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'What Brighton has done for music is incredible' - Sam Ryder reveals ahead of show

The Essex-born pop star Sam Ryder will be playing at The White Rock in Hastings tomorrow night, marking his second performance in the county. Speaking to The Argus as he travelled home from his run of shows in the US , he said: “I literally just got back from Nashville in the US last night – and then in a few days’ time we kick-off the December run. “So, I’m currently juicing ginger and lemon to make sure I’m ready for that. “I’m incredibly excited to be performing at The White Rock...
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'What Brighton has done for music is incredible' - Sam Ryder reveals ahead of show

The Essex-born pop star Sam Ryder will be playing at The White Rock in Hastings tomorrow night, marking his second performance in the county. Speaking to The Argus as he travelled home from his run of shows in the US , he said: “I literally just got back from Nashville in the US last night – and then in a few days’ time we kick-off the December run. “So, I’m currently juicing ginger and lemon to make sure I’m ready for that. “I’m incredibly excited to be performing at The White Rock...

Chart-topping band with son of U2's Bono to perform in the city

Irish outfit Inhaler have announced their new album Open Wide alongside a tour that brings them to the Brighton Centre on February 15. The Dublin four-piece will release their third album Open Wide on February 7 via Polydor Records and are set to play a set of international shows as part of the Open Wide World Tour. Tickets start at £26.50 and go on sale on November 8, to book visit: www.brightoncentre.co.uk Bandmates and childhood friends Elijah Hewson (Son of U2’s Bono), Robert Kea...

Rising stars sell out show in Brighton

Good Neighbours will be at Patterns in Marine Parade, Brighton, on October 12 at 7pm. The band is made up of Scott Verrill and Oli Fox who have neighbouring studios at their building in East London. They began making music for the project together out of the desire to create something positive and unpolished. READ MORE: LGBTQ+ literary festival returns to Brighton with packed line-up Their single Home amassed more than 270 million global streams and it entered the singles charts in 1...

Royalty and musical pioneers; 100 years of the orchestra

Now it is marking its 100th anniversary with a centenary season of that will run until April next year. The first programme will be The Rite of Spring: Stravinsky and Tchaikovsky  at  Brighton Dome tomorrow at 2.45pm, conducted by musical director Joanna MacGregor and award-winning solo pianist Aidan Mikdad. Joanna MacGregor became the fourth musical director of BPO in 2020  (Image: Pal Hansen)  “This is a really big concert and I deliberately designed it to be very big and very exciting...

World premiere of musical based on Vincent Van Gogh dazzles the audience

Vagabond Skies - The Van Gogh Musical was staged this weekend, September 12-14, at the Devonshire Park Theatre in Eastbourne for a world premiere. The production, by Tony Norman and Mark Edwards, combined an original score with an "array of emotional and memorable lyrics" to tell the dramatic story of Vincent Van Gogh’s life as an artist. READ MORE: Sam Tompkins to perform debut album at the Brighton Dome I attended on the last matinee of the new musical and was taken aback by the sh...

Mercury award-winners set to launch album in Brighton

Ezra Collective will be launching their new album Dance, No One’s Watching at Chalk in Brighton on October 1. Tickets for the show start at £20 and can be found here: The collective made history last year by becoming the first jazz winners of the Mercury Music Prize. They had stiff competition with Arctic Monkeys, Raye, Fred Again and Jessie Ware but still won the £25,000 prize. READ MORE: Pink Floyd's David Gilmour to perform at Brighton Centre Their album Where I’m Meant To Be...

Chart-topping pop star set to come to Brighton with a special guest

The chart-topping star and former The X Factor contender has announced a 2025 arena tour with special guests Blue. He will be appearing at the Brighton Centre on April 26. The Troublemaker singer is fresh from his nationwide tour as special guest to Take That. His 16-date tour kicks off in Plymouth on April 24 and winds up at The 02 in London on May 17. Tickets go on sale on September 13, starting from £35. Olly said: “Celebrating 15 unbelievable years doing what I love best...

International jazz star to perform in city as he embarks on UK tour

Gregory Porter is embarking on a 2025 UK tour and his first stop is set for the Brighton Centre on April 22.  He will be touring the UK across April and May performing at arenas and large capacity venues, including three nights at the Royal Albert Hall in London. READ MORE: Boston Manor to perform new album in Brighton at Resident Gregory has become one of the most successful jazz vocalists of his generation and has appeared in front of audiences around the world with his soulful...

Rock band set to make trip from Blackpool to perform in Brighton

Boston Manor will be performing their new album Sundiver at Resident in Brighton's North Laine on September 7 at 6.30pm. Sundiver is the rock outfit's fifth album and is due to be released on September 6. The shop in Kensington Gardens will be their first stop in a host of album launch shows across the nation, with the following show the next day in Bristol. READ MORE: Wunderhorse to perform new album in Brighton at Resident The band was formed in 2013 and released their first EP...

High-flying band comes to Brighton record shop to perform album

Their rendition of Indie Rock, psychedelic rock and grunge had impressed from the get go, when their single Teal peak on the Singles Chart at 17 and stayed there for three weeks in 2021. Their debut album Cub released in 2022 to critical acclaim, it was named as one of the best albums of the year by NME, Riot and Far Out Magazine. The album peaked at 71 for two weeks on the Official Albums Sales Chart and saw them garner millions of streams across all platforms. Tickets are on sale from...

Musical based on Van Gogh's life set for autumn premiere

Vagabond Skies - The Van Gogh Musical will be staged at the Devonshire Park Theatre from September 12-14. The production, by Tony Norman and Mark Edwards, has combined an original score with an "array of emotional and memorable lyrics" to tell the dramatic story of Vincent Van Gogh’s life as an artist. The Dutch painter is one of the most famous artists in the world but, as the musical portrays, during his life he was dismissed as a madman. Vagabond Skies – The Van Gogh Musical premi...