Shepherds Bush?
 

hey
just thought i'd ask something.
i am really wanting to move away when i get a bit of money behind me.
i am so sick and bored of where i live now.(just out of newcastle)
i cant find any work suitable for me.i dont want to get stuck in a dead end job with no possibilty to go on to what i love.(music)

i am a guitarist looking to make something of it.(not talking superstar etc, just something music related and then gigging trying to make it.)
whats the point in having a dream then not taking risks to try and make it come to true.

anyway i am thinking about moving to shepherds bush.
with it having the empire,then not long from hammersmith and not far from hyde park so there will be plenty of good bands to go and see.

anyway what i would like to know is what is it like down there.
how much are flats to rent if anyone knows roughly.
does anyone think its a good idea to take a risk.
i would be moving with my brother as he wants to move aswell.

at least down there i believe i would have a better chance of finding more opportunities to make something of myself. i wouldn't mind roughing it for a while.haha if i thought i'd be doing something to help my career.

anyway any advice would be helpful. i am 20 and i've just got to think of what to do and i'm the kind of person who doesn't want to settle for second best and forget my dreams like so many of my friends and family have/did.

i have been told by lots of people who know what they're talking about that i have what it takes to make something of myself in music.

thanks hope you guys can offer me any good advice.
shepherds bush just seemed like the right place in london to goto.

sorry to be the harbinger of bad news but no one really knows if anyone has what it takes to make it, even A&R guys are taking huge risks everytime they sign someone and they don't sign people solely on the basis that they thinkt hey've got "it"

your best bet to do somethign with music is to do covers. you might scoff at it now but you tend to find that the people who are more inclined to go out and make a living doing covers are the ones who have did the original thing for a while around a decent scene and found out that the dream is much much nicer than the reality.

I'm only a year older than you, by time I was 18 i'd done pretty much anything an unsigned artist could do up here and alot more in a great scene with a great band and "could" have gone onto more theoretically and even now I don't see it as giving up the dream. as i said, the dream and the reality are two different things. doing your ownt hing and havign people respond is great but all the stress and crap it involves seriously detracts from it.

be realistic. london is mad expensive for rent and living and you won't be the 1st or last musician who's went down there to find fame and fortune only to be slapped with a nice hard reality check. whats up with staying in newcastle and try n get a shit hot band going up there?

it's better to be a big fish in a small pond than a small fish in a massive pond.... one of the reasons we done so well was because even in a busy scene liek glasgow, we still stood out for varius reasons, in london we would just have been another good band slogging away at it....

th edream is ok, and if you want to take risks at it then be my guest, but don't let that be the only option for you, because you might fail, and yes that is a posibillity for everyone.

I'm 20 aswell, I haven't stopped giggin, but it's a secondary thing next to studying and getting an education for me, I don't know yet what i want to do, but i want to have more than one option.

Shepherds Bush is an awful place. There are much nicer areas to look in west london which will be alot cheaper as well. Sure there are a few gigs at the empire and the Hammersmith Appollo but alot of the good gigs are in the centre of town anyway. PM me if you need more help. (I work in Hammersmith)

hey guys thanks for the advice
i wasn't talking about going down to do original stuff.i meant to do covers etc or whatever it takes.
anything music related would do.
i know people saying you have what it takes to make it mean nothing really.
i just want to move for a change in scene for personal reasons aswell.

anyway this was just an option i have been thinking about so i thought i would just ask advice.
thanks for the replys.

dont move to shep bush! it will be the biggist regret of your life! im from there. its horrid. you wont be able to leave your place without a gang of blacks or whatever looking at you. move to somewherre on outskirts of london. you will h8 it. stabbins everywhere and shootings. to much drugs there. congeston charge other thing and u will have to pay to park outside your house! PLEASE TAKE MY ADVISE DONT LISTEN TO KNOW ONE ELSE THAT SAYS ITS GREAT COZ IT AINT! move to somewherre like Middlesex which is outskirts of west london which is the likes of white city, shep bush, notting hill and so on. you will be able to travel by train. u b more secure it will work out cheaper too. Plus to rent a flat in London will be a sky high price i mean that! not talking 100's im talking bout 1000,s of £££££££££. so i would apply for council place. somewhere in middlesex. you will be able to get one in SB if you beet a illigel imagrent to it. but it will be a horrible place. take my advice and move to outskirts of west london. you may have good chance of getting a council place at Wembely. sorry bout spelling and punctuation

i'm living in ealing while i'm working down at my firm's uxbridge office. it's at the end of the central line straight into the centre and isn't far from hammersmith, shep bush and pretty much everywhere central. rent is fairly high, but the houses are generally nice and the area's safe. it's a huge culture shock moving down from newcastle, though. be warned, it's a hell of a lot quicker way of life and a lot more expensive.

thanks guys for all the advice.
when i said shepherds bush i didn't mean exactly in shepherds bush i was talking about the surroundings.

like hammersmith, ealing etc.
not be for a long time yet anyway. :)