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.
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.
"Our lives haven't changed much since playing on Amy Winehouse's record," says The Dap-Kings' tenor saxophonist Neal Sugarman, who has generously agreed to an
interview despite the band's gig having sold out weeks ago.
They have been playing their melancholic, eerie indie for the best part of a decade and are lauded by critics from Time Out and The Sun alike, but Manchester three-piece I Am Kloot have yet to become a mainstream name.
Armed with just five strings and a stripped-down drum kit, The Presidents Of The United States Of America shone a little light into the post-Cobain darkness of the mid-Nineties American rock scene.
If the endless exposure on Dr Who, spin-off Torchwood and countless reality TV talent shows hasn't sated your craving for John Barrowman, snap up some of the last remaining tickets for this show.
"The very first thing he ever said in life to me - he didn't say Hi' or What's your name?' - he said, Do you play baritone sax?'
"I did not want the conversation to end and I said, Yes.'
"If he'd asked me if I played saxophone standing on my head, I'd have said, Yes.'"
Clinic have always been a law unto themselves. Their fifth
studio album, Do It!, is a glorious,
kaleidoscopic whirl through
music hall, Bo Diddley, Can, surf guitar, tango, doo-wop and dub, with an appeal as immediate
as it is warped.
Lot of people dislike it but I'm not really too bothered. People in the music industry, and sometimes journalists, need to categorise it," says Natacha Atlas of the much-derided "world music" tag.
Electro-pop lovers are in for a double-treat at Komedia
on Tuesday night as former Zero 7 vocalist Sia teams up
with sweaty lothario Har Mar Superstar.
Maverick baroque ensemble Red Priest are teaming up with two young ensembles to raise money for this year's Brighton Early Music Festival. Joining the group will be The Little Baroque Company and The 1607 Ensemble, which both took part in the 2007 Festival's Early Music Live! apprenticeship scheme.
