Review: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Ghosteen
Words by Rosanna Weber On October 4th, Nick Cave released his latest album Ghosteen, a double album, his first since…
Live Review: Jordan Rakei @ Concorde 2
On Wednesday the 16th of October, Concorde 2 once again reinforced its position as Brighton’s ‘crème de la crème’ of music…
Review: Charli XCX’s Charli
Words by Farley Green Charli XCX strips back to Charli in her newest and most personal material to date. By…
Review: Holly Herndon @ ACCA
Words by Ryan Bridgewater On Thursday 17th October the Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts (ACCA) hosted Holly Herndon…
Review: MAHALIA’s Love & Compromise
Mahalia’s rise to alternative R&B supremacy comes as no surprise. Atlantic saw the potential in her when she was only…
The Great Escape – Day 2: Foals and Girl In Red take weekend to higher planes
The second day at The Great Escape was hailed in with sun rays beaming down over the city. Buzzing with…
The Great Escape – Day 1: Brighton’s weekend of new music begins in style
It is that time of year again, as the masses descend on Brighton for festivities, infrequently good weather and the…
Cabbage live at The Haunt: Swaggering with youthful audacity
Cabbage enter the stage to Gimme gimme gimme by ABBA and disco lights. They shuffle around, as if to say…
Mr Bongo 30th anniversary – Moses Boyd leads the way in eclectic celebration of music
It is safe to say Brighton-based record label Mr Bongo has earned its name as the best champions of diverse…
London Astrobeat’s Orchestra Performs Talking Heads: Rearranged classics fall out of place
The name alone made me want to see the set. A multicultural entity, the band has been affectionately renamed “African…
Private Parts Podcast – Sounds like white privilege?
An honest and open review on Jamie Lang and Francis Boule’s Private Parts podcast. I have always been an avid…
The Messthetics Live Review: Fugazi Spin-Offs impress
While the debut album released last year by instrumental rock trio The Messthetics was an enjoyable listen, I was not…
Milkman – the novel of the year?
Since winning the 50th Man Booker Prize for fiction, the demand for Anna Burns’ novel Milkman has been consistently on…
A poetic evening with Chris Riddell and A.F Harrold
On 22 November, Waterstones Brighton hosted Poems to Live your Life by: An Evening with Chris Riddell, where poet A.F…
New posthumous collection celebrates the vision of Mark Fisher
k-punk – The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher, edited by Darren Ambrose and with a foreword by music…
Poets Wow Crowds at The Haunt
On Sunday evening, The Haunt welcomed a trio of poets from America and Canada as part of Neil Hilborn’s UK…
Review: Suzanne Ciani & Martin Messier at the ACCA
At the outset, Mr Messier’s FIELD at once invoked The Matrix and Daedalus’ Boiler Room set. The basic concept of…
Brighton Festival: Ezra Furman at the Dome
Having completed my final semester of university with modules on punk history and queer arts, it was fitting that I…
More Brit(ish) than ever: A review of Afua Hirsch at Brighton Festival
Afua Hirsch’s 2018 book – part memoir, part polemic – provokes mixed feelings. So too did her discussion of the…
Jake Bugg at Brighton Dome
Following the release of his Fourth Studio album ‘Hearts that Strain’ in September 2017, Jake Bugg decided he wanted an…