Oh how I love Ron Sexsmith! This must have been my sixth or seventh time seeing him play live, but even before I arrived I had the highest of expectations for the night. It was the first time in a long while I’d seen him on tour accompanied by…
A break in the glum weather has finally hit for Brighton, the suns out, the wind has settled. So what could be better than an evening of wrenching heartbreak songs courtesy of Luke Sital-Singh? I need myself grounded back in reality. The Hope tonight is packed and the…
Tonight in Camden there is a huge amount of excitement from the audience. The Cribs are playing to celebrate ten years of their Men’s Needs album. Everyone is tense with anticipation and just waiting for their heroes to come on stage. Heroes really isn’t an exaggeration either, the crowd…
THURSDAY This year I was off-duty from the main Great Escape Festival, leaving it in the capable hands of our growing team of writers and photographers (and writer-photographers), I instead dipped into the free festival which runs alongside the main event every year, taking over any left-over scraps of venues…
I’d first heard Thee Oh Sees back in 2012 when I was working at a record shop in London and they released their Putrifiers ii album. The album had gripped me from its opening track ‘Wax Face’. It was a sound I’d been wanting to hear, I knew something…
Peter Sagar is best known for his long stint as Mac Demarco’s lead guitarist. After his solo project began to take off, the slacker-rock singer-songwriter left the band and adopted a brand new lo-fi sound that features a whole host of warped samples and dreamy riffs. Famously quiet,…
I'm not sure how much Kate Tempest (the Artistic Director of this year's Brighton Festival) had to do with booking this but I'm confident she would have enjoyed the storytelling behind the music of this foursome. Similar but in stark contrast to the modern and urban stories that Tempest…
A lazy stereotype of Brighton’s music scene would be something like indoor buskers and student bands clad in vintage gear. However scratch beneath the surface and you’ll find Brighton’s music scene is rich and vast. Ocean Wisdom is a perfect example of this. The Brighton rapper has been going from…
A Japanese-American singer, multi-instrumentalist, and songwriter, Kishi Bashi is the project stemming from the mind of Kaoru Ishibashi (aka. K). Joined tonight by fellow songwriter, and beard extravagant, Tall Tall Trees (Mike Savino). The duo put on an intimate show at The Hope and Ruin which in short,…
Normally I’m not a big fan of squeezing three bands into a show, especially somewhere like The Haunt where they kick you out early. It often means a rubbish band on first playing to an empty room. Still I got down to the venue early to see and was…