I arrived to a large friendly crowd at Bleach just as a band started playing, they didn't introduce themselves – actually they didn't say much at all throughout, presumably preferring to concentrate on their musical performance. I thought, from the stage times posted online, that they must have been main…
Thieves By The Code were first on and, having just reviewed their début album 'Tales From The Green Muse' I was really looking forward to seeing the band live. The band themselves were in high spirits, this was the first of a series of dates they were playing in a…
Oxjam is a national music festival run entirely by volunteers to raise money for the good work Oxfam do to support some of the poorest people in the world. Brighton has been partaking in this fund-raising festivities for a number of years and it has slowly been gaining momentum. This…
I was extremely excited about this show as I've been following the collaboration between Omar Rodríguez-López and Cedric Bixler-Zavala since 'One Armed Scissor' was a breakthrough single for their band At The Drive-In way back in 2000. At The Drive-In surprised everyone by splintering into two groups after the Relationship…
On a night of torrential downpour, we walked into the large entrance hall of The Concorde. The band were getting ready to commence their set so my colleague and I grabbed a cold glass of beer before settling ourselves at the front of the crowd to gain a good spot…
Walking through the doors, the upstairs of The Hope, I was met by the smell of incense and walls plastered with pictures of the band – work by the talented 6th member of Dark Horses, Ali Tollervey. This was the start of the Dark Horses experience.
I first heard of Ebo Taylor at the beginning of 2014 with their song ‘Love And Death’ (now one of my all-time favourite songs), which consequently opened my mind to the brilliant wealth of Highlife and Afrobeat sounds that are out there. Born 1936 in Ghana, he soon became a…
I was lucky enough to spend a few days with Dobet Gnahoré as she started her UK tour, organised buy Brighton based African Night Fever, to promote her new album 'Na Dre'. I first meet her at Marina Studios during one of the torrential downpours we’ve have been having recently.
After tickets selling out within an hour of them being available, I was one of the lucky ones who managed to get their hands on a golden ticket to see the highly anticipated FKA Twigs at the Dome Studio. This was the first show of the tour and she certainly…
Tom Vek is probably a name that sounds familiar. Go back to nearly a decade ago when Indie was all the rage, ‘We Have Sounds’ (2005) was released and Tom Vek announced himself onto the music scene. I first picked up on him 5 years later when he released his…