Come have a look at our photos from our Midnight Valentines ball it was rockin till half 4 in the morning, spirits were high and floating like our red black and white balloons, twas as sweet as our remake remodel cookies and cupcakes..
Our photo of the week for Manchester goes to these two lovely ladies Abi Allen and Georgia Rose Peers who get free entry to our BLACK KEYS AND BAND OF SKULL AFTER PARTY ON MONDAY 6TH FEBRUARY AT SOUTH NIGHTCLUB.
Sure most of you have seen this article, from Rolling Stone Magazine interviewing the Black Keys, mentioned in some way, shape or form recently. If you haven't the article gives us an insight into the Black Keys stance on Rock & Roll music today. Patrick Carney (the drummer) states "Rock & Roll is dying because people became OK with Nickleback being the biggest band in the world".
He then goes on to say "So they became OK with the idea that the biggest rock band in the world is always going to be shit – therefore you should never try to be the biggest rock band in the world. Fuck that! Rock & roll is the music I feel the most passionately about, and I don't like to see it fucking ruined and spoon-fed down our throats in this watered-down, post-grunge crap, horrendous shit. When people start lumping us into that kind of shit, it's like, ‘Fuck you,' honestly."
A little bit of an aggressively passionate statement there but we would have to agree. Okay Rock & Roll is not due a date with the grim reaper but their is a distinct lack of it around today particulalry in the charts. Compare that to the past when glories such as The Beatles, Bowie, Nirvana, The Who and The Rolling Stones were top of them. Now however you just have to look a little harder to find a rock gem. Tame Impala are a great example of a new Rock & Roll band. They are not in the charts, but they have a strong presence within the underground Rock & Roll community.
Maybe chart music should be for the charts and thats it. Maybe it's better that bands like The Black Keys, B.R.M.C and The Kills steer clear of being side by side next to Rhianna, The Killers and Ga Ga.
We would love to know your thoughts, will rock ever become pop again?
Our fav Tame Impala song...
the black keys B.R.M.C posted a teaser of them rehearsing recently, altough no new material was played on the video, we sense a big 2012 return imminent from them.
Shortly after this on Christmas Eve B.R.M.C sent out a new track called 'The Absent' to their mailing list, free to download. Along with the message -
''Thank you to everyone for coming out to the shows and everything else this year. We're going to give you all a song called "The Absent." Sorry it's not a super happy song, we don't mean to be downers.Happy Whatever Day you like to call it.Peace, Love and all that stuff from us. We'll see you in 2012.
Its the New Year and it brings a new poster and flyer design. We had thought of using this image of Sid & Nancy for our Valentine Ball (more info on that coming soon) but it was just too good to keep for the one occasion. So its now our new generic poster. They arrived this morning so expect to see them in windows and under your doors soon. If you one want one kept for your wall let us know.
You can check them and our other artwork out for Manchester and Liverpool here http://www.clubremakeremodel.com/artwork/
over and out x
Our photos are up from New Years Eve at Factory 251.
Check them out....http://www.clubremakeremodel.com/new-years-eve-20112012-fac251
it was brilliant night bringing in the bells to the sound of Blitztkrieg bop and the bang of confetti cannons. Thanks to everyone who made it down hope you had a blast :)
xx
Many thanks to up the racket for having us at their Christmas Special last night at The Deaf Institute, Manchester. It was quiet upon the streets last night on Black Friday, nothing was stirring not even a mouse.
But, a different story was to be told down at the deaf where it was rockin n a rollin all night till 3am!
We hosted the main bar where it was merry sight of christmas jumpers and the likes. Christmas parties and students were out to enjoy the the festive season. The highlight of the night had to be when an older lady, who looked as though a night at the opera would have been her preffered choice of entertainment for the evening, requested and rocked out to Queens of the Stone Age. The moral of the story here kids.. never judge a book by its cover.
For Our Remake Remodel Rock 'n' Roll Christmas we are giving away free christmas cookies and mixed cds. We have been working away like little elves to get them ready in time for Remakes Christmas. With "blisters on me fingers", the glue of the last cd case has dried and the icing on the cookies set, job done.
There are some brilliant rock and roll tracks on the cd from the past through to the present. To hear the playlist check out our Spotify.
Hope you enjoy decapitating the cookies...
