You might have spotted some Mutations Festival previews – Everyone’s very excited about Mike D, and if you got in early enough a festival ticket would only be a tenner or so more than the good tickets to go and see him in London. You get a lot of bang for your buck at Mutations. The other big names – Fat Dog, Squid and Dove Ellis are not to be sniffed at either. But even if you were a member of one of the worlds most influential hip hop acts, you still haven’t earned a mention on Brighton Music Blog. Before this week we’d spotted Big Long Sun and Hutch on the bill, but this week’s final wave of announcements brough loads more Brighton bands onto the line up, so here’s a shoutout for M.Woodroe, Maximilian, Opal Mag, Oral Habit, The Stanford Family Band, Snayx, Plantoid and Deary (who aren’t all Brighton based but Dottie has been spotted behind the counter at the Bella Union shop and various gigs in town, which is enough for me).
Mutations Festival kicks off a fortnight tomorrow on 23rd October at Chalk, Dust, Patterns, Revenge, Folklore Rooms, Alphabet and the Hope & Ruin
You can see our pics from last year’s festival, headlined by local heroes Lambrini Girls here.
Matt reminisced about his time in bands – “We’d meet up at Tiffany’s, we’d smoke cigarettes, have a cup of tea, and then we’d go to Resident. That was our routine, on the dole in a band – and we’d look and see what was coming up, we’d pop in and buy a ticket. And we used to sell tickets for our gigs in there too. We’d make tickets out of playing cards, and we’d hand them to whoever was going to sell them. And back then you knew where the information was for gigs, and I wanted to recreate that now for this sort of very fragmented landscape we’re in.”
Last month, MEMORIALS released their new album All Clouds Bring Not Rain. They played a stripped down acoustic set in Resident on launch date before heading to France for promotional duties. They’re currently on a near sold out UK tour which took in Brighton last night.
The name Club Magic was in place long before the rest of the band were: “the idea was just these two words that you could recognise in any language – Everyone knows what a club is, everyone knows what magic is. I had that name for about four or five years without doing anything – I used to keep googling it just to make sure no one else had taken it”
The EP is being launched with a gig at Alphabet on 4th April. Support comes from a solo set by Josh from Fukushima Dolphin – “Josh was Club Magic vocalist for about two or three months prior to Paul. When I was looking for someone, Josh and I wrote a few songs together, but he was just so busy with Fukushima it became impossible”. Around the sets Dan Clark from Uncle Monty / Transformer will be DJing, and visuals will be provided by Chris Innerstrings – “I’ve always been a fan. We went to see the Sabres of Paradise the other week and his visuals were so incredible – just so perfect for the music and what they do – that I sent Chris a message about 3am after the gig telling him how much I loved it, and that led to getting him involved with the show”
