Tom Doyle

It takes a certain kind of band to pack out Concorde 2 and keep punters bouncing for 90 minutes. The Strypes proved they have the rock ’n’ roll chops to go the distance on Wednesday.

Poliça captivated a reverent audience at All Saints Church in Hove, leaving those in attendance wide-eyed with their expert command of dark, slinky synth hooks and R’n’B beats.

The cosy bar at Komedia was only half full, keys/bass player Tom O’Hare had lost his voice and lead singer Si Critten started the night off by wishing everybody was three stone heavier to fill the room out.

Despite the torrents of rain pouring down on Brighton on Thursday night, Tori Y Moi kept the windswept audience enthralled with a tight set of sunkissed quality at Coalition.

Ghostpoet's declaration that he had simply "come to play a few ditties by the seaside" delighted the Saturday night Digital audience, and the talented rapper duly blew them away with a set that rose and swelled from a relatively downbeat intro to a thrilling finale.

Young Legionnaire started off their first UK headline tour with an electrifyingly energetic set of post-hardcore delights.

Brazilian disco-rockers CSS began their latest tour in the baking confines of Digital on Sunday night, and almost tore the roof off with a pulsating set of both new and old tracks to leave an exhausted crowd ecstatic.

Dels and Ghostpoet put on a scintillating dual headline show at Concorde 2 to prove that not only are they the current stars of the British rap scene, but also perhaps the new stars of the British music scene itself.

It was perhaps fitting that the intimate confines of Audio were the venue for Asobi Seksu (Japanese for “playful sex”), who went down an absolute storm on a sweltering Thursday evening.

It was an intriguing prospect to see just what the Southbank Centre’s reimagining of Sergei Prokofiev’s classic piece would lead to, but I’m glad to say the show was an undoubted triumph for both young and old audience members alike.