AMPjam.net – MK's source for sound!

AMPjam needed a facelift and Josh held me back on releasing until 2010, which I am now thankful for as I’ve tweaked a lot of bits into this one to make it look sexy, easy to navigate and also help blend the old and the new, we’ve been going for around two-and-a-bit years now and the scene has changed along the line, which is more than reason enough for us to do so.

So, what’s new?

As you can see, we have a new media player that effectively acts as an online media stream or “radio station” for local bands, that includes material from new bands on the rise down to legendary local names like Phema, if you want some airplay, just send us an email so we can sort something out.

On that note, we have a new proper email now too, so you can easily post your whims and whinges to contact@ampjam.net, it’s all a bit superficial but also a hell of a lot more proffesional.

You might also note some fancy new bars too, you can pretty much navigate your way everywhere around the site through that from history details to the latest articles, interviews and venue info, oh and the forum that you really must check out.

If you fancy your news at a quick glance you can also see the latest main articles (venue reports, cd reviews and band interviews down on the right hand side alongside what we’re twittering about and whatnot.

The Pitz has given me some good memories of Christmas, back in the day I remember Ollie & The Wallies, Son Of A Gun/Slideshow and Titan System giving a packed house a good time, with Titan System throwing chocolate into the audience, mad times! Tonight has a bit more of an inclination with those times than recent years, the bands tonight being quite far apart as far as genres are concerned. Heart Of A Coward have the aggressive screams, This Contrast Kills supply the punk and Tesseract have the progressive moods. Unfortunately Godsacksman don’t make it to the night, but sod the snow, there’s still some good bands on.

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