Project Brighton: First ever Rock House Festival comes to Green Door Store
Eight years ago, Constant Flux promoter Richard Phoenix and musician Tom Cook started a band night with a difference. It was born out of a desire by the learning disabled musicians they worked with to regularly play and perform in front of an audience in their hometown; the focus was to provide as much stage time as possible for these musicians.
Fast forward to 2017 and the Rock House has become a monthly fixture at the Westhill Hall and now The Green Door Store, with bands such as Joy Rides, Witching Waves and Curst Sons playing alongside Catherine O’Rourke, Beat Express and Dancing Rock Queens.
To celebrate its success and give the stage to more bands and a bigger audience, Carousel is promoting the first Rock House Festival, on Saturday 29 July.
Confirmed bands so far include (daytime session):
Seadog – a myriad sound of lullabies with anthemic electric and acoustic textures. The Carbonators – rock, punk, blues, soul and jazz all mixed up into good phonics. Sabien Gator – multi-talented, multi-intrumentalists
2Decks – a rock/rap crossover band
Patioland – two piece anti-folk band
Breaking down barriers for musicians with and without learning disabilities
The evening line-up includes:
Zombie Crash – the world’s premier learning disabled metal band
Sauna Youth – London-based post-punk four-piece
Dog Chocolate – sound like a crowded room but are actually four individuals from London
The Daniel Wakeford Experience – singer-songwriter and star of the learning disabled music scene
prince vaseline – hypnotic and ethereal songs from Brighton
The Rock House Festival is a unique event, breaking down barriers for musicians with and without learning disabilities to play together in front of an enthusiastic, integrated audience. It’s as different and as forward thinking as anything else you might see in Brighton.
Carousel is a learning disability-led arts charity that helps learning disabled artists develop and manage their creative lives, true to their voice and vision, challenging expectations of what great art is and who can create it. Working primarily in music, film, digital and audio art, it won the 2017 Every Day Impact Award by the Directory of Social Change and reached 45,000 people through its work in 2016.
Green Door Store, Saturday 29th July, 1pm – 5pm / 6pm – 10pm
£8 day ticket / £5 half day ticket + £1.10 booking fee
tickets.partyforthepeople.org/events/3192-rock-house-festival
Venue has wheelchair access and wheelchair accessible toilets
