Sing it back

There's a few Karaoke spots already in Brighton, none of which are particularly any good. So I'm excited by the prospect of a new lucky voice private karaoke bar opening next to the new Jamie Oliver Italian Restaurant in Black Lion Street. A mere stones throw from my office (and the pebbly beach for that matter). It'll apparently span 3 floors and will be open in 8 weeks time. I'll be warming up the ol' vocal chords with Lips in the meantime and I've posted the new Metronomy video to get everyone excited.

When Hell fills up the DeadDeadDead will rise

Garage Studios is a new Photography Studio right here in Brighton and I've been keeping up to date with their Flickr right here. So I was really excited when their darker more creative sibling DeadDeadDead launched their website with this ace photo yesterday... right in time for Halloween too. Check out the video of the set build here it's amazing how much effort went into it.

I designed the logo for Garage Studios (below) as a favour. I love it in Black and White but must admit to not being much of a fan of it in pink, but hey I'm sure they'll do well and pink is soooo Brighton baby.

Somewhere in the Universe there must be somewhere better than New Hero?

The Somewhere in the Universe club night in Brighton has always attracted some superstar DJs at the Ocean Rooms, so I hope they still reel 'em in at their new spot at New Hero every Friday. If you're from Brighton and have never heard of New Hero it's because it's just changed names/owners from what used to be The Church and Club New York before that. It was a small dingy venue so I hope they've spruced it up a bit. I notice that Little Boots, whom I blogged a few weeks back, is playing there on the 19th September too.

The Saturday spot also looks promising with DANCE DANCE DEATH; a night which features some great DJs on rotation. From Skint's own Midfield General through to one of my faves Punks Jump Up who, amongst other things, created one of my favourite T-Shirts (see above).

2 Festivals and a wedding

Sorry it's been a while. The last few weeks I've been to Belgium for my 3rd annual Pukkelpop festival and also just up the road for the Brighton and Hove's 1st Beachdown festival.

This weekend I wasn't spared either as I attended the wedding of my good friends Will and Gail. I had a half hour set which comprised of the following dance floor classics (which went down very well I might add):

• Aint Nobody - Chaka Khan
• White Wedding - Billy Idol
• Let's Dance - David Bowie
• Romeo - Basement Jaxx
• My Sharona - The Knack
• Doctor Pressure - Mylo Vs Miami Sound Machine
• Rock the Casbah - The Clash
• Just What I Needed - The Cars
• Cars - Gary Numan
• Digital Love - Daft Punk
  

I had to stop it early and leave off Gary Numan and Daft Punk, but I was happy my work was done. Other tracks that nearly made it include: Lady - Modjo, Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic - The Police, Music Sounds Better With You - Stardust, I Can't Go For That - Hall and Oates, Atomic - Blondie, We Are Your Friends - Justice, Superstition - Stevie Wonder, Out Of Space - The Prodigy, Sweet Dreams - The Eurythmics.

Ed Banger at the Ocean Rooms

I was at the Presets gig Friday, but the infamous Busy P, Medhi and Midfield General rocked the ocean rooms according to nutcase's photos.