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PHYSICS HOUSE BAND A Law unto themselves
volume 2. Issue 49 OCTOBER 2012
halloween Photo biennial Comedy festival
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city invasion
Hey students, welcome back – or if you’re new to town, just welcome. You’ve arrived at an absolutely brilliant time. For a start some of the country’s best photographers are exhibiting all over town for the Photo Biennial and Photo Fringe. Will there be booze? Er, probably not… yeah, maybe sit that one out for a few weeks, as it goes on past freshers’ month. How about the Brighton Comedy Festival (or as the PRs want us to call it Dave’s Brighton Comedy Festival) – most of the UK’s best loved stand ups invading the city? No, you probably won’t get felt up there. Oh well, it’ll be back next year. Not to worry, we’ve got more good club nights than even media students have time for. But seriously, we love it when you students arrive cos even though the Tories are trying to crush you financially, you inject a bit of cash into the city and all of a sudden promoters want to put on great stuff again. And they’ve really risen to the challenge of parting you from your money this year – we’ve had to extend our gig previews section to four and a half pages of recommendations for a start. We give your loan about two weeks. But while you’ve got a loan, don’t forget that we sell tickets to hundreds of events on the SOURCE website. Get broke or die tryin’.
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Editor James Kendall ManageR Rosie Kendall Designer Matt Barker at Artwerk DEPUTY Editor Stuart Huggett Sales Manager Annie Lorenzini listings editor Ben Bailey CLUBS editor Zac Colbert STAFF WRITERs Amy Bellchambers Gavin Hughes reviews editor Jessica Marshall McHattie Cover Kenny Mc Cracken
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Bee Adamic, Chris Biggs, Ian Chambers, Steve Clements, Nathaniel Forrester, Fresh To Death, Richard Greenan, Lizzi Hart, Charlie Haywood, Jake Kennedy, Jessica Osborne Lax, Kevin Meredith, Ben Miller, Mike Tudor. If you want to contribute to SOURCE email james@brightonsource.co.uk
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Contents
News 4 New In Town 6 Gig Previews 8 Interview: The Physics House Band 18 Club Previews 20 Halloween Previews 26 Club Review: Union 28 30 Club Review: Soundclash Interview: Digital 32 34 Culture Previews Locally Sourced 38 42 Art: Let This Be A Sign Preview: Photo Biennial 44 Preview: Photo Fringe 46 Interview: Angela Barnes 48 Preview: Comedy Festival 50 Preview: Oxjam 54 56 Street Style Unsung Hero: Tom Hines 60 Secret Eater: The Mock Turtle 62 In Conversation With: Miniclick 64 Listings 66 Six Of The Best: Sit-com Flatshares 78
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NEWS
Words By Stuart Huggett, Bee Adamic
Dome changes
The Pavilion Theatre – home to the monthly SOURCE New Music nights – has been re-named Brighton Dome Studio. The venue is gearing up for one of its busiest periods of the year as the Brighton Comedy Festival returns to the Dome complex, Fri 5th – Sat 20th. Richard Herring, Josie Long and Robin Ince are among those taking to the Studio stage. This month’s SOURCE New Music follows on Thurs 25th, with headliners Restlesslist.
Dizzee shakes
The outdoor festival season closes on a high this month, as Shakedown returns for its second year on Sat 6th. Coalition host the main Stanmer Park stage, with headliners Dizzee Rascal, Professor Green and Katy B, while Chase And Status, Knife Party and Zane Lowe top the Supercharged Arena bill. The last remaining advance tickets cost £45, or £50 on the day. All the info you need is at shakedown.co.uk
the maccabees
City TV
Brighton and Hove is one of the first cities in the country to receive its own local television station, under new broadcasting legislation. TV regulator Ofcom awarded the right to begin broadcasting across the region to Latest TV, part of the city’s Latest media group. The new channel aims to begin broadcasting across the region some time next year.
Xmas craft
Vintage clothing emporium Wolf & Gypsy is inviting local students and designers to supply their store with handmade gift items to sell over Christmas. Items the Sydney Street shop are seeking include homeware, soft furnishings, artwork, accessories and stationery – but not clothes. Email product information, photos and a wholesale price list to info@ wolfandgypsyvintage.co.uk by Sat 20th (over 18s only). They’ll respond to successful applicants by Sat 10th Nov.
Fresher welcome
Early sounds
Maccabees nominated
Whale meet
Freshtival is a two week programme across the University of Brighton, designed to give all new students a great introduction to this wonderful city we live in. The jam-packed itinerary includes live gigs, comedy nights, a tour of the city and the freshers’ fair. The official finale takes place at Shakedown Festival: specially priced tickets of £35 are available to all students. See brightonfreshtival.com/brighton for more details.
SOURCE friends The Maccabees have made the shortlist for this year’s Mercury Prize. The band’s third album ‘Given To The Wild’ goes up against major releases from Plan B, Lianne La Havas, Michael Kiwanuka and Jessie Ware. With nominees Django Django, Field Music and Alt-J also regularly on the office stereo, we can’t decide where to place our bets for this one. The Prize is announced at Camden’s Roundhouse on November 1st.
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Brighton Early Music Festival returns this month for a celebration of music from centuries past. One of the largest festivals of its kind, the BREMF programme mixes classical and choral performances with dance and theatre, many of which take place in Brighton’s oldest and grandest churches. Featured composers include Bach and Gabrieli, with other concerts focusing on Renaissance, klezmer and coronation music. The festival runs Fri 26th Oct to Sun 11th Nov, read up on it at bremf.org.uk
Thirty years ago, the International Whaling Commission met at the Hilton Brighton Metropole and announced a moratorium on commercial whaling. This month, the international community returns to the Hilton for Save The Whales: Reloaded, a convention debating the next steps in whale and dolphin conservation. It’s accompanied by WhaleFest, a weekend of events, talks and films for all ages at the Hilton (Sat 27th – Sun 28th) and a WhaleFest Fringe week of art, music and activities around the city. More details at whale-fest.com
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TRADITIONAL
IRISH PUB
Whether ye be a returning student or somebody who just enjoys a good pint, there is something for everyone at Molly Malone’s.
With live music from Wednesday through to Sunday, and all major sporting events showing on either 3 HD screens or the two pull down projectors, why would ye be anywhere else? Its great craic!
Students can add an Irish twist to their Join us @ Molly Malones for our first birthday on night for cheaper with drinks deals Friday the 19th. One great night not to be missed. (Live including 3 for 2 on selected shots. Entertainment, Prizes to be won, Special Guests) Carling - £2.95 Stowford Press - £2.95 Large House red/white/rose - £3.10 3-4-2 on shots of Jäger, Sambuca, Tequila, Tuaca, all £5.90
Only a few hops from the beach & the city centre, the Hop Poles is the little pub with the big personality. Whether it’s laid back lunch hours by day, or upbeat destination venue (boasting a new soundsystem and a collective of Brighton’s best DJs) by night, you’d best hop to it!
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Best Beer Garden Home cook by the Seafront the way your mummedy mafokeod s it ...which stays open till the early hours!
NUS Drink deals Al l Day Everyday (valid wi th NUS/ Student cards only ) Spirit & Mixer £2.9 5 House bottles of wi ne 9.95 342 on shots 2 JagberBOMBS £5.9 0 4 x JagerBOMBS £10. 80
Wednesdays - Reggae night: caribbean food and music Thursdays - Enjoy some Retail Therapy Hop Poles Stylee, Motown classics all night
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£free Mario Kar Hopify every Tuesday Friday Nights at the Hop Poles - Control, ALT, Delete (Resident DJ’s play the finest choons until 2am) Saturday Nights at the Hop Poles - Hop to the Beat (Local DJ’s give it all they have to get you dancing)
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NEW IN TOWN
Words By Stuart Huggett, Jessica Marshall McHattie
Smack
After teasing us with a scuzzy and secretive ad campaign all summer, Brighton’s newest club venue Smack has finally revealed itself. Taking over the former Pasha club on the corner of West Street and Boyce’s Street, Smack is modelled on the illicit, hedonistic, counter-culture dens of New York City - think Limelight meets Lit meets CBGB. The team behind it are also responsible for The Haunt and Geisha’s, so they know what they’re doing.
Dig For Victory
50s lovers rejoice: online etsy boutique Dig For Victory now has a physical store in Edward Street, Kemptown. With a ridiculously large vintage and end-of-rail fabric selection to choose from, you can have a unique item made-to-measure, or pick from the rails of prom dresses, playsuits or elegant evening wear. Each piece is unique and the shop is open Thursday to Saturday. etsy.com/shop/digforvictory
DJ Format’s Weird & Wonderful Sundays
DJ Format’s a renowned vinyl crate-digger and on the first Sunday of each month he’s inviting us for a night in with him at the Blind Tiger. Steering away from the hip-hop and funk he’s known for, this will be unpredictable: think psychedelic rock, electric blues and a bit of British jazz, to start. Enhanced by live oil projections, this relaxed evening will numb the pain of Mondays. If you saw the chilled crowd at his eclectic set for Playgroup Festival, you’ll know what to expect.
Gourmet Pizza Kitchen
Ever eaten an octopus pizza or a swordfish salad? No, us neither. If you’re the type that would like to, Gourmet Pizza Kitchen has just opened on Western Road. They cater for all tastes, whether you like your pizzerias on the adventurous side or you feel wild when deviating from a margherita. The pizzas are freshly cooked in a fiery stone oven and the top quality ingredients are locally sourced where possible. There’s a few eat-in seats, but they also deliver. Use this knowledge wisely. gourmetpizzakitchen.co.uk
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The North Laine Arms
This venue’s been sitting empty ever since London’s Barfly chain pulled out of town back in 2009, but, at last, it’s come back to life as the North Laine Arms. Fondly remembered as a live venue back in its days as The Gloucester, it’s back in the hands of previous owners InnBrighton, who have carefully restored many of the building’s original, historic hotel features. A microbrewery on the premises will supply many of the North Laine Arms’ real ales.
Supercharged
Every bassheads’ favourite club night Supercharged Wednesdays has moved to The Haunt. Since leaving Audio earlier in the summer, Supercharged have carried on hosting big one-offs at the Concorde 2 and Digital (this month they’re hosting Skreamizm at the former on Sat 6th, and Redlight and Joker at the latter on Sat 27th), but The Haunt is now the place to go for a weekly dose of their heavy d’n’b, hip hop, dubstep and electro mash up.
The Iron Duke
A new fringe theatre space has opened in The Iron Duke pub and hotel on Waterloo Street, Hove. The 40-50 seat venue will host comedy, theatre and music, as well as being available as a rehearsal space and for theatrical classes (for bookings, contact theatre manager Mill Goble on mill@atomicforce.co.uk). The Iron Duke’s relaunch also features a new Thai Kitchen restaurant, see irondukebrighton.co.uk
Red Eye Graffiti Shop
Graffiti artists have a specialist store opening in the basement of Red Eye at the start of the month. As well as extravagant smoking paraphernalia, the Gardner Street head shop will be supplying the city’s artists with a variety of spray paint brands, including Ironlak and Montana, plus markers, canvases, magazines and books. Don’t sniff the aerosols, it’s bad for your health.
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Words By Matt Barker, Chris Biggs, Ian Chambers, Steve Clements, Nathaniel Forrester, Stuart Huggett, Gavin Hughes, Lizzi Hart, Jake Kennedy, Jessica Osborne Lax, Amy Jo McLellan
Gallows
Haunt Weds 3rd
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Having felt Gallows “hit a crossroads”, punk poster boy Frank Carter stepped aside to make way for Canadian Alexisonfire star, Wade MacNeil. Once a wholesomely British selection of gritty Hertfordshire hooligans, Carter’s reign at the height of British punk elevated Gallows’ reputation for positively anarchic use of crowd and stage. Voyaging across the Atlantic would seem slightly intimidating for MacNeil given these circumstances but the man defies all nervousness as the band record the “most brutal” Gallows track ever. Beware. (GH)
Ahab
Prince Albert Weds 3rd
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Folk-pop quintet Ahab are a wondrous combination of personable on stage, magazine-cover handsome and capable of writing incredibly catchy songs. With a passionate love for deep south Americana and country music, they combine those influences with a thoroughly British sense of self-deprecation and humour, which makes for an infectious outcome. Their 2011 EP ‘KMVT’ contains songs filled with pure vocal harmonies and softly strummed guitars. Ahab are on to something special. (JMM)
Blanck Mass
Green Door Store Fri 5th
As one half of Bristol drone experimentalists Fuck Buttons, Benjamin John Power made dark, post-rock inspired music from Casio keyboards and circuit-bent toys, to worldwide tours and acclaim. As Blanck Mass, he takes it even further: orchestral, simmering noise builds to static crescendos, unsettling climaxes build over punk bleeps, and the overall effect is a bit like a happy death in a white noise coma. Also playing tonight are Echo Lake and Happy New Year. (JMM)
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Cockney Rejects Concorde 2 Mon 8th
This should be an interesting one. With Sham 69’s epic return still warm in the hearts of old Brighton skins, it’s time for Jimmy Pursey’s former protégés to prove they can still cut it. Championed by that arbiter of taste Garry Bushell, they became the poster boys of the Oi! movement and were wrongly branded as supporters of the far right. The Geggus brothers are still present and there’s even a film about them on the way. Bring bubbles. (SC)
Cave Painting Green Door Store Tues 9th
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Former SOURCE cover artists and one of the biggest hits of this year’s Great Escape festival, Cave Painting are pop stars on the ascent. April’s single ‘Gator’ kicked off an escalating interest which shows no sign of slowing, and their debut album ‘Votive Life’ continues the theme of pretty, progressive pop songs with a soulful vocal and modern, clunky beats. They’re a very tight live band, and their harmonies are even more impressive when heard in person. (JMM)
Bo Ningen
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Green Door Store Weds 10th
You don’t so much witness Bo Ningen live as escape from them alive. Previous gigs have seen the Japan-via-London four-piece set their instruments alight, and having upstaged S.C.U.M. at this very venue in February wearing body stockings, we can’t wait to see what they unleash this time. The music veers from droning krautrock to freeform jazz and back again, often in the same song, always smacking square in the face. A terrifying, thrilling prospect. (JKY)
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GIG PREVIEWS
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Nately’s Whore’s Kid Sister
Danny Schmidt & Carrie Elkin
It’s not often that you find a band that fit so neatly between the indie-sodden land we call the north of England and the doomy firepits of Leviathan’s lair, but Newcastle’s rowdiest export since Paul Gascoigne do it pretty damn well. Sounding like a cross between the sludgy riffage of Electric Wizard, a ketamine-induced nightmare and something Nick Cave might’ve written had he listened to more Black Sabbath, Nately’s Whore’s Kid Sister sample drunks outside pubs and distort everything to the extent that you’ll forget what instruments usually sound like. (CB)
Two of Texas’ finest singer-songwriters come together to share a stage for this rare double bill at West Hill Hall. Danny Schmidt has been compared to the likes of Townes Van Zandt and Leonard Cohen with his hypnotic and poetic songwriting; while Carrie Elkin’s stunning vocals and folk-country songs have garnered comparisons to the likes of Emmylou Harris and Devon Sproule. (IC)
Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Thurs 11th
Mama Rosin
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Green Door Store Thurs 11th
Swiss trio Mama Rosin have forged a sound all of their own. Drawing on a wide range of musical influences, encompassing cajun, garage punk, swamp blues and zydeco, they return to Brighton with the imminent release of a new album produced by Jon Spencer of the Blues Explosion. In their live incarnation the band personify a ragged, low-down, good time which has prompted a riotous reception from audiences across the globe, storming stages such as Glastonbury and Summer Sundae and appearing on Later With Jools Holland. Support comes from five-piece bluegrass band Random Canyon Growlers. (IC)
Balam Acab
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Green Door Store Fri 12th
Often lumped in with the spooky American witch house camp with oOoOO and Salem, Balam Acab is the moniker of Pennsylvaniabased Alec Koone, whose downtempo beats have seen him tour the world since the release of 2010’s EP ‘See Birds.’ Last year’s leftfield debut album ‘Wander/Wonder’ is a softly haunting masterpiece, like the sound of toys sleeping or an underwater symphony slowed almost to a standstill. Support comes from the evocative Deptford Goth and Adolescent. (JMM)
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West Hill Hall Sat 13th
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Micachu & The Shapes Coalition Sat 13th
Frenetic Micachu – classically trained musician Mica Levi – and her Shapes band put on a memorable show. Crafting instruments from modified household appliances and whatever else comes to hand, and delivering constant experimentation, the band’s commitment to evolution mean it’s difficult to detect the theme in their music. In a time when so many musicians borrow and distort each other’s sounds, it’s refreshing, honest, and different. (JMM)
Lianne La Havas Concorde 2 Thurs 18th
After two celebrated EPs, Lianne La Havas has now become the next big thing, releasing her debut album ‘Is Your Love Big Enough?’ and launching her biggest UK tour. With an irresistible combination of raw, soulful vocals and delicate guitar, her album features upbeat, intimate songs. If you like Bon Iver, Amy Winehouse and The Noisettes, this girl is for you. Nowadays it’s so rare to hear a voice which sounds just as good live as it does on the album. (JOL)
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GIG PREVIEWS
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Nzca/lines
Green Door Store Thurs 18th
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Michael Lovett is NZCA/Lines - named after (and pronounced like) the geometric earthworks of Peru’s Nazca desert. You can certainly hear Metronomy in his sound, and that’s not entirely a coincidence: Lovett was in Your Twenties with former Metronomy member Gabriel Stebbing. NZCA/Lines’ particular skew to that sound takes in the r’n’b wonk of Hot Chip’s first album, plus the lush, delicate synth work of someone like Junior Boys. (MB)
Tenacious D
Brighton Centre Thurs 18th
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It’s easy to dismiss Tenacious D as nothing more than a joke, but then again, that’s exactly what they are. If this month’s Comedy Festival doesn’t offer you the laughs you seek, you may find them here, thanks to Kyle Gass and Jack Black’s mock rock band. Those who question whether the duo have the musical talent to match their comic lyrics need to watch School Of Rock. This is going to be the greatest and best gig in the world… tribute. (AJM)
Fear Of Men Green Door Store Sat 20th
Fear of Men are releasing their new single ‘Mosaic’ this month and to celebrate they’re throwing an all day free party at the Green Door Store, which is kind of them. Mostly based in Brighton, Fear of Men make seductively lo-fi indie music, complete with twinkling guitars and stripped back, wholesome vocals. Also playing on the day are the gloriously melancholy Hundredth Anniversary, Shudder Pulps, Female Band, Lovepark, Furrow, Mowbird and others, yet to be confirmed. (JMM)
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Rolo Tomassi
Haunt Mon 22nd
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An eclectic mix of vocals ranging from male/female screams to delicate melodies, all to the tune of mathcore, is what can be expected at The Haunt on this Monday night. This loose genre definition is pushed to its limits as the Sheffield five piece experiment erratically across a variety of sounds including that of rock, jazz and ‘nintendocore’. With their third album due for a November release, Rolo Tomassi will be christening new material, after a drought of two years since 2010’s ‘Cosmology’. (LH)
François & The Atlas Mountains Coalition Mon 22nd
Watercolour artist and folk god François Marry leads the Atlas Mountains, and together they create airy, light music that’s seen them provide Brighton audiences with an inner sense of calm for years. As firm favourites at Melting Vinyl’s Viva La France! festival, and more recently The Great Escape, François & The Atlas Mountains are steadily climbing in public opinion. Last year’s album ‘E Volo Love’ was Domino Records’ first signing from a French band, and the wistful, poignant songs have been heaped with praise. (JMM)
Sparks
Dome Thurs 25th
Never ones to rest on their laurels, this show follows an aweinspiring run of gigs where the Mael brothers played all 21 of their albums in chronological order. Tonight, Ron and Russell – a keyboard and a voice – present a stripped down evening of cherries picked from their monumental back catalogue. Sparks have gone from glam rock oddities, through Moroder-produced disco delights to their current position of art-rock royalty. A rare opportunity to see these maverick geniuses baring their souls in a town that ought to be a second home. (SC)
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Little comets
Source New Music
Every Time I Die
Are you sitting comfortably? This month’s SOURCE New Music welcomes bizarre Brighton big band Restlesslist to the Dome Studio Theatre (formerly known as the Pavilion Theatre, see News). Restlesslist’s long-awaited new album ‘Coral Island Girl’ is an extravagant, inventive castaway adventure, combining storytelling, surf, psychedelia and sheer noise into a unique, determinedly single-minded listening experience. It’s like tucking yourself in with a book at bedtime only to realise someone’s spiked your cocoa with LSD. Which is brilliant, obviously. (SH)
Metalcore, Buffalo USA five piece Every Time I Die return to the UK on the back of their March release, ‘Ex Lives’. After an extensive full attendance at this summer’s Vans Warped Tour, ETID aren’t willing to rest just yet. Making an appearance at The Haunt after a 14 year long career may seem slightly small scale, but with elements of mathcore aiding the complicated rhythms and melodies, it’s bound to be mental in such an intimate environment. (LH)
Dome Studio Thurs 25th
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Gaz Coombes
Haunt Fri 26th
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OK, so maybe the way Supergrass disbanded was messy. First came The Diamond Hoo Ha Men, then The Hotrats – both of whom played Brighton – followed by charity singles and TV ads. Aside from the band’s often seismic riffs and bittersweet hooks, it was always Coombes’ melodies that made Supergrass’s punk-pop so memorable. This happily continues on his debut, ‘Here Come The Bombs’, showcased tonight at The Haunt’s tiny (for Gaz anyway) environs. Alright! (JKY)
Anchorsong
Blind Tiger Fri 26th
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Originally hailing from Japan, Anchorsong’s first three EPs consisted of double CDs, one with the tracks alone, and one with a video of their live creation. His live sets have since been admired worldwide. Creating elaborate layers of samples from multiple instruments and building detailed soundscapes isn’t unique, but it’s rarely done so well. Supporting band Polaroid85 have been compared to an early Portishead for their soaring, light vocals and dreamy, catchy beats. After a highly commended festival season they’re definitely a band to look out for. (JMM)
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Haunt Sat 27th
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Toy
Green Door Store Sat 27th
Five years ago this month, SOURCE had three-fifths of psych rock band Toy on the front cover, in their former employ with then hot things Joe Lean & The Jing Jang Jong. Things didn’t unfold as we predicted: Joe returned to acting (he’s in Jack Whitehall sitcom Fresh Meat), while guitarist Tom Dougall stepped up and steered Toy to cult and critical success. The measured cool of their recent LP barely hints at the intense, organ-driven euphoria of Toy live. (SH)
Little Comets Concorde 2 Mon 29th
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Hailed as Sunderland’s answer to Vampire Weekend, hugely underrated four-piece Little Comets’ 2011 debut ‘In Search Of Elusive Little Comets’ is a real stereo-pumper of an album. Bursting out of the speakers with an intoxicating blend of afropop, choppy rhythms and interesting social commentary, it subverts their rather quaint band name with tales of adultery and ‘terror in the streets’. The band, who once performed in the bakery aisle of Marks & Spencers, will certainly rise to the occasion. (NJF)
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SUN 23 Sept proUd BrightoN Ballroom
Wed 14 Nov proUd cBaret BrightoN
James Yorkston + Steve Elston
Lau + Blue Rose Code
tUeS 25 Sept the greeN door Store
Jaill + guests Friday 28 SeptemBer the haUNt
Beth Jeans Houghton & The Hooves of Destiny + Paul Steel moNday 1 octoBer coaltioN 1
Dan Le Sac & Friends + Sarah Williams White + Merz WedNeSday 3 oct the BliNd tiger clUB
Chapelier Fou + guests SatUrday 13 octoBer coalitioN 1
Micachu & The Shapes + Us Baby Bear Bones moNday 22 octoBer coaltioN 1
Fránçois and the Atlas Mountains + guests thUrSday 25 oct the greeN door Store
Zombie Zombie + AKDK
thU 15 NovemBer greeN Store Store
Grasscut + guests tUeSday 20 Nov Komedia (doWNStairS)
The Staves + Luke Sital-Singh thUrSday 29 NovemBer coalitioN*
Gaggle + guests Friday 30 Nov St georgeS chUrch
Beth Orton + Sam Amidon
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SatUrday 10 NovemBer the BaSemeNt
Micah P Hinson + A Band of Buriers
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Orbital Tour 2012 plus support
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The Tallest Man On Earth St Bartholomew’s Church Mon 29th
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Often pigeonholed as the modern day Bob Dylan, Kristian Matsson – aka The Tallest Man On Earth – is far more than a similar sounding voice. Now on his third album, the multi-talented musician has dexterously picked his guitar to raging success. ‘There’s No Leaving Now’ differs from the Swedish darling’s previous works, with its dampened yet wholehearted production values accentuating the vocals alongside his sublimely decorated guitar work. Just to clear things up, we don’t under estimate Dylan – he’s god-like – but seriously, get as close to the pulpit as possible. (GH)
Django Django
Old Market Mon 29th
Just as with Metronomy, and even Hot Chip before them, the Djangos’ melancholy, synth-heavy indie has wormed its way into our minds and won’t leave. After previously playing in town at The Hope and TGE12, they return for a sell-out at Hove’s somewhat underused Old Market. By now, they might even have the odd new track to trial, but if not, there’s still enough life in their excellent debut’s songs to electrify the larger venues that surely beckon. (JKY)
public Enemy
Dome Mon 29th
Simply the greatest hip hop group of all time. In rap’s 80s golden age, Public Enemy brought hardline black politics to the fore, matching Chuck D’s intellectual and rabble rousing vocals with an intense, abrasive, funky and sample-rich soundscape, meticulously assembled by producers The Bomb Squad. Controversy over Professor Griff’s early (since retracted) antiSemitic remarks and Flavor Flav’s addiction-fuelled criminality have tarnished PE’s lustre, but they remain one of the most thrilling and stimulating bands of our age.Truly unmissable. (SH)
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It’s said that some people are born old and stay that way for the rest of their lives. The Physics House Band might be in their early 20s, but not for them a life of drinking shots at Guetta-powered pop nights. Oh no, they’d much rather be giving their jazz fusion albums the concentration they deserve and practising being really very good at their instruments.
An assault on the ears that can still make you dance, they come on somewhere between the psychedelic explorers of the 60s, the prog bands and jazz fusion artists of the 70s, the technical metal of the 80s and the post rock of the 90s – all with the 21st century precision of math rock. If you thought The Mars Volta were coasting then you’ll love The Physics House Band.
Unfashionable notions of musicianship are at the core of their live performances but let’s be clear here – The Physics House Band are not chin strokers. In fact they’re one of the most exciting new bands to take to the Brighton stage in recent years. Adam wrestles with his bass like he’s in a funk band, while Dave flails on the drums chaotically and Sam leaves no part of his keyboard untouched. And the sounds, wow, the sounds!
They play so fast and so frenetically that you struggle to keep up but, caught in their tractor beam, you just can’t get away. There are few bands that have such a live pull in Brighton this early on in their careers and with material this difficult. They’re absolutely stunning and have already picked up fans of all giggoing ages. They’re a popular support act with promoters because of the big crowds they bring with them.
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Brighton’s Best Instrumental Prog Jazz Math Trio Are A Force To BeWords Reckoned With By James Kendall Photo By Kenny Mc Cracken at Create Lights By Chris Tomsett’s Innerstrings Psychedelic Lightshow
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“We’re not trying to exclude non-musicians, which is why we try to put on a really exciting show,” explains Adam. “So we write stuff that grooves, stuff that the layman can still kinda go and nod their head to. You don’t need to think, ‘Shit they played something in [a time signature of] 19/32’, but can still come away and say, ‘That was really cool, what the fuck happened? I enjoyed that.’” And enjoy it you will, muso or non-muso, as the trio throw themselves into playing so hard you’re not sure if they’re going to break themselves, the sound barrier or your ears. There’s no doubt they’re completely out on their own in a way we haven’t seen since AK/DK. “There’s no trend there because for a start the music is instrumental,” says Sam. “Our passion is to make music with
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no shelf life, as well as not attaching to a trend. I suppose the name reflects that. It’s Physics because the elements of physics are sound, heat, light and electricity – all the things that come in to music performance, not, you know, fashion and things like that.” More than anything, watching The Physics House Band makes us glad that they found each other. Like how, say, the Pixies were meant be together, we can’t imagine this trio tolerating playing with anyone else. Sam has a history with the precision of classical and jazz, while Dave has been playing the drums for 14 years and Adam, whose dad was a musician, has always taken the director role in bands. “It’s good to be able to give someone an idea and they’ll take it and make it better,” says Adam of his current bandmates. “You think, ‘Fuck, I didn’t even think of doing it that way!’ They’ll do it immediately, better than I thought of, which is really, really satisfying. It’s difficult to find in musicians this good.” “It’s very rare for drummers to get to go crazy with fills,” smiles Dave, “or just try and do the most complicated stuff. You usually get told to calm things down or be quiet, whereas these two promote the madness.” With so much musicianship going on it’s little surprise that there’s no room for vocals in The Physics House Band songs, but initially the trio played as part of a five piece with a guitarist and singer, who didn’t fancy playing one of the gigs they had lined up. Instantly, the split band just seemed right and instrumentals were the way forward. “We try to write musical parts that are expressive enough to take the place of where lyrics would have been,” explains Adam. “So we have something that would evoke the same kind of emotion or feeling as a lyricist. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t. I guess when you go for stranger sounding things, they take you to the stranger places which a vocalist would usually guide you to.” So does that mean they’ll always be an instrumental band? Not necessarily. “It’s called The Physics House Band because it’s always open,” says Dave. “We could have 15 saxophone players next year or a gospel vocalist,” reckons Sam. “It’s House Band because, like music as a substance, it’s free flowing. Who knows where we will be in 10 years, or even in one year. It could be totally different.” Before they turn into a completely unrecognisable group they have an EP to release, the one that they’ve been working on for nine months. It’s 25 minutes and six tracks long, which seems pretty restrained when you consider the excesses of their influences. But then it’s probably better to think of it as one piece of music. “I suppose that’s where the background of classical music and jazz comes into play,” thinks Sam. “Those long scores, building atmospheres, reprised themes. It’s like taking someone on a journey to the sun.” In the meantime we’ll have to make do with the jerky, ultra heavy space jazz of ‘Titan’ from the ‘Sea Monsters 2’ compilation and seeing them live, this month at Chris Tomsett and Richard Norris’ Psychedelic Festival in Lewes, and in a dream support slot for Mars Volta-offshoot Zechs Marquise. “It’s gonna be a really, really great gig,” says Adam. “It’s just great to play with someone who’s like us and almost competing with them.” “We’ll definitely compete with them,” smiles Dave. “Yeah,” nods Adam. “I was trying to be modest.” With this level of ambition and talent we can’t see that false modesty lasting long.
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CLUB PREVIEWS Words By Zac Colbert, Gavin Hughes, James Kendall, Jessica Osborne Lax, Jessica Marshall McHattie
ENK Presents Butterz Life Fri 5th
Breach
Flux Pavilion
Concorde 2 Tues 9th
Rinse FM stalwarts Elijah & Skilliam have been reppin’ the underground grime scene from day dot and set up their own label Butterz to further push the music they loved. Now it’s even reached the south coast as Butterz’ club night arm hits Life. They’ve got Night Slugs co-founder Bok Bok to play a pure grime set and he’ll be joined by Swindle, with MCs Trim and Riko Dan providing the lyrical flavours. (ZC)
It’s a shame he’s just collaborated with ‘King of the Smug Cunts’, Example, but we’ll forgive and forget because Flux Pavilion has produced some of the most bowel destroying tunes that have hit our bass bins in recent years. 2011’s ‘Bass Cannon’ was deep enough to make your entrails fall out and this year’s ‘I Can’t Stop’ is a gutter funk affair where grungy discordant strings harp over a rib rattling dubstep beat. This is definitely a DJ set to put in your diary. (ZC)
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Azealia Banks
Audio Sat 6th
Ben Westbeech, aka Breach, is a very clever man. You may not expect a classically trained cellist to be behind 2011’s UK funky anthem ‘Fatherless,’ but he was. With his diverse jazz, hip hop and dubstep influences he’s been producing some very unexpected records lately, including Redlight, Rusko and Professor Green. Such a deep and varied musical knowledge means it’s not a shock that his sets are immaculately mixed with a masterful tune selection. It’s free before midnight, too. (JMM)
Skreamizm
Concorde 2 Sat 6th
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Consisting of a three-hour set by Skream and Sgt Pokes, with support from Dismantle, this night of pure, unadulterated dubstep is for those who remember Skream’s sticky late night sets at the Volks from years ago, as well as those who know him from Radio 1. Expect the vintage wobbly hits of early 00s dubstep mingled in with the latest house-flavoured mutations, bound together with bass. As this is the official Shakedown festival after party, the night is guaranteed to be heaving as well as heavy. (JMM)
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Concorde 2 Weds 10th
It’s been a mere 10 months since Azealia Banks released her debut single ‘212’ featuring Lazy Jay, but the 21-year-old rap goddess has been steadily topping cool lists ever since. Sexy without the slut factor, with sharp-tongued lyrics and a love of the obscene, Banks isn’t one to do things the way most popular female singers do. This originality of image means that she might not have many releases, but she has thousands of fans. See if she lives up the hype here. (JMM)
Jehst
Audio Weds 10th
As a mainstay of UK hip hop, Jehst is responsible for some of the most easily recognisable tracks of the genre from the last decade, including ‘Nuke Proof Suit’ and ‘Return Of The Drifter’. He’s collaborated with dozens of other rappers and producers and, if last year’s album is anything to judge by, isn’t slowing down yet. Lead single ‘Starting Over’ is a singa-long anthem that references the old school, but resonates with new fans too. Jehst’s live shows are always an intense, sweaty joy. (JMM)
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Concorde 2 Thurs 11th
If everyone in town is half as excited as JFB then the Concorde better nail down the roof in preparation for the return of Beardyman. The two work in such perfect harmony it’s been upsetting to see success break apart the champion scratch DJ and world class beatboxer. If you’ve never seen them before you’re in for a night of live hip hop production the likes of which you can’t imagine – Beardy and JFB making grooves on the fly from the former’s voice and the latter’s turntable tricks. It’s also a right fucking laugh, unlike most hip hop nights. (JK)
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs Concorde 2 Fri 12th
Submotion Orchestra Concorde 2 Sat 13th
There’s nothing like a delicate dose of Submotion Orchestra in the morning as their smooth, deep, bass-driven grooves float out of your speakers. Debut album ‘Finest Hour’ seems a while ago now and we want more, so what better time to welcome the progressive sound of the seven-piece project into the Concorde’s angelic music hall. Support act Alix Perez has already showed what he can do on their latest ‘It’s Not Me It’s You’ single remix. Should settle a few nerves ahead of this autumn’s album. (GH)
James Zabiela Audio Fri 19th
Following his debut album ‘Trouble’, Orlando Higginbottom is in high demand with his unique, electronic dance set. Known for his carnivalesque style concerts, complete with a rather fetching all-in-one dinosaur outfit, he’s mastered a variety of styles ranging from his new take on smart pop to uplifting house tones. Cannons and confetti aside, TEED’s take on offcentre dance music rivals that of LCD Soundsystem and Simian Mobile Disco. This live outing promises to be a radical electro experience. (JOL)
You know how everyone plays on CDJs now? Well James Zabiela invented that. Before he came out of his bedroom as one of the most fully formed DJs to hit the circuit, people thought that if you didn’t play vinyl then you were a twat. But the way he threw in loops over loops and skipped between queue points made everyone sit up and take notice of this new equipment. He was so good he made prog house interesting, and that’s saying something. Anyway, that was a decade ago and he plays much better music now – much closer to techno but with more interesting beats. (JK)
T.E.E.D After Party
iTAL tEK
Blah Blah Blah (not to be confused with Arrested Development’s Bob Loblaw) were on our front cover for a reason. Well several reasons actually. They put on some of the best parties, regularly update their blog with a wealth of quality dance music coverage and recently launched their label, which has already put out some sublime releases. Tonight they host Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs’ after party, so if you missed him at Concorde 2 head to Audio and see what he can do on the ones and twos. (ZC)
Long-term Brighton resident iTAL tEK releases his new album ‘Nebula Dance’ on experimental record label Planet Mu on the 22nd, and this is the free launch party. Renowned for forging new styles of dubstep with a heavy hip hop influence in his early releases, this album marks a change in taste: faster BPM, lush, deep melodies, and the odd techno sidestep. His sets are always characterised by a lot of energy and pulsing dance floors. Mu founder Mike Paradinas and the innovative Anneka support. (JMM)
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Blind Tiger Fri 19th
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Volks Fri 19th
Coming to the Volks to celebrate the release of his new album ‘Higher Levels’ on Reality Shock Records, Solo Banton is heading up a night of nine hours of heavy ragga, dub, drum’n’bass, jungle and reggae classics. Groove-laden and traditional, Solo Banton’s distinctive laid-back vocals have gained him a huge fanbase in reggae circles. Also playing are a plethora of local and national acts, including Redford, Unity Hi-Fi, X-Nation & Kosine and Mr Sleepz. Plus giving away a copy of the album to every attendee. (JMM)
Playgroup Festival Reunion Concorde 2 Sat 20th
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As soon as we finish this magazine we head off to Playgroup Festival and blow off some steam, so we’ll have to make up what happens and keep our fingers crossed it comes true. Here goes… Wow, what an amazing weekend. Thank god for the Indian summer that put everyone in a great mood. The costumes were better than ever and the Yoda absolutely slayed it. All our mates were there and we partied for 72 hours straight. Can’t believe we didn’t even get a hangover. Thank god the Playgroup boys changed their minds about this being the last festival they’ll even put on. (JK)
AKAAKAROAR
Life Fri 26th
Last year we found out that Blawan’s track ‘Getting Me Down’ was catchier than chlamydia. With a cut up sample of Brandy’s ‘I Wanna Be Down’ set over clattering percussion and a tinny snare, the chilled house tempo made for an instant hit and a tune you just wanted to put your penis in. If you had one. Backing him up on the bill are new R&S signees Teengirl Fantasy, as well as local lads Leon Vynehall and Lorca. (ZC)
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HALLOWEEN Words By Nathaniel Forrester, Stuart Huggett, james Kendall, Jessica Marshall McHattie
We’re not really sure when or how it happened, but at some point in the last few years Halloween finally tipped over from being a trick or treat for the kids and turned into the wackiest student fancy dress night of the year. Cheer up, druids, you lost the pagan fight years ago. Don a Wonder Woman costume instead. Here’s a loose round up of 12 days of slightly scary fun.
EVENT: Beach Of The Dead Concorde 2 Sat 20th
Almost everyone in Brighton has some things in common: a love of Pompoko, a hatred of slow-moving tourists, and a fetish for getting dressed up as a zombie in the middle of the day and parading around, getting in the way of buses. Beach Of The Dead is an annual spectacle which sees the gory best-dressed of Brighton emerge into the light, paving the streets in fake blood. The walk ends at Concorde 2, where the party continues into the night. (JMM)
Gig: Zombie Zombie Green Door Store Thurs 25th
Perfectly timed to keep your Halloween cauldron simmering ‘til the weekend, helpfully named French electronic duo Zombie Zombie return to town for some sinister soundtrack magic. Hell, they’ve even covered the Halloween theme itself, on their mighty 2009 tribute ‘Zombie Zombie Plays John Carpenter’. Go on, head down dressed as Michael Myers (or an undead Dolores O’Riordan). You know you want to. (SH)
Club: it is still 1985 Haunt Sat 27th
Back in 1985 you might have a couple of people dressed up but we’re expecting The Haunt to be rammed with sexy cats and sexy witches tonight. Henron’s night is a lot of fun at the worst of times, but on Halloween Saturday it’s going to be an absolute blast. It’s what this annual party is all about, leaving all your ‘cool’ at home and being silly for the night – and what better soundtrack than a load of 80s tunes that weren’t even hip in the 80s. (JK)
Club: Psy Sundays Psy Zombies Volks Sun 28th
So, now you’re all grown up and don’t get scared of monsters under the bed, you don’t think Halloween can scare you any more, yeah? Think again, cos The Volks is going all out with a 12-hour psychedelic zombie fancy dress party this weekend. 12 hours of hammering psy-
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trance and progressive sounds can scramble sensitive minds at the best of times, but can you imagine what people’s ghoulish face paint and costumes are going to look like at the end of it? Oh mummy. (SH)
Gig: The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster sOurcE TickETs
Concorde 2 Tues 30th
Celebrating the re-release of their 2003 bowel-churner of a single ‘Chicken’, following its surprise selection for a global football advert earlier this year, Brighton’s very own greasy haired stick-it-to-the-man heroes, the selfstyled ‘psychosis rock band’ Eighties Matchbox, are back for a special hometown All Hallows’ Eve show after a couple of year’s absence. For what it’s worth, their music would be better suited to soundtracking a highspeed car chase or explosive action film than a corporate advert, but there we are. (NJF)
Gig: Dark Horses Green Door Store Weds 31st
A black soup of classic rock’n’roll influences, Brighton’s Dark Horses have been gradually honing their sleazy, gas-guzzling sound for the past 18 months, with the aid of a smart choice of producer – Death In Vegas’ Richard Fearless. Cunningly titling their second single ‘Radio’ helped them break the Radio 1 playlist barrier, as did bringing guest Robert Levon Been from likeminded leather aficionados Black Rebel Motorcycle Club on board. Fond of mystery, myth and make up, Dark Horses are the perfect Halloween band. (SH)
Club: Hallogalloween West Hill Weds 31st
Low key, high concept Halloween hi-jinks are happening at the West Hill pub tonight, as DJ Emily Kawasaki (Another Sunny Day) programmes a night of Krautrock and horror soundtracks. Unpicking the concept, it might help to know that ‘Hallogallo’ is the sublime opening track on Neu!’s classic ’72 debut, and itself a pun on ‘halligalli’, a German slang term for ‘wild partying’. On the other hand, who needs an art rock primer tonight? You’ll be freaking out regardless. (SH)
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UNION
Words And Photos By James Kendall
There’s something really nice about the way that Coalition fills up each night from the dancefloor, so it’s good to see some serious electronic dance music – no, we won’t call it EDM – on Saturday nights. Union covers all bass-driven bases from electro-heavy house to techtonic trap and techno, pitched to get the crowd bouncing off the walls without resorting to the obvious moves. “If there’s anything we’re trying to say it’s that clever leftfield dance music can also be massive and rock the peak time dancefloor,” they reckon.
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It’s certainly working tonight, as American superstar DJ Wolfgang Gartner whips the crowd into a festival-like frenzy. The Grammy-nominated producer has clocked up eight Beatport No.1s, including the massive electro-classical stomper ‘Wolfgang’s 5th Symphony’, and clearly has the weapons to destroy Coalition. As he throws his arms around with excitement, the crowd does the same. We swear one lad down the front is actually having kittens.
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Earl Zinger ‘Story Of The Heaviest Bassline Ever (Union Remix)’ Mark Henning ‘Trojan’ Trevino ‘Derelict’ Union ‘That Thing’ French Fries ‘Yo Vogue’ Redlight ‘Basscone’ Goldie ‘Kemistry (Justin Martin Remake)’ Scuba ‘Ne1butu’ George Morel ‘Let’s Groove (Union Remix)’ Shadow Child ‘String Thing’ Squarepusher ‘My Red Hot Car’
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SOUNDCLASH
Words By Zac Colbert Photos By Mike Tudor
We don’t typically associate reggae as a ‘going out’ sort of music genre, we associate it more with being too stoned to get off the sofa for another round of tea and Hobnobs. But with two mighty sound systems, Trojan and Channel One, going up against each other we couldn’t resist. Tonight is not a ‘clash’, because that’s negative and they’re all about positivity. The two teams showcase their spectacular record collections and Channel One play the more interesting selection, including gems like Ken
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Boothe’s twinkling ‘Everything I Own’ and the gracious rhythms of Marcia Aitken’s ‘I’m Still In Love’. There’s a lot of languid skanking, lazy swaying and head-bobbing beards but the crowd isn’t as stereotypical as you might think: there’s a range of clubbers tonight and the air isn’t permeated with patchouli oil and earnestness. Whether you’re a crustie on crutches or a social media yuppie who probably thinks they’re slumming it, everyone’s having a good time, unified by the warm music and inviting vibrations.
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Morgan Heritage ‘Hail Up The Lion (Uncomfortable)’ Don Carlos & Million Stylez ‘World Crisis’ Alborosie ‘Rastafari Anthem’ Cocoa Tea ‘Sound Boy Go Home’ Barrington Levy ‘Two Sounds’ Dennis Brown ‘Your Love Got A Hold On Me’ Michael Rose ‘Jah Love Hot’ Mark Wonder ‘People Need Security’ King General ‘Got To Be Conscious’ Irie Maffia ‘Journey’
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Digital
five years in the rave cave Words By James Kendall Photo by Freshtodeath.com
Having turned legendary discotheque The Zap back into a second home for serious clubbers as Digital, Dave Stone celebrates the award-winning club’s fifth birthday this month. If you’re quick, their birthday party is on Saturday 29th September with club fave Annie Mac on the decks.
angles on stuff. If we have a student night, we try to ensure that the night is full of great music, no ‘The Final Countdown’. People go and enjoy it and often learn things about music that they didn’t know before, and then maybe migrate towards the more talent-based nights on the weekends.
Why did you want to buy the Zap? Because it was wilting. It was one of the first places in the UK I went raving and discovered dance music. But it was a shadow of its former self and I felt that it had massive importance, not just to Brighton, but to the dance music scene in general. I wanted to try and do what I could to bring it back to being a venue of significance again, you know. Didn’t it cost a lot of money? Yeah, it’s a work of passion, it takes a lot of investment and risk.
So what have been the high points of the last five years? Getting requests from some major artists to play in such a small place is really cool. Like Norman Cook doing the Big Beach after-party and Deadmau5 playing for us. There are too many to mention really. When you’re in there and the place is buzzing and alive then you get that feeling that it’s all worth it. There’s no feeling like it in terms of being in there on a night where it’s absolutely jumping and everyone’s having such a great time. Collective energy like that is hard to re-create in anything.
What is it that makes the venue special? It’s a rave cave. If you think of the energy that place has given off to lovers of music, I think there’s something very special about being in there. The arches are very old, so they’re hard to maintain but there’s an atmosphere that you get in Digital that’s hard to find – or hear or smell or taste – anywhere else. What do you think you’ve given to the place? What Digital has tried to do is refocus the place on music. It’s very difficult in these times where music’s no longer necessarily the reason people are going out. Music has become wallpaper rather than the focus, and that’s changed in even the last half a decade since Digital opened. So in many ways, we’re trying to represent against a tide. Our belief is that the tide will turn and people will again start to understand and respect music. But you’re doing well despite the difficulties, right? Well it’s a tough marketplace but I think if you are passionate about what you do, that transfers onto the public. I think our investment in the sound system, décor, lights and quality talent is a lamp that attracts. We try not to go for cheesy
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So how to you think the American embracing of so-called EDM is going to affect British music culture? I think it already has. It will basically affect it quite negatively because it doesn’t get what dance music is. It’s like they don’t know what it is, they just use the name a lot. Respect should still be paid to those who dance music started with. Up to a few years ago, some of the big names that were coming through were contributing to the British dance music scene. People like Guetta, who played at Digital, are playing stadiums and just plug in the hard-drive and set the confetti canons off. I think that there was a special time when dance music still was dance music and not re-named. I can see why that was special. Where do you see things in five years time for Digital? I wish I was Mystic Meg but I’m not. You just have to stay abreast. There have been some interesting and great developments in dance music, like what Julio Bashmore is doing in Bristol. So you know, where there’s life there’s hope. If you would’ve asked me the same question five years ago, when we opened, I wouldn’t have seen where we are now.
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“A LOT OF HEADS WERE BASHED IN THAT NIGHT, A LOT OF PEOPLE WERE HURT. BUT THEY ALL CAME BACK FOR MORE... AND MORE. THAT’S WHEN YOU COULD TELL THAT NOTHING COULD STOP US AT THAT TIME, OR ANYTIME IN THE FUTURE”
SMACKBRIGHTON 09.15.12
CULTURE
Words By Stuart Huggett, Gavin Hughes, Jessica Marshall McHattie, Ben Miller
Art: Open ‘12 Phoenix from Sat 6th
This accompaniment to the Brighton Photo Fringe features the culmination of an open online call for works, the results of a participatory snappers’ project first shown in Barbados earlier this year and photos linked to the superlative rolling hills of Sussex. Precise details seem a bit vague at the time of scribbling, but there are also sections linked to Black History Month and a display by one lucky photographer specially chosen by a judging panel. (BM)
Theatre: Biloxi Blues New Venture Theatre Sat 6th - Sat 13th
Biloxi Blues started out on the floorboards of Los Angeles in 1984, although it’s better known for the 1988 film version in which Matthew Broderick played a fresh-faced scamp packed off to the US army during the final year of World War II. Basic training proves coming-of-age for the would-be squaddie, who takes orders from a loopy drill Sergeant (played by Christopher Walken in the film), pops his cherry and gets a glimpse of all humanity through his fellow soldiers. (BM)
Literature: Jon Ronson Dome Sun 7th
In his last book, The Psychopath Test, writer Jon Ronson left most readers squinting unsurely across tables at those they had once assumed stable enough to go for a pint with. His new work, Lost At Sea, continues the theme of re-examining the psyche, contemplating madness on a journey in which he finds the archives of Stanley Kubrick, mass-mercy killing assistant George Excoo (a man whose name is prefixed Reverend Death), and a Nevadan UFO convention alongside Robbie Williams. (BM)
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Comedy: Norman Lovett: Old & New Komedia Sun 7th
By the time he was cast as the face of Holly, the ship’s computer in Red Dwarf, Norman Lovett had already amassed a cult following on the British stand-up circuit, as well as small screen acting cameos in shows such as The Young Ones. Barring his own sitcom I, Lovett and the little seen, pre-Spaced series Asylum, Lovett’s been a fairly low key television presence since then. Tonight is a rare masterclass in his lugubrious, deadpan humour. (SH)
Film: Bond On The Big Screen Duke of York’s Sun 7th
Some (see: those fancying a never-ending argument ending in halfhearted fisticuffs) might say watching some of the Bond films makes every second feel like a 50-year ordeal. They’ve been a labour of love for the special guests appearing here though, including William P Cartlidge (production/direction bigwig for The Spy Who Loved Me, Moonraker and You Only Live Twice) and Paul Inglis (Art Director of Skyfall and Quantum Of Solace). Hopefully veteran stuntman Vic Armstrong will perform a trick from the balcony. (BM)
Event: Fashionably Late Brighton Museum Thurs 11th
Brighton Museum kick-starts a series of late night events with Fashionably Late, a celebration of its major fashion and design retrospective, Biba And Beyond: Barbara Hulanicki. Part exhibition, part fun and games, Biba’s swinging story is illustrated through heaps of extraordinary footage, illustrations and photography, with additional entertainment on offer such as a vintage makeover station, bespoke nail art bar, perspex jewellery masterclass and DJ set courtesy of Dynamite Sal. (GH)
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Literature: Caitlin Moran The Old Market Weds 17th
Since Moran published her autobiography How To Be A Woman last year, we’ve all known she’s one of the sharpest writers of our time. Unsentimental, graphically funny and unapologetic, Moran’s now releasing another book, Moranthology, a collection of her Times columns, where she’ll be moving away from womanhood (periods, body hair and wanking) towards topics including Obama, transsexuals, and Twitter. This event is put on by Brighton and Hove’s best independent bookshop, City Books, and their events are always relaxed, unstuffy and well curated. (JMM)
Comedy: Brighton Comedy Fringe Three And Ten Thurs 18th Oct – Sat 10th Nov
If Brighton Comedy Festival hasn’t sated your thirst for mirth already, the Three And Ten are hosting their annual Comedy Fringe straight after. As Angela Barnes (Sun 28th) says in our interview this month, it’s a chance for comics and sketch troupes to preview and fine tune the shows that they’ll be bringing to the festival circuit next year. Flange Krammer (Fri 19th), Trevor Lock (Sat 20th) and the Clever Peter trio (Sat 27th) are among the highlights this month. (SH)
Comedy: Joan Rivers: The Now Or Never Tour Brighton Centre Sat 20th
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Now in her sixth decade on the stage, iconic entertainer Joan Rivers is as busy and as wild as ever, recently staging an impromptu, unofficial book signing in a Californian Costco store during which she handcuffed herself to a customer’s trolley in protest at the chain’s refusal to stock her latest, typically controversial memoir. However waspish Rivers’ gags can be, it’s almost always herself that’s the butt of her humour. She’s selfmade, single-minded and savagely funny. (SH)
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Performance: Black T-Shirt Collection Dome Studio Weds 24th
Short of melting your hand in a toastie maker, few experiences rival shit poetry nights when it comes to suffering in silence. Inua Ellams made it his mission to mute audiences for the right reasons when he started out, and the word acrobat has done more than talk the talk with a mix of art, lyrics, spoken word and theatre, including affecting tales of his native Nigeria. This is the first national tour for a new piece by the fringe award-winner. (BM)
Art: The Lost Pagodas Royal Pavilion from Sat 27th
Music, light, water and delicate lace patterning aren’t temptations usually on offer within yards of the Old Steine, but those are precisely the elements Geraldine Pilgrim – an artist known for site-specific works responding to the architecture and history of building – will dazzle your agog face with here. Pilgrim has replaced the four gilded pagodas lost from the original six at the Pavilion, commissioned more than 200 years ago in a typical flight of opulent, guest-impressing bad-assery by the rather showy George IV. (BM)
Art: Shoot the Wrx
Brighton Museum & Art Gallery from Sat 27th
Jeff Keen, the much-loved local film-maker who died earlier this year, is a man whose anarchic free spirit lives on, not least in the incredible collection he left behind. This retrospective looks at his avant-garde post-war capers in Brighton, where he spent years portraying people at play, adding strong whiffs of surrealism and pop culture. Paintings, drawings, assemblages and poetry also feature, and a 16mm film animation workshop on Tues 30th examines some of the skills of this local hero. (BM)
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We nearly didn’t get this third album from Natasha Khan but if she’d actually quit music (due to writer’s block) we’d have really missed out. Whilst not as instantly arresting as its predecessors, ‘The Haunted Man’ is a more grown up, take-me-as-you-find-me offering. Gone are the quirky hooks that made ‘Fur & Gold’ so instant and in their place is a raw, emotional openness. The electronic beats of ‘Rest Your Head’ don’t jar with the gentle, melancholic, soul-searching tone, while even at its poppiest – stand out track ‘Laura’, a melodramatic piano ballad in the vein of ‘Sad Eyes’ – things stay bravely fragile. (JK)
Memotone’s new to Brighton, but has been one of electronic music’s most original artists for a while. Eschewing typical pre-recorded samples and synths, Memotone creates his atmospheric, dark songs by layering the sounds he creates using a harp, harmonica, violin, piano and very imaginative use of a field recorder in the countryside. ‘I Sleep. At Waking’ is a lesson in capable experimentation: the haunting, wan depth of ‘Rooftops’ contrasts with the breakcore-influenced ‘Djakka,’ and the album as a whole is a voyage you’ll definitely want to keep repeating. (JMM)
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This is the first instalment of Bunty’s seven-part multimedia release ‘Multimos’, in which she meets the many-headed King Zacky and the listener is a Third Party Force. Madder than seven boxes of frogs, but it sounds great. Colourful Bunty is part of the Beatabet Collective and has more creativity than could be contained in one genre. She works fantasy stories sung in her old-fashioned vocals with samples recorded on the streets, synth beats, giggling, harmonies and progressive percussion to make something equally weird and wonderful. (JMM)
Single: Ambassadeurs ‘My World’ (ambassadeurs.bandcamp.com)
Local producer Mark Dobson, or Ambassadeurs, had one of Brighton’s smash hits last year with ‘M.O.P.E.’, a progressive beat-laden track which is deliciously rhythmic. This 12’’ release sees ‘M.O.P.E.’ and the gasping, computer-music-driven ‘Duke Red’ on one side, and two entirely new tracks on the other. Ambassadeurs’ unique style takes from glitch, techno and drone, but somehow remains light, smooth and accessible. Leading the pack of talented Brighton producers, Ambassadeurs is representing us very well indeed. (JMM)
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Demo: Al Chamberlain ‘Train Song’ (soundcloud.com/alchamberlain)
“Out of the blue, a girl said to me, ‘Sadness is the track and happiness is the station, that’s why life doesn’t live up to most people’s expectations.’” Wise words from Al Chamberlain’s ‘Train Song’, a heartstring-jerking journey through a rolling acoustic landscape, telling the tale of a drunk girl in a bar who has begun to talk in worrying metaphors. For anyone who likes their music as raw and brutal as a First Capitol Connect, this is for you. (NJF)
Album: Hidden Orchestra ‘Archipelago’ (Tru Thoughts)
‘Archipelago’ is the sumptuous second album from Tru Thoughts’ Hidden Orchestra and with it they’ve achieved something few similar bands do, a record that not only reflects how incandescent their sound is live but also provides the listener with a new experience. The album is richly diverse, from the unassuming piano intro of ‘Vorka’, which shifts into shuffling high hats and hushed beats, to the distant and eerie distress signal of ‘Reminder’, that blips out of range only to return with a jazz-meets-didgeridoo groove. (ZC)
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Dreampop quartet Fear Of Men hop labels again for another one off 7”, this time on super blue vinyl. If you’ve been tracking their releases so far, you’ll know the drill here: liquid Cocteau Twins guitar, soft, melodic bass and sighing, drifting vocals. A disembodied, found-sound rant cuts through the mix, but otherwise it’s delightfully effortless business as usual. Which is fine by us. If you’ve not been keeping up, a compilation, ‘Early Fragments’, comes out in the new year. (SH)
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Let This Be A Sign Simon Roberts Venue TBC Sat 6th Oct-Sun 18th Nov Words By James Kendall
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Simon Roberts is Brighton & Hove’s superstar photographer. Hitting upon the idea of sticking a large format camera on top of a mobile home, for We English he drove around our green and pleasant land to capture a) the essence of contemporary England, and b) wide acclaim. He repeated the trick when he was invited to be the official artist of the last election, but for us his most arresting work was the frozen Russian landscapes in Motherland. But where he really grabs the plaudits is when he tackles social issues. For the Photo Fringe he’s showing a very different collection, Let This Be A Sign, which looks at the current recession and its social and political effects. More than an exhibition, this installation drags in protest banners, text based work and video to go with the photos. The pictures take in the Occupy movement, sale signs in shops and photos from inside city halls making budget cuts. It promises to be his most ambitious and effecting collection yet. It will be joined by Occupy: The Diary Of A Protest by Richard Rowland, under the banner A Crisis Is A Terrible Thing To Waste.
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BRIGHTON PHOTO BIENNIAL Words By James Kendall, Jessica Marshall McHattie
Two years ago the Brighton Photo Biennial scored something of a coup by persuading Martin Parr, one of the country’s best-known photographers and most enthusiastic photo fans, to curate a huge series of exhibitions. Although it was a mixed bag (Oh, Soth!) its high points meant it was going to be a tough act to follow. Rather than going for another star curator, the Photoworks/Biennial team have gone for a different angle – a really strong theme around the political use of urban space. From Sat 6th Oct to Sun 4th Nov there’s some serious stuff going on, so let’s decode some of the brochure.
Another Space: Political Squatting in Brighton Throughout the city
From the early 90s, there’s been a vibrant and active squatting culture in Brighton, as the city accepted the unusual. With the new antisquatting law passing through parliament recently, people who’ve peacefully occupied empty houses for years have become criminals. This collection of photographs and videos from ‘94 to ‘12 captures the secret lives of squatters around the city; their lifestyles archived behind the lens. (JMM)
Freedom Is A Career Space At Create
Our cover star The Physics House Band will be down for this one as it features the activism photos of John ‘Hoppy’ Hopkins, the man behind the UFO Club. When he wasn’t putting on Pink Floyd-based psychedelic happenings he was a journalist, photographer and activist. Taken from his personal scrapbook, these evocative, emotional black’n’white pictures really show the political side of the decade he’s said to have ‘invented’. (JK)
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Jason Larkin and Corinne Silva are both very interested in urbanisation, so it makes sense that they would both end up contributing to this Biennial. With Badlands, Silva explores the connections between tourists and African migrant workers in southern Spain by examining the plastic textures of their dwellings. Meanwhile, in Cairo Divided, Larkin looks at the new gated communities in the turbulent city with The Guardian’s former Egypt correspondent Jack Shenker. Both photographers take a step back with very crisp, clean, detailed images that tackle their subjects calmly. (JK)
Urban Exploration Room
Ask any teenagers; trespassing is a huge amount of fun. Imagine the excitement of bunking into a scrapyard and multiply it by climbing to the top of the Shard. That’s what Bradley Garrett and his mates get up to and, like the old free party crews, they live by the creed of ‘Leave no trace’. Nothing broken, nothing stolen – but what he does take are photographs that really get the thrill of infiltrating these off-limits spaces. This exhibition gets more of that feeling by being housed in an old shipping container near the bandstand. Bradley gives a talk at the Caroline Of Brunswick on Wednesday 24th – just don’t expect him to come in through the front door. (JK)
Whose Streets? Throughout the city
There’s an idea that the Holy Grail of photography is an exhibition, but books are also a very powerful way of exploring a subject or looking over a body of work. And now, thanks to self-publishing, getting your photos onto paper has never been easier, as shown by the 250 photographers at this exhibition of the Brighton-based book lovers’ archives. Organisers have also curated 50 books to fit with the theme of the Biennial, Agents Of Change: Photography & The Politics Of Space. Previous exhibitions have been varied and fascinating. (JK)
Focusing on Brighton and Hove’s status as a highly political city, this collection of photographs from the 1970s to the present day is from The Argus newspaper’s photojournalism archives, and documents a rich history of protests, demonstrations, marches and strikes. From the lightly fought and slightly absurd, such as sit-ins at the universities and an anti-nudist beach march, to the serious and tense National Front clashes, this exhibition charts the events that have made Brighton such a dynamic and dedicated place to live. (JMM)
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Words By James Kendall, Jessica Marshall McHattie
What’s the difference between the Biennial and the Photo Fringe? Well much the same as between the Brighton Festival and the Festival Fringe – one is curated with an overall set of ideas while the other is open to all comers. While that leads to weirder stuff in the Festival Fringe, the Photo Fringe is typically easier for those not au fait with art photography to get their heads around. Across a huge range of exhibitions in cafes, pubs and galleries the standards are surprisingly high, so here’s just a few that caught our eye.
The A-Z Of London Road
Old Co-op Windows Sat 6th Oct-Sun 18th Nov
With an un-Googleable name and just the scraps of a blog, we don’t know much about George Coles. But if he’s responsible for the 1990s Eastern Bloc photos on thewaywardstraggler.blogspot.co.uk (and we’re sure he is), then this Leica-shot black’n’white portrait of Brighton’s neglected street will be exceptional – emotive and intense. It’s in the windows of the old Co-op, itself a sadly neglected icon. (JK)
Best Before
Hope Sat 6th Oct- Sun 18th Nov
Our editor, James Kendall, got pretty excited when he found a treasure trove of old food in his grandmother-in-law’s larder but was surprised when his photography project went viral and The Guardian interviewed him and ran the photos. The pictures work on a few levels. Not only is the old packaging interesting but the back story of an old lady heading into a home (who lived through World War II and didn’t believe in throwing anything out) lends an emotional edge to what are presented as slick product shots. (JMM)
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Aubin & Wills Fri 12th/Throughout the city
Brighton photographer Harry Watts is someone who sees the world differently and his second FINDS exhibition exemplifies this. Taking a slow look at sights that most people pass by, his close-up shots detail the ignored and accidentally beautiful, taking in weeds, abandoned furniture and discarded, unloved belongings. The opening nights at Aubin & Wills, but the artwork will be spread across the city in newspaper form during the course of the Brighton Photo Fringe. (JMM)
Phoot Campers
Old Market Fri 5th Oct-Sat 17th Nov
Every year Kevin ‘LomoKev’ Meredith and a bunch of international hand picked photographers decamp to America and help each other with projects. Just a quick glance at the self-portraits of the people picked by JPG Magazine’s Laura Brunow Miner to be part of 2012’s Phoot Camp shows how full of ideas these snappers are. Graphic photography with the emphasis on fun – they’ll be a webcam-based talk at the Old Market on 9th to fill you in on the fun they had. (JK)
Unphotographable
Phoenix Gallery Sat 6th Oct – Sun 18th Nov
Everyone has a photo that they didn’t take but wishes they did. Maybe you were shy, maybe the situation wasn’t right, or maybe you didn’t have a camera with you. Michael David Murphy and The Entente want you to come and describe your missed opportunities, to exhibit them in words. “This is a picture I did not take of a dead man in Phoenix” offers one ‘image’. A photo exhibition without photos. (JK)
We Are Lucky/Photocopy Club Phoenix Gallery Sat 6th Oct- Sun 18th Nov
Yes, we know we bang on about Matt Martin but he really is on his way to becoming one of the freshest curators around. If you needed proof of this then here it is, in the form of the Fringe giving him a venue throughout the six week period. Across that time will be four exhibitions – not least of which is his Photocopy Club of black’n’white, office paper-printed submissions. The self-explanatory The Self Portrait Project is accepting entries until 15th. (JK)
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ANGELA BARNES Words By Stuart Huggett
Angela Barnes moved from London to Brighton in 2008, promoting The Funny Farm comedy nights at the Farm Tavern and Caroline Of Brunswick. She currently hosts the Three And Ten’s new act night Rabbit In The Headlights. After turning to stand up herself, she won the BBC New Comedy Award 2011. For this month’s Brighton Comedy Festival she presents Angela Barnes & Friends at The Old Market. How did you get into performing? I did the Jill Edwards comedy course in 2009. I don’t think courses can teach you to be funny, I don’t think they can make a comic out of everybody, but they are a launch pad. Jill gives you all that practical advice and support: how to start, where to go to get your first gigs, and silly things like how to use a microphone. Brighton’s such a great place to start doing stand up. Had I still been living in London I don’t think I’d have started doing it. Brighton is so supportive, it’s not a competitive thing, everyone’s really pleased when you’re doing well. How has winning the BBC New Comedy Award benefitted you? Oh god, it was absolutely great. It sounds really corny to say it, but it was completely life changing. I got a really good agent; I got a bit of TV, a bit of radio. It went from being my hobby to, “Oh, I think I could make this my job,” which is still absolutely ridiculous to me. I still can’t say to people when they ask what I do. I can’t say that I’m a comedian, I feel like a fraud. I tend to say writer cos it’s sounds slightly less weird. What are you doing at Brighton Comedy Festival? For my own show I’ve got very exciting guests, hopefully: proper friends, people I know, whose phone numbers I have. They won’t be a disappointment. I’m
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also compering Warning: May Contain Nuts for World Mental Health Day [Dome Studio, Weds 10th]. It’s a group of people that have mental health issues and through the year they’ve been doing writing workshops. John Hegley the poet’s quite involved in working with them. It’s mainly poetry, spoken word stuff but with a comic bent. It’s a big deal for these guys, some of whom would never have performed to that many people before. It’s such an empowering thing. There’s still this stigma with mental health, so anything that helps to break that down and showcase these people with their own ideas and creativity, and something to say that’s equally as important as anyone else, is great. My background is in mental health and social work so it’s something I feel really passionately about. I’m really, really honoured that they asked me to be involved in that, I’m really excited about it. What else is coming up? I’m working on potential series with the BBC Radio comedy department at the moment. I’m what they call ‘in development’ with them, working on ideas and things. Hopefully, eventually, god knows when, I might have a series on BBC Radio somewhere, but that’s all very much a long term thing. Part of the prize was for them to give me that support in-house. I’m just gigging all over the place at the moment. Obviously we’ve just come off the back of the Edinburgh Fringe.
Will you be heading back to Edinburgh again? I’m hoping to do my first solo show there next year and I’ll be previewing that at the Three And Ten at the end of October. I’m sure there’s something else that I’m doing… no, no, that is it. Oh dear, I’m still coming down from Edinburgh, and now it’s the Web: angelabarnescomedy.co.uk Brighton Comedy Festival. It’s Where: Angela Barnes & Friends, Old Market probably just as well, not losing When: Thurs 18th any momentum or having too much time to think about it.
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You’re never more than a stone’s throw away from a comedy gig in Brighton, or even, if you aim right, a comedian. The laughter gets even louder this month as the annual Brighton Comedy Festival rolls into town, bringing many of the biggest names in British stand up to the city. This year’s festival is sponsored by TV comedy specialists Dave, so why not tear yourself away from its limitless Mock The Week repeats and catch those familiar small screen faces in the flesh.
Jon Richardson: The Greatest Hits So Far Tour Dome Sun 7th
There is something immediately likeable about Jon Richardson and his dry northern delivery. Perhaps it’s because he comes across more like a witty audience member who has somehow stumbled onto stage than a brash celebrity, such is the seeming casualness of his observational comedy. But don’t be deceived, there is a seething misanthropy and self-mockery underlying his humour. “You go to university to find out who you are,” reckons Richardson. “I went to university and found out I’m a prick.” (NJF)
Tim Key: Masterslut Corn Exchange Sun 7th
Whether poetry or prose, Tim Key is a master of awkward timing and off-kilter punchlines. Poetry has hardly been at the forefront of the comic’s repertoire, but Key has reinvented the genre, moving it away from the limerick to a whole new place.
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festival of the spoken nerd
Having appeared in Newswipe, Mid-Morning Matters and Cowards, he is a man very much on top of his game. Recommendations for this fraudulent Footlighter don’t come highly enough. (CH)
Ross Noble: Mindblender Dome Weds 10th
Ross Noble’s now legendary stand-up routine is a relentless spectacle, reducing the audience to fits of painful laughter as he leaps around stage reeling off largely improvised stream-ofconsciousness shite from the depths of his surreal imagination. Using as preparation for his tour “about four words on a piece of scrap paper”, Noble, who started his stand-up career at the tender age of 15, babbles at a blistering pace through the most ludicrously outlandish ideas that spring to his warped mind. (NJF)
Festival Of The Spoken Nerd Dome Studio Fri 12th
Billed as for the ‘sci-curious,’ Festival Of The Spoken Nerd is a celebration of geekiness. Led by Helen Arney, Matt Parker and Steve Mould, the show traverses through live experiments, question and answer sessions, guest comedians and scientists, audience participation, nerdy songs and scientific sketches. Whether you’re new to Newton, dedicated to Darwin or haven’t thought about science since scraping a GCSE, Festival Of The Spoken Nerd is accessible, intelligent and entertaining. Treat your geek. (JMM)
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Late Night Gimp Fight Old Market Fri 12th
Gloriously subversive and challenging, Late Night Gimp Fight features five comedians in verbal, physical and visual comedic combat. Revelling in bad taste and the occasional bit of slapstick, this is a show that doesn’t take itself too seriously (which is fortunate, given the costumes). Each performer has a distinct personality and they complement each other well, especially during the songs, which are topical, witty, and silly. It’s a bit juvenile, but that doesn’t matter. (JMM)
David O’Doherty: Seize The David O’Doherty Corn Exchange Sat 13th
He’s not Chris O’Dowd or even Daniel O’Donnell, but David O’Doherty is sure to be one of the highlights of the festival. With his tiny keyboard, complete with spare batteries, O’Doherty will no doubt be bringing the party to Brighton with his unique mix of music and comedy. Quite often those things fail to mix well and have become a crutch for some less-thanable comics, but this Edinburgh Comedy Award winner blends the two in fresh and interesting ways. (CH)
Ava Vidal: Goes Dutch Dome Studio Sat 13th
Vidal’s prolific: featuring on Mock The Week, Michael McIntyre’s Roadshow, Comedy Central, numerous radio shows and most recently, a sell-out series in the West End, she’s one of those comedians who remain fresh. In Ava Vidal Goes Dutch she explores sharing, community and social responsibility. Always popular themes of contention, Vidal’s light-hearted, intelligent and controversial treatment ensures maximum laughter, with lines that will stay with you for days. (JMM)
Robin Ince: Happiness Through Science Dome Studio Sun 14th
Athiest, humanist, rationalist – Richard Dawkins with better jokes, basically – Robin Ince is now firmly established in the affections of the nation’s brightest comedy fans. No longer just the physical butt of mock bullying on Ricky Gervais DVDs, Ince
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has marked out his informed territory through his long running Bad Book Club events and his collaboration with starman Brian Cox on Radio 4’s The Infinite Monkey Cage. Bad science and irrationality are the fuel to Ince’s fire. (SH)
Sara Pascoe: The Musical! Dome Studio Weds 17th
Most recently seen in the BBC’s affectionately mocking Olympics comedy Twenty Twelve, Sara Pascoe’s giddy star is very much in the ascendant. Her stand up persona is that of an ecstasy damaged, perpetually distracted mate from your clubbing days, which is either a sustained masterpiece of acting, or she really is that chaotic. We really hope this does turn out to be a full, whistles and bells musical, but she’ll be brilliant regardless. (SH)
Andrew Lawrence: Is Coming to Get You Corn Exchange Thurs 18th
We first saw Andrew Lawrence a few years ago at Komedia and since that appearance he has gone from strength to strength. At first we didn’t know what to make of him, his excitable nervous performance and his helium-tinged voice made him stand out somewhat from the rest of the performers. But he has managed to use his odd characteristics to provide a heavily sardonic act full of misguided rage, all delivered at a lightning pace. (CH)
Josie Long: Romance & Adventure Dome Studio Sat 20th
Where some comedians appear angry and bitter, fiercely ambitious or plain damaged, Josie Long’s appeal is that she’s clearly one of us. Fanzine writer, UK Uncut activist and someone who knows way too much about indie bands, she just happens to get up on stage and be endearingly funny too. By appealing to fellow lovers of crafts, comics and literature, she’s drawn hordes of bookish introverts out of their bedrooms and into comedy gigs, making her a quietly influential cult star. (SH)
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Words By Stuart Huggett, Jessica Marshall McHattie
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Around October every year, Oxjam gigs take place across the country, raising money to help Oxfam tackle poverty around the world. Since Oxjam’s nationwide launch in 2006, dozens of Brighton musicians have got involved, from big names like Fatboy Slim and The Kooks (who played secret gigs in Oxfam shops) to the city’s newest unsigned acts. It’s all down to you: anyone can arrange an Oxjam gig and register it at oxfam.co.uk/Oxjam As Fatboy Slim says, “All you need to make an Oxjam event happen is a set of decks, a few choice tunes and a place to play them, so there’s really no excuse not to get involved.” This year’s list of Oxjam gigs is still growing, with themed shows covering jungle and dub, rock and indie, hip hop and grime, electronica and more taking place across the city throughout the month. Here’s what was confirmed at time of going to press.
The Jar Family, Mok, Tiny Dragons
Hope Weds 3rd
Folk big band The Jar Family got together in Hartlepool, but have members scattered the length and breadth of the country. They’re joined on their Oxjam visit by hip hop/funk group Mok and soulful dance trio Tiny Dragons. It’s donations on the door for this one (£3 suggested). (SH)
OXJAM WAS ‘ERE
Hope Fri 5th
The Hope Live presents an evening of alternative sounds for Oxjam, including Oxford post-rock outfit Deer Chicago, grunge longhairs Demob Happy, wholesome songwriters Prisoner’s Cinema and Angels & Soldiers, who we have to admit are a mystery to us. Still, £4 advance equals a quid a band, bargain. (SH)
Jungle Alliance
Riki Tik Thurs 11th
Oxjam gets heavy with a night of jungle, drum’n’bass, reggae and dub sounds from Dialect and Kosine’s Jungle Alliance crew. No firm word yet on who they’re bringing along, but with the
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founders’ ties to the Adrian Sherwood’s mighty On-U Sound and Rebel MC’s Congo Natty empires, quality should be assured. (SH)
Rebel Life, Lady Leshurr, Mr Basista Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Weds 17th
Oxjam Brighton adds another string to its bow with an evening of hip hop and grime. Birmingham rapper Lady Leshurr has appeared on tracks by Tinie Tempah, Wiley, Lethal B and Dot Rotton, as well as the title track of this year’s Orbital comeback ‘Wonky’. Defcon Crew producer/ MC Mr Basista and ‘Basslines & Cars’ creators Rebel Life add to a fabulous bill. (SH)
Oxjam Brighton Takeover
Various venues Sun 21st
The main event. The Takeover is a series of simultaneous shows in the city centre, at venues including The Hope, Riki Tik, The White Rabbit, The Mash Tun and the Unitarian Church. In the Camden Crawl/Great Escape style, one £8 wristband gains access to all the day’s shows (go online and get yours at wegottickets.com/oxjambrightontakeover). Each show is curated by a different Brighton promoter (Juice FM, Under The Bridge studios, Hush Hush acoustic night, etc), check facebook.com/OxjamBrightonTakeOver for the programme. (SH)
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St Andrew’s Church Sat 27th
This show boasts one of the most exciting electronic lineups in Brighton in months, but we forgive boasting when it’s this justified. Not only are Deft and Chesslo Junior on the bill, but a host of local producers and acts, including DA-10, Lost Twin, Anushka and Murder He Wrote. Many of these are hotly tipped for next year and there’s a vast diversity of influences, which in the setting of an atmospheric church will be fascinating. There’s also a live art installation, in association with Brighton Photo Fringe. (JMM)
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When we asked music publisher-to-be, Francesca, if she was up for being in the Street Style section this month, she modestly stated that she doesn’t consider herself a very fashionable person. We disagree. Being stylish does not necessarily have to involve an eclectic mix of brightly coloured, mismatched patterns or your granny’s old clothes. Simplicity can speak volumes when it comes to fashion, and Francesca nails it. After all, not many women can pull of men’s clothing with such confidence and grace. White trainers from Fred Perry “I like the simplicity of these trainers and the fact that they are old-school. I own other Fred Perry shoes and shirts because I really like their classic British design.” Red socks from American Apparel “I used to work for American Apparel in Brighton for a little while, so most of my underwear and basics are from there.” White t-shirt from American Apparel “Their basics are excellent, especially their socks.” Red jacket from Lacoste “This is a vintage Lacoste Jacket that I bought on eBay ages ago. I think it’s from the 1980s.” Jeans from Levi’s “Again, Levi’s are classics so fit with the simplicity of my style.” Watch from American Apparel “I bought this watch in Zurich, I think it’s a brand called Luxury. American Apparel sell quite a lot of vintage watches.” Glasses from Cutler and Gross “Please point out that I don’t wear glasses for fashion purposes, I’m completely blind without them – I wouldn’t be able to distinguish my mother from a horse. I hate it when people wear glasses to just appear fashionable. I bought these because they’re hand-made in London and are really good quality.”
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Words And Photo By Jessica Marshall McHattie
Tom Hines has been the host of Slip Jam:B for seven years, and made it one of the UK’s most innovative and welcoming rap nights. As well as bringing hip hop’s greatest talents to Brighton, he’s supported dozens of young aspiring rappers through workshops and onto the stage. How did you come to be involved with Slip Jam? I moved down ten years ago, and went to Slip Jam:B on the very next night and got involved. It was the kind of thing I wanted to go to – an open mic night, with dope rappers. Over the years the hosts left and it got chaotic, I moaned about it, and ended up hosting it. Then I started taking over the bookings too, and the artwork... And it sort of became my night. I bullied them into it, really. You run rap and hip hop workshops for local youths. How’s that going? I’ve done workshops for years for charities like AudioActive, but with funding cuts there’s a lot of box-ticking now. I used to work with whoever was interested, meaning the workshops would have a lot of energy and the kids would be really into it, but now the classes are only open to kids from specific groups, and some of the time they don’t want to be there. It makes me question how much it’s helping them, which is sad. Slip Jam’s nurtured a lot of new talent though, from when Rizzle Kicks was just Rizzle and his mate. How is the hip hop scene in Brighton? Brighton has a ridiculously strong freestyle element which other cities don’t have. It’s a community down here: everyone collaborates. The scene’s had many incarnations and people come and go, but it’s grown again recently. Loads of young kids are being inspired and are really good. It’s thriving, and we think Slip Jam:B is the longest running rap night in the UK now. Anyone’s welcome to come and have a go.
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We have a weakness for old lady tearooms at SOURCE. After a night in the pit for obscure New York punk bands and dancing to underground Finnish skweee DJs (not the obvious ones), we like to recharge with a cream tea served on dainty china. The Mock Turtle has been a fixture on the tearoom circuit for long time but is tucked away between The Haunt and The Fishbowl, so we thought it was time to remind ourselves of their legendary cakes.
THE MEAL
Feeling that we probably shouldn’t dive straight into the large selection of baked confections on display we trough down a
quick bacon and cheese omelette and chips (£5.75) which is decent – big and fluffy – and a bacon and cheese sandwich (£4.10) which is thick, delicious and very homemade. The cream teas (£6) look amazing but our Devon-raised cream tea expert outright bans them from the table. Why? Because they come with whipped cream not clotted cream – a travesty that’s all too common in Brighton. So instead we have coconut sponge and orange drizzle cake (£2.45 each) which are both a touch dry – we’d particularly like the latter to be a bit more gloopy. We noticed too late that you can have them with ice or whipped cream for an extra £1.25. The giant doughnut (£2.25) is impressive in its stature, but needed a little more of the delicious homemade jam. Best of the bunch is the similarly huge double meringue (£3.60) with loads of cream topped with vanilla sauce.
THE VERDICT
Overall it was a bit disappointing to be honest. The setting is nice and your mum will definitely like it, so maybe head over there for parental entertainment rather than as a treat for yourself. Or pop in if you like tea as they’ve got a very good selection.
WERE WE SUSSED
As other people there were taking photos of their huge creams teas we assume that getting your camera out is a common occurrence at The Mock Turtle. Not sussed.
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Miniclick Words And Photo By James Kendall
Jim Stephenson’s Miniclick talks have become the cornerstone of the Brighton photographic community, bringing in the best local photographers like Luca Sage and Ewen Spencer, and snappers from further away like Maja Daniels and Chris Floyd, to talk about their work. Jim tells us about Miniclick’s Photo Fringe events, including the Pecha Kucha night he’s doing with SOURCE, and how photo talks don’t need to be about cameras.
to just get a good line-up, so we’ve got about 30 different photographers that we’re working with. We’ve got Simon Roberts doing a talk, Laura Pannack, Aaron Schumann, Phoot Camp, Maciej Dakowicz and Peter Dench, plus workshops… I’d like to do it once a year really. Part of the reason why we’re doing so much for the Fringe is that I wanted to do a festival of photography anyway, so we might carry this on next year and make it annual.
Miniclicks has grown so quickly – is it what you wanted it to be? I honestly didn’t have a plan when I first started. It was only really about a year ago that I started to think, actually this is starting to become something, It’s getting a bit bigger than just these fun talks that we do in a café. It’s become a bit of a centre for photography in Brighton. I really like the social aspect of it, that people stay for drinks afterwards without putting a camera on the table or anything like that.
So what do you think of the Biennial and the Fringe? There’s a few things in the Biennial that I’m very excited about, Jason Larkin for example, but I think the Fringe is going to appeal to me more this year. The Fringe is fortunate because it doesn’t really have any responsibilities, so I tend to find it a little bit more exciting. But to have that focus on Brighton, that’s what’s really exciting. We’ve got all these amazing photographers that are all based here – like Ewen Spencer, Simon Roberts, Simon Norfolk and Lisa Barnard – who are internationally known, but perhaps Brighton isn’t as internationally known itself. We just need to show off as much as we can and say, “Look we’re killing it down here and we’re doing amazing stuff.”
People still do occasionally ask gear-related questions but it’s not really about the craft of photography, it’s about the content, right? Exactly. Part of the reason we started the talks is because I think the internet is a terrible place to look at photography generally. I mean it serves a purpose and that’s probably how I view most of the photography I look at. But it doesn’t give you any context.
Do you want explain the Pecha Kucha event that you’re doing with SOURCE? The Pecha Kucha format was invented in Japan and it’s a way of presenting in a succinct manner, so each presenter gets 20 slides and 20 seconds on each slide. You go away with this bombardment of ideas that’s really exciting and they tend to be quite informal and a bit of a laugh. We’ve got 16 photographers who are going to blow people away. It’s gonna be fantastic. It’s just a really unbelievable line up. I really doubt that there’s ever been an event that isn’t at Perpignan or Arles that’s had such a concentration of pleasing photographers in one place
It seems like quite a lot of work, and you don’t earn anything out of it, so what makes you do it? I think people reckon it’s more work than it actually is. I’m quite surprised that it isn’t already happening everywhere in the country because all I really do is email a photographer whose work I see that I like. The Fringe has been a lot of graft because we’re doing ten events in six weeks. But generally it’s not that much work and EVENTS: Various across the Fringe, I get to see, you know, a free see miniclickatthefringe.co.uk photography talk. WEB: miniclick.co.uk PECHA KUCHA: The Old Market, What have you got going on for Tues 13th November the Photo Fringe? Me and Lou have worked really hard
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Do you need to know anything about photography? No, absolutely not. The whole idea behind the talks is that they’re free and accessible. We’re not talking about cameras, we’re not talking about the technical aspect, we’re talking about ideas.
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LISTINGS OCTOBER 2012
Monday 1st
Ancient Mariner Quiz Night 8pm £1 Audio The Basement Brand new bass mash-up Time tbc £3/2
Belushi’s Bar Pump Up The 90s Retro night dedicated to the decade that was dedicated to retro nights 9pm £free
Blind Tiger Voicebox Spoken word and live music
Fashionably Late Brighton Museum
Thursday 11th October 7-10pm For one night only…music, bar, DIY fashion, vintage makeover, nail bar and more! Tickets £5 call 03000 290902 or visit www.brighton-hove-museums.org.uk
open mic night 8pm £free Brunswick Harmonessence Vocal harmony choir in which anyone can sing 5.30pm £tbc; Army Of Harmony A capella vocal group 7.30pm £tbc; Open Mic 8.30pm £free Caroline Of Brunswick MovieBar So you wanna make it in the glamorous world of film? Go shmooze with the movers and makers and other out-ofwork actors. Includes film screenings, Q&A with directors and a movie quiz 8pm £free Coalition Dan Le Sac A new electro-pop and psychedelic direction for the laptopist currently on sabbatical from his collaborations with Scroobius Pip 7pm £10; Trash Mondays Filthy tunes for students and layabouts alike 10.30pm £5/3 Concorde2 Benjamin Francis Leftwich, Marika Hackman, Joe Janiak Live music 7pm £12 Duke Of York’s Cinema Holy Motors 1pm/6pm £tbc; Looper 3.30pm/8.45pm £tbc Gladstone Open Mic Night 9pm £free Green Door Store Punk V Hardcore Guess what? It’s a night of punk and hardcore 8pm £free Haunt Fat Poppadaddys The student indie night moves to a new home 11pm £3/2/free Hope Live Sessions Live music (downstairs) 9pm £free Komedia Tom Baxter Live Music 7pm £12.50; Squawker Comedy Awards: Brighton Comedy Festival Comedy competition for the best newcomers 8pm £6.50/5 Latest Music Bar Intimate Brighton: Lindsey Oliver Heartfelt acoustic singer songwriter 8pm £4/3 Life #Hashtag Funky house club with added Twitter confusion 10pm £3/2 Lola Lo Ramshackle New indie, hip hop and dubstep night 10pm £4 Mesmerist Stroll On Mondays 60s and 70s night with DJs and film projections 8.30pm £free Pav Tav Red Tooth Poker 8pm £free Prince Albert Bleeding Hearts Club Folky and melancholic acoustic music 8pm £3 Sallis Benney Theatre Monday Lecture: Mole Wetherell, Mine Kaylan Contemporary artist discuss their work Noon £free Signalman Signalman Pub Quiz 8pm £1 Volks Strictly Reggae Dancehall, roots, revival 11pm £5/4
Tuesday 2nd
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jive tunes 9pm £free Audio Guerilla Rocks Club night for rock chicks, skater bois and indie kids 11pm £3/2/1 Belushi’s Bar Back To The 80s Retro night dedicated to the only decade to spawn a revival which has lasted longer than the decade itself 9pm £free Blind Tiger Access To Music Showcase Music from the college kids 8pm £free Brunswick Jazz Jam Open session with a house band and special guests 8pm £free Caroline Of Brunswick Giraffe Comedy: Laurie Rowan, Nathan Kail New comedy night 7.30pm £3; Laughtermath Audience + (Timing x Gags) = Laughter 8pm £3 Cooper’s Cask Dog Themed Pub Quiz Question 1: Why do you have a dog? A) Because you haven’t quite decided to have kids yet. B) Because you enjoy the company of a slavishly obedient surrogate friend. C) Because you like the smell of wet blankets and shit 9pm £1 Cowley Club Gattaca, Remek Czech emo punk 8pm £donation Cube Cube Live: Bright On The Beat Live music
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8pm £free Digital CU Next Tuesday It’ll teach the universities to timetable lectures for Wednesday mornings 11pm £4/3 Druid’s Arms The Druid’s Brand Spanking New Student Party DJ Paul plays indie rock classics 8pm £free Duke Of Norfolk Open Mic 9pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema Shadow Dancer 11am £tbc; Holy Motors 1.15pm/6pm £tbc; Looper 3.30pm £tbc 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 Gladstone Quiz Night 8.30pm £1 Globe Basement Cinema Underground films, comfy seats and free popcorn 8pm £free Green Door Store John Peel Night: The Flaming Stars, I Ludicrous, Helen McCookerybook Live bands celebrate the life of the late great DJ 7pm £10/8; Donuts Hipster funk and hip hop gems 11pm £free Hampton Hampton Ale Pub Quiz Q. Which microbrewery made a variant of the 1982 classic ‘Bulging Beergut’ using a mixture of Cumberland and Kentish hops? 8pm £1 Honey Urbano Latino: DJ Aaron George, Gabriel Angel, Yersin Rivas Dance lessons followed by a tropically vibed salsa club 8pm/10.30pm £3/1/free Hope SlipJam B Hip hop battleground for Brighton b-boys 8.30pm £free Komedia The Boy With Tape On His Face - More Tape: Brighton Comedy Festival Hit Edinburgh show mixing mime and comedy 8pm £13/10 Latest Music Bar Action For Happiness “Creating a happier society for everyone” 7.30pm £free Lola Lo Dirtee Laundry Student night 10pm £6/4/2 Open House Jazz Work Shop Throw away those jazz mags and try out your trumpet in public 8pm £tbc Pav Tav Acoustic Soul Live music 8pm £free Prince Albert Fresh Like Dexie, Fickle Friends, Johnson & The Believers Live music 8pm £4/3 Ranelagh Americana Music Series: Rick Shea, Anthony Duke Americana music from the LA guitarist 8pm £8 Red Lion Challenging General Knowledge & Music Quiz 8pm £1 Royal Oak Quiz 8.30pm £tbc Sidewinder Open Mic Jam session with instruments provided 8.30pm £free Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Chains Of Love, 50 Sticks, The Querelles Reverb-drenched 60s sounding garage rock 8pm £6 Theatre Royal Great Expectations Paul Nivison and Paula Wilcox star in Jo Clifford’s stage version of Dicken’s coming of age story 7.45pm £10-35 Thomas Kemp Poker Evening 8pm £free; Douzy ‘N’ Slyde Acoustic pub covers 9pm £free Tube Showdown Dubstep, garage, breaks and house Time tbc £4/3/2 Volks Tuesday Takeover Drum&bass and dubstep 11pm £free West Hill Tavern Music Quiz Music quiz hosted by a different Brighton promoter each week 8.30pm £free
Wednesday 3rd
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Audio Re:Flex: Tantrum Desire Garage, drum&bass and more bass 11pm £5/3
Black Lion The Black Lion Acoustic Showcase
Live music 8.30pm £free Blind Tiger Chapelier Fou Multi-instrumentalist one man band 8pm £9/8 Coalition CoCo LoCo Dancehall and dubstep music for students go to lose the plot to 10.30pm £5/3 Cornerstone Dirty Scavenger Grungy folk music 9pm £free Cube Wicked Wednesdays House DJs Time tbc
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£free; Resident Session: Hutson, Joe Steel-Martin House DJs Time tbc £free Digital Poundance Like a coin operated dancefloor 11pm £4/3/1
Druid’s Arms The Druid’s Brand Spanking New Student Party DJ Paul plays indie rock classics 8pm £free; We Change The Tempo DJ set of international sounds 9pm £free
Duke Of Norfolk Pub Quiz 9pm £1 Duke Of York’s Cinema Looper 11am/4pm/9pm £tbc; Holy Motors 1.30pm/6.30pm £tbc
Fishbowl Tea & Biscuits: DJ Gareth Stephens
Retro swing, soul and ska 10pm £free Funfair Be Bop-A-Lula 50s rock&roll, ska and soul Time tbc £3/2 Green Door Store Two Wounded Birds West Coast Beach Boy sounds from Margate 7pm £6.50; Hard Times Please sir, I want some more nowave disco 11pm £free Haunt Gallows, Feed The Rhino, Brotherhood Of The Lake Hardcore Watford rockers, still going strong after being dropped from Warner Bros and losing their lead singer 7pm £13; Supercharged Drum&bass and breaks 11pm £3/2 Hope Oxjam Brighton Takeover: The Jar Family, MOK, Tiny Dragons Industrial folk rockers and dance pop rappers raise funds for charity 8pm £3 Komedia The Boy With Tape On His Face - More Tape: Brighton Comedy Festival Hit Edinburgh show mixing mime and comedy 8pm £13/10 Latest Music Bar VerseChorusVerse, T.E Morris, Autumn And The Falls Post rock experimenters 7.30pm £8/7/6; Tango Boot Camp Learn to tango like the Argentinians 8pm £3-8 Life Move New dance club 11pm £tbc Lola Lo Vida New club night playing funky and urban tunes 10pm £5/3 Mesmerist The Swing Ninjas Gypsy swing band 9pm £free Molly Malone’s Jareth Tait Live music 9pm £free Northern Lights Prognosis Set the DJ controls for the heart of psychedelia 9pm £free Open House Safehouse Free jazz and avant garde improvisation 8pm £6/5 Pav Tav Quiz Night 8pm £free Prince Albert Ahab, Early Ghost Live music 8pm £6 Royal Oak Jazz At The Oak Live jazz 8.30pm £free Sallis Benney Theatre Making Better Places: Paul Zara, Duncan Baker-Brown, Jim Mayor, Dave Wolff, Andrew Church, Richard Wolfstrome Presentations and live debates 5pm £tbc Sidewinder Movie Night Showing films chosen by the audience via Facebook 8.30pm £free Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Sticky Mike’s Muso Pop Quiz 7pm £1 Theatre Royal Great Expectations Paul Nivison and Paula Wilcox star in Jo Clifford’s stage version of Dicken’s coming of age story 7.45pm £10-35 Thomas Kemp Kev & Jenna’s Open Mic 8.30pm £free Three Graces Pub Quiz 8pm £free Volks Latin Fusion: DJ Felix, SRRNB Salsa classes followed by reggaeton and dancehall club 9pm/11pm £4/2 Western Front Hush Hush Live acoustic music 9pm £free
Thursday 4th Above Audio Schtumm! grooves Time tbc £free
Disco and house
Audio Bastard Pop Musical mash-up 11pm £3/2/ free
Belushi’s Bar Karaoke 9pm £free Black Lion Keep Diggin’ B-boy breaks and funk
drops with DJ Mark Stafford 8.30pm £free Blind Tiger Roots Garden Records Reggae DJs with guest singers and live musicians 8pm £3/free Coalition Secret Discotheque Replaying the soundtrack to your youth 11pm £4/3/2 Cube Brighton Underground Dubstep, R&B and garage 8pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema The Wedding Video 11am £tbc; Holy Motors 1.30pm/6.30pm £tbc; Looper 4pm/9pm £tbc; Liberal Arts 4pm £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 George Payne Open Mic Jam session with instruments provided, in what used to be the Kendal Arms 8.30pm £free Globe Hang The DJ! A night of punter-picked
playlists 9pm £free
Green Door Store Man Like Me, The Other Tribe Music to browse a furniture store to 7.30pm £6; BIAAS Architecture students return for more fundraiser dance fun 11pm £tbc; The Mock Up New fundraising
DJ night playing soul, funk and hip hop 11pm £5/3 Haunt Trust Side project of Canadian electronica trio, Austra 8pm £6; 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 £tbc Hope The Social Live acoustic music 8pm £free Komedia Hammer & Tongue: Clayton Blizzard, Rob Auton An entertaining mix of poetry and comedic verse - hosted by Rosy Carrick and Mike Parker 7.30pm £5; The Boy With Tape On His Face - More Tape: Brighton Comedy Festival Hit Edinburgh show mixing mime and comedy 8pm £13/10 Latest Music Bar Britneypalooza 2012: Livingston Freeman, Johnny And The Dangerbeast, Koresh, The Lanes, Livid Live music 7pm £5 Lola Lo Tom Foolery Electro, house and dubstep night 9pm £5/3 Lucky Voice Acoustic Open Mic 6pm £tbc Mesmerist Andy Twyman One man blues band 9pm £free Mucky Duck Open Mic Jam session with Joe Newman 8pm £free Old Market Mahala Rai Banda Gypsy jazz Balkan band actually from the Balkans 7.30pm £15 Prince Albert Rising Tide, The M-Theory, Tell Wolves Tales Local indie rockers 8pm £4/3 Prince George Souled Out DJs play funk, soul and Motown 8pm £free Proud Cabaret Laugh Out Proud: Romesh Ranganathan, Gary Colman, Rich Pryer, Ben Norris, Joey Page Stand-up comedy night Time tbc £10 Rock & Roller Born In The USA Music from the land of hope and glory 8pm £free St James’ Tavern Stay Sick, Turn Blue DJs play vintage soul, jazz and blues 8.30pm £free Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar One In A M1llion A big slab of R&B with a side order of hip hop 10pm £4/2 Theatre Royal Great Expectations Paul Nivison and Paula Wilcox star in Jo Clifford’s stage version of Dicken’s coming of age story 2.30pm/7.45pm £10-35 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 £3/free Victory Open Mic 8pm £free Volks Roll Through Drum&bass and dubstep, bass and beatbox 11pm £2
Friday 5th
Above Audio Home House and disco DJs 9pm
£free Audio Schtumm!: Adana Twins, Ben Pearce Disco and underground house club 11pm £10/8 Belushi’s Bar DJ A C Knell Dance tunes Details tbc Black Dove Hot-Tip Hi-Fi DJ with a fine collection of vintage reggae and rocksteady records 8pm £free Black Lion Soul Casserole A melting pot of hot funk beats and soul grooves 8.30pm £free Blind Tiger Wah Wah 45, Scrimshire, Cate Ferris Live music 8pm £5 Brunswick The Lost Highway Live Americana and blues music 8pm £5/4 Caroline Of Brunswick Pete Von Sleaze Sleazy, like getting drooled on by a big biker. Did I say ‘like’? 9pm £free Coalition Kat Men, The Caezars Some sort of crazy rockabilly supergroup 6.30pm £15 Friday I’m In Love No more lectures for a day or two 11pm £1-5 Concorde2 Freebass Drum&bass, dubstep and jungle rave 11pm £free Cornerstone Ross Warm & Slim Jim DJ sets 9pm £free Cowley Club Constant State Of Terror, Kylma, Sota, Lack Of Joe Hardcore punk bands do a benefit gig for the Brighton Anti-Fascists group 8pm £4/3 Digital Stonelove Indie rock&roll club 11pm £4/3 Doctor Brighton’s Funky Friday: DJ Nick Hirst, DJ Wayne 9.30pm £free Dome Brighton Comedy Festival Gala: Brighton Comedy Festival Brighton Comedy festival kicks off with a top notch line-up including Alan Carr, Jo Brand, Abandoman, Paul Chowdhry, Seann Walsh and Simon Evans 8pm £25 Dome Founders Room Handa’s Surprise Musical puppet show and music based on Eileen Browne’s bestselling picture book 10.30am/11.30am/1.30pm/2.30pm £7/5 Dome Studio First Fridays Monthly arty meeting with a ‘guest provocation’ 5pm £free Druid’s Arms Hot Pepper Sauce DJ I.D.G. plays
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old school funk, soul and house 10pm £free Duke Of Norfolk DJ MC Cashback DJ night 9pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema Liberal Arts 4pm/9pm £tbc Fishbowl Keep It Wheel DJ plays rare disco, soul and boogie 9pm £free Fortune Of War Fever: Monkey In The Moon Bands and DJs play Latin, salsa and reggae 9pm £free Fountain Head Soulshyne Soulful house and original disco grooves 9pm £free Funfair Fortune New Motown, rock and soul night with hula-hoopers, contortionists and sword swallowers 9pm £7/5 Funkyfish Back To The Oldskool Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10.30pm £2/free Gladstone Catch A Groove DJ Bozak shares his collection of funk, soul and hip hop 8.30pm £free Globe Rum Fridays: Nowhere To Run The best of 60s Motown, soul and rock&roll 8pm £free Green Door Store Private: Echo Lake, Blanck Mass, Paradise, Happy New Year, Edible Arrangements, The Dead Reds Late night club with live bands 5pm £free Haunt Devon Sproule Canadian folk singer mixing jazzy touches with vintage country 7pm £12 Honey Lollipop ‘Pink Fridays’ Get your fingers sticky to R&B and pop treats 11pm £5/4/3 Hope Oxjam Was ‘Ere: Demob Happy, Angels & Soldiers, Deer Chicago, Prisoner’s Cinema Live music fundraiser 7pm £4; DJ Ongly Soul, funk and disco DJ (downstairs) 9pm £free Komedia The Maydays - Confessions Improv group turn your secrets into musical comedy 8pm £10/8; Krater Comedy Club: Roger Monkhouse, Romesh Ranganatha, Loretta Maine, Stephen Grant Standup comedy 8pm £13.50/15.50 Latest Music Bar Swingalicious 8pm £10; The George Kypreos Band Greek bouzouki band 8.30pm £8/6 Life Butterz: Elijah & Skilliam, Bok Bok, Swindle, Trim, Riko Dan The rising tide of grime 11pm £8/6/4 Lola Lo Tiki Beats Totally tropical tunes 8pm £5/4/3 Mesmerist Shake, Holla & Roll Vintage blues, swing and rock&roll 9pm £free Molly Malone’s Crackling Griffins Live music 10pm £free Mucky Duck DJ Juan Corbi Hip hop, funk and beats 9pm £free Old Market White Mink: Fat 45, Swing Ninjas, Nick Hollywood AV Show, Department Of Brilliant, Kitty Peels Electro swing cabaret 9pm £12/10 Pav Tav Beats Not Bombs DJ sessions 8pm £free Phoenix Gallery Still Life One-woman play about the professional bohemian and iconic hedonist, Henrietta Moraes 6pm £12/10 Prince Albert Trails, Foley Artist, Loose Lips, Sky Harbour Live music 8pm £4/3; Bend Over I’ll Drive Rock&roll DJs (downstairs) 8.30pm £free Ranelagh The Bushman Brothers Guitar and drums duo 8.30pm £free Sidewinder The Cosmic Trigger Club DJ set by Al from Catholic Discipline 9pm £free Smugglers Grits And Gravy New club night playing vintage rhythm&blues, ska and swing 9pm £free Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Brighton Rocks: Tyrannosaurus Dead, The Hundredth Anniversary, King Of Cats, Birdskulls The cream of Brighton’s indie rock bands 7pm £4; No Brainer: Best Friends, Teen Creeps DJs, Be Nothing DJs New punk and garage rock night with live bands and DJs playing the likes of Black Flag, Bos Angeles and The Cramps 11pm £free Theatre Royal Great Expectations Paul Nivison and Paula Wilcox star in Jo Clifford’s stage version of Dicken’s coming of age story 7.45pm £10-35 Thomas Kemp DJ Spindo Garage, rock and pop 9pm £free Three & Ten Sam Walker Live music 8pm £6/5 Tube Cross The crew behind TRASH kick off a night of beats and bass 11pm £3; Motel Last chance saloon for electro house heads 2am £5 Volks Method In The Madness: Octane & DLR, Skeptical, Voytek, Dubloke, S.T., Caelum, Pier, Alex Slime, Mista Shiv, MC Deefa & Kerizma Album launch party with 100% vinyl DJ sets 11pm £free Western Front Mark Stafford Hip hop DJ 9pm £free
Saturday 6th
Above Audio Saturday Sessions Live music Time tbc £free; Doctor’s Orders Funk, soul and seriously
sick hip hop 8pm £5/free Ancient Mariner Sam Chara & Bing Lyle The songs of Edith Piaf, Jacques Brel and Dolly Parton 8.30pm £free Audio Warehouse: BrEaCh House and techno club night 11pm £5/free
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Basement Supper Club: Richard Dedominici, Hunt & Darton, Michael Pinchbeck, Catherine Hoffman, Yve Blake, Molly Naylor A platter of bitesized arty performances 8pm £8/6 Beachigogo Bar Good Times Remember them? Maybe the feel-good retro tunes will jog your memory (in the White Room) 9pm £free Belushi’s Bar DJ Sleeps Party tunes Details tbc Belushi’s Below Deviant Time to untie those pony tails and start headbanging 9pm £5/2 Black Lion Burnt Toast Black Lion Block Party DJs play sleazy soul and dirty breaks 4pm £free Blind Tiger Gypsy Disco Eastern European circus freaks on the rampage Details tbc Brunswick The Twitnits Family-friendly comedy improv team 3pm £5; The Harvest Sessions Folk night hosted by House Of Hats 7.30pm £6/5 Caroline Of Brunswick Bad To The Bone Rockabilly DJ makes old women blush and young women squeal 9pm £free Coalition Pump Up The Jam - Official Shakedown After Party 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 Absolute Bowie David Bowie tribute night to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars 7pm £13.50; Skreamizm: Skream, Sgt Pokes, Dismantle Shakedown Afterparty with Croydon’s finest dubstepper 11pm £12 Cooper’s Cask All Time 100 Guest DJs try to impress you with their impeccable record collections 9pm £free
Corn Exchange Paul Chowdhry - What’s Happening White People?: Brighton Comedy Festival Stand-up comedy 9.30pm £12 Cowley Club Bootlegger Bar Flapper-themed electroswing night 8pm £donation Cube Simply House: Cheets, Paul Hilditch, Max Derkson House DJs Time tbc £free Digital Playroom Housey hedonism in a playground of bouncy inflatable fun 11pm £12/10 Doctor Brighton’s Sexy Saturday: DJ Tony B 9.30pm £free Dome Best Of The Fest: Brighton Comedy Festival Comedy highlights 8pm £16.50/15 Dome Founders Room Handa’s Surprise Musical puppet show and music based on Eileen Browne’s bestselling picture book 10.30am/11.30am/1.30pm/2.30pm £7/5
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Druid’s Arms DJ Green Man’s Garden Of Delights A carefully cultivated set of soul, psychedelia,
funk and pop 10pm £free
Duke Of York’s Cinema Dr Seuss’ The Lorax 2D 11am £tbc; Liberal Arts 4pm/6.30pm £tbc Fishbowl Gareth Stephens DJ plays funk, nu-jazz and broken beats 9pm £free
Fortune Of War Duncan Disorderly & Ben GC
Disco and house classics 9pm £free Funfair Magic New Motown, soul and rock club with circus style entertainment 9pm £7/5 Funkyfish Dreamboys Live The biggest cocks we’ve ever seen, shame about the weathered penises 6.30pm £tbc; Oldschool Saturday Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10pm £6/5 Globe BOYF_ DJ plays tracks from the ‘Scene With No Name’ scene, i.e. the scene known as the groovebased dance music scene 9pm £free Green Door Store Splitting The Atom: Hering Und Seine Sieben Sachen, Gael Moissonier, Hobo Sonn, Bear Aneurysm, Animal Magic Tricks, Mxlx, The Super Goons, Amnertia, Drunk On The Blood Of The Players Association, Cylons, Lama Dalai, Objector 432 Experimental noise all-dayer pushing the boundaries of both math rock and physics jazz 2pm £free; Sonic Switch Tru Thoughts DJ puts you in the on position with some choice beats and bass 11pm £free Haunt It Is Still 1985 Travel through time to an ancient realm where drum machines still sound novel and exciting 11pm £3 Honey Honey Music Funky house club 11pm £58.50 Hope We Were Evergreen Live music 8pm £8; Soul Casserole A melting pot of hot funk beats and soul grooves (downstairs) 9pm £free Iron Duke David Whitney Comedy show 7.30pm £tbc Jazz Place Night At The Jazz Rooms: Prince Fatty, Russ Dewbury, Tyni Legendary Brighton club returns to its old home for a dub and reggae special 9.30pm £5/4/free Komedia Krater Comedy Club: Roger Monkhouse, Imran Yusef, Loretta Maine, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 7pm/8pm £22/15; The British Invasion Mod For It DJ plays plays the best of 50 years
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of great British music - from Dusty to Dizzee 11pm £5 Latest Music Bar The Speakeasy Three, Derek Meins Details tbc Level Lantern Fayre Two day community festival with live music, cinema screens and stalls selling homemade arts, crafts and non-linear comic books Noon £free Life Juice Box Eclectic club night offering an nice alternative to the standard seafront malarky 11pm £5/3 Lola Lo Zombie Nation Where the dancefloor is never dead 8pm £10/7/6 Mesmerist Juke Joint Jamboree Rhythm & blues and rock&roll records from the days of the dance halls 9pm £free
Molly Malone’s Reptila Live music 10pm £free Mucky Duck Sizzle And Pop! DJ Mick plays 50s rock&roll and 60s soul 9pm £free New Venture Theatre Biloxi Blues Coming of age play about a New York Jew joining the US army in the 1940s Details tbc Northern Lights Big Lebowski Night 8pm £free Old Market Vintage Fair: City Reads 2012 An all-day 50s fest with vintage stalls and on-site stylists 11am £2; The Book Doctor: City Reads 2012 Laura Lockington diagnoses your literary problems and sends you packing with a personalised reading list 4pm £free; Bethan Roberts In Conversation With Lynne Truss: City Reads 2012 The author of ‘My Policeman’ talks to the unofficial guardian of grammar 3pm £8; Police Boxes & Picturehouses: City Reads 2012 Local historian, Geoffrey Mead, gives a talk about what Brighton was like in the 1950s 4pm £10; My Policeman By Bethan Roberts: City Reads 2012 Literary events based around the story of a gay love triangle set in the 1950s Details tbc Pav Tav Parlour Flame Indie band featuring Vinny Peculiar and the one they call Bonehead from Oasis Details tbc ; Saturday Sensations Resident DJs 8pm £free Phoenix Gallery Still Life One-woman play about the professional bohemian and iconic hedonist, Henrietta Moraes 4pm £12/10 Ranelagh The Orange Circus Live bluegrass 8.30pm £free Sallis Benney Theatre Discussion Day: Brighton Photo Biennial A series of discussions with artists, writers and curators 11am £15/10 Sidewinder Forgive Me Father For I Have Synthed Time to confess your shameful 80s power pop love secret 9pm £free St George’s Inn Acoustic Lounge Live music 9.30pm £free Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Fever Fever, Crushed Beaks Norwich art punk 7pm £4; This Ain’t No Party Ironically, it is a party - with a Talking Heads theme (upstairs) 9pm £free; Stay Beautiful Babes on the run with poisoned lips in a mess of eyeliner and spray paint 11pm £5/4 Theatre Royal Great Expectations Paul Nivison and Paula Wilcox star in Jo Clifford’s stage version of Dicken’s coming of age story 2.30pm/7.45pm £10-35 Thomas Kemp Bad To The Bone DJ makes old women blush and young women squeal 9pm £free Three Graces Live Music 8pm £free Tube Last Stop New club night playing R&B and US hip hop 11pm £5 Victory Up Against It Born Bad DJs play an assortment of punky trash 9pm £free Volks Far Too Loud, James D’Ley, Intraspekt, Dan Stoves, Sightek, Bean & Fi Chek, Simon Chambers Electro, breaks, dubstep and drum&bass 11pm £6 Western Front Figure Of Wax DJ night 9pm £free
Sunday 7th
Black Lion Live & Swingin’ Lion Live gypsy jazz,
swing and blues 8pm £free Blind Tiger Weird And Wonderful Sundays DJ Format treats you to the picks of his record collection 7pm £free Caroline Of Brunswick The Geekest Link Possibly the only time in your life anyone will care how much you know about the history of House Lannister 7.30pm £1 Corn Exchange Castalian Quartet Live music 11am £17.50/15; Tim Key - Masterslut: Brighton Comedy Festival Droll comedic anti-poet 7.30pm/9.30pm £15/13 Cube Sunday Social: Stavros Tousios Deep house DJ 8pm £free Dome Jon Richardson: Brighton Comedy Festival Stand-up comedy 8pm £17.50 Dome Studio Jon Ronson The author and journalist talks about his forthcoming book, ‘Lost At Sea’ 2.30pm £12; Jenny Eclair - Eclairious: Brighton Comedy Festival Grumpy old woman, still packing in
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the laughs 7.45pm £17.50; Fred MacAulay - Legally Bald: Brighton Comedy Festival Stand-up comedy 9.15pm £12 Duke Of York’s Cinema Bond On The Big Screen - 50 Years In The Secret Service Q&A with a panel of special guests 1pm £tbc; Georg Frideric Handel - Giulio Cesare 3pm £15; Glyndebourne Julius Caesar 3pm £tbc Fishbowl Recovery? Reggae through the ages 9pm £free Food For Friends Java Duo Singer and guitarist play a set of jazzy songs 6.30pm £free Fountain Head Reggae & Roasts Reggae and chilled beats Time tbc £free Globe Handbaked Arcade Things were so much better in the 1990s when all we had was 64-bit games of Italian plumbers inexplicably racing against turtles and gorillas Noon £free Green Door Store Blues Special Live blues music 7pm £free; Green Door Blues Big Itch DJs plus the resident blues band, Smokestack 10.30pm £free Hampton Dr Bluegrass & The Illbilly Eight Brighton’s busiest buskers - country standards and pop covers put through the hillbilly thresher 8pm £free Haunt Tracer 90s grunge meets classic 70s rock for a bong and a ballsy blues jam 7pm £12 Honey Sundown If your house was this sexy you’d never go outdoors 11pm £free Komedia Bent Double: Ninia Benjamin Zoe Lyons hosts a night of alternative comedy acts 7.30pm £510.50; Norman Lovett - Old & New One man show from the dour stand-up whose face played Red Dwarf’s Holly 8pm £9/7 Latest Music Bar Bark Like A Dog Blues Jam A chance for first-timers to shed their nerves - and oldtimers to show off their licks 8pm £free Level Lantern Fayre Two day community festival with live music, cinema screens and stalls selling homemade arts, crafts and non-linear comic books Noon £free Life Dagger Terrace Sessions Daytime DJs play dancehall, reggae and ska Time tbc £free Marlborough Theatre Desert Island Pics - Anna Fox: Brighton Photo Biennial The photographer chooses 8 photos to take with her to the proverbial island 2.30pm £4/2; Coppe’ Martian fruitcake music from the ‘godmother of Japanese electronica’ 7pm £7/6 Molly Malone’s Feargal Lyden Live music 10pm £free Mucky Duck Quiz On My Face “Quiz night with a difference,” perhaps with a very special prize 8pm £1 New Venture Theatre Biloxi Blues Coming of age play about a New York Jew joining the US army in the 1940s Details tbc Northern Lights Northern Light Sundays The DJ has a lazy Sunday afternoon 4pm £free Old Market My Policeman By Bethan Roberts: City Reads 2012 Literary events based around the story of a gay love triangle set in the 1950s Details tbc Phoenix Gallery Still Life One-woman play about the professional bohemian and iconic hedonist, Henrietta Moraes 4pm £12/10 Prince George Pub Quiz 8pm £1 Ranelagh Mike Ross Live blues and rock 8.30pm £free Signalman Open Mic Open session hosted by local duo, Zoothyme 8pm £free Thomas Kemp Jazz In The Afternoon: Bags’ Groove Jazz Quartet Live jazz 4pm £free Thomas Kemp Tango Sessions 8pm £free University Of Brighton Four Versions Of Three Routes: Brighton Photo Biennial A tour with an artist giving an alternative interpretation of Brighton’s landscape 10.30pm £7/5 Victory Blues Sundays DJ plays blues and soul Noon £free Western Front The E.M.E. Live band playing jazzy hip hop, followed by an open jam 9pm £free
Monday 8th
Ancient Mariner Quiz Night 8pm £1 Audio The Basement Brand new bass mash-up Time tbc £3/2
Belushi’s Bar Pump Up The 90s Retro night dedicated to the decade that was dedicated to retro nights 9pm £free
Blind Tiger Voicebox Spoken word and live music
open mic night 8pm £free Brunswick Harmonessence Vocal harmony choir in which anyone can sing 5.30pm £tbc; Army Of Harmony A capella vocal group 7.30pm £tbc; Open Mic 8.30pm £free Caroline Of Brunswick Classic Horror Movie Night: The Last Man On Earth 8pm £free Coalition Trash Mondays Filthy tunes for students and layabouts alike 10.30pm £5/3 Concorde2 Cockney Rejects - East End
Babylon Tour The West Ham punk rockers hit the road to support a new album and documentary about the band’s run-ins with police, nazis and hooligans 7pm £16.50
Corn Exchange Mark Thomas - Bravo Figaro: Brighton Comedy Festival After doing a show about the horrors of the Israeli Separation Barrier, the activist comedian turns his attentions to his father 7.30pm £17.50
Duke Of York’s Cinema Liberal Arts 4pm/9pm £tbc
Gladstone Open Mic Night 9pm £free Green Door Store Daytona Lights Upbeat London indie band who played themselves on Hollyoaks 7pm £free; Party & Bullshit Hip hop student fundraiser 11pm £tbc Haunt Fat Poppadaddys The student indie night moves to a new home 11pm £3/2/free Hope Live Sessions Live music (downstairs) 9pm £free Komedia James Acaster - Prompt: Brighton Comedy Festival Tomfoolery and puns from the Kettering comic 7pm £10/8; Elis James - Speaking As A Mother: Brighton Comedy Festival Stand-up comedy 8.30pm £10/8 Latest Music Bar Joshua Caole, Woodland Blue Live music 8pm £5 Life #Hashtag Funky house club with added Twitter confusion 10pm £3/2 Lola Lo Ramshackle New indie, hip hop and dubstep night 10pm £4 Mesmerist Stroll On Mondays 60s and 70s night with DJs and film projections 8.30pm £free New Venture Theatre Biloxi Blues Coming of age play about a New York Jew joining the US army in the 1940s Details tbc Old Market Why?, Young Fathers Leftfield indie hip hop 7.30pm £free Pav Tav Red Tooth Poker 8pm £free Signalman Signalman Pub Quiz 8pm £1 Theatre Royal Rough Justice Tom Conti stars in Terence Frisby’s courtroom drama 7.45pm £12-32 Thomas Kemp Quiz Night 8pm £1 University Of Sussex Ronnie Close: Brighton Photo Biennial Talks and screenings of work by the Irish artist and filmmaker 6pm £free Volks Strictly Reggae Dancehall, roots, revival 11pm £5/4
Tuesday 9th
Above Audio Cottontail Club Big band and jitter jive tunes 9pm £free
Audio Guerilla Rocks Club night for rock chicks,
skater bois and indie kids 11pm £3/2/1 Belushi’s Bar Back To The 80s Retro night dedicated to the only decade to spawn a revival which has lasted longer than the decade itself 9pm £free Blind Tiger Under The Bridge Showcase The rehearsal studio’s live music night 8pm £tbc Brunswick Jazz Jam Open session with a house band and special guests 8pm £free Concorde2 Flux Pavilion, Dillon Francis Dubstep producer on the brink of big things 7pm £12.50 Cooper’s Cask Pub Quiz One big music round 9pm £1 Corn Exchange Mark Thomas - Bravo Figaro: Brighton Comedy Festival After doing a show about the horrors of the Israeli Separation Barrier, the activist comedian turns his attentions to his father 7.30pm £17.50 Cube Cube Live: Matt Bonner Live music 8pm £free Digital CU Next Tuesday It’ll teach the universities to timetable lectures for Wednesday mornings 11pm £4/3 Dome Ross Noble - Mindblender: Brighton Comedy Festival Geordie stand-up back for more inspired silliness 8pm £25 Druid’s Arms The Druid’s Brand Spanking New Student Party DJ Paul plays indie rock classics 8pm £free Duke Of Norfolk Open Mic 9pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema Liberal Arts 4pm/9pm £tbc 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 Gladstone Quiz Night 8.30pm £1 Globe Basement Cinema Underground films, comfy seats and free popcorn 8pm £free Green Door Store Cave Painting Epic and polished indie rock 7.30pm £7; Donuts Hipster funk and hip hop gems 11pm £free Hampton The Hampton Quiz 8pm £1 Haunt Turbowolf Punky and high-octane rock&roll
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band from Bristol 7.30pm £8 Honey Urbano Latino: DJ Aaron George, Gabriel Angel, Yersin Rivas Dance lessons followed by a tropically vibed salsa club 8pm/10.30pm £3/1/free Komedia Lloyd Langford - One Day In The Life Of Lloyd Owen Langford: Brighton Comedy Festival Stand-up comedy 7pm £10/8; Bridget Christie - War Donkey: Brighton Comedy Festival Stand-up comedy 8.30pm £10 Latest Music Bar Charity Chuckle: Nick Helm Laughter makes you feel good, especially when it’s for charity 8pm £8/5 Lola Lo Dirtee Laundry Student night 10pm £6/4/2 New Venture Theatre Biloxi Blues Coming of age play about a New York Jew joining the US army in the 1940s Details tbc Nightingale Theatre Other Hands New revival of Laura Wade’s compelling and funny play about love, human interactions 7.30pm £8.50/6.50 Open House Jazz Work Shop Throw away those jazz mags and try out your trumpet in public 8pm £tbc Pav Tav Acoustic Soul Live music 8pm £free Prince Albert Dog In The Snow, Dan Shears, The Creaking Chair, Taram Live music 8pm £4/3 Red Lion Challenging General Knowledge & Music Quiz 8pm £1 Royal Oak Quiz 8.30pm £tbc Sidewinder Open Mic Jam session with instruments provided 8.30pm £free St George’s Inn Pub Quiz 8pm £1 Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Bella Feud Live music 8pm £tbc Theatre Royal Rough Justice Tom Conti stars in Terence Frisby’s courtroom drama 7.45pm £12-32 Thomas Kemp Poker Evening 8pm £free Tube Showdown Dubstep, garage, breaks and house Time tbc £4/3/2 Volks Tuesday Takeover Drum&bass and dubstep 11pm £free
Wednesday 10th
Above Audio Kitchen DJ collective serve up some juicy hip hop treats Time tbc £free
Audio Re:Flex: Jehst Garage, drum&bass and more bass - plus a live band 11pm £5/3
Black Lion The Black Lion Acoustic Showcase
Live music 8.30pm £free Blind Tiger Live ‘N’ Laughing: Max Dickens Stand-up comedy 7pm £10/5 Caroline Of Brunswick Funny HaHa: Paul Sinha, Sam Savage Stand-up night hosted by Zoe Lyons 8pm £5 Coalition CoCo LoCo Dancehall and dubstep music for students to lose the plot to 10.30pm £5/3 Concorde2 Azealia Banks Bad luck, the show sold out ages ago 7pm £tbc Cowley Club Pneu, Cousin, Broker Indie rock, math rock and metal 8pm £3 Cube Wicked Wednesdays House DJs Time tbc £free; Resident Session: DJ Cheets House DJs Time tbc £free Digital Poundance Like a coin operated dancefloor 11pm £4/3/1 Dome Ross Noble - Mindblender: Brighton Comedy Festival Geordie stand-up back for more inspired silliness 8pm £25 Dome Studio WARNING - May Contain Nuts: Brighton Comedy Festival Angela Barnes hosts a night of comedy, story and song to mark World Mental Health Day 6pm £7/5; Carl Donnelly - Different Gravy: Brighton Comedy Festival Stand-up comedian reads from his unpublished and hugely embellished autobiography 8.30pm £12 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 The Imposter 11am £tbc; Liberal Arts 4pm/9pm £tbc Fishbowl Tea & Biscuits: DJ Gareth Stephens Retro swing, soul and ska 10pm £free Funfair Be Bop-A-Lula 50s rock&roll, ska and soul Time tbc £3/2 Green Door Store Bo Ningen Heavy psych fuzz from Japan via London 7pm £7; Hard Times Please sir, I want some more nowave disco 11pm £free Haunt Anberlin US rock band 7pm £10; Supercharged Drum&bass and breaks 11pm £3/2 Hope The No Hope Blooze Sessions Live blues (downstairs) 8pm £free Komedia Ruarri Joseph & Marc O’Reilly Indie folk with a passing nod to Tom Waits 8pm £8 Latest Music Bar A Plimsoul And A Good Son: Peter Case & Michael Weston King A double bill of two alt country band leaders 8pm £10; Tango Boot Camp Learn to tango like the Argentinians 8pm £3-8 Life Move New dance club 11pm £tbc
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Lola Lo Vida New club night playing funky and urban tunes 10pm £5/3 Mesmerist The Swing Ninjas Gypsy swing band 9pm £free Molly Malone’s Crackling Griffins Live music 9pm £free Mucky Duck Louis Checkley Live jazz 8pm £free New Venture Theatre Biloxi Blues Coming of age play about a New York Jew joining the US army in the 1940s Details tbc Northern Lights Mystery Train Rockabilly DJ 9pm £free Old Market Insites - Connections To Age And Experience Stories and memories inspired by the history of the venue 4pm £2 Pav Tav Quiz Night 8pm £free Prince Albert The Attacks Live music 8pm £4/3 Ranelagh Haunted: Annaca Soulful gypsy pop band hosts a monthly night 8.30pm £free Royal Oak Jazz At The Oak Live jazz 8.30pm £free Sidewinder Movie Night Showing films chosen by the audience via Facebook 8.30pm £free Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Talibam!, DJ Scotch Bonnet, Kellar, P For Persia Brooklyn-based hipster jazz rock - plus DJ Scotch Egg’s new distortion project 7.30pm £7; 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 Rough Justice Tom Conti stars in Terence Frisby’s courtroom drama 7.45pm £12-32 Thomas Kemp Kev & Jenna’s Open Mic 8.30pm £free Three Graces Pub Quiz 8pm £free Tube Back Off Glitch, grime and garage - if it’s electronic they’ll play it 11pm £4/3/2 Western Front Hush Hush Live acoustic music 9pm £free
Thursday 11th Above Audio Schtumm! grooves Time tbc £free
Disco and house
Audio Bastard Pop Musical mash-up 11pm £3/2/ free
Basement Popaganda Richard DeDominici takes
on the new world order armed with conceptual art tactics and an irreverent pop sensibility 7.30pm £7/5 Belushi’s Bar Karaoke 9pm £free Black Lion Soul Casserole A melting pot of hot funk beats and soul grooves 8.30pm £free Blind Tiger Laid Blak, Pillars Of Dub, The Space Cakes Eight-piece new wave reggae group 8pm £5 Brighton Museum Fashionably Late Music, DIY fashion and vintage makeover 7pm £5 Brunswick Luke Hyttner, Jason Hillard Americana music 8pm £4/3 Caroline Of Brunswick Activism And Alternative Media Discussion about the use of alternative media as publicity, protest and direct action 6.30pm £free Coalition Secret Discotheque Replaying the soundtrack to your youth 11pm £4/3/2 Concorde2 Robin Trower Live music 7.30pm £18; Battlejam: Beardyman, JFB Hip hop night with the Brighton beatbox champ 9pm £10 Corn Exchange Shappi Khorsandi - Dirty Looks And Hopscotch: Brighton Comedy Festival Sharp observational stand-up 7.30pm £14/12 Cube Brighton Underground Dubstep, R&B and garage 8pm £free Dome Greg Davies - The Back Of My Mum’s Head: Brighton Comedy Festival Stand-up comedy from The Inbetweeners’ Mr Gilbert 8pm £17.50 Dome Studio Andi Osho - All the Single Ladies: Brighton Comedy Festival Stand-up comedian discusses the perils and pitfalls of the dating game 7.45pm £15/13; Stephen Grant: Brighton Comedy Festival Komedia compere with a new show full of energetic pedantry 9.15pm £14/12 Duke Of York’s Cinema The Last Of The Haussmans: NT Live 7pm £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 George Payne Open Mic Jam session with instruments provided, in what used to be the Kendal Arms 8.30pm £free Globe Hang The DJ! A night of punter-picked playlists 9pm £free Green Door Store Mama Rosin, Random Canyon Growlers Cajun blues trash 7.30pm £9;
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Below The Line Bass music so futuristic it makes brainoperated dildo pets seem passé 11pm £free Haunt 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 £tbc Hope Mark And The Mad Men, ReVerbed, As It Is, Digo & Fickle Friends Live music 7.30pm £5; The Social Live acoustic music 8pm £free Komedia Karine Polwart Folky singer songwriter 7.30pm £15; How Things Work Live music 7.30pm £6.50/4.50 Latest Music Bar Catalyst Club Guest speakers give a short talk about whatever their weird obsession is 8pm £5 Lighthouse Lunchtime Tour: Brighton Photo Biennial Informal guided tour of the exhibition, ‘Geographies Of Seeing’ 1pm £free Lola Lo Tom Foolery Electro, house and dubstep night 9pm £5/3 Lucky Voice Acoustic Open Mic 6pm £tbc Mesmerist Bad Bad Whiskey Skifflebilly trio 9pm £free Molly Malone’s Jareth Tait Live music 9pm £free Mucky Duck Open Mic Jam session with Joe Newman 8pm £free New Venture Theatre Biloxi Blues Coming of age play about a New York Jew joining the US army in the 1940s Details tbc Old Market Laughtermarket: Jo Neary Playful character comedy from the Perrier Award winner 8pm £3 Prince Albert Sss, Quests Live music 8pm £6.50 Prince George Souled Out DJs play funk, soul and Motown 8pm £free Proud Cabaret Laugh Out Proud: Barnaby Slater, Carl Lawrence, Tom Veryzer, Markus Birdman, Ryan McDonnell Stand-up comedy night Time tbc £10 Rock & Roller Born In The USA Music from the land of hope and glory 8pm £free St James’ Tavern Stay Sick, Turn Blue DJs play vintage soul, jazz and blues 8.30pm £free Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Nately’s Whore’s Kid Sister, Thedealwasforthediamond, Plague Sermon Big riff rock 7.30pm £5.50; Riff Till Yer Stiff Rock out to rock hard rock (upstairs) 8pm £free Sussex University Challenging The Way We Look At Things Film clips demonstrating the therapeutic benefits of stop frame animation 6.30pm £tbc Theatre Royal Rough Justice Tom Conti stars in Terence Frisby’s courtroom drama 2.30pm/7.45pm £12-32 Thomas Kemp Matt Bonner Live acoustic music 9pm £free 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 £3/free Victory Open Mic 8pm £free Volks Roll Through Drum&bass and dubstep, bass and beatbox 11pm £2
Friday 12th
Above Audio Home House and disco DJs 9pm £free
Audio Blah Blah Blah
After-party for the Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs show at the Concorde 11pm £tbc Belushi’s Bar DJ A C Knell Dance tunes Details tbc Black Dove Mo Taters! DJs play vintage tunes from across the Americas 8pm £free Black Lion Molly Malone’s Dex In The City DJ night 9pm £free Blind Tiger Yes Sir Boss, Kilamonjambo Festival band with big horns and a party spirit 8pm £tbc
Brighton Dome Studio Richard Herring Talking Cock: Brighton Comedy Festival The man with the massive dick obsession revives his 2002 show dubbed the ‘Vagina Monologues for men’ 9.15pm £15 Brunswick The 1930s, Matt Carpanini, Donna Fullman Irish folk and Americana 8pm £5 Caroline Of Brunswick Funny Girls Standup, sketches and music (upstairs) 8pm £5/4; DJ Lost Rock and metal DJ 9pm £free Coalition Friday I’m In Love No more lectures for a day or two 11pm £1-5 Concorde2 Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs Electronic dance producer 7pm £12; AkaAkaRoar!: Rustie, Krystal Klear, Pangaea Garage, grime and bass-heavy house - with added techno 11pm £7 Corn Exchange Simon Evans - Friendly Fire: Brighton Comedy Festival Local stand-up with a new show in which nothing and no-one is safe from the critical glint of his tiny, tiny eyes 7.30pm £14/12; Frisky & Mannish - Extra-Curricular Activities: Brighton
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Cornerstone Jon Chickens Reggae, funk and
soul DJ 9pm £free Digital Stonelove Indie rock&roll club 11pm £4/3 Doctor Brighton’s Funky Friday: DJ Nick Hirst, DJ Wayne 9.30pm £free Dome Festival Of The Spoken Nerd: Brighton Comedy Festival Comedy show with stand-up mathematician Matt Parker, geek songstress Helen Arney and experiments guy Steve Mould 7.45pm £14/12; Jack Dee: Brighton Comedy Festival What makes a comedian return to stand-up after an absence of six years? “I want to spend less time with my family,” says Jack 8pm £21 Druid’s Arms DJ Tommy G Electro beats, indie and house tunes 10pm £free Duke Of Norfolk DJ MC Cashback DJ night 9pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema On The Road Details tbc Fishbowl Jeff Daniels Soul and hip hop DJ 9pm £free Fortune Of War Fever: The Casual Observer 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 £7/5 Funkyfish Back To The Oldskool Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10.30pm £2/free Gladstone Catch A Groove DJ Bozak shares his collection of funk, soul and hip hop 8.30pm £free Globe Rum Fridays: TSOB Philly disco from Juice FM DJ 9pm £free Green Door Store Balam Acab Eight-bit ecstasy from the bedroom boy wonder 7pm £7; Electro Blues: Nick Hollywood, DJ Stylus, The Future Shape Of Sound Remixed jukebox jump blues night with a live band 11pm £free Haunt Tall Ships, Dad Rocks Mathsy indie funk from last month’s SOURCE cover stars 7pm £7; Beatsworkin: Nick Curly, Glimpse, Alex Celler, Beatsworkin Double birthday bash for Cécille Records and the tech house club night 11pm £12/10 Honey Lollipop ‘Pink Fridays’ Get your fingers sticky to R&B and pop treats 11pm £5/4/3 Hope Mega-Metal Friday: Demental, Blind Eye Fury, Milk White Throat Metal, metal, metal Time tbc £5; The Goodness Hip hop, funk and funky beats 9pm £free Horse & Groom The Curst Sons: The Hanover Rhythm And Blues Festival Old time blues and hillbilly band 8.30pm £free Komedia Brighton Jazz Club: Ivo Neame Ensemble Jazz band featuring Jim Hart and Jasper Hoiby 8pm £14/12; Krater Comedy Club: Daniel Sloss, Elis James, Ian Stone, Maff Brown Stand-up comedy 8pm £13.50/15.50 Life Artful Dodger ReCreation cuts from the garage legend 11pm £6/4 Loft Disco Deviant: Greg Wilson, Pablo Contraband 80s electro DJ now a disco re-editer 10.30pm £7.50 Lola Lo Tiki Beats Totally tropical tunes 8pm £5/4/3 Mesmerist Shake, Holla & Roll Vintage blues, swing and rock&roll 9pm £free Molly Malone’s Feargal Lyden Live music 10pm £free Mucky Duck Gold Chains No Brains A mix of carboot house, codeine krunk and chip shop hip hop 8pm £free New Venture Theatre Biloxi Blues Coming of age play about a New York Jew joining the US army in the 1940s Details tbc Northern Lights The Sound Exchange: Paintings Of Ships, Pelle Miljoona United Live music 7pm £free Pav Tav Beats Not Bombs DJ sessions 8pm £free Prince Albert The Wildflowers Club Night Bands and DJs 8pm £4 Ranelagh Mike Newsham Americana and indie folk 8.30pm £free Sallis Benney Theatre Son Et Lumiere Mulitmedia show featuring lots of percussion and a recorder soloist 7.30pm £12/10/8 Sidewinder Miss Faricy Soul and disco DJ 9pm £free Smugglers Grits And Gravy New club night playing vintage rhythm&blues, ska and swing 9pm £free Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Brighton Rocks: Running Dogs, White Star Liners The cream of Brighton’s indie rock bands 7pm £4; Dive Slow Hip hop and electronica from the BBC critic and DJ, Mike Diver (upstairs) 9pm £free; Another Sunny Day There’s a club if you’d like to go and dance awkwardly to indiepop obscurities 11pm £free Theatre Royal Rough Justice Tom Conti stars in Terence Frisby’s courtroom drama 7.45pm £12-32 Thomas Kemp DJ Moler Funk, soul and rare
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grooves 9pm £free Three & Ten Katy & Rach, The Hee-Ha’s Double bill of improvised sketches, songs and comedy theatre (upstairs) 7.30pm £10/9 Tube Cross The crew behind TRASH kick off a night of beats and bass 11pm £3; Motel Last chance saloon for electro house heads 2am £5 Volks Originate 2nd Birthday: Randall, Ray Keith, Nebula, Relapse, Kosine & Dialect, Voytek & Absent, Mystery & Disrupta, Barney Trouble, Rumble, Kernel, Scalpel, Mark One Hardcore drum&bass 10pm £6/5 Western Front DJ Russ Rockwell Funk and soul DJ 9pm £free
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Saturday 13th
Above Audio Saturday Sessions Live music Time tbc £free; Doctor’s Orders Funk, soul and seriously sick hip hop 8pm £5/free
Ancient Mariner Acoustic Sessions music 8.30pm £tbc
Meme, Matt Beatwell Two DJs set out to answer the age-old question with a stack of drum-driven funk and soul 9pm £free Fortune Of War Beta Hector Robotic soul music from the Tru Thoughts DJ 9pm £free Funfair Magic New Motown, soul and rock club with circus style entertainment 9pm £7/5 Funkyfish Dreamboys Live The biggest cocks we’ve ever seen, shame about the weathered penises 6.30pm £tbc; Oldschool Saturday Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10pm £6/5 Globe Alphabet City Disco DJs 9pm £free Green Door Store Pop Not Pop - Bowie Special Pop night for anyone hankering for more David after seeing his titillating mysterious bulge in Labyrinth
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Audio Minimal Kids: Dimitri Andreas Techno 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 Belushi’s Bar DJ Sleeps Party tunes Details tbc Belushi’s Below Synergy Industrial goth and electro night 9pm £5/2 Black Dove The Chop Source DJ plays Caribbean rhythms and jump-jazz cuts 8pm £free Black Lion Attic Monkeys Vs Stop Go! Funk and soul vs rock and indie 4pm £free Blind Tiger Stay Sick!: The Jackets Bands and DJs play garage, punk and rock&roll 8pm £3/free
Brighton Museum Education Room Performing Spoken Word Spoken word event with Roy Hutchins 1.30pm £5/2
Brunswick Ellen & The Echo Local band launch
EP 8pm £tbc
Caroline Of Brunswick Bad To The Bone
Rockabilly DJ makes old women blush and young women squeal 9pm £free Coach House Sunsets Over Whitehawk Live music 8pm £tbc Coalition Micachu & The Shapes Live music 7pm £12/10; Les Enfants Dead Horse take over the Coalition for a big old electro party with DJ Milton 11pm £7/5; Blow: Vince Manganaro, Charly Lopez, Charles Green The party never stops 3am £5 Concorde2 Submotion Orchestra, Alix Perez Atmospheric and experimental jazz dub band 7pm £10; Bass Invaders: Adam F, Cookie Monsta, Dodge & Fuski, Reeps One, DJ Skitz, James D’Ley All your bass are belong to us 11pm £8 Cooper’s Cask Sweetback, DJ Matt The Hat DJ night 9pm £free Corn Exchange Rob Rouse: Brighton Comedy Festival He’s been on ‘8 Out Of 10 Cats’ but so have 7 out of 24 comedians - don’t hold that against him 7.30pm £15/13; Seize The David O’ Doherty: Brighton Comedy Festival Comedy keyboard ditties from the very droll Irishman 9.30pm £15/13 Cornerstone DJ Flo Reggae, funk and soul DJ 9pm £free Cowley Club Slutdisko: Mekano Set Dress to be oppressed and party like it’s 1984 at this night of dystopian electropunk noisecrime 8pm £donation Cube Stereo Revolution: Muerto, Re-Set “Upfront and credible house” Time tbc £free Digital Hospitality: Danny Byrd, Fred V & Grafix, Metrik, Transit Mafia, Wrec, Script, Visionobi, Back Off Premier drum&bass night 10pm £tbc Doctor Brighton’s Sexy Saturday: DJ Tony B 9.30pm £free Dome Jason Byrne - The People’s Puppeteer: Brighton Comedy Festival 8pm £17.50 Dome Cafe Bar Hope And Aspiration Participant-led installation 10am £free Dome Founders Room Children’s Storytelling Playwright, Dvora Liberman, entertains the kids with interactive tales 10am £free; Telling Tales Informal storytelling workshop 2.30pm £4 Dome Studio Ava Vidal: Brighton Comedy Festival Stand-up comedian questions the ideas of community and responsibility 7.45pm £12; Marcel Lucont - Gallic Symbol: Brighton Comedy Festival “Witty, acerbic Frenchman seeks audience for one hour only for fun, adventure and maybe something more” 9.30pm £12/10 Druid’s Arms DJ Paul Rock and indie classics 10pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema The Muppets Take Manhattan 11am £tbc; L’Elisir d’Amore: Met. Opera 5.55pm £tbc; On The Road Details tbc Fishbowl What’s Wrong With Groovin’?: Ed
Haunt The Popguns Late 80s Brighton indie pop favourites 7pm £9; It Is Still 1985 Travel through time to an ancient realm where neon socks are quite the thing 11pm £3 Honey Chop It Up: Danny Howard, Squiz, Willerby Funky house with the Radio 1 DJ 11pm £5-9 Hope DJ Ongly Soul, funk and disco DJ (downstairs) 9pm £free Horse & Groom Rum Boogie: The Hanover Rhythm And Blues Festival Live blues bands 6.30pm £free Jazz Place Night At The Jazz Rooms: Russ Dewbury, DJ Abo Legendary Brighton club returns to its old home for a jazz, soul and funk party 9.30pm £4/3/free Komedia Comedy Club 4 Kids Comedy without the rude bits 2pm £8.50/6.50; Krater Comedy Club: Daniel Sloss, Elis James, Ian Stone, Maff Brown Stand-up comedy 7pm/8pm £22/15 Life Juice Box Eclectic club night offering an nice alternative to the standard seafront malarky 11pm £5/3 Lighthouse Make Your Own Zine: Brighton Photo Biennial Adam Murray helps you make selfpublished zines and photobooks Noon £free Lola Lo Zombie Nation Where the dancefloor is never dead 8pm £10/7/6 Mesmerist Juke Joint Jamboree Rhythm & blues and rock&roll records from the days of the dance halls 9pm £free Molly Malone’s Jetsets Live music 10pm £free Mucky Duck Unhooked Generation Retro DJs with an ear for 60s Motown and northern soul 8pm £free New Venture Theatre Biloxi Blues Coming of age play about a New York Jew joining the US army in the 1940s Details tbc Northern Lights The Sound Exchange: Beautiful Word, Flash Bang Band Live music 3pm £free Old Market Terry Alderton: Brighton Comedy Festival Stand-up comedy 7.30pm £14/12 Pav Tav Saturday Sensations Resident DJs 8pm £free Preston Manor Hidden House - Behind The Scenes At Preston Manor 11am/2pm £10.50/8.50 Prince Albert Bobbie Peru, Deadbeat Descendant, One Thousand Tons Live music 8pm £4; Deadbeat Descendant, Bobbie Peru, One Thousand Tons Stonesy rock&roll with a tongue in cheek slant 8.30pm £4 Proud Cabaret Pop Kraft Pop tunes and cheeky cabaret with Boogaloo Stu and crew 7pm £6 Ranelagh Paul Buckley Blues and folk 8.30pm £free Royal Pavilion Familiar Faces, Hidden Places A tour of the Royal Pavilion estate 10.30am £20 Sidewinder Rhythm Addict DJ Goldsboro plays burning soul, blues and rock&roll 9pm £free Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Brighton Rocks: The Vinyls, Nightworkers, Fitsroy, Rosales The cream of Brighton’s indie rock bands 7pm £4; Kaleidoscope New monthly night of Eclectic DJing from The Physics House Band (upstairs) 9pm £free; Ultimate Power Do you possess enough irony reserves to get you through an entire night of power ballads? 11pm £6/5 Theatre Royal Rough Justice Tom Conti stars in Terence Frisby’s courtroom drama 2.30pm/7.45pm £12-32 Thomas Kemp DJ Miss Bianca 9pm £free Three & Ten AAA Rating - Age, Anxiety And Alzheimer’s Comedic stories set to ukulele and Casio keyboard 8pm £8.50/7 Tube Last Stop New club night playing R&B and US hip hop 11pm £5 Victory Soul Casserole - Soul Custody DJs A melting pot of hot funk beats and soul grooves 8pm £free Volks Auxillary Drum&bass night 11pm £tbc West Hill Hall Carrie Elkin & Danny Schmidt Two singer songwriters for the price of one 7.30pm £9 Western Front The Infamous Jay & Rich DJ duo 8pm £free
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Sunday 14th
Black Lion Live & Swingin’ Lion Live gypsy jazz, swing and blues 8pm £free
Blind Tiger Moulscombe Garden Fundraiser: DJ Bollocks 7pm £tbc Brunswick Nigel Price Organ Trio Live jazz 8pm £8/6
Concorde2 Brightona: Saxonized, Them Gasoline Roosters, Eliza Jaye, Dropzone, Liquid Fuse, Beggarz Fixx, Lawsuit Lizzy Another whole day of motorbikes clogging up the roads, this time with a fullon line-up of live rock&roll 10am £free
Corn Exchange Stephen K Amos - Laughter Is My Agenda: Brighton Comedy Festival Feelgood
comedy 7.30pm £17 Cowley Club Kelly Kemp, El Morgan, Helen Chambers Feminist folk 8pm £donation Cube Sunday Social Open decks session 8pm £free Dome Mark Watson - The Information: Brighton Comedy Festival Stand-up comedy 8pm £17.50 Dome Studio Robin Ince - Happiness Through Science: Brighton Comedy Festival Erudite and shambolic stand-up explores the human condition 7.45pm £12/10; Zoe Lyons - Pop-Up Comic: Brighton Comedy Festival Silliness, satire and caustic one liners from the ubiquitous Brighton comic 9.15pm £14/12 Duke Of Norfolk Live Music Night Live music from local artists 9pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema On The Road Details tbc Fishbowl Recovery? Reggae through the ages 9pm £free Food For Friends Ruth And Danny Soul, jazz and indie covers 6.30pm £tbc Fountain Head Reggae & Roasts Reggae and chilled beats Time tbc £free Globe Handbaked Arcade Things were so much better in the 1990s when all we had was 64-bit games of Italian plumbers inexplicably racing against turtles and gorillas Noon £free Green Door Store Twisted Wheel Afternoon Northern soul party 3pm £free; Green Door Blues Big Itch DJs plus the resident blues band, Smokestack 10.30pm £free Hampton The Porchlight Smoker Folk and bluegrass band 8pm £free Honey Sundown If your house was this sexy you’d never go outdoors 11pm £free Horse & Groom Micky Hart & The Hart Brakers, Archie Deacon & The Bishops: The Hanover Rhythm And Blues Festival Blues bands 7.30pm £free Komedia Jill Edwards Stand-Up Comedy Workshop You might be the world’s greatest wit when you’re down the pub, but can you cut it when the audience isn’t comprised of patient friends trying to humour you? Noon £55/45 Komedia Wilko Johnson The former guitarist from British blues rockers, Dr Feelgood 7.30pm £17.50; Lorraine Bowen’s Vital Organs Quirky cabaret housewife shows off her collection of retro organs 8pm £8 Life Dagger Terrace Sessions Daytime DJs play dancehall, reggae and ska Time tbc £free Loft The Community Payback Show: Peter & The Test Tube Babies, Brutal Regime, Blind Eye Fury Local lager lad punk band raise funds for Brighton Unemployed Centre Families Project and Brighton & Hove Community Radio 8pm £7 Molly Malone’s Crackling Griffins Live music 10pm £free Northern Lights Northern Light Sundays The DJ has a lazy Sunday afternoon 4pm £free Old Market Paul Zerdin - Puppet Master: Brighton Comedy Festival Ventriloquist, puppeteer and comedian all in one 7pm £14/12 Prince Albert Studio 9 Orchestra 18-piece jazz swing band 8pm £tbc Prince George Pub Quiz 8pm £1 Ranelagh Dave Peabody Blues and folk 8.30pm £free Sallis Benney Theatre Ragroof Tea Dance Stylish afternoon tea dance with 20s, 30s and 40s music, somehow incorporating a Halloween theme 2pm £free Signalman Open Mic Open session hosted by local duo, Zoothyme 8pm £free Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Xup-Sup, Hey Joni, Wrecktheplacefantastic, Sweet Jonny Pop punk, twinkly emo, post hardcore and new wave garage rock 7.30pm £3 Theatre Royal The Drifters Soul and blues band celebrates its 55th anniversary 7.30pm £25 Thomas Kemp Jazz In The Afternoon: Le Duo Live jazz 4pm £free Victory Blues Sundays DJ plays blues and soul Noon £free
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Monday 15th
Ancient Mariner Quiz Night 8pm £1 Audio The Basement Brand new bass mash-up Time tbc £3/2
Belushi’s Bar Pump Up The 90s Retro night
dedicated to the decade that was dedicated to retro nights 9pm £free Blind Tiger Voicebox Spoken word and live music open mic night 8pm £free Brunswick Harmonessence Vocal harmony choir in which anyone can sing 5.30pm £tbc; Army Of Harmony A capella vocal group 7.30pm £tbc; Open Mic 8.30pm £free Caroline Of Brunswick Conspiracy Night: The American Dream After you’ve finished watching conspiracy documentaries you can try to spot the plainclothed CIA agents taking notes about audience members 8pm £free Coalition Trash Mondays Filthy tunes for students and layabouts alike 10.30pm £5/3 Duke Of York’s Cinema Film Screening Jarman Award 2012 Shortlist: Brighton Photo Biennial 6.30pm £3.50-7.50; On The Road Details tbc Gladstone Open Mic Night 9pm £free Green Door Store The Outer Church Live music and weird noises 7pm £5 Haunt Fat Poppadaddys The student indie night moves to a new home 11pm £3/2/free Hope Live Sessions Live music (downstairs) 9pm £free Komedia Daniel Simonsen - Champions: Brighton Comedy Festival Award-winning new comedian 7pm £8; Joe Lycett - Some Lycett Hot: Brighton Comedy Festival Stand-up comedy 8.30pm £10/8 Life #Hashtag Funky house club with added Twitter confusion 10pm £3/2 Lola Lo Ramshackle New indie, hip hop and dubstep night 10pm £4 Mesmerist Stroll On Mondays 60s and 70s night with DJs and film projections 8.30pm £free Old Market My Darling Clementine Alt country ballads from Michael Weston King and Lou Dalgleish 8pm £15 Pav Tav Red Tooth Poker 8pm £free Redroaster Richard Walters Singer songwriter on a UK tour Details tbc Signalman Signalman Pub Quiz 8pm £1 Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar IOU Comedy: Michael Fabbri, Angela Barnes, Romesh Ranganathan, Sean McLoughlin, Zoe Lyons Last ever IOU night, bowing out with a top comedy line-up 7.30pm £5 Theatre Royal Duet For One Tom Kempinski’s drama based on the life and experiences of cellist, Jacqueline Du Pre 7.45pm £12-32 Victory Some Dark Hollow Extra Old time tunes and lonesome laments 8pm £free Volks Strictly Reggae Dancehall, roots, revival 11pm £5/4
Tuesday 16th
Above Audio Cottontail Club Big band and jitter
jive tunes 9pm £free Audio Guerilla Rocks Club night for rock chicks, skater bois and indie kids 11pm £3/2/1 Belushi’s Bar Back To The 80s Retro night dedicated to the only decade to spawn a revival which has lasted longer than the decade itself 9pm £free Brunswick Jazz Jam Open session with a house band and special guests 8pm £free Concorde2 Hadouken! New rave dance punk 7.30pm £12 Cooper’s Cask Chicken Themed Pub Quiz 9pm £1 Cube Cube Live: Travis Eddie & Jon McGlashan Live music 8pm £free Digital CU Next Tuesday It’ll teach the universities to timetable lectures for Wednesday mornings 11pm £4/3 Dome Ray Davies Much-loved quintessential English songwriter - but will he play Lola? 8pm £35/32.50 Druid’s Arms The Druid’s Brand Spanking New Student Party DJ Paul plays indie rock classics 8pm £free Duke Of Norfolk Open Mic 9pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema On The Road Details tbc 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 Gladstone Quiz Night 8.30pm £1 Globe Basement Cinema Underground films,
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comfy seats and free popcorn 8pm £free Green Door Store Nine Black Alps Live Music 7.30pm £9; Donuts Hipster funk and hip hop gems 11pm £free Hampton The Hampton Quiz 8pm £1 Haunt Written In Waters, Demob Happy, Kill Moon, 000 Album launch for the men in masks 7pm £free Honey Urbano Latino: DJ Aaron George, Gabriel Angel, Yersin Rivas Dance lessons followed by a tropically vibed salsa club 8pm/10.30pm £3/1/free Komedia Suzi Ruffell - Let’s Get Ready To Ruffell: Brighton Comedy Festival Stand-up comedy 7pm £10/8; Charlie Baker - Freshly Baked: Brighton Comedy Festival Stand-up comedian 8.30pm £10/8 Latest Music Bar Cafe Scientifique Let’s talk about science, baby 8pm £free Lola Lo Dirtee Laundry Student night 10pm £6/4/2 Old Market Miniclick: Jim Stephenson Photography presentation and talk 6.30pm £free Open House Jazz Work Shop Throw away those jazz mags and try out your trumpet in public 8pm £tbc Pav Tav Acoustic Soul Live music 8pm £free Prince Albert Carlton Melton, Working Man Noise Unit Live music 8pm £6.50 Quadrant The Trident Open mic night for trying out new material 8pm £free Red Lion Challenging General Knowledge & Music Quiz 8pm £1 Royal Oak Quiz 8.30pm £tbc Sidewinder Open Mic Jam session with instruments provided 8.30pm £free Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Ras G, Alphabets Heaven, Ambassaduers, Manni Dee Space funk grooves that “people will be playing in the ghettos of Mars in the year 3014” 7pm £6/5 Theatre Royal Duet For One Tom Kempinski’s drama based on the life and experiences of cellist, Jacqueline Du Pre 7.45pm £12-32 Thomas Kemp Poker Evening 8pm £free Tube Showdown Dubstep, garage, breaks and house Time tbc £4/3/2 Volks Tuesday Takeover Drum&bass and dubstep 11pm £free
Wednesday 17th
Above Audio Kitchen DJ collective serve up some juicy hip hop treats Time tbc £free
Audio Re:Flex: DJ Ez Garage, drum&bass and more bass 11pm £5/3
Black Lion East Brighton Rhythm Section
Resident band plays dub, soul and hip hop 8.30pm £free Blind Tiger Beatabet Live music, DJs and multimedia treats Details tbc Brunswick Something Blue Blues and Americana 8pm £8 Caroline Of Brunswick Artists And Occupy: Brighton Photo Biennial Richard Rowland and Ed Thompson discuss art and politics 7pm £free Coalition CoCo LoCo Dancehall and dubstep music for students to lose the plot to 10.30pm £5/3 Concorde2 Portico Quartet, Taylor McFerrin Experimental London band pushing percussion grooves and ambient classical touches 7.30pm £15 Cornerstone Carla Maria Jennings Live acoustic music 9pm £free Cowley Club The Weather Underground Documentary about the 1970s radical group who bombed US government buildings and busted Timothy Leary out of prison 7.30pm £free Cube Wicked Wednesdays House DJs Time tbc £free; Resident Session: Justin Howard, David Rees House DJs Time tbc £free Digital Poundance Like a coin operated dancefloor 11pm £4/3/1 Dome Dara O’Briain - Craic Attack: Brighton Comedy Festival Stand-up comedy 8pm £21 Dome Studio Nick Helm – This Means War!: Brighton Comedy Festival Shouty and romantic standup comic 7.45pm £12/10; Sara Pascoe - The Musical!: Brighton Comedy Festival Musical comedy 9.15pm £12/10 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 On The Road Details tbc Fishbowl Tea & Biscuits: DJ Gareth Stephens Retro swing, soul and ska 10pm £free Funfair Be Bop-A-Lula 50s rock&roll, ska and soul Time tbc £3/2 Green Door Store Donky Pitch: ARP 101, Elliot Yorke, Ghost Mutt, Donky Pitch DJs Launch party for the alter ego of drum&bass producer, Alix Perez 7pm £6; Hard Times Please sir, I want some more nowave disco 11pm £free Haunt Supercharged Drum&bass and breaks 11pm
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Komedia Julie Murphy Singer songwriter in the vein
of Shirley Collins or Sandy Denny 7.30pm £12; Squawker Comedy Final: Brighton Comedy Festival Comedy competition for the best newcomers 8pm £12/10 Latest Music Bar Tango Boot Camp Learn to tango like the Argentinians 8pm £3-8 Life Move New dance club 11pm £tbc Lola Lo Vida New club night playing funky and urban tunes 10pm £5/3 Mesmerist The Swing Ninjas Gypsy swing band 9pm £free Molly Malone’s Feargal Lyden Live music 9pm £free Pav Tav Quiz Night 8pm £free Prince Albert Wildcat Strike, Mandingo’s, Nervous Pills Live music 8pm £4/3 Royal Oak Jazz At The Oak Live jazz 8.30pm £free Sidewinder Movie Night Showing films chosen by the audience via Facebook 8.30pm £free Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Oxjam: AstroPhysics Hip hop big band raise funds for Oxfam 8pm £tbc Theatre Royal Duet For One Tom Kempinski’s drama based on the life and experiences of cellist, Jacqueline Du Pre 7.45pm £12-32 Thomas Kemp Kev & Jenna’s Open Mic 8.30pm £free Three Graces Pub Quiz 8pm £free Tube White Van Electronica for beat fiends 11pm £5/4/3 Western Front Hush Hush Live acoustic music 9pm £free
Thursday 18th Above Audio Schtumm! grooves Time tbc £free
Disco and house
Audio Bastard Pop Musical mash-up 11pm £3/2/ free
Basement Sam Baker, Josh Harty Live music 8pm £12
Belushi’s Bar Karaoke 9pm £free Black Lion This Is The Modern World Modbothering DJ night 8.30pm £free Blind Tiger Dub Organiser Jam session with a dub reggae band 8pm £3 Brighton Centre Tenacious D, The Sights Comedy rock legends 7pm £35 Brunswick Bubsie & The Beat Bros Live band plays Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Rumours’ 8pm £6/5 Coalition Secret Discotheque Replaying the soundtrack to your youth 11pm £4/3/2 Concorde2 Lianne La Havas South London singer with a classic soulful voice 7pm £14.50 Corn Exchange Andrew Lawrence Is Coming To Get You: Brighton Comedy Festival Stand-up comedy 7.30pm £15/13 Cube Brighton Underground Dubstep, R&B and garage 8pm £free Digital Foreign Beggars The Uprising Tour 11pm £10; Supercharged: Foreign Beggars Drum&bass night 11pm £10 Dome Studio Josh Widdicombe - The Further Adventures Of...: Brighton Comedy Festival Standup comedy 7.45pm £12/10; Time Out’s Joy Of Sketch: Brighton Comedy Festival Sketch comedy show 9.15pm £14/12 Duke Of York’s Cinema On The Road Details tbc Fabrica Lunchtime Tour: Brighton Photo Biennial Informal guided tour of the exhibition, ‘The Beautiful Horizon’ 1pm £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 George Payne Open Mic Jam session with instruments provided, in what used to be the Kendal Arms 8.30pm £free Globe Hang The DJ! A night of punter-picked playlists 9pm £free Green Door Store NZCA/Lines Former indie bassist gone solo with a R&B-backed synth pop sound 7.30pm £7; Thursday Night Fish Fry Jamaican ska, R&B and rocksteady 11pm £free Hand In Hand Rave On! DJs Citizen Lane and Becky Boop play doo-wop and vintage pop 8pm £free Haunt Field Music Much loved Sunderland indie band 7pm £10; Coconut College Thursday night party playing a right mix of stuff like Grimes, Smashing
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Pumpkins and Kayne West 11pm £3/2 Honey Propaganda Indie club 10.30pm £tbc Hope The Social Live acoustic music 8pm £free; Dylan Carlson Solo set from the lead monger from doom drone group, Earth 8pm £9 Komedia Bastille, Swiss Lips Electronic pop band 7pm £8.50; Juliet Turner & Yvonne Lyon Irish singer songwriter 7.45pm £10 Latest Music Bar Brighton Keep Our NHS Public Benefit Gig Here’s a question for Lady Thatcher (instigator of the 30-year Tory campaign to destroy the NHS) - if there’s no such thing as society, why should we look after our dittery old folk? We wonder if Margaret’s nurse is ever tempted to give her a shot of nitrogen to the brain. Anyway, this is a benefit gig for a campaign group that in no way endorses killing former heads of state. 8pm £5 Lola Lo Tom Foolery Electro, house and dubstep night 9pm £5/3 Lucky Voice Acoustic Open Mic 6pm £tbc Mesmerist Johnson & The Believers Rocksteady and ska mixed with indie rock 9pm £free Molly Malone’s Jareth Tait Live music 9pm £free Mucky Duck Open Mic Jam session with Joe Newman 8pm £free Old Market Steve Hughes - Big Issues: Brighton Comedy Festival Entertaining social commentary from the Australian comic and former heavy metal drummer 7.30pm £14/12 Prince Albert Martin Oliver, Richard Allan Ii, Fingers & Thumbs Live music 8pm £4 Prince George Souled Out DJs play funk, soul and Motown 8pm £free Proud Cabaret Laugh Out Proud: Pete Cain, Rob Dumbrell, Pete Beckley, Geoff Norcott, Katie Mulgrew Stand-up comedy night Time tbc £10 Quadrant Polar Bear And Teej Spoken word night with a hip hop bent 7.30pm £4 Ranelagh The Diablos Americana and country rock 8.30pm £free Rock & Roller Born In The USA Music from the land of hope and glory 8pm £free Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Negative Approach, Punch, Jackals, Man Hands American 80s hardcore pioneers 7pm £11; Sussex Bass Society The student society leaves the safety of East Slope for a night of full-on bass 11pm £5/£4 Theatre Royal Duet For One Tom Kempinski’s drama based on the life and experiences of cellist, Jacqueline Du Pre 2.30pm/7.45pm £12-32 Thomas Kemp David Ross Live acoustic music 9pm £free 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 £3/free Victory Open Mic 8pm £free Volks Oxjam Fundraiser: Wonderland, Roksonix, Random Reality, Rumble & LJ Lyons, Darth Raynor, Experimental, Laura The Fire Dancer, Mr Hexx, FTR, B-Low, Rezound Drum&bass and dubstep, bass and beatbox 10pm £3
Friday 19th
Above Audio Home House and disco DJs 9pm £free
Audio James Zabiela, Savage, Cassell & Leeves
The prog house turned techno DJ who made CDJing seem less like cheating 11pm £10 Basement Jukebox Fury - Celebrate!: Zimbaremabwe Pop-up gig and cinema celebrating black culture 8.30pm £7/5 Belushi’s Bar DJ A C Knell Dance tunes Details tbc Black Lion Medium Rare DJs serve up a platter of semi-obscure funk and soul 9pm £free Blind Tiger Planet Mu Special: Ital Tek, μ-Ziq, Anneka Electronic music label launch new album 8pm £free Brighton Centre Ed Sheeran, Passenger, Foy Vance 6.30pm £22 Brunswick The Doctors, Wob Folk rock and pogo pop 8pm £5 Caroline Of Brunswick Distortion Goth and metal DJs 9pm £free Coach House Crayola Lectern Live music 8pm £tbc Coalition Friday I’m In Love No more lectures for a day or two 11pm £1-5 Concorde2 The Revival Tour 2012 Live music from Chuck Ragan, Jay Malinowski (Bedouin Soundclash), Cory Branan, Rocky Votolato and Emily Barker, accompanied by Jon Gaunt (fiddle) and Joe Ginsberg (bass) 7pm £14 Concorde2 Norman Jay More ‘Good Times’ with the Notting Hill DJ 11pm £5 Cornerstone DJ Coops Soul and funk boogie
9pm £free
Digital Stonelove Indie rock&roll club 11pm £4/3 Doctor Brighton’s Funky Friday: DJ Nick Hirst, DJ Wayne 9.30pm £free Dome Russell Kane - Posturing Delivery: Brighton Comedy Festival Comedian currently trying to out stupid-hair Russell Brand (Kane’s winning) 7pm £17.50
Dome Studio Pappy’s - Last Show Ever!: Brighton Comedy Festival Is this the end for the
supremely silly comedy sketch troupe? 7.45pm £12/10; Chris Ramsey - Feeling Lucky: Brighton Comedy Festival Stand-up comedian asks big questions about how we got here (through the entrance on New Road)
9.30pm £10 Druid’s Arms Hot Pepper Sauce DJ I.D.G. plays old school funk, soul and house 10pm £free Duke Of Norfolk DJ MC Cashback DJ night 9pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema On The Road Details tbc Fishbowl Cut La Vis Jamaican riddims and urban beats 9pm £free Fortune Of War Fever: DJ Joseph 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 £7/5 Funkyfish Back To The Oldskool Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10.30pm £2/free Gladstone Catch A Groove DJ Bozak shares his collection of funk, soul and hip hop 8.30pm £free Globe Rum Fridays: Balearia Balearic beats and disco delights 8pm £free Green Door Store D/R/U/G/S Indie flavoured live bands 7pm £4; Sub Bop Down and dirty grunge night with added shoegaze 11pm £free Haunt Joanne Shaw Taylor We know Dave Stewart discovered this blues singer songwriter when she was only 16. What we don’t know is where Dave found her or what he was doing at the time 7pm £15; 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 Hope Brand New Start, The Emerald Armada Double bill of new folk bands 7.30pm £6; The Emerald Armada Foot-stomping indie folk from Belfast Details tbc; DJ Sumsuch Old school hip hop and funky soul 8pm £free Komedia Radio City Comedy theatre done the oldfashioned radio way 8pm £8/6; Krater Comedy Club: Chris Stokes, Rudi Lickwood, Ian Moore Stand-up Vintage comedy 8pm £13.50/15.50; Born Bad rockabilly for pompadour cats and polka dot kittens 11pm £6/5 Latest Music Bar Sing From The Heart Details tbc Life Critical Sound: Enei, Kasra, Xrtah, Emperor, Bassline MC Drum&bass all the way 11pm £5 Lola Lo Tiki Beats Totally tropical tunes 8pm £5/4/3 Mesmerist Shake, Holla & Roll Vintage blues, swing and rock&roll 9pm £free Molly Malone’s Crackling Griffins Live music 10pm £free Mucky Duck Catholic Discipline Space rock, electronica and cinematic sounds 8pm £free New Venture Theatre Three Kinds Of Me 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 Details tbc Old Market Alexei Sayle: Brighton Comedy Festival The comedian’s first time back on the stand-up stage for 16 years 7.30pm £14/12 Pav Tav Beats Not Bombs DJ sessions 8pm £free Prince Albert Club Meow Meow Upfront and immediate ska night 8.30pm £4 Quadrant Comedy Sans Frontières: Simon Munnery, Sarah Kendall, Julie Jepson, Joey Page, Sami Stone Comedy gig raising funds for the humanitarian aid charity, Doctors Without Borders 8pm £6/5 Ranelagh Americana Music Series: Suzette Lawrence & The Neon Angels, Anthony Duke Nashville country with attitude 8.30pm £free Sidewinder The Cosmic Trigger Club DJ set by Al from Catholic Discipline 9pm £free Smugglers Grits And Gravy New club night playing vintage rhythm&blues, ska and swing 9pm £free St Luke’s Church Helen Whitaker & Katherine Tinker Piano and flute duo play pieces by Fauré, Debussy and Stockhausen - plus a new work by local composer, Martin Butler 7.30pm £7/5 Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Brighton Rocks: One Roots, Johnson & The Believers, Three Against Four, Elijah MC Live music 7pm £4; Neon Underground techno, psychedelic vibes 11pm £donation Theatre Royal Duet For One Tom Kempinski’s drama based on the life and experiences of cellist, Jacqueline Du Pre 7.45pm £12-32 Thomas Kemp Hot-Tip Hi-Fi DJ with a fine
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collection of vintage reggae and rocksteady records 8.30pm £free
Three & Ten Alpine Horn With Flange Krammer
Ironic sexism and over the top innuendos from the comedy skier 7.30pm £8.50/6.50 Tube Cross The crew behind TRASH kick off a night of beats and bass 11pm £3; Last chance saloon for electro house heads 2am £5 Volks Solo Banton, As-If, Unity Hi-Fi, Kings Hi-Fi, X-Nation & Kosine, King Spinner, Inasound Album launch party with two floors of ragga, jungle and dubstep 10pm £8/6/5 Western Front Soul Casserole A melting pot of hot funk beats and soul grooves 9pm £free
Saturday 20th
Above Audio Saturday Sessions Live music Time tbc £free; Doctor’s Orders Funk, soul and seriously sick hip hop 8pm £5/free
Ancient Mariner Acoustic Sessions music 8.30pm £tbc
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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 Belushi’s Bar DJ Sleeps Party tunes Details tbc Belushi’s Below Apocalypse Rock and the sort of metal that went by the name ‘nu’ 9pm £5/2 Black Dove The Chop Source DJ plays Caribbean rhythms and jump-jazz cuts 8pm £free Black Lion Burnt Toast Black Lion Block Party DJs play sleazy soul and dirty breaks 4pm £free Blind Tiger Acid Mothers Temple And The Melting Paraiso UFO, Innerstrings Psychedelic Lightshow Take a trip on the psychedelic mothership of Japanese spacerock 7.30pm £12/10; Traumfrau: The Shondes Brooklyn-based radical punk girl band 11pm £6/5 Brighton Buddhist Centre Meeting The Buddha Public talk on transforming one’s world view and finding meaning with Vidyadhara 2pm £free Brighton Centre Joan Rivers - The Now Or Never Tour 7pm £28-33.50 Brunswick Myniemoe Live swing music 8pm £tbc Caroline Of Brunswick Bad To The Bone Rockabilly DJ makes old women blush and young women squeal 9pm £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 Concorde2 Beach Of The Dead VI - The Undead Prom, The 80s Zombie Ball!: Greg Sick, Simon Price, Flying White Dots, Guy Lloyd When hell is full the dead will walk the streets of Brighton, get drunk on the beach and end up at an 80s prom night 4pm £3; Playgroup Festival Reunion Party: Hackney Colliery Band, King Porter Stomp, Carnival Collective Relive the halcyon days of last month’s festival with a Balkan brass band and some hip hop gypsy ska 11pm £10 Cooper’s Cask Keep It Wheel DJ Steve Kiw plays rare disco, soul and boogie 9pm £free Corn Exchange Seann Walsh - Seann To Be Wild: Brighton Comedy Festival Local comedian done good 7.30pm £12/10; Tom Stade - Totally Rocks: Brighton Comedy Festival Canadian comic 9.30pm £tbc Cowley Club The Don Bradmans, Barley Roots Collective Eccentric and punky Bonzo-style ska band 8pm £tbc Cube Simply House: Cheets, Hutson, Townsend House DJs Time tbc £free Digital UKF: Loadstar, Emalkay 11pm £10 Doctor Brighton’s Sexy Saturday: DJ Tony B 9.30pm £free Dome Best Of The Fest: Brighton Comedy Festival Comedy highlights 8pm £16.50/15 Dome Cafe Bar Hope And Aspiration Participant-led installation 10am £free; Dome Discovery Tour Explore the historic venue’s backstage areas 10.30am £8.50 Dome Studio Josie Long - Romance And Adventure: Brighton Comedy Festival Stand-up comedy 7pm £12/10 Druid’s Arms DJ Green Man’s Garden Of Delights A carefully cultivated set of soul, psychedelia, funk and pop 10pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema On The Road Details tbc; 90s Action All Nighter: Die Hard: With A Vengeance, Speed, The Last Boy Scout, Con Air 11pm £tbc; Mirror Mirror 11am £tbc Fishbowl DJ Åbo & Ally Jazz Room DJs play dirty funk and hot jazz 9pm £free Fortune Of War DJ Derek, DJ Stavros Bristol
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reggae DJ 9pm £free Funfair Magic New Motown, soul and rock club with circus style entertainment 9pm £7/5 Funkyfish Dreamboys Live The biggest cocks we’ve ever seen, shame about the weathered penises 6.30pm £tbc; Oldschool Saturday Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10pm £6/5 Globe Freestylin’ DJ Richie C plays soul, funk, jazz, disco and house 9pm £free Green Door Store Fear Of Men Local indie band headlines a whole afternoon and evening of live music 4pm £free; Da Doo Ron Ron Club night run by an Amazonian matriarchy wherein male music has been banished in favour of soul sirens and 60s girl groups 11pm £free Haunt Pokey La Farge Stylish American roots band 7pm £12; It Is Still 1985 Travel through time to an ancient realm where keytars are still pretty cool 11pm £3 Honey MYNT Lounge If your house was this funky you’d have to invest in some industrial cleaning products 11pm £5-8.50 Hope Dope Body, Metz, Traams, Sealings Erratic sludge punks 8pm £6; Soul Casserole A melting pot of hot funk beats and soul grooves (downstairs) 9pm £free Jazz Place Night At The Jazz Rooms: Russ Dewbury, Dean Rudland, Bob Smith, Gary Johnson Legendary Brighton club returns to its old home for a soul and funk party 9.30pm £5/4/free Komedia Vikki Stone - Hot Mess: Brighton Comedy Festival Award-winning musical comedy 7pm £10; Krater Comedy Club: Rudi Lickwood, Ian Moore Stand-up comedy 7pm/8pm £22/15; 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 Dar Williams 7pm £11 Life Juice Box Eclectic club night offering an nice alternative to the standard seafront malarky 11pm £5/3 Lola Lo Zombie Nation Where the dancefloor is never dead 8pm £10/7/6 Mesmerist Juke Joint Jamboree Rhythm & blues and rock&roll records from the days of the dance halls 9pm £free Molly Malone’s Nassau Royal Live music 10pm £free Mucky Duck Ross Never Sleeps DJ set 8pm £free New Venture Theatre Three Kinds Of Me 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 Details tbc Northern Lights DJ One Time Funk, soul and classic hip hop 9pm £free Old Market Tony Law - Maximum Nonsense: Brighton Comedy Festival Absurdist stand-up comedy 7.30pm £12/10; Funny Women - Brighton Nights Comedy competition 9pm £10 Pav Tav Saturday Sensations Resident DJs 8pm £free Prince Albert We Are The Physics Live music 8pm £6 Ranelagh Shauna Parker & The Saloon Bar Band Country and swing band 8.30pm £free Sidewinder Robbie Bowers Psych fest DJ set from the Thursday Night Fish Fry resident 9pm £free Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Brighton Rocks: Whitemare, A New Way To Trust, Protect Ya Neck, Illusions, Bleak Falls Live music 7pm £4; Unhooked Generation Retro night with an ear for 60s Motown and northern soul (upstairs) 9pm £free; Trap Magazine Launch Party: Royal-T, Deadman’s Chest, Sorele, Lofty The Bass mag puts on a night of house, grime and drum&bass 11pm £5/3 Theatre Royal Duet For One Tom Kempinski’s drama based on the life and experiences of cellist, Jacqueline Du Pre 2.30pm/7.45pm £12-32 Thomas Kemp DJ Lamp 9pm £free Three & Ten Off The Cuff Audience-seeded jokes made up on the spot 7.30pm £8/6; Trevor Lock’s Amateur Sex Tape Theory Improvisation and wordplay from the stand-up comedian 9pm £9/7.50 Tube Last Stop New club night playing R&B and US hip hop 11pm £5 University Of Sussex Photography’s Contested Spaces: Brighton Photo Biennial An allday symposium exploring the political challenges of photography 10am £10 Victory Teen Dream 60s garage and punk DJs 9pm £free Volks Frequency: The Upbeats, High Maintenance, Xilent, D Double U, Sublok In your face drum and bass 10pm £2 Walmer Castle Bad Bad Whiskey, Leanne & The Rock’eros Rockabilly trio 8pm £free Western Front Figure Of Wax DJ night 9pm £free
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Sunday 21st
Black Lion Live & Swingin’ Lion Live gypsy jazz,
swing and blues 8pm £free Blind Tiger Mandinka Griot Night: Jali World music night with the Gambian Kora King 7pm £4 Brunswick Brighton Folk Monthly folk night with Amy Hill 8pm £free Concorde2 Immortal Technique Political hip hop from the clued-up American rapper 8pm £12 Corn Exchange Herbie Flowers’ Jazz Breakfast Celebrated bassist smears your toast with his jazz 11am £6 Cube Sunday Social: Sam & Max Derkson Progressive house DJs 8pm £free Digital Mr Scruff Five hour set from the DJ eccentric 9pm £8 Dome Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra Barry Wordsworth conducts a concert of music by Haydn, Henry Wood and Elgar 2.45pm £9-32 Duke Of York’s Cinema Bolshoi - Swan Lake 4pm £tbc; On The Road Details tbc Fishbowl Recovery? Reggae through the ages 9pm £free Food For Friends Hajar Solo vocalist does pop and jazz covers with some originals thrown in 6.30pm £tbc Fountain Head Reggae & Roasts Reggae and chilled beats Time tbc £free Globe Handbaked Arcade Things were so much better in the 1990s when all we had was 64-bit games of Italian plumbers inexplicably racing against turtles and gorillas Noon £free Green Door Store Another Lazy Sunday New night of art and videos 7pm £5/4; Green Door Blues Big Itch DJs plus the resident blues band, Smokestack 10.30pm £free Hampton The Sunday Sessions Live acoustic music 8pm £free Honey Sundown If your house was this sexy you’d never go outdoors 11pm £free Komedia My Mini Disco Clubbing for kids, with a dance instructor and face painting 2pm £8; Gemma Hayes Irish singer songwriter mixing prog, folk and electronica 8pm £14; Krater Comedy Club: James Redmond, Chris Neill, Ian Moore, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 8pm £5-12 Life Dagger Terrace Sessions Daytime DJs play dancehall, reggae and ska Time tbc £free Molly Malone’s Nassau Royal Live music 10pm £free Mucky Duck Charity Quiz On My Face “Quiz night with a difference,” perhaps with a very special prize 8pm £1 Northern Lights Northern Light Sundays The DJ has a lazy Sunday afternoon 4pm £free Prince George Pub Quiz 8pm £1 Ranelagh Shakespeare And The Bible Hamburg folk butchers 8.30pm £free Signalman Open Mic Open session hosted by local duo, Zoothyme 8pm £free St Luke’s Church Gabriela diLaccio & Ivan Pires Soprano singer and pianist explore the music of North and South America 3.30pm £7/5 Thomas Kemp Jazz In The Afternoon: Miss Mandy Live jazz and blues 4pm £free Three & Ten Big Heart A spoken word show about heart failure, with jokes 7.30pm £7.50/6 Victory Blues Sundays DJ plays blues and soul Noon £free Western Front The E.M.E. Live band playing jazzy hip hop, followed by an open jam 9pm £free
Monday 22nd
Ancient Mariner Quiz Night 8pm £1 Audio The Basement Brand new bass mash-up Time tbc £3/2
Belushi’s Bar Pump Up The 90s Retro night dedicated to the decade that was dedicated to retro nights 9pm £free
Blind Tiger Voicebox Spoken word and live music
open mic night 8pm £free Brunswick Harmonessence Vocal harmony choir in which anyone can sing 5.30pm £tbc; Army Of Harmony A capella vocal group 7.30pm £tbc; Open Mic 8.30pm £free Caroline Of Brunswick Classic Sci-Fi Movie Night 8pm £free Coalition Francois & The Atlas Mountains French alt pop 7pm £9.50/8.50; Trash Mondays Filthy tunes for students and layabouts alike 10.30pm £5/3 Concorde2 Mat Cardle One of Simon Cowell’s genetically engineered minions of doom 7pm £22.50 Duke Of York’s Cinema On The Road Details tbc Fabrica Artisit Talk: Julian Germain The
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photographer talks about the seventeen years of the No Olho da Rua project 6.30pm £free Gladstone Open Mic Night 9pm £free Haunt Rolo Tomassi, Oathbreaker, Goodtime Boys Live Music 7pm £10; Fat Poppadaddys The student indie night moves to a new home 11pm £3/2/ free Hope Alternative Freshers’ Week: We Are Fiction, Loose Lips, Scream Don’t Whisper, Esmeralda, Jipsy Magic, The Young Electrics, Mum Dad & The Kids Two floors of Brighton’s best bands Time tbc £7/6/5; Live Sessions Live music (downstairs) 9pm £free Life #Hashtag Funky house club with added Twitter confusion 10pm £3/2 Lola Lo Ramshackle New indie, hip hop and dubstep night 10pm £4 Mesmerist Stroll On Mondays 60s and 70s night with DJs and film projections 8.30pm £free Old Market Insites - Connections To Learning Storytelling and teaching event related to developing a sense of space and place 10am £30 Pav Tav Red Tooth Poker 8pm £free Prince Albert Brighton City College Showcase Live music 8pm £tbc Signalman Signalman Pub Quiz 8pm £1 Theatre Royal Fascinating Aida - Cheap Flights Musical comedy trio 7.45pm £19.50 Thomas Kemp Quiz Night 8pm £1 Volks Strictly Reggae Dancehall, roots, revival 11pm £5/4
Tuesday 23rd
Above Audio Cottontail Club Big band and jitter
jive tunes 9pm £free Audio Guerilla Rocks Club night for rock chicks, skater bois and indie kids 11pm £3/2/1 Belushi’s Bar Back To The 80s Retro night dedicated to the only decade to spawn a revival which has lasted longer than the decade itself 9pm £free Blind Tiger Krusbär Jam Electronic open mic night for laptoppers and circuit benders 7pm £free; Krusbar Open mic night for electronic music makers 8pm £3 Brunswick Jazz Jam Open session with a house band and special guests 8pm £free Concorde2 Reverend & The Makers, Janice Graham Band, MOK The Arctic Monkeys’ mate is back 7.30pm £12.50 Cooper’s Cask Pub Quiz - Movie Week 9pm £1 Corn Exchange Motherland Theatre piece about the age-old gender debate with a bit of a song and dance thrown in 7.30pm £15 Cube Cube Live: Matt Bonner Live music 8pm £free Digital CU Next Tuesday It’ll teach the universities to timetable lectures for Wednesday mornings 11pm £4/3 Dome Studio Sussex Salon Series This month’s topic is ‘Do we need Black History Month?’ 8pm £6/4 Druid’s Arms The Druid’s Brand Spanking New Student Party DJ Paul plays indie rock classics 8pm £free Duke Of Norfolk Open Mic 9pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema On The Road Details tbc 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 Gladstone Quiz Night 8.30pm £1 Globe Basement Cinema Underground films, comfy seats and free popcorn 8pm £free Green Door Store PY Post dubstep beats from the erstwhile Brightonian 7pm £tbc; Donuts Hipster funk and hip hop gems 11pm £free Hampton The Hampton Quiz 8pm £1 Honey Urbano Latino: DJ Aaron George, Gabriel Angel, Yersin Rivas Dance lessons followed by a tropically vibed salsa club 8pm/10.30pm £3/1/free Hope ReVerbed Live music 7.30pm £5/4 Komedia Jack Savoretti, The Dirty Romantics Singer songwriter 7.30pm £9 Lola Lo Dirtee Laundry Student night 10pm £6/4/2 Open House Jazz Work Shop Throw away those jazz mags and try out your trumpet in public 8pm £tbc Pav Tav Acoustic Soul Live music 8pm £free Prince Albert Americana Music Series: Hymn For Her, Anthony Duke Raucous country duo 8pm £6 Red Lion Challenging General Knowledge & Music Quiz 8pm £1 Royal Oak Quiz 8.30pm £tbc Sidewinder Open Mic Jam session with instruments provided 8.30pm £free St George’s Inn Pub Quiz 8pm £1 Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Jay Brannan American singer songwriter with a sideline in acting in gay
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films like the brilliant ‘Shortbus’ 7pm £10 Theatre Royal Mercury - Freddie Mercury And Queen Tribute 7.30pm £17/15 Thomas Kemp Poker Evening 8pm £free Three & Ten Former Republic of Laugh-SoHardia: Rob Beckett, Richard Todd, Laura Carr, Lloyd Griffith New comedy night 8pm £7/5 Tube Showdown Dubstep, garage, breaks and house Time tbc £4/3/2 Volks Tuesday Takeover Drum&bass and dubstep 11pm £free
dust produced by taking a rotary sander to a souvenir of the queen 8pm £free
Thomas Kemp Kev & Jenna’s Open Mic 8.30pm £free
Three & Ten Bruce Hammers’ Bananapocalypse
Character comedy and sketches about an unknown movie star and his 1982 blockbuster 7.30pm £8.50/6.50 Three Graces Pub Quiz 8pm £free Western Front Hush Hush Live acoustic music 9pm £free
Wednesday 24th Thursday 25th Above Audio Kitchen DJ collective serve up some
juicy hip hop treats Time tbc £free Audio Re:Flex: Lenzman Garage, drum&bass and more bass 11pm £5/3 Black Lion The Halloween Accoustic Showcase Live music 8.30pm £free Brunswick ‘A Nightmare On Elm Grove’ Local comedy show for local people 8pm £tbc Caroline Of Brunswick Urban Exploration - Bradley Garrett: Brighton Photo Biennial The artist talks about the motives and politics behind urban exploration 7pm £free Coalition CoCo LoCo Dancehall and dubstep music for students to lose the plot to 10.30pm £5/3 Concorde2 The Jim Jones Revue Rock&roll never died, it just got noiser 7.30pm £11 Cowley Club SchMovies: We Who Wait Documentary about the classic punk band, The Adverts. There’s also a Q&A with TV Smith and the film’s director, Jamie Palmer 8pm £free Cube Wicked Wednesdays House DJs Time tbc DJ Cheets, John £free; Resident Session: Woodhouse House DJs Time tbc £free; Brighton Halloween Festival Dubstep, drum&bass and grime Time tbc £free Digital Poundance Like a coin operated dancefloor 11pm £4/3/1 Dome Conor Maynard YouTube’s electro pop wunderkid 7pm £17.50 Dome Studio Black T-Shirt Collection From a Nigerian market to a sweatshop in China, this play follows two brothers as they build a global T-shirt brand 7.30pm £12/10 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 On The Road Details tbc Fishbowl Tea & Biscuits: DJ Gareth Stephens Retro swing, soul and ska 10pm £free Funfair Be Bop-A-Lula 50s rock&roll, ska and soul Time tbc £3/2 Green Door Store Noise Night #1: Soccer 96, Cinemascopes, Speak Galactic New live music night headlined by the raucous analogue synth duo 7.30pm £3; Soccer ‘96 Raucous analogue synth duo 8pm £free; Hard Times Please sir, I want some more nowave disco 11pm £free Haunt Reckless Love Live music 7pm £11; Supercharged Drum&bass and breaks 11pm £3/2 Hope Fossil Collective, Luke Sital-Singh Folky indie band 8pm £6.50; The No Hope Blooze Sessions Live blues (downstairs) 8pm £free Komedia Comic Boom: Loretta Maine Stand-up comedy 8pm £9/7/5; Imran Yusuf - Bring The Thunder: Brighton Comedy Festival Stand-up comedy 8pm £12.50; Al Lewis Welsh singer songwriter 8pm £7 Latest Music Bar Society, A Crooked Mile Live music 7.30pm £6/5; Tango Boot Camp Learn to tango like the Argentinians 8pm £3-8 Life Move New dance club 11pm £tbc Lola Lo Vida New club night playing funky and urban tunes 10pm £5/3 Mesmerist The Swing Ninjas Gypsy swing band 9pm £free Molly Malone’s Nassau Royal Live music 9pm £free Mucky Duck A Little Groove Time: Jipsy Magic Informal acoustic night 8pm £free Northern Lights Mystery Train Rockabilly DJ 9pm £free Pav Tav Quiz Night 8pm £free Prince Albert Brighton City College Showcase Live music 8pm £tbc Royal Oak Jazz At The Oak Live jazz 8.30pm £free Sidewinder Movie Night Showing films chosen by the audience via Facebook 8.30pm £free Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar My Disco, Negative Pegasus, Fat Bicth Australian minimalist rock 8pm £7; 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 bathing in a tub of plastic
Above Audio Schtumm! grooves Time tbc £free
Disco and house
Audio Bastard Pop Musical mash-up 11pm £3/2/ free
Belushi’s Bar Karaoke 9pm £free Black Lion Matt Rose & The Tin Cup Collective
Live funk soul band 8.30pm £free Blind Tiger Just Is! DJs and live acts explore the world of big bass 8pm £3 Brunswick Flamenco Express, Jose Merino Live music 8pm £10 Coalition Secret Discotheque Replaying the soundtrack to your youth 11pm £4/3/2 Concorde2 Spector, Splashh, Swim Deep, Luls Live music 7.30pm £10 Create Lunchtime Tour: Brighton Photo Biennial Informal guided tour of the exhibitions ‘October’ and ‘Freedom Is A Career’ 1pm £free Cube Brighton Underground Dubstep, R&B and garage 8pm £free Dome Sparks These guys were rocking the Hitler ‘tash long before Richard Herring tried reclaiming it for comedy purposes 7.30pm £20 Dome Studio SOURCE New Music: Restlesslist Brighton’s best bands chosen by Brighton’s best listings mag 7.30pm £4 Duke Of York’s Cinema On The Road Details tbc; Comedy In The Dark Comedians do comedy in pitch blackness 11pm £tbc Fabrica Afterimage - Why Representation Matters A lecture and discussion with Mark Sealy 7pm £free Fishbowl Cut La Vis Jamaican riddims and urban beats 10.30pm £free Fountain Head Student Night DJs play indie and rock 8pm £free George Payne Open Mic Jam session with instruments provided, in what used to be the Kendal Arms 8.30pm £free Globe Hang The DJ! A night of punter-picked playlists 9pm £free
Gloucester Place Baptist Church Fourth UK Recovery Walk: Brighton Photo Biennial
Film screening and discussion 6pm £free Grand Hotel Jazz @ The Grand Live swing and jazz in the Victoria Bar 8pm £free Green Door Store Zombie Zombie, AK/DK Parisian electro pop duo rework the soundtracks from John Carpenter films 7pm £9/8; Blip Live electronica club night 11pm £free Haunt Dodgy If lightweight summery Britpop is good enough for you, it’s good enough for them 7pm £15; 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 £tbc Hope The Social Live acoustic music 8pm £free; Communion: Fitz, George Ezra Live music 8pm £5 Latest Music Bar Nick Williams, Justin Saltmeris, Pipe & Tabor Album launch for the woozy and languidly beautiful blues folk from a singer songwriter who supported Ben Howard and Willy Mason 8pm £tbc Lola Lo Tom Foolery Electro, house and dubstep night 9pm £5/3 Lucky Voice Acoustic Open Mic 6pm £tbc Mesmerist John Crampton Foot-stomping blues explosion 9pm £free Molly Malone’s Crackling Griffins Live music 9pm £free Mucky Duck Open Mic Jam session with Joe Newman 8pm £free Nightingale Theatre Between Performance dance installation 6.30pm/7.30pm/8.30pm £8.50/6.50 Northern Lights Northern Darkness Nothing but the finest Nordic metal 9pm £free Old Market Schrödinger’s Box Ten years ago this theatre troupe built a box containing a cat in an unstable state of quantum uncertainty - now they’re going back inside to see how it’s doing 7.30pm £10/8 Prince Albert Steve Poltz Live music 8pm £5 Prince George Souled Out DJs play funk, soul and Motown 8pm £free Proud Cabaret Laugh Out Proud: James Cook, Rob Coleman, Flange Krammer, Stefano Paolini, MC SG Stand-up comedy night Time tbc £10
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Ranelagh Alex Roberts Folky blues singer 8.30pm
£free Rock & Roller Born In The USA Music from the land of hope and glory 8pm £free Sidewinder Songs From The Canyon Acoustic sessions 8pm £free St James’ Tavern Stay Sick, Turn Blue DJs play vintage soul, jazz and blues 8.30pm £free Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Ooosh Tours Presents Live music Details tbc; John Peel Night Punters play JP-approved tunes 8pm £free Thomas Kemp Mode Music Presents Live music 9pm £free Three & Ten Courage And Light Spoken word extracts from a work in progress 7.30pm £7/5 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 £3/free Victory Open Mic 8pm £free Volks Roll Through Drum&bass and dubstep, bass and beatbox 11pm £2
Friday 26th
Above Audio Home House and disco DJs 9pm £free
Audio DPM House night 11pm £tbc Belushi’s Bar DJ A C Knell Dance tunes Details tbc
Black Lion Stop Go!: The Planet Groove Collective, DJ Lanx, DJ Dave Stone Funk, soul, mod, rock and indie 9pm £free
Blind Tiger Anchorsong, Polaroid 85
electronica from the Japanese beatmaker 8pm £5
Live
Brunswick Funky Buddha Band Their threefold path to enlightenment: funk, soul and Motown 8pm £5
Caroline Of Brunswick Rock Karaoke
Singing so delightful “the horrifying screams will haunt your soul for eternity” 8pm £free; Cazza Karaoke 8.30pm £free Coalition Friday I’m In Love No more lectures for a day or two 11pm £1-5 Concorde2 Ian Hunter Mott The Hoople dude (this show was originally at the Komedia, old tickets still valid) 7.30pm £22.50; King Tubby’s Sound System Reggae and dancehall night inspired by the king of dub remixes 11pm £5/2 Digital Stonelove Indie rock&roll club 11pm £4/3 Doctor Brighton’s Funky Friday: DJ Nick Hirst, DJ Wayne 9.30pm £free Dome Studio Level 42 Bass-driven jazz funk for those who like that sort of thing 7.30pm £26; London Romantic play about the horror of living in a city where the traffic never stops and the streets are paved with discarded chicken bones 8pm £12/10 Druid’s Arms DJ Tommy G Electro beats, indie and house tunes 10pm £free Duke Of Norfolk DJ MC Cashback DJ night 9pm £free Fishbowl Freestyle Records Funky DJ set from the label manager, Greg Boraman 9pm £free Fortune Of War Fever Bands and DJs play Latin, salsa and reggae 9pm £free Funfair Fortune ‘Haunted House’ Halloween Special A haunted house of terror, poison cocktails and soul & Motown DJs 9pm £7/5 Funkyfish Back To The Oldskool Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10.30pm £2/free Gladstone Catch A Groove DJ Bozak shares his collection of funk, soul and hip hop 8.30pm £free Globe Rebel Juke Halloween Special! Oddball funk and rockabilly buttshakers with live swing down in the dungeon 9pm £free Green Door Store Rotifer, Tigercats, Danny Kendall Live bands play a benefit for Oxjam 7pm £7; Neon Filler Live music 7pm £7; The Great Escape The music festival launches a new club night residency with bands and DJs 11pm £free Haunt Gaz Coombes Solo set from the former fuzzchops who also sang with Supergrass 7pm £12.50; Traumfrau Alternative DIY queer night with live bands and “music you actually like” 11pm £3/2 Honey I Love R&B Juicy house with a twist of hip hop - and plenty of the R and the B 11pm £5 Hope Maia, Laish, Nick Edward Harris “Pop motivated sci-fi folk and acoustic vandalism” 7.30pm £7/6; DJ Ma©hall Czech hip hop DJ 9pm £free Komedia Brighton Jazz Club: Kairos 4tet Live jazz 8pm £14/12; Krater Comedy Club: Joe Lycett, Jason Patterson, Addy Van Der Borgh, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 8pm £13.50/15.50 Latest Music Bar Tango Boot Camp Learn to tango like the Argentinians 8pm £3-8; Sirens A glamorous cabaret of music, burlesque and poleassisted dancing 10pm £7/5 Life AkaAkaRoar!: Blawan, Teen Girl Fantasy, Leon Vynehall, Lorca, Elek Garage, grime and bassheavy house - with added techno 11pm £8/6/4
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Lola Lo Tiki Beats Totally tropical tunes 8pm £5/4/3 Mesmerist Shake, Holla & Roll Vintage blues,
swing and rock&roll 9pm £free Molly Malone’s Feargal Lyden Live music 10pm £free Mucky Duck Hot-Tip Hi-Fi DJ with a fine collection of vintage reggae and rocksteady records 8pm £free Pav Tav Beats Not Bombs DJ sessions 8pm £free Ranelagh King Size Slim Boogie blues 8.30pm £free Sidewinder Big Chill DJs Big tunes and rare treats with the guys from Bristol’s Big Chill Bar 9pm £free Smugglers Grits And Gravy New club night playing vintage rhythm&blues, ska and swing 9pm £free St Bartholomew’s Church The Field Of The Cloth Of Gold - Celebrating A Great Treaty: Brighton Early Music Festival Beneath the surface of Henry VIII’s 1520 summit with France lay a deep rivalry which manifested itself in musical one-upmanship with Jean Mouton on the French side, and William Cornysh on the English 8pm £10-26 Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Sub Bop Down and dirty grunge night with added shoegaze (in the bar) 10pm £free; Late Night Lingerie Wall of sound grunge bands rock right through the small hours 11pm £3 Thomas Kemp Hot Tamales: DJs Citizen Lane, HepCat Matt 50s and 60s rock&roll 9pm £free Three & Ten Rabbit In The Headlights Stand-up comedy hosted by Angela Barnes 8pm £6.50/5.50 Tube Cross The crew behind TRASH kick off a night of beats and bass 11pm £3; Motel Last chance saloon for electro house heads 2am £5 Volks Erisian 11pm £tbc Western Front DJ Russ Rockwell Funk and soul DJ 9pm £free
Saturday 27th
Above Audio Saturday Sessions Live music Time tbc £free; Doctor’s Orders Funk, soul and seriously sick hip hop 8pm £5/free
Ancient Mariner Halloween Party Live music
and monster’s ball 8.30pm £tbc Audio Warehouse: Eli & Fur House and techno club night 11pm £5/free Basement Under Construction A whole day of performances and discussions based on nine theatrical works-in-progress 2pm/7pm £free Beachigogo Bar Good Times Remember them? Maybe the feel-good retro tunes will jog your memory (in the White Room) 9pm £free Belushi’s Bar DJ Sleeps Party tunes Details tbc Belushi’s Below Thunderstruck Stadium rock classics 10pm £5 Black Dove Devil’s Music DJs play swing, jazz and Dixieland 8pm £free Black Lion Black Hearts Of The Black Lion: Attic Monkeys Vs Molly Malone Halloween party 4pm £free Blind Tiger The Impellers Local funk heroes 8pm £5 Brunswick South Coast Soul Revue Eight-piece funk soul band 8pm £6; ‘A Nightmare On Elm Grove’ Local comedy show for local people 8pm £tbc Caroline Of Brunswick The Fish Brothers Boozy pub rock band fronted by a fat bastard with a foul mouth Details tbc; Bad To The Bone Rockabilly DJ makes old women blush and young women squeal 9pm £free Coalition Union Leftfield dance night with a bigname mystery headliner 10pm £tbc; Blow: Vince Manganaro, Charly Lopez, Charles Green The party never stops 3am £5 Concorde2 Delilah London’s latest soulful singer songwriter 6pm £12.50; Marky, dBridge, Stamina MC 11pm £10 Cooper’s Cask Pablo Clements Unkle DJ 9pm £free Cube Delirious Halloween Special Upfront house with Carl Mills, Dave King and Jo Wilkes Time tbc £free Digital Supercharged: Redlight, Joker Drum&bass night 11pm £8 Doctor Brighton’s Sexy Saturday: DJ Tony B 9.30pm £free Dome John Wilson Orchestra Stage show celebrating the music of Rodgers and Hammerstein 3pm £28-44 Dome Studio London Romantic play about the horror of living in a city where the traffic never stops and the streets are paved with discarded chicken bones 8pm £12/10 Druid’s Arms DJ Paul Rock and indie classics 10pm £free Duke Of Norfolk Miss Scarlett DJ night 9pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema Labyrinth David Bowie and his groin-packet kidnap a baby and take it to
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a nightmarish Escher castle inhabited by singing muppets (suitable for children) 11am £tbc; Otello: Met. Opera 5.55pm £tbc Fishbowl Daddy Marcus Disco, soul and funk DJ 9pm £free Fortune Of War Big Chill Takeover Big Chill resident DJs 9pm £free Freemasons Halloween Party Tricksy treats and DJ beats Details tbc Funfair Magic ‘Crossing To The Dark Side’ Halloween Special 9pm £7/5 Funkyfish Dreamboys Live The biggest cocks we’ve ever seen, shame about the weathered penises 6.30pm £tbc; Oldschool Saturday Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10pm £6/5 Globe Sonic Safari Underground house music 9pm £free Green Door Store Toy Just don’t mention the Jing Jang Jong 7.30pm £8; The Big Itch Back to basics rock&roll 11pm £free Hampton Halloween Pants Party DJ Pants hosts a pants competition Time tbc £free Haunt Every Time I Die, Stray From The Path, Last Witness American metalcore 7pm £14; It Is Still 1985 - Halloween Special Travel through time to an ancient realm where it is still permissible to roll up the sleeves of your suit 11pm £3 Hilton Metropole Whalefest Live: Anna Rice, Jose Vanders, Nick Willams, Adam Lucas, Lewis McKale Live music benefit gig to save the whales again 6.45pm £9/7 Honey Hat Club - Halloween Party: Vince Frimpong, Damien Stone House hits and hats 11pm £8/5 Hope Brighton Unsigned Local music mag presents a night of live music 8pm £4; DJ Husky Hare Funk, soul, disco, breaks and hip hop (downstairs) 9pm £free Jazz Place Night At The Jazz Rooms: Russ Dewbury, Ian & Rob Legendary Brighton club returns to its old home for a jazz dance special 9.30pm £4/3/free Komedia Krater Comedy Club: Joe Lycett, Jason Patterson, Addy Van Der Borgh, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 7pm/8pm £22/15; Mod For It Northern soul, Motown, 60s garage, new wave and ska 11pm £5/4 Life Juice Box Eclectic club night offering an nice alternative to the standard seafront malarky 11pm £5/3 Lola Lo Zombie Nation Where the dancefloor is never dead 8pm £10/7/6 Mesmerist Juke Joint Jamboree Rhythm & blues and rock&roll records from the days of the dance halls 9pm £free Molly Malone’s Jay Live music 10pm £free Mucky Duck Soul Casserole A melting pot of red hot funk and soul 8pm £free Northern Lights Young Livers - Fairy Tale Gone Bad Indie and punk DJ 9pm £free Pav Tav Saturday Sensations Resident DJs 8pm £free Prince Albert Random Hand Punky ska band (this gig was originally meant to be at the Hydrant before it all went tits up) 8pm £7.50 Ranelagh Wide Eyed Order Energetic ska punk with a gypsy edge 8.30pm £free Sidewinder Desert Ivan Discs If you could only have one genre you’d get good value out of bluesrockjazzLatinskadance 9pm £free Signalman The Signalman’s Legendary Dead, Famous & Decomposing Halloween Party 8pm £1 St Bartholomew’s Church Musica Poetica London, Borromini String Quartet, Ensemble de Trianon, Flauguissimo, Oxford Baroque: Brighton Early Music Festival Informal concert with five young classical ensembles 8.30pm £free Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Brighton Rocks: As It Is, Circles, Kid Capola, Of Fire And Fate Live music 7pm £4; Bitter Disko DJ plays mutant funk, post punk funk and dark acid grooves (in the bar) 9pm £free; Stick It On This is a night with a difference - one in which you become the DJ! An iPod is all you need to make your musical journey. YOU decide which requests to take, which classics to play and which self-indulgent B-sides to risk 11pm £tbc Theatre Royal Essence Of Ireland - Bigger And Better All your favourite Irish stereotypes rolled up in one song and dance show 2.30pm/7.30pm £free Thomas Kemp DJ Spindo Garage, rock and pop 9pm £free Three & Ten Best Of Clever Peter...So Far Fast paced sketches from the cardigan comedy trio 7.30pm £9.50/8; David Trent - Spontaneous Comedian Video-assisted stand-up comedy 9pm £9.50/7.50 Tube Last Stop New club night playing R&B and US hip hop 11pm £5 University Of Sussex The Crit: Brighton Photo Biennial An all-day photography forum with activities and discussions 11am £free Victory DJ Rob Taylor Soul, rock and alt pop 9pm £free
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Volks Goonie Island: Jakes, Chef, Dexplicit, Flirta D, Dream, Dismantle, Hizzle Guy, Trampa, Dks, Hurley, Bolger, 184, Mutated Mindz, Ish, Blotchy, The DA, Trouble Makers, Agro, Perental Guidance, Obey, Schroff, Rakta, Sepia, DJ Kotch, Paddington Posse, Lenny, Machaon Dubz 10pm £10
Western Front The Infamous Jay & Rich DJ
duo 8pm £free
Sunday 28th
Black Lion Live & Swingin’ Lion Live gypsy jazz, swing and blues 8pm £free
Blind Tiger Bibokej Bill Czech music night 8pm £tbc
Brunswick Brighton Craft Alliance Craft fair Noon £free; Ukulele Jam It tastes sweet but a little woody! 3pm £tbc; Real Music Club: Tim’s Orchid Show, Taylor Madison Damion, The Sumerian Kyngs Orchid slideshows, film noir sounds and swamp grooves 8pm £6/5
Caroline Of Brunswick Night Of The Quizzing Dead Pub quiz with questions that will “make
your brain bleed” Details tbc Concorde2 Hazel O’Connor 80s pop singer on a greatest hits tour, playing the whole Breaking Glass soundtrack 7pm £19.50 Corn Exchange Endymion Ensemble Chamber music group rocking out on the clarinet since the 70s 11am £17.50/15 Cowley Club Juffage, Flash Bang Band, Stuart Warwick, DJ Set Square Live music 8pm £4 Cube Sunday Social: Sam & Max Derkson Progressive house DJs 8pm £free Dome Efterklang & Northern Sinfonia Denmark post rockers team up with a classical ensemble for some orchestral manoeuvres in the Dome 8pm £18.50/15/10 Dome Founders Room Young Wordsmiths Wordy games and writing workshop for kids 10.30am £7 Duke Of Norfolk Live Music Night Live music from local artists 9pm £free Fishbowl Recovery? Reggae through the ages 9pm £free Food For Friends Ruth And Danny Soul, jazz and indie covers 6.30pm £tbc Fountain Head Reggae & Roasts Reggae and chilled beats Time tbc £free Globe Handbaked Arcade Things were so much better in the 1990s when all we had was 64-bit games of Italian plumbers inexplicably racing against turtles and gorillas Noon £free Green Door Store Dead Swans Hardcore band 7pm £tbc; Green Door Blues Big Itch DJs plus the resident blues band, Smokestack 10.30pm £free Hampton The Sunday Sessions Live acoustic music 8pm £free Haunt Zechs Marquise, The Physics House Band, Bearded Youth Quest Live music, featuring members of The Mars Volta 7pm £8 Honey Sundown If your house was this sexy you’d never go outdoors 11pm £free Jury’s Inn Lulu Ash: Brighton Photo Biennial Discussion with the artist behind the photography series at the train station, ‘Urban Farming In London And Havana’ 2.30pm £5/4 Komedia The Humble Quest For A Universal Genius Absurd gameshow in which comedians are required to excel in every field of human knowledge 8pm £9/7; Krater Comedy Club: Joe Lycett, Jason Patterson, Addy Van Der Borgh, Stuart Mitchell, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 8pm £5-12 Latest Music Bar Brighton Twisted Market & Fetish After Party Noon/6pm £5 Life Dagger Terrace Sessions Daytime DJs play dancehall, reggae and ska Time tbc £free Molly Malone’s Jareth Tait Live music 10pm £free Northern Lights Northern Light Sundays The DJ has a lazy Sunday afternoon 4pm £free Old Market Spun Glass Theatre - Scratch Sessions New writers try out ten minute plays, poems or whatever 3pm £1 Prince Albert Gregory Alan Isakov, Chris Pureka Live music 8pm £8 Prince George Pub Quiz 8pm £1 Signalman Open Mic Open session hosted by local duo, Zoothyme 8pm £free St George’s Church A Celebration Of The Italian High Baroque: Brighton Early Music Festival Music by Vivaldi, Domenico Scarlatti, Corelli, Lotti and Caldara 7.30pm £6-23 Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Brighton Unsigned: Astro-Physics, Fitsroy, Paperfaces, Tome Staniford, Simonne And The Dark Stars Live music 7.30pm £3 Thomas Kemp Jazz In The Afternoon: Lee Rainbow Hands And His Piano! Live jazz 4pm £free Three & Ten Angela Barnes & Jim Campbell
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Comedy double bill 7.30pm £9/7.50 Victory Blues Sundays DJ plays blues and soul Noon £free Volks Psy Sunday - Psy Zombies: Irish Faery, Mystery Selector, Add Simeon, Dave Chemical, Clayton, Morfinn, Neuroplasm, EVP, Piatrix A day and a night of psytrance 5pm £free
Monday 29th
Ancient Mariner Quiz Night 8pm £1 Audio The Basement Brand new bass mash-up Time tbc £3/2
Belushi’s Bar Pump Up The 90s Retro night
dedicated to the decade that was dedicated to retro nights 9pm £free Blind Tiger Voicebox Spoken word and live music open mic night 8pm £free Brunswick Harmonessence Vocal harmony choir in which anyone can sing 5.30pm £tbc; Army Of Harmony A capella vocal group 7.30pm £tbc; Open Mic 8.30pm £free Caroline Of Brunswick Classic Horror Movie Night: Driller Killer 1979 video nasty about a man who invents new uses for power tools after being driven crazy by a neighbourhood no wave band Details tbc Coalition Trash Mondays Filthy tunes for students and layabouts alike 10.30pm £5/3 Concorde2 Little Comets, General Fiasco Newcastle indie rock trio 7.30pm £10 Cowley Club Monday Is The New Friday Live music 7pm £3 Dome Public Enemy It’s a long way from Long Island to a listed Regency concert hall, but the rap radicals haven’t lost their touch - or their neck-clocks 8pm £24/22 Gladstone Open Mic Night 9pm £free Green Door Store Palma Violets, Childhood Garage rock and indie psych 7.30pm £7 Haunt I Am I, Arthemis, Fahran Metal band featuring the ex-Dragonforce vocalist, ZP Theart 7pm £10; Fat Poppadaddys The student indie night moves to a new home 11pm £3/2/free Hope Live Sessions Live music (downstairs) 9pm £free Life #Hashtag Funky house club with added Twitter confusion 10pm £3/2 Lola Lo Ramshackle New indie, hip hop and dubstep night 10pm £4 Mesmerist Stroll On Mondays 60s and 70s night with DJs and film projections 8.30pm £free Old Market Django Django Mercury-tipped psychedelic Afro-krautrock quartet 7.30pm £12 Pav Tav Red Tooth Poker 8pm £free Prince Albert Born To Lose Live music 8pm £3 Signalman Signalman Pub Quiz 8pm £1 St Bartholomew’s Church The Tallest Man On Earth Live music 7pm £17.50 Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Terra Naomi Indie rock singer songwriter 7pm £9 Victory Poetry Night Live poetry readings 8pm £free Volks Strictly Reggae Dancehall, roots, revival 11pm £5/4
Tuesday 30th
Above Audio Cottontail Club Big band and jitter
jive tunes 9pm £free Audio Guerilla Rocks Club night for rock chicks, skater bois and indie kids 11pm £3/2/1 Belushi’s Bar Back To The 80s Retro night dedicated to the only decade to spawn a revival which has lasted longer than the decade itself 9pm £free Blind Tiger Oxjammin: One Roots Live reggae 8pm £4 Brunswick Jazz Jam Open session with a house band and special guests 8pm £free Caroline Of Brunswick Open Mic Of The Damned Details tbc Concorde2 The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster Awesome cartoon goth rockers make a second stab at a comeback, this time with the original line-up 7.30pm £10 Cooper’s Cask Pub Quiz - Drunk Quiz Master 9pm £1 Cube Cube Live: Bright On The Beat Live music 8pm £free Digital CU Next Tuesday It’ll teach the universities to timetable lectures for Wednesday mornings 11pm £4/3 Druid’s Arms The Druid’s Brand Spanking New Student Party DJ Paul plays indie rock classics 8pm £free Duke Of Norfolk Open Mic 9pm £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
Gladstone Quiz Night 8.30pm £1 Green Door Store Donuts Hipster funk and hip hop gems 11pm £free
Hampton The Hampton Quiz 8pm £1 Honey Urbano Latino: DJ Aaron George, Gabriel Angel, Yersin Rivas Dance lessons followed by a tropically vibed salsa club 8pm/10.30pm £3/1/free
Lola Lo Dirtee Laundry Student night 10pm £6/4/2 Old Market Sid’s Show Kids’ stage show
featuring Sid from Cbeebies 11am/2pm £11/8.50 Open House Jazz Work Shop Throw away those jazz mags and try out your trumpet in public 8pm £tbc Pav Tav Acoustic Soul Live music 8pm £free Red Lion Challenging General Knowledge & Music Quiz 8pm £1 Royal Oak Quiz 8.30pm £tbc Sidewinder Open Mic Jam session with instruments provided 8.30pm £free Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Drinky Doodle Music and drawing games 8pm £2 Theatre Royal The Sacred Flame W Somerset Maugham’s wartime drama 7.45pm £12-29.50 Thomas Kemp Poker Evening 8pm £free Tube Showdown Dubstep, garage, breaks and house Time tbc £4/3/2 Volks Tuesday Takeover Drum&bass and dubstep 11pm £free
Wednesday 31st
Above Audio Kitchen DJ collective serve up some
juicy hip hop treats Time tbc £free Sigma Garage, drum&bass and more bass 11pm £5/3 Black Lion The Black Lion Acoustic Showcase Live music 8.30pm £free Blind Tiger Syd Arthur Proper prog rock fusion band - they’re even named after the Herman Hesse book 8pm £tbc Brunswick Samantha Horwill Album launch with a video screening and a live set by the singer songwriter and her band 7.30pm £tbc Caroline Of Brunswick Shenanigans: Chapsom Bear, Flange Krammer The first of a new comedy night featuring sketches and musical comedy as well as stand-ups 8pm £5; DJ Jody Lee Mod For It DJ plays halloween classics and evil rock nasties Details tbc Coalition CoCo LoCo Dancehall and dubstep music for students to lose the plot to 10.30pm £5/3 Cube Wicked Wednesdays House DJs Time tbc £free Digital Poundance Like a coin operated dancefloor 11pm £4/3/1 Dome Cafe Bar This Is Just To Say Performance poetry from Hannah Jane Walker 6pm/9pm £12/10 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 The Shining Official re-release preview 9pm £tbc Fishbowl Tea & Biscuits: DJ Gareth Stephens Retro swing, soul and ska 10pm £free Funfair Be Bop-A-Lula 50s rock&roll, ska and soul Time tbc £3/2 Green Door Store Dark Horses Local rockers going for a leather ‘n’ bikes look 7.30pm £7; Hard Times Please sir, I want some more nowave disco 11pm £free Haunt NME Generation Next Tour: Howler, The Cast Of Cheers, Gross Magic Live music 7pm £10; Supercharged Drum&bass and breaks 11pm £3/2 Hope Halloween Special Horror films, pumpkins, The Misfits - tick! 8pm £free; ScreamDon’tWhisper, The Vindickers, The M Theory Energetic alt pop rock 8pm £3 Komedia TrioVD Improvised jazz sounds from the cult Leeds band 7.30pm £10 Life Move New dance club 11pm £tbc Lola Lo Vida New club night playing funky and urban tunes 10pm £5/3 Mesmerist The Swing Ninjas Gypsy swing band 9pm £free Molly Malone’s Nassau Royal Live music 9pm £free Open House Safehouse: Birchall Brice Marks Trio Free jazz and avant garde improvisation 8pm £6/5 Pav Tav Quiz Night 8pm £free Preston Manor Halloween Ghost Tour Spooky tour led by a costumed ghost team 7pm/8.30pm/10pm £13.50/11.50 Pull And Pump Off The Cuff: Paul Diello, Mike Ross, Brian McNamara, Rotait, Bave Blackwell, Arthur And The Irrational Live music 8pm £free Royal Oak Jazz At The Oak Live jazz 8.30pm £free Sallis Benney Theatre Visible Economies -
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Photography, Economic Conditions And Urban experiences: Brighton Photo Biennial Photography symposium 2pm £10/5 Sidewinder Movie Night Showing films chosen by the audience via Facebook 8.30pm £free; Halloween Movie Special: American Werewolf In London “Queen Elizabeth is a man! Prince Charles is a faggot! Winston Churchill was full of shit! Shakespeare’s French!” 8.30pm £free Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Into The Void Halloween Special Metal night with more windmills than the Dutch lowlands 10.30pm £tbc Theatre Royal The Sacred Flame W Somerset Maugham’s wartime drama 7.45pm £12-29.50 Thomas Kemp Kev & Jenna’s Open Mic 8.30pm £free Three & Ten Horse & Louis - The Curse of... Songs and sketches, jokes and gags 8pm £8/6.50 Three Graces Pub Quiz 8pm £free Tube Back Off Halloween Special Glitch, grime and garage - if it’s electronic they’ll play it 11pm £4/3/2 Volks Brighton Halloween Festival: Gammer, Swifty B, Darren Grant, Mike Vapour, Care3Beatz, DJ Loonetic, Rezomine, Lotskee, Kotch, Aplex, Zero-One Breaker, Threts & Invasion, Jay North, Disrupta, Kalist, Catch 22, Ace MC, Caos DJs, dancers, MCs, beatboxers and street magicians 11pm £5/2 Western Front Halloween Extravaganza Details tbc
ExhibitionS
BOOTH MUSEUM Bugs And Beasties Of The Biosphere Nature activities for kids Oct 27th - 30th BRIGHTON MUSEUM & ART GALLERY Biba And Beyond: Barbara Hulanicki Fashion and photography exhibition Until April 14th; Fashion And The Flag The new wave of patriotism continues apace
with this collection of clothes incorporating or influenced by the Union Jack Until Nov 25th; The Hole In Mount Hakone Prints and drawings inspired by the 19th century Japanese artist, Hiroshige Until Oct 21st; New Cabinets For New Curiosities: Digital Festival Coders and digital artists let loose in the museum Until Oct 21st; Shoot The Wrx Retrospective of the post-war avant garde artist and film-maker, Jeff Keen Oct 27th - Feb 24th
BRIGHTON TRAIN STATION Urban Farming In London And Havana: Brighton Photo Biennial A
photo essay by Lulu Ash Oct 6th - Nov 4th CREATE Freedom Is A Career: Brighton Photo Biennial Iconic photographs of 60s activism by John ‘Hoppy’ Hopkins Oct 6th - Nov 4th; October: Brighton Photo Biennial Multimedia installation inspired by the Occupy protests Oct 6th - Nov 4th FABRICA The Beautiful Horizon - No Olho da Rua: Brighton Photo Biennial Long-term photography project documenting life on the street in Brazil Oct 6th Nov 25th
HOPE Best Before: James Kendall: Brighton Photo Fringe SOURCE’s celebrated editor shares his Guardian-
featured photo project based on the contents of his grandmother-in-law’s pantry - yummy rabbit paté from1954 anyone? It’s only oozed out of the can a tiny bit. Oct 6th - Nov 18th HOVE MUSEUM & ART GALLERY My Favourite Toy Exhibition celebrating vintage toys Until Nov 6th INK_D Carne Griffiths A new collection of the artist’s flowing and floral inky portraits Until Oct 6th JUBILEE LIBRARY Photobook Show: Brighton Photo Biennial An exhibition of self-published and handmade photography books Oct 6th - Nov 4th LIGHTHOUSE Geographies Of Seeing: Brighton Photo Biennial Photography exploring the secret activities of the US military and intelligence agencies Oct 6th - Nov 4th PHOENIX GALLERY Fringe Focus: Open 12 Photography exhibition Oct 6th - Nov 18th ROOM Urban Exploration: Brighton Photo Biennial Photographs of urban adventures exhibited inside a converted shipping container currently residing near the bandstand on the seafront Oct 6th - Nov 4th UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON Five Thousand Feet Is The Best: Brighton Photo Biennial Confessions of a military drone operator Oct 6th - Nov 4th; Control Order House: Brighton Photo Biennial Photos by Edmund Clark of houses where suspected terrorists were held under Control Orders Oct 6th - Nov 4th; Uneven Development: Brighton Photo Biennial Two photographers focus on the impact of urbanisation Oct 6th - Nov 4th UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX Critical Image Cairo Photographs of revolution and football Oct 6th - Nov 4th
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SIX OF THE BEST
Sit-Com Flatshares
Words By Steve Clements, Richard Greenan, Stuart Huggett, James Kendall
new girl
Thousands of students are moving into Brighton this month and realising that their little sisters aren’t the most annoying people they’ll ever live with. More problematic than living in sin, the difficulties of shacking up with people who don’t even give you sex every now and again has been documented in a million sit-coms. To tie in with the Brighton Comedy Festival here’s six to invite into your home.
Every flatshare has someone who winds you up but it’s not Ms Deschanel here. Instead, top-shedding douchebag Schmidt balances out super nice guy Nick. If Zooey’s not pretty enough for you, she has a model friend she brings round regularly. Is she the perfect flatmate? (JK)
Spaced
Britain hasn’t been doing its usual brisk business in great sitcoms recently but Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain have managed to get two under their belts in a decade. Following the peerless, post-uni, Odd Couple flatshare of Peep Show they went back to education for this equally nuanced take on degree-level living. It works because the insecure housemates aren’t quite as cool as they hope to be, and they know it, not least Jack Whitehall’s gormless posh boy, JP. We guess it’s only going to run for three series, so enjoy it while you can. (JK)
The all time best flatshare comedy sets out with the two lead characters hunting for a flat. Surprisingly for television the one that they excitedly move into is actually a bit of a shithole – the sort of place you endure in your 20s. But it’s the people that make the place a home. The will they/won’t they, Ross’n’Rachelesque relationship between Simon Pegg and Jessica Stephenson is touchingly real while, as odd as the rest of the characters are, they’re three dimensional enough for you to want to hang out with them. (JK)
The Young Ones
The arrival of The Young Ones in Nov ‘82 was, alongside Channel 4’s simultaneous launch of The Comic Strip Presents… (with much the same cast), a Year Zero moment for TV comedy. The actual student flatshare situation was just a springboard for the most anarchic, violent and surreal demolition of TV conventions since Python. Fantastic bands (Motörhead, The Damned, Madness), a phenomenal, ahead of the curve guest cast, explosions, swearing, fart jokes… School playgrounds were never the same again. (SH)
New Girl
Whether you’d like to live in this gorgeous modern flat comes down to how much you fancy Zooey Deschanel. No one just tolerates her – her ‘adorkable’ kookiness either has you rummaging in the communal knife drawer or ‘accidentally’ shoulder-barging the bathroom door at shower time, again.
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Fresh Meat
15 Storeys High
In perhaps the worst sit-com flatshare of all time, 15 Storeys High sees misanthropic lifeguard Vince – played by Sean Lock – paired with Errol, a flinching doormat whose job it is to have fishmongers wipe their hands on his coat. As Errol struggles to wash the stink of fish guts from his pecs in the shower, Vince helpfully passes him a bottle of ‘Jolly Shopper’ bleach. “I didn’t think it would be that strong!” Vince protests. “Their cheese is very mild.” (RPG)
Friends
It would be easy to leave this ubiquitous, decade-defining sitcom off this list but, you know what, it’s still really funny. Having a room of the best writers competing with each other is, like, so a good idea but, more than that, it’s ten years of laugh out loud jokes. This was half an hour of hanging out with your mates, to the point that we knew what it’d be like to live with them: supportive, sometimes irritating, and with a happy ending. Let’s be frank, they’re nicer than most of your real friends. Reading that back now sounds really sad. (JK)
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