Flip Top Head – Trilateral Machine EP launch

On Saturday Night Flip Top Head played a gig to launch their second EP Trilateral Machine at St Augustines Church (which has actually been an Arts Centre for seven or eight years, but this is the first gig that we’ve been aware of here). Support came from Joel Whittaker, sometimes known as the bassist in Keg (who I missed, unfortunately), and My Precious Bunny, the new project from Penelope Isles’ Lily Wolter (who far exceeded my expectations).

It goes without saying that the EP is a beautiful thing – Math / post rock with heart and soul. If you haven’t heard it, stream it right away, or better still, head over to their bandcamp and buy yourself a copy.

 

Mutations Festival 2025

This weekend was Mutations Festival, and Saturday night’s headliner was local heroes Lambrini Girls. Overall though Brighton felt a bit under represented, with less than 10% given over to local bands. On Friday, you couldn’t have watched both Fickle Friends and Ditz because they were in clashing slots (although they are very different bands). On Saturday Ladylike opened up proceedings at Chalk. Lemonsuckr proved to be so popular that I spent half their set stuck in the queue outside Dust and when I did get in they were struck down with technical difficulties. Because both of the timings of both of those sets, I didn’t manage to get to Alphabet for My Precious Bunny, although I heard good things afterwards, and Opus Kink were on way past my bedtime. Overall though, it was a great festival – they probably needed a few more small stages open in the afternoon before the bigger venues opened up, and the weather was very forgiving, the bill overall was diverse enough to not get boring. Here’s to next year (with hopefully a few more Brighton bands on the bill)