Now in its fourth year, End of the Road started as a festival promoting an intimate feel and ‘to offer the bands a chance to play longer sets.’ For those who didn’t manage to wind their way around the labyrinthine ticketing systems of the larger festivals, a smaller event may be the way forward.
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The nations biggest youth-based festival will be back this August for its 39th year! Interestingly, the organisers have gone for a slightly more traditional line-up. Over recent years the festival has shifted its focus away from harder rock for a more indie-based feel. This year the formula will go comparatively old-school, with artists such as [...]
The Lowland Hundred will be performing a free showcase afternoon at The Prince Albert on August 14 to celebrate the release of their debut album, “Under Cumbrian Sky”.
The melancholic concept album, by Welsh duo Paul Newland and Tim Noble, is all about Aberystwyth, and the showcase, held as a promotion with Victory Garden Records, promises [...]
Toronto’s Young Empires are playing at Audio in Brighton this Saturday as part of a six-date UK tour. Their demos are spreading like wildfire and earlier this week, the trio’s first date was to a sold out crowd at Madame JoJo’s in London. While they’re in our fair seaside city, Matt, Aaron and Jake are [...]
An XYZ favourite comes to town in the form of Japan’s DJ Kentaro. Having won the world championship back in 2002, Kentaro promptly signed a deal with Ninja Tune and stopped competing. With distinctive, slick and precise skills he brings a ton of style to the turntables. Whether this is an AV set isn’t yet [...]
Hectors House will play host to the alternative rockers Skinny Machines this month! They describe themselves as a noughties version of Smashing Pumpkins - if they sacked Billy Corgan. This seems like an exciting prospect for Brighton’s music lover’s, so local or not, get down there next week for a night of grungy ‘90s influenced [...]
Scrub up, get your summer frock on and your head firmly up in the clouds for one of the South Coast’s most well known brands offering uplifting house music. Glamorous lifestyle label Hed Kandi is back for the weekend - the best of the globetrotting, Ibiza initiated DJ team, cheap shots and bright lights bring [...]
Moon Duo are serving up their “sonic stew” to audiences in the UK and Ireland this month, their first date in Brighton at the Prince Albert. The San Francisco duo - Sanae Yamada and Wooden Shjips’ Erik Johnson - released two acclaimed records last year and this tour coincides with their debut album “Escape,” out [...]
If you’ve never seen Vessels before, then you’ve not lived. Five musicians, several instruments and an extreme amount of talent all combine to fill the missing piece to your incomplete puzzle. The Leeds phenomenon’s are no strangers to Brighton and once again return with an ample amount of impressive material that’ll leave audiences mesmerized. Currently [...]
June 21 sees Nick Hudson / The Academy of Sun debuting their new record “My Antique Son” in its entirety at St. Mary’s Church on St. James’ Street, Brighton. This promises to be an immersive and powerful concert from one of Brighton’s most exciting artists, perfectly suited to what is one of the city’s most [...]
Silje Nes is set to release “Crystals,” the debut single from her new album “Opticks.” Released on June 7, this single marks a crucial point in the Norwegian singer’s career, as she hopes to out-do her critically acclaimed debut album “Ames Room.” The new album will be released on September 13. Don’t miss her at [...]
Brighton label, Nice Weather For Airstrikes, presents a free four-day post-rock bonanza at The Druids Arms this May. Featuring over 20 acts including Jacobs Stories, Talons and XYZ favourites The Deal Was For The Diamond (pictured), it’s sure to please fans of everything from shoegaze to soundscape. If the first three days are too full-on [...]
The term ‘legend’ is thrown around all too often these days, with little regard for what it actually represents. Those of you who think your mate’s a superstar just for their pint-sinking ability should saunter down the Kings Arches and witness a the real thing for yourselves. Mark E. Smith is one of the original [...]
Sisters Sierra and Bianca AKA CocoRosie are in the UK this May as part of their huge European tour (24 shows in 26 days!) followed by a lengthy US tour in June. Since CocoRosie’s birth in 2003, the duo have released three critically acclaimed albums, in particular, second album Noah’s Ark which featured Antony Haegarty [...]
Remember Plan B? The East End boy who played acoustic guitar and rapped about violent, dark inner city London inhabitants. Well he’s come over all soul crooner on his new album, The Defamation of Strickland Banks, and he’s travelling down here to give us all a taste just after its full release. With such a [...]
The Automatic returned with their brand new single ‘Interstate’ late last year, marking the start of a whole new chapter for the Cardiff-based quartet. Following a three year rollercoaster ride which saw the release of two albums (Not Accepted Anywhere and This Is A Fix) and a string of top 40 singles, they return on [...]
Gift of Gab, best known as the technically adept MC of the vaunted Blackalicious, is playing at Brighton’s Freebutt this March. He released his second solo album ‘Escape 2 Mars’ late last year - five years after his debut - and it has been described as “the next groundbreaking voyage in the career of an [...]
Liverpool trio Hot Club de Paris are playing at the Freebutt in Brighton later this month. Signed to the London-based Moshi Moshi Records, Hot Club de Paris have released a string of 7″ singles and two critically acclaimed albums (Drop It ’til It Pops in 2006 and Live At Dead Lake in 2008). They toured [...]
Stafrænn Hákon (meaning ‘Digital Hákon’ in Icelandic) is the Icelandic born Ólafur Josephsson. Ólafur has been making music at his home studio under the Stafrænn alias since 1999. He self-released three albums in Iceland which since have been re-released in the UK and the US, along with a fourth and fifth. The most recent, ‘Gummi’ [...]
This one is for all you discerning high-art progressive types, we know you’re out there! London/Bournemouth based collective Brenda are one of those brilliant shoe gaze projects that come along all too rarely, but by God, it is worth the wait. Like a musical knight in shining armour, they tread the perilous path of experimental [...]
Hungry for a party? Look no further than the scrumptious Los Albertos, a six-piece ska sensation who will more than satisfy your appetite with foot-stomping, feel-good sounds. Think Madness, the Clash and Santana! Two saxophones, a trumpet, guitar, drums, bass, cheeky lyrics and more energy than an Olympic sprint team Los Albertos have a wicked [...]
Six Organs Of Admittance will play at Brighton’s Freebutt next week, smack-bang in the middle of his European tour that wraps up with a show at ATP in Minehead in mid-December. Six Organs Of Admittance is Ben Chasny (of Comets On Fire) along with whomever he ropes in for recording or for shows. This one-ish-man-band [...]
Completely insane Israeli trio Monotonix are back in Brighton later this month for another night of unpredictable madness. Recently releasing their first full-length LP, ‘Where Were You When It Happened?’, and touring for pretty much 365 days of the year, their live performances are not watched, but experienced. They are known for taking off their [...]
Crackle is an off-kilter collaboration between bass player Nick Doyne-Ditmas and drummer Frank Byng. The duo reference a wide range of traditions and practices, moving between analog and digital, acoustic and electric, lo-fi and hi-fi. Supporting Crackle are Andrew Phillips and Marcus O’Dair AKA Grasscut. Grasscut have played audiovisual shows at Tate Britain, the ICA, [...]
Fink: Komedia, 22 September
Brighton-based Fink has been quietly taking over the universe in instalments. A downbeat concoction of folk and dub, singer Fin Greenall has a super smooth voice, which he delivers over a hypnotic soundtrack which is both moody and mesmerising. All rounded edges and non-serrated sounds, new album “Sort of Revolution” continues to [...]
Bill Callahan St George’s Church, 18 August
The gravel-toned, dry-humoured and thoroughly intriguing Mr Callahan comes to town off the back of his excellent new album “Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle”. Callahan, the lo-fi maverick who previously recorded as Smog, has gradually edged towards more mainstream appeal without losing any of his independent credibility [...]
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