#Brighton surrealism

[strangebookseye]

The Path To Strange Books: Spoken Word Adventures In Legendary Brighton Arts Venues Part 2

In 2005 I became resident storyteller at the Alternative Folk Nights in Brighton’s Duke of York Picturehouse cinema, where unsuspecting cinema goers were treated to my surreal monologues and stories. These evenings took place in the bar and were organised by Felicity Beckett who often provided music. Here she is… Flick also made the cool and cute flyers. Here are a few of them: I remember…

[melaelettrica]

Sparkstember 2024, day 21 - Exotic Creatures of the Deep. 'Exotic Creatures of the Deep,' digital collage.

This is strictly speaking a repost, as Nia and myself ended up using it to advertise our last Sparks watch party on A Steady Click Click Click.

Since, however, it was originally conceived for Sparkstember, I will shamelessly share it again. And after all, nothing could be more exotic than our heroes standing on Brighton pier in their swimwear. 😂

[starpros-sunshine]

We're so not gonna survive Fine's climax event??? The boys are on a family vacation????

They are,,,,,,,

[garciapimienta]

JULIO GOLAZOOOOOOO

[mickyschumacher]

[ICE CREAM CAKE!]

𝐒𝐔𝐌𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐘: you and lando have a pretty healthy relationship; communication is a breeze between the two of you. and while that seems good, it doesn't help lando is horny 24/7. even the beach isn't safe from him.

𝐖𝐀𝐑𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐒: 18+ (minors dni), established relationship, some fluff, blowjob, slight handjob, breastplay, poor humour LMAO aka old creepy mens' dicks, no time concept lol, basically lando time!

𝐏𝐀𝐈𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐆: bf!lando norris x fem!reader

𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐃 𝐂𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐓: 3k+

𝐀/𝐍: now playing: ice cream cake – red velvet! OKAY YES IK I HAVE REQUESTS BUT I HAD WRITER'S BLOCK TILL THIS OKAY? is it not obvious by the word count? 😭 alexa, play 'easy on me' by adele :( also new banners after i messed around one day! ♡︎ // proof-read-ish!

𝐌𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐓

You had met Lando two years ago purely on accident. You were at a coffee shop in Brighton, he was visiting a friend there. You ordered a hot chocolate and he had ordered a long black. Somehow the both of you had swapped cups and were wincing at how sweet or bitter the drink was.

Lando had turned his cup around to see who the cup belonged to. Upon seeing your name, unlike a normal person who would ask the barista for another cup or a refund, he had shouted your name across the room.

Lucky for you, you were the only other customer there since it was a slow day. Nevertheless, you looked up in shock. Who yelled out your name? Why? How did they know your name?

You actually purposely avoided eye-contact with his table just in case he was some weird guy. But Lando got your attention after telling you from across that room that you had some sweet taste in drinks.

You raised a brow. Was this some sort of new catcall you didn't know about? But then you had caught the barista's handwriting on 'your' cup. Lando, Long Black.

You scrunched your nose at the cup and looked at him. "You're quite bitter."

It was at that point when Lando had got a clear shot of your face and found his heart racing faster than normal. You were pretty, no gorgeous, no beautiful, no... surreal. Your face was contorted into a grimaced expression at his order which he found amusing. You looked like, what he still claims to this day, part of the shop's couch. The couch was brown and you were wearing a brown sweater.

Honestly, Lando couldn't find the whole situation anymore endearing. So with whatever confidence he had leftover, he walked up to your table and smoothly asked, "Can I get you a sweeter one with my number?"

Now this was when you first had probably got a look of Lando. He had a certain... boyish charm, if you will. The wide grin, sparkling blue eyes, face dotted with the odd freckle or beauty mark. To say he was attractive was an understatement. He looked like one of the main characters in the rom-coms you would binge when you needed a pick me-up.

You said yes. Obviously.

And here you were, two years later. At the beach with Lando, Charles, Carlos, Daniel, and their partners. You were all caught up with F1, always available for Lando. Your perspective of him had changed quite a lot since you had met him. In a good way, of course.

You initially saw him how a lot most of his fans and the media see him. A comedian by day and a moodmaker by night. Always smiling and cheery. Positive and optimistic. But the reality was that Lando struggled with the mental and physical aspects of F1. He didn't always have the confidence and he was stressed and depressed.

But as Lando always said in his interviews, he had found you.

'The best thing that had ever happened to him,' according to Lando himself.

Anyone could see that the two of you loved each other with your entire beings. Neither of you left any stone unturned in your relationship. Most people were jealous of your relationship. The drivers, the media, and especially the fans.

And you wouldn't have it any other way.

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One thing about Lando that you had learned quite soon after your first time together was that Lando was insatiable. He was sex-driven, horny, full of lust, aroused... all the words in the dictionary for a man like this... 24/7.

One day, you asked him why. Lando only responded with pulling you closer to him, leaving a trail of kisses from your jaw and down to your neck, and saying "You."

You wouldn't say anything did it for him. No in fact, it was specific things that he couldn't take his mind off once he thought about it.

Take right now for example.

Carlos had decided to treat everyone to ice creams, ice lollies, and juice on your trip to the beach in Playa de Bolonia. Innocently and naively, you had chosen the pink ice lolly out the chilly bin. Lando had also not thought anything of it.

Rather Lando had being eyeing you with every spare glance as you were wearing his favourite bikini, the one he had bought you for Christmas as a prank gift in the nice British winter thinking it had been the funniest thing ever. Obviously, he thought you were going to were it but another thing you had learned was that Lando's humour quite often was unmatched and spontaneous.

The bikini itself was simple. An orange, of course, two-piece. The top was held up by two moderately thin straps and hugged your breasts quite nicely. The bikini bottom was as normal as it could get, clinging to your hips. On top of it, you wore a white thin-laced cotton coverup, loosely tied together.

You would say it was an average beach look. Lando would disagree. It was as if God himself had carved you and decided to put you on Earth as reparations for the bad in the world.

But back to the point.

As mentioned, Lando hadn't really thought of the ice lolly. He was too busy trying to get Daniel back with a water gun. Like you said, boyish. It wasn't until he had finally got him back and decided to go sit down with you and grab himself some ice cream.

But when Lando sat down and looked at you, his mind had suddenly turned into shambles. There you were. Under the shade, peaks of sun shining on your skin, holding that pink ice lolly to your mouth.

Lando wasn't quite sure what was worse. The faint pink colour similar to his cock or the way your tongue travelled down the length of it to collect the melting sugary liquid. Or how your lips pressed up on the tip of the ice and pressed down to take an inch more of it into your mouth as if it was his own cock.

To make matters even worse for him, you had failed to capture some of the melting droplets. Lando keenly watched as they fell to your bare part of your chest and even had landed right where he knew your nipple was. His eyes widened ever so slightly and his breath paced when you frowned at the event and used your finger to wipe the sweet liquid off your skin and into your mouth. Some of it had gone too far down, probably pooling near your breasts like he imagined.

What sent him overboard? When you had spotted the stain on your bikini top over your nipple and attempted to rub it away, only making the stain worse and a small bump for your pebbled nipple.

Lando gulped nervously, pants incredibly tight. He closed his eyes and held his hands over his newly-formed hard on, wishing that his mind wasn't full of everything he had just seen. Your lips... your breasts... the way your eyes looked down at the popsicle... if only that was his cock....

"Lando? Dude, do you need to go to the bathroom?" Pierre's voice cut through the air.

Lando snapped his eyes opened and your eyes looked over to your boyfriend.

"W-What?" The British male queried with slight panic. He was not getting caught with a hard-on in front of his friends... there was no way in Earth...

Pierre raised a brow, gesturing to his pants. "You're ice cream is all melted. You need to take your eyes off Y/N at least sometimes, Lando, otherwise you'll never finish... your ice cream, that is," He teased.

You looked down at Lando's pants where his hands laid, covered in the white vanilla ice cream-turned liquid. You and everyone let out an amused laugh at Pierre's joke, shaking your head.

You stood up from the sandy grass you were sat on, dusting yourself off. You extended your hand to Lando, "Come on. I bought extra stuff in the car. Honestly, I thought you were going to lose your trunks by Daniel pantsing you in the water but I guess not."

A howl of laughter came from Charles and Carlos while Daniel cursed himself for not doing it.

Lando blinked, pulling the finger at his fellow drivers. He sighed, grabbing your hand and awkwardly standing up from the area, managing to cover up his bulge swiftly.

The two of you headed to the car as Lando briefly threw out the sticky wrapper and stick into a bin nearby. You opened the boot of the car, grabbing his trunks. "Jesus, could it get any hotter today?" You asked, closing the back door.

"It really couldn't," Lando mused, walking hand-in-hand with you, making you release a groan.

"Lando... now my hand's all sticky, you idiot," You complained, trying to pull apart from his hand.

Lando rolled his eyes, arriving to the empty males changing room. He was about to enter when he saw you stand outside and not follow him. "What are you doing? Come in."

You narrowed your eyes. "It's a male changing room. I'm not going in. What if there's some old man trying to change? I do not need to be scarred for life. My DMs is enough, thanks."

"First of all, there's no one here," Lando stated before shouting a loud 'Hello' into the room, making you redden with embarassment. "See? Secondly, I'm sorry, let me get this straight, your DMs are full of old men's dicks?" Lando looked at you incredulously.

You grinned, shrugging. "It's called being a woman, Lando. You wouldn't get it."

Lando rolled his eyes once again, grabbing you by the arm and dragging you into the changing room.

The room was the opposite of most changing rooms. It was tiled well, clean and fresh as opposed to musty, damp and with paint-chipped walls. There were also no leaky taps or showers or even any graffiti. It was slightly comforting to know that at least people respected some of their public rooms, even in Madrid.

"Wait, also, what if I get old? You don't want to see my shrivelled dick? It should turn you on!" Lando asked with a dramatic gasp.

You looked at your boyfriend through the mirror with a dumfounded expression. Turning, you threw his trunks at his face. "Go change," You laughed, shaking your head.

Lando grinned underneath the trunks as you turned the tap on to wash your sugar-coated hands.

Lando had removed his trunks, left naked with his hard, reddened cock slapping against his stomach, and was about to put on the new ones when a thought passed his mind.

You paused your hand-washing and froze when you felt Lando's arms wrap around your stomach, pulling you close to his bare body. "Lando," You yelped, feeling a shiver cross your body, "What are you doing?"

Lando peered down at you through his thick eyelashes. He tucked his chin into your shoulder, placing a brief kiss. "What?" He asked innocently, "I'm just washing my hands. I can't get the new ones dirty either."

You watched through the mirror as he pressed his body into you, washing his hands under the tap, ridding the tackiness on his hands.

You sucked in a sharp breath, feeling his cock push into your backside. It was bare, you realised, as the heat spread into you. Your eyes flickered to Lando through the mirror, squinting at him. He wasn't...

Lando caught your eyes staring hard at him. "Don't look at me like that," He whispered into your ear, a loose grin hanging on his face. His wet fingers travelled to the poorly tied lace coverup you wore, undoing the knot with ease. The coverup fell against your shoulders, revealing your bikini and body in all it's glory.

"You have to clean up as well," Lando shrugged, eyes fixated on you through the mirror. "You made a mess," He murmured, wetting his fingers with the water once more before placing it against your chest.

You pressed your lips tightly, feeling his fingers drive down your skin and underneath your bikini top. Lando's fingers brushed your hardened nipples, making you shudder under his touch. His fingers trailed across your breasts, wiping away any of that sticky residue that you had missed. Bringing his fingers to his mouth and taking a wide lick of them, Lando grinned at you. "You know... I can't stop picturing you sucking my dick like that ice lolly. Never thought I would be jealous of an ice lolly."

You couldn't help but smile in amusement. You pulled away from his hold and turned to face your boyfriend. "Yeah?" You hummed, hands trailing down his chest. Lando had been working out a lot more these days for F1; compared to before his abs had become more prominent and toned. You loved Lando no matter what he looked like, but there was something about the way his skin flushed when you touched his torso.

Lando's breath hitched as your hand had ever so naturally found it's way to his cock. His cock, if you could say it, was pretty. It was average in length and with a nice, filling girth, stretching all of your holes wide.

Your fingers brushed across the tip of his head, just grazing his slit. You could feel Lando jolt in your hands as he muttered, “Fuck.”

You opened your mouth, letting a drop of saliva full into his cock. Hand wrapped around it, you gently rubbed natural lube up and down his shaft. Lando’s jaw clenched at the warm liquid nestling around his cock, letting a sharp exhale through gritted teeth.

Slowly you sunk down to your knees. The tiled floor was cold against your burning skin but it didn’t matter: you were too focused on what was right in front of you; cockdrunk. Your tongue darted out to swipe your lips before pressing a light kiss to his cock. Lando could feel himself twitch, aching to be in your mouth.

He watched as your lips opened like they did on that ice lolly. Going down in his cock, your lips stretched and your mouth hollowed.

Lando groaned at the warmth surrounding his cock. He bit down on his lip, watching his cock disappear into your mouth. Your eyes were on him as you sucked him, teeth barely grazing his skin.

"Fuck, you look so pretty like this, Y/N," Lando sighed out, "On your knees for me. I can't imagine the mess you made between those legs of yours, hmm?"

You moaned in response, sending a vibration around his cock. You briefly pulled away from him, making Lando grunt in slight annoyance at the loss. "These lips, my pussy.... all yours," You winked at him before returning to his cock.

Lando tensed at your words, letting a grin overtake him. "Yeah? Let's see about that throat, baby?" His hands reached your half dry and half damp, salty hair. Wrapping those long tresses around his hand and wrist, he tightened his grip. He could feel you open up your throat as he guided his cock down the tighter tunnel.

Lando's rasping groan made you clench your thighs, holding a barrier to the wetness leaking at of you. You could feel him begin to move his hips, beginning to push his cock into your throat.

Fighting the urge to gag around his cock, you tried hard to relax your cheeks and mouth, allowing every inch of him to be seated in your throat.

He flickered his eyes to you. Watching you take him in his mouth was a pleasure of its own. Your big eyes were glassy with tears of arousal and a haze of lust, sweat and saliva lingered at every edge of your skin, and your lips were puffy and red. Trailing his eyes further down, he spotted your bare neck in dire need of kisses, but that wasn't the most striking thing about it. It was the slight bulge of his cock in your throat making it's presence known.

Jesus...

Lando instinctively closed his eyes upon feeling your hands touch his balls. You rubbed them gently, feeling your head bob at an increased rate to match the sudden pace of Lando's cock in your throat.

"Fuck, fuck... I..." Lando moaned. "I'm gonna cum!" Lando hissed out, feeling a familiar bubbling feeling overcome. His thrusts become harder and faster, your nose flushed with his skin.

His moans became irregular and higher, chasing his release. "Fuck...." A guttural groan fell from his lips. Hot, salty white strips of his cum coated the inside of your mouth, swirling around after each drop was sucked from your lips. Almost painfully, Lando removed himself from your mouth. His chest rose up and down as he breathed out heavily.

An admiring smile came from Lando while he pulled you up to meet his face. He pushed your sweaty hair back. "That mouth of yours is evil," He narrowed his eyes playfully.

"You should shut me up then," You quipped back, sticking out your tongue that still had his cum on it.

Lando's eyes sparkled with amusement before he brought his lips to yours, darting his tongue into your mouth. The urgency in the action was understated. God, he could taste himself in you. His hands encapsulated your waist, flushing your barely clothed body to close his naked one. Your own hands travelled everywhere across his chest as the two of you kissed each other.

The muffled moans from you made Lando want to hear them out loud. Slowly he moved from your lips to your jaw. "Let me hear you, baby," He breathed out, placing smaller kisses as he reached your neck.

You let out a small whimper, neck tilting so Lando could get more access. Lando grinned at the sight of your bare neck, leaving small little nibbles across your skin. His lips eventually became settled in an area between your ear and collarbone, beginning to suck at your warmth.

"Lando," You moaned, "No, the others will realise."

Your refutes were ill-attempted even for yourself. You were dazed at the suction of his lips. His nose buried into your neck while he created a fresh layer of purple against your sun-kissed skin.

Lando released himself from your neck, eyeing down his creation with a smirk. "There. If they couldn't tell from your hair, they'll definitely know now."

You narrowed your eyes, turning to the mirror only for your eyes to widen in shock. "Jesus fucking Christ, Lando," You peered at the big purple brown splotch on your skin. "As if the 20 minutes we've spent here wasn't enough," You whined.

Lando laughed softly, standing behind you with his arms around your waist and chin resting on your head. "Well... if you make it through the shame, I can't wait to properly fuck you when we get home. You must know how much I love the way you look when I’m inside you."

Your head fell against his chest with a pout. "Why not now?"

Lando grinned before pressing a kiss to your head "Like you said... it's been 20 minutes."

© 𝐌𝐈𝐂𝐊𝐘𝐒𝐂𝐇𝐔𝐌𝐀𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐑

[zeondraws]

Fellas, year is almost overrrr and it feels kinda surreal what I went through to reach this point.

I may feel nauseous rn but...! Today was a good day, my friends family and other relatives of her came today. I showed them my budgie too, he may be getting blind but people were able to hold him on their hands.

I haven't felt such joy in a while, I don't know how to put it. I remember the first years when I stayed at my friend's place around Christmas or so. It was fun but I was still dealing with other stuff that stressed me out. Especially last december was extremely stressful for me.. I mentioned it in another post? I think?

I unpacked some presents I got today. There was one special present in it, where I still can't believe of owning it.

!!! SWTD themed Christmas Jumper! Like?? Wow!! Still bewildered that one got sent to me, I mean this game is so much fun and I'm so darn obsessed analysing every detail of it whenever I can.

I literally played through it again on my PlayStation, I usually don't play such games multiple times but this one? It just hit me the moment I saw a Let's play of it. The first one I saw was from IGP, I really enjoyed him playing it, even tho Rennick JUMPSCARED me the first time I saw that scene.

First few times playing this game I got nightmares from Gibbo or my heart was racing while I ran away from Rennick. I don't know why, Gibbo's sentences haunted me so much. The pain in his voice was unbearable. (Same with O'Conner)

Trots still gives me the creeps, like he just has that aura on him. However, jumping over Trots is also very funny. And Muir's level I can now play in my sleep. I think 1/3 of my hours shown on steam is just me messing with Muir. It's currently at 154 hours played.

And Roper... my beloved *shakes my fists* poor wee man. He did nothing wrooonggggg. Sobs loudly. Foaming at the mouth and hoping there is more lore of him in the artbook. The wait will soon be over. I'm so excited.

But... I just wanna say thank you again to the devs and publishers for this awesome game. It very much helped me be able to get through the day for months. Considering it came out when I was still in a bad work environment, constantly getting bullied. I kept rewatching Playthroughs to stay calm.

I think I related to Caz a lot too, even if everything was basically falling apart around him, he kept going. Ofc he sadly couldn't get a happy ending in the end. But I just try to remember to keep going. Even if I needed to endure my old job for a bit longer, until my new job started.

It bring me so much joy being able to learn more about the gaming industry and the programs used to make such games. And ofc datamining the game and looking at every little detail. May it be the smallest thing such as a file called "CazYeet" or finding an entire unused level that was scrapped. Or even Muir's hit by prop sounds! My eyes WIDENED when I heard them.

I sometimes check artstation on multiple occasions, just to see if something new popped up. And whenever it does, I do a little mental happy dance.

(Petition to make an april fools update where the hit by prop sounds are enabled/JOKE)

Maybe one day I can finally switch over to the entertainment industry, but I need to teach myself so much first. I still wanna go to art school so badlyyyyy. I can already see I won't feel ready enough until I'm 30 or so. Although I'm going to be 23 in 2 days- I still have to practice so many skillsets ajshajsjaksnaksnksks *explodes* but I shall avoid spiralling in my thoughts.

I think I appreciate games so much more now, I still want to try out a bunch of them. But I firstly have to work on some swtd related projects. I'm definitely planning on making a big analysis video next year, which sounds terrifying, I need to practice talking in recordings first. ;a; But I can't forget to visit events too, I need to try out so much stuff;;;;

Okay before I ramble on endlessly... Just, from the bottom of my heart, thank you.

@thechineseroom-brighton @wearesecretmode

I hope it's okay if I tag, I know I talk like a river at times, but since I'm a very emotional human being I usually like sharing my thoughts.

I wish the the fandom and devs a Merry Christmas and a great start to the New Year. May everyone heal from past wounds and form new positive memories.

Have this drawing of my OC Kirsten holding bird Roper in his arms.

[pseudophan]

soooo how many times have you seen them irl then

simultaneously so excited to answer this yet aware it makes me sound extremely annoying i'm sorry i will be checking my phannie privilege

uhh both of them nine times, just dan five, just phil once. or both ten and just dan four if you count seeing phil in the audience at london wad lmao

full list in chronological order: summer in the city 2015 (when they got their silver play button for danandphilcrafts lmfao), dapgoose london (you can see me in the recording in like the upper corner of the audience looking so bored, i swear i was actually having the time of my life), the boncas (i definitely never mention this one..), interactive introverts brighton, milton keynes, london and manchester (anyone remember when i sat right next to phil's mum throughout all of ii manchester what the fuck was that about), dan at london pride 2019 (surreal experience), phil at that random dog show/convention he attended (i told him i'd just dropped out of uni and he said aw thats great and then almost walked directly into me later as i was minding my business having no idea he was there), we're all doomed london and oslo and then both of the extra london wad shows he did back in february for the recording and lastly terrible influence antwerp and oslo

i also narrowly avoided them at a muse concert once when it turned out they'd been sitting in our section or the section right next to ours the entire time and we had no idea, though the worst almost encounter was pj's space trip tour (amazing show btw) because that room was SO SMALL and while dnp arrived after it started and left before it ended to avoid being spotted the knowledge that they were sat so ridiculously close to us the entire show haunts me to this day

[0nelittlebirdtoldme]

Acquired this beauty in Brighton. It is vampiric, monstrous, erotic, surreal, gorey and beautiful. Huge "Jonathan's stay on castle Drac" vibes but with a twist - and some strange and blood-hungry beasts...

[tornrose24]

After finishing rewatching all of The Ghost and Molly Mcgee, these are my thoughts.

I think this is the one time in who knows how many years I’ve been invested in something that came from Disney. I haven’t seen this kind of passion project in a long time and sadly I don’t know if I’ll ever see that magic again for awhile, considering how Disney itself has suffered with many poor choices.

As for the show, a lot hits different when you know how it ends. Certain moments become a lot more meaningful with that knowledge.

I’d say first season was the better of the two. There was far more at stake and the story was building up to its climax in numerous ways compared to season two. The threat of The Chairman and the discovering of the duo’s friendship is very much felt in more episodes compared to Jinx.

Scratch’s character development is really noticeable in season 1, but in a way Molly’s is as well, given how one learns to open up and learn kindness and optimism while the other also needs to learn to open up in other ways, as well as grow into the wise, yet still optimistic teenager she becomes at the end of the show.

Season two… the stakes aren’t as great here. As stated by others, the Chens are overall not given much as a threat for season 2, and Jinx is used too sparingly so the penultimate season does feel a bit rushed. I honestly would have taken out some episodes from this season and replaced them with ones that could have addressed this, especially had the creators known they’d only get two seasons. Though of course they did not when starting out and it’s surreal to think that–had things gone right–we’d be waiting for season 3 right now.

However, I’m still sticking to my initial thoughts regarding ‘The End.’ I still don’t think it was necessary for Scratch to forget Molly.

The first problem is that this plot point is already one a lot of us are familiar with (I’ve seen it quite a lot in my case). Doctor Who used it (before it got changed), Spiderman No Way Home used it to a painful extreme, and Gravity Falls temporarily used it in its own finale. There’s a novel called ‘Just like Heaven’ that is a more romantic version of TGAMM, and it ended with memory loss as well (though the movie has a happier ending). I feel sad, but I also feel angry, which leads to my second problem.

Molly and Scratch’s friendship is the heart of this show. We were entertained and moved by it, as well as how far they would go for each other. So when Scratch forgets, we feel Molly’s pain as observers to her and Scratch’s story. We want Scratch to live his life as a human, and we wanted him to go out and see the world, but he should NOT have had to forget Molly in exchange. I know we always have to say goodbye and that there are some people who were special to us that we might/will never see again, but dear lord, being forgotten is a certain type of pain that hurts even worse. 

Rewatching/remembering certain scenes is now more painful, knowing now that Scratch will forget them. Him saying that he’d hate to forget Molly was too cruel. When I was getting cloer to revisiting ‘The End’ I was feeling reluctance to continue on, and not just because I was almost done with the re-watching. When Scratch merged back with his body and the screen turned to white, I had to fight the urge to shut the episode down and pretend things went differently. That’s how much it hurts when it’s not just a casual viewing. I know these characters ultimately belong to someone else, but I wouldn’t want to put them through that kind of suffering.

Had I been in charge of the show, but kept the idea of ‘taking risks is what makes if worth living,’ I would have used one of two different endings. One where its the same, but Scratch remembers Molly. The other would have been a time skip, when Scratch returned to Brighton with Adia and he reunited with Molly who is a little older but is still the girl he knew.

But… I do appreciate the small ray of hope that was given. That Scratch’s behavior as a human and certain use of words–as well as calling Molly by name despite supposedly never hearing it before-fuels a lot of hope that one day Scratch will remember and he will reunite with Molly one day. That even a few writers proposed a reunion story where Molly hugging Scratch would trigger his memories to come back gives me hope that there's still a possibility in that story. (If anyone tells me I'm stupid to be thinking those things, please don't because I care about those characters THAT much.)

Until then, we have aus, what ifs, and fan fics to fix that.

So… I don’t know when I’ll rewatch the whole show again, given the emotional toll. I’ll still revisit some episodes and scenes. But I’m grateful that Disney allowed this show to exist–it deserved more love and attention. If this had to be the very last good thing to ever come out of Disney, I’ll take it.

[tgammsideblog]

Tgamm July episode synoses!

Saturday,July 8

“All Shark No Bite” – With Mom and Dad out of the house, Molly, Darryl and Scratch watch a scary movie.

“Nin-dependence” – When Grandma Nin is no longer able to live on her own, Molly and Sharon take care of her.

Saturday-July 15

“Like Father Like Libby” – Libby and her mom go on a road trip to visit her dad, who she hasn’t seen in years.

“Dance Dad Revolution” – Pete uses social media to bring attention to important issues but gets swept up in internet fame.

Saturday, July 22

“Jinx!”– When Jinx jinxes Scratch, he and Molly must find a way to undo it. *Media personality and actress Liza Koshy returns as Jinx.

“Let’s Play Turnipball!” – Molly vows to score Brighton’s first win against Perfektborg.

Saturday, July 29

 “The Ghost IS Molly McGee” – Molly and Scratch agree to a body swap when they are forced to deal with their own discomfort with feelings.

“All in the Mind” – When Scratch breaks out in a bad case of bubbles, he and Molly take a surreal journey into his mind to find a cure

Source: https://www.dgepress.com/disneybrandedtelevision/pressrelease/july-2023-programming-highlights/

[coelestiuminfernum]

rewrite my understanding of faith - sebaciel fanfiction

28k words | WIP | Rated E

Ciel and Sebastian’s imagined trip to Brighton wherein they disguise themselves as newlyweds. Fake relationship plot with resolved sexual tension and cross-dressing.

“The room is silent. Ciel focuses on the glow of the candle as Sebastian slips the main dress off his shoulders and lets it drop unceremoniously onto the ground. He feels a slight chill in the room as he digs his fingers underneath the petticoat and grazes past the dip in his hips.

Ciel fights the urge to gasp. The devil was fucking with him.

The cotton petticoat meets the floor, along with the crumpled up dress. Despite the fact that Sebastian has bathed and undressed him every day for nearly four years now, Ciel feels strangely vulnerable to be standing here in nothing but ladies undergarments. It feels surreal—just the two of them, in this honeymoon suite. He curses himself for letting his head go there, wishing, wanting almost for it to be real.”

[denverneumann]

The dry tears that stained Denver's face itched. The bloodbath had been brutal. The cameras now followed a District One girl, Brighton, as she ran through the tunnels in search of her husband. Wrong way, she thought. That's a dead end. It was surreal - Denver knew every inch of the Arena intimately. She'd been in those tunnels. She'd made that exact incorrect turn. Brighton began to circle back and the screen switched to another tribute, in the corridors before you got to the turnstyles, now absent of the glass cases of artifacts. Denver wondered if they'd been destroyed, or if they'd been stored in the museum so short a walk away from all of this death.

To think, to her it had once meant glory. It had once meant honor. A unifying respect for the history of Panem. The singular most important part of their culture. How wrong she'd been.

Darkness was falling in the Arena, just as it was in the windows around Denver. In what was standard for the winter in the Capitol, it was only mid-afternoon now, even if it felt like an entire day had passed since the launch. The tributes were getting the same sunset, and presumably the same sunrise. The tributes were right down the street. And with their uniforms, it may as well be the distance between base camp and the front lines in Seven. Once again, surreal.

Denver stood to refill her glass - it was water, because she didn't think she could handle anything stronger right now, but stopped when she saw the figure standing in the doorway. Monty. Denver smiled, her shoulders relaxing and her breath calming. It was Monty.

"Hell of a thing, isn't it, this Arena?" she asked him.

@montgomery-cannon

[sinceileftyoublog]

Porridge Radio Album Review: Clouds In The Sky They Will Always Be There For Me

(Secretly Canadian)

BY JORDAN MAINZER

Dana Margolin has come out the other side of exhausting touring, a breakup, and a debilitating sense of "What now?" with Porridge Radio's best record yet. For the Brighton quartet's fourth studio album Clouds In The Sky They Will Always Be There For Me, Margolin returned to her roots as a writer and performer to alleviate burnout, embracing poetry and workshopping the songs solo like she used to do at open mic nights. She dove headfirst into not-yet fully formed material via the rawness of her emotions. It allowed her, the band (keyboardist/backing vocalist Georgie Stott, drummer/keyboardist Sam Yardley, bassist Dan Hutchins) and indie rock producer du jour Dom Monks to foster a live recording environment that allowed for intimacy and intense vulnerability. The result is one of those indie rock records like Modest Mouse's The Lonesome Crowded West, Wolf Parade's Apologies to the Queen Mary, or Black Country, New Road's Ants From Up There, whose widescreen sound gives heft to its big feelings.

Throughout Clouds In The Sky, Margolin sings lines that unfurl to reveal her headspace, often snaking into new ideas. When she delivers lines in repetition, sometimes with as little as two words, she embodies that part of all of us that tries to convince ourselves we're not about to succumb to exhaustion or the weight of our fraying sense of self. Often, she uses metaphors, like on the swaying "Lavender, Raspberries", where imperfectly layered vocals, distorted guitars, and crashing drums soundtrack a tale of someone jumping from their balcony into the river, being subsumed by both nature and the manmade. "I am the asphalt," declares Margolin, "I'll never die." A song like "God Of Everything Else", on the other hand, is more direct, a bonafide break-up song where Margolin's vocals are clear enough to cut through the grey of the strings and chugging drums. "Don't need to know where you are / You'll be hit by a wave of me," she sings triumphantly, before croakily screaming and admitting that she might not be in control after all: "I go everywhere just to get away from you."

The messy grandeur of Clouds In The Sky's instrumentation exemplifies just how much of a journey it is to reclaim one's own agency, even going so far as to recontextualize the tone of the lyrics. "In A Dream I'm A Painting" reads on paper like a love song, but the song's various builds--Margolin going from creaky falsetto to bold wail, the instrumentation from humming keyboards and steady drums to buzzsaw guitars--show an appropriately dishonest narrator. "Nothing makes me sad now, everything makes me happy," sings Margolin, in a way that you know even she's not convinced. The chintzy drones of "A Hole in the Ground" render the song's surreal imagery representing heartbreak, "The hard bits of my heart / They fall into the hole and they tear it apart," very real and borderline horrifying. And when Margolin sings with a throated cry, "I am everyone and everything / And I will run until I can reach you" on epic opener "Anybody", the song's subsequent collision of power chords and massive drum fills, keyboards pulsating like sirens, lets you know she might have failed.

I'd be remiss if I didn't mention "You Will Come Home", which might be Porridge Radio's finest composition to date. Margolin details the devitalizing post-everything solitude: "I stay home seeing ghosts from the past / Giving up talking, my walls just myself and you." She and Stott repeat the ultimate reveal, "I would do anything to see what I'm waiting for," a capella, before the drums and guitar return and Margolin shouts the same line with a raspy vibrato. It's one of the most thrilling moments I've heard on a record this year, and one that previews the entirety of rejoicing album closer "Sick Of The Blues". It's here where Margolin finally feels like she's in charge, the entire band taking a victory lap. "I memorize your face," Margolin sings, clarifying, "But I can't remember," free from the leverage of depression. The band's "Where Is My Mind" style harmonics give way to an all-out massacre of riffs and cascading drums. Then, you look back and realize that on Clouds In The Sky, Margolin finds something anthemic and downright holy in the simple return to homeostasis.

[aristocratslog]

Bye Little Block! / Pá, kis panelom! from Eva Darabos on Vimeo.

A surreal farewell to a blockhouse area.

Bye Little Block! (2020) is my graduation film made at the Animation Master programme of Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest (@MOME Anim).

Awards:

Ottawa International Animation Festival 2020 - Best Design ANIMATOR Poznan 2020 - Best Student Film Barcelona International Short Film Festival 2020 - Best Animated Short Animakom Bilbao 2020 - Jury's Special Mention Festival of Animation Berlin 2021 - Special Mention Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Festival 2021 - Jury's Citation Flatpack Film Festival 2021 - Special Mention Cinefest Miskolc 2021- CineNewWave Award Dargay Attila Award for The Most Promising Hungarian Animation Talent 2021 ‘21 International Film Schools Festival, Uruguay - Best Animated short PRIMANIMA 2021 - Most Popular Hungarian Short KAFF 2021 - Best short film KAFF 2021 - Filmcritics’s Award Cinemira Film Festival 2021 - Best Short Film Cinemira Film Festival 2021- Best Hungarian Animated Short Film Big Cartoon Festival 2021 - Best Student Film ATAFF 2021 - Award of the Student Jury ATAFF 2021 - Jury’s Special Mention PiterKIT 2021- Golden diploma For Imagination and Absurd Humor Zoom Zblizenia 2022 - Special Award La Guarimba Film Festival 2022- La Grotta dei Piccoli Award Castrovillari Film Festival 2022 - Best Original Score (Dávid V. Bodnár) We like’em short 2022 - Best Student Film Animist Tallinn 2022 - Yarlspinner Award Festival Cartón 2022 - Best Student Film Festiwal Spektrum 2022 - Best Animated Short Desenzano Film Festival 2022 - Best Animation GIRAF 18 Calgary 2022 - Jury Award Sottodicotto Festival 2022 - That’s ANIMATO Award

Selections:

Animafest Zagreb, Sarajevo Film Festival, Ottawa International Animation Festival, PÖFF Shorts, London International Animation Festival, Festival of Animation Berlin, Pictoplasma, Anim'est, Anilogue, Anifilm, Premiers Plans Festival d'Angers, Barcelona International Short Film Festival, Fantoche, Tel Aviv International Student Film Festival, Anibar, Anímator Poznan, BUSHO, Friss hús Budapest International Short Film Festival, Festival BAB, Weird 3D Festival, Imagine Science Film Festival New York, New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival, Supertoon, Catch the moon, Filmtettfeszt, Cinefest Miskolc, Cinemira International Youth Film Festival, Short Waves Festival, Fest Anča, Animateka, Insomnia, MONSTRA Festival, Magyar Mozgókép Fesztivál 2021, Primanima, Animakom, KAFF, Imaginaria, Linoleum Kyiv, Kyiv ISFF, Monstrale, Big Cartoon, FIEC Uruguay, Fancine Málaga, Alexandre Trauner ART/Film Festival, Sardinia Film Festival, Macau International Short Film Festival, Linea D'Ombra Vedo Animato, KuanDu Film Festival, Sweaty Eyeballs, Zoom Zblizenia Film Festival, Mecal Pro, Flatpack Film Festival, Animocje, Mediawave Gathering, Animatricks, Zlín Film Festival, La Guarimba, Animist, We like'em short, Rooftop Films NYC, PiterKIT 2021, Hungary Live NYC, Vertigo Film Festival, Castrovillari Film Festival, dotdotdot Vienna, Festival Cartón, Festiwal Spektrum, Desenzano Film Festival, GIRAF 18 Calgary, Interfilm Berlin, Animasivo Mexico City, Sottodicotto Festival, Budapest Architecture Film Festival, Brighton International Animation Festival

FILM CREW

Director: Éva DARABOS Producer: József FÜLÖP Editor: Judit CZAKÓ Script Advisor: Rita DOMONYI Tutor: Réka GACS Music: Dávid V. BODNÁR Sound Designer: Dávid V. BODNÁR Production manager: Eszter GLASER Visual concept: Éva DARABOS Backgrounds: Éva DARABOS, Lili KORCSOK

Animation: Domonkos ERHARDT, Éva DARABOS, Bálint HALASI,Vivien HÁRSHEGYI, Bence HLAVAY, Melinda KÁDÁR, Katalin SÁRDI Clean -up, Coloring : Luca Kata ÁBRÁNYI, Domonkos ERHARDT, Éva DARABOS, Eszter GLASER, Bálint HALASI, Vivien HÁRSHEGYI, Bence HLAVAY, Melinda KÁDÁR, Péter KÁLMÁN, Mays MAHMOUD DWEIRI, Sára SOMOGYI, Anna TŐKÉS, Bori ZÉTÉNYI

Thank you everyone!

[blog-reflection]

ONE / Thirty Four - Don’t Fuck Anything up!

Police officer: We got news

After spending several hours with a guard and Henry alone, I was more than relieved that one of the officers had come into the room, holding Lucia at her shoulder. They told us that they have everything to continue the investigation from the PD and that we are all free again. Couple of seconds later you could hear an announcement by the Headmistress that the school is open again. I gave one of the officers the data I extracted from Henry and after that was free to go as well. I took the opportunity to take this time here to talk with Lucia. After all, she is the only one that knows about Ethan, so I kind of want her point of view on the ice skating idea and how terribly I have planned everything. We headed to the library and went into the more talkative space. 

Lucia: Kind of nuts what happened today isn't it? I, personally, would have never thought that I actually could help in an investigation like that James: To be honest, same. This all felt so surreal. Lucia: Definitely. So you wanted to talk? I guess this isn’t about what happened today, is it? James: Yeah. James: I'm kind of going on a date with Ethan. Lucia: Shut up really? What are you guys doing? James: Well, Jesse and Petal have invited me to the new ice rink that opened a while ago. I originally didn’t even plan to make it a date but Petal asked if I got a plus one too so we could save some money with a group card. Lucia: Sooo? James: Sooo I just asked Ethan. Turns out he actually likes ice skating. Lucia: Damn that’s so cool! Also happy you managed to talk with Jesse about it. James: yeahhh…the…I Lucia: JAMES?!? You agreed to a date without the others not knowing that it is a date??! Do you have any idea how many issues that will create? What if Ethan wants to be a bit touchy like hand holding. For a first date it's a cute Idea but please you need to tell them. James: Oh do I? I don’t think I have to. I already talked to Ethan about how this is just a date for us and that we kind of have to keep it low key. Luckily he said that it isn't such a big deal for him since he is just happy to spend some time with me. Lucia: Okay that is cute but don’t you want to at least mention it to Jesse? I mean they are your best friend, don’t they deserve the truth? James: I mean yeah they are but also I know how shitty they can be with such information sometimes. I just don’t want to push out something when I’m not even sure that that something is, you know? Lucia: Not really but if you do this, please recheck and don’t fuck anything up okay? James: I won’t but thanks.

Lucia and I hugged goodbye before I headed back to the main station.

I mean yeah, Lucia probably is right. I do have to tell them I just really don’t know when. Whenever I had a crush or even mentioned that I feel something like this towards Jesse, they tend to make it into a joke. They would be fast in calling me a whore just because I have so many people. Listen, I know my track record of boys has been shit, I know that. And I get that Jesse is only doing that to protect me but seriously, it’s just really annoying. 

I got into the train and waited til it was ready to depart. By now it was already rather late and to be honest this whole police investigation thing really drained my energy. I just hope it gets sorted out fast. I opened my bag and reached for a bag Lucia gave me. Inside was a bagel with avocado as well as some crisps and energy. Goddess bless her that was exactly what I needed. I ate the bagel and listened to the new songs I’ve put into my spotify playlist.

When I arrived back in Brighton it was already dark. I’ve decided to give a small run through the nearby Tesco before heading back home. The light’s were still on, meaning that Sarah must be awake.I hope she isn't in a bad mood with me since I didn’t have a chance of what happened. I was right. As I entered the house Sarah was laughing very loudly with other people together. I stood into the doorframe and gazed into the living room. She was there with 3 people. I guess they are from the elderly living place. They were watching some comedy bake show while eating cupcakes. If I look at it again it is a really cute scenario. I decided to leave them be and went up into my room. I turned on all my fairy lights, jumped out of my clothes and under the sheets before turning on the TV browsing for any good shows I could watch. 

It didn’t take long at all till I got really tired. I’ve decided to call it a day, turned on my podcast and waited patiently to finally fall asleep.

[offwiththeirrecords]

Live Events

Upcoming

Past

Started 03/08/19, very much incomplete, will endeavour to add more dates for posterity's sake.

2024

​1st June - Shane O'Linski's 'Haemogoblin' album launch - Louis Marchesi Crypt, Norwich

feat. Shane O'Linski's Gowboys n Ninjans​, Lassie, The Wash, Cutout Joconde

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4th May - Beltane Festival - Klabang Camping, Suffolk

feat. MARLA, Friends of the Pheasant + more

3rd May - Beltane Festival - Klabang Camping, Suffolk

feat. The Vicars of Stiffkey + more

6th April - Protocols @ Louis Marchesi - The Brickmakers, Norwich

feat. Protocols, MARLA, Mices and Mr. Ad. Infinitum

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20th March - Vicars of Stiffkey @ Psychedelic Circus - The Brickmakers, Norwich

feat. Vicars of Stiffkey + more

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14th March - Tom Conway album launch - Louis Marchesi Bar, Norwich

feat. Tom Conway and Kerry Smith from Young Waters

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8th March - Colossal Youth - Louis Marchesi Crypt, Norwich

feat. Rudimentary Paste, Zines, False Etiquette, Toast

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1st March - Joey Herzfeld 'Table For One' album launch - Louis Marchesi Bar, Norwich

feat. Joey Herzfeld Band and Cosmic Surf

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26th January - Rooted III Magazine launch - Rumsey Wells, Norwich

feat. Santa Rita, Mink and Joe Millett

21st January - MARLA - Katzenjammers, London SE1

feat. MARLA, Noam, Mergita, Melina Blanco, Gary Splaine

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2023

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22nd December - HowlbackHum Christmas Party - Rumsey Wells, Norwich

Vicars of Stiffkey +tba

FREE ENTRY

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16th December - MARLA @ Moor Vaults - Moor Vaults, Bermondsey, London

feat. Lunch, After Breakfast, MARLA

FREE ENTRY

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12th November - No Escape/Ideal Surreal - VR Rooms, Norwich

feat. Cosmic Surf, Chlo Atlanta, MARLA, Squat Lobster

£3 entry

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21st October - Off with their Records/Ideal Surreal - Karma Kafe, Norwich

feat. Ravenous Hounds, The Display Team, Minus Nothing, Lone Mesa, Yellowhammers (duo)

£7adv

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8th October - Shane Olinski 'Every Summer Ever' album launch, VR Room, Norwich

line-up tbc

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1st September - Gemma Cullingford EP Launch - Karma Kafe, Norwich

feat. Gemma Cullingford, The People Who Run the Country, Cutout Joconde

£6adv

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18th August - The Reindeer, Norwich

Vieira & the Silvers, Waxx!, Odd Creatures

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30th July - No Escape #7, VR Rooms, Norwich

Moonrise Trio, TBC, David Ross

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21st July - Pennfest, Penn, Buckinghamshire

Waxx!, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, Johnny Marr, Gaz Coombs + loads more

Full line-up​

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16th July - SLAGS (Sunday Lunch Anything Goes Sessions), The Mariners, Gt. Yarmouth

Black Beauties, TBC, The Craft, Joseph Beaney​

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27th May - Wildfest @ Wildcraft Brewery, Smallburgh, Norfolk

Vieira & the Silvers, Pleasure ​Inc., Suds, Waxx, Mink, Aphra

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14th May - Voodoo Daddy's, Norwich

Guranfoe, Tres Pantalon, Cosmic Surf

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30th April - No Escape #7 @ VR Escape Rooms, Norwich

Tristan Burfield, Project Multivitamin, Mink, Bavarien Rocket Groop, Cutout Joconde, Chris Dowding

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29th April - 'I'm not from here but it feels like home' book launch, Karma Kafe, Norwich

Book readings from 4pm, live music from 6 feat. Ravenous Hounds, The Fool's Moon, Birds of Hell, Takeda, Mountain Peaks

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28th April - Voodoo Daddy's, Norwich

Gemma Cullingford, MARLA, Urk

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27th April - The Reindeer, Norwich

Yellowhammers, Wormhole, Lady Di

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24th April - Acid Box @ The Green Door, Brighton

Waxx!, Ellis D

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1st April - Last Pub Standing, Norwich

Waxx!, Vierra & the Silvers

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31st March - The Six Six, Cambridge

Waxx!, Vierra & the Silvers

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30th March - Paper Dress, Hackney, London

Waxx!, Vierra & the Silvers

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24th March - Blossoms, Stockport

Waxx!

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23rd March - Sunflower Lounge, Birmingham

Waxx!

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22nd March - Nice n Sleazy, Glasgow

Waxx! ​

7th March - Access Creative College

Platform New Noise feat. MARLA +support

6-9pm

FREE ENTRY

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4th March - HMV, Chapelfield Mall, Norwich

Waxx! exclusive album pre-launch

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26th February - VR Rooms, Norwich

feat. Sefo Kanuteh, Nathan Pickett, David Jones, Citizen Smith,  Emma Barber ​

24th February - Voodoo Daddy's, Norwich

feat. Hutch, Waxx! and Mink

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29th January - VR Rooms, Norwich

feat. The Fool's Moon, Jack and the Giants, Cara Knox, The Wash, Ellie Grace

£3entry on the door  

2022

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23rd December - The Rumsey Wells, Norwich

Monthly free night Xmas special

Line-up tba  

18th December - VR Escape Rooms, Norwich

Asinine Corp. Presents: Waxx!, Marigolds, Minty Taylor (from Space is Big) +more

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2nd December - Voodoo Daddy's, Norwich

MARLA - A Decade of Delay

with support from Takeda, Painted Heathers, Love Trapezium

Click here for tickets (£5adv/£6otd)

27th November - VR Escape Rooms, Norwich

feat. Tres Pantalon, URK, Jambon Dimanche, Liverface, Genghis Kalm​

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25th November - The Rumsey Wells, Norwich

Current Undercurrant: Monthly free night feat. Monkiboy (from The Neutrinos), Liverface (from Waxx and MARLA), Tom Conway, Shane O'Linki + more

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11th November - Moor Beer Vaults, Bermondsey, London

MARLA

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2nd November - New Cross Inn, S.E. London

Eat Your Own Head, MARLA

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30th October - VR Rooms, Norwich

The Vicars of Stiffkey, Yellowhammers, All My Youth, Joey Herzfeld Band, Peter Turrell​

29th October - Last Pub Standing, Norwich

No Glum zine and Big Fat Art Cart present: The Molee Shakes, Waxx! Vierra and the Silvers

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21st October - The Rumsey Wells, Norwich

Monthly free night line-up tba

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9th October - VR Rooms, Norwich

Red Mar, MARLA, Chlo Atlanta, Bavarien Rocket Groop, All My Youth, Cosmic Surf

30th September - Deaf Institute, Manchester

Waxx!

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23rd September - The Rumsey Wells, Norwich

Monthly free night feat. Wormhole, Yellowhammers and Bavarien Rocket Group, Tom Jordan

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9th September - 66 Bar, Cambridge

Waxx

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2nd September - Paper Dress, Hackney, London

Waxx

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26th August - Vale Earth Fair, Geurnsey

Waxx

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20th August - Karma Kafe, Norwich

Ideal Surreal presents: Bag of Cans, Tundra, Emma Kupa Band, MARLA, Vieira and the Silvers, Lady Di, Beanie in the Bath, Huia Fun Club

£8 tickets​

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16th August - The York, Norwich

Tom Conway Trio album launch, with Danny Whitehouse

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4-7th August - Harlequin Fayre, Norfolk

Waxx, The Vicars of Stiffkey, Joey Herzfeld, Jessica Aspinall and many more

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15th July - Rumsey Wells, Norwich

Howlback Hum feat. Peter Turrell, Lemongrower, Bloodbath on the Green, Shane Olinski, Marcus Bush, Insigh, Doddie Bees, Taryn Everdeen

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8th July - Louis Marchesi, Norwich

Takeda 'Magic Words' album launch w/Pretty Terry, The Ornithologists, Jake Raywood  

8th July - Voodoo Daddy's, Norwich

Karma Sheen, The Bomb Fayre Band, Waxx!

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17th June - Rumsey Wells, Norwich

Liverface, Shane O'Linski, Jess Aspinall and Chas Rigby

11th June - Beak Brewery, Lewes

An evening with MARLA

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2nd June - Blondies, Clapton, London

Waxx + Karma Sheen  

20th May - Rumsey Wells, Norwich

Ben Winn, All My Youth, Dandelion, Tiny Little Robots

FREE ENTRY

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14th May - The Gladstone, Brighton

Waxx, Pleasure Inc., Ellis D, Dreamwave, Kid Hyena + many more

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5th May - Voodoo Daddy's, Norwich

Mega Emotion album launch with support TBA​

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15th April - Rumsey Wells, Norwich

The Ornithologists, Amy French (Blisster), Pete Murdoch (Birds of Hell)

FREE ENTRY

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7th April - Voodoo Daddy's, Norwich

Waxx 'Rearrange' single launch​

+support from Ghosts of Men and Rave on the Dole

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26th March - Brew By Numbers, Greenwich, London

MARLA

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18th March - Rumsey Wells, Norwich

Shane O'Linski's 'The Ornithologists' EP launch with support from Takeda and Joey Herzfeld

FREE ENTRY

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25th February - Voodoo Daddy's, Norwich

Featuring Headshrinkers, Waxx and Damp Matches

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15th February - The Waterfront, Norwich

Tilting Sky presents Bath of Milk, Waxx and Hemingway

Tickets £7 available from Off with their Records. Email: ideolog@hotmail.co.uk

10th February - The Waterfront, Norwich

Ideal Surreal presents Gaffa Tape Sandy with support from Damp Matches and Anna's Bones

Tickets £10adv. £12otd

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2021

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17th December, 2021 - Rumsey Wells

Ideal Surreal/Off with their Records Christmas do

feat. Shane Olinski and more

FREE

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11th December, 2021 - The Shoe Factory

feat. Pleasure Inc. Waxx, Bath of Milk, Floral Image, Aphra, Kyle Dann

£7adv (inc. afterparty)

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25th November, 2021 - Voodoo Daddy's

Bag of Cans, The Acharis, Yellowhammers, MARLA

£5adv

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19th November, 2021 - B2 venue

Wonk Unit, Yur Mum, I Said Goodbye

£10adv/£12otd

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5th November, 2021 - Voodoo Daddy's

Eat Your Own Head, Aphra, Waxx

£7adv

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23rd October, 2021 - Heartfest at Heartsease Pub

Yellowhammers and many more...

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21st/22nd October - Gringos

We Bless This Mess double show

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10th September - Karma Kafe 3-floor Takedown

Ideal Surreal + Off with their Records present...

3 floors of music including: Damp Matches,Kulk, Ohmic, The May, Lucille and the Seals and more - £5 entry

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3rd September - Louis Marchesi

Space is Big EP launch with support from Eluders, Hyperfox and Foreign Bier

£3

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18th August - Paper Dress, Hackney

Pleasure inc., Aphra, Waxx

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7th August - Harlequin Fayre, Nomad Stage

MARLA

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2020

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April 24th - Ideal Surreal/Off with their Records present - Space Studios, Swan Ln, Norwich

feat. Dr. Clyde, Galli, TBA

CANCELED DUE TO CORONA PANDEMIC

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March 27th - Ideal Surreal/Off with their Records present - Space is Big Album Launch - Space Studios, Swan Ln, Norwich

feat. Space​ is Big, HyperFox, Tundra, Eluders

£3 entry OTD

CANCELED DUE TO CORONA PANDEMIC

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February 28th - Ideal Surreal/Off with their Records present - Space Studios, Swan Ln, Norwich

feat. Mammoth Penguins, Aphra, Our Quiet Friends, Huia Fun Club

£5 entry in advance (click here for tickets) (£7 otd)

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February 14th - The Music House Acoustic(ish) Sessions - Jurnets Bar, Norwich

Off with their Records joins Howlback Hum to present a joint show at Norwich's long-running weekly Music House night in the historic Jurnets Bar. Free entry. Feat. Niamh, Andy McFadyen, Silver, Yellowhammers

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January 31st - Ideal Surreal/Off with their Records present - Space Studios, Swan Ln, Norwich

feat. Bavarien Rocket Groop (album launch), Lucille and the Seals, Joey Herzfeld Band, Hydra Lerna + alt DJs till 3am

FREE ENTRY

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2019

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December 6th - Off with their Records hosts Music House Sessions - Jurnet's Bar, Norwich

feat. Jessica Aspinall, Joe Quinn, David JR Jones, Takeda

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November 15th Ideal Surreal/Off with their Records 3-floor shebang - Karma Kafe, Norwich

feat. 12 bands across 3 floors including Damp Matches, Ravenous Hounds, Bug Teeth + many more

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November 1st - Lucky Mojo's 'Stranger Things' Halloween Party - Karma Kafe, Norwich

Lucky Mojo's Manic City Vibes presents another themed gig for Halloween featuring performances from MARLA, The Renadeans and Leatherback.

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September 21st - Joey Herzfeld - Louis Marchesi, Norwich

with support from Robyn Astrid, Stromm, Bridget Holmes

FREE ENTRY

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September 6th - Ideal Surreal + PMVpodcast 3-floor shebang - Karma Kafe, Norwich

£7otd, £5 from Ideal Surreal, 12 bands over 3 floors including

Space is Big, Tom Conway Trio, Maximalist Banquet, Discharge Lounge, Project Mork, Aphra, Zaharie Lambert's Underjoy, and more...

August 25th - Bavarien Rocket Groop pre-launch party - The Playhouse, Norwich

Free entry. With support from Fresh Flowers, Bug Teeth and Niamh

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August 3rd 8.30pm, Yellowhammers - Harlequin Fayre, Nomad Stage

SOLD OUT

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2018

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June 1st, Norms@Bedford's Crypt

MARLA, Lounge, Hugo Z

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April 8th, Cactus Cafe (moved from The Reindeer), Norwich

MARLA, Renadeans, Lucille

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February 15th, The Owl Sanctuary, Norwich

Painted Heathers, Blisster, YNB, Captain Teather and the Space Cadets

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January 10th, Norwich Arts Centre

Vicars of Stiffkey, MARLA, Painted Heathers

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2017

December 7th, Joe Quinn 'I see icy eyes' album launch, The Owl Sanctuary, Norwich

Feat. Joe Quinn, The Familiars, Of the Clay​

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Novermber 11th, Jurnet's Bar, Norwich

Current Undercurrant compilation #1 was recorded live on this date. Available now from our store

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October 22nd, Tom Conway 'Idle Birdie' album launch, Cactus Cafe, Norwich

Tom Conway

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July 1st, Soyuz Rats EP launch - The Owl Sanctuary, Norwich

Feat. Soyuz Rats, Bald Wife, Algae Bloom

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June 17th, The Owl Sanctuary, Norwich

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Painted Heathers 'Perennial' album launch

​6-7 - Free copies of the album available for the early birds

8.00 - Aseasita

8.45 - Blisster

9.30 - Blank Lines

10.15 - Painted Heathers

11-2 - DJ sets from Sink ya Teeth and Steve Clarke

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April 13th, First Official 'Off with their Records' live event - The Mash Tun, St. Benedicts St, Norwich

Vicars of Stiffkey - 'live and uncassocked' album launch

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Defrocked. Disgraced. Deceased? This Easter weekend there will be a resurrection as the Vicars of Stiffkey return to save our souls. They lived for their art, they died for your entertainment, now they're live again at the Mash Tun in Norwich on Thursday 13th April to launch their debut 7-track EP.

The CD release party runs from 8-12 and is free entry featuring performances from Blank Lines, Painted Heathers and the Vicars themselves as well as various other shenanigans such as free CDs to be won, a merch table whereat you may show your devotion to the Vicars through the purchase of icons, a live video shoot for the forthcoming single from Painted Heathers and Blank Lines will be giving away limited edition CDs of their first EP.

Rough stage times; Blank Lines - 8.30pm Painted Heathers - 9.30 The Vicars of Stiffkey - 10.30

Downstairs at The Mash Tun, Thursday 13th April