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£100 voucher at Dollydagger.co.uk
New Brighton store opening Brighton Place at the end of September
£25 voucher to spend at Ink-d
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Topman CTRL and XYZ Magazine are very proud and excited to announce that the winners of the Support We Are Scientists competition have been chosen. XYZ received a huge response from bands from the South all vying for the once in a lifetime opportunity to play to a sold-out Audio Brighton supporting NY indie rockers [...]
Not hitting up Reading or Leeds Festival this weekend? Then you could do a hell of a lot worse than getting yourself down to Audio to witness one of the world’s biggest indie bands play one of Brighton’s smallest venues! Returning to action with their stunning new album “Barbara”, expect to hear a mix of [...]
Calling all great Brighton bands!
Open a sold-out show for New York’s hottest rockers We Are Scientists! Friday August 27!
This week XYZ have teamed up with Topman CTRL to offer one lucky act the chance to break out and show what they’re made of, by opening for headliners We Are Scientists and main support I Am [...]
Dance act Faithless today announced that they will embark on a nine-date UK arena tour this November and December. The UK duo, Sister Bliss and Maxi Jazz, have had a busy summer touring their No.2 album “The Dance” with performances at various festivals including Glastonbury and T in The Park.
A collaboration with Fiat (yes, the [...]
Carl Barât will release his long-awaited debut solo L.P on October 4. The self-titled album will be available via his label, Arcady, and the first single, “Run With The Boys,” is out on the same day.
The ex-Dirty Pretty Things frontman and the now-reformed Libertines co-frontman (with Pete Doherty, of course) has been very busy recently [...]
Local act The Laylanas rescheduled the launch of their new album “Universal” last month, and they have used the extra time to ensure they bring you the crème of celebrations this month!
The last weekend of August brings with it a veritable Laylana-fest with the album launch now taking place on the evening of August 28 [...]
Standon Lordship, 6-8 August 2010
Arriving at Hertfordshire’s Standon Calling festival after a stuffy six hours in traffic, the atmosphere was electric - even in the car park with sparkling lights around us and the hum of music not too far away, the journey dissipates and you are able to respond to the call of Standon’s [...]
Modern legends The Libertines will play their first gig since 2004 on August 25. They are reforming later in the month for Reading and Leeds and it has been announced that the quartet will perform an intimate warm-up show at London’s HMV Forum.
Tickets for the event won’t be going on general sale, but fans can [...]
Lout Promotions are very proud to host The Maccabees at the Concorde2 this month. The quintet have been busy this summer with the UK and European festival circuit, having played at Liverpool’s Sound City, Rockness Festival in Scotland and Latitude in Suffolk (to name a few!) and they are currently in Japan for two dates [...]
Students listen up! If you like a good night out at the theatre as much as we do, you’ll love this new venture from UKTickets, London’s leading ticket agency.
Students can now get 10% off ticket purchases to all of London top West End shows including those hard to get ’sell out’ performances. The offer is [...]
Johnny Flynn is to release his second single from album “Been Listening”, titled “Barnacled Warship,” and has unveiled a remarkable animated video to go with it.
The video has been created by an artist involved in Wes Anderson’s Fanatastic Mr. Fox and Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie, called Christian DeVita; remember the name.
Also, Flynn has been confirmed as [...]
Who in today’s society - and their right mind - doesn’t openly want to go and see an old school burlesque show? Maybe a few of you would pass for the less acclaimed/possibly dodgy invites, but this one is so promising that it won ‘critics choice’ in London and Edinburgh and got publicly boot-licked by [...]
Hilton Metropole, 21 July 2010
As part of a European tour Tony Hawk made his only UK stop on Brighton beach, with a few world champion friends in tow. Arranged by Quiksilver, Tony seemed happy to have landed in Brighton. “They [Quiksilver] chose the cities but now we’re here I can see why. Obviously [...]
The Tony Hawk & Friends tour wrapped up in Brighton last night. The tour was a huge success and the Brighton crowds - a sell-out of 3,300 (with almost that again watching from the promenade) - lapped up the awesome talent. Tony Hawk along with Sandro Dias, Jesse Fritsch, Kevin Staab and Neil Hendrix, gave [...]
World famous skateboarder Tony Hawk is in Europe this month with his Birdhouse team - Sandro Dias, Kevin Staab, Jessie Fritsch and Jean Postec - for a four-date Quiksilver skateboarding tour that takes them to Berlin, Rome, Barcelona and… Brighton!
Every stop of the tour will come with amazing live concerts and DJ sets, with the [...]
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Internationally renowned and locally loved music venue and cultural hub, The Freebutt, is under threat of closure for apparent “audio nuisance”. The owners have instigated a campaign to save the Brighton institution and save the South Coast from losing one of it’s main musical attractions, after Brighton and Hove City Council warned that they could [...]
On Sunday 27 June The Red Bull Night Race comes to Brighton’s Honey Club. Basically, it’s a race against the clock. You’ll be faced with half an F1 car and it’ll be your job to take on the role of a pit engineer. Participants must change the front two tyres in the shortest possible time. [...]
Tucked away in the stunning environs of a Sussex Farm, Out Of The Ordinary invites you to get back to the basics. Festival goers this year will be blessed under a moonlit sky by Alex ‘The Orb’ Paterson, along with Andy ‘Lamb’ Barlow, Zion Train and Seize the Day. There is also the [...]
Sponsored by Corona Extra, the new blue XYZ wristbands are now available from the following Brighton stockists. With all new promotions for the summer, your wristband gives you access to the best perks and discounts throughout the city including: queue jumps, money off booze, gigs and club nights, food, [...]
It is here! The fifth annual Great Escape begins tonight with a exclusive launch party at Jam and gets into full swing on Thursday night for three full days of music! The team behind the most prestigious new music festival and industry conference in Europe have searched high and low, far and wide and hand-picked [...]
Congratulations to Mark and Daniel, the winners of the Primary 1/Ellie Goulding ticket give away! The lucky lads have won a double pass each to this weekend’s sold out show at Digital Brighton.
Primary 1 aka Joe Flory is a synth pop singer and producer and he releases his first single this month entitled ‘The Blues’, [...]
Supported by Fender and Merc clothing, XYZ has teamed up with Red Stripe to pull together a package of rock ‘n’ roll proportions for one lucky XYZ Magazine reader… We are giving away a slick new Fender® American Special™ guitar along with £50 to spend on some seriously stylish Merc clothing!
Just answer the following question:
Who [...]
The boutique karaoke venue Lucky Voice is now hostings some of the best unsigned talent on the Brighton live music scene. In association with Brighton Music Scene, local artists are invited to perform sets of well-known covers alongside some of their own material.
Live Lounge is every other week with the next event tonight, March 18 [...]
XYZ Magazine, with our friends at 7pm Management, have a fantastic Atomik prize to give away to THREE lucky XYZ Magazine readers. Each winner will win six (yes, SIX) tickets to the Atomik Weekender including chalet accommodation for you and your buddies!
In the surroundings of Pontin’s Prestatyn Sands Holiday Park, Denbighshire, the three-day weekend party [...]
The Honey Brighton (formerly The Honeyclub) is currently undergoing a refit; moving away from the New York warehouse style with exposed brickwork and into more luxurious territory. Plans include a fabulously lavish new VIP area, and the main room, backroom, cloakroom and of course, the toilets will all be included in the refit. A newly [...]
What better way to celebrate this St Valentines Day than with songs of bittersweet jilted hearts that PJ Harvey herself would be proud? She Keeps Bees are a Brooklyn based duo consisting of vocalist/guitarist Jessica Larrabee and drummer Andy Laplant. Like an inverted White Stripes, they play the kind of stripped down sexy-blues that’s best [...]
The latest issue of XYZ Magazine hit the Brighton streets this week!
As always, we have some fantastic interviews! Local lads, Maccabees, grace the February cover - we caught up with front man Orlando Weeks about the release of their second album No Kind Words and their recent collaborations with Roots Manuva… Coming fifth place in [...]
Award winning Camp Bestival is back and is set to continue its crusade to bring the Great British summer holiday with bells on! Curated by Rob Da Bank, Camp Bestival 2010 returns to the salubrious surrounds of Lulworth Castle for another jam-packed jaunt bursting with bountiful excitement for all the family. Camp Bestival is a [...]
Crane Kalman Brighton are pleased to announce that they will host the first major showing of Polyarnye Nochi – a stunning body of work from the critically acclaimed British photographer, Simon Roberts.
Polyarnye Nochi focuses on winter in northern Russia, finding a region shrouded in darkness nearly 24 hours a day, a phenomenon known as Polyarnye [...]
Hobfest
It was touch and go for a minute there, but Brighton’s best rock bar has reopened and Hobfest - the New Year’s Eve Spectacular - will go ahead! It’s everything you would expect from a night out at the Hob: Free entry - check. Cheap beers - check. Load of great bands and DJs over [...]
It Is Still 1985
It may be 2009, coming on 2010, but in New Hero, It Is Still 1985. Brighton’s notoriously popular Saturday club night presents its 1980’s New Years Eve spectacular with two floors of 80’s tunes and 80’s films, revelling shamelessly in the best / worst, brilliant / terrible, awful / awfully good moments [...]
A free bar with the guys from Hip Hop Karaoke
This New Years Eve at the Freebutt and Penthouse will be big! The Freebutt has teamed up with two of its strongest (most fun!) nights to bring you one of the best and messiest NYE party around! On December 31st you will be able to enjoy [...]
Don’t Stop Believin’
New Year’s Eve CAN be fun, and the guys from Pop Musik guarantee it! Dynamite Sal and co. have brought together a line up of DJs who will play a selection of their guiltiest of guilty pleasures for your NYE pleasure. Eddie The Goatboy (Pop Musik, Superheroes Rock), DJ Nause (Shameless, Pop Musik), [...]
Trailer Trash! presents…
Pirates Of The Caribbean
Jump aboard the good ship Trailer Trash for a New Year’s Eve shindig special! Hosted by the lovely Rosy Carrick, Trailer Trash! is a cult movie-themed club extravaganza, featuring fire, aerial and burlesque acts, resident DJs spinning the finest rock ‘n’ roll, neo-swing, dirty electro, soundtracks and classic hits, and [...]
Stephen Malkmus And The Jicks return to the sunny shores (???) of Brighton later this month for a one off show at Komedia. Stephen Malkmus, of Pavement fame, and his Jicks formed in 2000 after Pavement’s “hiatus” began in 1999. The quartet has since released four albums, with 2003 album Pig Lib receiving rave reviews [...]
If you’ve still never heard of The Bays then you should bow your head in shame, my friend. Aside from their club residencies being the stuff of legend, they are also one of the most innovative live dance acts in the country. They recently played a technologically pioneering gig with the Heritage Orchestra, they don’t [...]
“Bringing the best in new music direct to your doorstep”, the Shockwaves NME Awards Tour is gearing up for 14-date tour in February 2010. The tour has always been a fizzingly fertile breeding ground for breaking the best new talent with the likes of Ting Tings, Klaxons, Arctic Monkeys, The Cribs, Bloc Party, and The [...]
Uncut have announced that Tinariwen have won this years coveted Uncut Music Award. Up against some stiff competition, ‘Imidiwan: Companions’, Tinariwen’s fourth album, won over Kings of Leon, Bob Dylan, Wilco, Animal Collective, Dirty Projectors, Grizzly Bear and The Low Anthem to be crowned the most inspirational and rewarding album of 2009.
Only in its second [...]
Daughter of the jazz musician, arranger and composer Sir John Dankworth and the singer Dame Cleo Laine, Jacqui Dankworth has established herself as one the UK’s leading jazz vocalists, and she will perform at The Old Market on Thursday 12th November 2009. Her live concert showcases her unique versatility and effortless mastery of a wide [...]
Recently shooting to fame with the 2009 Barclaycard Mercury Prize nominated second album ‘Twice Born Men’, Sweet Billy Pilgrim bring their ethereal, haunting and atmospheric songs to Brighton as they tour the UK with previous nominees, left-field jazz scene darlings Portico Quartet. Their first album ‘We Just Did What Happened And No One Came’, was [...]
The Manchester based songsmiths Everything Everything have created something of a stir on the unsigned indie scene of late. Their unique brand of twisted pop is overflowing with lush vocal harmonies, mind-bending lyrics and dance floor vibes that make this band unlike anything you’ll have heard or seen before. Their genre defying antics will no [...]
Saturday 24th October 2009 brings Brighton’s second annual White Night - the all night cultural festival! This year’s theme is fortune and chance, so in the city’s historical streets and squares, churches, theatres, clubs, and galleries, will lie a series of real and virtual trails and installations. Most of the events are free of charge, [...]
Northern pop-starlet Little Boots, aka Victoria Hesketh, will play at Brighton’s Concorde 2 this Thursday before she sets off on a European tour. She put her first song up on the internet in February 2008 and by Christmas that year, she had appeared on ‘Later… with Jools Holland” - without even releasing a record! Her [...]
Welsh rockers Skindred come to Brighton’s Concorde 2 on Monday 19th October 2009. The four-piece are finishing up a massive UK tour promoting their third studio album ‘Shark Bites and Dog Fights’, and next month they are off to the US for ten dates. Skindred uniquely fuse heavy metal, punk rock and reggae and their [...]
Last week it was revealed that Marina was to pull out of the NME Radar Tour due to illness, but good news - the Welsh/Greek goddess has recovered and has rejoined the tour. Catch Marina and the Diamonds tonight at Brighton’s Concorde 2.
2009 Mercury Prize winner (and October XYZ covergirl!) Speech Debelle brings her breath-of-fresh-air hip hop to Brighton’s Coalition tonight, the 8th October. Her stunning album ‘Speech Thearpy’ has absolutely taken the critics by storm, so make sure you catch the young Londoner now! Also, check out our exclusive interview with Speech Debelle in this month’s [...]
Known as one of the favourite festivals of the season, Bestival, enjoying perfect weather throughout, certainly lived up to its name.
65 days of Static took to the stage with all the energy of one of their own intimate club shows. Drummer Rob Jones played the intro on a stand-up kit of floor toms that fattened [...]
Launched in 2004, Rising Styles (formally Brighton Hip-Hop Festival) is the biggest celebration of hip-hop culture in the UK. Along with a film screening, there is the regular Freizebox in Jubilee Square - a huge canvas box that is decorated by graffiti artists. Hammer & Tongue and Slip Jam:B join forces for Rap Slam, a [...]
Green Man Festival 2009 - music and mysticism from the valleys.
With new stages, an expanded layout, and sunshine, this was a revitalised Green Man Festival. The Far Out Stage boasted a great line-up, including Peter Broderick, Four Tet, Vetiver and Pivot. On Friday, it hosted one of the best sets of the festival, from [...]
Sunday 20 September sees the return of Streets for People, a music event which takes place around Brighton involving a distinct lack of vehicular transport but a string of fantastic musicians. Melting Vinyl are serving up a rich menu, including the magnificent songsmith Eugene McGuinness and Brooklyn’s new super-duo She Keeps Bees. McGuinness is putting [...]
“Furballs” is FatCat Records’ great new night at the Freebutt. From 22 September, bands from the label’s brilliantly diverse roster, and beyond, will be playing, starting with the great French popsters Get Back Guinozzi!, who featured in this week’s ‘ten tracks you have to hear this week’ section in NME. They’ll be supported by the [...]
Worthing Birdman 2009 pulled in huge crowds at the weekend, with the usual array of colourful characters and crazy flying contraptions taking to the air – but not for long.
As always, the event was a mixture of eccentric contestants and serious competitiors, with many of the entrants raising money for charity. Among the competitors were [...]
Those crazy kids at Lout have done it again, bringing our favourite trippy-indie-too-cool-for-school Brooklynites, MGMT back to the city. The duo of Goldwasser and VanWyngarden have already wowed audiences at the old Pressure Point and a triumphant Digital gig, and now they return to Brighton by their own request - and courtesy of Lout. Hurry, [...]
Audio celebrated its 5th birthday in fine style on 10th August with a star-studded night headlined by a Kissy Sell Out DJ performance. The famed seafront bar on Marine Parade has long been one of the best venues in Brighton, offering up superb gigs and great clubbing nights.
From the brilliant early live performances of bands [...]
The unspeakably brilliant Mumford & Sons have announced that their massively anticipated debut album “Sigh No More” is to be released on 5 October through Gentleman Of The Road/Island Records. It will be preceded by a new single, “Little Lion Man” on 28 September. The single previously featured on the band’s EP “Love Your Ground” [...]
Lulworth Castle, 24 - 27 July 2009
“Remember this is Dorset where the sun shines on the godly” - Camp Bestival town crier
Tucked away in the Purbeck hills of quaint rural Dorset is a quaint rural castle which once a year plays host to a quaint garden party. Not just any party though, this is Bestival’s [...]
Cambridgeshire, 23 - 26 July 2009
On it’s seventh birthday, the Secret Garden Party pulled out all the stops to entertain the uninitiated and reward those returning for another four days of outlandish costumes, quality music and good old-fashioned hedonistic fun. With its theme of Babylon and Eden, and ticket-buyers assigned to one of two opposing [...]
Sarah Powell heads down to the Saturday of Loop Festival and delivers an indie girl’s view.
If you’ve heard my show (Juice Drive 3-7 on Juice 107.2) one thing will become instantly apparent: I love indie. I’m an indie girl through and through, raised on a diet of Oasis and New Order, lover of Elbow and [...]
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Now uploaded! Juice Brighton’s Sarah Powell bats for the other team for a weekend! XYZ Magazine were the official partner for The Great Escape ‘09, Sarah Powell joins our team of XYZ reporters as we bring you the juice from this years festival!
What a bloody weekend… May saw all things Fringe invade Brighton [...]
Beach Down Festival, Devils Dyke, Brighton, 28-31st August 2009
Beachdown is proud to have Grace Jones headlining this year as well as an array of top international artists. Public Enemy now join the increasing roster of bands, artists and Dj¹s some of which include: Laurent Garnier Live,Youth, The Beach Boys Own (Terry Farley and Clive Henry) [...]
NEWSFLASH: XYZ are delighted to confirm an official partnership with The Great Escape Festival this year!
Make this site your homepage because we’ll be bringing you the very latest news every day, including details of the line-up, offers and some smasher giveaways too, in the run up to the event! Click here now to buy [...]
Digital, 24th January 2009
A friend affiliated with Digital – the venue set for these American sensations - told me that when Of Montreal’s tour manager came to the club his initial words were: “No, no, no. This isn’t big enough for them, we’ll just have to extend the stage somehow!” This comes as no surprise [...]
Concorde 2, 29th November
Clandestine Cultivations, the label and promo company behind Super Dub Pressure, have been serving Brighton a healthy slice of dubstep for about the last five years. The move from SDP’s original haunt at the Volks (still home to Dub Pressure) a year ago was necessitated by the ever-growing number of dubstep followers.
The [...]
Concorde 2, 2nd December
The “Alabama Muthafuckin’ Three!” (as they are gleefully announced by a small, unknown Welsh lady) are not a band to compromise. Operating decidedly on their own terms throughout their career, their forthcoming album has been a truly interactive conception, with tracks chosen by fans throughout the year via their rather entertaining website. [...]
The Loft, 5th December
Positivity sets out to be a party night for people who love all things hip-hop, funk and soul. And what a job they do. While the majority in attendance were obvious hip-hop fans (recognisable by the abundant baggy jeans and hoodies), it was a pleasant surprise to see a mixed crowd. [...]
Concorde 2, 7th December
Joan Wasser is blessed with a wealth of natural musical ability, from violin (which she began to learn aged to her regular solo instruments of piano and guitar. Enticing an enviable crowd out on a freezing Sunday evening is some feat in itself, but when you are treated to an hour [...]
Engine Rooms, 8th December
New York rock troubadour Jesse Malin has been making music for over 25 years. After emerging from the 1980s punk scene in New York, he formed a highly successful solo career, working with the likes of Bruce Springsteen and Ryan Adams. Malin is currently at the back end of one of the [...]
Freebutt, 9th December
From the beautiful horse’s mouth Moriarty sound like: “a velvet couch, a subterranean salt cathedral and the Russian Taiga.” Hailing from everywhere, but especially cherished in France, these bohemians were playing only two nights in the UK amidst their most fruitful of chapters. I had naively expected a healthily busy Freebutt, full of [...]
Freebutt, 11th December
As with fashion, films and art, music fads are cyclical. We’re just coming to the end of our second wave of the eighties, so as is to be expected, now begins the reawakening of the ‘90s. Stuffed into a sold out Freebutt, Vivian Girls, currently with more buzz about them than a beehive, [...]
Duke of York’s Picturehouse, 18th December
Sitting in the Duke of York’s Picturehouse waiting for a band to come onstage makes you feel momentarily dislocated from the present, like you’ve been transported back in time to the heady old days of folk. The old venue has a charming, venerable ambience, and for a moment you can [...]
Komedia, 21st December
It’s the Sunday before Christmas. Outside the Komedia, Brighton’s North Laine is filled with festive spirit but the Komedia is filled with a very different spirit indeed: the spirit of punk rock. Hardly surprising, because along with The Sex Pistols and The Clash, The Damned were a seminal band within the punk movement [...]
