Tag Archive: Brighton

SYS + David Ford + Jarrod Dickenson!

We’ve attended enough concerts over the course of the years to understand what constitutes a cracking musical experience. Basically, if you combine good music, a good atmosphere and bargain-priced tickets, you’ve got a… Read More

Maker are giving you devotion

Brighton band Maker have unleashed into the world their excellent debut single, Devotion, accompanied by a somewhat nsfw video clip. We asked Maker’s singer Lana McDonagh to tell us more: The song is… Read More

The Great Escape: Day Three

The final countdown, do-do-do-do. Yes, seemingly so soon after it had begun, The Great Escape’13 had already reached its last day. The closing Saturday of the festival started as all the coolest events… Read More

The Great Escape: Day Two

Amid hangovers and weary limbs after the opening day’s festivities, the second instalment of The Great Escape’13 creaked into life Friday lunchtime, yet it didn’t take long for things to hit full throttle.… Read More

The Great Escape: Day One

There’s little denying that Brighton in the Spring sunshine is a location of absolute magnificence, so when you add 350 amazing bands playing in over twenty venues around the city to sixteen thousand… Read More

Three-D Exhibition at Boxbird gallery

With so much modern art and illustration existing only in a digital space, an exhibition that celebrates the hand-held, carefully crafted and painstakingly created is a lovely thing to see. It’s good for… Read More

Our Top 5 acts to see at Great Escape

This week, Something You Said is heading to Brighton, on England’s sunny south coast for The Great Escape. The three-day festival and convention always entertains, informs and is firmly established as Europe’s answer to… Read More

Beardyman makes an album in an hour

We nerd out over the BeardyTron5000_MkII. What the hell is that, you ask? Beardyman explains all: Hello Beardyman! There is a lot of equipment involved in your new shows. What does this now include… Read More

Escape with Susanne Sundfør

We’ve been raving about Susanne Sundfør since we saw her mesmerising performance in London this year and we’re mad keen to catch her at The Great Escape Festival in Brighton next month. Safe… Read More

British Sea Power – Machineries of Joy

Gary Page reviews the newest longplayer by Brighton-based outfit British Sea Power: The first time I became fully aware of British Sea Power was on an overcast August day back in 2006. They curated… Read More

ROLLER DERBY + PENCILS = GOOD TIMES

Alice Parsons gets her skates on and comes up with some pretty-frickin-awesome illustrations for somethingyousaid.com: If, like me, your only encounter with the world of Roller Derby has been watching ‘Whip It’, you… Read More

Deap Vally at The Haunt, Brighton

Without wishing to blow our own – admittedly impressive – trumpets, we were banging on about Californian two-piece Deap Vally absolutely yonks ago. We interviewed them in one of those, “hey guys, you probably haven’t… Read More