Burn the jukebox
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The Burn The Jukebox Collective is an autonomous student music group, who have been running gigs, clubnights, radio shows and meetings/socials since 2002. As an unratified campus group, they have the freedom to operate upon a non-heirarchical basis, and carry out many of their events in town at venues such as The City Screen, Judges' Lodgings, The Junction, The ArtSpace, St Lawrence W.M.C, Dusk and Certificate 18. Meetings are held (as of the 2007/8 academic year) at The Seahorse Hotel, on Fawcett Street, every Thursday at 8pm. Meetings are open, and anyone is welcome to attend and participate. Unlike many ratified campus music societies, Burn The Jukebox is non-genre specific.
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[edit] History
Burn The Jukebox started in the 2002/3 academic year, with events being held exclusively on campus. After refusing ratification a number of times in 2005/6, they found themselves struggling to be able to hold these anymore due to incompetence from the S.U. and the mysterious cancellation of room bookings at both James and Goodricke JCRs. As a result, they moved their attentions to town: the first Burn The Jukebox gig being held on Thursday 3rd February 2006 at The Junction, headlined by Bangor-based Micrographia.
Since then, the collective have been putting on approximately two clubnights per term. In December 2006, they started a monthly gig night at The City Screen Basement Bar, usually occuring on the third Wednesday of every month (during term-time).
The collective have also done DJ sets at the 2005, 2006 and 2007 Woodstock festivals on campus (a recurring fiasco), as well as doing sets at both Chain Reaction events in 2006/7, raising money for the York leg of the blockade of the Faslane Nuclear Base.
[edit] btfj
Previously known as alt.btfj (until 2007), btfj is the monthly newsletter of Burn The Jukebox. Featuring news, features, reviews, gig listings, fiction and art, the newsletter can usually be found around campus and at Burn The Jukebox clubnights.
[edit] Burn The Jukebox Radio
Burn The Jukebox first had shows on URY in the 2005/6 academic year, with members contributing to The Children's Hour, Grammaphone Revue and Sitting in a Room the year after. As of January 2008, Burn The Jukebox has a collective radio show, imaginatively entitled "Burn The Jukebox" broadcasting on Thursdays at 9pm.
[edit] Militant Wing
Since its inception, Burn The Jukebox has had a small but influential militant wing, dedicated to committing acts of art terrorism, and keeping the overall organisation true to its founding principles. Burn The Jukebox is currently in the process of modernisation, and is attempting to purge this tendency in order to concentrate on pushing through much needed market-oriented reforms. A number of tit-for-tat killings within the organisation have resulted from this conflict, with the militant wing informing the reformers in December 2007 that they are from that point subject to non-stop targeted psychic bombardment.
[edit] Burn The Jukebox Birmingham
After leaving the university in 2007, ex-students Cardinal Liam Papist-Scallon and Christafi Tomlionson formed Burn The Jukebox Birmingham, carrying out similar events in the West Midlands. Their first gig will be on the 2nd February 2008, at The Market Tavern, Digbeth.
[edit] List of acts put on by Burn The Jukebox
Youthmovie Soundtrack Strategies (Later Youthmovies)
[edit] Notable Former Members
Liam Scallon - Former Assistant Editor, and shortlived Editor of York Vision. Branch secretary of York Papist Action.
Jacob Ross - Electronica producer, making choons as Beatloafe
Laura Dawkins - Founder member of Burn The Jukebox.
Barry Prime - Nickname "Optimus" acquired during his BTJ days. Appears in the 2007 Transformers film, starring Shia LaBoeuf
Luther Blissett - Footballer with a series of high-profile clubs, including Watford and A.C Milan. Honorary member
Mark Speight - Artist, broadcaster and notorious serial killer. Never quite recovered from his rift with BTJ. However BTJ wishes him the best of luck in his future endeavours.
Alan Grice - Burn the Jukebox was his idea in the first place, so there. Nobody can take that from him.
Matthew Collings - Founder member. Awaiting trial at the Hague for attempting to stage a coup in Iceland using only his mystical powers of post rock, which are admittedly pretty fucking huge.
Peter Hitchens - Journalist and broadcaster. Claims there is no truth in the story that he arrived to a Burn The Jukebox meeting late with the excuse that he had been "too busy writing reactionary bullshit for a fascist newspaper."
Chris Packham - Naturalist, photographer, television presenter and President of the Bat Conservation Trust.
Robin Howells - Founder member. Presently a noted mobile disc jockey, available for weddings, bar mitzvahs, pet funerals etc.
Robert Piggott - Founder member, chairman of the 2003 Dub Quango and under twelve line-dance champion (East Anglia region) three years running.
Benfred Mustari - Notorious figure in the Militant Wing. Responsible for the fire at York Minster in 1984.
Mark "Admiral" Ackbar - Well respected Mon Calamari spacefarer.
Matt Le Tissier - Guernsey born Gabba DJ. Gifted but lazy.
[edit] Trivia
Contrary to his CV, Liam Scallon has never been Burn The Jukebox treasurer.
James "James" Longhurst is the founder, and only current member of Rogue Baron, a historical metal band. A reunion tour is mooted after "James" finishes his degree, but he has dismissed these rumours on the grounds that only he understands Rogue Baron's music enough to truly appreciate it.
