Music Saves Worthing

24/09/2026

In a few hours we will be at the Cellar Arts Club CIC for The Defining Ten with...JON SLADE (Huggy Bear/ Comet Gain) where we discuss and play the eclectic 10 songs which have defined and made Jon Slade the musician he is…followed by a stripped back electro acoustic set.

We still have tickets available at www.musicsaves.co.uk and possibly will have some left on the door.

To get you in a final mood, here’s a camcorder show of Huggy Bear performing with the Frumpies

https://youtu.be/54om_yDLbqY?is=OBdZgEA6UHNFORZC

23/09/2026

This time tomorrow we will be half way through The Defining Ten with...JON SLADE (Huggy Bear/ Comet Gain) - been making notes on his very eclectic choice of songs to play and discuss - some new ones to me I’m excited to hear!

Tickets are still available over at www.musicsaves.co.uk

In the meantime, another Huggy Bear track, the low key Single Bullets, taken from their “Rubbing The Impossible to Burst” ep…with a video showing the band and Bikini Kill in London, the 1994 UK video zine documentary "Getting Close To Nothing.”

https://youtu.be/wot-r0SZ3oQ?is=8jmFUJrY102Xnkme

Huggy Bear and Bikini Kill on tour in London, from the 1994 UK vide...

22/09/2026

Here’s Huggy Bear’s February 14th - a track which according to Discogs came on One-sided white label 7" given away at the Huggy Bear/ Blood Sausage/ Linus gig at The Richmond, Brighton, on February 14th 1993.... and this video is apparently made up of footage from the Scala sizzle-meet all-nighter in London 28th November 1992.

It’s quite a happening and it’s freaking me out!

For more Huggy Bear related fun, THIS Thursday we have Jon Slade from the band at the in discussing the 10 songs that have defined his creative career, followed by a stripped back electro acoustic set which (spoilers) will see some additional guests accompanying Jon, which is going to be very special!

Tickets available at www.musicsaves.co.uk!

https://youtu.be/BS8NK83JyJ4?is=0siAsX0JhUjiYWtw

Huggy Bear February 14th video by Mark / Michael at PERPETUAL c.199...

17/09/2026

At this time in one week we’ll be opening the doors at the Cellar Arts Club in for
The Defining Ten with...JON SLADE (Huggy Bear/ Comet Gain) where Jon will be discussing the 10 songs that have defined his creative career, followed by a stripped back electro acoustic set.

Here’s a great retrospective piece on Huggy Bear, which coincided with the release of the Killed (of kids) book

Tickets for the event available now at musicsaves.co.uk

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/nov/22/huggy-bear-radical-politics-riot-grrrl-causing-chaos-live-tv

They said they’d exist for three years, then split. And that’s what the British punks did, winning love and notoriety for their feminist, q***r worldview. Thirty years on, a new book tells their story

15/09/2026

Jon Slade would go on to join Comet Gain in the early 00s, who would then release the album Realistes in 2002.

The album featured the track Ripped Up Suit which was highlighted by critics as one of the strongest tracks on the album. Aptly for Jon and the Huggy Bear/ riot grrrl link this track would feature Katherine Hanna of Bikini Kill

See Jon talk about the 10 songs which have defined his creative career followed by a stripped back electro acoustic performance at The Defining Ten with...JON SLADE (Huggy Bear/ Comet Gain) at the Cellar Arts Club CIC in NEXT THURSDAY.

Tickets available from musicsaves.co.uk

https://youtu.be/-IDRhuTfwiM?is=qC1AVc_vYXnSNP--

"Ripped-Up Suit!" from the Realistes album by Comet Gain. Out now ...

12/09/2026

In less than 2 weeks we welcome Jon Slade of act Huggy Bear and indie darlings Comet Gain to discuss the 10 songs that have defined him and his creative gear, followed by a stripped back electro acoustic set.

Details of the event at The Defining Ten with...JON SLADE (Huggy Bear/ Comet Gain)

Here’s Huggy Bear’s “notorious” raucous performance of Her Jazz from The Word

Huggy Bear performing Her Jazz on The Word, plus a few snippets of ...

07/09/2026

Crikey. 10 years ago…Meat Loaf Meet Luth (but we don’t talk about it)

Signed a ridiculous pile of records much to his manager’s annoyance. Oops.

06/09/2026

In all honesty, for all my love of vinyl, I still don't get how it works :) Obviously witchcraft, yeah (oh, no, that's knitting...my tiny brain can't comprehend that)

As I've always said, music is a never ending journey of discovery and education, which is one of the joys of it to me.

But this has to be one of the best things I've ever seen (with interactive elements) explaining how "vinyls" work

(Even though I STILL don't get it completely, especially that stereo 45 degrees perpendicular double walls)

Have a play and learn something new everyday

An interactive exploration of how record players work: from a stylus, grooves, and magnets to the RIAA curve and playback speed.

05/09/2026