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Locked in a room with It Came from the Sea and palpable ecstasy

 
 
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09:18 / 05.05.06
word up, B-boys und B-girls:

yr summer underground starts HERE.

IT CAME FROM THE SEA
SAT 06 MAY * B'LO * £6/5 * 11-3
FIRST X OF A SUMMER FLING

ok, so the news is out – the ICFTHS home for the summer months will be everyone's favourite seaside batcave, B'Lo. like we said last time, we heart the Sussex Arts, and would've loved to stay but in the end it was all about the limiter – people (that's YOU) were forever asking us
to turn it up and we couldn't – it was seriously no fun.

so, if you've been along to ICFTHS any time in the last few months and been underwhelmed by music levels not unlike a distant wake, a car stereo – three – cars – down – this is yr chance to get re-acquainted with the kick/nik soundsystem maxxxing out the volume and giving you
music you can feel (like, in yr bones and hollow cavities). which is to say, BASS is making a comeback.

ICFTHS/MAY is the long-awaited, much-requested return to the high-intensity experience the club was famous for before as it exploits the B'Lo's basement scene to go hardcore on the dancefloor. furthermore: from this month on, we're opening and closing later (11-3 instead of 10-2) to better suit Brighton's post-licensing lawless wilderness.

all the stuff you know and luff about ICFTHS will make the cut: dogbowls full of sweets? check. slides by artists somewhere over the dancefloor? yes. LED with troubling sub-textual messages? affirmative. masses of artificial flowers to turn the deejay booth into a window box (complete with dancing gnomes)? you know it. and, 'cause we want to mark the change and make the venue our own, we can giddily announce we've also invested in a REALLY BIG STROBE. stop-motion disco GO!

LOCKED IN A CELLAR WITH: THE RAPTURE, DANDI WIND,
MSTRKRFT, SPANK ROCK, WILEY, YEAH YEAH YEAHS,
DIPLO, THE KNIFE, KLAXONS, DR. OCTAGON, NIGHT MOVES,
SHIT DISCO, CHROMATICS, 586, KELIS, TRANSFORMER DI
ROBOTERS, PRO FORMA, E-40, T.I., TIGA, DUCHESS SAYS,
THE GOSSIP, GIRLS ALOUD, FOX'N'WOLF, ERRORS, RIHANNA,
CHOW NASTY, SHIT ROBOT, SIMIAN MOBILE DISCO, SHOW
ME THE PINK, NEW YOUNG PONY CLUB, VYBZ KARTEL,
HOT CHIP, WOLFMOTHER, ROGERS SISTERS, BONDE DE
ROLE, MASH, MULTIPLES, MAX PEEZAY, TEST ICICLES, PETEY
PABLO, DEFENDER, CANSEI DE SER SEXY, YELLE, LINUS
LOVES, LO-FI FNK, SEBASTIAN, SWAY, THE SERVICES,
UFFIE & KAVINSKY, TIGARAH, LES SAVY FAV, JUICEBOXXX,
VITALIC & LINDA LAMB and MC HAMMER (don't call it a
comeback! oh, ok, do…)

x
kicking_k
Nikon Driver

ps: those who can shd and must also attend this Friday's The Do, at the Core Club – 10-3 £5/4 – all profits to Threshold (www.thresholdwomen.org.uk) and – with a giddy pantheon of noisenik/indie deejays bringing the pain (plus a free zine) – the pleasure is all yrs.

pps: …and yes, the rumours are correct, ICFTHS will be a
Brighton/London affair from June onwards. we go forth in yr name to conquer the decadent feebs of the so-called capital. more details next month.
 
 
Spaniel
12:02 / 05.05.06
Can't you do this the weekend after next?

Go on, I'm sure it wouldn't be too much trouble.
 
 
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09:53 / 12.05.06
just a bump-le-bump for my barbelithian hedonists...

mssg me or reply in thread for deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelicious cheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaplist.

THIS WEEKEND:

FRI 12 MAY * B'LO * £5 * 11-3
CROSS-OVER COVER VERSIONS
+ EXTREEEEEEEEEM REMIXES

..ciccone youth v robert palmer..
...ol' dirty bastard v phil collins...
afrika bambaataa v gary numan
..bananarama v the sex pistols..
....dizzee rascal v new order....
........polysics v soft cell........
.....anthrax v the temptations.....

"A genuinely new angle in clubland
is about as common as a politician
who could go ten rounds with a poly-
graph machine, but deejay auteurs
kicking_k and Nikon Driver have
taken their best shot with 'You Slay
Me'." – Latest7

crime scene tape, murder victim biz
on the dance floor, video nasties on
repeat play, subtextual LED, a skull
& crossbones...
 
 
Tryphena Absent
11:52 / 12.05.06
OH NO I hate strobe lights.
 
 
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13:53 / 12.05.06
b U t E v E r Y o N e L i K e S s T r O b E s
 
 
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22:09 / 01.06.06
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mmf.

'lo. sorry fi sounkindagarble am EATING HUMBLE PIE

yes yes yes: as any in attendance will be only too painfully aware, last month's relaunch at B'Lo didn't go *quite to plan* and, hilariously, considering the sonic boasts of the last mail, it was a malfunctioning amp that provided the fun.

we can only apologise for the periodic churchlike calm that stole across the dance floor like a shared reflective moment and assure y'all that an engineer has since visited the premises with great wrath and made wholesale changes (it was faultily-wired – fuh-fuh-fuh-faultily wired…)

in an admittedly transparent begging gesture to lure you back to our DARK GARDEN OF HOT NOISE, we are shamelessly bribing any and all who make it thru the door BETWEEN 11 AND 12 with a free shot of life-affirming, sense-scattering tequila – so make like Pavlovian boozehouds and trot along on yr back legs asap.

IT CAME FROM THE SEA
SAT 03 JUN * B'LO * £6/5 * 11-3
+ + + ONE LOUDER + + +

JOIN USSSS PLUSSSS: THE RAPTURE, DANDI WIND, MSTRKRFT, SPANK ROCK, WILEY, WHITEY, YEAH YEAH YEAHS, DIPLO, THE KNIFE, KLAXONS, DR. OCTAGON, NIGHT MOVES, SHIT DISCO, CHROMATICS, 586, VITALIC & LINDA LAMB, TRANSFORMER DI ROBOTERS, DAT POLITICS, PRO FORMA, E-40, T.I., TIGA, DUCHESS SAYS, THE GOSSIP, GIRLS ALOUD, FOX'N'WOLF, ERRORS, RIHANNA, CHOW NASTY, SHIT ROBOT, SIMIAN MOBILE DISCO, SHOW ME THE PINK, NEW YOUNG PONY CLUB, VYBZ KARTEL, HOT CHIP, WOLFMOTHER, LES SAVY FAV, BONDE DE ROLE, MASH, MULTIPLES, MAX PEEZAY, TEST ICICLES, PETEY PABLO, DEFENDER, CANSEI DE SER SEXY, YELLE, LINUS LOVES, LO-FI FNK, SEBASTIAN, SWAY, THE SERVICES, UFFIE & KAVINSKY, KELLY ROWLAND & DA BRAT and MC HAMMER

if you're still not convinced, please picture us as wide-eyed puppies with one injured paw held aloft.

…miaow?

x
kicking_k
Nikon Driver

PS: while we're on the bad news express, 'You Slay Me' has been cancelled due to public demand, just so you know… had to axe it to concentrate on ICFTHS - we'll be starting our London residency in July (Bardens Boudoir) and looking toward a bigger, more central (and permanent) *mystery mothership* in Brighton come October …more details on all of this plus a freshly-updated club history over at
www.voodoolily.co.uk.
 
  
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