BIMM FE Music Showcase: Melting Vinyl

Doors 7:00pm // Latest MusicBar // Tickets £4/£3 Students

Doors – 19:00
Start – 19:20
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Music by Leeroy Salmon, Rainydays, Louis Chappele, Ryder, Iola Bayfield, Shmeviepie and Others!
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Join us at the Latest Music Bar in association with Melting Vinyl on Monday the 28th of March for the best talent that BIMM Diploma students (FE) has to offer! We have a great line up with a perfect blend of singer/songwriter, hip-hop and new-school beats. All proceeds from this event will be going directly to the British Red Cross DEC Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal. TICKETS ON SALE NOW!

Lout Promotions presents: The Chisel
+ Plastics + Imposter

Doors 7pm // Latest MusicBar // Tickets £10

Renowned UK Punk Band hailing , The Chisel, come to  LMB on March 27th, playing songs from their most recent album, Retaliation, that sat atop the numerous lists of best hardcore albums of 2021. The Chisel are supported by Brighton based hardcore punk outfits, Plastics and Demo, two groups that bolster Brighton’s claim to harbouring some of Europe’s most exciting new bands.

Venue Booked for Private Party

Latest MusicBar is available to hire for parties, weddings, live music… As we’re a renowned live venue we do love a band for a party & can help you source entertainment including bands… For parties & private hire: bookings@thelatest.​co.uk

The Space: INTERVIEWS WITH PHIL DAVIS & STEVE NORMAN (AND AUDIENCE Q&As)

Doors 7pm // Latest Musicbar // Tickets £18

Phil Davis is among the most familiar actors on British television, having appeared in many popular TV dramas over the past fifty years. Notable roles were series’ such as Poldark, Sherlock, as the villain in the first episode, Bleak House, based on Charles Dickens’ novel, Whitechapel and the supernatural drama Being Human. He was also in series’ such as Silent Witness, Inspector Morse and Play for Today, from 1977 to 1980. Phil’s film appearances include Quadrophenia, The Bounty and Mike Leigh’s High Hopes and Vera Drake, for which he was BAFTA-nominated, as well as In the Name of the Father and Alien 3. Daniel Day Lewis, a co-star of The Bounty and In the Name of the Father, cited him as being among his greatest influences.

Steve Norman is saxophonist, guitarist, percussionist, songwriter and founding member of the world-famous band Spandau Ballet, which had 23 hit singles including True, on which he played the legendary saxophone solo, Gold and Through the Barricades. They sold over 25 million records and have received numerous multi-platinum awards. The band performed at Live Aid at Wembley Stadium and appeared on Band Aid’s Do They Know it’s Christmas. In 1990, after the members went their separate ways, Steve moved to Ibiza, finding a love for dance music. To this day, he is occasionally a DJ, specialising in New Romantic music. In 2009, Spandau Ballet reunited and undertook the worldwide Reformation tour and released the album Once More, with the title track co-written by Steve. Among others, he has performed with Iggy Pop, Marc Almond, Belinda Carlisle and Kim Wilde. His love for David Bowie’s music led him to cofound the band Holy Holy, with Spiders from Mars’ Woody Woodmansey and Tony Visconti. In 2017, with a band, Steve played many shows in London and other European cities. He still regularly performs solo and with his band, The Sleevz, and is also behind 80s Pioneers, a collective of artists that helped shape that popular decade. As its curator, Steve assembles a top-class house band and singers, individually customised for each event, which he also introduces and performs with.

Cafe Scientifique

7:15 Doors // Talks from 8pm // Free

Brighton Café Scientifique is Science for the Sociable!

Informal talks of about 30-45 minutes are given by experts in the field, at a level accessible to all. After a break, the talk is followed by a question and answer session, and open discussion on the topic of the evening.

Returning after almost two years, Cafe Scientifique have been educating the masses from Latest Music Bar for years now and we’re honoured to have them back!

Brightons Acid Jazz and Funk Jam Returns!

The music is improvised around a riff or simple chord progression, with the groove as the guide. Occasionally we might slip into tunes like Cantaloupe Island, Maiden Voyage or Chameleon.
Someone calls a key and starts a riff and everyone brings their sound to the mix. It’s a great opportunity to stretch out, work on your improvising or just dance to the funky grooves. Everyone is welcome, percussionists, horn players, vocalists, rappers, didgeridoo and harmonica players too.
As with most jams, amps, keyboards and drums are provided, please treat them with respect. Guitarists, bassists, horn players etc please bring your own instruments. Please arrive in good time so we can get you up to do 1 or 2 numbers.
If you want some clues about the kind of stuff we do, check out bands like The Brand New Heavies, Down to the Bone, Jamiroquai, Incognito, Herbie Hancocks Headhunters and John Scofields Uberjam as well as the demo on the BGP page. http://soundcloud.com/brighton-groove-project/short-demo

Entry is free and there will be an opportunity to donate to the house bands during the night.

Venue Booked for Private Party

Latest MusicBar is available to hire for parties, weddings, live music… As we’re a renowned live venue we do love a band for a party & can help you source entertainment including bands… For parties & private hire: bookings@thelatest.​co.uk

Acid Box Brighton Presents: L’Eclair & Well Yeah

Doors 7:30pm // Latest Music Bar // Tickets £10 Adv £12 Otd

Acid Box presents

Thursday 3rd March
Latest Music Bar
20:00-23:00
Tickets £10adv / £12otd
Dice: https://bit.ly/diceleclair
Seetickets: https://bit.ly/seeleclair

L’Eclair
Swiss sextet L’Eclair play an ever-evolving, undefinable brand of groove-heavy instrumentals which effortlessly fuse the band’s many influences, including Krautrock, Afrobeat, funk, and library music. The band’s first few recordings, such as 2019’s Sauropoda, captured the freewheeling, improvisatory spirit of their live shows, while 2021’s sprawling Confusions was a more ambitious, focused studio production. Keyboard player Sébastien Bui and guitarist Stefan Lilov conceived L’Eclair in 2015 while they were living in London following their high school graduation. After moving back to their home city of Geneva, the band began to take shape as bassist Elie Ghersinu and drummer Yavor Lilov joined, with percussionist Quentin Pilet and keyboardist/cowbell player Alain Sandri completing the lineup.

FFO: The Mauskovic Dance Band, Mildlife, Yin Yin, Sven Wunder

+ Well Yeah

Action for Happiness

Free Entry // 6:45pm Doors

Self-described as a “movement for positive social change”, Action for Happiness is a national charity aimed at increasing basic levels of happiness through whatever means they have and is a long-term friend of Latest Music Bar. Here’s what they have to say about their mission….

We’re bringing together people from all walks of life who want to play a part in creating a happier society for everyone. For fifty years we’ve aimed relentlessly at higher incomes. But despite being much wealthier, we’re no happier than we were five decades ago. At the same time we’ve seen an increase in wider social issues, including a worrying rise in anxiety and depression in young people. It’s time for a positive change in what we mean by progress.

Venue booked for Private Party

Latest Musicbar is available to hire for parties, weddings, live music. … As we’re a renowned live venue we do love a band for a party & can help you source entertainment including bands, … For parties & private hire: bookings@thelatest.​co.uk

The Leaning, Samana, ANKHEE

Doors 7:30pm // Latest MusicBar // TICKETS

The Second live performance for THE LEANING. Romantic surf rock. Influenced by Leonard Cohen and Roy Orbison but landing in the dreamy realm inhabited by outsider songwriters such as Lewis and Sean Nicholas Savage. Support from Samana and ANKNEE.

DOORS 7.30
ANKNEE 8.00
SAMANA 8.45
THE LEANING 9.30

18+

Venue Booked for Private Party

Latest MusicBar is available to hire for parties, weddings, live music… As we’re a renowned live venue we do love a band for a party & can help you source entertainment including bands… For parties & private hire: bookings@thelatest.​co.uk

The Parrots

Doors 7pm // Latest MusicBar // Tickets

The Parrots have played across Europe, the US and Central America packed nights at the Shacklewell Arms and chelada-fuelled lunchtime showcases at SXSW, raucous gigs of elemental garage noise, feelgood ferocity and many, many stage invasions (Everybody else gets very motivated when they see us play, says frontman Diego). After three years and half a dozen singles and EPs, they are ready to release their first album, Los Niños Sin Miedo, on Heavenly.

Diego García, Alex de Lucas (bass) and Larry Balboa (drums) met at university in Madrid, began playing music together, and noisily hacked out a place for their primordial, loose-hipped rock’n’roll. The idea of Los Niños Sin Miedo The Fearless Kids came about because in Spain it’s really difficult to make it as a rock’n’roll band, they say. When we started there were so many indie bands, indie bands, indie bands. No one would back us, no other bands, no media, nobody. So we got on with it, and people started coming to our shows, promoters started booking us, but at the beginning it was just our gang of friends in Madrid, working on our music, writing, singing, DJing, art, photography. That gang includes Hinds, whose brilliant recent album Leave Me Alone was produced by Diego, and Los Nastys, one of whom is Diego’s flatmate.

THE SPACE – INTERVIEWS WITH MICHAEL ROSEN & MARK BEDFORD (AND AUDIENCE Q&As)

Doors 19:00, starts at 19:40 (times may change slightly) // Latest MusicBar // www.thespace.uk.com

MICHAEL ROSEN

Michael Rosen is a highly respected writer, poet, lecturer and broadcaster. He was the Children’s Laureate between 2007 and 2009 and played a significant part in opening up children’s access to poetry, particularly in schools. Michael’s first children’s book was 1974’s Mind Your Own Business, illustrated by Quentin Blake. He has written over 100 books, including the 1989 classic, We’re Going on a Bear Hunt, and the award-winning Michael Rosen’s Sad Book, published in 2004, which covers his grief after the loss of his son Eddie. In 2020, Michael became very ill after contracting COVID-19 and later shared his experiences with it and his care under the NHS. While working at the BBC in the early seventies, he worked on the children’s programme Play School, including as a director. Michael is an active campaigner, certainly including for education.

MARK BEDFORD

Mark Bedford has been a member of the band Madness since the late seventies, as its bass guitarist. Among other songs, he co-wrote One Better Day and Return of the Los Palmas 7. As a musician, he also contributed to music by artists such as Morrissey and Voice of the Beehive. Mark played double bass on Robert Wyatt’s song Shipbuilding. Since 2011, he has been part of the Lee Thompson Ska Orchestra, with Madness saxophonist Lee Thompson. Madness were one of the most popular and successful British bands of the late seventies and early eighties. They had over 30 hit singles, including House of Fun, Baggy Trousers, It Must Be Love, Michael Caine and Our House. Acts they influenced include No Doubt, who were fronted by Gwen Stefani.

Wellsbourne Society presents Murmurations, Colonies and Undercurrents: The secret lives of Sussex’s starlings and bats

Doors 8pm // Latest MusicBar // TICKETS

One of the best things about Brighton winters has to be the dazzling murmurations as tens of thousands of starlings take to the air at dusk. As they settle to roost under the pier a very different flying creature takes to our city skies – the bat. Thanks to our special guests: two of the city’s best-loved artists – Steve Geliot and Lou McCurdy; professional conservationist Tim Squire; and biodiversity officer and bat expert Kim Dawson we’ll be learning all about these fascinating creatures. Mixing lecture, performance, art, film and ecology our guests will teach us about their habits, secrets and what lies behind the beautiful dance of the murmurations. They’ll also uncover the stories and art behind the creation of Undercurrents, a new murmuration-themed film and exhibition at Phoenix Gallery in 2022.

THE SPACE – INTERVIEWS WITH PAUL MCGANN & DAVID MORRISSEY (AND AUDIENCE Q&As)

Doors 19:00, starts at 19:40 (times may change slightly) // Latest MusicBar // www.thespace.uk.com

PAUL MCGANN

Paul McGann is a highly respected actor, best known for co-starring in Withnail and I and playing the lead role in the 1996 Doctor Who TV movie. Between 2010 and 2019, he appeared in Luther. Within a 40-year onscreen career, his other notable appearances include The Monocled Mutineer, ITV’s Hornblower and Holby City. A year after Paul’s debut TV role, in a 1982 Play for Today episode, he starred with Robert Lindsay in the BBC’s snooker-related drama, Give Us a Break. 1987’s Withnail and I, which he starred in with Richard E Grant, is among the most popular British films of all time. The same year, Paul appeared in Steven Spielberg’s Empire of the Sun. Since starring in Doctor Who, he continued to play the character, mainly in many audio stories by Big Finish Productions. His three brothers are also actors and they appeared with him in the 1995 series The Hanging Gale.

DAVID MORRISSEY

David Morrissey has been described by the BFI as “one of the most versatile actors of his generation.” Like Paul McGann, he was born in the Kensington area of Liverpool, five years later. His notable TV appearances include The Walking Dead, from 2012 to 2015, as the villainous The Governor, Sky’s historical drama Britannia, BBC One’s The Missing, the acclaimed State of Play and Blackpool, alongside David Tennant. David also starred with him in 2008’s Doctor Who Christmas special, The Next Doctor. He also co-starred with Paul McGann in 1998’s Our Mutual Friend. That year, he directed a short film, A Secret Audience, and later the feature Don’t Worry About Me, released in 2009. His wealth of theatre work includes Shakespeare plays such as Macbeth and Julius Caesar.

The Space with Dave Rowntree and Mat Whitecross

Doors 18.45 // Latest Music Bar // Tickets

DAVE ROWNTREE

Dave Rowntree is a musician, due to release his debut album in late January. He is best known as the drummer in the band Blur, which was formed in late 1988. From Leisure, released in 1991, to 2015’s The Magic Whip, they have recorded eight albums and had twenty-eight hit singles, such as There’s No Other Way, Parklife and Song 2. At the forefront of Britpop, they were among the most popular British bands of the nineties and beyond. In 1998, Dave and Blur’s Alex James were involved in the Beagle 2 Mars mission. He has worked extensively as an animator, including for TV and advertising agencies. As a composer, his work includes the BBC drama The Capture and 2022’s War of the Worlds series. London Bridge and Devil’s Island are Dave’s first solo singles, and are on the forthcoming album, Radio Songs.

MAT WHITECROSS

Mat Whitecross is a director of documentaries, feature films and music videos. His recent work includes The Sound of 007, the documentary on James Bond films’ music for Amazon Prime. 2006’s The Road to Guantánamo was his first feature, directed with Michael Winterbottom. Later features include the Ian Dury biopic starring Andy Serkis, Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll and the Stone Roses-related Spike Island. The acclaimed 2016 Oasis documentary, Supersonic, won an Empire magazine award. He directed the Coldplay documentary, A Head Full of Dreams and many music videos for them, and for Take That, the Rolling Stones, Liam Gallagher and Pink Floyd. Mat’s TV work includes Vic & Bob’s Big Night Out and the first episode of This England, about Boris Johnson and his government’s handling of the pandemic.

Brighton Groove Project – The Acid Jazz and Funk Jam Returns!

The music is improvised around a riff or simple chord progression, with the groove as the guide. Occasionally we might slip into tunes like Cantaloupe Island, Maiden Voyage or Chameleon.
Someone calls a key and starts a riff and everyone brings their sound to the mix. It’s a great opportunity to stretch out, work on your improvising or just dance to the funky grooves. Everyone is welcome, percussionists, horn players, vocalists, rappers, didgeridoo and harmonica players too.
As with most jams, amps, keyboards and drums are provided, please treat them with respect. Guitarists, bassists, horn players etc please bring your own instruments. Please arrive in good time so we can get you up to do 1 or 2 numbers.
If you want some clues about the kind of stuff we do, check out bands like The Brand New Heavies, Down to the Bone, Jamiroquai, Incognito, Herbie Hancocks Headhunters and John Scofields Uberjam as well as the demo on the BGP page. http://soundcloud.com/brighton-groove-project/short-demo

Entry is free and there will be an opportunity to donate to the house bands during the night.

Catalyst Club Special: Featuring Comedian Ben Moor

Doors 7:30 // Latest Music Bar // TICKETS

Established in 2004, The Catalyst Club is Brighton’s longest-running spoken word night and pays tribute to the old tradition of French salons. On the night three guest speakers take to the lectern to talk for fifteen minutes on a subject close to their heart. The Catalyst Club is open to anyone with a passion, no matter how bizarre or niche. Since its inception it has hosted over 700 talks that have ranged from zombie films, Marmite, the history of the Martini, the suffragettes and the Spartans to demonology, bum reading, moths and the wonderful world of slime mould. Their BBC Radio 4 special can be found here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b081jnp1

It is hosted by Dr David Bramwell. www.drbramwell.com

Welly: With Support from Simulator

Doors 7:30pm // Latest MusicBar // Tickets TBC

A great night featuring three upcoming Brighton based, Alternative Rock Bands, headlined by Welly, with support from Simulator and another band TBC! Tickets coming soon!

Listen to Welly’s music here

Welly Instagram: @Welly.Loves.You

Simulator Instagram:@simulator.__

The First Gift of Christmas: Northbrook MET Students

6pm – 11pm // Latest MusicBar // TICKETS £7

A great night of performances from the Northbrook MET Students, with performances including Fingerleds, Pockett, Tell Me After, The Notorious 3, Jxsh, KtHarriet, B$H, and Emily. Event running 6pm-11pm

Flote Sulu – Three Brighton Bands Live at Latest MusicBar

Doors 7pm // Latest MusicBar // TICKETS £6.60

Jake Fern – HollowMoon: Live at Latest MusicBar

Doors 7pm // LMB // Tickets coming soon…

9 Piece band playing classic covers with a twist…with African drumming as support act.

More information coming soon!

THE SPACE – INTERVIEWS WITH DOM JOLY & DAVID SPROXTON (AND AUDIENCE Q&As)

Doors 19:00, starts at 19:40 (times may change slightly) / www.thespace.uk.com

DOM JOLY

Dom Joly is best known for creating and appearing in Trigger Happy TV, the Channel 4 television series that was first broadcast in January 2000. He is also the author of five books. His other television shows include Fool Britannia for ITV and World Shut Your Mouth for the BBC. Dom has appeared in I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!, among other shows. Hidden camera series Trigger Happy TV was highly popular and successful around the world. Dom’s books include The Dark Tourist: Sightseeing in the World’s Most Unlikely Holiday Destinations. Places he went to include Chernobyl, Iran and North Korea. Scary Monsters and Super Creeps saw him in search of mythical creatures, such as the Yeti and Bigfoot. Dom’s most recent book, The Hezbollah Hiking Club: a short walk across the Lebanon, was published in 2019.

DAVID SPROXTON

David Sproxton co-founded Aardman Animations in 1972 with Peter Lord. It’s the company behind characters such as Wallace and Gromit, Shaun the Sheep and films that include Chicken Run. His early work as an animator was on children’s show Vision On, before co-creating the popular clay character of Morph. With director and animator Nick Park, he was a producer of The Wrong Trousers and A Close Shave, which featured Wallace and Gromit. David’s other work with Aardman includes Chicken Run, Shaun the Sheep and Flushed Away, as well as Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. He also worked on the Oscar-winning short film Creature Comforts, directed by Nick Park, and Peter Gabriel’s Sledgehammer video, as camera operator and lighting technician.

www.aardman.com

Mark Butcher and the Allusions

Doors 7:30pm // Latest MusicBar // TICKETS

Former England Test Match star and now a top Sky commentator has always loved music and can’t wait to play live at Latest Music Bar.

The Allusions features Steve ‘Smiley’ Barnard on drums (The Alarm, Robbie Williams), Andy Lewis on bass (Paul Weller, Pimlico, The Night Mail) Owen Parker on keys/guitar(Parker’s band) and Mark Butcher on guitar and vocals.

Masks recommended, proof of vaccine or negative lateral flow tests recommended.

One Inch Badge Presents: Lewsberg

Doors 7pm // Latest Music Bar // Tickets £9.20 Adv

More details coming soon!

Patchwork Festival – Bakk Lamp Fall, Roar Selecta, Chris Havexx, Tony Tee, Rocky Manner, DJ Riphco, Kick Rocks, Heavytone, Dende Sound

Doors 7:30 // Latest Musicbar // Tickets coming soon…

Patchwork Festival is here to celebrate Brighton’s diverse multiculturalism. It offers an open space for the community to express themselves through Music, Art, Food and a wide variety of crafts!

Daytime 12 noon to 7.30pm FREE ENTRY

Sound System Running Order Downsatrirs:
12 to 1pm Roar Selecta
1 to 2pm Chris Havexx & Tony Tee
2 to 3pm Rocky Manner
3 to 4pm DJ Riphco
4 to 5pm Kick Rocks
5 to 6pm Heavytone
6 to 7pm Dende Sound

Upstairs:
Approx 8 to 10 stalls including Art & Crafts, African Clothes & Jewellery, Face Painting, Hair Braiding, Crystal Jewellery, Books, Wood Art, Crochet & Knitting

Senegalese Cuisine from La Baobab

Acoustic Performances

Evening 8pm to 12 Midnight : £15

Bakk Lamp Fall live band and supporting bands

Bakk Lamp Fall
The meaning of our music is to bring ‘light into darkness’

” These guys are a powerful combination of desert blues, jazz and traditional Baye Fall chants, without doubt one of the coolest and most original acts on the Brighton scene at the moment!”
– The Hydrant website.

“Bakk Lamp Fall are easily one of best and distinctive African London groups in our midst and have an album out already, but a new one is on its way this year! We’d love to see more of them around town!”
– DJ Ritu, A World In London

One Inch Badge Presents: The Golden Dregs

Doors 7pm // Latest MusicBar // Tickets £8.63 Adv

The Golden Dregs might be on the project of just one man, Benjamin Woods, but beyond that it’s a lot of different things. “It’s adopted the guise of a bar-band, a lonely man with a piano, a singer with a backing band, and an awkward and insecure karaoke performance,” says Woods. “I think of The Golden Dregs as a project as opposed to a group or a person. It’s a platform for me to explore different musical avenues.”

It makes sense that The Golden Dregs, which is led by the rich baritone croon and Americana-tinged tones (think Stephin Merritt of Magnetic Fields collaborating with David Berman of Silver Jews with Dan Michaelson making the brews) of Woods, would encompass so many things after a period of such instability and movement for him. Cornwall, Manchester, Cornwall, Germany, back to Cornwall and then onto London. Woods has spent the last several years ricocheting from place-to-place, shifting from a cockroach-infested place in Manchester to a failed relocation to Germany that resulted in him having to temporarily move back in with his parents – all the while searching for a place of stability to make his second album after 2018’s Lafayette. Yet for someone who has been such an itinerant in recent years, Woods has made a record with a distinct and coherent personality that radiates the feeling of someone who has finally found where they need to be and where they want to go.

Venue booked for Private Party

Latest Musicbar is available to hire for parties, weddings, live music… As we’re a renowned live venue we do love a band for a party & can help you source entertainment including bands… For parties & private hire: bookings@thelatest.​co.uk

HoneyBadger, Hot Wax, and Citydog

7pm // Latest MusicBar // Tickets £5 Adv

Honeybadger, performing original material played with passion for the love of music, and Influenced by Nirvana, Arctic Monkeys, White Stripes and QOTSA, will be performing live at Latest Musicbar alongside bands Hotwax and Citydog, as well as live DJs.

LSHO Presents: Brutalligators & Buds

8pm // Latest Music Bar // TICKETS

Post-youth band from North Herts, UK, Brutalligators, playing melodic and occasionally heavy music. Celebrating the launch of their debut album, on Nov. 5th. Find out more at: https://brutalligators.bandcamp.com/

Mutations Festival

Multi Venue Festival 4-7 November // Performance Times and Locations // Tickets

Get ready to embrace the experimental and the brave.

Mutations is a multi-venue festival taking place in central Brighton, England between 4th and 7th November 2021 that will see 100 of the most exciting, inspirational and relevant artists perform across 11 of Brighton’s most treasured Grassroots Music Venues.

Tim McArthur sings SONDHEIM’S DIVAS

Doors 7:30pm // Latest Musicbar //Tickets £12 OTD

Critics Choice – The Times Uk
***** Musical Theatre Review.
***** Boyz Magazine
***** West End Wilma

Sondheim aficionado Tim McArthur performs a classic evening of the leading
ladies songs from Sondheim’s greatest musicals.
For three years Tim hosted and performed Cabaret Nights for the Sondheim Society.
Each month performing various songs from Sondheim’s varied catalogue Tim was
inspired to relook at all of the leading ladies songs in Sondheim shows with a gender
retake on them , If you love your Sondheim – you will love this Diva show!
Tim’s professional Sondheim credits include roles in Into The Woods, Company,
You’re Gonna Love Tomorrow and Assassins and he has directed A Little Night
Music, Follies and Sweeney Todd.
This Diva show has been performed at The Arts Theatre (London) The Pride Arts
Centre in Chicago and The Tada Theatre in NYC. Autumn 2021 the show is touring
to The 2 Brewers (Manchester), Latest Music Var (Brighton), The Stables Theatre
(Hastings), The Prohibition Cabaret Bar (Newcastle) and to the Cabaret Lounge At
Above The Stag in London.

THE MUCKERS + SUPPORTS
7:30 – 11pm // £9 Advance Tickets

Standing out against the layers of noises in a city like New York holds is no small feat: its blaring cars and screeching trains, its storied streets, blunt locals, and piercing sirens all meld together into a thick backdrop. The Muckers, a four piece as vibrantly fresh as resolutely timeless, are doing just that, and NME already calls them “one of New York’s most exciting new bands.”

Frontman Emir Mohseni moved to New York all the way from his native Iran to pursue a career in music. The move, profiled across acclaimed publications, from Rolling Stone to Billboard, only marked the beginning of the band’s story. Upon landing in this new environment, Mohseni met the three guys that would become his closest friends, and build with him the enlivening sound and enrapturing live show that The Muckers have garnered early praises for: Anthony Azarmgin at the bass, Chris Cawley on rythm guitar, and John Zimmerman behind the drums. 
 Endaevor is a fitting title for the band’s debut. Their journey is nothing short of an odyssey: first, as an immigrant taking refuge in New York City to have the right to perform rock music, then as a band caught in the global pandemic who’s had to let go of their greatest strength: thriving on any stage – from performing with Pond in a 800-cap room to making the crowds dance and sweat in the divey bars of Brooklyn.

Peter Kropotkin & Brighton’s Radical Heritage: A Centennial Celebration

24 October, 4-10pm, The Latest Music Bar, Manchester Street

£15 / £12 Student Concession

Highly acclaimed UK singer-songwriter Robb Johnson headlines this day of celebration of ‘The Anarchist Prince’, his historical connections to Brighton and the enduring relevance of his thought, playing a range of his folk protest classics. In 2018 Robb released Ordinary Giants, a critically acclaimed 3 CD song suite based on his father’s life & times. Robb was also commissioned to perform the songs for Hartlepool’s 2019 Festival concert Your Affectionate Son.

“An English original” (Robin Denselow, The Guardian)
“one of our best singer-songwriters ever” (Mike Harding, Music Journalist)
“a wonderful mixture of the personal & political… A really moving piece of work” (Billy Bragg on Gentle Men song suite)

Peter Kropotkin:

Peter Kropotkin was the foremost theorist of the anarchist movement, with books continuing to influence those seeking a society based on freedom, equality and mutual aid. This October to commemorate the 100 year anniversary of his death and to introduce his ideas to a wider audience, we are hosting a celebration of the ‘Anarchist Prince’. Spending some of his years in exile in Brighton, Kropotkin’s life is woven into the rich history of the Kemp Town area. A geographer by profession, Kropotkin was also a forerunner of today’s ecologists and one of the first to challenge Darwin’s theory of survival of the fittest with his insistence that humans also co-operate to survive- a notion that grew into the widespread philosophy of Mutual Aid.

Programme of Events:

4.00 Doors open: Bookshop Stall & authors. Bar & Snacks available

4.30  Guest Speakers including Professor Brian Morris, anthropologist and author of The Anarchist Geographer (2007) plus other talks on Kropotkin & the continuing relevance of his environmental, political & social theories

5.30 Film of Brighton’s socialist history walk by Jon Mason  social history researcher and professional storyteller.

7.00 Robb Johnson Set

Myologue TV Comedy Screening

8pm // Latest Music Bar // TICKETS

Comedy Screening:
Screening of our Comedy Sketch Show, shot in the depth of lockdown, with “9 woefully hopeless social media stars attempting to set up their own TV Channel”… Come and enjoy the fruits of their failure!

What happens during the event? (8pm-9:30pm)Join us for a few drinks, a 45min film screening, drinks from the bar, and a 30min interview with the characters.
Watch the premier of the MyalogueTV sketch show, followed by a “serious” Q&A with the characters. The raffle takes place at the end of the evening for a case of beer and much more. Hope you join us.

What is MyalogueTV?
MYALOGUETV IS QUALITY, CURATED CONTENT that responds to the mad age of YouTube, Facebook, Spotify, Instagram, Twitter & TikTok, while at the same time, draws on the traditional comedy and sketch show format of multi-character and multi-scenario. In a fleeting, thumb-flick world, we’re building memorable characters, with quality scripts, direction, production and performance, but keeping things deliberately small-scale, pushing the envelope of entertainment and audience engagement. Where you see bad edits, this is because we have painstakingly lampooned the bad edits of the world we are parodying.

Reveal The Road + Trashed + Supports

7pm // Latest Music Bar // TICKETS

TRASHED worked with Neil D. Kennedy, producer for Milk Teeth, Creeper and Boston Manor, to cultivate the sound for their arsenal of stripped back, catchy, 90s inspired punk rock songs filled with neck breaking riffs and throat shredding melodies. Their sound is the sticky mess you get from boiling down years of being mesmerised by Kerrang! and Scuzz when bands like Green Day and Sum 41 were owning the show, with more personal influences like dealing rejection and anxiety. With a setup similar to that of early Blink-182, guitarist Jimmy and bassist Sam both song-write and sing, bringing diversity to their sound with Jimmy offering a harsher vocal style and riff orientated tunes and Sam utilising melodic vocals and unique chord progressions.

Patchwork Festival – Bakk Lamp Fall, Roar Selecta, Chris Havexx, Tony Tee, Rocky Manner, DJ Riphco, Kick Rocks, Heavytone, Dende Sound

Doors 7:30 // Latest Musicbar // TICKETS

Patchwork Festival is here to celebrate Brighton’s diverse multiculturalism. It offers an open space for the community to express themselves through Music, Art, Food and a wide variety of crafts!

Daytime 12 noon to 7.30pm FREE ENTRY

Sound System Running Order Downsatrirs:
12 to 1pm Roar Selecta
1 to 2pm Chris Havexx & Tony Tee
2 to 3pm Rocky Manner
3 to 4pm DJ Riphco
4 to 5pm Kick Rocks
5 to 6pm Heavytone
6 to 7pm Dende Sound

Upstairs:
Approx 8 to 10 stalls including Art & Crafts, African Clothes & Jewellery, Face Painting, Hair Braiding, Crystal Jewellery, Books, Wood Art, Crochet & Knitting

Senegalese Cuisine from La Baobab

Acoustic Performances

Evening 8pm to 12 Midnight : £15

Bakk Lamp Fall live band and supporting bands

Bakk Lamp Fall
The meaning of our music is to bring ‘light into darkness’

” These guys are a powerful combination of desert blues, jazz and traditional Baye Fall chants, without doubt one of the coolest and most original acts on the Brighton scene at the moment!”
– The Hydrant website.

“Bakk Lamp Fall are easily one of best and distinctive African London groups in our midst and have an album out already, but a new one is on its way this year! We’d love to see more of them around town!”
– DJ Ritu, A World In London

Venue booked for Private Party

Latest Musicbar is available to hire for parties, weddings, live music. … As we’re a renowned live venue we do love a band for a party & can help you source entertainment including bands, … For parties & private hire: bookings@thelatest.​co.uk

Venue booked for Private Party

Latest Musicbar is available to hire for parties, weddings, live music. … As we’re a renowned live venue we do love a band for a party & can help you source entertainment including bands, … For parties & private hire: bookings@thelatest.​co.uk

Xoxo and Support Live at Latest Musicbar

Doors: 7pm // Latest Musicbar // Tickets Adv £4/£8

Usually found halfway between Taylor Swift and Polyphia, on the 14th of October Xoxo will be back in Brighton’s Latest Music Bar with a set of catchy, mathy indie rock. Bring your dancing shoes.

Joining Xoxo on the night are Luan Mei – a young independent singer-songwriter and guitarist from Madrid based in Brighton, combining different genres like indie, pop, funk, and soul – and Foxywombat, bringing the Funk and the feels with genre fusion, feel good tunes and deep lyrics. It’s going to be an indie party.

Venue booked for Private Party

Latest Musicbar is available to hire for parties, weddings, live music. … As we’re a renowned live venue we do love a band for a party & can help you source entertainment including bands, … For parties & private hire: bookings@thelatest.​co.uk

THE SPACE – INTERVIEWS WITH TREVOR HORN AND BRIAN JOHNSON (AND AUDIENCE Q&As)

Doors 19:10, starts at 19:45 (times may change slightly) / www.thespace.uk.com

TREVOR HORN

Trevor Horn is a legendary record producer and a musician. His first major work was as part of The Buggles, best known for the number one hit Video Killed the Radio Star. He went on to produce many classic singles and albums of the eighties. Singles Trevor oversaw, with a major input into their sound, include Frankie Goes to Hollywood’s Relax and Two Tribes, Grace Jones’ Slave to the Rhythm, ABC’s The Look of Love and Malcolm McLaren’s Buffalo Gals. He also produced the albums they came from. He co-formed renowned electronic group The Art of Noise, known for the singles Close to the Edit and Moments in Love. Trevor’s other production work was for artists such as Seal, Pet Shop Boys, Rod Stewart and many others. Before becoming a full-time producer, he was a member of Yes. Trevor later produced and co-wrote the band’s huge hit, Owner of a Lonely Heart.

BRIAN JOHNSON

Brian Johnson began his special effects career in the fifties before his first major work, which was on Gerry Anderson’s Thunderbirds. He worked on 21 episodes of the classic TV series, broadcast in 1965 and 1966. He later oversaw the effects on Anderson’s Space: 1999 and designed the Eagle spacecraft. Brian’s work on that series was an influence on Star Wars. He went on to play a part in the special effects of its sequel, The Empire Strikes Back. Before that, he was special effects supervisor on Alien and later its sequel, Aliens, for which he won a BAFTA. Brian has won two Oscars, for Alien and The Empire Strikes Back.

www.facebook.com/BrianJohnsonSFX

Latest Music Bar Promotes PierFest: Brighton Jazz Festival ‘Terry Seabrook Quintet and QOW Trio’

8pm-10:30pm // Horatios Bar on Brighton Palace Pier // TICKETS

Tony Seabrook Quintet:

Terry Seabrook’s Quintet explores the music of one of the greatest contemporary jazz composers, Wayne Shorter and features some of the UKs most outstanding musicians: Andy Panayi – sax and flute, Graeme Flowers – trumpet, Simon Thorpe – bass, Peter Hill – drums & Terry on piano. Shorter was one of Miles Davis’s most important sidemen and contributed so many brilliant original songs for that quintet. Shorter has been a prolific composer throughout his career and written for all of the bands in which he played including Art Blakey’s Messengers and of course Weather Report.

There has been much to choose from but the songs selected and arranged include One By One – Speak No Evil – Black Nile – Ana Maria – Fee Fi Fo Fum- Witch Hunt – Prince of Darkness – Nefertiti – Night Dreamer, ESP, Infant Eyes, Wild Flower and many more. And there will also be some original music by Terry including a new suite (inspired by Wayne Shorter): A Shorter Suite. This has all been recorded for release in the Autumn of 2019.

“Thanks once again for the fantastic performance – I wish I could hear it all again!” Maureen Hopkins of North Wales Jazz

“Really top jazz!” Mike Gordon, Organiser, Scarborough Jazz Festival

QOW Trio:

QOW TRIO is a generation-spanning trio that features firebrand saxophonist Riley Stone Lonergan, drum legend Spike Wells and multi-genre bassist and bandleader Eddie Myer. The trio initially got together through their mutual love of Sonny Rollin’s classic piano-less trios of the 1950s but soon found themselves expanding their repertoire to explore the rich and varied territory laid out by the great tradition of big-toned tenor players over the ages. With a deep knowledge of the music, founded on Spikes’ astonishing career playing with the greats from Roland Kirk and Stan Getz to Tubby Hayes and Bobby Wellins, and a commitment to swinging improvisation, QOW TRIO bring their superbly exciting take on the art of the jazz trio. Their debut album on Ubuntu Records was released in 2020 to widespread critical acclaim.

“What is striking about this set is the freshness with which all three musicians approach their work. Were it not for lockdown, this trio would be packing out the clubs.” Simon Adams – Jazz Journal 28 May 2021

“This music is wonderful stuff and failing to buy this album would be a terrible mistake.” BBC Music Magazine

Latest Music Bar Promotes PierFest: Brighton Jazz Festival ‘Mark Kavuma +the Banger Factory and Cherise’

8pm-10:30pm // Horatios Bar on Brighton Palace Pier // TICKETS 

The Banger Factory:

The Banger Factory is a group of companions contingent upon bringing the people a good time. Born in the heart of Brixton, south London, the band has developed and nourished a truly unique and unmistakable sound. The Outfit, lead by young lion Mark Kavuma (trumpet), explores completely original material and features some of the most gifted, engaging and masterful musicians on the London jazz scene today.

Mark Kavuma – Trumpet

Mussinghi Brian Edwards – Tenor Sax

Ruben Fox – Tenor Sax

David Mrakpor – Vibraphone

Artie Zaitz – Guitar

Dechanel Gordan – Piano

Michael Shrimpling – Bass

Will Cleasby – Drums

Cherise: 

Owing much of her early musical development to the highly respected grass roots organisation Tomorrow’s Warriors, whose alumni include Nubya Garcia and Ezra Collective, Cherise then went on to study at the prestigious Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music. Since then she has played venues including the Royal Albert Hall and Washington DC’s Kennedy Centre, festivals including The London Jazz Festival and Love Supreme as well as performing alongside artists including Nubiyan Twist and Corinne Bailey Rae.  To add to this, in 2019 Cherise was awarded Jazz FM’s Vocalist of the Year Award and in 2020, she was also named Vocalist of the Year by the Parliamentary Jazz Awards.A truly multi-faceted artist, Cherise is fast proving herself to be one of the most fiercely talented young musicians around. Her effortless, irresistible vocal alongside her honest and soulful song writing manage to be simultaneously contemporary and timeless, firmly marking her out as one of the most exciting talents around.

Latest Music Bar Promotes PierFest: Brighton Jazz Festival ‘Fisher and Rae’

3:30pm-5pm // Horatios Bar on Brighton Palace Pier // FREE!

ESTA RAE
Jazz singer/ Impressionist , she worked as an impressionist on the popular comedy television show ‘Who Do You Do?’ for central television, Her extensive singing career includes working with a host of jazz legends; including The Colin Purbrook Trio, Brian Lemon Trio, Lol Coxhill, Alec Dankworth, Bill Le Sage and supporting Benny Waters and performing at “Pizza On The Park,” “Pizza Express Dean Street,” “The Soho Jazz Festival,” and various other London Jazz venues

The CD she recorded as the Esta Rae Duo with her previous writing partner Matt Sear, is available on iTunes and Spotify and has been played on the Jazz radio station “Jazz Bites” and Mark Langdon’s radio show.
The duo performed extensively giving concerts alongside some of the jazz world’s leading figures, including Grammy nominee Howard Alden (Sweet AndLowdown) and ‘Gypsy Jazz Guitar Secrets’ writer and performer, Tim Robinson.
I am currently Co-writing an album with Sarah Fisher under the name “Fisher and Rae.”

SARAH FISHER
A professional musician for over 20 years, Sarah has worked extensively in the music industry. Apart from appearing nationally and internationally as a singer/pianist, she has also worked as a session musician for many international artists; toured worldwide with The Eurythmics [Annie Lennox] and appeared on numerous TV programmes including Top of the Pops.

She tours with Hazel O Connor as a pianist /vocalist and has co -written some songs with her.

Currently she writes with Esta Rae and together they are in the middle of creating a country pop album.

She runs 2 community choirs and 2 mental health singing groups also.

Throughout her career, Sarah has shared her musical skills directing some of the most inspired and exciting music projects with young people.

Latest Music Bar Promotes PierFest: Brighton Jazz Festival ‘HOWES3 and Jackson Mathod’

8pm-10:30pm // Horatios Bar on Brighton Palace Pier // TICKETS 

Jackson Mathod:

Jackson Mathod is a multi-instrumentalist and singer. Drawing on influences from the likes of Miles Davis, Submotion Orchestra and Christian Scott to name a few. Jackson studied Jazz at Guildhall School of Music and Drama back in 2009. However, never feeling fully embedded in the Jazz world, he quickly went onto the session musician circuit, playing for high profile artists such as Stormzy and Jordan Rakei.

However, in 2020 Jackson started his own musical path and quickly gained attention from the likes of BBC Introducing, Jazz FM, worldwide FM.

Jackson’s music has also featured on top Spotify Editorial playlists such as ‘State of Jazz’, ‘Jazz UK’, ‘Jazz-Funk’ and ‘Jazz Club’. With over 1 million streams to date!

Following on from his successful singles Jackson released is debut album ‘Travels in a Confined Space’ in April 2021

Howes3:

HOWES3 are an exciting Brighton-based jazz funk/gospel fusion power trio. Brought together through a mutual love of 70’s jazz funk, 80’s fusion, 90’s R’n’B, gospel and hip- hop they cultivate a unique sound that has a foot in each genre. Blending smooth neo-soul progressions and utilising rich gospel harmony, sincere melodies and increasing levels of rhythmic freedom throughout, their music is a feel-good journey through their collective influences.

With over 1 million Spotify streams of their debut album ‘Moving Forward’ released in April 2020 via UK/US record label DeepMatter, as well as a recent sold out debut headline show at Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club – London, 2 consecutive sell-out shows at The Jazz Café – Camden, supporting Billy Cobham and Taylor Mcferrin at Oslo – Hackney; HOWES3 are firmly making their mark on 2021.

Other notable shows include Jazz Re:Freshed, Love Supreme Jazz Festival Arena Stage, Southbank Centre, Soundcrash Funk & Soul Weekender, Kansas Smitty’s, Great Escape Festival, Sofar Sounds London.

“Really loving this sound, quality next gen jazz for the now generation.” – Tony Minvielle, JazzFM

“HOWES3 embody everything that’s so exiting about the UK jazz scene at the moment” – Somewhere Soul

“Highly polished chaos!” – Sofar Sounds London

“HOWES3 present their considerable individual skill in an accessible instrumental format.” – Brighton Unsigned

Tenderhooks ‘hooks Album Launch

7:30pm Doors // £5 Entry // £10 Entry + Album

The Stealers Live at The Latest Music Bar

Doors 7pm // Latest Music Bar // TICKETS

The Stealers are a fresh, fiery Brighton based Punk Rock / Post Punk band that formed in the Autumn of 2019. The band is made of 4 members. Alex Roberts – Anderson (Guitar and lead vocals), Noah Longhurst (Drums), George Hart (Guitar) and Junior Vieira-Dawes (Bass). In the summer of 2020, one of the industry’s leading punk bands showed an interest in The Stealers and later that month they were in the studio recording with Don Bird of Lady Bird. The Stealers are a band to watch and are for sure the underdogs of the new Punk Rock scene which is starting to take shape

Latest Music Bar Promotes PierFest: Brighton Jazz Festival ‘Saxophonist Alan Barnes and Pianist David Newton’

8pm-10:30pm // Horatios Bar on Brighton Palace Pier // TICKETS

Alan Barnes and David Newton have been playing duets for 42 years. These multiple award winners cover a vast repertoire from Louis Armstrong to Chick Corea and play with an empathy that can only come with long experience. David is one of the greatest solo jazz pianists this country has ever produced and Alan plays multi reed instruments- all the saxes, clarinet and bass clarinet. They have developed an empathy and telepathic sympathy which only playing together for many years can bring.

The emphasis, as always, is on swinging, accessibility and interplay. Expect a hugely entertaining programme of straight ahead jazz flawlessly played and interspersed with lots of anecdotes and peppered with humour.

Their latest and best album “Ask Me Now” is available on Woodville Records

Alan Barnes is a prolific international performer, composer, arranger, bandleader and touring soloist.  He is best known for his work on clarinet, alto and baritone sax, where he combines a formidable virtuosity with a musical expression and collaborative spirit that have few peers.  His range and brilliance have made him a “first call” for studio and live work since his precocious arrival on the scene more than thirty-five years ago.

His recorded catalogue is immense.  He has made over thirty albums as leader and co-leader alone, and the list of his session and side-man work includes Bjork, Bryan Ferry, Michel LeGrande, Clare Teale, Westlife, Jools Holland and Jamie Cullum. He has toured and played residencies with such diverse and demanding figures as Ruby Braff, Freddie Hubbard, Scott Hamilton, Warren Vache, Ken Peplowski, Harry Allen and Conte Candoli.

In British jazz, the young Barnes was recognized – and hired – by the established greats of the time:  Stan Tracy, John Dankworth, Kenny Baker, Bob Wilber, and Humphrey Lyttelton.  But he is equally respected for his longstanding and fruitful collaborations with contemporaries such as David Newton, Bruce Adams, and Martin Taylor.

He written many compositions and arrangements including “The Sherlock Holmes Suite” and “A Jazz Christmas Carol” and runs a successful Jazz record label Woodville Records.

Alan Barnes’s unique musicianship, indefatigable touring, and warm rapport with audiences have made him uniquely popular in British jazz.  He has received over 30 British Jazz Awards, most recently in 2016 for clarinet, and has twice been made BBC Jazz Musician of the Year.

“Barnes’ melodic sense bypasses the usual scale-running clichés that pepper the playing of lesser bop disciples.”

Peter Marsh, BBC Music Review.

“His stylistic range is quite phenomenal… He has a wonderful capacity for suggesting a given style without actually imitating anyone”

Dave Gelly, Masters Of The Jazz Saxophone

“I was relishing the prospect of Barnes’s casually consummate musicianship, deadpan humour (he could be a comedian, if jazz ever fails him), and indomitable belief in a respected place for the music’s rich history in this eclectic and often forgetful world.”

John Fordham – The Guardian