The Knott have made it through to the Regional Semi-Finals of the Live & Unsigned competition to be hosted at St George’s Bristol on 29 March and now we need people to come and help us get through to the final. The prize is a £20,000 recording investment to give us the ability to record and realease an album and a 100 date tour along with the other finalists. We want to win and we know we’ve got a shot if we can raise enough support!
The evening will be a showcase of all the regional semi-finalists and finalists will be chosen by a combination of audience votes and Judges’ points. Each audience member will be asked to vote for TWO bands that they want to go through to the final, but to ensure as good a chance as possible to succeed we need as many people as possible to make their way to Bristol that night.
Tickets are £6 each and because we appreciate that the distance to travel is going to be a negative factor for a lot of people if we can get 50 people from Swindon going, the band are going to supply a coach to get everyone there and back that night.
You can buy tickets from us at any of our upcoming gigs (see our artist page on Facebook or our myspace page for details of upcoming gigs as our giglisting here on this site isn’t currently working 
) or if you’re not planning on coming to the gigs then email us in order to get details of how to buy them.
If you mark yourself as attending this event, we will contact you to let you know how to get hold of a ticket.
Don’t hang about though - we’ve only got a month to get this together so please, invite your friends, tell them about it even if you’re not planning to come yourself and spread the word.
We’re pleased to announce the launch of two new ventures for The Knott. We’ve introduced two new shop applications into the site.
A new CD shop where you can purchase the audio CDs that we have available and a new Merchandise store where you can buy T-Shirts, mugs, teddy-bears… well, basically anything we can stick a photo or the band name on.
These two stores are powered by two different services on the web so the methods of purchasing/payment are slightly different.
CD Store
We can only accept bank transfers for payment for CDs at the moment. When you check out, you’ll be given the details of how to make your payment and you’ll need to initiate a transfer (using the order number as the reference) from your own bank. It’s not the most ideal, but we’ve got no hope of obtaining a merchant account to accept credit cards at the moment and the service we’re using to power this store doesn’t allow for paypal (which we can accept Credit cards through). We can accept cheques if you prefer, in order to pay using a cheque, complete the order and checkout as normal and then email us using the contact form in the store with your order number to obtain our postal address. Make sure you send your email address so that we can get back to you. When you send your cheque, make sure you write your order number on the back and when it’s cleared, we’ll send you your CDs. Simple.
Merchandise Store
This is our favourite. You can purchase T-Shirts with the band’s name on, or mugs with our ugly mugs on! You can even get a Knott Teddy!
You can even (eventually) create your own designs right from our store. Simply click on the Merch link at the top of the site to visit our store. When you choose an item, you’ll be taken away from this site (just to warn you) but you needn’t worry it’s all legit and endorsed by us. Alternatively, you can visit our Merch store directly at theknott.spreadshirt.net.
We hope you’ll enjoy using the stores and buy lots and lots of lovely things for you, your Mum, your girlfriend/boyfriend and anyone else you can think of. If you do buy any t-shirts etc, then please please wear them to the gigs you come to. Anyone seen wearing a The Knott t-shirt at a gig will automatically get a free CD from the band. Now we can’t say fairer than that!
We’ve just gone through two major changes to the site. Number one was moving to a new hosting service and number two was updating the underlying ‘engine’ of the site, the marvelous WordPress. Neither process was without it’s issues, but we appear to be up and running on new servers with an upgraded backend… although not perfectly…
As a result, we seem to be having a few minor issues with pages not loading or Server Errors appearing. If this happens to you, simply reload/refresh the page and you should be ok. Not sure why it’s happening at the moment, but I’ll be investigating over the coming couple of days.
Watch this space for further enhancements - such as an all new look, more info, more music the list goes on.
As a teaser, I’ve uploaded a preview of what the site ‘might’ look like… (it’s still being worked on). Please feel free to comment on it.
OMG it’s been such a long time since we put anything up here and we hadn’t realised! To be honest, there’s been a lot going on in the world of Knottiness and we’ve got some news which we’ll be unveiling in the next week or so. Also, Matt’s been working on a new design for the site which is going to reorganise some areas and bring a whole new look and feel to the place so watch this space.
In the meantime, we’re not saying anything else other than we’ve got a few gigs that we’ll be listing here in a day or so (as soon as time permits) but that are already showing on our MySpace page if you want to get them in your diary now.
Laters
