Brighton after dark: 28 January 2014
Sade Ali’s highlights get a bit shonky
Shonky’s 3rd birthday takes place Saturday 1st February at Coalition. ROOM 1 LINEUP//: SHONKY (Apollonia/Circo Loco), Russ Yallop (Crosstown Rebels/Hot Creations), Waifs & Strays (Futureboogie/Heidi pres. Jackathon Jams), Marlon Mahroyan, Juan Baiz & Ricky Kay.
ROOM 2 LINEUP//: Jody Van Jefford, Adam pique, Lui Florez, + More
Tickets are available from www.residentadvisor.net
★ SHONKY – Here’s a guy that really needs no introduction. The Parisian King of Groove. Ranked inside Resident Advisors top 100 DJs poll for the last three years running alongside fellow Apollonia members Dyed Soundorom and Dan Ghenacia. Resident DJ for THE BIGGEST club night on the planet –Circo Loco at DC10 and regular headline act at Fabric London and Berghain/Panorama bar in Berlin. They have been trying to book Shonky for two years now and are honoured to be able to have him headline their 3rd Birthday.
★ RUSS YALLOP – One of Brighton’s best exports and another act to frequently grace the hallowed 1’s & 2’s of DC-10! Few producers of recent years have exploded onto the underground house scene like Russ Yallop. While some producers spend years finding their feet, Russ made a clear statement of intent with ‘I Can’t Wait’ his debut release on Crosstown rebels, a solid cut of nu-school house that was charted across the board by everyone from Jamie Jones to MANDY and was featured by Heidi on her ‘In New Music We Trust’ show on BBC Radio 1. Since then we’ve seen a steady string of very successful releases on Hot creations, Crosstown Rebels and No.19 music.
★ WAIFS & STRAYS – The Bristol based duo formed in 2010 and their debut track, ‘3am’ on Matt Tolfrey’s label Leftroom records set the benchmark high; featuring in DJ Mag’s essential releases, and received props from many of the major players. This was soon followed by ‘Yeah Yeah’, which picked up massive international support and became one of Pete tongs Essential New Tunes and for a lot of people, the track of 2011. With the duo being hailed as part of a nu-breed of Bristol house DJs and producers that include Julio Bashmore and Eats Everything, bookings came flooding in from across the globe and including such clubs as DC10 and Fabric. Since then the pair have released records on Futureboogie Recordings and Heidi’s Jackathon Jams to name a few…
This event is definitely not one to miss!
For VIP booth/table hire email info@moodydisco.com
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Brighton Noise
Alastair Reid on this week’s best gigs
First up this week is Samantha Crain, the Oklahoma native signed to London’s Full Time Hobby, gracing the stage at Komedia on the Brighton leg of the tour promoting third album Kid Face on Tuesday. Crain’s brand of folk is warm but occasionally bruised, singing of a heartache and pain that has always defined the genre more than the happy clappy Mumford and ‘chums’ smug-pop. Marcus Mumford wrote the beautifully sombre songs of Inside Llewyn Davis, the Coen brothers’ latest suckerpunch film of a talented but languishing folk singer in the ‘60s, and Crain treads a similar path of honesty and skill but with more success that the film’s protagonist. If you fancy the double-whammy, hit the cinema at Komedia early, followed by the show below.
Metronomy return to Brighton, playing The Old Market on Wednesday, as a very different band from that which first performed here after making the move from Devon some ten years ago. Their debut record in 2006, ‘Pip Paine’, was a lesson in poppy, glitchy electronica but since then they have morphed into a full pop-rock band that still has echoes of their beat driven youth. New album Love Letters is set to drop in March and lead single ‘I’m Aquarius’, released in November, was initially only available by using the Night Sky app to pick out the Aquarius constellation among the stars. Expect similar technological ingenuity in the live show.
Elsewhere on Wednesday are psychrockers Mugstar at Sticky Mike’s, supported by a wealth of twisted local talent in “psycho-delic” Jungfrau, the intelligent punk noir of Vincent Vocoder Voice and haunting witchy post rock of Fvnerals, whose side-project MYYTHS so terrorised us last week.
Fickle Friends are the pick for Thursday with their ‘80s inspired new wave pop lighting up the Green Door Store. Their only public song to date, ‘Swim’, is one part polished, feel-good pop and one part aching love song that has managed to gather them thousands of followers online and enough international buzz to carry them far. For a free show you’re not going to find much better.
Friday sees the return of Late Night Lingerie to Sticky Mike’s, headlined by newcomers Tusks. One of our tips for 2014 (the rest of which are viewable on the Brighton Noise website), Tusks are another band with only one track online and ‘Some Time’ channels early Radiohead in its lazy, lilting slacker-psych that is well worth staying out for.
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