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volume 2. Issue 37 september 2011
SOPHIE MADELeINE FLOWER POWER THE HIPPIE ISSUE FEATURING: VOLUNTEERING GIVING EVERYTHING UP STONER ANTHEMS & MORE FESTIVALS
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While we were thinking of this month’s theme, London was burning. Vast swathes of society were falling apart around our ears and Britain was looking pretty ugly. But one positive thing came out of it right away. People used blogs and Twitter to organise a huge clean-up of not only their own riot-damaged streets but other people’s riot-damaged streets too. It shone through the darkness like the sunrise after a long cold night, and it got us thinking. What happened to community, once such an important part of British life? The greedbased society (also know as capitalism) clearly isn’t working properly right now, is it time to look elsewhere? Maybe the hippies have been right all along. While we rushed to the shops to consume our way to happiness, cramming our gobs with sugar, fat and meat on the way, they were taking things back to basics. While we can’t get behind the wind-flapping trouser bottoms there’s plenty to celebrate in their view of the world, so that’s what we’re going to do this month. As the hippies in the 60s sang (later to be mocked by Nirvana), “Come on people now, smile on your brother/ Everybody get together, try to love one another/Right now.” Yeah, man.
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Ian Chambers, Zac Colbert, Dani Colyer, Jake Cunningham, Ben Gilbert, Stuart Huggett, Tom Jenkinson, Rosie Kendall, Adam Peters, Stephanie Maciuk, Nicky Marchant, Jessica Marshall Mchattie, Ben Miller, Lisa Marie Mundy, Helen Murdoch, Sally Oakenfold, Jack Prescott, The Recommender, Gary Scattergood If you want to contribute to SOURCE email james@brightonsource.co.uk
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Contents
News New In Town Gig Previews Interview: Sophie Madeleine Club Previews Club Review: Vice Issue Launch Club Review: Stay Beautiful Culture Art: London 2 Brighton Critic Preview: Festivals Extra Feature: Volunteering SOURCE Virgins: Giving Up Everything Street Style Unsung Hero: TBC Secret Eater: Alokia In Conversation With: JFB Listings Six Of The Best: Stoner Anthems
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MADE IN BRIGHTON •
We’re all about the homegrown here at SOURCE, and a red dot next to an artist, event or label indicates they’re proper local heroes we can be proud of.
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NEWS
WORDS BY DANI COLYER, NICK COQUET, james kendall, ADAM PETERS, JESSICA MARSHALL MCHATTIE
ital tek
holy racket
BINARY BINGE
CORE BLIMEY
MAKE STUFF
As we wandered through the Playgroup fields last month (which was wonderful, wasn’t it), we heard a familiar song coming from The Burrow. A classic slice of country rock, we were whistling along, pondering which 70s icon it was. And then it hit us – it was Holy Vessels playing a song we’d heard maybe three times and we were singing along like it was an old favourite. Boy, their songs are catchy we thought as we patted ourselves on the back for booking them into our SOURCE New Music night at the Pavilion Theatre on Friday 9th.
Do you like apples? Really, really like them? Cox’s Pippins, Granny Smiths – all the different types of apples? If only there was an entire day devoted to them… Well now there is – Sunday 25th sees Stanmer Church come alive with Apple Day, an entire day devoted to apple awareness, advice, expert identification and enthusiastic consumption. There’s even an actual orchard there you can mooch around, and plenty of apple-based activities for children. It’s free to get in, which is good – money doesn’t grow on trees. But delicious and nutritious apples do. Lovely apples!
SING WHEN YOU’RE WOMEN
Brighton Women’s Centre is joining forces with one of its neighbours, the Ranelagh blues bar, for a series of monthly fundraising gigs. BWC has served the women of Brighton a wide range of services for 37 years now, from drop-in counselling to affordable crèche facilities. The new night launches in the pub on Friday 23rd with a mini-festival featuring four local front-women playing everything from country and blues to rock and Motown. Admission is free, with donations to BWC welcome.
HOPE FOR CHEAP BOOZE
If you’re drinking at The Hope, you might want to get a bus – it saves on drink-driving convictions and kerb-stumbling, guttersprawling journeys home. Get a Big Lemon Bus however, and you can get £2 off Hope Live events as well as all your drinks at happy hour prices. All you need to do is show a valid ticket. They’re running the deal from Wednesday 15th til mid-October, so give your wallet a rest and your journey some zest.
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With an opening night featuring the hotly anticipated performance of local dubstep producer Ital Tek, the avante garde Anxst and Planet Mu founder Mike Paradinas’ new collaboration Hererotic, this month-long celebration of the digital world is not to be missed, especially as it’s free. Not just about groundbreaking music, the festival’s bursting programme in various venues throughout September includes conferences, filmmaking, one-off performances and interactive events. Go visit Brightondigitalfestival.co.uk for details.
Grab a soldering iron, borrow your nan’s thimbles and get yourself down to the first Brighton Mini Maker Faire, at the Dome on Saturday 3rd. Gather with like-minded makers, crafty types and inventors extraordinaire as part of the Brighton Digital Festival to “celebrate arts, crafts, engineering, science projects and the Do-It-Yourself mindset.” Since starting out in California in 2006, Maker Faire has spread across to the UK like hot solder on toast. And as it’s organised by volunteers it’s free. We’re so going to make us a wisecracking housework robot.
WELLY-FREE FEST
Festivals in fields are so 2010, right? If you’re over muddy fields and flooded tents and appreciate the value of your warm bed at night, the Grand Finale Festival could be the one for you. 16 live bands and four DJ sets jostle for your attention across three packed days at Concorde 2 from Friday 23rd, including ska heroes The Junk and Brighton’s best leather-clad girl-rock band, Vier. And if it all gets a bit much, you can always go for a sit down on the beach.
bunfight for foodies
The Brighton Foodie awards voting closes on Monday 12th, so you’ve still got time to give props to your favourite restaurant, café and food-punting pubs and shops. Brightonfoodawards.com is the place to vote, before Juice FM DJ Andrea Fox joins Latest grub-gobbler Andrew Kay to slap the requisite backs in an awards ceremony you probably won’t be able to get into. But if you like eating food it’s a good opportunity to help your favoured outlet get a shiny certificate on their wall, so get involved.
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NEW IN TOWN WORDS BY NICK COQUET, JESSICA MARSHALL MCHATTIE
Thorne’s Foods
THORNE’S FOODS
BELOW THE LINE
BRIGHTON CRAFT FAIR
LIVE & UNLEASHED!
If your diet could do with being de-kebabbed, you could do plenty worse than checking out Thorne’s Foods on Gardener Street. It’s a farmers market, café and restaurant all under one roof, with a load of locally-sourced produce just waiting to flood your flabby and listless body with goodness. They’re open late as well, so folk with jobs can pop in on the way home from work. Look ‘em up at ThornesFoods.co.uk.
News of craft fairs appearing on the horizon can mean only one thing – Christmas is now unavoidably on its way. Maybe this could be the year you mean to start sooner and actually do it, and here’s a good opportunity to get some early gift ideas under your belt. The Friends Meeting House on Ship Street is the place to be on the first Saturday of the month, with locally produced art and handicrafts as well as a café for tea and cake. Brightoncraft.co.uk has more info.
FEVER
Hot times ahead at the Fortune of War as their Friday nights are now called Fever, dedicated to raising both the temperature and the ceiling with Latin grooves, flamenco beats and sultry samba rhythms, featuring the audio delights of Pollito Boogaloo, Melenda de Pomelo and the Askew Records DJs. Bringing a bit of spice to the seafront will be gladly appreciated, so get yourself a brandy, watch the sun set over the pier and let the beats transport you to somewhere warmer.
THE HOP
Calling all jocks, nerds and cheerleaders: every Thursday the Haunt is transforming into The Hop – the gym hall grad ball you remember vicariously from your misspent youth (specifically, misspent by watching too many bad American films). Lay down your hamburger and put on your dancing kitten heels for school nights out, with 50s rock’n’roll and un-chaperoned disco dancing.
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Anyone with a passing interest in electronic music won’t let this pass them by: there’s never been a better reason to be tired at work on a Wednesday. Below the Line is a new weekly late night event on Tuesdays, promising the freshest, newest producers delivering exclusive tunes and mixes at the Tube. With rumours flying and an achingly cool reputation already, it’s worth making the effort. And if you really can’t tear yourself away from the sofa, it’s all broadcast live online, from Tuesday 27th.
Saturday 3rd is a date for your diary if you want a kind of mini Manumission from your clubbing experience. DJs, live musicians and performers will be packing the big stage at Digital on the first Saturday of the month, for a night of extreme entertainment and a big party atmosphere. Trapeze artists, flame-throwing spark shows, hoop acrobats and cancan showgirls, together with upfront club music, all promise an epic night out.
BEYOND SKIN
If you’re a lady of the vegan persuasion and you’re finding it hard to source slaughter-free footwear that doesn’t look like something your nan would have worn, here’s a Hove-based solution. Beyond Skin is an ethical fashion label now on sale at Igigi on Western Road, with a range of PETA and RSPCA award-winning shoes made from all sorts of recycled materials. Check out their range at Beyondskin.co.uk.
MIGHTY HUMBLE
Here’s a new t-shirt company that’s about as ‘Brighton’ as any could ever be. Mighty Humble’s garments are all organic and ethically made via all kinds of sustainable wind and solar energy, printed with eco-lovely water-based inks and designed by nice people guaranteed not to have committed even a single human rights abuse. Wear your eco lifestyle quite literally on your sleeve – go see Mightyhumble.com.
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GIG PREVIEWS
WORDS BY IAN CHAMBERS, JAKE CUNNINGHAM, BEN GILBERT, STUART HUGGETT, TOM JENKINSON, ADAM PETERS, JESSICA MARSHALL MCHATTIE, LISA MARIE MUNDY, THE RECOMMENDER, GARY SCATTERGOOD
AMANDA PALMER Concorde 2 Thurs 1st
Few people can take the credit (or the blame, if you prefer) for dragging a whole musical genre out of the shadows on their coat tails. Yet punk cabaret/cabaret noir/Weimar/whatever had barely tweaked the nipples of the mainstream in its 10-year existence, prior to the arrival of Palmer’s Dresden Dolls. Expect doom-laden keyboards, body language borne of street theatre, and occasional diversions into ukulele covers of Radiohead. Support comes from feisty Brighton duo Bitter Ruin. (AP)
TIMBER TIMBRE Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Thurs 1st
Canada’s music scene is full of pioneers at the moment and Timber Timbre is at the frontier. Eerie folk melodies and atmospheric soundscapes are at the heart of their sound, with tense, disarming slides between blues and soul, and more than a twist of witch house. Their fittingly named fourth album ‘Creep On Creepin’ On’ was released in May, and has gained them music prize nominations, global attention and appreciation outside the folk world. Sleazily brilliant, ostensibly smalltown and certifiably creepy, don’t miss this intimate show. (JMM)
THE BLUETONES Komedia Weds 7th
They’re calling it the ‘Farewell tour’. But what’s to stop Mark Morris and co from turning around in approximately a decade and saying “Hang on, it’s somewhere in the region of 25 years since our smash hit album ‘Expecting To Fly’ came out and this wage I’m getting from Lewisham council delivers neither the salary nor the adulation that I have come to expect from my career as a Britpop icon to rival Rick Witter and Nigel Clark’?! An axe is the correct answer. (BG)
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willy mason
WILLY MASON
Komedia Thurs 8th
He may have been laying low for a while, but one listen to the empty blues of ‘Live It Up’ will remind you of the talent that is Willy Mason. New York-born to two folk singers, the talent has followed through the genes. With two albums behind him and dates supporting the likes of KT Tunstall and Radiohead, Mason is a musician’s musician and with an intimate show like this, it’s sure to be an arresting and engaging evening. (JC)
THE FUCK U PLANET EARTH
Cowley Club Fri 9th
Those of you with long memories of the Brighton music scene will recognise spaced-out drone merchants The Fuck U Planet Earth and minimal tunesmith boy/girl duo La Momo. They’re still partying like it’s 2005 and making us wish we had as much hair and as little liver damage as we did back in those heady days. Support on the night comes from The Big Black Dots, Chris La Momo’s freak-out collective featuring ex-Boredoms and Phil Collins 3 members. (LMM)
TROPHY WIFE
Hope Fri 9th
It’s perfectly correct that this trio come from Oxford, as what their indie pop music lacks in edges it more than makes up for with cinematic beauty. They’re the most cohesive unit to emerge from the city’s recent underground music scene, collectively known to the queuing A&R folks as Blessing Force. They’ve visited our smaller venues several times over recent months, but each of their performances shows a band quickly growing in confidence. Their steady rise in buzz continues, alongside their self-assurance, as we lead up to the debut album. (TR)
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gig previews
three trapped tigers
EMA
Green Door Store Tues 13th
Much hyped and abbreviated, Erika M. Anderson emerged in 2011 from the wreckage of her former band Gowns, with debut album ‘Past Life Martyred Saints’ under her arm. Seemingly suffering little surface damage, her shock of blonde hair and insouciant cool, however, betrayed a tortured sensibility that drew an unusual, jagged and bloody line between country, goth and grunge. Across a bleak, dissonant canvas of atmospheric dirge, EMA obsessed about body horror, like an indie outlaw riding out of town on David Cronenberg’s monster nag. Tonight should be fun! (BG)
B.DOLAN & DAN LE SAC Haunt Weds 14th
Ex-poet, non-pretentious gay rights activist and all-round exemplary young man, B.Dolan (or Bernard to his mother) isn’t your average hip hop MC. Slipping between alter egos like a schizophrenic political revolutionary, Dolan’s live shows are as much an education as entertainment, but this is a class with truants in the front row, eager for more. It’s alternately hilarious and thought-provoking, but never dull. Dan le Sac also features with a live solo performance. (JMM)
TREETOP FLYERS Green Door Store Thurs 15th
It’s been quite a year for the Treetops, releasing an EP on Communion Records, recording sessions for the likes of 6 Music, XFM and swiftly winning the Glastonbury emerging talent competition, meaning they played the famous Other Stage in front of thousands of people. And quite rightly so, as their harmony-filled sound is a cross between the likes of Crosby, Stills & Nash, Crazy Horse and The Byrds – basically some of the finest country soul you could wish to hear. (IC)
HANDSOME FURS The Hope Fri 16th
There’s something inherently fascinating about couples in bands, and Handsome Furs are a married duo far more exciting than the will-they-won’t-they-does-anyone-care White Stripes. Their latest album ‘Sound Kapital’ reflects a more impassioned
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and shouty side to Handsome Furs, was written entirely on keyboards and is based on synth-driven 80s European electro. The multi-talented Minneapolis duo’s live shows are reputedly dark, electric and dance-able. Support comes from last month’s cover stars AK/DK. (JMM)
THE WAR ON DRUGS Green Door Store Fri 16th
The War On Drugs was launched back in 1971 with considerable fanfare by President Nixon. While the world’s pushers, smugglers and addicts have since been pursued mercilessly into every corner of the globe, Brighton somehow drifted from its moorings, becoming rather like a separate nation state in the vein of Monaco, the wealth swapped for an addiction to getting smashed all the time. Tonight, then, Secretly Canadian’s acclaimed alt.rock trio can expect a rousing reception as they soundtrack this city’s patron saint. (BG)
THREE TRAPPED TIGERS Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Sat 17th
These animals are determined to infuse as many influences into math rock as possible, with jazz tingles apparent and technical, awkward electronica and frenetic key changes leading to a Battles-esque complexity. An unsettling but compelling listening experience, Three Trapped Tigers released their first full length album, ‘Route One or Die,’ in May, so take this opportunity to see how their sound’s developed – their Great Escape set was enthralling, so expectations are high. (JMM)
THE TELESCOPES Prince Albert Sun 18th
Burton-Upon-Trent’s Telescopes were once part of the late 80s wave of guitar bands pushing psychedelic rock into heavier territory through pedal power and feedback attack. Their sound softened for a while, and at one time fellow Staffs lad Nick Hemming came on board, years before he made his name with Willkommen’s own Leisure Society. Having revived The Telescopes name back in the noughties, founder member Stephen Lawrie now pursues a more abstract, but often very loud, noise direction. (SH)
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Gigs In Brighton...
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Prince Albert Tuesday September 6th 8pm £6 adv
WILLY MASON
Komedia Thursday September 8th 8pm £12.50 adv
THE WONDER YEARS Audio Saturday September 17th 7pm £10 adv
TWO SPOT GOBI Green Door Store Saturday September 17th 7.30pm £6 adv
FINK
St Mary’s Church Friday September 23rd 7pm £12.50 adv
CLOUD CONTROL
Audio Wednesday September 28th 7pm £7 adv
SLOW CLUB
Audio Thursday September 29th 7pm £10 adv
A SKYLIT DRIVE Concorde 2 Saturday October 1st 7pm £10 adv
BEN HOWARD Komedia Tuesday October 11th 7.30pm £9 adv
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ALVIN STARDUST Komedia Fri 23rd
They don’t make them like this anymore, children. With a name like Alvin Stardust, it seems beyond doubt that the glammedup idol was born to be a music icon, exploding from the womb in a barrage of pop thunderbolts. Actually, his original name – Bernard William Jewry – would probably have left Alvin first on at the Dog & Duck, rather than an era-defining singer who scored so many hits he was like the 70s version of Google. Not to be confused with Gary Glitter. (BG)
FINK •
St Mary’s Church Fri 23rd
Brighton royalty Fink is kick-starting his European tour by treating us to a hometown show and the first chance to hear songs from his latest captivating album ‘Perfect Darkness’, which was released in June on Ninja Tune. If you’re not familiar with Fink, you may have been under a rock for a while: the singer-songwriter dispels traditional mores for an electronicabased, chilled-out approach, garnering him an admirably wide fan base. (JMM)
ICE BLACK BIRDS • Hope Fri 23rd
Brighton’s own rock‘n’roll revivalists Ice Black Birds are bringing their energetic live show to The Hope as part of Amnesty International’s charitable Brighton Weekender. Support comes from fellow Brightonian Alex Wells and his handpicked live band, Twin Brother, whose heads are surely held high after winning a spot on Glastonbury’s BBC Introducing stage earlier this year. With a chance to support two local emerging acts, and a worthy cause to boot, dare you miss this? (TJ)
THE BITTER SPRINGS Hydrant Sat 24th
As their home suburb Teddington is to London, so The Bitter Springs are unsung outsiders of the nation’s music scene. With 25 years of witty, literate albums under their belt (originally as Last Party), The Bitter Springs have accumulated enviable cult
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appeal, from initial John Peel patronage to a long stint serving as Vic Godard’s latter-day Subway Sect. The band’s chanting, chugging garage rock comes to the Hydrant for free tonight, so offer them a pint at least. (SH)
BETH ORTON St George’s Church Sat 24th
When she’s not pioneering new genres, collaborating with eradefining producers and campaigning for fair trade, against the spread of HIV and about the war on terror, Beth Orton can be found singing. The original behind the folk-electronica blend in the 90s and the beautiful voice complementing the Chemical Brothers has had a career spanning three decades so far, and shows no signs of slowing down. With a new album reputedly out at the end of the year, take the chance to see which direction she’s heading in next. (JMM)
UT
Prince Albert Sun 25th
Recipients of a cough-and-you-miss-it namecheck on Le Tigre’s ‘Hot Topic’, New York trio Ut emerged from the city’s brief but notorious no wave scene. Moving to England in 1981, Ut’s scratchy, trebly music found some kinship with the postpunk sounds of The Raincoats and tourmates The Fall. Although they split at the end of the decade, Ut’s widely acclaimed Blast First albums have thankfully remained on catalogue. Unexpectedly, the three reformed Ut last summer and await your viewing pleasure tonight. (SH)
BETH JEANS HOUGHTON Brighton Ballroom Tues 27th
She claims to have been born in Transylvania to a pack of albino wolves. She writes songs about dodecahedrons and insists on calling her band The Hooves of Destiny. She defies music industry lore, making a splash on the scene only to then disappear completely because she’s fallen in love with LA and can’t get around to finishing her debut album even though everyone’s forgetting her enigmatic, folk-pop charm. She is Beth Jeans Houghton and you, clearly, would not want to be her manager. (BG)
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LOVE INKS
gig previews Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Tues 27th
A new band can’t do any more than get coverage on dozens of the most respected music blogs with their initial releases and Love Inks received plenty following the arrival of their album ‘E.S.P’ this May. The resulting hype pushed this trio from Austin, Texas, to the tips of the industry’s lips around the world. They deliver their minimalist pop to Brighton for the first time, but alongside Braids they’re bringing an enjoyable warmth to a style of analogue music that The XX once served up cold. (TR)
CLOUD CONTROL
Audio Weds 28th
The UK had to wait nearly an entire year for this Australian quartet’s debut album, ‘Bliss Release’, to arrive on our shelves following its release in their home country back in 2010. They’re one of the most complete antipodean bands to arrive in years, with a bright and beautiful album of pop gems. Without doubt the star of the show throughout are the vocal chords (which simply have to be witnessed live), blasting through you like a rush of popping bubbles. (TR)
SLOW CLUB
Audio Thurs 29th
Sheffield boy-girl duo Slow Club head to Brighton on the back of their second album ‘Paradise’. There’s nothing complicated about Charles and Rebecca’s folksie-pop loveliness, but it’s utterly compelling. He looks after vocals and guitars (the normal bits), while she also sings but adds an organ called Miles, drums and an array of bizarre ‘instruments’ – such as water-filled bottles and the back of a chair – to the mix (the weird bits). Go see, and let them put a smile on your face. (GS)
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SOPHIE MADELEINE WITH HER JOYFUL DIY APPROACH OUR UKULELE GIRL HAS GOT IT COVERED WORDS BY JAMES KENDALL PHOTO BY KENNY MC CRACKEN ASSISTANT – ZOE BAKER, HAIR & MAKEUP – ANGE WATSON WITH THANKS TO PLANTED, KEMPTOWN
A ray of sunshine every time we press play, Sophie Madeleine’s second album ‘The Rhythm You Started’ has been brightening up what can only be described as a lacklustre summer. The title track sparks along with close harmonies, handclaps and plenty of ‘ba ba ba’s – scientifically proven to be 37% more cheerful than ‘la la la’s – while ‘Come Follow Me’ wraps you up in a melodic duvet that will make you melt. Across 10 very catchy tracks, we were instantly reminded of 60s French songstress Francoise Hardy even before we saw Sophie’s pretty, classic look. It’s such a joyful spirit-lifting affair we just had to meet her to see if she was as sunny in real life. So, is she a jolly person? “No,” she deadpans before breaking into a chuckle, “that’s the funny thing. I think it just comes out in my music and the rest of the time I’m miserable. I think maybe I’m self-medicating, trying to cheer myself up by writing a happy song and then hoping that I’ll feel better.” She says she had years of writing miserable songs that no one really identified with, so decided to write some chirpy numbers. It’s certainly worked, and tracks like the gorgeous ‘Star’ – all simple ukulele strums and plaintive violins – will have you skipping to work days after you last heard it. It’s a fuller sound than her beloved debut, ‘Love. Life. Ukulele.’ – less raw and more percussive but still full of charm. You might think she’s doing well to provide earworms of such tenacity by album two but Sophie is a bit of songwriting boffin, having studied the form for years, ending up with a masters degree in making milkmen whistle. In fact her first LP came from her postgraduate course. Needless to say, she passed. “The first album was entirely recorded by myself,” she says, explaining the difference. “It’s raw because it’s stripped down to whatever I could play. There’s a bit of percussion but there’s no drums. It’s not really about the rhythm, it’s more about the ukulele and guitar. This new one is more about rhythm because I wanted to do an album that had drums and drum machines on it. I wanted to experiment.” One thing that has remained is the ukulele as the centre point to the songs. Though she started on the piano, before teaching herself the guitar, it was finding that small, four-stringed instrument that made her feel at home. “To begin with I used to play jazz/soul/blues sort of stuff,” she says. “I was doing that for quite a while and then picked up the ukulele and realised that my vocals were better suited to folk because my voice is quite quiet, or delicate or whatever. When I picked up the ukulele the genre I was in changed and everything slotted into place.” But as someone who considers herself a songwriter first and a singer second (“Singing was just something I had to do to
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show people my songs,” she reckons), does having four strings make composing more tricky? “I wouldn’t say it’s more difficult or easier,” she says. “It’s just different. Which is why I liked it. There’s only so much you can do so it’s down to the bare bones of the song. If you can make a song sound full and good on a ukulele with just your voice then you’ve written a good song. And because I learnt it as I was going, half the time I didn’t know what chord I was playing so I was discovering new chords that I didn’t know existed.” Even though she’s seemingly happiest making up her own tunes, at the start of summer she set herself an incredible challenge with other people’s. In the 30-day run-up to ‘The Rhythm You Started’ coming out, she recorded and released a new cover version every day. From the four-part harmonies of ‘Mr Sandman’ to the xylophonic ‘Go Outside’ by Cults, each one was stunning. It sounds like quite a mission and proved a cure to her slight boredom in the run-up to the LP’s launch. It also proved to be a nice little treat for some of her fans. “A lot of the songs I recorded were requests,” Sophie explains. “I had hundreds of these requests, at least 300, from various places like my social networking sites. So I had to go through all of them and half the songs I didn’t even know. Some requests were really bizarre and some I knew I could learn.” She’d record the song two days before it was released. The songs with lots of instruments took two or three days to do including the audio and video editing, but the more simple ones had their own difficulties. “The ones where it’s just me and the ukulele had to be done in one take, and half the time I’d only learnt them that day,” she says. “So those ones were quite challenging.” It’s just another example of Sophie’s brilliant DIY ethos. She also self-recorded both of her albums, and delivered her latest to her distributors before they snapped her up for a full deal. “I hate to say it but I couldn’t get anyone interested in backing me,” she admits. “Everyone was making positive noises – I had numerous meetings with labels and publishers. But there wasn’t a drive for them to put money on the table. I was in a meeting with one of the heads of A&R for one of the majors and he said ‘Have you heard of PledgeMusic?’ I hadn’t, but I ended up meeting with them and told them how many followers I had online – they told me I was a perfect candidate. In fact I was the first artist they signed up themselves.” Sophie got her kind and enthusiastic fans to help fund the album and the rest is history. Rather successful history. “It just sort of happened,” she says. “I didn’t plan to be independent. That’s the only way I could do it, so I did it.” Now she’s put her own band together and is looking to promote her LP in New York, a place that’s almost a second home to her and already full of fans. Before she heads off she’ll be popping into our SOURCE New Music night next month. “I’m really excited about that,” she beams. “I’ve heard good things about that venue. I’ve got a new band too – a violinist, a double bass player and an electric guitar player. Plus I’ve got a looper which I use for beats and things like that.” Having discovered that – despite her protestations – Sophie’s as sunny in real life as she is on record, we can’t wait to see her perform. Maybe she’ll bring on an Indian summer.
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CLUB PREVIEWS
WORDS BY ZAC COLBERT, JAKE CUNNINGHAM, JAMES KENDALL, JESSICA MARSHALL MCHATTIE, LISA MARIE MUNDY
PARADIS •
The Tube Sat 3rd
New night Paradis marks the third stage of evolution for the promoters behind The Do and 13 Monsters. First monkey, then man and now the neo-sapien. So for those of you that wept tears right up to your (m)ankles when 13 Monsters called it a day, it’s time to rejoice and don your GG$ snapbacks for tonight’s launch where residents 20JazzFunkGreats, Ed Lilo and Where To Now? play all the best tunes you’ve never heard. If its music policy is anything like their previous nights then it won’t be confined by genre or time, just fantastic tracks back to back. (ZC)
ANOTHER SUNNY DAY INDIEPOP CLUB • Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Fri 9th
After a six-month hiatus, and spurred on by a spanking new venue and the recent twee love-in indie tracks, DJs Craig, Emily and Rob present a night for those fans of jangly guitars and sensitive poetry-writing pop stars. Playing everything from 80s indie pop to Swedish pop and Britpop plus anything else they feel like on the night, this promises to be twee in a good way and a welcome alternative to the current trend for clubs full of ironic, knowing hipsters. (LMM)
UK AIR GUITAR CHAMPIONSHIPS • Concorde 2 Fri 9th
The X Factor may have begun to dominate our TV screens for the next few months, but a talent competition possibly even more prestigious reaches its climax at Concorde 2 this month – the UK Air Guitar Championships. We’ve all done it – on the bed, in the shower and definitely on a drunken night out, and so, after scouring the country for our nation’s finest air
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guitarists, we can judge once and for all who really shreds air the best. (JC)
HIGH RANKIN •
Coalition Sat 10th
According to his biog High Rankin was “born into slavery at the Richard Madeley prison for the criminally sexy.” Weren’t we all, weren’t we all. One thing we can’t claim for ourselves is a talent for crunching together the best of dubstep, electro and rave into anthems that can wake the dead. This is a headline live show, and we’ve got very high hopes for plenty of slamming basslines and a handful of silliness from the Suicide Dub boss. (JK)
LIFE’S A GAS
Komedia Sat 10th
Those of us who’ve been having a glam rock revival in their own heads for years now need to get their Tiger Feet down to this new night from DJs Warrlock Poetry and ex-Brighton legend Heidi Heelz (Glamracket). Expect not just obscure Roxy Music b-sides but all the glitterbeat-laden stompers of the era, from Slade, The Sweet, and Suzi Quatro to T.Rex, as well as some equally danceable 70s power pop. Get down and get with it! (LMM)
AUDIO’S 7th BIRTHDAY • Audio Fri 16th
Audio’s been pushing the underground dance envelope for seven whole years now, they’ve seen some of the biggest and best DJs top their bills from Carl Cox to Boy 8 Bit. To ensure their birthday’s celebrated with the right amount of skipping robotic beats and shifting cyborg breaks James Zabiela’s gonna help them blow out the candles with his fusion of house, techno and breakbeat. His tracks are multi-layered masterpieces with a synthetic edge, sometimes twinkling sunrise soundscapes inspired from his Space residency, often looping mechanised sonics designed for Optimus Prime, always progressive dancefloor fillers. (ZC)
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Friday 16th September 2011 Club:
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WRONGTOM
Fortune of War Sat 17th
A mother of reinvention, DJ Wrongtom’s not just broken genre boundaries but smashed them into little pieces, razed them to the ground and danced on their ashes. A musical stalwart for the past 10 years and originally a percussionist, Wrongtom stumbled into the pop sphere and emerged with ghettotech, jazz and house trailing behind him. With a record collection bordering on bizarre and a technical capacity which leaves even the most superior observers impressed, Wrongtom’s coming to the Fortune to baffle, delight, astound and amaze you. (JMM)
KLASHNEKOFF
Audio Wed 21st
Supercharged push their hip hop sensibilities by booking the lionheart east Londoner, Klashnekoff. 2003’s ‘Murda’ is a seminal UK hip hop track full of bleak anecdotes, inner-city aggression and ‘nang’ flows. But tunes like ‘Black Rose’ showed Darren Kandler could ride a rhythm with more introspective lyrics just as well as he could spit killer verses. His gigs are rambunctious affairs so put your head-nodding cap on and get ready for some hip hop mosh pits. (ZC)
ABUSE •
Green Door Store Fri 23rd
GDS spread their wings and keep things fresh by launching a new electronic music night that’s steeped in mystery. For the enigmatic ABUSE we’ve been told to expect dark and alternative moody synth pop via coldwave with some aquacrunk twists. Think artists like the ghostly Oneohtrix Point Never blended into the sci-fi sounds of Kraftwerk, satanic Salem’s orchestral electronics alongside the psychedelic krautrock of Can, spun by Fokkawolfe and DJs from XANADU and Be Nothing. Suffice to say we’re intrigued and giddy with excitement. (ZC)
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AKA AKA ROAR •
Fri 23rd Life
More wonky post-dubstep and blissed-out future house delights from the AKA AKA ROAR crew. Mosca tops the bill and anyone who loves their club music knows this guy is one step ahead. We’ll be in attendance just to hear him drop his new tune ‘Bax’ which rinses the 90s rave bassline over a skipping 2-step beat. In support are Altered Natives, aka Danny Native, who’s blend of deep rolling percussion and broken beat created last year’s banger ‘Rass Out’. (ZC)
HORSE MEAT DISCO Audio Fri 23rd
Big fat gay party Horse Meat Disco hits Brighton for a night of debauchery, camaraderie, spilt drinks, and a full spectrum of classic to modern disco hits. Immoral self-indulgence and shocking dance moves are guaranteed; bad dance moves are guaranteed; an aching head and wallet in the morning are also guaranteed. Get down early to check out if the hype’s deserved. (JMM)
SOUTH CENTRAL • & THE JAPANESE POPSTARS Concorde 2 Fri 23th
What a double bill. Two absolutely killer live acts that we haven’t seen down here for a while – which is surprising as The Japanese Popstars aren’t from Japan (they’re Irish) and South Central, despite being Maltese, live in Brighton. Anyway, what can we expect? Well, SC are pretty much the noisiest electro we’ve heard and JP have taken classic stadium dance and added songs. An absolute bargain for a fiver in advance, even before you throw in a DJ set from our own dubstep hero Riskotheque. (JK)
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COVERT REUNION •
club previews Tube Sat 24th
Back in the olden days if you wanted a track to play you had to go to a record shop and buy it on vinyl. Crazy, but there was really no other format that had the best dance music. Through piracy and the fact that everyone plays MP3s now there are very few specialist dance shops, which is a shame cos spending the afternoon listening to careful curated tunes was a great way to put a set together. In the world of techno, Covert was a Mecca. What Alex and Japhy didn’t know about Germanic 4/4 could fit on a stamp to Detroit. Thank God (ie Jeff Mills) that they’re back for this one-off. (JK)
DEVOTION •
Concorde 2 Sat 24th
Bassline Smith and Drumsound have been producing drum’n’bass bangers for over a decade now. The production group, made up of Simon ‘Bassline’ Smith, Benjamin ‘Drumsound’ Wigget and Andrew Wright, have seen Radio 1 daytime airplay for their recent release ‘Freak’ with Fearne Cotton rinsing it out on her show, probably because of its heavily autotuned vocals. Even so, the tune still retains the grumbling, winding bassline and spitting drum loops that distinguishes their sound, and it’s good to see the guys getting mainstream recognition. (ZC)
FILTHY DUKES
Audio Sat 24th
Warehouse have got a Fabric takeover on their hands tonight – Filthy Dukes host legendary electro party Kill ‘Em All at the London hotspot where they flaunt their synthpop and electroclash sounds. As a band they’ve also made time to release tunes such as ‘Messages’, which received a lot of positive airplay back in 2009. Tonight they’re joined by Stopmakingme aka Daniel Avery who supports them regularly at Kill ‘Em All with his sets of post-punk, electro and techno leanings in between remixing for Metronomy, Munk and Hercules & Love Affair. (ZC)
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VICE MAGazine ISSUE LAUNCH WORDS ZAC COLBERT
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And the loyal fans tonight are an eclectic rabble of pretty young things and weathered musos, tottering on a carpet of strewn mags as Spector take to the stage. The 80s-tinged indie rock’n’roll of their debut single ‘Never Fade Away’ rouses us with the NEXT EVENT: Fri 30th, Green Door Store swelling drums and a WEB: viceland.com/uk magnanimous bass so VICE’S PHOTOS FROM THE NIGHT: that when IROK get up, tinyurl.com/VicePhotos their frontman Mike Title really doesn’t need to try so hard.
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A free magazine doesn’t get a circulation of over 1.5 million across nearly 30 countries by just sitting around and watching Battlestar Galactica all day. From their humble beginnings as the Voice of Montreal to becoming the youth style bible, Vice mag has worked its tits off over the last 15 years and the launch parties have become a key ingredient in turning discerning readers into loyal fans.
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TOP TEN
Dam Mantle ‘Not A Word’ Spector ‘Never Fade Away’ Vybz Kartel ‘Wine Pon Mi’ Deptford Goth ‘Real Love Fantasy’ SBTRKT ‘Wildfire (Drake Remix)’ Lil Wayne ‘Tunchie’s Back’ Iceage ‘White Rune’ Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross ‘In Motion’ Art Department ‘Without You’ Picture Plane ‘Body Mod’
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STAY BEAUTIFUL WORDS BY JACK PRESCOTT
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PHOTOS BY SALLY OAKENFOLD
Once named “the best night out in London” by Bizarre magazine, Stay Beautiful is the creation of Manics biographer and the Independent’s rock and pop critic, Simon Price. For 10 heady years it subverted the London club scene and has now strutted down to our fine city, feather boa blowing in the sea breeze. But first a confession. SOURCE would like to say it experienced the more mellow offerings that were promised upstairs in the Frog Bar, but we didn’t. That was because we were too busy stomping about downstairs to the ‘glam-punk-glitter-trash’ of Bowie, Bolan and Blondie, and trying to figure out who were boys and who were girls. Stay Beautiful has promised to be a bi-monthly event, which might seem a bit sparse, but you need this night in your life.
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TOP TEN
The Dresden Dolls ‘Girl Anachronism’ Manic Street Preachers ‘You Love Us (Heavenly 12 inch)’ Soft Cell ‘Sex Dwarf’ David Bowie ‘Queen Bitch’ Hole ‘Celebrity Skin’ New York Dolls ‘Personality Crisis’ Suede ‘Animal Nitrate’ Peaches feat Iggy Pop ‘Kick It’ Marilyn Manson ‘Disposable Teens’ T. Rex ‘20th Century Boy’
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CULTURE
WORDS BY Matt Barker, NICK COQUET, JAMES KENDALL, BEN MILLER, ADAM PETERS
EXHIBITION: KIN Artist Residence until Fri 28th Oct
Best jobs in the world: 1. National chocolate quality assurance for Belgium, 2. In-house masseur for Elite Models, 3. Artist in residence. Skipping past the first two, how great would it be to be put up in a hotel and make art all day? That’s the position screenprinter and sometime SOURCE illustrator Ralph Fox Fisher is lucky enough to be in. The Salute Creative founder’s beautiful twists on classic English imagery have found themselves in the pages of many magazines and the final of the Global Cut & Paste Championships. (JK)
ART: Solar Systems Phoenix from Sat 3rd
Twinkly-eyed experimenters Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt – better known as Semiconductor – position themselves as intrepid investigators of the natural world, and their first show in the south-east for yonks uses three films to portray the movement of the sun from various vantage points ranging from the humble Earth to outer space. A continuation of the kind of extraordinary installations which have won them residencies in NASA labs and the Galapagos Islands, their globe-crossing scientific explorations always amaze and inspire. (BM)
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TONY BENN & ROY BAILEY
Komedia Thurs 15th
As public perception of politicians edges ever closer to pond life, it’s reassuring that one of the few honourably regarded politicos of the late 20th Century still brings his great oratorical skills to local stages. Mixing inspirational quotes with his own musings, Benn will alternate on the mic with legendary British folk singer Roy Bailey, the latter playing old rebel songs alongside his own work. It’s a shame this is probably the only pairing who could pull off a night like this. (AP)
THEATRE: A Celebration Of Harold Pinter Corn Exchange Fri 16th
Julian Sands reckons Harold Pinter would have been recognised as a poetic great had his skill in verse had greater exposure, having once stood in for the master playwright when he was too ill to attend a reading. Fresh from being directed by John Malkovich in Edinburgh, this short and passionate insight into Pinter’s hidden salvo veers from brash parodies to love letters and cricket haikus. Sands’ reverential treatment of the works is one most likely to please Pinter devotees. (BM)
THEATRE: Sometimes I COMEDY: The Treason Laugh Like My Sister Show Summer Special Upstairs at Three and Ten Tues 13th - Weds 14th
How much is too much during the grieving process? Where are the boundaries between laughter and death? And, for the journalists who risk their lives on perilous assignments, where is the line between bravery and suicide? After Rebecca Peyton’s sister, BBC reporter Kate, was murdered in Somalia in 2005, she decided to tell her story and contemplate the interwoven taboos in a performance which could not get much more personal. Her courage, if nothing else, is undoubtedly admirable. (BM)
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Pavilion Theatre Fri 16th and Sat 17th
If you’re new to the city au bord de la mer or simply haven’t had the unsettling experience of witnessing the all-action Treason Show squad in action yet, get stuck in as Sussex’s satirical stars of spoof (alright, enough of the dodgy alliteration) bring their allkiller-knowing-filler back. The old favourites still throng the goofy and exceptionally funny line-up, but regular changes and additions to the writing team – revamped again here – make theirs a show which only seems to get better. (BM)
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BRIGHTON DIGITAL FESTIVAL
Blast Theory – A Machine To See With Become the star of your own heist movie as Blast Theory put you in the heat of the action. Thu 1 – Sat 24 Sep, various times
Wayne McGregor | Random Dance - FAR ’…like no dance I’ve ever imagined or seen.’ The Guardian
Mon 26 Sep, 8pm THEATRE
A Celebration of Harold Pinter Starring Julian Sands Fri 16 Sep, 8pm MUSIC
SOURCE New Music With headliners Holy Vessels and support from Monte Saldo. Fri 9 Sep, 7.30pm
Toots and the Maytals 01273 709709 www.brightondome.org
A unique combination of close-harmony singing, ska, soul, reggae and rock. Thu 8 Sep, 8pm
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ART: MA2011
ART: Brighton Art Fair
Showcasing work from Brighton Uni’s graduating MA course students, this is a collection including animation, illustration, packaging, typography and design. The two courses represented, Sequential and Independent Project, attract participants from all over the world, working within a broad spectrum of artistic endeavour, taking in everything from the narrative potential of the t-shirt to designing gifts for the angry and the heartbroken. (NC)
There isn’t a great deal to say about the Brighton Art Fair that you couldn’t read on the elaborately-adorned tin, although the stats report sales of 500 grand’s worth of work last year for an art slosh which has gained national prominence. Always eclectic and a good chance to find out more from practitioners whose stuff you like the look of, it features more than 100 exhibitors this time around. (BM)
University of Brighton Gallery Sat 17th – Weds 28th
THEATRE: Blackout Upstairs at Three And Ten Tues 20th – Fri 23rd
All hail the return of the loft above Three And Ten, back after a brief departure to Edinburgh to reclaim its reputation as the place to see theatre that makes you sit up and take notice this month. Set in a tiny cell as the incumbent wakes up, this short, sharp and physical performance was written by Davey Anderson after the former National Theatre of Scotland Director carried out an interview with a 15-year-old Glasgow teenager who had been charged with attempted murder. (BM)
FILM: A Machine To See With Somewhere in Brighton until Sat 24th
There is, admits the small print in the latest site-specific spectacular from Blast Theory, a chance you’ll get arrested if you take part in this one. We were just trying to find out where this adrenalin-rushing “interactive heist movie” through the streets of the city – which doubles up as the premiere of an acclaimed film – would start, but it turns out you find out via a call to your mobile on the day you’re due to take part. How very James Bond. (BM)
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Corn Exchange Fri 23rd – Sun 25th
DANCE: Far Corn Exchange Mon 26th
Mystical dance overlord Wayne McGregor gained a bit of exposure outside of theatres earlier this year when he orchestrated Thom Yorke’s shape-throwing in the video for Radiohead’s ‘Lotus Flower’. For new piece Far, he returns with 10 performers in a work soundtracked by the menacing electronica of wolfish composer Ben Frost, staged in “3D architecture” under shifting beams of light, shadow and cinematic projections. Tense, exciting, a bit scary and marvellously bendy, McGregor’s ensembles are magicians of their art. (BM)
Event: Gambia Benefit Friends Meeting House Fri 30th
Thanks to the likes of Vampire Weekend et al, African vibes are enjoying a Paul Simon-style resurgence. But preppy pop stars in Ralph Lauren belie the problems of the Third World. Unemployment in Gambia runs at 70%, so the Community Empowerment Project are providing low cost education to the unemployed people there. This all-day fundraiser for the CEP will feature purely African music and some amazing Gambian food. Kora genius Jali Mbye Burama, Bady Touray and Brighton’s own Ye Ye Fever DJs will be keeping things moving all day. (MB)
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The Old Market, Weds 21st Jim Stephenson, highly-regarded architectural photographer and knowledgeable fan of the genre as a whole, has been putting on photography talks for a year. To mark the birthday of his ‘Miniclicks’ he’s set up this inter-city exchange, so Brighton photography talent Simon Norfolk, Luca Sage, Ewan Spencer and Lisa Barnard are heading up to London for an open panel discussion. Meanwhile in Brighton, multi award-winning Laura Pannack will be talking about her highly emotional portraits, while Hin Chua will explain “the ongoing environmental struggle taking place beyond the
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boundaries of our cities” that make up his latest project ‘After The Fall’. Nick Ballon, whose work appears in Guardian Weekend and the Independent on Sunday, joins Jason Larkin, who made his name documenting the Middle East and Africa. But perhaps the photographers we’re most interested in hearing from are Ben Roberts, who has tackled subjects as varied as youth culture in Scotland and Australian gold mining, and Maja Daniels, whose long-term project ‘Into Oblivion’ really brings home how tough Alzheimer’s is. It’s a photo dream team – at a fiver you can’t go wrong.
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CRITIC BRIGHTON’S BEST talenT WORDS BY NICK COQUET, JAMES KENDALL
SINGLE: THE MOJO FINS• Owning My Condition (Amazon)
The press release that arrives with this single makes pointed references to the Fins’ distancing from haircut-and-swaggerbased fame seeking. It’s worth repeating here; you won’t see a load of self-important blogs falling over themselves to hitch this band to some nascent yet nondescript scene. It’s indie pop music, simple as that, delivered with no side, no contrived edge and no artifice. The Fins wisely eschew those angles, concentrating instead on well-played, solid tunes, crisp production and keeping their eye on an altogether bigger and more mainstream prize. (NC)
ALBUM: QUANTIC The Best of Quantic (Tru Thoughts •)
It was a decade or so ago that we first picked up Quantic’s ‘The 5th Exotic’ debut, a spliffy, trip hoppy classic that endures late night listens to this day. Since then we’ve been spoiled with regular new guises from the producer as he’s travelled the world from the UK to Colombia, From the solid funk authenticity of his Soul Orchestra to dub reggae via Flowering Inferno, all are represented on this two-disc career round-up, as well as loads we’d never heard before from an incredible 12-album body of work packed with soul and energy. (NC)
SINGLE: VARIOUS
OIB Split Series 5 (One Inch Badge •)
‘Goodbye Parthenon’, the swansong from Casiotone For The Painfully Alone, is as good a reason as you need to get this latest One Inch Badge 7’ sampler – the moniker’s being retired with this Pet Shop Boys-on-ASBO slice of lo-fi brilliance. Why? are up next with ‘Close To Me’, yes, a Cure cover whose brilliantly
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dreamy half-speed drone might actually just surpass the original. Future Islands’ ‘New Face’ is decent enough pop rock, and Nullifier’s ‘Quesht’ is a captivating mix of grunge and synth pop. All in all, the best yet in the series. (NC)
BOOK: We Are Lucky • (wearelucky.tumblr.com)
Matt Martin – curating his first book here – has been a huge influence on the Brighton photography scene since rocking up a year or so ago. Now a part of the Garage Studios crew, his compact camera-based ‘life first, photography later’ style means that he’s able to snap from within his crazy, drunken adventures and make you feel part of it all. That’s echoed by his contributors here, including Milo Belgrove from last month’s art page. All Matt’s obsessions are represented – punk, pretty girls, parties, skating, bikes, stupid behaviour – and the whole thing is an absolute blast. (JK)
ALBUM: WE WERE PROMISED JETPACKS
In The Pit Of The Stomach (FatCat •)
DEMO OF THE MONTH
JIM BRIFFETT • Kinda Like The One (jimbriffett.bandcamp.com)
This offering from ex-Miserable Rich guitarist isn’t strictly speaking a demo as such, but it’s a DIY effort, self-recorded and released, so we figured it should still go in. And what we say goes, right? At once a departure from his previous band, this still retains some beautiful strings but bounds along with summery guitar pop energy and catchy chorus hooks. There’s a really sweet stop-motion video on YouTube that’s worth checking out as well. Look out for the forthcoming album ‘Mountains’n’Lightning’. (NC)
Guitar pop’s pretty simple, right? Verse, bridge, chorus, middle-eight and all that. Well it doesn’t have to be simple, and one suspects that would be too anodyne a concept for the Jetpacks. But despite the towering guitars and thundering rhythms on this second album, it retains a definite pop ethos throughout, underlying its powerful rock foundation. Touring success with Jimmy Eat World and Passion Pit across America and Europe seems to have fanned the flames for a band ready to seriously catch fire over here. (NC)
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OUT OF THE ORDINARY SEPT 23-25 / HAILSHAM / £60 20 MILES FROM BRIGHTON
As the festival season draws towards a close for another year, there’s still time for a last outdoor hurrah as Out Of The Ordinary celebrates the autumn equinox at Knockhatch Farm in the south coast countryside. Fittingly for this issue of SOURCE, its emphasis is firmly on the eco, with plenty of informative talks and workshops, but the educational side is more than matched with this last-gasp opportunity to either chill out or go nuts at an end-of-season party. Spread across four element-themed areas, OOTO offers the full festival experience for you to variously dip into as you please. Air brings a mix of the south east’s finest emerging musical talent alongside more established festival favourites, as well as health drinks at the Euphoria bar. Fire offers red hot cabaret, poi and circus skills for the more outgoing attendee, while Water provides a tranquil respite with holistic and alternative therapies, yoga and sauna. Earth is the perfect place to expand your mind with topics from astronomy, astrology, science and spirituality, as well as a family area for all-ages eco learning. You can even make your journey to and from an eco experience, as the chip oil heroes of the Big Lemon Bus Company are ferrying festival-goers to and from Brighton, and they’re encouraging car-sharing for gas-guzzling minimalisation among drivers. All in all it’s probably the most rounded local festival experience on the calendar, and we could all do with imbibing the vibe. HEADLINERS: System 7, Fujiya and Miyagi, Solo Banton DON’T MISS: Transformer, Dun’n’Tuff Allstars, Boycom IN A NUTSHELL: An all-round proper festival experience, the proper hippie way
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FESTIVAL OF EXQUISITE NOISE OCT 13-15 / BRIGHTON / £15 THE PRINCE ALBERT
The Prince Albert is playing host to a three-day takeover by the people behind Numbskull HQ, a music company name that might not mean much to the majority of our readers but whenever we get sent anything with their name on it we know it’s going to be decent. This four-bands-a-day-for-four-days bill isn’t entirely made up from the bands they represent but they certainly get a good showing, with prop-ups from some of the rest of the best bands around at this kind of room size. At the time of going to press (and we did leave it as long as we could) there were a few bands still to be 100% confirmed, but every single night is shaping up great already anyway. Black Black Hills (who used to be Pope Joan) have taken on a new lease of life with their name change and, from what we saw when we sneaked into their BBC Sussex session recently look unmissable live. Sparrow and The Half Sisters both seem to have achieved some national acclaim recently and return to Brighton on a high, while we haven’t seen The Valentines for a while and look forward to checking them out again. You can pay a fiver a night or get a £15 ticket for the whole shebang – either way it’s pretty decent value for what you’re going to be stood in front of. HEADLINERS: Sparrow, The Valentines, Jennifer Left, Black Black Hills DON’T MISS: The Minor Sounds, Heliopause, Good Luck Jonathon IN A NUTSHELL: Indoor indie floor fillers
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FOXTROT
SHAKEDOWN
Folk music is wonderful in the sunshine but can quite often be overpowered at mixed genre festivals. Thank god for the WIllkommen Collective then, who have put together – with the help of Melting Vinyl – their third Foxtrot festival. The setting is perfect – in the grounds of Stamner House a week before those noisy dance music fans turn up for Shakedown. What better fantasy than hanging out with your favourite musicians around a country manor.
If you read our Festival Special in May then you might have thought you missed this debut dance all-dayer, but fear not. Shunted to the end of the season, you get another bite of this cherry – a mix of popularist dance icons and underground heroes. Razorlight, one of a handful of indie bands on the lineup, are billed as the headliners but anyone who has seen Example’s mix of electro production, pop choruses and hip hop rhymes will know that he’s a festival favourite that’s hard to top.
SEPT 11 / STANMER HOUSE / £22.50
Last year Laura Marlin headlined with The Leisure Society and Anna Calvi lower down the bill. Yeah, it’s a bit like The Great Escape – if you don’t know everyone on the line-up now you’ll be bragging about having seen them a few months later. There’s plenty of current faves playing this year too – not least Herman Dune who are just about the most adorable sound around right now. Also firing are Peggy Sue, with a fresh and vital new album to play from. What we’ve heard so far will give PJ Harvey a run for her money. Elsewhere their old mate Alessi’s Ark will be delivering soft, emotional lo-fi pop from her new LP on Bella Union. There’s also Joe Gideon & The Shark, The Memory Band and Sam Amidon among the baker’s dozen acts of what is a real folk connoisseur’s line-up.
SEPT 17 / STANMER PARK / £35
But more than individual bands this is a festival that’s clearly been put together with real love. Many of the people playing have a long history with the Willkommen Collective so this will be more of a special day of hanging out in the sunshine. With great acoustic music, of course.
From the other side of the metaphorical fence 2manydjs fans will be desperate to see the Belgians perform some of their iPhone app mixes live in the flesh, whether they were among the lucky few to have caught them at The Haunt or not. Elsewhere there are some big home-grown house music names in the form of Freemasons and Prok & Fitch, while Zane Lowe will no doubt spend more time playing his exclusive tunes than he will fucking talking over them like he does on Radio 1. We’d sort of forgotten about New Young Pony Club but loved their song-based electro pop when they were around last. And if all else fails Brighton’s huge DJ export Krafty Kuts always brings the party. It’s all shaping up to be a hell of a day out and close enough to Brighton’s city centre to enjoy the after parties which are going to take over the clubs as night falls. Aptly billed as Brighton’s Summer Closing Party, Shakedown marks the first big branded festival since the other ‘-down’ we don’t talk about and, you know what, it’s looking good.
HEADLINERS: Herman Dune, Peggy Sue DON’T MISS: Alessi’s Ark, Birdengine, Sam Amidon IN A NUTSHELL: A lovely day out with delightful people and gorgeous music
HEADLINERS: Razorlight, Example DON’T MISS: 2manydjs, Ed Sheeran, Kraft Kuts IN A NUTSHELL: Dance your way through the last of the sunshine
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VOLUNTEERING WORDS BY NICK COQUET
One of the few beautiful things to shine through the recent riots was the social media-led community clean-ups. Twitter and Facebook, pilloried for providing organisational means for the disturbances, came good and came alive – #RiotCleanUp was amassing urban broom power before our holidaying Cabinet could even issue their usual strongestpossibleterms condemnations. People swept the streets in the midst of capitalist meltdown, their only expected reward a better community. But volunteering needn’t be a one-off emergency measure – you can get involved in making Brighton lovelier whenever you’ve got some spare time. CommunityBase.org has a full list but here’s just a few things you can do in various areas that could do with your help.
BRUNSWICK OLDER PEOPLE’S PROJECT
Old people are ace. You get to a point in life where you stop giving a rat’s ass what other people think of you, and don’t spare the horses when it comes to your alarming opinions. Unfortunately a lot of old folk end up isolated at home with no one to share them with, so get pally with a pensioner via the Brunswick Older People’s Project. It’s an hour a week and you’d get to hear cool stories about the Blitz and stuff – impact-initiatives.org.uk is the place to go.
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CCHF ALL ABOUT KIDS
This is a registered charity inspiring and motivating disadvantaged kids aged 7-12. You could help on excursions and activities like beach trips, bike rides, cooking, swimming and generally steering them away from putting JD Sports’ windows in. Go to cchf-allaboutkids.org.uk for more info.
GENDER TRUST
If you’re a patient, sympathetic type, you might well be of some use to the Gender Trust. They run a national helpline for people experiencing gender dysphoria, which basically amounts to being a massive ball of identity confusion. You could help direct the troubled callers to local resources who provide practical help or just provide a friendly ear to someone in crisis for a few hours a week. They’re at gendertrust.org.uk
ST DUNSTAN’S
These good people help ex-service folk who’ve had their sight ruined in the name of queen and country. Not being able to see stuff naturally precludes many of them from playing a lot of games together, but you can feel the dots on dominoes, so they seem to play that a fair bit. To this end they’re looking for a dominoes volunteer to help out and possibly stop any armed escalation of domino-related arguments – St-Dunstans.org.uk has all the info.
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THE CHILDREN’S SOCIETY
BRIGHTON & HOVE FOOD PARTNERSHIP
BRIGHTON UNEMPLOYED CENTRE FAMILIES PROJECT
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
This kids’ society is looking for volunteer befrienders to provide a buddy role for disabled youngsters. Your role would be to hang out with a disabled kid once a fortnight or so, encourage them to build confidence and self-esteem via participation in leisure stuff like swimming and the cinema or even just hanging out in Churchill Square together. Whatever helps them. Email Magdalene.Mill@childrenssociety.org.uk.
Volunteers are needed to help in their crèche centre, helping with kids while their parents get all sorts of advice about housing, welfare, benefits and all the other exciting challenges unemployment offers. BUFCP.org tells you more about their work and how you can get involved.
MARTLETS HOSPICE
We’re longtime friends of the Martlets at SOURCE – they do loads of good work with terminally ill people, and they’ve got a number of charity shop volunteer openings across the city that you could help with. All manner of shop-based roles will fall into your lap – accepting donations, displaying stock, serving customers and helping with Gift-Aid procedures. Details at themartletshospice.org.uk
HELP THE AGED
Do you like books? Do you like old people? If so, this could be the thing for you. Help The Aged in Hove needs someone to sort through the books people donate, price them up and display them all lovely to maximise the book revenue stream through the shop. It’s a Monday morning gig, so if that fits with you email Leah on leahofaolain@hotmail.co.uk
TERRENCE HIGGINS TRUST
The THT is always looking for volunteers and right now there’s a specific Thursday opening to join an informal group of condom stuffers. Yes, it made us do a comedy double take as well, but they actually stuff them into information wallet-type things and give them out at Pride and World Aids Day events. Stuff loads of condoms, hang out with fellow stuffers, prevent the spread of HIV. It’s win-win at THT.org.uk
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Volunteering isn’t always about mopping up piss and stuff, you can get yourself outdoors and toil in the soil like in the proper olden days. This group wants a harvest garden volunteer to help out at their fruit and veg plot in Preston Park – working towards a sustainable citywide food system via local produce, agricultural education and proper food waste usage. Dig up some info at harvest-bh.org.uk
The most famous advocates of human rights in the world ever, and proper human rights at that – not paedos getting Sky dishes, they’re about stopping torture and death and everything. Join one of their campaign groups who meet each month to put pressure on dictators to stop doing bad things to people – visit amnesty.org.uk/brighton
EVENT VOLUNTEERS
Kate Telfer is a local volunteer coordinator using social networking to harness the power of good in the community, via facebook.com/ eventvolunteers and @eventvolunteers. “I wanted a career change, and I decided the best way to get into fundraising and charity work is showing you’re prepared to put the time in and also learning from the experience. That’s why I started volunteering last year and it grew from there. I began helping out at events around Brighton, then I got involved in Oxjam last year, which is a much bigger project. Through that I worked with Kemptown Carnival at the beginning of this year; that’s when things took off even more. “I love organising and being involved in events. When you volunteer you feel like you’ve done your bit – I don’t have the financial situation at the moment where I can put loads of money into charities but if I can give up some time instead I feel like I’m giving something back. It can be one weekend a year – it doesn’t have to be much but it’s so hard to find volunteers that it can mean a hell of a lot. Even a three or four hour shift makes a real difference. “I don’t really have any favourite causes, at the moment I’m doing a lot of work for Oxfam but I’m involved with a lot of local charities as well. In general there’s no such thing as a bad charity. Everyone’s in the same boat, they’re all in the same financial position. Ultimately lots of events don’t go ahead because they lack volunteers, and these events are essential to their fundraising. “The Facebook and Twitter have taken off but they probably need more publicity. It’d be great for all the events in Brighton to get involved and use it; it’s a free service after all, for both event organisers and people who want to volunteer their services.”
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Source Virgins: Doing Stuff For The First Time
Giving Up Everything
Alcohol, Bread, CREAM, Drugs, Fruit, Caffeine, Sugar, Chocolate, Biscuits, Cakes, Cheese, Tobacco WORDS BY ROSIE KENDALL Illustration by Luther Ivan Adams lutherivanadams.co.uk
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THE REASONS
Many good years of late nights and fun times had left my body broken – suspected rheumatoid arthritis, possible coeliac disease and a myriad of niggling health problems for which the only recommendation was a lifetime of painkillers. After a few years of unenlightening NHS tests and scans I gave up on conventional medicine and consulted a nutritional therapist in the hope that they could succeed where my GP had failed and mend me.
THE EXPERIENCE
watching my friends getting twatted and scoffing burgers while I ate a rice cake and did shots of cider vinegar. Nothing was on at the cinema so I cancelled my birthday and spent the night catching up on the washing up and feeling a bit sorry for myself. The next day, hoping to put it behind me, I went to visit my in-laws. They presented me with a birthday cake. I watched them eat it whilst silently wishing they’d choke on it. It looked delicious. I was starting to feel a bit stabby.
“I was necking 20 pills a day... antifungal supplements”
I went to my first appointment knowing that I was probably saying goodbye to all the good things in life. I’d already given up gluten a few months previously, which meant waving farewell to the delights of biscuits, bread and cakes. After some tests I was told I had candidiasis (and no, that doesn’t mean I have thrush), which was probably responsible for all my random symptoms. As expected I was sent home with a list of foods to avoid. Gluten was still off limits, but in addition I couldn’t eat any dairy, sugar or caffeine. Drink, drugs and smoking were banned too, of course. I really, really like biscuits, and giving up gluten had been hard. But at least I could compensate by eating loads of cream, chocolate and crisps. Not any more. However, I was buoyed by receiving a diagnosis at last so I got stuck into my new diet, hitting Infinity Foods and stocking up on alternative carbohydrates like millet and buckwheat whilst eavesdropping an argument about jazz between two men wearing tie-dye jerkins and patchouli sandals. Now, I’m not much of a cook and the instructions on the side of my buckwheat packet weren’t particularly instructional. After attempting a salad which my other half described as ‘the worst thing I’ve ever tasted’ I realised this was going to be difficult. It appears that virtually every single item of food you can buy in the supermarket has sugar, or sweeteners, or gluten, or some kind of weird additive or refinement that makes it bad news. That meant that I couldn’t buy anything in a packet, and every single meal would need to be made from scratch. Not only that, I could no longer pop into the corner shop and grab a bag of crisps because I’d stayed out late and missed dinner. Convenience and me were no longer friends. Spontaneity went out the window as I became one of those mum types who carry round Tupperware containers of warm carrot sticks and houmous. My weekly shop became a daily chore as my bank card was repeatedly raped by the Infinity tills. The endless cooking and washing up left me with no time for friends or fun, which was lucky because I had no money for the pub anyway. And the pub is shit when you’re sober, and can’t even eat peanuts.
House calls became a thing of the past as I grew tired of refusing tea and biscuits, and explaining myself endlessly. Interfering relatives listened sceptically and quoted ‘Bad Science’ at me, disregarding my improving health in favour of advocating ‘everything in moderation’, whilst pushing plates of cheese on toast toward me. Being a bit shy I’m a great believer in the social crutch, and there isn’t a single activity in the world that isn’t enhanced by a glass of whisky and lemonade, or something stronger. My birthday was coming up and I realised that having a barbecue, picnic or party would result in
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My life was now a tedious grind of chopping vegetables, counting out vitamin supplements, reading labels, finding new and exciting ways to cook tofu. ‘If it looks nice I’m not allowed it’ was my catchphrase as I desperately read menus looking for something, anything, I could eat. I longed for a slice of buttery toast, meringues and cream, chocolates, a cup of tea. Walking past a pub on a sunny afternoon left me wretched as the smell of pool and drunken foolishness wafted out the door to taunt me.
Apparently (and I don’t care if this is bad science) the treatment causes your liver to be flooded with toxic crap and when your liver gets overloaded you’re prone to ‘emotional outbursts’. My liver was already marinated in party toxins so it’s no wonder that the treatment sent me over the edge. For two days a week I veered between desperate sobbing, “I just want a piece of cake/shot of Tuaca/36-hour drink and drug binge”, to having to leave work in case I shouted at my colleagues, or worse, a client. It was like the worst PMT imaginable. A summer itinerary of weddings and festivals made life even trickier. Going to a party and watching your friends getting pissed and exclaiming over rad-looking puddings while you’re restricted to eating an olive gets a bit wearing, but keeping it together at a festival is almost impossible. My military planning was to no avail as pre-prepared tubs of salad wilted in the heat, and ham and chicken turned an ominous shade of green. Luckily I could enjoy emergency rice cakes and pumpkin seed butter. For three fucking days. In the old days I just wouldn’t eat but that isn’t really possible without substance abuse to get you through. Festivals and drugs go hand in hand, and the lack of chemical enhancement left me feeling excluded from the experience as I watched the mayhem unfold around me. I was necking 20 pills a day, but antifungal supplements are rubbish for getting messy and dancing. I went back to the nutritionist and pulled a sad face and talked about cake. She offered me a sliver of hope in the shape of ‘Carrot Bread’ - a tempting treat made from carrots, xylitol and pumpkin seeds. It looked as though someone had sicked in a cake tin. It’s a telling sign of how desperate my life has become that I now look forward to that twice-weekly slice of savoury carrot filth like a sailor on shore leave looks forward to a disease-ridden whore.
WAS IT WORTH IT?
After two months I’m completely skint (those supplements don’t come cheap) and I can’t even remember the last time I really enjoyed eating anything. However, my resolve was strengthened when I snapped and ate a piece of buttery shortbread. The next day I felt dismal, and I remembered that I’d felt that ill constantly prior to starting the treatment. I’m not better yet, but everything hurts less than it used to, and I know that I’m doing the right thing. I’m still a shit cook but I’ve doubled my repertoire of meals, I’ve lost stacks of weight so the dress I bought last year in Beyond Retro in a hopeful moment now fits me, and one day I will eat cake again.
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STREET STYLE WOrds by nick coquet photo by lomokev for lomokev.com
Often when people are influenced by what they take to be 60s fashion they get the wrong end of the stick, dressing in fabrics and jarring patterns your nan might well have hung as curtains but certainly never worn on the street. On the whole, archetypal 60s styling was simple, unfussy and complementary with an emphasis on a minimal cut. The crazy clothing free-for-all would arrive later with the hippies and flower power, as fashion committed the cardinal sin of just letting itself all hang out. Had Mary Quant been dead she’d have turned in her grave. Mar Sendra is a Spanish bartender at the Big Chill Bar in London’s Brick Lane, pictured here on just her third visit to Brighton – “It’s a lovely place,” she says. While this striking red outfit isn’t her only colour choice, she tends to keep it simple with occasional greens, blacks and whites. The fashions of the 60s might well have originated in Swinging London but they clearly touched hipsters throughout Europe, as this largely Spanish-sourced collection shows. Cardigan from vintage store in Brick Lane. “I like it because the white edge reminds me of my grandmother’s cardigans. I usually wear clothes from the 60s – this reminds me of her as a young lady.” Dress from Maria Del Mar “It’s a children’s clothes store my mother owns in my birthplace, Tarragoma in Spain.” Tights from H&M “I was working there for a few years so I had loads of coloured tights. I used to wear them often – not just in red, in many colours.” Shoes and bag from Carnaby “These are from my Auntie’s vintage store, also in Tarragoma, called Carnaby – after the street.”
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UNSUNG HERO
100 PEOPLE WHO MAKE BRIGHTON WHAT IT IS:
NO.22 SU HARDY WORDS BY JAMES KENDALL
The Mooncup MD has been offering an ethical alternative to tampons for nearly a decade. Where did the idea for the Mooncup come from? Menstrual cups have been around since the 1930s and I first came across them when I was backpacking in Australia. When I came back I started making my own out of more modern materials. The original ones were made out of latex rubber and I found that some women were allergic to those so I had a factory make them out of silicone. How many have you sold? Hundreds of thousands of them! We’ve been going since 2002 and have sold Mooncups to women all over the world – 65 different countries, all over Europe and other places like South Africa. What are the benefits? My main interest to start with was environmental. Because you have one Mooncup, you empty it and then use the same one over and over again. There’s nothing to throw away, no waste, no packaging every month. But there are other benefits. After about four months it pays for itself. There’s no drying so it’s much better for your vagina. It’s more comfortable, it’s more convenient. It ticks all the boxes: it’s safer, greener and cheaper. What sort of women use it? Green and ethical women were the pioneers. But now it’s really mainstream. We have customers who certainly wouldn’t consider themselves to be hippies. Women hear about it from their friends and they’re really enthusiastic about it. Our customers tend to be real evangelists actually. Is it an ethical mission or a business first? I would say it’s an ethical mission first. If you wanted to have a business to make money you wouldn’t produce something that’s as difficult to sell as a Mooncup and that had no repeat sales. As a business proposition it’s not a particularly good one! You’ve won loads of awards, but what’s been your proudest moment? Winning the Women In Ethical Business Award probably because the Eve Magazine readers actually voted for the Mooncup. I think that there’s something quite special about the fact it came from the public.
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SECRET eater
ALOKA
14 East St (01273) 823178 Mon-Fri 8:30am-9:30pm, Sat-Sun 10am-9:30pm
THE PLACE
Contrary to expectations, we’re not all about destroying our bodies at SOURCE. Yeah, we have more than our fair share of hangovers and late night kebabs but several of the SOURCE team had been to Aloka for lunches and raved about their healthy buffet. First thing to note, this isn’t a place to eat – it’s a “Quality Of Life Centre, dedicated to giving you physical, mental, emotional and spiritual nourishment.” OK, then. What that means is that there’s a day spa and yoga studio as well as a café downstairs and a restaurant upstairs.
THE MEAL
Not only is Aloka vegan – even their ice cream is made out of nuts, somehow – it also favours not cooking stuff at all. It’s not all raw food, but if you shun the cooker this place is a godsend.
With that in mind we kick off with raw chips and dips (£5.75), where the Doritos have been swapped for flax crackers and the blue cheese has been replaced by a fresh, lively apricot-based number like melting sorbet. So far, so odd. The staff are extremely helpful when our fellow reviewer explains her dietary requirements, even sending the chef out to talk through the menu. Overall the service is very Zen, although this made us slightly tetchy as we had to be elsewhere. For mains we opt for the chef’s special (£13.75) – a garlic and mushroom tart made with pecan pastry. It’s artfully laid out and tasty with a variety of crisp veg. The Zen Buddha bowl (£12.50) doesn’t go down so well, unfortunately. Brown rice, al dente vegetables and sloppy tofu in miso soup lacks a flavour focal point to get us past all that healthiness.
THE VERDICT
Not without good reason were Aloka a winner of a Best Eating Out Award from the Vegetarian Society last year. If it’s up your street you’ll love Aloka. But this place isn’t for everyone so order carefully, or maybe try the buffet before diving right in. And if you eat a la carte make sure you leave plenty of time to relax into the serenity.
WERE WE SUSSED?
The food took a long time to come – especially considering so much is uncooked! – and we sort of ran off halfway through our meal to get to our other appointment. So they probably thought we were mad or rude rather than reviewers.
IN conversation with
JFB
FRESH FROM SOME HUGE REMIXES FOR FATBOY SLIM, SCRATCH DJ JFB IS BACK IN THE DMC WORLD FINAL WORDs AND PHOTO by JAMES KENDALL You won the UK DMC championship again. Did you even tell anyone you were entering? I decided to enter a couple of weeks before the last heat. I wanted to do the last few years as well but just didn’t have the time or patience to do it. You’re allowed to use [DJing software] Serato so you didn’t have to press records this year, which is awesome. I entered the Plymouth heat and won that, which put me through to the UK final and I won that. What was the routine like? It starts off with a track from The Qemists – well, bits and bobs of it – with lots of samples of Beardyman that I do lots of tricks with. There’s a YouTube keyboard star called Ronald Jenkees. I emailed him to see if he’d send me the separate parts for the competition and he was really overly friendly and sent them to me right away. Then it goes into the Enter The Dragon music from the Bruce Lee film and a dubstep thing that I got the parts for. Then there’s more dubstep before going into the commercial bit, the Nero track ‘Me & You’ which I beat-juggle. Then it goes into a really techy beatjuggling thing at the end and finally into a scratch.
You’ve always been interested in technology. Are other turntablists catching up to your way of thinking? Well, I think everyone in the UK final used Serato and I reckon every single one of them had created pre-made sets. In the heat that I did in Plymouth there was only one guy using real records all the way through. Do you have to make a new set for the DMC final in October? Most people do the same set but I’m going to change mine. The people I was up against in the UK were good but the guys in the world finals are just ridiculous. There are two of my scratch idols that I’m up against. I’m working hard to get better cos at the moment I’m shit compared to some of the other guys. It would take me three years of practice to beat those two but I’m practicing all day, apart from eight hours sleep and tea breaks.
You seem to be doing a lot more production. How’s that going? Phew. So has crate digging changed then, away from record I’ve been very lucky actually. Beardyman had his album shops onto the internet, getting the separate parts? out and he’s chucked me loads of remixes and I’ve been You can look at it loads of different ways. Turntablists still doit the really fortunate with Fatboy Slim. I’d been doing some old way. Occasionally I will too, but I prefer to dig around on stuff for Skint and they offered me the ‘Right Here, Right YouTube and online instead and make the music out of other Now’ remix last year. I did a dubstep mix and I finished it people’s music. Then alter it for scratching so I can do more at 11am and emailed it to Skint. They sent it to Norman technical things. Or you can make things easier for you to use, so Cook and he texted me a couple of hours later saying, it sounds nicer to listen to. Not using just vinyl does take away a bit ‘This is brilliant, I’m going to play it tonight on Radio 1.’ of the traditional sense of turntablism a bit – taking one or two Skint put it out as an exclusive on Juno at 9.30pm and the records of other people’s music next day it got to No.1 in the Juno and making it different with your chart. I was quite chuffed with that. hands here and there. It’s a bit of a They got me to do a mix of ‘Praise headache now though, as you You’ this year and it’s been lingering also need to know how to arrange in the Top 20 Beatport chart for a WEB: facebook.com/jfbscratch music in the computer. But it few months. I’m going to be making SINGLE: ‘Something Out there’ on Skint opens the doors to so many some electro swing stuff soon too, DMC WINNING VIDEO: tinyurl.com/JFB-DMC possibilities. and I’m also really into glitch-hop.
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LISTINGS SEPTEMBER 2011
thursday 1ST
ABOVE AUDIO Schtumm DJs House and disco 10pm £free
AUDIO Bastard Pop Musical mash-up 11pm £2/free BELUSHI’S BAR Karaoke 9pm £free BLACK LION Soul Casserole A melting pot of hot
funk beats and soul grooves 8.30pm £free BRIGHTON CENTRE Lee Evans You might laugh but he has to pull that face for 50 nights in a row 8pm £30 BRUNSWICK Plasticine, Icicle Thieves, Lost Cat Live music 8pm £3 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Brighton Digital Festival Quiz Night Pub quiz with a computerised twist 8pm £1
COALITION Secret Discotheque Replaying the soundtrack to your youth 11pm £4/3/2 CONCORDE2 Amanda Palmer Formerly of cabaret punk duo The Dresden Dolls, Palmer now offers an eccentric mix of gothic piano rock, fringey theatre interludes and power ballads - all underpinned by the same macabre sense of humour 7pm £14.50 CUBE Blink House DJs Time tbc £free DRUID’S ARMS Dougie Evans Live set from guitarist and soundscape artist 8pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA The Skin I Live In 4pm/9pm
EXCHANGE INN Quiz 8.30pm £1 FIDDLER’S ELBOW Live Lounge Live music 8.30pm £free
FISHBOWL Residents Association DJs play hip hop, funk and world beats 10.30pm £free GLOBE Hang The DJ! A night of punter-picked playlists 9pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE The Dead Sea Mob Live music and live drawing 7.30pm £tbc; Paradise City Are you heading for Venus? 11pm £free HAUNT The Hop Clean-cut rock&roll from the 1950s when everything was innocent and wholesome 11pm £4 HONEY Exposed! R&B and hip hop club night 10.30pm £2
KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club: Zoe Lyons, Rhod Rhys, Chris Martin, Jarred Christmas, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 8pm £9/6.50 KOMEDIA STUDIO Hammer & Tongue: The Yetser Hara Box, Rob Auton An entertaining mix of poetry and
comedic verse, hosted by Rosy Carrick and Mike Parker
7.30pm £5/4
LATEST MUSIC BAR Jojo & The Go Cats Live
music 8pm £4 LOLA LO Kitsch Commercial but quirky club night 9pm
£5/3
MASH TUN They Mostly Come At Night Indie and electro tunes 9pm £free MESMERIST Dr Bluegrass & The Illbilly 8 Brighton’s busiest buskers - country standards and pop covers put through the hillbilly thresher 9pm £free MUCKY DUCK Open Mic & Jam Session 8pm £free OCEANA Vibe Juice FM DJ Mike Panteli entertains the students with New York disco smash hits 9pm £5/free PAV TAV Blue Stragglers, Arkland, Snow Glass Jack, In Remembrance Rock and indie bands 8pm £2 PRINCE ALBERT The Brakes, Son Belly Brighton’s indie rock supergroup 8.30pm £8 RANELAGH Hillbilly Deluxe Live country and Americana 8.30pm £free RIKI TIK Das Club Robotique Pre-gangsta hip-hop and post-disco disco 10pm £free STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Timber Timbre, Stuart Warwick Brooding blues country (in the club) 7pm £9.50/8.50; Catholic Discipline Noise rock, disco pop and acid folk from the Superheroes of BMX (in the bar) 8pm £free ST JAMES’ TAVERN Stay Sick, Turn Blue DJs play vintage soul, jazz and blues 8.30pm £free THEATRE ROYAL The Pitmen Painters Lee Hall’s play about the Northumbrian miners whose paintings took the 1930s art world by storm 2.30pm/7.45pm £1730
VICTORY Open Mic 8pm £free VOLKS Hit & Run Drum&bass, house and soul 9pm
£5/3
WHITE RABBIT Open Mic 9pm £free WINDMILL Juice Free Music Thursday Live bands with an open mic session 8.30pm £free
WORLD’S END The Big Cash Quiz 8pm £tbc
friday 2ND
ABOVE AUDIO Disco Deviant: Rayko, Pablo Contraband 10pm £free AUDIO Strictly Drumz: DJ Die Bass is also allowed
11pm £tbc
BELUSHI’S BAR Muy Loco Pop and house DJs 9pm
£free
BELUSHI’S BELOW Abandoned Rock and metal night 10pm £3/2
BLACK DOVE Hot-Tip Hi-Fi DJs play early reggae
and rocksteady 8pm £free BLACK LION Medium Rare DJs serve up a platter of semi-obscure funk and soul 8.30pm £free BRUNSWICK The Lost Highway Americana night
8pm £5
CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Shake ‘N’ Stomp
Surf, twang and garage tunes 9pm £free COALITION Friday I’m In Love No more lectures for a day or two 11pm £1-5 CONCORDE2 Machinedrum, Anxst, Manni Dee, Manuzk IDM and glitchy hip hop 10pm £3/free COWLEY CLUB Glasses, Caves, State Icons Hardcore punk gig. Note: The Cowley is a private members’ club, but guests are welcome 8pm £donation CUBE Friday Club House DJs Time tbc £free DIGITAL Stonelove Indie rock&roll club 11pm £4/3 DRUID’S ARMS DJ Maxwell House Soul, funk and reggae 10pm £free DUKE OF NORFOLK DJ Cashback 9pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Kill List 4pm/9pm EASY BAR DJ Rudeben R&B, hip hop and reggae 8pm £free
FISHBOWL Dedicated Players DJs plays rare disco,
soul and boogie 9pm £free FORTUNE OF WAR Pollito Boogaloo Live band play South American sounds 9pm £free FUNKYFISH The Funkyfish Club Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10pm £6/3.50 GLOBE The Stash Rock&roll DJs 9pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE The Peppermint Beat Band Retro rock&roll BIMM band 7.30pm £3; Private: Man Without Country Club night with shoegaze electronica band 11pm £free HAMPTON Mod For It! DJs play Motown, new wave, soul and ska 8pm £free HAUNT Flava In Ya Ear It’z da sikest hip hop nite eva 11pm £tbc
H-BAR Aura: Billy Mauseth, Mick Yeoman House anthems 9pm £free HONEY Lollipop Get your fingers sticky to R&B, hip hop and pop treats 10.30pm £5/4/3 HOPE Slip Jam:B: TC Johnson, Rum Committee Vs Genius Squad, DJ Ideal Hip hop battleground for Brighton b-boys, hosted by Hines and Neil B (upstairs) 9pm £free; Stacked Nasty DJs play funk, soul and 60s garage (downstairs) 9pm £free HYDRANT DOWN The Scam, Albert Mooney, John & Ben, Side FX Punk rock bands 8pm £free HYDRANT UP Cannabis Corpse, Crypsis, Hades Lab Cannabis Corpse mix pot-worship with hardcore riffs thus making them the Afroman of thrash metal 7.30pm £8
KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club: Zoe Lyons, Chris Martin, Jarred Christmas, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 8pm £14.50/11.50 KOMEDIA UP Think Floyd “They sent us along as a surrogate band, we’re gonna find out where you fans really stand” 7.30pm £14
LOLA LO Tiki Beats Totally tropical tunes 8pm £5/4/3 MESMERIST Shake, Holla & Roll Swing jazz and
R&B designed to get you dancing 9pm £free MUCKY DUCK The Mucky Club DJ night 8pm £free NEPTUNE Shauna Parker And The Saloon Bar Band Canadian country singer 8.30pm £free NORTHERN LIGHTS DJ Paul 9pm £free
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OCEANA Love Fridays With seven themed rooms
you should find one you like 8pm £6/free PAV TAV Totally 80s Club night dedicated to the decade when it all went wrong 11pm £2 PRINCE ALBERT Little Episodes: Carl Barat, Sadie Frost, The Agitator, Lucie Barat, The Modern Beardsmiths A strangely star-studded night of music and poetry to mark the local launch of an indie publishing project (upstairs) Time tbc £12/8; Bend Over I’ll Drive Rock&roll DJs (downstairs) 8pm £free QUEEN’S HEAD Too Ugly For Radio Rock, pop and electro night with movies 8pm £free RANELAGH Mark Wynn Country blues 8.30pm £free RIKI TIK ENK 9pm £tbc SIDEWINDER DJ Goldstein The DJ from the club night, Mod For It 9pm £free STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Flash Bang Band, Dead Cars, 900 Spaces, Colossus DJ Psycho-delic indie pop with a good blend of catchy choruses and charismatic oddness 7pm £3; Reggae Bombing: Boulevard Soundsystem, Serocee Reggae, hip hop and Caribbean bashment 11pm £3 THEATRE ROYAL The Pitmen Painters Lee Hall’s play about the Northumbrian miners whose paintings took the 1930s art world by storm 7.45pm £17-30 THOMAS KEMP DJ Molar 9pm £free TUBE Friday 45 From funk to disco and back again via deep house 11pm £3/free; Motel Last chance saloon for electro house heads 3am £3 VOLKS Future Dub: One Love Festival After Party Dubstep, drum&bass and reggae all-nighter 11pm £5/3 WHITE RABBIT WTF One must deduce from the name that this electro DJ night will be wild tremendous fun 9pm £free WORLD’S END Thank Funk It’s Friday DJ night 8pm £free
saturday 3RD
ANCIENT MARINER Tracy Sullivan Jazz and country singer songwriter 8pm £free
AUDIO Warehouse: Transformer House and techno
club night - with Mex from Blackgrass playing rare grooves upstairs 11pm £7/5 BELUSHI’S BAR Unplugged: Rocket Dogs Live acoustic duo 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Deviant Rock and metal club 9pm £5/2
BLACK LION Attic Monkeys There’s far worse things
you could have in your attic than crates of vinyl. Here’s some of them: festering meat, a painting of oneself, a forgotten grandmother 9pm £free BRIGHTON BALLROOM Kiss Kraft! A poodle-rock pop party with Boogaloo Stu and crew 7pm £8/6 BRUNSWICK Mini Maker Faire Audio-visual weirdness with robots 7pm £tbc CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Replica Goth and industrial night 9pm £free COALITION We Heart House: Vincent Manganaro, Charles Green, Carl Smeaton & Carl Fidler, Charly Lopez House, house and more house 11pm £5; Blow After Party: Vincent Manganaro, Carlos Riz, Aaron Palaez It never stops 3am £7/5/4 CONCORDE2 CJ Bolland, Mark EG, Blackbox & Erisian DJs Techno night with an early originator and a current trail blazer 11pm £5 COWLEY CLUB The Bucket Boyz, Zibabu, Toztizok Zoundz Hip hop, ska and bluegrass bands raise funds for Brighton Anarchist Black Cross 8pm £donation
CUBE Delirious House and electro DJs Time tbc £free DIGITAL Live & Unleashed: Steve Hussey, Gav Cantrell, Rhythm Dogz, Man On The Edge A new
monthly night with dancers, acrobats and wrestlers - as well as bands and DJs 11pm £10/8/5 DOME FOYER Mini Maker Faire Woodwork, knitting and messing with electronics (Part of Brighton Digital Festival) 10am £free DRUID’S ARMS DJ Greenman’s Garden Of Delights DJ night 10pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Azur And Asmar: The Princes’ Quest 11am; Kill List 4pm/9pm; Inception 11.30pm EASY BAR Silvastone Blak Twang DJ plays &B, hip hop and reggae 8pm £free FIDDLER’S ELBOW Saturday Sizzlers: DJ Russ Rockwell Funk rock and psych soul 9pm £free FISHBOWL Gareth Stephens DJ playing funk, nu-jazz and broken beats 9pm £free FORTUNE OF WAR DJ Scratchy Tour DJ for the Clash and Gogol Bordello 9pm £free FUNKYFISH The Funkyfish Club Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10pm £6/3.50 GLOBE Blacklodge Disco, Italo and house 9pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Out Of The Ordinary Warm-up party for OOTO festival 7pm £tbc
HAMPTON iLike Bring your iPod and play your own tunes - you might like it, but will anyone else? 9pm £free HAUNT It Is Still 1985 Travel through time to an ancient realm where drum machines still sound novel and exciting 10pm £3 H-BAR Beatsworkin: Glimpse, Darren D Deep house and disco producers Time tbc £5 HONEY Hat Club: Hatty Lovehearts, Damien Stone & Vince Frimpong, Squiz, Ben G House hits and hats
10.30pm £10/8/5
HORSE & GROOM Bad Bad Whiskey Skiffle and
rockabilly band 7.30pm £free HYDRANT DOWN The Physics, Cunbrik, Dukono, Lost In The Riots, Adults The Elderly And Children Alternative rock bands 8pm £free HYDRANT UP Loustock 2011: Spunk, Whitebus Steampunk fancy dress gig 7pm £free KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club: Zoe Lyons, Chris Martin, Jarred Christmas, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 7pm/8pm/10.30pm £7-18 KOMEDIA STUDIO The Maydays: Confessions Improv group turn your secrets into musical comedy 8pm £8/6; CBGBs Club night playing the best bands from the famous New York venue 11pm £3 LECONFIELD MiTunes The latest skirmish in the war waged by the iPod against DJs 8pm £free LIFE Hold Up! Long-running much-loved indie night kept afloat by the influx of fresh-faced students 11pm £5 LOLA LO Zombie Nation Where the dancefloor is never dead 8pm £10/7/6 MESMERIST Juke Joint Jamboree Vintage dancefloor gems from the days of jive and jazz 9pm £free MUCKY DUCK Sizzle & Pop! Rock&roll and 60s soul 9pm £free NORTHERN LIGHTS DJ Abo 9pm £free OCEANA The World In One Night Chunky house anthems might not be entirely representative of all the world’s music, but it’s a start, kind of 8pm £10/free PAV TAV Back To The Future Retro tunes from before you were born 11pm £3/2 POP-UP PLAYGROUP The Free For All: International Diamond Thieves, Hockeysmith, DJ Spidachan Live band fusing drum&bass, rock and hip hop 8pm £free; The Free For All After Show Post-gig drinking and dancing 12midnight £free PRINCE ALBERT The Long Goodbye, Pint Size Hero Live bands 8.30pm £4 QUEEN’S HEAD Souled Out Funk, soul and hip hop night 8pm £free RIKI TIK Schtumm!: Neal Lewis & Sam Watts Disco and underground house 9pm £tbc SIDEWINDER Dan Watts Edgy electronica from the Gogglez DJ 9pm £free STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Blank Generation New wave and riot grrrl indie night 11pm £4 THEATRE ROYAL The Pitmen Painters Lee Hall’s play about the Northumbrian miners whose paintings took the 1930s art world by storm 2.30pm/7.45pm £1730
THOMAS KEMP DJ Retro Disco 9pm £free THREE & TEN Andy Thomas: Boundstone Lane
EASY BAR Reggae And Roast Noon £free FIDDLER’S ELBOW Sham-Rock Open Mic 8.30pm £free
FISHBOWL Recovery? Chilled reggae DJing from Asbest The Moor King and guests 9pm £free
FOUNDRY Americana Unplugged Live music 8pm
£free
GLOBE Rockoustic Open Jam Live acoustic music
9pm £free
GREEN DOOR STORE Sunday Service Live music 5pm £free; Green Door Blues Blues band and DJs 10pm £free
HONEY Sundays At The Honey If your house was this sexy you’d never go outdoors 11pm £3/2/free KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club: Zoe Lyons, Chris Martin, Jarred Christmas, Luke Benson, Suzi Ruffell, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 8pm £11.50/6.50 KOMEDIA UP Bent Double: Lucy Porter Zoe Lyons hosts a night of alternative comedy acts 7.30pm £10.50/8.50
LATEST MUSIC BAR Bark Like A Dog Blues Jam
A chance for first-timers to shed their nerves - and oldtimers to show off their licks 7pm £free LECONFIELD Boozy Bingo Old is the new young
6pm £1
NEPTUNE Passion Dance Jazz and world music 8.30pm £free
PRINCE ALBERT Bob Log III, Stay Sick DJs
Retro-futurist one-man band combining bluesy slide guitar with drum machines and cannonball suits 7pm £10 RIKI TIK Riki Fliks Film night showing classic movies and new shorts Details tbc SIGNALMAN Open Mic Night 8.15pm £free THOMAS KEMP Sunday Afternoon Jazz Jazz. In the afternoon. On a Sunday 4pm £free
monday 5TH
ANCIENT MARINER Quiz Night 8pm £1 BELUSHI’S BAR Now That’s What I Call A Party What did you call it before? 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Fallout Live rock bands 9pm £2/1
BLACK LION Hit The Decks Open decks spin off (book a slot online) 9pm £free BRUNSWICK Open Mic Night 8.30pm £free CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Movie Bar So you wanna make it in the glamorous world of film? Go shmooze with the movers and makers and other out-ofwork actors. Includes film screenings, Q&A with directors and a movie quiz 7.30pm £free COALITION Trash Mondays Filthy tunes for students and layabouts alike 10.30pm £5/3/free COWLEY CLUB SchMOVIES: Gasland Documentary investigation into dodgy US gas companies in which director Josh Fox meets families who can set fire to their tap water 8pm £donation CUBE Hoi Polloi Northern soul for the masses Time tbc £free
One-man comedy show about a vigilante who sets out to clean up the mean streets of Lancing armed only with Rihanna songs (upstairs) 8pm £8/6; Red Brick Comedy Club Stand-up comedy done the proper way - in front of a brick wall (upstairs) 10pm £10/8 TUBE Paradis Dance music party from the 13 Monsters team 11pm £5/free VICTORY Up Against It Born Bad DJs play an assortment of punky trash Time tbc £free VOLKS Maximum Exposure Drum&bass night 11pm
DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Kill List 4pm/9pm GREEN DOOR STORE Metal Mondays: Sludge, Slabdragger, DJ Irongiant Full metal racket 7pm £free GREYS Marysia Band Polish folk music Time tbc £4 HYDRANT DOWN Blood Of The Spectre Do
WEST HILL TAVERN As You Were vs Bitter Disko
LORD NELSON Rob Johnson Rocky songwriter just
£5
spectres bleed? Aren’t they kind of like ghosts? Oh, is that the point? 8pm £free
LIFE Jailbait Hits from the 90s for those too young to remember the first time 11pm £3/2
LOLA LO Fat Poppadaddys Student indie night 9pm £3
DJ clash emulating a ruckus between a 1950s Teddy boy, a punk rocker and a mutant disco dancer 9pm £free WHITE RABBIT The Mixer Men Reggae and hip hop DJ mash-up 9pm £free
8.30pm £free
sunday 4th
Downbeat and melancholic acoustic music 8pm £5 SIGNALMAN Pub Quiz 8pm £1 THOMAS KEMP Thru The Alphabet Quiz Night
AUDIO Substance Underground electronic music with tribal drumming 10pm £3/free BELUSHI’S BAR Now That’s What I Call A Party What did you call it before? 9pm £free BLACK LION Live & Swingin’ Gypsy Jazz 8pm
£free
BRIGHTON CENTRE Brighton Records & CD Fair
“Wow, is that a first edition Blueshammer LP?” 9.30am £2 BRUNSWICK Dave Drake Live jazz 8pm £tbc CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK The Geekest Link: Digital Festival Special Sci-fi quiz with a digital twist an iPhone blocker to stop you cheating? 8.30pm £1 CUBE Chilled Sundays Laid back grooves Time tbc £free
DUKE OF NORFOLK Live Music Night 9pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Kill List 4pm/9pm
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OCEANA Mash Up Dance, dub and drum&bass 9pm
£3/2/free
MUCKY DUCK Pub Quiz 8pm £1 PRINCE ALBERT The Bleeding Hearts Club
8pm £1
VOLKS Strictly Reggae Dancehall, roots, revival 11pm
£5/4.50
tuesday 6TH
BELUSHI’S BAR Totalled On Tuesday! Pop and dance 9pm £free
BRIGHTON CENTRE Lee Evans You might laugh
but he has to pull that face for 50 nights in a row 8pm £30
BRUNSWICK Jazz Jam Open session with house
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COWLEY CLUB Wildkatz Open Jam Session for
musicians, performers and poets 8pm £free/donation CUBE Loni Lincoln Live music Time tbc £free DIGITAL CU Next Tuesday It’ll teach the universities to timetable lectures for Wednesday mornings 11pm £4/3
DUKE OF NORFOLK Open Mic 9pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA A Better Life 11am; Kill List 4pm; Poetry 6.30pm FIDDLER’S ELBOW Quizness Time Are you a pub quiz whizz, or bit of a half-wit? 8pm £1
GLOBE Basement Cinema Underground films,
comfy seats and free popcorn 8pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Francis Harold & The Holograms Intense sludge metal 7.30pm £5; Hard Times They can take our disposable income, but they’ll never take our nowave disco! 11pm £free HONEY Tuesdays At The Honey New club night playing a bit of everything 10.30pm £3/2/1/free HYDRANT DOWN Run Young Lovers Harmonyladen and slightly laddish indie band 8pm £free LECONFIELD Tuesday Teaser Pub quiz 9pm £1 LIFE Drop Out Student night that’s almost as likely to ruin your degree as Tory education policy 11pm £free LOLA LO Dirtee Laundry New venue for the longrunning club night 10pm £6/4/2 LORD NELSON General Knowledge Quiz Cash for questions 8.45pm £1 MESMERIST The Mesmerist Conjuring Consortium It could be a magical night 7.30pm £tbc OCEANA LF Fiesta International Party Salsa lessons followed by dance party 8pm/10pm £tbc OPEN HOUSE Jazz Work Shop Open jazz session
8pm £tbc
PAV TAV Guerilla Rocks Club night for rock chicks,
skater bois and indie kids 11pm £3/2/1 PRINCE ALBERT Big Deal, Fear Of Men, The May Birds A hunky guy and a hot girl doing some sort of music thing 8.30pm £6 RED LION General Knowledge & Music Quiz 8pm
£1
RIKI TIK Freaks DJs play poppy hip hop, poppy indie
and pop 9pm £free SIDEWINDER Open Mic Night 8pm £free THEATRE ROYAL La Cage Aux Folles Brighton Theatre Group perform the West End musical comedy
7.45pm £24.50-26.50
THOMAS KEMP Poker Evening 8pm £tbc
wednesday 7TH
AUDIO Supercharged: Benny Page Drum&bass and breaks 11pm £tbc BELUSHI’S BAR Now That’s What I Call A Party What did you call it before? 9pm £free BLACK LION Fresh Acoustics Live music 8.30pm £free
BRUNSWICK Unconditional, Fatal Arms, Battery Hounds, Criminal Dubstep Progressive metal band
8pm £3
CONCORDE2 The Bluetones The last Britpop band
left standing says farewell with a final tour 7.30pm £16 CUBE Cubed House to the power of three Time tbc
night 9pm £free
THEATRE ROYAL La Cage Aux Folles Brighton Theatre Group perform the West End musical comedy
7.45pm £24.50-26.50
THOMAS KEMP Kev’s Open Mic 8.30pm £free VOLKS Switch Up Drum&bass and dubstep night
11pm £2/free
THURSDAY 8th
ABOVE AUDIO Schtumm DJs House and disco 10pm £free
AUDIO Bastard Pop Musical mash-up 11pm £2/free BASEMENT Sam Baker, Boss Caine A victim of a
terrorist attack draws on the experience to provide a backdrop to an otherwise joyful mesh of art, music and poetry 7.30pm £9/8 BELUSHI’S BAR Karaoke 9pm £free BLACK LION Loose Fit New indie DJ night 8.30pm
£free
BRUNSWICK Jason Hillard, Choice Folk showcase 8pm £3/2
CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Core Of The Coalman, Hobo Sonn Experimental sounds from the US-born Czech-based composer 8pm £tbc COALITION Secret Discotheque Replaying the soundtrack to your youth 11pm £4/3/2 CUBE Blink House DJs Time tbc £free DOME Toots And The Maytals Jamaican reggae legends still going strong after five decades of skanking 8pm £18.50-25
DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Kill List 4pm/9pm EXCHANGE INN Quiz 8.30pm £1 FIDDLER’S ELBOW Live Lounge Live music 8.30pm £free
FISHBOWL Residents Association DJs play hip hop, funk and world beats 10.30pm £free
GLOBE Hang The DJ! A night of punter-picked playlists 9pm £free
GREEN DOOR STORE Rita Lynch, Glass Eye
Singer songwriter with a punky slant 7.30pm £free; Paradise City Will you be gone when the morning comes? 11pm £free HAUNT The Hop Clean-cut rock&roll from the 1950s when everything was innocent and wholesome 11pm £4 HONEY Exposed! R&B and hip hop club night 10.30pm £2
HYDRANT DOWN Blind Eyed Fury Angry metal 8pm £free
KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club: Loretta Main, Jimmy McGhie, Stephen Grant Stand-up
comedy 8pm £9/6.50 KOMEDIA UP Willy Mason, The Staves, Dan Lefkowitz Singer songwriter with grungy anti-folk angle
8pm £12.50
LATEST MUSIC BAR Catalyst Club Guest
speakers give a short talk about whatever their weird obsession is 8pm £5 LOLA LO Kitsch Commercial but quirky club night
9pm £5/3
MASH TUN They Mostly Come At Night Indie and electro tunes 9pm £free
MUCKY DUCK Open Mic & Jam Session 8pm
£free
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10pm £free
students with New York disco smash hits 9pm £5/free PAV TAV Chemical Smile, Prowess, Red Sleeping Beauty Garage rock and indie bands 8pm £2 PRINCE ALBERT Cable Club Live music 8.30pm £4 RANELAGH Alex Roberts Blues and soul 8.30pm
DIGITAL The Poundance Throw a coin at the monkey and it will grind the organ for you 11pm £4/3/1 DRUID’S ARMS Change The Tempo! DJ night DUKE OF NORFOLK Quiz Night 8pm £1 DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA A Better Life 11am; Eyes Without A Face 6.30pm; Kill List 4pm/9pm FISHBOWL The Mixer Men Reggae and hip hop DJ mash-up 10pm £free
GREEN DOOR STORE Oxjam: The Move Ons, Angels And Sailors, Kim Slade Indie rock fundraiser 8pm £5; The Jazz Store Live jazz with an open jam 11pm £free
HAUNT Pod De Floor New pop music night 11pm £1 HOPE Rainbow Arabia, :KINEMA:, My New Favourite Tribe Avant garde world music dance pop 8pm £5
HYDRANT DOWN Snow Glass Jack Even stadium
rockers have to start somewhere 8pm £free MASH TUN Tin Cup Collective Live funk and soul band 9pm £free MESMERIST The Summer Swing Party More of the electro swing thing 6.30pm £free NORTHERN LIGHTS Prognosis Set the DJ controls for the heart of psychedelia 9pm £free OCEANA Fuzzy Logic Dance and dubstep student night 9pm £5/2/free OPEN HOUSE Safehouse Improvised live music
8pm £tbc
PRINCE ALBERT Cable Club Live music 8.30pm £4 RIKI TIK Hell On High Heels Sleazy rock and glam
OCEANA Vibe Juice FM DJ Mike Panteli entertains the
£free
RIKI TIK Das Club Robotique Pre-gangsta hip-hop and post-disco disco 10pm £free ST JAMES’ TAVERN Stay Sick, Turn Blue DJs play vintage soul, jazz and blues 8.30pm £free STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Catholic Discipline Noise rock, disco pop and acid folk from the Superheroes of BMX 8pm £free THEATRE ROYAL La Cage Aux Folles Brighton Theatre Group perform the West End musical comedy 2.30pm/7.45pm £24.50-26.50 VICTORY Open Mic 8pm £free WHITE RABBIT Open Mic 9pm £free
WINDMILL Juice Free Music Thursday Live bands with an open mic session 8.30pm £free
WORLD’S END The Big Cash Quiz 8pm £tbc
friday 9th
AUDIO Minimal Kids: Andhim, Enzo Siffredi Techno
night 11pm £8/5 BASEMENT Dani Ploeger Performance art ‘installation’ involving an anal electrode. It might be a
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deep and probing show, but it could end up being a bit shitty 8pm £free BELUSHI’S BAR Muy Loco Pop and house DJs 9pm £free
BELUSHI’S BELOW Abandoned Rock and metal night 10pm £3/2
BLACK DOVE Mo’ Taters! DJs play 50s and 60s
Final Rage, Allocation, Fundamental Rock and metal bands 7pm £6; Another Sunny Day Twee and retro indie pop night 11pm £3 THOMAS KEMP DJ Jody 9pm £free THEATRE ROYAL La Cage Aux Folles Brighton Theatre Group perform the West End musical comedy
KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club: Loretta Main, Jimmy McGhie, Will Smith, Matt Reed Standup comedy 7pm/8pm/10.30pm £7-18; Brighton Rock
TUBE Friday 45 From funk to disco and back again via deep house 11pm £3/free; Motel Last chance saloon for electro house heads 3am £3 VOLKS Freak Bazaar: A History Of Psy Trance The only history lesson that’s meant to put you in a trance
11pm £5
tunes from across the Americas 8pm £free BLACK LION Molly Malone’s Dex In The City DJ night 9pm £free BRUNSWICK Boogie Woogie Troop New Orleansstyle swing 8pm £6 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Distortion Rock and metal DJ (downstairs) 9pm £free; Funny Girls Stand-up, sketches and music (upstairs) 8pm £5/4 COALITION Friday I’m In Love No more lectures for a day or two 11pm £1-5 CONCORDE2 UK Air Guitar Championships Final 2011 The emperor’s new Telecaster 7.30pm £5 COWLEY CLUB The Fuck You Planet Earth, La Momo, The Bad Black Dots, DJ Papier Machete Experimental pop band 8pm £donation CUBE Too Mucking Fuch DJs play tribal, tech and prog house Time tbc £free DIGITAL Stonelove Indie rock&roll club 11pm £4/3 DRUID’S ARMS The Druid’s Presents Live music and DJs 10pm £free DUKE OF NORFOLK DJ Cashback 9pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Jane Eyre 4pm/9pm; Tron 11.30pm EASY BAR DJ Rudeben R&B, hip hop and reggae
7.45pm £24.50-26.50
FISHBOWL Jeff Daniels Soul and hip hop DJ 9pm
electro night 9pm £5 BLACK DOVE Chop Source DJ plays twisted funk and jump-jazz 8pm £free BLACK LION Burnt Toast DJs play sleazy soul and dirty breaks 9pm £free CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Fire At The Old Mill Punk night 9pm £free COALITION Love Music Hate Racism: Logic MC, Screama Ballerina, Red Sleeping Beauty, Richie Blitz Hip hop and indie rock unite to fight the fascists 7pm £5; High Rankin, Rewind DJs The dubstep dandy comes to town 11pm £5; Blow After Party: Vincent Manganaro, Carlos Riz, Aaron Palaez It never stops
8pm £free £free
FORTUNE OF WAR Melena De Pomelo Spanish night with live flamenco music and dancers 9pm £free
FUNKYFISH The Funkyfish Club Soul, funk, jazz
and Motown 10pm £6/3.50 GLOBE The Soul Of Brighton Philly disco from Juice FM DJ 9pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE The Growlers Californian garage surf rock 7.30pm £7; Ye Ye Fever Funky Afrobeat clubnight 11pm £free HAMPTON Mod For It! DJs play Motown, new wave, soul and ska 8pm £free HAUNT Wonder Yeahs Music from the glorious 1990s 11pm £3 H-BAR DJ Steven James Classic funk and disco (in the bar) Details tbc; Neveah: Amir Groove, Dan Gausden, Gareth Hall Progressive house and techno (in the club) 10pm £3.50 HONEY Lollipop Get your fingers sticky to R&B, hip hop and pop treats 10.30pm £5/4/3 HOPE Love Thy Neighbour: Trophy Wife, Yaaks Indie electro club with live bands (upstairs) 8.30pm £6/5; WTF DJs Electro disco (downstairs) 9pm £free HYDRANT DOWN Electric River, Lostaura, Heliopause, Tallulah, The Puppet Kings A mix of indie rock, meditative noise rock and Clash-style punk rock 8pm £free
KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club: Loretta Main, Jimmy McGhie, Will Smith, Matt Reed Standup comedy 8pm £14.50/11.50
KOMEDIA STUDIO Alistair Griffin Heart-on-sleeve singer songwriter 8pm £6
LIFE Commercial Suicide: Klute, Nymfo, Voytek
Drum&bass bossman sticks it to the man 11pm £4 LOLA LO Tiki Beats Totally tropical tunes 8pm £5/4/3 MESMERIST Shake, Holla & Roll Swing jazz and R&B designed to get you dancing 9pm £free MUCKY DUCK The Mucky Club DJ night 8pm £free NEPTUNE Kris Dollimore Swampy stomping blues 8.30pm £free
OCEANA Example Special Brighton show from the UK rapper 9pm £7.50 PAV TAV Totally 80s Club night dedicated to the decade when it all went wrong 11pm £2 PAVILION THEATRE SOURCE New Music: Holy Vessels, Monte Saldo Brighton’s best bands chosen by Brighton’s best listings mag 7.30pm £4 PRINCE ALBERT Skip ‘Little Axe’ McDonald A key player in the early rap scene, Skip has since been fusing dub with rootsy blues. His latest move is to add some gospel into the mix 8pm £10 QUEEN’S HEAD Too Ugly For Radio Rock, pop and electro night with movies 8pm £free RANELAGH Jamie Francis Trio Acoustic blues
8.30pm £free
RIKI TIK Aka Aka Roar Forward thinking bass music 9pm £free
ST LUKE’S CHURCH Zoe Davis & Rachel Fryer
Clarinet and piano duo perform works by Brahms, Poulenc, Milhaud and D’Rivera 7.30pm £6/4 SIDEWINDER DJ Uncle Al Hip hop and funky breaks 9pm £free
SIGNALMAN Cider Festival Music to get merry to 12noon £free
STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Abolition, Wardogs,
11pm £7/6
WORLD’S END Karaoke With A Pinch Of Rock
8pm £free
saturday 10th
AL DUOMO After Dark: Nostalgia DJ Laurence Johnston plays blues and funk from the old school
12midnight £8
ANCIENT MARINER Tooflemac Soul and funk with acoustic guitars and lots of harmonies 8.30pm £tbc
AUDIO Warehouse: Renaissance Man House and
techno club night - with Mex from Blackgrass playing rare grooves upstairs 11pm £7/5 BELUSHI’S BAR Unplugged Live acoustic music 9pm £free
BELUSHI’S BELOW Synergy Industrial goth and
3am £7/5/4
CONCORDE2 Mungos Hi-Fi, Rodney P & Skitz, Top Cat, Benny Page, As-If & RK Bass Reggae, jungle and hip hop 11pm £3 COWLEY CLUB Slutdisko: China Shop Bull Electro skuzz club night with a hip hop ska band 8pm
£tbc
CUBE Simply House House DJs Time tbc £free DIGITAL Floorplay The house market is booming 11pm £10/8
DRUID’S ARMS The Druid’s Presents Live music and DJs 10pm £free
DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Mars Needs Moms 11am; Jane Eyre 3.45pm/8.45pm; Darkwood Manor 11.30pm
EASY BAR DJ Rudeben R&B, hip hop and reggae
8pm £free
FIDDLER’S ELBOW Saturday Sizzlers: Soul Casserole A melting pot of hot funk beats and soul grooves 9pm £free FISHBOWL Abo & Ally Smith Jazz Room DJs play dirty funk and hot jazz 9pm £free FORTUNE OF WAR Beta Hector Tru Thoughts DJ 9pm £free
FUNKYFISH The Funkyfish Club Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10pm £6/3.50 GLOBE The Acid House Vintage house and grooves
9pm £free
GREEN DOOR STORE Green Door Store Presents Live music Details tbc; Pop Not Pop Mixed
up pop music party mayhem from Dynamite Sal and crew 11pm £free HAMPTON iLike Bring your iPod and play your own tunes - you might like it, but will anyone else? 9pm £free HAUNT It Is Still 1985 Travel through time to an ancient realm where it is still permissible to roll up the sleeves of your suit 10pm £3 H-BAR J00F Editions, DJ Airwave John ‘00’ Fleming plays a three hour set 9pm £6 HONEY Smartie Partie Club night for connoisseurs of four-to-the-floor happy house 10.30pm £10/5/free HYDRANT DOWN Hot Damn, Sell Your Sky Pop punk bands 8pm £free HYDRANT UP Rise To Remain, Bleed From Within, The Safety Fire Metalcore London five-piece 7.30pm £9
INKFECTIOUS Tash Tattoos A world record attempt
to tattoo £10 tashes for ten hours. Fancy a moustache around your nipple? What about a ‘gash tash’? There’s also going to be stuff like fire jugglers and bouncy castles. Apparently, it’s for a testicle charity 9am £free JUBILEE SQUARE Mexican Independence Day Celebrate the heroic efforts of the Mexican peasants
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who overthrew the Spanish after a decade of civil war. Then do some salsa dancing and eat fajitas Details tbc
Metal to flick your hair to 11pm £6 KOMEDIA STUDIO Popcorn Comedy Comedians and short film funnies 7.30pm £7; Life’s A Gas New club night mixing glam, punk and bubblegum power pop
LECONFIELD MiTunes The latest skirmish in the war
waged by the iPod against DJs 8pm £free LIFE Hold Up! Long-running much-loved indie night kept afloat by the influx of fresh-faced students 11pm £5 LOLA LO Zombie Nation Where the dancefloor is never dead 8pm £10/7/6 LORD NELSON Miss Faricy & Pipski DJ night 8pm £free
MESMERIST Juke Joint Jamboree Vintage
dancefloor gems from the days of jive and jazz 9pm £free
OCEANA The World In One Night Chunky house
anthems might not be entirely representative of all the world’s music, but it’s a start, kind of 8pm £10/free PALMEIRA Peter Bruntnell Psychedelic Americana singer songwriter backed by a full band 7.30pm £9/8 PAV TAV Back To The Future Retro tunes from before you were born 11pm £3/2 POP-UP PLAYGROUP Stay Sick! Garage punk and rock&roll bands 9pm £free PRINCE ALBERT Deadbeat Descendant Stonesy rock&roll with a tongue in cheek slant 8pm £4 QUEEN’S HEAD Souled Out Funk, soul and hip hop night 8pm £free RIKI TIK Korova Milkclub: Donga, Johnny Rocks, Senor Mick Sex, droogs and electro disco 9pm £free ROYAL PAVILION Big Sussex Market Part of Brighton Food Festival Details tbc SIDEWINDER DJ Phillip Marten Rock&roll and southern soul 9pm £free SIGNALMAN Cider Festival Music to get merry to 12noon £free
STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Stick It On Cut out the middle man: tonight you play the songs you want to hear 10pm £5/4/3 THEATRE ROYAL La Cage Aux Folles Brighton Theatre Group perform the West End musical comedy
2.30pm/7.45pm £24.50-26.50
THOMAS KEMP DJ Brian 9pm £free THREE & TEN Music Box: Improvised Musical
Off-the-cuff comedy songs from a top-notch team comprised of The Maydays, Oxford Imps, Hoopla and News Revue 8pm £8/6 TUBE Aka Aka Roar Presents Breakthrough house acts 11pm £5/free VICTORY :KINEMA: DJ set of 80s classics from the Brighton pop band’s singer 9pm £free VOLKS Erisian Vs Toxic: Katch Pyro, Toxic Soundsystem A rumble in the jungle between the drum and the bass 11pm £tbc WEST HILL TAVERN Tonight We Fly Epic melodrama and literate indie pop 9pm £free WHITE RABBIT The Mixer Men Reggae and hip hop DJ mash-up 9pm £free WORLD’S END Whitebus Live music 8pm £free
sunday 11th
AUDIO Substance Underground electronic music with tribal drumming 10pm £3/free BELUSHI’S BAR Now That’s What I Call A Party What did you call it before? 9pm £free BLACK LION Live & Swingin’ Gipsy Jazz 8pm £free BRIGHTON CENTRE Alan Carr: Spexy Beast Stand-up comedian walking the tightrope between being gay and being a risible caricature of someone being gay 8pm £30 BRUNSWICK Ian Shaw Live jazz 8pm £10 CONCORDE2 Ace Cafe Reunion A whole day of motorbikes clogging up the roads 10am £free CUBE Chilled Sundays Laid back grooves Time tbc £free
DUKE OF NORFOLK Live Music Night 9pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Jane Eyre
3.45pm/8.45pm
EASY BAR Reggae And Roast Noon £free FIDDLER’S ELBOW Sham-Rock Open Mic 8.30pm £free
FISHBOWL Recovery? Chilled reggae DJing from Asbest The Moor King and guests 9pm £free
FOUNDRY Americana Unplugged Live music 8pm
£free
GLOBE Rockoustic Live acoustic music 9pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Sunday Service Live music 5pm £free; Green Door Blues Blues band and DJs 10pm £free
HONEY Sundays At The Honey If your house was
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this sexy you’d get a lot of carpet burns 11pm £3/2/free HOPE Acoda Fast and furious metal band 7pm £5/4 HYDRANT DOWN Charlotte Carpenter Singer songwriter 8pm £free JUBILEE SQUARE Mexican Independence Day Celebrate the heroic efforts of the Mexican peasants who overthrew the Spanish after a decade of civil war. Then do some salsa dancing and eat fajitas Details tbc KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club: Loretta Main, Jimmy McGhie, Rue Baratt, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 8pm £11.50/6.50 KOMEDIA UP Robert Stillman Truly original folkish musings veering from Americana and jazz to tape-hiss sound collages 7.30pm £4 LECONFIELD Boozy Bingo Old is the new young
6pm £1
NEPTUNE Soulfood Live jazz and blues featuring Juliet from the Romeos 8.30pm £free RANELAGH Delta Ladies Bluegrass duo 8.30pm
£free
RIKI TIK Riki Fliks Film night showing classic movies
and new shorts Details tbc ROYAL PAVILION Big Sussex Market Part of Brighton Food Festival Details tbc SIGNALMAN Cider Festival Music to get merry to 12noon £free
STANMER HOUSE Foxtrot: Herman Dune, Peggy Sue, Sam Amidon, Alessi’s Ark, Joe Gideon & The Shark, The Memory Band, Nancy Elizabeth, Tristram, Lulu & The Lampshades, Hannah Peel, Woodpecker Wooliams, Birdengine, This Is The Kit The Willkommen collective present an all-day folk fest headlined by lo-fi Scandinavian folk duo Details tbc STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Flash-Lit Fiction: A Slam & Other Experiments Short story night with a flash fiction slam (Part of Brighton Digital Festival) 7pm
£6/5
THEATRE ROYAL Mark Thomas: Walking The Wall - Extreme Rambling Political comedian or
amusing activist? Either way, he’s the only person able to raise a laugh in a show about the Israeli Separation Barrier 7.30pm £16 THOMAS KEMP Sunday Afternoon Jazz Jazz. In the afternoon. On a Sunday 4pm £free; Tango Sessions Dance the early evening away 8pm £tbc
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BLACK LION Hit The Decks Open decks spin off (book a slot online) 9pm £free BRUNSWICK Open Mic Night 8.30pm £free CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Skeptics in The Pub: Tabitha Innocence Debunking spurious science 8pm £2
COALITION Trash Mondays Filthy tunes for students and layabouts alike 10.30pm £5/3/free
CUBE Hoi Polloi Northern soul for the masses Time DUKE
OF
YORK’S
CINEMA
CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK David Rovics Articulate and fiercely political US singer songwriter raising funds for Brighton Stop the Cuts Coalition 7pm
£7/4
COWLEY CLUB Wildkatz Open Jam Session for musicians, performers and poets 8pm £free/donation CUBE Quincy B Live music Time tbc £free DIGITAL CU Next Tuesday It’ll teach the universities to timetable lectures for Wednesday mornings 11pm £4/3
DUKE OF NORFOLK Open Mic 9pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Jane Eyre 4pm/9pm FIDDLER’S ELBOW Quizness Time Are you a pub quiz whizz, or bit of a half-wit? 8pm £1
GLOBE Basement Cinema Underground films, comfy seats and free popcorn 8pm £free
GREEN DOOR STORE EMA Bass drop and drone
somewhere between Cat Power and Neil Young 7.30pm £tbc; Hard Times They can take our disposable income, but they’ll never take our nowave disco! 11pm £free
HONEY Tuesdays At The Honey New club night playing a bit of everything 10.30pm £3/2/1/free
HYDRANT DOWN Up River Live bands 8pm £free LATEST MUSIC BAR Charity Chuckle: David Trent Stand-up comedy 8pm £8/5 LECONFIELD Tuesday Teaser Pub quiz 9pm £1 LIFE Drop Out Student night that’s almost as likely to
ruin your degree as Tory education policy 11pm £free LOLA LO Dirtee Laundry New venue for the longrunning club night 10pm £6/4/2 LORD NELSON General Knowledge Quiz Cash for questions 8.45pm £1 MESMERIST The Mesmerist Conjuring Consortium It could be a magical night 7.30pm £tbc OCEANA LF Fiesta International Party Salsa lessons followed by dance party 8pm/10pm £tbc OPEN HOUSE Jazz Work Shop Open jazz session
8pm £tbc
skater bois and indie kids 11pm £3/2/1
What did you call it before? 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Fallout Live rock bands 9pm
3pm/5.30pm
dance 9pm £free
BRUNSWICK Jazz Jam Open session with house
band 8pm £free
PRINCE ALBERT Sin To Survive Metal band 8pm
ANCIENT MARINER Quiz Night 8pm £1 BELUSHI’S BAR Now That’s What I Call A Party
tbc £free
BELUSHI’S BAR Totalled On Tuesday! Pop and
PAV TAV Guerilla Rocks Club night for rock chicks,
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Tuesday 13TH
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GREEN DOOR STORE Metal Mondays: XII Boar, Sedulus, DJ Irongiant Full metal racket 7pm £free HYDRANT DOWN Emergency Call Grunge rock
£4
RED LION General Knowledge & Music Quiz 8pm
£1
RIKI TIK Freaks DJs play poppy hip hop, poppy indie and pop 9pm £free
SIDEWINDER Open Mic Night 8pm £free STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Man Man Exuberant and experimental rock band 7pm £10
THEATRE ROYAL Back To Broadway A musical
theatre medley of stuff like Miss Saigon, Blood Brothers and Grease 7.30pm £27.50
THOMAS KEMP Poker Evening 8pm £tbc THREE & TEN Sometimes I Laugh Like My Sister Heartfelt and political comedy from the sister of a murdered BBC journalist 7.30pm £9/7
wednesday 14TH
drummers drum, talk about drumming and show other drummers how to drum 7.30pm £4
AUDIO Supercharged: Spectrasoul Drum&bass and breaks 11pm £tbc BELUSHI’S BAR Now That’s What I Call A Party What did you call it before? 9pm £free BLACK LION Fresh Acoustics Live music 8.30pm
7.30pm £4
BRIGHTON CENTRE Alan Carr: Spexy Beast
8pm £free
KOMEDIA DOWN Ralph Salmin & Karl Brazil Two KOMEDIA UP The Watermelons Energetic pop rock LATEST MUSIC BAR Fewsel, Last Days Of Lorca, Sweet Ether Psychedelic Germanic blues rock 7.30pm £4
LIFE Jailbait Hits from the 90s for those too young to remember the first time 11pm £3/2
LOLA LO Fat Poppadaddys Student indie night 9pm £3
MUCKY DUCK Pub Quiz 8pm £1 NEPTUNE Folk, Rock, Blues And Poetry Session
8.30pm £free
OCEANA Mash Up Dance, dub and drum&bass 9pm
£3/2/free
SIGNALMAN Pub Quiz 8pm £1 THEATRE ROYAL The Demon Barbers: Time Gentlemen Please! Bodypopping breakdancers take
on the local pub’s clog dancers and morris men 7.30pm £20.50
VOLKS Strictly Reggae Dancehall, roots, revival 11pm
£5/4.50
£free
Stand-up comedian walking the tightrope between being gay and being a risible caricature of someone being gay 8pm £30 BRUNSWICK Confessions Of A Modern Oracle Magic and mystery 8.30pm £7/5 CUBE Cubed House to the power of three Time tbc
£free
DIGITAL The Poundance Throw a coin at the monkey and it will grind the organ for you 11pm £4/3/1 DRUID’S ARMS Change The Tempo! DJ night 10pm £free
DUKE OF NORFOLK Quiz Night 8pm £1 DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Jane Eyre
11am/4pm/9pm
FISHBOWL The Mixer Men Reggae and hip hop DJ mash-up 10pm £free
GREEN DOOR STORE Otis Gibbs, Ewan D Rodgers Nashville singer songwriter 7.30pm £9/8; The Jazz Store Live jazz with an open jam 11pm £free HAUNT Pod De Floor New pop music night 11pm £1 HYDRANT DOWN Le Skeleton Band Vaudeville gypsy blues 8pm £free
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LATEST MUSIC BAR Ange Boxall, Emily Baker, Danni Nicholls Live music (upstairs) 8.30pm £6/5; Anja McCloskey & Band, Fred Kinbom, Johnny5thwheel
Sotones Records showcase (downstairs) 8pm £3 MASH TUN Tin Cup Collective Live funk and soul band 9pm £free MESMERIST The Summer Swing Party More of the electro swing thing 6.30pm £free NORTHERN LIGHTS Mystery Train Rockabilly and psychobilly DJ 9pm £free OCEANA Fuzzy Logic Dance and dubstep student night 9pm £5/2/free PRINCE ALBERT Cable Club Live music 8pm £4 PULL & PUMP Pickin Party Open session for US roots music 7.30pm £free RIKI TIK Hell On High Heels Sleazy rock and glam night 9pm £free STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Fighting Fiction, As We Sink, Great Cynics Album launch for indie rockers
7pm £3
THOMAS KEMP Kev’s Open Mic 8.30pm £free THREE & TEN Sometimes I Laugh Like My Sister
vintage soul, jazz and blues 8.30pm £free STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Unfamiliar Friends Party, Lime Headed Dog, Polar Kid Electro indie party band from Taiwan (in the club) 7.30pm £6/5; Catholic Discipline Noise rock, disco pop and acid folk from the Superheroes of BMX (in the bar) 8pm £free; Thursday Night Fish Fry: The Detonators Eleven-piece ska band relaunch blues and rocksteady club night (in the club) 11pm £tbc THEATRE ROYAL Sally Morgan: Psychic Sally On The Road In which Psychic Sally claims to contact the audience’s dead relatives, recruits them into her unholy spirit army and commands them to attack her arch nemesis, Mystic Meg 7.30pm £26.50 THOMAS KEMP Unplugged Sessions Live music 9pm £free
VICTORY Open Mic 8pm £free VOLKS Twisted Individual Loud and dirty drum&bass
9.30pm £4/3
WHITE RABBIT Open Mic 9pm £free WINDMILL Juice Free Music Thursday Live bands with an open mic session 8.30pm £free
Heartfelt and political comedy from the sister of a murdered BBC journalist 7.30pm £9/7 VOLKS Switch Up Drum&bass and dubstep night
WORLD’S END The Big Cash Quiz 8pm £tbc
thursday 15th
AUDIO Audio 7th Birthday: James Zabelia 11pm
11pm £2/free
ABOVE AUDIO Schtumm DJs House and disco 10pm £free
AUDIO Bastard Pop Musical mash-up 11pm £2 BELUSHI’S BAR Karaoke 9pm £free BRUNSWICK Paper Faces, The Flaming Wow, Junkhouse Live music 8pm £tbc COALITION Secret Discotheque Replaying the
soundtrack to your youth 11pm £4/3/2 CUBE Blink House DJs Time tbc £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Jane Eyre 4pm; NT Live: One Man, Two Guvnors 7pm EXCHANGE INN Quiz 8.30pm £1 FIDDLER’S ELBOW Live Lounge Live music 8.30pm £free
FISHBOWL Residents Association DJs play hip
hop, funk and world beats 10.30pm £free GLOBE Hang The DJ! A night of punter-picked playlists 9pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Treetop Flyers, Emil Friis Soulful country rock 7.30pm £9/8; Paradise City Are you heading out on the highway to hell? 11pm £free HAUNT The Hop Clean-cut rock&roll from the 1950s when everything was innocent and wholesome 11pm £4 H-BAR Singles Soul Nite Soul music for lonely souls (downstairs) 9pm £free HONEY Exposed! R&B and hip hop club night 10.30pm £2
HOPE Among Brothers Theatrical pop with electronic additives 8pm £4 HYDRANT DOWN Telepathetic Grunge rock 8pm
£free
HYDRANT UP Betraying The Martyrs, Release The Kraken None more metal 7.30pm £tbc KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club: Damian Clark, Josh Howie, Pete Firman, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 8pm £9/6.50 KOMEDIA STUDIO Edward Aczel Doesn’t Exist Stand-up comedian so self-effacing he has seemingly effaced his own self 8.15pm £10/8 KOMEDIA UP Tony Benn & Roy Bailey Anecdotes, folk songs and storytelling from the MP who left parliament to “spend more time on politics” 8.15pm £17.50
LATEST MUSIC BAR Sad Sentry: Rhob Cunningham, The Self Help Group, Stick In A Pot, Jaime Regan Downbeat and gentle acoustica 7.30pm
£3
LOLA LO Kitsch Commercial but quirky club night
9pm £5/3
MASH TUN They Mostly Come At Night Indie and electro tunes 9pm £free
MESMERIST Dr Bluegrass & The Illbilly 8 Brighton’s busiest buskers - country standards and pop covers put through the hillbilly thresher 9pm £free
MUCKY DUCK Open Mic & Jam Session 8pm
£free
NORTHERN LIGHTS Film Quiz 7pm £1 OCEANA Vibe Juice FM DJ Mike Panteli entertains the
students with New York disco smash hits 9pm £5/free PAV TAV A Day At The Dogs, Polaris Condition, The Masts, Monsterface Punk and indie bands 8pm £2
RANELAGH Shauna Parker Canadian country singer
8.30pm £free
RIKI TIK Das Club Robotique Pre-gangsta hip hop and post-disco disco 10pm £free
ST JAMES’ TAVERN Stay Sick, Turn Blue DJs play
friday 16th
OCEANA Love Fridays With seven themed rooms you should find one you like 8pm £6/free
PAV TAV Totally 80s Club night dedicated to the
decade when it all went wrong 11pm £2 PAVILION THEATRE The Treason Show The longrunning satirical comedy show returns with new writers and a special guest 8pm £12.50/10 PRINCE ALBERT Kill It Kid, Twin Brother Live music 8pm £6 QUEEN’S HEAD Too Ugly For Radio Rock, pop and electro night with movies 8pm £free RANELAGH The Jacobs Blues rock band 8.30pm
£free
RIKI TIK Kung Fu Funk, soul and reggae night 9pm
£free
SIDEWINDER Jo Youle Guest DJ from Juice 107.2 9pm £free
STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Loose Fit New
Madchester club night playing baggy, post-punk and rave classics 11pm £5/3
THEATRE ROYAL Motown’s Greatest Hits: How Sweet It Is Motown gets the musical theatre treatment
7.45pm £23.50
THOMAS KEMP DJ Breakin’ Bear 9pm £free THREE AND TEN The Humble Quest For Universal Genius Absurd gameshow in which comedians are required to excel in every field of human knowledge 8pm £8/6
£10
TUBE Friday 45 From funk to disco and back again via deep house 11pm £3/free; Motel Last chance saloon for
9pm £free
VICTORY Teen Dream DJ set of punk, psychedelia
night 10pm £3/2
VOLKS Silent Witness, Foreign Concept, Retraflex
BELUSHI’S BAR Muy Loco Pop and house DJs BELUSHI’S BELOW Abandoned Rock and metal
BLACK LION Stop Go!: The Planet Groove Collective, DJ Lanx, DJ Dave Stone “Unbeatable beats” 9pm £free
BRUNSWICK Tropical Soundclash: Michael Nath Live music 8pm £6/4
CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK DJ Mendees & Clive Industrial, punk and goth 9pm £free COALITION Friday I’m In Love No more lectures for
a day or two 11pm £1-5
CORN EXCHANGE A Celebration Of Harold Pinter John Malkovich directs Julian Sands as he reads and discusses Pinter’s poetry and political prose 8pm
£10-18.50
CUBE Friday Club House DJs Time tbc £free DIGITAL Stonelove Indie rock&roll club 11pm £4/3 DRUID’S ARMS DJ Maxwell House Soul, funk and
reggae 10pm £free
DUKE OF NORFOLK DJ Cashback 9pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Ghost In The Shell
11.30pm
EASY BAR DJ Rudeben R&B, hip hop and reggae
8pm £free
FISHBOWL Keep It Wheel DJs plays rare disco, soul and boogie 9pm £free
FORTUNE OF WAR Gareth Stephens DJ plays Latin funk and soul 9pm £free FUNKYFISH The Funkyfish Club Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10pm £6/3.50 GLOBE Eclectic Chair Buzzing tunes from DJ Lamp 9pm £free
GREEN DOOR STORE The War On Drugs Ambient comedy pop 7.30pm £tbc; Go Bang Dance
and disco club 11pm £free HAMPTON Mod For It! DJs play Motown, new wave, soul and ska 8pm £free HAUNT B Dolan Intelligent politically-conscious US rapper 7pm £tbc H-BAR Electric Boogie Breaks, hip hop and disco
Details tbc
HONEY Lollipop Get your fingers sticky to R&B, hip
hop and pop treats 10.30pm £5/4/3 HOPE Handsome Furs, AK/DK Canadian indie pop duo 8pm £10.50/9.50; Strychnine Nights DJ night with Holy Vessels on the decks 9pm £free HYDRANT DOWN Astro Physics Live hip hop and drum&bass 8pm £free KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club: Josh Howie, Ian Stone, Pete Firman, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 8pm £14.50/11.50; Born Bad Rockabilly and great garage scuzz 11pm £6/5 KOMEDIA UP Alive & Swinging Marilyn Monroe finds heaven a bore so she hooks up with Sinatra and Elvis for one last night of swinging 9pm £17.50 LATEST MUSIC BAR Brother And Bones, Left At The Robot Countrified indie rock 9pm £6 LIFE Spare Ribs: Hip Hop Mixtape Volume 1 An education in hip hop 11pm £2 LOLA LO Tiki Beats Totally tropical tunes 8pm £5/4/3 MESMERIST Shake, Holla & Roll Swing jazz and R&B designed to get you dancing 9pm £free MUCKY DUCK The Mucky Club DJ night 8pm £free NEPTUNE Andy Smythe Band Live folk rock 8.30pm £free
NORTHERN LIGHTS DJ Jazzy D Details tbc
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electro house heads 3am £3 and garage 9pm £free
Analogue drum&bass 11pm £6/4 WHITE RABBIT WTF One must deduce from the name that this electro DJ night will be wild tremendous fun 9pm £free WORLD’S END Teenage Granddad, The Mimic Live music 8pm £free
saturday 17th
ANCIENT MARINER The Radio Kings Acoustic soul and classic rock 8.30pm £free
AUDIO The Wonder Years, Valencia, Such Gold American pop punks 7pm £10; Warehouse: 2 Bears House and techno club night - with Mex from Blackgrass playing rare grooves upstairs 11pm £5/free BELUSHI’S BAR Unplugged Live acoustic music 9pm £free
BELUSHI’S BELOW Faceplant Punk rock and ska
night 9pm £5/4
BLACK LION Medium Rare DJs serving up a platter of semi-obscure funk and soul 9pm £free CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Cazza Karaoke 8.30pm £free
COALITION Old Yellow Bricks: DJ Monty, DJ Charles Green, Shmooze & Skank, B.A.N.K R&B, house and funky soul club 11pm £7/5; Blow After Party: Vincent Manganaro, Carlos Riz, Aaron Palaez It never stops 3am £7/5/4 CONCORDE2 Guilty Pleasures Pop music and fancy dress party 11pm £tbc COWLEY CLUB P For Persia, Vacant Empire, Caution Horses Live music 8pm £donation CUBE Simply House DJ Cheets and Aaron Peleaz play house and nothing but house Time tbc £free DIGITAL Shakedown After Party DJ set from the new emperors of dubstep 11pm £tbc DRUID’S ARMS DJ Greenman’s Garden Of Delights DJ night 10pm £free EASY BAR DJ Rudeben R&B, hip hop and reggae
8pm £free
FIDDLER’S ELBOW State Of Undress Rocky Celtic band raising funds for local charity, Passing It On 9pm £2/1.50
FISHBOWL What’s Wrong With Groovin’? DJs set out to answer the age old question 9pm £free FORTUNE OF WAR Wrongtom DJ set by the producer who collaborated with Roots Manuva 9pm
£free
FUNKYFISH The Funkyfish Club Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10pm £6/3.50
GLOBE DJ Night House and disco 9pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Two Spot Gobi, Ruse, Scarlet Grey Summery and upbeat folk pop band 7.30pm £6/5; Stone To The Bone Club night specialising in 1970s funk vibes 11pm £free HAMPTON iLike Bring your iPod and play your own tunes - you might like it, but will anyone else? 9pm £free HAUNT It Is Still 1985 Travel through time to an ancient realm where keytars are still pretty cool 10pm £3 H-BAR Matrix Back In The Day: Nookie, Rusher & Fox Drum&bass from Mr Cloud 9 supported by former
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members of The White Warriors 9pm £5 HONEY Pukka Up & Hat-Club: The Official Shakedown After Party Funky house and sexy R&B 10.30pm £10/5
HYDRANT DOWN Bakk Lamp Fall Reggae all-
dayer 4pm £free
KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club: Josh Howie, Ian Stone, Pete Firman, Stephen Grant
Stand-up comedy 7pm/8pm/10.30pm £7-18 KOMEDIA STUDIO Spellbound “An 80s night for people who hate 80s nights” - Simon Price plays the alternative highlights of the decade 9pm £5/4 LECONFIELD MiTunes The latest skirmish in the war waged by the iPod against DJs 8pm £free LIFE Hold Up! Long-running much-loved indie night kept afloat by the influx of fresh-faced students 11pm £5 LOLA LO Zombie Nation Where the dancefloor is never dead 8pm £10/7/6 MESMERIST Juke Joint Jamboree Vintage dancefloor gems from the days of jive and jazz 9pm £free MUCKY DUCK Eclectic Chair DJ creating a real buzz 9pm £free OCEANA The World In One Night Chunky house anthems might not be entirely representative of all the world’s music, but it’s a start, kind of 8pm £10/free PAV TAV Back To The Future Retro tunes from before you were born 11pm £3/2 PAVILION THEATRE The Treason Show The longrunning satirical comedy show returns with new writers and a special guest 8pm £12.50/10 PRESTON PARK People’s Picnic Rediscover your sense of national pride with a day of real ale, morris dancers and cheese bowling (Part of Brighton Food Festival) Details tbc PRINCE ALBERT Endless Summer Django Deadman’s 50th Birthday 8pm £tbc QUEEN’S HEAD Souled Out Funk, soul and hip hop night 8pm £free RIKI TIK Say What: Michael Cook, Rob Acteson, Dave Daniels, Night People, MC E Mix House, funk and disco DJs 9pm £tbc SIDEWINDER DJ Jem Hannam Hip hop and new wave mash-up 9pm £free STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Three Trapped Tigers, Soccer96 Mathsy drummer rock 7pm £7 THEATRE ROYAL Puppetry Of The Penis: 3D In which two Aussies prove that repeatedly exposing yourself in public can eventually become socially acceptable 8pm £20.50-22.50 THOMAS KEMP DJ Hep Cat Matt & Ollie ‘Citizen’ Lane 9pm £free THREE AND TEN Crash Bash Trash Quirky musical comedy about becoming a psychotherapist 8pm £8/6 TUBE Deadboy Big beats and blissful bass 11pm £5/ free
VICTORIA GARDENS Fiery Food Chilli Festival: Los Albertos, Noah’s House Band, Hai La Drum All-day food fest with stalls, cookery demos and live music - but it’s the chilli eating contest that always steals the show. There’s nothing quite like watching members of the public getting sweaty, turning red and falling over
Details tbc
VOLKS Satta Sounds Two floors of the toughest jungle 11pm £tbc
WEST HILL TAVERN Artists Only New wave and art school tunes 9pm £free WHITE RABBIT The Mixer Men Reggae and hip hop DJ mash-up 9pm £free
sunday 18th
AUDIO Substance Underground electronic music with tribal drumming 10pm £3/free BELUSHI’S BAR Now That’s What I Call A Party What did you call it before? 9pm £free BLACK LION Live & Swingin’ Gypsy Jazz 2pm
£free
BRUNSWICK Ukulele Jam Twenty ukulele players in the same room 3pm £free; Brighton Folk Monthly folk night 8pm £free CUBE Chilled Sunday Laid back grooves Time tbc
£free
DOME Brighton Dome Discovery Tour Explore the
HONEY Sundays At The Honey If your house was this sexy you’d soon wear out the wallpaper 11pm £3/2/
GLOBE Basement Cinema Underground films,
comedy 8pm £11.50/6.50
GREEN DOOR STORE Milk Maid, Jerry Tropicano, Sexbeet Garage rock triple-bill 7.30pm £4; Hard Times They can take our disposable income, but
LATEST MUSIC BAR Speaky Spokey Literary cabaret with poetry, music short stories and films 7.30pm
£5/4
LECONFIELD Boozy Bingo Old is the new young
6pm £1
NEPTUNE The Informers Live R&B and funk band
8.30pm £free
PRINCE ALBERT The Telescopes, One Unique Signal, Shudder Pulps Live bands 8pm £6.50 RANELAGH Simon Sparrow Blues and rock 8.30pm £free
RIKI TIK Riki Fliks Film night showing classic movies and new shorts Details tbc
SIGNALMAN Open Mic Night 8.15pm £free STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Hit Git & Split
Rockabilly, ska and rock&roll club night 10pm £5/3 THEATRE ROYAL Over The Rainbow Musical threatre tribute to the jazz and soul singer Eva Cassidy
7.45pm £20.50
THOMAS KEMP Sunday Afternoon Jazz Jazz. In the afternoon. On a Sunday 4pm £free VICTORIA GARDENS Fiery Food Chilli Festival: Los Albertos, Noah’s House Band, Hai La Drum All-day food fest with stalls, cookery demos and live music - but it’s the chilli eating contest that always steals the show. There’s nothing quite like watching members of the public getting sweaty, turning red and falling over
£free
GLOBE Rockoustic Open Jam Live acoustic music
GREEN DOOR STORE Sunday Service Live music 5pm £free; Green Door Blues Blues band and DJs 10pm £free
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£4
HYDRANT DOWN Loose Lips, The Dead Betas, High Rise, Joy And Repetition Punk rock bands 8pm
£free
LECONFIELD Tuesday Teaser Pub quiz 9pm £1 LIFE Drop Out Student night that’s almost as likely to
ruin your degree as Tory education policy 11pm £free LOLA LO Dirtee Laundry New venue for the longrunning club night 10pm £6/4/2 LORD NELSON General Knowledge Quiz Cash for questions 8.45pm £1 MESMERIST The Mesmerist Conjuring Consortium It could be a magical night 7.30pm £tbc OCEANA LF Fiesta International Party Salsa lessons followed by dance party 8pm/10pm £tbc OPEN HOUSE Jazz Work Shop Open jazz session
8pm £tbc
PAV TAV Guerilla Rocks Club night for rock chicks, skater bois and indie kids 11pm £3/2/1
PRINCE ALBERT I Remember Tapes Live music that somehow survived the apocalyptic threat of home taping 8.30pm £4
RED LION General Knowledge & Music Quiz 8pm
monday 19TH
SIDEWINDER Open Mic Night 8pm £free STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR IOU Comedy Stand-
ANCIENT MARINER Quiz Night 8pm £1 BELUSHI’S BAR Now That’s What I Call A Party What did you call it before? 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Fallout Live rock bands 9pm
£2/1
BLACK LION Hit The Decks Open decks spin-off (book a slot online) 9pm £free
BRUNSWICK Brighton Stanza Poetry group 7pm £5; Open Mic Night 8.30pm £free COALITION Trash Mondays Filthy tunes for students and layabouts alike 10.30pm £5/3/free
CUBE Hoi Polloi Northern soul for the masses Time tbc £free
GREEN DOOR STORE Metal Mondays: Wreckhead, DJ Irongiant Full metal racket 7pm £free HYDRANT DOWN Fewsel Psychedelic Germanic blues rock 8pm £free
LATEST MUSIC BAR Carlsbro Battle Of The Band The Brighton heat off a global competition 7pm £6/5
LIFE Jailbait Hits from the 90s for those too young to
remember the first time 11pm £3/2 LIGHTHOUSE Lives At War The launch of an interactive history game looking at civilian life in Brighton during WW2 (Part of Brighton Digital Festival) Details tbc LOLA LO Fat Poppadaddys Student indie night 9pm
RIKI TIK Freaks DJs play poppy hip hop, poppy indie and pop 9pm £free
up comedy Details tbc
THOMAS KEMP Poker Evening 8pm £tbc WORLD’S END Vinyl Riff Covers band 8pm £free
wednesday 21ST
AUDIO Supercharged: Klashnekoff Drum&bass and breaks 11pm £tbc BELUSHI’S BAR Now That’s What I Call A Party What did you call it before? 9pm £free BLACK LION Fresh Acoustics Live music 8.30pm £free
BRUNSWICK Live N Laughing Stand-up comedy 8pm £5
CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK The Laughing Geek: Robin Ince, Helen Keen, Timandra Harkness, Matt Green, James Ward Geeky science humour is a
naturally-occurring compound comprised of elements of stand-up, scepticism and pure pedantry (Part of Brighton Digital Festival) 8.30pm £10 COWLEY CLUB Anacondaz, Gorse, Broker Live music 8pm £donation CUBE Cubed House to the power of three Time tbc £free
MUCKY DUCK Pub Quiz 8pm £1 OCEANA Mash Up Dance, dub and drum&bass 9pm
DIGITAL The Poundance Throw a coin at the monkey and it will grind the organ for you 11pm £4/3/1 DRUID’S ARMS Change The Tempo! DJ night
PRINCE ALBERT Born To Lose DJ night 8pm £tbc SIGNALMAN Pub Quiz 8pm £1 THOMAS KEMP Thru The Alphabet Quiz Night
GREEN DOOR STORE Airship Mancunian rockers
£3
£3/2/free
8pm £1
VOLKS Strictly Reggae Dancehall, roots, revival 11pm
£5/4.50
Tuesday 20TH
BELUSHI’S BAR Totalled On Tuesday! Pop and dance 9pm £free
BRUNSWICK Jazz Jam Open session with house
COWLEY CLUB Wildkatz Open Jam Session for musicians, performers and poets 8pm £free/donation CUBE Tricky Micky Live rapper Time tbc £free DIGITAL CU Next Tuesday It’ll teach the universities to timetable lectures for Wednesday mornings 11pm
9pm £free
they’ll never take our nowave disco! 11pm £free HONEY Tuesdays At The Honey New club night playing a bit of everything 10.30pm £3/2/free HOPE Hi Zero Contemporary poetry readings 7.30pm
£1
FISHBOWL Recovery? Chilled reggae DJing from Asbest The Moor King and guests 9pm £free
comfy seats, free popcorn 8pm £free
Details tbc
band 8pm £free
FOUNDRY Americana Unplugged Live music 8pm
quiz whizz, or bit of a half-wit? 8pm £1
free
HOPE The Headstart Pop punk dance rock 7pm £5/4 KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club: Josh Howie, Pete Firman, Stephen Grant Stand-up
historic venue’s backstage areas 11am £8 DUKE OF NORFOLK Live Music Night 9pm £free EASY BAR Reggae And Roast Noon £free FIDDLER’S ELBOW Sham-Rock Open Mic
8.30pm £free
FIDDLER’S ELBOW Quizness Time Are you a pub
CONCORDE2 The Straits: The Sound Of The Dire Straits Look down the front and you might just see the editor of the SOURCE going mad over his favourite band 11pm £tbc
£4/3
10pm £free
DUKE OF NORFOLK Quiz Night 8pm £1 FISHBOWL The Mixer Men Reggae and hip hop DJ mash-up 10pm £free
aiming for the sound of The Cure and Joy Division 7.30pm £tbc; The Jazz Store Live jazz with an open jam 11pm £free
HAUNT Pod De Floor New pop music night 11pm £1 HOPE Various Cruelties Melancholic and soulful indie
in the vein of Etta James and Arcade Fire 8pm £6 HYDRANT DOWN Ellekaye, Goat Cheese Mathsy alt rock 8pm £free KOMEDIA UP Klumzy Tung & Co DJ and MC duo 7.30pm £8
MASH TUN Tin Cup Collective Live funk and soul band 9pm £free MESMERIST The Summer Swing Party More of the electro swing thing 6.30pm £free OCEANA Fuzzy Logic Dance and dubstep student night 9pm £5/2/free RIKI TIK Hell On High Heels Sleazy rock and glam night 9pm £free THOMAS KEMP Kev’s Open Mic 8.30pm £free VOLKS Switch Up Drum&bass and dubstep night
11pm £2/free
DUKE OF NORFOLK Open Mic 9pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Chronicales Of Protest 6pm; Pearl Jam Twenty 10.30pm
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thursday 22ND
ABOVE AUDIO Schtumm DJs House and disco 10pm £free
AUDIO Bastard Pop Musical mash-up 11pm £2/free BELUSHI’S BAR Karaoke 9pm £free BLACK LION Loose Fit New indie DJ night 8.30pm
£free
BRUNSWICK Bitter Ruin, Jack Weissman Acoustic
duo with melodramatic vocals 8pm £tbc COALITION Secret Discotheque Replaying the soundtrack to your youth 11pm £4/3/2 CONCORDE2 I’m From Barcelona Upbeat party pop from the twenty-strong indie band 7.30pm £12.50 CORN EXCHANGE Brighton Art Fair Browse the work of a hundred contemporary artists Time tbc £6/5 CUBE Blink House DJs Time tbc £free DRUID’S ARMS Whistleblower Chilled-out folk band 8pm £free EXCHANGE INN Quiz 8.30pm £1 FIDDLER’S ELBOW Live Lounge Live music 8.30pm £free
FISHBOWL Residents Association DJs play hip
hop, funk and world beats 10.30pm £free GLOBE Hang The DJ! A night of punter-picked playlists 9pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Art Noise: The Trip Weird and wonderful art music exhibition 6.30pm £2; Paradise City Are you bringing your daughter to the slaughter? 11pm £free
HAUNT The Hop Clean-cut rock&roll from the 1950s
when everything was innocent and wholesome 11pm £4 HONEY Exposed! R&B and hip hop club night 10.30pm £2
HOPE Communion Live music 8pm £free KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club: Ben Norris, Joe Bor, Charlie Baker, Tom Wrigglesworth Stand-up comedy 8pm £9/6.50 LATEST MUSIC BAR Ahab Alt country band 8.30pm £5
LOLA LO Kitsch Commercial but quirky club night
9pm £5/3
MASH TUN They Mostly Come At Night Indie and electro tunes 9pm £free
MUCKY DUCK Open Mic & Jam Session 8pm
£free
OCEANA Vibe Juice FM DJ Mike Panteli entertains the students with New York disco smash hits 9pm £5/free
PAV TAV Emergency Call, Half Crown Teenage pop punk band 8pm £2
RANELAGH The Diablos Country rock 8.30pm £free RIKI TIK Das Club Robotique Pre-gangsta hip-hop
and post-disco disco 10pm £free PRINCE ALBERT Duke Raoul, Aaron King & Monte Saldo’s, Abi Wade Live music 8.30pm £4 ST JAMES’ TAVERN Stay Sick, Turn Blue DJs play vintage soul, jazz and blues 8.30pm £free STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Catholic Discipline Noise rock, disco pop and acid folk from the Superheroes of BMX (in the bar) 8pm £free; Thursday Night Fish Fry Jamaican ska and blues club (in the club) 11pm £tbc THREE & TEN Phillip Jeays Witty and passionate singer whose contempt for the world is matched only by his love for Jacques Brel 8pm £8/5 VICTORY Open Mic 8pm £free VOLKS Alternate, Meurto, Shimstar, Jackpot Abusive breaks and full-on techno 11pm £4/2.50 WHITE RABBIT Open Mic 9pm £free WINDMILL Juice Free Music Thursday Live bands with an open mic session 8.30pm £free WORLD’S END The Big Cash Quiz 8pm £tbc
friday 23RD
AUDIO The Brighton Weekender: Dirty Dike, Fliptrix, Jam Baxter, Barcode, Concept Of Thought, TC Johnston Live music fundraiser for Amnesty International 8pm £3; Disco Deviant: Horse Meat Disco 10pm £tbc BELUSHI’S BAR Muy Loco Pop and house DJs 9pm £free
BELUSHI’S BELOW Abandoned Rock and metal night 10pm £3/2
BLACK LION Soul Casserole A melting pot of hot
funk beats and soul grooves 8.30pm £free BRUNSWICK Mods N Rockers Unite: Slim Shack, The Stuntmen Rock&roll and ska bands bridging the subcultural divide 7.30pm £tbc CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Funny Ha-Ha! Some people standing in a room trying to make you laugh 8pm £5 COALITION Friday I’m In Love No more lectures for a day or two 11pm £1-5
CONCORDE2 Sweet Sweet Lies, Kovak, Watt’s The SP, Breakin Bear Country rock and electro bands play a benefit gig for MS sufferers 7pm £5; South Central, Japanese Popstars, Riskotheque Electropowered indie 11pm £5 CORN EXCHANGE Brighton Art Fair Browse the work of a hundred contemporary artists 11am £6/5 COWLEY CLUB Death Pedals, Yokozuna, Ragweed, Plague Sermon Garage punks 8pm £tbc CUBE Friday Club House DJs Time tbc £free DIGITAL Stonelove Indie rock&roll club 11pm £4/3 DRUID’S ARMS The Druid’s Presents Live music and DJs 10pm £free DUKE OF NORFOLK DJ Cashback 9pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Drive 4pm/9pm; Terminator 11.30pm EASY BAR DJ Rudeben R&B, hip hop and reggae 8pm £free
Bill Ambrose, Casionova Launch of new electro dance night 11pm £4/3 THOMAS KEMP DJ Molar 9pm £free TUBE Friday 45 From funk to disco and back again via deep house 11pm £3/free; Motel Last chance saloon for electro house heads 3am £3 VOLKS Simply Vinyl Details tbc WORLD’S END The Scam Live music 8pm £free
saturday 24TH
ANCIENT MARINER The Koan Brothers Mandolindriven acoustic rock band 8.30pm £free
AUDIO The Brighton Weekender: Skint And Demoralised, Half Crown, Run Young Lovers Live
FISHBOWL Abo & Ally Smith Jazz Room DJs play dirty funk and hot jazz 9pm £free FORTUNE OF WAR Melena De Pomelo Spanish night with live flamenco music and dancers 9pm £free FUNKYFISH The Funkyfish Club Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10pm £6/3.50 GLOBE DJ Night Funk nuggets 9pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Cosmo Jarvis Indie pop singer songwriter 7.30pm £tbc; Abuse The future is electronic 11pm £free HAMPTON Mod For It! DJs play Motown, new wave, soul and ska 8pm £free H-BAR Bang House music with live percussion 9pm
music fundraiser for Amnesty International 8pm £3; Warehouse: Filthy Dukes, Stopmakingme House and techno club night - with Mex from Blackgrass playing rare grooves upstairs 11pm £5/free BELUSHI’S BAR Unplugged Live acoustic music
HONEY Lollipop Get your fingers sticky to R&B, hip
tbc £10
£tbc
hop and pop treats 10.30pm £5/4/3
HOPE The Brighton Weekender: Ice Black Birds, Twin Brother, New Union Live music fundraiser for Amnesty International 8pm £3
HYDRANT DOWN Hold Your Horse Is, We Walk In Straight Lines, Stray Dogs, Lazer Horse, Delta Alaska There are no hard and fast rules other than
playing very hard and very fast 8pm £free KNOCKHATCH ADVENTURE PARK Out Of The Ordinary Festival Three-day eco-minded festival with talks and workshops as well as loads of music Time tbc £55-77
KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club: Ben Norris, Stu Goldsmith, Charlie Baker, Tom Wrigglesworth Stand-up comedy 7.30pm £14.50/11.50 KOMEDIA STUDIO Brighton Jazz Club: Peter King Quartet 8pm £15/13 KOMEDIA UP Alvin Stardust The godfather of glam 7.30pm £15; Paradox, Macc Live breakbeat set from Dev Pandya 12midnight £6.50 LATEST MUSIC BAR Run Young Lovers, The Doppler Effect, Kit Ashton Live indie bands 8.30pm £6/5/3
LIFE Aka Aka Roar!: Mosca, Altered Natives, Gang Colours If this is electronic music from the future, then what will we listen to when the future’s actually here? 11pm £5
LOLA LO Tiki Beats Totally tropical tunes 8pm £5/4/3 MESMERIST Shake, Holla & Roll Swing jazz and R&B designed to get you dancing 9pm £free
MUCKY DUCK The Mucky Club DJ night 8pm £free NEPTUNE Adam Franklin Blues and ragtime 8.30pm
9pm £free
BELUSHI’S BELOW Rawk-It Classic rock anthems 9pm £5
BLACK DOVE The Devil’s Music DJs play swing, jazz and Dixieland 8pm £free
BLACK LION Burnt Toast DJs play sleazy soul and dirty breaks 8.30pm £free
BRIGHTON CENTRE Tesco Wine Fairs 2011 A
nutty aftertaste? A subtle hint of cherry? No, a sickening foretaste of an homogeneous capitalist dystopia Time
BRUNSWICK Blues Harmonica Workshop Just put your lips together and blow 1pm £10; South Coast Soul Revue Eight-piece funk and soul band 8pm £6 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Eclectic Chair Buzzing tunes from DJ Lamp 9pm £free COALITION Wired: Vincent Manganaro, Vince Frimpong, Charles Green, Charly Lopez DJs and VJs 11pm £8; Blow After Party: Vincent Manganaro, Carlos Riz, Aaron Palaez It never stops 3am £7/5/4 CONCORDE2 Grand Finale Festival: Man Like Me, Smokey Bastard, Mercy House, Vier, White Light, Attention Thieves, Black Circles, This Wicked Tongue, Alt Girl Massacre, Katie P Two-day mini music festival 3pm £15-30; Devotion: DJ Hype, Bassline And Drumsound, DC Breaks, MC IC£ Drum&bass night 11pm £10 CORN EXCHANGE Brighton Art Fair Browse the work of a hundred contemporary artists 10am £6/5 COWLEY CLUB Brighton Anti-Fascists Benefit Gig If you don’t go to this gig it means you’re a Nazi 8pm £tbc
CUBE Bug: Lidia De Luca, Alex Outram House DJs
Time tbc £free
DIGITAL Playroom Housey hedonism in a playground of bouncy inflatable fun 11pm £12/10
DRUID’S ARMS The Druid’s Presents Live music and DJs 10pm £free
DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA The Water Horse
11am; Drive 3.30pm/8pm
FIDDLER’S ELBOW Saturday Sizzlers: Molly Malone DJ night 9pm £free FISHBOWL Daddy Marcus Disco, soul and funk DJ
£free
9pm £free
you should find one you like 8pm £6/free PAVILION THEATRE Improving Reality: Alice Taylor, Julian Oliver, Matt Adams, Matt Hanson Conference talks from digital artists about the worldchanging potential of new technologies (Part of Brighton Digital Festival) 10am £50/25 PAV TAV Totally 80s Club night dedicated to the decade when it all went wrong 11pm £2 PRINCE ALBERT Mike Ferrio, The Koan Brothers Americana singer from Tandy and Good Luck Mountain
£free
OCEANA Love Fridays With seven themed rooms
7.30pm £6
QUEEN’S HEAD Too Ugly For Radio Rock, pop and electro night with movies 8pm £free RANELAGH Shauna, Juliette, Lenna, Joyce Blues and country benefit gig 8.30pm £free RIKI TIK Donky Pitch Wonky bass music 9pm £tbc SALLIS BENNEY THEATRE Hilde Belly Dance: Urban Ghawazee II High-energy belly dance fusion
7.30pm £tbc
ST LUKE’S CHURCH Nathan Hassall Trio Plays Bird Lively homage to the music of Mr Charlie Parker
7.30pm £6/4
ST MARY’S CHURCH Fink Ninja Tunes’ singer songwriter 7pm £12.50
SIDEWINDER Make Some Noise Official After Show Party DJ and VJ set from Breakin’ Bear 9pm £free STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Crash Club: Tigercub, Polar Night, Night Workers, Sun Of Souls, 900 Spaces Record label showcase with grunge rockers and indie shoegazers 7pm £5; Club Unicorn:
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FORTUNE OF WAR DJ Derek Reggae vibes 9pm FUNKYFISH The Funkyfish Club Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10pm £6/3.50
GLOBE The Music Box Disco and techno played by a live band 9pm £free
GREEN DOOR STORE Splitting The Atom: Broken Star, Barking Toad, Cosham Community Players, Bald Knobbers, Noteherder & Mccloud, The Safegrav Ensemble, Aqua Dentata, Cheapmachines, Bbblood, Jez Stevens, DJ Mystery Lesson Experimental music all-dayer packed with niche noises for Wire readers 2.30pm £free; The Big Itch Back to basics rock&roll 11pm £free HAMPTON iLike Bring your iPod and play your own tunes - you might like it, but will anyone else? 9pm £free HAUNT It Is Still 1985 Travel through time to an ancient realm where neon socks are quite the thing 10pm £3
H-BAR Contagious: Cheeky, Adam H, Dave Godding, Howie D, Nick T Vintage house and trance classics 9pm £3 HONEY Honey Music Funky house club 10.30pm £8/5
HOPE The Brighton Weekender: Black Black Hills, Forestears, Live Like Kings, Fiasco Thieves The band formerly known as Pope Joan raise money for Amnesty International 8pm £3
HOTEL DU VIN Sussex And The World Market & Children’s Food Festival Part of Brighton Food Festival
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HYDRANT DOWN The Bitter Springs, ASBO Derek, Pog, Spinningchilli DJs Folk punk and comedy
garage rock 8pm £free KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club: Ben Norris, Stu Goldsmith, Charlie Baker, Tom Wrigglesworth Stand-up comedy 7pm/8pm/10.30pm
£7-18
KOMEDIA UP Electric Cocktail: PlayDate New club playing underground electronic music 9pm £5/4 KNOCKHATCH ADVENTURE PARK Out Of The Ordinary Festival Three-day eco-minded festival with talks and workshops as well as loads of music Time tbc £55-77
LECONFIELD MiTunes The latest skirmish in the war
waged by the iPod against DJs 8pm £free LIFE Hold Up! Long-running much-loved indie night kept afloat by the influx of fresh-faced students 11pm £5 LOLA LO Zombie Nation Where the dancefloor is never dead 8pm £10/7/6 MESMERIST Juke Joint Jamboree Vintage dancefloor gems from the days of jive and jazz 9pm £free NIGHTINGALE THEATRE Self Assembly: Simon Ellis, Antonia Grove, Charlie Morrissey, Lauren Potter Improvised theatre performance and discussion 5pm £6/4
NORTHERN LIGHTS DJ Abo 9pm £free OCEANA The World In One Night Chunky house
anthems might not be entirely representative of all the world’s music, but it’s a start, kind of 8pm £10/free
PAV TAV Snap Crackle & Britpop Join Dynamite Sal for a 90s indie party 11pm £3
POP-UP PLAYGROUP Beats & Burlesque: AstroPhysics, Cut La Vis, Jabberwocky Hi-Fi, Jalapeno Harem, Bright Soul Crew, The Ophelia Fancy Hostesses Live reggae and hip hop, burlesque and
breakdancing Time tbc £5/4 QUEEN’S HEAD Souled Out Funk, soul and hip hop night 8pm £free RIKI TIK ALTA: Alvaro Hylander, Will Sumsuch, Tommy Van De Voorde, Tim ‘Bongos’ Mercer DJ set from the head honcho of DeepWit Recordings 9pm £free ST GEORGE’S CHURCH Beth Orton Fey folktronica from the duchess of singer songwriters 7pm £19.50/17.50
SIDEWINDER Special Guest Live Show 9pm £free STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Young Legionnaire
Post-hardcore band featuring members of Bloc Party and The Automatic 7pm £8/7; Da Doo Ron Ron: Smitten Kitten Special Club night with a thing for girlgroups and soul sirens - expect an extra dollop of swingin’ diva dolls 10pm £6/5/3 THOMAS KEMP DJ Lamp 9pm £free THREE & TEN Off The Cuff Jokes made up on the spot 8pm £8/6 TUBE Covert Records Reunion Techno and funky soul grooves by the chaps from the much-missed local record shop 11pm £5/free VICTORY Fernando Poo Glam rock tunes from the days before Glitter was a dirty word 9pm £free VOLKS Switch Up Drum&bass and dubstep night
11pm £2/free
WEST HILL TAVERN L’Amour Electronique French pop and electronic delights pour vous 9pm £free
WHITE CROW The Slackers Convention: Afghan Headspin, LuQas, PAV, Matt Slack, Dirtbomb, Moai, PoOk, Cut Loose DJs, Y-Not, Dora All-day beats and
bass party 3pm £free WHITE RABBIT The Mixer Men Reggae and hip hop DJ mash-up 9pm £free WORLD’S END Stonehenge Free Festival June 2012 Benefit Gig Where the banshees live and they do live well 8pm £free
sunday 25th
AUDIO The Last Carnival Rock band 7pm £tbc; Substance Underground electronic music with tribal
drumming 10pm £3/free
BELUSHI’S BAR Now That’s What I Call A Party What did you call it before? 9pm £free BLACK LION Live & Swingin’ Gypsy Jazz 8pm
£free
CORN EXCHANGE Brighton Art Fair Browse the
work of a hundred contemporary artists 10am £6/5 CUBE Chilled Sundays Laid back grooves Time tbc £free
DOME FOYER Herbie Flowers’ Jazz Breakfast Celebrated bassist smears your toast with his jazz 11am
£5
DUKE OF NORFOLK Live Music Night 9pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Drive 4pm/9pm EASY BAR Reggae And Roast Noon £free FIDDLER’S ELBOW Sham-Rock Open Mic 8.30pm £free
FISHBOWL Recovery? Chilled reggae DJing from Asbest The Moor King and guests 9pm £free
FOUNDRY Americana Unplugged Live music 8pm
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GREEN DOOR STORE Sunday Service Live music 5pm £free; Green Door Blues Blues band and DJs 10pm £free
HONEY Sundays At The Honey If your house was this sexy you’d need to keep the letterbox well-oiled
11pm £3/2/free
HOPE The Brighton Weekender: Fighting Fiction, Language Live music fundraiser for Amnesty International 8pm £3 HOTEL DU VIN Champagne & Sussex Sparkling Wine Festival Part of Brighton Food Festival Details tbc HOTEL PELIROCCO Ace Stories: Professor Rachel Bowlby, Dr Theodore Koulouris, Erinna Mettler, Hannah Tuson Academics discuss the legacy of Virginia Woolf - plus some readings from local authors 6pm £3
HYDRANT DOWN Call The Doctors, Gulls Okay,
but what shall we call the gulls? 8pm £free KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club: Ben Norris, Charlie Baker, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 8pm £11.50/6.50 KOMEDIA STUDIO Eleanor McEvoy Irish singer songwriter 8pm £10 KNOCKHATCH ADVENTURE PARK Out Of The Ordinary Festival Three-day eco-minded festival with talks and workshops as well as loads of music Time tbc £55-77
LATEST MUSIC BAR The Brighton Weekender: Forever Is Over, IAM:YOURHERO, Sky Harbour, Emergency Call Live music fundraiser for Amnesty International 8pm £3 LECONFIELD Boozy Bingo Old is the new young
6pm £1
MUCKY DUCK Killer Rock Karaoke 8pm £free NEPTUNE Mike The Mic And Friends Jazz from the
20s and 30s 8.30pm £free
OLD BANK STEAK & RIBS RESTAURANT Paul Aguilera Candela Live flamenco 7.30pm £7.50/free PAVILION THEATRE Vampirates The floodgates of
children’s fiction were opened when JK Rowling proved that success was a simple matter of bolting two genres together. While this means we have to endure clichevehicles like Cowboys Vs Aliens, it also means the kids get to see shows about bloodsucking swashbucklers
10am/2pm £5-22
PRINCE ALBERT UT, Trash Kit, The Sticks Recently-reformed avant rockers born out of the 1970s New York no wave scene 7.30pm £8/7 RANELAGH The Elevators Electric blues band
8.30pm £free
RIKI TIK Riki Fliks Film night showing classic movies
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monday 26th
ANCIENT MARINER Quiz Night 8pm £1 BELUSHI’S BAR Now That’s What I Call A Party What did you call it before? 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Fallout Live rock bands 9pm
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BLACK LION Hit The Decks Open decks spin-off (book a slot online) 9pm £free
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CORN EXCHANGE Blue Camel Club: Beach Ball
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BRUNSWICK Bob Hilary, Carrie Tree Live folk 8pm
£6
CONCORDE2 Grand Finale Festival: New Town Kings, The Junk, Kunt And The Gang, Dirty Revolution, Who Shot Who?, Moral Dilemma, The Homesick Hustlers, Tommy Schitt And The Punishment Fuckers, Jakal, The Wreck Up Girls Two-day mini music festival 3pm £15-30
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DRUID’S ARMS Quizzageddon 8pm £1 DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Drive 4pm/9pm GREEN DOOR STORE Metal Mondays Full metal racket 7pm £free
HOPE Nice Weather For Airstrikes: Codes In The Cloud, Monsters Build Mean Robots Post rock
showgaze 7.30pm £5 HYDRANT DOWN Jasper In The Company Of Others Live music 8pm £free LIFE Jailbait Hits from the 90s for those too young to remember the first time 11pm £3/2 LOLA LO Fat Poppadaddys Student indie night 9pm £3
MUCKY DUCK Pub Quiz 8pm £1 OCEANA Mash Up Dance, dub and drum&bass 9pm
£3/2/free
PRINCE ALBERT David Olney & Sergio Webb
American folk singer 8pm £10 SIGNALMAN Pub Quiz 8pm £1 THEATRE ROYAL Three Days In May Political thriller about Churchill, Chamberlain and the outbreak of WW2 7.45pm £18.50-23.50 VOLKS Strictly Reggae Dancehall, roots, revival 11pm
£5/4.50
Tuesday 27th
BELUSHI’S BAR Totalled On Tuesday! Pop and dance 9pm £free
BELUSHI’S BELOW DJ Star DJ competition open to all 9pm £free
BRUNSWICK Jazz Jam Open session with house
band 8pm £free
COWLEY CLUB Wildkatz Open Jam Session for musicians, performers and poets 8pm £free/donation CUBE Jon Mcglashan Live music Time tbc £free DIGITAL CU Next Tuesday It’ll teach the universities to timetable lectures for Wednesday mornings 11pm £4/3
DUKE OF NORFOLK Open Mic 9pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Drive 4pm/9pm FIDDLER’S ELBOW Quizness Time Are you a pub quiz whizz, or bit of a half-wit? 8pm £1
GLOBE Basement Cinema Underground films, comfy seats and free popcorn 8pm £free
GREEN DOOR STORE Teeth!, Sealings Dalston dance synth punks 7.30pm £5; Hard Times They can take our disposable income, but they’ll never take our nowave disco! 11pm £free
HONEY Tuesdays At The Honey New club night
playing a bit of everything 10.30pm £3/2/free HYDRANT DOWN Rising Tide, Under The Steel Sky, Royal Blood Live music 8pm £free LECONFIELD Tuesday Teaser Pub quiz 9pm £1 LIFE Drop Out Student night that’s almost as likely to ruin your degree as Tory education policy 11pm £free LOLA LO Dirtee Laundry New venue for the longrunning club night 10pm £6/4/2 LORD NELSON General Knowledge Quiz Cash for questions 8.45pm £1 MESMERIST The Mesmerist Conjuring Consortium It could be a magical night 7.30pm £tbc OCEANA LF Fiesta International Party Salsa lessons followed by dance party 8pm/10pm £tbc OPEN HOUSE Jazz Work Shop Open jazz session
8pm £tbc
PAV TAV Guerilla Rocks Club night for rock chicks, skater bois and indie kids 11pm £3/2/1
PRINCE ALBERT Cable Club Live music 8.30pm £4 RED LION General Knowledge & Music Quiz 8pm
£1
RIKI TIK Freaks DJs play poppy hip hop, poppy indie and pop 9pm £free
SIDEWINDER Open Mic Night 8pm £free STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Love Inks, Hockeysmiths Minimalist dream pop from Texan threepiece 7pm £6; Phat Sessions Chalk your name up, join in the jam 10pm £4/3
THEATRE ROYAL Three Days In May Political
thriller about Churchill, Chamberlain and the outbreak of WW2 7.45pm £18.50-23.50 THOMAS KEMP Poker Evening 8pm £tbc WALMER CASTLE BAD Ukes: Brighton After Dark Ukulele Session Informal gathering of ukulelists
and layabouts alike 10.30pm £5/3/free
8.30pm £free
Music night run by and for people with learning disabilities 7pm £4/free CUBE Hoi Polloi Northern soul for the masses Time
wednesday 28TH
tbc £free
DIGITAL Whipped: Flash Git DJs Launch party for new club night 11pm £4/3/2.50
DOME Far A digitally-assisted performance with a
team of ten dancers (Part of Brighton Digital Festival) 8pm
AUDIO Cloud Control Alternative rock from down under 7pm £7; Supercharged: Loadstar Drum&bass and breaks 11pm £tbc BELUSHI’S BAR Now That’s What I Call A Party What did you call it before? 9pm £free
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BRUNSWICK Julia Fitness, Sparrow, The Sunset Revival Pop rock singer 8pm £tbc COWLEY CLUB SchMOVIES: Rude Boy Rare screening of The Clash film 8pm £tbc
£2
HYDRANT DOWN Press To Meco, A Promise
Energetic pop rock trio 8pm £free KOMEDIA DOWN Comic Boom: Nick Helm Rising stars of stand-up 8pm £9/7 LOLA LO Kitsch Commercial but quirky club night
MASH TUN They Mostly Come At Night Indie and MUCKY DUCK Open Mic & Jam Session 8pm
PAV TAV Totally 80s Club night dedicated to the
9pm £5/3
DIGITAL The Poundance Throw a coin at the monkey and it will grind the organ for you 11pm £4/3/1 DOME Soweto Gospel Choir Energetic troupe of singers, dancers and musicians 7.30pm £18-24 DRUID’S ARMS Change The Tempo! DJ night
£free
10pm £free
DUKE OF NORFOLK Quiz Night 8pm £1 DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Drive 4pm/10pm FISHBOWL DJ Gareth Stephens Swing, soul and
ska 10pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Transformer Electro disco band 7.30pm £4; The Jazz Store Live jazz with an open jam 11pm £free HAUNT Pod De Floor New pop music night 11pm £1 HOPE North Atlantic Oscillation Electronic rock band
8pm £6
HYDRANT DOWN Dead Empire, Sin And Issues, City On Fire Hard rock bands 8pm £free KOMEDIA DOWN The Boy With Tape On His Face Stand-up comedy with no words, but lots of mime
8pm £10/8
LATEST MUSIC BAR Dan Shears & The Velveteen Orkestra, Felix Fables, Jo Harman & Mike Mayfield, Hollywood Assassins “The eternal misery of the human heart” 8.30pm £2
LOLA LO Student Night Launch of new student night
9pm £tbc
MASH TUN Tin Cup Collective Live funk and soul band 9pm £free MESMERIST The Summer Swing Party More of the electro swing thing 6.30pm £free NORTHERN LIGHTS Mystery Train Rockabilly and psychobilly DJ 9pm £free OCEANA Fuzzy Logic Dance and dubstep student night 9pm £5/2/free PRINCE ALBERT Pine Hill Haints, Serious Sam Barrett Honky tonk skiffle-core ghost music from Alabama 8pm £6 PULL & PUMP Pickin Party Open session for US roots music 7.30pm £free RIKI TIK Hell On High Heels Sleazy rock and glam night 9pm £free STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Soulfood Funk, hip hop and disco night 11pm £3/2 THEATRE ROYAL Three Days In May Political thriller about Churchill, Chamberlain and the outbreak of WW2 7.45pm £18.50-23.50 THOMAS KEMP Kev’s Open Mic 8.30pm £free THREE & TEN Katy And Rach Improv comedy duo 8pm £7/5
VOLKS Switch Up Drum&bass and dubstep night
11pm £2/free
thursday 29TH
ABOVE AUDIO Schtumm DJs House and disco 10pm £free
AUDIO Slow Club, The New Union Cutesy and lo-fi folk pop duo 7pm £10; Bastard Pop Musical mash-up 11pm £2/free
BELUSHI’S BAR Karaoke 9pm £free BLACK LION Reggae BBQ Live reggae and DJs
8.30pm £free
BRUNSWICK Jeudi Soir, King Size Slim New blues
night 8pm £free COALITION Secret Discotheque Replaying the soundtrack to your youth 11pm £4/3/2 CUBE Blink House DJs Time tbc £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Drive 3.45pm/8.45pm EXCHANGE INN Quiz 8.30pm £1 FIDDLER’S ELBOW Live Lounge Live music 8.30pm £free
FISHBOWL The Mixer Men: 4 Deck Session
Turntable mashups 10.30pm £free GLOBE Hang The DJ! A night of punter-picked playlists 9pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Israel Nash Gripka, The Koan Brothers Americana singer songwriter 7.30pm £8; Paradise City Are you bringing your daughter to the slaughter? 11pm £free HAUNT The Hop Clean-cut rock&roll from the 1950s when everything was innocent and wholesome 11pm £4 HONEY Exposed! R&B and hip hop club night 10.30pm £2
HOPE The Red Diamond Dragon Club, Shadowboxer, Web Of Maya, SmoothGay Single launch party with a nine-piece electro folk band 7.30pm
pay tribute to Jimmy Hendrix 8.30pm £free
NORTHERN LIGHTS DJ Oli 9pm £free OCEANA Love Fridays With seven themed rooms
CUBE Cubed House to the power of three Time tbc
£free
grimey house in preparation for three years of living inside one 11pm £3
LOLA LO Tiki Beats Totally tropical tunes 8pm £5/4/3 MUCKY DUCK The Mucky Club DJ night 8pm £free NEPTUNE Dolly Dagger Stalwarts of the pub scene
electro tunes 9pm £free
OCEANA Vibe Juice FM DJ Mike Panteli entertains the students with New York disco smash hits 9pm £5/free
PAV TAV Odd Red Scars Progessive metal band 8pm
£2
you should find one you like 8pm £6/free
decade when it all went wrong 11pm £2 QUEEN’S HEAD Too Ugly For Radio Rock, pop and electro night with movies 8pm £free RANELAGH The Roadrunners Blues and boogie woogie band 8.30pm £free RIKI TIK It’s Goin’ Off: Agent J, Danny Drive Thru, Mute Speaker, W.A.T? Hip hop, Latin and electronica
PRINCE ALBERT Englemann Spruce, Tarq Bowen Trio Blues rock band 8pm £5 RANELAGH Nigel Bagge & Eddie Armor Harmonica
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RIKI TIK Das Club Robotique Pre-gangsta hip-hop
9pm £free
blues 8.30pm £free
and post-disco disco 10pm £free ST JAMES’ TAVERN Stay Sick, Turn Blue DJs play vintage soul, jazz and blues 8.30pm £free STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Catholic Discipline Noise rock, disco pop and acid folk from the Superheroes of BMX (in the bar) 8pm £free; Thursday Night Fish Fry Jamaican ska and blues club (in the club) 11pm £tbc THEATRE ROYAL Three Days In May Political thriller about Churchill, Chamberlain and the outbreak of WW2 2.30pm/7.45pm £18.50-23.50 WHITE RABBIT Open Mic 9pm £free WINDMILL Juice Free Music Thursday Live bands with an open mic session 8.30pm £free WORLD’S END The Big Cash Quiz 8pm £tbc
friday 30TH
AUDIO Moody Disco House night 11pm £tbc BELUSHI’S BAR Muy Loco Pop and house DJs 9pm £free
BELUSHI’S BELOW Abandoned Rock and metal night 10pm £3/2
BLACK LION Molly Malone’s Dex In The City DJ night 9pm £free
BRUNSWICK Kalakuta Millionaires Afro funk band 8pm £8/6
CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Dixie Fried Red hot rockabilly with DJ Lonesome M 9pm £free
COALITION Friday I’m In Love No more lectures for
a day or two 11pm £1-5 CONCORDE2 Revolt!: Blackstorm, Terrathorn Alternative club night with metal bands, horror films and gorelesque acts 11pm £5 CUBE Friday Club House DJs Time tbc £free DIGITAL Stonelove Indie rock&roll club 11pm £4/3 DOME Bombay Bicycle Club Folky indie band 7pm £15
DUKE OF NORFOLK DJ Cashback 9pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Melancholia
3.45pm/8.45pm
EASY BAR DJ Rudeben R&B, hip hop and reggae
8pm £free
FISHBOWL Freestyle Records DJ set fromo the label manager, Greg Boraman 9pm £free FORTUNE OF WAR DJ Barry Dust Latin and salsa, funk and reggae 9pm £free FUNKYFISH The Funkyfish Club Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10pm £6/3.50 GLOBE DJ Night Funk nuggets 9pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Connan Mockasin Languid and psychedelic New Zealand pop 7.30pm £tbc; Vice Issue Launch Club night for hipsters 11pm £free HAMPTON Mod For It! DJs play Motown, new wave, soul and ska 8pm £free HAUNT Nowhere To Run The best of 60s Motown, soul and rock&roll 11pm £4/3 H-BAR DJ Steven James & Nick T Classic funk and disco Details tbc HONEY I Love R&B Freshers’ Party Juicy house with a twist of hip hop, oh and some R&B 10.30pm £10/8 HOPE Stanley Brinks & Freschard Laidback Gallic folk from Andre Herman Dune 8pm £7/6 HYDRANT DOWN Stealing Signs Britpoppy indie rock from Essex 8pm £free KOMEDIA STUDIO Brighton Jazz Club: Mark Fletcher Quartet Featuring Mornington Locket & Jim Watson 8pm £13/11 KOMEDIA STUDIO Trailer Trash: Lynch! Moviethemed club night with live cabaret and fire shows, playing electro pop and trashy punk - and quite possibly the song by the girl behind the radiator 9.30pm £10/8 LATEST MUSIC BAR The George Kypreos Band Greek bouzouki band 9pm £8 LIFE UBSU Freshers’ Festival Students introduced to
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Spellbound’s Simon Price welcomes Brighton’s riot grrls, glitter punks and indie kids 11pm £6/5 THEATRE ROYAL Three Days In May Political thriller about Churchill, Chamberlain and the outbreak of WW2 7.45pm £18.50-23.50 THOMAS KEMP DJ Jody 9pm £free THREE & TEN Rabbit In The Headlights Stand-up comedy hosted by Angela Barnes (upstairs) 8pm £6/5 TUBE Friday 45 From funk to disco and back again via deep house 11pm £3/free; Motel Last chance saloon for electro house heads 3am £3 VOLKS Future Dub Details tbc
ExhibitionS
ARTIST RESIDENCE HOTEL Ralph Francis Fox: Kin Hundred year-old and modern day ‘tribes’ screenprinted in ink, blood & gold Until Oct 28th BRIGHTON MUSEUM & GALLERY Radical Bloomsbury: The Art Of Duncan Grant And Vanessa Bell The artists who set up Charleston house Until October 9th £6/4/3; George IV And His Friends Caricatures of the Prince Regent Until Nov 6th; Rob Silverstone: Faces Of Brighton Photographs of Brighton people and places Until Sept 18th; Neil Brownsword: Relic Ceramics artist looks at social history and global capitalism through the prism of Staffordshire pottery Until Oct 30th DOME A Machine To See With A series of sinister calls on your mobile phone leads you around the streets of Brighton in your own personal heist movie (Part of Brighton Digital Festival) Sept 1-24th £8/6 FALMER VILLAGE HALL & ST LAURENCE CHURCH Art And Soul At Falmer Wide and varied exhibition of paintings, sculptures and photography (Part of Lewes Artwave Festival) Until Sept 11th FISHING QUARTER GALLERY 3 Photographers: Nick Eastham, Paul Kondritz, Jerry Webb Photography exhibition Until Sept 6th; Platform Exhibition of mixed media work including Rock Cakes’ novel seaside jewellery Sept 8th-20th GREY AREA Stored In A Bank Vault Work by Time’s Up artists inspired by the theme of bank heists Sept 23th-30th
HOVE MUSEUM FINE ART GALLERY Mr Watt, Grumpy Man Of Metal Metal sculptures used to illustrate children’s books by Jon Mills Until Oct 11th; The Five Senses: Paintings From The Fine Art Collection Interactive family-friendly exhibition exploring sensory aspects of art Until Mar 1st LIGHTHOUSE Suspending Disbelief Installations, sculptures and interactive gadgets looking at the nearfuture potential of technology and challenging ideas of what is possible Until Sept 5th NO WALLS GALLERY Stop Looking At The Walls, Look Out The Window Jim McElvaney skews portraiture in this collection of figurative drawings and painting Sept 30th - Oct 23rd PHOENIX BRIGHTON Solar Systems Three ‘moving image’ works examine the mechanics of observing the sun Sept 3rd - Oct 15th PRINCE REGENT GALLERY Dress For Excess: Fashion In Regency England Exhibition looking at the extravagant clothes worn by George and his cohorts
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SIX OF THE BEST
STONER ANTHEMS
WORDS BY NICK COQUET, BEN MILLER, JAMES KENDALL, JESSICA MARSHALL MCHATTIE
Tiny holes in the duvet, shifty red eyes and the presence of more than one Orb CD on the shelf – all telltale signs of a stoner. Every illicit substance has its own soundtracks and endorsements in song, but six of the best crack cocaine headfuck anthems wouldn’t really be in keeping with our gentle hippie issue…
PRIMAL SCREAM ‘HIGHER THAN THE SUN’
Given the band’s non-prescription propensity at the time, this could actually be a paean to any number of uppers, downers or hanging-arounders as it announces “I’ve glimpsed, I have tasted, fantastical places”. But any song presented as a ‘dub symphony in two parts’, as it re-appears later on ‘Screamadelica’, is going to suggest more supine appreciation than its more up-tempo album companions. Production by The Orb, purveyors of some fairly spliffy 90s moments themselves, seals the stoner deal. A lengthy and classic highlight of a truly epoch-making album. (NC)
BOMB THE BASS
‘Bug Powder Dust(La Funk Mob Remix)’
We’re not sure precisely when La Funk Mob got their hands on ‘Bug Powder Dust’ [er, on the 1994 single which also included a great Kruder & Dorfmeister mix – Ed], an unremarkable spurt of rap rock from Bomb The Bass’s ‘Clear’ album, but it was the sound of countless afternoons on beds and hills, staring into hazy abysses. Justin Warfield’s mumbo-jumbo lyrics (there’s at least one website devoted to deciphering them) are based on William S Burroughs’ ‘Naked Lunch’, replete with endless drug references. And as a zoned-out hip hop reworking, it’s a tune in its own right. (BM)
PINK FLOYD
‘The Dark Side Of The Moon’
Well, we couldn’t not put it in, right? You’ll notice that it’s the only entire album on the list – this simply isn’t a record you can pull tracks out of willy nilly. Even the band knew this; when we saw them at Earls Court in 1994 they did a bunch of new stuff and old hits, then came back on and played this. The whole album from start to finish, with lights and lasers and strobes and dry ice and
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tricky
an actual crashing plane. We watched on from our regal box, with some particularly potent cannabis oil as we recall. (NC)
TRICKY ‘Overcome’
In typical slacker behaviour ‘Overcome’ is a remake of Massive Attack’s ‘Karmacoma’ from the year before that Tricky hadn’t got around to writing the lyrics for. But this outclasses his former bandmates’ production with smokerfriendly, low-slung beats and bedroom-sultriness (the ‘Maxinquaye’ LP was the only thing that got stoners off the sofa and into bed in 1995). Multi-layered – letting your head wander off – there’s a fug of smoke drifting through the whole thing even before teenage singer Martina drops a reference to “Jamaica aroma”. (JK)
JEHST ‘Return Of The Drifter’
This very British rapper brought the gritty real life of a London hip hop chap to the mainstream in 2002 with ‘Return of the Drifter,’ with witty lines about “living with benefit cheats and no-hopers/deadbeats who sleep on their sofas” and “bunnin’ zoots of skunk” enlivening many a smoky bedroom. Designed to make you nod throughout and really, like, get what he’s saying man, this track embodies the beatification of setting the world to rights after a few more cans of lager. (JMM)
CYPRESS HILL ‘Hits From The Bong’
This ‘Son Of A Preacher Man’-sampling, ‘Black Sunday’ album track is less of a song and more a public information advert for weed smokers. “There’s water inside don’t spill it/It smells like shit on the carpet,” B-Real suggests in a nasal voice that we don’t remember grating so intensely while we were baked. Pretty lazy lyric writing but it persuaded three million teenage boys to finally get their shit together and get down the record shop with money they’d normally have spent on a ‘teenth. (JK)
And if none of these float your bong, you could always check out weed-core death metallers Cannabis Corpse at the Hydrant on Friday 2nd.
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