Brighton

yeah, it's usually small/unknown bands. last year Rhythms of the World sent a bunch of Hitchin acts up there to play.

"down there", maybe I should say, if we're gonna get polarist about it.

Also... you decided to call your band 'The Upskirts'? Really, guys?

ha i saw that, is crepey-core a thing now?

Everyone go and see Charlie Straight!

wer ist charlie straight?

They're a Britpop-influenced group from the Czech Republic who are much better than any British equivalents i can call to mind. They're one of the biggest bands in their region (and have won an MTV Europe award) so it's an unusual chance to see them in a much smaller venue. They're also unbelievably lovely. Might not be everyone's style but i think they're pretty great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iGpTxiDMCA

A friend of mine is playing at Westhill Community Centre on March 1st, I shall be attending. http://theexperimentalsoundingboard.tumblr.com/MARC1st

Ooh, that sounds interesting. A little pricy seeing as I don't know who any of them are, but the mister's away that weekend so I need to find things to occupy myself, so maybe...

A little bit expensive I will agree. Ben UFO and Paul Woolford doing a 5-hour b2b this Friday at Life is only £5! I guess that will make most money on the bar though, do they even sell drinks at the WCC? I’ve never been there.

Totally read WCC as 'White Chocolate Cheesecake' there. Too much time on ilx.

But as for the Westhill Hall, nope they don't sell drinks, it's BYOB. Which I think is a plus point.

Oh, and this:

http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/10234245.Man_arrested_for_murder_after_woman_dies_following_argument_in_Brighton_street/

Horrible story, must have been very distressing to have heard that going on. Was a young gothy gamer couple:

http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/10236783.Wife_stabbed_to_death_in_Brighton_street/

The brunette was rushed to hospital but died later.

WTF? That's terrible fucking writing, and actually quite offensive in its clumsiness.

God yes I saw that, wtf

Eeeeeesshhh horrible :-(

Full details of the Mego day in Bexhill, that's an expensive one too:

http://editionsmego.com/release/eMEGO+170

How was Hacker Farm btw Emily?

Aw man, they were ace. I think I got a little over-excited when they pulled out the Mute Synth, though. ^__^

http://www.thewire.co.uk/images/artists/dirty_electronics/IDC_Connection_and_Ribbon_C.jpg

^ Is that this thing?

ps got any foe-toes?

Yeah, the circuit-boardy thing! I did take a few photos, but, uh, I've got about 6 months worth of photos to stick up on flickr/facebook, so it might take a while...

I love my MuteSynth.

Me too. <3

I am very tempted by Bexhill, but will see how the finances are in April.

Ben UFO and Paul Woolford tonight if any fancies making me just the weird old man in the club, rather than the alone weird old man in the club.

i do kind of fancy that but i've got a whole bunch of stuff to do tomorrow that i need to be semi-alive for. also i just realised that i never did get back to you about simon munnery, so i have been extremely lame, sorry matt

otoh i did go and get a swans ticket in the end and probably up for pub quiz thing this week too if that is still happening (?), so not a total washout here

Swans FAP yEAh!!

In the end I had a massive deadline (joys of freelancing workflow) so couldn’t make Simon Munnery anyway.

yeah i'm up for swans fap, nothing like the music of michael gira for bringing folk together

the missus and i will be down for maybe a couple of days, so cool.

i can't do ben ufo tonight, godspeed chewshabadoo

Cheers. Is anyone going to Reich, yay, doing Radiohead, hmm.

Reich doing Radiohead, WTF????

pub quiz thing this week too if that is still happening - Yes! It is! You actually reminded me, there. Not having to do all the work this month meant I'd kind of forgotten about it. Hopefully we'll be back to having a good number of teams again this month.

Swans FAP will be good, but please don't let me destroy myself by Fisu too much, as it's my new band's debut gig the next night, so I have to be at least a little sentient.

http://brightondome.org/event/2726/steve_reich_radio_rewrite/

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v472/birdnestsoup/DSCF9641.jpg

Someone's built a stone circle built out of fly-tipped hardcore just up the Ditchling Road from me, hard to get a decent picture cos it's quite a flat feature, but it was nice to stumble upon it out in the murk with the dogs today. Feels like a good spot for it, sits right where lines drawn north-south from Ditchling Beacon to Hollingbury Castle and east-west from the Amex Stadium to Asda bisect. Good place to sit and look at the shredded plastic bags blowing around on the hawthorns, see the crows having a go at the dead fox by the main road, that sort of thing.

Haha, wow.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v472/birdnestsoup/DSCF9652.jpg

It's quite a big circle! Just for scale, here's Badger sitting by the central cairn (he always kind of looks like he's pondering the cosmos btw, but I think he was genuinely feeling the vibe here)

I am not really a fan of dogs, but Badger looks like a Good Dog.

It's true, he's a good sort (when he's not digging up the *#~£$! garden)

Team NickB is a man down for tomorrow, putting in a distress call here for Matt, you gots to help me boy...

I had a heavy weekend to say the least, but will hopefully be rested enough for tomorrow, may have a couple of friends coming too who could help on the indie side of things.

Yeah, dooo it!

(Oh, I've been informed by the landlord that the chef has left, so sadly no bargain burgers anymore.)

xxp
how was life on friday night?

Music was very good as I expected, crowd was very student meat market though, I could have been the dad for almost everyone there, eek! I’m used to small crowds of heads aged late twenties and older normally. Too much crowding and people just walking through the dancefloor to really lose myself in the music until about 3 or so. Ended up going up to London on Saturday night to erase the bad memories!

yeah, that's been my experience pretty much every time i've been down to one of those clubs, even for ppl you wdn't expect to draw that sort of crowd, e.g. theo parrish. good house/techno nights in brighton do seem in fairly short supply, unless i'm just totally out of the loop (fairly likely tbh). i've been to some good things at the green door store and there's this new 10 below place opening on ship street that looks like it might have some decent stuff on.

has anyone been to any of the go bang 'warehouse' parties? i like the name, no idea if they're any good or not.

If you fancy something deep, this will be the real deal, although a little away from Brighton: https://www.facebook.com/events/523063584379317

oh nice! i know lewes well, wonder where that will be. but i will be in london for vakula/MMH/fulton that night...

Damn, I think that quiz night broke me.