How to improve 'the scene'

How to improve 'the scene'

I was wondering what the best way to keep things positive and going forward in these lean times for the world.

Theres tons of nights happening in the North East, but i bet it can be hard to know whats going on and WHERE if people rely on fly postering and pure word of mouth to get the word out.

What about cross promoting each others nights (assuming no overlap) and harnessing the pure power of these message boards and facebook to make sure the pool of 500-1000+ people that the nights reach out to is being kept completely up to date with everything out there thats happening?

Wouldnt it be better if people joined efforts and ran nights in tandem with each other instead of trying to go it alone the whole time?

Are there really enough people to help small promoters break even with decent names?

I think its a shame that you have clubs like WHQ and Cosmic with two rooms that by and large could be both packed out with people?

Habit versus Neuroscience perhaps? .... or are promoters ego's too big to suffer that idea? (No that wasnt directed at ANYONE).

..... Seems like theres some immense talent in the NE that might be going to waste with everyone trying to hard to make it big on there own. I think its sad that Godskitchen can wade in and suddenly get 1000+ people all turning up to what is more often than not a complete dissapointment of a night (For me anyways, i dont like Digital)

it's a great idea, but you'll have to pull the promoters out of their own arses before they'll even consider promoting a different night on top of thier own.

Exactly eh .... ALTHOUGH theres 1500 or so if/when a 'brand' turns up, or even when you take places like Shindig into account.

Habit @ WHQ is awesome, and maybe they dont quite apply since they are an 'established' small night, but with regards to some of the techno/minimal/trance nights out there, it would seem to make more sense to get these places pooling resources.

.... Club nights seem to create success upon success, which is probably why people turn up week on week to 'superclub' nights that arent necessarily all that good all the time, but people keep going. I think the idea of having a night where theres is a bit of everything (Like Detox ... to an extent) is a good one.

it's the mainstream effect of it all, digital basically has turned into a blu bamboo/tiger tiger type club in respect to way that people show up. the difference being that they put on more 'specialist' nights on.

that's why there's always a bucket loads of radgies and lasses that seem to have no clue whats going on, it's because they just decided upon going to digital simply because 'its digtal' not because 'DJ x is playing tonight' - which of course is how 'we' plan a night out.

I also think that displacement of crowds has alot to do with why digitals filling up with complete turnips every week. since there isnt really a place for charvers to go to on a night out (Ikon changing hands/style, the new monkey closing, regular Hanger13 nights not being as consistant). i noticed that to an extent at goodgreef on boxing day, Hanger13 was on at the academy which numbed the numbers of topless tribal tattoo's by about 80 percent. winner.

i also remember the great judgement day/detox fiasco last year.

i remember it being a struggle to be in 2 places at the same time

I suppose you'd have a problem if everyone wanted to think that their night was the 'main room' night ....

... Still, from the little bits and pieces you pick up with how much these things cost to put on, the risks involved and the logistics of it all, i bet that there could be a way of running either dual nights, or having backroom's hosted by other nights that dont necessarily have big names on at all.

I wonder if the bigger-ish names will see the light and take on the corporate slime with guerilla tactics

.... didnt digital want to have all the small nights in their backroom at one point? I think Melt mentioned this at the time of the half popular then damp squib 'revolt' with the Shingig and Wax on walk outs?

.... I wouldnt want to see them doing it

Nothing meant to the Shindig promoters of course, but they already have the success

newcastle needs a new smaller venue i think.

there really isnt much going atm. unless you like mnml that is.