Brighton

The West Hill do indeed do food in the evening (there is a cheaper burger offer for quiz nights, too). I think there's one night a week the chef has off - maybe Wednesdays? But I'd double check that rather than taking my word for it.

If you are able to make it Matt, I'll probably be getting there for 7.45-ish. The other one of us is apparently going to be running quite late, so gosh, sounds like I'm going to have ample opportunity to fully expose the tremendous bulging girth of my own ignorance, oops

Thanks Emily. if I don’t make it tonight – which is looking unlikely – I’ll definitely make sure I can come to the next one.

how's the house hunting going anyway?

I'm sure you'll be fine, Nick. We have a rather odd range of people turn up, from "absolute music dork" to "why are you even at a music quiz?"

(not luke from helm btw. i've seen him before when he was in birds of delay with steeeve)

oh, I wondered what happened to Birds of Delay, but I was clearly just not lurking on the right regional threads to find out

(they were rather good when they came to Oxford supporting Axolotl, back in the day when Oxford still had interesting gigs. then again I seemed to be the only person there who didn't know the promoter and therefore possibly the only paying customer, so maybe it is no surprise that nobody bothers to come to town any more)

yeah, one of birds of delay became helm, the other one became heatsick, and both of them ended up on the pan label

ps come to brighton

Birds were great, yep.

COME TO BRIGHTON, SPACECADET.

I looked at a few houseshares on Gumtree, and I picked the only one I saw in person, so pretty painless really. Moving in this Friday.

what bit of brighton have you ended up with?

The Muesli Mountain, not lived in BN2 before so it’s all new.

That's the bits off Southover Street? My girlfriend lives up there. It'll keep your calves healthy!

Aye, that’s the one. I was always heading up there to do to Archers, which is a great butcher and I’m now very close to it. I’m not very far up the hill, only 5 roads or so.

Does Brighton have a big Czech community? A friend's band is coming over to play The Great Escape and was wondering whether they might be able to advertise in Czech shops, bars, etc if there are any.

Hm, not that I can think of. I know one guy who does Eastern European folk music promotion, if that's related? Also, I found this though I can't understand what it says, but I guess they might do better: http://www.kotolna.com/

(Tell them to play Nottingham, that does have a massive Polish/Czech/Slovak community.)

Sadly bad weather meant fuck all people turned up so we postponed the quiz... still had a great evening, though I think we might have broken Nick. Oops.

Is it weekly?

Emily, just added you on that Facebook after finding an old quiz invite on there.

There are quizzes on every week, but it's a rotating lot of people who set them. We're the fourth Tuesday of the month. The others are Hold Up, Jon Born Bad and Melting Vinyl.

xp - cool, just accepted ^__^

That was good fun last night, but sorry if I was kind of a mumbling wreck by the end of it. Brutally long day today, only managed 90 minutes sleep last night :(

Also, I could murder a biscuit.

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ljhtlxNial1qe1ney.jpg

oh god

oh yeah i had an idle thought on my way home that the shape up and dance series was maybe where shut up and dance got their name from?

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That's quite possible, actually, yeah. (re: shut up & dance)

shut up and dance ft. isla st clair

what the heck is 'i do it all for you' anyhow? 'if you can't stand the heat (get out of the kitchen)'?? these are made up songs right?

I think the latter was the first time I'd heard the phrase, without a YouTube I'm not sure how it goes.

Thanks emil.y! That website will be enormously useful!

Both Bucks Fizz tracks? I like the disengaged audience..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5aur6XEfz0&sns=tw

ha, the fetish wear in that thing

so hacker farm thing SOLD OUT already
yah boo fuck you :(

^ sorry, that was an expression of disappointment rather than a grump at anyone

^ lazy disorganised idiot wonders why he always misses out to motivated smart folks

Feeling out of touch, I don’t even know who they are!

Is anyone else off to Swans? My new housemate got me a ticket.

That's a heck of a new housemate you have! Was kind of thinking about going but it's a bit expensive and I haven't really been into recent Swans enough to want to stand there for three hours while old whats'isface yells at me. But I might come around to the idea yet...

Well, I did say I would pay, but still good. :D

He’s a friend of the landlord, who it turns out organised the Loop festival.

Damn you're well-connected already!

Heard any rumours about the Great Escape line-up btw?

I haven’t. I never bothered going to it before, was put off my industry queue-jump etc.

Yeah, the only bits of Great Escapes I've been to are when I've lucked out on a guestlist spot by having mates play. The line-ups are never good enough for the hassle.

I should be going to Swans, I think. I can't remember if the mister bought tickets already though.

Never been before either! But every May I get sad when there are a bunch of bands playing here that I can't get to see (Gang Gang Dance and a few others in 2011, can't remember who played last year)

So I might eventually crack and buy a pass

Does anyone fancy escorting me to Ben UFO and Paul Woolford at Life on Friday 22nd?

This thread being bumped reminds me - I'll be in Brighton for the days surrounding the Swans gig in April if anyone fancies a meet-up.

This sounds exciting:

http://escapegreat.com/uncategorized/poland-to-be-our-lead-international-partner-for-tge-2013

Wish I coulda seen the Hacker Farm

Does anyone fancy escorting me to Ben UFO and Paul Woolford at Life on Friday 22nd?

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i might go to that, altho all those seafront clubs give me the fear a bit

Haha Jabba, just close your eyes and forget about the idiots around you is my advice in most clubs.

DL, yeah I’m up for that, are you at Swans too?