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March 2015 With a spring in our step and glee in our hearts we bounce into March, well stumble at least. Details of what we’ll all be dancing to, gawping at, listening to or just experiencing, in the festival packed month of May have arrived. Not that we’re wishing away the third month. It seems every musician has an album out soon and many of them are coming to Brighton in the coming weeks. This month also offers unparalleled carousing opportunities on St. Patrick’s Day, glimpses of new worlds as NASA’s Dawn spacecraft arrives at the dwarf planet Ceres and World Day for Water! Best of all, the nation’s Eurovision entry is unveiled this month! As they probably say in Luxembourg: “Je ne sais pas, et ne peux pas parler français!”
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RNLI SLIPWAY SLIDE
DOCTOR WHO DESIGNER ANNOUNCED AS LEAD ARTIST FOR OPEN HOUSES
Brightonians, and some lucky tourists, will be making a splash on Sat 21 Mar this month, when the Royal National Lifeboat Institution brings their infamous 100m waterslide to the usually congested Edward Street, near Kemp Town.
British designer Bernard Lodge, best known for his work on Doctor Who, has been chosen to design the artwork for this year’s Artists Open Houses Festival.
Known for housing the city’s magistrate court and the Jobcentre, Edward Street will be wondrously transformed into an aquatic playground for the old, the young, and the undecided. This splashtastic event will see lucky winners of a text ballot whizzing down the hill on lilos, and could be set to achieve spectators in their thousands. At a similar event in Bristol last year, an estimated 100,000 eager participants competed for the 360 limited spaces in the event.
Designing the first four series logos and the first five title sequences for Doctor Who, Lodge subsequently worked on Ridley Scott’s Alien and Bladerunner, and was one of the first people to work with computer effects. Since then he’s moved to more traditional art-forms, creating bright and bold woodcuts in his studio outside Brighton. Some of his work, along with pieces from last year’s Open Houses Artist of the Year winner Tony Bowen, will be exhibited at The Old Market and at Salon Des Sources.
Edward Street Sat 21 March 11am - 4pm
Eager hopefuls will be required to send a £1.50 text to 82727 with the word SLIDE, in order to be in with a chance of partaking in what is sure to be an aqua-fuelled frenzy. Winners will also be expected to wear long sleeved clothing when partaking in the aptly named ‘Slipway Slide’, and must be prepared to get wet! The events’ proceeds will go towards the RNLI for important life-saving equipment and training, and will help to support the invaluable services of life-boat crew members; whom are often on call 24/7. If unlucky this time around, hydromaniacs may want to join the RNLI Slipway Slide tour, and venture to the realms of Plymouth and Bradford later this year, for another attempt at being part of this exclusive lilo adventure! All applicants must be 18 or over to enter. To find out more visit: slipwayslide.rnli.org/BrightonTerms
The Artists Open Houses 2015 is the largest event of its kind in the UK, with approximately 200 houses and studio spaces across the city opening their doors to exhibit the work of 1,000+ artists and makers. This free event offers the chance to buy artwork directly from the artists. The houses are grouped into 14 trails, each with its own unique character and atmosphere – from fishermen’s houses of Hanover to urban warehouse spaces in North Laine and South Downs cottages in Ditchling. Artists Open Houses Festival 2015 runs on Sat 2 - Sun 24 May, at venues across Brighton. For more details visit: www.aoh.org.uk
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THE TEMPEST INN Kings Road Arches, BN1 1NB Opens Thurs 19 March
If you go down into the caves today. Opening on Thurs 19 March and joining Riki Tik Beach Bar and The Fortune of War on the seafront comes the Shakespeare-influenced Tempest Inn. The upstairs Ariel Bar looks out over the sea for sunsets and stormy evenings. Downstairs is a warren of caves, each one able to be booked out for parties of up to eight. It’s certainly a unique venue. Coupled with a menu of local produce and a bar stocking Laine’s craft beers the Tempest is looking to make the seafront a destination for a great night out again. www.facebook.com/tempestpub
WOMEN IN DIGITAL SPRING FORWARD THIS MONTH Spring Forward, Brighton’s (and the UK’s only) festival focused on celebrating women working in digital, returns in March for its second year. The diary for 2015 is rich, varied and empowering, with events, coding workshops, tutorials in stop-motion animation and short film making, technologybased, panels, lecture and discussion. Events range from She Says Brighton “Speak Up!” – a series of talks with four MDs from Brighton’s leading digital companies, to Pixels and Prosecco, an evening featuring wine, cake and five women in the games industry. Coinciding with Women’s History Month, the event aims to empower and encourage more women into digital media and to celebrate the past achievements of women in the sector. www.wespringforward.com
Hits the cinemas from Fri 20 March To celebrate the release of the upcoming Dreamworks animated comedy Home we’re giving away a goody bag full of fun Home treats to one lucky reader. Home follows Oh (Jim Parsons) a loveable misfit from another planet who lands on Earth and finds himself on the run from his own people. He forms an unlikely friendship with an adventurous girl named Tip (Rihanna) who is on a quest of her own. Through a series of comic adventures with Tip, Oh comes to understand that being different and making mistakes is all part of being human. And while he changes her planet and she changes his world, they discover the true meaning of the word HOME. All you have to do to win this awesome prize is answer the question below: Who does Jim Parsons play in the TV-Series ‘The Big Bang Theory’? A. B. C.
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THE COUNTDOWN TO BRIGHTON FRINGE 2015 HAS BEGUN Brighton Fringe recently launched its 2015 programme online, starting the countdown to a record-breaking year for England’s largest arts festival. Running Fri 1 - Sun 31 May, 750 events are confirmed so far, the highest number ever to appear at the festival, with 233 of these shows being world premieres. Its total of 60 international productions includes a concert from the Soweto Spiritual Singers, I Am Not Antigone from the Netherland’s Idreman Foundation, Sjoerd Meijer’s The Liberation of an Angry Little Man, 2013’s winner of the Best Show at Amsterdam Fringe and PAND 7090, which scooped this prize last year. Audiences can also see lifesized elephant and giraffe puppets at the Largest Marionette Circus in the World, a UK premiere from Poland. A total of 181 venues will host Brighton Fringe events including the ever-popular Spiegeltent on Old Steine, Sussex County Cricket Club and Brighton Racecourse. Otherplace Productions celebrates ten years of Brighton Fringe with its biggest programme yet.
The flourishing Brighton-based production company is relocating its large scale, pop-up Fringe venue The Warren to the grounds of St Peter’s Church in the heart of the city. More than 50 family shows are on offer including the Brighton Fringe family picnic, served up in the stunning Pavilion Gardens on the two bank holidays in May (May 4 and 25). The ever popular Fringe City returns, this free showcase of theatre, art installations, interactive performances, puppetry, poetry and live music, attracts around 50,000 visitors. Brighton Fringe’s commitment to nurturing artistic talent continues with a host of bursaries and support programmes. These include WINDOW, a week of high quality new works, a Legal and General bursary scheme for 12 artists aged 60 and over and support for touring artists from the Pebble Trust and O2’s Think Big scheme. Brighton Fringe comes to venues across Brighton & Hove on Fri 1 - Sun 31 May 2015. www.brightonfringe.org
SOUL DAMN FUNKY CELEBRATES 5TH BIRTHDAY Brighton’s only soulful house event is marking their fifth year of parties, with superstar DJ - Paul Trouble Anderson. A veteran of sound-system culture, Anderson cut his teeth at parties all around London, bringing his ‘Trouble Funk Sound‘ to the emergent warehouse scene. Four decades in and he’s still attracting a great atmosphere and friendly happy crowds. Joining him with more deep, soulful and funky house are Kevin Fernando, Curly Deb, The Analysir, Russell Ruckman and Kelly G. www.souldamnfunky.com
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James Bay Sitting on the dock with James Bay
With a brace of catchy guitar-based ballads and an army of eager fans, it’s easy to see why James Bay has been proclaimed as 2015’s Brits Critics Choice. Now this month sees the release of his Nashville recorded debut album, something which will justify that panel’s faith in his melodic and sensitive folk-rock. With a sound seemingly influenced by a range of 70s artists, including James Taylor and Jackson Browne, there’s a distinct stripped back ethos to his work. When he’s at his best, it’s simply him and his acoustic guitar. “I’ll always believe in ‘less is more’,” he says. “But there’s also music out there that’s got really busy production and sounds all the more amazing.” There are echoes of LaMontagne, Mayer and even Bob Dylan present throughout his work. But despite his affinity with these classic solitary troubadours, there is nothing retro or self-indulgent about his music. Playing Radio One’s Live Lounge before even releasing a single, one of the tracks he performed lodged itself in the iTunes chart. Overnight the Twitter-sphere took on the James Bay cause, the yearning and starry-eyed demo and EP tracks
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suddenly resonating with a massive audience. The inevitable resentful backlash has already been grumbling away in some corners of the music press. Oddly criticism is levelled more at Bay’s trendy attire than his actual abilities, one detractor even sniping at his ever-present fedora. Objectionable headgear is a fairly trivial crime in an industry populated by idiots, chancers and the lacklustre, but at least offers a line of attack when you can’t fault someone’s raw talent. The lovers massively outnumber the haters mind. There’s also plenty of people to keep him grounded and in touch with reality, despite his meteoric rise to pop stardom. “The people in my life that have been there since before I played music… I know I can trust them, and they know when to tell me to wind my neck in!” What makes Bay so interesting is he’s a product of the YouTube generation. This is an evolving market where ability and charisma are judged on their own merits, free of the constraints of playlists and promotion. Bay’s success highlights the changing way we choose and consume music. While haughtier critics bemoan the passing of the old ways, it’s inarguable he’s the choice of a new connected
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generation. His stellar ascent began with a YouTube upload bringing his soulful tones to the attention of Republic Records, the label which developed Florence and the Machine, James Blake and Lorde. An EP soon followed, giving fans a cohesive glimpse of where he was headed. Since then his debut single, the country-tinged slow-building epic ‘Hold Back the River’ went to #16, receiving over 7 million plays on video streaming service Vevo alone. Another British and Irish Modern Music Institute alumnus, the handsome chap in black attended the Brighton campus in the same year as Tom Odell. Growing up in the country rock mecca of Hitchin, the young Bay devoted his time to perfecting his guitar work. By the time he moved to Brighton, he was already an open mic night veteran. As with every musician honing his skills through endless gigging, there are the unavoidable nightmare show anecdotes to be shared. One hometown pub booking saw him playing to an empty room. “No crowd all night - that’s never fun. But you can still learn something playing to two very bored looking bar staff.” Times have changed dramatically, he’s easily selling out medium sized venues in London, but experiences like these forced him to learn and develop both his stage craft and his songwriting. Amongst all of his efforts and performances, there are a few golden moments he holds dear. Busking on Brighton’s New Road brought traffic to a standstill, the gathering crowd declining to allow cars past until Bay had finished his set. “About 150 people were spilling out into the road, blocking traffic. It was pretty crazy and lots of fun.” Understandably, living in Brighton has given him an appreciation of good beach culture. “There’s nothing like a hot summer night and having the sea a few steps from your front door.” Moving away from home for the first time, Brighton offered a place where he was encouraged to be himself, he felt musically independent. “Living in a buzzy new city like that was a huge influence on me.” He’s also been endowed with the enthusiasm of most BIMM students, describing the college as the stepping stone from being nowhere to getting somewhere. “I’ve made a lot of friends in music, even just this far along. But being at BIMM showed me you still have to strive to be better than everyone around you to take even the first step towards signing a deal.” His advice for anyone else hoping to emulate his rise to prominence goes little beyond emphasising the importance of hard work. “With music, it all works like a muscle - the more you use it, the better it gets.” James Bay’s debut album, Chaos and the Calm, is released on Mon 23 March, via Republic Records www.jamesbaymusic.com
Gigs In Brighton... The PreaTures
Wednesday, 11th March Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar
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Ear Trumpet - Touch Tour Sun 17 May, 11.15am
Brighton Festival Straight from the art Brighton Festival, England’s largest annual multi-arts event, has launched their programme, helmed by award-winning Scottish author Ali Smith as Guest Director. Winner of both the Costa Novel award and Goldsmiths Prize, she fearlessly pushes the literary boundaries. Deploying both deftness and accessibility in her writing, she’s earned a reputation for being vitally inventive and scrupulously playful. Running Sat 2 – Sun 24 May, 2015’s festival programme reflects many of Smith’s ideas, interests and passions. These will be explored in a programme spanning music, theatre, dance, visual art, film, literature and debate from a wide range of companies and artists. “It’s tremendously exciting to have been asked to help programme the 2015 Brighton Festival,” Ali Smith said. “It’s a city that’s always known how to live on the edge, a place full of endless energy, argument, possibilities, light. No matter the wildness or mildness of the weather, no matter the zigzag of zeitgeist elsewhere north or south of it, Brighton is always itself, and always uniquely welcoming.” With three central themes at its heart - Art and Nature, the Crossing Places between art forms, and Taking Liberty - this year’s event challenges us to look again at the world we think we know. Does life imitate art or art imitate life? Nature is explored in a range of ways, including The Nightingale Walk with Mercury-nominated folk singer Sam Lee, an immersive film installation of Marcus Coates’ Dawn Chorus and Fleeting an outdoor spectacular with swathes of glowing light and fire over the West Pier. The notion of Crossing Places stands central to the festival. This year sees works defying categorisation like The Measure of All Things, a live cinema performance by Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Sam Green and
Claudia Molitor’s part-installation, part-performance Vast White Stillness in the maze of tunnels beneath The Old Ship Hotel. Set against the backdrop of the UK General Election, liberty, equality and freedom are celebrated in an astonishing cuttingedge line-up of artists. Liberty director and author Shami Chakrabati hosts an evening in celebration of the Human Rights Act, featuring a dazzling collection of writers and performers such as Billy Bragg, Neil Bartlett, Rachel Holmes and Jackie Kay. Elsewhere, Tony Award-winning playwright Richard Nelson brings the European premiere of his acclaimed four play cycle The Apple Family Plays, and Turner Prize nominated artist Nathan Coley’s new commission Portraits of Dissension explores ideas of unrest, edge and shift, space and occupation. The Forgotten sees its UK premiere. This Brighton Festival exclusively fuses theatre and dance and extraordinary physical prowess. Six French circus performers fly, glide and dive against an impressive theatrical landscape. Other highlights include Peter Strickland’s daring masterpiece The Duke of Burgundy, accompanied by a live performance of its score by Cat’s Eyes – formed by The Horrors’ frontman Faris Badwan. How We Used to Live, director Paul Kelly and Saint Etienne’s film using the BFI archive of rare London footage, also gets a screening with a live soundtrack. Queens Park witnesses sound, both ancient and modern, bubbling up through the ground. Named Ear Trumpet, this playful installation features original music recorded ‘in the field’ by the musician and composer Robert Lee.
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Music again plays a big part in Festival proceedings. Squarepusher, the producer, composer and sound artist, promises an evening of extremity, it’ll be very fast, very experimental. Modern guitar hero Anna Calvi will show why her exceptional talent and imagination has earned two Mercury Music Prize nominations. Playwright, novelist, poet and Mercury nominee Kate Tempest makes another Brighton Festival appearance, with special guests George the Poet and Hollie McNish, in an evening of incisive urban word wizardry. One of America’s most daring musicians and NASA’s first artist-in-residence, Laurie Anderson makes a welcome return to Brighton in a specially curated performance responding to this year’s Festival themes. As ever, the Festival offers diverse interpretations of the world around us. The Beautiful Cosmos of Ivor Cutler sees an English Premiere, tracing a journey through the mind of one of music’s most improbable icons. A true maverick, Ivor Cutler had a remarkable life: from birth, through boyhood, to old age and death. Comedian, ventriloquist, filmmaker Nina Conti offers a screening of her BAFTAnominated ‘docu-mockumentary’ Her Master’s Voice, followed by a characteristically unpredictable live performance. As ever Brighton Festival displays its art and performance in new, unusual venues. The beautiful pop-up Roundabout auditorium pitches up in Regency Square for the duration of the Festival, bringing the nation’s best playwrights to people’s doorsteps. Elsewhere, Carousel is a viscerally enthralling new tale of a fairground after dark. Featuring a fully functioning merry-go-round, this provides the centre-piece for an edgy story of enigmatic fairground characters. Established in 1967, Brighton Festival has a rich history of pushing boundaries. In its inaugural year the programme controversially included the first ever exhibition of Concrete Poetry in the UK. Now this annual event features 396 performances taking place across 150 events, including 42 exclusives, premieres and commissions. One of Europe’s leading arts festivals for artists and audiences, it’s now known for commissioning and producing an ambitious programme, aiming to make the most of the city’s distinctive cultural atmosphere. Brighton Festival runs on Sat 2 – Sun 24 May, at venues across the city. www.brightonfestival.org
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MUSIC
FLOWERS
ALTERNATIVE TV
Tue 3 Mar
Sun 8 Mar The Prince Albert
The first of many bands with albums out this month, London trio Flowers have found themselves in the enviable position of getting Bernard Butler on production duties.
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VIKESH KAPOOR Tue 10 Mar Green Door Store
The Verdict It’s almost a year since Pennsylvanian songwriter Vikesh Kapoor visited these shores, now he’s back with a debut album in tow. As a non-Catholic at a Catholic school, Kapoor felt something of an outcast as a child. Until punk bands beckoned, from here he discovered a world of Springsteen, Dylan, Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie.
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Alternative TV had dazzling tunes and a fun attitude. In true punk style, they also self-detonated during the bid to prove their art. Fronted by Mark Perry, the founder of legendary punk fanzine Sniffin’ Glue, they mix pop, punk and reggae. Finding critical acclaim with debut album ‘The Image Has Cracked’, they inexplicably began exploring more avant-garde and experimental territory. To further confuse their traditional punk audience, the band changed their name to the Good Missionaries. Now the band seems to have returned to their roots. But don’t get complacent, who knows when they’ll change their minds? www.thegreendoorstore.co.uk
JACK ROCKS PRESENTS IS TROPICAL
CHARLI XCX
COURTNEY BARNETT
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Tue 24 Mar
The epically titled ‘Do What You Want To, It’s What You Should Do’ captures the intensity of youth in in its 14 deceptively simple pop songs. Covering loneliness, happiness, rejection, love, torment and excitement, every track is short, smart and simple. If you want lots of emotions efficiently conveyed with minimal instrumentation, this is the show for you.
The Joker A welcome addition to the emergent London Road scene, The Joker plays host to the first in a series of Jack Daniel’s nights showcasing new and exciting acts. In the frame this month are Is Tropical, a band from London who regularly play in the furthest and oddest reaches of the globe, rather than endlessly tour the usual UK venues. But now Brighton has snared this three piece and their swaggering beat-laden, synth pop, at least for a night. If you’re really lucky they might even swap tales of exotic places for a JD and coke.
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Released in Apr 2014, his debut album ‘The Ballad Of Willy Robbins’ has been bringing him some much-deserved recognition. A hugely talented songwriter and performer, it’s bewildering that this captivating artist isn’t already a household name. www.vikeshkapoor.com
Fri 27 Mar Concorde 2
From punky and experimental beginnings, Charli XCX has refined her sound, collaborating with artists ranging from Weezer, to Stargate and Vampire Weekend’s Rostam Batmanglij along the way. Seizing the chance to co-write and appear on Icona Pop’s smash hit ‘I Love It’, this led to working with Iggy Azalea on the number one single ‘Fancy’. Repeated hit singles like ‘Boom Clap’ and ‘Doing It’ (featuring Rita Ora) have proved she’s not abandoning the charts anytime soon. Now her highly anticipated new album ‘Sucker’ is finally out, so she’s bringing her perfect pop out on a UK headline Tour. www.concorde2.co.uk
Concorde 2 Recorded in the autumn of 2014, Courtney Barnett’s ‘Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit’ finally compresses her incisive vision onto a long player. With knifesharp wit and infectious melodies she’s more addictive than ever. One of the most distinctive voices in indie rock, Barnett mixes droll, often hilarious observations with devastating selfassessment. She’s already revealed herself as an ambitious songwriter, with a clever turns of phrase and an eye for story-telling. Useless relationships and dead end suburbs, even her own fears, doubts and insecurities - nothing escapes Barnett’s caustic sense of humour. www.concorde2.co.uk
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Twin sisters The Veronicas release their selftitled third album this month. It represents a powerful, emotive and uncensored account of Jessica and Lisa’s journey over the past two years. Exploring the themes of love, life, power and personal rebirth, ‘The Veronicas’ exposes a raw vulnerable side to the band. Recorded in Los Angeles, Nashville, New York and Sydney, this new album sees collaborations with Nellee Hooper, Billy Corgan, Emeli Sandé, David Musumeci and Anthony Egizii. Having sold over three million records worldwide, the sisters have spent the last two years travelling the world, writing this album, the first since 2007’s double platinum hit ‘Hook Me Up’. www.concorde2.co.uk
Are they rock fans seduced by the dancefloor, dance fans equally happy playing live instruments or drum and bass aficionados with muscular metallic riffs? Brighton-based and genre-defying, The Qemists, are a compelling quandary.
Out on her first headline UK tour in 18 months; this acclaimed singer is offering samples of new material from her second album, due out later this year. Expect some big emotions on display, helped along by Rose’s commanding performance skills.
Their debut album ‘Join The Q’ balanced jungle and metal with wall-shaking dancehall reggae aesthetics, proving there’s no need for generic electronic music. Powerful, experimental and enormously exciting, they mix the dynamics of rock with adrenalinfuelled rush of rave into a sound that’s relentlessly unique.
The softness of Rose’s voice will be instantly recognisable to anyone hearing her contributions to the second and third Bombay Bicycle Club albums. One of the UK’s finest song-writers, her love of haunting acoustics, delicate melodies and lyrical fragility mean she’s capable of smashing out a top pop tune or two.
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Tue 31 Mar Concorde 2
California record label Pure Noise Records undertakes their first ever UK tour. Bringing with them a blend of melodic-hardcore and pop-punk are headliners, Four Year Strong. Successfully managing to be noisy and catchy simultaneously, no mean feat for any band, they offer up an exciting yet tightly focused back catalogue. Specialising in epic riffs, clever tempo changes and incredible guitar work, they’ve plenty of coarselyhewed chords and swagger-packed lyrics to win you over. But this is no band desperately hankering to win you over - they’re way too confident and cool for any of that. www.concorde2.co.uk
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There’s a new label, new album and a new attitude. Therapy? are back on form with ‘Disquiet’, an album packed with high-charged, in-your-face, bruising melodic punk/metal. It’s a sequel of sorts to the band’s million-selling 1994 album ‘Troublegum’.
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Confrontational, challenging, vengeful and venomous, once again the keenly intelligent alt-rockers offer another utterly compelling document. It showcases a confident band operating at the peak of their powers, yet remains the most accessible record Therapy? have made in two decades.
This month sees Errors releasing their fourth album ‘Lease of Life’, a follow up to the critically acclaimed 2012 album ‘Have Some Faith In Magic’. Recoded on the Isle Of Jura, the location where George Orwell wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four and The KLF tried to burn a million pounds; it’s a bold and exciting piece of work. The band are in a confident mood, filled with a desire to develop fresh sounds, whilst offering their most accessible and immediate songwriting yet. ‘Lease of Life’ is their most cohesive album to date, which should expose the Glaswegian synth popsters to a wider audience.
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Brighton-based house music club night Movement is hosting a new range of events, each introducing fresh acts to Brighton and collaborating with independent record labels. Aiming to reach new crowds and breaking new acts, the first event sees them team up with Motion Records. Playing alongside resident DJ Ash Huntington, and representing Motion Records, are London based DJ/production duo 2 Good Souls who’ll bring a melting pot of underground styles. Joining them with some straight-up house music is BeatNickEd, a DJ/production duo hailing from the Midlands with a combined 30 years in the game. www.glorygloryevents.biz
Get ready, because Treatment is bringing Bristol-based bass music maestro, Julio Bashmore to town. One of the world’s most in-demand DJs, he’s now promising a debut album, a killer new label, a raft of new tunes and a reinvigorated attitude to house music.
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Fri 27 Mar
With productions and remixes popping up on any forward-thinking label, Bashmore is at the top of his game right now. Whether you’ve blissed-out to his garage hit ‘Footsteppin’ or got down to the bass laden ‘Batak Groove’, it’s a rare clubber that hasn’t been touched by his music.
Komedia The monthly 80s club night for people who hate 80s nights returns, playing alternative classics and offering a place for people wanting to hear something (and dress) just a little bit different. Hosted by Jenna Allsopp and Simon Price, the team behind legendary London glam night Stay Beautiful, it attracts an excitable and diverse crowd.
British electronic music label, Tectonic Recordings celebrate ten years in the game. One of the key founding dubstep labels, it became a focal point for the exploding Bristol scene, introducing artists and releases which spanned genres and continents. Room one sees original dubstep innovator Mala. Deep, dark and meditative, this skilful and thoughtful producer draws inspiration from the improvisations and euphoria of a diverse range of world music. Joining him is Pinch, Batu, Riz La Teef and Paxah b2b Echoes. A near intimate setting with a booming soundsystem, this is a perfect way to reflect on a decade of a legend.
Sat 28 Mar Komedia
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Treatment presents breakthrough UK duo Snakehips, after their whirlwind 2014. Last year’s single ‘Days With You’ saw huge success. A collection of hype-machine topping remixes will inspire crowds.
Founded in 2009 by Will Kennard and Saul Milton, otherwise known as Chase & Status, MTA Records have seen 5 million singles and 360,000 albums sold worldwide and a Grammy win.
New wave, new romantic, punk, electro or alt pop, everything gets an airing. It’s not about guilty pleasures though. Here’s a night that’s reassuringly nostalgia and irony free, it’s often packed and always entertaining. It’s all about the music.
Described as “soulful summer bliss” their sound is inspired by golden-era hip-hop and R&B. A new EP ‘Forever (Pt. II)’, is out this month as well. Excellent original productions, remixes for Banks, Raury, Wild Belle, Bondax and The Weeknd and a sold out USA tour, suggest London producers/ DJs Oliver Lee and James Carter are set for an even bigger 2015.
To celebrate their 5th birthday, Supercharged is marking the special occasion with drum and bass and jungle supremo - Shy FX. Helping cut up that birthday cake is new and exciting MTA signing Dimension, plus Gotsome, Stamina MV and MCID. Keep it locked, this is massive.
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Win a Pair of tickets to The Great Escape Festival The Great Escape is returning on Thu 14 - Sat 16 May 2015, to again showcase emerging artists from all over the world. With over 400 up and coming bands play in 35 Brighton venues, it’s the first place to discover your new favourite band before they conquer the world. Recently joining 2015’s line-up were spoken word artists Kate Tempest and George The Poet, polished electronic producer Ghost Culture, West Coast R&B singer Kelela, futuristic soul singer NAO, enigmatic Las Vegas native Shamir, singersongwriter Shannon Saunders, London’s MC Stormzy and LA visual artists turned electronic duo 18+. Also recently announced for the three date event were Dralms, High Tyde, Intergalactic Lovers, LA Priest, M.O, Mumdance & Novelist, Neon Waltz, Susanne Sundfør, Swim Deep and Hollie McNish. These artists join Alabama Shakes, Django Django, Ibeyi, Gengahr, Dutch Uncles, Laura Doggett, Slaves, Tei Shi, The Thurston Moore Band and Lapsley. This year the festival is developing a range of 14+ shows with support from The Arts Council. The first show announced is Lawson in a move to embrace younger music fans and recognise the growing appetite for the best in new music.
Three-day festival passes, offering access to all core TGE gigs start at just £49.50 + bf. But we’re offering a lucky reader a pair of tickets for this amazing event. To win a pair of tickets to this world-class music festival, simply answer the following question… Which of these acts has never played at Brighton’s The Great Escape Festival? A. B. C.
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Caroline Lucas Learning down the House Gaining access to the country’s most exclusive club in 2010, Caroline Lucas offers testimony to Parliament’s absurdities, inefficiencies and baffling customs. Her new book ‘Honourable Friends?’ examines an institution fossilised by tradition and selfinterest. Offering a message to anyone doubting the importance of voting, the Brighton Pavilion MP discusses reflecting the interests of her constituents, challenging the establishment and balancing the demands of work and family. Part diary, part reflection, part passionate call-to-arms, this unique book aims to empower and inspire all believing democracy is under threat. BN1 wanted to find out more, and as our local MP she couldn’t turn down a reasonable request… Your new book examines elitism in Westminster. Why can we not demand the best people for the most important jobs? Demanding the best people for the most important jobs doesn’t mean drawing them from a narrow elite who are often completely out of touch with most people’s concerns. Westminster is overwhelmingly male and white - if it’s to regain credibility and legitimacy in the eyes of the public, then it needs to better reflect the people it’s meant to serve. Less than a quarter of MPs are women, leaving Britain way down the international league table of fair representation. We’re below countries whose parliamentary traditions are far less deep-rooted than ours, like Mozambique, Afghanistan and Rwanda - so much for the Mother of all Parliaments!
By Stuart Rolt Is it acceptable that austerity measures financially harm the lowest levels of society, yet benefit those responsible for our economic downturn? It is nothing less than obscene that the Government’s austerity measures are hitting the poorest hardest, and women most of all. It wasn’t the poor who caused the economic crisis. It wasn’t people on Jobseeker’s Allowance who brought down the banks. It wasn’t people with disabilities who wasted billions speculating on risky financial markets. The global financial crisis has given the Conservatives the chance they’ve been waiting for to wage an ideological battle to shrink the state. Democracy is meaningless without the majority of the electorate engaging in the political system. How do we make politics “more interesting” again? The huge excitement over the Scottish referendum shows that people do care about politics, when they believe their vote can make a difference. The current winner-takes-all electoral system turns people off politics, because so many constituencies around the country are so-called “safe seats” - in other words, the chances of the seat changing hands are practically nil. We need a fairer voting system, so everyone’s vote counts; votes at 16 to engage younger people; greater honesty from politicians and greater accountability of MPs. Is there still a place for passion and idealism in politics, or is everything driven by self-interest and PR advisers now? There absolutely must be a place for passion and idealism! The politicians who are most respected by the public are precisely those who are driven by conviction, rather than those who are constantly “on-message”, parroting the party-line even when they don’t support it.
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You’ve discussed nationalising the British railway system. Aside from the massive financial burden it would incur, how would this provide a better service? I’ve got a Private Members Bill due for debate in parliament very soon that would bring rail back into public ownership. In fact it wouldn’t incur a massive financial burden at all - the franchises currently in private hands would simply be taken back by the state as they expired. The experience of the East Coast mainline, which was temporarily in public hands, offers a powerful case-study. When it was in public hands, it had higher punctuality and passenger satisfaction rates, it established industry leading approaches to waste recycling and reducing carbon emissions and also returned more money to the Treasury. It’s been estimated that if we ended the fragmentation associated with privatisation, we could save around £1bn a year - money that could be used both to reduce fares and improve the network.
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What non-parliamentary campaigns have you been involved with in Brighton? Lots, including the campaign to save Exeter St Hall for the local community; trying to keep local Post offices open in the city - they’re often the lifeblood of local communities; and preventing a local school from becoming an academy. I’m also involved with local campaigns to Keep Our NHS Public, to put pressure on Picturehouse cinemas to pay their staff a living wage, and to improve the rail service between London and Brighton.
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BRIGHTON ROCKERS VS BRISTOL ROLLER DERBY (AWAY)
9 MAY
BRIGHTON ROCKERS VS ROYAL WINDSOR ROLLERGIRLS (AWAY)
Obviously you have few spare hours as a Member of Parliament, but where do you visit when you want to “hit the town”? Probably revealing my age here, but my idea of a great night on the town is going out with friends to a film at the Duke of York’s, followed by a meal at The Chilli Pickle or Food for Friends. I can also often be found with a hot chocolate at Marwoods, and on walks on the Downs with the family and Alfie our rescue Labrador.
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Can you say one nice thing about each of your opposing party leaders? That’s a bit challenging! I respect the way David Cameron stood up for gay marriage, in the face of widespread opposition within his own party; Ed Miliband, to his credit, stood up to Rupert Murdoch over phone-hacking and media ownership; Nick Clegg once gave me some useful advice about standing as an MP; And Farage? Hmm, still thinking about that one.... ‘Honourable Friends? Parliament and the Fight for Change’ By Caroline Lucas MP is published on Thu 12 Mar.
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You famously wore a “Ban Page Three” T-shirt in Commons. What would it take for you to wear a “BN1” T-shirt during a debate? Parliament has some odd rules, including that Members shouldn’t wear T-shirts with slogans on. I was swiftly told to cover up! But I’d be happy to try again with BN1, but it would need to say “and also part of BN2” because one area of my constituency has a BN2 postcode!
THE ROCKERS ARE ALWAYS ON THE LOOKOUT FOR NEW MEMBERS TO THE SPORT AND WILL BE HOLDING ‘TASTER’ SESSIONS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR, AS WELL AS A STRUCTURED ‘FRESH MEAT’ INDUCTION PROGRAM FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO GET INVOLVED. FIND THEM ON FACEBOOK OR CHECK OUT WWW.BRIGHTONROCKERS.COM FOR ALL THE LATEST INFORMATION.
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Sivu
Imagination, that’s what drives great music and makes interesting artists. Take twenty-something James Page for example. As sub-operatic, multi-layered pop act Sivu he’s been dispensing brief sojourns from an unspiritual reality, and literally shown us what happens inside his head whilst he does this. Momentum is gathering for him now, but the growing attention and critical acclaim for his tender baroque atmospherics hasn’t prompted total comfort. “I guess it’s a really weird feeling,” he tells me. “When you’ve been working on something for ages and putting it out there, it’s always really terrifying, because you never know what’s going to happen.” Textural and melodic, his music is underpinned by transcendent and occasionally forlorn lyrics. It all betrays a sensitive individual behind those epic gliding strings. It is rather apt that ‘Something on High’, his autumnal sounding first album, saw its release last October. He modestly claims he’s been lucky, but it’s clear the media praise is daunting. Two years in the making, Page had trouble adjusting after the release of this debut. Living with it for so long, there’s a distinct loss of control once your art hits the market. But the hurt can be softened by positive critique. “Yeah, the responses seemed good. I don’t want to speak too soon but so far everyone’s
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been very nice, which is great.” There’s a true demonstration of restraint across his debut, even when covering difficult ground. At times you could even be blamed for thinking the songs sound oddly optimistic. At its best ‘Something on High’ is an exigent and gorgeous slab of left-field pop. There’s been a large surge in clever music, especially in the last year. Perhaps people are becoming more open-minded. Simultaneously technology has offered the opportunity to do so much more on your own. “People are pushing themselves more. It feels like there’s more alternative music coming to the forefront which is amazing.” For a long time a gap between rock and pop existed, leaving nowhere for quirky bands to thrive. Now scores of exciting records are coming out. Good news for any music fan looking for something different. His debut single ‘Better Man Than He’ bore an appropriately startling video, which clocked up over 600k YouTube views. Filmed with an MRI machine at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, it offered a peek inside Page’s head as he sang. “I don’t know what we were thinking, at the time it seemed like such a good idea. It was nuts. So we thought we’d do it.” Understandably it’s a song he enjoys returning to, its latest video incarnation seeing him atop a cliff backed up by a brass band.
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New song ‘The Nile’, a double A-side companion to last month’s ‘Sleep’, shows the praise for the first Sivu album has not rendered him complacent. With tender instrumentation and lyrics tracking the prolonged demise of a loved one, it is all topped off by phenomenal vocals from Rae Morris. Produced by regular collaborator Charlie Andrew (Alt-J) it suggests there are plenty of great things still to come from Sivu. In a perfect world it would kick-start Morris and Page’s ascension to becoming the Richard and Judy of leftfield pop. Although lyrically honest, he has strived not to make every song revolve around his catharsis. He even took the interesting step of introducing several small stories in the album, attempting to move its focus from himself, with varying success. “It’s strange actually, because listening from start to finish you can see it as a clear picture of what I was saying.” These vocals sweep through scales, occasionally reaching up to a bewitching falsetto. Even at his most sombre moments, there’s something uplifting and urgent within a Sivu song. Transferring the album tracks to a live setting presented a small challenge. Many of them were composed using an acoustic guitar, with a myriad of layers added in the studio. “When I play with my band we try and keep it true to the record. But a lot of the stuff at the moment I’ve just been touring acoustically. Sometimes when I’m playing, I can hear bits that are missing, which is a bit strange. But it can work really well.” There’s absolutely nowhere to hide when performing an acoustic show. It offers song writing in its rawest form. In front of the right audience it can be enormously rewarding. “When you’ve won them over with just a guitar… That’s sometimes the best feeling. But again when you come to those gigs where you’re doing support and people just talk the whole way through and you’re like: ‘Aww no!’ But it has to happen; it’s just one of those things.” The summer saw Sivu play a generous number of festivals slots, Page joking that he was almost glad to entertain a roofed venue. “I’d never been to Bestival. I wasn’t expecting how mental it was. The people were crazy. It was fun though.” Last year also saw a brief jaunt around esoteric venues in the Scottish Highlands with Paul Thomas Saunders. “We both had a week free and both had tours coming up, so we said: ‘Let’s do something’. We literally just got in a car and drove up there. The shows were so amazing, I think no-one knew who we were, but everyone still came anyway!” Sivu plays The Hope and Ruin in Brighton on Sat 28 Mar www.sivusivu.co.uk
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Vegfest Brighton Soy Division
One of Europe’s biggest vegan events comes to Brighton & Hove this month. Featuring over 160 stalls, demonstrations, displays and a range of activities revolving around health, lifestyle and campaigns, it’s the perfect weekend for anyone interested in sustainability, animal welfare or nutrition. After five fantastic years in Hove, this year Vegfest UK moves to the modern and prestigious Brighton Centre. Food, shopping, entertainment, inspiration, education and socialising will all come together under one roof, this year being opened by Caroline Lucas MP. The new venue allows for a number of exciting new features, including the UK’s first vegan comedy festival, party political conference, global food sustainability conference, a hemp expo, the TeenVGN Zone and a Yoga Area. As always there’s a plethora of special guests offering inspiration and guidance. This year they include endurance master Wim Hof, Everton and Swansea City’s Neil Robinson, award-winning indie music commentator John Robb and comedian Andrew O’Neill. Also appearing are sportsperson Fiona Oakes, TV Presenter Anneka Svenska, model Victoria Eisermann and singer Pola Pospieszalska.
SAT 28 - SUN 29 MARCH New to 2015, the event introduces a comedy venue, featuring vegan beers served from Pitfield Brewery and vegan hotdogs by Vegusto. Carl Donnelly, Chris Stokes, Donal Coonan, Gary Tro, Harriet Kemsley, Alasdair Beckett-King, Andrew O’Neill and Angie Belcher will also be cracking up revellers at the festival. Numerous practical applications for hemp provide a range of innovative and extraordinary products on display this year. Amongst the exhibitors are stylish hemp clothing, delicious and nutritious hemp-based food, medicinal cannabis and a UK-wide contracting company who specialises in hempcrete. Moderated by Green Party Councillor Martin Fodor and Julian Jones from Bristol Friends of the Earth, the politics area offers workshops, discussions and possible solutions. Health, the environment and animal welfare will all come under the spotlight. The LifeWell Hub will offer presentations from a number of high-quality holistic health experts, all promoting health, happiness and wellbeing. This year also offers a range of excellent short films shown in the cinema on the ground floor, including examinations of the use of whips on animals, the food chain and animal research.
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Also on the ground floor, Vegfest UK’s resident pirate Captain James Tea Cook is on hand with some kids cookery classes, all of them 100% plant-based. Older kids still get a look in, with the introduction of TeenVGN Zone, a place for teenage veggies and vegans to hang out with like-minded friends. Grown up chefs can devour the large number of cookery demos, with plenty of culinary tips on plantbased cuisines to pick up. ‘chocolatey rainbows’, African fusion cooking, herbal home remedies, raw weight loss recipes and energising meals are all discussed and prepared. In case your taste-buds can’t wait, The Food Village returns, offering attendees a chance to consume anything, from noodles to kebabs, cider to patties - it’ll all be vegan and delicious. An enormous part of this event is the sharing of ideas and information. 2015 will see talks on child nutrition, the benefits of raw food, vegan baking, skincare and exercise. There’ll also be a series of talks on vegan lifestyles and the latest campaigns. Some fantastic live performances will be entertaining the ground floor, including speed dating, theatre, music, vegan bodybuilding contests and new product showcases. There’s plenty of entertainment and inspiration at Brighton’s Vegfest UK to keep you spellbound through the weekend. Every one of the event’s exhibits are imaginative, ethical and 100% vegan-friendly, so enough to delight the most demanding of dietary habits or palettes. www.vegfest.co.uk
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SICK! Festival Since its inception in 2013, SICK! Festival has proven a resounding success. This year’s multi-platform programme expanded the festival, simultaneously running in Manchester as well as Brighton. SICK! has a unique remit, examining the medical, mental and social challenges of life and death and how we survive them – or don’t. This year’s theme and focus areas are on sex and sexuality, suicide and abuse. Between Mon 2 – Weds 25 March, venues across Brighton welcome a host of international voices from the arts, healthcare and charity sectors. It’ll offer audiences the opportunity to consider life and death, from a range of perspectives. With a taboo-breaking programme, it addresses topics like the effects of porn on young people, the silence around genderbased violence and suicide survivors. It’s often harrowing, at times uplifting and humorous but always thought provoking. SICK! opens with a debate titled Sexual Transactions, based around the idea that sexual intercourse is only acceptable if both parties share the same motivation, a motivation that is at least sexual and preferably emotional. But there are other consenting transactions such as sex work, which blurs the personal and economic lines. Speakers including Sussex Uni’s Dr. Tanya Palmer and novelist Ellis Suzanna Slack debate this at The Basement, chaired by Prof. Bobbie Farsides of Brighton and Sussex Medical School. The winner of the 2013 Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award, Nirbhaya will be playing as part of SICK! at Brighton Dome Corn Exchange on Mar 10 and 11. Bearing witness to the 2012 rape and fatal assault of a young female physiotherapy intern travelling with a male friend on an urban Delhi bus, multi-award winning playwright and director Yael Farber presents a blistering evocation of that night. Including testimonies by sexual violence survivors, it is powerful theatre that cracks the silence that exists around sexual and gender violence.
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One of the more unique pieces in an already unique programme is Sex, Cancer and Cocktails which takes two worlds, cancer and pleasure, which are almost by definition separate and brings them together. Held at a secret location, with tickets booked and allocated on a lottery basis it’s an in-home, closed door conversation about doing it during treatment. Featuring presentations from sexual health doctors, cancer nurses and drawing a range of perspectives from its audience Sex, Cancer and Cocktails offers a radical and rarely discussed perspective on illness and feeling (or not feeling) sexy. Throughout the festival, SICK! will be taking to the streets of Brighton. Shipping Container is a programme of short films, bite-size documentaries and video installations inserted into a converted shipping container. Shipping Container is a demonstration of the power of the moving image to connect intimate and complex narratives for both reportage and imagination. SICK! Festival isn’t a theatre festival, although the programme is filled with international quality performances. It’s not a dance, film or literature festival, despite these forms featuring heavily. It’s not a science festival, but the programme is full of scientists, doctors and researchers. It’s not a conference despite the debates and talks. SICK! instead uses these forms as a means to begin conversations. The topics discussed are ones often difficult, often upsetting and as such often ignored. SICK! Festival is testament to its necessity. Although rarely discussed in a public sphere we are all in many ways connected by traumatic and personal experiences. It provides an honest and intelligent light with which to examine the taboo and misunderstood issues which are realities in our lives and society. www.sickfestival.com Image: Sue Maclaine - Can I Start Again Please © - Dex Goodman
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THE BRIGHTON MUSIC CONFERENCE Brighton Music Conference (BMC) is set to return in 2015, following a triumphant debut last year. The two-day event will be held at The Dome on Fri 5 - Sat 6 June and will connect music with business and the next generation through a series of panels, networking events and three nights of parties across Brighton. The event will also host a tech exhibition with master classes and showcases.
Key partners for 2015 include YouTube, Facebook, BPI, Beatport, DJ Magazine, Youth Music and LNADJ; while education partners include Ableton, Native Instruments, Focusrite, Novation, Audio Technica, Allen & Heath, BIMM, Point Blank, Northbrook College, Access To Music, Guildford ACM and DV8.
The UK’s only electronic music conference, Brighton Music Conference (BMC) was hailed as a groundbreaking success in 2014 by leading music artists, producers, industry figures and students alike and this year’s event is set for expansion with greater networking opportunities for attendees wishing to break into the industry.
BMC’s official charity partners include Youth Music and Last Night A DJ Saved My Life (LNADJ). Youth Music provides more than 90,000 young people with the opportunity to make music each year, helping them to overcome the challenges they face in their lives. Last Night A DJ Saved My Life is a charitable foundation for the music industry to make a positive impact to the lives of young people and their communities – ‘Changing lives, Saving lives’.
A total of 6,500 dance music fans and industry bigwigs from across the world came to the conference and its associated parties last year. There were also a large number of artists in attendance including Above & Beyond, DJ Pierre, Dave Clarke, and Eats Everything.
Whether you’re an industry professional, an up and coming DJ or producer, music student or just curious, the Brighton Music Conference aims to connect, educate and throw light on the inner workings and successful formulas of the growing global electronic music community.
Reflecting the concept behind BMC, the tickets are split between BMC Professional and BMC Academy Passes for students and non-professionals. BMC Academy is about plugging in the next generation and fostering new talent via a series of master classes, panels and talks. Tickets also give access to a two-day exhibition with tech showcases, panels and interviews.
Event tickets are now on sale via the BMC website: www.brightonmusicconference.co.uk The Brighton Music Conference will run from 10am to 5-30pm on Fri 5 June and 10am to 5pm on Sat 6 June 2015.
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THEATRE
SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER
ELEGY
Tue 3 – Sat 7 Mar
Thu 5 Mar Theatre Royal
Disco balls. Flares. Bee Gees. It has to be Saturday Night Fever. A brand new production of the classic dance story hits the Theatre Royal; a huge and talented cast of actor-musicians will dance and sing in one of the most loved stories of all time.
PLANNER
NIRBHAYA Tue 10 – Wed 11 Mar Marlborough Theatre
This Fringe First and ‘Offie’ nominated play is based on interviews with gay Iraqi refugees. Poignant and outrageous, it fuses intimate factual storytelling, music, movement and visual poetry. ‘Elegy’ is a beautifully written and impassioned outcry, exposing the horrific realities of life in post-liberation Iraq.
A young woman in Delhi boards a bus and is sexually attacked by a group of men. What followed changed their lives and countless others forever. Yaël Farber’s award-winning play recreates and explores these events, cracking open the cone of silence around women whose lives have been shattered by gender-based violence. Yaël Farber is a multiple award-winning director and playwright with a reputation for hard-hitting, controversial works of the highest artistic standard. Now she comes to Sick! Festival with an extraordinary cast and creative team from India, tearing away the shame keeping survivors in the shadows.
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THIS LAST TEMPEST
Mon 16 – Sat 21 Mar
Fri 20 – Sat 28 Mar
Choreographer Andrew Wright comes to the production off the back of numerous awards for his work on ‘Singin’ In The Rain’ with the Chichester Festival Theatre. Packed with hits from the Bee Gees, the story of Tony Manero is back in this spectacular new musical production.
Marlborough Theatre Romeo and Juliet is one of Shakespeare’s most popular works, and perhaps the reason for that are the enduring qualities of the story – love, feuds and tragedy. Those issues are dragged into the present in #RANDJ a modern imagining by Apollo Productions.
A young Caucasian man, with what appears to be a British accent, sits alone on a stage. He invites an audience to imagine a flight from tragedy. His is an extraordinary journey through a no-man’s land of empty train stations, border crossings and bomb-blasted towns.
Brighton Dome
Fri 20 – Sat 21 Mar New Venture Theatre
Spanning 15 years, the Michael Frayn piece follows the intricate relationship between two couples; the idealistic architect David and his wife Jane, and their neighbours the cynical Colin and Sheila. Jane and David are successful, happy professionals while Sheila and Colin are angry and isolated.
Set on an estate against a soundtrack of reggae and hip-hop, the Montagues and Capulets are modernised to two rival gang families. Updated to engage with contemporary issues like knife crime and arranged marriage, it speaks volumes to Shakespeare’s ability as a writer.
Set against a housing boom in the 60s, Benefactors explores the difficulties in helping people or being helped. Premiering in 1984, Frayn’s acclaimed play earned the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play and an Evening Standard Award for Best Play.
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Brighton Dome The Tempest didn’t end with Shakespeare. Beginning as Prospero sails into the horizon; This Last Tempest is the story of the magician’s former servants Caliban and Ariel. In the raging storms, the two conjure a world of their own where spirits and monsters are alive and people. Performed by the Uninvited Guests, This Last Tempest features their trademark collaborative approach to devised theatre. Working alongside musician Neil Johnson, they fill the enchanted island with guitar noise to create a performance that is part theatre and part gig, creating a new piece both for those familiar with The Bard’s Play and those new to The Tempest. www.brightondome.org
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MARCH A MAD WORLD MY MASTERS
THE LOVERS
Tue 10 – Sat 14 March
Wed 11 Mar Theatre Royal
I, MALVOLIO Fri 13 – Sat 14 Mar Marlborough Theatre
Brighton Dome
Originally a Jacobean stage play written by Thomas Middleton in the early 17th century. A Mad World My Masters was rejigged and edited by Sean Foley. The setting is now 50s Soho. It’s a filthy mix of glamour and the gutter, where the posh mix with musicians and whores. The dashingly cash-strapped bachelor Dick Follywitt is in pursuit of quick cash and a good time and has to survive on his wits. Remaining true to the original text, Foley’s reimagining keeps the dirty jokes. Double entendres keep coming and it’s a far from subtle show that will ensure a disgracefully entertaining evening.
A new devised piece from Spun Glass Theatre which uses A Midsummer’s Night Dream as a jumping point to ask what makes us fall in love with some people and not others?
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PIONEER
COUNT ARTHUR STRONG
Wed 25 – Sat 28 Mar
Thu 26 – Fri 27 Mar
Following the four lovers from Shakespeare’s original in a new adventure, Theodore and Anthony are a same-sex couple seeking a more tolerant society. Elizabeth, furious with the news pursues Theodore, her love. She in turn is followed by HER love, Helena. The fairy world of Midsummer Night’s Dream is crafted via onstage animation and a detailed soundscape. The result is a queer distillation of classic Shakespeare.
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In 2010, Tim Crouch premiered I, Malvolio at Brighton Festival. The show has toured the world and now returns to Brighton, and Malvolio is as crude and crass as ever. The one-man show features Crouch as the puritanical, theatre-hating Malvolio, who rants and raves at himself and the audience. A curious blend of both audience and selfexamination, the house lights are constantly raised and Malvolio bullies the audience for entering late or laughing at the wrong moments. Hilarious yet unsettling, it’s a oneman act of storytelling alchemy that draws the audience into the mind of Malvolio.
Sun 29 Mar The Old Market
Theatre Royal
Rambert, the innovative and incredible dance company, were a smash hit last time they visited Brighton in 2014. The programme will include Rooster, a modern classic and a celebration of the 60s via the music of The Rolling Stones. Think snake hips and sharp suits set to Paint It Black. The Strange Charm of Mother Nature is a new piece inspired by the discovery of the Higgs Boson and creates a fizzing blend of science and dance. Finally there will be a new work from choreographer Alex Whitley that lays bare the process of making a dance performance, via virtuosic movement and constantly shifting sets.
Coming from the acclaimed and prolific stage company Curious Directive, Pioneer is a multi-media sci-fi thriller that follows the tale of the first human mission to Mars. Set in the near-future of 2029, Pioneer shuttles you from the Garden of Eden to mission control and to the surface of the red planet.
Originally we were introduced to Count Arthur Strong via the award-winning Radio 4 series, recorded at Komedia in Brighton. From there he leapt to the small screen with a TV series on the BBC. And now it’s onto the stage with the show ‘Somebody Up There Likes Me’.
Made in collaboration with Astrobiologist Dr. Lewis Dartnell of UCL, Pioneer promises to be a blend of the intricate and the epic to craft a fantastically innovative and intelligent story. Having won the Scotsman Fringe First - the ‘Oscars’ of Edinburgh Fringe - Pioneer comes to Brighton with a strong pedigree.
The Doyen of Light Entertainment will do lots of wonderful things for you to sit there and stare at and applaud at the correct moments. The show business legend, raconteur and mangler of words puts on the world’s best show headed up by an aging Doncaster variety star.
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RICHARD HERRING: LORD OF THE DANCE SETTEE Thu 5 Mar
CHRISTIAN O’CONNELL: BREAKING DAD
JEREMY HARDY
Fri 6 Mar
Fri 13 Mar
Komedia
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His 11th solo show in as many years and it doesn’t even have a particular theme! At least with ‘Hitler Moustache’, ‘We’re All Going to Die’ and ‘Talking Cock: The Second Coming’ we all knew where we stood. It’s just plain inconvenient for your average previewer.
The multi-award winning Absolute Radio DJ displays why he’s got one of the largest listenerships in the country. Beyond playing some songs and telling the time for morning commuters, he’s made a return to stand up after nearly 20 years.
Here’s some more theme-free comedy, this time from the erudite and rather wonderful Mr Hardy. Like the consummate dinner party guest you can’t get enough of, his anecdotes and jokes take you on a rambling journey through an unusual mind.
Herring, undoubtedly one of Britain’s most gifted comics, offers a collection of misheard song lyrics, the innate power of a sombrero and a man possibly named ‘Dave Manager’. Thoughts and observations get picked apart with expert skill. Retracing mistakes, mishaps and misconceptions, Herring ignites a sense of chid-like incomprehension in all of us.
Sharp, warm and effortlessly charismatic, now he’s grappling with fatherhood, modernity and seeing a sharp contrast with his own father’s experiences in the 70s. He’s got two decades worth of revelations and anecdotes to share, with the world being a far more complicated place than when he last let rip.
If he’s dispensing true wisdom, or just some random thoughts about life, you can never be sure, though it’s easy to be captivated by his fierce intellect. The range of subjects is wide: politics, personal observations, revulsion in the face of ignorance or the failings of faith… there’s likely to be mush to delight.
www.komedia.co.uk/brighton
www.komedia.co.uk/brighton
www.ropetacklecentre.co.uk
JIMMY CARR
COMIC BOOM
JOHN BISHOP
Tue 24 Mar
Thu 26 Mar Brighton Dome
If you’ve never heard of Mr Carr, he’s a delightful, softly spoken gentle soul. The kind of comedian you can take you mother to see, with absolutely no fear of an affront occurring. The sexiest James in UK show-business, after James Blunt and Wee Jimmy Krankie at least, Carr is in his relentless element when placed in a live setting. If you only know him from his TV work, then get ready to be shocked and probably appalled. Love him or hate him, it’s still an opinion.
www.brightondome.org
Tue 31 Mar Komedia
Brighton Centre
Get ready for another night of exciting new comedy without the gamble. This monthly, friendly and fast paced quality night sells out all the time, due to the quality of their acts and some fantastic crowd-rousing hosting from the Boom MCs.
Laid-back, sharp-suited and scouse, Bishop is officially Britain’s preeminent “Bloody Good Bloke”. He’s now finding time, away from being a TV regular, raising a generous £3.4 million for Comic Relief and writing his biography, to squeeze in a massive UK tour.
Once again Comic Boom have struck gold with their bookings. Topping the bill of other “catch ‘em while you can” rising comedy stars is the fantastic Angela Barnes. Perfectlypaced, she blends warm personal anecdotes with some good old straight talking. This infectiously enthusiastic comic is quickwitted... and seriously funny.
He might just be walking around, hoping something funny happens, but he does it really well - his brand of easy storytelling has endeared him to millions. Whilst something of a superstar, Bishop’s family still bring joy, laughter and problems. This is one thing everyone can relate to, and plays a central role in his show.
www.komedia.co.uk/brighton
www.brightoncentre.co.uk
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Whalefest 2015 Having a whale of a time
By Holly Cozens
SAT 14 - SUN 15 MARCH Remember when you were a child and there was one thing that you liked (like a certain type of chocolate or favourite animal) that your parents told all your relatives about? So for the next 20 plus years, sure enough every birthday and Christmas, you were inundated with gifts relating to these specific things. Mine was whales and dolphins. By the age of nine, I had been given five adoption certificates for different species inhabiting waters off a Scottish coast, a plethora of sea mammal pottery ornaments and several rather large fluffy Orcas. Now I’m sure while most people grow out of these phases, I never really did. Sure, I don’t still have a crazy collection of Poole pottery dolphins cluttering up the place but my awe and admiration for these creatures is unchanging (it also grew to include sharks after I watched Jaws at the age of ten and decided that they were awesome). This is why the arrival of WhaleFest to Brighton over the last few years has been a highlight of my social calendar. In 2011, old friends and founders of Planet Whale, Ian Rowlands and Dylan Walker had a dream: to create the biggest, most popular event of its kind and touch the hearts and minds of a huge audience, inspiring them to be an army of ambassadors to defend whales, dolphins, marine life and oceans. That’s WhaleFest. Coming to the Brighton Centre on Sat 14 – Sun 15 Mar, WhaleFest is the biggest whale and dolphin festival in the world and never fails to both entertain and educate visitors on issues surrounding marine conservation.
This year, you will be able to experience so much, with guest speakers such as the Whalefest guest director Steve Backshall, Michaela Strachan and Ric O’ Barry (who was behind the awardwinning documentary ‘The Cove’), to watching a live video link to Captain Paul Watson - founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society – talking about all their campaign updates. There will be lots happening on the festival main stage but don’t miss some of the incredible interactive areas like the submarine 360 adventure, the kids’ Shark Zone or go virtual whale watching! An inflatable Orca has also swum into town and will popping up all over Brighton in the weeks leading up the event so get involved with some whale watching of your own. If you feel particularly passionate about marine conservation and enjoy taking a good selfie, you can incorporate both and take a #Whalefie to help raise awareness amongst your friends and family. Just take a picture with something whale-related and even if you don’t have anything, you can improvise with pictures on your computer or even a #Whalefie sign. Over 400 have been sent in already so get snapping and send in your best pose to whalefie@planetwhale.com. Now run by a small team and more than 500 amazing volunteers, all profits of Whalefest go to a global partnership of organisations working together: the World Cetacean Alliance (honorary president, Jean Michel Cousteau). Profits go this year to a campaign to keep them #wildandfree, not in captivity. For more information and full details of the WhaleFest programme, please visit www.whale-fest.com
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By Holly Cozens
Bicycle Film Festival Hollywood Bicycle Club
March 19 - 21 will see Brighton added to the global list of cities that will have hosted the Bicycle Film Festival. It seems like a strange combination, seeing as riding a bike is almost by definition a much more active pursuit than watching a film, but it’s worked. Starting fifteen years ago, the Bicycle Film Festival has now showcased bike culture in over fifty cities worldwide. I spoke to the BFF Brighton team to see why bikes, why a film festival, and why Brighton… It all started in 2001, with a crunch. “Brendt Barbur, Founding Festival Director, was compelled to start the Bicycle Film Festival when he was hit by a bus while riding his bike in New York City. He insisted on turning his negative experience into a positive one. His positive drive led to the establishment of BFF and since then inspired thousands of people worldwide.” It may not be the most conventional genesis, but it seems that Barbur was hit not just by a bus, but by inspiration. From that accident, BFF has grown rapidly. “More and more people are riding bikes daily. People now identify with bicycling as a lifestyle. There is a huge fervor for bicycle culture. The Bicycle Film Festival is the place where like-minded people meet in different cities around the world.” With the world heading in an increasingly technology and automated-fuelled direction, it could seem strange that cycling seems to be riding an ever-increasing crest of popularity. For the BFF team it’s simple, “Riding a bicycle gives you freedom and independence that no other means of transport is able to offer. It’s also a greener, healthier and more fun way of commuting.” Essentially getting that idea across is the purpose of BFF, “it’s here to raise and reinforce the positive profile of cyclists to celebrate bicycling in its myriad of forms.” The festival will open at the Fabrica Art Gallery for a weekend long programme of cycling cinema. “Apart from screenings we are planning to run a couple of cycling events – alley cat and treasure hunt rides. Our friends from MiniClick are hosting a special panel discussion about cycling and photography. The festival will conclude with an after party at the one and only Velo Café.” The festival’s film programme is a varied one with a wide range of films, from documentaries
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to shorts. Filmed across three days, starring two friends and one bicycle, ‘Coldest March’ covers the crossing of Britain during one of the coldest winters in written history. “It’s definitely one to look for. The creators of the film will be present at the Saturday screening as well.” For the BFF team, their favourite cycling film is “A Sunday in Hell” (1976) by Jorgen Leth, about a race called the Paris - Roubaix. It changed the way sports documentaries are filmed. Mr Leth is a legendary filmmaker and he is a regular commentator for the Tour de France and the Paris - Roubaix.” Leth himself will become the subject of a film ‘The Commentator’, a Kickstarter funded project from BFF Founder Brendt Barbur, that will be released in the near future. From its New York beginnings to locales like Tokyo and Moscow, BFF has only appeared in cities that it suits. They have a cycling culture to be explored and celebrated. And as for the BFF team, Brighton was the perfect place to hold their festival. “It has a vibrant community of life loving people. It is an opportunity for us to promote the city on the world map as an exciting place where people benefit from healthy life choices and flourishing cultural environment. Brighton has all it takes to become a leading city in UK for cycling. We can easily make it the Amsterdam of the UK. It’s open and comfortable for everyone – commuters to work, children cycling to schools and enthusiasts exploring the surrounding countryside.” The comparison between Brighton and Amsterdam might be an easy one, and not just due to the cycling cultures, but it does show how much potential BFF see in the city, both for their festival and for the growth of a real cycling culture in Brighton. “We truly believe it is the right time and the right place for BFF. And why would somebody think otherwise – here in Brighton we have plenty of bike lovers and filmgoers, thus a perfect platform for the festival to become a big annual event for every Brightonian!” www.bicyclefilmfestival.com/brighton
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Coffee Counter Full of beans
By Freya Hughes
Wandering through the North Laines on a chilly morning, my colleague and I found ourselves outside The Coffee Counter. We needed to sit down and recaffeinate – it was Monday morning after all. With their concept being ‘great coffee, great service’, we were excited to settle down for a while and we weren’t disappointed. Spending an hour or so working (promise), we watched a steady stream of customers come and go.
bread, packed full of halloumi, sun dried tomatoes, salad and mayo, I really enjoyed the freshness of the ingredients and it filled me up a treat. My colleague is gluten free so Steve concocted a salad from scratch for him: fresh tomatoes, leaves, goat’s cheese, pastrami and sun dried tomatoes. The latter has such gorgeous tasting oil that oozes from them that there isn’t even any need for dressing – the ingredients have it covered.
The lovely owners, Hayden and Steve, started off only selling coffees. They have become masters of their trade, as their lattes in particular are spot on every time, from taste to presentation. They operate a cash only payment system, which is unusual these days. There’s also a fantastic honesty scheme in place incase a customer has no cash on them. It’s a risky business move but with a focus on community and personal connections to their customers, not a single person has abused the system. The reward scheme for regulars is great too: buy four coffees, get your fifth free! It’s worth it too – the top-secret five-bean blend leaves nothing to be desired.
With hand written menu boards and local artists’ work displayed around the place, there is a homely feel to The Coffee Counter. Steve’s eclectic playlist matches the interior of the place. The mish-mash of furniture takes the eye from a desk stacked with board games and art prints to a hand crafted table, and a range of leather armchairs and a sofa. We nabbed the sofa area next to an old-school TV set, wired up to an Atari Flashback with joysticks and everything. It felt like we were working from home.
In the Counter’s infancy, the regulars made suggestions to compile a menu - and the owners listened, so we decide to get a bite to eat. I chose, uncharacteristically, a vegetarian sandwich called the Dimitri (£4.50). Served on toasted sliced
Look out for 2-for-1 coffee vouchers on page 24 The Coffee Counter, Unit 3, 13-16 Vine Street, Brighton www.facebook.com/TheCoffeeCounter
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Tech Feed Codebar Brighton at Matchbox Mobile
By Jo Summers
As an employer Matchbox is committed to promoting diversity. We are only too often reminded, when advertising for staff, attending conferences or meeting other businesses, that the tech industry does not yet reflect the diverse society it serves. Initiatives like Codebar are vital to making entering the tech industry more accessible to under-represented groups. Codebar was orginally founded by Despo Pentara in London in October 2013. She was inspired by the lack of female developers working in web development and was looking for a way to encourage and support other women in her industry, thus Codebar was born. Codebar is a weekly event mentoring women and LGBTQ in the foundations of web development languages such as HTML, CSS, Javascript and Ruby. The movement has since branched out into
Brighton and Cambridge, with Glasgow and Edinburgh following soon. The Brighton branch – headed up by Rosa Fox, Dot Wingrove and Ryan Hanna - was established in April 2014. Rosa had started working as a junior Ruby developer and had been going to Codebar in London each week. She had experienced first-hand how Codebar had played a huge part in building her confidence and had lead to her first job in development.
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At the London event Rosa met Tom Ashworth, who works at Twitter, and between them decided to start Codebar Brighton. With a large support network of developers in the city, Codebar Brighton was a huge success. Very quickly the event went from fortnightly to weekly, and likeminded members Dot and Ryan became co-organisers to promote the ethos of sharing, supporting and learning, and increase diversity in traditionally a very one dimensional industry. Codebar actively encourages women and people underrepresented in tech to learn skills that can help them to get jobs as developers, and provides a support network of people to ask for advice. This can benefit people who want to become developers themselves, or just get a better understand in web technology and what goes on behind making a website.
What I found exceptional about these sessions is the relaxed, friendly, non-judgemental environment. No one is afraid to ask questions, and no one seems intimidated by the technology. After a few pre-session nerves every first-time student puts together an HTML website in under 2 hours! They are all surprised at how quickly they get up to speed, and how easy it can be to get started. Rosa says the biggest successes of Brighton Codebar is seeing the genuine buzz of excitement from students after they have finished a workshop and the support from local companies and developers which has allowed Codebar to run weekly. Some students have begun working as developers and it is great to see people coming back each week and developing their own projects.
At Matchbox HQ 30 participants got stuck into discussion, code and pizza. To kick the evening off I gave a short presentation about Matchbox, how I got into development and production, and the challenges I faced along the way. The group then got paired off into mentor and trainee teams and began to get to grips with HTML, CSS, Javascript, Ruby, Git and Processing.
If you are female, LGBTQ or otherwise underrepresented in the tech industry and want to learn how to build a website from scratch then sign up as a student. Mentoring is open to everyone – so sign up if you would like to come and help someone keen to learn at www.codebar.io. It was great having you Codebar! We look forwarding to hosting you again very soon.
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New To Cinema Chappie – Fri 6 March Although you may see the names Sigourney Weaver and Hugh Jackman, don’t expect to be exposed to any chest-bursting aliens or metal-claw wielding mutants. Instead we have a robot created as part of an oppressive police force, reprogrammed by Dev Patel (Skins) to think and feel for itself. Jackman looks like he’s left the pro-robot role he took on in ‘Reel Steel’ and director Neill Blomkamp tones down the violence and gore that made up 2009’s ‘District 9’ in favour for a more family-friendly 12A rating.
Still Alice – 6 March For a cheerful start to March there is Still Alice, based on the bestselling novel of the same name, it follows the titular Alice (Julianne Moore) and her struggles with early-onset Alzheimer’s. Fully encompassing the phrase “it happens to the best of us”, Alice is a linguistics professor whose world slowly falls apart (the first word she forgets is ‘lexicon’). The film deals with the effects on Alice and her family. Shepherded with an oscar winning performance by Moore, the film is an understated, unsentimental drama that deals bravely with its subject area.
The Gunman – 20 March Just as the Taken franchise was finally dying it seems that another series has taken (ha ha) its place. Taken director Pierre Morel has stuck to his winning formula – turning Oscar winners from serious dramas into pulpy action stars. First time around it was Schindler’s List’s Liam Neeson turning into elderly badass, this time around its social activist Sean Penn. You know the drill, a retired [insert badass qualification] has to shoot his way across [exotic location] to [insert reason]. That said, a cast of Idris Elba, Javier Bardem and Mark Rylance does give The Gunman some chops and hopefully means it’s more than just a collage of tired quips, creaking joints and explosions.
Cinderella – Fri 27 March It’s always risky doing a live adaption of a classic Disney movie – the audience will either love the nostalgia or hate that you’ve ruined their childhood. Even Disney teen queen Hilary Duff wasn’t spared criticism for 2004’s ‘Another Cinderella Story’. Cinderella 2015 is looking to be a faithful adaption of the Disney tale and is sure to be another exciting visual spectacle from Kenneth Branagh (Hamlet). Can anyone really argue with the film when the trailer already gives us the beautiful delivery of classic line ‘you shall not go to the ball’?
BRIGHTON COOKERY SCHOOL Greeted by the friendly face of Messa Ben, the Head Chef of Brighton Cookery School, my friend and I hurried in from the rain one afternoon. We dumped our coats and were handed a glass of Prosecco each. Our little group finally all arrived and we got stuck in to prepping our dinner. The School is a great space, as you’re trusted in a professional kitchen with a large section acting as the restaurant. As we were mostly novices, I’m sure watching us all prepare the chicken breasts into French trims would have been almost painful for Ben though probably quite amusing. Amazingly we all seemed to get it just about right, stuffing the breast with a mixture of mozzarella, Parmesan, cream cheese and fresh basil. Tasting gorgeous with perfectly roasted potatoes and a rich stock reduction, we all thoroughly enjoyed sitting down and tucking in to the food too.
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The School is perfect for events such as hen and stag nights, birthdays and office parties. Concocting high quality dishes with fresh ingredients, Ben makes sure that every skill level is nurtured and nobody gets left behind. His accolades include cooking in some of the most prestigious restaurants in Paris and London so he knows exactly what he’s talking about. Brighton Cookery School can tailor any menu to suit dietary requirements and are able to accommodate between five and 45 people per event. Brighton Cookery School, 63/64 St. George’s Road, Brighton, BN2 1EF. www.brightoncookeryschool.com
We learnt that chefs have to have their minds on many things at once, bouncing from prepping one dish to the next. We made our gnocchi starters second, kneading potatoes with a dash of egg yolk and plenty of flour to an inch of their lives. It made for a great start to our three-course meal. The sauce complimented it perfectly, made out of plum tomatoes and truffle oil.
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MUDDLES BEVERAGES
By Freya Hughes
Walk into any shop and there are always smoothies and juices waiting to quench thirst like little bottles of hydrating nectar. At this point, however, after the boom of Innocent and the exactly-as-you-expect-it-to-be normalcy of Tropicana, we need something exciting to sit nicely in the middle. Since Aug 2014, Julian Hallam’s refreshing Muddles Beverages have been creeping onto the scene, starting life in his mother’s kitchen and sold out of a custom pushcart at street markets. We felt quite special in the office this month as we got to taste Hallam’s inventive flavours: indigo berry and mint, pear and rosemary and the more acquired taste of kiwi and star anise - perfect for aniseed lovers (RRP £3.45). They contain no artificial flavours or added sugars though a dollop of honey is added for a smooth taste, enhancing the existing flavours. Hallam, who has worked as a cocktail barman around the world, specifically chooses the complimentary flavours. Due to his previous employment he’s worked in a ‘Tom Collins’ range containing ‘a healthy splash of gin’, peaking certain Muddles to 10% ABV (RRP £4.45). One of the best parts is that Hallam then upcycles the bottles making Muddles unmistakably eco-friendly. Brighton stockists: Café Nest, The Coffee Counter, Kensington Balcony, Food For Friends, Neighbourhood. www.facebook.com/muddlesbevs @MuddlesBevs
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Bohemia Feelin’ so bohemian like you It’s always nice to try something new isn’t it? Partner acting like a bit of a wally and records over Game of Thrones- get a new partner. Bored of cheese and onion crisps- go on, try another flavour. The same goes for cocktails. I can’t count the number of times that i’ve sat leisurely sipping (gulping) the same ol’ Manhattans and Cosmopolitans. This could be because i’ve been too drunk at that point to do much counting, however counting aside, it’s often the same cocktails served in the same ways that get served at every bar. So with the ethos of ‘new is good’ firmly in my head I sauntered over to Bohemia on Meeting House Lane to hopefully try something a little more innovative. Bohemia itself is the sort of establishment that seems to sway to its own very cool beat. The decor is pretty mesmerising. A red jazzy 1920’s vibe permeates downstairs, while upstairs has a more modern cutting edge feel; the shattered champagne bottles on the ceiling are a particular aesthetic favourite. Drinkswise we kicked off proceedings with a Grubstaker Negroni (£9.50) which was comprised mainly of gin and grapefruit and can definitely be described as a strong, deep sexy number. This was enhanced by the unusual spherical ice cube occupying the glass. Next was the comedically named Mexicoma (£8.50). Using only the finest quality El Jimador tequila, it also had a lovely apricot brandy taste, and was kept sweet and fun by the
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By Lucy Hallett smattering of campari dust on the top. By now I was ready for a few nibbles to pick at and soak up some of the alcohol, and no sooner had the thought entered my mind than the lovely Tom arrived with platters of mini burgers, mini beef wellingtons, goats cheese arancinis and prawn tempura (prices available on request). Every dish was beautifully presented, skilfully cooked and incredibly satisfying. In fact I ate more than was polite and probably wore the smug and slimy expression of Piers Morgan rubbed in mayonnaise. Hunger satiated, I went back to the very difficult and arduous task of drinking more cocktails. Feeling fruity, and who doesn’t after a couple of drinks, I opted for a Daiquiri, however unlike the strawberry and mango varieties that we’ve all tried before I was presented with a Kiwi Daiquiri (£9.50). Using their very own kiwi infused rum, it was magnificently sharp while remaining sweet and incredibly refreshing. Not wanting to seem like a complete stickler for the new and exciting, I ended my liquid loveliness with the show-stopping Espresso Martini (£10.50), which is served rather spectacularly over dry ice, and probably has to rank up there with the finest i’ve ever tasted. Leaving Bohemia I realised that while I do love my old favourites, sometimes trying something new and exciting is just a whole lot more fun.
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Martha Gunn
100 Upper Lewes Road Brighton, BN2 3FE
Happiness is a warm Gunn Here in our wonderful city, there is an overwhelming love for street food and in particular, Mexican street food. Many places have risen to the challenge of tantalising Brightonian taste buds with the promise of meat (and veg) filled burritos, dangerously hot salsas and inspired side dishes to maximise your feasting experience. One such chef is Jamie, owner of DeadGood Burrito, who has gone from Street Diner fame to taking up residence in one of the nicest pubs in Brighton: The Martha Gunn. After hearing positive things about the all-new Martha Gunn Pub on Upper Lewes Road, my colleague and I dropped by on a bitter Friday night for some warmth, good food and a sip of something boozy. As soon as we walked in, the atmosphere pulled us in and took the chill of the outside off with cosy lighting, comfy seating and importantly, an awesome playlist. Sometimes you don’t realise it but a playlist is very difficult to get right, especially one that has to be good enough for customers to enjoy but also good enough to fade into the background. As we delved into the DeadGood menu, we could see the manager Ben greeting people as they came in and having a chat with some of their new regulars. This speaks volumes in terms of how welcome the Martha Gunn makes their customers feel and really contributed to the relaxed ambience of our night. When it came to ordering food, we had to choose a burrito, simply to see if they measured up to other venues in town. Because ‘it’s Friday, Friday, gotta get down on Friday’, we also greedily picked some sweet potato fries and hot chicken wings to share.
By Holly Cozens DeadGood Burrito were voted ‘Best Burritos in Brighton’ by Brighton and Hove Independent last year and it is not hard to see why. The Carnitas Deadgood Style Pork Burrito (£7.50) was just outstanding. The depth of flavour in the shoulder, cooked in a mix of special spices and freshly squeezed orange juice, hits you with that first bite. While all other components including rice, beans and salsa are part of the whole package, they all had their own place on my palate, eventually culminating in one satisfied mouthful. My colleague was of a shared mind as his Carne Asada Steak Burrito (£8) was juicy and just the right softness. Hints of citrus and garlic ran through this dish and played with the medium Te-Killer salsa. The Sweet Potato Fries (£3) were the best kind of crispy and took some of the heat off with a sweet chilli and sour cream dip. Now, the chicken wings are a bit of a marvel for me. As someone who always opts for the mildness of the mild, the hit of heat on these wings was very pleasing, even enjoyable. With a mingling of crisp skin with fleshy, tender meat underneath, the Chicken Wings with Salsa and Sour Cream (£6) were a winner for both of us. Real attention has been paid by Ben to bring the Martha Gunn a varied and deservedly excited clientele, and this is reflected in the care that Jamie puts into the DeadGood Burrito brand. Just like the rustic, tasty Margarita I was served with my food, these two have struck a perfect balance and I cannot recommend it enough. Check out their Facebook for future events: www.facebook.com/martha.gunn.pub
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Be Gluten Free By Mila Statham
Vegetable Breakfast Bake (serves 2) 1 medium sweet potato, peeled & cut into 1cm cubes 1 handful of spinach 5 eggs Splash of skimmed milk 1 large pinch of salt 1 tsp dried thyme 50g cheddar cheese, grated 2 tomatoes, sliced 1 tbsp sunflower oil A few parsley leaves, to garnish Preheat the oven to 200c then divide the oil between two gratin dishes. Next, add the sweet potato cubes and then roast in the oven for 40 minutes. Remove the dishes from the oven then add a layer of the spinach to each dish, then top with a layer of tomato slices. Beat the eggs with the milk and pour it over the vegetables. Sprinkle each one with the salt and thyme then return to the oven for 20 - 25 minutes until the egg puffs up and is cooked through.
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Sprinkle each dish with the cheese and return to the oven until the cheese melts and is golden and bubbling. Allow to cool slightly and then serve sprinkled with parsley leaves. This bake is delicious served with some spicy chilli sauce and, to make it into a substantial lunch, some green beans or a large green salad.
213 Preston Road, Brighton, BN1 6SA
The Crown and Anchor is a large pub in the Preston Park area of Brighton. It has recently been refurbished inside and out and now looks modern and smart. Most importantly, they have introduced a dedicated gluten free food menu. The gluten free menu is separate from the main menu, but with a vast choice of dishes. From salads to starters and main courses to puddings, it is quite unlike another pub in Brighton. The food is delicious and you can even just pop in at lunchtime for a simple gluten free sandwich and chips. The sandwiches are served between 12 - 6pm from Monday through to Saturday. Their food is home cooked and where possible, locally sourced and seasonal as part of their commitment to supporting the local economy. For the gluten free vegetarians, the veggie options are also clearly shown on the gluten free menu and marked with a (V) symbol.
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Authentic South Indian Cuisine APPETISER VEGETARIAN
NON-VEGETARIAN
• Chilli paneer
£4.35
• Mild cheddar mushroom and coriander tikki
£3.90
• Dahi samosa chat
£3.90
• Ragada patties
£3.90
Batter fried paneer tossed with fresh green chillies and garlic Masala mash with assorted mushroom shallow fried
Chick peas and samosa with yoghurt and chutneys Potato tikkies with chick peas chutney
• Crispy fried chilli garlic baby squids
£4.50
• Chicken banoo kebab
£4.50
• Kerala beef chilli fry
£5.45
Squid rings marinated with fresh red chillies and garlic paste then deep fried
Hand chopped chicken fillet marinated overnight with black pepper, coriander, royal cumin pan grilled
Strips of beef marinated overnight with crushed green chillies, shallots. Curry leaves and fresh ginger
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• Bowli hundi
£8.25
Slow cooked lamb braised with onion. Garlic and seasonal vegetables
• Punjabi Chicken Tikka Makhan Wala
£7.45
• Mala bar Chicken
£6.75
• Chicken Niligiri Korma
£7.45
• Adrakhi Palak Murgh
£6.50
• Chettinad Chicken Curry
£6.50
• Chicken Dopiaza
£6.50
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£6.50
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• Duck chilli garlic
£9.85
Strips of duck stir fried with fresh red and green chillies
VEGETABLE SIDE DISH • Paneer butter masala
£6.95
Cottage cheese in a buttery sauce with fenugreek
OLD FAVOURITE DISHES • Korma - Lamb • Biryani - Lamb
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RICE DISHES • Steamed Basmati rice
£2.75
BREADS • Plain naan
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