Brighton Music Blog Top 20 2024 : 9 – Jamie Broughton / The Sound

Posted on 10/12/2024 by brightonmusicblog

I only recently caught on to just how good Jamie Broughton’s musical output was, but now that I have I bang on about him to anyone who stands still near me for long enough. I was aware of who he was before then, popping up onstage for various other Brighton bands playing whatever instrument was required, but it was seeing him live playing a full set of his own songs that the penny dropped. Sounding not dissimilar to Tame Impala when Kevin Parker was hanging out with Melody Prochet, Jamie’s album Big Long Sun – now also the name of his group now he’s widened his horizons from playing everything himself – is a fuzzy 70s infused psych dream pop gem.
I’ve been told that Jamie has albums and albums worth of unreleased material, and right on cue a new single Heaven is By Your Side – still psych pop, but drawing it’s influences from the 60s rather than the 70s – has been released today. No doubt we’ll be hearing a lot from Jamie and Big Long Sun in 2025.

9: Jamie Broughton / The Sound

10: David Best / Terms & Conditions
11 : Welly / Shopping
12 : Ellis D / Shakedown
13 : Ladylike / Horse’s Mouth
14 : AK/DK / Nobody Shouts
15 : The New Eves / Astrolabe
16 : Projector / Tastes Like Sarah
17 : Penelope Trappes / Sleep
18 : Lambrini Girls / Big Dick Energy
19 : Holiday Ghosts / Sublime Disconnect
20 : Plantoid / Modulator

Brighton Music Blog Top 20 2024 : 10 – David Best / Terms & Conditions

Posted on 09/12/2024 by brightonmusicblog

2024 was a quiet year for Fujiya & Miyagi, who weren’t up to much publicly save for their headline gig at Lewes Psych Fest and the release of a 2003 radio session to raise money for a former band member who had passed away before their time due to cancer. There was also the release of “Message – Send – Failure”, the first offering from front man David Best under his own name after numerous collaborative side projects over the years. Cream of the crop from the album was Terms & Conditions, which wouldn’t have sounded out of place on one of his bands albums, punctuated by the semi spoken lyrics and vocal tics that he’s made a calling card in his career.

10: David Best / Terms & Conditions

11 : Welly / Shopping
12 : Ellis D / Shakedown
13 : Ladylike / Horse’s Mouth
14 : AK/DK / Nobody Shouts
15 : The New Eves / Astrolabe
16 : Projector / Tastes Like Sarah
17 : Penelope Trappes / Sleep
18 : Lambrini Girls / Big Dick Energy
19 : Holiday Ghosts / Sublime Disconnect
20 : Plantoid / Modulator

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 →

Brighton Music Blog 2018 Highlights

Posted on 02/12/2018 by brightonmusicblog

I’m not a fan of end of year lists. There’s the forced ranking of things, introducing subjectivity and pitting people against each other. There’s the fact that you might not remember things from the start of the year as well as recent tracks, or that some songs sounded great in the sunshine but right now it’s cold, wet and miserable. So instead, here’s a few tracks from 2018 that are highlights for us. No particular order, no claims that one is better than another, just what we think are a bunch of great tunes. There’s a few maybe more obvious bands missing (naming no names) – it’s been a brilliant year for Brighton Music – but some of the bands you might be thinking of haven’t been in touch, or haven’t got back to us when we’ve been in touch. Given how successful they’ve been they obviously haven’t needed a blog like us, and it’s not like we’ve been short of great music to post this year. Anyway, we’ve tried to post bandcamp links where we can, so if you like what you can hear, you can click through and buy from the site where the biggest proportion of the price goes back to the artist: Continue reading →

Brighton Music Blog 2017 Top 25 – number 1 – Fujiya & Miyagi

Posted on 22/12/2017 by brightonmusicblog

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Brighton Music Blog 2017 Top 25 – number 2 – Pete Fij & Terry Bickers

Posted on 21/12/2017 by brightonmusicblog

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We Are Millionaires by Pete Fij & Terry Bickers was released back in July, quietly understated but at the same time accomplished and powerful. The band describe their songs as being miserable, which you can’t deny, but there’s also a majesty to them too. Most of all though, they make it look effortlessly easy, which everyone knows is the really tricky bit. Continue reading →

Brighton Music Blog 2017 Top 25 – number 3 – AK/DK

Posted on 20/12/2017 by brightonmusicblog

RZ9A3797es This year, AK/DK released their second full length long player Patterns / Harmonics, a further refinement of their anarchic analogue kraut-punk-techno sound and the follow up to 2014’s Synths + Drums + Noise + Space. As great as they are on record though, it’s live where the band shine and their album launch at the Green Door Store in October was our gig of the year.

Brighton Music Blog 2017 Top 25 – number 4 – grasshopper

Posted on 19/12/2017 by brightonmusicblog

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We haven’t managed to make it along to many Bleeding Hearts Recordings related things this year, but we’re still fans of what they do with their regular monthly nights ploughing a different furrow to everyone else. They’ve only put out one record this year, which felt (to us at least) like it was a long time coming. Since the recording of the three tracks on grasshopper‘s Nothing Like Us single they’ve changed guitarists a number of times, but have now settled on a line up which has added some meat to the post-punk bones of their previous post-punk incarnation. Where so many guitar bands in Brighton opt for a grungey shoegaze sound it’s always refreshing hear grasshopper (which you can do on the 3rd January at the Green Door Store)

Brighton Music Blog 2017 Top 25 – number 5 – Anneka

Posted on 18/12/2017 by brightonmusicblog

We’ve put a couple of bands in our top five who only had short form releases, whose music we love and we feel still deserve a place in our list despite not having released an album. The first of these is Anneka, who released her Life Force EP at the end of April on Anti-Ghost Moon Ray. The tracks managed to be both electronic and organic at the same time, layering synths over ethereal vocals and blurring the distinction between the two. When we met up to do her Brighton Rocks shoot in May she told us that there was a follow up planned at some point so hopefully we’ll see that soon in 2018. Continue reading →

Brighton Music Blog 2017 Top 25 – numbers 10-6

Posted on 11/12/2017 by brightonmusicblog

We gave you numbers 25 through to 11 last week, now it’s time for the bottom half of our top ten

10 : Saint Etienne
Home Counties is one of our most listened to albums this year, and Saint Etienne would have score even higher if more than just one of the trio lived in the city. Pete Wiggs is also half of The Séance DJ duo alongside James Papademetrie, and have just released a track called Chetwynd Haze on compilation All The Merry Year Round for the experimental music site A Year In The Country.
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