We are really pleased to announce that one of Brighton’s most hyped bands of the moment The Gaa Gaa’s will be playing at Teen Creeps on the 28th May. Their new EP Repulsion Seminar, produced by James Aparicio who has also produced the likes of Nick Cave and Mogwai, sounds really fucking cool and will be out anytime soon. You can check out a few of their tracks on their Myspace page, but you should really be coming down to the Jazz Place on Ship Street on the 28th to see them in their only live show in the UK for a long long time. Hopefully see you all down there, it’s going to be mEnTaL. xoxox

Photos by: Nima Elm

Photos by : Milo Belgrove and Nima Elm

Alright, Smack That minions. We have something very exciting to tell you all. Lutworth, Hulk Rogan and Murley Bassey have been organising a new and exciting monthly club night soon to hit the streets of Brighton.

TEEN CREEPS is to be held at a secret location in Brighton each month, with live music from some of the UK’s hottest new acts, guest and resident DJ’s playing the best in Electro, Synth, Rap and Dancable Indie, plus loads of cheap booze. All of this will be available to you for under a fiver. What more could you ask for?

We are also looking for people to join us and help with promotion etc, as well as DJ’s or bands to play at TEEN CREEPS, so if you’re interested in working for an exciting new club night please send an email stating what service you think you may be able to offer us and we’ll go from there:

teencreeps@smackthat.co.uk

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So MGMT chose our fair city for their festival warm up show (mainly ‘cos last time they were down here they were given a massive bag of drugs and “had a blast”). It was announced two days before and tickets sold out online in 10 minutes, so i guess people still care about these arrogant electro hippies. Support came in the form of 5 Manc lads who’s name escapes me. They played Primal Scream-esque sleazy psychedelic indie, and to be fair it was pretty good although ever so slightly underwhelming. MGMT came on to ‘Weekend Wars’ which is one of my favourites off their last album and it was obvious they’ve grown as a live band since i last saw them. All the singles sounded a lot fuller and ‘anthemic’ if you’ll allow me to be a bit over the top for a second. This was also a chance for them to play a load of new material which was to be expected i guess. It seemed to me that they seem to have got a bit more indie-schmindie but i guess its hard to tell with live performances, especially as the production was such an important part of the last record. Once ‘Kids’ had finished, i assumed the set was over but they carried on for another half hour seemingly making songs up on the spot and noodling shit guitar solo’s for days. Everyone got a bit confused at this and half the crowd left, and the other half just stood there wondering how long this was actually gunna go on for…It was certainly a weird way to finish a gig, but i spose it wont do them much harm. Reactions to the new stuff were mixed from what i gather, so the jurys still out on that but judging on the crowd during the crowd favourites from the first album, they could probably get away with touring that record for another year at least, and why not eh?

Words: Hulk Rogan

Photo: Lutworth

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In the short space of a year Shameless has become Brighton’s biggest and best midweek club night.

From the underage 17 year olds dancing downstairs to the yummy mummies sipping their half price COCKtails upstairs, Shameless is enjoyed by all.

Upstairs Chaos In Shoes and Dynamite Sal take turns to serve up a platter of tasty electro with some indie classics on the side.

Downstairs in the sweat-pit that is Audio, DJ Nause and C-Dogg keep the crowd pumping with anything and everything from ironic 90′s dance to Wu-Tang, Madonna to Metronomy. No choon is ever mixed properly, just dropped in a crude but somehow perfect mess.

The thing that makes Shameless so popular though, especially to poverty stricken students is the weekly raffle. Entry is merely a pound, and that’s all you have to pay to be in with a chance to win the £500 jackpot.

Words by Lutworth

Sexy Photos by Sam Hiscox
Sexier Photo by Milo Belgrove

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Kicking things off on Thursday we had Video Nasties with their distorted post-punk thing who I had never heard and was reasonably impressed. I’ve since checked out album ‘On All Fours’ and while not particularly exciting, it’s certainly not the worst thing I’ve heard all year. Following them it was Mika Miko who were a female 5 piece who play bouncy riot grrrl stuff. A bit like X Ray Spex crossed with Operator Please. They were quite cool but not really my bag maaan. Next on were Scottish band Dananananaykroyd who despite their awfully gay name, were and are actually pretty good. They play arty post-hardcore but with more indie vocals which I know sounds terrible, but they have a few good songs up their sleeves. Check the album ‘Hey Everyone’ if you care…So with the crowd having been warmed up by these bands, the kings of the overrated came on – Black Lips. Its not that I think this band are shit, I just never understand how they manage to have SO many fans…They were cool though and the crowd was pretty mental. They do manage to put on a good show fo’ sho’.

Friday was by far the worst day line-up wise, but first band on To The Bones still pulled a good crowd with their skewed take on grungy rock. Chew Lips filled the venue with their hype thanks to recently signing to Kistuné and being touted by NME as “the next big thing” (although, who fucking isn’t these days?). They played their bleepy, shouty crystal castles thing with varied success. New single “Solo” was good anyway. Dinosaur Pile-Up were next but I can’t for the life of me remember what they were like since id chosen Friday to really take advantage of the free Red Stripe on offer. On record they sound a bit shit though, sound like some weird early 90′s “alternative” rock band, which isn’t the hottest look ever in my humble opinion. Last band, The Twilight Sad are some moody Scots who play “atmospheric” indie stuff and managed to clear most of the venue because its not really what you want to be hearing on a Friday night. The sound was gash as well. The highlight of the day was the singer of Twilight Sad getting into a fight with an audience member while on stage, who then turned out to be one of the sponsors…good times…After work I went to check out Metronomy at the Corn Exchange which was pretty good but again, I don’t remember much. The drummer was HAWT though. You can’t beat a fit female drummer; they make sex faces while they drum.

Music on Saturday started off with a “secret” gig on the terrace of Above Audio. Don’t think it stayed secret for very long though because there was a queue of people with Babyshambles t-shirts on queuing up outside all day…So the king of the smack heads-who-should’ve-died-a-while-ago turned up and did a 20 minute set for probably about £20,000. Opinions were mixed and while I didn’t think it was a good gig (I don’t like Babyshambles either) it was certainly surreal and enjoyable in a “Christ, this is weird” kind of way. Music downstairs started with Rogues who are an “Up and coming” band who make camp indie with 80′s pop ideas thrown in the mix. Definitely a bit of Duran Duran in there. I thought they were pretty gay really but what do I know, apparently they’re going to be massive…Only caught a few songs by Fight Like Apes but they did their Irish punky-synth thing I’m sure. I was really looking forward to next band, Soft Pack, because they had sounded great during sound check but they actually ended up being really disappointing. They have some really great guitar hooks and melodies, but his voice is just so “meh” and there’s always just something missing from their songs. Still, early days I guess. Hockey finished off the weekend with their dancey indie stuff which the huge crowd went mental for. They’re currently touring with Friendly Fires, which makes sense. I think they’re ok but the show was wicked and was a good way to end The Great Escape.

After this I went to see Erol Alkan who was obviously dope, but I fucked off pretty early to go and do too much sniff for no reason and stay awake until late into Sunday. GOTTA BE DONE YO! maybe…

If you read that, you’re a fucking loser x

Words by Hulk Rogan

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