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WE’VE HIT THE MILSTONE!! 10 !!
COME JOIN US for three days of festivities, music and Rose Hill Magic. A weekend to celebrate 10 years of The Rose Hill!! We’ve a whole festival of wicked live music, DJs, performances, installations and more on two floors, with a chilled Sunday free entry all day social (with some very special guests) to finish off. We have curated the festival full to the brim to represent and celebrate the amazingly eclectic programme of music that happens here!
FRIDAY EVE (7pm – 11pm), SATURDAY ALL DAYER TIL MIDNIGHT (3pm – midnight), SUNDAY DAYTIME (2pm – 9PM)
This is where you can get tickets for SATURDAY ONLY. IF YOU WANT TO GET A WEEKEND PASS CLICK HERE.
Early Bird tickets are available until 30th September.
We can’t quite believe its been a decade!?! What a journey!! 10 years of brilliant, daring and adventurous performances from world class musicians from all corners of the globe. We’ve had residencies and collective takeovers, we’ve had brilliant albums recorded and released here, we’ve had write ups in publications around the world and we’ve firmly established ourselves as a hotspot for innovative and inspiring music. Not to mention the brilliant youth projects, the countless charity fundraisers, book launches, zine fairs, clothes swaps, lectures, workshops, poetry nights, screenings and more!
The tavern was rescued from the claws of property developers by the Save The Rose Hill Community Group in 2015, and became the first building in Brighton to have an Asset of Community Value tag put on it. That’s when we were lucky enough to get hold of it and reopen it to the community in a new guise, The Rose Hill music venue and studios. We know we’re just a tiny space on a back street of Brighton, but The Rose Hill has blossomed into a place with genuine cultural significance. O We know we’re just a tiny space on a back street of Brighton, but The Rose Hill has blossomed into a place with genuine cultural significance. Obviously it’s important for all you wonderful regulars: our beloved community, people who trust the programming enough to take a punt on a strange band they’ve never heard of and who come night after night to support quality live music. But it is also hard to get across to you quite how much touring artists appreciate it – the endless love we get back from all the world class musicians that grace our stage really keeps us going. In truth there are very few places left like us: fully programmed rather than a space for hire, family run where we care enormously about every facet – the comfort and wellbeing of the artists playing, the quality and variety of the programme, the sound quality, the importance of inclusion and being somewhere for audiences and artists to feel free, uninhibited and safe.
“when I was writing this music I pictured myself playing it on The Rose Hill stage” Seb Rochford (mecury prize winning artist) with Finding Ways
“when we found out we were playing The Rose Hill we were all really excited, I mean The Rose Hill is A PLACE” Umut Adan, Turkey
Its a labour of love. Small capacity venues are notoriously difficult to make work and we’ve had all sorts of curveballs on top of that – the covid years, unprecedented inflation and a huge rise in costs, Brexit and complications for artists touring from abroad etc. We try hard to consistently bring you an exciting programme, to not push prices up so far that people can’t afford to come or buy drinks, and to make sure that all the weirder and wonderful corners of the Brighton’s creative scene have a place they can call home!
Also we had our first child a month before we opened ha! It’s been all consuming, we live above and work through the weekends. Its relentless and tiring. But also relentlessly rewarding, relentlessly life affirming and relentlessly nourishing.
So come and celebrate this milestone with us!! Come and be joyful and hang out. Come watch wonderful music. And come show your appreciation for the extraordinary amount of effort that goes on in the background to make it all work, our amazing team (like seriousl), all the inspirational musicians and promoters and most of all YOU, our brilliant community!!
(Also a big up to all the people behind the scenes working tirelessly and usually semi-philanthropically to keep the grassroots music and arts scene going in the Uk and beyond!!)
These are some of the organisations, collectives and promoters which we have worked with over the years which we want to thank for everything they bring:
Beatabet Collective, Falmer Fam, Protoplay, Lost Property Collective, Safehouse Collective, Horla Collective Ceremonial Laptop, The Dome, Lighthouse, Brighton Festival, Miss Represented, Patchworks, Hivemind records, Melting Vinyl, Love Thy Neighbour, Jollof Cafe, Thousand for a Thousand, BBG Brighton, Sandpit Collective, Sound Art Brighton, PItch Blend, University of Sussex, University of Brighton, Brighton Fringe, Mehfil Space, Synch Pulse, Chinabot, Smugglers Agency, Phantom Limb, Radio Reverb, Totally Radio, Slack City Radio, The Source, Murrailles Music (FR), Queer Joy, Jinn Records, Folklore community (SA), The Village We Are (GH), Mais Um Records, Eyeless Records, Dictionary Pudding, One World Orchestra, Audio Active, Colour out of Space, Brighton Early Music Festival, Phoenix Art Space, Sew Fabulous, Rose Tinted Spectacular crew, Exploring Senses, Harmony in The Community, Blast Theory, Arts Council England, PRS foundation, Music Venues Trust, Toadlickers film club, Brighton Film Club, Pop Up Brighton, Brighton Folk Choir, The Moulettes Moultiverse, Fusebox Brighton, Inkibit, Root Interactive, Sussex Poetry Festival, Emute Lab, Sรจance, Nanocluster, Ecomusicology Project, Love is Everywhere, Hot Tropic, Lima Limo Records.(and the others missed out by accident).
Special thanks to Anthony, Zuli and Ulisses for helping build EVERYTHING.
We love you all and thank you all for your support! ONWARDS AND UPWARDS!
ยฃ13 full price | ยฃ10 Concession | limited PWYC
Look out – we know the tickets are more pricey than usual due to all the artists playing so please understand X
SUNDAY SOCIAL IS FREE ENTRY ๐
Children are welcome in the daytime til around 9pm. After that it’s party time…
Who’s playing then eh?
More acts to be announced
SATURDAY 24TH OCTOBER 2026
ALL DAY AND NIGHT WE HAVE DJ TWENTYFOUR TONE PLAYING GORGEOUS VINYL FROM AROUND THE GLOBE AND DJ FIERY BISCUITS PLAYING ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING YOU HAVE NEVER HEARD BUT WISH YOU HAD!!!
dj sniff
dj sniff will bless up the stage with his idiosynctratic glitched out groovy turntablism. dj sniff ( Takuro Mizuta Lippit) is a Japanese musician, curator and educator in the field of experimental electronic arts and improvised music. His performances merge influences from experimental music, hip hop, and free improvisation, through utilizing self-built instruments. Over the years, he has collaborated on musical projects with Evan Parker, Otomo Yoshihide, Tarek Atoui, Ken Ueno, and Senyawa.His recent work has expanded into conceptual sound pieces and installations that are based on histories and theories of turntablism and audio culture from Asia. He is currently based in both Los Angeles and Tokyo and we are very lucky to be catching him whilst he is in the UK.
EBONY ROSE DARK
Ebony Rose Dark is a V.I.P. (Visually Impaired Performer) cabaret artist whose all-singing, all-dancing, lip-syncing, storytelling and miming performances explore disability, ableism, racism, relationships and LGBTQ+ identity. A long-standing artist in residence at London’s legendary Bar Wotever at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern since 20, Ebony has performed across the UK and internationally, creating bold, accessible work that blends humour, performance and lived experience while celebrating queer culture and challenging perceptions of disability.
BUNTY
Bunty (Kassia Zermon) is one of the creative directors at The Rose Hill. She is a vocal looping pioneer,improviser, artist and facilitator. She is also well known for fronting UK dub act Resonators and recent collaborations with Cosmo Sheldrake and Furrowed. Renowned for her powerful, multi-dimensional live shows, she creates intricate, floor-shaking electronic soundscapes, beats, and multi-part harmonies entirely from her voice, effects pedals, and sound toys.
I AM FYA
Manchester-based multidisciplinary artist, musician, producer and performer working across sound, film and live performance – and Rose Hill Records artist
Her music moves between deep bass, layered vocals, atmospheric soundscapes and experimental electronics, with a practice rooted in intuition, self-production and a DIY approach. Alongside her recorded work, Fya creates her own visuals and explores the possibilities of sound and movement through live performance.
Her visual album Homeland, released on Rose Hill Records in 2025, brought together music, film and performance, drawing on field recordings made in Barbados and exploring ancestry, identity and belonging. Her recent release Wealth, a reworking of the Talk Talk song, marks the beginning of a new chapter in her musical practice.
With a wealth of unreleased material in the works, Fya is moving further into improvisation, spontaneous experimentation and dance-led performance, continuing to explore new directions through sound, movement and image.
GNAWA LONDON
Awesome Gnawa music three piece band led by Simo Lagnawi will uplift and inspire you โ we had them rock the place on New Years eve last year and just had to get them back for this!
Simo Lagnawi is an award winning master musician and Ambassador of Gnawa culture and music in UK, originally from Moroccan now residing in London, where he runs his own school of Gnawa music. His albums have received โSonglines Magazineโ prizes and he has tours globally spreading his music and traditions. He says he is never afraid to blend non traditional elenments inyto his work and is continually collaborating with musicians from other traditions and genres. He also fronts the epic electronic Gnawa band Electric Jalaba (Strut Records) and Gnawa Blues All Stars.
THE MEHFIL SPACE PRESENTS : SHISHIR RAO & JUNAID ALI
Incredible ‘Khayal’ vocalist and tabla player will perform a 45 minute set of south Asian classical music allowing you to experience both the meditative nature of khayal singing and the energetic and exciting collaborative improvisation.
Dr. Shishir Rao is a Hindustani classical Khayal vocalist, with over twenty-five years of training under Sri. Nachiketa Yakkundi of the lineage of Padma Bhushan Pandit Basavraj Rajguru of the Kirana gharana. His musical education includes advanced studies at Kolkata’s Sangeet Research Academy, and he performs regularly across India, the USA, and the UK.
Junaid is the student of Ustad Shahbaz Hussain and son of prominent ghazal singer Zeeshan Ali khansaab, born and raised in the East of London. Junaid has been under the tutelage of the Punjab and Delhi Gharana. He has had the opportunity andgood fortune of performing with many great artists around the world; namely Ustad Ghulam Ali, Ustad Shafqat Ali Khan, Hans Raj Hans, Tauseef Akhtar khansaab to name a few. Junaid has broadened his horizons by recording albums with Western fusion music, particularly with 9 time Grammy Award winner: Skrillex.
FURROWED SOUND
Furrowed (Dylan Beattie) makes and plays weird records. He is a sonic artist using circuit-bent record making equipment and electronics to create one-off performances. For the Rose Hill is 10 Festival Furrowed presents โSoundcastlesโ โ a roving performance using custom records, movement and portable record players.
โAbsolutely next levelโ โ DJ Food
โIntricate tech turntablismโ โ Brighton Source
Made / Found Ensemble
Made / Found Ensemble play a new suite of music by Brighton-based pianist-composer-vocalist Phil Smith. Intimate songcraft and wild free improvisation combine in new settings of words by the likes of Christina Rossetti, Robert Frost and Lao Tzu. The ensembleโs set will also feature arrangements of tunes from Tagebuch, Philโs 2024 album released via Londonโs Kit Records.
Praise for โTagebuchโ (Kit Records)
โincredibleโฆ lushโฆ beautiful recordโ ~ Gilles Peterson, Worldwide FM
โa beautiful mix of jazz, musique concrรจte and moreโ ~ Sara Mohr-Pietsch, BBC Radio 3
โthe whole album is absolutely gorgeousโ ~ Deb Grant, 6 Music
โlovely, atmospheric, and diaristic vignettesโ ~ Elizabeth Alker, BBC Radio 3
ANGRY SAM
Sam Berkson set up Brighton first Hammer and Tongue event 20 years ago . Sam is a poet, writer and educator. His poetry has been published by Influx Press, Fishbar gallery and various journals and anthologies. His debut collection was described as a โhighlight of 2012โ by the late cultural theorist, Mark Fisher. Since the days of Hammer & Tongue, and although he now lives and works in London, he has been hosting and organising slam poetry events ever since, including the annual WeOutHere Festival slam.
โSam has the rare gift of being informed and intelligent without being condescending. His poetry delivers his opinions, but in a way that seems to care about yours. His poetry is warm and honest and well crafted. He is a good poet, a poet in the true sense of the word.โ โ (Kae Tempest, poet)
โAngry Sam kills the crowd softly with rare wit and a laidback style that softens the knife wounds left by his acid political poetics and searing urban imagery.โ โ Martin Daws, Poetica
Pepa Ubera โ Dreaming Landscapes (workshop)
We feel sooo lucky to have Pepa Ubera in the house, she was a long time collaborator of Beatabet collective (the peeps behind the Rose Hill) and her last show was the EPIC ๐๐ก๐ ๐๐๐๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ ๐จ๐ ๐๐จ๐ซ๐ข๐ณ๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐๐ฅ ๐๐ซ๐๐๐ฆ๐ฌ, her most ambitious work to date, which premiered at Sadlerโs Wells East in autumn 2025 ๐ซจ
On Saturday, she is inviting us to her ‘Dreaming Landscapes’ workshop, as part of her work in progress for her next big commission. VERY EXCITING! ๐๐๐ ๐ ๐จ๐ช๐ง๐ ๐ฎ๐ค๐ช ๐๐ง๐ง๐๐ซ๐ ๐๐ฉ ๐ก๐๐๐จ๐ฉ ๐๐๐ก๐ ๐๐ฃ ๐๐ค๐ช๐ง ๐๐๐๐ค๐ง๐ ๐ฉ๐๐ ๐ฌ๐ค๐ง๐ ๐จ๐๐ค๐ฅ ๐๐๐๐๐ฃ๐จ ๐จ๐ค ๐ฎ๐ค๐ช ๐๐ง๐ ๐ฉ๐๐๐ง๐ ๐ฌ๐๐๐ฃ ๐ฌ๐ ๐๐ค๐ก๐ก๐๐๐ฉ ๐ฅ๐๐ง๐ฉ๐๐๐๐ฅ๐๐ฃ๐ฉ๐จ ๐ฉ๐ค ๐ฉ๐๐ ๐ ๐ฉ๐๐๐ข ๐ฉ๐ค ๐ฉ๐๐ ๐ฌ๐ค๐ง๐ ๐จ๐๐ค๐ฅ ๐จ๐ฅ๐๐๐ ๐๐ค๐ฌ๐ฃ๐จ๐ฉ๐๐๐ง๐จ!
Pepa Ubera is a choreographer and interdisciplinary artist based between London and Madrid, with over twenty years of experience in the dance and performance sector. Her work explores the intersections of embodiment, technology, and speculative imagination, often unfolding as immersive performance installations that challenge linear narratives of progress. Drawing from feminist posthumanism, pleasure activism, and science fiction, she invites audiences into relational spaces where dreaming, stillness, and collective presence become radical acts.
Check out the last epic project โMachine of Horizontal Dreamsโ at Saddlers Wells
Here is a trailer from one of her older projects with her choreographing and perfomring
Lady of the Manar
Where would our Ten Year Festival be without THE Lady herself, you may recognise her from her yearly rituals at our New Years Eve parties, or her latest human maypole extravaganza at Fake Escape. Lady Of The Manar swans in many guises, she is the lady to meet greet and whirl you into joyful song to serenade mud and toenails, cough up your grudges and give them flight to butterflies.
Sometimes dressed in lace frump and jewels, sometimes performing as a human maypole, sometimes singing operatics, sometimes creating soundscapes beyond the mind, Lady of The Manar is a multifaceted performer, here to entertain and delight
Come and join us this Saturday to experience Lady of the Manars premier
I am a tree, you are tree
Be prepared for magical and improvised happenings!
QUOTES QUOTES QUOTES! “Lady of the Manar has the ability to perform in a ceremonious style that moves with absurdity and the ridiculous, also bringing people together with warmth and a whole lot of love.”
“Lady of the Manar is a lady clown complete with hankies or a neon psychedelic hat”
MARTIN CHICK
Martin Chick is part of Lost Property Collective, one half of Moss and longtime improviser, producer and synth/ drum machine obsessor – described by him as “sound engineer gone monoโฆ.. now making a fun racket with modular synthsโฆbeen around a while” and its true! His sets are awesome improvised dancescapes to dance and zone into or to let wash over you like a techno shower! WE CAN’T WAIT ! LISTEN ON BANDCAMP
MAFU
Mafu is a DJ, producer and organiser based in Brighton, working across jungle, techno, grime, gabba, breakcore and IDM.
For The Rose Hill’s 10th anniversary, Mafu plays a live improvised hardware set drawing on techno, industrial and the various “core”s of hardcore rave music. INSTAGRAM BANDCAMP
DJ Flavi
DJ Flavi is a Congolese DJ and community football coach passionate about using music and sport to connect people and celebrate diversity. Through his DJ sets, he brings the vibrant sounds of Congo and Africa to the dance floor, creating an energetic African tropical experience that promotes cultural exchange. He also runs *Diversity United FC*, a community football club using the power of football to promote inclusion, teamwork, and unity. Through music and sport, DJ Flavi creates spaces where cultures meet, communities connect, and diversity is celebrated. We are SO happy to have him spin at The Rose Hill for our birthday!
Rachel Cohen
Fruit Machine 2003 – a re-hang of her 2003 installation – find it shimmering in the smoking area. WEBSITE INSTAGRAM
DANNY BRIGHT ‘Passing Spirits’
Danny is creating a sound peice for the loos at The Rose Hill.We are so happy to have him as part of the festival as a loooong time collaborator and producer of multiple past bands we have all recorded in, and as an artist in residence here!
“The walls of the Rose Hill have absorbed many incredible performances over the last 10 years. Listen out as the echoes, fuzzy memories and fragmented ghosts of some of these magical moments pass back through the building”
Danny Bright is a composer, sonic artist, sound designer, musician and researcher working across the fields of music, performance, installation, theatre and media. My creative and critical work explores space/place/memory through a Sonic Ghosting practice; develops multi-modal composition, performance, critical and installation work; and explores contemporary guitar technology-based performance systems. I perform on guitar, samplescapes, tape, electronics, and text/voice as an ensemble member/leader, solo artist and improviser, and as half of no-input pedalboard duo Noise Peddler with Lee Westwood. I also work as a sound designer and composer for arts, theatre and media companies, and as a producer, recordist, sound technologist and audio engineer.
My work has appeared at the Hatton Gallery, V&A, Prague Quadrennial, World Stage Design, Edinburgh Festival, Brighton Digital Festival, Semaine des Arts, International Conference on Live Interfaces, New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, World Soundscape Conference, British Science Festival, on the BBC and Channel 4, and throughout the UK, Europe, Australia and the USA. Commissions and supporting organisations include: Catalyst Arts, Arts Council England, Canada Council for the Arts, Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation, British Council, Heritage Lottery Fund, Octopus Collective, MAGNA Trust, and the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
