Brighton after dark: 10 December 2013

Bmusic

Make some noise!
KLAXON! GONG! RATTLE-Y THING OLD TOOTHLESS BLOKES USE AT FOOTBALL MATCHES!
You’re thinking one of two things at this point: will you pipe down? That, or – and this is what we’re hoping – you’re curious as to why we’re using precious magazine space to elucidate excitement with objects that make an ungodly racket.

Well, we’re pleased to say the reason for all this noise is that our very own Noise Reel is now live! Snare, marching drum, kablamo-splash, etc etc. We’ve been working on it for a while and we don’t think we’re over-egging our own achievements when we say it’s the best yet. We were only babies (not literally) when we started this Bmusic thing, but with this one we’re really starting to hit our stride.

Content-wise, it’s packed full of good stuff. We’ve got The Move-ons in interview and session, playing their new track ‘Lock Me Up’. There’s also exclusive footage of top folkies The Common Tongues, from the stage that Bmusic curated at the Over The Moon festival (FYI Eavis’s – we’re available next summer, just bear it in mind). We hit the Oxjam Takeover hard, which seems to take it out of poor presenter Dave as he laments it being a ‘knackering day’. We’re not saying he’s getting old or anything, but man up.

Elsewhere we spoke to the chaps from the Conga Collective, who broke the world record for the longest conga ever, at 10.7 miles. 10.7! It makes the 127 cartwheels we did down the seafront last night seem almost insignificant.

We were also delighted to have the chaps from Stay Up Late down for an interview. Stay Up Late is an amazing charity that’s addressing an issue facing people with learning difficulties: that the support staff who accompany them on nights out finish their shifts, meaning both return home early. S.U.P’s Gig Buddy scheme syncs people with learning difficulties with able-bodied gig goers, and everyone goes out and has a great time to the bitter end! A fantastic cause, we’re sure you’ll agree…

Noise Reel 4 is over at our Facebook page- www.facebook.com/BmusicTV

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Words: David Hillier

Sade Ali considers – Love in the club?

In today’s generation going clubbing with your partner is a very normal thing. But finding a partner in a club is not. People see clubs as pick up points and rarely take a girl or guy chatting you up seriously and expect it just to be a one night stand or a fling. I think different, I think it doesn’t matter where you are or what you’re doing, you can meet that one special person at any time. Take the guy I’m dating for instance, we met three years ago in The Honey Club and have only just realised we like each other. This actually reminds me of a story I was told not so long ago…

Emily was at a nightclub with her boyfriend and his friends. Due to an argument, they spend the time avoiding each other. She walks aimlessly around the club when she literally runs into a very tall stranger.)
Emily: *to the tall stranger* “Sorry… whoa, you’re tall!”

Now, she is a 6ft tall girl, so it’s not very often she gets to say that. She gets stuck talking with the tall stranger, who turns out to be a friend of one of her classmates from school. They find this out when the classmate suddenly pops up out of nowhere and asks how they know each other.)
Emily and Tall Stranger: “We don’t. We just met.”

After chatting with them for a while Emily goes to look for her boyfriend, only to find out he had ditched her in the club and left, meaning she had no ride home anymore.
Emily: *to her old classmate* “Where did [tall stranger] go?”
Classmate: “He left already.”
Emily: *fuming* Ahh man, well, give me his number.”

During the conversation, Emily finds out that Tall Stranger lives nearby. She texts him, asking if she can crash at his place for the night. After receiving an agreeing, but hesitant reply, she walks over to his place.

Tall Stranger: “Oh, it’s you. You didn’t put your name on the message, so I had no idea who I just allowed to come over to my place.”
Emily: *laughing* “Yet, you still said yes?”
Tall Stranger: *grinning* “Well, I figured it had to be some girl, so…”

He makes a bed for her in his room, and was prepared to sleep on the floor himself. She invited him to share the bed, but he was the perfect gentleman. He made no moves on her during the night. The next week, she broke up with her boyfriend, and although the tall stranger and Emily did not end up dating until a few years later, today they live together and are engaged. When people ask how they met each other, he likes to joke: “Well, she followed me home, so I figured I had to keep her!”

So, whoever said you can’t find romance in a club, I say they are wrong.

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>Don’t Miss<

Stay Beautiful Xmas Party
Glam, glitter, pop and alternative anthems are all on offer at Sticky Mike’s for an ‘absinthe soaked fun’ night to remember. Come after either of Peaches’ events at the Corn Exchange for reduced admission and a chance dance to hits like ‘Kick It’, and who knows who else might turn up to the afterparty?
Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar, Sat 14 Dec, 11pm, £5/£4

Cottontail Club
Shake your bones in the Above Audio Cocktail Bar, where you can travel back in time and dance to a mixture of jitter jive, big band and roots of rock ’n’ roll from the ’20s to the ’50s.
Above Audio, Tues 10 Dec, 9pm, Free

Originate V Conception Xmas Party
Both old and new school jungle music from DJs Kosine, Timeless & Mystery and X-Nation. Not a Christmas party for your nan perhaps.
Volks, Fri 13 Dec, 11pm, £5

Desert Island Mix
Music-loving guests Wilson Knickit, The Magic Fly, Hogg and more share some of their favourite songs in the basement of the cozy and welcoming Bee’s Mouth.
The Bee’s Mouth, Fri 13 Dec,
9pm, Free

Brighton noise

Alastair Reid on this week’s gigs
Written In Waters have an audiovisual feast planned for your faces at The Haunt on Tuesday. Described previously in Brighton Noise as “a music lover’s dream, a genre definer’s curse”, they marry post rock textures with pop sensibilities behind Beth Cannon’s powerful, classically trained vocals. Electronic wunderkid Luo and the raw rock ‘n’ roll of Wild Cat Strike support in a refreshingly varied line up.

The last time we attended a Spirit Of Gravity night there were grown men waving an illuminated goose in the air while making bird noises into vocoders, a septagenarian string trio carving beauty and horror into the air with their bows, and an ‘electro-creche’ of circuit-bent toys and Casio keyboards for punters to make music and spill beer on in the interim.

The line-up this time, at the Studio Theatre on Wednesday, sees H. L. Collins, The Static Memories, Noteherder & McCloud and more experimenting, improvising and generally pushing sound art to its conceptual limits.

Friday brings a tough choice between Royal Blood’s furious bass-and-drums two-piece, supported by grunge revivalists TigerCub at Bermuda Triangle on Friday, and the technically remarkable math-pop of This Town Needs Guns at Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar. Opening for TTNG is Victor Villareal, of the iconic Cap’n Jazz, and the real draw in local three-piece Bermuda Ern. Bermuda Ern are part of the Sonic Anhedonic stable of local bands, each member releasing solo records on the label, and together they bring their own skills and styles, taking turns leading songs. Magic. Kingston’s Midfield Workhorse will open.

On Saturday, Quasi celebrate their 20th year as a band at The Haunt after two decades playing with and for the likes of Sleater-Kinney, Elliott Smith, Bright Eyes and Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks between their own albums. Chalk, another artist in the Sonic Anhedonic club just back from a fortnight locked away on the Isle of Anglesey recording his second album, will support.
Phew.

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