In the 70’s and 80’s Brighton was very active in guitar improvisation, playing solo and with regular groups such as Balance, with Frank Perry, Colin Wood, Radu Malfatti and Philipp Wachsmann, SME with John Stevens and Trevor Watts, the Tony Oxley quartet and co-founder of the Alternative Music Orchestra with percussionist Trevor Taylor. He also played many concerts with the legendary Lol Coxhill. The majority of his work was with the members of String Thing who are playing together at Cafe OTO for the first time in 27 years.

His recordings were sparse but the second album “Now and Then”, released under his own name this year on Confront Recordings, has been well received and he was also featured in the June issue of the Wire magazine.

“Brighton’s work is the too rarely heard characteristic of exploring the possibilities rather than the probabilities of the sounds of his instrument. And that, above all, is what makes this album important.” – Roger Farbey All-About-Jazz