Supernova

I went to Brighton this weekend. It was adam from acusis 25^th birthday (flicks from that party will be coming soon). Earlier on Saturday I ventured down to the beach and the pier. Somehow it isn’t an English beach without the sunshine. I made my traditional Chris Eubank joke. I avoided the cockles, that’s for the Japanese tourists. Went to Shakeaway (a must visit), I had the snickers and malteser combo.

Above is a time lapse film of the train ride down to B-Town. There will be a lot of Stop motion videos on the blog this week as I have been shown some great one recently.

Song Sung Blue

[site from Adam from Acusis]

Tahiti

Bat for Lashes aka Natasha Kahn aka a wonderful mix of Kate Bush and Bjork is about to release her second album. Her first, the lustful Fur and Gold, was the soundtrack to many of my aimless walks around Paris last year. The Brighton native has teamed up with Scott Walker and Yeasayer for her latest work.

Album released 6^th of April.

The Great Escape 2009

In these precarious times wasting money on a bad festival will be a big mistake. For the price of a weekend's clubbing, or 8 packs of fags or 2 bags of decent Camden weed (40 quid) the early bird specials are available for the Great Escape Festival (The UK's answer to South by Southwest). Here are the acts so far.
Metronomy * Kissy Sell Out * Future of the Left * Ben Kweller * Johnny Foreigner * Esser * Passion Pit * Dananananaykroyd * The Big Pink * The Soft Pack * The Chapman Family * Micachu and the Shapes * Let's Wrestle * Bell X1 * VV Brown * Vivian Girls * Golden Silvers * Official Secrets Act * The Handsome Family * Your Twenties * An Experiment on the Bird in the Air Pump * It Hugs Back * Pulled Apart by Horses * Middle Class Rut * To The Bones * KASMs * Televised Crimewave * The Joy Formidable * Cassie and the Cassettes * Tin Can Telephone * A Grave With No Name * Yves Klein Blue * The John Steel Singers *
The ones highlighted are the Stakes is High recommended acts.