We have set up The Cheltenham Underground as a fresh alternative to the established acoustic and open mic nights currently on in Cheltenham.

Our plan is to offer exciting and diverse nights with an eclectic mix of acoustic and non-acoustic acts - both local and from further afield. We aim to do this arranging regular showcase nights every month.

At present we run a showcase night every month at Slak, 16 Bath Street, Cheltenham.

We also make the following pledges:

1. We will help promote any act who has played or is booked to play at The Cheltenham Underground showcase nights. We will do this by keeping our MySpace and facebook profiles regularly updated by posting the bands’ studio recordings and our live recordings of their sets. We will only do this with prior permission from the acts concerned.

All acts, whether they’ve played at a showcase or open mic night, will have a link to their MySpace profile placed on our profile pages.

2. Although we warmly welcome the more established local acts to come down and play, of equal importance to us are the local bands and musicians who are still getting established or starting out.

There are no cliques at The Cheltenham Underground. We respect the music not reputations.

3. All acts who play at The Cheltenham Underground showcase nights will be paid. For those acts who have travelled the highways and byways to be with us, we will also make an additional contribution towards travel expenses.

4. As your humble hosts, we recognise that any time we spend on stage should be for the purpose of introducing the acts and applauding them off again.

We will not use these nights as an excuse to go up to the mike for any other reason. (However we do reserve the right to play should an act drop out from a showcase at the last minute or if an open mic night is short of acts!)

5. Finally and more generally, we aim to put on a night that will entertain, excite and make one dance recklessly/tap foot reservedly/nod head sagely (delete as appropriate depending on preferred method of outward display of musical appreciation).