Last minute decision to go to Sea Power last night. Utterly delighted that I did, first time I've seen them since Beautiful Days in 2018! Just superb as always. Great to have the Corn Exchange back on the gig circuit, what a wonderful job they have done with restoring the building.
I've heard...
So far this year
1. Ferris & Sylvester - Komedia Studio
2. Motörheadache - The factory
3. Wandering Hearts -Komedia
4. Pet Needs - The Hope
5. Rianne Downey - The Hope
6. Tribe of Ghosts - Green Doors Store
7. Dea Matrona - The Hope
8. Taylor Swift - La Defense Arena, Paris
Went to see the delightful Rianne Downey at the Hope & Ruin Tuesday. A simply wonderful performer with a hell of a country voice.
Next up will be Brighton's own dystopian post-metal sensations Tribe of Ghosts at the Green Door on May 4th.
I'm not doing the Great Escape this year but was...
Feeder's short but sweet acoustic album launch at Chalk was a delight last night. Seemed a bit odd to play what are quite rocky new tracks acoustically but the trademark melodies meant that it did indeed work. A few old bangers checked in for good measure rounded out a very pleasant evening. Pet...
Off to the Brighton Philharmonic tomorrow to see Henk De Vlieger's 65 minute condensed version of the Ring Cycle, Wagner's Dream.
As for gigs have got latin American metal merchants Cultura Tres at the Albert in February and have also booked Cattle Decapitation at Chalk in March. On a lighter...
Taylor Swift in Paris, Edinburgh and Vienna (possible London blag too). Currently no Glastonbury (although I am working on that), so Beautiful Days is set to be my main festival of the summer.
Closer to home I'll be looking to kick off the year with Black Honey at the Concorde. I need to review...
A bit niche, but there is a cracking Black Metal night at the East Street Tap on Friday featuring new welsh BM sensations Ofnus who I saw at Bloodstock earlier in the year. Saw them in the New Blood Tent and bought a ticket there and then. On the more melodic side of the genre definitely worth a...
The utterly delightful Peaness at the Green Door Store tomorrow. Looking forward to that one.
Saw local dystopian metal band Tribe of Ghosts play their debut headline show at the Hope & Ruin last week, utterly superb.
Going to see Deah and Arty revive The LoveGods on Friday at the Constant Service. They were the band that really got me into the Brighton music scene after I had moved DFL at the end of the 90s. Will be a fabulous trip down memory lane for me. Bizarrely the full band reunion is happening in...
Yep more expensive at the NFL games than it is for proper football games. Glad to hear that the stadium worked though, I'll be at the Lady Gaga show later in the month.