Friday, June 18, 2010

Sonar / dogstar / strawberries / sales / food / Local east east Sussex & south east Kent events this weekend

This weekend I might recommend
these sales near me. Let me know if you'd like to go. Or go sea swimming at any time - looking for swimmers to do long sea swims on Kent & Sussex coasts up to 10 miles.

Sat 19th june
Bexhill carnival jumble 10am
Wadhurst antiques fair 9am
• Ashburnham village hall jumble 10:30am
Park rd Methodist church 9:30am
Pevensey roundabout 12noon
Table top sale ninfield 2pm

Sun 20th June
Nash street 6am
• Cophall farm 6am
Pevensey bay 6:15am
Glyne gap 6:30am
Brooklands 7:00am
Robin hood 10am
And not forgetting
• Trasures by the moat at herstmonceaux castle at 8:00am

Sun 27th June
• grand book sale robertsbridge 11am

• = we like
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Just noticed the Sussex food fair is on this weekend at michelham priory near hailsham see http://www.sussexpast.co.uk
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Finally also strawberries, gooseberries, rhubarb are now actually ready after rough winter.
See http://www.maynardsfruit.co.uk
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I'll be at audio sushi this Saturday from 10pm-4am live on awdio.com & playing an avalanche of new tracks. Sunday audio sushi Djs are playing warmup set for roxy music at sonar and are generally hosting parties at world famous Razzmatazz club in Barcelona!
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Have amazing weekend wherever you may be!
Jeffrey

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@dogstarbrixton we're going to have a VUVUzela party tonight with England v. Algeria v. Choice Cuts - Late Party - 7pm to 4am close

  The England team will be poised to beat Algeria in a
match that is destined to be a classic [please football gods] -
and David James in gooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaal
so here we are - DJs before, halftime and after and
huge party scenes when England win tonight - must be
on the cards. and Slovenia - on weds -

Sloveniavs.England -23 Jun 3:00pm (United Kingdom Time) on BBC1
so leave work early then...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/world_cup_2010/8747673.stm
USA 2-2 Draw - too bad.

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This is a re-print of Jay Rayner's reveiw from the Observer about my favourite restaurant in East Sussex @thecurlewbodiam [review]

Can’t read this email? Click here Date: Friday June 18th 2010

    

Jay gives Curlew top billing

The Observer review: The Curlew
Though simple and unpretentious, with 'chops and chips', The Curlew in East Sussex soars when it comes to taste...

On a Wednesday in late May, The Observer's Food Critic Jay Rayner visited The Curlew. Jay is the Food Critic on BBC 1's The One Show, in 2001 he was awarded 'Restaurant Critic of the Year' and in 2006 named by The British Press Award 'Critic of the Year'. Put simply, Jay is one of the most influential voices in British Food.

As you can imagine, we eagerly anticipated his review, which appeared in The Observer on Sunday, June 6th. For those of you who missed it, here are his interesting thoughts... 

I am emailed restaurant menus a dozen times daily which often come with press releases written by people who have English as a fifth language. They tell me that dishes are "mouth-watering" and they are the reason I don't keep lighter fuel in my office. If I had some I'd be spraying it at the screen and throwing a match in afterwards just to make a bloody point. Food writing 101: 'mouth-watering' is a meaningless term. Show me the dish that doesn't actively make the saliva glands work and I'll show you a lump of Plasticine. You might manage it with three cream crackers in a minute – impossible; I've tried – but that's a bet, not food.

 

'Success on a plate: The Curlew Restaurant's elegant dining room.
Photograph: Antonio Zazueta Olmos for the Observer'


The email with the menu from the Curlew said something like: "Have a look at this. You might like it." I had a look. They were right. God, but I must be getting predictable in my middle age. It listed a dish called 'chops and chips'. There were references to pork belly and bacon, capers and slow-cooked duck eggs and dripping. It was written in simple, uncluttered language, each word being turned to a purpose. This could describe the restaurant itself : a building of clean, white slatboard outside, and matt polished wood and gunmetal grey walls. It is elegant, simple and reassuring.

 

'The Curlew Restaurant's terrace 'touched by Japanese minimalism 
Photograph: Darren Ciolli Leach


The sun was shining for the first time this year, so we sat outside on the terrace, which is
touched by Japanese minimalism, but only furtively. With their still-warm bread they brought us a cube of salted butter and a disc of salted dripping flavoured with thyme which melted into a puddle of something that could only be mopped. Now I knew everything would be fine. The food here is evolved without being fetishised, each dish designed around a single ingredient that gets a role commensurate with its billing. So the duck egg has been cooked slowly until both white and yolk are a gel. Beneath are slices of just-warm smoked haddock, the whole dressed with brown shrimps, capers and impeccable hollandaise. It is nursery food for grown-ups, or grown-up food for kids. Another starter of cuttlefish, both tentacle and sliced body, comes with potatoes and cubes of deep-fried black pudding. Unfortunately it is served on a slate, a silly affectation, but my companion does wipe that slate clean.

 

And then my chops and chips, a slab of what the Americans call short rib and we call Jacob's ladder, slow-cooked for two days (yes, really) then darkly glazed and served with dripping-fried chips. I want a picture of it on my bedside table. The duck in another main, with rhubarb and fennel, was a little overdone – where was the blood? – but it still tasted properly of animal. Happily, desserts are up to the standard of the rest: a superb orange-flavoured burnt cream; a light, crisp-shelled almond cake in a puddle of syrup, and a riff on Waldorf salad – Stilton ice cream, walnuts, apple jelly, celery, a dash of sherbet – which shouldn't have worked but did. Please go. Sure, your mouth will water, but only because mouths always do. Much more important is this: the food is great. 
 

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New DJ MIX FROM @AUDIOSUSHI X JEFFREY @Disastronaut Boutique / Members club #djmix #podcast #download

new summery pop dance boutique member's club mix from Jeffrey Audio Sushi
can be found here: http://tinyurl.com/Summermix10
if you like, pass it on...

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The Freebutt in Brighton is once again facing closure by Brighton & Hove council [Petition] << Please Support This Venue << please RT and Repost

The Freebutt in Brighton is once again facing closure by Brighton & Hove council following further complaints about noise from their neighbours. The venue already spent a massive amount of time and money to sound proof the building in recent years to appease these people and retain it's live music license. But still they're not happy...

The current issue has arisen following only one noise complaint since the venue re-opened and the councils Environmental Health Department being properly unhelpful by refusing to assist the venue in resolving the problem.
Basically there's some totally miserable bods in Brighton who hate music and are trying their best to bring down a historically thriving live music scene....

The Freebutt has been an important venue for up coming bands and music fans alike for many years now and must continue to exist as such.
Maybe you've never been to the Freebutt... maybe you'll never go there - but if it's the Freebutt in Brighton facing closure today, it's your local venue tomorrow.
Please support the Freebutt, live music everywhere and stick it to the man by signing the online petition > 

More information can be found here > http://savethefreebutt.blogspot.com

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personal note:

Over the years I put on Dozens of gigs at this venue, played there with my bands Disastronaut, Wild Gunman, The Downs, Beaver county, read poetry, DJed and
spent alot of time with the old [the legendary Will - who's now at the Prince Albert near the Station] and new operators -- all have done well. From Anna moulson's
first Melting Vinyl shows - I remember seeing Mogwai here with about 12 people - to all of the punk shows Buzz and his Punk crews, Ska orchestras - 14 strong that somehow
fit on the postage stamp sized stage - to the many wonderful singer songwriters, bands, poets, and totally unclassifiable that went on there. I did run The Lift
and together we were like the trouble twins between us putting on i would guess over 10,000 acts over more than a decade - and however many times I've said
it - I'll say it again - The Freebutt is one of the best little venues in the world and deserves your support and I would urge Brighton Council - especially the
environmental officers there - to work with the venue to resolve this issue. It can be done and I hope you realise that this is a very real asset to the Brighton
and Sussex music scenes and is desperately needed.

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Whirling

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Tonight at the Dogstar Brixton - Tuesday 15th June, 2010 - Dub Pistols DJ Set + Carl Loben Drum Monkeys - Free Cypress Hill Afterparty

Tonight at the Dogstar Brixton - Tuesday 15th June, 2010 - Dub Pistols
DJ Set + Carl Loben Drum Monkeys - Free Cypress Hill Afterparty
11pm-2am
free admission
389 coldharbour Lane brixton
sw9 8lq
020 7733 7515

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my fantastic new Ibiza mix http://tinyurl.com/UJbiza2010 is now up for Urban Junkies on link to download - podcast - here

This is a fabulous new mix for Urban Junkies - one of my best ever - and it showcases some of the big tracks i'll be playing on Ibiza this summer and some of the best new tracks - I hope you enjoy and please feel free to pass this on. All best, Jeffrey

my fantastic new Ibiza mix http://tinyurl.com/UJbiza2010 is now up for Urban Junkies on link to download - podcast - here

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