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MAY 2013
It’s got to be warm enough to go outside now. Just in time for the Great Escape, Fringe and Brighton Festivals too! Well done to all of you that ran the Brighton Marathon the other month, we were due to run, but got our dates mixed up and ran into some dodgy march the following Sunday. Surprisingly we were the only people in Lycra and hair that cost over a fiver. You have to question the logic of holding such a march in a city populated predominantly by middle-class hippies. Let’s keep Brighton rainbow coloured… Have a great May, you deserve it!
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What’s on [ 18 ] Music Previews Happy Mondays [ 24 ] Suuns [ 26 ] BN1 Choice guide [ 28 ] to TGE [ 29 ] WIN FESTIVAL TICKETS!! [ 30 ] The Tiger Lillies [ 34 ] The Happy Mondays [ 46 ]
LISTINGS TO WHAT’S ON
Time For The Good Looking Boy [ 12 ] Brighton Festival [ 20 ] The Tiger Lillies [ 32 ] Fringe Guide [ 36 ] BN1 Chats with... [ 49 ] Andie Airfix Shit-Faced Shakespeare Comedy Picks FILM
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MAY As Public Enemy said on Bring the Noise Here we go again! May is here, regular as clockwork. It’s undoubtedly the king of the months, as far as Brighton is concerned at least. In the next four and a bit weeks we’ll be thrilling to the myriad of shows from The Great Escape, Brighton Festival and Brighton Fringe, plus a countless number of smaller spin off events. There are plenty of excuses to stay out way too late, so we’d like to help you make an informed choice. We’re here once again to guide you through the best of the month. We’ve got an interview with legendary Madchester bad-boy Shaun Ryder, revisit the golden age of album art with Andie Airfix, soak up some Dark Cabaret vibes with The Tiger Lillies and get drunk with the theatre company behind the outrageous Shitfaced Shakespeare. In addition, we take a long hard look at the best of Brighton Fringe Comedy and Theatre, sample some of the delights of the Brighton Festival and get behind the scenes of oneteen play Time For The Good Looking Boy. We’re also packing in the usual comprehensive listings, amazing competitions and all-round goodness you love it for. Enjoy!
THE WARREN Russell Place Throughout Fringe As the Fringe returns, so does winner of Fringe 2012’s best venue award, The Warren, a pop-up theatre space that places great emphasis on making live performance accessible and affordable for all. Tucked away in Wagner Hall on Russell Place the venue has a full calendar of entertainment that appeals to all walks of life, as well as providing another hub for Fringe goers to hang out. In addition to the multitude of provocative and inspiring cabaret, theatre and comedy shows, there’ll be lots of after-hours activities, with some of the city’s finest bands and DJ’s playing Pop, Blues, Swing and Rock to keep you entertained into the night throughout the festival.
SUPERFREQ Concorde 2 24 May Beatsworkin and Death by Disco conspire on Fri 24 May to bring Superfreq to the Concorde 2, A night celebrating the titular record label run by clubland legend Mr C. The man himself will be spinning tracks from his new album Smell The Coffee, with appearances from the pioneering A Guy Gerald, those cheeky Beatsworkin chaps and Chemical Play. Over in the bar Codesouth FM luminaries Mark Allister and Audio Villains will be keeping the house pumping. www.superfreq.org
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NOFIT STATE CIRCUS
SOUL DOME
EMPORIUM
NOFIT STATE CIRCUS
Jubilee Square 24 May - 2nd June
88 London Road Opens on 9th May
Hove Lawns 14th May - 2 June
Fringe 2013 will see every conceivable space in the city utilised as a performance space, but new for this year is the arrival of Soul Dome in Jubilee Square. A Pop-Up venue housing a 360’ immersive cinema, it’ll host local talent, showcase art and performance within its unique and exquisitely inspiring inflatable 7m Dome from 24 May – 2 June, including a Café, Bar and Ice Cream Parlour. Events range from kids shows, live performance, workshops (yoga, dancing and singing) and short films.
Just in time for the festivals, a new theatre venue is set to wow Brighton. Emporium is a professional theatre complex housed in a rejuvenated church on the city’s lively London Road. Its aim is to provide a venue, hub and resource centre for anyone interested in theatre and film. Their inaugural season promises some of the best one-person performances you’ll find anywhere, including the acclaimed Box Clever theatre company and a specially written show from the delightful Fake Bush. Visit www.emporiumbrighton. com for show and ticket information.
After several hugely successful appearances at Fringe, NoFit State Circus returns to Brighton with a brand new world class production – Bianco. Returning to their roots, with their elegant and subversive brand of circus, and iconic immersive, promenade work, NoFit State create a unique all-consuming theatrical experience that combines intoxicating live music, gravity defying circus and stunning costume design, all in a constantly evolving environment. Running 14 May – 2 June in their cavernous big top on Hove Lawns, Bianco brings together the world’s best performers, all lending Jaw-dropping technique and high energy theatricality, to tell the story of a great journey inside and outside of ourselves.
SHOOSHH/HONEY CLUB
CLUB BERLIN
ETHICAL SUPERMARKET
Brighton Seafront
Green Door Store 9th May
York Place London Road
Back after a change of ownership and a lush million quid refit, Honey Club becomes Shooshh, Brighton’s first VIP superclub with Honey Club taking residency next door giving a more intimate feel. Thurs nights are offering Do You Really Like It? A fresh night of top DJ’s spinning quality UKG and Old Skool, which looks set dominate the midweek club calendar. Expect top tunes, pretty people and some bad hangovers! Practice your swagger.
Brighton Fringe prompts the re-launch of Club Berlin down at The Green Door Store, that funky little place under the railway station. This popular art/club night offers you the chance to listen and dance to live electronic-influenced music and check out amazing artworks from some of Brighton’s most inspiring artists. Hosted by Das Fenster’s Eva Katharina, Elastica’s Justin Welch and Mew, the first show on Thu 9 May sees live music from AKDK, Das Fenster, La Momo and DJ’s Fujiya & Miyagi, with art by Eva V and Mew.
After months of negotiations, Brighton’s first ethical supermarket is a step closer to opening. The new store on York Place will sell locally-sourced seasonal and organic foodstuffs at prices that suit all budgets. By prioritising social aims ahead of profits, they hope to create a real alternative to the major supermarkets. This social venture promises to be ‘honest’ about food, investing profits into future projects and training through Brighton and Hove Food Partnership, and could create up to ten jobs, as well as playing a major role in promoting local food producers and suppliers. Work on the premises will begin soon, meaning the store could potentially open in July. www.hisbe.co.uk
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MUSIC PREVIEWS BY BRAD MIDDLETON
With The Great Escape in town this month there is a lot to offer but if you can’t afford tickets for that then how about getting along to these great shows which offer to hopefully bring with it some summer fun. At least please let it have finally stopped snowing!
SUPREME DICKS + I’M BEING GOOD 6th May // Green Door Store
Excellently named weirdness from the wonderful Amherst, Massachusetts combo who are also signed to Jagjaguwar. Having had a compilation album, Breathing and Not Breathing, put out in 2011 the band reformed and have been touring it ever since. Originally they formed all the way back in 1984 and produced songs that combined dissonant lo-fi noise, avant-garde, and psychedelia sounds to an interesting effect but failed to make any impact on the mainstream before they split in 1996. What really makes this show is former label mates I’m Being Good agreeing to be the main support act. The two once shared a home at Infinite Chug and this should be a great reunion as well as a great night for righteously weird guitar music.
SUUNS 13th May // The Haunt
Suuns are not your usual ‘rock’ band and that is something your correspondent has always loved, bands that are great but defy easy classification. Signed to the great Secretly Canadian label this fourpiece band who hail from Montreal have just entered a vital point in their development. With their third album, Images Du Futur, already garnering critical acclaim in a lot of important circles they may well live up to the hype implied in the title of their new work. Whatever happens tonight should be a real interesting show and who knows in years to come you may be one of the lucky few who can say you saw them before they were huge. Let’s hope so as music needs more bands like this. HAPPY MONDAYS
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SUUNS
SHUGGIE OTIS 10th May // Concorde2
WOLF PEOPLE 10th May // Blind Tiger
Shuggie Otis is a legend to a select few people. He has played with all manner of musical visionaries and began playing at the age of only two, over fifty years ago now! Since then he has been a mover and shaker in the late 60’s and throughout the 70’s before moving in to a more private existence which reached its peak in the early 00’s when he moved back to Southern California. However that all ended in 2012 when he launched a new band and the rather scary sounding ‘Never Ending World Wide Tour’ in November last year. This should have given the new band enough time to really get to know their enigmatic leader and to have perfected the set which should make it a great night.
A British band who sound like they could be from the deserts of Nevada and are amongst the great roster at Jagjaguwar who have a couple of their major acts in town this month. This group deliver groove-heavy psychrock monoliths that recall Led Zeppelin/ Black Sabbath/ Pentagle but with a modern crunch. Their sound is new and original however mixing different periods of musical influence in to the mix besides the usual late 60’s, early 70’s hippy rock. They represent one of the most exciting bands in the ensuing battle to define the sound for the twenty-first century.
CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN 30th May // The Haunt
One of the most interesting bands of their time (1983-90), Camper have been back together now for nearly fifteen years and have continued to dig the unfamiliar and experiment with interesting ideas; what other band could do a country-influenced version of Black Flag’s seminal rant Wasted and actually pull it off? Very few that’s how many. They mixed in ska, indie-pop, eastern folk, punk and a whole cavalcade of weirdness to create something that was truly unique. They haven’t just sat back either on the laurel’s of their back catalogue since reforming and January marked the release of their third new studio album since then, the tantalising La Costa Perdida, which comes over all Northern California with hints of later Beach Boys in between all the chaos and confusion that usually reigns; a sign that things are just as buoyant now as they were all those years ago when they formed.
HAPPY MONDAYS 26th may // Brighton Centre
Back to Brighton again for another bank holiday weekend rave up the Mancunian legends are this time armed with a new album, the first with the original line-up since the halcyon days of the early 90’s. They got back together, for the fourth time, in January 2012 and after a brief rehearsal schedule hit the road again in May 2012. Apparently they have calmed down over the years but the demand for tickets was still huge and they played a series of sellout shows across the UK. This all coincided with a new best of album, Double Double Good in July 2012 before they set for all manner of exotic destinations including Chile, Argentina, the more usual Ibiza and Majorca and the festival circuit of the UK. This all culminated in them deciding to return to the studio in September where they recorded the album you should expect to hear some of at tonight’s show. And just for all you Manc heads out there who remember the late 80’s and early 90’s threw a daze of narcotic misbehaviour the support comes from the 808 State Soundsytem.
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THE BLACK ATLANTIC
BN 1 CHOICE GUIDE TO...
THE GREAT ESCAPE FESTIVAL
BY BRAD MIDDLETON
So many bands so little time but who, in our humble opinion, are the bands you simply shouldn’t miss if you get the chance? Of course one of the great things about the festival is the chance to find your own hot tip and then get bragging rights on all your friends but regardless these are our tips…
THURSDAY 16th MAY TIME
BAND
ALL TIMES AND VENUE SUBJECT TO CHANGE VENUE
DESCRIPTION
12:40
MADE IN JAPAN
THE HAUNT
Promising indie dream-pop band from Sydney who let’s hope are on their toes to make both these shows!
14.30
YOUNG RIVAL
BLIND TIGER
Canadian indie-rockers who are now veterans of TGE. Part Strokes/ part Beatles/part Pixies, a great mix!
15:20
HUNGRY KIDS OF HUNGARY
THE HAUNT
Really interesting mix of current indie, 60s pop and soul who since 2007 have been developing a name for themselves in Brisbane, Australia.
22:00
BEACH FOSSILS
GREEN DOOR STORE
Great indie-pop from Brooklyn who return to TGE after their triumphant show in 2011.
22:00
MURDER BY DEATH
BLIND TIGER
Unique, brooding sounds from this great band whose latest lp is exploring newer richer, fuller-bodied sound.
22:00
SNAKADAKTAL
ABOVE AUDIO
New Aussie band who could well be one of the big things to come out of the festival. If you can’t make this show don’t worry, head to C2 on Saturday!
22:15
DINOSAUR PILE-UP
THE HOPE
Great indie-rock from the north of England. For more on these young guys see last month’s issue.
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FRIDAY 17th MAY TIME
BAND
VENUE
DESCRIPTION
13:00
THE BLACK ATLANTIC
KOMEDIA
Dutch acoustic pop featuring former US hardcore vocalist Geert van der Velde from Shai Hulud.
20:30
HUNGRY KIDS OF HUNGARY
COALITION
Just in case you missed them yesterday!
21:15
THE WYTCHES
THE HAUNT
Great local based experimental psychrock in the vein of the Horrors but a lot weirder and a whole lot more interesting too!
21:30
BILLY BRAGG
DOME
Legendary folk-punk protest troubadour who is sure to be one of the highlights of the festival.
21:30
CHARLIE BOYER & THE VOYEURS
DOME STUDIO
Possibly one of the highlights of the festival, this new band combines Brit art-punk with the acid fried vocal inflections of Syd Barrett.
22:00
ED HARCOURT
MARY’S CHURCH, ST JAMES’S STREET
Lewes based singer-songwriter who infuses jazz, folk and rock’n’roll into an interesting sound. He’s so far released six albums of quality music.
22:00
CUB SCOUTS
QUEENS HOTEL
Another great new band from Brisbane, Australia who make nice indie-pop. They only started last year and are already making waves!
THE GRISWOLDS
STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR
The great white hope of Australian music who have already established themselves as faves of the hip downunder. Is it time for the phenomena to hit the UK?
1:45
SATURDAY 18th MAY TIME
BAND
VENUE
DESCRIPTION
12:15
THE GRISWOLDS
CONCORDE2
...and again
14.30
THE BLACK HEART REBELLION
GREEN DOOR STORE
From Belgium, these arty punk types are a must see for anyone interested in what happens when a band don’t sell out their principles and are interested in art.
15:35
JAGWAR MA
CONCORDE 2
Finish off your Aussie afternoon with this great stoner infused indie-pop duo that combine psychedelia and grooves to great effect.
20:00
CHEATAHS
COALITION
London based old-school indie-rock band. Think Husker Du, Dinosaur Jr, Teenage Fanclub. Sounds like your reporters’ kind of thing!
20:30
PHYSICS HOUSE BAND
CONCORDE 2
21:45
80’S MATCHBOX B-LINE DISASTER
COALITION
Brighton odd-ball goth-punk nut-jobs who are deliriously illicit and weird. Their first big hometown show since their reformation.
QUEENS HOTEL
If you missed them yesterday a nice, gentle way to conclude your festival shenanigans. Hope you enjoyed!
22:00
THE BLACK ATLANTIC
Great local odd-balls who combine a whole history of original music from across the decades to make something truly compelling and original for the 21st century.
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WIN FESTIVAL TICKETS
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MEADOWLANDS FESTIVAL
THE GREAT ESCAPE FESTIVAL
We have another pair of tickets as a prize giveaway for one of our lucky readers. All you have to do is answer this question:
Britain’s answer to SXSW ‘The Great Escape Festival‘ showcases new and emerging artists in Brighton during the 16th-18th May. Now one of you lucky lot has the chance to win themselves a pair of tickets! All you have to do is answer this simple question: Which famous folk rock artist is appearing at TGE 2013?
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Gigs In Brighton... The DaunTs
Friday 3rd May The Haunt
The PIGeon DeTecTIves Friday 10th May Coalition
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Wednesday 22nd May The Haunt
GenTleMan’s DuB cluB Friday 24th May Concorde 2
John Foxx & The MaThs Friday 7th June Concorde 2
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THURSDAY 2ND ABOVE AUDIO 2~4~1 cocktails and disco from Nick Sabin AUDIO Bastard Pop Pop & Jagerbombs £2 - £3 BRUNSWICK Delve & Support 8PM £3 - £5 COALITION Secret Discotheque 11PM £2 - £4 DOCTOR BRIGHTONS Thirsty Thursdays 3PM FIDDLER’S ELBOW Brighton Fringe Festival see a showcase of alt-folk and roots musicians. FISHBOWL Residents Association Will Sumsuch & Guests 10:30PM GREEN DOOR STORE The Spirit of Gravity 7PM £5 GREEN DOOR STORE Beach Boys Bands, DJs, dancing, talking. 11PM HOPE Heliopause Pres Ingrid Gatin, Heliopause & Hattie Cooke 7:30PM £4 - £5 HOPE The Social new and upcoming acts 8PM MESMERIST Johnson and the Believers 9PM SAINT JAMES TAVERN Bacon Fat Stay Sick DJ’s 9PM WESTERN FRONT WEAR Vintage Pop Up Shop. Stalls & Guests 11AM VICTORY Open Mic Night All musi-
cians and perfomers welcome 8PM VOLKS Roll Through Bass, D n B, Dubstep, Beatbox 11PM £2
FRIDAY 3RD ABOVE AUDIO Home House, deep house and disco AUDIO Garage Dismantle, Eliphino £7 BLACK DOVE Hot-Tip Hi-Fi Ska Jamaica 1960’s vintage dance selection 8PM BRIGHTON CENTRE Michael Ball Both Sides Now 7PM £37.50 BRUNSWICK The Lost Highway Americana 8PM £5 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Brighton blues stomp, Various Blues artist perform and jam 9PM COALITION One Inch Badge Pres Death Grips & Guests 7PM £12 COALITION Friday I’m In Love 11PM £3 - £6 CONCORDE 2 Forekast With Floating Points 11PM £5 - £7 DIGITAL Stonelove 101% Indie Rock n Roll 11PM £3 - £4 DOCTOR BRIGHTONS Bank Holiday Funky Friday DJ Nick Hurst & DJ Wayne 9:30PM DUKE OF NORFOLK Lady Lola Playing Funk, Motown, Reggae, Hip Hop 9PM FISHBOWL Keep It Wheel Steve KIW 9PM GREEN DOOR STORE Octopuses New local indie pop band 7PM GREEN DOOR STORE Aereo dream folk band Mt. Wolf 11PM HAMPTON Dad’s Old Vinyl Classic soul, funk, hip hop & disco 9PM HAUNT Lout Promotion Pres The Daunts plus The Light Brigade 7PM £5adv HOPE Slip Jam The Infamous Hip Hop Open Mic, Decks Jam Session 8PM KOMEDIA Jackport Club 11PM MESMERIST Shake, Holla & Roll 40’s/50’s rhythm & blues 9PM STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Lout Promotion Pres Brighton Rocks featuring Marlipins, The King Zoots, Easthead 7PM £4 THE PRINCE ALBERT Audio Mime, Chemical Smile, Kestrel Magnet, Garden Heart 8PM £4 THE PRINCE ALBERT Bend Over I’ll Drive Revved up rock’n’roll DJ’s 8:30PM WESTERN FRONT Unhooked Generation Iced Gems 9PM VOLKS Jungle Alliance Jungle Cakes Feat Ed Solo, Dialect, Kosine 10PM £6
SATURDAY 4TH ANCIENT MARINER The Acoustic
SUNDAY 5TH ABOVE AUDIO Enzo’s daytime party AUDIO Enzo & Friends BRIGHTON CENTRE Leona Lewis 6:30PM £35 - £55 BRUNSWICK Fringe Festival Radio Days 3PM & 8PM £5 - £7 COALITION Sounds like Sunday 11PM £5 - £7 CONCORDE 2 Bank Holiday Special Chas & Dave 7PM SOLD OUT! CONCORDE 2 Global Beats Pres Daddy G & DJ Andy Smith 11PM £8.50 DOCTOR BRIGHTONS Bank Holiday Hangover Therapy Reflex. DJ Adam Rice 8:30PM FIDDLER’S ELBOW Sham-Rock Open Mic 8:30PM FISHBOWL Recovery? Asbest & Sinner 9PM FREEMASONS Second Saturday Bank Holiday DJ Set 8PM GLYNDEBOURNE Paul Lewis ‘... arguably the finest Schubert interpreter of his generation’ Gramophone 3PM £10 - £30 GREEN DOOR STORE The Steady Man Band Collective 7PM GREEN DOOR STORE Green Door Blues Smokestack & The Big Itch DJs 10:30PM HOPE Improvabananas On the spot audience requests 9PM LATEST MUSIC BAR The Big Bite-Size Breakfast Desires 3PM £9.50 - £12.50 LATEST MUSIC BAR Streisand The
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WEDNESDAY 1ST ABOVE AUDIO Cookin Beats Cookin Beat and Mixing Drinks AUDIO Advance Promotions Trapped Under Ice BRUNSWICK Kiss My Disco Club night run by adults with learning disabilities 7PM £3 COALITION Cocoloco Promotions Pres CoCo LoCo 10:30PM £1 - £5 DIGITAL Fresh Meat Indie, 60’s, Hip Hop, Funk 11PM £1 DOCTOR BRIGHTONS Cocktail Clinic 3PM DUKE OF NORFOLK Pub Quiz Every wednesday is pub quiz night 9PM £1 pp FISHBOWL Tea & Buscuits Gareth Stephens 10PM GREEN DOOR STORE Beat On Pres oOoOO from Triangle Records producer 7PM £8 GREEN DOOR STORE Indie Wednesdays Weekly dose of straight up indie bangers 11PM KOMEDIA Stiff Promotions present Mishkin Fitzgerald 7:30PM £7 - £8 (Studio) MESMERIST The Swing Ninjas original Brighton busking band 9PM THE PRINCE ALBERT Club Tic Tac 7:30PM £4 WESTERN FRONT Hush Hush Live acoustic music showcase 8PM VOLKS Soundwaves Records Nass SHOWCASE DJ Swifty & MC Lil Lively 10PM £3
Senor Mick 8PM NORTHERN LIGHTS DJ Juzzy D SACKVILLE GARENS BEACH OCM & SARU Audible Forces 12PM THE OLD MARKET Brighton Fringe Brighton City Singers Choir Pres Celebration! 7:30PM £6 - £8 THE PRINCE ALBERT Calico, Polymath & Support 8PM £4 WESTERN FRONT Moochin’ DJ Lanx 9PM VICTORY Up Against It with Born Bad DJ’s 9PM VOLKS In The Face Royal, Thorpey, DJ Deadbeat 11PM £8
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MUSIC GUIDE
Sessions Two Tin Dogs 8PM ABOVE AUDIO Ruff Snippits Funk Soul and Hip Hop ABOVE AUDIO Terrace Launch Party Silent Disco on our terrace AUDIO Warehouse Laura Jones £7 BRIGHTON CENTRE Rat Pack Live 7PM £26 - £27.50 BRIGHTON DOME, CONCERT HALL A Kerfuffle in B flat for Orchestra, Wasps and Soprano The Great Enormo 5PM £5 - £18.50 BRIGHTON DOME, CORN EXCHANGE Beardyman One Album Per Hour 10PM £10 - £16 BRIGHTON DOME, STUDIO THEATRE Marius Neset today’s most talked-about jazz performers. 1PM £10 BRUNSWICK Fringe Festival Radio Days Time Machine 3PM £4 - £6 BRUNSWICK Fringe Festival South Coast Soul Revue 8PM £8 COALITION Luv Pres MS Dynamite, Amplify DOT, DJ Outbreak, Bringa & Epicx 11PM £8adv COALITION Blow Vince Manganaro, Charly Lopez, Charles Green 3AM £5 CONCORDE 2 Teenspirit 2013 7PM £5 - £7 CONCORDE 2 Megadance Mampi Swift, Run Tingz Cru, Southbound Hangers 11PM £3 DIGITAL Playroom 11PM £5 - £12 DOCTOR BRIGHTONS Bank Holiday Sexy Saturday DJ Tony B 9:30PM FIDDLER’S ELBOW Saturday Sizzlers Drop it like it’s HOT with our weekly DJ’s FISHBOWL Gareth Stephens Broken beats, nu-jazz, soul, funk, reggae 9PM FREEMASONS Saturday Night Disc Spinners 9PM GREEN DOOR STORE The Last Cry & Them The Sky 7PM GREEN DOOR STORE Sonic Switch Tru Thoughts label. Rob Luis 11PM GREENHOUSE EFFECT Reggae,Roots,Dancehall,Studio 1 & Ska- King Tafari 11PM £3 MESMERIST Juke Joint Jamboree Expect vintage hits and boutique rarities 9PM MUCKY DUCK Sizzle and Pop!
SARAH JANE MORRIS & ANTONIO FORCIONE
Monday 6th May Sarah Jane Morris and Antonio Forcione are delighted to team up for a special series of duo concerts.
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Main Event 8PM £8 - £9 MESMERIST Sneaky Low 5 Double bass, guitar and drums 9PM NEIGHBOURHOOD Briska, Pistonhead & Neighbourhood Pres Southern Style BBQ & Elvis All Day & Night 4PM NORTHERN LIGHTS Northern Light Sunday Dj playing chilled out tunes SACKVILLE GARENS BEACH OCM & SARU Audible Forces 12PM SIGNALMAN Open Mic Night hosted by local duo Zoothyme complete with PA, Guitar & Drums 8PM SPIEGELTETNT Herbie Flowers’ 75th Birthday Jazz Breakfast Specials First Fling 11AM £8.50 THE PRINCE ALBERT Mad Fish, MoCara, Wrank 8PM £5adv WESTERN FRONT Culture Front Eone 9PM VICTORY Blues Sundays Blues and Soul fresh from the Delta Spun 12PM VICTORY Victory DJs 9PM
MONDAY 6TH ABOVE AUDIO Baby Loves Disco Daytime party for the kids ABOVE AUDIO TEN Each Monday TEN drinks will be on offer at ridiculously low prices BRIGHTON DOME, STUDIO THEATRE Alexandra Silocea 1PM £10 BRUNSWICK Fringe Festival Bloco Branco Live 3PM £3 - £5 BRUNSWICK Fringe Festival Boogie Troop 8PM £8 - £10 COALITION Trash Mondays 11PM £3 - £4 DOCTOR BRIGHTONS Medication Mondays 3PM FIDDLER’S ELBOW Check-In Mondays! Oliver Croome & Benny Brooke 8:30PM GREEN DOOR STORE Tatty Seaside Town present Supreme Dicks 11PM £7.50 HOPE The Hope Live Sessions Bands and solo performances 8PM KOMEDIA Sarah Jane Morris & Antonio Forcione 8PM £15 - £30.50 LATEST MUSIC BAR DigiTune Pres a music based event connecting acoustic music with a passionate audience 8PM £3 - £4 MESMERIST Flash Mob Jazz swinging singing Jazz extravaganza. 9PM SACKVILLE GARENS BEACH OCM & SARU Audible Forces 12PM SHAKESPEARES HEAD Harvest Moon Acoustic Night 8PM THE PRINCE ALBERT The Still Corners, Woman’s Hour 8PM £9 VOLKS Daytime Future Dub Pres The Bank holiday All Dayer 1PM VOLKS Strictly Reggae Bank Holiday Special Dancehall, Bashment, Roots, Reggae 11PM £4 - £5
TUESDAY 7TH ABOVE AUDIO Cottontail Club Jitter Jive, Rhythm & Blues, Big Band Swing AUDIO Tiger Blood Student Bass night £1 BRIGHTON DOME, STUDIO THEATRE Young Jean Lee’s Theater Company (New York) We’re Gonna Die 8PM £10 - £12.50 BRUNSWICK Fringe Festival Jazz Jam 8:30PM DIGITAL CU Next Tuesday 11PM £3 - £4 DOCTOR BRIGHTONS Twisted Tuesday 3PM DUKE OF NORFOLK Open Mic 9PM DUKE OF NORFOLK Lady Lola
Playing Funk, Motown, Reggae, Hip Hop 9PM GREEN DOOR STORE Bear Hands present Fang Island 7PM £10 GREEN DOOR STORE Donuts Contemporary beat, classic soul, funk 11PM ROYAL PAVILION, MUSIC ROOM Elias String Quartet 8PM £10 - £30 THE PRINCE ALBERT The M-Theory, Moodhoover, Calico 8PM £3 - £4
WEDNESDAY 8TH ABOVE AUDIO Cookin Beats Cookin Beat and Mixing Drinks BRIGHTON DOME, CONCERT HALL Sinéad O’Connor & Lau 8PM £10 - £25 BRIGHTON DOME, STUDIO THEATRE Busch Ensemble 1PM £10 BRIGHTON DOME, STUDIO THEATRE Young Jean Lee’s Theater Company (New York) We’re Gonna Die 8PM £10 - £12.50 BRUNSWICK Fringe Festival Brighton Binge 8PM £3 - £5 COALITION Cocoloco Promotions Pres CoCo LoCo 10:30PM £1 - £5 DIGITAL Fresh Meat Indie, 60’s, Hip Hop, Funk 11PM £1 DOCTOR BRIGHTONS Cocktail Clinic 3PM DUKE OF NORFOLK Pub Quiz Every wednesday is pub quiz night 9PM £1 pp FISHBOWL Tea & Buscuits Gareth Stephens 10PM GREEN DOOR STORE Brighton Noise present Noise Night #4 7PM £3 GREEN DOOR STORE Indie Wednesdays Weekly dose of straight up indie bangers 11PM HOPE One Inch Badge Pres Adrian Crowley 8PM £7adv MESMERIST The Swing Ninjas original Brighton busking band 9PM THE PRINCE ALBERT Woody Pines 8PM £9 WESTERN FRONT Hush Hush Live acoustic music showcase 8PM
THURSDAY 9TH ABOVE AUDIO 2~4~1 cocktails and disco from Nick Sabin AUDIO Bastard Pop Pop & Jagerbombs £2 - £3 BRIGHTON DOME, STUDIO THEATRE Anna Huntley, Nick Pritchard, Simon Lepper 1PM £10 BRIGHTON DOME, STUDIO THEATRE Young Jean Lee’s Theater Company (New York) We’re Gonna Die 8PM £10 - £12.50 BRUNSWICK Fringe Festival Rue Royale & Guests 7:30PM £5 - £6 COALITION Secret Discotheque 11PM £2 - £4 CONCORDE 2 Concorde2 Pres The Herbaliser 7:30PM £10 DOCTOR BRIGHTONS Thirsty Thursdays 3PM DRUIDS ARMS Overhead Wires Music Pres Subvert Normality 8PM EMPORIUM Pepe Arias 10:30PM £6 FIDDLER’S ELBOW Brighton Fringe Festival see a showcase of alt-folk and roots musicians. FISHBOWL Residents Association Will Sumsuch & Guests 10:30PM GREEN DOOR STORE Cupboard Music present Bearded Youth Quest 7PM £tbc GREEN DOOR STORE LUX. experimental visuals, electronic vibes 11PM HOPE The Social new and upcoming acts 8PM
MESMERIST Leanne and The Rockéros 9PM SAINT GEORGE’S Maverick Music Night 10PM SAINT JAMES TAVERN Bacon Fat Stay Sick DJ’s 9PM SIGNALMAN Fringe Festival Evening of Swing Duncan Allen 8PM THE OLD MARKET Brighton Fringe Nick Pynn and Kate Daisy Grant 8PM £10 - £12 THE PRINCE ALBERT Kim Richie, Danni Nicholls 8PM £10 WESTERN FRONT DJ Russ Rockwell Heavy Funk, Soul, Rap, Classic Breaks 9PM VICTORY Open Mic Night All musicians and perfomers welcome 8PM VOLKS Roll Through Bass, D n B, Dubstep, Beatbox 11PM £2
FRIDAY 10TH ABOVE AUDIO Home House, deep house and disco AUDIO Minimal Kids BLACK DOVE Mo Taters! Djs play vintage vinyl 8PM BRIGHTON DOME, STUDIO THEATRE Wara Cuban timba and salsa with soul 9PM £10 - £12.50 BRUNSWICK Fringe Festival Overhead Wires Music Pres Jipsy Magic “Rumspringa”, The MoveOns 8PM £5 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Jody Lee Hooker Classic Rock 9PM CHEQUERS The Duvettes part II & DJ 10PM COALITION Lout Promotion Pres The Pigeon Detectives plus MUST 7PM £12.50adv COALITION Friday I’m In Love 11PM £3 - £6 CONCORDE 2 Irie Nation With Channel One Soundsystem featuring Brother Culture 11PM £2 - £5 DIGITAL Stonelove 101% Indie Rock n Roll 11PM £3 - £4 DOCTOR BRIGHTONS Funky Friday DJ Nick Hurst & DJ Wayne 9:30PM DUKE OF NORFOLK DJ Lamp Playing his very own eclectic mix of music from all that’s good 9PM EMPORIUM Pepe Arias 10:30PM £6 FISHBOWL Jeff Daniels Pure dancefloor Dy-No-Mite!! 9PM GREAT EASTERN Whiskey Preachin Shamblin Sexton and Senor Mick 8PM GREEN DOOR STORE The Headmix Collective 7PM £8 GREEN DOOR STORE Electro Blues Live Blues 11PM HAMPTON Dad’s Old Vinyl Classic soul, funk, hip hop & disco 9PM HOPE Grim Promotions Pres Fractured, I, Ludicrous, ASBO Derek, A&E 7:30PM £5 KOMEDIA Attenborough’s Ark 11PM £5 - £8 MESMERIST Shake, Holla & Roll 40’s/50’s rhythm & blues 9PM Ouch Bar : Freaky Fridays eclectic dj night 8PM ROYAL PAVILION, MUSIC ROOM Nash Ensemble 8PM £10 - £30 THE PRINCE ALBERT The Vril, The Art Club & Support 8PM £4 WESTERN FRONT DJ Dennis Castro Blog-Pop, Lazy Garage, Muscle Rhymes & Jiggy Fitness! 9PM VOLKS Freak Bazaar Boom Shankar, Soul Kontakt, Ojane Amethyst 11PM £6 - £7
SATURDAY 11TH ANCIENT MARINER The Acoustic Sessions Lee Pryor 8PM
ABOVE AUDIO Ruff Snippits Funk Soul and Hip Hop AUDIO Warehouse Audiojack £5 BELL Fully Toppa! DJs Ed Snug & guests 8PM BLIND TIGER Stay Sick & The Mentalettes (DE) live 9PM £3 BRIGHTON DOME, STUDIO THEATRE Tomorrow’s Warriors 1PM £10 BRUNSWICK Fringe Festival Steel Town 3PM £5 - £7 BRUNSWICK Fringe Festival Linos Wengara & Zimbaremabwe Mbira Vibes 8PM £5 - £6 CHEQUERS Owen McGarry & Resident DJ Paul 9PM COALITION SKINT Records vs Coalition The Wideboys, Sonny Wharton 11PM £7adv COALITION Blow Vince Manganaro, Charly Lopez, Charles Green 3AM £5 CONCORDE 2 Playgroup Pres The Destroyers - 12 Piece Big Balkan Band! 7PM £12 CONCORDE 2 We Like Music Pres DJ Yoda live AV show 11PM £10 DIGITAL Free The Beats Commercial, House, EDM, Garage 11PM £5 DOCTOR BRIGHTONS Sexy Saturday DJ Tony B 9:30PM FIDDLER’S ELBOW Saturday Sizzlers Drop it like it’s HOT with our weekly DJ’s FISHBOWL What’s Wrong With Groovin? Ed Meme and Matt Beatwell 9PM FREEMASONS Saturday Night Disc Spinners 9PM GREEN DOOR STORE The Murmurtrons, The Pocket Drummers, Rusted Gun 7PM £tbc GREEN DOOR STORE Pop Not Pop! pop music, old & new 11PM HOPE Brighton Unsigned Pres Brighton Unsigned Showcase. The Consoles, The Flip Flays, The Dubarrys 7PM £4 MESMERIST Juke Joint Jamboree Expect vintage hits and boutique rarities 9PM THE PRINCE ALBERT Jimmy’s Roulette, King Mob, Astrid’s Tea Part 8PM £4 VICTORY Soul Casserole Pres Soul Custody DJ’s 9PM VOLKS Sine Language Doc Scott, Loxy, Indigo, Voytek 11PM £6 - £8
SUNDAY 12TH ABOVE AUDIO Enzo’s daytime party BRUNSWICK Fringe Festival Steel Town 3PM £5 - £7 BRUNSWICK Fringe Festival The Moors 8PM £5 - £7 DOCTOR BRIGHTONS Hangover Therapy 1PM FIDDLER’S ELBOW Sham-Rock Open Mic 8:30PM FISHBOWL Recovery? Asbest & Sinner 9PM FREEMASONS Jazz Machine 7PM GREEN DOOR STORE Brighthelmstone present Hurray for the Riff Raff 7PM GREEN DOOR STORE Green Door Blues Smokestack & The Big Itch DJs 10:30PM HOPE Improvabananas On the spot audience requests 9PM LATEST MUSIC BAR The Big Bite-Size Breakfast Desires 3PM £9.50 - £12.50 LECTERN Overhead Wires Music Pres The Sunday Sermon 6:30PM NORTHERN LIGHTS Northern Light Sunday Dj playing chilled out tunes SIGNALMAN Open Mic Night hosted by local duo Zoothyme complete with PA, Guitar & Drums 8PM SPIEGELTETNT Herbie Flowers’ 75th Birthday Jazz Breakfast Specials The All Stars 11AM £8.50 THE PRINCE ALBERT Dick Valentine 8PM £8
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THURSDAY 16TH
THE GREAT ESCAPE FESTIVAL Thursday 16th - Saturday 18th May Europe’s leading festival for new music
LOCATION: City wide TIMINGS: All day/night TICKETS: £49.50+bf in adv ADVERTISE YOUR EVENT: BN1MAGAZINE.CO.UK
VICTORY Blues Sundays Blues and Soul fresh from the Delta Spun 12PM
MONDAY 13TH ABOVE AUDIO TEN Each Monday TEN drinks will be on offer at ridiculously low prices BRIGHTON CENTRE The BIG Reunion 5ivd, Atomic Kitten, B8Witched, Liberty X, 911, Honeyz 7:30PM £30 BRUNSWICK Fringe Festival Steel Town 8PM £5 - £7 COALITION Trash Mondays 11PM £3 - £4 DOCTOR BRIGHTONS Medication Mondays 3PM FIDDLER’S ELBOW Check-In Mondays! Oliver Croome & Benny Brooke 8:30PM GREEN DOOR STORE Teen Creeps present Bass Drum of Death, Boneyards, and Gold Bars 7PM £7 GREEN DOOR STORE Grey Town Sets from MCULO, Bolger, P.Posse, Black Shuck 11PM HOPE The Hope Live Sessions Bands and solo performances 8PM MESMERIST Flash Mob Jazz swinging singing Jazz extravaganza. 9PM MUCKY DUCK Overhead Wires Music Pres live acoustic evening 8PM THE PRINCE ALBERT Tidal, Modulator ESP, Occult Hand 8PM £6 VOLKS Strictly Reggae Dancehall, Bashment, Roots, Reggae 11PM £4.50 - £5
TUESDAY 14TH ABOVE AUDIO Cottontail Club Jitter Jive, Rhythm & Blues, Big Band Swing AUDIO Safari @ Audio Brighton Uni Kenyan Fundraiser (IT for Kenyan Schools) AUDIO Advance Promotions Suffocation BRUNSWICK Brighton Jazz School Jazz Tuition Class 11AM £tbc BRUNSWICK Fringe Festival Jazz Jam 8:30PM CHEQUERS Open Mic Night with Wolf William 8PM DIGITAL CU Next Tuesday 11PM
£3 - £4 DOCTOR BRIGHTONS Twisted Tuesday 3PM DUKE OF NORFOLK Open Mic 9PM GREEN DOOR STORE Soro Live present Neighbourhood Youth, The New Union, The Hundredth Anniversary 7PM GREEN DOOR STORE Donuts Contemporary beat, classic soul, funk 11PM KOMEDIA Abyssinians Legendary vocal roots group from Kingston Jamaica performing live 8PM £15 LATEST MUSIC BAR The Impossible Escape is the special Great Escape 9PM £2 - £3 THE PRINCE ALBERT Larry And His Flask & Support 8PM £6.50
WEDNESDAY 15TH ABOVE AUDIO Cookin Beats Cookin Beat and Mixing Drinks AUDIO Get Jackeed! Launch House Music £2 BRUNSWICK Fringe Festival Indie Rock Band “The Big Figure” 8PM £7 - £9 COALITION Cocoloco Promotions Pres CoCo LoCo 10:30PM £1 - £5 CONCORDE 2 Kung Fu Pres Slum Village - ‘Dirty Slums Tour’ 7:30PM £10 DIGITAL Fresh Meat Indie, 60’s, Hip Hop, Funk 11PM £1 DOCTOR BRIGHTONS Cocktail Clinic 3PM DUKE OF NORFOLK Pub Quiz Every wednesday is pub quiz night 9PM £1 pp FISHBOWL Tea & Buscuits Gareth Stephens 10PM GREEN DOOR STORE Indie Wednesdays Weekly dose of straight up indie bangers 11PM HOPE Never Been Kissed & Pierless Music Pres 1066 Invasion, Great Escape Warm Up 8PM KOMEDIA Paper Aeroplanes 8PM £8 - £10 (Studio) KOMEDIA Barb Jungr – Stockport To Memphis 8PM £10 - £12.50 MESMERIST The Swing Ninjas original Brighton busking band 9PM THE OLD MARKET Brighton Fringe The Yoga Jam 7PM £8 - £10
ABOVE AUDIO 2~4~1 cocktails and disco from Nick Sabin AUDIO Bastard Pop Pop & Jagerbombs £2 - £3 BRIGHTON CENTRE McFly - The Best of McFly Tour 6:30PM £27.50 BRIGHTON DOME, CONCERT HALL Great Escape Festival Everything Everything & Kodaline 7:30PM £16.50 COALITION Great Escape Festival COALITION Secret Discotheque 11PM £2 - £4 CONCORDE 2 Great Escape Festival Title Fight, Sharks, Palm Reader, Champange 6PM £8.50 / Wristbands DOCTOR BRIGHTONS Thirsty Thursdays 3PM FIDDLER’S ELBOW Brighton Fringe Festival see a showcase of alt-folk and roots musicians. FIDDLER’S ELBOW Great Escape Festival FISHBOWL Residents Association Will Sumsuch & Guests 10:30PM GREEN DOOR STORE Great Escape Festival 7PM Wristbands access HOPE Great Escape Festival HOPE The Social new and upcoming acts 8PM LATEST MUSIC BAR Great Escape Festival THE PRINCE ALBERT Great Escape Festival 12PM Wristband Only VICTORY Open Mic Night All musicians and perfomers welcome 8PM VOLKS Roll Through Bass, D n B, Dubstep, Beatbox 11PM £2
FRIDAY 17TH ALL SAINTS CHURCH The chamber music of Poulenc and Hahn Les chansons instrumentales: part 2 7:30PM £10 - £15 ABOVE AUDIO Home House, deep house and disco AUDIO Edible Eats Everything, Blond:ish, Richy Ahmed £12.50 - £15 BASEMENT Great Escape Festival Jukebox Fury 8:30PM £6 - £8 BLACK DOVE Chop Source 1960’s/70’s raw funk & dancefloor rhythms 8PM BRIGHTON DOME, CONCERT HALL Great Escape Festival Billy Bragg & Del Barber 7:30PM £17.50 COALITION Great Escape Festival COALITION Friday I’m In Love 11PM £3 - £6 CONCORDE 2 Great Escape Festival The Blackout, Hacktivist, Marmozets, Arcane Roots 6PM £8.50 / Wristbands CONCORDE 2 Roni Size & Scratch Perverts 11PM £tbc DIGITAL Stonelove 101% Indie Rock n Roll 11PM £3 - £4 DOCTOR BRIGHTONS Funky Friday DJ Nick Hurst & DJ Wayne 9:30PM FIDDLER’S ELBOW Great Escape Festival FISHBOWL Cut La Vis This man is all about combining Jamaican riddims and Urban beats 9PM GREEN DOOR STORE Great Escape Festival 12PM Wristbands access HAMPTON Dad’s Old Vinyl Classic soul, funk, hip hop & disco 9PM
HOPE Great Escape Festival KOMEDIA Born Bad red-hot rockabilly, 50’s rock‘n’roll, ‘60’s garage 11PM £5 - £6 (Studio) LATEST MUSIC BAR Great Escape Festival THE PRINCE ALBERT Great Escape Festival 12PM Wristband Only VOLKS Bass Konnection Hong Kong Ping Pong, B Side, Kool Herts 11PM £5
SATURDAY 18TH ALL SAINTS CHURCH The chamber music of Poulenc and Hahn Les chansons instrumentales: part 3 7:30PM £10 - £15 ANCIENT MARINER The Acoustic Sessions 8PM ABOVE AUDIO Ruff Snippits Funk Soul and Hip Hop AUDIO Warehouse Maribou State, Squarehead £5 BRIGHTON DOME, CONCERT HALL Great Escape Festival The Midnight Beast 12PM £11 BRIGHTON DOME, CONCERT HALL Great Escape Festival Bastille 7:30PM £14.50 BRUNSWICK Fringe Festival The Blues Corporation Live! 8PM £10 - £12 COALITION Great Escape Festival COALITION Blow Vince Manganaro, Charly Lopez, Charles Green 3AM £5 CONCORDE 2 Great Escape Festival The Griswolds, Cub Scouts, Snakadaktal, Velociraptor 12PM Wristband access CONCORDE 2 Great Escape Festival Three Trapped Tigers, Tall Ships, The Physics House Band 7PM £8.50 / Wristbands CONCORDE 2 Great Escape Festival David Ram Jam Rodigan MBE, Toddla T Sound, VenUm Sound 11PM Wristband access DIGITAL Blah Blah Blah 6th Birthday Disclosure, Friend Within 11PM £15 DOCTOR BRIGHTONS Sexy Saturday DJ Tony B 9:30PM FIDDLER’S ELBOW Great Escape Festival FISHBOWL DJ Abo & Ally Smith Two members of the legendary Jazz Rooms crew 9PM FREEMASONS Saturday Night Disc Spinners 9PM GREEN DOOR STORE Great Escape Festival 12PM Wristbands access HAMPTON Desperate rock n roll Explosive instrumentals 9PM HOPE Great Escape Festival KOMEDIA Spellbound Cherry Foxx and Simon Price 9PM £5 - £6 (Studio) LATEST MUSIC BAR Great Escape Festival OFFICE Chop Source 1960’s/70’s raw funk & dancefloor rhythms 8PM SAINT JAMES TAVERN Bacon Fat Stay Sick DJ’s 9PM SAINT PETER’S CHURCH In the Dark Nina Garthwaite, presenter of Radio Four’s Short Cuts 3PM £5 SALTDEAN LIDO The Informers Live Blues 8PM £4 THE PRINCE ALBERT Great Escape Festival 12PM Wristband Only VICTORY Don Simon DJS Funk, Soul, Hiphop, Latin 9PM VOLKS Fizzy Brighton Launch Fabio, Mr JOseph, Eveson, Andy Skopes & more 11PM £6
SUNDAY 19TH ABOVE AUDIO Enzo’s daytime party
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TUESDAY 21ST ABOVE AUDIO Cottontail Club Jitter Jive, Rhythm & Blues, Big Band Swing AUDIO WERK BRIGHTON DOME, STUDIO THEATRE Yuka Ishizuka and Riyad Nicolas 1PM £10 BRUNSWICK Brighton Jazz School
WEDNESDAY 22ND ABOVE AUDIO Cookin Beats Cookin Beat and Mixing Drinks AUDIO Get Jackeed! House Music BRIGHTON DOME, CONCERT HALL The Flaming Lips Plus To Kill a King 8:30PM £10 - £30 BRIGHTON DOME, STUDIO THEATRE Clare Hammond 1PM £10 BRUNSWICK Fringe Festival David Migden & The Dirty Words 7:30PM £4 - £7 COALITION Cocoloco Promotions Pres CoCo LoCo 10:30PM £1 - £5 DIGITAL Fresh Meat Indie, 60’s, Hip Hop, Funk 11PM £1 DOCTOR BRIGHTONS Cocktail Clinic 3PM DUKE OF NORFOLK Pub Quiz Every wednesday is pub quiz night 9PM £1 pp FISHBOWL Tea & Buscuits Gareth Stephens 10PM GREEN DOOR STORE The Darlingtons Suburban culture fuelled hooks. Hope, conviction and hard work 7PM £5 GREEN DOOR STORE Indie Wednesdays Weekly dose of straight up indie bangers 11PM HAUNT Lout Promotion Pres Allister plus Heroes For Hire, Hero & As It Is 7PM £10adv HOPE One Inch Badge Pres Chet Faker £7adv LATEST MUSIC BAR Paul Gunn & Worsted Noel Coward meets the Buena Vista Social Club, 7PM £8 - £10 MESMERIST The Swing Ninjas original Brighton busking band 9PM STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Overhead Wires Music Pres Dirty Fingernails 8PM £tbc VOLKS Bass Konnection Ghetto Funk Special 11PM £3 - £5
FIDDLER’S ELBOW Brighton Fringe Festival see a showcase of alt-folk and roots musicians. FISHBOWL Residents Association Will Sumsuch & Guests 10:30PM GREEN DOOR STORE One Inch Badge present Princess Chelsea 7PM £7 GREEN DOOR STORE BIAAS Sculptor student fundraiser 11PM HOPE Communion Pres The Communion Showcase 8PM HOPE The Social new and upcoming acts 8PM KOMEDIA Africa Unite Live sets from Rebel Control, a Roots Reggae & Dance Hall 8PM £8 - £10 KOMEDIA Fado: Claudia Aurora 8:30PM £14.50 - £16 MESMERIST Time for T 9PM Ouch Bar : Electro Sleaze Peter Von Ssleaze 2PM SAINT JAMES TAVERN Bacon Fat Stay Sick DJ’s 9PM THE PRINCE ALBERT The Kennedys & Support 8PM £8 VICTORY Open Mic Night All musicians and perfomers welcome 8PM VOLKS Roll Through Bass, D n B, Dubstep, Beatbox 11PM £2
FRIDAY 24TH ABOVE AUDIO Home House, deep house and disco AUDIO Audio Pres Nina Kraviz BRIGHTON DOME, STUDIO THEATRE Ji Liu 1PM £10 BRUNSWICK Fringe Festival Boloco Branco Live 8PM £3 - £5 COALITION Friday I’m In Love 11PM £3 - £6 CONCORDE 2 Lout Promotion Pres Gentleman’s Dub Club 7PM £12 CONCORDE 2 Superfreq Mr C & Special Guest, A Guy Called Gerald 11PM £8 DIGITAL Stonelove 101% Indie Rock n Roll 11PM £3 - £4 DOCTOR BRIGHTONS Bank Holiday Funky Friday DJ Nick Hurst & DJ Wayne 9:30PM DUKE OF NORFOLK DJ MC Cashback 9PM FISHBOWL Richie Cox & Ally Smith strictly vinyl selection of funk, soul, jazz disco 9PM GREEN DOOR STORE Iron Boot
Scrapers 7PM £8 GREEN DOOR STORE Ye Ye Fever Deadly African rhythms 11PM HAMPTON Dad’s Old Vinyl Classic soul, funk, hip hop & disco 9PM HOPE Emerald Armada Pres The Emerald Armada Southern UK Tour 7:30PM £4 KOMEDIA Fado: Claudia Aurora 8:30PM £14.50 - £16 MESMERIST Shake, Holla & Roll 40’s/50’s rhythm & blues 9PM STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Lout Promotion Pres Brighton Rocks featuring Candela, Infinites, Kerela 7PM £4 THE OLD MARKET Glyndebourne Captain Blood’s Revenge: A Pirate Opera 11AM & 3PM £6 - £25 THE PRINCE ALBERT Cavendish Sniff, The Shite Stripes, Black Fire Rising 7:30PM £4 WESTERN FRONT DJ Dennis Castro Blog-Pop, Lazy Garage, Muscle Rhymes & Jiggy Fitness! 9PM VOLKS Pure Klass Dave Angel, MC Ribbz, Colin Dale, Voodoo Junky 11PM £5 - £8
SATURDAY 25TH 10 BELOW Fat!Beaches Night Subtone, Mary Cones, Arkadiusz Koper 10PM £3 ANCIENT MARINER The Acoustic Sessions 8PM ABOVE AUDIO Ruff Snippits Funk Soul and Hip Hop AUDIO Warehouse Huxley £7 BRIGHTON CENTRE Mark Knopfler 6:30PM £41 - £45 BRIGHTON DOME, CONCERT HALL Nina Hagen, David McAlmont, Jamie McDermott and The Irrepressibles Musik Kabarett 8:30PM £10 - £25 BRIGHTON DOME, STUDIO THEATRE Jyotsna Srikanth 1PM £10 BRUNSWICK Fringe Festival South Coast Soul Revue 8PM £8 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Relaese the bats, The dark side of the 80’s 9PM CHEQUERS Minus The Rat & Support 8PM COALITION Pump up the Jam Willerby, DJ Outbreak 11PM £5 COALITION Blow Vince Manganaro, Charly Lopez, Charles Green 3AM £5 CONCORDE 2 Dirty DC - AC/DC Tribute 7PM £10 CONCORDE 2 High Focus Records &
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MONDAY 20TH ABOVE AUDIO TEN Each Monday TEN drinks will be on offer at ridiculously low prices BRIGHTON DOME, CONCERT HALL BUG: A Fatboy Slim Special 8PM £10 - £16 BRUNSWICK Fringe Festival Clive Carroll & Geoff Robb 8PM £8 - £10 COALITION Trash Mondays 11PM £3 - £4 DOCTOR BRIGHTONS Medication Mondays 3PM DUKE OF NORFOLK Duke Unplugged Open Mic 8PM FIDDLER’S ELBOW Check-In Mondays! Oliver Croome & Benny Brooke 8:30PM GREEN DOOR STORE Soro Live & The Music Library present Dinghus Khan 7PM GREEN DOOR STORE A1 fundrasier Fine Art student fundraiser 11PM £3 HOPE Teen Creeps Pres Seapony 7:30PM £6 HOPE The Hope Live Sessions Bands and solo performances 8PM LATEST MUSIC BAR Overhead Wires Music Pres Fox In The City, Artifacts & Magnets 7:45PM £4 MESMERIST Flash Mob Jazz swinging singing Jazz extravaganza. 9PM SAINT GEORGE’S Elias String Quartet 8PM £10 - £17.50 THE PRINCE ALBERT Born to Lose 8PM £3 VOLKS Strictly Reggae Dancehall, Bashment, Roots, Reggae 11PM £4 - £5
Jazz Tuition Class 11AM £tbc BRUNSWICK Fringe Festival Jazz Jam 8:30PM CONCORDE 2 Then Jerico - Reprise Tour 7:30PM £19.50 DIGITAL CU Next Tuesday 11PM £3 - £4 DOCTOR BRIGHTONS Twisted Tuesday 3PM DUKE OF NORFOLK Open Mic 9PM GREEN DOOR STORE Tatty Seaside Town present Purling Hiss 7PM £8 GREEN DOOR STORE Donuts Contemporary beat, classic soul, funk 11PM HOPE The Hope Pres Billy Lockett 7:30PM £6 NORTHERN LIGHTS DJ Prateek THE PRINCE ALBERT Sinister Hussy, 10 Thousand Ghosts, In Remembrance 8PM £3 - £4
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THURSDAY 23RD ABOVE AUDIO 2~4~1 cocktails and disco from Nick Sabin AUDIO Bastard Pop Pop & Jagerbombs £2 - £3 BRIGHTON DOME, CONCERT HALL Rime of the Ancient Mariner The Tiger Lillies 8PM £10 - £18.50 BRIGHTON DOME, STUDIO THEATRE Brian O’Kane MinJung Baek 1PM £10 COALITION Kilimanjaro Live & Lout Pres Lucy Spraggan & Guests 7PM £9 COALITION Secret Discotheque 11PM £2 - £4 DOCTOR BRIGHTONS Thirsty Thursdays 3PM DRUIDS ARMS Overhead Wires Music Pres Subvert Normality 8PM
FAT!BEACHES Saturday 25th May Minimalistic deep and darkside House and Techno music. Guaranteed to get you dancing all night long!
LOCATION: 10 Below (under Smugglers) TIMINGS: Doors 10pm TICKETS: £3 ADVERTISE YOUR EVENT: BN1MAGAZINE.CO.UK
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MONDAY 27TH ABOVE AUDIO Baby Loves Disco Daytime party for the kids ABOVE AUDIO TEN Each Monday TEN drinks will be on offer at ridiculously low prices BRUNSWICK Fringe Festival Grasshopper Takes Over The Brunswick 12PM £3 - £5 BRUNSWICK Fringe Festival An Evening Of Haunting Soulful Melodies 8PM £5 - £7 COALITION Trash Mondays 11PM £3 - £4 DOCTOR BRIGHTONS Medication Mondays 3PM FIDDLER’S ELBOW Check-In Mondays! Oliver Croome & Benny Brooke 8:30PM GREEN DOOR STORE Soro Live present Kill Moon & Casimir 7PM GREEN DOOR STORE Sandwich Club Dancing and Sandwich based fundraiser 11PM £3 HOPE The Hope Live Sessions Bands and solo performances 8PM KOMEDIA The Besnard Lakes 7:30PM £10 MESMERIST Flash Mob Jazz swinging singing Jazz extravaganza. 9PM THE PRINCE ALBERT Goldsboro & Support 8PM £4 - £5 VOLKS Strictly Reggae Dancehall, Bashment, Roots, Reggae 11PM £4 - £5
TUESDAY 28TH ABOVE AUDIO Cottontail Club Jitter Jive, Rhythm & Blues, Big Band Swing BRUNSWICK Brighton Jazz School Jazz Tuition Class 11AM £tbc BRUNSWICK Fringe Festival Jazz Jam 8:30PM CHEQUERS Open Mic Night with Wolf Willim 8PM DIGITAL CU Next Tuesday 11PM £3 - £4 DOCTOR BRIGHTONS Twisted Tuesday 3PM DUKE OF NORFOLK Open Mic 9PM GREEN DOOR STORE Teen Creeps present Vondelpark 7PM £6 GREEN DOOR STORE Donuts Contemporary beat, classic soul, funk 11PM KOMEDIA Terry Reid 8PM £17.50 £20 (Studio) LATEST MUSIC BAR Paul Gunn & Worsted Noel Coward meets the Buena Vista Social Club, 7PM £8 - £10 THE PRINCE ALBERT Woodland Blue, The Monday Wars, Beth Morris 8PM £3 - £4
WEDNESDAY 29TH ABOVE AUDIO Cookin Beats Cookin Beat and Mixing Drinks BRUNSWICK Fringe Festival Zuby & ShaoDow 6:30PM £8 COALITION Cocoloco Promotions Pres CoCo LoCo 10:30PM £1 - £5 CONCORDE 2 R.A.W (Rave All Week) 11PM £tbc DIGITAL Fresh Meat Indie, 60’s, Hip Hop, Funk 11PM £1 DOCTOR BRIGHTONS Cocktail Clinic 3PM DUKE OF NORFOLK Pub Quiz Every wednesday is pub quiz night 9PM £1 pp FISHBOWL Tea & Buscuits Gareth Stephens 10PM GREEN DOOR STORE Soro Live present Wildflowers 7PM GREEN DOOR STORE Indie Wednesdays Weekly dose of straight up indie bangers 11PM MESMERIST The Swing Ninjas original Brighton busking band 9PM MUCKY DUCK Overhead Wires Music Pres live acoustic evening 8PM THE OLD MARKET Brighton Fringe
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SUNDAY 26TH ABOVE AUDIO Enzo’s daytime party AUDIO Enzo Siffredi BRIGHTON CENTRE Happy Mondays 6:30PM £32.50 BRIGHTON DOME, CONCERT HALL Britten Sinfonia & Brighton Festival Chorus Mozart Mass in C Minor 7:30PM £10 - £27.50 BRUNSWICK Fringe Festival A Love Supreme: Coltrane & More! 12PM £5 - £10 BRUNSWICK Fringe Festival The Studio 9 Orchestra Live 4PM £6 - £12 COALITION Kitchen Pass 10:30PM £5 CONCORDE 2 Groovy Bazaar ActionAid FUNdraiser 11PM £7 - £10 DIGITAL Shogun Pres Friction, Hazard, D - Bridge 10:30PM DOCTOR BRIGHTONS Bank Holiday Hangover Therapy Reflex. DJ Adam Rice 8:30PM FIDDLER’S ELBOW Sham-Rock Open Mic 8:30PM FISHBOWL Summer Opening Party! funk, reggae, hip hop, jazz 8PM FREEMASONS Second Saturday Bank Holiday DJ Set 8PM GREEN DOOR STORE Communion Bank Holiday special from folk community label 2PM £tbc GREEN DOOR STORE Green Door Blues Smokestack & The Big Itch DJs 10:30PM HOPE The Hope Pres 30 Bands,One Day,One Venue HOPE Improvabananas On the spot audience requests 9PM LATEST MUSIC BAR The Big Bite-
Size Breakfast Desires 3PM £9.50 - £12.50 LECTERN Overhead Wires Music Pres The Sunday Sermon 6:30PM NORTHERN LIGHTS Northern Light Sunday Dj playing chilled out tunes SIGNALMAN Open Mic Night hosted by local duo Zoothyme complete with PA, Guitar & Drums 8PM SPIEGELTETNT Herbie Flowers’ 75th Birthday Jazz Breakfast Specials Festival Farewell 11AM £8.50 THE PRINCE ALBERT Mick Farron And The Deviants 8PM £tbc VICTORY Blues Sundays Blues and Soul fresh from the Delta Spun 12PM VOLKS Wonkay Records presents the Bank HOliday Charity 12 hour Spesh! 5PM
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BoomBap Festival The Return Of The Twat Tour 11PM £2 - £5 DIGITAL Saturday Rox Commercial, House, EDM, Garage, Chart Remixes 11PM £5 - £7 DOCTOR BRIGHTONS Bank Holiday Sexy Saturday DJ Tony B 9:30PM EMPORIUM Health & Pleasure 10:30PM £6 FIDDLER’S ELBOW Saturday Sizzlers Drop it like it’s HOT with our weekly DJ’s FISHBOWL Daddy Marcus Soul, disco, funk and party classics 9PM FREEMASONS Saturday Night Disc Spinners 9PM GREEN DOOR STORE The Big Itch the rock ‘n’ roll jungle! 11PM HAUNT Lout Promotion Pres Brighton Rocks 14+ special featuring Candela, Infinites 7PM £5 HOPE Puppet Kings & Devil In Detail, Beggarz Fixx 8PM £3 KOMEDIA Mod For It DJ Jody LeeHooker 11PM £4 - £5 LATEST MUSIC BAR Traumfrau! SQUID. Quirky molluscs and Keyboards 8PM £5 - £6 MESMERIST Juke Joint Jamboree Expect vintage hits and boutique rarities 9PM MESMERIST Sneaky Low 5 Double bass, guitar and drums 9PM NORTH LAINE Chop Source 1960’s/70’s raw funk rhythms & soul 9PM NORTHERN LIGHTS DJ Onetime THE OLD MARKET Glyndebourne Captain Blood’s Revenge: A Pirate Opera 11AM & 3PM £6 - £25 THE PRINCE ALBERT Bum Fun With The Immediate Crewe 8PM £4 WESTERN FRONT Moochin’ DJ Lanx 9PM VICTORY DJ Rob Taylor (Up Against It) Big Soul, Odd Rock, Alt-Pop 9PM VOLKS Strictly Guest List Specimen A, Jmes D’Ley, Six Blade 11PM £5 - £6
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Pleasance & Classical Mayhem Pres Decomposed! 2:30PM £7 - £8.50 WESTERN FRONT Hush Hush Live acoustic music showcase 8PM
THURSDAY 30TH ABOVE AUDIO 2~4~1 cocktails and disco from Nick Sabin AUDIO Bastard Pop Pop & Jagerbombs £2 - £3 COALITION Secret Discotheque 11PM £2 - £4 DOCTOR BRIGHTONS Thirsty Thursdays 3PM FIDDLER’S ELBOW Brighton Fringe Festival see a showcase of alt-folk and roots musicians. FISHBOWL Cut La Vis This man is all about combining Jamaican riddims and Urban beats 10:30PM GREEN DOOR STORE Lout present Tigercub, Semper Teens, and The Flash Gordons 7PM £4 GREEN DOOR STORE Sleepless +1 Brighton alternatives gather 11PM HOPE The Social new and upcoming acts 8PM KOMEDIA Nell Bryden plus Support 7:30PM £10 MESMERIST Lucy & The Scamps Johnny Rotten and co. 9PM SAINT JAMES TAVERN Bacon Fat Stay Sick DJ’s 9PM THE OLD MARKET Brighton Fringe Pleasance & Classical Mayhem Pres Decomposed! 2:30PM £7 - £8.50 THE PRINCE ALBERT Dustin Bentall, Kendel Carson 8PM £7.50 VICTORY Open Mic Night All musicians and perfomers welcome 8PM VOLKS Roll Through Bass, D n B, Dubstep, Beatbox 11PM £2
FRIDAY 31ST ABOVE AUDIO Home House, deep house and disco AUDIO Schtumm vs Moda Black Jaymo & Andy George & Ejeca BRUNSWICK Fringe Festival The Self Help Group & Support 7:30PM £5 - £6 COALITION Friday I’m In Love 11PM £3 - £6 CONCORDE 2 Hot Wuk - Summertime Bashment With The Heatwave 10PM £4 - £6 DIGITAL Stonelove 101% Indie Rock n Roll 11PM £3 - £4 DOCTOR BRIGHTONS Funky Friday DJ Nick Hurst & DJ Wayne 9:30PM DUKE OF NORFOLK Lady Lola Playing Funk, Motown, Reggae, Hip Hop 9PM FISHBOWL Martin Lodge Support from Sumsuch 9PM GREEN DOOR STORE Three Peak Challenge Glass Sines, Ivy King, and Cells 7PM £5 GREEN DOOR STORE Sound Dance 11PM HAMPTON Dad’s Old Vinyl Classic soul, funk, hip hop & disco 9PM HOPE Turbulence Promotions Pres KOVAK 8PM £4 LATEST MUSIC BAR Amy in the Winehouse 10:30PM £8 MESMERIST Shake, Holla & Roll 40’s/50’s rhythm & blues 9PM STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Lout Promotion Pres Brighton Rocks featuring Click Click Drone, The Elevaters 7PM £4 THE OLD MARKET Brighton Fringe Harmony in the Community Pres Carnivalesque 8PM £16.50 THE PRINCE ALBERT Internet Forever, Her Parents, Stairs To Korea 8PM £5 WESTERN FRONT DJ Dennis Castro Blog-Pop, Lazy Garage, Muscle Rhymes & Jiggy Fitness! 9PM VOLKS Originate Pres Top Buzz & Mad P, Hyper-On Experience, Dj Stretch 11PM £6
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E H T R O F E TIM G N I K O O L D O O G BOY Time For The Good Looking Boy is the third play in Box Clever’s Urban Mischief series. Using a minimal set and a powerful performance, it examines one audacious young lad and the darkness that lurks below the surface of his life. Now this hugely successful production is coming to Brighton’s newest theatre, Emporium, so we caught up with Craig from Box Clever to find out more.
How would you describe Time for the Good Looking Boy to someone with an unremarkable background? Time for the Good Looking Boy is a brilliantly written and cleverly delivered performance. The story resonates with everyone, whether they are experienced in attending live performances or completely new to theatre. It is a story that everyone can easily follow and enjoy. How much of the play draws from personal experiences? Is there anything in the piece that actually happened? The starting point of the play was the unexpected death of an 18-year-old known to the Artistic Director indirectly through a school in which he was working at the time. The death of this student made Michael think more about the emotions that follow the sudden absence of a person. He started to consider all the things that this young person may have done, what he left unsaid, and the emptiness and emotions felt by the friends and family left behind. What can you tell us about the Urban Mischief series? Urban Mischief is a series of contemporary plays about young people. They consider adolescence – that hinterland between childhood and adulthood. The series of performances are set in an urban landscape and focus on how young people deal with growing up and the chal-
lenges they face. They are not stories about gangs and drugs; they are commentaries on the difficult issues faced by young people in modern society. Time for the Good Looking Boy is the third in a series of three new stories written by Michael with the first two - Dirty Kissing and Sixteen Up - touring to venues in 2008 and 2009. How important is the score in Time for the Good Looking Boy? Did the process, with the composer Jon Nicholls, turn out as you’d thought it would? The musical score developed by Jon Nicholls is at the heart of the narrative. It tells as much about what is happening in the performance as the words and acting. The score was developed in the rehearsals with director Iqbal Khan, placing it in the centre of the development of this performance, and continues throughout the full 60-minute play. Is it more difficult to write a compelling piece with a single performer than a choreographed ensemble production? The single performer tells the story, but takes on a dozen different characters throughout the piece, giving lots of different story lines to follow. This style of story telling is what Box Clever does best - using a small number of
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performers who take on the characteristics of a number of people involved to deliver a moving performance. Do you think there’s enough non-patronising theatre for young people? Young adults are very quick to notice when they’re been spoken down to… Time for the Good Looking Boy is as equally relevant to young people as it is to older audiences; the story resonates across ages. Our marketing never says that the show is just for a certain age group, however it is a young character who tells his story so young people may particularly relate to the words and the performance. Any piece of theatre can be patronising for any age group: careful writing, directing and acting ensure that this play does not have negative effects on the audience. One of the play’s strengths is not in what it says, but what it suggests is impending. How do you even begin to convey subconscious messages to a theatre audience? There are clues that something is not quite as it seems throughout the performance. A combination of clever writing, directing and the use of the soundscape and lighting help unravel that hidden story.
What would you say to anyone fearful of young people and the occasionally alien culture they belong to? If you believe the press, Britain is under siege from hordes of feral, lawless, hooded types. In this play they meet a character who appears aggressive to begin with and takes on some of the stereotypes associated with young people. By the end of the play they see a young boy who is trying to make up for the things he has done. The costumes and masks fall away and you get to see what is underneath that clothing. How important is theatre, especially for young people, in austerity-hit Britain? We believe it is the right of every young person in this country to have cultural experiences and, more importantly, to see live performances. There is not enough in the reach of young people, whether it is music, dance or theatre. It is not the same as film and video; there is a vital personal exchange in a live performance and that is what we aim to deliver.
Time For The Good Looking Boy hits Emporium on Monday 13 – Wednesday 15 May. Book your tickets at www.emporiumbrighton.com
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Master wordsmith Roger McGough dips his quill into a Molière’ classic in this mockery of manners and morals set amid 17th century French aristocracy. Considered by many to be Molière’s best work, The Misanthrope will again join the creative forces of McGough, Director Gemma Bodinetz and English Touring Theatre to complete a tricolour of Molière comedies following the huge successes of Tartuffe and The Hypochondriac 7:45PM £10 - £29.50
THURSDAY 2 THEATRE ROYAL The Misanthrope Master wordsmith Roger McGough dips his quill into a Molière’ classic in this mockery of manners and morals set amid 17th century French aristocracy. Considered by many to be Molière’s best work, The Misanthrope will again join the creative forces of McGough, Director Gemma Bodinetz and English Touring Theatre to complete a tricolour of Molière comedies following the huge successes of Tartuffe and The Hypochondriac 2:30PM & 7:45PM £10 - £29.50
FRIDAY 3 THEATRE ROYAL The Misanthrope Master wordsmith Roger McGough dips his quill into a Molière’ classic in this mockery of manners and morals set amid 17th century French aristocracy. Considered by many to be Molière’s best work, The Misanthrope will again join the creative forces of McGough, Director Gemma Bodinetz and English Touring Theatre to complete a tricolour of Molière comedies following the huge successes of Tartuffe and The Hypochondriac 7:45PM £10 - £29.50
SATURDAY 4 BRIGHTON DOME, CAFÉ BAR Mercurial Wrestler Magna Mysteria. We’d like to invite you on an interactive journey of intrigue, myth and magic. All we ask is that you hold in your mind one simple idea: You are a magician. This is not a game, and there’s no right or wrong. But there are many paths, and no one will have the same experience. 10AM BRIGHTON DOME, STUDIO THEATRE Neil McKenna: Fanny & Stella. Neil McKenna takes us into this fascinating secret world as he talks about his latest work, which returns to the period he mined so brilliantly in his acclaimed The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde. 3PM £10 BRIGHTON DOME, STUDIO THEATRE Version 1.0 (Sydney) The Disappearances Project. When a person disappears, the immediate effects
are devastating. When they remain missing years later, how do those left behind cope with living in the limbo of not- knowing and come to terms with the agony of loss? 8PM £10 - £12.50 LATEST MUSIC BAR Granny Gone Wild written and performed by Lynn Ruth Miller directed by Bill Smith 7:30PM £5 THEATRE ROYAL The Misanthrope Master wordsmith Roger McGough dips his quill into a Molière’ classic in this mockery of manners and morals set amid 17th century French aristocracy. Considered by many to be Molière’s best work, The Misanthrope will again join the creative forces of McGough, Director Gemma Bodinetz and English Touring Theatre to complete a tricolour of Molière comedies following the huge successes of Tartuffe and The Hypochondriac 2:30PM & 7:45PM £10 - £29.50
SUNDAY 5 BRIGHTON DOME, CAFÉ BAR Mercurial Wrestler Magna Mysteria. We’d like to invite you on an interactive journey of intrigue, myth and magic. All we ask is that you hold in your mind one simple idea: You are a magician. This is not a game, and there’s no right or wrong. But there are many paths, and no one will have the same experience. 10AM BRIGHTON DOME, STUDIO THEATRE Into the Woods: A Five Act Journey Into Story John Yorke. Why do we tell stories? It’s a question that philosophers have asked down the centuries, and one that John Yorke is asking in his new book, Into the Woods. 2PM £10 BRIGHTON DOME, STUDIO THEATRE Roy Hutchins The Poetry Army. The writer, director and performer Roy Hutchins’ longstanding collaboration with the poet Heathcote Williams has included cult performances of Whale Nation and Autogeddon. Now he adds Williams’s extraordinary new work, The Poetry Army, to the tally. 4PM £8 BRIGHTON DOME, STUDIO THEATRE Version 1.0 (Sydney) The Disappearances Project. When a person disappears, the immediate effects are devastating. When they remain missing years later, how do those left behind cope with living in the limbo of not- knowing and come to terms with the agony of loss? 8PM £10 - £12.50 THE OLD MARKET Tam Teatromusica (Milan) Picablo. Step inside the paintings of the 20th century’s greatest artist for a unique and exhilarating introduction to the genius of Pablo Picasso. This two-man performance uses movement, projection, light and shadow to inhabit and animate Picasso’s world of bulls and bullfighters, doves and dancers, acrobats and clowns. 4PM £5 - £25
TUESDAY 7 ALL SAINTS CHURCH Circa, I Fagiolini How Like An Angel. Join performers and singers on a journey of discovery around this sacred space. Intensely beautiful music and feats of astonishing acrobatics draw you deep into a world of physical daring and soaring sound, against a backdrop of stunning architecture. 9:30PM £10 - £20 BRIGHTON DOME, CAFÉ BAR Mercurial Wrestler Magna Mysteria. We’d
WEDNESDAY 8 ALL SAINTS CHURCH Circa, I Fagiolini How Like An Angel. Join performers and singers on a journey of discovery around this sacred space. Intensely beautiful music and feats of astonishing acrobatics draw you deep into a world of physical daring and soaring sound, against a backdrop of stunning architecture. 7:30PM & 9:30PM £10 - £20 BRIGHTON DOME, CAFÉ BAR Mercurial Wrestler Magna Mysteria. We’d like to invite you on an interactive journey of intrigue, myth and magic. All we ask is that you hold in your mind one simple idea: You are a magician. This is not a game, and there’s no right or wrong. But there are many paths, and no one will have the same experience. 10AM BRUNSWICK Fringe Festival Pillow
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rial Wrestler Magna Mysteria. We’d like to invite you on an interactive journey of intrigue, myth and magic. All we ask is that you hold in your mind one simple idea: You are a magician. This is not a game, and there’s no right or wrong. But there are many paths, and no one will have the same experience. 10AM BRIGHTON DOME, CONCERT HALL Cirque Éloize (Montreal) Cirkopolis. Pushing the boundaries of visual and audio innovation, the company takes us into an industrial yet fanciful world inspired by the rich visual legacy of the classic films Metropolis and Brazil. 3PM & 7:30PM £10 - £22.50 BRIGHTON DOME, STUDIO THEATRE Version 1.0 (Sydney) The Disappearances Project. When a person disappears, the immediate effects are devastating. When they remain missing years later, how do those left behind cope with living in the limbo of not- knowing and come to terms with the agony of loss? 8PM £10 - £12.50 BRUNSWICK Fringe Festival Pillow Talk. If your bed could talk, what stories could it tell? 7PM £5 - £7 THE OLD MARKET Tam Teatromusica (Milan) Picablo. Step inside the paintings of the 20th century’s greatest artist for a unique and exhilarating introduction to the genius of Pablo Picasso. This two-man performance uses movement, projection, light and shadow to inhabit and animate Picasso’s world of bulls and bullfighters, doves and dancers, acrobats and clowns. 11AM, 2PM & 5:30PM £5 - £25
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like to invite you on an interactive journey of intrigue, myth and magic. All we ask is that you hold in your mind one simple idea: You are a magician. This is not a game, and there’s no right or wrong. But there are many paths, and no one will have the same experience. 10AM BRIGHTON DOME, CONCERT HALL Cirque Éloize (Montreal) Cirkopolis. Pushing the boundaries of visual and audio innovation, the company takes us into an industrial yet fanciful world inspired by the rich visual legacy of the classic films Metropolis and Brazil. 7:30PM £10 - £22.50 BRUNSWICK Fringe Festival Pillow Talk. If your bed could talk, what stories could it tell? 7PM £5 - £7 KOMEDIA Desperately Seeking the Exit American Peter Michael Marino’s musical based on Desperately Seeking Susan featuring Blondie’s hits. 8PM £10 - £15 THE OLD MARKET Tam Teatromusica (Milan) Picablo. Step inside the paintings of the 20th century’s greatest artist for a unique and exhilarating introduction to the genius of Pablo Picasso. This two-man performance uses movement, projection, light and shadow to inhabit and animate Picasso’s world of bulls and bullfighters, doves and dancers, acrobats and clowns. 1:30PM £5 - £25
LA BORDELLO BOHÈME Saturday 11th May Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to the World of La Bordello Bohème, a show filled with Burlesque, Circus, Cabaret, Variety and Vaudeville.
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Talk. If your bed could talk, what stories could it tell? 7PM & 9PM £5 - £7
THURSDAY 9 ALL SAINTS CHURCH Circa, I Fagiolini How Like An Angel. Join performers and singers on a journey of discovery around this sacred space. Intensely beautiful music and feats of astonishing acrobatics draw you deep into a world of physical daring and soaring sound, against a backdrop of stunning architecture. 9:30PM £10 - £20 BRIGHTON DOME, CORN EXCHANGE Royal & Derngate, Northampton Flathampton. Everything in Flathampton is as flat as a pancake – from the sandwiches in the Cake Walk Café to the stethoscope on Doctor Zee’s desk. Then Kate comes back from the big city, bringing with her a truckload of objects that introduce a whole new dimension. 10:30AM £5 - £15 BRIGHTON DOME, CORN EXCHANGE Royal & Derngate, Northampton Flathampton. Everything in Flathampton is as flat as a pancake – from the sandwiches in the Cake Walk Café to the stethoscope on Doctor Zee’s desk. Then Kate comes back from the big city, bringing with her a truckload of objects that introduce a whole new dimension. 1:30PM £5 - £15 BRIGHTON DOME, CORN EXCHANGE SKaGeN with Richard Jordan Productions Ltd (Antwerp) Bigmouth. Words are powerful things; when spoken by powerful voices, they can change minds, inspire nations and reverberate through the centuries. In this tribute to 2,500 years of oratory 9PM £10 - £15 BRUNSWICK Fringe Festival Pillow Talk. If your bed could talk, what stories could it tell? 7PM & 9PM £5 - £7 Duke of York’ s Picturehouse : Hue and Cry 1947, U. The first of the fabled Ealing comedies is also a thriller for children, partly inspired by Kästner’s Emil and the Detectives, which provides a major strand of this year’s Festival. Like Emil, Hue and Cry sees a city – post-war London 6:30PM £5.50 - £26 EMPORIUM The Angina Monologue When Doug Devaney lay clutching his chest on a Brighton hill three years ago, the last thing he was thinking of was how it might look on stage. 8PM £5 THEATRE ROYAL Britten: The Canticles In the five Canticles, Britten distilled his immense operatic scope into miniature jewels that glitter with musical inspiration and dramatic potential. They explore the themes closest to his heart; sexual love, the horror of war, spiritual longing and the struggle for self-acceptance. 7:30PM £5 - £27.50
FRIDAY 10 ALL SAINTS CHURCH Circa, I Fagiolini How Like An Angel. Join performers and singers on a journey of discovery around this sacred space. Intensely beautiful music and feats of astonishing acrobatics draw you deep into a world of physical daring and soaring sound, against a backdrop of stunning architecture. 7:30PM & 9:30PM £10 - £20 BASEMENT Clerke and Joy Volcano. This is a show about eruptions and emotions, volcanoes and the Righteous Brothers, tension and release. It is the story of one airline pilot’s personal eruption in April 2010 as he waits, grounded by the ash cloud of Eyjafjallajökull. 7:30PM £10 BASEMENT Victoria Melody Major Tom. Together they immerse themselves in the obsessive and confusing realm of personal scrutiny, laying
bare the British fascination with celebrities, beauty and winning in this wry one-woman, one-dog show. 9:15PM £10 BRIGHTON DOME, CONCERT HALL Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Antony Gormley, Szymon Brzóska Sutra With monks from the Shaolin Temple. Sutra, a ‘unique, profoundly imagined work’ (The Guardian), is a collaboration between one of Europe’s most exciting choreographers, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Turner Prize-winning sculptor Antony Gormley and 17 practicing Buddhist monks from the Shaolin Temple in China. 8PM £7.50 - £22.50 BRIGHTON DOME, CORN EXCHANGE Royal & Derngate, Northampton Flathampton. Everything in Flathampton is as flat as a pancake – from the sandwiches in the Cake Walk Café to the stethoscope on Doctor Zee’s desk. Then Kate comes back from the big city, bringing with her a truckload of objects that introduce a whole new dimension. 4:30PM £5 - £15 BRIGHTON DOME, CORN EXCHANGE SKaGeN with Richard Jordan Productions Ltd (Antwerp) Bigmouth. Words are powerful things; when spoken by powerful voices, they can change minds, inspire nations and reverberate through the centuries. In this tribute to 2,500 years of oratory 8PM £10 - £15 BRIGHTON DOME, CORN EXCHANGE Royal & Derngate, Northampton Flathampton - for adults. Why should the children have all the fun? There is a special performance of Flathampton exclusively for grown-ups – swapping lemonade for Flathampton cocktails and the music shop for a disco. It’s miles more fun than adult life. 10PM £10 BRUNSWICK Fringe Festival Pillow Talk. If your bed could talk, what stories could it tell? 4PM, 7PM & 9PM £5 - £7 EMPORIUM The Angina Monologue When Doug Devaney lay clutching his chest on a Brighton hill three years ago, the last thing he was thinking of was how it might look on stage. 8PM £5 THE OLD MARKET Brighton Fringe TrailBlaze pres Someone Else’s Shoes. Join TrailBlaze on a journey through a Brighton you have never met 5:30PM, 7PM & 8:30PM £5 - £6 THE OLD MARKET Brighton Fringe house presents Les Enfants Terribles with The Trench. From the team behind The Terrible Infants, a new play inspired by the true story of a miner who became entombed in a tunnel during WWI 8PM £12 - £14
SATURDAY 11 BASEMENT Victoria Melody Major Tom. Together they immerse themselves in the obsessive and confusing realm of personal scrutiny, laying bare the British fascination with celebrities, beauty and winning in this wry one-woman, one-dog show. 9:15PM £10 BRIGHTON DOME, CONCERT HALL Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Antony Gormley, Szymon Brzóska Sutra With monks from the Shaolin Temple. Sutra, a ‘unique, profoundly imagined work’ (The Guardian), is a collaboration between one of Europe’s most exciting choreographers, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Turner Prize-winning sculptor Antony Gormley and 17 practicing Buddhist monks from the Shaolin Temple in China. 8PM £7.50 - £22.50 BRIGHTON DOME, CORN EXCHANGE Royal & Derngate, Northampton Flathampton. Everything in Flathampton is as flat as a pancake – from the sandwiches in the Cake Walk Café to the stethoscope on Doctor Zee’s
desk. Then Kate comes back from the big city, bringing with her a truckload of objects that introduce a whole new dimension. 1PM & 4PM £5 - £15 BRIGHTON DOME, CORN EXCHANGE SKaGeN with Richard Jordan Productions Ltd (Antwerp) Bigmouth. Words are powerful things; when spoken by powerful voices, they can change minds, inspire nations and reverberate through the centuries. In this tribute to 2,500 years of oratory 9PM £10 - £15 BRUNSWICK Fringe Festival Pillow Talk. If your bed could talk, what stories could it tell? 3PM, 7PM & 9PM £5 - £7 EMPORIUM The Angina Monologue When Doug Devaney lay clutching his chest on a Brighton hill three years ago, the last thing he was thinking of was how it might look on stage. 8PM £5 EMPORIUM La Bordello Bohème Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to the World of La Bordello Bohème, a show filled with Burlesque, Circus, Cabaret, Variety and Vaudeville 10:30PM £11.50 THE OLD MARKET Brighton Fringe house presents Les Enfants Terribles with The Trench. From the team behind The Terrible Infants, a new play inspired by the true story of a miner who became entombed in a tunnel during WWI 2PM & 8PM £12 - £14
SUNDAY 12 BRIGHTON DOME, CORN EXCHANGE Royal & Derngate, Northampton Flathampton. Everything in Flathampton is as flat as a pancake – from the sandwiches in the Cake Walk Café to the stethoscope on Doctor Zee’s desk. Then Kate comes back from the big city, bringing with her a truckload of objects that introduce a whole new dimension. 11AM & 2PM £5 - £15 BRUNSWICK Fringe Festival Pillow Talk. If your bed could talk, what stories could it tell? 3PM, 7PM & 9PM £5 - £7 EMPORIUM Dr Who Star Speaks Richard Franklin, who created the highly popular role of Captain Mike Yates of U.N.I.T. in the BBC TV series Dr Who with Jon Pertwee 7PM £17 EMPORIUM The Angina Monologue When Doug Devaney lay clutching his chest on a Brighton hill three years ago, the last thing he was thinking of was how it might look on stage. 8PM £5 THE OLD MARKET Brighton Fringe TrailBlaze pres Someone Else’s Shoes. Join TrailBlaze on a journey through a Brighton you have never met 6:30PM, 8PM & 9:30PM £5 - £6 THE OLD MARKET Brighton Fringe house presents Les Enfants Terribles with The Trench. From the team behind The Terrible Infants, a new play inspired by the true story of a miner who became entombed in a tunnel during WWI 8PM £12 - £14
MONDAY 13 EMPORIUM Time for the Good Looking Boy: This compelling, witty and intimate play explores the harsh realities of growing up, independence and consequences. 4PM & 7:30PM £13.50 THE OLD MARKET Brighton Fringe Tony Haase presents: The Day The Fairy Dust Landed. Live, animated, psychedelic Disaster Movie, written and performed by artist and comedian Tony Haase 8PM £10 - £12
TUESDAY 14 EMPORIUM Time for the Good Looking Boy: This compelling, witty and intimate play explores the harsh realities of growing up, independence and consequences. 4PM & 7:30PM £13.50 KOMEDIA Desperately Seeking the Exit American Peter Michael Marino’s musical based on Desperately Seeking Susan featuring Blondie’s hits. 8PM £10 - £15 THEATRE ROYAL Casus: Knee Deep Four performers explore the boundaries of strength and tenderness. Bodies are pushed and pulled, weighed and tested, probing the limits of both physicality and feeling. As unlikely bonds are forged and space is transcended by thrilling physical feats, we are invited to re-imagine notions of our limitations. 7:30PM £11 - £21
WEDNESDAY 15 BRUNSWICK Instant Theatre Actors Meet-up and workshop 7:30PM £tbc EMPORIUM Time for the Good Looking Boy: This compelling, witty and intimate play explores the harsh realities of growing up, independence and consequences. 4PM PM £13.50 EMPORIUM Underneath The Lintel A shabby, obsessive Dutch librarian finds an overdue book in the overnight return slot – a book taken out 113 years earlier 8:30PM £5 THEATRE ROYAL Casus: Knee Deep Four performers explore the boundaries of strength and tenderness. Bodies are pushed and pulled, weighed and tested, probing the limits of both physicality and feeling. As unlikely bonds are forged and space is transcended by thrilling physical feats, we are invited to re-imagine notions of our limitations. 7:30PM £11 - £21
THURSDAY 16 BASEMENT Pieter De Buysser and Hans Op de Beeck (Brussels) Book Burning. Hans created an object. Pieter wrote a story. Together they made a show. In this contemporary fable of personal freedom, feeling and resistance, an enigmatic trunk undergoes a remarkable metamorphosis, revealing landscapes and visions from the past. 8PM £10 - £12 EMPORIUM Underneath The Lintel A shabby, obsessive Dutch librarian finds an overdue book in the overnight return slot – a book taken out 113 years earlier 8:30PM £5 THEATRE ROYAL Casus: Knee Deep Four performers explore the boundaries of strength and tenderness. Bodies are pushed and pulled, weighed and tested, probing the limits of both physicality and feeling. As unlikely bonds are forged and space is transcended by thrilling physical feats, we are invited to re-imagine notions of our limitations. 7:30PM £11 - £21
FRIDAY 17 EMPORIUM Underneath The Lintel A shabby, obsessive Dutch librarian finds an overdue book in the overnight return slot – a book taken out 113 years earlier 8:30PM £5 THE OLD MARKET Brighton Fringe TrailBlaze pres Someone Else’s Shoes. Join TrailBlaze on a journey through a Brighton you have never met 5:30PM, 7PM & 8:30PM £5 - £6 THE OLD MARKET Beckett Project Paris Here All Night. This is a rare opportunity to discover another facet of Beckett’s work with a truly virtuoso ensemble. 8PM £10 - £14 THEATRE ROYAL Casus: Knee Deep Four performers explore the boundaries of strength and tenderness. Bodies are pushed and pulled, weighed and tested, probing the limits of both...
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feeling. physicality As unlikely bonds are forged and space is transcended by thrilling physical feats, we are invited to re-imagine notions of our limitations. 7:30PM £11 - £21
SATURDAY 18 THE OLD MARKET Beckett Project Paris Here All Night. This is a rare opportunity to discover another facet of Beckett’s work with a truly virtuoso ensemble. 4PM & 8PM £10 - £14 THEATRE ROYAL Casus: Knee Deep Four performers explore the boundaries of strength and tenderness. Bodies are pushed and pulled, weighed and tested,
SUNDAY 19 EMPORIUM Woodland A safe place for rare creatures. What happens when a new arrival doesn’t want to adhere to the safe routines already in place? For Children 3-5yrs with subtle adult humour £8 THE OLD MARKET Brighton Fringe TrailBlaze pres Someone Else’s Shoes. Join TrailBlaze on a journey through a Brighton you have never met 6:30PM, 8PM & 9:30PM £5 - £6 THE OLD MARKET Beckett Project Paris Here All Night. This is a rare opportunity to discover another facet of Beckett’s work with a truly virtuoso ensemble. 8PM £10 - £14 THE OLD MARKET Spun Glass Theatre: Scratch Sessions New poetry, script, short story, stand up; anything goes 3PM £1
MONDAY 20 BRIGHTON DOME, STUDIO THEATRE Glyndebourne’s Jerwood Young Artists This special lunchtime concert is presented by members of this year’s Jerwood Young Artists. Selected from the acclaimed Glyndebourne chorus, the singers will perform a recital programme including operatic excerpts from across the repertoire. 1PM £10 CONCORDE 2 Brighton Fringe Event Brighton Theatre Presents A Showcase / Trailer Of Black Venus 7PM £10 EMPORIUM Woodland A safe place for rare creatures. What happens when a new arrival doesn’t want to adhere to the safe routines already in place? For Children 3-5yrs with subtle adult humour £8
TUESDAY 21 BRIGHTON DOME, CORN EXCHANGE Clod Ensemble Zero is a world where nothing is certain – where women can be tigers and men can be snakes. Families, marriages and friendships are laced with sibling rivalries, frustrated desires and murderous ambitions. 7:30PM £10 - £15 EMPORIUM Woodland A safe place for rare creatures. What happens when a new arrival doesn’t want to adhere to the safe routines already in place? For Children 3-5yrs with subtle adult humour £8 THE OLD MARKET Travelling Light, East London Dance, Sadler’s Wells & Stratford Circus Varmints. Once there was only the sound of bees and the wind in the grass, the murmuring of moles deep underground and the song of birds in the sky. But every day the city grows larger and louder, until there is so much noise that no-one can hear themselves think. 6PM £5 - £25 THEATRE ROYAL The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner is one of the best-loved novels of recent years. This eagerly awaited stage adaptation is a deeply moving contemplation of the price of loyalty, the possibility of
redemption in a land facing destruction and, above all, the bond of a friendship that spans cultures and continents.... 7:30PM £11 - £23.50
WEDNESDAY 22 BRIGHTON DOME, CORN EXCHANGE Clod Ensemble Zero is a world where nothing is certain – where women can be tigers and men can be snakes. Families, marriages and friendships are laced with sibling rivalries, frustrated desires and murderous ambitions. 7:30PM £10 - £15 BRIGHTON DOME, STUDIO THEATRE Theatre Replacement and Neworld Theatre (Vancouver) Winners and Losers. Theatre artists and long-time friends Marcus and James sit at a table and play a game they made up called Winners and Losers .8PM £10 - £12.50 BRUNSWICK Instant Theatre Actors Meet-up and workshop 7:30PM £tbc EMPORIUM Woodland A safe place for rare creatures. What happens when a new arrival doesn’t want to adhere to the safe routines already in place? For Children 3-5yrs with subtle adult humour £8 KOMEDIA The Modernists by Jeff Noon Fuelled by amphetamines, fast music, style and the motor scooter, The Modernists is a non-stop ride with the Mods. 7:30PM £12 - £14 LATEST MUSIC BAR Granny Gone Wild written and performed by Lynn Ruth Miller directed by Bill Smith 7:30PM £5 THE OLD MARKET Travelling Light, East London Dance, Sadler’s Wells & Stratford Circus Varmints. Once there was only the sound of bees and the wind in the grass, the murmuring of moles deep underground and the song of birds in the sky. But every day the city grows larger and louder, until there is so much noise that no-one can hear themselves think. 1:30PM & 6PM £5 - £25 THEATRE ROYAL The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner is one of the best-loved novels of recent years. This eagerly awaited stage adaptation is a deeply moving contemplation of the price of loyalty, the possibility of redemption in a land facing destruction and, above all, the bond of a friendship that spans cultures and continents.... 7:30PM £11 - £23.50
THURSDAY 23 BRIGHTON DOME, STUDIO THEATRE Theatre Replacement and Neworld Theatre (Vancouver) Winners and Losers. Theatre artists and long-time friends Marcus and James sit at a table and play a game they made up called Winners and Losers .8PM £10 - £12.50 LATEST MUSIC BAR Granny Gone Wild written and performed by Lynn Ruth Miller directed by Bill Smith 7:30PM £5 SAINT NICHOLAS’ REST GARDEN Globe Theatre on Tour King Lear By William Shakespeare Old King Lear, weary of royal duties, proposes to break up his kingdom and divide it among his three daughters. But this rash generosity is cruelly repaid and Lear discovers too late the false values by which he has lived – and, in turn, the suffering common to all humanity. 6PM £8 - £40 THEATRE ROYAL The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner is one of the best-loved novels of recent years. This eagerly awaited stage adaptation is a deeply moving contemplation of the price of loyalty, the possibility of redemption in a land facing destruction and, above all, the bond of a friendship that spans cultures and continents.... 2:30PM & 7:30PM £11 - £23.50
FRIDAY 24 BASEMENT Fuel Ring. You may not know us by name, but we will probably
seem familiar. We are the reassuring voices in your ear. You are already a valued member of the group and we’re thinking about you more and more… 6PM, 8PM & 10PM £10 - £15 BRIGHTON DOME, CORN EXCHANGE Lola Arias (Buenos Aires) My Life After, six Argentinian actors born in the 70s and 80s during the dictatorship reconstruct their parents’ youth - using photos, letters, tapes, clothes, stories and memories. 8PM £10 - £17.50 BRIGHTON DOME, STUDIO THEATRE Theatre Replacement and Neworld Theatre (Vancouver) Winners and Losers. Theatre artists and long-time friends Marcus and James sit at a table and play a game they made up called Winners and Losers .6:30PM £10 - £12.50 LATEST MUSIC BAR Granny Gone Wild written and performed by Lynn Ruth Miller directed by Bill Smith 7:30PM £5 SAINT NICHOLAS’ REST GARDEN Globe Theatre on Tour King Lear By William Shakespeare Old King Lear, weary of royal duties, proposes to break up his kingdom and divide it among his three daughters. But this rash generosity is cruelly repaid and Lear discovers too late the false values by which he has lived – and, in turn, the suffering common to all humanity. 6PM £8 - £40 THE OLD MARKET Brighton Fringe TrailBlaze pres Someone Else’s Shoes. Join TrailBlaze on a journey through a Brighton you have never met 5:30PM, 7PM & 8:30PM £5 - £6 THEATRE ROYAL The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner is one of the best-loved novels of recent years. This eagerly awaited stage adaptation is a deeply moving contemplation of the price of loyalty, the possibility of redemption in a land facing destruction and, above all, the bond of a friendship that spans cultures and continents.... 7:30PM £11 - £23.50
SATURDAY 25 BASEMENT Fuel Ring. You may not know us by name, but we will probably seem familiar. We are the reassuring voices in your ear. You are already a valued member of the group and we’re thinking about you more and more… 6PM, 8PM & 10PM £10 - £15 BRIGHTON DOME, CORN EXCHANGE Lola Arias (Buenos Aires) My Life After, six Argentinian actors born in the 70s and 80s during the dictatorship reconstruct their parents’ youth - using photos, letters, tapes, clothes, stories and memories. 7PM £10 - £17.50 SAINT NICHOLAS’ REST GARDEN Globe Theatre on Tour King Lear By William Shakespeare Old King Lear, weary of royal duties, proposes to break up his kingdom and divide it among his three daughters. But this rash generosity is cruelly repaid and Lear discovers too late the false values by which he has lived – and, in turn, the suffering common to all humanity. 1PM & 6PM £8 - £40 THEATRE ROYAL The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner is one of the best-loved novels of recent years. This eagerly awaited stage adaptation is a deeply moving contemplation of the price of loyalty, the possibility of redemption in a land facing destruction and, above all, the bond of a friendship that spans cultures and continents.... 2:30PM & 7:30PM £11 - £23.50
SUNDAY 26 BRIGHTON DOME, CORN EXCHANGE Lola Arias (Buenos Aires) My Life After, six Argentinian actors born in the 70s and 80s during the dictatorship reconstruct their parents’ youth - using photos, letters, tapes, clothes, stories and memories. 7PM £10 - £17.50 EMPORIUM A sumptuous evening of Arias performed by international so-
prano Miranda Keys, providing a perfect soundtrack to supper and drinks. Guests TBA. £22.50 SAINT NICHOLAS’ REST GARDEN Globe Theatre on Tour King Lear By William Shakespeare Old King Lear, weary of royal duties, proposes to break up his kingdom and divide it among his three daughters. But this rash generosity is cruelly repaid and Lear discovers too late the false values by which he has lived – and, in turn, the suffering common to all humanity. 1PM & 6PM £8 - £40 THE OLD MARKET Brighton Fringe TrailBlaze pres Someone Else’s Shoes. Join TrailBlaze on a journey through a Brighton you have never met 6:30PM, 8PM & 9:30PM £5 - £6 THE OLD MARKET Brighton Fringe Touched Theatre & Friends, Best of Punched. Brighton’s sell-out puppetry night for grown ups. “ 8PM £10 - £12
MONDAY 27 EMPORIUM Youth Theatre Workshops. Join us for fun days inspiring imagination – learn a new skill each day with our professional teachers, culminating in a performance at the end of the week in front of your friends and family. 27 - 31 May. 9am / 6 hours / £95 / Includes healthy lunch / Ages 7-13
WEDNESDAY 29 BRUNSWICK Instant Theatre Actors Meet-up and workshop 7:30PM £tbc THE OLD MARKET Brighton Fringe Take the Space in association with TOM present Stella. A story of women and astronomy 8PM £10 - £12 Thursday 30th THE OLD MARKET Brighton Fringe Take the Space in association with TOM present Stella. A story of women and astronomy 8PM £10 - £12
FRIDAY 31 THE OLD MARKET Brighton Fringe TrailBlaze pres Someone Else’s Shoes. Join TrailBlaze on a journey through a Brighton you have never met 5:30PM, 7PM & 8:30PM £5 - £6
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BRIGHTON FESTIVAL 4 - 26 MAY England’s most prestigious arts festival is back to delight us with the best of Music, Theatre, Dance, Film, Literature and Debate. Former Children’s Laureate Michael Rosen is fulfilling Guest Director duties this year, so let’s have a look at the best treats he and the team have for us in 2013. The Corn Exchange hosts the UK premiere of My Life After, on Fri 24 – Sun 26 May. A touching examination of life under military rule in Argentina, six actors use photos, letters, tapes, clothes, stories and memories to explore how their parents coped with living through some of the South American republic’s most turbulent times, revealing complex and dark secrets alongside the joy and humour of lives recovered. Beloved Brighton-based beatboxer Beardyman spits out - One Album Per Hour on Sat 4 at the Corn Exchange, which sees the multi-award- winning musician transcend mere mimicry, using only audience suggestions, electronic trickery and his voice, he’ll create a whole new album in an hour. You’ve heard of a one-man band? This guy’s a oneman symphony orchestra. Award-winning playwright Young Jean Lee, and her band Future Wife, reflect on coming to terms with mortality in the UK Premiere of We’re Gonna Die on Tue 7 – Thu 9 at Brighton Dome’s Studio Theatre. Confronting the inevitable through her experiences of isolation and loneliness, Lee shares the comfort she found in all the simple and unexpected things. There’s some terrific Circus on offer again this year. On Mon 6 - Tue 7 May at the Dome Concert Hall, Cirque Éloize present the UK Premiere of Cirkopolis, a vibrant, humorous and imaginary show that pushes the boundaries of visual and audio innovation, all inspired by the rich visual legacy of the classic films Metropolis and Brazil. Hove’s All Saints Church plays host to Circa’s How Like An Angel on Tue 7 – Fri 10 May. Combining intensely beautiful music (including Thomas Tallis’ Gaude gloriosa, Hildegard of Bingen’s O Viridissima Virgo and Missa L’homme arme by
Josquin des Prez) and feats of astonishing acrobatics, this promenade show draws you deep into a world of physical daring and soaring sound, against a backdrop of stunning architecture. There’s deadly challenge on offer at Spiegeltent at Thu 16 – Sun 19, with Rob Drummond’s Bullet Catch. A show, full of storytelling, mind-reading, levitation, games of chance and the titular final stunt, this was a huge success at last year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe. This unique fusion of magic and theatre plays with our perceptions of truth and illusion to create a powerful dramatic experience. Zero is a world where nothing is certain. A turbulent mix of dance, music and visual theatre, Zero’s world premiere, on Tue 21 - Wed 22 at the Corn Exchange, charts sibling rivalries, frustrated desires and murderous ambitions. Clod Ensemble, led by choreographer/director Suzy Willson and composer Paul Clark, make performance work that pushes the boundaries between art forms, making this essential festival fare for any Dance enthusiast. The Brighton Dome is a versatile venue, but it’s never been transformed into a fully-fledged cabaret space before. In a festival exclusive on Sat 25 Musik Kabarett does exactly this, so they can whisk us away to a world of counter- culture creativity and genre-defining performance styles. In this tribute to Berlin‘s 1920/30’s club and cabaret scene and it’s lasting influence on the music of today, Nina Hagen’s trademark idiosyncratic style, together with the incredible vocal talents of the divine David McAlmont join forces with Jamie McDermott and his band The Irrepressibles, to create an incredible evening of glamour and decadence in Brighton’s iconic concert hall.
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THE TIGER LILLIES THE TIGER LILLIES SEEM TO BE A PERFECT FIT FOR BRIGHTON FESTIVAL 2013. URBANE, IMAGINATIVE AND PLAINTIVE, THEY BLUR THE DIVISION BETWEEN PERFORMANCE, ART AND MUSIC, MEANING IT’S UNLIKELY YOU’LL HAVE SEEN A BAND TELLING STORIES WITH SIMILAR AMBITION AND FERVOUR.
Tenderly charting the sordid depths that the human experience can touch, the three-piece’s unorthodox mix of Gypsy Music and Brechtian Cabaret has earned them an enormous ‘cult’ following. Accompanied by Adrian Stout and Mike Pickering, Jacques’ lyrics revel in examining in minute detail - to the point of celebration, the sleazy, desperate melodrama of society’s darker side, all topped off with an evocative, other-worldly falsetto. Brighton’s had a long association with the gaudy, desperate and plain odd sides of life, so it’s fitting that The Tiger Lillies will present the UK premiere of their theatrical version of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner for its Festival, on Thu 23 May, at the Dome Concert Hall. Their performance of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s epic opiate-infused vision sees the band enveloped onstage by specially designed graphics, from acclaimed artist and photographer Mark Holthusen, that bring the strange
imagery of the poem to life. Breath-taking stagecraft, compelling source material and The Tiger Lillies knack for creating awe-inspiring songs full of hope, anguish, desire and wrath, all come together to create a beautiful immersive experience Since their formation in 1989 the band’s uncompromising music-hall style examination of the primeval and shocking has seen them tagged ‘DarkCabaret’, but what the Tiger Lillies do defies definition so simple. “When it started we set out to make music that didn’t fit into any kind of genre. But eventually we became a genre on our own,” the bands singer-songwriter, Martyn Jacques, tells us. “We’ve worked with various record companies, but they never know how to view us. Often we got described as Classical. But we never go down well with that audience,”
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Early days for the band saw their musical narratives judged too vaudevillian for the normal rock circuit. Unable to play traditional venues The Tiger Lillies instead opted to perform their achingly beautiful tales of whores, drug addicts and criminals into small pubs and theatres, doubtlessly giving rise to the view of them as a Cabaret act. “When I used to play I’d have my eyes shut, just pretending that we were in Wembley Stadium. But with our stage show now, you can’t see the audience at all. So when the lights go up you realise there’s a hall full of people.” Taking influence from a dark and poetic pre-war Berlin Schoneberg, The Tiger Lillies fuse this with punk sensibilities and lyrics that expose small hidden slices of real life. “Our influences are things like Wiene, or Brecht and Weil and their Threepenny Opera. But no one ever calls them Cabaret. I think we’re a lot closer to Theatre than anything else.”
In their time they’ve arranged special performances of Hamlet, won an Olivier Award with their macabre adaptation of the children’s book Shockheaded Peter and even put their own dark dramatic twist on Claudio Monteverdi’s Madrigals of Love and War. “We did one show in Edinburgh, to a classical crowd, and they started walking out en masse. One guy even started heckling us… Which is strange, because you expect that crowd to be more reserved.” Clearly there’s one thing this band excel at, it’s evoking a reaction. For a knowing few, The Tiger Lillies appearance at Brighton Festival will simply confirm their status as inventive and dynamic artists, for the rest of us it’ll be a revelation that a band wants to be more than… well, just a band. www.brightonfestival.org / www.tigerlillies.com
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Brighton Fringe, over 685 shows, 3275 perfor-
mances (210 of them premieres) across 210 venues. What more can you ask for? There’s heart-breaking Theatre, ingenious Comedy, incredible installations, talks, workshops and some plain weirdness, all packed into England’s biggest and best arts festival. Mirroring the runaway success of the Paralympic Games last year, there’s a big focus on disability arts events this Fringe. Nicholas McCarthy, who played at the games’ closing ceremony, comes to town, providing part of MOOT’s incredible programme of events and performances designed to promote music as an inclusive, and enormously beneficial, art for people from any background. The centre of Brighton will be bursting with colour and noise every Sat, from 4 May to 1 June, with Fringe City’s showcasing the best in street performers. Comedy to cabaret and puppetry to poetry will be drawing the crowds to New Road for this muchloved Fringe staple. Expect the unexpected. How about going to a recycling plant for Doing What It Says On The Tin, a tragi-comedy about the building trade, or Camus’ The Outsider on the seafront? Every flat green space in the city sees pop-up venues, from gin-pal-
aces to solar-powered theatres, springing up. The Spiegel Tent returns, with a range of shows and a pop-up restaurant run by Sam's of Brighton, plus a visit from La Clique. There’s plenty more circus on offer too, as NoFit State return to rule Hove Lawns for a month. Using every conceivable space and displaying nearly every conceivable art-form, Fringe has Brighton bursting with imagination-firing fun this month. Just remember to lock your house when you leave it, or you may find a mime workshop moving in. www.brightonfringe.org
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ANDIE AIRFIX In a time before downloads, when album artwork was more than a dull 400x400 photo with type attached, a band would define its image through 12 inch squares of cardboard wrapped around their vinyl offerings. The Eighties saw a golden age of this art form, which encouraged a new wave of graphic designers like Andie Airfix to push the boundaries of what could be done with a modest, but highly visable, space. Over three decades, bands like Metallica, Def Leppard, Paul McCartney and Led Zeppelin have all turned to Mr Airfix and his intricate evolutionary approach to design. “It’s not what you know, its finding people that know more,” He tells us over breakfast in the North Laine. “I learned not by studying, but by going to a printer.” Although attention to detail, imagination and sheer hard work are mostly to blame for his success, he freely admits that chance runs heavily through his life. “I came back from painting in the Himalayas for two years… I was walking down the street and saw a place which had a sign saying Nightclub and Gallery. It was called Country Cousins and was run by Chris Hunter who said: ‘We’re opening on Tuesday, so I’ll help you frame your pictures and we’ll get them on the wall.’” The show was a success, and he was subsequently asked to provide graphics for the club. But it was hanging out at legendary New Romantic haunt The Blitz that provided encounters with various music industry types, including The Thompson Twins, who were so impressed with Andie they invited him to do the cover of their platinum selling
Quick Step and Side Kick album. “Whatever it allows me to get on with people works. I really don’t treat these rock stars like anyone else. In many ways it’s refreshing for them, because they’re used to being pandered to. The fortunate thing is when I met those people there was something on the table we were both excited about, so by talking about work you end up chatting.” He’s a little wary of computer graphics, claiming they remove many random elements from a design. “You can’t hang a computer up and let the paint drip down it.” He also points out the enormous variance between colour values on different computers, insisting that the only way to get a design right is to proof it yourself at the printers. But, despite this gentle disdain, his ground-breaking cover for Def Leppard’s monster hit album Hysteria (which sold over 26 million copies and provided seven hit singles!) saw him becoming an early adopter of CGI for the design. “I went to what I thought would be a state of the art facility to meet this guy, who turned up pissed, with a picture of a circuit. He took a photo of it and we coloured it in… sort of. He then took a picture of the screen. It was very early days.” The emergence, and subsequent dominance, of the CD format saw the size of album art slashed, but there are other products a big rock act needs artwork for. “I got over it. In the meantime I did a lot of tours. Now you’ve got t-shirts and programmes, so you’ve got a lot of material to do some serious graphics on. We were stretching
the limits… We were doing all kind kinds of really cool things.” Now he’s returned to his roots for an event at Brighton Fringe, The Airfix Lounge, which sees presenting a 3-week exhibition of his most treasured and iconic work, all punctuated with a series of talks that’ll reveal even more background to his work. “The exhibition is going to very random, I just keep finding stuff. Rather than having an exhibition that’s static, I want something that’s in progress. I can include faxes, notes and other things that contributed to the process. People have said to me I must tell my stories. But what I discovered was that people are more interested how the images came about… what happened to get to the final product?” The talks are set to cover a wide range of subjects, all drawing on his wealth of experience, including how to deal with clients. ”You don’t talk to Paul McCartney’s manager, “he laughs. “Because he won’t know what he really wants.” Other talks include analysis of the detailed creative process that spawned his most famous works with Def Leppard and Metallica, what a good client expects and how to get the best out of a job, all peppered with extraordinary stories of the colourful people that have filled his life. (Many of which we were far too scared to print…) Airfix Lounge (Graphic Design As An Extreme Sport) runs Mon 6 – Sat 25 May, with Andie giving talks on 11 evenings throughout the show. andieairfix.com
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How do you perform Shakespeare in a brand new way? Shall we discuss it over a beer? The Tax Deductible Theatre Company brings us a new concept: Shitfaced Shakespeare, inebriated and undignified performances of the bard’s greatest works, where one actor in the company is absolutely battered. It doesn’t get more spontaneous and edgy than combining Theatre with drinking games. The guys behind this madness gave us the lowdown on what will undoubtedly be the hit of Brighton Fringe.
OK… why? Where did the inspiration for such an impertinent take on the work of England’s greatest playwright come from? We’re all professional actors who love Shakespeare and his stories dearly… we just think they’re even better when one of the cast is trolleyed. The show didn’t have an easy beginning though. We first had the idea in 2005 but after one somewhat illfated rehearsal decided it was waaay too dangerous. We rehearsed in the director’s house and the next morning all the light bulbs had been systematically smashed for reasons no-body can fully remember. In 2011 we decided to give it another go at a music festival (not known for their easily accessible light bulbs) and it worked perfectly. We’ve been on the road with it ever since but this will be its first ever Brighton run. Is there a rota in place to decide who performs inebriated each night, or is it just who gets there first? We normally draw the names out of a bucket, top hat or comically oversized codpiece but nobody performs drunk two nights in a row. That would just be unusually cruel.
You may also see some body parts you weren’t expecting too and probably hear some equally authentic Anglo-Saxon to boot. Are you going to cheat? There are a lot of silent characters in Shakespeare’s work. How dare you sir? We never cheat. Each night our drunken actor is encouraged to perform the entire play to the absolute best of their somewhat impaired abilities. It’s always a major character and they will have loads of lines and very few long boring monologues. There’s also likely to be sword fighting, dancing, acrobatics and grand displays of romance for our drunk to perform… which is always good for a laugh.
How drunk is drunk? Are we talking tipsy Xmas Nan, or heroically drunk levels here? That’s the brilliance of the entire show! We let the audience decide exactly how drunk our actors get. Before the play begins the compere shows the crowd all the empties which the performer has drunk and then hands out bells, gongs, whistles, air horns etc. to the audience. At any time during the play they can bang, whistle, blow or honk. As soon as they do we stop the show, bring on another drink and let the actor have at it before continuing. But to answer your question: no. We are not talking tipsy Xmas Nan. We do have to delineate a “vom-zone” at the front of the stage for good reason.
Do you worry you may anger people by not treating Shakespeare with the normal reverence? Reverence our withered bull’s-pizzle on a string! Shakespeare was the Holby City of his day. These plays were meant to be seen and enjoyed by utterly everyone in Elizabethan times. From the top to the bottom of society and all the noxious bits in between. We think he’d be gutted if he knew that his plays had become the preserve of uninterested GCSE students with an instruction manual to help them de-code what they’re seeing and the chattering classes who go along just to prove they support ‘the arts’! We return Shakespeare’s comedies to being fun, boisterous, interactive, understandable and raucous. We think Shakespeare would love seeing what we do and would probably even buy us a drink.
How do you think this take enhances the performance? In absolutely every way. We love us some Shakespeare but have you ever been to one of his ‘comedies’ and actually laughed? Properly, honestly laughed? We guarantee that you will come away with a smile on your face and probably see a Shakespeare play more authentically portrayed than you ever have before or will again.
How about audience participation, can they turn up drunk? What, and drink along with the show? What an utterly irresponsible, reckless, foolishly dangerous idea. Sounds great! What does your sponsor have to say about this? The Charlie Sheen Libation Provision Society would like to remind you to always enjoy Shakespeare responsibly… and to win. Always to win.
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SHIT-FACED SHAKESPEARE 4 - 10 MAY THE WARREN RUSSELL PLACE BRIGHTON, BN1 2RU
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Pres Fat Goth, Clowns, Pink Narcissus 7:30PM £3 - £5
THURSDAY 2 CHEQUERS Mouth Leak Comedy with Fraser Geesin presents an evening of standup comedy, competitions and prizes 7:30PM LATEST MUSIC BAR Speaky Spokey Speaky Spokey a literary cabaret entertainment of short stories, music, performance poetry and film. The poet, Salena Godden 7:30PM £5 - £7 THE OLD MARKET Laughtermarket Monthly comedy night with headline and new stand-up acts Flange Krammer, Nick Dent, Pete Armstrong 8PM £4 QUADRANT Fosters Comedy Crack Up featuring Ed Gamble, Tommy Rowson & Af Panjalizadeh 7:30PM £4 - £5
FRIDAY 3 KOMEDIA Krater Comedy Club 3 top stand-ups and one of the best MCs on the comedy circuit entertain you. Line-up includes Rob Deering, Stuart Goldsmith, Matt Green with MC Rich Wilson 8PM £16.50 - £25.50
SATURDAY 4 KOMEDIA Jonny & The Baptists The cult comedy band presents their acclaimed mix of satirical, surreal and occasionally sexy songs. 6:30PM £7.50 - £8.50 KOMEDIA Krater Comedy Club 3 top stand-ups and one of the best MCs on the comedy circuit entertain you. Line-up includes Rob Deering, Stuart Goldsmith, Matt Green with MC Stephen Grant 7PM &10:30PM £5 - £31 KOMEDIA The Maydays The double award winning Maydays return to Brighton Fringe to take you on a tour of improv shows, old and new. 8:30PM £8 - £10 KOMEDIA Clown Cabaret Pearls of unbridled silliness from the alternative comedy scene, for two nights only. 11PM £6 LATEST MUSIC BAR A Graveside Story explores the various ways that a group of young people cope with their feelings of grief and the changes that are imposed on their relationships 5PM £6 - £7
SUNDAY 5 KOMEDIA Ben Champion: Only Human How many humans does it take to change a lightbulb? Find out in this
hour of stand-up and comedy songs. If you’re a human, this show is for you. 4PM £6 - £7 KOMEDIA Jonny & The Baptists The cult comedy band presents their acclaimed mix of satirical, surreal and occasionally sexy songs. 6:30PM £7.50 - £8.50 KOMEDIA Bent Double Hosted by Zoe Lyons. Featuring headliner Isy Suttie 7:30PM £5 - £14 KOMEDIA The Maydays The double award winning Maydays return to Brighton Fringe to take you on a tour of improv shows, old and new. 8:30PM £8 - £10 KOMEDIA Clown Cabaret Pearls of unbridled silliness from the alternative comedy scene, for two nights only. 11PM £6 LATEST MUSIC BAR A Graveside Story explores the various ways that a group of young people cope with their feelings of grief and the changes that are imposed on their relationships 5PM £6 - £7
MONDAY 6 BASEMENT Table Manners Hunt & Darton begin the intimate experience, offering a piquante entrée, with a sharp tang of embarrassment and a melange of the ridiculous. For the main course, Future Ruin’s highly acclaimed black comedy 3PM, 6PM & 8:30PM £20 KOMEDIA Ben Champion: Only Human How many humans does it take to change a lightbulb? Find out in this hour of stand-up and comedy songs. If you’re a human, this show is for you. 4PM £6 - £7 KOMEDIA Terry Garoghan: The Devil Keeps Tugging Terry returns with a cabaret about his old mate The Devil. 9PM £10 LATEST MUSIC BAR A Graveside Story explores the various ways that a group of young people cope with their feelings of grief and the changes that are imposed on their relationships 5PM £6 - £7
TUESDAY 7 BASEMENT Table Manners Hunt & Darton begin the intimate experience, offering a piquante entrée, with a sharp tang of embarrassment and a melange of the ridiculous. For the main course, Future Ruin’s highly acclaimed black comedy 3PM, 6PM & 8:30PM £20 BRIGHTON CENTRE Eddie Izzard: Force Majeure It was an extraordinary year from an extraordinary man. Never one to rest on his laurels IZZARD now plans to take on the world with a brand-new comedy tour,
Darton begin the intimate experience, offering a piquante entrée, with a sharp tang of embarrassment and a melange of the ridiculous. For the main course, Future Ruin’s highly acclaimed black comedy 3PM, 6PM & 8:30PM £20 BRIGHTON CENTRE Eddie Izzard: Force Majeure It was an extraordinary year from an extraordinary man. Never one to rest on his laurels IZZARD now plans to take on the world with a brand-new comedy tour, FORCE MAJEURE. 6:30PM £35 KOMEDIA How Bruce Springsteen Changed My Life Journalist and broadcaster Sarfraz Manzoor talks about race, religion and rock’n’roll and how The Boss saved his life. 8PM £10
THURSDAY 9 BRIGHTON CENTRE Micky Flanagan Back on the Game Tour Micky Flanagan – one of British comedy’s biggest stars – will travel the length and breadth of the UK & Ireland for what will be the most anticipated comedy tour of 2013, taking in 57 shows on the way. 7PM £22.50 KOMEDIA Scottish Falsetto Socks – In Space “The Abbott & Costello of the sock world” (Time Out) bring you a new show of songs, sketches and violence with a Sci Fi theme. 7PM £8 - £9 KOMEDIA The Noise Next Door’s Comedy Lock-In Brighton’s own comedy super-show! April features James Acaster and Carl Donnelly. “Hilarious.” Daily Telegraph 8PM £10 - £22 KOMEDIA East End Cabaret: Notoriously Kinky Internationally-acclaimed musical comedy duo performing original songs and “jaw-achingly funny character comedy” Backstage Pass 9PM £7 - £10
Back on the Game Tour Micky Flanagan – one of British comedy’s biggest stars – will travel the length and breadth of the UK & Ireland for what will be the most anticipated comedy tour of 2013, taking in 57 shows on the way. 7PM £23.50 KOMEDIA Scottish Falsetto Socks – In Space “The Abbott & Costello of the sock world” (Time Out) bring you a new show of songs, sketches and violence with a Sci Fi theme. 7PM £8 - £9 KOMEDIA Krater Comedy Club 3 top stand-ups and one of the best MCs on the comedy circuit entertain you. Line-up includes Carey Marx, Markus Birdman, Javier Jarquin with MC MC Maff Brown 8PM £16.50 - £25.50 KOMEDIA East End Cabaret: Notoriously Kinky Internationally-acclaimed musical comedy duo performing original songs and “jaw-achingly funny character comedy” Backstage Pass 9PM £7 - £10
SATURDAY 11 BASEMENT Rachel Mars The Way You Tell Them. But what if she couldn’t fall back on laughter? In her latest solo performance, Rachel searches for what lies beyond the gags, the jokes and the pratfalls and weaves a thoughtful and provocative story that questions how we use and abuse humour. 7:30PM £10 BRIGHTON CENTRE Micky Flanagan Back on the Game Tour Micky Flanagan – one of British comedy’s biggest stars – will travel the length and breadth of the UK & Ireland for what will be the most anticipated comedy tour of 2013, taking in 57 shows on the way. 7PM £23.50 KOMEDIA Krater Comedy Club 3 top stand-ups and one of the best MCs. Carey Marx, Markus Birdman, Javier Jarquin with MC MC Maff Brown 7PM &10:30PM £5 - £31 KOMEDIA The Humble Quest For Universal Genius The live comedy quiz show that pits two top stand-up comedians against each other. 8PM £7 - £9 (Studio)
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SUNDAY 19 BRUNSWICK Fringe Festival Crimes
Tell Them. But what if she couldn’t fall back on laughter? In her latest solo performance, Rachel searches for what lies beyond the gags, the jokes and the pratfalls and weaves a thoughtful and provocative story that questions how we use and abuse humour. 7:30PM £10 BRIGHTON CENTRE Micky Flanagan Back on the Game Tour Micky Flanagan – one of British comedy’s biggest stars – will travel the length and breadth of the UK & Ireland for what will be the most anticipated comedy tour of 2013, taking in 57 shows on the way. 7PM £23.50 KOMEDIA David Mountfield’s Best Of Enemies Nobody’s perfect. Especially celebrities. But what if you BUILT the perfect celebrity friend? Or Enemy? Comedy panel show. 5PM £5 KOMEDIA Krater Comedy Club 3 top stand-ups and one of the best MCs on the comedy circuit entertain you. Line-up includes Leroy Brito, Christian Schulte Loh with MC Stephen Grant 8PM £5 - £21 KOMEDIA Kate Shortt in Shortt & Sweett One woman comedy show from the jazz cellist/pianist/comedienne and singer-songwriter. 9:30PM £6 - £10
Against Humanities Teachers 3PM £6.50 - £7.50 KOMEDIA David Mountfield’s Best Of Enemies Nobody’s perfect. Especially celebrities. But what if you BUILT the perfect celebrity friend? Or Enemy? Comedy panel show. 6PM £5 KOMEDIA Krater Comedy Club 3 top stand-ups and one of the best MCs on the comedy circuit entertain you. Line-up includes Harriet Kemsley, Rob Coleman with MC Stephen Grant. 8PM £5 - £21 KOMEDIA The Lovely Brothers Eccentric and anarchic comedy band playing vaudeville power pop laced with satire, silliness and disturbing dance routines 8:30PM £4 - £6
MONDAY 13 KOMEDIA Terry Garoghan: The Devil Keeps Tugging Terry returns with a cabaret about his old mate The Devil. 9PM £10
TUESDAY 14 THE OLD MARKET Brighton Fringe Wolfgang Weinberger is: Sex Guru: The Sexological Comedy Show. Hilarious sexual laughter therapy session exposing naughty secrets from behind bedroom doors 8PM £10 - £12
THURSDAY 16 BRUNSWICK Fringe Festival A Dirty Weekend With Der Wunderlich 7:30PM £8 - £10
FRIDAY 17 BRUNSWICK Fringe Festival A Dirty Weekend With Der Wunderlich 7:30PM £8 - £10 KOMEDIA Krater Comedy Club 3 top stand-ups and one of the best MCs on the comedy circuit entertain you. Line-up includes 3 top stand-ups and one of the best MCs on the comedy circuit entertain you. Line-up includes Stone, Gordon Southern, Chris Martin with Stephen Grant 8PM £16.50 £25.50
SATURDAY 18 EMPORIUM Stand-Up The Musical We’ve rounded up our favourite lyrical comics and comical lyricists from TV, the web and the live circuit into a single blockbuster line-up of stand-up 8PM £15 KOMEDIA Krater Comedy Club 3 top stand-ups and one of the best MCs on the comedy circuit entertain you. Line-up includes 3 top stand-ups and one of the best MCs on the comedy circuit entertain you. Line-up includes Stone, Gordon Southern, Chris Martin with Stephen Grant 7PM &10:30PM £5 - £31
MONDAY 20 KOMEDIA Terry Garoghan: The Devil Keeps Tugging Terry returns with a cabaret about his old mate The Devil. 9PM £10
TUESDAY 21 HAMPTON Comedy Hamster Hosted by Dan Fardell 8PM KOMEDIA What Would Beyonce Do? Sell-out Soho Theatre run and smash hit runs in Edinburgh and Shorditch – if you’re an independent single lady, come and check it out! 8:30PM £10 - £12
THURSDAY 23 EMPORIUM Fake Bush: Accept No Limitations Lucy Bundy’s affectionate comic tribute to Kate Bush is widely acclaimed, winning several awards for her true to life yet tongue in cheek performance 7:30PM £13.50
FRIDAY 24 EMPORIUM Fake Bush: Accept No Limitations Lucy Bundy’s affectionate comic tribute to Kate Bush is widely acclaimed, winning several awards for her true to life yet tongue in cheek performance 7:30PM £13.50 KOMEDIA Morgan & West See the multitude of magical marvels strewn hither and thither and discover the curiosities and confoundments concealed within 6:30PM £8 - £10 KOMEDIA Krater Comedy Club 3 top stand-ups and one of the best MCs on the comedy circuit entertain you. Line-up includes 3 top stand-ups and one of the best MCs on the comedy circuit entertain you. Line-up includes Simon Evans, Addy Van Der Borgh, Brendan Riley with MC Silky 8PM £16.50 - £25.50
SATURDAY 25 BRUNSWICK Fringe Festival Crimes Against Humanities Teachers 3PM £6.50 - £7.50 EMPORIUM Fake Bush: Accept No Limitations Lucy Bundy’s affectionate comic tribute to Kate Bush is widely acclaimed, winning several awards for her true to life yet tongue in cheek performance 7:30PM £13.50 KOMEDIA Funny Women - Sex, Lies & Lots of Cake & Funny Women Awards Heat 1PM & 8:30PM £8 - £10 KOMEDIA Morgan & West See the multitude of magical marvels strewn hither and thither and discover the curiosities and confoundments concealed within 4PM £8 - £10
KOMEDIA The Maydays The double award winning Maydays return to Brighton Fringe to take you on a tour of improv shows, old and new. 6PM £8 - £10 KOMEDIA Krater Comedy Club 3 top stand-ups and one of the best MCs on the comedy circuit entertain you. Line-up includes 3 top stand-ups and one of the best MCs on the comedy circuit entertain you. Line-up includes Simon Evans, Addy Van Der Borgh, Brendan Riley with MC Silky 7PM &10:30PM £5 - £31 THE OLD MARKET Brighton Fringe Stand-Up For Labour. Providing laughs at the coalition government’s expense 8:30PM £9 - £14
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WEDNESDAY 29 THEATRE ROYAL Less Than Kind In this hilarious romantic comedy, steel magnate John Fletcher has risen to the colossal challenge of out producing Albert Speer and the Nazi war machine in tanks for D-Day. Five weeks later he can leave the government, file for divorce from his unfaithful wife and marry his true love, the widow Olivia Brown. But an even greater foe enters the fray – Olivia’s son who has returned from evacuation is now 17. 7:45PM £10 - £29.50
THURSDAY 30 BRUNSWICK Fringe Festival The Twitnits
Against Humanities Teachers 8PM £6.50 - £7.50 KOMEDIA Xara Vaughan The experiences of a chanteuse who ran away from school to become a Stringfellows Angel and then joined a nunnery followed by a punk band 4PM £3 - £5 KOMEDIA Morgan & West See the multitude of magical marvels strewn hither and thither and discover the curiosities and confoundments concealed within 6:30PM £8 - £10 KOMEDIA Krater Comedy Club 3 top stand-ups and one of the best MCs on the comedy circuit entertain you. Line-up includes 3 top stand-ups and one of the best MCs on the comedy circuit entertain you. Line-up includes Kevin Dewsbury, Flange Krammer with MC Stephen Grant.8PM £5 - £21 KOMEDIA The Maydays The double award winning Maydays return to Brighton Fringe to take you on a tour of improv shows, old and new. 8:30PM £8 - £10
Stand Up. Improv comedy and stand-up 8PM £4 - £5 KOMEDIA Comic Boom The best rising stars of UK comedy plus headliner Damo Clark. 8PM £5 - £9 KOMEDIA Kate Shortt in Shortt & Sweett One woman comedy show from the jazz cellist/pianist/comedienne and singersongwriter. 9PM £6 - £10 LATEST MUSIC BAR Shortt and Sweett Kate Shortt, former musician-comedienne of the year, is a classical/jazz cellist/pianist and singer songwriter who combines all to produce a one woman sit-down comedy show. 8PM £6 - £8 THEATRE ROYAL Less Than Kind In this hilarious romantic comedy, steel magnate John Fletcher has risen to the colossal challenge of out producing Albert Speer and the Nazi war machine in tanks for D-Day. Five weeks later he can leave the government, file for divorce from his unfaithful wife and marry his true love, the widow Olivia Brown. But an even greater foe enters the fray – Olivia’s son who has returned from evacuation is now 17. 2:30PM & 7:45PM £10 - £29.50
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FRIDAY 31 KOMEDIA Krater Comedy Club 3 top
Against Humanities Teachers 3PM £6.50 - £7.50 KOMEDIA Xara Vaughan The experiences of a chanteuse who ran away from school to become a Stringfellows Angel and then joined a nunnery followed by a punk band 4PM £3 - £5 KOMEDIA Terry Garoghan: The Devil Keeps Tugging Terry returns with a cabaret about his old mate The Devil. 9PM £10 THEATRE ROYAL Less Than Kind In this hilarious romantic comedy, steel magnate John Fletcher has risen to the colossal challenge of out producing Albert Speer and the Nazi war machine in tanks for D-Day. Five weeks later he can leave the government, file for divorce from his unfaithful wife and marry his true love, the widow Olivia Brown. But an even greater foe enters the fray – Olivia’s son who has returned from evacuation is now 17. 7:45PM £10 - £29.50
TUESDAY 28 THE OLD MARKET Brighton Fringe James Campbell’s Comedy 4 Kids. Stand-Up comedy for children: top quality comedy without the swearing 2PM £7 THEATRE ROYAL Less Than Kind In this hilarious romantic comedy, steel magnate John Fletcher has risen to the colossal challenge of out producing Albert Speer and the Nazi war machine in tanks for D-Day. Five weeks later he can leave the government, file for divorce from his unfaithful wife and marry his true love, the widow Olivia Brown. But an even greater foe enters the fray – Olivia’s son who has returned from evacuation is now 17. 7:45PM £10 - £29.50
stand-ups and one of the best MCs on the comedy circuit entertain you. Line-up includes 3 top stand-ups and one of the best MCs on the comedy circuit entertain you. Line-up includes The Noise Next Door, Steve Gribbin with MC Ben Norris 8PM £16.50 - £25.50 KOMEDIA The Maydays The double award winning Maydays return to Brighton Fringe to take you on a tour of improv shows, old and new. 8:30PM £8 - £10 THEATRE ROYAL Less Than Kind In this hilarious romantic comedy, steel magnate John Fletcher has risen to the colossal challenge of out producing Albert Speer and the Nazi war machine in tanks for D-Day. Five weeks later he can leave the government, file for divorce from his unfaithful wife and marry his true love, the widow Olivia Brown. But an even greater foe enters the fray – Olivia’s son who has returned from evacuation is now 17. 7:45PM £10 - £29.50
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BN1 FRINGE COMEDY PICKS
GUILT & SHAME: ADDICTED TO EVERYTHING Upstairs at Three & Ten // 3 - 5 May
THE YELLOW SHOW The Burrow // Sundays through Fringe
Sex, drugs, partying, pornography, bestiality, Downton Abbey – we all have our addictions, but somehow Guilt & Shame have managed to get them all. Addicted to Everything sees Guilt & Shame invite us to Upstairs at Three & Ten, on Fri 3 – Sun 5 May, to share our darkest secrets in the safe space of group therapy. It’s a journey to redemption that will take them to heaven, then drag them straight back to hell again. And you’re going with them. This Brighton Fringe debut has a pumping soundtrack as erratic as any good addict’s heart rate, crazy dance numbers and inspirational rapping transvestites with lessons for us all, Addicted to Everything is one sketch show you won’t be able to quit.
In 2012 comic poet Rob Auton stood in an underground cave at the back of a pub in Edinburgh and performed a show about the colour yellow for an hour a day for a month. Word of the show quickly spread and before long Rob was expressing his yellow focussed thoughts to a packed house. Now this hour of brightness comes to Brighton Fringe on every Sun throughout Fringe (bar the 18th) at The Burrow. Upon arrival, the audience gets equipped with a pair of ‘Yelevision’ glasses so they can fully enjoy a show full of spoken word and miscellany about the colour of lemons, marigolds, rubber ducks, certain lights, butter, New York taxis, various cartoon characters, daffodils, some milkshakes and skips.
DOLLY MIXTURE Caroline of Brunswick // 24 - 25 May
LAUREL AND HARDY Brighton Media Centre // 13 - 19 May
Anna Morris’ comic creation, Georgina the Bride, hits Caroline Of Brunswick as part of her show, Dolly Mixture, on Sat 4, Fri 24 – Sat 25 May. Georgina is just one of 6 unique female characters in this 1 hour show, which fuses character comedy with memorable audience participation. Step on-board Britain’s lowest budget cruise ship with Janene, see if American lifestyle coach Dr Andrea Andrew can change your views on marriage…with a knife, and let Australian fashionista Taylor Tyler scrutinize your wardrobe. Get in there while you can, this girl, and her girls, will be huge.
The world’s favourite double act comes to Brighton Fringe this year! Sort of… Stan and Ollie return from the afterlife to scrutinize their lives and careers at The Brighton Media Centre Studio on Mon 13 - Sun 19 May, in Laurel and Hardy. Written by Tom McGrath in 1976, this touching play not only reveals elements of their private lives and close friendship, but also includes many loving nods towards their rich canon of film work, including recreations of some of their best loved gags (not forgetting their famous dance from ‘Way Out West’) and plenty of slapstick comedy.
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Richard Layzell. Always seeking to inform, provoke, challenge, enhance, connect and entertain, he leads a free, day-long workshop for artists and students. 11AM FARM MEWS MASSICE Open House Festival Private View. Alongside the established Naked Eye Gallery the creative quarter of Farm Mews will be hosting open studios and workshops exhibiting a diverse and exciting range of art and creativity. 6 - 9PM
Felix’s Machines Electronic music takes on a whole new meaning in the hands of Felix Thorn, whose intricate installations combine Heath Robinson ingenuity with mesmeric sound and lighting. Each installation is a medley of bespoke mechanical devices, individually designed to make a different sound: hammers strike, drums beat and bells ping with all the range of a percussion orchestra. 10AM UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON GALLERY Hofesh Shechter Company Nomad Land. Father or Brother, Son or Grandfather, Uncle or Friend; in this collaborative dance and film project a group of men from across the generations come together with Brighton Dome & Brighton Festival Resident Company Hofesh Shechter Company and student film makers to explore the energy and complexity of male relationships. 10AM
SATURDAY 4 BASEMENT : Super Club Various
SUNDAY 5 BRIGHTON DOME, CORN EXCHANGE
Brighton’s biggest and rowdiest poetry night - Hosted by Rosy Carrick. 7:30PM £5 (Studio)
FRIDAY 3 BASEMENT : Quickfire Workshop with
Artists Hosted by Richard Layzell 8PM £6 - £8 BRIGHTON DOME, FOUNDERS ROOM Modern Poetry in Translation Join MPT magazine for the launch of its spring issue Strange Tracks and your chance to hear the very best of contemporary European poetry with the celebrated Dutch poet and children’s writer Toon Tellegen and the winners of the French and Dutch equivalents of the T.S. Eliot Prize for 2012. 3PM £8 FABRICA Kaarina Kaikkonen (Helsinki) The Blue Route. Working primarily in public and easily accessible places, Kaarina Kaikkonen uses simple, everyday objects such as second-hand clothing, toilet paper and women’s shoes, to create large-scale installations that articulate the architectural or open space in which her works are sited. She is best known for several major works using hundreds of discarded men’s jackets, which have a highly charged and personal significance for her. 12PM LIGHTHOUSE Mariele Neudecker The Air Itself is One Vast Library. Mariele Neudecker explores the disturbing – and often invisible – technologies of war in an exhibition that contrasts starkly with her more familiar depictions of landscape and the sublimity of nature. 11AM PRESTON MANOR A performance by Peter Reder The Contents of a House. The British performance artist Peter Reder has spent weeks mining the tales and the treasures of Preston Manor. Now he wants to tell you about them. 6PM & 8:30PM £10 - £15 REGENCY TOWN HOUSE Mariele Neudecker Heterotopias and other domestic landscapes. his major new commission uses several interconnected artworks to explore both the familiar and sublime. The cropped edge in Neudecker’s landscapes becomes a form of human intervention: her representations of vast panoramas are limited by lenses, or narrowed by cones of torchlight. 12PM UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON GALLERY
Michael Rosen: Bear Hunt and Chocolate Cake. Michael Rosen is a walking treasury of stories, jokes, poems and songs. 11AM £6 BRIGHTON DOME, CORN EXCHANGE Michael Rosen’s Big Book of Bad Things When you’re a child, all sorts of things can seem bad: the naughty things you’ve done, or just the things you really hate. 1:30PM £6 BRIGHTON DOME, CORN EXCHANGE Ralph Steadman and Ceri Levy Extinct Boids. From the familiar Dodo to the frankly fantastical Needless Smut, the roll-call of lost birds is a thought-provoking artistic journey characterised by Steadman’s fluid and flamboyant style. 3:30PM £10 - £12.50 BRIGHTON DOME, FOUNDERS ROOM Richard Cupidi ‘Read for power - the book should be a ball of light in your hands 3PM £8 BRIGHTON DOME, STUDIO THEATRE Maggie and Me Damian Barr. n his new book Maggie and Me, Barr shows us how he did survive. He discovers that stories can save your life and – in spite of violence, strikes, AIDS and Clause 28 – manages to fall in love dancing to Madonna in Glasgow’s only gay club. Now a journalist living in Brighton, he talks about his experiences. 12PM £8 FABRICA Kaarina Kaikkonen (Helsinki) The Blue Route. Working primarily in public and easily accessible places, Kaarina Kaikkonen uses simple, everyday objects such as second-hand clothing, toilet paper and women’s shoes, to create large-scale installations that articulate the architectural or open space in which her works are sited. She is best known for several major works using hundreds of discarded men’s jackets, which have a highly charged and personal significance for her. 12PM LIGHTHOUSE Mariele Neudecker The Air Itself is One Vast Library. Mariele Neudecker explores the disturbing – and often invisible – technologies of war in an exhibition that contrasts starkly with her more familiar depic-
MONDAY 6 FABRICA Kaarina Kaikkonen (Helsinki) The Blue Route. Working primarily in public and easily accessible places, Kaarina Kaikkonen uses simple, everyday objects such as second-hand clothing, toilet paper and women’s shoes, to create large-scale installations that articulate the architectural or open space in which her works are sited. She is best known for several major works using hundreds of discarded men’s jackets, which
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have a highly charged and personal significance for her. 12PM LIGHTHOUSE Mariele Neudecker The Air Itself is One Vast Library. Mariele Neudecker explores the disturbing – and often invisible – technologies of war in an exhibition that contrasts starkly with her more familiar depictions of landscape and the sublimity of nature. 11AM PRESTON MANOR A performance by Peter Reder The Contents of a House. The British performance artist Peter Reder has spent weeks mining the tales and the treasures of Preston Manor. Now he wants to tell you about them. 8:30PM £10 - £15 REGENCY TOWN HOUSE Mariele Neudecker Heterotopias and other domestic landscapes. his major new commission uses several interconnected artworks to explore both the familiar and sublime. The cropped edge in Neudecker’s landscapes becomes a form of human intervention: her representations of vast panoramas are limited by lenses, or narrowed by cones of torchlight. 12PM UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON GALLERY Felix’s Machines Electronic music takes on a whole new meaning in the hands of Felix Thorn, whose intricate installations combine Heath Robinson ingenuity with mesmeric sound and lighting. Each installation is a medley of bespoke mechanical devices, individually designed to make a different sound: hammers strike, drums beat and bells ping with all the range of a percussion orchestra. 10AM UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON GALLERY Hofesh Shechter Company Nomad Land. Father or Brother, Son or Grandfather, Uncle or Friend; in this collaborative dance and film project a group of men from across the generations come together with Brighton Dome & Brighton Festival Resident Company Hofesh Shechter Company and student film makers to explore the energy and complexity of male relationships. 10AM
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tions of landscape and the sublimity of nature. 11AM PRESTON MANOR A performance by Peter Reder The Contents of a House. The British performance artist Peter Reder has spent weeks mining the tales and the treasures of Preston Manor. Now he wants to tell you about them. 8:30PM £10 - £15 REGENCY TOWN HOUSE Mariele Neudecker Heterotopias and other domestic landscapes. his major new commission uses several interconnected artworks to explore both the familiar and sublime. The cropped edge in Neudecker’s landscapes becomes a form of human intervention: her representations of vast panoramas are limited by lenses, or narrowed by cones of torchlight. 12PM UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON GALLERY Felix’s Machines Electronic music takes on a whole new meaning in the hands of Felix Thorn, whose intricate installations combine Heath Robinson ingenuity with mesmeric sound and lighting. Each installation is a medley of bespoke mechanical devices, individually designed to make a different sound: hammers strike, drums beat and bells ping with all the range of a percussion orchestra. 10AM UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON GALLERY Hofesh Shechter Company Nomad Land. Father or Brother, Son or Grandfather, Uncle or Friend; in this collaborative dance and film project a group of men from across the generations come together with Brighton Dome & Brighton Festival Resident Company Hofesh Shechter Company and student film makers to explore the energy and complexity of male relationships. 10AM
MICHAEL ROSEN’S BIG BOOK OF BAD THINGS WHEN YOU’RE A CHILD
Sunday 5th May The naughty things you’ve done, or just the things you really hate.
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TUESDAY 7 FABRICA Kaarina Kaikkonen (Helsinki) The Blue Route. 12PM LIGHTHOUSE Mariele Neudecker The Air Itself is One Vast Library. Mariele Neudecker explores the disturbing – and often invisible – technologies of war in an exhibition that contrasts starkly with her more familiar depictions of landscape and the sublimity of nature. 11AM PRESTON MANOR A performance by Peter Reder The Contents of a House. The British performance artist Peter Reder has spent weeks mining the tales and the treasures of Preston Manor. Now he wants to tell you about them. 8:30PM £10 - £15 REGENCY TOWN HOUSE Mariele Neudecker Heterotopias and other domestic landscapes. his major new commission uses several interconnected artworks to explore both the familiar and sublime. The cropped edge in Neudecker’s landscapes becomes a form of human intervention: her representations of vast panoramas are limited by lenses, or narrowed by cones of torchlight. 12PM UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON GALLERY Felix’s Machines Electronic music takes on a whole new meaning in the hands of Felix Thorn, whose intricate installations combine Heath Robinson ingenuity with mesmeric sound and lighting. Each installation is a medley of bespoke mechanical devices, individually designed to make a different sound: hammers strike, drums beat and bells ping with all the range of a percussion orchestra. 10AM UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON GALLERY Hofesh Shechter Company Nomad Land. Father or Brother, Son or Grandfather, Uncle or Friend; in this collaborative dance and film project a group of men from across the generations come together with Brighton Dome & Brighton Festival Resident Company Hofesh Shechter Company and student film makers to explore the energy and complexity of male relationships. 10AM
WEDNESDAY 8 FABRICA Kaarina Kaikkonen (Helsinki) The Blue Route. 12PM LIGHTHOUSE Mariele Neudecker The Air Itself is One Vast Library. Mariele Neudecker explores the disturbing – and often invisible – technologies of war in an exhibition that contrasts starkly with her more familiar depictions of landscape and the sublimity of nature. 11AM PRESTON MANOR A performance by Peter Reder The Contents of a House. The British performance artist Peter Reder has spent weeks mining the tales and the treasures of Preston Manor. Now he wants to tell you about them. 8:30PM £10 - £15 REGENCY TOWN HOUSE Mariele Neudecker Heterotopias and other domestic landscapes. his major new commission uses several interconnected artworks to explore both the familiar and sublime. The cropped edge in Neudecker’s landscapes becomes a form of human intervention: her representations of vast panoramas are limited by lenses, or narrowed by cones of torchlight. 12PM UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON GALLERY Felix’s Machines Electronic music takes on a whole new meaning in the hands of Felix Thorn, whose intricate installations combine Heath Robinson ingenuity with mesmeric sound and lighting. Each installation is a medley of bespoke mechanical devices, individually designed to make a different sound: hammers strike, drums beat and bells ping with all the range of a
percussion orchestra. 10AM UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON GALLERY Hofesh Shechter Company Nomad Land. Father or Brother, Son or Grandfather, Uncle or Friend; in this collaborative dance and film project a group of men from across the generations come together with Brighton Dome & Brighton Festival Resident Company Hofesh Shechter Company and student film makers to explore the energy and complexity of male relationships. 10AM
THURSDAY 9 FABRICA Kaarina Kaikkonen (Helsinki) The Blue Route. Working primarily in public and easily accessible places, Kaarina Kaikkonen uses simple, everyday objects such as second-hand clothing, toilet paper and women’s shoes, to create large-scale installations that articulate the architectural or open space in which her works are sited. She is best known for several major works using hundreds of discarded men’s jackets, which have a highly charged and personal significance for her. 12PM LIGHTHOUSE Mariele Neudecker The Air Itself is One Vast Library. Mariele Neudecker explores the disturbing – and often invisible – technologies of war in an exhibition that contrasts starkly with her more familiar depictions of landscape and the sublimity of nature. 11AM PRESTON MANOR A performance by Peter Reder The Contents of a House. The British performance artist Peter Reder has spent weeks mining the tales and the treasures of Preston Manor. Now he wants to tell you about them. 8:30PM £10 - £15 REGENCY TOWN HOUSE Mariele Neudecker Heterotopias and other domestic landscapes. his major new commission uses several interconnected artworks to explore both the familiar and sublime. The cropped edge in Neudecker’s landscapes becomes a form of human intervention: her representations of vast panoramas are limited by lenses, or narrowed by cones of torchlight. 12PM UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON GALLERY Felix’s Machines Electronic music takes on a whole new meaning in the hands of Felix Thorn, whose intricate installations combine Heath Robinson ingenuity with mesmeric sound and lighting. Each installation is a medley of bespoke mechanical devices, individually designed to make a different sound: hammers strike, drums beat and bells ping with all the range of a percussion orchestra. 10AM UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON GALLERY Hofesh Shechter Company Nomad Land. Father or Brother, Son or Grandfather, Uncle or Friend; in this collaborative dance and film project a group of men from across the generations come together with Brighton Dome & Brighton Festival Resident Company Hofesh Shechter Company and student film makers to explore the energy and complexity of male relationships. 10AM
FRIDAY 10 Brighton Dome, Founders Room: Morning After: Britten: The Canticles These intimate and informal encounters are a unique opportunity to learn more about the process of creation, the artists’ inspiration and passions, and also the chance for you to hear more about the show you are about to see, or respond to the work you have just experienced. 11AM FABRICA Kaarina Kaikkonen (Helsinki) The Blue Route. Working
primarily in public and easily accessible places, Kaarina Kaikkonen uses simple, everyday objects such as second-hand clothing, toilet paper and women’s shoes, to create largescale installations that articulate the architectural or open space in which her works are sited. She is best known for several major works using hundreds of discarded men’s jackets, which have a highly charged and personal significance for her. 12PM LIGHTHOUSE Mariele Neudecker The Air Itself is One Vast Library. Mariele Neudecker explores the disturbing – and often invisible – technologies of war in an exhibition that contrasts starkly with her more familiar depictions of landscape and the sublimity of nature. 11AM PRESTON MANOR A performance by Peter Reder The Contents of a House. The British performance artist Peter Reder has spent weeks mining the tales and the treasures of Preston Manor. Now he wants to tell you about them. 8:30PM £10 - £15 REGENCY TOWN HOUSE Mariele Neudecker Heterotopias and other domestic landscapes. his major new commission uses several interconnected artworks to explore both the familiar and sublime. The cropped edge in Neudecker’s landscapes becomes a form of human intervention: her representations of vast panoramas are limited by lenses, or narrowed by cones of torchlight. 12PM SALLIS BENNETT Judith Kerr in conversation with Michael Rosen. Judith has been creating children’s books for the past forty years including The Tiger Who Came to Tea and the When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit. 7:30PM £6 THEATRE ROYAL Tracy Chevalier - Literature The Girl With the Pearl Earring established Tracy Chevalier as one of our most accomplished and popular writers of historical fiction. She talks about, and reads extracts from, her latest book, The Last Runaway, set in 1850s Ohio. 8PM £11 UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON GALLERY Felix’s Machines Electronic music takes on a whole new meaning in the hands of Felix Thorn, whose intricate installations combine Heath Robinson ingenuity with mesmeric sound and lighting. Each installation is a medley of bespoke mechanical devices, individually designed to make a different sound: hammers strike, drums beat and bells ping with all the range of a percussion orchestra. 10AM UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON GALLERY Hofesh Shechter Company Nomad Land. Father or Brother, Son or Grandfather, Uncle or Friend; in this collaborative dance and film project a group of men from across the generations come together with Brighton Dome & Brighton Festival Resident Company Hofesh Shechter Company and student film makers to explore the energy and complexity of male relationships. 10AM
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FABRICA Kaarina Kaikkonen (Helsinki) The Blue Route. Working primarily in public and easily accessible places, Kaarina Kaikkonen uses simple, everyday objects such as second-hand clothing, toilet paper and women’s shoes, to create largescale installations that articulate the architectural or open space in which her works are sited. She is best known for several major works using hundreds of discarded men’s jackets, which have a highly charged and
personal significance for her. 12PM LIGHTHOUSE Mariele Neudecker The Air Itself is One Vast Library. Mariele Neudecker explores the disturbing – and often invisible – technologies of war in an exhibition that contrasts starkly with her more familiar depictions of landscape and the sublimity of nature. 11AM PRESTON MANOR A performance by Peter Reder The Contents of a House. The British performance artist Peter Reder has spent weeks mining the tales and the treasures of Preston Manor. Now he wants to tell you about them. 6PM & 8:30PM £10 - £15 REGENCY TOWN HOUSE Mariele Neudecker Heterotopias and other domestic landscapes. his major new commission uses several interconnected artworks to explore both the familiar and sublime. The cropped edge in Neudecker’s landscapes becomes a form of human intervention: her representations of vast panoramas are limited by lenses, or narrowed by cones of torchlight. 12PM UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON GALLERY Hofesh Shechter Company Nomad Land. Father or Brother, Son or Grandfather, Uncle or Friend; in this collaborative dance and film project a group of men from across the generations come together with Brighton Dome & Brighton Festival Resident Company Hofesh Shechter Company and student film makers to explore the energy and complexity of male relationships. 10AM
SUNDAY 12 FABRICA Kaarina Kaikkonen (Helsinki) The Blue Route. Working primarily in public and easily accessible places, Kaarina Kaikkonen uses simple, everyday objects such as second-hand clothing, toilet paper and women’s shoes, to create large-scale installations that articulate the architectural or open space in which her works are sited. She is best known for several major works using hundreds of discarded men’s jackets, which have a highly charged and personal significance for her. 12PM LIGHTHOUSE Mariele Neudecker The Air Itself is One Vast Library. Mariele Neudecker explores the disturbing – and often invisible – technologies of war in an exhibition that contrasts starkly with her more familiar depictions of landscape and the sublimity of nature. 11AM PRESTON MANOR A performance by Peter Reder The Contents of a House. The British performance artist Peter Reder has spent weeks mining the tales and the treasures of Preston Manor. Now he wants to tell you about them. 6PM & 8:30PM £10 - £15 REGENCY TOWN HOUSE Mariele Neudecker Heterotopias and other domestic landscapes. his major new commission uses several interconnected artworks to explore both the familiar and sublime. The cropped edge in Neudecker’s landscapes becomes a form of human intervention: her representations of vast panoramas are limited by lenses, or narrowed by cones of torchlight. 12PM UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON GALLERY Hofesh Shechter Company Nomad Land. Father or Brother, Son or Grandfather, Uncle or Friend; in this collaborative dance and film project a group of men from across the generations come together with Brighton Dome & Brighton Festival Resident Company Hofesh Shechter Company and student film makers to explore the energy and complexity of male relationships. 10AM
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TUESDAY 14 FABRICA Kaarina Kaikkonen (Helsinki) The Blue Route. Working primarily in public and easily accessible places, Kaarina Kaikkonen uses simple, everyday objects such as second-hand clothing, toilet paper and women’s shoes, to create large-scale installations that articulate the architectural or open space in which her works are sited. She is best known for several major works using hundreds of discarded men’s jackets, which have a highly charged and personal significance for her. 12PM LIGHTHOUSE Mariele Neudecker The Air Itself is One Vast Library. Mariele Neudecker explores the disturbing – and often invisible – technologies of war in an exhibition that contrasts starkly with her more familiar depictions of landscape and the sublimity of nature. 11AM PRESTON MANOR A performance by Peter Reder The Contents of a House. The British performance artist Peter Reder has spent weeks mining the tales and the treasures of Preston Manor. Now he wants to tell you about them. 8:30PM £10 - £15 REGENCY TOWN HOUSE Mariele Neudecker Heterotopias and other domestic landscapes. his major new commission uses several interconnected artworks to explore both the familiar and sublime. The cropped edge in Neudecker’s landscapes becomes a form of human intervention: her representations of vast panoramas are limited by lenses, or narrowed by cones of torchlight. 12PM UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON GALLERY Hofesh Shechter Company Nomad Land. Father or Brother, Son or Grandfather, Uncle or Friend; in this collaborative dance and film project a group of men from across the generations come together with Brighton Dome & Brighton Festival Resident Company Hofesh Shechter Company and student film makers to explore the energy and complexity of male relationships. 10AM
WEDNESDAY 15 BASEMENT : Your Brother Remember? Zachary Oberzan (USA). An elaborate experiment with the concept of Before-and-After photographs, Your Brother. Remember? splices and dices home videos, Hollywood film footage and live performance. 7PM £12 FABRICA Kaarina Kaikkonen (Helsinki) The Blue Route. Working primarily in public and easily accessible places, Kaarina Kaikkonen uses simple, everyday objects such as second-hand clothing, toilet paper and women’s shoes, to create large-scale installations that articulate the architectural or open space in which her works are sited. She is best known for several major works using hundreds of discarded men’s jackets, which have a highly charged and personal significance for her. 12PM LIGHTHOUSE Mariele Neudecker The Air Itself is One Vast Library. Mariele Neudecker explores the disturbing – and often invisible – technologies of war in an exhibition that contrasts starkly with her more familiar depictions of landscape and the sublimity of nature. 11AM PRESTON MANOR A performance by Peter Reder The Contents of a House. The British performance artist Peter Reder has spent weeks mining the tales and the treasures of Preston Manor. Now he wants to tell you about them. 8:30PM £10 - £15 REGENCY TOWN HOUSE Mariele Neudecker Heterotopias and other domestic landscapes. his major new commission uses several interconnected artworks to explore both the familiar and sublime. The cropped edge in Neudecker’s landscapes becomes a form of human intervention: her representations of vast panoramas are limited by lenses, or narrowed by cones of torchlight. 12PM UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON GALLERY Hofesh Shechter Company Nomad Land. Father or Brother, Son or Grandfather, Uncle or Friend; in this collaborative dance and film project a group of men from across the generations come together with Brighton Dome & Brighton Festival Resident Company Hofesh Shechter Company and student film makers to explore the energy and complexity of male relationships. 10AM
THURSDAY 16 FABRICA Kaarina Kaikkonen (Helsinki) The Blue Route. Working primarily in public and easily accessible places, Kaarina Kaikkonen uses simple, everyday objects such as second-hand clothing, toilet paper and women’s shoes, to create large-scale installations that articulate the architectural or open space in which her works are sited. She is best known for several major works using hundreds of discarded men’s jackets, which have a highly charged and personal significance for her. 12PM LIGHTHOUSE Mariele Neudecker The Air Itself is One Vast Library. Mariele Neudecker explores the disturbing – and often invisible – technologies of war in an exhibition that contrasts starkly with her more familiar depictions of landscape and the sublimity of nature. 11AM PHOENIX BRIGHTON Museums at Night Come along to the gallery tonight, meet some of the exhibiting artists and gain a deeper insight into the world of artists’ books. PRESTON MANOR A performance by Peter Reder The Contents of a House. The British performance artist Peter Reder has spent weeks mining the tales and the treasures of Preston Manor. Now he wants to tell you about them. 8:30PM £10 - £15 REGENCY TOWN HOUSE Mariele Neudecker Heterotopias and other domestic landscapes. his major new
FRIDAY 17 FABRICA Kaarina Kaikkonen (Helsinki) The Blue Route. Working primarily in public and easily accessible places, Kaarina Kaikkonen uses simple, everyday objects such as second-hand clothing, toilet paper and women’s shoes, to create large-scale installations that articulate the architectural or open space in which her works are sited. She is best known for several major works using hundreds of discarded men’s jackets, which have a highly charged and personal significance for her. 12PM LIGHTHOUSE Mariele Neudecker The Air Itself is One Vast Library. Mariele Neudecker explores the disturbing – and often invisible – technologies of war in an exhibition that contrasts starkly with her more familiar depictions of landscape and the sublimity of nature. 11AM PHOENIX BRIGHTON Museums at Night Come along to the gallery tonight, meet some of the exhibiting artists and gain a deeper insight into the world of artists’ books. PRESTON MANOR A performance by Peter Reder The Contents of a House. The British performance artist Peter Reder has spent weeks mining the tales and the treasures of Preston Manor. Now he wants to tell you about them. 8:30PM £10 - £15 REGENCY TOWN HOUSE Mariele Neudecker Heterotopias and other domestic landscapes. his major new commission uses several interconnected artworks to explore both the familiar and sublime. The cropped edge in Neudecker’s landscapes becomes a form of human intervention: her representations of vast panoramas
are limited by lenses, or narrowed by cones of torchlight. 12PM UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON GALLERY Hofesh Shechter Company Nomad Land. Father or Brother, Son or Grandfather, Uncle or Friend; in this collaborative dance and film project a group of men from across the generations come together with Brighton Dome & Brighton Festival Resident Company Hofesh Shechter Company and student film makers to explore the energy and complexity of male relationships. 10AM
SATURDAY 18 BHASVIC, LOWER CAR PARK Bad Taste Company Faust. It’s easy to lose your soul in a whirl of Charlestoning, Lindy Hopping and swinging big band music, and in this re-imagining of Goethe’s masterpiece Faust does just that as he’s manipulated into a deal with the devil. 8PM FABRICA Kaarina Kaikkonen (Helsinki) The Blue Route. Working primarily in public and easily accessible places, Kaarina Kaikkonen uses simple, everyday objects such as second-hand clothing, toilet paper and women’s shoes, to create large-scale installations that articulate the architectural or open space in which her works are sited. She is best known for several major works using hundreds of discarded men’s jackets, which have a highly charged and personal significance for her. 12PM LIGHTHOUSE Mariele Neudecker The Air Itself is One Vast Library. Mariele Neudecker explores the disturbing – and often invisible – technologies of war in an exhibition that contrasts starkly with her more familiar depictions of landscape and the sublimity of nature. 11AM PHOENIX BRIGHTON Museums at Night Come along to the gallery tonight, meet some of the exhibiting artists and gain a deeper insight into the world of artists’ books. PRESTON MANOR A performance by Peter Reder The Contents of a House. The British performance artist Peter Reder has spent weeks mining the tales and the treasures of Preston Manor. Now he wants to tell you about them. 6PM & 8:30PM £10 - £15 REGENCY TOWN HOUSE Mariele Neudecker Heterotopias and other domestic landscapes. his major new commission uses several interconnected artworks to explore both the familiar and sublime. The cropped edge in Neudecker’s landscapes
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The Blue Route. Working primarily in public and easily accessible places, Kaarina Kaikkonen uses simple, everyday objects such as second-hand clothing, toilet paper and women’s shoes, to create large-scale installations that articulate the architectural or open space in which her works are sited. She is best known for several major works using hundreds of discarded men’s jackets, which have a highly charged and personal significance for her. 12PM LIGHTHOUSE Mariele Neudecker The Air Itself is One Vast Library. Mariele Neudecker explores the disturbing – and often invisible – technologies of war in an exhibition that contrasts starkly with her more familiar depictions of landscape and the sublimity of nature. 11AM REGENCY TOWN HOUSE Mariele Neudecker Heterotopias and other domestic landscapes. his major new commission uses several interconnected artworks to explore both the familiar and sublime. The cropped edge in Neudecker’s landscapes becomes a form of human intervention: her representations of vast panoramas are limited by lenses, or narrowed by cones of torchlight. 12PM UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON GALLERY Hofesh Shechter Company Nomad Land. Father or Brother, Son or Grandfather, Uncle or Friend; in this collaborative dance and film project a group of men from across the generations come together with Brighton Dome & Brighton Festival Resident Company Hofesh Shechter Company and student film makers to explore the energy and complexity of male relationships. 10AM
commission uses several interconnected artworks to explore both the familiar and sublime. The cropped edge in Neudecker’s landscapes becomes a form of human intervention: her representations of vast panoramas are limited by lenses, or narrowed by cones of torchlight. 12PM UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON GALLERY Hofesh Shechter Company Nomad Land. Father or Brother, Son or Grandfather, Uncle or Friend; in this collaborative dance and film project a group of men from across the generations come together with Brighton Dome & Brighton Festival Resident Company Hofesh Shechter Company and student film makers to explore the energy and complexity of male relationships. 10AM
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ANDREW SIMMS CANCEL THE APOCALYPSE
Tuesday 21st May From bad banks to global warming, the world sometimes looks as if it is falling apart.
LOCATION: Dome, Studio Theatre TIMINGS: Doors 8pm TICKETS: £10
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SUNDAY 19 FABRICA Kaarina Kaikkonen (Helsinki) The Blue Route. Working primarily in public and easily accessible places, Kaarina Kaikkonen uses simple, everyday objects such as second-hand clothing, toilet paper and women’s shoes, to create large-scale installations that articulate the architectural or open space in which her works are sited. She is best known for several major works using hundreds of discarded men’s jackets, which have a highly charged and personal significance for her. 12PM Jubilee Square : Bad Taste Company Faust. It’s easy to lose your soul in a whirl of Charlestoning, Lindy Hopping and swinging big band music, and in this re-imagining of Goethe’s masterpiece Faust does just that as he’s manipulated into a deal with the devil. 9PM LIGHTHOUSE Mariele Neudecker The Air Itself is One Vast Library. Mariele Neudecker explores the disturbing – and often invisible – technologies of war in an exhibition that contrasts starkly with her more familiar depictions of landscape and the sublimity of nature. 11AM PRESTON MANOR A performance by Peter Reder The Contents of a House. The British performance artist Peter Reder has spent weeks mining the tales and the treasures of Preston Manor. Now he wants to tell you about them. 6PM & 8:30PM £10 - £15 REGENCY TOWN HOUSE Mariele Neudecker Heterotopias and other domestic landscapes. his major new commission uses several interconnected artworks to explore both the familiar and sublime. The cropped edge in Neudecker’s landscapes becomes a form of human intervention: her representations of vast panoramas are limited by lenses, or narrowed by cones of torchlight. 12PM
MONDAY 20 BRIGHTON DOME, STUDIO THEATRE Unbound meets the Catalyst Club A unique and entertaining collaboration between some of the writers and creators from Unbound publishing and Brighton’s Catalyst Club. 8PM £10 - £12.50 FABRICA Kaarina Kaikkonen (Helsinki) The Blue Route. Working primarily in public and easily accessible places, Kaarina Kaikkonen uses simple, everyday objects such as second-hand clothing, toilet paper and women’s shoes, to create large-scale installations that articulate the architectural or open space in which her works are sited. She is best known for several major works using hundreds of discarded men’s jackets, which have a highly charged and personal significance for her. 12PM LIGHTHOUSE Mariele Neudecker The Air Itself is One Vast Library. Mariele Neudecker explores the disturbing – and often invisible – technologies of war in an exhibition that contrasts starkly with her more familiar depictions of landscape and the sublimity of nature. 11AM REGENCY TOWN HOUSE Mariele Neudecker Heterotopias and other domestic landscapes. his major new commission uses several interconnected artworks to explore both the
familiar and sublime. The cropped edge in Neudecker’s landscapes becomes a form of human intervention: her representations of vast panoramas are limited by lenses, or narrowed by cones of torchlight. 12PM
TUESDAY 21 BRIGHTON DOME, STUDIO THEATRE Andrew Simms Cancel the Apocalypse. From bad banks to global warming, the world sometimes looks as if it is falling apart. But what if the only things holding us back are a lack of imagination and a surplus of old orthodoxies? 8PM £10 FABRICA Kaarina Kaikkonen (Helsinki) The Blue Route. 12PM LIGHTHOUSE Mariele Neudecker The Air Itself is One Vast Library. Mariele Neudecker explores the disturbing – and often invisible – technologies of war in an exhibition that contrasts starkly with her more familiar depictions of landscape and the sublimity of nature. 11AM PRESTON MANOR A performance by Peter Reder The Contents of a House. The British performance artist Peter Reder has spent weeks mining the tales and the treasures of Preston Manor. Now he wants to tell you about them. 8:30PM £10 - £15 REGENCY TOWN HOUSE Mariele Neudecker Heterotopias and other domestic landscapes. his major new commission uses several interconnected artworks to explore both the familiar and sublime. The cropped edge in Neudecker’s landscapes becomes a form of human intervention: her representations of vast panoramas are limited by lenses, or narrowed by cones of torchlight. 12PM
WEDNESDAY 22 FABRICA Kaarina Kaikkonen (Helsinki) The Blue Route. Working primarily in public and easily accessible places, Kaarina Kaikkonen uses simple, everyday objects such as second-hand clothing, toilet paper and women’s shoes, to create large-scale installations that articulate the architectural or open space in which her works are sited. She is best known for several major works using hundreds of discarded men’s jackets, which have a highly charged and personal significance for her. 12PM LIGHTHOUSE Mariele Neudecker The Air Itself is One Vast Library. Mariele Neudecker explores the disturbing – and often invisible – technologies of war in an exhibition that contrasts starkly with her more familiar depictions of landscape and the sublimity of nature. 11AM PRESTON MANOR A performance by Peter Reder The Contents of a House. The British performance artist Peter Reder has spent weeks mining the tales and the treasures of Preston Manor. Now he wants to tell you about them. 8:30PM £10 - £15 REGENCY TOWN HOUSE Mariele Neudecker Heterotopias and other domestic landscapes. his major new commission uses several interconnected artworks to explore both the familiar and sublime. The cropped edge in Neudecker’s landscapes becomes a form of human intervention: her representations of vast panoramas are limited by lenses, or narrowed by cones of torchlight. 12PM
THURSDAY 23 FABRICA Kaarina Kaikkonen (Helsinki) The Blue Route. Working primarily in public and easily accessible places, Kaarina Kaikkonen uses simple, everyday objects such as second-hand clothing, toilet paper and women’s shoes, to create large-scale installations that articulate the architectural or open space in which her works are sited. She is best known for several major works using hundreds of discarded men’s
jackets, which have a highly charged and personal significance for her. 12PM LIGHTHOUSE Mariele Neudecker The Air Itself is One Vast Library. Mariele Neudecker explores the disturbing – and often invisible – technologies of war in an exhibition that contrasts starkly with her more familiar depictions of landscape and the sublimity of nature. 11AM PRESTON MANOR A performance by Peter Reder The Contents of a House. The British performance artist Peter Reder has spent weeks mining the tales and the treasures of Preston Manor. Now he wants to tell you about them. 8:30PM £10 - £15 REGENCY TOWN HOUSE Mariele Neudecker Heterotopias and other domestic landscapes. his major new commission uses several interconnected artworks to explore both the familiar and sublime. The cropped edge in Neudecker’s landscapes becomes a form of human intervention: her representations of vast panoramas are limited by lenses, or narrowed by cones of torchlight. 12PM
FRIDAY 24 BRIGHTON DOME, FOUNDERS ROOM Morning After: King Lear ur Meet the Artists series is your chance to interact with our Festival artists and companies beyond the shows, through a range of facilitated pre-show talks, post-show discussions and Morning After conversations. 11AM CITY COLLEGE BRIGHTON & HOVE, CAR PARK KompleXKapharnaüM (Lyon) A woman appears, on the edge. ‘My story is your story’, she confides. Walking behind her, buildings are illuminated with the faces of thousands of others. Seized by her voice and transported by a live soundtrack of hypnotic music 9:30PM FABRICA Kaarina Kaikkonen (Helsinki) The Blue Route. 12PM LIGHTHOUSE Mariele Neudecker The Air Itself is One Vast Library. Mariele Neudecker explores the disturbing – and often invisible – technologies of war in an exhibition that contrasts starkly with her more familiar depictions of landscape and the sublimity of nature. 11AM PRESTON MANOR A performance by Peter Reder The Contents of a House. The British performance artist Peter Reder has spent weeks mining the tales and the treasures of Preston Manor. Now he wants to tell you about them. 8:30PM £10 - £15 REGENCY TOWN HOUSE Mariele Neudecker Heterotopias and other domestic landscapes. his major new commission uses several interconnected artworks to explore both the familiar and sublime. The cropped edge in Neudecker’s landscapes becomes a form of human intervention: her representations of vast panoramas are limited by lenses, or narrowed by cones of torchlight. 12PM
SATURDAY 25 BRIGHTON DOME, CORN EXCHANGE Presented with Photoworks Martin Parr: Desert Island Pics. From busy British seaside resorts to empty spaces in foreign car parks, his vividly observational images have made him one of the most respected chroniclers of our age, while his highly opinionated views on photography have influenced a generation of photographers. 2PM £10 CITY COLLEGE BRIGHTON & HOVE, CAR PARK KompleXKapharnaüM (Lyon) A woman appears, on the edge. ‘My story is your story’, she confides. Walking behind her, buildings are illuminated with the faces of thousands of others. Seized by her voice and transported by a live soundtrack of hypnotic music 9:30PM FABRICA Kaarina Kaikkonen (Helsinki) The Blue Route. Working primarily in public and easily accessible places, Kaarina Kaikkonen uses simple, every-
day objects such as second-hand clothing, toilet paper and women’s shoes, to create large-scale installations that articulate the architectural or open space in which her works are sited. She is best known for several major works using hundreds of discarded men’s jackets, which have a highly charged and personal significance for her. 12PM LIGHTHOUSE Mariele Neudecker The Air Itself is One Vast Library. Mariele Neudecker explores the disturbing – and often invisible – technologies of war in an exhibition that contrasts starkly with her more familiar depictions of landscape and the sublimity of nature. 11AM PHOENIX BRIGHTON Shaking The Shelf Performing Books. For one evening only, the books will dust off their jackets and leap onto stage. 7PM £5 PRESTON MANOR A performance by Peter Reder The Contents of a House. The British performance artist Peter Reder has spent weeks mining the tales and the treasures of Preston Manor. Now he wants to tell you about them. 6PM & 8:30PM £10 - £15 REGENCY TOWN HOUSE Mariele Neudecker Heterotopias and other domestic landscapes. his major new commission uses several interconnected artworks to explore both the familiar and sublime. The cropped edge in Neudecker’s landscapes becomes a form of human intervention: her representations of vast panoramas are limited by lenses, or narrowed by cones of torchlight. 12PM
SUNDAY 26 BRIGHTON DOME, FOUNDERS ROOM Tony De Saulles’ Horrible Drawing Workshop If you like drawing the disgusting and illustrating the inexpressible, this fun family cartoon-drawing workshop is for you. Tony De Saulles, the illustrator of the award-winning Horrible Science series, will be giving loads of horrible cartooning tips while you sketch. 12PM £6 FABRICA Kaarina Kaikkonen (Helsinki) The Blue Route.12pm LIGHTHOUSE Mariele Neudecker The Air Itself is One Vast Library. Mariele Neudecker explores the disturbing – and often invisible – technologies of war in an exhibition that contrasts starkly with her more familiar depictions of landscape and the sublimity of nature. 11AM PRESTON MANOR A performance by Peter Reder The Contents of a House. The British performance artist Peter Reder has spent weeks mining the tales and the treasures of Preston Manor. Now he wants to tell you about them. 6PM £10 - £15 REGENCY TOWN HOUSE Mariele Neudecker Heterotopias and other domestic landscapes. his major new commission uses several interconnected artworks to explore both the familiar and sublime. The cropped edge in Neudecker’s landscapes becomes a form of human intervention: her representations of vast panoramas are limited by lenses, or narrowed by cones of torchlight. 12PM
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THE HA PPY MONDAYS Erupting from a Manchester music scene that would later become the epicentre for British youth culture, the Happy Mondays scored a string of hit singles and albums, whilst simultaneously outraging Middle England with a series of drug-fuelled tabloid-baiting antics. “We got the press we wanted to get. We played the game,” Shaun Ryder, the bands frontman tells us. “It was just a band. It’s the same as kids listening to the Rolling Stones or Frank Sinatra.” By irrelevantly blending Stax Soul with Acid House, these funked-up council estate lads showed a previously lacklustre generation of indie kids that it was OK to dig dance music. Now, twenty years since their dissolution, the original line-up is back, with a series of shows that takes them from Dubai to Japan, Australia and good old Brighton.
‘I think we’re booked up for
the next two years. It’s good though, when we split up we were just a bunch of boys, now we’re all in our fifties. It’s a lot more enjoyable than it was the first time around.’
The comeback sees the band renewed and celebratory of their achievements. But now that Ryder has kids of his own, are there any bands that around that can match the Monday’s notoriety? “I’m sure there are… I hear some of the stuff coming out of my lad’s room harping on about making dough and diamond encrusted Rolexes.” “Today… the way it is… it’s not just a music business, it’s an entertainment business. A lot of these kids have to play a game, otherwise they’ll get dropped.” Ryder’s also found the time to make a History Channel show about UFOs, a subject he’s had first-hand experience of, which sees him travelling the planet on an epic quest for the truth. In case the TV audiences haven’t had enough of him, there’s also an ITV film of his life about to enter production. “We’ve just done the deal and it’s going into production now. ITV are making my biography into a TV movie, which is better than going to the cinema. There’s hundreds of British movies that no-one sees, but get on ITV at the right time you’ll get millions of viewers.” The haphazard journey of this ‘Salford lad made good’ will make compulsive viewing, but what have all the ups and downs of his career taught Mr Ryder? “Not much... Keep your gob shut, maybe?”
The Happy Mondays play The Brighton Centre on Sun 26 May. www.happymondaysonline.com
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As a Brightonian, Chequers on Preston Street is one of those places that I have frequented on more than one occasion. It’s a stone’s throw from what I think of the ‘good bit’ of the sea front which is near the West Pier and therefore away from what can be an annoyingly busy throng of people in the summer. There are also some great bars and pubs’ occupying its sloping pavement and Chequers is one of my favourites. Small enough to feel personal, and big enough not to feel cramped it embodies an eclectic mix of understated charm, kooky touches and a very warm and inviting atmosphere. Possibly one of the best things about Chequers, however, is the attitude of the staff. They are incredibly friendly, talkative and interesting- the sort of folks that would go out of their way to cheer you up if, let’s say hypothetically, you had dropped your brand new phone down the loo earlier that day. They are known for their live music, DJ, comedy and open mic nights, and are really starting to make a name for themselves foodwise too. Many a trusted friend has abused my ears with tales of their wondrous roasts, which I was surprised to see are only £8.50, with them doing a deal whereby you can get two for £15great value by any standards. Ali, the joint-manager, was telling me about a couple of things they are doing from May, one of which is a hearty meal for £4.95 on Tuesday nights (open mic night) for anyone carrying a student card. They are also going to be offering a sandwich delivery service to local offices, and Takeaway Beach Baskets, which for a small deposit and £20 will give you a couple of sarnies, some crisps and either a bottle of wine or some beers. Their menu focuses on crowd-pleasing munch, so I decided to first go for Egg’s Florentine for a fiver from their well chosen
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breakfast menu. The poached eggs were cooked to perfection, and the sauce benefitted from the unique inclusion of wholegrain mustard. I then went for one of their pizzas, with a base recipe so authentically Italian that it had to be translated before it could be used! The Meat Lover for £8.50, which had an abundance of gammon, ground beef, chorizo and pepperoni, was superb. My dining partner said the last time they had pizza as good they were in Rome. I finished my food-dabbling with the somewhat legendary Pulled Pork sandwich; meat so carefully prepared by Mike (the chef) that he is sometimes checking on it at 3am because he wants it to be perfect. Unsurprisingly it was gorgeously rich and tender and very well-priced at £6.50. I am always impressed by the friendly atmosphere at Chequers, and now I can say with certainty that the food brings a smile to my face just as quickly.
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NEIGHBOURHOOD 101 ST. JAMES STREET BY LUCY HALLETT
There are a few streets in and around Brighton that I’m always pleased to have a reason to visit, St James’ street being one of them. One of my favourite things about it is the way that it doesn’t seem to conform to any single particular style yet conveys an innate kookiness. This ethos is one that seems to permeate the trashy, funky but never conformist walls of Neighbourhood, a Brooklyn- Dive style bar nestled half way up the street. It is difficult to describe the general feel without throwing in words like ‘anti-establishment’, ‘cool’ and ‘hip’, but somehow this makes it sound like Neighbourhood is trying too hard, which it isn’t. Sitting at the chunky, comfy wooden tables a Roy Lichtenstein-style piece of art seems at home next to some garish religious iconography and a wall of graffiti. I was distracted by looking outside at a great summer-style area where the cast iron chairs are painted in neon colours, and complemented by beautiful and bright vintage style cushions. Kitsch and outlandish, the star attraction is a white cabana at the bottom that can be hired out for parties, and oozes the sort of cool you would associate with a beach in a trendy part of Ibiza. Feeling greedy, my dining partner and I ordered a little bit of everything, and washed it all down with a very impressive Malbec. The owner Ben, prides himself of their use of an independent wine supplier, and hand-picks a selection of beer and wine, but keeps the price-point affordable. We started with a meat sharing platter, which was very reasonable at £11 for two. The ingredients were excellent quality, and would impress even the most seasoned diner. We then moved onto some sensational chicken wings flanked by two large pots of sauce- we opted for Buffalo and Roquefort Blue Cheese, £8
for a double portion of wings and a quid for sauces. The 10oz burger for £10 was one of the best I’ve had, and trust me; I’m a bit of a burger-expert! Cooked medium rare, it was beyond juicy and had me wondering why, apart from the risk or a coronary, I didn’t just live on a diet of burgers. For the more health-conscious among us, they serve some beautiful salads, such as their butternut squash and chorizo for £7. When I go back though I would find it hard to resist their aptly named Trailer Trash Fries for £3.50... a veritable floozy of a dish that involves slathering fries in candied bacon, smoked paprika, BBQ sauce and cheese... if this is the sort of dish they eat then just show me that trailer! Upon leaving I started wishing that Neighbourhood was in my... well... neighbourhood. However after my experience as Schwarzenegger would say ‘I’ll be back’.
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CONVERSATIONS ON CREATIVITY By Wayne Imms Brighton-based journalist and author Amy Raphael has recently seen the publication of her new book on Danny Boyle. I do like a decent book on my favourite subject, which is film, of course. For me Danny Boyle: Creating Wonder was an excellent read, very interesting, and it’s bound to appeal to those interested in the complex art of filmmaking. Amy’s book comprises a series of extensive and highly insightful conversations with the highly respected filmmaker. They discuss each of his films, including his debut, Shallow Grave, to his recent work, Trance, as well Boyle’s role as the Olympics’ Artistic Director, which gained him status as a national treasure. Here, Amy Raphael gives us an insight into the book as well as her passions which include film. Would it be fair to say that film and music are your main interests? Yes. Film for me is provocative, visceral, immersive and distracting. Music is emotional, uplifting and part of the everyday fabric of my life. I’m in heaven if a good film has a great soundtrack. I edited a few fanzines at school and mostly wrote about music in my first job at The Face magazine in the early 90s. Since then I’ve written about both film and music. For many years you’ve clearly combined your interest in these art forms with journalism. What made you want to become a journalist? The journalist in Abba: The Movie. I saw the film when it came out in 1977 at the age of ten. I loved the idea of chasing a band around the world for an interview. Little did I know this would one day wear thin... My love of film comes from my dad, who used to take me to see films every weekend when I was a kid. He smuggled me into Monty Python and the Holy Grail when I was eight. What does film mean to you? Everything. It defines the pop cultural moments in my life. This sounds ludicrously pretentious, but I can feel something shifting in me when I see a film like Blue Valentine. Best of all it’s what I do with my 8-year-old daughter most weekends. I can now even happily accept that not every family film has to be up there with Toy Story 3. You’ve extensively written about and interviewed many key figures within the film world, notably the highly respected British directors Mike Leigh and Danny Boyle. First with Leigh, for your book, Mike Leigh on Mike Leigh, can you describe your research process? It’s laborious, but fun. I watched every film Mike has made, apart from one the BBC wiped. And then I watched them all
again. I read every interview I could find on the internet and in existing film books. I immersed myself in Mike Leigh world for an entire winter. It must have been important to have gained a good rapport with Leigh through your conversational interviews with him. Tell us about this and how it went for you. The first time we ever met we argued. I was interviewing Mike for Esquire about how being British defined him. He agreed to the interview and then refused to answer any questions. I stood up for myself. He invited me to do a Q&A with him at the Curzon cinema in London for All or Nothing and then, out of the blue, asked me if I’d like to collaborate on the book. I’m guessing he likes people who stand up to him. We also share a dry sense of humour and a love of sarcasm. Would you say that the reader gains a greater insight of the subject through conversational interviews, instead of actual biographies, which use interview extracts? I personally like the intimacy of conversational interviews because everything is shown in context. The ebb and flow of conversation is naturalistic, although of course, no one speaks as they would like to be read so the editing process is not to be underestimated. Having read your new book, Danny Boyle: Creating Wonder, it’s clear that you first met and interviewed him many years ago. I gather that during that time you got to know him very well and I assume you struck up a friendship and a real trust. I interviewed Danny for the NME when Trainspotting came out. I then approached him in spring of 2009, after Slumdog’s Oscar haul, to see if he’d collaborate on a book with me. I would hope by now that Danny trusts me. When working at the end of last year on Creating Wonder, which is an updated version of the original biography including chapters on the opening ceremony and Trance, I noticed that he has developed a short hand with me. It wasn’t hugely useful as I had to keep making him spell his answers out. You must be a fan of his work. Do you have a favourite of his films? I can remember exactly how I felt when I saw a press preview of Trainspotting – pinned to my seat, stunned, the adrenalin coursing through my body. I love 28 Days Later and Sunshine, though both fall apart in the third act. And I cry every time I watch 127 Hours. James Franco is a revelation. Finally, being a Brighton resident, how aware of its filmmaking community, and for you, how does the city cater to your passion for film? I’ve been a paid-up member of the Duke of York’s since I moved here in 2000. I like the way their programming embraces both indie and commercial films. It’s great that we now have Duke’s at Komedia offering food as well as film. I’m no snob though. I often take my daughter to Cineworld at the marina because of the free parking. Danny Boyle: Creating Wonder is published by Faber and Faber. www.faber.co.uk www.amyraphael.com
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OTHER EVENTS WEDNESDAY 1
late night Festivals Club of 2013 – featuring special DJs, live music, cabaret performers and other curiosities. £5
SATURDAY 4
BRUNSWICK Yoga Lessons 9:30AM £5 BRUNSWICK Fringe Festival The Bubbles For Breakfast Puppet Show 12PM £4 - £5 KOMEDIA Comedy Club 4 Kids Back and better than ever! Cracking comedy entertainment for everyone over the age of six. 2PM £6.50 - £8.50 KOMEDIA Honor Blackman In conversation, Honor looks back over her astonishing life and 60 year career, including discussion of her beginnings, her family, and her rise to stardom. 3:15PM £14 - £15 NORTHERN LIGHTS Live Ice Hockey SPIEGELTETNT The Festivals Club Wilkommen wilkommen! Bienvenue! The Famous Spiegel Garden, welcome everyone to the late night Festivals Club of 2013 – featuring special DJs, live music, cabaret performers and other curiosities. £5 THEATRE ROYAL Alan Rusbridger: Play It Again editor of The Guardian, set himself an almost impossible goal: to learn, in one year, Chopin’s fiendishly difficult Ballade No. 1. In his book Play It Again, he relates how he found the right teacher, and the right piano; and gained insights and advice from pianists, theorists, historians, neuroscientists, amateurs 2PM £11 VOLKS Fringe Festival The Brighton Laboratory Pres - The sun that Casts No Shadow 7:30PM £6 - £8
LATEST MUSIC BAR Tango Boot Camp Argentine Tango with TangoBootCamp 8PM £3 - £8
BRUNSWICK Fringe Festival Mr Pineapple Head. Silent Clown For Kids 12PM £7 - £23 Kensington Street : Same Sky Children’s Parade 10:30AM LATEST MUSIC BAR Tribal Remix Hafla & The Top Shelf after party Tribal Remix hafla will showcase new dance talent by Tribal Fusion Belly Dancers from all over Europe. 7PM £7 - £10 NORTHERN LIGHTS Live Ice Hockey SPIEGELTETNT The Festivals Club Wilkommen wilkommen! Bienvenue! The Famous Spiegel Garden, welcome everyone to the late night Festivals Club of 2013 – featuring special DJs, live music, cabaret performers and other curiosities. £5
SUNDAY 5
BRUNSWICK Fringe Festival The Bubbles For Breakfast Puppet Show 12PM £4 - £5 LATEST MUSIC BAR Stories With Tea Lynn Ruth Millers tales show you how to discover the magic in all our lives. Join her for tea and tales of yesterday. 4PM £6 SPIEGELTETNT The Festivals Club Wilkommen wilkommen! Bienvenue! The Famous Spiegel Garden, Brighton Festival and Brighton Fringe warmly welcome everyone to the late night Festivals Club of 2013 – featuring special DJs, live music, cabaret performers and other curiosities. £5
MONDAY 6
ANCIENT MARINER Quiz Night There are cash prizes for 1st, 2nd, 3rd and second to last place teams 8PM £1 BRUNSWICK Fringe Festival Mr Pineapple Head. Silent Clown For Kids 12PM £7 - £23 NORTHERN LIGHTS Live Ice Hockey SIGNALMAN Signalman Pub Quiz music, creative & general knowledge rounds to win cash prizes and more 8PM £1pp SPIEGELTETNT The Festivals Club Wilkommen wilkommen! Bienvenue! The Famous Spiegel Garden, welcome everyone to the late night Festivals Club of 2013 – featuring special DJs, live music, cabaret performers and other curiosities. £5
TUESDAY 7
FIDDLER’S ELBOW Quiz-ness Pit your wits against the mistress! Happy Hour is every hour for quiz entrants. 8PM £1 LATEST MUSIC BAR Beat Male Cancer Launch Party 7PM NORTHERN LIGHTS Live Ice Hockey Saint George’s : Saint George’s Inn Pub Quiz 8PM £1 SPIEGELTETNT The Festivals Club Wilkommen wilkommen! Bienvenue! The Famous Spiegel Garden, welcome everyone to the late night Festivals Club of 2013 – featuring special DJs, live music, cabaret performers and other curiosities. £5
WEDNESDAY 8
BRIGHTON DOME, FOUNDERS ROOM Morning After: How Like An Angel Meet director of I Fagiolini, Robert Hollingworth and members of the company in this special event. 11AM KOMEDIA John Cremer Workshop: Improvisation Skills For Business Leadership 10AM £18 LATEST MUSIC BAR Tango Boot Camp Argentine Tango with TangoBootCamp 8PM £3 - £8 NORTHERN LIGHTS Live Ice Hockey SPIEGELTETNT The Festivals Club Wilkommen wilkommen! Bienvenue! The Famous Spiegel Garden, welcome everyone to the late night Festivals Club of 2013 – featuring special DJs, live music, cabaret performers and other curiosities. £5
THURSDAY 9
SPIEGELTETNT The Festivals Club Wilkommen wilkommen! Bienvenue! The Famous Spiegel Garden, Brighton Festival and Brighton Fringe warmly welcome everyone to the late night Festivals Club of 2013 – featuring special DJs, live music, cabaret performers and other curiosities. £5
FRIDAY 10
NORTHERN LIGHTS Live Ice Hockey SPIEGELTETNT The Festivals Club Wilkommen wilkommen! Bienvenue! The Famous Spiegel Garden, welcome everyone to the
SATURDAY 11
SUNDAY 12
CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Geekest link, sci-fi fantasy quiz, star wars special! 8:30PM £1 KOMEDIA Myminidisco Kids love to dance and have fun. myminidisco bring you a club experience for the little ones, and the big ones too. 2PM £8 - £25 LATEST MUSIC BAR Stories With Tea Lynn Ruth Millers tales show you how to discover the magic in all our lives. Join her for tea and tales of yesterday. 4PM £6 SPIEGELTETNT The Festivals Club Wilkommen wilkommen! Bienvenue! The Famous Spiegel Garden, welcome everyone to the late night Festivals Club of 2013 – featuring special DJs, live music, cabaret performers and other curiosities. £5 VOLKS Fringe Festival The Brighton Laboratory Pres - The sun that Casts No Shadow 7:30PM £6 - £8
MONDAY 13
ANCIENT MARINER Quiz Night There are cash prizes for 1st, 2nd, 3rd and second to last place teams 8PM £1 BRUNSWICK BJS Jazz Extensions Jazz tuition 3PM £tbc BRUNSWICK Harmonessence Choir Practice 7:30PM £7 SIGNALMAN Signalman Pub Quiz music, creative & general knowledge rounds to win cash prizes and more 8PM £1pp SPIEGELTETNT The Festivals Club Wilkommen wilkommen! Bienvenue! The Famous Spiegel Garden, Brighton Festival and Brighton Fringe warmly welcome everyone to the late night Festivals Club of 2013 – featuring special DJs, live music, cabaret performers and other curiosities. £5
TUESDAY 14
BRUNSWICK Archway Contemporary Choir 12:30PM & 7PM £5 BRUNSWICK Yoga Lessons 5:30PM £5 FIDDLER’S ELBOW Quiz-ness Pit your wits against the mistress! Happy Hour is every hour for quiz entrants. 8PM £1 NORTHERN LIGHTS Live Ice Hockey SPIEGELTETNT The Festivals Club Wilkommen wilkommen! Bienvenue! The Famous Spiegel Garden, welcome everyone to the late night Festivals Club of 2013 – featuring special DJs, live music, cabaret performers and other curiosities. £5
WEDNESDAY 15
LATEST MUSIC BAR Tango Boot Camp Argentine Tango with TangoBootCamp 8PM £3 - £8 SPIEGELTETNT The Festivals Club Wilkommen wilkommen! Bienvenue! The Famous Spiegel Garden, Brighton Festival and Brighton Fringe warmly welcome everyone to the late night Festivals Club of 2013 – featuring special DJs, live music, cabaret performers and other curiosities. £5
THURSDAY 16
NORTHERN LIGHTS Live Ice Hockey Quarter Finals SPIEGELTETNT The Festivals Club Wilkommen wilkommen! Bienvenue! The Famous Spiegel Garden, welcome everyone to the late night Festivals Club of 2013 – featuring special DJs, live music, cabaret performers and other curiosities. £5
FRIDAY 17
NORTHERN LIGHTS Norwegian independence day SPIEGELTETNT The Festivals Club Wilkommen wilkommen! Bienvenue! The Famous Spiegel Garden, Brighton Festival and Brighton Fringe warmly welcome everyone to the late night Festivals Club of 2013 – featuring special DJs, live music, cabaret performers and other curiosities. £5
SATURDAY 18
BRUNSWICK Yoga Lessons 9:30AM £5 BRUNSWICK Fringe Festival Mr Pineapple Head. Silent Clown For Kids 12PM £7 - £23 DEVIL’S DYKE COPSE Burn the Curtain The Adventures of Don Quixote by Bicycle 11AM & 3PM £5 - £10 NORTHERN LIGHTS Live Ice Hockey Semi Finals SPIEGELTETNT The Festivals Club Wilkommen wilkommen! Bienvenue! The Famous Spiegel Garden, welcome everyone to the late night Festivals Club of 2013 – featuring special DJs, live music, cabaret performers and other curiosities. £5 VOLKS Fringe Festival The Brighton Laboratory Pres - The sun that Casts No Shadow 6:15PM & 8:15PM £6 - £8
SUNDAY 19
DEVIL’S DYKE COPSE Burn the Curtain The Adventures of Don Quixote by Bicycle 11AM & 3PM £5 - £10 LATEST MUSIC BAR Stories With Tea Lynn Ruth Millers tales show you how to discover the magic in all our lives. Join her for tea and tales of yesterday. 4PM £6 NORTHERN LIGHTS Live Ice Hockey Finals SPIEGELTETNT The Festivals Club Wilkommen wilkommen! Bienvenue! The Famous Spiegel Garden, welcome everyone to the late night Festivals Club of 2013 – featuring special DJs, live music, cabaret performers and other curiosities. £5 VOLKS Fringe Festival The Brighton Laboratory Pres - The sun that Casts No Shadow 6:15PM & 8:15PM £6 - £8
MONDAY 20
ANCIENT MARINER Quiz Night There are cash prizes for 1st, 2nd, 3rd and second to last place teams 8PM £1 BRUNSWICK Harmonessence Choir Practice 7:30PM £7 SIGNALMAN Signalman Pub Quiz music, creative & general knowledge rounds to win cash prizes and more 8PM £1pp SPIEGELTETNT The Festivals Club Wilkommen wilkommen! Bienvenue! The Famous Spiegel Garden, welcome everyone to the late night Festivals Club of 2013 – featuring special DJs, live music, cabaret performers and other curiosities. £5
TUESDAY 21
BRUNSWICK Archway Contemporary Choir 12:30PM & 7PM £5 BRUNSWICK Yoga Lessons 5:30PM £5 FIDDLER’S ELBOW Quiz-ness Pit your wits against the mistress! Happy Hour is every hour for quiz entrants. 8PM £1 LATEST MUSIC BAR Cafe Scientifique 7:30PM Saint George’s : Saint George’s Inn Pub Quiz 8PM £1 SPIEGELTETNT The Festivals Club Wilkommen wilkommen! Bienvenue! The Famous Spiegel Garden, welcome everyone to the late night Festivals Club of 2013 – featuring special DJs, live music, cabaret performers and other curiosities. £5 STANMER HOUSE Blast Theory Fixing Point. Follow the smartphone provided to find audio recordings hidden among the trees in Stanmer Woods 4PM £5
WEDNESDAY 22
SPIEGELTETNT The Festivals Club Wilkommen wilkommen! Bienvenue! The Famous Spiegel Garden, welcome everyone to the late night Festivals Club of 2013 – featuring special DJs, live music, cabaret performers and other curiosities. £5 STANMER HOUSE Blast Theory Fixing Point. Follow the smartphone provided to find
audio recordings hidden among the trees in Stanmer Woods 4PM £5
THURSDAY 23
BRUNSWICK Fringe Festival Rattle Tales, Story telling 9PM £5 SPIEGELTETNT The Festivals Club Wilkommen wilkommen! Bienvenue! The Famous Spiegel Garden, welcome everyone to the late night Festivals Club of 2013 – featuring special DJs, live music, cabaret performers and other curiosities. £5 STANMER HOUSE Blast Theory Fixing Point. Follow the smartphone provided to find audio recordings hidden among the trees in Stanmer Woods 4PM £5
FRIDAY 24
SPIEGELTETNT The Festivals Club Wilkommen wilkommen! Bienvenue! The Famous Spiegel Garden, welcome everyone to the late night Festivals Club of 2013 – featuring special DJs, live music, cabaret performers and other curiosities. £5 STANMER HOUSE Blast Theory Fixing Point. Follow the smartphone provided to find audio recordings hidden among the trees in Stanmer Woods 4PM £5 THE OLD MARKET Jan Pienkowski with Michael Rosen Join us after Captain Blood’s Revenge for a post-show talk with illustrator Jan Pienkowski (Meg and Mog, Haunted House) in conversation with Michael Rosen. 7:30PM
SATURDAY 25
BRIGHTON DOME, FOUNDERS ROOM Tilly and Friends Polly Dunbar. The best-selling author and illustrator created the characters in six charming books which are all about Tilly and the friends she lives with in the Little Yellow House. 10:30AM & 12:30PM £6 BRUNSWICK Yoga Lessons 9:30AM £5 BRUNSWICK Fringe Festival Mr Pineapple Head. Silent Clown For Kids 12PM £7 - £23 SPIEGELTETNT The Festivals Club Wilkommen wilkommen! Bienvenue! The Famous Spiegel Garden, welcome everyone to the late night Festivals Club of 2013 – featuring special DJs, live music, cabaret performers and other curiosities. £5 STANMER HOUSE Blast Theory Fixing Point. Follow the smartphone provided to find audio recordings hidden among the trees in Stanmer Woods 10AM £5 THE OLD MARKET Tony De Saulles’ Horrible Drawing Workshop 10:30AM £6 THE OLD MARKET Bali Rai journey from a series of dead-end jobs to one of the country’s most respected writers for older children is inspiring for any budding author. So he’s the ideal person to talk about how to become a writer 1PM £10
SUNDAY 26
Brighton Centre : Brighton Records & CD Fair 9:30AM £2 SPIEGELTETNT The Festivals Club Wilkommen wilkommen! Bienvenue! The Famous Spiegel Garden, welcome everyone to the late night Festivals Club of 2013 – featuring special DJs, live music, cabaret performers and other curiosities. £5 STANMER HOUSE Blast Theory Fixing Point. Follow the smartphone provided to find audio recordings hidden among the trees in Stanmer Woods 10AM £5
MONDAY 27
ANCIENT MARINER Quiz Night There are cash prizes for 1st, 2nd, 3rd and second to last place teams 8PM £1 SIGNALMAN Signalman Pub Quiz music, creative & general knowledge rounds to win cash prizes and more 8PM £1pp VICTORY Poetry Night Live poetry readings from a range of guests 8PM
TUESDAY 28
BRUNSWICK Archway Contemporary Choir 12:30PM & 7PM £5 BRUNSWICK Yoga Lessons 5:30PM £5 FIDDLER’S ELBOW Quiz-ness Pit your wits against the mistress! Happy Hour is every hour for quiz entrants. 8PM £1
WEDNESDAY 29
LATEST MUSIC BAR Tango Boot Camp Argentine Tango with TangoBootCamp 8PM £3 - £8
FRIDAY 31
BRUNSWICK Fringe Festival Mr Pineapple Head. Silent Clown For Kids 12PM £7 - £23
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