Thursday, 28 June 2012

Juice Box @ Life

Originally appeared in the Brighton SOURCE

Photo by James Kendall


Saturday nights can seem a bit specialist on the seafront, alienating those punters who don’t know their Rusko from your Roska, so Life launched Juice Box to remedy the situation. With a mission statement that reads, “All Juice Box cares about is your ability to recognize the fact that ‘In the Navy’ is just as much of a tune as ‘Insane in the Membrane’” you know the night’s emphasis is firmly on fun.
A night’s music policy can make or break it, too specific and you risk being elitist, too broad and the evening will be unfocused with no theme tying the experience together. Fortunately Juice Box’s policy of pure party jams holds up under dancefloor scrutiny – Life is engorged with revelers throwing themselves around to Jay Z vs Linkin Park.
As George ‘Poundance’ Nunners selflessly drops The Offsping’s ‘Pretty Fly For A White Guy’ the upper floor throbs with banging heads and twiddling air guitar fingers, everyone’s having the time of their life like they don’t give a toss about the term guilty pleasures, and more power to them we say.


Tuesday, 26 June 2012

Sorkinisms

Even the best screenwriters recycle dialogue, and some of them do it a lot. A lot a lot. There, now does that make you feel better about your dialogue writing?


There, now does that make you feel better about your dialogue writing? Cuts taken from these Aaron Sorkin penned films; Malice, A Few Good Men, Bulworth, Sports Night, The West Wing, Studio 60, Charlie Wilson's War, The Social Network.

Thursday, 5 April 2012

Dirtybird Records Showcase

Are you tired of moody dubstep? Is aggressive drum ‘n’ bass getting you down? Well Audio have the perfect night for you, a Dirtybird Records showcase. The label’s founder, Claude VonStroke, will be spinning his harmonious deep house and techno delights.


Then there’s Justin Martin whose mixes make us laugh as much they make us dance. This is a DJ with his tongue refreshingly in his cheek. With a label that denounces posers and places fun at the forefront of what they do, you know tonight will be pure dancefloor japery.