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Brighton Live City Soundtrack
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The mixed fortunes of music made and played in the city are celebrated in Brighton Live’s podcast tour relating the sounds to their scenes, alongside interviews with the artists who made them.
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The Agitator
A tightly wound coil of visceral protest, The Agitator delivers his urgent instructions of uprising against a purely percussive backing. Part blues, part rap, the sum of the minimal parts fills the room without recourse for further musical distraction. The revolution is coming – get ready to get agitated.
www.myspace.com/theagitatormusic
Bonobo
Under his simian moniker, Simon Green has been making sublime, chilled instrumentalism for the last decade. Since cutting his teeth with the influential Animal Magic album on Brighton’s Tru Thoughts in 2000, he has expanded his repertoire to full band live work and become something of an TV ad agency favourite.
Clearlake
Taking the time to create their tales of small-town drudgery and gallows-humoured narrative, Clearlake have released three perfectly formed albums in their ten years together. Now in a comparitive flurry of activity they’re preparing for the unveiling of their fourth, Dark Blue, as well as Jason Pegg’s first solo record.
Chris Difford
Over a 35-year career, Chris Difford has helped redefine contemporary songwriting, both through his era-defining work with Squeeze and as a lyrical go-to man for the likes of Elton John, Bryan Ferry, Marti Pellow and a host of others. A recent pair of acclamied solo albums show no abatement of his wry genius.
Fatboy Slim
Norman Cook is a man of many guises – from the Housemartins, Beats International, Freak Power, Fatboy Slim and now The Brighton Port Authority, his impression on the local musical landscape has been vast. His huge beach gigs bring crowds flocking and have become an iconic part of Brighton summertime.
www.thebrightonportauthority.com
Gazelle Twin
A true exponent of the eclecticism we expect from our Brighton musicians, Elizabeth Walling is sure to break the city borders before too long. Formerly singer and flautist with local notorieties A Scandal In Bohemia, she has recently adopted this solo guise for a uniquely classical take on pop electronica.
The Go! Team
This Mercury-nominated six-piece are a classic case of cut’n’paste culture – pick pocketing hip hop, buzz guitars, cheerleader chants and old kids’ TV music to create a piece of contemporary musical nostalgia. Live, the band expands outwards with live instruments, double drummers and Double-Dutching ropedancers in an infectious and energetic show.
The Levellers
Mixing the polemic of eco-left lyrics with accessible, rabble-rousing songs in the 90s earned The Levellers more gold and platinum discs than they knew where to hang. So they created their own office, rehearsal and studio complex in town, helping the in creation of another generation of Brighton music.
Turin Brakes
Modern folk pop duo Olly Knights and Gale Paridjanian have helped cement the foundations of the acoustic landscape, since they released their debut single on a Brighton independent. Now working on their fourth studio album, they remain a byword for sophisticated cool with each successive and progressive release.
Kate Walsh
With writing influences that range fom Jane Austen to Joni Mitchell, you know from the get-go that Kate Walsh is far from your run of the mill singer songwriter. A graduate from the Brighton Institute of Modern Music, Kate has always kept the city on her mind in her work.
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