Old front page
This Week at the Tin: The Old Front Page
The welcome page of the venue website as it stood over New Year 2003–04: tonight’s club night, the New Year’s Eve party and a Thursday bill with The Lams and Opus Trees.
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The Tin Archive
Listings, club nights, press cuttings and photos from the website of the Chatham music pub that used this address between 2003 and 2006, sorted into the sections of the magazine.
From the Tin archive. Between 2003 and 2006 this domain carried the website of the Tap ’n’ Tin, a three-floor music pub on Railway Street in Chatham. This page keeps one of its items as a historical record. The magazine that publishes the site today is independent and has no connection with the venue, its owners or promoters; contact details have been removed, and pictures lost from the old site have been replaced with credited photographs.
Gig listings
Forthcoming Events, January to February 2004
The venue’s listings for the first weeks of 2004, floor by floor: jazz funk, breakbeat, hip hop, indie club nights, jam nights and bands in the pool room.
Gig diary
The Gig Diary, March 2003 to August 2004
Seventeen months of nights at a three-floor Chatham pub, as its own website logged them: Billy Childish and the Buff Medways, the Len Price 3, Rachel Stamp and the weekly indie night warning: RoCkeTs.
Club nights
Club Nights at the Tin: From Kinda Kinky to Rocks Off
The monthly rotation of DJ nights across Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays: breakbeat, hip hop, funk, indie and rock ’n’ roll.
Special night
Special Night: 20 October 2004
A one-off night on the venue’s calendar in October 2004; the flyer that filled this page has not survived.
Special night
Crack Village: A Bonfire Night Special
A 5 November party listed among the venue’s special nights; only its title and date survive.
Special night
Heavy Mental: 16 November 2006
A rock and metal night from late 2006, one of the last entries on the old venue website.
The venue
The Venue: Five Bars on Three Floors in Chatham
How the Tap ’n’ Tin on Railway Street described itself: bands in the pool room, DJs upstairs, a beer garden, and plans for a salon and a tattoo studio.
Press cuttings
Press and Awards: The Tin in the Papers
Cuttings the venue collected in 2003 and 2004, from the Kent Messenger and The Face to NME and the national reviews of the Libertines’ reunion gig.
Gig review
The Libertines: Unity at Peter’s “Freedom Gig”
A fan’s review of the October 2003 night when Pete Doherty walked out of prison and the Libertines reunited on the pub’s top floor.
Press cutting
Multi-Storey Music: The Kent Messenger on the Tin
A Kent Messenger feature on a Chatham pub with live bands, DJs and indie nights on three floors.
Press cutting
Record Makers: A Chatham Pub Starts a Label
The Kent Messenger on the year the Tap ’n’ Tin became known well beyond Medway, and on its plans for a record label.
Press cutting
Poster Girl: The Artist Behind the Flyers
The Face magazine on the young artist who drew flyers for her friends’ bands, including the Libertines.
Press cutting
NME’s Number One Live Moment of 2003
The December 2003 issue of NME named the Libertines’ reunion at the Tap ’n’ Tin the live moment of the year.
The venue
The Salon Upstairs: A Hairdresser Inside a Music Pub
The venue briefly ran a late-night hair salon on its premises, open on club nights.
The venue
Future Primitive: The Tattoo Studio Next Door
A tattoo studio called Future Primitive was being fitted out next to the pub at the end of 2003.
The venue
The Message Board: Where the Regulars Talked
In 2004 the venue opened an online message board for photos, gig chat and the weekly mailing list.
Photo set
Rough Trade Night, 22 May 2004: The Photo Set
A Rough Trade Records night with Art Brut, Fuzz and Rory Keef, a DJ set from James Endeacott and Carl Barât in the room.
Record label
Tap ’n’ Tin Records: A Double A-Side From The Delaners
The venue started its own label with a limited-edition 7-inch single.
Links
Links: The Bands, Labels and Scene Sites of 2004
The venue’s own list of links: Billy Childish, The Libertines, Rough Trade, Kent music sites and the designers and photographers who worked with it.
Band competition
Top of the Tin: The Sunday Live Band Competition
Every Sunday the venue ran a live band competition for local acts, a stepping stone for Medway bands.
