An interview with The Robot Heart
Ahead of tonight’s gig supporting Ben Ottewell from Gomez at The Hanbury we caught up The Robot Heart to get the low down on what this Brighton four piece are all about!
ou kicked off our Great Escape experience this year with your gig at the Fortunes Of War, was this your first performance for Brighton’s showcase festival? Did you enjoy the gig?
This was great actually we were playing overlooking the sea on a raised wooden platform in the bar like we were actually playing on a pirate ship type thing. I found out afterwards that people could only actually see our silhouettes with this bright white glare form the sky behind us. That it looked really ethereal. We went from that to the following day playing a press showcase in the skint records board room, which was really intimate and acoustic. Playing a gig for someone whose 2 feet away from you is intense, but it was lovely, and the lovely people from the press gave some great review, hurray. read more
This Tuesday’s Acoustic Sessions
Above Audio
Tuesday July 27th 2010
8 til 11pm
FREE entry
Our weekly showcase continues with three more great acts! For those of you who will be sharing our Secret Garden Party come down this will be the perfect evening to help sooth your festival aches and pains!
Playing this week are:
Ben Wilson
Going solo after a healthy running as bass player for Brighton outfit Bear Pop, Ben will be playing a selection of acoustic folk.
http://www.myspace.com/bwilsonmusic
South of Saturn
Four piece ambient rockers from Eastbourne who take influence from Mars Volta, At The Drive In and Incubus.
http://www.myspace.com/southofsaturnuk
Nick Robertson
Influenced by Van Morrison, Jeff Buckley, Nick Drake and The La’s Nick will be treating us to a heartwarming set of acoustic folk rock!
http://www.myspace.com/nickrobertsonmusic
Lovebox – Final line up :: After parties :: Spotify playlists :: Expect The Unexpected
DIZZEE RASCAL :: ROXY MUSIC :: GRACE JONES
PLUS: MARK RONSON & THE BUSINESS, HOT CHIP, EMPIRE OF THE SUN, THE MACCABEES, BOOKA SHADE, PEACHES, CHROMEO, CROOKERS, NOISETTES, ELLIE GOULDING, CHASE AND STATUS, RIVA STARR, WILD BEASTS, HERCULES & LOVE AFFAIR AND MANY MORE
Ticket Details
Tickets are available from www.lovebox.net as well as from Ticketmaster (www.ticketmaster.co.uk) or by calling 08448472436.
Ticket prices:
1 day ticket: £45 + booking fee
2 day ticket: £80 + booking fee
3 day tickets: £99 + booking fee
Lovebox – Sunday goes all out for 2010!
Grace Jones, Hot Chip, Cut Copy, Horse Meat Disco, and many more head up the most outrageous, polysexual festival party on Sunday
Bombay Bicycle Club, These New Puritans, Toro Y Moi, Fenech Soler and more confirmed for the weekend
So you might have heard that London’s beloved Lovebox Weekender is going to be slightly different this year – it has now been expanded from two days to three days for a start, with the storied likes of Roxy Music, Ellie Goulding, Yeasayer, Mystery Jets, The Maccabees and the Noisettes playing alongside exclusive festival coups such as Empire of the Sun, Mark Ronson & The Business and others. And that’s before we mention the new additions – critically lauded art rockers These New Puritans, returning Australian champions Midnight Juggernauts, lush chillwave purveyors Toro Y Moi, rollicking chart toppers Bombay Bicycle Club, and Mercury Music Prize nominees The Invisible among them. What you may (or may not!) have heard is that this year, Sunday is also going to be really rather different. Rather radically different, actually.
Come join us tomorrow night Above Audio
Brighton Calling Acoustic Sessions
Tuesday July 13th, 8 til 11pm
Above Audio
FREE entry
New York New York + Patchy + Oliver Melville
After another fantastic Summer Terrace Party on Saturday we are back Above Audio tomorrow night with a most exciting line up!!
Having formed at the beginning of 2010 New York New York have become one of the most talked about bands in Brighton, even The Maccabees have been asking after them. With a number of gigs under their belt they have proved time after time that they have got what it takes to provide an entertaining evening.
Patchy began in early 2008, initially as an acoustic two piece. The success of the bands initial EP “This One’s For You” recorded at the iconic Monnow Valley Studios led to a second release that summer, in conjunction with their appearance at Monmouth and Jamstand Festivals. After converting into a three piece the band have continued developing their alternative, distinctive sound, releasing demo’s in prepration for a full release later this year.
Influenced by Stephen King novels, Counciling, Court Hearing’s, and Train Journey’s Ollie is quite the individual! Come check out his beautiful acoustic set in the ambience of our favourite cocktail bar!
This Saturday (10th July) Brighton Calling’s Summer Terrace Party
With: Atmosphere & The Dot Dot Dot, The Unmentionables, The Square Roots, Stuart O’Conner and Birte Paulsen
Saturday July 10th - 3pm – 9pm
Above Audio + FREE ENTRY and All AGES WELCOME!
After the success of last Saturday’s Summer Terrace Party we thought you might like to experience another golden nugget of live music fun. Come on down this saturday and we will serve you up some fantastic local talent in Audio’s cocktail bar, and fire up the bbq which will be offering 100% organic beefburgers, kofte kebabs, and lip-smacking vegetarian options.
Drink deals also include £3 Pints and £5 Mojitos – and of course summer wouldn’t be summer without a huge jug of Pimms, at the mouth-watering price of £12. Performing this week….
Kele live review 24.06.10
Judging by the amount of Bloc Party T-shirts on display tonight at least half of Kele’s audience must be hoping to hear some of his earlier output. Despite a Bloc Party medley and the final track, however, the night is all about his new material.
Kele steps out onto the stage with his new band featuring Tommy Sparks, a strangely familiar drummer and a female vocalist/keyboard player. Having heard reports of his stage presence being underwhelming at Bloc Party gigs it’s a pleasure to see him interacting with the crowd and commanding the focus despite having little more to do than sing.
This Saturdays Summer Terrace Party
Paul Diello + Catherine Allin + The Stash Tins + L’a Rebours
Saturday July 3rd, 3 til 9pm
Above Audio
FREE entry
All ages welcome
This month we have a treat with an additional show ahead of our usual monthly Terrace Party event (July 10th). Come on down this saturday and we will serve you up some fantastic local tallent in Audio’s cocktail bar, and fire up that bbq which will be offering 100% organic beefburgers, kofte kebabs, and lip-smacking vegetarian options.
Drink deals also include £3 Pints and £5 Mojitos – and of course summer wouldn’t be summer without a huge jug of Pimms, at the mouth-watering price of £12.
Clash Stage line up confirmed at this year’s Big Chill festival
Eel Pie Island indie group Mystery Jets are amongst the acts confirmed for the Clash stage at The Big Chill.
Held in the Herefordshire countryside, The Big Chill is a different breed of festival. The organisers seem to care for your ears, with a laid back audience able to take in performances from some big names acts.
This year headliners include Massive Attack, M.I.A. and Radiohead singer Thom Yorke. Making a very rare solo appearance, Yorke will bring his Atoms For Peace collective to British shores for the very first time.
In a joint announcement the organisers of The Big Chill and Clash Magazine can confirm the bill for the Clash Stage.
Bombay Bicycle Club announce tour dates which includes Brighton and the release of their new acoustic album
‘Flaws’ (released, 12th July) is the stunningly beautiful, new acoustic album by Bombay Bicycle Club.
Having finished recording their debut LP ‘I Had The Blues But I Shook Them Loose’ in February 2009, the band went straight back into the studio (The Church, Crouch End) days after they submitted the master for ‘I Had The Blues’, and started the initial recordings for this album.
Recorded in between touring over the past year and a half, a few early tracks were laid down at The Church and produced by Neill MacColl (guitarist Jamie’s Dad), but the rest was recorded in singer, Jack Steadman’s bedroom and produced by Jack himself.
‘Flaws’ is characterised by a delicate, heart-swelling beauty and lightness of touch throughout. Those that had BBC pegged merely as an indie band may need to re-think.
