Fabrica Craftaganza Live An arts and craft night with guest speakers, this time it’s the men behind TheBigForest 7.30pm £free Fishbowl Tea & Biscuits: DJ Gareth Stephens Retro swing, soul and ska 10pm £free Funfair LOLgasm Midweek mayhem with Boogaloo Stu playing pop party anthems 11pm £free Globe Move Pre Party Warm up for Life’s new underground dance music night 9pm £free Green Door Store Charli XCX Pop goth singer songwriter back by hip hop beats (this show has now been postponed) 7.30pm £8; Hard Times Please sir, I want some more nowave disco 11pm £free Haunt (SPUNGE) Live music 7pm £9; Supercharged Drum&bass and breaks 11pm £3/2 Komedia Marcus Foster London singer songwriter likely to appeal to fans of Tom Waits or Tim Buckley 7.30pm £7; Gerry McAvoy’s Band Of Friends - A Celebration Of Rory Gallagher Not a tribute act, just paying tribute to the great Irish blues rock guitarist 7.30pm £15 Latest Music Bar Alex Taylor, Max Gilkes Live music 8pm £5 Life Move: New York Transit Authority Underground dance music club 11pm £4/3/2 Mash Tun Mash Tun Live Funk and rock covers band 9pm £free New Venture Theatre The Price Arthur Miller’s hard-edged play about a family squabble set in the 60s Details tbc Northern Lights Mystery Train Rockabilly DJ 9pm £free Ouch Bar OMC Wired Live music 8pm £free Pav Tav Quiz Night 8pm £free Prince Albert Wildcat Strike, Fight Live music 8pm £4/3 Proud Cabaret Lau, Blue Rose Code Innovative contemporary folk group 8pm £16/14 Ranelagh Haunted: Annaca, Lu’Ami, Katharine Rose Catchy indie folk with great pop vocals 8.30pm £free Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Laetitia Sadier Solo show from the singer of Stereolab 7.30pm £10; I Am Arcade Playing retro video games is particularly exciting when it’s in a public place because it’s usually something you do in private, like wearing a body wig woven from the multi-coloured manes of broken My Little Pony dolls 8pm £free Theatre Royal Driving Miss Daisy Gwen Taylor stars in the 1930s deep south drama 7.45pm £10-35 Thomas Kemp Kev & Jenna’s Open Mic 8.30pm £free Three & Ten The Origin Of Species By Means Of Natural Selection Or The Survival Of (R)Evolutionary Theories In The Face Of Scientific And Ecclesiastical Objections: Being A Musical Comedy About Charles Darwin (1809-1882) The title pretty much says it all - Spalien Acecraft’s musical humorist takes on the legacy of the monkey man 7.30pm £9/7.50 Three Graces Pub Quiz 8pm £free Volks Except For Access Live music 8pm £5 Western Front Hush Hush Live acoustic music 9pm £free
Thursday 15th
Above Audio Schtumm! Disco and house grooves Time tbc £free Audio Bastard Pop Musical mash-up 11pm £3/2/free Blind Tiger Dub Organiser Jam session with a dub reggae band 8pm £3/free Brunswick Emma Stevens, Rob Vincent, Solar Maria, Lindsey Oliver Live music 8pm £5/4 Caroline Of Brunswick Romesh Ranganathan & Sean Mcloughlin Double bill of stand-up comedy 7pm £free Coalition The Milk, Running Dogs, High Tide Live music 7pm £10; Secret Discotheque Replaying the soundtrack to your youth 11pm £4/3/2 Concorde2 Plaid, Reso, Slugabed, Tripper, Face+Heel, Anneka AV set from the post-techno London duo 7.30pm £15; The Correspondents Live music 11pm £10 Constant Service Open Mic 8.30pm £free Duke Of Norfolk Rock Night Classic rock tunes 8pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema Private Peaceful 11am £tbc; Seven Psychopaths: Cinecity Film Festival 6.30pm £tbc Fabrica Armchair Critics: Lorenza Ippolito, Judith Alder Arty discussion event 7.30pm £tbc 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 Funfair When Will I Be Famous? New power pop and glam night for wanton wannabes 9pm £free Globe Hang The DJ! A night of punter-picked playlists 9pm £free Green Door Store Grasscut Ninja Tune electro duo featuring a former editor of the SOURCE 7pm £8.50/7.50; Thursday Night Fish Fry Jamaican ska, R&B and rocksteady 11pm £free Haunt Buck 65 Canadian rap raconteur 7pm £10; Coconut College Thursday night party playing a right mix of stuff like Grimes, Smashing Pumpkins and Kayne West 11pm £3/2 Honey Propaganda Indie club 10.30pm £4/3
Hop Poles Woodstock Unplugged Live music 8pm
£free
Horse & Groom The Bobby McGees, Charles
Latham, Nick Williams Tweecore ukulele indiepop 8pm £free Komedia Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman Live music 7.30pm £12; Live Soul Night: Daniela & Sarah Benton Soul and R&B singer songwriters 8pm £5 Latest Music Bar Denise Black’s Loose Screw 7.30pm £8/6 Mash Tun The Infamous Jay & Rich DJ duo play indie, rock, electro and dubstep 9pm £free Mucky Duck Open Mic Jam session with Joe Newman 8pm £free New Venture Theatre The Price Arthur Miller’s hard-edged play about a family squabble set in the 60s Details tbc Ouch Bar Live Funk Music 10.30pm £free Pav Tav Pav Tav Live Live music Details tbc Prince Albert Umez, Restlesslist, Vile Imbeciles Live music 8pm £4 Prince George Souled Out DJs play funk, soul and Motown 8pm £free Quadrant Regional Dialect You don’t have to have a regional accent to be a poet, but it helps 7.30pm £4 Ranelagh Shauna Parker & The Saloon Bar Band Country and swing band 8.30pm £free Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar The Earl Grey, Loose Lips, Screama Ballerina, Bearded Youth Quest Live music 7.30pm £4 Theatre Royal Driving Miss Daisy Gwen Taylor stars in the 1930s deep south drama 2.30pm/7.45pm £10-35 Three & Ten The Origin Of Species By Means Of Natural Selection Or The Survival Of (R)Evolutionary Theories In The Face Of Scientific And Ecclesiastical Objections: Being A Musical Comedy About Charles Darwin (1809-1882) The title pretty much says it all - Spalien Acecraft’s musical humorist takes on the legacy of the monkey man 7.30pm £9/7.50 Tube Booty Bakery: Blonde Chicks, Tom Baker, Joe G, Oli P, Ben White New club night cooking up a big basket of bass and hip hop 11pm £5/4/free Victory Open Mic 8pm £free Volks Roll Through Drum&bass and dubstep, bass and beatbox 11pm £2 White Rabbit The Move-Ons Open Mic 8pm £free
Friday 16th
Above Audio Home House and disco DJs 9pm £free Audio Schtumm!: No Artificial Colours, PBR
Streetgang Disco and underground house club 11pm £tbc Blind Tiger Milk Maid, Traams, Teen Creeps DJs Lofi indie band 7.30pm £5; DK New club night from the peeps behind the ace Ninjatunes radio show 11pm £5 Brunswick Gypsy Swing Live music 8pm £tbc Coalition Fucked Up Hardcore punk band with prog leanings and psychedelic tendencies 7pm £12; Friday I’m In Love No more lectures for a day or two 11pm £2-5 Concorde2 Easy Star All Stars - Thrillah The reggae band who did better-than-it-ever-should-have-been versions of ‘Dark Side Of The Moon’ and ‘OK Computer’ take on Jacko’s pre-plastic face classic 7pm £16; Run Tingz Sessions: Top Cat, Serial Killaz & Spyda, Run Tingz Cru & Solo Banton, Blackout Ja, Serum & Bladerunner, Aries & David Boomah, Knowledge, Wisdom, Trevor Sax, Papa Levi, Dagger Sound System, Prank Allstars, As-If, Unlikely, Akademics, Dom, Kitch, Soul Casserole 11pm £10 Cornerstone Ross Warm & Slim Jim DJ sets 9pm £free Cowley Club Radical Dance Faction, Pog, Ratbag Legendary dub poetry punks return with a new album 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 Frankie Boyle - The Last Days Of Sodom The tabloid-hounded comedian brings “the inchoate laughter of despair to a culture in freefall” 8pm £25 Dome Studio Hugh Hughes - Stories From An Invisible Town Funny and heartfelt family storytelling from the award-winning creator of the tragic-comic trilogy, ‘Story Of A Rabbit’ 7.30pm £12/10 Druid’s Arms Hot Pepper Sauce DJ I.D.G. serves up a spicy mix of funk, soul and house 10pm £free Duke Of Norfolk DJ MC Cashback DJ night 9pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema Sightseers + Q&A: Cinecity Film Festival 6.30pm £tbc; British Sea Power From The Sea To The Land Beyond: Cinecity Film Festival Brighton indie stalwarts play a live score to a film about the British coastline made from archive footage 11.30pm £16.50 Fishbowl Cut La Vis Jamaican riddims and urban beats 9pm £free Fortune Of War Fever Bands and DJs play Latin, salsa and reggae 9pm £free Funfair Fortune New Motown, rock and soul night with hula-hoopers, contortionists and sword swallowers 9pm £5/3/free Funkyfish Thank Funk Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10.30pm £free Globe Rum Fridays: Luke Brackenridge Mashed up party breaks 8pm £free
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Grand Central Dad’s Old Vinyl DJs play retro funk, pop and hip hop records 8.30pm £free Green Door Store Hey! Fever #1: Speak Galactic, The Astronauts, The Righteous Ones Of The Blazing Rockets, Redmaxx, Soft Arrows, Cousin Cupboard Music presents a new biennial band showcase 5.30pm £free; Well Rounded: Bass Clef, Hodge, Chris Farrell, Donga, Richter Glimpse the future of dance music 11pm £free Haunt Speech Debelle Live music 7pm £10; Wonder Yeahs Music from the glorious 1990s 11pm £3 Honey Lollipop ‘Pink Fridays’ Get your fingers sticky to R&B and pop treats 11pm £5/4/3 Hop Poles Control, Alt, Delete Resident DJs 9pm £free Hope The Long Goodbye, Rotait, Autumn And The Falls, Hayley Savage Album launch for Americana folk band 7.45pm £5 Hope DJ Will Sumsuch Old school hip hop, funk and soul with cult movies on the big screen 9pm £free Iron Duke Mae Martin Comedy show 7.30pm £tbc Jury’s Out Live Music 5.30pm £free Komedia Funny Women - Brighton Nights Comedy competition 8pm £10/8; Krater Comedy Club: Ninia Benjamin, Ben Norris, Rich Wilson, Stephen Grant Standup comedy 8pm £16.50/13.50; Born Bad Vintage rockabilly for pompadour cats and polka dot kittens 11pm £6/5 Life ManMakeMusic Showcase: George FitzGerald, Leon Vynehall, Gang Colours, Trikk The London electronica label takes over for the night 11pm £7/5/4 Lola Lo Tiki Beats Totally tropical tunes 8pm £5/4/3 Montpelier Inn Souled Out DJs play jazz funk, retro soul and Philly disco 9pm £free Mucky Duck Catholic Discipline Space rock, electronica and cinematic sounds 8pm £free Neptune Papa George Live blues 8.30pm £free New Venture Theatre The Price Arthur Miller’s hard-edged play about a family squabble set in the 60s Details tbc Palmeira Lazy Acre 5th Birthday Party: Bellman, Flash Bang Band, Synne Eileen & The Sunbeams Record label birthday bash with live bands 8pm £6 Pav Tav Beats Not Bombs DJ sessions 8pm £free Phoenix Gallery Aural Detritus Concert Series Cutting edge live improvisation 8pm £9/4 Prince Albert Route 66 Club: The Wildflowers Live music 8pm £4 Quadrant Comedy Sans Frontières: Nick Helm, Grainne Maguire, Joey Page, Mark Restuccia, Sami Stone Comedy gig raising funds for the humanitarian aid charity, Doctors Without Borders 8pm £9.50/6.50 Ranelagh Rabbit Foot Blues band with a hint of Africa 8.30pm £free Smugglers Grits And Gravy New club night playing vintage rhythm&blues, ska and swing 9pm £free Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Brighton Rocks: The Cryptics, Rising Tide, Fools Knowledge, El Pavlov Live music 7pm £4; Dive Slow Hip hop and electronica from the BBC critic and DJ, Mike Diver (in the bar) 9pm £free; Reverb Bistro From funky disco, through Chicago house into drum&bass and dubstep (in the club) 11pm £free Theatre Royal Driving Miss Daisy Gwen Taylor stars in the 1930s deep south drama 7.45pm £10-35 Thomas Kemp Hot-Tip Hi-Fi DJ with a fine collection of vintage reggae and rocksteady records 8pm £free Tube Cross The crew behind TRASH kick off a night of beats and bass 11pm £3/free; Motel Last chance saloon for electro house heads 2am £5 Volks Sine Language: Aba Shanti, V.I.V.E.K., Carbon, Originate Dub reggae sound system from London 11pm £6 West Hill Hall Blurt, King Alfred Man Of Leisure, Soul Punch Live music 7.30pm £5 West Hill Tavern Sweden Made Me The Scandocentric indiepop DJ night returns 9pm £free Western Front Soul Casserole A melting pot of hot funk beats and soul grooves 9pm £free White Rabbit Ruff Snippets DJ plays hip hop, funk and soul 8pm £free
Saturday 17th
Above Audio Saturday Bar Live Live music Time tbc £free; Doctor’s Orders Funk, soul and seriously sick hip hop 8pm £5/free Ancient Mariner The Chaplins Acoustic duo 8pm £free Audio Warehouse: Jaymo & Andy George House and techno club night 11pm £5/free Beachigogo Bar Good Times Remember them? Maybe the feel-good retro tunes will jog your memory (in the White Room) 9pm £free Blind Tiger Drum Unity - Morning Drum Circle Morning show for families that haven’t already had enough noise and beatings 11am £2/1; The Edgeworld Pop-Up Record Stall The much-missed record shop returns with a suitcase of vinyl to flog 11am £free; The Slow Revolt, Gizelle Smith Funk and soul groovemasters 8pm £5 Brunswick The Blues Corporation Ten-piece blues and soul band 8pm £10/9 Caroline Of Brunswick Bad Bad Whiskey Skifflebilly trio 7pm £free Coalition Old Yellow Bricks: DJ Monty, Shmooze, Skank R&B, house and funky soul club 11pm £7/5; Blow: Vince Manganaro, Charly Lopez, Charles Green The party never stops 3am £5
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