NAC supported Klanghaus heads to Brighton Festival this May
Maverick UK based performance collective KlangHaus are heading to The Brighton Festival this May with their performance of KlangHaus: Last Haus on Earth.
KlangHaus: Last Haus on Earth is totally unique, site-responsive live music experience. Barriers between performers and audience are dismantled in an audio/visual sensual storm. KlangHaus are art-rock mavericks The Neutrinos, with music ranging from pin drop quiet to full on loud and back again, and artist and film-maker Sal Pittman whose stunningly evocative and original films and projections cloak the entire space. With, at times, all hell breaking loose.
KlangHaus: Last Haus on Earth takes place in a dramatically enhanced domestic setting created in Brighton Dome’s skylit top floor Anita’s Room. The performers invite you into their personal space, to become integral to the show, immersed in the present, the sound, the lights. To sit, stand, lean and move in and around the musicians. A full-on sensory experience of an intimate shared musical and theatrical experience for small audience numbers, blending sound, song, humour, image, pathos, words, theatre, movement and silence.
★★★★ ‘highly personal, innovative and experimental’ Arifa Akbar, Guardian
Guardian Arts Editor Alex Needham enthused ‘KlangHaus truly delivers the shock of the new, it’s the most innovative presentation of live music I’ve ever seen, a total game changer’.
Co-devisor/singer Karen Reilly said ‘Last Haus on Earth invites you on a journey from ‘make-yourself-at-home’, to the microcosmic metropolis, through the deep and blue and breathless, to space and stars. We welcome everyone to share our life of wall-to-wall music, light, sound and saturated colour. ’The shows are performed within our domestic setting, divided by film screens, projections, instruments, smoke and mirrors.’
Klanghaus are The Neutrinos (Karen Reilly vocals, Jon Baker bass, piano and vocals, Mark Howe guitars and vocals, Jeron Gundersen, drums and percussion) and visual artist and filmmaker Sal Pittman. The Neutrinos release thesoundtrack album for Last Haus on Earth on 1 May via Wet Nurse Records.
KlangHaus: Last Haus on Earth is part of Brighton Festival 60th edition, taking place Sat 2 – Sun 24 May 2026
It is funded by Arts Council England with support from Norwich Arts Centre and the National Centre for Writing.
The collective also present KlangHaus: Darkroom in Anita’s Room for the duration of the festival. A climate change wake-up call for six audience members at a time. See separate release for info, dates and times. With multiple performances of both shows, KlangHaus will perform at least 96 shows this May.
Venue: Brighton Dome Anita’s Room
Dates: May 2 – 23 (not 4, 5, 11, 18) First review date 3 May
Times: 6pm, 8pm – May 2, 3, 6, 7, 10, 12-14, 17, 19-21
5pm, 7pm, 9pm – May 8, 9, 15, 16, 22, 23: (allow 75 mins)
