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)
IF YOU WANT TO GET A WEEKEND TICKET CLICK HERE.
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. 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 (Mercury 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 seriously), 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, Sèance, 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!
SUNDAY SOCIAL IS FREE ENTRY 🙂 Children welcome
THE LINEUP
Brighton Folk Choir
Brighton Folk choir sing songs associated with mostly British folk customs, specifically those connected with the seasons. The choir was founded by musician Jo Burke in 2022 after organising singers and harmonising songs for a local community orchard wassail. Inspired to celebrate the entire year in song, Jo set to work researching those connected with other seasonal customs. The choir was founded with the intension to bring these beautiful old songs, as well as the joy of singing together, back to seasonal community events. Today the choir has grown into a beautiful and welcoming community of creative individuals known for their warm, sincere and spirited performances and colourful folklore inspired costumes. The choir can be found performing at seasonal gatherings all year round, including community orchard wassails, May Day festivities including Hastings Jack in the Green, mid-summer fairs and harvest festivals. The choir has the great joy of practicing every Monday evening at the Rose Hill and are delighted to be invited to celebrate the 10 year anniversary of the opening of this incredibly special and important independent venue!
Safehouse Wildcard Quartet
Safehouse Brighton is a collective that, amongst many other things, hosts a regular monthly night here focussing on improvised and experimental music.
Safehouse, the regular open session, is open to all musicians of all levels to improvise, sonically, in a conversational way. Participants are picked out to be put into a small group that improvises for 10 minutes or so, while the remaining musicians act as audience, then the next group is formed and so on.
The night is opened with the Wildcard Quartet, which is made up of names that have been picked out of a hat at the preceding Safehouse open session.
Hannah Moule
Hannah Moule is a cellist, singer, songwriter and composer best known as the bandleader and principal writer of Moulettes. For over two decades she has forged a singular musical path, creating expansive, genre-defying work that draws on progressive rock, folk, chamber music and art-pop while remaining unmistakably herself.
Known for her fearless collaboration and musical versatility, Hannah has shared stages and studios with artists including Evelyn Glennie, Levellers, Arthur Brown, Alabaster DePlume, Mystery Jets, Mesadorm, Ríoghnach Connolly (The Breath) and Emma Richardson (The Pixies). Her work has taken her across Europe, Scandinavia and Canada, performing at festivals and venues including the Montreal International Jazz Festival, Winnipeg Folk Festival, Glastonbury Festival, Green Man and Shambala.
After 25 years of international touring with Moulettes, Hannah is now stepping forward with a solo record and live show — a rare opportunity to experience her voice, cello playing and songwriting in their purest form. Stripped back, raw and immediate, these performances reveal an artist completely at ease with her craft. The interplay between cello and voice is tactile and symbiotic: at times feral and stark, at others cosy & tender. Rich with melodic invention and sensory lyricism, Hannah’s songs feel both familiar and startlingly new, marking her out as one of the UK’s most distinctive and uncompromising musical voices.
Marcel Arthur
Three solo piano peices, Mozart, Scott Joplin and the premier of an original composition called ‘Ripple on the water’
DJ floosi
DJ floosi is a Brighton-based DJ, producer, and the co-founder of BBG, a DJ collective for and by women and gender minorities. Blending heavy bass-driven sounds, think dubstep, jungle, and global rhythms including reggaeton, perreo, UK funky, baile funk, and percussive electronic club music.
We’ve hosted the awesome BBG here at The Rose Hill, their nights and multi week workshops, and we’re pumped to have floosi on the decks helping us close out our Sunday celebrations.
DJ Jinn Records
Jinn Records’ founder and The Rose Hill resident producer Abraham Moughrabi lives at the intersection of global musical traditions, electronic music and contemporary sounds. His DJ sets draw on deep-rooted rhythms, leftfield selections and sounds from across the world, connecting musical histories with forward-thinking club culture
Jinn Records WEBSITE | Soundcloud LISTEN
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.
Rachel Cohen
Fruit Machine 2003 – a re-hang of her 2003 installation – find it shimmering in the smoking area. WEBSITE INSTAGRAM
