About Panacea from Brighton
Four characters. One basement. Zero compromises.
Meet the band
Maya: bass and vocals
Dropped out of music college, now works in a vintage clothes shop. Sings like she has nothing left to lose.
Finn: lead guitar and vocals
Moved over from Ireland for a tech job that left him hollow. Melodic one minute, pure distortion the next.
Dev: drums
Brighton born and bred. Quit engineering for the kit. Precise, explosive and the source of the band's anxious energy.
Sam: rhythm guitar
Works dead-end hospitality shifts. Adds the texture, the dissonance and most of the nihilism.
Who are Panacea from Brighton
Panacea is a Brighton grunge band making music for people tired of pretending everything's fine.
We formed because we needed to scream about the world we're living in: economic anxiety, mental health crises, social media damage, the crushing gap between what we're told life should be and what it actually is. Music was the only outlet that made sense.
We're not here to offer solutions. The album's called "Remedies for Nothing" for a reason. But we're here to offer something real: honest expression of what it feels like to be young, working-class, and struggling in 2025.
We're not asking you to fix anything. We're offering you space to feel what you're actually feeling, without judgment or toxic positivity.
That's what Panacea is. That's what we do.
Welcome to the grunge revival. It was just waiting for the right economic collapse.
What Panacea from Brighton are about
Authenticity over image
We don't curate an aesthetic for Instagram. This is who we are.
Community over competition
Brighton's music scene thrives when artists back each other. We're not competing, we're building culture together.
Honesty over comfort
We won't tell you everything's fine when it isn't. Toxic positivity helps no one.
DIY over industry nonsense
We release our own music and keep control of our art.
Accessibility over exclusivity
The music is on free streaming platforms. No gatekeeping.
No compromises. No selling out.
No pretending everything's fine.
Panacea is a Brighton story. The city still offers what London priced out years ago: (relatively) affordable creative space where musicians can actually breathe.
Brighton's independent venues, places like The Green Door Store, The Hope and Ruin and The Prince Albert, give stages to music that doesn't fit commercial radio. Record shops like Resident keep physical music alive in the North Laine.
And right now the city has a genuine grunge revival: fuzz pedals, loud-quiet dynamics and lyrics about rent and burnout. Panacea grew out of that sound. Grunge isn't retro fashion here. It's a response to living in a broken system.
Why Brighton?
Contact
Get in touch about merch, press, playlists and collaborations, or just to chat
info@panaceamusic.website
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