BLACK DOVE
With a different pub to visit every day of the year, it takes something special for a new Brighton boozer to make its mark on the map. The Black Dove on St James Street might just have what it takes. Special rates for students look set to ram it to the gunnels, and a stoosh rotation of be-bop, jazz and contemporary beat music alongside live rhythm’n’blues and soul are the perfect accompaniment to getting the right side of a few cut-price cold drinks. Pop in if you want to perform or just sup subsidised ciders.
B-SIDE
You know Bottlettop right? They’re ethical charity types who raise dough for international good causes via fashion, music and art. They used to run a monthly party called B-Side to raise funds and awareness. Well after a two-year break they’re back, living it large at the Fortune Of War and bringing headline acts to a cosy pub space. Thursday 15th
THE HOOK UP
Amidst the crumbling foundations of the mainstream music industry, a phoenix is rising from its ashes. The Hook Up music consultancy, artist and label management company is an alternate model for upcoming independent musicians. Artists can cherry-pick the services they want, from handling PR to setting up a label, within a tailored budget. Founded by industry expert Jonny Reggae, with 20 years of experience in running a label and managing bands and artists, expect straight-up advice from these guys.
JAILBAIT
New Hero are taking a step forward in their musical time travelling with new 90s night Jailbait. Playing hip hop, r’n’b, dance, and the promise of a bit of rawk thrown in too from DJs Luther from Smack That! as well as Shameless DJs C-Dogg and Nause. Dust off those spaghetti-strap dresses, clunky wedge platform shoes and all things flared and prepare for a night of nostalgia. It’s happening every Monday with plenty of goodies in store.
ROCK & ROLLER
We like playing pool, but bigger boys always seem to hog the tables in pubs. We also like eating burgers, but we don’t like Ronald McDonald. So as if to answer our admittedly trivial dreams, Rock & Roller has burst open its doors and beckoned us inside. Up the Churchill Square end of Western Road, this two-floor American-inspired joint has five pool tables, old movies on a cinema screen and plenty of room to chill. Downstairs has breakfasts, towering burgers, ribs and steaks as well as a good selection or beers, spirits and cocktails to slosh it all down with. All good.
SCHIZOTHEQUE
If you’ve been down to Schizotheque at Digital’s Micro ‘rave tunnel’ you’ll know why it’s outgrown its measly monthly scheduling – it’s quickly become one of the city’s definitive nights out. So it’s only right and just that it’s gone weekly – residents IDC, Drum Monkeys and King High giving up their Friday nights and persuading big-name DJ pals to do the same. The weekly launch on Friday 23rd features Beat Assassins, with further guests announced on the Facebook group page a week before the event.
iFEST APP
It’s tricky enough to remember things at the best of times, let alone keeping it together when festival season arrives and we drive out, armed with smuggled booze, a gaggle of mates and a crap tent in tow. Luckily though, Brighton company GUIDEstar have come up with a solution. They’ve created an iPhone app that will sort your timetable, make sure you never get lost, and point you in the right direction for stages/friends/tent, without even needing the net – get it at theguidestar.com
UPFRONTDANCE.NET
SOURCE is all about local radio, with several of our number taking to the airwaves at various times, so we’re pleased to being news of a new online dance station gaining decent momentum across the city. Upfrontdance.net also has FM frequencies at 99.1 and 100.6 so you can blast it out of your rolled down, tinted windows as you roar up and down Madeira Drive. Local DJs including Tom Maverick and Fifilicious are pushing the buoyant underground dance scene through the transmitters.
WORDS BY NICK COQUET, LYDIA STOCKBRIDGE
