Simon Price

(Although it has me listed as 'DJ Steve Price'.)

Spellbound Alternative 80s Disco with DJ Simon Price - The Centre of Food Culture, Boyne Valley Since 2017 Simon Price has run one of Brighton’s best loved club nights, an alternative 80s night called SPELLBOUND. Tonight SPELLBOUND comes to Kells as Simon DJs a heady mix of Goth, New Wave, Post-...

Actually yes - I'm in Kells on Fri 7 Nov! foodcultureireland.ie/event/spellb...

(Not a design classic, but it does the job.)

New @spellboundclub.bsky.social flyer Autumn/Winter 2025, displaying our four remaining nights at Komedia Brighton this year: Hallowe'en, Sat 15 Nov, Sat 20 Dec (Xmas Party) and - just announced - New Year's Eve!

Full info www.facebook.com/spellboundcl...
Tickets www.komedia.co.uk/shows/spellb...

Fuck. Ing. Hell.

It's like unions and weekends. Most people don't realize that people fought and sometimes died so we can arse around the garden centre on a Saturday instead of coal mining. She was in the vanguard of people that made it possible to look fabulous and not get your teeth kicked in every day. RIP.

So sad to hear of the death of punk legend Soo Catwoman (Susan Lucas). She was so amazing.

She was, of course, the main inspiration for my hairstyle. I met her once in the 2000s, and apologised for stealing it. She very graciously said "At least you're doing it well." I'll take that.

R.I.P.

Cure fans! I'm talking to French photographer @richardbellia.bsky.social - who took the pic on the front of CUREPEDIA - at Henge Brixton on Sat 11 Oct as part of his exhibition there. We'll both be signing our books after. Plus Cure-based DJ set by Mark Hex. Tickets FREE from dice.fm/event/7dlma7...

The BOGOF Ban is a nauseating class-targeted initiative, and patronising as Hell. If you really care about the diet of the poor, then legislate to reduce the price of healthier foods, rather than basically doubling the price of their (our) few affordable pleasures in life. Get to absolute fuck.

YouTube video by Icehouse - Topic Hey, Little Girl (12" Version)

I've been thinking about 12 inch versions of the 80s that weren't dancefloor-focused, but sounded expensive. What you were buying was ADDED TIME SPENT IN LUXURY. Life was shabby and there was fuck all to do. Escaping that, for seven minutes instead of three, was their purpose. youtu.be/GGXZtpKt9Ts

(No, that's not Jayney on the poster, but it might as well be.)

October's here, and the @spellboundclub.bsky.social HALLOWE'EN PARTY is at Komedia on Friday 31st (first time we've been on actual Hallowe'en for years)! Alt-80s bangers, Hallowe'en anthems, video mash-ups, fiery cabaret.

Tickets: komedia.co.uk/shows/spellb...
Info: www.facebook.com/events/60692...

LISTEN TO THIS. The chaps from The Giddy Carousel Of Pop (the Smash Hits-based podcast) have done a 40th anniversary special episode on Don't Stand Me Down, featuring actual Dexys members Helen O'Hara and Kevin 'Billy' Adams, Smash Hits legend Chris Heath, and little old me (a mere fan at the time).

I never need much encouragement to talk about Dexys...

Even Nicky Wire has said SFA are better, and I agree with him. Manics are second.

Some kind of big Super Furry Animals announcement is coming up at 10.00am. Whatever it is, I'm very excited. Wales' finest band, and a force of pure joy and goodness. The world badly needs more SFA in it.

This was such a lot of fun.

Chris Mason: Starmer unflinching as he seeks to take on Reform The prime minister has stepped up his framing of the "open fight" between Labour and Reform UK.

Starmer unflinching as he seeks to imitate Reform.

There you go, Chris Mason, fixed that for you. Starmer’s one bright idea is to turn Labour into Diet Reform. And it’s going just great, isn’t it?

www.bbc.com/news/article...

A bleak thought. Are there any constituencies where it'll be a straight fight between Reform and the Tories, and the tactical thing will be to vote Tory to keep Reform out? We're all accustomed to holding our noses under first-past-the-post, but we're looking at industrial-strength nasal clamps now.

Haha was it my recommendation that did it? Fantastic!

YouTube video by Con Brio Synthesizers Original LINN LM-1 drum computer version 1 Rev.2 machine demonstration

Drum machine demo porn for any Prince fan.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWIh...

TONIGHT!

Say hello on a night like this, if it's the last thing you ever do...

TONIGHT at Komedia Brighton: @spellboundclub.bsky.social CURE SPECIAL! 9pm-10pm: Pure Cure (deep cuts). 10pm-3am: Cure hits & Alt-80s anthems. Plus chance to win Curepedia! Entry £7 (cash only).

www.facebook.com/events/11782...

Yes, that was me. Cheers.

Still in the afterglow of an extraordinary show by @suedehq.bsky.social with Paraorchestra & Charles Hazlewood last night to end their South Bank residency. Life Is Golden, The 2 Of Us, Flytipping and Still Life, in particular, just killed me. (And yet, here I still am.)

Best Old Band In Britain.

POV: Your favourite punk poet turns out to be a manhole millionaire.

Cure fans of Brighton and beyond! This is tomorrow...

By 10.15 Saturday Night the @spellboundclub.bsky.social CURE SPECIAL at Komedia Brighton will be 75 minutes in!

First hour: Pure Cure (deep cuts). Rest of night: Cure hits & Alt-80s anthems. Plus chance to win Curepedia!

9pm-3am, admission £7 (cash only) at door.

www.facebook.com/events/11782...

Political Commentators and Columnists particularly notable. It explains why talking about private education as a huge obstacle to meritocracy and social mobility is such a taboo subject, and rarely gets any serious discussion in the media. Nothing to see here, sweep it under the carpet. #shutemdown

Just learned via @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social amd @nndroid.bsky.social on the @talk90stome.bsky.social podcast that Firestarter by The Prodigy originally went "I'm the muckspreader...".

Not only has this made my day, but it's provided me with a retort next time I'm Keith-heckled in the street.