David Gedge's At The Edge Of The Sea Festival has a bit of competition this year as Brightonsfinest Presents weigh in with our very own festival for the August Bank Holiday, “at the edge of the sea and up a ruddy great pole” Brighton's i360 will play host to…
I've never seen The Haunt fuller than tonight, and rightly so – northern diamonds Field Music should be selling out venues of this size (and considerably bigger) if there's a God, and that God likes thoughtful and inventive British pop/indie. Coming on to a rendition of 'Abide with me',…
This concert was truly the niche of the niche: McBride and Meyer are two of the world’s leading players of the double-bass, multiple award-winners both. They appeared at Komedia without a backing band for a kind of double-bass double-team. While a concert of standalone bass-duets definitely seems odd, in…
With a conceptual event, you never know quite how it’s going to go. Organising a concert where the idea is for everyone to sit in total darkness aims for resounding success, but flirts with complete disaster. While the concept comes with a specific set of challenges, thanks to the…
Sam Jordan and his Dead Boys have been turning a lot of heads since they announced the release of their debut EP, ‘When Golden Morning Comes’. The shows are coming thick and fast, and with every show, the sense of excitement about the release grows a little more.
All Saints Church in Hove is a spectacular venue to say the least, so I was intrigued to discover that Canadian indie band Half Moon Run would be performing there, and very interested to see how they would deal with playing in such an enormous space. The church really…
There is no support tonight, just Ukrainian born, maverick classical pianist Lubomyr Melynk playing for nearly two hours. Luckily tables and chairs are provided, something of a necessity when attempting to absorb this kind of music.
It’s a strange world when it takes a music blog from the other side of the Atlantic to help you discover a band practically on your doorstep. But so it is in 2016 and that’s exactly how I found the excellent debut album of Muncie Girls. From Caplan to…
Never before has a venue rumbled and bumbled due to volume as much as tonight. With a sound that is loud enough to make My Bloody Valentine quiver, Esben and The Witch were making their sold out return to Brighton at the hollowed cobbles of the Green Door Store.
When Brightonsfinest sat down to talk to Yonaka about their upcoming headline tour, their understandable excitement also carried with it a small amount of apprehension. Is it maybe too soon, with only one release under their belt? Clearly they shouldn’t have worried, as tonight’s show at The Prince Albert…