Volume 2: Issue 19 February 2010
gigs clubs culture brighton’s best listings
ESBEN AND THE WITCH
PUT A SPELL ON US
huge ROASTS round-up Previewed:
Marina & The Diamonds wilkommen orchestra These new puritans massive attack Music blogs kill em all noisettes Yeasayer Zinefest sinden
POLYARNYE NOCHI (POLAR NIGHTS) – SIMON ROBERTS (see art, page 30)
new futures Don’t think that we’ve been lazing around while we’ve had our so-called month off. Oh no, we’ve been planning and scheming, rethinking and redesigning. You’ve probably noticed that the mag has had a touch up. The idea is that it’s even easier to use, a simpler resource for your month ahead. And that’s not all. We’re heading online in a fairly major way too. February will see us hit the web hard, breaking all the news as it happens. But we need someone’s help. Now, we’ve always said that internships have a habit of being exploitative and not a great work experience. However so many people have asked to come and work for free we felt like we had to open our door. The difference is that we’re going to do it properly. Come to us for a few months, one or two days a week, and we’ll teach you things. And not just how to stuff envelopes. Rather than doing the admin we can’t be arsed with you’ll be news gathering, looking for the story and getting it out there. If you can write a bit and that sounds like fun, email james@brightonsource.co.uk. It’s a new year, why not shake yourself up?
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Personnel
Editor The James Kendall ManageR Rosie Kendall Designer Matt Barker at Artwerk DEPUTY Editor Nick Coquet Sales Manager Lucy Kamper listings editor Fox Fisher Web editor Anya Sanders Cover Kevin Mason / Garage Studios Contributors Dominic Ashton, Colette Bernhardt, Mike Bradford, Ian Chambers, Charlotte Chorley, Ben Gilbert, Nicole Holgate, Dave Holmes, Stuart Huggett, Ben Miller, Philmriot, The Recommender, Paul Shepherd, Dominic Valvona
Editorial Contacts Tel: 01273 609955 Email: james@brightonsource.co.uk Write or send promos to: The Brighton SOURCE PO Box 3313 Brighton, BN1 4BJ
Listings
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Advertising
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Contents
News 4 New In Town 6 Letters 8 Gig Previews 10 Interview: Esben And The Witch 16 Club Previews 18 Club Review: Toothsayer 22 Club Review: Robot Rock 24 Interview: Superheroes Of BMX 26 Culture 28 Art: Simon Roberts – Polar Nights 30 Critic 32 Interview: Argument About Yellow 34 Secret Eater: Roasts 36 Street Style 40 Street Style Extra 41 Consume: Willie Hendry 42 Streets Of Brighton: Cambridge Rd 44 Unsung Hero: Infinity Foods 45 In Conversation With: Zinefest 46 Stop Press: Late News 47 Listings 48 Six Of The Best: Music Blogs 58
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NEWS
WHEELS OF DARKNESS
City car drivers with urgent places to be have been known to curse and shake their fists at the London to Brighton bike ride every year, as sunburnt martyrs puff and wheeze all over the damn roads. So hats off to the good people at the Martlets Hospice, who are organising a two-wheel jaunt on March 26th that leaves Hyde Park at midnight, catching the sunrise atop Ditchling Beacon before freewheeling all the way down to breakfast on the beach – all the while avoiding the vein-throbbing rage of Brighton petrol heads. There’s no fee to take part, you just need two legs, two wheels and a willingness to raise dough for a worthy cause. Call 01273 747455 to register.
RAMPLING’S RETURN, OCEAN ROOMS SINK, KRAFTY’S IPHONE WORDS BY NICK COQUET
MAX UP YOUR MIXING
If you’re a turntable terrorist on the wheels of steel, dropping phat ones all over the shop, your tinnitus-ruined ears will doubtless prick up at the news of local floor filler Krafty Kuts’ new iPhone app, Against The Grain. Without recourse to a mic or an effervescent DJ personality, you can pepper your mixes with refrains like “make some noise”, “watch out” and “bring that beat”, as well as whooshes, lasers, sirens and the like. £2.99 is all that stands between you and this amusing trifle – visit the iTunes store and snap it up: tinyurl.com/kraftykuts
MORE NEWS AT BRIGHTONSOURCE. CO.UK/NEWS A Certain Ratio
OCEAN ROOMS SINK
BIDDY-FREE CRAFT FAIR “…bi-monthly Handmade Brighton alternative craft and fashion market at Komedia” SNOW FEST won’t bomb “…features local DJs Fatboy, Evil Nine, Krafty, Cagedbaby”
Despite being a super-nice place on a good day, The Ocean Rooms hasn’t had a great time of it recently, culminating in an unfortunate death on New Year’s Day and the subsequent removal of their licence and immediate closure amid concerns about violence and the establishment’s lack of cooperation with the police. We’ve got some good memories of the old place – Cut Copy and Felix Da Housecat to name a couple, and loads of others so good we don’t remember even being there at all. Hopefully it’ll be back on the venue landscape before too long, we’re sad to see it go.
RAMPLING DOES IT FOR THE KIDS
It’s not on until 7th March, but we thought we’d bring you the news now in case it’s sold out by the time our March issue hits the streets. DJ royalty Danny Rampling is teaming up with Manc legends A Certain Ratio as well as Justin Robertson, Kenny Hawkes, Transformer, Steve Mac and Andy Mac for The Sunday Social – a charity all-dayer at the Concorde with all profits going to the Children’s Burns Trust. Burned and scalded kids have a pretty tough time of it obviously, so every £350 the Trust raises sends one of them to summer camp where they receive therapy and get to hang out with little pals in the same position.
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GIGS UP FOR GRABS
In anticipation of another great year of live music in Brighton, before Brighton Live and the Great Escape arrive comes Shout Out Loud, a new three-day event from The Cable Club at the Prince Albert, from March 19th-21st. No fees to enrol, no pay-to-play, just them choosing the best of the best. The Friday sees a swanky signed band with three local supports, Saturday has a 15-minutes-each band-off in the afternoon, the winners of which open for the Electric Soft Parade that evening. Sunday is a ska/punk show, so all in all there’s plenty of opportunity to get your ass on stage and foot on the monitor. Get your demo in at the Albert for a shot at a spot.
OUR MATT’S GOT THE RUNS
Brighton’s first ever full marathon, clocking in at a nipple-chafing 26 miles, takes place on Sunday 18th April, with around 9,000 coughers and wheezers hot-footing it around the city and beyond. Demand for places has been phenomenal, with only a few places still available for charity runners. One such selfless altruist is SOURCE’s designer Matt Barker, whose training thus far has involved sitting in the pub talking about his singlet and shorts colour scheme. He’s running for Rise – Freedom From Domestic Abuse, so if you want to sponsor him get in touch via the usual SOURCE email address and do some good.
FROGGER TEENS
Youngsters are notoriously empty-headed when it comes to road safety, blundering out onto busy roads while iPodding, texting, and Nintendo DSing all at the same time. So Qube Media are running a competition to make a road safety ad that will appeal to attention-deficit teens and prevent them from getting blood, snot and brain all over the bonnet of some poor sod’s Jag. There are three stages; the soundtrack, the concept and the finished ad, with zeitgeisty prizes for each along the way. Go to their Facebook page ‘Ideas Drive Sussex’ to get involved.
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one4ho
MORE NEW IN TOWN BRIGHTONSOURCE. CO.UK/NEWS THE FACTORY “Following the success of Fortune Factory during White Night…” DEVOTION “Call for dubstep and d’n’b DJs to play a 30 minute set…”
NEW IN TOWN
SHHH! PROMOTIONS “Roots folk to off-kilter indie…”
FRESH NIGHTS, SIGHTS & RETAIL DELIGHTS WORDS BY NICK COQUET Photo by Liz Eve
the hydrant
The Hare & Hounds on Preston Circus is becoming The Hydrant, with a celebratory opening night on Friday 12th. Playing live to celebrate is the cheery seaside ska of Los Albertos, and there’s talk of some charitable involvement from the fire station next door, although ladies are advised that sliding down a rigidly glistening fireman’s pole or getting dripping wet from their big hose might not be on the agenda.
audiobeach
The lottery doesn’t just help vulgar pikeys realise their lifelong dreams of tasteless excess – your shiny pound goes towards helping the community via the Big Lottery Fund. One of the beneficiaries is AudioBeach Studios in Lansdowne Mews, Hove, a new professional 48-track and live sound setup. They’re offering cheap recording and rehearsal rates for unsigned bands, including an engineer and equipment, and are also planning to offer studio training for wannabe producers – go to audiobeachstudios.com.
the recommender
Plugs are the first headliner at a new monthly night at Jam, hosted by esteemed Brighton blog The Recommender (see Six Of The Best, page 58), on Wednesday 3rd. Also receiving the warm glow of Recommendation are support act The Woo!Worths and the Ophelia Fancy girls from last month’s SOURCE cover dishing out freebies, as well as photographer Elini Mettyear who’s apparently setting up a Photoboosh. We don’t know what that is, although it should hopefully be mighty.
mondaynightout.co.uk
Here’s a website dedicated to special deals, offers, promotions and events available on a Monday evening in Brighton and Hove. You can set your own preferences so you’ll only be sent the details of events and promos that are of interest, or log on to see updated offers in real time. The site lives by the philosophy that having fun shouldn’t stop on a Sunday - register now for a chance to win £100 towards your mondaynightout.
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one4ho
If you’re an electronica lady or a dubstep dame you might be pissed off at the lack of serious label representation for your wares. Well, Mai Harper and Sophie Ruston have taken the reins and set up One4Ho, a female-run and centred label to redress the gender balance. Their first release is ‘Seeking’, produced by Ghettozoid featuring Yolanda, out at the end of the month, with remixes from big dubstep names to come. One4Ho.com is their internet home.
cake
The World’s End on London Road is hosting what promises to be a monumentally exciting new music session, by the name of Cake. Rather than flour and eggs and stuff, the ingredients for this highly baked night out are dub, breaks, electro-swing, techno, reggae, psychedelic prog and electro – with guest DJs and bands joining residents Ed Snug and Birdman. Every third Saturday, 8 til 11, free to get in. Scoff it up.
underground rebel BINGO club
If you like the idea of two-fat-ladies bingo but not the B&H-reeking, overly competitive pensioner proles who play it, The Underground Rebel Bingo Club could be the answer to your demented prayers. It’s basically your usual eyes-down bingo affair, except with shouting, loud music and the telltale house rules of ‘no boring people, no old people, no wankers’. So edgy and underground is the bingo, the venue remains unadvertised – you need to go to rebelbingo.com to find out where it’s at. It’s on Wednesday 10th though, we know that much.
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Bob Mould
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OLD MOULD GOLD
LETTERS
FRIEND OR FOE
Why won’t you add me as a friend on Facebook? I thought SOURCE loved its readers? Sorcha, via brightonsource.co.uk Ah, er, yes... The truth is that the profile you’re trying to befriend (Source Mag) has a password that we no longer remember. We’ve tried all our mothers’ maiden names, alas to no avail. Midfield General’s quite happy about it, forever frozen in time as the cover star, but the best way to bother us on Facebook is becoming a fan of the ‘Brighton Source’ page by pointing your brower to tiny.cc/sourcefacebook – and write stuff on our wall.
NEW READER WANTS CIDER INSIDE ‘ER
I picked up your mag for the first time before Christmas because of the NYE listings – just a quick note to say it came in really handy and it’s a great read too. And I love pear cider! Sarah K, via email We’re glad you’re finally on board with us, where the hell have you been? Nowhere probably, if you haven’t been reading our definitive city listings.
RIP OFF KNICKERS?
A hundred nicker for some knickers – that’s a wind up, right? Actually I went on the Ophelia Fancy website to have a look and they looked pretty cool, I just wanted to use that line. Balls to the cider, can I have a job? By the way, I thought it was definitely your best cover for a while. Andy, via www.brightonsource.co.uk Ophelia Fancy and DarkDaze have been working together for years, so we knew this cover would be special. You want a job, you say? Check the editor’s letter on page three for some potentially interesting news.
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Thanks for recommending Bob Mould in your gig previews last issue. I didn’t go to the gig, but I was really bored so I fired up my Spotify and gave him a listen – I thought anyone with a name that bad had to be good. I’m totally hooked on ‘Copper Blue’ now, so cheers for the heads up! Dave Grave, via email Ah, we’re glad you’ve got some Bob under your belt. It’s always good when SOURCE enthusiasm encourages people to expand their ears.
Letter of the month:
A BIT OF WHAT YOU FANCY
TWITTERINGS @kinemamusic Its hippies vs cops in Brighton. hard to work out who’s side you’re on when both groups are made up entirely of idiots. @BrightonSource the EDO thing? saw the Half Sisters escaping. they excitedly told us about writing new material and finding new ideas. they’re back in March @Factorybtn The Half Sisters are playing @Factorybtn on Feb 6th!
@_Transformer Back in UK.... LP recording. Done! Now let’s mix these babies... @BrightonSource Very exciting news from one of Brighton’s best live bands @_Transformer we like it when you get excited...
@BrightonSource Excellent news: Brian Eno is Guest Artistic Director for Brighton Festival 2010! http://bit.ly/5GUkgX (via @ chris_harris0n)
I always pick up SOURCE because I like the Street Style but it was nice to have a big interview with some fashion designers instead of a band or DJ in the December issue. I’ve seen those girls around at club nights and stuff but I never knew that they made such beautiful underwear. I thought what they said about covering up a little bit was spot on. More fashion stuff in future please. Josie, via email The Ophelia Fancy girls rock harder than most bands, so it was an easy decision to stick them on the cover. We’re here to shout about and support Brightonians who are doing world-class work in any creative sphere, and we do like our fashion here at SOURCE. Stop sniggering, it’s wash day, all right?. Letter Of The Month wins a case of Pear Cider from our good friends at Magners.
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Gig Previews WORDS BY IAN CHAMBERS, CHARLOTTE CHORLEY, NICK COQUET, BEN GILBERT, STUART HUGGETT, THE RECOMMENDER, DOMINIC VALVONA
These New Puritans
THESE NEW PURITANS Audio Mon 1st
Despite the often absurdist, willfully challenging nature of their debut, ‘Beat Pyramid’, few could accuse Southend-On-Sea’s These New Puritans of lacking ambition, as the accompanying press hype to its successor ‘Hidden’ attests: “Six-foot Japanese Taiko drums, a 13-piece brass and woodwind ensemble, sub-heavy beats, prepared piano, a children’s choir, Foley recording techniques including a melon with cream crackers attached struck by a hammer, used to simulate the sound of a human head being smashed”. Difficult second album, anyone? (BG)
Iglu & Hartly
ADAM GREEN
Concorde 2 Sat 6th
New York City’s Adam Green is a lover first, an anti-folk icon second. Take 2003’s ‘Friends Of Mine’ album, in which he mused over how one might successfully woo a female amputee. “There’s no wrong way to fuck a girl with no legs. Just tell her you love her as she’s crawlin’ away”, he advised romantically, before ruminating further: “There’s something I miss in her cum-stained lips”. Clearly, this mystery girl is one very lucky lady. (BG)
TUNE-YARDS
Freebutt Tues 9th
The marvelous US wonders Iglu & Hartly return to the UK for their latest tour. The five Californian talents, who only formed in 2008, have already gained quite a reputation for their live shows, playing both small venues and large festivals with equal intensity, passion and excitement. With hard-hitting tracks like ‘Violent And Young’ and ‘In This City’, the group are definitely on course to hammer themselves into the audience’s subconsious. (CC)
For all its childish, pretentious intent, there’s something undeniably fitting about the upside-down grammar which accompanied ‘BiRd BrAiNs’, the debut release from Montreal’s similarly-challenged tUnE-yArDs. For so singular is the DIY vision of Merrill Garbus that she truly merits such irrational freedom, as all manner of loops and found sounds conjure the skewed, international sound of one of new music’s greatest sonic mavericks. SOURCE remains unsure what to expect tonight but it could well be AmAzInG. (BG)
CHESNEY HAWKES Freebutt Sat 6th
THOMAS WHITE
He was, he insisted years ago via the medium of song, “the one and only”. Thank god for that, agreed the world. Chesney starred in Buddy’s Song with Roger Daltrey (it was shit) and has released more records than you’d realise (all shit), yet somehow he appears to have emerged from 80s hell to find himself held dearly in the nation’s hearts. A good bloke. Only too happy to take the piss out of himself. Those records weren’t really that bad… We wouldn’t go quite that far, but the prospect of an acoustic Chesney at the Freebutt is possibly too surreal to pass up. (NC)
Thomas White is a busy man. Not content with playing guitar in Brakes and Electric Soft Parade, bass in Clowns and drums with Restlesslist, he’s now chosen to once again venture out on his own as a solo artist. Playing a rare full-band, hometown show complete with on-stage visuals, expect to hear tracks picked from his forthcoming album ‘The Maximalist’, released on Cooking Vinyl in March, showcasing his wonderfully unique and idiosyncratic take on modern music. Support comes from local folk experimentalists Seadog. (IC)
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Prince Albert Fri 5th
Prince Albert Fri 12th
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yeasayer
THE SOFT PACK
Freebutt Sun 14th
What’s the point in other bands when you’ve spent a decade straight, no sleep, listening to The Velvet Underground? Particularly ones so in thrall to their NYC Godfathers? This is the question SOURCE and its esteemed editor chewed over at the 2009 Great Escape, as The Soft Pack thrashed their way through a scuzzedup, derailed set of razors-edge guitars and trashcan drums, complete with heroic Spacemen 3 encore. Our decision? Give us ‘Heroin’ every day of the week, thanks. (BG)
OWL CITY
Komedia Weds 17th
Another BBC Sound Of 2010 tip tests the water in Brighton, although this one hits town on the back of a rather unexpected American number one for his debut single ‘Fireflies’. Cute laptop pop, but with added sugary American choruses, shows Adam Young has a fair bit of talent saved on his hard drive. He comes to Brighton having sold out every slot on his US tour, before playing a stream of dates globally between now and May. It’ll be interesting to see how the UK reacts. (TR)
MARINA & THE DIAMONDS
THE WILLKOMMEN ORCHESTRA
NME AWARDS TOUR Dome Mon 15th
NIK KERSHAW
The inkie institution’s annual New Year jaunt offers the chance for slower gig goers to play catch up, with this decent selection of the mag’s staple young-men-with-guitars fare. Chirpy Brooklyn pretty boys The Drums land the fabled ‘lucky’ (unless you’re Mumm-Ra) opening slot, with the old school indie of Bombay Bicycle Club and The Big Pink’s art school electro warming up for The Maccabees’ undoubtedly triumphant hometown headline. Not a cutting edge evening, but unarguably tunes aplenty. (SH)
It’s been over 25 years since Nik Kershaw landed on Earth, an ailing intergalactic pop time-traveller with a naff, silvery 3D suit made out of a moving road, who scared teen Britain half to death as we got high on Sherbet Dib Dabs during Swap Shop. Well, now he’s back. So people, rip up that Rickroller fanzine, shun Chesney Hawkes (also in town this month attempting career resurrection) to pay homage to a true 80s hero. And yes Nik, it certainly would be good… (BG)
WILD PALMS
YEASAYER
Audio Mon 15th
The online communities have been all over Ms Diamondis for the last year or so building up her promise of hugeness to titanic proportions. The BBC Sound Of 2010 Poll elevated the expectation putting her in second place, so seeing her play Audio will no doubt be one of those ‘I was there’ moments, for she will undoubtedly outgrow this type of venue soon enough. Expect top-drawer showmanship and her outstanding selection of unique, chorus-fuelled, electro pop tracks from her exceptional debut, ‘Family Jewels’. (TR)
Digital Weds 17th
If you fancy something that’s fresh out of its wrapping, but gaining lots of momentum on the blogs, then check out this London fourpiece. Their track ‘Over Time’ is something very special indeed, particularly with its razor guitars, but it’s the frontman Lou Hill who is the star of their show. His brave vocals wander from casual charmer to haunting Andrew Eldritch-esque choruses. It’s still early days for them, but their energetic, stylish, fearless indie has the potential to properly break through in 2010. (TR)
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Unitarian Church Fri 19th
Brighton’s very own folk family and record label The Willkommen Collective join together this month for a special one-off show under the name The Willkommen Orchestra. Assembled together from various members of the collective, the twenty-piece band will be playing songs from the back catalogues of Shoreline, Sons Of Noel & Adrian, The Miserable Rich and The Climbers. The lush and intimate surroundings of the Unitarian Church should provide the perfect backdrop for what promises to be a unique and special evening of music. (IC)
Concorde 2 Thurs 25th
Digital Fri 26th
We’re looking forward to seeing one of the best bands around if their new album, ‘Odd Blood’, is anything to go by. It’s turned out to be as satisfyingly progressive as we could have hoped for following their debut, ‘All Hour Cymbals’. The sequel has captured and built on all the clever melodies from its predecessor, but lost none of its mystical magic. It’s an enjoyable step up, with lead single ‘Ambling Alp’ just one of its many highlights. This band is deservedly enjoying a rocketing ascendancy to greatness. (TR)
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LOCAL NATIVES
Concorde 2 Fri 26th
Headliners from 2009’s NME Radar Tour return to the Concorde with their atmospheric and harmonic sound. Like genre-mates Fleet Foxes before them, they had a magnificent SXSW last year, earning attention in the UK which subsequently outgrew their American fan base, causing them to release their debut here months before the US. Being the music snobs that we are we love this fact, so we welcome back with open arms these non-local, non-natives for another brilliant tour. (TR)
NOISETTES
Dome Fri 26th
Proof that attending the BRIT School, soundtracking a car advert and bucketloads of major label promotion aren’t necessarily impediments to a struggling indie rock band, Noisettes get to headline the Dome pretty much on the strength of one song. To be fair, ‘Don’t Upset The Rhythm (Go Baby Go)’ ended up one of 2009’s better pop hits, sending their current album gold, but Noisettes still have a lot to prove to tonight’s casual crowd. (SH)
X FACTOR
Brighton Centre Sat 27th
We kind of need some help here, in seeing the appeal of a bill consisting of people who lost a talent show for not being good enough. The line-up will doubtless draw from the toothsome runners-up as well as an alarming reminder of the early round uglies, fatties and mental patients, all grasping at the X endorsement for the very last time. Witness the final vestiges of misplaced optimism and self-belief being wrenched from their fingertips, as they exit the stage door and find themselves out by the bins in the rain. This really is a show for the hard-of-thinking, yet hoards of Brighton fuckwits will doubtless attend. Unbelievable. (NC)
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MORE GIG PREVIEWS And SECOND OPINIONS
AT BRIGHTONSOURCE.CO.UK/ BANDS ANTI-NOWHERE LEAGUE “Thirty years barking unpleasant songs at increasingly creaky old punk audiences…”
JLS
“They thrust their hips, gurned for the girlies and the little skinny one did a few tricksy back flips…”
SUNSHINE UNDERGROUND
“New songs, paired up with all the usual highenergy, choppy, brilliance…”
JESCA HOOP
“Her’s is a remarkable story, topped off by the English folk of new album ‘Hunting My Dress’…”
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Esben And disconcerting musical fairy tales from brighton’s dark, cobwebbed corners words by PHILMRIOT
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Photo by kevin mason at garage studios
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thE Witch Once upon a time, a ‘band’ formed. By ‘band’, we’re talking a trio of experimentally-minded novices who were bored with the traditional concept of a band. Bored with concepts such as drummers, bassists, formulaic rock structures, and general safety. Bored with convention. They also had an attic full of dusty antiques. And thus Esben And The Witch came into being.
They’re lovely people, though they do take their music – and the projection of it – most seriously. A good example of this is a recent photo shoot where they obstinately refused to smile for the despairing lenswoman. “It’d hardly look right, would it?” says Rachel, smiling broadly.
is blotted out before pinging back into tranquility, as if nothing was amiss. It’s stunningly effective, and live renditions leave a disorientated audience checking the sound desk to make sure the house engineer hasn’t thrown a wobbly. So, possibly closer to the mark would be the more obtuse areas of Portishead, carousing with Siouxsie, with the occasional Aphex Twin tampering. There are no pre-ordained attempts at anthemic crowd pleasers or catchy hooklines here, despite the created swirl being intoxicatingly easy to digest. The songwriting process is similarly unregimented. “We always have ideas kicking around, but we just let them happen,” expounds Dan. “Some are written in half an hour – there’s no point in cluttering a song – but others take... well, ‘Light Streams’ we’ve had as a concept since last May and we’ve got the intro chords and... that’s it. But the concept’s there!” “That’s why our song lengths vary so much,” adds Thomas. “‘Corridors’, for instance, is over nine minutes.” Dan continues, “Some people have such a strict idea of what you are and aren’t ‘allowed’ to do... it becomes so structured. It breeds blandness. That’s what happened with post-rock – bands all recreating the same album, but maybe not reaching the original heights.”
‘When people say they find our music scary, i can’t help but like that’
EATW’s debut single proper, out now on Too Pure, is an honestly exciting moment for them. Dan only met Thomas at Christmas 2007, teaming up with Rachel a month or so later, and by the end of 2008 they’d still played just half a dozen shows. However, the last quarter of 09 saw that most unseemly of diseases – ‘media frenzy’ – take hold, and suddenly they appear to be making page-length magazine features a regular habit. “Our first gig was the first time I’d ever sung in front of more than just my flatmates,” says Rachel. “I’d always wanted to be involved with music, but I hadn’t really thought about being a singer – it’s only in the last year I’ve convinced myself I can actually sing.”
Thomas was also new to the live stage (as well as, he claims, the And this is what sets them apart. Esben enjoy The Libertines, they guitar itself) and when he states that they’ve “never had any like Arctic Monkeys, but they’re genuinely baffled by why anyone thoughts about what it’s going to be in the future,” it’s easy to would want to do that again. When I mention the old Victoriana believe. they have littered around the stage, a hurt sounding Dan says, With the recent upturn in interest, are they worried about being “That’s my front room!” corralled into a neat image-shaped box? Will they take it all along to Shepherds Bush Empire? “The influences cited for us have so far “Definitely!” they cry in unison, “Though been quite different,” says Thomas, we need more stuff – we’re on the hunt “which we see as encouraging. We liked at the moment, things keep breaking!” being described as ‘nightmare pop’, the “It’s a bit of a talking point that we do juxtaposition of those words.” it,” says a furrow browed Thomas, “but Accessibly discomforting?” more puzzling is why more bands don’t Live at the Prince Albert, Sun 7th Dan nods. “It takes on the two things do it. It’s an extra flightcase, that’s it. ‘Lucia At The Precipice’ 7” released we want from music. It’s not that we And it’s something we’d like to develop, on Too Pure Singles Club, Monday 8th don’t want to be popular or accessible, with lights, the visual aspect. Trying to esbenandthewitch.co.uk but at the same time it needs to be tie it all to one thing – the stage, the interesting, innovative. A morbid music, the imagery... we want it to be fascination.” immersive.” This term meets with band approval. “We’re reluctant to go into the detail of “When people say they find it scary,” says a grinning Thomas, “I lyrics,” says Dan. “Obviously we’ll know what it’s about, but it’s can’t help but like that.” great when people read different things into different songs and we think “that’s nice, I like that.”” Current comparisons with The XX (who Esben will support at “We’d rather people looked deeper into the songs, than us just Shepherd’s Bush Empire next month) are understandable, but a droning on about them...” concludes Thomas. little misplaced. The timid minimalism of their hyped compadres is swept aside by the bold non-conformism of tracks such as And with that, we up sticks and head for the pub. It’s bitterly cold ‘Eumenides’, where for over two minutes – bang in the middle of outside, with a driving wintry wind. Somehow though, impending a beguilingly beautiful number – the sound of ascending aircraft discomfort via Esben’s particular brand of witchcraft has never full of faulty lawnmowers invades all melody and beat. All reason been more appealing.
FYI
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Club Previews
WORDS BY DOMINIC ASHTON, COLETTE BERNHARDT, NICK COQUET, STUART HUGGETT, JAMES KENDALL
SUPERCHARGED
SCHIZOTHEQUE
Krafty Kuts plays the last Wednesday of the month (24th) but the former breaks knees-up is all about the d’n’b this month, with two of the best DJs from outside of Brighton popping to town. Andy C (10th) is obviously a legend but we can’t get enough of Brazil’s DJ Marky (17th) who always adds a bit of welcome sunshine to his showy sets. (JK)
New to Digital’s autonomous second room is this night of bassjunk-rave-punk-tech-crunk-gutter-funk. Attendees are invited to create a new character for the evening, based on computer games and TV shows, which could go one of two ways – a room full of Lara Crofts fending off a load of tumescent Triggers from Only Fools & Horses might not make for the best time, but it’s definitely one of the most interesting nights out this month. (NC)
Audio Wednesdays
STEADY ON
Funky Buddha Thursdays
The last time that Tru Thoughts did a weekly night was Phonic:Hoop which was a huge amount of fun, especially the night Tom Middleton played. Well, Rob Luis is back behind the decks on a weekly basis with fellow Phonic regular, Hint. The music policy covers the wide remit of “beats, soul, dubstep, jazz, bass wobblers, disco, hip hop, boogie, funk and drum’n’bass”, which ought to keep them in tunes. After NYE’s sold out session, 4th sees Maddslinky (aka Zed Bias) visit, while 28th is an album launch for Zero dB’s latest. You can’t argue with that for a free night out. (JK)
PUSSYCAT CLUB
Digital Sat 6th
You can’t go wrong with the Pussycat Club if you’re looking for a fun night out and this month sees an ‘All That Glitters’ production, featuring multi-screen projections, performers and dancers, a dressing up box with makeovers and photo shoots and an unseemly amount of glitter. All well and good, but add in the best of funky electro, dirty house, twisted tech and indie dance and you’ve got yourself a top night out right there. (NC)
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MASSIVE ATTACK
Dome Tues 9th
The new Massive album actually sounds quite promising. There’s still a dark, smoky fug to it but the collaborators seem to have added a bit more variety than the last outing. Horace Andy is joined by Tricky’s girl Martina Topley-Bird, TV On The Radio’s Tunde Adebimpe and Elbow fella Guy Garvey. Most of those guys won’t turn up for this gig, especially Damon Albarn who was a hard taskmaster in the studio. “I want to work with you, but I’m not getting sucked into some nine-year-long Bristol dope-haze,” he told the band. Quite right too. (JK)
SURKIN
Concorde Fri 12th
The ‘Next Of Kin’ fella couldn’t be more French if his parents were actually Bangalter and Guy-Manuel and he made a song called ‘Je Suis Une Pamplemousse’ by banging two croissants together on the top of the Eiffel Tower while chatting up your girlfriend. But that’s not a bad thing when his synthy-electro is this good. Another killer booking for Horse Power. (JK)
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SLUTDISKO
Cowley Club Sat 13th
One of Brighton’s best-kept secrets (whoops!), this heady concoction of live bands, naked Barbie bunting, cheap-as-chips booze, vegan cake at 2am, occasional unplanned nudity, and a playlist that ranges from reggae remixes of Gossip to Taylor Dayne has been attracting misfits of all colours and sexual persuasions since 2008. This month’s anti-Valentine theme is “Non-romantic New Romantic”, so leave the love hearts and teddy bears at home, embalm your face in Stargazer White and “embrace your inner slut”. (CB)
DONKY PITCH Jazz Place Thurs 18th
The Donky Pitch crew continue to cement their position as innovative front-runners in Brighton’s clubbing scene (why they haven’t been given a Friday night yet is quite beyond us). Their first major outing of 2010 looks set to be rather special. Expect to be treated to a live set from Parisian synth magician, Debruit, who makes a kind of crunky hip hop that is all his own. Brighton’s own synthetic funkmaster Boss Kite will also be making jaws drop with his melodic yet bass-heavy skweee. If you still don’t know what skweee is then get down to The Globe on Monday 2nd when the Donky Pitchers will be screening a film all about it. (DA)
ANOTHER SUNNY DAY Tom’s Bar Sat 20th
The land of the twee, irregular indiepop club Another Sunny Day moves to a suitably tiny home at Tom’s basement, just in time for 2010’s cutie revival. As pop continues to eat itself, Rough Trade Shops have fired the starter with their Indiepop 09 compilation (with our Bobby McGees and Shrag on board), while anglophile acolytes The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart and The Drums are dropping Sarah Records references all over the place. We’ll have some 14 Iced Bears, please. (SH)
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SINDEN
Digital Sat 20th
A couple of years ago journalists started calling indie bands nu rave but they should have keep hold of the term a little longer and used it for modern electro. What Sinden and his mentor Switch play is purely an update of what people jumped about in fields to. Sinden gets a bit more ghetto than most, especially with his work and The Count & Sinden with Hervé, which heads from fucked up jungle to fucked hip hop and back again. Ten minutes before we wrote this, Twitter informed us that the pair had ‘nailed’ another track. You might hear it at this Blah Blah Blah session, which will be cast iron fun. (JK)
DA DOO RON RON Komedia Sat 27th
Dionne Warwick – being celebrated with a Da Doo special tonight – is every bit as good a singer as Aretha, maybe better. There, we’ve said it. She got to all of Bacharach & David’s songs first cos they wrote all those classics (‘Walk On By’, ‘I Say A Little Prayer’ ‘Do You Know The Way To San Jose’) just for her. OK, so Aretha’s ‘I Say A Little Prayer’ is better than Dionne’s but give her a break, she nailed everything else. Get the CD before you pop down to the Komedia, it’s ace. (JK)
Kill Em All
Coalition Fri 26th Feb
The fact that Justice, Erol Alkan, Bloc Party, Simian Mobile Disco, Friendly Fires and Late of The Pier have all enjoyed slots at the London version of this legendary night bodes very well for the mix of indie and dance working very well on the coast. This second month sees Micachu take to the decks with resident Riton and Kill Em All originators Filthy Dukes, while O. Children play live. It’s not a long way from the stunning line-ups they have at Fabric. Pleased to see they’re not resting on their Big Smoke reputation. (JK)
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Club Review:
Toothsayer Words and photos by james kendall
A wintry Tuesday isn’t the most promising clubbing calendar slot, but Toothsayer have already given 2010 a kicking on one of the toughest nights of the year. New Year’s Eve was a fresh memory as the snow battered our faces, and we couldn’t imagine anyone else traversing the slippery seafront in search of fun. But by our 1am arrival the carved concrete block of Volks was crammed with pretty young things bouncing around in groups to crystal clear fidget house. Recently making the leap from Heist to a big grown up club, Jackson Holmes and George Little have certainly rallied the troops and this is part of the reason that their mix of electro, fidget and even minimal and Balkan beats is so much fun. Alongside fellow DJs Russ ‘The JD Set’ Tannen, Broken Yolk and Manclub, they try to mix things up to keep things interesting but there’s a cohesive liveliness to their selections. Best of all it’s great to see a new midweek dance night firing so hard. This one’s got bite.
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Top Ten
Jacknife Lee ‘Making Me Money (Switch Remix)’ Stupid Fresh ‘Get The Fuck Up’ Balkan Beat Box ‘Meboli’ Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs ‘Let Me Tell You’ Der Dritte Raum ‘Swing Bop’ Defunct! ‘Flashy Fidget Fame’ Jakwob ‘Wildpitch’ Moby ‘Natural Blues (Danglo Jackson Edit)’ Max Pashm ‘Manea-K’ The Menu ‘Moss Eisley Canape (Tomski & Fredboy Tartel’edit)’
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ROBOT ROCK Words and photos by james kendall
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Coalition, every Wednesday Facebook: tinyurl.com/ rocklikearobot Build your own robot costume: tinyurl.com/cardrobot
The synthesiser – dance music instrument du jour – was not invented by either La Roux, nor by Calvin Harris, worthy exponents though they are. No, it would appear that this whole catchy electro synth pop thing was happening when today’s musical youth were a warm glow in their parents loins. Reaching across the divide are the mechanically articulated fingers of Robot Rock, hitting as they do the wonderful nostalgia of a Daft Punk electro masterpiece, or the sharp futurism of OMD.
We always find that cross-generational dancefloor smashers are best delivered when accompanied by real robot dancers and cosmic sweets, and happily, Robot Rock appear to agree. As anyone who’s seen the Justice Force Five or been to one of his many, many nights know Eddie The Goatboy is a man who knows how to soundtrack a good time and have fun with it. So on top of great records you get cute homemade visuals and cardboard’n’foil robot costumes. Simian Mobile Disco Robot Rock is no Cruel Intentions exception, expect olivia newton John to wear a Physical mechanical Friendly Fires - Paris grin all night. (Aeroplane Remix) Daft punk - Digital Love Hot Chip - One Life Stand Human League - Hard Times / Love Action Yazoo - Situation Duck Sauce - aNYway Donna Summer - Dim All The Lights TIGA - Shoes
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Superheroes of BMX Obscurist pop fans play records from the edges of common sense Words & Photo by james Kendall When you first got in contact with SOURCE we didn’t really know what you did. You sort of promote yourselves a bit like a band. Al: Yeah I guess, because bands are massively cooler and have that gravitas. DJs are never taken as seriously. Michael: I’ve never thought of us as a band. Al: I don’t think anyone’s ever mistaken us for a band because we’ve never used that word but I think it’s a fair point. We promote ourselves as any other musical source. Russell: I think there’s a lot less talent to what we do than even the shittest band. Effectively we press the play button or songs that someone else has written. It’s not like we’re saying, “We’re incredible, we press play, look at us!”
What made you want to DJ together? M: Al was playing at the Northern Tavern and was thinking about giving it up cos no one was there. I thought I’d come along and either take it over or join forces. Because no one was there we could play any old shit that we wanted to. A: We called it The Lab because we could cobble stuff together and see what worked. Because I knew Russell from putting his band on at the Albert and other places I said he should come down, first socially and then that he should bring some records. R: Gradually he wooed me. A: Eventually I got my man.
Would you say that you’re obscurists? R: We are in the fact that we like playing weird stuff but there’s got You must be good at something though? to be that familiarity to it. If it is M: We’re good at finding the songs. something weird people have to A: That’s a gift from God. It’s like archaeology. recognise it or it has to be R: I like to think of it as palaeontology – archaeology sandwiched between tracks that can only go back 4,000 years. people know. It’s not like we only Facebook: tinyurl.com/bmxface M: I don’t go past the 1950s personally. play weird stuff. Panda Bear, Noise Attack: A: We don’t play particularly heavy Every Sat, Grand Central What do you think makes a good DJ? music so because it’s upbeat and Club Foot: Fri 19th, Penthouse M: If you’re a Detroit techno DJ part of it is skilfully cheery, you’re less likely to close off mixing a hypnotic set, but for what we do – the and more likely to think, “Ooh, it’s eclectic, expansive kind of thing – it’s about having got a flute – I like this!” good records. Trying to balance a bit of humour with M: I play mainly obscure stuff gritty music. because I get bored quite easily. R: The ability to know what to play when. Being able to know how A: You go to certain nights and they’re playing the same songs on to up the ante without causing a big flop. Unless it’s such a a loop. It’s like a lot of nights share the same music. There’s monumental flop that it’s actually funny. nothing worse than going somewhere where every song is from a A: If you can play a whole set with your tongue firmly in cheek, put magazine’s best 50 tracks of the last ten years. I could do that at it across that you’re not trying to make out you’re Erol Alkan or home. The whole point of going out is that you experience new something. We don’t focus on the technical side. It is quite things. shambolic. R: I think most DJs play stuff that they know people will like but R: Sometimes I miss the buttons and the others tell me off. we play stuff that we hope people will like.
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CULTURE WORDS BY NICK COQUET, STUART HUGGETT, BEN MILLER
PONTYPOOL
THEATRE: A MURDER IS ANNOUNCED Little Theatre Mon 1st – Sat 6th
An Agatha Christie classic as the Little re-opens for 2010, featuring a bunch of villagers who take the foolish step of responding to a murder advertised in their local rag by turning up to watch it happen. Their intrigue is rewarded by the lights being turned out and three of them taking a bullet, but luckily the ever-perplexed Miss Marple is on hand to unmask their dastardly assassin. Via a craftily concocted and confusingly contrived trail of clues, obviously. (BM)
FILM: PONTYPOOL Duke Of York’s Fri 5th
Like Portslade in the snow (but with more zombies and bodily fluids), Bruce McDonald’s Pontypool brings blood-curdling apocalypse to sleepy suburbia, whose only hope turns out to be a suitably horrified shock-jock radio DJ. So far so standard, but the real reason this one summoned the superlatives last year was its slow burn of suspense through a spooked-out script and suspense ramped through subtlety rather than schtick, heading back to the 70s ethos which first chilled viewers’ veins. (BM)
TALK: UNDER THE SKIN OF THE HORROR GENRE Lighthouse Tues 16th
Anyone who makes films with names like House of Mortal Sin,
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House of Whipcord and Satan’s Slave deserves credit, although it took David McGillivray’s series of 70s horror flicks several years to achieve cult success. He wound up writing for the equally scary Julian Clary, so he’s perfectly placed to discuss the evolution and current resurgence of the gore genre with critic and journalist Alan Jones, author of The Rough Guide To Horror Movies and curator of the UK’s FrightFest. (BM)
EVENT: BRIGHTON ZINEFEST
Thurs 18th – Sun 21st
After packing out the West Hill Hall at its inaugural fayre last year, Brighton Zinefest moves up to the Hanover Community Centre on February 20th for an afternoon of workshops, chat and cake. Bookended by social evenings at Coachwerks and the Cowley Club, the festival unites DIY musicians, artists and activists in a busy weekend of zine swapping and networking. If you’ve ever felt the urge to turn your life’s learning into an eight-page A6 comic book, now’s your chance. (see In Conversation With, page 46) (SH)
COMEDY: THE TREASON SHOW Pavilion Theatre Fri 19th – Sat 20th
In the same way most sketch revue teams deserve to have their tongues vigorously massaged with sandpaper before being hung upside down in front of a looping Jim Davidson gig as eternal penance, the Treason team fully warrant their growing acclaim. Mixing the serrated savagery of Have I Got News For You with saucy acting, frequent nudity and gleeful musical interludes, the floorboard terrorists who write this stuff could give The Thick Of It a run for their money. (BM)
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EXHIBITION: A JOURNEY THROUGH U Phoenix from Sat 20th
A wholesome, hopeful first show of the year at the Phoenix as they invite Same Sky – a regional arts group who unite a whole load of musicians, storytellers, artists and “peddlers of the metaphysic” with the public – to fill the gallery with works by kids exploring the inside of the human body. It looks kaleidoscopically pretty and uplifting, and is accompanied by a programme of free Saturday workshops for visitors. (BM)
EVENT: WEAVING THE RAINBOW Sallis Benney Wed 24th
Brighton Science Festival is a brilliant exorcism of all those bored hours in classrooms trying to ignore old physics dweebs or getting chucked out for going too far with the rubber/Bunsen burner test, and it’s back with another bulging programme this month. This one-off show is a commentated cosmic glance into the universe, heading skywards for some of the most mesmerising photos produced by the Hubble as it celebrates 20 years of intergalactic scouring. (BM)
EVENT: BIG SCIENCE SATURDAY
Sallis Benney Sat 27th
The centrepiece of the aforementioned whizzbang fest, with a stupendous amount of stuff (all for adults) entertaining the Sallis Benney. Take your pick from explosive stage shows and the truth about anti-depressants to the inside track on spotting suspect body language by dodgy car salesmen and explanations of why music is indispensible to humanity. There’s also grub, puzzles to edge you nearer the brink of insanity and talks by guests including Guardian writer Polly Toynbee and comedian Ben Miller. (BM)
FILM: THE SHINING 30th ANNIVERSARY Duke Of York’s Sun 28th
This birthday screening is presented by the good people at SPACE, the monthly Brighton arts people gathering, and not only features a rare big screen outing of the movie in all its scary glory, but also its Executive Producer and Art Director being interviewed by SPACE’s Lisa Holloway. An unmissable movie buff night out. (NC)
COMEDY: RED BRICK COMEDY CLUB Upstairs At Three And Ten Sat 27th
Andrew Lawrence is a comedian prone to changing his accent and persona with the frequency of a schizophrenic refugee. But it’s unlikely this embittered nihilist – an if.comedy award winner already, despite being a relative newcomer – will swerve from his trusty dose of gags so vicious they’ll make your ears feel like they’re being slashed with snapped credit cards. Headlining here, his relentlessly bleak patter and fearless refusal to deign any subject matter off limits is justified by his underlying brilliance. (BM)
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ART POLYARNYE NOCHI (POLAR NIGHTS) SIMON ROBERTS WORDS BY NICK COQUET FYI
Crane Kalman, Kensington Gardens until Thursday 7th Motherland out now simoncroberts.com
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As anyone with a Facebook account knows, we all love photos of the snow. But for Brit photographer Simon Roberts, the bar is set a little higher than endless banal reportage of urban snowmen. To really get a taste of what inclement weather is like, winter in northern Russia is as icy a setting as any, with their famed nights of near 24-hour darkness throughout December and January. Incredibly a third of Russians live in these conditions, so it’s no wonder they’re ripped to the tits on vodka most of the time. The depictions of indigenous frontier spirit show the human subjects as being oppressively dwarfed, both by the imposing climate and the vast physical structures created despite the obstacles it presents. There’s an amazing bleakness to the photographs, heightened by the blue almost-light, highlighting an uneasy coexistence between man and nature that sees both equally determined to triumph. This exhibition closes soon, but we saw it the other day and it’s just brilliant so make sure you don’t miss it.
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DEMO: ANCHORED DOWN
(myspace.com/anchoreddownband)
Taking the 40% proof, red-eyed rhetoric of old Nick Cave records – that bar-slumped, head-in-hands lyrical insouciance with a ramshackle backing – Anchored Down paint a dramatic picture of down-at-heel dissolution. Opener ‘Happy Hour’ shares not one tiny speck of DNA with its Housemartins namesake, and throughout the rest of the five tracks they create the perfect lock-in soundtrack. Murmured and muttered it may be, but there’s a fractured beauty amidst the chaos that’s as warming as a shot of bourbon on a winter’s night. (NC)
COMIC: BEN BAILEY Zombies In Brighton (info@thelovelybrothers.co.uk)
A non-linear narrative that places an army of fucked up zombies wandering about in Brighton, staggering and moaning the way that zombies are wont to do, munching on limbs and generally cluttering the place up with orgiastic violence and killing. You take responsibility for your actions as you decide the path you take, all the while managing to thumb a sarcastic nose at poi, vegans, goths and gimps, until you discover whether you’ve survived or gone all ‘Thriller’ dance routine. Excellently written and illustrated, this is well worth a look. (NC)
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DEMO: BUCKET-JOY (myspace.com/bucketjoy)
We weren’t hitherto aware of the concept of bucket joy – most of our bucket experience has been hearing “we’d better get him one” directly before we pass out in all our clothes. But a joy this undeniably is, and we’re sat here happily unable to say oh, it sounds like ‘this’ meets ‘that’. BJ (as they’ll be appalled to see we’ve abbreviated them) have made a prog-indie sound, if you will – there’s some almost-grunge vocals going on over what sounds like layers and layers of distended guitars, with whispers of Talk Talk and old Radiohead atmospherics. You’d like it, we bet. (NC)
ALBUM: HAMILTON YARNS Rising (Hark!)
Noodles, bleeps, muttered vocals and stark arrangements are the tools of Hamilton Yarns’ somewhat peculiar trade. There is a policy of pre-rock about the production – early electric instruments accompany these mini fables of otherworldliness; balloon rides, hilltop fires and abductions, in the slightly sinister manner of Oliver Postgate with a seriously spiked drink. It’s wilfully difficult and narrow in its potential appeal, but we like that about music a lot of the time. Oddly beautiful if only in quite short doses. (NC)
ALBUM: LOST IDOL
Brave The Elements (Cookshop)
Head honcho of the Cookshop label, James Dean steps out from behind the office desk to deliver his second long player under the Lost Idol
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moniker following his 2006 debut. A loose filing under ‘electronica’ is probably warranted, but this in truth covers more avenues than such a cursory pigeonholing. Folk harmony vocals crop up, as do ethereal Enoisms and rambling electro pop workouts with the odd vintage Gary Numan synth moment, all making up an accomplished and appealing listen. (NC)
SINGLE: MONSTERS BUILD MEAN ROBOTS Psalm57 (Nice Weather For Airstrikes)
As a thoughtful gift from MBMR to you, you can pick this up for free at the label’s website, and we thoroughly recommend you do. In a progression from the more electronic sound of their first album, this sets out an altogether more organic stall for the sophomore release – ‘building crescendo’ not being an out of place description – as the band make more of a faithful translation of their onstage sound to record. The most irresponsible song this month, with its danger-baiting, albeit polite, refrain of “I suggest that you burn down your homes.” (NC)
DEMO: TOM ODELL
SINGLE: TC
Mental Problems (DV8)
Another promising release from the good people at DV8, a collective offering students a studio outlet for their grime and breaks. TC Johnston is this month’s graduate, the solid title track on a similar theme to Dizzee’s ‘Bonkers’, and it’s backed up by some accomplished mixes ranging from drum’n’bass to 2 step and dubstep, all from fellow DV8ers. We’ve said it before, but we love what these people do for burgeoning Brighton talent, and usually the results vastly belie the inexperience of the playerz. (NC)
DEMO: THIEVES BY THE CODE (myspace.com/thievesbythecode)
(myspace.com/tomodellmusic)
Tom’s only 18 years old, but there’s an immense maturity within these songs – both in terms of their polished studio realisation and their subject matter. It’s probably telling that his top MySpace friends include Jeff Buckley, Brian Eno and David Bowie – if you take those core reference points and shoot them through the prism of Tom’s classical training, you arrive at a set of wonderfully breathy and overwrought mini pop operas. Undeniably good on all levels, the challenge now of course is to translate it all to a wider audience. (NC)
ALBUM: SECOND TIME LUCKY Drink, Sleep, Repeat
(Rann)
It’s always difficult to review new ska records that come into the office, so familiar and enamoured are we of the 1979 template, as well as the Trojan founding fathers. The south coast seems to attract more than its fair share of ska contenders, and STL here deliver a tight and bouncy take on it, brass and bass-led with a fiery female vocal. The only low point is a risible lyric on ‘Emo vs Ska’ – an apparent throwback or homage to 1964’s youth cult kickings on Brighton beach, although we quite liked the emo-baiting last line, “…and pull your fucking trousers up.” (NC)
EP: THE SELF HELP GROUP (myspace.com/theselfhelpgroup)
We’re really pleased to be able to share this one with you. The Self Help Group is basically a one-man band expanded to fully realise the potential of the songs he created, and it’s a vast understatement to say that they’ve succeeded. Three softly spun yarns make up this debut EP, verging from ukulele-strummers and gentle blues to a kind of Lemon Jelly-type sound. The Arcade Fire would probably be a distant musical cousin, but ultimately this is an original and quite beautiful trio of songs. (NC)
EP: THE STARS DOWN TO EARTH Blue Skies (myspace.com/thestarsdowntoearth)
We’re all about a healthy dose of droning guitars at SOURCE, but the Stars here perfectly understand the necessity of light and shade. Offsetting the monotone strumming and voicing are some beautiful girlie harmonies and a light dusting of glockenspiel, elevating the mood of the songs beyond mere shoegaze fare into something altogether more sublime. Across the
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four tracks where darkness is an initial impression, we’re left with the contradiction of optimism and hope. An atmospheric and stylish suite of songs. (NC)
An obvious fondness for QOTSA is kind of immediately apparent in the opening track ‘I Wanna House’, but that’s OK by us. There are plenty of worse bands you can allow to subconsciously spill over into your thing. Thieves are nonetheless a different proposition to a lot of the BN-postcoded guitar music we get through the door. There’s an instant accessibility to the tunes with an uneasy underlay of dark harmonies and an eerie violin picking away at the pop sensibility like an irksome scab – it hurts like buggery fuck and you know you shouldn’t, but when it’s off this is that same delicious sense of beautiful wrongness. (NC)
EP: THE VALENTINES Pop Go The Valentines (myspace.com/thevalentinesband)
Sometimes it’s difficult to pin down just what it is you like about a band. We’ve no doubt had CDs arrive with more virtuoso performances on, had more polished productions, but that doesn’t buy you our love. We’ve written about the Valentines before, so we knew we weren’t getting some old crap when this arrived, and we were right – a Strokes-y simplicity stuffed with infectious charm and personality, this is a band you should be all over like a rash – we stake our initials on it. (NC)
DEMO: THE WELLINGTONS
(myspace.com/brightonwellingtons) A duo whose arsenal of aural weaponry consists of a cello and the occasional percussive shaker, The Wellingtons clearly aren’t here to raise the roof. Instead their twin voices, folk madrigals poured over uncluttered backing, are the centrepiece of the songs – honeysweet yet with an air of the dark side, hinting at experience beyond their years. Both extremely attractive, Jade and Abi’s obvious allure would see crowds gather to hear them reading from the phone book – this obviously never hurts in attracting attention but the songs do that job pretty damn well on their own. (NC)
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Argument about Yellow
glitchy doesn’t have to mean difficult as this lovely folktronica outfit show words by james kendall Was it hard evolving the band from a solo production to a live band? I’d spent a few years producing first before deciding that it would be more fun and rewarding as a live band. It was difficult at first. The hardest part was realising that the music I’d spent a lot of time sculpting and trying to sound a certain way, would sound very different when played by live instruments. So it took some time before I got it clear in my head that what I was losing in a highly-produced sound was more than made up for by the impact and expression of a musician going for it on stage.
In this sphere of music are the goals different – advert syncs rather than Bloc Party support slots? Our goals are similar to those of a lot of bands. We want our music out there, being played on the radio and peoples iPods, and even though our music is of a certain ilk that is very suited for syncing to adverts and TV, we’ve played rocking gigs at Glastonbury and other festivals so this will still be part of what we do. I suppose the main difference is that I don’t see us ‘doing the circuit’ so to speak, like lots of bands.
‘Winning a Car was definitely my highest musical wages so far’
Do you set a mood before you start, or does the mood develop? A song can come in a multitude of ways. It used to be that I would compose the music and take it to the band, but it’s increasingly been an initial idea that we’ll work on together in the studio. Our recent single came in a totally different way for me. I had an idea for a stop-frame animation that I wanted to make, and so I wrote a tune specifically with that in mind. This allowed me to go back and forth between the song and the animation so they ended up inspiring each other.
Didn’t you win a brand new car recently? How do you do something like that? I heard there was a remix competition to make a piece of music using the car sounds from a Hyundai. So I set to work on a funky little mechanical mash-up, and after a month of frenzied voting I won. It’s definitely my highest musical wages so far. Off the back of that I managed to get a commission making a music video along the same lines for The Car Of The Year Awards, out of all the sounds from the British motor industry. It was good fun but that’s enough car music for now.
How do you go about crafting the songs – you’re not starting with a verse or a chorus for instance? What makes yellow such an ‘Some Grips Slip’ out now The animation was a very interesting time, especially argumentative colour? Pantone 3935C is best as I’m not an animator. Painstaking and backbreaking I had an argument about yellow with a friend argumentaboutyellow.com in equal measures. It’s rough and ready but has a driving down to a festival one time. She charm about it, and I’m glad I did it myself as there are thought that a passing car was yellow, when some really personal elements that would never be in in reality – my reality – it was lime green. No there if some one else had done it. Like a lot of bands now, we colour for a car I might add. The actual colour was insignificant, as are fully aware that there simply isn’t money about and so we it made me realise that we all view the world through different do everything ourselves and have released our single on our heads, and depending on our hard wiring or equally our upbringing, own Broken World label. we can experience the same situation very differently from others.
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Roasts Secret eater Special
After a quick survey of everyone in the whole bloody world we can confirm that a Sunday roast is the best meal of the week. But, hell, what a palaver. Once you’ve been to the shops, prepared the veg, cooked the meat, eaten it, washed up and finished the wine you’re looking at the other end of three or four hours out of your precious Sunday. Best bet is to go to your mum’s – whose roast tops everything in the following list whether she’s Delia Smith or Kerry Katona – but so many of us live too far from our home towns now. Meanwhile your foodie mates are normally too hungover to give you a decent feeding. But there’s always one place you can bank on in life – the pub.
Sunday lunch is a nice earner for boozers so pretty much all of them have a punt. Let’s be honest, some do it better than others and life is an eternal quest for a good roast. With that in mind SOURCE decided to do a massive trawl across town, stuffing ourselves every Sunday for two and a half months. When most other magazines put this sort of article together it’s advertorial, all paid for by the people in the feature. That’s not our style. We went to the places you guys had rated in person and via Twitter. The ten here are the most recommended by SOURCE
Basketmaker’s Arms £7.95
One of the busiest pubs in the North Laine, leave it too late and you won’t get a seat for the Sunday rush. The BA’s food is popular cos it’s good and cheap and their roast doesn’t head too far from that ethos. Unfussy but homely, it attracts people drawn by the pull of a roast like your mum’s – while free range, local and seasonal there aren’t many unusual twists here. Generous with the meat – and with two Yorkshires – proper roast potatoes and good crackling, plus the addition of a chunk of butternut squash. Solid rather than sparkling but beware, they always sell out.
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readers. Most importantly we ate in secret and paid for the meals ourselves. It cost us a fortune, but you can’t trust a food review where the food is cooked specially by the chef and given to the reviewer for free, for obvious reasons. Sunday roasts rock in at around the eight or nine quid mark now, so you don’t want to be throwing your money away on a bad one. This ought to help but although it’s impartial don’t take it as gospel – this is our personal opinion on the meals we ate. Do you agree? Feel we’ve missed any crackers? Write to our letters page and make sure justice is served (with seasonal veg, naturally).
Bristol Bar
Mary Bloody Mary
It’s not always easy to stomach a pint at Sunday lunch so God invented the Bloody Mary (we think he named it after his baby mama). On our roast mission we sampled this oddest of drinks, with the Hampton’s cocktail shaker version and the Yeoman’s sherryed effort standing out. We found the Forager’s fancy take a bit fussy, but we’re plebs. Best of all was the Basketmakers’, full of specks of horseradish that gave it a real kick.
£7
There aren’t many pub roasts that will give you much change out of a tenner, and if you go for a pudding too you can be looking at up to £20. In this climate that makes a roast a very occasional treat for most of us. The Bristol Bar offers up a real recession buster though. Seven quid gets you not just a roast but a pudding too. OK, so it’s not the fanciest but there are eight elements to it, including swede, broccoli, cauliflower cheese, cabbage, potatoes, and parsnips. The chicken came as a leg but had crispy skin and the meal was all cooked well. Some locals clocked what we were up to and gave us their own enthusiastic review. It might be back to basics, but this is a roast for the community.
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The Dorset
£8.49
Roasts at The Dorset ought to be good – they’ve got a restaurant attached to the side of the pub. Serving every member of every up-and-coming band doesn’t distract them – they certainly know their nosh and Sunday lunch is no exception. Beautifully presented, the veg came separately, and wasn’t undercooked (as it often is in Sunday roasts) or mushy. The potatoes weren’t as crunchy as we’d have hoped but there was little to fault, especially with the belly pork and its crisp crackling and tender, tasty meat. The moist nut roast was similarly delicious, containing whole crunchy peanuts. High quality stuff – this is a restaurant roast at a pub price really.
The Globe
£7.95 - £8.50
With its low lighting, big party basement and compact bar, The Globe is one of the cosiest winter pubs around. It’s made for getting out of the rain for a long Sunday session. The good news is that you can settle that booze with a great roast and stay even longer. A huge portion of meat (nice thick slices of lamb; very soft, slow roasted pork), bones were still gnawed and some of the party drank the rich gravy from their plates. Yep, we turned into animals. Carrots weren’t undercooked, broccoli wasn’t overcooked, and the cauliflower cheese was a nice touch. We cheekily asked for any scraps and the chef brought us a whole leg of chicken and some Yorkshires. Result!
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Forager
£11 - £15
Perhaps the most gastro of all Brighton & Hove gastropubs, The Forager is all about local, in season, organic and – where possible – wild food. Of course this one was going to be good, but it wants to be for the price. The Romney Marsh organic lamb clocked in at £13.50 but that’s about the best sheep-based meat you can get. It was as tender as if stewed but with all the flavour of a roast, while the slowly cooked pork had a crackling taste running all the way through. Huge pillowy Yorkshires were joined by creamy, buttery leeks, not overly-fennelled braised red cabbage, roasted squash, purple sprouting broccoli, buttered leeks, roasted carrot, roast parsnip and homemade gravy. An event roast rather than a hangover cure – get your parents to take you.
Hampton
£7.50
The problem with keeping on top of roasts is that the chefs move on or decide that spending Sunday in a hot kitchen with a hangover just isn’t worth it. We caught the highly-rated Hampton the week a new chef started. There was a bit of a wait but you can book, and they serve until 5.30pm unless they run out. The roasted and buttered carrots stood out from a fairly straight-up veg selection, and if you like your beef pink and rare you’ve come to the right place. Potatoes, the staple of a roast, were good and crispy, but we’d have liked the gravy a bit thicker. We could have bought 10 extra Yorkshires for three quid but sensibly resisted. An okay start for a new chef but we reckon they’ll get even better.
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BEST ! ROAST
Lion & Lobster £7.95
If there’s anywhere that serves as many roasts on a Sunday we’d be surprised. Despite being nice and cosy with lots of little rooms, the L&L is huge. While we were waiting – it was just before Christmas and busier than usual – we saw the poor waitresses running up and down the stairs constantly. It’s popular for a reason, with big portions and no major flaws. The great potatoes were crispy but soft and fluffy inside, there was loads of unfatty lamb and crunchy crackling on the pork. Broccoli, carrots and red cabbage were good, although they didn’t have loads of personality. If you want two types of meat you can bung them a quid to go ‘half and half’, while Yorkshires and stuffing cost you extra too. Great service, this is perfect if you’re in a big group.
Wellington £8.50
Even though it was probably the most recommended roast in our list, we got to The Wellington to find it calm to the point of being almost empty. Although this was January, it’s good to know there’s a place to go that you don’t have to book or wait ages for a table. There were only four choices on the meat front and each came with its own traditional extras. So, if you want Yorkshires you need to buy the beef. The roast potatoes were the genuine article – not deep fried, while the parsnips favoured flavour over crunchiness. Carrots were lightly roasted plus full of taste, and the creamed leeks were not too sloppy. The lamb was a very good cut, but our beef was a little fatty – the only let down in this earthy, real, honest roast. Watch out though, you need to pay in cash.
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Pub With No Name £7.95 - £8.95
The Pub With No Name has lots to get excited about – alongside the usual meats you’ll find the likes of ostrich, guinea fowl and blesbuck, all at a reasonable price. But this is no novelty meal, it’s proper foodie stuff. Every element has an edge, from red cabbage with a nod to mince pies to the swede, which won over even the haters. The parsnips were honeyed and soft, the gravy rich and plentiful and the broccoli cheese was creamy. The venison melted in our mouths, while the impala was tender and tasty. The price, the size, the originality and the sheer quality made this unanimously the best roast we tried. Congratulations guys.
Yeoman £9.95 - £13.90
With a much-deserved reputation for excellent food, it’s no wonder that you have to book to get a table on a Sunday at this gastropub. Not the cheapest we tried, the money is all there on the plate though. Our venison haunch was huge, firm and tasty, and just one of many interesting options on the changing menu. From top to bottom it goes from light and crisp – bundles of parsnip chips and a fluffy Yorkshire pud – to hearty and earthy. Savoy cabbage, red cabbage and carrots combine in thick gravy to feel almost like a stew. The only sticking point for one of our team was the stealth beetroot hidden in the masses of food. Great food and pretty good VFM – the resident SOURCE gannet was actually beaten for the first time.
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Street Style Photos by lomo kev at lomokev.com words by Nick Coquet
Inspired by a love of classic English tailoring, our subject Lee certainly stands out from the crowds of low-ass jeans and skatewear that clutter Brighton’s supposedly stylish streets. A man in a city full of overgrown teenage boys, it’s about time someone made a bit of a bloody effort. While it takes a certain kind of confidence to mix three different checks in an outfit, Lee pulls it off with an elegant panache. Keen to distance himself from any notion of nostalgia, he nonetheless recognises the suit cuts of the 20s and 30s as aspirational while managing to nail the look from new, without sifting through vintage shops and jumble sales. It just goes to show that you don’t need to be obsessed with vintage authenticity to put together a classic look. Jacket – from TK Maxx “I don’t know what the label is but yes, I picked this up at TK Maxx. It has that rare offthe-peg quality of unbuttonable cuffs – quite the rarity.” Jumper from Marks & Spencer “This is an M&S jumper. They look good, they fit well, always a classic staple for any wardrobe.” Shirt by Thomas Pink “Thomas Pink is a Jermyn Street shirt maker, which is the capital of quality shirt-making this is made from two-fold cotton.” Trousers from County Clothes “I got these from a gentlemen’s outfitter in Canterbury, it’s a classic trouser cut that hasn’t changed in years.” Boots from Jones “They do look like brogues, yes, but they’re boots, from Jones Bootmaker. Cigarette by George Karelias “Ah yes, Karelias – you’ll need to check the spelling. A fine smoke, It’s certainly the only brand I know with Aristotle quotes on the box.”
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Willie Hendry Consume
73 Upper Gloucester Road 01273 205505 WORDS BY NICK COQUET
“You’ll never reinvent the haircut but you can reinvent your approach to the customers.” That’s the gospel according to Willie Hendry – firmly on the salon map after cementing his reputation on the international stage, with crops and chops for Vogue, Dazed & Confused, GQ as well as celebrity stylings for everyone from Kate Moss to George Michael.
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A relaxed and creative atmosphere, with cuts surrounded by a myriad of modern classic furniture, draws customers from the 10-year olds who googled Posh’s hairdresser to the 87-year old Belle from round the corner who just wants a classic cut. All are granted the same individual attention from Willie and his cutting cohorts Bev and Paul – such is the collective reputation that many come specially from London and go straight back again. Who can blame then - unique service, great cuts and a friendly dog.
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STREETS OF BRIGHTON CAMBRIDGE ROAD WORDS BY NICK COQUET
Each month we point the SOURCE long lens at a different place to live within the city, in case the owners of the lonely sofa on which you’ve outstayed your welcome are about to hoof you out into the cold. This issue we’re all about Cambridge Road, between Western Road and Lansdowne Road – so is it a des res or a stress address? So, it’s in Hove, yeah? Does that offend you, yeah? We don’t know why Brighton people have such a sniffy downer on the place. Cambridge Road is pretty much equidistant between the main action zones of Brighton and Hove, but Brighton’s the nearest station if that makes you feel better. So what’s the deal with the place? Well, you know Camden in Fancy London is the place to see pop stars falling out of pubs and punching photographers, well Cambridge Road is a slightly more sedate Brighton version of that. For some reason it’s packed with the city’s musical creatives, with folk from Concorde 2, 13 Artists, New Hero, Somewhere In The Universe, The Qemists, Red Hot Promotions and Skint Records all calling it home. If you’re in a band and have a demo CD burning a hole in your pocket, you could do worse than wander about here. I’m not wandering the damn streets in this weather, where do these swanky impresarios drink? Oh, mostly in exclusive media members clubs, where dwarves serve cocaine from silver trays on their heads. But on the off chance that we’ve actually made that up, The Bee’s Mouth is a great pub, one we’ve mentioned before as it happens. Another very respectable local boozer is the Lion & Lobster. They’re pretty much all decent around here though. But it’s not all glamour though, right? Isn’t there some dosser palace there? Well that’s not a very charitable way of putting it. There’s one of the city’s most important homeless refuges at the foot of the road, but that doesn’t mean you’re tripping over smackinduced body bags lying in the street or anything. That kind of narrow-minded Daily Mail NIMBY attitude does you no favours at all, my friend. Fair enough I guess. Are we recommending it then? Yes, on the whole we are. These are big houses, mostly conversions obviously, but you still get that high-ceiling opulence with spacious rooms and lovely old cornices and stuff. No cabs necessary either, wherever you’re going in town it’s a mere hop and a skip away. And you’re still only about 200 yards from the sea.
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100 people who make brighton what it is No.6: Infinity Foods
Into its 40th year as a Brighton landmark, the city would be flabby without Infinity Foods. How have attitudes changed towards healthy eating since Infinity started in 1970? The wholefood thing was very alternative, whereas now it’s firmly in the mainstream, so much so it’s really hard to think back to how it was. With people like Jamie Oliver cooking on TV it became fashionable to eat healthily – that had a massive effect on us. People are just a lot more into cooking and trying different foods from different places. Has the recession affected people’s healthy and organic intentions? It hasn’t had any effect on us at all – we were envisaging a difficult time last year but it just didn’t happen. Maybe people are thinking, “I might not go on holiday but I’m not skimping on food.” What does the worker’s co-op entail? Most of the people who work here are part-owners – you don’t buy into it, when we take someone on they have to work for a year as a probationary member and if they get taken on as a full member they effectively own a part of the business while they work here. It means everyone’s connected, not just told what to do by one person who makes all the money. You basically just get more involved in the business on all levels. You wholesale own-brand foods sell nationwide – could Infinity happen in other cities or is it something that could only happen here? Yes, we’ve got a warehouse in Portslade, five lorries, we send food all over the country. It’s a hard one I suppose, I mean, it wouldn’t work in Worthing; most cities don’t have the right atmosphere. Bristol has four or five good health food shops... I don’t know, though. Where we are now has been a really big thing for us. Has Infinity changed Brighton, do you think? It’s brought a lot of people into the area who wouldn’t normally have come – North Laine was very run down in the 80s, and having a big food shop here certainly helped with that regeneration, with people coming in two or three times a week. I hope it’s added to the general economy of the area, I think it would be a poorer place without us. If people were to change one thing about their diet – ethically or for health reasons – what should it be? Eating as much fruit and veg as possible, and buying local produce. It’s fresher, you’re supporting the local economy, it ticks all the right boxes – keeps the money in the community.
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BRIGHTON ZINEFEST
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Brightonzinefest.co.uk Thurs 18th – Sun 21st Various venues
WORDS BY NICK COQUET
Brighton Zinefest is pushing a DIY ethos in publishing, with Xerox and staples forming an ever-more tangible medium for the written word. We spoke to Toby Chelms from ‘The New Wave Of Cut & Paste’ about the zine scene and fest. Nick Coquet: The fest is a lot bigger this year, more than just crates of zines. Toby Chelms: We wanted to make this one more of a community thing. There’s a big social at the Coachworks on the Thursday, where a lot of writers from all over the country and beyond can meet up. Friday’s a fundraiser for the fest at the Cowley Club – five live bands, all of whom write zines or are connected in some way, and Saturday at the Hanover Community Centre – loads of tables with sellers who usually sell online, people meeting up and buying or swapping zines. There are also workshops, from setting up a zine to more general DIY spirit, from bike fixing to gardening. NC: It sounds like there’s a real community spirit among the writers. TC: Yes, there’s a good network of people swapping titles all over the UK, into mainland Europe as well as the US. There’s a great zine scene in Australia too, so it’s quite international. NC: It doesn’t sound like the blogosphere has impacted on you too much. TC: I think there’s a good crossover, we’re not shunning the web at all. In the 80s and up to the mid-90s, people were getting their news, tour dates and stuff, from zines. But the web serves that up immediately, so zine writing has tended to veer towards more in-depth reviews and interviews. It’s made for far better journalism, as writers know they’re competing with people pouring their
hearts out on blogs. NC: And music blogs can serve up the mp3s to go with it… TC: Yes. That 80s to mid-90s period was the focal point for music zines, there are a lot fewer around now. What you get now is the perzine, which I suppose is similar to blog culture in that it’s people writing about their personal travels and experiences. It’s more people self-publishing academic essays than how fanzines used to read – with lists of gigs and news. That kind of more academic writing is big in the US expecially at the moment and becoming more prominent here now as well. NC: There’s a sense of the material standing out more in print than it does online. TC: I think zines are more realistic in their output, too. You know if people are buying them because a lot of it is face-to-face. Unless someone leaves a comment on a blog you don’t know who, if anyone, is actually reading. That’s not to say there aren’t egotistical zines out there, they just tend to be less frequent and have smaller runs. Ultimately though, you can self-publish anything but there has to be interest to keep it going. NC: And I suppose success means they get glossier and officially become magazines. TC: Well, what is a zine? I mean, SOURCE ticks all the boxes – it’s independent, it’s not just trying to make a fortune. There’s a great title called ‘Last Hours’ – a 5,000 copy, professional print run, but it’s still a zine. Some people say if it’s not photocopied or does more than a 100 copies it doesn’t count anymore, but there are no official guidelines. Very few people make any kind of living at it though, but it’s not about that. People write zines to avoid censorship; they do it for the love.
‘it’s made for far better journalism – you’re competing with people pouring their hearts out on blogs’
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SEE DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL
Louis Theroux
In recent years the documentary genre of film making has reached a new prominence, with lens pointers like Michael Moore becoming household names on the back of their fearless and controversial reportage. Maybe the real world has become so weird we don’t need to watch fictional alien ones quite so much, but it’s safe to say we all know a lot more about US gun law because of Bowling For Columbine than we ever got from CNN. Brighton welcomes a host of influential and inspiring industry players for the weekend-long SEE Festival at the Corn Exchange, beginning on Friday 19th. A showcase for some of the UK’s most respected practitioners of the documentary, the festival opens with an evening with our own homegrown hero of the genre, Louis Theroux. Receiving its world premiere at the event is Dom Joly In Search Of Tintin, commissioned for Channel 4 and examining the cult of Hergé’s character as he visits the locations featured in the stories. Talks, Q&As, master classes and further screenings make up the festival schedule, from Daisy Asquith, Jonathan Meades, Penny Woolcock, Marc Francis, Jerry Rothwell, Marc Isaacs and festival patron Nick Broomfield – the seemingly unassuming chap who got right on Courtney Love’s nerves in Kurt & Courtney.
STOP PRESS
GIRLS
WORDS BY NICK COQUET, the recommender
LATE NEWS IS STILL GREAT NEWS
There’s currently a fusion of sounds going on, born out of garage bands and surf pop. It’s mainly coming from the West Coast of America, suiting its sunny Santa Cruz disposition, alongside the likes of Toro Y Moi, and occasionally from the East coast with Real Estate. They’re unified by their echoing vocals and chiming guitars that bleed into rattling beats. With a bit of luck, the ex-Holy Shit and Ariel Pink member, Chris Owens, should have the album completed by the time he gets here too - see Girls at Audio, Monday 22nd.
THE HOPE
The Hope is a great pub for live music, now hopefully it can fulfil its promise with a constant turnover of quality acts with the appointment of Phil Anvil as new full time live music programmer. New monthly themed nights include Synthetiquette for electronic heads and Jazz Magazine for more bop-minded folk, while this month also sees a Valentines-themed show from Brooklyn’s She Keeps Bees with support from locals The Wellingtons. Myspace.com/thehopevenue should be your first port of call for information.
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SHAMELESS
One of our favourite messy nights out, Shameless, has found itself a sexy new place to call home every Thursday – from now on this mix of everything from Madness to the Sugababes is going to be filling the room at Life on the seafront. DJs C-Dogg and Nause will be plundering the last half-century’s record box as usual, and every week some lucky sod will win a month’s rent in the entrance raffle. What’s not to like?
CHINESE NEW YEAR
Those of you for whom New Year is all too infrequent in its traditional onceannually scheduling, will be cockle-warmed to realise Chinese New Year is upon us. It’s a tiger this year, whatever that means, and the celebrations are admittedly more culturally based than drinking yourself into blindness and making a tit of yourself. Hove Town Hall is the place to be on Saturday 6th, where you can make lanterns, eat Chinese food and get some Chinese theatre, music and activities under your belt. Brighton schools are also getting in on the act with their own homage; hopefully they’ll be avoiding a schedule of atrocious human rights abuses despite their inherent cultural authenticity.
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LISTINGS FEBRUARY 2010
monday 1st
ancient mariner Hat Party Don’t do your hair, don a hat 8pm £free audio These New Puritans, Trailer Trash Traceys Angular and off-the-wall indie kids 7.30pm £10; Glue D&B, dubstep10pm £3/2 Belushi’s BAR Quiz Night 8.30pm £free Black Lion Happy Mondays Open decks and mics 5pm £free Coalition Trash Mondays Eclectic student night 10.30pm £3/2/free duke of norfolk Poker Night 8pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema Precious 4pm/9pm funky buddha Mashed Up M.I.A. vs Michael Jackson and the like 8.30pm £2/1/free Hope The H’Open Mic 8.30pm £free LEGENDS Miss Jasons Monday Mayhem Feat. Gay Your Cards Right 9pm £free; Chic DJ Steve Lush spins disco anthems in the basement 11pm £free Life Aka Aka Roar: Brackles, Greena Inspirational dubstep 10pm £2/tbc Prince Albert Stafraenn Hakon, Monster Build Mean Robots, Men Diamler Live music 8pm £tbc R BAR Quiz With Liz 8pm £1 sidewinder Poker night 9pm £5 thomas kemp Pub Quiz 8pm £free Theatre Royal Count Arthur Strong: The Man Behind The Smile Comedy about Steve Delaney 7.30pm £18 Volks Strictly Reggae: Big T Dancehall, roots, revival 10pm £5/4.50 West Hill tavern Quiz Night 8.45pm £1
TUESDAY 2nd
Audio The Ex feat. Brass Unbound, Zun Zun Egui Expect fireworks 7pm £8; Club NME 11pm £2 Belushi’s BAR Mod For It Rocker h8erz 10pm £free Belushi’s below Elements D&B 9pm £1 Black Lion The Lion’s Raw Brighton live bands 8pm £free Brunswick Open Mic Go on, you know you want to 8pm £free Caroline of brunswick Quiz Night 8.30pm £1 Coalition Salsa Brighton Learn the moves for the clubnight later 8pm £6/4; Latin Fever Salsa & merengue music 10pm £3/2 cornerstone Son Of Movie Bar Networking for film-makers and fans 7pm £free DIGITAL Glitterati Exclusive Student Night 11pm £4/3 Duke of Norfolk Open Mic Night 9pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema The Informant! 11am; Der Rosenkavalier 4pm/9pm Fiddler’s Elbow Quizness Time Pub Quiz 8pm £1 Full Moon Smack That: Blue Suede Shoes Tunes 7.30pm £free funky buddha San Frandisco Classic and new proper disco- no hen night cheese, think DFA not YMCA 11pm £free Globe Basement Cinema: We Call It Skweee Scando electrofunk documentary 8pm £free hanbury Showcase Open mic 7pm £5 hope Slip Jam B Open mic hip hop jam and DJs
8.30pm £free jam Pot Kettle Black New indie night 10pm £2/1 jazz place Roots Garden Reggae 11pm £4/3.50 LATEST Music Bar Up Yours To The Festival! with Brian & Jerry Radio Reverb show to a live audience 7.30pm £4/3 LEGENDS Scene Queen DJ Lil Alex spins in the Basement club 11pm £free life The Vice Social Student dance night 10.30pm £3/2 mash tun Mash. Drink. Repeat DJs Rich and Jay with rock, indie and electro 9pm £free marlborough Bingo’s Not A Dirty Word Winner takes all 8pm £1 penthouse Broken Birdcage Indie electro dub sounds 7.30pm £free Prince Albert Modern Fighting Vehicles, Vernie & Bertrum, Holy Vessels Ep launch and live music 8pm £tbc PV Quiz Infamous 8pm £free seven stars Retro Cult Classic Film Nights Log on to www.sevenstarsbrighton.co.uk to vote for film to be shown 8pm £free SIDEwinder Open Decks Competition Come and play 8pm £free Three And TEn Sparks Flash fiction evening, with short stories from local authors 8pm £5 three graces Poker Time tbc £free Western front The Lobster Quadrille From 50s to present day feat Ollie and Bryn of Laylanas fame 8pm £free
wednesday 3rd
ancient mariner Quiz Night 8pm £1 Audio Supercharged: Caspa, Rod Azian TRG Breaks 11pm £1 Belushi’s BAR Old Skool Sessions 90s house 10pm £free Belushi’s Below Strapped: Student Night House, rock and pop 10pm £free Black Lion Fresh Acoustics Local live music 8.30pm £free Brunswick The Noise Next Door Improvisational comedy 8pm £8/6 coalition Broke Dubstep, hip hop, D&B, house, electro mashup 10.30pm £1 DIGITAL Poundance Dance floor destroyers 11pm £1 Duke of Norfolk Quiz Night Winner takes all 9pm £1 Duke Of York’s Cinema The Informant! 11am; Der Rosenkavalier 4pm/9pm Fishbowl Fisherman’s Chronicles Acoustic jam open mic session 8pm £free hanbury Salsa Dance class 8pm £6 hare and hounds Quiz Including air guitar round 8pm £free Hotel Pelirocco Will Kevans Hooky Nashville-influenced songs 9pm £6/5 jam The Recommender: Plugs, Woo!Worths Ace new live music night from SOURCE writer with bands and DJs 8pm £4/3 LATEST Music Bar The Stanley Blacks, Fraser, Cha Cha Woking band plays infectous pop 8pm £tbc LEGENDS Dirty Handbag DJ Gabbi brings the party to the basement club 11pm £free life Broke Dubstep, hip hop, D&B, house, electro
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10.30pm £1 mash tun Tin Cup Collective Five piece soul funk band 9pm £free marlborough Open Mic Go for it 8.30pm £free Prince Albert Nancy Elizabeth, Mary Hampton Live music 8pm £tbc R Bar Midweek Mash up Indie, rock and electro from DJ Beast 8pm £free Sanctuary cella Live Music, Open Mic and Speakers 8pm £3 SIDEwinder Open Decks Competition Come and play 8pm £free; Quiz Winners take pot 8pm £1 Station pub The Quiz Station Hosted by drag queen Miss Jason 8pm £1 Theatre Royal Rambert Dance Company: Comedy of Change Mark Baldwin directs 7.30pm £27/22/12.75/10.30 Three And TEn Mother’s Boy Play about Stella who’s ripped off her gangsta boss 8pm £8/6 Volks Brighton University Photography Course Fundraiser Party to raise cash 11pm £tbc xuma Quiz 8.30pm £tbc
thursday 4th
Audio Quids In Pop antics 11pm £2 Belushi’s Bar Karaoke Prizes 9pm £free Belushi’s Below Party On The Ceiling Bands & DJs 9.30pm £2 black lion Come As You Are: Gary Mulholland, Ash Bird 8.30pm £free Brunswick Samantha Horwill, Charlie Rivers Singer songwriter with a pretty face 8pm £5 caroline of brunswick Brighton Bike Night Bikers’ social 7pm £1 coalition Secret Discotheque Retro disco, 80s pop and other ‘uncool’ tunes 10.30pm £3/2/1 DIGITAL Sonic Boom: Grooverider, Bailey The Prototypes, Chaos Express Drum & bass, in yr face 11pm £7 Duke of Norfolk Live music: Zarbo 9pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema Precious 4pm/9pm Exchange Quiz Night 8.45pm £1.50 Fiddler’s Elbow Fresh Acoustics Local live music 8.30pm £free Fishbowl Residents Association Hip hop, funk, disco, world & house 10pm £free freebutt Man Like Me, Rizzle Kicks Youthful British sound 7.30pm £tbc funky BUDDHA Steady On Tunes from Robert Luis, Hint, Maddslinky aka Zed Bias 10.30pm £free Globe Rockoustic: Headstyle Live acoustic showcase 9pm £free GREAT EASTERN DJ Shamblin Sexton’s Music To Drink Bourbon To Western swing, cajun, good ol’ bluegrass and country 9pm £free hanbury Angie Palmer Live music 7pm £6/5 Hectors house Ruderallis Live hip hop 8.30pm £free Honeyclub Fusion House, R&B, indie 11pm £3/1 Jam Thursday Night Fish Fry Early 50s US rhythm & blues and original Jamaican ska 10pm £3 komedia down Krater Tag Comedy: Stephen Grant New fast paced format for comedy 8pm £8.50/6.50 Latest music bar Jesca Hoop, Emily Baker Live music 8pm £8 LEGENDS DLite DJ Lee Harris with some house 11pm £free .IFE Shameless: C-Dogg, DJ Nause Spinning the best and worst of half a century 11pm £1 marlborough Karaoke Sing it proud 8pm £free nightingale theatre The Tragedian - Part III The life of trans-Atlantic star Edmund Kean 9.30pm £8.50/6.50 Prince Albert Black Daniel, Perspex Wrecks, Forestears Live music 8pm £tbc providence Lowlife Presents: Bear Pop, 900 Spaces, Sparrow Live music 8pm £1 R BAR Girls On Top Warm Up With DJ Dulcie Danger 8pm £free
REVENGE Girls On Top: Thursgay Dump your girlfriend and make out with someone else’s 10.30pm £5/3 ST JAMES TAVERN Stay Sick, Turn Blue Rock&roll, rockabilly, 60s garage 8pm £free Three And TEn Sparks Flash fiction evening, with short stories from local authors 8pm £5 Theatre Royal Rambert Dance Company: Comedy of Change Mark Baldwin directs 2pm/7.30pm £27/22/12.75/10.30 victory Open Mic Night 8pm £free Volks Southern Invasion D&B and dubstep 10pm £tbc White Rabbit Open Mic With the Move-ons 8pm £free Worlds end The Big Cash Quiz Come on boffins 8pm £1
friday 5th
Audio Fujiya and Miyagi, Lost Idol Sold out! You snooze you lose! 7pm £5; Renegade Hardware D&B 11pm £tbc Belushi’s Bar Coyote Ugly Funky house, electro and dance-off 9pm £free Belushi’s BElow Dress Up Fridays Traffic light party 10pm £2/free Black Lion Medium Rare Beats, soul & funk 8.30pm £free BRUNSWICK The Lost Hightway: The Epstein, Dan Shears Americana night, yo 8pm £5/4 caroline of brunswick Pandemonium: DJ Peter von Sleaze Rock and metal 9pm £free Coalition Sneaker Social Club House disco, dubstep, garage & techno treats 10.30pm £8/5 Cobbler’s Thumb Strawberry Noise Live Local acts 8pm £free Concorde2 Delirium: Dave Pearce, Judge Jules, Tristan D Euphoric uplifting trance, raise your hands 11pm £10 Cowley club Rita Lunch, The Sylance, Lia Jane Bristol punk for antiwar campaign 8pm £donations DIGITAL Stonelove Indie rock night 11pm £5/4 Duke Of York’s Cinema Pontypool 11.15pm Fishbowl Keep It Wheel Steve KIW spins disco, funk, soul, rock&roll 9pm £free Fortune Of War Shake Hands Lets Party Lady DJs So Molly, Heidi, Pippa, Bianca playing tunes from past 50 years 9pm £free freebutt By definition, XVLTR, This Is Massacre, Terrafom Live music 7.30pm £tbc funky buddha Drink, Dance, Repeat Dan Doubledecks, Charles Green & Mikee Hollywood with an eclectic dance mix 11pm £5/3 Globe Disco Deviant: Pablo Contraband, Tim Rivers Disco funk house goodies 10pm £free hampton arms Mod For It 60s Mod party with soul, ska, Motown, new wave and northern soul 8pm £free hare and hounds Double Barrel Lex Angel plays ska, pop, punk, new wave, folk, rockabilly 8pm £free Hectors house The Blind Tiger Pub Live swing and jive 8pm £free Honeyclub 11-16 Year Olds Club Night Maybe needs more effort on the name but you get the picture 6.30pm £6; Hard South Like regular house but faster and bouncier 11pm £10/8/5 Hope Stacked Nasty DJs spinning 50s and 60s 9pm £free; Gentlemen Starkey, Iron Door club Live garage rock 8pm £3 INK Ibiza Rebublic Party like it’s summer in Spain 9pm £tbc jam Dont Stop Believin’ No genre or decade, classic after classic 11pm £4/3 Komedia Down Krater Comedy Club Standup shenanigans 7.30pm £14.50/£10 Komedia studio Brighton Jazz Club: Chris Biscoe, Tony Kofi Quartet 8pm £12/10 LATEST MUSIC BAR The Debut, The Maekins, 84mm, Bagdad Country Club, Gabrielle Aplin, Fine Young Firecrackers, Hobble Stuart Live music 6pm £tbc; Frockabilly What a treat! Brighton’s only queer-run, straight friendly, rockabilly and rock&roll night, with 50s music all night long. 10pm
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£5 LEGENDS Celebration With your old chum Dolly Rocket 11pm £free life Big Fish Little Fish Cardboard Box New night for fidget, bass, electro 11pm £6/5/4 marlborough Q&A (Queer & Alternative) Guest DJs, free pool 5pm £free marlborough theatre Eat Your Heart Out Burlesque and drag action 8pm £7 Neptune Country Music Night: Shauna Parker & Saloon Bar Band Live music 8.30pm £free nightingale theatre Adolf Powerful theatre 7pm £8.50/6.50 PAV TAV Kick Out The Jams: DJs Dynamite Sal, Eddie The Goatboy, Steve and Muffy Indie night 11pm £3 penthouse Amazing! Classic rock and power ballads 7.30pm £free Prince Albert Iglu & Hartly, The Politics Live bands 8pm £tbc PrOVidence Dr Razzu (tbc), The Peppermint Hunting Lodge, The Koan Brothers Rock&blues 8pm £2 SIDEwinder Simply Dredd: Harry K Reggae bootleg party 8pm £free Theatre Royal Rambert Dance Company: Comedy of Change Mark Baldwin directs 7.30pm £27/22/12.75/10.30 thomas kemp All Time Top 100 Special guest DJs offer their best tunes 8pm £free three & ten Don’t Feed the Poets Comedy, poetry, spoken word, how absurd 8pm £7/5 VOLKS Sicknote: The Geezer, Scorb, N-Coder, Adsimeon, Sketchy Steve, I.T.S Techno vs psytrance 11pm £7 West Hill tavern Envy Indie, synth pop, dance, hip hop 10pm £free Western front Bar Breaks Beats: DJ Stupid Kid, Judge Mental, Mute Hip hop, electro, house 9pm £free WORLDS END PUB Dub Fi Dib Six hours of hardcore reggae dancehall, roots and more 8pm £free
saturday 6th
AL Duomo Pure Natural Vibes Music party with live drummers 11pm £5/4 Audio SOL Winter Sessions: L Vis 1990 (Mad Decent) House and techno 11pm £free Belushi’s Bar Credit Crunch Saturdays Live acoustic duo 9pm £free Belushi’s Below Retro Disco Party 9pm £5 Black Lion Burnt Toast with Radio Reverb Funk, soul, breaks & hip hop 8.30pm £free Brunswick The Doctor Spacetoad Experience: Captain Sensible, Oxymoron Psychedelia night 8pm £7/6 Brighton dome London Philharmonic Orchestra Osmo Vanska conducts Sibelius, with Serngey Maloy on violin for Brahms time tbc £32.50/27.50/23/18/15/10 caroline of brunswick Replica Goth, industrial, EBM 9pm £free; Laugh Down Babylon Cheap as chips comedy 9pm £2 Coalition Black Rabbit: Lineup tbc 11pm £8/5; Blow After Party: Vincent Manganaro, Alex Outram, Aaron Palaez 3am £7/5/4 Concorde2 Adam Green The boy half of Moldy Peaches plays anti folk 7pm £10; Zero Culture: Zapback, Ratpack Jungle crew 11pm £5 DIGITAL Pussycat Club Glittery sparkley night. Pets win prizes 11pm £tbc Duke Of York’s Cinema Bee Movie 11am; Simon Boccanegra 6pm Engine room Anti Nowhere League Punk band since 1980 7pm £10 Fortune Of War Deck Chairs: FIP Radio presents Expect soul, funk, breaks, dub, hip hop, house, TUUUNES 9pm £free FREEBUTT Chesney Hawkes Relive your spotty youth and see how the past 20 years has ravaged his pretty face. Say hello to his mole (also called Chesney), tap your feet to that ONE song of his on acoustic guitar and then get something from the bar. Far too surreal to pass up Details tbc funky buddha Buddha Soul: DJ Mike Pantelli
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Funk, soul, r&b, house 11pm £10; After party 3am £5 Globe DJ’s TBC 9pm £free Hampton Gimme Shelter Matt Purnell plays 60s, 70s and 80s funk and soul 8pm £free Hanbury Pop Kraft Saturday Special: DJ Boogaloo Stu, The Size Zero Albino, Darran Duran Things to make and do and pop music too. Make your own mini-me and outrageous party games like shitlips, penny up the crack and put your finger in the cream 10pm £8/6 hare & hounds Good Times: Miss Bitty Brown & the Teats of Rock, Damaged, Brownstar Camp rock music with cowboy & indian dress up theme Details tbc HECTORS HOUSE Free for All Live music showcase 8pm £free Honeyclub Sevensins Pumping house & electro 11pm £10 Hope Dessous Chic: Jimmy Tarantino, Saiwil La Classe Electro and house a la Francais 10pm £3 Komedia Down Krater Comedy Club Standup shenanigans 7pm £17.50; Krater Comedy Club Stand-up shenanigans 10.30pm £15 komedia studio Vive La Fip! Tunes attuned to that famous radio station 10pm £6/5 life Hold Up! Indie night 11pm £5 LEGENDS Ignition DJ Peter Castle with chart and house 11pm £free lOFT 13 Monsters Promises of drumtrax, alt guitar, junk, hip hop, future and jack swing 11pm £5/4 marlborough Cherry Pop DJ Fondue Inferno brings the cheese 8pm £free MASTER MARINER The Ginger Flowers Band Live music 9.30pm £tbc Nightingale theatre Bacon Theatre about that swine Francis Bacon 7pm £8.50/6.50 PV Booty Call DJ Soap 8.30pm £free PAV TAV Back to The Future! A decade of music per hour. Alternative music from the 70s, 80s 90s & the naughties 11pm £3/2 penthouse Smack That Eclectic DJs 7.30pm £free phoenix Factory Performers, artworks, installations, music, films and the Half Sisters as well, apparently 7.30pm £6/4 PRINCE ALBERT Club Meow with the Meow Meows Live bands 8pm £tbc PrOVidence The Lanes, Tom and the Tides, Lucinda Rosa Live Indie 8pm £2 Quadrant Geek Night Out Special: Richard Sandling, John Cooper, Rob Deb, Nik Helm, Sajeela Kershi Stand-up comedy hosted by Paul Gannonan 8pm £6/5 REVENGE Kinky Dangerous With DJs Stewart T and Smiffy, playing pop and house 10.30pm £5/3 R BAR King K Funky house 8pm £free Theatre Royal Rambert Dance Company: Comedy of Change Mark Baldwin directs 2.30pm/7.30pm £27/22/12.75/10.30 three & ten Patti Plinko and her Boy Play with music and cinematic influences 8pm £7/5; Rusty Ryan Tunes of the eclectic nature 10pm £free toms bar Destination Frantic 60s psych, garage and freakbeat at this cosy little haven 10pm £free Volks Darklight: TC, Original Sin, MC Foxy D&B 10pm £7 Victory Up Against It Glitter beat, bubblegum, hot slop, record hop by Born Bad DJs 8pm £free West Hill Tavern If Reagan Played Disco Music circa 1979-90 8.30pm £1 Western front Partytime DJs playing hip hop, house, electro 9pm £free WORLDS END PUB 100% Conscious Reggae Bushman plays reggae dancehall, roots and more 8pm £free
award winner 8pm £10 caroline of brunswick The Geekest Link Do you love Labyrinth? Was Willow the best film like, ever? Does your Second Life avatar have wings and a magical mystical tail? Do you own a floor length leather coat? Can you answer these questions and others like them correctly in Klingon? Good for you, this quiz is yours for the taking 8.30pm £1 coalition Frequency DJs spinning house, breaks, electros 10pm £free Concert hall Mariza Personal take on fado, the lyrical & melancholy music of Portugal 8pm £25/20/15/10 duke of norfolk Live music 8pm £free engine rooms Surfaces, The Safety Fire, Roskov Landing, Among The Wolves Live music 8pm £4 Fiddler’s Elbow Sham-Rock Open Mic 9pm £free Fishbowl Recovery? A chilled blend of rare reggae, soul & jazz 9pm £free FOUNDRY Get Rhythm: Americana Unplugged Live acoustica musica 7.30pm £free freebutt Dan Friel, Soccer 96, Videodrome, Organ Grinder’s Monkey Beats and distortion 7.30pm £tbc Globe Sunday Funday Decks and boardgames in the basement Noon £free GREAT EASTERN Early Bird Special Live swing and Americana 8pm £free hanbury Cabaret Lunch Live cabaret Noon £free; French Breton Dance Company Live dance act 8pm £8 hare and hounds Open Mic Night With Carol 8pm £free honeyclub Spectrum: Jon Byrne & Steven James Electro to keep the weekend alive 11pm £3/2 Komedia down Quality stand-up that’s much funnier than these listings 8pm £11/6 Komedia UP Bent Double: Zoe Lyons Laffs a plenty for queers and beyond 7.30pm £12/8 lATEST music bar Armen Live music from passionate singer 8pm £4 LEGENDS Fever Disco and pop 11pm £free marlborough Acoustic Session Live Music 4pm £free Neptune Passion Dance Live jazz and world music 8.30pm £free nightingale theatre Chaplin Into the mind of Charlie 7pm £8.50/6.50 Old Market Elias Quartet: Alice Neary on cello Schubert 11am £22/18/14/10/7 Penthouse Felt Up! DIY, craft, mess-making, music related events & projects 2pm £free Prince Albert Esben and the Witch, Duke Raoul Live music from this month’s SOURCE cover stars 8pm £tbc R BAR Sublime Sundays Live acoustic, barmy bingo, karaoke Noon £free seven stars Mick The Mic And Friends Live music 4pm £free Theatre Royal Stephen K Amos: The Feelgood Factor Comedy stand-up 7.30pm £17.50 three & ten Strung out Sundays Live music of the acoustic nature 8pm £free White Rabbit Jazz Live music 3pm £free WORLDS END PUB Mr Bullock’s Sunday Club Open mic: come and stare, try if you dare 8pm £free xuma Jazz Duo 8pm £free
sunday 7th
ancient mariner Pub quiz 8pm £1 audio Glue D&B, dubstep11pm £3/2 Belushi’s BAR Quiz night 8.30pm £free Black Lion Happy Mondays Open decks and mics 5pm £free Coalition Trash Mondays Eclectic student night 10.30pm £3/2/free duke of norfolk Poker Night 8pm £free Freebutt MV & EE, The Doozer, Widewater Psych blue folk 7.30pm £tbc funky buddha Mashed Up M.I.A. vs Michael Jackson and the like 8.30pm £2/1/free
Belushi’s Bar Open Mic Session 8.30pm £free Belushi’s Below Latin Sundayz Salsa & samba on the decks 9pm £2/free Black Lion Sunday Sessions presents Dubrockers Live Dub, reggae, ska, punk, trip hop and funk 6pm £free BRUNSWICK Lianne Carroll Live jazz from BBC
monday 8th
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Hope Chapel Club, Lyrebirds, Munich Quality live music 8pm £5 JAM Fundraiser for Brighton Women’s Centre: 900 Spaces, Reverb, Inertia Live music 8pm £3 LEGENDS Miss Jason’s Monday Mayhem Feat. Gay Your Cards Right 9pm £free; Chic DJ Steve Lush spins disco anthems in the basement 11pm £free Life Aka Aka Roar: Ramadanman Inspirational dubstep 10pm £3/2 penthouse Beach Coma Motown, soul and more Noon £free Prince Albert Brighton Belles W.I. Live music 8pm £tbc R BAR Quiz With Liz 8pm £1 sidewinder Poker night 9pm £5 thomas kemp Pub Quiz 8pm £free three graces Mind Boggling Quiz Interactive rounds 8.30pm £free Volks Strictly Reggae: Big T Dancehall, roots, revival 10pm £5/4.50
tuesday 9th
Audio Club NME Indie and such 11pm £3/2 Belushi’s below Elements D&B 9pm £1 Black Lion Tuesday Club Open decks and mics 8pm £free Brighton dome Massive Attack Trip hop giants are pimping their new album Heligoland. Some ticket money donated to Hoping Foundation Time tbc £28.50 Brighton Centre JLS X Factor stars dance and sing for your pleasure 7pm £27.08/22.99 Brunswick Open Mic Come and stare or try if you dare 8pm £free Caroline of brunswick Quiz Night 8.30pm £1 Coalition SalsaBrighton Learn the moves for the clubnight later 8pm £6/4; Latin Fever Salsa & merengue music 10pm £3/2 Concorde 2 Fightstar, The Xcerts, Cars On Fire, All Forgotten Live music 7pm £12.50 DIGITAL Glitterati Exclusive student night 11pm £4/3 Duke of Norfolk Open Mic Night 9pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema Glorious 39 11am Fiddler’s Elbow Quizness Time Pub Quiz 8pm £1 FREEBUTT Tune Yards, Hind Ear Merrill Garbus plays tracks from Bird Brains (4AD) album. Miss this and weep for being so uncool Details tbc Full Moon Smack That: Blue Suede Shoes Tunes 7.30pm £free funky buddha San Frandisco Classic and new proper disco- no hen night cheese, think DFA not YMCA 11pm £free Globe Basement Cinema Classic and underground film screenings 8pm £free jam I.O.U. Comedy New comedy night 8pm £3 Latest music bar Rizzle Kicks, The Last Carnival Banging remixes from accapellas, live 8pm £free LEGENDS Scene Queen DJ Lil Alex spins in the Basement club 11pm £free life The Vice Social Student dance night 10.30pm £3/2 mash tun Mash. Drink. Repeat DJs Rich and Jay with rock, indie and electro 9pm £free marlborough Bingo’s Not A Dirty Word Winner takes all 8pm £1 penthouse Rate Noise Electro and Ninja Tunes 7.30pm £free Prince Albert The Sylence, Leaving St Francis, Raising Maisie Live bands 8pm £tbc seven stars Retro Cult Classic Film Nights Log on to www.sevenstarsbrighton.co.uk to vote for film to be shown 8pm £free SIDEwinder Open Decks Competition Come and play 8pm £free Theatre Royal Moscow City Ballet: Romeo And Juliet Choreography by Victor SmirnovGolovanov 7.45pm £36/31/20/18 Three and ten The Odyssey Revenge theatre 8pm £9/7 Volks Toothsayer Electro, hip hop, balkan beats
10pm £tbc West Hill Tavern Open Mic With Chump, Ollie & Jack 8.30pm £free Western front The Lobster Quadrille From 50s to present day feat Ollie and Bryn of Laylanas fame 8pm £free
wednesday 10th
Audio British Sea Power, The Half Sisters Boys vs girls 7pm £12.50; Supercharged: Andy C, MC GQ Beats and treats 11pm £5 Belushi’s BAR Old Skool Sessions 90s house 10pm £free Belushi’s Below Strapped: Student Night House, rock and pop 10pm £free Black Lion Fresh Acoustics Local live music 8.30pm £free BRUNSWICK Laugh Your Bits Off: Nick Coppin, Sarah Pearce, Kev Heritage & Milky Tea Comedy gems 8pm £5 caroline of brunswick The Funnier Farm Stand up 8.30pm £5 CASABLANCA Live funk & DJ £free before 11pm/£2/£1 coalition Robot Rock Wonky pop and 80s synth classics 10.30pm £1 DIGITAL Poundance Dance floor destroyers 11pm £1 Duke of Norfolk Quiz Night Winner takes all 9pm £1 Duke Of York’s Cinema Precious 11am Fishbowl Fisherman’s Chronicles Acoustic jam open mic session 8pm £free Freebutt Hot Club De Paris, Rob The Rich Mathy pop gems on Moshi Moshi 7.30pm £tbc hanbury Salsa Dance class 8pm £6 hare and hounds Quiz Including air guitar round 8pm £free HECTORS HOUSE Super Super Bang Bang Quiztime yo 8pm £free Komedia down Stornaway, Beth Jeans Houghton Modern folk and twisted pop 7.30pm £10 LEGENDS Dirty Handbag DJ Gabbi brings the party to the basement club 11pm £free life Broke Dubstep, hip hop, D&B, house, electro 10.30pm £1 mash tun Tin Cup Collective Five piece soul funk band 9pm £free marlborough Open Mic Go for it 8.30pm £free marlborough theatre Silver Wednesday Old fashioned candle-lit cinema 8pm £Donation PV Valentines Quiz Entry fee to Terrence Higgins Trust 8pm £1 penthouse The Outer Church Brain damage for the discerning psychonaut 7.30pm £free Prince Albert Three Big Black presents: DKH, Trippin Violet Live bands 8pm £tbc R Bar Midweek Mash up Indie, rock and electro from DJ Beast 8pm £free SIDEwinder Open Decks Competition Come and play 8pm £free; Quiz Winners take pot 8pm £1 Station pub The Quiz Station For all 8pm £1 Theatre Royal Moscow City Ballet: Romeo And Juliet Choreography by Victor SmirnovGolovanov 2.30pm/7.45pm £36/31/20/18 three graces Area Code 273 Quirky bluesy tex mex 9pm £tbc xuma Quiz 8.30pm £tbc
thursday 11th
Audio Quids In Pop antics 11pm £2 Belushi’s Bar Karaoke 9pm £free Belushi’s Below Party On The Ceiling Two bands & DJ 9.30pm £2
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Black Lion Chef du Party Chef Oli cuts his way through 5 decades of tasty tunes 8.30pm £free Brunswick Brunswick Showcase: Funk Rock, The Illustrators Live music 8pm £4/3 coalition Secret Discotheque Retro disco, 80s pop and other ‘uncool’ tunes 10.30pm £3/2/1 Duke of Norfolk Live band: Zarbo 8pm £free Exchange Quiz Night 8.45pm £1.50 Fiddler’s Elbow Jazz Club Harry Tricks swings you back to 20s, 30s, 40s pop 8.30pm £free Fishbowl Residents Association Hip hop, funk, disco, world & house 10pm £free Freebutt The Telescopes Set list from Taste album era. Songs resurrected for your aural pleasure 7.30pm £9 funky BUDDHA Steady On Tunes from Robert Luis, Hint, Maddslinky aka Zed Bias 10.30pm £free Globe Rockoustic Showcasing local live acts 9pm £free GRand central Swing DeVille Duo Gypsy jazz 8.30pm £free GREAT EASTERN Danni Nicholls Acoustic country songs 8pm £free Hectors house Its Alive!: Slytones, Los Live music 8pm £tbc Honeyclub Fusion House, R&B, indie 11pm £3/1 hope Sweet Sweet Lies & Friends: Dominic Von Trapp, Grow Clas, Call Me Jolene, Birds Eats Baby Live music 8pm £3 Jam Thursday Night Fish Fry Early 50s US rhythm & blues and original Jamaican ska 10pm £3 Komedia studio Spirit of Gravity Present: Bolide Awkwestra, Beatabet, Plurals Howl & babble, drunk tramps and Francophone freaks 8.30pm £5/4 Komedia UP Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour Films to inspire 7.30pm £10 Latest music bar Charity Chuckle Laffs for a good cause 7pm £6; Poleoke Choose a track and dance sexy-like 10pm £5 LEGENDS DLite DJ Lee Harris with some house 11pm £free .IFE Shameless: C-Dogg, DJ Nause Spinning the best and worst of half a century 11pm £1 marlborough Karaoke Sing it proud 8pm £free penthouse Muff Chicks with decks 7.30pm £free Prince Albert Riot Riot, Ramona Live music 8pm £tbc Providence Lowlife Presents: Valentines, The Shadow Empire, The Sarah Michelles Live music 8pm £1 R BAR Girls On Top Warm Up With DJ Dulcie Danger 8pm £free REVENGE Girls On Top: Thursgay Dump your girlfriend and make out with someone else’s 10.30pm £5/3 ST JAMES TAVERN Stay Sick, Turn Blue Rock&roll, rockabilly, 60s garage 8pm £free Sanctuary Cella Top Banana: Sami Stone, Alex Marion, Jonny Armstrong, Elise Harris, Kev Heritage Live comedy with eight stand-ups 8pm £4/3 Theatre Royal Moscow City Ballet: The Nutcracker Young girl finds a magic land 7.45pm £33/31/16.75/14/75 victory Open Mic Night 8pm £free Volks Skank: Kromoestar, Inaound, Mickey Freeze, MC Papa Rudy, Ultrasound, 2manysteps, Moony, G-Flex Dub, bass, grime night 11pm £5/3 White Rabbit Georgie Acoustic Live music 8pm £free Worlds end The Big Cash Quiz Come on boffins 8pm £1
friday 12th
audio Friday Night Hero Live music 7.30pm £tbc; Club: Deadly Rhythm: MJ Cole, Oneman, Them DJs 11pm £6/5 Belushi’s Bar Coyote Ugly Funky house, electro and dance-off 9pm £free
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Belushi’s BElow Dress Up Fridays Dressing up night 10pm £2/free Black Lion Dubrockers Live Dub, reggae, ska, punk, trip hop and funk 6pm £free Brunswick Ben Sarfas Jazz treats from this sax & violin genius, and his band 8pm £6 caroline of brunswick Valloween! Valentines with a Halloween theme! 9pm £free coalition Freak Bazzar Prog and power psy, chill, ethnic, dub 11pm £10/8 Cobbler’s Thumb Skinny Tim’s Request Night DJ open to your riddiculous requests 8pm £free Concorde2 Horse Power: Surkin Dance & fashion fair offering discount rummage 11pm £5 DIGITAL Stonelove Indie rock night 11pm £5/4 Duke Of York’s Cinema Ponyo 1pm/6pm; A Single Man 3.15pm/8.30pm Fishbowl Return of the Funky Man DJ ‘J’ spins an eclectic music session 9pm £free Fortune Of War Shake Hands Lets Party Lady DJs So Molly, Heidi, Pippa, Bianca playing tunes from past 50 years 9pm £free Freebutt Alexander Tucker, Astral Social Club, Cold Pumas Feat. Neil Campbell of Vibracathederal Orchestra 7.30pm £tbc funky buddha Drink, Dance, Repeat Dan Doubledecks, Charles Green & Mikee Hollywood with an eclectic dance mix 11pm £5/3 Globe Oli L DJ playing funk, soul, breaks 8pm £free Hampton Sam Preston DJ set No ordinary DJ 8pm £free HECTORS HOUSE Playgroup Presents Live band action 8pm £free Hobgoblin Metal Night, HTBM, Divine Chaos, Blind Eye Fury, Funeral Hag Live bands 8pm £free Honeyclub Hood Nation Presents 3 floors: R&B, pop, indie, funky house, afro beats 11pm £tbc Hydrant Los Albertos, Krag Mcginty Formerly Hare & Hounds, name change partaaay 8pm £free INK Ibiza Rebublic Party like it’s summer in Spain 9pm £tbc jam Dont Stop Believin’ No genre or decade, classic after classic 11pm £4/3 jaZZ ROOMS Tongues Indie for your viewing pleasure 11pm £free Komedia UPstairs The Lovers Ball: Carnivalesque, Balkaneasca, The Lover’s Disco Den 3 floors, 3 bands, 7 DJs 8pm £10 Komedia Down Krater Comedy Club Standup shenanigans 7.30pm £14.50/10 Komedia Studio Brighton Jazz Club: Dick Pearce Quartet 8pm £12/10 LEGENDS Celebration With your old chum Dolly Rocket 11pm £free life Big Fish Little Fish Cardboard Box New night for fidget, bass, electro 11pm £6/5/4 lOFT Legend Return: Greg Wilson, Pablo Contraband Showcasing edits from new album 10.30pm £8/6 marlborough Q&A (Queer & Alternative) Guest DJs, free pool 5pm £free Neptune The Simon and Sleeze Trio Live and nasty R&B 8.30pm £free PAV TAV Kick Out The Jams: DJs Dynamite Sal, Eddie The Goatboy, Steve and Muffy Indie night 11pm £3 penthouse Lilo Feast Across the board nonhipster music for hipsters (they’ll hate that description) 7.30pm £free Prince Albert Thomas White, Seadog, Soul to Squeeze Live music 8pm £tbc PROVIDENCE Sound Factory: Fire Writers, Wombat Browning, The Dutch (tbc), The Black Hand (tbc) Rock night 8pm £2 Sidewinder The Shakedown Presents: Shades of Blue Funk vs Jazz 8pm £free Theatre Royal Moscow City Ballet: The Nutcracker Young girl finds a magic land 7.45pm £33/31/16.75/14/75 thomas kemp All Time Top 100 Special guest DJs offer their best tunes 8pm £free three & ten The Pink Bear Club Laffs, films, sketches 8pm £7/5; Agent T Tunes and beats of the groovy nature 10pm £free
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Victory Beans On Toast: Radio Reverb’s BlackBelt Jones Hip hop & funk 9pm £free Volks Carbon: Zero T, SPY, Jubei, Insight, Voytek, Blake Hot D&B 11pm £6 West Hill tavern Envy Indie, synth pop, dance, hip hop 10pm £free Western front Bar Breaks Beats: DJ Stupid Kid, Judge Mental, Mute Hip hop, electro, house 9pm £free WORLDS END PUB Get Rhythm: Hootenanny Get down with the tunes 8pm £free
saturday 13th
ancient mariner Special Anti-Valentines Night Tunes 8pm £free audio Fanfarlo, Race Horses Indie pop act return to Brighton 8pm £tbc; SOL Winter Sessions 11pm £free Belushi’s Bar Credit Crunch Saturdays Live acoustic duo 9pm £free Belushi’s Below Retro Disco Party 10pm £tbc Black Lion Attic Monkeys 5 decades of tunes 8.30pm £free brighton unitarian church Bela Emerson Electric cello, intense and invigorating, a total gem live 8pm £7.50/6.50 brunswick KL Press: The Beautiful Word, Bernice Macdonald Live 8pm £5/4 Coalition Floorplay: Noir, Prok & Fitch, Lee Garrett Classic pop club night 10.30pm £10/8/7; Blow After Party: Vincent Manganaro, Alex Outram, Aaron Palaez 3am £7/5/4 concert hall Johann Strauss Gala Walz back in time to 19th century Vienna for a mix of music, song and dance 7.30 £27.50/24.50/18.50/13 Concorde2 Nazareth, The Deborah Bonham Band, Dirty Shoes 70s greats play their hits 7pm £18; Silent Disco All types of music, get plugged in 11pm £10/8 Cowley club Slutdisko Electropunk dance party for the chic and the freaks 9pm £free DIGITAL Hospitality: London Elecktricity, Danny Byrd, Marcus Intalex, Sonic, MC Wrec Live beat action10pm £12.50 Duke Of York’s Cinema Jumanji 11am; Ponyo 1.15pm/6pm; A Single Man 3.15pm/8pm; The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 10pm ENGINE ROOM InMe Essex rock outfit since 1996 7pm £10; Planet Hex Mix-bag tunes of the goth, punk, alt nature 10.30pm £3.50 Fishbowl Sumsuch Latenite Lounging Records boss returns with funk, hip hop and breaks 9pm £free Fortune Of War Deck Chairs: Flevans residency Expect soul, funk, breaks, dub, hip hop, house, TUUUNES 9pm £free funky buddha Buddha Soul: DJ Mike Pantelli Funk, soul, R&B, house 11pm £10; After party 3am £5 Globe Valentines Ball Basement party with free lovehearts 9pm £free Greenhouse effect London, People’s Republic of Mercia, DJ Ian Part Time Live band action and a DJ too 8pm £5 Hampton Gimme Shelter Matt Purnell plays 60s, 70s and 80s funk and soul 8pm £free Hanbury We Luv Pop Outrageous pop party 6pm £8/6 hectors house Stay Sick Anti-Valentines Bawl Special: The Sunday Kups live & garage punk rock&roll 8pm £free hobgoblin Afternoon Gentlemen, Closure, Tom Apart Hardcore punk bands 8pm £free hope Melody Engine: The Little Big Band, Coda Luna, The Wellingtons Live music crossing genres, experimental 8pm £3 Honeyclub Sevensins Pumping house & electro 11pm £10 Hydrant Flat Stanley Live punk swing, formerly the Hare & Hounds 8pm £free
JAM David E. Sugar + Support Live Music 8pm £6 Komedia Down Krater Comedy Club Standup shenanigans 7pm/10.30pm £17.50/15 Komedia Up Brighton Rock 4 decades of classic rock and metal 11pm £6 Komedia Studio The Sugar Babes Theatre from Phillipa Fordham 7.15pm £8/5, Stone To The Bone Valentines Special feat Chris ‘Da Doo Ron Ron’ & Jon ‘Born Bad’ playing disco, motown grooves for you and your lovers 11pm £6/5 Latest music bar Smarty Pants Music and comedy 7.30pm £5/4; Stick It On Be a DJ for your 15 mins fame 10.30pm £6 LEGENDS Ignition DJ Peter Castle with chart and house 11pm £free life Hold Up! Indie night 11pm £5 marlborough Cherry Pop DJ Fondue Inferno brings the cheese 8pm £free marlborough theatre Golden Ghost: George Thomas & The Owls, Woodpecker Wooliams Warming Folk 7.30pm £6 PV Booty Call DJ Soap 8.30pm £free pavilion theatre Circus Stories Aerial, silks and trapeze acts fused with animation and video 4pm/7pm £6/4 penthouse Eagle Legs Riot grrl, soul, indie 7.30pm £free Prince Albert Shrag, Deadbeat Descendant live music 8pm £tbc PROVIDENCE Sound Factory: The Chedington Indident, Lament, Prowess Heavy rock night 8pm £2 quadrant Laughing Horse Comedy Club Five comedians on offer 8pm £6/5 R BAR King K Funky house 8pm £free REVENGE Kinky Dangerous With DJs Stewart T and Smiffy, playing pop and house 10.30pm £5/3 SIDEwinder SOURCE Office Stereo: James Kendall New night from us where we play stuff that’s had us dancing in the office 8pm £free Theatre Royal Moscow City Ballet: The Nutcracker Young girl finds a magic land 2.30pm/7.45pm £33/31/16.75/14/75 three & ten The Noise Next Door Impro comedy night 8pm £8/6; International Stand-up Surreal sprinklings 9.30pm £8/6; Matt Marker Tunes and beats and solid grooves 10pm £free Volks Frequency: Lomax, Vicious Circle, D Double U, High Maintenance, Deceit Dub, Liquid, Jump up 11pm £1 West Hill Tavern Tonight We Fly Epic cinema tunes for the romantically doomed 8pm £free Western front Partytime DJs playing hip hop, house, electro 9pm £free White Rabbit Achilles Live music 8pm £free WORLDS END PUB Videostars! From 1980 to now, an indie rock journey 8pm £free
sunday 14th
Belushi’s Bar Open Mic Session 8.30pm £free Belushi’s Below Latin Sundayz Salsa & samba on the decks 9pm £2/free Black Lion St Valentines Day Special Jazz & swing 6pm £free brunswick Radio City Theatre Classical scripts, contemporary comedy and live sound effects fused 2.30pm £5; Tony Lewis Smooth jazz swing 8pm £6 coalition Frequency DJs playing house 10.30pm £free CONCERT HALL Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra 2.45pm £8-32 COrn exchange Valentines Ball: Berkeley Square Society Band 8pm £14 duke of norfolk Live music 8pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema Ponyo 1.30pm; Breakfast at Tiffany’s 6pm; A Single Man 4pm/9pm Engine Room The Brothers Movements feat. Munich Live rock music 7.30pm £5 Fiddler’s Elbow Sham-Rock Open Mic 9pm £free Fishbowl Recovery? A chilled blend of rare reggae, soul & jazz 9pm £free
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FOUNDRY Get Rhythm: Americana Unplugged Live acoustica musica 7.30pm £free Freebutt The Soft Pack, Banjo or Freakout San Diego quartet with no-nonsense aesthetic 7.30pm £8.50/7.50 Globe Sunday Funday Decks and boardgames in the basement Noon £free GREAT EASTERN Max and the Swing Commanders Jazz to gyrate to 8pm £free hanbury Valentine’s Charity Event See website Details tbc honeyclub Spectrum: Jon Byrne & Steven James Electro to keep the weekend alive 11pm £3/2 hope She Keeps Bees, The Wellingtons Hotly tipped Brooklyn duo perform live 8pm £5 HoVE PARK UPPER SCHOOL White Heat Brighton Science Festival family fun day, especially 10 to 14 year olds 10am £6 Hydrant Wrong Music Valentine’s Party: Shitmatt and friends Formerly the Hare & Hounds 8pm £free Komedia Down Baby Loves Disco: Valentines Special Baby daytime disco for family dance-time 2pm £8; Krater Comedy Club: Sarah Millian, Gary Delaney Stand-up shenanigans 8pm £11/6 Latest music bar Big Swing Live 6 piece bands 8pm £10/9/8 LEGENDS Fever Disco and pop 11pm £free marlborough Valentines Day Special Candlelit Lunch For two Noon £20; Acoustic Session Live Music 4pm £free Neptune Mike the Mic and friends Live 20s and 30s jazz 8.30pm £free OCEANA Wild Fruit: Pink Love Ball Dress in pink for this Valentine’s spectacular spectacular 8.30pm £10/7 Park view pub St Valentine Day Special: The Chemistry of love Philosophy in Pubs (PIBs) 7pm £free pavilion theatre Something Else: Tall Stories Theatre Company Featuring storytelling, songs and laughs for ages three and up 11am/2pm £7/5 R BAR Sublime Sundays Live acoustic, barmy bingo, karaoke Noon £free seven stars Mick The Mic And Friends Live music 4pm £free Theatre Royal Moscow City Ballet: The Nutcracker Young girl finds a magic land 7.45pm £33/31/16.75/14/75 three & ten Strung out Sundays Live music of the acoustic nature 8pm £free Volks Strictly Reggae: Big T Dancehall, roots, revival 10pm £5/4.50 White Rabbit Jazz Live music 3pm £free WORLDS END PUB Tragic Roundabout Singles rock night 8pm £free xuma Valentines Masquerade with live music 8pm £free
monday 15th
audio Marina & The Diamonds Live music 7pm £8.50; Club Glue D&B, dubstep10pm £3/2 Belushi’s BAR Quiz Night 8.30pm £free Black Lion Happy Mondays Open decks and mics 5pm £free Brighton dome NME Awards Tour 2010: The Maccabees, Bombay Bicycle Club, The Big Pink, The Drums 7pm £15.58 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Skeptics-in-thePub: Richard Wiseman Investigating the impossible 8pm £2 Coalition Trash Mondays Eclectic student night 10.30pm £3/2/free Corn exchange Gods Garden: Arthur Pita Fado music and dance theatre 8pm £15/12.50/10 duke of norfolk Poker Night 8pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema Ponyo 1pm/6pm; A Single Man 3.30pm/8.30pm Engine Room Cannabis Corpse, Crypsis, Chaosphere Live music 7.30pm £8 funky buddha Mashed Up M.I.A. vs Michael Jackson and the like 8.30pm £2/1/free HECTORS HOUSE Hectors Presents Live bands 8pm £free Hope The H’Open Mic 8.30pm £free
Latest music bar Our Fathers, Red Shark In Vegas, Nina Ganci Quality live music 8pm £2 LEGENDS Miss Jason’s Monday Mayhem Feat. Gay Your Cards Right 9pm £free; Chic DJ Steve Lush spins disco anthems in the basement 11pm £free Life Aka Aka Roa: Sub FM Party, Whistla, Littlefoot, Dawntreader Inspirational dubstep 10pm £2/tbc Prince Albert Ian King, The Laylanas Live music 8pm £8 R BAR Quiz With Liz 8pm £1 sidewinder Poker night 9pm £5 thomas kemp Pub Quiz 8pm £free Volks Strictly Reggae: Big T Dancehall, roots, revival 10pm £5/4.50
tuesday 16th
Audio Club NME Indie and such 11pm £3/2 Belushi’s BAR Mod For It Scooterist sounds 10pm £free Belushi’s below Elements D&B 9pm £1 Black Lion Tuesday Club Anything goes musicwise 8pm £free brunswick Open Mic Return of the mic 8pm £free Caroline of brunswick Quiz Night 8.30pm £1 Coalition SalsaBrighton Learn the moves for the clubnight later 8pm £6/4; Latin Fever Salsa & merengue music 10pm £free Corn exchange Gods Garden: Arthur Pita Fado music and dance theatre 8pm £15/12.50/10 DIGITAL Glitterati Exclusive student night 11pm £4/3 Duke of Norfolk Open Mic Night 9pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema Ponyo 1.30pm/6.30pm; Breakfast at Tiffany’s 11am; A Single Man 4pm/9pm Fiddler’s Elbow Quizness Time Pub Quiz 8pm £1 funky buddha San Frandisco Classic and new proper disco- no hen night cheese, think DFA not YMCA 11pm £free Freebutt Animal Kingdom Celestial indie a la Sigur Ros 7.30pm £tbc Full Moon Smack That: Blue Suede Shoes Tunes 7.30pm £free Globe Basement Cinema Classic and underground film screenings 8pm £free hanbury Showcase Open mic 7pm £5 jam Pot Kettle Black New indie night 10pm £2/1 Latest music bar Eat Sleep Attack, The Sunshine Getaway, Underline The Sky, Tom & The Tides Quality live music 8pm £tbc LEGENDS Scene Queen DJ Lil Alex spins in the Basement club 11pm £free life The Vice Social Student dance night 10.30pm £3/2 mash tun Mash. Drink. Repeat DJs Rich and Jay with rock, indie and electro 9pm £free marlborough Bingo’s Not A Dirty Word Winner takes all 8pm £1 Prince Albert Crooked Mountain Crooked Sea, The Levels, My Tour of Duty Live bands 8pm £tbc R BAR King K Funky house 8pm £free seven stars Retro Cult Classic Film Nights Log on to www.sevenstarsbrighton.co.uk to vote for film to be shown 8pm £free SIDEwinder Open Decks Competition Come and play 8pm £free West Hill tavern Open Mic 8.30pm £free Western front The Lobster Quadrille From 50s to present day feat Ollie and Bryn of Laylanas fame 8pm £free
wednesday 17th
Audio Supercharged: DJ Marky Breaks 11pm
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£5/3 Belushi’s BAR Old Skool Sessions 90s house 10pm £free Belushi’s Below Strapped: Student Night House, rock and pop 10pm £free brunswick Brunswick Showcase: Lisa, Jo, The Glass Room etc Live music 8pm £4/3 Black Lion Fresh Acoustics Local live music 8.30pm £free coalition Robot Rock Wonky pop and 80s synth classics 10.30pm £1 Corn exchange Beth Nielson Chapman, Marcus Hummon Nashville singer performs songs from Back to Love 8pm £17.50/15/12.50 DIGITAL The Sunshine Underground, Wild Palms Live music 11pm £tbc; Poundance Dance floor destroyers 11pm £1 Duke of Norfolk Quiz Night winner takes all 8pm £1 Duke Of York’s Cinema A Single Man 11am/4pm/9pm; Ponyo 1.30pm/6.30pm Fishbowl Fisherman’s Chronicles Acoustic jam open mic session 8pm £free Freebutt Chimes & Bells, Salter Cane, 30 Pounds of Bone Danish quartet 7.30pm £tbc fRIENDS MEETING HOUSE Alternative Energy Debate Discussing: Let’s have lots of onshore wind turbines 7.30pm £free hanbury Salsa Dance class 8pm £6 HECTORS HOUSE Max Tundra Electronic Superstar 8pm £free hydrant Quiz Including air guitar round, at former Hare & Hounds 8pm £free Komedia Up Owl City Adam Young plays Ocean Eyes 7pm £10 LEGENDS Dirty Handbag DJ Gabbi brings the party to the Basement club 11pm £free life Broke Dubstep, hip hop, D&B, house, electro 10.30pm £1 marlborough Open Mic Go for it 8.30pm £free mash tun Tin Cup Collective Five piece soul funk band 9pm £free PV Quiz Use yr noggin 8pm £free Penthouse Felt Up! DIY, craft, mess-making, music related events & projects 7.30pm £free Prince Albert Roger Clyne, The Peacemakers, Bernice MacDonald Live music 8pm £tbc R Bar Midweek Mash up Indie, rock and electro from DJ Beast 8pm £free Sallis benney theatre West Side Story Love, hate and revenge in 1950s NYC 7.30pm £11/8 SANCTUARY CELLA The Maydays and Friends, Existential Angst Comedy treats from award winning improv crew 8pm £8/6 SIDEwinder Open Decks Competition Come and play 8pm £free; Quiz Winners take pot 8pm £1 Station pub The Quiz Station For all 8pm £1 xuma Quiz 8.30pm £tbc
thursday 18th
Audio Quids In pop antics 11pm £2 Belushi’s Bar Karaoke 9pm £free Belushi’s Below Party On The Ceiling Two bands & DJ 9.30pm £2 Black Lion Attic Monkeys Five decades of tunes from Motown, 60s classics, 70s funk, 80s, hip hop and beyond 8.30pm £free brunswick Salsa Night Salsa lessons and dancing, live music 8pm £10/8 coalition Secret Discotheque Retro disco, 80s pop and other ‘uncool’ tunes 10.30pm £3/2/1 Corn exchange Courtney Pine Jazz Warrior pays homage to sax star Sidney Bechet 8pm £17.50/15/12.50 DIGITAL Thursday Club & Vagabondz presents: TBC 11pm £tbc Duke of Norfolk Live bands 8pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema Ponyo 1.30pm/6.30pm; A Single Man 4pm/9pm
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Exchange Quiz Night 8.45pm £1.50 Fiddler’s Elbow Fresh Acoustics Local live music 8.30pm £free Fishbowl Residents Association Hip hop, funk, disco, world & house 10pm £free Freebutt The Auteur Live music 7.30pm £tbc funky BUDDHA Steady On Tunes from Robert Luis, Hint, Maddslinky aka Zed Bias 10.30pm £free Globe Rockoustic Live acoustic showcase 9pm £free GRand central Swing DeVille Duo Gypsy jazz 8.30pm £free GREAT EASTERN Louis B Live slide guitar blues so have another whiskey and howl like a dog 8pm £free Hectors house Its Alive! Live music 8pm £tbc Honeyclub Fusion House, R&B, indie 11pm £3/1 hydrant Cosmo At former Hare & Hounds 8pm £free LEGENDS DLite DJ Lee Harris with some house 11pm £free .IFE Shameless: C-Dogg, DJ Nause Spinning the best and worst of half a century 11pm £1 Jam Thursday Night Fish Fry Early 50s US rhythm & blues and original Jamaican ska 10pm £3 JaZZ ROOMS Donky Pitch Wonk and glitch to whip your ears, you filthy masochist 10pm £tbc Komedia Down John Bishop: Elvis Has Left The Building Star comedy 8pm £14/12 Latest music bar Wide Eyed Order Live music 8pm £tbc; Cafe Scientifique Polymaths; Who Needs Em? 7.30pm £free marlborough Karaoke Sing it proud 8pm £free penthouse Boss Tunage Bruce Springsteen night 7.30pm £free Prince Albert Omarshi, The Kulucci March, The Devil May Cares Live music 8pm £tbc PROVIDENCE Left Hand Red, Don Von Sleaze, Dirty Leaves 8pm £1 R BAR Girls On Top Warm Up With DJ Dulcie Danger 8pm £free REVENGE Girls On Top: Thursgay Dump your girlfriend and make out with someone else’s 10.30pm £5/3 RANELAGH The Diablos Boot stompin’ country 9pm £free Sallis benney theatre West Side Story Love, hate and revenge in 1950s NYC 7.30pm £11/8 ST JAMES TAVERN Stay Sick, Turn Blue Rock&roll, rockabilly, 60s garage 8pm £free Three and Ten Brian Gittins Entertainment from roadside cafe owner 8pm £8/6 victory Open Mic Night 8pm £free Volks The Mighty Aba Shanti Sound of Jah Lightening and Thunder 10pm £tbc Worlds end The Big Cash Quiz Come on boffins 8pm £1
friday 19th
Audio Minimal Kids: Format B Techno 11pm £8/5 Belushi’s Bar Coyote Ugly Funky house, electro and dance-off 9pm £free Belushi’s BElow Dress Up Fridays Fancy dress night 10pm £2/free Black Lion Chef du Party Chef Oli cuts his way through 5 decades of tasty tunes 8.30pm £free brighton unitarian church Willkommen Collective: 20 Piece Band Playing The Miserable Rick, Sons of Noel and Adrian, Shoreline and The Climbers 8.30pm £11/10 brunswick The Hi Sides, Black Hats Indie rock 8pm £4/3 caroline of brunswick Pandemonium: DJ Peter von Sleaze Rock and metal 9pm £free Coalition Haiti Earthquake Appeal Fundraiser Surprise DJs 9pm £tbc Cobbler’s Thumb Babaslips Live reggae, ska 8pm £free concorde 2 DJ Derek, Unity Hi-Fi, DJ As-If Get ready to dance 11pm £2 corn exchange Back to Back presents: An
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Evening With Louis Theroux Part of Documentary film festival, SEE, in its 5th year details tbc CONCERT HALL African Soul Rebels 2010 7.30pm £15.50 DIGITAL Stonelove Indie rock night 11pm £5/4 Fishbowl Lack of Afro VS. The Black Lodge Funky special from Freestyle Records man 9pm £free Fortune Of War Shake Hands Lets Party Lady DJs So Molly, Heidi, Pippa, Bianca playing tunes from past 50 years 9pm £free Freebutt 6 Day Riot Quirky lyrics from pop folk kids 7.30pm £7/6 funky buddha Drink, Dance, Repeat Dan Doubledecks, Charles Green & Mikee Hollywood with an eclectic dance mix 11pm £5/3 Globe Disted Twisco Alex Webb plays broken beat, house, underground soul 9pm £free hampton Blacklodge Eclectic mix of soul, funk, disco, boogie, rare 60s 8pm £free hanbury Club Chat Noir 20s and 30s, 2 live bands, DJ Mike the Mic 7pm £10/8 Hectors house Juke Joint Live soul and blues 8pm £tbc HEIST Brighter Days: Russell Ruckman, Mick Fuller Deep & soulful house Details tbc Honey club I love R&B Cool hip hop and funky pop for the masses 10.30 £tbc Hope Synthetiquette: Pause, Videochrome Electro themed night 9pm £3 hydrant Bishbashbosh: DJ Kaz, Miss Polly, Vera Boing At former Hare & Hounds 8pm £free; Ska Punk Night: The Junk, Asbo Retards, Chukin, Liabilities At former Hare & Hounds 7pm £3.50 INK Ibiza Rebublic Party like it’s summer in Spain 9pm £tbc jam Don’t Stop Believin’ No genre or decade, classic after classic 11pm £4/3 Komedia down Krater Comedy Club Quality stand-up 7.30pm £14.50/10 Komedia studio Brighton Jazz Club: Charlotte Glasson Band 8pm £12/10 Latest music bar Tribal Fusion Belly Dance: Mira Betz, Hilde Cannoodt Middle Eastern dance and such 8pm £8; Sirens Go To France Cabaret and disco a la francais 10pm £7 LEGENDS Celebration With your old chum Dolly Rocket 11pm £free life Big Fish Little Fish Cardboard Box New night for fidget, bass, electro 11pm £6/5/4 marlborough Q&A (Queer & Alternative) Guest DJs, free pool 5pm £free Neptune Pappa George Live blues special 8.30pm £free Old Market Family Entertainments presents: Polar Bear Avant jazz quintet 7pm £10 PAVilion theatre The Treason Show Taking satirical swipes at pop culture, sports and politics 8pm £12.50/10 PAV TAV Kick Out The Jams: DJs Dynamite Sal, Eddie The Goatboy, Steve and Muffy Indie night 11pm £3 penthouse Club Seal Oddball electro and pop 7.30pm £free Prince Albert Creature, Trousseaux, Lisa Jo Live band 8pm £tbc PROVIDENCE Sound Factory Presents: Ruderalis, Breakin Bear (tbc) & Support Live hip hop 8pm £2 resident records Field Music Band promotes new album Measure 6pm £free Sallis benney theatre West Side Story Love, hate and revenge in 1950s NYC 7.30pm £11/8 Sidewinder Danceteria Boogie, house, funk from Bushy, Ed & Toast 6.30pm £free thomas kemp All Time Top 100 Special guest DJs offer their best tunes 8pm £free three & ten The Ouse Valley Singles Club Singles night for peeps who like comedy skiffle bands 8pm £7/5; Will Sumsuch Tunes and beats and solid grooves 10pm £free three graces Fall From Grace Music 9pm £free Volks Ninja Skills The struggle between light and dark on two floors 10pm £5/3 West Hill tavern Envy Indie, synth pop, dance and hip hop 10pm £free
Western front Bar Breaks Beats: DJ Stupid Kid, Judge Mental, Mute Hip hop, electro, house 9pm £free WORLDS END PUB Bass Like A Slapped Arse Hip hop, dubstep, reggae and wonk tunes 8pm £free
saturday 20th
ancient mariner Acoustic Sessions 8pm £tbc Audio Blonde Louis Live music 7.30pm £6; Club SOL Winter Sessions: Dekker and Johan Techno electro 11pm £free Belushi’s Bar Australia Day Party PillBilly’s live acoustic duo 9pm £free Belushi’s Below Retro Disco Party 10pm £tbc Black Lion Burnt Toast Soul, funk, breaks, hip hop 8pm £free BRUNSWICK KL Press: Disraeli, Special School, Rub Hip hop 8pm £5/4 caroline of brunswick Cazza Karaoke 8pm £free; Laugh Down Babylon Stand up 9pm £2 Coalition Pop Musik Tattoo parlour, popcorn & sweeties 11pm £8/6/5; Blow After Party: Vincent Manganaro, Alex Outram, Aaron Palaez 3am £7/5/4 concorde 2 Soundwave Festival & Supercharged: Trojan Sound System, Red Light, Toddla T Live Dance 11pm £tbc DIGITAL Blah Blah Blah presents: Sinden Live music 11pm £8 Engine Room Chris Murray, The Skints, Random Hand, Mouthwash Live music 7.30pm £7 Fishbowl DJ Abo & Ally Smith Dirty funk 9pm £free Fortune Of War Deck Chairs: Flevans residency Gilla guests. Expect soul, funk, breaks, dub, hip hop, house, TUUUNES 9pm £free fREEBUTT Ezio Two mad men playing rock&roll on acoustic guitars. Sweeeeet. Time tbc £12/10 funky buddha Buddha Soul: DJ Mike Pantelli Funk, soul, R&B, house 11pm £10; After party 3am £5 Globe Donky Pitch Electro, hip hop, dubstep 9pm £free Hampton Gimme Shelter Matt Purnell plays 60s, 70s and 80s funk and soul 8pm £free hanbury Margot’s Party Music and dance 9pm £10/8 Hectors house Jumping Ships, The Pursuit Live music 8pm £tbc Honeyclub Sevensins Pumping house & electro 11pm £10 hydrant Gypsy Squat Pop Project, Zora and the Tatsmiths Live music at former Hare & Hounds 8pm £free JAM The Doctors Orders Pub Quiz & Clubnight with DJ Harry Love 8pm £6/5 JAZZ Place Resonance: Heny G, Staf, Lofty, Ed West B2B Kitch, G Double Brighton launch of dubstep night 10pm £3 Komedia down Krater Comedy Club Standup shenanigans 7pm & 10.30pm £17.50/15 Komedia STUDIO Spellbound 80s night for people who hate 80s 9pm £5/4 LEGENDS Ignition DJ Peter Castle with chart and house 11pm £free life Hold Up! Indie night 11pm £5 marlborough Cherry Pop DJ Fondue Inferno brings the cheese 8pm £free PV Booty Call DJ Soap 8.30pm £free PAVilion theatre The Treason Show Taking satirical swipes at pop culture, sports and politics 8pm £12.50/10 penthouse Ultrasound Dub, house, hip hop 7.30pm £free Prince Albert Chris Murray, The Skints, Random Hand, Mouthwash Live bands 8pm £tbc PROVIDENCE Sound Factory: The Third Man
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(TBC), Your Army (TBC), Gunshot Straight Rock night 8pm £2 quadrant Laughing Horse Comedy Club Five comedians on offer 8pm £6/5 R BAR King K Funky house 8pm £free REVENGE Kinky Dangerous With DJs Stewart T and Smiffy, playing pop and house 10.30pm £5/3 Sallis benney theatre West Side Story Love, hate and revenge in 1950s NYC 7.30pm £11/8 Sidewinder Like A Sex Machine 70s tribute night - get your big trousers, big shoes and big hair on 9pm £free three graces Go Cat Go Bringing rockabilly to Hove 8pm £free three & ten Inner Badger and the Science of Sex: Julie Jepson, Rosie Wilby Double bill standup comedy 8pm £7/5; Monkey Tunes and beats and solid grooves 10pm £free toms bar Another Sunny Day Indiepop Club Indie of the Swedish, popish and British type 9pm £free Volks Black Box Techno electro 11pm £8/6 Victory Kinema 80s tunes 9pm £free West Hill tavern Artists only Bubblegum and synth pop, new wave, riot grrl, whatever 9pm £free Western front Partytime DJs playing hip hop, house, electro 9pm £free WORLDS END PUB Cake ‘Nice and spongy’ reggae, dub and partaaay tunes 8pm £free
sunday 21st
Belushi’s Bar Open Mic Session 8.30pm £free Belushi’s Below Latin Sundayz Salsa & samba on the decks 9pm £2/free Black Lion Sunday Sessions Presents Dubrockers Live Dub, reggae, ska, punk, trip hop and funk 6pm £free Brunswick Ukulele Sundays 30 ukeleles playing pop hits, oh boy!! 3pm £free; Tony Kofi & The Nigel Thomas Quartet Jazz sax king and his band 8pm £7 coalition Frequency House 10pm £free corn exchange U. Dance: South East Hampshire Dance presents youth showcase 6.30pm £8.50 duke of YORK Brazil 6pm £7.20/6.20 duke of norfolk Live music 8pm £free Fishbowl Recovery? A chilled blend of rare reggae, soul & jazz 9pm £free FOUNDRY Get Rhythm: Americana Unplugged Live acoustica musica 7.30pm £free FREEBUTT Shearwater, David Thomas Broughton Soft, folk-influenced music like a waking dream Details tbc Globe Sunday Funday Decks and boardgames in the basement Noon £free GREAT EASTERN Jez Tonkin Live country and blues 8pm £free hanbury Cabaret Lunch Live cabaret Noon £free Hectors house Slumber Party Film night 5pm £tbc honeyclub Spectrum: Jon Byrne & Steven James Electro to keep the weekend alive 11pm £3/2 hydrant Open mic With Carol, at former Hare & Hounds 8pm £free Komedia down Krater Comedy Club Standup shenanigans 8pm £11/6 Komedia studio Final Cut New shorts for film buffs 7.30pm £4 Latest music bar Vineyard, The Evening Service Live music 7pm £free LEGENDS Fever Disco and pop 11pm £free marlborough Acoustic Session Live music 4pm £free Neptune The Porchlight Smokers Live country rock 8.30pm £free Prince Albert Communion Live bands 8pm £tbc R BAR Sublime Sundays Live acoustic, barmy bingo, karaoke Noon £free seven stars Mick The Mic And Friends Live music 4pm £free
three & ten Strung Out Sundays Live music of the acoustic nature 8pm £free White Rabbit Jazz Live music 3pm £free xuma Jazz Duo 8pm £free
monday 22nd
ancient mariner Quiz Night Hosted by Sarah 8pm £1 audio Girls, Spectrals San Francisco band on Matador label 7pm £8.50/7.50; Glue D&B, dubstep 11pm £2 Belushi’s BAR Quiz Night 8.30pm £free Black Lion Happy Mondays Open decks and mics 5pm £free brunswick Brighton Folk Live music 8pm £tbc Coalition Trash Mondays Eclectic student night 10.30pm £3/2/free duke of norfolk Poker Night 8pm £free Freebutt Japandroids, My Device, Illness Maximal garage rock from Vancouver, BC. Kiss off. 7.30 £tbc funky buddha Mashed Up M.I.A. vs Michael Jackson and the like 8.30pm £2/1/free Hope The H’Open Mic 8.30pm £free Komedia Up Kathryn Williams Intimate folk songs from talented songwriter 8pm £15 LEGENDS Miss Jasons Monday Mayhem Feat. Gay Your Cards Right 9pm £free; Chic DJ Steve Lush spins disco anthems in the basement 11pm £free Life Aka Aka Roar: Pangea, Komonazmuk Inspirational dubstep 10pm £2/tbc Old MARKET City Books present Robert Winston Bad ideas? The dubious history of science 6.30pm £8 prince albert Born to Lose Live bands and miserable DJs 8pm £tbc R BAR Quiz With Liz 8pm £1 sidewinder Poker night 9pm £5 Theatre Royal La Cage Aux Folles Family values comedy 2.30pm £33 thomas kemp Pub Quiz 8pm £free three graces Mind Boggling Quiz Interactive rounds 8.30pm £free Volks Strictly Reggae: Big T Dancehall, roots, revival 10pm £5/4.50
Tuesday 23rd
Audio Club NME Indie 11pm £3/2 Belushi’s BAR Mod For It Mod & ska 10pm £1 Belushi’s below Elements D&B 9pm £1 Black Lion Tuesday Club Anything goes musicwise 8pm £free Brunswick Open Mic 8pm £free Caroline of brunswick Quiz Night 8.30pm £1 Coalition SalsaBrighton Learn the moves for the clubnight later 8pm £6/4; Latin Fever Salsa & merengue music 10pm £3/2 DIGITAL Glitterati Exclusive Student Night 11pm £4/3 Duke of Norfolk Open Mic Night 8pm £free Fiddler’s Elbow Quizness Time Pub Quiz 8pm £1 funky buddha San Frandisco Classic and new proper disco- no hen night cheese, think DFA not YMCA 11pm £free Full Moon Smack That: Blue Suede Shoes Tunes 7.30pm £free Globe Basement Cinema Classic and underground film screenings 8pm £free jam Pot Kettle Black New indie night 10pm £2/1 Komedia Up Fionna Regan Songs from new album The Shadow of an Empire 7pm £8 lATEST MUSIC BAR Catalyst Club Three talks on the Royal Society’s 350th anniversary 7.30pm £6 LEGENDS Scene Queen DJ Lil Alex spins in the Basement club 11pm £free life The Vice Social Student dance night 10.30pm
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£3/2 mash tun Mash. Drink. Repeat DJs Rich and Jay with rock, indie and electro 9pm £free marlborough Bingo’s Not A Dirty Word Winner takes all 8pm £1 penthouse Rate Noise Electro and Ninja Tunes 7.30pm £free Prince Albert Stars and Sons, Jouis Live bands 8pm £tbc R BAR King K Funky house 8pm £free seven stars Retro Cult Classic Film Nights Log on to www.sevenstarsbrighton.co.uk to vote for film to be shown 8pm £free SIDEwinder Open Decks Competition Come and play 8pm £free Three and ten This Is Not A Circus: Joey Page Comedy world 8pm £5 Theatre Royal La Cage Aux Folles Family values comedy 2.30pm £33 Volks Big Big Productions presents Nocturnal: Melinki, Mc Amari & Kinsella, Flipside, Benny B, Woolgar/Marshall, Miss-chievious, Kev B D&B, House 10pm £tbc West Hill Tavern Open Mic 8pm £free
wednesday 24th
Audio Supercharged Breaks with Krafty Kuts 11pm £tbc Belushi’s BAR Old School Sessions 90s house 9pm £1 Belushi’s Below Strapped: Student Night House, rock and pop 10pm £free Black Lion Fresh Acoustics Local live music 8.30pm £free brunswick Utter Nonsense: Roy Hutchins & Tony Hasse Rom-com about shoddy rendering 8pm £tbc Caroline of Brunswick The Funnier Farm: Jim Smallman Stand up comedy 8pm £5 coalition Robot Rock Wonky pop and 80s synth classics 10.30pm £1 DIGITAL Poundance Dance floor destroyers 11pm £1 Duke of Norfolk Quiz Night Winner takes all 8pm £1 Fishbowl Fisherman’s Chronicles Acoustic jam open mic session 8pm £free hanbury Salsa Dance class 8pm £6 hydrant Quiz Including air guitar round, at former Hare & Hounds 8pm £free jam The Recommender Live music 9pm £4 Komedia Up Jam Tarts Indie pop choir 7.45pm £7 Komedia Down Jo Caulfiled ‘Won’t Shut Up’ Sharp witted comedy 8pm £14/12 LATEST MUSIC BAR Studio Arcade, Ruse, Eddie Live music 8pm £free LEGENDS Dirty Handbag DJ Gabbi brings the party to the basement club 11pm £free life Broke Dubstep, hip hop, D&B, house, electro 10.30pm £1 marlborough Open Mic Go for it 8.30pm £free mash tun Tin Cup Collective Five piece soul funk band 9pm £free PV Quiz Infamous 8pm £free Prince Albert Nothington, The Hotlines, Break the Habit, Serf Combat West coast punk 7.30pm £5 R Bar Midweek Mash up Indie, rock and electro from DJ Beast 8pm £free SALLIS BENNEY THEATRE Unweaving the Rainbow Stunning pictures from Hubble and the latest space telescopes for all you space geeks 7.30pm £7/5 SIDEwinder Open Decks Competition Come and play 8pm £free; Quiz Winners take pot 8pm £1 Station pub The Quiz Station For all 8pm £1 Theatre Royal La Cage Aux Folles Family values comedy 2.30pm £33 Three and ten Katy and Rach Spontaneous theatre 8pm £7/5
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Western front The Lobster Quadrille From 50s to present day feat Ollie and Bryn of Laylanas fame 8pm £free xuma Quiz 8.30pm £tbc
Marchmellow 10pm £7/5 Worlds end The Big Cash Quiz Come on boffins 8pm £1 xuma Drag Queen Bingo 8.30pm £free
thursday 25th
friday 26th
Audio Quids In Mash-up 11pm £2 Belushi’s Bar Karaoke 9pm £free Belushi’s Below Party On The Ceiling Two bands & DJ 9.30pm £2 Black Lion Modern Life Is Rubbish Old school rock 8.30pm £free brunswick KL Press: The Badje, Phoenix Williams Live music 8pm £5/4 CONCORDE 2 Nick Kershaw Wouldn’t it be good if you could see Nick’s snood in real life? Well now you can. 80s pop genius graces our presence for one day only in acoustic glory 7.30 £16 coalition Secret Discotheque Retro disco, 80s pop and other ‘uncool’ tunes 10.30pm £3/2/1 DIGITAL DJ Yoda The legend spins 11pm £7.50 Duke of Norfolk Live bands 8pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema Popcorn Comedy 9pm Exchange Quiz Night 8.45pm £1.50 Fiddler’s Elbow Fresh Acoustics Local live music 8.30pm £free Fishbowl Residents Association Hip hop, funk, disco, world & house 10pm £free Freebutt The Heavy, Special Guests, I Love Zagreb Ninja Tunes 4 piece 7.30pm £tbc funky BUDDHA Steady On Tunes from Robert Luis, Hint, Maddslinky aka Zed Bias 10.30pm £free Globe Rockoustic Live acoustic showcase 9pm £free GRand central Swing DeVille Duo Gypsy jazz 8.30pm £free GREAT EASTERN Any Harrison and the Secondhand String Band Live bluegrass 8pm £free hanbury Richmond Fontain Live music from Portland songwriter 8pm £14.50/12.50 Hectors house Its Alive! Live music 8pm £tbc Honeyclub Fusion House, R&B, indie 11pm £3/1 Hope 3X3 3 bands play live 8pm £2 hydrant Harry’s Tricks Scat gypsy jazz, at former Hare & Hounds 8pm £free Jam Thursday Night Fish Fry Early 50s US rhythm & blues and original Jamaican ska 10pm £3 Komedia down Comic Boom! Comedy 8pm £8.50/6.50 Latest music bar Catalyst Club Part of Brighton Science Festival: Oh I do like to be beside the seaside 7.30pm £6 LEGENDS DLite DJ Lee Harris with some house 11pm £free .IFE Shameless: C-Dogg, DJ Nause Spinning the best and worst of half a century 11pm £1 marlborough Karaoke Sing it proud 8pm £free Pavilion theatre Peter Pansy: The Alternative Piano Very adult humour time tbc £17 penthouse Stop Rocking Fake Shit Punk, ska, rock, whatever 7.30pm £free Prince Albert Grow Claws, Soccer 96, Nimmo, Gauntlets Live music 8pm £tbc PROVIDENCE Lowlife Presents: Violet Society, Illustrators, The Parody Live Music 8pm £1 R BAR Girls On Top Warm Up With DJ Dulcie Danger 8pm £free REVENGE Girls On Top: Thursgay Dump your girlfriend and make out with someone else’s 10.30pm £5/3 ST JAMES TAVERN Stay Sick, Turn Blue Rock&roll, rockabilly, 60s garage 8pm £free Theatre Royal La Cage Aux Folles Family values comedy 2.30pm £33 Three and ten Musicbox Acoustic artistcs inc. Cate Ferris 8pm £7/5 victory Open Mic Night 8pm £free Volks Black Label: Synkro, Indigo, Riskotheque,
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Audio Battlejam: JFB & Beardyman do some uber-turntablism 11pm £8/5 Belushi’s Bar Coyote Ugly Funky house, electro and dance-off 9pm £free Belushi’s BElow Dress Up Fridays Dressing up night 10pm £2/free Black Lion Medium Rare Beats, soul & funk 8.30pm £free Brunswick The Freed Free tribute band 8pm £5 caroline of brunswick Pandemonium: DJ Peter von Sleaze Rock and metal 9pm £free coalition Kill Em All: Riton, Filthy Dukes (DJ), Micachu (DJ), Solo, O. Children (live) Stopmakingme New music night 8pm £8 Cobbler’s Thumb Wide Eyed Order 9 piece funk/folk/acoustica 8pm £free concorde 2 Local Natives Dance and swoon to dreamy melodies, tribal beats, sky-scraping harmonies 7pm £9; Underground Rebel Bingo Club 10.30pm £tbc DOME Noisettes Songs from Wild Young Hearts 7pm £14 Engine Room Vitami X, The Hard Way Live music 7pm £6 Fishbowl Etoka Recrods In Session Disco, funk, soulful house 9pm £free Fortune Of War Shake Hands Lets Party Lady DJs So Molly, Heidi, Pippa, Bianca playing tunes from past 50 years 9pm £free funky buddha Drink, Dance, Repeat Dan Doubledecks, Charles Green & Mikee Hollywood with an eclectic dance mix 11pm £5/3 FREEBUTT John Allen Pop rock from deput artist 7.30pm £12/10 Globe Pubstep Dubstep, reggae, hip hop and extra bass 9pm £free hanbury Mojo to Go Go 60s dance grooves 9.30pm £6 Hampton BlackLodge DJs playing left of centre funk, boogie woogie and beyond 8pm £free Hectors house Gotta Have Soul And Motown too 8pm £tbc Honey club Union Done all your homework? Student social time 11pm tbc hydrant Self Tuned: Trashtwon Thrillers, The Longest Days, Kreamhorn, Raising Maisie Arivmia Live music, at former Hare & Hounds 8pm £free INK Ibiza Rebublic Party like it’s summer in Spain 9pm £tbc JAM Spend the Night Together: The Perils, Kovak, Avondale Live music 8pm £4/3; Don’t Stop Believin’ Successful DJs play their guilty pleasures 8pm £4/3 jAZZ PLACE Soul Casserole A dose of hip hop fused with funky funk 11pm £tbc Komedia down Krater Comedy Club Quality stand-up 7.30pm £14.50/10 Komedia Studio Brighton Jazz Club: Geoff Simkins Quartet featuring Nikki Iles 8pm £12/10 Komedia UP Livewire AC/DC Six man tribute band 7.30pm £12 latest music bar The Heartbreaks You Embrace Cabaret play 7.30pm £5; Psychedelic Circus 60s 70s soul groove partaaay 8pm £6 LEGENDS Celebration With your old chum Dolly Rocket 11pm £free life Big Fish Little Fish Cardboard Box New night for fidget, bass, electro 11pm £6/5/4 marlborough Q&A (Queer & Alternative) Guest DJs, free pool 5pm £free Neptune The Stunt Men feat Adrian Harvey Live country, blues and rock&roll 8.30pm £free Pavilion theatre Peter Pansy: The Alternative Piano Very adult humour time tbc £17 penthouse No More Mr Lo-Fi Party tunes, indie-style 7.30pm £free Prince Albert Turncoat, Reverie, The Shadown Empire Album launch and live bands
8pm £tbc PROVIDENCE Sound Factory: Hair Traffic Control (TBC) Achilles, Pyro Rock night 8pm £2 SIDEwinder Simply Dredd: Harry K Reggae bootleg party 8pm £free thomas kemp All Time Top 100 Special guest DJs offer their best tunes 8pm £free three & ten Rabbit in the Headlights hosted by Laura Mugridge 8pm £6/5; Rusty Ryan Tunes and beats and solid grooves 10pm £free volks Slackers Convention: Tim Healey Slack residents and guests play breaks and party nonsense 11pm £5/4 West Hill tavern Turn up, Tune In Mad For It’s Jody Lee DJs 9pm £free Western front Bar Breaks Beats: DJ Stupid Kid, Judge Mental, Mute Hip hop, electro, house 9pm £free WORLDS END PUB Unity Hi-Fi Roots, dub and reggae just for you 8pm £free
saturday 27th
al duomo Muzika*: Dave Bonner (Born To Dance), Jamie Wadman, Gary Eeks, Tom Knight, Howie Back to the original party viiibe with upfront house music 10.30pm £7/5 Audio SOL Winter Sessions 11pm £free Belushi’s Bar Credit Crunch Saturdays Live acoustic 9pm £free Belushi’s Below Retro Disco Party 10pm £tbc Black Lion Pigeonhold Will B DJs 8pm £free Brighton centre X Factor UK Live Tour 2010 See your faves in the flesh 7pm £28.50 Brunswick Mulatones, Satta Heavy latin jazztronica & bass 8pm £4/3 caroline of brunswick Wicked & Dreadful Sounds Rock&roll from Born Bad DJ 9pm £free Coalition Wired: Vincent Manganaro, Carlos Ruiz 11pm £10; DPM After party 3am £7/5/4 CORN EXCHANGE Lion’s Face Opera Brighton Science Festival: Symposium on the science behind the opera’s theme - Alzheimers. Who are you? 7.30pm £5 COncert hall Anton & Erin: Steppin Out Stricly Come Dancing ballroom spectacular 7.30pm £35/29.50/24.50 Cowley club Palestine Benefit No Borders Calais fundraiser 2pm £donations Concorde 2 Devotion, DJs Hype, Brookes Brothers, Fresh, Sigma, MC ic3 Dance massive 11pm £10 Digital Playroom Interactive dance night with bouncy things, face painting and general silliness 11pm £12/8 Fishbowl Daddy Marcus Soul, disco funk 9pm £free Fortune Of War Deck Chairs: Flevans residency Tru Thoughts Roo guests. Expect soul, funk, breaks, dub, hip hop, house, TUUUNES 9pm £free FREEBUTT Xiu Xiu Pronounced shoe-shoe of course. Drawing heavily from punk, noise, ambient, techno, modern classical and folk, this Oakland Cali band is experimental indie rock at its finest 7.30pm £tbc funky buddha Buddha Soul: DJ Mike Pantelli Funk, soul, R&B, house 11pm £10; After party 3am £5 Globe Basement Disco Party DJs playing groove, disco, boogie 9pm £free hanbury Motown Gold Shake it 7pm £tbc Hampton Gimme Shelter Matt Purnell plays 60s, 70s and 80s funk and soul 8pm £free HECTORS HOUSE Playgroup Presents Live band action 8pm £free Honeyclub Sevensins Pumping house & electro 11pm £10 Hope Loose Cannon Hannam & The Panicking Hares Live originals and covers 8pm £3 hydrant The Bobby Mcgees Live tweecore at former Hare & Hounds 8pm £free; Psychadelic Mayhem Techno psy-trance at former Hare &
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sunday 28th
Belushi’s Bar Open Mic Session 8.30pm £free Belushi’s Below Latin Sundayz Salsa & samba on the decks 9pm £2/free Black Lion Sunday Sessions Presents Dubrockers Live Dub, reggae, ska, punk, trip hop and funk 6pm £free coalition Frequency House, breaks, electro 10.30pm £free CONCERT HALL Ludovico Einaudi: The Nightbook Tour 7.30pm £25/20/15/10 cONCORDE 2 Melting Vinyl present: Hadouken! , This City Grime influenced new rave indie 8pm £14.50/12.50 duke of norfolk Live music 8pm £free Duke of York cinema The Shining 6pm Fiddler’s Elbow Sham-Rock Open Mic 9pm £free Fishbowl Recovery? A chilled blend of rare reggae, soul & jazz 9pm £free Freebutt Andreya Triana, Grasscut, The Odd Couple Two Ninja Tunes acts 7.30pm £tbc Globe Sunday Funday Decks and boardgames in the basement Noon £free GREAT EASTERN Johnny Green Live rock&roll to make you feel aliiiiiive 8pm £free hanbury Cabaret Lunch Live cabaret Noon £free HECTORS HOUSE Son of Dave, Jumping Ships, Max Raptor Live band action 8pm £free
honeyclub Spectrum: Jon Byrne & Steven James Electro to keep the weekend alive 11pm £3/2 hoPE Jazz Magazine Live session feat Eddie Myer Trio, DJ Adam King 6pm £free hydrant Quiz Including air guitar round, at former Hare & Hounds 8pm £free Komedia down Krater Comedy Club Standup shenanigans 8pm £11/6 komedia studio This Just In.... Comedy improv from The Maydays 8pm £7/5 komedia UP Russell Kane’s Fakespeare: The Tragickal Saveings of King Nigel Modern woes a la Shakespeare 7.30pm £12/10 LEGENDS Fever Disco and pop 11pm £free marlborough Acoustic Session Live Music 4pm £free Neptune Forever Young: Neil Young & Bob Dylan tribute Live music 8.30pm £free Pavilion theatre Peter Pansy: The Alternative Piano Very adult humour time tbc £17 penthouse Hip Hop Karaoke Too much fun 7.30pm £free Prince Albert Winging It Comedy Night 3pm £tbc; Eastfield, Pog, Steve Lake Live music 8pm £tbc R BAR Sublime Sundays Live acoustic, barmy bingo, karaoke Noon £free seven stars Mick The Mic And Friends Live music 4pm £free sALLIS BENNEY THEATRE Life, the Universe and Everything Brighton Science Festival: Emergence - this will change your life, the universe and maybe everything 11am £10/6 three & ten Projecktor Film Club Short film showcase 6pm £5; Strung out Sundays Live music of the acoustic nature 8pm £free White Rabbit Jazz Live music 3pm £free xuma Jazz Duo 8pm £free
Exhibitions
Brighton Museum & Art Gallery The Land Girls: Cinderellas of the Soil An exhibition of land girl related stuff- predominantly pairs of ilegally altered khaki britches. Those naughty, naughty girls Until 14 March £free; The Spice of Life We can’t believe it’s taken so long for the curators to put together an exhibition of condiment containers and salt shakers. Surely Brighton has been crying out for this Until 8 August £free; Jewels On The Nile Images, paintings and etchings of Egypt captured in the 19th and 20th century Until March £free; Operation Scipio: Cyril Mount Paintings created during Mount’s military service during World War II including Operation Scipio - the famous battle at Wadi Akarit in Tunisia Until 7th February £free Crane Kalman Simon Roberts: Polyarnye Nochi (Polar Nights) Exhibition leading on from his aclaimed photographic examination of contemporary Russian society Until 7 February £free Friends Meeting House Quaker Tapestry Exhibition of massive community textile project Until 27 February £free HOVE MUSEUM Precious: Reclaiming Art & Craft Contemporary craft created from recycled tat £free Until 23 May Ink_d Artist Studio Clear-Out Big discounts on limited edition prints. View strange things from dark corners of your fave artists’ studios Until 21 February £free Phoenix Gallery A Journey Through ‘U’ Same Sky art collective take up residence to create giant installations based of bodily systems. Expect giant paper mache monsters From 20 February to 28 March £free Rodhus Gallery Terrain: Caitlin Hefferman Very visual art using paper and coloured pencil 26 February - 24 April £tbc XUMA Flood The Valley: Jimmy Swoops & Atardis Brand guerillas, stencil and screen print 11 February - 11 March £free
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six of the best
MUSIC BLOGS
no longer online vanity projects, Blogs are among the best places to try out new music before you buy WORDS BY Matt Barker, MIKE BRADFORD Photo by louie banks
THE PIONEERS: STEREOGUM stereogum.com
OK, so these early adopters of the online journal are a great place to start. They began back in 2002, when these were still called ‘Web Logs’ and nobody knew they existed. Oh, how that’s changed. Alongside a handful of others, Stereogum paved the way for many subsequent pretenders. With one of the largest readerships around you will find they are big on indie music, with many well-written posts each week. This is professionally approached, journalistic blogging.
See also: Gorilla vs Bear, Fluxblog, Brooklyn Vegan
THE LABEL BLOG: NEON GOLD neongoldrecords.blogspot.com
This is the online blog for one of the best independent electro pop labels from the East Coast of America – owners Derek and Lizzie are so good at spotting and critiquing new music that the rest of the world is constantly catching up. Take the example of Ellie Goulding and Marina & The Diamonds – they both topped The BBC’s recent Sound Of 2010 Poll, as first and second respectively. Both originated from Neon Gold’s stable.
See also: Palms Out Sounds, Fools Gold, Sheena Beaston
THE OBSCURE HIPSTERS: 20 JAZZ FUNK GREATS 20jazzfunkgreats.co.uk
Nothing to do with jazz (instead named after a Throbbing Gristle album), XXJFG appear on everyone’s blogroll (a blog’s ‘shout outs/recommended reading’ list), everywhere, making them one of the Brighton underground’s most renowned musical tastemakers. Treading the delicate line that separates the ultra-hip from anti-cool, you’ll find only the absolute cream of obscurity, from bizarre nu-disco genius to noisy prog-ecstacy. You know when you stumble upon an amazing band on MySpace with only 55 listens? One of those 55 was XXJFG.
See also: Styleslut, Transparent, Platform, Fluokids
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THE SPECIALISTS: YOU CAN CALL ME PELSKI ppelectro.blogspot.com
Growing massively in popularity during the 2006/7 electro boom, (a genre adored so much online that it even developed its own term, ‘bloghouse’), Pelski has developed and evolved into an excellent beat-orientated blog. Lovers of electronic music – particularly fidget house and dubstep – simply must stop here. Alongside his pioneering selections, the blog is superbly written, informative and deliberately ethical, electing to never post mp3s that he doesn’t have the right to.
See also: Discobelle, Missingtoof
THE SUCCESS STORY: DISCODUST discodust.blogspot.com
Perhaps the best known German blogger, Aleks is regularly first to just about all the coolest electronic offerings from the genres of pop, indie, disco and dance. Opting for a smart, clean design, readers flock here in their millions each year, but he never cashes in with banner advertising. This blog is considered a serious tastemaker, with regular, well written posts and free mp3s.
See also: Big Stereo, OhhCrapp, Trash Menagerie
THE RISING STAR:
THE RECOMMENDER therecommender.net
Originating in Brighton this blog does what it says on the virtual tin, filtering the world’s many music scenes and passing on the highlights. It’s well written and has consistently great selections, with three UK writers (two also write for SOURCE), two from America (from LA and Austin) and a photographer from New York on board. Recently selected as a BBC ‘tastemaker’, 2010 will deservedly see things expand as they launch their monthly Brighton showcase gigs at Jam (see New In Town).
See also: Pretty Much Amazing, Illegal Tender
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