Posts tagged “Brighton music scene

nice & friendly: a festival

event link here

We’re on at 6pm on Saturday 17th, between Maz Clarke + Sister Wendy and Blue Spectre (doors at 2:45, curfew 11pm).  We’re in the Brunswick’s classy upstairs room on the bigger stage for a change – although I like the cellar bar scum dungeon too.  Some ticketing info:

Full access weekend ticket: £15 (online) £16 (OTD)

Full access Saturday ticket: £12 (online) 13 (OTD)

Friday Night only: £6 (online) £7 (OTD)

Saturday upstairs only: £8 (online) £9 (OTD)

Saturday downstairs only: £6 (online) £7 (OTD)

…All correct at time of writing – as is the line-up.  Thanks to Come On Rock Music for a titan organisational effort: will be a blast x

bleeding for my art – which I hope not to do all over that nice, classy stage


no sleep till…

Peer Hat – w/ Good Boy Nikko & Kodak Kid

Pipeline – w/ Nil By Habit & The Wondering Weskits

Paradiddles – w/ Jenny Hallam & Sam Cooper

Yuck Club – w/ Astoria, Pest, The Mooches & Elliot Cook

Nice Friends (@ The Brunswick) – w/ Jess Newton, Route 500, The Gaslight Illuminati, Seadog, The Atom Jacks, Blue Spectre, Failed Psychics, Indigo Riot, Maz Clarke + Sister Wendy, Patients, Sypha, Princess Alice Manor, Katja Macabre, Weekend Death Cult & Spleen

…Someone call an ambulance.  Actually, no – that’s not a rigorous schedule at all, not really. It is pretty cool, though. Nice to get out of town; nice to get back to town. Nice to play anywhere. Nice to be alive!


visual riches, Oct ’21

A brief whizz of noise from Bar 42 the other week – song is Ugly Man.

Here’s the recent Eight Miles High Club gig in Brighton…  had some good gigs lately, but this one had to be the most fun in a while – with 2) Fane 3) Melt Plastic Group & 4) the edge of an energetic crowd: all fantastic.

Eight Miles High Club on instagram


Hectic Night review

As previously mentioned, Hectic Night (out now on Bandcamp) is a free download live LP we recorded in January, live in the studio.  I was saving it for a rainy day, and this has to be the rainiest year

Plugged in Brighton have given it a track-by-track review, link here – “a troubled troubadour running in and out of dark alleyways being chased by god knows what seeking who knows what.”

Read and see if the music matches the words… I reckon so, but then I’m biased.


Feb gig & a new song on the radio

Next gig’s with Skinny Milk & Leisure Tank on Wed 26 Feb at the Prince Albert here in Brighton, and will be hellish noisy.  Lots more to follow, too (in fact, got stuff lined up till July already)…
A live studio recording of a new song can be heard on the Garden of Earthly Delights show, 1BTN FM.  The song’s called A Friend From Far Away, and is about halfway in (track 12).  It’s an eclectic show, with something for all but the most jaded, sordid and glutted.  Have a dabble:
 

NO POSITIVE VIBES!!! (a proposal)

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we’ve all been there, right?

I’m thinking of starting my own regular music/performance event here in Brighton.

There’s a lot of smug, cosy, middle-of-the-road bullshit for grownup children – and very little that’s genuinely got any darkness or challenge to it.  Something has to be done, and soon.  Therefore, I propose:

1st shot

(Although I back-pedalled later on the “we don’t want yr money” bit, when someone – quite rightly – pointed out that making it free was, in its own way, just as blithely bourgeois as the stuff I was railing against… and meant the bands couldn’t get a share of the door.  I stand corrected…  And from now on, you pay!)