Brighton News

[ 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.

[ September 26, 2009 11:00 pm to September 27, 2009 4:00 am. September 26, 2009 11:00 pm to September 27, 2009 4:00 am. ] The start to the autumn sees Slackers bring two breaks stalwarts for their September night at the Volks – Russian breaks DJ, producer and promoter Lady Waks and Neurodriver aka Dom Smart, one-half of breakbeat act Far Too Loud, who recently split this year. Lady Waks swept up the 2009 Breakspoll Best Breakthrough Producer so it’s a good year to catch the goodness.

When you think of the women that epitomise the spirit and vitality of vintage fashion, Elizabeth Taylor, Sophia Loren and Audrey Hepburn are certainly at the top of an illustrious list. Vintage has come back with a welcomed bang, with the beautiful, timeless style of the 40s, 50s and 60s captivating the imagination of the high street, designers and the appreciators of anything cool.

Busking for Cancer Brighton, a mini music festival running from Saturday 5 September to Saturday 12 September, is the latest push to raise much-needed funds for cancer charities, organised by Chris Taylor and friends Andy, Paul Budd, Matt Bassant and Holly.

[ September 12, 2009 11:00 pm to September 13, 2009 6:00 am. ] Fuck me! Positive Sounds are 17 years old! If you’re a Brightonian, or from around Brighton, you will at some point have come across the Positive Sound System. Be it in a club, a field, the sea front, or any other place they have been able to infiltrate.

If it wasn’t bad enough that they ruined our bank holiday plans at 48 hours notice, it is now a week on and still the news on refunds is best described as wholly inadequate. To add insult to injury, every time something remotely helpful is added to the beachdown Facebook “fan” page, it is deleted , and the discussion board on the group page has been deleted all together.

Gang up are the cream of the cool kids in Brighton, a collective that came together after a couple of beers… like how most good things are spawned, that love sexy and beautiful photography. Last Monday was their launch night and while this post is not exactly “hot off the press” (my apologies for the [...]

Okay, I’ll admit it: when I first got an inkling about Beachdown going kapput on Tuesday night I wasn’t at all gutted. Call me a scrooge, but I didn’t fancy forking out to go rough it on the Downs just so I could spend two or three days watching my friends get munted in the same way they do every weekend.

So…Beachdown. If you haven’t heard already, Brighton’s fledgling festival was cancelled by its organisers late last night. Reasons cited include slower than forecast ticket sales, lack of support from their bank and suppliers and, of course, what will surely go down in the history books as the most over-used phrase of 2009, the current economic climate.

It’s Sunday morning, 10.00 am and you have still not been to bed after a heavy night with Giles Peterson. You need a cuddle. You have lost your friends. Beachdown, it seems, has thought of everything….. break the world record for mass spooning!