Brighton
10 must see acts at this weekends Great Escape in Brighton
Andy Farley looks ahead to this weekends Great Escape Festival in Brighton: I’m pretty stoked to be attending this year’s Great Escape Festival. It’s the first time I’ve been living in Brighton since the festival started – and I have to say the city is jumping. But then a lot has changed since I last lived here [...]
King Blues man to play two Great Escape shows this weekend
Electro-punk MC Itch will be giving Brighton a taster of his hard-hitting, beats fuelled sound at this year’s Great Escape Festival. Performing two shows on Saturday 18th May, this will be Itch’s first solo outing at the festival since the split of his former band The King Blues. Itch’s first show will be at Above [...]
Seán McGowan covers Billy Bragg ahead of his Great Escape support slot
Legendary protest singer Billy Bragg recently asked Southampton singer-songwriter, Seán McGowan, to join him as main support for his headline show at The Dome which takes place at The Great Escape festival next Friday (17th May). Courtesy Chris Meany Seán, who’s one-off forthcoming full band show at The Joiners on 7th June sold out in [...]
Arrows of Love announce new single details/ play Lennons this weekend
Arrows of Love have set June 3rd as the release date for their new single ‘The Knife’ via Urban Fox Records. The Hackney 4-piece have also announced a full UK tour starting on April 25th that will see their incendiary live show explode in 12 cities before they visit Europe for shows and festivals. Produced [...]
Crystal Fighters unveil album sampler
With their new album ‘Cave Rave‘ set for release in just a few weeks time (May 27th 2013), Crystal Fighters have unveiled an album sampler showcasing clips of all 10 tracks on the record, including the impossibly summery current single ‘You & I’. Check out the ‘Cave Rave’ album sampler on the band’s youtube channel here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rC6gNoaLF3Q Speaking of [...]
One week to go until The Great Escape
The Great Escape, taking place May 16th-18th, recently announced a further 100 artists to complete the 2013 line-up. The programme is fit to burst with over 350 of the best upcoming bands currently making noise across the world, and TGE13 is getting ready to load in to 30+ Brighton venues and kick start the eighth [...]
Billy Bragg, Everything Everything, Klaxons and more to play The Great Escape
Spread over 30 venues during May 16th-18th, it’s now less than two months until The Great Escape takes over Brighton. Now in its eighth year, Europe’s answer to SXSW today announces the latest helping of the best emerging talent from across the world, adding over 50 artists to an outstanding line-up that has already left [...]
Your Reviews: NME Awards Tour 2013 at The Brighton Dome
Last night, Thursday 21st February 2013, The Brighton Dome hosted the penultimate night of the NME awards tour. This legendary gig has in previous years presented the nation with huge names such as Two Door Cinema Club, The Killers, The Vaccines, and the Arctic Monkeys, and this year’s line up was no exception. First up [...]
review: Modestep at Brighton Concorde 2
Concorde 2, with its unique setting tucked away on Brighton’s seafront, hosted Modestep on Saturday (16th February 2013). The venues intimate acoustic characteristics complimented the heavy hitting bass lines that everyone in the crowd craved. This had all the hallmarks you’d expect of a great sell-out gig and Modestep ensured that everyone went home vying [...]
Watch: The Lumineers – Stubborn Love
Following on from the incredible success of their début ‘Ho Hey’ which went top 10 in the UK and has been viewed over 38 million times on YouTube, The Lumineers return with the official video for their second single ‘Stubborn Love’. The video was directed by the critically acclaimed Isaac Ravishankara, who has previously directed Ellie Goulding, [...]
Mumford’s “Stopover Show” comes south – with Vampire Weekend, The Vaccines and more
Mumford & Sons are very pleased to announce details of a series of ‘Gentlemen of the Road Stopover…’ Shows for 2013. Following on from last year’s incredibly successful Stopover series, which featured all-day outdoor events in Huddersfield, Galway, Portland ME, Bristol VA, Dixon IL, Monterey CA, and Dungog (Australia), Mumford & Sons return with the announcement of five more [...]
Jim Lockey & The Solemn Sun – new single and Joiners date
2012 was a great year for Jim Lockey & The Solemn Sun. Following a phenomenal summer that saw them play a storming set at the 2000 Trees Festival packing out the tent; they received glorious praise from Radio 1’s Zane Lowe for their single ‘England’s Dead’ which was his ‘Next Hype Record’; toured the full [...]
Hudson Taylor to visit Southampton with Jake Bugg
Hudson Taylor have announced that they will be supporting Jake Bugg on his UK tour in February, with a Southampton visit on the 26th. Having honed their craft at an early age busking in Dublin, the brothers – Alfie and Harry (Hudson Taylor is their surname) – still only 18 and 20 respectively, have become [...]
NME Awards tour returns south in February
DJANGO DJANGO, MILES KANE, PALMA VIOLETS and PEACE will visit both Brighton and Bournemouth in February for the legendary NME Awards Tour 2013, which kicks off at Newcastle’s O2 Academy on 7 February 2013 and ends at London’s O2 Academy Brixton on 23 February. Tickets are available at www.nme.com. One of the most important events in the music calendar, the NME Awards Tour has been [...]
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