Interview: The Wanted
As soon as you hear the words ‘UK’s freshest new boy band’, you might not be too excited to look…
Live review: Robyn
The cold and dreary night of Thursday 21 October was the date, and Concorde 2 was the place when electro…
The music room: Nathan Elliot
Nathan Elliot not only writes and mixes his tunes but also provides guitar, bass and vocals for them. BIMM student…
Live review: The Peppermint Beat Band
The Peppermint Beat Band The Hydrant, Brighton 14 October 2010 The Peppermint Beat Band are a Brighton-based rock n’ roll/soul/pop band, who…
Live review: Tall Ships
Tall Ships Jam, Brighton 28 October 2010 There is a lot to say about crowd reaction at live music events,…
Tinchy Stryder
Topping the bill last Friday night at the Freshers’ Sea Front Festival was none other than one of the UK’s…
Ollie Wride
The Badger finds out exactly what ‘21st Century Love’ is… I don’t know how it happened, but I’m ever so…
Notes from the underground: Minimal Kids
Having just celebrated a year in monthly residence at one of Brighton sea front’s premier venues, Minimal Kids looks set…
Album review: Eric Clapton – Clapton (Warner Bros)
Clapton might have achieved the honorific title of God, but will Clapton’s new self-titled album live up to it? Or…
Live review: Mumford & Sons
Mumford & Sons 4 October 2010 Brighton Dome The question of authenticity in folk music is age old, and seeing…
Ramona
The band is fronted by the ever so irresistible Karen Anne, and backed by her songwriting partners, bassist James Watts,…
Brighton's Best Kept Secrets
We lift the lid on the best up and coming musicians to emerge from your university town Brighton has a…
Album review: Tinie Tempah – Disc-Overy (Parlophone)
Just a week after Tinie Tempah’s fourth single – ‘Written in the Stars’ – was released to the masses, devotees…
The Sunshine Underground: Leeds' finest exports raise the alarm in Brighton
If my stint in student journalism has taught me anything, it is to always expect the unexpected. The PR guy…
Live review: Beethoven with Brighton Philharmonic at the Dome
It may be said, with the exclusion of cynics and the ill-informed, that there is not one iota of love…
Twisted Folks: Stornoway meet their public
Stornoway are on the cusp of big things. The Badger chatted to Brian Briggs, the Oxford group’s lead singer, before…
Album review: Neil Young, 'Dreamin Man Live 92' (Reprise)
I hadn’t much listened to Neil Young until recently. For Christmas I bought my girlfriend a newly issued live Young…
Massive Attack enthral the Dome
Heligoland was launched after seven years in the making, and the following evening saw Massive Attack kick off their world…
Album review: F*cked Up, 'Couple Tracks' (Matador)
Is it breaking the rules to include a retrospective of B-sides and rarities in our review of January’s best albums? …
Two divorced women and a drum machine: introducing Scotland's latest export, Ex Wives
It would be all too easy to sit here, plagiarize/paraphrase for all it’s worth and reel of yet more spiel…