Just 2 weeks before the UK’s answer to SXSW takes over Brighton, the organisers of The Great Escape have announced that 1, 2 and 3-day festival tickets have now sold out, with around 16,000+ music fans expected in Brighton, May 16th-18th. With 350 of the hottest new acts spread across over 30+ different venues, the [...]
This Yoda, a powerful force, has he. Oh. Hold on. I think I may have the wrong bloke. If I could just check Wikipedia for a second, and. . . . ah. . . . yes. . . . ok, bear with me a moment, please. Right then. This ‘DJ’ Yoda, an impressive night planned at [...]
Life must be hard for The Pigeon Detectives. Having formed back in the mists of the 2004, their fledgling (sorry) career was one hotly tipped for superstardom. Championed by the great and the good, (otherwise known as Radio 1 alumni Jo Whiley and Steve Lamacq), the band’s early performances on the festival circuit saw them heavily [...]
Catch a bargain moment of heart-stirring singer-songwriting as rising talent Deptford Goth’s already cavernous, electronic melancholia echoes across the Unitarian Church. A week before Brighton plays host to the biggest weekend of music all year (see this month’s issue of XYZ for the best the Great Escape has to offer), two of the most continually [...]
The subject of sovereignty provided the plays of William Shakespeare with numerous and popular protagonists, the politics of royal courts and the quest for power providing rich dramatic background to many of his greatest works. But whilst the Scottish Thanes and Danish Princes that fill the playwright’s folio invariably meet with tragic, often gruesome endings, [...]
Catch hip hop’s most brutal experimenters at Coalition on Friday for a lethal dose of anarcho-rave industrial doom – it will be loud, basically. Stefan “MC Ride” Burnett met drummer-producer Zach Hill in their hometown of Sacramento, California, where they presumably worked out a mutual love of terrifying sonic overdose. With Burnett’s art-school sensibility and [...]
Common Tongues are a band very much in the ascendancy right now. The Brighton based 5 piece, purveyors of a melodious if sometimes melancholy form of nu-folk have been plugging away for some time, so the upcoming release of the long awaited ‘Tether and Twine’ hopes to see this much praised local act take things [...]
For many people, the term ‘minimalism’, when applied to art, is like Marmite; an immensely divisive subject, loved by its protagonists, derided by its detractors. But for those who adhere to the latter side of this argument, then perhaps a trip to the Brighton Dome this April will help to change those blinkered views. The [...]
Start off the month with Tel Aviv’s finest in vinyl-scratching, quadruple-horn-tooting jazz funk at the Blind Tiger. Ever wondered what Rage Against The Machine’s “Killing In The Name Of” would sound like re-imagined by an Israeli nine-piece jazz-funk band, replete with four-deck mixologists and samplers? Well now you don’t have to! The Apples’ much-lauded cover [...]
Anyone Hank Marvin for the days when Brighton was all about the potted whelks and jellied eels should get themselves down to the Concorde2 this month, for a chance to sink a few Britney’s in the company of those two most rockney of rollers, Charles Nicholas Hodges and David Victor Peacock, known more commonly [...]
