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Minds Eye Promotions Eastbourne is back for another instalment of their original showcase nights at The Grove Theatre. 3 unique acts for £7 advance. This month for your viewing pleasure, they are hosting Hastings-based record label Property Of The Lost for a takeover featuring Frank From Blue Velvet with their unique brand of Americana filled with soul searching, redemption and damnation- Column 258 who offer psychadelia and shamanic grade rituals in sound- and garage proto punks Thee Headshrinkers with some of the best balaclavas money can buy.

Property Of The Lost:
POTL is a Hastings record label. "It's not just for Hastings bands, but when you live in a bonkers music town like this, it seems the ratio to be naturally bent in that way." Says Label owner Karl Horton ?I'm sure some of the bands on the label wouldn't call themselves punk, I think they all have a bit of it, in spirit at least." The label rosta is a broad church though.. Ska rockers King Prawn released their latest vinyl album through the label, you got the garage influenced X Ray Cat Trio and Thee Headshrinkers, stoner fuzz merchants Wytch Pycknyck, the melancholic twang of Frank From Blue Velvet, the glam stomp of Daemonik Fonce and newest to the POTL camp, psych jazz experimentalists Column258. "All the bands are real hard to pigeon hole which, let me tell you, is a pain in the arse when you're trying to promote them..." Which makes every sale, every play, a small victory hard won.

Frank From Blue Velvet:
When Ogs (from the infamous punk band Peter and The Test Tube Babies) and dark country singer Andrew J Davies started thinking about playing the pubs of Hastings, they quickly realised that a two-piece outfit wouldn?t deliver on their ambitious sound. After a few lineup changes, the band evolved into a family affair with Davies? daughter on bass.
Their sound is an eclectic mix of post-punk blended rock Americana with elements of gospel, blues, and rockabilly.
Lyrically their songs are dark and laced with biting wit. The band has recently been featured in Vive Le Rock magazine, played on Radio 6 Music, and completed a 10- date stadium tour of Germany, supporting Peter and The Test Tube Babies and performing to stadium audiences.

Column 258:
Hastings 6-piece art rock experimental collective,
combining spoken word + improv, addictive grooves and electric atmosphere.
Their songs are full powered performances, interweaving wild poetry with strings, brass and soaring guitars,
The band often play against a backdrop of projected films and have a live dancer.
Each vocalist having unique styles of attack and delivery from Robert Wyatt to Jim Morrison and Tom Waits. This band is all about the psych sounds of kraut and freakout 60s jazz crossed with punk and delta blues

Thee headshrinkers:
Inspired by The Eighties Match Box B-Line Disaster, The Fall and the Sex Pistols, Thee Headshrinkers have raw power with Songs driven by the bass line, with no middle eight, making repetition an art form.
Vocals spit and sneer but touch on the pop sensibilites of The Mary Chain.
Gino?s turns his Vox Phantom into a full fuzz incendiary device, all held together by Stiv?s fast and loose garage beat.
From playing 20 capacity basement gigs, 2024 has seen the masked crusaders star rising with promoters and venues across the country asking for their attendance.
Rautious, unapologetic and direct!

Supported by public funds by @acegrams with thanks to @eastbournemusic

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1 Grove Road,

Eastbourne,

East Sussex,

England,

BN21 4TL.