Live Reviews

Founded all the way back in 2006, Bury Tomorrow are a success story of a band who have truly come from the bottom to the top through their style of hardcore metal which is sure to get the fists flying and the crowd surfers surfing. Tonight, this brutal…

Even as autumn approaches and the temperatures begin to drop, Metronomy are one of those bands that seem to exist only in a world filled with sunny days and summer nights. Led by former Brighton resident Joseph Mount, the electropop band are now back up to full strength as…

Both on the stage and in the stalls, the Tru Thoughts party faithful was out in force for a celebration of all the label has achieved. New blood stood on the same bill as their most celebrated acts – and in a twist of birthday traditions, it was the…

Originally commissioned in 2015, GoGo Penguin resurrected their original score for Godfrey Reggio’s cult film Koyaanisqatsi for one fascinating night at the Dome. With the progressive jazz trio playing live to the film, it was a rare and artful performance, unlikely to be repeated any time soon.

“Everything you create is a reflection of where you’re at”. So said Nick Mulvey when discussing the themes of his current album Wake Up Now recently. Finding himself dissatisfied with the original set of demos (describing them as too clinical), the former member of Portico Quartet concentrated on…

On the last leg of their Raskit UK tour, Dizzee Rascal and Donae’o put on a show that left a hot and sweaty Dome audience breathless and spinning. Raskit, the sixth studio album from the Londoner, was a triumphant return to form and a necessary course-correction following The Fifth’s…

Jane Weaver arrived at The Haunt after an incredible couple of years. Not only did she release her best album, The Silver Globe, in 2014 but she followed it up with two of her best. Her latest release, Modern Kosmology, is a wonderful foray into psychedelic-pop with influences from…

“Guitar music is dead!” You can bet your house that every so often when pop music is on top, a piece of lazy writing in a music magazine posits that there are no more good guitar bands – usually accompanied by a quote from an ageing rock star…

Every time Jordan Rakei comes to town, his show sells out. You couldn’t move for fans eager to see him perform material from his new album Wallflower for the first time in Brighton – an album which has seen the 25-year-old singer push beyond the narrow classification of ‘soul singer’.