Live Reviews

Over the past few years, Fear of Men have very quietly but confidently become one of Brighton’s biggest musical exports. Their 2014 debut Loom received international attention for its chilly indie pop and impressionistic and abstract lyrics. They now return to capitalise on that album’s initial promise with their…

The Milan-based trio Any Other have being making a slight stir in recent times following the impact of their début album released in 2015, Silently. Quietly. Going Away. It is an album that captures the nihilistic and often anarchistic teenage spirit and bottles it up into an intense…

Eliza Shaddad’s been popping up on all kinds of radars recently. All this talk around her is intriguing, to say the least, and more than justified a trip down to GDS to find out if it’s fact or fiction. As it turns out, it definitely wasn’t a wasted trip.

For a lesson in songwriting and musicianship, there are few bands that you can turn to in the UK quite like Liverpool’s finest, The Coral. Psychedelia as a genre and movement currently is swamped. In a similar way to how there was an indie landfill at the back…

This Feeling brought an eclectic array of talent to The Hope and Ruin tonight in its usual style. For a night that celebrates itself based upon the endearing venture of bringing guitar rock’n’roll back to the masses, it is a slight step aside from what Brighton normally produces.

A gigantic reconstruction of Abbey Road's main studio filled most of the floor plan of the Brighton Centre's main auditorium, flanked by rows of seating and draped on three sides by semi-transparent screens. I had arrived on this blustery Wednesday evening to watch the spectacle of this special performance,…

There was a good crowd for the opener on this Easter Sunday evening as Jay Aston of Gene Loves Jezebel fame started the show off with his melancholic songs. Though he lightened the mood between songs with little bits of humour including stating that even he did not know…

As far as mid-noughties indie rock goes, Ipso Facto aren’t necessarily a household name that has stuck around. What this has meant though is that Rosalie Cunningham has had the freedom to pursue other musical avenues, Purson being the current venture. A blend of theatre and drama greets…

If you ever wanted such a severe lesson in musicianship, this was to be the show to be at. It was a cold, blustery night outside but the only wet gale that was to be blowing inside was to be that sourced at the sweat erupting from Physics’ drummer,…

Seldom has a band ever emerged onstage to an onslaught of cheers quite like these two gentlemen stir up. Interestingly, when entering the venue prior to the band coming on, it was obvious to note how many more adoring fans were congregated around Alex Turner’s end of the…