Electric Jalaba explore the entrancing overlap between electronic dance music and traditional Moroccan gnawa with Lead singer Simo Lagnawi at the helm.
Pilani Bubu, South Africa’s indelible storyteller, brings two of her most potent and critically acclaimed works to the stage: Folklore Chapter 2: Ekuseni and Nay’Indaba. This live experience is a carefully curated journey through ancestral wisdom, spiritual inheritance, and the pulse of modern-day South Africa — told through music that is rich, raw, and rhythmically transcendent.
Two excellent records labels ; Discrepant (Lisbon) and Hive Mind (Brighton) present an evening of wonky exotica and .voudou futurism!
Join us to celebrate the release of 'Monte Carlo' the self-titled album by Monte Carlo, aka Matthew Collins, aka Grunder, which is being released on 10th July 2025 on In Suspended Animation Records.
Safehouse is open to musicians of all levels to explore free improvisation.
An informal gathering for performance makers to share new ideas in front of a live audience, the night showcases performance of all kinds and might include theatre, spoken word/poetry, comedy, dance, music, film, performance games, sounds - and more.
One of the original torch-bearers for the revitalized young British jazz scene, Led Bib released their twelth album in August this year. Previous Mercury Prize nominees and this newly down sized four-piece pride themselves on side-stepping convention with incendiary results, tearing apart the jazz world with their avant-jazz-euphoric-rock explosions of improvisation.
An evening of invocatory sound and song to herald the solstice.
ERIC CHENAUX is a Canadian guitarist, songwriter, singer and sound sculptor. He has released seven solo albums of experimental song on the Montréal-based imprint Constellation. “This guys sounds like nothing else we had heard before - his vocals sound as sweet and perfect as Chet Baker mixed with Nick Drake and a bit of beloved Stevie - and a whoozy groovy guitar that draws you into a spellbinding deep listening experience!”
Brighton's unique night for performance makers of all disciplines to share work in progress and connect with each other
Two trios featuring renowned players from Brighton's free music scene.
Comedy PowerPoint presentations from Chris Parkinson and Ben Bailey, taking a nerdy deep dive into the minutiae of politics and pop culture.
FAKE ESCAPE YES!! Friday night and Saturday day and night 2 floor extravaganza bringing in some of the best local collectives, artists and musicians for a night of fantastic and fascinating music to be found nowhere in The Great Escape
Part 8 OF 8 || Experience a true ‘Mehfil’ - a purposefully small intimate setting for South Asian classical music - where a musician and their audience aim to reach the ‘rasa’ – a state of engagement when they become ‘one’ in emotion and intent. Performance and jam session with Mehfil – e – Rose Hill artists: Guiliano Modarelli and friends
Safehouse is open to musicians of all levels to explore free improvisation.
Comedy PowerPoint presentations from Chris Parkinson and Ben Bailey, taking a nerdy deep dive into the minutiae of politics and pop culture.
EP launch from instrumental outfit Hekatones: instrumental rhythm section performing original music inspired by ska, rocksteady, roots reggae and dub - with influences from jazz, folk and psychedelia. Hekatones will be joined by some special guests on the night.
Safehouse is open to musicians of all levels to explore free improvisation.
Six Organs of Admittance - a moniker of Ben Chasny - have built a prolific and diverse body of work over the last 20+ years. Ben Chasny's project is an experimental amalgam of new and psychedelic folk, drone music, percussion and strange textures, with Chasny delivering an outpouring of eclectic releases in the early 2000s for various small labels before finding a longstanding home on Drag City.
A daytime DIY Zine Fair with 15+ stallholders. Come meet local artists and craft makers!
[Barley's LP] 'Marionette perfects a curious kind of organic minimalism on accoustic instruments in the vein of Moondog or Lonnie Holley' - The Guardian
Come join us for Listen Club #22; Sound Atmospheres, curated by composer Jean Martin. Some sounds and soundscapes seem to evoke a stronger sense of atmosphere than others. But each of us may experience and articulate what we have heard differently. A small number of atmospheric pieces will be played– some composed music, some environmental soundscapes – so we can discuss what happens to us while we’re listening.
This March, Brighton Film Club celebrates the creativity, vision, and storytelling brilliance of Female Filmmakers.
An afternoon gathering with our local Ukrainian community, sharing music, food and friendship.
The Digital Music and Sound Arts students at The University of Brighton present an eclectic mix of experimental music and noise performances. Always exciting, always fresh - come down and discover your new favourite.
Khayal - Hindustani vocal. Delight and allow your imagination to flow as you experience "Khayal" vocals by Dr Shishir Rao. Shishir will be accompanied by skilful Himmet S Bahra on tabla, during this night of 'Mehfil - e - Rose Hill'
Brighton's unique night for performance makers of all disciplines to share work in progress and connect with each other
Toad Lickers Film Club presents a screening of the 1971 cult documentary The Moon and the Sledgehammer which follows the eccentric lives of the Page family living off-grid in rural West Sussex.
Your fave tropical disco is back! Boogie on down to the best Afro-Latin grooves with DJs Chicha Morada and Nick Subtle, accompanied by live psychedelic visuals from Benedict Sheehan.
Mr Vast – aka Henry Sargeant – previously frontman for the legendary Wevie Stonder, dubbed by the BBC as “the Monty Python of electronic music”. Expanding on the same brand of anarchic comedy and wild fusion of musical influences, Mr Vast is a one-man show that resists easy definitions: a slapstick cabaret, a surrealist happening, an avant-garde concert, a tragicomic carnival, an ecstatic ritual.
Safehouse is open to musicians of all levels to explore free improvisation.
The Sandpit Collective, in partnership with the University of Sussex, presents,'بابا عزيز Bab'Aziz: The prince who contemplated his soul' by artist, poet and cineast Nacer Khemir. The final instalment of Khemir's desert triptych centres around the journey of a blind dervish, Bab Aziz and his granddaughter, Ishtar, traveling across the desert towards an immense Sufi gathering that only happens every 30 years. In a deliberate attempt to imitate the structure of Iranian Sufi visions and dances, the film follows their encounter with several strangers who impart them with stories of their own mysterious and spiritual quests in the path to love.
re / shape / sound, curated by I AM FYA returns for its final instalment of the season, featuring Supernormal Fest 2024 faves - hybrid rock-rap outfit THIRD KULTURE, ‘hyper-soul’ and ‘Nordic noir electronica’ queer duo DIGITAL ROSES and an extended DJ set from the curator herself, I AM FYA. Take radical action and support this ground-breaking new series [the first of it's kind] championing Black and Brown experimental artists.
Brighton EMOM brings you open mic for electronic and experimental musicians, this month with special guest appearances from critically acclaimed Planet Mu released artist Xylitol and local electronic breakbeat hero, Alien Alarms.
Sound sparks are ideas or thoughts sparked through listening. Field recording and soundscape compositions tend to be solo explorations - but in what ways can we listen with others to our surrounding environment, and what can we learn together?
Brighton Film Club invites you to an evening of short films exploring the highs and lows of the heart with Love & Heartbreak.
A community party in Brighton, inspired by the spirit of the 1970s’ ‘utopian’ dance scene including David Mancuso’s The Loft, the Paradise Garage and the Gallery – expect sultry disco divas, afrobeat, euphoric house, funk, soul, balearic, balloons, disco balls, apricots, bubbles, ‘lofting’ and love.
