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Also, January will be a month of announcements, so yea. New stuff too?

first, i would like to thank anyone helping promote this show. its free, and we're paying the bands through donations.

second, the hottness have had a conflict with being added to the rest of the banner / dr.acula tour, and will not be playing next friday at manifest, nor the next day in lancaster sc. they would like everyone to know they're sorry for this change, and will be rescheduling, which means september 7th, the hottness may be playing at manifest, i need to find a band or 2 that'll play and help with donations and what not, but that seems to be what is happening. please don't let that affect you're attending of august 1st, and please let everyone you know that wanted to see the hottness next friday, to please make a note to look for sept 7th as the hottness at manifest as a makeup for this (its a sunday, and will probably be earlier than august 1st's show).

with that said, there may or may not be another band added to the august 1st show. i'm waiting on a response from someone, and that'll pretty much be the band i add unless i get some bumrush of messages over night since i don't plan on putting anymore time into this show pass this weekend.

third, dbdd wants to continue having shows at manifest, so please show your support and come to these shows, put flyers on your profile, post bulletins about them, etc. all shows will be based on donations, so that limits the bands we can ask to even play, but i'm gonna continue getting bands you wouldn't expect for free shows, and still have some ideas for up coming shows. it's very important that these shows have nice turn outs and enough donations to help if not completely pay band guarantees so that the money isn't coming out of our pocket.

with that said, i hope to see everyone next friday for A Stained Glass Romance and Land Of Savage (formally Think Back). we'll be taking donations as usual to help these bands with gas, they both have shows the next day around an hour from charlotte and every dollar counts with insane gas prices. thanks for reading.


btw, manifest is located at
6239 South Blvd, Charlotte, NC 28217
the intersection of south blvd and archdale, next to the post office.

- stuart dbdd

They should be put up sometime this week. We delivered them Friday but neither of us have been in there since so who knows, they might be up already!? Hahaha.

ALL NEW PRINTS including
- 3 color choices for EVERYONE!
- 3 color choices for GET HEAD STAY TRUE (first time in Manifest)
- 3 color choices for PARTY!
- 3 color choices for BEARDISM KILLS (new shirt!)
- 2 color choices for SAME SHIT (new shirt!)
- 1 color choice for GIRLS, AFTERMATH

go pick yourself up something nice. all are available in sizes small through xl, while supplies last.

We've been behind on announcing these awesome artists. Some friends I met a few years ago, VANNA from Boston, and an awesome Kansas City artist on Rhymesayers, MAC LETHAL.

If you're behind on either of these artists, check them out right now. You'll cry about missing out for the last few years.

MAC LETHAL is playing a huge hiphop fest in May with Aesop Rock, Atmosphere, Little Brother and an assortment of Rhymesayers artists. He also was on this years Paid Dues fest.

VANNA will be on tour later this year with The Banner, Across Five Aprils, A Plea For Purging, and about 5 other bands I think, its a monster tour package, which isn't playing Charlotte. :(

Check these artists out!

VANNA - myspace.com/vanna
MAC LETHAL - myspace.com/maclethal

Beardism is defined by the Beard Liberation Front as "an irrational prejudice against those with facial hair". As bearded men (well... not Ashley), when we found out about the BLF, a UK organization, we were in the middle of designing a beard shirt, which ultimately became our "Beardism Kills" shirt. Its layered 2 color shirt, large front print.

If you’re interested in the BFL or beardism, check out the wikipedia for BFL.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beard_Liberation_Front

So like everyone has assumed, Tremont isn’t interested in music, but for how much money they can make off alcohol. I’m not edge, but I don’t go out and drink at shows either, which has somehow created the myth of me being edge, whatever.

I really don’t see a reason to say anything else about this message you’re about to read. I guess all I can do is suggest that you quit going to national shows at Tremont, & only go to local shows. Seek out shows not happening at Tremont, like at places such as SK Net, Lunchbox, Manifest, local parks, and if you’re 18+, try The Milestone & Snug Harbor.

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Stuart,

The fact that you’re getting a response should go some distance in showing you that you’re wrong in many of your assumptions about Tremont and the business in general.

The second assumption that you make is that your shows make Tremont money. They don’t. See my next point.

The third assumption that you, and I might add many people, make is that Tremont is in the music business. We’re not. We’re in the alcohol business. In much the same way that movie theatres are not in the movie business, they’re in the popcorn business. Almost all venues work this way and the few that don’t either don’t stay open or they become shittier and shittier because they’re unable to pay for the upkeep.

When we do shows where the majority of the crowd is under drinking age. we often lose money or just break even. The money that you see us take in from the door (after our staff expenses) goes to pay our high rent, insurance, utilities, and advertising costs. We factor in these costs when we bid on big room shows, but on local shows we use the door money for this and we hope to make money at the bar. Of course, this only works for drinking crowds. We continue to do under-age shows, certainly not for money, but because we like to support local music and because we know that the kids of today are the adults of tomorrow, so to speak.

My point is, you have to remember that we have to prioritize with our limited attention. The shows which we know are going to make us money are going to get their emails answered first, their phone calls returned first, etc. I am sorry that you had a bad experience with our management and staff but you must realize that, when we get 100 emails a day and have tens of thousands of dollars at stake with the money making shows, sometimes the under-age shows will get short shrift. It’s nothing personal. We just can’t handle everyone the same way all the time. We’d need a staff of 20 instead of the 2 that we have. I often think that promoters of under-age shows want it to be like a show in their friend’s basement or something where it’s not done for money; it’s just to support the "scene". It’s just not like that in professional venues. I know it sounds cold and business-like but, well, it is. We bust our ass to put on the drinking shows and the kid shows are often a "when we can get to it" kind of thing.

I hope this has cleared things up a bit or at least explained some of your experience with our club. I hope to see you out at shows sometime.

Blue (from Tremont)

thats right, we’re hitting up 2 shows with our friends DR.ACULA and their awesome canadian tour mates, LIFERUINER, in june.

June 5th - The 7 Venue (Douglasville, GA)
June 6th - Sector 7G (Augusta, GA)

we’ll have shirts printed, limited edition for the weekend. i’m assuming we’ll have new shirts by then, so its kinda hard to say what we’ll have for the 2 days.

more info on this to come. we’ll probably make up some silly flyer promoting the 2 dates and post the shit all over.

if you’re from georgia and wanna help promote it with us, leave a comment here and we’ll let you know whats up later on. its kinda like a GA street team for dbdd, but not really. hahaha