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THE GIG LIST – NUMBER 41 – SOURCE vs RECOMMENDER

Cue the Eye Of The Tiger music…

Brighton’s gloves are off as The Recommender and The Source magazine go head to head with a showcase born in Brighton.

It’s well known that The Great Escape Festival is a massive industry shindig, with tons of music managers, labels, A&R, agents, journalists, bloggers and of course hundreds of artists all taking the seaside trip to London.

Sadly it’s meant that the whole affair has a London-on-sea feel about it and lacks something local. This year the festival organisers have pushed for Brighton to be heard and asked for our city to try and organise our own shows alongside the others.

This is where The Recommender, a blog born in Brighton and well known here, alongside The Source magazine, Brighton’s ‘going out bible’ that’s been tipping us on music and cool culture for over a decade, step in and show just how amazing this city can be. We’re putting on what should prove to be THE best Brighton showcase of the weekend.

The buzz is massive, the venue will be packed, the bands are mostly from Brighton and all of them kick ass. Below we list some tracks for you to fall in love with. Please note that Velo sadly had to pull out at the last minute, so although they’re on the poster, we’ve had to replace them with King Charles, who are just as awesome!

Venue: The Black Lion, Black Lion Street, South Lanes, Brighton.
Doors: 9:30pm
Stage Times: Mirrors (10pm) – Foreign Office (10:50pm) – The Agitator (11:40pm) – King Charles (12:30pm) – Pope Joan (1:20am)

MIRRORS – FEAR OF DROWNING

FOREIGN OFFICE – LEAVING THE HOUSE

THE AGITATOR – GET READY

KING CHARLES – LOVE LUST

POPE JOAN – CENTURIONS

This gig will prove that Brighton is packed with talent and will stand tall against anything London brings down. It looks like the knock out punch will be Brighton made.

On a separate note, we have two FREE weekend tickets to giveaway to our lucky readers, courtesy of VITAMIN WATER. To obtain these tickets simply email us at therecommenderblog@gmail.com and we will instruct you how to collect them. To qualify you must have left a comment on this post with your names. First come first served.
(MB)

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Published: May 13th, 2010
Author: The Recommender
Category: Parties, The Gig List
Tags: Foreign Office, King Charles, Mirrors, Pope Joan, The Agitator, the recommender, The Source

THE RECOMMENDER – NUMBER 91 – NULLIFIER

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We bring a genuine element of surprise to today’s recommendation. We recently went to see Bear In Heaven play at a gig last week and, to our surprise, Nullifier were supporting. We had heard whispers about this band late last year among the music circles, but we never investigated them and certainly hadn’t seen them live. It was equally surprising and rather satisfying to find out they were from Brighton. However, the biggest surprise of all was found in their live set. Not only is the music punchy, energetic and forcibly packed with melody and hooks, but it’s played with an octopus of a band onstage, consisting of eight, (yes eight!), members. Among this giant band we noticed (a totally unnecessary) two bassists, two drummers, two keyboard players and even the vocals were shared around, but admittedly it all created a playful, frenetic atmosphere. We got in contact with the main singer, Jim Morrison, (!), and he explained that there’s only really two of them writing and developing the songs, bringing together the various arms when playing live, including members from Lonely Ghosts, Help She Can’t Swim, My Device and Pope Joan. Jim described their sound as “a kind of surf-psych-synth-pop with globules of harmonic energy“, which is all very true, but if we compared them to the likes of The Infadels, that might helpfully put you in the right ball park, although there’s perhaps signs of a little more depth found here. It’s noisy, but in a good way, energetic, wild and free, like all good time bands. Just like their live sets, it’s all totally irresistable, seducing you straight from the outset. They recently completed work on their mini album, Most Evil, which will be out on One Inch Badge Records at some point later in 2010. In all honesty, sometimes we have to trek long and hard through the musical landscape in order to uncover bands that we consider good enough to make it onto The Recommender, so it was a joy on this occasion to simply walk into the room and have this awesome group bowl us over. Surprises really don’t get much sweeter. (MB)