You may be forgiven for thinking a band with the name 'New York Dollies' would be a female cover band of the New York Dolls, well these dollies are much more than that. Yes it is an all female punk cover band… but with a difference! Instead of doing…
The Unitarian Church is a beautiful space, built in the 1820’s in the Greek revival style, but I’ve often found it disappointing as a music venue. It has an insanely high ceiling, which, with the wrong kind of band, can create a cacophony of unwanted reverberations and, despite being very…
The Old Market is a lovely setting for a gig, a vast purpose built theatre style venue which is exactly the sort of space that Brighton lacks for. It was great for us at BrightonsFinest to be able to host some of the best acts we’ve worked with this year…
The last time I saw Laura Veirs play live was nearly four years ago at what was once The Hanbury Ballrooms (now Proud Brighton) shortly after the release of her 2010 album ‘July Flame’. At the time she was heavily pregnant with her first child ‘Tennessee’ and had to play…
I braved the bitterly cold weather one Sunday evening to make it down to the Concorde 2 (Brighton) to see Alt-J (?) who recently released what I would say is one of my favourite albums of the year. The band is incredibly inventive and original in their song writing -…
Last Friday after a hard days work in the office the BrightonsFinest team decided to make a rare group excursion to nearby Lewes having heard that wonderful Mr Sam Walker was going to be providing an evening of solo entertainment – a proposition so enticing we were prepared to miss…
You may not have heard of Oxjam before but it's a bit like The Great Escape for charity. A number of venues around the town allow you entry with a wristband brought from…
This was my first visit to the Komedia’s downstairs venue since they converted upstairs to the ‘Duke’s at Komedia’ cinema and carried out renovations throughout the building. Having known and liked it previously I initially found it an unnerving experience to arrive for Ethan Johns show in what had become…
It was an unseasonably rainy night for Flash Bang Band’s album launch at The Green Door Store on Sunday so I was tempted to remain cosy at home, but if I started the autumn that way I wasn’t going to get to many gigs and the line-up looked fantastic so…
I was on my own for our third BrightonsFinest night at The Hope, with the rest of the team ensconced in recording sessions or gallivanting off on holiday. It turns out they missed out on a great turn out and a really fantastic night of entertainment. I had not even…