Live Music Venues in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire*

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• The Underground in Stoke The Sugarmill in Hanley
• Keele University has some excellent big names appearing a couple of times a year. In 2004 the Darkness and The Thrills both performed there.
• "The Rigger", Marsh Parade has recently come under the management of "Buff" (a.k.a. Ian Chapman) and has rapidly become the premier music venue for lesser-known rock bands and rock music in the area. Buff is a big, round fella with a beaming smile and an acidic wit that could lance boils! If you want a good, rowdy evening's entertainment, then "The Rigger" in Marsh Parade is the place to visit... As an alternative to "The Rigger", you might want to wander downhill into Newcastle-under-Lyme town centre and call in on "The Full Moon" in Liverpool Road. This second rock music venue in hosted by "Copey" ( a.k.a. Paul Cope ) and he provides a variety of live music shows. Copey is a big chap with big muscles so the atmosphere is maintained at a tolerable level with never any trouble and is well worth a visit. However, don't expect to hold a conversation in the main stage area as your eardrums inevitably go home on their own, pop themselves into bed early and wait until you come home before climbing back into your lugholes! On a Saturday night, when "The Rigger" and "The Full Moon" have closed their doors for the night, dirty-stopouts might want to continue in your carousing by walking still further downhill, cross the A34 and finish the night's entertainment in "The Sutherland Arms" ( a.k.a. "The Suth" ). Your eardrums have gone home already so you've nothing to lose and if you've seen "Star Wars", the sights and sounds of "The Suth" compare to the famous "bar scene" with strange, alien-like creatures doing odd, almost-ritualistic gyrations on the centre dance floor incited and inspired by the infamous DJ "Dr. Bone" with his bulldog expression and vast collection of seventies, eighties and nineties rock music...
• The Sugarmill is Ok, as much as you can drink for a tenner some nights.
• The Boat and Horses opposite Safeway hosts a few local bands. It's OK, but it's so small that it's a bit like being in someone's front room.
• Without a doubt the greatest music venue in the potteries has to be the corner of High Street and Bridge Street in Silverdale, a location where the Salvation Army band use to practise on a Sunday Morning. (right outside my bedroom window)
• The Rigger- one of the best venues in the underage market. The New Bear- off a side street somewhere, and folk night often means the owner and the barman playing 'I've got a brand new combine harvester' on spoons and harmonica.
• Trentham Gardens often has huge gigs
• The Wheatsheaf has reincarnated itself at Riddles Music Bar at the the Talbot Hotel. About 100 hundred yards away from the original venue. They have a Web site at http://www.wheatsheafmusic.co.uk and do a monthly newsletter of forthcoming attractions.
• Keele S.U.
• The Wheatsheaf in Stoke has closed down, it is being turned into a Weatherspoonns pub.

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