BIMM Music Institute Brighton facilities
At BIMM Brighton, you’ll study where it all began. Since opening in 2001, BIMM Music Institute Brighton has grown across two inspiring buildings filled with cutting-edge facilities, all set within a thriving local music scene – giving you the experience, confidence, and real-world insight to step straight into the industry.
Surrounded by iconic venues like Concorde 2, The Hope & Ruin, and Brighton Dome, you’ll be immersed in a city where live music is part of everyday life, sharing stages with the artists who inspire you. Study in our very first college and walk the same corridors as alumni like James Bay, Tom Odell, Josh Harrison, and Naomi Bressani – following in the footsteps of those already shaping the industry.
Brighton campus at a glance
- BIMM’s original campus, opened in 2001
- Industry-standard facilities across multiple buildings
- Live rooms, studios, Mac suites and specialist performance spaces
- Strong links to Brighton’s professional music community
BIMM Music Institute Brighton is spread across three main sites: BIMM House, BIMM West, and our partner studios at Brighton Electric. Together, they offer a wide range of professional environments for performance, production and collaboration.
Housed in a four-storey Grade II listed building (formerly Hove Town Hall), BIMM House is designed to get the best performance out of you – technically, creatively and professionally. Located just a short walk from BIMM West, it’s home to teaching spaces, rehearsal rooms and two fully equipped live performance venues.
Live rooms
BIMM House features two impressive live rooms with capacities of 60 and 100 people, both built to professional venue standards. Each space includes:
- Professional PA systems and lighting rigs
- Stages fitted to top-end specification
- A mix of new and vintage backline equipment
The walls of both live rooms are lined with signatures from the hundreds of industry artists and professionals who have visited BIMM over the years. The bass room also houses a Hartke bass amp and speaker stack gifted by Nate Watts, Stevie Wonder’s long-time bass player.
Located on Brunswick Street West in Hove, BIMM West sits at the heart of Brighton campus life. The 8,200-square-foot building includes nine specialist teaching rooms, designed to support music production, performance and collaboration.
Facilities include:
- Fully equipped Mac Suites
- An SSL / ADAM Audio Mix Suite
- A professional recording studio
- A dedicated electronic music production suite featuring cutting-edge and vintage hardware
BIMM West also houses the student café, a central space for studying, socialising and connecting with staff and peers.
To ensure students experience real-world studio environments, BIMM Brighton partners with Brighton Electric Studios, one of the UK’s most respected recording complexes.
Founded in 2000, Brighton Electric sits at the centre of the local and national music scene and has hosted artists including Royal Blood, The Cure, Florence Welch and Foals.
The facility includes:
- 17 rehearsal and practice studios
- Two high-end recording studios
- Multiple mix studios and a mastering suite
- Storage facilities and an on-site venue
Students also gain access to premium hardware, including the vintage Neve 5315 console, offering hands-on experience with equipment used by industry professionals.
Brighton’s performance spaces are discipline-specific and professionally equipped, with dedicated rooms for guitar, bass, vocals, drums and keyboards. Equipment includes industry-standard gear from Orange, Victory, Cornford, Marshall, JMI, Fender and more.
100-capacity live room (top floor)
- D&B front-of-house and monitor systems with power amps
- Midas M32 sound desk with multitrack recording
- Full LED and PAR 56 lighting system with Chamsys Q20 desk
- Sonar drums and Zildjian cymbals
- Roland SPD-SX sample pads
- Van Damme stage boxes
- Extensive backline including Marshall, Orange, Kemper, Ampeg, Aguilar, Vox, Victory, Cornford, Hiwatt and Fender
- Roland, Korg and Moog keyboards
60-capacity live room (ground floor)
- D&B PA, monitors and power amps
- Midas Venice F32 desk with Ethercon, recording directly into Logic Pro X
- Soundcraft GB8 analogue desk
- Titan One lighting system with LED washes
- Sonar and Tama drums with Roland SPD-SX Van Damme stage boxes Wide range of professional guitar, bass and keyboard equipment
- Drum room: Tama Starclassic Performer kits with Zildjian cymbals, Roland SPD-SX and TD-25KV V-Drums
- Bass rooms: Ampeg SVT Classic, Hartke L1000 stack, Orange AD200, Eden WTX-500 and Hiwatt rigs — including equipment gifted by Nate Watts
- Guitar rooms: Amp heads from Orange, Marshall, Laney and Victory, including Rockerverb, JCM2000 and signature models
BIMM Brighton offers four Mac Suites, also available for general study, all equipped with recording booths and industry-standard software including Pro Tools, Logic Pro and Ableton Live.
Additional facilities include:
- A professional recording studio with live room
- An immersive audio mixing suite
- A bespoke electronic music production suite featuring Buchla and Eurorack modular systems, plus synthesisers from Roland, Korg and Moog
Music Production students also use Brighton Electric’s professional recording studios as part of their course.
A dedicated space to work, relax and connect. The student café includes iMacs for quiet study and a curated library of music and industry reading material, creating a social hub at the heart of campus life.
Visit BIMM Brighton
Join one of our Open Days to explore BIMM Brighton’s facilities and experience the campus first-hand. To find out more, contact our Admissions Team on 01273 840 346 or email [email protected] and start your journey into the music industry.
