Years ago on one of Baker and Kelly's numerous radio shows somebody rung up claiming to have played in a Sunday league game against a team involved in the music industry (roadies, label employees?), on some park in London during the early-80's.
With kick off approaching and the opposition still minus one player a Limousine pulls on to the park, interrupts several existing games, before pulling up at the touchline where out steps Steve Strange.
The game starts with Strange showing brief bursts of involvement before slipping off to his Limo for refreshment, largely consisting of champagne on ice. This back and forth motion continues for a few more minutes until the referee finally as enough and sends him off. Strange willingly accepts his dismissal, gets in the Limo, and buggers off, reinterrupting the other games again as he goes.

And when Dimitar Berbatov does that, people talk like he's a misunderstood genius.

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The 80s Night For People Who HATE 80s Nights
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WHAT HAPPENED AT SPELLBOUND'S FIRST BIRTHDAY (SAT 17th APRIL!)
And so, we are One. (Actually, we're one-and-a-quarter now, but we got a bit distracted, sorry about that...)

Back in April, Spellbound celebrated its first birthday, and we thought that landmark deserved to be marked with something a little bit special. And so, live in the Studio Bar, we were very proud to present the mighty 80s cyberpunk pioneers SIGUE SIGUE SPUTNIK, now down to a duo of fishnet-masked frontman (and original Blitz Kid) Martin Degville and his partner Johan on keyboards, reworking the Flaunt It! classics like “21st Century Boy”, “Hey Jayne Mansfield Superstar!”, “Sex Bomb Boogie” and, of course, “Love Missile F1-11” in a new 'electronik' style.

Prowling the stage in a pair of Lord Melchett-style gold-sprayed “au contraire, Blackadder!” breasts and a sort of fetish kimono contraption, Deggers absolutely rocked it, and judging by the grins on everyone's faces, we chose well. It was a particular thrill for Simon, who attended Sputnik's legendary Royal Albert Hall concert back in '86 and idolised Degville.& co when he was a teenager. There's a video clip here www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFCxKmbqGJA (apologies for the dodgy sound, but Ms Foxxx was right next to a speaker...)

Putting on a live band was asking for trouble from a technical point of view, and there were embarrassing lulls while we hurriedly hauled our gear from the dancefloor onto the stage after SSS had done their thing, and what seemed like an eternity during which all we could do was leave our New Order disc playing over the in-house system. One particularly deranged woman kept shouting “Play some New Order!” and we don't even think it was a joke.

Of course, it was the last Spellbound before the fateful General Election, so we threw in a higher-than-usual number of anti-Tory tunes (The Beat, Style Council, The Impostor etc), and urged everyone not to vote Conservative. Fat lot of use that did, eh? Oh well, having those bastards back in charge at least gives Spellbound an authentic 80s context to kick against, we suppose...

What an amazing night, though. And belated thanks to everyone for helping Spellbound establish itself as THE alternative 80s night in Brighton.

To jog your snakebite-addled memories, you can see a selection of this month’s best pics at our Myspace (see link at the top of this bulletin), and the full gallery at our Facebook group (ditto).
 
Oh, and we should let you know that the next Spellbound is THIS SATURDAY (17th July). And it's gonna be amazing!

Anyway, here's what we played...

SIMON PRICE 9.00-9.45
Grace Jones – Private Life
The Impostor – Pills And Soap
The Beat – Whine & Grine/Stand Down Margaret
ABC – Many Happy Returns
The Thompson Twins – Love On Your Side
King – Won't You Hold My Hand Now
Altered Images – See Those Eyes
The Style Council – Walls Come Tumbling Down
Dollar – Hand Held In Black And White
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CHERRY FOXXX 9.45-10.30
Depeche Mode – Shake The Disease
Soft Cell – Secret Life
The Mighty Wah! - Come Back
The Go-Gos – Our Lips Are Sealed
Fun Boy Three – The Telephone Always Rings
The Cramps – The Way I Walk
Department S – Is Vic There?
Associates – Those First Impressions
Spandau Ballet – The Freeze
Public Image Ltd – The Flowers Of Romance
Adam And The Ants – Kings Of The Wild Frontier
Siouxsie And The Banshees – Christine
The Human League – Being Boiled
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SIMON PRICE 10.30-11.00
Suicide – Ghost Rider
Ramones – Howling At The Moon (Sha La La La)
The Jesus And Mary Chain – April Skies
The Cult – Lil' Devil
Tenpole Tudor – Swords Of A Thousand Men
Gary Numan – Music For Chameleons
Strawberry Switchblade – Since Yesterday
Simple Minds – I Travel
David Bowie – Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)
Time Zone – World Destruction
Danielle Dax – Cat House
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SIGUE SIGUE SPUTNIK (live onstage)
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SIMON PRICE 11.30-12.00
New Order – The Perfect Kiss
New Order – Thieves Like Us
(intermission)
Siouxsie And The Banshees – Cities In Dust
Echo And The Bunnymen – The Cutter
Violent Femmes – Gone Daddy Gone
Killing Joke – Eighties
John Foxx – Underpass (The Underpants Song!)
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CHERRY FOXXX 12.00-12.45
Eurythmics – Love Is A Stranger
Joy Division – She's Lost Control
Devo – Mongoloid
The Specials – Do The Dog
The Cure – Just Like Heaven
David Bowie – Modern Love
Duran Duran – Hold Back The Rain
The Stray Cats – Stray Cat Strut
Altered Images – Happy Birthday
Associates – Party Fears Two
Erasure – A Little Respect
Frankie Goes To Hollywood – Two Tribes
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SIMON PRICE 12.45-1.30
Blondie – Rapture
Bow Wow Wow – C30 C60 C90 Go!
Malcolm McLaren – Double Dutch
Talking Heads – Once In A Lifetime
The Smiths – Bigmouth Strikes Again
The Jam – Going Underground
The Clash – Rock The Casbah
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CHERRY FOXXX & SIMON PRICE 1.30-3.00
Public Image Ltd – Public Image
Siouxsie And The Banshees – Spellbound
Tears For Fears – Mad World
Echo And The Bunnymen – The Killing Moon
The Human League – Open Your Heart
Duran Duran – Planet Earth
The Sisters Of Mercy – This Corrosion
Iggy Pop – Real Wild One
Kim Wilde – Chequered Love
Blancmange – Living On The Ceiling
Pigbag – Papa's Got A Brand New Pigbag
M – Pop Musik
Bronski Beat – Smalltown Boy
Kate Bush – The Hounds Of Love
Talk Talk – It's My Life
Adam And The Ants – Antmusic
Fun Boy Three & Bananarama – It Ain't What You Do (It's The Way That You Do It)
The Cramps – Human Fly
Flying Lizards – Money
The Teardrop Explodes – Reward
Toyah – I Want To Be Free
The Creatures – Right Now
Spandau Ballet – To Cut A Long Story Short
King – Love And Pride
Soft Cell – Say Hello, Wave Goodbye

See you next time!
 
Love (and pride) from
 
Cherry and Simon xxx

ends

***Hey kids, THE NEXT SPELLBOUND IS THIS SATURDAY (17th July), but meanwhile, here's another old report we hadn't got round to sending out...***



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WHAT HAPPENED AT SPELLBOUND ON SAT 22 MAY!
Communication let me down, that great big berk Tony Hadley so memorably sang in one of Spandau's lesser hits, and he might have been talking about the May Spellbound.

Somehow, due to a very un-modern communication breakdown, we didn't get the message that for one month only the Studio Bar was pre-booked till 10.00pm until we actually turned up at the usual time, record cases in hand, to find some sort of children's variety show going on. So, using the magic of the internet and text messaging, we set about spreading the word, and hopefully not too many of you were left standing around bewildered. Us? We sat outside the Heart & Hand with pints of cider, finishing off our make-up and painting their nails to the friendly amusement of a throng of Cardiff City supporters who had just seen their side tragically denied Premier League football in the Wembley play-off final. Well, when we say 'tragically', it's actually pretty funny.

So, we owed you an hour, and we owed it to you to cram as much good stuff into the remaining five to make up for it. Did we do it? Only you can be the judge, but we reckon we did, despite a few technicals. We were impressed that so many people actually knew the words to “Twilight Cafe” by the amusingly-surnamed Susan Fassbender (you benders are very fass indeed). OK, so we won't be playing that Jimmy The Hoover track again, but you live and learn eh...

To jog your snakebite-addled memories, you can see a selection of this month’s best pics at our Myspace (see link at the top of this bulletin), and the full gallery at our Facebook group (ditto).
 
Oh, and we should let you know that the next Spellbound is on SATURDAY 17th JULY. And it's gonna be amazing!

Anyway, here's what we played...

CHERRY FOXXX & SIMON PRICE 10.00-10.30
The Human League – I Am The Law
Kate Bush – Wow
Joy Division – Atmosphere
Heaven 17 – Let Me Go
Soft Cell – Youth
Fun Boy Three – Tunnel Of Love
The Very Things – The Bushes Scream While My Daddy Prunes
Culture Club – White Boy
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CHERRY FOXXX 10.30-11.15
Associates – 18 Carat Love Affair
Cristina – What's A Girl To Do
Adam And The Ants – Zerox
The Cure - Caterpillar
Delta 5 – Mind Your Own Business
The Cramps – Garbageman
The Jam – Funeral Pyre
Gary Numan – I'm An Agent
Tom Tom Club – Genius Of Love
Bananarama – Shy Boy
Susan Fassbender – Twilight Cafe
Siouxsie And The Banshees – Happy House
Duran Duran – Careless Memories
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SIMON PRICE 11.15-12.00
Split Enz – I Got You
Jimmy The Hoover – Tantalize (Wo Wo Ee Yeh Yeah)
David Bowie – Ashes To Ashes
Depeche Mode – See You
The Maisonettes – Heartache Avenue
Teardrop Explodes – Reward
New Model Army – No Rest
Theatre Of Hate – Do You Believe In The Westworld
The Cult – Love Removal Machine
Soft Cell – What
Squeeze – Cool For Cats
John Foxx – Underpass (The Underpants Song!)
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CHERRY FOXXX 12.00-12.30
The Fall – Hit The North
Killing Joke – Eighties
Blondie – Call Me
Eurythmics – Sexcrime 1984
Kim Wilde – Water On Glass
Roxy Music – Angel Eyes
Spandau Ballet – To Cut A Long Story Short
Spear Of Destiny – Liberator
The Barracudas – Summer Fun
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SIMON PRICE 12.30-1.00
The Sisters Of Mercy – Alice
Adam Ant – Goody Two Shoes
The Smiths – Nowhere Fast
The Special AKA – Too Much Too Young
Haysi Fantayzee – John Wayne Is Big Leggy
Public Image Ltd – Public Image
Dexys Midnight Runners – Geno
The Human League – Open Your Heart
The JoBoxers – Boxerbeat
Joy Division – Love Will Tear Us Apart
Talking Heads – Once In A Lifetime
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CHERRY FOXXX 1.00-1.30
Men Without Hats – Safety Dance
Strawberry Switchblade – Since Yesterday
Associates – Party Fears Two
Erasure – Who Needs Love Like That?
M – Pop Musik
Echo And The Bunnymen – The Back Of Love
Devo – Whip It
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SIMON PRICE 1.30-2.00
Siouxsie And The Banshees – Spellbound
Tenpole Tudor – Swords Of A Thousand Men
The Smiths – William It Was Really Nothing
Pete Shelley – Homosapien
ABC – Poison Arrow
The Cure – Just Like Heaven
Trio – Da Da Da
Tears For Fears – Mad World
Madness – The Prince
The Stray Cats – Stray Cat Strut
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CHERRY FOXXX & SIMON PRICE 2.00-3.00
Adam And The Ants – Antmusic
Bow Wow Wow – Go Wild In The Country
King – Love And Pride
Bauhaus – She's In Parties
Blancmange – Living On The Ceiling
Duran Duran – Girls On Film
The Beat – Mirror In The Bathroom
Haircut 100 – Love Plus One
Visage – Fade To Grey
Depeche Mode – Master & Servant
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark – Enola Gay
Grace Jones – Pull Up To The Bumper
Ian Dury And The Blockheads – Sex And Drugs And Rock And Roll
The Cramps – Human Fly
The Flying Lizards – Money
Tubeway Army – Are 'Friends' Electric?
Blondie - Atomic
Soft Cell – Say Hello, Wave Goodbye

See you next time!
 
Love (and pride) from
 
Cherry and Simon xxx

ends

***Hey kids, THE NEXT SPELLBOUND IS TONIGHT (17th July), but meanwhile, here's last month's report, bringing us bang up to date...***



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WHAT HAPPENED AT SPELLBOUND ON SAT 19 JUN 2010
In which Spellbound became a TV star! For much of the night, a crew from ITV filmed the Spellbound crowd strutting their stuff in the Studio Bar for a forthcoming show called Four Parties (probably to be broadcast on one of their lesser cable channels, we dunno). It's a kind of birthday equivalent of Come Dine With Me, we think, and one of the participants, a girl called Lydia, chose to celebrate her 21st at Spellbound y'see.

Reactions to being thrust into the spotlight varied from “Aargh, get that camera out of my face!” to “Aaah, get out of my way, I want to be on camera!”, and there's no doubt that certain show-off Spellbounders LOVED the camera (and vice-versa), but we hope the rest of you didn't find it all too intrusive. We reckon it'll be a positive thing for the club to be on telly (it certainly can't do us any harm), or at least, the results should be pretty funny. Look out for 'Four Parties' in the TV schedules, and if we hear about it, we'll be sure to inform you.

The birthday visitors kept asking for some swing music, even though Spellbound is pretty explicitly an 80s night, and the best we could do was “Right Now” by The Creatures and “Goody Two Shoes” by Adam Ant, but we drew the line when this conversation happened...

Girl: “Are you going to play any Michael Jackson?”
Simon: “No, this is an alternative 80s night.”
Girl: “Well, there's a bunch of people over there who aren't very alternative...”

To make up for the disruption, we rewarded your patience at the end with a never-to-be-repeated extra. For the first and last time, by popular demand, we played another song after our normal finale of “Say Hello, Wave Goodbye”. Kate Bush seemed to hit the spot, and a stream of happy drunks staggered out onto Gardner St shouting out “I'm all yours, Babooshka, Babooshka, ya ya...”

To jog your snakebite-addled memories, you can see a selection of this month’s best pics at our Myspace (see link at the top of this bulletin), and the full gallery at our Facebook group (ditto).
 
Oh, and we should let you know that the next Spellbound is TONIGHT (i.e. Sat 17th July). And it's gonna be amazing!

Anyway, here's what we played...

CHERRY FOXXX & SIMON PRICE 9.00-9.30
The Passions – I'm In Love With A German Film Star
The Creatures – Miss The Girl
Julian Cope – Sunspots
Fiction Factory – Feels Like Heaven
Public Image Ltd – Death Disco
Yazoo – Nobody's Diary
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SIMON PRICE 9.30-10.15
Depeche Mode – Blasphemous Rumours
The Specials – Man At C&A
Alien Sex Fiend – I Walk The Line
Theatre Of Hate – Do You Believe In The Westworld?
Shriekback – Nemesis
Spandau Ballet – Chant No.1
Visage – The Damned Don't Cry
Tom Tom Club – Wordy Rappinghood
Captain Sensible – Wot!
The Creatures – Right Now
Soft Cell – What
The Beat – Tears Of A Clown
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CHERRY FOXXX 10.15-11.00
Grace Jones – Pull Up To The Bumper
David Bowie – Fashion
Japan – Quiet Life
The Cure – Just Like Heaven
Blondie – Dreaming
Altered Images – Pinky Blue
Haysi Fantayzee – John Wayne Is Big Leggy
Bow Wow Wow – Go Wild In The Country
The Stray Cats – Stray Cat Strut
Adam And The Ants – Kings Of The Wild Frontier
The Smiths – William It Was Really Nothing
Danielle Dax – Big Hollow Man
Eurythmics – Love Is A Stranger
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SIMON PRICE 11.00-11.45
Landscape – Einstein A Go Go
The Human League – Love Action (I Believe In Love)
Echo And The Bunnymen – The Cutter
The Sisters Of Mercy – This Corrosion
The Cramps – Can Your Pussy Do The Dog?
The Clash – London Calling
New Order – Bizarre Love Triangle
Pigbag – Papa's Got A Brand New Pigbag
Bauhaus – Third Uncle
King – Love And Pride
Adam Ant – Goody Two Shoes
Madness – The Prince
Talking Heads – Once In A Lifetime
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CHERRY FOXXX 11.45-12.30
Frankie Goes To Hollywood – Two Tribes
John Foxx – Underpass (The Underpants Song!)
Joy Division – Transmission
Depeche Mode – Everything Counts
Blancmange – Living On The Ceiling
The Vapors – Turning Japanese
Siouxsie And The Banshees – Hong Kong Garden (Marie Antoinette version)
ABC – The Look Of Love
Strawberry Switchblade – Since Yesterday
Public Image Ltd – This Is Not A Love Song
Transvision Vamp – Baby I Don't Care
The Human League – Sound Of The Crowd
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SIMON PRICE 12.30-1.15
Eurythmics – Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)
Hazel O'Connor – Eighth Day
The Cure – The Lovecats
David Bowie – Blue Jean
The Smiths – Shoplifters Of The World Unite
Tears For Fears – Mad World
Killing Joke – Love Like Blood
Talking Heads – Burning Down The House
Tenpole Tudor – Swords Of A Thousand Men
The Teardrop Explodes – Reward
The Jam – Beat Surrender
Associates – Party Fears Two
Violent Femmes – Gone Daddy Gone
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CHERRY FOXXX 1.15-2.00
Blondie – Atomic
Soft Cell – Sex Dwarf
Bronski Beat – Smalltown Boy
Visage – Fade To Grey
Kate Bush – Hounds Of Love
The Special AKA – Gangsters
Sigue Sigue Sputnik – Love Missile F1-11
Tubeway Army – Are 'Friends' Electric?
Erasure – Stop!
The Flying Lizards – Money
Adam And The Ants - Antmusic
Kim Wilde – Chequered Love
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CHERRY FOXXX & SIMON PRICE 2.00-3.00
Devo – Whip It
The Cure – Boys Don't Cry
M – Pop Musik
Duran Duran – Planet Earth
Siouxsie And The Banshees – Spellbound
The Cult – She Sells Sanctuary
Joy Division – Love Will Tear Us Apart
Public Image Ltd – Public Image
Prince – When Doves Cry
David Bowie – Modern Love
The Smiths – This Charming Man
Spandau Ballet – To Cut A Long Story Short
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark – Enola Gay
The Clash – Rock The Casbah
Soft Cell – Say Hello, Wave Goodbye
Kate Bush – Babooshka

See you next time!
 
Love (and pride) from
 
Cherry and Simon xxx

ends

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brought to you by DJs CHERRY FOXXX and SIMON PRICE (the people behind London's legendary Stay Beautiful club)
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NEXT SPELLBOUND: SAT 21 AUG with DJ TONY MAGGS!
Hey Spellbounders, our next night is on SATURDAY 21st AUGUST, and our guest DJ will be the one and only, the inimitable Mr TONY MAGGS, co-founder (with our own Simon Price) of London's legendary glam-trash-alternative club Stay Beautiful, and also the brilliant burlesque/performance art happening Rockabaret. As well as getting the Stay Beautiful team back together for the first time in over a year, this will be Tony's Brighton debut, and he's travelled all the way from Bangkok purely to rock the midnight hour at Spellbound, so treat him nice! Facebook event here, please RSVP: www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=106614622728175#!



THE FACTS
Venue: Komedia Studio Bar, 44-47 Gardner Street, Brighton BN1 1UN (see www.komedia.co.uk/brighton for detailed travel info)
Opening hours: 9:00pm-3:00am
Admission: £5 standard, or £4 with flyer/NUS/DSS (you can print out an eflyer here: tinyurl.com/spellboundgracejonesflyer )
When: usually on the THIRD SATURDAY OF THE MONTH (with one exception in May)

WHAT WE’RE ALL ABOUT
Spellbound is an antidote to all the depressingly identical kitschy 80s nights out there. We ditch the cheese and play the REAL good stuff from music’s greatest-ever era (our actual time span is approx 1979-1985, with Tubeway Army on Top Of The Pops as our Year Zero and the Live Aid concert as our Doomsday, but we’ll spin the odd track from outside that range if it’s good enough), to a wonderfully mixed crowd of people who remember it first time around and young ‘uns just discovering it all as new. Think: post-punk, goth, new romantic, alternative rock, new wave, electro, gender benders, early indie, 2 tone ska, mod revival, synth, blitz kids, oddballs, effeminate futurists and one-hit wonders… Look out for the Eighties visuals on DVD and slide projections for extra period authenticity. Dressing up is encouraged, but not enforced.

WHAT WE PLAY
A Flock Of Seagulls ABC Adam & The Ants Alien Sex Fiend Altered Images Associates B-52’s Bauhaus The Beat Birthday Party Blancmange Blondie Bolshoi Bow Wow Wow Buggles Kate Bush Captain Sensible The Clash Classix Nouveaux Cramps Cult Cure Danielle Dax Dead Or Alive Depeche Mode Devo Dexys Divine Thomas Dolby Duran Duran Echo & The Bunnymen Eurythmics The Fall Fields Of The Nephilim John Foxx Fun Boy Three Gene Loves Jezebel Haircut 100 Heaven 17 Human League Jam Japan Jesus And Mary Chain Grace Jones Joy Division Killing Joke Kraftwerk Magazine Marilyn New Model Army New Musik New Order Gary Numan Only Ones Orange Juice Orchestral Manoeuvres Pigbag Propaganda Psychedelic Furs Public Image Limited Ruts Scritti Politti Shriekback Sigue Sigue Sputnik Simple Minds Siouxsie & The Banshees Sisters Of Mercy Skids Smiths Soft Cell Spandau Ballet Specials Squeeze Strawberry Switchblade Stray Cats Style Council Talk Talk Talking Heads Teardrop Explodes Tenpole Tudor Theatre Of Hate Tom Tom Club Ultravox Violent Femmes Virgin Prunes Visage We’ve Got A Fuzzbox Kim Wilde Yazoo and loads more!

ARRIVE EARLY!
Spellbound is a very popular night and the venue is quite small, so it often fills up fast (usually by about 10pm). We aren’t saying you won’t get in after that: we liaise closely with Komedia security to ensure that queuing is as quick as possible and that people aren’t locked out unnecessarily when there’s room inside to accommodate them. But the best advice is still ARRIVE EARLY!

CHEAP SNAKEBITE & BLACK!
Anyone who’s an authentic first-generation 80s relic - or anyone who’s met one and heard their frontline stories from the Goth Wars - will know that the definitive drink for alternative 80s types was ‘SNAKEBITE & BLACK’ (that is, a pint glass containing half cider, half lager and a dash of blackcurrant to send it a lurid shade of purply-red). The lovely people at Komedia have agreed to sell pints of Snakebite & Black for the tempting price of just £2.50, exclusively for Spellbound!

THE UNDERPANTS SONG!
If that wasn’t already generous enough, every month you’ll have the chance to win a shot of CHERRY SOURZ for free! Listen out for The Underpants Song - in other words, “Underpass” by John Foxx - because every time the former Ultravox man shouts “underpants!” (that’s what it sounds like, anyway) we’ll throw a pair of Y-fronts into the crowd. If you catch one of the pants, you can exchange it at the bar for a shot of Cherry Sourz!

YES, WE HAVE A CLOAKROOM!
There is now a permanently-manned cloakroom at Spellbound, to put your minds at rest when you want to ditch your belongings and dance, staffed by the lovely Hollie and Mark, and priced at £1 per item.

FUTURE DATES
We’ll be back doing our alternative-80s thing on the THIRD SATURDAY OF THE MONTH throughout the rest of 2010, on SAT 18 SEP, SAT 16 OCT, SAT 20 NOV and SAT 18 DEC…

But for now…

See you on Saturday!

Love (and pride) from

Simon and Cherry xxx

SPELLBOUND
The 80s Night For People Who HATE 80s Nights
brought to you by DJs CHERRY FOXXX and SIMON PRICE (the people behind London's legendary Stay Beautiful club)

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WHAT HAPPENED AT SPELLBOUND ON SAT 17 JULY 2010 (AND A COUPLE OF OTHER THINGS!)
Well, boys and girls, what a busy month it's been for the Spellbound team. So busy, in fact, that we're a bit hazy on the exact details now. SPELLBOUND itself feels like an eternity ago, especially when seen through the alcoholic fog of what came next. We know there were some minor technical issues, and we know someone got banned for doing something too disgraceful to recount here... but apart from that, we think everyone had a good time!

The second instalment was the PRIDE AFTERPARTY at the Open House, hosted by Dynamite Sal and the Shameless team under the banner 'Baroque & Roll'. If we're honest, it never really took off (perhaps because the venue's a bit out-of-the-way, perhaps because people didn't know we were there in the upstairs room), and we ended up shutting down at 1.00am while the party continued in the main room. Massive thanks to everyone who did make the journey, though, and we did enjoy giving out the free lollipops and glowsticks.


And thirdly, we DJed our first-ever WEDDING at the request of the lovely Noele & Sarah, who booked us to put on a best-of-Spellbound bash at the Freebutt (with a more mixed, general playlist drawing on our other clubs, Stay Beautiful, Playground Bang-A-Round and Sound Of Silver, for the first couple of hours), complete with Underpants Song (with copies of Smash Hits, John Hughes movies and a Rubik's Cube as prizes instead of shots of booze). And, speaking of extra-curricular activities, we've got one or two very exciting external bookings coming up, about which we shall remain cryptic for now!

Despite the fact that two of the three aforementioned events involved free booze for the DJs – god, we were f#cked - we somehow stayed sufficiently compos mentis (and sufficiently anal) to scrawl down our setlists, all three of which follow beneath.

To jog your snakebite-addled memories, you can see a selection of this month’s best pics at our Myspace (see link at the top of this bulletin), and the full gallery at our Facebook group (ditto).
 
Oh, and we should let you know that the next Spellbound is THIS SATURDAY (21 AUG) with guest DJ Tony Maggs (Stay Beautiful/Rockabaret). And it's gonna be amazing!

Anyway, here's what we played...

SPELLBOUND
CHERRY FOXXX & SIMON PRICE 9.00-9.30
Grace Jones – She's Lost Control
Kraftwerk – Pocket Calculator
Devo – Jocko Homo
Siouxsie And The Banshees – Swimming Horses
XTC – Making Plans For Nigel
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CHERRY FOXXX 9.30-10.15
Kim Wilde – Cambodia
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark – Messages
Ultravox – All Stood Still
The Belle Stars – Sign Of The Times
Berlin – Sex (I'm A...)
Roxy Music – Same Old Scene
Depeche Mode – Blasphemous Rumours
A Flock Of Seagulls – Wishing (If I Had A Photograph Of You)
Visage – The Damned Don't Cry
Adam And The Ants – Cartrouble
The Selecter – On My Radio
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SIMON PRICE 10.15-11.00
The Ruts – Staring At The Rude Boys
Secret Affair – Time For Action
The Undertones – It's Going To Happen
General Public – Tenderness
Furniture – Brilliant Mind
David Bowie – Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)
Tears For Fears – Pale Shelter
The Human League – Being Boiled
Tom Tom Club – Wordy Rappinghood
The Smiths – Barbarism Begins At Home
Japan – Adolescent Sex
Duran Duran – New Moon On Monday
The Cure – The Walk
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CHERRY FOXXX 11.00-11.45
Siouxsie And The Banshees – Monitor
Soft Cell – Torch
Kate Bush – Sat In Your Lap
The Cramps – Can Your Pussy Do The Dog
The Wire – I Am The Fly
The Style Council – Speak Like A Child
Fun Boy Three – Our Lips Are Sealed
Joy Division – She's Lost Control
The Human League – Empire State Human
Eurythmics – Love Is A Stranger
Tubeway Army – Are 'Friends' Electric?
Simple Minds – Promised You A Miracle
Associates – Club Country
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SIMON PRICE 11.45-12.30
Theatre Of Hate – Do You Believe In The Westworld?
Bauhaus – Kick In The Eye
John Foxx – Underpass (The Underpants Song!)
Echo And The Bunnymen – The Cutter
Prince – When You Were Mine
Pet Shop Boys – West End Girls
Blondie – 11.59
Dexys Midnight Runners – There There My Dear
Yazoo – The Other Side Of Love
The Cure – The Caterpillar
The Sisters Of Mercy – Alice
The Smiths – What Difference Does It Make
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CHERRY FOXXX 12.30-1.15
The Specials – Rat Race
The Fall – Cruiser's Creek
Devo – Mongoloid
Depeche Mode – New Life
New Order – Bizarre Love Triangle
The Human League – Mirror Man
Strawberry Switchblade – Since Yesterday
Soft Cell – Bedsitter
Bronski Beat – Why
Public Image Ltd – This Is Not A Love Song
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SIMON PRICE 1.15-2.00
Siouxsie And The Banshees – Happy House
Adam And The Ants – Dog Eat Dog
Killing Joke – Eighties
The Teardrop Explodes – Reward
Spandau Ballet – Chant No.1 (I Don't Need This Pressure On)
David Bowie – Ashes To Ashes
The Pretenders – Brass In Pocket
The Jam – Start!
The Smiths – William, It Was Really Nothing
Bow Wow Wow – I Want Candy
New Model Army – No Rest
Motorhead – Ace Of Spades
Violent Femmes – Add It Up
The Stray Cats – Stray Cat Strut
Echo And The Bunnymen – The Killing Moon
Talking Heads – Once In A Lifetime
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CHERRY FOXXX & SIMON PRICE 2.00-3.00
Kate Bush – Babooshka
Blondie – Call Me
Siouxsie And The Banshees – Spellbound
Grace Jones – Pull Up To The Bumper
Associates – Party Fears Two
Sigue Sigue Sputnik – Love Missile F1-11
The Cure – Boys Don't Cry
New Order – Blue Monday
The Specials – Gangsters
Blancmange – Living On The Ceiling
Martha And The Muffins – Echo Beach
Kim Wilde – Kids In America
Duran Duran – Planet Earth
The Cult – She Sells Sanctuary
Toyah – I Want To Be Free
Soft Cell – Say Hello, Wave Goodbye

PRIDE AFTERPARTY
David Sylvian & Ryuichi Sakamoto – Forbidden Colours
Orange Juice – Rip It Up
Grace Jones – Pull Up To The Bumper
Haircut One Hundred – Love Plus One
Altered Images – I Could Be Happy
Adam And The Ants – Car Trouble
Japan – Life In Tokyo
The B-52's – Planet Claire
Depeche Mode – New Life
Soft Cell – Bedsitter
The Human League – Mirror Man
Psychedelic Furs – Pretty In Pink
Siouxsie And The Banshees – Cities In Dust
The Cure – Just Like Heaven
The Smiths – Bigmouth Strikes Again
The Beat – Mirror In The Bathroom
The Clash – Rock The Casbah
Spandau Ballet – Chant No.1 (I Don't Need This Pressure On)
Pet Shop Boys – West End Girls
Bow Wow Wow – I Want Candy
The Teardrop Explodes – Reward
Simple Minds – Promised You A Miracle
Frankie Goes To Hollywood – Two Tribes
Blondie – Call Me
Kim Wilde – Chequered Love
The Stray Cats – Runaway Boys
Killing Joke – Eighties
Echo And The Bunnymen – The Killing Moon
Kraftwerk – The Model
Joy Division – Transmission
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark – Electricity
Siouxsie And The Banshees – Peek-A-Boo
The Special AKA – Gangsters
Wire – I Am The Fly
Public Image Ltd – Public Image
Duran Duran – Hungry Like The Wolf
Talk Talk – It's My Life
New Order – Bizarre Love Triangle
The Smiths – This Charming Man
The Only Ones – Another Girl, Another Planet
Talking Heads – Once In A Lifetime
Martha & The Muffins – Echo Beach
The Cure – Boys Don't Cry
Erasure – A Little Respect
Blondie – Atomic
The Cramps – What's Inside A Girl?
Depeche Mode – Master & Servant
Adam And The Ants – Stand And Deliver
Heaven 17 – Temptation
Yazoo – Don't Go
Blancmange – Living On The Ceiling
ABC – Poison Arrow
The Human League – Don't You Want Me
Bronski Beat – Why?
Gary Numan – Cars
M – Pop Musik
David Bowie – Modern Love
Siouxsie And The Banshees – Hong Kong Garden (Marie Antoinette version)
Associates – Party Fears Two
The Smiths – William, It Was Really Nothing
Strawberry Switchblade – Since Yesterday
Soft Cell – Say Hello, Wave Goodbye

WEDDING
The Art Of Noise – Moments In Love
David Sylvian & Ryuichi Sakamoto – Forbidden Colours
Mott The Hoople – All The Young Dudes
The Kinks – Lola
Ramones – Baby I Love You
David Bowie – Drive-In Saturday
Echo And The Bunnymen – The Killing Moon
Prince – Raspberry Beret
The Avalanches – Since I Left You
Frankie Valli – Beggin'
The Knife – Heartbeats
New Young Pony Club – Ice Cream
Hot Chip – Over And Over
Roxy Music – Love Is The Drug
The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown – Fire
Goldfrapp – Ooh La La
MGMT – Kids
The Rolling Stones – Under My Thumb
The Ronettes – Be My Baby
The Cardigans – Lovefool
Nancy Sinatra – These Boots Are Made For Walking
Johnny Cash and June Carter – Jackson
The Isley Brothers – This Old Heart Of Mine
Manic Street Preachers – Motorcycle Emptiness
Weezer – Buddy Holly
Jimi Hendrix Experience – Crosstown Traffic
10cc vs Destiny's Child – Dreadlock Holiday/Independent Women (2 Many DJs mash-up)
Grace Jones – Pull Up To The Bumper
Jefferson Airplane – Somebody To Love
The Who – My Generation
The Jackson Five – I Want You Back
Pulp – Disco 2000
Sparks – This Town Ain't Big Enough For Both Of Us
David Bowie – Young Americans
Iggy Pop – Lust For Life
Lipps Inc – Funky Town
La Roux – Bulletproof
Alphabeat – Fascination
Suede – Trash
Prince – Kiss
T. Rex - 20th Century Boy
Joan Jett And The Blackhearts – I Love Rock'N'Roll
Guns N' Roses – Sweet Child O' Mine
Salt N' Pepa – Push It
The Beastie Boys – (You've Got To) Fight For Your Right (To Party)
James Brown – Sex Machine
(at which point the groom made a speech, and we switched to Spellbound mode...)
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Billy Idol – White Wedding
Siouxsie And The Banshees – Hong Kong Garden
Depeche Mode – Just Can't Get Enough
Blancmange – Living On The Ceiling
Talking Heads – Once In A Lifetime
The Clash – Rock The Casbah
Spandau Ballet – To Cut A Long Story Short
John Foxx – Underpass (the Underpants Song!)
Adam And The Ants – Prince Charming
David Bowie – Modern Love
The Cure – The Lovecats
Blondie – Atomic
Bow Wow Wow – I Want Candy
The Smiths – This Charming Man
The Cramps – Surfin' Bird
ABC – Poison Arrow
The Special AKA – Gangsters
The Jam – Town Called Malice
Heaven 17 – Temptation
Joy Division – Love Will Tear Us Apart
The Cult – She Sells Sanctuary
King – Love And Pride
The Human League – Don't You Want Me
Soft Cell – Tainted Love
Duran Duran – Girls On Film
Erasure – A Little Respect
Dead Or Alive – You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)
Paul Williams – You Give A Little Love

See you next time!
 
Love (and pride) from
 
Cherry and Simon xxx

ends

Playing This Old Heart of Mine next to Motorcycle Emptiness is a very lovely idea.

Hah, I was actually mortified to be playing the Manics at a wedding disco at all (and it totally bombed with the crowd), but it was a direct request of the Happy Couple. As soon as it finished, I turned to Mrs Rhino and said "OK, from now on, no songs about alienation and the decline of capitalism."

*STAY BEAUTIFUL meets SPELLBOUND at the BIZARRE BALL in MANCHESTER!
Hey people, super-exciting news: Bizarre, "the world's #1 alternative mag", has asked our own SIMON PRICE and CHERRY FOXXX to host a room at the BIZARRE MAGAZINE BALL in MANCHESTER! It's happening at THE RITZ on Whitworth St on FRIDAY 22nd OCTOBER (8pm-2am), tickets £16.50 advance (£13.50 students/subscribers), full details here: bit.ly/68nG10 And to give some of you sexy Northerners a rare chance to find out what we're all about (without needing to trek the length of Britain), we're gonna be playing the greatest hits of BOTH our clubs with a special 'STAY BEAUTIFUL Vs SPELLBOUND' duelling-decks set. Full details below, but in short, that means dirrty Glam/Trash/Punk versus awesome Alternative 80s sounds.

*DO YOU SUFFER FROM MENTAL?*
Other attractions for your delectation on the night will include a raw and rockin' live set from horrorpunk/gothabilly heroes THE EIGHTIES MATCHBOX B-LINE DISASTER plus Sheffield synth/mathcore band ROLO TOMASSI, macabre thrills and spills from CIRCUS OF HORRORS, as well as DJ Frankie D of Club Noir/Electrogogo and, of course, plenty of cabaret/burlesque/freaks & geeks (although the best entertainment of all is bound to be the spectacularly-attired audience itself!). Now, if you're unfamiliar with either half of our momentous turntable soundclash, read on...

*WE‘RE A MESS OF EYELINER AND SPRAYPAINT...*
Currently on hiatus but coming up for its 10th anniversary, STAY BEAUTIFUL is the legendary London club night founded by Manics biographer Simon Price as a nocturnal home for The Beautiful People, delivering drunken fun to a dressed-up crowd of flamboyant freaks under the slogan “Luring disco dollies to a life of vice…” Policy: Music to show off to, i.e. glam, punk, trash, sleazy rock’n’roll and shouty grrrl music (think Bowie, Placebo, Manics, Hole, Pistols, Cramps, Suede, Iggy, Manson, Roxy, Goldfrapp, Dresden Dolls, Lady Gaga, Patrick Wolf, New York Dolls, Peaches, Mindless Self Indulgence, Guns N‘ Roses, Le Tigre…)

*FOLLOWING THE FOOTSTEPS OF A RAGDOLL DANCE, YOU ARE ENTRANCED...*
With the motto "The 80s night for people who HATE 80s nights!", Brighton club SPELLBOUND is a hugely-popular antidote to all the cheesy, kitschy, ironic 80s nights out there. Spellbound plays the REAL good stuff from music's greatest-ever era (time span approx 1979-1985, with Tubeway Army on Top Of The Pops as its Year Zero and the Live Aid concert as its Doomsday). Policy: alternative 80s, i.e. post-punk, goth, new romantic, new wave, electro-pop, gender benders, early indie, 2 tone ska etc, meaning NO Wham!, Madonna, Jacko or Jovi, but LOADS of Siouxsie, Specials, Smiths, Sisters, Soft Cell, Stray Cats, Spandau, Sputnik, Strawberry Switchblade... and that's just the eSSes!

You want links? We got ’em…

STAY BEAUTIFUL
Homepage: www.staybeautifulclub.co.uk
Add: href=www.myspace.com/staybeautifulclub
Join: tinyurl.com/staybeautifulfacebook
Follow: www.twitter.com/staybeautifulUK

SPELLBOUND
Add: www.myspace.com/spellboundbrighton
Join: tinyurl.com/spellboundfacebook
Follow: www.twitter.com/spellboundclub

…And when SB and Spellbound clash at the Bizarre Ball, sparks are gonna fly. It's gonna be absofcukinglutely AMAZING and we can't wait. See you in Manchester on the 22nd!

Love And Poison, Love And Pride

From

Simon Price and Cherry Foxxx (Stay Beautiful/Spellbound)

x x x

SPELLBOUND
The 80s Night For People Who HATE 80s Nights
brought to you by DJs CHERRY FOXXX and SIMON PRICE (the people behind London's legendary Stay Beautiful club)

Add us: www.myspace.com/spellboundbrighton
Join us: tinyurl.com/spellboundfacebook
Follow us: www.twitter.com/spellboundclub

NEXT SPELLBOUND THIS SATURDAY!
A quick reminder that it’s Spellbound THIS SATURDAY (16th OCTOBER), so get your dancing shoes on, wear something that won’t show up blackcurrant stains, and come on down to Komedia! If you haven’t done so already, please add yourself to the event here… www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=118625378180136

THE FACTS
Venue: Komedia Studio Bar, 44-47 Gardner Street, Brighton BN1 1UN (see www.komedia.co.uk/brighton for detailed travel info)
Opening hours: 9:00pm-3:00am
Admission: £5 standard, or £4 with flyer/NUS/DSS (you can print out an eflyer here: tinyurl.com/spellboundgracejonesflyer )
When: usually on the THIRD SATURDAY OF THE MONTH

WHAT WE’RE ALL ABOUT
Spellbound is an antidote to all the depressingly identical kitschy 80s nights out there. We ditch the cheese and play the REAL good stuff from music’s greatest-ever era (our actual time span is approx 1979-1985, with Tubeway Army on Top Of The Pops as our Year Zero and the Live Aid concert as our Doomsday, but we’ll spin the odd track from outside that range if it’s good enough), to a wonderfully mixed crowd of people who remember it first time around and young ‘uns just discovering it all as new. Think: post-punk, goth, new romantic, alternative rock, new wave, electro, gender benders, early indie, 2 tone ska, mod revival, synth, blitz kids, oddballs, effeminate futurists and one-hit wonders… Look out for the Eighties visuals on DVD and slide projections for extra period authenticity. Dressing up is encouraged, but not enforced.

WHAT WE PLAY
A Flock Of Seagulls ABC Adam & The Ants Alien Sex Fiend Altered Images Associates B-52’s Bauhaus The Beat Birthday Party Blancmange Blondie Bolshoi Bow Wow Wow Buggles Kate Bush Captain Sensible The Clash Classix Nouveaux Cramps Cult Cure Danielle Dax Dead Or Alive Depeche Mode Devo Dexys Divine Thomas Dolby Duran Duran Echo & The Bunnymen Eurythmics The Fall Fields Of The Nephilim John Foxx Fun Boy Three Gene Loves Jezebel Haircut 100 Heaven 17 Human League Jam Japan Jesus And Mary Chain Grace Jones Joy Division Killing Joke Kraftwerk Magazine Marilyn New Model Army New Musik New Order Gary Numan Only Ones Orange Juice Orchestral Manoeuvres Pigbag Propaganda Psychedelic Furs Public Image Limited Ruts Scritti Politti Shriekback Sigue Sigue Sputnik Simple Minds Siouxsie & The Banshees Sisters Of Mercy Skids Smiths Soft Cell Spandau Ballet Specials Squeeze Strawberry Switchblade Stray Cats Style Council Talk Talk Talking Heads Teardrop Explodes Tenpole Tudor Theatre Of Hate Tom Tom Club Ultravox Violent Femmes Virgin Prunes Visage We’ve Got A Fuzzbox Kim Wilde Yazoo and loads more!

ARRIVE EARLY!
Spellbound is a very popular night and the venue is quite small, so it often fills up fast (usually by about 10pm). We aren’t saying you won’t get in after that: we liaise closely with Komedia security to ensure that queuing is as quick as possible and that people aren’t locked out unnecessarily when there’s room inside to accommodate them. But the best advice is still ARRIVE EARLY!

CHEAP SNAKEBITE & BLACK!
Anyone who’s an authentic first-generation 80s relic - or anyone who’s met one and heard their frontline stories from the Goth Wars - will know that the definitive drink for alternative 80s types was ‘SNAKEBITE & BLACK’ (that is, a pint glass containing half cider, half lager and a dash of blackcurrant to send it a lurid shade of purply-red). The lovely people at Komedia have agreed to sell pints of Snakebite & Black for the tempting price of just £2.50, exclusively for Spellbound! And if that doesn’t appeal, then you can also buy straightforward pints of Strongbow and Fosters for the same price!

THE UNDERPANTS SONG!
If that wasn’t already generous enough, every month you’ll have the chance to win a shot of CHERRY SOURZ for free! Listen out for The Underpants Song - in other words, “Underpass” by John Foxx - because every time the former Ultravox man shouts “underpants!” (that’s what it sounds like, anyway) we’ll throw a pair of Y-fronts into the crowd. If you catch one of the pants, you can exchange it at the bar for a shot of Cherry Sourz!

YES, WE HAVE A CLOAKROOM!
There is now a permanently-manned cloakroom at Spellbound, to put your minds at rest when you want to ditch your belongings and dance, staffed by the lovely Hollie and Mark, and priced at £1 per item.

FUTURE DATES
We’ll be back doing our alternative-80s thing on the THIRD SATURDAY OF THE MONTH throughout the rest of 2010, on SAT 20 NOV, SAT 18 DEC and also NEW YEAR’S EVE (details soon…)


But for now…

See you on Saturday!

Love (and pride) from

Simon and Cherry xxx

SPELLBOUND
The 80s Night For People Who HATE 80s Nights
brought to you by DJs CHERRY FOXXX and SIMON PRICE (the people behind London's legendary Stay Beautiful club)

Add us: www.myspace.com/spellboundbrighton
Join us: tinyurl.com/spellboundfacebook
Follow us: www.twitter.com/spellboundclub

NEXT SPELLBOUND THIS SATURDAY!
Hey Spellbounders, it’s Spellbound TOMORROW (Sat 20 Nov), and we’re already getting super-excited thinking of all the amazing alternative-80s tunes we’re gonna play, deciding what to wear, wondering how many snakebites we’re gonna sink this time, etc etc. Facebook event (please RSVP!) here: www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=120188158043624

THE FACTS
Venue: Komedia Studio Bar, 44-47 Gardner Street, Brighton BN1 1UN (see www.komedia.co.uk/brighton for detailed travel info)
Opening hours: 9:00pm-3:00am
Admission: £5 standard, or £4 with flyer/NUS/DSS (you can print out an eflyer here: tinyurl.com/spellboundgracejonesflyer )
When: usually on the THIRD SATURDAY OF THE MONTH

WHAT WE’RE ALL ABOUT
Spellbound is an antidote to all the depressingly identical kitschy 80s nights out there. We ditch the cheese and play the REAL good stuff from music’s greatest-ever era (our actual time span is approx 1979-1985, with Tubeway Army on Top Of The Pops as our Year Zero and the Live Aid concert as our Doomsday, but we’ll spin the odd track from outside that range if it’s good enough), to a wonderfully mixed crowd of people who remember it first time around and young ‘uns just discovering it all as new. Think: post-punk, goth, new romantic, alternative rock, new wave, electro, gender benders, early indie, 2 tone ska, mod revival, synth, blitz kids, oddballs, effeminate futurists and one-hit wonders… Look out for the Eighties visuals on DVD and slide projections for extra period authenticity. Dressing up is encouraged, but not enforced.

WHAT WE PLAY
A Flock Of Seagulls ABC Adam & The Ants Alien Sex Fiend Altered Images Associates B-52’s Bauhaus The Beat Birthday Party Blancmange Blondie Bolshoi Bow Wow Wow Buggles Kate Bush Captain Sensible The Clash Classix Nouveaux Cramps Cult Cure Danielle Dax Dead Or Alive Depeche Mode Devo Dexys Divine Thomas Dolby Duran Duran Echo & The Bunnymen Eurythmics The Fall Fields Of The Nephilim John Foxx Fun Boy Three Gene Loves Jezebel Haircut 100 Heaven 17 Human League Jam Japan Jesus And Mary Chain Grace Jones Joy Division Killing Joke Kraftwerk Magazine Marilyn New Model Army New Musik New Order Gary Numan Only Ones Orange Juice Orchestral Manoeuvres Pigbag Propaganda Psychedelic Furs Public Image Limited Ruts Scritti Politti Shriekback Sigue Sigue Sputnik Simple Minds Siouxsie & The Banshees Sisters Of Mercy Skids Smiths Soft Cell Spandau Ballet Specials Squeeze Strawberry Switchblade Stray Cats Style Council Talk Talk Talking Heads Teardrop Explodes Tenpole Tudor Theatre Of Hate Tom Tom Club Ultravox Violent Femmes Virgin Prunes Visage We’ve Got A Fuzzbox Kim Wilde Yazoo and loads more!

ARRIVE EARLY!
Spellbound is a very popular night and the venue is quite small, so it often fills up fast (usually by about 10pm). We aren’t saying you won’t get in after that: we liaise closely with Komedia security to ensure that queuing is as quick as possible and that people aren’t locked out unnecessarily when there’s room inside to accommodate them. But the best advice is still ARRIVE EARLY!

CHEAP SNAKEBITE & BLACK!
Anyone who’s an authentic first-generation 80s relic - or anyone who’s met one and heard their frontline stories from the Goth Wars - will know that the definitive drink for alternative 80s types was ‘SNAKEBITE & BLACK’ (that is, a pint glass containing half cider, half lager and a dash of blackcurrant to send it a lurid shade of purply-red). The lovely people at Komedia have agreed to sell pints of Snakebite & Black for the tempting price of just £2.50, exclusively for Spellbound! And if that doesn’t appeal, then you can also buy straightforward pints of Strongbow and Fosters for the same price!

THE UNDERPANTS SONG!
If that wasn’t already generous enough, every month you’ll have the chance to win a shot of CHERRY SOURZ for free! Listen out for The Underpants Song - in other words, “Underpass” by John Foxx - because every time the former Ultravox man shouts “underpants!” (that’s what it sounds like, anyway) we’ll throw a pair of Y-fronts into the crowd. If you catch one of the pants, you can exchange it at the bar for a shot of Cherry Sourz!

YES, WE HAVE A CLOAKROOM!
There is now a permanently-manned cloakroom at Spellbound, to put your minds at rest when you want to ditch your belongings and dance, staffed by the lovely Hollie and Mark, and priced at £1 per item.



NEW YEAR’S EVE
As we say goodbye to one year and hello to another, SPELLBOUND invites you to celebrate by spinning the musical clock back to the greatest decade ever: the 1980s! Spellbound - subtitled ‘The 80s Night For People Who HATE 80s Nights’ is now a hugely popular fixture in Brighton‘s nightlife, and the New Year’s Eve Party is sure to be unmissable, with resident DJs Cherry Foxxx and Simon Price spinning alternative classics from Siouxsie, Specials, Smiths, Sisters, Soft Cell, Stray Cats, Scritti, Spandau, Style Council, Strawberry Switchblade... and that's just the eSSes. We open at 9pm and run till late, Snakebite & Black (that legendary 1980s drink!) is just £2.50 a pint, as is Strongbow and Fosters, and you’ll also have a chance to win a shot of Cherry Sourz during the ’Underpants Song’. We'll give you more info as soon as we get it, but you can expect the usual party poppers, balloons and the big midnight countdown… Meanwhile, the main thing is that we know it's gonna be fantastic, and we hope that all you alternative 80s lovers will want to spend the biggest party night of the year with us. Facebook event here (please RSVP!) www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=132227136830722

HOW TO BUY NYE TICKETS
Order online at komediabrighton.ticketsolve.com/shows/23097040/events, by telephone (0845 2938480), or by dropping in to the Komedia café any time (44-47 Gardner Street, Brighton BN1 1UN). Get yours now before they sell out! (If there are any left at all, it’ll be £12 on the night.)

OTHER FUTURE DATES
Our Christmas Party is on SAT 18 DEC, and we’ll be back on the THIRD SATURDAY OF THE MONTH throughout 2011, starting SAT 15 JAN…

But for now…

See you on Saturday!

Love (and pride) from

Simon and Cherry xxx

SPELLBOUND
The 80s Night For People Who HATE 80s Nights
brought to you by DJs CHERRY FOXXX and SIMON PRICE (the people behind London's legendary Stay Beautiful club)

Add us: www.myspace.com/spellboundbrighton
Join us: tinyurl.com/spellboundfacebook
Follow us: www.twitter.com/spellboundclub

YOU SCUMBAG, YOU MAGGOT, YOU CHEAP LOUSY FAGGOT!
Hey Spellbounders, it’s the SPELLBOUND CHRISTMAS PARTY this Saturday (18th Dec), so you know what you can expect: as well as all the usual killer alt-80s tunes, there’ll be mince pies and crackers while stocks last, a mass singalong to The Pogues, and we might even let our alternative guard down long enough to slip in a little Wham!. You want clanging chimes of doom? This is the Christmas piss-up for you! Facebook event here: www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=174377869250777 (please RSVP!)

GLASS OF RED SLUDGE, ANYONE?
Quick charity shout-out: there’s a fundraising bash for victims of the Hungarian red sludge disaster under the bridge by the station beforehand (4pm-8pm), where you can contribute by buying a delicious warming glass of alcoholic red sludge - aka mulled wine - to get you in the mood for Spellbound! Details here: twitpic.com/3cj0qm

THE FACTS
Venue: Komedia Studio Bar, 44-47 Gardner Street, Brighton BN1 1UN (see www.komedia.co.uk/brighton for detailed travel info)
Opening hours: 9:00pm-3:00am
Admission: £5 standard, or £4 with flyer/NUS/DSS (you can print out an eflyer here: tinyurl.com/spellboundgracejonesflyer )
When: usually on the THIRD SATURDAY OF THE MONTH

WHAT WE’RE ALL ABOUT
Spellbound is an antidote to all the depressingly identical kitschy 80s nights out there. We ditch the cheese and play the REAL good stuff from music’s greatest-ever era (our actual time span is approx 1979-1985, with Tubeway Army on Top Of The Pops as our Year Zero and the Live Aid concert as our Doomsday, but we’ll spin the odd track from outside that range if it’s good enough), to a wonderfully mixed crowd of people who remember it first time around and young ‘uns just discovering it all as new. Think: post-punk, goth, new romantic, alternative rock, new wave, electro, gender benders, early indie, 2 tone ska, mod revival, synth, blitz kids, oddballs, effeminate futurists and one-hit wonders… Look out for the Eighties visuals on DVD and slide projections for extra period authenticity. Dressing up is encouraged, but not enforced.

WHAT WE PLAY
A Flock Of Seagulls ABC Adam & The Ants Alien Sex Fiend Altered Images Associates B-52’s Bauhaus The Beat Birthday Party Blancmange Blondie Bolshoi Bow Wow Wow Buggles Kate Bush Captain Sensible The Clash Classix Nouveaux Cramps Cult Cure Danielle Dax Dead Or Alive Depeche Mode Devo Dexys Divine Thomas Dolby Duran Duran Echo & The Bunnymen Eurythmics The Fall Fields Of The Nephilim John Foxx Fun Boy Three Gene Loves Jezebel Haircut 100 Heaven 17 Human League Jam Japan Jesus And Mary Chain Grace Jones Joy Division Killing Joke Kraftwerk Magazine Marilyn New Model Army New Musik New Order Gary Numan Only Ones Orange Juice Orchestral Manoeuvres Pigbag Propaganda Psychedelic Furs Public Image Limited Ruts Scritti Politti Shriekback Sigue Sigue Sputnik Simple Minds Siouxsie & The Banshees Sisters Of Mercy Skids Smiths Soft Cell Spandau Ballet Specials Squeeze Strawberry Switchblade Stray Cats Style Council Talk Talk Talking Heads Teardrop Explodes Tenpole Tudor Theatre Of Hate Tom Tom Club Ultravox Violent Femmes Virgin Prunes Visage We’ve Got A Fuzzbox Kim Wilde Yazoo and loads more!

ARRIVE EARLY!
Spellbound is a very popular night and the venue is quite small, so it often fills up fast (usually by about 10pm). We aren’t saying you won’t get in after that: we liaise closely with Komedia security to ensure that queuing is as quick as possible and that people aren’t locked out unnecessarily when there’s room inside to accommodate them. But the best advice is still ARRIVE EARLY!

CHEAP SNAKEBITE & BLACK!
Anyone who’s an authentic first-generation 80s relic - or anyone who’s met one and heard their frontline stories from the Goth Wars - will know that the definitive drink for alternative 80s types was ‘SNAKEBITE & BLACK’ (that is, a pint glass containing half cider, half lager and a dash of blackcurrant to send it a lurid shade of purply-red). The lovely people at Komedia have agreed to sell pints of Snakebite & Black for the tempting price of just £2.50, exclusively for Spellbound! And if that doesn’t appeal, then you can also buy straightforward pints of Strongbow and Fosters for the same price!

THE UNDERPANTS SONG!
If that wasn’t already generous enough, every month you’ll have the chance to win a shot of CHERRY SOURZ for free! Listen out for The Underpants Song - in other words, “Underpass” by John Foxx - because every time the former Ultravox man shouts “underpants!” (that’s what it sounds like, anyway) we’ll throw a pair of Y-fronts into the crowd. If you catch one of the pants, you can exchange it at the bar for a shot of Cherry Sourz!

YES, WE HAVE A CLOAKROOM!
There is now a permanently-manned cloakroom at Spellbound, to put your minds at rest when you want to ditch your belongings and dance, staffed by the lovely Hollie and Mark, and priced at £1 per item.

NEW YEAR'S EVE!
As we say goodbye to one year and hello to another, SPELLBOUND invites you to celebrate by spinning the musical clock back to the greatest decade ever: the 1980s! Spellbound - subtitled ‘The 80s Night For People Who HATE 80s Nights’ is now a hugely popular fixture in Brighton‘s nightlife, and the New Year’s Eve Party is sure to be unmissable, with resident DJs Cherry Foxxx and Simon Price spinning alternative classics from Siouxsie, Specials, Smiths, Sisters, Soft Cell, Stray Cats, Scritti, Spandau, Style Council, Strawberry Switchblade... and that's just the eSSes. We open at 9pm and run till late, Snakebite & Black (that legendary 1980s drink!) is just £2.50 a pint, as is Strongbow and Fosters, and you’ll also have a chance to win a shot of Cherry Sourz during the ’Underpants Song’. We'll give you more info as soon as we get it, but you can expect the usual party poppers, balloons and the big midnight countdown… Meanwhile, the main thing is that we know it's gonna be fantastic, and we hope that all you alternative 80s lovers will want to spend the biggest party night of the year with us. Facebook event here (please RSVP!) www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=132227136830722



HOW TO BUY NYE TICKETS
Order online at komediabrighton.ticketsolve.com/shows/23097040/events, by telephone (0845 2938480), or by dropping in to the Komedia café any time (44-47 Gardner Street, Brighton BN1 1UN). Get yours now before they sell out! (If there are any left at all, it’ll be £12 on the night.)

OTHER FUTURE DATES
We’ll be back on the THIRD SATURDAY OF THE MONTH throughout 2011, starting SAT 15 JAN…


But for now…

See you on Saturday!

Love (and pride) from

Simon and Cherry xxx