179 gigs and concerts to catch in East Sussex
From indie darlings to tap-dancing rebels, we've got the lowdown on the county's most unmissable live music moments this autumn in East Sussex.
Apogee Techno: Apogee Joe B2B Sammy Goss & Ekko Audio
1 Nov 2026
Where Else? (Margate)
Ashley Beedle Fundraiser Gig
1 Nov 2026
Where Else? (Margate)
Becky Hill
1 Nov 2026 – 24 Jul 2027
Dreamland Margate
Belcher + Miler
30 Oct 2026 – 18 Nov 2026
The Hope & Ruin (Brighton)
Bex Burch
1 Nov 2026
Where Else? (Margate)
Bob Log III
1 Nov 2026
Where Else? (Margate)
Bob Nastanovich (Pavement/Silver Jews) DJ set
1 Nov 2026
Where Else? (Margate)
Brightr
1 Nov 2026
Where Else? (Margate)
cootie catcher + Of Iyrn
1 Nov 2026
The Hope & Ruin (Brighton)
Dexys Midnight Runners
1 Nov 2026
Brighton Dome
Flyte
1 Nov 2026
Where Else? (Margate)
Grapevine Jazz Sessions Live in Rye
18 Oct 2026 – 27 Dec 2026
The Grapevine (Rye)
Halloween 2026
1 Nov 2026 – 19 Dec 2026
The Casino Rooms Nightclub & Events Venue (Rochester)
Holly Johnson
1 Nov 2026 – 21 Aug 2027
Dreamland Margate
Jim White + Ben De La Cour
1 Nov 2026
Komedia Brighton
Karaoke w/ Shelly Grotto
1 Nov 2026 – 29 Nov 2026
Where Else? (Margate)
Kodaline Live Outstore
1 Nov 2026
Where Else? (Margate)
KPX All Dayer w/ Tom Vek & more - Fundraiser to help save Where Else? venue
1 Nov 2026
Where Else? (Margate)
KPX Showcase: Tony & The Abominations and friends
1 Nov 2026
Where Else? (Margate)
Live Entertainment at The Ivy Chelsea Garden
31 Oct 2026 – 28 Nov 2026
The Ivy In The Lanes (Brighton)
Margate Noise Complaints All Dayer
1 Nov 2026
Where Else? (Margate)
Margate Noise Complaints w/ Tarmac, Yoo Doo Right & more
1 Nov 2026
Where Else? (Margate)
ME REX: Live In-Store
1 Nov 2026
Where Else? (Margate)
Michael Buble Tribute Evening
31 Oct 2026 – 28 Nov 2026
The Tenterden Club
Nervus
1 Nov 2026
Where Else? (Margate)
Rats Nest, Tarmac and Few Thoughts
1 Nov 2026
Where Else? (Margate)
Record Fair
31 Oct 2026 – 6 Dec 2026
Komedia Brighton
Sarah-Jane Hassell Trio Live in Tenterden
30 Oct 2026 – 5 Dec 2026
The Grapevine (Rye)
Sean Goldring, The Circus Birds and Felicia Buena
1 Nov 2026
Where Else? (Margate)
Sensational 60s
1 Nov 2026
Central Theatre (Chatham)
Songs of Love & Hate
1 Nov 2026
The Folklore Rooms (Brighton)
Spooky House *FREE ENTRY*
31 Oct 2026 – 1 Nov 2026
The Hope & Ruin (Brighton)
Squid Ambient DJ Set and Signing
1 Nov 2026
Where Else? (Margate)
Steve Knightley & The Winter Yards Band + Megan Henwood
1 Nov 2026
Komedia Brighton
Supermilk Matinee Show
1 Nov 2026
Where Else? (Margate)
TEZ
1 Nov 2026
Where Else? (Margate)
Thanet Male Voice Choir 2026
31 Oct 2026 – 8 May 2027
Sarah Thorne Theatre (Broadstairs)
The Amy Experience
1 Nov 2026 – 23 Apr 2027
Dreamland Margate
The Blues Cats Live in Rye
20 Oct 2026 – 19 Dec 2026
The Grapevine (Rye)
The Bluetones
1 Nov 2026
Concorde 2 (Brighton)
The Carpenters Experience
1 Nov 2026
The Sinden (Tenterden)
The Mouse Outfit
30 Oct 2026 – 17 Apr 2027
DUST (Brighton)
The South
1 Nov 2026
White Rock Theatre (Hastings)
Tid Pao
1 Nov 2026
Where Else? (Margate)
Von Hertzen Brothers
1 Nov 2026
Komedia Brighton
WhereElse' 8th Birthday!
1 Nov 2026
Where Else? (Margate)
Fat Poppadaddys: HALLOWEEN HANGOVER
2 Nov 2026
CHALK (Brighton)
Hullabaloo Community Quire
2 Nov 2026 – 30 Nov 2026
Ironworks Studios (Brighton)
Sota
2 Nov 2026 – 10 Nov 2026
The Arch Brighton
villagerrr
2 Nov 2026
The Hope & Ruin (Brighton)
AAAZUKAR Salsa
3 Nov 2026 – 13 Nov 2026
Brighthelm Centre (Brighton)
Bachata All-Dayer – Autumn Edition | South Coast
3 Nov 2026 – 29 Nov 2026
Brighthelm Centre (Brighton)
Change It!: Melizards, WHY? , Please Stay
3 Nov 2026
Where Else? (Margate)
Colin Miller
3 Nov 2026
DUST (Brighton)
Hothouse Flowers
3 Nov 2026
De La Warr Pavilion (Bexhill-on-Sea)
Reflective Hands presents Will Samson
3 Nov 2026
Where Else? (Margate)
SPIN CITY
3 Nov 2026 – 25 Nov 2026
East Street Tap (Brighton)
Chinese American Bear, Alice Costelloe
4 Nov 2026
Where Else? (Margate)
CROWN CONTROL
4 Nov 2026 – 26 Nov 2026
East Street Tap (Brighton)
Elder Island
4 Nov 2026
CHALK (Brighton)
Glisten Trick, Lulé Barracuda and Melinda Bronstein
4 Nov 2026
Where Else? (Margate)
Live Music at The Ivy Exeter
4 Nov 2026 – 30 Dec 2026
The Ivy In The Lanes (Brighton)
The Roebucks
4 Nov 2026
'The Forum' Live Music Venue (Tunbridge Wells)
The Roebucks + Woodpig + The Tern
4 Nov 2026
The Sussex Arms (Tunbridge Wells)
Willie And The Bandits
4 Nov 2026
Where Else? (Margate)
Bo Diddley - First Flush
5 Nov 2026
Resident Music (Brighton)
Crash Of Moons: Surface Air, Hippo, Jack Goldstein
5 Nov 2026 – 26 Nov 2026
Where Else? (Margate)
Disappear Here (10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)
5 Nov 2026
Resident Music (Brighton)
Divorce
5 Nov 2026 – 5 Dec 2026
Where Else? (Margate)
Famyne (Svart Records) and Old Horn Tooth
5 Nov 2026
Where Else? (Margate)
Join the buzz, live music every Thursday evening at the restaurant
5 Nov 2026 – 26 Nov 2026
Picture House (Uckfield)
Joshua Idehen
5 Nov 2026
Brighton Dome
KPX Showcase: Fruit Band & friends
5 Nov 2026
Where Else? (Margate)
Live Music - Stuart Bligh
5 Nov 2026
Picture House (Uckfield)
Meat Loaf by Candlelight
5 Nov 2026
Theatre Royal Brighton
Mosaic Triangle Live in Rye
5 Nov 2026
The Grapevine (Rye)
Nullstate, 3 Lovers Leap, The Seer, Lucifer Sky, Night Porter
5 Nov 2026
Where Else? (Margate)
Organchrist (live), Chupacabras (live)
5 Nov 2026
Where Else? (Margate)
Seamus Fogarty
5 Nov 2026
Where Else? (Margate)
Somewhere Soul - Rituals Vol 2 Listening Party
5 Nov 2026
A L P H A B E T (Brighton)
Soultastics
5 Nov 2026
Bohemia Brighton
Spirit of Gravity
5 Nov 2026 – 17 Dec 2026
The Rossi Bar (Brighton)
Teenage Fanclub
5 Nov 2026
Concorde 2 (Brighton)
Triple Drain – ‘Otherside’ Release Party
5 Nov 2026
Green Door Store (Brighton)
Underdark + Karnstein + Davghter
5 Nov 2026
Where Else? (Margate)
Welly
5 Nov 2026
Where Else? (Margate)
Big Woes + Sheepish + ELZ + Scott (DJ)
6 Nov 2026
Where Else? (Margate)
Choir-oke Anthems: A Margate Pride Fund Raiser
6 Nov 2026
Where Else? (Margate)
ChopChop, Tony & The Abominations, Bellyfull
6 Nov 2026
Where Else? (Margate)
Dire Straits - The French Revolution
6 Nov 2026
Resident Music (Brighton)
Doris (Jaw-G & Scott Humphrey)
6 Nov 2026 – 7 Nov 2026
Where Else? (Margate)
Flow State w/ DJs Triangulator, Cut La Vis & Orac808
6 Nov 2026
Where Else? (Margate)
Johnboy - anthology
6 Nov 2026
Resident Music (Brighton)
K Motionz
6 Nov 2026
Quarters (Brighton)
KEYBOARD KARAOKE!
6 Nov 2026 – 4 Dec 2026
Signalman (Brighton)
KPX Showcase: Polo Lounge & Friends
6 Nov 2026
Where Else? (Margate)
Lael Neale
6 Nov 2026 – 11 Dec 2026
Where Else? (Margate)
Laura Lawton Live in Tenterden
6 Nov 2026
The Grapevine (Rye)
Mosaic Triangle Live in Tenterden
6 Nov 2026
The Grapevine (Rye)
NeverUnder + support from UNDERPASS and 5DN
6 Nov 2026
The Prince Albert (Brighton)
NO TV's Disco Punk Party
6 Nov 2026
Where Else? (Margate)
Paddy Steer
6 Nov 2026
Where Else? (Margate)
Panic Shack
6 Nov 2026
Where Else? (Margate)
PAWSA
6 Nov 2026
The Source (Maidstone)
Rock And Roll Over (50th Anniversary Edition)
6 Nov 2026
Resident Music (Brighton)
Royal Blood - Dead Company
6 Nov 2026
Resident Music (Brighton)
ROYAL BLOOD (EARLY)
6 Nov 2026
CHALK (Brighton)
ROYAL BLOOD (LATE)
6 Nov 2026
CHALK (Brighton)
Sing the Greatest Hits
6 Nov 2026
Central Theatre (Chatham)
SOT Classics - BBC Philharmonic Orchestra - Frost and Fire
6 Nov 2026
Theatre Royal Brighton
Tamo Junto!
6 Nov 2026
Where Else? (Margate)
The Bug Club
6 Nov 2026
Where Else? (Margate)
The Kid Laroi - Before I Forget
6 Nov 2026
Resident Music (Brighton)
The Wameki
6 Nov 2026 – 17 Dec 2026
The Rossi Bar (Brighton)
Thelonious Monk - Monk's Dream (Expanded Edition)
6 Nov 2026
Resident Music (Brighton)
UPCOMING WORKSHOPS
6 Nov 2026 – 31 Jan 2027
Starling Studio (Brighton)
Andy C
7 Nov 2026
Quarters (Brighton)
Blow Up
7 Nov 2026
Komedia Brighton
Bob Marley
7 Nov 2026
De La Warr Pavilion (Bexhill-on-Sea)
Charles Moothart
7 Nov 2026
Where Else? (Margate)
China Crisis
7 Nov 2026
'The Forum' Live Music Venue (Tunbridge Wells)
Courting
7 Nov 2026
Where Else? (Margate)
Desperate Journalist + Weather Happy
7 Nov 2026
The Hope & Ruin (Brighton)
Firestations, Melinda Bronstein and Autohaus
7 Nov 2026
Where Else? (Margate)
Jack Savoretti
7 Nov 2026 – 10 Nov 2026
Theatre Royal Brighton
Maid of Ace
7 Nov 2026
Where Else? (Margate)
Margate Sampler Launch Party, Big Woes, Jolt & more
7 Nov 2026
Where Else? (Margate)
Master Peace
7 Nov 2026
Where Else? (Margate)
Millie Manders and the Shutup
7 Nov 2026
White Rock Theatre (Hastings)
Moonage – David Bowie Tribute
7 Nov 2026
St Mary's Arts Centre - Sandwich
Motorpace
7 Nov 2026
The Carlisle (Hastings)
Nafe Smallz x Rift
7 Nov 2026
Concorde 2 (Brighton)
Nova Twins: Live In Store, Signing
7 Nov 2026
Where Else? (Margate)
Quiet Boy
7 Nov 2026
Where Else? (Margate)
Robert Reid Duo Live in Rye
7 Nov 2026
The Grapevine (Rye)
Showaddywaddy
7 Nov 2026 – 26 Mar 2027
Theatre Royal Brighton
The Battle of Cable Street 90th Anniversary Celebration Gig
7 Nov 2026
The Prince Albert (Brighton)
The Fezzes
7 Nov 2026
Hailsham Pavilion
The Rambling Club
7 Nov 2026
'The Forum' Live Music Venue (Tunbridge Wells)
Trip Westerns – Trip Fest Album Fundraiser
7 Nov 2026
Green Door Store (Brighton)
Twenty One Pilots Appreciation Party
7 Nov 2026
DUST (Brighton)
Where Elz Karaoke
7 Nov 2026 – 5 Dec 2026
Where Else? (Margate)
Bob Marley: Reimagined by the London African Gospel Choir
7 Nov 2026
De La Warr Pavilion (Bexhill-on-Sea)
Champion Trees
8 Nov 2026 – 8 Feb 2027
The Hope & Ruin (Brighton)
Holy Fawn + MØL
8 Nov 2026 – 9 Nov 2026
Concorde 2 (Brighton)
Tony Hadley – The Christmas Big Band Tour 2026
8 Nov 2026
White Rock Theatre (Hastings)
Fat Poppadaddys: INDIE ROULETTE
9 Nov 2026
CHALK (Brighton)
Demeanour + Sylvia + Override + Slow Violence
10 Nov 2026
The Hope & Ruin (Brighton)
Natalie Shay
10 Nov 2026 – 17 Dec 2026
The Rossi Bar (Brighton)
Ben Poole
11 Nov 2026
'The Forum' Live Music Venue (Tunbridge Wells)
SØWT
11 Nov 2026 – 17 Dec 2026
The Rossi Bar (Brighton)
The March Violets
11 Nov 2026
Komedia Brighton
The Music of Wes Anderson Performed by Wes Banderson
11 Nov 2026
Komedia Brighton
Firestations
12 Nov 2026
Where Else? (Margate)
Natalie Shay
12 Nov 2026
'The Forum' Live Music Venue (Tunbridge Wells)
Sounds Of The 60s Live - Hosted By Tony Blackburn OBE
12 Nov 2026 – 22 Sept 2027
Theatre Royal Brighton
Butch Kassidy
14 Nov 2026
A L P H A B E T (Brighton)
Definitely Oasis
14 Nov 2026
Dreamland Margate
Emo Day Party
14 Nov 2026
Quarters (Brighton)
Soil + Adema
15 Nov 2026
Dreamland Margate
Victus - Ex Umbra
15 Nov 2026
A L P H A B E T (Brighton)
The Grand Community Choir
16 Nov 2026 – 11 Jan 2027
Theatre Royal Brighton
Dessie Magee
17 Nov 2026
Green Door Store (Brighton)
Skye Newman
18 Nov 2026
Brighton Centre
Ahsoka (Farewell Show) + Chasm + is this ok
19 Nov 2026
The Hope & Ruin (Brighton)
Forever Nu - 25th Anniversary of Toxicity & Iowa
19 Nov 2026
Concorde 2 (Brighton)
Millie Manders and The Shutup
19 Nov 2026
'The Forum' Live Music Venue (Tunbridge Wells)
Phil Cosby Live
20 Nov 2026
The Belgian Cafe (Eastbourne)
Robert Reid Duo Live in Tenterden
21 Nov 2026
The Grapevine (Rye)
Sigma
21 Nov 2026
Faith In Strangers (Margate)
Sigma present Country Greaze
21 Nov 2026
Faith In Strangers (Margate)
The Rifles
26 Nov 2026
Dreamland Margate
Back In Time: A Tribute To The 80’s with Murdoch’s Crazy Eyes
27 Nov 2026
Komedia Brighton
Dessie Magee + Ebony Grace
27 Nov 2026
Where Else? (Margate)
that’s f***ing rubbish – the cure vs charli xcx
27 Nov 2026
Green Door Store (Brighton)
The Overtones - Jivin' Home For Christmas
27 Nov 2026
The Granville Theatre (Ramsgate)
Ben Portsmouth – This Is Elvis
28 Nov 2026
Assembly Hall Theatre (Tunbridge Wells)
RELEASE THE BATS (FREE!)
28 Nov 2026
Caroline of Brunswick (Brighton)
Dessie Magee
29 Nov 2026
Lewes Con Club
