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What a month. The biggest May Brighton has seen culturally has resulted in the biggest May issue we’ve ever done. The Brighton Festival is another good one, with Vanessa Redgrave driving a strong dramatic strand. But it’s The Fringe that has excited our writers, with loads of previews that we didn’t have room for. You can find them on brightonsource.co.uk, alongside the extra previews we have for The Great Escape. It looks like a good year for TGE, with a solid line-up across the board which we reckon will split the queues, making it easier to see more of the bleeding edge hip bands that will be your favourites for the rest of the year. We didn’t have the slightest trouble filling a whole page with Alternative Escape picks, and it’s worth remembering you don’t need a wristband for these events. New to May – as if we didn’t have enough to do – is Brighton Fashion Week, fresh from the interest in Jess Easton’s Roadkill Couture. On top of this is the largest Open Houses section we’ve done, and more than 20 of our favourite festivals across the country. All this, and all the usual gig and club previews, news and interviews too. Phew, we need to have a little lie down now.

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Personnel

Editor James Kendall ManageR Rosie Kendall Designer Matt Barker at Artwerk DEPUTY Editor Nick Coquet Sales Manager Annie Lorenzini listings editor Ben Bailey sub editor Stuart Huggett CLUBS editor Zac Colbert staff writer Hayley Simpson reviews editor Jessica Marshall McHattie Kenny Mc Cracken Cover Shot at Create Studios

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Ian Chambers, Steve Clements, James Fox, Joe Grant, Gavin Hughes, Lizzi Jameson, Tom Jenkinson, Rebecca Linzey, Jessica Marshall McHattie, Amy Jo McLellan, Nione Meakin, Ben Miller, Scott Nellis, Adam Peters, The Recommender, Thirza Tooes, Phillip Williams If you want to contribute to SOURCE email james@brightonsource.co.uk

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Contents

News New In Town Gig Previews Interview: Cave Painting Club Previews Club Review: Juicebox Club Review: Producer’s Retreat Culture Critic Preview: The Great Escape Preview: Alternative Escape Preview: Brighton Festival Preview: Fringe Preview: Artists’ Open Houses Preview: Festivals SOURCE Virgins: Reality TV Interview: Lorca Preview: Brighton Fashion Week Street Style Unsung Hero: Pippa Smith Secret Eater: Carlito-Burrito In Conversation With: The Warren Listings Six Of The Best: Festival Performances We Missed

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News

Words by Nick Coquet, James Kendall, Adam Peters, Hayley Simpson, Thirza Tooes

SOURCE At Brighton Festival

For Brighton Festival SOURCE New Music has put together a brace of afternoon and evening shows in the Dome foyer throughout May. Names in the frame for the daytime so far include Abi Wade, Monsters Build Mean Robots and Sweet Sweet Lies, with artists from multimedia collective Beatabet lining up a number of special events for the evenings. Entrance to the shows is free, and the foyer bar will be open as usual for tea and refreshments. See tinyurl.com/SNMfest for the full line-up, or Like the SOURCE New Music page on Facebook.

BACK ROW BONUS

Not content with being the best damn cinema in town, the Duke Of York’s is more than doubling its bum-on-seat potential by opening a new three-screen cinema upstairs at the Komedia. The screens will have 149, 110 and 32 seats each and while everyone’s distracted by the shiny new place, the original venue is getting a nice facelift as are the remaining rooms at the Komedia, with new sound, video and lighting gear. Spruced up venues and bigger movie menus – what’s not to like?

SHAKEDOWN GETS DIZZEE

Now getting itself into an annual groove, Shakedown at Stanmer Park looks to be settling into its role as the calendar’s closing festival, happening later than most on October 6th. Grabbing Dizzee Rascal to headline is a crowd-pleasing move, which we’re sure Brighton will go “bonkers” for. Joining him on the line-up is Professor Green, teaching the crowd a lesson in his hit singles, and the Mercury award-nominated Katy B. It’s shaping up to be a rather tempting little one-dayer.

Battle Of The Clubs

The good people at Smirnoff have seen fit to award Brighton the special top prize in their Battle Of The Clubs contest, on account of us having the best clubbers in the whole wide world. Coalition was up against some craphole in Winchester and ground its parochial face into the dirt, so now we’ve got performances from Wylie, who grimed about a Rolex, and Rolex-wearing sassy pop star Yasmin. Expect vodka-based promotions and heavy-beat-driven fun on Saturday 26th.

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Yasmin

GARDEN CHILLIN’

Possibly the most chilled out event on Brighton & Hove’s calendar, St Ann’s Well Gardens Spring Festival is back with a day of vibrant live music in this beautiful hidden park. Acts set to play include Imperial Leisure, Lewis Floyd Henry, and Tayong, with plenty more to be confirmed. The free festival offers the friendliest of family entertainment, including a skate park, roller disco, circus workshops and food from around the world. Let’s hope the sun is shining on Saturday 19th, making it a perfect excuse for a daytime drink or two.

NICE BIT OF GREEN

Britain’s green capital, our very own Brighton, will be hosting this year’s Eco Technology Show at the AMEX stadium. The event will showcase the latest in green technology, like the fully electric Lightning GT car that can, incredibly, do 0-60 in less than 4 seconds. If you want to move your business into the green age or meet up with fellow eco enthusiasts, go to ecotechnologyshow.co.uk and use the promotional code TSM154 to get two free tickets. The show is on June 15th and 16th and will also have an outdoor café and organic food market.

MUSIC FUND

BIMM Brighton is introducing a scholarship fund for young people hoping to develop their musical talents on the college’s diploma level courses. BIMM alumni currently play with acts including Jessie J, Two Door Cinema Club and The Kooks. The £1,000 Springboard Scholarships are offered to people under 19 years old in September 2012, and are awarded based on household income. Contact the college on 08442 646666 or bimm.co.uk for more details. Closing date for applications is Tues 8th May.

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New In Town Words by Adam Peters, Jessica Marshall McHattie, Lizzi Jameson, James Kendall

That’s My Sh!t

Frankly, Brighton’s always been lacking in Thursday night club events that give away free trainers. But no longer shall we crave one – That’s My Sh!t is coming to Life every Thursday, and not only offers the chance to win ‘fresh kicks’ but to listen to hip hop beats and vocal r’n’b, play video games and watch skateboarding visuals. With shots at £1.70 and pints at £2, it promises to be rather messy.

Brewery Tap

Cementing Brighton’s burgeoning reputation as a mecca for specialist bars, this venture – linked to an online world beer retailer – recently opened next door to the Fountain Head on North Road. Spread across three floors, the US-style bar offers more than 30 draught keg beers, with a rough 50/50 split between British and American brews, plus the odd Belgian interloper. With a kitchen and live music nights on the way, teething troubles are being ironed out in the city’s latest hop haven.

Freemasons Inn

What lies behind those gloomy stained-glass windows has been a bit of a sticky disappointment in the past, but the Freemasons on Western Road is now under new management by an enthusiastic team keen to turn it into an old-fashioned friendly local. They’ll be livening the place up with DJs every Friday, bands every Saturday, and the odd comedy and open mic night too. Even the is food billed as sociable, featuring pick’n’mix courses and plenty of platters.

Community Grocers

St James’s Street: gay hub of Brighton, cafes in every direction and home to an excessive amount of supermarkets. But now a not-for-profit organisation founded by community-minded individuals has moved in to bring charity to the poorer families amongst us. Step inside, choose what vegetables you need, and pay what you can afford. Such a simple and selfless idea. Longevity seems unlikely, as the space is not officially theirs, but hopefully it will make a difference while it can.

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Proud cabaret

Neighbourhood Kitchen & Saloon

St. James’s Street’s newest establishment tips its hat towards the dive bars of Brooklyn and East London’s hidden hangouts. In an area that has seen a process of gentrification over the years, Neighbourhood hopes to bring back the simple, slightly dishevelled charms of days gone by. The menu is varied, from breakfast classics and lazy lunches to Americana-inspired burgers and hot dogs. The drinks menu consists of selectively chosen quality lagers and ciders, local ales and premium spirits. Open on Tuesday 1st, you can expect a comfortable interior with stylish industrial accents.

Proud Cabaret

A brass-clad bar, a marbled dance floor, python-skinned seating booths – more is definitely more in the new and improved Brighton Ballrooms. Now known as ‘Proud Cabaret’, a no-expense-spared makeover of the venue has taken place, preserving the building’s history as the Sassoon family’s former mausoleum. The venue will be hosting Brighton’s best burlesque and cabaret acts and providing delicious dining experiences. Also new is the Proud Cabaret double-decker bus, which will ferry customers to and from the venue, ensuring that they arrive and leave in style.

Endless

When Edgeworld shut down, a city of music geeks cried into their Editions Mego sleeves. Former owner Colin Wakefield has started a monthly pop-up record stall down at The Blind Tiger, while the shop space now sells music under the Endless banner. Head up the stairs at the back of Reload on Kensington Gardens and you’ll find a treasure trove of new vinyl. Thomas House and Ashley ‘Donga’ Marlowe (ex-Edgeworld, ex-Charlottefield) are promising carefully selected underground essentials across a range of genres from house and bass to jump blues and metal.

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Gig Previews

Words by Adam Peters, Amy Jo McLellan, Gavin Hughes, Ian Chambers, Joe Grant, Rebecca Linzey, Steve Clements, Stuart Huggett, Tom Jenkinson, Phillip Williams, James Fox

Patrick Watson Komedia Tues 1st

Many will know Patrick Watson from his work with The Cinematic Orchestra. He creates stories and soundscapes like a spider spinning a web, resonating with inner beauty and expelling rare gems leaving you breathless and enchanted. His voice is tender, heartfelt and magical – endearing, charming and haunting. Don’t be afraid to lay yourself bare and experience the softer side of your soul. You won’t be disappointed. (RL)

Flats

Green Door Store Weds 2nd

London DIY doom-punkers making a raucous dirge. Authentically punk, they inhabit that joyous zenith where spikes and leather meet eyeliner and trenchcoats. They could have been called Joy Division if they’d laid their influences bare. Expect a show at Usain Bolt pace with Joey Barton aggro by these NME darlings. Leave your pointy shoes behind and don the ripped jeans, this’ll be a goodie. (PW)

The Sadies

Hydrant Thurs 3rd

The hard working, hard rocking Canadian alt.country heroes are back in town to play an intimate show that promises to be a sweaty orgy of down’n’dirty rock‘n’roll. The Good brothers and friends have played with Neko Case and Jon Spencer and were

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The Sadies

recently reunited with veteran swamp rock badass Andre Williams on the soon to be released ‘Night And Day’. Their previous Brighton shows have been absolutely electric so miss this one at your peril. (SC)

The Curst Sons Horse & Groom Fri 4th

Willi, Tim and Dave have been wowing Americana audiences far and wide for over 10 years and are a staple of hoedowns all over the Sussex region and beyond. Their mandolin, banjo and guitar-based country gospel songs and bluegrass stompers are an infectious joy, augmented by singer Willi’s wit, washboard and devil-baiting bottle-top rhythm pole. Tonight’s gig is free entry but by the end we guarantee you’ll be reaching for folding money to throw in the tip jar. (SC)

Emma Gatrill Church Of Annunciation Fri 4th

Gatrill plays the harp with eloquence and rare talent. Accompanied at times by violin and guitar, the effect is mesmerising and magical, making you feel like you are wondering barefoot through an enchanted forest surrounded by fairies and fireflies. Gentle and touching, it’s a wonderful contrast to some of the harsher music around. What a beautiful night it will be in the Church Of Annunciation. (RL)

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The Vaccines

The Miserable Rich

No Escape Festival

If you missed it first time round, The Miserable Rich’s third album has been re-released with three bonus tracks that must have been tough to cut from the original. With recent sessions for 6music and Radio 3 and a new EP about to hit the stores they end their latest tour back in Brighton. If, for some bizarre reason, you’ve never seen them live, grab a ticket and treat yourself to a SOURCE-presented evening of superbly crafted, classy pop perfection. (SC)

Squeezing into a weekend where at least four other festivals are taking place in Brighton, this two-nighter features local acts drawn from three specific indie genres; tweecore, dark cabaret and folk punk. The Bobby McGee’s, Annaca and Jack Wiseman do the honours on the Friday, with a Saturday line-up of The Beautiful Word, Mishkin Fitzgerald and Pog. Admission is free – “that’s actual free, rather than if you’re wearing a £60 wristband free” as the press release tersely puts it. (AP)

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The Vaccines

Brighton Centre Mon 7th

The Vaccines’ career achieved vertical take-off early last year, their Brighton dates alone (from bottom of the NME Awards Tour bill to filling the Corn Exchange at The Great Escape four months later) revealing a pattern reflected nationwide. It’s an impressive feat, but has left the unconverted slightly baffled. The indie rock quartet’s tunes are catchy but unspectacular, and the band seem charismatic and approachable, but that’s about it. Hopefully their upcoming second album will reveal more depths. (SH)

Hans Chew

Palmeira Weds 9th

Described as sounding like Jerry Lee Lewis playing with The Faces, Brooklyn’s Hans Chew returns to Brighton with a hatful of new songs as well as material from his acclaimed 2010 debut ‘Tennessee And Other Stories’. One of the rising stars of the Americana scene, he’s joined by a stunt guitarist for tonight’s duo show. Expect a smoky, barroom-steeped mix of country-blues and loud rock’n’roll, all underpinned with plenty of Hans’ trademark honky tonk piano playing. (IC)

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Ranelagh Fri 11th & Sat 12th

Balkan Beat Box Concorde 2 Fri 18th

With high energy, socially conscious music and laid back, positive beats, Balkan Beat Box take influence from African, Spanish, Moroccan and Arabian sounds whilst bringing together concepts of harmony, love, peace, united thought and united vibrations. It’s all put together for nights of rare and beautiful energy highs, with guaranteed great atmosphere and good vibes. If we could bottle it we would. Don’t stammer, don’t falter, get those skanking shoes ready and join the revolution. (RL)

Japandroids

Green Door Store Fri 18th

If you’re suffering from post-Great Escape depression, this gig may offer the cure. There won’t be the world’s hottest new acts playing in every pub and club but the city will be blessed with at least one – this Canadian duo will be stepping behind the Green Door to debut new tracks alongside their more familiar material. One thing for sure is that this show will be far more interesting than their album artwork. Monochrome is cool but colourful crowds are better. (AJM)

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Set Your Goals

Hydrant Mon 21st

Pop-punk legends Set Your Goals return to the UK with their melodic Californian hardcore. They’re joined by fellow stateside rock group Make Do And Mend, Kent-based Hildamay and mini-supergroup Spy Catcher, made up of members from a multitude of British bands including Gallows and Haunts. Nobody likes Mondays but this stellar line-up will help you forget your blues, so head down and pretend this is your second three-day weekend of May. (AJM)

Ice, Sea, Dead People Prince Albert Mon 21st

Didn’t get around to seeing Titanic’s re-release last month? Don’t worry, because this band are blessed with a name which sums up the plot in just four words and you’ll be able to see them in a room even smaller than Screen 8 of the Odeon. Thankfully, you won’t be forced to buy special glasses to witness the noise-rock collective in Technicolor 3D so you can save your pennies for more time at the bar. Who needs Jack and Rose anyway? (AJM)

Death Grips

Green Door Store Weds 23rd

Last year’s incredibly dark and powerful album ‘Exmilitary’ has seen Death Grips twisted version of hip hop becoming notoriously popular – and so it should. Hailing from Sacramento, CA, a legendary spot within the hardcore scene, it makes sense that the three musketeers, Stefan Burnett, Zach Hill and Andy Morin, are injecting some hardcore gore into the genre. Don’t let this put you off though, that wholesome sound of original hip hop’s still there. Check it out. (GH)

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Walls

Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Weds 23rd

Walls are Sam Willis of Allez-Allez and Alessio Natalizia from Banjo Or Freakout. The London duo’s sound is an outstanding concoction of the best that old and new technology has to offer. You could say they’re lost somewhere between the psychedelic airspace occupied by Animal Collective and Boards Of Canada. Walls’ highly esteemed sophomore album ‘Coracle’ topped a lot of best album lists from last year. Tonight they perform a fully live set, so come and see what all the fuss is about. (JG)

Girls Names

Green Door Store Thurs 24th

Formed in 2009, initially as a duo consisting of Cathal Cully and Neil Peel, Belfast’s Girls Names’ shambling, lo-fi tunes give a nod to old-school indie pop acts like Beat Happening, The Field Mice and Josef K. Their brand of disposable noise pop caught the attention of Slumberland Records, who last year released debut LP ‘Dead To Me’. Support comes from dreamy Londoners Splashh and Brighton’s Heliopause. (JG)

Passenger

Brighton Ballroom Sun 27th

Even though Brighton troubadour Passenger spends most of the year sunning himself on the other side of the world, he has still managed to maintain a fiercely loyal home crowd. Somewhere between his charming persona, beautiful music and engaging stage presence, it’s easy to see why. With a new album out and a regular supporting slot for fellow artist Ed Sheeran, things are now thankfully picking up for this cherished songsmith. (TJ)

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The Melvins Concorde 2 Mon 28th

Buzz Osborne’s sludge pioneers The Melvins made their debut vinyl appearance on legendary pre-grunge sampler ‘Deep Six’, but their fondness for slowing heavy rock to a crawling pace kept them at arm’s length from the subsequent North-West explosion, despite Kurt Cobain’s friendship and an unlikely, if brief, major deal. With awesome noise duo Big Business absorbed into The Melvins’ line up, the band’s already monolithic sound is now fuelled by an incredible double drum powerhouse. (SH)

Tennis

Blind Tiger Mon 28th

Tennis is the collective sound of married duo Alaina Moore and Partick Riley from Denver. Honey-voiced Moore and melodic Riley create dreamlike, fluid beach music. Summery in feel, they are catchy, simple and uplifting – a cure to all those bands who simply think they’re way too cool. Head down to hear something real, something pure, something true. Get ready for the summer, shake off those dreary blues, bring a little sunshine in and float on by with Tennis. (RL)

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Cave Painting didn’t flinch. The studio lights were firing ten times a second and the cold colour rained down on their heads from the buckets above, yet the five members of the Great Escape’s most hotly-tipped Brighton band stood there and took it all without even blinking. It’s a good skill to have because there’s plenty coming right at them right now. Just a year after taking the name, Cave Painting have signed to a major, recorded an album, decided they’d rather not be on the major after all, picked up great reviews and headlined the Pavilion Theatre. If it keeps going like this the cameras are going to continue to flash but the boys look ready to take it, without flinching. So where’s this excitement coming from? Put simply, Cave Painting are masters of that ethereal quality known as ‘atmosphere’. Angelic plaintive vocals soar above strings and simple melodies on latest single ‘Gator’. It’s widescreen and epic while retaining a fragility that lets you connect. ‘Rio’ meanwhile is as soft as a whispered lullaby with shimmering guitars and tiptoeing bass before gradually building up to a bittersweet fuzz guitar climax. Every song sounds like it’s being played in a stadium inside your mind. It’s epic but personal. “I think naturally we’ve just found a space in the tracks, says singer Sam. “Our tracks are not really minimalist, but we definitely don’t overcrowd them. Nothing is there for no reason and everything has a place.” “We don’t want to overdo that epicness,” adds Adam. “It has to be subtle and understated.” “It has to be epic,” continues Sam, “but for a very natural reason.” The band now have a handle on what they’re doing, having knocked out their album with apparent ease in a couple of sessions either side of Christmas. “We’re really happy with it,” says Sam of their Septemberslated debut. “We’re lucky enough to have lived with it for a while, just because it came in on track and on schedule. “ “We’ve had time to consider which songs are going to go on it because we’ve got more songs than we need really,” says Adam. “We’ve got a big shortlist.” It really does seem to be going so easily for the band. Signed after a handful of gigs as Cave Painting, they found themselves with a major label deal at a time when most big labels were being extremely careful about who they signed. So it’s slightly surprising to hear that they’ve spent a bit of time recently wiggling out of the deal, instead going it alone with Keith ‘Hideout’ Wozencroft, the man who signed them originally to Mercury. “We just really believed in his morals,” Sam explains. “Mercury is too big for us.” “When you’re signed to a major label it’s a huge machine,” says Adam. “To get one thing done you have to go through eight different people. So things have become a lot simpler, the way we wanted it to be in the first place.” It’s not the first bold move they’ve made. Before their Cave Painting incarnation they went by the name of Rob The Rich, the extremely popular tropical arm of

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the Communion clan. Things were going pretty well for them and then, poof, they disappeared. Despite the fact that Rob The Rich never seem to get mentioned in the mountains of press that Cave Painting are building up, they say they’re proud of those days. “I think we just grew up,” says Jonathon, “That’s essentially it. You get a bit older and you grow out of things the same as anything else. We just matured and our music matured as well. It was a fresh start.” They were going strong as Rob The Rich and released a debut single before heading into the studio to write more songs. But after a couple of months of writing and not playing shows they felt like a different band. They embraced it and locked themselves in the rehearsal studio for six months, emerging as a butterfly that the music industry was interested in before they’d even played a gig. “I don’t think we would have had the experience to handle that if it was our first show as a band,” admits Sam. “So having that in our back pocket, when it came to crunch time, was great and we wouldn’t have succeeded if it wasn’t for that.” “Cave Painting is more inward than anything Rob The Rich was,” Harry reckons. “We were concentrating on songs a bit more for ourselves, a bit more for our own enjoyment. Hopefully without being massively self-indulgent.” By the time they get to The Great Escape they’ll have played their first gig abroad, and the rest of Britain seems to be falling into line too, with packed-out gigs in places like Manchester’s Church venue. “Its always nice when you go so far away from Brighton and play to a full crowd,” says Adam. “It was weird cos there was the crowd in front of us and then there were some bell ringers, but there was no noise.” “And it was nice the vicar came in,” remembers Richard. “He was a pretty hip vicar. He wasn’t a normal vicar – he was selling ales down the front.” “I was surprised by how much he swore,” says Adam. “In church as well! Wasn’t he from the same place as you, Richard? “He was yeah,” confirms Richard. “We high fived. It was cool.” Cave Painting’s Great Escape gig will be their first at the festival, but being local boys they’ve had their adventures as punters. After failing to get into a roadblocked Dog Is Dead gig in the same slot that they’re playing in this year they instead hit Queens Hotel looking for action. “There was meant to be a big party in one of the penthouse rooms,” recalls Adam. “It wasn’t very good, just people sat in the room listening to music on Teletext.” “We tried to get on the roof,” says Sam. “We were determined to get to a door that would lead to it. We couldn’t get there so maybe this year we will finally find our way out there.”

LIVE: At Great Escape, Sticky Mike’s Sat 11pm SINGLE: Gator, out now – download for free at cavepaintingmusic.bandcamp.com WEB: cavepaintingmusic.com

It’s good to have ambitions. After all, everything seems to going Cave Painting’s way so easily that they’ll be running out of things to aim for soon. Success is coming for them and they’re not going to flinch.

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club previews words by zac colbert, James Kendall, jessica marshall mchattie, hayley simpson

KungFu Terrace Parties Life Fridays

Every Friday from now until the end of the summer, KungFu are pitching up outside Life to put on a terrace party and welcome the sun. Funk and soul play as the sun’s setting and hip hop’s the soundtrack into the night. Okay, it’s a bit optimistic when the seafront’s freezing and you’re wearing a scarf, but we applaud the idea. Life’s lost the soggy nachos of 2011 and launched a new Caribbean menu to really knock home the summer message. (JMM)

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Digital Thurs 3rd

They might have given us just a remix round-up since the brilliant ‘Nite Versions’ back in 2005, but the DJing arm of Soulwax has certainly been busy. Last year they made 24 differently-themed mix albums, got them animated, and then gave them all away for free as an iPhone app (even though ‘As Heard On Radio Soulwax Pt. 2’ sold half a million copies). Excellent remixes of Joe Goddard and Arcade Fire prove they still know what’s going on on the dancefloor. (JK)

Schtumm

Audio Fri 4th

It’s been five years since Sam ‘Maxxi Soundsystem’ Watts and Neal Lewis devised the micro-warehouse party concept for Schtumm and the night is currently in rather rude health. Maya Jane Coles sold out Audio for them in February and the Marine Parade club has decided to make Schtumm a monthly house shuffle. Diynamic’s David August is the first guest of the residency in conjunction with Croatia’s Garden Festival, and Maxxi Soundsystem, also a Garden Festival guest, takes to the decks as well. (JK)

Mungo’s Hi Fi Soundsystem Volks Fri 4th

If you like your bass loud, you’ll already be a big fan of Mungo’s Hi Fi. Future Dub Sessions are putting on this special affair to commemorate three years of bringing the heaviest beats to the

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seafront, and it looks to be like all their parties – basscentric and not for the faint-hearted. Special guests include local and not-so-local DJs Unity Hi Fi, Rockwood, X-Nation & Kosine and Axiomatt. The fun stops at 7am, which is nine hours of dancing, if you’re dedicated enough. (JMM)

Playgroup Festival Launch Party

Concorde 2 Sat 5th

In preparation for their three-day fun-athon in August, Playgroup are hosting a party to get us all nicely warmed up. There’ll be live music from Brighton’s dub and reggae legends Resonators, five-piece jazzstep superstars Hidden Orchestra and Bristol’s Babyhead will entertain with their nine-piece roots and ska act. DJ support comes from Fishfry and purveyors of electro filth The Electric Playboys. Expect walkabout performers including runaway brides, stilt walkers and face painters to be partying all night with you. A bit like Playgroup then, but with a roof in case it rains. (HS)

We Luv Ms Dynamite Sat 5th Coalition

It’s mad to think how long Ms Dynamite’s actually been around, the underground garage hit ‘Sticky’ on which she first featured was doing the rounds on pirate radio way back in 2001. She followed this up with tunes like ‘It Takes More’ and ‘Dy-na-mi-tee’ before the Mercurywinning album ‘A Little Deeper’. After a period of hosting 1Xtra and some time out she stormed back at the end of the Noughties featuring on candy twang crack house roller DJ Zinc’s ‘Wile Out’ and the feisty bass banger ‘What U Talking About’ by Bristolian dubstepper Redlight. Tonight she’s sure to be playing all her hits at Co-al-it-ion. (ZC)

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The Haunt Sun 6th

If you were to destroy all house music not on labels that Maceo Plex has released on you’d still have a great party on your hands – he’s graced Crosstown Rebels, Visionquest, and his own Ellum Adio to name a few. Since he gave up his Maetrik nom-de-plum he’s become one of the key names in that sultry, druggy but melodic new deep house scene that’s providing much of the best club music right now. He’s joined by more Crosstown Rebels, Droog of Culprit fame. (JK)

Well Rounded Showcase

Thurs 10th Life

Well Rounded proved themselves to be forward-thinking like Mystic Meg when they released Deadboy’s tearjerking ‘U Cheated’ back in 2009. The UK producer predated the whole 2-step revival and future garage scene with his lowend bass, jittery beat and a tilting synth line that fuzzed in and out like a flickering neon light. Label boss and Brighton hero Donga will be in support as well as South London Ordnance whose hybrid style involves dancehall, techno and UK funky. (ZC)

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Both Ifan Dafydd and Elephino are exciting prospects but we’re most excited to see Gang Colours in action. The Southhampton producer was much lauded by Gilles Peterson who soon signed him, impressed by the sepiasoaked melancholy of his ‘In Your Gut Like A Knife’ EP, which featured hushed pads and undulating synths that swell and swirl around snipped female vocals to create some idyllic sounding electronica. His style is understated while also being confident; his tunes have momentum and a strong sense of identity. (ZC)

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Blah Blah Blah 5th Birthday

Sat 12th Digital

Not only are they five years old but the Blah Blah Blah DJs have also been chosen to host an after party at Exit Festival, so tonight doubles as a pre-Exit warm-up party and birthday celebration. Headlining is Julio Bashmore whose harmonious amalgamation of UK bass music and underground house had DJs and clubbers alike clamouring for anything played or produced by the young Bristolian. ‘Battle For Middle You’ was a pensive bit of deep house with an elastic bassline and a flicking, whirring, wheeling synth that announced a guy with a very individual sound. In support are Blacksmif and Wildkats. (ZC)

FreeBass 4th Birthday Sat 19th Concorde 2

It seems like only yesterday that we were wiggling our fingers in our ears, asking, “Did we really hear that right, a bass-driven night at the Concorde, and for free?” And now Freebass is four years old – don’t they grow up fast? This evening’s celebrations will be hosted by Mr Natural across two rooms of bass-bending mayhem with breaks, jungle, dubstep, reggae and more from 20 of Freebass’s biggest DJs. It should go without saying, but yes, arriving early is essential if you want to actually get in and rave yourself stupid. (ZC)

Huxley

Sat 19th Audio

Fact Magazine call him the most promising young producer in house music, and after listening to his mix for them it’s easy to see why. His blending is seamless, his track selection moves between a love of old-school garage and fresh deep house records. His productions are equally as confident – last year’s ‘Shower Scene’ has an unassuming drop into some smooth 2-step grooves and this year’s ‘Let it Go’, with its bass synth line that hugs its listeners and releases them only if they promise to dance. Which we will, til Audio kick us out. (ZC)

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Fri 25th Life

European festivals, eh? With their boat parties, beach raves and abandoned forts. Dimensions has quickly become one the most talked about European festivals in the electronic music scene and Life are throwing the launch party with Midland and Obkekt topping the bill. The latter’s stripped-back dubstep is deep with clattering beats a la ‘Mezzanine’-era Massive Attack. The former’s sound is of palatial techno, where soulful vocal cuts and progressive percussion give an epic sense of scale. (ZC)

Jazznote

Fri 25th, Audio

In a city with an unquenchable lust for deep beats and smooth drums, new d’n’b night JazzNote is focusing on the liquid side. And if this event is anything like their first night last month with Cyantific, this month’s show is going to be a lot of fun. Dual headliners Technicolour & Komatic and Hybrid Minds are renowned for exciting live shows, and three-piece Hybrid Minds’ latest release ‘Seasons’ is a silky smooth hit. (JMM)

Trailer Trash

Komedia Friday 25th

Kitty Heels and the Trailer Trash gang are getting ready for a hip hop movie throwdown. So think Beat Street-style tracksuits, 8 Mile beanies, and Boyz N The Hood-style bandanas. If you’ve been to TT’s David Lynch or Baz Luhrmann events you’ll know that this isn’t one for moody hip hop headnodders, but those who like to have fun. There’ll be a live set by battle-winning MC Dr. Syntax, and samurai aerialists will fight it out over your head like some Wu Tang fantasy. (HS)

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Saturday nights can seem a bit specialist on the seafront, alienating those punters who don’t know their Rusko from their Rosca, so Life launched Juice Box to remedy the situation. With a mission statement that reads, “All Juice Box cares about is your ability to recognise the fact that ‘In The Navy’ is just as much

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of a tune as ‘Insane In The Brain’”, you know the emphasis is firmly on fun. A night’s music policy can make or break it; too specific and you risk being elitist, too broad and the evening will be unfocused with no theme tying the experience together. Fortunately Juice Box’s policy of pure party jams holds up under dancefloor scrutiny – Life is engorged with revellers throwing themselves around to Jay Z Gala ‘Freed From Desire’ vs Linkin Park. Daft Punk ‘Around The World’ M.I.A. ‘Bad Girls’ As George ‘Poundance’ Joe Goddard ‘Gabriel’ Nunners selflessly drops Joe Budden ‘Pump It Up’ The Offsping’s ‘Pretty Fly DJ Fresh ‘Hot Right Now’ For A White Guy’ the upper SBTRKT ft. Drake ‘Wildfire (Remix)’ floor throbs with banging Sum 41 ‘Fat Lip’ heads and twiddling air Friendly Fires ‘Skeleton Boy’ guitar fingers, and Hot Chip ‘Ready For The Floor everyone’s having the time (Soulwax Remix)’ of their life like they don’t give a toss about the term guilty pleasure. More power to them, we say.

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producer’s retreat

Tonight was an Intergalactic Retreat, and featured spacethemed art by local artists Ruth Ishbel Munro and Ennu alongside SinnaOne amongst others, and the musical line-up was stellar too, with Tru Thoughts’ TM Juke and Hemlock’s Guy Andrews playing out-ofthis-world mixes and exclusive NEXT EVENTS: Sat 2nd June, Caxton Arms; bleepy space Words & Photos By Jessica Marshall McHattie Sat 30th June, Fortune of War creations. FREE DOWNLOADS: producersretreat. Brighton-based bandcamp.com beat makers Retreat is a celebration of the creativity FACEBOOK: tinyurl.com/ProdFace Blake, SLXVE, of Brighton as well as a brilliant night out Murder He – and it’s not just musical expression Wrote, JDevious, and experimentation. Local artists come Hint and Panama Guy Andrews ‘Hands in Mine’ and create throughout the evening, also played to an unpretentious and fun Anushka ‘Yes Guess’ mostly painting and drawing on boards crowd coated in glitter and silver faceSLXVE & Alphabets Heaven or walls. Each monthly event has a paint. The venue changes ‘Lemongrassfunk’ theme (previously intergalactic, regularly and the Hint ‘Crash & Burn (Hint hippies, robots, geeks), and themes are announced Warehouse Mix)’ the music and art are based online, so keep an eye Murder He Wrote ‘Your Code’ around the theme, out for the two events Panama ‘Tape Acid’ invariably leading to in June. JDevious ‘Starcrash’ complex outfits from TM Juke ‘Wanna Get Stupid’ attendees. Concrete Operation ‘Eudaimonia’ Tones ‘Deep in Me’

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Culture

Words by James Kendall, Jessica Marshall McHattie, Ben Miller, Thirza Tooes

Exhibition: Fashion And The Flag Brighton Museum & Art Gallery from Thurs 3rd

Drawing inspiration from the double whammy of the Diamond Jubilee and the London Olympics, this exhibition features Union Jack themed clothes from some of Britain’s most iconic designers. Among the garments on display will be work from ageing punk rocker Vivienne Westwood, classic country toff Barbour and shoes from one of many Brighton residents’ favourite brands, Dr Martens. Even if you’d rather burn the flag than salute it, these eye-popping fashions are worth a sneaky peek. (TT)

Exhibition: Suki Price Moksha until Fri 4th

Mixed media artist Suki Price is one of those ultra-creative people who makes you wish you’d tried harder in GCSE art. Her current exhibition ‘Offerings’ is hanging in Moksha cafe on York Place and is testament to the variety of her talents: simple woodcut prints are hung alongside large, eye-catching portraits with layers of ink on glass over striking drawings. Unafraid of experimentation and constantly finding new inspiration, Price’s pieces are utterly unique. (JMM)

Art: Graham Carter Ink_d From Fri 4th

Tantrum-weary elders watching their kids cause chaos at the Children’s Parade – the annual hyperactivity fest which launches the Fringe – might spot a giant yeti puppet looming in the distance. It’s the work of Graham Carter, the popular printmaker, illustrator and craft perfectionist, and he’s pretty excited about returning to 3D works for some of his grandest creations to date in ‘Me, Marionette’. A new animation, produced with Brighton-based studio Ticktockrobot, also features in an impish exhibition promising plenty of surprises. (BM)

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Theatre: Steel Magnolias Theatre Royal Until Sat 5th

Many people will remember the 1989 film of Robert Harling’s deeply emotive play, however the stage version is far more subtle. Typically involving only one set, the actresses are forced to use all their skills to present believable characters. Dealing with most of life’s biggest clangers – birth, death, grief and love – even the most hard-hearted Thatcher fan couldn’t fail to feel a little tug on the heartstrings. Focusing on six vastly different women, this moving story shows us that we are all more than the sum of our parts. (TT)

Exhibition: Blood Of The Young Create Studios Sat 5th

Some of the most exciting photography coming out of Brighton is being shot by those still in, or just out of, their teens – Milo and Jack Belgrove, Eleni Mettyear, and Matt Martin to name just a few. So it makes sense that the city should be hosting this international who’s who of young curators including Canada’s Blood Of The Young, US magazine Mossless, Hardworkers Club from Australia and the everpresent Mr Martin with his Photocopy Club amongst many others. Even if you don’t appreciate the super-fresh photos it’s worth heading over for the bands, skate ramp and film screenings. (JK)

Talk: Miniclick Pecha Kucha Old Market Weds 9th

We’re big fans of the Miniclick talks. Each month a photographer talks through their work in detail, but tonight is a little different. Pecha Kucha is, roughly, the Japanese term for chit-chat and this concept comes from that country. Each speaker – tonight from the talented MA photography students at Brighton University – gets to show up to 20 slides, with just 20 seconds per slide. It’s only four quid, and with 15 photographers presenting their work that makes it under 30p per talk, or one and a half pence per photo. A fast moving show of ideas. (JK)

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“consistently the best thing I ever see in the Fringe” Stewart Lee Award-winning one-man orchestra and toy-folk-pop singer songwriter.

Tuesday 15 May, 20:00, £8.50 (£7)

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Album: Hatful of Rain Way Up On The Hill (Union Music)

Hatful Of Rain have been causing quite a stir for a while now with their own blend of Appalachian bluegrass and English folk roots. On this, their debut album, the four-piece combine a swooning mix of fiddle, mandolin, banjo, upright bass and guitar alongside some great vocal harmonies. Singer Chloe Overton possesses a stunning voice that really makes you stop in your tracks and take notice, while the majority of these original songs have the knack of sounding like some lost bluegrass classic that you’ve yet to discover. One of the best and most original examples of an English band playing this genre that you’re likely to hear this year - mighty impressive. (IC)

EP: Miles Courtney Espresso (Convex Collective)

This six-track debut EP from Brighton bass producer Miles Courtney is an unexpected aural gem, with delightfully-named opener ‘Elephant Sweat’ a twisting, delicate meander through gentle harmonies and twinkling, acidic keyboards. Stand-out title track ‘Espresso’ is a meaner, leaner piece, with a racing pulse and menacing clicks. The EP is remarkably well produced and cleansounding, deep, progressive, and promising. All tracks are free to download at convexrecords.bandcamp.com. (JMM)

EP: Leon Vynehall

Mauve EP (Well Rounded Housing Project)

Deep house, 90s style, is back in a big way, only now – thanks to many of the producers coming out of dubstep – we’re calling it future bass. Leon Vynehall has had a slightly different path having come to the currently firing imprint Well Rounded via south coast indie supernova YAAKS. The title track draws a line between UK garage and Chicago acid with piano stabs and bubbling synths. ‘Homage’ on the flip is better still; a sultry late night groove that has something of DJQ about it, if anyone remembers him? He made future bass in the 90s. (JK)

Album: Belleruche Rollerchain (Tru Thoughts)

Since 2007, London trio Belleruche have risen so rapidly up the Tru Thoughts tree that they’re now the label’s biggest selling act. Album number four finds them drifting further from their earlier ‘turntable soul’ into sparser, stranger songwriting. Opening single

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‘Stormbird’ sets the abstract tone, as varispeed drum machines rattle along over deep bass trenches, while fractured rave riffs smear the soundscape, held together by Kathrin deBoer’s lonesome vocals. It’s the moodier tracks like downtempo curio ‘16 Minutes’ that haunt. (SH)

Album: Heliopause The Lumo Tape (Precious Metal)

Limited to 50 physical copies (with unlimited digital, though), on a cassette label run by Illness’ Spencer Thompson, this latest album by Heliopause is a more experimental set than their previous releases, but equally accessible. Brighton based Richard Davis’ distance from his Belfast bandmates has forced his hand into developing a loop-based strand to his songwriting, and the results are rich and rewarding. Despite the lo-fi origins and format, ‘The Lumo Tape’ is a bright, endlessly tuneful affair, and warrants seeking out. (SH)

Single: Running Dogs Turn Me (Pelirocco Platters)

Suited and booted rockers Running Dogs are aiming to write “as many bangers as we possibly can”, and have already managed to get mega-producer Youth on board to knock their would-be anthems into shape. The trebly riff of flipside ‘Rumpunch’ flags up Libs/Babyshambles influences, but is tighter than anything Doherty’s managed in donkey’s, while the barrelling ‘Turn Me’ itself suggests Running Dogs aren’t afraid of sticking their feet on the monitors, so long as they don’t crease their strides. (SH)

Album: Sons Of Noel And Adrian

Knots (Broken Sound / One Inch Badge / Wilkommen)

As their friends and former tourmates Laura Marling and Mumford & Sons attain unexpected international ubiquity, we wouldn’t have been surprised had Sons Of Noel And Adrian used album number two as a calling card for the mainstream. Instead, ‘Knots’ finds the 12-piece following their own instincts, weaving an aptly dense thicket of seesawing folk and complex rhythms. Jacob Richardson’s quavering vocals add a sense of haunted desolation even as the group’s intricate interplay spirals upwards. (SH)

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ALT-J

This band will be right in the middle of their release cycle during The Great Escape, as their mighty debut album, ‘An Awesome Wave’, comes out in May. Mixing the weird with the accessible in exceptional, original compositions seems the idea behind their impossibly charming music. Fantastic hooks, beautiful melodies and a voice that’s so wonderfully styled you’ll be singing along, but with the wrong lyrics, although you won’t care because it’s all so addictive. (TR)

Bernhoft

Think of a one-man band and you’re probably imagining some bloke with a bird whistle awkwardly strapped to a drum kit and a keyboard. Think again. Bernhoft is a unique Norwegian artist known for perfecting the art of looping. The term ‘multiinstrumentalist’ was invented for artists as skilled as this. The singer/songwriter/composer/general musical all-rounder is expected to make more than one appearance at this year’s festival so make sure you watch him – twice if you can. (AJM)

Cave Painting

Shoegaze and afro-pop don’t seem like the likeliest of musical bedfellows, but this month’s cover stars Cave Painting aren’t likely to be fans of the predictable. Simple basslines, modern rhythms and catchy indie-pop lyrics, as evidenced on their recent single ‘Gator,’ make Cave Painting one of our top tips for Brighton breakthrough band of the year, as they’re memorable, accessible yet refreshingly unusual. Don’t take out word for it – you can download the single for free from cavepaintingmusic.com. (JMM)

Foxes

Lousia Rose Allan is a female pop artist, whose debut releases arrived through the Neon Gold label, a home that has form in developing commercial winners such as Marina & The

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Diamonds and Ellie Goulding. If they’re your thing, then this will be your thing too. Her highly produced anthems will no doubt see her hitting a drum at the front of stage at some point, but like her forebears there’s an alternative edge to her gloss too. Stardom surely awaits. (TR)

Friends

This Brooklyn band may just be about to own 2012. They arrive at The Great Escape during the first phase of a giant tour that sees them take in a multitude of European and American dates throughout the summer. Their global jaunt is in support of their hotly anticipated debut album ‘Manifest’, due for release in early June. Although they’re clocking up plenty of air miles, it will be their slick hipster pop that will ultimately see them crowned as the most popular friends you’ve ever met. (TR)

Gang Colours

With Gilles Peterson, Ghostpoet and the Guardian fighting your corner, you’ve got a good chance of being the musician everyone will be bragging about seeing ‘before they were famous’ in 2013. Gang Colours’ carefully considered musical soundscapes build scenes from drum rhythms, visions from cut-up samples and an atmosphere with simple sounds that his contemporaries dream of. Debut album ‘The Keychain Collection’ was released to wide praise in February and this is one gang you’ll want to get close to. (JMM)

Jonquil

Oxford’s Jonquil bring some well-needed beauty and eloquence to the Great Escape Festival. Subtle and enchanting, the band take influences from folk, acoustic, ambient and indie, blending them together with an effortless new twist. Haunting, fresh and touching with that first taste of summer, it feels like being in a meadow, wandering through daises, contemplating the river to dip your toes. Forget the future, the past, live in the present. (RL)

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Kids In Glass Houses

In response to the high demand for all-ages shows at The Great Escape, Rock Sound magazine are hosting 14+ events throughout the festival. The first night features headliners Kids In Glass Houses. For their third album ‘In Gold Blood’, the Cardiff band created a dystopian world of carnal desires. Although the concept album’s accompanying feather covered costumes disappeared quicker than you could say “Why are you dressing like The Killers?”, their recently written anthems and contagious hooks remain intact. (AJM)

Lulu James

Say it quietly, but this talented solo artist from Newcastle is managed by Dave Stone, a man known particularly well inside Brighton’s music scene as one of the directors of Brighton’s Digital venue. So does the young Lulu have what it takes, beyond her useful manager? Of course she does, and then some. An awesome voice and a unique stage presence allow her to shine as she performs her dark, striking pop songs. No guessing which venue she’ll be shining most at this weekend. (TR)

Maxïmo Park

There was a slightly underwhelming reaction, possibly verging on disdain, to Maxïmo Park headlining The Great Escape. After a quiet year or two, this show is one of their first in the UK to coincide with the release of ‘The National Health’, their first album since leaving Warp. It’s typically earnest, full of Paul Smith’s bookish, angsty lyrics, post-punk guitar lines and clattering keys. The ‘Park’s live return is worthy of greater excitement – Smith remains one of indie’s most charismatic showmen. (BM)

Negative Pegasus

Homegrown hard-rock band Negative Pegasus get a real kick out of making guitars sound like they’re in as much pain as possible. We’ve heard of weeping guitars – these ones are begging for mercy. Heavily influenced by 70s psychedelic rock but with angular, sharper basslines, this Brighton trio always go down well with the home crowd. (JMM)

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NZCA/Lines

This is the project of London solo artist Michael Lovett, who designs immaculately smooth, minimalist electronic pop music. Falsetto vocals, delivered as if they were synthesized notes played on a keyboard, float lightly over elastic beats. There are elements of the r’n’b genre on show here, something Lovett embraces, but there’s also comparisons made to Metronomy. His self-titled debut album arrived earlier this year to much acclaim, so let’s see if his live set matches its ambition. (TR)

Peace

This exciting quartet completed a 19 date tour earlier this spring and immediately followed it up with another run around the country in support of the Mystery Jets through April. A ‘peace march’ indeed. Their promise has the hipsters and journalists salivating in equal measure as their music seems a hybrid of Foals, Wu Lyf, Money and Trophy Wife. Sharp guitars, echoed vocals, tropical drums, a keen sense of melody and power, they’ve got it all. Let’s just hope they have something left in the barrel for The Great Escape. (TR)

Porcelain Raft

Listening to this Italian solo artist’s debut album, ‘Strange Weekend’, is like taking a carefree wander through a range of contemporary genres. Glo-fi, shoegaze, dream pop, you name it, it’s all darn well there. You would imagine that by trying to serve up every dish he would in fact seem a jack-of-all-trades, but in fact he’s mastered them all and rather than being left with a mouth coated in glucose, his expertly produced, melodic music refreshes at every tasty bite. (TR)

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Pond aren’t just a band, more they’re a side project, involving several members from the Perth group Tame Impala, allowing them to further experiment and let loose. They got together several years ago for a no-holds-barred recording project that had the bars sadly put on hold when Tame Impala blew up. Fast forward to 2012 and we finally get to see them release their album ‘Beards, Wives, Denim’. However, reports from SXSW suggest it’s with their live sets that we will see them fully letting loose. (TR)

Oft compared to the Horrors, S.C.U.M followed the same goth outrage traditions, combining glum faces with atmospheric and very very loud shows. Lately, Mr Peaches Geldof and co have chilled out somewhat, and started producing music that’s still moody, but experimental, softer, and generally much more appealing. The band’s latest single ‘Faith Unfolds’ widened their demographic comfortably, revealing 80s new wave synth pop influences we’d never have expected, with crashing echoes and deadpan vocals. (JMM)

This five-piece contain three members who descend from Brighton’s Joe Lean & The Jing Jang Jong, a group that disbanded three years ago after much over-hyped underachievement. This unavoidable fact could sink them before the new ship even sets sail, but thankfully they’ve released a couple of very strong singles, channelling everyone from Neu to My Bloody Valentine and causing much buoyant hype along the way. It just shows that it’s the music that floats you; that and a snappier band name. (TR)

This is a brother-sister duo from Chicago, formerly known with the band Nomo. This new project has earned them levels of buzz so loud it had The Guardian proposing “Lana Del Rey-sized interest” in the months to come. Their pop fusion heats to Santigold or MIA levels before cooling to St Etienne-styled smoothness. As one of the stand-out winners from SXSW their UK appearances should prove rammed, so perhaps get there early. Very early. (TR)

Alternative Escape

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Amazing Radio

Queens Hotel Fri 11th

Amazing Radio is a digital station that’s been running for around three years, successfully positioning themselves right at the heart of unsigned music. Expect to be rubbing shoulders with their presenters, who include Bella Union founder and ex-Cocteau Twin, Simon Raymonde, The Guardian’s Paul Lester and music hack Charlie Ashcroft. Onstage highlights include Brighton groups Gross Magic and Fear Of Men, plus acts earning lots of blog buzz, such as NZCA/Lines and Manchester’s hotly-tipped, all-girl guitar band, Pins. (TR)

Les Enfants Terribles Riki Tik Fri 11th

Brighton duo DA10 are post-rave instrumentalists whose tumbling, hammering synth and beat concoctions betray a past spent hunched over console handsets. Live, DA10’s heart-fluttering rhythms scale ever higher peaks of squiggles, bleeps and tweets. Their Alternative Escape appearance finds them entertaining festival survivors in the early hours of Saturday morning at Les Enfants Terribles’ New Electronic Music night. (SH)

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The famous Vice-sponsored Shoreditch boozer arrives in Brighton to host their exciting evening set. Brighton’s very own electro-punketeers AK/DK kick things off with lightning bolts of energy. We expect Swim Deep to be busy, as this trio is one of a handful of bands that are currently sending the A&Rs into overdrive, as part of Birmingham’s burgeoning music scene. Peace – the band that initially caused all that Midland buzz follow later on, no doubt sending the room into a sardine-like formation. (TR)

Raygun Music & Love Thy Neighbour Latest Music Bar Fri 11th

Speak Galactic is the pseudonym of Brighton’s Owen Thomas, who assembles thick layers of lo-fi home recordings into fuzzy, otherworldy collages. Live, Thomas rebuilds his tunes with an

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arsenal of overdriven keyboards and guitar, revealing some of the songcraft that lies beneath. Speak Galactic’s shows are rare, inventive and hypnotic, so try and catch him at this afternoon showcase. (SH)

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Life Fri 11th

This particular Alternative Escape showcase runs all day and into the evening. Strongrooms Alive is one of Shoreditch’s most exciting digital radio stations, Killing Moon is a blog and label fronting cutting edge bands, Euphonios is one of London’s hottest independent record labels and The Recommender is Brighton’s own music blogging workhorse. Highlights will include Saint Saviour, with a voice that won’t be bettered all weekend, deadly alt-pop artist FOE, white-hot remix king Draper, and synth throbsters Worship. (JK)

Republic Of Music & Clash Magazine Shipwrights Yard Fri 11th

This venue feels the most reminiscent of Austin’s SXSW festival, with the stage placed in an open-fronted garage, while punters watch from the outside yard. Aside from being a little weather-dependent, historically it’s provided some pretty awesome showcases in past festivals. This year sees one of the most talked about bands from March’s SXSW, Australia’s Pond, who always deliver a wild party set. We Have Band will continue the high-energy show with their beat-driven tunes, before Slow Club crash through with their contagious indie pop. (TR)

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Hydrant Sat 12th

Part of Brighton’s sprawling, incestuous Willkommen Collective (they share members with Sons Of Noel And Adrian, among others), Laish turned heads with the, um, striking group bathtime shot on the cover of their 2010 debut. Fortunately its contents deserved the attention, being a warm collection of delicate, swirling folk pop led by vocalist Daniel Green. Willkommen groups are well represented at this year’s Alternative Escape – keep an eye out for Laish multiinstrumentalist Emma Gatrill’s solo slot too. (SH)

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Brighton At The Great Escape ... Made In Brighton is all about celebrating music made, played and traded in the city. Brighton & Hove City Council wants to work with the local music industry to level the playing field for their businesses – whether they’re running a live music venue, a record label, organising a festival, managing bands, producing, distributing, promoting or any of the many other related industries. Look out for the Made In Brighton programme across The Great Escape and Alternative Escape and come and celebrate the homegrown talent on the weekend when the international music industry flocks to the South Coast to see, listen and envy what we do here.

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Brighton Bands Playing The Great Escape 14th Fresh from supporting Jakwob 14th is a vehicle for the sublime dubstep inflected pop created by uplifting singer Tracey Doudu and bashful keyboard accomplice Tom Barber.

Cave Painting Look out for the summery, atmospheric pop of Cave Painting – Brighton’s answer to Arcade Fire (so, better natured, and a bit cooler too).

Alby Daniels Alby Daniels’ cut up r’n’b and 2step have earned him a place on the cutting edge Black Acre label.

Gross Magic Hotly tipped wunderkind Sam McGarrigle refracts hyperactive 80s colours through a scuzzy lo-fi prism.

Kinnie The Explorer Psychedelic quartet Kinnie The Explorer imbue their intelligent songcraft with haunting atmospheres.

Maxxi Soundsystem Sam Watts’ Maxxi Soundsystem is riding the house resurgence with huge releases on distinguished international labels such as Jamie Jones’s Hot Creations.

Negative Pegasus Pedal-happy, post-grunge trio Negative

This year’s Great Escape again sees strong representation from a fantastic selection of Brighton based musicians, from the deep house beats of Maxxi Soundsystem and Alby Daniels to the experimental popcraft of Regal Safari and Gross Magic. The Alternative Escape, the festival’s official fringe event, racks up yet more unmissable gigs. These events, many of which are at the bargain price of being completely free, are even open to those without Great Escape wristbands.

Pegasus whip up a howling, churning guitar assault with flailing shirts and limbs.

Nordic Giants Nordic Giants are a duo performing heartfelt post-rock soundtracks to moving short-films.

Regal Safari Swirling electro-poptronica, Regal Safari create lush downtempo soundscapes to soundtrack life’s big moments.

Tall Ships Having sailed upcoast from their native Cornwall, math rock trio Tall Ships have won Brighton over with their thrillingly complex tunes.

Abi Wade Playing the cello in the way you’ve never seen before – using sticks more than her bow – Abi’s beautiful folk songs become hypnotically rhythmic.

The Physics House Band Awesome math trio Physics House Band fire out intensely catchy, intricate, high-speed instrumental workouts, minus the selfindulgence. File next to Three Trapped Tigers and Battles.

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Access To Music Latest Music Bar, Thurs AkaAkaRoar Life, Fri BiGiAM Latest Music Bar, Weds Euphonius, Killing Moon and The Recommender All-Dayer Life, Fri (from noon) FatCat Coalition, Fri The Hydrant The Hydrant, Thurs Pelirocco Platters Queen’s Hotel, Sat Prince Albert Prince Albert, Weds

Us Baby Bear Bones Inspired Artists Agency Venue TBC, Thurs Lout Promotions Latest Music Bar, Sat (all ages matinee show) One Inch Badge Above Audio, Fri Raygun Music & Love Thy Neighbour Latest Music Bar, Fri Republic of Music Shipwrights Yard, Fri & Fortune of War, Sat Well Rounded Records Life, Thurs

SHOWCASE BANDS Munich Anthemic five-piece Munich perform their arsenal of widescreen, wide-eyed indie rock epics with fearless conviction.

Meanwhile, thousands of music industry professionals travel from across the globe to attend The Great Escape convention, the UK’s premiere music business conference. Here Brighton again makes its mark with local luminaries featuring across several talks and panels, including political folk artist Chris T-T, Tru Thoughts founder Robert Luis and seasoned experts from the fields of PR and law.

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Fresh faced new kids Running Dogs consistently deliver sharp-suited indie rock’n’roll antics. Rizzle Kicks are very vocal fans.

There will also be a special Made In Brighton seminar exploring the pros and cons of living in a city with a vibrant music scene: as an artist or music business owner, what are the benefits of connecting with other music people in your local area, and how can such connections be facilitated and utilised? Can a local music community work together to help its members reach beyond their local market, and if so how? And does being associated as part of one city’s music scene help or hinder once you go national or international? Proactive members from the music communities of cities with vibrant scenes debate the issues.

Us Baby Bear Bones, fronted by odd couple Puff Gandolfo and Daisy Emily Warne, spin dreampop curiosities, tethered between the gothic and the ethereal.

House Of Hats Arrestingly beautiful harmonies over acoustic guitars and pianos, there’s something very pure and honest about House Of Hats.

Also Look Out For Angels And Sailors Jenna Bennett The Common Tongues Daniel & The Scandals The Icarus Youth iremembertapes Catherine Ireton Passenger Raising Maisie

The Rocketdolls on the block. The Soft The Special K’s Stars And Sons Tiny Dragons Two Jackals Will & The People

SPEAKERS

Debbie Ball

Debbie Ball founded Create Spark, a boutique online music PR and marketing company representing domestic and international acts, including Sufjan Stevens, Cut Copy and The War On Drugs.

Josh Little Josh Little specialises in Commercial Law at Brighton and Hove’s award winning firm Acumen Business Law.

Robert Luis Robert Luis is founder and co-owner of the seminal Brighton label Tru Thoughts, releasing albums by Bonobo, Quantic, TM Juke and Alice Russell among many others.

Chris T-T Singer-songwriter Chris T-T – who invented Twitter’s #iamsparticus hashtag and writes for The Morning Star – has released eight studio albums, the latest of which features his interpretations of songs by Winnie The Pooh creator A. A. Milne.

... AND BEYOND

Beyond The Great Escape, Brighton supports an impressive array of music festivals in and around the city throughout the year, from the big outdoor events of Shakedown and Meadowlands to more specialist fare such as Brighton Early Music Festival, Soundwaves and Colour Out Of Space. If you have a music business in Brighton & Hove or would like to move your business here then please contact the city council economic .development@ brighton-hove.gov.uk or arts@brighton-hove.gov.uk

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Concorde 2 Aug 25th Indie legends The Wedding Present’s annual joint to the coast sees them curate a whole day of their friends at the Concorde 2 venue. After many years it’s become a real social event for lovers of high energy guitar pop.

Glynde Place Jun 1st – 3rd Festivals don’t need to be hard work. Meadowlands offers three days of cultural carnivalesque celebration in the beautiful South Downs with a beautiful easy going atmosphere.

Prince Albert Jan 2013 Brighton promoters One Inch Badge now have a global reach, but their annual Sea Monsters albums and festivals see them salute the music of their home city with a run of sell out nights at the Prince Albert.

Big Beach Bootique American Express Community Stadium Jun 1st & 2nd Fatboy Slim comes inland slightly for his fifth Big Beach Bootique at the new Amex football stadium, home of his beloved Seagulls. A huge line-up sees the best dance music artists warm up for him.

Brighton Early Music Festival Various venues Oct 26th – Nov 11th The hugely successful Brighton Early Music Festival celebrates its 10th anniversary in October. A consistently surprising and innovative programme of music from the pre-classical era gets its time in the spotlight.

Colour Out Of Space Venue TBC Nov Colour Out Of Space brings three days of truly underground music, performances and films to Brighton, calling on the cream of the international avant-garde.

Nice Weather For Airstrikes Druids Arms May 25th – 27th Nice Weather for Airstrikes celebrates myriad facets of post rock music in a free, three day celebration in and around Brighton’s Druids Arms pub.

Shakedown Stanmer Park,Oct 6th Brighton’s dance music-friendly all dayer has quickly managed to grab many of the genres biggest acts – Ed Sheeran last year and Dizzee Rascal for 2012. Get ready to dance the summer out.

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Soundwaves

Bignor Park, Pulborough Jul 5th – 8th A installation from Damien Hirst and Rankin is the centrepiece of this new arts based festival but with the Big Chill team behind it you can be sure of great music and a great vibe too.

Various venues Jul 13th – 15th Soundwaves’ varied programme combines installations, panel talks, commissions and performances across a range of experimental and electronic arts practises.

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Various venues, Jan 2013 Promoters Melting Vinyl do their bit for cross-Channel harmony every year by shipping their pick of the best new French artists across the water for a range of gigs, films and talks in the city.

Eridge Aug 3rd – 5th With more Brighton talent that you can take a stick at, Playgroup takes the fun part of the festival experience and amps it right up, making sure you go home with plenty of memories. Fancy dress and happenings in a beautiful setting.

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ART: Iain Forsyth And Jane Pollard: Audience/ Performer Lighthouse Sat 5th - Sat 26th

Bobby Gillespie talking about Nick Cave’s music. If that isn’t all you need to know, we’ll elaborate that this series of films was commissioned by Cave to embellish each remastered release of his 14 longplayer beauties, portraying the depth of feeling behind them through the stories of affected listeners. Other works follow, created in film and video duo Forsyth and Pollard’s Audience/Performer project, as well as an exclusive performance with comedian Iain Lee – Performer. Audience. Fuck Off. – on the 12th. (BM)

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FILM: VANESSA REDGRAVE ON SCREEN Duke Of York’s Sun 6th/Sun 13th

Festival director Vanessa Redgrave has been in loads of films that people know, and she was also in this. Morgan: A Suitable Case For Treatment from 1966 (Sun 6th) is just one of the best films we’ve ever seen – Swinging London seen through the eyes of a car-dwelling cuckold with a gorilla fixation, as he tries to win back his rich, estranged wife played by Redgrave. Bonkers photo-based plot-free art drama Blow Up (Sun 13th) from the same year cemented her reputation as go-to gal for stylish 60s cinema. (NC)

ART: Hangover Square

SPOKEN WORD: A Tribute To Gil Scott-Heron

Hard to imagine much bleaker than Patrick Hamilton’s 1941 novel, Hangover Square, a story of reclusiveness, alcoholism, hatred, suspicion, murder and suicide. Even a romantic trip to Brighton only results in the central character’s missus shagging another bloke. Featuring a seedy London flat and a Brighton hotel room, designers recreate the film set for this homage to former Hove resident Hamilton’s best-known work, bringing rainswept, pre-war Britain into the gallery. Weave your own story, hopefully with a slightly brighter ending. (BM)

An evening celebrating the life of American poet Gil ScottHeron, who died last year. Scott-Heron’s 1970s albums and performances were some of the founding stones of hip hop, earning him the title ‘the godfather of rap’. He was recording and touring up until his death, with 2010’s album ‘I’m New Here’ introducing his voice to a new generation of listeners. Fellow poets Lemn Sissay and Salena Godden perform readings alongside Jamie Byng from Canongate, publishers of Scott-Heron’s memoirs ‘The Last Holiday’. (SH)

University Of Brighton Gallery Sat 5th – Sun 27th

Pavilion Theatre Tues 8th

ART: The Otolith Group / Invisible Flock

FILM: The Best Of BUG: The Evolution Of Music Video

Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo Eshun, aka The Otolith Group, nearly won the 2010 Turner Prize for a film mixing an intergalactic future with archive footage from Mumbai slums. Fusing memory and imagination again, these poetic installations see leading Middle Eastern literary thinker Etel Adnan reciting a poem, Sea, against the ambient noise of her Paris apartment. You’re then invited to follow a mythological trail to the Marina, before messaging the ocean via a buoy which translates texts into Morse Code. (BM)

Adam Buxton was one of the first British comedians to realise the potential of YouTube for disseminating his skits and song parodies. Best known as half of cult broadcasters Adam & Joe, his 2002 sitcom The Last Chancers, following the trials of a failing Brighton indie band, is required viewing for the city’s aspiring musicians. Tonight’s edition of his irregular BUG events see Buxton unveiling an evening of bizarre, inventive and hilarious music videos discovered during his compulsive internet trawls. (SH)

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Mon 21 May, 8pm, Theatre Royal Brighton

An unusual and compelling live musical encounter with the food we eat, complete with audio-visual composition and onstage cookery.

James Vincent McMorrow Sun 20 May, 7.30pm Brighton Dome, Concert Hall

The Irish singer-songwriter brings his intimate and literate mix of wistful acoustic folk and American West Coast sounds.

Fatoumata & Baloji Tue 22 May, 8pm Brighton Dome, Concert Hall

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DANCE: Mathew Bourne’s Early Adventures

MUSIC: The Lady: AN Homage To Sandy Denny

A collection of Bourne’s earlier works including Spitfire, Town And Country and The Infernal Gallop, here’s an opportunity to see what his work is about in this unique triple bill. Made famous for adaptations of the Nutcracker!, Swan Lake and Dorian Gray, Bourne has shattered conventional conceptions of ballet and redefined it for the future. Hailed as a revolutionary in dance, his show is certainly one of the highlights of the festival. (RL)

Sandy Denny is best known to many as the haunting singer songwriter out of Fairport Convention. That’s haunting because of her lovely voice, not because she’s dead. But since she is, a load of her former colleagues and contemporaries, together with fans from the modern age, have got together to produce this evening dedicated to her work with Fairport as well as Fotheringay and her solo catalogue. Maddy Prior, Thea Gilmore, Joan As Policewoman and PP Arnold are among the tribute payers treading the boards tonight. (NC)

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MUSIC: JOY DIVISION

Duke Of York’s Picturehouse / Pavilion Theatre / Brighton Dome Mon 13th / Thurs 17th /Fri 18th

Brighton Festival offers a week of opportunities to assess the legacy of Manchester post-punk legends Joy Division. On the Monday, the Duke’s screens Anton Corbijn’s biopic Control, followed by a Q&A with Stephen Mallinder from Factory contemporaries Cabaret Voltaire. Photographer Kevin Cummins and writer Paul Morley discuss the group in a modern context at Thursday’s Music & Legacy talk, before Friday’s Live Transmission show brings reinterpretations of their music by the Heritage Orchestra and sound artist Scanner to the Dome. (SH)

CHILDREN: Kid Carpet & The Noisy Animals Old Market Sat 19th & Sun 20th

Bristol musician Ed Patrick stepped out under his Kid Carpet moniker in 2003, bagging a record deal with Rob Da Bank’s Sunday Best label for his lo-fi junk shop pop. Much of Kid Carpet’s music is assembled from Patrick’s collection of children’s instruments, so it’s fitting that he’s turned his attentions to creating rock’n’roll musicals for kids. Kid Carpet & The Noisy Animals teams him with a gorilla, a bear, a badger and a hedgehog for a part live, part animated tale of music, dancing and friendship. (SH)

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MUSIC: Matthew Herbert: One Pig Theatre Royal Mon 21st

It seems like a long time ago that Herbert made really very good microhouse records like ‘The Audience’. These days he’s more likely to be sampling people dancing than making them dance. His latest arty exploration into the furthest corners of electronic music involves sampling a pig from near-silent birth to being butchered, cooked and scoffed. The music is as out there as the concept – dark, abstract electronica, including instruments made out of the pig itself. Asked why, he simply says, “Why not make a record out of a pig?” Fair enough. (JK)

LITERATURE: The Cult of the Ruin University of Brighton Fri 25th

Featuring panellists Ros Kerslake, Paul Finch, architect Sunand Prasad and chaired by David Dimbleby. The panelists will be discussing whether a prevalence and reverence for architecture of the past is translating to an opposition of modern buildings. For all those lovers of Question Time it’s a rare chance to see the Dimbleby in action and for those interested in architecture and how it affects society it’s a chance to get involved and find out more. (RL)

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CABARET: Professor Elemental’s Great And Secret Show

Marlborough Theatre Thurs 3rd – Sat 5th, Fri 18th

If you haven’t seen ‘Fighting Trousers’, in which the steampunk hip hop mad professor known as Elemental minces around a ring half-naked in an air raid helmet (chorus: “I don’t like your tweed, sir”, to a horn backing) then you’ve missed unarguably the finest thing YouTube can offer. Perhaps the only way to console yourself is to pay a visit to Elemental Manor (temporarily relocated to the Marlborough), where monkey butlers and scorching wordplay lie in wait. And lashings of tea. (BM)

THEATRE: I Have Never Cared For Sunsets: A History

Regency Tavern Sat & Sun: 5th & 6th, 12th & 13th, 19th & 20th

Possibly the most abstract puppet-show ever envisaged, this play covers Isaac Newton as a youth, an evil Karl Popper, leeches, addictions, potatoes, bloodletting and vaguely misunderstood philosophical concepts. Nestling somewhere between theatre and shameless self-expression, the show fits in perfectly with the Fringe’s esoteric line-up. Enthusiastic, unique, and with incredibly vague advertising, it’s the first performance of local chap Tye McGivern, who has never acted before. (JMM)

CABARET: The Revolution Will Be Sexual Komedia Studio Tues 8th & Weds 9th

East End Cabaret’s dirty duo are truly smutty professionals and their show at Edinburgh last August was very well received. Proclaiming tales of unrequited love, unrequited self-love and earnest mischievous musical endeavours, Bernadette Byrne and Victor Victoria take the viewers – or should that be, voyeurs – on a sexy, unpredictable adventure into one of the country’s finest cabaret shows. Playing on the feelings of the crowd, their shows are always different. (JMM)

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theatre: The Cock & Tail Inn: The 80s Tudor Room, Old Ship Hotel Weds - Sat: 9th – 12th, 16th – 19th, 23rd – 26th

Driftwood Productions brought the first instalment of 70s themed slapstick drama The Cock & Tail Inn to the Fringe last year, picking up positive reviews and some sold out shows. This time around the action shifts forward a decade, as pub landlord Barry, his regulars and staff grapple with lusting after Princess Di and the encroachment of yuppiedom. An evening of familiar innuendo with emotional undercurrents, in the fine British traditions of sitcom and farce, is to be expected. (SH)

LITERATURE: Fashion Tips For The Last Days Blind Tiger Weds 9th

Renowned locally as much for his mutton chops as his rhyming couplets, Chris Parkinson is one of Brighton’s true lovable young eccentrics. He’s been a regular fixture on the city’s poetry circuit for so long now that it’s a surprise to learn that he’s launching only his second book of verse tonight. Live music and short films will also feature in a typically eclectic variety show from the man whose ‘poetry brothel’ beat Gordon Brown for Best Literary Event at the 2007 Fringe. (AP)

COMEDY: Jessica Fostekew: Brave New World Laughing Horse, Quadrant Sat 12th, Sat 19th, Sat 26th

A must-see for linguists, pedants, grammar nazis and nerds, this hilarious show is about the origins of everyday words. Jessica Fostekew’s unquestionable acting ability, natural comedic timing and sparkling ease make for a fascinating, interesting, and very funny show. It’s free, and you’ll probably learn something too. You have nothing to lose: except your dignity, when you’re cackling with laughter. (JMM)

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Mon 14th – Weds 16th, Fri 18th & Sat 19th, Tues 22nd

Conquering the world one city at a time, French psych band Fantasticus are confining their debut UK tour entirely to Brighton venues during the Fringe, which should save on the petrol money at least. The five-piece specialise in improvised grooves with strong hints of the steady, stoner sounds of Pink Floyd and the rhythmic propulsion of Can. They pack in six shows in eight days, at The Globe, The Hope (twice), Sticky Mike’s, the Green Door and the Blind Tiger. (SH)

MUSIC: Milestones Play To The Silent Screen / Cubana Bop Play West Side Story Brunswick Mon 14th / Weds 23rd

Pianist Terry Seabrook originally assembled Milestones to pay tribute to Miles Davis’s bestselling 1959 album ‘Kind Of Blue’, but the group have moved beyond these confines to encompass all manner of Miles-related jazz. For the Fringe, the sextet will perform a new Seabrook score to an as yet undisclosed silent movie classic. The following week, Seabrook’s Cubana Bop present their Latin jazz take on another 20th century classic; Leonard Bernstein’s energetic musical West Side Story. (SH)

COMEDY: Best Of Late Night Gimp Fight The Warren Sat 19th

If the name alone doesn’t make you smirk, the costumes, puns, late night sketches and risqué black humour definitely will. Late Night Gimp Fight sold out last year and for good reason – it’s hilarious. Like laughing inappropriately at a child falling over, this is the kind of comedy that makes you feel slightly guilty about enjoying it so much. Bit dirty, bit shameful, totally brilliant. Probably not one to take your mother to. (JMM)

COMEDY: Jesus: The Guantanamo Years The Warren Sat 19th

Six years since he debuted this green-spirited spin on The War Against Terror (he’s been seen at the Fringe since then, presenting follow-up Eco-Friendly Jihad), Irish writer-comedian and ecoevangelist Abie Bowman returns with the show in which Jesus’s

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bid to enter the US is foiled by security wary of his Middle Eastern looks. Sparked by the thought that Al Qaeda causes less damage to the world than an oil-hungry West, Bowman spins a good yarn in an often incendiary tale. (BM)

LITERATURE: Verse & Versus: Poetry Slam!

Hendricks’ Library of Delightfully Peculiar Writings Mon 21st

Fancy yourself as a bit of a poet? A freestyling MC maybe? Either way, if you can make three minutes of the spoken word sound good and you’re up for making yourself part of the festival, you can enter this competition for free. There’s a £100 prize and some complementary gin, which sounds like a good deal to us. It’s £5 if you don’t have the bottle yet (to enter the competition, not the bottle of gin). (JMM)

EVENTS: THE HANGING GARDENS OF BRIGHTON Old Steine Gardens Fri 25th - Sun 27th

A three-day festival coinciding with the end of the Fringe, this Babylon-inspired weekender is themed as “a playful parody of the rise and fall of civilisation”. Two marquees play host to a strong line up of live acts, including The Go! Team, Dub Pistols, One Giant Leap’s Jamie Catto and Alabama 3, plus a healthy selection of cabaret performers and DJs. As you’d expect from the Old Steine site, capacity is limited, so advance tickets are probably a necessity. (SH)

EVENTS: Live Roller Derby Secret Venue Sat 26th

On possibly the first occasion a sporting event has made the Fringe programme, Brighton Rockers are pitted against Leicester’s Dolly Rockit Rollers. This frantic all-female contact sport features a star-helmeted skater scoring points by overtaking opponents. The ‘secret venue’ tag suggests some intriguing possibilities. Skating around the Royal Pavilion’s Banqueting Room, perhaps? Or a banked track event in the city’s Victorian sewers? The reality is likely to be far more prosaic, although the bout itself will be anything but. (AP)

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Words by Nick Coquet, Jessica Marshall McHattie, Ben Miller

Once a year Brighton’s creative front doors are flung open for all manner of oiks and rubberneckers to traipse through, all in the name of art appreciation. It’s all very well gawping at framed fancies on gallery walls, but it’s only really in the Festival’s Open Houses that you can really see the works in a domestic setting where, the impoverished artists hope, they’ll actually end up once some hard currency has changed hands. Many offer tea and cake, some we’ve outstayed our welcome in have actually offered wine, but whatever the lure this is art presented in a uniquely Brighton fashion. Here’s a selection of those that caught our eye, but follow the published trails and you’ll doubtless find yourselves in some very surprising front rooms.

House 2012 / Open Studios 2012 Phoenix Brighton Sat 5th – Sun 27th

Helene Kazan’s politically charged images – taken from a stand-off in Beirut in 1989 – have been turned into a fourminute animated montage of 1,680 images, superimposed over a single photo of her former kitchen. The Lebanese artist is one of four exploring themes of domesticity here, accompanying Robin Blackledge (concrete casts from food packaging), Deborah Bowness (paper interventions around Brighton’s streets) and Caroline Le Breton’s cut-out carpet stencils, planted on a nearby lawn. May 19-20th also sees Phoenix’s residents open their studios. (BM)

21a Brunswick Square

Well worth the adventure Hove-ward, this house is decked with the works of seven photographers, one sculptor, two papercuts artists, an illustrator and a jeweller. Kevin Meredith is our brilliant Street Style photographer, Alex Bamford won second prize in last month’s Create in Brighton, plus there’s great work from Chris Harrison, Lisa Bamford, Hannah Cole, Rob Orchard, Lee Albrow, Erin O’Connor and Kate Benjamin. (JMM)

7 Norfolk Street

Whimsical in all the right ways, this house celebrates incidental

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art, lost and found treasures, vintage postcards, and generally all things which will delight your tea-loving, cardigan-wearing girlfriend. There are three exhibitions here; photography, found art, and collage prints. Each encourages the viewer to rejoice in the small glimpses of beauty to be discovered all around us. (JMM)

Albert Mews Studio

Unashamedly feminine and stylish, this open studio houses many of Brighton’s best new designers. Lizzie Lock’s fine felt millinery is bold and unforgettable and Martha Mitchell’s homeware designs are the sort of thing that make our overdrafts wince. There’s also an array of other treats on show including silver, photography, prints and even hosiery. (JMM)

Flamingo Studio

There are two artists exhibiting at this independent house, Klara Piechocki and Adam Brown. Both from backgrounds in film and story-telling, Brown’s photography is striking and narrated, and Piechocki’s mixed media paintings are heavily influenced by queer culture, gender roles and open sexuality. Intriguing. (JMM)

Naked Eye Gallery

Open House favourites Ian Hodgson and Patrick O’Donnell are back for 2012, bringing together their paintings and drawings for a fascinating and intimate exhibition. Hodgson’s delicate and layered drawings focus on the hidden depths of the personality, and O’Donnell’s striking paintings focus on the depths of outer space and the cosmos. (JMM)

Quebec Art House

Currently shortlisted in the top three Artists’ Houses this year, The Quebec has a long tradition of superb art in the house and splendid cream teas in the sculpture garden. There are 19 artists exhibiting this year, including Sophie Woodrow, whose stunning porcelain sculptures are unsettling as well as beautiful, and Suzy Q’s gorgeous jewellery. (JMM)

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FESTIVALS

Words by Stuart Huggett, Lizzi Jameson, James Kendall, Jessica Marshall McHattie, Amy Jo McLellan, Hayley Simpson, Thirza Tooes

Applecart

June 3rd / Victoria Park, East London / £39 73 miles from Brighton

HEADLINERS: Noah & The Whale, Billy Bragg, Adam Ant DON’T MISS: Scritti Politti, Gilles Peterson A little bit of magic is what makes this festival so great. And when we say a bit, we actually mean a lot – an entire tent-full to be precise, with a line-up of the best talent in magic and trickery. In its second year now, Applecart is organized by the people behind Field Day and Underage festivals and is the more family-friendly of the youthful group. Festival highlights include a proper ale tent and The Art Car Boot Fair, which puts the art into the apple cart with artists selling their wares from the boots of classic cars. (HS) IN A NUTSHELL: Magic tricks, great music and drinking ale – what’s not to like?

Banquet’s Big Day Out June 4th / Imber Court, Esher / £20 51 Miles From Brighton

HEADLINERS: Kids In Glass Houses DON’T MISS: Deaf Havana, Futures, Arcane Roots Kingston’s equivalent to Brighton’s Resident and Rounder, Banquet Records is Surrey’s essential indie record store, known for its exclusive instore performances and club nights. Now, after finally finding the “perfect site”, Banquet try their hand at organising an outdoor live event for the first time. Don’t expect an amateur display though, as even though the festival is in its infancy, the impressive line-up across a mix of genres will make this the perfect way to spend your June bank holiday. (AJM) IN A NUTSHELL: Three music areas and signing tents full of fun. Why can’t this be in Brighton?

Bestival

September 6th – 9th / Robin Hill Country Park, Isle Of Wight / £180 66 miles from Brighton HEADLINERS: Stevie Wonder, New Order, The xx

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DON’T MISS: Azealia Banks, Orbital, Hot Chip Rob Da Bank and partner Josie’s Bestival has grown steadily to become probably Britain’s best-loved boutique festival – its regulars’ loyalty rewarded in recent years with the addition of July’s spin-off Camp Bestival (Lulworth Cove, Dorset, July 26th – 29th). Bestival’s clout is proved not only by this year’s huge international headliners, but its ability to score exclusive festival appearances from Sigur Ros and The xx. (SH) IN A NUTSHELL: The biggest little festival in the country, run by genuine music fans.

Boomtown Fair

August 9th – 12th / Matterly Estate, Hampshire / £121 71 miles from Brighton

HEADLINERS: Caravan Palace, The Skatalites DON’T MISS: Batmobile, David Rodigan, Reel Big Fish Boomtown is back and maintaining its reputation as the festival for lovers of ska, reggae, gypsy punk and rockabilly. For those who’ve never been before, the site looks like an old town film set, with neighborhood street parties creating the community spirit the festival is known for. Watch late night films at the Luna cinema, or if it’s the macabre you’re into, plan your own death at the town funeral parlour. (HS) IN A NUTSHELL: So much fun, you’ll wish you could call this town home.

Echo

June 22nd - 24th / Makarska, Croatia / £35 1,324 miles from Brighton

HEADLINERS: Koreless, Pariah, Midland DON’T MISS: Southbound Hangers, Donga, Spectrasoul Everyone goes on about Outlook, but if you like your wild Croatian parties filled with faces you’ll recognise from our own pebble-beach, Echo Festival’s a very cheap and fun-looking alternative. All the DJs you regularly enjoy at Life and The Tube, and all the club nights that you know from home (such as Below The Line, Simply Vinyl and Well Rounded) will be in attendance. Who knows, you might even see that holiday romance again. (JMM) IN A NUTSHELL: Brighton goes on a summer holiday.

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End Of The Road

August 31st – September 2nd / Larmer Tree Gardens / £150 103 miles from Brighton

HEADLINERS: Grizzly Bear, Grandaddy, Tindersticks DON’T MISS: Anna Calvi, Peggy Sue, Alessi’s Ark If you like your artists bearded and sincere, and your crowds attentive and polite, this is the festival for you. Set in the beautiful Wiltshire countryside with peacocks idly strutting about, End Of The Road sells out every single year and is renowned for a peaceful, fun atmosphere, a surprisingly young audience and an outstanding line-up of indie, folk, shoegazing and twee rock. We guarantee your tent will not be burnt or pissed on. (JMM) IN A NUTSHELL: More folk than an old folks’ home in Norfolk.

Evolution

June 3rd – 4th / Newcastle Gateshead Quayside / £35 343 miles from Brighton

HEADLINERS: Dizzee Rascal, Maxïmo Park, Deadmau5 DON’T MISS: Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Theme Park Ok, so the north east is a bit of a trek from the south coast, but you’ve got the extended Jubilee weekend to make the trip, and you don’t need a passport (honest, we checked). Sort some accommodation out and city centre festivals like Evolution are a bargain way to lose your head to the best new bands and DJs for a couple of days. Besides, Maxïmo Park on home turf is bound to be a winner. (SH) IN A NUTSHELL: A great excuse to get away from all that southern monarchy nonsense.

Field Day

June 2nd / Victoria Park, East London / £45 73 miles from Brighton

HEADLINERS: Franz Ferdinand, Sleigh Bells, The Vaccines DON’T MISS: Blood Orange, SBTRKT, Beirut The magic is definitely in the music at Field Day, and spread across seven stages you may find yourself wishing you could

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split in two to see your favorite acts. All of this year’s hottest and best acts are there, making the line-up one of the summer’s strongest. Seeing London’s hipsters taking part in the festival Village Fete games deserves special mention – you’re more likely to see these kids walking down Dalston Junction twisting their moustaches than doing sack races and the human wheelbarrow. (HS) IN A NUTSHELL: Mindblowing, with an amazing line-up.

Golden Down

June 15th - 17th / Black Bush Valley, Winchester / £125 74 miles from Brighton

HEADLINERS: Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, Four Tet, Roots Manuva DON’T MISS: Thundercat, Lorca, Portico Quartet After a dip in the trend last year, there’s a plethora of exciting new start-ups in 2012, and Golden Down is amongst the best ones we’ve seen in the UK. The line-up is eclectic and forwardthinking, the organisers promise a welcoming and fairly-priced campsite and the rural location means the Dance Tent isn’t hit with noise restraints so the party can continue on until morning. With a small capacity of only 5,000 spaces, early booking is recommended. (JMM) IN A NUTSHELL: Cheaper than flights to Croatia; more intimate than Glade.

Hop Farm

June 29th – July 1st / Paddock Wood, Kent / £162 40 miles from Brighton

HEADLINERS: Bob Dylan, Suede, Peter Gabriel DON’T MISS: Howling Bells, British Sea Power, Primal Scream There’s an element of back-to-basics at Hop Farm: it’s free from the sponsorship and branding that can make some festivals feel as rural as a wander through Churchill Square. However, with festival player Vince Power running things, the headliners are huge – and he’s added a further one-off date in September specifically to reel in Leonard Cohen for his only UK show this year. Hop Farm’s line-up isn’t the freshest (Sir Bruce Forsyth?!) but it’s often impressive. (SH) IN A NUTSHELL: Low-key by Vince Power’s standards, massive by anyone else’s.

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Larmer Tree

103 miles from Brighton July 11th – 15th / Larmer Tree Gardens / £190

HEADLINERS: Paloma Faith The Levellers DON’T MISS: Caravan Palace, Akala Set in the lush Larmer Tree Gardens in North Dorset, it’s macaws that fly overhead, not beer cans, and peacocks roam wild among festival goers. Now in its 22nd year, Larmer Tree Festival remains strictly sponsor-free and has been awarded numerous accolades including best festival toilets, so they must be doing something right. This year the line-up and entertainment prove to be just as stunning as the surroundings it’s set in. (HS) IN A NUTSHELL: Wholesome festival fun

Meadowlands

June 1st -3rd / Glynde Place, South Downs / £85 10 miles from Brighton

HEADLINERS: Swingrowers, Lamb, Portico Quartet DON’T MISS: Speech Debelle, Shona Foster, LTJ Bukem You can hop, skip and jump over to Meadowlands, set in the South Downs near Lewes. Described as a ‘cultural carnivalesque celebration’, this year’s festival will see over 80 acts, four stages, six club nights and a pop up casino. Brighton DJ Nick Hollywood will be spinning the sounds and styles of the 1920s and 30s swing era at the White Mink club night and Bang Said The Gun will provide an eclectic line up of spoken word and comedy. (HS) IN A NUTSHELL: Better value than most of this year’s festivals and a lot closer to home, too.

Nice Weather For Airstrikes May 25th -27th / Brighton / Free 0 miles from Brighton

HEADLINERS: Three Trapped Tigers, Her Name Is Calla DON’T MISS: &U&I This year, Brighton promoters and record label Nice Weather For Airstrikes’ annual festival of post rock music expands beyond the confines of regular home The Druids Arms and

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steps blinking into the daylight. Sandwiched between Friday’s electric kick off and Sunday’s chilled pub sessions, Saturday afternoon introduces an outdoor stage for the first time, just across the street on the Level. With free entry and an array of DJs, art installations and stalls thrown in, there’s little reason not to wander along at some point this weekend. (SH) IN A NUTSHELL: Discover dozens of new bands on your doorstep.

Nova

July 5th - 8th / Pulborough / £139 25 miles from Brighton

HEADLINERS: Fink, The Dø, Ghostpoet, Jessie Ware DON’T MISS: Art from big names like Rankin and Damien Hirst From the creative ladies behind the Big Chill, the Nova Festival Of Arts And Music is a brand new weekend for makers, doers and lovers. Art is the emphasis of the festival and it really is everywhere. Installations by demons of the art world Rankin and Damien Hirst will be unmissable, and the creative ‘Make It’ sessions are your chance to be instructed by established artists on site. From visual art to theatre and film, Nova is set to be a feast for your senses – all in a field less than an hour out of Brighton. (HS) IN A NUTSHELL: The chill-ness of the Big Chill, but a lot more arty.

Playgroup

August 3rd-5th / Eridge Park, Tunbridge Wells / £95 29 miles From Brighton

HEADLINERS: The Correspondents, Belleruche, DJ Format DON’T MISS: AK/DK, Blah Blah Blah, High Rankin One of Britain’s most joyful festivals, it’s telling that Playgroup make room for 3,500 punters and 1,500 performers. Really there’ll be 5,000 performers in the beautiful Eridge Park setting as the whole crowd gets dressed up and goes crazy. This year’s theme is a good one, Lost Toys, so bears, cowboys and Indians, dinosaurs, dolls and monsters will be bouncing round to the best local bands and DJs and some old Playgroup favourites. If you think Secret Garden Party and Bestival have got a bit busy you’ll love the relaxed vibe. (JK) IN A NUTSHELL: If you can’t have fun at Playgroup seek counselling.

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Reading

Slam Dunk

HEADLINERS: Kasabian, Foo Fighters, The Cure, Florence & The Machine DON’T MISS: Azealia Banks, The Maccabees, Foster The People Shifting tickets is difficult for all festivals in the current climate but to boost sales this year the smart-thinking guys at Reading are offering all weekend ticket holders a free beer and burger every day – not a bad idea, is it? Another thing that isn’t too bad is the line-up, with The Cure topping the bill after their comeback at Bestival last year. At almost £200 quid, it is pricey. But factor in your freebies and all the great bands you’ll see and it starts to look worth it. (HS) IN A NUTSHELL: Burgers, booze and a brilliant line-up.

HEADLINERS: Taking Back Sunday, The Blackout, Motion City Soundtrack DON’T MISS: Architects, Say Anything, The Audition Originally an intimate skacore celebration, Slamdunk has snowballed into one of the best day festivals for rock and pop punk, but still with a dash of brass. With a habit of reuniting bands, Slamdunk has orchestrated sets from The Starting Line and Hit The Lights with great success. It may feel strange wandering through the Student Union over to the Main Stage, but its music is of such epic proportions, it’s not one you can afford to miss. (LJ) IN A NUTSHELL: Pop punk, rock and metal merge to create an awesome day out.

August 24th -26th / Reading / Leeds / £197.50 Reading: 82 miles from Brighton

May 27th / University Of Hertfordshire, Hatfield / £32.50 90 miles from Brighton

Redfest

Sundown

HEADLINERS: Modestep, Kids In Glass Houses DON’T MISS: Don Broco, Young Guns, Deaf Havana A few years ago, this field of mud was home to a tiny and free day of music; now the organisers have roped in the likes of Kids In Glass Houses. With five stages, this little festival hidden just outside of Redhill is continually growing, especially after rising star Ed Sheeran headlined last year. If you want to experience an intimate rock/pop festival, this is a weekend in July that will knock your socks (and wellies) off. (LJ) IN A NUTSHELL: Great music, not too far from Brighton and cheap.

HEADLINERS: Dizzee Rascal, Chase And Status, Pixie Lott DON’T MISS: Dot Rotten, Sub Focus This year’s Sundown festival (formerly the ‘Norfolk Spectacular’) has a big focus on booking artists from the electronic side of the musical spectrum. In a proper cun’ree field, is there really anything else you’d want to dance to? Not only is it great for any anti-city types, it’s one of the last chances we’ll get to party before woolly knickers come out again. Radio 1 tastemachine Zane Lowe will be wandering about, so if it’s good enough for him, it’s most certainly good enough for us too. (TT) IN A NUTSHELL: A decent collection of dance-worthy acts before the rain comes.

July 20th - 22nd / Redhill / £65 33 miles from Brighton

Sunrise Celebration June 21st -24th / Somerset / £115 124 miles from Brighton

HEADLINERS: The Imagined Village, Gaudi, The Egg DON’T MISS: Yes Sir Boss, Warsaw Village Band, Laid Blak 100% sustainably run, Sunrise is certainly one for the festival punter conscious of their environmental footprint. A shining beacon of good music, you won’t find any over-hyped acts here, just a blend of the best in dub, ska, electronica, dubstep, reggae, folk and Balkan beats. This year, an extra day has been set for a special summer Solstice ceremony. Glastonbury Green Fields’ famous Small World Solar Stage will be there as well as an astrologically aligned Stone Circle. To keep it intimate, only the first 1,000 ticket holders can apply to attend, so get yours early. (HS) IN A NUTSHELL: Good vibes, good music and good environmental intentions.

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September 1st- 2nd / Norfolk Showground / £90 170 miles From Brighton

V Festival

August 18th - 19th / Hylands Park, Chelmsford / £180 86 Miles From Brighton

HEADLINERS: The Stone Roses, The Killers DON’T MISS: Snow Patrol, David Guetta, Emili Sandé Originally started as a Virgin sponsored Britpop celebration, V has survived early unfashionable criticisms to become probably the country’s biggest festival of commercial indie, pop and dance acts. This year, there truly is something for everyone, ranging from hotly tipped new acts such as Maverick Sabre and Frank Ocean to certified British legends such as Tom Jones. The line-up reads a little random, almost as if you’ve pressed shuffle on a shared family iPod, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. (AJM) IN A NUTSHELL: An eclectic display of popular artists which should please a mix of musical friends.

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REALITY TV INTERVIEW words by hayley simpson Illustration by scott nellis www.scottnellis.co.uk

THE REASONS

If, like me, you have no life, you may often find yourself watching reality TV. “Wherever have these freaks come from?” you cry, while ringing to save your favourite for the third week in a row. We watch enraptured, mocking the guinea pigs on our television screens and feeling safe in the knowledge that no sane, normal person like us would ever put ourselves through such an ordeal. Right? Well… no. This year I made it my mission to get on the telly. As a student on the brink of graduation I was hoping for some exposure and a few doors to be opened. I also had a 10,000 word dissertation looming, and as a professional procrastinator I thought it might provide a nice opportunity to put it off a little while longer. Although I’m contractually bound not to write about the programme itself, I can give you a glimpse into what reality TV is like behind the scenes.

THE EXPERIENCE

The selection process of most reality shows begins with the humble application form. Having seen one of these before (Take Me Out series 2) I knew what to expect. For question six - Who was the star of 2011? - I answered “Pippa Middleton’s bottom” and my sides ached from my hilarity. They say positive thinking works so I sent off the application while mentally planning my TV debut outfit. A week later I’m in bed at 3.30pm, trying to keep warm because I’m too skint to put the heating on. My phone rings and a lady tells me I’ve made it to the audition stages. I throw the covers off and scream the house down – I haven’t felt this brilliant since winning my year 7 haiku poetry competition. Over the next few weeks I’m a bundle of nerves. My friends quietly sit me down and tell me that under no circumstances can I say on camera that I want to be famous. They also tell me to be myself… but not too much, which really makes my confidence swell. I decide I needed to do something special to stand out. You can’t get much more wild than baked goods so I settle on the idea of baking cupcakes, my logic being that if I failed to woo them with my personality, Betty Crocker would surely do the job for me. The day comes and I arrive, cupcake box in hand. My heart sinks as I realise others have brought along props too. There’s

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guitars and pieces of artwork, and one girl who looks like a budget Lady Ga Ga impersonator is wearing different size shoes so she walks with one leg shorter than the other. From 5000 applications, 500 have been chosen to audition today, so it’ll be a long wait. After nine hours I am the last person to be seen. All I’ve had to eat all day is a stale pain au chocolat and my blood sugar levels have plummeted. Suddenly a man with a camera shouts out, “You! You’ve got bright red hair, so I’m going to talk to you.” Cursing Schwarzkopf hair dye under my breath, I try to gather my thoughts as the man and his camera approach me. This is the time when a contestant reels off their sob story, like how their cat got put down when they were 11 and the only way they overcame the grief was through the power of music and song. You know, real TV gold. The man asks, “So, why are you auditioning today?” and my mind goes blank. All I can do is say the first thing that pops into my head. “Errr… I want to be famous”, I stammer. I’VE SAID THE F WORD! However will I live this down? I may as well go home, I think, tears beginning to fill my eyes. All is lost until I remember the cupcakes and why I am there. I give myself a pep talk and am ready to impress. Needless to say, my cakes are a storming success and I get a call from the producer that night telling me to come back tomorrow. It’s like a computer game, this reality TV lark. It’s a series of levels and I’d just gained access to the next. From 500 people I was down to the final 40. The following 24 hours are a blur of waiting to be interviewed and doing challenges. On TV they make out that all the decisions are made by the ‘judges’, but we know it’s the people behind the camera we have to impress. The tensest moment comes when a “shocking” announcement is made – the judges are cutting the 40 down to 20. Names are called one by one and I feel like I am back at school in PE. Then, near the end of the list, I hear my name. I’m choked with genuine shock. I never thought I’d care so much. Clichés like ‘emotional roller coaster’ have never rung truer. The classic reality TV characters are all present. There’s the glamour girl, the pretty boy and the audition addict who explains to me all about playing “the game.” This makes me wonder, which character have they cast me as?

WAS IT WORTH IT?

While I was waiting for the decision I lived off a diet of gin and rollies, too nervous to eat real food. I moped around the house while my friends mocked me for being “so dramatic”. I can tell you now, I wasn’t chosen to be on the show. Will I try again? No. Flashbacks of the cringeworthy things I’ve said on camera keep me up at night and I’m dreading the day the auditions are aired. I’m resigned to the fact my clip will go viral, rendering me jobless and loveless forever. My advice? Enjoy reality TV from the safety of your sofa and never, ever use it as an excuse to avoid writing your dissertation.

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Lorca

words and photo by james kendall

Part of a new wave of house producers coming to the genre from dubstep, AkaAkaRoar resident DJ Lorca has seen his tracks appear on Essential Mixes from both Modeselektor and Scuba. His new single on Dummy follows releases on über-hip labels Left_Black, Third Ear and Live Ones. Not bad for a 22 year old university student. Have you always made house-based dance music? When I started I was making dubstep. That’s the first electronic music I liked, so I started making all the wobbly stuff. I used to play in bands and I’ve been playing guitar for 10 or 15 years now. That was much more musical than what I was doing with the dubstep, which was just making cool sounds. Dubstep just got boring. It’s a bit limited. I wanted to be a bit more musical and appeal to a wider audience. Dubstep was a bit of a fad, it wasn’t quality music. So do you think people are turning away from dubstep now? Yeah, I think so. It was exciting when it blew up and now it’s gone stale. It got commercialised and then it went bad. I’m sure what was good about it does still exist in some places, but it’s not as exciting as it was. Dubstep definitely changed everything. It’s rubbed off on things, ‘cos this house music that’s coming out now is different, it’s not the same.

Do you make your music to listen to primarily at home or in a club? Always to play in a club, but I try and make it so you could listen to it elsewhere as well. Before this Dummy record some of my other stuff wasn’t being picked up by DJs. I don’t think it’s big club music. It’s not that mixable and it’s got vocals over it so it might be hard for some DJs. But I’m trying to make some more instrumental stuff at the moment. I’m DJing a lot, so I wanna play out my own music. Do you play a lot of your own productions in your sets? I try to but I don’t have that many yet. I’ve only got about 10 tracks as Lorca and obviously I’m bored of some of them ‘cos I made them so long ago. A lot of my set is 125-130bpm house music – Pearson Sound, Scuba, anything on Hot Flush. Joy Orbison is a big influence. Jack Dixon just put out a really good EP. There’s so much good music coming out right now. What other plans have you got? I want to do my own label ‘cos I have a load of re-fixes that I wouldn’t be able to release properly, so I’m just going to do them on white label. And I want to sign up music as well. I’m trying to get mates involved that are just starting out, encouraging them to keep sending me music. I want to get new producers, people who have only had one release out, otherwise I wouldn’t be able to sign them.

What are the differences between mid 90s deep house What are the most important things to do to break yourself and what is being made now? as a DJ? Well it’s definitely influenced by dubstep, so the structures Just make the music, that’s the most important thing. There are aren’t as flat. It’s not just for only a few DJs going round the DJs to play out. There is a lot of circuit at the moment that have stuff that you can listen to the managed to break through without whole way through and not get making any tracks, so creating bored, whereas 90s house was tunes is definitely the main focus. NEXT EVENTS: AkaAkaRoar at Life Fri 11th just mixable stuff to play out in I’m just slow at it. I’m a bit of a SINGLE: ‘Can’t See Higher/Missed Out’ the club. I guess it’s more perfectionist, so it takes me a long out now on Dummy musical and it’s easier when time. But I do update my Facebook WEB: facebook.com/lorcamusic you have to listen to a full track everyday trying to keep people of it. involved.

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Brighton Fashion Week Words By Hayley Simpson, James Kendall

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Even if you dress yourself daily in a beige unisex sack you’ll probably remember hearing about Brighton designer Jess Eaton’s controversial Roadkill Couture at last year’s Brighton Fashion Week. The ‘found fur’ collection created much debate and gained coverage in the national press. The notoriety, rarely a bad thing, has helped cement the five-day event’s worthy position on the UK’s fashion calendar. Now back even bigger and better, the week will see more than 50 local and international designers present their work across Brighton’s venues. Sounds frocking good to us.

is to come in the fashion world and the designs will be as cutting edge as the scissors the fabric is cut with. Our sources tell us the ones to look out for are Yuri Yuferev, a talented designer who has worked with Gareth Pugh, and K And K London, whose Nocturnal collection contrasts textures and techniques. Jess Eaton will be headlining the show and showcasing her next collection, the highly anticipated followup to Roadkill Couture.

Brighton Frocks Catwalk Show

Create Studios Fri 1st June

All Saint’s Church Wed 30th May

Readers with their fingers on the Brighton fashion pulse may recall this show’s humble beginnings at the Honey Club. This year’s venue, All Saints Church in Hove, is a prestigious setting for the annual display of boundary pushing fashion and costume design. Expect collections to display Brighton’s love of the wild and wonderful to the radical and rebellious – all with an edgy sense of humour thread through. Look out for I Am. Ralph, whose bold collection is inspired by his favourite superheroes and Jenievieve Berlin’s millinery collection, which charts the reverse journey of hip hop, from 2012 back to the 1980s. Headlining is Walter Works, whose creations confront the wastefulness of society in a witty and insightful way.

Zeitgeist Show All Saints Church Thurs 31st May

It’s all about the detail in this show, with an emphasis on innovative design, elegant lines, immaculate tailoring and luxurious fabrics. Bringing together emerging and established talent, the Zeitgeist Show will be setting the standards of what

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Photocopy Club Pick up Vogue and you might think that fashion photography is all glossy, immaculately lit snaps of immaculate young women Photoshopped to share more DNA with mannequins than the girls on the street. The Photocopy Club – in keeping with the lo-fi nature of its Grazia-endorsed exhibitions – will be showing shots printed in black and white on office paper, bluetacked to the wall. This time the all-welcome set-up is replaced by a more curated offering of 10 photographers including Alex Wein, Sam Hiscox and Kevin Mason. Expect a loose approach to the genre that is full of life despite the monochromatic look.

Ready To Wear

Corn Exchange Sat 2nd-Sun 3rd June

If all that fashion jargon goes right over your head then the Ready To Wear Show is probably more your thing. There’s still the strut of the runway with showcases from Brighton’s independent boutiques, high street retailers and vintage emporiums. You can also buy and take home your favourite pieces from the catwalk. The show takes on an interactive element with hair and beauty demonstrations, workshops, fashion symposiums and networking opportunities too. Look out for Brighton favourites Tramp and Dirty Harry.

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Brighton is home to many creative folk, but like any small town it can be difficult to get away from the same trends and tribes. Becky, who works at Pussy, seems to have found the perfect antidote to blending in with the crowd. “I don’t do high street. I want to look slightly unique so I don’t wear big brands cause I don’t want to see people wearing the same stuff as me.” Becky shuns the fashion magazines and forges her own style system of beliefs, looking to hip hop music for inspiration. Describing her style as “ASBO chic” there is certainly an air of ghetto cool about her – from the chunky gold hooped earrings to the Nike trainers. So apart from anything on the high street, what else would Becky not be caught dead in? “Dresses,” she says. “I’d only ever wear one at a funeral or a wedding.” Headscarf “This was either from a charity shop or Beyond Retro. I always wear a headscarf and very rarely wear my hair down.” Glasses by Lacoste “I always wear glasses. These are vintage and from Bromptons on Gardner Street. I’ve got lots of other pairs and I change them up depending on what mood I’m feeling.” Earrings “These are a bit of a secret gem. I have lots of pairs and everyone always asks me where they are from but I refuse to tell because I don’t want anyone else wearing them.” Jacket by Beyond Retro “I was very pleased with this find. I like Beyond Retro but try not to shop in the same places all the time.” T-shirt by Alife “I bought this when I was in New York. I quite like Alife’s clothes.” Chains “I always wear loads of chains. The smaller one is by a UK artist called Insa and the big one is from a car boot sale. Five or six years ago you could pick up jewellery like this really easily but now they can be harder to find.” Bag by Perks And Mini “Perks And Mini is an Australian company and someone got this bag for me as present.” Trainers by Nike “I always wear trainers and these were a present. I think I only own one pair of ‘normal shoes’ and about 30 pairs of trainers. It’s definitely an obsession.

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Unsung Heroes

100 People who make Brighton what it is No.29 Pippa Smith

Words Stuart Huggett, Photo by James Kendall

As Head of Learning, Access and Participation at Brighton Dome, Pippa Smith has been responsible for the huge success of many of the city’s big family events, including Burning The Clocks and Brighton Festival’s Children’s Parade which is on Sat 5th. What does your job title mean? It’s a mixture of things to help people engage with the Dome and enhance their experience. We have quite a lot of licence to think up interesting things to do with people. For example, I’ve got a concert with the Britten Sinfonia which is called Tweet, Chirp And Flap. Young people spend the day rehearsing their birdsong and in the afternoon go into the Concert Hall and see some music played fantastically well. At the bottom of it all you’re thinking the arts are a jolly good thing and you want all kinds of different types of people to be involved. Under your guidance The Children’s Parade has got massive. How big is it now? There are 78 schools involved, which is particularly impressive because there’s actually only 73 schools in Brighton. When the front reaches the Concorde the back hasn’t left Brighton station, so there’s actually a gridlock which causes 20-mile tailbacks on the A259 but everyone seems to go for it once a year. I think it’s actually the biggest children’s parade in the world. When I took it over the whole thing could fit in the gardens of the Pavilion. You also had a big hand in creating Burning Of The Clocks, didn’t you? Chris Bailey, who started Same Sky with me, had the idea. We were in an office on a wet afternoon thinking we wanted something that wasn’t Christmas but was celebratory. I said it wouldn’t work as it’s too near Christmas. I can take some credit for how it works, though. It’s just amazing how it’s stuck – I’ve had people ring up from the university asking about its ancient history, not realising we made it all up.

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THE PLACE Tucked just behind the Blind Tiger you could be forgiven for walking straight past this place into the wood store next door; this is Mexican street food quite literally brought to the back streets of Brighton. The street vibe is evident; with only a small outdoor seating area most customers take off munching theirs on foot. If you can’t get there, these guys will deliver your food by skateboard or BMX to the Lanes and surrounding streets. We’ll stop using the word ‘street’ now.

THE MEAL The menu has only two things on it. If you’re hungry, go for a burrito; with a choice of veg, chicken, beef or prawn, prices vary, but start at a too-good-tobe-true £4 up to a still cheap £5.50. All come packed with a myriad of Mexican additions including rice, veg, salsa, sour cream and cheese. We go for chicken, which is chopped into tender bite size chunks. The peppers and onions are sweet and soft and compliment the zing of the salsa nicely. The chilli sauce certainly has a kick to it but is combated by the sour cream. You might expect to fall into a carbinduced coma after the combination of rice and tortilla but it makes it a nice compact wrap to eat on the go. If you fancy a snack, go for the quesadillas (£3-£4 for two), which are like mini versions of their burrito brothers. With a choice of cheese, chicken or beef they are small but mighty and packed with flavour. Both the burrito and quesadillas were surprisingly fresh and healthy tasting. THE VERDICT The menu is limited, but that is not always a bad thing. You know a food establishment is confident in their offerings when they don’t feel the need to fill up a menu with neither-here-northere dishes. What Carlito-Burrito does, they do very well. WERE WE SUSSED? We were probably more inquisitive than their average customer on a rainy Wednesday afternoon but the guys were friendly and enthusiastic. We think they just thought we were chatty.

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The Warren

Words By Nione Meakin, Photo By James Kendall

While Brighton Festival fills the major theatre venues, the Fringe offers hundreds of opportunities to catch surprising shows in the city’s hidden, backstreet spaces. James Turnbull, producer of Brighton Fringe’s newest venue The Warren, talks to us about rooftop location-scouting, injecting culture into West Street and “kissing the wall”. We’ve never heard of Wagner Hall – how did you find it? We looked at a lot of places. We started off with Google Maps, scanning the streets of Brighton and singling out interesting buildings that we didn’t recognise, then heading down for a nose around. We knew of the Wagner Hall but it took us a while to track down the owner, then five months of negotiations to secure it. It was perfect. It hasn’t operated as a theatre for 20 years or so but it has everything in place, from the large stage to the back bar. It has a gorgeous garden too. Has it been closed up for all that time? It was used as the police’s HQ during the last political party conferences, and prior to that it hosted the city’s first ever drag pantos during the 1980s. The drag queens all used to kiss the wall outside the dressing room for luck before they went on stage – you can still see their lipstick marks. We’ll be following in their footsteps come opening night. West Street is renowned for a very different “late-night culture” – how do you anticipate that sitting with Fringe crowds? We’re aware of West Street’s reputation but we really liked the idea of bringing the Fringe into the heart of the city. There’s been a tendency for events to happen mainly in the North Laine/Old Steine/Kemp Town areas. We want to draw it out across Brighton. We hope locals will love how central we are and out-of-towners will love the fact we’re only a short sprint from the train station. Where does the The Warren fit in with the Fringe and the Festival? Historically there has been a perceived divide between the Festival, which is synonymous with high production values and

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international acts, and the Fringe, which is more developmental, with emerging companies and work in progress. Over the last few years this line has blurred though. Under the new leadership of the festival and the guest artistic director system the programme has become less focused on bringing high quality UK companies to the city. There is a hunger from Brighton audiences to see this work so the Fringe is beginning to fill that gap – that is what The Warren is trying to do. Is it just about putting on great events? It was really important to us that people don’t see this as somewhere to catch a show and leave, but as a place they can hang out, have a drink, meet friends and chat to performers. Half the fun of the Fringe is the buzz around the city and we want to be the place where everyone meets. We’re running a Fringe Club with live music from Brighton bands, and we’ve spent a lot of time and money on creating an atmosphere, with fairy lights, cosy nooks and a village green feel. Sounds like you know what you’re doing. We take it you’ve got some previous in this area. As Otherplace Productions we’ve been running the hugely successful Upstairs At Three And Ten in Kemp Town for five years, but we decided to branch out and add another venue to the stable. Upstairs At Three And Ten is great but it only seats 50 people. At The Warren we can accommodate 150. It was frustrating coming across great work that was too large-scale for Brighton’s existing Fringe venues – now we’re able to programme it.

There seems to be a lot of love for pop-up venues recently – what’s their appeal? Part of the magic of May in this city is experiencing new things – going to places you haven’t been before, seeing things you wouldn’t normally see. Having a new popup space in town creates that buzz around the Fringe. It’s about going out somewhere different, seeing performances and WHERE: Russell Place, off West Street meeting new people. It’s not the easiest to WHEN: Thurs 3rd – Sun 27th start from scratch but the pleasure of WEB: warrenvenue.com building something special for Brighton has got us through.

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LISTINGS MAY 2012

Tuesday 1st

Above Audio Cottontail Club Big band and jitter jive tunes 9pm £free Audio Guerilla Rocks Club night for rock chicks, skater bois and indie kids 11pm £3/2/1 Bee’s Mouth Roll ‘Dem Bones Lynch inspired 50s and 60s tunes 8.30pm £free Belushi’s Bar Back To The 80s Retro night dedicated to the only decade to spawn a revival which has lasted longer than the decade itself 9pm £free Black Lion Hit The Decks Open decks spin off (book a slot online) 9pm £free Brunswick Jazz Jam Open session with a house band 8pm £free Caroline Of Brunswick Skeptics In The Pub: Paul Zenon The illusionist talks about his run in with the clairvoyant charlatan, Psychic Sally 8pm £2 Coalition Back2Back If your bass was this filthy you’d have to take it back to the fishmongers 11pm £4/3 Cube Cube Live: Matt Bonner Live music 8pm £free Digital CU Next Tuesday It’ll teach the universities to timetable lectures for Wednesday mornings 11pm £4/3 Druid’s Arms Druid’s New Student Party Electro house DJ 9pm £free Duke Of Norfolk Open Mic 9pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema Bel Ami 11am £tbc; Salmon Fishing In The Yemen 1.15pm £tbc; Being Elmo 6.30pm £tbc; Marley 3.30pm/9pm £tbc Gladstone Quiz Night 8.30pm £1 Globe Basement Cinema Underground films, comfy seats and free popcorn 8pm £free Green Door Store Hold Your Horse Is Math rockers who can still knock out a decent chorus 7.30pm £4 Honey Latin Fever: DJ Aaron George, Gabriel Angel, Yersin Rivas Dance lessons followed by a tropically vibed salsa club 8pm/10pm £3/1/free Hope SlipJam B: Barcode, The Dick Limerick Academy Hip hop battleground for Brighton b-boys with an open mic and deck rap session 8.30pm £free Hydrant Johnson And The Believers, Digo, The Somefinks Live music 8pm £1 Jive Monkey Quiz Night Details tbc Komedia Fever Pitch: Brighton Fringe Festival Adaptation of Nick Hornby’s portrait of an Arsenalobsessed football fan 8pm £14/12; Patrick Watson, The Barr Brothers Canadian pianist mixing classical pop and indie rock 8pm £12.50 Latest Music Bar Arbouretum, Hush Arbors Intricate and free-form psych folk 7.30pm £5 Lola Lo Dirtee Laundry Student night 10pm £6/4/2 Mesmerist The Mesmerist Conjurers Consortium: Kris Singh The master magician shows you how it’s done 7.30pm £free Prince Albert Blue Room, Maschine, Unknown Brothers Live music 8.30pm £4/3 Red Lion Challenging General Knowledge & Music Quiz 8pm £1 Theatre Royal Steel Magnolias Comedy drama set in a Louisiana beauty parlour 7.30pm £12-32 World’s End Poker Night 8pm £tbc

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Wednesday 2nd

A-Bar Honey Hush Queer-friendly blues and rock&roll night with the Frockabilly gang 9pm £free Audio Supercharged Drum&bass and breaks 11pm £6/4 Bee’s Mouth Open Mic 8.30pm £free Belushi’s Bar Now That’s What I Call A Party In this instance, it’s okay to judge a book by its cover 9pm £free Belushi’s Below Detention 8pm £free Black Lion The Black Lion Acoustic Showcase Live music 8.30pm £free Blind Tiger Lethal Quizzle Pub quiz with zany rounds 8pm £1 Brunswick Three Oak Productions A cabaret of conjurors 7.30pm £5 Chequers Quiz Night 8pm £1 Coalition CoCo LoCo Commercial chart music for students 10.30pm £5/3/2 Cube Wicked Wednesdays House DJs 8pm £free Digital Poundance Like a coin operated dancefloor 11pm £4/3/1

Dome Stewart Lee - Carpet Remnant World Brand new show from the anti-comedy comedian 8pm £19.50/17.50 Druid’s Arms We Change The Tempo DJ set of international sounds 9pm £free Duke Of Norfolk Pub Quiz 9pm £1 Duke Of York’s Cinema Salmon Fishing In The Yemen 11am/1.30pm/6.45pm £tbc; Marley 3.45pm/9.15pm £tbc Fishbowl Tea & Biscuits: DJ Gareth Stephens Retro swing, soul and ska 10pm £free Fountain Head Student Night DJs play indie and rock 8pm £free Globe Global Bass: DJ Ted Lauren DJ delves into the bassier side of jazz, gypsy and world music 9pm £free Green Door Store Flats Some of those modern punks that they have in London 7.30pm £7; Hard Times They can take our disposable income, but they’ll never take our nowave disco! 10.30pm £free Haunt Slow Club, Two Jackals Cutesy and lo-fi folk pop duo 7.30pm £10 Hope The E.M.E. Jazz hop DJs (downstairs) 8.30pm £free Hydrant The Arteries, River Jumpers, Gnarwolves Live music 8pm £5 Jive Monkey Funk & Soul DJs (in the bar) 8pm £free Komedia CANdYRAT Tour: Ewan Dobson, Antoine Dufour, Jimmy Wahlsteen, Adam Palma Acoustic guitar label sends its roster on tour 7.30pm £12.50 Latest Music Bar East By Steven Berkoff Berkoff’s 1970s verse play about rites of passage in London’s East End 7pm £10/8; Ben Poole Blues guitarist 8pm £6/5 Mesmerist The Swing Ninjas Gypsy swing band 9pm £free Mucky Duck Anna Rice, Lewis McKale, Peter Bailey Little Known Records live music showcase 8pm £free Northern Lights Prognosis Set the DJ controls for the heart of psychedelia 7pm £free Prince Albert Michael Chapman, Hiss Golden Messenger, Red River Dialect Jazzy folk guitarist 8pm £9 Proud Cabaret The Staves, Christof, Zoe Brownrigg Live music Details tbc Theatre Royal Steel Magnolias Comedy drama set in a Louisiana beauty parlour 7.30pm £12-32 Volks Switch Up Drum&bass, electro and dubstep night Details tbc

Thursday 3rd

Audio Bastard Pop Musical mash-up 11pm £3/2/ free Bee’s Mouth Normanton Street Live music 9pm £free Belushi’s Bar Karaoke 9pm £free Belushi’s Below Fallout Live Live indie bands 10pm £3/2 Black Lion Soul Casserole A melting pot of hot funk beats and soul grooves 8.30pm £free Blind Tiger The Hackney Colliery Band Funky hip hop and Balkan brass band 8pm £5 Brunswick BIMM Acoustic Folk Showcase Showcase sets from students of the music college 8pm £tbc Caroline Of Brunswick Brighton Bike Night Weekly biker’s social - we’re talking leather, not lycra 7pm £free Coalition Secret Discotheque Replaying the soundtrack to your youth 11pm £4/3/2 Concorde2 Simian Mobile Disco DJ set from the remix team 11pm £10 Constant Service Light Fingered Folk Gypsy folk music 8.30pm £free Cube Da Bomb Student DJ night 8pm £free Digital 2ManyDJs, Blah Blah Blah DJs Reinventing how to spoil the broth all over again 11pm £20 Druid’s Arms Druid’s Arms Presents Live music 8pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema Salmon Fishing In The Yemen 1pm/6.30pm £tbc; Marley 3.30pm/9pm £tbc Fishbowl Residents Association: DJ Will Sumsuch DJs play hip hop, funk and world beats

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10.30pm £free Gladstone Arthur Shillin’ Electro swing, funk and breaks 8.30pm £free Globe Hang The DJ! A night of punter-picked playlists 9pm £free Green Door Store Spirit Of Gravity: Tinneman, Daniel Alexander Hignell, Twenty Twenty Field recordings, circuit bending, abstract soundscapes Brighton’s avant noise gang have found a new home 7.30pm £tbc; Soul Casserole A melting pot of hot funk beats and soul grooves 11pm £free Honey SAS Sports & Social Chart and party anthems 11pm £3/2 Hope Unhooked Generation Retro DJs with an ear for 60s Motown and northern soul (downstairs) 8pm £free; Kellar, Listing Ships, Wrecktheplacefantastic Experimental noise, krautrock and melodic punk rock 8pm £3 Hydrant The Sadies Psychedelic surf rockers (upstairs) 7pm £10; Raised On Replicas Punk post grunge band launch their debut single 8pm £free Komedia Hammer & Tongue: Tim Clare, Gerry Potter An entertaining mix of poetry and comedic verse - hosted by Rosy Carrick and Mike Parker 7.30pm £5/4; Vive Le Cabaret!: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy, music and cabaret 8pm £12/10; Krater Comedy Club: Andrea Hubert, Joe Rowntree, David Ward Stand-up comedy 8pm £5-18 Latest Music Bar The Beautiful Word, Stick In A Pot, Caitlin Stubbs, Kate Williams Summery folk pop 8pm £5 Life That’s My Sh!t Club night playing hip hop, R&B, funk and soul 11pm £3/2/free Lola Lo Tom Foolery Bank Holiday Warm Up New electro, house and dubstep night 9pm £5/3 Mesmerist Andy Twyman One man blues band 9pm £free Mucky Duck Open Mic Jam session with Joe Newman 8pm £free Nightingale Theatre Boogaloo Stu’s Pop Magic: Brighton Fringe Festival The camp cabaret star hosts a ‘reality theatre’ show in the which the audience writes and performs their very own pop song 10pm £8.50/6.50 Prince Albert Nitkowski, Caretaker, Broker Live music 8pm £5 Prince George Souled Out: Saul Guud Vinyl night of funk, soul and b-boy breaks 8pm £free Quadrant Fractured Toast Music and spoken word come together in this unique storytelling gig night 8pm £free Ranelagh The Long Haul Country rock 8.30pm £free Sallis Benney Theatre Breaking Boundaries Contemporary dance performance probing the sinister side of technology 7.30pm £6 St James’ Tavern Stay Sick, Turn Blue DJs play vintage soul, jazz and blues 8.30pm £free Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Catholic Discipline Noise rock, disco pop and acid folk from the Superheroes of BMX 8pm £free Theatre Royal Steel Magnolias Comedy drama set in a Louisiana beauty parlour 2.30pm/7.30pm £1232 Victory Open Mic 8pm £free Volks Serotone Launch Party: Nicky Blackmarket, DJ Brown B, Rivalize, Magnum, Shadoe, RK Bass, Southern Invasion 10pm £3 Warren Fringe Club: Brighton Fringe Festival Live music, cabaret and comedy curated by the Peanut Albinos 10pm £3.50/2.50 White Rabbit The Move-Ons Open Mic 8pm £free World’s End The Big Cash Quiz 8pm £tbc

Friday 4th

Above Audio Home House and disco DJs 9pm £free Audio David August, Maxxi Soundsystem Young German DJ producer 11pm £10/8 Bali Brasserie A Lifetime Of Love: Brighton Fringe Festival New performance based on the poems of Moss Rich 4pm £10/6 Bee’s Mouth Mingle New speed dating event - if it doesn’t work out, you can always try harder drugs 7.30pm £5 Belushi’s Bar Muy Loco Pop and house DJs with a dancing contest 9pm £free Belushi’s Below Abandoned Rock and metal night 10pm £3/2 Black Dove Hot-Tip Hi-Fi DJ with a fine collection of vintage reggae and rocksteady records 8pm £free Black Lion Molly Malone’s Dex In The City DJ night 9pm £free Blind Tiger Scape Martinez - American Graffiti Mural Unveiling Noon £free; Soul Casserole A melting pot of hot funk beats and soul grooves 8pm £tbc Brighton Music Hall Vaudeville Electro swing, burlesque and 50s blues 8pm £free Brunswick Flowers For The Living: Brighton Fringe Festival Poetic acoustica and tongue drumming

from singer songwriter Rosi Lalor 8pm £10/8 Caroline Of Brunswick Funny Girls: Pam Ford, Doppelgagger Stand-up, sketches and music (upstairs) 8pm £5/4 Coalition Simone Felice Group Songwriter poet extraordinaire 7pm £13.50; Friday I’m In Love No more lectures for a day or two 11pm £1-5 Concorde2 May The 4th Be With You: Freestylers, Flying White Dots, Breakin’ Bear Star Wars theme party 11pm £3 Cube Contact: Tom Vagabond, A-Bee Upfront house 8pm £free Digital Stonelove Indie rock&roll club 11pm £4/3 Doctor Brighton’s Funky Friday: DJ Nick Hirst, DJ Wayne 9.30pm £free Druid’s Arms Hot Pepper Sauce DJ I.D.G. plays old school funk, soul and house 10pm £free Duke Of Norfolk DJ MC Cashback DJ night 9pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema Dinotasia 1pm £tbc; Monsieur Lazhar 6.30pm £tbc; Damsels In Distress 4pm/9pm £tbc; Robocop 11.30pm £tbc Easy Bar Miss Dangerous & Urban Flava Live hip hop 8pm £free Fishbowl Gareth Stephens DJ plays funk, nu-jazz and broken beats 9pm £free Funkyfish The Funkyfish Club Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10pm £6/3.50 Gladstone Catch A Groove Funk, soul and hip hop 8.30pm £free Globe Rum Fridays: BOYF_ DJ plays tracks from the ‘Scene With No Name’ scene, i.e. the scene known as the groove-based dance music scene 8pm £free Green Door Store Here We Go Magic, Fanzine NY indie rock with frantic organs and folky vocals 7.30pm £8; AEREO Electro and synth pop night from the Teen Creeps peeps 11pm £free H-Bar Is Ibiza: Oliver Lang, Lee John, Tristan D, Ben Carter Balearic beats and house grooves Time tbc £7/5 Honey Lollipop ‘Pink Fridays’ Get your fingers sticky to R&B and pop treats 11pm £5/4/3 Hope Dizzy Tales, Daniel & The Scandals, Run Young Lovers Indie rock band launch new EP 7.30pm £4/3 Hydrant Palestine Charity Event 8pm £tbc Jazz Place Cosmic Disco Deviant: DJ Garth, Adam Freeland, Pablo Contraband Space rock disco from LA 10pm £6 Komedia Krater Comedy Club: Joe Rowntree, Geoff Norcott, Joe Wilkinson, Stephen Grant Standup comedy 8pm £11.50-14.50; The Maydays: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy improv gang 9pm £10/8 Latest Music Bar Elissa Franceschi, Moya Singer songwriter (upstairs) 8pm £5; The George Kypreos Band Greek bouzouki band 9pm £8/5 Life Kung Fu Terrace Party DJs play funk, soul, blues and hip hop 3pm £free; Carbon: Total Science, Fierce, Spirit, Pessimist, Theory, Escher, Voytek, Absent Drum&bass night celebrates its 8th birthday 11pm £7/5 Lola Lo Tiki Beats Spring Special Totally tropical tunes 8pm £5/4/3 Mesmerist Shake, Holla & Roll Vintage blues, swing and rock&roll 9pm £free Mucky Duck Pocket Drummers, Derider, Jipsy Magic, Chris Alex Thom Rock bands 8pm £free Neptune Shauna Parker & The Saloon Bar Band Country swing band 8.30pm £free Nightingale Theatre Pieces To Fit_3: Brighton Fringe Festival Marina Tsartsara blurs the boundary between performance and installation 7pm £8.50/6.50; White Rabbit, Red Rabbit: Brighton Fringe Festival Allegorical play by Iranian playwright, Nassim Soleimanpour 8.30pm £8.50/6.50; The Two Wrongies - World Of Wrong: Brighton Fringe Festival Chaotic dance and comedy show 10pm £8.50/6.50 Ohso Social Dirty Sunset Disco Metrosexual disco and house club 8pm £1 Prince Albert Little Episodes Live music and spoken words 7.30pm £5; Bend Over I’ll Drive Rock&roll DJs (downstairs) 8.30pm £free Psychosocial The Ookey Ook Soul, ska, rock&roll and blues 11pm £5/3 Ranelagh Mike Newsham Acoustic Americana 8.30pm £free Riki Tik Work: Matt Barker, Dennis Castro A silken river of alt pop, blog dance and hip twitching jiggy bangers 9pm £free St Nicholas Church Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus - Guilty Treasures: Brighton Fringe Festival Big gay benefit gig 7.30pm £12/10 Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Future Ground: The Recommender Brighton music blogger takes to the decks 8pm £free; Snap Crackle & Britpop Join Dynamite Sal for a 90s indie party 11pm £free Theatre Royal Steel Magnolias Comedy drama set in a Louisiana beauty parlour 7.30pm £12-32 Three & Ten The Ouse Valley Singles Club: Brighton Fringe Festival Folky music hall cabaret from a skiffle punk band 7pm £8/6.50; McNeil & Pamphilon: Brighton Fringe Festival Songs and sketches from the

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comedy double act 8.30pm £8.50/7; The Bitchuationist: Brighton Fringe Festival Eve has tasted the forbidden fruit and now she’s feeling kinky naturally she breaks into song and performs the Book of Genesis 10pm £8/6.50 Unitarian Church Soundscreen: Theo Davis, FishBoy, Chloe Manasseh, Us Baby Bear Bones, Foreign Skin Ambient electronica and video art projections 8pm £free Verdict Dick Pearce Quartet Live jazz 7.30pm £12/6 Volks Future Dub Session #37: Mungo’s Hi-Fi, DJ As-If, Kings Hi-Fi, Unity Hi-Fi Uk, King Spinner, X-Nation & Kosine, Gremlin & Context, Arcane & Lotskee, Arkitalsound, Konklave, Rockwood & Redford, Ma Quest, Mr Sleepz & Side B, Rezomine, League Of Mental Men Dubstep and jungle from an era yet to happen 10pm £6/5 Warren Bug By Tracy Letts: Brighton Fringe Festival Psychological thriller from the Pulitzer Prizewinning playwright 5.45pm £12.50/10.50 White Rabbit WTF? Brighton Wonky electro and synth pop nonsense 8pm £free World’s End Videostars - National Star Wars Day Special Live music and lightsabers 8pm £free

Saturday 5th

Ancient Mariner The Acoustic Sessions: The Orange Circus Band Banjo and mountain music 8pm £free Audio Warehouse: Kidnap Kid House and techno club night 11pm £5/free Bali Brasserie A Lifetime Of Love: Brighton Fringe Festival New performance based on the poems of Moss Rich 4pm £10/6 Basement Domestic: Brighton Festival A curated series of surreal cinematic interactions - if you know what that means you might enjoy it 3.30pm £20 Beachigogo Bar Good Times Remember them? Maybe the feel-good retro tunes will jog your memory (in the White Room) 9pm £free; The R&B Lounge R&B DJs (in the Main Room) 11pm £6/5 Bee’s Mouth Recommender DJ Brighton blogger takes to the decks 9pm £free Belushi’s Bar Unplugged: Rocket Dogs Live acoustic duo 9pm £free Belushi’s Below Deviant Time to untie those pony tails and start headbanging 9pm £5/4 Black Dove Paradiso! DJs play vintage exotica, mambo and swing 8.30pm £free Black Lion Burnt Toast DJs play sleazy soul and dirty breaks 9pm £free Blind Tiger Cider Festival Live music and boozing 1pm £tbc Brighton Centre The Osmonds Pop’s most successful Mormon family unit do a farewell tour 6.30pm £27.50-95 Brighton Electric 2 Heliopause, Before Machines, Krill Alt indie album launch in what used to be Scream Studios 8pm £3 Brighton Music Hall Blind Tiger Rhythm and blues, electro swing and doo wop 9pm £free Brunswick Mr Pineapple Head: Brighton Fringe Festival Musical clowning for kids Noon £6; Crimes Against Humanities Teachers: Brighton Fringe Festival Patchy comedy. Patchy comedy?! Oh, okay, I’ll get my jacket. The one with the elbow patches. You know, like geography teachers wear 3pm £9/7; The Black Fields, Rabbit Foot, Autumn & The Falls, Delaney: Brighton Fringe Festival Country blues band 7.30pm £6/5; Flowers For The Living: Brighton Fringe Festival Poetic acoustica and tongue drumming from singer songwriter Rosi Lalor 2pm/8pm £10/8 Caroline Of Brunswick Aaron Twitchen’s Quarter Life Crisis: Brighton Fringe Festival The twenty-something post-uni dilemma examined with the help of stand-up, improv and a pinch of graduate psychological theory 5.45pm £free; Luisa Omielan What Would Beyoncé Do?: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy improv for all the single ladies 7pm £free; Lou Sanders - A Nice Evening With Wallan: Brighton Fringe Festival Off-beat surreal comedy 8.15pm £free; Teenage Wasteland These DJs play both kinds of music: post punk AND new wave (downstairs) 9pm £free; Pattie Brewster’s Friendship Venture: Brighton Fringe Festival She’s a single girl with a GSOH and an unhealthy obsession with cats 9.30pm £free Coalition We Luv: Ms. Dynamite R&B and funky house night with a live set from the princess of urban pop 11pm £8; Blow: Vince Manganaro, Charly Lopez, Charles Green The party never stops 3am £5 Concorde2 Playgroup Festival Launch Party 2012!: Babyhead, Resonators, Hidden Orchestra, DJ Cheeba, Astro Physics, Mass Evil Warm up for August’s festival with dub hip hop and a 15-piece gypsy ska orchestra 10pm £10 Corn Exchange Uses Of Religion For NonBelievers: Brighton Festival Philosopher Alain de Botton argues that there is much to gain from religion, even if you don’t believe that a wafer actually becomes the actual bodily flesh of christ 3pm £10

Corn Exchange Faber Social: Edna O’Brien, Simon Armitage, Andrew O’Hagan, Linda Grant Literary festival event 9pm £10 Cowley Club Mayday Festival Workshops in the day followed by bands in the evening 1pm £tbc Cube Cube Is 1 House music birthday party 8pm £free Digital Pussycat Club - Live & Unleashed DJs accompanied by live musicians, vocalists and club performance artists 11pm £10/8/5 Doctor Brighton’s Sexy Saturday: DJ Tony B 9.30pm £free Dome Wake Up World: Brighton Festival Documentary about UNICEF made by Vanessa Redgrave and her son 2pm £6; Vanessa Redgrave CBE - A Life In Pictures: Brighton Festival An onstage interview with the festival curator, Vanessa Redgrave 8pm £10-18.50 Dome Foyer Bar SOURCE New Music: Fragile Creatures Brighton’s best bands chosen by Brighton’s best listings mag Noon £free Druid’s Arms DJ Green Man’s Garden of Delights A mixed bag of soul, psychedelia, funk, folk and pop 10pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema Hugo 2D 11am £tbc; Dinotasia 1.30pm £tbc; Monsieur Lazhar 6.30pm £tbc; Damsels In Distress 4pm/9pm £tbc Easy Bar DJ Night Hip hop, R&B and reggae 8pm £free Fishbowl What’s Wrong With Groovin’?: Ed Meme, Matt Beatwell Two DJs set out to answer the age-old question with a stack of drum-driven funk and soul 9pm £free Fortune Of War Dom Servini Breaks and beats Details tbc Gladstone Arthur Shillin’ Electro swing, funk and breaks 8.30pm £free Globe Chamboche & Alphabet City House, boogie and disco DJs 9pm £free Grand Hotel Private Lives: Brighton Fringe Festival Noel Coward’s comedy of manners about a double honeymoon romance (advance booking only) 3pm £17/15 Green Door Store The Miserable Rich Brooding orchestral folk pop 7.30pm £8; Pop Not Pop: Eddie The Goatboy, Mattatat, Dynamite Sal, DJ Halfbeat Mixed up pop music party mayhem from Dynamite Sal and crew 11pm £free H-Bar Soul Damn Funky: Victor Simonelli, Russell Ruckman, Kevin Fernando, Gary Eeks, Twisthead Deep and soulful US house 9pm £5 Hampton Modern Life Is Rubbish: DJ Lohands 9pm £free Haunt Bowerbirds Lo-fi US folk duo 7pm £9 Hobgoblin Divinely Bette: Brighton Fringe Festival One-woman show celebrating the life and work of Bette Midler with banter, ballads and comedy 3.15pm/7pm £free; Kiss Of The Red Menace: Brighton Fringe Festival Musical tribute to Kander & Ebb, the partnership behind Broadway classics like Cabaret, Chicago and Funny Lady 4.30pm/8.15pm £free Honey Hat Club: Jonathan Ulysses, Vince Frimpong, Damien Stone, Jonny Hutson, Tommy T House hits and hats 11pm £8/5 Hope Drugs Indie rock club with live bands (upstairs) 8pm £4/3; Soul Casserole A melting pot of hot funk beats and soul grooves 9pm £free Hove Park Barricade: Brighton Festival An outdoors acrobatics show that has something to do with the abstract notion of barriers, but really it’s people flying about in the air. In the air! 9pm £free Hydrant Red City Radio, Leagues Apart, The Call Back Academy, Pirate Video Company American punk rock collective 7pm £6 Iambic Arts Theatre Lapin Wants Ice-Cream: Brighton Fringe Festival Force your kids to learn snippets of French in this interactive puppetry show 3.30pm £6/5; The Lover, The Wife: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy play about a wife who meets meets her exact opposite in her husband’s lover 7.30pm £10/8 Jazz Place Night At The Jazz Rooms: Russ Dewbury, Big Bad Singha Legendary Brighton club returns to its old home for a night of heavy funk, soul, Afro and dance, etc 9pm £5/4/free Jive Monkey The Secret Vampires Ball 10pm £free Komedia From Kabul With Love: Brighton Fringe Festival Political burlesque with a performance art belly dancer 5pm £6/5; The Humble Quest For A Universal Genius: Brighton Fringe Festival Absurd gameshow in which comedians are required to excel in every field of human knowledge 7pm £9/7; Krater Comedy Club: Joe Rowntree, Geoff Norcott, Joe Wilkinson, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 7pm/8pm/10.30pm £15-20; The Maydays: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy improv gang 9pm £10/8; Brighton Rock Classic rock and metal night 11pm £6; ipop! Like an iPod full of party anthems on perpetual shuffle 11pm £3/free LMNOP Studios Brighton Bingo: Brighton Fringe Festival Fun photography contest for adults and families 11am £5 Life Juicebox! New eclectic club night offering an nice alternative to the standard seafront malarky 11pm £5/3

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Lola Lo Zombie Nation Sunset Party Where the dancefloor is never dead 8pm £10/7/6 Marlborough Theatre Pig-with-the-face-ofa-boy: Brighton Fringe Festival Musical comedy show from the band that had a YouTube hit with ‘The Complete History Of The Soviet Union, Arranged To The Melody Of Tetris’ 10.15pm £8/6 Mesmerist Juke Joint Jamboree Rhythm & blues and rock&roll records from the days of the dance halls 9pm £free Mucky Duck Sizzle And Pop! DJ Mick plays 50s rock&roll and 60s soul 9pm £free New Venture Theatre A Streetcar Named Desire Tennessee Williams’ classic drama Details tbc Nightingale Theatre If I Ruled The World: Brighton Fringe Festival Interactive audio performance trail, starting at the Nightingale 12.45pm/2.45pm/4.45pm £5; Pieces To Fit_3: Brighton Fringe Festival Marina Tsartsara blurs the boundary between performance and installation 7pm £8.50/6.50; White Rabbit, Red Rabbit: Brighton Fringe Festival Allegorical play by Iranian playwright, Nassim Soleimanpour 8.30pm £8.50/6.50; Filthy Weekender Comedy: Brighton Fringe Festival Late-night stand-up comedy 10pm £8.50/6.50 Northern Lights Smorgasbord: Brighton Fringe Festival A mixed platter of stand-up comedy 8.30pm £10/8.50 Ohso Social Saturday Social 8pm £free Old Market Beach Party Animals: Brighton Fringe Festival A 20-minute portrait of seaside eccentricity, shown every half hour 2pm £free; Vocal Gymnastics: Brighton Fringe Festival Multimedia choral music performed by no less than 200 singers 7.30pm £8/6 Pavilion Theatre Silent: Brighton Festival Oneman physical theatre concerning the lost art of silence 8pm £15/10 Prince Albert Lee Thompson’s Ska Orchestra, Notsensibles Live music 8pm £10 Psychosocial Incognito Techno, trance and dub club 10pm £10/8 Regency Tavern I Have Never Cared For Sunsets: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy puppet shows takes on the big themes of philosophy and politics and asks who pulls the strings 2.30pm/6.30pm £tbc Riki Tik Caught Up: Loren Heer, Neal Lewis Underground house, funk, soul, boogie and disco 9pm £free Rosehill Tavern Funkollectif, Jamaica Inn Super heavy funk 7pm £free Sallis Benney Theatre As Within, So Without Multimedia stories explore what it means to be human 8pm £10/8 Shakespeare’s Head Bitter Disko DJ plays mutant funk, post punk and John Peel favourites 8pm £free St Nicholas Church Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus - Guilty Treasures: Brighton Fringe Festival Big gay benefit gig 7.30pm £12/10 St Nicholas’ Rest Garden Bee Detective: Brighton Festival Interactive kids’ show Noon/2.30pm/4.30pm £8/6 Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Stay Beautiful A mess of eyeliner and spray paint 11pm £6/5 Theatre Royal Steel Magnolias Comedy drama set in a Louisiana beauty parlour 2.30pm/7.30pm £1232 Three & Ten The Unquiet Dead: Brighton Fringe Festival Ghostly ballads and spooky stories 1pm £8/6.50; Ragnarök - The Weird Of The Gods: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy musical based on Norse mythology from the singer of the wacky lo-fi band, Spalien Acecraft 3pm £9/7.50; Foil, Arms And Hog: Brighton Fringe Festival Irish sketch comedy about potatoes, racist stereotypes and potatoes 5pm £8.50/7; I Can Make You Thin(k): Brighton Fringe Festival This multimedia comedy show won’t change your body, but it might change your mind 7pm £8/6.50; WitTank: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy characters and snappy sketches 8.30pm £8.50/7; The Bitchuationist: Brighton Fringe Festival Eve has tasted the forbidden fruit and now she’s feeling kinky - naturally she breaks into song and performs the Book of Genesis 10pm £8/6.50; Off The Cuff - The Village: Brighton Fringe Festival Improv comedy group explore the sinister goings-on in an imaginary village 11.30pm £8.50/7 Verdict Liane Carroll Trio Live jazz 7.30pm £15/8 Victory Up Against It Born Bad DJs play an assortment of punky trash 9pm £free Volks Propergander 2nd Birthday: Cyrus, Thelem Drum&bass and jungle all-nighter 11pm £5 Warren A Masterclass in Stupidity: Brighton Fringe Festival Clowning workshop takes a serious look at stupidity 11am £10/9; Snow White: Brighton Fringe Festival New take on the children’s classic 1.30pm £8/6; Napoleon - A Defence: Brighton Fringe Festival High energy French clowning 3pm £9/7; And Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out: Brighton Fringe Festival Multimedia theatre show about love and astrophysics 4.30pm £8/6; Bug By Tracy Letts: Brighton Fringe Festival Psychological thriller from the Pulitzer Prizewinning playwright 5.45pm £12.50/10.50; Bane Trilogy - Part One: Brighton Fringe Festival Amusing one-

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man genre parody in which a hard-boiled detective monologues and mimes his way through noir cliches 8pm £25/10; Patti Plinko: Brighton Fringe Festival Kooky and vintage-styled jazz folk songstress 10pm £10/9 West Hill Hall The Diamond Family Archive, Jason Steel, Tandy Hard Dusty and minimal blues folk 8pm £5 White Rabbit The Mixer Men DJ night 8pm £free World’s End Wynd!: Brighton Fringe Festival Live covers band 8pm £free

Sunday 6th

Ancient Mariner Soul Casserole A melting pot of hot funk beats and soul grooves 8pm £free Audio Minimal Kids: David Squillance Techno night 11pm £5/free Bali Brasserie A Lifetime Of Love: Brighton Fringe Festival New performance based on the poems of Moss Rich 4pm £10/6 Basement Domestic: Brighton Festival A curated series of surreal cinematic interactions - if you know what that means you might enjoy it 3.30pm £20 Belushi’s Bar Now That’s What I Call A Party In this instance, it’s okay to judge a book by its cover 9pm £free Black Lion Vinyl Vetarans Bank Holiday All Dayer: Foly, Southpaw, OMC, Tipster, Rob Life, Bobby Boucher, Mac McRaw, Scratchy Muffin, Matt The Hat Raw soul, heavy funk and classic hip hop 2pm £free Blind Tiger My Swish Swap your unwanted clothes 11am £free; Voicebox Spoken word and live music open mic night 8pm £3 Brunswick 2012FM Not The Olympic Opening Ceremony: Brighton Fringe Festival Comic tribute to the golden age of radio plays 2pm/4pm £5; Flowers For The Living: Brighton Fringe Festival Poetic acoustica and tongue drumming from singer songwriter Rosi Lalor 2pm/8pm £10/8; The Moors: Brighton Fringe Festival Klezmer, folk and gypsy band 8pm £6/4 Caroline Of Brunswick Aaron Twitchen’s Quarter Life Crisis: Brighton Fringe Festival The twenty-something post-uni dilemma examined with the help of stand-up, improv and a pinch of graduate psychological theory 5.45pm £free; Luisa Omielan What Would Beyoncé Do?: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy improv for all the single ladies 7pm £free; Lou Sanders - A Nice Evening With Wallan: Brighton Fringe Festival Off-beat surreal comedy 8.15pm £free; The Geekest Link Possibly the only time in your life anyone will care how much you know about the Alien and Predator franchises, including the extensive computer simulations you ran to mathematically prove that the Aliens would win (downstairs) 8.30pm £1; Pattie Brewster’s Friendship Venture: Brighton Fringe Festival She’s a single girl with a GSOH and an unhealthy obsession with cats 9.30pm £free; Legion Of Doom: Brighton Fringe Festival Absurdist sketch show 10.45pm £free Chequers Live Jazz Time tbc £free Coalition B.A.N.K. Bank holiday club special 11pm £5 Concorde2 UK Dub & Roots Extravaganza: Iration Steppas, Dubkasm, Solo Banton, Roots Garden, Nations Vibrations 11pm £6 Cube Sunday Social Open decks session 8pm £free Digital Breakage, Rockwell, Phaeleh, Kito, Fono Dubby jungle and electronica 11pm £8 Dome Julia Donaldson & Lydia Monks: Brighton Festival Kids’ literature show with an illustrator and the author of the Gruffalo 10.30am £6; The Killing Fields: Brighton Festival A new documentary about environmental issues, followed by a panel discussion 3pm £10; Mandela’s Children: Brighton Festival A panel discussion with sneak previews of the forthcoming Nelson Mandela documentary 7pm £10 Dome Foyer Bar SOURCE New Music: Kate Rose Brighton’s best bands chosen by Brighton’s best listings mag Noon £free Duke Of Norfolk Live Music Night Live music from local artists 9pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema Dinotasia 11am £tbc; Morgan - A Suitable Case For Treatment: Brighton Festival A screening of the subversive 60s film that earned Venessa Redgrave her first oscar 2pm £13/6.50; Circus Circus Cinemas of the Mind post screening discussion 3.45pm £tbc; Monsieur Lazhar 6.45pm £tbc; Damsels In Distress 4.30pm/9pm £tbc Fishbowl Residents Holiday Throwdown The Fishbowl regulars play reggae, funk, afrobeat and jazz 8pm £free Font Danceteria: Jonny Woo, Chrissy Darling, Go Bang, Mr Haywood, Kate Wildblood, Queen Josephine Disco, boogie, house and funk 8pm £6/5/4 Fountain Head Reggae & Roasts Reggae and chilled beats Time tbc £free; Super Awesome Quiz Pictionary, playdough, and a little bit of general knowledge 8pm £1 Globe DJs Disco, house and electro 9pm £free Grand Hotel Private Lives: Brighton Fringe Festival Noel Coward’s comedy of manners about a

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double honeymoon romance (advance booking only) 3pm £17/15 Green Door Store Stanley Brinks, The Flying Kaniks & Freschard Members of Herman Dune and Bergen Mandolinband 7.30pm £7; Green Door Blues Blues band and DJs 10pm £free H-Bar Judge Jules You have been sentenced to a night of house arrest Details tbc Hampton The Sunday Supper Sessions Open mic might 7pm £free Haunt Moody Disco: Maceo Plex, Droog, Marlon Mahroyan, Chemical Play, Loren Heer House and deep house Time tbc £15/12/10 Hobgoblin Divinely Bette: Brighton Fringe Festival One-woman show celebrating the life and work of Bette Midler with banter, ballads and comedy 3.15pm/7pm £free; Kiss Of The Red Menace: Brighton Fringe Festival Musical tribute to Kander & Ebb, the partnership behind Broadway classics like Cabaret, Chicago and Funny Lady 4.30pm/8.15pm £free Honey Salsa Brighton Bank Holiday Special Reggaetron, dancehall and tropical vibes 10pm £5/3 Hydrant The Hype Theory Live music 7pm £5; Bank Holiday Bonanza: Anna Sin, The Jukebox Bandits Live music 8pm £2 Iambic Arts Theatre Lapin Wants Ice-Cream: Brighton Fringe Festival Force your kids to learn snippets of French in this interactive puppetry show 2.30pm £6/5; The Lover, The Wife: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy play about a wife who meets meets her exact opposite in her husband’s lover 7.30pm £10/8 Komedia The Sundae Club Kids’ event with workshops, games and dancing 11am £6/4; Found Stories: Brighton Fringe Festival New work from the Acting Up! drama club at Seaford Head Community College 4.30pm £5.50/4.50; Paul Dabek - Truant Trickster: Brighton Fringe Festival Mischievous magic show 6pm £10/8; Dusty Limits - Darkling: Brighton Fringe Festival Twisted cabaret songs with a dark comedic touch 7pm £10/8; Bent Double Zoe Lyons hosts a night of alternative comedy acts 7.30pm £10.50/8.50/5; Krater Comedy Club: Geoff Norcott, Joe Wilkinson, Andy Watson, Stephen Grant Standup comedy 8pm £5-11.50 Latest Music Bar Stories With Tea: Brighton Fringe Festival Lynn Ruth Miller talks about life, loss and laughter - includes tea and biscuits 4pm £6; Bark Like A Dog Blues Jam A chance for first-timers to shed their nerves - and old-timers to show off their licks 8pm £free; Kompact Cabaret: Brighton Fringe Festival Musical theatre show 8pm £5 Life Dagger Soundsystem Terrace Party Reggae, dancehall, rocksteady and ska 3pm £free Lola Lo Bang! May Bank Holiday The weekend ends not with a whimper, but a bang! 9pm £6/5/4 Marlborough Theatre Pig-with-the-face-ofa-boy: Brighton Fringe Festival Musical comedy show from the band that had a YouTube hit with ‘The Complete History Of The Soviet Union, Arranged To The Melody Of Tetris’ 10.45pm £8/6 Neptune The Porchlight Smoker Folk and bluegrass band 8.30pm £free New Venture Theatre A Streetcar Named Desire Tennessee Williams’ classic drama Details tbc Nightingale Theatre If I Ruled The World: Brighton Fringe Festival Interactive audio performance trail, starting at the Nightingale 12.45pm/2.45pm/4.45pm £5; Pieces To Fit_3: Brighton Fringe Festival Marina Tsartsara blurs the boundary between performance and installation 5.30pm £8.50/6.50; Cheer Up, It Might Never Happen: Brighton Fringe Festival Darkly comic one-woman show about being stressed and depressed 7pm £8.50/6.50; White Rabbit, Red Rabbit: Brighton Fringe Festival Allegorical play by Iranian playwright, Nassim Soleimanpour 8.30pm £8.50/6.50; The Two Wrongies - Cult Of The Wrong: Brighton Fringe Festival Interactive and comical show with the ‘Queens of Wrongcore’ 9.45pm £6.50/5.50 Ohso Social Sundown Sundaze Beach party 7pm £free Old Market Naive Dance Masterclass: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy dance spoof about an experimental performer who realises his graceful perfection simply makes everyone feel inadequate 7pm £6-10; Beach Party Animals: Brighton Fringe Festival A 20-minute portrait of seaside eccentricity, shown every half hour 2pm £free Pavilion Theatre Life, Death, Love And War: Brighton Festival Charlotte Higgins and other clever bods discuss Homer’s epic poems 1pm £8.50; Silent: Brighton Festival One-man physical theatre concerning the lost art of silence 8pm £15/10 Prince Albert Auburn, Joanne Louise Parker Live music 8.30pm £4/3 Quadrant Charmian Hughes - Charmageddon! Comedienne laughs in the face of the apocalypse (and snogs Chris Huhne) 8pm £4.50/3.50 Ranelagh Kent Duchaine Delta blues 8.30pm £free Regency Tavern I Have Never Cared For Sunsets: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy puppet shows takes on the big themes of philosophy and politics

and asks who pulls the strings 3.30pm £tbc Riki Tik The Lock In DJ night with freebies 10pm £free Sallis Benney Theatre Rolling On The Floor Laughing: Brighton Fringe Festival Digitally-assisted aerial circus show reveals what goes on in the hearts and minds of young people 3pm/7pm £8/5 Signalman Open Mic Open session hosted by local duo, Zoothyme 8pm £free St Mary’s Church Magdalena Reising And The Blue Cafe Jazz Jazz played on a harp - it’s a crazy plan but it might just work 7.30pm £10 St Nicholas’ Rest Garden Bee Detective: Brighton Festival Interactive kids’ show 11am/1.30pm/4pm £8/6 Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Any Persan HALP Me Explore new genres of poetry with an array of literate losers and loners 8pm £tbc Temple Bar Matt Green - Playful: Brighton Fringe Festival Stand-up comedy 7.30pm £5 Theatre Royal Steel Magnolias Comedy drama set in a Louisiana beauty parlour 7.30pm £12-32 Three & Ten The Unquiet Dead: Brighton Fringe Festival Ghostly ballads and spooky stories 1pm £8/6.50; Ragnarök - The Weird Of The Gods: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy musical based on Norse mythology from the singer of the wacky lo-fi band, Spalien Acecraft 3pm £9/7.50; Foil, Arms And Hog: Brighton Fringe Festival Irish sketch comedy about potatoes, racist stereotypes and potatoes 5pm £8.50/7; My Gay Best Friend: Brighton Fringe Festival Camp comedy play about a diva trapped in a toilet on her big night 6.45pm £10/8; WitTank: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy characters and snappy sketches 8.30pm £8.50/7; The Bitchuationist: Brighton Fringe Festival Eve has tasted the forbidden fruit and now she’s feeling kinky - naturally she breaks into song and performs the Book of Genesis 10pm £8/6.50 Tube Traumfrau: Gaptooth, Frederike, DJ Lonesome M, Mrs Norman Knows, DJ Nika Valentina Alternative DIY queer night with live music and extracurricular activities 10pm £5/4 Unitarian Church Hullabaloo Community Quire: Brighton Fringe Festival Vocal group raise money for Amnesty International 5pm/8pm £12/10 Victory Blues Sundays DJ plays blues and soul Time tbc £free Volks Psy Sundays 10pm £free Warren Snow White: Brighton Fringe Festival New take on the children’s classic 1.30pm £8/6; Napoleon A Defence: Brighton Fringe Festival High energy French clowning 3pm £9/7; And Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out: Brighton Fringe Festival Multimedia theatre show about love and astrophysics 4.30pm £8/6; Bug By Tracy Letts: Brighton Fringe Festival Psychological thriller from the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright 5.45pm £12.50/10.50; Bane Trilogy - Part Two: Brighton Fringe Festival Amusing one-man genre parody in which a hard-boiled detective monologues and mimes his way through noir cliches 7.30pm £25/10; Bane Trilogy Part Three: Brighton Fringe Festival Amusing oneman genre parody in which a hard-boiled detective monologues and mimes his way through noir cliches 9pm £25/10 White Rabbit Hush Hush Live acoustic music 8pm £free

Monday 7th

Ancient Mariner Quiz Night 8pm £1 Basement Domestic: Brighton Festival A curated series of surreal cinematic interactions - if you know what that means you might enjoy it 3.30pm £20 Bee’s Mouth The Bee’s Mouth Jazz Forum Jazz jam with a house band 8.30pm £free Belushi’s Bar Pump Up The 90s Retro night dedicated to the decade that was dedicated to retro nights 10pm £free Brighton Blue Note After The Watershed Comedy: Angela Barnes, Mike Carroll, Tania Banks, James McDonnell, Adam Race, Chris Pacey, Rich Perry New comedy club underneath the Greenhouse Effect 7pm £3 Brighton Centre The Vaccines, S.C.U.M. Indie rockers 6.30pm £18.50 Brunswick Mr Pineapple Head: Brighton Fringe Festival Musical clowning for kids Noon £6; Crimes Against Humanities Teachers: Brighton Fringe Festival Surreal comedy theatre driven by the ghost of Kenneth Williams 3pm £9/7; Flowers For The Living: Brighton Fringe Festival Poetic acoustica and tongue drumming from singer songwriter Rosi Lalor 2pm/8pm £10/8; Kaz Simmons: Brighton Fringe Festival Jazz folk singer with Latin style classical guitar 8pm £8/6 Caroline Of Brunswick Aaron Twitchen’s Quarter Life Crisis: Brighton Fringe Festival The twenty-something post-uni dilemma examined with the help of stand-up, improv and a pinch of graduate psychological theory 5.45pm £free; Gerry Howell’s Parrot Fashion Accessories: Brighton Fringe Festival Surreal and rambling stand-up comedy 7pm £5; Lou Sanders - A Nice Evening With Wallan: Brighton

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Fringe Festival Off-beat surreal comedy 8.15pm £free; Legion Of Doom: Brighton Fringe Festival Absurdist sketch show 10.45pm £free Chequers Open Mic Play for a pint 8pm £free Coalition Trash Mondays Filthy tunes for students and layabouts alike 10.30pm £5/3/free Corn Exchange Book Slam - Jon McGregor, Jackie Kay, Sapphire: Brighton Festival London’s literary nightclub comes to the seaside for a book-based show down 8pm £10 Dome Jayson Gillham: Brighton Festival International concert pianist plays pieces by Chopin, Debussy and Beethoven 1pm £10 Duke Of York’s Cinema Dinotasia 1pm £tbc; Monsieur Lazhar 6pm £tbc; Damsels In Distress 3.30pm/8.30pm £tbc Gladstone Open Mic Night 9pm £free Green Door Store Punk V Hardcore: Hospitals, Gnarwolves, Black Veins, and Piranha. Guess what? It’s a night of punk and hardcore 8pm £free Hampton The Hampton Quiz 8.30pm £1 Hobgoblin Divinely Bette: Brighton Fringe Festival One-woman show celebrating the life and work of Bette Midler with banter, ballads and comedy 3.15pm/7pm £free; Kiss Of The Red Menace: Brighton Fringe Festival Musical tribute to Kander & Ebb, the partnership behind Broadway classics like Cabaret, Chicago and Funny Lady 4.30pm/8.15pm £free Hope Holland, Sheen, Cavalry Alternative indie bands 8pm £3 Iambic Arts Theatre Lapin Wants Ice-Cream: Brighton Fringe Festival Force your kids to learn snippets of French in this interactive puppetry show 2.30pm £6/5; Chères Amies: Brighton Fringe Festival A play about three women whose holiday becomes a settling of old scores 7.30pm £10/8 Komedia Paul Dabek - Truant Trickster: Brighton Fringe Festival Mischievous magic show 6pm £10/8; Mat Ricardo - Three Balls And A New Suit: Brighton Fringe Festival Juggling, magic and comedy 7pm £10/8; Dennis Rollins’ Velocity Trio Jazz funk trombonist backed by a brand new band 8pm £15/10; Des O’Connor - Stripped and Polished: Brighton Fringe Festival Dapper ditties from the ‘King of Cabaret’ - in a Noel Coward kind of way 9pm £10/8 Latest Music Bar Sadie And The Faded Ladies: Brighton Fringe Festival An actress bumps into an old friend and starts to reminiscence, banter and sing the songs of the good old days 7pm £8 Life #Hashtag Brand new and ungoogleable club night 10.30pm £3/2 Lola Lo Fat Poppadaddys Bank Holiday Monday Student indie night 9pm £3 Mesmerist Stroll On Mondays 60s and 70s night with DJs and film projections 8.30pm £free New Venture Theatre A Streetcar Named Desire Tennessee Williams’ classic drama Details tbc Nightingale Theatre Cheer Up, It Might Never Happen: Brighton Fringe Festival Darkly comic onewoman show about being stressed and depressed 7pm £8.50/6.50; White Rabbit, Red Rabbit: Brighton Fringe Festival Allegorical play by Iranian playwright, Nassim Soleimanpour 8.30pm £8.50/6.50; The Two Wrongies - Cult Of The Wrong: Brighton Fringe Festival Interactive and comical show with the ‘Queens of Wrongcore’ 9.45pm £6.50/5.50 Old Market The Table - New And Improved: Brighton Fringe Festival Existential puppet show mixing dark Beckettian humour and flat-pack technology 5pm/8pm £12/9 Pavilion Theatre Dr Gabrielle Walker – Antarctica: Brighton Festival The author and climate change expert discusses the frozen continent with the Green MP, Caroline Lucas 6pm £8.50; Silent: Brighton Festival One-man physical theatre concerning the lost art of silence 8pm £15/10 Prince Albert Bleeding Hearts Club Gently downbeat and melancholic acoustic music 8pm £3 Psychosocial Into The Void New metal night that’s likely to feature more windmills than a farm in the Dutch lowlands 11pm £free Signalman Signalman Pub Quiz 8pm £1 St Nicholas’ Rest Garden Bee Detective: Brighton Festival Interactive kids’ show 11am/1.30pm/4pm £8/6 Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Quiz Night 8pm £1 Temple Bar Drew Cameron - Stand Up Chameleon: Brighton Fringe Festival The best impressionist since Monet 10.45pm £5 Three & Ten The Unquiet Dead: Brighton Fringe Festival Ghostly ballads and spooky stories 1pm £8/6.50; Two-Headed: Brighton Fringe Festival A play about two 19th century Midwestern girls and their lifelong struggle with religion 3pm £9/7.50; Foil, Arms And Hog: Brighton Fringe Festival Irish sketch comedy about potatoes, racist stereotypes and potatoes 5pm £8.50/7; Connection Unsecure - Continue?: Brighton Fringe Festival Play about the messy attempts of web-addicts to pursue a genuine relationship 7pm £8/6.50; Off The Cuff - The Village: Brighton Fringe Festival Improv comedy group explore the sinister goings-on in an imaginary village 8.30pm £8.50/7; Luna’s History Of

Madness: Brighton Fringe Festival A humorous and personal journey through mental illness 9.30pm £8/6.50 Volks Strictly Reggae Dancehall, roots, revival 11pm £5/4.50 Warren Snow White: Brighton Fringe Festival New take on the children’s classic 1.30pm £8/6; Napoleon A Defence: Brighton Fringe Festival High energy French clowning 3pm £9/7; And Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out: Brighton Fringe Festival Multimedia theatre show about love and astrophysics 4.30pm £8/6; Bug By Tracy Letts: Brighton Fringe Festival Psychological thriller from the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright 5.45pm £12.50/10.50; Fringe Club: Brighton Fringe Festival Live music, cabaret and comedy curated by the Peanut Albinos 10pm £3.50/2.50

Tuesday 8th

Above Audio Cottontail Club Big band and jitter jive tunes 9pm £free Audio Guerilla Rocks Club night for rock chicks, skater bois and indie kids 11pm £3/2/1 Basement Domestic: Brighton Festival A curated series of surreal cinematic interactions - if you know what that means you might enjoy it 3.30pm £20 Belushi’s Bar Back To The 80s Retro night dedicated to the only decade to spawn a revival which has lasted longer than the decade itself 9pm £free Black Lion Hit The Decks Open decks spin off (book a slot online) 9pm £free Brunswick Jazz Jam: Brighton Fringe Festival Open session with a house band 8pm £free; Flowers For The Living: Brighton Fringe Festival Poetic acoustica and tongue drumming from singer songwriter Rosi Lalor 8pm £10/8 Caroline Of Brunswick Mike Sheer Undergod: Brighton Fringe Festival Canadian comic discusses the big man in the sky 7pm £free; Lou Sanders - A Nice Evening With Wallan: Brighton Fringe Festival Off-beat surreal comedy 8.15pm £free; Pattie Brewster’s Friendship Venture: Brighton Fringe Festival She’s a single girl with a GSOH and an unhealthy obsession with cats 9.30pm £free; Legion Of Doom: Brighton Fringe Festival Absurdist sketch show 10.45pm £free Churchill Square The In/Visible City: Brighton Fringe Festival Uncover the social life of the city with a host of international performers - whilst riding a Big Lemon Bus 6.30pm £2 Coalition Back2Back If your bass was this filthy you’d have to take it back to the fishmongers 11pm £4/3 Corn Exchange Jerusalem Quartet With Alexander Melnikov: Brighton Festival International chamber ensemble plays two Schumann piano works 7.30pm £20/15 Cube Cube Live: Jon McGlashan Live music 8pm £free Digital CU Next Tuesday It’ll teach the universities to timetable lectures for Wednesday mornings 11pm £4/3 Dome Trisha Brown Dance Company: Brighton Festival The iconic American choreographer returns with a retrospective collection of dance pieces spanning three decades 8pm £10-22.50 Druid’s Arms Druid’s New Student Party Electro house DJ 9pm £free Duke Of Norfolk Open Mic 9pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema Dinotasia 1.30pm £tbc; Monsieur Lazhar 11am/6.30pm £tbc; Damsels In Distress 4pm/9pm £tbc Friend’s Meeting House Chris T-T, She Makes War Indie folk protest singer on a solo tour of the UK 8pm £10 Gladstone Quiz Night 8.30pm £1 Globe Basement Cinema Underground films, comfy seats and free popcorn 8pm £free Green Door Store Roy Davis American bluegrass from the Colorados man 7.30pm £7 Honey Latin Fever: DJ Aaron George, Gabriel Angel, Yersin Rivas Dance lessons followed by a tropically vibed salsa club 8pm/10pm £3/1/free Hope Jamie & The Portraits, The Witches, Rising Tide, Ian McLuaghlin & The Outsiders, Sky Harbour EP launch for local surf grungers 8pm £5/4 Iambic Arts Theatre Lapin Wants Ice-Cream: Brighton Fringe Festival Force your kids to learn snippets of French in this interactive puppetry show 2.30pm £6/5; Chères Amies: Brighton Fringe Festival A play about three women whose holiday becomes a settling of old scores 7.30pm £10/8 Jive Monkey Quiz Night Details tbc; Good Time Charlie’s Got The Blues: Brighton Fringe Festival A play about music and self-loathing in Las Vegas (in the theatre) 8pm £7.50 Komedia East End Cabaret - The Revolution Will Be Sexual: Brighton Fringe Festival Darkly comical duo do a 20s style cabaret show with the help of accordian, musical saw and bolshevik puppets 6pm £10/8; Rayguns Look Real Enough - Balls Deeper: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy mash-up songs with the cod stadium rockers 7.30pm £10/8; Minkley’s Night Of Mirth: Tim Key, Joe Wilkinson Top notch comedians pay tribute to local musician, Oliver Minkley

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8pm £9/7.50; Mr B The Gentleman Rhymer’s ChapHop Hurrah!: Brighton Fringe Festival Novelty banjolele ditties from the chap-hop chap 8pm £10/8 Latest Music Bar Carry On Brighton “A gay seaside farce set among the chattering classes of Z list celebrity culture at a same sex wedding” (upstairs) 10.30pm £12/10; Charity Chuckle: Hannibal Buress, Romesh Ranganathan, Tez Ilyas, Juliet Myers Laughter makes you feel good, especially when it’s for charity 10pm £8/5 Lola Lo Dirtee Laundry Student night 10pm £6/4/2 Mesmerist The Mesmerist Conjurers Consortium It could be a magical night 7.30pm £free Mucky Duck Jonny 8-Track Live music 8pm £free New Venture Theatre A Streetcar Named Desire Tennessee Williams’ classic drama Details tbc Nightingale Theatre Cheer Up, It Might Never Happen: Brighton Fringe Festival Darkly comic onewoman show about being stressed and depressed 7pm £8.50/6.50; White Rabbit, Red Rabbit: Brighton Fringe Festival Allegorical play by Iranian playwright, Nassim Soleimanpour 8.30pm £8.50/6.50 Old Market The Table - New And Improved: Brighton Fringe Festival Existential puppet show mixing dark Beckettian humour and flat-pack technology 8pm £12/9 Pavilion Theatre Michael Partington: Brighton Festival Award-winning classical guitarist 1pm £10; A Tribute to Gil Scott-Heron: Jamie Byng, Lemn Sissay, Barry Adamson, Salena Godden A celebration of the 1970s polemical jazz poet they call the ‘Godfather of rap’ 8pm £10 Prince Albert Itchy Teeth, Lion Bark, Richard Allen II Live music 8.30pm £4/3 Red Lion Challenging General Knowledge & Music Quiz 8pm £1 St John’s Centre And It’s Goodnight From Her: Brighton Fringe Festival Sit down comedy stories inspired by the gentle rambling of Ronnie Corbett (this show is now sold out) 2pm £free Temple Bar Drew Cameron - Stand Up Chameleon: Brighton Fringe Festival The best impressionist since Monet 10.45pm £5 Theatre Royal Interiors: Brighton Festival A dinner party goes awry as the audience watches through the window of the stage 7.30pm £10-18.50 Three & Ten Connection Unsecure - Continue?: Brighton Fringe Festival Play about the messy attempts of web-addicts to pursue a genuine relationship 7pm £8/6.50; Two-Headed: Brighton Fringe Festival A play about two 19th century Midwestern girls and their lifelong struggle with religion 8.30pm £9/7.50; Gareth Morinan - Truth Doodler: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy data-analyst discusses technology and politics with the help of crudely drawn animations 10pm £8/6.50 Victoria Gardens Taboo In The Big Top! La Bordello Boheme take over the Lady Boys’ tent and stuff it full of cabaret, burlesque and circus acts 7.30pm £15 Warren Snow White: Brighton Fringe Festival New take on the children’s classic 1.30pm £8/6; The City Will Crumble: Brighton Fringe Festival Dance show set in a overpopulated robotic megacity, but not London 7pm £9/7; Just Another Love Story: Brighton Fringe Festival Love songs from Broadway musicals 8.30pm £10/8 World’s End Poker Night 8pm £tbc

Wednesday 9th

Audio Supercharged Drum&bass and breaks 11pm £6/4 Basement Domestic: Brighton Festival A curated series of surreal cinematic interactions - if you know what that means you might enjoy it 3.30pm £20 Bee’s Mouth Open Mic 8.30pm £free Belushi’s Bar Now That’s What I Call A Party In this instance, it’s okay to judge a book by its cover 9pm £free Belushi’s Below Detention 8pm £free Black Lion The Black Lion Acoustic Showcase Live music 8.30pm £free Black Rock Motor Show: Brighton Festival A set of headphones allows the audience to eavesdrop on a couple in a car as their turbulent relationship takes its course. It’s not that hard to do in real life, but at least this is legal 9.45pm £10 Blind Tiger Fashion Tips For The Last Days: Brighton Fringe Festival Prepare to be verbally bludgeoned by Brighton’s most eccentric poet performer, Chris Parkinson, as he elegantly rants about whales, party politics, Jill Dando and missing limbs 8pm £3 Brunswick Conversation Cafe Discussion group 7.30pm £5; 1912: Brighton Fringe Festival Theatrical magic show recreating the tricks of a century ago 8.30pm £8 Caroline Of Brunswick Mike Sheer Undergod: Brighton Fringe Festival Canadian comic discusses the big man in the sky 7pm £free; Jody Kamali - Dirty, Filthy, Rich: Brighton Fringe Festival Spoof seminar with a ludicrous lifestyle guru 8.15pm £5/3; Legion Of Doom: Brighton Fringe Festival Absurdist sketch show 10.45pm £free

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Chequers Quiz Night 8pm £1 Churchill Square The In/Visible City: Brighton Fringe Festival Uncover the social life of the city with a host of international performers - whilst riding a Big Lemon Bus 6.30pm £2 Coalition CoCo LoCo Commercial chart music for students 10.30pm £5/3/2 Corn Exchange Steven Osborne: Brighton Festival Pianist takes on Debussy, Crumb and Ravel 1pm £10; Granta - Is Britain Still Great?: Polly Toynbee, Adam Foulds, Sarfraz Manzoor, Kamila Shamsie A panel discussion about the decline of our once mighty and glorious nation 7.30pm £10 Cube Wicked Wednesdays House DJs 8pm £free Digital Poundance Like a coin operated dancefloor 11pm £4/3/1 Dome Trisha Brown Dance Company: Brighton Festival The iconic American choreographer returns with a retrospective collection of dance pieces spanning three decades 8pm £10-22.50 Druid’s Arms We Change The Tempo DJ set of international sounds 9pm £free Duke Of Norfolk Pub Quiz 9pm £1 Duke Of York’s Cinema Dinotasia 1.30pm £tbc; Monsieur Lazhar 6.30pm £tbc; Damsels In Distress 11am/4pm/9pm £tbc Fishbowl Tea & Biscuits: DJ Gareth Stephens Retro swing, soul and ska 10pm £free Fountain Head Student Night DJs play indie and rock 8pm £free Globe Global Bass: DJ Ted Lauren DJ delves into the bassier side of jazz, gypsy and world music 9pm £free Green Door Store Monkey Puzzle Trio Soundscape improvisation by three 70s art rock veterans 8pm £5; Hard Times They can take our disposable income, but they’ll never take our nowave disco! 10.30pm £free Hope Return To The Savage BooHoo - A Retrospective By Doctor Foster The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster tried to stage a comeback two years ago but soon after they suddenly called it a day. This is an exhibition of photos documenting their disastrous final tour (downstairs) 8pm £free Hydrant Jake And The Jellyfish Live music 8pm £2 Iambic Arts Theatre Lapin Wants Ice-Cream: Brighton Fringe Festival Force your kids to learn snippets of French in this interactive puppetry show 2.30pm £6/5; Chères Amies: Brighton Fringe Festival A play about three women whose holiday becomes a settling of old scores 7.30pm £10/8 Jive Monkey Funk & Soul DJs (in the bar) 8pm £free; Good Time Charlie’s Got The Blues: Brighton Fringe Festival A play about music and self-loathing in Las Vegas (in the theatre) 8pm £7.50 Komedia East End Cabaret - The Revolution Will Be Sexual: Brighton Fringe Festival Darkly comical duo do a 20s style cabaret show with the help of accordian, musical saw and bolshevik puppets 6pm £10/8; Rayguns Look Real Enough - Balls Deeper: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy mash-up songs with the cod stadium rockers 7.30pm £10/8; Mr B The Gentleman Rhymer’s Chap-Hop Hurrah!: Brighton Fringe Festival Novelty banjolele ditties from the chaphop chap 8pm £10/8; Barb Jungr - Man In The Long Black Coat: Brighton Fringe Festival Chanson singer reworks Bob Dylan songs 8pm £12/10 Latest Music Bar Carry On Brighton “A gay seaside farce set among the chattering classes of Z list celebrity culture at a same sex wedding” (upstairs) 10.30pm £12/10 Mesmerist The Swing Ninjas Gypsy swing band 9pm £free New Venture Theatre A Streetcar Named Desire Tennessee Williams’ classic drama Details tbc Nightingale Theatre White Rabbit, Red Rabbit: Brighton Fringe Festival Allegorical play by Iranian playwright, Nassim Soleimanpour 8.30pm £8.50/6.50 Northern Lights Mystery Train Rockabilly DJ 9pm £free Old Market Miniclick, Pecha Kucha & Brighton University: Brighton Fringe Festival Final-year students give presentations about photography and the moving image 8pm £4/3; The Department Of Unreliable Memoirs: Brighton Fringe Festival An interactive ‘show’ in which an audience of one (you) are helped to recall memories that are probably fictitious (repeated every ten minutes) 2pm £5 Prince Albert Glass City Vice, Sparrow, Nitzam, Another Costume Party Live music 8pm £4/3 PsychoSocial Hot Wax Party tunes 10pm £free; Oh! You Pretty Things: KAV, Marner Brown Sleazy rock&roll with the former Happy Mondays man 8.30pm £4/3 Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar I Am Arcade While you geek out playing retro video games try and act excited as if you hadn’t already exhausted the nostalgic possibilities by downloading an emulator and geeking out on your own for the last few weeks - there’s a reason you’re beating everyone else at Mortal Street Killing, or whatever the fuck it’s called 8pm £free Temple Bar Stella Graham - Karma Comedian:

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Brighton Fringe Festival She lays bare her life, you judge her deeds and determine her fate 9.30pm £free; Drew Cameron - Stand Up Chameleon: Brighton Fringe Festival The best impressionist since Monet 10.45pm £5 Theatre Royal Interiors: Brighton Festival A dinner party goes awry as the audience watches through the window of the stage 7.30pm £10-18.50 Three & Ten Connection Unsecure - Continue?: Brighton Fringe Festival Play about the messy attempts of web-addicts to pursue a genuine relationship 7pm £8/6.50; Two-Headed: Brighton Fringe Festival A play about two 19th century Midwestern girls and their lifelong struggle with religion 8.30pm £9/7.50; Gareth Morinan - Truth Doodler: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy data-analyst discusses technology and politics with the help of crudely drawn animations 10pm £8/6.50 Volks Switch Up Drum&bass, electro and dubstep night Details tbc Warren The City Will Crumble: Brighton Fringe Festival Dance show set in a overpopulated robotic megacity, but not London 7pm £9/7; Just Another Love Story: Brighton Fringe Festival Love songs from Broadway musicals 8.30pm £10/8

Thursday 10th

Audio Bastard Pop Musical mash-up 11pm £3/2/ free Bee’s Mouth Live Music 9pm £free Belushi’s Bar Karaoke 9pm £free Belushi’s Below Fallout Live Live indie bands 10pm £3/2 Black Lion The Lion’s Raw! Live bands 8.30pm £free Black Rock Motor Show: Brighton Festival A set of headphones allows the audience to eavesdrop on a couple in a car as their turbulent relationship takes its course. It’s not that hard to do in real life, but at least this is legal 9.45pm £10 Blind Tiger The Great Escape - Afternoon Sessions: Slow Down Molasses, Hot Panda, Jordan Cook, Born Gold Live music Details tbc; The Great Escape - Evening Sessions: Furguson, Bos Angeles, Milagres, Gaz Coombes Live music 7.45pm £tbc; The Great Escape - Playgroup Late Sessions DJ night 11pm £tbc Brighton Centre Creative Stitches & Hobbycrafts Craft fair with period costumes off the telly 9.30am £tbc Brunswick Jake Mackay, Hayley Savage, Danny Sherwood, The Long Goodbye Folk and Americana 8pm £3 Caroline Of Brunswick Loving London - The Capital Cabaret: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedic cabaret show about the history and highlights of the Big Smoke 7pm £6/4; Jody Kamali - Dirty, Filthy, Rich: Brighton Fringe Festival Spoof seminar with a ludicrous lifestyle guru 8.15pm £5/3; Meryl O’Rourke - Bad Mother: Brighton Fringe Festival Mischievous comedy show about motherhood and other mistakes 9.30pm £6/4.50 Churchill Square The In/Visible City: Brighton Fringe Festival Uncover the social life of the city with a host of international performers - whilst riding a Big Lemon Bus 6.30pm £2 Coalition The Great Escape: The Skints, Spoek Mathambo, Natty, EJ, Mikill Pane, Riz MC 7.15pm £tbc Concorde2 The Great Escape: Kids In Glass Houses, Lower Than Atlantis, Don Broco, Max Raptor Live music Details tbc Constant Service Mark & Dodger Singalong piano music 8.30pm £free Cube Da Bomb Student DJ night 8pm £free Druid’s Arms Druid’s Arms Presents Live music 8pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema Dinotasia 1pm £tbc; Monsieur Lazhar 6pm £tbc; Damsels In Distress 3.30pm/8.30pm £tbc Fishbowl Residents Association: DJ Will Sumsuch DJs play hip hop, funk and world beats 10.30pm £free Gladstone Arthur Shillin’ Electro swing, funk and breaks 8.30pm £free Globe Hang The DJ!: Alternative Great Escape Eddie The Goatboy plays tracks influenced by the festival 9pm £free Green Door Store The Great Escape Details tbc Honey Swag Electro, R&B and dubstep night 11pm £3/2 Hope The Great Escape: Milagres, Dillon, Yukon Blonde, Fever Fever, Step-Panther, Bass Drum Of Death Live music Details tbc; Unhooked Generation Retro DJs with an ear for 60s Motown and northern soul (downstairs) 8pm £free Hydrant The Great Escape Live music (upstairs) 1pm £free Iambic Arts Theatre Lapin Wants Ice-Cream: Brighton Fringe Festival Force your kids to learn snippets of French in this interactive puppetry show

2.30pm £6/5; Shakespeare Unbound - Gift to the Future A guided tour of Shakespeare’s house with readings and anecdotes from his best friend 5pm £10/8 Jive Monkey Good Time Charlie’s Got The Blues: Brighton Fringe Festival A play about music and selfloathing in Las Vegas 8pm £7.50 Komedia Krater Comedy Club: Chris McCausland, Jessica Fostekew, Pierre Hollins, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 8pm £5-18 Latest Music Bar The Great Escape: Franclassic, The 1930s, Jason Clarke, Bay Of Plenty, Berenice Live music Details tbc Life That’s My Sh!t Club night playing hip hop, R&B, funk and soul 11pm £3/2/free; Deadboy, Leon Vynehall, South London Ordnance, Donga Hypercrunk wonk-hop 11pm £3/free Lola Lo Tom Foolery Electro, house and dubstep night 9pm £5/3 Mesmerist Bad Bad Whiskey Skifflebilly trio 9pm £free Mucky Duck Open Mic Jam session with Joe Newman 8pm £free New Venture Theatre A Streetcar Named Desire Tennessee Williams’ classic drama Details tbc Nightingale Theatre Small Talk: Brighton Fringe Festival Sexy and witty musical dance show 7pm £8.50/6.50; White Rabbit, Red Rabbit: Brighton Fringe Festival Allegorical play by Iranian playwright, Nassim Soleimanpour 8.30pm £8.50/6.50; Boogaloo Stu’s Pop Magic: Brighton Fringe Festival The camp cabaret star hosts a ‘reality theatre’ show in the which the audience writes and performs their very own pop song 10pm £8.50/6.50 Old Market Laughtermarket: Ava Vidal, Luisa Omielan, Pete Armstrong, Mike Cox, Sam Stone Stand-up comedy 8pm £1.50 Old Municipal Market Land’s End: Brighton Festival Multimedia murder story merging reality and theatre 6.30pm/9pm £17.50/10 Paramount Old Ship Hotel Cock & Tail Inn 2: Brighton Fringe Festival Slapstick pub comedy set in the 80s 7.45pm £10/8 Preston Manor Hidden House - Behind The Scenes At Preston Manor 11am £10.50/8.50 Prince Albert The Great Escape Live music Details tbc Prince George Souled Out: Saul Guud Vinyl night of funk, soul and b-boy breaks 8pm £free PsychoSocial The Great Escape Live music Details tbc Ranelagh The Diablos Country rock 8.30pm £free St James’ Tavern Stay Sick, Turn Blue DJs play vintage soul, jazz and blues 8.30pm £free Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Catholic Discipline Noise rock, disco pop and acid folk from the Superheroes of BMX 8pm £free Temple Bar Stella Graham - Karma Comedian: Brighton Fringe Festival She lays bare her life, you judge her deeds and determine her fate 9.30pm £free Theatre Royal Interiors: Brighton Festival A dinner party goes awry as the audience watches through the window of the stage 7.30pm £10-18.50 Three & Ten Harlow’s Monkeys: Brighton Fringe Festival Monkey morality tale about an ageing academic and a gang of marauding apes 7pm £9/7.50; The Revolution Will Be Re-Tweeted: Brighton Fringe Festival Stand-up from the activist comedian, Abie Philbin Bowman 8.30pm £8.50/7; Insert Comedy Here!: Brighton Fringe Festival Nick Hodder tries out a comedy show he bought off the internet 10pm £8/6.50 VarNdean School Slightly Unusual: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy illusionists 7.30pm £6-10 Victory Open Mic 8pm £free White Rabbit The Move-Ons Open Mic 8pm £free World’s End The Big Cash Quiz 8pm £tbc

Friday 11th

Above Audio Home House and disco DJs 9pm £free Belushi’s Bar Muy Loco Pop and house DJs with a dancing contest 9pm £free Belushi’s Below Abandoned Rock and metal night 10pm £3/2 Black Dove Mo Taters! Vintage American tunes from both sides of the Panama canal 8pm £free Black Lion Soul Casserole A melting pot of hot funk beats and soul grooves 8.30pm £free Black Rock Motor Show: Brighton Festival A set of headphones allows the audience to eavesdrop on a couple in a car as their turbulent relationship takes its course. It’s not that hard to do in real life, but at least this is legal 9.45pm £10 Blind Tiger The Great Escape - Afternoon Sessions: The Town Heros, Ben Caplan, Rich Aucoin Live music Details tbc; The Great Escape - Evening Sessions: Weird Dreams, ∆ (ALT-J), Django Django Live music 7.45pm £tbc; The Great Escape Playgroup Late Sessions DJ night 11pm £tbc Brighton Centre Creative Stitches & Hobbycrafts Craft fair with period costumes off the telly

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9.30am £tbc Brighton Music Hall House Of Vaudeville Music hall meets dance for a charity whirl 8pm £6 Brunswick Voodoo Funk: Brighton Fringe Festival Afro funk night with Kalakuta Millionaires and King Lagoon’s Flying Swordfish Dance Band 8pm £10/8 Caroline Of Brunswick Eccentronic - We Won’t Rock You: Brighton Fringe Festival Electronic duo do an oddball humorous musical mash-up 5.30pm £free; Luisa Omielan - What Would Beyoncé Do?: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy improv for all the single ladies 7pm £free; Chris Mayo’s Identity Crisis: Brighton Fringe Festival The actor and comedian sets off in search of his true self 8.15pm £6/5; Get Some Metal with DJ Andy Lost (downstairs) 9pm £free; Meryl O’Rourke - Bad Mother: Brighton Fringe Festival Mischievous comedy show about motherhood and other mistakes 9.30pm £6/4.50 Coalition The Great Escape: Odonis Odonis, Paws, We Were Promised Jetpacks, The Twilight Sad, Alunageorge, Stay, Koreless 7.15pm £tbc Concorde2 The Great Escape: We Are The Ocean, Hawk Eyes, 22, Mallory Knox Live music Details tbc Cube Friday Club House DJs 8pm £free Digital Stonelove Indie rock&roll club 11pm £4/3 Doctor Brighton’s Funky Friday: DJ Nick Hirst, DJ Wayne 9.30pm £free Druid’s Arms DJ Tommy G Electro beats, indie and house tunes 10pm £free Duke Of Norfolk Miss Scarlett DJ night 9pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema Beloved 1pm/6pm £tbc; Jeff, Who Lives at Home 4pm/9pm £tbc; The Royal Tenenbaums 11.30pm £tbc Easy Bar DJ Night Hip hop, R&B and reggae 8pm £free Fishbowl Jeff Daniels Soul and hip hop DJ 9pm £free Funkyfish The Funkyfish Club Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10pm £6/3.50 Gladstone Catch A Groove Funk, soul and hip hop 8.30pm £free Green Door Store The Great Escape Details tbc H-Bar Dave Rees James & Nick T Old school soul and classic house Details tbc Honey Lollipop ‘Pink Fridays’ Get your fingers sticky to R&B and pop treats 11pm £5/4/3 Hope The Great Escape: Some Community, Black Moth, Wet Nuns, The Computers Tickets Live music Details tbc; Soul Casserole A melting pot of hot funk beats and soul grooves (downstairs) 9pm £free Hydrant Genrebomb & The Boileroom Alternative Escape Showcase: Subsource, Bad For Lazarus, Silent Front, Djevara, Love Amongst The Mannequins, Trails, Scratch Latin, Eschar, Saint Coltraine, Flash Bang Band Live bands, acoustic stuff, zine distro and BBQ 12.30pm £free Hydrant The Great Escape Live music (upstairs) 1pm £free Iambic Arts Theatre Shakespeare Unbound Gift to the Future A guided tour of Shakespeare’s house with readings and anecdotes from his best friend 5pm £10/8 Jive Monkey Good Time Charlie’s Got The Blues: Brighton Fringe Festival A play about music and selfloathing in Las Vegas 8pm £7.50 Komedia Krater Comedy Club: Chris McCausland, Markus Birdman, Junior Simpson, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 8pm £11.50-14.50 Latest Music Bar The Great Escape: The Manic Shine, iremembertapes., Violet Bones, Little Signals, The Rocket Dolls Live music 7pm £tbc Life Kung Fu Terrace Party DJs play funk, soul, blues and hip hop 3pm £free; AkaAkaRoar!: Ifan Dafydd, Eliphino, Gang Colours, Lorca, Bobby Champs Garage, grime and bass-heavy house 11pm £6/5/4/free Lola Lo Tiki Beats Totally tropical tunes 8pm £5/4/3 Mesmerist Shake, Holla & Roll Vintage blues, swing and rock&roll 9pm £free Mucky Duck Night Boat To Wigan Soul DJs 8pm £free Neptune The Desperate Dan Trio Rockin’ R&B 8.30pm £free New Venture Theatre A Streetcar Named Desire Tennessee Williams’ classic drama Details tbc Nightingale Theatre Small Talk: Brighton Fringe Festival Sexy and witty musical dance show 8.30pm £8.50/6.50; Filthy Weekender Comedy: Brighton Fringe Festival Late-night stand-up comedy 10pm £8.50/6.50 Ohso Social Dirty Sunset Disco Metrosexual disco and house club 8pm £1 Old Municipal Market Land’s End: Brighton Festival Multimedia murder story merging reality and theatre 6.30pm/9pm £17.50/10 Paramount Old Ship Hotel Cock & Tail Inn 2: Brighton Fringe Festival Slapstick pub comedy set in the 80s 7.45pm £10/8 Prince Albert The Great Escape Live music Details tbc PsychoSocial The Great Escape Live music

Details tbc Queen’s Hotel The Alternative Escape: Gross Magic, Eagulls, NZCA/Lines, PINS, Fear Of Men, M A U S I, Rae Morris, Mammal Club, Hoodlums, Shinies Amazing Radio showcase - free entry for all, not just wristbanders 1.30pm £free Ranelagh The Bobby McGees, Annaca, Jack Wiseman Twee ukulele indie pop 8.30pm £free Riki Tik Work: Matt Barker, Dennis Castro A silken river of alt pop, blog dance and hip twitching jiggy bangers 9pm £free Sallis Benney Theatre Hangover Square Revisited - The Life And Work Of Patrick Hamilton: Brighton Festival Hamilton’s biographer and a crime novelist discuss the saloon bar laureate 7.30pm £8 St Bartholomew’s Church English Chamber Choir: Brighton Festival Baroque choral music accompanied by 18th-century instruments 7.30pm £16.50 St Mary’s Church Erased Tapes - A Winged Victory For The Sullen, Nils Frahm, The British Expeditionary Force: Brighton Festival Prog, classical and avant garde music from the London/Berlin record label 7pm £12 Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar The Great Escape Live music (see TGE feature) Details tbc Temple Bar Stella Graham - Karma Comedian: Brighton Fringe Festival She lays bare her life, you judge her deeds and determine her fate 9.30pm £free Three & Ten The Prayer Meeting: Brighton Fringe Festival God is bored so he decides to answer some prayers for a change - strangely he chooses to reveal himself at an intimate theatre show 1pm £8.50/7; Churchill’s Children: Brighton Fringe Festival A new play set in Brighton during the blitz 3pm £9/7.50; The Great Puppet Horn Returns: Brighton Fringe Festival Satirical shadow puppet show 5pm £8.50/7; Harlow’s Monkeys: Brighton Fringe Festival Monkey morality tale about an ageing academic and a gang of marauding apes 7pm £9/7.50; You’re Amazing. Now Look At Me.: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy sketch show from the Dog-Eared Collective 8.30pm £8.50/7; The MindWarp Show: Brighton Fringe Festival Surreal character comedy and fast paced sketches 10pm £8.50/7 VarNdean School Slightly Unusual: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy illusionists 7.30pm £6-10 Verdict Don Weller Quartet Live jazz 7.30pm £12/6 Victory The Victory Book Club Monthly discussion on a selected book 8pm £free Volks Freak Bazaar: Lucas, Neuroplasm, Rowan, Clayton Progressive and psychedelic trance 11pm £7/6 White Rabbit WTF? Brighton Wonky electro and synth pop nonsense 8pm £free

Saturday 12th

Ancient Mariner The Acoustic Sessions: The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers Acoustic rock and blues 8pm £free Audio Warehouse: Disclosure House and techno club night 11pm £5/free Basement Performer. Audience. Fuck Off.: Brighton Festival Arty performance and film followed by a Q&A 7.30pm £10 Beachigogo Bar Good Times Remember them? Maybe the feel-good retro tunes will jog your memory (in the White Room) 9pm £free; The R&B Lounge R&B DJs (in the Main Room) 11pm £6/5 Belushi’s Bar Unplugged: Rocket Dogs Live acoustic duo 9pm £free Belushi’s Below Synergy Industrial goth and electro night 9pm £5/4 Black Dove The Chop Source DJ plays Caribbean rhythms and jump-jazz cuts 8pm £free Black Lion Molly Malone’s Dex In The City DJ night 9pm £free Black Rock Motor Show: Brighton Festival A set of headphones allows the audience to eavesdrop on a couple in a car as their turbulent relationship takes its course. It’s not that hard to do in real life, but at least this is legal 9.45pm £10 Blind Tiger The Great Escape - Afternoon Sessions: Alexandre Desilets, Misteur Valaire, Hooded Fang, Gold And Youth Live music Details tbc; The Great Escape - Evening Sessions: Oliver Tank, Hooded Fang, Peace, Lucy Rose Live music 7.45pm £tbc; The Great Escape - Playgroup Late Sessions DJ night 11pm £tbc; Stay Sick Great Escape Festival After Party Bands and DJs play garage, punk and rock&roll 11.30pm £free Brighton Buddhist Centre A Jumble Of Fun: Brighton Fringe Festival Music, meditation, storytelling and workshops 2pm £free Brighton Centre Creative Stitches & Hobbycrafts Craft fair with period costumes off the telly 9.30am £tbc Brighton Music Hall Beach, Bunting And Bristols Jive and rockabilly night 9pm £free Brunswick Mr Pineapple Head: Brighton Fringe Festival Musical clowning for kids Noon £6; Crimes Against Humanities Teachers: Brighton Fringe

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Festival Surreal comedy theatre driven by the ghost of Kenneth Williams 3pm £9/7; Les Petites Parisiennes: Brighton Fringe Festival French new burlesque revue 8pm £9 Caroline Of Brunswick Brighton Must Sees: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy showcase with some of the best fringe acts 4.30pm £free; Eccentronic - We Won’t Rock You: Brighton Fringe Festival Electronic duo do an oddball humorous musical mash-up 5.30pm £free; Luisa Omielan - What Would Beyoncé Do?: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy improv for all the single ladies 7pm £free; Chris Mayo’s Identity Crisis: Brighton Fringe Festival The actor and comedian sets off in search of his true self 8.15pm £6/5; Replica Goth and industrial night (downstairs) 9pm £free; The Bob Blackman Appreciation Society: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy tribute to the man who made his name by banging his head with a tray while singing Mule Train 9.30pm £free; Test Tube Comedy: Brighton Fringe Festival Stand-up and sketch comedy acts hosted by Dec Munro 10.45pm £free Coalition The Great Escape: Husky, Jodie Marie, We Are Scientists, Jinja Safari 9.15pm £tbc; Blow: Vince Manganaro, Charly Lopez, Charles Green The party never stops 3am £5 Concorde2 The Great Escape: Sonic Boom Six, Mojo Fury Live music Details tbc; The Great Escape - Official Closing Party Live music 11pm £tbc Cowley Club Not Even The Great Escape Fringe: Rita Lynch, Sister Chain & Brother John Bristol punk rocker 8pm £tbc; Slutdisko Electropunk disco night 9pm £tbc Digital Blah Blah Blah Does Exit Festival: Julio Bashmore, WildKats, Blacksmif, Blah Blah Blah DJs Both an Exit warm-up party and birthday celebration for the Brighton DJs 11pm £12/10/8 Doctor Brighton’s Sexy Saturday: DJ Tony B 9.30pm £free Dome Africa Express Sound System: Brighton Festival & The Great Escape Spontaneous crosscultural musical collaboration 8pm £20/7 Druid’s Arms Main Ingredients DJs Rock, hip hop and beats 9.30pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema The Princess And The Frog 11am £tbc; Beloved 1.30pm/6.30pm £tbc; Jeff, Who Lives at Home 4.30pm/9.15pm £tbc Easy Bar DJ Night Hip hop, R&B and reggae 8pm £free Fishbowl Sam Redmore Funk, soul, reggae and disco from the resident DJ for the award-winning club night, Leftfoot 9pm £free Fortune Of War The Great Escape Live music (see TGE feature) Details tbc Gladstone Wolflung Circus grunge 8.30pm £free Globe Alternative Great Escape All welcome to this DJ night, not just Great Escapees 9pm £free Grand Hotel Private Lives: Brighton Fringe Festival Noel Coward’s comedy of manners about a double honeymoon romance (advance booking only) 3pm £17/15 Green Door Store The Great Escape Details tbc H-Bar Classic Gorgeous: Dave Godding, Yusuf Sebaiti, Ben Eliis Brown, Gorgeous Reuniting the lineup from the pre-Digital days at the Zap club Time tbc £4 Honey Chop It Up: Charles Green, Squiz, Tom Maverick, Willerby Funky house, R&B and pop 11pm £3-7.50 Hope The Great Escape: The Big Sleep, Hey Sholay, Cheveu, Antlered Man, Tall Ships, O Children Live music Details tbc; Soul Casserole A melting pot of hot funk beats and soul grooves (downstairs) 9pm £free Hydrant The Great Escape Live music (upstairs) 1pm £free; Maid Of Ice Live music 8pm £free Iambic Arts Theatre Shakespeare Unbound Gift to the Future A guided tour of Shakespeare’s house with readings and anecdotes from his best friend 2.30pm £10/8 Jazz Place Night At The Jazz Rooms: Russ Dewbury, Nick The Record Legendary Brighton club does a NY disco and boogie special 9pm £5/4/free Jive Monkey Singalong A Swing Join swing singer Jason Abrahams as he flies to the moon beyond the sea Noon/1pm/2pm £3; The Great Escape: Sweet Sweet Lies Something Nothing Records showcase Details tbc Jubilee Library Carpe Minuta Prima: Brighton Festival In the library there’s a booth. In the booth is a man. The man wants you to sell him a minute of your life for £1. Sound like your sort of thing? 11am £free Komedia Krater Comedy Club: Chris McCausland, Markus Birdman, Junior Simpson, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 7pm/8pm/10.30pm £15-20; ipop! Like an iPod full of party anthems on perpetual shuffle 11pm £3/free LMNOP Studios Brighton Bingo: Brighton Fringe Festival Fun photography contest for adults and families 11am £5 Latest Music Bar Howler, Towns: The Alternative Escape Live music Time tbc £6 Life Juicebox! New eclectic club night offering an nice alternative to the standard seafront malarky 11pm £5/3 Lola Lo Zombie Nation Where the dancefloor is never dead 8pm £10/7/6

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Marlborough Theatre The Black Dog And Other Influences: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedic play about manic depression and trying to trick your therapist 4.30pm £8/6 Mesmerist Juke Joint Jamboree Rhythm & blues and rock&roll records from the days of the dance halls 9pm £free Mucky Duck We Are 1! The pub celebrates its first birthday 8pm £free New Venture Theatre A Streetcar Named Desire Tennessee Williams’ classic drama Details tbc Nightingale Theatre If I Ruled The World: Brighton Fringe Festival Interactive audio performance trail, starting at the Nightingale 12.45pm/2.45pm/4.45pm £5; Small Talk: Brighton Fringe Festival Sexy and witty musical dance show 4.30pm/8.30pm £8.50/6.50; Filthy Weekender Comedy: Brighton Fringe Festival Late-night stand-up comedy 10pm £8.50/6.50 Northern Lights Smorgasbord: Brighton Fringe Festival A mixed platter of stand-up comedy 8.30pm £10/8.50 Ohso Social Saturday Social 8pm £free Old Market The Book Show With Mariella Frostrup: Brighton Festival The sultry-voiced journo interviews festival guests for a telly show 1.40pm/4.40pm £5; Beach Party Animals: Brighton Fringe Festival A 20-minute portrait of seaside eccentricity, shown every half hour 2pm £free Old Municipal Market Land’s End: Brighton Festival Multimedia murder story merging reality and theatre 6.30pm/9pm £17.50/10 Paramount Old Ship Hotel Cock & Tail Inn 2: Brighton Fringe Festival Slapstick pub comedy set in the 80s 7.45pm £10/8 Prince Albert The Great Escape Live music Details tbc Proud Cabaret Blitz Party! Relive the highlife of wartime Britain in this 1940s themed ballroom blitz 10.30pm £8 PsychoSocial The Great Escape Live music Details tbc Ranelagh The Beautiful Word, Mishkin Fitzgerald, Pog Breezy indie pop, melodramatic piano rock and wry acoustic punk 8.30pm £free Regency Tavern I Have Never Cared For Sunsets: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy puppet shows takes on the big themes of philosophy and politics and asks who pulls the strings 2.30pm/6.30pm £tbc Riki Tik Caught Up: Loren Heer, Neal Lewis Underground house, funk, soul, boogie and disco 9pm £free Sallis Benney Theatre Polly Dunbar: Brighton Festival Children’s book show with the author and illustrator of Penguin, Blue Dog and Flyaway Kate 10am £6; Mackenzie Crook - The Windvale Sprites: Brighton Festival (This event has now been cancelled) Noon £6; Andrew Lane - Young Sherlock: Brighton Festival The creator of the Young Sherlock series puts the semi-crazed opium-addled detective under the microscope - suitable for kids 2pm £6; I’m Hans Christian Andersen: Brighton Festival One-woman show about the bitter truths beneath Andersen’s sugarcoated fairytales 6.30pm £6; 26 Letters: Brighton Festival Children’s literature event with authors and illustrators, plus a storytelling show for adults Time tbc £6 Signalman Knees-Up For Charity: DJ Kieran Gorman DJ and raffle to raise funds for the children’s charity, the Edward Starr Trust 8pm £free Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar The Great Escape Live music (see TGE feature) Details tbc Temple Bar Stella Graham - Karma Comedian: Brighton Fringe Festival She lays bare her life, you judge her deeds and determine her fate 9.30pm £free Theatre Royal A World I Loved: Brighton Festival Stage adaptation of Wadad Makdisi Cortas’s acclaimed memoir, combining narration and performance with live classical and Arab music 7.30pm £10-37.50 Three & Ten The Prayer Meeting: Brighton Fringe Festival God is bored so he decides to answer some prayers for a change - strangely he chooses to reveal himself at an intimate theatre show 1pm £8.50/7; Churchill’s Children: Brighton Fringe Festival A new play set in Brighton during the blitz 3pm £9/7.50; The Great Puppet Horn Returns: Brighton Fringe Festival Satirical shadow puppet show 5pm £8.50/7; Harlow’s Monkeys: Brighton Fringe Festival Monkey morality tale about an ageing academic and a gang of marauding apes 7pm £9/7.50; You’re Amazing. Now Look At Me.: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy sketch show from the Dog-Eared Collective 8.30pm £8.50/7; The MindWarp Show: Brighton Fringe Festival Surreal character comedy and fast paced sketches 10pm £8.50/7; The Revolution Will Be Re-Tweeted: Brighton Fringe Festival Stand-up from the activist comedian, Abie Philbin Bowman 11.30pm £8.50/7 VarNdean School Slightly Unusual: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy illusionists 7.30pm £6-10 Verdict Scott Hamilton Quartet Live jazz 7.30pm £18/9 Victory :KINEMA: DJ set of 80s classics from the Brighton pop band’s singer 9pm £free Volks Simply Bass 11pm £free West Hill Tavern Tonight We Fly The final night

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of epic melodrama and literate indie pop 9pm £free White Rabbit The Black Fields Country blues band 8pm £free; The Mixer Men DJ night 10pm £free

Sunday 13th

Basement Black T-shirt Collection: Brighton Festival From a Nigerian market to a sweatshop in China, this play follows two brothers as they build a global T-shirt brand 5pm £10 Belushi’s Bar Now That’s What I Call A Party In this instance, it’s okay to judge a book by its cover 9pm £free Black Lion Live & Swingin’ Lion Live gypsy jazz, swing and blues 9pm £free Black Rock Motor Show: Brighton Festival A set of headphones allows the audience to eavesdrop on a couple in a car as their turbulent relationship takes its course. It’s not that hard to do in real life, but at least this is legal 9.45pm £10 Blind Tiger Eco-Collective Recycled fashion workshop Noon £free Brighton Marina Wilde’s The Importance Of Being Earnest: Brighton Fringe Festival A trivial comedy for serious people set during the 1952 coronation 8pm £7.50/5 Brunswick Herlock Bones & The Missing Eggs: Brighton Fringe Festival Farmyard slapstick show for kids 11am/12.30pm/2.30pm/4pm £5; Edana Minghella: Brighton Fringe Festival Sultry jazz, blues and swing 8pm £9/7 Caroline Of Brunswick Brighton Must Sees: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy showcase with some of the best fringe acts 4.30pm £free; Eccentronic - We Won’t Rock You: Brighton Fringe Festival Electronic duo do an oddball humorous musical mash-up 5.30pm £free; Gerry Howell’s Parrot Fashion Accessories: Brighton Fringe Festival Surreal and rambling stand-up comedy 7pm £5 Chequers Live Jazz Time tbc £free Concorde2 A Ska & Reggae All Day Extravaganza!: The Beat, Dennis Alcapone & Jerry Dammers, DJ Neville Staples, Dreadzone Soundsytem, The Detonators, The Talks, Darren Bennett Reggae and ska, all day 3pm £20 Cube Much Mayhem: Rezound, Care3Beatz Drum&bass and dubstep 8pm £free Duke Of Norfolk Live Music Night Live music from local artists 9pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema Control Joy Division biopic and a Q&A with Stephen Mallinder from Caberet Volaire 11am £free; Blow Up: Brighton Festival The 1966 classic that made Vanessa Redgrave 2pm £6.5013; Beloved 6.30pm £tbc; Jeff, Who Lives at Home 4.30pm/9.15pm £tbc Fishbowl Recovery? Reggae through the ages 9pm £free Fountain Head Super Awesome Quiz Pictionary, playdough, and a little bit of general knowledge 8pm £1; Reggae & Roasts Reggae and chilled beats Time tbc £free Globe Rockoustic Live acoustic music 8pm £free Grand Hotel Private Lives: Brighton Fringe Festival Noel Coward’s comedy of manners about a double honeymoon romance (advance booking only) 3pm £17/15 Green Door Store Brother Ali, Grieves & Budo An unlikely hip hopper 7pm £9/8; Green Door Blues Blues band and DJs 10pm £free Hampton The Sunday Supper Sessions Open mic might 7pm £free Honey Sundays At The Honey If your house was this sexy you’d never go outdoors 11pm £3/2/free Jubilee Library Carpe Minuta Prima: Brighton Festival Having spent Saturday collecting the souls of passing punters, the man in the booth now emerges for the grand ‘Unveiling Of Souls’ 2pm £free Komedia The Silent Movie Experience David Watts jazzes up old films with breakbeat percussion, honky tonk piano and a comedic touch 2pm £9/7; My Mini Disco Clubbing for kids, with a dance instructor and face painting 2pm £8; Susan Calman - Revenge Of The Cat Lady: Brighton Fringe Festival Warning: this show may contain stories about cats 7.15pm £10; Movin’ Melvin Brown - Soul to Soul (I Have A Dream): Brighton Fringe Festival Classic soul songs, comedy and tap dancing 7.30pm £17.50/15; Alex Horne Seven Years In The Bathroom: Brighton Fringe Festival Stand-up comedian squeezes all of human existence into an hour-long show 8pm £free; Krater Comedy Club: Chris McCausland, Markus Birdman, Damien Kingsley, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 8pm £5-11.50 Latest Music Bar Stories With Tea: Brighton Fringe Festival Lynn Ruth Miller talks about life, loss and laughter - includes tea and biscuits 4pm £6; Gogol: Brighton Fringe Festival Brian Capron stars in an existential drama set against the unrest of the 1970s to the music of Nick Pynn 6pm £10; Sadie And The Faded Ladies: Brighton Fringe Festival An actress bumps into an old friend and starts to reminiscence, banter and sing the songs of the good old days 9pm £8

Life Dagger Soundsystem Terrace Party Reggae, dancehall, rocksteady and ska 3pm £free Marlborough Theatre The Black Dog And Other Influences: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedic play about manic depression and trying to trick your therapist 4.30pm £8/6 Neptune The Informers Duo Blues and soul 8.30pm £free New Venture Theatre A Streetcar Named Desire Tennessee Williams’ classic drama Details tbc Nightingale Theatre If I Ruled The World: Brighton Fringe Festival Interactive audio performance trail, starting at the Nightingale 12.45pm/2.45pm/4.45pm £5; Small Talk: Brighton Fringe Festival Sexy and witty musical dance show 8.30pm £8.50/6.50 Northern Lights Northern Light Sundays The DJ has a lazy Sunday afternoon 3pm £free Ohso Social Sundown Sundaze Beach party 7pm £free Old Market James Campbell’s Comedy 4 Kids: Brighton Fringe Festival Stand-up comedy without the rude bits 2.30pm £7; Naive Dance Masterclass: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy dance spoof about an experimental performer who realises his graceful perfection simply makes everyone feel inadequate 7pm £6-10; Beach Party Animals: Brighton Fringe Festival A 20-minute portrait of seaside eccentricity, shown every half hour 2pm £free Old Municipal Market Land’s End: Brighton Festival Multimedia murder story merging reality and theatre 6.30pm/9pm £17.50/10 Pavilion Theatre The Unsaid - Diplomatic Incidents: Brighton Festival Dr Biljana Scott discusses the importence off langwidge on the diplowmatik stag3 4pm £8.50 Quadrant Charmian Hughes - Charmageddon! Comedienne laughs in the face of the apocalypse (and snogs Chris Huhne) 8pm £4.50/3.50 Ranelagh The Shark Dentists Blues rock band 8.30pm £free Regency Tavern I Have Never Cared For Sunsets: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy puppet shows takes on the big themes of philosophy and politics and asks who pulls the strings 3.30pm £tbc Riki Tik The Lock In DJ night with freebies 10pm £free Royal Pavilion Matthew Rose: Brighton Festival Award-winning opera singer performs songs by Schubert and Brahms 8pm £30 Sallis Benney Theatre Wrong Pong: Brighton Festival Funny kids’ show about the world of trolls as conceived by Steven Butler and Chris Fisher 10am £6; Andy Briggs Tarzan - The Greystoke Legacy: Brighton Festival Interactive kids’ show about Edgar Rice Burroughs’ iconic hero Noon £6; Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell: Brighton Festival The writing/illustrating team behind the zany Muddle Earth kids’ books 2pm £6; Enid Blyton Book Quiz: Brighton Festival Lashings of fun for all the family 4pm £6; 26 Letters: Brighton Festival Children’s literature event with authors and illustrators, plus a storytelling show for adults Time tbc £6 Signalman Open Mic Open session hosted by local duo, Zoothyme 8pm £free Three & Ten The Prayer Meeting: Brighton Fringe Festival God is bored so he decides to answer some prayers for a change - strangely he chooses to reveal himself at an intimate theatre show 1pm £8.50/7; Churchill’s Children: Brighton Fringe Festival A new play set in Brighton during the blitz 3pm £9/7.50; The Great Puppet Horn Returns: Brighton Fringe Festival Satirical shadow puppet show 5pm £8.50/7; My Gay Best Friend: Brighton Fringe Festival Camp comedy play about a diva trapped in a toilet on her big night 6.45pm £10/8; You’re Amazing. Now Look At Me.: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy sketch show from the Dog-Eared Collective 8.30pm £8.50/7; The MindWarp Show: Brighton Fringe Festival Surreal character comedy and fast paced sketches 10pm £8.50/7 VarNdean School Slightly Unusual: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy illusionists 7.30pm £6-10 Victory Blues Sundays DJ plays blues and soul Time tbc £free Warren The Comedy of Errors: Brighton Fringe Festival Shakespeare for sprogs 3pm £8/5; Pinter’s Victoria Station & Family Voices: Brighton Fringe Festival Two classic plays by the master of the absurd 4.30pm £10/8.50; Scallywags: Brighton Fringe Festival Nazi occupied Britain imagined with physical theatre, music and puppetry 6pm £9/7; Just Another Love Story: Brighton Fringe Festival Love songs from Broadway musicals 8.30pm £10/8 White Rabbit Hush Hush Live acoustic music 8pm £free

Monday 14th

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Brighton Marina Wilde’s The Importance Of Being Earnest: Brighton Fringe Festival A trivial comedy for serious people set during the 1952 coronation 8pm £7.50/5 Brunswick Milestones Play To The Silent Screen: Brighton Fringe Festival Terry Seabrook’s jazz troupe perform a new score to a classic Buster Keaton silent movie 7pm/9.15pm £12-15 Caroline Of Brunswick 6 Foot Silly: Brighton Fringe Festival Very silly clowning from the very tall stand-up duo 7pm £free; Rattle Tales: Brighton Fringe Festival Interactive spoken word show with top Brighton writers 8.15pm £4 Chequers Open Mic Play for a pint 8pm £free Coalition Trash Mondays Filthy tunes for students and layabouts alike 10.30pm £5/3/free Corn Exchange Playing Silly Buggers - The Life And Times Of Bruce Lacey: Brighton Festival Documentary and discussion about the 1960s madcap artist - is it a joke or is it a concept? 8pm £10 Duke Of York’s Cinema Beloved 1pm/6pm £tbc; Jeff, Who Lives at Home 4pm/9pm £tbc Gladstone Open Mic Night 9pm £free Green Door Store Bridge & Tunnel Post hardcore politicos 7.30pm £5; Throwback: Young Attenborough Pop punk and nu metal 11pm £free Hampton The Hampton Quiz 8.30pm £1 Hobgoblin The SomeNews.co.uk Live Show: Brighton Fringe Festival The news-obsessed DJ Steve Allen turns his hit radio show into a live stand-up act 7pm £free Hope Lower Dens Weird-fi meets new wave 7.30pm £8 Hydrant Full Of Hell Live music 7pm £5 Iambic Arts Theatre Une Ile: Brighton Fringe Festival Meditative theatre show about honesty and communication 7.30pm £10/8 Komedia Susan Calman - Revenge Of The Cat Lady: Brighton Fringe Festival Warning: this show may contain stories about cats 7.15pm £10; Jimeoin Lovely: Brighton Fringe Festival Stand-up, pure and simple 7.30pm £14.50; Peter Stracker’s Brel: Brighton Fringe Festival Jamaican singer pays tribute to the master of chanson, Jacques Brel 9.30pm £12/9 Latest Music Bar Gogol: Brighton Fringe Festival Brian Capron stars in an existential drama set against the unrest of the 1970s with the music of Nick Pynn 6pm £10; East By Steven Berkoff: Brighton Fringe Festival Berkoff’s 1970s verse play about rites of passage in London’s East End 9.30pm £10/8 Life #Hashtag Brand new and ungoogleable club night 10.30pm £3/2 Lola Lo Fat Poppadaddys Student indie night 9pm £3 Mesmerist Stroll On Mondays 60s and 70s night with DJs and film projections 8.30pm £free Neptune Open Mic 8.30pm £free New Venture Theatre A Streetcar Named Desire Tennessee Williams’ classic drama Details tbc Nightingale Theatre Small Talk: Brighton Fringe Festival Sexy and witty musical dance show 8.30pm £8.50/6.50 Pavilion Theatre Astronaut: Brighton Festival Minimalist theatre piece about the Apollo moon landings. Warning: this show does not cater for your pet theory that the moon landing was faked or the rival theory that the astronauts found an ancient alien city made of invisible glass 12.30pm £free; Keepers: Brighton Festival Minimalist theatre show about the famous tragedy at Smalls Lighthouse (involves ladders) 8.30pm £10 Signalman Signalman Pub Quiz 8pm £1 St George’s Church Martin Stephenson And The Daintees Rockabilly and folk pop band play their 80s debut album in its entirety Time tbc £19.50 Theatre Royal Oedipussy: Brighton Festival Sumptious and over-the-top subversion of the Greek tragedy 7.45pm £10-18.50 VarNdean School Slightly Unusual: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy illusionists 7.30pm £6-10 Volks Strictly Reggae Dancehall, roots, revival 11pm £5/4.50 Warren Scallywags: Brighton Fringe Festival Nazi occupied Britain imagined with physical theatre, music and puppetry 6pm £9/7; Just Another Love Story: Brighton Fringe Festival Love songs from Broadway musicals 8.30pm £10/8

Tuesday 15th

comedy for serious people set during the 1952 coronation 8pm £7.50/5 Brunswick Ucanukulele Rediscover your potential with the help of a small toy guitar 8pm £tbc; Jazz Jam: Brighton Fringe Festival Open session with a house band 8pm £free Caroline Of Brunswick Brighton Must Sees: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy showcase with some of the best fringe acts 5.45pm £free; 6 Foot Silly: Brighton Fringe Festival Very silly clowning from the very tall stand-up duo 7pm £free; The One-Eyed Men’s Friendship Formula: Brighton Fringe Festival A trio of comedians who happen to be very good friends indeed 9.30pm £free; Test Tube Comedy: Brighton Fringe Festival Stand-up and sketch comedy acts hosted by Dec Munro 10.45pm £free Coalition Back2Back If your bass was this filthy you’d have to take it back to the fishmongers 11pm £4/3 Cube Cube Live: Bright On The Beat Live music 8pm £free Digital CU Next Tuesday It’ll teach the universities to timetable lectures for Wednesday mornings 11pm £4/3 Druid’s Arms Druid’s New Student Party Electro house DJ 9pm £free Duke Of Norfolk Open Mic 9pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema Mozart’s Sister 11am £tbc; Beloved 1.30pm/6.30pm £tbc; Jeff, Who Lives at Home 4.30pm/9.15pm £tbc Gladstone Quiz Night 8.30pm £1 Globe Basement Cinema Underground films, comfy seats and free popcorn 8pm £free Green Door Store Funeral Suits, Holland, Paper Playground Irish distortion (this is a rescheduled date, old tickets still valid) 7.30pm £6 Hobgoblin The SomeNews.co.uk Live Show: Brighton Fringe Festival The news-obsessed DJ Steve Allen turns his hit radio show into a live stand-up act 7pm £free Honey Latin Fever: DJ Aaron George, Gabriel Angel, Yersin Rivas Dance lessons followed by a tropically vibed salsa club 8pm/10pm £3/1/free Hope Fantasticus French rock band on a tour of Brighton 8pm £tbc Hydrant Depth Charge Live music 8pm £free; The Subliminals Live music 8pm £free Iambic Arts Theatre Une Ile: Brighton Fringe Festival Meditative theatre show about honesty and communication 7.30pm £10/8 Jive Monkey Quiz Night Details tbc; Wanted For Crimes Against Jazz: Brighton Fringe Festival Comic cabaret combining bad pop and dubious jazz (in the theatre) 9pm £9 Komedia Peter Stracker’s Brel: Brighton Fringe Festival Jamaican singer pays tribute to the master of chanson, Jacques Brel 7pm £12/9; New Act Night: Brighton Fringe Festival Catch the newest comics from Jill Edwards’ comedy workshop 7pm £7/5; Justin Currie Scottish singer songwriter as seen in Del Amitri 7.30pm £17.50; Tick My Box & Fully Furnished: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy show about re-entering the strange world of dating 9pm £10/8 Latest Music Bar Gogol: Brighton Fringe Festival Brian Capron stars in an existential drama set against the unrest of the 1970s and set to the music of Nick Pynn 3pm/6pm £10; Cafe Scientifique Let’s talk about science, baby 8pm £free; East By Steven Berkoff: Brighton Fringe Festival Berkoff’s 1970s verse play about rites of passage in London’s East End 9.30pm £10/8 Lola Lo Dirtee Laundry Student night 10pm £6/4/2 Mesmerist The Mesmerist Conjurers Consortium It could be a magical night 7.30pm £free New Venture Theatre A Streetcar Named Desire Tennessee Williams’ classic drama Details tbc Old Market Nick Pynn With Kate Daisy Grant: Brighton Fringe Festival Avant-folk virtuoso with his own homemade instruments teams up with a quirky alt pop singer for a night of acoustic experimental folk music 8pm £8.50/7 Pavilion Theatre Operation Greenfield: Brighton Festival Fantastical theatre show about the awkwardness and beauty of adolescence (involves ladders) 9pm £10 Prince Albert Halfway, Bella Fued, 000 Live music 8.30pm £4 Red Lion Challenging General Knowledge & Music Quiz 8pm £1 St Mary’s Church Magdalena Reising & Andrew Ballantyne Harp duo play classical music and popular songs 6pm £6 Theatre Royal Oedipussy: Brighton Festival Sumptious and over-the-top subversion of the Greek tragedy 7.45pm £10-18.50 Three & Ten The Man With The Golden Pen: Brighton Fringe Festival It’s 1952 and Ian Fleming is about to get married when he gets a visit from Mr Bond 6.45pm £9/7.50; The Jolly Folly Of Polly The Scottish Trolley Dolly And Other Mini-Marvels: Brighton Fringe Festival A play, a musical and an opera all rolled into 70 minutes of campy fun 8.30pm £10/7; The Silky Pair - Open Up: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy sketch duo 10pm £8/6.50 Warren Scallywags: Brighton Fringe Festival Nazi

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occupied Britain imagined with physical theatre, music and puppetry 6pm £9/7; Translunar Paradise: Brighton Fringe Festival A supernatural love story told through the medium of mime and accordion music 8pm £14/11; Fringe Club - Sharon Lewis, Conrad Vingoe: Brighton Fringe Festival Live music, cabaret and comedy curated by the Peanut Albinos 10pm £3.50/2.50 World’s End Poker Night 8pm £tbc

Wednesday 16th

All Saints’ Church Camille O’Sullivan Changeling: Brighton Festival French-Irish chanteuse delves into the dark songs of Jacques Brel, Kurt Weil and Nick Cave 8pm £16 Audio Supercharged Drum&bass and breaks 11pm £6/4 Basement Condensed Choreographies: Brighton Festival Three works of physical theatre pushing performers to their limits 7.30pm £15 Bee’s Mouth Open Mic 8.30pm £free Belushi’s Bar Now That’s What I Call A Party In this instance, it’s okay to judge a book by its cover 9pm £free Belushi’s Below Detention 8pm £free Black Lion The Black Lion Acoustic Showcase Live music 8.30pm £free Brighton Centre Elvis Costello The kooky post punk popster plays songs selected by the audience using a giant game show wheel 6.30pm £42.50/36.50 Brighton Electric United Fruit, P Is For Persia, Cousin A bring-your-own booze rehearsal room gig with the Glaswegian noise rockers 8pm £4 Brighton Marina Wilde’s The Importance Of Being Earnest: Brighton Fringe Festival A trivial comedy for serious people set during the 1952 coronation 8pm £7.50/5 Brunswick Pants No String Attached: Brighton Fringe Festival Improv comedy 8pm £tbc Caroline Of Brunswick Brighton Must Sees: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy showcase with some of the best fringe acts 5.45pm £free; 6 Foot Silly: Brighton Fringe Festival Very silly clowning from the very tall stand-up duo 7pm £free; Mike Sheer - Undergod: Brighton Fringe Festival Canadian comic discusses the big man in the sky 8.15pm £free; The One-Eyed Men’s Friendship Formula: Brighton Fringe Festival A trio of comedians who happen to be very good friends indeed 9.30pm £free; Test Tube Comedy: Brighton Fringe Festival Stand-up and sketch comedy acts hosted by Dec Munro 10.45pm £free Chequers Quiz Night 8pm £1 Coalition CoCo LoCo Commercial chart music for students 10.30pm £5/3/2 Constant Service Open Mic 8.30pm £free Cube Wicked Wednesdays House DJs 8pm £free Digital Poundance Like a coin operated dancefloor 11pm £4/3/1 Druid’s Arms We Change The Tempo DJ set of international sounds 9pm £free Duke Of Norfolk Pub Quiz 9pm £1 Duke Of York’s Cinema Beloved 11am/4pm £tbc; La Fille Mal Gardée: ROH. Live 7.15pm £tbc; Jeff, Who Lives at Home 1.30pm/10pm £tbc Fishbowl Tea & Biscuits: DJ Gareth Stephens Retro swing, soul and ska 10pm £free Fountain Head Student Night DJs play indie and rock 8pm £free Globe Global Bass: DJ Ted Lauren DJ delves into the bassier side of jazz, gypsy and world music 9pm £free Green Door Store The Lovely Eggs, Mohit Indie pop band 8pm £7/5.50; Hard Times They can take our disposable income, but they’ll never take our nowave disco! 10.30pm £free Hobgoblin The SomeNews.co.uk Live Show: Brighton Fringe Festival The news-obsessed DJ Steve Allen turns his hit radio show into a live stand-up act 7pm £free Hope Fantastic Racket!: Our Colour Company, The Beautiful Word, The Long Goodbye A cynically exploitative yet self-aware battle of the bands 8pm £4; The E.M.E. Jazz hop DJs (downstairs) 8.30pm £free Hydrant Black Cat Bone Blues night 8pm £free Iambic Arts Theatre Une Ile: Brighton Fringe Festival Meditative theatre show about honesty and communication 9pm £10/8 Jive Monkey Funk & Soul DJs (in the bar) 8pm £free; Wanted For Crimes Against Jazz: Brighton Fringe Festival Comic cabaret combining bad pop and dubious jazz (in the theatre) 9pm £9 Komedia Peter Stracker’s Brel: Brighton Fringe Festival Jamaican singer pays tribute to the master of chanson, Jacques Brel 7pm £12/9; Spiers & Boden Punky English folk duo 8.30pm £15; Mountain Fireworks Company Country blues with an undertow of heartbreak 9pm £10/7; Tick My Box & Fully Furnished: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy show about re-entering the strange world of dating 9pm £10/8 Latest Music Bar Gogol: Brighton Fringe Festival Brian Capron stars in an existential drama set against the unrest of the 1970s with the music of Nick

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Pynn 6pm £10 Lectern All Fingers And Thumbs: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy theatre show about a kidnapping that doesn’t go quite as planned 9pm £7.50/5 Mesmerist The Swing Ninjas Gypsy swing band 9pm £free New Venture Theatre A Streetcar Named Desire Tennessee Williams’ classic drama Details tbc Old Market The Iron Boot Scrapers’ Speakeasy: Brighton Fringe Festival Dapper skiffle band does novelty pop covers 8pm £12/10; The Department Of Unreliable Memoirs: Brighton Fringe Festival An interactive ‘show’ in which an audience of one (you) are helped to recall memories that are probably fictitious (repeated every ten minutes) 2pm £5 Paramount Old Ship Hotel Cock & Tail Inn 2: Brighton Fringe Festival Slapstick pub comedy set in the 80s 7.45pm £10/8 Pavilion Theatre Swimming With My Mother: Brighton Festival Affectionate and humorous crossgenerational dance duet 6.30pm £12.50 Preston Park Moscow State Circus 5pm/7.45pm £tbc Prince Albert Dub ‘N’ Tuff, Pocketsize Live music 8.30pm £5 Proud Cabaret Der Wurst Of Der Wunderlich: Brighton Fringe Festival Pole-dancers and unicycliststrippers share the stage with singers and cheerleaders in this tongue-in-cheek all-male cabaret 7.30pm £10/8 Psychosocial Live ‘N’ Laughing: Tony Law, Tom Veryzer, Clint Westwood, Laurie Rowan, James Alderson Stand-up comedy 7pm £7/4/3 Redroaster Grit Lit Eight authors read hard-hitting short stories 7.45pm £5 St Mary’s Church Magdalena Reising & Andrew Ballantyne Harp duo play classical music and popular songs 6pm £6 Theatre Royal Oedipussy: Brighton Festival Sumptious and over-the-top subversion of the Greek tragedy 7.45pm £10-18.50 Three & Ten The Man With The Golden Pen: Brighton Fringe Festival It’s 1952 and Ian Fleming is about to get married when he gets a visit from Mr Bond 6.45pm £9/7.50; The Jolly Folly Of Polly The Scottish Trolley Dolly And Other Mini-Marvels: Brighton Fringe Festival A play, a musical and an opera all rolled into 70 minutes of campy fun 8.30pm £10/7; The Silky Pair - Open Up: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy sketch duo 10pm £8/6.50 Volks Switch Up Drum&bass, electro and dubstep night Details tbc Warren Translunar Paradise: Brighton Fringe Festival A supernatural love story told through the medium of mime and accordion music 6pm/8pm £14/11; Fringe Club - House of Hats, Luke Sital Singh: Brighton Fringe Festival Live music, cabaret and comedy curated by the Peanut Albinos 10pm £3.50/2.50

Thursday 17th

All Saints’ Church Camille O’Sullivan Changeling: Brighton Festival French-Irish chanteuse delves into the dark songs of Jacques Brel, Kurt Weil and Nick Cave 8pm £16 Audio Bastard Pop Musical mash-up 11pm £3/2/ free Bali Brasserie The Shed Show: Brighton Fringe Festival Interactive poetry show based on John Davies’ experiences of travelling around Britain with his shed 4pm £10/8 Basement Predator: Brighton Festival Arnie’s alien jungle romp retold with action men, puppets and remote controlled cars 7pm £14/8; We Hope That You Are Happy (Why Would We Lie?): Brighton Festival Humorous play examines consumption and communication in the modern world 8.30pm £8 Bee’s Mouth Dr. Bluegrass & The Illbilly 8 Brighton’s busiest buskers - country standards and pop covers put through the hillbilly thresher 9pm £free Belushi’s Bar Karaoke 9pm £free Belushi’s Below Fallout Live Live indie bands 10pm £3/2 Black Lion This Is The Modern World Modbothering DJ night 8.30pm £free Blind Tiger Dub Organiser Jam session with a dub reggae band 8pm £3 Brighton Marina Wilde’s The Importance Of Being Earnest: Brighton Fringe Festival A trivial comedy for serious people set during the 1952 coronation 8pm £7.50/5 Brunswick Paul Diello: Brighton Fringe Festival Melodic piano pop 7.30pm £10/8; Fringe Festival Buzz Party Hip hop show headlined by Elijah MC 8pm £4 Caroline Of Brunswick Brighton Must Sees: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy showcase with some of the best fringe acts 5.45pm £free; Loving London The Capital Cabaret: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedic cabaret show about the history and highlights of the Big Smoke 7pm £6/4; Mike Sheer - Undergod: Brighton Fringe Festival Canadian comic discusses the big man in the sky 8.15pm £free; Test Tube Comedy:

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Brighton Fringe Festival Stand-up and sketch comedy acts hosted by Dec Munro 10.45pm £free Coalition Secret Discotheque Replaying the soundtrack to your youth 11pm £4/3/2 Constant Service Duncan Disorderly Upbeat carnival reggae 8.30pm £free Corn Exchange Apparition: Brighton Festival Dancing on the fine line between technology and humanity 7.30pm £17.50 Cowley Club Left On Ruins, Crop Circles, 51st State Crusty anarcho punk 8pm £3 Cube Da Bomb Student DJ night 8pm £free Dome Foyer Bar SOURCE New Music: Beatabet Brighton’s best bands chosen by Brighton’s best listings mag Time tbc £free Druid’s Arms Druid’s Arms Presents Live music 8pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema Jeff, Who Lives at Home 1pm/6pm £tbc; Beloved 3pm £tbc; The Best Of BUG - The Evolution Of Music Video: Brighton Festival Adam Buxton screens highlights from the weird and wonderful world of the music video 8.30pm/10.30pm £14.50 Fishbowl Residents Association: DJ Will Sumsuch DJs play hip hop, funk and world beats 10.30pm £free Gladstone Arthur Shillin’ Electro swing, funk and breaks 8.30pm £free Globe Hang The DJ! A night of punter-picked playlists 9pm £free Green Door Store Bear In Heaven Anthemic future rock 7.30pm £7; BIAAS Pt2 Architecture students return for more fundraiser dance fun 11pm £free Hobgoblin The SomeNews.co.uk Live Show: Brighton Fringe Festival The news-obsessed DJ Steve Allen turns his hit radio show into a live stand-up act 7pm £free Honey Swag Electro, R&B and dubstep night 11pm £3/2 Hotel Pelirocco Tellin Stories: Tim Burgess The Charlatans man reads from his new book 8pm £4 Iambic Arts Theatre The Lover, The Wife: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy play about a wife who meets meets her exact opposite in her husband’s lover 7.30pm £10/8 Jive Monkey Wanted For Crimes Against Jazz: Brighton Fringe Festival Comic cabaret combining bad pop and dubious jazz 9pm £9 Komedia Mat Ricardo - Three Balls And A New Suit: Brighton Fringe Festival Juggling, magic and comedy 7pm £10/8; The Noise Next Door Comedy Lock-In: Brighton Fringe Festival Improv comedy troupe 8pm £19/10; Krater Comedy Club: Nick Helm, Gary Tro, Rob Beckett, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 8pm £5-18; Mr B The Gentleman Rhymer’s Chap-Hop Hurrah!: Brighton Fringe Festival Novelty banjolele ditties from the chap-hop chap 8pm £10/8; Guy Pratt’s Wake Up Call: Brighton Fringe Festival Musical comedy show from Pink Floyd’s touring bassist 9pm £12/10; All Fingers And Thumbs: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy theatre show about a kidnapping that doesn’t go quite as planned 9pm £7.50/5 Life That’s My Sh!t Club night playing hip hop, R&B, funk and soul 11pm £3/2/free Lola Lo Tom Foolery Electro, house and dubstep night 9pm £5/3 Mesmerist Razorbacks Rockabilly band 9pm £free Mucky Duck Open Mic Jam session with Joe Newman 8pm £free New Venture Theatre A Streetcar Named Desire Tennessee Williams’ classic drama Details tbc Nightingale Theatre Boogaloo Stu’s Pop Magic: Brighton Fringe Festival The camp cabaret star hosts a ‘reality theatre’ show in the which the audience writes and performs their very own pop song 10pm £8.50/6.50 Old Market The Department Of Unreliable Memoirs: Brighton Fringe Festival An interactive ‘show’ in which an audience of one (you) are helped to recall memories that are probably fictitious (repeated every ten minutes) 2pm £5 Old Municipal Market Bow Down: Brighton Festival An ancient murder ballad reimagined by London Sinfonietta Academy 6pm £10 Paramount Old Ship Hotel Cock & Tail Inn 2: Brighton Fringe Festival Slapstick pub comedy set in the 80s 7.45pm £10/8 Paris House Remi Harris Gypsy jazz virtuoso Details tbc Pavilion Theatre Ashley Fripp: Brighton Festival Young British pianist plays Haydn, Liszt and Rachmaninov 1pm £10; Swimming With My Mother: Brighton Festival Affectionate and humorous cross-generational dance duet 6pm £12.50; The Music And Legacy Of Joy Division: Brighton Festival Punk’s not dead - it’s just turned into a highbrow panel discussion 8.30pm £8.50 Preston Park Moscow State Circus 5pm/7.45pm £tbc Prince Albert Little Remedy, Lights Camera Attraction, Derider Live music 8.30pm £4

Prince George Souled Out: Saul Guud Vinyl night of funk, soul and b-boy breaks 8pm £free Proud Cabaret Der Wurst Of Der Wunderlich: Brighton Fringe Festival Pole-dancers and unicycliststrippers share the stage with singers and cheerleaders in this tongue-in-cheek all-male cabaret 7.30pm £10/8 Ranelagh Shauna Parker & The Saloon Bar Band Country and swing band 8.30pm £free Sallis Benney Theatre Medic Revue: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy songs and sketches from the junior doctors of Sussex Medical School 7.30pm £8/6 St James’ Tavern Stay Sick, Turn Blue DJs play vintage soul, jazz and blues 8.30pm £free St John’s Centre And It’s Goodnight From Her: Brighton Fringe Festival Sit down comedy stories inspired by the gentle rambling of Ronnie Corbett 4pm £free St Mary’s Church Magdalena Reising & Andrew Ballantyne Harp duo play classical music and popular songs 6pm £6 Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Catholic Discipline Noise rock, disco pop and acid folk from the Superheroes of BMX 8pm £free Theatre Royal New Adventures - Matthew Bourne’s Early Adventures: Brighton Festival A triple bill of work by the pioneering choreographer 7.30pm £10-22.50 Three & Ten The Man With The Golden Pen: Brighton Fringe Festival It’s 1952 and Ian Fleming is about to get married when he gets a visit from Mr Bond 6.45pm £9/7.50; The Jolly Folly Of Polly The Scottish Trolley Dolly And Other Mini-Marvels: Brighton Fringe Festival A play, a musical and an opera all rolled into 70 minutes of campy fun 8.30pm £10/7; Insert Comedy Here!: Brighton Fringe Festival Nick Hodder tries out a comedy show he bought off the internet 10pm £8/6.50 VarNdean School Slightly Unusual: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy illusionists 7.30pm £6-10 Victory Open Mic 8pm £free Volks Flex It: Disarray, Tempest, Futureflex 10pm £2 Warren Snow Play: Brighton Fringe Festival Children’s theatre show 11am £6/5; Watch The Birdy: Brighton Fringe Festival Children’s magic show 1pm £6/5; Rainbow Ride: Brighton Fringe Festival A multimedia song and dance show for kiddywinkles 7.30pm £9/7; Diabolical - The Magic Show: Brighton Fringe Festival Top UK magicians 8.45pm £10/8 White Rabbit The Move-Ons Open Mic 8pm £free World’s End The Big Cash Quiz 8pm £tbc

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Above Audio Home House and disco DJs 9pm £free Audio Lost And Found: Crazy P Soundsystem House and disco 11pm £tbc Bali Brasserie The Shed Show: Brighton Fringe Festival Interactive poetry show based on John Davies’ experiences of travelling around Britain with his shed 4pm £10/8 Basement Predator: Brighton Festival Arnie’s alien jungle romp retold with action men, puppets and remote controlled cars 7pm £14/8; I Guess If The Stage Exploded...: Brighton Festival Sylvia Rimat wants you to remember her show - using special tricks and memory techniques she attempts to ram the memory deep into your brain 8.30pm £8 Belushi’s Bar Muy Loco Pop and house DJs with a dancing contest 9pm £free Belushi’s Below Abandoned Rock and metal night 10pm £3/2 Black Lion Stop Go!: The Planet Groove Collective, DJ Lanx, DJ Dave Stone “Unbeatable beats” 8.30pm £free Blind Tiger Copperdollar - The Back Of Beyond The Glastonbury sideshow comes to town for an immersive and theatrical dance night with a ‘Day of the Dead’ theme - remember to keep your scythe next to where your heart used to be 8pm £10/8 Brighton Marina Wilde’s The Importance Of Being Earnest: Brighton Fringe Festival A trivial comedy for serious people set during the 1952 coronation 8pm £7.50/5 Brighton Music Hall Vaudeville Electro swing, burlesque and 50s blues 8pm £free Caroline Of Brunswick Eccentronic - We Won’t Rock You: Brighton Fringe Festival Electronic duo do an oddball humorous musical mash-up 5.30pm £free; Luisa Omielan - What Would Beyoncé Do?: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy improv for all the single ladies 7pm £free; Distortion Rock and metal DJs (downstairs) 8pm £free; Manos The Greek - An Immigrant’s Tale: Brighton Fringe Festival Stand-up comedian 8.15pm £5/3.50; Russ Powell - Powell To The People: Brighton Fringe Festival Confessional comedy from the local stand-up 9.30pm £free; Mike Sheer - Undergod: Brighton Fringe Festival Canadian comic discusses the big man in the sky 10.45pm £free

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Coalition Friday I’m In Love No more lectures for a day or two 11pm £1-5 Concorde2 Balkan Beat Box Eastern European electro with a former member of Gogol Bordello 7pm £14; Outlook Festival Launch: The Bug Feat Flowdan, Klute, Alix Perez, Rudimental, Reggae Roast 11pm £10 Corn Exchange Apparition: Brighton Festival Dancing on the fine line between technology and humanity 7.30pm £17.50 Cube Friday Club House DJs 8pm £free Digital Stonelove Indie rock&roll club 11pm £4/3 Doctor Brighton’s Funky Friday: DJ Nick Hirst, DJ Wayne 9.30pm £free Dome Jessica Grimes & Fiachra Garvey: Brighton Festival World class clarinetist and pianist play a selection of classic classics 1pm £10; Live_Transmission Scanner And Heritage Orchestra Rework Joy Division: Brighton Festival Joy Division like you’ve never heard them, i.e. performed by a classical ensemble inside a giant interactive audiovisual gauze cube 8.30pm £22.50/20 Dome Foyer Bar SOURCE New Music: Beatabet’s Bunty Brighton’s best bands chosen by Brighton’s best listings mag Time tbc £free Druid’s Arms Hot Pepper Sauce DJ I.D.G. plays old school funk, soul and house 10pm £free Duke Of Norfolk DJ MC Cashback DJ night 9pm £free Easy Bar DJ Night Hip hop, R&B and reggae 8pm £free Fishbowl The Mixer Men Reggae and hip hop DJ mash-up 9pm £free Funkyfish The Funkyfish Club Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10pm £6/3.50 Gladstone Catch A Groove Funk, soul and hip hop 8.30pm £free Globe Rum Fridays: Eclectic Chair DJ Lamp mashes genres while you get mashed on rum 8pm £free Green Door Store Japandroids Pounding drums and 90s fuzz from Canadian rock duo 7.30pm £8; Ye Ye Fever Funky Afrobeat clubnight 10.30pm £free H-Bar Totally Underground Old school breaks and beats Time tbc £3/2 Hobgoblin The SomeNews.co.uk Live Show: Brighton Fringe Festival The news-obsessed DJ Steve Allen turns his hit radio show into a live stand-up act 7pm £free Honey Lollipop ‘Pink Fridays’ Get your fingers sticky to R&B and pop treats 11pm £5/4/3 Hydrant Anti Fashion Night Live music, art and DJs 7pm £3 Iambic Arts Theatre The Lover, The Wife: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy play about a wife who meets meets her exact opposite in her husband’s lover 7.30pm £10/8 Jive Monkey Alive & Swinging: Brighton Fringe Festival Marilyn Monroe finds heaven a bore so she hooks up with Sinatra and Elvis for one last night of swinging 9pm £15 Komedia Peter Stracker’s Brel: Brighton Fringe Festival Jamaican singer pays tribute to the master of chanson, Jacques Brel 7pm £12/9; Krater Comedy Club: Nick Helm, Ninia Benjamin, Jen Brister, Jim Smallman Stand-up comedy 8pm £11.50-14.50; Africa Unite 2012: Ozi Ozaa, Grupo Lokito A fusion of African music from Ghana hi-life fusion to Congolese Rumba 8pm £12/10; The Maydays: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy improv gang 9pm £10/8; Born Bad Vintage rockabilly for pompadour cats and polka dot kittens 11pm £6/5 Lectern All Fingers And Thumbs: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy theatre show about a kidnapping that doesn’t go quite as planned 9pm £7.50/5 Life Kung Fu Terrace Party DJs play funk, soul, blues and hip hop 3pm £free Lola Lo Tiki Beats Totally tropical tunes 8pm £5/4/3 Mesmerist Shake, Holla & Roll Vintage blues, swing and rock&roll 9pm £free Mucky Duck Catholic Discipline Take You Through The Looking Glass Space rock, electronica and cinematic sounds 8pm £free Neptune The Blackjacks Jump blues band 8.30pm £free New Venture Theatre A Streetcar Named Desire Tennessee Williams’ classic drama Details tbc Nightingale Theatre Filthy Weekender Comedy: Brighton Fringe Festival Late-night stand-up comedy 10pm £8.50/6.50 Ohso Social Dirty Sunset Disco Metrosexual disco and house club 8pm £1 Old Municipal Market Bow Down: Brighton Festival An ancient murder ballad reimagined by London Sinfonietta Academy 6pm £10 Paramount Old Ship Hotel Cock & Tail Inn 2: Brighton Fringe Festival Slapstick pub comedy set in the 80s 7.45pm £10/8 Pavilion Theatre Swimming With My Mother: Brighton Festival Affectionate and humorous crossgenerational dance duet 6pm £12.50 Preston Park Moscow State Circus 5pm/7.45pm £tbc Prince Albert Mok, Alex Bay Band, Clear As

Mud Energetic dance-rock band with hip hop vocals and pop hooks 8.30pm £4/3 Psychosocial Carnival Carnage: Barulho, Cosmo Sheldrake, Dion Charles & Beta Hector, Mr Bongo, Black Cat Bone, Wide Eyed Order, DJ Robin D Rich, Mat Copcut, Eggs Legs Samba funk, reggae and ska bands raise money for Kemptown Carnival 11pm £5 Ranelagh Trio Formaggio Live music 8.30pm £free Riki Tik Work: Matt Barker, Dennis Castro A silken river of alt pop, blog dance and hip twitching jiggy bangers 9pm £free Sallis Benney Theatre Medic Revue: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy songs and sketches from the junior doctors of Sussex Medical School 7.30pm £8/6 Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Jipsy Magic, Fresh Like Dexie, Bat Country EP launch for upbeat indie funk band 7pm £3; Dive Slow “From Kanye to Kuedo, Planet Mu to Planet Rock” (in the bar) 8pm £free; Reverb Bistro From funky disco, through Chicago house into drum&bass and dubstep (in the club) 11pm £free Theatre Royal New Adventures - Matthew Bourne’s Early Adventures: Brighton Festival A triple bill of work by the pioneering choreographer 7.30pm £10-22.50 Three & Ten Age Of The Geek: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy and music show by and for unashamed geeks 3pm £8.50/7; The Jolly Folly Of Polly The Scottish Trolley Dolly And Other Mini-Marvels: Brighton Fringe Festival A play, a musical and an opera all rolled into 70 minutes of campy fun 7pm £10/7; McNeil & Pamphilon: Brighton Fringe Festival Songs and sketches from the comedy double act 8.30pm £8.50/7; The Curse Of Horse And Louis: Brighton Fringe Festival Musical and sketch comedy horror adventure 10pm £8.50/7 VarNdean School Slightly Unusual: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy illusionists 7.30pm £6-10 Verdict Andy Macintosh Quartet Live jazz 7.30pm £12/6 Volks Soundflow Festival Warm Up #4: Scamp, Lemon Drizlay Crew 10pm £7/5 Warren Snow Play: Brighton Fringe Festival Children’s theatre show 11am £6/5; Watch The Birdy: Brighton Fringe Festival Children’s magic show 1pm £6/5; Lights! Camera! Improvise!: Brighton Fringe Festival Audience-driven and movie-inspired improvised comedy 6pm £9/7; Rainbow Ride: Brighton Fringe Festival A multimedia song and dance show for kiddywinkles 7.30pm £9/7; Voodoo Vaudeville Presents - The Curse Of Cleopatra’s Ass Cabaret from the Casbah 8.45pm £10/8 White Rabbit WTF? Brighton Wonky electro and synth pop nonsense 8pm £free

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Ancient Mariner The Acoustic Sessions: Porchlight Smoker Folk and bluegrass band 8pm £free Audio Warehouse: Huxley House and techno club night 11pm £5/free Bali Brasserie The Shed Show: Brighton Fringe Festival Interactive poetry show based on John Davies’ experiences of travelling around Britain with his shed 4pm £10/8 Beachigogo Bar Good Times Remember them? Maybe the feel-good retro tunes will jog your memory (in the White Room) 9pm £free; The R&B Lounge R&B DJs (in the Main Room) 11pm £6/5 Belushi’s Bar Unplugged: Rocket Dogs Live acoustic duo 9pm £free Belushi’s Below Apocolypse Rock and the sort of metal that went by the name ‘nu’ 9pm £5/4 Black Lion Burnt Toast DJs play sleazy soul and dirty breaks 9pm £free Blind Tiger Copperdollar - The Back Of Beyond The Glastonbury sideshow comes to town for an immersive and theatrical dance night with a ‘Day of the Dead’ theme - remember to keep your scythe next to where your heart used to be 8pm £10/8 Brighton Marina The Boat Project - Arrival: Brighton Festival At last year’s festival the public were asked to donate bits of wood that had some personal significance. That pile of nostalgic debris has now been turned into a seaworthy ship, and it’s heading our way 1pm £free; Trolleys: Brighton Festival Humorous street ballet with an electro score (involves trolleys) 2pm/3.15pm £free; Push: Brighton Festival Arty dance duet 2.45pm/4pm £free; Wilde’s The Importance Of Being Earnest: Brighton Fringe Festival A trivial comedy for serious people set during the 1952 coronation 8pm £7.50/5 Brighton Music Hall Spectacular Spectacular Old school variety show featuring magic, music, puppets and juggling bears 9pm £free Brunswick Mr Pineapple Head: Brighton Fringe Festival Musical clowning for kids Noon £6; Andy Thomas & Rob Maloney: Brighton Fringe Festival Dark comedy sketch show 3pm £7.50/6; Cajun Zydeco Party II: Brighton Fringe Festival Swamp blues and

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Cajun knees-up 8.30pm £8 Caroline Of Brunswick 6 Foot Silly: Brighton Fringe Festival Very silly clowning from the very tall stand-up duo 4.30pm £free; Eccentronic - We Won’t Rock You: Brighton Fringe Festival Electronic duo do an oddball humorous musical mash-up 5.30pm £free; Manos The Greek - An Immigrant’s Tale: Brighton Fringe Festival Stand-up comedian 8.15pm £5/3.50; Cazza Karaoke 9pm £free; Russ Powell - Powell To The People: Brighton Fringe Festival Confessional comedy from the local stand-up 9.30pm £free; Mike Sheer - Undergod: Brighton Fringe Festival Canadian comic discusses the big man in the sky 10.45pm £free Coalition Old Yellow Bricks: DJ Monty, DJ Charles Green, Shmooze, Skank R&B, house and funky soul club 11pm £7/5; Blow: Vince Manganaro, Charly Lopez, Charles Green The party never stops 3am £5 Concorde2 Ska-Kestra Big band jazz ska with no less than 14 horns 7pm £12/8; Freebass Drum&bass, dubstep and jungle rave 11pm £free Corn Exchange 5 x 15: Brighton Festival Spoken word cabaret featuring five speakers with fifteen minutes each 8pm £10 Cowley Club Cap In Hand, Wreck The Place Fantastic, Tli, Mother Sanger Post-hardcore punk rockers 8.30pm £3 Cube Too Mucking Fuch House DJs 8pm £free Doctor Brighton’s Sexy Saturday: DJ Tony B 9.30pm £free Dome Tweet, Chirp and Flap Music Workshop: Brighton Festival Hands-on musical activities and birdy crafts 11am £5; Tweet, Chirp And Flap: Brighton Festival Interactive family concert all about birds 1pm £5-15 Dome Foyer Bar SOURCE New Music Brighton’s best bands chosen by Brighton’s best listings mag 2pm £free Druid’s Arms DJ Green Man’s Garden Of Delights A mixed bag of soul, psychedelia, funk, folk and pop 10pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema Ponyo 11am £tbc; Two Years At Sea 1.30pm £tbc Easy Bar Blak Twang, K9, MC Trooper, Billy Blast 8pm £free Fishbowl DJ Åbo & Ally Jazz Room DJs play dirty funk and hot jazz 9pm £free Fortune Of War Part Time Heroes Album launch party Details tbc Gladstone Rebel Jukebox Funky and rockabilly buttshakers 8.30pm £free Globe DJs Disco, house and electro 9pm £free Grand Hotel Private Lives: Brighton Fringe Festival Noel Coward’s comedy of manners about a double honeymoon romance (advance booking only) 3pm £17/15 Green Door Store Da Doo Ron Ron Club night with a obsession for girlgroups and soul sirens 11pm £free H-Bar Beatsworkin: Rebekah Techno and house DJ Details tbc Hobgoblin The SomeNews.co.uk Live Show: Brighton Fringe Festival The news-obsessed DJ turns his hit radio show into a live stand-up act 7pm £free Honey Pukka Up If your house was this pukka you’d never run out of pies 11pm £8/5 Hydrant Liabilities, Egos At The Door Live music 5pm £3 Iambic Arts Theatre The Lover, The Wife: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy play about a wife who meets meets her exact opposite in her husband’s lover 7.30pm £10/8 Jazz Place Night At The Jazz Rooms: Russ Dewbury, Dumani Legendary Brighton club returns to its old home for a night of heavy funk, soul, Afro and dance, etc 9pm £5/4/free Jive Monkey Alive & Swinging: Brighton Fringe Festival Marilyn Monroe finds heaven a bore so she hooks up with Sinatra and Elvis for one last night of swinging 9pm £15 Jubilee Library Tales From India: Brighton Festival Author, Jamila Gavin, tells stories drawn from Hindu folklore 10.30am £6; Sam Lloyd And Her Monster Mates: Brighton Festival Fun and games with the children’s author 12.30pm/2pm £6 Komedia Oh Fairbrother, Where Art Thou?: Brighton Fringe Festival Kooky character comedy 2pm £10/8; My Big Gay Italian Wedding: Brighton Fringe Festival Broadway cult hit musical 3pm £10/8; Peter Stracker’s Brel: Brighton Fringe Festival Jamaican singer pays tribute to the master of chanson, Jacques Brel 4.30pm £12/; Scottish Falsetto Socks - Boo Lingerie!: Brighton Fringe Festival Puppet show for kids with songs and sketches 7pm £10/9; Krater Comedy Club: Nick Helm, Ninia Benjamin, Jen Brister, Jim Smallman Stand-up comedy 7pm/8pm/10.30pm £15-20; Spellbound “An 80s night for people who hate 80s nights” - Simon Price plays the alternative highlights of the decade 9pm £5/4; ipop! Like an iPod full of party anthems on perpetual shuffle 11pm £3/free LMNOP Studios Brighton Bingo: Brighton Fringe Festival Fun photography contest for adults and families

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11am £5 Lectern All Fingers And Thumbs: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy theatre show about a kidnapping that doesn’t go quite as planned 9pm £7.50/5 Life Juicebox! New eclectic club night offering an nice alternative to the standard seafront malarky 11pm £5/3 Lola Lo Zombie Nation Where the dancefloor is never dead 8pm £10/7/6 Mesmerist Juke Joint Jamboree Rhythm & blues and rock&roll records from the days of the dance halls 9pm £free Mucky Duck Eclectic Chair: DJ Lamp Indie, reggae, breaks and rock 9pm £free New Venture Theatre A Streetcar Named Desire Tennessee Williams’ classic drama Details tbc Nightingale Theatre From Kabul With Love & Tracy Says...: Brighton Fringe Festival A double bill of arty dance shows 4.30pm £8.50/6.50; If I Ruled The World: Brighton Fringe Festival Interactive audio performance trail, starting at the Nightingale 12.45pm/2.45pm/4.45pm £5; Filthy Weekender Comedy: Brighton Fringe Festival Late-night stand-up comedy 10pm £8.50/6.50 Northern Lights Smorgasbord: Brighton Fringe Festival A mixed platter of stand-up comedy 8.30pm £10/8.50 Office Hot-Tip Hi-Fi DJ with a fine collection of vintage reggae and rocksteady records 8pm £free Ohso Social Saturday Social 8pm £free Old Market Kid Carpet & The Noisy Animals Rock&roll musical for kids pitched somewhere between Oliver Postgate and The Beastie Boys 2pm/4pm £8/6; Beach Party Animals: Brighton Fringe Festival A 20-minute portrait of seaside eccentricity, shown every half hour 2pm £free Ouch Bar Here Comes The Girls All-girl anthems 8pm £free Paramount Old Ship Hotel Cock & Tail Inn 2: Brighton Fringe Festival Slapstick pub comedy set in the 80s 7.45pm £10/8 Pavilion Theatre An Instinct For Kindness: Brighton Festival Personal reflections and ethical discussion about assisted dying 8pm £12.50 Preston Park Moscow State Circus 3pm/7pm £tbc Prince Albert Club Meow Meow Ska night 8.30pm £7 Proud Cabaret Pop Kraft Pop tunes and cheeky cabaret with Boogaloo Stu and crew 7pm £6 Psychosocial Lesbilicious: Brighton Fringe Festival Two floors of comedy 8pm £12/9 Ranelagh The Void Live 60s music 8.30pm £free Regency Tavern I Have Never Cared For Sunsets: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy puppet shows takes on the big themes of philosophy and politics and asks who pulls the strings 2.30pm/6.30pm £tbc Riki Tik Caught Up: Loren Heer, Neal Lewis Underground house, funk, soul, boogie and disco 9pm £free Sallis Benney Theatre Medic Revue: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy songs and sketches from the junior doctors of Sussex Medical School 7.30pm £8/6 Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Mixtape Launch Night New hip hop, grime and bashment night 11pm £tbc Theatre Royal New Adventures - Matthew Bourne’s Early Adventures: Brighton Festival A triple bill of work by the pioneering choreographer 2.30pm/7.30pm £10-22.50 Three & Ten Two-Headed: Brighton Fringe Festival A play about two 19th century Midwestern girls and their lifelong struggle with religion 1pm £9/7.50; Age Of The Geek: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy and music show by and for unashamed geeks 3pm £8.50/7; The Beta Males - The Space Race: Brighton Fringe Festival Storytelling and sketches about the Britain’s littleknown contribution to the space race 5pm £8.50/7; The Jolly Folly Of Polly The Scottish Trolley Dolly And Other Mini-Marvels: Brighton Fringe Festival A play, a musical and an opera all rolled into 70 minutes of campy fun 7pm £10/7; The Three Englishmen: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy sketches 8.30pm £8.50/7; The Curse Of Horse And Louis: Brighton Fringe Festival Musical and sketch comedy horror adventure 10pm £8.50/7; The Revolution Will Be Re-Tweeted: Brighton Fringe Festival Stand-up from the activist comedian, Abie Philbin Bowman 11.40pm £8.50/7 VarNdean School Slightly Unusual: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy illusionists 7.30pm £6-10 Verdict Joss Peach’s ‘Lighthouse’ Live jazz 7.30pm £10/free Victory Teen Dream 60s garage and punk DJs 9pm £free Volks Evolution Drum&bass night 10pm £tbc Warren Snow Play: Brighton Fringe Festival Children’s theatre show 11am £6/5; Watch The Birdy: Brighton Fringe Festival Children’s magic show 1pm £6/5; The Comedy of Errors: Brighton Fringe Festival Shakespeare for sprogs 4.30pm £8/5; Pinter’s Victoria Station & Family Voices: Brighton Fringe Festival Two classic plays by the master of the absurd 6pm £10/8.50; Rainbow Ride: Brighton Fringe Festival A multimedia song and dance show for kiddywinkles 7.30pm £9/7;

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Best Of Late Night Gimp Fight!: Brighton Fringe Festival Dark and fast-paced comedy sketches 8.45pm £10/8.50; Jesus - The Guantanamo Years: Brighton Fringe Festival “Christ returns to earth, but He doesn’t get through US immigration because He’s a bearded, Middle Eastern guy who wants to die as a martyr” 10pm £9/7.50 West Hill Hall Tanya Davis, Lianne Hall, Gem Andrews Touching poems and literate pop songs 8pm £7 White Rabbit The Mixer Men DJ night 8pm £free World’s End Unity HiFi’s One Love Warm Up! Brighton DJ prepares for the reggae festival 8pm £free

Sunday 20th

Belushi’s Bar Now That’s What I Call A Party In this instance, it’s okay to judge a book by its cover 9pm £free Black Lion Live & Swingin’ Lion Live gypsy jazz, swing and blues 9pm £free Blind Tiger Copperdollar - The Back Of Beyond The Glastonbury sideshow comes to town for an immersive and theatrical dance night with a ‘Day of the Dead’ theme - remember to keep your scythe next to where your heart used to be 8pm £10/8 Brighton Blue Note Singalong A Swing Join swing singer Jason Abrahams as he flies to the moon beyond the sea Noon/1pm/2pm £3 Brighton Marina Marcia Farquhar - Split Guitars & Other Tales: Brighton Festival Climb aboard a boat and hear Marcia Farquhar’s tales of the sea 8pm £10; Wilde’s The Importance Of Being Earnest: Brighton Fringe Festival A trivial comedy for serious people set during the 1952 coronation 8pm £7.50/5 Brunswick Mr Pineapple Head: Brighton Fringe Festival Musical clowning for kids Noon £6; Studio 9 Orchestra: Brighton Fringe Festival 18-piece jazz swing band 3pm £9/7; Crimes Against Humanities Teachers: Brighton Fringe Festival Surreal comedy theatre driven by the ghost of Kenneth Williams 7.30pm £9/7; Andy Thomas & Rob Maloney: Brighton Fringe Festival Dark comedy sketch show 9.30pm £7.50/6 Caroline Of Brunswick 6 Foot Silly: Brighton Fringe Festival Very silly clowning from the very tall stand-up duo 4.30pm £free; Eccentronic - We Won’t Rock You: Brighton Fringe Festival Electronic duo do an oddball humorous musical mash-up 5.30pm £free; Gerry Howell’s Parrot Fashion Accessories: Brighton Fringe Festival Surreal and rambling stand-up comedy 7pm £5; Pandora’s Box: Brighton Fringe Festival Cabaret parody about a toilet attendant turned XXL stripper 8.15pm £5; Russ Powell - Powell To The People: Brighton Fringe Festival Confessional comedy from the local stand-up 9.30pm £free Chequers Live Jazz Time tbc £free Concorde2 The Skatalites The original rocksteady legends 7.30pm £18.50 Cube Sunday Social Open decks session 8pm £free Dome James Vincent McMorrow: Brighton Festival Irish singer songwriter 7.30pm £18.50/15 Dome Foyer Bar SOURCE New Music: The Evil Son, Sweet Sweet Lies, Monsters Build Mean Robots, Forestears Brighton’s best bands chosen by Brighton’s best listings mag Noon £free Duke Of Norfolk Live Music Night Live music from local artists 9pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema To The Public Danger: Brighton Festival B-movie based on a play by Patrick Hamilton about a piss-up in an English pub Noon £free; Twenty Thousand Streets Under The Sky: Brighton Festival 2005 film based on three different stories by Patrick Hamilton 1pm £6.50-13; Beauty 4.30pm £tbc Fishbowl Recovery? Reggae through the ages 9pm £free Fountain Head Super Awesome Quiz Pictionary, playdough, and a little bit of general knowledge 8pm £1; Reggae & Roasts Reggae and chilled beats Time tbc £free Globe Rockoustic Live acoustic music 8pm £free Grand Hotel Private Lives: Brighton Fringe Festival Noel Coward’s comedy of manners about a double honeymoon romance (advance booking only) 3pm £17/15 Green Door Store Real Music Club: Bruise, Red Raucous Progressive folk and 60s rock&roll 8pm £6/5; Green Door Blues Blues band and DJs 10pm £free Hampton The Sunday Supper Sessions Open mic might 7pm £free Hobgoblin The SomeNews.co.uk Live Show: Brighton Fringe Festival The news-obsessed DJ turns his hit radio show into a live stand-up act 7pm £free Honey Sundays At The Honey If your house was this sexy you’d soon wear out the wallpaper 11pm £3/2/free Iambic Arts Theatre The Lover, The Wife: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy play about a wife who meets meets her exact opposite in her husband’s lover 5pm £10/8 Jive Monkey Alive & Swinging: Brighton Fringe Festival Marilyn Monroe finds heaven a bore so she hooks up with Sinatra and Elvis for one last night of

swinging 9pm £15 Jubilee Library An Egyptian Escape: Brighton Festival Learn how to draw comics with Emma Dodd and KA Gerrard, the creators of the Charlie & Bandit series 10.30am £6; Graphic Novel Workshop: Brighton Festival The creator of the Robot City Adventures series, Paul Collicutt, shows kids how to draw comics 2pm £6; SeaSaw: Brighton Festival Art and performance trail (this show is now fully booked) 11am/3pm £free Komedia Big Gig For Little Monsters: Brighton Fringe Festival Children’s show with stories, banjos and kooky creatures 1pm/3.30pm £6/5; Scottish Falsetto Socks - Boo Lingerie!: Brighton Fringe Festival Puppet show for kids with songs and sketches 4.30pm £10/9; My Big Gay Italian Wedding: Brighton Fringe Festival Broadway cult hit musical 3pm/5pm £10/8; Danielle Ward, David Reed Stand-up comedy double bill 6.45pm £8/7; Krater Comedy Club: Nick Helm, Ninia Benjamin, Jen Brister, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 8pm £5-11.50; Isy Suttie - Pearl & Dave: Brighton Fringe Festival Character comedy and silly songs 8pm £12/10; The Scary Mary Sketch Show: Brighton Fringe Festival Absurdst and bawdy sketch show 9.15pm £12/10 Latest Music Bar Stories With Tea: Brighton Fringe Festival Lynn Ruth Miller talks about life, loss and laughter - includes tea and biscuits 4pm £6; Trumpton Comes Alive A tribute to the music of Freddie Phillips, the classical guitarist who provided the music for the timeless kids’ show. Ask yourself this: in the year 2058 will people be going to concerts to hear songs from Winx Club? 4pm/8pm £5/4 Latest Music Bar Lone Star: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy drama set in 1970s Texas 9.30pm £8/5 Life Dagger Soundsystem Terrace Party Reggae, dancehall, rocksteady and ska 3pm £free Neptune Nick Stephenson Acoustic singer songwriter 8.30pm £free Nightingale Theatre From Kabul With Love & Tracy Says...: Brighton Fringe Festival A double bill of arty dance shows 4.30pm £8.50/6.50; If I Ruled The World: Brighton Fringe Festival Interactive audio performance trail, starting at the Nightingale 12.45pm/2.45pm/4.45pm £5 Ohso Social Sundown Sundaze Beach party 7pm £free Old Market Kid Carpet & The Noisy Animals Rock&roll musical for kids pitched somewhere between Oliver Postgate and The Beastie Boys 11am/2pm £8/6; Post-Roast Comedy Previews: Sarah Kendall Two comedians work their sets into shape for Edinburgh 6pm £5; Beach Party Animals: Brighton Fringe Festival A 20-minute portrait of seaside eccentricity, shown every half hour 2pm £free Pavilion Theatre An Instinct For Kindness: Brighton Festival Personal reflections and ethical discussion about assisted dying 8pm £12.50 Preston Park Moscow State Circus 2pm/5pm £tbc Quadrant Charmian Hughes - Charmageddon! Comedienne laughs in the face of the apocalypse (and snogs Chris Huhne) 8pm £4.50/3.50 Ranelagh Simon Sparrow Blues rock guitarist 8.30pm £free Regency Tavern I Have Never Cared For Sunsets: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy puppet shows takes on the big themes of philosophy and politics and asks who pulls the strings 3.30pm £tbc Riki Tik The Lock In DJ night with freebies 10pm £free Sallis Benney Theatre The Twelve Wild Ducks: Brighton Fringe Festival Family theatre version of the Norwegian fable 11am £7/5; Once Apop A Snickety Wow!: Brighton Fringe Festival Children’s storyteller (in the cafe) 3.30pm £7/5; Street Dreams: Brighton Fringe Festival Clowning, puppetry and storytelling 5pm £7/5; The Great Arctic Caper: Brighton Fringe Festival Kids’ comedy show about the coldest place on earth - except possibly Theresa May’s heart 8pm £7/5 Signalman Open Mic Open session hosted by local duo, Zoothyme 8pm £free Three & Ten Two-Headed: Brighton Fringe Festival A play about two 19th century Midwestern girls and their lifelong struggle with religion 1pm £9/7.50; Age Of The Geek: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy and music show by and for unashamed geeks 3pm £8.50/7; The Beta Males - The Space Race: Brighton Fringe Festival Storytelling and sketches about the Britain’s littleknown contribution to the space race 5pm £8.50/7; My Gay Best Friend: Brighton Fringe Festival Camp comedy play about a diva trapped in a toilet on her big night 6.45pm £10/8; The Three Englishmen: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy sketches 8.30pm £8.50/7; The Curse Of Horse And Louis: Brighton Fringe Festival Musical and sketch comedy horror adventure 10pm £8.50/7 Victory Blues Sundays DJ plays blues and soul Time tbc £free Volks Dead Empire, Idiom, In Dynamics, Here In Venice, Stone Angels Progressive post metallers raise

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money for the Rhythmix music charity 8pm £4 Warren Snow Play: Brighton Fringe Festival Children’s theatre show 11am £6/5; Watch The Birdy: Brighton Fringe Festival Children’s magic show 1pm £6/5; The Big Bite-Size Vintage Tea Party: Brighton Fringe Festival Musical theatre from a world gone by 2.30pm £12; The Comedy of Errors: Brighton Fringe Festival Shakespeare for sprogs 4.30pm £8/5; Pinter’s Victoria Station & Family Voices: Brighton Fringe Festival Two classic plays by the master of the absurd 6pm £10/8.50; Rainbow Ride: Brighton Fringe Festival A multimedia song and dance show for kiddywinkles 7.30pm £9/7; The Segue Sisters: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy rock and pop covers 8.45pm £12.50 White Rabbit Hush Hush Live acoustic music 8pm £free

Monday 21st

Ancient Mariner Quiz Night 8pm £1 Bee’s Mouth The Bee’s Mouth Jazz Forum Jazz jam with a house band 8.30pm £free Belushi’s Bar Pump Up The 90s Retro night dedicated to the decade that was dedicated to retro nights 10pm £free Blind Tiger Fantasticus French rock band on a tour of Brighton 8.30pm £tbc Brighton Marina The Boat Project - First Leg: Brighton Festival At last year’s festival the public were asked to donate bits of wood that had some personal significance. That pile of nostalgic debris has now been turned into a seaworthy ship. This is a talk with the crew and artistic directors 11am £3; Wilde’s The Importance Of Being Earnest: Brighton Fringe Festival A trivial comedy for serious people set during the 1952 coronation 8pm £7.50/5 Brunswick Brighton Stanza Poetry group 7.30pm £5; The Twitnits - On The Wire: Brighton Fringe Festival Ten-strong comedy improv team 8pm £5/4 Caroline Of Brunswick Helen Keen - Woman Of The Future: Brighton Fringe Festival Quirky comedy science show from the creator of Radio 4’s ‘It Is Rocket Science’ 7pm £5/4; Pandora’s Box: Brighton Fringe Festival Cabaret parody about a toilet attendant turned XXL stripper 8.15pm £5 Chequers Open Mic Play for a pint 8pm £free Coalition Trash Mondays Filthy tunes for students and layabouts alike 10.30pm £5/3/free Corn Exchange Gold Run: Brighton Festival Musical and cinematic show featuring a 30-strong choir and inspired by the history of the Paralympic Games 6pm £5 Dome The Lady - A Homage To Sandy Denny: Brighton Festival Fairport Convention’s singer celebrated by a big gang of musicians including members of Bellowhead and Joan As Police Woman 8pm £15-22.50 Gladstone Open Mic Night 9pm £free Green Door Store Monday Night Raw Metal to wrestle by 8pm £free Hampton The Hampton Quiz 8.30pm £1 Hydrant Set Your Goals, Make Do And Mend, Spycatcher, Hildanay Pop punk band (upstairs) 7pm £10; Press To Meco, Hopeless Heroic Live music 8pm £free Komedia How To Be A Leader: Brighton Fringe Festival Tim Clare’s comedy show about inspirational women and dubious leaders - from Willy Wonka to Jim Jones 7pm £8/6; My Big Gay Italian Wedding: Brighton Fringe Festival Broadway cult hit musical 6pm/8pm £10/8; Sharon Van Etten Dark acoustic lullabies from the Brooklyn singer songwriter 8pm £9.50; The Scary Mary Sketch Show: Brighton Fringe Festival Absurdst and bawdy sketch show 9.15pm £12/10 Latest Music Bar Lone Star: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy drama set in 1970s Texas 9.30pm £8/5 Life #Hashtag Brand new and ungoogleable club night 10.30pm £3/2 Lola Lo Fat Poppadaddys Student indie night 9pm £3 Mesmerist Stroll On Mondays 60s and 70s night with DJs and film projections 8.30pm £free Old Market Carmen New production of Bizet’s tragic opera 3pm/7.30pm £15 Pavilion Theatre Wasted: Brighton Festival Debut play from performance poet, Kate Tempest 8pm £12.50 Preston Park Moscow State Circus 5pm/7.45pm £tbc Prince Albert I See Dead People, Kella Live music 8pm £5 Psychosocial Into The Void New metal night that’s likely to feature more windmills than a farm in the Dutch lowlands 11pm £free Signalman Signalman Pub Quiz 8pm £1 Theatre Royal Matthew Herbert - One Pig: Brighton Festival Live avant-garde audiovisual composition inspired by spending a year living with a pig 8pm £10-17.50 Three & Ten Neil Hickey - The Nerve: Brighton

Fringe Festival A comedian tries to laugh at the absurdity of his dysfunctional existence 9.30pm £8/6.50 Victory Some Dark Hollow Folk Night Old time tunes and lonesome laments 8pm £free Volks Strictly Reggae Dancehall, roots, revival 11pm £5/4.50 Warren Romeo, Don’t Shoot Me Yet: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy play about Shakespeare’s characters becoming self aware 6pm £12/10; Fringe Club - Shona Foster, Crack*A*Jack*Crow: Brighton Fringe Festival Live music, cabaret and comedy curated by the Peanut Albinos 10pm £3.50/2.50

Tuesday 22nd

Above Audio Cottontail Club Big band and jitter jive tunes 9pm £free Audio Guerilla Rocks Club night for rock chicks, skater bois and indie kids 11pm £3/2/1 Belushi’s Bar Back To The 80s Retro night dedicated to the only decade to spawn a revival which has lasted longer than the decade itself 9pm £free Black Lion Hit The Decks Open decks spin off (book a slot online) 9pm £free Blind Tiger Syd Arthur Proper prog rock fusion band, they’re even named after the Herman Hesse book 8pm £tbc Brighton Marina Wilde’s The Importance Of Being Earnest: Brighton Fringe Festival A trivial comedy for serious people set during the 1952 coronation 8pm £7.50/5 Brunswick Jazz Jam: Brighton Fringe Festival Open session with a house band 8pm £free Caroline Of Brunswick Brighton Must Sees: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy showcase with some of the best fringe acts 5.45pm £free; Helen Keen Woman Of The Future: Brighton Fringe Festival Quirky comedy science show from the creator of Radio 4’s ‘It Is Rocket Science’ 7pm £5/4; Pandora’s Box: Brighton Fringe Festival Cabaret parody about a toilet attendant turned XXL stripper 8.15pm £5; Mike Sheer - Undergod: Brighton Fringe Festival Canadian comic discusses the big man in the sky 9.30pm £free; Test Tube Comedy: Brighton Fringe Festival Stand-up and sketch comedy acts hosted by Dec Munro 10.45pm £free Coalition Back2Back If your bass was this filthy you’d have to take it back to the fishmongers 11pm £4/3 Concorde2 Katzenjammer Multi-instrumental Norweigan-cum-Balkan folk rock band 7pm £7.50 Cube Cube Live: Matt Bonner Live music 8pm £free Digital CU Next Tuesday It’ll teach the universities to timetable lectures for Wednesday mornings 11pm £4/3 Dome Fatoumati & Baloji: Brighton Festival Double bill of African musicians - one a bluesy jazz singer, the other a rootsy rapper 8pm £10-15 Dome Founders Room Matthew Herbert - One Pig, The Morning After: Brighton Festival The avantgarde composer talks about the work that was inspired by spending a year living with a pig 11am £3 Druid’s Arms Druid’s New Student Party Electro house DJ 9pm £free Duke Of Norfolk Open Mic 9pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema Blackthorn 11am £tbc Fabrica Armchair Critics: Brighton Festival Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo Eshun talk about “destabilising the dominant narrative of western culture by making work that can portray new possible visions for the future: 7.15pm £tbc Gladstone Quiz Night 8.30pm £1 Globe Basement Cinema Underground films, comfy seats and free popcorn 8pm £free Green Door Store Sex Is Disgusting Live music 7.30pm £tbc Honey Latin Fever: DJ Aaron George, Gabriel Angel, Yersin Rivas Dance lessons followed by a tropically vibed salsa club 8pm/10pm £3/1/free Hope Fantasticus French rock band on a tour of Brighton 8pm £tbc Jive Monkey You Left Me In The Dark: Brighton Fringe Festival A new play about the love lives of CND activists inspired by both Anton Chekhov and Florence & The Machine 8pm £8/6; Quiz Night Details tbc Komedia How To Be A Leader: Brighton Fringe Festival Tim Clare’s comedy show about inspirational women and dubious leaders - from Willy Wonka to Jim Jones 7pm £8/6; Martyn Joseph & Stewart Henderson Live music 8pm £16; The Scary Mary Sketch Show: Brighton Fringe Festival Absurdst and bawdy sketch show 9.15pm £12/10 Latest Music Bar Battle Of The Trees: Brighton Fringe Festival Storytelling show featuring a tangle of tales and ancient poetry 7pm £6/5; Lone Star: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy drama set in 1970s Texas 9.30pm £8/5 Lola Lo Dirtee Laundry Student night 10pm £6/4/2 Mesmerist The Mesmerist Conjurers Consortium It could be a magical night 7.30pm £free Mystery Location The Strange Undoing Of Prudencia Hart: Brighton Festival Anarchic and musical theatre inspired by the border ballads of Scotland (the location is revealed when you book a ticket) 7.30pm

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£18.50 Old Market Heavy Load Presents Wild Things A showcase of learning disabled musicians 7.30pm £5/3 Pavilion Theatre Be Outraged - There Are Alternatives!: Brighton Festival What can we do to save a world run and ruined by ‘Banksters’? 7pm £8.50 Preston Park Moscow State Circus 5pm/7.45pm £tbc Prince Albert Ham Legion, Dead Cars, Fair Weather Heroes Tight-as-hell prog punk with a sense of fun and a pop heart 8.30pm £4/3 Red Lion Challenging General Knowledge & Music Quiz 8pm £1 Theatre Royal Gandini - Smashed: Brighton Festival Nine jugglers juggling 7.30pm £5-17.50 Three & Ten Hourglass: Brighton Fringe Festival A double bill of short student plays inspired by Cream, Blondie and Squeeze 5.30pm/7pm £7/5; The Ouse Valley Singles Club: Brighton Fringe Festival Folky music hall cabaret from a skiffle punk band 8.30pm £8/6.50; Neil Hickey - The Nerve: Brighton Fringe Festival A comedian tries to laugh at the absurdity of his dysfunctional existence 10pm £8/6.50 Walmer Castle BAD Ukes - Brighton After Dark Ukulele Session Informal gathering of ukulelists 8.30pm £free Warren Romeo, Don’t Shoot Me Yet: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy play about Shakespeare’s characters becoming self aware 6pm £12/10; Dumbwise - Faust: Brighton Fringe Festival Goethe’s classic fable set to gypsy folk and blues ballads 8pm £12/10 World’s End Poker Night 8pm £tbc

Wednesday 23rd

Audio Supercharged: Krafty Cuts Drum&bass and breaks 11pm £6/4 Bee’s Mouth Open Mic 8.30pm £free Belushi’s Bar Now That’s What I Call A Party In this instance, it’s okay to judge a book by its cover 9pm £free Belushi’s Below Detention 8pm £free Black Lion The Black Lion Acoustic Showcase Live music 8.30pm £free Brighton Marina Wilde’s The Importance Of Being Earnest: Brighton Fringe Festival A trivial comedy for serious people set during the 1952 coronation 8pm £7.50/5 Brunswick Cubana Bop Play West Side Story: Brighton Fringe Festival Terry Seabrook’s band plays Latin jazz versions of the songs from the musical 8.15pm £15/12 Caroline Of Brunswick Brighton Must Sees: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy showcase with some of the best fringe acts 5.45pm £free; Pandora’s Box: Brighton Fringe Festival Cabaret parody about a toilet attendant turned XXL stripper 8.15pm £5; Mike Sheer - Undergod: Brighton Fringe Festival Canadian comic discusses the big man in the sky 9.30pm £free; Test Tube Comedy: Brighton Fringe Festival Stand-up and sketch comedy acts hosted by Dec Munro 10.45pm £free Chequers Quiz Night 8pm £1 Coalition CoCo LoCo Commercial chart music for students 10.30pm £5/3/2 Cube Wicked Wednesdays House DJs 8pm £free Digital Poundance Like a coin operated dancefloor 11pm £4/3/1 Dome Philharmonia Orchestra: Brighton Festival Vladimir Ashkenazy conducts pieces by Prokofiev and Shostakovich 7.30pm £10-30 Druid’s Arms We Change The Tempo DJ set of international sounds 9pm £free Duke Of Norfolk Pub Quiz 9pm £1 Duke Of York’s Cinema Jeff, Who Lives at Home 11am £tbc; Iron Sky 10pm £tbc Fishbowl Tea & Biscuits: DJ Gareth Stephens Retro swing, soul and ska 10pm £free Fountain Head Student Night DJs play indie and rock 8pm £free Globe Global Bass: DJ Ted Lauren DJ delves into the bassier side of jazz, gypsy and world music 9pm £free Green Door Store Death Grips Full-on crossover hip hop 7.30pm £8; Hard Times They can take our disposable income, but they’ll never take our nowave disco! 10.30pm £free Haunt Beach House, Porcelain Raft Live music (this show has now sold out) Details tbc Hope Hi Zero Poetry Readings “Fiercely fine modern poetry readings from across the now-zone of liminal word-love” 7.30pm £4; The E.M.E. Jazz hop DJs (downstairs) 8.30pm £free Hydrant Jessica Mary York, Kevin Live music 8pm £free Jive Monkey You Left Me In The Dark: Brighton Fringe Festival A new play about the love lives of CND activists inspired by both Anton Chekhov and Florence & The Machine (in the theatre) 8pm £8/6; Funk & Soul DJs (in the bar) 8pm £free Komedia How To Be A Leader: Brighton Fringe

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Festival Tim Clare’s comedy show about inspirational women and dubious leaders - from Willy Wonka to Jim Jones 7pm £8/6; Putting It Together - Sondheim Revue: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedic musical tribute to the theatre composer, Stephen Sondheim 8.30pm £9/6 Latest Music Bar The Treason Show: Brighton Fringe Festival Topical songs and sketches from the long-running local comedy show 8.30pm £13.50/10; Approaching 80: Brighton Fringe Festival Cabaret and comedy from Lynn Ruth Miller 8.30pm/10.30pm £5 Mesmerist The Swing Ninjas Gypsy swing band 9pm £free Mystery Location The Strange Undoing Of Prudencia Hart: Brighton Festival Anarchic and musical theatre inspired by the border ballads of Scotland (the location is revealed when you book a ticket) 7.30pm £18.50 New Venture Theatre New Venture Comedy Showcase: Brighton Fringe Festival Rising stars of stand-up 7.45pm £6 Northern Lights Mystery Train Rockabilly DJ 9pm £free Old Market Blonde Poison: Brighton Fringe Festival Gail Louw’s play examines the motivation of evil via the story of Stella Goldschlag - the German jew who worked for the gestapo 8pm £12/9; The Department Of Unreliable Memoirs: Brighton Fringe Festival An interactive ‘show’ in which an audience of one (you) are helped to recall memories that are probably fictitious (repeated every ten minutes) 2pm £5 Paramount Old Ship Hotel Cock & Tail Inn 2: Brighton Fringe Festival Slapstick pub comedy set in the 80s 7.45pm £10/8 Pavilion Theatre Crafting A Great Story: Brighton Festival Speakers from The Writers Retreat demystify the world of writing and publishing 4pm £8.50; Sceptre Is 25 - Andrew Miller, Ros Barber, Jess Richards, Clare Morrall: Brighton Festival Authors selected by the publishing imprint read from their latest books 7.30pm £10 Preston Park Moscow State Circus 5pm/7.45pm £tbc Prince Albert Joeyfat, You Walk Through Walls, Soul Pinch Live music 8pm £5 Psychosocial Under The Bridge Live music 8pm £free Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar I Am Arcade Playing retro video games is particularly exciting when it’s in a public place because it’s usually something you do in private, like roughly manhandling mannequins made up to look like Sarah Palin 8pm £free; Walls Synth and guitar duo on German label, Kompakt 8pm £6 Theatre Royal Gandini - Smashed: Brighton Festival Nine jugglers juggling 7.30pm £5-17.50 Three & Ten Hourglass: Brighton Fringe Festival A double bill of short student plays inspired by Cream, Blondie and Squeeze 5.30pm/7pm £7/5; The Ouse Valley Singles Club: Brighton Fringe Festival Folky music hall cabaret from a skiffle punk band 8.30pm £8/6.50; Luna’s History Of Madness: Brighton Fringe Festival A humorous and personal journey through mental illness 10pm £8/6.50 Volks Switch Up Drum&bass, electro and dubstep night Details tbc Warren Romeo, Don’t Shoot Me Yet: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy play about Shakespeare’s characters becoming self aware 6pm £12/10; Dumbwise - Faust: Brighton Fringe Festival Goethe’s classic fable set to gypsy folk and blues ballads 8pm £12/10; Fringe Club - Twenty One Crows: Brighton Fringe Festival Live music, cabaret and comedy curated by the Peanut Albinos 10pm £3.50/2.50

Thursday 24th

All Saints’ Church Krystle Warren And The Faculty: Brighton Festival Jazz blues singer songwriter 8pm £12.50/10 Audio Bastard Pop Musical mash-up 11pm £3/2/ free Basement CMMN SNS PRJCT: Brighton Festival International theatre performance focusing on forms of desire - from warm flesh to cold hard cash 7.30pm £10 Bee’s Mouth Buffo’s Wake Punky cabaret-tinged chorus hooks backed by rousing gypsy rhythms 9pm £free Belushi’s Bar Karaoke 9pm £free Belushi’s Below Fallout Live Live indie bands 10pm £3/2 Black Lion The Lion’s Raw! Live bands 8.30pm £free Blind Tiger The C Word: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy show put on by the people who brought you Russell Brand. Presumably that accounts for the name of the night 8pm £6/5 Brighton Marina Wilde’s The Importance Of Being Earnest: Brighton Fringe Festival A trivial comedy for serious people set during the 1952 coronation 8pm £7.50/5 Brunswick Fat Thursday Night: Brighton Fringe Festival Live blues from King Size Slim, The East

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Brighton Rhythm, DJ Graeme Miall 8pm £8 Caroline Of Brunswick Brighton Must Sees: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy showcase with some of the best fringe acts 5.45pm £free; Loving London The Capital Cabaret: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedic cabaret show about the history and highlights of the Big Smoke 7pm £6/4; Pandora’s Box: Brighton Fringe Festival Cabaret parody about a toilet attendant turned XXL stripper 8.15pm £5; Meryl O’Rourke - Bad Mother: Brighton Fringe Festival Mischievous comedy show about motherhood and other mistakes 9.30pm £6/4.50; Test Tube Comedy: Brighton Fringe Festival Stand-up and sketch comedy acts hosted by Dec Munro 10.45pm £free Coalition Secret Discotheque Replaying the soundtrack to your youth 11pm £4/3/2 Concorde2 The Correspondents Club night headed by an electro swing dancing duo 10pm £12 Constant Service Zac Hooper Loopy flamenco grooves 8.30pm £free Corn Exchange Can We Talk About This?: Brighton Festival New physical theatre work with a political theme 8pm £10-22.50 Cube Da Bomb Student DJ night 8pm £free Dome Kathryn Rudge & James Baillieu: Brighton Festival The ‘New Face of Classical Music’ performs songs by Mahler, Fauré and Britten 1pm £10 Dome Foyer Bar SOURCE New Music: Beatabet Brighton’s best bands chosen by Brighton’s best listings mag Time tbc £free Druid’s Arms The Lanes, Sanity FM, Nick McKenna Indie rock band 8pm £free; Jipsy Magic, Hope Rudd, Lost Herons, Linten Sprinters Upbeat indie funk and rock bands 8pm £free Fishbowl Residents Association: DJ Will Sumsuch DJs play hip hop, funk and world beats 10.30pm £free Gladstone Arthur Shillin’ Electro swing, funk and breaks 8.30pm £free Globe Hang The DJ! A night of punter-picked playlists 9pm £free Green Door Store Girls Names, Splashh, Heliopause “Reverb drenched surf-pop classics from sunny Belfast” 8pm £5; SexTape R&B and filth for fashionable students 11pm £free Honey Swag Electro, R&B and dubstep night 11pm £3/2 Hope Communion Live music 7.30pm £5; Unhooked Generation Retro DJs with an ear for 60s Motown and northern soul (downstairs) 8pm £free Hydrant Attica Rage, Zodiac N Black Live music 7.30pm £7/6 Jive Monkey You Left Me In The Dark: Brighton Fringe Festival A new play about the love lives of CND activists inspired by both Anton Chekhov and Florence & The Machine 8pm £8/6 Jubilee Square A Dirty Martini With Evelyn Waugh: Brighton Fringe Festival Theatrical and debauched performance driven by the audience 7.15pm £9 Komedia Les Cocque Ups: Brighton Fringe Festival Some cabaret shows pretend to be French to seem sophisticated - this cabaret show is about a cabaret show that pretends to be French. This means they get to have their gâteau and eat it 7.30pm £12/10; Krater Comedy Club: Kai Humphries, Carl Donnelly, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 8pm £5-18; Putting It Together - Sondheim Revue: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedic musical tribute to the theatre composer, Stephen Sondheim 8.30pm £9/6 Latest Music Bar The Treason Show: Brighton Fringe Festival Topical songs and sketches from the long-running local comedy show 8.30pm £13.50/10; Approaching 80: Brighton Fringe Festival Cabaret and comedy from Lynn Ruth Miller 8.30pm/10.30pm £5 Life That’s My Sh!t Club night playing hip hop, R&B, funk and soul 11pm £3/2/free Lola Lo Tom Foolery Electro, house and dubstep night 9pm £5/3 Marlborough Theatre Mae-Day - I’m Not Waving, I’m Drowning: Brighton Fringe Festival Musical comedienne 10pm £8/6 Mesmerist John Crampton Foot-stomping blues explosion 9pm £free Mucky Duck Open Mic Jam session with Joe Newman 8pm £free Mystery Location The Strange Undoing Of Prudencia Hart: Brighton Festival Anarchic and musical theatre inspired by the border ballads of Scotland (the location is revealed when you book a ticket) 7.30pm £18.50 Nightingale Theatre Boogaloo Stu’s Pop Magic: Brighton Fringe Festival The camp cabaret star hosts a ‘reality theatre’ show in the which the audience writes and performs their very own pop song 10pm £8.50/6.50 Old Market Blonde Poison: Brighton Fringe Festival Gail Louw’s play examines the motivation of evil via the story of Stella Goldschlag - the German jew who worked for the gestapo 8pm £12/9; The Department Of Unreliable Memoirs: Brighton Fringe Festival An interactive ‘show’ in which an audience of one (you) are helped to recall memories that are probably fictitious

(repeated every ten minutes) 2pm £5 Paramount Old Ship Hotel Cock & Tail Inn 2: Brighton Fringe Festival Slapstick pub comedy set in the 80s 7.45pm £10/8 Pavilion Theatre Faber Poets - Jo Shapcott, Don Paterson, Lavinia Greenlaw, Daljit Nagra: Brighton Festival Poetry readings 7.30pm £8.50 Preston Park Moscow State Circus 5pm/7.45pm £tbc Prince Albert Mum, Dad And The Kids Live music 8.30pm £4/3 Prince George Souled Out: Saul Guud Vinyl night of funk, soul and b-boy breaks 8pm £free Psychosocial Oh! You Pretty Things: Emperor Penguins, Our Momentum, The Badje Live music 8.30pm £4/3 Ranelagh Alex Roberts Folky blues singer 8.30pm £free Signalman Signalman Cider Festival Live music Noon £free St George’s Church Richard Egarr & Iestyn Davies: Brighton Festival Baroque music performed by an award-winning countertenor and harpischordist 7.30pm £10-17.50 St James’ Tavern Stay Sick, Turn Blue DJs play vintage soul, jazz and blues 8.30pm £free Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Catholic Discipline Noise rock, disco pop and acid folk from the Superheroes of BMX 8pm £free Temple Bar Twonkey’s Kingdom: Brighton Fringe Festival Surreal cabaret show from the comedian and musician from the indie band, Dawn Of The Replicants 9.30pm £tbc Three & Ten Mating In Captivity: Brighton Fringe Festival A play about a married couple who haven’t had sex for a year, 7 months and 14 days - not that anyone’s counting 5pm £9/7.50; I Can Make You Thin(k): Brighton Fringe Festival This multimedia comedy show won’t change your body, but it might change your mind 7pm £8/6.50; Keith Farnan - Money, Money, Money: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy show about the financial crisis and our obsession with money - and nothing whatsoever about Abba 8.30pm £9.50/8; The Prohibition Charade: Brighton Fringe Festival Classic cabaret with sultry jazz and plenty of bowler hats 10pm £9/7.50 Warren The Girl With The Iron Claws: Brighton Fringe Festival Storytelling theatre show for kids and their parents 6.30pm £12/9; Dumbwise - Faust: Brighton Fringe Festival Goethe’s classic fable set to gypsy folk and blues ballads 8pm £12/10; Fringe Club - Philip Jeays, Martha Rose: Brighton Fringe Festival Live music, cabaret and comedy curated by the Peanut Albinos 10pm £3.50/2.50 White Rabbit The Move-Ons Open Mic 8pm £free World’s End The Big Cash Quiz 8pm £tbc

Friday 25th

All Saints’ Church Memorial: Brighton Festival Alice Oswald’s retelling of Homer’s Iliad 6.30pm £10 Audio Jazz Note: Hybrid Minds, Technicolour and Kromatic 11pm £tbc Belushi’s Bar Muy Loco Pop and house DJs with a dancing contest 9pm £free Belushi’s Below Abandoned Rock and metal night 10pm £3/2 Black Lion Medium Rare DJs serve up a platter of semi-obscure funk and soul 9pm £free Blind Tiger Rom Com Con: Brighton Fringe Festival Lovelorn comedians put rom com cliches to the test 7pm £6.50/5.50; The C Word: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy show put on by the people who brought you Russell Brand. Presumably that accounts for the name of the night 8pm £6/5; Goodtimes Music Reggae, ska, funk and dub 10pm £3 Brighton Marina Wilde’s The Importance Of Being Earnest: Brighton Fringe Festival A trivial comedy for serious people set during the 1952 coronation 8pm £7.50/5 Brighton Music Hall Vaudeville Electro swing, burlesque and 50s blues 8pm £free Brunswick Boogie Woogie Troop: Brighton Fringe Festival Piano blues and swing 8pm £10/8 Caroline Of Brunswick Eccentronic - We Won’t Rock You: Brighton Fringe Festival Electronic duo do an oddball humorous musical mash-up 4.35pm £free; Aaron Twitchen’s Quarter Life Crisis: Brighton Fringe Festival The twenty-something post-uni dilemma examined with the help of stand-up, improv and a pinch of graduate psychological theory 5.45pm £free; Luisa Omielan - What Would Beyoncé Do?: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy improv for all the single ladies 7pm £free; Pandora’s Box: Brighton Fringe Festival Cabaret parody about a toilet attendant turned XXL stripper 8.15pm £5; Eclectic Chair Eclectifying alt classics 9pm £free; Meryl O’Rourke - Bad Mother: Brighton Fringe Festival Mischievous comedy show about motherhood and other mistakes 9.30pm £6/4.50 Coalition Friday I’m In Love No more lectures for a day or two 11pm £1-5

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Concorde2 Channel One Sound System: Mikey Dread, MC Ras Kayleb Veterans of Notting Hill Carnival do a four hour vinyl roots set 11pm £2 Corn Exchange Can We Talk About This?: Brighton Festival New physical theatre work with a political theme 8pm £10-22.50 Cube Female Friday House DJs who happen to be female 8pm £free Digital Stonelove Indie rock&roll club 11pm £4/3 Doctor Brighton’s Funky Friday: DJ Nick Hirst, DJ Wayne 9.30pm £free Dome War Sum Up: Brighton Festival Multimedia opera fusing folklore with manga and choral music with electronica 8pm £10-22.50 Dome Foyer Bar SOURCE New Music: Beatabet Brighton’s best bands chosen by Brighton’s best listings mag Time tbc £free Druid’s Arms Nice Weather For Airstrikes Festival: &U&I Post rock bands 7.30pm £free Duke Of Norfolk Miss Scarlett DJ night 9pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema Albert Nobbs 5pm £tbc; Moonrise Kingdom 2pm/7pm/9.15pm/11.30pm £tbc Easy Bar DJ Night Hip hop, R&B and reggae 8pm £free Fishbowl Freestyle Records Funky DJ set from the label manager, Greg Boraman 9pm £free Funkyfish The Funkyfish Club Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10pm £6/3.50 Gladstone Catch A Groove Funk, soul and hip hop 8.30pm £free Globe Rum Fridays: Affy Go Bang! Disco, house and boogie 9pm £free Green Door Store Free Swim, Flash Bang Band, P Is For Persia Experimental power pop with a bass-playing panda 7.30pm £tbc; TRIIAL Genre-less dance party with a secret band and DJs 11pm £free H-Bar Black Blooms Electronic producer duo 8pm £3/free Haunt Of Mice & Men, Bury Tomorrow, With One Last Breath Anthemic metalcore 8pm £16 Hobgoblin Divinely Bette: Brighton Fringe Festival One-woman show celebrating the life and work of Bette Midler with banter, ballads and comedy 9.30pm £free Honey I Love R&B Juicy house with a twist of hip hop - and plenty of the R and the B 11pm £5 Hope Soul Casserole A melting pot of hot funk beats and soul grooves (downstairs) 9pm £free Hotel Pelirocco Synthesize Me: Thomas H Green, Tom Mugridge, Chris Tomsett DJ night with era-spanning electronic music and psychedelic light show 8pm £free Hydrant The Noxious Toys, Meatloaf At Mary’s Live music 8pm £free Jive Monkey The Master Blues Brothers Tribute band plays the movie’s hits 9pm £10 Jubilee Square A Dirty Martini With Evelyn Waugh: Brighton Fringe Festival Theatrical and debauched performance driven by the audience 7.15pm £9 Komedia Krater Comedy Club: Paul McCaffrey, Mark Olver, Keith Farnan, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 8pm £11.50-14.50; Trailer Trash: Brighton Fringe Festival The last of the theme club’s Komedia nights, this time it’s a hip hop block party with DJs, games, movie clips and a live set by Dr Syntax 9pm £10/8; The Maydays: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy improv gang 9pm £10/8; Dressed In Black Club night delves into the darker side of pop with stuff like Jacques Brel, Joy Division and Ennio Morricone 11pm £3 Latest Music Bar Speaky Spokey Literary cabaret with poetry, music, short stories and films 8pm £5/4; The Treason Show: Brighton Fringe Festival Topical songs and sketches from the long-running local comedy show 8.30pm £13.50/10; Approaching 80: Brighton Fringe Festival Cabaret and comedy from Lynn Ruth Miller 8.30pm/10.30pm £5 Life Kung Fu Terrace Party DJs play funk, soul, blues and hip hop 3pm £free; Dimensions Festival Brighton Launch: Midland, Objekt, Lorca, Leon Vynehall, Temple 11pm £7/6/4 Loft Afro Connect: Kasai Masai, Selecta Scruffi, Dubconscious DJs World music and dub fundraiser 9pm £6 Lola Lo Tiki Beats Totally tropical tunes 8pm £5/4/3 Marlborough Theatre Mae-Day - I’m Not Waving, I’m Drowning: Brighton Fringe Festival Musical comedienne 10pm £8/6 Mesmerist Shake, Holla & Roll Vintage blues, swing and rock&roll 9pm £free Mucky Duck Hot-Tip Hi-Fi DJ with a fine collection of vintage reggae and rocksteady records 8pm £free Mystery Location The Strange Undoing Of Prudencia Hart: Brighton Festival Anarchic and musical theatre inspired by the border ballads of Scotland (the location is revealed when you book a ticket) 7.30pm £18.50 Neptune Papa George Live blues 8.30pm £free New Venture Theatre Once Upon A Time In Brighton: Brighton Fringe Festival Theatre stortellers

read the winning entries from a Brighton-themed short story competition 7.45pm £6/5 Nightingale Theatre Filthy Weekender Comedy: Brighton Fringe Festival Late-night stand-up comedy 10pm £8.50/6.50 Northern Lights DJ Åbo Funk and soul tunes 9pm £free Ohso Social Dirty Sunset Disco Metrosexual disco and house club 8pm £1 Paramount Old Ship Hotel Cock & Tail Inn 2: Brighton Fringe Festival Slapstick pub comedy set in the 80s 7.45pm £10/8 Pavilion Theatre Sean Shibe: Brighton Festival Classical guitarist 1pm £10 Preston Park Moscow State Circus 5pm/7.45pm £tbc Prince Albert Rising Tide, Screama Ballerina Live music 8.30pm £4/3 Psychosocial Orishas Salsa bands and DJs 9pm £8/4 Ranelagh Dave Ferguson Live Americana and blues 8.30pm £free Riki Tik Work: Matt Barker, Dennis Castro A silken river of alt pop, blog dance and hip twitching jiggy bangers 9pm £free Sallis Benney Theatre The Cult Of The Ruin: Brighton Festival David Dimbleby discusses whether our love of period dramas and ruined architecture amounts to a fear of the modern 7.30pm £10 Signalman Signalman Cider Festival Live music Noon £free St Bartholomew’s Church Brighton Festival Chorus: Brighton Festival Female choir sings Brahms and Holst 9.30pm £15/10 Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Late Night Lingerie Wall of sound grunge bands rock right through the small hours 9pm £3 Temple Bar Twonkey’s Kingdom: Brighton Fringe Festival Surreal cabaret show from the comedian and musician from the indie band, Dawn Of The Replicants 9.30pm £tbc Theatre Royal Circus Klezmer: Brighton Festival Does what it says on the tin - contemporary circus acts and Jewish klezmer music 5pm/8pm £10-20 Three & Ten Mating In Captivity: Brighton Fringe Festival A play about a married couple who haven’t had sex for a year, 7 months and 14 days - not that anyone’s counting 5pm £9/7.50; Who Did I Think I Was?: Brighton Fringe Festival Tragicomedy about a reunited father and son - plus bicycles, electric shocks and spitfires 1pm/7pm £8.50/7.50; Pappy’s: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy sketch troupe 8.30pm £9.50/8; Max And Ivan Are... Con Artists: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy duo sketch show spoofing heist blockbusters 10pm £8.50/7 Verdict Julian Siegel Quartet Live jazz 7.30pm £15/8 Volks In The Face 2nd Birthday: Rrritalin, Mustard Gun, Phatworld, Simtek, Hadean, Gash, Fucknose Bass mash-ups from Coin Operated Records 10pm £6 Warren The Girl With The Iron Claws: Brighton Fringe Festival Storytelling theatre show for kids and their parents 6.30pm £12/9; Dumbwise - Faust: Brighton Fringe Festival Goethe’s classic fable set to gypsy folk and blues ballads 8pm £12/10; Bourgeois & Maurice Started A Band: Brighton Fringe Festival Alternative musical cabaret from the freaky duo 10pm £12/11 White Rabbit WTF? Brighton Wonky electro and synth pop nonsense 8pm £free World’s End Fond Of Ruby Indie rockers 8pm £free

Saturday 26th

Ancient Mariner The Acoustic Sessions Live music 8pm £free Audio Warehouse: Audiojack House and techno club night 11pm £5/free Basement Allege: Brighton Festival European troupe mixing circus virtuosity, dance and philosophy 7.30pm £10 Beachigogo Bar Good Times Remember them? Maybe the feel-good retro tunes will jog your memory (in the White Room) 9pm £free; The R&B Lounge R&B DJs (in the Main Room) 11pm £6/5 Belushi’s Bar Unplugged: Rocket Dogs Live acoustic duo 9pm £free Belushi’s Below Faceplant Punk rock and ska night 9pm £5/4 Black Lion Attic Monkeys Vs Molly Malone’s Dex In The City Funk, soul and hip hop DJ battle 9pm £free Black Rock Waterlitz: Brighton Festival Outdoor aerial theatre from the French chaps who hung cars on a washing line last year (involves shipping containers) 9.30pm £free Blind Tiger Rom Com Con: Brighton Fringe Festival Lovelorn comedians put rom com cliches to the test 7pm £6.50/5.50; The C Word: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy show put on by the people who brought you Russell Brand. Presumably that accounts for the name of the night 8pm £6/5; Breakout: Only Joe,

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Oistar, Jabbawocky Hi-fi Nine-piece reggae band 10pm £5 Brighton Centre Brit Floyd “The World’s Greatest Pink Floyd Show” 8pm £27.50 Brighton Marina Wilde’s The Importance Of Being Earnest: Brighton Fringe Festival A trivial comedy for serious people set during the 1952 coronation 8pm £7.50/5 Brighton Music Hall Music Hall Masquerade Electro swing and pop night 9pm £free Brunswick Mr Pineapple Head: Brighton Fringe Festival Musical clowning for kids Noon £6; The Twitnits - On The Wire: Brighton Fringe Festival Tenstrong comedy improv team 3pm £5/4; The Blues Corporation: Brighton Fringe Festival Nine-piece blues and soul band 8pm £10/9 Caroline Of Brunswick Brighton Must Sees: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy showcase with some of the best fringe acts 3.15pm £free; Eccentronic - We Won’t Rock You: Brighton Fringe Festival Electronic duo do an oddball humorous musical mash-up 4.35pm £free; Aaron Twitchen’s Quarter Life Crisis: Brighton Fringe Festival The twenty-something post-uni dilemma examined with the help of stand-up, improv and a pinch of graduate psychological theory 5.45pm £free; Luisa Omielan - What Would Beyoncé Do?: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy improv for all the single ladies 7pm £free; Pandora’s Box: Brighton Fringe Festival Cabaret parody about a toilet attendant turned XXL stripper 8.15pm £5; Punk In Drublic Dunk PJs 9pm £free; Jody Kamali - Dirty, Filthy, Rich: Brighton Fringe Festival Spoof seminar with a ludicrous lifestyle guru 9.30pm £5/3; Test Tube Comedy: Brighton Fringe Festival Stand-up and sketch comedy acts hosted by Dec Munro 10.45pm £free Coalition Blow: Vince Manganaro, Charly Lopez, Charles Green The party never stops 3am £5 Concorde2 Teenspirit Blatchington Mill School’s annual showcase of young bands and solo acts 7pm £7.50/5; Devotion: Camo & Krooked, The Prototypes Drum&bass night 11pm £10 Corn Exchange Index On Censorship - Where Do You Draw The Line?: Brighton Festival Discussion about the importance of free speech and the ways in which we censor ourselves - inspired by the themes of the festival show, Can We Talk About This? 4.30pm £8.50/5; Can We Talk About This?: Brighton Festival New physical theatre work with a political theme 2.30pm/8pm £10-22.50 Digital Playroom Housey hedonism in a playground of bouncy inflatable fun 11pm £12/10 Doctor Brighton’s Sexy Saturday: DJ Tony B 9.30pm £free Dome Founders Room Nick Sharratt: Brighton Festival Illustration workshop for older kids 10.30am £6 Dome Foyer Bar SOURCE New Music: Dave Beckett Brighton’s best bands chosen by Brighton’s best listings mag Noon £free Druid’s Arms Nice Weather For Airstrikes Festival: Three Trapped Tigers Post rock bands 7.30pm £free Duke Of Norfolk Word Up! 80s tunes 9pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema Underdog 11am £tbc; Moonrise Kingdom 2pm/4.30pm £tbc; Eurovision 2012 Annoying Irish bloke tries to pretend it is still the 1970s 7pm £tbc Easy Bar DJ Night Hip hop, R&B and reggae 8pm £free Fishbowl DJ Daddy Marcus Dancey disco and singalong soul 9pm £free Fitzherbert’s Speak Galactic, Soft Arrows, Cousin, Cheat Sheet Indie pop noise night 8pm £free Fortune Of War Roo Tropical and funky tunes from the Tru Thoughts DJ Details tbc Gladstone DJ Haulage 8.30pm £free Globe Kinfolk: Soft Rocks, Tim Rivers, Easy Jim Pluto DJs play house, boogie, reggae and disco 9pm £free Grand Hotel Private Lives: Brighton Fringe Festival Noel Coward’s comedy of manners about a double honeymoon romance (advance booking only) 3pm £17/15 Green Door Store The Deal Was For The Diamond, Skirts Post rock prog 7.30pm £3; The Big Itch Back to basics rock&roll 11pm £free H-Bar Tech-Noir: Steve Mac, Nick Hook, Danny Chase DJs delve into the depths of tech Details tbc Haunt FranClassic Songs about Brighton backed by acoustic guitars and beat boxing 7pm £8 Hobgoblin Divinely Bette: Brighton Fringe Festival One-woman show celebrating the life and work of Bette Midler with banter, ballads and comedy 3.15pm £free; Kiss Of The Red Menace: Brighton Fringe Festival Musical tribute to Kander & Ebb, the partnership behind Broadway classics like Cabaret, Chicago and Funny Lady 4.30pm/8.15pm £free Honesy Ministry Of Sound & MixMag Tour: Nilesh Parmar, Jon Byrne, Tom Maverick, Squiz 11pm £7.50/5/3 Hydrant UK Subs First wave punks who never sold out or stopped 7pm £10 Jubilee Square A Dirty Martini With Evelyn

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Waugh: Brighton Fringe Festival Theatrical and debauched performance driven by the audience 7.15pm £9 Komedia Comedy 4 Kids Comedy without the rude bits 2pm £8.50/6.50; Predication 2012 - Life Academy: Brighton Fringe Festival The agony author, Just Jean, discusses whether the world will end in 2012 - tickets will not be refunded if it does 3.30pm £free; The Maydays: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy improv gang 6.30pm £10/8; Krater Comedy Club: Paul McCaffrey, Mark Olver, Keith Farnan, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 7pm/8pm/10.30pm £15-20; Fado With Claudia Aurora: Brighton Fringe Festival Dramatic Portuguese torch songs 8.30pm £16/14; Mod For It Club night playing garage and Motown, soul and ska 11pm £5; ipop! Like an iPod full of party anthems on perpetual shuffle 11pm £3/free LMNOP Studios Brighton Bingo: Brighton Fringe Festival Fun photography contest for adults and families 11am £5 Level Nice Weather For Airstrikes Festival Outdoor post rock show Noon £free Life Juicebox! New eclectic club night offering an nice alternative to the standard seafront malarky 11pm £5/3 Lola Lo Zombie Nation Where the dancefloor is never dead 8pm £10/7/6 Marlborough Theatre Mae-Day - I’m Not Waving, I’m Drowning: Brighton Fringe Festival Musical comedienne 10pm £8/6 Mesmerist Juke Joint Jamboree Rhythm & blues and rock&roll records from the days of the dance halls 9pm £free Mucky Duck Chip Shop Hip Hop: DJ Fletcher C Ellis 9pm £free Mystery Location The Strange Undoing Of Prudencia Hart: Brighton Festival Anarchic and musical theatre inspired by the border ballads of Scotland (the location is revealed when you book a ticket) 2.30pm/7.30pm £18.50 New Venture Theatre Once Upon A Time In Brighton: Brighton Fringe Festival Theatre storytellers read the winning entries from a Brighton-themed short story competition 7.45pm £6/5 Nightingale Theatre Filthy Weekender Comedy: Brighton Fringe Festival Late-night stand-up comedy 10pm £8.50/6.50 Northern Lights Smorgasbord: Brighton Fringe Festival A mixed platter of stand-up comedy 8.30pm £10/8.50 Ohso Social Saturday Social 8pm £free Old Market Cloud Man: Brighton Festival Poetic puppetry for all the family 1pm/3pm £8/6; Beach Party Animals: Brighton Fringe Festival A 20-minute portrait of seaside eccentricity, shown every half hour 2pm £free; Festival Ceilidh Old fashioned barn dancing with the the Flying Chaucers 7pm £8 Paramount Old Ship Hotel Cock & Tail Inn 2: Brighton Fringe Festival Slapstick pub comedy set in the 80s 7.45pm £10/8 Pavilion Theatre Dirty Drama: Brighton Festival Discussion about why military and political conflict makes such good drama 2pm £8.50 Preston Park Moscow State Circus 3pm/7pm £tbc Prince Albert The Voyage Andromeda, Spit Shake Sisters, Emporer The Stag, Dubarry’s Live music 8.30pm £4 Psychosocial Witch DJs play the grrrly side of punk and pop, from Grace Jones to The Gossip 11pm £5/3 Ranelagh Slim Shack Rhythm and blues band 8.30pm £free Riki Tik Caught Up: Loren Heer, Neal Lewis Underground house, funk, soul, boogie and disco 9pm £free Royal Pavilion Richard Egarr: Brighton Festival Harpsichordist plays some Bach fugues and preludes 8pm £30 Signalman Signalman Cider Festival Live music Noon £free St John’s Centre And It’s Goodnight From Her: Brighton Fringe Festival Sit down comedy stories inspired by the gentle rambling of Ronnie Corbett 6pm £free Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar AU, Us Baby Bear Bones, Ed Prosek Standing at the crossroads of freak folk and art pop 8pm £6.50; Bitter Disko DJ plays mutant funk, post punk and John Peel favourites 9pm £free; Stick It On This is a night with a difference - one in which you become the DJ! An iPod is all you need to make your musical journey. YOU decide which requests to take, which classics to play and which self-indulgent B-sides to risk (in the club) 10pm £5/4/3 Temple Bar Twonkey’s Kingdom: Brighton Fringe Festival Surreal cabaret show from the comedian and musician from the indie band, Dawn Of The Replicants 9.30pm £tbc Theatre Royal Circus Klezmer: Brighton Festival Does what it says on the tin - contemporary circus acts and Jewish klezmer music 11am/2.30pm £10-20; What Can You Do?: Brighton Festival A retrospective show of Neil Bartlett’s best theatre pieces 9.30pm £5-15 Three & Ten Ragnarök - The Weird Of The Gods:

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Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy musical based on Norse mythology from the singer of the wacky lo-fi band, Spalien Acecraft 3pm £9/7.50; Mating In Captivity: Brighton Fringe Festival A play about a married couple who haven’t had sex for a year, 7 months and 14 days not that anyone’s counting 5pm £9/7.50; Who Did I Think I Was?: Brighton Fringe Festival Tragicomedy about a reunited father and son - plus bicycles, electric shocks and spitfires 1pm/7pm £8.50/7.50; Off The Cuff - The Village: Brighton Fringe Festival Improv comedy group explore the sinister goings-on in an imaginary village 8.30pm £8.50/7; Max And Ivan Are... Con Artists: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy duo sketch show spoofing heist blockbusters 10pm £8.50/7 Verdict Julian Nicholas Quartet Live jazz 7.30pm £8/free Victory DJ Rob Taylor Soul, rock and alt pop 9pm £free Volks Sicknote: Apaul, Tony Montana “I’m afraid Jimmy cannot do games today as his mind melted at a techno club last night” 11pm £tbc Warren Much Ado About Wenlock: Brighton Fringe Festival Comical masked play about the Shropshire town that held its own rural Olympian Games in 1850 11.30am £8.50/6; A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Brighton Fringe Festival Shakespeare’s comical whimsy performed by Chyngton Youth Academy 4.15pm £8/6; Arnold Wesker’s The Mistress: Brighton Fringe Festival One-woman show about an adulterous fashion designer boozing with her mannequins 6pm £10/8.50; Bug By Tracy Letts: Brighton Fringe Festival Psychological thriller from the Pulitzer Prizewinning playwright 7.30pm £12.50/10.50; Bourgeois & Maurice And Friends!: Brighton Fringe Festival Alternative musical cabaret from the freaky duo 10pm £16.50 West Hill Tavern L’Amour Electronique The last ever night of french pop and electronic delights 9pm £free White Rabbit The Mixer Men DJ night 8pm £free

Sunday 27th

Belushi’s Bar Now That’s What I Call A Party In this instance, it’s okay to judge a book by its cover 9pm £free Black Lion Live & Swingin’ Lion Live gypsy jazz, swing and blues 9pm £free Blind Tiger Rom Com Con: Brighton Fringe Festival Lovelorn comedians put rom com cliches to the test 7pm £6.50/5.50 Brighton Marina The Boat Project - Departure: Brighton Festival At last year’s festival the public were asked to donate bits of wood that had some personal significance. That pile of nostalgic debris has now been turned into a seaworthy ship - watch it set sail on its maiden voyage 10am £free; Wilde’s The Importance Of Being Earnest: Brighton Fringe Festival A trivial comedy for serious people set during the 1952 coronation 8pm £7.50/5 Brunswick 2012FM Not The Olympic Opening Ceremony: Brighton Fringe Festival Comic tribute to the golden age of radio plays 2pm/4pm £5; Heather Cairncross & David Newton Live jazz 8pm £10/8 Caroline Of Brunswick Brighton Must Sees: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy showcase with some of the best fringe acts 3.15pm £free; Eccentronic - We Won’t Rock You: Brighton Fringe Festival Electronic duo do an oddball humorous musical mash-up 4.35pm £free; Aaron Twitchen’s Quarter Life Crisis: Brighton Fringe Festival The twenty-something post-uni dilemma examined with the help of stand-up, improv and a pinch of graduate psychological theory 5.45pm £free; Luisa Omielan - What Would Beyoncé Do?: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy improv for all the single ladies 7pm £free; Pandora’s Box: Brighton Fringe Festival Cabaret parody about a toilet attendant turned XXL stripper 8.15pm £5; Jody Kamali - Dirty, Filthy, Rich: Brighton Fringe Festival Spoof seminar with a ludicrous lifestyle guru 9.30pm £5/3; Test Tube Comedy: Brighton Fringe Festival Stand-up and sketch comedy acts hosted by Dec Munro 10.45pm £free Chequers Live Jazz Time tbc £free Cube Sunday Social Open decks session 8pm £free Dome King Priam: Brighton Festival Michael Tippett’s second opera performed by Britten Sinfonia and Brighton Festival Chorus 7pm £10-30 Dome Foyer Bar SOURCE New Music: Abi Wade Brighton’s best bands chosen by Brighton’s best listings mag Noon £free Dorset Gardens Peace Park Fire: Brighton Festival Poetry and classical music in praise of mankind’s enduring fascination with burning stuff 10pm £free Druid’s Arms Nice Weather For Airstrikes Festival: Her Name Is Calla Edgy acoustic music 3pm £free Duke Of Norfolk Live Music Night Live music from local artists 9pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema Charge Of The Light Brigade: Brighton Festival More Vanessa Redgrave 1.30pm £6.50-13; Albert Nobbs 4.30pm £tbc; Moonrise Kingdom 11am/7.15pm/9.15pm £tbc

Fishbowl Recovery? Reggae through the ages 9pm £free Fountain Head Super Awesome Quiz Pictionary, playdough, and a little bit of general knowledge 8pm £1; Reggae & Roasts Reggae and chilled beats Time tbc £free Globe Rockoustic Live acoustic music 8pm £free Grand Hotel Private Lives: Brighton Fringe Festival Noel Coward’s comedy of manners about a double honeymoon romance (advance booking only) 3pm £17/15 Green Door Store Tera Melos Experimental jazz and electro math rockers from California 7pm £7; Green Door Blues Blues band and DJs 10pm £free Hampton The Sunday Supper Sessions Open mic might 7pm £free Haunt Awolnation American indie pop band 7pm £8 Hobgoblin Kiss Of The Red Menace: Brighton Fringe Festival Musical tribute to Kander & Ebb, the partnership behind Broadway classics like Cabaret, Chicago and Funny Lady 4.30pm/8.15pm £free; Divinely Bette: Brighton Fringe Festival One-woman show celebrating the life and work of Bette Midler with banter, ballads and comedy 3.15pm/9.30pm £free Honey Sundays At The Honey If your house was this sexy you’d need to keep the letterbox well-oiled 11pm £3/2/free Jubilee Square A Dirty Martini With Evelyn Waugh: Brighton Fringe Festival Theatrical and debauched performance driven by the audience 7.15pm £9 Komedia The Silent Movie Experience David Watts jazzes up old films with breakbeat percussion, honky tonk piano and a comedic touch 2pm £9/7; Three Bonzos And A Piano Comedy songs 7.30pm £16/12; Krater Comedy Club: Benny Boot, Mark Olver, Keith Farnan, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 8pm £511.50; The Lovely Brothers: Brighton Fringe Festival Eccentric and anarchic comedy band play preposterous vaudeville power pop laced with satire, silliness and disturbing dance routines 8.30pm £5/4 Latest Music Bar Stories With Tea: Brighton Fringe Festival Lynn Ruth Miller talks about life, loss and laughter - includes tea and biscuits 4pm £6; Sadie And The Faded Ladies: Brighton Fringe Festival An actress bumps into an old friend and starts to reminiscence, banter and sing the songs of the good old days 9pm £8 Life Dagger Soundsystem Terrace Party Reggae, dancehall, rocksteady and ska 3pm £free Mystery Location The Strange Undoing Of Prudencia Hart: Brighton Festival Anarchic and musical theatre inspired by the border ballads of Scotland (the location is revealed when you book a ticket) 7.30pm £18.50 Neptune In Cahoots Folk and bluegrass band 8.30pm £free Ohso Social Sundown Sundaze Beach party 7pm £free Old Market Cloud Man: Brighton Festival Poetic puppetry for all the family 11am/1pm/3pm £8/6; Beach Party Animals: Brighton Fringe Festival A 20-minute portrait of seaside eccentricity, shown every half hour 2pm £free Pavilion Theatre Romesh Gunesekera & Abdulrazak Gurnah: Brighton Festival Two novelists give readings and discuss ideas of exile and identity 1pm £8.50; The School Of Life: Brighton Festival Short talks on the art of living well 3pm £10; Why Willows Weep: Brighton Festival Short stories about nature 7.30pm £10 Preston Park Moscow State Circus 2pm/5pm £tbc Proud Cabaret Passenger Wistful singer songwriter backed by gentle electro touches 8pm £7 Psychosocial Brighton Twisted Market & Fetish After Party Noon/6pm £5 Quadrant Charmian Hughes - Charmageddon! Comedienne laughs in the face of the apocalypse (and snogs Chris Huhne) 8pm £4.50/3.50 Ranelagh The Elevators Uplifting electric blues 8.30pm £free Riki Tik The Lock In DJ night with freebies 10pm £free Signalman Open Mic Open session hosted by local duo, Zoothyme 8pm £free Temple Bar Matt Green - Playful: Brighton Fringe Festival Stand-up comedy 7.30pm £5; Twonkey’s Kingdom: Brighton Fringe Festival Surreal cabaret show from the comedian and musician from the indie band, Dawn Of The Replicants 9.30pm £tbc Three & Ten Ragnarök - The Weird Of The Gods: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy musical based on Norse mythology from the singer of the wacky lo-fi band, Spalien Acecraft 3pm £9/7.50; Mating In Captivity: Brighton Fringe Festival A play about a married couple who haven’t had sex for a year, 7 months and 14 days not that anyone’s counting 5pm £9/7.50; My Gay Best Friend: Brighton Fringe Festival Camp comedy play about a diva trapped in a toilet on her big night 6.45pm £10/8; Pappy’s: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy sketch troupe 8.30pm £9.50/8 Victory Blues Sundays DJ plays blues and soul

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Monday 28th

Ancient Mariner Quiz Night 8pm £1 Bee’s Mouth The Bee’s Mouth Jazz Forum Jazz jam with a house band 8.30pm £free Belushi’s Bar Pump Up The 90s Retro night dedicated to the decade that was dedicated to retro nights 10pm £free Blind Tiger Tennis Husband and wife indie pop from Denver 8pm £8.50 Brunswick Open Mic 8.30pm £free Chequers Open Mic Play for a pint 8pm £free Coalition Trash Mondays Filthy tunes for students and layabouts alike 10.30pm £5/3/free Concorde2 The Melvins Sludge grunge goons 7.30pm £15 Duke Of York’s Cinema Moonrise Kingdom 4pm/9pm £tbc Gladstone Open Mic Night 9pm £free Green Door Store Metal Monday Full metal racket 10pm £free Hampton The Hampton Quiz 8.30pm £1 Hydrant Bearfight, The Blow Outs, Gnarwolves Live music 8pm £free Komedia Kathryn Williams - The Pond The Mercury-nominated singer songwriter in a new vintage pop and ethnic folk trio 7pm £16.50 Life #Hashtag Brand new and ungoogleable club night 10.30pm £3/2 Lola Lo Fat Poppadaddys Student indie night 9pm £3 Mesmerist Stroll On Mondays 60s and 70s night with DJs and film projections 8.30pm £free Neptune Vinyl Night 8.30pm £free Preston Park Moscow State Circus 5pm/7.45pm £tbc Prince Albert Born To Lose 8.30pm £3 Psychosocial Into The Void New metal night that’s likely to feature more windmills than a farm in the Dutch lowlands 11pm £free Sallis Benney Theatre Raiders Of The Lost Ark: Monday Movies Indiana Jones fights the Nazis for a box of evil fireworks 6pm £3 Signalman Signalman Pub Quiz 8pm £1 Theatre Royal Bette And Joan Anton Burge’s comedy drama starring Anita Dobson 7.45pm £13-32 Victory Poetry Night Live poetry readings 8pm £free Volks Strictly Reggae Dancehall, roots, revival 11pm £5/4.50

Tuesday 29th

Green Door Store Donna Fullman Album launch for indie folk singer songwriter 7.30pm £7 Honey Latin Fever: DJ Aaron George, Gabriel Angel, Yersin Rivas Dance lessons followed by a tropically vibed salsa club 8pm/10pm £3/1/free Jive Monkey Quiz Night Details tbc Komedia Duke Special, Foreign Slippers Pianobased alternative songwriter 7.30pm £12 Lola Lo Dirtee Laundry Student night 10pm £6/4/2 Preston Park Moscow State Circus 5pm £tbc Red Lion Challenging General Knowledge & Music Quiz 8pm £1 Theatre Royal Bette And Joan Anton Burge’s comedy drama starring Anita Dobson 7.45pm £13-32 World’s End Poker Night 8pm £tbc

Wednesday 30th

Audio Supercharged Drum&bass and breaks 11pm £6/4 Bee’s Mouth Open Mic 8.30pm £free Belushi’s Bar Now That’s What I Call A Party In this instance, it’s okay to judge a book by its cover 9pm £free Belushi’s Below Detention 8pm £free Black Lion The Black Lion Acoustic Showcase Live music 8.30pm £free Blind Tiger Anais Mitchell, The Young Man Band Singer songwriter with witty words and a 70s sound 8pm £11 Brunswick Southdown Housing Association Party 8pm £free Chequers Quiz Night 8pm £1 Coalition CoCo LoCo Commercial chart music for students 10.30pm £5/3/2 Cube Wicked Wednesdays House DJs 8pm £free Digital Poundance Like a coin operated dancefloor 11pm £4/3/1 Druid’s Arms We Change The Tempo DJ set of international sounds 9pm £free Duke Of Norfolk Pub Quiz 9pm £1 Duke Of York’s Cinema Moonrise Kingdom 11am/4pm/9pm £tbc Fishbowl Tea & Biscuits: DJ Gareth Stephens Retro swing, soul and ska 10pm £free Fountain Head Student Night DJs play indie and rock 8pm £free Globe Global Bass: DJ Ted Lauren DJ delves into the bassier side of jazz, gypsy and world music 9pm £free Green Door Store Nightingales, Ted Chippington, Piranhas 3D First wave art-punk indie band supported by cult anti-comedian 7.30pm £10/8; Hard Times They can take our disposable income, but they’ll never take our nowave disco! 10.30pm £free Hope Regional Dialect Spoken word, poetry and hip hop 8pm £4; The E.M.E. Jazz hop DJs (downstairs) 8.30pm £free Hydrant Mark And The Madmen, Lines Horizontal Live music 8pm £free Jive Monkey Funk & Soul DJs (in the bar) 8pm £free Komedia Marcus Bonfanti & Matt Guest Blues rock guitar 7.30pm £12.50 Mesmerist The Swing Ninjas Gypsy swing band 9pm £free Prince Albert Hatful Of Rain Album launch for local bluegrass band 8.30pm £4 Psychosocial Live ‘N’ Laughing: Joey Page, Kieran Poole, Jarred Christmas, The Beautiful Word Stand up comedy and live indie music 7pm £7/4/3 Sallis Benney Theatre Drum Clinic Drumming masterclass with Pat Garvey and Luke Flowers 6pm £15/12.50/10 Theatre Royal Bette And Joan Anton Burge’s comedy drama starring Anita Dobson 7.45pm £13-32 Volks Switch Up Drum&bass, electro and dubstep night Details tbc

Thursday 31st

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SIX OF THE BEST

FESTIVAL APPEARANCES THAT WE WERE TECHNicALLY AT BUT WE, ER, MISSED WORDS BY NICK COQUET, STUART HUGGET, JAMES KENDALL, ROSIE KENDALL

You know what it’s like – you see that full-page ad in the NME for Reading or Glastonbury and you go through the line-up like an old lady with the Radio Times at Christmas, highlighting lovely things to watch. Then you get there, and somehow all sense of timely organisation deserts you along with your senses, as you self-medicate yourself into a babbling saucer-eyed stupor. Well, relax – you’re not on your own. We’ve missed some actually legendary performances.

Pulp

Glastonbury 1995

Some say it was the true making of Pulp after years gradually struggling their way out of the indie wilderness. They stepped into the Stone Roses’ shoes after they cancelled their headline slot and properly stole the show with a set that for the first time showed the world what a closing performance at the very height of Britpop ought to be like. We can confirm this by dint of the extensive press coverage the show earned them – we were suffering a mild marijuana psychosis in our tent at the time. Bugger. (NC)

Nirvana

Reading 1991 (and 1992)

Oh, it’s easy to mock now. But in 1991 Nirvana were no good. ‘Nevermind’ wouldn’t be released for a month or so – all we had to go by was that ‘Bleach’ record which, if we’re all honest, was shouty and poor [What?! – Ed]. So it was with a nonchalant “meh” that we greeted them onstage halfway through a hazy afternoon and fucked off – probably on our way to an urgent appointment elsewhere with Ned’s Atomic Dustbin or someone. We’ve no excuse for when they headlined the next year though, and no recollection whatsoever of what kept us from witnessing it. (NC)

Radiohead

Glastonbury 1997

When people talk about Radiohead’s performance being one of the best of the period when they actually played, you know, songs, we can agree. We watched it. On TV. A black and white portable TV, whilst under a duvet in our warm London flat. Despite having been in Glastonbury until that morning, it was one of the best decisions we ever made. Relentlessly pissing with rain, trenchfooted soldiers from the Somme would have complained about the mud, and we had to take all our

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weekend’s drugs to make it though the first day. We stayed for The Wannadies and then left. At least, unlike our mate Dave who kicked his tent apart in a muddy rage before the festival started, we didn’t miss every band. (JK)

Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

The Bowlie Weekender 1999

When sensitive, cello-toting troubadours Belle & Sebastian put together the first Bowlie Weekender (later All Tomorrow’s Parties) at Pontins, Camber Sands, it’s fair to say that highoctane rock’n’roll mayhem didn’t feature heavily on the bill. That is, with the exception of ‘Big’ Jon Spencer’s sweatdrenched Blues Explosion. JSBX pretty much tore the hall a new exit, only yards away from the patch of floor where I was blissfully sleeping off the effects of an all day booze adventure with the Fortuna Pop! massive. Them indie kids may look twee, but they can drink you under the table. (SH)

David Bowie

Glastonbury 2000

I blame Bobby Gillespie. Primal Scream had kicked off 2000 with the awesome ‘XTRMNTR’, and there were heavy hints of a surprise Glasto set. Even after three fruitless days of trooping to Avalon’s far corners to investigate any TBC gaps in the programme, I was still hopeful. So, on Sunday night, as David Bowie broke into ‘Wild Is The Wind’ at the start of what turned out to be a famously hit-filled headlining set, I sodded off to some arse end stage of the Eavis smallholding, found nothing happening at all, and fell in some mud. Again. (SH)

Oasis

Glastonbury 1995

After peaking too early with 24 hours of sunshine, tequila, and cocaine we needed a quick shut-eye before tackling Friday’s entertainment. Coming round 15 minutes later we wandered to the Pyramid stage where a second rate band were playing tedious pub rock. “What’s this dog dirt?” we exclaimed, consulting the programme “Ah, the Black Crowes, of course” and left immediately in search of something, anything, else. No, actually, that would be Oasis headlining with a ‘Definitely Maybe’ based set. My watch had stopped and we’d lost half the evening. Legendary band showcasing their classic album? Maybe. Dog dirt? Definitely. (RK)

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