Out of the blue, this legendary Brighton based six-piece, were persuaded to reform in September of last year for just one performance, a private event at a friend's birthday. It had been two years since they had signed off in spectacular fashion with both a roadblock gig at the now…
With the legends of the hip-hop renaissance that have visited Brighton over the past year, there has been an abundance of showmanship and overpowering stage presence; a product of ego and choreography. Sean ‘Slug’ Daley, the front man to Atmosphere, stood proud and showed The Haunt a refreshingly humble and…
Gengahr kicked off their first headline tour here in Brighton, which was a bit of an honour. We’ve been big fans in the BrightonsFinest offices ever since their hook-laden earworm track ‘She’s A Witch’ came to our attention and they have yet to disappoint with a strong début album (A…
Xiu Xiu are not a band to shy away from trying something new. Embracing everything from harsh noise to almost accessible synth pop, they’re exactly the kind of band you would expect to take on a project like this. The program everyone is handed before the show starts is…
When Joanna Gruesome’s lead singer Alanna McArdle unexpectedly left the band earlier this year, it was hard to believe they would ever recover. With her large round eyes and intense stare, it always felt like McArdle was the center of the group, impossible to replace without the band loosing their…
It’s a funny layout tonight down in the Basement. The stage’s positioned along the length of the oblong room instead of at the back wall and H. Hawkline is having a bit of trouble with this. He’s not sure which way to look as the crowd is predominately to his…
Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook never had a particularly close buddy-buddy relationship, apart from the first few years of their relationship when they wrote countless songs together to try and get a band off the ground. But, following the commercial and artistic success of their early Squeeze years (roughly 1977-1987),…
After a stellar first festival last year I had been looking forward to the return of Breakout, Brighton's only open air Metal festival. If you want to get the full day's entertainment then it is going to be a long day as the festival kicks off at 10:40am which means…
The first time I saw Yung play their guitarist tried to attack me. Well that’s what I initially thought was happening. In retrospect, more likely he had attempted a stage dive only to land squarely on my back, meaning it more closely resembled an illegal rugby tackle. It was an…
Sudden screams filled the air as Unknown Mortal Orchestra’s creator Ruban Nielson and his band took to the stage, making the room temperature rise by a few notches. They go straight into an energetic first song demonstrating exactly why UMO have become the band to see. Ruban would almost dance…