Take three bands with a reputation for fierce live intensity, and add a crowd who were not just fired up for the main event but the supports too. Mix them up in a sweaty basement. It’s a perfect recipe for an evening of debauched fun with one of the UK’s…
Findlay haven’t been in the UK for a very long time. “We’ve been out of the country for so long, I almost said danke schoen then. It’s good to be back”, Natalie Findlay says after her first song. It’s good to have her back, too, as she performed an enthralling…
Corey Taylor gets it. “I see too many serious faces at rock shows, it shouldn’t be like that! It should be about having a good time!” Stone Sour are a band that bring some serious good times to whichever arena they fill, and tonight was the Brighton Centre’s turn…
Winner of the Mercury Prize in 2015, Benjamin Clementine has had quite the career. Typically portrayed in a rags to riches narrative, Benjamin has truly shown he is one of the most exciting artists around today. Tonight, however, when he plays the Brighton Dome, following the release of I…
After appearing on the Brightonsfinest radio show and releasing single ‘Revival’, it’s been a pretty big week for Brighton rockers My-Hi. To celebrate, they grabbed loads of friends, three other bands and descended upon their local haunt, Brighton Electric, to put on a single release party. Impressive as it is…
When you’ve been at the game as long as Neil Hannon has (almost 30 years) and when you are as accomplished, adept and adored as he palpably is, you can confidently begin your live set with a pensive, poignant and potentially downbeat, though still oddly uplifting, track like ‘Down In…
There was no place like home for Royal Blood as they ended a hugely successful tour with a blistering show at the Brighton Centre. It is unlikely that any tour in 2017 has been able to boast a line-up like the three bands on display tonight, and they all put…
Nobody is going to deny that the Britpop revival is well and truly in full swing by now. I would probably trace its beginnings as far back as the Blur reunion shows in Hyde Park in 2009, making the revival scene nearly a decade old in itself, but lately things…
Originally a concept designed to (literally) ape the plastic, manufactured bands prevalent on the likes of MTV in the late 1990s, Gorillaz became a global sensation – one of the biggest acts of the last two decades, virtual or otherwise, even threatening to eclipse the success of frontman Damon Albarn’s…
Earlier this year, Pumarosa’s earth shattering debut, The Witch, came into the public domain. The record was a spectacular introduction to the band’s stunningly unique sound and I can assure you, that when the band played their sell out set at Patterns tonight, the already heavenly tracks enter an…