Here in Brighton we like to think we’re an increasingly important music hub, not just for the UK, but for Europe too.
With some 800 premises licensed for live music, more than a few seriously large music schools, significant arts festivals, a huge music tradition and the ‘Great Escape’ annual industry event (UK’s equivalent to South x South West), to name but a few, we have more artists and industry types per square mile than most cities in the world. Swing a cat in St. James Street and you’ll be sure to take out several dozen musicians, a handful of producers, four music industry lawyers, a couple of publishers and a whole label subsidiary. Well, if you’re lucky, you will.
Quite how the Brighton economy sustains such arts fuelled activities is beyond comprehension, it’s not as if today’s music business offers any meaningful revenue streams anymore is it? But for now, at least, there seems no end to the shenanigans. All this brings not so much a problem of quality but quantity – to be honest the two go hand in hand; how do you sift the few decent trees from the forest of average. Well that’s where we come in. We’re here to help you to identify the diamonds in the rough.Each month we’ll give you a round up of what’s hot and what’s not, and whilst we’re at it we’ll try and give some pointers to you out of town folk as to how to crack Brighton -the ‘insiders guide’ to the slow but certain journey toward world domination, as it were.
Watch this space! In the meantime, begin your acquaintance with quality by checking out Autumn Red here:
