The Portico Quartet, Pavilion Theatre, Brighton, May 24

4:58pm Monday 26th May 2008

Reviewing music can be a tricky business.

Medeski, Martin And Wood, Dome Concert Hall, Brighton, May 24

4:58pm Monday 26th May 2008

Brighton Festival's Manic Organic theme started with happy hardcore rave tunes being played on The Dome's 72 year old pipe organ and ended with this New York jazz trio holding what appeared to be an organ convention on stage.

Miriam Makeba, Dome Concert Hall, Brighton, May 21

12:35pm Thursday 22nd May 2008

It had been five years since Miriam Makeba last visited Brighton Dome and the atmosphere in the theatre was electric.

John Tavener Concert, Dome Concert Hall, Brighton, May 20

1:24pm Wednesday 21st May 2008

Unusually for a classical event, the seats had been removed from the front of the Dome stalls for the City of London Sinfonia's all-Tavener programme. And in the first half, a girl of around ten leaned on the edge of the stage looking up with rapt attention at Steven Isserlis, the soloist in The Protecting Veil.

Messiaen Anniversary Concert, Corn Exchange, Brighton, May 19

2:55pm Tuesday 20th May 2008

The story behind the Quartet For The End Of Time is almost as remarkable as the music itself. Olivier Messiaen composed the piece while a Nazi PoW for the four instruments available in his prison. It was first performed to an audience of inmates and guards.

Fat Cat Nights Theatre Royal, Brighton, May 17

9:11am Monday 19th May 2008

The second of the Fat Cat nights at the Theatre Royal started in mellow form. Norwegian singer-songwriter Silje Nes's slightly offbeat songs are at the same time haunting and strangely compelling.

Fat Cat Nights Theatre Royal, Brighton, May 16

9:09am Monday 19th May 2008

The first of two nights organised by Brighton-based Fat Cat records was a varied affair which reflected the label's diversity.

Empirical, Pavilion Theatre, Brighton, May 15

9:06am Monday 19th May 2008

"Thanks for coming along to this lunchtime concert. It's a bit early for us. We're usually waking up about now."

Fanfare Ciocarlia, Dome Concert Hall, Brighton, May 17

9:04am Monday 19th May 2008

With a cry of "Ay ay ay ay!", one of the fastest and most storming brass bands in the world took to the Dome stage.

Water fight 'linked to stab death'

Updated 6:07pm Friday 18th July 2008

Friends of a teenager stabbed to death yards from his home in Lambeth, London, said he may have been attacked over a minor insult during a water fight.

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