Beverley Knight has been a staple of the British Soul scene since her first album, ‘B Funk’, was released back in 1995. Her most critically acclaimed album, Who I am from 2002, put her firmly in the spotlight and she has released several albums and toured since then taking…
Hometown performances are notoriously explosive and Ocean Wisdom made no exception in the tightly packed basement of Patterns. Bursting onto the scene in the spring of 2015 with the emphatic debut single ‘Walkin’’, this hype beast racked up over 1.5 million views and now he’s looking to make his mark…
In the lead up to their album release in August, Lakuta have played a slew of shows in Brighton – Funk the Format, Spiegeltent, the Kemptown Carnival – all bigger and more open than this one, which was characterised by its intimacy as well as its musicianship.
Following the all-acoustic Sugaring Season in 2012, Beth Orton took stock of her life, with two very young children in tow, staring at a future that may not include music after two decades of enchanting audiences with her mix of gentle folk-acoustica and folktronica.
As everyone knows, when Brighton’s summer comes around, it’s no longer about warm weekend evenings, in fact drinking becomes an every evening occurrence. Bodies bustle down Queen’s Road from the train station. As two ladies approach me and my friend, snatching a lighter straight out of our hands, they…
As queues snake around the seafront venue, you can’t help but get a sense summer is on the way. The scent of charring barbecues, the littering of discarded cider bottles and the British attitude to tops off when the sun is out are all telltale signs and, it seems,…
Seeing 16-year-olds flail around in mosh pits to some may be their idea of hell. The irritating knocks as you try to peer over sweaty heads to see what is actually happening onstage, having the constant threat of one of them hurling their old man’s whiskey cabinet back up…
In recent times, Hull has become one of the most exciting musical cities in the country. Like a shadow in the night, it has been bubbling away under the surface for a long time producing some of the UK’s most inspiring talent. As punters hanging around upstairs in…
A quick whistle stop tour over the Internet allows you to pull together the general ethos of White Fang. As punk as punk really comes, it’s thrown at you directly through the foggy haze of drugs and has its tongue so firmly in its own cheek in everything it…
As they stood on the Green Door Store stage waiting to start, Brighton’s Merlin Tonto looked quietly confident. In the past, before they have started their dance-infused take on space prog they’ve looked slightly apprehensive or unsure of how the crowd would take them but this evening, at the…