Posts from ‘June, 2009’

Writers’ Hub main interview is with Brighton scriptwriter Sarah Naomi Lee, a BBC radio producer who’s first lucky break into Radio 4 broadcast was with her radio play “I can see you”, which tells the story of a mixed race woman who has three voices inside her head: a Jamaican man, a white English woman – and the sadly recently deceased Michael Jackson, who passed away yesterday.

The organizers of Brighton’s Beachdown Festival have announced, via their website, that they will not be allowing alcohol purchased off-site. If you are going then prepare to take a few more pennies with you as this could raise the overall cost of the event by a fair amount. To compare Beachdown to a pub seems like rather strange reasoning – we all know it’s a festival not a pub.

At recent Brighton Festival fringe literary event Grit Lit, Tim Lay read an extract from his second novel Rats with Wings, which tells the tale of a London copper – Lewis – who is dragged down to Brighton by her sinister patrol partner Letch for an unknown and dodgy pretext.

[ September 1, 2009; 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm. ]

It was about 3 years ago when Brighton last had a taste of Peaches’s own blend of electronica. The now defunct Chaos Rocks had her down for a DJ set along with Erol Alkan. She threw in live performances of a few of her songs, “My dumps” being the most memorable, and is now back [...]

Burnt Toast and Beat Circus go head to head in The Latest Music Bar (previously Joogleberry) basement with an almighty soundclash to make the walls wobble. It is also Brighton Fusion’s very own Catherine’s (@prycie) birthday, as well as Amy the film maker on the door, who’s show features on the local sounds of Radio [...]

Again, another writer featured from the Brighton Festival fringe night Grit Lit at the Red Roaster. Here is Tara Gould’s short story “Little Birds”, which is the story of Grace, a woman who’s alcoholic father has just died and she must return home to comfort her mother. The story explores Grace’s conflicting feelings for the man she despised, yet mourns and sketches out the tragic life he led. Ultimately Grace must confront herself in the face of losing a person who is irevocably flesh and blood – her father.

The change from free party to commercial venture – mixed with high ticket costs, poor sound and inaccessible location have not helped the reputation of the event develop. While the original Beach Boutique parties are remembered with disbelief and are stuff of legend, the recent incarnations would probably not be too missed.

[ June 20, 2009 11:00 pm to June 21, 2009 4:00 am. ] in economic downturns, while high streets get boarded up and unemployment threatens new record charts, music goes underground – like really far, subterranean levels and this is when it all gets good: in the depths of the darkness

[ July 10, 2009 10:00 pm to July 11, 2009 4:00 am. ] back when electro, was more electro-clash than electro breaks, house, or whatever genre they attach to it now. Electro-clash was a genre within itself. Spearheaded by the likes of Felix, Miss Kittin, Vitalic, Fischerspooner, Peaches, Tiga, Adult, Black Strobe, Chicks on Speed etc… it was something new and exciting at the time.

[ June 19, 2009 8:30 pm to June 20, 2009 6:00 am. ] It’s Inside Out’s 3rd party of the year and they have Wiggle’s Nathan Coles to man the decks. If you haven’t been to one of their parties before then jump on this. The events take place at Al Duomo, next to the Pavilion, and are free up until 3am.