The Old Market Launches Feel Good, a Week of Immersive Music and Wellbeing in Hove This September
The Old Market launches its Feel Good season in Hove this September
Feel Good Season, The Old Market
Eight Days of Music, Stillness and the Art of Listening
The Old Market in Hove is launching Feel Good, its first ever season devoted to wellbeing and the healing power of listening together. Eight days, eight ways to slow down, running from Wednesday 2 to Tuesday 8 September 2026.
Celebrating calm and connection, the season is an inaugural week-long programme of immersive and holistic music events. From soothing ambient sound baths and storytelling to 360-degree visual and audio soundscapes, electronic music and traditional folk, Feel Good brings together artists and communities to create new ways to gather, connect and be present through the live arts.
It promises a joyous week of music, visuals and unforgettable performances, with a line-up of established and emerging performers all exploring and celebrating the healing power of listening together.
Feel Good is about what happens when we slow down and really listen, together. Live performance has an extraordinary power to connect us, and this festival is designed to lean into that fully, immersive sound, stunning visuals, and the simple but profound experience of being in a room with other people and feeling something.
Helen Jewell, Creative Director, The Old MarketHelen Jewell added that the venue will work with grassroots and youth-led organisations throughout the season to explore what creativity and shared experience can mean for wellbeing, and thanked Arts Council England for its continued support and its most recent funding for the new season.
Hiraeth Folk Club
Wednesday 2 September, 19:00
To launch Feel Good, The Old Market presents an evening of uplifting folk music from one of Sussex's leading bands in the field, Hiraeth Folk Club. The night bids farewell to summer and welcomes the harvest, an immersive evening blending traditional English, Irish and Scottish folk music with visual art.
Hiraeth Folk Club opens Feel Good on 2 September
Facesoul
Thursday 3 September, 19:30
The beautiful, meditative music of Facesoul comes to The Old Market for one night only, using art as a vehicle for healing. Faisal Salah, known by his stage name Facesoul, is a London-based artist born in East Africa. At 19 he began travelling the world, performing for different communities and sharing his story through his voice.
Those travels proved formative. He discovered that the people he met, even with their apparent differences in race, language and environment, shared the same internal emotions and feelings, and in that they were not separate. His upbringing with traditional Islamic roots has been paramount to forming his truth and identity, and his sense of spirituality is imbued in his practice. He will perform tracks from his current album YRSA.
Facesoul performs at The Old Market on 3 September
Indigaura Presents Sakr x Klsr
Friday 4 September, 19:00
Friday brings one of the season's most ambitious nights, Indigaura Presents Sakr x Klsr: 360 Live AV, a boundary-pushing 360-degree sensory experience featuring a line-up of visionary producers and digital artists who blur the line between sound and sight. Audiences step into the future of audiovisual performance with live, real-time hi-def visuals perfectly synced to the music, along with surround sound audio. Both artists will present their visuals in full 360 surround for the very first time.
Sakr arrives fresh off rave reviews across London and European performances, and as the visual mastermind behind Evanescence's latest single, delivering a high-octane, sound-reactive performance that must be seen to be believed. Brighton-based Klsr is an innovative audiovisual artist exploring light and textures through real-time processes, whose distinctive, audio-reactive approach has landed his striking digital artwork on the live tour stages of world-renowned artists like Linkin Park.
The night features support from Indigaura residents Aleromaze, Paralucid and visual artist Aesylr, bringing the same energy that defined their recent sold-out immersive club nights at the venue. The next generation of AV talent will also take part, with works from emerging Brighton-based students and artists.
Indigaura brings a 360-degree live AV show on 4 September
Lightworks by eott
Saturday 5 September, timings to be confirmed
Community and local talent sit at the heart of Saturday's event with Lightworks by eott, a music community in Brighton where mental health matters. The evening puts connection and shared experience front and centre, in keeping with the spirit of the whole season.
Lightworks by eott takes over 5 September
Flux
Sunday 6 September, 19:30
Flux returns to The Old Market with an immersive deep listening experience, creating space to slow down, feel and connect through sound. Blending live music, sound design and visual art, the session invites you to lie back and listen, or engage in your own way through stillness, observation or quiet creative expression.
The evening features composer kiskadee, otherwise known as Jack Chown, and digital artist Studio Aszyk, the work of Neal Coghlan, presenting a multi-sensory installation where sound and image unfold together. Field recordings, organic electronic composition and responsive visuals combine to form a calm, reflective environment shaped by natural textures and rhythms. kiskadee will also premiere new material from his forthcoming second album.
As with all Flux sessions, there is no set way to experience it, just space to be with the sound in whichever way feels right. Created in collaboration with The Old Market especially for Feel Good, this meditative session uses a carefully held interplay of scent, sound and visuals to offer a moment to reset and feel restored.
Flux returns for a deep listening session on 6 September
Julian Deane, The Plough
Monday 7 September, 19:30
Feel Good's penultimate event welcomes former Toploader guitarist Julian Deane to perform The Plough, a longform ambient film and live music performance under his Woodchester Piano Company name. Created during a period of recovery and creative reset, the piece follows a drifting journey through Sussex landscapes, ancient landmarks, roadside moments and open skies, part documentary, part meditation, part moving sketchbook.
Performed live to self-shot film, the soundtrack unfolds slowly across piano, guitar, synths and immersive ambient textures, allowing the room itself to become part of the experience. Audiences are invited to sit, lie down, wander, reflect or simply spend time inside the work. Somewhere between concert, cinema and installation, The Plough explores slowness, landscape and attention, offering a temporary pause from the pace and noise of everyday life.
Julian Deane performs The Plough on 7 September
ANATOM
Tuesday 8 September, 20:00
A premiere closes out The Old Market's first ever Feel Good programme, ANATOM, presented by Four Arrows of Light. ANATOM is a journey through spellbinding film montages and soundscapes, performed with a vibrant, lively string quartet by the Modulus Quartet. It is inspired by the wonder of the human body, from cell duplication and the structure of the skeleton to a newborn's first breath, the branching lungs, a child's racing steps, our deep felt emotions and the heart circulating blood, through to changing awareness as we age and the sensory landscape of the nervous system.
Explored through seven dramatic and uplifting contemporary-classical string quartet performances, composed by Nicholas de Carlo and performed by the Modulus Quartet, the ANATOM experience is crafted to be both mesmerising and multi-sensory.
Wonderful and unlike anything else I've experienced, an utterly captivating performance, mesmerising, thought-provoking and spiritually uplifting
Ramsgate Festival of Sound, on previous show Gagarin Quartets
ANATOM closes the season on 8 September
Sound Baths from Nature
Thursday 3 to Sunday 6 September, daytime sessions
Completing the Feel Good line-up are immersive 20-minute sound baths running throughout the week, following their sell-out success at The Old Market's recent Of Land, Sea and Sky season for Brighton Festival. Step inside an immersive space, relax and lie back on beanbags, and drift off into the sounds and visuals of the natural world. Designed for deep listening and calm reflection, these short bursts of surround sound and large-scale visuals transport you into vivid natural environments, from rolling waves and whispering forests to wind-swept skies and distant horizons.
Sessions run on Thursday 3, Friday 4 and Saturday 5 September at 10:00 and 10:30, and on Sunday 6 September at 10:00, 10:30, 11:00 and 11:30, offering a moment of stillness and a chance to slow down and breathe.
Sound baths run in the daytime from 3 to 6 September
Supported by Plus Accounting and Arts Council England
The inaugural Feel Good season is sponsored by Plus Accounting and supported by Arts Council England. Vicky King, Marketing Director at Plus Accounting, said the company was delighted to be supporting The Old Market for a second year and to be part of the programme.
As a B Corp, we're passionate about creating positive impact in our community and supporting initiatives that bring people together. The Feel Good programme aligns perfectly with our values, encouraging people to take time to recharge, connect and prioritise their wellbeing.
Vicky King, Marketing Director, Plus Accounting
Feel Good is sponsored by Plus Accounting
Supported using public funding by Arts Council England
Book Your Place at Feel Good
Feel Good runs at The Old Market in Hove from Wednesday 2 to Tuesday 8 September 2026. Tickets are on sale now.
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