Portico may sound familiar. They were previously known as Portico Quartet, and featured Nick Mulvey who left the band in 2011 to peruse a career as a singer-songwriter. Their debut album, Knee-Deep In The North Sea (2007), was extremely well received, winning Time Out’s best jazz album that year as well as…
I first came across Norwegian born / Copenhagen based saxophonist Marius Neset after reading a glistening review on his latest album Pinball (early 2015). Being called a masterpiece, labelled one of Europe’s hottest talents and having a five star rating was enough persuasion for me to buy the album –…
You may have come across Lonelady (Julie Ann Campbell) in 2010 when she released her debut album Nerve Up. After showing very promising signs and getting some rave reviews, you would have thought Julie would have started on a follow up album immediately. In fact it has been five years…
Moon Duo were formally formed in San Francisco as a side project of Wooden Shjips, to fuse “futuristic pylon hum and transistor reverb of Suicide or Silver Apples with the heat-haze fuzz of American rock ‘n’ roll to create tracks of blistering, 12-cylinder space rock”. Now residing in the quiet…
It was good to see the return of the Spectrum Night at the Dome Studio (previously the Pavilion) after a short absence sponsored by Resident Records in association with Brighton Dome. With a line up of three bands which if not spectacular or quite fulfilling the ‘best Brighton has to…
Ghostpoet (aka Obaro Ejimiwe) has long been one of BrightonsFinest’s favourite UK talents ever since he gained wide acclaim with his debut album, Peanut Butter Blues & Melanchly Jam, which got nominated in perhaps one of the strongest Mercury Prize’s ever in 2011. Now touring his third album, Shedding Skin,…
Another great night put on by the Willikoman Collective. The show was acting as an album launch for Concrete, the debut solo album from Marcus Hamblett which is set for release on 20th April. Marcus is a prolific multi-instrumentalist and has played with the majority of the Willikoman Records artists,…
There’s no doubt tonight’s bands, Luo, Alarmist and Town Portal form a fairly oblique pool of math/prog/jazz/post-rock, but a good attendance goes to show that well-curated bills are appreciated and people vote with their feet. Luo performed the role of enthusiastic warm-up, injecting their set with some fearsome drumming (including…
London four piece Hidden Charms have a very distinctive sound, a sound that has been done by the likes of The Zombies, The Kinks or any pop-rock R&B group from the 60s. This isn’t a bad thing, in fact it is quite refreshing, as they do it extremely well. It…
BrightonsFinest have been looking forward to seeing Gengahr for quite a while now. Residing from North London, this indie band of four are at the beginning of what I’m sure is going to be a trip to the top. Having already supported a huge stadium tour for Alt-J as well…