Read our review of their album Synths + Drums + Noise + Space here: brightonsfinest.com/html/index.php/12-music/133-ak-dk-synths-drums-noise-space AK/DK – Sticky Mikes Frog Bar With Heimway and Math-Rock favourites Bear Makes Ninja Saturday 7th May – Tickets: £5.50 See Tickets Presented by Small Pond Recordings …
Amazon.co.uk Widgets When I heard the news last week that Prince had died it just didn't seem real – friends were struggling to come to terms with it, conspiracy theories were flying around that it must be some sort of hoax. It has been a year full…
Amazon.co.uk Widgets To be making great music 25 years into your career is a rare thing. Most bands fall off a cliff eventually, or at best fade away, creatively speaking. Not so Tindersticks, who have never released a sub-standard album, nor anything that sounds dated. And so…
Brighton Music Conference (BMC) has well and truly cemented itself as one of the fundamental industry events for dance music and all that goes with it. With a musical history that boasts so strong, it is remarkable that the UK has only just established itself with one of the…
Amazon.co.uk Widgets At the Love Supreme festival last year, a four-piece band really stuck out. Not only were they relatively young, they were alternative looking; the lead singer adorned in all sorts of piercings, tattoos and psychedelic-cyber-punk threads, the rest of the band like a collection of…
Amazon.co.uk Widgets Bellowhead, an 11-piece band that plays traditional folk-dance tunes, sea shanties and folk songs. They have a four-piece brass section. And a four-piece string section. Their first album, Burlesque, featured material from the American minstrel movement, the Napoleonic Wars and sea shanties from Brazil. Surely,…
Los Albertos are a six-piece ensemble of ska-dance protagonists who’ve been transmitting their hi-energy tunes to the nation since their formation in 2002. Christened by the barmaid at their debut gig in the legendary Prince Albert, their fistful of grinning 2-tone skank with a twist of funk, punk, Klezmer, rock…
2:00 Tuff Love 2:45 grasshopper 3:30 Blick Bassy 4:15 The Island Club 5:15 Moulettes 6:15 Holly Macve 7:00 Sam Jordan And The Dead Buoys 7:45 Lebeaux…
Love that name. I can only find one instance of a well-known Aldous, and that is the male writer Aldous Huxley. It is a very rare name, but one that has only helped give the New Zealander Aldous Harding a distinctiveness. It’s certainly memorable, more so than her birth name…
After a massive blow-out celebrating its first decade of existence, this year The Great Escape turns the grand old age of 11. It still remains the closest thing Britain has to a SXSW. The best place to see the next big thing before they blow up, or find a…