BN1 Magazine October 2011 by BN1 Magazine

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COMEDY SPECIAL BRIGHTON COMEDY FESTIVAL

REGINAL D HUNTER TOM STADE PAUL DANIELS FEATURES WITH

THE GUILLEMOTS BROOKE FRASER RELENTLESS FREEZE FESTIVAL FRESHERS GUIDE

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WELCOME

Get ready for a jam packed October edition, as we witness the beginning of the academic year, read our tongue and cheek fresher’s guide to sum up Brighton student life. A plethora of Comedy delights in response to the Brighton Comedy Festival featuring some of the best and most entertaining comics on the scene. Plus, we catch up with the Guillemots and Brooke Fraser to talk tours and albums, so get ready for a heatwave of events and glorious sunshine!

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CONTENTS 04—Brighton During October 06—Live Previews 08—Guillemots 10—Oxjam 12—Freeze Festival 14—Album Reviews 16—Brooke Fraser 18—Brighton Comedy Festival 20—Paul Daniels

22—Tom Stade 24—Reginald D Hunter 26—Student Guide 30—Angel Food Bakery 32—Mark Ede 34—Tattoo Monthly 36—Puzzles 38—Listings

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BRIGHTON DURING OCTOBER

BY DEBORAH FAIRFIELD

Welcome to October! Crazy, huh. How time flies when we’re coming to the end of summer. But that doesn’t mean we’ll be having any less fun now does it?! I can’t think of any better way to celebrate the clocks going back than the return of the allnight arts festival, White Night. Last year we saw over 40,000 people in company for the late-night theatre, installations and arts events happening by moonlight. This Saturday 29th October, expect more than ever in its fourth year running with 70 separate arts events themed around Utopia. From an animation performance on the roof terrace of Embassy Court to a host of dance flashmobs, the traditional to the damn right bizarre will take to the streets promising a White Night worth staying up for. Yes, it’s that time of year again when Beach of the Dead returns with The Brighton Zombie walk, Saturday 22nd October. So dig out your fake blood and white face paint and take part in the unique march across town. If you happen to be doing a spot of shopping on the day, don’t fret, they do look realistic but the dead don’t really wander the streets, do they? We also have festivals coming out of our ears still with audio delights from the World Sacred Music Festival, bringing together a cultural explosion of soul and art with a musical journey through Tibet, Pakistan and West Africa. The Brighton Early Music Festival also provides a unique chance to look into the very origins of music itself. The theme for this year is dance, tying together the physical expression of how music makes us feel. If you’re asking me it’s like the group I joined on Facebook, I hate it when people mistake me for Beyonce on the dance floor…But I’ll get over it! From the 21st October, for just over two weeks, the festival will take you from 4

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belly dancing, period dance workshops, traditional music to contemporary STOMP-style percussion. And the whole shebang kicks off with a masked ball on the Friday. If you haven’t spotted me at the belly dancing workshop, you’re obviously not in creases on the floor. So over three weekends starting 7th October prepare yourself for a LOL and a half with the Brighton Comedy Festival. Around fifty of the best comedians return for the tenth anniversary working their wit and comedic delight through Brighton Dome’s three venues and others around the city. The opening night Gala is impressive enough hosted by the delightful Jo Brand, sit back and enjoy hilarity from the likes of Jack Dee, Sean Lock, Mark Watson, Andi Osho and more. For music, dance, fun and feasting, not to mention a celebration of English Apples, oh yeah, come down for Middle Farm Apple Festival on the weekend of 15th October. One of the more popular events in Sussex the annual festival will host live bands, Morris dancing, a cider bar, food stalls with local produce and more for a perfect day out. Finally, a quick mention of The Space at Komedia on the 6th October, a unique arts and entertainment event with special guest interviews including Skin from Skunk Anansie and leading cinematographer Brian Tufano who’s worked on Trainspotting, Billy Elliot and Quadrophenia. It’s a busy old month, enjoy!

NEWS

BRIGHTONA

END OF THE RAINBOW Award-winning star Tracie Bennett returns to the West End Stage with a breathtaking performance as Judy Garland in Peter Quilter’s End of the Rainbow. Documenting Garland’s comeback in December 1968, she battles with drugs and alcohol whilst undertaking an exhausting schedule on stage. Said to be the greatest talent of her generation, Judy remains tough, a remarkable woman with a legendary quick wit. Receiving standing ovations night after night, Tracie Bennett is supported by a six piece onstage band including performances of Garland’s most memorable songs The Man That Got Away, Come Rain or Shine, The Trolley Song and Somewhere Over the Rainbow. 3rd October – 8th October at the Theatre Royal. Tickets cost between £14 - £26. More info at www.atgtickets.com/Brighton

Bringing you two outside rock ‘n’ roll stages, a collection of breathtaking motorcycles, hot rods, live music bands and stalls selling leather wear (what more could you want?!) Brightona returns with this free Motorbike Festival on Sunday 9th October. Taking place down Brighton’s famous Madeira Drive, the Concorde 2 will also feature performances inside, whilst the bike show and competitions entertain all audiences. In aid of The Sussex Heart Charity, the event will see thousands of visitors flock to the seaside. Oh, and did I mention its features something called The Wall of Death! Sunday 9th October, Madeira Drive. Visit www.brightona.brighton-rock.net

THE BRIGHTON ZOMBIE PARADE A march of the dead starting from Victoria Gardens, next to Royal Pavilion, and ending at the Concorde 2 (After-Party). Get your dead-look on, squirt out the fake blood and take part in this unique event. Theme: Zombie. Parade: a procession of people. Enough said. Saturday 22nd October, 3pm. Approx walk time: 2 hours. Concorde 2 After Party ticketed price £3/£4. For more info www. beachofthedead.com

RAGAMALA: PAINTINGS FROM INDIA

private collection based around 24 key ragamala paintings will display almost the whole of the Indian subcontinent, from the foothills of the Himalayas to the mountains of Nepal. A rare and unique collection, prepare to be transported to the scenes themselves, evoking all of your senses. The exhibition asserts the literary and poetic history of ragamalas and its association with music, with an interest to the symbolism used within. Brighton Museum, 22nd October – 8th November. For opening times and details visit www.brighton-hove-rpml.org.uk

THE ALTERNATIVE VILLAGE FETE Engaging with exciting artists and creatives from around Brighton and beyond, as part of White Night come down and enjoy a contemporary, urban take on the traditional fete. Expect performances and installation artists, craftmakers, musicians, food producers and community initiatives, as you witness a darker side of folk beneath the moonlight and night time setting. From games, competitions, music, country dancing, craft activities, home grown produce to tea and cake, the event promises to be an energetic and unconventional celebration, perfect for all audiences, in true Brighton style. Saturday 29th October. 6pm till 1am, Old Steine Gardens.w

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LIVE PREVIEWS

Henry Bower - Hammer and Tongue

STIFF LITTLE FINGERS @ C2, 13th OCTOBER Legendary Irish punks who lived in the shadow of The Clash for most of their short-lived existence between 1977 and 1982 who have been intermittingly gigging again for over two decades now. Expect a lot of noisy, fast-paced political punk anthems about what it was like growing up in the middle of a civil war as well as all the usual punk rock troubles. A no-doubt sweaty crowd will be looking forward to hearing their two most classic songs, Alternative Ulster and Suspect Device, both of which helped propel the band, via the praise received from big fans Green Day, into the limelight of mainstream acceptance in the 1990s.

HAMMER & TONGUE @ KOMEDIA, 6th OCTOBER An institute of the Brighton poetry scene and something which has been rumbling on for years now and is always packed out this doesn’t really need a write-up. Every month they invite an out-of-towner in to read, this month it’s Swedish slam star Henry Bowers which is a bit of a coup if you weren’t already sure of that, and then a local, or occasionally from London, poet performs some of their stuff. All of this is held together in a funny yet poetical way by the lovely hostss Rosy Carrick and Mike Parker. Arguably amongst many of the club’s highlights since it’s birth have been during the legendary Open Mic slot which this month promises some real great highlights to treasure…

INDIE-POP WEEKENDER @ HORSE & GROOMS, OCTOBER 22nd-23rd What a delight this promises to be in what is probably the best boozer in Hanover. Don’t worry about them hills, it ain’t that far up Southover Street to make it an endurance test and when you get there you are sure to have a lot of fun. From 4-8 over the course of the weekend there is plenty of quiet, introspective indie-folk being played on acoustics but come night-fall we have the really great stuff and what a lineup it is. First up, the delicious Lovely Eggs who will be performing their gloriously twee indie in the vein of the mighty Vaselines, whilst we also have Brighton’s favourite ukulele duo in the shape of The Bobby McGee’s no less who if you haven’t heard yet, well where have you been all these years? Funny, angry and occasionally argumentative they always provide a barrelful of laughs as well as great music. What more could you want? Well you got, it’s free too and be sure to thank Pat for pulling this great event together! 6

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GUILLEMOTS Since their formation in 2004, The Guillemots have established themselves among the UKâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most established and arresting bands.

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MUSIC INTERVIEWS This month, to follow the release of their third album, Walk the River, they play The Old Market in Brighton as part of an extensive tour of the UK and across Europe. With new single I Don’t Feel Amazing Now released on 23 October, the foursome from Birmingham are set for more highs alongside existing success stories as Mercury Prize nominees and gold record selling artists. Chris Thom met with drummer Greig Stewart to find out what’s been happening, and what’s still to come… The new album, Walk The River, comes three years since the previous LP. Has it been in the process all this time and does a busy touring schedule take time away from being creative? It took over a year in total to complete. To begin with, in that time, we’d be getting together about four times a week to write together and discuss things. We needed it to be a laid back experience this time as our second album was a real push. Touring obviously keeps you busy but when the time came to record we were good and ready. The band went to Bryn Derwen Studios in Wales to record. Was this a conscious decision to get away and into a peaceful setting? It was a clear decision. When we recorded (second album) Red we did so in London. There were too many distractions and the potential for random acts of fun was rife! At Bryn Derwen we were situated around Snowdonia, the middle of nowhere basically. Our producer David Kosten knew it well and suggested it. It has a cottage on

the grounds so we set up base there. The nearest pub was an hours’ walk away. We made the trek a couple of times… There’s a lot of buzz around the upcoming new single, I Don’t Feel Amazing Now. Did you know immediately that it would be released and is this true of other singles? How involved does the label like to get? It can be a real dog fight, especially if there’s no obvious choice for a single. We didn’t feel there was any real clear option off the new album and this certainly makes it harder. Sometimes you can go around in circles and it can get quite political. There have been times though when it’s been a lot easier to spot one. We’re lucky with our label as they’ve never pressurized us into making a decision about making a release. The Guillemots have many previous successes to date; Mercury nominated, top ten albums, Fyfe’s critically acclaimed solo work. Does this weigh heavy on the mind when it comes to new material and is there pressure to recapture the highs? It can be in the back of your mind but we really try to avoid falling into that trap and getting sucked into thinking that way. If you let it creep up on you then you can end up chasing your own tale and all of a sudden perhaps you’re not enjoying anymore what you originally set out to do. The previous album had some good radio songs so yeah, I guess that really boosted our status, but you’ve got to keep an open mind at all times otherwise it’s just going to get in the way of the creative process. You do what you do and

try not to think about it I guess. Busy touring schedule this year as with other years. You have many shows in Europe. What are some of your favorite places to go to and where do you think you are best received? Amsterdam’s always good, we enjoy going back there. We seem to have played Paris and Barcelona a lot so I guess we’re doing something write out there. Next year we head out to South America and everyone’s pretty excited about that. Are there any other solo projects in place? For you, Fyfe or anyone else from the band? Yeah I’m often working on stuff, whether it’s co-writing with the band or other interests I have. I do a lot of DJ-ing and in recent years I’ve discovered a passion for dance music although not what you might pigeon-hole traditionally as dance music. I’m hoping to put together a really ambient sounding album of my own before too long. MC is very much involved in film making and is constantly working on stuff there and I’m sure Fyfe will be encouraged to build on the success of what he’s already done. Guillemots to play The Old Market on Mon 31st October New single I Don’t Feel Amazing Now released on 23rd October

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BRIGHTON OXJAM MUSIC FESTIVAL Brighton has one of the fastest growing and best live band scenes in the country at the moment, so when Oxjam announced their UK wide Takeover event is coming to Brighton on Sunday 23rd October, we got very excited about the prospect of 22 talented local bands performing in 4 different venues. Like a mini ‘Great Escape Festival’, you can buy a wristband for £7 in advance or grab an Early Bird ticket for £5 before 7th October. And with no Brighton Live this year, this is a welcome choice on the live music calendar whilst raising money for poverty stricken communities. Oxjam have also teamed up with TOMS Shoes who are kindly giving away customised pairs to winners on the night. Anyone volunteering or buying an Early Bird ticket is automatically entered into the draw, the shoes will all be customised by a local artist and handed out on the 23rd. We recommend seeing The Special K’s with their edgy indie-electro, synth driven pop. Kovak, another rising electro-pop outfit, with their supremely energetic stage presence and The Move On’s! displaying a diverse range of heavy riffs and atmospheric tones. Plus check out Raising Maise, What’s Your Vice?, Angels and Sailors and Bat Country, but don’t take our word for it, go out and see as much as you can! This will be the perfect way to spend a Sunday evening and with the amount of local talent on offer it’s definitely worth a venture! More info at www.facebook.com/oxjambrighton Get your tickets at www.wegottickets.com/oxjambrighton

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THE LINE UP

STICKY MIKES FROG BAR & BN1 MAGAZINE 4-10PM (18+) THE SPECIAL K’S WHAT’S YOUR VICE? FRANCLASSIC THE MOVE ONS! THE GOLDEN STRANDS BAT COUNTRY

THE HAUNT & JUICE 107.2 6-11PM (14+) KOVAK RAISING MAISE 900 SPACES FUTUREPROOF wonderful FOXES ROOMSERVICE DRISCOLL (DJ)

LATEST MUSIC BAR 5-9PM (14+) ANGELS & SAILORS IAN MARK BURZIO JONNY WHITE KIM SLADE DAISY HOWARD JOSHUA GLAVIN

GREEN DOOR STORE 5-9PM (18+) TALES OF GEORGE A DAY AT THE DOGS ROYAL BLOOD

Gigs in Brighton A SKYLIT DRIVE

POP WILL EAT ITSELF

SATURDAY 1ST OCTOBER

THURSDAY 20TH OCTOBER

CONCORDE 2

DAVID’S LYRE MAVERICK GREEN SABRE DOOR STORE

CONCORDE 2

SKEPTA

SUNDAY 16TH OCTOBER

BENJAMIN FRANCIS LEFTWICH

CHAPEL CLUB

MONDAY 24TH OCTOBER

FRIDAY 7TH OCTOBER

CONCORDE 2

KOMEDIA

SUNDAY 16TH OCTOBER

NME RADAR TOUR CONCORDE 2 MONDAY 17TH OCTOBER

ZION TRAIN KOMEDIA

WEDNESDAY 19TH OCTOBER

MECHANICAL BRIDE KOMEDIA

WEDNESDAY 19TH OCTOBER

SUNDAY 23RD OCTOBER

KOMEDIA

BAXTER DURY KOMEDIA

MONDAY 24TH OCTOBER

CHARLIE SIMPSON CONCORDE 2 FRIDAY 28TH OCTOBER

NATTY KOMEDIA

SUNDAY 30TH OCTOBER

MONA KOMEDIA

MONDAY 31ST OCTOBER

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RELENTLESS FREEZE FESTIVAL 2011 BY STUART ROLT

Once again there’ll be an enormous (and we do mean enormous, its 32m high and 100m long!) real-snow kicker and a line-up of some of the world’s best big air riders throwing themselves over it in the name of entertainment and glory. These extreme athletes aren’t fooling about in a meanspirited attempt to make us mere mortals feel inadequate though. There is more at stake than simple bragging rights, as this year’s event plays host to London’s leg of the LG Snowboard FIS World Cup and the International Freestyle Ski Big Air competitions. Both the triumphant 2010 World Cup Snowboard champion 12

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Marko Grilc and Ski 2010’s Big Air winner Jacob Wester will be returning to defend their hardwon titles. Challenging them for these crowns is an array of the best snow-bound athletes that this planet can provide. In-between the unadulterated exhilaration of the ramp sessions London Freeze provides some of the finest music talent around, and this year is no exception. Mike Skinner is set to perform his last ever (in all likelihood) London show as The Streets. As if that wasn’t special enough, fellow headliners, Groove Armada, will rocking up with their incredible decks ‘n’ FX

HEADING The festival season has almost drawn to a close, so once again it’s time to go out with a bang at London Freeze. This is The UK’s biggest snowsports and music festival held under the iconic chimneys of Battersea Power station over 28 - 29 October to bring together international snowboarders and skiers, coupled with several stages of leading edge music. Photography by Joshua Redfearn

stadium spectacular to wow the crowds. Putting an appearance is Brighton’s very own nicely turned out rap-scallions Rizzle Kicks. Also there’ll be vocal trickery from the much beloved Beardyman, the music geek’s music geek Zane Lowe, lively indie-kids Everything Everything and the rather awesome The Joy Formidable. Event sponsors Relentless Energy Drink will hosting their own Energy Sessions stage with a line-up that includes Does It Offend You, Yeah?, Pulled Apart By Horses, Modestep, Dirtyphonics and Fixers. As usual there will be huge array of world cuisine which should keep even the fussiest of palettes happy. Plus the retail village is set to return to provide seemingly endless wintersports orientated shopping

possibilities. If all this energetic outdoors lark proves too much, then a more clubby vibe is being ably provided at the on-site Aprés Ski Bar, where A-Skillz and Hat Club will be doing their best to get the party bouncing. This is, without doubt, going to be the biggest and best London Freeze yet. In fact, it’s probably the most fun you can have anywhere in a woolly hat without looking stupid or feeling plain weird. Yes, we’re excited. No, we won’t remember to take suitable clothing for a chilly night next to the Thanes. But it won’t matter. We can always rely on all that spinetingling entertainment to keep us warm.

FRIDAY 28TH AND SATURDAY 29TH OCTOBER, BATTERSEA POWER STATION, LONDON. TICKETS: £37 ONE DAY/£60 FOR BOTH. WWW.RELENTLESSFREEZE.COM

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ALBUM REVIEWS HOLLYWOOD ASSASSINS ‘Catwalk’ and ‘North West One’ both from the forthcoming album ‘The Garage Sessions’ Self-indulgence and pretentiousness are both common viruses infecting a lot of contemporary rock n’ roll bands. In amongst the 20 minute glory solos, over branding and investment strategies the almost insulting frankness of old-school rock seems to have been lost. Rather than shooting up smack on stage, these days you’re more likely to see a lead guitarist decanting a bottle of imported white beer into a frosted glass or calmly enjoying a post-gig chai latte. Thankfully not everyone has forgotten that songs are written to put something across. This is where Brighton-based five-piece rock n’ roll outfit Hollywood Assassins step up with straightup, pop structured, energetic post-punk rhythms that snarl out of your speakers. ‘North West One’ is a chirpy pop number with the kind of blue grass style guitar work John Fogerty would be proud of. Then we have ‘Catwalk’, a sinister and menacing foray into the perverted world of fame with a beat that sounds how a catwalk strut looks. These are refreshingly direct sounds which bode well for the rest of the album. JR

FLASH FIKTION ‘Flash Fiktion’ – The self-titled debut album out 19th September For the majority of us, feeding on s**t while locked in a dark basement would achieve very little else other than turning you into a mushroom. Luckily for the indie-pop electro trio Flash Fiktion, munching down on suspect kebab meat in a windowless room in South London helped them grow into something else entirely, a band. The self titled debut from Flash Fiktion is brimming with bass-heavy electronica beats, infectiously catchy synth work and razor sharp, 14

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WORDS BY JAMES ROWLAND & MARK EDE occasionally echoed drum loops. The production almost sounds a little Tom Vek-esque, but there is absolutely no shame in that aspect as it contributes to a very intriguing listen. Lead singer Matt Rokk describes the songs as ‘little stories based on real life events...like dreams or nightmares with no clear rules between reality and non-reality’. A dreamy, psychedelic undertone is almost ominously ever-present throughout this impressive debut record but never more so than during track 8, the aptly titled ‘Science of Sleep’. With towering recommendations from Radio 1 and XFM DJs alike, Flash Fiktion are definitely one to watch. JR

BIRDSEATINGBABY Right, let’s start by saying that any band that describes themselves as alt-classical prog-punk is asking for trouble. Maybe they are joking. Let’s hope so. The better news is the music is genuinely original and interesting. In fact, it’s music that is probably most accurately described as some sort of alt-classical prog-punk. Oh, hang on....er.. oh well. Fair enough. This new single ‘Through Ten Walls’, a forerunner to a new album for 2012, incorporates suitably fashionable gothic lyrics, no little drama, stirring dynamics and, yes, almost prog like fusion of rock-meets-classical use of piano, drums and string lines. The industry’s insistence on auto tuning everything could make the rather inconsistent pitching of the female voice an issue for some - I’m not advocating use of auto tuners, more simply getting the right take, perhaps. All of which mean this release has perhaps the sense of a demo rather than as a lovingly crafted piece. Which is a shame because this band definitely has something going on and the forthcoming album ‘Feast of Hammers’ scheduled for 2012 release - should be well worth checking out. ME

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MUSIC INTERVIEWS

BROOKE FRASER Worldwide acclaim is beckoning for Brooke Fraser. After scoring a #1 hit in her native New Zealand, she now finds herself touring Europe-wide in support of her most recent album Flags. A majestic soaring example of pure folk-pop, Flags has been a critical and commercial triumph. Just before jetting home to doubtlessly pick up a brace of gongs at the NZ Music Awards, she’s hitting Brighton’s Concorde 2. A good reason to give her gentle probing we thought. Tell us about the inspirations for the new album. I was so desperate to write and the material seemed so stubbornly elusive that I was basically snatching frantically at the air for months on end trying to trap any inspiration I possibly could. Mortality and people’s relationship with the land ended up being the two chief informers I would say. It seems like more collaborations are occurring between major artists nowadays. Is this right, and if so, how would you explain this? I don’t think there are more now than there have ever been. Art begets art and I think collaboration has been a natural and probably inevitable reoccurence as long as humans have been creating, building, thinking. There seems to be an enormous surge of popularity for folk-based music in the UK re-

cently. Is this the same all over the world? Or is the UK simply catching up with the rest of the planet? I think every action will have an equal and opposite reaction. From what I hear in taxis and airports, pop radio seems to have violently disintegrated over the past decade. There are lots of “tracks”... not that many “songs”. People want tracks for entertainment but need songs for survival - melodies, stories, sanctuaries. Perhaps that goes some way to explaining or perhaps I’m just talking out of my behind. How would you describe your music to my grandmother? “You know Elvis Presley? Not like that.” (Note: I love Elvis Presley. I just don’t sound anything like him.) What was the last song you listened to? …and what will probably be the next? Last song I listened to was an M83 song that my band were playing over and over in the green room. The next will probably be a song from Laura Marling’s new record “A Creature I Don’t Know”. Who would you consider the most underrated musician around today?

Sufjan Stevens and/or Laura Marling. Laura’s new record is blowing my mind. Though they are highly rated now... I think it’s nothing compared to what they’ll give us in the next decade. Do you think music can be a force for good? Absolutely. Your blog and Twitter feeds are often highly entertaining. Are these simply promotional tools to you, or are they fulfilling an irresistible urge to share your thoughts and experiences? Firstly, thank you. Secondly, I took some convincing to get a Twitter account, but over the past couple of years it’s proven undeniably useful. Though once my ‘Brooke Fraser’ public life subsides, I will happily sink back into anonymity and oblivion. What do you like to do when you get some time to yourself? If I’m on the road, I like to go for a walk, find a cafe and read quietly. If I’m at home, I like to find some new recipes and bake/ cook the day away. Who is the most admirable person you’ve been compared to, musically or otherwise? Postman Pat. Just kidding. But I have had his theme song stuck in my head all day. What’s next for you? Have you got any interesting projects lined up for 2012? A couple of final tours for “Flags”, time off (fingers crossed) and then writing writing writing for album #4. Catch Brooke Fraser on Monday 4th October at Concorde2.

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THE BRIGHTON COMEDY FESTIVAL AN INTRODUCTION WITH STUART ROLT

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Fighting off the onset of Seasonal Affective Disorder and worries about the crappy state of the economy is getting tougher. Luckily the Brighton Comedy Festival is coming in October to help us through these darkening times.

COMEDY The organisers of this year’s festival are brightly squeezing some of the freshest and finest comedians available into a solidly packed fortnight of mirth and mayhem. But with such a huge diary of events it’s only fair that we try to pick out some of the prime comedy cuts just for you.

MICKY FLANAGAN One of the shining lights on this list is professional cockney geezer Micky Flanagan, who brings his Out Out show to the Brighton Dome on Thur 20th. Mr Flanagan has been collecting plaudits and sold-out shows by the bucket-load recently. Maybe it’s because he’s a Londoner.

MARGARET CHO Renaissance woman Margaret Cho will be gracing the Dome on Sun 16th October. This Grammy nominated (and star of Face-Off) comedienne will be telling us how she did things her way, and of what the ensuing consequences were.

THE PHIL JUPITUS QUARTET

Rock steady improv is going to be delivered from the Phil Jupitus Quartet. Billed as: “Adult content, delivered childishly.” This show features some seasoned performers, all throwing themselves at the mercy of audience suggestions on Sat 8th October at the Dome.

JEREMY HARDY

A staple of various Radio 4 comedy shows, Jeremy Hardy will find his left-leaning ideologies going down a storm in front of a Brighton crowd at the Corn Exchange on Tue 11th Oct. but even if you don’t view politics in the same way it’s hard

to disagree with his razor sharp observations.

ALEX HORNE Alex Horne is promising to recreate your entire life in one hour. I’m hoping he won’t mention a certain unfortunate incident I had in Amsterdam back in 2002. The only way to be sure is to check this unorthodox show at the Pavilion Theatre on Wed 12th.

BRIDGET CHRISTIE The wonderfully stupid/ bizarre Bridget Christie joyfully confuses the Pavilion Theatre on Thurs 13th. After previously being supported by an ant, this self-styled Housewife Surrealist is one of the more imaginative comedians at the festival. This year she is being verdantly supported by Britain’s only weed comic.

SHOWSTOPPER! Showstopper! has been playing the city to much acclaim for a few years now and as part of the festival this improvised musical is hitting the stage at the Corn Exchange on Fri 14th. Created from audience suggestions and performed in a capricious and hilarious manner it’s easy to see why this show is loved so much.

RICH HALL Rich Hall comes to town to sullenly share with us what makes him angry on Fri 14th at the Corn Exchange. There doesn’t seem to be much in the world that impresses this grumpy Yank, but when you view the world through his eyes you have to admit the guys got a point.

Idiot savant Joe Pasquale might just be the person to lead the country out of these dark times. Then again probably not, but even if he’d made things worse you’d still forgive him. Witness this greatly misunderstood genius on Tue 18th at the Corn Exchange as he performs his Pull My Finger show.

LATE NIGHT GIMP FIGHT Late Night Gimp Fight are possibly the most under-rated ensemble comedy act around today (2011 Chortle Award Win excepted). These lads irreverent cheeky quick-fire send-up of current events is consistently fabulous. Surely it can only be a matter of time before they get given a TV show to display their talents on a bigger scale.

ROUND–UP Other acts gracing the festival include the now-ubiquitous Jack Whitehall, cake-expert Sarah Millican, Ed Byrne, Reginald D Hunter, Zoe Lyons and the mighty Paul Daniels. For the lazy or indecisive there are regular Best of the Fest nights at the Dome’s concert hall, which promise to serve up the cream of the crop from the festival diary with a different guest compere each night.

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WE LIKE HIM..... ....QUITE A LOT. BN1 MEETS PAUL DANIELS BN1 – Paul, you’re the picture of longevity and something of a national treasure. A little like Brucie – what’s the secret of these lengthy careers – it can’t just be about a memorable catchphrase, surely? PD – It sounds like you want me stuffed and put in the V&A! The secret to longevity is to keep breathing.....no, really I just enjoy myself, as does Bruce. I’m really just getting paid to play with my toys. You know, my mother was 95 last week and is still going strong. Bad news that is for audiences, I’m going to be around a lot longer. BN1 – The catchphrase (“You’ll like it....but not a lot”) came from pretty early on in your career didn’t it? PD – Yes, it was actually first used in Bradford where I was performing to a working mens club. Some fella in the crowd shouted “I don’t like your suit”, and me being a big mouth responded “That’s a shame, I like yours.............but not a lot”. It just kind of stuck from there really, and it’s even part of dictionary slang now. BN1 – So how do we describe Paul Daniels these days? Entertainer, magician, comedian, all-rounder? PD – International sex symbol and bodybuilder...... 20

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Ahead of what some might feel is a somewhat surprising appearance at the Brighton Comedy Festival, BN1’s Andy Hollis braved naked pictures of Debbie McGee and the threat of a rerun of Wife Swap to tackle Paul Daniels as to what spell he’s expecting to cast on his audience this time

At this point BN1 takes a deep breath, tries to stop the images in its brain, and mops it’s proverbially fevered brow..... BN1 – The Paul Daniels Magic Show ran from 1979 through to 1994 – it was a staple family show for much of the 80’s, but it’s popularity dipped in the early 90’s. Why do you think that was? PD – No, no. It didn’t actually lose popularity. It was a BBC thing. It’s a policy that Bruce Forsythe actually pointed out. You get the Programme Controller and if a programme is popular he can’t change it at all which impacts their ego. So they start changing the times of the programme so people think “Oh, it’s not on this week”. They did that with my show deliberately. Alan Yentob lost the BBC customers and we then make him a Lord! How did that happen? He was only interested in the arts and classical programmes and he deliberately broke down the BBC viewing figures......he said once that I didn’t like him because he sacked me. Not true. I didn’t like him before that......! BN1 – The culture of celebrity really began to kick in during the 90’s and the image conscious generation of television started. What’s your take on

the David Blane’s and Derren Brown’s who sit at the forefront of magic on TV now? PD – Blane is brilliant for the studios. You just stick him on the street and you don’t need to pay a studio cost. That’s why the stations like him. Did you know, the BBC are getting rid of Blue Peter because they can’t afford the studio. Appalling! Look at the popular shows now – we’ve got wall to wall cookery and house making programmes. They’re cheap – that’s why we have them – there’s no set. The accountants are now running the show. They’re not getting the viewing figures on Derren or David’s shows now you know. Mind you, Derren has a great live show. You should try and get to his live shows for sure. BN1 – You’ve really trod the televisual boards since – from X Factor through to Strictly, Louis Theroux and even Wife Swap. What was your favourite experience? PD – I don’t really have favourites. I enjoy the range of doing these things. I even acted in plays just because it’s a different thing to do and it pushes me. I left my 9-5 job so I could work in these theatres, arenas and halls. I love my life, I really do. BN1 – Does it frustrate you then

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when people sneer at that – it’s a UK thing to do, we feel uncomfortable around other people’s happiness. PD – The national press, well they like to have a pop at the fact that me and Debbie are happily married. If they concentrated more on happy marriages there’d probably be far less problems. I see nothing wrong in promoting a good life. BN1 – Is there anything you regret doing? PD – No. There’s no point. I don’t look back. BN1 – You were awarded the prestigious Magician of the Year by the Hollywood Academy – the first person outside of the US to do so. Does it frustrate you that perhaps your magic isn’t taken as seriously as it should be? PD – That was an honour and a

half, I tell you. Magic as a whole is what it always was. Some people don’t like to be fooled. I actually don’t like the term “fool us” – I want to baffle people and make them laugh. It’s a peculiarity – when you’re growing up you instinctively love magic. Then in your later teens your brain remembers you loved it as a kid so you think it’s just for kids when it really, really isn’t. Once you get over 25 you start to like it again. BN1 – One of the real eye openers in your autobiography was you claim to have had sexual relations with more than 300 women.......that was some going seeing as you’ve been married twice!? PD – No, no, it was only 300 because on some nights I was busy!!!! No, you mustn’t take that out of context. That was spread over 20 years touring

town to town. There was one night stands everywhere. They were different times. It would be barmy to do that now with HIV. AS soon as the pill became popular, women started to do all the things they said were disgusting about men – well, I didn’t want to disappoint! BN1 – Does Anne Robinson still dislike you ? PD – I do hope so! BN1 – So just to conclude, moving on to the show “Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow” – what should we expect to see in Brighton? PD – Well it should be very interesting and great fun. It’s an 80 minute, continuous show. There’s no interval. It’s mad and funny. People used to laugh at Tommy Cooper when he got things wrong. People laugh at me when I get it right.............

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TOM STADE Edinburgh-based, but Canadian-born, comic Tom Stade incredulously highlights the more esoteric aspects of British daily life in his routines. Now in great demand after some exceptional TV appearances, including a collaboration on Frankie Boyleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s infamous Tramadol Nights, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s coming to town soon as part of the Brighton Comedy Festival 2011. Stuart Rolt phoned for a chat.

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BN1: So how you doing today? TS: Yeah, today’s good. I woke up, so I can fix everything I screwed up yesterday. We’ll find who’s angry and get those people on the horn. Sorted. BN1: How did you end up being a comedian? TS: My dad was one of the biggest comedy fans ever. I was really into all the comedians who were big when I was young, but I never thought I was going to be one. I thought I was going to be more of an actor. But when I was 17 and somebody paid me $50 to go on stage I thought: “Yeah! Let’s do this! Let’s drop out of school and go for it.” BN1: How does Canada compare to Scotland? TS: For one they don’t put Coke in their whiskey. I’m surprised there’s not a riot every day. It’s a little grey and I’m a little scared to wear a T=shirt with any kind of colour on it, but it’s good, I love hanging out with the Scots. They get me. BN1: Have you been playing the Edinburgh festival? TS: We’ve a sold-out run. I’m more surprised than anyone by it. I didn’t think any people knew who the heck I was, but they’ve been turning up in droves. I’m enjoying it while it lasts, because I know that showbusiness can stop this car pretty fast. “This is as far as we’re can take you. We’re done now; it’s on to the next guy…” People come because of what they’ve seen on the BBC One shows. But the BBC sanitises it so they don’t get any letters. You go into the club and you’ve got your free speech back. You

can’t have that on TV because kids don’t swear. The kid who spoke to me the other night was pretty polite. I loved his language. BN1: Who are your favourite comedians? TS: I’ve got a lot. I like Sean Walsh, he’s absolutely fantastic. My buddy Craig Campbell is a really funny man. If you need a famous guy I could probably hit on Rich Hall. He’s one of the guy’s that I think is a pure genius. Everybody’s a genius in their own way. If you can tap into the one thing you’re good at then you’re a genius. Everybody’s got that one spark to them. It can take a whole life to work that out, because they get chucked into the system. They need workers in different sectors. BN1: Do you find you’re getting service in shops nowadays? TS: I went to Specsavers and the manager knew who I was and gave me my glasses for free. I guess they were thinking: “Hey! If I give this guy his glasses for free we’ll get some promo for it.” So now we’re even.

some crazy stuff like that. Do everything you’re not supposed to do that’s my motto. BN1: You’ve been to Iraq and Afghanistan though? TS: I was there when it was heated. Now it’s pretty tame. It’s not the war it once was. Everybody’s used to the army walking around now. The army guys are the best audiences because they’ve got such a dark sense of humour. They’ve seen a lot of pain. If you don’t laugh at pain then you’re screwed. BN1: What projects are you working on? TS: I stick to one thing at a time. I’ve three months, ahead of me, of touring. After the tour I’ll figure out what I want to do. I want to do a baking class. I want to learn how to make chocolate fudge properly. Tom Stade is appearing at Brighton Dome on Thu 13th October. www.brightondome.org/events

BN1: Have you got a bucket list? If so what’s on it? TS: I’ve done everything I’ve wanted to do. Now I just want to die. That’s a terrible bucket list. You’re supposed to say skydiving or go hang out in Nepal or something No, I want to see as much of the world as I possibly can, that’s about it from me. I want to get in a van and go and hang out with the Taliban. Find out what they’re thinking. Go and do

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REGINALD D HUNTER INTERVIEW BY STUART ROLT Succeeding in being both laid-back and abrasive at the same time, the effortlessly charismatic Reginald D. Hunter is one of the funniest and possibly one of the most complicated comedians around at the moment. With inflammatory gig posters being banned in many towns and a multitude of polemic views on several sensitive issues, it’s easy to dismiss the Deep South born Hunter as just another bawdy, loud-mouthed comedian. But that would be somewhat short sighted. The truth is he adeptly uses his vociferous brand of comedy to expose aspects of the zeitgeist that rarely get considered. Due to swagger into town as part of the Brighton Comedy Festival this month, Stuart Rolt caught up with him for a chat Entirely on his terms, obviously. BN1: Your Wikipedia page says you got into British culture after being introduced to Leo McKern, is this true? RDH: I never met Leo McKern, I just got introduced to some of his work. There’s affection, but I have a curiosity about anything I don’t know about. I think sometimes newspapers need to print stuff succinctly and they might lose the full meanings sometimes. British culture is great. How about that? BN1: What are your impressions of Brighton? RDH: Lovely seaside. I find that wherever there is a thriving gay community the food and 24

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clothing apparel seems to improve automatically. I think that if I was to move anywhere in the world, I’d find out where the gay community was and get to that city, just to ensure myself fine clothing and nice food. And safe streets, gay people don’t have a lot of fools in their neighbourhoods, they shut that shit down. If I had kids and they had to walk to school every day I’d say: “Walk through that gay neighbourhood, noone’s going to bother you”. BN1: What’s it like viewing Britain from the other side of the pond? RDH: I don’t think anyone else in the world is as concerned about their perception around the world as British people. They think you’re great, they think you’re all smart. They think you can quote Shakespeare at the drop of a hat. The British accent is tremendous social currency. It’s the most recognisable accent in the world. You can be anywhere in the world, and you’ll hear: “I beg your pardon?” and everyone turns their heads thinking: “Oh shit. We’re about to get some results!” BN1: Do you want to tell us about the new show? RDH: No.

BN1: OK. Is there a particular theme in your current show? RDH: Yes. BN1: What might that theme actually be then? RDH: Everybody wants to know shit before they know shit. I’m starting to really disagree with the philosophy of movie trailers. When I go to the movies I try to know as little as possible about it. I turn up, I pick one and I sit down and think: “Just tell me a story. Don’t wank it up. Just tell me a fucking story.” I found that one of the reasons I didn’t enjoy movies quite as much in the last few years is that I had too much of a preconception about them. Trailers tell you too much. I can tell you what my shows going to be about. But I might just change my mind. BN1: You never thought of doing voice-overs for film trailers yourself? You’re almost touching on Red Fox with your voice. RDH: I’ve never thought about it. I don’t know how someone would be ambitious with something like that. Depending on the film... of course. I wouldn’t want to be doing the voice over for Bridgett Jones or anything. BN1: What do you think you’d be doing if you hadn’t taken up comedy? RDH: There’s absolutely no way of telling that kind of thing. I might be working in an office somewhere. I might be selling sperm and blood, who knows. I did the blood part, and I was just about to start selling sperm when I got my first gig. So I thought: “We’ll see how this is going to go.”

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BN1: I don’t know about using a magazine someone else has already thumbed through. RDH: Hey man, It don’t matter when you’re eating that sausage pasty later and you’re going: “Mmm, man. I’m so glad I’m eating!” BN1: You’ve been described in a lot of quarters as being “cool”, have you a personal definition of what cool is? RDH: Anybody can be cool. All being cool is being natural. You got to be natural. There are a lot of things in a world that are trying to convince us not to be natural. Using accents that don’t fit us, trying to be witty and have the last word. When you try to pretend and trying to always present to people, who don’t even give a shit, you

can’t be natural. Anybody who is natural, they aren’t trying to be anything extra, they aren’t trying to prove nothing, but they don’t feel bad about themselves either. I don’t care what your colour is, or if you got food, or if you’re walking around barefoot... Anybody who is natural is easy to be around and is quite sexy, no matter how nonsensically their features might be arranged. BN1: So it’s not something you can teach? RDH: All you have to do is just leave people alone. Stop fucking with them from the time their born about conforming. Stop fucking with them about getting a job or a career before they fully understand what those things are. You know

when you’re sitting with your friends and you all ‘aint doing much. You’re just calm and you take your time saying things. When you feel like that, that’s natural. How do you take that feeling and put it other areas of your life. If you can be natural in your work and around everybody else, that’s cool. Cool is just another word for natural. That’s how it is. You’re not trying to be something, or prove something. You’re content just standing in that moment, not proving a goddam thing, and if anybody don’t like that… you just accept it. Reginald D Hunter brings his Sometimes Even the Devil Tells the Truth show to the Brighton Dome on Sat 15th October.

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FRESHERS GUIDE The annual migration of tens of thousands of newly hatched freshers to Brighton has piqued the interest of many illustrious botanists, bottomists and zootologists. BN1’s resident herbologist Professor David Lessenborough, from the Royal Society of Fauna and Flora, gives us a scientific insight into one of Brighton’s most beautiful, and gut-wrenchingly sickening, spectacles: the transformation of laid-back beach town into student hell-hole. “The life of the common or garden Brighton student is morally dubious, hygienically questionable, and chemically unsustainable. Individually pathetic, their herd mentality and boorish conformity makes them a favourite target of alcohol peddlers and predatory club promoters (more colourfully known as dickheads to Brighton’s cynical and world-weary twenty and thirty-something office drones and wage gimps1). The symbiotic relationship between them sustains almost 50% of Brighton’s diverse socioeconomicnightlifebiosphere. Despite their oleaginous homogeneity, however, there exist a number of distinct and readily identifiable groupings, or ‘cliques’, which are known to display different patterns of movement, recreation, copulation and regurgitation throughout the city. The widely despised sporting crowd show the least individual autonomy, and rarely venture from their natural habitat of the student union bar into the city proper. Unless, that is, some tenuously themed, successive visitation of different venues, more simply known as a “crawl”, has been arranged by some halfwit union enthusiast. Such an event always reflects said

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enthusiast’s need to compensate for their lack of personality through the planning and organising of spontaneously fun events for newly arrived students too fearful of non-integration to voice any indication of dissent. 2 The crawl itself is as tedious as its name suggests: an overlong celebration of inebriation, in which all the Brighton venues that open their doors, and toilet stalls, to these loud and inconsiderate ne’er-do-wells become interchangeable, indistinguishable backdrops to the sport crowd’s collective catharsis. To this particular type of student that backdrop, whether she finds herself listening to experimental hip hop in Riki Tiks, playing IT Box in the Pav Tav, being leered at by desiccated perverts in Wetherspoons on West Street, or stumbling home from Honey Club at sunrise with fried chicken bones in her hair and liquorice vodka bombs dripping from her nostrils, is immaterial. What counts is the theme of the evening – usually golf, for the obvious reason that the successive filling of nameless holes while equipped with small balls is a metaphor of blistering parity for the lives of rugby and football team members.

The other large sub group which invades Brighton on a cyclical basis is actually a composite group, and its methods of infiltration are less blatant, more insidious and equally flatulent. Consisting of the privileged hippy-crite, the earnest drama whore and the futuristic electro pirate, these burgeoning stalwarts of Brighton’s pretentious elite can be found at a greater variety of city hotspots than their sporting colleagues. Despite their equal vacuity and obsession with the venereal urgencies of daily life, these

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students like to fabricate an air of sophistication to distinguish them from their mainstream counterparts. While females may be found swapping knitted-condom patterns at coffee dens such as the Mock Turtle and Marwood Cafe, the male members of the species can often be found waxing philosophical on such profound topics as the categorical imperative of using ejaculate as a 100% natural conditioner for dreadlocks in one of the city’s 400 bars or pubs. Mating rituals among this

group are more ostensibly complex than those present within the pub golf system. In the darkly illuminated sound caves of the Volks, Concorde 2 and Komedia, elaborate courtship dances take place to a cornucopia of musical acts and artists capitalising on Brighton’s captive, ever bored and always frivolous student population. Whether wealthy technoaristo, intellectual indie snob or crusading perpetual do-gooder, all recent students to the town engage in the annual Gull Hunt on the 13th Wednesday of the

second lunar phase of the first term. For years, it has been possible, from the tops of certain buildings, to see the freshers emerging from the base of the West Pier, excited eyes a-glimmer, mouths blood-crusted and anticipatory, fresh from a crisp October night of illegal seagull clubbing. It is one of nature’s most awesome and noble rites of passage, and should be a staple of any nature-lover’s calendar.” By John. Ex-student, full time tax payer. bn1magazine.co.uk

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Originally scheduled for July, the organisers of Shakedown must have been pinching themselves for delaying it until September. Whatever their reason, they found themselves with two of their headline acts dominating the charts.

Ed Sheeran was playing his last festival of the year on the eve of his first No 1 album and Example was similarly enjoying huge success. Together with bill-toppers Razorlight, they were responsible for attracting some 10,000 revellers to Stanmer Park. Not the easiest location to get to, the site was surprisingly small for a festival and, it has to be said, ridiculously under facilitised for the numbers present: a feature of the day were the permanently long queues for the toilets (even in the so-called VIP area). Despite this inconvenience, everyone seemed to be in good spirits. Indeed, the good-humored atmosphere was one of the event’s highlights. Whilst an array of name DJs pulled a big audience to the dance stage, for most people the main attraction was a small ginger-haired guy from Halifax. Ed Sheeran’s come a long way since his last appearance in Brighton. As recently as May, he was supporting The View at Concorde 2 during The Great Escape. Some four months on, he was topping the charts after a summer playing the festival circuit. With his new found fame, he could do no wrong in front of an adoring audience. He had them in the palm of his hand, singing along to infectious songs like ‘You Need Me’ and ‘The A Team’ as if he and they had been around for years. Although third on the bill, given his extraordinarily rapid rise to fame, Sheeran could well have headlined Shakedown. Following him on the main stage was Elliot Gleave, arguably the only British act that’s

currently as hot. If the name’s not familiar, it’s because he’s better known as Example (E.G. being an abbreviation for exampli gratia) Riding high in the charts with two chart-topping singles and his third album going straight to No 1, just like Sheeran, Example’s last visit to Brighton was as part of The Great Escape. Drawing mainly from his excellent ‘Playing In The Shadows’ album, the London rapper’s storming high energy set was also worthy of a headline act. For me, he was the highlight of Shakedown, so much so that when the heavens opened I decided that (to quote Example) ‘play time was over’ and headed out of Stanmer Park. The trade off for avoiding the inevitable queues for the shuttle buses was I missed Razorlight, although in all honesty, I never felt they were a band worthy of topping the bill. If Shakedown can keep attracting artists at the top of their trajectory, it could well establish itself as Brighton’s summer closing party. But next time they really need to flush out more toilets and improve the site access. As I drove past the shiny new Amex Stadium, with the sounds of Shakedown still reverberating in the air, I couldn’t help but think this is where next year’s festival needs to be held. Review and image by Gary Marlowe bn1magazine.co.uk

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ANGEL FOOD BAKERY It’s not just the taste, it’s the care that goes into them. The most incredible, mouth-wateringly delicious cakes are given birth to upon the worktops of Angel Food Bakery, 12 Brighton Square.

You wouldn’t know whether to eat them or put them on the wall. Sweet, exciting, colourful and unique: baked with an obvious adoration for cookery and topped with a creative flare that goes beyond your typical icing on the cake. The eye-catching culinary skill of the swirly buttercream crowned with sprinkles, chocolate flakes and miniature roses makes passersby stop at the window to take pictures. For Hannah Davis, it’s just a typical day at work. 30

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Situated in the heart of The Lanes, it’s clear that the bakery boasts the finest cupcakery in Brighton and beyond. Lucky for us, there’s Angel Food kitchen; a workspace for those eager to learn tricks of the trade from the expert herself. Perfect for bakers of all backgrounds and abilities (usually I’m a beans on toast kind of girl) the baking and decorating classes take you through all the steps you need to get a dessert that says more than just ‘scoff me’.

One of thirteen on offer, the Cupcake Baking and Décor class offers a unique insight into the culinary work that goes into each delicious cupcake. Sharing secret, inside info behind the baking process, we learnt how to create the perfect sponge mix and buttercream frosting, before Hannah took to the cupcake-stage to show us how it’s really done, décorwise. Dunking her knife into the pink coloured buttercream, she turns the cupcake 360 degrees beneath the frosting before a quick flick of the wrist creates the buttery twirl on top: pure excellence. Presented with 12 nude cupcakes, it was time for me to dress them. Intimidated…? Of course not. With Hannah on hand for your every need, there’s no way my frosting was going to avalanche. Filling the piping bag with peanut butter flavoured frosting, it was easy to follow her instructions and recreate one of the swirl patterns she had demonstrated. Choosing from the generous assortment of toppings in front was more than just good old fashioned fun. Bringing out creativity in each of us, it was clear that the entire class was lost in some kind of cupcake heaven. From the crunchy texture of red, yellow and blue stars to a sprinkling of glitter on top, I really had no idea what I was doing before I entered her class. Walking out with 12 mounted cupcakes, each a marvel in itself, was an achievement not to mention a conversation starter carrying them across town. From cupcake décor to ‘fluff’ whoopie pies, the Angel Food Bakery really does open the door to some of the most beautiful baking in Brighton. Now,

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So pleased to hear Shakedown went well and congratulations to those that had the 1) foresight 2) luck to book current chart toppers Ed Sheeran and Example, to say nothing of the other acts on offer. My spies tell me it was a very well organised and enjoyable event which the weather did little to dampen. Some commentators are predicting a grim outlook for festivals generally but I know plans are already advanced in respect of a new and improved Meadowlands festival for 2012 so we remain hopeful that Brighton, at least, can keep the flag flying on a number of festival fronts; fingers crossed anyhow. That said, it’s disappointing that Brighton Live - a great, long standing institution supporting ‘grass roots’ music - has announced that its traditional October event plans have had to be postponed - and rather alarmingly last minute it seems - but they say they hope to have better news soon, with a view to doing something in January. We wait to see. All in all, the economic climate is going to put pressure on all event organisers with commercial support, sponsors and ticket sales all potentially harder to find, so I do empathise with people out there still trying to fight the good fight!. I’m in firm agreement with those who believe Brighton is

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undoubtedly something of a bubble - a very nice bubble, don’t get me wrong - but I think it’s sometimes healthy to journey up the A23, or venture one way or the other, along the A27 to get a wider perspective. This is particularly true in relation to the music scene. I’m still concerned to see how difficult it is for new and emerging bands to get decent gigs, under decent terms and conditions, in London, for example. As someone with experience on both sides of the fence, I’d suggest this can be a much more complex issue than the sometimes believed case of exploitation of unscrupulous ‘pay to play’ promoters - very many promoters are simply music enthusiasts on the side of the artists - but difficult it can be, nonetheless. All of which leads to me to think the set up at the famous Bedford in Balham, South West London, is one to examine for both artists and music lovers alike. The quality of the music on offer is generally outstanding - there is a long line of established artists who have graced the stage on their rise to the top - most gigs are broadcast on the web,

the facilities good and it’s normally free to see. Rather nearer to home I’m also very impressed by the facilities at the Ropetackle Arts Centre down the road in Shoreham. Talking to friends and business colleagues, I’m surprised at how few have actually visited the venue. For me, the facilities for both audience and performer’s are excellent and the venues booking policy is equally impressive, offering an imaginative mix of household names from international music world of rock, soul, blues, jazz, country and folk, alongside perennial local favourites (take a bow Herbie Flowers!) and emerging artists, balanced with good support of the local scene. Comedy, theatre and talks are also weaved into the stimulating programme of events, appealing to a wide and varied array of tastes and age ranges. By and large, the programming is rarely anything other than first class. All in all, the venue is a veritable jewel in the crown. So, enjoy the many delights of our fair, favoured City, dear reader, but hope to bump into you up the road sometime too perhaps! Until next time, keep it steady.

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OCTOBER LISTINGS SATURDAY 1ST

Ancient Mariner - The Acoustic Sessions Tracy Sullivan 8PM Above Audio - Warehouse Black Grass Collective’s Mex Free B4 12 Audio - Warehouse Reset! 11PM £5/£7 Belushi’s Bar - Unplugged Rocket Dogs live acoustic duo plus DJ 9PM Belushi’s Below - Deviant Rock & Metal 9PM £2/£5 Black Lion - Soul Casserole Rare underground groove, raw funk, Latin Jazz & upfront funky beats 9PM Blind Tiger Club - Malarki & Support 7PM £2 Brunswick - Yoga Lessons 9:30AM £5 Coalition - Elastic, Charles Green, Milton, George Nunn & Guests 11PM £5 Concorde 2 - Lout Pres A Skylit Drive plus I Set My Friends On Fire 7PM £10adv Concorde 2 - Launch Night Of Heroes - Brighton Carl Barat, The Valentines, The Big Pink, Teen Creeps, Heroes DJS 11PM £10/£12 Digital - Pussycat Club ‘Live & Unleashed’ 11PM £5/£8/£10 Doctor Brightons - Sexy Saturday DJ Tony B from 9:30PM open 1PM Easy Bar - Frenglish Connection & Dj RudeBen 8PM Exchange Pub - Live Rugby World Cup England v Scotland 8:30AM Fiddler’s Elbow - Saturday Sizzlers Russ Rockwell - Spins Funk Rock Psych Soul, 45s, Breaks & Beats 9PM FishBowl - Jeff Daniels Black music, deep & soulful vibes, random vintage nuggets 9PM Fortune Of War - Ed’s Party Feat Mufflewuffle, Foolish Felix & Nick The Record 9PM Globe - Basement Party Brighton’s worst kept secret basement party turns 2 9PM Honey Club - Hat Club Pascal Tokar, Jerry Roxx, Damien Stone & Vince Frimpong 10:30PM

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£5/£8/£10 Hope - Drugs, A Day At The Dogs, Tyrannosaurus Dead, Glass Sines, Bat Country and Jackals 8PM £3/£4 Hydrant - 999 & Support 7:30PM £10 Hydrant - Devil Wrays, Johnny & the Deatherays & more 8PM Komedia - Little Red A show full of colour, music and enchantment 2PM & 4PM £6.50/£8.50 Komedia - Fosters Krater Comedy Club Addy van der Borgh, Dave Johns and Tom Rosenthal with MC Stephen Grant 7PM, 8PM & 10:30PM £25 (meal deal) /£18 Komedia - The Maydays your very own stories and secrets turned into comedy before your eyes 7:30PM £6/£8 Komedia - CBGBs Expect Sonic Youth, Talking Heads, Black Flag, Patti Smith, Television and more! 11PM £3 (Studio) Lola Lo - Zombie Nation DJ Scott Kirby 8PM £6/£7/£10 Marlborough - Cherry Pop A night of cheesy tunes 9PM Mesmerist - Juke Joint Jamboree Taking you back to the dancehalls of New Orleans 9PM Blind Tiger Club - BnW’s The Free For All Screama Ballerina, Written in Waters, The Gypsy Switch & More 8PM Blind Tiger Club - BnW’s The Free For All After Party Resident Audio Visual DJ’s Breakin Bear 12AM Sallis Benney Theatre - The Drawing Circus A day of themed life drawing. Nude and costumed models 1PM £22/£10adv Riki Tik - Schtumm! Neal Lewis & Sam Watts 9PM Sidewinder - Garet Stephens (Askew) Soulful, funky, eclectic 9PM Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar - Mauer Kunts visual stimulation 5PM Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar - Drink in Brighton Pres Polarsets & Guests 7PM £5

Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar - Punk Rock Karaoke 11PM £5 The Prince Albert - Loudaphone, Das Fenster & Support 8:30PM £3/£4 Thomas Kemp - Dj Night DJ Bianca 9PM Three and Ten - Red Brick Comedy Club Romesh, Ranganathan, Robin Buckland, Lloyd Griffiths, Josh Howie 10PM £8/£10 West Hill - ‘As You Were’ vs Bitter Disko 9PM Victory - Up Against it BORN BAD DJs Volks - Auxilliary DNB Pres Distorted Minds, Majistrate, Callide & more 11PM £5

SUNDAY 2ND

LISTINGS chilled beats Globe - Rockoustic Open Jam Open mic jam showcasing local talent, anyone is free to join in! 9PM Honey Club - Sundays at The Honey DJ Lil Alex & guests play Sexy, funky house & Party music 11PM £2/£3 Hope - Track3 Promotions Pres High Hopes, These City Lights, Decodes & more 7:30PM £3 Hydrant - Steady Man Band, Breath, Chris Moon 8PM Komedia - Bent Double 7:30PM £18(meal deal)/£10.50 Komedia - Short Fuse Brighton’s premier short fiction cabaret showcase presents 7:30PM £5 Komedia - Fosters Krater Comedy Club Addy van der Borgh, Dave Johns and Tom Rosenthal with MC Stephen Grant 8PM £18,50 (meal deal) /£11.50 Leconfield - Boozy Bingo Bingo without a blue rinse in sight 6PM £1 p game/ 6 for £5 Lola Lo - Encore Launch Night student night 9PM £3/£4/£5 Marlborough - Pop-Up-Sunday Pres An acoustic evening with Andrea Kenny 7PM Sallis Benney Theatre - World Sacred Music Festival Sain Zahoor 7:30PM £12/£15 Signalman - Open Mic Night All performers, musicians & styles welcome 8:15PM The Prince Albert - The Razorblades & Support 8PM £5 Thomas Kemp - Jazz in the Afternoon Jazz Quartet 4PM Volks - Chiki Liki Tua Slovakian Band 8PM £5

MONDAY 3RD

Ancient Mariner - Quiz Night Cash prizes for 1st, 2nd, 3rd & 2nd to last place teams 8PM £1 each, plus £1 per team Above Audio - Banana Island International Student Party open to everyone £2 Belushi’s Bar - Now That’s What I Call a Party Part 2 DJ Jake 9PM Belushi’s Below - Fallout Live Rock Bands 9PM £1/£2 Black Lion - Monday Club Anything goes - great music - All night NUS Happy Hour 9PM Brunswick - Art Class Painting & Drawing 7PM £tbc Brunswick - Open Mic Popular open mic night with full stage and PA 8:30PM Coalition - Trash Mondays DJs Willerby, Charles Green, Milton & More 10PM £3/£5 Cobblers Thumb - Free Pool all day 12PM Doctor Brightons - Meditation Mondays Happy H All Day 1PM Exchange Pub - The Exchange Pub Quiz winning team wins the pot 8:30PM £1pp Fiddler’s Elbow - Game On Monday night football is back Fountain Head - Open Mic Hosted by Mat and Paul musicians, comedians, groups Hope - SPC Live Pres The Chevin & Guests 8PM £6 Hydrant - Bastions, Kerouac, Good Time Boy 6:30PM £6 Hydrant - Sice & Support 8PM Komedia - Pete & The Pirates Reading’s prime guitar pop exponents play songs from their sophomore LP 7:30PM £8adv Leconfield - Free Pool Happy Hour All Night 8PM Lola Lo - Fat Poppadaddys DJs Matt Dean & Josh Holly 9PM £3 Marlborough - Artists, Models, Ink presents: Life Cycles 7:30PM Signalman - Pub Quiz music, creative & general knowledge 8PM £1pp Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar - Where Is My Mind Quiz Night (In The Main Bar) 8PM £1 Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar - Modern Romance indie rock and rollers 10:30PM £1/£2/£3 The Prince Albert - Bleeding Hearts Club 8PM £4 Thomas Kemp - Quiz Night Film, General Knowledge, Music and More, Letter V £1pp

Volks - Strictly Reggae Dancehall, Bashment, Roots, Revival 11PM £4.50/£5

TUESDAY 4TH

Above Audio - MHC £2 Belushi’s Bar - Totalled on Tuesday! Pop & Dance with DJ Paul 9PM Belushi’s Below - DJ Star DJ competition. sign up at 8PM Black Lion - Hit The Decks Open Decks Spin Off - book your slot through Facebook Brunswick - BJS Tuition Course Jazz tuition 11AM £tbc Brunswick - Yoga Lessons 7PM £5 Brunswick - Jazz Jam Session with house band and regular special guests 8PM Coalition - Next Hype Promotions Pres Full Volume 10:30PM £2/£3/£4 Cobblers Thumb - Student promos all day and night! Concorde 2 - Live Nation Pres Brooke Fraser 7PM £15adv Digital - CU Next Tuesday 11PM £4/£3 Doctor Brightons - Twisted Tuesday Free game of pool with every round 1PM Duke of Norfolk - Open Mic 9PM Fiddler’s Elbow - QUIZness Time Drink promos all night for entrants 8PM £1 Globe - Basement Cinema Showing classics and underground films 8PM Honey Club - Limfao Tuesdays RnB, Hip-Hop, DnB, Dance & more 10:30PM £2/£3/£4 Hope - Slip Jam B 8PM Hydrant - The Lanes, Sandweaver 8PM Leconfield - Tuesday Teaser Quiz Winning Team takes the pot Happy Hour to all Quizzers 9PM £1 pp Lola Lo - Dirtee Laundry Brighton’s best known, and favourite brands! 10PM £2/£4/£6 Marlborough - Student Night NUS deals all night from 5PM Mesmerist - MCC The Mesmerist Conjures Consortium 7:30PM Open House - Jazz Work Shop Try out your Jazz skills and play along with some masters to help you along 8PM £tbc Riki Tik - Freaks Pop, RnB, Dance, Indie 9PM Sidewinder - Open Mic Night Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar - I Hate Myself And Want To Party Resident DJs 10:30PM £1/£2/£3 The Prince Albert - They Might Swim, Jade Hopcroft & Support 8:30PM £3/£4 Thomas Kemp - Poker Evening 8PM Tom Bar - MiniClicks Photography Talk Murray Ballard 6:30PM Volks - Play With Yourself. Lose Your Head house and electronic music 10PM £3/£4

WEDNESDAY 5TH

Above Audio - Hip Hop from Brighton based Drs Orders Audio - Early Show SBTRKT 7PM £9adv Audio - SuperCharged Spectrasoul 11PM Belushi’s Bar - Now That’s What I Call a Party Part 3 DJ Jake 9PM Belushi’s Below - Student sports team socials 8PM Black Lion - Last Post on the Bugle Open Mic Night 8:30PM Brunswick - Language Classes Informal Spanish class run by a full accredited tutor 7:30PM £5 Brunswick - Brunswick Showcase With Andy Walker, Matt Bonner & Ruse 8PM £4/£3 Coalition - WRT, Chai Wallahs & Diplomats Of Sounds Pres Yes Sir Boss, Tin Roots & More 10PM £5£6 Cobblers Thumb - Pool comp night! Pool competitions every week, cash prizes Digital- The Poundance 11PM £1 B4 12 £3/£4 Doctor Brightons - Cocktail Clinic Cocktails 2 for £10.50 1PM Duke of Norfolk - Pub Quiz 9PM £1 pp Fiddler’s Elbow - Game On Top games on our HUGE and small screens FishBowl - The Mixer Men Dr B & Cut La Vis.. 2

Djs / Hip Hop, Soulful & Funky beats 10PM Fountain Head - Student Night indie and rock Globe - Soundcloud Global Meetup Day 7PM Hydrant - Black State Highway, Loose Lips, Pirate Sky 8PM Lola Lo - Bora Bora Beach Party Escape to the Island for Lola’s one of a kind Beach Party… 8PM £3/£4 Marlborough - Open Mic Open stage for you and your instrument, or story, poetry, act 8:30PM Mash Tun - Tin Cup Collective 5 Piece Soul, Funk Band 9PM Mesmerist - Swing Ninjas Brighton original busking band 9PM Northern Lights - Prognosis Psycheleic experimental progressive rock Open House - Safehouse An evening of improvised live music 8PM £5/£6 Sallis Benney Theatre - World Sacred Music Festival Tibetan Arts & Crafts Workshop 14:300PM £10/£12 Riki Tik - Hell on High Heels Glam, Sleaze, Metal, New Wave, Punk, 80’s, Electro 9PM Sidewinder - Hip Hop Night Ice Cream Beats Music To Melt To Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar - Stiff Promotions Pres Missing Andy 7:30PM £8/£9 The Prince Albert - William Tyler, Hiss Golden Messenger 8PM £7adv Thomas Kemp - Kev’s Open Mic 8:30PM Tom Bar - Albie Sachs in Conversation 7PM £8/£10 Volks - Drum n Bass, Dubstep £2

THURSDAY 6TH

Above Audio - 2-4-1 cocktails with Maxxi Soundsystem Audio - Bastard Pop Pop / Mash-up 11PM £2 Belushi’s Bar - Karaoke Free entry & prizes 9PM Belushi’s Below - House Party DJ’s Jess & Jake, Dirty Hous, Electro 10PM Black Lion - Soul Casserole Rare underground groove, raw funk, Latin Jazz & upfront funky beats 8:30PM Brunswick - Voodoo Funk Monthly funk night with Kalakuta Millionaires & Soul Casserole DJ’s 8PM £5 Brunswick - Stand Up Comedy Course Learn to be a stand-up in 8 weeks 7PM £tbc Coalition - Secret Discotheque 11PM £3/£4 Cobblers Thumb - Analogue Underground Radio pres live broadcast with open mic twist! Concorde 2 - Kilimanjaro Pres Ed Sheeran 7PM SOLD OUT! De La Warr Pavilion - Four Zero Classical Concerts Muse Piano Quartet With Piano £12 Digital- Annie Mac Pres Guest DJ’s & support from Blah Blah Blah DJs 11PM Doctor Brightons - Thirsty Thursday Happy Hour prices All Day 1PM Fiddler’s Elbow - Fiddler’s Live Lounge Funky Folk, Toe-Tappin’ Trad and Juicy Jazz 8:30PM FishBowl - Residents Association Residents & guests spin an eclectic mix of hip hop, funk 10:30PM Globe - Hang the DJ! Eddie The Goatboy & Daedelus After Party 9PM Honey Club - Exposed! DJ’s Charles Green & Out Break, Squiz and Ben-G 10:30PM £2/£3.50 Hope - The Hope Live, Sailor Jerry Pres The Horn The Hunt & Guests 8PM £4adv Hydrant - Gama Bomb, Sworn Amongst 7:30PM £7 Hydrant - Tangent, Concrete Lake, Brightlight City 8PM Komedia - Spoken Word Hammer & Tongue 7:30PM £4/£5 Komedia - The Space Skin of Skunk Anansie fame and leading cinematographer Brian Tufano 8PM £5.50/£8.50 Komedia - Fosters Krater Comedy Club Jeff Innocent, Steve Harris, Marlon Davis with MC Stephen Grant 8PM £16 (meal deal) /£9 Lola Lo - Kitsch Quirky commercial... KITSCH! 9PM £3/£5

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Mash Tun - They Mostly Come At Night Indy, rock, electro, hip hop 9PM Mesmerist - Dr Bluegrass & The IllBilly 8 Foot stompin’, thigh slappin’ bluegrass from the deep south 9PM St James Tavern - Stay Sick, Turn Blue 50s, 60s, R&R, Soul, Jazz, Blues 8:30PM Riki Tik - Das Club Robotique Electro Boogie, Synth Funk, Post Disco, Day One Rap 9PM Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar - Throw Some Shapes Pres Daedelus, Ambassaduers, Alphabets Heaven, Manni Dee 7PM £4/£5 Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar - Super Heroes Of BMX Pres Catholic Discipline 8PM Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar - Thursday Night Fish Fry Jamaica sound system, blues and ska dance 11PM £3 The Prince Albert - Tender Trap, Summer Hunter, Dogtooth! 8PM £5adv Thomas Kemp - Unplugged Sessions 8:30PM Victory - Open MIc 8PM Volks - Jungle To Bashment Tenorgly, Festus, EarthQuake sound & more 11PM £3 Quadrant - Fractured Toast Overhead Wires, Kate Williams, Chuck S.J. Hay and Chris Alex Thom 8PM

FRIDAY 7TH

Above Audio - Above Audio Pres Brighton finest DJ’s plus the occasional special guest Audio - SuperCharged Plump DJs 11PM Belushi’s Bar - Muy Loco pop, house, rnb 9PM Belushi’s Below - Abandoned Rock & Metal Night 10PM £2/£3 Black Lion - Medium Rare Funk, Soul, Stupendous Rare Grooves 9PM Blind Tiger Club - Prince Fatty, Horseman & Support 7PM £4 Brunswick - The Lost Highway Monthly Americana Night 8PM £5 Coalition - Friday I’m In Love 11PM £3/£4 Cobblers Thumb - The Gypsy Switch 8PM Concorde 2 - Mean Fiddler Pres Fenech-Soler, Paper Crows, Special K’s 7PM SOLD OUT! Concorde 2 - Allout Super Dubpressure Emalkay, Coki, N Type, Funtcase, Gangoon Dubz & More 11PM £10adv Digital - Stonelove 101% Indie Rock n Roll 11PM £3/£4 B4 12PM Doctor Brightons - Funky Friday DJ Nick Hirst / Wayne 9:30PM open 1PM Duke of Norfolk - DJ Cashback Music from all the eras 9PM Easy Bar - DJ Rudeben R’n’B, Hip - Hop & Reggae 8PM Fiddler’s Elbow - TFI Friday The weekend starts here…8PM FishBowl - Keep It Wheel Steve Kiw, funk, soul, disco and boogie 9PM Fortune Of War - Caracazul Sweet funky percussive north eastern Brazilian style band 9PM Globe - Rum Fridays! Guest DJs playing eclectic beats upstairs 9PM Green Door Store - Lout Pres David’s Lyre plus Sparrow 7:30PM £5adv Honey Club - Lollipop Cool & Sexy R&B, Funky House, Hip Hop 10:30PM £3/£5 Hope - SPC Live Pres Sissy & The Blisters 8PM £6adv Hope - Stacked Nasty DJ’s Spin 50s, Blues, R&B, 60s, Garage, Funk & Soul 9PM Hydrant - Tropical Underground, Latin American Music 8PM £tbc Hydrant - P Is For Persia, Paris Riots 8PM £2 Komedia - Bit-Phalanx pres Coppe in Association with Spirit of Gravity 7PM £5adv Komedia - Who Tribute Night Who’s Who and special guests Small Faces 7:30PM £12.50adv Komedia - Fosters Krater Comedy Club Jeff Innocent, Steve Harris, Marlon Davis with MC Stephen Grant 8PM £21,50 (meal deal) /£14.50 Komedia - Russ Dewbury Pres Brighton Jazz Rooms Return to the Roots 11:30PM £6adv Latest Music Bar - Frockabilly Wild West Special! Rockabilly shenanigans, steamy rhythm & blues, and rock ‘n’ roll 9PM £7

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Leconfield - Student Night Drinks deals all night 8PM Lola Lo - Tiki Beats Resident DJ, Cocoloco’s very own DJ Karizma 8PM £3/£4/£5 Marlborough - Benny’s Funeral & Manny’s Party one-act plays by Geoff Saunders 7:30PM £6.50/£8.50 Marlborough - The special People Club GenderBuggering Queer Disco 9PM Mesmerist - Shake Holla & Roll blues & ragtime influenced Dixieland jazz, 40’s/50’s rhythm & blues 9PM Sallis Benney Theatre - World Sacred Music Festival Pre-performance Workshop 5PM £8/£10 Sallis Benney Theatre - World Sacred Music Festival Monks of Tashi Lhunpo Monastery 8PM £12/£15 Riki Tik - ENK Pres Sheeeeeeeit!, DJ’s Flatline, O’Ryan, LZ, Sam Sampadan 9PM Sidewinder - Philip Marten Vinyl toting, genre hopping, mind numbingly music 9PM Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar - Stiff Promotions Pres Bleech 7:30PM £6/£7 Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar - Kick Out The Jams Loud guitars, fuzz and noise 11PM The Prince Albert - Little Episodes 8PM £5adv Thomas Kemp - Dj Night Brian Flying White Dots 9PM Tom Bar - Brighton and Hove City Reads Festival Island Appetiser with Dave Broom 7PM £8 Volks - Originate 1st Birthdat Old Skool special, 4 Hero, Doc Scott, Skitty & more 11PM £6

SATURDAY 8TH

Ancient Mariner - The Acoustic Sessions In Cahoots 8PM Above Audio - Warehouse Black Grass Collective’s Mex Free B4 12 Audio - Minimal Kids Phillipe Bader 11PM £5/£7 Belushi’s Bar - Unplugged Rocket Dogs live acoustic duo plus DJ 9PM Belushi’s Below - Synergy EBM, Industrial, Goth 9PM £2/£5 Black Lion - UnhookedGeneration storming night night of Motown and Northern Soul, ‘60s, Garage and Rock’n’Roll 9PM Blind Tiger Club - Nice Weather For Airstrikes Pres A Genuine Freakshow & Support 6PM £5adv Blind Tiger Club - Stay Sick! The Witchdoktors & Tobias (Mudlow) 9PM Brunswick - Yoga Lessons 9:30AM £5 Coalition - Rewind Pres JFB, Milk Teeth Crew, nomark b2b tom yum 11PM £5/£8 Concorde 2 - Brighton to Brighton Cyclosportive Raising funds for the British Heart Foundation 6AM Concorde 2 - Advance Promotions Pres Terrorvision 7PM £15adv Concorde 2 - Freebass Drumz, Bass, Breaks, House, Jungle, Oldskool 11PM De La Warr Pavilion - Howard Marks In Mr Nice One - Man Show £15 Digital - Hospitality Pres Camo & Krooked, Netsky, N3Gus, Tomahawk, Callous 10PM £13.50 Doctor Brightons - Sexy Saturday DJ Tony B from 9:30PM open 1PM Easy Bar - DJ Rudeben R’n’B, Hip - Hop & Reggae 8PM Exchange Pub - Live Rugby World Cup Quarter Final 2 8:30AM Fiddler’s Elbow - Saturday Sizzlers Decks In The City - Molly Malone DJs for Fiddler’s Fans 9PM FishBowl - DJ Abo & Ally Smith Dirty funk and dancefloor jazz all the way! 9PM Fortune Of War - Flevans (Tru Thoughts) 9PM Globe - The Acid House Vintage House Grooves, Acid House, Nu / Leftfield Disco 9PM Honey Club - Nightowl Squiz & Ben G & Guests 10:30PM £5/£8/£10 Hope - Books for Amnesty, Wateraid Brighton & Hove Pres Birthday Celebration 7:30PM £6adv Hydrant - Alice, The Physics, Web Of Maya 8PM Komedia - Fosters Krater Comedy Club Jeff Innocent, Steve Harris, Marlon Davis with MC

Stephen Grant 7PM, 8PM & 10:30PM £25 (meal deal) /£18 Komedia - Life’s A Gas ‘70s glam, glitter, beat, bubblegum power pop and punk 11PM £5 (Studio) Lola Lo - Zombie Nation DJ Scott Kirby 8PM £6/£7/£10 Marlborough - Benny’s Funeral & Manny’s Party one-act plays by Geoff Saunders 7:30PM £6.50/£8.50 Marlborough - Cherry Pop A night of cheesy tunes 9PM Mesmerist - Juke Joint Jamboree Taking you back to the dancehalls of New Orleans 9PM Northern Lights - DJ Prateek Gypsy dub 9PM Playgroup Live - A Genuine Freakshow & Guests 6PM £5adv Riki Tik - Korova Milkclub Johnny Rocks and Senor Mick 9PM Sidewinder - Jennifer Left & Guests 9PM Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar - Mauer Kunts visual stimulation 5PM Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar - Stick It On SIO is all about YOU becoming the DJ for the night 10PM £3/£4/£5 The Prince Albert - Dead Whisky & Support 8PM £4 Thomas Kemp - Dj Night DJ Jody Lee Hooker 9PM Tom Bar - Brighton and Hove City Reads Festival Who Do You Think You Are? Colin Jackson (on screen) and Paul Crooks 11AM £5 Tom Bar - Brighton and Hove City Reads Festival A celebration of Bob Marley and the Wailers with Colin Grant… 4PM £5 Tom Bar - Brighton and Hove City Reads Festival Linton Kwesi Johnson - Live poetry performance plus Q&A... with support from Kei Miller 8PM £12.50 West Hill - Tonight We Fly An evening of epic pop music for doomed romantics 9PM Victory - Kinema Pop, Dance Rock & 80’s Classics 9PM Volks - Strcitly Guestlist Pres Birthday Beats, Pixel Fist, Kouncilhouse, Hoopz & more 11PM £6

SUNDAY 9TH

LISTINGS (Studio) Komedia - Fosters Krater Comedy Club Marlon Davis with MC Stephen Grant 8PM £18,50 (meal deal) /£11.50 Komedia - Wilko Johnson & special guest Ian Siegal 8PM £17.50adv Latest Music Bar - Hutchins Live Samuel J, Elissa Franceschi & Special Guest 8:30PM £3/£4 Leconfield - Boozy Bingo Bingo without a blue rinse in sight 6PM £1 p game/ 6 for £5 Marlborough - Pop-Up-Sunday Pres A night of comedy with Yvonne Rawcliffe plus guests 7PM Marlborough - Benny’s Funeral & Manny’s Party one-act plays by Geoff Saunders 7:30PM £6.50/£8.50 Signalman - Open Mic Night All performers, musicians & styles welcome 8:15PM The Prince Albert - Everybodies Got To Be Somewhere 2PM £tbc The Prince Albert - Aiden Baker, Plurals, Lumbers 8PM £5adv Thomas Kemp - Tango Night Come along and join 8PM Tom Bar - Brighton and Hove City Reads Festival Different Skins - Writing workshop: developing multiple voices in fiction... with Kei Miller 10AM £20 Tom Bar - Brighton and Hove City Reads Festival The Book Doctor -One-to-one bibliotherapy with Laura Lockington… 11AM £5 per 15 min session Tom Bar - Brighton and Hove City Reads Festival Andrea Levy in conversation with Suzi Feay 3PM £8 Volks - Brightona 2011 Daytime Event Live Bands 12PM

MONDAY 10TH

Ancient Mariner - Quiz Night Cash prizes for 1st, 2nd, 3rd & 2nd to last place teams 8PM £1 each, plus £1 per team Above Audio - Banana Island International Student Party open to everyone £2 Belushi’s Bar - Now That’s What I Call a Party Part 2 DJ Jake 9PM Belushi’s Below - Fallout Live Rock Bands 9PM £1/£2 Black Lion - The Lion, The Wit and The Frontal Lobe The new Quiz at the Black Lion 9PM Brunswick - Art Class Painting & Drawing 7PM £tbc Brunswick - Open Mic Popular open mic night with full stage and PA 8:30PM Coalition - Trash Mondays DJs Willerby, Charles Green, Milton & More 10PM £3/£5 Cobblers Thumb - Free Pool all day 12PM Digital - Digital Pres Ghost Poet (Live) & Guests 8PM £8.50 Doctor Brightons - Meditation Mondays Happy H All Day 1PM Exchange Pub - The Exchange Pub Quiz winning team wins the pot 8:30PM £1pp Fiddler’s Elbow - Game On Monday night football is back Fountain Head - Open Mic Hosted by Mat and Paul musicians, comedians, groups Hydrant - Battle Of The Bimm Bands 8PM Komedia - Popcorn Comedy line-up of comedy films, interspersed with live acts 7:30PM £7 Leconfield - Free Pool Happy Hour All Night 8PM Lola Lo - Fat Poppadaddys DJs Matt Dean & Josh Holly 9PM £3 Signalman - Pub Quiz music, creative & general knowledge 8PM £1pp Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar - Drink in Brighton Pres Planningtorock 7PM £10adv Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar - Modern Romance indie rock and rollers 10:30PM £1/£2/£3 Volks - Strictly Reggae Dancehall, Bashment, Roots, Revival 11PM £4.50/£5

TUESDAY 11TH

Above Audio - MHC £2 Belushi’s Bar - Totalled on Tuesday! Pop &

Dance with DJ Paul 9PM Belushi’s Below - DJ Star DJ competition. sign up at 8PM Black Lion - Hit The Decks Open Decks Spin Off - book your slot through Facebook Brunswick - BJS Tuition Course Jazz tuition 11AM £tbc Brunswick - Yoga Lessons 7PM £5 Brunswick - Jazz Jam Session with house band and regular special guests 8PM Coalition - Talent 4 A Cause Pres Robots in Disguise, Kovak, Rubicks 7PM £6/£7 Coalition - Next Hype Promotions Pres Full Volume 10:30PM £2/£3/£4 Cobblers Thumb - Student promos all day and night! Concorde 2 - SJM Pres The Pierces 7PM SOLD OUT! De La Warr Pavilion - Moscow Ballet La Classique Sleeping Beauty £12.50/£22.50 Digital - CU Next Tuesday 11PM £4/£3 Doctor Brightons - Twisted Tuesday Free game of pool with every round 1PM Duke of Norfolk - Open Mic 9PM Fiddler’s Elbow - QUIZness Time Drink promos all night for entrants 8PM £1 Globe - Basement Cinema Showing classics and underground films 8PM Honey Club - Limfao Tuesdays RnB, Hip-Hop, DnB, Dance & more 10:30PM £2/£3/£4 Hope - Waitstock Pres Gorse, The Blue Stragglers 8PM £3 Hydrant - More Than Life 6PM £8.50 Hydrant - Thieves By Code, Funge, Kickfist 8PM Komedia - Lout Pres Ben Howard plus Michael Cassidy 7:30PM SOLD OUT! Leconfield - Tuesday Teaser Quiz Winning Team takes the pot Happy Hour to all Quizzers 9PM £1 pp Lola Lo - Dirtee Laundry Brighton’s best known, and favourite brands! 10PM £2/£4/£6 Marlborough - Student Night NUS deals all night from 5PM Mesmerist - MCC The Mesmerist Conjures Consortium 7:30PM Open House - Jazz Work Shop Try out your Jazz skills and play along with some masters to help you along 8PM £tbc Riki Tik - Freaks Pop, RnB, Dance, Indie 9PM Sidewinder - Open Mic Night The Prince Albert - This Is Beautiful Country, Red Roads, The Denim 8:30PM £3/£4 Thomas Kemp - Poker Evening 8PM Three and Ten - Sam Walker and Friends Multiinstrumentalist, songwriter and performer 8PM £5/£6 Volks - Play With Yourself. Lose Your Head house and electronic music 10PM £3/£4

Wednesday 12th

Above Audio - Hip Hop from Brighton based Drs Orders Audio - SuperCharged Scratch Perverts 11PM Belushi’s Bar - Now That’s What I Call a Party Part 3 DJ Jake 9PM Belushi’s Below - Student sports team socials 8PM Black Lion - Fresh Acoustics Live Music 8:30PM Brunswick - Language Classes Informal Spanish class run by a full accredited tutor 7:30PM £5 Brunswick - Samuel Jay Acoustic Ambient Hip Hop with guests 8PM £tbc Cobblers Thumb - Pool comp night! Pool competitions every week, cash prizes Digital- The Poundance 11PM £1 B4 12 £3/£4 Doctor Brightons - Cocktail Clinic Cocktails 2 for £10.50 1PM Duke of Norfolk - Pub Quiz 9PM £1 pp Fiddler’s Elbow - Game On Top games on our HUGE and small screens FishBowl - The Mixer Men Dr B & Cut La Vis.. 2 Djs / Hip Hop, Soulful & Funky beats 10PM Fountain Head - Student Night indie and rock Globe - Brighton Ableton Meet Up 8PM Hydrant - Stick In A Pot & Support 8PM Komedia - North Sea Radio Orchestra 7PM

£12adv Komedia - Joe Wilkinson: My Mum’s Called Stella My Dad’s Called Brian 8PM £12.50 Marlborough - Open Mic Open stage for you and your instrument, or story, poetry, act 8:30PM Mash Tun - Tin Cup Collective 5 Piece Soul, Funk Band 9PM Mesmerist - Swing Ninjas Brighton original busking band 9PM Riki Tik - Hell on High Heels Glam, Sleaze, Metal, New Wave, Punk, 80’s, Electro 9PM Sidewinder - Hip Hop Night Ice Cream Beats Music To Melt To The Prince Albert - Fall Of Messiah & Guests 7:30PM £5adv Thomas Kemp - Kev’s Open Mic 8:30PM Volks - Drum n Bass, Dubstep £2

Thursday 13th

Above Audio - 2-4-1 cocktails with Maxxi Soundsystem Audio - Bastard Pop Pop / Mash-up 11PM £2 Belushi’s Bar - Karaoke Free entry & prizes 9PM Belushi’s Below - House Party DJ’s Jess & Jake, Dirty Hous, Electro 10PM Black Lion - Whatify? Juke Box Jury 8:30PM Blind Tiger Club - Super Mishto Pres Gypsy Hill & Support 7PM £5 Brunswick - Stand Up Comedy Course Learn to be a stand-up in 8 weeks 7PM £tbc Brunswick - Hutchins Live Mirrorkicks, Some Velvet Morning, Charly Coombes & the New Breed 8:30PM £3/£4 Coalition - Fosters Pres Fosters Funny Live, Rob Heeney, Chris Martin, Pete Firman, Stephen Grant 7:30PM £5 Coalition - Secret Discotheque 11PM £3/£4 Cobblers Thumb - Analogue Underground Radio pres live broadcast with open mic twist! Concorde 2 - Family Ents Pres Stiff Little Fingers 7PM £16adv Doctor Brightons - Thirsty Thursday Happy Hour prices All Day 1PM Druids Arms - T E Morris, Bird East Baby & Guests 8PM Fiddler’s Elbow - Fiddler’s Live Lounge Funky Folk, Toe-Tappin’ Trad and Juicy Jazz 8:30PM FishBowl - Residents Association Residents & guests spin an eclectic mix of hip hop, funk 10:30PM Globe - Hang the DJ! Eddie The Goatboy pres night where you have the chance to DJ! 9PM Honey Club - Exposed! DJ’s Charles Green & Out Break, Squiz and Ben-G 10:30PM £2/£3.50 Hydrant - Collisions, DeathTrronics 8PM Komedia - Show of Hands The finest acoustic roots duo in England 7:30PM £15/£17 Komedia - Fosters Krater Comedy Club The Noise Next Door, Craig Hill, Keith Farnan, MC’s Dan Evans 8PM £16 (meal deal) /£9 Lola Lo - Kitsch Quirky commercial... KITSCH! 9PM £3/£5 Marlborough - Rattle Tales A night of interactive storytelling 7:30PM £3 Mash Tun - They Mostly Come At Night Indy, rock, electro, hip hop 9PM Mesmerist - John Crampton one man blues explosion 9PM St James Tavern - Stay Sick, Turn Blue 50s, 60s, R&R, Soul, Jazz, Blues 8:30PM Riki Tik - Das Club Robotique Electro Boogie, Synth Funk, Post Disco, Day One Rap 9PM Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar - Love Thy Neighbour Pres We Were Promised Jetpacks 7:30PM £7adv Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar - Super Heroes Of BMX Pres Catholic Discipline 8PM Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar - Thursday Night Fish Fry Jamaica sound system, blues and ska dance 11PM £3 The Prince Albert - Exquisite Noise Festival Pres Four Shows 13th - 15th The Prince Albert - Sparrow, We Spies, Little Signals, Dan Shears & The Velveteen Orkestra 8PM £5

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Thomas Kemp - Unplugged Sessions 8:30PM Three and Ten - Brighton Comedy Fringe Jo Neary, Madame Galina, Mark Allen and Gerry Howell 8PM £5 Tom Bar - City Books 25th Birthday Festival Victory - Open MIc 8PM Volks - Hit N Run Mooney, Dee, Melody Kane, Rudeben, Stacey & more 10PM £3/£5

Friday 14th

Above Audio - Above Audio Pres Brighton finest DJ’s plus the occasional special guest Audio - Strictly Drumz Brookes Brothers 11PM Belushi’s Bar - Muy Loco pop, house, rnb 9PM Belushi’s Below - Abandoned Rock & Metal Night 10PM £2/£3 Black Lion - Molly Malone’s Dex in the City rhythm n blues, soul, funk, hip hop, indie mix 9PM Blind Tiger Club - BNW Productions Pres Samuel J Album Launch 7PM Blind Tiger Club - A - Skills, The Electric Playboys & Support 10PM £5 Brunswick - Ska Toons Ska 8PM £5 Coalition - Friday I’m In Love 11PM £3/£4 Cobblers Thumb - Buffo’s Wake 8PM Concorde 2 - Melting Vinyl Pres The Kills 7PM SOLD OUT! Concorde 2 - Trojan Sound System, Unity HiFi, Roots and Branches11PM £5adv Digital - Stonelove 101% Indie Rock n Roll 11PM £3/£4 B4 12PM Doctor Brightons - Funky Friday DJ Nick Hirst / Wayne 9:30PM open 1PM Duke of Norfolk - DJ Cashback Music from all the eras 9PM Easy Bar - DJ Rudeben R’n’B, Hip - Hop & Reggae 8PM Fiddler’s Elbow - TFI Friday The weekend starts here…8PM FishBowl - Gareth Stephens Broken Beats, NuJazz, Soul, Funk, Reggae 9PM Fortune Of War - Melena De Pomelo Spanish party rumba flamenco with dancer 9PM Globe - Rum Fridays & TSOB! DJ Mick Fuller playing Philly Disco and Retro Funk 9PM Honey Club - Lollipop Cool & Sexy R&B, Funky House, Hip Hop 10:30PM £3/£5 Hope - Love The Neighbour 06 Mazes, Milk Maid, Fear of Men & FatCat DJs 8:30PM £5adv/£6 Hydrant - Evile & Support 7:30PM £10 Hydrant - L Sole Tace & Support 8PM Jazz Place - Crazy Turtle Club Swing dance night - free absolute beginners dance lesson 8PM Komedia - Fosters Krater Comedy Club The Noise Next Door, Craig Hill, Keith Farnan, Stephen Grant 8PM £21,50 (meal deal) /£14.50 Komedia - The Jamm 8:30PM £12.50adv Komedia - Ultimate Power Featuring the greatest power ballads ever written, all night long! 11PM £3 Komedia - Mod for It 60’s, 70’s and 80’s 11PM £4/£5 Leconfield - Student Night Drinks deals all night 8PM Lola Lo - Tiki Beats Resident DJ, Cocoloco’s very own DJ Karizma 8PM £3/£4/£5 Marlborough - Pussy Whipped Filthy femmefronted tunes with attitude 9PM Mesmerist - Shake Holla & Roll blues & ragtime influenced Dixieland jazz, 40’s/50’s rhythm & blues 9PM Northern Lights - DJ Elk mix’n’match 9PM Riki Tik - Mile Wide Smile Club Simon Lee, Plus Mickey Duke & Chri5tian 9PM Sidewinder - Fip Radio DJ’s From Paris 9PM Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar - Black History Month Roots Garden , Afrobase , King Tafari Love, Afrogroove 7PM £3/£5 The Prince Albert - The Valentines, Goodluck Jonathan, Hockeysmith, Anagrams 8PM £5 Thomas Kemp - Dj Night DJ Molar 9PM Three and Ten - Brighton Comedy Fringe The Best of Clever Peter 8PM £6/£8

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Tom Bar - City Books 25th Birthday Festival Victory - DJ Lanx Mod Classics, Dirty Rock, Weird Blues & Hot Funk 9PM Volks - Propergander Sumgii & Dabbla of LDZ aka London ZOO & more 11PM

Saturday 15th

Ancient Mariner - The Acoustic Sessions Harry’s Tricks 8PM Above Audio - Warehouse Black Grass Collective’s Mex Free B4 12 Audio - Warehouse Alex Metric 11PM £5/£7 Belushi’s Bar - Unplugged Rocket Dogs live acoustic duo plus DJ 9PM Belushi’s Below - Apocolypse Nu & Classic Metal 9PM £2/£5 Black Lion - Burnt Toast Blackbelt Jonez & friends sleazy soul, filthy funk, dirty breaks 9PM Blind Tiger Club - Sam and The Womp, The Black Fields 7PM £5 Brunswick - Yoga Lessons 9:30AM £5 Brunswick - Tonight Matthew 60’s to 90/s Covers 8PM £5 Coalition - Coalition Pres Submotion Orchestra, Ruckspin, Double Drop 7:30PM £7 Coalition - Old Yellow Bricks DJ Monty, DJ Charles Green, Shmooze & Skank, B.A.N.K 11PM £5/£7 Concorde 2 - Family Ents Pres Rubylux 6:30PM £10adv Concorde 2 - Redhot Promotions Pres FWD>>RINSE, Plastician, P Money, Zinc, Ben UFO, Youngsta 11PM £10adv Digital - Blah Blh Blh Pres Joy Orbison, Julio Bashmore, Ben White & More 11PM £8 Doctor Brightons - Sexy Saturday DJ Tony B from 9:30PM open 1PM Easy Bar - Dj’s provided by Miss Dangerous promotions 8PM Exchange Pub - Live Rugby World Cup Semi Final 1 9AM Fiddler’s Elbow - Saturday Sizzlers “Beans On Toast” BlackBeltJonez 9PM FishBowl - What’s Wrong with Groovin? Ed Meme joins up with Matt Beatwell 9PM Fortune Of War - Fip Radio DJ’s From Paris 9PM Globe - The Music Box Disco, house and techno with live bass, drums and vocals 9PM Honey Club - Pukka Up Scott Giles, Ed Moore & Tom Maverick 10:30PM £5/£8/£10 Hope - The Hope Live, Sailor Jerry Pres James Owen Fender, Foreign Office 8PM £5adv Hydrant - Dusty Rosko & Support 8PM Komedia - Kids Popcorn Comedy short funny films and stand-up 2PM £6.50/£8.50 Komedia - Fosters Krater Comedy Club The Noise Next Door, Craig Hill, Keith Farnan, Stephen Grant 7PM, 8PM & 10:30PM £25 (meal deal) /£18 Komedia - Spellbound Cherry Foxx and Simon Price 9PM £5/£6 (Studio) Lola Lo - Zombie Nation DJ Scott Kirby 8PM £6/£7/£10 Marlborough - Cherry Pop A night of cheesy tunes 9PM Mesmerist - Juke Joint Jamboree Taking you back to the dancehalls of New Orleans 9PM Northern Lights - Annual Big Lebowski night fancy dress, bowling, white russians and much more 7PM Sallis Benney Theatre - World Sacred Music Festival Kora Festival 7PM £9/£12 Riki Tik - It’s Goin’ Off OM Unit, Deft, Grinel & W.A.T Dj’s 9PM Sidewinder - Robbie Bowers 50’s RnB, Jump Blues, Jazz, Early Ska 9PM Signalman - Tuaca-day 1990’s Party 1990’s Themed Fancy Dress Party sponsored by Tuaca 8PM Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar - Mauer Kunts visual stimulation 5PM Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar - Hit Git & Split Rockabilly, Ska, Northern Soul, Reggae & more 11PM £3/£5 The Prince Albert - Jennifer Left, The Half Sisters, Minor Sounds, Heliopause 1PM £5

The Prince Albert - Black Black Hills, Clowns, White Star Liners, Tyranosaurs Dead 8PM £5 Thomas Kemp - Dj Night DJ Bindo 9PM Three and Ten - Brighton Comedy Fringe The Great Puppet Horn 7PM £6/£8 Three and Ten - Brighton Comedy Fringe The Gentlemen of Leisure present ‘The Death of The Novel’ 8:30PM £6/£8 Tom Bar - City Books 25th Birthday Festival Volks - Frequency Drum N Bass The Upbeats, BTK, High Maintenance & more 10PM £2

Sunday 16th

Ancient Mariner - The Ancient Mariner Roast Home cooked Served from 12pm to 6pm Booking advisable Above Audio - Verity Mayes and friends Audio - Substance 10PM £3 Belushi’s Bar - Now That’s What I Call a Party Part 1 DJ Jake 9PM Black Lion - Live & Swingin’ Gipsy Jazz Stopped Clock 8PM Blind Tiger Club - Forest And Thoughts 6PM £5 Brunswick - Rockschool Local kid’s music showcase 12:30PM £tbc Brunswick - Brighton Folk Folk night hosted by Amy Hill 8PM Coalition - Blow After Hours Vincent Manganaro, Charly Lopez, Charles Green & Guests3AM £7/£5/£4 Concorde 2 - SJM Prese Skepta, Special Guests TBA 7PM £9adv Doctor Brightons - Hangover therapy open from 1PM Duke of Norfolk - Live Music Night live music from local artists 9PM Exchange Pub - Live Rugby World Cup Semi Final 2 9AM Exchange Pub - Film Night showing modern classics 8PM Fiddler’s Elbow - Sham-Rock Open Mic 8:30PM Fountain Head - Sunday Sessions Reggae and chilled beats Globe - Rockoustic Open Jam Open mic jam showcasing local talent, anyone is free to join in! 9PM Honey Club - Sundays at The Honey DJ Lil Alex & guests play Sexy, funky house & Party music 11PM £2/£3 Hope - TattySeasideTown & Punker Bunker Pres The Enablers, Koguzama and Sweet Williams 8PM £7adv Hydrant - Random Hand & Support 7PM £7 Hydrant - Depth Charge The Lanes, Pint Size Hero, Letters To Daisy 7PM Komedia - Lout Pres Chapel Club plus guests 7PM £10.50adv Komedia - Fosters Krater Comedy Club The Noise Next Door, Craig Hill, Keith Farnan, Maff Brown 8PM £18,50 (meal deal) /£11.50 Komedia - Lorraine Bowen’s Polyester Fiesta! 8PM £10 (Studio) Leconfield - Boozy Bingo Bingo without a blue rinse in sight 6PM £1 p game/ 6 for £5 Marlborough - Free Pool night Signalman - Open Mic Night All performers, musicians & styles welcome 8:15PM The Prince Albert - Eric Taylor & Support 7PM £10adv Thomas Kemp - Jazz in the Afternoon Miss Mandy, Jazz Duo 4PM Three and Ten - Brighton Comedy Fringe The Great Puppet Horn 7PM £6/£8 Three and Ten - Brighton Comedy Fringe The Gentlemen of Leisure present ‘The Death of The Novel’ 8:30PM £6/£8 Tom Bar - City Books 25th Birthday Festival

Monday 17th

LISTINGS Belushi’s Below - Fallout Live Rock Bands 9PM £1/£2 Black Lion - Monday Club Anything goes - great music - All night NUS Happy Hour 9PM Brunswick - Art Class Painting & Drawing 7PM £tbc Brunswick - Brighton Stanza Poetry Group 7PM £5 Brunswick - Open Mic Popular open mic night with full stage and PA 8:30PM Coalition - Trash Mondays DJs Willerby, Charles Green, Milton & More 10PM £3/£5 Cobblers Thumb - Free Pool all day 12PM Concorde 2 - Emerge NME Radar Tour Wolf Gang, S.C.U.M, Niki & The Dove, DZ Deathrays 7PM £9adv Doctor Brightons - Meditation Mondays Happy H All Day 1PM Exchange Pub - The Exchange Pub Quiz winning team wins the pot 8:30PM £1pp Fiddler’s Elbow - Game On Monday night football is back Fountain Head - Open Mic Hosted by Mat and Paul musicians, comedians, groups Hydrant - Sam Craddock, Mikee J reds, Elemae, Vic Payne 8PM Leconfield - Free Pool Happy Hour All Night 8PM Lola Lo - Fat Poppadaddys DJs Matt Dean & Josh Holly 9PM £3 Signalman - Pub Quiz music, creative & general knowledge 8PM £1pp Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar - IOU Comedy Pat Cahill, Matthew Highton, Alex Petrovic 8PM £4 Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar - Modern Romance indie rock and rollers 10:30PM £1/£2/£3 The Prince Albert - Access To Music 8PM £tbc Thomas Kemp - Quiz Night Film, General Knowledge, Music and More, Letter W £1pp Volks - Strictly Reggae Dancehall, Bashment, Roots, Revival 11PM £4.50/£5

Tuesday 18th

Open House - Jazz Work Shop Try out your Jazz skills and play along with some masters to help you along 8PM £tbc Riki Tik - Freaks Pop, RnB, Dance, Indie 9PM Sidewinder - Open Mic Night The Prince Albert - Viking Moses, Support TBA 7:30PM £6adv/£7 The Prince Albert - Cable Club 8:30PM £3/£4 Thomas Kemp - Poker Evening 8PM Volks - Play With Yourself. Lose Your Head house and electronic music 10PM £3/£4

Wednesday 19th

Above Audio - Hip Hop from Brighton based Drs Orders Audio - SuperCharged Donaeo 11PM Belushi’s Bar - Now That’s What I Call a Party Part 3 DJ Jake 9PM Belushi’s Below - Student sports team socials 8PM Black Lion - Last Post on the Bugle Open Mic Night 8:30PM Brunswick - Language Classes Informal Spanish class run by a full accredited tutor 7:30PM £5 Brunswick - Live N Laughing Monthly stand-up night 8PM £6/£10 Cobblers Thumb - Pool comp night! Pool competitions every week, cash prizes Digital- The Poundance 11PM £1 B4 12 £3/£4 Doctor Brightons - Cocktail Clinic Cocktails 2 for £10.50 1PM Duke of Norfolk - Pub Quiz 9PM £1 pp Fiddler’s Elbow - Game On Top games on our HUGE and small screens FishBowl - The Mixer Men Dr B & Cut La Vis.. 2 Djs / Hip Hop, Soulful & Funky beats 10PM Fountain Head - Student Night indie and rock Hydrant - Imayourhero & Support 8PM Komedia - Lout Pres Zion Train plus Samsara 7:30PM £12adv Komedia - Lout Pres Mechanical Bride plus guests 8PM £7adv Marlborough - Open Mic Open stage for you and your instrument, or story, poetry, act 8:30PM Mash Tun - Tin Cup Collective 5 Piece Soul, Funk Band 9PM Mesmerist - Swing Ninjas Brighton original busking band 9PM Sallis Benney Theatre - Lewes Live Literature Dementia Diaries by Maria Jastrzebska 7:30PM £8/£10 Riki Tik - Hell on High Heels Glam, Sleaze, Metal, New Wave, Punk, 80’s, Electro 9PM Sidewinder - Hip Hop Night Ice Cream Beats Music To Melt To Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar - Arcade (not) Disco: Preliminaries 6PM Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar - Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Pres Elephant Stone 7PM £5/£6 The Prince Albert - It Came From Japan with Tokyo Pinsalcoks, Galapagoss, Hondalady 8PM £5adv Thomas Kemp - Kev’s Open Mic 8:30PM Three and Ten - Brighton Comedy Fringe Jo Neary and Simon Donald: Double Bill 7:30PM £10 Three and Ten - Brighton Comedy Fringe Gerry Howell: Moonshine and Trumpery 8PM £5/£7 Tom Bar - Brighton Comedy Festival Tony Law: Go Mr Tony Go! 7:30PM £10/£12 Tom Bar - Brighton Comedy Festival Andrew O’Neill – Alternative 9PM £10/£12 Volks - Drum n Bass, Dubstep £2

Thursday 20th

Above Audio - 2-4-1 cocktails with Maxxi Soundsystem Audio - Bastard Pop Pop / Mash-up 11PM £2 Belushi’s Bar - Karaoke Free entry & prizes 9PM Belushi’s Below - House Party DJ’s Jess & Jake, Dirty Hous, Electro 10PM Black Lion - Loose Fit Black Lion residents spin 4 decades of classic indie tunes 8:30PM Blind Tiger Club - Resonators Pres Dub Organiser 7PM £3

Brunswick - Stand Up Comedy Course Learn to be a stand-up in 8 weeks 7PM £tbc Brunswick - NSPCC Fundraiser with Paradise 9, Guns Akimbo Ghandi & Simonne Weeks 8PM £5 Coalition - Secret Discotheque 11PM £3/£4 Cobblers Thumb - Analogue Underground Radio pres live broadcast with open mic twist! Concorde 2 - Kilimanjaro Live Pres Pop Will Eat Itself plus guests 7:30PM £16adv Concorde 2 - NEXT HYPE Promotions Pres RETOX 11PM £2/£3/£4/£5 De La Warr Pavilion - Four Zero Classical Concerts Brazillian Ensemble Trio £12 Doctor Brightons - Thirsty Thursday Happy Hour prices All Day 1PM Fiddler’s Elbow - Fiddler’s Live Lounge Funky Folk, Toe-Tappin’ Trad and Juicy Jazz 8:30PM FishBowl - Residents Association Residents & guests spin an eclectic mix of hip hop, funk 10:30PM Globe - Hang the DJ! Eddie The Goatboy pres night where you have the chance to DJ! 9PM Good Companions - BnW Pres Dr Bluegrass & The Illbilly 8PM Honey Club - Exposed! DJ’s Charles Green & Out Break, Squiz and Ben-G 10:30PM £2/£3.50 Hope - Symptomatic Pres Spotlight Kid, Lillian Gish 7:30PM £6adv Hydrant - Dharma Kin & Support 8PM Hydrant - Brighton Showcase Records 8PM £2 Komedia - Paul Foot: Still Life One of the UK’s most creative and original comedians 8PM £10.50/£12.50 (Studio) Komedia - Fosters Krater Comedy Club Sean Collins, Paul Pirie, Andi Osho with MC tbc 8PM £16 (meal deal) /£9 Lola Lo - Kitsch Quirky commercial... KITSCH! 9PM £3/£5 Mash Tun - They Mostly Come At Night Indy, rock, electro, hip hop 9PM Mesmerist - Hollerin’ Stollar & The Pine Box Boys hilbilly boogie 9PM St James Tavern - Stay Sick, Turn Blue 50s, 60s, R&R, Soul, Jazz, Blues 8:30PM Riki Tik - Das Club Robotique Electro Boogie, Synth Funk, Post Disco, Day One Rap 9PM Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar - Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Pres Marble Valley, Horse Guards Parade 7PM £6/£7 Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar - Super Heroes Of BMX Pres Catholic Discipline 8PM Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar - Thursday Night Fish Fry Jamaica sound system, blues and ska dance 11PM £3 The Prince Albert - Bullit, Drell, Another Costume Party 8:30PM £3/£4 Thomas Kemp - Unplugged Sessions 8:30PM Three and Ten - Brighton Comedy Fringe Philip Jeays and Friends 8PM £5/£8 Tom Bar - Brighton Comedy Festival Isy Suttie – Pearl and Dave 7PM £10/£12 Tom Bar - Brighton Comedy Festival The Horne Section 9PM £13.50/£15 Victory - Open MIc 8PM Volks - Subconscious LX One, Benton, Marchmellow, Syz and Harbinger 11PM £6adv

Friday 21st

Ancient Mariner - Soul Casserole Dj’s Evil Broke Elvis, Dustdee & Alkie Tuner 8:30PM Above Audio - Above Audio Pres Brighton finest DJ’s plus the occasional special guest Audio - Soul:R Intalex, S.P.Y 11PM Belushi’s Bar - Muy Loco pop, house, rnb 9PM Belushi’s Below - Abandoned Rock & Metal Night 10PM £2/£3 Black Lion - Medium Rare Vs Molly Malone’s Dex in the City Funk, Soul, Stupendous Rare Grooves 8:30PM Blind Tiger Club - Yes Sir Boss & Support 7PM £4 Brunswick - Funky Buddha Band Funk, Soul & Motown 8PM £5 Coalition - Friday I’m In Love 11PM £3/£4 Cobblers Thumb - Dr. Bluegrass & The Illbilly Eight 8PM

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Concorde 2 - Melting Vinyl Pres Yann Tiersen 7PM £16adv Concorde 2 - Concorde2 Pres Dub Pistols & Rodney P, Unity Hi Fi, DJ As If 11PM De La Warr Pavilion - Apartment House, Simon Bookish £8 Digital - Stonelove 101% Indie Rock n Roll 11PM £3/£4 B4 12PM Doctor Brightons - Funky Friday DJ Nick Hirst / Wayne 9:30PM open 1PM Duke of Norfolk - DJ Cashback Music from all the eras 9PM Easy Bar - DJ Rudeben R’n’B, Hip - Hop & Reggae 8PM Fiddler’s Elbow - TFI Friday The weekend starts here…8PM FishBowl - Daddy Marcus Soul, Disco, Funk & Party Classics 9PM Fortune Of War - Barry Dust & Friends Latin, Funk, Reggae, Salsa and more 9PM Globe - Rum Fridays! Guest DJs playing eclectic beats upstairs 9PM Good Companions - BnW Pres The Swing Ninja’s 8PM Honey Club - Lollipop Cool & Sexy R&B, Funky House, Hip Hop 10:30PM £3/£5 Hope - The Hope Live, Sailor Jerry Pres Jam Grand, Gyratory Allstars, FUR, Frankie Young and Soul Food 8PM £tbc Hydrant - Ellen and The Echo, The Vaudeville 8PM Komedia - Fosters Krater Comedy Club Steve Gribbin 8PM £21,50 (meal deal) /£14.50 Komedia - Jazz Morley 8PM £6adv (Studio) Komedia - Voodoo Vaudeville presents The Murder Musical 9PM £18(meal Deal)/£10 Komedia - Born Bad red-hot rockabilly, 50’s rock‘n’roll, ‘60’s garage, surf 11PM £5/£6 Leconfield - Student Night Drinks deals all night 8PM Lola Lo - Tiki Beats Resident DJ, Cocoloco’s very own DJ Karizma 8PM £3/£4/£5 Marlborough - I <3 Electro For all you DRRTY electro needs! 9PM Mesmerist - Shake Holla & Roll blues & ragtime influenced Dixieland jazz, 40’s/50’s rhythm & blues 9PM Northern Lights - Hot-Tip Hi-Fi Reggae, Rocksteady and Ska vintage selection 9PM Sallis Benney Theatre - Lewes Live Literature A Journey into Black Hair-itage 7:45PM £4/£5 Riki Tik - Kung Fu Funk, Soul, Hip Hop, Reggae, Boogie 9PM Sidewinder - Uncle Al funk, soul, and classic breaks and hip hop 9PM Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar - Kick Out The Jams Loud guitars, fuzz and noise 11PM The Prince Albert - Royal Blood, Chemical Choir, Placticine 8:30PM Thomas Kemp - Dj Night DJs Breakin’ Bear 9PM Three and Ten - Brighton Comedy Fringe The Humble Quest for Universal Genius 8:30PM £6/£8 Tom Bar - Brighton Comedy Festival Marcel Lucont - Encore 7PM £10 Tom Bar - Brighton Comedy Festival Josh Widdicombe 9PM £10 Tom Bar - Brighton Comedy Festival Vikki Stone 10:30PM £10 Volks - Analogue Dub Mafia Live £6

Saturday 22nd

Ancient Mariner - The Acoustic Sessions Porchlightsmoker 8PM Above Audio - Warehouse Black Grass Collective’s Mex Free B4 12 Audio - Warehouse Russ Chimes 11PM £5/£7 Belushi’s Bar - Unplugged Rocket Dogs live acoustic duo plus DJ 9PM Belushi’s Below - Faceplant Punk Rock 9PM £2/£5 Black Lion - Attic Monkeys Soul, Northern, Ska, Hip Hop, Breaks, Funk, Electronica 9PM Blind Tiger Club - Breakout Zoo 7PM £4 Brunswick - Yoga Lessons 9:30AM £5 Coalition - We Are Wired Vincent Manganaro,

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Vince Frimpong, Charles Green, Charly Lopez 11PM £8 Cobblers Thumb - Overhead Wires Record Label Showcase Night Indie, Electronica and Rock bands 5PM Concorde 2 - Concorde2 Pres Beach Of The Dead V - Official After Party 4PM £3/£4 Concorde 2 - Devotion Andy C: Alive & More 11PM £12.50adv Digital - Playroom 11PM £12/£10 Doctor Brightons - Sexy Saturday DJ Tony B from 9:30PM open 1PM Easy Bar - DJ Rudeben R’n’B, Hip - Hop & Reggae 8PM Fiddler’s Elbow - Saturday Sizzlers Soul Casserole - Funky upfront, raw underground beats, latin jazz 9PM FishBowl - Riddim Fruit & Cast A Blast Records Cut La Vis. Expect Hip Hop, Reggae, Dancehall, Funk, Breakbeat and more 9PM Fortune Of War - JFB (UK DMC Champion) 9PM Globe - Headroom Vintage House Grooves, Acid House, Nu / Leftfield Disco 9PM Good Companions - BnW Pres gypsy swing from Wide Eyed Order & more 12PM Green Door Store - Arcade (not) Disco showcase of fighting computer game culture featuring tournaments & more 10AM £tbc Honey Club - Smartie Partie Sexy R&B,The Balcony Rekorder Bar & Beachfront 10:30PM £5/£8/£10 Hope - Oxjam Pres The Hope Headbanger, Vier, Dead Empire, Dead Jester, Southern Discomfort and By Polaroid 7:30PM £5adv Hydrant - New Town Kings, Electric River, Def city Collect 8PM Hydrant - Furty UK, Shreddertrons, Subservience 8PM £tbc Komedia - Fosters Krater Comedy Club Steve Gribbin 7PM, 8PM & 10:30PM £25 (meal deal) /£18 Komedia - Erik Mongrain 7:30PM £14.50 Lola Lo - Zombie Nation DJ Scott Kirby 8PM £6/£7/£10 Marlborough - The Steampunk Hidden Pleasure Garden Brighton’s favourite Neo Victorian Cabaret 8PM £5adv/£8 Marlborough - Cherry Pop A night of cheesy tunes 9PM Mesmerist - Juke Joint Jamboree Taking you back to the dancehalls of New Orleans 9PM Northern Lights - DJ Jazzy D Jazz, Funk and Soul 9PM Sallis Benney Theatre - Early Music Festival BBC Radio 3 Early Music Show 1PM Riki Tik - Alta pres Will Sumsuch and Urban Torque Recordings 9PM Sidewinder - Philip Marten Vinyl toting, genre hopping, mind numbingly music 9PM Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar - Cupboard Music Pres Singing Adams, Laura J Martin 7PM £6.50/£8 Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar - Mauer Kunts visual stimulation 5PM The Prince Albert - Club Meow Meow with Little Triggers, Soul Grenade 8:30PM £4 Thomas Kemp - Dj Night DJ Jody Lee Hooker 9PM Three and Ten - Brighton Comedy Fringe Phillipa and Will are Now In A Relationship 6PM £5/£7 Three and Ten - Brighton Comedy Fringe Thom Tuck Goes Straight to DVD 7PM £6/£8 Three and Ten - Brighton Comedy Fringe Trevor Lock 8:30PM £6/£8 Three and Ten - Brighton Comedy Fringe Red Brick Comedy Club 10PM £8/£10 Tom Bar - Brighton Comedy Festival Diane Spencer 7:30PM £10 Tom Bar - Brighton Comedy Festival Late Night Gimp Fight 10:30PM £10 West Hill - L’Amour Electronique Synthesized Sounds & French Pop 9PM Victory - Fernando Poo 70’s Rock, Glitter Pop, Mash-ups & Indie Fuzz 9PM Volks - Simply Vinyl Pres Ten Years of Dispatch Recordings 11PM £6adv

Sunday 23rd

Ancient Mariner - The Ancient Mariner Roast Home cooked Served from 12pm to 6pm Booking advisable Above Audio - Verity Mayes and friends Audio - Substance 10PM £3 Belushi’s Bar - Now That’s What I Call a Party Part 1 DJ Jake 9PM Black Lion - Live & Swingin’ Gipsy Jazz Stopped Clock 8PM Blind Tiger Club - Ninja Tune Pres Grasscut 7PM £5 Brunswick - Full Circle Jazz 8PM £7/£5 Coalition - Blow After Hours Vincent Manganaro, Charly Lopez, Charles Green & Guests3AM £7/£5/£4 Concorde 2 - Lout Pres Maverick Sabre plus guests 7PM £10.50adv Doctor Brightons - Hangover therapy open from 1PM Duke of Norfolk - Live Music Night live music from local artists 9PM Exchange Pub - Live Rugby World Cup Final 9AM Exchange Pub - Film Night showing modern classics 8PM Fiddler’s Elbow - Sham-Rock Open Mic 8:30PM Fountain Head - Sunday Sessions Reggae and chilled beats Globe - Rockoustic Open Jam Open mic jam showcasing local talent, anyone is free to join in! 9PM Good Companions - BnW Pres folk from Francis & Boyd & more 12PM Honey Club - Sundays at The Honey DJ Lil Alex & guests play Sexy, funky house & Party music 11PM £2/£3 Hydrant - The Broken Hearts, Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers 8PM Komedia - Fosters Krater Comedy Club 3 top stand-ups and one of the best MCs 8PM £18,50 (meal deal) /£11.50 Komedia - Jerry Sadowitz: Comedian, Magician, Psychopath 8:30PM £17.50 Leconfield - Boozy Bingo Bingo without a blue rinse in sight 6PM £1 p game/ 6 for £5 Marlborough - Free Pool night Signalman - Open Mic Night All performers, musicians & styles welcome 8:15PM The Prince Albert - Good Luck Mountain, Ana Egge, The Koan Brothers 7:30PM £6adv Three and Ten - Brighton Comedy Fringe Phillipa and Will are Now In A Relationship 6PM £5/£7 Three and Ten - Brighton Comedy Fringe Thom Tuck Goes Straight to DVD 7PM £6/£8 Three and Ten - Brighton Comedy Fringe The Three Englishmen 8:30PM £6/£8

Monday 24th

LISTINGS Fountain Head - Open Mic Hosted by Mat and Paul musicians, comedians, groups Hydrant - The M Theory, Elephants From Neptune 8PM Komedia - Lout Pres Baxter Dury plus guests 7:30PM £8adv Komedia - Benjamin Francis Leftwich Daughter 8PM £8adv Leconfield - Free Pool Happy Hour All Night 8PM Lola Lo - Fat Poppadaddys DJs Matt Dean & Josh Holly 9PM £3 Signalman - Pub Quiz music, creative & general knowledge 8PM £1pp Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar - Modern Romance indie rock and rollers 10:30PM £1/£2/£3 The Prince Albert - The Rock Of travolta, Hind Ear & Guests 7:30PM £5adv Volks - Strictly Reggae Dancehall, Bashment, Roots, Revival 11PM £4.50/£5

Tuesday 25th

Above Audio - MHC £2 Belushi’s Bar - Totalled on Tuesday! Pop & Dance with DJ Paul 9PM Belushi’s Below - DJ Star DJ competition. sign up at 8PM Black Lion - Hit The Decks Open Decks Spin Off - book your slot through Facebook Brunswick - BJS Tuition Course Jazz tuition 11AM £tbc Brunswick - Yoga Lessons 7PM £5 Brunswick - Jazz Jam Session with house band and regular special guests 8PM Coalition - The Gilded Palace Of Sin Pres Chatham County Line 7PM £12/£14 Coalition - Next Hype Promotions Pres Full Volume 10:30PM £2/£3/£4 Cobblers Thumb - Student promos all day and night! Concorde 2 - Melting Vinyl Pres The Horrors 8PM SOLD OUT! Digital - CU Next Tuesday 11PM £4/£3 Doctor Brightons - Twisted Tuesday Free game of pool with every round 1PM Duke of Norfolk - Open Mic 9PM Fiddler’s Elbow - QUIZness Time Drink promos all night for entrants 8PM £1 Globe - Basement Cinema Showing classics and underground films 8PM Honey Club - Limfao Tuesdays RnB, Hip-Hop, DnB, Dance & more 10:30PM £2/£3/£4 Hydrant - Band Camp - Battle Of The Bands 8PM Leconfield - Tuesday Teaser Quiz Winning Team takes the pot Happy Hour to all Quizzers 9PM £1 pp Lola Lo - Dirtee Laundry Brighton’s best known, and favourite brands! 10PM £2/£4/£6 Marlborough - Closer by Patrick Marber An evocative and at times savage take on human relationships 7:30PM £6.50/£8.50 Marlborough - Student Night NUS deals all night from 5PM Mash Tun - Seven X Seven Student Drinks deals 7PM Mesmerist - MCC The Mesmerist Conjures Consortium 7:30PM Northern Lights - Ska day Special warm up and post party for The Specials 5PM Open House - Jazz Work Shop Try out your Jazz skills and play along with some masters to help you along 8PM £tbc Riki Tik - Freaks Pop, RnB, Dance, Indie 9PM Sidewinder - Open Mic Night Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar - Meanfiddler Pres Josh Pyke, Passenger 7:30PM £10 Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar - Phat Sessions 10PM £3/£4 The Prince Albert - External Tapestry, Alexandra Tucker, Hexenverfolgung 7:30PM £7.50adv Thomas Kemp - Poker Evening 8PM Volks - Play With Yourself. Lose Your Head house and electronic music 10PM £3/£4

Wednesday 26th

Above Audio - Hip Hop from Brighton based Drs Orders Audio - SuperCharged DJ EZ 11PM Belushi’s Bar - Now That’s What I Call a Party Part 3 DJ Jake 9PM Belushi’s Below - Student sports team socials 8PM Black Lion - Fresh Acoustics Live Music 8:30PM Brunswick - Language Classes Informal Spanish class run by a full accredited tutor 7:30PM £5 Cobblers Thumb - Pool comp night! Pool competitions every week, cash prizes Digital- The Poundance 11PM £1 B4 12 £3/£4 Doctor Brightons - Cocktail Clinic Cocktails 2 for £10.50 1PM Duke of Norfolk - Pub Quiz 9PM £1 pp Fiddler’s Elbow - Game On Top games on our HUGE and small screens FishBowl - Gareth Stephens Swing, Soul, Rhythm & Blues, Original Reggae & Ska 10PM Fountain Head - Student Night indie and rock Hydrant - Echo Rains, Streetfight Silence 8PM Hydrant - Blackhoods, Sly And The Family Drone 8PM £tbc Marlborough - Closer by Patrick Marber An evocative and at times savage take on human relationships 7:30PM £6.50/£8.50 Marlborough - Open Mic Open stage for you and your instrument, or story, poetry, act 8:30PM Mash Tun - Tin Cup Collective 5 Piece Soul, Funk Band 9PM Mesmerist - Swing Ninjas Brighton original busking band 9PM Open House - Safehouse An evening of improvised live music 8PM £5/£6 Riki Tik - Hell on High Heels Glam, Sleaze, Metal, New Wave, Punk, 80’s, Electro 9PM Sidewinder - Hip Hop Night Ice Cream Beats Music To Melt To Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar - Soulfood Funk, Disco and Hip Hop night 10:30PM £2/£3 The Prince Albert - Left Arm Pregnant 7PM £3/£4 Thomas Kemp - Kev’s Open Mic 8:30PM Three and Ten - Brighton Comedy Fringe The Hee Ha’s 8PM £5/£7 Tom Bar - Melting Vinyl & Tom Bar Pres Glasvegas and Guests 7PM £17/£19 Volks - Drum n Bass, Dubstep £2

Thursday 27th

Above Audio - 2-4-1 cocktails with Maxxi Soundsystem Audio - Bastard Pop Pop / Mash-up 11PM £2 Belushi’s Bar - Karaoke Free entry & prizes 9PM Belushi’s Below - House Party DJ’s Jess & Jake, Dirty Hous, Electro 10PM Black Lion - The Lion’s Raw! live music 8:30PM Blind Tiger Club - Playground Pres King Lagoon’s Flying Swordfish Dance Band, Kalakuta DJ’s 7PM £3 Brunswick - Stand Up Comedy Course Learn to be a stand-up in 8 weeks 7PM £tbc Brunswick - Jeudi Soir with King Size Slim Monthly Blues bash with special guests 8PM Coalition - Melting Vinyl Pres Wu Lyf 7PM £8.50 Coalition - Secret Discotheque 11PM £3/£4 Cobblers Thumb - Analogue Underground Radio pres live broadcast with open mic twist! Concorde 2 - Advance Promotions Pres Turisas 7PM £12adv Concorde 2 - Concorde2 and Little Big Pres Eskmo (LIVE AV SET), Jeremiah Jae, Anxst & More 11PM Doctor Brightons - Thirsty Thursday Happy Hour prices All Day 1PM Fiddler’s Elbow - Fiddler’s Live Lounge Funky Folk, Toe-Tappin’ Trad and Juicy Jazz 8:30PM FishBowl - The Mixer Men 4 Deck Session quickfire mixes, mashups of classic tunes and the odd scratch battle 10:30PM Globe - Hang the DJ! Eddie The Goatboy pres night where you have the chance to DJ! 9PM Honey Club - Exposed! DJ’s Charles Green & Out Break, Squiz and Ben-G 10:30PM £2/£3.50

Hope - Communion, Nimmo & The Guantletts, Deaf Club, Foxx on Fire & more 7:30PM £tbc Hydrant - Klink Pres Night Of Live Bands 8PM Komedia - Gorrid the Horrid and the Missing Ingredient 2PM £6/£20 Komedia - Comic Boom Loretta Maine 8PM £7/£9 Komedia - Fosters Krater Comedy Club Kerry Godliman, Rufus Hound and Adam Bloom with MC Stephen Grant 8PM £16 (meal deal) /£9 Lola Lo - Kitsch Quirky commercial... KITSCH! 9PM £3/£5 Marlborough - Closer by Patrick Marber An evocative and at times savage take on human relationships 7:30PM £6.50/£8.50 Mash Tun - They Mostly Come At Night Indy, rock, electro, hip hop 9PM Mesmerist - Dr Bluegrass & The IllBilly 8 Foot stompin’, thigh slappin’ bluegrass from the deep south 9PM Northern Lights - Folk metal night warm up and post party for Turisas 5PM St James Tavern - Stay Sick, Turn Blue 50s, 60s, R&R, Soul, Jazz, Blues 8:30PM Riki Tik - Das Club Robotique Electro Boogie, Synth Funk, Post Disco, Day One Rap 9PM Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar - Super Heroes Of BMX Pres Catholic Discipline 8PM Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar - Thursday Night Fish Fry Jamaica sound system, blues and ska dance 11PM £3 The Prince Albert - Rod Picott 7PM £10adv Thomas Kemp - Unplugged Sessions 8:30PM Three and Ten - Brighton Comedy Fringe Madame Galina: My Tutu’s Gone AWOL 8PM £6/£8 Victory - Open MIc 8PM

Friday 28th

Above Audio - Above Audio Pres Brighton finest DJ’s plus the occasional special guest Audio - Disco Deviant Andrew Weatherall 11PM Belushi’s Bar - Muy Loco Halloween Special pop, house, rnb 9PM Belushi’s Below - Abandoned Rock & Metal Night 10PM £2/£3 Black Lion - Stop Go! The Planet Groove Collective & DJ Lanx 9PM Blind Tiger Club - Stay Sick’s Halloween Blow Out! The Black Rash, The Rippers (Fr), Pusscat & The Dirty Johnsons 9PM £8adv Coalition - Put It On Promotions Pres Silver Apples, A Lily 7PM £9.50/£11 Coalition - Friday I’m In Love 11PM £3/£4 Cobblers Thumb - Analogue Underground Radio Pres Ladies’ Night Concorde 2 - Lout Pres Charlie Simpson plus guests 7PM £12.50adv Concorde 2 - Playgroup Pres DJ Yoda With Trans-Siberian March Band 11PM £12/£15 Digital - Stonelove 101% Indie Rock n Roll 11PM £3/£4 B4 12PM Doctor Brightons - Funky Friday DJ Nick Hirst / Wayne 9:30PM open 1PM Duke of Norfolk - DJ Cashback Music from all the eras 9PM Easy Bar - DJ Rudeben R’n’B, Hip - Hop & Reggae 8PM Fiddler’s Elbow - TFI Friday The weekend starts here…8PM FishBowl - Freestyle Records A&R guru and label manager, Greg Boraman 9PM Fortune Of War - Melena De Pomelo Spanish party rumba flamenco with dancer 9PM Globe - Rum Fridays! Guest DJs playing eclectic beats upstairs 9PM Honey Club - I Love R&B Squiz & Too Cold & Guest 10:30PM £5 Hydrant - Darkside Promotions Pres A 80’s Night 8PM Hydrant - Music Club Pres Stone Cold, The Legendry Wooden Lion 8PM £tbc Komedia - Steve Ellis & The Soul Survivors 7:30PM £12.50adv Komedia - Fosters Krater Comedy Club Kerry Godliman, Rufus Hound and Adam Bloom with MC Stephen Grant 8PM £21,50 (meal deal)

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/£14.50 Leconfield - Student Night Drinks deals all night 8PM Lola Lo - Tiki Beats Resident DJ, Cocoloco’s very own DJ Karizma 8PM £3/£4/£5 Marlborough - Closer by Patrick Marber An evocative and at times savage take on human relationships 7:30PM £6.50/£8.50 Marlborough - The Marlborough Halloween Party With DJ Fondue Inferno 8PM Mesmerist - Shake Holla & Roll blues & ragtime influenced Dixieland jazz, 40’s/50’s rhythm & blues 9PM Sidewinder - Beat Hector (Tru Thoughts) 9PM Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar - Kick Out The Jams Loud guitars, fuzz and noise 11PM The Prince Albert - Crypsis, Meansteed & Support 8PM £5 Thomas Kemp - Dj Night Djs Hep-Cat-Matt & Ollie Citizen Lane 9PM Three and Ten - Brighton Comedy Fringe Rabbit in the Headlights Comedy Fringe Finale 8PM £8 Volks - Erisian Halloween Zombie Special Drumcorps aka Aaron Spectre, FFF, Jakub23, Katch Pyro 11PM

Saturday 29th

Ancient Mariner - The Ancient Mariner Monster’s Ball Whistleblowers Above Audio - Warehouse Black Grass Collective’s Mex Free B4 12 Audio - Warehouse Solo 11PM £5/£7 Belushi’s Bar - Unplugged Holloween Special Rocket Dogs live acoustic duo plus DJ 9PM Belushi’s Below - Halloween Metal Special Rock & Metal 9PM £2/£5 Black Lion - Burnt Toast Blackbelt Jonez & friends sleazy soul, filthy funk, dirty breaks 9PM Blind Tiger Club - White Night Brunswick - Yoga Lessons 9:30AM £5 Coalition - Coalition Pres Pump up the Jam Halloween Special & more 11PM £5 Concorde 2 - Metropolis Music Pres Wretch 32, Loick Essien, Teezy, Duchess 7PM £10adv Concorde 2 - The End Of The World The Halloween party to end all Halloween parties! 11PM Digital - Supercharged Pres Stanton Warriors & Guests 11PM £10.50 Doctor Brightons - Halloween Ball Weekend DJ Nick Hirst & DJ Wayne from 9:30PM open 1PM Duke of Norfolk - Halloween Party Special 9PM Easy Bar - DJ Rudeben R’n’B, Hip - Hop & Reggae 8PM Fiddler’s Elbow - Attic Monkeys Halloween Horrors!! Ghoulish & Garish & quite simply the greatest Saturday with Fiddler’s fave DJs 9PM FishBowl - Sam Redmore Expect funk soul, reggae, disco & more 9PM Fortune Of War - White Night 9PM Globe - BlackLodge House, Disco, Italo and Balearic beats 9PM Honey Club - Honey Music Halloween Party with Rosie Romero 10:30PM £5/£8 Hydrant - John Peel Vic Godard & Subway Sect, Piranhas 3D, The Fallen Leaves & more 7:30PM £10 Hydrant - The Hotlines, Down To My Last 8PM Komedia - Fosters Krater Comedy Club Kerry Godliman, Rufus Hound and Adam Bloom with MC Stephen Grant 7PM, 8PM & 10:30PM £25 (meal deal) /£18 Leconfield - Ghoulish Gathering-Halloween Party 8PM Lola Lo - Zombie Nation DJ Scott Kirby 8PM £6/£7/£10 Marlborough - White Night Welcome to the Independent Republic of Shoetopia 8PM Mesmerist - Juke Joint Jamboree Taking you back to the dancehalls of New Orleans 9PM Night In Gale - White Night Charnock (Sean Tuan John from Wales) 7PM Northern Lights - Halloween special with Young Livers games, fancy dress, story telling and more! Open House - Halloween Party DJ’s, Fancy

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Dress - Prize For Best Costume Sallis Benney Theatre - White Night West Street Story Riki Tik - House Of Freaks (Halloween Special) Young Tribes DJ’s 9PM Sidewinder - Halloween Party 9PM Signalman - Dead Famous Halloween Party 7PM Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar - Mauer Kunts visual stimulation 5PM Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar - Stiff Promotions Pres Rosie Vanier 7PM £6/£7 Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar - The Power And The Glory 11PM £3/£5 The Prince Albert - White Night Pres Icarus Youth, Twin Twisters, Apoil 8PM The Prince Albert - White Night Pres Humble Attempt, John Morillion, Emilie Anne Charlotte 8PM Thomas Kemp - Dj Night DJ Molar 9PM Three and Ten - White Night 7PM Volks - Evolution Halloween Special Kenny Ken, Hamilton, Tantrum Desire & more 10PM £5

Sunday 30th

Ancient Mariner - The Ancient Mariner Roast Home cooked Served from 12pm to 6pm Booking advisable Above Audio - Verity Mayes and friends Audio - Substance 10PM £3 Belushi’s Bar - Now That’s What I Call a Party Part 1 DJ Jake 9PM Black Lion - Live & Swingin’ Gipsy Jazz Stopped Clock 8PM Blind Tiger Club - Swamp Meets Stomp 6PM Brunswick - The Crave with support from Chris Simmons 8PM £6 Coalition - Blow After Hours Vincent Manganaro, Charly Lopez, Charles Green & Guests3AM £7/£5/£4 Concorde 2 - Eat Your Own Ears Pres Anna Calvi plus guests 10:30PM £10.50adv Digital - Digital Pres MR Scrff (5H Set) 9PM £8 Doctor Brightons - Halloween Ball Weekend open from 1PM Duke of Norfolk - Live Music Night live music from local artists 9PM Exchange Pub - Film Night showing modern classics 8PM Fiddler’s Elbow - Sham-Rock Open Mic 8:30PM Fountain Head - Sunday Sessions Reggae and chilled beats Globe - Hot-Tip Hi-Fi Reggae, Rocksteady and Ska vintage selection 9PM Honey Club - Sundays at The Honey DJ Lil Alex & guests play Sexy, funky house & Party music 11PM £2/£3 Hydrant - Jackhammer Pres Halloween Special Metal Night 7:30PM £tbc Hydrant - National Snack & Support 8PM Komedia - Lout Pres Natty plus guests 7:30PM £10adv Komedia - Fosters Krater Comedy Club Kerry Godliman, Rufus Hound and Adam Bloom with MC Stephen Grant 8PM £18,50 (meal deal) /£11.50 Leconfield - Boozy Bingo Bingo without a blue rinse in sight 6PM £1 p game/ 6 for £5 Lectern - Twisted Frontier Kate Williams & support 7:30PM £3 Marlborough - Free Pool night Signalman - Family Friendly Halloween Sunday Lunch 12PM Signalman - Open Mic Night All performers, musicians & styles welcome 8:15PM Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar - Brighton BreakThrough Festival The Grace & Death Of Us, The Cape Race,Loose Lips, Mojo Jojo 9PM £10 The Prince Albert - Actions, The Oceans Eyes, Dying Breads 8PM £4 Thomas Kemp - Jazz in the Afternoon Miss Mandy, Jazz Duo 4PM Volks - Psy Sundays All Dayer Tantrix, Sonic Species, Miss Chief, Add Simeon & more 2PM

Monday 31st

Ancient Mariner - Quiz Night Cash prizes for 1st,

2nd, 3rd & 2nd to last place teams 8PM £1 each, plus £1 per team Above Audio - Banana Island International Student Party open to everyone £2 Belushi’s Bar - Now That’s What I Call a Graveyard Party DJ Jake 9PM Belushi’s Below - Fallout Live Rock Bands 9PM £1/£2 Black Lion - Monday Club Anything goes - great music - All night NUS Happy Hour 9PM Blind Tiger Club - Nice Weather For Airstrikes Pres &U&I, Shapes & Support 6PM £7adv Brunswick - Art Class Painting & Drawing 7PM £tbc Brunswick - Open Mic Popular open mic night with full stage and PA 8:30PM Coalition - Trash Mondays DJs Willerby, Charles Green, Milton & More 10PM £3/£5 Cobblers Thumb - Free Pool all day 12PM Digital - Digital Pres Shades Grave Halloween 10PM Doctor Brightons - Meditation Mondays Happy H All Day 1PM Exchange Pub - The Exchange Pub Quiz winning team wins the pot 8:30PM £1pp Fiddler’s Elbow - Game On Monday night football is back Fountain Head - Open Mic Hosted by Mat and Paul musicians, comedians, groups Globe - The Globe Halloween Drink discounts for thoes in costume and scary movies in the basement Hydrant - Exposure Pres A Night Of Live Music 7:30PM £tbc Hydrant - Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea 8PM Komedia - Lout Pres Mona plus guests 7:30PM £9adv Leconfield - Free Pool Happy Hour All Night 8PM Lola Lo - Fat Poppadaddys DJs Matt Dean & Josh Holly 9PM £3 Playgroup Live - Shapes, &u&I, Mac, You Cry Wolf 6PM £7adv Sallis Benney Theatre - Monday Movies Halloween Special: The Evil Dead 6PM £2.50/£3 Signalman - Pub Quiz music, creative & general knowledge 8PM £1pp Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar - Modern Romance indie rock and rollers 10:30PM £1/£2/£3 The Prince Albert - Born To Lose Halloween Special 8:30PM £3/£4 Thomas Kemp - Quiz Night Film, General Knowledge, Music and More, Letter Halloween £1pp Tom Bar - Melting Vinyl & Tom Bar Pres Glasvegas and Guests 7PM £15.50/£17.50 Volks - Strictly Reggae Dancehall, Bashment, Roots, Revival 11PM £4.50/£5

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