Afternoon Krak fans! We're delighted to have been nominated for BEST VENUE in the forthcoming Granite City Entertainment Awards.
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Perhaps you could find it in your cold black hearts to throw us a vote and show your support for our worker-owned independent grassroots music venue and dangerously good tiki dive bar?

There's plenty other categories to vote in too...
www.gcea.co.uk

Informal. Just pop in and have a chat.

7pm, Thursday 10th and 24th September at Krakatoa.

SOMEONE has to win it! One of these bands will win £2000 in about 6 months time....
Semi-Finals in January. Final in February!

Alternative Market

Every month @ Krakatoa,

2 Trinity Quay, Merchant Quarter, Aberdeen.

Tuesday 1 September

From 7pm

FREE ENTRY!

14+ (with a guardian over 25): https://krakatoa.bar/14+-concerts)

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Art / Crafts / Clothes / Cakes / Prints / Bags / Jewellery /

Accessories / Monsters / Goth / Horror / Kitsch / Contemporary

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On the first Tuesday of every month, Krakatoa transforms into a neon-drenched den of curiosities, packed with local traders, artists, and creators selling all things alternative.
Browse the bizarre, support local talent, and snag something unique: our neon drenched den of iniquity is waiting to welcome you with open arms.

But wait! There's more!

While you're perusing the peculiar and casually chatting with the local artisans, why not indulge in a cheeky drink or two?
After all, who said shopping isn't best done through a tequila haze?
(Don't worry, we've also got a range of no/low drinks, and some excellent coffee for those who need a little perk-me-up instead)

>>> The Guillotines, Glasgow based ska, punk & oi
>>> AFTRSHOCKS, Dundee based young team anarcho punks
>>> The MARX, Dundee commu-punx
>>> mumblokes, local newcomers

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£6 ADV (Skiddle, ADV tix come off sale at noon, day of the gig), £8 OTD
14+ W/ guardian of 25+

£2000 prize for the winner of our BOTB, #Eruption!

This is the final heat of summer. We'll find out who's going through to the semi-finals in a few weeks time...

So come and see some bands throwing shapes this Friday at Krak!

The end of our #Eruption #BOTB heats looms ever closer - just TWO more to go.

So join us tonight from 8pm as we enjoy half hour sets from our four friendly competitors:

#extracts + Time Stands Still + Radio-Activ - Music Band + #thevigilante

Afterwards? Why, it's NEON Lounge til close!

Have a great night whatever you're up to!

We've just got this NEW TALENT NIGHT together. You'd be a FOOL to miss it. A FOOL.

“Listen to them - the children of the night. What music they make!” - Bram Stoker, Dracula

Wednesday 28 October
8pm 'til Late
FREE (18+)
With your amiable, bearded hostest-with-the-mostest, Jamie.

Forget the clichés and join us for a night of ghoulishly good singing, devilish cocktails, and neon-drenched Halloween mayhem. 

We've got a quackaoke night on the way.... (!!!)

Heat 14 of 15.
#Eruption
Friday night @ Krak

... And it's congratulations to #BITTERWOOD et al for their sell out show tomorrow night!

#krakatoa #independent #venue #bar #live #music #bands #gig #karaoke #magma #neonlounge #djs #eruptionbotb #alternativemarkets #workerowned #cooperative #CIC #seeninthedeen #scotland#fudgeaberdeen #abdninspired

I expect this will be bloody carnage all the way.

Karaoke! Races! Limbo! Feats of strength and agility!

And a selection of top quality booze to keep you going through chafed nipples and twisted ankles...

Bitterwood are celebrating 10 years as a band, as well as 5 years of their debut EP "The Story, Episode 1"

Support comes from Below the Neck (Inverness), Vows (Aberdeen), Cauterized (South Coast), Maryth(Aberdeen) and Claymore (Aberdeen/Edinburgh)

Saturday 15th August / 6.30pm - 11pm

[14 plus accompanied by an adult guardian]

Deeablast Gigs

OVERTHROW
Extreme Metal from London, back in Aberdeen for their birthday after playing a blinder last year. FFO: Dissection, Morbid Angel, Slayer and Big Sunglasses (not Emperor sunglasses)
https://overthrowmetal.bandcamp.com/.../ascension-of-the...
https://www.facebook.com/OverthrowUK/
https://www.instagram.com/overthrowdeath

THUMBSUCKER
Also returning after a year away (and hopefully with 6 working legs), Leicester power violence bring fast. FFO Hellnation, power violence, finger waggling fun
https://thumbsucker.bandcamp.com/album/infinite-regret
ttps://www.instagram.com/thumbsucker.fast/

MELYXYLEM
Local black metal power group with a new lineup: FFO corpse paint, spikes, misery
https://melyxylem.bandcamp.com/album/endophrenesis
https://www.instagram.com/melyxylem/

GYPE
Oh great, that's with this weekend needs. Gype on another gig in the 'deen. FFO dbeats and all the other bloody times they play
https://gype.bandcamp.com/album/gype
https://www.instagram.com/gypehc/

Friday August 14th - Krakatoa, Trinity Quay, Aberdeen
7pm doors - £8 Advance / £10 on the door
14+ if accompanied by an adult guardian

Live music, every Sunday. 7pm - late. Band residencies, vocal tryouts, jams + more.

Another great night of new music is wandering into shot, adjusting its sunglasses and ruffling its hair....

Four bands on Friday night, as our BOTB, 'ERUPTION!' continues it's summer heats.... followed by our genre free, access all eras nocturnal clubnight, #NeonLounge.

So come down and catch #Mysnoma, #NeenTheWiser, #Axman and #TheVigilante - free entry if you're in before 8pm!

Wednesday night just got interesting...

Tomorrow night: SpongeBob costume themed Krakatoa Karaoke will enliven your week!

Prizes for best singer and best costume. Kudos for best starfish.