[ Day One ] I’m sat here in the comfort of my own bed, having slept for a good 10 hours, in the full knowledge that in four days’ time I will be feeling the exact opposite. As well as music venues, Brighton has a fine array of fish & chip shops and establishments which sell cheap, Polish bear. I could probably write an esteemed guide on those very things, better than I could for the acts playing The Great Escape on Friday 11th but alas, there’s no going back now. —————————————————- M O N E Y Friday 11th, Horatios, 20.30 This year I’ll be consciously avoiding a long walk up Brighton’s Palace Pier; avoiding the humiliation of arriving at a dingy bar where decent bands play through a shockingly sub-par sound system. It happened last year with Big Talk & Cults. It musn’t happen again. There’s one trip to Horatios which I can’t avoid though and that’s to see Manchester’s M O N E Y . It’s difficult to make your mind up about a band who raise their WU LYF flag so high and proud, but this lot are beginning to bring something new to the fore. A fairly spectacular visual show is also promised, we hear. —————————————————- PINS Friday 11th, Amazing Radio Stage, Queens Hotel, 22.30 Ferocious fully-charged garage punk, sporting confidence on record - it’ll be interesting to see how PINS , another Manchester act, fill out a half hour set and whether they’ve got enough exciting songs beyond the brilliant debut cassette, which featured ‘ Eleventh Hour ’ and ‘Shoot You’. PINS top off a stunning bill on the Amazing Radio ’s Alt Escape stage, where throughout Friday the likes of Eagulls, Mammal Club and Gross Magic compete for your time on the seaside. —————————————————- PEACE Friday 11th, The Loft, 23.00 This last tip is essentially a means of me fulfilling a promise; a promise I made to Peace’s lead singer Harry after interviewing him for DIY Magazine . He ensured me that to see his band live would ...
Music Fan's Mic (MFM)
7 May 2012