The first two-day instalment of the Hove Park festival went better than anyone could have hoped. Over the weekend, the sun was shining, the fans turned out in force, and most importantly, the music flowed with ease from speakers into waiting ears.
What a treat the Brighton Festival has given us as a closer to the annual festival. I personally couldn’t have wished for a more innovative and forward-thinking act to see other than Sam Shepherd’s Floating Points. Taking a short step away from making some of the most interesting and…
On the back of winning a Songlines Music Award, Dr Blighty and the Brighton Festival brings in one of the world’s great musicians to play the Brighton Dome – Debashish Bhattacharya. Born into a family of musicians in Kolkata, it was very clear from a young age that Debashish…
The Welsh-born Cate Le Bon has an unusual and unique way of going about her live performances and music in general. It is something that finds a blend between post-punk, art-pop and psych, splicing together elements, of Television, Nico and Super Furry Animals. Her live shows have always been…
May is undoubtedly the greatest month of the year in Brighton – The Warren makes its home outside St Peter’s Church, The Great Escape Festival comes through town and the Brighton Festival takes residency across the city. Established in 1967, the Brighton Festival is an annual celebration of arts…
After a relentless weekend of music, there was only one thing needed to ease off those post-festival blues and that was to get back up on the proverbial wagon. Leather jackets, flared trousers and fedora hats, smoking cigarettes outside The Hope & Ruin upon arrival, the obvious connotations…
If only Brighton could be like this all year round. There’s nothing quite like flitting between the city’s venues, hearing live music bleed out onto every street. Sadly, it had to end – but not before a lot of good music was played in a lot of venues. The Alternative…
Some Brighton Festival and Fringe and media types have over the years bemoaned the fact that The Great Escape (TGE) happens slap bang in the middle of the May festivities. It means that the on-going celebration of the arts is partially halted in its tracks while the new music…
Brighton’s newest radio station launched on Sunday with a four hour live-stream from a group of inexperienced but promising young DJs. In a post-youtube world, Platform B aims to reinvigorate broadcasting and has the potential to discover, support and champion the next generation of radio presenters and producers.
Sold out. These were the two words that have been ringing around the Facebook event for Acid Box’s jammed line-up for the last month, acting as a pre-cursor for things to come over the Great Escape weekend. If this was anything to give us an artist’s impression of…