Brighton
EP Review: Be Kind Cadaver – Postpartum : Highly charged electro post-punk, made to dig deeper
Now here’s a band that don’t hold back. Brighton/Lewes electronic post punk duo Be Kind Cadaver (Daniel Hignell-Tully and Leroy Brown) grab at real issues and wring them out through their highly charged, shell shocked anti-pop songs. Their debut EP ‘Postpartum’, available from 21st July on the forward thinking Difficult Art And Music label, probes …
Album Review: Wax Machine – Hermit’s Grove: An exotic blend of psych-toned Tropicalia and elemental jazz rock
When you hear the phrase ‘recorded in a small closet above a mortuary’ you’re thinking ‘I know where this is going’. Dark, experimental, doom shrouded and drone laden probably fits the immediate profile. Well Wax Machine’s ‘Hermit’s Grove’ defies those superficial impressions. It may well have been ‘recorded in a small closet above a mortuary’ …
Live Review: Jason Sharp – The Rose Hill, Brighton 3.05.22
Even before the live music began there was a sense that something extraordinary was about to happen in the snug confines of the artsy Rose Hill pub on Tuesday night. The stage was set, dismembered guitar, clamps and vintage vox amp to the left, a yawning cabinet to the right, sprawling with leads that buried …
Live Review: Foals / Goat Girl – Brighton Centre, Brighton 27.04.2022
Foals latest tour finally come to Brighton to play an eager crowd at Brighton Centre after having been previously postponed and with luck this show had been added as an extra date as part of the ‘Life Is Yours Tour’ The opening act of the night is ‘Goat Girl’ who seem to be touring a …
Live Review: Shed Seven / The Lottery Winners – Brighton Dome, Brighton 01.04.2022
It’s been a long time coming with Yorkshires Finest finally being able to play Brighton Dome as part of their ‘Another Night, Another Town – Greatest hits live tour’. The original date was scheduled way back in December and cancelled because of the dreaded pandemic. Shed Seven entertained a packed Brighton Dome to their magnificent …
Track: Thrillhouse kick starts the year with the effervescent ‘Janus’.
I feel that my musical year doesn’t really start until I’ve received Thrillhouse latest offering. And their opening salvo for the year is the appropriately named single ‘Janus’, the Roman god of beginnings, gates, transitions, time, duality, doorways, passages, frames, and endings. He is usually depicted as having two faces and is where the name …