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volume 2. Issue 55 MAY 2013
Massive Festival Special! featuring: Great Escape, Brighton Festival, Fringe, Brighton’s neo-electronic soul Open Houses and festival guide
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It’s not just us, is it? Gigs are getting much, much louder, right? Maybe it’s our maternal love for Brighton, but we’re genuinely concerned for people’s hearing. As our dad always reminds us, “You only get one pair of ears.” What’s going on? Is it something to do with the fact that soundsystems are much better now, or maybe that sound engineers all wear fancy frequency-balanced earplugs? Either way, music is too noisy and something’s got to give. When we went to see Public Image Ltd, who crammed the Concorde with extra speakers, we honesty thought we’d gone deaf. Two days later things still weren’t right. Orbital, Sunn O))) and Swans were similarly worrying. This isn’t some ‘health and safety gone mad’ stance – members of the SOURCE staff have got permanent tinnitus and can confirm that it’s no fun at all. So in this month where there’s so much going on, look after your lugholes with some decent earplugs (and venues, please do your part to keep people safe too). You don’t want that Great Escape performance to be memorable as the last time you could hear the sounds of crickets in the heat, children playing, or your lover calling you to bed for sordid sex.
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Contents
News New In Town Gig Previews Interview: Anushka Club Previews Club Review: ENK Club Review: Jazznote Culture Art: The Stick Up Locally Sourced Preview: Great Escape Preview: Alternative Escape Preview: Brighton Festival Preview: Brighton Fringe Preview: Artists’ Open Houses Preview: Festivals Street Style Unsung Hero: Julian Caddy Secret Eater: Jamaica Inn In Conversation With: Jane Bom-Bane Listings Six Of The Best: Children’s Books
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NEWS
Words by Stuart Huggett, James kendall Teoh Lander-Boyce, Liam Lawrence
Win A £540 Create Shoot
One of our favourite parts of the month is putting one of our favourite bands or artists in front of the lens of Create Studio’s Kenny Mc Cracken and seeing the amazing pictures that emerge. It’s sad that we only get to do it 12 times a year so this competition to win a shoot with Kenny worth £540 is something we had to be part of. Email hello@welovecreate.com with your current band/artist photo and a link to some music online (Soundcloud, YouTube, Bandcamp etc) and Create will post it to facebook.com/ welovecreate for SOURCE readers to vote for their favourites.
Levellers Anniversary
Folk-rock legends Levellers are set to celebrate their 25th anniversary with a rare hometown gig at St. Bartholomew’s Church on July 19th. The band also release a re-recording of ‘The Recruiting Sergeant’ (from their 2012 album ‘Static On The Airwaves’) on a five-track anti-war EP this month. The new version features collaborations with Sussex traditional singers The Copper Family, as well as musicians Shona Kipling and Dan Walsh.
Writers’ Award
A new literary award launched by Brighton-based charity Creative Future aims to discover gifted unsung writers from disadvantaged backgrounds who would otherwise find it hard to get their work recognised. Poet, playwright and broadcaster Lemn Sissay will be judging the award with winners being announced at an awards ceremony at Charleston house in September. The theme of the competition is ‘The Spark’. Download an entry form at creativefuture.org.uk
hippo plans
In its heyday, it played host to the biggest acts in the world, from Laurel & Hardy and Harry Houdini to The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, but it’s looking unlikely that live entertainment will return to Brighton Hippodrome any time soon. Latest plans submitted for the
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long-dormant, Grade II listed Middle Street venue focus on its renovation as an eight-screen cinema and restaurant complex. Although nothing’s yet set in stone in this longrunning saga, at least there’s signs of life in the old dame.
Resonance radio
Internationally renowned London station Resonance FM hosts a weekend of radio broadcasts from the Brighthelm Centre during The Great Escape. Hosts include comedian and critic Stewart Lee, DJ and collector Jonny Trunk and artist Bob & Roberta Smith, and the residency features live sessions and guests throughout the festival. There’ll also be a pop-up record shop to drop in on. Resonance’s Great Escape broadcasts run Thurs 16th - Sat 18th, tune in online at resonancefm.com
Label Fayre
Also getting involved in The Great Escape this year, Brighton label Faux Discx host an Independent Record Fayre at West Hill Hall on Sat 18th. As well as Faux Discx – run by Cold Pumas/The Soft Walls musician Dan Reeves – other labels taking part include FatCat, Upset The Rhythm, Gringo, Italian Beach Babes and more. Following the Fayre, there’s an evening of live music from Cold Pumas, Stuart Warwick, Lab Coast, Vision Fortune and Teardrop Factory.
Psych party
SOURCE teams up with One Inch Badge and ESP for a psychedelic all-night show at the Concorde 2 this summer. The Endless Summer Psychedelia party gets underway at sunset on Sat 10th August, presenting heady music, live art, tripped out visuals and freakery until the morning light. The event’s shaped by modern psych maestro Richard Norris (Time & Space Machine, Beyond The Wizard’s Sleeve), with live bands TBC.
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New In Town Words by Stuart Huggett, Liam Lawrence, James Kendall, Jessica Marshall McHattie
Win An iPad With HitMeUp
This month SOURCE has teamed up with HitMeUp, a free iPhone app for discovering and sharing what’s happening around you. With some of the best elements of Twitter, Instagram and Google Maps, HitMeUp is an interesting new way of sharing recommendations occurring now – from great food you’re tucking into to a band that’s blowing you away. We will be featuring event listings and previews through the app so whenever you’re at a loose end and you can’t find a mag, check it to see what’s happening. Any photos that you take through the app tagged @brightonsource will be featured on the live map page and the image with the most ‘Hits’ will be entered into our competition to win an iPad Mini. Just search HitMeUp in the app store or download from hitmeup.co/app
Fringe Nights
Juice 107.2 expands its Brighton Fringe coverage this year with a new radio show, transmitting four nights a week throughout the festival. Brighton Fringe Nights is broadcast Monday to Thursday, 10pm til midnight, with hosts including TV and radio presenter Toby Amies, critic Garry Mulholland, comedian Romesh Ranganathan and cabaret impresario Boogaloo Stu. The show features a mix of Fringe previews and reviews with guest interviews and performers from across the festival programme.
The Greys
Melting Vinyl have started promoting shows at Hanover pub The Greys, starting with London folksinger and former Laura Marling sideman Pete Roe on Mon 13th. Having welcomed countless stars of the folk and alt-country world through its doors over the years, there were worries about the future of live music at the Greys after it changed hands late last year, so we’re pleased to see quality bookings back underway.
Lux
The Green Door Store launch Lux this month, transforming the venue into a blank canvas that gives artists free reign to experiment. To accompany the aesthetic, Lux will be playing host to burgeoning electronic musicians and DJs spinning the
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likes of Flying Lotus and Nosaj Thing. Aiming to support local talent in art, music and video, the free showcase launches on Thurs 9th then every second Thursday of the months following.
Emporium
Opening its doors in time for the Fringe, Emporium is a theatre space making use of the old Methodist Church on London Road. The building, across the street from Richer Sounds, has stood empty for several years until now. The Emporium’s mission statement includes ambitions to revive the traditions of regional repertory theatre and act as an industry hub. The venue is equipped with a bar and will also host exhibitions of props and scenery from theatre and the movies.
Shooshh
Up and running on the site of the old Honey Club, Shooshh is Brighton’s latest VIP-styled seafront clubbing destination. The weekends are all about dressing to impress, while Mondays are set aside for Shooshh’s student night Kiss. Meanwhile, in taxis across the city: “Where to, mate?” “Shoosh” “Suit yourself, mate, but if you don’t tell me we’ll never get there” etc.
D-P0RT
Brighton breaks duo Evil Nine headline the Komedia’s new night D-P0RT on Fri 31st. Evil Nine’s Tom Beaufoy and Pat Pardy have a decade of acclaimed releases on Marine Parade, Bad Life and their own For Lovers label to their credit, with their DJing skills acknowledged by releases for FabricLive and Distinctive’s Y4K series. D-P0RT’s night of ‘future electronic dance music’ takes place at Komedia on the last Friday of every month.
Treehouse Disco
Swing’s under-represented in the midweek club scene, and if you’ve been lamenting its absence, we bear good news. Launching at FunFair on Weds 8th, Treehouse Disco is bringing afrobeat, jazz rhythms, soul and disco to the dancefloor for a night that positively dares you not to boogie. It’s hosted by a plethora of well-practised local DJs with a selection of drinks deals if your dancing shoes need a little loosening.
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GIG PREVIEWS
Words by Chris Biggs, Steve Clements, Simon England, James Fox, Lizzi Hart, james Kendall, Jake Kennedy, Liam Lawrence, Jessica Marshall McHattie, Amy Jo McLellan, Anna Thomas
oOoOO
Green Door Store Weds 1st
A performance on this side of the pond from San Francisco native oOoOO (pronounced simply “oh” apparently) is a rare and coveted thing. Drawing from a range of diverse musical influences, from Jana Hunter and Matteah Baim to Ludacris and Britney Spears, oOoOO’s experimental sound is one of a kind. A pioneer of the witch-house and drag genres, fans of Salem, White Ring and Balam Acab will be right at home amidst oOoOO’s sombre soundscapes that manage to simultaneously evoke reactions from limbs and tearducts alike. (LL)
FRESH PUNK 3
Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Weds 1st
Seven bands for £4 is something you can’t really turn down in these austere times. And if you attended the last Fresh Punk event back in September, you’ll know this is worth getting down and getting loose for. Gruff Cornish crew Bangers headline, whose name should paint a clear enough picture of what their songs are like. Support comes from four Brighton bands in Fighting Fiction, Eager Teeth, Birdskulls and Wrecktheplacefantastic, along with Eastbourne’s ROAM and Norwich’s Ducking Punches. (CB)
Trapped Under Ice
Audio Weds 1st
After a brutal knockout set at Hevy fest last summer, Baltimore giants Trapped Under Ice will be bringing that same intensity to Brighton shores for the first time. Audio is a surprising choice of venue for a hardcore show, but this will still see plenty of people going absolutely nuts. Tour support in the shape of the growingly popular New York outfit Backtrack and UK vets Broken Teeth means that it’ll also be undoubtedly packed to the rafters. (JF)
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Experimental rap noise duo Death Grips have had a meteoric rise fuelled by some ferocious free music, although their giveaway of last year’s cock-covered ‘No Love Deep Web’ got them dropped by their label. Consisting of MC Ride on vocals and Hella drummer Zach Hill on production, their live sets are reminiscent of an unholy fusion of Sex Pistols punk and Wu-Tang hip hop. The charismatic and perpetually topless MC Ride performs with a passion and energy that shows a love for his craft and makes it abundantly clear why critics and fans just can’t get enough of them. (LL)
Athlete
Haunt Sun 5th
Deptford indie rockers Athlete pioneered a chart rush of radio-friendly and soulless lo-fi, but we can’t blame them for their imitators. 2003’s Mercury Music Prize nominated ‘Vehicles And Animals’ is one of those sneaky albums that you know all of the words to, but don’t know why. They’ve released loads since then but that debut remains the pinnacle of their career, which they’ll be performing in full in this pre-tour warm-up show. (JMM)
Still Corners
Prince Albert Mon 6th
2013 thus far has seen music almost drown in a sea of female led dream-pop, however London duo Still Corners stand a cut above the rest. Signed to Sub Pop, their brand of ethereal, haunting 80s synthpop draws more than a few parallels to The Cranes and Cocteau Twins, with melodies reminiscent of The Cure or The Passions. Touring with their new album ‘Strange Pleasures’, this show will provide the perfect antidote to a hectic bank holiday weekend. (AT)
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GIG PREVIEWS
Junip
Dance Gavin Dance
Haunt Thurs 9th
Sacramento six-piece Dance Gavin Dance come to the shores of Brighton on their debut UK tour, showing off their delicate and complex post-hardcore with a new line-up. After the troubled departure of former frontman Jonny Craig, their new tour sees them showing off new singer Tilian Pearson. And with an as yet untitled fifth studio album due this summer, the promise of new songs means this show will be unmissable for their patient British fans. (LH)
Asbo Derek
Hope Fri 10th
Following a triumphant set opening for punk originals Subway Sect last month, Brighton’s self-proclaimed ‘kazoo-driven double garage rockers’ are back as part of a well-rounded bill that also features awkward musical humourists I, Ludicrous and Fractured. Expect booze-fuelled, post-punk shenanigans with filthily hilarious songs about Tory politicians, Brigitte Bardot’s fading looks and the joys of crimping your hair. Fans of Half Man Half Biscuit should take note, as should anyone up for a good laugh and a jump around. (SC)
Parlour Flames Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Sat 11th
Who’d have thought that when Oasis broke up we’d end up with triple the music? Bonehead (here with Vinny Peculiar) left Gallagher² when they were at the top of their game, so has a reputation to fight for. Parlour Flames’ sound predates the Manchester Britpop blueprint for a more tripped out, baggy set of songs that fall between Northside and The La’s, but Oasis fans will enjoy it, not least for a better view than Knebworth. (JK)
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Deptford Goth
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On first listen Daniel Woolhouse aka Deptford Goth could simply be described as a James Blake substitute, but further listens reveal more layers to his sound. The xx, and in particular Jamie xx’s remix work, are touchstones for tracks such as ‘Union’ and ‘People Get Still’, while vocally there is even a air of Bon Iver about him. The Unitarian Church is the perfect setting for his mix of haunting, soulful vocals and electronic beats, creating a perfect blend of old and new. (SE)
Junip
Haunt Sat 11th
When he’s not making people cry with tremblingly mournful covers of The Knife and Massive Attack, José González plays in Swedish indie folk band Junip. Their second, self-titled LP, was released at the end of April, and their original sound is rougher, rockier and more psychedelic than their frontman’s covers. González’ recognisable vocals and the band’s soaring guitar riffs and woozy echoes will still make your heart ache though, if that’s what you’re looking for. (JMM)
Wolf People
Blind Tiger Sun 12th
There are so many psych bands gigging at the moment that if we could lift ourselves from this smoky haze we’d wonder if we’ve travelled back to the 60s. Even so, Wolf People deserve a notable mention. Technically tight, stylishly right-on and unafraid of a panpipe sample, they released ‘Fain’ at the end of April, and it’s brilliant. Sleazy riffs strut over confident drums, overlaid with grandiose tales of looking through souls and seeing highwaymen. It’s weird and it works. (JMM)
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GIG PREVIEWS
Bass drum of death
Bass Drum Of Death Green Door Store Mon 13th
Fat Possum’s Bass Drum Of Death played their first ever UK show in Brighton almost two years ago at the Green Door Store’s Aereo, and now the duo return with their scuzzed out garage assault on a Monday - frankly the least rock’n’roll night of the week. No matter, these dudes are adaptable - they’ve played with members of Odd Future in a rock/rap crossover that actually worked in the past, although whether or not such deviations from their primal sonic assault will occur tonight is unsure. (JKY)
The Big Reunion Brighton Centre Mon 13th
Somehow, guilty pleasure bands from the 90s and 00s have become more interesting than today’s pop offerings. ITV2 reality show The Big Reunion has been a surprise hit with viewers, despite the initial hilarity of 5ive returning as a quartet. If you, like many others, secretly enjoyed seeing Liberty X and Honeyz trying to get to grips with their old dance routines, you may as well see the finished products live. You can try and hide your love for the likes of B*witched, 911 and Atomic Kitten but you’ll only be lying to yourself. (AJM)
Pierce The Veil
Haunt Weds 15th
Three albums in, and San Diego’s mariachi/post hardcore outfit Pierce The Veil are surrounded by a hype that’s bigger than ever. After last year’s very well received ‘Collide With Sky’, their first UK tour of their new material should see a phenomenal response. Support comes from Atlanta band Woe, Is Me, sporting a new vocalist and a progressed metalcore sound. (LH)
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McFly
Brighton Centre Thurs 16th
Whenever a band announces a ‘Best Of’ tour, many predict a split. However, McFly’s maturing fans don’t have to fear the end. Although the pop muppets are taking a trip down memory lane to revisit the last decade, they’re not planning on stopping anytime soon as they work on their sixth studio album. Despite their second incomes as reality TV contestants and children’s authors (sadly The Dinosaur That Pooped Christmas narrowly missed this month’s Six Of The Best feature), making new music remains at the forefront of their careers. (AJM)
Public Service Broadcasting
Haunt Tues 21st
It is difficult to find other artists who do what Public Service Broadcasting duo J Willgoose and Wrigglesworth do. The clue is in their name as they splice in samples of public information broadcasts into various electronic styles. Post-punk guitars sit alongside synths and electro beats with the only vocals coming from samples they have lifted from sources like the BFI archives, such as the 1953 documentary that features at the core of single ‘Everest’. (SE)
ALLISTER
Haunt Weds 22nd
Back in the early to mid 2000s, Drive-Thru Records were the go-to label when it came to pop-punk and emo for teenagers. Their roster included New Found Glory, RX Bandits, Homegrown, Finch and The Movielife, as well as Allister, whose second LP ‘Last Stop Suburbia’ recently had its ten year anniversary. To celebrate a whole decade’s worth of yelling “Somewhere down on Fullerton’, Allister are embarking on a UK tour to perform the catchy release in its entirety. (CB)
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GIG PREVIEWS
Chris Wood
Basement Sun 26th
Vondelpark
Green Door Store Tues 28th
Chris Wood’s multiple wins at the Radio 2 Folk Awards in recent years came after a long apprenticeship on the English scene. Wood was a very early member of Kent’s Oysterband at the dawn of the 80s, and since then has collaborated with musicians from English family royalty Martin and Eliza Carthy to everyone’s favourite nonfolk folksinger Billy Bragg. Multi-instrumentalist Wood combines a deep knowledge of these isles’ traditional music with subject matter ranging from Darwin to the death of Jean Charles de Menezes. (SH)
Delivering their own pared down, atmospheric version of r’n’b and electronica, Vondelpark arrive at the Green Door Store with the release of debut album ‘Seabed’. Inviting comparisons to James Blake, Sade and The xx, the Surrey trio make haunting melodies layered with hypnotic beats, misty guitars and, as they put it, ‘radiohead quietstorm’. Drawing on influences such as Barry White and Herbie Hancock via My Bloody Valentine, it’s a whole new dreamscape. Vonderful. (AT)
Internet Forever
Prince Albert Fri 31st
If you like scratchy bedroom recordings, Casiotone For The Painfully Alone and looking at videos of cats online, this will be right up your router. A young man with the moniker Heartbeeps and two friends he met through LiveJournal are taking twee to the extreme under the guise of Internet Forever, and this is their first proper tour. Co-headlining are Her Parents. Have you seen Her Parents? Her Parents are pretty cool. We see what they did there. (JMM)
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Anushka
Bleeding edge dance music meets bleeding heart neo-soul Photo By Kenny Mc Cracken at Create Studios Assisted by Kristina Sälgvik
Words By James Kendall
Thanks to bands like The Maccabees, British Sea Power and Bat For Lashes, Brighton has long been known as an indie city. And with Kins, Tall Ships, The Physics House Band and many more representing us at The Great Escape this year, we’re still holding our own with acts that have drummers. But actually there’s an underground scene of electronic music that is getting more props internationally that you might realise. Driven by the influence of Donga’s house-revitalising Well Rounded imprint – alongside the continuing work of Blah Blah Blah, supporting and releasing cutting edge nu-electronica – Brighton is crawling with artists doing very well in the sets of the world’s best DJs. Dauwd just dropped a neo-Detroit style release on Ghostly International, Lorca’s new garage-flavoured EP on 2020 Vision, ‘If I Told You’, is getting props all over, while Leon Vynehall’s skippy 90s style house tore up Boiler Room at the end of last year. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
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Anushka are the perfect example of the scene in that they’re completely different from their contemporaries, while slotting into the bass sound that Brighton is nailing right now. Where Anushka stand apart is in their soul and jazz influences. Debut single ‘Yes Guess’ is deliciously moody and late night, with cool keys and stuttered Theo Parrish beats, but comes topped with a breathy vocal from Victoria that could stand up against the best that soul music has to offer. Yet with enough volume the drops absolutely explode. It’s quite a package. Elsewhere across the EP, ‘I Have Love 4 You’ has a feel of one of MJ Cole’s productions with Elizabeth Troy – full of melody, euphoric vocals and grown up garage beats. It’s the sort of jazz and soul–tipped track that would have been totally at home on Talkin’ Loud, so it makes sense that Gilles Peterson, the former boss of that imprint, snapped up Anushka for his
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hip hop to house and techno is a jump rarely made, but like lots of producers breathing life into sounds from the 90s, Max started his journey by exploring dubstep and grime, although for slightly unconventional reasons. “I’ve taught music a lot in Brighton, often working with young offenders,” Max explains. “A lot of that has taken me through grime, dubstep, those types of music. When I was doing the same in the north of England, it was hard house that the kids wanted to make. All of those sounds are a bit darker, bleaker and at different tempos. So I was looking at all of that, and having an experimental period of producing different stuff to see what interested me.” He’d tried working with vocalists before but nothing had really gelled until Victoria came along. The first set of instrumentals he gave her to write vocals to contained soulful tracks and one that was pretty dark. Expecting her to avoid the moody track, Max knew things were going to work when she came back with a song over the shadowy beats. “I think the thing that we had in common straight away is that we both liked going out raving,” Max says. “When we met we were going to a lot of the Well Rounded parties at the Tube, and Below The Line. It was when that whole bass music thing wasn’t cool, before techno and house really came back. There was a lot of different stuff being played, and we both enjoyed being out, listening to sound systems.” Those nights have clearly become a huge part of Anushka’s sound, alongside The Producer’s Retreat at The Caxton Arms, where the pair, and other local electronic music makers, tested their new studio work. “There’s definitely a network of people making good music in Brighton,” confirms Max. “It’s not like our sound has just come from nowhere, it’s definitely been influenced by all the people around us.” “People in Brighton really engage with each other’s projects in comparison to anywhere else,” adds Victoria.
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Brownswood label, having played ‘Yes Guess’ on his Radio 1 show before it was even mastered. “I think musically they get what we’re trying to do,” says Max. “Gilles’ reputation is ridiculous, people just have crazy respect for him. The reason it’s like that is that he constantly wants to innovate. He obviously loves songs, and he loves the soulful sound present in our music, but I think he also wants something that’s gonna surprise him with a little bit of edge to it.” While they sound like they popped into Gilles’ world fully formed, the reason that Anushka have such an interesting take on bass is that they’ve come to the genre from rather interesting directions. Victoria studied at BIMM and sang in jazz bands and on drum’n’bass and dubstep sessions, while Max was in Tru Thoughts’ hip hop outfit Dirty Diggers. From
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Unlike Victoria’s previous experiences singing sessions for dance music producers, working with Max was a two way street straight away. “I personally wanted to be involved from the get-go in all kinds of aspects of making the records,” Victoria says. “Not just writing songs and recording, but also sitting in on little production sessions, just to make sure it’s a 50/50 input. It’s the way we want it to sound, rather than just how the one person wants it to sound.” This month they’re not only basking in the success of their debut single and a Boiler Room set, but also readying themselves for the debut performance at The Great Escape, not least for Victoria, who worked it as a BIMM student a couple of years ago. “For my first year in Brighton it was part of my work experience,” she recalls, “running around at the Great Escape. I love it, I think it’s a great festival, and I’m really excited to finally get to play.” “We’re really excited about doing a gig in Brighton,” confirms Max. “Our label and our management are all in London and we’ve done a lot of shows there. It’s nice to be coming back to Brighton and showing some of the music we’ve been working on.” We get the impression that Anushka are going to continue to be pulled out of Brighton, both as a live act and in the record bags of every DJ of note.
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Club Previews Words by Stuart Huggett, James Kendall, Teoh Lander-Boyce, Liam Lawrence, Jessica Marshall McHattie
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Easter’s long gone, but don’t worry: Be Nothing are offering up a new holy trinity of Britney, inflatables and Jägerbombs for their second birthday party at the Green Door Store. To help them celebrate two years of inspired bookings and wild parties are live bands Shudder Pulps, Girl Band and Tourist, and the early hours DJs include local trip hop producer Adolescent. Be Nothing know how to party hard. (JMM)
Although best known for being a founding member of trip hopdefining Massive Attack, Grant Marshall started out as a DJ. Before being catapulted into the international spotlight with Massive’s ‘Blue Lines’, he found fame in Bristol for being one of the youngest yet most talented DJs working the circuit. Expect a truly passionate showcase of the historic Bristol sound as Marshall revisits his roots, with support coming from regular Portishead DJ Andy Smith. (LL)
Floating Points
Ghosting Season
It’s only the third event by new club night in town Forekast, but it’s another stellar booking. Classically trained pianist, full time neuroscientist, jazz fan and all-round club smasher Floating Points is this month’s headliner, and in support is Hannah Wants, a self-taught house producer who seems to be everywhere this year. The fun doesn’t end in the main room, with Dominion, Luka T and Harbinger playing elsewhere. The forecast’s looking up. (JMM)
Offering an eerie mix of moody synths, blips and sub-bass bumps, Ghosting Season paint an ambient landscape for Dive Slow’s live night. Supported by Pandr Eyez, a soulful electronic duo that sound like SBTRKT’s edgy little sister, deck-spinning from resident DJ Mike Diver and Metronomy’s very own Olugbenga, it’s starting to look like one of those ‘had-to-bethere’ nights. There’ll be hip hop, electro and lots of Jack Daniels. Oh, and entry is free. If that doesn’t sway you, nothing will. (TLB)
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Thomas Gandey
Smack Sat 4th
After the recent release of ‘Cube EP Volume 1’ this March, Thomas Gandey – also known as Caged Baby – will be pumping Smack’s J’Box night with tech-house and minimal beats until the early hours. From producing tracks for the likes of Fatboy Slim and David Byrne, to touring with The Chemical Brothers and Underworld, Gandey has a wealth of tracks and history to pull into his set. We’re hoping he drops his collaboration with Maxxi Soundsystem, the deep and sultry ‘Shake Your Head’. (TLB)
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A master hip hop turntablist who integrates a sense of humour and wacky visuals into his sets, Yoda is truly unmatched in this terrain. Globally renowned for his unique tongue-in-cheek style, he has an uncanny ability to transform any room of laidback people into a bopping bunch of happy ravers with a silly grin plastered on every face. Named by Q magazine as one of ten DJs to see before you die, if without plans on this Thursday you are, see him you must. (LL)
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Life Fri 17th
Critical king Kasra and prodigal son Enei top the bill for the latest of the imprint’s successful club nights, with a little help from Mefjus, an Austrian with a techy, accomplished drum’n’bass sound. Also helping to keep Life’s massive glitter ball vibrating at about 170 bpm are ST, Lofty and Shiver, and hosts Bassline, Visionobi and Influx. Kung Fu are running room two downstairs, if you need a little hip hop breather. (JMM)
Edible
Audio Fri 17th
Following a year of trailblazing success, Bristol-based house producer Eats Everything brings Edible to Audio. Hopefully the first of many, the delicious four-day tour is Eats’ way of showing off his eclectic influences by gigging with them. Serving Brighton with special guests Richy Ahmed and Blond:ish, Edible promises mouth-watering beats and basslines. And if you buy your tickets now - from Eats Everything’s website - you’ll get a free USB stick with tracks from the man himself. Sounds tasty. (TLB)
Dimensions Launch
Life Fri 24th
AkaAkaRoar’s heading to the shores of Croatia again at the end of the summer, and this is the official Brighton Dimensions Festival launch party. They’ll be hosting a boat party and a stage out there, and as a warm-up have invited dual headliners Levon Vincent and Locked Groove to Life to give us a taster of what to expect. Dominion and Markings are the main support, and Below The Line will be hosting room two. (JMM)
Superfreq
Concorde 2 Fri 24th
Two UK dance heroes for the price of one tonight, as Mr C’s Superfreq club comes to town with special guest A Guy Called Gerald. Everyone knows Mr C from his star turn rapping for The Shamen, but he maintained his credibility running The End club while producing underground tracks for a multitude of labels. With rave classic ‘Voodoo Ray’ and definitive d’n’b album ‘Black Secret Technology’ to his name, you’ll surely need no convincing to see prolific Manc musician A Guy Called Gerald too. (SH)
Disclosure
Return Of The Twat
Squeaky clean house brothers Guy and Howard Laurence, better known as Disclosure, are helping Blah Blah Blah celebrate their sixth birthday at Digital this month with a DJ set that’s bound to be full of their vibrant remixes. The enigmatic and suddenly prolific Friend Within is supporting and demonstrating why Dirtybird and Hypercolour have snapped up his tracks so quickly. Blah Blah Blah DJs will be in residence to keep the party going all night. (JMM)
It’s the Brighton show of this delightfully named tour, a celebration of UK hip hop put on by High Focus Records and Boom Bap. The genre gets a bad rep for all the bitches and bling stereotypes, but these guys are far too clever to take all that seriously. If you want a flavour of what to expect, look up comically filthy headliner Dirty Dike’s single ‘Hi I’m James’. Klashnekoff, Fliptrix, Verb T are amongst the other acts playing. (JMM)
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Huxley initially found success as an underground garage producer but his trademark sound has mutated and evolved into a deeper, house led style. Having had an enviable myriad of releases on high profile labels, the Tring native has established himself as an effortless forerunner in whatever genre he puts his hand to. With critics and fans alike lauding over every release, Huxley’s appearance at Audio’s flagship night is definitely not one to miss. (LL)
Happy Mondays Afterparty Life Sun 26th
Is New Order’s Peter Hook – who takes to the decks tonight – a better bassist than Duran Duran’s John Taylor? We could argue all night (and also they’re both pretty good DJs). Of course, Hooky got busted playing pre-mixed CDs but we’ve seen him DJ to a 1000 plus capacity club and hold the floor with a mix of big tunes and old favourites. And, damn, he used to own the Haçienda. After being fired up with a load of rave and baggy classics by 808 State and the Happy Mondays at the Brighton Centre tonight, he’ll probably carry on the nostalgia. (JK)
Top Buzz & Mad P
Volks Fri 31st
Another month, another Originate party at the Volks, with more DJs, producers and MCs than we can list in eighty words. This one’s headed up by rave royalty Top Buzz, featuring MC Mad P, and is set to be another eight-hour non-stop party session. If you like jungle, acid, hardcore or mad dancing, you’ll have a ball. The night is doubling up as local DJ Kosine’s 30th birthday bash too, so expect the party to be fittingly wild. (JMM)
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ENK
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ENK’s one of those names that’s always cropping up on flyers, and if you haven’t been to one of their Brighton nights already, you’re either a West Street devotee or hard of hearing. We went to Life when they’d booked Kurupt FM, and it was exactly as you’d hope: rowdy, shouty, witty, and packed closely with people having a blast. Their musical policy combines the finest of grime with the heaviest of bass, making for parties NEXT EVENT: ENK vs Below The that are seriously fun. Line, with DJ Q, Barely Legal, Mik and In Brighton, Dom 877, Life, Fri 10th everyone’s a slashWEB: enkcollective.com something, whether it’s a designer-slashDJ, a writer-slashphotographer or, in the ENK Collective style, promoters-slashbloggers-slash-producers-slash-illustrators-slash-designers-slashskaters. Their new tee-shirt range, the Wavy Collection, is available on the website now, along with details of their next parties and many other ventures. And they’re not stopping at all that. In June, they’re throwing a boat party off Brighton beach. You heard it here first.
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Amy Winehouse ‘Stronger Than Me’ (Flatline Remix) Danny Weed ‘Creeper’ El-B vs Jeremih ‘Fuck The Club’ (Fortay’s Blend) Sir Spyro ft JME and Alahna ‘Pull That Up’ Peter Graham & Lorenzo ‘The East Harlem Shakedown’ DRDR ‘Addicted’ (Moony’s After Hours Remix) Skream and Friction ft Scrufizzer, P Money and Riko Dan ‘Kingpins’ Killjoy ‘Memories’ Ruff Squad ft Wiley ‘Together’ DJ Q ft Louise Williams ‘Through The Night’
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There aren’t many club nights in Brighton that focus on liquid drum’n’bass, and that’s because they couldn’t compete with Jazznote. It’s a constantly evolving club night with a loyal fan base, and has skipped through various venues to its current home at 10 Below, where there’s a free event every Thursday. The bookings are a heady mix of big names, fresh collaborations and exciting newcomers, with Cyantific, Ivy Lab and Hybrid Minds playing recent nights. There’s always representation from Brighton talent too, including residents Shiver, S.T., Badger and Lofty, which makes for packed, energetic dance floors.
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Calibre ‘Like It Is’ Marky & XRS ‘Rudebwoy’ Command Strange ‘Summer Time’ Zero T & Alix Perez ‘Threads’ Dillinja ‘Sovereign Melody’ Lenzman ‘Close To Me’ Random Movement ‘Change For The Train Home’ DJ Clart ‘Winter Sound’ Electrosoul System ‘Underwater’ Utah Jazz ‘Mesmerize’
Although Jazznote is dedicated to liquid drum’n’bass, it’s not elitist about genres: on the night we visited, there was hip hop by Kung Fu in room two and the Well Rounded Vinyl Vendors playing house, garage and anything else they fancied in the bar. This exemplifies one of the friendliest, most up-for-it club nights in Brighton. Take note.
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Comedy: Laughter Market
Art: Jeff Koons
This month’s Old Market comedy showcase is headlined by German skiing sensation Flange Krammer, a brash ladies’ man never short of an off piste gag. Laughing at wonky German stereotypes doesn’t ever seem likely to go out of fashion here in the UK, we’ve been doing it at least since Mad King George was on the throne, and although Krammer isn’t as subtle a creation as actual German Henning Wehn, his bolshy, broad-brush parody carries it off. (SH)
Jeff Koons started out casting huge, flamboyant animals and tulips, but swiftly took a sordid turn for the saucy by casting himself shagging his Italian pornstar lover in a series of rude works, until she left him. Art critics, unsurprisingly, have frequently dismissed Koons as a bawdy old attention junkie, little dispelled by a vast gold version of Michael Jackson and Bubbles and the alcohol-devoted Luxury & Degradation series. Smutty, silly, kitsch, depraved, lowbrow. Blushing makes you live longer. (BM)
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Spoken Word: Speaky Spokey Latest MusicBar Thurs 2nd
Regular Latest MusicBar host David Bramwell swaps his presenting role for performing tonight with a set from Oddfellow’s Casino, whose sinister third album ‘The Raven’s Empire’ was a SOURCE favourite last year. Spoken word contributions at the Latest Bar’s regular salon include the launch of Mark Peterson’s thriller A Place Of Blood And Stone; Salena Godden reading from her forthcoming Sussex childhood memoir Springfield Road; Booker shortlisted author Mick Jackson; novelist Gabriel Gbadamosi and poet Hannah Lowe. (SH)
Comedy: Micky Flanagan Back In The Game Brighton Centre Thurs 9th - Sun 12th
Some still contend that modern comedy is a young person’s game, but the rise of Micky Flanagan – a feller old enough to be Jack Whitehall’s dad – to the top rank of British comedians gives lie to this view. Flanagan’s appeal is his unforced everyman demeanour, an open-hearted view of the world grounded in his East End upbringing. You feel he’s the sort as happy to reel off anecdotes one on one in a bar as in front of an arena crowd. Top stuff. (SH)
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Event: Eurovision Song Contest Party Duke’s At Komedia Sat 18th
Ever since ABBA’s ‘Waterloo’ won the Eurovision Song Contest – a pivotal moment in pop history which, we’ll never tire of pointing out, happened right here in Brighton – the musical cheesefest has become synonymous with Swedes binging and bonging their way to the top. Thanks to Loreen’s irresistible 2012 winner ‘Euphoria’, Eurovision is back in Sweden again for the fifth time. We’ll be pretending Brighton twinned with our Scandinavian friends back in ’74 at the Duke’s always popular glitter and satin screening. (SH)
Film: Made Of Stone
Duke Of York’s & Duke’s At Komedia Thurs 30th
Charting the resurrection of everyone’s favourite leatherfaced cherubs The Stone Roses last year, Shane Meadows casts his eye over fields full of pot-bellied casuals euphoric at being given the chance to write off half their mortgages as part of an ecstatic exercise in undiluted altruism. This is one of those nifty satellite screenings, so the male Voice Of An Angel and his bandmates will be watching on from Manchester while Meadows and producer Mark Herbert answer any post-show queries. (BM)
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Poster By Petting Zoo Prints & Collectables Words By James Kendall
Seven years ago The Basement put on SubScreenSonic, an exhibition of international screen-printed gig posters from many of the best artists in the genre, including Tara McPherson, Chuck
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Sperry and Mike King. Not only was it one of the best things we’ve ever seen at the Fringe, it also proved to be hugely influential, not least from the workshops taught by Sperry and King. Since then we’ve had a further exhibition from BRAG, who met at Sperry’s workshop, and now Brighton’s commitment to the art form continues with The Stick Up, a new annual exhibition that’s part of The Great Escape. Having sent invitations to the best European print studios, The Stick Up say they’ve had a wide variety of work back, “some slick, some crass and irreverent, others are soft and cute”. Rather than a single exhibition, there will be a trail across the city, starting at Super+Super, which will become The Stick Up Shop for the duration of the trail. Alternatively check out thestickup.co.uk for more info.
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Album: The Growlers ‘Hung At Heart’ (FatCat)
Known on Newport Beach in California for their lavish parties and love of surfing, The Growlers’ West Coast roots shine through on ‘Hung At Heart’. Dreamy, breezy tones hit from start to finish, teased by muffled distortion and moody echoed vocals akin to The Strokes or someone singing with a blocked nose. In places you may feel like you’re trapped inside a fairground haunted house but overall it’s pleasant, evoking nostalgia for 60s B-movies, spaghetti westerns and ‘spooky’ horror flicks. (TLB)
EP: Heavy Dancers ‘Paradise Bungalows’ (Tattle Tapes)
Self-declared ‘unpop’ group Heavy Dancers are obliterating the indie band cookie cutter. With an instrument collection that includes a melodica, a saxophone and a Korg Monotron, it’s to be expected that their sound would be richer and quirkier than their contemporaries, but this EP surpasses any expectations. It’s suave stuff, with Britpop vocals and sashaying, rollicking rhythms under upbeat melodies, while title track ‘Paradise Bungalows’ is the kind of song that’ll stay in your head for days. (JMM)
LP: Hot 8 Brass Band ‘Tombstone’ (Tru Thoughts)
A modern take on the historic New Orleans second line sound, Hot 8 Brass Band have overcome many tragic hardships, from the death of former members to the devastation Hurricane Katrina wrought when she passed through their city. Such tragedy seems have had a profound effect on their music, as the pure joyful celebration of life that comes through is staggering. Single ‘Milwaukee Fat’ is typical of the whole album, a rambunctious party track with infectiously energetic instrumentals and the occasional lyrical outburst. (LL)
EP: JetPack Elastic
‘Not So Black And White’ (jetpackelastic.bandcamp.com)
Prolific Brighton rock band Jetpack Elastic have been gigging for years, and have built up plenty of experiences and material for their first EP, ‘Not So Black And White’. For a debut, it’s surprisingly accomplished. Vocalist Lucy Holland brings a
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timelessness to the songs, expressing languid distaste and utter power with equal credibility. ‘Right Side Of The Bed’ typifies Jetpack Elastic’s sound; it’s sultry, energetic and rammed with stylistic flourishes. These people were born to make music. (JMM)
Single: Le Juki
‘Forest Of Stick Insects’ (Beatabet)
With an effortless blend of musical styles that combines soulful lyrics from Kassia Zermon (aka vocal-looping diva Bunty) with classical strings and an almost hip hop percussion, Le Juki have achieved something special with their debut single ‘Forest Of Stick Insects’. It’s coupled with ‘Underwater Gardens’, a summery contrast to the A-side’s lost-in-thewoods sound, its afrobeat inspired harmonies finding a melodic partnership with ethereal aquatic vibes. This little taster should leave listeners eagerly awaiting Le Juki’s forthcoming album. (LL)
EP: Platypi
‘Something Tangible’ (Numerology)
The first release on new label Numerology Records comes from Platypi, a producer who’s been crafting chillout tunes as a sideline to being an integral part of Brighton band Almighty Planets. His debut EP is influenced by the likes of Onra and Bonobo, with soft electronica floating above slightly offbeat hip hop rhythms. The standout track from this release is ‘Lassitude’, which weaves snippets of vocal samples over a tense backdrop, creating a sound that’s beautifully addictive. (JMM)
Album: Carry On Rioting / Late night lingerie
Two cut-price DIY compilations from out of the underground. The first CD offering from Sticky Mike’s Late Night Lingerie club unites a dozen feral rock’n’rollers, with standout tracks by Monocure, The Flash Gordons and YRRS, in a typically upfront nudie sleeve. It’s all very male, and politically at odds with Riots Not Diets’ latest green vinyl set ‘Carry On Rioting’, where bright, garagey contributions and casual covers from Shrag, Summer Hunter and ex-Help She Can’t Swim outfit Daskinsey 4 rub shoulders with the international riot grrrl/queercore scene. Poles apart, but strong sets nonetheless. (SH)
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Alarm Bells
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Bipolar Sunshine
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Despite having only released one track, Bipolar Sunshine’s soulful yet indie vocals are enough to promise big things for this act. This is the solo project from Adio Marchant, member of disbanded Mancunian hip hop band Kid British, and his sound is far softer than you’d imagine. ‘Fire’ is a breezy ambient track that revels in simplicity, never boiling up into over-dramatic builds. Put simply, it’s very pretty and has left us eager for more. so we won’t be missing out on this opportunity. (TLB)
American singer-songwriter Mikal Cronin and his band create the kind of psychedelic wall-of-sound racket that the Pixies might have given birth to had they stepped into a time machine and engaged in a spot of 60s free loving with The Byrds. Grungy fuzz-laden guitars chug away underneath dreamy, melodic vocals, the perfect embodiment of sundrenched Californian garage rock. If you can excuse the forgettable name, this should prove one of the dark horse performances of this year’s Great Escape. (NJF)
The Blackout
Crystal Fighters
Rising from the ashes of Glaswegian post-hardcore band Dananananaykroyd come Alarm Bells, with a sound akin to their fun-loving predecessor. More experimental than before, expect pensive soundscapes, bubbling guitar riffs, muffled distortion, intense drum breaks and Billy Talent-esque screams (but with a Scottish twang, of course). If members of Enter Shikari and Klaxons ever decided to start a band together, we’d suspect it’d sound something like this. As if that would ever happen. Like Test Icicles but friendlier. (TLB)
Despite having formed almost 10 years ago, The Blackout find themselves at a new music festival. With four albums behind them, they’re more established than most on the bill, although considering that Billy Bragg is headlining this year’s event maybe their inclusion doesn’t seem so odd. They’ll be appearing at Rock Sound magazine’s stage at the Concorde 2, which means that fans of Welsh post-hardcore can purchase a standalone ticket without buying a wristband, while festival attendees get in for free. (AJM)
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After failing to find fame on Channel 4’s Orange unsignedAct several years ago, singer-songwriter Bo Bruce braved the glare of reality TV again during the first series of The Voice. Although the show’s champion Leanne Mitchell is releasing her debut album this month, the focus is likely to remain on this popular runner-up. Bruce’s voice may not have gained the most votes but it won the most hearts. Don’t miss your chance to enjoy the beautiful music of the true winner. (AJM)
With a new album ‘Cave Rave’ set for release this month, Crystal Fighters are ready to remind us why they’re considered one of Britain’s most exciting dance live acts. Through their use of traditional Basque instruments, they merge world rhythms with pulsing synth basslines and floaty, delicate vocals. The band are also known for putting on fast-paced, mesmerising shows. New tracks ‘Wave’ and ‘Separator’ are fun, tribal and dreamy songs that make their album and these upcoming shows look very promising. (TLB)
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Darkstar
Kid Karate
Mac DeMarco
King Krule
Drop Out Venus
The Midnight Beast
Chlöe Howl
Moxie
Having been around since the early days of dubstep’s rise in popularity (years before Skrillex’s bastardisation of a whole genre) Darkstar have had considerable experience in both dubstep and grime. After releasing the critically acclaimed ‘North’ on Kode9’s label Hyperdub they exiled themselves to West Yorkshire, away from the distractions of London, for the sequel. This has resulted in ‘Timeaway’, a perfect example of the drastic evolution of their sound over the years. (LL)
Mac DeMarco’s name is slowly beginning to emerge from the muso grapevine and on to the international festival scene. So why is it that a twenty-something adult who dresses like a 13-year-old boy should have this level of street cred? Take one listen to his self-proclaimed ‘jizz-jazz’ and you’ll understand. Twinkly Marr-esque guitars chime relentlessly around lamenting vocals, resulting in ludicrously catchy pop hooks. Oh, and he’s been known to take his kit off during live shows too. (NJF)
Moody, creepy and a little demented, Drop Out Venus are a self-proclaimed ‘junk jazz’ three-piece from Deptford who’ve captured the essence of apathy in their sound. There is something about their sultry female vocals and intentionally messy, jarring and, in places, anti-melodic sound, that speaks to everyone’s inner weirdo. We can’t promise they won’t jump out at you from the stage considering the themes in their lyrics, but whatever they’re like live it’s bound to be intriguing. (TLB)
Every year, The Great Escape sees intimate performances from future superstars. Chlöe Howl looks set to join that elite class. Although every artist booked to play the festival is tipped for success in some form, Howl is likely to be one of this year’s over-achievers. Her free ‘Rumour’ EP was released on her 18th birthday and has already notched up an impressive amount of acclaim. She may be a sweary, frank talking teenager but she’s one with enviable musical ability. (AJM)
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Slamming trudging guitars, indie dance drums and howling punk vocals together, Dublin-based duo Kit Karate have created a gritty, raw yet fun sound that can keep any room moving. Death From Above 1979 heavily influence their simple approach, yet the rocked-up aura of Queen Of The Stone Ages is still present. If you can imagine what The White Stripes would sound like if they had a better drummer and James Murphy helping them out, then you’ll probably love these boys. (TLB)
With a five-panel cap balanced on a shock of ginger hair and the face of an innocent schoolboy, King Krule’s Archy Marshall has the look of a street-wise Tintin. That’s where the similarities end, however, as Krule performs his deep and irrevocably bleak lyrics in a mournful baritone. Formerly known as Zoo Kid, his popularity has grown steadily since the release of debut single ‘Out Getting Ribs’, with the likes of NME and the New York Times hailing his talents. (LL)
In relation to gigs, the term ‘all ages’ has become interchangeable with 14+ limits. However, The Great Escape knows that pre-pubescent boys and girls like music too. The Midnight Beast’s performance is open to ticket holders as young as 10, but that doesn’t mean this show will be family friendly. Expect to see embarrassed parents wondering whether their children should be listening to ‘Censorshit’ and ‘Strategy Wanking’. Grown-up wristband wearers who still enjoy toilet humour can join the fun too. (AJM)
With a fortnightly show on NTS and regular appearances on Rinse and Kiss FM, Alice Moxom’s a familiar on-air presence. Her reputation as a DJ, broadcaster and party-starter has seen her play at some of the best clubs around the world, and she’s a firm fan of the eclectic, mixing everything from grime to disco in a tight, dancefloor-centred style. Her record box is always filled with a blend of classics and the cutting edge. (JMM)
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SWEET BABOO
David ‘Ram Jam’ Rodigan
A god among men for any reggae fans in Britain, Rodigan has been honing his skills since he was 15 and was captivated by a Millie Small performance of ‘My Boy Lollipop’. Now 61 and recently knighted for his services to broadcasting, his undying passion and encyclopaedic knowledge of the genre has never faltered. You’re sure to find red-eyed, dreadlocked veterans bopping to Rodigan’s bass-heavy vibes, with an all too familiar aroma clinging to their clothes and seeping out their pores. (LL)
Sweet Baboo
Quintessential Welshman Sweet Baboo is a folky, psychedelic musician with a captivating stage presence. Having honed his skills on the festival circuit, he released his debut album ‘Ships’ in March and this is one of his first shows to promote it. The album is full of catchy pop hooks, but presented in a heartfelt, country-tinged manner, making for a sound that’s polished but maintains its touching, genuine truthfulness. (JMM)
Title Fight
Grungy punk rock band Title Fight have been causing quite a stir ever since they released ‘Shed’ in 2011, instantly becoming one of the biggest names on the scene. Borrowing elements of 90s emo, contemporary pop-punk and post-hardcore, the’ve created a distinctive sound that very few can hold a candle to. A whole wave of young bands both sides of the Atlantic often cite the Pennsylvania group as a key influence, with good reason. (CB)
Trevino
Drum’n’bass demigod Marcus Intalex’s house and techno alias Trevino is now almost as appreciated as his original guise. Inspired by the original sounds of Detroit and
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Chicago, Trevino’s mixes also feature the newer mutations found in the clubs of Berlin and varied, split-up beats sourced during his years of touring the world. As you’d expect, his DJ sets are equally as diverse and perfectly balance the classics with vinyl so fresh it’s still hot. (JMM)
Andreya Triana
Following collaborations with artists such as Flying Lotus, Mr Scruff and Bonobo, Andreya Triana’s popularity has continued to soar. With a voice reminiscent of Corinne Bailey Rae, but with a dreamy, transient quality, it’s easy to see why. Having realized her passion for music from a very young age she honed her undeniable talent through hours spent locked in her bedroom writing poetry and recording tracks. These experiences now culminate in her hypnotic ‘Freeflo Sessions’, a one-woman show incorporating looping vocals and percussive beats to produce a truly memorable experience. (LL)
Tribes
London’s achingly cool Tribes quickly gained a cult following after debut single ‘We Were Children’ won Zane Lowe’s ‘hottest record in the world’ award, cemented by a live appearance on top of a shop in their native Camden. With a sound that harks back to the era of the Pixies, they’ve just finished recording their second studio album ‘Wish To Scream’ in LA. Expect nothing less than great things from them when they take the stage in Brighton. (LL)
The Wytches
The first thing that jumps out at us when we listen to Brighton trio Wytches is how on edge the vocals sound. A crackling voice flickering between monotone Gallagher-esque whines and an evil Liza Minnelli cackle, one minute he’s breaking down, the next he’s laughing in your face. Paired with dark riffs and psychedelic guitar twangs, this paints a sound reminiscent of a gritty gangster wasteland film. It’ll be like Reservoir Dogs on Halloween… or something like that. (TLB)
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CELEBRATING THE CITY’S BUZZING MUSIC SCENE Made in Brighton is about celebrating music in the city – music made, played and traded from here. Brighton & Hove City Council is working to support and grow a vibrant local music industry, and is proud to be showcasing a vast array of artists and speakers at
this years Great Escape festival. Look out for the Made in Brighton programme across the Great Escape and Alternative Escape – many of the latter are free to get in - and come and celebrate the homegrown talent at one of the world’s largest new music festivals.
BRIGHTON ARTISTS PLAYING THE GREAT ESCAPE 80S MATCHBOX B-LINE DISASTER Brighton heroes returning for what will surely be another unforgettable live performance
ANDREyA TRIANA Expect a hypnotic and mesmerising performance from the soulful singer/songwriter
ANuSHkA Effervescent and experimental dance duo exploding onto the underground scene
THE DANCERS Lively indie pop outfit who are churning out feelgood hits to soundtrack your weekend
MARIkA HACkMAN Sparse, haunting tales delivered with a tenderness setting Marika apart from many of her folk contemporaries
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TALL SHIpS Intense and all-immersive soundscapes drawing upon math and post-rock influences, Tall Ships are not to be missed live
FEAR OF MEN
TOM ODELL
Beautiful, melancholic and atmospheric pop, perfectly suited to the seaside
With a Brit Award already in tow, BIMM-graduate Tom’s heartwarming and soulful ballads are sure to draw a huge crowd
IyES Electronic-indie duo IYES create ethereal, epic songs that reflect the true nature of human emotion
kINS Intelligent arrangements backed by sparse guitars and powerful synths from the hotly-tipped quartet
WILD FLOWERS Classic roots and country-influenced pop songs from sisters Siddy and Kat
THE WyTCHES This psych-rock outfit is sure to whip up the crowd into a frenzy with their dark, hypnotic songs
ALTERNATIVE ESCApE With around 40 showcases across the city, the festival’s official fringe event will be ensuring that everyone can get their live music fix, even those without wristbands!
TOp pICkS Wednesday 15 May: South East by South West @ The Prince Albert Thursday 16 May: NOISESCAPE @ Bartholomew Square Friday 17 May: Shipwright Sessions @ The Courtyard, Middle Street Saturday 18 May: Access to Music Showcase @ Mrs Fitzherberts For full Alternative Escape listings visit: mamacolive.com/thegreatescape
To find out more about what Brighton & Hove City Council is doing to support the local music industry please contact economic.development@brighton-hove.gov.uk
Alternative Escape Great TGE Events You Don’t Need A Wristband For Words by Stuart Huggett, Jessica Marshall McHattie
1066 Invasion
Hope Weds 15th
Although Hastings is often maligned as Brighton’s poorer cousin, the two resorts have a lot in common, including a vibrant music scene and the fact that no-one’s been banged up for torching their piers. Tonight’s gig finds Brighton promoters Never Been Kissed and the town’s Pierless Music site showcase a raft of 1066 region bands, with a headline slot for heavy Britpop tunesmiths Plasticine (as seen at One Inch Badge’s Sea Monsters festival earlier in the year). (SH)
London In Stereo & Fear Of Fiction Latest MusicBar Thurs 16th
One of the big advantages of the Alternative Escape strand is that non-TGE wristbanded kids can get a taste of some of the main festival’s hotly tipped acts. This evening’s gig is one such show, with a headline slot from London’s noisy pop kids Wolf Alice, very much at the 90s influenced, Elastica-esque end of things, with an indie celebrity coupling involved to boot. Also hopping across from the Great Escape bill are Brighton’s own indiepop hopefuls Fear Of Men. (SH)
Make Noise
Life Thurs 16th
At the end of 2012, long-time friends and tour buddies Machinedrum and Jimmy Edgar decided to release an EP under the collaborative alias Jets. The resultant four-track ‘Meu’ proved what a brilliant idea that was. Their 60 minute mix for Boiler Room just raises the anticipation of the duo’s set for Make Noise tonight. Jets’ sound is a laid-back, sleazy beast, easing into r’n’b and boogie with equal smoothness, all topped off with slick samples and footwork rhythms. (JMM)
Noisescape
Bartholomew Square Thurs 16th
Taking over the square outside Moshimo, Noisescape is an all-dayer that finds some of Brighton’s best home-grown bands sounding off against the pillars of the Town Hall. Monsters Build Mean Robots bring the post rock heaviness,
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there’s blues-soaked post-punk from Black Black Hills, the synthetic motorik brilliance of AK/DK, Dark Horses’ sinister electronic rock, math trio Cat Fire Radio, mysterious soundtrack makers Nordic Giants and maybe some surprise guests. A lot more fun than querying your council tax bill at any rate. (SH)
Two Sisters
Fitzherberts Thurs 16th
Brighton rockers Demob Happy found themselves splashed across the local papers last month when enthusiastic fans at a house party gig caused the floor to give way. The Argus reported that residents in the block had been made temporarily homeless following the exuberant student bash. Hopefully Fitzherberts is more solidly built for when the band bring their melodic grunge to Two Sisters Records’ showcase. (SH)
Alcopop! Vs Big Scary Monsters Pavilion Tavern Fri 17th
The Pav Tav hosts another massive showcase at this year’s Alternative Escape, with around 20 noisy tykes signed up. Getting underway at 1pm and continuing right through until the following morning, it’s an endurance test for even the most energy drink-fuelled teen troublemaker. Brighton hardcore crew Gnarwolves make an evening appearance, Fight Like Apes and Johnny Foreigner grab the peak late night slots, with Her Parents and Oxygen Thief finishing off the stragglers as sunrise threatens. Tough stuff. (SH)
Under The Influence Fitzherberts Sat 18th
Antifolk starlets The Bobby McGee’s keep notching up successes in unexpected areas – from Jimmy’s besting of Anne Robinson on The Weakest Link to Eleanor’s expanding vintage dress empire in her Dig For Victory shop. The band are releasing a download single every month in the run up to October’s ‘Bon Bon’ album, a wickedly funny set that broadens on their ‘indy-pop lindy-hop’ sound. This weekend’s slot is at Under The Influence’s Billy Bragg tribute night. Get yer ukes out. (SH)
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ART: Mariele Neudecker Regency Town House Sat 4th – Sun 26th
Mariele Neudecker is an extraordinary artist, known for her eerily imposing sculptures in works shown at Tate and beyond. Typically ambitious, her Heterotopias & Other Domestic Landscapes installation enters deep sea space in the basement, rising through iceberg pictures on the ground floor to pictures of the sun on the upper level. She’s got an equally striking exhibition, The Air Itself Is One Vast Library, in an accompaniment to James Bridle’s show at Lighthouse (see below). (BM)
ART: James Bridle: Under The Shadow Of The Drone Lighthouse Sat 4th – Sun 26th
James Bridle is the man who compiled a 12-volume account of all the changes made to the Wikipedia entry for little-known skirmish the Iraq War. Outdoor work Under The Shadow Of The Drone is somewhat more exciting but no less doom-laden than that. Based on a replica of a military aircraft, Bridle is mapping out recreations of the drones which allow remote aerial attacks, bleakly and starkly portraying the technologies of war and the ways they distance politicians and buttonpushers from those they most affect. (BM)
Art: Audible Forces Western Lawns Sat 4th – Mon 6th
An installation of wind-powered musical creations, Audible Forces places itself in a lineage stretching back to ancient world instruments like the Aeolian harp. The assemblage, premiering at the festival, features the work of six contemporary artists in association with Max Eastley, whose extensive work in the fields of experimental sound first came to notice under the patronage of Brian Eno’s record label Obscure. It’s free to experience, of course, just down on the beach near Sackville Gardens. (SH)
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Music: Beardyman - One Album Per Hour Corn Exchange Sat 4th
Battlejam beatboxer Beardyman is widely admired here in Brighton and around the world for his lightning fast talents. One Album Per Hour is the hometown debut of his musical comedy improv show, testing his powers of instrumental mimicry and imaginative freestyling to the limits. The audience throw out titles, subjects and genres, challenging Beardyman to invent an album of new songs from scratch. Sounds like a brain scrambling task, but we know he’s got the skills to turn it around. (SH)
music: Sinéad O’Connor Dome Weds 8th
Rising to fame with her precocious ‘87 debut ‘The Lion And The Cobra’, before sealing the deal with an emotive take on the Prince-penned tearjerker ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’,’ Sinéad O’Connor has always been a vital – and often controversial figure in the music world. Calmer now than in her early ‘banshee’ days, this should be an eloquent, if intense, show, that pulls songs from her vast career and new album ‘How About I Be Me (And You Be You)?’. (TLB)
Talk: Lionel Shriver’s Who Needs Another Book? Corn Exchange Sat 11th
Memorably eerie, Lionel Shriver’s prize-winning novel We Need To Talk About Kevin was the sort of runaway bestseller every coffee shop writer dreams about. She’s sold millions of copies in dozens of countries whilst maintaining a quirky, arthouse style, had a major box office film made, and tours the world talking about books. She’s in a good position then, to judge whether any of us need another book, and what drives writers to create more. (JMM)
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4 – 26 May 2013 Guest Director: Michael Rosen Angélique Kidjo Plus Josephine Oniyama
Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter delivers an energising selection of African music, with her trademark power and immediacy Sun 12 May
Apparat – Krieg & Frieden Berlin musician Apparat takes electronic music to new levels of sophistication in this film and music project. Tue 14 May
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A breathtaking display of humanity and incredible physical skill Tue 14–Sat 18 May
BUG: A Fatboy Slim Special Adam Buxton guides us through Norman Cook’s amazing contributions to the art of music video Tue 14 May
Musik Kabarett Featuring Nina Hagen, David McAlmont, Jamie McDermott and The Irrepressibles Three critically-admired artists reinterpret some of the most influential theatrical songs of the 20th century Sat 25 May
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Talk: When Does A Comic Become A Graphic Novel? Dome Studio Theatre Weds 15th
Are graphic novels just comics for the kind of people who read Harry Potter with the grown-up dust jackets on? Is it possible to write a comic about Auschwitz? Does anyone say ‘pow!’ any more? Graphic novelist Woodrow Phoenix and his contemporaries Nye Wight and Hannah Berry debate the cultural shift to graphic novels, their criteria and content, and their personal favourites in this talk hosted by comics fanatic Tim Pilcher. (JMM)
THEATRE: Bullet Catch Spiegeltent Thurs 16th – Sun 19th
Rob Drummond’s William Wonder character is a man adroit at mind-bending, theatre, magic and levitation, and for his trick at this ‘ere Fringe he’s resurrecting the stern-browed intensity of Derren Brown’s roulette wheeling ways and attempting a stunt so morbid Houdini turned it down. The origins of the bullet catch date back 400 years, with a finale braver than attempting a smile at a bus driver on a rain-lashed single-decker full of sweaty men bearing moist-coated bulldogs. (BM)
Film: Bug A Fatboy Slim Special Dome Mon 20th
Adam Buxton’s irreverent Bug celebration of music video turns its attentions to the mighty visual work of Fatboy Slim and his collaborators, most famously Spike Jonze. Christopher Walken’s gravity defying dance routine in ‘Weapon Of Choice’ and the mall moves of the Torrance Community Dance Group in ‘Praise You’ are Slim and Jonze’s twin peaks, but there’s plenty more for Buxton to pick over this evening. You’d be making a pretty safe bet to assume that Norman will be in the house somewhere tonight too. (SH)
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Music: The Flaming Lips Dome Weds 22nd
For a Brighton Festival directed by a master of children’s literature, the appearance of The Flaming Lips – a band who never let go of their childhood wonder – is a beautiful booking. Although known for their colourful live shows, all sprays of confetti, giant inflatables, hand puppets and cartoonery, the Lips’ new album ‘The Terror’ is a markedly more sombre reflection on life without love. Hopefully tonight’s gig will be both moving and joyous and we might even see Michael Rosen crowdsurf too. (SH)
Talk: Martin Parr’s Desert Island Pics Corn Exchange Sat 25th
Iconic photographer Martin Parr has got an eye for a brilliant image and is known for his critical, funny snapshots of modern British life, capturing package holidays and pudding bowl haircuts with equal aplomb. As well as being a lifelong photojournalist, he’s an avid photo book collector, and in this talk will be discussing his eight favourite photographs with fellow artist Stephen Bull. (JMM)
Music: Musik Kabarett Dome Sat 25th
This festival exclusive aims to recreate the counter-culture theatre of Berlin in the 20s and 30s. Berlin-born political punk goddess Nina Hagen should be the perfect exponent of the theatrical, anti-establishment songs from the Weimar era. Following his stunning 2009 concert of Harold Arlen songs, angel-voiced David McAlmont returns to Brighton to put his own stamp on some classic numbers. Jamie McDermott and his atmospheric band The Irrepressibles complete the eclectic line up – check out their powerful ‘Nude’ trilogy. (SC)
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Comedy: Off The Cuff Three And Ten Fri 3rd, Mon 6th, Mon 27th
Off The Cuff are a group of comedic comrades who specialise in short-form improv, with musical numbers and the occasional long-form odyssey thrown in for good measure. Their beautifully imaginative, hilarious quickfire comedy flows seamlessly, interweaving audience suggestions without missing a beat. A big hit at the Edinburgh Festival and a regular Saturday night institution in Brighton, they’ve also launched a live radio show incorporating chat, music, improv and guests from the scene on Brighton & Hove Community Radio. (LL)
Cabaret: Twonkey’s Blue Cababra Temple Bar Sat 4th – Mon 6th
Mr Twonkey’s utterly peculiar Fringe appearances are nigh on unmissable, a morbid combination of music, puppetry and audience participation landing somewhere between Vic Reeves’ Big Night Out and Michael Bentine’s Potty Time. Without wishing to spoil the illusion, you might care to know that Twonkey himself is actually an alter ego of Paul Vickers, perhaps more widely known as frontman with Scottish Peel show favourites Dawn Of The Replicants. A frequently side-splitting, slightly unsettling flight of imagination. (SH)
COMEDY: Scottish Falsetto Socks - In Space Komedia Thurs 9th – Fri 10th
Kev F Sutherland aims to turn his high-pitched anklesoothers into the Morecambe & Wise of the Scottish sock gimp world. While that premise might sound like the sort of faddish guffaw you’d only enjoy via a pissed YouTube misclick, the longevity of this show is a testament to the strength of his script and puppetry skills. Its musicality and tempo are also reliably spellbinding, leading to a string of awards and TV appearances over the past few years. (BM)
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Cabaret: The Lovely Brothers Komedia Sun 19th
Sure, lounge punk cabaret isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, but The Lovely Brothers have won us over with two solid strategies. Firstly their songs are seriously earworm-catchy. You’ll find yourself singing along to the chorus of their ode to kebabs before it’s even ended in an anarchic explosion. On top of that the brothers of loveliness are extremely funny, despite songs about the misery of life on the margins. There’s truth here too, from behind the costumes, balaclavas and gasmasks. If you weren’t laughing, you might be very disturbed indeed. (JK)
Performance: In Transit Old Courtroom Thurs 23rd – Fri 24th
Artichoke are best know for their Artgroup, classes that have been getting kids excited about all aspects of the arts for years now. But for this year’s Fringe they’re presenting something very grown up. With moments of beauty amongst a dark tale of identity, this one woman show of physical theatre sees Florence Leon explore “untethered canvases flapping arrhythmically” in her character Ella’s mind. It promises to be uplifting, no doubt helped by Rhys Lovell from The Miserable Rich’s live soundtrack. (JK)
THEATRE: The Wordcatcher Warren Sat 25th – Tues 28th
As many an unfortunately-faced culture writer might tell you, the best things in life can look deceptively clownish. Smoking Apples are a theatre company who’ve been gaining increasing reverence for their puppetry during the past few years, recently winning backing from the Arts Council. This show pitches two lost souls in a chance meeting leading to more twists and turns than a batshit go-go dancer snorting acid on hot coals. It also fulfils your physical theatre quotient for the month. (BM)
Music: Carrie Tree
Brunswick Mon 27th, Soul Dome Weds 29th – Fri 31st
Brighton folkie Carrie Tree has a busy May with the release of new single ‘Perfectly Cast’ and an appearance at the Alternative Escape with Lamb man Andy Dowd’s Lowb project. Her own trio perform first for the Fringe at The Brunswick, followed by three evenings of solo shows in Jubilee Square’s immersive Soul Dome. With a vivid 360-degree show of shapeshifting, natural visuals, the Soul Dome is one of this year’s must-visit venues, and in the company of Carrie Tree so much the better. (SH)
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Art: 5 Down, 20 Across Bom-Bane’s Every Fri, Sat & Sun
May’s a busy month for seeing new things in Brighton, and thanks to Bom-Bane’s you no longer need to pause for lunch. This quirky musical café delivers custom songs and performances with every course, which is a baffling concept to the uninitiated but wildly appreciated by all who have attended before. Jane Bom-Bane’s Fringe event is a curious mixture of crosswords, exploration, local artists, laughter and a delicious afternoon tea. (JMM)
Theatre: The Big Bite-Size Breakfast Latest MusicBar Every Sun
A series of playlets from White Room Theatre, The Big BiteSize Breakfast’s Sunday shows at the Latest MusicBar comprise a selection of Fringe hits under the theme ‘Desire’. Each piece lasts a mere 10 minutes, ideal to digest while you’re having your morning repast. The company present a bunch of alternate selections in residence at Theatre Royal throughout the Fringe, culminating in a family friendly half term run in the final week. (SH)
Film: Boutique Cinema Slice Sussex Every Weds
Brighton’s film-making talents find an outlet at Slice’s regular Boutique Cinema screenings, running throughout the Fringe. The cosy Church Road eaterie puts together an eclectic range of shorts each Wednesday evening from 8pm – an ever-
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surprising selection that mixes up animation, music video and drama. In other words, we don’t know exactly what you’re gonna get, but the strike rate’s always high, and damn those chairs are comfy. (SH)
Theatre: Breakfast At Dalkey
Redroaster Coffee House Sat 18th – Fri 24th (not Mon)
Think of Dublin in the theatre and an impressive roll call of playwrights springs to mind: Beckett, Shaw, WB Yeats, Brendan Behan, Seàn O Casey, the list goes on. Following in those inspiring footprints, Irish author Eddie Alford’s new play Breakfast At Dalkey is set in Dublin of the 1930s, and takes in themes of love and betrayal, family and ballroom dancing. How do you fit ballroom dancing into a narrow space like Redroaster? One way to find out. (SH)
Theatre: The Importance Of Being Earnest, 1936 Metrodeco Tues 7th – Sat 18th (not Sun or Mon)
There are two versions of Wilde’s classic comedy running at the Fringe this year, a faithful production over afternoon tea at the Grand Hotel and this reimagined take at Metrodeco. POLiTiKER Productions shunt the farce forward a few decades to 1936, allowing all manner of new satirical twists and historical nods to enter by the back door. This could be akin to old Oscar scripting the “Don’t mention the war” episode of Fawlty Towers, or nothing of the sort, but laughs are pretty much guaranteed. (SH)
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Theatre: Lyrics To Life Moksha Caffe Thurs 9th – Sat 11th
Lyrics To Life is (almost) a one-woman show that does unexpected things with the words of our favourite songs, and perhaps a few of the worst. Inspired by her teenage world of compilation tapes. Brighton’s Rosaline Nickerson takes wellknown lyrics as the springboard for some imaginative sketches, sidelining the singing as the songs take on new lives of their own. As with pop itself, this should unite themes both personal and universal, but she’s promising it’ll be fun. (SH)
Tour: Pavilion Gardens Café History Tour
Pavilion Gardens Café Various dates Fri 10th – Sun 26th
A 90 minute tour of the Lanes, focused on its starting point of the iconic Pavilion Gardens Café. The present Art Deco style café was built in 1950, but its original owner had been trading in the Royal Pavilion Gardens for many years before. Tour guide Geoffrey Mead can tell you more as he guides you around the gardens, Pavilion, Dome and surrounding areas. It’d be foolish not to grab refreshments while you’re there though. (SH)
Music: The Red Lamps Pavilion Gardens Café Weds 8th
The Red Lamps are a group of children and young adults from Chailey Heritage School near Lewes, some of whom have profound and multiple learning difficulties. At this morning’s free concert, the musicians will take to the streets to perform jazz improvisations with soundbeam technology, intercepting ultra-sonic beams with their body movements to create unique sound art. No other musician in the Fringe is doing anything like this, so chalk one up for the kids. (SH)
Theatre: The Revenge Fantasy Club Metrodeco Sat 4th - Sun 5th, Mange Tout Mon 6th - Weds 8th
If you’re one of those people who like a good eavesdrop in the hope of hearing something juicy then Mark C Hewitt’s play The Revenge Fantasy Club may be the perfect way to spend an evening. In a very intimate venue it starts out as merely overhearing a couple of ladies having an idle chat. As it progresses however, the idle chat gradually gets ever more spicy until your initial preconceptions about these two seemingly innocent ladies are shattered. (LL)
Theatre: Signor Baffo St Ann’s Well Gardens Café Sat 11th, Sat 25th, Weds 29th – Sat 1st June
A lively helping of kids’ theatre, slap bang in the middle of the beautiful St Ann’s Well Gardens. Chef Signor Baffo (Brighton actor Oliver Harrison) serves up silliness, mischief and adventure in this interactive show, ideal for children ages 3 – 7. It’s another Brighton Fringe premiere, so we’ve no previews to fall back on to give you an idea on quite how loud or messy this’ll get. The kids’ll lap it up though. (SH)
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Spoken Word: Stories With Tea Latest MusicBar Every Sun
Under the Fringe’s Literature strand, Stories For Tea finds senior celebrity Lynn Ruth Miller welcoming festival-goers for a cuppa and a selection of tales from yesterday and today. As well as her regular speaking appearances, Miller previously popped up on Britain’s Got Talent, and she’s also known as a stand up comedian, novelist, columnist and television presenter. A Renaissance woman and a much loved Brightonian, an afternoon in her company is time pleasurably spent. (SH)
Theatre: The Tempest Pavilion Garden Café Weds 15th – Fri 17th
Having produced enviable success stories such as Adele, Amy Winehouse and Brighton natives Rizzle Kicks, the BRIT School name carries considerable weight in the performing arts world. Some of their current students now turn their attention to Shakespeare’s epic of shipwreck, love and jealousy, The Tempest. Performing three interpretations over three days, with three casts and free tickets, there’s no reason not to go down to see a possible future star in the making. (LL)
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Artists Open Houses
artists exhibiting from home throughout may Words by Stuart Huggett, Jessica Marshall McHattie
rob orcharD 21A Brunswick Square
Annual Return To The Wrong Side Of The Tracks 17 Clyde Road BN1 4NN Sun 12-6pm
If you’ve spent time perusing the local interest shelves of any Sussex bookshop you’re sure to have come across Snake River Press’ bright, handsomely printed local guides. As well as a hand in sponsoring this year’s Open Houses events, they’re exhibiting some of their collectable works up near London Road station, alongside water-colourist Curtis Tappenden, illustrator Fred Pipes and a half dozen other creatives. (SH)
The Cat House
2 Woodside Avenue BN1 5NF Sat & Sun 11am-6pm
Nope, it’s not the house of old cat lady with a penchant for watercolours of Fluffy, but a space by Preston Park station dedicated to seven artists’ endeavours. Look for Paul Stapleton, who masterminded the popular BN1 board game; Catherine Lake, who makes beautiful 3D art from discarded vintage remnants; and Jill Christie, who utilises traditional studio pottery techniques to create stunning earthenware. Great for gifts and great for a browse. (JMM)
Farm Mews Massive Farm Road BN3 1GH Sat & Sun 11am-6pm
Consisting of 14 artists and a dog called Mongo, the Farm Mews Massive are a diverse bunch. Counting jewellers, painters and mosaic makers amongst their numbers, they are holding workshops and open studios to demonstrate their various wares and skills. It’s on the same site as the Naked Eye Art Gallery, if you fancy looking at even more creative creations. (JMM)
Lisa’S Open HousE
18 Belgrave Street BN2 9NS Sat & Sun 11am-5pm
Lisa Holdcroft’s cartoonish artwork has found its way into hundreds of homes through her illustrations for the Cheeky
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Guide To Brighton book series. She opens up her Hanover home to the public for the first time this year, and as well as exhibiting her pictures she’s produced a Where’s Wally? style Brighton quiz to keep the children entertained. (SH)
Studio323
32 Palmeira Square BN3 2JP Sat & Sun 11am-6pm
Ted Davis is an inclusive kind of photographer, and in the warm inviting manner of the Open Houses is opening up his studio to anyone who wants to see how it all works and have their picture taken by a professional. The shots will then be styled as fine art prints and available to buy via his website. Elsewhere in the house will be paintings, landscape photography and leather goods. (JMM)
21A Brunswick Square Hove BN3 1EJ Sat & Sun 11am-6pm
SOURCE often calls on the talents of Rob Orchard, a man who can be found out and about with his camera seven nights a week at the city’s gigs. As well as producing the Brighton Music Blog, he’ll be exhibiting photographic works at this large group open house. Fellow photographers Kate Benjamin and Alex and Lisa Bamford also take part, next to papercuts and more from Hannah Cole and Lee Allbrow, Maureen Brigden’s sculpture, Chris Harrison’s graphic art and jewellery by Rock Cakes. (SH)
UK Contemporary Open House 24A Buckingham Place BN1 3PJ Sat & Sun 12-5pm
Stencil artist Martin Middleton has the unsung distinction of reinventing the streets of Brighton, when his bright Cassette Lord designs proliferated across telephone junction boxes throughout the city. Many of those distinctive pieces have since disappeared under the work of other sponsored artists, but his pieces at the UK Contemporary will remind you of what we’ve lost. Also exhibiting are Elise Buddle, Patson Ncube and Claire Wrixon. (SH)
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Words by Steve Clements, simon england, Stuart Huggett, liam lawrence, Amy Jo McLellan, Jessica Marshall McHattie
Bestival
September 5th - 8th / Robin Hill Country Park, Isle Of Wight / £190 66 miles from Brighton
HEADLINERS: Elton John, Snoop Dogg DON’T MISS: M.I.A, The Knife, Chic Featuring Nile Rodgers Created by Rob Da Bank and his wife Josie, Bestival is celebrating its tenth anniversary this year with a suitably nautical fancy dress theme, fitting due to its location on the Isle Of Wight. Established alternative favourites Franz Ferdinand and The Flaming Lips sit alongside newer artists such as Bastille and Savages. Expect to see sailors and mermaids not only during headliner Elton John‘s set, but partying throughout the night as Carl Cox, Richie Hawtin and a host of other DJs keep things going after dark. There is even a rare chance to hear the music of Daft Punk live as a cover band plays ‘Discovery’ in full. (SE) IN A NUTSHELL: A great party atmosphere, with music long into the night.
Boardmasters
August 7th – 11th / Watergate Bay, Cornwall / £116 257 miles from Brighton
HEADLINERS: The Vaccines, Basement Jaxx, Ben Howard DON’T MISS: Dusky, Grandmaster Flash, Friction Stoked! Dude! Sick! Duuuuude! Expect to hear these and many other similar phrases hundreds of times over these five days. With BMX, skateboard and surf performances happening throughout, Boardmasters has identified its target audience and is doing everything in its power to keep them blissfully content. With soaking up the sun on Fistral Beach promising to be the perfect hangover cure after nights of debauchery and extreme-ish sports, you’d better break out the board shorts dude. (LL) IN A NUTSHELL: Sun, sand and surfing interspersed with big name acts.
Boomtown Fair
August 8th - 11th / Matterley Estate, Hampshire / £149 75 miles from Brighton
HEADLINERS: Foreign Beggars, Lee Scratch Perry, Mad Caddies DON’T MISS: The Junk, Mak & Pasteman, Mungo’s Hi-Fi
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Billing itself as more of a temporary town than a standard festival, Boomtown’s not the one for you if you like to take your weekend easy. Beyond the many stages of ska, punk, reggae, dub and folk music, there’s a theatre, mobile cabaret, art installations, comedy, spoken word events and a lot of very excitable and dressed-up attendees. Everyone raves about this one, and with good reason. (JMM) IN A NUTSHELL: You won’t sleep much, but you won’t want to.
Charleston Literary Festival
May 17th - 26th / Charleston, nr Lewes / £various 16 miles from Brighton
HEADLINERS: Audrey Niffenegger, Melvyn Bragg, Pat Barker DON’T MISS: Mark Haddon, David Boyd Haycock If you’re thinking you should do something other than get really drunk in a field and lose your wellies in the mud this year, you might just be ready for Charleston Literary Festival. It’s near Lewes so not as much of a commitment as Hay-on-Wye, but attracts similar big name speakers. This year there are 28 talks and tickets can either be bought separately or in day-long blocks of four if you fancy full literary immersion. It’s held in the beautiful Charleston farmhouse, so arrive early enough to wander around the grounds. (JMM) IN A NUTSHELL: You’re far too wet for camping, anyway.
End of the Road
August 30th - September 1st / Larmer Tree Gardens, Dorset / £165 102 miles from Brighton
HEADLINERS: Sigur Rós, Belle and Sebastian, Eels DON’T MISS: Poliça, Woodpecker Wooliams, Wolf Alice Arguably Britain’s most twee festival, End Of The Road is held at the beautiful Larmer Tree Pleasure Gardens and features free-roaming peacocks and macaws, a sunken water garden, knitting workshops and a hell of a lot of beards. It’s one of the friendliest, politest festivals out there, so if you like bellowing the words along to your favourite band’s set, it’s probably not for you. However, if you have more than one type of tea in your cupboard and used to play the ukulele, it probably is. (JMM) IN A NUTSHELL: Dig out that woolly jumper and look up some obscure Swedish folk beforehand.
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Farmfestival
July 26th – 27th / Gilcombe Farm, Bruton / £50 125 miles from Brighton
HEADLINERS: Ghostpoet, Art Brut DON’T MISS: Reeps One, DJ Die Farmfestival started out as a stage built on the back of a lorry by a group of friends looking to throw a summer party and raise money for charity. Six years on and the festival has grown but the spirit has stayed the same. An adamantly sponsor-free weekend, inviting all ages to come and have a bit of fun, Farmfestival’s DIY aesthetic and genre encompassing music policy make for a truly unique experience. (LL) IN A NUTSHELL: A wallet-friendly event, seemingly cobbled together by your mates.
The Great Skinhead Reunion
May 31st – June 2nd / Volks, Brighton / £30 0 miles from Brighton
HEADLINERS: Lee Thompson, Booze & Glory DON’T MISS: The Bois, Jenny Woo Skinhead culture was born from the mod subculture of the 60s and although it has suffered much negative publicity, it was and still is a celebration of that trademark look and a love of Jamaican reggae. The Great Skinhead Reunion started in 2011 when some old skins got chatting on Facebook and decided to meet for a pint. Amazingly, 300 skinheads turned up to that first meeting and it has continued growing. Now covering three nights and playing host to Europe’s top reggae DJs, it attracts hundreds of skins of all ages from all over the world. (LL) IN A NUTSHELL: A proud celebration of a culture that has survived through thick and thin.
Jersey Live
Aug 31st - Sep 1st / Royal Jersey Showground, Jersey / £92 200 miles from Brighton
HEADLINERS: Fatboy Slim, The Cribs DON’T MISS: Netsky, Zeds Dead For all his previous ubiquity, Norman Cook’s appearances in Brighton are few and far between these days, and more often than not are mega-sized. If you’re craving your Fatboy fix after
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last year’s Amex shows, Jersey Live have bagged him for their tenth anniversary bash this summer, as well as fellow superstar DJ Pete Tong. Rising Sussex songwriting star Tom Odell also gets a high spot on a dance-heavy bill that’s shaping up nicely. (SH) IN A NUTSHELL: A beautiful island holiday and budget festival combined.
Love Supreme Jazz Festival
July 5th – 7th / Glynde Place, Glynde / £120 8 miles from Brighton
HEADLINERS: Bryan Ferry, Jools Holland DON’T MISS: Portico Quartet, Andreya Triana Any new local festival should be applauded and supported and with a line-up this good, let’s hope Love Supreme’s a success. In addition to the safe bet headliners Bryan Ferry and Jools Holland, someone in the know has booked the cream of the current jazz crop, with vocal sensation Gregory Porter, bass diva Esperanza Spalding and hot chanteuse Melody Gardot all performing on the Sunday. For the dancers there’s an electro swing night, Brand New Heavies and the irresistible Nile Rodgers’ Chic. (SC) IN A NUTSHELL: Ideal for hamper campers, hipsters and disco dollies.
Meadowlands
May 24th – 26th / Glynde Place, Lewes / £95 12 miles from Brighton
HEADLINERS: British Sea Power, Laurent Garnier DON’T MISS: Native Roses, Ty, The Wytches Brighton’s nearest quality camping festival, Meadowlands’ bill steps up another gear this year with the smart booking of British Sea Power, straight off touring this year’s magnificent ‘Machinery Of Joy’, for what will undoubtedly be a celebratory show. French DJ headliner Laurent Garnier aside, much of the bill draws heavily from the rest of the Brighton music scene, while there’s an impressive comedy and cabaret presence from Three And Ten/The Warren bookers Otherplace Productions. (SH) IN A NUTSHELL: Brighton’s best boutique festival experience.
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Nice Weather For Airstrikes
May 24th - 26th / Druids Arms, Brighton / Free 0 miles from Brighton
HEADLINERS: Codes In The Clouds, Shrines DON’T MISS: Fox In The City, Polymath It’s the fifth annual Nice Weather For Airstrikes party and the Druids Arms will be home to three days of free music, courtesy of some of Brighton’s best local bands and a few from further afield. It’s an exciting gig for hosts Monsters Build Mean Robots, who will be fresh from their European tour and ready to debut some new material on home turf. May’s hugely busy for everyone in Brighton but it’s worth making time for this. (JMM) IN A NUTSHELL: Good music and good beer, good location for stumbling home.
Redfest
July 26th – 27th / Robins Cook Farm, Redhill / £65 33 miles from Brighton
HEADLINERS: Dry The River, Bastille, Bury Tomorrow DON’T MISS: Lucy Rose, Loveable Rogues, Dog Is Dead After several years as an alternative festival, Redfest is widening its appeal by booking indie acts alongside the pop likes of Britain’s Got Talent trio Loveable Rogues. Fans of Redfest’s familiar rock flavours will still be entertained by the likes of Hacktivist and Bleed From Within. There’s also a silent disco and a stage curated by Guildford music venue The Boileroom to showcase new talent and cabaret. On paper, it reads a little messy but if it’s thrown together with its usual charm, it’ll work. (AJM) IN A NUTSHELL: A small independent that’s big on variety.
Secret Garden Party
July 25th – 28th / Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire / £201.50 140 miles from Brighton HEADLINERS: Django Django, Bastille, Soulwax DON’T MISS: Temples, Regina Spektor
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Secret Garden Party was one of the first in the, er, field to promote the boutique festival experience, prioritising fancy dress themes, sideshows and immersive art as highly as the musical guests. In the face of much imitation they still do it better than the rest, as attested to by the top drawer acts they attract. Losing your head in the country to Django Django is gonna be one of the best choices you make this summer, even if you do wake up dressed as a cat in a tutu. (SH) IN A NUTSHELL: A surprise around every tree.
Slam Dunk South
May 26th / University Of Hertfordshire, Hatfield / £34 78 miles from Brighton
HEADLINERS: All Time Low, Deaf Havana DON’T MISS: Four Year Strong, Kids In Glass Houses It’s long been dubbed the UK’s answer to Warped Tour and that label is still sticking – even with the real thing in London this November. Touring across the country, Slam Dunk will also visit Wolverhampton for the first time this year. The growing number of dates hasn’t shrunk the size of its southern stop though. The line-up at this yearly invasion of American poppunk is as strong as ever and there are also plenty of British names playing who you won’t want to miss. (AJM) IN A NUTSHELL: The closest thing the UK has to Warped Tour - in summer.
Soundwave
July 18th – 22nd / Tisno, Croatia / £119 1,250 miles from Brighton
HEADLINERS: Doom, DJ Shadow DON’T MISS: Bonobo, Quantic, Such is the popularity of the burgeoning Croatian festival market with Brighton artists and punters, we sometimes wonder if everyone else has found a secret portal to the Med hidden behind Asda. Soundwave’s line-up is strong on hip hop and the soulful end of dance, so it’s no surprise to see a heavy presence of artists from the Tru Thoughts roster on board. Talking of which, there’s boat parties too, and you don’t get much of that off Black Rock. (SH) IN A NUTSHELL: Don’t forget to pack your trunks.
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St Ann’s Well Gardens Spring Festival May 18th / St Ann’s Well Gardens, Hove / Free 1 mile from Brighton
HEADLINERS: Little Barrie, Stone Foundation DON’T MISS: Traams, Jake Shillingford Band St Ann’s Well’s family fun day always scores highly when it comes to musical entertainment. The show starts at midday, so get there nice and early for Mr B The Gentleman Rhymer’s lunchtime chap hop slot. Barrie Cadogan’s bluesy power trio Little Barrie and seven-piece soul band Stone Foundation grab the headline slots, but with Jake Shillingford promising a set of his My Life Story songs and SOURCE favourites Jennifer Left and new FatCat signings Traams on the bill we recommend settling in for the whole day. (SH) IN A NUTSHELL: A strong music line-up is just one element of this free family festival.
Summer Sound
July 20th / Gloucester Park, Gloucestershire / Free 147 miles from Brighton
HEADLINERS: Kids In Glass Houses DON’T MISS: Chlöe Howl, The Struts In the current economic climate, even the smallest of festivals can be expensive. By the time you’ve paid for your tickets, tent and wellies, you’re making a serious financial commitment. However, Summer Sound is a non-ticketed festival without camping. What’s not to love? The location, perhaps. However, if you do find yourself in Gloucester this summer, you’ll be treated to a day of free music from surprisingly decent acts. Let’s hope it doesn’t rain, for the sake of the lucky locals. (AJM) IN A NUTSHELL: A free festival not to be sniffed at.
Sunrise: Another World
May 30th – June 2nd / Thoulstone Park, Wiltshire / £115 120 miles from Brighton
HEADLINERS: Dub Pistols, The Beat DON’T MISS: JFB, The Egg Sunrise decided that the end of the Mayan calendar last year
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was as good a time as any to bring an end to their Celebration event and have Another World rise from the ashes. Billing itself as a festival micro-nation with options to buy visas rather than tickets, it comes complete with its own embassy in Somerset. It aims to be completely sustainable and very environmentally conscious, so expect laid-back vibes with a genre spanning line-up and hippies galore. (LL) IN A NUTSHELL: Possibly the cleanest, greenest festival you’ll ever go to.
Tomorrowland
July 26th - 28th / Boom, Belgium / £150 267 miles from Brighton
HEADLINERS: Steve Aoki, Marco Carola, Alesso DON’T MISS: Armin Van Buuren, Dismantle This fairytale festival set in the aptly named Boom in Belgium has become the stuff of lore for dance music devotees. The biggest festival of its kind on the planet, Tomorrowland attracts the cream of the crop of the dance music world every year and spares no expense on the jaw-dropping production and set design. This has resulted in it becoming an almost religious pilgrimage for any true fan of the genre and certainly cemented itself in the dance history books. (LL) IN A NUTSHELL: A fantastical, colourful and downright mad trip to dance music wonderland.
Victorious Festival
August 24th – 25th / Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, Portsmouth / £15 per day 51 miles from Brighton
HEADLINERS: Level 42, Maximo Park DON’T MISS: DJ Yoda, Delphic With the world famous HMS Victory and the bustling Portsmouth harbour providing the backdrop, new familyfriendly festival Victorious is already sounding pretty unique. The all-ages nature of the event is shown by a bill that boasts an appearance from Peppa Pig alongside hitmakers like The Feeling and that nice Charlotte Church. Late night DJs and an indie/rock stage with TEED, Nine Black Alps and The Cribs add a credible edge. Not a camping event. (SH) IN A NUTSHELL: It covers all tastes, but the guests are top rate.
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Gone are the days when teenagers in Brighton were snapping shag bands and sporting stripy arm warmers outside Churchill Square. Scarlett, a 15-year-old we spotted, does grunge in the coolest way – mixing oversized vintage pieces with cutsie day-glo bright accessories and girlish touches. “The artist Grimes is brilliant because she’s so adorable but wears baggy clothes and bindis and is just completely mad,” says Scarlett. “Other girls my age think that going into Dirty Harry and buying off the racks makes them original but actually they’re kinda afraid to find their own style.” Styles may change, but teenage angst never really does. “I’m just about to do my GCSEs and it’s absolutely horrible. As soon as I get home I’m on Tumblr forgetting everything I’ve learnt.” So what does a 15-year-old want to do with their life once the hell of exams are over? “I really want to be a farmer. I’m obsessed with pigs and I just want to look after them all the time.” Headscarf from gran “I tend to wear headscarves when my hair isn’t a very interesting colour. I’ve been loads of other colours like blue and I’m going green tomorrow. My parents have just got used to it.” Coat from Snoopers Paradise “I got this for 10p! I like the colour because you can wear it with anything and it’s so, so comfy.” Shirt from Dirty Harry “I tend to wear a lot of big, men’s shirts. I don’t really wear dresses, but I will wear skirts. You can’t see it, but I’m wearing a vintage velvet one underneath from Beyond Retro. I like wearing a lot of different textures.” Necklace from Tuff Tarts “This was a gift from my sister. I really like the drippy horror-style writing. I don’t really wear much other jewellery, apart from loads of rings that I picked up in France for a Euro each. They’re all too big for my hands and I look like a pimp.” Shoes from Underground “I wear them every day and they are almost completely broken now. I’m going to get some Doc Marten loafers next.” Socks “I don’t know where these are from but I tend to wear white socks all the time.”
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No. 40 Julian Caddy Words By Stuart Huggett. Photo by james kendall Running in parallel with Brighton Festival, the annual Brighton Fringe is the largest open access arts festival in England. Julian Caddy has been festival director since 2011. How did you get involved in the Fringe? I’d been working at Edinburgh Fringe since 1996, so I’d been looking at Brighton and sending down shows for a long time. I was taken on as Brighton director at the end of October 2011 but this is the first Fringe that I’ve been involved with from the very start. What’s your own arts background? I’ve been an actor, director, producer. I started life as an account exec in an advertising agency, then at the age of 28 I ran away and became a drama student. So I’ve done lots of National Theatre tours, bit parts on TV and film, lots of adverts, and I teach acting at Conway Hall in London. About three or four months ago I did a pilot for a web series in Brighton, a day shoot, just because it’s quite amusing to do. How can people get involved in the Fringe? You just need to decide on the event that you want to put on, where and when you want to do it, and then register through the Fringe website. You can call the office up and we’ll talk you through it. It’s a very simple process, and you pay a fee which covers things including the brochure, the website and the events that we put on throughout the year, just globally lots of support. What if you’re creative but skint? We have a lottery of 12 bursaries available each year which go to local residents. The only criteria are that you have a BN postcode and that you’re participating for the first time. I’m very aware that open access is only open access for people who can afford to pay the fee. It would be great if we had a model where we would still be able to provide the same services but the registration was free. We’re looking for as many things as possible to lower the barriers of entry, so answers on a postcard.
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The problem with going out for Jamaican food is that as enthusiastic as one person is, another doesn’t really fancy it. Jamaica Inn solves the problem by serving both English classics and Jamaican staples. Tempted as we are by the goat burger, we simply have to try the jerk chicken (£7.50). With huge piece of chicken, a decent portion of rice and peas and a coleslaw side dish it’s good value for money, and the chicken is so tender it Rose Hill Terrace (01273) 695068 does that falling off the bone thing Tues-Sat 4pm-9pm, Sun for Reggae Roasts, 1pm til done brilliantly. Gently spiced, it tickles the palette rather than blasts it. On the Brit side, the bangers and mash (£7.50) comes in a massive homemade Yorkshire, with a satisfying portion of garlic mash and three very We don’t seem to see as many traditional landlords spicy organic lamb sausages. If that isn’t tempting enough there are around these days – you know, the men and women who also the famous Reggae Roasts on Sundays. rule their pubs with an iron fist. Landlords have a duty to be characters, to pull pints from their soapboxes. The Jamaica Inn at the Rose Hill Tavern, off London Road, Even if the food wasn’t good we’d still recommend the Jamaica Inn. has a proper landlord in Stacey, the man who puts the Just being there is fun. But the option to get proper jerk chicken and Jamaica in the Jamaica Inn. As we put our order in goat curry alongside good English pub grub means that everyone’s everything is too much trouble, but in a very amusing happy. Good food, good prices, good banter. way. “It’s like Fawlty Towers in here,” laughs one of the regulars at the bar. The banter flows as Stacey tackles the subjects of the day – Thatcher’s death, the racial progress of Star Trek, and music. “Back in the 70s we No. Stacey recognised one of us but couldn’t work out where from. We had The Clash and 2-Tone. Thatcher took all that and left didn’t help him remember – we really didn’t want to get caught reviewing. us with the Style Council,” he says with mock fury.
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Jane Bom-Bane
Brighton’s most creative café owner gets ready for The Fringe Words And Photo By James Kendall
Jane Bom-Bane is the Fringe personified – imaginative, quirky and more than a little bit endearing. As well as running the oddest café in town – the eponymous and quite brilliant Bom-Bane’s – she’s an Edinburgh veteran with madcap songs and hats to match. No, not caps, mechanical hats that come to life to illustrate her compositions. Yep, you read that right. How did the quirky madness of Bom-Bane’s start? Before I opened Bom-Bane’s I was playing a lot of music up and down the country, with my then partner Nick Pynn. We were running a monthly night at The Sanctuary and one month I thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be great to have your harmoniums and your hats in one place, and have a little venue down stairs, have a little café upstairs.’ I thought originally it’d just be me and the café, and play a few songs every now and then. It just evolved into what it is now, which is involving lots of other people playing, cinema clubs and all manner of stuff going on. What started the Bom-Bane’s related musicals? Bom-Bane’s mark two, in terms of the people who worked here, involved a lovely girl called Rosie and her friend Candy. I just thought they were perfect for the place, but both turned out to have amazing voices and were really great at harmonising. I thought ‘I’ve got to harness this!’ And so, that became Bom-Bane’s The Musical. I wrote all these songs about setting up Bom-Bane’s, and the food, and everybody got involved. I think that helped put us on the map. Do you choose the people that work at Bom-Bane’s based on musical ability? No, not at all. People just find me. It’s people that are just really nice and willing to work hard. I suppose it’s just likeminded people really. And often those people can sing, but sometimes they can’t and sometimes they won’t. But in the end they usually do.
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What have you got going on at the Fringe this year? We’ve got something different going on most nights of May – different comedy, music, art, dance and films, including Stewart Lee, George Edgo and Joanna Neary. And during the daytime we’ve got this crossword trail where 20 local artists will have painted the 20 doors in the property – upstairs, downstairs, outside, inside. On each of these doors are pockets of clues, the customers go round the house looking for the doors and finding the clues that go with their crossword. What is it about the Fringe that you like? I just think it’s really exciting. It used to be like this with me and the Edinburgh Fringe, I used to like to do a new thing each year for that. And now I try and do a new thing here every May. It’s exciting because you feel very much a part of Brighton. It brings together all the people you’ve met since you’ve been here. And also, I don’t have to go very far to be entertained. I just sit on my stairs. Where did the idea of mechanical hats come from? They just grew from going up to Edinburgh. The first year I went I took my really big harmonium, a middle-sized harmonium and a little tiny harmonium, with different sized hats to match. And then I just thought, ‘Well I can’t go to Edinburgh again doing the same thing,’ so the hats started to develop. They started to light up, and then they started to turn, and move in different ways. Then they started to illustrate the songs I was writing.
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WHERE: Bom-Bane’s, George St, Kemptown WEB: bom-banes.com FRINGE LINE-UP: Lorraine Bowen, Eliza Skelton, Spacedog, Tricity Vogue, Colin Utley, The Close Shaves and many more
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It must have been very sad when the bust outside the café got stolen. Yes, it meant a lot to me, not least because of all of the people involved in making it, all the work they had put in. Free sausages for a year if any SOURCE reader finds it and lets me know where it is.
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Wednesday 1st
10 Below Hot Mess New hip hop, garage and bashment
night 11pm £3 Audio Trapped Under Ice Barechested and sweaty US hardcore band Details tbc BHASVIC Edward Stourton - Cruel Crossing A talk with author of a new book about people who crossed the Pyrenees to escape Hitler 7pm £8 Basement Club Mash Up Commercial house with DJ Lee Harris 11pm £free Bee’s Mouth Open Mic 8.30pm £free Belushi’s Guilty Pleasures Songs you shouldn’t like but like despite pretending not to like them 8pm £free Blind Tiger The Apples Nine-piece funk turntablism from Tel Aviv 8pm £12/10 BOM-Banes Food’n’Film: Les Enfants du Paradis 7pm £5.55 Brunswick Kiss My Disco Music night run by adults with learning disabilities 7pm £3 Coalition CoCo LoCo Dancehall and dubstep music for students to lose the plot to 10.30pm £5/3/1 Cowley Club Buiten Gebruik, Spotlicks Dutch and Swedish punk rockers 8pm £donation Digital Fresh Meat “First-year university students, yum” 11pm £1 Druid’s Arms We Change The Tempo DJ set of international sounds 9pm £free Duke Of Norfolk Pub Quiz 9pm £1 Duke’s @ Komedia Iron Man Noon/3pm/6pm/9pm £tbc Fishbowl Tea & Biscuits: DJ Gareth Stephens Retro swing, soul and ska 10pm £free Green Door Store oOoOO SuPer dARk aND staRK gLiTch bOOtY bOuNCe 7pm £8; Indie Wednesdays Straightup indie tunes 11pm £free Haunt Supercharged Drum&bass and breaks 11pm £3/2 Horse & Groom Ben Paley, Tab Hunter Live music 8pm £free Komedia Samantha Horwill Singer songwriter 7.30pm £tbc; Mishkin Fitzgerald, She Makes War, Emberhoney Album launch for the Birdeatsbaby frontwoman 7.30pm £8/7 Latest Music Bar Fat Goth, Clowns, Pink Narcissus Live music 7.30pm £5/3; Tango Boot Camp Learn to tango like the Argentinians 8pm £3-8 Mesmerist The Swing Ninjas Gypsy swing band 9pm £free Mucky Duck The Duvettes Acoustic covers from the “happy dancy” trio 9pm £free Old Market Miniclick Pecha Kucha: Alastair Rodgers, Andrew Pengilly, Charlie Smith, Elin Karlsson, Fu-An, James Finlay, Joy Stacey, Kayung Lai, Rich Cutler, Sharon O’Neill, Yuxi Si, Mu-Tien Tammy Ho MA student photographers show 20 slides and talk for 20 seconds about each one 7pm £free Prince Albert Club Tic Tac 7.30pm £4/3 Proud Cabaret Salsa Cubana Cuban night with dance classes, live bands and guest DJs 8.30pm £10/6 Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Fresh Punk 3: Bangers, Fighting Fiction, Eager Teeth, Birdskulls Two floors of DIY punk bands and DJs 7.30pm £4 Thomas Kemp Kev & Jenna’s Open Mic 9pm £free Volks Soundwaves Records Nass Showcase: DJ Swifty, MC Lil Lively, DJ Sicknote, MC Jack Knife, DJ Random, Morfy M, Dazman, Sdubz, Waxone Lunatic, DJ Farside, Oner, Killa Dee, DJ Nemso, Rama, Kushdee, Fire 3, DJ Haunt, MC Livid, DJ Dev, MC Kombo, MC Lyrical B, Simbo Crew, MC EZB, DJ Daze, Xcell, MC K Gee, DJ Power, MC Speekah, DJ Tombola, MC Assasinater, DJ Skurmish, PCP, MC SY D, Wamabeatz How many DJs does it take to spoil the broth? And what is broth anyway? 10pm £3 Warren Arthur’s Dreamboat: Brighton Fringe Festival Long Nose Puppets do a kids’ show about a boy with a boat growing on his head 11.30am/2pm £8/6; The Fantasist: Brighton Fringe Festival 5.45pm £11/9.50 Western Front Hush Hush Live acoustic music 9pm £free
Thursday 2nd
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Friday 3rd
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a three course meal 7pm £15 Black Dove Hot-Tip Hi-Fi DJ with a fine collection of vintage reggae and rocksteady records 8pm £free Brighthelm Centre Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus Douze Points: Brighton Fringe Festival Eurovision fun 7.30pm £12/10 Brighton Centre Michael Ball - Both Sides Now Will the housewives be put off by Michael’s bold declaration of his bisexual leanings? 7pm £37.50 Brunswick The Lost Highway Live Americana and blues music 8pm £5 Caroline Of Brunswick Brighton Stomp Blues jam night 9pm £free Coalition Death Grips Full-on crossover hip hop 7pm £8; Friday I’m In Love No more lectures for a day or two 11pm £3-6 Concorde2 Forekast: Floating Points, Hannah Wants, DrDr, Dom 877, Rez, Fono, Dominion, Eptune, Luka T, Pavv, Harbinger Monthly house, bass and garage club 11pm £7/5 Cowley Club F’cking The Night: Garfunkel & Simon, Cousin, Cowtown, DA10 Live music and late night dancing 8pm £3 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 Lady Lola DJ plays funk, Motown, reggae and hip hop 9pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema I’m So Excited! 2.45pm/5pm/7.15pm/9.30pm £tbc Fishbowl Keep It Wheel DJs plays rare disco, soul and boogie 9pm £free Funkyfish Thank Funk Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10.30pm £free Gladstone Top Hat & Light Fingered Folk Live music 8.30pm £free Grand Hotel The Importance Of Being Earnest: Brighton Fringe Festival Oscar Wilde’s classic comedy of wit, identity confusion and blagging 1.45pm/4.30pm £20-30 Green Door Store Octopuses, Shotgun Otto, MC Fashion Indie dance, indie blues and electro-spaz 8pm £free; AEREO Disco and electro night from the Teen Creeps peeps 11pm £free Hampton Dad’s Old Vinyl DJs play retro funk, pop and hip hop records 9pm £free Haunt The Daunts, The Light Brigade Live music 7pm £5; Scroobius Pip’s We Are Lizards The hip hop beat poet brings his Shoreditch club night to Brighton 11pm £tbc Hop Poles Arthur Shillin’ Electro swing mash-ups 10pm £free Horse & Groom The Curst Sons Old time blues and hillbilly band 9pm £free Komedia Krater Comedy Club: Rob Deering, Stuart Goldsmith, Matt Green, Rich Wilson Stand-up comedy night 8pm £16.50; Jackport: Andy Riley, Danny Modular, Frank Crofts New deep and soulful house night 11pm £tbc Latest Music Bar Afro Connect: Kasai Masai, Maracatu Cruzeiro Do Sul, DUBconscious, Selecta Scruffi, Afrobeat DJs Two floors of afrobeat, dub and reggae raising money for a Rwandan charity 8pm £8/6 Life Brighton Up! Ska, rocksteady, ragga and dancehall - if it’s Jamaican they’ll play it 11pm £tbc Marlborough Theatre The Sleeping Trees Odyssey: Brighton Fringe Festival Three mimes do a humorous take on Homer’s epic journey 7.30pm/9.15pm £8/6 Mesmerist Shake, Holla & Roll Vintage blues, swing and rock&roll 9pm £free Mucky Duck Resident Mucky DJs 8pm £free Neptune Shauna Parker & The Saloon Bar Band Country swing band 8.30pm £free OhSo Social Pop Kraft Baby Pop tunes and cheeky cabaret with Boogaloo Stu and crew 9pm £free Palmeira William Tyler, Hiss Golden Messenger Double bill featuring Lambchop and Silver Jews guitarist 8pm £10/8 Prince Albert Audio Mime, Chemical Smile, Kestrel Magnet, Garden Heart Live music 8pm £4; Bend Over I’ll Drive Rock&roll DJs (downstairs) 8.30pm £free Proud Cabaret Blitz Relive the highlife of wartime Britain in this 1940s themed ballroom blitz 7pm £34 Ranelagh The Will Johns Band Blues rock 8.30pm £free Shooshh Runway Old school R&B and party mash ups 10pm £5/4/3/free Smack Antro Urban and chart tunes from Juice FM DJ, Mike Pantelli 11pm £5/3 Smugglers Pink Friday 9pm £free Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Mountains Live music 8pm £8 Three & Ten Like They Are: Brighton Fringe Festival Theatre show about coping with relationships and death 7pm £9/7; Off The Cuff: Brighton Fringe Festival Audienceseeded jokes made up on the spot 8.30pm £8.50/7; Guilt And Shame: Brighton Fringe Festival Sketch and song comedy duo 10pm £8/6.50 Victoria Gardens Lady Boys Of Bangkok Time tbc £14 Volks Jungle Alliance: Ed Solo, Dialect, Kosine Two floors
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Saturday 4th
10 Below Rocksteady: Justin Robertson, Suze Rosser
House, disco and “low slung acid” 10.30pm £5 Above Audio Terrace Launch Party Silent disco Details tbc; Ruff Snippets DJ plays hip hop, funk and soul Time tbc £free
Ancient Mariner Acoustic Sessions: Two Tin Dogs
Live Americana and country music 8pm £free Audio Warehouse: Laura Jones House and techno club night 11pm £7/free Basement Supper Club: Brighton Fringe Festival A platter of bite-sized arty performances hosted by Richard Layzell in partnership with Glasgow’s Buzzcut festival 8pm £8/6 Basement Club Fusion: DJ Peter Castle, DJ Lee Harris Chart and club remixes 11pm £free Belushi’s The Saturday Night Mash-Up Details tbc Belushi’s Below Deviant Time to untie those pony tails and start headbanging 10pm £5/4 Blind Tiger King Porter Stomp, First Degree Burns, Duncan Disorderly & The Scallywags, Language Games Hip Hop Collective Ska and hip hop big band led by MC Jonezy 8pm £6.50/5 BOM-Banes 5 Down, 20 Across: The Crossword House 1pm £7.50/5; Kaz Pasiecznik: Cryptic Secrets - Unlocking The Crossword 10am £tbc Brighthelm Centre Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus Douze Points: Brighton Fringe Festival Eurovision fun 7.30pm £12/10 Brighton Centre The Rat Pack Live The songs of simpler days when smug crooning was part of everyday life 7pm £27.50/26 Brunswick Mr Pineapple Head: Brighton Fringe Festival Musical clowning for kids Noon £7; Radio Days Time Machine: Brighton Fringe Festival Stories and music from the 20s and 30s 3pm £6/4; South Coast Soul Revue: Brighton Fringe Festival Eight-piece funk soul band 8pm £8 Caroline Of Brunswick Mark Diamond’s Breakup Haircuts: Brighton Fringe Festival Stand-up show about the “delights and depravities of dating” 4.45pm £free; Aaron Twitchen’s Princess Guide To Dating: Brighton Fringe Festival Campy comedy 6pm £free; Anna Morris - Dolly Mixture: Brighton Fringe Festival Character comedy from the woman behind Georgina’s Wedding Blogs 7.15pm £5/4; Why Don’t We Kill Ourselves?: Brighton Fringe Festival Patrick Lappin contemplates the comic aspects of ending it all 8.30pm £free; Paul Dennis - Almost Blunted Purpose: Brighton Fringe Festival Stand-up comedy show 9.45pm £5/3 Coach House The Dials: Beyond The Fringe Festival Psychedelic country rock 7.30pm £donation Coalition Ms Dynamite, Amplify DOT, DJ Outbreak, Bringa, Epicx 11pm £8; 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 £7/5; Megadance: Mampi Swift, Run Tingz Cru, Southbound Hangers, Agro, Sleepygee, Fyakid, Charlie Traplin, Rivalize, Aljmex Turner, LZ, Bowlzy Meganew megamonthly megabass meganight 11pm £3 Corn Exchange Earfilms: Brighton Festival A blindfolded audience surrounded by an audio story soundscape 3pm/7pm £14; Beardyman: Brighton Festival 10pm £16 Digital Playroom Housey hedonism in a playground of bouncy inflatable fun 11pm £12/10/5 Doctor Brighton’s Sexy Saturday: DJ Tony B 9.30pm £free Dome The Great Enormo: Brighton Festival Micheal Rosen has fun with a classical orchestra 5pm £5-18.50 Dome Cafe Bar Magna Mysteria: Brighton Festival Interactive performance focusing on illusion and trickery 10am £free Dome Founders Room Modern Poetry In Translation: Brighton Festival Contemporary European poetry 3pm £8 Dome Studio Marius Neset: Brighton Festival Diverse jazz and classical sax player and composer 1pm £10; Neil McKenna - Fanny & Stella: Brighton Festival Author talks about cross-dressing and gay subculture in 19th century London 3pm £10; The Disappearances Project: Brighton Festival Theatre show about missing people 8pm £12.50/10 Druid’s Arms Cook The Rabbit: Cozinha, DJ Eggs Legs Sunshine carnival vibes, Brazilian roots and folklorica 8pm £free; DJ Green Man’s Garden Of Delights A carefully cultivated set of soul, psychedelia, funk and pop 10pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema I’m So Excited! 4.15pm/6.30pm/8.45pm £tbc Duke’s @ Komedia Wreck-it Ralph Autism friendly show 11am £tbc; Animat - Dark Star Classic sci-fi with a new score performed live 9pm £tbc Dukebox Theatre The Battle Of The Sexes: Brighton Fringe Festival Cabaret show featuring the songs of Gershwin, Flanders & Swann and Tom Lehrer 8pm £8; Better Days: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy show about a community
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centre on its last legs 9.15pm £6/5 Exchange Paul Fitzgerald Acoustic covers 9pm £free Fiddler’s Elbow Saturday Sizzlers DJs drop hot vinyl into your ears 8pm £free Freemasons Saturday Night Disc Spinners DJ night 9pm £free Funkyfish Oldschool Saturday Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10pm £6/5 Grand Hotel The Importance Of Being Earnest: Brighton Fringe Festival Oscar Wilde’s classic comedy of wit, identity confusion and blagging 1.45pm/4.30pm £20-30 Green Door Store The Last Cry, Them The Sky Live music 7pm £free; Sonic Switch Tru Thoughts DJ puts you in the on position with some choice beats and bass 11pm £free Greenhouse Effect King Tafari Love Muzic Live roots music 11pm £3 Haunt It Is Still 1985 Travel through time to an ancient realm where keytars are still pretty cool 11pm £3 Hobgoblin Electric Playboys Fancy dress electro swing all-dayer 3pm £free Hop Poles Hop To The Beat DJs play hip hop and R&B 10pm £free Hope SlipJam B Hip hop battleground for Brighton b-boys with an open mic and deck rap sessions 8.30pm £free Horse & Groom Chicken Shed Zeppelin Old time country with a punky edge 8pm £free Komedia Jonny & The Baptists: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy blues band 6.30pm £8.50/7; Krater Comedy Club: Rob Deering, Stuart Goldsmith, Matt Green, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy night 7pm/10.30pm £5-22; The Maydays: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy improv gang 8.30pm £10/8; Clown Cabaret: Brighton Fringe Festival Alternative comedy clowning 11pm £6 Latest Music Bar A Graveside Story: Brighton Fringe Festival On the Spot Productions’ play about coping with grief (downstairs) 5pm £7/6; Tribal Remix Hafla, The Top Shelf A showcase of Tribal Fusion Belly Dancers from all over Europe (downstairs) 7pm £10/7; Granny’s Gone Wild New play written and performed by Lynn Ruth Miller (upstairs) 9.30pm £10/8 Life XXY Chromosome clubbing from the #Hashtag DJs 11pm £7/5/3 Marlborough Theatre Tales Of The Tombola: Brighton Fringe Festival Tragic and hilarious anecdotes from two friends drinking wine in the bathroom 4pm £8.50/6.50; Chapel Street: Brighton Fringe Festival Luke Barnes’ new play about a comically disastrous night on the town 6pm £8.50/6.50; Bitch Boxer: Brighton Fringe Festival Onewoman show about a mean-arse boxer in love 7.30pm £8.50/6.50; The Idealist: Brighton Fringe Festival Absurdist play about dictatorship, oppression and dolphins 9pm £8/6; Sister Acts: Brighton Fringe Festival Stand-up tales of sisterhood 10.30pm £8.50/6.50 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 No Exit: Brighton Fringe Festival Sartre’s “Hell is other people” theatre set-piece 7.45pm £10 Nightingale Theatre Mess: Brighton Fringe Festival A musical play about anorexia (but don’t let that put you off) 7.15pm £10/8 Northern Lights DJ Juzzy D 8pm £free OhSo Social Tell Sid It’s Saturday Beachfront bar playing modern remixes of 80s and 90s music 9pm £free Old Market Celebration!: Brighton Fringe Festival Multimedia choral concert with over 200 singers 7.30pm £8/6 Paris House Live Music Live band plays gypsy jazz, swing and bebop 4pm £free Prince Albert Calico, Polymath Live music 8pm £4 Proud Cabaret Le Chat Noir Classic cabaret and vintage 7pm £44 Ranelagh The Gastrick Band Blues rock 8.30pm £free Red Lion Open Mic Night 8pm £free Riki Tik Skatadays Reggae, rocksteady and vintage ska records 9.30pm £free Sackville Gardens Audible Forces: Brighton Festival Wind powered sound art Noon £free Setting Sun Beer Festival Why not take your girlfriend and see how many ales can you get in cider? Noon £tbc Shooshh J’adore Dance music, house and R&B club 10pm £7/5 Smack I Love NY Saturdays DJs Mike Gorgeous and Mikee Hollywood pay their regards to the 80s American disco scene 11pm £7/5/3; J’box: Thomas Gandey New late night Saturday after party 2am £7/5 Smugglers Saturday Night Chart and club anthems - plus hip hop, R&B and pop 9pm £free Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Brighton Rocks: Marlipins, The King Zootz, Easthead, Kind Sirs Live music 7pm £4 Temple Bar Twonkey’s Blue Cadabra: Brighton Fringe Festival Surreal cabaret show from the comedian and musician from the indie band, Dawn Of The Replicants 6pm £free Theatre Royal The Big Bite-Size Breakfast: Brighton Fringe Festival Mini playlets and theatre nuggets 10.15am £9.50 Three & Ten The Sugar And Honey Cook-Along!: Brighton Fringe Festival 1.30pm £8.50/7; Maggot: Brighton Fringe Festival A play about a genetic anomaly in a dystopian future 3pm £9.50/8; Foil, Arms And Hog: Brighton Fringe Festival Irish sketch comedy about potatoes, racist
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stereotypes and potatoes 5pm £9/7.50; Like They Are: Brighton Fringe Festival Theatre show about coping with relationships and death 7pm £9/7; The Three Englishmen: Brighton Fringe Festival A comedy sketch troupe walk into a pub... 8.30pm £8.50/7; Guilt And Shame: Brighton Fringe Festival Sketch and song comedy duo 10pm £8/6.50 Victoria Gardens Lady Boys Of Bangkok Time tbc
£14 Victory Up Against It Born Bad DJs play an assortment of punky bubblegum trash 9pm £free Volks In The Face: Royal-T, Thorpey, DJ Deadbeat, Reverb Bistro Where would you like your bass? 11pm £8/7 Warren Bringing Down The Moon: Brighton Fringe Festival Kids’ show 11.30am £8/6.50; The Halo Project: Brighton Fringe Festival Live acoustic music Time tbc £free; Philosophy Garden - Steve Jones: Brighton Fringe Festival Writer and geneticist gives a scientific account of the bible 1pm £10; Philosophy Garden - Ben Haggarty: Brighton Fringe Festival Storytelling performance of Mr Sandman followed by a philosophy panel discussion 1pm/3.45pm £10/6; Finding Joy: Brighton Fringe Festival Masked mime show 3.30pm £8/6.50; Rob Auton - The Yellow Show: Brighton Fringe Festival Stand-up comedy show about the colour yellow - and also “lemons, marigolds, rubber ducks, certain lights, some milkshakes, skips, salt bins and yellow lines” 6pm £8/6.50; Tiny Tempest: Brighton Fringe Festival 6pm £8/6.50; ShitFaced Shakespeare: Brighton Fringe Festival 7.30pm £12; Rachel Ries & Emily Baker: Brighton Fringe Festival Live music 8pm £8/6; Red Brick Comedy Club: Brighton Fringe Festival Stand-up night hosted by Lloyd Griffith 8.45pm £11/9.50; Fringe Club - Fat 45: Brighton Fringe Festival Live music 10.30pm £8/6 Western Front Moochin’ DJ Lanx plays northern soul, classic rock and hot funk 9pm £free
Sunday 5th
Above Audio Enzo’s Daytime Party 4pm £free Audio Enzo & Friends Details tbc Basement Club Pop!Candy DJ Claire Fuller plays pure non-stop pop 11pm £free
Belushi’s Chillout And Quiz Night 8pm £free Blind Tiger Soundwave Croatia Festival Launch Party: Anchorsong, Scrimshire, Secret Artist Artists performing at
this July’s festival 11pm £4-15 BOM-Banes 5 Down, 20 Across: The Crossword House 1pm £7.50/5 Brighton Centre Leona Lewis Female X Factor singer 6.30pm £35-55 Brunswick The Bubbles For Breakfast Puppet Show: Brighton Fringe Festival Noon £5/4; Radio Days: Brighton Fringe Festival Vintage music quartet 3pm/8pm £7/5 Caroline Of Brunswick Mark Diamond’s Breakup Haircuts: Brighton Fringe Festival Stand-up show about the “delights and depravities of dating” 4.45pm £free; Aaron Twitchen’s Princess Guide To Dating: Brighton Fringe Festival Campy comedy 6pm £free; Diane Spencer - The Alpha Taboo: Brighton Fringe Festival Witty stories and X-rated comedy 7.15pm £free; Why Don’t We Kill Ourselves?: Brighton Fringe Festival Patrick Lappin contemplates the comic aspects of ending it all 8.30pm £free; Paul Dennis Almost Blunted Purpose: Brighton Fringe Festival Stand-up comedy show 9.45pm £5/3 Coalition SLS (Sounds Like Saturday) 11pm £7/5 Concorde2 Chas & Dave One of rock’s great double acts back together again (this show has now sold out) 7pm £22.50; Daddy G, DJ Andy Smith DJ sets from the guys from Massive Attack and Portishead 11pm £8.50 Corn Exchange Michael Rosen’s Big Book Of Bad Things: Brighton Festival Storytime with the Festival curator 1.30pm £6; Michael Rosen - Bear Hunt And Chocolate Cake: Brighton Festival Storytime with the Festival curator 1.30pm £6; Extinct Boids: Brighton Festival 3.30pm £12.50/10; Earfilms: Brighton Festival A blindfolded audience surrounded by an audio story soundscape 6pm/9pm £14 Doctor Brighton’s Reflex 80s night Time tbc £free Dome Cafe Bar Magna Mysteria: Brighton Festival Interactive performance focusing on illusion and trickery 10am £free Dome Founders Room Richard Cupidi: Brighton Festival A talk about Brighton’s legendary Public House Bookshop 3pm £8 Dome Studio John Yorke: Brighton Festival A philosophical look at storytelling 2pm £10; The Poetry Army: Brighton Festival 4pm £8; The Disappearances Project: Brighton Festival Theatre show about missing people 8pm £12.50/10 Druid’s Arms Funge, Tree House Funk and ska bands 8pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema I’m So Excited! 4pm/6.15pm/8.45pm £tbc Duke’s @ Komedia Finding Nemo 11am £tbc; Berlin Alexander Platz: Brighton Festival 11am £tbc Dukebox Theatre The Great I Am: Brighton Fringe Festival Two one-act plays about life, love, war and Satan 2.45pm £8/6; My Friend Lester: Brighton Fringe Festival A play about Billy Holiday and Lester Young stitched together with songs from both 5pm £6; The Battle Of The Sexes: Brighton Fringe Festival Cabaret show featuring the songs of Gershwin, Flanders & Swann and Tom Lehrer 8pm £8
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Fiddler’s Elbow Sham-Rock Open Mic 8.30pm £free Fishbowl Recovery? Reggae through the ages 9pm £free Fountain Head Reggae & Roasts Reggae and chilled
beats Time tbc £free Freemasons Bank Holiday DJ Set 8pm £free Gladstone Triple Chicken Combo & Sonic Gypsy Live music 8.30pm £free Green Door Store The Steady Man Collective Psychedelic rhythm and blues bands 7pm £free; Green Door Blues Big Itch DJs plus the resident blues band, Smokestack 10pm £free Haunt Athlete, Eliza And The Bear, Sivu Live music 7pm £18.50 Hope Improvabananas DJs entertain with comical choices and audience requests (downstairs) 9pm £free Horse & Groom Blues Jam Live music 8pm £free Komedia Ben Champion - Only Human: Brighton Fringe Festival Stand-up comedy with songs 4pm £7/6; Jonny & The Baptists: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy blues band 6.30pm £8.50/7; Bent Double: Isy Suttie Stand-up show with musical comedy from Peep Show’s Dobby 7.30pm £10.50/8.50/5; The Maydays: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy improv gang 8.30pm £10/8; Clown Cabaret: Brighton Fringe Festival Alternative comedy clowning 11pm £6 Latest Music Bar Stories With Tea: Brighton Fringe Festival Lynn Ruth Miller discusses life, loss and laughter over a cup of tea and some biscuits 4pm £6; A Graveside Story: Brighton Fringe Festival On the Spot Productions’ play about coping with grief (downstairs) 5pm £7/6; Streisand - The Main Event: Brighton Fringe Festival Lisa Faye celebrates the life and work of the Babster (downstairs) 8pm £9/8; Granny’s Gone Wild: Brighton Fringe Festival New play written and performed by Lynn Ruth Miller (upstairs) 9.30pm £10/8 Marlborough Theatre Tales Of The Tombola: Brighton Fringe Festival Tragic and hilarious anecdotes from two friends drinking wine in the bathroom 4pm £8.50/6.50; Chapel Street: Brighton Fringe Festival Luke Barnes’ new play about a comically disastrous night on the town 6pm £8.50/6.50; Bitch Boxer: Brighton Fringe Festival Onewoman show about a mean-arse boxer in love 7.30pm £8.50/6.50; The Idealist: Brighton Fringe Festival Absurdist play about dictatorship, oppression and dolphins 9pm £8/6; Sister Acts: Brighton Fringe Festival Stand-up tales of sisterhood 10.30pm £8.50/6.50 Mesmerist Sneaky Low Five Jazzy vintage tunes with sultry vocals 9pm £free Mucky Duck Quiz On My Face “Quiz night with a difference” perhaps with a very special prize 7pm £1 Neighbourhood Elvis Day Hawaii themed Elvis day with DJs, fancy dress and burger eating competition 4pm £free Neptune Sam Chara Live jazz 8.30pm £free New Venture Theatre No Exit: Brighton Fringe Festival Sartre’s “Hell is other people” theatre set-piece 2.30pm £10; The Frogmore Poets 30th Birthday Birthday bash for the Folkstone literary group 8pm £7/6 Nightingale Theatre Albert Einstein - Relativitively Speaking: Brighton Fringe Festival Songs, silliness and science from Spalien Acecraft’s John Hinton 5pm £7/6; Mess: Brighton Fringe Festival A musical play about anorexia (but don’t let that put you off) 7.15pm £10/8 Northern Lights Northern Light Sundays The DJ has a lazy Sunday afternoon 4pm £free Old Market Picablo: Brighton Festival Inventive theatre show set inside the world and work of Picasso 4pm £9/6 Ouch Bar Twisted Burlesque: Dollie Dore, Crystal King, Cherry Bella, Dixie Dread, DJ Tapes, Peter Von Sleaze Burlesque show with a sinister dark magic twist 9pm £free Pav Tav All Killer No Filler Rock and pop party tunes 11pm £4/3/2 Prince Albert MadFish, MoCara, Wrank Live music 8pm £5 Prince George Pub Quiz 8pm £1 Ranelagh Mike Ross Live blues rock 8.30pm £free Sackville Gardens Audible Forces: Brighton Festival Wind powered sound art Noon £free Setting Sun Beer Festival Noon £tbc Shooshh DPM If your house was this minimal you’d probably think a pissy phonebox was a luxury abode 5pm £free Signalman Open Mic Open session hosted by local duo, Zoothyme 8pm £free Smack Tough Love Late night bank holiday special 2am £7/5 Temple Bar Twonkey’s Blue Cadabra: Brighton Fringe Festival Surreal cabaret show from the comedian and musician from the indie band, Dawn Of The Replicants 6pm £free Theatre Royal The Big Bite-Size Breakfast: Brighton Fringe Festival Mini playlets and theatre nuggets 11am £9.5012.50 Three & Ten The Sugar And Honey Cook-Along!: Brighton Fringe Festival 1.30pm £8.50/7; Maggot: Brighton Fringe Festival A play about a genetic anomaly in a dystopian future 3pm £9.50/8; Foil, Arms And Hog: Brighton Fringe Festival Irish sketch comedy about potatoes, racist stereotypes and potatoes 5pm £9/7.50; Like They Are: Brighton Fringe Festival Theatre show about coping with relationships and death 7pm £9/7; The Three Englishmen: Brighton Fringe Festival A comedy sketch troupe walk into a pub... 8.30pm £8.50/7; Guilt And Shame: Brighton Fringe Festival Sketch and song comedy duo 10pm £8/6.50 Victoria Gardens Lady Boys Of Bangkok Time tbc £14; Pride Gala With Ceri Dupree: Brighton Fringe Festival Cabaret show 8pm £19.50/14.50
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Victory Blues Sundays DJ plays blues and soul Noon £free; Victory DJs 9pm £free
Volks Serotone: Bladerunner, Taxman, Magistrate, Elegance & TT-Ace MC, Brown B, Global Elements, Rivalize, Dead Noize, Denial, Magnum, Aljmex, DJake, IR-8, Cronicz, Twist, Coldharbour Ray, Brighton Rock, Unknown Intel, Arcane, Edition, Border Line, Kosmetik, Quinn-E, Payne, Loppa Dee, Dirty Buziness, Legacy Club
night celebrates its first birthday with a full twelve hours of drum&bass 7pm £5/free Warren Bringing Down The Moon: Brighton Fringe Festival Kids’ show 11.30am £8/6.50; The Halo Project: Brighton Fringe Festival Live acoustic music Time tbc £free; Philosophy Garden - Richard Robinson: Brighton Fringe Festival Scientist gives a talk on the story of the universe in 13.72 minutes 2.30pm £5/4; Richard Robinson - Life, The Universe And Everything: Brighton Fringe Festival Everything from the Big Bang to Bognor Regis in 13.72 minutes - that’s one minute per billion years 2.30pm £5/4; Philosophy Garden - Miles Leeson: Brighton Fringe Festival Philosopher discusses the novels of Sartre and Kundera 4pm £5/4; Tiny Tempest: Brighton Fringe Festival 6pm £8/6.50; Late Night Gimp Fight!: Brighton Fringe Festival Dark and fast-paced comedy sketches 7.30pm £10/8.50; Philosophy Garden - Sharon Lewis & Kristin McLement: Brighton Fringe Festival Two gentle acoustic singer songwriters 8pm £6; Shit-Faced Shakespeare: Brighton Fringe Festival 9pm £8.50-12; Steven Berkoff’s East: Brighton Fringe Festival Berkoff’s 1970s verse play about rites of passage in London’s East End 9pm £10/8.50; Fringe Club - Voodoo Love Orchestra: Brighton Fringe Festival Live music 10.30pm £8/6 West Hill Hall Independent Record Label Fayre 1pm £free Western Front Culture Front Reggae and ska sounds with DJ Eone 9pm £free
Monday 6th
Above Audio Baby Loves Disco Daytime clubbing for kids Details tbc
Ancient Mariner Quiz Night 8pm £1 Basement Table Manners: Brighton Festival Dinner party
theatre exploring the social hierarchies and hang-ups of food 3pm/6pm/8.30pm £20 Bee’s Mouth The Bee’s Mouth Jazz Forum Jazz jam with a house band 8.30pm £free BOM-BANES Rosi Lalor, Jonnie Harrison Live music 7.45pm £8/7
Brunswick Mr Pineapple Head: Brighton Fringe Festival Musical clowning for kids Noon £7; Bloco Branco: Brighton Fringe Festival Eight drummers drumming 3pm £5/3; Pillow Talk: Brighton Fringe Festival “If your bed could talk, what stories could it tell?” 7pm £7/5; Boogie Troop: Brighton Fringe Festival Mathew George’s band plays rock&roll, swing and ragtime 8pm £10/8
Caroline Of Brunswick Mark Diamond’s Breakup Haircuts: Brighton Fringe Festival Stand-up show about the “delights and depravities of dating” 4.45pm £free; Aaron Twitchen’s Princess Guide To Dating: Brighton Fringe Festival Campy comedy 6pm £free; Diane Spencer - The Alpha Taboo: Brighton Fringe Festival Witty stories and X-rated comedy 7.15pm £free; Right Up Your Street Improvised soap opera 8.30pm £free; Paul Dennis - Almost Blunted Purpose: Brighton Fringe Festival Stand-up comedy show 9.45pm £5/3
Coalition Trash Mondays Filthy tunes for students and
layabouts alike 11pm £4/3 Corn Exchange Earfilms: Brighton Festival A blindfolded audience surrounded by an audio story soundscape 1.30pm/6pm/9pm £14 Dome Cirkopolis: Brighton Festival 3pm/7.30pm £1022.50 Dome Cafe Bar Magna Mysteria: Brighton Festival Interactive performance focusing on illusion and trickery 10am £free Dome Studio Alexandra Silocea: Brighton Festival Romanian pianist plays Debussy, Ravel, Schubert and Liszt 1pm £10; The Disappearances Project: Brighton Festival Theatre show about missing people 8pm £12.50/10 Duke Of York’s Cinema I’m So Excited! 1.45pm/4pm/9pm £tbc Fabrica Artist Talk - Scott Smith A bit of blues history and autobiography 7pm £tbc Fiddler’s Elbow Oliver Croome & Benny Brooke Live music 8.30pm £free Grand Hotel The Importance Of Being Earnest: Brighton Fringe Festival Oscar Wilde’s classic comedy of wit, identity confusion and blagging 1.45pm/4.30pm £20-30 Green Door Store Supreme Dicks, I’m Being Good, Davidd Winterr The name may or may not be ironic 7.30pm £7.50 Haunt Fat Poppadaddys Student indie night 11pm £3/2/ free Hope Live Sessions Live music (downstairs) 8pm £free Komedia Ben Champion - Only Human: Brighton Fringe Festival Stand-up comedy with songs 4pm £7/6; Sarah Jane Morris & Antonio Forcione: Brighton Fringe Festival Singer from The Republic and The Communards teams up with an acoustic guitar virtuoso 8pm £15-30.50; Terry Garoghan - The Devil Keeps Tugging: Brighton Fringe Festival New show
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from the man responsible for the affectionate musical piss-take, ‘Brighton The Musical’ 9pm £10
Latest Music Bar A Graveside Story: Brighton Fringe Festival On the Spot Productions’ play about coping with grief (downstairs) 5pm £7/6; DigiTune Live music 8pm £4/3; Granny’s Gone Wild: Brighton Fringe Festival New play
written and performed by Lynn Ruth Miller (upstairs) 9.30pm £10/8
Marlborough Theatre Tales Of The Tombola: Brighton Fringe Festival Tragic and hilarious anecdotes from
two friends drinking wine in the bathroom 4pm £8.50/6.50; Chapel Street: Brighton Fringe Festival Luke Barnes’ new play about a comically disastrous night on the town 6pm £8.50/6.50; Bitch Boxer: Brighton Fringe Festival Onewoman show about a mean-arse boxer in love 7.30pm £8.50/6.50; The Altitude Brothers: Brighton Fringe Festival Theatre show about wannabe cosmonauts in the 1960s space race 9pm £8.50/6.50 Mesmerist Flash Mob Jazz Raucous jazz band 9pm £free Nightingale Theatre Wild Thing I Love You: Brighton Fringe Festival Tales of tracking Bigfoot across the US 3pm/6pm/8pm £8.50/6.50
Old Market Picablo: Brighton Festival Inventive theatre
show set inside the world and work of Picasso 11am/2pm/5.30pm £9/6 Prince Albert Still Corners, Woman’s Hour “Cerebral dream pop” 8pm £9
Sackville Gardens Audible Forces: Brighton Festival Wind powered sound art Noon £free Setting Sun Beer Festival Noon £tbc Shakespeare’s Head Harvest Moon Live acoustic music 8pm £free Shooshh KISS New student club 8pm £4/3/2/free Signalman Signalman Pub Quiz 8pm £1 Temple Bar Twonkey’s Blue Cadabra: Brighton Fringe Festival Surreal cabaret show from the comedian and musician from the indie band, Dawn Of The Replicants 6pm £free; The Sugar And Honey Cook-Along!: Brighton Fringe Festival 1.30pm £8.50/7; Maggot: Brighton Fringe Festival A play about a genetic anomaly in a dystopian future 3pm £9.50/8; Foil, Arms And Hog: Brighton Fringe Festival Irish sketch comedy about potatoes, racist stereotypes and potatoes 5pm £9/7.50; Belvedere: Brighton Fringe Festival Psychological drama 7pm £9/7.50; Off The Cuff: Brighton Fringe Festival Audience-seeded jokes made up on the spot 8.30pm £8.50/7; Fringe Film - Best Of The Cornwall Film Festival: Brighton Fringe Festival Short films from around the world 10pm £2/1.50 Victoria Gardens Lady Boys Of Bangkok Time tbc £14
Volks Future Dub Session - Bank Holiday All-Dayer Dubstep and jungle from an era yet to happen 1pm £tbc; Strictly Reggae Dancehall, roots, revival 11pm £5/4 Warren Bringing Down The Moon: Brighton Fringe Festival Kids’ show 11.30am £8/6.50; Philosophy Garden Who Owns Stories?: Brighton Fringe Festival Philosophy
lecturer, Andrew Chitty, examines how property rights might apply to storytelling Noon £4; The Halo Project: Brighton Fringe Festival Live acoustic music Time tbc £free; Philosophy Garden - Telling Stories In Plays, Poems And Songs: Brighton Fringe Festival Kefi Chadwick, Catherine Smith and Mary Hampton discuss the use of storytelling in their different fields 1.30pm £6; Dinner: Brighton Fringe Festival 2pm £11/9.50; Philosophy Garden - Creating Grimms Sheesha: Brighton Fringe Festival British Punjabi storyteller, Peter Chand, discusses folktales from different cultures 3pm £6; Philosophy Garden - Grimms Sheesha: Brighton Fringe Festival Peter Chand presents his Asian version of the stories retold by the brothers Grimm 5pm £10; Tiny Tempest: Brighton Fringe Festival 6pm £8/6.50; Philosophy Garden - Mary Hampton & Gary Goodman: Brighton Fringe Festival Folky chamber music and heartfelt and humorous poetry 8pm £6; Shit-Faced Shakespeare: Brighton Fringe Festival 9pm £8.50-12
Tuesday 7th
Above Audio Cottontail Club Big band and jitter jive tunes
9pm £free
All Saints Church How Like An Angel: Brighton Festival Classical music and circus acrobatics 9.30pm £20/10 Audio Tiger Blood Student bass night Time tbc £1 Basement Table Manners: Brighton Festival Dinner party
theatre exploring the social hierarchies and hang-ups of food 3pm/6pm/8.30pm £20 Belushi’s Polka Electro mash-up with DJ Barlow 8pm £free BOM-BANES Los Bonobos Live music 7.45pm £5 Brighton Centre Eddie Izzard - Force Majeure The king of whimsy rides into town for two nights of inspired nonsense 6.30pm £35 Brunswick Pillow Talk: Brighton Fringe Festival “If your bed could talk, what stories could it tell?” 7pm £7/5; Jazz Jam: Brighton Fringe Festival Open session with a house band and special guests 8.30pm £free Caroline Of Brunswick Diane Spencer - The Alpha Taboo: Brighton Fringe Festival Witty stories and X-rated comedy 7.15pm £free; Right Up Your Street Improvised soap opera 8.30pm £free; Paul Dennis - Almost Blunted Purpose: Brighton Fringe Festival Stand-up comedy show 9.45pm £5/3 Digital CU Next Tuesday It’ll teach the universities to timetable lectures for Wednesday mornings 11pm £4/3 Dome Cirkopolis: Brighton Festival 7.30pm £10-22.50
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Dome Cafe Bar Magna Mysteria: Brighton Festival
Interactive performance focusing on illusion and trickery 10am £free Dome Studio We’re Gonna Die: Brighton Festival Lifeaffirming theatre from a playwright and her band 8pm £12.50/10 Duke Of Norfolk Open Mic 9pm £free
Duke
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1.45pm/4pm/6.15pm/8.45pm £tbc
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Dukebox Theatre You Know Me, I’m Jack Ruby!: Brighton Fringe Festival Solo show about the man who assassinated Lee Harvey Oswald 6.45pm £8/6
Fiddler’s Elbow QUIZness Time Are you a pub quiz
whizz, or bit of a half-wit? 8pm £1 Fountain Head Student Night DJs play indie and rock 8pm £free Gladstone Quiz Night 8.30pm £1 Green Door Store Fang Island Indie rock band which apparently who sounds like “everyone high-fiving everyone” 7pm £10; Donuts Hipster funk and hip hop gems 11pm £free Komedia New Act Night: Brighton Fringe Festival Catch the newest comics from Jill Edwards’ comedy workshop 8pm £7/5; Desperately Seeking The Exit: Brighton Fringe Festival In 2007 Peter Michael Marino’s musical version of Desperately Seeking Susan (inexplicably featuring Blondie songs) opened on the West End and closed a month later. Now he’s touring a one-man show which is basically a comedic autopsy of his £4m flop 8.15pm £12/10 Latest Music Bar Beat Male Cancer Launch Party 7pm £free Life Booty Bakery Club night cooking up a big basket of bass and hip hop 11pm £3/free Marlborough Theatre Terry Arkwright - The Dark Helmet Speaks: Brighton Fringe Festival Superhero character comedy 7.30pm £8.50/6.50 New Venture Theatre No Exit: Brighton Fringe Festival Sartre’s “Hell is other people” theatre set-piece 7.45pm £10 Nightingale Theatre Miss Givings: Brighton Fringe Festival Musical one-woman play about a wannabe superstar 7.15pm £8.50/6.50; Wild Thing I Love You: Brighton Fringe Festival Tales of tracking Bigfoot across the US 9pm £8.50/6.50 Old Market Picablo: Brighton Festival Inventive theatre show set inside the world and work of Picasso 1.30pm £9/6 Pav Tav Wasted Years Music to cling desperately to your youth to 11pm £3/2/1 Prince Albert The M-Theory, Moodhoover, Calico Live music 8pm £4/3 Red Lion Challenging General Knowledge & Music Quiz 8pm £1 Royal Pavilion Elias String Quartet - The Beethoven Project Part 1: Brighton Festival Music by Beethoven 8pm £30/10 St George’s Inn Pub Quiz 8pm £1 Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Piotr Kurek, Lutto Lento According to the ever-reliable Wire mag, Piotr sounds like “watching someone make pancakes while a voiceover describes how to transect a duodenal ulcer” 8pm £4 Three & Ten Belvedere: Brighton Fringe Festival Psychological drama 7pm £9/7.50; Maggot: Brighton Fringe Festival A play about a genetic anomaly in a dystopian future 8.30pm £9.50/8; Fringe Film - Best Of The Cornwall Film Festival: Brighton Fringe Festival Short films from around the world 10pm £2/1.50 Verdict John Lake Trio Jazz band launch their new CD, ‘Up On The Downs’ 8.30pm £free Victoria Gardens Lady Boys Of Bangkok Time tbc £14; Hanover The Musical: Brighton Fringe Festival To be followed next year with ‘Bevendean The Ballet’ Details tbc Warren Bringing Down The Moon: Brighton Fringe Festival Kids’ show 4pm £8/6.50; Pornography By Simon Stephens: Brighton Fringe Festival 7.30pm £11/9.50; ShitFaced Shakespeare: Brighton Fringe Festival 9pm £8.5012
Wednesday 8th
All Saints Church How Like An Angel: Brighton Festival Classical music and circus acrobatics 7.30pm/9.30pm
£20/10
Basement Table Manners: Brighton Festival Dinner party
theatre exploring the social hierarchies and hang-ups of food 3pm/6pm/8.30pm £20 Basement Club Mash Up Commercial house with DJ Lee Harris 11pm £free Bee’s Mouth Open Mic 8.30pm £free Belushi’s Guilty Pleasures Songs you shouldn’t like but like despite pretending not to like them 8pm £free BOM-Banes Food’n’Film: The King and I 7pm £5.55 Brighton Centre Eddie Izzard - Force Majeure The king of whimsy rides into town for two nights of inspired nonsense 6.30pm £35 Brunswick Pillow Talk: Brighton Fringe Festival “If your bed could talk, what stories could it tell?” 7pm/9pm £7/5; Brighton Binge: Brighton Fringe Festival Dance theatre inspired by mobs, debauchery and pubs 8pm £5/3
Caroline Of Brunswick Diane Spencer - The Alpha Taboo: Brighton Fringe Festival Witty stories and X-rated comedy 7.15pm £free; It’s Not Easy Being Yellow Comedy
show about cultural identity and yellow face paint 8.30pm £free Coalition CoCo LoCo Dancehall and dubstep music for
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students to lose the plot to 10.30pm £5/3/1 Cowley Club Manufactured Landscapes Documentary about the environmental destruction wrought in China and India to provide you with fancy gadgets 7.30pm £free Digital Fresh Meat “First-year university students, yum” 11pm £1 Dome Sinead O’Connor, Lau: Brighton Festival 8pm £10-25 Dome Cafe Bar Magna Mysteria: Brighton Festival Interactive performance focusing on illusion and trickery 10am £free Dome Studio We’re Gonna Die: Brighton Festival Lifeaffirming theatre from a playwright and her band 8pm £12.50/10; Busch Ensemble: Brighton Festival Music by Brahms, Mozart and the Czech composer Suk Elegie 1pm £10 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 I’m So Excited! 1.45pm/4pm/6.15pm/8.45pm £tbc Dukebox Theatre The Great I Am: Brighton Fringe Festival Two one-act plays about life, love, war and Satan 6.15pm £8/6; You Know Me, I’m Jack Ruby!: Brighton Fringe Festival Solo show about the man who assassinated Lee Harvey Oswald 6.45pm £8/6 Fishbowl Tea & Biscuits: DJ Gareth Stephens Retro swing, soul and ska 10pm £free Green Door Store Noise Night #4: Milk & Biscuits, Hour Hands Live music 7pm £3; Indie Wednesdays Straightup indie tunes 11pm £free Haunt Gramme Live music 7pm £6; Supercharged Drum&bass and breaks 11pm £3/2 Hope Adrian Crowley Live music 8pm £7 Horse & Groom Ben Paley, Tab Hunter Live music 8pm £free Komedia How Bruce Springsteen Changed My Life: Brighton Fringe Festival Sarfraz Manzoor tackles the questions of race, religion and rock&roll - and shows how The Boss has all the answers 8pm £10 Latest Music Bar Tango Boot Camp Learn to tango like the Argentinians 8pm £3-8 Marlborough Theatre Terry Arkwright - The Dark Helmet Speaks: Brighton Fringe Festival Superhero character comedy 7.30pm £8.50/6.50; When I Grow Up Mace & Burton: Brighton Fringe Festival True-life comedy show 9.15pm £8.50/7.50 Mesmerist The Swing Ninjas Gypsy swing band 9pm £free Mucky Duck Crackling Griffins Open session for Irish and old time folk 9pm £free New Venture Theatre No Exit: Brighton Fringe Festival Sartre’s “Hell is other people” theatre set-piece 7.45pm £10 Nightingale Theatre Tunnel: Brighton Fringe Festival Magical realist parable about a man stuck in a tunnel 7.15pm £8.50/6.50; Gather Ye Rosebuds: Brighton Fringe Festival Theatre piece about the Arab Spring 9pm £8.50/6.50 Proud Cabaret Salsa Cubana Cuban night with dance classes, live bands and guest DJs 8.30pm £10/6 Thomas Kemp Kev & Jenna’s Open Mic 9pm £free Three & Ten Belvedere: Brighton Fringe Festival Psychological drama 7pm £9/7.50; Maggot: Brighton Fringe Festival A play about a genetic anomaly in a dystopian future 8.30pm £9.50/8; I’m With Stupid: Brighton Fringe Festival Sketch duo 10pm £8/6.50 Victoria Gardens Lady Boys Of Bangkok Time tbc £14; Hanover The Musical: Brighton Fringe Festival To be followed next year with ‘Fiveways The Opera’ Details tbc Warren Bringing Down The Moon: Brighton Fringe Festival Kids’ show 4pm £8/6.50; Dinner: Brighton Fringe Festival 7.30pm £11/9.50; Shit-Faced Shakespeare: Brighton Fringe Festival 9pm £8.50-12 Western Front Hush Hush Live acoustic music 9pm £free
Thursday 9th
All Saints Church How Like An Angel: Brighton Festival Classical music and circus acrobatics 9.30pm £20/10 Audio Bastard Pop Musical mash-up 11pm £3/free Bee’s Mouth Bakk Lamp Fall African fusion band 9pm
£6/5
Belushi’s Karaoke 8pm £free BOM-BANES John ‘Paul From The Guardian’ Halpern
Humorous talk 7.45pm £10/8 Brighton Centre Micky Flanagan - Back On The Game Stand-up comedian who somehow isn’t Irish 7pm £22.50
Brunswick Pillow Talk: Brighton Fringe Festival “If your bed could talk, what stories could it tell?” 7pm/9pm £7/5; Rue Royale, Amy Hill, Matt Bonner: Brighton Fringe Festival Live acoustic music 7.30pm £6/5 Caroline Of Brunswick Sameena Zehra Homicidal Pacifist: Brighton Fringe Festival Existential stand-up show 7.15pm £5; It’s Not Easy Being Yellow Comedy show about cultural identity and yellow face paint 8.30pm £free; Not Dead Yet: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy from old farts 9.45pm £6/5 Coalition Secret Discotheque Replaying the soundtrack to your youth 11pm £4/3/2
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Concorde2 The Herbaliser Hip hop jazzers 7.30pm £10 Corn Exchange Flathampton: Brighton Festival Interactive playmat city 10.30am/1.30pm £5-15; Bigmouth: Brighton Festival Spoken word mash-up of famous speeches 9pm £10-15
Dome Cafe Bar Magna Mysteria: Brighton Festival
Interactive performance focusing on illusion and trickery 10am £free
Dome Studio Anna Huntley, Nick Pritchard, Simon Lepper: Brighton Festival Classical music lunchtime concert 1pm £10; We’re Gonna Die: Brighton Festival Life-affirming
theatre from a playwright and her band 8pm £12.50/10 Druid’s Arms Subvert Normality Post rock and punk band night 8pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema I’m So Excited! 1.45pm/4pm/9pm £tbc; Hue And Cry 6.30pm £tbc Duke’s @ Komedia Star Trek Into Darkness Noon/3pm/6pm/9pm £tbc Dukebox Theatre You Know Me, I’m Jack Ruby!: Brighton Fringe Festival Solo show about the man who assassinated Lee Harvey Oswald 6.45pm £8/6; Operation Love Story: Brighton Fringe Festival Storytelling show with Jennifer Williams 8pm £8/6 Emporium The Angina Monologue One man’s comic tale of “booze, burgers and BBC breakfast banquets” 8pm £5; Pepe Arias Classical cellist, composer and singer 10.30pm £6 Fabrica Armchair Critics - Blue In Fashion Arty discussion event 7.30pm £tbc Fiddler’s Elbow Folk Off Session: Warsaw Radio, Justin Saltmeris, Isobel Anderson, Jacko Hooper Showcase of local blues and folk musicians 8pm £free; Folk Off Sessions: Brighton Fringe Festival Live folk and roots music 8pm £free Fishbowl Residents Association: DJ Will Sumsuch DJs play hip hop, funk and world beats 10.30pm £free Fountain Head Student Night DJs play indie and rock 8pm £free Green Door Store Bearded Youth Quest Instrumental indie rock 7pm £tbc; LUX Launch of a new electronica night with sound mapping and experimental visuals 11pm £free Haunt Coconut College Thursday night party playing a right mix of stuff like Grimes, Smashing Pumpkins and Kayne West 11pm £3/2 Hope The Social Live acoustic music (downstairs) 8pm £free Komedia Scottish Falsetto Socks - In Space!: Brighton Fringe Festival Songs, sketches and sock puppets with a sci-fi theme 7pm £9/8; The Noise Next Door Comedy Lock-In: Brighton Fringe Festival Improv comedy troupe 8pm £10; EastEnd Cabaret - Notoriously Kinky: Brighton Fringe Festival Raunchy songs and character comedy from the risque cabaret duo 9pm £10/8 Latest Music Bar Catalyst Club Guest speakers give a short talk about whatever their weird obsession is 8pm £5 Lucky Voice Acoustic Open Mic 8pm £free Marlborough Theatre Shelf Life - Modern Home Management: Brighton Fringe Festival Finding the funny side of domestic chores 6pm £7/6; Adventure/Misadventure: Brighton Fringe Festival Storytelling, physical theatre and live music 7.45pm £8/6; When I Grow Up - Mace & Burton: Brighton Fringe Festival True-life comedy show 9.15pm £8.50/7.50 Mesmerist Leanne And The Rockeros Rockabilly band 9pm £free Moksha Lyrics To Life The best and worst lyrics of all time performed as theatre sketches 7.30pm £5 Mucky Duck Open Mic Jam session with Joe Newman 9pm £free New Venture Theatre No Exit: Brighton Fringe Festival Sartre’s “Hell is other people” theatre set-piece 7.45pm £10 Nightingale Theatre Tunnel: Brighton Fringe Festival Magical realist parable about a man stuck in a tunnel 7.15pm £8.50/6.50; Gather Ye Rosebuds: Brighton Fringe Festival Theatre piece about the Arab Spring 9pm £8.50/6.50 Old Market Nick Pynn & 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 £12/10 Prince Albert Kim Richie, Danni Nicholls Live music 8pm £10 Prince George Souled Out DJs play funk, soul and Motown 8pm £free Proud Cabaret 50 Shades Of Cabaret Fetish cabaret for people who’d never thought of being kinky before reading that book 8pm £24 Redroaster Grit Lit: Neil Ansell, Martine McDonagh, David Swann, Akila, Steph Lam, Alex Ntung, Tim Lay, Amy Riley Writers read short stories, non-fiction pieces and extracts from novels 7.45pm £6/5 Riki Tik Big It Up! Resident DJs mine the golden era of dancehall and digital reggae 9.30pm £free Sallis Benney Theatre Breaking Boundaries Contemporary dance performance with multimedia extras 7.30pm £8 Shooshh Azuri 10pm £3/free Signalman An Evening Of Swing Cabaret Fringe preview 8pm £free Smack Fresh Thursday DJ Mike Panteli entertains the students 10.30pm £5/3 St George’s Inn Maverick Music Night 8pm £free St James’ Tavern Bacon Fat Stay Sick DJs play 50s and 60s “R&R, R&B, tittyshakers and blues” 9pm £free
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Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Cat Fire Radio, Hypnotize, Moth Indie math rock 9pm £4 Theatre Royal The Big Bite-Size Breakfast: Brighton Fringe Festival Mini playlets and theatre nuggets 10.15am/11.30am £9.50-12.50; Britten - The Canticles: Brighton Festival Physical theatre set to classical music 7.30pm
£10-27.50
Three & Ten A Little Nonsense: Brighton Fringe Festival
A straight man gives a clown some life lessons using mime, slapstick and music 7pm £9.50/8; Maggot: Brighton Fringe Festival A play about a genetic anomaly in a dystopian future 8.30pm £9.50/8; I’m With Stupid: Brighton Fringe Festival Sketch duo 10pm £8/6.50 Unitarian Church Xara Vaughan: Brighton Fringe Festival Cabaret chanteuse who ran away from school to become a Stringfellow’s Angel and then ran away from a nunnery to join a punk band 3.30pm/7.30pm £5/2.50 Victoria Gardens Lady Boys Of Bangkok Time tbc £14; Hanover The Musical: Brighton Fringe Festival To be followed next year with ‘Patcham The Puppet Show’ Details tbc Victory Open Mic 8pm £free Volks Roll Through Drum&bass and dubstep, bass and beatbox 11pm £2 Warren Pornography By Simon Stephens: Brighton Fringe Festival 6pm £11/9.50; Marcel: Brighton Fringe Festival 7.30pm £11/9.50; Shit-Faced Shakespeare: Brighton Fringe Festival 9pm £8.50-12 Western Front DJ Russ Rockwell Funk and soul DJ 9pm £free
Friday 10th 10 Below Gigglestock: 7.30pm £4/3
Horse & Louis Comedy night
Above Audio Home House and disco DJs 9pm £free All Saints Church How Like An Angel: Brighton Festival Classical music and circus acrobatics 7.30pm/9.30pm
£20/10
Audio Minimal Kids Minimalist electronica 11pm £tbc Basement Volcano: Brighton Festival Grounded by
2010’s ash cloud an airline pilot erupts in this funny and moving theatre show 7.30pm £10; Major Tom: Brighton Festival A woman and her dog attempt to win Mrs England and Crufts respectively (this show has now sold out) 9.15pm £10 Basement Club Friday Night Live With Lady LaRue Cabaret is a drag sometimes 11pm £free Belushi’s Friday Night Floor Fillers Details tbc Black Dove Mo Taters! Vintage American tunes from both sides of the Panama canal 8pm £free BOM-Banes 5 Down, 20 Across: The Crossword House 1pm £7.50/5; Rosie Brown Live music 7.45pm £6/5 Brighton Centre Micky Flanagan - Back On The Game Stand-up comedian who somehow isn’t Irish 7pm £23.50 Brighton Media Centre Ajax: Brighton Fringe Festival Confrontational physical theatre reviving the Greek myth to examine effects of violence 8pm £free Brunswick Pillow Talk: Brighton Fringe Festival “If your bed could talk, what stories could it tell?” 4pm/7pm/9pm £7/5; Jipsy Magic, The Watermelons, The Move-Ons: Brighton Fringe Festival Indie funk quartet 8pm £5 Caroline Of Brunswick Rob Deb’s Big Bang Theory Of Life: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedian seeks a meaning to life in sci-fi and comic books 6pm £free; Sameena Zehra - Homicidal Pacifist: Brighton Fringe Festival Existential stand-up show 7.15pm £5; DJ Jody Lee Hooker Mod For It DJ plays alt rock classics 9pm £free; Not Dead Yet: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy from old farts 9.45pm £6/5 Chequers The Duvettes Acoustic covers from the “happy dancy” trio 10pm £free Coalition The Pigeon Detectives, Hares, Must Indie rockers gearing up to release album number four 7pm £12.50; Friday I’m In Love No more lectures for a day or two 11pm £3-6 Concorde2 Shuggie Otis 70s singer songwriter 7pm £22; Irie Nation: Channel One Soundsystem, Brother Culture Reggae and roots night 11pm £5/2 Corn Exchange Flathampton: Brighton Festival Interactive playmat city 4.30pm £5-15; Bigmouth: Brighton Festival Spoken word mash-up of famous speeches 8pm £1015; Flathampton For Adults: Brighton Festival Interactive playmat city for big kids 10pm £10 Digital Stonelove Indie rock&roll club 11pm £4/3 Doctor Brighton’s Funky Friday: DJ Nick Hirst, DJ Wayne 9.30pm £free Dome Sutra: Brighton Festival Dance show with a troupe of Shaolin monks 8pm £10-22.50; Nash Ensemble: Brighton Festival Classical music 8pm £30/10 Dome Cafe Bar Magna Mysteria: Brighton Festival Interactive performance focusing on illusion and trickery 10am £free Dome Studio Wara: Brighton Festival Soul funk and afro Cuban grooves 9pm £12.50/10 Druid’s Arms DJ Tommy G Electro beats, indie and house tunes 10pm £free Duke Of Norfolk DJ Lamp 9pm £free Duke’s @ Komedia Star Trek Into Darkness Noon/3pm/6pm/9.15pm £tbc Dukebox Theatre The Hee-Ha’s - Iprov Shuffle: Brighton Fringe Festival Improv comedy group use your iPod
online at www.brightonsource.co.uk
for inspiration 6.45pm £8/6; Operation - Love Story: Brighton Fringe Festival Storytelling show with Jennifer Williams 8pm £8/6; Instant Theatre: Brighton Fringe Festival Improvised theatre skits 9.15pm £7/5 Emporium The Angina Monologue One man’s comic tale of “booze, burgers and BBC breakfast banquets” 8pm £5 Fishbowl Jeff Daniels Soul and hip hop DJ 9pm £free Funkyfish Thank Funk Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10.30pm £free
Grand Hotel The Importance Of Being Earnest: Brighton Fringe Festival Oscar Wilde’s classic comedy of wit, identity confusion and blagging 1.45pm/4.30pm £20-30 Great Eastern Whiskey Preachin’ DJs Shamblin Sexton and Senor Mick play Delta swamp rock boogie 8pm £free Green Door Store The Headmix Collective Dubfolk collective reform after 10 years away 7pm £8; Electro Blues Remixed jukebox jump blues night with a live band 11pm £free Hampton Dad’s Old Vinyl DJs play retro funk, pop and hip hop records 9pm £free Haunt The Defiled File under groove-laden electronicallyassisted hardcore metal 7pm £8.50 Hop Poles Old Skool Classics DJ night 10pm £free Hope ASBO Derek, Fractured, I Ludicrous, A&E, DJ X-Ray Dex Shambolic comedy rock band featuring Susan Boyle on drums and an unnervingly bouncy kazoo player 7.30pm £5 Horse & Groom Mel’s Allstars 8pm £free Komedia Scottish Falsetto Socks - In Space!: Brighton Fringe Festival Songs, sketches and sock puppets with a sci-fi theme 7pm £9/8; Krater Comedy Club: Carey Marx, Markus Birdman, Javier Jarquin, Maff Brown Stand-up comedy night 8pm £16.50; EastEnd Cabaret - Notoriously Kinky: Brighton Fringe Festival Raunchy songs and character comedy from the risque cabaret duo 9pm £10/8; Missing Cat Club: Prehab, Dizzy D, General Panic, McGoo New monthly club night mixing the sounds of Jamaica, Brixton and Berlin 11pm £free; Attenborough’s Ark: Thomas Webb, Gassin’, Waxman Deep Celebrate Sir David’s birthday with a wildlife fancy dress club night to raise money for the World Land Trust 11pm £5 Life Below The Line & ENK: DJ Q, Barley Legal, MIK House, grime and garage 11pm £5/3 Marlborough Theatre Shelf Life - Modern Home Management: Brighton Fringe Festival Finding the funny side of domestic chores 6pm £7/6; Adventure/Misadventure: Brighton Fringe Festival Storytelling, physical theatre and live music 7.45pm £8/6; When I Grow Up - Mace & Burton: Brighton Fringe Festival True-life comedy show 9.15pm £8.50/7.50; Professor Elemental Presents - Attic: Brighton Fringe Festival Varied entertainments from the steampunk chap hop chap 10.30pm £8.50/6.50 Mesmerist Shake, Holla & Roll Vintage blues, swing and rock&roll 9pm £free Moksha Lyrics To Life The best and worst lyrics of all time performed as theatre sketches 7.30pm £5 Mucky Duck Gold Chains No Brains A mix of carboot house, codeine krunk and chip shop hip hop 8pm £free Neptune The Stuntmen Rock&roll jive duo 8.30pm £free New Venture Theatre No Exit: Brighton Fringe Festival Sartre’s “Hell is other people” theatre set-piece 7.45pm £10
Nightingale Theatre Tunnel: Brighton Fringe Festival Magical realist parable about a man stuck in a tunnel 7.15pm £8.50/6.50; Gather Ye Rosebuds: Brighton Fringe Festival Theatre piece about the Arab Spring 9pm £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 10.30pm £8.50/6.50 Old Courtroom Trials And Tribulations Of Mr Pickwick: Brighton Fringe Festival One-man comic play 5.30pm £8/6 Old Market Someone Else’s Shoes: Brighton Fringe Festival Theatre trail through town 5.30pm/7pm/8.30pm £6/5; The Trench: Brighton Fringe Festival Award-winning show about a miner trapped in a tunnel during WWI 8pm £14/12 Ouch Bar Freaky Fridays A new night of bassy tunes, guest DJs, karaoke and burlesque treats 8pm £tbc Prince Albert The Vril, The Art Club Live music 8pm £4 Proud Cabaret Speakeasy Three course meal, burlesque show and club night 7pm £34 Quadrant Eccentronic - Neurovision: Brighton Fringe Festival Humorous musical duo poke fun at Eurovision culture 2pm £5 Ranelagh The Long Goodbye Live country rock 8.30pm £free Sallis Benney Theatre Judith Kerr In Conversation With Michael Rosen: Brighton Festival 7.30pm £6 Shooshh Runway Old school R&B and party mash ups 10pm £5/4/3/free Smack Antro Urban and chart tunes from Juice FM DJ, Mike Pantelli 11pm £5/3 Smugglers Pink Friday 9pm £free Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Dive Slow Live Show: Ghosting Season, Pandr Eyez, Olugbenga, Dive Slow DJs Manchester electro and techno duo 9pm £free Theatre Royal The Big Bite-Size Breakfast: Brighton Fringe Festival Mini playlets and theatre nuggets 10.15am/11.30am £9.50-12.50; Tracy Chevalier: Brighton Festival Popular author talks about her book The Last Runaway 8pm £10 Thomas Kemp Hot-Tip Hi-Fi DJ with a fine collection of vintage reggae and rocksteady records 8pm £free
Three & Ten A Little Nonsense: Brighton Fringe Festival
A straight man gives a clown some life lessons using mime, slapstick and music 7pm £9.50/8; Vinegar Knickers: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy sketch trio 8.30pm £8.50/7; I’m With Stupid: Brighton Fringe Festival Sketch duo 10pm £8/6.50 Unitarian Church Xara Vaughan: Brighton Fringe Festival Cabaret chanteuse who ran away from school to become a Stringfellow’s Angel and then ran away from a nunnery to join a punk band 3.30pm/7.30pm £5/2.50 Victoria Gardens Lady Boys Of Bangkok Time tbc £14 Volks Freak Bazaar: Boom Shankar, Soul Kontakt, Ojane Amethyst, Ginetik, Iain Dub, Morfina, Zimfella Progressive and psychedelic trance 11pm £7/6 Warren Dinner: Brighton Fringe Festival 6pm £11/9.50; On The Beach By John Osborne: Brighton Fringe Festival 6pm £9.50/7.50; Marcel: Brighton Fringe Festival 7.30pm £11/9.50; The Pardoner’s Tale: Brighton Fringe Festival 7.45pm £9.50/8; Shit-Faced Shakespeare: Brighton Fringe Festival 9pm £8.50-12; Fringe Club - Swing Ninjas: Brighton Fringe Festival Live music 10.30pm £8/6 Western Front Bark!: The Downing Street Years, Sounds Beta Live music 8pm £free; DJ Dennis Castro Not only playing ‘muscle rhymes’ and ‘jiggy fitness’ but also ‘lazy garage’ and ‘blog pop’ 9pm £free
Saturday 11th
10 Below Show Me Love 90s dance anthems with DJ Andy Gibbens, Dave Streeter and P90 10.30pm £3/2 Above Audio Ruff Snippets DJ plays hip hop, funk and soul Time tbc £free Ancient Mariner Acoustic Sessions: Lee Pryor Led Zeppelin tribute singer takes time off to play jazz, rock and pop tunes 8pm £free Audio Warehouse: Audiojack House and techno club night 11pm £5/free Basement The Way You Tell them: Brighton Festival Both funny and thoughtful, Rachel Mars looks at the ways we use and abuse humour 7.30pm £10; Major Tom: Brighton Festival A woman and her dog attempt to win Mrs England and Crufts respectively (this show has now sold out) 9.15pm £10 Basement Club Fusion: DJ Peter Castle, DJ Lee Harris Chart and club remixes 11pm £free Bell Pub Fully Toppa! Afro, gypsy and dub sounds with DJ Ed Snug 8pm £free Belushi’s The Saturday Night Mash-Up Details tbc Blind Tiger Stay Sick!: The Mentalettes Bands and DJs play 50s and 60s surf, garage and rock&roll 9pm £3 BOM-Banes 5 Down, 20 Across: The Crossword House 1pm £7.50/5 Brighton Centre Micky Flanagan - Back On The Game Stand-up comedian who somehow isn’t Irish 7pm £23.50 Brunswick The Bubbles For Breakfast Puppet Show: Brighton Fringe Festival Noon £5/4; Pillow Talk: Brighton Fringe Festival “If your bed could talk, what stories could it tell?” 3pm/7pm/9pm £7/5; Steel Town: Brighton Fringe Festival Live music and multimedia show inspired by Teesside 3pm £7/5; Linos Wengara & Zimbaremabwe Mbira Vibes: Brighton Fringe Festival Reggae and roots 8pm £6/5 Caroline Of Brunswick Mark Diamond’s Breakup Haircuts: Brighton Fringe Festival Stand-up show about the “delights and depravities of dating” 4.45pm £free; Rob Deb’s Big Bang Theory Of Life: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedian seeks a meaning to life in sci-fi and comic books 6pm £free; Sameena Zehra - Homicidal Pacifist: Brighton Fringe Festival Existential stand-up show 7.15pm £5; The Bob Blackman Appreciation Society Presents: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy show 8.30pm £free; Not Dead Yet: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy from old farts 9.45pm £6/5 Chequers Owen McGarry, DJ Paul Nutini-esque singer songwriter 9pm £free Coalition The Wideboys, Sonny Wharton Skint Records party 8pm £7; DJ Yoda, Krafty Kuts, A Skillz Comes to town does the hip hop turntablist 11pm £12; Blow: Vince Manganaro, Charly Lopez, Charles Green The party never stops 3am £5 Concorde2 The Destroyers Balkan ska big band 7pm £12 Corn Exchange Flathampton: Brighton Festival Interactive playmat city 1pm/4pm £5-15; Bigmouth: Brighton Festival Spoken word mash-up of famous speeches 9pm £1015 Cowley Club SluTdiSco Electro punk disco madness Details tbc Digital Free The Beats If you love beats, set them free. If they come back ten years later in a chart remix, they’re yours. 11pm £5/free Doctor Brighton’s Sexy Saturday: DJ Tony B 9.30pm £free Dome Lionel Shriver: Brighton Festival Talk with the author of We Need to Talk About Kevin 3pm £10; Sutra: Brighton Festival Dance show with a troupe of Shaolin monks 8pm £1022.50 Dome Cafe Bar Magna Mysteria: Brighton Festival Interactive performance focusing on illusion and trickery 10am £free Dome Founders Room Charles Rangeley-Wilson & John Andrews: Brighton Festival Two anglers muse on
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fishing, rivers and the English landscape 3pm £8
Dome Studio Tomorrow’s Warriors: Brighton Festival
Hip jazz collective 1pm £10 Druid’s Arms Goose’s Hairdressers Old school, hip hop and party tunes 10pm £free Duke’s @ Komedia Star Trek Into Darkness 11.15am/2.15pm/5.15pm/8.15pm £tbc Dukebox Theatre Instant Theatre: Brighton Fringe Festival Improvised theatre skits 5.30pm/9.15pm £7/5; Operation - Love Story: Brighton Fringe Festival Storytelling show with Jennifer Williams 8pm £8/6 Emporium The Angina Monologue One man’s comic tale of “booze, burgers and BBC breakfast banquets” 8pm £5; La Bordello Bohème Circus, burlesque and cabaret show 10.30pm £11.50 Exchange Live Music 9pm £free Fabrica Meet The Artist - Stig Evans Your chance to ask the artist why she does the things she does Noon £tbc Fiddler’s Elbow Saturday Sizzlers DJs drop hot vinyl into your ears 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 Freemasons Saturday Night Disc Spinners DJ night 9pm £free Funkyfish Oldschool Saturday Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10pm £6/5 Gladstone One Roots, Dubconscious Hi-Fi Reggae and roots tunes 8.30pm £free Grand Hotel The Importance Of Being Earnest: Brighton Fringe Festival Oscar Wilde’s classic comedy of wit, identity confusion and blagging 1.45pm/4.30pm £20-30 Green Door Store The Murmurtrons, The Pocket Drummers, Rusted Gun, DJ Scutty Le Funk Indie and western band formerly known as Broken Star 7pm £tbc; Pop Not Pop Pop night with Dynamite Sal 11pm £free Haunt Junip Swedish psychedelic rock 7pm £11; It Is Still 1985 Travel through time to an ancient realm where keytars are still pretty cool 11pm £3 Hop Poles Hop To The Beat DJs play hip hop and R&B 10pm £free Hope The Consoles, The Flip Flays, The Dubarrys, Clockworks Live music 7pm £4 Horse & Groom Koan Brothers Live band playing country, rock and soul 8pm £free Jackie ‘O Jazz Rooms Golden Era Dance Party Russ Dewbury and live guests hark back to the old Brighton club with a strictly vinyl set of jazz, funk, soul and latin tunes 10pm £tbc Komedia Comedy Club 4 Kids Comedy without the rude bits 2pm £8.50/6.50; Honor Blackman: Brighton Fringe Festival An audience with Ms Pussy Galore 3.15pm £15/14; Krater Comedy Club: Carey Marx, Markus Birdman, Javier Jarquin, Maff Brown Stand-up comedy night 7pm/10.30pm £5-22; 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 8pm £9/7 Life XXY Chromosome clubbing from the #Hashtag DJs 11pm £7/5/3 Loft Good Life: Rocky, Max One, DJ Misiu Classic house, old and new Time tbc £7/5 Marlborough Theatre Shelf Life - Modern Home Management: Brighton Fringe Festival Finding the funny side of domestic chores 6pm £7/6; Adventure/Misadventure: Brighton Fringe Festival Storytelling, physical theatre and live music 7.45pm £8/6; Rom Com Con - Mace & Burton: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedic tales of real-life romance 9.15pm £8.50/7.50; Professor Elemental Presents - Attic: Brighton Fringe Festival Varied entertainments from the steampunk chap hop chap 10.30pm £8.50/6.50 Mesmerist Juke Joint Jamboree Rhythm & blues and rock&roll records from the days of the dance halls 9pm £free Moksha Lyrics To Life The best and worst lyrics of all time performed as theatre sketches 7.30pm £5 Mucky Duck Unhooked Generation Retro DJs with an ear for 60s Motown and northern soul 9pm £free New Venture Theatre No Exit: Brighton Fringe Festival Sartre’s “Hell is other people” theatre set-piece 7.45pm £10 Nightingale Theatre A Girl Called Owl: Brighton Fringe Festival One-woman show about growing up in South Africa 3pm/5pm £8.50/6.50; Tunnel: Brighton Fringe Festival Magical realist parable about a man stuck in a tunnel 7.15pm £8.50/6.50; ichardson’s ecology-inspired poetry show 7.30pm £6/4 OhSo Social Tell Sid It’s Saturday Beachfront bar playing modern remixes of 80s and 90s music 9pm £free Old Market The Trench: Brighton Fringe Festival Award-winning show about a miner trapped in a tunnel during WWI 2pm/8pm £14/12 Pav Tav Guerilla Rocks Club night for rock chicks, skater bois and indie kids 11pm £4/3/2 Prince Albert Jimmy’s Roulette, King Mob, Astrid’s Tea Party Live music 8pm £4 Ranelagh Slim Shack Live blues and R&B 8.30pm £free Riki Tik Skatadays Reggae, rocksteady and vintage ska records 9.30pm £free Sallis Benney Theatre Laura Dockrill: Brighton Festival Family-friendly readings from the author and performer 11am £6 Shooshh J’adore Dance music, house and R&B club 10pm
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£7/5 Smack I Love NY Saturdays DJs Mike Gorgeous and Mikee Hollywood pay their regards to the 80s American disco scene 11pm £7/5/3; J’box: Jobe New late night Saturday after party 2am £7/5 Smugglers Saturday Night Chart and club anthems - plus hip hop, R&B and pop 9pm £free St George’s Church Elias String Quartet - The Beethoven Project Part 2: Brighton Festival Music by Beethoven 8pm £10-17.50 Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Parlour Flame, The Vinyls, Fearless Heroes, The Lanes Indie band featuring Vinny Peculiar and the one they call Bonehead from Oasis 7pm £7 Theatre Royal The Big Bite-Size Breakfast: Brighton Fringe Festival Mini playlets and theatre nuggets 10.15am/11.30am £9.50-12.50; Alan Rusbridger: Brighton Festival Guardian editor talks about his book, Why Amateurs Should Attempt The Impossible, which records the year he spent learning the toughest of all Chopin pieces 2pm £11 Theatre Royal Daniel Kitson: Brighton Festival Standup comedy (this show has now sold out) 8.30pm £10 Three & Ten Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey: Brighton Fringe Festival Classic period drama told with two actors and a trunk full of puppets 1pm £9/8; Pattie Brewster’s Friendship Venture: Brighton Fringe Festival She’s a single girl with a GSOH and an unhealthy obsession with cats 3pm £8.50/7; The Beta Males: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy sketch storytellers 5pm £8.50/7; A Little Nonsense: Brighton Fringe Festival A straight man gives a clown some life lessons using mime, slapstick and music 7pm £9.50/8; Vinegar Knickers: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy sketch trio 8.30pm £8.50/7; The News At Kate 2013: Brighton Fringe Festival Smart and on-target stand-up from Kate Smurthwaites 10pm £8/6.50 Trafalgar Arches Bone Yard Tales: Brighton Festival Physical theatre, puppetry and live music 1pm/7pm £free Unitarian Church Deptford Goth Doesn’t do what it says on the tin - this is experimental acoustica with beats 7pm £7 Victoria Gardens Lady Boys Of Bangkok Time tbc £14 Victory Soul Casserole - Soul Custody DJs A melting pot of hot funk beats and soul grooves 8pm £free Volks The Sun That Casts No Shadow: Brighton Fringe Festival Immersive theatre show takes you from beach to club in an adaptation of Albert Camus’ The Outsider 7.30pm £8/6; Sine Language: Doc Scott, Loxy, Indigo, Voytek Techno night 11pm £8/6 Warren A Grimm Night For Hans Christian Andersen: Brighton Fringe Festival 1.30pm £8/6.50; On The Beach By John Osborne: Brighton Fringe Festival 2pm £9.50/7.50; Pornography By Simon Stephens: Brighton Fringe Festival 4pm £11/9.50; My Robot Heart By Molly Naylor: Brighton Fringe Festival 5.45pm £10/8.50; Rob Auton - The Yellow Show: Brighton Fringe Festival Stand-up comedy show about the colour yellow - and also “lemons, marigolds, rubber ducks, certain lights, some milkshakes, skips, salt bins and yellow lines” 6pm £8/6.50; Late Night Gimp Fight!: Brighton Fringe Festival Dark and fast-paced comedy sketches 7.30pm £10/8.50; The Pardoner’s Tale: Brighton Fringe Festival 7.45pm £9.50/8; Red Brick Comedy Club: Brighton Fringe Festival Stand-up night hosted by Lloyd Griffith 8.45pm £11/9.50; This Was Your Life: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy musical 9.30pm £9/7.50; Fringe Club - Dende: Brighton Fringe Festival Live music 10.30pm £8/6
Sunday 12th
Above Audio Enzo’s Daytime Party 4pm £free Basement The Way You Tell them: Brighton Festival
Both funny and thoughtful, Rachel Mars looks at the ways we use and abuse humour 7.30pm £10 Basement Club Pop!Candy DJ Claire Fuller plays pure non-stop pop 11pm £free Belushi’s Chillout And Quiz Night 8pm £free Blind Tiger Wolf People Live music 7pm £9 BOM-Banes 5 Down, 20 Across: The Crossword House 1pm £7.50/5 Brighton Centre Micky Flanagan - Back On The Game Stand-up comedian who somehow isn’t Irish 7pm £23.50 Brunswick Steel Town: Brighton Fringe Festival Live music and multimedia show inspired by Teesside Noon £7/5; Pillow Talk: Brighton Fringe Festival “If your bed could talk, what stories could it tell?” 3pm/6pm/8pm £7/5; The Moors: Brighton Fringe Festival Klezmer, folk and gypsy band 8pm £7/5 Caroline Of Brunswick Mark Diamond’s Breakup Haircuts: Brighton Fringe Festival Stand-up show about the “delights and depravities of dating” 4.45pm £free; Rob Deb’s Big Bang Theory Of Life: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedian seeks a meaning to life in sci-fi and comic books 6pm £free; The Geekest Link: Figrin D’an and the Modal Nodes Who was the band leader of the all-Bith jizz ‘n’ jatz sax band that had a residency in the Mos Eisley cantina on Tatooine? 8.30pm £1 Caroline Of Brunswick The Bob Blackman Appreciation Society Presents: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy show 8.30pm £free Coach House Flamenco Exhibition: Beyond The
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Fringe Festival Noon £donation Corn Exchange Flathampton:
Brighton Festival Interactive playmat city 11am/2pm £5-15; The Guardian Education Debate: Brighton Festival Panel discussion chaired by Polly Toynbee 8pm £10 Cowley Club Umlaut, Red, Jungfrau Live music 8pm £4 Dome Angélique Kidjo: Brighton Festival Award-winning African diva 8pm £10-22.50 Dome Cafe Bar Magna Mysteria: Brighton Festival Interactive performance focusing on illusion and trickery 10am £free Dome Studio Irving Finkel: Brighton Festival Discussion about the first story ever written down, The Epic of Gilgamesh 3pm £8; Nicholas Shaxson - Treasure Islands: Brighton Festival Nicholas Shaxson exposes the role played by tax havens in the economic crisis 4.30pm £10; Steve Richards Rock And Roll Politics: Brighton Festival Journalist peeks behind the scenes at Westminster (this show is now sold out) 6.30pm £10; Under The Cranes: Brighton Festival Film screening followed by a panel discussion including Michael Rosen 1.30pm £10; Luke Harding: Brighton Festival Guardian foreign correspondent describes the psychological war waged against him and his family by the Kremlin 8.30pm £10; Polly Morland: Brighton Festival Talk with the author of ‘The Society of Timid Souls: Or, How To Be Brave’ 11.30pm £10 Duke Of York’s Cinema Emil & The Detectives: Brighton Festival 11am/12.30pm £tbc Duke’s @ Komedia Bolshoi - Romeo and Juliet 4pm £tbc; Star Trek Into Darkness 6.30pm/9.30pm £tbc Dukebox Theatre The Great I Am: Brighton Fringe Festival Two one-act plays about life, love, war and Satan 2.45pm £8/6; Operation - Love Story: Brighton Fringe Festival Storytelling show with Jennifer Williams 4.30pm £8/6; My Friend Lester: Brighton Fringe Festival A play about Billy Holiday and Lester Young stitched together with songs from both 6pm £6; Instant Theatre: Brighton Fringe Festival Improvised theatre skits 9.15pm £7/5 Emporium Dr Who Star Speaks Q&A with Richard Franklin who played Captain Mike Yates in the Jon Pertwee years 7pm £17; The Angina Monologue One man’s comic tale of “booze, burgers and BBC breakfast banquets” 8pm £5 Fiddler’s Elbow Sham-Rock Open Mic 8.30pm £free Fishbowl Recovery? Reggae through the ages 9pm £free Fountain Head Reggae & Roasts Reggae and chilled beats Time tbc £free Freemasons Jazz Machine Live jazz trio 7pm £free Globe Theatre Nylons: Brighton Fringe Festival Bittersweet play of love and loss among the falling bombs of wartime Britain 7.30pm £8/6.50 Grand Hotel The Importance Of Being Earnest: Brighton Fringe Festival Oscar Wilde’s classic comedy of wit, identity confusion and blagging 1.45pm/4.30pm £20-30 Green Door Store Hurray For The Riff Raff New Orleans country folk band 7pm £free; Green Door Blues Big Itch DJs plus the resident blues band, Smokestack 10pm £free Hope Improvabananas DJs entertain with comical choices and audience requests (downstairs) 9pm £free Komedia Camp Bestival & My Mini Disco: Brighton Fringe Festival Clubbing for kids, with a dance instructor and face painting 2pm £8; David Mountfield’s Best Of Enemies Comedy panel show 5pm £5; Krater Comedy Club: Carey Marx, Markus Birdman, Leroy Brito, Christian Schulte Loh, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy night 8pm £5-12; Shortt & Sweett: Brighton Fringe Festival Musical comedy from the jazz cellist-cum-pianist-cum-comedienne 8.30pm £10/8/5 Latest Music Bar Stories With Tea: Brighton Fringe Festival Lynn Ruth Miller discusses life, loss and laughter over a cup of tea and some biscuits 4pm £6 Lectern The Sunday Sermon Stripped down band night 6.30pm £free Marlborough Theatre Shelf Life - Modern Home Management: Brighton Fringe Festival Finding the funny side of domestic chores 6pm £7/6; Adventure/Misadventure: Brighton Fringe Festival Storytelling, physical theatre and live music 7.45pm £8/6; Rom Com Con - Mace & Burton: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedic tales of real-life romance 9.15pm £8.50/7.50 Mucky Duck Quiz On My Face “Quiz night with a difference” perhaps with a very special prize 7pm £1 Neptune Kyle Carey US folk singer does Gaelic Americana 8.30pm £free New Venture Theatre No Exit: Brighton Fringe Festival Sartre’s “Hell is other people” theatre set-piece 2.30pm £10 Nightingale Theatre A Girl Called Owl: Brighton Fringe Festival One-woman show about growing up in South Africa 3pm £8.50/6.50; Albert Einstein - Relativitively Speaking: Brighton Fringe Festival Songs, silliness and science from Spalien Acecraft’s John Hinton 5pm £8.50/6.50; Tunnel: Brighton Fringe Festival Magical realist parable about a man stuck in a tunnel 7.15pm £8.50/6.50; Gather Ye Rosebuds: Brighton Fringe Festival Theatre piece about the Arab Spring 9pm £8.50/6.50 Northern Lights Northern Light Sundays The DJ has a lazy Sunday afternoon 4pm £free Old Market Someone Else’s Shoes: Brighton Fringe Festival Theatre trail through town 5.30pm/7pm/8.30pm £6/5; The Trench: Brighton Fringe Festival Award-winning show about a miner trapped in a tunnel during WWI 8pm £14/12 Prince Albert Dick Valentine Acoustic solo show from the singer of Electric Six 7.30pm £8
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Prince George Pub Quiz 8pm £1 Quadrant Eccentronic - Neurovision: Brighton Fringe Festival Humorous musical duo poke fun at Eurovision culture 2pm £5
Ranelagh Simon Sparrow Blues rock guitarist 8.30pm
£free
Sallis Benney Theatre Chris Haughton: Brighton Festival Storytelling show from the children’s writer and illustrator 11am £6; Lauren Child: Brighton Festival Author of the Ruby
Redfort kids’ books about a 13 year-old secret agent 2pm £6; The BFG Tea Party Quiz: Brighton Festival 4pm £6; Building On What We Have: Brighton Festival Panel discussion on architecture 8pm £10 Signalman Open Mic Open session hosted by local duo, Zoothyme 8pm £free Spiegeltent Herbie Flowers’ Jazz Breakfast Special: Brighton Festival Celebrated bassist smears your toast with his jazz 11am £8.50 Theatre Royal The Big Bite-Size Breakfast: Brighton Fringe Festival Mini playlets and theatre nuggets 11am £9.5012.50
Three & Ten Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey: Brighton Fringe Festival Classic period drama told with two actors and a trunk full of puppets 1pm £9/8; Tea For Two: Brighton Fringe Festival Fast-paced sketch show from a theatrical double act 3pm £8/6.50; The Beta Males: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy sketch storytellers 5pm £8.50/7; Diary Of A Welshcake: Brighton Fringe Festival Comic tale of a Welshman who becomes an elephant 7pm £10/8; Vinegar Knickers: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy sketch trio 8.30pm £8.50/7; I’m With Stupid: Brighton Fringe Festival Sketch duo 10pm £8/6.50 Victoria Gardens Lady Boys Of Bangkok Time tbc £14; Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus Pride Special: Brighton Fringe Festival 8pm £12/10 Victory Blues Sundays DJ plays blues and soul Noon £free
Volks The Sun That Casts No Shadow: Brighton Fringe Festival Immersive theatre show takes you from beach to club in an adaptation of Albert Camus’ The Outsider 7.30pm £8/6 Warren A Grimm Night For Hans Christian Andersen: Brighton Fringe Festival 1.30pm £8/6.50; The Stories Of Shakey P: Brighton Fringe Festival 2.30pm £8/6.50; Let’s Get Angry - An Adolescent Experience: Brighton Fringe Festival 3.30pm £9/7.50; Scallywags: Brighton Fringe Festival Nazi occupied Britain imagined with physical theatre, music and puppetry 5pm £10/8.50; Love Left Hanging: Brighton Fringe Festival Theatre company takes on the story of the famous Red Barn Murder, giving the 19th century mystery a new twist 6pm £9/7.50; The Pardoner’s Tale: Brighton Fringe Festival 7.45pm £9.50/8; Cruising: Brighton Fringe Festival Humorous musical 9pm £12/10.50; This Was Your Life: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy musical 9.30pm £9/7.50
Monday 13th
All Saints Church Apparat - Krieg & Fried: Brighton Festival Electronic music inspired by Tolstoy’s mammoth novel 9pm £15/10
Ancient Mariner Quiz Night 8pm £1 Audio The Phoenix Foundation Progressive indie rock from New Zealand 7.30pm £9 Bee’s Mouth The Bee’s Mouth Jazz Forum Jazz jam with a house band 8.30pm £free Brighton Centre The Big Reunion: 5IVE, Atomic Kitten, B*Witched, Liberty X, 911, Honeyz Four thousand twenty-somethings hoping for a bit of nostalgic fun suddenly realise that the music they were force fed in the 90s doesn’t sound so great now they are fully sentient 7.30pm £30 Brunswick Steel Town: Brighton Fringe Festival Live music and multimedia show inspired by Teesside 8pm £7/5 Caroline Of Brunswick Screaming Julie: Brighton Fringe Festival Heartbroken stand-up and storytelling show from Toby Brown 7.15pm £free; Will You Hold My Hand?: Brighton Fringe Festival Musical comedy and 18th century storytelling 8.30pm £6; Clare Harrison’s 15 Inches Of Fame: Brighton Fringe Festival Innuendo-driven video clip show 9.45pm £free Coalition Trash Mondays Filthy tunes for students and layabouts alike 11pm £4/3 Cowley Club Ginger Alford, Alan Crenshaw, Eric Ayotte, Young Attenborouh, Bad Librarian Pop punk and acoustic folk punk from local and US bands 7pm £4 Dome Studio The Bear: Brighton Festival Surreal theatre twist on the film noir tradition 7.30pm £12.50/10 Duke’s @ Komedia Star Trek Into Darkness Noon/3pm/6pm/9pm £tbc Dukebox Theatre Instant Theatre: Brighton Fringe Festival Improvised theatre skits 9.15pm £7/5 Emporium Time For The Good Looking Boy A kind of hip hop play about the harsh realities of growing up 4pm/7.30pm £13.50 Fiddler’s Elbow Oliver Croome & Benny Brooke Live music 8.30pm £free Globe Theatre Nylons: Brighton Fringe Festival Bittersweet play of love and loss among the falling bombs of wartime Britain 7.30pm £8/6.50 Green Door Store Bass Drum Of Death, Boneyards, Gold Bars Live music 7pm £7; Grey Town: MCULO, Bolger,
online at www.brightonsource.co.uk
P.Posse, Black Shuck, Gunge Underground electronic music 11pm £free
Greys Pete Roe, Hot Foot Folk singer songwriter who
played with Laura Marling and toured with Mumford & Sons 8.30pm £9/8 Haunt Suuns Minimalist Montreal post punk 7pm £9; Fat Poppadaddys Student indie night 11pm £3/2/free Hope Live Sessions Live music (downstairs) 8pm £free Komedia Terry Garoghan - The Devil Keeps Tugging: Brighton Fringe Festival New show from the man responsible for the affectionate musical piss-take, ‘Brighton The Musical’ 9pm £10 Latest Music Bar Shauna Parker & The Saloon Bar Band A celebration of Patsy Cline’s music 8pm £5 Mesmerist Flash Mob Jazz Raucous jazz band 9pm £free Mucky Duck Overhead Wires Singer songwriter night 8pm £free Nightingale Theatre Multiplex: Brighton Fringe Festival Humorous theatre piece about the lives of cinema ushers 8pm £8.50/6.50 Old Market The Day The Fairy Dust Landed: Brighton Fringe Festival A live, animated, psychedelic disaster movie set in Brighton 8pm £12 Prince Albert Tidal, Modulator ESP, Occult Hand Live music 8pm £6 Quadrant Eccentronic - Neurovision: Brighton Fringe Festival Humorous musical duo poke fun at Eurovision culture 2pm £5 Ranelagh The Bobby McGees Twee ukulele indie pop 8.30pm £free Shooshh KISS New student club 8pm £4/3/2/free Signalman Signalman Pub Quiz 8pm £1 Spiegeltent Herbie Flowers’ Jazz Breakfast Special: Brighton Festival Celebrated bassist smears your toast with his jazz 11am £8.50; Beowulf - A Thousand Years Of Baggage: Brighton Festival “Part lecture, part mead-hall romp” 7.30pm £15/10; Zoe Rahman: Brighton Festival Classically-trained jazz pianist 8pm £15/10 Three & Ten Fringe Film - Documentary: Brighton Fringe Festival Short films from around the world 9.30pm £3/2 Victoria Gardens Lady Boys Of Bangkok Time tbc £14 Volks Strictly Reggae Dancehall, roots, revival 11pm £5/4 Warren Window: Brighton Fringe Festival 7.30pm £9/7.50; This Was Your Life: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy musical 9.30pm £9/7.50
Tuesday 14th
Above Audio Cottontail Club Big band and jitter jive tunes 9pm £free
All Saints Church Sam Lee And Friends, Thomas McCarthy: Brighton Festival Revisiting traditional folk 8pm
£14/10
Audio Suffocation Are they a) an R&B outfit, b) a folk trio, c) a grindcore death metal band? Details tbc; Safari Brighton Uni Kenyan Fundraiser Details tbc
Belushi’s Polka Electro mash-up with DJ Barlow 8pm £free BOM-BANES The Close Shaves Girls’ close harmony singing 7.45pm £7/6
Brighton Media Centre The Guilty Dream: Brighton Fringe Festival Multimedia storytelling show evoking the landscape of Africa 7.45pm £7/5 Brunswick Archway Contemporary choir 12.30pm/7pm £5; Jazz Jam: Brighton Fringe Festival Open session with a house band and special guests 8.30pm £free Caroline Of Brunswick Screaming Julie: Brighton Fringe Festival Heartbroken stand-up and storytelling show from Toby Brown 7.15pm £free; Will You Hold My Hand?: Brighton Fringe Festival Musical comedy and 18th century storytelling 8.30pm £6; Clare Harrison’s 15 Inches Of Fame: Brighton Fringe Festival Innuendo-driven video clip show 9.45pm £free
Chequers Open Mic Night New open mic session hosted
by Wolf William 8pm £free Digital CU Next Tuesday It’ll teach the universities to timetable lectures for Wednesday mornings 11pm £4/3 Dome BBC Symphony Orchestra: Brighton Festival Music by Brahms, Mendelssohn and K.A. Hartmann 7.30pm £10-30 Dome Studio Cavaleri Quartet: Brighton Festival Classical music 1pm £10 Duke Of Norfolk Open Mic 9pm £free Duke’s @ Komedia Star Trek Into Darkness Noon/3pm/6pm/9pm £tbc Dukebox Theatre Instant Theatre: Brighton Fringe Festival Improvised theatre skits 9.15pm £7/5 Emporium Time For The Good Looking Boy A kind of hip hop play about the harsh realities of growing up 4pm/7.30pm £13.50 Fabrica Conversation Piece - The Blues Heritage discussion with Lorenza Ippolito 2pm £tbc Fiddler’s Elbow QUIZness Time Are you a pub quiz whizz, or bit of a half-wit? 8pm £1 Fountain Head Student Night DJs play indie and rock 8pm £free Gladstone Quiz Night 8.30pm £1 Green Door Store Neighbourhood Youth, The New Union, The Hundredth Anniversary, Hella Better Dancer Australian indie band 7pm £free; Donuts Hipster funk and hip
hop gems 11pm £free Hove Lawns Bianco: Brighton Fringe Festival Immersive circus show with a live band 7.30pm £18/14 Komedia Abyssinians: Brighton Fringe Festival Jamaican vocal roots group 8pm £15; Desperately Seeking The Exit: Brighton Fringe Festival In 2007 Peter Michael Marino’s musical version of Desperately Seeking Susan (inexplicably featuring Blondie songs) opened on the West End and closed a month later. Now he’s touring a one-man show which is basically a comedic autopsy of his £4m flop 8.15pm £12/10 Latest Music Bar The Impossible Escape Two floors of indie rock DJs 9pm £3/2 Life Booty Bakery Club night cooking up a big basket of bass and hip hop 11pm £3/free Marlborough Theatre The Secret Garden: Brighton Fringe Festival Dark adaptation of Hodgson Burnett’s childhood classic 7.30pm £8/6; Stuperstition: Brighton Fringe Festival Psychological illusionist proves that you are stupid to believe in magic 9.15pm £8.50/6.50 New Venture Theatre No Exit: Brighton Fringe Festival Sartre’s “Hell is other people” theatre set-piece 7.45pm £10 Nightingale Theatre Miss Givings: Brighton Fringe Festival Musical one-woman play about a wannabe superstar 7.15pm £8.50/6.50; Holocene: Brighton Fringe Festival The true story of French volcanologists Maurice and Katia Krafft 9pm £8.50/6.50 Old Market Sex Guru - The Sexological Comedy Show: Brighton Fringe Festival Sexual laughter therapy session with Austrian sexpert, Wolfgang Weinberger 8pm £12/10 Pav Tav Wasted Years Music to cling desperately to your youth to 11pm £3/2/1 Prince Albert Larry & His Flask, The BonBonBons Bluegrass punks from Oregon 8pm £6.50 Red Lion Challenging General Knowledge & Music Quiz 8pm £1 Spiegeltent Herbie Flowers’ Jazz Breakfast Special: Brighton Festival Celebrated bassist smears your toast with his jazz 11am £8.50; Beowulf - A Thousand Years Of Baggage: Brighton Festival “Part lecture, part mead-hall romp” 7.30pm £15/10 Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Bubblegum Live bands and DJs 9pm £2 Theatre Royal Knee Deep: Brighton Festival Circus dance show 7.30pm £10-20 Three & Ten Waterloo Sunset: Brighton Fringe Festival Short plays inspired by the Kinks and Sinead O’ Connor 5.30pm/7pm £7/4; Chris Fitchew - Just Jack: Brighton Fringe Festival Stand-up and character comedy 8.30pm £8/6.50; Fringe Film - Art: Brighton Fringe Festival Short films from around the world 10pm £3/2 Volks The Sun That Casts No Shadow: Brighton Fringe Festival Immersive theatre show takes you from beach to club in an adaptation of Albert Camus’ The Outsider 6.15pm/8.15pm £8/6 Warren Make Tea, Not War: Brighton Fringe Festival Theatre show about the protest against war in Iraq 6pm £6; Cold Comfort: Brighton Fringe Festival 7.30pm £10/8.50
Wednesday 15th
All Saints Church Les Chansons Instrumentales Part 1: Brighton Festival French classical music 7.30pm
£15/10
Audio Get Jacked! Launch of new midweek house club Details tbc
Basement Your Brother, Remember?: Brighton Festival
Zachary Oberzan reflects on adulthood as he recreates the parodies of Hollywood films he made with his brother 20 years ago 8pm £12 Basement Club Mash Up Commercial house with DJ Lee Harris 11pm £free Bee’s Mouth Open Mic 8.30pm £free Belushi’s Guilty Pleasures Songs you shouldn’t like but like despite pretending not to like them 8pm £free BOM-Banes Food’n’Film: Annie Hall 7pm £5.55 Brighton Media Centre The Guilty Dream: Brighton Fringe Festival Multimedia storytelling show evoking the landscape of Africa 7.45pm £7/5 Brunswick The Big Figure, Lexie Green: Brighton Fringe Festival Indie rock band influenced by Steely Dan and Jeff Buckley 8pm £9/7 Caroline Of Brunswick Screaming Julie: Brighton Fringe Festival Heartbroken stand-up and storytelling show from Toby Brown 7.15pm £free; Will You Hold My Hand?: Brighton Fringe Festival Musical comedy and 18th century storytelling 8.30pm £6; Clare Harrison’s 15 Inches Of Fame: Brighton Fringe Festival Innuendo-driven video clip show 9.45pm £free Chequers Kalashnikov Rapid fire Norwegian punk band with banging killer tunes that always hit the mark 8pm £free Coalition CoCo LoCo Dancehall and dubstep music for students to lose the plot to 10.30pm £5/3/1 Concorde2 Slum Village Detroit hip hop 7.30pm £10 Digital Fresh Meat “First-year university students, yum” 11pm £1 Dome Lucinda Williams: Brighton Festival Live music 8pm £10-20 Dome Studio Manus Noble: Brighton Festival Classical guitar music 1pm £10; What Makes A Book Worth
www.brightonsource.co.uk/listings mobile compatible online listings
Publishing?: Brighton Festival Panel debate with industry types 6pm £8; When Does A Comic Become A Graphic Novel?: Brighton Festival 8pm £10 Druid’s Arms We Change The Tempo DJ set of international sounds 9pm £free Duke Of Norfolk Pub Quiz 9pm £1 Duke’s @ Komedia Star Trek Into Darkness 6.15pm/9.15pm £tbc
Dukebox Theatre The Great I Am: Brighton Fringe Festival Two one-act plays about life, love, war and Satan 6.15pm £8/6; Instant Theatre: Brighton Fringe Festival Improvised theatre skits 9.15pm £7/5 Emporium Time For The Good Looking Boy A kind of hip hop play about the harsh realities of growing up 4pm £13.50; Underneath The Lintel A play about a librarian who tries to find out who anonymously returned a library book that was 113 years overdue 8.30pm £5 Fishbowl Tea & Biscuits: DJ Gareth Stephens Retro swing, soul and ska 10pm £free Green Door Store Indie Wednesdays Straight-up indie tunes 11pm £free Haunt Supercharged Drum&bass and breaks 11pm £3/2 Hope The Great Escape: Plasticine, The Kid Kapichi, Arivmia, Ivy King, Classic Plastic Great Escape warm-up gig with bands from Brighton and Hastings (no wristband required) 8pm £free
Horse & Groom Ben Paley, Tab Hunter Live music 8pm
£free
Hove Lawns Bianco: Brighton Fringe Festival Immersive circus show with a live band 7.30pm £18/14 Komedia Paper Aeroplanes Live music 8pm £10/8; Barb Jungr - Stockport To Memphis: Brighton Fringe Festival Singer does a few originals and lots of classic cover songs 8pm £12.50/10 Latest Music Bar Tango Boot Camp Learn to tango like the Argentinians 8pm £3-8; The Great Escape Live music Details tbc Lectern In Your Dreams!: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy theatre show exploring the dark side of the human psyche 9pm £8.50/7 Marlborough Theatre The Secret Garden: Brighton Fringe Festival Dark adaptation of Hodgson Burnett’s childhood classic 7.30pm £8/6; Stuperstition: Brighton Fringe Festival Psychological illusionist proves that you are stupid to believe in magic 9.15pm £8.50/6.50 Mesmerist The Swing Ninjas Gypsy swing band 9pm £free Mucky Duck The Great Escape: Pull The Plug Live acoustic music 7.45pm £3 New Venture Theatre No Exit: Brighton Fringe Festival Sartre’s “Hell is other people” theatre set-piece 7.45pm £10 Nightingale Theatre A Girl Called Owl: Brighton Fringe Festival One-woman show about growing up in South Africa 7.15pm £8.50/6.50; Holocene: Brighton Fringe Festival The true story of French volcanologists Maurice and Katia Krafft 9pm £8.50/6.50 Old Market The Yoga Jam: Brighton Fringe Festival A heady mix of Yoga, performance art, meditation and Eastern fusion DJs 7pm £10/8 Prince Albert PJP Band, Emperor The Stag, Goodbye Joel, Last Heir Live music 7.30pm £3/free Proud Cabaret Salsa Cubana Cuban night with dance classes, live bands and guest DJs 8.30pm £10/6 Ranelagh Haunted: Annaca Soulful gypsy pop band hosts a monthly night 8.30pm £free Sallis Benney Theatre Reality - Living In A Networked World Lecture by Gillian Youngs 6.30pm £tbc Spiegeltent Herbie Flowers’ Jazz Breakfast Special: Brighton Festival Celebrated bassist smears your toast with his jazz 11am £8.50; Beowulf - A Thousand Years Of Baggage: Brighton Festival “Part lecture, part mead-hall romp” 7.30pm £15/10 Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Three Summers Strong, Maid Of Ace, Demon Smiles, Brutal Regime Punk rock 7.30pm £3 Theatre Royal Knee Deep: Brighton Festival Circus dance show 7.30pm £10-20 Thomas Kemp Kev & Jenna’s Open Mic 9pm £free Three & Ten Waterloo Sunset: Brighton Fringe Festival Short plays inspired by the Kinks and Sinead O’ Connor 5.30pm/7pm £7/4; Chris Fitchew - Just Jack: Brighton Fringe Festival Stand-up and character comedy 8.30pm £8/6.50; Fringe Film - Drama: Brighton Fringe Festival Short films from around the world 10pm £3/2 Victoria Gardens Lady Boys Of Bangkok Time tbc £14; Hanover The Musical: Brighton Fringe Festival To be followed next year with ‘Lewes Road The Physical Theatre Show’ Details tbc Volks Dubwise: DJ Felix, Aspess, Noddy Roots and dub night 11pm £5/4 Warren Shadows On The Wall: Brighton Fringe Festival Re:Conception Theatre’s new play about blood, blindness and betrayal 6pm £9/7.50; The Fantasist: Brighton Fringe Festival 7.45pm £10/8.50 Western Front Hush Hush Live acoustic music 9pm £free
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Thursday 16th
Audio The Great Escape Live music Details tbc; Bastard Pop Musical mash-up 11pm £3/free Basement Book Burning: Brighton Festival Theatre show with a political focus 8pm £12 Belushi’s Karaoke 8pm £free BOM-BANES Eliza Skelton Live singer songwriter7.45pm £6/5
Black Dove The Great Escape: Is Bliss, Boneyards, Polio, Sleep Committee, Unknown Soldiers, Axes, The B Of The Bang, Curxes, Dolomite Minor, Wild Smiles Live
music 2pm £tbc
Brighton Centre McFly Pop punk man band 6.30pm
£27.50
Brunswick A Dirty Weekend Of Der Wunderlich: Brighton Fringe Festival Pole-dancers and unicyclist-strippers share the stage with singers and cheerleaders in this tongue-incheek all-male cabaret 7.30pm £10/8 Caroline Of Brunswick Screaming Julie: Brighton Fringe Festival Heartbroken stand-up and storytelling show from Toby Brown 7.15pm £free; It’s Not Easy Being Yellow Comedy show about cultural identity and yellow face paint 8.30pm £free; Clare Harrison’s 15 Inches Of Fame: Brighton Fringe Festival Innuendo-driven video clip show 9.45pm £free; Will You Hold My Hand?: Brighton Fringe Festival Musical comedy and 18th century storytelling 11pm £6 Coalition The Great Escape Live music Details tbc; Secret Discotheque Replaying the soundtrack to your youth 11pm £4/3/2
Concorde2 The Great Escape: Title Fight, Sharks, Palm Reader, Champagne, Whirr Live music 6pm £tbc Dome The Great Escape: Everything Everything Details
tbc
Druid’s Arms The Druids Folk Live folk music 9pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema NT Live - This House 7pm
£tbc
Dukebox Theatre Better Days: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy show about a community centre on its last legs 6.45pm £6/5; A Puppet Named Desire: Brighton Fringe Festival Theatre and puppetry comedy sketch show 8pm £8/6; Instant Theatre: Brighton Fringe Festival Improvised theatre skits 9.15pm £7/5 Fiddler’s Elbow Alternative Great Escape Live music 2pm £free; Folk Off Session: Simonne & The Dark Stars, Will Worth, Emberhoney, David Blackwell Showcase of local blues and folk musicians 8pm £free; Folk Off Sessions: Brighton Fringe Festival Live folk and roots music 8pm £free Fishbowl Residents Association: DJ Will Sumsuch DJs play hip hop, funk and world beats 10.30pm £free Fountain Head Student Night DJs play indie and rock 8pm £free
Green Door Store The Great Escape Live music 7pm
£tbc
Hand In Hand Rave On! DJs Citizen Lane and Becky Boop play doo-wop and vintage pop 8pm £free Haunt Coconut College Thursday night party playing a right mix of stuff like Grimes, Smashing Pumpkins and Kayne West 11pm £3/2 Hope The Great Escape Live music Details tbc; The Social Live acoustic music (downstairs) 8pm £free Horse & Groom Open Mic Lock And Key 8pm £free Hove Lawns Bianco: Brighton Fringe Festival Immersive circus show with a live band 7.30pm £18/14 Latest Music Bar The Great Escape Live music Details tbc Lectern In Your Dreams!: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy theatre show exploring the dark side of the human psyche 9pm £8.50/7 Life Make Noise: Jets, Markings, Dominion, Heavenly Jukebox DJ set from Jimmy Edgar and Travis ‘Machinedrum’ Stewart for the Alternative Great Escape (bring an electronic item to be recycled and you get in free) 11pm £free Lucky Voice Acoustic Open Mic 8pm £free Marlborough Theatre The Secret Garden: Brighton Fringe Festival Dark adaptation of Hodgson Burnett’s childhood classic 7.30pm £8/6; The Coin Operated Girl: Brighton Fringe Festival Bizarre insights and anecdotes from a comedy prostitute 9.15pm £8/7 Mesmerist The Great Escape Live music Details tbc Mucky Duck Open Mic Jam session with Joe Newman 9pm £free New Venture Theatre No Exit: Brighton Fringe Festival Sartre’s “Hell is other people” theatre set-piece 7.45pm £10 Nightingale Theatre A Girl Called Owl: Brighton Fringe Festival One-woman show about growing up in South Africa 7.15pm £8.50/6.50; “!” [Hollywood Blues]: Brighton Fringe Festival “Theatre mash-up” and “spoken choir performance” 9pm £8.50/6.50 Prince Albert The Great Escape Live music 12.30pm £tbc Prince George Souled Out DJs play funk, soul and Motown 8pm £free Proud Cabaret 50 Shades Of Cabaret Fetish cabaret for people who’d never thought of being kinky before reading that book 8pm £24 Quadrant Maxine Jones - Embarrassing Mother: Brighton Fringe Festival “Is it revenge?” asked Maxine’s son when she started doing stand-up 5.45pm £free
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Ranelagh Pocket Size Bluegrass band 8.30pm £free Riki Tik Big It Up! Resident DJs mine the golden era of
dancehall and digital reggae 9.30pm £free Shooshh Azuri 10pm £3/free Smack Fresh Thursday DJ Mike Panteli entertains the students 10.30pm £5/3 Spiegeltent Herbie Flowers’ Jazz Breakfast Special: Brighton Festival Celebrated bassist smears your toast with his jazz 11am £8.50; Bullet Catch: Brighton Festival Thoughtprovoking and theatrical magic show in which a man shoots himself in the head (supposedly running for three nights, but let’s see) 7.30pm £15/10 St George’s Church John Grant Singer songwriter, formerly of Denver rock band The Czars (this show has now sold out) 7pm £16.50 St James’ Tavern Bacon Fat Stay Sick DJs play 50s and 60s “R&R, R&B, tittyshakers and blues” 9pm £free Theatre Royal The Big Bite-Size Breakfast: Brighton Fringe Festival Mini playlets and theatre nuggets 10.15am/11.30am £9.50-12.50; Knee Deep: Brighton Festival Circus dance show 7.30pm £10-20 Three & Ten ‘Uncomplicated’ - A Contemporary Musical Theatre Cabaret: Brighton Fringe Festival Contemporary musical theatre cabaret, apparently 7pm £8/6.50; Chris Fitchew - Just Jack: Brighton Fringe Festival Standup and character comedy 8.30pm £8/6.50; Fringe Film Comedy: Brighton Fringe Festival Short films from around the world 10pm £3/2 Victoria Gardens Lady Boys Of Bangkok Time tbc £14; Hanover The Musical: Brighton Fringe Festival To be followed next year with ‘West Street The Conceptual Dance Show’ Details tbc Victory Open Mic 8pm £free Volks Roll Through Drum&bass and dubstep, bass and beatbox 11pm £2
Friday 17th
Above Audio Home House and disco DJs 9pm £free All Saints Church Les Chansons Instrumentales Part 2: Brighton Festival Orchestral chamber music 7.30pm
£15/10
Audio The Great Escape Live music Details tbc; Edible: Eats Everything, Blond:ish, Richy Ahmed Time tbc £15/12.50
Basement The Great Escape: Jukebox Fury Live music
8.30pm £8/6
Basement Club Friday Night Live With Lady LaRue
Cabaret is a drag sometimes 11pm £free Below 10 Alternative Great Escape Live music Noon £tbc Belushi’s Friday Night Floor Fillers Details tbc Black Dove The Great Escape: Common Tongues, Llyod Williams, Konoba, Della Lupa, Woodland Blue, Jamie Lawson, All We Are Live music 5pm £tbc; Chop Source DJ plays Latin grooves, Afro beats and tropical funk 8pm £free BOM-Banes 5 Down, 20 Across: The Crossword House 1pm £7.50/5; Gilli Bloodaxe Music and poetry 7.45pm £6/5 Brighton Media Centre The Guilty Dream: Brighton Fringe Festival Multimedia storytelling show evoking the landscape of Africa 7.45pm £7/5 Brunswick A Dirty Weekend Of Der Wunderlich: Brighton Fringe Festival Pole-dancers and unicyclist-strippers share the stage with singers and cheerleaders in this tongue-incheek all-male cabaret 7.30pm £10/8 Caroline Of Brunswick Morning Glory With Dick & Debs: Brighton Fringe Festival Retro daytime TV spoof 3pm £free; Nathan Cassidy - Winner: Brighton Fringe Festival Stand-up comedy 6pm £free; Screaming Julie: Brighton Fringe Festival Heartbroken stand-up and storytelling show from Toby Brown 7.15pm £free; Clare Harrison’s 15 Inches Of Fame: Brighton Fringe Festival Innuendo-driven video clip show 9.45pm £free; Will You Hold My Hand?: Brighton Fringe Festival Musical comedy and 18th century storytelling 11pm £6 Coalition The Great Escape Live music Details tbc; Friday I’m In Love No more lectures for a day or two 11pm £3-6 Concorde2 The Great Escape: The Blackout, Hacktivist, Marmozets, Arcane Roots, Your Favourite Enemies Live music 6pm £tbc; Roni Size, Scratch Perverts Drum&bass double bill 11pm £tbc Cowley Club Dead Neanderthals, Albatre, Lorah Pierre & Ewa Justka Dutch sax and drums duo 8pm £5 Digital Stonelove Indie rock&roll club 11pm £4/3 Doctor Brighton’s Funky Friday: DJ Nick Hirst, DJ Wayne 9.30pm £free Dome The Great Escape: Billy Bragg Details tbc Druid’s Arms Hot Pepper Sauce DJ I.D.G. plays old school funk, soul and house 10pm £free Duke Of Norfolk Lady Lola DJ plays funk, Motown, reggae and hip hop 9pm £free Dukebox Theatre The Hee-Ha’s - Iprov Shuffle: Brighton Fringe Festival Improv comedy group use your iPod for inspiration 6.45pm £8/6; A Puppet Named Desire: Brighton Fringe Festival Theatre and puppetry comedy sketch show 8pm £8/6; Instant Theatre: Brighton Fringe Festival Improvised theatre skits 9.15pm £7/5 Emporium Underneath The Lintel A play about a librarian who tries to find out who anonymously returned a library book that
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was 113 years overdue 8.30pm £5 Fiddler’s Elbow Alternative Great Escape Live music 2pm £free Fishbowl Cut La Vis Jamaican riddims and urban beats 10.30pm £free Funkyfish Thank Funk Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10.30pm £free Green Door Store The Great Escape Live music Noon £tbc Hampton Dad’s Old Vinyl DJs play retro funk, pop and hip hop records 9pm £free Hope The Great Escape Live music Details tbc Horse & Groom The Informers Blues funk band 8pm £free Hove Lawns Bianco: Brighton Fringe Festival Immersive circus show with a live band 7.30pm £18/14 Komedia Krater Comedy Club: Ian Stone, Gordon Southern, Chris Martin, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy night 8pm £16.50; Born Bad Vintage rockabilly for pompadour cats and polka dot kittens 11pm £6/5 Latest Music Bar The Great Escape Live music Details tbc Lectern In Your Dreams!: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy theatre show exploring the dark side of the human psyche 9pm £8.50/7 Life Critical Sound: Kasra, Enei, Mefjus, ST, Lofty, Shiver Drum&bass all the way 11pm £7/5 Loft Alternative Great Escape Live music Noon £tbc Marlborough Theatre Forwards And Backwards: Brighton Fringe Festival Love story told in physical theatre fragments 6pm £8/6; VG Lee - Lady Of The Wild West Hill!: Brighton Fringe Festival Spoken word show 7.45pm Brighton Fringe Festival £8.50/6.50; Stuperstition: Psychological illusionist proves that you are stupid to believe in magic 9.15pm £8.50/6.50; The Coin Operated Girl: Brighton Fringe Festival Bizarre insights and anecdotes from a comedy prostitute 9.15pm £8/7 Mesmerist The Great Escape Live music Details tbc Mucky Duck Fenus In Vurs DJ Eddie Goatman plays sounds of the 60s and early 70s 9pm £free Neptune The Porchlight Smoker Folk and bluegrass band 8.30pm £free New Venture Theatre No Exit: Brighton Fringe Festival Sartre’s “Hell is other people” theatre set-piece 7.45pm £10 Nightingale Theatre A Girl Called Owl: Brighton Fringe Festival One-woman show about growing up in South Africa 7.15pm £8.50/6.50; You And Me: Brighton Fringe Festival Physical comedy about two elderly sisters 9pm £8.50/6.50 Northern Lights Norwegian Independence Day Brighton’s all-purpose scando pub celebrates Norway’s break from Sweden in 1814 8pm £free ONCA Ajar Multilingual literary evening hosted by the Swiss writing collective 7.30pm £donation Old Market Someone Else’s Shoes: Brighton Fringe Festival Theatre trail through town 5.30pm/7pm/8.30pm £6/5; Here All Night: Brighton Festival Interweaving the text and music of Samuel Beckett with original compositions by Paul Clark 8pm £14/10 Prince Albert The Great Escape Live music 12.30pm £tbc Proud Cabaret Blind Pig Vintage jazz and electro swing burlesque night 7pm £34 Quadrant Maxine Jones - Embarrassing Mother: Brighton Fringe Festival “Is it revenge?” asked Maxine’s son when she started doing stand-up 5.45pm £free Ranelagh The Tatsmiths Folk punks launch their new album 8.30pm £free Shooshh Runway Old school R&B and party mash ups 10pm £5/4/3/free Smack Antro Urban and chart tunes from Juice FM DJ, Mike Pantelli 11pm £5/3 Smugglers Pink Friday 9pm £free Spiegeltent Herbie Flowers’ Jazz Breakfast Special: Brighton Festival Celebrated bassist smears your toast with his jazz 11am £8.50; Bullet Catch: Brighton Festival Thoughtprovoking and theatrical magic show in which a man shoots himself in the head (supposedly running for three nights, but let’s see) 7.30pm £15/10 Theatre Royal The Big Bite-Size Breakfast: Brighton Fringe Festival Mini playlets and theatre nuggets 10.15am/11.30am £9.50-12.50; Knee Deep: Brighton Festival Circus dance show 7.30pm £10-20 Three & Ten Well-Behaved Women Rarely Make History: Brighton Fringe Festival A look at the lives of Marilyn Monroe, Mo Mowlam and Aileen Wuornos 1pm £9/7; Bad Bread: Brighton Fringe Festival Romantic sketch comedy 7pm £8.50/7; Horse And Louis - Party Bucket: Brighton Fringe Festival Bucket-assisted songs, sketches and character comedy 8.30pm £8.50/7; I’m With Stupid: Brighton Fringe Festival Sketch duo 10pm £8/6.50 Victoria Gardens Lady Boys Of Bangkok Time tbc £14 Volks Bass Konnection: Hon Kong Ping Pong, B Side, Kool Herts, Arthur Shillin’, Local Boys Crew Ghetto funk, breaks and electro dubstep 11pm £5
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Saturday 18th
10 Below EDITcted House, disco, funk and boogie with DJ Fingerman, Chewy Rubs and special guest, Dynamicron 11.30pm £5 Above Audio Ruff Snippets DJ plays hip hop, funk and soul Time tbc £free All Saints Church Les Chansons Instrumentales Part 3: Brighton Festival Classic music concert 7.30pm £15/10 Ancient Mariner Acoustic Sessions Live music 8pm £free Audio The Great Escape Live music Details tbc; Warehouse: Maribou State, Squarehead House and techno club night 11pm £5/free BHASVIC Faust: Brighton Festival Outdoors theatre 8pm £free Basement Club Fusion: DJ Peter Castle, DJ Lee Harris Chart and club remixes 11pm £free Belushi’s The Saturday Night Mash-Up Details tbc Belushi’s Below Voodoo Rock Vs Apocalypse London’s biggest rock night does battle with Brighton’s geekiest alternative night 10pm £5 Black Dove The Great Escape: Patch And The Giant, Richard Alan II, Felix Fables, Georgia Mason, Jouis Live music 5pm £tbc BOM-Banes 5 Down, 20 Across: The Crossword House 1pm £7.50/5; Cabaret’n’Food: Lorraine Bowen Two cource meal with entertainment 7pm £22.50 Brighton Media Centre The Guilty Dream: Brighton Fringe Festival Multimedia storytelling show evoking the landscape of Africa 7.45pm £7/5 Brunswick Mr Pineapple Head: Brighton Fringe Festival Musical clowning for kids Noon £7; The Blues Corporation: Brighton Fringe Festival Ten-piece blues and soul band 8pm £12/10 Caroline Of Brunswick Morning Glory With Dick & Debs: Brighton Fringe Festival Retro daytime TV spoof 3pm £free; Mark Diamond’s Breakup Haircuts: Brighton Fringe Festival Stand-up show about the “delights and depravities of dating” 4.45pm £free; Nathan Cassidy - Winner: Brighton Fringe Festival Stand-up comedy 6pm £free; Screaming Julie: Brighton Fringe Festival Heartbroken stand-up and storytelling show from Toby Brown 7.15pm £free; Clare Harrison’s 15 Inches Of Fame: Brighton Fringe Festival Innuendo-driven video clip show 9.45pm £free; Will You Hold My Hand?: Brighton Fringe Festival Musical comedy and 18th century storytelling 11pm £6 Coalition The Great Escape Live music Details tbc; Blow: Vince Manganaro, Charly Lopez, Charles Green The party never stops 3am £5 Concorde2 The Great Escape: The Griswolds, Cub Scouts, Snakadaktal, Velociraptor, Jackie Onassis, Jagwar Ma Live music Noon £tbc; The Great Escape: Three Trapped Tigers, Tall Ships, The Physics House Band, Mutiny On The Bounty Live music 7pm £tbc; The Great Escape: David Ram Jam Rodigan, Toddla T Sound, VenUm Sound 11pm £tbc Digital Disclosure, Friend Within, Blah Blah Blah DJs British electropop garage duo 11pm £15 Doctor Brighton’s Sexy Saturday: DJ Tony B 9.30pm £free Druid’s Arms DJ Green Man’s Garden Of Delights A carefully cultivated set of soul, psychedelia, funk and pop 10pm £free Duke’s @ Komedia Eurovision 2013 7pm £tbc Dukebox Theatre Instant Theatre: Brighton Fringe Festival Improvised theatre skits 6.45pm £7/5; A Puppet Named Desire: Brighton Fringe Festival Theatre and puppetry comedy sketch show 8pm £8/6; Better Days: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy show about a community centre on its last legs 9.15pm £6/5 Emporium Stand-Up The Musical One-off musical comedy show with a big line-up of comics 8pm £15 Exchange John Crampton Foot-stomping blues explosion 9pm £free Fabrica High Lonesome Ambient Arty improvised live sound event from Scott Smith and Alex Bradley 2.30pm £tbc Fiddler’s Elbow Alternative Great Escape Live music 2pm £free; Saturday Sizzlers DJs drop hot vinyl into your ears 8pm £free Fishbowl DJ Åbo & Ally Smith Jazz Room DJs play dirty funk and hot jazz 9pm £free Freemasons Saturday Night Disc Spinners DJ night 9pm £free Funkyfish Oldschool Saturday Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10pm £6/5 George Street A High Street Odyssey: Brighton Festival Historical and witty audio tour 11am/ Noon/2pm/3pm/4pm £free Gladstone All-Dayer Live music, poetry and clothes stalls Noon £free Grand Hotel The Importance Of Being Earnest: Brighton Fringe Festival Oscar Wilde’s classic comedy of wit, identity confusion and blagging 1.45pm/4.30pm £20-30 Green Door Store The Great Escape Live music Noon £tbc Hampton Rollin’ Dynamite DJ Ratman plays rockabilly and rock&roll tunes 9pm £free; Wild Rockabilly 9pm £free Haunt It Is Still 1985 Travel through time to an ancient realm
where keytars are still pretty cool 11pm £3 Hop Poles Arthur Shillin’ Electro swing mash-ups 10pm
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Hope The Great Escape Live music Details tbc Horse & Groom Let’s Get Smashed, Space Agency
Live music 8pm £free Hove Lawns Bianco: Brighton Fringe Festival Immersive circus show with a live band 2.30pm/7.30pm £18/14 Komedia Krater Comedy Club: Ian Stone, Gordon Southern, Chris Martin, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy night 7pm/10.30pm £5-22; Spellbound “An 80s night for people who hate 80s nights” - Simon Price plays the alternative highlights of the decade 9pm £5/4 Latest Music Bar The Great Escape Live music Details tbc Lectern In Your Dreams!: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy theatre show exploring the dark side of the human psyche 9pm £8.50/7 Life The Great Escape: Trevino, Mark E, Endian, Voyeur, Moxie Elastic Artists showcase Time tbc £5 Loft Alternative Great Escape Live music Noon £tbc Marlborough Theatre Albert’s Boy: Brighton Fringe Festival Historical play about Einstein and the atomic age 4pm £8/6; Forwards And Backwards: Brighton Fringe Festival Love story told in physical theatre fragments 6pm £8/6; VG Lee - Lady Of The Wild West Hill!: Brighton Fringe Festival Spoken word show 7.45pm £8.50/6.50; Stuperstition: Brighton Fringe Festival Psychological illusionist proves that you are stupid to believe in magic 9.15pm £8.50/6.50; The Coin Operated Girl: Brighton Fringe Festival Bizarre insights and anecdotes from a comedy prostitute 9.15pm £8/7 Mesmerist The Great Escape Live music Details tbc Mucky Duck Ross Never Sleeps DJ celebrates the pub’s 2nd birthday 8pm £free New Venture Theatre No Exit: Brighton Fringe Festival Sartre’s “Hell is other people” theatre set-piece 7.45pm £10 Nightingale Theatre A Girl Called Owl: Brighton Fringe Festival One-woman show about growing up in South Africa 3pm/5pm/7.15pm £8.50/6.50; You And Me: Brighton Fringe Festival Physical comedy about two elderly sisters 9pm £8.50/6.50 Office Chop Source DJ plays Latin grooves, afro beats and tropical funk 8pm £free OhSo Social Tell Sid It’s Saturday Beachfront bar playing modern remixes of 80s and 90s music 9pm £free Old Market Here All Night: Brighton Festival Interweaving the text and music of Samuel Beckett with original compositions by Paul Clark 4pm/8pm £14/10 Old Ship Hotel Sing-A-Long-Grease Party Night 6.30pm £45/42.75 Prince Albert The Great Escape Live music 12.30pm £tbc Proud Cabaret Popkraft Eurovision Party Boogaloo Stu and crew bring out the disco and glitter for the annual kitch fest 7pm £10/8/6 Quadrant Eccentronic - Neurovision: Brighton Fringe Festival Humorous musical duo poke fun at Eurovision culture 2pm £5; Maxine Jones - Embarrassing Mother: Brighton Fringe Festival “Is it revenge?” asked Maxine’s son when she started doing stand-up 5.45pm £free Ranelagh The Blind Lemons Blues rock 8.30pm £free Red Lion DJ Gremlin’s Rockin Stompers 9pm £free Riki Tik Skatadays Reggae, rocksteady and vintage ska records 9.30pm £free Shooshh J’adore Dance music, house and R&B club 10pm £7/5 Smack I Love NY Saturdays DJs Mike Gorgeous and Mikee Hollywood pay their regards to the 80s American disco scene 11pm £7/5/3; J’box: Him Self Her New late night Saturday after party 2am £7/5 Smugglers Saturday Night Chart and club anthems - plus hip hop, R&B and pop 9pm £free Spiegeltent Herbie Flowers’ Jazz Breakfast Special: Brighton Festival Celebrated bassist smears your toast with his jazz 11am £8.50; Bullet Catch: Brighton Festival Thoughtprovoking and theatrical magic show in which a man shoots himself in the head (supposedly running for three nights, but let’s see) 7.30pm £15/10 St Peter’s Church In The Dark: Brighton Festival Nina Garthwaite presents alternative radio from around the world 3pm £5 Theatre Royal The Big Bite-Size Breakfast: Brighton Fringe Festival Mini playlets and theatre nuggets 10.15am/11.30am £9.50-12.50; Knee Deep: Brighton Festival Circus dance show 2.30pm/7.30pm £10-20 Three & Ten Well-Behaved Women Rarely Make History: Brighton Fringe Festival A look at the lives of Marilyn Monroe, Mo Mowlam and Aileen Wuornos 1pm £9/7; Hystoria: Brighton Fringe Festival Lighthearted cabaret about modern women 3pm £9/7.50; Beasts: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy sketches 5pm £8.50/7; Bad Bread: Brighton Fringe Festival Romantic sketch comedy 7pm £8.50/7; Horse And Louis - Party Bucket: Brighton Fringe Festival Bucketassisted songs, sketches and character comedy 8.30pm £8.50/7; The News At Kate 2013: Brighton Fringe Festival Smart and on-target stand-up from Kate Smurthwaites 10pm £8/6.50 Victoria Gardens Lady Boys Of Bangkok Time tbc £14 Victory Don Simon DJ The don of jazzhop brings along his
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Volks The Sun That Casts No Shadow: Brighton Fringe Festival Immersive theatre show takes you from beach to club in an adaptation of Albert Camus’ The Outsider 6.15pm/8.15pm £8/6; Fizzy: Fabio, Mr Joseph, Eveson, Andy Skopes Launch party for new drum&bass night 11pm £6 West Hill Hall Escape From The Great Escape: Vision Fortune, Lab Coast, Stuart Warwick, Cold Pumas, Teardrop Factory Band night hosted by Brighton independent record label Faux Discx 7pm £3
Sunday 19th
Above Audio Enzo’s Daytime Party 4pm £free Basement Club Pop!Candy DJ Claire Fuller plays pure non-stop pop 11pm £free
Belushi’s Chillout And Quiz Night 8pm £free BOM-Banes 5 Down, 20 Across: The Crossword House 1pm £7.50/5
Brunswick Crimes Against Humanities Teachers: Brighton Fringe Festival Surreal comedy theatre driven by the ghost of Kenneth Williams 3pm £7.50/6.50; Jazz At The Movies: Brighton Fringe Festival Edana Minghella sings hits from the silver screen 8pm £10/8 Caroline Of Brunswick Morning Glory With Dick & Debs: Brighton Fringe Festival Retro daytime TV spoof 3pm £free; Mark Diamond’s Breakup Haircuts: Brighton Fringe Festival Stand-up show about the “delights and depravities of dating” 4.45pm £free; Nathan Cassidy - Winner: Brighton Fringe Festival Stand-up comedy 6pm £free; Screaming Julie: Brighton Fringe Festival Heartbroken stand-up and storytelling show from Toby Brown 7.15pm £free; Max Dickins Stand-up comedy 8.30pm £free; Clare Harrison’s 15 Inches Of Fame: Brighton Fringe Festival Innuendo-driven video clip show 9.45pm £free Colonade Bar Sarah McQuaid Live music 7.30pm £free Dome Brighton Youth Orchestra: Brighton Festival Classical music 5pm £5-15 Duke Of York’s Cinema Point Blank Noon £tbc Dukebox Theatre The Great I Am: Brighton Fringe Festival Two one-act plays about life, love, war and Satan 2.45pm £8/6; My Friend Lester: Brighton Fringe Festival A play about Billy Holiday and Lester Young stitched together with songs from both 5pm £6; The Year I Was Gifted The true story of a working class girl who lied her way into a prestigious performing arts school (cleverly incorporating the proper use of the word ‘gifted’ with the incorrect annoying use) 6.45pm £free; A Puppet Named Desire: Brighton Fringe Festival Theatre and puppetry comedy sketch show 8pm £8/6 Emporium Woodland Puppetry and interactive family theatre Time tbc £8 Fiddler’s Elbow Sham-Rock Open Mic 8.30pm £free Fishbowl Recovery? Reggae through the ages 9pm £free Fountain Head Reggae & Roasts Reggae and chilled beats Time tbc £free George Street A High Street Odyssey: Brighton Festival Historical and witty audio tour 11am/ Noon/2pm/3pm/4pm £free
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Brighton Fringe Festival Bittersweet play of love and loss among the falling bombs of wartime Britain 7.30pm £8/6.50 Grand Hotel The Importance Of Being Earnest: Brighton Fringe Festival Oscar Wilde’s classic comedy of wit, identity confusion and blagging 1.45pm/4.30pm £20-30 Green Door Store The Old Grey Whistle Test #1 Clips from the classic BBC series with sets from guest DJs 6pm £free; Green Door Blues Big Itch DJs plus the resident blues band, Smokestack 10pm £free Hope Improvabananas DJs entertain with comical choices and audience requests (downstairs) 9pm £free Hove Lawns Bianco: Brighton Fringe Festival Immersive circus show with a live band 7.30pm £18/14 Jubilee Square Faust: Brighton Festival Outdoors theatre 8pm £free Komedia Deux Johns Orchestra JazzFest: Brighton Fringe Festival Live jazz 2.45pm £6.50/4.50; David Mountfield’s Best Of Enemies Comedy panel show 6pm £5; Krater Comedy Club: Gordon Southern, Chris Martin, Harriet Kemsley, Rob Coleman, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy night 8pm £5-12; 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 £6/4 Latest Music Bar Stories With Tea: Brighton Fringe Festival Lynn Ruth Miller discusses life, loss and laughter over a cup of tea and some biscuits 4pm £6; Streisand - The Main Event: Brighton Fringe Festival Lisa Faye celebrates the life and work of the Babster (downstairs) 8pm £9/8 Lectern The Sunday Sermon Stripped down band night 6.30pm £free Marlborough Theatre Albert’s Boy: Brighton Fringe Festival Historical play about Einstein and the atomic age 4pm £8/6; Forwards And Backwards: Brighton Fringe Festival Love story told in physical theatre fragments 6pm £8/6; VG Lee - Lady Of The Wild West Hill!: Brighton Fringe Festival Spoken word show 7.45pm £8.50/6.50 Mucky Duck Quiz On My Face “Quiz night with a difference” perhaps with a very special prize 7pm £1 Neptune Phil Saatchi Singer songwriter 8.30pm £free
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Nightingale Theatre A Girl Called Owl: Brighton Fringe Festival One-woman show about growing up in South Africa 3pm/7.15pm £8.50/6.50; Albert Einstein - Relativitively Speaking: Brighton Fringe Festival Songs, silliness and science from Spalien Acecraft’s John Hinton 5pm £8.50/6.50; You And Me: Brighton Fringe Festival Physical comedy about two elderly sisters 9pm £8.50/6.50 Northern Lights Northern Light Sundays The DJ has a lazy Sunday afternoon 4pm £free ONCA Ice, Climate Change And Culture A day of talks with Ruth Le Gear, Chris Wainwright and David Buckland Details tbc Old Market Spun Glass Theatre - Scratch Sessions New writers try out ten minute plays, poems or whatever 3pm £1; Someone Else’s Shoes: Brighton Fringe Festival Theatre trail through town 5.30pm/7pm/8.30pm £6/5; Here All Night: Brighton Festival Interweaving the text and music of Samuel Beckett with original compositions by Paul Clark 8pm £14/10 Prince George Pub Quiz 8pm £1 Quadrant Eccentronic - Neurovision: Brighton Fringe Festival Humorous musical duo poke fun at Eurovision culture 2pm £5 Ranelagh The Mick Clarke Band Blues guitar band 8.30pm £free Signalman Open Mic Open session hosted by local duo, Zoothyme 8pm £free Spiegeltent Herbie Flowers’ Jazz Breakfast Special: Brighton Festival Celebrated bassist smears your toast with his jazz 11am £8.50; Bullet Catch: Brighton Festival Thoughtprovoking and theatrical magic show in which a man shoots himself in the head (supposedly running for three nights, but let’s see) 7.30pm £15/10 Theatre Royal The Big Bite-Size Breakfast: Brighton Fringe Festival Mini playlets and theatre nuggets 11am £9.5012.50 Three & Ten Well-Behaved Women Rarely Make History: Brighton Fringe Festival A look at the lives of Marilyn Monroe, Mo Mowlam and Aileen Wuornos 1pm £9/7; Hystoria: Brighton Fringe Festival Lighthearted cabaret about modern women 3pm £9/7.50; Beasts: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy sketches 5pm £8.50/7; Diary Of A Welshcake: Brighton Fringe Festival Comic tale of a Welshman who becomes an elephant 7pm £10/8; Tea For Two: Brighton Fringe Festival Fast-paced sketch show from a theatrical double act 8.30pm £8/6.50; I’m With Stupid: Brighton Fringe Festival Sketch duo 10pm £8/6.50 Victoria Gardens Lady Boys Of Bangkok Time tbc £14; The Supreme Fabulettes: Brighton Fringe Festival 8pm £15 Victory Blues Sundays DJ plays blues and soul Noon £free Warren The Feather Catcher: Brighton Fringe Festival Young kids’ show 11.30am £8/6.50; Let’s Get Angry - An Adolescent Experience: Brighton Fringe Festival 3.30pm £9/7.50; Scallywags: Brighton Fringe Festival Nazi occupied Britain imagined with physical theatre, music and puppetry 5pm £10/8.50; Love Left Hanging: Brighton Fringe Festival Theatre company takes on the story of the famous Red Barn Murder, giving the 19th century mystery a new twist 6pm £9/7.50; Cruising: Brighton Fringe Festival Humorous musical 9pm £12/10.50
Monday 20th
Ancient Mariner Quiz Night 8pm £1 Bee’s Mouth The Bee’s Mouth Jazz Forum Jazz jam with
a house band 8.30pm £free Brunswick Clive Carroll & Geoff Robb: Brighton Fringe Festival Classical guitar 8pm £10/8 Caroline Of Brunswick 3 Days Off Jesus: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy from an Irishman born on Dec 22nd 6pm £5/4; The One-Eyed Men Cookin’ Up Trouble!: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy sketch show 8.30pm £free Coach House Adventures In The Sperm Trade: Beyond The Fringe Festival Documentary screening and discussion 7.30pm £donation Coalition Trash Mondays Filthy tunes for students and layabouts alike 11pm £4/3 Concorde2 Black Venus: Brighton Fringe Festival The Concorde gets its first ever theatre show with a play based on an alleged dinner that took place in occupied Paris between Josephine Baker (jazz singer, black) and Hermann Goering (Nazi, hater of blacks). If only ‘Come Dine With Me’ had more ambition 7pm/9pm £10 Cowley Club Les Spritz, Broker Sicilian noise rock 8pm £3 Dome BUG - A Fatboy Slim Special: Brighton Festival Adam Buxton introduces music video highlights 8pm £10-16 Dome Studio Glyndebourne’s Jerwood Young Artists: Brighton Festival Lunchtime classical concert 1pm £10; Unbound Meets The Catalyst Club: Brighton Festival David Bramwell hosts a discussion forum focusing on new writing 8pm £12.50/10 Duke Of Norfolk Duke Unplugged Informal open session 8pm £free Dukebox Theatre The Year I Was Gifted The true story of a working class girl who lied her way into a prestigious performing arts school (cleverly incorporating the proper use of the word ‘gifted’ with the incorrect annoying use) 6.45pm £free Dukebox Theatre Your Place Or Mind: Brighton Fringe Festival Mind-reading magic show 8pm £8/7
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Brighton Fringe Festival Bittersweet play of love and loss among the falling bombs of wartime Britain 7.30pm £8/6.50 Green Door Store Dinghus Khan Raucous eight-piece band with three drummers, three bass players and a ukulele 7pm £free; A1 Fine art student fundraiser 11pm £3 Haunt Fat Poppadaddys Student indie night 11pm £3/2/ free Hope Seapony Twee dream pop 7.30pm £6; Live Sessions Live music (downstairs) 8pm £free Hove Lawns Bianco: Brighton Fringe Festival Immersive circus show with a live band 7.30pm £18/14 Komedia Terry Garoghan - The Devil Keeps Tugging: Brighton Fringe Festival New show from the man responsible for the affectionate musical piss-take, ‘Brighton The Musical’ 9pm £10 Latest Music Bar Fox In The City, Artifacts, Magnets Live music 7.45pm £4 Mesmerist Flash Mob Jazz Raucous jazz band 9pm £free Nightingale Theatre A Girl Called Owl: Brighton Fringe Festival One-woman show about growing up in South Africa 7.15pm/9pm £8.50/6.50 Old Police Cells Museum You Left Me In The Dark: Brighton Fringe Festival A play about the love lives of CND activists inspired by Anton Chekhov and Florence & The Machine 7.30pm £10 Prince Albert Born To Lose Live music 8pm £3 Shooshh KISS New student club 8pm £4/3/2/free Signalman Signalman Pub Quiz 8pm £1 St George’s Church Elias String Quartet - The Beethoven Project Part 3: Brighton Festival Music by Beethoven 8pm £10-17.50 Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Subservience, Hole In The Sky, Asperitas, Suicide Veil Extreme metal noise terror 7.30pm £5 Three & Ten Fringe Film - Documentary: Brighton Fringe Festival Short films from around the world 10pm £2/1.50 Victoria Gardens Lady Boys Of Bangkok Time tbc £14 Volks Strictly Reggae Dancehall, roots, revival 11pm £5/4 Warren Big Boys Don’t Dance: Brighton Fringe Festival 6pm £9/7; Cold Comfort: Brighton Fringe Festival 7.30pm £10/8.50; Three Kinds Of Me: Brighton Fringe Festival One-woman show about ending up at a psychiatric hospital after an incident involving a bottle of whiskey, a kitchen table and a bunch of bananas 7.30pm £; Charity Chuckle: Brighton Fringe Festival Laughter makes you feel good, especially when it’s for charity 9pm £10
Tuesday 21st
Above Audio Cottontail Club Big band and jitter jive tunes 9pm £free
Audio WERK Bass music 8pm £free Belushi’s Polka Electro mash-up with DJ Barlow 8pm £free BOM-BANES Spacedog Live music 7.45pm £6/5 Brunswick Archway Contemporary choir 12.30pm/7pm £5; Jazz Jam: Brighton Fringe Festival Open session with a
house band and special guests 8.30pm £free Caroline Of Brunswick 3 Days Off Jesus: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy from an Irishman born on Dec 22nd 6pm £5/4; The One-Eyed Men Cookin’ Up Trouble!: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy sketch show 8.30pm £free Concorde2 Then Jerico, Mike Marlin Late 80s rockers back on the road with the original line-up 7.30pm £19.50 Corn Exchange Zero: Brighton Festival Dance and circus show with a live band 7.30pm £15/12.50/10 Digital CU Next Tuesday It’ll teach the universities to timetable lectures for Wednesday mornings 11pm £4/3 Dome Studio Yuka Ishizuka & Riyad Nicolas: Brighton Festival Lunchtime classical concert 1pm £10; Cancel The Apocalypse: Brighton Festival Author, Andrew Simms, discusses solutions to our economic and climate crisis 8pm £10 Duke Of Norfolk Open Mic 9pm £free Dukebox Theatre Crumbs: Brighton Fringe Festival US comedy duo 6.45pm £7.50; Your Place Or Mind: Brighton Fringe Festival Mind-reading magic show 8pm £8/7 Emporium Woodland Puppetry and interactive family theatre Time tbc £8 Fiddler’s Elbow QUIZness Time Are you a pub quiz whizz, or bit of a half-wit? 8pm £1 Fountain Head Student Night DJs play indie and rock 8pm £free Gladstone Quiz Night 8.30pm £1 Green Door Store Purling Hiss, Royal Limp Porrible Hunk 7pm £8; Donuts Hipster funk and hip hop gems 11pm £free Hampton Comedy Hamster Stand-up night hosted by Dan Fardell 8pm £free Haunt Public Service Broadcasting, Nordic Giants Live audio visual show 7pm £10 Hope Billy Lockett Singer songwriter guitarist and pianist 7.30pm £6 Hove Lawns Bianco: Brighton Fringe Festival Immersive circus show with a live band 7.30pm £18/14 Komedia What Would Beyonce Do?: Brighton Fringe
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Festival Stand-up comedy from Luisa Omielan 8.30pm £12/10 Latest Music Bar Cafe Scientifique Let’s talk about science, baby 8pm £free Life Booty Bakery Club night cooking up a big basket of bass and hip hop 11pm £3/free Marlborough Theatre I Look - I Divine: Brighton Fringe Festival Semi-autobiographical LGBT solo show 7.30pm £10/8 Nightingale Theatre Miss Givings: Brighton Fringe Festival Musical one-woman play about a wannabe superstar 7.15pm £8.50/6.50; The Life And Adventures Of Billy The Kid: Brighton Fringe Festival Told by two cowboys who knew him well 9pm £8.50/6.50 Northern Lights DJ Prateek Gypsy dub DJ 9pm £free Old Market Varmints: Brighton Festival Dance theatre show based on the bestselling book 6pm £9/6 Old Police Cells Museum You Left Me In The Dark: Brighton Fringe Festival A play about the love lives of CND activists inspired by Anton Chekhov and Florence & The Machine 7.30pm £10 Pav Tav Wasted Years Music to cling desperately to your youth to 11pm £3/2/1 Prince Albert Sinister Hussy, 10 Thousand Ghosts, In Remembrance Live music 8pm £4/3 Red Lion Challenging General Knowledge & Music Quiz 8pm £1 St George’s Inn Pub Quiz 8pm £1 Theatre Royal The Kite Runner: Brighton Festival Stage adaptation of Khaled Hosseini’s novel set in Afghanistan 7.30pm £11-23.50 Three & Ten Another New World: Brighton Fringe Festival A play about disaster in the Arctic echoing the tales of Shackleton and Franklin 7pm £9/7.50; Hystoria: Brighton Fringe Festival Lighthearted cabaret about modern women 8.30pm £9/7.50; Fringe Film - Art: Brighton Fringe Festival Short films from around the world 10pm £3/2 Victoria Gardens The Treason Show: Brighton Fringe Festival Topical songs and sketches from the longrunning local comedy show Details tbc Warren Big Boys Don’t Dance: Brighton Fringe Festival 6pm £9/7; The Girl With The Iron Claws: Brighton Fringe Festival Storytelling theatre show for kids and their parents 7.30pm £12/10; Three Kinds Of Me: Brighton Fringe Festival One-woman show about ending up at a psychiatric hospital after an incident involving a bottle of whiskey, a kitchen table and a bunch of bananas 7.30pm £8; Zombie Science Worst Case Scenario: Brighton Fringe Festival When you’re putting together your dream survival team you’d do well to include someone like Doctor Austin - what the ‘Theoretical Zombiologist’ lacks in shotgun skills he makes up for with his interactive multimedia tutorials 9pm £9/7.50
Wednesday 22nd
Audio Chet Faker Chet Baker’s vocal style meets house and disco 8pm £7; Get Jacked! New midweek house club Details tbc Basement Club Mash Up Commercial house with DJ Lee Harris 11pm £free Bee’s Mouth Open Mic 8.30pm £free Belushi’s Guilty Pleasures Songs you shouldn’t like but like despite pretending not to like them 8pm £free BOM-Banes Food’n’Film: Saturday Night Fever 7pm £5.55 Brunswick David Migden & The Dirty Words, Rabbit Foot, Andy Twymman: Brighton Fringe Festival Live blues 7.30pm £7/4 Caroline Of Brunswick 3 Days Off Jesus: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy from an Irishman born on Dec 22nd 6pm £5/4 Coach House Tin Heart, Guy Hayes, Ian Roland: Beyond The Fringe Festival Live acoustic music 7.30pm £donation Coalition CoCo LoCo Dancehall and dubstep music for students to lose the plot to 10.30pm £5/3/1 Corn Exchange Zero: Brighton Festival Dance and circus show with a live band 7.30pm £15/12.50/10 Digital Fresh Meat “First-year university students, yum” 11pm £1 Dome The Flaming Lips: Brighton Festival 8.30pm £30/28 Dome Studio Clare Hammond: Brighton Festival Classical piano recital 1pm £10; Winners And Losers: Brighton Festival Chris Abraham directs a two-man theatre show about friendship, capitalism and a made-up game 8pm £12.50/10 Druid’s Arms We Change The Tempo DJ set of international sounds 9pm £free Duke Of Norfolk Pub Quiz 9pm £1 Dukebox Theatre The Great I Am: Brighton Fringe Festival Two one-act plays about life, love, war and Satan 6.15pm £8/6; Your Place Or Mind: Brighton Fringe Festival Mind-reading magic show 8pm £8/7 Emporium Woodland Puppetry and interactive family theatre Time tbc £8 Fishbowl Tea & Biscuits: DJ Gareth Stephens Retro swing, soul and ska 10pm £free Green Door Store The Darlingtons Young indie hopefuls from the suburbs 7pm £5; Indie Wednesdays Straight-up indie tunes 11pm £free
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Haunt Allister, Hero, As It Is Chicago punk rockers perform their 2002 album, ‘Last Stop Suburbia’ 7pm £10; Supercharged
Drum&bass and breaks 11pm £3/2 Horse & Groom Ben Paley, Tab Hunter Live music 8pm £free Hove Lawns Bianco: Brighton Fringe Festival Immersive circus show with a live band 7.30pm £18/14 Komedia The Modernists: Brighton Fringe Festival Jeff Noon’s play about mods, music and amphetamines 7.30pm £14/12 Latest Music Bar The Worsted Cabaret: Brighton Fringe Festival English tea room music and latin rhythms 7.30pm £10/8; Granny’s Gone Wild: Brighton Fringe Festival New play written and performed by Lynn Ruth Miller (upstairs) 9.30pm £10/8 Marlborough Theatre I Look - I Divine: Brighton Fringe Festival Semi-autobiographical LGBT solo show 7.30pm £10/8 Mesmerist The Swing Ninjas Gypsy swing band 9pm £free Nightingale Theatre Failure (& Other Opportunities For Non-linear Success): Brighton Fringe Festival Dance, comedy and social commentary 7.15pm £8.50/6.50; The Life And Adventures Of Billy The Kid: Brighton Fringe Festival Told by two cowboys who knew him well 9pm £8.50/6.50 Old Market Varmints: Brighton Festival Dance theatre show based on the bestselling book 1.30pm/6pm £9/6 Old Police Cells Museum You Left Me In The Dark: Brighton Fringe Festival A play about the love lives of CND activists inspired by Anton Chekhov and Florence & The Machine 7.30pm £10 Proud Cabaret Salsa Cubana Cuban night with dance classes, live bands and guest DJs 8.30pm £10/6 Sallis Benney Theatre Slaying The Sixth Giant: Brighton Fringe Festival Christopher Frayling gives a lecture about arts and aspiration 6.30pm £free Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Overhead Wires Live music 8pm £free; Dirty Fingernails Live blues rock bands 8pm £tbc Theatre Royal The Kite Runner: Brighton Festival Stage adaptation of Khaled Hosseini’s novel set in Afghanistan 7.30pm £11-23.50 Thomas Kemp Kev & Jenna’s Open Mic 9pm £free Three & Ten Lights! Camera! Improvise!: Brighton Fringe Festival Audience-driven and movie-inspired improvised comedy 7pm £8.50/7; Hystoria: Brighton Fringe Festival Lighthearted cabaret about modern women 8.30pm £9/7.50; Fringe Film - Drama: Brighton Fringe Festival Short films from around the world 10pm £3/2 Victoria Gardens Lady Boys Of Bangkok Time tbc £14; The Treason Show: Brighton Fringe Festival Topical songs and sketches from the long-running local comedy show Details tbc Volks Bass Connection Ghetto funk from the Local Boys Crew 11pm £5/3 Warren Big Boys Don’t Dance: Brighton Fringe Festival 6pm £9/7; Transit: Brighton Fringe Festival 7.15pm £9/7.50; Three Kinds Of Me: Brighton Fringe Festival Onewoman show about ending up at a psychiatric hospital after an incident involving a bottle of whiskey, a kitchen table and a bunch of bananas 7.30pm £8; Zombie Science - Worst Case Scenario: Brighton Fringe Festival Lighthearted lecture from the ‘Theoretical Zombiologist’ 9pm £9/7.50 Western Front Hush Hush Live acoustic music 9pm £free
Thursday 23rd
Audio Bastard Pop Musical mash-up 11pm £3/free Bee’s Mouth John Crampton Foot-stomping blues explosion 9pm £free Belushi’s Karaoke 8pm £free BOM-BANES Colin Uttley Live docudrama 7.45pm £6/5 Brunswick Rattle Tales: Brighton Fringe Festival Interactive spoken word show with top Brighton writers 9pm £5 Caroline Of Brunswick 3 Days Off Jesus: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy from an Irishman born on Dec 22nd 6pm £5/4; It’s Not Easy Being Yellow Comedy show about cultural identity and yellow face paint 8.30pm £free Coach House Shakespeare Trio, New Rib, Service To The Plants: Beyond The Fringe Festival Live music 7.30pm £donation Coalition Lucy Spraggan Singer songwriter plays acoustic, folk and hip hop and calls it ‘A-Flop’ (this show is now sold out) 7pm £9; Secret Discotheque Replaying the soundtrack to your youth 11pm £4/3/2 Dome The Tiger Lillies: Brighton Festival Freaky vaudeville band take on The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner with large-scale projected sets 8pm £10-18.50 Dome Studio Brian O’Kane & MinJung Baek: Brighton Festival Lunchtime classical concert 1pm £10; Winners And Losers: Brighton Festival Chris Abraham directs a two-man theatre show about friendship, capitalism and a made-up game 8pm £12.50/10 Druid’s Arms Subvert Normality Post rock and punk band night 8pm £free Dukebox Theatre The Ruffian On The Stair: Brighton Fringe Festival Joe Orton’s farcical comedy of sexual harassment 6.45pm £7/5; You Know Me, I’m Jack Ruby!: Brighton Fringe Festival Solo show about the man who assassinated Lee Harvey Oswald 8pm £8/6; The Battle Of The
Sexes: Brighton Fringe Festival Cabaret show featuring the songs of Gershwin, Flanders & Swann and Tom Lehrer 9.30pm £8
Emporium Fake Bush Lucy Bundy’s affectionate comic homage to Kate 7.30pm £13.50 Fiddler’s Elbow Folk Off Session: ROTAIT, Yourgardenday, Paul Murray, Normanton Street Showcase of local blues and folk musicians 8pm £free; Folk Off Sessions: Brighton Fringe Festival Live folk and roots music 8pm £free Fishbowl Residents Association: DJ Will Sumsuch DJs play hip hop, funk and world beats 10.30pm £free Fountain Head Student Night DJs play indie and rock 8pm £free Green Door Store Princess Chelsea Live music 7.30pm £7; BIAAS Fundraising DJ night playing soul, funk and hip hop 11pm £4/3 Haunt Coconut College Thursday night party playing a right mix of stuff like Grimes, Smashing Pumpkins and Kayne West 11pm £3/2 Hope Communion Live music 8pm £free; The Social Live acoustic music (downstairs) 8pm £free Hove Lawns Bianco: Brighton Fringe Festival Immersive circus show with a live band 7.30pm £18/14 Komedia Africa Unite 2013: Brighton Fringe Festival Live African music from reggae roots and dancehall to Congolese soukous 8pm £10/8; Fado With Claudia Aurora: Brighton Fringe Festival Dramatic Portuguese torch songs 8.30pm £16/14.50 Latest Music Bar Granny’s Gone Wild: Brighton Fringe Festival New play written and performed by Lynn Ruth Miller (upstairs) 9.30pm £10/8 Lucky Voice Acoustic Open Mic 8pm £free Marlborough Theatre I Look - I Divine: Brighton Fringe Festival Semi-autobiographical LGBT solo show 7.30pm £10/8; Between: Brighton Fringe Festival Theatre show about love, lust and sexual boundaries 9pm £8.50/6.50; Stuperstition: Brighton Fringe Festival Psychological illusionist proves that you are stupid to believe in magic 9.15pm £8.50/6.50 Mesmerist Time For T Live music 9pm £free Mucky Duck Open Mic Jam session with Joe Newman 9pm £free Nightingale Theatre Failure (& Other Opportunities For Non-linear Success): Brighton Fringe Festival Dance, comedy and social commentary 7.15pm £8.50/6.50; “!” [Hollywood Blues]: Brighton Fringe Festival “Theatre mashup” and “spoken choir performance” 9pm £8.50/6.50 Ouch Bar Electro Sleaze DJ Peter von Sleaze plays electro swing, gypsy punk, burlesque beats and steampunk vaudeville Time tbc £free Prince Albert The Kennedys Live music 8pm £8 Prince George Souled Out DJs play funk, soul and Motown 8pm £free Proud Cabaret 50 Shades Of Cabaret Fetish cabaret for people who’d never thought of being kinky before reading that book 8pm £24 Riki Tik Big It Up! Resident DJs mine the golden era of dancehall and digital reggae 9.30pm £free Shooshh Azuri 10pm £3/free Smack Fresh Thursday DJ Mike Panteli entertains the students 10.30pm £5/3 St James’ Tavern Bacon Fat Stay Sick DJs play 50s and 60s “R&R, R&B, tittyshakers and blues” 9pm £free St Nicholas’ Rest Garden King Lear: Brighton Festival Shakespeare play performed on an open air Elizabethanstyle stage 6pm £14/8 Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Symptomatic Presents Live music 7.30pm £free Theatre Royal The Big Bite-Size Breakfast: Brighton Fringe Festival Mini playlets and theatre nuggets 10.15am/11.30am £9.50-12.50; The Kite Runner: Brighton Festival Stage adaptation of Khaled Hosseini’s novel set in Afghanistan 2.30pm/7.30pm £11-23.50 Thistle Hotel Faulty Towers The Dining Experience: Brighton Fringe Festival Interactive comedy show with a three course meal served by the lovably inept hotel staff 8pm £49.50/43.50 Three & Ten Lights! Camera! Improvise!: Brighton Fringe Festival Audience-driven and movie-inspired improvised comedy 7pm £8.50/7; Hystoria: Brighton Fringe Festival Lighthearted cabaret about modern women 8.30pm £9/7.50; Fringe Film - Comedy: Brighton Fringe Festival Short films from around the world 10pm £3/2 Victoria Gardens Lady Boys Of Bangkok Time tbc £14; The Treason Show: Brighton Fringe Festival Topical songs and sketches from the long-running local comedy show Details tbc Victory Open Mic 8pm £free Volks Roll Through Drum&bass and dubstep, bass and beatbox 11pm £2 Warren Big Boys Don’t Dance: Brighton Fringe Festival 6pm £9/7; Transit: Brighton Fringe Festival 7.15pm £9/7.50; Three Kinds Of Me: Brighton Fringe Festival Onewoman show about ending up at a psychiatric hospital after an incident involving a bottle of whiskey, a kitchen table and a bunch of bananas 7.30pm £8; Zombie Science - Worst Case Scenario: Brighton Fringe Festival Lighthearted lecture from the ‘Theoretical Zombiologist’ 9pm £9/7.50
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Friday 24th
10 Below Dub Love Disco Dub and disco with Darren Murphy, Sam Moffett and Pablo Contraband 10pm £5
Above Audio Home House and disco DJs 9pm £free All Saints Church 1969 Show And Abbey Road: Brighton Fringe Festival Live music from Brighton Beach Boys
and Psychedelic Love Orchestra 8pm £20 Audio Nina Kraviz The Tsarina of minimal house Details tbc Basement Ring: Brighton Festival Audio-only storytelling in a darkened room 6pm/8pm/10pm £15 Basement Club Friday Night Live With Lady LaRue Cabaret is a drag sometimes 11pm £free Belushi’s Friday Night Floor Fillers Details tbc BOM-Banes 5 Down, 20 Across: The Crossword House 1pm £7.50/5; Tricity Vogue Ukelele cabaret 7.45pm £donation Brunswick Bloco Branco: Brighton Fringe Festival Eight drummers drumming 3pm £5/3 Caroline Of Brunswick 3 Days Off Jesus: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy from an Irishman born on Dec 22nd 6pm £5/4; Anna Morris - Dolly Mixture: Brighton Fringe Festival Character comedy from the woman behind Georgina’s Wedding Blogs 7.15pm £5/4; Night Of The Living Tories: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedian recounts the history of the Conservative Party - now with a new happy ending 8.30pm £5/3; Damion Larkin - Cuddly Laugher Stand-up comedy 9.45pm £1; Slap & Giggle - Recharged: Brighton Fringe Festival Sketches and songs from the comedy double act 11pm £free City College Carpark Figures Libres: Brighton Festival A narrative tour through the streets led by projections and illuminations 9.30pm £free Coach House Mick Farren: Beyond The Fringe Festival Live music 7.30pm £donation Coalition Friday I’m In Love No more lectures for a day or two 11pm £3-6 Concorde2 Gentleman’s Dub Club Live music 7pm £12; Superfreq: Mr. C, A Guy Called Gerald, Beatsworkin, Chemical Play, Harvey Bailey, Mark Allister, Audio Villaiins Recently relaunched deep house and techno label on an album tour 11pm £10 Corn Exchange My Life After: Brighton Festival 8pm £10-17.50 Cowley Club Radical Dance Faction, Buff, Deviant Amps, One Eyed God, Aurora, DJ Adsinthe Benefit gig for the Stonehenge festival campaign 8pm £donation Digital Stonelove Indie rock&roll club 11pm £4/3 Doctor Brighton’s Funky Friday: DJ Nick Hirst, DJ Wayne 9.30pm £free Dome Studio Ji Liu: Brighton Festival Lunchtime classical concert 1pm £10; Winners And Losers: Brighton Festival Chris Abraham directs a two-man theatre show about friendship, capitalism and a made-up game 6.30pm £12.50/10 Druid’s Arms Nice Weather For Airstrikes Festival Three days of post rock, shoegaze and math rock 8pm £free Duke Of Norfolk DJ MC Cashback DJ night 9pm £free Dukebox Theatre The Hee-Ha’s - Iprov Shuffle: Brighton Fringe Festival Improv comedy group use your iPod for inspiration 6.45pm £8/6; You Know Me, I’m Jack Ruby!: Brighton Fringe Festival Solo show about the man who assassinated Lee Harvey Oswald 8pm £8/6; The Battle Of The Sexes: Brighton Fringe Festival Cabaret show featuring the songs of Gershwin, Flanders & Swann and Tom Lehrer 9.30pm £8 Emporium Fake Bush Lucy Bundy’s affectionate comic homage to Kate 7.30pm £13.50 Fishbowl Richie Cox & Ally Smith A crate of funk, jazz and disco records all the way from Brixton - plus a DJ to play them 9pm £free Funkyfish Thank Funk Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10.30pm £free Green Door Store Ye Ye Fever Funky afrobeat clubnight 11pm £free Hampton Dad’s Old Vinyl DJs play retro funk, pop and hip hop records 9pm £free Haunt Wonder Yeahs Music from the 1990s 11pm £3 Hop Poles Bank Holiday Bangers 10pm £free Hope Emerald Armada, Siblings, Craig McConkey, Jamie Knox Live music 7.30pm £4 Horse & Groom The Long Hill Ramblers Straight-up folk band 8pm £free Hove Lawns Bianco: Brighton Fringe Festival Immersive circus show with a live band 7.30pm £18/14 Jive Monkey Alive & Swinging: Brighton Fringe Festival Marilyn Monroe finds heaven a bore so she hooks up with Elvis and Amy Winehouse for one last night of swinging 10pm £17.50 Komedia Morgan & West - Clockwork Miracles: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedic and family-friendly Victorian magic duo 6.30pm £10/8; Krater Comedy Club: Simon Evans, Addy Van Der Borgh, Brendan Riley, Silky Stand-up comedy night 8pm £16.50; Fado With Claudia Aurora: Brighton Fringe Festival Dramatic Portuguese torch songs 8.30pm £16/14.50 Latest Music Bar Granny’s Gone Wild: Brighton Fringe Festival New play written and performed by Lynn Ruth Miller (upstairs) 9.30pm £10/8 Marlborough Theatre I Look - I Divine: Brighton Fringe Festival Semi-autobiographical LGBT solo show 7.30pm £10/8; Between: Brighton Fringe Festival Theatre show about love, lust and sexual boundaries 9pm £8.50/6.50;
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Stuperstition: Brighton Fringe Festival Psychological illusionist proves that you are stupid to believe in magic 9.15pm £8.50/6.50 Mesmerist Shake, Holla & Roll Vintage blues, swing and rock&roll 9pm £free Mucky Duck Resident Mucky DJs 9pm £free Neptune Rough Chowder Live Cajun music 8.30pm £free
Nightingale Theatre Failure (& Other Opportunities For Non-linear Success): Brighton Fringe Festival Dance, comedy and social commentary 7.15pm £8.50/6.50; How To Host A Dinner Party: Brighton Fringe Festival Food-based dance theatre, obvs 9pm £8.50/6.50 Ohso Social Dirty Sunset Disco Metrosexual disco and house club 9pm £tbc Old Market Someone Else’s Shoes: Brighton Fringe Festival Theatre trail through town 5.30pm/7pm/8.30pm £6/5; Captain Blood’s Revenge - A Pirate Opera: Brighton Festival Swashbuckling family opera 6pm £9/6 Palmeira Gregory Page Big band crooner 8pm £8 Prince Albert Cavendish Sniff, The Shite Stripes, Black Fire Rising Live music 7.30pm £4 Proud Cabaret Speakeasy Three course meal, burlesque show and club night 7pm £34 Quadrant Eccentronic - Neurovision: Brighton Fringe Festival Humorous musical duo poke fun at Eurovision culture 2pm £5 Ranelagh BWC Live: Emberhoney Fundraiser for Brighton Women’s Centre 8.30pm £free Shooshh Runway Old school R&B and party mash ups 10pm £5/4/3/free Smack Antro Urban and chart tunes from Juice FM DJ, Mike Pantelli 11pm £5/3 Smugglers Pink Friday 9pm £free St Nicholas’ Rest Garden King Lear: Brighton Festival Shakespeare play performed on an open air Elizabethanstyle stage 6pm £14/8 Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Brighton Rocks: Candela, Infinites, Kerela, Smoking Aces Live music 7pm £4 Theatre Royal The Big Bite-Size Breakfast: Brighton Fringe Festival Mini playlets and theatre nuggets 10.15am/11.30am £9.50-12.50; The Kite Runner: Brighton Festival Stage adaptation of Khaled Hosseini’s novel set in Afghanistan 7.30pm £11-23.50 Thistle Hotel Faulty Towers The Dining Experience: Brighton Fringe Festival Interactive comedy show with a three course meal served by the lovably inept hotel staff 8pm £49.50/43.50 Three & Ten Lights! Camera! Improvise!: Brighton Fringe Festival Audience-driven and movie-inspired improvised comedy 7pm £8.50/7; Birthday Girls - 2053: Brighton Fringe Festival Futuristic comedy sketch trio 8.30pm £8.50/7; Max And Ivan - The Reunion: Brighton Fringe Festival Brand new show about school reunions from the comedy sketch duo 10pm £8.50/7 Victoria Gardens Lady Boys Of Bangkok Time tbc £14 Volks Pure Klass: Dave Angel & Mc Ribbz, Colin Dale, Voodoo Junky, Pure Klass DJs, Mr Peach, Craig, X-Cite, Lewitech1, Special Branch, DJ Timeless, Paul Dixie Harley, MC Ribbz, MC Max & Scalpel, Georgie Loves, Paul Packham, Steve K, Auntie Susan, Jamie Keith, Sketchy Steve, Scotty Sld, R N A, Kahlil Wickes, Anthony Green, Matt Milton Techno! Techno! Techno! 11pm £8/6/5 Warren Big Boys Don’t Dance: Brighton Fringe Festival 6pm £9/7; I Can Make You A Mentalist: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedic and magical cabaret 7.30pm £10/8.50; Three Kinds Of Me: Brighton Fringe Festival One-woman show about ending up at a psychiatric hospital after an incident involving a bottle of whiskey, a kitchen table and a bunch of bananas 7.30pm £8; Clever Peter - Once More Unto The Beach: Brighton Fringe Festival Fast paced sketches from the cardigan comedy trio 9pm £10/8; Fringe Club - Zoot Zazou, Zoophonium: Brighton Fringe Festival Vintage swing quartet and electro swing DJs 10.30pm £8/6 Western Front DJ Dennis Castro Not only playing ‘muscle rhymes’ and ‘jiggy fitness’ but also ‘lazy garage’ and ‘blog pop’ 9pm £free
Saturday 25th
10 Below Fat Beaches Deep and techy underground house session with Subtone and Bongo 10.30pm £4/3 Above Audio Ruff Snippets DJ plays hip hop, funk and soul Time tbc £free All Saints Church Pet Sounds V Sgt Pepper: Brighton Fringe Festival Live music from Brighton Beach Boys and Psychedelic Love Orchestra 8pm £20 Ancient Mariner Acoustic Sessions Live music 8pm £free Audio Warehouse: Huxley House and techno club night 11pm £7/free Basement Ring: Brighton Festival Audio-only storytelling in a darkened room 6pm/8pm/10pm £15 Basement Club Fusion: DJ Peter Castle, DJ Lee Harris Chart and club remixes 11pm £free Belushi’s The Saturday Night Mash-Up Details tbc Belushi’s Below Thunderstruck Stadium and classic rock club 10pm £5 Black Dove Devil’s Music DJs play swing, jazz and Dixieland 8pm £free
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Blind Tiger Nightworkers EP launch for local rock&roll guitar band 7pm £2 BOM-Banes 5 Down, 20 Across: The Crossword House 1pm £7.50/5; Jane Bom-Bane, Tom Walker, Kate Vaughan, Rachel Blackman Lyrical picture show and dance vignettes 7.45pm £6/5 Brighton Centre Mark Knopfler Licks as smooth as custard 6.30pm £45/41 Brunswick Mr Pineapple Head: Brighton Fringe Festival Musical clowning for kids Noon £7; Crimes Against Humanities Teachers: Brighton Fringe Festival Surreal comedy theatre driven by the ghost of Kenneth Williams 3pm £7.50/6.50; South Coast Soul Revue: Brighton Fringe Festival Eight-piece funk soul band 8pm £8 Caroline Of Brunswick Morning Glory With Dick & Debs: Brighton Fringe Festival Retro daytime TV spoof 3pm £free; Mark Diamond’s Breakup Haircuts: Brighton Fringe Festival Stand-up show about the “delights and depravities of dating” 4.45pm £free; 3 Days Off Jesus: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy from an Irishman born on Dec 22nd 6pm £5/4; Anna Morris - Dolly Mixture: Brighton Fringe Festival Character comedy from the woman behind Georgina’s Wedding Blogs 7.15pm £5/4; Garrett Millerick - Sensible Answers To Stupid Questions: Brighton Fringe Festival Stand-up comedy 8.30pm £free; Release The Bats New club night playing the dark of the 80s - don’t request Wham or you may be brushed aside by a clenched fist in a cut-off studded glove 9pm £free Caroline Of Brunswick Damion Larkin - Cuddly Laugher Stand-up comedy 9.45pm £1; Slap & Giggle Recharged: Brighton Fringe Festival Sketches and songs from the comedy double act 11pm £free Chequers Minus The Rat Folkstone band plays a mixture of original and cover songs 8pm £free Coach House Sunsets Over Whitehawk: Beyond The Fringe Festival Live music 7.30pm £donation Coalition Pump Up The Jam Reviving the long-buried bodies of 90s house and pop ‘classics’ 11pm £5; Blow: Vince Manganaro, Charly Lopez, Charles Green The party never stops 3am £5 Concorde2 Dirty DC AC/DC tribute band with an obsessive sense of fidelity including the wearing of authentic footwear 7pm £10; The Return Of The Twat Tour: Dirty Dike, Klashnekoff, Jam Baxter, Fliptrix, Verb T, Ed Scissortongue, DJ Sammy B-Side, Rag N Bone Man 11pm £5/2 Corn Exchange My Life After: Brighton Festival 7pm £10-17.50 Cowley Club Bookshop Talk: Jamie Heckert Author discusses the development of queer theory and anarchism 4pm £free; Backdown, Recluse Club, Three Summers Strong Hardcore and pop punk bands 8pm £donation Digital Saturday Rox Progressive and uplifting house anthems 11pm £7/5 Doctor Brighton’s Sexy Saturday: DJ Tony B 9.30pm £free Druid’s Arms Nice Weather For Airstrikes Festival Three days of post rock, shoegaze and math rock 8pm £free Dukebox Theatre The Ruffian On The Stair: Brighton Fringe Festival Joe Orton’s farcical comedy of sexual harassment 6.45pm £7/5; Edgar Allan Poe Solo show that’s been touring since 1972 8pm £5; The Battle Of The Sexes: Brighton Fringe Festival Cabaret show featuring the songs of Gershwin, Flanders & Swann and Tom Lehrer 9.30pm £8 Emporium Fake Bush Lucy Bundy’s affectionate comic homage to Kate 7.30pm £13.50; Health & Pleasure Live music 10.30pm £6 Exchange Live Music 9pm £free Fabrica Playing The Space Harmonica music 10am £tbc Fiddler’s Elbow Saturday Sizzlers DJs drop hot vinyl into your ears 8pm £free Fishbowl DJ Daddy Marcus Dancey disco and singalong soul 9pm £free Freemasons Saturday Night Disc Spinners DJ night 9pm £free Funkyfish Oldschool Saturday Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10pm £6/5 Grand Hotel The Importance Of Being Earnest: Brighton Fringe Festival Oscar Wilde’s classic comedy of wit, identity confusion and blagging 1.45pm/4.30pm £20-30 Green Door Store The Big Itch Back to basics rock&roll 11pm £free Haunt It Is Still 1985 Travel through time to an ancient realm where keytars are still pretty cool 11pm £3 Hop Poles Arthur Shillin’ Electro swing mash-ups 10pm £free Hope Puppet Kings, Devil In Detail, Beggarz Fixx High octane hard rock riffs 8pm £3 Horse & Groom Sam Barrett Live music 8pm £free Hove Lawns Bianco: Brighton Fringe Festival Immersive circus show with a live band 2.30pm/7.30pm £18/14 Jubilee Library Hijack - The Incredible Book Eating Boy: Brighton Fringe Festival Oliver Jeffers’ children’s book turned into five minute theatre shows for one kid and an accompanying adult Noon/3pm £7 Komedia Sex, Lies & Lots Of Cake: Brighton Fringe Festival A panel of female writers, producers and performers share their experiences of breaking into comedy 1pm £10/8; Hijack Comedy: Brighton Fringe Festival The Noise Next Door do a special kid-friendly improvised comedy show 2pm £7/6; Morgan & West - Clockwork Miracles: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedic and family-friendly Victorian magic duo
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4pm £10/8; The Maydays: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy improv gang 6pm £10/8; Krater Comedy Club: Simon Evans, Addy Van Der Borgh, Brendan Riley, Silky Stand-up comedy night 7pm/10.30pm £5-22; Funny Women Awards Heat: Brighton Fringe Festival Up-and-coming female comics 8.30pm £10/8; Mod For It Northern soul, Motown, 60s garage, new wave and ska 11pm £5/4 Latest Music Bar Traumfrau Alternative DIY queer night with live bands and “music you actually like” 11pm £6/5 Life Dimensions Festival Launch Party: Levon Vincent, Locked Groove, Below The Line 11pm £5; XXY Chromosome clubbing from the #Hashtag DJs 11pm £7/5/3 Marlborough Theatre Albert’s Boy: Brighton Fringe Festival Historical play about Einstein and the atomic age 4pm £8/6; Chapel Street: Brighton Fringe Festival Luke Barnes’ new play about a comically disastrous night on the town 6pm £8.50/6.50; Bitch Boxer: Brighton Fringe Festival Onewoman show about a mean-arse boxer in love 7.30pm £8.50/6.50; Between: Brighton Fringe Festival Theatre show about love, lust and sexual boundaries 9pm £8.50/6.50; Stuperstition: Brighton Fringe Festival Psychological illusionist proves that you are stupid to believe in magic 9.15pm £8.50/6.50 Mesmerist Juke Joint Jamboree Rhythm & blues and rock&roll records from the days of the dance halls 9pm £free Mucky Duck Soul Casserole A melting pot of red hot funk and soul 9pm £free Nightingale Theatre How A Man Crumbled: Brighton Fringe Festival Theatre show about the Russian poet, Daniil Kharms 7.15pm £8.50/6.50; How To Host A Dinner Party: Brighton Fringe Festival Food-based dance theatre, obvs 9pm £8.50/6.50 North Laine Pub Chop Source DJ plays heavyweight funk and afro rhythms 9pm £free Northern Lights DJ Onetime Classic hip hop and funk tunes 9pm £free OhSo Social Tell Sid It’s Saturday Beachfront bar playing modern remixes of 80s and 90s music 9pm £free Old Courtroom Trials And Tribulations Of Mr Pickwick: Brighton Fringe Festival One-man comic play 4.30pm £8/6 Old Market Captain Blood’s Revenge - A Pirate Opera: Brighton Festival Swashbuckling family opera 11am/3pm £9/6; Stand-Up For Labour: Brighton Fringe Festival Brighton Labour Party puts on a night of comedy 8.30pm £14/9 Old Ship Hotel Murder Mystery Dinner Theatre All the fun of crime and violence without any of the inconvenience of being arrested or dead - followed by a disco 7pm £tbc Prince Albert Club Meow Meow Ska night run by the cuddly kitten of Sydney Street, Ian Immediate 8pm £4 Proud Cabaret Le Chat Noir Classic cabaret and vintage 7pm £44 Quadrant Eccentronic - Neurovision: Brighton Fringe Festival Humorous musical duo poke fun at Eurovision culture 2pm £5 Riki Tik Skatadays Reggae, rocksteady and vintage ska records 9.30pm £free Shooshh J’adore Dance music, house and R&B club 10pm £7/5 Smack I Love NY Saturdays DJs Mike Gorgeous and Mikee Hollywood pay their regards to the 80s American disco scene 11pm £7/5/3; J’box: Nolan New late night Saturday after party 2am £7/5 Smugglers Saturday Night Chart and club anthems - plus hip hop, R&B and pop 9pm £free St Nicholas’ Rest Garden King Lear: Brighton Festival Shakespeare play performed on an open air Elizabethanstyle stage 1pm/6pm £14/8 Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Brighton Rocks: Departure From Normal, Fitsroy, The Harbour, Fearless Heroes, Don Komodo Live music 7pm £4; Uneven Eleven, Note Herder, McCloud Live music 8pm £8 Theatre Royal The Big Bite-Size Breakfast: Brighton Fringe Festival Mini playlets and theatre nuggets 10.15am/11.30am £9.50-12.50; The Kite Runner: Brighton Festival Stage adaptation of Khaled Hosseini’s novel set in Afghanistan 2.30pm/7.30pm £11-23.50 Thistle Hotel Faulty Towers The Dining Experience: Brighton Fringe Festival Interactive comedy show with a three course meal served by the lovably inept hotel staff 8pm £49.50/43.50 Three & Ten Bob And Jim Two Stars: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy show with some distorted uke songs and the odd bit of mime 1pm £8/6.50; Lights! Camera! Improvise!: Brighton Fringe Festival Audience-driven and movie-inspired improvised comedy 5pm/7pm £8.50/7; That Pair: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy show 5pm £8.50/7; Birthday Girls 2053: Brighton Fringe Festival Futuristic comedy sketch trio 8.30pm £8.50/7; Max And Ivan - The Reunion: Brighton Fringe Festival Brand new show about school reunions from the comedy sketch duo 10pm £8.50/7 Victoria Gardens Lady Boys Of Bangkok Time tbc £14; Magic And Mayhem: Brighton Fringe Festival Details tbc; Van Buren & Gandey’s Victorian Wonders Carnival Curios and sideshows from a bygone age Time tbc £5 Victory DJ Rob Taylor Soul, rock and alt pop 9pm £free Volks Strictly Guestlist: Specimen A, James D’ley, Six Blade, Dan Stoves, Sightek, Flx:Mode, Simon Chambers, Orkastrator, DJ Jester, Rik Electro, breaks, dubstep, jungle and glitch 11pm £6 Warren The Feather Catcher: Brighton Fringe Festival
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Young kids’ show 11.30am £8/6.50; The Wordcatcher: Brighton Fringe Festival Puppetry, storytelling and theatre show 2pm £free; The Stories Of Shakey P: Brighton Fringe Festival 2.30pm £8/6.50; Mike Wozniak - Take The Hit: Brighton Fringe Festival Stand-up comedy 4pm £7.50/6; The Cow Play: Brighton Fringe Festival 5.45pm £11/9.50; Rob Auton - The Yellow Show: Brighton Fringe Festival Standup comedy show about the colour yellow - and also “lemons, marigolds, rubber ducks, certain lights, some milkshakes, skips, salt bins and yellow lines” 6pm £8/6.50; I Can Make You A Mentalist: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedic and magical cabaret 7.30pm £10/8.50; Uncle Henry’s Happy Hour: Brighton Fringe Festival 7.30pm £7/5; Red Brick Comedy Club: Brighton Fringe Festival Stand-up night hosted by Lloyd Griffith 8.45pm £11/9.50; Fringe Club - Oscillator, Meow Meows: Brighton Fringe Festival Live music 10.30pm £8/6 Western Front Moochin’ DJ Lanx plays northern soul, classic rock and hot funk 9pm £free
Sunday 26th
Above Audio Enzo’s Daytime Party 4pm £free All Saints Church Life Of Brian: Brighton Fringe Festival Live music from Brighton Beach Boys 8pm £17.50 Audio Enzo Siffredi Minimal house music Details tbc Basement Club Pop!Candy DJ Claire Fuller plays pure
non-stop pop 11pm £free Belushi’s Chillout And Quiz Night 8pm £free BOM-Banes 5 Down, 20 Across: The Crossword House 1pm £7.50/5 Brighton Centre Brighton Records & CD Fair For those who still savour the thrill of the chase 9.30am £2; Happy Mondays, 808 State Soundsystem To some they are Madchester heroes, to others they’re a pointless dirge with a singer only marginally more in tune than Ian Brown 6pm £32.50 Brunswick A Love Supreme - Coltrane & More!: Brighton Fringe Festival Jazz with Terry Pack’s Palimpsest Quartet Noon £10/5; Crimes Against Humanities Teachers: Brighton Fringe Festival Surreal comedy theatre driven by the ghost of Kenneth Williams 8pm £7.50/6.50; Studio 9 Orchestra: Brighton Fringe Festival Jazz swing big band 4pm £12/6 Caroline Of Brunswick Morning Glory With Dick & Debs: Brighton Fringe Festival Retro daytime TV spoof 3pm £free; Mark Diamond’s Breakup Haircuts: Brighton Fringe Festival Stand-up show about the “delights and depravities of dating” 4.45pm £free; Helen Keen - Into The Beyond: Brighton Fringe Festival Quirky comedy science show from the creator of Radio 4’s ‘It Is Rocket Science’ 6pm £5/4.50; Garrett Millerick - Sensible Answers To Stupid Questions: Brighton Fringe Festival Stand-up comedy 8.30pm £free; Damion Larkin - Cuddly Laugher Stand-up comedy 9.45pm £1; Slap & Giggle - Recharged: Brighton Fringe Festival Sketches and songs from the comedy double act 11pm £free Coalition Kitchen Pass House and hip hop party 10.30pm £5 Concorde2 Groovy Bazaar ActionAid FUNdraiser: Iain Dub, Incredible Tide, Sergical Spirit, Luqas, Nimbus, Addsimeon, Nigel, Scorb, Neuroplasm, Clayton, Dave Chemical Electronica club night raising money for the international aid charity with phat breaks and progressive psy trance 11pm £10/7 Corn Exchange 50 Shades Of Feminism: Brighton Festival Rachel Holmes introduces a timely but terribly-titled anthology of feminist writers 2pm £10; My Life After: Brighton Festival 7pm £10-17.50; Simon Garfield - On The Map: Brighton Festival Author discusses cartographers, globemakers and conquistadors 8pm £8 Digital Friction, Hazard, D-Bridge, Rockwell, Alex Perez 10.30pm £tbc Doctor Brighton’s Reflex 80s night Time tbc £free Dome Mozart Mass In C Minor: Brighton Festival 7.30pm £10-27.50 Dome Founders Room Family Story Scavenger Hunt: Brighton Festival 1.30pm £15 Dome Studio Jon Klassen: Brighton Festival Children’s author and illustrator with a new book about a missing hat 2pm £6 Druid’s Arms Nice Weather For Airstrikes Festival Three days of post rock, shoegaze and math rock 8pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema People On Sunday: Brighton Festival 6pm £tbc Dukebox Theatre The Great I Am: Brighton Fringe Festival Two one-act plays about life, love, war and Satan 2.45pm £8/6; My Friend Lester: Brighton Fringe Festival A play about Billy Holiday and Lester Young stitched together with songs from both 5pm £6; The Ruffian On The Stair: Brighton Fringe Festival Joe Orton’s farcical comedy of sexual harassment 6.45pm £7/5; Edgar Allan Poe Solo show that’s been touring since 1972 8pm £5 Emporium Arias By Candlelight Australian soprano Miranda Keys 7.30pm £22.50 Fiddler’s Elbow Sham-Rock Open Mic 8.30pm £free Fishbowl Summer Opening Party Resident DJs 8pm £free Fountain Head Reggae & Roasts Reggae and chilled beats Time tbc £free Freemasons Bank Holiday DJ Set 8pm £free Globe Theatre Nylons: Brighton Fringe Festival Bittersweet play of love and loss among the falling bombs of
wartime Britain 7.30pm £8/6.50 Grand Hotel The Importance Of Being Earnest: Brighton Fringe Festival Oscar Wilde’s classic comedy of wit, identity confusion and blagging 1.45pm/4.30pm £20-30 Green Door Store Communion Live folk music 2pm £5; Green Door Blues Big Itch DJs plus the resident blues band, Smokestack 10pm £free Hop Poles Glitter Ball Bank Holiday Special Beats and breaks 10pm £free Hope The Hope’s Free Fringe: Bad For Lazarus, E.M.E, Rodeo Death Burger, Screamerballerina, Yumi And The Weather, Wildflowers, Black Fields, Ayre Point, Isaac Sakima, Mum Dad & The Kids Recovered from the Great Escape? Ready for another 30 bands in one day? Noon £free; Improvabananas DJs entertain with comical choices and audience requests (downstairs) 9pm £free Hove Lawns Bianco: Brighton Fringe Festival Immersive circus show with a live band 7.30pm £18/14 Jubilee Library Hijack - The Incredible Book Eating Boy: Brighton Fringe Festival Oliver Jeffers’ children’s book turned into five minute theatre shows for one kid and an accompanying adult Noon/3pm £7 Komedia Hijack Comedy: Brighton Fringe Festival The Noise Next Door do a special kid-friendly improvised comedy show 2pm £7/6; Xara Vaughan: Brighton Fringe Festival Cabaret chanteuse who ran away from school to become a Stringfellow’s Angel and then ran away from a nunnery to join a punk band 4pm £5/3; Morgan & West - Clockwork Miracles: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedic and family-friendly Victorian magic duo 6.30pm £10/8; Krater Comedy Club: Simon Evans, Addy Van Der Borgh, Brendan Riley, Kevin Dewsbury, Flange Krammer, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy night 8pm £5-12; The Maydays: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy improv gang 8.30pm £10/8 Latest Music Bar Stories With Tea: Brighton Fringe Festival Lynn Ruth Miller discusses life, loss and laughter over a cup of tea and some biscuits 4pm £6 Lectern The Sunday Sermon Stripped down band night 6.30pm £free
Life Happy Mondays Afterparty: Peter Hook, Mad Jester, Glen Woods, Bigsy DJ set from the New Order man 11pm £5 Marlborough Theatre Albert’s Boy: Brighton Fringe Festival Historical play about Einstein and the atomic age 4pm £8/6; Chapel Street: Brighton Fringe Festival Luke
Barnes’ new play about a comically disastrous night on the town 6pm £8.50/6.50; Bitch Boxer: Brighton Fringe Festival Onewoman show about a mean-arse boxer in love 7.30pm £8.50/6.50; Between: Brighton Fringe Festival Theatre show about love, lust and sexual boundaries 9pm £8.50/6.50 Mesmerist Sneaky Low Five Jazzy vintage tunes with sultry vocals 9pm £free Mucky Duck Quiz On My Face “Quiz night with a difference” perhaps with a very special prize 7pm £1 Nightingale Theatre Albert Einstein - Relativitively Speaking: Brighton Fringe Festival Songs, silliness and science from Spalien Acecraft’s John Hinton 5pm £8.50/6.50; How A Man Crumbled: Brighton Fringe Festival Theatre show about the Russian poet, Daniil Kharms 7.15pm £8.50/6.50 Northern Lights Northern Light Sundays The DJ has a lazy Sunday afternoon 4pm £free Old Courtroom Trials And Tribulations Of Mr Pickwick: Brighton Fringe Festival One-man comic play 4.30pm £8/6 Old Market Someone Else’s Shoes: Brighton Fringe Festival Theatre trail through town 5.30pm/7pm/8.30pm £6/5; Best Of Punched: Brighton Fringe Festival Puppetry for grown ups 8pm £12/10 Prince Albert Mick Farron & The Deviants Live music 8pm £tbc; Real Music Club: The Deviants, Psychea Single launch for Mick Farren’s psychedelic rock outfit with support from the Russian surrealcore band 8pm £6/5 Prince George Pub Quiz 8pm £1 Quadrant Eccentronic - Neurovision: Brighton Fringe Festival Humorous musical duo poke fun at Eurovision culture 2pm £5 Ranelagh Howlin’ Mat Rocking blues boogie 8.30pm £free Sallis Benney Theatre The BIG Brighton Fringe Fair: Brighton Fringe Festival Over 40 stalls of handcrafted goodies Noon £free Shooshh DPM If your house was this minimal you’d probably think a pissy phonebox was a luxury abode 5pm £free Signalman Open Mic Open session hosted by local duo, Zoothyme 8pm £free Smack CJ Jeff Late night bank holiday special 2am £7/5 St Nicholas’ Rest Garden King Lear: Brighton Festival Shakespeare play performed on an open air Elizabethanstyle stage 1pm/6pm £14/8 Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Running Dogs Live music 8pm £free Theatre Royal The Big Bite-Size Breakfast: Brighton Fringe Festival Mini playlets and theatre nuggets 11am £9.5012.50 Thistle Hotel Faulty Towers The Dining Experience: Brighton Fringe Festival Interactive comedy show with a three course meal served by the lovably inept hotel staff 8pm £49.50/43.50 Three & Ten Bob And Jim Two Stars: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy show with some distorted uke songs and the odd bit of mime 1pm £8/6.50; Pattie Brewster’s Friendship Venture: Brighton Fringe Festival She’s a single girl with a
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GSOH and an unhealthy obsession with cats 3pm £8.50/7; That Pair: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy show 5pm £8.50/7; Diary Of A Welshcake: Brighton Fringe Festival Comic tale of a Welshman who becomes an elephant 7pm £10/8; Birthday Girls - 2053: Brighton Fringe Festival Futuristic comedy sketch trio 8.30pm £8.50/7; Max And Ivan - The Reunion: Brighton Fringe Festival Brand new show about school reunions from the comedy sketch duo 10pm £8.50/7 Victoria Gardens Lady Boys Of Bangkok Time tbc £14; Magic And Mayhem: Brighton Fringe Festival Details tbc; Pride Gala Double Bill: Brighton Fringe Festival Cabaret show featuring Charlie Hides and Jonny Woo 8pm £12.50; Van Buren & Gandey’s Victorian Wonders Carnival Curios and sideshows from a bygone age Time tbc £5 Victory Blues Sundays DJ plays blues and soul Noon £free
Volks Wonkay Records: Lenkemz, Stives, Neurodriver, Your Niece, Mary Miss Fairy, Kokerboom, Cerbral Cuts, Olmec, Llamaleaf, Duskky, Hurtdeer, Bunkle, Hugo Nation, Nocturnomath, Niquid, Oliver H, Matt Pook, Mr March Hare, L.O.A.R. Bass music with added psytrance and juke trap 5pm £free Warren The Machine: Brighton Fringe Festival 11.30am £7/5.50; The Wordcatcher: Brighton Fringe Festival Puppetry, storytelling and theatre show 2pm £free; The Stories Of Shakey P: Brighton Fringe Festival 2.30pm £8/6.50;
Mike Wozniak - Take The Hit: Brighton Fringe Festival Stand-up comedy 4pm £7.50/6; The Cow Play: Brighton Fringe Festival 5.45pm £11/9.50; Clever Peter - Once More Unto The Beach: Brighton Fringe Festival Fast paced sketches from the cardigan comedy trio 7.30pm £10/8; Uncle Henry’s Happy Hour: Brighton Fringe Festival 7.30pm £7/5; Cruising: Brighton Fringe Festival Humorous musical 9pm £12/10.50; Fringe Club - The Impellers: Brighton Fringe Festival Live music 10.30pm £8/6
Monday 27th
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Ancient Mariner Quiz Night 8pm £1 Bee’s Mouth The Bee’s Mouth Jazz Forum Jazz jam with a house band 8.30pm £free BOM-BANES Sarah Olivier Live French rock 7.45pm £6/5 Brunswick grasshopper Take Over The Brunswick: Brighton Fringe Festival Teenage shoegazing surf rock with support from AMI and Aim Low Noon £5/3; 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 £7.50/6.50 Brunswick An Evening Of Haunting Soulful Melodies: Brighton Fringe Festival Live music with Carrie Tree 8pm £7/5 Caroline Of Brunswick Morning Glory With Dick & Debs: Brighton Fringe Festival Retro daytime TV spoof 3pm £free; Mark Diamond’s Breakup Haircuts: Brighton Fringe Festival Stand-up show about the “delights and depravities of dating” 4.45pm £free; Helen Keen - Into The Beyond: Brighton Fringe Festival Quirky comedy science show from the creator of Radio 4’s ‘It Is Rocket Science’ 6pm £5/4.50; Garrett Millerick - Sensible Answers To Stupid Questions: Brighton Fringe Festival Stand-up comedy 8.30pm £free; 76 Million People And Me: Brighton Fringe Festival Dark comedy drama featuring four dictators on a rowing boat to hell 11pm £free Coalition Trash Mondays Filthy tunes for students and layabouts alike 11pm £4/3 Duke’s @ Komedia ROH - Donna Del Lago 6.45pm £tbc Dukebox Theatre Edgar Allan Poe Solo show that’s been touring since 1972 6.45pm £5; The Year I Was Gifted The true story of a working class girl who lied her way into a prestigious performing arts school (cleverly incorporating the proper use of the word ‘gifted’ with the incorrect annoying use) 8pm £free Fabrica Meet The Artist And Performance - Scott Smith 2pm £tbc Fiddler’s Elbow Oliver Croome & Benny Brooke Live music 8.30pm £free Globe Theatre Nylons: Brighton Fringe Festival Bittersweet play of love and loss among the falling bombs of wartime Britain 7.30pm £8/6.50 Grand Hotel The Importance Of Being Earnest: Brighton Fringe Festival Oscar Wilde’s classic comedy of wit, identity confusion and blagging 1.45pm/4.30pm £20-30 Green Door Store Kill Moon, Casimir Upbeat indie anthems 7pm £free; Sandwich Club Fundraiser Disco squeezed between tasty slabs of glitch and dancehall 11pm £free Haunt Fat Poppadaddys Student indie night 11pm £3/2/ free Hope Live Sessions Live music (downstairs) 8pm £free Hove Lawns Bianco: Brighton Fringe Festival Immersive circus show with a live band 7.30pm £18/14 Hove Park Hove Carnival A day in the park with local bands in a big top and stuff like falconry and a dog show Details tbc Komedia Xara Vaughan: Brighton Fringe Festival Cabaret chanteuse who ran away from school to become a Stringfellow’s Angel and then ran away from a nunnery to join a punk band 4pm £5/3; The Besnard Lakes 7pm £10; Terry Garoghan - The
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Devil Keeps Tugging: Brighton Fringe Festival New show from the man responsible for the affectionate musical piss-take, ‘Brighton The Musical’ 9pm £10 Lord Nelson Shauna Parker & The Saloon Bar Band A celebration of Patsy Cline’s music 8pm £5 Marlborough Theatre Albert’s Boy: Brighton Fringe Festival Historical play about Einstein and the atomic age 4pm £8/6; Chapel Street: Brighton Fringe Festival Luke Barnes’ new play about a comically disastrous night on the town 6pm £8.50/6.50; Bitch Boxer: Brighton Fringe Festival Onewoman show about a mean-arse boxer in love 7.30pm £8.50/6.50; Between: Brighton Fringe Festival Theatre show about love, lust and sexual boundaries 9pm £8.50/6.50 Mesmerist Flash Mob Jazz Raucous jazz band 9pm £free Neptune The Ammonites Ska and reggae band 8.30pm £free
Nightingale Theatre White Canvas: Brighton Fringe Festival Interactive show with music, puppetry and audiencemade art 1pm/3pm/5pm £8.50/6.50; How A Man Crumbled: Brighton Fringe Festival Theatre show about the Russian poet, Daniil Kharms 7.15pm £8.50/6.50; Expiry TBC: Brighton Fringe Festival Electronically-enhanced cello music and poetry 9pm £8.50/6.50
Prince Albert Goldsboro Live music 8pm £5/4 Quadrant Eccentronic - Neurovision: Brighton Fringe Festival Humorous musical duo poke fun at Eurovision culture 2pm £5
Shooshh KISS New student club 8pm £4/3/2/free Signalman Signalman Pub Quiz 8pm £1 St Bartholomew’s Church Gesualdo - Genius And Murderer!: Brighton Fringe Festival Weird and wonderful choral music by the renaissance composer who caught his wife at it with a duke and killed them both 7.30pm £12/10
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Theatre Royal Less Than Kind Terrence Rattigan’s wartime romantic comedy 7.45pm £10-29.50 Three & Ten Bob And Jim Two Stars: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy show with some distorted uke songs and the odd bit of mime 1pm £8/6.50; Absence: Brighton Fringe Festival Darkly comic play about relationships and mental health 3pm £9/7.50; Puddles: Brighton Fringe Festival A play about call centre boredom 5pm £8.50/7; Diary Of A Welshcake: Brighton Fringe Festival Comic tale of a Welshman who becomes an elephant 7pm £10/8; Off The Cuff: Brighton Fringe Festival Audience-seeded jokes made up on the spot 8.30pm £8.50/7; Fringe Film - Best Of The Cornwall Film Festival: Brighton Fringe Festival Short films from around the world 10pm £2/1.50 Victoria Gardens Lady Boys Of Bangkok Time tbc £14; Magic And Mayhem: Brighton Fringe Festival Details tbc; Van Buren & Gandey’s Victorian Wonders Carnival Curios and sideshows from a bygone age Time tbc £5 Victory Poetry Night Live poetry readings 8pm £free Volks Strictly Reggae Dancehall, roots, revival 11pm £5/4 Warren The Machine: Brighton Fringe Festival 11.30am £7/5.50; Magnus Volk’s Mystery Machine: Brighton Fringe Festival Steampunk puppet fairy tale 1pm £5/3; The Wordcatcher: Brighton Fringe Festival Puppetry, storytelling and theatre show 2pm £free; The Stories Of Shakey P: Brighton Fringe Festival 2.30pm £8/6.50; Mike Wozniak Take The Hit: Brighton Fringe Festival Stand-up comedy 4pm £7.50/6; The Cow Play: Brighton Fringe Festival 5.45pm £11/9.50; Egozentricity - Happiness Lab: Brighton Fringe Festival Spoof self-help seminar 6pm £7/5.50; Homeless In Homeland: Brighton Fringe Festival 7.30pm £10/8.50; Uncle Henry’s Happy Hour: Brighton Fringe Festival 7.30pm £7/5; Make Tea, Not War: Brighton Fringe Festival Theatre show about the protest against war in Iraq 9pm £6
Tuesday 28th
Above Audio Cottontail Club Big band and jitter jive tunes 9pm £free
Belushi’s Polka Electro mash-up with DJ Barlow 8pm £free Blind Tiger The Jeffrey Lewis & Peter Stampfel Band
New York comic book anti-folk singer teams up with New York psych-folk 60s legend 8pm £10/8 BOM-BANES George Egg, Joaanna Neary Comedy 7.45pm £7/6 Brunswick Archway Contemporary choir 12.30pm/7pm £5; Jazz Jam: Brighton Fringe Festival Open session with a house band and special guests 8.30pm £free Caroline Of Brunswick 76 Million People And Me: Brighton Fringe Festival Dark comedy drama featuring four dictators on a rowing boat to hell 6pm £free; Garrett Millerick - Sensible Answers To Stupid Questions: Brighton Fringe Festival Stand-up comedy 8.30pm £free Chequers Open Mic Night New open mic session hosted by Wolf William 8pm £free Coach House Juliette Of The Herbs: Beyond The Fringe Festival Documentary about the life and work of Julietter de Bairacli Levy 7.30pm £donation Digital CU Next Tuesday It’ll teach the universities to timetable lectures for Wednesday mornings 11pm £4/3 Duke Of Norfolk Open Mic 9pm £free Duke’s @ Komedia Hijack Film: Brighton Fringe Festival Independent and retro family films 2pm £7/6 Dukebox Theatre The Year I Was Gifted The true story
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of a working class girl who lied her way into a prestigious performing arts school (cleverly incorporating the proper use of the word ‘gifted’ with the incorrect annoying use) 8pm £free Emporium Qua Qua Qua Chris Cresswell explores the comedy of Jacques Tati in this family friendly look at the art of clowning 4.30pm £9 Fiddler’s Elbow QUIZness Time Are you a pub quiz whizz, or bit of a half-wit? 8pm £1 Fountain Head Student Night DJs play indie and rock 8pm £free Gladstone Quiz Night 8.30pm £1 Green Door Store Vondelpark R&S Records newcomers making woozy electronica with downtempo xx-style dubstep beats 7pm £free; Donuts Hipster funk and hip hop gems 11pm £free Hove Lawns Bianco: Brighton Fringe Festival Immersive circus show with a live band 7.30pm £18/14 Komedia Terry Reid Late 60s era almost-legendary British rock singer 8pm £20/17.50 Latest Music Bar The Worsted Cabaret: Brighton Fringe Festival English tea room music and latin rhythms 7.30pm £10/8 Life Booty Bakery Club night cooking up a big basket of bass and hip hop 11pm £3/free Marlborough Theatre The Altitude Brothers: Brighton Fringe Festival Theatre show about wannabe cosmonauts in the 1960s space race 7.30pm £8.50/6.50 New Venture Theatre A Beginning, A Muddle And An End: Brighton Fringe Festival Improvised theatre show 7.45pm £8/7 Nightingale Theatre White Canvas: Brighton Fringe Festival Interactive show with music, puppetry and audiencemade art 1pm/3pm £8.50/6.50; Miss Givings: Brighton Fringe Festival Musical one-woman play about a wannabe superstar 7.15pm £8.50/6.50; Expiry TBC: Brighton Fringe Festival Electronically-enhanced cello music and poetry 9pm £8.50/6.50 Pav Tav Wasted Years Music to cling desperately to your youth to 11pm £3/2/1 Prince Albert Woodland Blue, The Monday Wars, Beth Morris Live music 8pm £4/3 Red Lion Challenging General Knowledge & Music Quiz 8pm £1 Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Malcfest Fundraiser: Djevara, Android Angel, Jealousy Mountain Duo, Blue Screen Of Death Live bands 7.30pm £3 Theatre Royal The Big Bite-Size Breakfast: Brighton Fringe Festival Mini playlets and theatre nuggets 10.15am £9.50-12.50; Less Than Kind Terrence Rattigan’s wartime romantic comedy 7.45pm £10-29.50 Thistle Hotel Faulty Towers The Dining Experience: Brighton Fringe Festival Interactive comedy show with a three course meal served by the lovably inept hotel staff 8pm £49.50/43.50 Three & Ten How To Disappear Completely And Never Be Found: Brighton Fringe Festival Dark humour abounds in this surreal existential play by Fin Kennedy 6pm £8.50/7; Metamorphosis: Brighton Fringe Festival Berkoff’s adaptation of Kafka’s famous fable 7.30pm £8.50/7; Machinal: Brighton Fringe Festival Expressionist play about mechanised society, loveless marriages and murder 9pm £8.50/7 Victoria Gardens Lady Boys Of Bangkok Time tbc £14; Magic And Mayhem: Brighton Fringe Festival Details tbc; Van Buren & Gandey’s Victorian Wonders Carnival Curios and sideshows from a bygone age Time tbc £5 Warren The Feather Catcher: Brighton Fringe Festival Young kids’ show 11.30am £8/6.50; Magnus Volk’s Mystery Machine: Brighton Fringe Festival Steampunk puppet fairy tale 2.30pm £5/3; 179 Hackney Road: Brighton Fringe Festival Theatre show 5.30pm £9.00/7.50; Homeless In Homeland: Brighton Fringe Festival 7.30pm £10/8.50; Make Tea, Not War: Brighton Fringe Festival Theatre show about the protest against war in Iraq 9pm £6
Wednesday 29th
Basement Club Mash Up Commercial house with DJ Lee
Harris 11pm £free
Bee’s Mouth Open Mic 8.30pm £free Belushi’s Guilty Pleasures Songs you shouldn’t like but like
despite pretending not to like them 8pm £free BOM-Banes Food’n’Film: The Artist 7pm £5.55 Brunswick Zuby & ShaoDow: Brighton Fringe Festival Hip hop, grime and dubstep 6.30pm £8 Caroline Of Brunswick 76 Million People And Me: Brighton Fringe Festival Dark comedy drama featuring four dictators on a rowing boat to hell 6pm £free; Garrett Millerick - Sensible Answers To Stupid Questions: Brighton Fringe Festival Stand-up comedy 8.30pm £free Coalition CoCo LoCo Dancehall and dubstep music for students go to lose the plot to 10.30pm £5/3/1 Concorde2 R.A.W (Rave All Week) New underground dance music night gives midweek clubbing a shot in the arm with a CO2 cannon 11pm £tbc Cowley Club Thee Bald Knobbers, Scottish James Brown, Archaean Live music 8pm £4 Digital Fresh Meat “First-year university students, yum” 11pm £1 Druid’s Arms We Change The Tempo DJ set of international sounds 9pm £free
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Duke Of Norfolk Pub Quiz 9pm £1 Dukebox Theatre The Great I Am: Brighton Fringe Festival Two one-act plays about life, love, war and Satan 6.15pm £8/6; The Maternal Instinct: Brighton Fringe Festival Science drama about lesbians, parenthood and genetics 8pm £8/6 Emporium Qua Qua Qua Chris Cresswell explores the comedy of Jacques Tati in this family friendly look at the art of clowning 4.30pm £9 Fishbowl Tea & Biscuits: DJ Gareth Stephens Retro swing, soul and ska 10pm £free Good Companions 4thirtythree Free jazz improv and spoken word trio 8pm £6/5 Green Door Store Wildflowers “Freewheeling, flowerstrewn country rock&roll” 7pm £free; Indie Wednesdays Straight-up indie tunes 11pm £free Haunt Supercharged Drum&bass and breaks 11pm £3/2 Horse & Groom Ben Paley, Tab Hunter Live music 8pm
£free Hove Lawns Bianco: Brighton Fringe Festival Immersive circus show with a live band 7.30pm £18/14 Komedia Hijack Digital: Brighton Fringe Festival Handson technology workshop for kids aged 6+ Noon £7/6 Latest Music Bar Joel Peter Live music Details tbc; Tango Boot Camp Learn to tango like the Argentinians 8pm £3-8 Mesmerist The Swing Ninjas Gypsy swing band 9pm £free Mucky Duck Overhead Wires: Amy Blue Singer songwriter night 8pm £free New Venture Theatre A Beginning, A Muddle And An End: Brighton Fringe Festival Improvised theatre show 7.45pm £8/7 Nightingale Theatre Fish Pie: Brighton Fringe Festival Puppetry show 7.15pm £8.50/6.50 Old Market Decomposed!: Brighton Fringe Festival Humorous family tour of classic music from “the dawn of time until yesterday afternoon” 2.30pm £8.50/7 Proud Cabaret Laugh Out Proud Stand-up comedy night 7pm £10/8 Pull And Pump Off The Cuff Acoustic Session: Boy In The Cupboard, The Long Goodbye, Jack Wiseman, Will Worth A night of live acoustic music featuring the darkly humorous indie folk trio 8pm £free Ranelagh Dan Donnelly Boogie blues 8.30pm £free Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Healing Sounds: Shotgun Risk, Jipsy Magic, Normanton Street, Razmafu Live music 7.30pm £3.50 Theatre Royal The Big Bite-Size Breakfast: Brighton Fringe Festival Mini playlets and theatre nuggets 10.15am £9.50-12.50; Less Than Kind Terrence Rattigan’s wartime romantic comedy 7.45pm £10-29.50 Thistle Hotel Faulty Towers The Dining Experience: Brighton Fringe Festival Interactive comedy show with a three course meal served by the lovably inept hotel staff 8pm £49.50/43.50 Thomas Kemp Kev & Jenna’s Open Mic 9pm £free Three & Ten The Sexual Awakening Of Peter Mayo: Brighton Fringe Festival A comical look at online dating 5.30pm £7/4; In The Red: Brighton Fringe Festival Three short plays all on the timely theme of debt 7pm £7/4; Puddles: Brighton Fringe Festival A play about call centre boredom 8.30pm £8.50/7; Tom Walsh - Talk: Brighton Fringe Festival A one-man show based on TED talks 10pm £8/6.50 Victoria Gardens Lady Boys Of Bangkok Time tbc £14; Magic And Mayhem: Brighton Fringe Festival Details tbc; Van Buren & Gandey’s Victorian Wonders Carnival Curios and sideshows from a bygone age Time tbc £5 Warren The Feather Catcher: Brighton Fringe Festival Young kids’ show 11.30am £8/6.50; Magnus Volk’s Mystery Machine: Brighton Fringe Festival Steampunk puppet fairy tale 2.30pm £5/3; Homeless In Homeland: Brighton Fringe Festival 7.30pm £10/8.50 Western Front Hush Hush Live acoustic music 9pm £free
Thursday 30th
Audio Bastard Pop Musical mash-up 11pm £3/free Bee’s Mouth Lipstick & Picks Rock chicks rock 9pm
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Belushi’s Karaoke 8pm £free BOM-BANES The Baroque Byrds Modern and olden
madrigals 7.45pm £5 Brunswick The Twitnits Stand Up: Brighton Fringe Festival Family-friendly comedy improv team 8pm £5/4 Caroline Of Brunswick 76 Million People And Me: Brighton Fringe Festival Dark comedy drama featuring four dictators on a rowing boat to hell 6pm £free; Sameena Zehra - Homicidal Pacifist: Brighton Fringe Festival Existential stand-up show 7.15pm £5; It’s Not Easy Being Yellow Comedy show about cultural identity and yellow face paint 8.30pm £free; Paul Dennis - Almost Blunted Purpose: Brighton Fringe Festival Stand-up comedy show 9.45pm £5/3 Coach House Annie Kerr, Gus Garside, Jo Burke, Al Strachan: Beyond The Fringe Festival Live music 7.30pm £donation Coalition Secret Discotheque Replaying the soundtrack to your youth 11pm £4/3/2 Duke Of York’s Cinema The Stone Roses - Made Of
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Stone Documentary about the band followed by satellite Q&A with director Shane Meadows 7.30pm £tbc Duke’s @ Komedia Hijack Film: Brighton Fringe Festival Independent and retro family films 2pm £7/6; The Stone Roses - Made Of Stone Documentary about the band followed by satellite Q&A with director Shane Meadows 7.30pm £tbc Dukebox Theatre The Maternal Instinct: Brighton Fringe Festival Science drama about lesbians, parenthood and genetics 8pm £8/6 Emporium Qua Qua Qua Chris Cresswell explores the comedy of Jacques Tati in this family friendly look at the art of clowning 7.30pm £13.50 Fishbowl Cut La Vis Jamaican riddims and urban beats 10.30pm £free Fountain Head Student Night DJs play indie and rock 8pm £free Green Door Store Tigercub, The Semper Teens, Animal Language, The Flash Gordons Live music 7pm £4; Sleepless +1 Live bands and DJs 11pm £free Haunt Camper Van Beethoven American alt rockers 7pm £15; Coconut College Thursday night party playing a right mix of stuff like Grimes, Smashing Pumpkins and Kayne West 11pm £3/2 Hope The Social Live acoustic music (downstairs) 8pm £free Horse & Groom Open Mic Lock And Key 8pm £free Hove Lawns Bianco: Brighton Fringe Festival Immersive circus show with a live band 7.30pm £18/14 Komedia Nell Bryden American singer songwriter 7.30pm £10; Comic Boom: Brighton Fringe Festival Stand-up comedy night with Damo Clark headlining 8pm £9/7/5 Latest Music Bar Nick Williams Woozy and languidly beautiful blues folk from a singer songwriter who supported Ben Howard and Willy Mason Details tbc Lucky Voice Acoustic Open Mic 8pm £free Marlborough Theatre Jewel: Brighton Fringe Festival One-woman show inspired by the absurdities of US beauty pageants 7.30pm £7/5; Kiki Lovechild’s The Weatherman: Brighton Fringe Festival Physical comedy, mime and illusion from the cabaret clown 9.15pm £7/5 Mesmerist Lucy & The Scamps Punky banjo ‘n’ bass swing band 9pm £free Mucky Duck Open Mic Jam session with Joe Newman 9pm £free New Venture Theatre A Beginning, A Muddle And An End: Brighton Fringe Festival Improvised theatre show 7.45pm £8/7 Nightingale Theatre Multiplex: Brighton Fringe Festival Humorous theatre piece about the lives of cinema ushers 5pm £8.50/6.50; Fish Pie: Brighton Fringe Festival Puppetry show 7.15pm £8.50/6.50; Buddhism - Is It Just For Losers?: Brighton Fringe Festival 9pm £8.50/6.50 North Laine Pub Ellekaye Live music 7pm £free Old Market Decomposed!: Brighton Fringe Festival Humorous family tour of classic music from “the dawn of time until yesterday afternoon” 2.30pm £8.50/7 Prince Albert Dustin Bentall, Kendel Carson Live music 8pm £7.50 Prince George Souled Out DJs play funk, soul and Motown 8pm £free Proud Cabaret 50 Shades Of Cabaret Fetish cabaret for people who’d never thought of being kinky before reading that book 8pm £24 Redroaster Pighog: Helen Ivory, Ellen de Vries Poetry readings Details tbc Riki Tik Big It Up! Resident DJs mine the golden era of dancehall and digital reggae 9.30pm £free Shooshh Azuri 10pm £3/free Smack Fresh Thursday DJ Mike Panteli entertains the students 10.30pm £5/3 St James’ Tavern Bacon Fat Stay Sick DJs play 50s and 60s “R&R, R&B, tittyshakers and blues” 9pm £free Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Meursault Scottish indie rockers 7pm £7.50; Bongo Fury: Psychea, A Hundred Black Kites Live music 8.30pm £free Theatre Royal The Big Bite-Size Breakfast: Brighton Fringe Festival Mini playlets and theatre nuggets 10.15am/11.30am £9.50-20; Less Than Kind Terrence Rattigan’s wartime romantic comedy 2.30pm/7.45pm £10-29.50 Thistle Hotel Faulty Towers The Dining Experience: Brighton Fringe Festival Interactive comedy show with a three course meal served by the lovably inept hotel staff 8pm £49.50/43.50 Three & Ten In The Red: Brighton Fringe Festival Three short plays all on the timely theme of debt 5.30pm £7/4; The Sexual Awakening Of Peter Mayo: Brighton Fringe Festival A comical look at online dating 7pm £7/4; Puddles: Brighton Fringe Festival A play about call centre boredom 8.30pm £8.50/7; Tom Walsh - Talk: Brighton Fringe Festival A oneman show based on TED talks 10pm £8/6.50 Victoria Gardens Lady Boys Of Bangkok Time tbc £14; Magic And Mayhem: Brighton Fringe Festival Details tbc; Van Buren & Gandey’s Victorian Wonders Carnival Curios and sideshows from a bygone age Time tbc £5 Victory Open Mic 8pm £free Volks Roll Through Drum&bass and dubstep, bass and beatbox 11pm £2 Warren Magnus Volk’s Mystery Machine: Brighton Fringe Festival Steampunk puppet fairy tale 2.30pm £5/3; The Door: Brighton Fringe Festival Dark psychological drama about a man whacked out by sleep deprivation 7.15pm £10/8.50; Window: Brighton Fringe Festival 9pm £9/7.50
Friday 31st
Above Audio Home House and disco DJs 9pm £free Audio Schtumm Vs Moda Black: Jaymo & Andy George, Ejeca House night Details tbc Basement Club Friday Night Live With Lady LaRue Cabaret is a drag sometimes 11pm £free Belushi’s Friday Night Floor Fillers Details tbc BOM-Banes 5 Down, 20 Across: The Crossword House 1pm £7.50/5; The Baron’s Art School Fine art and puppetry 7.45pm £6/5
Brighton Media Centre Ajax: Brighton Fringe Festival Confrontational physical theatre reviving the Greek myth to examine effects of violence 8pm £free Brunswick Mr Pineapple Head: Brighton Fringe Festival Musical clowning for kids Noon £7; The Self Help Group, Eliza Jaye, The Beautiful Word, Bella McKendree: Brighton Fringe Festival Folk band 7.30pm £6/5 Caroline Of Brunswick Aaron Twitchen’s Princess Guide To Dating: Brighton Fringe Festival Campy comedy 6pm £free; Sameena Zehra - Homicidal Pacifist: Brighton Fringe Festival Existential stand-up show 7.15pm £5; Sean McLoughlin - Backbone: Brighton Fringe Festival Stand-up comedy 8.30pm £free; Paul Dennis - Almost Blunted Purpose: Brighton Fringe Festival Stand-up comedy show 9.45pm £5/3 Coach House Sumerian Kyngs, Clive Craske, VV, Are All About It: Beyond The Fringe Festival Psychedelic swamp grooves 7.30pm £donation Coalition Friday I’m In Love No more lectures for a day or two 11pm £3-6 Concorde2 Hot Wuk: The Heatwave, Zi Zi Scandal Carnival and bashment vibes 10pm £6/4 Digital Stonelove Indie rock&roll club 11pm £4/3 Doctor Brighton’s Funky Friday: DJ Nick Hirst, DJ Wayne 9.30pm £free Duke Of Norfolk Lady Lola DJ plays funk, Motown, reggae and hip hop 9pm £free Dukebox Theatre The Maternal Instinct: Brighton Fringe Festival Science drama about lesbians, parenthood and genetics 7.30pm £8/6; You Know Me, I’m Jack Ruby!: Brighton Fringe Festival Solo show about the man who assassinated Lee Harvey Oswald 9.15pm £8/6 Emporium Qua Qua Qua Chris Cresswell explores the comedy of Jacques Tati in this family friendly look at the art of clowning 7.30pm £13.50; The Speakeasy Three Song and dance troupe reliving the golden age of the silver screen 10.30pm £6 Fishbowl Martin Lodge, Sumsuch DJ set from SunceBeat resident 9pm £free Funkyfish Thank Funk Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10.30pm £free Grand Hotel The Importance Of Being Earnest: Brighton Fringe Festival Oscar Wilde’s classic comedy of wit, identity confusion and blagging 1.45pm/4.30pm £20-30 Green Door Store Three Peak Challenge: Glass Sines, Ivy King, Cells Charity gig 7pm £5; Sound Dance Bhangra, afrobeat and Persian pop 11pm £free Hampton Dad’s Old Vinyl DJs play retro funk, pop and hip hop records 9pm £free Haunt Random Hand Yorkshire ska punks 7pm £7.50; Gypsy Disco Eastern European circus freaks on the rampage 11pm £5/4 Hop Poles Old Skool Classics DJ night 10pm £free Hope Kovak, Storms Electro pop band 8pm £4 Hove Lawns Bianco: Brighton Fringe Festival Immersive circus show with a live band 7.30pm £18/14 Komedia Krater Comedy Club: The Noise Next Door, Mark Nelson, Steve Gribbin, Ben Norris Stand-up comedy night 8pm £16.50; The Maydays: Brighton Fringe Festival Comedy improv gang 8.30pm £10/8; D-P0RT: Evil Nine, East Court, Cock One A night of electronic dance music 11pm £6/3 Komedia Studio Hijack - Ets-beest: Brighton Fringe Festival Dance, drawing and music show for 2-4 year olds 11am/3pm £7/6 Latest Music Bar Shortt & Sweett: Brighton Fringe Festival Musical comedy from the jazz cellist-cum-pianist-cumcomedienne 8pm £8/6; Amy In The Winehouse Cover songs 10.30pm £8 Marlborough Theatre Jewel: Brighton Fringe Festival One-woman show inspired by the absurdities of US beauty pageants 6pm £7/5; Night After Night By Neil Bartlett: Brighton Fringe Festival Musical theatre set in the late 50s 7.45pm £10/9; Kiki Lovechild’s The Weatherman: Brighton Fringe Festival Physical comedy, mime and illusion from the cabaret clown 9.15pm £7/5 Mucky Duck Hot-Tip Hi-Fi DJ with a fine collection of vintage reggae and rocksteady records 8pm £free Neptune The Diablos Country rock 8.30pm £free New Venture Theatre A Beginning, A Muddle And An End: Brighton Fringe Festival Improvised theatre show 7.45pm £8/7 Nightingale Theatre Multiplex: Brighton Fringe Festival Humorous theatre piece about the lives of cinema ushers 5pm £8.50/6.50; Fish Pie: Brighton Fringe Festival Puppetry show 7.15pm £8.50/6.50; Buddhism - Is It Just For Losers?: Brighton Fringe Festival 9pm £8.50/6.50 Old Market Someone Else’s Shoes: Brighton Fringe Festival Theatre trail through town 5.30pm/7pm/8.30pm £6/5; Carnivalesque: Brighton Fringe Festival The fringe rounds off
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Prince Albert Internet Forever, Her Parents, Stairs To Korea Live music 8pm £5 Ranelagh Tip Of The Top Blues rockers 8.30pm £free Shooshh Runway Old school R&B and party mash ups
10pm £5/4/3/free Smack Antro Urban and chart tunes from Juice FM DJ, Mike Pantelli 11pm £5/3 Smugglers Pink Friday 9pm £free Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Brighton Rocks: Click Click Drone, The Elevaters, Dizzy Tales, Ottermatic Live music 7pm £4 Theatre Royal The Big Bite-Size Breakfast: Brighton Fringe Festival Mini playlets and theatre nuggets 10.15am/11.30am £9.50-20; Less Than Kind Terrence Rattigan’s wartime romantic comedy 7.45pm £10-29.50 Thistle Hotel Faulty Towers The Dining Experience: Brighton Fringe Festival Interactive comedy show with a three course meal served by the lovably inept hotel staff 8pm £49.50/43.50 Thomas Kemp Hot Tamales 50s and 60s rock&roll from DJs Citizen Lane and HepCat Matt 9pm £free Three & Ten Puddles: Brighton Fringe Festival A play about call centre boredom 5pm £8.50/7; Another New World: Brighton Fringe Festival A play about disaster in the Arctic echoing the tales of Shackleton and Franklin 7pm £9/7.50; The Dog-Eared Collective - Skit Stirrers: Brighton Fringe Festival Surreal and anarchic sketch show supercharged with silliness 8.30pm £8.50/7; Tom Walsh - Talk: Brighton Fringe Festival A one-man show based on TED talks 10pm £8/6.50 Victoria Gardens Lady Boys Of Bangkok Time tbc £14; Magic And Mayhem: Brighton Fringe Festival Details tbc; Van Buren & Gandey’s Victorian Wonders Carnival Curios and sideshows from a bygone age Time tbc £5 Volks Originate - Legend Session: Top Buzz, Mad P, Hyper-On Experience, DJ Stretch Hardcore junglism 11pm £6 Warren Magnus Volk’s Mystery Machine: Brighton Fringe Festival Steampunk puppet fairy tale 2.30pm £5/3; Egozentricity - Happiness Lab: Brighton Fringe Festival Spoof self-help seminar 6pm £7/5.50; The Door: Brighton Fringe Festival Dark psychological drama about a man whacked out by sleep deprivation 7.15pm £10/8.50; The Pardoner’s Tale: Brighton Fringe Festival 7.45pm £9.50/8; Window: Brighton Fringe Festival 9pm £9/7.50; Fringe Club: Brighton Fringe Festival Live music 10.30pm £8/6 Western Front DJ Dennis Castro Not only playing ‘muscle rhymes’ and ‘jiggy fitness’ but also ‘lazy garage’ and ‘blog pop’ 9pm £free
ExhibitionS
ART AT FIVE Wonderment Abstract and floral painting from Marie Mills, Deborah Flueler-Jones and Yvonne Coomber Until May 12th BOXBIRD GALLERY Three-D: Brighton Fringe Festival 3D illustrations by Graham Carter, Helen Musselwhite and Tom Frost May 2nd - 29th BRIGHTON FISHING MUSEUM GALLERY Maker’s Boutique Locally made arts and crafts Until May 14th; Aaron Holmes Abstract seascapes May 15th - 28th; Maker’s Boutique Locally made arts and crafts May 29th - Aug 6th BRIGHTON MUSEUM & ART GALLERY Jeff Koons Everything he touches turns to garish kitsch Until Sept 8th FABRICA The Blue Route The Finnish artist Kaarina Kaikkonen uses second hand objects to create large scale installations Until May 27th
GALLERY 40 Abstract Paintings: Brighton Fringe Festival
Paintings by Paul Penketh May 27th - Jun 2nd HOTEL PELIROCCO Marko G Gig posters from a decade of live music at the hotel Until June 7th LIGHTHOUSE The Air Itself Is One Vast Library: Brighton Festival Images by Mariele Neudecker exploring modern military technology May 4th - Jun 1st NO WALLS GALLERY Imbue - Reduced To Fear New collection of work focusing on the fears and anxieties of modern society May 31st - Jun 28th ONCA Our Time In Ice Artists, writers, filmmakers and adventurers respond to the ‘changing arctic’ Until May 31st PHOENIX GALLERY Press & Release Celebrating the thriving culture of artists’ books Until Jun 9th PRESTON MANOR The Contents Of A House: Brighton Festival Performance and installation exploring the history of the manor May 4th - 26th REGENCY TOWN HOUSE Heterotopias And Other Domestic Landscapes Indoor landscape installations by Mariele Neudecker May 4th - 26th ROYAL PAVILION The Lost Pagodas An installation by Geraldine Pilgrim replacing some fancy Regency pagodas that now stand in Buckingham Palace Until May 7th SPACE @ CREATE Airfix Lounge: Brighton Fringe Festival Andie Airfix’s iconic designs for rocks bands like The Rolling Stones, AC/DC and Guns ‘n’ Roses May 6th - 25th UNIVERSITY GALLERY Felix’s Machines Heath Robinson style music-making mechanical contraptions May 4th - 10th; Purveying The Neighborhood Diecast toys and historic photographs of brewery trucks Until May 18th; Nomad Land A series of dance films exploring male behaviour May 4th - 18th; Graduate Show 2013 Three floors of exhibitions and performances May 31st - Jun 12th
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six Of The Best
a big ball of string
In celebration of children’s author Michael Rosen’s guest directorship of this year’s Brighton Festival we choose the books that sparked our imagination as kids. When we do this again in 20 years time it will be Best Children’s Apps, of course.
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
At boarding school, pupil Sara Crewe lives a high life of celebrity status and fur-trimmed bonnets. Tragically, dear Papa loses his fortune and dies in India, leaving evil headmistress Miss Minchin to banish Sara to the attic to live with rats and the lower orders, without even her lady’s maid to button her dress. Combining mis-lit and period drama this one’s a guaranteed tearjerker, despite the relatively happy ending. Steer clear of Disney’s sugar-coated film version - her dad’s dead, DEAD, he doesn’t suddenly reappear at the end for fuck’s sake. (RK)
The Faraway Tree Series by Enid Blyton
These tales of mystical woodland folk held generations of children spellbound with fantasies of climbing the branches to the transient lands above. They’re as full of alarming adventures with sociopathic goblins as Blyton’s writing is crammed with casual racism. The frankly awesome ‘Land Of Take-What-You-Want’ fuelled an avarice in us that, despite the book’s easily pleased wartime children being satisfied with a spade for Father and some hens, no doubt paved the way for our sense of entitlement, the crushing disappointment of real life and inevitable subsequent shoplifting career. (RK)
Forever
by Judy Blume
Pre-internet, there was no Vice Guide To Double Penetration to hand, and lusty 20th century teens had to rely on finding specialist magazines in the hedge for sexual guidance. Little wonder then that Judy’s sex-manual-cum-cumming-of-age-romance between goody-goody Katherine and eager Michael and his BFF Ralph, was passed round the classroom quicker than chlamydia at a West Street under-14s night. The characters – who sidestep the traditional rites of passage like pissed up fingering by the youth club bins – seem implausibly sensible to our modern eyes, but thankfully the advice within made us think twice before dousing anyone’s testicles in Moustache aftershave. (RK)
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Children’s Books Words by Ben Bailey, James Kendall, Rosie Kendall, Teoh Lander-Boyce
A Big Ball Of String by Marion Holland
You really can’t choose what captures your imagination as a kid. This simple story from the Dr Seuss stable is about a boy who collects up scraps of – you guessed it – string to make – yep – a big ball. Simple times. “With a BIG ball of string, I could do ANYTHING,” says the enthusiastic, poetic story. But the words were just a tiny part of what conjured up adventures in our mind. The 1950s pencil illustrations are so evocative we felt like we were there tangled up with him. (JK)
The BFG
by Roald Dahl
Aged eight, it doesn’t seem bizarre that your rather tall mate can catch ‘dreams’ in his ears, sharing out the good ones by ‘blowing’ them into children’s bedrooms. Nor is it peculiar he’s adamant on whipping out the remaining members of his race to avoid eating ‘snozzcumber’. Like any good friend, you call in the Queen, King of Sweden and Sultan of Baghdad to resolve the situation. Yes, this is the heart-warming story of how Elizabeth II, Carl XVI and Saddam Hussein rally together to help a Jimmy Saville-like figure silence his paedophile-ring with vegetables that make you fart. (TLB)
The Warlock Of Firetop Mountain by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone
Part story, part game this was a book in which YOU were the hero! Interactive and non-linear, it allowed you to make the character’s choices for them, and – because cheating was almost mandatory – required you to use a dexterous finger-bookmarking system to ensure you could always backtrack. Despite all that, it was total fun. What it lacked in plot (a wizard has some treasure, you want it) was offset by the quirky details and eerie atmosphere. It was an instant hit in 1982, kickstarted the bestselling Fighting Fantasy series and acted as a RPG gateway drug for a generation born before computer games were any good. (BB)
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