What happened at The Great Escape New Music Festival – Day Three 19.5.18

Alas it’s the final day of Europe’s biggest new music event – The Great Escape. The Brighton & Hove Music Team brings you a final 12 concert reports from this fab third days proceedings, so sit back and enjoy… GOD ON MY RIGHT (England) – Prince Albert 12:00 –...

What happened at The Great Escape New Music Festival – Day Two 18.5.18

Here we go, Day 2 of Europe’s biggest new music event – The Great Escape. The Brighton & Hove Music Team brings you a further 10 concert reports from this fab second days proceedings, so sit back and enjoy… COSMIC STRIP (England) – Jubilee Square 1:00 – 1:30 We...

What happened at The Great Escape New Music Festival – Day One 17.5.18

So here we go, Day 1 of Europe’s biggest new music event – The Great Escape. The Brighton & Hove Music Team brings you no less than 16 concert reports from this fab opening day, so sit back and enjoy… Æ MAK (Republic of Ireland) – Bau Wow 12:15 –...

The Great Escape – Beach Launch Party

We suspect that (almost) everyone would have overlooked reporting on the bands performing at the delegates Beach Launch Party prior to the commencement of the official Great Escape. So we are in part aiming to address that imbalance. We hot-footed it from the Rialto, near the...

Brighton’s festival for new music ‘The Great Escape’ – a resounding success!

Thousands of you will have noticed that the annual Great Escape new music festival has been taking over Brighton for the past few days. Our city has welcomed acts and their fans from all over the world to our wonderful seaside location. It has been a truly fantastic success! The...

Rat Scabies Sussex appearance postponed

The legendary drummer and founding member of The Damned, Rat Scabies special Q & A session about the 1977 punk wars at The Con Club in Lewes on Monday 21st May has regrettably had to be postponed due to promoter illness. A new date will hopefully be announced within the next...
Posted On 20 May 2018 at 3:44 pm

Brighton punk/riot grrrl group release debut single ahead of The Great Escape launch party

Last November the Brighton & Hove News music team reported on the in-yer-face performance at The Haunt by Brighton’s finest 5 girl punk outfit P*ssyliquor. We stated “The name might be a little close to the edge, but these girls really can play and performed some superb...
Posted On 15 May 2018 at 6:52 pm

The Lovely Eggs return to Sussex this week

We’re so ‘Eggs-static’ that The Lovely Eggs have announced that they will be returning to Sussex this week. Virtually a year on from their terrific Brighton concert last year, the husband and wife duo will again be bringing their own inimitable style of indie-pop-punk to Sussex....
Posted On 15 May 2018 at 4:49 pm

Something a little different with the Bitchin Bajas live in Brighton

BITCHIN BAJAS + MERLIN TONTO – THE PRINCE ALBERT, BRIGHTON 14.5.18 I have to start this review by congratulating Bitchin Bajas for their tremendous effort as they literally had just flown into the UK from their home city of Chicago, Illinois (via Italy) and arrived at the...
Posted On 15 May 2018 at 11:48 am

‘Hymns for Robots’ – now that sounds interesting…..

Hymns for Robots – The mother of modern music explodes onto the Brighton Fringe! Noctium Theatre brings the fascinating story of the hero behind The Doctor Who theme tune to the Rialto Theatre this May. In a small attic, packed in hundreds of cereal boxes, lies the...
Posted On 14 May 2018 at 4:58 pm