XMAS PARTY!

The Rock House @ The Green Door Store
***THE BEST XMAS PARTY IN BRIGHTON***

With -

THE COASTERS
Dance to the Roots Rhythm of Crawley

OCTOPUSES
alt indie dance from the bottom of the (Brighton) sea.

SABIEN GATOR
Infectious rock jams, previewing songs from their forthcoming 'Metopera'!

FUZZBOMB FLASH BAND
Hazy dream-pop from Brighton

DEDJI & RYAN
Improvised Freestyle Chaotic Rap

LOUIS WALKDEN
Larger than life pop

The best and most forward thinking integrated music night in the UK.

Doors at 6:30pm
Music from 7:00pm - 10pm
£3 entry (carers free/donation)

Halloween 2015! Westhill next week!

Hey, last month's Rock House was incredible! We had such a good turn out & all the bands were so good. The nights at the Green Door Store just get better and better!

You can see some photos of the night here, and here's a video of Zombie Crash opening their set with 'Halloween 2008'...



WOAH!

Also, I just wanted to remind you of next week's Rock House @ Westhill, which is looking like this -

Tuesday the 17th November 2015

The Westhill Hall, Compton Avenue, Seven Dials,
Brighton, BN1 3PS

Playing -

Beat Express
We Rise From The Fallen (debut Brighton gig!)
Dancing Rock Queens
The Rock House Band
Cossima

Doors open at 7pm.

£3 entry (carers free/donation)

Can't wait, see you there!

Photos from September's Rock House!

Photos from Sarah Watson & Dave Lavis of last month's Rock House at the Westhill Hall!

Catherine O'Rourke - 

Daniel Wakeford - 

The Dancing Rock Queens - 

HALLOWEEN!!!

The Rock House @ The Green Door Store

***HALLOWEEN PARTY!***

With - 

ZOMBIE CRASH

Devastating stages since the dawn of time

THE REVS

Imaginative, catchy rock with a great frontman

RICHARD ROCK N ROLL

Improvised wild Rock n Roll from the man himself

DANIEL WAKEFORD

The best pop-star in the world ever finally playing his long awaited Halloween song

The best and most forward thinking integrated music night in the UK.

Doors at 7pm

Music from 7:30pm - 10pm

£3 entry (carers free/donation)

Tomorrow, the Rock House returns!

Hello all!

Hope you've all had a great summer and enjoyed the break! This email is to let you know The Rock House is back tomorrow at The Westhill Hall. Here are the details -

Tuesday the 15th September 2015

at The Westhill Hall, Compton Avenue, Seven Dials,
Brighton, BN1 3PS

Doors open at 7pm.

£3 entry (carers free/donation)
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With music from -

Dancing Rock Queens
Delta 7
Catherine O'Rourke
Fuzzbomb Flash Band
Jade

+ The Rock House Band (for people who want to show up and play in a band!)

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See you there!

Richard

Something New for the Old School

Check out this video of 2Decks from last month's Rock House @GDS... Performing 'Something New for the Old School' with a full band for the first time!

Summer Rock House - next week!

Hi all!

We have The Rock House next week, on Tuesday the 21st July. We're finally back at the Green Door Store (GDS) after 3 months away! This will be the last one before our Summer break over August. To celebrate the start of summer (although it feels like it's already started!) we're having the greatest pop-start to grace the Rock House stage come and bring the joy... Daniel Wakeford! Joining him will be 2Decks, for the first time ever at The Rock House with a full band which i'm sure will not to be missed. We've also invited London indie-punk trio Witching Waves down from London to join in play & also be Ryan & Dedji's backing band! Last but not least... after his Rock House debut last week went down a storm we've invited back Louis Walkden to open the whole thing. EXCITING! Here are the details...

Daniel Wakeford

2Decks (full band)

Witching Waves

Ryan & Dedji (feat. Witching Waves

Louis Walkden

It's going to be a great night!

To get you in the mood here is an incredible video of when Daniel represented the UK at the Song For Europe contest a few years ago...

The details - 

The Green Door Store

Unit 2, 3, & 4 Trafalgar Arches, 

Lower Goods Yard, 

Brighton Train Station,

BN1 4FQ 

Tuesday 21st July 2015

@ GDS

Doors at 7pm

Music from 7:30pm - 9:30pm

£3 entry (carers free/donation)

Facebook Event

See you next week!

Richard & The Rock House crew.

Review of April's Rock House!

This is a review written by David Frampton about April's Rock House at the Westhill Hall... written for the MIND blog in Brighton.

Thanks David!

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The Rock House presents:

The Fish Police, Zombie Crash, Sauna Youth, Richard Rock n Roll, Fuzz Bomb Flash Band

The West Hill centre 21/4/2015

Ever since the Halloween bash last year I’ve been tuned on to the Rock House providing a stage for bands with learning disabilities and non-learning disabilities. Mixing up any genre from metal, hip hop, fuzz pop and outsider rock n’ roll to future funk. Sadly I missed Zombie Crash and Fuzz Bomb Flash Band this time due to childcare commitments at the start of the evening. I haven’t seen Fuzz Bomb..but I have seen Zombie Crash who last Halloween decimated the stage with one of the most intense metal gigs I have ever seen rivalling the likes of High On Fire for crushing power.

Richard Rock n Roll devoted his set to a personal tragedy that had happened and touchingly delivered un-self consciously and emotionally his feelings onstage. The backing band provided by members of Sauna Youth bashed out a pretty solid scuzzy overdriven vibe allowing Richard Rock N Roll to really express himself. Sauna Youth came on stage driving though a thrashy fast paced fuzz attack with some pretty natty shifts in structure elevating the rock n roll chaos. With the stage suitably warmed up and the fun factor notched up to 9 it was time for Fish Police to round it up to an 11.

There isn’t one person in that building last night that didn’t become an instant fan. Linked to creative art space Heart And Soul, Fish Police already have a stupendous unclassifiable album out “The Marzipan Transformations” which takes in Kraftwerk, Future funk, rap and pop. The West Hill was transformed as the electronic environs of the LP were replaced by a full band set up. The energy was exuberant and the band were on fire! Already anthemic classics “Black Scissors”, “Chicken Nuggets For Me” and “Coco Butter” were played confidently and with guts creating a mid-week party vibe that I’m still buzzing off. The West Hill has become a cult location for bringing together random strands of the community to celebrate under one celebration: music. The Rock House once again celebrated this with a unique evening that proved spectacular, fun, accepting and all embracing. I’ll be definitely searching out the next one!

Eurovision Party!

Hi everyone, 

Wanted to say a massive thanks to everyone that came out to last month's Rock House, it was such an incredible night! We had the best turn out we've ever had, even with the last minute move to the Westhill Hall... and the bands were SO GOOD. We're currently sorting out the line-up for our summer gig at GDS (The Green Door Store) and it looks like it's going to be just as brilliant. Exciting times. 

So on to next week... we have the Rock House at the Westhill on Tuesday the 19th May. We will be having a little party to mark something very special... As you should all know by now, Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivät (or PKN for short!) have made it through to the Eurovision song contest. This is a big deal for us as Constant Flux organised their first ever UK Tour back in 2013 with Rock House favourites Zombie Crash, released their album, "Coffee Not Tea" in the UK and helped out with their second UK tour in December 2014. We basically love PKN, think their music is amazing but also they are helping promote the amazing things that musicians with learning disabilities are achieving worldwide... Also, they're the first ever punk band at Eurovision!

To celebrate all this we're having a load of amazing bands play AND we're going to be streaming PKN's performance in their heats live (and watch them definitely get through!) so you don't need to worry about missing it. We're having...

Sabien Gator

The Hit Party Crashers

The Rock House Band

Beat Express

Richard Rock 'n' Roll

+ PKN @ Eurovision streamed live!

The details - 

The Westhill Hall

Compton Avenue, 

Seven Dials, 

Brighton, BN1 3PS

Tuesday the 19th May

Doors at 7pm

Music from 7:30pm - 9:30pm

£3 entry (carers free/donation)

April's Rock House now at The Westhill Hall!

Hi everyone, 

Just a quick message to let you know that we've had to move the Rock House on Tuesday April 21st to The Westhill Hall... Unfortunately the Green Door store double booked us and we had to find somewhere last minute! 

It is a shame as it was going to be a celebration of our first year of gigs there... Ah well, the show must go on!

We still think it's going to be an amazing night, we'll move up on to the stage to create more room as we think it's going to be a busy one, as we have...

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The Fish Police
Future funk you should all know about

Zombie Crash
Destroying stages since 2009

Sauna Youth
A bunch of punks from London

Richard Rock 'n' Roll
Improvised rock n roll to excite and invigorate

Fuzz Bomb Flash Band
Ethereal pop from Brighton

Woah!

Hopefully it's already in the diary, you just need to change the venue ;)

The Westhill Hall
Compton Avenue,
Seven Dials,
Brighton, BN1 3PS
Doors at 7pm
£3 entry (carers free/donation)

See you there!!

xx

Spring has sprung...

Hello! 

Thanks to everyone for coming down to February's Valentines Special last month! It was a really great night, a massive thanks to The Get Rids too for stepping up and filling in after Keel Her had to cancel last minute... them playing with The Rock House Band was absolutely incredible!

Here's your reminder that the next Rock House is next Tuesday on the 17th March, this time back at The Westhill Hall, with a whole manner of amazing musicians and bands... including (but not limited to!)

Beat Express

Daniel Wakeford

Jade

Richard Rock 'n' Roll

+ more!

The details - 

The Westhill Hall

Compton Avenue, 

Seven Dials, 

Brighton, BN1 3PS

Tuesday the 17th March

Doors at 7pm

Music from 7:30pm - 9:30pm

£3 entry (carers free/donation)

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Also wanted to give you a heads-up about the next gig at the Green Door Store, on the 21st April! We're celebrating a year of gigs at the Green Door Store with an amazing plethora of bands... with our special guests still to be announced! Check out more details of at the Facebook event.

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See you there!

Valentines Day Massacre!

Hi All,

Just a reminder about two events that are coming up... Firstly in 11 days we have our first gig of the year at the Green Door Store... our Valentines (ish) special! 

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On Tuesday the 17th Feb we have playing - 

Too Hot For Candy

Channelling Prince & Sly and the Family Stone, music you can really party to!

KEEL HER

GO! Incredible bedroom pop from London 

DANCING ROCK QUEENS

Edward Scissorhands, how were you made?

CATHERINE O'ROURKE

80's reverb soaked pop 

SABIEN GATOR

Psych-rock fantasists

ROCK HOUSE BAND

Improvised set to excite and invigorate

The Green Door Store

Unit 2, 3, & 4 Trafalgar Arches, 

Lower Goods Yard, 

Brighton Train Station,

BN1 4FQ 

Tuesday the 17th February 2015

Doors at 7pm

Music from 7:30pm - 9:30pm

£3 entry (carers free/donation)

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SECONDLY we have the incredible ZOMBIE CRASH playing at The Green Door Store on Saturday the 14th February (a real Valentines day massacre!). They are playing with the amazing Hey Colossus and Workin Man Noise Unit... details below!

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The Green Door Store

Unit 2, 3, & 4 Trafalgar Arches, 

Lower Goods Yard, 

Brighton Train Station,

BN1 4FQ 

Saturday the 14th February 2015

Doors at 7:30pm

Tickets £6 in advance from Resident/TST/www.gigantic.com

or £7 on door (Carers go free)

See you there!!!

Welcome to 2015!

Happy New Year, hope you had a good break and are looking forward to 2015!

Thanks so much to everyone that came down to the Xmas Party at the Green Door Store. The place was completely packed and the music and atmosphere was totally amazing, it was the best Xmas party yet! 

See some photos of the night RIGHT HERE!

The next Rock House is next Tuesday on the 20th January, this time back at The Westhill Hall, with a whole manner of amazing musicians and bands...

The details - 

The Westhill Hall

Compton Avenue, 

Seven Dials, 

Brighton, BN1 3PS

Tuesday the 20th January

Doors at 7pm

Music from 7:30pm - 9:30pm

£3 entry (carers free/donation)

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Also wanted to give you a heads-up about the next gig at the Green Door Store, on the 17th February - The Valentine's Special! We've got a really great line-up sorted for you which you can find out more details of at the Facebook event.

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See you there!