DAY ONE
we arrived on friday to do our show with AIDS wolf. soundchecked then everyone split up for a few hours to meet various friends, eat and scope out brighton. i was pretty worried before our set as ed and mate cut it fine by arriving 10 minutes before we were due to go on and the changeovers at these festival type things are incredibly short. nevetheless we played, some people came and it was enjoyable. i think. stuff got broken (my microkorg is fucked), the stage fell apart but we all got pretty into it. AIDS wolf were pretty decent. having had their record for a few years it was nice to finally catch them live. they seemed like cool people too and were happy to trade merch. bonus.
again, we all split up and ventured seperate ways. i headed down to the drownedinsound stage to meet a few different people and plan out what was next. after getting to the barfly to try see black lips and finding a stupid queue with a one in one out system, we went to the pav tav. for about 10 minutes. i had one drink, got seperated/left from half the group i was with and went back to the barfly with some girls called chole and rosa, jumped the que and blagged in with some DiS types through the smoking area. win. it was pretty busy inside and i didnt particularly think much to black lips (or the price of snakebite) but we stayed til it finished. i think. what happened next is hazy but we sat in a park then went to a club that had been an italian restaurant earlier on. i was fortunate enough to be invited to stay at chateau burgess which was very comfortable compared to some of the houses ive stayed in over the last week, including my own.
DAY TWO
i wasn't half as hungover as expected. got clean and wandered back into brighton with james and sam. they went to see cancer bats and i went back to the flat that the others had stayed in. spent a lot of the day just sat around and had food made for me by the lovely chris cayford and his lady, anya. it was good. in terms of bands i saw; times new viking were ok. ive heard a lot about them recently and didnt really know what to expect so i wasnt disappointed. i went and saw the twilight sad in a theatre which was very pleasant. i havent been at a seated gig since weezer, about 5 years ago. i had to leave their show early to get back to catch these new puritans. missed the first 2 songs and they played a pretty short set but it was spot on. of the few bands i managed to catch this weekend, they were an easy favourite.
left digital pretty much straight away and headed towards the house of maths class. having taken our equiptment up earlier it was just a case of waiting for people to show up. they all seemed a bit on edge about the turnout which, considering how quickly word of mouth can spread at events like great escape, was totally fair enough. it had gone from secret house show to the 'official artrocker great escape aftershow party' in a matter of hours. having absolutely no money, i managed to blag some alcohol and was then repeatedly offered various swigs from various bottles. needless to say, when it came to our set i was 'in the mood'. this meant underwear, not really playing my keyboards at all, falling over, repeating myself a lot and then falling downstairs later on and splitting my lip massively. intense. needless to say, loads of people did come, the house didnt get that messy and the police did sort of break it up later on. some pictoral evidence below. thanks to maths class for having us and being really nice guys.
both pictures by james burgess
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