2017 was the year that Liam Gallagher stopped looking back in anger, and started to eye the future once more. Few could deny the pleasure in seeing his continued re-emergence to the limelight, or say that it hasn’t been one of the best stories of a year in which the…
There’s a cheekiness to Willie J Healey as he talks to the crowd at the Green Door Store. “How’s your day been Brighton? 5/10? We’ll make it 15/10” he says, tongue firmly in cheek. Indeed he does lift the spirits of the Monday night Brighton crowd, too, with his witty…
Since their birth in the turn of the millennia, The Darkness have graced the world with their flamboyant style of glam rock and are one of the few bigger names keeping the genre alive. This band are proof that there is still a great deal of love for true…
Approaching the autumn of his years like a sprinter, Robert Plant shows no sign of slowing down. His restless, nomadic search for sonic inspirations from all corners of the world has continued and the latest results were an exceptional album in Carry Fire, a meditative piece on the passing of…
“This is Brighton, right? The gay capital? Why aren’t I a gay icon?” asks Chrissie Hynde in the middle of The Pretender’s set. It’s said in jest, of course, although there are a fair few women here who – rather audibly – invite her back to theirs, after the show.
Nothing quite beats a bit of older metal. With such a thriving, ever growing scene, metal has joined the saturated stages like so many other styles of music. Amongst the crowds, surely now could be possibly one of the worst times for an older band to reform and push…
Ho99o9 are a volatile band, both on record and live. They’ve been kicked off Warped tours, chucked out of SXSW but, when they are allowed to stay, they give nothing more than 100% which is reciprocated by their devoted, almost unhinged crowds. Their show at The Haunt was no different,…
Jalapeno Records and Soul Casserole joined forces for the first ever Jalapeno Bop at The Old Market on Saturday, featuring Gizelle Smith, Smoove & Turrell and The Allergies, in what can go down as a rousing success and, above all, proof that people still have a hunger and an insatiable…
The RPMs described themselves as a “Rock band, not afraid of a good pop tune”. This is false, however, as there’s no other way about it: they’re a full-blown pop band with killer hooks, anthemic choruses and polished, tween vocals. They’re certainly not going to be for everyone, but this…
It was the first Saturday of December and Brighton was in full festive buzz. The One Church had been taken over by SOTONES, a co-operative from Southampton, who were celebrating their tenth birthday along with a new compilation showcasing some of the bands they have worked with over the last…