REDEEMER is a new Alternative, Rock & Metal night for the Midlands.
We have a nice-big, 1000 capacity club to use, split over 3 floors. Our main arena (top floor) caters for; Alternative, rock & metal, our middle floor is the chill-out room, and our bottom floor ('the pit') has regular nights on rotation, catering for everything from The best alternative dance, to the most brutal of metal. and everything else in-between.
Sorry for the total lack of updates over the last month or so, we’ve been very busy trying to sort out a few awesome things for you. We’ll announce what we’ve been working on as soon as we can. Also, we’ve been working on the website; Soon, you’ll be able to see a proper Micro-Site instead of the main Redeemer page. Don’t worry, the main site is still there, you just have to choose to enter it. What we’ll have there is essentially ‘quick access’ information: Whats coming up, our events calendar, a digest of this very Blog, and our Twitter posts.
If you need more, you can click through to the main website to see it all. Nothing’s going away.
We’ll be working on the website itself in the near future. We’ll be adding a tonne of new features, and making the whole thing load a lot faster. The site will also get a slight re-design, nothing too drastic, just a bit of spit and polish to bring things up to speed.
This weekend at Redeemer there’s so much to tell you we decided to Blog it
Firstly, it’s the final night to abuse Jack’s generosity by taking advantage of our free entry before midnight offer, so tell your friends, family and anyone else you want to come down for free, just keep it legal with the ages please
Secondly we have our monthly dedicated Metal night Exile with One Fell Down and Mantus playing live in The Pit, hosted & DJ’d by Trendkill with a special DJ set by Dene (S.o.T) so make sure you get down for that one:
Thirdly we’ve re-jigged Electron to make it Electron Breaks with Jungle, Drum ‘n’ Bass, Breaks & Beats being laid down on you all night by our special guest DJ for the night CK.
Drinks are still on offer until 1am, so couple that with bands, guest DJ’s and free entry you get a great weekend at stupidly cheap prices…
Fourthly, we’re pleased to announce the start of The Lock In, an after club bar held until 6am after Redeemer has finished and located in the Rack ‘n’ Roll itself. Entry to this is free from Redeemer so you can kick back and chill out after the usual Redeemer madness.
However, it’s also free entry to anyone after 4am (when Redeemer shuts), so even if you work in another club or you’ve been out and about elsewhere in town that night (not that you’d want to go anywhere else now would you? ) you can come and chill out with some drinks and music until the wee small hours…
This week’s update is mostly a list of upcoming events.
Firstly, the up-coming stuff:
This Saturday Redeemer: Alternative , Rock, Metal RockBox: Cheesy rock classics Autonomy: Alt. Dance, EBM, Noise, HardStyle – Guests: DJ Synne (London), The Paradox
Next Saturday Redeemer: Alternative , Rock, Metal My Old-Skool mixtape: Alternative classics CockRock: Rock classics
Coming soon:
September 27th - Exile: Extreme metal – Featuring live performance from: One Fell Down
September 27th - Electr0n_Breaks: Drum & Bass, Breaks, and Beats
Special Events:
All September – Jack’s birthday celebration: We’ll let you in FREE before midnight all month.
October 4th – Burlesque show: Featuring Nottingham’s Apocalypse Girls, plus more to come!
October 18th – Cheesecake School Disco + Dress theme
October 25th - Exile: Featruring live performances from The Inbreds + Support
November 1st – Halloween Special: Psycho Circus + Dress theme
November 8th – Medieval Mayhem: Pugal Combat + Dress theme
November 15th – Gamers night (Details to follow)
November 22nd – Exile: Featuring live performances from Chemical Threat & Eyesaw + Tattoo Competition
December 31st – New years eve party (more details to follow)
Well well!
Time for another update, and here’s what we have this week: Exile (+ Entry discount), Electr0n (+ news), and photos from last week’s Redeemer (the 16th, when some of you were at BloodStock).
OK, let’s get on with the update.
First off, what’s coming up:
We’re going to give all you BloodStock-goers a bit of a discount this Saturday.
If you’ve still got your BloodStock wristband, you can get in for £3 from 11pm, all night.
Don’t worry if you’ve taken it off, just bring it along, show it at the front desk, and you’ll get the discount.
Electr0n
Features the usual Industrial and beats, but, after this week, it’ll be changing.
Yep, changing.
Electr0n evolves!
From next month’s Electr0n (that’s the 27th of September), Electr0n will become Electr0n Breaks and we’ll be getting a couple more DJs in, and playing a tone of Drum & Bass, DarkStep, and Industrial Drum & Bass (see, keeping some of the Industrial). We’ll also be throwing in a little Digital Hardcore, and a few other beaty-treats.
It’ll be a friendly night, no attitude kinda thing, and we’ll be playing something along the lines of:
Technical Itch, Black Sun Empire, Limewax, Current Value, Spor, Couterstrike, Evol Intent, Diesel Boy, DJ Hidden, Edgey, Raiden, Panacea, Donny, Dillinja, Pendulum, Konflict, Skynet, Enduser, Atari Teenage Riot, Godflesh, Front Line Assembly, Resonant Evil, Bad Robot, and much more.
We’re aiming for a friendly, alternative event. We know you all like Pendulum (even if you refuse to admit it, we’ve seen you all dancing to it weekly ), and we’ve been listening to people’s requests for a friendly Drum & Bass night for some time now.
We listen, we provide
Photos from last week’s Redeemer
Can be found, as ever, on the Website, Flickr page, MySpace page, of FaceBook group.
You could, however, just click the image below to see the slideshow.
Next week at Redeemer
As it’s a 5-week month, we have two great events for you:
Hades Gates [MySpace page]
Featuring Exile and RageBreed DJs, and live performances from Warpath, and The Cosmic Vortex of Doom, plus one more band yet to be confirmed (a web flyer will be up when the third band is confirmed)
Nowhere
Our genre-free night of random music, request heavy, and a great time. I’ll be covering this one for the regular Nowhere DJ (DarkstrEam) as he’s on holiday. I highly suggest you check it out.
Blog upgrade
We’ve been working on the look of the blog today, and we’re quite happy with it so far. We still have a few technical issues to work out, but this is pretty much how it’ll look from now on.
We even got a Twitter account for Redeemer, so we can share stuff with you, and, it’ll automatically post a summary of those ‘Tweets’ daily, as a blog entry. If you use twitter, feel free to either add Redeemer here or just pop back here from time-to-time to see the updates.
We’ve been looking into a few other social tools, too, but more on that when the time is right.
Upcoming special events
Are in planning right now, and you can fully expect something for Hallowe’en and New Years Eve, not to mention a tonne of stuff in-between.
Anyway, that’ll do for now, so please, let us know what you think of the new blog layout and design, and if it does, or does not work for you.
Well, this weekend brings our much-awaited event: Sumo Smackdown, not to mention the optional dress theme of; Japanese / Chinese / Computer game characters / Anime & Manga characters.
So, you could come dressed as (and these are only a few ideas): Ninja / Samurai / Geisha / Ryu / Ken / Scorpion / Sub-Zero / A DragonBall Z character / A character from you favourite Anime / Japanese school-girl, or anything along those lines, and anything else you can think of.
People dressing up get in for a discounted amount, too.
We’ll have the Sumo Suits on the top floor stage (including neck braces, and helmets) for you to use all night long.
Keeping in theme with the night, we also have HyperKawaiiRobot on the middle floor, playing the very best of Japanese Pop, Rock , Anime music, Arcade and games console music, and much more. HKR is sure to please
We have CheeseCake on the ground floor (yes, you might well hear ‘Turning Japanese’ and as we all know, that song wasn’t really about the land of the rising sun…)
Anyway, it’s going to be damn awesome.
Photos from last weeks Redeemer
Are up on our Website, MySpace, FaceBook, and Flickr Pages.
You can see them by visiting any of the above, or just click the image below to view a slide show.
Coming up soon: Saturday the 23rd of August: Exile - Featuring live performances from Drag the Lake & Internal Conflict Saturday the 30th of August: Hades Gates - Featuring live bands (TBC) Saturday the 6th of September: Autonomy - Featuring sets by Londons DJ Synne, and The Paradox
So, anyway, time for an update (and the astute among you may have noticed the lack of update last week. Sorry about that, but i can’t describe to you just how busy i was…)
This week, we have two very awesome nights for you.
CockRock
Bringing you the very best of the Rock classics, from all the way back in the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s.
To get you in the mood, here’s a cover of Dio’s ‘Holy Diver’ by Killswitch Engage.
My Old-Skool Mixtape
All those classic tunes from way back when you started clubbing.
And, as usual:
Redeemer.
Playing all the best, latest, and greatest Alternative, Rock and Metal.
Never one to let the music stagnate, always request-friendly and never afraid to try the occasional risky track. All for your enjoyment.
Photos from last week are now up.
You can find them via the Redeemer website, our FaceBook page, and MySpace.
Alternatively, you could just click the image below, and be taken to a lovely slideshow.
Speaking of last week, Autonomy (our resident EBM/Alt. Dance/Noise night) was an absolute stormer!
Guest DJ: Traumahound played a real beast of a set, and hell, even got me listening to Psyclon Nine, which i think some of you may well enjoy. It’s a mix of harsh electronica, Industrial, and Black Metal. Yes, Black Metal….
So, here’s a video of a great track of theirs ‘Parasitic’ (i also recommend you listen to the track ‘Crwn Thy Frnicatr’
You can listen to more Psyclon Nine (including ‘Crwn Thy Frnicatr’ via , if you like.
Just a quick one to let you all know about our next super-sized event: Sumo Smackdown
Get yourself and a friend in a sumo-suit and let the smack-down commence!
So, the dress theme:
It’s kindof a Japanese / Chineese / Anime & Computer game character theme.
So, you could come dressed as a Ninja, Samurai, StreetFighter character, Mortal Kombat character, a character from your favourite Anime, or, if you’re feeling brave, a Pokémon.
As usual, people in fancy dress get in for less than the entry price.
We do regular offers on drinks, as well as offers for birthdays and those travelling down (including hotel discounts).
10:30pm-1am – Any single drink £1.50 (includes free mixer*)
Carling
Strongbow
Worthington’s
Guinness
Grolsch
Coors
JD
Smirnoff
Jäger
Magners
St. Heliers
WKD
Smirnoff Ice
Sailor Jerry’s
Bacardi
Malibu
Absinthe
Red Stripe
Bud
Corona
Duncan’s Randomiser £4.50 Before 1am (because it’s 3 drinks in one)
*Free mixers are: Coke / Lemonade / Soda
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// Music Top Floor: Every Saturday: Redeemer: Alternative, Rock and Metal Ground Floor: CheeseCake (Prime cheddar from the 70’s 80’s and 90’s) Middle Floor: HyperKawaiiRobot (J-pop, 8bit, classic console music)
Offers:
// Birthday?
If it’s your birthday close to Redeemer, let us know, and we’ll let you & 5 friends in for free, and we’ll also give you a free bottle of Champagne.
Contact: email [at] theredeemerwebsite [dotcom]
// Travelling?
We can book you a hotel room (Single, Double, or Triple), and give you (and everyone else staying in the booked hotel room) Entry to the club all for one price.
You can see prices and book your room via RockLounge (Our partner website).
The rodeo was great!
Everyone had a fantastic time, and lots of people dressed up.
We got photos almost every single person that went on the bull, and you can see the photos by clicking the image below.
Well, Top floor, is as ever; Alternative, Rock & Metal. Middle floor is; HyperKawaiiRobot - Super-Mega-8bit-Special!
With all those great tunes from classic consoles, and a variety of awesome 8bit / ChipCore tunes, and not to mention the J-pop, and Anime music, too!
Here’s a little something to get you in the mood:
FREE 8bit tunes from 8bit Peoples (lots of artists and albums totally, and legally free)
On the ground floor, we have CheeseCake: Serving you a hefty slice of dance-floor cheddar.
Coming up, we have:
Sat 26th:Exile, with live performances from Enemoj, and Scarset + BloodStock ticket give-away and Guitar Hero III competition! Soon: Sumo Smackdown! - Sumo-suit madness, and dress theme night (Anime / computer game characters, Japanses / Chinese theme, Ninja, Samurai, karate-Kid, all that)
This week is our Redneck Rodeo.
We’re all very excited about this, i can tell you!
The club will open at the usual time of 10:30, and you can get in for less than full price if you come dressed up.
If you’re looking for ideas for dressing up, how about: Cowboy/Girl, Indian, White Trash, or a Redneck?
The dress theme isn’t mandatory, so don’t worry if you’re not dressing up
We’ll also have prizes for whoever can stay on the bull the longest.
How we’re working it: Everyone who tries the bull gets their name taken down, we record you time, and then, later in the night, we’ll look at the list, and award the prize to the winner.
OK, on to this weeks updates:
Photos from the 5th are now up.
You can find them via the Redeemer website, our FaceBook group, or our MySpace page.
Feel free to Tag people you know, or tell us who’s in the photos and we’ll tag them.
This weeks Redeemer features:
Main Arena: Redeemer
Chillout Room: My Old-Skool Mixtape
The Pit: CockRock
Coming Soon:
Exile, with Bloodstock Ticket Giveaway, and live performances from Scarset & Enemoj.
To win the BloodStock tickets, you’ll have to fend off the competition on Guitar Hero 3.
Get practicing, and let’s hope all those years of Air Guitaring haven’t gone to waste
Further on…
We have lots of themes’s lined up for you lot, as well as live bands at Exile and Hades gates. Not to mention an impending website update (nothing major, just making it all a little better and more useful).
Naturally, if you have any suggestions, we’re happy to listen. Feel free to comment.
Stuff
If you love your Metal, and remember all those classic computer games, then you REALLY should check out ‘PowerGlove’ who are a Metal band that cover classic game music. You may have heard us play the Tetris track at Redeemer a couple of times, these are the guys who did that…
) you can come and chill out with some drinks and music until the wee small hours…
), and we’ve been listening to people’s requests for a friendly Drum & Bass night for some time now.
