The Surfrajettes are a four-piece instrumental combo from Toronto, ON, Canada. Since forming in late 2015, the band has charmed audiences with their clever mix of psychedelic rock and reverb-drenched surf music, sky-high beehives, go-go boots, and eyeliner as thick as their guitar strings.  
  
The band achieved viral online notoriety from their home-made performance videos and their feature by Norman’s Rare Guitars in LA. The debut 45 single “Party Line / Toxic” released late 2018 on Hi-Tide Recordings to immediate success. The band has toured extensively in its support, including performances on The Beach Boys Cruise, The Melissa Etheridge Cruise, at Sea.Hear.Now, Nashville Boogie, Wild O Fest in Mexico City, The New England Shake-Up!, Surf Guitar 101 Convention, Tiki Oasis & Hi-Tide Summer Holiday: Asbury Park.  
  
The band released the follow up single “Hale’iwa Hustle / Banzai Pipeline” in 2020, supported by a festival appearance at Hi-Tide Winter Holiday: Pittsburgh. The group spent the rest of 2020 and most of 2021 writing and recording their debut LP “Roller Fink” - in stores worldwide April 22, 2022 from Hi-Tide Recordings / Virgin Music. The album will be available for purchase for the very first time following their performance at the Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly Weekend 25 car show.

The Surfrajettes

The Surfrajettes - Toxic

Gigs

Brighton and Hove

DUST

Raised in the picturesque town of Aix-en-Provence in south France, ALIAS studied jazz at prestigious conservatoires in both Marseille and his hometown. But growing disillusioned with the strict rules being placed upon him, he decided to step out on his own, first to New York, then to Montreal, Canada, where he was enlisted as a contributor for hit TV shows including Big Little Lies and Sharp Objects, and worked as music director for Cirque du Soleil.

So as the pandemic hit, ALIAS hunkered down and made his debut EP, It’s Not Funny So Stop Smilin’, an ambitious work where the rulebook went sailing out the window. Released via Simone Records in 2021, his first EP was swiftly followed by Jozef, ALIAS’s acclaimed debut that happened to mark a drastic shift in tone in his music. Which brings us to EMBRACE CHAOS, his latest opus to be released in April 2024. Like Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, ALIAS is both the genius and the monster on this record; the creator who hides behind the terror he’s unleashed.

This is an 18+ event

ALIAS

Alias

TR/ST (fka Trust) is the musical alias of producer, singer, and performer Robert Alfons. Born in Winnipeg, Canada (but based in Los Angeles for the past decade), he has released a string of celebrated albums fusing swooning synth-pop, confessional darkwave, and anthemic emotion: TRST (2012), Joyland (2014), The Destroyer - Part One (2019), and The Destroyer – Part Two (2019). In late 2023, TR/ST joined the Dais Records roster, announcing the union with the release of the single “Robrash”, while hinting at more new music ahead. January 2024 sees the release of the new, minimally titled “TR/ST EP”, featuring four new tracks in addition to “Robrash” : the new dancefloor heater “Run” featuring Canadian hyperpop star Cecile Believe, a beautiful cover of the Pet Shop Boys classic 1990 anthem “Being Boring” featuring Jake Shears, the delicate and gauzy nearly-ambient composition “Evercall”, and an official release of the fan favorite “Slug”, previously only released to YouTube in 2015.

TR/ST

Bicep

TR/ST - Bulbform

congratulations are four friends who found each other at the right time, fell into each other’s arms and started making music they liked; boasting an impressive array of different influences, unashamedly intertwined into their songs. Think girl/boy centred vocals and eccentric fuzzed guitars lying on a bed of break beats and thunderous bass.

Fiercely DIY, congratulations craft their songs with all four members meticulously involved in every aspect of the recording, production, and artwork. Then, donning their scrupulously prepared uniforms of green, blue, red and yellow, the band deliver blistering, frenetic live performances, dripping with the sweat from their growing audiences.

For fans of Pom Poko, Jockstrap and Sleigh Bells.

“It’s like a car boot sale of all great pop mashed together in a bricolage of boogie” - Louder Than War

Loved by BBC6’s Marc Riley who invited the band for a live session at BBC Salford in Manchester, more radio play from John Kennedy at Radio X, Melita Dennett at BBC Introducing, Jess Iszatt and Nels Hylton at BBC Radio 1.

congratulations

Congratulations

Independent from the jump and fueled at times by willpower and community alone, B. Dolan has expanded his creative influence beyond music into film, poetry, and songwriting over the past fifteen years. Dolan engages deeply in his craft while actively fostering a community among his fans and friends. With a crate's worth of LPs, mixtapes, and live projects already in his catalogue, the road-tested hip hop poet continues to navigate life, aging, liberation, trauma, and post-lockdown culture with vulnerability and curiosity on his latest LP “The Wound is Not The Body”.

In the midst of a difficult upbringing, the Rhode Island native discovered solace and purpose in hip-hop. He moved to New York, dropped out of school, and began performing at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe in NYC in 2001, years later he crossed paths with Sage Francis, signed to his indie label Strange Famous, and began touring the world in 2005. Notable tours include The Church of Love & Ruin, which featured the drag performer Katya on her first touring stages and combined drag, hip hop, and sissy bounce and marching bands, and toured on two continents in 2012. Most recently the Minecraft concert series #NetherRap, created by Dolan during the pandemic. The shows connected with thousands of people and raised funds for the Union of Musicians and Allied Workers as well as sidelined bands and musicians. Sign up for the email list at IAmBDolan.com for release, merch and tour updates!

B. Dolan

B. Dolan - Jailbreak

Songwriter / producer from Atlanta currently living in Sweden. New single "Polygraph" out now

Old Sea Brigade

Call Me When You Land

Inter Arma, formed in 2006, faced many a challenge while creating their sixth album, New Heaven. From visa issues and member turmoil to near-fatal accidents, the band's journey has been tumultuous. However, perseverance colors the music with dense layers of dissonance interspersed with moments of light. And New Heaven, unlike their lengthy back catalog, clocks in at a mere 42 minutes, balancing complexity and a new found urgency reflective of the upheaval they've found themselves in.

Exploring war, addiction, and social apathy through the lyrics, New Heaven doesn't offer false optimism. This is a record about enduring brambles and curses and lasting long enough to make something profound, honest, and even affirming about it all every now and again

Inter Arma

Purple Rain

Inter Arma - Bumgardner

One of the fastest-rising UK black metal acts of current times, Abduction first surfaced in late 2016 with a three song demo. Attracting the attention of Lithuanian label Inferna Profundus, this one-man project released the debut album 'To Further Dreams Of Failure' in 2017 to positive reviews. Maintaining the momentum, Abduction have released an album a year, with 2018's 'A Crown Of Curses' (released by UK labels Death Kvlt and Clobber) and 2019's 'All Pain As Penance' (released as a co-release by Inferna Profundus and Apocalyptic Witchcraft) boosting the band's profile considerably. Possessing a haunting and spectral quality, while nevertheless making use of big, memorable riffs and emotive songwriting, the result is an otherworldly and atmospheric (but surprisingly visceral and satisfying) black metal assault. Originally performing solo (including at Bloodstock festival) founder A|V has now expanded the band to a full line-up.

PARALYTIC HALLOWEEN: Abduction + Andracca

Abduction

Ever since the cloaked Pacific Northwest band appeared on the music radar, UADA has always been electrified by both polar worlds. Their echelon was stark and meaningful. Within the stretch of 3 albums as well as dense and triumphant live shows across the globe, they have not only spiked the map of extreme metal music, but their unrelenting touring schedule and unbridled will to push forward into new horizons has also earned them a reception in all the extremes imaginable, be it worship or spite.

On their forthcoming fourth full-length album 'Crepuscule Natura', UADA provides all their memorable hooks, tasteful leads, and riding blasts in their distinct style, balancing their epic surging melodies with powerful spurts of aggression. Just like the band's smoke-heavy shows, the momentum and emphasis of their craft always stays grandiose, mythical, and triumphant – all the while making sure to birth a couple of new fan favorites and soon-to-be staple live songs.

Since the beginning the visual side is graced by the artwork of legendary Kris Verwimp and photograph Peter Beste.

CHALK

A Decade of Reflective Divinations 2024 ft UADA

Uada - The Purging Fire

Cloak

Ghost Bath

Uada

Mizmor, is a one-man heavy music exploration that began in 2012 as a way of processing the mental and spiritual anguish I, A.L.N., underwent through my loss of faith in Christianity. Over the course of the proceeding decade, I slowly changed from struggling Christian, to agnostic, and finally to atheist. During this evolution I used Mizmor, which means “psalm,” “prayer,” or “melody” in Hebrew, as a form of therapy. The songs literally started as prayers to God, grappling with doubt and depression, much like some of the darker chapters of the book of Psalms. After some time the songs became more existential - primal and innate musings about cause, purpose, self, and god (in a more universal sense). Eventually Mizmor became about the absence of god and the healing I’ve experienced through accepting this. Nowadays my songs are about consciousness, ideas, mankind, and the future to name a few things (and still depression and anxiety, which I continue to battle). Mizmor will always be about following the most reasonable path given the current evidence and processing grief through creating and sharing art so that others may be helped with similar struggles

Mizmor

Prefect

Hailing from the South West of England, \[spunge\] have been serving up ska/punk to the masses since 1994. Sharing the stage with the likes of Green Day, Dropkick Murphy's and Reel Big Fish, headlining multiple tours and playing to crowds at festivals such as Download Festival, Reading & Leeds Festival and many more, this 4-piece thrive on playing live, and are showing no signs of slowing down even after 30 years of playing!

Spunge - 30th Anniversary UK Tour 2024

Kicking Pigeons

[spunge] - Backstabber

[spunge]

Emerging like a missile from some surreptitious silo in southwestern Ohio, The Serfs are a deliberately nebulous and incidentally industrialist gang of dance-floor hymners-- perturbed and tranced-out troubadours whose sound and musical ideology seems to be a causal manifestation of their immediate environments--hard-wired and hypnotic synthesized melodies propel alongside churning and scraping percussion of every metallic tonality--with temperamental and eremitic words and voices dictating the forlorn venture. Like their Ohio predecessors, The Serfs seem askew from the art that surrounds them, and proud of it.

The Serfs

Vanishing Act

Michael Sebastian creates Live Dance Music.

It has the structure of electronic; the freedom of jazz, and the depth of world.

“an improvisatory joy, a muscular blast of indie-electronics worth filing alongside Bonobo or Bicep” - Clash

A South African in London, Sebastian has a strong presence in the city with recent headline shows at EartH Hackney & Colour Factory, support slots for James Blake and Four Tet at Alexandra Palace, as well as being named a top 5 global Sofar artist.

Fuelled by the relationship between music and dance, he finds himself at the intersection between club, contemporary and conscious dance spaces.

In his live shows he merges contemporary discipline with transcendental spirituality through jazz improvisation and play, often involving talented collaborators. His objective is to create spaces of collective ecstasy, inspired by his own time on the dancefloor.

Michael Sebastian

White Isle Memories

Walt Disco is the vehicle for our creation, exploration, self affirmation and our insatiable need to be gawked at <3. Our desire with our music is to create grandiose songs with emotional resonance but always with a touch of the obscure. We're not trying to inspire nostalgia or rely on the familiar, but instead to contextualise the future and what we can create that progresses the music we love. From Scott Walker to Caroline Polacheck, Billie Holiday to Japan, Erik Satie to Young Fathers. We tend to think along similar musical lines, and always know when we have found what works in a song when a smile spreads across everyones face at the same moment. We all tend to be into different things at different times individually, and the music we make is the cross-section of everything we love <3

Walt Disco

Walt Disco - Dream Girl #2

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When FEET self-released their debut album in 2019, the group offered up a particularly oblique title: "What’s Inside Is More Than Just Ham". But once fans and casual listeners alike delved into the record, it didn’t take long to realise that the band were offering something far meatier than wafer-slim slices of that eponymous sandwich filling.

Since then, FEET have been slowly readying themselves for a grand return: the start of a new era that will beckon in their anticipated second album. It’s the sound of a band who have become more regimented with their approach in the search for greatness. “There’s no throw away ideas on this album and everything has to have its place. It has to be ironed out and perfected,” says front man George Haverson.

A very welcome return, then, for one of Britain’s most inventive bands, starting a new chapter afresh that builds on the brilliance of their first outing and takes it to a new level entirely. 2024, it’s fair to say, is ready for Feet to stomp all over it.

The first taste comes in the form of comeback single The Real Thing, which bounds along with spiky guitar lines, an endearingly wonky groove, and the razor-sharp pen of frontman George Haverson.

The new album "Make It Up" is out 14th June and is available for pre-order now.

Feet

mill1on

L’Objectif

FEET

Billy Nomates is excited to announce a winter tour with a special show called UNDERGROWTH

Neither a new album or an old show - the show will feature new arrangements, instrumentation, never performed b sides, the unseen, the unheard Something…different, alongside special acoustic performances of BNM songs.

Tor will be joined for the first time by two other musicians on bass and drums

Support on all shows comes from the movement artist Stephanie McCann

Billy Nomates

Billy Nomates - Hippy Elite

Holy Youth Movement ( HYM ) are a 5 piece band hailing from Bristol, consisting of Drums, Bass, Guitar, Keyboards and Vocals. Their sound is a heavy mix of Rock n Roll and Electronica fuelled by Daance Floor Rhythms, driving Bass and a huge wall of Synthesizers and Guitars, all topped off with soaring anthemic Vocals and melodies.

Citing bands like Primal Scream, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Stooges and dance acts like The Chemical Brothers & Underworld as major influences, H.Y.M have managed to combine elements of both Rock n Roll and Dance / Electronica into their immense sound.

Holy Youth Movement

London post-punkers Desperate Journalist first appeared in early 2013, playing a local Grunge night in Finsbury Park. Jo Bevan (vocals), Rob Hardy (guitar), Simon Drowner (bass) and Caz Helbert (drums) self-released the 'Cristina' EP and were quickly signed by Fierce Panda records, who released the 'Organ' and 'Happening' singles, followed by the 'Desperate Journalist' LP at the end of 2014. Two further albums - 2017's 'Grow Up', and 2019's 'In Search Of The Miraculous' - were released to critical acclaim and saw the band tour across the UK and Europe. Singles including 'Hollow', 'Resolution' and 'Cedars' received regular radio play from the likes of KEXP, 6music, XFM and Radio 1. In October 2020 the band released a lockdown cover of 'The Fear' by Pulp. In April 2021, 4th album 'Maximum Sorrow!' was announced alongside lead single 'Fault'.

Desperate Journalist

In support of their new album 'A Piece of Me I Never Let You Find', Cane Hill return to Brighton this November for their first UK headline tour in several years. Welcome to The Swamp.

Cane Hill

prom [album release show]

Prom - Not About Dying

Prom

Dummy is a rock band from Los Angeles comprised of Alex Ewell, Emma Maatman, Nathan O’Dell, and Joe Trainor. Their debut full-length Mandatory Enjoyment (Trouble in Mind) arrived in late 2021, becoming one of the year’s sleeper hits and garnering praise from Pitchfork, Stereogum, and more. Coming out of lockdown, the band spent two years touring in support of the record, and it is this transformational experience that pulses through Free Energy, the exhilarating follow-up to Mandatory Enjoyment.

A creatively restless band, Dummy (Ewell: drums, synths, bass; Maatman: vocals, synths, organ; O'Dell: vocals, guitar, organ; Trainor: guitar, bass, synths) wanted to get harder, dancier, more psychedelic for their next record. This meant applying explorative potentials of electronic textures to the elemental qualities of rock i.e. more vocal loops, sampling, more crazy rhythms, and playful synths—but make those samples of Trainor’s guitar, let Maatman sing bolder, experiment with using cold mechanical elements in warm and sparkly ways, and lean harder into traditional-yet-still-awesome forms of rock guitar experimentation like feedback. The result is a record that celebrates music’s ability to move the body, whether that be through a teeth-rattling wall of MBV-esque noise, a sticky pop chorus, or a joyous drum machine—or, if you’re Dummy, maybe all of them in the same song.

Dummy

Protostar

El Moono are back with The Waking Sun, their highly anticipated debut album (releasing 10th May 2024), recorded at Middle Farm Studios. The band are further exploring their off-kilter and oftentimes mind-bending riff writing, emotive soundscapes and expressive lyricism to create a record that will further prove their “genre-phobic” reputation. 2022 saw the band's release of the critically acclaimed EP ‘Temple Corrupted’ via Lockjaw Records, (Jamie Lenman, Belvedere, DARKO) and heavy touring around the UK & Europe (with the likes of Black Peaks, The St Pierre Snake Invasion, The Hyena Kill and more) and appearances at Arctangent, Radar and Burn it Down Festival, which cemented the band as favourites within the post-metal/post-hardcore scene. Exploring themes of human self-destruction and depression, the narrative is set to “seismic riffs of grunge with the atmospherics of post-rock” - Guitar World "Temple Corrupted is utterly incredible" - Kerrang! With unique influences of rock, hardcore, metal and grunge, the off-kilter and oftentimes mind-bending riffs, emotive songs and expressive lyricism combine to create a sound that’s difficult to pigeonhole. Although, fans of Thrice, Audioslave and Deftones will have plenty to sink their teeth into. El Moono are one of the most exciting up and coming bands who should not go unnoticed.

El Moono

The U.K's premier club for those still fighting for their right to party is back in Brighton, this time forsome special Christmas daytime shenanigans from 3pm-7pm for over 30s!

Don and Reg will be gracing Dust to kick it and kick out the youngsters.

They'll be dropping the finest: pop, indie, rock, disco, Motown, rock ‘n’ roll, power ballads, soul, punk, ska, northern soul, funk and of course the best Chrimbo classics to get you all rocking around the Christmas tree

The party will finish at 7pm also you can head the beach to continue the festive activities or just try and keep the gulls off your chips.

\* Photo ID MUST be produced, even if you have purchased an advance ticket! No excuses. And bring a sense of humour.

No Kids Allowed!

As well as seasonal faves from Wham!, Mariah, Shakin' Stevens, Slade, Band Aid and more you’ll hear artists like: Prince, The Clash, Kate Bush, Chic, Bon Jovi, The Cure, Stevie Wonder, Human League, Blondie, The Killers, Dolly Parton, The Spice Girls, Pet Shop Boys, Tina Turner, Blur, Bonnie Tyler, David Bowie, Bruce Springsteen, KC and the Sunshine Band, Fleetwood Mac, Duran Duran, Gloria Gaynor, Soft Cell, Bee Gees, Belinda Carlisle, Pet shop Boys, Madonna, Queen, Meat Loaf, Soft Cell, Phil Collins, Temptations, Beatles, Frankie Valli, Whitney Houston, The Kinks, James Brown, Cher, INXS, New Order, ABBA, Erasure, Journey, Madness, Stone Roses, The Jam, Supremes, Depeche Mode, Donna Summer and loads more.

This is an 30+ event

Age Against the Machine

After several sold out events in London and also Nottingham An Afternoon of Indie is coming to DUST to bring the people of Brighton...afternoon of indie.

Old School Indie - The indie night for the over 30s are once again joining forces with Feeling Gloomy & Age Against The Machine to bring you a special 3pm-7pm Afternoon of Indie.

Feeling Gloomy & Old School Indie DJs will be playing a mix of indie classics from across the decades so whether you were an 70s punk, 80s new waver, 90s britpopper or early 00s poser they'll be something for everyone.

The party will finish at 7pm and you'll be free to go off to grab some fish and chips on the pier, head down the pub to continue your night our or you could just go home and watch Match of the Day

With a strict door policy of no under 30s (please bring ID) there is no chance of you rubbing shoulders with anyone who can't sing the entire version of Babies or Going Underground.

What to expect: The best in indie from: Bowie, Pulp, Clash, Jam, Cure, Joy Division, Stone Roses, Smiths, New Order, Strokes, Supergrass, Kinks, Franz Ferdinand, Nirvana, Ash, Rolling Stones, Who, Primal Scream, Killers, Sultans of Ping, Buzzcocks, Ramones, Specials, Blondie, Hole, Madness, La's, Weezer, Cardigans, Housemartins, Coral, Undertones, Inspiral Carpets, Bloc Party, Beatles, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Radiohead, Suede, Echo and The Bunnymen, Pixies plus the odd bit of rock n roll, soul, northern soul and ska!

An Afternoon of Indie

Du Blonde 's swaggering, heart-on-sleeve rock came into being when musician, composer, animator, and video director reinvented her music. On albums including 2019's self-produced Lung Bread for Daddy, matched the heavy sounds of punk, blues, garage rock, and soul with cathartic songwriting. Later, she let some glimpses of pop peek through on 2021's Homecoming without sacrificing any of her music's bravery or honesty about heartbreak and mental illness

Du Blonde

All The Way

Melin Melyn are more than just a band. They’re world-builders; storytellers absorbing various elements of the increasingly strange times around us and using them to create fables that ruminate on grief, love, and hope.

Their debut album Mill On The Hill sees the band jump between surf-rock, country, prog-rock and psychedelia with the grace and skill of a band with numerous records under their belt, held together by an efficacious and fantastical thematic principle. Melin Melyn translates to ‘Yellow Mill’ in Welsh, and on this album the Welsh six-piece invite the audience into the world they have quite literally built around them. Mill On The Hill transports the listeners to the utopian ‘Melin Village’, a Seussian world where townsfolk “bask in the beauty of song.” Enter our protagonists, the six millers who work at the titular mill on the hill, powered by the music that they create:

Formed in 2019 by Gruff Glyn (lead vocals, guitar, saxophone) Will Barratt (lead guitar), Cai Dyfan (drums) and Garmon Rhys(bass, backing vocals and who also performs as The Mighty Observer) the band was Gruff’s first proper musical project. After a year or so performing as a foursome, the band were soon joined by Rhodri Brooks (pedal steel) and Dylan Morgan (keys), stalwarts of the Welsh music scene with their solo works AhGeeBe and DD Darillo, as well as their works with Novo Amor & Boy Azooga respectively, adding further gravitas and completing the sound that the band had been looking for.

DUST

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