Limehouse Lizzy, AC/DC tribute act, Example… all decent(ish) artists (apart from Tinie Tempah). All popular and all sell really well. Our SU isn’t the cheapest either so no ‘undercutting’ really goes on… but how can an SU compete with 75p per drink?

One of the girls in marketing was (possibly still is!!) a fan of Therapy?, may badger her about it