DARK CITY 2008 - ANNOUNCEMENT

23rd March 2008

After much deliberation, we regret to announce that there will be no Dark City festival in 2008.

Unfortunately, the costs of putting on events of this scale are such that it cannot be achieved without substantial personal financial input on our part, which, contrary to popular belief, we have never made back. We hope you will appreciate that this is something we can simply no longer afford to continue doing. In addition, there is also the many months of preparation and organision required, which again is something that is proving increasingly harder to commit to.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank all the bands that have performed in the past, the many people who have freely helped us with various tasks and obviously all the people who have supported the festival by attending and hopefully enjoying it!

This is not to say there won't be a festival in the future - it remains our hope to stage another credible festival in the UK at some future point, alongside those already existing, should circumstances change.

 

CHANGE OF VENUE- UPDATE

30th April 2007

Further to our previous announcement, we are pleased to advise that all revised venues for this year’s Dark City Festival have been now been confirmed.

Friday’s event will now take place at Studio 24, Calton Road. Doors open 7.00PM, with the first band on at 7.30PM. After the headline band has finished (11.00PM), an after show event will be held at Nicol Edwards, Niddry Street, until 3.00AM.

As previously advised, the venue for Saturday and Sunday is The Caves, Niddry Street South. Doors open at 4.00PM (first band on at 5.00PM) and the venue will remain open until 3.00AM on both nights.

Full details regarding both venues can be found on the Event Info pages.

Inevitably, when faced with having to change venues at short notice, a number of logistical changes are forced upon us. In particular, an issue affecting Saturday and Sunday is that the event can no longer feature two separate stages as previously advertised – if only because the venue only has one main auditorium. Instead, we shall be running all bands from a single stage. As the original plan was to alternate bands so that no two were playing at the same time, this simply means that there will be a shorter interval between bands on the main stage. ALL BANDS WILL BE APPEARING AS ADVERTISED AND WILL PLAY THE SAME LENGTH SETS AS ORIGINALLY INTENDED.

As previously stated, we know that the uncertainty regarding the venue for this year’s festival will have been unsettling, particularly for those travelling from outside Edinburgh who have made arrangements based upon the original location. We regret and apologise for any inconvenience caused. However, having said that, we are genuinely confident that taking into account the quality of the revised venues and their proximity both to each other and the original venue, your enjoyment of this year’s festival will not be compromised.

 

BAND SCHEDULE

30th April 2007

We can now confirm days and running times for all bands as follows:

Friday

22:00 – 23:00 SOLITARY EXPERIMENTS
21:05 – 21:45 XP8
20:10 – 20:50 SIVA SIX
19:30 – 19:55 DIMP

(Please note that this venue must be vacated 23:00 sharp).

Saturday

23:15 – 00:30 ABSOLUTE BODY CONTROL
22:00 – 23:00 32CRASH
21:05 - 21:45 OBSCENITY TRIAL
20:10 – 20:50 CORELINE
19:15 – 19:55 MODULATE
18:30 – 19:00 DYSPRAXIA
17:45 – 18:15 CYBERCIDE
17:00 – 17:30 CRASH-SYMPTOM

Sunday

23:15 – 00:30 GRENDEL
22:00 – 23:00 SONAR
21:05 - 21:45 IMPLANT
20:10 – 20:50 VOICES OF MASADA
19:15 – 19:55 ZEITGEIST ZERO
18:20 – 19:00 PRE-EMPTIVE STRIKE 0.1
17:35 – 18:05 TIN OMEN
16:50 – 17:20 HEAD TRAUMA

 

CHANGE OF VENUE

27th April 2007

As some of you may be aware, issues have arisen with our usual venue, Teviot Row House, which now make it impossible for us to host this year's event there as originally advertised.

In view of this we have been hard at work to secure suitable alternative venues for the event and can now confirm that on Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th May, the event will move to The Caves, Niddry Street South. For full details please visit the Event Info page.

At time of writing, we are still awaiting final confirmation for the location of Friday's event. However, we can tell you that proceedings are at an advanced stage and we will advise you of the details as soon as we are in a position to release them. If you are not already subscribed to the Dark City email newsletter service, we suggest that you take the opportunity to do so via the Contact page to ensure that you don't miss out on any important information.

We know that in recent days a number of people have been expressing concerns regarding the venue situation on various forums and the like. We would like to assure you that we are extremely conscious of the need to keep you informed and hope you will understand that in the interests of ensuring the event goes ahead without further complications, a formal announcement of this kind can only be made once arrangements are 100% confirmed.

Whilst it is always disappointing to find ourselves needing to switch venues at such a late stage, we have been fortunate to secure an excellent alternative in the form of The Caves and we are confident that both festival goers and artists alike are in for an equally, if not more, memorable and exciting event as a result of the move.

Thank you for bearing with us and we look forward to seeing you next weekend!

 

DARK CITY T-SHIRTS

27th April 2007

Last year, many of you told us that you didn't realise official event T-shirts were available until after the event. So to make sure no-one misses out this time round, here's some advance warning of this year's design!

Featuring the new Dark City logo and printed on high quality Fruit Of The Loom stock, these shirts are limited in number and will be sold on a first come first served basis. Price will be £15 and sizes available are S, M, L and XL.

If you would like to reserve a shirt in advance, send us an email using the contact form or telephone Underground Nation on 0131 220 0006.

 

DARK CITY MYSPACE SITE

27th April 2007

You may be aware that MySpace sites have recently been set up for both Dark City and our regular club night, Ascension. These sites are NOT under our control - messages left there will not reach us and we cannot guarantee that information you may read there will be up to date or correct. For now, please continue to use our official sites if you need to get in touch or see the latest news.

 

ACCOMODATION ADVICE

26th March 2007

If you're travelling to Edinburgh and on a budget, you might be interested to learn of a brand new five star hostel with 300 beds recently opened in the centre of Edinburgh. There are single, twin and larger dorm style rooms available and all rooms are ensuite.

Cost is only £18.50 per night plus one-off £6 membership fee (you can join at arrival) - in other words, 3 nights for just over £60!

For more information, please visit the Edinburgh Central Hostel Website.

Please note that these details are provided for information only - Dark City Events are not affiliated with this or any other hostel and cannot guarantee availability or prices, nor handle bookings on festival attendees' behalf.

 

LINE-UP FINALISED

8th March 2007

The line-up for Dark City 2007 is now complete with the addition of Absolute Body Control, Sonar, Head Trauma and Zeitgeist Zero, bringing the total number of bands playing this years festival to 20.

 

Dark City Website Relaunched

7th March 2007

We've realised a revamp of our website was long overdue, so here we are with a brand new look for 2007!

We'll be using the site to bring you as much information as possible not just about this year's Festival but also the other various gigs and club nights that the Dark City Events team will be putting on throughout the year.

We hope you like it - of course, if there's anything else you'd like to see here, please let us know using the contact page.

Don't forget, you can make sure you're up to date with all the latest festival news by subscribing to our regular newsletters.

Please let us know if you experience any problems using the site - although we've tried to make sure it works on all the main browsers, it's alway possible we've missed something.