Dirty Cakes Make Mincemeat Of Reality TV

Another hearty cheer for local underground diva Stuart Flynn and his Dirty Cakes trio, who survived – nay, conquered – the evil world of reality TV last month, after hooking up a Peckham grime band on Singing With The Enemy. They collaborated on what was claimed to be the first ever hip hop track in 7/8 time. However the best bit of all was seeing iconic Pipettes guru Monster Bobby vox-popped outside a London club, captioned merely as “Dirty Cakes fan”. Plus Lauren Laverne did the voiceover. Loved it.
www.myspace.com/thedirtycakes

Crusoe’s A Hit In The Bedroom

Applause for local acid-jazz bedroom boffin Crusoe Weston who, at the scarily youthful age of 16, topped Amazingtunes’ worldwide download chart a couple of weeks back, with his homemade track Soulful Swing. Weston (who is also a member of Carnival Collective) chucked some songs online a few months back but was taken completely by surprise when over 20,000 people downloaded his song. Nice work.

Debut Single For The Pirates

Everyone’s favourite anti-soul duo Peggy Sue & The Pirates finally emerge from the studio with their debut single on Monday 5th, available as a double a-side 7" single and download. We’d love to tell you how great Television is but the postal strike means it’s still in transit. The best mates are just winding up their second tour supporting old friend and Pirate fan Kate Nash and they’ll head out for a headline jaunt pretty much straight away. Brightonians can catch them at the Duke Of York’s Cinema on Mon 17th Dec.

Fringe 2008 Open For Business

England's largest mixed arts festival – also known as the little sister of the Brighton Festival – our own Fringe Fest has opened for registration for the May 2008 event. If you’re involved in music, comedy, theatre, visual arts, outdoor events, literature, dance or something more uncategorisable, get in touch at www.brightonfestivalfringe.org.uk. So round up your polysexual
uni-cycling dance troupe for that re-enactment of Top Gun and get your form in, pronto.

Dragon’s Den: The Triumph And The Tears

We have two Dragon’s Den stories for you this month, with good and bad news. Last month’s In Conversation With star Sarah Lu has triumphed, scoring her full whack (£35k, although she had to give away 45%) for the YooDoo dolls from an impressed Deborah Meaden, who won a Dragon bidding war. She now has an unparallelled opportunity to roll out her brilliant YouDoo dolls customised toy business nationwide. Way to go Sarah! Does this mean the doll we’ve got with editor Kendall’s face on will be worth a mint in 20 years? We especially loved the bit where they said “So you dressed up for us?” and she replied “This is how I dress!”. In sadder news, the Dragons gave Brighton’s tuk tuks short shrift, calling them “novelty rides”. Hopefully that has nothing to do with their vanishing from our streets this autumn.

Asbo That Nudie!

Next time you’re dancing around stark naked to heavy metal, watch out – local rock nutjob Simon Bowker has just been fined £4 grand for exactly that (well, he let his dog bark constantly as well). Give the man some headphones. And pants.

Marlbrough Managenent Change

Local company Zelgrain, who own the Marlborough, have taken the day-to-day running of the gorgeous Marlborough Theatre back in-house, after several years under the successful control of Nicola Haydn and Eden Rivers. The Argus has been taking sides and getting on Zel’s arse about this but we’re reserving judgement til we’ve seen what they put on, which is, after all, the important thing.

Two Day All Ages Mini-Fest For Young Noiseniks

Tired of sneaking into gigs cos you’re too young? SOURCE fave community centre West Hill is presenting Ooosh!, a weekend festival on Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th open to all ages. The busy line ups include Charlottefield, Ack Ack Ack, Montana Pete and Bilge Pump and will set you back a pocket money-friendly £15 advance for the weekend or £8 advance a day.

Why not make a day of it by bringing your own booze (as long as you’re old enough), listening to the Epideme DJs between bands, and stuffing your face with BBQ burgers. Advance tickets for all you sensible people are available from www.wegottickets.com, and also Edgeworld, Rounder, Resident and Brighton Electric.

Free It Came From The Sea 45 Minute Mix

Those lovely fellas at It Came From The Sea have given us a free mix CD to throw your way via that clever interface of mp3/theinternet. Obviously it’s ace, so simply right click on the link on the title, go to Save As and then simply enjoy the three quarters of an hour of new music.

HEARTS SYNCHRONIZE #1

Invading yr personal space (in order of appearance):
M.I.A., Bag Raiders, Dizzee Rascal, Pharoahe Monch/Optimo, The
Micragirls, Dan Deacon, Eve, Glass Candy, Architecture In Helsinki, Curses!, Bonde Do Role, Thunderheist, LCD Soundsystem, Mr. Oizo, Drop The Lime, Chrome Hoof, Blaq Starr, Durrty Goodz, Von Sudenfed, Tetine, Liars And Justice.

Kooks In The Studio For Second Album

The Kooks went back into the studio on Monday to start work on their second album, promising a more slightly experimental edge than ‘Inside In/Inside Out’ but with the same high tempo sound. The band have almost 100 songs to choose from and want to whittle them down quickly as they are bored of the current music scene.

“There’s a lot of shit out there,” singer Luke Pritchard told the NME, “especially over the last six months. So once we’re back hopefully we’ll fill that gap. I want the album to be big. I’ve got an ego. I want out singles to come out on the radio and for people to have their heads blown off by them.”

He went on to say that the new LP will have the same vibe as the last and that the songs that made the live set (‘Do You Want To Make Love To Me’, ‘Sway’, ‘See The Sun’ and ‘Hard To Bear’) were favourite to make the cut. It's due this February.

Horse Dentistry

According to the NME, Foals played a house party so rammed that guitarist Jimmy was knocked over and smashed his tooth. Eighty excitable fans bundled into a little terrace house after the band's Cambridge gig and went as wild as you’d expect. Poor old Jimmy paid the price though – Yannis had to drive him to an emergency dental practice.

We had to rush off after the brilliant Foals gig last week but if anyone knows if they did a house party set afterwards – as they often do – please tell us about it in the comments section. We do know that, a couple of days before, their mates Maths Class annoyed their neighbours by playing at their own house party. Guitarist Andy says it was so packed that the band could only play “Foals style disco riffs” cos they couldn’t move. We were gutted we missed it.

Do You Like British Sea Power?

It seems like ages since the last British Sea Power album, and we’ll have to wait until 2008 until the next one. Luckily only ‘til 14th January when ‘Do You Like Rock Music?’ appears. The band have been working with a trio of interesting production names – ex-Arcade Fire drummer Howard Bilerman and Godspeed You! Black Emperor’s Efrim Menuck, as well as Jarvis Cocker’s knob-twiddler Graham Sutton.

"Our first album was a bit wild and not to be listened to while riding a bike,” explains BSP guitarist Noble cryptically. “The second you could play all the way through without falling off. This one is car or a tank – a wind-powered car or tank, but still faster than all the other cars or tanks".

Erm, right.

In the meantime there’s a tour. The gig at Whitecliffs Café in Saltdean sounds interesting. Is it a real café, does anyone know?

30 Oct: Thekla Social, Bristol
31 Oct: Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
1 Nov: Fez, Reading
2 Nov: Whitecliffs Café, Saltdean
3 Nov: MV Royal Daffodil ferry, River Mersey
5 Nov: Barfly, Birmingham
6 Nov: Canteen, Barrow-in-Furness
7 Nov: Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh
8 Nov: All Saints Church, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
9 Nov: Tan Hill Inn, Swaledale, Yorkshire
10 Nov: White Mischief - 'From The Earth To The Moon' Scala, London

Pipettes Dance The US Immigration Polka

Congratulations to The Pipettes, who’s great-fun debut album ‘We Are The Pipettes’ is released in America today. Unfortunately the supporting tour has just been cancelled after the US authorities refused them entry to the country. Miserable swines. The band hope to return later this month.

Meanwhile, did we spot Rose Pipette stood on a chair for the debut gig from our occasional listings girl’s We Are Snazzy ? OK, so Rose was there for her boyfriend’s band Restless List rather than her namesake, but can’t Brighton Live be so glamorous?!

Until Escape in "small scale riot" at Brighton Live

Apparently there was a “small-scale riot” at Brighton Live last week when Until Escape fans clashed with bouncers at the Engine Room. We’ll be looking into in more, but at the moment here are the two viewpoints as quoted in The Argus. Guitarist Mark Wyss puts the band’s side of the story: “We were starting our last song and invited the crowd onto the stage for it, which we usually do. But there was a doorman at the front of the stage who was physically preventing anyone from coming up. As more and more people tried to get on stage the whole situation got heated.”

The trouble seemed to head outside the venue but a video by the band doesn’t make it clear whether the escalation heads to mere shouting or more than that. The police say no crimes took place.

Neil Campbell, manager of Engine Rooms, saw it differently to the band, claiming that it was a publicity stunt staged by Until Escape: “They looked pretty pleased when they left and apologised for what had happened. They specifically asked for a bouncer to be put at the front of the stage and for them not to allow anyone on. Then during the act they encouraged people to come up.”

We’ll talk to the Engine Room and Until Escape in the next couple of days to find out what went on. Stay tuned – but ‘til then here’s that YouTube video by the band that captures some of the night’s events.


Until Escape at the Engine Room

Like The Great Escape For Clubbers

The inaugral Brighton City Festival launches this month, on Thurs 25th, further cementing our li’l town’s place as the true heart of the mini-fest. A “one-ticket multi-club” set-up sees the likes of Soulwax/2ManyDJs, Westwood, Laurent Garnier, Underground Resistance, Roll Deep, DJ Hype, Grooverider, Mampi Swift and many others all descend upon Brighton for a night of mayhem, using the Great Escape and Brighton Live blueprints of spreading festival stages across 14 of the town’s best-known venues. Over 100 acts will cover every shade of clubbing – there are even DJ sets from indie bands including Babyshambles, Futureheads and Belle & Sebastian. The event runs from 9pm-4am with Ocean Rooms, Digital, Tru, The Beach and The Arc all taking part. Best of all, they’re all within about five minutes’ walk of each-other. Check out our Hype interview in the new magazine.

Oceana

Oceana (formerly the Event II) unveils their shiny new £6million nightclub. Doors open to the public on Thurs 11th and the venue will run three spaces under one roof. The bar will be named The Deep Bar, while there will be two separate clubs – Reykyavik Icehouse and New York Disco. Individual bar names include Aspen Ski Lodge and Parisien Boudoir! It’s certainly a lot more interesting than the meat market it used to be. They’re also boasting some smaller reception bars and VIP spaces. Intriguingly, New York Disco is aimed at older clubbers and will even operate an over-23s only policy on the weekend.

Go! Team Snubs Craig David

Ian Parton, frazzled lo-fi indie hip hop guru behind the catastrophically badly-produced (though ace fun) Go! Team was apparently shocked and dismayed to be asked to do production work on Craig David’s new material. Parton is so edgy and underground, he did an exclusive interview with the Daily Star to register his disappointment. Talk about kicking a boy when he’s down!

Third Great Escape Confirmed

With Brighton Live only just out of the way, next year’s Great Escape fest has already been confirmed to take place on May 15th-17th 2008, with the website online now and artist submissions open. As usual, SOURCE will be the first with lineups and exclusives right through. More on their website.

Doggone It, Drooks!

Local alt-rockers Drookit Dogs sure caught our attention with their latest stunt. Tom and the two Matts have all moved into one of those crazy houses full of cameras, where everything goes out live on the web – and they’ll be there for three months! More normally occupied by groups of half naked American sorority girls, the Dogs’ “Rockpad” (!!) will allow us to watch live as they develop their music, rehearse, record songs and generally whore themselves out for a possible record deal. Even when they do gigs, they won’t escape, as they’ll take their own cameras and film all that happens. Described as the “subject of the world’s first 24/7 online TV”, the band has been living in the house for about three weeks now, so it’s worth visiting them online, just to check if they’ve fucked, killed and/or eaten each-other yet.
www.selfcast.com

Dim The Lights For Oska Bright

Oska Bright is the only film festival in Europe dedicated to screening work by learning disabled film-makers. Their third annual bash takes place on Mon 15th and Tues 16th at the Old Market, presented by Carousel, working with JunkTV and Mencap. Funding also came from Steve Coogan and Henry Normal’s Baby Cow (that’s a production company, not an actual baby cow). Anyway, we love Oska Bright – when you look at the work, the film-makers’ “disabilities” cease to matter. Over the first two fests, they showed 100 films to over 8,000 people and this one is the largest yet, with contributors including Heart’n’Soul in London, Coventry’s Shyster Shadows and The Phoenix Centre in Newbury – but SOURCE will be keeping a look out for quality local work. This year, Carousel will tour a selection of winning films around the UK, visiting fifteen cities. Tickets are free but book in advance.
01273 234734 enquiries@carousel.org.uk or www.oskabright.co.uk

Pride Hit By “Bootleg”

This summer’s Pride Festival – which in 2007 was the largest ever – has been hit by what they’re describing as a “bootleg” DVD, currently on sale around Brighton. They say they’re pissed off about it because they’re doing their own DVD later in the autumn, to raise money for the Pride charities, with the help of Absolute Brighton TV. Mind you, it’s not exactly an act of piracy, just unofficial really – and oddly, the Pride organisation themselves sent out this photo of the sleeve. Hmm, something smells fishy...

Maccabees Promise Secret Gig

In an exclusive interview with SOURCE for our annual Brighton Guide (out now), Maccabees guitarist Felix promised us a secret Brighton gig. He’d been challenged by Toby J on the band’s lack of a Brighton show on their UK tour this month, and responded by promising to organise something really special before the end of the year. Felix also exclusively revealed the band’s plan for a larger-scale Christmas party somewhere in Brighton, with an entirely local support bill. Read the whole interview in the Guide or here.

Music Scene Website

The new Brighton Music Scene website launches this month, with a show on Thurs 25th October at Concorde 2. The site is aimed at supporting the local music community with band profiles, venue information, label news and a full live calendar. They’re got four stalwart indie bands at the show: Rubylux, Kovak, The Grams and The Lanes. Given how disparate some of our best local music-making cliques are, it’ll be fascinating to see if a website can pull folks together. More on their website.

Your Taste Walks Up The Beach

Founding It Came From The Sea DJ and Plan B magazine new music senior Kicking_K has added a feature to ICFTS’s mailout, whereby four upcoming acts get previewed. To subscribe to this veritable fat cardboard arrow pointing in the direction of uber-coolness, subscribe to the mailouts by emailing: itcamefromthesea@voodoolilly.co.uk

Joogle’s Jiggle

SOURCE says a fond farewell to Joogleberry’s Sue and Geoff Popper as they leave the venue in rude health. Bill Smith and Eminemmylou, the team behind property lifestyle mag Latest, have now taken control of the much-loved venue. Rumours that Katie Glass will be doing a stand-up style live reading of her column each week were unconfirmed as we went to press.

S.A.C. S.H.U.T.

Yet another long-running and hugely popular local venue has put a quiet, heartbroken padlock on the door this month. Having been sold off, Sussex Arts Club has closed forever, after one final mad Da Doo Ron Ron on Saturday 15th September and the Charlie Parr and Thirty Pounds Of Bone gig on Tues 18th.

Yamaha’s New Box Of Tricks

Not often we get to tell you about a new musical instrument but Yamaha’s new Tenori-On is sitting on that SOURCE-friendly fence between insane and genius – and Edgeworld is going to be one of the first eight shops in the whole world to be stocking it. It’s a portable light and sound box that’s got a lot of muso technicians wet with excitement. Check it out in Edgeworld’s window from Tues 4th September.

Mojo Fins Return

The Mojo Fins get back on the rock’n’roll horse this month, after taking time out to deal with Jon’s tragic death. The delayed Pinata Face single gets a release on Mon 3rd September, with all profits to charity Roadpeace, while the band makes a live return and introduces a as yet un-named new member at Kabuki on the 26th as part of Brighton Live.

An Education In The Foyer

Inspiring creatives Dv8 are relaunching their educational stuff this month from their new home in The Foyer, Pelham St, the supported housing project for young people. They’re running two coursees: Music Production and Multimedia Magazine Journalism, both in partnership with Nacro E2E, who will support all the learners to improve their basic skills. SOURCE is getting involved as well, by featuring the output from the magazine course on this very website from the end of the year.
Dan at Dv8: 01273 766 624
www.myspace.com/dv8brighton

Cine City Short Film A.P.B.

This year’s CineCity Brighton Film Festival runs from Thurs 15th Nov – Sun 2nd Dec. They’ve put out their annual call for short film contributions. They’re looking for anything as long as it’s (however vaguely) Brighton-related, 15 minutes max length and made in the last 12 months. The deadline is Fri 21st and you can submit films by downloading a form from their
website.

Meatbreak Assaults The BBC

We’re so proud of SOURCE new band guru Meatbreak, whose two storming DJ sets at Leicester’s Summer Sundae festival last month – won in a listener vote competition back in July – were broadcast on BBC6Music to universal acclaim. The man managed to get Coin-Op, The Tumbledown Estate, Wooden Shjips and even The Flesh Happening onto Auntie BBC. Fuck Basra, that’s heroism. With his Not For Resale night built primarily from local demos, Meat stuck to that blueprint. Check out his bitching playlist:

Bucks & Gallants Paid Professionals (Mark, Hey Person)
Milk Don't Eat The Sweets (Sweet Tooth demo)
Turbowölf Do Me Wrong (demo)
One Unique Signal Dravy (Tribe, Castle & Nation, Genepool)
Coin-Op Favourite Subjects (demo)
The Tumbledown Estate Voodoo Wave (Split Vol 1, One Inch Badge)
Kotki Dwa Pad (demo)
Wooden Shjips Shrinking Moon For You (10", self-released)
Power Up!'s Radical Not For Resale Jingle
Liars Plastercasts of Everything (Liars, Mute)
Black Strobe Brenn Di Ega Kjerke (Burn Your Own Church, Playlouder)
Lords Spiritual I Am The Satellite (demo)
The Flesh Happening Masochismo (demo)
Bone Awl Culture Denied (By Ropes Through Dirt, Klaxon)
Loveteam Rats N Cats (demo)
Revenge of Shinobi Champ (demo)

Fallen Out Of The Loop

After a largely positive first outing, the inaugral Loop Festival was brought to a standstill during Fujiya & Miyagi’s headline set, when an idiot punter climbed up into the rafters of the marquee and then – in true cliched anti-drug advert style – managed to fall 30ft to the ground in front of everyone. Witnesses claim he shouted “I can fly!”, before sustaining leg and back injuries. Security cut short the encore and cleared the tent, to allow the emergency services in. Our own Kendall was onstage at the time, compering the night and says, “It’s a huge shame that he put what was such a good natured festival in jeopardy for the future, but at least he was able to walk out of hospital a few hours later and is, apparently, sorry for what he did.” The council are reportedly happy with how the affair was handled.

Zap Goes Digital

Well, it’s been a crazy couple years for our favourite salty-aired superclub. After being Zap, then Union, then Zap again, the business has been sold to the kings of Geordie clubland Digital, who’ve lit up Newcastle with their enormously successful venue since 2005. As well as great line ups, the northern version has become known for doing it properly – Function 1 soundsystem, great lighting system, and a DJ booth that NASA would be proud of. It got them voted the 15th best club in the world (by DJs) and third best in the UK (by punters). We can expect the same quality here but they’re so busy rebuilding it that they forgot to get us the info. We’ll tell you more next month then (edit - we've been now, it's ace).

We Fink This Vid Is Great

As a loyal friend to SOURCE, we’ve bigged up the excellent new Fink single in Critic this month. But it’s also worth flagging up his killer accompanying new video. It tells the story of the song in one revolving take, during which Fink’s life collapses around him. Except they cut out the bit when SOURCE editor Kendall tells him what he really thinks of his DJing (that’s a joke btw). Check out the acoustic/folk on Ninja Tune madness on YouTube.


Fink 'This Is The Thing'

Foals in E4 skin flick

E4 show Skins films a 10-minute Myspace-only special in Brighton early this month, for broadcast on Fri 17th. And they’ve hired Foals to play at the featured “secret party”, turning an otherwise cliquey TV idiots’ bash into something really worth checking out (erm, i quite like Skins - Ed).
www.myspace.com/e4skins

Clever Swine Wins Business Award

Richard Palmer, of the local d3o Lab, has won the Arena o2 Entrepreneur Of The Year award. The awards were announced at snazzy Knightsbridge restaurant Mocoto and they acknowledge the blend of cutting-edge innovation and exceptional business drive, both of which Palmer has in spades. His company has invented an amazing new material that looks like rubber – all bendy and stuff – but kicks into action as a shock absorber if it gets hit. Quicksilver have just made a beenie hat out of it that acts like a crash helmet for when you’re out doing some snowboarding.

Natasha Nominated

Stood outside the windmill for our cover shoot early last year Bat For Lashes was trying to blag our editor’s gloves. “If you win the Mercury Prize you can have them,” he said. Well, now it looks like he might have to give them over. She more than deserves her nomination for her sexy as hell, stunning debut LP, Fur & Gold. In fact she’s surely worth a flutter, up against the likes of The View, Patrick Wolf, New Young Pony Club. William Hill have got her down at 12/1 and we reckon that’s good odds.

JFB is the UK’s best DJ, like, ever

At a sold out Shepherds Bush Empire, local hero JFB was unanimously crowned the best DJ in Britain, winning the UK DJ Championship 2007. He was the only contestant to get the crowd dancing with an insanely intense six-minute set. After winning, we’re told he got drunk and took a model home. A smart night’s work all round. This takes JFB through to the World DMC final at the O2 Dome in October.
www.myspace.com/jfbdj