Wednesday 11 June 2008

'We'll stop when wrinkles appear'

DARK grey clouds are gathering over the end of Brighton Pier.

A few OAPs sit eating fish and chips, while teenagers throng the amusement
arcade.

Over in Horatio’s Bar, an anonymous pub at the pier end, the sound of
Alphabeat’s shimmering sunny pop is playing, brightening up the otherwise
gloomy day.

The young Danish sextet’s music harks back to the pop heyday of the Eighties
and early Nineties.

I join singer Anders SG and female co-vocalist, Stine Bramsen at their
sound-check, plus songwriter and guitarist Anders B who tells me: