Music

ART BRUT + RAKETKANON + FRAUDS + HAGGARD CAT + GAFFA TAPE SANDY + FOXC**T – TUFNELL PARK DOME & BOSTON MUSIC ROOM, LONDON 17.05.19...

ECHOBELLY – THE PRINCE ALBERT, BRIGHTON 21.05.19 It was always inevitable that this Echobelly acoustic set gig at The Prince Albert in...

Train company bosses have promised to put on extra services for Brighton Pride to prevent a repeat of the chaos last year. Govia Thameslink...

The “big screen” returns to Brighton Marina today (Monday 17 June) with four weeks of live sports events, family favourite films and even a...

A Brighton night club and music venue has been granted a licence for nearby new premises as it prepares to spend £1 million on the move. The...

Kaiser Chiefs have announced the release of anthemic new single ‘People Know How To Love One Another’ alongside details of a new UK arena tour...

Altered Images have announced a rare Brighton gig for next year, but it’s an intimate affair to be held at The Haunt, so I would recommend...

The Brighton & Hove News Music Team listen to a wide range of music. We would like to share our musical journey with you and so this week we...

JORDAN – THE PRINCE ALBERT, BRIGHTON 08.06.19 Thankfully the Gods were looking down favourably on the Brighton & Hove Music Team on...

STEREOLAB + NOW – CONCORDE 2, BRIGHTON 11.06.19 Tonight we were extremely fortunate in catching with highly influential English-French...

HEAVY LUNGS + HOTEL LUX + NANCY + BEACHTAPE + SKINNY MILK + JOHN MYRTLE + PUBLIC BODY + MYSTIC PEACH + RAINN BYRNS + BUDDHA BLOOD – THE...

Friday 26th July is going to be a raucous night at The Prince Albert at the top of Trafalgar Street in Brighton as Hastings finest sisters of...

After months of speculation, Keane, one of Britain’s most beloved bands are back and will be performing at The Brighton Centre on Saturday 5th...

NICK LOWE & LOS STRAITJACKETS + HOWLIN JAWS – THE OLD MARKET, HOVE 04.06.19 Nick Lowe, (who’s been called “the headmaster...

HATCHIE + CIEL – GREEN DOOR STORE, BRIGHTON 09.06.19 Sometimes in life you just have one of those days where everything goes wrong!...

Organisers of a music festival in a Brighton park have had to cancel the first day of their weekender today after high winds damaged the main...

‘GLASTONWICK’ 31.05.19 – 02.06.19 It’s quite amazing to learn that Sussex’s GLASTONWICK Festival is now in its 24th year. It just goes to...

SHEEP ON DRUGS + NOISFERATU + DIGITALIS + DARK DISCO DJ – BAR 42, WORTHING 01.06.19 Sheep on Drugs are a British techno/Industrial music...

Team Member – Alan Poole The Release – ‘King Of The Surf Guitar’ by Dick Dale And His Del-Tones (Selected Video) Bit of a blip this...

SUBHUMANS + COCKWOMBLE + THE DINZ + ROTTEN FOXES – THE CON CLUB, LEWES 02.06.19 Just eight days ago I had frequented The Con Club to...

AU/RA + CHARLOTTE – KOMEDIA STUDIO BAR, BRIGHTON 03.06.19 Exactly one year ago, saw the UK singles chart debut by the then 16-year old...

The Brighton Acoustic Club hosts Lizzy Hardingham tonight (Monday 3 June). She was a finalist in the New Roots competition last year. Brighton...

A new show this year from Brighton Fringe Australian regulars Head First Acrobats who were in residence for the whole month of May and what a...

The young reviewer and his adult companion attended the annual ‘High Top Circus Student Showcase‘ at the Spiegeltent during Brighton...

DEATH AND VANILLA + HAMILTON YARNS – WESTGATE CHAPEL, LEWES 30.05.19 It’s fair to say that at times I’m rather enamoured with local concert...

The Brighton & Hove News Music Team listen to a wide range of music. We would like to share our musical journey with you and so this week we...

THE VARUKERS + SKURVI + COMBAT SHOCK + GUTTER KNIFE – HOPE & RUIN, BRIGHTON 25.05.19 All these bands on ‘Anniversary’ tours...

THE SKATALITES + THE PETTY THIEVES – THE CON CLUB, LEWES 25.05.19 Never have I had a stranger feeling than going to watch a band play live...

PETER PERRETT + STRANGEFRUIT + HOLIDAY OSCAR – CONCORDE 2, BRIGHTON 26.05.19 Sadly a member of the team couldn’t make it to this gig and so...

Saturday 8th June is the date etched in the minds of many punks in and around Sussex and indeed further afield, as that’s when they will get to...

PETER & THE TEST TUBE BABIES + THE BARRACKS + PUNKA – BLACKMARKET VIP, HASTINGS 24.05.19 If you like old school punk with catchy tunes,...

Plastic Mermaids have just revealed a brand-new video for latest single ‘Taxonomy,’ taken from their much-awaited debut album, ‘Suddenly Everyone...

FAT WHITE FAMILY – O2 FORUM KENTISH TOWN, LONDON 15.05.19 It seems as though Fat White Family have been popping up quite a bit recently in...

Richard Hawley has announced a 12-date UK tour (in support of his new album ‘Further’), which will be concluding at Brighton Dome on Friday 18th...

Fringe Review: Hypernova by Laurie Black 22 May 2019 Spiegeltent Laurie Black returned triumphant to the Spiegeltent with a killer show of music...

The Brighton & Hove News Music Team listen to a wide range of music. We would like to share our musical journey with you and so this week we...

THE UNDERTONES + NEVILLE STAPLE BAND – DE LA WARR PAVILION, BEXHILL-ON-SEA 17.05.19 Tonight, I was drawn to the De La Warr Pavilion to...

It appears that the spring gigs season is well and truly underway up at the Hope & Ruin in Queens Road, Brighton. Thursday 13th June would be...

It’s quite amazing to learn that Sussex’s GLASTONWICK Festival is now in its 24th year. It just goes to show how successful it has become! In...

HARKER + MAYPINE + THE E.D. FOWLER BAND + GARY & THE YAYS – GREEN DOOR STORE, BRIGHTON 18.05.19 Following a long-realised dream...

PHATS & SMALL + SLEEPER + STEVE MASON + ROSE ELINOR DOUGALL + SCOTT BOOTH + RUBBER JAW – ST ANN’S WELL GARDENS, HOVE 18.05.19 A lively...

CABBAGE + THE C33’S – THE HAUNT, BRIGHTON 03.05.19 As the Cabbage adage goes, better late than never with a review of their live gig at The...

ELECTRIC SIX + SCARE TAXI – THE CON CLUB, LEWES 15.05.19 I got a tingle of excitement when I heard that Detroit’s Electric Six were...

Review: Cosmo Sheldrake, Bunty, Alabaster de Plume. The Spiegeltent, 9 May 2019 It’s not often I start a gig by shouting “The Moss! North...

UK SUBS + 40 SHILLINGS OF THE DRUM – HOPE & RUIN, BRIGHTON 12.05.19 Tonight we made our way over to Brighton, which has been really...

The Brighton & Hove News music team were present at this years fabulous Great Escape new musical festival. We strived to cover as many new...

The Brighton & Hove News music team were present at this years fabulous Great Escape new musical festival. We strived to cover as many new...

This gig taking place at Brighton Spiegeltent on 15th May was a full line up with the Beleza School of Samba who’s mission is to share the...

This one night only performance by musician Soumik Datta & City of London Sinfonia was an interesting mix of film, and live specially...

The Brighton & Hove News Music Team listen to a wide range of music. We would like to share our musical journey with you and so this week we...

The Brighton & Hove News music team were present at this years fabulous Great Escape new musical festival. We strived to cover as many new...

Eye to Eye, Brighton Festival Commission. Brighton Dome Concert Hall, 12 May 2019 Commissioned by Brighton Festival and produced in partnership...

In October 1980 three musicians took to the stage in their hometown of Bradford to play a gig under the name New Model Army. Led by frontman and...

DBOY + PEEPING DREXELS + STRANGE CAGES + SNAYX – THE PRINCE ALBERT, BRIGHTON 08.05.19 The mysterious pseudo-punk trio out of Canada known...

The Brighton & Hove News music team have witnessed many of this year’s concerts during The Great Escape which took place in many venues...

THE GREAT ESCAPE ‘LAUNCH PARTY’ – THE DIVE BAR, BRIGHTON BEACH 08.05.19 A sixteen degree temperature difference from last year...

Over the past three days, music fans and delegates from right across the world have descended in their many thousands to the city of Brighton...

The audience gathering in All Saints, Hove last night, for Sam Sweeney’s first solo album tour, could guess that they were in for a...

The Brighton & Hove News Music Team listen to a wide range of music. We would like to share our musical journey with you and so this week we...

Dead dog in a suitcase (and other love songs) Kneehigh with Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse Dead dog in a suitcase (and other love songs) was...

This was a truly magical experience! Having stumbled across The British Paraorchestra’s work late last year on their last visit to Brighton...

NICK MASON’S SAUCERFUL OF SECRETS – ROUNDHOUSE, CHALK FARM, LONDON 03.05.19 Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets started as an idea that Mason...

Brighton’s psych punks Dog of Man recently returned from a DIY tour of Europe where they played shows in a Berlin squat and an abandoned steel...

Shakespears Sister have today announced their official reunion as a band, twenty-six years after they originally disbanded. Shakespears Sister...

CATFISH & THE BOTTLEMEN + TWIN ATLANTIC – BRIGHTON CENTRE 02.05.19 The weekend started early with a visit to Brighton Centre on a...

CROWS + DITZ + TREEBOY & ARC – THE PRINCE ALBERT, BRIGHTON 04.05.19 Tonight was one of those memorable gigs! I knew exactly what to...

Last month, the Brighton & Hove News music team were fortunate to have caught The Slow Readers Club in concert at The Haunt in Brighton and...

This daring new production is a one night only performance by musician Soumik Datta & City of London Sinfonia. Soumik is a master of the...

Building on the tremendous success of the inaugural Punks Picnic, which took place last year (Read our review HERE), legendary Brighton DJ...

Hats off yet again to Andy at Love Thy Neighbour promoters and label as he has sweet talked my fave Kiwi high energy guitar act The Beths to...

10CC + PAUL CANNING – CONGRESS THEATRE, EASTBOURNE – 01.05.19 The legendary 10cc rocked on up in Sussex tonight and whatever...

The Brighton & Hove News Music Team listen to a wide range of music. We would like to share our musical journey with you and so this week we...

UNDERCOVER FESTIVAL VII – BOSTON MUSIC ROOM/THE DOME, TUFNELL PARK, LONDON 26-28.4.2019 For this report I’ve left Sussex to check out one...

But you’ll have to wait a wee while as the Lighthouse Family won’t be arriving in Brighton until 25th February 2020, when they will be unloading...

After the success of their Sussex gig last Spring the famed psychobilly rockers Guana Batz have announced a return date. They will once again be...

Gomez have announced that they will be bringing their blues infused indie sound to Sussex this summer as part of a special 8-date tour. They have...

Styling themselves as Re-inventing the Orchestra for the 21st Century,  Paraorchestra and Friends’s mission is to redefine what an...

MUNCIE GIRLS + THE E.D. FOWLER BAND + KLAE – GREEN DOOR STORE, BRIGHTON 25.04.19 Thankfully it has finally happened and the Munci...

2pm, Sunday 26 May 2019, Brighton Speigeltent Join in a sing-along of hits, led by a cast of characters from your favourite musicals. If yo...

8pm, Wednesday 8 May 2019, All Saints Church Hove A new live show and album of instrumental music inspired by the Great War, The Unfinished...

Another collaboration from Head First Acrobats this May at Brighton Fringe with what looks like some very busy acrobats this year! This is a...

Dende plus guests This gig promises to be a stormer of a night – Dende is a party band playing an up-for-it mix of tunes with a firm...

PAUL YOUNG + JON ALLEN – THEATRE ROYAL, BRIGHTON 28.04.19 I’m pretty sure that the Theatre Royal in Brighton were well chuffed when they...

DEAF KIDS + RAKTA – THE HOPE & RUIN, BRIGHTON 22.04.19 I had a feeling that this evening’s gig was going to be a memorable one, as it’s...

CARNIVAL COLLECTIVE + KING LAGOON’S FLYING SWORDFISH BAND – THE HAUNT, BRIGHTON 26.04.19 Brighton is such a wonderfully vibrant...

THE COATHANGERS + ARXX + PUBLIC BODY – LATEST MUSIC BAR, BRIGHTON 24.04.19 Wednesday March 24th was a massive day in my calendar and there...

SLAUGHTER & THE DOGS + SNIDE – THE CON CLUB, LEWES 25.04.19 Sometimes a moment is so perfect you hardly dare to recreate it. Last...

THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE QUEEN – LONDON PALLADIUM 19.04.19 To say that Damon Albarn is prolific and that his output is diverse is...

The Brighton & Hove News Music Team listen to a wide range of music. We would like to share our musical journey with you and so this week we...

The Great Escape new music festival that takes place in Brighton and Hove every year is nearly upon us. This year it will be happening all over...

SLEAFORD MODS + LIINES – DE LA WARR PAVILION, BEXHILL-ON-SEA 20.04.19 A trip to the Grade 1 Listed Building that is the De La War...

Hey psychobilly fans, here’s a date for your diary – Saturday 30th November 2019. King Kurt are heading back to The Con Club, in Lewes on...

FONTAINES D.C. + JUST MUSTARD – THE HAUNT, BRIGHTON 18.04.19 The Brighton & Hove News music team cover many concerts, but few in 2019...

Following the phenomenal success of his debut album ‘Human’ in 2017, featuring the huge hits ‘Skin’ and ‘Human’, Rag‘n’Bone Man plays Brighton...

PUSSYLIQUOR + POND LIFE + SKY CASSETTES +TURTLE CIRCLES – THE SUSSEX HOTEL, BEXHILL-ON-SEA 19.04.19 Every once in a while you get a girl...

THE LONG RYDERS – ISLINGTON ASSEMBLY HALL, LONDON 13.04.19 We tracked down The Long Ryders twice on their current tour and so to spice...

The Brighton & Hove News Music Team listen to a wide range of music. We would like to share our musical journey with you and so this week we...

THE SPECIALS + THE TUTS + DJ SAFFIYAH KHAN – BRIGHTON DOME CONCERT HALL 17.04.19 The legendary 2 Tone band, The Specials, are back on the...

Doves are one of Britain’s rarest treasures and their reputation as a committed and consistent albums band is gilded by timeless singles...

The Damned are set to return to Brighton having performed at the Dome on 19th November last year (Read our report HERE). This time around they...