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Originally Posted by ragman1
cheers
ps- i find it goofy, yet heartening... that this thread- derek bailey!!- got more views than terry smith/louis stewart/allan holdsworth pdfs, posted by our good man grahambop, combined...there is hope! hah
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02-27-2019 11:48 PM
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Originally Posted by ragman1
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Originally Posted by ragman1
Really felt that coming back from London.... perhaps it’s changing a little.
I think in terms of the music scene and what gets appreciated in Brighton - some stuff would just get short shrift for being too ‘out there’ when not actually being that unusual.
I’m not the only person that I’ve spoken to who thinks that....
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Originally Posted by BigDaddyLoveHandles
At least, I think that's what I mean :-)
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Originally Posted by christianm77
I used to live in London and found it exciting. Then I left and went back. In three years or so I thought it had lost its excitement and just become a big, noisy place... so you could well be right about Brighton too. Shame if it's true though.
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Originally Posted by ragman1
It sounds like I'm being negative, but it's just one of those quirks. I'd be up for moving back if it were a possibility.
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Originally Posted by christianm77
I remember I came back once (from London) and thought the whole place was pretty dirty and tacky. But I stayed and that feeling only lasted a day or so and I was back in the swing of it. It was fine then!
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^^^ I had a friend who was doing a post-doc at the University of Brighton. He lived nearby in Hove and he told me that people did the correction "Hove, not Brighton" so often that Hove created an ad campaign around the slogan ... "Hove, actually".
So British!
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Yup, we used that a lot. Any old chance to say 'Hove, actually', usually with a silly accent. Even me, because I (actually) lived in Hove for a few months before we moved. It could have become a rather boring cliche but somehow never did.
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Originally Posted by christianm77
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Originally Posted by BigDaddyLoveHandles
Brighton's a very nice place, I might sound down on it. There are also some excellent musicians down there, but I gather not so many gigs...
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I grew up in Brighton as well , I pretty much learned to play in the old Casablanca club , back when Johnny the bubble owned it and allowed people to skin up in there and the police turned a blind eye because there was never any trouble . A simpler and a better world back then .
These days the town is the spiritual home of wannabe creative hipsters who spend more time talking about themselves in pubs than actually doing any creative work . Sad ! Some excellent musos tho , but no work .
There are good jam sessions at the Bees Mouth on a Monday night and the Brunswick on a Tuesday night if anyone is passing through .
As far as Derek Bailey is concerned , he was a musician of unshakeable integrity . He figured out what really interested him and pursued it relentlessly . There has to be a lesson in that somewhere for all of us .
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There’s a jazz club called the Verdict, I haven’t been there yet but they seem quite active. I saw Remi Harris at the Brunswick a couple of years ago.
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So Johnny the Bubble actually let folks skin up in the Casablanca? Amazing. Times have changed indeed!
(I have no idea what any of that means, but it sounds interesting...)
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All Derek Bailey threads lead to Brighton.
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Originally Posted by grahambop
https://verdictjazz.co.uk/
I thought I'd check it out on Google Street View and got this. But I think it's still going :-)
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Yes, here we are, down the road a bit... well, that's a relief.
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