Rip This Joint - DIY Night
It Often Takes A War are proud to be associated with Rip This Joint, one of London's finest DIY nights showcasing the best in unsigned bands.
More info below.....
More info below.....
Rip This Joint is a not-for-profit alternative DIY night held on the 3rd Saturday of every month at The Constitution in Camden, London. We’ve been knocking around in various guises since 2007 and are now an integral part of old London town's vibrant underground scene.
We’re not promoters, we’re not blood-sucking capitalists and we’re not the saviours of live music. What we are is a bunch of pretty good bands trying to keep the DIY spirit alive. All the money we take on the night goes directly to the awesome bands we get down to play for us. We don’t make a penny.
Do you want to play Rip This Joint? Read the below first and then get it touch
- If you’re a London band then we ask that you come down and support the night before asking for a show. Speak to a few of the peeps around on the night, get a feel for the whole thing and then drop us a line. We’ll get you on, just show some love first.
- Check out some of the bands we’ve put on, we’re not snobbish about music but there’s plenty of nights out there and you may find something that fits your band better than us. We like putting on anything alternative from punk, hardcore, garage rock, experimental mayhem, grunge, metal etc. In fact as long as it’s not the sort of soulless, corporate indie rock rubbish that has slowly become part of the mainstream in recent years, then we'd be happy to give it a go
- Once we’ve found you a spot make sure you come down for the whole night. There’s nothing worse than a band who doesn’t support everyone else who’s playing. This isn’t your average promoted night, it’s a family and we want you to be part of it. Not a sulky teenager who just wants to sit on his own in the dark. Oh, and by the way, if you don’t watch the other bands don’t expect to get paid. We’ll spread the wealth to the other bands who make the effort.
- Lastly, don’t contact us on myspace – there’s too much spam from rubbish funk-bands so we don’t check it too often. Drop us a line at [email protected] or on our facebook group (message any of the admins on there – they’ll be happy to help)
We've already met these lot who have played our nights (or our sister night Li Grand Zombi) in the past (lovely people they all were too):
Cherry But No Cake, Yokozuna, The Reactor Core Is Splendid, It Often Takes A War, Silent Front, Nitkowski, Astrohenge, Art Of Burning Water, November Fleet, Munroe Effect, Primo Leviathan (formerly American Gods), Psyche Out Musikland Big Band, Action and Action, Ivy’s Itch, Caretaker, Gin Panic, Let Our Enemies Beware, Shield Your Eyes, One Unique Signal, Death Pedals, Cuss Words, Thumpermonkey, Cutthroat Convention, Three Colours, Penicillin, Illness, KidnappedKids, One Man Team Dance, Godzilla Black, 85 Bears, Gum Takes Tooth, Rapsod, Pump Shark, Shub, Bluebeard, Heck Tate, Econo, Apes Fight Back, Happy Slaves, Theo, Pulpo, Solomon Grundy, Scul Hazzards, Kid Pang (formerly Lakes), Frau Pouch, Hey Colossus, Bo Ningen, Human Steak, Teeth Of The Sea, Velvet Velvet Spice Rack, Dethscalator, Cove, Feets & Boiling Water, Vergogne , Ntwin, Jubile, Attack! Vipers!, Cumrag, Los Nitxos, Perrine En Mor Ceaux, Fulangchangandi, Fall Of Messiah, Lowtrammon, Gravanzia, Blacktron Invasion, Shapes, Stuart Turner & The Flat Earth Society, Feal Real, Le Haine,
The Proteins, Commungoes, Bitches, Songs From The Shows, Timothy C Holehouse, Siegfried Sassoon, Ross And The Invisible Mutes, Chips In Hands, Temperatures, Notorious Hi Fi Killers, Pocus Whiteface, Paper Clip, Ken Kobayashi, Hanjiro, The Helmholtz Resonators, Quint’s Tale, Ox Scapula, Mayors of Miyasaki, Ono Palindromes, Nought, Blood Moon, The Psychotic Reaction, Ternary, Slushy Guts, Hag, Hreda, Djevara, Khuda, Rosvita, Jokari, Huntspill River, Finglebone, So Money, Meat Sweats, Tau, Tetsuo, Batrider, Hypos, The Small Machine, Ed Wood Jr, The Entire Asian Population, Thee Deed Time Philharmonic, Valleum, Lesser Gods, Veee Deee, Old Mayor, Elks, Philosocide, Jesus Is Angry, Quickbrownfox, Sky:Lark!
Gone, but not forgotten.....
Roll Call For The Second Site (RIP)
We Are Power (RIP)
Who By Gun (RIP)
Optimist Club (RIP)
They Died Too Young (RIP)
One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong (RIP)
Susan George Booth (RIP)
And why not check out some other DIY nights in the capital:
Li Grand Zombi:
http://www.myspace.com/ligrandzombi
End Of Radio:
http://www.myspace.com/endofradio
Duel In The Deep:
http://www.myspace.com/duelinthedeeplondon
I Hate The Kids:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=347869402368
Doubledgescissors Rule:
http://www.facebook.com/doubledgescissor
The Naked Claw:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Unicorn-Camden-Live/123203921031520
Motherboy
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Motherboy/217806891569868
Triplejump Records
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Triplejump-Records/195649743790912
Didn't It Rain
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002509333417
We’re not promoters, we’re not blood-sucking capitalists and we’re not the saviours of live music. What we are is a bunch of pretty good bands trying to keep the DIY spirit alive. All the money we take on the night goes directly to the awesome bands we get down to play for us. We don’t make a penny.
Do you want to play Rip This Joint? Read the below first and then get it touch
- If you’re a London band then we ask that you come down and support the night before asking for a show. Speak to a few of the peeps around on the night, get a feel for the whole thing and then drop us a line. We’ll get you on, just show some love first.
- Check out some of the bands we’ve put on, we’re not snobbish about music but there’s plenty of nights out there and you may find something that fits your band better than us. We like putting on anything alternative from punk, hardcore, garage rock, experimental mayhem, grunge, metal etc. In fact as long as it’s not the sort of soulless, corporate indie rock rubbish that has slowly become part of the mainstream in recent years, then we'd be happy to give it a go
- Once we’ve found you a spot make sure you come down for the whole night. There’s nothing worse than a band who doesn’t support everyone else who’s playing. This isn’t your average promoted night, it’s a family and we want you to be part of it. Not a sulky teenager who just wants to sit on his own in the dark. Oh, and by the way, if you don’t watch the other bands don’t expect to get paid. We’ll spread the wealth to the other bands who make the effort.
- Lastly, don’t contact us on myspace – there’s too much spam from rubbish funk-bands so we don’t check it too often. Drop us a line at [email protected] or on our facebook group (message any of the admins on there – they’ll be happy to help)
We've already met these lot who have played our nights (or our sister night Li Grand Zombi) in the past (lovely people they all were too):
Cherry But No Cake, Yokozuna, The Reactor Core Is Splendid, It Often Takes A War, Silent Front, Nitkowski, Astrohenge, Art Of Burning Water, November Fleet, Munroe Effect, Primo Leviathan (formerly American Gods), Psyche Out Musikland Big Band, Action and Action, Ivy’s Itch, Caretaker, Gin Panic, Let Our Enemies Beware, Shield Your Eyes, One Unique Signal, Death Pedals, Cuss Words, Thumpermonkey, Cutthroat Convention, Three Colours, Penicillin, Illness, KidnappedKids, One Man Team Dance, Godzilla Black, 85 Bears, Gum Takes Tooth, Rapsod, Pump Shark, Shub, Bluebeard, Heck Tate, Econo, Apes Fight Back, Happy Slaves, Theo, Pulpo, Solomon Grundy, Scul Hazzards, Kid Pang (formerly Lakes), Frau Pouch, Hey Colossus, Bo Ningen, Human Steak, Teeth Of The Sea, Velvet Velvet Spice Rack, Dethscalator, Cove, Feets & Boiling Water, Vergogne , Ntwin, Jubile, Attack! Vipers!, Cumrag, Los Nitxos, Perrine En Mor Ceaux, Fulangchangandi, Fall Of Messiah, Lowtrammon, Gravanzia, Blacktron Invasion, Shapes, Stuart Turner & The Flat Earth Society, Feal Real, Le Haine,
The Proteins, Commungoes, Bitches, Songs From The Shows, Timothy C Holehouse, Siegfried Sassoon, Ross And The Invisible Mutes, Chips In Hands, Temperatures, Notorious Hi Fi Killers, Pocus Whiteface, Paper Clip, Ken Kobayashi, Hanjiro, The Helmholtz Resonators, Quint’s Tale, Ox Scapula, Mayors of Miyasaki, Ono Palindromes, Nought, Blood Moon, The Psychotic Reaction, Ternary, Slushy Guts, Hag, Hreda, Djevara, Khuda, Rosvita, Jokari, Huntspill River, Finglebone, So Money, Meat Sweats, Tau, Tetsuo, Batrider, Hypos, The Small Machine, Ed Wood Jr, The Entire Asian Population, Thee Deed Time Philharmonic, Valleum, Lesser Gods, Veee Deee, Old Mayor, Elks, Philosocide, Jesus Is Angry, Quickbrownfox, Sky:Lark!
Gone, but not forgotten.....
Roll Call For The Second Site (RIP)
We Are Power (RIP)
Who By Gun (RIP)
Optimist Club (RIP)
They Died Too Young (RIP)
One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong (RIP)
Susan George Booth (RIP)
And why not check out some other DIY nights in the capital:
Li Grand Zombi:
http://www.myspace.com/ligrandzombi
End Of Radio:
http://www.myspace.com/endofradio
Duel In The Deep:
http://www.myspace.com/duelinthedeeplondon
I Hate The Kids:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=347869402368
Doubledgescissors Rule:
http://www.facebook.com/doubledgescissor
The Naked Claw:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Unicorn-Camden-Live/123203921031520
Motherboy
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Motherboy/217806891569868
Triplejump Records
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Triplejump-Records/195649743790912
Didn't It Rain
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002509333417