Patti Smith at the De La Warr Pavilion

We are very excited to secure An Evening of Words and Music by Patti Smith at the De La Warr Pavilion on 28 January. This is another perfect fit for the Pavilion, as we will be showing a 12 minute film Still Moving:Patti Smith by her partner Robert Mapplethorpe in the Galleries as part of our Moving Portrait Exhibition. To make the evening even more special, Patti will be joined by her daughter Jesse.

This is only one of two performances in the UK in the coming months so we advise to book early...

Random Fridays is back!!

I love the fact that Bexhill is so unique and that an experimental programme of arts can attract such a rich medley of folk. ' Exactly what art should be!' I cry from my pores. I love Random Fridays in that creativity has the option to flow so freely with such an open minded audience and lets artists relax into their work, allowing some magic to happen. Perhaps a slightly more extreme example was watching Bela Emerson's 5 month old daughter bop along to her performance!

Spacedog - The Angliss sisters didn't disappoint in anyway. Together with a fabulous flashing red-eyed crow, robotic doll and theremin, the ladies mesmerised.
Overlap - Please come back Michael Denton. Gallery 2 was packed out in its current form of a 60-person cinema for this one. A perfect end to the night.

The Bar on RF is well and truly set, I love this country - no end to unique experimental folk quietly pushing the boundaries!

Pavilion plays a part in marriage proposal!

The Pavilion played a vital role in a carefully put-together marriage proposal last weekend. After enjoying a delicious starter in the DLWP Restaurant, Alex Munro asked the kitchen staff to prepare the remainder of a delicious three-course meal to take to a beach hut in Cooden. They were happy to oblige, so Alex and his girlfriend Hannah Van Dijk set about enjoying their al fresco main courses of roast chicken and gnocchi, followed by mango creme brulee. Alex popped the question at the end of the meal, and against an unexpected backdrop of fireworks coming from the Cooden Beach Hotel, she said yes!

Alex said: "Thank you so much. Brilliant of you to do all that, it made such a difference. The food really was fantastic."

Sally Ann Lycett of the De La Warr Pavilion said: "We are so pleased to have helped make this such a special occasion for Alex and Hannah! So many couples have told us how they met their partners at the Pavilion and it is always good to know that we are part of their happiest memories."

Good luck Alex and Hannah, and congratulations from the De La Warr Pavilion.

4:0 series of excellent calibre

Take a look at these great pics of the mesmerising Joanna MacGregor, the first concert (4:1) as part of the 4:0 Autumn 2010 series.

The Carducci Quartet take to the stage for 4:4, the final show of the 4:0 classical season on Wednesday 10th November - it's going to be a fantastic finale with top-quality musicianship. Only £12 a ticket...perfect mid-week entertainment. Here are some quotes about The Carducci Quartet.

'…playing of constant variety, a masterclass in unanimity of musical purpose.’ The Strad

'...technical rigour, penetrative musical insight and lively yet unified individualism...winning in every sense of the word...' The Irish Times

Tickets only £12

For bookings and information call the Box Office on 01424 229 111 or click here to book online

Corinne a true professional

Corinne is a true professional. The quality of the musicianship was incredible. There is a blatant shift in the CBR of 2010 it seems. Her recent tragic loss is no doubt a factor in the musical shift that seems apparent. At times you could hear a pin drop, CBR had the audience eating out the palm of her hand. This coupled with the new D & B PA system being trialed at the DLWP resulted in the perfect auditory experience. We’ll have some more of that please!!

UK's best-selling Science Fiction Writer Iain M. Banks, comes to town

Thursday 21 October
Iain M. Banks

Iain M. Banks is described as a writer whose body of work is without parallel in the modern history of science fiction. We are very excited to welcome Iain to the Pavilion for an insightful talk followed by a Q & A and book signing.

SURFACE DETAIL will be 2010's bestselling Science Fiction novel

MATTER was a Sunday Times bestseller, selling over 150,000 copies in all editions

Dominic Murphy (WHITE LIGHTNIN') will direct a feature film based on Iain M Banks' story A GIFT FROM THE CULTURE

"Iain M. Banks is firmly established as the bestselling Science Fiction writer in the UK!Gripping, touching and funny" The Times

"A wild imagination" T.L.S

"One of the very best just got even better" Scotsman

"Banks is a phenomenon" William Gibson

Tickets only £6!!

Book your ticket now by contacting the Box Office on 01424 229 111 or book online

See these amazing pics of Duane Eddy's concert at DLWP with special guest Richard Hawley...

Please add your pics too and let us know what you thought...

www.dlwp.com

A living legend at the De La Warr

I am pleased to say that I have seen a living legend of music in my lifetime - Duane Eddy last Saturday at the DLWP.

'Rebel Rouser' and 'Peter Gunn' were highlights of course - hearing them 'in the flesh' was an altogether superiour experience to a recording - but it was the lesser-known tracks that I particularly enjoyed. 'Stalkin', the B-side to Rebel Rouser was led by a moody blues riff and according to Duane, originated as the A-side until it was decided to swap them. I almost think I prefer the former, though it's a close one...

Duane's set was punctuated with brief tales and tit bits and I couldn't help but think what a nice bloke he appeared to be! He recalled moments he had performed or seen performances in back street smoke-filled rock/blues bars and even though we were miles removed, the songs were so evocative you could really visualise it. For a large auditorium it felt like an incredibly intimate performance.

Pete Molinari performed as support and sung classic country blues tunes in his unique and powerful vocals. Richard Hawley appeared as Duane's special guest, joining him onstage for a fantastic rendition of "The Girl on Death Row" and "Still As the Night". The warmth between them was very apparent and Duane referred to Richard as his "best friend" since starting the UK tour. Likewise Hawley's band were absolutely amazing - in particular Ron Dziubla the Saxophone player who was more than up to the challenge of 'Peter Gunn'.

Mark E. Smith's The Fall return

A couple of years on from The Fall's last gig at the Pavilion in 2008, and Britain's most distinctive band is back. Still going strong after thirty years this seminal band remain a force to be reckoned with in the British music scene.

Often characterised by their abrasive guitar sound and Smith's distinctive vocals, his lyrics have been described by critic Steve Huey as "abstract poetry filled with complicated wordplay, bone-dry wit, cutting social observations, and general misanthropy”.

The band have a prolific output, releasing 28 studio albums, and more than triple that if you count live and other releases. Although they may never have achieved widespread public success beyond a handful of minor hit singles, they maintain a strong, and ever growing, cult following.

Mark E Smith and The Fall have been an acknowledged influence on many other big names in music, including The Smiths, The Happy Mondays, Nirvana and Franz Ferdinand.

Tickets: £17

Doors 7.15pm

Please note: This show is not suitable for persons below the age of 16 years. Under 16s must be accompanied by an adult.For information and bookings call 01424 229 111 or book online at www.dlwp.com

Alexander Goehr talks about fabulous new opera

The De La Warr Pavilion is delighted to be showing Alexander Goehr's Promised End on 26th October, a fabulous new opera based on Shakespeare's King Lear, performed by the English Touring Opera.

Promised End consists of 24 short scenes, selected, distilled and re-arranged by the composer and by scholar Sir Frank Kermode. The effect is to emphasise one aspect of Shakespeare’s great play: King Lear and the Earl of Gloucester, men who in their prime committed errors of judgment, bringing upon themselves their own tragic destinies.

Find out why Alexander Goehr chose to create an opera from one of Shakespeare's most poignant tragedies in this fascinating interview with James Conway.

http://tiny.cc/goehr1

Alexander also talks about how he managed to put shakespeare's extraordinary words to music.

http://tiny.cc/goehr2

See the English Touring Opera perform Promised End at DLWP on 26 October as part of its world premiere tour. Click here to book or contact the Box Office on 01424 229 111.

An insight into the life and art of Laurie Anderson

Take a look at these articles in The Observer for an insight into the art and life of Laurie Anderson.

See snaps taken by Laurie during a week in the life of her and her husband, fellow musician Lou Reed in the article Show and Tell: Laurie Anderson. Or find out what was behind Laurie's latest album Homeland in Laurie Anderson: The Story Behind Homeland.

http://tiny.cc/laurieshowandtell
http://tiny.cc/lauriehomeland

For more information about Laurie Anderson's concert at DLWP click here or visit our performances and events page to see what else is on...

Photo by David Bazemore.

75th Birthday Party - Thanks to everyone who came!

On August Bank Holiday Monday, the De La Warr Pavilion celebrated its 75th Birthday with a huge party on the terrace, its focal point being the re-creation of a famous photograph first printed in the Daily Mirror in 1936.

In the Bank Holiday sunshine over 1500 people gathered on the terrace in front of photographer Sheila Burnett who was lifted 5metres on a Genie lift to be in exactly the same angle and position as the Daily Mirror photographer must have been 74 years ago. The Daily Mirror Eight, the dance troupe in the middle of the terrace, were replaced by parkour/free-running outfit The Urban Shadows, who put on a spectacular show for a cheering crowd before staging the actual shot.

At 10am that morning, 120 people from the local community – none of whom had met before – put together a “scratch” choir and “scratch” orchestra, led by choir leader John Langridge and composer/musician Mike Hatchard. The choir sang a Summertime, Sway and Abba’s Mamma Mia. The orchestra played Spread a Little Happiness and a Beatles medley, as well as a new piece – Seventy Five Years of the De La Warr – composed by Mike Hatchard to celebrate the day. Julian Humphries led a group of young drummers who warmed up the crowd for the afternoon.

After the performance everyone sang Happy Birthday!

Free Tea and cake were then served to everyone outside the auditorium, courtesy Yorkshire Tea and Jubilee Hire.

And then the dancing started…. seventy-five tunes for seventy-five years kept us dancing until sunset with an playlist of classics and re-discovered hits put together by DJ Nikki Beatnik.
This fantastic party came at the end of an enormously successful weekend for the Pavilion which saw 10,000 people visit Tomoko Takahashi’s exhibition and Antony Gormley’s installation in just three days, with over 600 attending our family films, shown outdoors on the sea-facing wall, on Saturday and Sunday.

Please put up any pics you have of the day and visit our website to find out about forthcoming events at the Pavilion!

Photo by Sheila Burnett.

The Legendary Duane Eddy comes to the Pavilion

We are so excited to welcome such a legendary performer to the De La Warr Pavilion.
It seems that lots of you are just as excited as us, as tickets are flying out the door...so get them quick!

This is Duane's first return to the UK after 20 years and this makes us even more proud to be hosting such a fantastic event.

Grammy award winning and this years MOJO winner for the Musical Icon Award will perform a rare show with VERY special unannounced guests. Watch this space as we will be announcing the names shortly.

For more details or to purchase tickets click here

Autumn season announced

Here's a run-down of the amazing gigs we've got coming up at the De La Warr Pavilion this autumn...

Kate Nash plus support
4 October, £14.50
Performing songs from her second album My Best Friend is You, Kate Nash brings her inimitable, candid take on life to the Pavilion. Whilst displaying a new-found maturity in her songwriting, her innate ability to confront issues close to the heart with brutal honesty and sparkling wit remains, and she is bigger and bolder than ever.

Corinne Bailey Rae
16 October, £19.50
Four years on from her number one debut album, having experienced the highs and lows of love and loss, Corinne Bailey Rae is back with the long awaited follow up The Sea. Her delivery, both on record and live, allows a unique beauty and wonder to radiate from the dark corners of explored themes such as love and loss.

Laurie Anderson
6 November, £22-25 (£30 premium seating)
An intimate evening of songs and stories including pieces from Anderson’s acclaimed solo shows The Speed of Darkness, Happiness, The End of the Moon and Homeland. Featuring voice, electronics and violin, she will spin off-beat adventure tales with her characteristic wit and charisma.

Marc Almond
13 November, £22.50
Critically acclaimed singer, songwriter and performer Marc Almond returns to the Pavilion for what will surely be a special experience. His success as both a solo artist and as part of British electro-duo Soft Cell, make him an important British musical icon.

Billy Bragg plus support
10 December, £16
Activist, musician and all-round captivating performer Billy Bragg comes to the Pavilion as part of a UK tour. Deemed as one of England’s greatest songwriters, his individual style, combining elements of folk and punk, make him a respected and revered figure in the industry today.

For information and bookings call the Box Office on 01424 229 111 or visit www.dlwp.com

1980's crisp packet collector creating a media storm...

As part of our Collectors' Corner season, we have Dave Valentine's 1980's Crisp Packet collection coming to the De La Warr Pavilion on Sunday 15th August at 2:30pm.

A media storm has been created and everyone seems to be talking about it...

Have a look at the following stories and get yourself down to the Pavilion on Sunday to see the collection and hear the talk for yourself! Click here for more information on the event.

The Sun

The Metro

Argus - Bexhill man's crisp bag collection

Newsround - man has £10,000 crisp collection

Studentbeans - crisp packets worth £10,000

Plus it has been on BBC Breakfast News and many other sites.


Here are some of the Twitter Comments:

BrightonBuzz Bexhill man's crisp bag collection worth a packet http://sns.ly/VH243

rohanjay Don't miss the world's greatest crisp packet collection - oh yes it is! - on show at the @DLWP Bexhill Sunday http://bit.ly/90jCkM

fob51 RT @dizzytigerstu: Silly season tabloid fame for our Dave & his crisp packet collection (The Sun http://tinyurl.com/2u7zotc etc).

brightonargus Bexhill man's crisp bag collection worth a packet http://bit.ly/c3Vwo2

discoverbexhill 1980s Crisp Packet Collection on show this Sunday at 2.30pm @dlwp. It's worth £10,000 and has generated lots of interest in national media.

Last Random Fridays before summer break

TONIGHT - Don't miss the last Random Fridays before a summer break...and it's going to be a cracker!

Tonight's free event mixes up film, dance and live music in the Pavilion's upstairs galleries, from 7pm.

The night kicks off with Secrets of the Content, a short film by Tom Pickard. Based on the 1935 short story 'A Day Saved' by Graham Greene, the film carefully adapts the story to present itself in a contemporary time but staying true to the vintage narrative language that Greene wrote back in his early days as a writer.

The story is told through the eyes of intense protagonist Robinson, a lonely wanderer who obsessively stalks an everyday businessman through the streets of a modern London. When his routine takes a sudden diversion, his world is thrown into turmoil and uncertainty. He feels a connection to this man; he holds something that Robinson deeply, despairingly wants but he does not understand what it is or why he wants it so.

Secrets of the Content was shot over four days on location in West and East London.

Visit www.secretsofthecontentfilm.co.uk/ to find out more.

The evening continues with Die and Die Again, a solo dance piece by Cat Casbon with music provided by Random favourites AK/DK. The piece draws inspiration from ideas behind Ivan Navarro’s sculpture Die Again. By physically responding to light and darkness, Casbon addresses Navarro's approach to the visual qualities of his artwork but also picks up on metaphors relating to the social and political climate in Santiago, Chile at the time of Pinochet's military dictatorship when Navarro was growing up. Exploring themes of 'social illumination', the solo suggests that beneath an attractive facade, social injustice and inequality still remain. The dynamic tension of attraction and replusion is an important part of this astounding piece of choreography.

Live music follows from turntables duo Fidgital, who using turntables, loving bring together the opposing worlds of classical and hip hop in an almighty reckoning! Imagine chilli and chocolate...Finished imagining? Meet Fidgital.

From 7pm, FREE admission. Indulge in a unique night out with late night random revelry at Random Fridays.

For more information call the Box Office on 01424 229 111 or visit our Random Fridays page on our website.

More Billy Bragg please

I was lucky enought to see Billy Bragg play live yesterday. As always his sharp wit and quality songmanship made him a huge hit with the audience. I always find him so engaging - his longevity in music proving I'm not alone in feeling this.

It's his passion and drive that impresses me the most. Although on record this is obvious through his lyrics, live his interaction with the crowd and delivery inbetween songs steps things up a notch.

So, I'm very much looking forward to seeing him again in December, for a nice pre-christmas treat at the DLWP.

UNKLE and Heritage Orchestra at the Pavilion - a match made in heaven

Anyone who came to the Pavilion for the UNKLE and Heritage Orchestra collaboration on Saturday 10th July will identify with the enthusiasm with which I describe this awesome combination. On a particularly hot, sun-drenched Saturday people flooded the Pavilion and its grounds, flowing in from the station and ambling up from the beach. As the heat of the day subsided the intensity it brought didn't, and this was only compounded once the gig got underway.

As UNKLE and Heritage Orchestra took to the historic auditorium stage, beautiful and soulful revisions of UNKLE's career-defining anthems and new material from their acclaimed album 'Where Did the Night Fall' ensued. The crowd remained enraptured throughout and what a refreshing experience it was to hear the audience clapping and whooping and being encouraged to clap and whoop between songs, despite a carefully-hung orchestral arrangement and a myriad of instruments to synchronise. Renditions of 'Lonely Soul' and 'Reign' were obvious highlights, employing the vocal talents of Elle J, Gavin Clark and father of UNKLE, James Lavelle. Newer songs such as 'The Healing' were a disarming a reminder of that special something UNKLE continues to provide its live audiences. The light show was spell-binding in itself. Designed by Lavelle's brother, a web of green lasers were projected into the crowd.

The Pavilion lends itself perfectly to this off-beat mixture of musical genres with its interlinking spaces utilsed interesting ways; the outside terrace bar, the afterparty that continued with a DJ playing into the night at the foot of the iconic spiral staircase and the auditorium, packed with memories of shows-past but still fresh in it's role as a host to popular and experimental music's greatest performers.

All in all the show was a little slice of 'Heaven' - please excuse the pun (and see tracklistings for the night!) - and simply not to be forgotten.

Pictures of the gig will follow shortly - if you have any of your own please share them!

To find out what music is on at DLWP this summer visit www.dlwp.com or call the Box Office on 01424 229 111

Tomoko Takhashi exhibition opening with DJ NIKKI BEATNIK a huge success!

...and what a fantastic day it was! Approaching the De La Warr Pavilion in all its splendour on a sunny Saturday, it was a truely spine-tingling sight to see the sun terrace teeming with people enjoying DJ NIKKI BEATNIK's chilled-out tunes and heartily discussing Tomoko Takahashi's exhibition with broad smiles. People meandered round the Antony Gormley sculptures on the roof terrace and waved to friends and family dancing and chatting below. Others chilled out on deck chairs bathed in sunshine, a cold drink in hand. An inspiring exhibition celebrated in beautiful informal surroundings - a perfect summer day all in all.

"What a fantastic vibe this afternoon.....excellent to dance to the amazing tunes in the wonderful sunshine"

"What an amazing afternoon. Thank you to Tomoko, Nikki and the event organisers. Please do it again sometime!"

Pics of the event will be uploaded shortly. Please put up your pics too!

Visit the website for more information on Tomoko Takahashi
http://tiny.cc/tomokodlwp

DJ NIKKI BEATNIK @dlwp this Saturday fresh from Glasto

This Saturday 3rd July the De La Warr Pavilion is throwing a preview party to celebrate the opening of Tomoko Takahashi's new exhibition, Introspective Retrospective. This is an informal day party for all to enjoy and an open invite so bring your friends! You'll be treated to some great music provided by DJ NIKKI BEATNIK from 3pm until 6pm, “easily the best female DJ in the UK” (Time Out).

Fresh from her appearance at this year's Glastonbury Festival, DJ NIKKI will be appearing for one night only to spin an ecelectic mix of tunes, hand-picked to get the party started. Earlier this year DJ NIKKI appeared on the Jools Holland show with Kelis and has spun for some of the biggest artists including Jay- Z, Beyonce, Kelis, Ronnie Woods, Alicia Keys, Brands: Tiger Beer, Puma, Veuve Clicquot, B&B Italia, Events: Fashion Rocks, Elle Magazine, GQ & Cosmo Awards and Clubs: Ministry of Sound, Movida, Ammika, China Whites, Shoreditch House. She has travelled the globe bringing her unique style of mixing, scratching and mashing- up tunes, from electro to rock, reggae to house, punk, hip hop and everything else in between, to top venues from Hong Kong to New York, LA to Auckland. NIKKI is also an accomplished Producer, Presenter and Artist in her band with co-producer and brother STATIS. Together they make up the coolest duo of electro - punk- hip hop band 'Beatnik'.

“DJ Nikki truly rocked the party” (Elle Magazine)

“The female Mark Ronson” (The Telegraph)

The bar is open until 8pm for you to enjoy a cold beer or cup of coffee over-looking the sea as the sun begins to set. A special Dining Club event is taking place at 7pm in the restaurant if you fancy a beautiful meal to finish off the day. The menu includes 'Dark chocolate Brûlèe with white chocolate biscuits & blood orange sorbet' among other culinary delights. So come along for a day of culture, entertainment and quality food and drink. Soak up the atmosphere and browse this exceptional exhibition at your own pace.

UNKLE and Heritage Orchestra gig - tickets still available

Once in a while, a gig is programmed that you know will be groundbreaking and really introduce something new and exciting into the mix...

Well as you will already know, our resident Orchestra at the De La Warr Pavilion is the brilliant Heritage Orchestra and if you were licky enough to get a ticket to the first in this residency when they twinned up with the inimitable Beardyman, you will have experienced a taste of something new and extremely cutting edge! They crowd may have arrived not knowing exactly what would unfold and left screaming the roof off the Pavilion for "more", but this unknown edge to these events is what makes it so exciting to experience.

The UNKLE gig will be no different, as Heritage Orchestra will transcribe UNKLE's music by ear, merging synths with strings, beats with brass and transfer samples to percussion.

But so much more will unfold in front of your eyes, and not even I can tell you exactly what will happen as that is the beauty of a live collaboration like this!

So come on, the gig is booking fast and more press about to hit, so ensure you have your place at this historical event! Click here to book online or call our Box Office on 01424 229 111

Gig pics of the fabulous CocoRosie

Here are some pics of the recent CocoRosie gig @dlwp - enjoy!










































If you have any photos from the gig you would like to share with us, please send them to info@dlwp.com

Thanks to photographer Ed Isaacs at XYZ Magaxine. They have also written a great review of the show - see http://www.xyzmagazine.co.uk/blog/wordpress/?p=5600

Mesmerising performance by CocoRosie

CocoRosie wove a spell over the De La Warr Pavilion on Saturday night. I was mesmerised by the mix of vocals and visuals and could quite happily have stood there for hours without noticing the passing time. There was something almost unreal about these two sisters who were not just playing songs, but creating an experience for the audience. I loved the mix of unusual instruments and the band were excellent, but the thing that sticks in my mind is their two haunting voices, bringing together rap, opera and incantation in a way that seemed totally natural and very beautiful; and very at home in the De La Warr Pavilion.

Femi Kuti gig pics

Here are some pics of the recent Femi Kuti gig @dlwp

If you guys have any other pics of the gig - why not share them with us by emailing info@dlwp.com

Thanks to Oliver Tookey (photographer)

Further Will Self thoughts...

1)Will turned up on his folding bike, he had difficulty leaving the building due to the amount of signings.

2)He has pledged to give up flying, previous to which he would walk to the airport, fly and then walk at the other end, he did this with Dubai and New York and encouraged people to try it as it gives you a sense of the 2 lands being connected.

3)We hope to work with Will again but this time in context of contributing to a book about the artist Ian Breakwell

Will Self began his talk on Thursday by saying how happy he was to be in the most beautiful modernist building in the UK and then added - but you all know that! And beautiful it was - the sun was glinting on the sea and the building and people had gathered outside on the balcony to catch the last rays with a drink before going in to the auditorium. Will himself needed no introduction and launched straight into a riff about "phoney" his mobile phone to remind us all to turn our phones off. It was a great evening of dry wit and stories including readings from his book Psycho-geography. The audience loved it! More literary evenings like this to come...

Come on...Beng Beng Beng...with Femi Kuti

Guys...you have to appreciate this gig as it's happening on your doorstep, and it's the only UK gig outside of his Festival dates this year!

His legendary performances are not for the faint-hearted but an evening of high energy and lots of uncontrollable dancing. I defy anyone who attends to stand still for the whole gig....not possible I tell you...watch this vid and you'll see what I mean...

Or perhaps this little beauty...

or this....





Tickets still available from dlwp

UNKLE and Heritage Orchestra just released...

Amazing gig just announced...10th July 2010

UNKLE and Heritage Orchestra tickets just released and already selling fast!

If any of you were lucky enough to see UNKLE with Heritage Orchestra at the Union Chapel gig - then you will know that this is an event not to be missed!

NME have just announced it on their site http://www.nme.com/news/unkle/50701 and the tickets are flying out of the door.

To learn more about the gig and purchase tickets - you can do it from our website at http://www.dlwp.com/WhatsOn/TheatrePerformanceDetail.aspx?EventId=1186

CocoRosie tickets have just gone on General Release

CocoRosie has just been announced as yest another headline act for 2010.
Tickets have just gone on General Release so check out http://www.dlwp.com/WhatsOn/TheatrePerformanceDetail.aspx?EventId=1139 for more info or to book.
You can also call the Box Office on 01424 229 111 to purchase over the phone.

This is another unmissable event, so get your tickets before we sell out.

More backstage info to follow...

Not just any weekend, but a Vampire weekend!

And what a monster of a start to the weekend it was, (I am still in recovery now as it was quite a day!). Having only heard Vampire Weekend on CD I thought i had an idea about the way they would sound live however on peeking my head in for sound check i realised that this sound was a lot bigger than the CD suggested and that is the beauty of seeing and act live! There were loud and lively drums, a bouncing bass line to rival the most sub heavy of ska nights! And soaring vocals and synths across the top!It was GREAT!

It was a real pleasure to have the whole crew and band in the building and they seemed excited to be starting off the tour in our venue.

The beauty of working and being at the De La Warr is the atmosphere on the show day, and general public can witness that too, its like the auditorium is murmuring and humming all day as a mere pre cursor to the explosiveness of the evening! And then the magic comes, 6:30pm doors open and in pours the public, and it was great to see so many new faces in the crowed looking around at the auditorium as if they didn't know this place existed before Vampire Weekend. It was a joy to see, even more of a joy was hearing Ezra cry "How you doing Bexhill?" To which there was a massive roar, and i thought good for you Bexhill you be as loud as you like, this definitely no longer the quiet venue of years passed, we are making a noise and will continue to do so!

"Other"

Coming up this season, we also have out new night "Other" thus named as it seeks to showcase the best of the new that is unclassified with regards to genre! We've all been there when someone asks you to define a sound and the difficult response of "Well.....its a little bit folk, a little bit jazz, with a hint of metal and opera..." that does sound like a frightening genre to behold but none the less "Other" seems to fit with us. The idea of the other option or the other alternative, so coming up on this bill we have the Mecury winning Speech Debelle, The Invisible and Micachu and the Shapes, all of whom excel both in and out of their genres. Speech's combination of beats and poetry, the big beats and soulful sounds of the invisible and the audio treats of Micachu. The night itself is a true mash up of different styles, and quite and unlikely trio to grace the same stage in any "Other" (pardon the pun) format. One thing they all have in common is a distinct sound, and a inventive use of their instruments, be that Speeches vocal, The Invisbles beats and breaks and Micachus mix of zither, drum machine, bottles and acoustic instruments in the mix!

More on Random Fridays coming up next!

Happy new year!

We hardly know where to begin, ended last year in a bit of a flurry getting the new onsale so we are ready to run with it in for the new year, and what a year it is going to be, for those of you who have missed out on Vampire weekend tickets sign up to our mailing list or become a member to hear about these things first i can assure you that it will be well worth it for the year we have ahead.

Well running into this year with our arms flailing meant that there was no chance for us to do our end of year review, of which albums and artists we liked the best, so in the spirit of looking forward as opposed to back we have been having a think in the office about who is up to interesting things this year....

I'd say keep and eye out for the following:

• Gold Panda
• King Charles
• Japandroids
• Delphic

there's also lots of albums coming out this year to look forward too, for Arcade Fire. the elusive Beastie Boys album (maybe that will become like the Zach De La Rocha/DJ shadow album that is always floating around however we did finally get the guns and roses album last year!! Weather we liked it or not)...anyway i digress, pavilion favourite Goldfrapp has a new album out in Marc, LCD Soundsystem, Foals(if they dont sack another producer), Sufjan Stevens and the Gorillaz to name a few.

Right more to follow as resolution number one this year is to keep this blog updated!!!

Over and out!