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Hey people, we just wanted you to know that we're definitely having a SPELLBOUND NEW YEAR'S EVE PARTY!!!



If you're on Facebook, the event is here: www.facebook.com/home.php#/event.php?eid...685734050&ref=mf

At the moment, the details are still to be confirmed. Please note that the start and finish time on this event are currently just estimates, and the real times will be determined by the local council's licencing department and the fact that there's some sort of children's event in the Studio Bar beforehand. We also don't know whether it'll be a case of tickets in advance or paying on the door, or a combination of the two. All of this will be announced soon.

But we know that people like to make their New Year's Eve plans as early as possible, so we're giving you a heads-up now, and we'll fill in the gaps in due course. 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 NYE since Millennium (seeing one decade out and a new one in!) with us.

Mark it down in your diaries now!

Cherry and Simon x x x

Stop Press: SPELLBOUND DJs just added to the SAMHAIN GRAND MASQUERADE BALL at The Ocean Rooms on SUNDAY night, playing a special TRAD GOTH set! We're in the little VIP room at the very top from midnight till 2am, but elsewhere in the building you can also enjoy sets from other top Brighton alternative clubs including Born Bad, Deviant, Stay Sick, Kick Out The Jams, Hold Up and Crash... www.facebook.com/home.php#/event.php?eid...125785873&ref=ts

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Big big thanks to all who turned out, at fairly late notice and on what is, after all, a ‘school night’, to round off Hallowe’en weekend by joining us for our lil’ Trad Goth guest slot at the Samhain Grand Masquerade Ball. The attendance at the Ocean Rooms was, if we’re honest, pretty sparse, but with some spectacular outfits on show we’ll call it ‘quality over quantity’.

We started in the VIP lounge upstairs, up to X-Mal Deutschland, but then got moved down to the ground floor and merged with the other clubs. The upside of which was proper dancing, the downside being that we got cut short after New Model Army, making way for the Stay Sick guys, meaning that loads of good Batcavey, dry-icey stuff went unplayed (Bolshoi, Skeletal Family, Berlin, Christian Death, Bad Seeds, James Ray, Gene Loves Jezebel, Lords Of The New Church, and so on). Ah well, maybe we’ll do another Trad Goth set some time.

A quick reminder that the next proper Spellbound is on SATURDAY 21st NOVEMBER at our usual home of Komedia, and onto that truncated Samhain playlist…

Siouxsie And The Banshees - Spellbound
The Fall - There’s A Ghost In My House
Alien Sex Fiend - I Walk The Line
The Sisters Of Mercy - Body Electric
The Birthday Party - Release The Bats
Vicious Pink - Fetish
Bauhaus - The Passion Of Lovers
Specimen - Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Theatre Of Hate - Do You Believe In The Westworld
Xmal Deutschland - Incubus Succubus
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The Cramps - New Kind Of Kick
The Cure - A Forest
Virgin Prunes - Baby Turns Blue
Fields Of The Nephilim - Preacher Man
The Cult - Spiritwalker
Danielle Dax - Cat House
Killing Joke - Eighties
The Damned - Eloise
The Sisters Of Mercy - This Corrosion
Shriekback - Nemesis
Siouxsie And The Banshees - Peek-A-Boo
New Model Army - No Rest

Love (and pride)

Cherry and Simon x x x

Ah, you played 'Fetish'! Nice one!

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SPELLBOUND NEW YEAR’S EVE PARTY!!!
As we say goodbye to one decade 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’ - has proven a hugely popular addition to Brighton’s nightlife ever since it launched earlier this year, 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 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 NYE since Millennium with us.

HOW TO BUY 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!

Cherry and Simon x x x

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WHAT HAPPENED ON SATURDAY 21st NOVEMBER 2009 (SPELLBOUND #8!)

Staying power. No, not us (although eight months in, it’s looking good…), but you lot. By half nine we were full, and at three in the morning we still had a full dance floor, our best three o’clock ever. In fact, it was a really enjoyable night from start to finish, so massive thanks to all of you for your support (especially the contingent who’d come from out of town especially for Spellbound).

Thanks also to our special guest DJ Jake Shillingford, who burst through the doors straight from rehearsals for My Life Story’s ’Mornington Crescent’ gig at Koko this Thursday with seconds to spare, his guitar case under his arm and his playlist ideas scribbled on the lyric sheet for “Penthouse In The Basement”, and rocked the dancefloor magnificently for the midnight hour.

Oh, and big thanks to our friend Daniel for being a CD hero and lending us the Marie Antoinette soundtrack, from which we played the special Kevin Shields-remixed version of Siouxsie And The Banshees’ “Hong Hong Garden” (from the masked ball scene, if you’ve seen the film), which went down an absolute storm.

You can’t please all the people all the time. We’d only been open a few minutes when we had one of the weirdest requests ever: a guy wanting his money back because the Studio Bar doesn’t serve Bacardi and “my wife never mixes her drinks”. (Ah well, I suppose it made room for two more people to get in…) Someone with rather more solid grounds for complaint was the lady who’d requested “Native Love” by Divine beforehand, which we promised to play, but when we arrived our specially-burned disc wouldn’t work. Sorry, we’ll try again next time. Bloody modern technology, eh? This is why vinyl always wins.

I hope you all enjoyed the first instalment of Spellbound TV, the compilation DVD we made which mixed music videos (The Cult, A Flock Of Seagulls, Alien Sex Fiend, Soft Cell etc) with other 80s ephemera (the original Channel 4 station ident, clips from Grange Hill, the Madness-based Colgate ad, etc). OK, so it was only one disc looped over and over, but the plan is to make about nine of them which we alternate randomly. It took us several days to make one hour’s worth, so bear with us!

A lot of people asked me what a certain fantastic-but-obscure synthpop track was, so I’ll answer it here: It’s called “C-C-C-Can’t You See” and it’s by Vicious Pink, a Soft Cell-affiliated duo who the goth-clubbing veterans among you may also remember for their proto-EBM classic “Fetish”.

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 our CHRISTMAS PARTY on SATURDAY 19th DECEMBER (yes, we will drop the whole ‘alternative‘ thing just long enough to play a bit of seasonal Wham!, and for a drunken Pogues singalong)… and remind you that tickets for our NEW YEAR‘S EVE PARTY are on sale now at www.komedia.co.uk/brighton

OK, here’s that Spellbound #8 playlist in full…

9:00-9:45 CHERRY FOXXX
Yoko Ono - Walking On Thin Ice
The Regents - 7 Teen
Blancmange - Waves
Bauhaus - The Passion Of Lovers
The Creatures - Mad Eyed Screamer
Eighth Wonder - I’m Not Scared
A Flock Of Seagulls - Wishing (If I Had A Photograph Of You)
The Jesus And Mary Chain - Sidewalking
Fad Gadget - Love Parasite
Eurythmics - Love Is A Stranger
Soft Cell - Bedsitter
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9:45-10:30 SIMON PRICE
Pete Shelley - Telephone Operator
Tom Tom Club - Wordy Rappinghood
Captain Sensible - Wot!
The Beat - Hands Off… She’s Mine
Orange Juice - Rip It Up
Sandie Shaw - Hand In Glove
Spandau Ballet - Paint Me Down
Simple Minds - Glittering Prize
The Sisters Of Mercy - Floorshow
Gary Numan - I Die, You Die
The Human League - Empire State Human
Vicious Pink - C-C-C-Can’t You See
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10:30-11:15 CHERRY FOXXX
Kraftwerk - The Model
Joy Division - She’s Lost Control
Siouxsie And The Banshees - Cities In Dust
Heaven 17 - Crushed By The Wheels Of Industry
Japan - Quiet Life
Talk Talk - Talk Talk
The Smiths - There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
Adam And The Ants - Cartrouble
Bow Wow Wow - Go Wild In The Country
Men Without Hats - Safety Dance
The Cramps - Can Your Pussy Do The Dog
Danielle Dax - Big Hollow Man
Depeche Mode - New Life
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11:15-12:00 SIMON PRICE
Devo - Jocko Homo
The Cure - The Walk
Duran Duran - My Own Way
King - Love And Pride
The Specials - Nite Klub
The Jam - Start!
David Bowie - China Girl
Tin Tin - Kiss Me
Dead Or Alive - You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)
Fields Of The Nephilim - Preacher Man
Public Image Ltd - This Is Not A Love Song
John Foxx - Underpass (The Underpants Song!)
The Cult - Love Removal Machine
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12:00-1:00 JAKE SHILLINGFORD (MY LIFE STORY)
Age Of Chance - Kiss
Depeche Mode - A Question Of Time
Echo And The Bunnymen - Never Stop
The Teardrop Explodes - Passionate Friend
Scritti Politti - Absolute
The Blow Monkeys - It Doesn’t Have To Be That Way
Dexys Midnight Runners - There There My Dear
The Smiths - London
Holly And The Italians - Tell That Girl To Shut Up
The Cure - Charlotte Sometimes
Soft Cell - What
The B-52’s - Rock Lobster
Time Zone - World Destruction
Pete Shelley - Homosapien
New Order - Temptation
The Jesus And Mary Chain - Never Understand
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1:00-1:45 CHERRY FOXXX
Siouxsie And The Banshees - Hong Kong Garden (Marie Antoinette version)
Strawberry Switchblade - Since Yesterday
Devo - Mongoloid
The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary
Ultravox - Sleepwalk
Trans-X - Living On Video
The Human League - Mirror Man
Associates - Party Fears Two
Bronski Beat - Why?
ABC - Poison Arrow
Duran Duran - Planet Earth
Bauhaus - Lagartija Nick
Killing Joke - Eighties
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1:45-2:30 SIMON PRICE
The Sisters Of Mercy - Alice
The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
Talking Heads - Once In A Lifetime
Tears For Fears - Mad World
Violent Femmes - Gone Daddy Gone
The Specials - Gangsters
Blondie - Dreaming
Haysi Fantayzee - John Wayne Is Big Leggy
Divine - You Think You’re A Man
Erasure - Sometimes
Gary Numan - Cars
Kate Bush - Babooshka
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2:30-3:00 CHERRY FOXXX AND SIMON PRICE
Siouxsie And The Banshees - Spellbound
Spandau Ballet - To Cut A Long Story Short
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Enola Gay
Kim Wilde - Kids In America
Toyah - I Want To Be Free
Adam And The Ants - Stand And Deliver
Doctor And The Medics - Spirit In The Sky
The Cure - Boys Don’t Cry
Heaven 17 - Temptation
Soft Cell - Say Hello, Wave Goodbye

See you at the Christmas Party!

Love (and pride) from

Cherry and Simon xxx

(That was a special WSC-friendly version of the report, by the way, pictorially-speaking...)

Spearmint Rhino wrote:
(That was a special WSC-friendly version of the report, by the way, pictorially-speaking...)

It's also a good advert for abstinence as well, I think!

evilC wrote:
Spearmint Rhino wrote:
(That was a special WSC-friendly version of the report, by the way, pictorially-speaking...)

It's also a good advert for abstinence as well, I think!

Oh I dunno, I think you all look splendid.

It's a pity Mrs Rhino didn't manage to get snaps of Hobbes and WoE as well, but maybe they'd already left when she was doing the rounds with the camera.

I just don't know how I manage to always do that thing with my chin(s) just at the moment of the 'shutter' snapping.

I didn't realise Carcass was a Runrig fan.

I recognize Mssrs evilC and Carcass, but is the gent with SR an OTF'er. What about hat man?

Clive, incidentally, you look like you're dressed to slip into an Oppenheimer Analysis show via the stage door. Very sharp.

Worn Old Motorbike wrote:
Clive, incidentally, you look like you're dressed to slip into an Oppenheimer Analysis show via the stage door. Very sharp.

By a strange coincidence, I'd invited the two chaps from Oppenheimer Analysis along (it was my birthday do and they are Brighton based) but Andy Oppenheimer was due to be in Canada for some kind of science conference the next day and Martin Lloyd (who I'd seen at the Marsheaux/Mikro gig on Thursday) just couldn't make it.

May have been just as well - there could have been some fedora-based fashion disaster otherwise!...

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Worn Old Motorbike wrote:
...is the gent with SR an OTF'er...?

Seppings is out of shot.

Edit: you need to venture into 'Football' occasionally to understand that...

Le hat, c'est moi.

I posted twice in Football this week, as a matter of fact. That, of course, brings my total to two.

Seriously, PG?

Is that Stubbs with SR?

You must obey the Dance Commander.

I'll second WOM, Clive you're a bit STASIesque there, on the cold side of deutsche welle.

PG looks pretty sharp too, what country is that hat from, a Baltic state?