I was looking forward to an evening of good friends and old fashioned post-rock, courtesy of Saxon Shore, and was not disappointed. Aside from the embarrassing incident, which occurred when accidentally offering the band my emergency pants, and the 14 mile trek to the toilets, it was a humdinger of a gig. I was, however, disappointed with the opening band. Their collective age was 30 and, using my finely-tuned powers of deduction, they were local. They kind of gave the game away by spending 10 minutes asking the audience if they knew random people and waving at their friends. Whilst every band has to start somewhere, there is no hope for them ever leaving Brighton if they exclude the remainder of the audience with their teenage babble. As such, local bands talking at their mates is at the top of my newly-formed "2010 hate list". Watch out for some new additions over the coming months :)
Also near the top of my hate list is pub toilets. Either you have the luxury of toilet roll but no lock (thus, having to balance precariously on the edge of the seat and perform the "foot on the door limbo") or you have to suffer the indignity of no toilet roll but a miraculously available lock (one bonus is that at least nobody can gatecrash whilst you practice your ablutions!) My only advice is to go everywhere with tissues shoved up your sleeve, that way you can go lockless with confidence :D
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The band in question were Escape to Sea and their Myspace describes them as coming from the "South". Which means that they are either embarrassed of the town they live in (possibly Eastbourne or somewhere similar just outside Brighton) or are scared that someone may seek them out after the gig and murder them, hence a need to keep their location rather vague.
The local band syndrome of trying to be funny to their mates is always rather excruciating to watch I agree. We should have stayed in that much nicer pub we were in beforehand for another twenty minutes and then we would have missed the whole sham of amateurishness anyway.
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