Keep September 11th and 12th free because we have two extra special Willkommen all day shows!

Saturday September 11th sees Diane Cluck and Anders Griffen, Wig Smith, Alessi’s Ark, Robert Stillman, Animal Magic Tricks, Woodpecker Wooliams and Redwood Red bring their beautiful music to the beautiful West Hill Hall – all for just £7. Doors are at 4pm. Lots more details to be announced soon, tickets are available from Wegottickets.com now and Resident Records shortly.

In the next few days we’ll be announcing an even more exciting show for September 12th, with an extra special guest headliner, in an absolutely extraordinary venue, with three stages…  so keep checking back.

Tomorrow’s show with Pete Roe, Moulettes and Tristram has been moved from Komedia to The Hope. This is just a few streets from Komedia on Queens Road, near the clock tower. Original tickets are still valid and there will be some tickets on the door but we expect the show to be busy (and all three bands are well worth watching) so get down early. You can also still buy tickets online from wegottickets.com/willkommen or from Resident and Rounder in Brighton.

The debut single from The Climbers, “The Good Ship”, is out digitally today. You can buy it on iTunes here.

The single features the titular track from the debut album, out a week today, as well as the exclusive B-side “Listening Boy”.

Good news – you can now preorder the fantastic debut from The Climbers from the Willkommen shop here. They’ll ship as soon as we have them and this is the lowest price you’ll find.

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UK £7.49 EU £8.99 ROTW £9.99

The Climbers are the Department of Eagles to The Leisure Society’s Grizzly Bear – five years in gestation, the studio project began before songwriter Tim West got Nick Hemming and Christian Hardy together to form the band that became The Leisure Society. West plays a role like Broken Social Scene’s Kevin Drew or the early Brian Eno, writing beautiful songs then giving them to a vast cast of friends who have free reign to make their mark on them. Even lead vocals are shared by a handful of gifted collaborators, and often shared by the whole band.

Also copies will be available at the album launch show, June 2nd at Tamesis Dock, London. Facebook event here and tickets available here – this is selling fast now so buy in advance to avoid disappointment. The album is preceded by a single on May 24th, also called The Good Ship, available on iTunes for preorder shortly.

An amazing event called Out Into the White Stare is taking place at the Unitarian Church on New Road on Sunday May 16th.

As well as a set from Mary Hampton and band,  Mary writes, “we are on the bill alongside some of my all-time favourite Brighton acts: the weird and wonderful musical storytelling of Hamilton Yarns, warm bone-dry English beat-poet Gary Goodman, consummate modern percussion duo Adam Bushell and Tom Norrell, and kicking things off will be a short talk from legendary traditional folk singer Shirley Collins.”

Out Into the White Stare is a benefit gig to raise funds for the premier performance of Missa Humana, an extraordinary non-religious mass by poet Maureen Duffy and the late composer Dolly Collins.

Doors are at 7pm, tickets are £7.50/6.50 and are available in advance from the Dome Box Office. (01273 709709).