Let’s Drive To Brighton On The Weekend
Ever since “Waiting For The 7.18″ became my favorite track on that new Bloc record, it’s been a dream of mine to drive to Brighton on the weekend. And now, thanks to the Great Escape festival, I’ve got a pretty fucking good excuse to.
Like a smaller SXSW or a bigger CMJ, the Great Escape is the biggest festival of the spring in the UK. Or as the Great Escape website so eloquently puts it, “The Great Escape is by day, a series of insightful interviews with leading figures from the music industry; by night, a festival of the very best new artists from across the globe, with over 150 bands playing 20 different venues and all within a short walk of each other.” So yeah, color me wayyy pumped. I mean, just check out the list of artists performing. Willy Mason! The Maccabees! The Noisettes! Fear of Flying! Kate Nash! The Moths! Air Traffic! Jesus, I’m excited.
The only problem? I got on the bandwagon a little late in the game and while I’m all set as far as tickets and transportation is concerned, I’m fucked for accomodations. Seriously, there are over thirty hotels in the area and not one’s got a single availability. You better believe I’m still going, I just might end up sleeping on the streets tonight. That would suck, like, a lot, so now here’s the part where I appeal to any Brighton readers I’ve got out there to be ridiculously kind and consider letting me into their home for any of the three evenings. I’ve got a few leads so far with bands I might be able to crash with and people who know people in Brighton who might consider taking me in, so I can’t definitely say I’ll be sleeping on the street otherwise tonight, but anything would help. So yeah, here’s my mobile number: 0798 220 1585. Please don’t hesitate to contact me if you’ve got a couch I can crash on. Sure, asking for a place to stay with random strangers on the internet is pretty much the sketchiest thing I’ve ever done, but as you can see, I’m desperate as shit.
Here’s hoping for a great weekend full of good music and me not having to sleep on the streets.
MP3: “Waiting For The 7.18″ - Bloc Party
May 17th, 2007 at 11:56 am
I like the new masthead.
Have fun in brighton, call up Julie Burchill and pretned you’re a coalminer maybe?
May 17th, 2007 at 1:31 pm
Wow, that’s quite a lineup. Check out Future of the Left, they should be rockin’.
May 17th, 2007 at 2:06 pm
I’m turning into a bit of a comment stalker. forgive me.
the hyperlink for the great escape website doesn’t work, because you left out the http:// from the address.
May 17th, 2007 at 2:46 pm
Super amazing line up!! I’m off to see Art Brut and The Ripps tonight actually> My tips for checking out are the ever lovely winterkids and young soul rebels. Tasty. I’ll ask around for any brighton peeps tonight.
May 17th, 2007 at 9:09 pm
The Moths! Valentine has been tearing up my playcount
May 17th, 2007 at 9:09 pm
cool banner by the way
May 18th, 2007 at 6:25 am
also check out british sea power and let us know what the new material is like,..,.,
May 18th, 2007 at 7:15 am
Hey Justice are playing up in Manchester at a club called Sankeys along with Busy P. If you fancy checknig out the north while your over here, its well worth it and id be willing to show you to the decent record shops.
May 18th, 2007 at 8:17 am
Eesh, I WISH I was going to this. And I live in the UK, rather than the US, it really shouldn’t have been TOO difficult to go… *sigh*
Anyhoo. I’ve seen Art Brut and CSS live recently and they were both amazingly, amazingly good so you should go see them because they will melt your mind. Guaranteed. Really. Tiny Dancers are fun live too. They have BALLOONS. And when I last saw them they came out into the crowd to do an acoustic encore… very nice stoof. Also, have you ever heard anything by Help She Can’t Swim? Because they’re aceaceace. Spazzy girl-boy fronted punk-pop about dancing and drinking. Yeeeah. See BSP too, as planet says, and report back with third album gossip goodness…
On a side-note: some of the bands playing Great Escape have horrible names. Eternal Erection? Shag off.
May 18th, 2007 at 2:44 pm
^for Winterkids, your unyielding affection for Bloc Party and for Sleeping in Alleys in general.
May 22nd, 2007 at 7:41 pm
WOW! the great escape has a festival now?? hotDAMN. that fucking club rules my world. and the bands are fucking SWEET ASS.
i wish i had read this sooner. maybe i could have helped you out. i know people in brighton since i used to live there. sigh…i hope you had a fucking awesome time!