You might have spotted some Mutations Festival previews – Everyone’s very excited about Mike D, and if you got in early enough a festival ticket would only be a tenner or so more than the good tickets to go and see him in London. You get a lot of bang for your buck at Mutations. The other big names – Fat Dog, Squid and Dove Ellis are not to be sniffed at either. But even if you were a member of one of the worlds most influential hip hop acts, you still haven’t earned a mention on Brighton Music Blog. Before this week we’d spotted Big Long Sun and Hutch on the bill, but this week’s final wave of announcements brough loads more Brighton bands onto the line up, so here’s a shoutout for M.Woodroe, Maximilian, Opal Mag, Oral Habit, The Stanford Family Band, Snayx, Plantoid and Deary (who aren’t all Brighton based but Dottie has been spotted behind the counter at the Bella Union shop and various gigs in town, which is enough for me).

Mutations Festival kicks off a fortnight tomorrow on 23rd October at Chalk, Dust, Patterns, Revenge, Folklore Rooms, Alphabet and the Hope & Ruin

You can see our pics from last year’s festival, headlined by local heroes Lambrini Girls here.