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June 4. The Rifles, the Purple Hearts and Maze are among the bands playing this year’s Brighton Mod Weekender over August bank holiday. The event, organised by the New Untouchables, takes place over four days with evening shows at Komedia. The venue boasts a big maple wooden dancefloor, air con and two late bars. There will be two rooms of Mod, Sixties and Northern Soul sounds all weekend with New Untouchables DJs and special guests from all over the UK and beyond. As well as the aforementioned bands, there will also be live music from The Capellas, France’s Child of Panoptes, The Forty Fours, the Sha La Las and Benson Gibbons & the Sapphires. Friday, Saturday & Sunday daytime events are free and held at the Volks Tavern, 200 yards east of Brighton Pier on Madeira Drive (where the scooters arrive in Quadrophenia). The venue has two well-stocked bars complete with a large outside terrace and plenty of parking for the scooters on the promenade. Sunday is the eagerly anticipated Scooter competition and scooter run along the coast to Peacehaven. DJ sessions and Vintage Market each day selling records, memorabilia, clothes and accessories.
And if you’re in Brighton, the Skinhead Reunion three-day weekender starts tomorrow, also at Volks with a motley crew of bands including RUST, Malaysia’s ACAB, and Potato 5.
Members of Club 77 who wish to attend of our private industry showcase gig in Central London this month should email waistrel@the-gonads.co.uk quoting your membership number.
June 3. Conservative Military Image play six German gigs this month: Metal Frenzy Open Air in Gardelegen on the 11th, Ain’t like You festival, Torgau (13th), Monkeys Music Club, Hamburg (14th), Goldgrube, Kassel (15th), and Turock, Essen (16th). They’re back in August to play Freiluft Arena, Graz, Austria.
And our pals the Lower Class Brats are playing five US East Coast gigs this month, kicking off in Queens, New York, on the 17th.
June 1. Gal sensationally snubbed yesterday’s full-band rehearsal. Why? Internet theories include 1) He walked out after they refused to learn Lights Out In Charlton. 2) He is striking until Wattsie agrees to do the legendary ventriloquism sketch. 3) He was too busy auditioning flag girls. 4) He was too busy replaying Arsenal’s penalties. 5) He had a skinful in Wales, slept through his alarm and missed his lift home. Although all these answers have a ring of truth, the only correct one is the last one. Shocking behaviour.
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