Towner Lates
Summer Edition

Called ‘one of the most effortlessly inventive groups on the UK circuit’ by culture magazine Far Out, big long sun bring their art rock, frenzied folk pop to our Studio 1 space, along with dreamy projected visuals.   

Spearheaded by midlands-born, Brighton-based poet, painter, filmmaker, baker and musician Jamie Broughton, the band have released two acclaimed albums and an EP in little over 12 months. In that time, their 8-strong line-up has formed and hit up The Great Escape, toured the UK, performed a live session for BBC Radio 6Music (New Music Fix) and journeyed across seas for debut European dates at Left of The Dial.  

With radio backing this year from Huw Stephens, Steve Lamacq, Deb Grant, Emily Pilbeam, Giles Peterson, Amy Lamé (BBC Radio 6 Music) and John Kennedy (Radio X), as well as press support from the likes of UNCUT, Electronic Sound, Rough Trade, Notion and Far Out, big long sun are wasting no time in charging on ahead. 

Oliver Cherer is back under the alias Gilroy Mere with new album Furlongs, inspired by Eric Ravilious.

In early 2025, Ollie was diagnosed with cancer and had to travel to Brighton Hospital for radiotherapy treatment. Taking the daily 40-mile train ride from St-Leonard's-on-Sea and through the Downs, Ollie filled the journey making music.

Joining Ollie to play the new collection of songs in a special performance at the summer edition of Towner Lates will be a line up including:

Riz Maslen: an electronic artist who has been releasing records for many years as Neotropic and has performed as part of Future Sound on London and Aircooled among others.

Helen Edwards: a classically trained clarinetist with years of orchestral experience. Helen also occasionally plays with Aircoooled.

Hutch Demouilpied: a musician, composer and sound designer based in the UK. Her recent film scores include Daughters of the Late Colonel selected for Cannes 2026 in the prestigious Quinzaine des Cinéastes.

Darren Morris: a producer, pianist and film composer. He has worked with Massive Attack, David Holmes, Steve Mason and Ashley Beedle with whom he is a member of Black Science Orchestra.

Maria Marzaioli: a musician, composer and sound artist inspired by locations, landscapes and the stories a place has to tell. They issue records as YOU&TH and in 2011 undertook a two and a half month long sound exploration of the Glastonbury festival site. Maria has worked with Porridge Radio, Joanna Gruesome, Crayola Lectern and Dez Dare amongst others.

Ruby and Yanaëlle take inspiration from the small and under-acknowledged organisms in our ecosystems to explore themes of mutual aid, interdependence and interconnectedness.

With collaborative movement and making practices, they invite you to notice the processes and exchanges which occur when we see ourselves both as moving parts of a whole, and as a whole formed of smaller parts.

Ruby

Ruby is a multidisciplinary artist and facilitator, interested in impermanence, transformation, and substance.

Their work is a social, spiritual, and environmental practice, focused outside conventional gallery spaces, connecting to the land with site-responsive projects, and sewing seeds of community growth. They use sculpture and storytelling to reimagine historical and mythological ways of relating to each other, material, and the world around us.

They completed a residency with Newhaven Artspace in 2025 titled ‘Homescar’, engaging with the landscape and with local community about their relationships to the coastline. They worked with Yanaëlle Ritter co-developing and facilitating ‘How Sussex Speaks’ Towner Family Days 2024-25, and currently work with trans and disabled communities on their co-faciliated ‘Body as Myth’ workshop series.

Yanaëlle

Yanaëlle Ritter is a Belgian British contemporary dance artist based in Eastbourne. She dances in parks, on beaches, in galleries, on stages, and teaches dance to children, teenagers and adults across London and Sussex. Since graduating from London Contemporary Dance School in 2015, Yanaëlle has built a portfolio of outdoor and site-specific dance works. Her walking tour of Eastbourne: ‘The Performance Path’ included short performances along Lother Goetz’s Dance Diagonal artwork.

In 2024-25, Yanaëlle co-led Towner’s Family Days with Ruby Campion. She designs and delivers events and community projects with Company Concentric, and often collaborates with musicians like laouto player Miltos Boumis, composer Owen Ho, or experimental bands Afrit Nebula and Column258.