Great Escape Brighton Bands Gallery

Hopefully everyone has now recovered from The Great Escape. Here’s a few shots from the local bands I saw – as always I only saw a fraction of the bands I wanted to, but I did catch Heights at Unbarred Taproom, Hanya at the Hope & Ruin, Sleeper at the Mesmerist, Penelope Trappes at St Mary’s Church, My Life Story at the Black Lion, Trip Westerns at the White Rabbit, and Hutch and Helen Ganya on the TGE Beach Stage. I’ve already picked up a Super Early Bird ticket for next year too

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Hutch at 234 Festival at the Green Door Store

This weekend Green Door Store held their annual free 234 Festival, which has been running since at least 2014 (see our post from way back then here). Various other commitments meant we couldn’t spend the whole weekend drinking beer and watching bands, as much as we’d liked to have done, but we did get along to see Hutch, who we’re big fans of. Visuals for the whole weekend were provided by the ever spectacular Innerstrings, who’s probably still sleeping it off now.

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Brighton Bands at the Great Escape (on film)

The Great Escape feels like a distant memory now. Everywhere else posted up their roundups days ago, but ours has taken a bit longer because of our bright idea to shoot on 35mm film , which means that we needed to wait for processing before we could even see the photos ourselves. Anyway they’re here now, so click through for our pics of ARXX at the Hope & Ruin, Lime Garden downstairs at the Hope & Ruin, Laundromat at BYX, Hanya at Presuming Eds, Hutch at East Street Tap, Plantoid at East Street Tap, Hanya (again) at Pryzm, Heights at the Komedia, and Johanna Bramli at Hotel Pelirocco.

 

Projector at the Hope & Ruin Gallery

Gigs have been back for a few weeks now, but it’s taken me until now to bring my camera along to see some local bands and take enough photos to justify a blog post. But last Friday Projector played a storming set for the hometown date of their current tour at the Hope & Ruin and we found our way to the front. Support came from Hutch (who we did see) and Sleep Council (who we saw a bit of, but only from the back).

It’s great to be back at gigs, and hopefully we’ll have some more pictures to share very soon