BE AT THE HEART OF IT
Welcome to Brighten The Corners, a not-for-profit youth-focussed live music organisation based in Ipswich, operating three music venues, festivals, and education, skills and training programmes.
We are a youth & volunteer focused live music not for profit based in Ipswich, Suffolk, offering routes into the music industry on and off the stage.
What’s On
Vinyl only DJ sets at The Church with guest DJs every Thursday. Happy Hour 5-7pm!
Like the best moments of foundational albums by Talk Talk or Nick Drake, the lived-in majesty of Adrienne Lenker or Jim O'Rourke's excursions into chamber pop.
Common Ground collage workshop in collaboration with Young Artists in Suffolk at The Church on Saturday 14th March!
Join Mulholland Jive, The Frestonians, and Rob Prince for a night of the finest indie music talent in East Anglia brought to you by Frestonia Records.
Join us for a Music Quiz in The Church!
Vinyl only DJ sets at The Church with guest DJs every Thursday. Happy Hour 5-7pm!
Young Artists In Suffolk collage workshop themed around the Spring Equinox.
Join DJs Ed Barnes and Sam Leppard as they play nothing but 90s bangers all night long!
Open for pre and post match drinks 10am-10pm
The Psychic Pimps showcasing new material with support from Scruff Myers
Chew The Fat! Presents MARSHALL JEFFERSON
Brighten The Corners Presents folk nine-piece Shovel Dance Collective at The Church for a matinee performance on Sunday 22nd March.
Join us for a pub / music quiz in The Church!
Vinyl only DJ sets at The Church with guest DJs every Thursday. Happy Hour 5-7pm!
Coming 1000s miles from Slovakia to see YOU! Pivnica plays The Smokehouse with Fetus Destruction, Mincer, and Done With Waiting
BooSi Promotions presents PICANTE, an immersive experience that embody raw energy, bouncy bass lines and vibrant community spirit of the golden era of Hardhouse.
Walking Babes clothes swap at The Church
Celebrating 30 years since their debut No.1 Album Expecting The Fly, The Baths sees the return of one of Britpop's favourite guitar bands. Presented by JALP events.
Brighten The Corners Presents Cambridge psych-folk quintet Fuzzy Lights at The Smokehouse on Saturday 28th March, with support from The Feathered Thorns.
Guitar riff-laden Brighton band SLAG play The Smokehouse on Thursday 2nd April
Ipswich’s friendliest and loudest party returns. WREKT guarantee you a packed dance floor hosting some of the best Drum & Bass Jungle DJ’s & MCs in the UK.
Brighten The Corners Presents iconic Post-rock, ambient, and prog-rock collective Held By Trees.
War bastard is a 4-piece Brutal Death Metal band hailing from Colchester, Essex. A must for lovers of fast techy riffs and brutal hardcore inspired breakdowns
Join us after Ipswich Town take on Middlesbrough for all the usual Kings of Anglia podcast debate and analysis, plus associated nonsense... LIVE!
Rad Pitt are BACK in Ipswich. After a stonking 10 year celebration at The Church last August, The Pitt are excited to serve a slice of riffs to the unsuspecting Suffolk folk.
Brighten The Corners Presents Norwich alt country band Brown Horse at The Church on Saturday 18th April.
Fiddle-player Mikey Kenney joins us for Early Doors, a new series of intimate events with an early finish.
Brighten The Corners and Ipswich Central have launched a new, free, one-day grassroots music festival at pubs and venues in Ipswich town centre.
Cafe and Bar at The Church
Vinyl nights, happy hour, quizzes, Hex record shop, discover your new favourite independent coffee shop and bar in Ipswich

