Music

Yearly highlights from gigs and festivals – a whistle stop tour of the last decade or so

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2026

Girl Apocrypha, Prince Abert, Homegrown Festival Brighton, 2026

Francis Pig, Rossi Bar Brighton, 2026

Aimée Fatale, Soundwaves, Great Escape Festival Brighton, 2026

Le Lamb, Hope & Ruin Brighton, 2026

Solid Pleasure, Rossi Bar Brighton, 2026

The Cribs, Concorde 2 Brighton, 2026

Polite Bureaux, Green Door Brighton, 2026

Meryl Streek, Hope & Ruin Brighton, 2026

Pigeon, Charles St Tap, Great Escape Festival Brighton, 2026

My Precious Bunny, Hope & Ruin, Homegrown Festival Brighton, 2026

Solid Pleasure, Rossi Bar Brighton, 2026

Native James, Daltons, Great Escape Festival Brighton, 2026

2025

Francis Pig, Green Door Store Brighton, 2025

congratulations, WaterBear Music Bar Brighton, 2025

SOAPBOX, Daltons, The Great Escape Festival Brighton, 2025

Solid Pleasure, Hope & Ruin Brighton, 2025

Ideal Living, Alphabet Brighton, 2025

Winter Gardens, Hope & Ruin Brighton, 2025

VLURE, Mama Roux's Birmingham, 2025

Peter Xan, Hope & Ruin, The Great Escape Festival Brighton, 2025

Baxter Dury, Brighton Dome, 2025

Madness, Brighton Centre, 2025

Tia Ice, WaterBear Music Bar Brighton, 2025

Le Lamb, Prince Albert Brighton, 2025

2024

Peter Xan, Hope & Ruin Brighton, 2024

Lonnie Gunn, Prince Albert Brighton, 2024

Baba Ali, Jubilee Square, The Great Escape Festival Brighton, 2024

VLURE, Colours Hoxton London, 2024

Adult DVD, Prince Albert Brighton, 2024

Fräulein, Green Door Store Brighton, 2024

Polite Bureaux, Green Door Store Brighton, 2024

Walt Disco, Dust Brighton, 2024

Bob Vylan, Chalk Brighton, 2024

Panic Shack, Prince Albert Brighton, 2024

2023

Confidence Man, Brighton & Hove Pride, 2023

VLURE, Bermondsey Social Club London, 2023

Hamish Hawk, Komedia Brighton, 2023

Bob Vylan, Chalk Brighton, 2023

VLURE, Adelphi Club Hull, 2023

Black & white shot of Hamish, vocalist with VLURE, on stage looking across the crowd, hands on head

Heartworms, Seaview Festival Bexhill, 2023

Suede, Brighton Dome, 2023

Midge Ure, Theatre Royal Brighton, 2023

A shot from the balcony of The Cribs playing at Tiffcuff Festival at The Roundhouse in London. The three band members are below yellow diagonals of lighting, and the front of the picture shows the silhouettes of the crowd

2022

Priestgate, Unbarred, The Great Escape Festival Brighton, 2022

Gary Numan, Brighton Centre, 2022

Gwenno, Komedia Brighton, 2022

Michael Kiwanuka, Brighton Centre, 2022

Self Esteem, Victorious Festival Portsmouth, 2022

Sparks, De La Warr Pavilion Bexhill, 2022

2021

VLURE, Green Door Store Brighton, 2021

Noon Garden, Victorious Festival Portsmouth, 2021

Tom Jones, Chalk Brighton, 2021

Nick Cave, Royal Albert Hall London, 2021

Walt Disco, Hope & Ruin Brighton, 2021

Glasvegas, Victorious Festival Portsmouth, 2021

2020

Dry Cleaning, Green Door Store Brighton, 2020

Pozi, Green Door Store Brighton, 2020

Lynks, Rossi Bar Brighton, 2020

LibraLibra, Wedgewood Rooms, Icebreaker Festival Portsmouth 2020

Rosie Alena, Wave Maiden Portsmouth, 2020

Gloo, Wedgewood Rooms, Icebreaker Festival Portsmouth, 2020

2019

Bloc Party, Victorious Festival Portsmouth, 2019

The Ninth Wave, Prince Albert Brighton, 2019

Lewis Capaldi, Victorious Festival Portsmouth, 2019

Pulled Apart By Horses, 2000 Trees Festival Cheltenham, 2019

Megan Lara Mae, The Loft, Dials Festival Portsmouth 2019

The Hives; Victorious Festival Portsmouth, 2019

2018

PINS, Victorious Festival Portsmouth, 2018

Glasvegas, The Old Market Brighton, 2018

Pale Waves, Pie & Vinyl Portsmouth, 2018

The Charlatans, Festival Number 6 Port Merion, 2018

The Twilight Sad, Brighton Dome, 2018

Dale Barclay, Broadcast, Stag & Dagger Festival, Glasgow 2018

2017

Franz Ferdinand, Victorious Festival Portsmouth, 2017

John Cooper Clarke, Assembly Hall Worthing, 2017

The Horrors, ACCA Brighton, 2017

The Fall, Concorde 2 Brighton, 2017

Dream Wife, The Richmond, The Great Escape Festival Brighton, 2017

IDLES, Prince Albert Brighton, 2017

2016

The Cribs, Millennium Square Leeds, 2016

GOAT, Brighton Corn Exchange, 2016

Telegram, Rough Trade East London, 2016

The Horrors, Victorious Festival Portsmouth, 2016

And Yet It Moves, Hope & Ruin Brighton, 2016

Eagulls, By The Sea Festival Margate, 2016

2015

Johnny Marr, Engine Rooms Southampton 2015

Man Made, Victorious Festival Portsmouth 2015

The Cribs, Wedgewood Rooms Portsmouth 2015

Honeyblood, Truck Festival Oxford 2015

Johnny Marr, Kentish Town Forum London 2015

Bloody Knees, Truck Festival Oxford 2015

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