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Thread | Upgrading a ticket for today?
at 11:47 1 Apr 2024
Hey! My daughter isn’t well enough to attend today however the ticket office is closed on the phone number so I can’t upgrade it to an adult ticket. What’s the best thing to do? Is the physical office going to be open today?
Any help would be appreciated.
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Thread | St Stephens Church open for beers today
at 10:21 10 Feb 2024
Hex Record shop is open today 10-4 in St Stephens Church opposite Wagamama.
They will have the bar open for some low key drinks - there’s Ghostship, Ease Up, Kobold, Wild Wave, Dry Hop & Mosaic on tap for £5 a pint 👍👍 no rum or vodka today as the metal heads drank the lot last night!
We’ll be open properly in a couple of months so hope to be putting lots of events on there during that daytimes soon.
I sadly am off to Norwich to do an escape room for my daughter’s birthday. 🙄 will have my blue action T-shirt on ready to cause a scene in Bella Italia👌 |
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Reply | its a sign
at 14:57 10 Jan 2024
I went to school in Sandwich and sadly this sign no longer exists in this form as it kept getting stolen. Boo! I think it has another couple of villages in there. Possible Finglesham which makes me titter for some reason too… like Fingeringhoe next colchester 😁 |
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Reply | Beatles or the Rolling Stones?
at 20:08 5 Jan 2024
Beatles for me ol’ chap.
Love the stones but I just don’t like any albums post Mick Taylor. Total borefest after that in the main…..which is another 50 years of output.
Love 65-73 Stones but Beatles just pushed the boundaries more songwriting wise and sonically. I was listening to A Day In The Life while driving back from Kent the other day, I was just in awe of the songwriting and how the hell they recorded it on so few tracks with limited technology. Not heard that song in a couple of decades.
That saying there’s always one absolute stinker on most Beatles albums. 😁 |
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Reply | Live music in Ipswich
at 15:51 3 Sep 2023
Thanks for this Mr DT.
You're right, I find it difficult to shout about what we're doing.
I know lots of you are into music and it's been great to see and meet so many TWTDers in the physical world. It was great when you came up to me years ago when I was working the bar at The Smokehouse saying...'are you St Johns Blue? I'm Dubtractor'! haha.
It's been nuts this week with 5 gigs and we have The Orb, Subways & Bug Club coming up soon at the Baths. Takeshi's Cashew (who doesn't like an electric didgeridoo) and Rose City Band at St Stephens will be amazing too. It's mad to think that we put on The Murder Capital at the Manor Ballroom when they're now playing 1800 cap venues in London. Stand outs for me have also been This is The Kit, W.H. Lung (my personal favourites), Pigs X7, Anthony Szmeirek & Yard Act. We'll keep the good times coming.
See you Rose City Band, if not before.
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Reply | Pre match pubs - more needed?
at 21:33 22 Aug 2023
Thanks all for the comments.
Lots of food/drink for thought.
I don't think we'd be thinking of the family angle to rival the fanzone, just wanting to have kids in there if someone, like myself with an 11yr old, was passing by and I was gagging for a decent pint!
We have a stage in there so there is scope for some pre game player chats and similar opportunities. I think we'll give it a punt and see if we can get some PR into the Ipswich Star and post on here to see if people will come. We're £5 a pint over 6 draught Adnams', but could do a match day price to entice people in. I think it's a great space for pre match drinks, just got to go for it for a few home games and see how it goes!
After one of the preseason games I had a great chat in the pub with the opposition fans and I'd like to see that happen too....as long as they're not a bunch of C-nuts. Difficult to police that! haha. Thanks again. |
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Thread | Pre match pubs - more needed?
at 17:00 14 Aug 2023
Hi TWTD'ers
I'm doing a bit of research of our fanbase to see if we should look at opening our music venues for match days.
With our home attendances being towards the 'sell out' capacity for the forceable future... do we need more choice of boozers before and possibly after the game?
I'm asking as we have two venues that we could open up for pre/post game beers, most probably just on Saturdays but possibly for pre-evening game pints.
These are St Stephen's Church opposite Wagamama and The Baths on Civic Drive. (www.brightenthecorners.co.uk for more info)
Bar taps are all Adnams and we can look at getting snacks/food as well. Both are in great locations and possibly The Baths could be a great post game pint as it's pretty big (up to 300 standing) and has two bars.
Do you think there is a need? Sometimes enjoy going to The Brewers, Greyhound and Arbour house...I don't tend to venture out of those on match days.
Would you be happy to have it open to families?
Would you be happy with away fans too?
- any other ideas or suggestions are much welcome. DJ's, live music, meat raffle, life drawing....haha.
I'd like ideally for both venues to be as inclusive as possible and have a great friendly atmosphere with DJs or a curated playlist playing. I'd like for my 11 year old daughter to go before the games, have a pie and pint (of orange juice and lemonade) whilst I have a crisp Mosaic, in a nice relaxed venue full of good people having a good time.
Maybe the demand would be blokes only, home fans only, blaring out Sweet Caroline on repeat!? I don't know, hence the ask. haha.
Let me know your thoughts as it's something we're not used to doing and need to work out what the opening costs would be/if it's viable. I imagine licensing would want us to have a couple of security on at all times sadly.
Thanks all, any input/thoughts are appreciated.
Cheers.
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Thread | Brighten The Corners 24 - super early bird tickets
at 18:56 18 Jul 2023
Shameless music festival plug.
We’ve got 50 tickets left on our super early bird price left for June 2024 festival - £30… madness.
www.brightenthecorners.co.uk
I know a good group from here went to last months festival and I’m so grateful for that.
Hope you can bag yourselves a bargain and see you there for pints and the discovery of your new favourite band!
Swailsy and DubT, get on it 😂👍💪
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Reply | Brighten The Corners Festival in Ipswich this weekend
at 21:50 12 Jun 2023
This, along with a couple of Mosaic this evening has made my day. Thank you and we can’t wait for the next one. What’s great is, so many people have had different highlights and of course, some bands may have an off day or have not translated well. I’m gutted I missed fat dog, cowboyy, Jords and many more but… O. and Anthony Szmierek were my favourites (and it’s fine if people didn’t like them). I’m just so happy to have put on artists I think are ace in the town I love!
Thanks folks |
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Reply | Brighten the Corners festival
at 12:00 7 May 2023
Sorry to hear that mate, it’s been tough getting the marketing/word out there. Hopefully you can get to some other gigs during the year, there should be an email sign up on the site. We’ll have a lot on with 3 venues that we’re trying to get up and running.
At the Baths we’re tempted to test some indie nights after home games. Open to any suggestions that people have for events and artists that are currently lacking in Ipswich. 👠|
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Reply | Brighten the Corners festival
at 11:54 7 May 2023
Will do matey! Have you got tickets to Cola or Coach party? I’m going to those if you fancy a jar. 👠|
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Reply | Brighten the Corners festival
at 19:57 6 May 2023
I’ll be there & hopefully a lot less stressed than at Sound City 21 (full disclaimer, I’m the festival director…haha )!
Thanks so much for buying a ticket, it will be a great weekend hopping/staggering around the town drinking too much Adnams!
We’re trying our best to bring quality artisits back to Ipswich with the festival and our venues. I’m hoping this will be a great weekend for all who come.
Please check out the Spotify link from the website www.brightenthecorners.co.uk and the weekend planner will be out soon. It’s great to discover new bands/artists and without the Sound City festivals I personally wouldn’t have got into WH Lung, The Murder Capital, Jelani Blackman, Yard Act and others as soon as I would have without it. Hopefully the acts this year (Jords, cowboyy & Anthony Szmierek being a few I recommend) will carry on the same trajectory!
Totally recommend seeing Swailsy’s band, Post. Will you have have any music out before then mate?
We’re also thinking of opening The Baths and St Stephen’s church before town games next season as I think we need some more pre-match watering holes!
Hope to see some TWTDers there! |
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