Barfly

Alex Turner’s conspirator-in-chief gets on with his day job.
THE RASCALS + THE SUZUKIS
+14s Under 18s to be accompanied
Audio, 10 Marine Parade, Brighton TEL: 01273 606906
Tickets: £7.50 adv. / £8.50 on the door. Available from Rounder Records:
01273 325440 / Resident: 01273 606312 / Ticketweb: www.ticketweb.co.uk
It was whilst on tour with The Artic Monkeys as The Little Flames that
these three lads from The Wirral split from the other Flames and formed
The Rascals (More recently singer Miles Kane joined up with Alex Turner
to form The Last Shadow Puppets- the next super group me thinks). Since
then they have taken their beautiful pop melodies and psychedelic quirk,
all underpinned by a compelling dark soul, to larger and larger stages.
Heavily backed by the NME these scousers have a natural catchiness about
their sound that most of the rest of the contents of Britain’s
“favourite” music rag would barter all their skinny jeans for.
“Guitars thunder along with the urgency of The Coral, sewn to the
dead-eyed post-mortem pop of Sons And Daughters.” NME
www.myspace.com/rascalmusic
www.therascals.co.uk

NERVOUS TWITCH HAS A NEW HOME IN BRIGHTON!!!

DJ Cassie O and Dj Pookie (Shibby Shabblers) playing Indie, Electropop, and Trash Disco.

Including CSS, Friendly Fires, The Sounds, Datarock, Yelle, Uffie, LCD Soundsystem, MIA, MSTRKRFT, Chemical Brothers, The Whip, Daft Punk, Peaches, Crystal Castles, to name just a few.........

Carlsberg Bottles £1.50

SHOTS FROM £1

Pints from £2.60

House spirit and Mixer £2.40

**PNAU LIVE** 

Very rarely has any sort of emerging band received the acclaim and privilege awarded to Pnau over the past years. It's like they passed straight through the pages of the book on how things were meant to be done, and their ascent has been astounding.

Pnau's success has been as deserved as it has been anomalous, and the band members themselves as curious as they are talented. Pete Mayes and Nick Littlemore, the Enfants Terrible of the Australian Music industry, have won the respect of their peers and the loyalty of their fans by consistently producing simple, intelligent hooks, fat sounds, and awesome imagery. Their long awaited third album 'PNAU' is an admission of sorts; Music is bigger than any one person and connected to absolutely everything.

'PNAU' is a sagacious offering; the act has mastered the art of reminiscence and innovation, abducting current trends to shear the way forward with this positive and futuristic, hybrid beast of a recording. There's a clarity and awareness in the sounds and songwriting throughout. It's bare and celebratory and in the buoyant key of Hell Yeah, if it had hands it would slap you on the ass. The spontaneous moments are void of flippancy and the heavy moments are uplifting. There is real knowledge at work here, real skill, no bluff, no laconic bravado or dark humours. Maturity and sophistication are two words that will be bandied around for this work, but honesty and acknowledgment seem closer to the mark for an album that is poised to become a landmark recording.

Their innate understanding of the entire package of artistic expression is what earned them Australia's top music gong in 1999, an Aria Award, in the electronic category for their debut release 'Sambanova'; an album that wasn't even properly cleared but looked and sounded fantastic. It was a rebellious fluke from accidental shit stirrers that was released in 4 different versions and confused the nuts off everyone. It suited the band to a T and kick starting their rock 'n' droll lifestyle, touring with every major festival in Australia.