that is WELL sad.

tis a fun venue indeed.

any reason why its closing?

Johnny Moscow wrote:

that is WELL sad.

tis a fun venue indeed.

any reason why its closing?

it's closing due to the fact it cannot sustain it's own existance. they've put a bulletin up saying that the general apathy towards live music combined with increasing supplier costs and demands has made the decision for them.

tis a sad day ;-(

Darren Kill Chaos wrote:

Johnny Moscow wrote:

that is WELL sad.

tis a fun venue indeed.

any reason why its closing?

it's closing due to the fact it cannot sustain it's own existance. they've put a bulletin up saying that the general apathy towards live music combined with increasing supplier costs and demands has made the decision for them.

tis a sad day ;-(

Probably doesn't help that Quireboys promotor wants to sell tickets at £15 a pop for Sunday's gig, and has been arsey with us for not wanting to peddle 15 quid tockets for our show!

I wonder what their fee is? It is very sad indeed. Save Junktion 7? Methinks it's too late

Will the ground floor bar go as well? Always seems quite busy whenever I've been around.

£15 to see a band, who had one hit single nearly 20 years ago? jeeesus.

From the website

"Dear Friends,

This is the message that we never wanted to write.

Due to the grim economic climate, the subsequent decline of the live music scene and the unbridled brutality of our beloved corporate friends, Junktion7 will be closing its doors for the last time on December 31st 2008.

Over the last many months we have all worked desperately hard to keep this venue afloat, but in the end our efforts have come to nothing and we've been left with no choice.

So, after almost 7 years of truly live independent music in Nottingham, it's time to say goodbye.

We do hope, however, that when you walk past our building in the future and see a soul-less trendy wine bar or a faceless supermaket or whatever they choose to do with our little corner of the world, you will see the mark of where the high tide of Nottingham's independent music scene once stood, and spare a second or two for all the awesome memories we've all had in this little concrete rock n roll bunker.

It's now in the hands of the other independent live venues in the city... we know it will rise again. Support your local scene, and don't let this happen again.

In the meantime, it's time to party like there's no 2009!! We would like you ALL to come down to all of these FABULOUS shows and give Junktion7 the send-off it deserves, culminating with the mother of all parties on New Year's Eve 2009.

Adrian, Julio, Hannah and all the staff @ Junktion7.

The captain crew are going down with this ship."

Junktion7 (2002-200

black wrote:

£15 to see a band, who had one hit single nearly 20 years ago? jeeesus.

two hit singles.

It's ridiculous. It's probably because they carged 20 quid at Rock City last year.

Oh well, it'll still be fun! We're gonna open with 'Hey You'

Every gig I've ever had booked their was cancelled so never actually played the venue.

one of my friends works at the venue, and she didn't know about this when i saw her the other day. shitter.

thats a real shame.

i played their twice i think. it was really great.

fondest memories of Mhunky - playing there to packed house iwth lo-ego and hinterland... J7 was a better gig than when we played downstiars at rock city.

gutted.

I think we played our favourite local gigs at J7 and I agree, better than downstairs at Rock City, although we've only done that once!

I remember getting pissed at J7 with The Breakdowns a couple of years ago, t'was very good fun.

I've seen quite a few good gigs there, it's very disappointing.

last time we went to watch a gig, there was a horrible atmosphere in there...far too many hairy arse meet-heads off their tits on MDMA and looking for a fight....I'm sure it used to be a good venue, but it'sclientele of late ruined it....

Edited on Sun 7th December, 2008 @ 16:31 by Gav Minnaars

Had some deent times there, shame an independent venue is closing like - but I have to agree, it was a bit weird last time I was there.