Spotted something very cool on Twitter earlier…
Get It Loud In Libraries organizes concerts in libraries – if you look at their forthcoming events they are putting some great bands like Slow Club, Summercamp and Emmy The Great over the next few months.
From their ‘About‘ page:
Get It Loud In Libraries is a unique award winning project – it is the current Love Libraries Award 2007 winner-designed to give people, especially young people who love music, a damn good time in a library; libraries across Lancashire if you are someone who cares for the small details.
If during post gig smiley time, those cool informed kids come back into libraries for great tunes, scored music, novels, maps to find places, quiet down time, and ye olde world wide web time, then just great, I mean really great, but the music’s the key thing.No age restrictions, no spilt beer, no smoke in your eyes, no rip-off ticket prices: just nice down time with friends in an intimate space, an ad hoc near perfect DJ set from award winning indie disco Offbeat, or Same Teens from Manchester, and a couple of great quality breakthrough bands and a boogie down the book shelves.
Using great fresh modern rock and pop in an innovative, natural location as the key, it offers opportunities to kids from 5 to 65 to check out bands at close quarters in a book clad feelgood venue before they hit the proverbial big time.
Launched in May 2005, Get It Loud In Libraries aims to stage around 8-12 high profile gigs per year, pulling in people who haven’t been inside the library walls for years, if at all.
Since conception, it’s estimated the programme has reached over 3,500 people, even making BBC TV’s The One Show and Newsround. It is hoped to bring in even more ace, worth-seeing bands in 2009 and 2010, illustrate the unique cool of libraries and roll the project out nationwide.
Anyway – a Twitter conversation last week played out like this:
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@clash_music / 9th Sept at 3:00pm
We’re speaking to @lucyrosemusic later on. Questions on twitter postcards as per usual… #bestival
@LibraryFiend / 9th Sept at 3:03pm
@clash_music @lucyrosemusic Ask her about Kendal Calling where she appeared on the @loudinlibraries stage? Does she like intimate gigs?
@lucyrosemusic / 10th Sept at 1:20am
@LibraryFiend @clash_music @loudinlibraries i loved the gig at Kendal Calling!
@LibraryFiend / Mon 12th Sep at 4:14pm
@lucyrosemusic @clash_music @loudinlibraries Nice one Lucy :) Working out others with Phyllis as we speak x
@lucyrosemusic / 13th Sep at 10:14am
@LibraryFiend @clash_music @loudinlibraries very exciting!
@LibraryFiend / Thu 15th Sept at 2:54pm
Calling all gorgeous #libraries! We are looking to tour with the ace @lucyrosemusic Dec 1-7. Can u pls send DM avails if interested
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How awesome is that? A potential Lucy Rose library tour between Thu 1st Dec – Wed 7th Dec :) If anyone works at a library in Manchester then please get in touch with @LibraryFiend as that would be ace :)
You can find out more about Get It Loud In Libraries via:
http://getitloudinlibraries.com
http://twitter.com/#!/LoudinLibraries
http://twitter.com/#!/LibraryFiend
and
http://www.manchester.gov.uk/libraries/
https://www.facebook.com/manchesterlibraries