Brighton

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

trying to provoke a reaction / start a fight and blame the left for it

which is what usually happens

it has been pissing it down on and off all day, which might make it less of a circus

cold winds blowing on all those bald heads

sounds like the guy from sleaford mods pulled a sicky cos he was too hungover to play

funny cos i never had him down as a workshy gobshite

This video was doing the rounds on Facebook last night.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU8TnvCgBqQ&feature=youtu.be

damn i didn't see that video, fucking pricks the lot of them

dunno if anyone fancies a pint later but if anyone fancies it i'm going to be at the horse & groom in hanover to watch my neighbor sing in his band l3s st00ges, who he tells me are one of brighton's top french iggy covers bands. probably go there for 9ish after laughing at arsenal get beat in the football.

Going to brave the tiny room at Fitzherbert's for the Wharves/Beards show. And it's Craig's birthday! Will probably be out late if you're up for meeting post-gigs?

i might make that! but if not hb cb!

Cheers nb!

French Iggy covers sounds awesome!

hey matt you know about this right?
http://www.seetickets.com/event/slint/the-old-market/798131

Hmmmm, I am feeling a little Slinted out these days, but if I feel like it nearer the time (and my contract is extended) I might probably be up for it.

We’re doing our italo night in two weeks (27th) at The Green Door on the off chance…

holy shit you guys:
http://fortprocess.co.uk/

Yeah, I know. It looks so good, but I think I'm going to be too wiped out financially to go.

o no! could probaly get you a tcket if you want to pay us back in the future or somethng?

C has just bought us tickets. It really is too good to miss.

I am going to be away unfortunately, looks really good though.

It's the Fort that counts

Ooooohhhhhhh boooommm.

Can't believe it took me so long to get the Fort Process gag tbh. Even after reading Craig's post.

Hahaha.

Btw, it's our debut single launch on Wednesday if anyone's around/up for it. Don't think I've spammed this thread about it before?

Definite maybe here, depends if B is in or out. Where is it?

It's at Sticky Mike's.

Fucking hell, that storm.

lightning just kept on coming

amazing pictures here:

http://www.brightonandhovenews.org/2014/07/18/picture-special-dramatic-storms-hit-brighton-and-hove/31868

love this, it's somewhere between a flying saucer attack album cover and metallica's ride the lightning:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BsymIY8CMAAIqgy.jpg

Cool!

never know whether to cheer or jeer at the tories during the pride parade

Did you see solo Ex man is playing Brighton? https://www.facebook.com/events/1468611930055399/?fref=ts

oh look at that! thanks for the heads up

Hi Brighton people. I has a question(s). Do any of you commute to London? If so, how awful is the journey? Are there seats on the train? How often is the train late? Etc.

I ask cos we have been talking about moving to Brighton for a while now and previous plan was to just up sticks quit job and everything but I quite like where I work at the moment and my boss is one of my best friends so I'd feel very guilty about just upping and leaving 4 months after she got me the job. I've done the commute the other way round plenty of times (a previous job was at a company with a Brighton office and I used to go down there once a week) and that was fine, I had an entire carriage to myself sometimes, but I doubt it'll be much like that the other way round!

Where in London? Even commuting up from my lady's place to London Bridge a few days in a row knocked me out, but I know one ILXor's brother lives there and commutes every day.+

Craigo Boingo works in Crawley, which is maybe 3/4 of the journey to London? (I am bad at judging measurements, though.) I will direct his attention to this thread if he doesn't see it before tonight.

From my perspective our quality of life definitely dropped when the job moved, but then we were exceptionally lucky before as he was working five minutes saunter down the road. I do know people who do the commute fairly easily, and if you've done the distance before, just the other way, you probably have some idea of whether or not you'd be okay with it. But personally I would say avoid it if you possibly can because it's hideously depressing and awful.

my neighbours on both sides do that commute every day and i have to say i don't really see a whole lot of them during the week. think major train delays happen every two or three months? landslides, floods, shitey infrastructure, that sort of thing

My experience is that there's generally seats on the train, as Brighton's the first stop, if you turn up 10 minutes early - but those 10 minutes can seem an awful imposition depending on when you need to get up for. Of course if you need to change in East Croydon or something, you probably won't get a seat on the second leg.

On the way back, trains do start in Victoria and (generally?) don't in London Bridge, so that makes a difference. You might get a seat after Croydon / Clapham / Gatwick though.

The only serious train problems I've noticed are if she's going back to Brighton on a Sunday, when it seems like toss a coin to see if there's going to be a train or a bus.

I work between Liverpool St and Old St so London Bridge isn't that far away.

I finish at 5:30 so I don't think I'd be that late home, it's the getting up early that'd kill me I think.

just make you sure you don't try to emulate this venal fool if you do, quite why someone who could easily afford to pay for a chauffeur driven car every day would risk prosecution to save a few grand a year is a mystery but such is life

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/11007691/Unmasked-at-last-the-City-high-flyer-who-dodged-43000-in-train-fares.html

Ah, well there are gates at Brighton station so that'd be tricky anyway.