Posts from ‘March, 2009’

[ April 9, 2009 11:00 pm to April 10, 2009 4:00 am. ] [caption id="attachment_1936" align="aligncenter" width="480" caption="A-Trak Photo by Angela Boatwright"][/caption]

The Blah Blah Blah boys had Fake Blood Digital only a few weeks and now comes the news that A-Trak is coming just before Easter. He’ll be here on Thursday 9th April. What’s even better is the next day is a bank holiday so people don’t have [...]

[ March 27, 2009 11:00 pm to March 28, 2009 4:00 am. ] [caption id="attachment_1914" align="aligncenter" width="480" caption="Photo from Bromberger's MySpace"][/caption]

B-Side & Modelisme records are teaming up for another scorching event. Providing the best underground house, minimal and tech at one of Brighton’s most intimate venues – Micro. Located right next door to digital for those not in the know.

Sebastien Bromberger (Modelisme records, FR)
Tiger Lilly / Alex Downey

Live [...]

Wednesday night saw the unveiling of the artrepublic winner of the Art of Hope competition, Archi Ram, with his witty entry of Bob Hope on a ten pound note. He was one of three finalists including Jimi Jugio and Toad who were whittled down from over 120 entries via social media platform Flickr, a massive success and great quality entries that made choosing the winner a testing task by local, established artists Hutch and Graham Carter.

[ March 28, 2009 11:00 pm to March 29, 2009 4:00 am. ]
Sofa-loving Slackers Convention have come up trumps with London bass-riding rude boys 2 Bit Thugs as March headliners at their bi-monthly night, now residing in a more apt home – the dirty, sweaty, sea-facing Volks.
The 2bit boys bring a bit of dubby bass wobble and hip hop punch to the largely breaks/techno-oriented night, or [...]

Local indie band Super U may well have a flute but this is no band camp. They need YOU! Or more importantly female dancers this Sunday 29th of March to feature in their new video, if you are available between 10 and 6, drag yourselves out of bed for your 15 minutes of fame. The [...]

Brighton has enough clubs and bars to give yourself serious liver problems for life. Well, maybe not so lucky for the liver, but great for your social life. You’d think in a financial crisis our venues would be doing all they can in these digital days to get in new business. From what we have seen online, this really isn’t the case.

Matt Mixes
As Brighton Fusion dips its toe into the online social networking of Twitter, it has lent the opportunity to reach out to the masses and really engage in this web 2.0 carry on. So, thank you to Matt following a shout out that we need YOU has sent in a “progressive funky electro” mix [...]

The UK’s only “groove based” dance music festival that runs for one whole month! 20 DJs, 8 venues and 5 weekends in May dedicated to underground groove based dance music in Brighton.
An affiliation of local dance parties, dj’s, producers, promoters, radio show hosts and record collectors that join up in May each year for a month [...]

[ April 4, 2009 8:00 pm to April 5, 2009 2:00 am. April 4, 2009 8:00 pm to April 5, 2009 2:00 am. ] Following their successful launch night in February, a collective of local DJs and promoters are putting on another night on Saturday 4th April to raise money for Cancer Research UK, at Oxygen Red on Preston Street. This night, known as Together, sees 24 of Brightons best DJ’s all playing back to back, choosing their favourite party tunes to keep you dancing all night. The night runs from 8pm – 2am, with a £5 entrance fee that all goes to charity, all of the DJs and promoters play for free. Last time the night raised £1,300 for Cancer Research.

[ April 24, 2009 10:00 pm to April 25, 2009 5:00 am. ]

Eddie Richards, Contaband DJs, Neal Schtumm, Danny Webb (El Diablo’s)

This is the kind of event we want to see more of! With our clubs not being able to source out the kind of nights we need, what should we turn to? Okay, so maybe restaurants aren’t the first hat spring to mind but it sure [...]