The Sleeves + Fyn Dobson | Brighton

The Sleeves Brighton

The Sleeves live in Brighton at The Rosehill on 12th July! Get tickets above until 6pm on the show day, or from SeeTickets.
Tickets available on the door.

Stage times:

Fyn Dobson: 7.30pm

The Sleeves: 8.30pm

The Sleeves are the duo of Jack Cooper and Tara Cunningham, both likely known to you as one half of Modern Nature. Following an all-instrumental Mossy Tapes release last November, Cooper and Cunningham have recorded 10 new songs showcasing their vocal and guitar interplay with only the faintest echoes of prior efforts (individually or collectively), representing a fully realized leap forward from their largely improvised debut.

‘The Sleeves’ is a somewhat counter intuitive take on the guitar/vocal duo formula (provided you think there is such a thing) though it’s not nearly as simplistic as “the space between the notes”– it would be the height of exaggeration to say an album this simultaneously expansive and incandescent is unprecedented. But it doesn’t happen nearly often enough,either.

“What I initially found so familiar and exciting about playing guitar with Jack – and continually do – is that our approach to music is pretty much exactly the same. And that is – to celebrate the space that frames ideas, embraces silence, to play simply, simultaneously championing our respective unembellished guitar sounds, whilst looking for sounds that aren’t like a guitar at all – bells, birds, switching between radio stations etc. It’s rare to find someone who -whatever this means to you -‘gets it’- and I think when we started playing guitar together, we both knew the other had something of whatever our ‘it’ was.”

“‘The Sleeves’ is the sum of our shared musical journey thus far, an exciting mix of familiarity and uncharted territory in its approach to structure and how we use our guitars and voices. It feels to me like we are both citing shared references and traditions, whilst floating in our own, single-cell world that is completely genre-less. That grey area is where we seem to thrive. As Jack says, it feels like music that really couldn’t be made by anyone else.”- Tara Cunningham

“Tara and I started playing guitar together at the start of 2024. It was an improvised music night in a railway arch in South London. The set was great but there was a couple of minutes in particular where Tara and I really sort of locked in. We made a record a few weeks later. There was something in the way we played together that felt very intuitive from the start. We recognised a shared approach right away and an affinity to the way each other played.”

“During the summer we got stuck in a traffic jam coming home from a show in Glasgow. We spent a few hours singing along to the Mamas & The Papas and Simon & Garfunkel and over the course of the day, like magic we became The Sleeves.”

“We’re excited about it because it feels like music that really couldn’t be made by anyone else. We don’t bring different elements to it. We both bring exactly the same things. It’s the result of our similarities.” – Jack Cooper https://thesleeves12xu.bandcamp.com/album/the-sleeves

+ Fyn Dobson: Fyn Dobson is a drummer and producer based in London. He has shared the stage and studio with disciplinary artists across a range of fields such as Loraine James, Kelly Moran, Nourished By Time, Will Guthrie, Imogen and The Knife and Max Winter. Off stage, Fyn’s creative breadth can be heard on various releases on labels such as Warp Records, Hyperdub and HEAD II. Fyn’s live solo performance’s focus on improvisation and the use of percussion to explore textures and noise on acoustic drums.

Upcoming Love Thy Neighbour shows:
12072026 – The Sleeves. The Rose Hill
22072026 – Tracey Nelson. The Hope & Ruin
24082026 – Michael Cera Palin. Green Door Store
29082026 – Weird Nightmare. Alphabet
10092026 – Ohtis. The Prince Albert
16092026 – Bratakus. The Prince Albert
19092026 – Immersion. Alphabet
20092026 – Glasshouse Red Spidermite. Prince Albert
21092026 – Jim Ghedi. Green Door Store
24092026 – Pozi. Green Door Store
01102026 – The Tubs. Chalk
03102026 – Cory Hanson. The Hope & Ruin
06102026 – Skating Polly. The Hope & Ruin
08102026 – Dateline. Prince Albert
10102026 – A Certain Ratio. Lewes Constitutional Club
13102026 – Jake Xerxes Fussell. Concorde 2
15102026 – Burglar. Hope & Ruin
17102026 – John Craigie. Alphabet
18102026 – Kacy & Clayton. Prince Albert
20102026 – Pina Palau. The Prince Albert
21102026 – Martha Tilston. Lewes Constitutional Club
21102026 – The Sewing Club. Hope & Ruin
22102026 – Kristin Hersh. The Old Market
22102026 – Mr Bruce. Patterns
28102026 – Deradoorian. Hope & Ruin
30102026 – Hollow Hand. Alphabet
31102026 – Penelope Isles. The Hope & Ruin
01112026 – Stu Larsen. The Prince Albert
04112026 – Furrow Collective. Lewes Constitutional Club
04112026 – zzzahara. Green Door Store
08112026 – Alien Boy. The Prince Albert
08112026 – Kiwi Jr. The Hope & Ruin
13112026 – The Boo Radleys. Lewes Constitutional Club
19112026 – Gold Panda. ALPHABET
19112026 – Niall McNamee. Prince Albert
22112026 – mildred. Prince Albert
25112026 – Ozric Tentacles. Lewes Constitutional Club
26112026 – Chris Wood. Lewes Constitutional Club
27112026 – Dave McCabe (The Zutons). Lewes Constitutional Club
29112026 – Dylan LeBlanc. Alphabet
04122026 – Mik Artistik’s Ego Trip. Lewes Constitutional Club
05122026 – John Otway. Lewes Constitutional Club
06022027 – Jim Moray. Komedia Brighton
13022027 – Amelia Coburn. Komedia Brighton
19032027 – HENGE. Chalk, Brighton
15042027 – Focus. Lewes Constitutional Club

Accessibility: Venue is accessible to wheelchairs, however there is no disabled toilet. Gendered toilets. If you require a carer ticket, please contact us at info@lovethyneighbourmusic.co.uk with evidence such as a blue badge or access card. If strobe lighting or standing for long periods of time is an issue, please contact us in advance so we can make arrangements.

The Sleeves Brighton

The Sleeves Brighton