With DIY venues and culture currently booming in the UK. The U.S magazine and website The Fader, usually known for covering the next up-and-coming rap star, recently published an article on the DIY venues popping up around the country. But considering the DIY spirit of so much of the…
Waltzing into The Hope and Ruin was a world away from the storm that Brighton was embracing outside – sweaty, sticky bodies were already piling into the sold out event, in lust for what could only be described as a slice of soul-fuzz chaos. Night Beats were now tapping…
Favoured in the daytime by students and what are presumably by now termed ‘post-hipsters’, the Marwood is a quirky and cobbled-together cafe. When it opens late for concerts its first-floor performance space is the frequent site of relaxed and atmospheric guitar concerts – a full band in that tiny…
A grand total of five people turned up to see Circe’s Diner play – seven if you include their support act, Paper Hawk. But this wasn’t so much a reflection on the band’s music, as their lack of a foothold on Brighton’s scene: this was the first time the Bristol-based…
Della Lupa’s gigs are few and far between. They’ve got some big venues under their belt, so it was a surprise to find them playing for free at the Hope & Ruin. They have a history of doing things differently though, so maybe with them it’s a case of…
London three piece, The Drink descended upon the esteemed Brighton venue, The Prince Albert on a cold winter’s night in the dead of January. Ultimately, the weather proved perfect accompaniment for the music that was to transpire later that evening.
Daughter’s demeanour gave the impression that playing to a venue the size of the Dome was a surreal experience. They should be used to it by now, what with their extensive touring in Europe and appearances at international festivals – and of course the fact that they’d played two sold…
At 20 years of age and with an album and two Eps under his belt as well as another album on the horizon, Kiran Leonard is firmly on the radar as The Guardian, The Quiet Us and Drowned In Sound have all sat up and taken careful notice. He’s a…
Ben Caplan never claimed to be big in the mainstream sense. This show wasn’t in one of Brighton’s large venues – although perhaps it could have been: the fact that Caplan can fill out the Green Door Store on a Sunday night, and at the beginning of January when everyone’s…
T’was the weekend before Christmas and all through The Hope… Small Pond were showing us exactly why they have become such an accessory in masterminding some of Brighton’s most exciting gigs. …