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The Self Help Group, Green Door Store, Brighton
They're a six piece, got 2 guitars, banjo, xylophone and one of those skiffle box drums. They have sad songs, happy songs and gorgeous folky 3 way harmonies and each song has an interesting story behind it ... There's the one about a Seattle based crime solving super hero Phoenix Jones. Then there's the one about some 1930s Glasgow school kids that read a comic book about a vampire that lives in a graveyard, this in turn leads to 200 school kids spending a night in their local cemetery together looking out for said vampire. And then there is the twisted one about the kid that celebrated the end of the world by swimming in a river but then drowned. It's all enough to keep the audience well entertained tonight and for the band to go home having sold some cds and made a few new fans. A Brighton collective worth looking out for.
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