Brighton

Ah, yeah. I think there's four or five nights with awesome gigs in the lead-up to my show on the 3rd, and I just can't do them all without fucking myself up.

yeah, you need to post up details of your gig btw

I think it’s on that Facebook

You should be able to look without being a Facebooker

http://www.facebook.com/events/529165583789789/

Cheers for that. For those unwilling to click away from ilx for even a second, it's Wednesday April 3rd at the Prince Albert, £4 advance, £5 otd. Ace Bushy Striptease are the headliners, and they're really fucking good lo-fi shamble-punks, if you like that sort of thing.

w00t! (will try to make that)

Yay, another midweek 6am session. :S

Argh. Actually, the band is trying to work out rehearsal dates, and it might be the case that I have to sack off Swans, and thus SwansFAP, in favour of getting a last-minute practice in. Being our first gig, I kind of think that has to take precedence. Might not be the case, but it's looking likely.

Oh no, that cannot be!

We want Swan FAP

lol

Excelsior!

Jabba Hands: I was wondering, do you mix? I’m always up for playing records with people. Also thinking about finding a venue with decks for a low key thing and would be good to have someone else to do it with.

i don't! not in public anyway. but i would be very happy to come and listen to you play records at a low key thing...

Another quiz at the West Hill tomorrow, if anyone fancies it/is still allowed to.

Haha. Would love to, but may need to skip this months one. However, you never know.

ppppppuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuubbbbbbb! will check it out with home

things were kicking off a bit here on campus earlier:
https://twitter.com/TheBadgerNews/status/316206252550144002/photo/1

https://twitter.com/TheBadgerNews/status/316205944503689216/photo/1

Yeah, a few friends were on campus protesting. Been a bit skittish about that sort of stuff since the horrors of the '10 protests so didn't make it over myself.

managed to post this on the dj koze thread, ha

where should i eat before swans? never been to brighton before!

Are you a vegetarian/vegan? What's your price range? Pub grub, restaurant, or chippy?

Soo many choices :D

Been a bit skittish about that sort of stuff since the horrors of the '10 protests so didn't make it over myself.

Appreciate that, got kind of a queasy feeling myself seeing the police getting changed into their crash helmets and whatnot. Don't think that evolved into much of a situation though, but I didn't stick around for long after that. Good turnout, shame some poor bastard had all their files burnt.

Eat everything not too bothered about price, nothing too fancy - won't have long. Amazing fish and chips type place if it exists?

Fish and chips is probably the thing I know least about here, as I don't like it that much. I know the Globe used to do a good pub meal version, but I'm pretty sure they've changed kitchen staff since then.

this is the place you want: http://www.bardsleys-fishandchips.co.uk/

otherwise my usual recommendation is planet india, amazing veggie indian food in what feels a bit like someone's front room.

Always preferred the chips at Bankers myself, but that's totally the wrong end of town.

Am probably up for pre-Swans fap & food if anyone else is interested. Trying to think what pubs do half-decent food in Kemptown.

Bardsley’s is really very good for fish, and the chips aren’t too shabby either, you can eat in too. I was away for a couple of years and thought it wasn’t that much better than the places I was going to up north, but I was surprised how good it was.

I’ve had some great food at Planet India in the past, but again not for a couple of years. Someone said it wasn’t that good recently, but I need to try it again myself.

Ginger Dig is probably too expensive for pre-gig food/drinks. Not sure at the moment what’s around that neck of the woods.

Ginger Dog.

Barley Mow

cheers, ginger dog looks nice, saw pics of fish and chips and remembered what a mistake that is most of the time!

rarely get to see the gf so we'll prob do a nice meal together before the gig. afterwards tho... does brighton have a pub/bar that's open late? extra points for good booze and music.

Wellll, West Hill is open pretty late, even midweek, music hit and miss depending on who’s in control. There are options.

Are a few people going to Tenderhooks tomorrow? Should be back after my Welsh adventure and after a change from duf-duf-duf.

I mean hookworms. It's been a long weekend.

Planning on it, though I'm knackered from last night's gig and going to Bilge Pump tonight, so god knows if my ageing body can handle the full five nights in a row of music I'm supposed to be doing.

can't make it to hookworms i'm afraid but did notice that resident had sold out of tickets for it. dunno if they'll have any left on the door or not...

hey emily, did you spot that arse tv moore is playing here again at the end of the month?

also old school wonky folk drone champs and long time heroes of mine, the supreme dicks

Ah, yeah, I heard our Stevie was back but I don't think I'd clocked when. Don't think I've heard any Supreme Dicks, will check them out.

Err, feeling supremely ropey this morning and have only had a couple if hours sleep. I think yesterday's planning has gone awry already, and all I will be doing tonight is sleep.

I'm feeling pretty crappy too so gonna skip this one. A shame, as they are really great, but I need to be on reasonable form for Weds. Blargh.

Ya, you take it steady and hope yr feeling perkier come Wednesday.

Supreme Dicks are perhaps deservedly obscure, but they were originally around in the first part of the nineties and got lumped in with people like the Sun City Girls and Tower Recordings in that they shared that same loose and often rambling approach to making improvised rock music and with fairly nonsensical stream-of-consciousness lyrics to match. Unlike either of those two though, they never really incorporated exotic sounds at all, but just focused on dismantling psychedelic rock in a way that makes me think of them as direct descendents of the Red Crayola. Very slack sounding and somewhat folksy, not really big on tunes but they do okay anyway. Guess it's probably Dylan putting them on?

Anyhow... SWANS

FAP

Grr, woke up with a head cold today. Let me know where you’re going to be before and I will try and make it for one at least.

have any of you lot been involved in the Sussex protests? Seems like things are getting a bit hairy...

SWANS FAP: Can't remember what's good down that end of town so I'm going to aim for the Barley Mow at 7-ish if anyone fancies that...

Sussex protests: I'm a member of staff there and have been along to a couple of the protests. Last one I was at looked like it could have turned a bit iffy, but the police seemed mostly happy to observe. That was a week ago though, not sure what's going on now and I'm not on campus today. Has something else happened?

Ah okay, have just seen that the police and bailiffs have closed down the occupation. Did think they might have timed that for today while campus was pretty much shut down for Easter with only a minimal staff presence and no students around.

xp "riot vans on campus earlier and various bits of electricity/lighting shut down around the building" from my source.