Your guide to live music in Brighton this week Someone get the bloody factor 50 out – summer in Brighton is here. The hen and stag do’s are turning the town centre into a screaming, swirling mess of bridal sashes and ‘total banter’ costumes. Queen’s Road is a human tidal wave crashing from the station to the sea – all fed up parents, pointless cool … Continue reading Brighton gig guide 13-19 June
Your guide to live music in Brighton this week The entire nation is in the bin. From the top to the bottom, the British people are seemingly dead set on showing their worst selves for all to see. Enter stage left: Garbage patriotism for a nonce-enabling monarch. You do really hate to see it. Within this tidal wave of destitution hardy souls remain. We scratch … Continue reading Brighton gig guide 30 May – 5 June
Your guide to live music in Brighton this week The dust has settled on The Great Escape weekend, the horrible end of Fringe is drawing into focus, but there is still a whole mess of merriment to be had in this city by the sea. In gig news this week, we have Fringe comedy as far as the eye can see, flamenco hitting The Brunswick, … Continue reading Brighton gig guide 23 – 29 May
Your guide to live music in Brighton this week Undercurrent is back from a Euro weekender and subsequent bank holiday revelry to bring you the best live music in town this week. There is former Big Brother contestants getting hot at The Hope, wonderful soul stylings at Green Door and a Tarantino-approved Japanese garage rock sensation at Patterns. Love, just bloody absolutely love it we … Continue reading Brighton gig guide 19 – 24 April
Your guide to what’s on in Brighton this week The world has gone from the dawn of summer to the depths of winter in a week. Global warming is a true nightmare, and the world is falling apart at the seams. Amidst the chaos live music endures. This week Brighton is packed full of folk, hip hop, afro beats, punk, and good souls raising money … Continue reading Brighton gig guide 4-10 April
Your guide to live music in Brighton this week. Ring the bells, rev the engines, order the drinks, Brighton is absolutely wall to wall with gigs this week. Not only have we got basically every pub going ballistic for St Patrick’s Day Thursday onwards, all bloody corners of the city will be pumping with tunes from Monday and barely stopping. Strap yourself in and live, … Continue reading Brighton gig guide 14-20 March
As the Omicron variant rips through the city, bosses at The Walrus pub on Ship Street are reportedly forcing unwell staff to work public-facing shifts Header image from Jim Linwood on Flickr A weighty claim has emerged that bosses at The Walrus pub are attempting to force staff to work public-facing shifts despite presenting with Covid symptoms. One staff member shared the details on Twitter. … Continue reading The Walrus pub accused of forcing staff to work through Covid symptoms
Your guide to live music in Brighton this week This is life, but not quite as we know it. Your boss doesn’t quite know what to ask of you, shops are always busy, but no one is properly off for Christmas yet, it is unclear if you can totally shirk all responsibility, but it kinda feels that way. So what better way to sashay through … Continue reading Brighton gig guide 13-19 December
From stuffing-topped fries to nut roast pies, here are 5 amazing vegan Christmas specials in Brighton and Hove. It’s the most wonderful time of the year. The time when Brighton restaurants, pubs, and takeaways get into the festive spirit and start cranking out wildly inventive Christmas specials – and we’ve rounded up the best vegan ones because you’ve all been very good. Prepare your stomachs, … Continue reading 5 Brighton restaurants with vegan Christmas specials
Brighton pop punk three-piece, All Better, is releasing ‘The Laughing Stock of Me’ on 16 November through Sugar Free Records. With ‘The Laughing Stock of Me’ All Better took deep dive into the thematically murky waters of self acceptance and have come out swinging with a high-energy, relentlessly catchy banger. While it nods heavily to the band’s roots as a straight-up pop punk outfit, the … Continue reading All Better releasing ‘The Laughing Stock of Me’ on 16 November
Brighton Undercurrent 