Brighton

Argh this bus is bouncey
There were 2 gigs over 2 years and I can't remember which was which but
Yeah yeah Noh
A witness
Brilliant corners
Wedding present
Popguns
Blue orchids
June Brides
Primitives

There were more but can't remember.

I saw Stewart Lee at one of them. He is actually responsible for me getting into Talulah Gosh cos he wrote an article for the Guardian about them in the mid 90s

Popguns were a Brighton band right? Think I met their ex-manager at work once iirc

Think so. They weren't very good wherever they were from. I'm in a horrible Eastbourne pub at the moment cos the trains are all fucked up tonight

There's a Sarah records gig at the Green Door which I would've been all over if I hadn't already bought tickets to the London night the next day - even as we speak, boyracer, secret shine and action Painting.

I've seen 2 fake even as we speak gigs over the last 15 years which were basically Mary Wyer plus whoever she could rope into doing it but apparently these ones are the real deal. Also I think action painting may be responsible for my favourite ever Sarah single

I'm in a horrible Eastbourne pub at the moment cos the trains are all fucked up tonight

oh shit, stay warm and good luck my man! were it not 1 o'clock in the morning, i'd have sent you round to my sister-in-law's

Eh it's ok, although they kicked everyone out at 1 nobody seems to have noticed I've got on a train which is allegedly going to Hastings. If it's not actually going to Hastings I may be in a spot of bother

What’s the ILX Brighton contigent these days. Me, Nick B and Jabber Hands I know of, anyone else lurking?

me, in a month

Me also, in a month.

I'm there now and then visiting family. Should be at the Scritti gig at the Concorde2 on October 1st.

Cool, what are you all coming here to do? Timing suggests academic year?

Our Alice, from the old days of "Amber and Alice", is resident

Scritti gig!

That'd be nice...

I stupidly assumed it wouldn't sell out and then it did almost straight away! If anyone has a spare ticket get in touch.

Of course now I can't go due to, er, moving house next week...

Chewshabadoo! My ticket is yours if you want it.

cannot believe people still lose their penises over scritti, green could not sing, it's the only way he was able to reference derrida whilst knowing about the esoteric right wing core within deconstruction. emperors new clothes and that. Britney is and was by all accounts far more philosophically cogent as a pop universe, in spite of her politics being all over the place and pro-Bush.

Green sounds as sweet as anything to my ears. Anyway, thanks for your message nashwan, a very kind offer but I was out of town tonight.

If anyone is feeling bulletproof, I’m DJing on New Year’s Eve:

Looking for a dance on New Years’s Eve, I’ll be playing Italo disco, Hi-NRG and other 80s synth heavy hitters @rossi_bar with other Flex DJs and perhaps a special guest…#ItaloDisco #Brighton pic.twitter.com/88ATecRHFZ

— Matthew Balaam (@matthewbalaam) December 29, 2021

Good luck, and don't get the plague!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqdq_t2v7s4

can't promise, but i might try and make this

Can’t promise, but I might let you in.

ha you just reminded me that security guy really did not want to let me in last time, and when he reluctantly did so, he then followed me in a stood behind me watching while i bought a drink at the bar. really strange, not sure what vibe i was giving out unless i've finally achieved weird old geezer status

I don’t know what security company they use their but they are often a bit heavy-handed on the door, requiring ID etc for people clearly over 30 etc. Annoying.

(wheir is the edit button?)

hey mister, sorry i couldn't make it in the end, i had family shenanigans to attend to. hope you had fun though!

oh and happy new year brighton dwellers, we should fap sometime this month

I may be in Brighton briefly over the weekend coming

Yes, we had a good old dance, and I managed to play all of the Patrick Cowley Megamix of I Feel Love at midnight which pleased me a lot.

I’m away in Bognor of all places this weekend.

Sooo, we are going monthly for the forseable future for The Flex. Next one is tomorrow night, and then every 4th Friday:

https://www.facebook.com/events/345757667381754

https://scontent-man2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/271682810_2131711416978535_4631430061389535509_n.jpg?_nc_cat=100&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=340051&_nc_ohc=gvMUMrgziegAX9aStvC&_nc_ht=scontent-man2-1.xx&oh=00_AT-9ylQCzBmwEGf5UjxsSVv3ZnfKEUt2xuuRbU0R3vFqsg&oe=61F7262E

Only more try, but this may also be broken:

http://scontent-man2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/271682810_2131711416978535_4631430061389535509_n.jpg?_nc_cat=100&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=340051&_nc_ohc=gvMUMrgziegAX9aStvC&_nc_ht=scontent-man2-1.xx&oh=00_AT-9ylQCzBmwEGf5UjxsSVv3ZnfKEUt2xuuRbU0R3vFqsg&oe=61F7262E

Let’s make a Twitter post instead just to post on ILX :)

We are going monthly with our #brighton #italodisco night at @rossi_bar every 4th Friday.

Join us tomorrow 28th Jan from 9pm until late.

Fine cocktails upstairs, dancefloor downstairs. pic.twitter.com/C1ws2OQUYg

— Matthew Balaam (@matthewbalaam) January 27, 2022

I can see all of them, lol.

Super powers! It appears they don’t show when I look in Firefox here, but they do in Chrome.

turns out i’ve got a spare ticket for mdou moctar in brighton on 6th - anyone interested?

I’m not able to make that, but I am going to Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul the night before if anyone else is?

It's another show and this time we're playing in Hastings! South Coast people, you know what to do (come to the gig that we are playing in Hastings) https://t.co/6WzEJmjN2F

— Slum of Legs (@slumoflegs) April 8, 2022

^ anyone fancy a day trip to crowleyville?

I'm away going to see Charli XCX.

Booooo. Nick, please come to Hastings, I'd love to see you, though if you can't make it then there will be a Brighton date in October (come to both, come to both). I probably shouldn't say but there is a possibility that the October date will officially be the last. We haven't fully decided but it seems improbable that we can carry on with everyone spread out.

Nick, please come to Hastings

i probably will! :)

Fingers crossed for October, sorry to hear it might be the last though.

Was fricking great to see you, Nick & CP. Gig was messy as hell but I had a good time. (Bit of a delay in posting here as I needed about a week to recover.)

YES MATE!! :)))

Fingers crossed for that Brighton gig.

Flying visit to Brighton over the next couple of days. Anyone got any good food recommendations? We're staying pretty central and would like to keep it relatively cheap... Not fussed about style so much, so place/reputation as much as the style of food, if that makes sense. Thanks!

Welcome to Brighton! By relatively cheap is £10-15 for a main OK? A good road for eating is Preston Street, quite near the i360 tower and West Pier ruins

* Some of the best ramen you can get in the UK is at Goemon Ramen Bar (Their sister place KitoKito near the train station does good Poke too)
* Awesome Neopolitan pizza at Nanninella
* Great noodles at Shaanxi

If you want any specific reccommendations I’ll be able to offer more suggestions :)

Thank you, Chewshabadoo. We had to wing it in the end. We were staying at the end of East Street, and it was shitting it down, so we stayed local: drank in the Walrus and ate in the Curry Leaf Cafe which was lovely and pretty reasonable tbh. I've bagged your recommendations for next time!

We are also in Brighton - well, Hove - for a couple of days, so appreciate the recs too, Chewshbs.