Earplugs for Concerts: How to Protect Your Hearing at Gigs
Live music is often loud enough to harm your ears in minutes; the right earplugs and a few habits keep the music and your hearing.
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Tickets, hearing, festivals, access and the art of the gig night: practical guides for anyone who goes out to see bands.
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From the Tin Archive
Earlier items on this subject from the venue website that once used this address
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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.
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.
