Posts Tagged:festival

Jazzman John

This is Jazzman John. He’s amazing. We bumped into him (literally) at offset festival and started chatting. Turns out he’s a jazz poet. Not knowing much about jazz poetry i was naturally intrigued and he offered to do some especially for us. So here we have a Smack That exclusive. Jazzman John recorded on an…

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Wet Dog at Offset 2009

London three-piece, all girl group, Wet Dog make seriously good raucous punk pop music. With hypnotizing drums, dirty bass at its best and some blatant half jabbered lyrics, this is the perfect recipe for a spiffing sound. Why Wet Dog? Maybe because backwards it says Tew God. Is this a subliminal suggestion that there is…

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Beachdown Cancelled SHOCKER!

Well, looks like the organisers of Beachdown have gone bust. Skanked. Apparently ticket holders will only be able to get a refund of 10% back from their £100 tickets. Double skanked. The line up was pretty atrocious anyway, apart from seeing the Fall, Saint Etienne and the Blockheads who else was there really? There was…

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Loop 2009

Loop Festival 2009 came back to Brighton over the weekend of 11th and 12th July, but unfortunately not in Victoria Gardens as last minute changes were made to the festivals venue due to a typically “British summer” weather forecast. Well, the weatherman was right and Saturday definitely benefited from using indoor venues. The Pavilion Theatre,…

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