Posts from ‘October, 2009’

[ October 23, 2009 6:30 pm to October 24, 2009 2:00 am. ] For those of you who can’t get enough of Acid House, you can now spend an entire evening reliving the days with two back to back films “Summer of Rave” and “High on Hope”, followed by Rocky (X-Press 2) and Midnight Steppers’ Neville Watson on the decks at DJFlicks.

After the huge success of last year’s Art of Hope competition, artrepublic has launched its second nationwide competition, Street Art. The graffiti art campaign, in association with the homeless charity StreetSmart, intends to raise the profile of not only the organisation, but street artists across the UK.

Last weekend saw the return of The Blind Tiger club, Brighton’s occasional speakeasy, this time hosted at the former public records library on New Street. The weekend did not get off to a promising start when my much-anticipated plans for attendance at the Thursday night warm up sadly fell at the last hurdle, with a [...]

[ November 14, 2009; 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm. ] 2012 Olympics are a few years off, but there’s one match that’s more about the beats than the punches – UK beatbox champ and Brighton legend Beardyman takes on classical music on their home turf, placing his mouth-driven beats straight up against Heritage Orchestra on Saturday 14 November at De La Warr Pavillion, just down the road in Bexhill.

[ November 11, 2009; 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm. ] Audio have lined up The Field, aka Axel Willner, to perform a live show at the venue in November. To my dismay it’s an early show – something I’ve never really been a fan of. I prefer to have the whole evening to enjoy not to climax quickly and toddle off home. Saying that it is on a weekday – maybe it’s a safer choice after all.

On the eve of the fabric 48 launch back in August, I spoke with Radio Slave aka Matt Edwards, about life in Berlin after Brighton, love, music and what’s driving his new creative projects, which include the fabric 48 mix CD, new releases on his Rekids label and a top-secret art project.

[ October 21, 2009 11:00 pm to October 22, 2009 3:00 am. ] Another big night for Supercharged’s mid-week meltdown on 21 October, as Rusko and 2 Bit Thugs come to take Audio down. Feel a bit like the weather forecaster when I say that I think this one’s going to be mucho packed.

This month sees Rising Styles Festival, UK’s Largest Celebration of International Hip-Hop Culture (1-4 October); Brighton & Hove Black History Month (3 October – 3 November); White Night (25 October); and Brighton Live (29 September – 3 October).

[ October 8, 2009 to October 11, 2009. ] What made the last event such a huge success was the anything goes attitude – the feeling that you weren’t taking part in something legit and on the radar. Dark rooms filled with casual gambling, drinking, dancing and smoking had such an appeal we succumbed to temptation on a number of occasions.