Addictive TV
This weekend will go down for two memorable events. Tony, Kerry's hairdresser brought his friend down to Brighton to celebrate his birthday. We met them at Legends, an infamous hotel for a certain segment of population (I only realised after I got there) on the seafront. We had high expectations of an expensive night being Tony, hairdresser to many fashion shows and friends of famous people. However, arriving at the hotel bar at 10:30pm brought home the flavour of the evening with a tinge of cheap cheesiness.
After Tony and Chris faffed about for a good hour showing off their 6 outfit wardrobe for two evenings we avoided the hotel bar and headed for Dr. Brighton's. Based on a memory 7 years ago, it turned out to be an old duffers pub so turned straight back.
Audio was busy and many people taking advantage of the outdoor seating for smoking and braving the gale-force winds. The downstairs club had Andy Weatherall playing that night. Instead we headed around the corner to Revenge, the multi-roomed gay nightclub. £7 entry to a room of super-cheese remixes of Girl Aloud and an average House room surrounded by a meat-market of men-lovers. Made of the most of it and was slightly upset at leaving once the music improved. The evening ended at ours with salon chat for a few hours in the early morn.
Half of Sunday was spent in bed. The evening however we'd booked tickets for Addictive TV, a couple of VJs mixing music with film clips. Concorde 2 was chuffing cold and it didn't help with only about 50 people, pretty rubbish for any act and a damn shame. We took advantage of the bar stools whilst the majority stood gawping at the clever visual mixing. Hopefully the video below will give you an idea. So many highlights but ones I remember are using Shoot Em Up (recent film), Laurel and Hardy, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Pulp Fiction, AC-DC, The Italian Job and a personal favourite of mixing Donna Summer's I Feel Love with Bladerunner's Void-comp scene. They deserved a bigger, better crowd.
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After Tony and Chris faffed about for a good hour showing off their 6 outfit wardrobe for two evenings we avoided the hotel bar and headed for Dr. Brighton's. Based on a memory 7 years ago, it turned out to be an old duffers pub so turned straight back.
Audio was busy and many people taking advantage of the outdoor seating for smoking and braving the gale-force winds. The downstairs club had Andy Weatherall playing that night. Instead we headed around the corner to Revenge, the multi-roomed gay nightclub. £7 entry to a room of super-cheese remixes of Girl Aloud and an average House room surrounded by a meat-market of men-lovers. Made of the most of it and was slightly upset at leaving once the music improved. The evening ended at ours with salon chat for a few hours in the early morn.
Half of Sunday was spent in bed. The evening however we'd booked tickets for Addictive TV, a couple of VJs mixing music with film clips. Concorde 2 was chuffing cold and it didn't help with only about 50 people, pretty rubbish for any act and a damn shame. We took advantage of the bar stools whilst the majority stood gawping at the clever visual mixing. Hopefully the video below will give you an idea. So many highlights but ones I remember are using Shoot Em Up (recent film), Laurel and Hardy, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Pulp Fiction, AC-DC, The Italian Job and a personal favourite of mixing Donna Summer's I Feel Love with Bladerunner's Void-comp scene. They deserved a bigger, better crowd.
Addictive TV website
Addictive TV Myspace
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