One of the best ways to see the most diverse line-ups is to go to an overseas showcase and this Icelandic/Canadian event was a great example. Anglo/French/Inuit Elisapie’s dreamy, little girl voice backed wonderfully by her two guitarists/percussionists’ backing vocals was the… Read more →
Founding member and lead vocalist Ben Schneider strode onstage sporting a cowboy hat and the Californians kicked off with a lonesome highway ballad that conjured up a desolate truck stop surrounded by tumbleweed. Their late night Americana songs featured a twanging Duane… Read more →
The Danish noiseniks started late and their opening gambit of feedback and experimental noise didn’t help matters, especially with its interminable false endings. Things improved with an uptempo groove led by a throbbing bass and the drummer riding her hi-hat that, with… Read more →
The LA five piece chose the daunting surroundings of St Bart’s to end their European tour and their set began with soft vocal harmonies, recalling Green Gartside’s hushed tone, building up to an Elbow-like sweeping stadium anthemic chorus. Unfortunately, aside from the… Read more →
A story to charm and peppered with magic, quite literally in this instance – writer, director and performer Rob Drummond’s tale of an ill-fated bullet catch some 100 years ago was engaging and deftly enthralling. The story of the audience member called… Read more →
Book Burning was a one-man surreal rollercoaster ride through the history of political thought, running from Schrödinger’s cat to Wikileaks, totalitarianism, the Occupy movement to book burning, all told against the backdrop of a girl and her father and their cat. You… Read more →
Only a handful of folk managed to get to All Saints’ Church for this talk but we were rewarded with details of how James Baillieu prepared this intriguing selection of songs and chamber. An accomplished soloist in his own right, he prefers… Read more →
Plans to build two blocks of student flats in Brighton have been rejected by Brighton and Hove City Council Planning Committee. The proposal involved demolishing Richmond House, a two-storey office block in Richmond Road, Brighton, behind the Sainsbury’s store at the Lewes… Read more →
A Brighton man has been charged with helping an armed robber. Gerard Shelbourne, 52, unemployed, of Chiddingly Close in Whitehawk, was arrested by police on Tuesday (14 May). He is due to appear at Brighton Magistrates’ Court this morning (Thursday 16 May)…. Read more →
Rarely have I seen a play that so deftly switched between beauty, joy, terror and despair; playful and funny one moment, seductive and disturbing the next. This mirrored the mind of Louise, the bi-polar protagonist expertly realised by Julia Yevnine, whose descent… Read more →
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