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 →

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 25/09/2019 by brightonmusicblog

Here’s this week’s new music post. It was almost ready to go yesterday, but then we spotted that there was a midweek release from Projector, so we held out for a day to include that. Continue reading →

Brighton Rocks #28 : Penelope Isles

Posted on 16/09/2019 by brightonmusicblog

We first approached Penelope Isles about doing a Brighton Rocks with us back in June but as we’ve been told my multiple people, they’re the hardest working band in town, so the post is only finally going up now. Their album Until The Tide Creeps In came out on Bella Union back in July and the band have been on tour pretty much all this year, most recently supporting the Flaming Lips and playing at British Sea Power’s Krankenhaus festival. Next week they kick off a headline worldwide tour, starting with Europe, then North America, then Europe again and back to the UK culminating in a headline gig at the Haunt on 11th December

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What’s the best thing about Brighton?
Hill Top Cafe. A regular stop for us on our way outa town! Continue reading →

New Brighton Music

Posted on 16/07/2019 by brightonmusicblog

With two Brighton Rocks posts and one live gallery last week, we didn’t get around to making a new music post, so once again we find ourselves in a position where we’re playing catch up a bit. Top of the pile are another reworking from Blood Red Shoes, and a track from the band new Penelope Isles album: Continue reading →

July Gig Previews

Posted on 01/07/2019 by brightonmusicblog

It’s the first of July and summer’s definitely here. What’s hot in the world of Brighton music over the next month though? Read on and we’ll tell you… Continue reading →

New Brighton Music

Posted on 18/06/2019 by brightonmusicblog

Here’s this week’s new music post, all back to normal after last week’s mega catch ups:

Artist: Penelope Isles
Track Name: Leipzig
Taken From: Until The Tide Creeps In (album)
Release Date: single out now, album out 12th July
Next Gig: Resident Instore 17th July
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The Brighton Music Blog guide to The Great Escape 2019

Posted on 02/05/2019 by brightonmusicblog

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Next week sees the return of The Great Escape, where we all get even less sleep than normal, and anywhere you could imagine a stage, and a few places you couldn’t, turn into venues for three days. It overshadows most other musical happenings in May, which is quite remarkable since May is also the month of Brighton Festival, so this post replaces our usual monthly gig preview. Continue reading →

New Brighton Music

Posted on 15/04/2019 by brightonmusicblog

Here’s this week’s new music post, which starts a bit differently from normal because the first track I wanted to share isn’t online as far as I can see – It’s the Record Store Day release from Blood Red Shoes’ Jazz Life record label, and the release is called AA Sessions Volume One. It features contributions from AK/DK, Blood Red Shoes, Tigercub, Sick Joy and Projector. Hopefully by the time you read this they might still have a copy at Resident. If not, give Cult Hero, Vinyl Revolution or Rarekind a try. There’s only 500 for the whole country though, so good luck. Continue reading →