Edwyn Collins, St George’s Church, Brighton - Thursday 25 April 2013 on Flickr.
A marvellous night in the company of Edwyn Collins. I’ve loved him since the earliest days of Orange Juice. He’s still wonderful. He played a great set that featured tunes from his days on Postcard, right up to this year’s album.
Simply thrilled honey.
King Charles, The Haunt, Brighton - 17 April 2013 on Flickr.
King Charles live at The Haunt was a joyous experience. The gig was sold out, and the crowd were supportive and up for a good time. He played the majority of his splendid debut album ‘LoveBlood’ and a smattering of new tunes. A great show and a great night.
Trafalgar Street, Brighton - 20 March 2013 on Flickr.
Deadly Magic Pill…
…can I watch you shoot ‘em up?
Via Flickr:
Trafalgar Street, Brighton
Taken with iPhone / Instagram - 20 March 2013
Stealing Sheep are three young women who trade in a wonderful psych-folk that evokes Espers, Golden Fable, and other wonderful bands of that ilk. They are part of that long and esteemed lineage that goes all the way back to Vashti Banyan and Shirley Collins and doubtless way before them too. If that’s the sort of thing that ticks some or all of your boxes then you should seek them out. On the strength of this performance, and some cursory YouTube research, I will be buying their album this very day. It’s on Heavenly which is usually a very good sign.
Kingsway, Hove - 2 February 2013 on Flickr.
Every day I use my iPhone to take photos. #instagram #hove
A set of photos on Flickr containing images taken in and around Aldrington Station. This is an ongoing project but one that I have been focussing on for the last week or so. There’s quite a body of different takes on the station now. Some taken with my phone others with my camera. I intend to carry this on until I stop noticing new ways to capture the magic of this place.
Here’s a few of the photos and some information about the history of the station… 
Aldrington railway station, sometimes known by its former names of Aldrington Halt and Dyke Junction, is a railway station in Hove, in East Sussex, England. The station is 2 miles (3 km) west of Brighton on the West Coastway Line.
Opened in 1905 by the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway as Dyke Junction Halt, with wooden platforms, it was renamed Aldrington in 1932 and rebuilt in concrete by the Southern Railway. It is situated just east of the former junction with the branch line to Devil’s Dyke, which opened in 1887 and closed in 1938; the layout and curvature of certain roads and buildings immediately north-west of the station indicates where the branch ran.
The station was staffed during peak hours until approximately 1990, after which the hut which served as a ticket office was demolished. As of 2009, the old concrete shelters have been replaced with reinforced plastic shelters which are now the only features on the platforms. Ramps lead down to street level.
There are ticket-issuing machines at the entrances to each platform.Pre-purchased tickets can also be collected on these machines. There is no footbridge connecting the platforms with each other. However there is a tunnel under the railway lines at the western end of the platforms which was originally built to allow the local farmer to move his cattle between fields which became separated with the arrival of the railway.
So the Hove Book Group has delivered its verdict on Hangover Square and other matters Hamilton.
This has been the year when I have discovered the genius of Patrick Hamilton as my burgeoning Hamilton collection attests.
My joy was complete when I discovered that one of the many places that Patrick Hamilton lived in Hove was a tiny cottage round the corner from where I live. He wrote “The West Pier” there. I love the idea of Patrick pounding the same streets as me - albeit 60 odd years earlier.
The Time and Space Machine play their debut gig as a five piece band at Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar, Brighton, on Friday 1st June 2012 @ 7pm - 10pm (band on at 8.30pm) and it’s a mere £5 for one of those golden tickets. The Time and Space Machine band will feature drums, bass, guitars, harmony vocals, backwards noises, Hammond freak outs, plus a light show from Innerstrings Light Show. I think you’d be a fool to miss it.
New album “Taste The Lazer” is great.
“I’m trying to make music that has a feeling of sensation to it, that moves your head, heart and body. I’m attempting to take the dynamics you get from a really strong piece of electronic dance music — hypnosis, repetition, trance, elevation, tension and release — and putting them into a band. It can only turn out to be psychedelic.”
The words of Richard Norris the Time & Space Machine main man.
Blatchingtons Ltd of Hove, Blatchington Road, Hove…
…carpet specialists established in 1954 and (in addition to carpets) purveyors of fine signage…
