Five highlights of day one

The Brighton festival kicks off with sunshine synth-pop from St Lucia and bone-rattling bass from Niki & the DoveSt Lucia (Fitzherberts)"We just got in from New York," says St Lucia's singer Jean Philip-Grobler. "I didn't know they were from Yorkshire!" shouts a hard-of-hearing member of the crowd. Actually, St Lucia are as far from Yorkshire as they are from the incessant grey drizzle of Brighton. Mixing exotic pop, synthy electro and the sort of music Everything Everything would have made had ...

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