Üritus: DIAMOND HEAD followed by neon lounge

Üritus: DIAMOND HEAD followed by neon lounge

Ticketed Gig

GIG 8pm-11pm £10 advance / £11 door (£10 student)
free entry 11pm-12am
NEON LOUNGE 12am-3am £3 (student £2)
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FRI 7TH OCT - KRAKATOA proudly presents:

DIAMOND HEAD followed by NEON LOUNGE with DJ1 & DJ2

Advance tickets from the bar or online via Skiddle for just £10. Book now to avoid disappointment:

http://www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Aberdeen/Krakatoa/diamond-head/12712606/

9pm - 11pm DIAMOND HEAD
Four working class young men from Stourbridge created the band in 1976. "We started on June 26th, 1976. It was the last year of our school, about to leave to get jobs or go on the dole,whatever," said Brian Tatler, the lead guitarist, about the first days of the band.[2] The name "Diamond Head" came from a 1975 Phil Manzanera album that Tatler had a poster of in his room. Sean Harris later joined the band after they learned about his vocal abilities while on a school trip,[3] singing Gene Vincent's 1956 hit "Be-Bop-A-Lula", and auditioned him in Tatler's bedroom. The band played their first gig at High Park school hall (10 February 1977) and sold 151 tickets for a forty-minute set of their own original material, which went down like a storm. It was a very confident show but these songs were gradually replaced by better material as the band's writing skills developed. Bassist Colin Kimberley, a friend of Tatler's from primary school, joined the band in 1978 (and was in fact Diamond Head's fourth bassist).

In their early days, the band played very few cover songs and concentrated on their own material. Exceptions were Black Sabbath's "Paranoid", "Its All For The Love of Rock and Roll" by the Tuff Darts, "Motorhead" by Motörhead and Space Station #5 by Montrose. In one interview, Brian Tatler stated that they wrote some 100 songs before their first studio recorded release, and only one song (It's Electric) from their 1978 debut gig with Colin made it onto vinyl.

The band recorded self-financed demo tapes in 1979. Recorded within six hours on a four-track, their unique sound and quality of writing gained enough attention for the band to tour as support to AC/DC and Iron Maiden.[4] Although several record companies expressed interests in signing the band, no contracts were forthcoming. The band was at the time managed by Reg Fellows and Sean Harris' mother (Linda Harris),who reportedly turned down an offer from the influential Leiber/Krebs Management,.[5] Thus while other 'New Wave of British Heavy Metal' bands were signed to major labels and headlining their own tours Diamond Head remained independent. The management decided that they would release their material through a label owned by Muff Murfin called 'Happy Face Records'. Muff also owned a studio where Diamond Head did many of their early recordings.

The first release was the 1979 single "Shoot Out The Lights" (B-side Helpless), second single "Sweet and Innocent" (B-side "Streets of Gold") was released by Media Records in 1980.

In the same year the band also recorded their debut album on Happy Face. Most commonly known as Lightning to the Nations, (although it was officially untitled), the collection was recorded in seven days at The Old Smythy Studio in Worcester, a venue which the band described later as 'dead'.[6] The album was packaged in a plain sleeve with no title or track listings, simply bearing a signature of one of the band members. The management thought that it should be perceived as a 'demo' album so no fancy sleeve was required, making it very cheap to produce. the first 1000 copies were pressed and made available at concerts or via mail-order for £3.50. The only mail-order advertisement appeared in Sounds and ran for six weeks. The band did not pay for the advertisement and ended up being sued. The idea for recording this album came from Fellows and Linda Harris as an attempt to record tracks to entice attention from a record company, which would take care of the recording costs.[7]

This album has become one of the most sought after items among record collectors. Another 1000 copies were pressed along with the track listings once the first 1000 copies had sold out. Unfortunately, the original stereo master tapes were lost after they were sent to the German record company, Woolfe Records, and never returned. However, Woolfe Records released a vinyl version of the album with a new sleeve. The tapes were eventually tracked down around 1989.

11pm - 3am NEON LOUNGE

A nocturnal refuge for the free spirited, an incandescent Dionysian antidote to clubbing.

See you here! #discovertiki #divebar