I was hunting through the loft today and found an envelope stuffed with old gig tickets. This is nowhere near everything we went to back in the day, but it's a fun haul nevertheless. I have many happy memories of these days.
1. London gigs
2. Norwich UEA
3. Norwich UEA
4. Norwich Waterfront
5. Cambridge Junction
6. Cambridge Corn Exchange
7. Ipswich and Colchester gigs
8. Festival Tickets
9. Festival Wristbands
I found another box of tickets in the loft. There's some older gigs here this time. For years I've said I always wish I'd seen Elastica. It turns out I already have. 😅
1. London Shows
2. Norwich UEA
3. Norwich Waterfront
4. Norwich Arts Centre
5. Cambridge The Junction
6. Ipswich gigs
7. Colchester Arts Centre
8. The Manic Street Preachers at The Kettering Arena
9. Festival Tickets
10. Festival Lanyards
The NME awards shows always had amazing bands. The three tickets pictured here had the following lineups:
2004: Funeral for a Friend, The Rapture, The Von Bondies, Franz Ferdinand
2005: The Killers, The Futureheads, Bloc Party, Kaiser Chiefs
2006: Maximo Park, Arctic Monkeys, We Are Scientists, Mystery Jets
The Great Escape 2026 - Friday
1. Banshimoku
2. Morn
3. AKA
4. Enjoyable Listens
5. China Bears
6. Bleech 9:3
7. Adult DVD
8. Working Men's Club
9. Keo
Chinese American Bear - The Alt Alt Escape @ The Great Escape 2026.
The Black Lion, Brighton.
Not a great video, but as we found ourselves at the front I thought I'd grab the opportunity.
#tge2026 #altaltescape #chineseamericanbear
The Great Escape 2026 - Thursday
1. Trampoline
2. Cyn Cwsg
3. Ringlets
4. EMNW
5. Chinese American Bear
6. Slag
7. Little Granddad
8. Lime Garden
9. & 10. Blue Bendy
#tge2026 #thegreatescape2026 #brighton
The Great Escape 2026 - Wednesday
1. Bureau De Change
2. & 3. POLLYFROMTHEDIRT
4. Sarah Gower
5. Room Service
6. & 7. Lemonsuckr
A few pictures from an excellent opening evening for The Great Escape Festival 2026 in Brighton.
#tge2026 #thegreatescape2026 #brighton
Takeda / Ryski / A Different Kitchen - 25th April 2026
BTC All Dayer
We had a few hours poking around the first BTC All Dayer this afternoon. It was great to see so many people out and about enjoying live music.
Excellent work as always @brightenthecornersips .
Slag / Sam Milne & Ella Skirrow - 2nd April 2026
Awful picture of a really good band.
At times this gig felt like we were crashing a family reunion at a working men's club. Despite being Brighton based, the guitarist grew up locally and the room was mostly made up of drunk uncles, cousins etc.
They were incredibly loud and disrespectful during the support and very obnoxious to the people around them.
We hid in the far corner for Slag and glad we stuck around as they played an excellent (rather short) set.
We're looking forward to catching them in Brighton later in the year for The Great Escape Festival.
