Flux Alternative Student Night // 8pm - 1am // Every Sunday
@ Brannigans & Bar 64, South Street, Romford
Admission £3 & £4 // Over 18's Only // I.D. Required
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Flux is Romford’s best kept secret. It takes place every Sunday at Brannigans & Bar 64 in Romford and is a truly unique Alternative event. Flux is different because it features, not 1, not 2, but 3 rooms of Alternative music & live bands every week. What other Alternative event offers all that?

Room 1: The Alternative Club + Live Music
Every Sunday there is live music until 10:30pm & then legendary DJ Ian Punter joins Le Big Muff on the decks to turn Flux into one of the areas finest Alternative Clubs with drinking & dancing until 1am.

Room 2: The Dance Room
The dance room will be touching down on as many dance styles that is possible to provide. Everything including & in between: Electro, Hip Hop, Breakbeat, Mash Up, Old Skool, Dubstep, Rare Groove & Drum N Base will be featured. There will be a laid back style which will be the perfect Alternative soundtrack for a Sunday evening. Resident DJ's include Fazer, Riisu, Stoko, Lev:L1, D-Cult plus special guests every week.

Room 3: The Rock & Metal Room:
The 4 Dj's of the Apocalypse will be in the VIP area of Brannigans every Sunday spinning the very best Rock & Heavy Metal.

Please scroll down for full Battle of the Bands Competition

Flux's £1,000 BATTLE OF THE BANDS Competition
Sponsored by PMT & Musictek
 

Heat 6: Sunday 5th April
22:15-22:35 – Surface to Air
21:40-22:00 – High Voltage
21:05-21:25 - Physeter
20:30-20:50 – Bonifide
Winner: Surface to Air
Runner Up: Bonifide

Sunday 12th April
FLUX BANK HOLIDAY SPECIAL
(No bands)

Semi Final 1:
Sunday 19th April
22:50-23:15 - SURFACE TO AIR
22:15-22:35 - RED EYE
21:40-22:00 - MINI
21:05-21:25 - CALEB
20:30-20:50 – ONE TONNE BABY

Semi Final 2:
Sunday 26th April
22:50-23:15 - PERRYLANE SECT
22:15-22:35 - DIRTY TRIXX
21:40-22:00 - TOMORROW BELONGS TO US
21:05-21:25 - NDE
20:30-20:50 – ON COMMON GROUND

Sunday 3rd May
FLUX "MAY BANK HOLIDAY" SPECIAL
(No Bands)

Final:
Sunday 10th May
22:15-22:35 - tbc
21:40-22:00 - tbc
21:05-21:25 - tbc
20:30-20:50 - tbc

On your left you will see the 24 live acts entering this years contest. The entrees cover all styles of Alternative music including Indie and Rock as well as Metal & Emo.

If you are in one of the bands entering the Flux £1,000 Battle of the Bands Competition you will find all the information below extremely useful. Keep checking this page for further updates :)
 

Details for Bands performing
- Arrive at the venue at 6:30 to load in gear & sound check
- Park around the back of the club
- Call this number 01708 732211 & a member of staff will open back doors
- Please use the myspace addresses to your left to arrange equipment share with other bands
- The sound engineer will award extra points for the bands that are easiest to work with
- Please wrap up all sound checks by 8:00pm at the very latest

Details for fans of the band:
- Brannigans, 64 South Street, Romford, RM1 1RB
- Doors open to Flux at 8pm-1am
- Admission is £3 b4 9:30pm (£4 thereafter)
- There is no dress code
- Over 18's Only
- I.D. is required by EVERYONE entering the venue
- Drinks £1.50 all night

Please text 07931 580308 at any time if there is any other information you need

How the judges will score this competition
After consulting our A&R contacts, as well as friends in the industry we have been advised to judge the bands using the 5 categories below. Each category will be scored between 1-20 and the top score possible is 100. The categories are as follows...

1. Song Quality:
This category is pretty simple. The judges will be scoring this category on how good the performing band’s songs are. Regardless of what sort of genre the judge personally prefers, a good song is a good song and the judges will be giving bands marks out of 20 for how good their own material is.

2. Look / Image:
Whether you like it or not, image counts for a lot in the music industry, and A&R types are always looking bands whose look & image fits the style of music they are performing. Judges will be scoring the bands out of 20 on whether they think the bands look & image fits the music the band are playing and whether they have brought anything new to the stage image wise.

3. Musicianship:
Judges will be scoring the bands between 1 and 20 for their musicianship in this category. They will be looking to see how well each band member can play their instrument, how well they keep time, and whether they are in full control of the instruments they are playing and the music they are trying to make. In the unfortunate event of any sound issues, the judges are knowledgeable enough to tell the difference between bad sound coming from the band, and an issue with the sound engineer.

4. Performance:
In this category the judges will be scoring the bands on their stage presence & overall performance. Judges will ignore song quality, musicianship & look for this category and score bands purely on how they performed their material. They will be looking to see if the performance have any impact to the crowd? Did the band look confident and comfortable on stage? Did the band give their all? Were they nervous addressing the audience? In this category the judges will take all that into account before giving a mark out of 20.

5. Professionalism:
This category will be scored solely by the sound engineer. He will mark each band out of 20 for how easy they were to work with. i.e. arranging equipment share with other bands on the bill prior to the night of the event, how quickly they got on and off of stage, timekeeping (from arriving at the venue on time to making sure their sets don’t over-run). Basically the sound engineer will judge bands on their overall professionalism for this category.

Here is an example of the judges score sheet: