I’ve been a big fan of the Moulettes since I discovered their quirky chamber-folk sound back in 2010 at the late night tents of Secret Garden Party Festival. With their high energy and sensational stage presence, Moulettes always guarantee an audience with smiles from ear to ear and achy bones…
I'd heard a lot of great things about AK/DK but never seen them live so I was really looking forward to this ‘free party’ they were holding at the Green Door Store to celebrate the imminent release of their debut album 'SYNTHS + DRUMS + NOISE + SPACE' on LittleMissEcho…
'Spectrum' is a new night once a month to showcase Brighton based talent at the Dome Studio Theatre which follows on from the previous 'Source New Music Night' and now sponsored by Resident Records, who are celebrating their 10th year in business as well as finalists for The Music Week…
Manic Street Preachers were on fine form for their show at the Brighton Centre. As I collected my ticket I remembered having seen the band for the first time at the same venue 18 years ago when they were touring ‘Everything Must Go’. Back then, at the height of their…
Following the recent release of their latest album ‘Choir of Echoes’, Peggy Sue returned to the UK after touring Europe and their first stop was their hometown of Brighton. I’d been listening to Choir of Echoes all day and was excited to see how the tracks would transfer live…
Just over a week after Brighton SOURCE announced their departure from the world of free print magazines I find myself heading to Brighton Unsigned Magazine's triumphant relaunch show at The Hope. It's a testament to the vibrancy of Brighton's cultural life that we'll always find room for this sort of…
Only very occasionally does there come a gig where all the ingredients for a perfect storm seem to coalesce. BBC are riding high, very high… number one with their new album, and well deserved too. It’s heartening to see, especially in this day and age, a band with strong artistic…
I’ve been a big fan of The Correspondents since I first discovered them at Secret Garden Party a few years ago so I could not wait to see them again at one of my all time favourite Brighton venues – The Concorde 2. Luckily I managed to catch the support…
A surprising thing about Midlake is the inadvertently real (or otherwise) myths they seem to regularly generate. First, there’s the ‘fact’ that Bella Union’s boss Simon Raymonde signed them on the basis of a recording he heard – they had never gigged outside their home state of Texas, and Raymonde…
After hearing all the hype about TOY over the last few years, I was really looking forward to seeing them live for the first time. Their latest release ‘Join The Dots’ is absolutely mesmerising, and after listening as a new fan, I couldn’t wait to see how TOY would…