Brighton
Live Review: Sunflower Bean / Lime Garden / Prima Queen – Komedia, Brighton 11.04.2022
Sunflower Bean play out their ferocious live energy punk style inspired set at the Komedia for their final UK tour date. Lead singer Julia Cummings brings her psych guitar riffs to Brighton just in time for the imminent release of the third album ‘Headful of Sugar’ due to be imminently released in May. Bring on …
Live Review: Shed Seven / The Lottery Winners – Brighton Dome, Brighton 01.04.2022
It’s been a long time coming with Yorkshires Finest finally being able to play Brighton Dome as part of their ‘Another Night, Another Town – Greatest hits live tour’. The original date was scheduled way back in December and cancelled because of the dreaded pandemic. Shed Seven entertained a packed Brighton Dome to their magnificent …
Track: Thrillhouse kick starts the year with the effervescent ‘Janus’.
I feel that my musical year doesn’t really start until I’ve received Thrillhouse latest offering. And their opening salvo for the year is the appropriately named single ‘Janus’, the Roman god of beginnings, gates, transitions, time, duality, doorways, passages, frames, and endings. He is usually depicted as having two faces and is where the name …
See: DITZ get fiery ‘n’ wiry on declamatory new single, ‘The Warden’, extend their tour into next year
BRIGHTON’S DITZ, who, on more than one occasion this year we’ve found the overwhelming urge to catapult into the perspiring throng to, only to find our living rooms sadly lacking in the requisite, adoring crowd, have this very morn shared a vid for a new track, “The Warden”, which, like last month’s roarer “Ded Würst”, …
Track: Can’s live series continues with ‘Live In Brighton 1975’ hitting the racks in a fortnight; hear an excerpt from the jam ‘Brighton 75 Vier’
WITH the Can Live In Stuttgart 1975 set out in the racks now and being eagerly devoured and analysed by fans, Mute and Spoon Records already have the next live set from the actually legendary Can ready on the runway. We’re just two weeks away from the release of the second, sprawling, transporting and wholly …
Track: The magnificent Thrillhouse are back with a sparkling new single ‘It’ll Be Alright In The End’ and news of an EP ‘Wedding Disco’
The eternally enigmatic Thrillhouse have returned to the fray with another stylistic and cool track ‘It’ll Be Alright In The End’ and, as a shocking addendum, news that they will be releasing a full EP entitled ‘Wedding Disco’. The Brighton band have thrilled with a series of utterly brilliant singles – nine or so – …
Track: Brighton’s Ditz decry the low-paid, daily grind on the howlin’ ‘Ded Würst’
SICK to the back teeth of your arse of a job, bare minimum on the table for you to break your back for? Jesus, ain’t it the way. We’ve all been there, all dug out the hell of that kinda job; and here’s the latest single from ragin’ Sussex quintet Ditz, themselves sick of the …
News: Brighton’s indie rockers FUR announce debut album ‘When You Walk Away’, a tour, and unveil the chiming, glorious title track.
FUR are a very exciting light on the horizon, and their new single ‘When You Walk Away Pt 1’ is a jingle jangle harmonious delight that is bursting with melodic goodness and a sense of optimism and joy. It comes as the Brighton band announces the release of their debut album of the same name …
EP: Brighton rockers Yonaka to release new EP/Mixtape, Seize the Power
Brighton based rock band Yonaka release their brand new mixtape Seize the Power on 15th July via Blood Records. The mixtape consists of eight tracks produced entirely by the band and focuses on themes of self-empowerment, hopefulness and acceptance; something we all desperately need whether we know it or not. Opener Ordinary lulls you into …
ME REX announce debut album ‘Megabear’ and share single ‘Galena’
Relatively speaking, it hasn’t been too long since we last heard from Brighton band ME REX, the solo-project-turned-full-band spearheaded by Myles McCabe and filled out by Kathryn Woods, Phoebe Cross and Rich Mandel – all current or former members of Fresh, Cheerbleederz and Happy Accidents (seriously, those three are in so many bands) – as …