Sarah Walk is an undoubted upcoming talent; on her return to the UK, the rising star makes a small room feel more as though she was playing a stadium sized show. Her sound hits hard yet offers a distinct level of elegance and delicacy that few are able…
Only 24 hours after performing a majestic set being broadcast to the thousands for Boiler Room, Khruangbin graced a buzzing Komedia for what was sure to be another gorgeous performance. Having now played Brighton three times this year – first being a late night set at The Great Escape…
“This is a show about journeys” Martin Green said “All of you had a journey to get here and will have one to get home”. Martin Green’s ‘Flit’ project explores the themes of travel, migration and home. After seeing his Grandmother to ask her for stories he could tell…
In the short time since their last performance in Brighton back in February 2015, Bear’s Den have had what they described as a “conscious untripling” with founding member Joey Haynes leaving the group, released their second album Red Earth & Pouring Rain and embarked on a worldwide tour. Tonight,…
There are egotistical frontmen and there are Civil Civic. Choosing to place a gigantic robotic light operator/drum machine named ‘The Box’ centre stage at their gigs, they’re a band with no qualms about leaving their sonic output to do the talking. Despite both members originating from Melbourne, they met…
Asylums offer a night of raw emotion, thrashy riffs and a head banging of a kind that makes whiplash look like a thing of the past.
I was pretty excited to be going to see The Divine Comedy for the first time. I was really impressed with the new album Foreverland which I recently reviewed for Brightonsfinest and I’d never before seen a show in the iconic 30s theatre at the De La Warr Pavilion,…
With a number one album and a sold out tour it’s fair to say Blossoms have cracked the UK market. The same can’t be said for the rest of Europe, however, with the five piece relentlessly pursuing the continent in order to achieve the same level of success they…
John Carpenter is already well known as a director, producer, writer, composer and even bit-part actor in the movies he has made. Now you can add to that list live keyboard playing frontman in a band. The evening started off with support from the Italian ‘giallo horror film-scores’…
Slow Club hold the raw talents of not one, but two sublime voices, each of whom bring not only their own styles and personality to a song but when the two collaborate together, a sound is created which goes beyond the usual realms of harmonies.