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938 upcoming live music events in Brighton & Hove

Brighton runs on live music. Always has. The city's got more venues per square mile than most places twice its size, and on any given night there'll be something worth hearing. A new band sweating it out at The Hope & Ruin. A sold-out headliner at Chalk. Jazz drifting out of a Kemptown basement bar you didn't know existed. The Green Door Store books acts who end up headlining festivals two years later. Patterns pulls in DJs and electronic artists who'd normally stick to London.

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The Great Escape takes over the whole city every May. 500+ emerging artists across 30+ venues in three days. It's chaotic and brilliant and you will lose your voice. But you don't need a festival as an excuse. Brighton's music scene runs year-round, seven nights a week. Pubs put on free live music most weekends. Churches host choral performances. Someone's always got an amplifier in a beer garden somewhere.

The seafront and parks fill up with buskers in summer. Open mic nights happen most evenings across town. Big touring acts stop at the Brighton Centre before heading up to London. It's a city that takes its music seriously without being precious about it.

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