About the RMC
The Real Music Club has been promoting gigs in Brighton & Hove since 2004 when Judge Trev (Inner City Unit), Stuart McKay (Sumerian Kyngs) and Slim Tim Slide decided to bring the eclecticism and community spirit of the Festival scene into intimate Brighton music venues. Trev and Tim have now passed away but the spirit carries on and on!
We tend to have a gig, either at the Brunswick in Hove or the Prince Albert in Brighton, about once a month so do come back here to keep up to date. We are currently looking at other venues and occasionally host a larger gig at the Con Club in Lewes.
As a non profit organisation we are all about the music, seeking the best music we can find that we hope will inspire as well as entertain, giving a platform to original, creative music and performers. Each show is different, and each act at each show is often very different with eclecticism at the heart of what we do.
You can keep up to date with all that the Real Music Club has to offer by following our social media forum on Facebook and you can sign up to our regular newsletter (using the form above). We hope to see you at a show soon!
Our ideals
The Real Music Club is run, on a non profit basis, by a team of 7 people. Gregg, Stuart, Neal, Tony, Joe, Sean, and Tristian.
We meet once a month to discuss upcoming shows and usually have most of the year’s artists booked a long way in advance. This means that, if you are looking to get a gig from us you need to get in touch and give us your details, a bit about your music and what you do, in the previous year. We pay the acts from the door take (roughly on a 40% / 30% / 20% basis with the final 10% usually going to the RMC fund) after expenses such as venue cost and posters. We advertise the gigs via posters and flyers (ask us if you want some of these), on this website, on Facebook and in the Brighton and Hove listings pages but it is very important that the acts promote themselves too. The more people you get through the door the more you get paid and the better your gig will be! Since we do charge for entrance it is better to avoid doing free gigs just before or just after your gig with us. Tickets are cheaper in advance so try to get your fans to buy them that way. They are available from Resident Records in the North Lanes and online via We Got Tickets. We have a limit of one free guest per band member but there is a reduced rate paying guest list that performers can add people to.
Archive site
The previous version of the therealmusicclub site.