ALWAYS EVERYTHING

AE // THE GREAT ESCAPE

First update here for a while, a precursor to new things soon to come. In the meantime you can follow us on our monthly radio show, the latest instalment of which shall be soon to be available from these very pages.

However, an announcement for anyone within the Brighton area this weekend: Always Everything are going to be hosting the Green Door Store at The Great Escape this Friday (13th May), with a raft of bands and ourselves DJing at the end of the night. If you’re around in the city and fancy a drink get in touch - or if you’re in attendance at the Great Escape come and find our stage and watch some of the music we’ve got booked.

Headlining proceedings will be Planningtorock, the darkened electro-pop chanteuse who recently collaborated with The Knife and Mt. Sims for the Tomorrow, In A Year soundtrack and whose new album W, is a stark and intense listen, playing off a tension between grit and polish.

And we’re particularly excited to present the power duo of Laurel Halo and Gatekeeper. The former’s dreamlike, hazy pop has been a staple listen at AE as of late, her King Felix EP establishing her as a synthetic pop talent to rival her friends and labelmates Oneohtrix Point Never, Ford & Lopatin (nee Games) and Hype Williams. Her recent remix of Sleep∞Over’s ‘Casual Diamond’ sees her heading in a more dancefloor friendly direction - expect something well worth heading across for.

Chicago duo Gatekeeper (not to be confused with the Bristolian dubstepper), meanwhile, work a grinding electro/techno hybrid that finds them within a continuum that stretches forward from Detroit - the aquatic depths of Drexciya and mechanistic dreams of Model 500 - to the current obsession with synth revivalism. Their Giza EP is fantastic, beautifully creepy and well worth tracking down.

Also playing across the day are Chllngr, Idiot Glee, Woodhands, Admiral Fallow, Rachel Sermanni and Woodenbox. We open at 12:45, and Planningtorock plays at midnight - we’ll be on spinning our usual AE friendly mix of brain/body/booty styles after she’s finished.

For more info, check out The Great Escape’s website or drop us a line. See you down the front!