Category Archives: Live

Dark Horses supported by the New Eves at the Hope & Ruin gallery

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On Saturday night Dark Horses played a launch show at the Hope & Ruin to celebrate their new album While We Were Sleeping. They were joined by album producer Bob Earland on synths, and guitarist Paul Philips also got on stage for a couple of tracks. Support came from Brighton quartet The New Eves, with a DJ turn between acts from Dark Horses long time photographer Ali Tollervey. The band are always visually arresting – this time augmented with visuals from James GM (which felt like they could have been a bit more prominent in our opinion) – so we got there early and got a good spot down the front to take some photos:

The Go! Team at Chalk gallery

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Last night the Go! Team played their first hometown gig for five years. Since then, they’ve released two albums – Get Up Sequences Part One, and Get Up Sequences Part Two, and this gig was the final date of the tour promoting Part Two. The set covered their whole career – they played at least one song from each album, but the night lent most heavily from their debut (which they noted turns 19 this year) and their latest records. The set list (if you can’t read upside down from the first photo) was:

Let the Seasons Work
Mayday
Ladyflash
Divebomb
Get it Together
I Loved You Better
Semicircle Song
Huddle Formation
The Scene Between
Gemini
Going Nowhere
Keys to the City
Everyone’s a VIP to Someone
The Power is On

(encore)
Whammy-O
T.O.R.N.A.D.O.

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Quatermass III supporting Saint Etienne at the Old Market

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Last Friday we headed down early to the Saint Etienne gig at the Old Market for a visitation from our local out of this world galactic psyche rock experience Quatermass III. Veering between glam and kraut but never taking their eyes from the prize they proved the perfect warm up for Saint Etienne, a third of whose core members are now Brighton based (well, Hove, actually) Continue reading →

Guru at the Prince Albert gallery

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We’ve been to see Guru as often as we can since we first caught them at the Green Door Store’s 7th birthday party a couple of years ago. Last night they sold out the Prince Albert and we were at the front with our camera. If you were there hopefully you’ve recovered from the sweaty mosh pit. If you weren’t, you missed out. Here’s our pics, click through to view large. Continue reading →

Clowwns at the Hope & Ruin gallery

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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 →

November / December gig previews

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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 →

Orchards at the Hope & Ruin gallery

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Last night Orchards headlined the Hope & Ruin, playing their first sold out headline show of their careers to date. The gig was in aid of Brighton Women’s Centre, so selling out is the best thing that could have happened for both the band and the charity involved. Support came from Libra Libra (who we saw) and Pollon (who we sadly missed). Continue reading →