LOUD WOMEN Brighton: one more day of international punk family

The Prince Albert, Brighton – 6 September 2026

What do you do the day after LOUD WOMEN Fest London?

Apparently, you get on a train to Brighton and do it all again.

After a huge day at Rich Mix, some of our international friends were still in town, so on Sunday afternoon we took over The Prince Albert for one more beautifully international gathering: Hamburg’s Bullshit Boy, The Hague’s Lilith Left the Garden, Sydney’s Second Idol, and Brighton favourites Playing Alice and WREX. Germany, the Netherlands, Australia and the UK, all squeezed into one upstairs room by the seaside.

And honestly, it was exactly what we needed.

WREX kicked things off at 1.30pm, somehow still standing after playing LOUD WOMEN Fest London the day before, and with another LOUD WOMEN show in Canterbury still to come that evening. Three shows in two days is frankly ridiculous behaviour, and we salute it. Their huge alt-rock sound was a suitably energetic start to a Sunday afternoon that showed absolutely no interest in being sensible.

Next came Bullshit Boy, our Hamburg pals bringing their queer punk fury back for another round after London. Sharp, funny, furious and enormous fun, they’ve been one of the joys of this whole international LOUD WOMEN adventure. There is something particularly lovely about getting to watch bands travel, meet each other and find new audiences from city to city rather than simply disappearing home after one festival slot.

Lilith Left the Garden followed, over from The Hague and fresh from their London appearance too. Their dark, danceable punk was completely at home in the Prince Albert, balancing intensity with the kind of tunes that make standing still increasingly difficult. Another band we were very glad we hadn’t had to say goodbye to on Saturday night.

Sydney’s Second Idol have been on quite the LOUD WOMEN tour themselves, taking in Liverpool, London and Brighton in the space of a few days. Their atmospheric post-punk gave the afternoon another shift in mood, all tension, melody and beautifully brooding intensity. Bringing artists halfway around the world to play alongside bands from across Europe and the UK is exactly the kind of thing we dreamed LOUD WOMEN might grow into. Seeing it actually happening still feels pretty special.

And closing the afternoon were Brighton’s own Playing Alice, with the home crowd very much on their side. Big vocals, big guitars and big choruses made them the perfect band to bring our seaside Sunday to a close.

Then, somehow, it was 5pm.

After Dublin, Edinburgh, Liverpool and the enormous London Fest, this could easily have felt like one gig too many. Instead, Brighton felt like the loveliest little epilogue: friends who had travelled thousands of miles still hanging out together, bands watching each other, new connections being made and one more room full of people discovering music from somewhere they might never otherwise have encountered it.

That’s the good stuff. That’s what all the ridiculous trains, spreadsheets, emails and sleep deprivation are for.

A huge thank you to Rai from Shallow Honey, who made so much of the Brighton magic happen on the ground. We genuinely could not have done this one without you.

And enormous thanks to everyone at The Prince Albert, everyone who came down on a Sunday afternoon, and of course every band who squeezed one more show out of a truly massive weekend.

Same again next year, then?