TNSrecords.co.uk - NEW WEBSITE

This will probably be the last post on here as we are going to switch across to our brand new website. Please head over to TNSrecords.co.uk and check it out.

A massive thank you goes out to Joe Dimuantes from One Roof Medis for designing it.

There are loads of new features on the site, including a much better webstore. We will slowly be filling this up with the distro stock over the next couple of weeks so check back for some great deals. Until the start of Feb you can use the discount code TNSnewsite_1 to get 20% off everything when you checkout!

Cheers for reading this blog while we have been between site, hope to see you at a gig soon.

Tickets Now Available for March All-Dayer

As the title says, we now have tickets available for the TNS all-dayer on the 12th March. They are £5 each (£6 otd) and available from Rockers on Oldham Street or by paypal - tnsrecordsuk@hotmail.co.uk

We have also got some limited A2 posters printed that you will be able to pick up on the day for just £1. They look like this -

So a quick reminder about the gig. It starts at 3pm and is also going to be upstairs at Gullivers on Oldham Street from 3pm. As you can see above the line-up will be:

Beat The Red Light - http://www.myspace.com/beattheredlight

The Dangerfields - http://www.myspace.com/thedangerfields

Stand Out Riot - http://www.myspace.com/standoutriot

Revenge of the Psychotronic Man - http://www.myspace.com/revengeofthepsychotronicman

Faintest Idea - http://www.myspace.com/faintestidea

Bootscraper - www.myspace.com/bootscrapermusic

The Kirkz - www.myspace.com/thekirkz

Sense of Urgency - www.myspace.com/senseofurgency

Leagues Apart - www.myspace.com/leaguesapartmusic

Ignorance Is This - http://www.myspace.com/ignoranceisthisuk

It should also be the Manchester launch gig for the new Beat The Red Light and Stand Out Riot albums. So it is shaping up to be an amazing day. Please spread the word and make sure the day is booked in your diary.

The All Dayer To End All Dayers

We haven't put on a gig for a while, we needed a break. But we miss it. So we have put together a special TNSrecords all-dayer on the 12th March next year. It will be £6 on the door, tickets info (if we have them) will follow later. Oh, its also going to be upstairs at Gullivers on Oldham Street from 3pm.

As you can see above the line-up will be:

Beat The Red Light - http://www.myspace.com/beattheredlight

The Dangerfields - http://www.myspace.com/thedangerfields

Stand Out Riot - http://www.myspace.com/standoutriot

Revenge of the Psychotronic Man - http://www.myspace.com/revengeofthepsychotronicman

Faintest Idea - http://www.myspace.com/faintestidea

Bootscraper - www.myspace.com/bootscrapermusic

The Kirkz - www.myspace.com/thekirkz

Sense of Urgency - www.myspace.com/senseofurgency

Leagues Apart - www.myspace.com/leaguesapartmusic

Ignorance Is This - http://www.myspace.com/ignoranceisthisuk

It should also be the Manchester launch gig for the new Beat The Red Light and Stand Out Riot albums. So it is shaping up to be an amazing day. Please spread the word and make sure the day is booked in your diary.

Punk and Ska that will take your face off!

TNSgigs - the future

The first ever TNS gig was in April 2004. Since then we've been a monthly band night (and some months we've put more than one gig on). Over the years we've been lucky enough to receive some fantastic support and most importantly to see some fantastic bands. However, as TNS continues to develop as a label the band night side of things is the area we feel is starting to struggle.

After starting out all those years ago as a free night in the Attic, things have slowly changed. We then moved to Joshua for a few years before heading over to Retro Bar. As we have gone we have slowly increased the price to pay travelling bands at first then local bands, as well as covering venue hire costs. Throughout all this we remained not-for-profit. If we did make some cash on a gig we usually lost it on the next and we still to this day sometimes pay bands out of our own pockets despite, as you all know, extensively advertising all of our events.

We moved to a Saturday night this year, thinking that it would improve the night, but after one of our best ever gigs (the Stupids in January), attendances have decreased constantly over the year. We know there are reasons for this; people are skint (and we realise that you need to pay beer money as well as entrance money).

There are also sooooo many more gigs than there were 6 years ago, which ultimately means that having a gig on a specific day each month almost inevitably means a gig clash of some kind. Having so many gigs in the area can only be a good thing but it makes us realise that maybe we don't need as many TNS live gigs anymore. The night started to combat the fact the only gigs in Manchester for Punk bands were pay to play, luckily that is no longer the case.

Obviously Bomb Ibiza has also gone this year and I guess Em experienced similar pressures. But there is so much good stuff going on through the likes of Dean at Slit and the Bolton lot that we are certainly not going to go short of live music. We feel that it is more worthwhile for us to spend our increasingly limited time working on the label, the fanzine and the podcast (which has died of late). All these gigs (and those across the country), along with independent labels, fanzines etc, need your continued support, without you they will longer exist.

This is also not a full stop anyway. This will be the end of TNS as a regular night BUT we will continue to do the occasional one off gig. We have two gigs lined up on Sun 5th Sept and Sat 16th October and after these we'll be taking some time out, but in 2011 we expect to be doing the odd gig.

Hopefully we'll see some of you at these two nights, it would be really appreciated to have your support. It kinda makes us really sad to stop the regular nights, but there is also little point doing it half heartedly, with falling support. We'd finally just like to thank everyone for all they have done over the past 6 years. It genuinely means the world to us.