Concert - Ditz + Automatic

Ditz, an explosive Brighton quintet with a sound rooted in the post-punk / noise-rock scene, is considered by IDLES' Joe Talbot to be the best band in Brighton, if not the world.

With a grungy, neurotic and noisy DNA, Ditz owe their reputation to their wild, avant-garde live shows on colossal tours since the release of their excellent debut album The Great Regression in 2022.
The band announced a second album, Never Exhale, in January 2025, which was written during years of gigging all over Europe and recorded by Seth Manchester in London. This album has its roots in the fury of Jesus Lizard, the rhythmic signatures of Shellac and the obscure post-punk of the late Mark E Smith's The Fall: Ditz succeeds in the mad gamble of elevating rock to other dimensions.Automatic - the trio made up of Izzy Glaudini (synths, vocals), Lola Dompé (drums, vocals) and Halle Saxon-Gaines (bass) - is back with its second album, Excess.
Automatic synthesizes a new genre of retro-futuristic motorized pop. The album sits on the imaginary border between the underground of the '70s and the corporate culture of the '80s, or, as the band puts it, "that fleeting moment when what was once cool quickly became mainstream, all for the sake of consumerism".