With homegrown talent like The Kooks, Blood Red Shoes and Fujiya and Miyagi, Brighton and Sussex's music and gigging scene is amongst the most exciting in the country. Add to this the wealth of famous names that visit the region and there's never a shortage of gigs, concerts or shows to see.
Below you'll find previews of the all the best musical entertainment in Brighton and Sussex.
"Influencing the stars
of tomorrow, ripping off the
non-entities of yesterday," was how Billy Childish sub-titled
his 1994 Thee Headcoats
album, Conundrum.
"There's always silence when
we first enter the stage, while they're trying to digest the visuals," says Patti Plinko. "I think they feel we're going to be something quite horrific but we're not that scary.
Taking their name from a classic Fall track, These New Puritans are one of those bands casually thrown in with Foals as an example of the new cool art-rock indie on the UK scene.
"I gave up songwriting, as a job, in about 1999. I just decided I didn't want to be a factory hand, someone who went to the piano so he could have enough songs to make
an album that year and fulfil his option with a record company."
They are the giants of a golden age
of music as well as being great
showmen and hugely loveable
characters," says promoter David Flower
about the reason for Buena Vista's
enduring popularity.
When cult indie band Camera Obscura wrote their breakthrough song Lloyd, I'm Ready To Be Heartbroken it was (an admittedly late) response to a classic by this English songwriting legend. Lloyd Cole And The Commotions were a bright light to lovers of the song in the dark days of synth-driven New Romantic pop.
Former Million Dead frontman Frank Turner is continuing to embrace his acoustic-folk side with a tour promoting his second album Love Ire And Song. The album is the follow-up to Sleep Is For The Week, which was released last year and saw him headline a tour of former hardcore musicians gone acoustic, entitled the Softcore Tour.
Imagine Ray Davies with Shaun Ryder's accent and the volatile energy of Johnny Rotten and you'd be somewhere near imagining Twisted Wheel frontman Jonny Brown.
He may have made his name as
the dashing Captain Jack in BBC
tea-time favourite Dr Who, but there are many sides to John
Barrowman, as the Scottish-born celebrity is keen to point out.
"It was really nice. Lots of wood. I think we even used a piano
which was at the side of the stage ," says Low's charming frontman Alan Sparhawk of the band's last visit to St George's Church.
