I started promoting gigs in conjunction with the music website Pennyblackmusic around ten years ago (a list of all the previous gigs can be viewed here), taking over from another promoter who'd hosted a number of PB nights at the now sadly defunct Spitz venue. After taking over the reins, we found our home at a whole number of London venues, from the Brixton Windmill, the Half Moon Herne Hill, Brixton Jamm, and The Lexington, to The Sebright Arms and The Macbeth. 

Along with the way, I've promoted a ton of bands, including the Willard Grant Conspiracy (RIP Robert Fisher), The Band of Holy Joy, Madam, The Monroe Transfer, The Doomed Bird of Conspiracy...and countless others. There's been huge amounts of fun, stressful soundchecks galore, sold out gigs, entire mini-orchestras onstage causing soundmen to lose their mind, singers shooting up heroin in the toilet, musicians walking off stage and out of the venue, never to play with the band they're in again...and lots of drinking. More on that in a forthcoming post.

In the meantime, this Saturday will be the last Pennyblackmusic night for the foreseeable future, coinciding with twenty years of the website. The gig takes place at the legendary Water Rats venue in King's Cross, and tickets can be bought here.