Melting Vinyl proudly presents collaborative duo Stanley Brinks and Freschard, two exquisite DIY singer-songwriters of the alternative folk and Americana music scene.

Stanley Brinks:

Stanley Brinks is a French singer-songwriter who at first, gained musical notoriety performing under the name of André Herman Düne in the 90's being a frequent Peel Sessions guest. After touring extensively over the course of a decade and relocating to Berlin, Düne reached a transformative period in his life and musical career changing directions and becoming Stanley Brinks, a quirky singer-songwriter who explores folk/Americana influenced songwriting. Brinks as a solo entity explores simplistic yet catchy song structures, soothing yet rough around the edges vocals, playful lyricism, and lo-fi eque production.

Freschard:

Descending from rural France, Freschard was born into a DIY musical and creative background, organising intimate musical shows from the age of 12 in a barn. Freschard later relocated to Paris where she first crossed paths with singer-songwriter and frequent collaborator Stanley Brinks, singing on some of his beloved songs written under former alias Herman Düne. After relocating to New York, Freschard embarked on her solo venture, creating beautifully DIY songs taking influence from European folk, Americana, and avant-garde.

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Stanley Brinks & Freschard

Gigs

Brighton

The Prince Albert

London's urban daydreamer David Zbirka returns with Sunnbrella’s first full length album, co-produced by Patrick James Fitzroy (PVA, Sorry). Zbirka has been worshipping in the church of shoegaze since 2018 debut ‘Feelin’ Invisible’, which was followed up by a clutch of singles and an EP that served his band well at festivals like Standon Calling and Metronome. ‘Heartworn’ is a lockdown project several years in the making, written and recorded in parallel with those early ventures.

Sunnbrella is a project we might describe as a fuzzy libation to classic early 90s acts like Slowdive and My Bloody Valentine. It is also a treat for fans of contemporary nu gaze acts bdrmm and hatchie.  If ‘Heartworn’ is a prayer, though, it is a gleeful and irreverent one. Euphoric distortion and windswept vocal harmonies collide as if in slow motion with determined dance rhythms straight out of the warehouse. It is an enticing and intuitive way forward for a genre that was originally teased for being populated by bands that stood dead still on stage.

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Sunnbrella

Sunnbrella - Fever Dream

Lout Promotions present

Enola Gay

plus guests

Doors 8pm

Over 18's only

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Enola Gay

JOY. Presents  
Youth Sector  
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Youth Sector

Youth Sector - Self Exile

Lout Promotions present

Can't Swim

plus Jetski

Monday 26th June 2023

at The Prince Albert, Brighton

Doors 8pm

Over 18's only

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Can't Swim

Inner Light - Barry Can’t Swim Remix

Jetski

Can’t Swim

JOY. Concerts presents  
Harker  
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Harker

Harker - 300 Cigarettes

"Phoxjaw collide sludge metal with gravelly Britpop and ignite their tent" - The Guardian

"a unique and exciting proposition" - Metal Hammer

"no-one here will forget the experience any time soon" - Kerrang!

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Phoxjaw

Six months into the pandemic, three-fourths of art-rock four-piece Mamalarky plunged into a new experiment: they moved in together. Guitarist-vocalist Livvy Bennett and keyboardist Michael Hunter drove across the country, decamping from Los Angeles to bassist Noor Khan’s hometown, Atlanta. In September 2020, the trio rented a giant old house with vaulted ceilings, a tire swing, and a bare-bones little studio room. There, the band made its largely home-recorded sophomore full-length, Pocket Fantasy, due September 30 via Fire Talk.

When they needed breaks, the group would take walks to a nearby creek, surrounded by tall trees and a cacophony of birds. On a particularly sublime day of swimming, Bennett and Khan soaked in the sun, watched the light refract the water, and time stood still—a blissed-out moment captured in the purejoy of “Mythical Bonds,” an ode to friendship told through playful grooves and zigzag riffs. “I really needed to write something to accurately show Noor how much her friendship means to me, and our journey as musicians and friends,” Bennett reflects.

Pocket Fantasy is an instant-classic sunny-day record, imaginative and introspective, an enveloping listen of skyhigh hooks and keyboards that soar with joyful abandon. Its twelve  kaleidoscopic tracks shapeshift aesthetically and thematically, through ideas about death and impermanence; love and gratitude; nature and technology; humor and hope.

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FORM Presents

Mamalarky

Meadow

Mamalarky - Hero

Mega Bog is the fluid musical moniker of songwriter Erin Elizabeth Birgy, a Pacific Northwestern rodeo child with an unmistakeable laugh, who was allegedly cursed upon conception. She has spent the last ten years channeling, capturing, and releasing her unique bouquet of fragrant, sci-fi pop experiments with a handful of bicoastal collaborators.

Meg Bog has visited a significant portion of the Western world, frequently looping the USA and Europe to sing in tiny art spaces and haunted historical theatres alike. The live concerts are known for their emotional unpredictability. Onstage, Erin's current mood is amplified, for better or for worse; she is an honest and unflinching performer.

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Melting Vinyl presents Mega Bog 

Mega Bog - Flower

Urban griot and multi-instrumentalist Kaito Winse (vocals, tama, peul flutes, mouth bow) fortuitously collided with Brussels noise punk musicians Benjamin Chaval (drums, electronics) and Nico Gitto (guitar). Through a twisting sequence of events, the trio eventually met and began developing the soundworld of ancestral proverbs and dataist inspired technology. The Wire says they play "freaked, juddering electronic punk". Since their debut concert in July 2021, the band has been touring Europe intensively, while releasing an EP in January as a preview of their first album released in June, both of which were released on Glitterbeat. After their highly acclaimed performances in festivals and clubs, the band is preparing to cross the Atlantic, invited by FME in Quebec in September 2022. The trio mostly play Kaito's compositions, each making sure to write their part very freely. At the end all compositions are collective. The griot handles proverbs. These are the pillars of wisdom. He can both murmur and harangue, while his intense flute solos come straight from a free jazz he never knew. Nico brings this very rare quality of being both able to ensure the groove of a very uncommon rhythmic baritone guitar and develop sophisticated sound experiences. Benjamin plays his low-fi drums with two cut pieces of brush handle. Also he provides an important Pure Data electronic part partially controlled by triggers, a real fourth wheel to the coach.

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Avalanche Katio + Support

Avalanche Kaito - Dabalomuni

Avalanche Kaito

JOY. Presents  
Runnner  
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For the last five years, Los Angeles-based musician Noah Weinman has been Runnner, and for much of those five years, Runnner has been working. Working on his 2021 collection album, Always Repeating; working as a producer on the Skullcrusher records; and, of course, working towards his debut full-length, Like Dying Stars, We’re Reaching Out. From LA to Ohio and the Northeast and back, he’s been deep in the craft of sound. This is music made at home, using anything and everything: cell phones and handheld tape recorders, the hum of an a/c unit, voicemails from friends. Rubbing cardboard together, stretching acoustic sounds out to near liquid, or stacking delay pedals at random to scramble the smoothness of a song can make something known into something unknown–something ordinary into something cosmic.

Like Dying Stars, We’re Reaching Out is the result of years of writing, recording, and tinkering in Weinman’s home, a lovingly crafted patchwork of organic instrumentation and otherworldly digital manipulation. The unexpected sounds and lush production elevate Weinman’s already impressive skill for melody and warm vocals, always pivoting between sparse intimacy and sweeping grandeur at the right moments.

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The Prince Albert

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