>>Nostalgia For Infinity

In late 2009, one of my favourite hardcore punk outfits in Brighton called it a day: the Offcuts. In the interest of full disclosure I should probably mention that I’ve been friends with the band for years and have lived with most of them at various addresses!

Essentially, the band ended when Alex (bass) decided to leave. The others opted to continue as a band but to make some changes. These included one of the band’s two guitarists adopting bass duties (at the moment Chris and Pinder share, swapping over on stage for different songs), Alec adding keys and synth to his distinctive vocal slurs and screams, ditching all of the old tunes and writing entirely new ones, and changing the band’s name to WW2 vs Dinosaurs.

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Del.icio.us links for February 3rd through February 7th:

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There’s a new page on the site (replacing the somewhat pointless ‘gubbins’ page) that I’m using to list upcoming gigs here in Brighton. I got fed up of writing about shows I wanted to attend in intermittent posts that became out of date really quickly. No doubt this static page will also be out of date quite a bit, but at least it won’t keep showing up unwanted in RSS feeds. Pow!

Click here to check out the gigs I’m hoping to get to.

My friend Andy got in touch with me on behalf of the label he works with, Nice Weather For Airstrikes, and asked me to post about Last Days of Lorca, one of their bands. LDoL are a self-described post-indie band and currently have a song in Danny Dyer’s new film, Jack Said.

I’ve not seen the film and I probably won’t go and see it (looks a bit Lahndan gangster mate innit), but I’ve been asked to point out that the song ‘I Start Fires We Start Riots’ is by Last Days of Lorca, and NOT by Muse. It’s part of a cunning plan to get the right band name showing up in Google results, do you see? Seems only fair that the right band get attributed. Oh yes, and the band are playing Brighton soon.

Anyway, here’s a clip from the film with the song in the background:

That’s enough promotional material on behalf of friends for now… apart from mentioning that The Offcuts, Another Day Lost, ASBO Retards, Bull See Red and Harmful Effects are playing the Greenhouse Effect in Brighton on Friday November 13th, and I’ll be there celebrating my twenty somethingth birthday. So come on down!

Once more unto the breach…

Oct 18th – This Will Destroy You, And So I Watch You From Afar – Audio, £8

Oct 19th – Dalek – Audio, £9.50

Oct 22nd – Run, WALK! – Belushi’s, £?

Oct 25th – Sloath, Decapante, Ox Scapula – Prince Albert, £5

Oct 27th – This Town Needs Guns, Tubelord – Freebutt, £6.50

Oct 27th – Burning Love (ex-Cursed), Trippin’ Violet, Blackstorm – Engine Room, £5

Oct 28th – Dananananaykroyd, Dinosaur Pile-Up – Audio, £8.50

Oct 28th – Shield Your Eyes, P For Persia, Illness – Caroline of Brunswick, £free

Oct 30th – Architects, Despised Icon, Horse the Band, As Blood runs Black, Iwrestledabear – Concorde2, £?

Nov 6th – Youves, Calories, Shoes & Socks Off, Swims – Freebutt – £6.50

Nov 9th – Oxbow, Plague Sermon – Prince Albert, £8.50

Nov 13th – The Offcuts, ?, £?

Nov 13th – GBH – Engine Room, £8.50

Nov 17th – UK Subs – Engine Room, £10.50

Nov 25th – The Germs – Engine Room, £14

Dec 9th – Bob Mould – Concorde2, £16.50

Dec 14th – Dillinger 4, Ted Leo, Hard Skin + Four Letter Word (maybe?) – Engine Room, £8.50

Dec 17th – UK Subs – Engine Room – £11

Dec 22nd – Casiotone For The Painfully Alone – Freebutt, £?

Dec ?? – Drag The River, Chris Wollard & The Ship Thieves – TBC, £TBC

Feb 15th – Cannibal Corpse – Engine Room, £8.50

Del.icio.us links for September 13th through September 18th:

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Del.icio.us links for August 17th through August 21st:

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See here for the reason why I post these lists.

It seems that the Freebutt is no longer owned and run by the Joiners, and is now under the command of a local consortium of four blokes who have the good taste in music (I met one of them on Friday; he was wearing a Holy Roar t-shirt and played the Murder City Devils and This Will Destroy You among many other fine bands). Since independently owned and run venues are rare and getting rarer in today’s Brighton, I hope you’ll join me in supporting the ‘butt and the Penthouse bar when you can.

Aug 16th – World Inferno Friendship Society – Engine Room, £8.50

Aug 16th – Spraynard, Bangers, Break The Habit, Big City Plan – Hector’s House, £free

Aug 18th – Wooden Shjips, You’re Smiling Now But Soon We’ll All Turn Into Demons, Soul Punch – Freebutt, £7.50

Aug 18th – Voodoo Glow Skulls (yes, again!) – Engine Room, £?

Aug 21st – Dinosaur Jr – Concorde2, £17.50

Aug 27th – Subhumans – Engine Room, £8.50

Aug 29th – Fake Problems, Riverboat Gamblers – Freebutt, £7.50

Sept 3rd – Paint It Black – Freebutt, £8.50

Sept 17th – Kayo Dot, Manatees, Blackstorm – Freebutt, £7

Sept 25th – Citizen Fish – Engine Ro0ms, £8.50

Sept 27th – Fuck Buttons – Audio, £8.50

Oct 4th – Obits (ex-Hot Snakes, Drive Like Jehu) – Freebutt, £?

Oct 9th – Johnny Foreigner – Audio, £7.50

Oct 10th – The Slits – Concorde2, £13

Oct 18th – This Will Destroy You, And So I Watch You From Afar – Audio, £?

Oct 19th – Dalek – Audio, £9.50

Oct 28th – Dananananaykroyd – Audio, £8.50

Dec 14th – Dillinger 4 – Engine Room, £8.50

Brighton locals and other folks with their ear to the ground may have heard about Brighton’s own May Day protests and street celebrations this weekend. Well, the march is well underway, and by the sounds of it is slowly making progress towards EDO MBM’s offices, despite the best efforts of police to stop it.

If you want to follow the march online, or find out where you should join up, then check out Radio 4a’s coverage (or their Chatopica chatroom) or Last Hours on twitter to find out the latest. The official site is here.

A brief video clip:

Bookmarked with del.icio.us on March 12th:

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