Sound City: RadioReverb & Sonic Arts Network Bring Expo 2008 To Brighton And Hove

From a Brighton and Hove Albion installation at Churchill Square, a wiki-conference at Brighton University, a performance at Jubilee Library and a ‘Sonic Picnic’ day in Pavilion Gardens .... Expo is three days and nights of people enjoying, playing, discovering and listening to sonic art.

Read the full article over at the Brighton Magazine

Sonic Arts Network

Radio Reverb

The Brighton Magazine Photo Gallery

The Brighton Magazine Photo Gallery is up and running with a selection of photos covering music and cultural events in Brighton. Prints are available for purchase through the website.

Photos are by Andy Sturmey of brightlights-darkroom.com

RadioReverb: Fifty Non-Stop Hours Of Celebration & Fund-Raising

RadioReverb has been broadcasting on FM for twelve months and is preparing to celebrate in style.

Its ‘Up & Out’ breakfast team are to mark the event with a big, gay, caffeine fuelled, sleep depravation experiment.

Presenters Cat & Chris will attempt to broadcast for fifty hours non-stop from Brighton and Hove’s only community radio station.

That’s 3000 minutes - equivalent to 180,000 seconds of unique broadcasting. Now that’s what you call a big breakfast!

Read the full Brighton Magazine Article.

Brighton is the top for music in the UK

Well, we always knew that Brighton was the best for everything anyway, but it has now been declared the top for music in the UK by Internet radio station Dandelion Radio.

If you're wondering how this was worked out, Dandelion Radion say "The formula used is to look at the number of bands/artists from the town who gained an entry in the festive fifty (run for many years by John Peel, and since his death by us at Dandelion) and compare this with the size of the town's population at the last census. From this, we can generate a ratio that, Brighton's case, works out at 1:10,330, as Brighton has produced 13 entries from a population of 134,293. Its nearest challenger, Oxford, has a ratio of 1:13,001."

Check out Dandelion Radio for Mark Whitby's Brighton show that will be streaming throughout the month.

One Love: A Festival To Eclipse All Others

Event organisers have announced plans to host the UK’s first festival to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of one of the world’s greatest ever rock gigs.

One Love, a magical, three-night music festival, will take place from the 15th – 17th August, in recognition of the anniversary of Bob Marley’s infamous 1978 One Love concert.

Read the full Brighton Magazine.

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Great Escape Festival: World's Best New Music Comes Under The Brighton Spotlight

The countdown to the 2008 Great Escape Festival has started.

With just eleven weeks to go the cream of new music from the UK and around the world is being added to an already mouth-watering line-up.

Already confirmed are: Young Knives, Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong, Yeasayer, Black Mountain, No Age, Tunng, Lightspeed Champion, Wild Beasts, Fujiya & Miyagi, Peter Von Poehl and School Of Language. The Wombats, The Hold Steady, The Subways, Black Lips, White Lies, Monobright, Iron and Wine, Public Service Announcers, Born Ruffians, Broken Mirrors, Ipso Facto, Beat Union, Mother Mother, This City, One Night Only, Teenagers, Crystal Castles, Canterbury, Johnny Foreigner, Ida Maria, Team Waterpolo, Ebony Bones, The Black Angels, Volcanoless In Canada, Wintersleep, Plants And Animals, Torngat and Kreif’s Broken Mirrors.

Read the full Brighton Magazine article for more details and ticket information.

Brighton May Festival - What's On

Brighton.co.uk went along to the Brighton Festival launch party at the Dome to have a sneak preview of what we can expect from the world class arts festival this year!

Definitely not to be missed are Jarvis Cocker, Mike Leigh, Gore Vidal, Hanif Kureishi, Alex James of Blur, Manic Organic, Akram Khan Company with the National Ballet of China AND we really liked the look of Rider Spoke - off road theatre and you get to take your bike along!

So much to see and festival fringe program isn't out yet. May will undoubtedly be busier than ever for Brighton and we can't wait!

To encourage Londoners to visit during May, Southern will be running a special festival night train service with a train leaving Brighton at 23.19, so there's no excuse for missing out.

Read the full Brighton Magazine article for more details.

For a program of events see the Brighton Festival website.
Need a place to stay? Check out our list of Brighton hotels and accommodation.

Launch of Brighton Festival 2008

The Brighton Festival 2008 celebrates it's official launch party tomorrow at the Brighton Dome. This year the festival runs from 3rd - 25th May and as always promises a colourful schedule of events and surprises.

The city of Brighton and Hove has seen a rapid growth in hotel rooms this year and visitors will have a fantastic choice of places to stay during the festival.