BN1 MAGAZINE OCTOBER EDITION 2012

[Volume 3 Issue 10] OCTOBER 2012

BRIGHTON’S DEFINITIVE CULTURE AND EVENTS GUIDE

BRIGHTON COMEDY FESTIVAL rOSS NOBLE MARCUS BRIGSTOCKE piff the magic dragon oxjam lauren easton zombie walk freshers

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OCTOBER 2012

An air of melancholy permeates this month of October with the devastating news that electropop duo and murderous despot Bashar al-assad’s favourite band LMFAO are to take a hiatus. However, it’s not all doom an’ gloom. With legends like Ray Davies OBE and Public Enemy in town, a formidable line up at Shakedown Festival, the prospect of 2000 zombies walking through town on the 20th (presumably having killed themselves after the LMFAO news), and Dave’s Brighton Comedy Festival hitting local venues. There are a multitude of events to take your mind off the fact that you will definitely get flu this month.

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What’s on Challenge Pete Usual Suspects Salon Crossword & Sudoku

What’s on Music Previews Rolo Tomassi, Toy, Sparks...

Music Listings

Ross Noble Interview Marcus Brigstocke Interview Piff The Magic Dragon Interview Oxjam Comedy Fringe Comedy I.O.U Film The Yellow Sofa Freshers

Music Guide Theatre Guide Comedy Guide Arts & Film Guide Other Listings

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OCTOBER So here we are, a month further down the line, and the only people smiling are those selling over-priced wet weather gear.

At least we should be grateful that the city is still visible to new iPhone users, for now, unless it gets washed away by all this rain.

But Brighton isn’t facing the slow inexorable slide towards winter without at least attempting to fire up our rain-soaked imaginations just a little.

Dave's Brighton Comedy Festival sets up shop in the city in October, utilising venues around the centre to bring us the very best in mirth-based entertainment. Elsewhere on in this issue we’re giving you a small sample of what’s in store for you there. It’s going to be a good one.

There’s a plethora of musical stylings to keep your spirits up this coming month. The original British singer/songwriter Ray Davies OBE rocks the Dome on the 16th. The Dome will also be seeing an appearance on the 29th from the resurgent hardrhyming, establishment-scaring juggernaut that is Public Enemy. Ever noticed that hype-man Flavor Flav’s comedy clock around his neck is always ten minutes fast? They don’t know what the time is; they know what the time is going to be.

More legends show up at Digital, as Hospitality hits its 7th birthday on the 13th. They’ve taken Drum and Bass to new heights of recognition in the last few years and this celebration bash will show us why.

But don’t pack away that climate-appropriate festival gear just yet.......there’s one last hurrah in store for the more hardened ravers amongst us. A stellar line is coming to Stanmer Park for Shakedown Festival on the 6th October. Dizzee Rascal, Chase and Status, Pro Green and Knife Party lead a solid line-up of electronic music heavyweights.

If you find yourself confronted in the city centre by a huge army of the undead on the 20th, don’t panic, it’s just the annual Brighton Zombie Walk, where around 2,000 pranksters spend their Saturday scaring the crap out of the tourists.

That allows an unusual, but somehow appropriate, segue into mentioning the legendary Joan Rivers’ show this month. She’ll be lighting up the Brighton Centre on the 20th with tales of her glamorous lifestyle and some quality un-PC bitching. After the last political party conference, it’ll be reassuring to see someone on that stage saying what they truly think.

Beach of the Dead 20th October, 3pm Starts at West Pier (old Paddling pool) Watch the dead rise from beneath their graves to wander the streets of Brighton. In its sixth year running, thousands of lost souls come out to celebrate Halloween in the most gruesome of costumes! With each year bloodier than the last, we’ve seen zombie brides, the walking dead and werewolves walking the streets of Brighton. If that isn’t enough to scare you senseless, prepare yourself for the 80s Zombie Prom after party at Concorde 2, just £3 entry.

Beatsworkin presents 5 Years of Cecille...

12th October The Haunt, £10/£12 ,10pm The size and reputation of Beatsworkin parties just keeps growing. Now, in their new home at The Haunt, they’re holding a bash to celebrate five fantastic years of Cecille Records on 12th Oct. Alongside guest appearances from Cecille chaps Nick Curly and Alex Celler, there’ll be a live show from Techno producer (and trained sculptor) Glimpse.

As you’d expect, there’ll be some able support from Beatsworkin themselves aka Jamie Bawn and Chris Eaton.

As if all this deep, minimal house and techno loveliness wasn’t enough, it’s also Beatsworkin third birthday. There’s going to some sore (but very happy) heads in the morning.

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SHAKEDOWN FESTIVAL

Photo Biennial

6th October Stanmer Park

6th October - 4th November www.bpb.org.uk

Prepare yourselves for Shakedown Festival with an exciting line-up of musical talent coming to Brighton.

Last year we saw 10,000 people party in the green surroundings of Stanmer Park, this year expect even more as ‘Bonkers’ Dizzee Rascal headlines the main stage and the impressive line-up continues with Professor Green, Katy B, Chase and Status, Freemasons as well as newcomers Stooshe – just to name a few. For more info and to grab your tickets visit www.shakedown.co.uk

Brighton Photo Biennial brings the wonder of the still image to Brighton from 6 October - 4 November Exploring the theme Agents of Change: Photography and the Politics of Space, this hugely successful event features a packed programme of free exhibitions, new commissions, talks, screenings, workshops and master-classes.

Curated and produced by Photoworks, the UK’s leading visual arts agency, the festival brings international and emerging photographers and

H BAR Halloween Party

Disco Deviant with Greg Wilson

Fri 26th October 8pm H-Bar

Fri 12th October 10pm The Loft

After a hugely successful run at the H-Bar, Beatsworkin have moved their operations into a larger venue, but now they’re returning with one of their legendary Halloween events on Fri 26 Oct. In addition to the usual top quality Tech House and Techno, is some acidtinged funk from Tom Baker and groovy techno supremo, Darren Roach. Joining them are Beatsworkin, James Britton and Andy Moore Upstairs in the bar there’ll be generous helpings of Disco, Funk, Deep House and Old Skool with Scotty SLD, Matt Purkis, Ministree, Phil Speller and Dobby.

Disco Deviant returns to The Loft on Friday October 12th, with very special guests Greg Wilson and Pablo Contraband.

Greg Wilson is one of the most important figures on the UK dance scene. He enjoyed hugely popular residencies in the early eighties at Wigan Pier and Manchester’s Legend. After that he became the first resident of the legendary Hacienda club.

His pioneering of the Electro-Funk sound made him a firm favourite in clubs across the planet. Chances are, if you’ve been to a festival this year, you’ll have discovered him already. So you’ll know this is not to be missed.

artists to the city.

Responding to recent efforts to politically reimagine urban space through social and civic uses, BPB12 presents photography and imagery generated by professional photographers and the public at large; grassroots activism and media spectacle; established names and recent finds; contemporary work and older photographic practices. At the core of BPB12 is an examination of photography as both a tool and a process: a means of understanding the world, and an active force in shaping it. www.bpb.org.uk

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MUSIC PREVIEWS

October is here but fear not because we’ve got a shed-load of gigs to get you out the confines of your cold flat and in some cases out of your mind. Rest assured though, these shows will warm the cockles of even the hardiest soul.

By Brad Middleton ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE - Blind Tiger, October 20th, £11adv.

DYLAN CARLSON - The Hope, October 18th, £9adv.

The loudest band I have ever seen and trust me that is something coming from someone who has seen the likes of Earth, Sunno))) and the Melvins. These Japanese psychedelic nut-jobs have released so many albums it is impossible to keep track of but there live shows are simply balls-out, amps to 11 and hair. They rock like no other band on the planet and if you think you can stomach it get down to this show, it’ll blow your mind!

A legend from a legendary band finally comes out from behind the smoke and noise of the colossal Earth and offers up some weirdy folky stuff for our delectation however don’t expect to be able to get a copy of his epic tape-only release ‘Edward Kelley’s Blues’ as only 400 were made and they sold out instantly. This new project moves away from the shuddering noise and doom/ drone of Earth into a magical world of fairies and goblins and English mythology. This is going to be interesting.

ROLO TOMASSI - The Haunt, October 22nd, £10adv.

TOY - Coalition, October 27th, £8adv.

I for one never really understood why this band got all the mainstream press attention they did when they first hit us with their insane punk racket all those years ago. It wasn’t that I didn’t like them, I did and still do, but I didn’t understand why the likes of NME did. Anyway earlier in the year I got to see them again, after many years, and they were still great. If you like your punk fast and direct with short songs and a great girl vocalist/screamer then get along to this, it’ll be ace!

If what you’re searching for is the new ‘next big thing’ then this show couldn’t have come at a better time. With their debut album still being raved about by critics all over the world, it was only released at the start of last month, this is a prime chance to catch a band on the way up. It is doubtful that we shall see them play a venue as intimate as Coalition for a long while, if ever, and by the time you read this it will probably have sold out but you never know. Get along to your local ticket outlet and fast!

SPARKS - Brighton Dome, October 25th, £20adv.

EIGHTIES MATHCBOX B-LINE DISASTER - Concorde 2, October 30th, £11adv.

What can one say that hasn’t already been said about the legend that is Sparks? Well this tour has reduced them to just a two-piece and they have totally re-jigged all their classic songs so… what are you waiting for? A legendary band plays all their best songs, think This Town Ain’t Big Enough For the Both of Us, in a way you’ve never heard before. Well?

Legends of the Brighton rock’n’roll scene these boys have been doing this now for the whole of this century! Founded on January 1st, 2000 they retain the vibe of a band formed at a party who just want to have fun and make a fearsome racket and that is exactly what they do. A true Brighton institution now and I for one am glad to see them back.

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CHALLENGE PETE: Eat the XXX Chilli Burger at Burger Off!

Well, we’ve all heard the stories about the famous XXX Chilli burger. The one that’s so HOT it comes with an 18 certificate and you need to sign a disclaimer form before you attempt it! So, with this in mind, BN1 ‘Challenged Pete’ to eat the hottest chilli burger in the world (might not be, but hey, I reckon so) from Burger Off in Brunswick Street West, Brighton.

Before I describe this hilarious and quite bonkers episode let me tell you a little about this quintessential takeaway.

Burger Off is not your “Gourmet Burger Bar” type of place and it doesn’t claim to be. It’s Just good old, honest, sloppy but tantalising fast food that comes with high acclaims. It’s reasonably priced with an array of tasty burgers, a whole meal coming in at around £4. Anyone that tries a Burger Off burger always comes back for more!

Pete finds himself scrambling for milk, or other any drink he could get his hands on, to cool the insane burning in his throat and stomach, running to and from the bathroom, not knowing where to go or what to do. After about ten minutes of this drama we decide to leave and get him home. We manage 50 yards before he collapses and starts writhing around the floor, clutching his stomach and asking for help.

The Challenge: Eat the hottest chilli burger in the world!

Pete: “What do I do? I need help, I can’t walk. I’m bloody hallucinating. GET ME AN AMBULANCE.”

Pete: “Why am I so nervous? Let’s get this over and done with!”

After 15 minutes of rolling on the floor and tearing off half his clothes, an ambulance arrives, the crew calming him down and whisking him off to A&E! It dawns on me. “Oh dear, we’ve just killed Pete”.

He is later released with major anxiety and cold shakes, coupled with excruciating stomach cramps and the ringsting from hell!

Pete takes the first few bites of the XXX Chilli burger and seems unfazed by the immense heat thrashing his senses like a sledge hammer. Then about half way through, a succession of grunts and inaudible noise’s escape from his gob, “Ummpff...God...” He’s starting to feel the effects.

He then tries a new tactic by stuffing the whole damn thing into his mouth, chomping down every last bit. What a champion, not many have eaten the whole burger. Over 700 have signed for this abomination and only a few have managed the whole thing. He then leaps into the air with a crazed wide-eyed stare and a look of desperation.

Pete: “OH YES, WOOOH, FUCKING HELL, WHAT A RUSH! WHAT A FUCKING RUSH! OH MAN, WHAT A RUSH!!”

The XXX Chilli burger is not for the foolhardy, but is only a gimmick. Let’s not forget that Burger Off is known for some of the best Burgers in Brighton, which I can truly vouch for. The burgers are absolutely scrumptious and I encourage everyone to try one if you haven’t done so.

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ross noble Ahead of the annual Brighton Comedy Fest we decided to send intrepid reporter/scandal-teaser Andy Hollis off to have a chat with one of the best loved comedians of his generation, Ross Noble.

With some trepidation we received the copy, so here we are with tales of Frankie Boyle, Muslims, crystal meth and pottery dragons.

Well what did you expect!??

This is a bit of a dodgy line isn’t it?

No, no, I’ve got a mouth full of breakfast and I’m trying to whistle to my dog at the same time.

You’re outside aren’t you?

I am, I’m out in the country.

You’re sitting outside in this beautiful weather, eating breakfast, with your dogs whilst I’m here sitting in a gardenless flat in Brighton….

Ah but you say that. What would happen though if I suddenly needed a pottery dragon? I mean that’s at LEAST a car journey for me, whereas for you in Brighton you just need to open your front door and there we go, a selection of places selling pottery dragons right in front of you.

Very true. If I bump my head I can get hold of a healing crystal in a flash.

Exactly! I think in Brighton they don’t have those methadone clinics for smack addicts do they? You can’t go in there and just get a dose of methadone in Brighton, they’ll just hand you over a healing crystal with great ceremony. In fact, maybe Brighton is where Crystal Meth originated from?

Two sides of the same sword?

Yes, the hippies drug of choice. Methadone and a healing crystal.

There’s not much point asking you what we should expect of your show at the Brighton Comedy Festival is there?

No. As you’ve gathered, you can have a plan and then if they audience doesn’t derail it, I’ll do it myself. I did fight against it for a while, saying “you need discipline Ross” but it just didn’t work for me. It’s a strength now, it’s got to the point where nobody knows what to expect. So yes, the answer is actually anything.

You’ve played down here quite a few times – any sordid or comical Brighton memories you’d care to share?

I do but I’m a happily married man now, so I’m not so sure my wife would be terribly keen to hear them. It’s weird playing in Brighton – you’ll play at the Dome for a couple of nights, in front of 4,000 people, and then you’ll meet EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM the next

day, shopping in the Laines. For pottery dragons.

In 2007 you were voted number 10 in the top 100 stand-ups. The updated 2010 list puts you at number 11. Are you getting slowly worse?

Yes, definitely. I’ve clearly taken my eye off the ball! No, actually somebody moved up. It was Ricky Gervais. I think maybe Ricky has got better and I’ve got worse.

I was reading an interview with Tim Minchin recently and he admitted to being more wary of making jokes about certain faiths now as he has a family. You’ve flirted with it with the “Cheeky Muslim Dance” – do you ever worry about repercussions or backlash with your comedy?

It’s in the back of your mind I guess to an extent. Look, people can believe what they want. My problem is that I just don’t see that religion should be afforded a special dispensation. When I make a joke, there’s no malice in it at all, and I think people realise that. I’m quite light-hearted about serious subjects. Someone like Frankie Boyle, everything he does is nasty – his attitude is nasty and that’s fine for him, but when I have a go at something, I’m just poking fun. I mean if you slag off One Direction these days you end up getting death threats!

There’s a lot of discussion about that currently – the line between comedy and offensiveness. Is there a line?

It’s a difficult one. I think anything is fair game, but it’s about the attitude behind the approach. If you’re prepared to be that brave…. well….the thing is, there was a genuine point and joke to be made regarding Jordan and her son – the way she was putting him on television and turning him into a media personality. There are ways of highlighting disability and the issues surrounding that without pushing your young son into the media spotlight. I thought that was very unfair and irresponsible. But Frankie managed to do the impossible and make a joke that actually managed to give her the moral high ground, which was a real shame.

Okay, a few fan questions for you – from Graham – Newcastle UK or Newcastle Australia?

Oh Newcastle UK definitely. I love the Australian beaches, but it’s a question of loyalty.

Helen would like to know, if you had a big box of lego, what would you build?

Probably a giant Donald Duck or a big pirate. I’ve made smaller versions of both with my daughters lego so I’d want to upscale. I actually take photo’s of lego on my phone and show people, saying “I built that….”

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One from Dan – would you rather fight a horse sized duck or 100 duck sized horses.

Oh I’ve heard that one many times. I reckon the 100 little ones. Once you’d fought them you could corral them and recreate Western films. Or you could race them. A better question would be, would a thoroughbred duck sized horse beat a greyhound in a race?

And finally, Chris Taylor would like to know if you’ll marry him?

I can’t help him yet as it’s not legal. Once gay marriage has been approved I’ll need to talk to the wife and clear it with her. At that point, well yes, I don’t see any reason why not……

By Andy Hollis

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MARCUS BRIGSTOCKE There are a lot of things in this country that could be greatly improved with an abundant application of common sense. But changes for the better aren’t coming fast enough for Marcus Brigstocke. So now he’s taking to the road with his show, The Brig Society, which is a well-balanced sardonic mix of frustration and humour. It seems even Brighton isn’t too right on for a visit from him, Green Party MP or not, as his show comes to The Dome as part of Dave's Brighton Comedy Festival this month.

So seeing as he’s in a sharing mood, let’s find out what else he’s got to say.

Can you tell us about the current show? What will The Brig Society deliver to the nation that’s almost on its knees?

About 2 years ago some unbelievably wealthy, privately educated, white men offered us the “opportunity” to take power back from central government and make a more locally accountable ‘Big Society’. What they meant was - “please could you run all of the stuff we’re supposed to run but cant bring ourselves to care about...” Well the idea of the Brig Society is to take the preposterous, dishonest notion of a ‘Big Society’ and run with it like it’s a real thing instead of a thin veneer painted over a load of ideologically driven cuts imposed on us by the Bullingdon Club.

In The Brig Society - we take them at their word and actually take charge of our own affairs. We’ll appoint our own chancellor and a Banker Finder General, we’ll put an engineer in charge of the railways and renationalise them, we’ll reshuffle our own cabinet so that the people running our business look like us, sound like us, talk like us and eat where we eat.

So - it’s that really... with jokes.

You’re a man of many talents. What do you enter for “occupation” on your airport arrival cards?

Clown. Unless I’m going to the US in which case I put a flirty ‘what do you want it to be?’. They love that at Homeland Security.

You’ve been doing a lot of theatre in recent years. How does this differ from doing your own solo shows (apart from being on stage with other people)? Have you always had a hankering for stage work?

Theatre’s fun - Eric Idle handed me the script for Spamalot, written (mostly) by Monty Python and said ‘Here, go and put on that crown and cloak, pick up that sword and piss about with this for a while’. I mean what’s not to like? Tucker from Grange Hill banged his nuts together and we pretended to be on a horse!

You’ve taken the role of Albert Perks in a production of The Railway Children recently, a part mostly associated with the mighty Bernard Cribbins. What did you bring to this much loved role, or were you just channelling your inner Bernard?

The fact that Cribbins played Perks was an added delight for me when I did it. He wrote ‘Right said Fred’ and ‘Digging a hole’ and I got to play the same part as him - that’s a massive privilege. I did it differently. I think. It was performed on a stage built over a railway line with a real 100 year old train - so there was no doubt who or what the star of the show was.

Is it a shame that kids don’t get to play on railway lines anymore? It looks like an opportunity for some thrilling adventures.

Well quite. I’m sure someone will bring out ‘The Railway Children - mission to Oakworth’ for the Nintendo Wii - where a 3D avatar of Jenny Agutter takes her petticoats off and you have to wave them about in the air. 18 certificate I suspect.

Is The Late Edition ever going to return? If not, then why‘s it so difficult to get informative political satire shows commissioned on TV, at a time when we need them most?

I don’t think the Late Edition will come back. Sadly. It takes too much courage for telly people to take that sort of risk. I’d love - more than anything else to host a UK version of The Daily Show. Perhaps one day.

Online. From a shed in my garden. An angry old man shouting into a camera while people watch clips of kittens sliding off a bed on BBC1. Oh dear. I’ll stick to the thrill of stand up thanks.

You were a vocal supporter of Caroline Lucas in her successful bid to become our MP, how did this come about? Any plans to hook up with her when you come to Brighton?

I felt very strongly (as a non resident with nothing to lose) that Caroline would make a great MP. Hers is a voice that is so important in Westminster. Amongst the dearth of Private School posh boys (like me) we need Caroline Lucas to hold them to account. Yes, I’d love to see her when I come down but if my instincts about her were right she’ll be too busy and rightly so.

Vast swathes of our population are disillusioned with the way this country is being run. What action can people take to make things politically better, without inadvertently becoming part of the problem themselves?

Shop locally, bank ethically, take the train, use the bus, eat well (seasonally if you can), buy things that will last, only work hard at the things that matter, meet your MP and make them work for you... oh and vote. But voting won’t make nearly as much difference to the world we live in as changing your bank accounts and walking past the supermarket to the greengrocer, butcher and baker just beyond.

What have you got in your pockets right now?

Fluff and my phone.

Your Wikipedia page is fairly colourful, in my experience the only more interesting celebrity profiles are for Charlie Sheen and Errol Flynn, but is it all true? If it is, can you tell us something they haven’t covered to date? (Yes, this is a blatant attempt at getting some exclusive gossip.)

Exclusive Gossip - well it’s true I used to be a podium dancer and it’s true I used to work on an oil rig. What may not be on there is that I used to make a bit of extra money teaching people to roller blade and that I’m a massive fan of Neil Diamond. Not exactly gossip but it’s best I can do...

Oh... also... Amanda Holden hit me once.

Marcus Brigstocke - The Brig Society at The Dome on Fri 19 Oct.

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PIFF THE MAGIC DRAGON

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PIFF THE MAGIC DRAGON With such a plethora of different quality acts at Dave's Brighton Comedy Festival this month, how does a talented performer get themselves noticed?

A more surreal option is to be a dragon that fires a small dog from a canon and lures beautiful princesses out of the audience with his remarkable brand of magic.

No, we haven’t lost the plot. He really does exist, and here’s what he has to say for himself.

What do the other members of the magic scene think of you dressing up as a dragon?

It was viewed with some scepticism when I started. There were a few raised eyebrows. But all the best things always start off as being a bit unusual.

I always imagined the Magic Circle as taking it all quite seriously, when they get some chap in a green monster suit turning up.

Well, I’d actually won the Magic Circle (Magician of the Year Competition) after doing Piff for three years. I’d always been a respected magician, so it made it easier when I started dressing up. If they all know you can do it, then they’re happier to watch.

So is Piff a separate character, or is he just an extension of your character?

He’s really an extension of my own persona. He enables me to do all the things I could never get away with because I’d look too ridiculous, like pretending I had magic powers and flirting with princesses. You could never really do that as a guy in a dinner suit without it being horrible.

Does the quality of audience participation have a direct correlation to the attractiveness of the person you pull up on stage?

You can see my enthusiasm going up in relation to that. But I don’t bring people on stage unless they look like they are going to be fun.

What do you feel is the most important piece of knowledge you can pass on to new magicians?

Follow what you want to do. There are a lot of people who just look around and do what everyone else us doing, but

you might as well try doing something different.

Where do you stand with the guy in Ukraine that ripped off your act on a national TV talent show?

I just heard about it. I looked at the video and I couldn’t believe it, it was just word for word. My agent spoke to a lawyer, but suing people is a pointless waste of time. So we got maximum publicity from it. But I actually met the talent show judge that busted him and she had been fired for exposing him. The weird thing is he looks like me, so for a while I was thinking I’d been to Russia without remembering.

Did you find it flattering, irritating or just plain strange?

I found it strange, but I was really, really annoyed about it.

I had to fly to Vegas the next day and when I turned my phone on I had loads of messages about it, so I ended up being really angry.

Was there any one person who encouraged you to take up magic?

I did it as a hobby when I was ill as a kid. Then I carried on doing it. There were people like Jerry Sadowitz and someone called The Amazing Jonathon, they were the people whomade me laugh and laugh, and did amazing magic tricks. When I was at university I was dong computer science and I was looking to not be doing that for the rest of my life.

So who’s the most famous Dave you’ve met?

David Copperfield. I was in Vegas and because of the Youtube thing everyone knew about my act. I got asked to see his show, then afterwards I met him. He was really nice and his manager put me up in the MGM Grand for a week.

Piff the Magic Dragon brings his Jurassic Bark show to The Dome on Sat 6 October. 16+ and absolutely no dragonslayers.

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MUSIC guide

Wolves Tales, The M Theory 8PM £3 - £4 Thomas Kemp Unplugged Sessions Douzy’N’Slyde 9PM Tube Booty Bakery DJs Blonde Chicks, Tom Baker, Joe G and Oli.P 11PM £4 - £5 Victory Open Mic Night All musicians and perfomers welcome 8PM Volks Roll Through Bass, D n B, Dubstep 11PM £2

FRIDAY 5TH

TUESDAY 2ND Above Audio Cottontail Club Rock N roll, Jitter Jive & Blues Audio Guerilla Rocks Rock Night £2 - £3 Black Lion Tuesday Club Anything goes - great music Brunswick Jazz Jam Session with house band & Guests 8PM Cube Bar Cube Live Bright On The Beat open from 2PM Fountain Head Student Night indie and rock Green Door Store John Peel night with The Flaming Stars, I Ludicrous & Helen McCookerybook 7PM £8 - £10 Green Door Store Donuts Golden era hiphop, modern electronics & funk 11PM Honey Club Latin Fever Pres Urbano Latino DJs Aaron George - Gabriel Angel & Yersin Rivas 8PM £1 - £3 Hope Slip Jam: B Brighton’s longestrunning hip hop night 8:30PM Lola Lo Dirtee Laundry Brightons Longest running night 10PM £2 - £6 Sidewinder Open Mic Night hosted by Robin Coward 8:30PM The Prince Albert Fresh Like Dexie, Fickle Friends, Johnson & the Believers 8PM £3 - £4 Tube Tape Presents: Showdown House, Ghetto Funk, DnB, DubStep £2 - £4 Volks Tuesday Takeover Hip Hop, funk, dub, reggae, Urban 11PM £1 - £2.50

Wednesday 3rd Above Audio Kitchen Hip Hop Audio Re:Flex Tantrum Desire £3 - £5 Black Lion Black Lion Accoustic

Showcase Chris Simmons presents solos, acousitic sets and open mic 8:30PM Coalition Cocoloco Promotions Pres CoCo LoCo 10:30PM £1 - £5 Cube Bar Wicked Wednesdays Bar Grooves open from 2PM FishBowl Tea & Buscuits Gareth Stephens 10PM Green Door Store Two Wounded Birds Margate trio bringing West Coast Beach Boys sounds 7PM £6.50 Green Door Store Hard Times Jon Slade & friends play post punk, proto punk 11PM Hope Oxjam Brighton Takeover The Jar Family, MOK!, Tiny Dragons & Guests 8PM £3 Latest Music Bar Tango Boot Camp Argentine Tango 8PM £5 - £8 Lola Lo Vida Lola’s fresh, funky and unorthodox night 10PM £3 - £5 Northern Lights Prognosis DJ takes you to the heart of psychedelia 8PM Open House Safehouse An evening of improvised live music 8PM £5 - £6 The Prince Albert Ahab, Early Ghost 8PM £6adv Thomas Kemp Open Mic Night Kev and Jennas 8:30PM Western Front Hush Hush Acoustic sets from some of Brighton’s finest 9PM Volks Rewind Selector & SRRNB Pres Latin Fusion 9PM £3 - £6

SATURDAY 6TH Ancient Mariner The Acoustic Sessions Sam Chara & Bing Lyle 8:30PM Above Audio Saturday Sessions Live Music Above Audio Drs Orders Founk and Soul Audio Warehaouse BrEaCh, Green, Sabin £5 Basement Supper Club Various Artisit hosted by Richard Dedominici 8PM £6 - £8 Black Lion Burnt Toast’s Blackbelt Jonez & friends mix up sleazy soul, filthy funk 4PM Brunswick The Harvest Sessions Folk & acoustic with House Of Hats 7:30PM £5 - £6 Coalition Pump Up The Jam Dedicated to 90’s Dance, House, Hip Hop & Pop 11PM £5 Coalition Blow Vince Manganaro, Charly Lopez, Charles Green 3AM £5 Concorde 2 David Bowie Tribute 40th anniversary of the legendary album ‘Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars’ 7PM £13.50 Concorde 2 Supercharged vs One Inch Badge Pres Skream, Sgt Pokes, Dismantle 11PM £12 Cube Bar Simpy House Cheets, Paul Hilditch & Max Derkson open from 2PM FishBowl Gareth Stephens Broken beats, nu-jazz, soul, funk, reggae 9PM Fortune Of War Ben GC & Duncan Discordely mashed up eclectic party 9PM Green Door Store Splitting The Atom Experimental noise afternoon-er. Arty 2PM Green Door Store Sonic Switch Rob Luis & his crew 11PM Honey Club Honey Music Pres Jon Byrne, Karl Bush 11PM £5 - £8.50 Hope Mean Fiddler Pres We Were Evergreen 8PM £8adv

THURSDAY 4TH Above Audio Schtumm House, Disco Audio Bastard Pop Pop & Jagerbombs £3 - £5 Black Lion Keep Diggin DJ Mark Stafford 8:30PM Coalition Secret Discotheque 11PM £2 - £4 Cube Bar Brighton Underground DubStep, DNB, Hardcore & Garage open from 2PM FishBowl Residents Association Will Sumsuch & Guests 10:30PM Fountain Head Student Night indie and rock George Payne Open Mic Night House guitar and piano provided 8:30PM Green Door Store Man Like Me Something to do with an IKEA advert 7PM £6 Green Door Store Biaas Studen fundraiser. Beats 11PM £tbc Honey Club Propaganda Indie night 10:30PM £3 - £4 Hope The Social showcasing new and upcoming Brighton acts 8PM (Main Bar) Latest Music Bar Britneypalooza 2012 Livingston Freeman, Johnny and the Dangerbeast, Koresh 7PM £5 Lola Lo Tom:Foolery Mashing up everything from chart, electro, R&B 9PM £3 - £5 Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar One In A Million R’n’B 10PM £2 - £4 The Prince Albert Rising Tide, Tell

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monday 1st Audio The Basement Bass mash - up night £2 - £3 Black Lion Monday Club Anything goes - great music 9PM Brunswick Open Mic Student drinks offers all night 8:30PM Coalition Melting Vinyl & Coalition Pres Dan Le Sac & Support 7PM £10 Coalition Trash Mondays DJs and notorious party starters 10:30PM £3 - £5 Concorde 2 Kilimanjaro Pres Benjamin Francis Leftwich 7PM £12 Cube Bar Monday Mischief Bar Grooves open from 2PM Green Door Store Punk V Hardcore Punk & hardcore bands & DJs 8PM Hope Live Sessions An ever-changing mix of eclectic bands and solo performances 9PM Latest Music Bar DigiTune Pres Intimate Brighton, Lindsey Oliver & Support 8PM £3 - £4 Lola Lo Ramshackle The UK’s biggest alternative student night 10PM £4 Volks Strictly Reggae Dancehall, Bashment, Roots, Revival 11PM £4 - £5

Above Audio Home Go Bang, Disco Deviant, Charles Green and more Audio Schtumm Adana Twins, Ben Pearce Black Lion Soul Casserole Rare underground groove, raw funk, Latin Jazz & upfront funky beats 8:30PM Brunswick The Lost Highway Americana 8PM £4 - £5 Coalition DHC Concerts Pres Kat Men, The Caezars 6:30PM £15 Coalition Friday I’m In Love 11PM £1 - £5 Concorde 2 Freebass Brighton’s Biggest, Baddest Bass Bash! 11PM Cube Bar Resident Session Hutson & Joe Steel - Martin open from 2PM FishBowl : Keep It Wheel Steve KIW 9PM Fortune Of War Fever Monkey in the Moon. Funky, Latin, Afro Beat 9PM Green Door Store Private 12h partyEcho Lake live, Blanck Mass & Support 5PM H Bar Eclectic Boogaloo Nick T, Will Sumsuch 9PM Honey Club Lollipop ‘Pink Fridays’ R&B, Pop, Funky House, Indie 11PM £3 - £5 Hope The Hope Live Pres Oxjam Was ‘Ere 7PM £4adv Hope DJ Ongly Soul, funk, breaks and disco 9PM Latest Music Bar Swingalicious 8PM £10 Latest Music Bar Brighton Hellenic Nights Pres The George Kypreos Band 8:30PM £6 - £8 Lola Lo Tiki Beats Cocoloco’s, DJ Karizma 8PM £3 - £5 Sidewinder The Cosmic Trigger Club Catholic Discipline 9PM Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar No Brainer Best Friends, TeenCreeps, Be Nothing 11PM The Prince Albert Trials, Foley Artist, Losse Lips, Sky Harbour 8PM £3 - £4 The Prince Albert Bend Over I’ll Drive

Revved up rock’n’roll DJ’s 8:30PM Thomas Kemp DJ Night Dj Spindo.

Garage, Rock and Melodic Pop 9PM Tube Cross Ricado, Milton, Trash DJ’s, Oli P 11PM £3 Tube Motel We like underground house music 2AM £5 Western Front Mark Stafford Hip Hop extraordinaire 9PM Volks Simply Vinyl Pres Method In The Madness & Support 11PM £5

David Bowie Tribute Saturday 6th Oct David Bowie Tribute 40th anniversary of the legendary album ‘Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars’

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Hope Soul Casserole Funk 45s, Soul, Motown, Hip-Hop, Mash-ups 9PM (Main Bar) Komedia The British Invasion Charting 50 years of great British music 11PM £5 (Studio) Latest Music Bar The Speakeasy Three, With Derek Meins Lola Lo Zombie Nation DJ Scott Kirby 8PM £6 - £10 Mucky Duck Sizzle and Pop! Senor Mick plays 1950’s rock’n’roll and 60’s soul 9PM Saint George’s Acoustic Lounge 4PM Sidewinder Forgive Me Father For I Have Synthed 80s & 90s Anthems 9PM Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar This Ain No Party A Talking Heads Party 9PM Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Stay Beautiful Dirty Sleazy Glam and Glitter Rock, Hi Voltage Electro 11PM £4 - £5 The Prince Albert Punker Bunker Presents Thomas Kemp DJ Night Dj Bad to the Bone 9PM Three Graces Live Music different bands & musicians 8PM Tube Last Stop Old Skool, RnB, US HipHop and Funky 11PM £5 Western Front Figure of Wax 9PM Victory Up Against It with Born Bad DJ’s 9PM Volks Strictly Guestlist 4th Birthday Far Too Loud, James D’Ley, Intraspekt 11PM £6

SUNDAY 7TH Black Lion Live & Swingin Lion Gypsy Jazz, swing, blues, soul & funk 8PM Brighton Dome, Corn Exchange Castalian Quartet 11AM £15 - £17.50 Brighton Dome, Founders Room Soulful Singing Group sining teacher Mahasukha 11AM £5 Cube Bar Sunday Social Stavros Tousios & Friends open from 2PM FishBowl Recovery? Asbest & Sinner 9PM Fountain Head Sunday Sessions Reggae and chilled beats all day Green Door Store Blues Special Extra blues 7PM Green Door Store Green Door Blues Smokestack & Support 10PM Hampton Sunday Sessions Dr Bluegrass & The Illbilly 8 8PM Honey Club Sundown Jon Byrne & Guests 11PM Latest Music Bar Bark Like A Dog Blues Jam Open Mic 8PM Northern Lights Northern Light Sunday DJ Playing lazy Sunday music 4PM Signalman Open Mic Night hosted by local duo Zoothyme complete with PA, Guitar & Drums 8PM Thomas Kemp Jazz In The Afternoon Bags’ Groove Jazz Quartet with special guests 4PM Thomas Kemp Tango Sessions Come along and dance the evening away 8PM Western Front The E.M.E 9PM Victory Blues Sundays Blues and Soul fresh from the Delta Spun 12PM

MONDAY 8TH Audio The Basement Bass mash - up night £2 - £3 Black Lion Monday Club Anything goes - great music 9PM Brunswick Open Mic Student drinks offers all night 8:30PM Coalition Trash Mondays DJs and notorious party starters 10:30PM £3 - £5 Concorde 2 Live Nation Pres Cockney Rejects 7PM £16.50 Cube Bar Monday Mischief Bar Grooves open from 2PM Green Door Store Daytona Lights Hollyoaks stars done good 7PM

Green Door Store Party & Bullshit Hiphop-focused student fundraiser 11PM £tbc Hope Live Sessions An ever-changing mix of eclectic bands and solo performances 9PM Latest Music Bar Joshua Caole, Woodland Blue 8PM £5 Lola Lo Ramshackle The UK’s biggest alternative student night 10PM £4 Volks Strictly Reggae Dancehall, Bashment, Roots, Revival 11PM £4.50 - £5

TUESDAY 9TH Above Audio Cottontail Club Rock N roll, Jitter Jive & Blues Audio Guerilla Rocks Rock Night £2 - £3 Black Lion Tuesday Club Anything goes - great music Brunswick Jazz Jam Session with house band & Guests 8PM Concorde 2 Live Nation Pres Flux Pavilion Standing On The Hill Tour 7PM £12.50 Cube Bar Cube Live local talent Matt Bonner & Guests open from 2PM Fountain Head Student Night indie and rock Green Door Store Cave Painying Brighton boys done good 7PM £7 Green Door Store Donuts Golden era hiphop, modern electronics & funk 11PM Honey Club Latin Fever Pres Urbano Latino DJs Aaron George - Gabriel Angel & Yersin Rivas 8PM £1 - £3 Lola Lo Dirtee Laundry Brightons Longest running night 10PM £2 - £6 Sallis Bennett Bushman Brothers An absorbing journey into pure electric guitar melody 7:30PM £8 Sidewinder Open Mic Night hosted by Robin Coward 8:30PM The Prince Albert Dog In The Snow, Dan Shears, The Creaking Chaor, Tarm 8PM £3 - £4 Tube Tape Presents: Showdown House, Ghetto Funk, DnB, DubStep £2 - £4 Volks Tuesday Takeover Hip Hop, funk, dub, reggae, Urban 11PM £1 - £2.50

Wednesday 10TH Above Audio Kitchen Hip Hop Audio Re:Flex Jehst Full Live band £3 - £5 Black Lion Black Lion Accoustic Showcase Chas Palmer-Wiliams presents solos, acousitic sets and open mic 8:30PM Coalition Cocoloco Promotions Pres CoCo LoCo 10:30PM £1 - £5 Concorde 2 SJM Concerts Pres Azealia Banks 7PM SOLD OUT! Cube Bar Wicked Wednesdays Bar Grooves open from 2PM FishBowl Tea & Buscuits Gareth Stephens 10PM Green Door Store Bo Ningan Good noises 7PM £7 Green Door Store Hard Times Jon Slade & friends play post punk, proto punk 11PM Hope Goodbye Weirdo & The Hope Live Pres The No Hope Blooze Sessions 8PM Komedia Ruarri Joseph & Marc O’Reilly The indie-folk sensation 8PM £8adv (Studio) Latest Music Bar Peter Case & Michael Weston King: A Plimsoul and a Good Son 8PM £10 Latest Music Bar Tango Boot Camp Argentine Tango 8PM £5 - £8 Lola Lo Vida Lola’s fresh, funky and unorthodox night 10PM £3 - £5 Northern Lights Mystery Train Rare rockabilly all night long 9PM Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar I Am Arcade Featuring all kinds of fighting game classics, music, drink and film 8PM The Prince Albert Attacjs & Guests 8PM

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SATURDAY 13TH

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Thomas Kemp Open Mic Night Kev and Jennas 8:30PM Tube Back Off HipHop, Glitch, Grime, UK House 11PM £2 - £4 Western Front Hush Hush Acoustic sets from some of Brighton’s finest 9PM

THURSDAY 11TH Above Audio Schtumm House, Disco Audio Bastard Pop Pop & Jagerbombs £3 - £5 Basement Popaganda Richard DeDominici 7:30PM £5 - £7 Black Lion Soul Casserole Rare underground groove, raw funk, Latin Jazz & upfront funky beats 8:30PM Brunswick Brunswick Showcase With Luke Hyttner, Jason Hillard & more 8PM £3 - £4 Coalition Secret Discotheque 11PM £2 - £4 Concorde 2 Battlejam with BeardyMan & JFB 9PM £10 Cube Bar Brighton Underground DubStep, DNB, Hardcore & Garage open from 2PM FishBowl Residents Association Will Sumsuch & Guests 10:30PM Fountain Head Student Night indie and rock George Payne Open Mic Night House guitar and piano provided 8:30PM Green Door Store Mama Rosin Cajun blues trash rnr 7PM £9 Green Door Store Blow the Line Future dance music 11PM Honey Club Propaganda Indie night 10:30PM £3 - £4 Hope Favour The Brave Pres ReVerbed, As It Is, Digo and Fickle Friends 7:30PM £5 Hope The Social showcasing new and upcoming Brighton acts 8PM (Main Bar) Komedia How Things Work solo artists and smaller bands 7:30PM £4.50 - £6.50 (Studio) Komedia Karine Polwart The awardwinning Scottish singer-songwriter 7:30PM £15adv Lola Lo Tom:Foolery Mashing up everything from chart, electro, R&B 9PM £3 - £5 Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Riff Till Yer Stiff Classic Rock, Heavy Metal, Grunge 8PM The Prince Albert SSS & Guests 8PM £6.50adv

Miljoona United (FIN) Sidewinder Ms Faricy Bianca returns for a non-stop happy hit fest 9PM Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Dive Slow fraying electro and heady hip-hop,pop and rock 9PM Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Another Sunny Day Indie Pop 11PM The Prince Albert The Wildflowers Club Night, Guest Bands & DJ’s 8PM £4 Thomas Kemp DJ Night DJ Molar and Friends- Blow yer head Funk Classics 9PM Tube Cross Ricado, Milton, Trash DJ’s, Oli P 11PM £3 Tube Motel We like underground house music 2AM £5 Western Front Russ Rockwell Funk and Soul 9PM Volks Originate II Birthday Randall, Ray Keith, Nebula, Relapse 10PM £5

Thomas Kemp Unplugged Sessions Matt Bonner 9PM Tube Booty Bakery DJs Blonde Chicks, Tom Baker, Joe G and Oli.P 11PM £4 - £5 Victory Open Mic Night All musicians and perfomers welcome 8PM Volks Roll Through Bass, D n B, Dubstep 11PM £2

FRIDAY 12TH Above Audio Home Go Bang, Disco Deviant, Charles Green and more Audio Blah Blah Blah Teed afterparty Black Lion Molly Malone’s Dex in the City Rhythm N Blues, Soul, Funk, Hip Hop, Indie 9PM Brunswick The 1930’s Folk & Americana.

Support from Matt Carpanini & Donna Fullman 8PM £5 Coalition Friday I’m In Love 11PM £1 - £5 Concorde 2 Blah Blah Blah Pres Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs 7PM £12 Concorde 2 Akaakaroar Pres Rustie, Krystal Klear, Pangaea 11PM £7 Cube Bar Resident Session Cheets & Guests open from 2PM FishBowl Jeff Daniels Pure dancefloor Dy-No-Mite!! 9PM Fortune Of War Fever The Casual Observer. Funky, Latin, Afro Beat 9PM Green Door Store Balam Acab Don’t mention witch house 7PM £7 Green Door Store Electro Blues The beginning of a great new fusion genre 11PM H Bar Deep South Nick T, Will Sumsuch 9PM H Bar Scandalis Aaron Eelaez, Amiin 420, Kucho, Gabriel Ursu 10:30PM £3 Honey Club Lollipop ‘Pink Fridays’ R&B, Pop, Funky House, Indie 11PM £3 - £5 Hope Fillet O’ Fist Pres Mega - Metal Friday £5 Hope The Goodness Hiphop, funk, beats 9PM Komedia Brighton Jazz Club Ivo Neame Ensemble, Jim Hart & Jasper Hoiby 8PM £12 - £14 (Studio) Loft Disco Deviant Presents Greg Wilson & Pablo Contraband 10:30PM £7.50 Lola Lo Tiki Beats Cocoloco’s, DJ Karizma 8PM £3 - £5 Northern Lights The Sound Exchange 7PM Paintings of Ships(UK), 9PM Pelle

Ancient Mariner The Acoustic Sessions 8:30PM Above Audio Saturday Sessions Live Music Above Audio Drs Orders Founk and Soul Audio Minimal Kids Dimitri Andereas £5 Black Lion Attic Monkeys vs Stop Go!’s DJ Lanx 4PM Brighton Dome, Founders Room Soulful Singing Group sining teacher Mahasukha 11AM £5 Brunswick Ellen & The Echo EP Launch 8PM £tbc Coalition Melting Vinyl & Coalition Pres Micachu & The Shapes 7PM £10 Coalition Dead Horse Pres Les Enfants 11PM £5 - £7 Coalition Blow Vince Manganaro, Charly Lopez, Charles Green 3AM £5 Concorde 2 DIB Pres Submotion Orchestra 7PM £10 Concorde 2 Bass Invaders Adam F, Cookie Monsta, Dodge & Fuski, Reeps One 11PM £8 Cube Bar Stereo Revolution Muerto, Re Set & Friends open from 2PM FishBowl What’s Wrong With Groovin?

Ed Meme and Matt Beatwell 9PM Fortune Of War Beta Hector funk, soul, beats and breaks 9PM Green Door Store Pop Not Pop Bowie Special Pop night 11PM H Bar Bad Habit Slipmatt, Ruffdriverz Sy Kick, Ram Jam, Robbie Dee, A1 & Blitz, Strange Rollers 9PM £5 Honey Club Chop It Up Pres Danny Howard, Squiz, Willerby 11PM £5 - £9 Hope DJ Ongly Soul, funk, breaks and disco 9PM Lola Lo Zombie Nation DJ Scott Kirby 8PM £6 - £10 Northern Lights The Sound Exchange Beautiful word, Flash Bang Band 3PM Sidewinder Rhythm Addict & DJ Goldsboro Burning Soul, Rock’n’Roll, Stompin’ Blues & Jamaican Pearls 9PM Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Kaleidoscope The Physics House Band 9PM Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Ultimate Power the best power ballads ever written 11PM £5 - £6 The Prince Albert The Wildflowers Club Night, Guest Bands & DJ’s 8PM £4 Thomas Kemp DJ Night Dj Miss Biancaspinning her classic 70 ‘s 9PM Tube Last Stop Old Skool, RnB, US HipHop and Funky 11PM £5 Western Front Jay and Rich Eclectic and extraordinary Victory Soul Casserole Pres Soul Custody DJ’s 9PM Volks Auxilliary Drum N Bass

SUNDAY 14TH

Black Lion Live & Swingin Lion Gypsy Jazz, swing, blues, soul & funk 8PM Brunswick Nigel Price Organ Trio Jazz 8PM £6 - £8 Concorde 2 Brightona 2011 - Madeira Drive Road Closure In Support of the Sussex Heart Charity 10AM Cube Bar Sunday Social Open Decks open from 2PM FishBowl Recovery? Asbest & Sinner 9PM Fountain Head Sunday Sessions Reggae and chilled beats all day Green Door Store Twisted Wheel Northern soul DJs 3PM Green Door Store Green Door Blues Smokestack & Support 10PM Hampton Sunday Sessions Live Acoustic Performance, Porchlight Smoker 8 8PM Honey Club Sundown Jon Byrne & Guests 11PM Komedia Wilko Johnson The legendary and influential former guitarist of Dr. Feelgood 7:30PM £17.50adv Northern Lights Northern Light Sunday DJ Playing lazy Sunday music 4PM Signalman Open Mic Night hosted by local duo Zoothyme complete with PA, Guitar & Drums 8PM The Prince Albert The Studio 9 Orchestra 8PM Theatre Royal The Drifters The soul and rhythm’n’blues 7:30PM £25 Thomas Kemp Jazz In The Afternoon Le Duo Jazz 4PM Victory Blues Sundays Blues and Soul fresh from the Delta Spun 12PM

MONDAY 15TH Audio The Basement Bass mash - up night £2 - £3 Black Lion Monday Club Anything goes - great music 9PM Brunswick Open Mic Student drinks offers all night 8:30PM Coalition Trash Mondays DJs and notorious party starters 10:30PM £3 - £5 Cube Bar Monday Mischief Bar Grooves open from 2PM Green Door Store Outer Church Weirdo noises 7PM £5 Hope Live Sessions An ever-changing mix of eclectic bands and solo performances 9PM Lola Lo Ramshackle The UK’s biggest alternative student night 10PM £4 Victory Some Dark Hollow Extra Ewan D. Rodgers and guests 8PM Volks Strictly Reggae Dancehall, Bashment, Roots, Revival 11PM £4 - £5

TUESDAY 16TH Above Audio Cottontail Club Rock N roll, Jitter Jive & Blues Audio Guerilla Rocks Rock Night £2 - £3 Black Lion Tuesday Club Anything goes - great music Brighton Dome, Concert Hall Ray Davies successful and influential songwriter 8PM £32.50 - £35 Brunswick Jazz Jam Session with house band & Guests 8PM Cube Bar Cube Live Travis Eddie & Jon Mcglashan open from 2PM Fountain Head Student Night indie and rock Green Door Store Nine Black Alps Highly recommended 7PM £9 Green Door Store Donuts Golden era hiphop, modern electronics & funk 11PM Honey Club Latin Fever Pres Urbano Latino DJs Aaron George - Gabriel Angel & Yersin Rivas 8PM £1 - £3 Lola Lo Dirtee Laundry Brightons Longest running night 10PM £2 - £6 Sidewinder Open Mic Night hosted by Robin Coward 8:30PM

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The Prince Albert Carlton Melton, Working Man Noise Unit & Support 8PM £6.50 Tube Tape Presents: Showdown House, Ghetto Funk, DnB, DubStep £2 - £4 Volks Tuesday Takeover Hip Hop, funk, dub, reggae, Urban 11PM £1 - £2.50 Quadrant Overherd Wires Music Pres The Trident Community open-mic to test out new material 8PM

Wednesday 17TH Above Audio Kitchen Hip Hop Audio Re:Flex Dj Ez £3 - £5 Black Lion East Brighton Rhythm Section Dub, Soul and Hip-Hop 8:30PM Brunswick Something Blue Highly regarded Blues 8PM £8 Coalition Cocoloco Promotions Pres CoCo LoCo 10:30PM £1 - £5 Concorde 2 Family Ents Pres Portico Quartet 7:30PM £15 Cube Bar Wicked Wednesdays Bar Grooves open from 2PM FishBowl Tea & Buscuits Gareth Stephens 10PM Green Door Store ARP 101 X Yorke EP Launch Donkey Pitch crew 7PM £tbc Green Door Store Hard Times Jon Slade & friends play post punk, proto punk 11PM Hope One Inch Badge Pres Brother & Bones 8PM £6adv Hope Irish Sessions Cracklin’ Griffins 9PM Komedia Julie Murphy Possessing a voice of stark, spectral beauty 8PM £12adv (Studio) Latest Music Bar Tango Boot Camp Argentine Tango 8PM £5 - £8 Lola Lo Vida Lola’s fresh, funky and unorthodox night 10PM £3 - £5 The Prince Albert Wildcat Strike, Mandingo’s, Nervous Pills 8PM £3 - £4 Thomas Kemp Open Mic Night Kev and Jennas 8:30PM Tube White Van Electronic beats traverse time 11PM £3 - £5 Western Front Hush Hush Acoustic sets from some of Brighton’s finest 9PM

THURSDAY 18TH Above Audio Schtumm House, Disco Audio Bastard Pop Pop & Jagerbombs £3 - £5 Black Lion This is the Modern World Time for a bit of Mod-ernness 8:30PM Brighton Centre Tenacious D Jack Black and Kyle Gass 6:30PM £35 Brunswick Bubsie & The Beat Bros Playing Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Rumours’ 8PM £5 - £6 Coalition Secret Discotheque 11PM £2 - £4 Concorde 2 DIB Pres Lianne La Havas 7PM £14.50 Cube Bar Brighton Underground DubStep, DNB, Hardcore & Garage open from 2PM FishBowl Residents Association Will Sumsuch & Guests 10:30PM Fountain Head Student Night indie and rock George Payne Open Mic Night House guitar and piano provided 8:30PM Green Door Store NZCR, Lines Indie hype 7PM £7 Green Door Store Thursday Night Fish Fry Ska, 50s rnr rnb 11PM Honey Club Propaganda Indie night 10:30PM £3 - £4 Hope The Social showcasing new and upcoming Brighton acts 8PM (Main Bar) Hope One Inch Badge Pres Dylan Carlson 8PM £9adv Komedia Bastille Pop with electronic loops 7PM £8.50adv Komedia Juliet Turner with Special Guest

Yvonne Lyon 7:45PM £10adv (Studio) Lola Lo Tom:Foolery Mashing up everything from chart, electro, R&B 9PM £3 - £5 Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Sussex Bass Society electronic bass music 11PM £4 - £5 The Prince Albert Martin Oliver, Richard Allan II, Fingers & Thumbs 8PM £4 Thomas Kemp Unplugged Sessions David Ross 9PM Tube Booty Bakery DJs Blonde Chicks, Tom Baker, Joe G and Oli.P 11PM £4 - £5 Victory Open Mic Night All musicians and perfomers welcome 8PM

FRIDAY 19TH Above Audio Home Go Bang, Disco Deviant, Charles Green and more Audio Audio Pres James Zabeila, Savage, Cassell & Leeves Basement The Basement & Black History Month Pres Jukebox Fury: Celebrate!

8:30PM £5 - £7 Black Lion Medium Rare Funk, Soul, Stupendous Rare Grooves 9PM Brighton Centre Ed Sheeran UK Autumn tour 6:30PM £22 Brunswick The Doctors Folk rock. Support from Wob 8PM £5 Coalition Friday I’m In Love 11PM £1 - £5 Concorde 2 DHP Concerts Pres Chuck Ragan, Jay Malinowski, Cory Branan, Rocky Votolato 7PM £14 Concorde 2 Concorde2 Pres Norman Jay 11PM £5 Cube Bar Resident Session Justin Howard & David Rees open from 2PM FishBowl Cut La Vis This man is all about combining Jamaican riddims and Urban beats 9PM Fortune Of War Fever DJ Joseph. Funky, Latin, Afro Beat 9PM Green Door Store Drugs Four local bands 7PM £4 Green Door Store Sub Pop Grunge, riot girl & the best of 90s-era 11PM H Bar Club SPANK Pres Garden Of Undead Janette Slack 9PM £12 - £17 Honey Club Lollipop ‘Pink Fridays’ R&B, Pop, Funky House, Indie 11PM £3 - £5 Hope Lemur Promotions Pres Brand New Start & Support 7:30PM £6adv Hope DJ Sumsuch & Guests Komedia Radio City 8PM £6 - £8 (Studio) Komedia Born Bad red-hot rockabilly, 50’s rock‘n’roll, ‘60’s garage 11PM £5 - £6 (Studio) Latest Music Bar Sing From The Heart Lola Lo Tiki Beats Cocoloco’s, DJ Karizma 8PM £3 - £5 Sidewinder The Cosmic Trigger Club Catholic Discipline 9PM Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Neon underground dance party 11PM The Prince Albert Club Meow Meow 8PM £4 Thomas Kemp DJ Night DJ Hot-Tip-Hi-FiReggae, Rocksteady and Ska 9PM Tube Cross Ricado, Milton, Trash DJ’s, Oli P 11PM £3 Tube Motel We like underground house music 2AM £5 Western Front Soul Casserole 9PM Volks Oxjam Fundraiser Roksonix, Random Reality, Munxi, Darth Raynor 10PM £3 Volks Futuredub & reality Shock Pres Solo Banton “Higher Levels” Album 10PM £4 - £8

SATURDAY 20TH Ancient Mariner The Acoustic Sessions 8:30PM Above Audio Saturday Sessions Live Music Above Audio Drs Orders Founk and Soul Audio Warehaouse Shadowchild, Batt Pow, Savage £5

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Guests 11PM Hope Oxjam Brighton Takeover £8 Komedia Myminidisco Kids love to dance and have fun 2PM £8 Komedia Gemma Hayes combines prog rock, folk and electronica 8PM £14 (Studio) Northern Lights Northern Light Sunday DJ Playing lazy Sunday music 4PM Signalman Open Mic Night hosted by local duo Zoothyme complete with PA, Guitar & Drums 8PM Thomas Kemp Jazz In The Afternoon Miss Mandy sings the blues 4PM Western Front The E.M.E 9PM Victory Blues Sundays Blues and Soul fresh from the Delta Spun 12PM

MONDAY 22ND Audio The Basement Bass mash - up night £2 - £3 Black Lion Monday Club Anything goes - great music 9PM Brunswick Open Mic Student drinks offers all night 8:30PM Coalition Melting Vinyl & Coalition Pres Francois & The Atlas Mountains 7PM £8.50 Coalition Trash Mondays DJs and notorious party starters 10:30PM £3 - £5 Concorde 2 Live Nation Pres Mat Cardle 7PM £22.50 Cube Bar Monday Mischief Bar Grooves open from 2PM Hope Live Sessions An ever-changing mix of eclectic bands and solo performances 9PM Hope Alternative Fresher’s Week We Are Fiction, Loose Lips, Scream Don’t Whisper £5 - £7 Lola Lo Ramshackle The UK’s biggest alternative student night 10PM £4 The Prince Albert Brighton City Collage Showcase 8PM Volks Strictly Reggae Dancehall, Bashment, Roots, Revival 11PM £4 - £5

TUESDAY 23RD Above Audio Cottontail Club Rock N roll, Jitter Jive & Blues Audio Guerilla Rocks Rock Night £2 - £3 Black Lion Tuesday Club Anything goes - great music Brunswick Jazz Jam Session with house

band & Guests 8PM Concorde 2 Lout Promotions Pres Reverend & The Makers 7:30PM £12.50 Cube Bar Cube Live local talent Matt Bonner & Guests open from 2PM Fountain Head Student Night indie and rock Green Door Store PY Former Brightonian making post-dubstep 7PM £tbc Green Door Store Donuts Golden era hiphop, modern electronics & funk 11PM Honey Club Latin Fever Pres Urbano Latino DJs Aaron George - Gabriel Angel & Yersin Rivas 8PM £1 - £3 Hope Favour The Brave Pres ReVerbed & Guests 7:30PM £4 - £5 Komedia Jack Savoretti Acclaimed singer songwriter 7:30PM £9adv Lola Lo Dirtee Laundry Brightons Longest running night 10PM £2 - £6 Sidewinder Open Mic Night hosted by Robin Coward 8:30PM The Prince Albert Hymn For Her & Support 8PM £6 Theatre Royal Mercury: Freddie Mercury And Queen Tribute 7:30PM £15 - £17 Tube Tape Presents: Showdown House, Ghetto Funk, DnB, DubStep £2 - £4 Volks Tuesday Takeover Hip Hop, funk, dub, reggae, Urban 11PM £1 - £2.50

Wednesday 24TH Above Audio Kitchen Hip Hop Audio Re:Flex Lenzman £3 - £5 Black Lion The Halloween Accoustic Showcase Chas Palmer-Wiliams presents solos, acousitic sets, live bands 8:30PM Brighton Dome, Concert Hall Conor Maynard 7PM £17.50 Coalition Cocoloco Promotions Pres CoCo LoCo 10:30PM £1 - £5 Concorde 2 Brassneck Promotions Pres Jim Jones Revue 7:30PM £11 Cube Bar Brighton Halloween Festival Much Mayhem open from 2PM FishBowl Tea & Buscuits Gareth Stephens 10PM Green Door Store Soccer ‘96 Brighton Noise begin their events division Green Door Store Hard Times Jon Slade & friends play post punk, proto punk 11PM Hope One Inch Badge Pres Fossil Collec-

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Black Lion Burnt Toast’s Blackbelt Jonez & friends mix up sleazy soul, filthy funk 4PM Brighton Dome, Founders Room Soulful Singing Group sining teacher Mahasukha 11AM £5 Brunswick Myniemoe Swing 8PM £tbc Coalition Old Yellow Bricks DJ Monty, Shmooze & Skank 11PM £5 - £7 Coalition Blow Vince Manganaro, Charly Lopez, Charles Green 3AM £5 Concorde 2 Beach of the Dead VI - The Undead Prom, the 80s Zombie Ball! 4PM £3 Concorde 2 Playgroup Festival Reunion Party Hackney Colliery Band, King Porter Stomp 11PM £7 - £10 Cube Bar Simpy House Cheets, Huston & Townsend open from 2PM FishBowl DJ Abo & Ally Smith Two members of the legendary Jazz Rooms crew 9PM Fortune Of War DJ Derek, DJ Stavros.

Reggae, reggae and more 9PM Green Door Store Fear Of Men plus five & eight other bands 4PM Green Door Store Da Doo Ron Ron 60s soul & funk & similar. All with female vocals 11PM H Bar Joof Editions John 00 Fleming, Dan Ascherl, Jon Cockle, Ed Hamilton 9PM £5 Honey Club MYNT Lounge Vince Frimpong & Lee Garrett 11PM £5 - £8.50 Hope One Inch Badge & Love Thy Neighbour Pres Dope Body 8PM £6adv Hope Soul Casserole Funk 45s, Soul, Motown, Hip-Hop, Mash-ups 9PM (Main Bar) Komedia Spellbound Cherry Foxx and Simon Price 9PM £5 - £6 (Studio) Latest Music Bar Dar Williams 7PM £11 Lola Lo Zombie Nation DJ Scott Kirby 8PM £6 - £10 Northern Lights DJ OneTime funk & soul, classic hip hop 9PM Sidewinder Robbie Bowers resident brings his swinging Psych Fest 9PM Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Unhooked Generation 60s Soul,Northern Soul and Garage 9PM Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Trap Magazine Issue 11 Launch Party Royal-T, Deadman’s Chest, Lofty 11PM £5 The Prince Albert We Are The Physics & Support 8PM £6 Thomas Kemp DJ Night DJ Lamppresents Electric Chair 9PM Tube Last Stop Old Skool, RnB, US HipHop and Funky 11PM £5 Western Front Figure of Wax 9PM Victory Teen Dream DJs 60’s Psyche & Garage to Post Punk & No-Wave 9PM Volks Frequency The Upbeats, High Maintenance, Xilent 10PM £2

SUNDAY 21ST Black Lion Live & Swingin Lion Gypsy Jazz, swing, blues, soul & funk 8PM Brighton Dome, Concert Hall Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra Pre-concert Interview 1:45PM £3 Brunswick Brighton Folk Folk, Roots & Acoustic hosted by Any Hill 8PM Concorde 2 Concorde2 Pres Immortal technique 8PM £15 Cube Bar Sunday Social Sam & Max Derkson open from 2PM FishBowl Recovery? Asbest & Sinner 9PM Fountain Head Sunday Sessions Reggae and chilled beats all day Green Door Store Another Lazy Sunday Great new night celebrating artists & making videos 7PM £4 - £5 Green Door Store Green Door Blues Smokestack & Support 10PM Hampton Sunday Sessions Live Acoustic Performance 8 8PM Honey Club Sundown Jon Byrne &

Beach Of The Dead VI Friday 20th July The Undead Prom, the 80s Zombie Ball!

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tive 8PM £6.50adv Hope Goodbye Weirdo & The Hope Live Pres The No Hope Blooze sessions 8PM Komedia Al Lewis Singer songwriter 8PM £7adv Latest Music Bar Tango Boot Camp Argentine Tango 8PM £5 - £8 Lola Lo Vida Lola’s fresh, funky and unorthodox night 10PM £3 - £5 Mucky Duck Overherd Wires Music Pres Jipsy Magic’s ‘A Little Groove Time’ 8:30PM Northern Lights Mystery Train Rare rockabilly all night long 9PM Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar I Am Arcade Featuring all kinds of fighting game classics, music, drink and film 8PM The Prince Albert Brighton City Collage Showcase 8PM Thomas Kemp Open Mic Night Kev and Jennas 8:30PM Western Front Hush Hush Acoustic sets from some of Brighton’s finest 9PM

THURSDAY 25TH Above Audio Schtumm House, Disco Audio Bastard Pop Pop & Jagerbombs £3 - £5 Black Lion Matt Rose & the Tin Cup Collective Resident Band Rock ‘n’ Soul the shizzle out of you 8:30PM Brighton Dome, Concert Hall Sparks 7PM £20 Brighton Dome, Studio Theatre : Source New Music 8PM £4 Brunswick Flamenco Express With Jose Merino & more 8PM £10 Coalition Secret Discotheque 11PM £2 - £4 Concorde 2 Lout Promotions Pres Spector 7:30PM £10 Cube Bar Brighton Underground DubStep, DNB, Hardcore & Garage open from 2PM FishBowl Cut La Vis This man is all about combining Jamaican riddims and Urban beats 10:30PM Fountain Head Student Night indie and rock George Payne Open Mic Night House guitar and piano provided 8:30PM Green Door Store Zombie Zombie Melting Vinyl host the French duo 7PM £8 Green Door Store Blip DJs & electronic live bands 11PM Honey Club Propaganda Indie night 10:30PM £3 - £4 Hope The Social showcasing new and upcoming Brighton acts 8PM (Main Bar) Hope Communion Fitz, George Ezra 8PM £5adv Lola Lo Tom:Foolery Mashing up everything from chart, electro, R&B 9PM £3 - £5 Northern Lights Northern Darkness All about Scandinavian metal 9PM Sidewinder Songs From The Canyon acoustic sessions 8PM Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar John Peel Night 8PM The Prince Albert Steve Poltz & Support 8PM £5 Thomas Kemp Unplugged Sessions Modemusic Pres Up And Coming Brighton Acts 9PM Tube Booty Bakery DJs Blonde Chicks, Tom Baker, Joe G and Oli.P 11PM £4 - £5 Victory Open Mic Night All musicians and perfomers welcome 8PM Volks Roll Through Bass, D n B, Dubstep 11PM £2

FRIDAY 26TH Above Audio Home Go Bang, Disco Deviant, Charles Green and more Audio DPM Black Lion Stop Go! The Planet Groove Collective & DJ Lanx 9PM

SATURDAY 27TH Ancient Mariner Halloween Party Fiendishly Fun Frolics at The Ancient Mariner Monster’s Ball!

Above Audio Saturday Sessions Live Music Above Audio Drs Orders Founk and Soul Audio Warehaouse Eli & Fur, Neil Schtumm, Charles Green, Martyn Savage £5 Black Lion Black Hearts of the Black Lion Halloween Party: Attic Monkeys and Molly Malone 4PM Brighton Dome, Concert Hall John Wilson & The John Wilson Orchestra 3PM £28 - £44 Brighton Dome, Founders Room Soulful Singing Group sining teacher Mahasukha 11AM £5 Brunswick South Coast Soul Revue Soul & Motown 8PM £6 Coalition Coalition Vs Union Pres Huge Artist tbc 10PM £tbc Coalition Blow Vince Manganaro, Charly Lopez, Charles Green 3AM £5 Concorde 2 Live Nation Pres Delilah 6PM £12.50 Concorde 2 Marky and Friends dBridge, Stamina MC 11PM £10 Cube Bar Delirious Halloween Special Carl Mills, Dave King, Joe Wilkes & Friends open from 2PM FishBowl Daddy Marcus Soul, disco, funk and party classics 9PM

Fortune Of War The Big Chill Takeover The Bristol Big Chill bar 9PM Freemasons Halloween Party DJ’s all night Green Door Store TOY Horrors fans done good 7PM £8 Green Door Store The Big Itch Primitive 50s rnr 11PM H Bar Tech Noir Tech House 9PM Hampton Halloween Pants Party DJ Pants 9PM Honey Club HAT-CLUB Halloween Party Vince Frimpong & Damien Stone 11PM £5 - £9.50 Hope Brighton Unsigned Showcasing the latest and most talented unsigned artists 8PM £4 Hope DJ Husky Hare 9PM Komedia Mod For It Northern soul, Stax & Motown, ska, R&B 11PM £4 - £5 (Studio) Lola Lo Zombie Nation DJ Scott Kirby 8PM £6 - £10 Northern Lights Fairy Tale Gone Bad Join our Halloween party with Young Livers 9PM Sidewinder Desert Ivan Discs Blues, Rockin, Jazz jumpin Rhythm 9PM Signalman Legendary Dead, Famous & Decomposing Halloween Party 8PM Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Bitter Disko Electronica funk, dark acid grooves & alternative dance beats 9PM Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Stick It On will be helping raise more cash for charity 11PM The Prince Albert Random Hand & Support 8PM £7.50 Thomas Kemp DJ Night DJ Spindo.

Garage, Rock & Melodic Pop 9PM Tube Last Stop Old Skool, RnB, US HipHop and Funky 11PM £5 Western Front Jay and Rich Eclectic and extraordinary Victory DJ Rob Taylor (Up Against It) Big Soul, Odd Rock, Alt-Pop 9PM Volks Gangoon Dubz Pres Jakes, Chef, Dexplicit, Flirta D, Dream, Dismantle 10PM £10

SUNDAY 28TH Black Lion Live & Swingin Lion Gypsy Jazz, swing, blues, soul & funk 8PM Brighton Dome, Concert Hall Efterklang & Northern Sinfonia 8PM £15 - £18.50 Brighton Dome, Corn Exchange Endymion Ensemble 11AM £15 - £17.50 Brunswick Brighton Ukulele Jam Ukulele group 3PM £tbc Brunswick Real Music Club Diverse quality 8PM £tbc Concorde 2 Sanctuary Music Pres Hazel O’Connor Greatest Hits Tour 7PM £19.50 Cube Bar Sunday Social Sam & Max Derkson open from 2PM FishBowl Recovery? Asbest & Sinner 9PM Fountain Head Sunday Sessions Reggae and chilled beats all day Green Door Store Dead Swans Hardcore 7PM £tbc Green Door Store Green Door Blues Smokestack & Support 10PM Hampton Sunday Sessions Live Acoustic Performance 8 8PM Honey Club Sundown Jon Byrne & Guests 11PM Northern Lights Northern Light Sunday DJ Playing lazy Sunday music 4PM Signalman Open Mic Night hosted by local duo Zoothyme complete with PA, Guitar & Drums 8PM The Prince Albert Gregory Alan Isakov, Chris Pureka 8PM £8 Thomas Kemp Jazz In The Afternoon Lee Rainbow Hands and his jazz piano 4PM Victory Blues Sundays Blues and Soul fresh from the Delta Spun 12PM Volks Psy Sundays. Psy Zombies.

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Brighton Dome, Concert Hall Level 42 7:30PM £26 Brunswick Funky Buddha Band Soul & Motown 8PM £5 Coalition Friday I’m In Love 11PM £1 - £5 Concorde 2 Ian Hunter 7:30PM £22.50 Concorde 2 Concorde2 Pres King Tubby’s Sound System 11PM £2 - £5 Cube Bar Resident Session Cheets & Jon Woodhouse open from 2PM FishBowl Freestyle Records Greg Boraman 9PM Fortune Of War Fever Funky, Latin, Afro Beat, Reggae, Hip Hop, Samba 9PM Green Door Store Neon Filler Live Music 7PM £7 Green Door Store The Great Escape cutting edge new bands & DJs 11PM H Bar Beatworkin Halloween Special Deep House, Tech House, Techno 9PM Honey Club I Love R&B Squiz & Too Cold 11PM £5 Hope The Hope Live Pres Maia 8PM Hope DJ Mach.all 9PM Komedia Brighton Jazz Club Kairos 4tet 8PM £12 - £14 (Studio) Latest Music Bar Tango Boot Camp Argentine Tango 8PM £5 - £8 Latest Music Bar Sirens Pole and Burlesque Cabaret 10PM £5 - £7 Latin Lounge FORBIDDEN: burlesque, live music, cocktails, 1930’s / 8pm Lola Lo Tiki Beats Cocoloco’s, DJ Karizma 8PM £3 - £5 Sidewinder Jem Hannam Funk, Punk, Rock & Pop 9PM Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Sub Pop likes grunge, riot grrrl, alt 90s, agit pop and shoegaze 10PM Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Late Night Lingerie Live Bands 11PM £3 The Prince Albert White Star Liners Album Lounch Party, Budo Grape, Running Dogs 8PM £4 Thomas Kemp DJ Night DJ’s Hep Cat Matt and Ollie ‘Citizen’ Lane 9PM Tube Cross Ricado, Milton, Trash DJ’s, Oli P 11PM £3 Tube Motel We like underground house music 2AM £5 Western Front Russ Rockwell Funk and Soul 9PM Volks Erisian 11PM

FORBIDDEN Friday 26th Oct Prohibition Style Entertainment, 1930’s Cocktail bar and lounge, Burlesque, Live Music and luscious food!

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Psytrance Irish Faery, Mystery Selector & Support 5PM

MONDAY 29TH Audio The Basement Bass mash - up night £2 - £3 Black Lion Monday Club Anything goes - great music 9PM Brighton Dome, Concert Hall Public Enemy 8PM £22 - £24 Brunswick Open Mic Student drinks offers all night 8:30PM Coalition Trash Mondays DJs and notorious party starters 10:30PM £3 - £5 Concorde 2 Lout Promotions Pres Little Comets 7:30PM £10 Cube Bar Monday Mischief Bar Grooves open from 2PM Green Door Store Palma Violets buzzier buzz band 7:30PM £7 Hope Live Sessions An ever-changing mix of eclectic bands and solo performances 9PM Lola Lo Ramshackle The UK’s biggest alternative student night 10PM £4 The Prince Albert Born To Lose 8PM £3 Volks Strictly Reggae Dancehall, Bashment, Roots, Revival 11PM £4 - £5

TUESDAY 30TH Above Audio Cottontail Club Rock N roll, Jitter Jive & Blues Audio Guerilla Rocks Rock Night £2 - £3 Black Lion Tuesday Club Anything goes - great music Brunswick Jazz Jam Session with house band & Guests 8PM Concorde 2 Family Ents Pres The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster 7:30PM £10 Cube Bar Cube Live Bright On The Beat open from 2PM Fountain Head Student Night indie and rock Green Door Store Donuts Golden era hiphop, modern electronics & funk 11PM Honey Club Latin Fever Pres Urbano Latino DJs Aaron George - Gabriel Angel & Yersin Rivas 8PM £1 - £3 Lola Lo Dirtee Laundry Brightons Longest running night 10PM £2 - £6 Sidewinder Open Mic Night hosted by Robin Coward 8:30PM

Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Drinky Doodle Hosted by local artists Adam and Billy DD 8PM £2 Tube Tape Presents: Showdown House, Ghetto Funk, DnB, DubStep £2 - £4 Volks Tuesday Takeover Hip Hop, funk, dub, reggae, Urban 11PM £1 - £2.50

Wednesday 31ST Above Audio Kitchen Hip Hop Audio Re:Flex Sigma £3 - £5 Black Lion Black Lion Accoustic Showcase Chas Palmer-Wiliams presents solos, acousitic sets and open mic 8:30PM Brunswick Samantha Horwill Album Launch 8PM £tbc Coalition Cocoloco Promotions Pres CoCo LoCo 10:30PM £1 - £5 Cube Bar Wicked Wednesdays Bar Grooves open from 2PM FishBowl Tea & Buscuits Gareth Stephens 10PM Green Door Store Dark Horses Lout bring the Halloween vibe with the chainwielding 7:30PM £tbc Green Door Store Hard Times Jon Slade & friends play post punk, proto punk 11PM Hope Halloween Spacial 8PM Hope The Hope Live Pres Third Place Victory, Screamdontwhisper 8PM £3 Komedia TrioVD improvisational jazz scene 7:30PM £10adv (Studio) Komedia The Resonators Returning to celebrate the launch of their new album 8PM £6 - £8 Lola Lo Vida Lola’s fresh, funky and unorthodox night 10PM £3 - £5 Open House Safehouse An evening of improvised live music 8PM £5 - £6 Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Into The Void Halloween Special 10:30PM £tbc Thomas Kemp Open Mic Night Kev and Jennas 8:30PM Tube Back Off Halloween Special HipHop, Glitch, Grime, UK House 11PM £2 - £4 Western Front Halloween Extravaganza DJ’s Volks Much Mayhem Pres The Brighton Halloween Festival 11PM £5

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THEATRE GUIDE Not loads of theatre around in October mainly due to Dave’s Brighton Comedy Festival taking to most of the stages in town, but there’s still some great shows to experience.

There’s some Rough Justice at The Theatre Royal on Mon 08 - Sat 13 Oct. Terence Frisby, the author of the triumphant comedy There’s a Girl in My Soup brings us a very different treat, fronted by the marvellous Tom Conti. Television journalist James Highwood has made his career out of challenging the British Justice system in his documentary programmes. Suddenly, he finds himself being challenged, when he’s brought to court on a charge of murder. He admits the killing but perversely chooses to defend himself, pushing the tolerance of the court to its limits and framing his defence in terms calculated to incense the judge.

The Iron Duke pub and hotel on Waterloo Street, has had a refit and will soon be unveiling its new theatre and a Thai restaurant.

The theatre’s manager, Mill Goble, is a local producer and promoter, who has produced shows on the Brighton Fringe for a number of years. The new venue seats around 40-50 people and

Tuesday 2nd

Latest Music Bar Action for Happiness Action for Happiness is a movement for positive social change. Were bringing together people from all walks of life who want to play a part in creating a happier society for everyone 7:30PM Theatre Royal Great Expectations Paul Nivison stars as the adult Pip, Paula Wilcox as Miss Haversham, Jack Ellis as Jaggers and Chris Ellis as the convict Magwitch, in Jo Clifford’s adaptation of Charles Dickens’s novel. Directed by Graham McLaren. 7:45PM £10 - £35

Wednesday 3rd

Latest Music Bar Join Us or Die Pres VerseChorusVerse, T. E Morris, Autumn and the Falls, Support 7:30PM £6 - £8 Theatre Royal Great Expectations Paul Nivison stars as the adult Pip, Paula Wilcox as Miss Haversham, Jack Ellis as Jaggers and Chris Ellis as the convict Magwitch, in Jo Clifford’s adaptation of Charles Dickens’s novel. Directed by Graham McLaren. 7:45PM £10 - £35

Thursday 4th

Glyndebourne (Lewes) Le nozze di Figaro - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart The entire action of Mozart’s life-enhancing opera takes place within a single day; a day of madness as the subtitle of the original text describes it. Figaro and Susanna’s determination to marry enrages their master, the Count, reducing him to a state of lustful frustration, disregarding his wife, the Countess, who is left to suff er the miseries of unrequited love. 6:30PM £8 - £61 Theatre Royal Great Expectations Paul Nivison stars as the adult Pip, Paula Wilcox as Miss Haversham, Jack Ellis as Jaggers and Chris Ellis as the convict Magwitch, in Jo Clifford’s adaptation of Charles Dickens’s novel. Directed by Graham McLaren. 2:30PM £10 - £35

Friday 5th

Brighton Dome, Founders Room Handa’s Surprise Blending performance, puppetry, live music and song with plenty of audience participation, Handa’s Surprise is a magical and intimate show with ‘a delicious citrus finish.’ 10:30AM, 11:30AM, 1:30PM & 2:30PM £5 - £22 Theatre Royal Great Expectations Paul Nivison stars as the adult Pip, Paula Wilcox as Miss Haversham, Jack Ellis as Jaggers and Chris Ellis as the convict Magwitch, in Jo Clifford’s adaptation of Charles Dickens’s novel. Directed by Graham McLaren. 7:45PM £10 - £35

Saturday 6th

Brighton Dome, Founders Room Handa’s Surprise Blending performance, puppetry, live music and song with plenty of audience participation, Handa’s Surprise is a magical and intimate show with ‘a delicious citrus finish.’ 10:30AM, 11:30AM, 1:30PM & 2:30PM £5 - £22 Glyndebourne (Lewes) Rusalka - Antonín Dvořák Entwining elements of a number of familiar fairy stories from Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid and Slavic myths of lake and forest spirits, to the French tale of Undine, this opera is both fantastical and painfully human. 4PM £23 - £66 Theatre Royal Great Expectations Paul Nivison stars as the adult Pip, Paula Wilcox as Miss Haversham, Jack Ellis as Jaggers and Chris Ellis as the convict Magwitch, in Jo Clifford’s adaptation of Charles Dickens’s novel. Directed by Graham McLaren. 2:30PM £10 - £35

Sunday 7th

Glyndebourne (Lewes) Le nozze di Figaro - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart The entire action of Mozart’s life-enhancing opera takes place within a single day; a day of madness as the subtitle of the original text describes it. Figaro and Susanna’s determination to marry enrages their master, the Count, reducing him to a state of

will be hosting 2-3 performances per week.

Upcoming shows include stand-up from David Whitney (Fonejacker), 12 Step Comedy with compere Ben Shannon (Laughing Horse New Act of The Year 2012 Finalist), and Canadian comedian Mae Martin, who recently won the award for Best International Act at Brighton Festival and Fringe 2012, as well as theatre from local company The Knapper Experience, and appearances from local musicians.

Pushing new limits in interactive theatre is the new 0-1 app, which aims to turn the humble iPhone into a human-god interface, peeling back the flesh-machine divide to speak with everyone’s digital soul.

This free 0-1 app, released last month, purports to be a divine presence that manifests itself on iPhones, enabling the user to have a dialogue with an unknown deity. Using artificial intelligence (AI) conversation software, it learns from the queries put to it, improving its responses and building a sense of what moves the zeitgeist and the people. Keep an eye on the App Store for this chance to commune with your maker.

lustful frustration, disregarding his wife, the Countess, who is left to suff er the miseries of unrequited love. 4PM £23 - £66

Monday 8th

Glyndebourne (Lewes) Rusalka - Antonín Dvořák Entwining elements of a number of familiar fairy stories from Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid and Slavic myths of lake and forest spirits, to the French tale of Undine, this opera is both fantastical and painfully human. 4PM £8 - £61 Theatre Royal Rough Justice Tom Conti stars as television journalist James Highwood, who finds himself accused of murder in Terence Frisby’s gripping courtroom drama. 7:45PM £12 - £32

Tuesday 9th

Glyndebourne (Lewes) Le nozze di Figaro - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart The entire action of Mozart’s life-enhancing opera takes place within a single day; a day of madness as the subtitle of the original text describes it. Figaro and Susanna’s determination to marry enrages their master, the Count, reducing him to a state of lustful frustration, disregarding his wife, the Countess, who is left to suffer the miseries of unrequited love. 4PM £8 - £61 Theatre Royal Rough Justice Tom Conti stars as television journalist James Highwood, who finds himself accused of murder in Terence Frisby’s gripping courtroom drama. 7:45PM £12 - £32

Wednesday 10th

Theatre Royal Rough Justice Tom Conti stars as television journalist James Highwood, who finds himself accused of murder in Terence Frisby’s gripping courtroom drama. 7:45PM £12 - £32

Thursday 11th

Glyndebourne (Lewes) Rusalka - Preperformance talks Our 2012 repertoire is rich in inspiration for the pre-performance

talks, our bitesize introductions to the operas. Each talk is presented by an operatic expert and lasts 30 minutes. 5:30PM Glyndebourne (Lewes) Rusalka - Antonín Dvořák Entwining elements of a number of familiar fairy stories from Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid and Slavic myths of lake and forest spirits, to the French tale of Undine, this opera is both fantastical and painfully human. 6:30PM £8 - £61 Theatre Royal Rough Justice Tom Conti stars as television journalist James Highwood, who finds himself accused of murder in Terence Frisby’s gripping courtroom drama. 2:30PM £12 - £32

Friday 12th

Glyndebourne (Lewes) Le nozze di Figaro - Pre-performance talks Our 2012 repertoire is rich in inspiration for the pre-performance talks, our bitesize introductions to the operas. Each talk is presented by an operatic expert and lasts 30 minutes. 5:30PM Glyndebourne (Lewes) Le nozze di Figaro - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart The entire action of Mozart’s life-enhancing opera takes place within a single day; a day of madness as the subtitle of the original text describes it. Figaro and Susanna’s determination to marry enrages their master, the Count, reducing him to a state of lustful frustration, disregarding his wife, the Countess, who is left to suff er the miseries of unrequited love. 6:30PM £8 - £61 Theatre Royal Rough Justice Tom Conti stars as television journalist James Highwood, who finds himself accused of murder in Terence Frisby’s gripping courtroom drama. 7:45PM £12 - £32

Saturday 13th

Brighton Dome, Concert Hall Jason Byrne - People’s Puppeteer, will have new stories, new props, and more of his trademark high octane lunacy. 8PM £17.50 Glyndebourne (Lewes) Rusalka - Antonín Dvořák Entwining elements of a number of familiar fairy stories from Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid and Slavic myths

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of lake and forest spirits, to the French tale of Undine, this opera is both fantastical and painfully human. 4PM £23 - £66 Theatre Royal Rough Justice Tom Conti stars as television journalist James Highwood, who finds himself accused of murder in Terence Frisby’s gripping courtroom drama. 2:30PM £12 - £32

Sunday 14th

Glyndebourne (Lewes) Le nozze di Figaro - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart The entire action of Mozart’s life-enhancing opera takes place within a single day; a day of madness as the subtitle of the original text describes it. Figaro and Susanna’s determination to marry enrages their master, the Count, reducing him to a state of lustful frustration, disregarding his wife, the Countess, who is left to suff er the miseries of unrequited love. 4PM £10 - £42

Monday 15th

Glyndebourne (Lewes) The Yellow Sofa - Pre-performance talks Our 2012 repertoire is rich in inspiration for the pre-performance talks, our bitesize introductions to the operas. Each talk is presented by an operatic expert and lasts 30 minutes. 6PM Glyndebourne (Lewes) The Yellow Sofa Julian Philips This is a story of love and loss, of betrayal and deception, of sex and a city, of wounded pride and attempted retribution – of plumply inviting sofa cushions.

7PM SOLD OUT! Theatre Royal Duet For One Robin Herford directs Haydn Gwynne and William Gaunt in Tom Kempinski’s multi-award winning drama based on the life and experiences of cellist Jacqueline Du Pre. Presented

by Calibre Productions. 7:45PM £12 - £32

Tuesday 16th

Theatre Royal Duet For One Robin Herford directs Haydn Gwynne and William Gaunt in Tom Kempinski’s multi-award winning drama based on the life and experiences of cellist Jacqueline Du Pre. Presented

by Calibre Productions. 7:45PM £12 - £32

Wednesday 17th

painfully human. 6:30PM £8 - £61 Theatre Royal Duet For One Robin Herford directs Haydn Gwynne and William Gaunt in Tom Kempinski’s multi-award winning drama based on the life and experiences of cellist Jacqueline Du Pre. Presented

by Calibre Productions. 7:45PM £12 - £32

Thursday 18th

Glyndebourne (Lewes) Le nozze di Figaro - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart The entire action of Mozart’s life-enhancing opera takes place within a single day; a day of madness as the subtitle of the original text describes it. Figaro and Susanna’s determination to marry enrages their master, the Count, reducing him to a state of lustful frustration, disregarding his wife, the Countess, who is left to suff er the miseries of unrequited love. 4PM SOLD OUT! Theatre Royal Duet For One Robin Herford directs Haydn Gwynne and William Gaunt in Tom Kempinski’s multi-award winning drama based on the life and experiences of cellist Jacqueline Du Pre. Presented

by Calibre Productions. 2:30PM £12 - £32

Glyndebourne (Lewes) The Yellow Sofa Julian Philips This is a story of love and loss, of betrayal and deception, of sex and a city, of wounded pride and attempted retribution – of plumply inviting sofa cushions.

7PM SOLD OUT! Theatre Royal Duet For One Robin Herford directs Haydn Gwynne and William Gaunt in Tom Kempinski’s multi-award winning drama based on the life and experiences of cellist Jacqueline Du Pre. Presented

by Calibre Productions. 7:45PM £12 - £32

Glyndebourne (Lewes) The Yellow Sofa - Julian Philips This is a story of love and loss, of betrayal and deception, of sex and a city, of wounded pride and attempted retribution – of plumply inviting sofa cushions. 4PM £15 Glyndebourne (Lewes) Le nozze di Figaro - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart The entire action of Mozart’s life-enhancing opera takes place within a single day; a day of madness as the subtitle of the original text describes it. Figaro and Susanna’s determination to marry enrages their master, the Count, reducing him to a state of lustful frustration, disregarding his wife, the Countess, who is left to suff er the miseries of unrequited love. 6:30PM £8 - £37 Theatre Royal Duet For One Robin Herford directs Haydn Gwynne and William Gaunt in Tom Kempinski’s multi-award winning drama based on the life and experiences of cellist Jacqueline Du Pre. Presented

by Calibre Productions. 2:30PM £12 - £32

Friday 19th

Glyndebourne (Lewes) Rusalka - Antonín Dvořák Entwining elements of a number of familiar fairy stories from Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid and Slavic myths of lake and forest spirits, to the French tale of Undine, this opera is both fantastical and

Saturday 20th

Tuesday 23rd

Brighton Dome, Corn Exchange Vincent Dance Theatre - Motherland brilliant, multi-talented ensemble of men, women and children take a look at the gender they were born into and the price they are paying for it. 7:30PM £12 - £15

Thursday 25th

The Old Market Theatre South East Dance & The Basement Pres Schrodinger, Reckless Sleepers. In 1933 Erwin Schrödinger won the Nobel Prize for his contribution to Quantum Mechanics. He theorized a box in which a cat exists as living and dead at the same time. In 1998 Reckless Sleepers built that box – and now over a decade later, they are climbing back inside 7:30PM £8 - £10

Friday 26th

Brighton Dome, Studio Theatre London By Simon Stephens. You get back to London and the noise of the place and the dirt and the colour and the roar of it. I can’t actually. What I can’t really do, for now, at least is work. 8PM £10 - £12

Saturday 27th

Basement Under Construction is a day-long platform featuring nine work-inprogress performances developed through the east.by.south.east project. This is a fantastic opportunity to see innovative contemporary performance in the making 2PM & 7PM Theatre Royal Essence Of Ireland: Bigger And Better Traditional Irish dance and music show, following the tale of Sean Dempsey and Cora McGowen, friends who are forced apart when Sean moves to New York to find work, and their ongoing friendship through their letters. 2:30PM & 7:30PM £21 - £23

Tuesday 30th

Theatre Royal The Sacred Flame Young war hero Maurice Tabret is being cared for by his mother, wife and devoted nurse.

When he dies, it’s assumed it’s by natural causes, but his nurse begins to suspect the wife. W Somerset Maugham’s drama is directed by Matthew Dunster. 7:45PM £12 - £29.50

Wednesday 31st

Theatre Royal The Sacred Flame Young war hero Maurice Tabret is being cared for by his mother, wife and devoted nurse.

When he dies, it’s assumed it’s by natural causes, but his nurse begins to suspect the wife. W Somerset Maugham’s drama is directed by Matthew Dunster. 7:45PM £12 - £29.50

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21ST oCTOBER Oxjam’s Brighton Takeover is happening on 21st Oct, aiming to give local music a global impact.

Oxjam is a grassroots festival, created by a network of thousands of volunteers, with hundreds of thousands of fans celebrating music across the nation, fighting poverty from their local communities.

As Brighton has a global reputation for being one of the most innovative, diverse, artistic and cultural cities in the UK, it’s only right that it’s excellent local music scene plays a part.

Oxjam Takeover brings together Brighton’s best venues and most exciting emerging local bands, all on one day, to bring you an experience you will not forget.

Venues signed up for this year are The Hope, Riki Tik, Mash Tun, Unitarian Church, Pavilion Theatre and The White Rabbit.

We are pleased to announce this year BN1 Magazine is hosting Oxjam’s venue at the Unitarian Church from 3.30 11pm. As you’d expect we’ve got some fabulous bands to entertain you, including: The Move Ons, Unsung Lilly, 900

Spaces and Ellen & The Echo.

Every October hundreds of amazing Oxjam events take place across the UK to celebrate local music and raise money for Oxfam.

The first Oxjam festival took place in October 2006. Since then, the event has raised over £1.8 million in total: enough to buy 15,000 emergency shelters; 70,000 goats or 1050 classrooms.

This month-long music festival is organised by volunteers who know and love their local music scene, raising money to save lives around the world.

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BRIGHTON COMEDY FRINGE 12th Oct - 10th Nov

By Megan Tatum It seems the South East has been beset with festivals in the past few weeks but the Brighton Comedy Fringe is still worth highlighting on your (hypothetical) calendar.

The event brings three weeks of wit, slapstick, and wry comment to the city in a gratefully received antidote to the wettest – and therefore most depressing - Autumn for 30 years.

Now in its 7th year at Upstairs at Three and Tens, the event has done much to nurture rising stars in the industry as well as luring the best in the business from Northern climes to perform by the sea. As Director, Nicola Haydn, said, “Our fringe came about because I saw so many acts at the Edinburgh Fringe that weren’t coming down to Brighton at that time: Patrick Monahan, Josie Long, Carl Donnelly, Daniel Kitson – the sorts of performers that create a special dynamic with an audience in a room.”

So who is worth a look from this year’s line-up?

The winner of the BBC new comedy award 2011, Angela Barnes, will perform at the venue on Sunday 28th October alongside Jim Campbell. The redhead’s deadpan style has attracted mixed reviews in the past but the intimate setting at Upstairs at Three and Tens will ensure those killer lines aren’t lost in the echoes of a larger venue.

Recipient of a Best Newcomer Award nomination from

Edinburgh, Ben Target will venture to the city on 2nd November. In 53 minutes he convinced the Guardian he was a “hugely gifted prop comic” and others just a “crazy man with props” but his own eccentric brand of comedy is definitely worth a look for those tired of restrained, observational stand-ups.

If sitting passively for an evening doesn’t appeal then feel free to get involved with Aaaand Now for Something Completely Improvised, a comic play based on audience suggestions. The Racing Minds group react purely to ideas from the crowd to put together a play that is unique every evening, a risky strategy that has so far paid off with great reviews from Edinburgh. The group will appear in Brighton on Sunday 4th November.

To finish off the three week event Nish Kumar will appear in his self-titled show, Who is Nish Kumar? Described as “ludicrously charming” by Time Out and mistaken as the hypothetical ghost of Salman Rushdie by a passer-by, Nish has just completed his solo debut in Edinburgh to rapturous acclaim. Find out exactly who he is on Saturday 10th November.

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FILM A DEAD GOOD TIME AT THE DUKE’S

By Wayne Imms

This month will see the Duke of York’s marking thirty years since the rise of the video nasties. On Sunday October 28th, following a rare cinema screening of The Evil Dead, a panel of guests will discuss the horror classic’s impact and the video nasty phenomenon. The guests are the British Board of Film Classification’s Senior Examiner Craig Lapper, Empire Magazine’s Chris Hewitt and Ben Wheatley, director of the highly acclaimed 2011 film, Kill List.

Released in 1982, The Evil Dead is a highly popular cult horror film, and the debut from director Sam Raimi. Raimi went onto direct the original Spider-Man trilogy and the acclaimed western The Quick and the Dead. Because of its graphic violence and terror, the original version of the film was banned in several countries. In 1985, the BBFC refused it a certificate altogether, leading to it being banned, and in the process became one of the highest profile victims of the video nasties campaign.

Video nasties is a term that was originally coined to ban a group of horror videos in Britain in the 1980s. Most of these video nasties were graphic low-budget films produced in the United States. Public awareness of the

availability of these videos began in early 1982, when the UK distributors of Driller Killer took out full-page advertisements in a number of specialist video magazines, depicting the video’s explicit cover. This resulted in a large number of complaints to the Advertising Standards Agency. The furore created by the response to video nasties led to the introduction of 1984’s Video Recordings Act, which imposed a stricter code of censorship on videos than was required for cinema release. As well as Driller Killer, key video nasty films included The Last House on the Left, I Spit on Your Grave, Zombie Holocaust – and, of course, The Evil Dead.

Horror is one of my favourite film genres. I think I’ve only actually seen a couple of the so-called video nasties; The Evil Dead, which I saw on DVD around two months ago, and The Last House on the Left, which I saw a few years ago at a regular cult film type night in Brighton. The Evil Dead appeared to be very similar to its equally popular sequel, The Evil Dead 2, which I vaguely recall seeing a long time ago, while The Last House on the Left was a very grim experience, yet with some darkly comedic elements. I’m old enough to remember when video cassettes first came out and the boom in video rental shops.

This was the early eighties, an exciting time for young film fans like me. This new medium meant that so many films which I’d never seen were available. It was so different from today’s digitalised world of virtually instantly available and downloadable experiences. Back then, it all meant a lot more. For some time, the videos that I would get a chance to see weren’t very nasty, although occasionally on some Sunday mornings, my dad and I would head over to my uncle’s to catch films such as An American Werewolf in London and Scanners. However, when Alien received a late night screening on ITV, my dad

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wouldn’t let me watch it. This led to a big tearful tantrum from me.

A few video nasty films have since been remade.

Among them were The Last House on the Left, produced by its original director Wes Craven, who was responsible for the Nightmare on Elm Street and the Scream series, and I Spit on Your Grave. I saw the latter’s remake quite recently, which was far from great, but worth a watch. An inevitable remake of The Evil Dead is currently in production.

Set for a 2013 release, it’s being produced by the original star, Bruce Campbell, and producer Sam Raimi. Rather bizarrely, a stage musical of The Evil Dead is currently touring America.

It sure is fair to say that since the 80s a lot more far gorier, many quite sick, films have emerged, especially in recent years. I’ve seen some of them, including the very disturbing French film Martyr, which I don’t recommend. It’s one of the most disturbing films I’ve ever seen. These type of films, such as the Saw and the Hostel series are regarded as “torture porn”. These aren’t exactly renowned for great stories and characterisations, and they’re regarded as little more than portraying people being trapped in horrendously fatal situations. However, they have gained a huge following.

The event at the Duke of York’s later in the month will partly be a celebration of the good old days of horror, well, the video nasties, of course, with a rather nostalgic look at this notorious genre and how these so-called films of filth to an extent infiltrated British society.

Tickets for The Evil Dead and the Rise of the Video Nasties are available from www.soundstageevents. co.uk

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COMEDY guide Monday 1st

- Prompt. James Acaster is on his way to Brighton with a show full of comedy. For real. “Deliciously daft and no slouch in the surprises department” Evening Standard 7PM £8 - £10 (Studio) Komedia Dave’s Brighton Comedy Festival Elis James Speaking As A Mother. The fourth solo show from one of Britain’s finest emerging comedy talents. “A complete joy” Time Out. 8:30PM £8 - £10 (Studio)

Tuesday 2nd

Brighton Dome, Concert Hall Ross Noble - MINDBLENDER Noble creates comedy gold from tiny particles of random nonsense This is your chance to see one of the world’s most critically acclaimed stand ups in a hysterical night with the Mindblender. 8PM £25 Komedia Dave’s Brighton Comedy Festival Lloyd Langford - One Day In The Life of Lloyd Owen Langford. As seen on Ask Rhod Gilbert (BBC1) and heard on Wordaholics (BBC Radio4). “a properly funny observational comic.” Guardian 7PM £8 - £10 (Studio) Komedia Dave’s Brighton Comedy Festival Bridget Christie - War Donkey. Baffling stand-up and grotesque manifestations. As seen on Sarah Millican’s Support Group.

“A female Paul Foot...sublime madness” British Comedy Guide 8:30PM £10 (Studio) Latest Music Bar Charity Chuckle Nick Helm. As seen on Live at the Electric, Russell Howards Good News, Baby Cow Comedy Blaps 8PM £5 - £8

Komedia Dave’s Brighton Comedy Festival Squawker Comedy Awards. In association with Komedia and Jill Edwards Comedy Workshops/Comic Boom. Dave’s Brighton Comedy Festival are very excited to announce their brand new comedy competition – The Squawker Award! For over a decade the Brighton Comedy Festival has presented the very cream of the comedy crop, and now we are taking a moment to focus on the seedlings if you will 8PM £5 - £6.50

Komedia The Boy With Tape On His Face – More Tape A hit at this year’s Edinburgh festival The Boy is back with a brand new show. Mime with noise. Stand-up with no talking.

Drama with no acting. “Superlative defying” The Scotsman 8PM £10 - £13

Friday 5th

Brighton Dome, Concert Hall Brighton Comedy Festival Gala The Comedy Festival’s Opening Night Gala in aid of in aid of Sussex Beacon is set to be a brilliant kick start to the festival! The amazing Alan Carr is back in the hosting seat, with guests including Jo Brand, Seann Walsh, Paul Chowdhry, Abandoman and many more still to be announced! 8PM £25 Komedia The Maydays Confessions Award-winning improv comedians and their awe-inspiring musician create this improvised show using only their wits and the audience’s confessions 8PM £8 - £10 Komedia Krater Comedy Club 3 top stand-ups and one of the best MCs on the comedy circuit entertain you. Line-up includes Roger Monkhouse, Romesh Ranganatha, Loretta Maine with Stephen Grant 8PM £13.50 - £25.50

Saturday 6th

Brighton Dome, Concert Hall Best of the Fest The name says it all really - the Very Best of the Fest all in one tidy package for you! Always a great night out and a dead set festival favourite! Full Line up details to be announced shortly 8PM £15 - £16.50 Brighton Dome, Corn Exchange Paul Chowdhry What’s Happening White People Paul Chowdhry star of Channel 4’s ‘Stand-Up For The Week’ will be touring the UK this autumn with his brand new show ‘What’s Happening White People?’. Seen by many as the UK’s number one Asian comic, with over 3 million YouTube hits of his highly charged dry observational humour tapping into the multicultural diversity of contemporary Britain. 9:30PM £12 Brighton Dome, Studio Theatre Abandoman - Party in the Key of C Major Winners of the Hackney Empire New Act of the Year, Musical Comedy Awards and the Adelaide Fringe Festival “Best Comedy - Newcomer” awards, Abandoman create musical songs and sketches at lightening speed based on audience interaction 7:45PM £10 - £12 Brighton Dome, Studio Theatre Piff the Magic Dragon in Jurassic Bark Piff the Magic Dragon embarks on his first major UK tour accompanied by Mr Piffles the World’s First Million Dollar Chihuahua?. Will Piff find his princess? Will Mr Piffles defy the Cannon of Certain Death? Will you be able to say you were there if he doesn’t? 9:30PM £12 - £14 Brunswick The Twitnits Improvised Comedy 3PM £5 Komedia Krater Comedy Club 3 top stand-ups and one of the best MCs on the comedy circuit entertain you. Line-up includes Roger Monkhouse, Imran Yusef, Loretta Maine with Stephen Grant 7PM, 8PM & 10:30PM £5 - £31

Sunday 7th

Brighton Dome, Concert Hall Jon Richardson - The Greatest Hits So Far Tour The host of Channel 4’s Stand Up For The Week and team captain on 8 Out Of 10 Cats, Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee and best-selling author will be taking his show, across the UK from August 2012. 8PM £17.50 Brighton Dome, Corn Exchange Tim Key - Masterslui Key’s cropped up in Newswipe, Cowards and We Need Answers and appears as Alan Partridge’s sidekick in Mid Morning Matters. Key won The Edinburgh Comedy Award for his 2009 recital, Slutcracker. Key was nominated for a Bafta in 2008 and he’s got a late night poetry programme on Radio 4. 7:30PM £13 - £15 Brighton Dome, Studio Theatre Jenny Eclair - Eclairious Welcome to Jenny Eclair’s new stand-up show. After thirty years in the business she should vaguely know what she’s doing? Professional Grumpy Old Woman, writer and panto star; Eclair has been round the block that many times she’s lost count. 7:45PM £17.50 Brighton Dome, Studio Theatre Fred MacAulay - Legally Bald Stand up comedy legend Fred MacAulay is back with his new one man show ‘Legally Bald’ which has thrilled sell out crowds at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. 9:15PM £12 Komedia Bent Double Hosted by star of Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow, Zoe Lyons. Featuring Ninia Benjamin in October. “Critics’ Choice” The Times 7:30PM £5 - £18 Komedia Norman Lovett: Old & New Stand-up comedian and Red Dwarf star Norman Lovett returns to Komedia with his latest show. “Exquisite stand-up comedy” The Guardian 8PM £7 - £9 (Studio)

Monday 8th

Brighton Dome, Concert Hall Kevin Bridges - The Story Continues… Kevin Bridges returns to the road in the Autumn of 2012 with a brand new show called the ‘The Story Continues...’ which follows up the huge success of his sell-out UK & Ireland tour of 2010. Having made his debut on BBC 1’s ‘Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow’ in 2009 he has now gone onto host the Bafta nominated ‘Live At The Apollo’ and Channel 4’s ‘Stand-Up For The Week’. 8PM £21 Brighton Dome, Corn Exchange Mark Thomas - Bravo Figaro! After walking the wall in the West Bank, becoming Guinness World Record holder for political protests and chasing arms dealers around the country Mark Thomas turns his attention to matters closer to home with a show about his father. 7:30PM £17.50 Komedia Dave’s Brighton Comedy Festival James Acaster

Tuesday 9th

Wednesday 10th

Brighton Dome, Studio Theatre Carl Donnelly - Different Gravy Join Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee Carl Donnelly as seen on Mock The Week, Russell Howard’s Good News, and Stand Up For The Week) as he reads and discusses choice excerpts from his unpublished and hugely embellished autobiography. 8:30PM £12 Blind Tiger Club Live n Laughing featuring Max Dickens + Support, 8pm. £5 in adv £10 door

Thursday 11th

Brighton Dome, Concert Hall Greg Davies - The Back Of My Mum’s Head Following the thrice extended sell-out success of his five star reviewed and Foster’s comedy award nominated show Firing Cheeseballs At A Dog, Greg Davies returns with his brand new stand-up show The Back of My Mum’s Head. 8PM £20 Brighton Dome, Corn Exchange Shappi Khorsandi Dirty Looks and Hopscotch Shappi Khorsandi is one of the hottest comedy prospects in the country. She’s feisty, flirty and effortlessly funny she handles every subject with a razor sharp wit, softened only by her deliciously dizzy delivery and endless charm 7:30PM £12 - £14 Brighton Dome, Studio Theatre Andi Osho - All The Single Ladies Award winnign comic Andi Osho (Live At the Apollo, BBC1, Channel 4) is back on tour with her second stand-up show. Andi presents a brutally honest dissection of the perils and pitfalls of dating reporting her findings to the audience in this hilarious and heart-warming show.

7:45PM £13 - £15 Brighton Dome, Studio Theatre Stephen Grant - Snow Globe Legendary award-winning Brighton comedian (Chortle best UK Compere, 2008 & 2011) - host of Komedia’s Krater club - in his annual brand new show, full of pedantry, energy, interaction, laughs and tales of hilarious turmoil.

9:15PM £10 - £12

Friday 12th

Brighton Dome, Concert Hall Jack Dee Where’s he been? Appearing on shows like QI and Never Mind The Buzzcocks, 8 out of 10 Cats and Have I Got News For You, hosting Radio 4’s legendary I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue, cowriting and starring in four series of BBC 2’s hit sitcom Lead Balloon and writing his memoirs, Thanks For Nothing which he modestly dedicated to himself 8PM £21 Brighton Dome, Corn Exchange Simon Evans Friendly Fire Fearsome iconoclast Simon Evans is back with a brand new show, and nothing and no-one is safe from the critical glint of his tiny, tiny eyes. Join him as he dismantles the lies - from Fairy Tales to post-match analysis - that confound us all. 7:30PM £12 - £14 Brighton Dome, Studio Theatre Festival of the Spoken Nerd Stand-up mathematician Matt Parker, geek songstress Helen Arney and experiments guy Steve Mould present a comedy night for the fearlessly inquisitive. 7:45PM £12 - £14 Brighton Dome, Studio Theatre Richard Herring Talking Cxck Richard Herring intends to find out in this tenth anniversary update of the critically acclaimed show that exposes the truth about men and their flutes of love.

9:15PM £15 Brighton Dome, Studio Theatre Frisky and Mannish Extra-Curricular Activities School? College? Job? YAWN. Life isn’t about spreadsheets, it’s about joy, laughter and POP MUSIC. Frisky and Mannish, pop experts and ‘fully blown superstars’ (Time Out), have taken their particular brand of pop education all around the world, from the Sydney Opera House to the cabaret dives of Berlin. 9:30PM £13 - £15 Komedia Krater Comedy Club 3 top stand-ups and one of the best MCs on the comedy circuit entertain you. Line-up includes Daniel Sloss, Elis James, Ian Stone with Maff Brown 8PM £13.50 - £25.50

Saturday 13th

Brighton Dome, Corn Exchange Rob Rouse - Life Sentences Come and see Rob do what he does best - Honest, frank, seriously funny stand-up. A father for the second time, to a baby girl, Rob is now a radical feminist - but this is not a show about men vs women, more humanity vs insanity. 7:30PM £13 - £15 Brighton Dome, Corn Exchange Seize the David O’Doherty Here he comes, hitting the proverbial road, with a bag containing a tiny keyboard, six C batteries (spare) and a book of actal sex tips he found in a dentis’s waiting room.

9:30PM £13 - £15 Brighton Dome, Studio Theatre Ava Vidal - Goes Dutch Roadshow returns with a brand new show that questions

the ideas of community and responsibility. How much should we share? And would the world be a better place if we all were self-sufficient and just took care of ourselves?

7:45PM £10 - £12 Brighton Dome, Studio Theatre Marcel Lucont - Gallic Symbol Witty, acerbic Frenchman seeks audience for one hour only for fun, adventure, maybe something more.

Must have own underwear and socks and breath, but be prepared to have these charmed off, laughed off and taken away respectively. 9:30PM £10 - £12 Komedia Comedy Club 4 Kids Back and better than ever!

Cracking comedy entertainment for everyone over the age of six. “The perfect way to entertain the whole family” Three Weeks 2PM £6.50 - £8.50 Komedia Krater Comedy Club 3 top stand-ups and one of the best MCs on the comedy circuit entertain you. Line-up includes Daniel Sloss, Elis James, Ian Stone with Maff Brown 7PM, 8PM & 10:30PM £5 - £31

Sunday 14th

Brighton Dome, Concert Hall Mark Watson The tour revisits some of Mark’s favourite venues, some brand new territory, and a couple of places which he’s visiting as a dare. 7:30PM £17.50 Brighton Dome, Corn Exchange Stephen K Amos Laughter is my Agenda The maestro of feelgood comedy and star of television and radio, Stephen is back with his new stand-up show after a sell-out season at the Edinburgh Festival. 7:30PM £17 Brighton Dome, Studio Theatre Robin Ince - Happiness Through Science Spend an entertaining evening in Robin’s company as he orienteers through the craggy landscape of evolution whilst plumbing the depths of his own murky consciousness, all without the aid of a safety net. 7:45PM £10 - £12 Brighton Dome, Studio Theatre Zoe Lyons - Pop-Up Comic Brand new hour of stand up from Brighton’s very own Zoe Lyons. A mixture of silliness, satire and caustic one liners from one of the UK’s favourite comedians.

9:15PM £12 - £14 Komedia Jill Edwards Stand Up Comedy Workshop Have a fun go at learning how to create, write and perform your own stand-up this Brighton Comedy Festival with the UK’s leading comedy coach Jill Edwards 12PM £45 - £55 Komedia Lorraine Bowen’s Vital Organs Lorraine demonstrates her retro collection of small organs (some donated) from harmonium to Casio tones in a very funny show with songs 8PM £8 (Studio)

Monday 15th

Komedia Dave’s Brighton Comedy Festival Daniel Simonsen - Champions. Best Newcomer winner at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards this year and fresh from appearing on Simon Amstell tour. “You knew he was funny before he opened his mouth” Scotsman 7PM £8 (Studio) Komedia Dave’s Brighton Comedy Festival Joe Lycett Some Lycett Hot. The multi-award winning comedian brings his smash Edinburgh Fringe debut to Brighton. “one of the strongest emerging comedy talents seen in a long time” Time Out. 8:30PM £8 - £10 (Studio) Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Iou Comedy Farewell Finale Zoe Lyons, Michael Fabbri, Angela Barnes, Romesh Ranganathan, Brighton-based newcomer 8PM

Tuesday 16th

Komedia Dave’s Brighton Comedy Festival Suzi Ruffell – Let’s Get Ready To Ruffell. A hilarious insight into life of a 20-something with tales of acute embarrassment, terrible bullies and holding desperately on to the fun and freedom of childhood 7PM £8 - £10 (Studio) Komedia Dave’s Brighton Comedy Festival Charlie Baker - Freshly Baked. His likeability and charming delivery has made him a popular face on TV panels shows, A Short History Of Everything Else and Rob Brydon’s Christmas Special 8:30PM £8 - £10 (Studio)

Wednesday 17th

Brighton Dome, Concert Hall Dara O’Briain - Craic Dealer Catch one of the most charismatic, intelligent, fasttalking and down right funny live performers working in the British Isles today. 8PM £21 Brighton Dome, Studio Theatre Nick Helm - THIS MEANS WAR! Prepare to enlist as international mega-myth Nick Helm takes you on a blood-spattered tour of duty through the carnage filled battlefields of his love-life with the most epic and romantic show 7:45PM £10 - £12 Brighton Dome, Studio Theatre Sara Pascoe - The Musical! Edinburgh show includes catchy tunes, stand-up and many morals 9:15PM £10 - £12 Komedia Dave’s Brighton Comedy Festival Squawker Award Final. The winner of this brand new comedy competition is announced! In association with Komedia and Jill Edwards Comedy Workshops, Comic Boom 8PM £10 - £12 (Studio)

Thursday 18th

Brighton Dome, Corn Exchange Andrew Lawrence - is Coming to Get You Festival favourite Andrew Lawrence (As seen on BBC 1’s Live at the Apollo and C4’s Stand Up For the Week) is back in Brighton after his sell out show in 2011.

7:30PM £13 - £15 Brighton Dome, Studio Theatre Josh Widdicombe Further Adventures of… Josh will be touring his brand new show Further Adventures Of... all over the UK this autumn 7:45PM £10 - £12 Brighton Dome, Studio Theatre The Joy Of Sketch The crème de la crème of sketch comedy acts are coming together at Brighton Comedy Festival for a one-night-only sketch extravaganza! 9:30PM £10 - £12

Friday 19th

Brighton Dome, Concert Hall Russell Kane - Posturing Delivery More thought and intelligence behind his comedy than most people could ever get near 8PM £17.50

Birghton Dome, Corn Exchange Marcus Brigstocke - The Brig Society One of Britain’s finest comedians and broadcasters, Marcus Brigstocke, is taking his hotly anticipated new show The Brig Society on tour this autumn.

7:30PM £15 Brighton Dome, Studio Theatre Pappy’s - Last Show Ever! Pappy’s return with a brand new show full of sketches, songs and silliness! But is this really the end for ‘the funniest sketch troupe on the fringe’? (Scotsman) 7:45PM £10 - £12 Brighton Dome, Studio Theatre Chris Ramsey - Feeling Lucky Chris Ramsey, brings his hugely anticipated new show to venues nationwide on his biggest ever live tour, following his complete sell-out 2012 spring tour, ‘Offermation’. 9:30PM £10 Komedia Krater Comedy Club 3 top stand up acts. Line up includes Chris Stokes, Rudi Lickwood, Ian Moore with Stephen Grant 8PM £13.50 - £25.50

Saturday 20th

Brighton Centre Joan Rivers - The Now or Never Tour An entertainment legend of unparalleled accomplishment and talent - Joan Rivers is class, confidence, and chutzpah!

7PM £28 - £33.50 Brighton Dome, Concert Hall Best of the Fest The name says it all really - the Very Best of the Fest all in one tidy package for you! Always a great night out and a dead set festival favourite! Full Line up details to be announced shortly 8PM £15 - £16.50 Brighton Dome, Corn Exchange Seann Walsh - Seann to be Wild Charming and charismatic, a natural born observational storyteller, Seann is one of the most frighteningly precocious talents to emerge from the UK comedy circuit in years. 7:30PM £10 - £12 Brighton Dome, Corn Exchange Tom Stade - Totally Rocks Following a sell-out uk tour, don’t miss canadian émigré Tom stade with a brand new live show. 9:30PM £12 - £14 Brighton Dome, Studio Theatre Josie Long - Romance and Adventure This is my sixth solo show and I’m going to try and make it the best one. Just writing the title made me super excited so that’s got to be a good thing right?

7PM £10 - £12 Brighton Dome, Studio Theatre The Rubberbandits Dave’s Brighton Comedy Festival 10PM £10 - £12 Komedia Krater Comedy Club 3 top stand up acts. Line up includes Chris Stokes, Rudi Lickwood, Ian Moore with Stephen Grant 7PM & 10:30PM £5 - £31 Komedia Dave’s Brighton Comedy Festival Vikki Stone Hot Mess. Award-winning musical comedy and stand-up from the “hilarious and brilliant” (Heat) Vikki Stone. “The audience were almost crying with laughter” Guardian 7PM £10 (Studio)

Sunday 21st

Komedia Krater Comedy Club 3 top stand up acts. Line - up includes James Redmond, Chris Neill, Ian Moore with Stephen Grant 8PM £5 - £21

Monday 23rd

Theatre Royal Fascinating Aida: Cheap Flights Musical comedy from London-based trio Dillie, Adele and Liza.

7:45PM £19.50

Wednesday 24th

Brunswick Sussex Is An Attitude Comedy - “A Nightmare On Elm Grove” 8PM £tbc Blind Tiger Club Live n Laughing featuring the Real Macguffins + Support, 8pm. £5 in adv £10 door Komedia Dave’s Brighton Comedy Festival Imran Yusuf Bring The Thunder. The Edinburgh Comedy Best Newcomer nominee’s second show about pursuing your dreams and ambitions with unrelenting enthusiasm and perseverance.

“Intelligent and laugh out loud funny” Time Out 8PM £12.50 Latest Music Bar Society A Crooked Mile 7:30PM £5 - £6

Thursday 25th

Komedia Comic Boom The best rising stars of UK comedy plus more established headline acts. Featuring Loretta Maine in October 8PM £5 - £9

Saturday 27th

Brunswick Sussex Is An Attitude Comedy - “A Nightmare On Elm Grove” 8PM £tbc

Sunday 28th

Komedia Krater Comedy Club 3 top stand-ups and one of the best MCs on the comedy circuit entertain you. Line-up includes Joe Lycett, Jason Patterson, Addy Van Der Borgh with MC Stephen Grant 8PM £13.50 - £25.50 Komedia The Humble Quest For Universal Genius The live comedy quiz show that sees Mark Allen and Eli Silverman pit two top stand-up comedians against each other. “The bastard child of QI and Shooting Stars” Chortle 8PM £7 - £9

Monday 29th

Komedia Krater Comedy Club 3 top stand-ups and one of the best MCs on the comedy circuit entertain you. Line-up includes Joe Lycett, Jason Patterson, Addy Van Der Borgh with MC Stephen Grant 7PM, 8PM & 10:30PM £5 - £31

Tuesday 30th

Komedia Krater Comedy Club 3 top stand-ups and one of the best MCs on the comedy circuit entertain you. Line-up includes Joe Lycett, Jason Patterson, Addy Van Der Borgh, Stuart Mitchell with MC Stephen Grant 8PM £5 - £21

I.O.U. Comedy Last ever show!

Monday 15th October Since September 2009, IOU Comedy has consistently showcased the circuit’s most outstanding comedians, from the well-established to the hot-off-the-press, while representing the very best from the south coast scene.

With previous acts such as Seann Walsh, Zoe Lyons, Lucy Porter, Phil Nicol, Simon Evans, Stephen Grant, Nick Helm and Simon Donald, I.O.U Comedy has triumphantly conquered the Brighton comedy scene over the last three years.

Originally starting out as an intimate student comedy night run by friends Alex Petrovic and Sean McLoughlin,, I.O.U. soon grew into a well established night with a reputation for great line-ups at affordable prices.

Sadly, all good things must come to an end, and the final I.O.U. Comedy curtain is going to be falling on October 15th.

Alex and Sean aren’t giving their night any old send off, however, with a night of their finest and favourite acts,

and Brighton’s top cat Zoe Lyons as headliner.

They’ve also got established circuit headliner and friend of I.O.U. Michael Fabbri ( "Startlingly insightful" - The Guardian), Angela Barnes (BBC New Comedy Award Winner 2011), Romesh Ranganathan (As seen on Comedy Central Live at The Comedy Store) and Brighton-based newcomer/Co-founder of I.O.U. Alex Petrovic ("An entertaining way of looking at things", Steve Bennett, Chortle), and the night’s original compere Sean McLoughlin will be sticking it all together with the comedy glue it deserves.

By Beki Turner I.O.U. Comedy - Last ever show!

Monday 15th October Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar, 9-12 Middle Street, BN1 1AL 7.30pm / £5

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the yellow sofa Lauren Easton Interview

By Stuart Rolt

The Yellow Sofa is a relatively new work which puts some soap opera into opera, with a tale of love, betrayal and deception, all set amongst a bourgeois 19th century society.

After a successful premiere at the 2009 Glyndebourne Festival, the opera is going on the road next month.

Written specially by Glyndebourne first Composer-in-Residence Julian Philips, it’s based on a short story

by Eça de Queirós and musically combines traditional opera with Portuguese folk music.

The laid-back Godofredo is quite happy with his seemingly comfortable marriage to Ludovina. That is, until he discovers her in a compromising position with his business partner, Machado, on his beloved yellow sofa. Tradition dictates he challenges Machado to a duel, but he would much prefer life to return to normal.

Taking the part of Amarela is Australian-born, mezzo-soprano, Lauren Easton who nicely spoke to us about this upcoming tour and life amongst one of the world’s finest opera companies.

BN1: Can you tell us a little about The Yellow Sofa?

LE: It’s a little over an hour, so it’s a nice short piece, originally written

to showcase Glyndebourne and members of its chorus. Now it’s back this year to do the same, but we’re taking it on tour. I’m looking forwards to playing the Royal Opera House, that’ll be quite special.

How come it’s always so difficult for female characters in so many works?

We always end up as witches or something interesting. I think they just make for dramatic characters. It’s far more enjoyable as a performer to have your character go through some terrible journey that ends badly, it’s more interesting than a happy ending and just skipping off the stage. We’re just addicted to the drama.

What should novices expect from their first visit to the opera?

It’s addictive drama. Opera is stories with drama, romance and intrigue.

Ours is predominantly in English, so you will know what’s going on. If you pick well, it can be a great experience and something that keeps you going back. That’s what our production is about, trying to make opera accessible.

When did you begin singing opera and what was your inspiration?

I started singing when I was about seven. I was lucky enough to have a music scholarship that made things available to me. It was a natural progression.

What does it take to be an opera singer?

It’s a lot like the pop industry now.

You have to be the whole package these days - the looks, the personality, be easy to work with, very selectable and slick. The best way to describe it like having ten buckets

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Lauren in The Yellow Sofa glyndebourne tour

and it’s no good to have one filled to the brim and the others empty. You have to have every bucket as full as possible.

What do you like best about being an opera singer?

It’s a massive combination, which changes daily. I don’t think there’s any one element that stands out, but knowing that you’ve had an effect on your audience, maybe changing their minds about coming to the opera more often. Having someone walking out of your performance thinking differently to when they went in is

pretty special.

What music do you listen to apart from opera?

When I get home, I don’t want to listen to any more opera. I like to put my musical brain somewhere else.

I love to indulge in other people’s techniques and what they’re interested in. I’ve done a lot of folk singing, so coming to The Yellow Sofa with its folk influences is a real joy.

Where do you go to be alone?

Other than bed, I like walking around the Downs and the Grange gardens

here in Lewes. The Downs is very reminiscent of a place in the Southern Highlands that I know quite well.

Along the beach front in Brighton is always nice in the sun, when it comes out. It’s really nice being in this area and not in the hustle and bustle of London The Yellow Sofa runs through October at Glyndebourne then travels the country, through November and into December, as part of Glyndebourne Tour 2012. www. glyndebourne.com

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ARTS & FILM guide Monday 1st

Brighton Dome, Founders Room Wembley to Soweto Exhibition This project is exemplary. It’s beautiful. It’s simple and it’s necessary. Billy Night. This acclaimed international photographic exhibition sprang to life against the backdrop of the 2010 football World Cup in Soweto when a group of disadvantaged Johannesburg teenagers were trained and encouraged to photograph their lives. Since replicated in communities around the world, the project now comes to Brighton Dome and Brighton & Hove Albion as part of Black History Month. 10AM Caroline Of Brunswick : Movie Bar Monthly short film event featuring short film screenings and filmmaker Q&As 7:30PM

Wednesday 3rd

Sidewinder Movie Night Every Wednesday we’ll be screening a different film chosen by you the punters 8:30PM

Tuesday 2nd

Brighton Dome, Founders Room Wembley to Soweto Exhibition This project is exemplary. It’s beautiful. It’s simple and it’s necessary. Billy Night. This acclaimed international photographic exhibition sprang to life against the backdrop of the 2010 football World Cup in Soweto when a group of disadvantaged Johannesburg teenagers were trained and encouraged to photograph their lives. Since replicated in communities around the world, the project now comes to Brighton Dome and Brighton & Hove Albion as part of Black History Month. 10AM

Wednesday 3rd

Brighton Dome, Founders Room Wembley to Soweto Exhibition This project is exemplary. It’s beautiful. It’s simple and it’s necessary. Billy Night. This acclaimed international photographic exhibition sprang to life against the backdrop of the 2010 football World Cup in Soweto when a group of disadvantaged Johannesburg teenagers were trained and encouraged to photograph their lives. Since replicated in communities around the world, the project now comes to Brighton Dome and Brighton & Hove Albion as part of Black History Month. 10AM

Thursday 4th

Brighton Dome, Founders Room Wembley to Soweto Exhibition This project is exemplary. It’s beautiful. It’s simple and it’s necessary. Billy Night. This acclaimed international photographic exhibition sprang to life against the backdrop of the 2010 football World Cup in Soweto when a group of disadvantaged Johannesburg teenagers were trained and encouraged to photograph their lives. Since replicated in communities around the world, the project now comes to Brighton Dome and Brighton & Hove Albion as part of Black History Month. 10AM Komedia : Hammer & Tongue Brighton’s biggest and best performance poetry event, featuring agit-prop songsmith rapper Clayton Blizzard and oddball genius Rob Auton, plus the open slam - sign up early for a slot! Hosted by Rosy Carrick & Mike Parker 7:30PM £5 (Studio)

Friday 5th

Brighton Dome, Founders Room Wembley to Soweto Exhibition This project is exemplary. It’s beautiful. It’s simple and it’s necessary. Billy Night. This acclaimed international photographic exhibition sprang to life against the backdrop of the 2010 football World Cup in Soweto when a group of disadvantaged Johannesburg teenagers were trained and encouraged to photograph their lives. Since replicated in communities around the world, the project now comes to Brighton Dome and Brighton & Hove Albion as part of Black History Month. 10AM Phoenix Brighton Still Life Listen, watch and draw as model and muse to Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud relates her life story. In this award-winning one-woman play, Sue MacLaine captures the characteristic wit and candour of Henrietta Moraes - professional bohemian and iconic hedonist. Through drawing and listening,

we - the audience - engage in seeing beyond the naked female form to the woman within.

Drawing materials provided or bring your own.

6PM & 7:45PM £10 - £12

Saturday 6th

Brighton Dome, Founders Room Wembley to Soweto Exhibition This project is exemplary. It’s beautiful. It’s simple and it’s necessary. Billy Night. This acclaimed international photographic exhibition sprang to life against the backdrop of the 2010 football World Cup in Soweto when a group of disadvantaged Johannesburg teenagers were trained and encouraged to photograph their lives. Since replicated in communities around the world, the project now comes to Brighton Dome and Brighton & Hove Albion as part of Black History Month. Closed Northern Lights The 5th Annual Big Lebowski Night Fancy dress, White Russians, Lingonberry Pancakes, Bowling and Film Screening 8PM Phoenix Brighton Still Life Listen, watch and draw as model and muse to Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud relates her life story. In this award-winning one-woman play, Sue MacLaine captures the characteristic wit and candour of Henrietta Moraes - professional bohemian and iconic hedonist. Through drawing and listening, we - the audience - engage in seeing beyond the naked female form to the woman within.

Drawing materials provided or bring your own.

4PM & 7:45PM £10 - £12

Sunday 7th

Brighton Dome, Founders Room Wembley to Soweto Exhibition This project is exemplary. It’s beautiful. It’s simple and it’s necessary. Billy Night. This acclaimed international photographic exhibition sprang to life against the backdrop of the 2010 football World Cup in Soweto when a group of disadvantaged Johannesburg teenagers were trained and encouraged to photograph their lives. Since replicated in communities around the world, the project now comes to Brighton Dome and Brighton & Hove Albion as part of Black History Month. 10AM Phoenix Brighton Still Life Listen, watch and draw as model and muse to Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud relates her life story. In this award-winning one-woman play, Sue MacLaine captures the characteristic wit and candour of Henrietta Moraes - professional bohemian and iconic hedonist. Through drawing and listening, we - the audience - engage in seeing beyond the naked female form to the woman within.

Drawing materials provided or bring your own.

4PM & 7PM £10 - £12

Monday 8th

Brighton Dome, Founders Room Wembley to Soweto Exhibition This project is exemplary. It’s beautiful. It’s simple and it’s necessary. Billy Night. This acclaimed international photographic exhibition sprang to life against the backdrop of the 2010 football World Cup in Soweto when a group of disadvantaged Johannesburg teenagers were trained and encouraged to photograph their lives. Since replicated in communities around the world, the project now comes to Brighton Dome and Brighton & Hove Albion as part of Black History Month. Closed

Tuesday 9th

Brighton Dome, Founders Room Wembley to Soweto Exhibition This project is exemplary. It’s beautiful. It’s simple and it’s necessary. Billy Night. This acclaimed international photographic exhibition sprang to life against the backdrop of the 2010 football World Cup in Soweto when a group of disadvantaged Johannesburg teenagers were trained and encouraged to photograph their lives. Since replicated in communities around the world, the project now comes to Brighton Dome and Brighton & Hove Albion as part of Black History Month. 10AM

Wednesday

10th Brighton Dome, Founders Room Wembley to Soweto Exhibition This project is exemplary. It’s beautiful. It’s simple and it’s necessary. Billy Night. This acclaimed international

photographic exhibition sprang to life against the backdrop of the 2010 football World Cup in Soweto when a group of disadvantaged Johannesburg teenagers were trained and encouraged to photograph their lives. Since replicated in communities around the world, the project now comes to Brighton Dome and Brighton & Hove Albion as part of Black History Month. 10AM Sidewinder Movie Night Every Wednesday we’ll be screening a different film chosen by you the punters 8:30PM

Thursday 11th

Brighton Dome, Founders Room Wembley to Soweto Exhibition This project is exemplary. It’s beautiful. It’s simple and it’s necessary. Billy Night. This acclaimed international photographic exhibition sprang to life against the backdrop of the 2010 football World Cup in Soweto when a group of disadvantaged Johannesburg teenagers were trained and encouraged to photograph their lives. Since replicated in communities around the world, the project now comes to Brighton Dome and Brighton & Hove Albion as part of Black History Month. 10AM

Friday 12th

Brighton Dome, Founders Room Wembley to Soweto Exhibition This project is exemplary. It’s beautiful. It’s simple and it’s necessary. Billy Night. This acclaimed international photographic exhibition sprang to life against the backdrop of the 2010 football World Cup in Soweto when a group of disadvantaged Johannesburg teenagers were trained and encouraged to photograph their lives. Since replicated in communities around the world, the project now comes to Brighton Dome and Brighton & Hove Albion as part of Black History Month. 10AM

Saturday 13th

Brighton Dome, Founders Room Telling Tales Practise your storytelling skills in an informal setting. Try out your new stories, learn skills, get feedback and encouragement, share ideas and meet other storytellers. 2:30PM £4 - £12 Brighton Dome, Founders Room Wembley to Soweto Exhibition This project is exemplary. It’s beautiful. It’s simple and it’s necessary. Billy Night. This acclaimed international photographic exhibition sprang to life against the backdrop of the 2010 football World Cup in Soweto when a group of disadvantaged Johannesburg teenagers were trained and encouraged to photograph their lives. Since replicated in communities around the world, the project now comes to Brighton Dome and Brighton & Hove Albion as part of Black History Month. Closed Brighton Museum Education Room : Performing Spoken Word Roy Hutchins 1:30PM £2 - £5

Sunday 14th

Brighton Dome, Founders Room Wembley to Soweto Exhibition This project is exemplary. It’s beautiful. It’s simple and it’s necessary. Billy Night. This acclaimed international photographic exhibition sprang to life against the backdrop of the 2010 football World Cup in Soweto when a group of disadvantaged Johannesburg teenagers were trained and encouraged to photograph their lives. Since replicated in communities around the world, the project now comes to Brighton Dome and Brighton & Hove Albion as part of Black History Month. 10AM

Monday 15th

Brighton Dome, Founders Room Wembley to Soweto Exhibition This project is exemplary. It’s beautiful. It’s simple and it’s necessary. Billy Night. This acclaimed international photographic exhibition sprang to life against the backdrop of the 2010 football World Cup in Soweto when a group of disadvantaged Johannesburg teenagers were trained and encouraged to photograph their lives. Since replicated in communities around the world, the project now comes to Brighton Dome and Brighton & Hove Albion as part of Black History Month. Closed

Tuesday 16th

Brighton Dome, Founders Room Wembley to Soweto Exhibition This project is exemplary. It’s beautiful. It’s simple and it’s necessary. Billy Night. This acclaimed international photographic exhibition sprang to life against the backdrop of the 2010 football World Cup in Soweto when a group of disadvantaged Johannesburg teenagers were trained and encouraged to photograph their lives. Since replicated in communities around the world, the project now comes to Brighton Dome and Brighton & Hove Albion as part of Black History Month. 10AM

Wednesday 17th

Brighton Dome, Founders Room Wembley to Soweto Exhibition This project is exemplary. It’s beautiful. It’s simple and it’s necessary. Billy Night. This acclaimed international photographic exhibition sprang to life against the backdrop of the 2010 football World Cup in Soweto when a group of disadvantaged Johannesburg teenagers were trained and encouraged to photograph their lives. Since replicated in communities around the world, the project now comes to Brighton Dome and Brighton & Hove Albion as part of Black History Month. 10AM Sidewinder Movie Night Every Wednesday we’ll be screening a different film chosen by you the punters 8:30PM Sidewinder Movie Night Every Wednesday we’ll be screening a different film chosen by you the punters 8:30PM

Thursday

18th Brighton Dome, Founders Room Wembley to Soweto Exhibition This project is exemplary. It’s beautiful. It’s simple and it’s necessary. Billy Night. This acclaimed international photographic exhibition sprang to life against the backdrop of the 2010 football World Cup in Soweto when a group of disadvantaged Johannesburg teenagers were trained and encouraged to photograph their lives. Since replicated in communities around the world, the project now comes to Brighton Dome and Brighton & Hove Albion as part of Black History Month. 10AM

Friday 19th

Brighton Dome, Founders Room Wembley to Soweto Exhibition This project is exemplary. It’s beautiful. It’s simple and it’s necessary. Billy Night. This acclaimed international photographic exhibition sprang to life against the backdrop of the 2010 football World Cup in Soweto when a group of disadvantaged Johannesburg teenagers were trained and encouraged to photograph their lives. Since replicated in communities around the world, the project now comes to Brighton Dome and Brighton & Hove Albion as part of Black History Month. 10AM

Sunday 21st

Brighton Dome, Studio Theatre The Story of Hope Workshop An ober 55’s participatory workshop to give creative expression to people’s experiences and ideas underpinned by the question ‘What do we hope for now?’ No previous experience necessary but some movement and creativity will be involved. 11AM £5

Wednesday 24th

Brighton Dome, Studio Theatre Black T-Shirt Collection From Fringe First winner Inua Ellams comes a new story about two foster brothers building a global t-shirt brand. On their journey from a market in Nigeria to a sweatshop in China, Matthew and Muhammed discover the consequences of success. 7:30PM £10 - £12

Monday 29th

Victory Poetry Night Live poetry readings from a range of guests on the last Monday of every month in The Victory’s Upstairs bar 8PM

Wednesday 31st

Sidewinder Halloween Movie Special American Werewolf In London 8:30PM

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A STYLE FOR EVERY YOU

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Brighton & Hove Skateparks Association Back in August, on possibly the hottest day of the year skateboarders young and old swarmed down to Hove Lagoon skatepark to soak up the sun and participate in one of Brighton and Hove Skate Parks Association’s yearly competitions.

As part of efforts to extend the reach of the sport in the area, girls have been encouraged to sign up for free weekly skateboard lessons through a course run by Sports Development and Brighton Youth Centre. Lucy Adams, the UK’s No. 1 Skateboarder, has been helping run the course at the Lagoon throughout the summer months.

Ricardo Magee Atxukarro, Skate Park Development Officer for Brighton and Hove City Council said: “The city has a thriving skateboarding scene, so there’s a definite need for improved and updated facilities in the city.”

His role has been influential in the campaign to provide better skate facilities in the city. through evidencing and increasing participation in skate scene and working with BHSA and BYC. Brighton has a rich heritage of skateboarding, stretching back almost to the early days of the sport. The Flip skate brand has roots in the town, also Don Brown, one of the leading lights at Etnies, learnt to become among the best freestyle skaters in the world on our city’s streets.

Also, finally arriving, was the news that planning permission had finally been granted for the redevelopment of the long-decaying skate facilities on The Level.

The new skatepark will meet the needs of a range of ages and abilities and be suitable for all wheeled sports.

It will cater for a full range of abilities from novices and young children to adult and very experienced skaters.

So far a total of £150,000 has been secured for the new skatepark and construction is expected to start in January 2013. Although this isn’t enough to build a skatepark of the scale and quality that’s being proposed, it is hoped that with help from sponsors and further funding streams, enough money can be raised.

The importance of these facilities shouldn’t be underestimated, as entertainment opportunities for young people in the area dwindle; council coordinated undertakings like these are becoming more and more important in keeping kids occupied and active.

Ricardo Magee Atxukarro: Tel: 01273 292726.

Email: Ricardo.magee@bighton-hove.gov.uk www.facebook.com/theBHSA www.brighton-hove.gov.uk Image: © photosbydavid.org

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Forbidden Entertainment on the forbidden side

latin lounge Friday 26th Oct A new night of ASTONISHING

FUN, PROHIBITION STYLE ENTERTAINMENT, LUScIOUS FOOd ANd cOcKTAILS! Visit Latin Lounge on Friday 26th Oct and see it transformed into a 1930’s vintage cocktail bar and lounge.

Expect prohibition style entertainment, performances, music, BURLESQUE and of course cocktails.

LATIN LOUNGE 8PM DOORS

Food & Drink offers 2-4-1 COCKTAILS

West Street Brighton, Sussex BN1 2RQ 01273 958349

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The usual suspects

Dale and Marc are friends who have been working together as stylists for several years. They both used to work in Brighton and have both worked in a variety of salons but were looking for something different when they were introduced to Vicky and Maryam who own The Usual Suspects in Hove.

They were seeking more autonomy in their jobs, greater creativity and freedom and were contemplating opening their own salon when through chance met Vicky and Maryam who, on seeing the quality of their work, invited them both to come and work at Usual Suspects with total autonomy.

Although each is solely responsible for their operation within the business, the great thing about the Usual Suspects is the range of individual talent working there, and in the very near future they aim to come together bringing their various skills and abilities to work collectively on creative projects both inside and outside the salon.

Marc was trained at the Sassoon Academy in London and specialises in precision cutting and exploring the creative boundaries of hair design whilst simultaneously being passionate about classic styles and reproducing them faithfully or adding a contemporary twist.

Dale has had a wide variety of training and been working as a stylist for 18 years. Although he both cuts and colours, colour is his main passion. He loves the way that colour enhances a cut and can ultimately transform an individuals image in either very dramatic or subtle ways, depending on what the client is looking for; although like Marc, Dale’s sights are firmly set towards the creative end of hairdressing and he enjoys exploring the boundaries of colour design and application.

So on Thursday 27 Sept there was a little launch party to welcome in Dale and Marc to Usual Suspects together with a variety of guests and alongside live music performed by local talent Kelly G. Dale and Marc showcased several models whose hair they had designed, cut and coloured especially for the launch.

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FRESHER S...

By Matt Russell Yes it’s that time of year again folks.

Where people wildly overspend capital which isn’t technically theirs. No one has the remotest idea which is the best party to go for, dirty tricks are rife and people lie in a constant attempt to endear themselves to those whom they have never met. Personas are manufactured, bullishit is peddled on an industrial scale, purer ideologies are sacrificed for new found trendy mantras and “like me, like me, PLEASE fucking like me” ness is bounded around like a whiney squash ball. Babies are kissed repeatedly and through a process of shameless, one sided osmosis, once valiant and honourable souls transform into dark and sinister shadows of their former selves.

No it’s not the presidential election, it is of course..... Freshers Week !!! (I made the baby thing up) Yes, for a week, the quaint English sound of leather on willow is audibly usurped by the crash of vomit on Primark.

Now as a town, Brighton has been enjoying freshers week, every week, since George VI strutted his opium induced stuff on the Waltzfloor, got absolutely banjoed, and drunkenly -I’m assuming- decided to build the worlds most visually inappropriate town centre residence.

I recently bore witness to, what I feel, was a situation that emcompasses the “Freshers Experience” in pitch perfect clarity. Two girls and a scruffy looking fella stumble in to the Mash Tun Pub. He is ecstatic and with good reason- he is kissing both girls in the breaks between them groping each other !!! He looks astronomically chuffed as he leaves arm in arm with the two young ladies. Jealous much? Don’t be. My friends and I later passed this erstwhile casanova slumped at a bus stop, alone, covered in a

Ginsters pasty crumbs.

And that, my comrades, is the freshers week experience in a nutshell. The fantastical ideas you once harboured will, most likely, at some point, slip through those kebab and rolling tobacco stained fingers.

So my student friends go forth, luxuriate yourselves, consume in excess, keep A&E interminably busy!! But take heed. This isn’t just a week long event and you won’t grow out of it anytime soon. For as I realised recently, even the most fairytale looking, intelligent, non students among us - when exposed to too many pink fluffy drinks - can inflict a bile tsunami on an unsuspecting cocktail bar!!

Don’t spend all those fun tokens at once people, you have three years of this. Enjoy !! Just please. Don’t throw up on me.

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STILL DON’T KNOW WHAT TO DO? Monday 1st

Brunswick Harmonessence Singing classes for performance 5:30PM £tbc Brunswick Army Of Harmony Accapella vocal group 7:30PM £tbc Hampton National Cask Ale Week All week The Hampton will be showcasing 6 cask conditioned ales a day from local brewers Signalman Signalman Pub Quiz music, creative & general knowledge rounds to win cash prizes and more 8PM

Tuesday 2nd

Brunswick Yoga Lessons 5:30PM £5 Hampton National Cask Ale Week All week The Hampton will be showcasing 6 cask conditioned ales a day from local brewers Hampton The Hampton ALE Pub Quiz Cash Prizes & surprises 8PM £1 Open House Jazz Work Shop Try out your Jazz skills and play along with some masters to help you along. Any Jazz age welcome 8PM £tbc Pub With No Name Working Toward Performance A unique introductory course of Drop in Acting Classes. All Standards Welcome 7:30PM £6 - £8 Thomas Kemp Poker Evening 8PM

Wednesday 3rd

Brighton Centre Taekwon-do World Cup The tournament will last for 5 days, with the first day for registration, weigh in and meetings and the following 4 days for competition and then everyone departing on the Monday. 9AM Hampton National Cask Ale Week All week The Hampton will be showcasing 6 cask conditioned ales a day from local brewers Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Muso Pub Quiz The pop quiz. Cash prizes and booze for the winners 7PM £1 Three Graces Quiz Night Quiz master Mike hosts this crackin’ quiz where you can come away with a cash prize 8PM

Thursday 4th

Brighton Centre Taekwon-do World Cup The tournament will last for 5 days, with the first day for registration, weigh in and meetings and the following 4 days for competition and then everyone departing on the Monday. 9AM Brunswick Yoga Lessons 5:30pm £5 Hampton National Cask Ale Week All week The Hampton will be showcasing 6 cask conditioned ales a day from local brewers

Friday 5th

Brighton Centre Taekwon-do World Cup The tournament will last for 5 days, with the first day for registration, weigh in and meetings and the following 4 days for competition and then everyone departing on the Monday. 9AM Hampton National Cask Ale Week All week The Hampton will be showcasing 6 cask conditioned ales a day from local brewers

Saturday 6th

Brighton Centre Taekwon-do World Cup The tournament will last for 5 days, with the first day for registration, weigh in and meetings and the following 4 days for competition and then everyone departing on the Monday. 9AM Brunswick Yoga Lessons 9:30AM £5 Hampton National Cask Ale Week All week

The Hampton will be showcasing 6 cask conditioned ales a day from local brewers

Sunday 7th

Brighton Centre Taekwon-do World Cup The tournament will last for 5 days, with the first day for registration, weigh in and meetings and the following 4 days for competition and then everyone departing on the Monday. 9AM Brighton Dome, Studio Theatre Jon Ronson Award-winning author and documentary maker Jon Ronson returns to Brighton to talk about his forthcoming book Lost At Sea. A collection of mini-adventures in the same vein as the best-selling Them: Adventures with Extremists and The Psychopath Path, Lost At Sea continues his investigations into madness, extraordinary behaviour and the human mind. 2:30PM £12 Hampton National Cask Ale Week All week The Hampton will be showcasing 6 cask conditioned ales a day from local brewers

Monday 8th

Ancient Mariner Quiz Night There are cash prizes for 1st, 2nd, 3rd and second to last place teams 8PM £1 Brunswick Harmonessence Singing classes for performance 5:30PM £tbc Brunswick Army Of Harmony Accapella vocal group 7:30PM £tbc Signalman Signalman Pub Quiz music, creative & general knowledge rounds to win cash prizes and more 8PM Thomas Kemp Quiz Night Film, General Knowledge, Music and More £1

Tuesday 9th

Brunswick Yoga Lessons 5:30PM £5 Hampton The Hampton Quiz Cash Prizes & surprises 8PM £1 Open House Jazz Work Shop Try out your Jazz skills and play along with some masters to help you along. Any Jazz age welcome 8PM £tbc Pub With No Name Working Toward Performance A unique introductory course of Drop in Acting Classes. All Standards Welcome 7:30PM £6 - £8 Saint George’s Saint George’s Inn Pub Quiz 8PM £1 Thomas Kemp Poker Evening 8PM

Wednesday 10th

Three Graces Quiz Night Quiz master Mike hosts this crackin’ quiz where you can come away with a cash prize 8PM

Thursday 11th

Brunswick Yoga Lessons 5:30PM £5 Latest Music Bar Catalyst Club Monthly event which blends the old traditions of a French Salon with debating societies 8PM £5

Saturday 13th

Brunswick Yoga Lessons 9:30AM £5

Monday 15th

Ancient Mariner Quiz Night There are cash prizes for 1st, 2nd, 3rd and second to last place teams 8PM £1 Brunswick Harmonessence Singing classes for performance 5:30PM £tbc

Brunswick Army Of Harmony Accapella vocal group 7:30PM £tbc Signalman Signalman Pub Quiz music, creative & general knowledge rounds to win cash prizes and more 8PM

Tuesday 16th

Brunswick Yoga Lessons 5:30PM £5 Hampton The Hampton Quiz Cash Prizes & surprises 8PM £1 Latest Music Bar Cafe Scientifique What can snails and physics tell us about the Ancient Romans in Barcombe Dr Michael Allen 7:30PM Open House Jazz Work Shop Try out your Jazz skills and play along with some masters to help you along. Any Jazz age welcome 8PM £tbc Pub With No Name Working Toward Performance A unique introductory course of Drop in Acting Classes. All Standards Welcome 7:30PM £6 - £8 Thomas Kemp Poker Evening 8PM

Wednesday 17th

Three Graces Quiz Night Quiz master Mike hosts this crackin’ quiz where you can come away with a cash prize 8PM

Thursday 18th

Brunswick Yoga Lessons 5:30PM £5 Latest Music Bar Brighton Keep Our NHS Public Benefit Gig Brighton Keep Our NHS Public campaigns for an NHS owned and run by public bodies, and against the privatisation and rationing that will be the effect of the recently passed Health and Social Care Act 8PM £5

Saturday 20th

Brighton dome Café - Bar Dome Discovery Tour Find out what goes down backstage before the curtain goes up out front. And seek out the hidden histories of this iconic building including a rare glimpse of the entrance to the infamous tunnel running from the Royal Pavilion to the Concert Hall. 11AM £7.50 - £8.50 Brunswick Yoga Lessons 9:30AM £5

Sunday 21st

Birhgotn Dome, Corn Exchange Herbie Flowers Jazz Breakfast What better way to spend your Sundays than kicking back with the papers, a pastry and a cuppa, alongside bass maestro Herbie Flowers and his ever-changing ensemble of top-flight musicians? 11AM £6

Monday 23rd

Ancient Mariner Quiz Night There are cash prizes for 1st, 2nd, 3rd and second to last place teams 8PM £1 Brunswick Harmonessence Singing classes for performance 5:30PM £tbc Brunswick Army Of Harmony Accapella vocal group 7:30PM £tbc Signalman Signalman Pub Quiz music, creative & general knowledge rounds to win cash prizes and more 8PM Thomas Kemp Quiz Night Film, General Knowledge, Music and More £1

Tuesday 23rd

Brunswick Yoga Lessons 5:30PM £5 Hampton The Hampton Quiz Cash Prizes & surprises 8PM £1

Open House Jazz Work Shop Try out your Jazz skills and play along with some masters to help you along. Any Jazz age welcome 8PM £tbc Pub With No Name Working Toward Performance A unique introductory course of Drop in Acting Classes. All Standards Welcome 7:30PM £6 - £8 Saint George’s Saint George’s Inn Pub Quiz 8PM £1 Thomas Kemp Poker Evening 8PM

Wednesday 24th

Three Graces Quiz Night Quiz master Mike hosts this crackin’ quiz where you can come away with a cash prize 8PM

Thursday 25th

Brunswick Yoga Lessons 5:30PM £5

Saturday 27th

Brunswick Yoga Lessons 9:30AM £5

Sunday 28th

Brighton Dome, Founders Room Young Wordsmiths (ages 8-12) Grab your pens and imaginations and join the Little Green Pig Writing Project. Play wordy and creative games before crafting your own stories and poems. Suitable for all levels of ability and experience, whether you’re a keen writer or need a bit more help and inspiration. 10:30AM £7 Brunswick Brighton Craft Alliance Craft Fair 12PM Latest Music Bar Brighton Twisted Market 12PM £5

Monday 29th

Ancient Mariner Quiz Night There are cash prizes for 1st, 2nd, 3rd and second to last place teams 8PM £1 Brunswick Harmonessence Singing classes for performance 5:30PM £tbc Brunswick Army Of Harmony Accapella vocal group 7:30PM £tbc Signalman Signalman Pub Quiz music, creative & general knowledge rounds to win cash prizes and more 8PM

Tuesday 30th

Brighton Dome, Chorus Rooms Theatrical Make-up Workshop 11AM £20 Brunswick Yoga Lessons 5:30PM £5 Hampton The Hampton Quiz Cash Prizes & surprises 8PM £1 Open House Jazz Work Shop Try out your Jazz skills and play along with some masters to help you along. Any Jazz age welcome 8PM £tbc Pub With No Name Working Toward Performance A unique introductory course of Drop in Acting Classes. All Standards Welcome 7:30PM £6 - £8 Thomas Kemp Poker Evening 8PM

Wednesday 31st

Brighton dome Café - Bar This is just to say Hannah Jane Walker is a serial apologist. Saying sorry is social glue. We use it to make people like us. But what is you want to apologise and mean it? 6PM & 9PM £10 - £12 Three Graces Quiz Night Quiz master Mike hosts this crackin’ quiz where you can come away with a cash prize 8PM

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PUZZLES GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

Across 7 Household rubbish (6) 8 Chess piece (6) 9 Share out cards (4) 10 One before (8) 11 Torn apart (7) 13 Encourage (3,2) 15 Match sides (5) 17 Give evidence (7) 20 Rope fastening (4,4) 21 Finishes (4) 23 Bad mistake (6) 24 Salad plant (6)

Down 1 In this place (4) 2 Layby (4-2) 3 Puzzle (7) 4 Snow or water sportsperson (5) 5 Digging underground (6) 6 Ignore, put aside (5,3) 12 Bony frame (8) 14 Camping fastener (4,3) 16 Tone down (6) 18 Fashion Styles (6) 19 Tangle (5) 22 Swimmer’s plunge (4)

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