DJ Jimmy Lager plays a mix of Punk, Ska, Soul, Alternative '80s & more. Friendly vibe, dancefloor & seating. Event is in the basement of The Rossi Bar. Join us for a drink & a dance. Free Entry.

Shades returns to celebrate 10 years of Brighton-born underground culture. Founded in 2016 as a small gallery night, Shades has grown into a platform championing the UK’s underground rap and alternative scene, known for intimate, high-energy events and a strong community spirit. To mark a decade since the first event, Shades comes back home for a special anniversary night at one of its favourite venues. Expect the most, with DJs sets from Forty, live sets from Louie Levack and Big YS, plus more acts to be announced. With just 100 tickets available, this one won’t hang around.

Bristol five piece, Limited Ltd, are a femme-led DIY Punk outfit established in 2024. A band brought together by their passion for music as well as their politically driven approaches to life, Limited Ltd picked up their instruments for the first time to try at something new. Creating music about experiences of isolation, discrimination and disadvantage, Limited Ltd carefully bridge the gap between music and protest. Inspired by bands like Wire, Au Pairs, and the Raincoats Limited Ltd embrace punk vocals with DIY instrumentals whilst incorporating influences from bands like Electrelane & Goatgirl. With support from: Pearll From high school musical rivals to best friends and bandmates, Chloe Drew-Batty and Lyd Thetford form Pearll, a dynamic duo hailing from Brighton. Drawing influence from 90s Britpop and contemporary indie rock and pop icons, the duo blends infectious energy, introspective lyrics, and rap elements to create a sound that is both nostalgic and fresh. Sand SAND are an alt rock three piece from London. Expect guitar driven sounds and honest storytelling, inspired by bands like Pavement and Dinosaur Jr.

Bristol gothic post punkers Witch Hook make their way down to the basement of Brighton's Rossi Bar to let loose a musical storm, supported by local alternative rockers Spooky Huge and gothic alt rock musician Spider (and her band).

Sheffield shoegazers Junk are coming through for an atmospheric one in your favourite Brighton based basement. Dreamy and gentle with just enough fuzz to scratch the itch. Can't wait for this one. Supports TBA

HumDrum HumDrum are a 5-piece band crafting an evolving fusion of experimental rock, jazzy rhythms, and poetic surrealism. Their music weaves through genres with a sense of vulnerability and volatility. Polished chaos with an atmosphere of deliberate imperfectionism, jagged rhythms and stirring melodies. HumDrum's early work embraced jazz-informed improvisation and melodic abstraction, but their new material marks a bolder step into textured experimentation. Taking inspiration from the likes of Bjork, Portishead, Duster, Stereolab and Youth Lagoon, the band will be showcasing their upcoming five-track EP. Their dreamy delicate harmonies that collide with distorted crescendos and introspective lyrics channel through warped electronics. At its heart, HumDrum is about emotional honesty and the beauty of imbalance. Their music explores the contradictions of being human fragile yet defiant, surreal yet grounded. Each performance unfolds like a living sculpture, evolving in real time as the band deconstructs and rebuilds its own sound. Support comes from Batmilk Batmilk are a Brighton based band consisting of members Freya, Ania, Ecca and James. Their shows are a layered mix of slowcore and alt rock interlaced with soundscapes of caves, bats and atmospheric noise. Inspired by bands like Duster, grouper and Slint you could to fly across a hilly landscape of delicate to distorted and hypnotic walls of sound. Sonne Sonne is a five-piece band fusing post-rock, post-punk, and Krautrock influences with danceable grooves. Formed in 2021, they craft intricate layers of multiple guitars and vocal harmonies, creating a sound that's both expansive and emotionally raw. With honest, introspective lyrics, Sonne invites listeners to reflect and move, blending atmospheric melodies with irresistible rhythms.

Champion Trees and Kaspar Hauser embark on a joint UK tour this August. Champion Trees is a band from Cape Town, South Africa, that recently moved to the UK and released their second album, A Duck's Water Off My Back - a gentle and immersive record graced with memorable lyrics and gorgeous woodwind and string arrangements. Kaspar Hauser is a south London indie folk, chamber pop and experimental band formed in 2022. Their recent album The Pink Parade features 56 minutes of richly arranged story telling songs, often tackling themes of emotions, mental health, love and nature. Presented by Falling Moon. This is an 18+ event

Not Coping, a local emo band inspired by midwest emo and pop punk, are playing their debut gig at The Rossi in Brighton with support from Portsmouth-based sad rock band Dead Authors and Brighton based powerhouses Halloween Club.

Ranga Records are back at The Rossi Bar celebrating the single release of 'Ashes' by The Getaway. With support from Fat Lloyd and First Hand Accounts. Tickets - £8 Advance / £10 OTD Presented by Ranga Records. This is an 18+ event

CLITSPIT is a Leeds-based female fronted, rampaging, noisy punk band who centre their music around the intersectional feminist movement with explicit yet playful lyricism, they arent afraid to tackle difficult subjects and demand change. Providing a manic performance, raucous guitar and riot-grrl indebted vocals, you wont wanna forget your earplugs. FFO: Lambrini Girls, Gang Of Four, Mommy Long Legs Support comes from Opalites Opalites (oh-pal-its-s) are a 3 piece from Bournemouth, bringing girls, gays, and theys to the front-on stage and in the pit! Catch the band's angsty originals; inspired by the sounds of 90s grunge and art rock, looped up with dissonance and wack time signatures. Paris '68 'Paris '68 is the result of four musicians chasing a sound they can't describe, who don't care too much for their eardrums and believe that every gig should be played as if it's their last.'

Fuzzy Lights were formed in Cambridge in 2004 as a duo of Rachel and Xavier Watkins. From initial experiments with violin and guitar loops they expanded into a four-piece for their near-instrumental debut album A Distant Voice in 2008. In 2010 they released their second album, Twin Feathers, as a settled quintet, weaving together elements of pastoral psych-folk and noise-rock. The album received critical acclaim, being named Underground Album of the Month in MOJO and receiving four-star reviews in Uncut and Artrocker. Several tracks from the record featured across BBC 6 Music shows, and the same year they played at the End of The Road Festival. In 2011, they retreated to a farmhouse in Dedham Vale to write new songs, and the fruits of these sessions were later recorded live to tape at a Limehouse studio. Released in February 2013, Rule of Twelfths was a more direct album, cinematic in essence while carrying the ghosts of wall of sound productions. It too was well received, with Uncut magazine declaring a work that sweetly lulls the listener with delicate folk numbers before ambushing them with surging orchestral noise. It's this contrast that makes Rule of Twelfths so effective. Following on from a series of events performing semi-improvised film soundtracks the group went into hibernation for a number of years, emerging only briefly to act as soundcarriers for legendary former Can frontman Damo Suzuki. Behind the scenes, Fuzzy Lights worked on intertwining improvised jams with deliberate and personal songwriting, re-emerging with Burials, a collection of delicate yet weighty tunes that is the band's most compelling statement to date. The musical battle between the fuzzy and the lights makes Fuzzy Lights special MOJO Subverting genre expectations and folk melodies Financial Times