>>Nostalgia For Infinity

It’s the arse-end of May again and that means it’s time for another Nice Weather For Airstrikes Festival, once again here in Brighton, once again at the Druid’s Arms by the Level, and once again playing host to a throng of post-rock, math and shoegaze bands from around the UK. Supposedly the good weather here will hold for the next few weeks, which is good news because it gets goddamn hot in that pub and it’s always a relief to step outside between bands. It’s running between Friday 27th and Monday 30th, with events running from the early afternoon on Monday. Did I mention that it’s free?

This year’s line-up features, in no particular order, The Strange Death of Liberal England (will they have room for all those signs?), Monsters Build Mean Robots, Shapes, Evi Vine, The Continuous Battle of Order, Crowns on the Rats Orchestra, Alright the Captain, The Slow Revolt, Juffage, Last Days of Lorca, Nordic Giants, Theo, Kontakte, Orders of the British Empire, Speak Galactic, Crooked Mountain Crooked Sea, Silent Front, These Monsters, Delta Sleep, A Genuine Freakshow, Karhide, Dark Dark Horse, Laish, Sorebones (loeb), Karl-Johan Nilsson, and Lowland Runners.

NWFA are also offering up a bunch of tracks for free download on their FB page, so hit that up if you like free songs. Songs by The Continuous Battle of Order, Orders of the British Empire, Silent Front, Nordic Giants and Last Days of Lorca, for example. Yes?

See you there.

…if you can make it down, we’d love to see you there!

We seem to have been reviewed over at my friend Fran’s new music blog, Between the Music & Me.

Possibly a bit nepotistic as she used to drum for us and is friends with the two original members of the band, but she’s no bullshitter and notes she was “very pleased I didn’t have to lie when Ben and Shanu asked what I honestly thought!”

Read the review here.

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 I got fed up of writing about shows I wanted to attend in intermittent posts that became out of date really quickly. No doubt this static page will also be out of date quite a bit, but at least it won’t keep showing up unwanted in RSS feeds.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

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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

A couple of friends accused me of never telling them about gigs I’m planning to go to, which I was initially outraged about but… actually, it’s probably pretty true. Just through absent-mindedness rather than malice or a desire to enjoy social events on my own. Foolish. So, I promised to put a list of gigs up online somewhere, and this seems like a semi-logical place to do it. So here are some Brighton shows I would like to go to. I won’t make it to all of them, and no doubt a few shows will spring up at short notice and surprise me with their existence, but this is a start.

If no supports are listed, or the price is £?, that means I don’t have the details, couldn’t remember them, or was otherwise too lazy to go and find out. Sue me.

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