Live Reviews

Combining a film with a gig, Brighton's Levellers are currently enjoying the limelight again. Following last years' 25th anniversary celebrations, the band have just released a career retrospective and are the subject of a superb documentary, A Curious Life, which is being shown at film festivals in conjunction with a…

Is psychedilia back? Australia has already got neo-pych rock in the charts with bands such as Tame Impala and Pond, and there are a whole host of South American bands pushing the limits of the genre. I would say it is. UK bands like BEAK>, Clinic, and the Temples who…

“She’s been silencing rooms in drunken bars for a long time”, said Kyp Malone from TV On The Radio. You can definitely imagine this scene with her songs in the background. Sharon’s transfixing music and emotionally blunt lyrics could crack the toughest of hearts. After her exceptional breakthrough album, ‘Tramps’…

With a grin from ear to ear, baring the famous DeMarco teeth, army patterned dungarees with a cartoon top poking through and his shiny Gibson guitar – Mac Demarco bounced onto the Concorde 2 stage to greet the uncontrollably excited audience and gleefully announced ‘this song’s called Salad Days’ and…

The idea of Spectrum is to show case Brighton’s finest talent, whether it’s a band at the beginning of their life or one that is already established. November’s showcase featured three groups that were more on the lavish and exuberant side of things. Euphony are a band who will guarantee to…

It's been two years since this five-piece have played live, and it was touch and go that they would do this show, let alone any others. Ben Ottewell, one of three singers in the band (and one of three guitarists to boot) had intimated that the band may not get…

I first found out about Submotion Orchestra after hearing a few amazing songs of their remixes album ‘Finest Hour’ – one of those albums being as good as the original. I then brought a copy of the original ‘Finest Hour’ which absolutely blew me away. The mix of soulful acoustic…

The people brave enough to venture out to The Haunt on a cold, drizzly Sunday night were rewarded with warmth, beer (that wasn’t warm) and rock’n’roll! There were decibels (lots of), barre chords (lots and lots of), expletives (not quite as many as there were barre chords) and 22 –…

People attending Saturday’s gig at The Hope did not walk away disappointed. It was a night packed with variety, memorable performance and quality. As gigs go, it ticked an awful lot of boxes.   Realms opened proceedings; a duo consisting of a boy on drums, girl on guitar and vocals.