First, a confession: I have a weakness for dirty garage rock, played at ear-splitting volume in down at heel venues. Dive bars, basement clubs, converted railway arches; the sort of places where they don’t accept plastic over the bar and the toilets resemble…
There are many reasons to love gigs in churches. There is the sense of novelty, the grandeur; there is the acoustics, and that heart-smackingly magical moment when the first note flies out into the cavernous space and, if you’re sitting…
If you’re going to blank and forget your lines three times in a stand-up set, you really want to hope that your audience like you. Thankfully, Sara Pascoe had nothing to worry about there, and while it may seem unfair…
For his first ever hour long set, Phil Jerrod could be in worse places than his home town of Brighton, where an appreciative and supportive audience packs out the Komedia Studio Bar. Having only been performing stand-up since 2012, Jerrod…
Brighton’s Normanton Street deliver soulful hip hop, complete with warm melodies and smooth, heartfelt vocals. Consisting of Ned, Nicholson and Phoebe, the band have drawn comparisons with the likes of the great Lauryn Hill, and are proving themselves to be…
“With material this accessible it’s a wonder I’m not playing the bigger rooms”, Robert Newman self deprecatingly quips, about 20 minutes into his New Theory Of Evolution show. But while it may not be an arena, The Old Market is…
Rating: There has always been something paradoxical about Tom Vek, something quietly contrary. Coming out of nowhere with his first album We Have Sound in 2005, his uncompromising and assuredly wry style set him apart and found him adorning the…
Rating: With support for this Brighton band coming in from the likes of BBC Radio 6 and XFM, Chich, Rax and Alex aka The DuBarrys have emerged as a definite ‘one to watch’ and following the release of two tracks,…
Rating: Hailing from Brighton, AK/DK is a two piece outfit that use pinpoint percussion and a myriad of 8-bit noises with a healthy dose of improvisation to create high energy synthpunk. The title of their first full length LP, Synths +…
Rating: The Ronettes. The Shangri-Las. Heart. The Bangles. The Breeders. Haim. From the sixties to the present day, the sister act remains a staple motif in pop music. Brooklyn quartet TEEN (capped up to boost search engine optimisation, techies) boasts…