Brighton

It's been falling into the sea for the 15 years or so I've been going down there. Is that not gradual enough for you?

Moar bombscare yesterday, just around the corner too. Had forgotten the last one was only 2 month ago.

Yargh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ej3yal4jRKI

Did they scrap that shitty Brighton eye idea?

I was down there having a look earlier today, not much water left but pebbles and seaweed all over the place, so you could tell it must have been quite something. Did notice that the only kiosk under the arches that didn't have sandbags against the door was Eva Petulengro's, clairvoyant my arse.

Your arse is never a medium, etc

you can always be relied on for a wisecrack though

wins: as far as I know the financial backer pulled out of the i360 (really?) and now the council are considering getting a £35m loan to build it themselves. I would quite like to go up the thing once, if it was cheap, but I’m not convinced it is a sound long term idea.

I think my favourite pointless viewing tower is this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gateway_Arch

Anything interesting going on this weekend? Will be in town tomorrow afternoon to Sunday afternoon.

Looks like a bit of a quiet weekend, not sure that there are any good gigs on at all

Oh well. Thanks anyway.

Would suggest a Poo FAP but I've got an early morning on Sunday

Sweet Williams & Henry Blacker at the Fitz for free on Friday, but I probably won't make it; at a party on Saturday.

From the descriptions I found, it sounds like Sweet Williams & Henry Blacker might be something I'd enjoy, but Mrs Poo is not so sure. Thanks anyway Emil.y!

If you are intersted in house and techno - snd who isn’t? - Ed’s vinyl are doing a pop-up shop with in-store DJs, and are also doing a one-off record-cutting service. Apart from that, not much on.

RIP Borderline:

http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/11098769.Brighton_s_Borderline_Records_closes_doors_for_the_last_time/

RIP. Though they did say they were closing last year, so it's been coming for some time.

Yeah, I went in the other week and they had more on sale than usual, but no actual indication they were closing soon.

if anyone fancies a sunday lunchtime pint or two this weekend, i've got a +1 for the esben & the witch/thought forms gig at the hope (12-3pm). might hang around in town watching the football/eating after that cos it's stephen o'malley w/ aluk todolo at the GDS later on too (note to self: don't forget yr earplugs)

Maybe, but don't keep it aside for me as I'm horrendously sick right now so shouldn't be committing to anything. Not going to the SO'M show, either, wrote it off as a bit too expensive.

aw no, hang on in there em! o'malley is a bit pricey i guess, also i know i'm going to spend half the time having a panic attack that station concourse is going to come crashing down on our heads (note to self: maybe a hard hat too)

I am spinning Italo on Friday at Fitz and have a friend down but he is leaving on Saturday morning, so could possibly be interested but can’t commit.

I’m also playing at the Green Door Store next Thursday before Good Friday - house/techno/disco type stuff, pretty excited but hoping it will stay busy!

Shame about Borderland. I remember it when it was upstairs in the old Jubilee Shopping Centre!

Borderline, even.

In London next Thursday but good luck w/ that Matt! Be good to see you at some stage in the near future if you can't do Sunday anyhow. Are you lot all Sleaford Modding?

Definitely. I will try and come along on Sunday, why is it on so early?

Brighton, I was in you this afternoon. You was lovely! You have the best sounding pebbles anywhere. Every time I see you, you have a little less of the West Pier and it makes me a bit sad. I lust after your 20-hole vegetarian boots so hard. Maybe next time!

Apparently Sleaford Mods has sold out already? WTF?

why is it on so early?

i dunno! i think it's kind of nice myself, but i'm trying to be a daylight hours person at the moment. possibly the antithesis of everything you hold dear, i know i know

you have a little less of the West Pier and it makes me a bit sad

i mostly think it looks really shit now imo, and the sooner it falls down the better really. but every now and then you get a foggy day down there and it looks amazing looming up out of the gloom and its mystery is restored once more

emil.y: did you not get a ticket for SM? can you wangle one somehow?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WckSWlEf2nM

EATW have surpassed themselves w/ their new stuff imo, been good to see them getting better and better and better

I'm pretty rubbish with getting advance tickets, though we do have tickets for Melt Banana, whenever that is. Not sure who's promoting SM, and I'm not very comfortable pestering for preferential treatment even with good mates, so I guess I've got to abandon that. Pretty sure "you know my brother and we've had a couple of conversations and a general nodding acquaintance" wouldn't really truck with the band, either, heh.

well, if you get desperate i'm prepared to surrender mine cos i feel like they're more your band y'know. just lemme know if you need it

Aw that's nice of you but I'll be okay, I saw them in the Chameleon in Nottingham a while back, which is the proper environment for them, obviously. Besides which, I'm going to be skint as shit by the end of the summer so it's probably a good thing in disguise. Playing in bands costs so much money.

oh well, just say if you change yr mind. you'll have to teach me some nottingham things to shout

I may be too late, but I can’t get through on your mobile - if that ticket is still going spare I would be up for coming along.

cool! i'm watching the marathon to the moment and i'm gonna walk down after that, so should be there at 12:40 ish. see you outside? it's at the hope btw

Sounds good!

Tickets for the Ex are reportedly running low, if anyone hasn't grabbed one.

Got mine the other day after persuasion by Nick.

turns out you didn't miss sleaford mods after all. one of em - possibly jason - went awol in south london and didn't show up

support act was some gurning young chancer from york trying to do a shirtless sleaford mods jr, but just ended up as an unfortunate cross between iggy pop and lee evans

my boring saturday night

hey does anyone else keep seeing ben wheatley aound town? i *think* i've seen him a couple of times now in the past 7 days. unless he has a local lookalike that hangs out in the north laine...

I’m guessing you are back home now?

yeah, came back via the mike chapman gig at the westhill

Ah yeah, I heard that Sleaford Mods got cancelled. Very strange.

Would not recognise Ben Wheatley if he came up to me and said "hi, I'm Ben Wheatley" so I have no idea.

I'm being rubbish and hungover and not shouting at fascists today.

http://dorkshelf.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads//2014/03/Ben-Wheatley-F2.jpg

^ this guy, but wearing a black knitted hat and a shabby black coat

have not been actively anti-fascisting either, but have been hoping they all fall down the hole that's opened up in the seafront road, except ideally they would end up in a vat of steaming poo instead of the four tuna war

why is there a nationalist march in brighton of all places