FORM PRESENTS SARAH KLANG PLUS SPECIAL GUESTS

TICKETS : https://www.wegottickets.com/event/585898

£15 DOORS 7.30PM  SHOW STARTS 8PM 

Sarah Klang has enjoyed plenty of success in her career to date, with three Top 5 albums in her homeland of Sweden, sold out headline tours, as well as winning at the Swedish Grammy awards twice.

Klang’s live shows are fun and exhilarating, moving and intimate –  simultaneously – which has earned her fans all over Europe. After a successful European run in 2022, she’s now announcing new shows for 2023 starting in Brighton, UK on October 25th.

Kicking off a string of new releases for this year is Klang’s latest single ”Mercedes”, a song written to her unborn daughter, just months after discovering she was pregnant. The lyrics assures her daughter that she will forever be there for her. “You can always run to me,” Klang sings on the soaring synth-driven track that radiates with hope and optimism for her daughter’s future.

Klang has always had a talent for autobiographical song writing, like on her acclaimed debut Love in The Milky Way (2018) which won Best Album at the Swedish Grammis awards. It continued on Creamy Blue (2019) her second album that earned another nomination for ‘Best Album’ and ‘Best Alternative Pop’ at the Grammis awards, and another nod for ‘European Album Of The Year’ at the IMPALA Awards.  While her sound had previously touched upon a mix of influences (‘60 and ‘70s pop, Americana, an undercurrent of country), 2021’s ‘VIRGO’ – her most well-received album to date – then broadened her scope to include elements of ‘80s synth-pop (again winning a Swedish Grammy for Best Alternative Pop). Tastemaker praise followed, notably from i-D, Rolling Stone and Clash.

Choir Fest – A Celebration of Choirs, the people & their stories

At Horatio’s Bar on Brighton Palace Pier
FREE DAYTIME, EVENING SHOW TICKETS HERE, REGISTER HERE

Join us to sing and celebrate the world of choirs! Choir Fest 23 – A Celebration of Choirs, Their songs & Their Stories!
12-4pm Outdoor choirs busks on Brighton Palace Pier at Horatios.
1:30 – Choir-i-oke… KARAOKE… Singalong at the big screen outside Horatio’s
4-6pm Choir Conversations, interviews, meet n mingle, share info about your choirs, choir promo videos.
6-8pm Choir Fest Evening Show
8pm Choir Disco! Dance to your favourite tunes! Add your songs to the Choir Fest spotify playlist and bring on the boogie!

Here’s the link: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0hogwoFEkLkS1Yv76d8PEp?si=N0bnaL6ZTy-UhMX5d_5V3A
Join us on the Choir Fest Facebook page to find out which choirs are performing and hear some choir stories.
Here’s the link: https://www.facebook.com/ChoirFestBrighton/
Registration link for Choir Fest (including individuals, groups & choirs) PLUS Indoor concert ticket link: https://ChoirFest23.eventbrite.co.uk
Choir Fest ends a month of Brighton Palace Pier events in conjunction with Latest TV as part of Pier Fest.

The Ukrainians

At Horatio’s Bar, on Brighton Palace Pier

Doors open 7.30pm

Show starts 8.00pm

Tickets here

A highlight for PierFest 2023. A night to celebrate three decades of music by The Ukrainians. Expect an exciting set with the best songs from three decades of Eastern Folk Punk.
Using their British born Ukrainian roots, the band mix eastern and western culture – singing in Ukrainian, using eastern ethnic instruments, but backed up with a western rock rhythm.
After three decades of recording and touring, there are lots of milestones to highlight.

The Ukrainians were formed in 1991, the year Ukraine regained its independence from the Soviet Union. ‘Oi Divchino’ was the band’s first single, which became an NME Single of the Week, and the video for it was shot in Kyiv. It was the first pop video to be produced in the east for a western band.

Most recently, The Ukrainians have been involved in numerous benefit gigs to raise money for refugees from this terrible war. There will be an opportunity to support refugees at the gig both financially, and by cheering on the artist who support on the night.

You can expect to hear songs from each of The Ukrainians’ albums, and this is sure to be an eastern night to remember!

Ukraine International Arts Festival

Comes to PierFest 2023 at Palm Court on Brighton Palace Pier

1-3pm FREE

Ukrainian musician and singer, Sava Bogorad and guests

Brighton Jazz Festival returns to PierFest 2023

At Horatio’s Bar on Brighton Palace Pier

LINE-UP, TICKETS AND INFORMATION

Brighton Jazz Festival returns to PierFest 2023

At Horatio’s Bar on Brighton Palace Pier

LINE-UP, TICKETS AND INFORMATION

Brighton Jazz Festival returns to PierFest 2023

At Horatio’s Bar on Brighton Palace Pier

LINE-UP, TICKETS AND INFORMATION

Brighton Jazz Festival returns to PierFest 2023

At Horatio’s Bar on Brighton Palace Pier

LINE-UP, TICKETS AND INFORMATION

The exceptionally talented Nashville based country singer and songwriter Ruthie Collins graces Hove with her presence on October 18th at The Brunswick. She’s touring with Matt Hodges, a singer songwriter from Wakefield who has been performing for over 10 years, his songs frequently hitting the number 1 spot on the iTunes country charts.

Ruthie started her music career in 2007 when she formed the country duo Wild Honey with Victoria Gordon. In 2011 she signed with Curb Records and released her debut self-titled EP in 2014. In 2016 she released her first album Get Drunk and Cry along with a short film. Most recently, she has released and album titled Cold Comfort, and toured it in 2021. The expanded version of the album, Cold Comfort +, was released last year.

Raised on a farm in Fredonia, New York, Ruthie blends the vulnerable, the volatile, and the serene in her music. Her songs fuse Americana, Bluegrass, and modern Country with vocals in the style of her icons Patty Griffin and Emmylou Harris. Her music features some upright bass and traditional bluegrass instrumentation in a style that’s both old-fashioned and very modern.

This is a special chance to see two very talented artists, so book your tickets soon.

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WHERE: The Brunswick, 1 Holland Rd, Hove, United Kingdom

WHEN: Wednesday October 18th 2023

DOORS: 19.00

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TICKETS: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/matt-hodges-ruthie-collins-cross-the-pond-tour-2023-brighton-tickets-669051580287

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LINKS: https://ruthiecollinsmusic.com

https://www.matthodgesmusic.com

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REVIEWS:

“Ethereal vocals alongside soaring string features, minimal piano parts, and delicate percussion accompaniment.” – Billboard

“Next Women Of Country”  – CMT

“Collins’ voice has the fluttery nuances more common in Seventies Laurel Canyon than in modern country.” – LA Times

Brighton Rocks International Film Festival are hosting a ‘One Night Stand’ Screening event showcasing incredible LGBTQIA+ pioneers through 3 documentaries by local filmmakers with live Q&A.

Brighton Rocks International Film Festival are thrilled to be hosting the next episode in their ‘One Night Stand’ series with the screening of ‘One For The Books: The Maupin Marathon’ by Rose Collis – a heart warming, humorous, uplifting and powerful piece of documentary story-telling revealing many historic episodes that have been hidden or forgotten followed by an exclusive director Q&A with the award winning filmmaker.

The screening will also include the documentary ‘Bending the Note: The Story of Siren’ by Deborah Espect which showcases the story of 4 inspiring women who formed a pioneering lesbian, feminist punk band and theatre company in Brighton in the 1980’s ‘Party Bag’ by Screen and Film School Brighton student Ethne Leaver following the inspiring duo Dick Day and Ophelia Payne – a couple of Brighton’s fabulous drag performers who walk us through the preparation for their latest show Freaky Friday.

Hosted by Latest Music Bar in the heart of Brighton the evening will kick off at 7pm with plenty of time for networking, screenings, Q&A’s and a cheeky drink at the bar!

WHEN: Wednesday October 4th

WHERE: Latest Music Bar, 14-17 Manchester St, Kemptown, Brighton and Hove, Brighton BN2 1TF

STARTS: 7.00pm

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Email: sarah@rocksfestivals.com for any more information.

Tickets: https://filmfreeway.com/BrightonRocks/tickets

Sanctuary of Sound
CHALK – Brighton
September 14th, 2023

Review by Jen Good

When the whimsically bodacious Frankie Knight graces the stage, barefoot with her ethereal presence, the aura of the whole room changes to a hypnotic dreamlike state that will float right through you. Frankie is a genuine artist and musical alchemist crafting wistful elixirs of electro trip-pop and trancey mystic vibes. Unconcerned with genres, Knight effortlessly fuses a concoction of disparate elements from sultry but pulsating beats to personal power ballads. Her performances transcend boundaries too, and are nothing short of transformative experiences. She played us some of her new material, opening with ‘Send it to the Moon’ from this year’s ‘Space Pop’, and even had us singing along in an audience participation song inspired by her Grandmother, which lavished us with layers of light. And although often compared to Morcheeba and Massive Attack, there’s a side-dish of Grimes in there, some Lana Del Rey and maybe even a second soundtrack to the film Drive.

Frankie’s stage presence is an enigma in the best possible way. She enters like a flowing ribbon of light, unassuming yet strangely hypnotic, and as the music washes over the room, she transforms into a more powerful goddess. Her genuine charisma draws you in, leaving you entranced and beckons you away to a more fantastical reality.  Her poignant storytelling feels like she’s channelling something innocent and pure, yet unapologetically profound. Her vocals are a revelation of a poet weaving a tapestry of emotion. With a voice that ranges from velvet-smooth to fiercely passionate, Frankie can morph her resonance to suit the essence and fluctuating range of each song.

It only makes sense that Frankie Knight was invited to open for British veterans to the electro scene – Kosheen, hailing from Bristol and fusing electro, D&B, trip-hop and pop elements since 1998. And we think she not only did them justice, but is a rising star to definitely keep your eye on! And not without the support of her dynamic drummer Rob, who compliments and completes the dynamic duo. They left us with the space-popping and drifty ‘Mystic’, a song Frankie wrote over lockdown about “the greedy politicians”.

Frankie Knight’s world is for those who crave connection, transcendence and a rare feeling of authenticity that runs deep. She is an enigmatic force of nature, and her artistry is a unique treasure waiting to leave you spellbound in a shared experience, so step right in and surrender.

Good Knight.

CHALK: https://chalkvenue.com/

Gig photos by Jen Good (c) 2023 All Rights Reserved

Americana Festival Day

British Americana artists at PierFest 2023

Shauna Parker

Charlie Austen

Red River

At Horatio’s Bar on Brighton Palace Pier

Midday – 4pm

FREE ENTRY

SHAUNA PARKER

Shauna is best known as the singer in Shauna Parker and the Saloon Bar Band who play a great mix of classic country and contemporary Americana.

Brighton-based for many years now, she originally hails from Nova Scotia, Canada and grew up influenced by the best of Canadian musical heroes including Mitchell, Young, Lang, Cohen and McGarrigle. Combining a love of contemporary cutting-edge Americana and down-home Country classics ensures a wide ranging repertoire, whether solo, fronting The Saloon Bar Band, her Kitchen Party duo, or bringing Carole King’s ‘Tapestry’ or the songs of Patsy Cline to life.

Despite often saying that “with so many brilliant songs to sing, why would I want to write my own?” she is moving in a new direction, focusing on presenting her own songs, many of which are born of half a lifetime of separation from her family in Canada.
“Honest, timeless songs of love, temptation, heartache and loss – when Shauna sings you believe every word.”

CHARLIE AUSTEN

Supported by Charlie Austen
Charlie is a one-woman tour-de-force, playing carefully crafted original songs on the folk-soul-rock spectrum, ready to take you on a lyrical journey to outer-space and back. Airy, yet powerful blues-infused vocals, intricate guitar parts and bare feet that keep the beat, courtesy of her unique suitcase drum-kit invention. Recently featured nationally on BBC Radio 4, and launching onto the UK festival circuit this year.

Charlie also features as a vocalist in cult blues-rock band Nine Below Zero, with whom she has toured extensively, and has been chosen for many high-profile gigs with her solo act. These include a European tour with Bryan Ferry, several UK tours with Squeeze-frontman and Ivor-Novello award winning songwriter Glenn Tilbrook, and a contribution to Cat Stevens’s online ‘Catsong’ festival, celebrating 50 years of ‘Tea for the Tillerman’.

RED RIVER

Red River are Brighton’s newest Americana outfit, bringing heart-shaking steel and foot-stomping banjo to the pubs of Hanover this summer. The band began as the acoustic duo Cattle and Roll, who spent some years playing Steve Earle covers and honing their songwriting skills. In the last year, finding strays at the bar of the Great Eastern with a shared love of Tyler Childers and Gillian Welch, they added drums, bass and pedal steel to the band – reinventing as Red River. Most recently, a lead guitar has completed their distinct sound: dreamy, driving, country folk songs about work, weather and birds.

Follow @redriverbanjo on Instagram and Facebook

AMERICANA FESTIVAL BROUGHT TO YOU BY
Paul Adsett from Terrace Cred

Awful People

By Julie Burchill and Daniel Raven

Theatre show on Brighton Palace Pier

At Horatio’s Bar – PierFest 2023

Doors open 7.30pm

Show starts 8.00pm

Tickets here

When a pair of middle-aged, middle-class ex-spouses get back together to write a rap musical, the stage is set for eye-watering embarrassment and folly. As they waylay the less privileged young people who cross their path – their Ukrainian nanny/cleaner (*home curator*) and a young black Deliveroo man – it’s soon clear that this clash of cultures can only end in calamity.

Kidz Film Fest

On the Big Screen at Horatio’s Bar, PierFest 2023

FREE ENTRY

Featuring Shaun the Sheep Movie in aid of the Martlets

SOCK plus Canned Pineapple

Doors 7.30pm

Show starts with Canned Pineapple followed by SOCK

The inimitable glam rock outfit headed by Brighton’s very own glam rockstar, Guy Lloyd!

Kicking off PierFest 2023 at Horatio’s Bar, Brighton Palace Pier

Sock were formed in a small town in 1990, always unpredictable and flamboyant, they reigned supreme for two years before dispersing to the four corners of the world to pursue their individual dreams. After 22 years the band reformed for a one-off gig that coincided with singer Guy adopting the on-stage persona of glam rock-god Vince Venus and gaining international fame as the (unofficial) winner of Britain’s Got Talent in 2015. The rest of the band followed suit and have emerged as a group of misfit superheroes on a mission to save rock n’ roll.

Website: https://sockmusic.co.uk/

SOCK + Canned Pineapple

Tickets here

Canned Pineapple:

The Space: Interviews with DJ Norman Cook and Pulp’s Nick Banks + audience Q&As

Tuesday, September 12th

Doors open at 18:45, interview starts at 19:30, to finish at approx 22:30 (times may change slightly).

Book now – £19.50 per person

NORMAN COOK‘s appearance will mark 25 years since the release of his highly successful album under the name of Fatboy Slim, You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby. Released in the autumn of 1998, its singles, which reached the top 10, included Praise You, Right Here, Right Now and The Rockerfeller Skank. Before becoming a superstar DJ and among dance music’s biggest figures, a remixer and a producer, he was a member of The Housemartins, who had a string of hits from the mid eighties. With Beats International, Norman was behind the single Dub Be Good to Me, which spent four weeks at number one in 1990. As a DJ, he is in huge demand around the world, including at big festivals and shows of varying sizes.

NICK BANKS has been a member of the renowned band Pulp since the mid eighties as their drummer. Fronted by Jarvis Cocker and known for songs such as Common People, Disco 2000 and Do You Remember the First Time, they reformed for a series of live shows during this summer. In 1995, at the height of Britpop, which Pulp were associated with, their album Different Class topped the chart and won the Mercury Music Prize a year later. The band’s final album, 2001’s We Love Life was produced by Scott Walker. Nick’s memoir, And It Started There: From Punk to Pulp, will be published in September by Omnibus Press.

The Space: Interviews with Tim Rice-Oxley of Keane and film costume designer Jenny Beavan + audience Q&As

Monday September 4th

Doors  open at 18:45, interview starts 19:30, to finish at approx 22:30 (times may change slightly).

Book now – £19.50 per person

TIM RICE-OXLEY is best known for Keane, as songwriter, keyboardist and a vocalist. He co-wrote their ten top 40 hit singles, which include Somewhere Only We Know, Everybody’s Changing and Is It Any Wonder. The hugely popular band had five consecutive number one albums, including their 2004 debut, Hopes and Fears, and The Best Of, released ten years-ago. Unusually for a band, Keane use keyboards as the lead instrument, instead of guitar. Tim is also, with Jesse Quin of Keane, part of the band Mt. Desolation, whose third album, Through Crooked Aim, was released this April. He has also written for artists such as Travis and Gary Barlow.

JENNY BEAVAN is among the world’s most renowned costume designers for film. Her work includes Max Max: Fury Road, Cruella, The King’s Speech and Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes. She has won three Oscars and two BAFTAs, as well as an Emmy. Jenny’s early career included Merchant Ivory films such as A Room with a View and Howard’s End. Other collaborations were with directors Oliver Stone, Robert Altman, Ang Lee on Sense and Sensibility, and George Miller on 2015’s Max Max: Fury Road, as well as its 2024 sequel, Furiosa.

Pride Weekend at Latest Musicbar – Pride Village Party

Saturday 5th – Sunday 6th August 2023.

The Pride Village Party in Brighton’s famous Kemptown sees businesses across St James’s St and Marine Parade come together to celebrate Pride and raise extra funds for the Brighton Rainbow Fund and Pride Social Impact Fund.

Entertainment zones, bars and venues, live performances and cabaret, DJs, drag artists, singers, performers, musicians come together for a unforgettable weekend of fundraising celebrations.

Click Here For Tickets!

Igor Grohotsky The Voice of Ukraine

Doors 7pm Show 7.30pm

Donations at the door gladly welcomed.

The “Harry Styles of Ukraine”  giving his first solo concert at the legendary Latest MusicBar

Igor Grohotsky, the singer-songwriter’s singer songwriter! has had millions of views and fans because quite simply, his mix of emotional ballads, popular Ukrainian folklore, as well as renditions of global pop hits will make your heart melt and soar in equal measure.

Don’t miss Igor Grohotsky The Voice of Ukraine

You heard him hear first.

Modern Hardcore PRESENTS GIVER (DE), HELL CAN WAIT, AFTER REASON AND SONNET OF THE BANDS

Tickets: £10 from https://modernhardcore.co.uk/shop/

18:00 | Doors open

Modern Hardcore are proud to announce their second night of hardcore in Brighton, after the success of our April event we have GIVER over from Germany to finish their UK weekender following an appearance at 2000 Trees Festival with local support from Hell Can Wait, After Reason & Sonnet Of The Damned.

TIMINGS

18:30-19:00 | Sonnet Of The Damned https://www.instagram.com/sonnetofthedamnedofficial

19:15-19:45 | After Reason https://www.instagram.com/afterreasonuk/

20:00-20:30 | Hell Can Wait https://www.instagram.com/hellcanwaithc/

20:45-21:00 | Giver https://www.instagram.com/giverhc/

Challenges to Democracy: Power, Protest and Identity

Free entry – Reserve your space here

Doors open 4.30pm

Debate: 5-6:30pm

Latest TV studio, Brighton, 14-17, Manchester St, Brighton

Panel discussion with

Karabekir Akkoyunlu, SOAS University of London

Thomas Lorman, University College London

Aleks Szczerbiak, University of Sussex

David Tal, University of Sussex

Moderated by

Ivor Gaber, University of Sussex

At the end of the Cold War, it seemed as though totalitarianism had finally been defeated, and liberal democracy had emerged victorious from the great ideological struggle of the 20th century. Today, democracy appears to be facing significant challenges, with many states that appeared to be making progress towards democratic governance a decade ago now experiencing a decline into authoritarianism. Examples include Hungary, Poland, Turkey, and most recently Israel. The challenges are not limited to developing countries but also affect the world’s most powerful democracies. We invite you to join us to discuss one of the most pressing issues of our time.

Karabekir Akkoyunlu is lecturer in the Politics of the Middle East.

His forthcoming book is Guardianship and Democracy in Iran and Turkey: Tutelary Consolidation, Popular Contestation (Edinburgh University Press). Currently his research agenda focuses on the limits of autorcatisation in countries undergoing democratic erosions.

Thomas Lorman, is lecturer in Central European History,

particularly Hungary, Poland and Slovakia, and have recently published a history of the Hungarian constitution, as well as a study of the Slovak People’s Party.

Aleks Szczerbiak is Professor of Politics.

His most recent book is Politicising the Communist Past: The Politics of Truth Revelation in Post-Communist Poland (Routledge 2018). He is currently writing a monograph on political parties and religion in post-communist Polish politics, and blogs regularly about the Polish political scene at https://wordpress.com/view/polishpoliticsblog.wordpress.com.

David Tal holds the Yossi Harel Chair in Modern Israel Studies.

His most recent book is The Making of an Alliance: The Origins and Development of the US-Israel Relationship (Cambridge University Press, 2021).

Ivor Gaber is Professor of Journalism at the University of Sussex. He is a broadcaster, writer, and media consultant.

The event is organised by The Sussex Weidenfeld Institute of Jewish Studies.

For further information, please contact Gideon Reuveni g.reuveni@sussex.ac.uk