Rocklands - artbeat for life to imitate. Music passion created it. Playing Class Friends made the fantasy a reality. Have staged and connected around the UK. Mostly in London including such venues as The Albany Theatre, Amersham Arms, British Music Experience at The 02, The Apple Store on Regent Street (both as part of City Showcase Rocklands), Camden Barfly, Dingwalls, ULU, Festival Stages at People's Day, Camden Crawl and The Great Escape (2014, 2015), Camden Purple Turtle, Number3London and in a lorry container behind The Big Red double decker bus pizzeria!
Playhard has, additionally, staged events at The Lucky Pig Cocktail Bar, Edinburgh Festival (in association with BandWagon Gigs), Leyton Orient Football ground and The Soccer Dome at The 02 (for Soccer Six) having launched at the International Live Music Conference.
The network has a great team of connected creators that Rocklands is happy to recommend for whatever your needs / budget.
Thank you to artists promoted / co-promoted so far; including The Homosexuals, Bad For Lazarus, Saint Agnes, deux furieuses, You The Living, Mourning Birds, Savage Nomads, Factory Floor, Goldheart Assembly,Mark Morriss (The Bluetones), Officer Kicks, Bloc Party, Eighteen Nightmares At The Lux, Tinie Tempah, CuT, Art Brut, Breton, The Heavy, Artful Dodger, Bashy, Pendulum, Kate Tempest, Morissey & Marshall, Julien Temple, Bad Wolf, Hatcham Social, Bleech, Gemma Ray, Scroobius Pip, Howard Marks, Too Many Ts, My Passion, Sham 69, Carnabys, Misty Miller, Hyena and many many more, plus all the involved photographers, film makers, writers, promoters, venues and festivals that support this resourceful, low budget but creative artist development and connecting movement. Roll on the future and the next adventures.
Pop up promo office, a client list of talents and events raising grass roots profile to "poachability". Working with buzz artists from the word of mouth network.
Image: Simon of Bad Wolfl and Jean Genie Graham at Playhard
(c) Rupert Hitchcox http://ruperthitchcox.co.uk
