Reviews

Resident football enthusiast Ballgown's guide to the football world cup 2010.
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When I meet new people, and the question ‘where are you from?’ crops up – most people say, ‘Oh, you’re from Brighton? That’s a cool place’. My common response to this is usually a slightly disgusted smirk or some quip that yeah, it’s better than Bognor but it ain’t THAT great. Brighton used to...
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I hate the end of the year. Every magazine, website, newspaper and blog seems to do a ‘best of’ or ‘top 10′ of the last year. They’re just so annoying arn’t they. Here is a list of albums that came out during the noughties (what a terrible name, apparently the next decade will be...
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Last Night was the premiere of Ed Hubert’s latest release LA*. The Sallis Benney on Grand Parade was packed full with level skaters and familiar Brighton faces, and man was everyone hyped for that shit. The rumour going round town yesterday was that Ed had sold double the amount of tickets as there were...
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So the ugliest band that have ever lived (Magic Numbers aside..) came to our fair shores last week to play a sold out gig at Audio, put on by our dear friends at Lout Promotions. It sold out so easily that another gig in March is already booked in at the Komedia and if...
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Well i hate to say it (I dont, I fuckin’ love it), but i said these guys would make it big this year in my “top 10 bands to watch in 2009” ALL the way back in December. Their album ‘Sigh No More’ came out this week and went in at number 1 on...
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After the absolute rubbish that was Public Enemies, I took myself once again to the Duke of York’s to see Mesrine: Killer Instinct, the first of a two-part biopic about the life of France’s most notorious gangster, Jacques Mesrine. I already had high expectations of Vincent Cassel’s performance playing the criminal after loving him...
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It must be a weird feeling being pretty much certain you’ll only be famous for 6 months. Whether Passion Pit actually know this or not is another matter of course, I was just thinking out loud. Their recent gig at the Concorde 2 sold out pretty easily as can be expected I guess and...
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So on Saturday morning I headed to Brighton station to begin making my way to Hainault. I got a bit worried when I was sitting around waiting for the late Lutworth to arrive as I saw a lot of proper youngsters with camping gear who I suspected were heading to the same destination. Anyway,...
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I’ve never been that into Dancehall or Ragga or any of that bass heavy black music. It’s just not part of my “culture”, and it wasn’t something I was brought up on. However when I attend carnival, my motto is ‘Just Embrace It’, and so this year like other years before I ‘Just Embraced...
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