 JJ Burnel @ Brighton Dome By Andy Sturmey
What was angst may have long been replaced by a unity of celebration, and what were young band inner tensions may now have been cemented over by a decade of band stability and a collective return to purpose .. but in some ways time had stood still when the Stranglers took to Brighton Dome's Concert Hall (09/03) stage and delivered a set that spanned more than four decades.
Boasting three original members - and three equally iconic figures - the Stranglers, back to a four piece since the change of the millennium, are now cooking on a musical gas that had for a lon...
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 Groove Like An Egyptian With The Spatials
Sun Ra may have claimed to have sourced his musical landscape from the surface of Saturn, but Jerry Dammers' Spatial AKA Orchestra's reinterpretation of the great man's material was simply out of this world at Brighton Dome (05/03).
To many Dammers will be perpetually frozen in time circa 1979 to 1981, but in many ways his current incarnation of arranger, bandleader and performer is producing more forward thinking a...
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 Broken Social Scene: Award-Winning Rockers
The team behind Europe's most anticipated new music festival and industry conference event, The Great Escape, is offering over 150 volunteers the chance to gain first-hand experience of life working in the music industry in a variety of key areas over the course of this year’s festival.
With more than 350 bands set to tear it up across more than 30 Brighton venues, this May, the prestigious annual festival will take place at a panoply of the best venues that the city has to of...
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 Seun Kuti Keeps His Dad's Afrobeat Flag Flying
What does a man who seemingly has it all - and even then reinvents it and receives it again – give himself for his 62nd birthday? Well, in the case of this year's Brighton Festival curator, Brian Eno, it's an evening of Afrobeat.
Afrobeat, which is a combination of Yoruba music, jazz, highlife, and funk rhythms, fused with percussion and vocal styles, popularised in Africa in the 1970s, came into being via the Nigerian multi-i...
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 Shades Of Anarchy With The Strummer Man
Meeting Joe Strummer is an award-winning punk play packed full of loud music, raucous comedy – and deep respect for the music and life of the great Joe Strummer.
It's an emotional blast through rebel politics since punk - and a celebration of the man who set the agenda for a generation - but it's not a tribute to The Clash or Strummer, really it'...
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 Radiohead's 'In Rainbows' Got The Herbert Treatment
There's a rare chance to meet a legendary television comedy figure and a leading music arranger at next month's The Space (Southern Performance and Creative Energies) event.
The evening, on Thursday 4th March, will see Briggy Smale welcoming John Howard Davies and Sally Herbert. There'll also be live music from acclaimed singer/songwriter Paul Diel...
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 Crooked Mountain Crooked Sea Aim For Festival Slot
The Great Escape, Europe's most anticipated new music festival and industry conference event, has announced its first wave of acts for its landmark fifth annual Brighton outing.
Taking over more than thirty venues throughout the city and hosting over 350 bands playing across three days, the event will once again bring to light the most vibrant new bands g...
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 The Mercury Prize Nominated Kathryn Williams
Kathryn Williams, the immensely talented Geordie singer-songwriter famed for her beautiful and intimate folk-tinged songs, heads to Komedia in support of her eighth album release, The Quickening, the follow-up to the critically-acclaimed Two, which saw Williams collaborate with Neill MacColl.
Plenty has changed in the ten years since Kathryn Williams released her first record, 1999's Dog Leap Stairs, famously recorded for a large two figure sum (eighty quid).
As the Liverpool-br...
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 Jemima Dury @ Brighton's Cineworld
To celebrate the opening of Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll, at Cineworld Brighton, Jemima Dury, daughter of legendary punk rocker Ian Dury, opened the first evening screening of the biopic.
Like a gold coin dropping into the fountain of eternal culture, Ian Dury's song, Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll, has paved it...
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 Way To Blue : The Songs Of Nick Drake
Nick Drake's obscurity during his lifetime now seems in inverse proportion to his influence and fame today.
Only after his death, age 26, in 1975, did his music begin to reach a substantial audience.
Today his sophisticated – and very English – music seems to be everywhere, from the PA sys...
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