We’re delighted to announce that US guitar god Jack Rose will be visiting Brighton on November 2nd to perform with The Black Twigs at the Komedia Studio Bar. Their recent collaboration sounds to me like the best thing in Jack Rose’s prolific and consistantly awe-inspiring career, so I’m very excited about this show. Highly recommend to fans of everything from Fahey and James Blackshaw through Death Vessel and Sam Amidon via Cath and Phil Tyler… not to be missed. More details over in the monthly gigs section.

The core Climbers: Christian Hardy, Tim West and Nick Hemming

We are incredibly proud to be releasing the debut album from The Climbers early next year. The album, The Good Ship, is a Willkommen studio project featuring members of The Leisure Society, Sons Of Noel & Adrian, The Miserable Rich, Shoreline, Christian Silva, Absentee and many more.

There is a free mp3 available here. Further details and release dates to follow.

September 13th, 8pm, at Sanctuary Cafe Cella, Brunswick Road East, Hove

Whalebone Polly is a duo made up of Kate Staples of This is the Kit and Rachael Dadd of The Hand and their music has much in common with those groups – rippling banjos, warm harmonies and odd percussive interludes.

Rozi Plain has played with Francois and the Atlas Mountains and has had records released by the Fence Collective. Her songs are sumptuous and charming.

Rowan Coupland amassed a mini-choir for his last Willkommen show at the Sanctuary – who knows what he’s got in store for us next?

At 3:30pm on Sunday 6th September, Sons of Noel and Adrian play in Northampton Square for bandstandbusking.com. All twelve members will be performing totally acoustically. Peggy Sue are also playing at 3pm. Come on down!