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Preview: Together The People

Lauren Wade Music Editor Together The People is back for a second year and they’re promising a festival bigger and better than the previous one. The 5,000 capacity event held…

Review: Truck Fest 2016

Truck 2016 was blessed with the perfect combination of luscious weather and scintillating bands, ensuring the sold out festival lived up to its sparkling reputation. Friday Following the soulful musings…

Review: Florence and the Machine @ BST Hyde Park

British Summer Time Festival returned for another magical year of music in one of the UK’s most stunning royal parks. This time they brought a dazzling array of headliners to…

Preview: Truck Festival 2016

Oxford’s Truck Fest has established an unrivalled reputation as the go-to festival for breaking bands and established indie starlets; curating a meticulous balance between the popular and undiscovered. This time…

Brighton’s Rhythmix nominated for Best Arts Project

Brighton’s leading music charity Rhythmix has been nominated for the Best Arts Project in the National Lottery Awards 2016 and for those of you who may be out of the…

WILD LIFE Festival – Review

WILD LIFE Festival, which took place over the weekend of Saturday 11th-Sunday 12th June was a spectacle of music from Pop and House to RnB and acoustic sets. The eclectic…

BST Hyde Park: Massive Attack Preview

British group Massive Attack are another huge name that have been announced to play British Summertime Hyde Park festival this summer. The trip-hop icons have been confirmed as headliners for…

The Great Escape: Clean Cut Kid Interview

Clean Cut Kid are the band on everyone’s lips at the moment, we caught up with them prior to their show-stopping set at The Great Escape to discuss SXSW to…

Fort Hope @ Patterns – Live Review

On May 24th, Patterns welcomed to its stage Fort Hope, a three-piece British rock band, following the April release of their latest EP, ‘Manne of Lawwe’. The band, who stemmed…

The Great Escape 2016: Reviewed

The Badger took on the imposing task of covering The Great Escape; leaping between interviews and gigs across Brighton and Hove, we managed to catch some massive sets whilst chilling…

The Great Escape: The Island Club Interview

Modest as they are talented, Brighton’s The Island Club are turning heads with their intricate brand of melodic pop-rock. The Badger caught up with them before their packed out set…

British Summertime Hyde Park 2016 Preview

If you enjoy live music but camping’s not your thing, then British Summertime Festival held in the heart of the capital is the one for you. Held over a number…

A$AP Nast, Wiki and Sporting Life: Hedonism hits Brighton (Patterns, 1/5/2016)

“They said I didn’t have enough material for a tour.” A$AP Nast pauses, then flashes a sly smile. “Well fu*k that.” What follows can be accurately delineated as mayhem in…

The Great Escape Festival 2016 Preview

Next month sees the return of The Great Escape – Europe’s leading festival for new music. From Thursday 19th – Saturday 21st May, Brighton city centre will be taken over…

Brighton Buzz: Artists to watch this summer

Swedish sensation Tilda Allie dropped her first single this weekend, and she looks set to make waves within Brighton and beyond with her luscious brand of dreamy, atmospheric, electro pop.…

Visual \/ Vocal

Visual V Vocal was Rhys Baker and Emma Phillips’s first in a series of events which bring together local artists in a fusion of sound and image. This event focused…

Is Country Music Just for Americans?

Could you see yourself loving music that celebrates riding around in a pick-up truck, partying in cornfields and drinking whisky? Maybe not, if you, like me, grew up in London,…

An interview with Lisbon

You’ve played in Brighton before, do you like it here or are there other cities you prefer to play in? M: I like Brighton because it’s a unique city and…

The Coral – Distance Inbetween

It’s been thirteen years since Wirral quintet The Coral dropped their self-titled debut and blew us all away. At the peak of their fame, it was their unique and technical…

Jamie Woon @ Concorde 2

Undoubtedly, Jamie Woon is a great artist to listen to recorded. With the attention to detail in the production of his songs, the blend of genres that his music encompasses…