Explore what food means to us; how much symbolism and emotion is stuffed into it; how much history is poured over it and how many cultures spice it up. A singing workshop for everyone!
Safehouse is open to musicians of all levels to explore free improvisation. Put your name down when you enter, and then 4 names are picked out of a hat at random, and that quartet has 10 minutes to improvise together.
Pilani Bubu, South Africa’s indelible storyteller, brings two of her most potent and critically acclaimed works to the stage: Folklore Chapter 2: Ekuseni and Nay’Indaba. This live experience is a carefully curated journey through ancestral wisdom, spiritual inheritance, and the pulse of modern-day South Africa — told through music that is rich, raw, and rhythmically transcendent.
Two excellent records labels ; Discrepant (Lisbon) and Hive Mind (Brighton) present an evening of wonky exotica and .voudou futurism!
Join us to celebrate the release of 'Monte Carlo' the self-titled album by Monte Carlo, aka Matthew Collins, aka Grunder, which is being released on 10th July 2025 on In Suspended Animation Records.
The Vernon Spring hosts this new quarterly event-series titled “The Seasonal Spring” together with the artist community he co-founded Lima Limo. For the “Summer" edition there will be performances from new Lima Limo Records signing Saoirse-Juno, Indian Devotional singer Ranjana Ghatak as well as a solo set by The Vernon Spring.
Live music from Autocamper, Tigers and Flies, and more TBA.
Readings from a handful of the most enthusiastic authors from Brighton and London.
hugely popular community party LOVE IS EVERYWHERE returns to the Rose Hill this summer – inspired by the spirit of the 1970s’ ‘utopian’ dance scene. Expect sultry disco divas, Afrobeat, euphoric house and moreeeee
Two improvisors from the London community - Mark Wastell (percussion) and Tansy Spinks (electric violin) - come to Safehouse to play with Brighton-based Adrian Southby (prepared electric guitar) and Gus Garside (double bass). Two duos of Mark/Adrian and Tansy/Gus will be followed by a quartet.
Direct from Italy, IKE work in a space where punky, Ethio and Egyptian inspired jazz meet electronica, soundtracks, dub and more. DJ Support comes from Wah Wah 45s label boss and Jazz FM DJ Dom Servini.
An evening of inspirational guitar playing, dark grit and ethereal folk music with the Jansch-esque articulate guitar and warm humanity of the Horse Loom, the otherworldy, beautiful ghost-folk of Sairie and the Fahey/Delta style guitar playing of Linden Pomeroy.
You’re invited to join the unforgettable CLUB TROPICALIA—a sensorial journey through Latin America and beyond, brought to life through genre-defying live music, surreal visuals, and dance floor devotion.
Glue Gun presents a rare screening of this cult 70s horror. Following her stay in a mental health facility, Jessica and her husband move to an isolated farmhouse in rural Connecticut in order to help her ‘get better.’ But their new life is threatened…
An exciting night of poetry readings from: Verity Spott, Kat Addis, Sabeen Chaudhry, James Goodwin and Joseph Minden.
Safehouse is open to musicians of all levels to explore free improvisation.
BBC 6 Cerys Mathews faves! Joyful & uplifting duo from Malawi play hand-crafted guitar grooves with sublime vocal harmonies and irrisitible rhythms to make you move....
This is a super rare opportunity to witness this world renowned virtuoso player of the electric Balochi ‘Benju’ in the intimate setting of The Rose Hill. Ustad is from a fascinating part of the world (Makran coastal border of Pakistan/Iran). He plays rarely-heard long-form spiritual dance music called Balochi - it’s infectious, you won’t be able to stay still - and you won’t want to!
Jackie-O Motherfucker's music draws from a variety of subgenres including various folk musics of the world (American folk and blues, Traditional English folk ballads, etc.), drone, free jazz, psychedelia, and noise rock , and is heavily improvisational in its nature. Because they are a collective, rather than a consistent band or group, the sound of their music can change from performance to performance.
Pictish Trail (Lost Map label boss) comes to The Rose Hill armed with an acoustic guitar, a sampler, and a warped imagination — expect tenderness, weirdness, and a generous dollop of goo.
Live music showcase from Rap, Grime & Drum n Bass artists hosted by Full Clip Magazine. Supporting the best of the UK underground - in its 37th edition we put the spotlight on Brighton based artists + open mic cypher for anyone n everyone inssssshide!
Blow Water presents an awesome collaboration between outer-space reaching electronic duo Zyggurat and NYC based tap dancer Liberty Styles.
Local album launch for “The Piano Plays ‘til Midnight, Monty Oxymoron plays the Songs of the Damned.”
Four UK based world leading klezmer players/singers in a new collaboration.
Canadian guitarist Jessica Ackerley - "one of the most exciting guitarists to have emerged from the US free music scene in recent years" (Wire Magazine) and Eli Wallace - "...pushing the boundaries of the prepared piano" (The Guardian) form a quartet with on this tour with two leading UK free players: drummer Mark Sanders and saxophonist Rachel Musson.
An informal gathering for performance makers to share new ideas in front of a live audience, the night showcases performance of all kinds and might include theatre, spoken word/poetry, comedy, dance, music, film, performance games, sounds - and more.
Brighton EMOM brings you open mic for electronic and experimental musicians, plus 3 headline acts tbc. get in touch if you are interested in performing, either via Instagram @Brighton_EMOM, or email us at BrightonEmom@gmail.com.
One of the original torch-bearers for the revitalized young British jazz scene, Led Bib released their twelth album in August this year. Previous Mercury Prize nominees and this newly down sized four-piece pride themselves on side-stepping convention with incendiary results, tearing apart the jazz world with their avant-jazz-euphoric-rock explosions of improvisation.
"Hybrid of out-of-time, out-of-place psychedelia and vintage electronica..." Portuguese group influenced by English acid folk, Brazilian Tropicália and contemporary electronica.
Bob Drake (solo) with support from Crayola Lectern (with Al Strachan on cornet, organs and effects and Damo Waters on percussion and synth)
Darkroom festival presents a dynamic selection of experimental and documentary film and video art. Originally created as a fringe event for Deptford X, over the years it has evolved into a multidisciplinary event focusing on experimental and documentary film and video art.
The MEMLNauts are exploring new ways to be creative with machine learning, with impish algorithms powering freshly designed instruments . Expect fractious brass, wayward woodwind, unruly vocal processing, and indecorous string feedback.
An evening of six formations composed by Gus Garside, Annie Kerr and Andrew Greaves performed by 14 great musicians.
Mandy Sweats, surrealist Nightmare of 1000 Faces / Brighton Based Cabaret Performer, writer and Mask Maker, brings their debut full length show to the Rosehill Tavern for two performances.
Respected fiddle player, singer, songwriter, composer and multi-instrumentalist from Liverpool, Mikey Kenney celebrates the release of his new forthcoming album Tiny Little Light, for release in September 2025.
Brighton Early Music Festival's annual BREMF Clubnight at The Rose Hill. Short sets of music from the medieval, renaissance and baroque periods, performed by ensembles who are part of the Festival's Emerging Artists scheme.
With her Right Here, Right Now Quartet Charlotte Keeffe enables raw musical ingredients and individual expressions to come together and flow. She is captivated by trumpeters like Jaimie Branch, Peter Evans, Tomasz Stańko, Nate Wooley and Lester Bowie, and inspired by abstract painters – referring to her horns as ‘Sound Brushes’.
Brilliant contemporary Jazz & more string Trio present their new boundary pushing album . “adventurous improvisers… their group interplay is imaginative and engaging” - Peter Edwards, Nu Civilisation Orchestra Director ****
Latvian folk songs and album launch of Montague Armstrong LP 'Modern Classics' in association with Dimple Discs
Slovenian 'imaginary folk' trio Širom make epic and transportive music powered by acoustic and often handmade instruments. Their expansive compositions echo the borderless, collective spirit of groups like Don Cherry's Organic Music Society and Art Ensemble of Chicago.
"Episodic, dreamlike voyages" - The Guardian
Firelight Trio play European folk music that is evocative, inventive, and endlessly exciting. Driving fiddle and gorgeous nyckelharpa meet deep accordion grooves in a rich tapestry of lively Swedish polskas and Scottish reels, lilting French waltzes, toe-tapping klezmer, dazzling original tunes and more.
“Like all the best punk, Avalanche Kaito's music is confrontational and abrasive, but also playful and with a great sense of fun.” Songlines
Ceremonial Laptop and Nocturne present a triple headliner featuring: Pillow, Ben Roberts and Ceann Capaill, in a night of meditative strings and improvisation.
A catalyst in London’s experimental scene and on a sell out roll for two years, From the Lips to the Moon has been at the forefront of a growing movement where music and poetry collide. Their debut Brighton performance at the Rose Hill will see Live-electronic music wizard Pouya Ehsaei and voice-shifting performer-writer Tara Fatehi joined by some of Brighton's finest musicians and poets: Subira Joy, Reanna Valentine, Leroy Horns & James Parsons
Electric Jalaba explore the entrancing overlap between electronic dance music and traditional Moroccan gnawa with Lead singer Simo Lagnawi at the helm.
Appearing in avant-garde short films far less often than in commercial mainstream cinema, there are nonetheless various examples of androids in offbeat documentaries and animations backed by experimental electronic sounds. For this Synch Pulse the focus will be on a mix of vintage and contemporary shorts where robots and cyborgs take centre stage.
Cult film programmers Glue Gun present a classic of 60s psychotronic cinema. An uncanny masterpiece of low-budget horror, Carnival of Souls' dreamlike atmosphere and dark Americana prefigure the work of directors like David Lynch.
An epic 24hr improv session with ten musicians
Experience the soul of the Afro Colombian bullerengue tradition as master Colombian percussionist and vocalist Álvaro Llerena Martínez joins forces with London-based collective Akolá Tambó for an extraordinary show
Lava Elastic is the UK's first openly neurodiverse comedy & poetry night. Hosted by it's founder, late diagnosed performer (Autism/ADHD) Sarah Saeed expect a warm and welcoming night of hilarity!
Listen Club is about listening together is in the same space, with the possibility of sharing impressions and casual discussion afterwards. Listen Club hopes to provide a counterpoint to the quick paced personal consumption of music with a more patient shared experience; a deep listen, together, in order to foster community.
Join I AM FYA and the Rose Hill Records team for a live listening party on Bandcamp! An exclusive listen through of I AM FYA’s new record Homeland - out on Rose Hill Records 20th June 2025.
An evening of invocatory sound and song to herald the solstice.
Eva Lunny is a London/Brighton based harpist, inspired by ambient greats such as Brian Eno, Laraaji and Aphex Twin, as well as jazz harpists Dorothy Ashby and Alice Coltrane. Eva uses drones, looping, layering and improvisation to build soundscapes and bring audience members on an introspective journey, infusing neo-classical melodies with modern electronic production techniques.
ERIC CHENAUX is a Canadian guitarist, songwriter, singer and sound sculptor. He has released seven solo albums of experimental song on the Montréal-based imprint Constellation. “This guys sounds like nothing else we had heard before - his vocals sound as sweet and perfect as Chet Baker mixed with Nick Drake and a bit of beloved Stevie - and a whoozy groovy guitar that draws you into a spellbinding deep listening experience!”
Brighton's unique night for performance makers of all disciplines to share work in progress and connect with each other
Lose yourself under the palm trees in a rhythmic fever dream of soukous, salsa, soca, dancehall and disco with 1BTN DJs Chicha Morada and Nick Subtle. Psychedelic visuals by Benedict Sheehan.
A free event showcasing work from a day long residency with students from the Institute of Contemporary Music Performance London
Two trios featuring renowned players from Brighton's free music scene.
Safehouse is open to musicians of all levels to explore free improvisation. Put your name down when you enter, and then 4 names are picked out of a hat at random, and that quartet has 10 minutes to improvise together.
A work-in-progress theatre show by Amanda Hallam Lane
Hailed as “the most danceable Latin band on the South coast”, Pollito Boogaloo has its roots in Colombian Cumbia, Vallanato, Salsa and a host of Latin American Styles.
Celebrate the start of summer! Exchange your pre loved party clothes for a new (ish) outfitGet yourself some amazing new clothes while saying 'no thanks' to fast fashion. Join us for a Party Clothes Swap at The Rose Hill with Sew Fabulous and Brighton Fashion Collective.
Edith WeUtonga is a groundbreaking bassist, mbira player, singer, and songwriter from Zimbabwe. Leading her band, Utonga, she delivers an authentically Zimbabwean sound infused with Jiti, Chimurenga, Shona folk, and global music flavours like Rhumba, Reggae, Calypso, and Jazz. She has twice been nominated for and won the Best Female Musician at Zimbabwe’s premier NAMA Awards, as well as the Zimbabwe Music Awards.
RIRA the award winning Iranian theatre company are bringing their new show 'RECUR' a very important piece of work to the UK. RECUR (meaning repeating) is centred around their lived experiences as women living in Iran . + support from live music act TBA & short films TBA curated by Other Asias collecive.
In this edition of the Listen Club, Joseph will include recordings from his recent album "Sonic Hauntings in a Big House" released in December 2024 on Irish sound art label, Farpoint Recordings. As a starting point for this investigation, the curation will then ripple outwards as we listen to its circles of influence.
Cult film programmers Glue Gun present one of the most idiosyncratic and visually stunning American horror films of the 1970s.
Two duos from well-seasoned improvisors visiting from London and Hastings: sax and cello, and electronics and cello.
Experimental film and video provides a platform to play with and reorder both picture and sound, by using fragments of pre-existing material to generate new combinations and meanings. Found footage from the amateur or commercial world is repurposed and reimagined, and regular soundtrack conventions are disrupted. This Synch Pulse will focus on a range of short films which recycle existing film and video, and explore audiovisual cut-ups and collage.
Red Shift, the final film in this Toad Lickers Collective series exploring English rural life, follows three men who at three different times in history come to Mow Cop Hill in search of sanctuary from their troubles.
Comedy PowerPoint presentations from Chris Parkinson and Ben Bailey, taking a nerdy deep dive into the minutiae of politics and pop culture.
FAKE ESCAPE YES!! Friday night and Saturday day and night 2 floor extravaganza bringing in some of the best local collectives, artists and musicians for a night of fantastic and fascinating music to be found nowhere in The Great Escape
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