Oliva Spleen, Rich Leppard, Ben Sumner, Tim Fearless
Influences
Rimbaud, Verlaine, Burroughs, The Velvet Underground, The Stooges, Leigh Bowery, Leadbelly, Can, David Bowie, Harry Partch, Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill, John Coltrane, Pixies, The Carpenters, GG Allin, New York Dolls, Memphis Minnie, Le Tigre, Noel Coward, Joy Division, The Who, Sonic Youth, Bauhaus, The Shangri-Las, The Clash, Johnny Cash, Grandmaster Flash, Black Sabbath, Ray Charles, Charles Manson, Alan Lomax, Edith Piaf, Virgin Prunes, Gram Parsons, Richard Hell, Bonzo Dog Band, P J Harvey, Charlie Parker, Joni Mitchell, Bad Brains, Verdi, Aphex Twin, Hank Williams, Carole King, Buzzcocks, Duke Ellington, Nick Cave, Kate Bush, Woody Guthrie, Television, Miles Davis, Dolly Parton, The Ronnettes, Bessie Smith, Patti Smith, The Smiths, Suicide, Tricky, Nina Hagen, The Rolling Stones, Neil Young, Nick Drake, Cab Calloway, Libertines, Pink Floyd, Nirvana, Little Richard, Ramones, The Kinks, Lydia Lunch, The Orb, The Doors, Billie Holiday, Nine Inch Nails, X-ray Spex, Tom Waits, The Fall, Antony and the Johnsons, Bob Dylan, The Pogues, Klaus Nomi, Jacques Brel, Jimi Hendrix, Diamanda Galas, Bjork, The Cramps, The Cardiacs, Chuck Berry, Captain Beefheart, Jane's Addiction, Pulp, Public Enemy, The Beatles, Leonard Cohen, Sex Pistols, Last Exit to Brooklyn, Tropic of Cancer, Naked Lunch, Story of the Eye, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Fox in Socks, The 120 Days of Sodom, Darren Aronofsky, Spike Jonze, Paolo Pasolini, Harmony Korine, John Waters, David Lynch, Dada, Allen Ginsberg, Hubert Selby Jr, Henry Miller, Hunter S. Thompson, Jean Genet, Dylan Thomas, Baudelaire, Poe, Plato, Warhol, Coleridge, Crowley, Huxley, Basquiat, Hieronymus Bosch, Spike Milligan, William Blake, Edward Lear, Aubrey Beardsley, Chris Morris, R. Crumb, Marcel Duchamp, Fraggle Rock, Oscar Wilde, Walt Whitman, my grandmother...
"You know that special demo that only lands once a year, the one that stops everything, the one thats so good it takes you an age to try and get down how good it is. The excellently named band have a frantic sound Proper Punk Energy and attitudes like the Buzzcocks, Iggy or the first days of those Manics when You Loved Us. The Flesh Happening are urgent urgent urgent." - The Organ “The Flesh Happening, undoubtedly the greatest band in Brighton” – Meatbreak BBC6 "This band dive headfirst into places most people fear to, both musically and lyrically, with live shows proving they are in possession of the best frontman in town" – The Brighton Source "Filth. Degredation. Power. Glamour. Hitler. Bowie. A grandmotherlover in a gimp mask. Lick your lips and get stuck into The Flesh Happening." – Jon Hillcock - XFM “You know how glam flirted with gayness but got coy before it got too dirty, the forces of straight acceptability moving in and turning it into a minor facet of the bloke-ish personality? Well The Flesh Happening take it back for the queers, drag it into an alley behind a really scary bar and rape it back to life. They are the answer to the big men at Morrissey gigs who fancy a quick weep before their next fight. Angry, squealy, arresting and the only band that has made me uncomfortable in the twenty-first century. they are one of very few Brighton bands more interesting than having a cigarette outside.”
– Julia Indelicate The Flesh Happening - WASTE (2007)
After the mess we made and the damage we did last month, Hector's House went to hospital. When they got there they were rushed into intensive care where they were placed on a life support machine and treated for shock and trauma.
LUCKILY, they didn't die and so Stay Sick! is back but 2 weeks late due to the doctor ordering them to rest easy.
This month we'll be starting on FRIDAY 18th JULY at Hobgoblin with Goo Goo Muck and won't be finishing until the early hours of Sunday. Maybe it'll be you in a hospital bed this time.
At Stay Sick! on the SATURDAY 19th JULY, we have the incredible RADIO CITY RIOT playing live psychotic rockabilly, so make sure you bring your dancing shoes. As normal there will be us bad boys playing music your mum would hate as well as showing boobs and B movies all night long. We've got the bar cheap again and we should have free pool if all goes to plan.
Don't forget its FREE FREE FREE so we don't want to hear your half arsed excuses FREE!
I am pleased to announce, that as their much anticipated 2nd album approaches its release date(Queenie Was a Blonde), Vile Imbeciles will be playing a hand full of shows around the UK.
New Album 'Queenie was Blonde' Out 14th July New Single 'Bad Ideas' Out 18th August
CLASSIC ROCK MAGAZINE & BRIGHTON ROCK LIVE SHOW & ROCK NIGHT
SATURDAY 21st JUNE
CONCORDE
BLAZE BAYLEY (Ex Iron Maiden & Wolfsbane) - WORLD TOUR www. myspace. com/blazebayley
VOODOO SIX - FRESH FROM DOWNLOAD www. voodoosix. com/
FURYON - NEW SINGLE DEBUT www. myspace. com/furyon
Doors 7:30 £10 adv (£12 on the door) from the Concorde 01273 673311/ Rounder 01273 325440/ Resident 01273 606312 www. ticketweb. co. uk
Rock Night only admission (subject to availability) £6 members/ £8 non from 10:30
DJ's Timeeeh + Pete Von Sleeeze Bucket
Join us for another Big City Redneck Presents! Another wonderful eruption, nay, ejaculation of good music at the Buffalo Bar this month!
What can I say? We won’t disappoint.
Buffalo Bar June 19th £6 on the door… 8.30pm till they kick us out…
Mama Shamone – THESE GUYS AREN’T PLAYING LIVE (except one acoustic) EXCEPT AT GLASTO FOR THE REST OF THE YEAR! http://www. myspace. com/mamashamone “Put Mama Shamone on at any venue and they are likely to take the roof off, this was one of the best live shows I’ve seen in years - certainly one of the best in London. In my opinion these guys are destined for greatness, it felt like I was witnessing history being shaped-something was just so right about what they were doing up there.” Vibe Bar
We Yes You No www. myspace. com/weyesyouno “We Yes You No sing about the end of the world, the end of everything. But in an apocalypse that would sound like this I would buy god’s last EP” – Big City Redneck
Language http://www. myspace. com/languageuk “"The verbosity of funk, the poetic twang of intelligent pop. The bridge between Franz Ferdinand and Smashing Pumpkins perhaps" – Bugbear
So if you don't know what it's all about....we are the original purveyors of Homo Electro Trash Punk Disco. there really is nowhere else like it...in Brighton...in the UK...in the world. Don't believe us?? You'll only find out if you come along....what have you got to lose for a fiver? It's better than paying a tenner for ludicrous drink prices in a club playing predictable house.....
ahoyhoy The Flesh Happening! We’re playing one of the last gigs before the Pressure Point closes at the end of May. Stunning support acts too… hopefully see you there. Cheers, birdeatsbaby x
hola The Flesh Happening ! qué tal? yo aquí escribiendo todo el día este mismo saludo a todos mis friends. ya hasta las teclas que uso en este mismo estúpido e insípido recadito están como los jeans que usa mi papá para bañar al perro. ojalá tuviera algo más deinspiración. pero te aseguro que si llega la usaré para una rola, no para andar bombardeando myspace con saludos desnutridos. ayós! besitos!
Just wanted to wish you a wonderful night tonight guys (right pissed off I'm gonna miss what looks to be your last gig : ( Have a beer for me and Nic (er, or should that be a salami - arf!) Much cockroach love - Hazel xxx
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