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Brighton Live Returns

• 24th Sep 2010

Brighton Live is back for its seventh year of showcasing the best up and coming bands and artists who are making waves in our city’s scene, who will doubtless go on to great things in 2011. Covering 20 venues and featuring over 100 local bands, the free event attracts around 20,000 music lovers to the heart of the city. Spread over four days – with the launch party night at Madame Geisha on Tuesday 5th October – Brighton Live will run through to Saturday 9th October.

This year the festival are doing things a bit differently with some ‘curated’ nights alongside the festival’s traditional ‘open access application’ policy for local bands to play. Curated nights confirmed include BBC Introducing (The Prince Albert), Juice FM (Latest), Radio Reverb (Brunswick), Brighton Source Magazine, The Great Escape and international soul jazz diva Z-STAR (Latest Music Bar).

Concorde 2 will also feature a special flagship event on Thursday 7th with electroacoustic, indie rock headliners GET CAPE, WEAR CAPE, FLY taking to the stage. Support comes from alternative rock 3 piece THE XCERTS, Verve esque MUNICH, THE AGITATOR, AUTUMN RED and JUMPING SHIPS.

The Festival will also feature a mass of local talent in the shape of RAMONA, MONSTERS BUILD MEAN ROBOTS, IRIS AND THE WOLVES, THE ROBOT HEART, THE VALENTINES, THE TONIKS, TALLULAH MAY AND KELLY BARNES to name a few.
As well as this, Brighton’s Sealife Centre’s ‘music tunnel’ is set to host a series of acoustic lunchtime busker concerts between midday till 2pm on Tuesday 5th, through to Friday the 8th where top quality local acts will showcase their music. During Saturday music related seminars, workshops, master classes as well as the opportunity to do lots of drinking and schmoozing all takes place at the Latest Music Bar.

The festival offers an opportunity for all the key bands, promoters, labels and music industry professionals, who work together to keep Brighton at the pinnacle of the UK music scene, to show what they’re all about, and throw one hell of a party.

“Brighton Live is one of the highlights of the year for the city. The fact that music fans can see so many of Brighton’s great bands in one go – and for free – is amazing. It’s also great for the bands that they connect with so many new music lovers. The festival is an exciting opportunity for local bands to gain national radio and press coverage in the city”. James Kendall (Source Magazine)

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