Music

The Brighton & Hove News Music Editor has compiled a list of this year’s Top 50 favourite album releases. We have looked well beyond...

The Brighton & Hove News Music Team have managed to attend a decent number of gigs this year, despite the current Covid restrictions. A...

The Music Venue Trust (MVT), which represents hundreds of grassroots music venues throughout the UK, has announced that it has taken positive...

CUTTING TIES + MONAKIS – THE HOPE & RUIN, BRIGHTON, 19.12.20 As large parts of the South-East prepare to enter another lockdown,...

Brighton Dome & Brighton Festival (BDBF) has launched a financial support scheme for local artists to help develop their creative work and...

ABSOLUTE BOWIE – BRIGHTON CENTRE 18.12.20 “Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes, Turn and face the strange” – an apt statement indeed, as this evening...

Album review – Hung, Drawn & Quartered by Too Many Crooks Five stars out of five If you live in Sussex and love ska, you’ll be a Too Many...

The Great Escape has announced the FIRST FIFTY acts to play the internationally renowned new music festival in Brighton, from 12 – 15 May...

Brighton’s famous Concorde 2 music and club venue have announced a series of socially distanced events for this December and tickets are on sale...

The Brighton Centre has announced that the doors will finally be swinging open again in December 2020, with a host of new events. The format will...

The Brighton Centre has today announced that they will be officially re-opening in December 2020, however, it’s not as you know it! They will be...

OMD (Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark) today unleash an exciting announcement as the band unveil touring plans with an 15 date UK arena tour...

LIBRALIBRA + DITZ + LAMBRINI GIRLS + WIFE SWAP USA – BRIGHTON DOME CONCERT HALL 24.10.20 It’s a miserably dull and wet Saturday night here...

Blondie, one of the most influential bands to emerge from New York’s punk scene, have announced a 10 date UK tour to begin in November 2021,...

THE BAR STOOL PREACHERS + BAKK LAMP FALL + YUMI AND THE WEATHER + IMMERSION – BRIGHTON DOME CONCERT HALL 17.10.20 Thank God for that! After...

Up until quite recently, Ethan Stahl from Gutter Knife and Joe McMahon were both happily residing here in Brighton. Then the bright lights of...

Brighton & Hove venue The Old Market has successfully received funding as part of the Government’s £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund (CRF)...

Brighton Dome & Brighton Festival (BDBF) has received vital support from Arts Council England’s (ACE) Culture Recovery Fund today. The...

Award-winning visual artist Morag Myerscough and cartoonist Steve Bell have contributed artwork in support of Brighton Dome’s Crowdfunder...

The New York Times have referred to Tangerine Dream as “The world’s leading synth band”. This is a really bold statement when...

Brighton’s music venues are joining forces to programme a series of live gigs to support and protect the city’s vibrant music scene. Live Is...

Paloma Faith will be performing at the Brighton Centre on Saturday 16th October 2021 as part of a 26 date tour for September – October...

The organisers of the Coro Nuovo Sussex Young Musician of the Year Competition, sponsored by Traditional Oak and Timber Company Tradoak, are...

Tomorrow (September 25th), IDLES will finally release their anticipated third album – ‘Ultra Mono’ – via Partisan Records. Recorded in Paris and...

The award-winning Brighton Music Conference (BMC) is the UK’s foremost electronic music conference and networking event, focusing on...

On Wednesday 30th September from 6.30pm-8.30pm Brighton’s iconic moving pier, the British Airways i360 Viewing Tower together with venues along...

Brighton Dome & Brighton Festival (BDBF) have released a series of high-quality art prints as part of its #BringBackBrightonDome Crowdfunder...

KEANE – ‘PUB IN THE PARK’, ERIDGE PARK, TUNBRIDGE WELLS 19 & 20.09.2020 After what has been the weirdest summer for live music (there...

There has been a giant hole left in local gig goers calendars since the spring, but thankfully there is now an intimate concert that you can...

“It’s absolutely crucial that we stop as many small venues from closing as possible!” Joe Mount, Metronomy Metronomy, Jamie xx, Pet Shop Boys, KT...

Veteran ska-punk band, The Specials, have announced they will play 16 dates across the UK next August and September, including a performance at...

Passenger perform a one-off, intimate show at Komedia Brighton to raise money for independent grassroots music venues as part of the Passport:...

Hotly-tipped Brighton noise-rock band DITZ are pleased to announce that they will be heading out on tour with fellow Alcopop! Records labelmates...

Erasure (Andy Bell and Vince Clarke) celebrate the release of their eighteenth studio album, ‘The Neon’, (which went crashing into the official...

Record Store Day will now thankfully be going ahead with staggered releases from Saturday 29th August. The annual event was originally due to...

Our Brighton and Hove music venues and clubs have been shut since mid-March due to Covid-19 and many are facing the severe threat of closure....

The Treason Show returns to the stage with Parodies Lost – a “best of” trawl through a 20-year back catalogue. It features Mark Brailsford,...

The Government has announced that socially distanced live performance events will be permissible in English grassroots music venues from Saturday...

Celebrating forty years since the release of ‘DARE’, The Human League will be performing this classic album in its entirety, as well as other...

Brighton Dome has received vital support from Arts Council England (ACE) in response to its closure caused by the Covid-19 crisis. The registered...

In collaboration with Brighton and Hove Council and many of the city’s event venues, The Brighton Event Professionals Independent Committee...

It’s official! DITZ have most certainly arrived! The Brighton quintet consisting of Cal (vocals), Anton (guitar), Caleb (bass), Sam (drums) and...

We are all too aware that the global Arts sector has been hit incredibly hard by the Covid-19 pandemic. We have reported on the Brighton &...

Brighton Pavilion MP Caroline Lucas highlighted the existential threat facing the cultural and creative industries in Brighton and Hove when she...

Despite the launch of #saveourvenues, campaign by the Music Venue Trust charity (MVT), it’s looking very bleak for some of Brighton & Hove’s...

The music community have launched a high-profile, global initiative known as ‘Love Record Stores’, to help independent record stores during the...

Brighton joins the global streaming community with ‘United We Stream’ launching in the city this week. A movement that started in Berlin during...

The Music Venue Trust (MVT) has announced that the #saveourvenues, campaign launched three weeks ago has now resulted in 140 grassroots music...

Musicians support #444 campaign for charity and raise awareness of the health benefits of making music Throughout COVID-19 isolation, everyone...

Island Records is proud to announce the One Love Covid-19 Relief Auction in support of NHS Charities Together & Feeding America. Artists old...

It is with sad regret that we have learned that The Stranglers’ Brighton-born keyboardist Dave Greenfield has died after a prolonged stay in...

We need to save our Brighton & Hove music venues. And we need to do it now. The Music Venue Trust has announced #saveourvenues, a new...

The current lock-down situation has highlighted the void left in our lives from not being able to attend music concerts. This encouraged me to...

Fatboy Slim is to put on a free show for thousands of NHS staff and frontline workers at the Brighton Centre. The DJ, whose real name is Norman...

Welcome to Part Four. This has been a mammoth task and we would once again like to ask for your assistance in filling in the missing gaps. Have...

Welcome to Part Three. This has been a mammoth task and we would once again like to ask for your assistance in filling in the missing gaps. Have...

Welcome to Part Two. This has been a mammoth task and we would once again like to ask for your assistance in filling in the missing gaps. Have we...

Following on from our recent report on ‘The History of Brighton & Hove Record Shops – The Directory’, we thought that it would be a terrific...

We need your help! Are you able to add any information to our directory of 100 years of record shops in Brighton & Hove? Please read on and...

The Concorde 2 music venue on Madeira Drive, Brighton was broken into this morning. The thief arrived on a pushbike and smashed one of the glass...

Not surprisingly The Great Escape organisers have announced that this year’s event will now not be taking place at all. It will now be staged in...

The Coronavirus epidemic is obviously hitting hard at the moment and thus you can almost certainly expect that any music concerts and festivals...

We at Brighton & Hove News Music Team have caught wind of something called ‘Coronavirus Fest’ being organised by ‘Gig Buddies’, and so we...

Many Brighton & Hove residents will be aware of one or two Brighton based and Brighton associated record labels from down the years. Arguably...

Due to the Coronavirus outbreak the Green Door Store in Brighton is now also closed. Read their statement below: The Brighton Centre have added a...

Being a musician can be a hard life! The public perception of music makers can be somewhat skewed by those earning megabucks at the top of the...

Sadly we at the Brighton & Hove News Music Team have to report that this year’s Glastonbury music festival has been cancelled. Read the...

I’m sure that many Brighton residents and those from surrounding areas have quite possibly at one time or another popped into Resident music...

Concert venues in Brighton and Hove and the wider county are shutting up shop in light of the coronavirus outbreak. With so many shows cancelled...

As anticipated, Brighton theatres and concert venues are announcing their immediate closures in the light of the Coronavirus outbreak. The...

PAVILION was born in Brighton 2019 and 6 months later, they’ve twice been named BBC Introducing The South’s ‘Track of the Day’ and are emerging...

As anticipated, Brighton concert venues are announcing their immediate closures in the light of the Coronavirus outbreak. The Concorde 2 have...

Few artists are storytellers as deft and disarmingly observational as Andy Shauf. The Toronto-based, Saskatchewan-raised musician’s songs...

Record Store Day was due to take place on Saturday 18 April this year, but now has been moved to Saturday 20 June instead, as a result of the...

Sussex’s premier music, beer, poetry and more beer festival Glastonwick was to be celebrating its 25th anniversary from Friday 5th – Sunday 7th...

THE CAT EMPIRE + LUCY LU – CONCORDE 2, BRIGHTON 14.03.20 Our evening out in the City tonight was opened up by Lucy Lu, who was performing...

DEMONSTRATIONS + TOYZ + MONAKIS + NAGASAKI DOG – THE HOPE & RUIN, BRIGHTON 13.03.20 We headed off into Brighton this evening to grab a...

KATE TEMPEST + KIM GORDON + ANNA MEREDITH + JEHNNY BETH + NADINE SHAH – ROUNDHOUSE, LONDON 08.03.20 Today being International Women’s Day,...

The organisers of the popular Hidden Herd annual Brighton music mini-festival, have decided to err on the side of caution and have pulled the...

It has just been brought to our attention that Australian female rock band Stonefield have cancelled their forthcoming UK tour dates due to the...

It has just been brought to our attention that Glasgow rock band Twin Atlantic have now also cancelled the remaining tour dates due to the...

BRIAN JAMES – WATERSTONES BRIGHTON 12.03.20 The Brighton & Hove News Music Team were on a tight schedule this evening as we were...

We have been notified regarding the cancellation of tomorrow’s (14th March 2020) concert by London based trio PALACE, which was to be held at...

NEGATIVE MEASURES + NEGATIVE FRAME – BACK BEAT BAR, HOVE 12.3.20 Yes it’s absolutely true! Tonight the foundations of the popular Back Beat...

To coincide with their recently announced headline tour for Spring 2020, Barnsley’s ferocious four piece Hands Off Gretel have revealed details...

WIFE SWAP USA + FRANK & BEANS + DE LA CHAMBRE + ANNIE DORRET – THE PRINCE ALBERT, BRIGHTON 11.03.20 We were in Brighton this evening in...

Staking its reputation as an essential rock ‘n’ roll date in the annual calendar, with two now fabled awards nights at the 02 Islington Academy...

Jessica Lynn is being hailed by press around the world as a rocket force and country music’s next big star. A unique face and voice in modern...

Philippa Hanna is an internationally acclaimed performer racking up over 1500 shows in 25 countries. Since her industry debut in 2007, she has...

44 years on the case and still going! The 1976 Punk Rock legends, The Vibrators, are set to make a welcome annual return to Brighton in April....

The Prince Albert at the top of Trafalgar Street in Brighton will have its windows booming and walls shaking on Saturday 11th April as there is...

Toots And The Maytals were huge in the ’60s and are still huge in 2020. Known as one of the pioneers of Jamaican music, whether it be Ska,...

PENGSHUI + KID BOOKIE + PARA FICTION – THE HOPE & RUIN, BRIGHTON 09.03.20 Joy. and The Hope and Ruin host the ‘Kerrang Radio Fresh...

SUBHUMANS + WERECATS + BUTANE REGULATORS – CROWLEY’S BAR, HASTINGS 07.03.20 This time around, punk stalwarts the Subhumans were not...

SAMANTHA FISH + FÉLIX RABIN – CONCORDE 2, BRIGHTON 08.03.20 I arrived in plenty of time outside Concorde 2. Again another cold wet and...

SHEEP ON DRUGS + NOISFERATU + DIGITALIS – THE PRINCE ALBERT, BRIGHTON 08.03.20 Tonight, we hot footed it to The Prince Albert in Brighton...

MONAKIS – THE HOPE & RUIN, BRIGHTON 08.03.20 We were heading off out into Brighton again tonight in order to see Sheep On Drugs...

THUMPER + HEIRLOOM + BAD LAWS – PATTERNS, BRIGHTON 07.03.20 THUMPER are a band that deserves to be as big as IDLES and Fontaines DC. It...

Sussex’s premier music, beer, poetry and more beer festival Glastonwick will be celebrating its 25th anniversary this June. This year’s event...

The Great Escape has announced that Hayley Williams will be performing at this year’s festival on Friday 15 May 2020. The Great Escape festival...