Viva Brighton Issue #59 January 2018

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HOLIDAY ON ICE Fri 5 - Sun 14 Jan WAR HORSE Thur 25 Jan-Sat 10 Feb X FACTOR LIVE Sun 4 Mar BRIT FLOYD Wed 7 Mar box office 0844 847 1515 * www.brightoncentre.co.uk *calls cost 7p per minute plus your phone company’s access charge
MUSIC .......................... Ben Bailey rounds up the local music scene GRASSHOPPER Wed 3, Green Door Store, 7pm, £3 Who books a gig three days after NYE? Mind you, there won’t be anything else on, so maybe Grasshopper’s eagerness to get stuck into the New Year will pay off. In any case, the post-punk four-piece continue to improve exponentially. If there was ever a hint of patronising surprise in the local press coverage the band got for being so young when they started (we’re talking pre-GCSE age), it’s surely now given way to all-round appreciation of their strident music. Lead singer Javi’s commanding vocals on recent single The Great Unravelling see him crooning darkly about ‘a sad luminescence’ and ‘the starlings coming back’ like a world-weary Ian Curtis cradling a bottle while looking out on the ruins of the West Pier. Photo by Jodie Canwell TIGERCUB Fri 19, Concorde2, 7pm, £10 Tigercub’s latest EP, released last August, was a turning point for the trio. The title of the record, Evolve or Die, seems like it was both a self-imposed challenge and a declaration of the band’s political anxieties. Whereas Tigercub were once happily positioned on the borders of the category called grunge, the new songs refuse all such labels and take a much more spiky and unusual approach to making rock music. The first track from the EP is called The Divided States of Us, and it’s a belter. Over a machine gun rhythm, singer Jamie Hall waxes melodic with lyrics about truth being strangled. Our Girl, Glum, and Sick Joy provide support. YONAKA Wed 17, Green Door Store, 7pm, £7 After being touted as ones to watch at the last Great Escape, Brighton’s Yonaka went on to have quite a year. Having signed to Atlantic Records, the band released their debut EP to much NME nattering and they also ended up playing at Reading Festival. They won’t be putting on gigs at venues the size of the Green Door Store for much longer, so this might be your last chance to say you were there. What’s got people excited is a simple blend of styles, superbly executed: heavy rock riffing with dexterous female vocals that draw more from hip hop, without actually ever turning into rap. Modern pop sass given a leg up by the driving force of alt rock. TRIPTYCH Thu 25 – Sat 27, Hope & Ruin, 8pm, £9/5 After last year’s inaugural event it looks like Triptych is becoming an annual tradition for Brighton label Love Thy Neighbour. It’s basically three separate gigs, united by the name and the fact the line-up is drawn from a certain cluster of bands from Brighton’s blooming indie scene. Not that any of them make music that can be so easily described. The Hundredth Anniversary, who headline the first night, veer towards an atmospheric shoegazing style, with rich instrumental layers and homely female vocals. The brazen electro rock of Dark Horses finishes off Friday’s show, while the final gig sees art-rockers Jungfrau laying down some moody kraut-psyche. Much of the support is worth catching too, from Penelope Isles and Prince Vaseline, to Speak Galactic and T House. ....43....
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