The Staves 05/11/2013

The Staves - St. Georges Church, Brighton
Tuesday 5th November 2013

 Gigs in a church are always beautiful- I love church architecture oops- but The Staves gave it another level of beautiful. Truly angelic (get it?!).The folk trio of sisters, harmonizing as 1, gave a hauntingly stunning and intimate performance. Range of songs from their debut album 'Dead Born and Grown', favourites were Wisely & Slow and Mexico.

May or may not have got a bit sleepy towards the end. Not because they bored me, but a few songs were a perfect lullaby.

Listen to Winter Trees- The Staves and see what you think of these folksy angels.

Support Act;
Cristof - brill guys

Passenger 28/10/2013

Passenger- Concorde 2, Brighton
Thursday 17th October 2013

Photo: Jon-Southcoasting

 To start off, what a LAD. Yes, lad. A lot of interaction with the audience, stories were told, laughs all around, tears were shed; what a beautiful performance given by Passenger AKA Mike Rosenberg. After hearing 'Let Her Go' months before, I could not let go (you should be used to my punniness) of Mr Rosenberg's sold out homecoming gig. Most songs created a pin drop silence, captivating every single person in the room. No backing track used, no backing track required honestly; him and his guitar was enough. Incredible voice and extremely talented musician.

Support Acts
Stu Larsen - Talented man, Passenger's friend and an Aussie!

Bonus: Passenger covered my all-time favourite song: Sound of Silence- Simon & Garfunkel and it was mesmerising.

The Blue Pursuit

The Blue Pursuit - Demo

Give it a listen to on
soundcloud.com/thebluepursuit/sets/demo

Young talented indie band 'The Blue Pursuit',  from Surrey, are just another step ahead in pursuing their dreams. (aha, punny).  At the age of around 16-17, the 1D haired boys have self-produced their first demo and are playing small venue gigs around their local area generating an already a decent sized fan base. Overall, the demo, consists of 5 tracks. They describe themselves as being hugely influenced by the likes of Eric Clapton and The Black Keys which is portrayed through their tracks. Though, there is an unexpected reggae feel to the teenagers.  Tracks such as 'Downtown' are also incredibly catchy. For their first demo, The Blue Pursuit have succeeded. Though I'm expecting much more from these guys next time.


Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheBluePursuit

Two Door Cinema Club 08/02/2013

Two Door Cinema Club - O2 Academy, Brixton,
Saturday 8th February 2013 

Photo: Tom Griffiths

The crowd already pumped from the support acts, on came the Irish trio. Opening with the first (and fave) song from their latest album 'Sleep Alone' surely kept the crowd ready for the rest of the night. The indie band Two Door Cinema Club kept a constant 90 minute dancy and purely energetic set.

Around half way through the act, Alex Trimble (the ginger lead) came onto stage with a cuppa claiming he was losing his voice - later found out this was due to a throat infection- however, we could not tell. Trimble' voice was on pitch through out the whole gig. 

It was perfect. In this sense, I was dissapointed overall with their performance as it was a complete replicate of their two albums. Very little improvisation.  

I'm writing this in a hurry. I will get back to it when I have the time sorry