OK, it's been a busy weekend of top socials and I'm about to crack on with recording more material for my debut album. Well let me say that was the case........... Then about almost 4 hours ago I sat down to zap a blog out to anyone who is interested in what I'm getting up 2 behind these closed little doors. Bloggin, I just don't do as often as I should, the main reason is that there are so many social networking sites on the go now and I want to speak to everyone on every network!! I'm sat here with my eyes burning in front of this computer and I've lost all of tonights recording time. So to try get around the fact that I'm sick of transferring my comments around different sites, because I'm well F**KED OFF with it!!! I've just joined iLike to see if I can communicate with you guys easier. I have a myspace page I hope this will appear on plus face book and a dead bebo page that I just haven't been near for ages.

So now I've spent most of the night setting things up, I hope I haven't wasted my time. If anyone knows any better, please tell me, cause I'm apparently a musician not content manager or whatever you call this type of crazy WEB-F**KOLOGY????????????

So anyhow, eyes cracking and hangover throbbing in a hideous way I can now tell you that I am very happy to be on the books now with Funky Jam who are to represent me as my UK agent. So watch this tiny self replicating space (so iLike promise me!!) as it should be filling up with lots of 'Talking Dead' tour dates. Oh yeah, I'm gonna upload the now official 'Talking Dead' cover with this blog, as that came in on Friday and I'm chuft with it.

So guys, I will be disappearing into my little secret rehearsal cellar to rehearse up for live over the next couple of days, but I will be surfacing from underneath that certain Brighton pub to check in soon.

If I don't, I've probably got home and found out this iLike Blog thing hasn't worked and legged my computer out of the window!!!!

Soon, Ocean ;-)

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Location: Devils Dyke
Street: Devils Dyke Road
Town/City: Brighton, United Kingdom

Contact Info:
Phone: 01273666363
Email: info@beachdownfestival.com

BeachDown Festival will set up camp on the outskirts of Brighton this August Bank Holiday, sprawling itself across the green, green grass of the South Downs.

The festival promises to deliver a whole lot more than its peers; expect a plethora of music genres, big name acts and a healthy diet featuring only the finest locally sourced, organic eats and treats.

From Friday 22nd – Monday 25th August, BeachDown Festival will resonate across the South Downs in East Sussex. Finally music lovers from the south east of England will have the accessible, quality music festival that it has been longing for. In fact, quality is the name of the game for BeachDown, with its organisers hell bent on providing the very best of everything, from heavenly hygiene to the finest of foods.

The line-up will delight a range of musical taste buds, with stages showcasing a host of genres. BeachDown will not only be bringing high profile names to the Sussex coast but it will also be taking advantage of the abundance of talent that exists on the Brighton music scene by showcasing the cream of local talent. Expect some of the most classic names to appear alongside cutting edge bands and performers.

Line up includes:

St Etienne
Grandmaster Flash
Norman Jay
Gilles Peterson
The Blockheads
Ocean Reid
The Beautiful Word
Portslade
Chris Simmons
Seeker
Two Spot Gobi
Rebel Control
Mean Poppa Lean
Sweet Sweet Lies
Gloria Cycles
The Perils
Sugarhill Gang
James Taylor Quartet
The New Mastersounds
The Fall
Dreadzone
Secret Affair
Jah Shaka Sound System – 3 day residency
Jazzanova
The Apples
Jazz cotech Dancers
Nostalgia 77 Octet
Prince Buster

BeachDown aims to position itself as the fundamental representative of Brighton’s musical and cultural diversity. The team of people responsible for the festival are all part of Brighton’s ever growing music industry and they are ensuring that the very best local bands, club nights, record labels and DJ’s are all involved – more details soon!

BeachDown will take place on the outskirts of Brighton, upon acres of picturesque farmland close to Devils Dyke. The festival experience will be efficient, easy and versatile.
Camping facilities will be available in addition to a fleet of shuttle buses running both day and night into Brighton. The festival will make room for a throng of 15,000 music fans and festival goers, with a projected camping capacity of 11,000. A full weekend pass will be the steal of the century priced at £85.

The food stalls on site will offer locally sourced and organic menus, some of which will be offered by local brand name restaurants such as Pintxo People and Terre a Terre. Even more impressive, the event aims to be one of the most carbon neutral music festivals to grace our fair countryside.

Beachdown are proud of our goal to be as environmentally friendly as possible and thus are operating a dedicated park-and-ride shuttle-bus service around-the-clock to get all festival-goers to and from site quickly and efficiently.

As many of our shuttle-buses will be fuelled by cooking oil as possible and the No 77 bus route from Brighton also has an unrivalled environmental record and takes just 20 minutes from central Brighton to the site. A full timetable for all routes will be published shortly.

www.beachdownfestival.com for tickets & info.

All the latest activities, tunes and updates for Ocean Reid are available from the following sites:

http://www.oceanreid.com

Official Face Book page:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ocean-...

Or if you have a myspace:

http://www.myspace.com/oceanreid

Or stream material from 'Drifting in the Wilderness' from last.fm:

http://www.last.fm/music/ocean+reid

Beachdown Updates!!

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Beachdown Updates on Tiscali:

http://www.tiscali.co.uk/festivals/f...

Los Albertos and Drookit Dogs are among the local bands set to play this year's Beachdown Festival.

Brighton-based acts Mean Poppa Lean, Sweet Sweet Lies, Gloria Cycles and The Perils have been confirmed for event in a bid to support talent from the region.

Other bands confirmed include The Beautiful Word, Portslade, Ocean Reid, Chris Simmons, Seeker, Two Spot Gobi and reggae act Rebel Control.

Speaking today's announcement organiser Joe Pidgeon said: "Beachdown is all about creating a festival that is uniquely Brighton. As well as Beachdown’s international line-up of acts I think this is one of the main reasons for last year’s event being such a success."

The bands will join an already impressive line-up including The Blockheads, St Etienne, Grandmaster Flash and Norman Jay. Click HERE for the latest line-up.

Shoreditch venue Favela Chic will also bring their vibe to the bash with a four-day residency in a purpose-built arena at the festival. Described as a restaurant, menagerie, circus, bordello, concept, art space, club, sound, party and bar, the residency looks to be very interesting indeed.

Beachdown Festival 2009 takes place at Devil's Dyke, Sussex from 28-31 August.

Early bird tickets are already on sale for £85. These come with one free child ticket (3-12 years old) and the choice of a complimentary deck chair, two T-Shirts or drinks tokens that can be redeemed in any of the bars on site.

There are also 500 reduced rate child tickets on sale for £45. All children under the age of two get in for free.