This is Jazzman John. He’s amazing. We bumped into him (literally) at offset festival and started chatting. Turns out he’s a jazz poet. Not knowing much about jazz poetry i was naturally intrigued and he offered to do some especially for us. So here we have a Smack That exclusive. Jazzman John recorded on an…
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London three-piece, all girl group, Wet Dog make seriously good raucous punk pop music. With hypnotizing drums, dirty bass at its best and some blatant half jabbered lyrics, this is the perfect recipe for a spiffing sound. Why Wet Dog? Maybe because backwards it says Tew God. Is this a subliminal suggestion that there is…
Well, looks like the organisers of Beachdown have gone bust. Skanked. Apparently ticket holders will only be able to get a refund of 10% back from their £100 tickets. Double skanked. The line up was pretty atrocious anyway, apart from seeing the Fall, Saint Etienne and the Blockheads who else was there really? There was…
Agaskodo Teliverek (Rearing Stallions in Hungarian) used to just be one bloke, Miki Kemecsi, playing frantic electronic music outside Aldwych tube station (apparently). Over the years though Miki has bought in other members to create the Agaskodo Teliverek we know today. They play guitars in a Dick Dale, Shadows style, but with the most absurd…
Future Islands, a group residing in the D.I.Y music capital of the world, Baltimore, play epic, emotional and often tongue in cheek “synth punk”. They’re playing at the Free Butt, Brighton on September 15th 2009. We saw them play at ULU in London last June with a lot of other bands from Dan Deacon’s Wham…
Louie Banks is one of Brighton’s coolest and trendiest photographers. He has photographed the likes of La Roux and the Maccabees and had his work featured on the front page of the Source magazine. All of that before he had even turned eighteen. We expect to see big things from him in the future. We…
Shameless is nang. 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…
Loop Festival 2009 came back to Brighton over the weekend of 11th and 12th July, but unfortunately not in Victoria Gardens as last minute changes were made to the festivals venue due to a typically “British summer” weather forecast. Well, the weatherman was right and Saturday definitely benefited from using indoor venues. The Pavilion Theatre,…
Ah the Great Escape, everyones favourite attempt at drinking as much and sleeping as little as possible over a weekend. This year I was stuck working for the festival at Audio so unfortunately pretty much all of this review will be bands that played there… but piss off… Kicking things off on Thursday we had…
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