Posts from ‘May, 2009’

You might be thinking that Capel, near Horsham, isn’t exactly Brighton… and you’d be right. Capel is a good 45 minutes drive away, but the fact that the organizers and many of the acts come from down here is enough for us. The Firegathering Festival is a 3 day event held on farm land in the beautiful English countryside. Surrounded by nature and all enclosed in an open green area, with a large fire burning directly in the centre…

[ June 5, 2009; 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm. ] Supporting the intriguing Salter Cane, The Hollywood Assassins are here! And they’ll tease out your inner John Travolta (circa Pulp Fiction) and have you shimmying across the floor as if your shoes were made of butter. Lead singer Caroline is an Oirish girl with balls of Belfast steel and the voice to prove it. With a complex list of influences – Mazzy Star, Screaming Jay Hawkins and Eddie Cochrane – they’re gonna put the shock back in rock.

The 4th Great Escape Festival brought joy aplenty to a rainy mid-May in Brighton. After last year’s experience spending valuable gig time stood in queues, I decided this year to try beating the queues by seeing smaller acts. Research was required, especially seeing as this year seemed to be quite a mixed bag in terms of quality of acts for some reason (seriously). Here are the result.

[ May 23, 2009 11:00 pm to May 24, 2009 3:00 am. ] Slackers. Yes, you’ve heard me bang on that tired old breakbeat drum for many years now and I’m sure you’re wishing breaks would die a brittle, crunked death like some old sad piece of vinyl, the way I once wished it upon many genres that will go unnamed…..anyways.

Our style was changing and developing over the past few years, but for now I could easily say that we are definitely into Minimal House and Techno which is mostly becoming more about Tech – House these days. We have been trying to push these great vibes over here as we are simply passionate about this sounds. I’m more eclectic. In my mind old school genres like Detroit Techno…

… used the oppertunity to show us his darker side of harder edge techno and new album “Hard Islands”. It’s a shame about the promotion, there could have been an excellent atmosphere if there were more people. Overall some fantastic techno and great blurpy noises that sadly seemed to echo in a sparce room…

Le Band Extraordinaire supporting the Icy Demons at the Freebutt on 11th May. Le Band Extraordinaire are currently on the hunt for management, I suggest anybody with the power to do so should snap them up. The rest of us can catch the next showing at The Fiddler’s Elbow on 4th June.

[ June 11, 2009 10:00 pm to June 12, 2009 1:00 am. ] With more splinter groups than a barrel of beavers this explosive scene is rooted in Hip Hop while taking cues from the Dubstep community in Bristol and London. Leading the UK charge are Glasgow’s Lucky Me collective forging transatlantic alliances with Flying Lotus’ Brainfeeder crew from LA.

[ July 17, 2009 11:00 pm to July 18, 2009 4:00 am. ] Electro-Funk’s legacy is huge. It announced the computer age and seduced a generation with its drum machines, synthesizers, sequencers, dub mixes, bonus beats and samples… Its influences lay not only with Kraftwerk, the Human League and Gary Numan

Photo by Martina Woerz
Their self titled 2008 debut album is full of funky tunes inspired by disco and Brazilian music (whilst occasionally sounding a bit 80s in a good way), as well as floaty daydreamer songs with electro-synth elements; pretty much something for everyone. The crowd were quite a good reflection of this what with [...]