Tuesday 17 July, 8pm
The Hope, Brighton (11-12 Queens Road)

6 quid adv/7 quid on the door

The Strange Death Of Liberal England
Mechanical Bride
The Legend! (Everett True)

“The name is drawn to indicate the welter of confusion felt by these five youths from Gosport, a crap seaside town near Portsmouth…is it five? It’s hard to tell, because they never keep still on stage, leaping about, switching instruments and smudging their guitar strings like Sonic Youth in reverse, thrusting giant placards into the audience’s faces bearing slogans like ‘Repent! Repent!’ and ‘I Saw Evil’, hammering the hell out of a keyboard or two, shouting off-mic in unkempt harmony like the bastard children of Silver Mt Zion Orchestra, instruments dropping out altogether until there’s just a hint of triangle or ricocheting feedback, before the flame-haired mop starts yelling blue passion once again” - Plan B 23

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Friday 20 July, 7:30pm
The Hub, Brighton (The Vogue Gyratory, 106 Lewes Rd)

3 quid on the door

Pete And The Pirates
Mathew Sawyer And The Ghosts
The Legend! (Everett True)
plus Plan B DJ Jon Slade

“Songs tumble and soar for the stars like a cross between The Chills and my Nineties Irish crush The Frank And Walters, and yes, I’m sold. The way the vocals vibrate, mic overloaded. The way the drums come pounding through solid and friendly. The guitars that nestle snugly up to the other guitars. And of course, it’s about the sound, not just the song - Phil Spector, Sonic Youth and Ramones understood that, as did Flying Nun, why don’t more artists?” - Plan B 19

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Saturday 21 July, 7pm
Hanover Community Centre (33 Southover Street BN2)

8.50 quid adv/10.50 quid on the door

Holly Golightly
The Brokeoffs
The Legend! (Everett True)

“Holly Golightly. Forgive me while I swoon. Her name, her music, her whole persona is associated with a certain exquisite Fifties-style fashion and rock’n'roll; sharpness, style. Her music is a drawl of simple eloquence, a sugar-sharp dispatch from past times where a song was a song, and a melody a melody, and all that mattered was honing the sound so you could communicate both with elan. I can’t think of anyone so able to define her own sound this side of Kim Deal, although I’m not so convinced it’s deliberate on Holly’s part. She plays uncomplicated, cheap, nasty, attitudinal, punk rock rock’n'roll of the highest order. She is, as Jack White once put it, herself - and there is rarely a higher compliment”- Plan B 22

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Monday 23 July, 8pm
The Pressure Point, Brighton (33 Richmond Place BN2)

5 quid/4 quid (student)

Tenebrous Liar
Revenge Of Shinobi
The Legend! (Everett True)
Virgin Passages

“Guitars wail softly; feedback melts into feedback, sharp noises jar and trip as if from a great distance. A soft voice stumbles across anachronism and narcotic desire, meaning lost in mumble, the guitars becoming louder now. There’s a mandolin, an echo slide, a handful of late night recording sessions and a handful of love. There’s misery and then there’s wallowing. This is beyond both” - Plan B 19

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Monday 30 July, 7.30pm
Prince Albert, Brighton (48 Trafalgar Street)

6 quid adv/7 quid on the door

The Nightingales
Christy & Emily
Violet Violet
Plus Plan B DJ Everett True

“Songs tumble past, pasty-faced and brimming with mother’s pride, as fresh and corruptible now as when they were first aired two decades back, times changed and words tilted appropriately - ‘Use Your Loaf’, ‘Urban Ospreys’, ‘Which Hi-Fi?’. The crowd rears as one, raises a pint or three to heaven, and still the melodic tumult continues: imagine Erase Errata, The Ex and someone smart, large and bespectacled rolled into one, tightly excoriating ball, and you’ll be nowhere near” - Plan B 17

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Posted on Friday, July 13th, 2007by Everett True