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Van Zon / Glasshouse Red Spider Mite EP Launch double headliner at Alphabet | Brighton Music Blog
Around a month ago, Van Zon released their debut EP "All Things, All One Aglow", and a couple of weeks later, Glasshouse Red Spider Mite released their EP "What Do You Mean The Monster?… Hahaha", and last night the bands played a double headline launch gig at Alphabet, supported by London band Catbandcat. We went…
Great Escape 2025 gallery | Brighton Music Blog
It feels like an age ago now, but I've finally got my photos band and edited from Great Escape weekend. I did my best to try and see a lot of Brighton bands at both official and unoffial gigs - in the end I caught multiple sets from a few bands from some of my…
Maximilian / Long Time Gone single launch at Green Door Store | Brighton Music Blog
Earlier this week, Maximilian released his new single Long Time Gone on Crafting Room Records, and we were invited down to his launch gig at the Green Door Store. Accompanied by a full band (although one not quite as expansive as at the launch of his album Surrender last year) they dropped the new single…
Unofficial Alt Escape round up 2025 | Brighton Music Blog
As hard as I try to support and promote all the local bands, by far and away the most popular post on the blog every year is my round of up of the unofficial Alt Escape gigs. I've been keeping my ear to the ground over the last month or so and pulled together almost…
Penelope Trappes at Alphabet | Brighton Music Blog
On Thursday, Penelope Trappes played a hometown gig at Alphabet, concluding the tour of her latest release A Requiem. The album is a powerful work, perfectly encapsulating the grief that overshadows it's ten tracks. For the live performance Penelope was joined Klara Schumann on cello and Kat Pihl on keyboards to recreate the imposing visceral sound…
Return of the Brighton Music Blog Spotify playlist | Brighton Music Blog
Other than for our end of year round ups we haven't used Spotify for a while, but there's been a run of great releases recently that we really ought to be making much of a song and dance about. So the here's a new rolling Spotify playlist - The plan is to keep it to…
Brighton Rocks #44 : Jamie Broughton / Big Long Sun | Brighton Music Blog
Last Week Big Long Sun released their new EP I Can Hardly See A Thing, relatively hot on the heels of last year's Big Long Sun : Speaking album. More lo-fi in nature and bringing in an even wider array of influences than before it feel's like the sky's the limit for Jamie Broughton and…
Brighton Rocks #43 : ELLiS·D | Brighton Music Blog
Last Friday ELLiS·D released their Spill EP on Crafting Room Recordings, which features recent singles Shakedown (which featured in our end of year round up last year), Humdrum and Drifting. Ellis and his band are currently playing a few UK dates - you can catch them at the Green Door Store next Wednesday -…
Winter Gardens / Uncomfortable/Unlovable mini-album launch at Hidden Herd x Crafting Room | Brighton Music Blog
Last night Brighton Music Blog faves Winter Gardens launched their new mini-album Uncomfortable/Unlovable at the Prince Albert, at one of the regular Hidden Herd nights, this time curated in collaboration with Crafting Room. The release features recent singles U/U, Anthropocene and Search Party, as well as four other previously unreleased tracks is limited to just…
Helen Ganya / Share Your Care interview | Brighton Music Blog
Last month Helen Ganya released her second album Share Your Care, and since we've been covering Helen's various projects for over ten years it was only right that we caught up to have a chat about it, and about other things she's been up to since we last spoke. The origin of the album came…
Radio Anorak / Rememberer | Brighton Music Blog
It feels like only last week that Radio Anorak played their debut gig. Back in the middle of last December the band first arrived on stage, supporting the New Eves, and then there was a second gig in January supporting Big Long Sun, both times joined by a handful of other musicians drawn from the two…
Brighton Rocks #42 : Opal Mag | Brighton Music Blog
On a bright but chilly day earlier this month we popped down to the beach with Opal Mag to chat about Brighton and also her new single Love to See You Shine, which is out today: What's the best thing about Brighton?Being able to live by the sea for sure! It’s so calming. Also, being…
Hope & Ruin Tenth Birthday, headlined by The Four Horsemen (or was it Lime Garden?) | Brighton Music Blog
Happy Birthday Hope & Ruin! The venue in it's current form opened it's doors for the first time ten years ago this week, and the birthday celebrations kicked off last night with a free gig fronted by the mysteriously named Four Horsemen. A few crumbs had been dished out on social media that the previously…
Brighton Rocks #41 : JP from Hutch | Brighton Music Blog
What’s the best thing about Brighton?The people, the vibrant music and art scene, the seaside, Brunswick Square on a sunny afternoon if you need a nap Who are your favourite local bands?There’s no way I can narrow this down so here’s a bunch: Tinman, Ladylike, Lambrini Girls, Maximilian, Soft Top, Frances Mistry, Ideal Living, Telecom,…
Brighton Music Blog Top 20 2024 : 1 – Van Zon / Cannon Fodder | Brighton Music Blog
There’s been times this year when it’s felt like I've been their biggest cheerleader, but I won’t make any kind of apology for that because there's nobody quite like Van Zon, who have successfully mixed up post rock, folk and a bit of neo-classical to come up with a genre all of their own. They…
Brighton Music Blog Top 20 2024 : 2 – Flip Top Head / 1st July 2006 | Brighton Music Blog
When I first heard 1st July 2006 it stopped me in my tracks - the combination of the non-standard time signature, Bertie's spoken word segments which sometimes get overwhelmed by the rise and fall of the rich backing, alongside Bowie's emotional vocals was a heady mix. It still moves me now - to cram so…
Brighton Music Blog Top 20 2024 : 4 – Ideal Living / Roam | Brighton Music Blog
How to describe Ideal Living? In an interview they described themselves as PostSpook Knitwear Rock, but maybe they were taking the piss. They cite Tom Waits and Ennio Morricone as influences, but they remind me at times of the bits of Arab Strap I love where the intensity of the music is matched by lyrics…
Brighton Music Blog Top 20 2024 : 3 – Cate Ferris & Champion Fever / Blinkers | Brighton Music Blog
About fifteen years ago I started taking my camera along to gigs - it could have been a fad but at the end of a gig at Latest Music Bar the support act asked if they could have a copy of my photos, which might just have been the spark of encouragement that has made…
Brighton Music Blog Top 20 2024 : 5 – MEMORIALS / Lamplighter | Brighton Music Blog
Taken from their official debut album Memorial Waterslides - last year's Music for Films doesn't count because it was, as the title suggests, soundtrack works - Memorials described Lamplighter as "the poppiest song on the album". You can't argue with that, but I'd love to see the effect that the swirling organs (they built their…
Brighton Music Blog Top 20 2024 : 6 – Hutch / Ice on the Lake | Brighton Music Blog
With immaculate timing, Hutch put out the second single from their Smile & Wave EP in what felt like the coldest week of winter back in February, and since then they've had a hectic year of live dates, the peak of which was surely headlining Green Door Store's 234 Festival in September. Their more recent…
Brighton Music Blog Top 20 2024 : 8 – Thomas Ducout / Feminina | Brighton Music Blog
Back in the summer I got an Instagram recommendation for a page called Low Tide Heartbreak Club - a bunch of Brighton based surfers sharing their love for surfing culture not just through other people's posts but their own creative efforts. There was an exhibition on at a gallery in the North Laine showcasing their…
Brighton Music Blog Top 20 2024 : 7 – Lime Garden / Pop Star | Brighton Music Blog
Cambridge Dictionary's word of 2024 is Manifest - "to imagine achieving something you want, in the belief doing so will make it more likely to happen", and what better example of this than writing a song called Pop Star then spending most of the year touring the UK, then Europe then the US, and having…
Brighton Music Blog Top 20 2024 : 9 – Jamie Broughton / The Sound | Brighton Music Blog
I only recently caught on to just how good Jamie Broughton’s musical output was, but now that I have I bang on about him to anyone who stands still near me for long enough. I was aware of who he was before then, popping up onstage for various other Brighton bands playing whatever instrument was…
Brighton Music Blog Top 20 2024 : 10 – David Best / Terms & Conditions | Brighton Music Blog
2024 was a quiet year for Fujiya & Miyagi, who weren't up to much publicly save for their headline gig at Lewes Psych Fest and the release of a 2003 radio session to raise money for a former band member who had passed away before their time due to cancer. There was also the…
Brighton Music Blog Top 20 2024 : 20-16 | Brighton Music Blog
So, I thought I'd do a top twenty rather than a more general end of year round up this year - In the past I've been a bit concerned that a list is a bit arbitrary, and I've felt bad for bands or acts who haven't made the cut, but firstly, the local scene is…
Brighton Music Blog Top 20 2024 : 15-11 | Brighton Music Blog
11 : Welly / Shopping 12 : Ellis D / Shakedown 13 : Ladylike / Horse's Mouth 14 : AK/DK / Nobody Shouts 15 : The New Eves / Astrolabe 16 : Projector / Tastes Like Sarah 17 : Penelope Trappes / Sleep 18 : Lambrini Girls / Big Dick Energy 19 : Holiday Ghosts…
Big Long Sun at Daltons gallery | Brighton Music Blog
Monday night wasn't meant to be a Big Long Sun headliner - the lineup for Dead Dog Promotions second anniversary gig was meant to be topped by Bristolian Bingo Fury, but illness meant that Jamie Broughton's band got bumped up the bill, and deservedly so. Also on the line up were Van Zon and Hill…
Fliptop Head / Up Like A Weather Balloon | Brighton Music Blog
This week, Flip Top Head released I Can’t Wait Until I’m Old – the second single taken from their forthcoming EP Up Like A Weather Balloon. We caught up with two thirds of the band last week at Presuming Eds to get the low down on the EP, starting with where the title came from:…
Memorials / Memorial Waterslides album launch tour at Alphabet | Brighton Music Blog
Earlier this month Memorials released their debut album Memorial Waterslides on Fire Records (last year's Music for Film didn't count as a debut because it was soundtracks, apparently). The duo have just completed a UK tour to support the release, starting in Scotland a couple of weeks ago and culminating in a hometown gig at…
Dome Studio Live – Holiday Ghosts / Currls / Room Service | Brighton Music Blog
Back when we first started the blog, Dome Studio Live gigs were a regular fixture. Initially the nights had started as a collaboration with Juice FM, before they split away and started their own new music nights. The Dome then partnered with The Source Magazine until they changed from being a print magazine to online…
Ladylike and Goodbye at Alphabet gallery | Brighton Music Blog
There's been a bit of an anomaly since the introduction of streaming that while you can get your recordings online the moment you've finished recording and mixing them, there's always going to be a bit of a lag to get a physical product out in the world. Ladylike released their latest single Horse's Mouth back…
Opal Mag “Looking For” single launch at the Green Door Store | Brighton Music Blog
Last week Opal Mag released their new single "Looking For", and celebrated the launch with a gig last night at the Green Door Store (supported by Glass House Red Spider Mite and Frances Mistry). We were down the front with our camera to catch the action: https://youtu.be/cgosBbSCIEk?si=Kar277PMKh5DYNto
Sad Dads / Surf Instructor single launch at the Prince Albert | Brighton Music Blog
I haven't made too many posts recently. Some gig pics are still going up on Instagram, but last night wasn't just some gig. It was the launch of Sad Dads new single Surf Instructor, supported by Room Service and Telecom, as well as the reveal of who was behind I Flipping Luv Brighton. There was…
Brighton Rocks #40 : Billy Marsh / Ideal Living | Brighton Music Blog
It's been a little while since we made a post, and it's been a long while since we made a Brighton Rocks post. And it's actually been more than two months since I sat down with Ideal Living's Billy Marsh at the Fortune of War to kick start things again, but what with one thing…
Unofficial Great Escape gigs 2024 | Brighton Music Blog
Over the past few years I've worked hard to round up all the unofficial gigs that take place over Great Escape weekend. This year I've had people asking when I'll be making the post, and others asking for their gigs to be included. A lot of eyes will be on the unofficial gigs this year…
Van Zon / Cannon Fodder | Brighton Music Blog
Our focus on New Releases has mainly switched over to our Instagram Stories these days, but we're making an exception for a band who have seemed to appear from nowhere fully formed. We first caught them at the Albert last November, bottom of a bill which would have people queuing around the block for these…
Homegrown Festival | Brighton Music Blog
Unless this is your first visit to this site, it's probably no surprise that we're big supporters of Brighton's thriving music scene. So when a one day festival announced showcasing some of the best local talent we jumped straight in and bought an early bird ticket quicker than it would take to count all the…
Maximilian / Surrender album launch at Fabrica | Brighton Music Blog
Last week Maximilian released his debut album Surrender, on Dead Dog records, and last night he played it live start to finish at Fabrica supported by Skydaddy and Brighton's Opal Mag. Playing an album all the way through in sequential order isn't the most obvious thing to do - A set of songs which might…
Glasshouse Red Spider Mite / Erstwhile single launch at Green Door Store | Brighton Music Blog
Last Friday Glasshouse Red Spider Mite played their first headline show, promoting their debut single Erstwhile, which came out on 20th March (which you'd have spotted if Instagram showed you our story on release day). Support came Van Zon, who we can't get enough of these days, and out of towners Plainmoor. If you missed…