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UNDERCOVER FESTIVAL IV Brighton Racecourse 10 September 2016

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So long Smeggy and the House of Cheese.

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Old Brighton punks join forces to make new album

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UNDERCOVER FESTIVAL IV Brighton Racecourse 10 September 2016

The fourth UNDERCOVER FESTIVAL takes place on Fri 9 – Sat 10 Sept 2016, at Brighton Racecourse, Freshfield Road, Brighton, BN2 9XZ The popular alternative music festival returns. Full line-up of bands has been announced. Brighton & Hove’s BN1 Magazine to host a stage others to follow. Tickets are available now, either online, by post or at shops in Brighton (x2), Camden, Guildford, Kingston Upon Thames and Southsea.	Brighton Racecourse will be rocking the sounds of punk, ska, dub, reggae, post-punk, alt, acoustic and plenty more. Weather-proof, fiercely independent and friendly, this popular event draws together the crème of local and national acts, old and new. Although the only festival in Brighton to have onsite camping, every stage at Undercover benefits from being indoors. So even the worst of the British weather won’t affect the party.	The nature of the venue ensures everything is nearby. So no long walks between stages, parking is free (a rare commodity in Brighton), and camping is available literally a short one-minute walk from the festivities. Undercover Festival’s headline acts include The Selecter, Dreadzone, Spear Of Destiny, Sonic Boom Six, Eddie and The Hot Rods, Peter & The Test Tube Babies, plus an exceptional supporting line-up that will thrill any music fan.

FULL LINE UP (may be subject to change) DREADZONE THE SELECTER EDDIE AND THE HOTRODS SPEAR OF DESTINY SONIC BOOM SIX PETER & THE TEST TUBE BABIES 999 CHELSEA SEX PISTOLS EXPERIENCE XSLF (X STIFF LITTLE FINGERS) RDF (RADICAL DANCE FACTION) SPIZZENERGI THE CRAVATS DEPARTMENT S THE JB CONSPIRACY MENACE DRAGSTER 1919 THE TUTS	PIRANHAS FOUR + SPECIAL GUEST CHURCH OF EON PUSSYCAT & THE DIRTY JOHNSONS THE MEOW MEOWS CRIMINAL MIND WITCHDOKTORS TREE HOUSE FIRE LEAD SHOT HAZARD CHARRED HEARTS PINTS RAGE DC XTRAVERTS VIKKI VORTEX & THE CUM SHOTS EMERGENCY BITTER A-M-I SKACIETY MICK O’TOOLE RISKEE AND THE RIDICULE ARMY OF SKANKS PHOENIX CHROI R.E.D KNOCK OFF	SWEET JONNY DEMON SMILES THE FANZINES ARCHIVE 45 THE MARGINAL RAY GUN NO LIP ECHO & THE BEATS ARXX PUNKA 5 GO MAD THE MISTAKES RAT BAG SARAH PINK JON LAMB COMRADE X NEGATIVE MEASURES AIM LOW LITTLE TREASURE ALL STARS PLUTONIAN FIRE BRIGADE PIG CITY ANGELS HARSH TIMES THE DISINCLINED GRYMM (Previously called Dead Weight)

The British Music Archive is a non-profit music and heritage website that features an audio streaming library of commercially unreleased recordings (demos) with associated biographies. It celebrates the less-established bands that define the real story behind the British rock underground.

The website is presently dominated by underground acts from the 1960s that barely made it out of their respective suburbs, but unwittingly contributed so richly to our youth culture and music history and yet sadly, disappeared largely unrecognised.

With your help, we would like to broaden our musical content so that we can portray the underground music scene post 1970. To do this, all we would be asking for is your permission for your music (as featured on punkbrighton) to appear simultaneously on a website that has a similar theme, but with music drawn nationwide.

If you would like to know more about this website, please visit: www.britishmusicarchive.com

Regular punkbrighton contributor and the man who wrote the Attrix Memoirs, Stuart Jones is back on the radio. Sort of. He's put together a webpage of podcasts which you can play or download, one-hour programmes stuffed with the head-spinning variety of music normally found on his very popular Mr.Obscure webpage.

There are rarities, archive treasures, original demo recordings of famous stuff, bizarre comedy items and much more.

The new page is called Radio Obscure and you can get to it here.

punkbrighton is an online museum created and maintained by it's creator and curator, punkdaddy. I started off with a tatty old box file supplied to me by one Rick Blair, an amiable fellow, a man of integrity and a personal friend. That was in February 1999. I asked Rick if he could let me have any old photos and press cuttings from his days as creator and boss of Attrix Records, Brighton's first truly independent record company, set up in 1977, and as ever, he was obliging.

Rick offered to write the first article for the spawning punkbrighton site and I was about to lend him my old Olivetti typewriter when he died suddenly in May 1999. It was such a blow to everyone who knew him, but it made me all the more determined to get all his Attrix Records stuff online so that it wouldn't die with him. Over the years, site visitors have supplied hundreds of additional photos, press cuttings, mp3's and their own recollections to help make the site what it is today.

Launched in January 2000, punkbrighton was pretty soon nominated for a Yahoo Web Award, which was a bit of a surprise, because although the site functioned properly and had quite a bit of content, I thought the layout was shite. I've tried to improve it over time but it wasn't until ten years later, in 2010, that I finally felt able to let rip with some artistic input.

I hope punkbrighton does justice to all the bands and everyone else who was involved in the mighty upheaval that kicked off with the advent of punk. if you've got stuff, send it in.
Ta!

Punkdaddy

DICK DAMAGE RIP
- tributes still coming in

It was in January 2011 we announced the death of DD but tributes are still coming in. See Read Our Mail or go directly to the Dick Damage page

Vaultage 78 | Vaultage 79 | Vaultage 80
the gold standard of Brighton punk

punkbrighton Jukebox mp3s from 35 bands

Ammonites Rehearsal - 15 tracks

Birds With Ears Youth In Asia entire LP

Dick Damage & punkdaddy - TSDS

Joe Cool & the Killers - 3 tracks

Messthetics #108 - 24 tracks, 10 mp3's and a video

Midnight & the Lemon Boys (JSD) - 8 tracks

Molesters Peel Sessions 1 & 2 - 7 tracks

Nicky & the Dots Peel Session - 4 tracks

The Numbers EP - 5 tracks

Piranhas Peel sessions 1, 2 & 3 - 12 tracks

Jamie Barnard Special Patrol - 2 tracks

Stuart Jones check out his many blogs
tons of music freebies +

Stu's post-punk compilation: - free mp3's

Visit the last archived page:
punkbrighton Alldayer Archive

Check out the Archives to find all the old front pages right back to Year 2000

More free downloads

A couple of excellent CD's are available from this website. Pay by credit or debit card or through secure PayPal gateway.

The Parrots/VolSec
PARSEC • 19 tracks

ON SALE NOW
PARSEC
Parrots VolSec CD

The Dodgems Anthology
1978-1980 • 17 tracks

ON SALE NOW
Dodgems Anthology CD 1978-80

MORE FREE DOWNLOADS

The Attrix Calender 1981
by David Roughton
PunkBrighton CD sleeve
Print your own
Watch punkdaddy's interview with the BBC
or listen to my music, if you can be arsed

Read our Archives to see how the site has evolved since it's launch in Y2K

Coming eventually...
Look out for Situation Butane No.2, featuring the second part of Joe Strummer's interview with Stuart Jones. In the meantime, have a read of Situation Butane No.1

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This site is dedicated to the memory of Rick Blair
The Punk History of Brighton © punkdaddy 2000-2016
All Rights Reserved

The Punk History of Brighton Acknowledgements
Rick & Julie Blair, Stuart Jones, Suzy Horne, Dave Barnard, Ken Hogg, Barb Wilson, James Byford, Mark Walling, Mike Dunford, Robin Banks, Terry Newbery,
Rod Johnson, ComputerBox, Jay Derrick, Mick Perrin, Alan St.Paul, Paul Bonham, Paul Kaczmarek, Paul Martin, Alex Ogg, David Roughton, David Peacock, Dick & Mary Chapman,
John Pender, Simon Woolven, John Betteridge, Bexhill News, Brighton & Hove Gazette, The Leader, The Argus, Sounds, NME, Surrey Daily Advertiser, Daily Mirror

PunkBrighton documentary at the Komedia 2pm Sat 28 November 2015

To watch a short trailer, click here

THIS IS PUNK BRIGHTON is a 25 minute short by Kev Wright and Tug Phipps that unveils a unique chapter in Brighton’s musical history.

The film features some of the scene’s key players and bands, among them Peter & The Test Tube Babies, The Piranhas, The Depressions, The Dodgems, The Lillettes, The Mockingbirds, Jonnie & The Lubes and Attila The Stockbroker.

They discuss everything from rocking against racism and clashing with Teddy Boys to the underground Vault, a 19th century burial crypt turned gig venue and rehearsal rooms.

It also touches on the late Rick Blair's Attrix Records, Brighton's answer to Rough Trade, who released three independent albums: Vaultage 78, 79 and 80.

• Kev Wright is a young independent filmmaker who hopes to extend the documentary in the near future. He has put his own money into the project so far, much like the punk bands the film represents. He deserves a lot of credit.

Related links:
PunkBrighton Alldayer

punkdaddy, November 2015