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.

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.

Genesis P-Orridge lived their art to the extreme. A pioneering musician, avant-garde artist, spiritual explorer and gender revolutionary, Genesis has been featured in films and videos, but never the full story… never this intimate... until now.

Safehouse is open to musicians of all levels to explore free improvisation.

An evening of vibrational expression and survival with pip, Haydn Ackerley, and Alistair Strachan & Otti Albietz

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....

EXTRA DATE ADDED DUE TO DEMAND! Don’t sleep on this super rare opportunity to witness this world renowned virtuoso player of the electric Balochi ‘Benju’ in the intimate setting of The Rose Hill. Tickets for Thursday’s event sold out in record time so book now to avoid FOMO!

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.

Moroccan gnawa, haunting guembri melodies and krar riffs - with shoots of house and electronica and krautrock grooves

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.

Kicking off the second year of Mehfil programming of south Asian classical raag music at The Rose Hill: a double bill of Khayal vocalist, Mandar Phatak and carnatic violinist, Aparna Raguraman - accompanied on tabla by Junaid Ali. Committed to offering quality music from South Asia, The Mehfil Space is delighted to bring you three performers who will delight and inspire you.

This event by The Mehfil Space @mehfilspace, set up by local curator Atiya Gourlay, is collaborating with the Brighton community arts venue, The Rose Hill and Zeroclassikal.

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.

Join The Sandpit Collective and the University of Sussex under the Hunter’s full moon for Black Medusa (2021), a genre-defying feminist noir set in post-revolutionary Tunis.

A haunting portrait of silence, vengeance and fractured femininity, the film follows Nada, a mute office worker by day and femme fatale by night, as she moves through a dystopian cityscape, carrying out acts of brutal retribution.

After the screening, stay for Dance the Pain Away, a ritual of release with an all-Tunisian music mix. Let rhythm, breath and movement help you process the intensity of the film in shared defiance.

Part of Aswaat / Voices, a season exploring feminist and postcolonial cinema from the Maghreb, presented by the Other Asias film programme.

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