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Subsource, if you’ve never heard of them, have been an awesome player in the breakbeat scene and this year were nominated as best live act at Breakspoll International awards in London. They are like a cross between a world music act and a dance music cross-over band, but with some attitude in the same vein as bands like Asian Dub Foundation.

[ 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.

Somewhere in the Universe was one of those nights I noticed back in 2006 and every time I saw their flier, I thought “A for effort” – it definitely looked like a different sort of night, quite underground and unknown with their Ponana venue and clearly good music policy with a lot of the electro pop contingency brandishing their names.

[ July 24, 2009 10:00 pm to July 25, 2009 2:00 am. ] Throw Some Shapes headlines Bullion, a West London hip hop producer who I can only compare to a UK version of DJ Shadow in terms of mind-altering productions at a slightly downtempo pace and who’s ego must be massive with the number of fans he’s won over, including Radio 1’s Mary Anne Hobbs and Zane Low, Busy P, and Goldie. With gigs like Sonar, Glastonbury and Big Chill, this intimate Brighton one should be gentle mid-summer treat.

[ July 25, 2009 2:00 am to July 26, 2009 1:00 am. ] For one night only, SoundCirque transforms the Komedia Studio Bar into a dark, dirty, weird and witty Lynchian night scene; with slide projections, themed cocktails, cherry pies, masked people and music from: Twin Peaks & Lynch Soundtracks, Julee Cruise, Pixies, Bowie, Roy Orbison, Danger Mouse, Elvis, Thomas Truax, Sparklehorse, Nina Simone, Rammstein, Rock’N'Roll, Surf, Rockabilly, Blues, Experimental, Jazz and much much more…

Writer Tara Gould joined me in the studio for this month’s edition of Writers’ Hub. We chatted about her night Short Fuse, which is currently looking for readers, for Brighton and for Hastings events, and her new literary ambitions: a first novel. We discussed some upcoming opportunities for writers, via New Writing South and Myriad Editions, and we also presented the writing for this month’s theme: seaside and seaside towns.

Hi everyone, thought I’d let you know about a new monthly radio show that I’m producing for Brighton community radio station RadioReverb 97.2FM.
Most people get really excited when I tell them I’m doing a radio show, thinking I’m going to play some incredibly cool music, but sadly, it’s not that kinda thing. Although I do [...]

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.

[ 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

[ 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.