Clowwns at the Hope & Ruin gallery

Posted on 11/01/2020 by brightonmusicblog

Last night Clowwns played at the Hope & Ruin (supported by Mum Dad and the Kids, but we got there a bit late for them because Clowwns played a two sets). The band, who disppeared off the scene for a few years are back for 2020, and played a mix of old and new songs, all as tight and angular as they ever were. Lighting was provided by the seemingly omnipresent Innerstrings (who’s also going to be hard at work next weekend running Lewes Psych Fest, alongside last night’s promoter Melting Vinyl). Click through the pics to view large: Continue reading →

Brighton Music Blog Best of 2019

Posted on 23/12/2019 by brightonmusicblog

It’s Christmas Eve Eve, and we’ve left it a bit late to come up with our end of the year round up. Without much further ado, here it is – We say it every year, but this isn’t an ordered list, because you just can’t compare a band who’ve been releasing records for over twenty years with another who’ve just put out their first release. So hopefully there’s something in here for everyone, whether you’ve been listening to Nick Cave since he played with The Birthday Party, or you discovered CLT DRP at a sweaty night at the Green Door Store: Continue reading →

Penelope Isles (supported by Ciel and Itchy Kid) at Chalk – gallery

Posted on 13/12/2019 by brightonmusicblog

It’s been a while since we’ve put up a gallery of live image, but we brought our camera out to Penelope Isles‘ homecoming gig at Chalk earlier this week. It was their hundredth this year, and one of a handful with projections from Innerstrings. Support was the debut performance from Itchy Kid (who would also join Penelope Isles for a song in their set) and Ciel (who were joined by Jack Wolter for one of their songs). Click through to view large: Continue reading →

New Brighton Music

Posted on 28/11/2019 by brightonmusicblog

Almost our last New Music round up of the year – of the decade, thinking about things. Not much gets released in December, so there’ll probably be maybe one more, then we’ll have some kind of end of year post, which I haven’t really thought about yet. Anyway, here’s what to listen to this week: Continue reading →

New Brighton Music

Posted on 16/11/2019 by brightonmusicblog

Here’s this week’s new music, coming on a Saturday rather than midweek, so we’ve caught all the tracks that just dropped yesterday too, including tunes from the new albums by previous Brighton Rocks subjects Dog in the Snow and Animal House (and a new video from BUNKR too). Anyway, onto the music: Continue reading →

Brighton Rocks #29 : Leroy Horns from Barnacles

Posted on 10/11/2019 by brightonmusicblog

What’s the best thing about Brighton?
The Downs. We’re in a city that is surrounded by top notch nature. Lucky! Continue reading →

New Brighton Music

Posted on 06/11/2019 by brightonmusicblog

Here’s this week’s new music post, which features the return of Orchards who today announced their biggest headline tour to date. Gone are the days of seeing them in small venues like the Hope & Ruin or the Prince Albert – their next gig in Brighton will be in April at Chalk. Continue reading →

November / December gig previews

Posted on 04/11/2019 by brightonmusicblog

It’s the fourth of November and we haven’t got around to this month’s gig preview post yet. That means we’ve missed out on telling you about Tru Thoughts 20th Birthday Party which was at Patterns on Saturday, and British Sea Power’s all dayer at the Concorde yesterday. There’s still a lot of other gigs to tell you about though, including a couple in December – The music world shuts down towards the end of November and only posts end of year lists, so I’m including them now so they don’t get missed. Continue reading →

New Brighton Music

Posted on 01/11/2019 by brightonmusicblog

Quite late in the week, here’s this week’s new music post, featuring the return of Cate Ferris with the first single from next year’s album and a whole host of other tracks out this week: Continue reading →

New Brighton Music

Posted on 24/10/2019 by brightonmusicblog

Hello! Here’s this week’s new music post, which kicks off by the surprise new single from Fickle Friends. Tucked in at the bottom below the spotify playlist is also the new video from Dog in the Snow taken from their forthcoming album Vanishing Lands:
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