Featured bands are Caleb Lionheart (Albany, NY), Battleshy Youths, Paul Blest, and The Paper Janes. The show will be broadcast live on Graffiti Radio, which occupies HD channel 93.7 out of Brandywine Hundred. Visit their FB page for more info on the bands:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=129843070423520
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Editor's note which doesn't really have much to do with this post, but which has been on my mind: Mojo Main's booking strategy (booking some of the same bands week after week) surprises me. I'm not necessarily taking a shot at the above group of bands -- they were scheduled by the promotor, not the club -- though I will say that The Paper Janes have played Mojo Main at least 3 times in the past month. Hey, good for them, and if it's a strategy that's working well for Mojo Main, good for them for implementing it. It's just not what I'm used to - in Philly, you'll get yourself blacklisted if you play another club a week or even two weeks before or after playing a show in the city. It's uncommon to even play the same club in Philly *once* a month, unless you have a regular house band spot. Even at the old East End Cafe, which I played regularly a few years ago, you wouldn't see the same bands on the big wall schedule more than once a month. Booking bands much more often than that may partially be a response to the fact that it's hard to get reliable, rehearsed original bands around here (judging by the anecdotes I've heard about 75% of scheduled bands no-showing at other original nights in New Castle County), and partially taking a page from the book of the cover band clubs: don't charge too high of a cover, acknowledge that people are mainly coming to drink, and don't worry about oversaturating the audience. But that's just my speculation. Maybe Mojo Main is still finding their rhythm, booking-wise.
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