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Chris Roberts - Site Maintenence/Editor
Jerome Cross - Writer
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Roll call of bands who have played @ The Winchester Massive / Placid Piranha Showcases:
SixNationState
The Hip Hop Farmers
Pete & The Pirates
Soup
Robert Franco
Citizen
Bodyhost
Captain Phoenix
Dlugokecki
The Dawn Chorus
Carolines Capucin
The Warm
Tali Trow
The Bullycats
Big-ish Shoe
But Me No Buts
Juggla Heroes
The Dionysus
Loose Caboose
SomaHigh
AfroSnatchers
Obsydian
Mister Doom
JayetAl
Rooms + LCD
Ryan O'Reilly & The Raindogs
GROOVE
The Foxes
The Green Leaves
The Mercury Act
Leftenant
Alex J Dunne
Alex & The Ligers
Caesura
Fly Monkeys Fly
The Moho
The Rebel Ching
The Stem Project
The Antigonist
Zodac
Scarlet Soho
Geko
The Tripods
Xavier Floyd Firebird
Vaughan King
Atlum Schema
Thomas Tantrum
Robin James
Coffee
Terrathorn
The Scarlet Letter Union
Hijera
Co-Pligrim
Jack Dale
The Horse
Polly Wood
Laura Downton
Callum
James Bright
Sine Star Project
Rocket Kid
One Last Chance
Rude NHS
The Ashbies
3 Kings
To Be Advised
Marvin B Naylor
Mid-20
Renaisance Child
SIM?
Loopy
Raj
Philip Barebones
El Rodeo
Autocircus
The Mopes
SIM?
Tri City President
Birdpen
The Bright Space
Hey Gravity!
Fall Out Theory
Tome Ayres
The Denvers
Mr Fogg
The Moho
The Enmores
Rebus
Big Wednesday
LCD
The Mescalitas
Sharp End First
Daddy Long Legs
Beat Six
Phil King
Pete Roe
Simply Luke Leighfield
Cato Street Conspiracy
Rubik
Rivers of Sound
Chris Howard
El Skanko
Exit Tahiti
Adam Buckes
The Vice
The Gladrags
Morning Runner
About Placid Piranha Promotions + The Winchester Massive
Welcome to the temporary home of The Winchester Massive, an online guide to what's going on within the wonderful world of the music scene in Winchester.
This site aims to bring you up to date news and gossip from local bands, reviews and gig listings, as well as your indespensable guide to the Winchester music scene.
The Winchester Massive was founded by local promoter Rob Ball, Placid Piranha Promotions and is now run by a collective of local musicians and enthusiasts.
"The Winchester Massive is an unstoppable ideological movment with an uprecidented army of fanatics who follow a bizzare personality cult which systematical and ruthlessly opresses opposition and freedom of speech whilst promoting a climite of suspicion and fear. Despite this, Winchester has an incredible concentration of talented young musicians and thankfully The Winchester Massive is giving it an outlet. one of these days Winchester will rival Bristol and Oxford for producing music that matters and when it does it'll be The Massive, Valley Studios and The Railway to thank." Ryan O'Reilly
"The Winchester Massive is a great way for new bands to get exposure in Winchester. Rob obviously has regular nights at the Railway, which is one of the most important venues in the south, so when you're just starting out it's great to be put on a bill with one of the more established acts that he usually has up his sleeve. Ben's podcasts have been a really useful tool in getting our songs and our names heard by a wider audience. - thanks to the Winch massive we're definitely on the up!" Caesura
Skip Skip Jump This Monday @ The Troubadour!
Hot Rocket (Single Launch)
Secret Guest (Single Launch)
Jay Jay Pistolet
I blame Coco
King Charles
Go to myspace.com/skipskipjump for more details!!
Get there early if you want to get in...
ROB..Why isn't your facebook wall working?!!! This is what i was gonna post.. "hi Rob..how was your birthday? hope you had a good'n. would i be able to reserve a ticket for 6ns/loose cabose/ morning runner man unplugged gig please? gonna book monday off work so i can come over to winch for the evening.. xx"
I'm afraid I won't be making it.. I've just got home from having an all nighter after a rave yesterday. Am knaaackered so thinking no going out tonight :(
And oo..house party! I'm seeing my hero Zane Lowe at Old Firestation on Sat. Have fun tohugh. I'll seer you on Mon.
It was really good ta. I didn't play as many completely unknown bands as I would have liked though - my laptop died a few weeks aog and I lost everything so lost all my demos of bands and stuff!
I'm working on that though..and now have the Glad Rags to play and such next week :D
For a month or so now, we've been available on Facebook, iLike and ReverbNation. And for the past few weeks we've been in the process' of making a new website (www.moralsoul.co.uk), and our MySpace has had a refurb to match. We've also got a new mailing list, a Bebo profile and you can now vote for us on XFM Uploaded and Channel4 Music. If you haven't done so already, we would really appreciate it if you could all spend a minute or two hitting the sites and showing us some love! Don't forget to sign up to the new mailing list too, as we're going to stop using the old one soon! Thanx!!
Hi Rob, thanks for accepting us. I know we've only just met and all but it would be great if you and say 50 of your friends could make it to the Railway Inn on Thursday. You can? oh great, thanks! i see sparks... (seriously though, cheers for accepting!)
Rob - belated well dones for Oxjam - I enjoyed playing my small part on Day 1 (and shocked to see my pic on Oxjam page snapped 'collecting money'off total strangers). See you at Railway tonight or soon! Henry/Idol Rich
Sorry to spam your page, if you're not interested then please just delete this!
We're gearing up for the biggest gig Alton has ever seen:
Orange Goblin are headlining the Lounge Bar on Sat 3rd November, with support from Taint, Witchsorrow and The Battle Of The Bands winners from the 24th Oct Final.
There are going to be no sales on the door, all tickets have to be purchased in advance.
Click on the poster below and it will take you straight to the blog containing all the info you need to buy one. Or two. Or ten.
Feel free to use this code to promote the event as much as possible, it should be one for us to remember!
If you fancy keeping up to date with everything going on at the bar or the shop, sign up for free by clicking this banner and get the news before everyone else!
hello.. just a thank you for your support over the last month, we've had the best time playing some truely memorable gigs and met some great people! look out for us on the road again soon and keep telling people about our music! love jim, chris, tom, david. airtraffic x
I'm doing a raddio feature for my Uni course on the music scene in Southampton and the surrounding area..Please may I interview you about the Winchester Masshooosive? :)
Telegraphs will be playing the Railway Tuesday night supporting Jayetal. Hope you can make it down. Check out our new song 'This is the Message' on our page.
Hey Rob. how were the pirates at the weekend? gutted i missed it..was in bristol playing hockey!! should be coming up for steve's bday/glad rags on the 13th..see ya there? x
Hey dude, thanks for the pics, they look awesome man. Shame about the bloody flash you kept terrorising me with though. I will get you back Mr Ball...........
Thanks for the Pics i've stuck them on our space and given you a shout our below! We just planning the next Patchwork Parachute nights and will let you know when we've got some more details.
