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A summer's night of sparkly indie pop with Lighthe

A summer's night of sparkly indie pop with Lightheaded + Jeanines + special guests.

Carrying on the long tradition of sentimental pop songwriters, U.S.'s Lightheaded @lightheadedband distills decades of jangly, lovelorn tunes into sparkling sounds for modern softies. They have the sunshine sparkle of Margo Guryan, the C86 charm of Dolly Mixture, and the cinematic swell of Belle & Sebastian: a simple case of pure pop for now people.

The band have signed to Skep Wax @skepwax records in the UK to release a new EP, Thinking Dreaming Scheming, their most collaborative and earnest release to date. Expect baroque pop that feels warm and dusty and adding to all the fun are the cameos and contributions from the new generation of New York indie pop goodness.

Jeanines @jeaninesnyc - Alicia Jeanine and Jed Smith - have charted a distinctive course through the history of pop, evoking influences as varied as the 60s folk of early Fairport Convention and Vashti Bunyan, the sunshine pop of Margo Guryan and the post-Black Tambourine projects of Pam Berry.
Their new album, "How Long Can It Last," finds Jeanines combining richly melodic tunes with crisp arrangements and melodies and harmonies which are simply heavenly, elevating these economical songs to give each the feeling of a lost classic.

Tickets and further info:
https://bit.ly/MeltingVinylTickets
@meltingvinylbrighton

Melting Vinyl presents
Lightheaded + Jeanines at The Prince Albert, Brighton on Sunday 20th July
Doors: 8pm. Show starts: 8.30pm.
£14 in advance with booking fee /£18 on the door
Age restrictions: 18+

"Like a gothic Leonard Cohen - leaving you aching

"Like a gothic Leonard Cohen - leaving you aching for more..." + a storyteller weaving together elements of indie-folk and psych-pop.

Adrian Crowley @crowonafence + Sara Wolff @saraw0lff play @theprincealbertbrighton on Tuesday 3rd June.

Adrian Crowley is an award-winning Irish songwriter, singer, and composer who has, in over two decades, created a deeply affecting body of work. The Dublin-based artist is noted as having a uniquely dark poetic sensibility and an arrestingly resonant voice.
Measure of Joy: on Valley Eye Records (produced by John Parish) is out on 7th February.

"Like a gothic Leonard Cohen – leaving you aching for more." UNCUT

Sara Wolff
Originally from Norway but now based in Liverpool, Sara Wolff (Lost Map Records) is a storyteller weaving together elements of indie-folk and psych-pop with analogue warmth. Her work has drawn comparisons to acts such as Tune-Yards, Cate Le Bon and Jenny Hval.

£15 + booking fee / £19 on the door
Standing
Age restrictions: 18+
Doors: 8pm / Start: 8.30pm.

Tickets are now on sale via https://bit.ly/MeltingVinylTickets
@meltingvinylbrighton

#folkmusic #folk 💥 #folkmusicians #folkmusician #newacoustic #indiefolk #indiefolkmusic

Eliza Carthy (solo) @elizacarthh + Jennifer Reid @

Eliza Carthy (solo) @elizacarthh + Jennifer Reid @jenniferballadss play @creativefstone #Folkestone on Saturday 21st June.

If there is one musician who embodies the dynamism and vitality of the current English folk revival, it’s Eliza Carthy MBE.

As the daughter of folk legends Martin Carthy and Norma Waterson, Eliza grew up immersed in the world of traditional music and from an early age was championed by John Peel, Andy Kershaw and Billy Bragg.

Beloved of staunch traditionalists and iconoclasts alike, Eliza’s music effortlessly crosses boundaries of genre and style. Whether solo or fronting a big band, performing a centuries-old ballad or a self-written song, her powerful, nuanced voice, fiercely beautiful fiddle-playing, and mesmerizing performances have influenced a whole generation of young musicians.

Twice nominated for the Mercury Prize, and winner of innumerable other accolades over her thirty-year career, Eliza has performed and recorded around the world with a diverse array of artists including, Paul Weller, Rufus and Martha Wainwright, Patrick Wolf, and Jarvis Cocker.

Describing herself simply as a modern English musician, she is one of the most impressive, engaging, and important performers of her generation.

"Unarguably the queen of English Folk" ~ The Observer

Jennifer Reid performs 19th Century Lancashire dialect work songs, Manchester broadside ballads and clog steps. She played Barb in Shane Meadows’ critically acclaimed period drama The Gallows Pole on the BBC. She works across academia, folk performance, heritage consultation and media to bring industrial history back to the people. Think rousing songs and passionate oratory.

Doors 7pm / Start 8pm
£26 + booking fee / £30 on the door
Seated
Age restrictions - under 14s to be accompanied by an adult.

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#folkmusic #folk #livemusic 💥 #folkmusicians #folkmusician #newacoustic #indiefolk #indiefolkmusic #brightonmusicscene #brighton

"Punky and danceable... Gemma Rogers packs a whole

"Punky and danceable... Gemma Rogers packs a whole 21st-century kitchen sink drama into her tracks..."

Gemma Rogers @gemma_rogers_music_ + special guests at The Folklore Rooms @thefolklorerooms #Brighton on Thursday 12th June.

Gemma is writing for her second album. Working with producers EAMES, Gareth Ashton (The Verve, Rolling Stones, Tina Turner) and Mike Tournier (of dance legends Fluke), Gemma has developed a more immediate sound to carry her snapshot lyrical styling, which delivers provocative personal and political convictions in an emotionally direct and often humorous way.

“AWESOME” ~ Loud Women
“Gemma pulls no punches” ~ Steve Lamacq – 6 Music
“Invigoratingly Angry” ~ Juno reviews
“Early PIL-like industrial vibe” ~ God is in the TV
“Cool as f**k” ~ Louder Than War
“With punk strumming, and a dancing drum machine, Gemma Rogers’ The Great Escape (EP), ponders the possibility of Ferris Bueller-like memories that “we can live forever in.” ~ Ban Ban Ton Ton

Doors 7.30pm / Start 8.00pm
£14 + booking fee in advance / £18 on the door
Seated
Age restrictions: +18

Tickets link in bio and further info available here:
https://bit.ly/MeltingVinylTickets
@meltingvinylbrighton

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#dancefunkpunk #brightonmusicscene #gemmarogers

Announcing the Jackie-O Motherfucker Reissue

📣 Announcing the Jackie-O Motherfucker Reissue on Fire Records:
'Flags of the Scared Harp (20th Anniversary Edition)'.

Jackie-O Motherfucker “patiently unravel their source material's tangled threads, respooling them into wondrously evocative yet deeply personalised new devotionals.” ~ Pitchfork.

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Jackie-O Motherfucker’s ‘Flags Of The Sacred Harp’, a re-imagining of traditional hymns and anthems from the original American songbook that was first published in 1844, @fire_records releases a double vinyl edition of this much-heralded work.

Jackie-O Motherfucker @jackie_o_motherfucker + special guests also play The Rosehill @the_rose_hill Brighton on Thursday 28th August.

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.

Melting Vinyl presents
Jackie-O Motherfucker + special guests at The Rosehill, Brighton on Thursday 28th August
Doors: 7pm. Show starts: 7.30pm.
Ticket Prices: £18.50 in adv / £22.50 on the door
Age restrictions - 16+, unders 16's to be accompanied

Tickets and further info:
https://bit.ly/MeltingVinylTickets
@meltingvinylbrighton

Here's the running order for what promises to be a

Here's the running order for what promises to be a very special event.

The Rheingans Sisters @rheinganssis + @sekinue play Komedia Studio @komedia_brighton THIS Friday, 9th May.

19.00 Doors Open
19.00 - 19.30 DJ playlist: Finding Land Folk Show
19.30 - 20.00 Sekinue
20.00 - 20.30 DJ playlist: Finding Land Folk Show
20.30 The Rheingans Sisters

Sekinue is a Brighton based trans, queer musican and presents original alt-folk music lead on the celtic lever harp. Sekinue’s live performances are a heartfelt form of musical intimacy and they have been seen alongside acts such as Moon Panda, Frankie Archer and Saij.

The Rheingans Sisters are one of the most visionary acts on the British folk scene.
After a decade releasing celebrated albums (BBC Radio 2 Folk Award winners of ‘Best Original Track’ 2016 and ‘Best Group’ nominees in 2019) and touring across the world, The Rheingans Sisters release their much anticipated fifth studio album.

The visionary duo's 5th album and new live show is a sonic and aesthetic development of their live work so far, creating an even more immersive musical journey for their audience. From baroque fiddle tunes to trance beats, from metal-inspired arrangements of folk ballads to improvisations with phone voice notes, Rowan and Anna once again create like painters; revealing in bold colours the next grounded yet soaring contribution to the sisters’ unique “avant-garde trad” (Songlines).

"Scandi-noir, but tinged with joy and avant-garde trad" ~ Songlines
"With their golden voices, fertile soundworlds and evocative influences from across Europe, the Sheffield duo’s fifth album is admirably confrontational." ~
The Guardian, Folk Album Of The Month (Sept 2024).

Tickets and further info:
https://bit.ly/MeltingVinylTickets
@meltingvinylbrighton

Friday 9th May
Doors 7.00pm / Start 7.30 pm
£18 + booking fee / £22 on the door
Standing
Age restrictions: 14+ Under 16's to be accompanied

#folkmusic #folk #folkmusic #livemusic 💥#folkmusicians #newacoustic #indiefolk #indiefolkmusic

New Show Announcement

📣 📣 New Show Announcement 📣 📣

All hail the return of Jolie Holland after her sold out show in Brighton!

Jolie Holland is an American singer and performer who combines elements of folk, traditional country, jazz, soul, rock n roll, and blues. Forging a timeless, haunting musical career, Jolie Holland returns to the UK to share her intimate and honest artistry spanning several albums and projects with her new and devoted fans.

Jolie has knotted together a century of American song into a stew that is impossible to categorise. This is her burden and her gift, to know all of these American songs of the last ten decades in her head and her heart, and to have to wrestle with their legacy.

She dives straight to the pathos of a song the way the very greatest singers - singers like Mavis Staples, or Al Green, or Skip James, or Tom Waits do. Upon first encounter her songs seem challenging, perhaps unsettling at times, but as so many poets and rockers have shown us (from Dante Alighieri to William Blake to Sylvia Plath to Patti Smith to Nick Cave to Mark E. Smith) that’s where the beauty lies. As evident on her first recordings, Holland apparently has no fear of the truth, and there is no emotional core that she cannot reach in song. In fact she thrives on the red hot center of a musical composition, in all its strange and brutal detail.

“Noir, lived in, caustic, not entirely of this time” ~ Aquarium Drunkard.

Melting Vinyl presents
Jolie Holland + special guests at St Luke's Church, Queens Park Road, Brighton on Friday 19th September.
Doors: 7.30pm
Tickets: £22 in advance + booking fee / £26 on the door
Age restrictions: 18+
Seated event. There are bar facilities in the church.

Tickets and info:
🎟 https://bit.ly/MeltingVinylTickets

#jolieholland #folkmusic #folk #folkmusic #livemusic 💥 #folkmusician #newacoustic #indiefolk #indiefolkmusic

We're thrilled to be making merry with much loved

We're thrilled to be making merry with much loved folk trio, the Young’uns, as they celebrate 20 years of singing together.

The Young’uns 20 @theyoungunstrio play Komedia Brighton @komedia_brighton on Wednesday 28th May.

One night in Stockton On Tees, three teenagers heard strange sounds coming from the backroom of a pub. They went in.
They heard people singing songs they’d never heard before. Songs without instruments. Songs in their own accents. Songs about places they knew. Folk songs. They joined in. Because they were the youngest ones there by several decades, they were soon labeled ‘the Young’uns.’

20 years on and they’ve carried their unfortunate name around the world, from Sydney to Vancouver, from Radio Tees to Radio 4, won 3 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards and gained a reputation for singing life affirming songs of social conscience in immaculate 3 part harmony.
But as well as their 20th anniversary, Sean Cooney, Michael Hughes and David Eagle will each be celebrating their 40th birthdays on tour!

Please note: the band will play 2 sets of approximately 45 minutes with an interval inbetween.

Doors 7.30pm / Start 8pm
£24 + booking fee in adv / £29 on the door
Seated
Age restrictions – 14+ Under 16’s to be accompanied

Tickets available via the link in our bio @meltingvinylbrighton or at
https://bit.ly/younguns20brighton

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#rootsmusic #younguns #meltingvinylbrighton #folkmusic #singersongwriter #folkandmore #brighton #brightonlivemusic #singersongerwriter
@finding_land_folk_show @folkradiouk @folkonfoot @folkelife

Herman Dune, the most Californian of French songwr

Herman Dune, the most Californian of French songwriters and a defining figure of anti-folk, presents Odysseús, a musical journey through his tumultuous life...

Herman Dune @hermandune + special guests play @komedia_brighton on Tuesday 21st October.

Founded in the late 1990s, Herman Dune is the project of Franco-Swedish artist David Ivar. Drawing from folk influences (Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen), country (Townes Van Zandt, John Prine), and indie-folk (Elliot Smith, Lucinda Williams, Silver Jews), David Ivar, born and raised in Paris, had to create his own scene to express himself at a time when singing in English with an acoustic guitar on Parisian stages was considered absurd.

Since 2015, Herman Dune has been based in San Pedro, the working-class, port district of Los Angeles - a mecca of Californian punk rock (Minute Men, Black Flag) - with his wife and collaborator Mayon, and their three black cats. From his California bungalow, he runs his own label (Santa Cruz Records), has released six albums, out of a total of fifteen( Sweet Thursday, Santa Cruz Gold, Notes From Vinegar Hill, and the trilogy The Portable Herman Dune Vol. 1-3), and has composed several film scores, including Mariage à Mendoza and Pétaouchnock (both by Edouard Deluc).

Herman Dune, the most Californian of French songwriters and a defining figure of anti-folk, presents Odysseús, a musical journey through his tumultuous life, set for release on June 13th, via Santa Cruz Records.

Melting Vinyl presents
Herman Dune + special guests
Tuesday 21st October 2025 7.30pm
Seated
£18 adv/£22 on the door
Komedia main space
14+ accompanied

Tickets and info https://bit.ly/MeltingVinylTickets
@meltingvinylbrighton

#hermandune

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In response to the recent developments of Covid-19

Dear Melting Vinyl supporters,

At present we are in the process of finding out what the effect of the UK Government’s latest advice to the public to avoid contact in social spaces means in terms of our upcoming events.

It may mean some shows planned for the near future could be postponed to a later date in order to safeguard our local community.

Melting Vinyl are dedicated to supporting artists and the local live music venues and we are currently in close communication with both – we will keep you all updated as soon as any news comes in on our social media.

Many thanks for your patience and understanding and please bear with us as we navigate through this unprecedented time.

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