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• 26th Jan 2005

Ragtime Unsigned & Ragtime Live

Ragtime and mcr:music (publishers of The Unsigned Guide and promoters of the hugely successful Academy Unsigned at Manchester University) are proud to announce a brand new series of student targeted live music events and initiatives specifically aimed at the best emerging and unsigned bands and musicians from around the UK.

As one of the best on-line promotional platforms for unsigned bands in the UK, Ragtime Unsigned is promoted to students at every university throughout the UK every week via online newsletters and further promoted by Ragtime Live, the biggest series of university based gigs in the UK – a nationwide festival of live, unsigned music.

Ragtime Live is quite simply the highest profile series of unsigned events in the UK. Dates are already booked for the first round of Ragtime Live events in February 2005 at 400 capacity university venues in Manchester, Liverpool and London. The wider UK rollout of Ragtime Live events at universities including Birmingham, Bristol, Brunel, Leeds, Loughborough, Newcastle, Nottingham, Oxford, Reading, Teesside, Warwick and Westminster will commence in April 2005.

Liverpool Academy – 18th February 2005

The V.Cs
The Veras
The Aeroplanes
The Wombats

Manchester Academy 3 – 19th February 2005

Whiskycats
Change Nothing
Only One Mammal
Pollen

London Kings College – 23rd February 2005

3 Miles From
We Rock Like Girls Don’t
Widescreen
Mohair

All bands featured as part of the Ragtime music will receive giveaways including festival and concert tickets, copies of The Unsigned Guide and various other music related items & goodies. Further supplementing this student environment, the Ragtime job board is one of the largest job boards for undergraduate placement and graduate opportunities in the UK featuring superb opportunities with many of the UK’s largest companies.

We're on the look out… for bands of the highest standard to get involved. If you would like to be considered for the Ragtime Unsigned playlist or to play a Ragtime Live event at your local student venue please submit your demo on CD (with full contact details including your name, band name, address, mobile telephone number and email address) to:

Ragtime Music Programming
mcr:music, 3rd Floor, 24-26 Lever Street, Manchester, M1 1DZ.

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