What I love about going to gigs (particularly in Brighton) is the diversity of music almost around every corner and on every night of the week. One night you can be at The Corn Exchange seeing Goat with over 800 people, the next night you are in the intimacy…
Blake Bastion has been on Brighton’s scene for a while as a solo guitarist – and a very good one at that. He’s a talented player who writes engaging songs, and whose use of a loop pedal hinted at his wider flair for composition. He used the launch of…
Tom Chaplin offers an experience which goes above and beyond known musical limitation, bringing with it a sense of power and optimistic attitude to future aspirations, whilst still containing material born out of a far more sinister place. There is no doubt that tonight's show consumes and encapsulates…
Terms like ‘angelic’ and ‘heavenly’ are not words I tend to throw around lightly, yet they are the only description suitable for the astonishingly talented JP Cooper. This evening left me in a state of complete awe over the beauty this humble man from Manchester is able to create…
Friday night was a sensible choice for the launch of Voodoo Love Orchestra’s second album, Inglorious Technicolor. With influences that span continents, they are a vibrant mix of global styles with a flair for wild performance and the carnivalesque. At their live shows, sitting at the back is not…
There is a lot of hogwash surrounding this band. A lot of hokum, misinformation, propaganda, legend and myth. Who the hell are they, and where do they come from? Yeah, some of them probably play in other bands, known only to a very few. But, somehow (apart from early…
In an interview Irish singer-songwriter Lisa Hannigan recently did for Brightonsfinest, she said about her never-to-be opera career, “I just don’t have the volume… even in a small room with people I have to push through to get heard.”…
It was an interesting mix of industry types, including young schmucks and old punks, that took to the grand emporium that is Kentish Town Forum this evening. The up-and-coming group, Goat Girl, were the first band of the night; here they were supporting fellow Rough Trade label mates,…
Ten years ago the charity Oxjam launched its month-long music festival Oxjam, which takes place every October. It's made up of hundreds of events happening all around the UK, all run by volunteers with all the money raised going towards funding the good work Oxfam does around the world.
Think indie synth pop is an oversaturated genre? Meet XOCKHA, a band who in this reviewer’s opinion, are setting the foundations to dominate the scene. As the four-piece from the Isle of Wight arrive to local favourite venue, Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar, we are greeted with silky shirts,…