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Is it possible to be sick of tea and cake? Well, not tea, obviously. An Englishman who is tired of tea is tired of life, to bastardise Samuel Johnson. But we’ve really pushed our limit with cake. It’s got so bad that now all we can eat is crisps and chips. If we can’t get back on the cake soon we’ll be forced to eat vegetables, heaven forbid. But after a few meat-heavy Food Issues – burgers, curries, fry ups, roasts – we’ve gone all veggie for this one. For Six Of The Best we even went round to our favourite vegetarian restaurants. The only carnivore is MC Cashback, whose brilliant hip hop cookbook is sizzling flesh to the bone. This is our third annual Food Issue, and we’ve come to rather look forward to them. As well as the chance to get gluttonous there’s also the amazing feedback we get. The most popular articles on the SOURCE website every month are still our ‘Brighton’s Best…’ round ups. And whenever we have a food related question – ‘Where’s the best Chinese takeaway that delivers to the Nortn Laine?’ ‘Is there anywhere that hasn’t run out of halloumi?’ are two genuine ones – you always have the answers. So let us know if you agree with the tea and cake article. Just give our stomachs a chance to settle first.
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Contents
News New In Town Gig Previews Interview: MC Cashback Club Previews Club Review: Rebel Bingo Club Review: Bastard Pop Culture Art: Needles & Nails Locally Sourced Locally Sourced Extra: Record Store Day Secret Eater Special: Brighton’s Best Tea & Cake Street Style Unsung Hero: Bagelman In Conversation With: Brighton & Hove Food & Drink Festival Listings Six Of The Best: Veggie Eateries
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The programmes for Brighton Festival and Fringe have hit the streets, so we’re bracing ourselves for a May stuffed to the gills with art, music, theatrical fun and nonsense. With beloved children’s author Michael Rosen in the guest director chair, there’s a strong literary strand at the Festival, as well as big music shows from The Flaming Lips and Sinead O’Connor. With more Brighton Fringe events than the mind can comprehend, there’s bound to be something worth catching that hasn’t already sold out in a flash.
The line-up for next month’s Meadowlands Festival over in Glynde is taking shape, with our own British Sea Power, French DJ/producer Laurent Garnier and Tru Thoughts rapper Ty among the latest musical confirmations. Other attractions include The Pop Up Casino and a theatre space run by the experienced Otherplace Productions team from the Three And Ten. Meadowlands takes place Fri 24th - Sun 26th May, with full weekend tickets priced at £95.
Shakedown festival is back for 2013 with a line-up that sees former SOURCE cover stars Rizzle Kicks headline, backed up by Labrinth, Maverick Sabre and Mikill Pane. The dancier element finds DJ Fresh bringing his live band and the everexhilarating Jaguar Skills throwing down his powerful multigenre party tunes. Sub Focus and RAM Records supply the drum’n’bass while Krafty Kuts, Zane Lowe and Delilah fill in the gaps. With many more names promised for 28th September event, this seems a very good start.
BIMM win
Former BIMM Brighton student Tom Odell won the Critics’ Choice award at this year’s BRITS, placing him in an enviable lineage with previous winners Adele, Jessie J and Emile Sandé. The Chichester songwriter releases his debut album ‘Long Way Down’ on Mon 15th. Meanwhile, the BIMM has appointed The Who’s Roger Daltrey as its first patron. With his many personal and artistic links to the area, Daltrey’s pledging to lend his experience to nurture the next generation of musical talent.
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Southampton’s Takedown Festival returns on Sat 11th May, with a bunch of Brighton-related bands (Your Demise, Collisions, The James Cleaver Quintet) joining headliners The Blackout, Don Broco and We Are The Ocean for a big day of punk, rock and metal. Tickets for the multi-stage event start at £30, with a £37.50 coach package from Pool Valley available to take local fans to the festival and back. Takedownfestival.co.uk has the details.
For as long as SOURCE can remember, North Laine institution The Dorset has been the de facto local to our sometimes louche, always lively musical family. It’s half Parisienne café, half English pub – they call it a Street Bar, which sums it up well, we think – and this month marks their 20th birthday. As you’d imagine, they have a blow-out party planned with tons of DJs from over the years, including Dave Mumbles, Hush Club and Night Boat To Wigan. It all goes down on Thurs 11th – even if just their regulars turn up it’s going to be one heck of a do.
In a strong achievement for an independent salon, Simon Webster Hair on Gardener Street has been awarded three places in the regional finals of the L’Oréal Colour Trophy competition. Simon Webster has a small team of five stylists, three of whom entered the competition, with all three qualifying. The team go up against entrants from many of the country’s biggest chain salons in a live styling event at London’s Park Plaza on Weds 3rd.
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Foodies Festival returns to Hove Lawns next month (4th – 6th May) and SOURCE has five pairs of tickets to give away. Guests at this year’s event include TV featured chefs Gennaro Contaldo (Two Greedy Italians), and Matt Gillan (Great British Menu), along with Stephen Crane (Ockenden Manor), Jake Northcote Green (Yum Yum Ninja) and Michael Bremner (Food For Friends). Festival areas include a Bake & Cake Theatre, a Chocolate Theatre and a Wine Village. Email your name to competition@brightonsource.co.uk by Tues 30th Apr to enter.
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Short of Ricky Gervais deciding to set up an actual stationery firm in Slough, the launch of OMG LOL at Audio is the most brain-bending art into life move we’ve ever seen. You’ve probably already watched the behind the scenes antics of OMG LOL in their spoof YouTube series This Is Brighton (tinyurl.com/ThisBri), its smart parody of local club promoters generating a lot of “Is this for real?” comments and a few guilty laughs in the SOURCE office. If you want your own clubbing adventures sent up for an online comedy hit, get down to OMG LOL every Tuesday night.
Heliopause Presents
Belfast musician Richard Davis has been impressively prolific since moving to Brighton, his regular Heliopause releases treading a fine line between lush and lo-fi tune experiments. Now he’s turning his hand to promoting, with a short run of Heliopause Presents gigs getting underway at The Hope this month. First up on Tues 23rd is cult artist Stanley Brinks, the performing alias of André Herman Dune, with soulful Canadian songwriter Ingrid Gatin following in May.
pie society
Hot food store Pie Society moved into Western Road just before Christmas, turning their landmark Churchill Square property into an eye-catchingly decorated pie haven. Pie Society uses only British meat and veg ingredients, with a menu including soups, sandwiches, sweet pies and pastries. Sign up to the members’ mailing list and you get free use of their Pie-Fi (ie wi-fi, for those slow on the uptake).
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STANLEY BRINKS
The Troll’s Pantry
With time called on its pitch at soon-to-be redeveloped Clock Street, gourmet burger stall The Troll’s Pantry has found a new home at The Hobgoblin pub. Originator of such awesomely named meat treats as the Stinky Breath and the Hellfire, the Pantry just celebrated its first year of burger service with an Easter party at the Hob. Competition may be coming though, with persistent rumours that fashionable London burger joint Meat Liquor is opening in Brighton soon.
chequers
One of the few traditional pubs on Brighton’s “world in one street”, Preston Street, Chequers has recently reopened after a full refurbishment. The cosy pub has a new programme of live music, stand up comedy and DJs, starting this month with the soul, funk and hip hop sounds of Ghetto Blaster on Fri 5th, while their new kitchen offers take away and delivery service.
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SOURCE contributor Adam Peters loves the Brighton Rockers roller derby team so much he’s started a fanzine about them. Turn Left is a free, glossy mouthpiece for the unofficial fans’ group BRATS (Brighton Rockers All Terrain Support), with dozens of photos, interviews and match chants. He’s aiming to publish a new edition for every one of the Rockers’ home games, read the first issue at brightonbrats.com
Street Diner
The city’s first weekly market dedicated to street food launches at Brighthelm Gardens, Queens Road on Fri 26th. The Street Diner market represents traders from Brighton and across the south east, with an array of burgers, pies and cake stalls next to flavours from across Europe, Asia and Central America. Street Diner takes place 11am – 3pm, perfect timing for your end of week lunchtime blowout.
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GENESIS ELIJAH
Hope Tues 2nd
This month’s Slip Jam:B offering is Genesis Elijah, who has been part of the UK hip hop scene since the early noughties. From his collaborations and interactions with Klashnekoff, Rodney P and Guilty Simpson, Genesis Elijah is a scene stalwart for the best possible reasons. Emerge MC will be using the night to launch his new album, and as usual there will be an open mic section allowing local rappers to get on stage and test out their latest bars. (JMM)
Swans
Concorde 2 Tues 2nd
They’ve had more line-ups than a New York cop shop, but Swans are still at it. Michael Gira’s band have been pushing pulsing rhythms, experimental noise rock and some extremely harrowing lyrics around the world since 1982. A lenghty hiatus found Gira focusing on his Angels Of Light, but following a recent reformation, Swans have released two albums. The latest, ‘The Seer’, was lauded as the culmination of thirty years’ work. A word of warning: they’re legendarily punishing live. Avant garde Xui Xui are in support. (JMM)
Teen
Haunt Weds 3rd
Teen are three sisters and a couple of their friends who hail from the US. So far, so Haim. Well, not quite. Teen have a more lo-fi sound with a psychedelic direction that should sound even more expansive on the live stage. They released their debut album ‘In Limbo’ for Carpark Records last year, and are currently funding a follow up EP ‘Carolina’ on Kickstarter, so will be looking to show off some new material tonight. (SE)
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Justice Force 5 Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Fri 5th
For one night only the Justice Force 5 have reassembled to fight the powers of evil and save the world with scorching rock riffs and electrifying synth pop. Expect robots, confetti, blood, pyrotechnics and a hefty dose of the unexpected in arguably the most unique stage show ever to come out of Brighton. As well as watching our trusty heroes musically battle their arch-nemesis The Organ Grinder, there’ll be a free comic and a download of unreleased tracks for all attendees. (AT)
EMELI SANDÉ
Dome Fri 5th
Over the last year, Emeli Sandé’s relentless TV exposure must be starting to bore even her most ardent fans. There’s only so many times you can hear ‘Next To Me’ or ‘Read All About It’. Judging by Sandé’s plans to take a break and record new music, she probably feels the same way, but we’re sure both parties can still muster up some enthusiasm for her overly familiar material. After all, they’re still great songs – even if they’ve been played to death. (AJM)
RAZOREATER
Green Door Store Sat 6th
Punk Vs Hardcore’s monthly treat comes in the form of Church Of Fuck Records’ Razoreater, whose Pig Destroyer-esque grinding thrash hardcore will leave you feeling like you’ve been beaten up underwater. Labelmates Iced Out play main support, while two local bands begin tonight’s chaos. Hove’s Protect Ya Neck supply the mosh, with their own brand of south coast hate, followed by ex-Dopefight/Jovian outfit War Wolf. Expect violence. Expect power. Expect beards. (CB)
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SPLITTING THE ATOM XIV Green Door Store, Sun 7th
What are Sundays for? They’re for a long walk on the Downs, right? A quiet roast in a small pub somewhere. Taking the dog or kids to the park. A leisurely browse at an out-of-town car boot sale. Just chilling on the sofa watching the football, maybe. Right? No. You’re wrong. All wrong. Sundays are for brain-melting noise, experimental audio/visual performances and freeform jazz. If you agree, get yourself down to The Green Door Store for this free all-day headfuck. (CB)
ASTRO-PHYSICS
Green Door Store Tues 9th
Six-piece hip hop collective Astro-Physics aren’t like you’d imagine a hip hop collective to be. Firstly, there’s a female presence in passionate vocalist Rachel Mosleh; secondly, they have a highly skilled band which includes a pianist; and lastly, led by MC Skilf, their tracks dispel the typical lyrical content in favour of songs about self-improvement and having a good old time. They’re all accomplished, seasoned performers, which means their live sets are always executed with fun and flair. (JMM)
Ryan Keen
Komedia Tues 9th
Male singer-songwriters may be two-a-penny at the moment but if the right one comes along we’re still a sucker for a pretty voice and a melody that hooks you in. You can hear the influence of the countryside and seaside towns in the music of Devon’s Ryan Keen. As with Ben Howard and Damian Rice, it makes all the difference to catch such performers in an intimate setting before their songs lose their subtlety in bigger venues. (SE)
THE HOUSE OF LOVE
Haunt Weds 10th
There was a point at the tail end of the 80s when The House Of Love were tipped for mega-stardom. The predicted stadium tours never materialised and a fractious relationship between band members lead
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to slow self-destruction. Leader Guy Chadwick went solo, while Terry Bickers, ranked by many as second only to Johnny Marr as a guitarist, formed Levitation and others, and took to teaching music in Brighton. With a new album just released and hatchets long buried, The House Of Love continue to shine on. (AP)
OJO DE GRINGA Green Door Store Thurs 11th
Come prog out at the Green Door Store with a Brighton-based line up of Ojo De Gringa, Bearded Youth Quest, Cousin and Calico showcasing the strength of experimental, varied musical talent our fine city has to offer. Anyone who’s caught an Ojo De Gringa set before will be familiar with their musical craftsmanship, jazzy influences and complex compositions. Without the need for vocals, their performances are mesmerising. Fellow, beard-free instrumentalists Bearded Youth Quest add some quirky humour to the mix. (JMM)
Pere Ubu
Haunt Sat 13th
Formed in Cleveland, Ohio in the mid-70s, Pere Ubu’s long career at the avant garde end of rock has thrown up innovative, synthesiser strewn music, ambitous theatrical productions and dense, obtuse lyrics from frontman, and sole constant member, David Thomas. Pere Ubu’s new album ‘Lady From Shanghai’ is described as the group’s attempt to ‘fix’ dance music, an unsettling concoction of film noir influences and thick, abstract electronics. Definitely get there in time for support band Variety Lights, a rarely seen group formed by original, long lost Mercury Rev vocalist David Baker. (SH)
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The Wave Pictures Bee’s Mouth / Quadrant / Fitzherberts Sat 13th – Mon 15th
Following up their Christmas show at The Haunt, One Inch Badge bring one of Britain’s biggest underground bands back to Brighton for this intimate trio of tiny pub gigs. Fronted by wordsmith David Tattershall, The Wave Pictures have released a string of smart albums over the past 10 years alongside collaborations with likeminded artists including Darren Hayman (Hefner) and Stanley Brinks (Herman Düne). The chance to see such direct, intelligent guitar pop in any of these venues shouldn’t be missed. (SH)
Night Beds
Hope Sun 14th
Hailing from Nashville, the beating heart of the American alt-country scene, Night Beds deliver heartbreaking vocals and haunting melodies. Debut album ‘Country Sleep’ has more than a few parallels with Bon Iver’s ‘For Emma, Forever Go’, with Winston Yellen, the driving force behind the band, creating musical landscapes of desolation and despair. With elements of Fleet Foxes and Arcade Fire also mixed in, this show promises to be the perfect melancholic Sunday compliment to a heavy weekend. (AT)
DON BROCO
Concorde 2 Tues 16th
With a rapidly growing fan base, it’s no surprise that Don Broco sold out their entire UK tour earlier this year. Those who missed out on their first Brighton date now have another chance to see the Bedford boys and they won’t want to miss out again. Expect their trademark mix of push-ups, dance moves and mosh pits. With support from Pure Love, who also tore The Haunt apart as headliners, this could be the rock gig of the year. (AJM)
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King Charles
Haunt Weds 17th
Having toured with the likes of Laura Marling and Mumford & Sons, it’s safe to say that King Charles has sat on the periphery of fame for a number of years. His sound is primarily composed of haunting electric guitar moans, which makes him as an artist comparable to the greats of Jimi Hendrix and George Harrison (Steady now – Hyperbole Ed.). King Charles’ sound isn’t an exact copy by any means, rather a mix of indiepop and that electric twang. (MS)
THE INDELICATES Latest MusicBar Thurs 18th
Despite their Lewes base, The Indelicates largely favour London over Brighton when it comes to gigs – this will be their first Sussex outing in well over a year. Having taken time out to compose a musical about the Waco siege and mentor punk trio The Thlyds, they launch new album ‘Diseases Of England’, a scabrous authority-baiting dissection of the UK today. A recent Facebook request for musicians suggests the poetic art rock duo may premier a new line-up tonight. (AP)
Jessica Bailiff & Boduf Songs Green Door Store Fri 19th
Regular home of the haunted, the ethereal and the strange, The Outer Church club opens its doors to current touring partners Jessica Bailiff and Boduf Songs this month. Discovered in the 90s by Low’s Alan Sparhawk, Toledo’s Jessica Bailiff made her international breakthrough on post rock label Kranky, stretching her music into slow, shimmering psychedelic trails. Former labelmate Boduf Songs is the alias of Southampton musician Mat Sweet, whose intimately recorded songs combine hushed acoustics and cosmic imaginitive flights. (SH)
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This month’s SOURCE New Music finds us welcoming back one of our very favourite Brighton bands, AK/DK, for the launch of their new single. Following their genius reincarnation as AC/DC for Sea Monsters earlier in the year, the duo packed out the Green Door Store for Brighton Noise and start this month bringing their double drum/synth motorik to our continental friends on a Swiss tour. It’s not just SOURCE who rate them as one of Brighton’s best live bands, so hopefully they’ll bring everyone back a Toblerone to say thanks. (SH)
Hotly tipped, hugely hyped Californian band The Growlers bring their unique ‘beach goth’ sound to Brighton’s shores. Drawing on influences from psychedelia and garage and fusing them with a wide spectrum of modern vocal effects they create an enthralling surf pop landscape and a spectacular live show, more performance than gig. Touring their new album ‘Hung At Heart’, this show is going to be one hell of a psychedelic journey into the heart of the 1960s via 2013. (AT)
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MALLORY KNOX
Audio Fri 26th
When Mallory Knox supported Don Broco in February, they engaged with the crowd as if they were headliners. There to warm the audience up, they wore them out, destroying them as if they were putty in their clenched fists. Now the Cambridge boys are back as bill-toppers and things are likely to get even more intense. Support comes from the New Forest’s popinfluenced Natives who will make sure fans from across the rock spectrum will have a good time. (AJM)
Green Door Store Fri 26th
Wooden Wand Hope Sun 28th
James Jackson Toth’s various incarnations of Wooden Wand started making a name for themselves in the noughties, in the uneasily defined – by Brit critics – New Weird America movement (Devendra Banhart, Joanna Newsom etc). Toth’s voice is that of a classic wandering troubadour, while Wooden Wand’s music covers the ground between slocore country, psychedelic excursions and free folk. New album ‘Blood Oaths Of The New Blues’ is a hushed, intense listen. (SH)
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When Ohio’s Attack Attack! revealed they were changing lead singers for the third time, Welsh grungers Attack! Attack! were hoping this would spell the end for their metalcore rivals. Unluckily for our home grown talent, Attack Attack! (US) continue to tour under their confusingly similar moniker, and have no plans to stop soon. Attack! Attack! (UK) are also gigging tonight, but in Bridgend, not Brighton. Just make sure you’re in the right town, seeing the right band, whichever one it is. (AJM)
Brighton’s most intense rock band Physics House Band have a following almost as fevered as their music. They recently released their debut ‘Horizons/Rapture,’ a 26 minute swervea-thon through psychedelia, math rock, prog and basically any other genre that marries insane musical ability with really good tunes. To fully appreciate this band, you need to see them live – the three young musicians have a contagious energy that will leave you either gazing in awe or flailing on the dancefloor. (JMM)
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The downside of being described as a Next Big Thing is that if you don’t breakthrough almost instantly, you’re branded a failure. Hotly tipped for success in 2012, Jamie N Commons didn’t live up to the hype. Instead of releasing the album the press expected, the buzz subsided while he focused on touring and festivals. However, if reports that Eminem is sampling his husky vocals are true, he’ll soon rocket far beyond what any critics could have predicted. (AJM)
NARROWS
Green Door Store Mon 29th
Seattle’s Narrows are something of a supergroup when it comes to the hardcore and metal scene. Comprised of members of various defunct bands – including Botch vocalist Dave Verellen, Some Girls/ Unbroken bassist Rob Moran and Ryan Frederiksen, who played guitar in These Arms Are Snakes – they sound exactly like a sum of their parts. The group’s hardcore punk-influenced mathcore left our ears ringing last time they played here. Heavy. (CB)
Nately’s Whore’s Kid Sister Hope Mon 29th
Named after a character in the seminal novel Catch-22, Nately’s Whore’s Kid Sister take the dark satirical themes of their inspiration and turn them into brooding heavy stoner/sludge rock dripping with bold riffs and hypnotic vocals. Their live shows often involve the band taking to the stage dressed in tiny shorts, covered in gaffer tape and face paint, with sinister projections behind them creating a eerie landscape of addictively heavy, dark noise that you’ll want to get lost in. (AT)
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MC CASHBACK hip hop recipe LP is educational, funny and hummable Words By James Kendall Photos By Kenny Mc Cracken at Create Assisted By Lucy Beavis Sometimes an idea is so good you can’t believe it hasn’t been done already. When we were cornered in a club and excitedly told how MC Cashback had made an album where every track was the recipe to a different meal we just knew it was going to be great, or at the very least great fun. We’d already seen him perform and had soaked up his charismatic humour but never knew he had such a classic idea in him. Turns out it was the album he was born to make. “I’d worked in kitchens for about ten years, annoying all of the chefs by rapping about what I was doing while I was cooking,” he says. “I worked at The Hop Poles for a long time, Komedia, Jamie Oliver’s. I thought, ‘No one has done a rap cook book,’ or any kind of musical cook book, as far as I know. So I did it.” He did it indeed, writing both the raps and the recipes on ‘The Dinnersty’, as well as all the beats and melodies. It’s a hugely enjoyable collection, bringing in hip hop, reggae and bits of world music. The track ‘Homemade Burgers’ is not only a clear simple way to make Brighton’s favourite meal, it’s also extremely catchy, with a chorus by Emma B that stays in your head even longer than the meaty meal stays in your belly. Elsewhere you can get stuck into ‘Lasagne’ (a meal that will “fill you up/make you slow like a panda”), ‘Lamb Tagine & Couscous’ (with its advice about marinating), or the Eastern European-styled ‘Goulash’ (“straight out of Hungary for when you’re feeling hungry”). But which is MC Cashback’s favourite recipe on ‘The Dinnersty’? “’Jerk Chicken’ I think,” he says without needing much thought. “It’s my favourite song as well.” With reggae backing and guest vocalists Dandelion and Uncle Roy, it’s one of the many tracks that take a bit of the taste of the meal itself into the music (‘B.U.R.R.I.T.O.S’ channels Herb Alpert’s Tijuana Brass for example). “Make it real smokey,” growls Dandelion with a straight face. As if it wasn’t informative enough, Cashback finds time to throw in a verse about how to cock rice and peas. Two for the price of one, Tesco-style. But the raps didn’t come without their unique problems. “I found myself repeating some words a lot,” he says. “There’s loads of garlic, onion, chop, dice. It’s quite hard to make it sound interesting all the way through the album. I didn’t want people to think, ‘Oh, he’s just saying garlic again.’” All the recipes are Cashback’s own. It’s quite a feat even before getting to the fact that the LP is really quite funny too, which of course can be a double-edged sword. Does it make
it more difficult for people to take him seriously? “You’ve got to impress people on two levels,” he admits, “with your musical skills as well as being able to make them laugh. I’m not gonna lie, I’ve been booed off a few times, but you learn from that.” He’s had plenty of time to get used to audiences, having cut his teeth at the age of 14, MCing in, of all places, a strip club in his then hometown of Norwich. Moving on from jungle and garage, he fell in love with hip hop and moved to Brighton. And that’s when food started to find its way into his rhymes. “I don’t know where it came from,” he recalls. “I just got a bit obsessed with it. That was what I wanted to rap about. Before that I’d rap about the usual shit really, being the best and all that sort of crap. But that doesn’t really mean anything to me. Food is something that I love and it’s more real to me to rap about food than it is to rap about the usual hip hop subjects.” What we really love about ‘The Dinnersty’ is the thought that some kids will find themselves learning to cook by osmosis. One day they’ll be yearning for a burger and ponder going to McDonalds, only to have the realisation that, ‘Hey, we could cook our own burgers.’ “That’s what I want to do really,” he says with a smile. MC Cashback might just have made Brighton’s most influential album.
5 Best Hip Hop Food Lyrics Roots Manuva ‘Witness (1 Hope)’
“Right now I see clearer than most/I sit here contented with this cheese on toast.” Who needs Cristal when you’ve got cheddar and some Hovis? Nas ‘Fried Chicken’
“Mmm, fried chicken, fly vixen/Give me heart disease but need you in my kitchen.” No salads for Nas, the
diet starts tomorrow.
Ice Cube ‘It Was A Good Day’
“No barkin’ from the dog, no smog/and momma cooked up breakfast with no hog.” Apparently Cube’s
perfect day doesn’t include bacon. A serious oversight. Notorious B.I.G. ‘Hypnotize’
“I can fill you with real millionaire shit: escargot.” Yeah, we’ll pass on teatime round Biggie’s, merci.
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Jay-Z ‘Success’ “How many times can I go to Mr. Chow’s, Tao’s, Nobu?/ Hold up, let me move my bowels.” And this guy actually pulled Beyonce – not with this line we hope.
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Words by Matt Barker, Stuart Huggett, James Kendall, Jessica Marshall McHattie, Anna Thomas
Bug’a’Boo
Funfair Thurdays
From the team behind Donuts comes Bug’a’boo, the sexiest, most fun r’n’b night Brighton’s seen in ages. Far from the selfconscious pulling-fests found on West Street, Bug’a’boo’s interpretation of the genre is friendly, inclusive and girl-centric. Musically it’s a bit like transporting back to a 90s school disco, in a really good way – you won’t get a detention for slow dancing too enthusiastically, the booze is free-flowing, and somewhere in the depths of your mind are all the slinky lyrics you need. (JMM)
French Fries
Concorde 2 Fri 5th
It only started last month, but already the monthly Forekast night at the Concorde is impressing with its well-selected lineups. Hyped Parisian producer French Fries gets his Brighton debut tonight and if you’re not already familiar with his bass laden, swinging electro and house, try looking up his ‘Everything’ release from last month. Also on the bill this month are Deadboy, Redhino, My Nu Leng and Dom 877, with a host of Brighton producers in room two. (JMM)
Spinout!
Temple Bar Fri 5th
Following a few afternoon try-outs at the Blind Tiger last year, rockabilly club Spinout! has a new home as a semi-regular night at The Temple Bar on Western Road. Taking place on the first Friday of every other month, resident DJs Tiki Stew and Karl Thorne plus guests play a vinyl selection of surf, blues, soul and rock’n’roll sounds. Admission is a mere quid and, with it being the Temple, there’s more varieties of booze than you can shake your voodoo stick at. (SH)
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Talking Heads Green Door Store Fri 5th
Over 20 years have gone by since Talking Heads broke up and, aside from their induction at the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame, any kind of reunion tour seems as unlikely as ice skating in Hell. The group’s peerless catalogue of intellectual art-rock keeps attracting new fans, however, so it’s up to the Green Door to do the decent thing and put on a night of live music, DJs and dressing up in tribute. Byrne-ing down the house, as it were. (SH)
Bump‘n’Scuff
Three And Ten Sat 6th
The latest venture for the Soul Casserole DJ gang is Bump’n’Scuff, a Saturday afternoon show on Radio Reverb, repeated a couple of times the following week. With a basic leaning towards classic soul and funk, they’re keen to add modernity in the form of locally produced remixes and mashups, as well as some original compositions from their favoured genres. If this sounds like your kind of show, you can see them in action at the launch party. (JMM)
MarC Kinchen
Coalition Sat 6th
House producer Marc ‘MK’ Kinchen hit big in the 90s with his Billboard-topping singles ‘Always’ and ‘Love Changes’, dozens of distinctive dub remixes for the decade’s big pop and r’n’b artists, and hit-making engineering work on huge tracks like Nightcrawlers’ club perennial ‘Push The Feeling On’. In recent years he’s worked closely with stars Pitbull and Will Smith but he’s not forgotten his DJ roots. He jets in for a two-hour underground house and techno set tonight. (SH)
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Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Sun 7th
Where were you in ’92? The music industry’s first attempts to capitalise on the nascent Gameboy phenomenon brought with it some fine novelty chiptune singles, but it would be many more years before Nintendo’s simple soundblocks infiltrated DIY music making. This free chiptune celebration features music from enthusiasts Forbidden Colour and Lazerbleep, retro videogaming, live ‘analogue art’ and computer melodies from DJ Ten Kings. There ain’t no place like Super Mario Land, but tonight Sticky Mike’s runs it close. (SH)
Swing Ninjas
Mesmerist Weds 10th
Busking big band The Swing Ninjas launch their third album of infectious 30s dance sounds at tonight’s instalment of their weekly Mesmerist shindig. The Swing Ninjas’ mix of New Orleans jazz and Parisian gypsy sounds has become a Brighton club sensation, and tonight’s party throws a carnival of lindy hop dancers and circus performers into the mix. You’re not likely to be hearing them on Pete Tong’s Essential Mix any time soon, but if he’d been broadcasting between the wars they’d have caused a riot. (SH)
Missing Cat Club Komedia, Fri 12th
It’s on the second Friday of the month starting in April, it’s new, it runs from 11pm to 3am, and it’s completely free. What else do you need to know about Missing Cat Club? The music policy would be a good start – from what we can work out it’s a pretty diverse amalgamation of dancehall, house and techno, focusing more on the popular than the obscure. And the name? No idea. Pretty sure it’s not a fundraiser for a missing Persian, but you can never be too sure. (JMM)
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Rinse Winter Tour Digital Sat 13th
We’re not entirely certain we’d class mid-April as winter, but let’s not quibble – we’re still pleased to welcome the conclusion of Rinse’s four-month international party to Brighton tonight. Enigmatic Sophie kicks off proceedings, followed by Bicep, an Irish producer duo who have no qualms about mixing techno into disco. The top banana is Boddika, a local favourite whose previous shows have been wild and genre-defying, melding house and techno with old school hip hop influences. (JMM)
Flori
10 Below Sat 13th
It might be his first set in Brighton but Flori knows how to work a dancefloor, from years of residencies under other guises, and he comes highly recommended. Weaving soul, funk and jazz influences into minimal house doesn’t sound like it would work, but somehow Flori manages to layer them to build an organic, constantly evolving sound. It’ll be a good opportunity to check out the revamped venue, formerly known as the Jazz Place, too. (JMM)
Stay Sick
Blind Tiger Sat 13th
Trash monsters Stay Sick celebrate five years of rock’n’roll hell-raising with a barnstorming birthday blow-out. Live music comes from genius garage rockers The Nuns, an allwoman tribute twist to deranged 60s GI’s-in-Germany pioneers The Monks, featuring various former Mambo Taxi and Echobelly sorts. The Stay Sick DJs keep the night running with their 7” psycho-surf selections, plus there’s B-movie projections, party bags (or, rather, ‘sick bags’) and a big old birthday cake too. Carve yourself a slice. (SH)
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Chase & Status
Concorde 2 Fri 19th
The first contact we had with Chase & Status was heading into an event at the Concorde while hundreds of wide-eyed sweaty students stumbled out muttering about “the best gig I’ve ever seen”. Since then they’ve conquered the world with their intense, noisy drum’n’bass anthems, so it’s impressive to see them back at the Concorde for this DJ set. They’re currently in the studio with Nile Rogers (ask your grandad, or Daft Punk) which is really odd. A new disco direction? The internet reckons the new LP will be darker, but the internet is a liar sometimes. We guess we’ll find out tonight. (JK)
Greg Wilson
Loft Fri 19th
We use the word ‘legend’ all too easily, but Greg Wilson is one of that rare group of British DJs worthy of the term. Starting out as a teenager playing funk and soul, he was one of the first homegrown DJs to turn on to the early US electro sounds, spreading the word via his residency at Manchester’s freshly opened Haçienda. These days he’s widely known for his pioneering disco re-edits, which he’ll be bringing to tonight’s Disco Deviant with Fingerman and Pablo Contraband. (SH)
Redlight
Digital Sat 20th
Bristol producer Redlight makes a welcome return visit to Supercharged this month, alongside Bondax and Karma Kid. Since his 2009 Lobster Boy debut, Redlight’s rise to chart star has been rapid. Collaborating with Ms Dynamite and Roses Gabor on the way up, he crossed over in a big way last year with the thumping piano rush of ‘Get Out My Head’ and ‘Lost In Your Love’. Definitely expect to hear his new single ‘Switch It Off’, out the following Monday. (SH)
Warehouse: Shadow Child
Audio Sat 20th
Somehow Warehouse put on enviable line-ups week in, week out. This particular iteration is no exception, with Shadow Child coming straight from supporting Disclosure on their UK tour to man the decks at Audio. Not merely a side project for big room house chap Dave Spoon, Shadow Child finds him very much out there in his own right as one of the players in the underground bass-groove, cool kid house scene, mostly thanks to his fantastic debut ‘String Thing’ on Dirtybird. (MB)
Ivy Lab & Technimatic
The JetSet International
Ivy Lab is the new joint project of Sabre, Stay and Halogenix and, as you’d expect, this collaborative brainchild is pretty mixed up. Blending the traditional and thoughtful drum’n’bass of Sabre with the minimalism of Stay and the experimentalism of Halogenix makes for an inspiring, different take on the genre, which will undoubtedly have the Concorde jumping. Technimatic – formerly Technicolour and Komatic – are also playing, offering highly charged, heavy and emotional d’n’b. Promoters Jazznote have done it again. (JMM)
If this preview was interactive we’d be starting it with the chiming ATV ident, but until reality catches up with our imaginations, just pretend. Anyway, The JetSet International is a new band of Brighton faces playing film and TV themes of the 60s and 70s. They introduce themselves at this evening’s club show, accompanied by dancers, visuals and, fabulously, a buffet. The band says RSVP to eric@monorecords.co.uk a good plan to guarantee entry and your glamorous free drink. (SH)
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Jah Shaka Soundsystem Concorde 2 Fri 26th
Jah Shaka has been at the forefront of the British reggae scene since establishing his celebrated soundsystem back in the 70s. Sticking by his belief in the power of the dance to spread socially conscious messages, Shaka hasn’t waivered in his mission to bring roots reggae sounds to the world. He’s also assisted community projects in Jamaica and several African countries through his Jah Shaka Foundation, so ultimately you know that your money for tonight’s five-hour workout is helping the greater good. (SH)
Jaguar Skills
Coalition Sat 27th
So many DJs wear masks now – SBTRKT, Deadmau5, that fella out of Modestep – you have to wonder how ugly they’re all getting. Jaguar Skills has beautiful eyes, but that’s all we’ve seen from behind his ninja balaclava. Not that we’d get to see much anyway, he moves more swiftly behind the decks than a Japanese assassin. His tune selection is just as manic, covering every genre you can dance to. Jag’s Toolroom Knights mix album of a couple of years ago is typical of the energy of his sets, cramming 40 tracks into 67 minutes. You’ll be breathless. (JK)
Noisia
Concorde 2 Sat 27th
In the past decade Noisia have grown from three young Dutch men with a penchant for drum’n’bass and online message boards, to a genre-leading group who own a trio of record labels, have released dozens of successful singles and tour the globe pretty much constantly. Not bad. And now they’re back in Brighton to show why that impressive rise has kept on going – their live sets are a lesson in dancefloor destruction. (JMM)
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SATURDAYS THIS MONTH 6th: SIMPLY VINYL: Amoss & Halogenix 13th: MOTIVE: D&B: Jubei, Foreign Concept +More 20th: FREQUENCY: D&B: Inside Info (Virus), Prolix, High Maintenance (AudioPorn)
27th: THE MINE: UPRISE AUDIO TAKEOVER: DUBSTEP: 30k Sound System. Youngsta (Tempa / Fwd>> / Rinse Fm), Seven Klax
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REBEL BINGO
TOP 10
Words By James Kendall Photos Mary-Alice Thompson
If you’re looking for a riotous night out then bingo isn’t normally your first stop off. Sure, it gets your gran’s heart racing, but that’s a frail old vessel these days and Benedict Cumberbatch is almost enough to tip her over the edge. Rebel Bingo would give her a full-blown coronary in about 40 seconds. But for the rest of us, it’s about the most mental night out going. The first half sees a loudmouth host and sassy burlesque girls turn bingo into the rudest thing possible. The calls start with “Incest is good old family fun… number one!” and get swiftly
filthier. With lights worthy of a decent touring band, this is more of a show than a club night, but when the bingo stops and the tunes start, hundreds of drunk people with felt tips is going to lead to chaos. But there’s never been a better way of flirting than drawing on someone. Who knew?
Kendrick Lamar ‘Swimming Pools (Drank)’ A$AP Rocky ‘Fuckin’ Problems’ SWV ‘Right Here (Human Nature Remix)’ Justin Timberblake ‘Body Count’ Beyoncé ‘Ring The Alarm’ Angel Haze ‘Werkin’ Girls’ Beanie Man ‘Dude’ French Montana Feat. Nicki Minaj ‘Freaks’ Disclosure ‘White Noise (Hudson Mohawke Remix)’ The Jets ‘Crush On You’
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BASTARD POP Words and Photos By James Kendall
Three years is a long time in midweek clubbing – even the legendary Poundance only made it to five – so tonight’s third birthday bash is pretty special for the Bastard gang. And despite a torrid night that is apparently the first day of spring, their fans are out in force. Even at the typically sedate clubland time of half past twelve the Bastard Poppers are bouncing off the walls.
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With just a flash of light ricocheting around the packed dancefloor every now and again, it’s like Sodom and Gomorrah has been relocated to the Black Hole of Calcutta – only with a really pumping soundsystem. At one point we have to escape to the bar to catch our breath. Oh, this is not a gentle midweek affair, this is utter madness. Partly it’s the music – a solid selection of genre-crossing party tunes – but mainly it’s the crowd. The promoters can’t say enough good things about their punters and put the success down completely to them. So happy birthday to them – if they make it through the night alive.
TOP 10 NEXT EVENTS: Every Thursday, Audio WEB: facebook.com/BastardPop RESIDENTS: Oli P, Milton.
Disclosure ‘White Noise’ Destiny’s Child ‘Say My Name (Cyril Hahn Remix)’ Kendrick Lamar ‘Swimming Pools (Drank)’ Tempa T ‘Next Hype (UK Funky Mix)’ Eve ‘Who’s That Girl’ Kanye West & Jay-Z ‘Niggas In Paris’ Sweet Female Attitude ‘Bring You Flowers’ DJ Pied Piper ‘Do You Really Like It’ Kanye West ‘Mercy (RL Grime Remix)’ A$AP Rocky ‘Fuckin’ Problems’ Notorious B.I.G. ‘Hypnotize (Murder He Wrote Remix)’ Flying Lotus ‘Massage Situation’
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it’s going to get worse and worse and worse, my friend
Words by Stuart Huggett, Ben Miller, Conor Young
Art: Our Time In Ice
Theatre: Punched 4
Our Time In Ice, a group exhibition at the ONCA (One Network for Conservation & the Arts) gallery, brings together new artistic commissions responding to the changing climate of the Arctic. There’s some unexpected names involved, including musician Robyn Hitchcock and Dafila Scott, granddaughter of Robert Falcon Scott (of ‘of the Antarctic’ legend). Accompanying events this month including a reading from journalist and author Nick Hunt on Tuesday 9th and a new work from Feral Theatre on Wednesday 10th. (SH)
Macabre, frequently twisted, often bombastic puppetry full of crazed marionettes and fag-toting, spun-out takes on Judy courtesy of Touched Theatre, a bunch of master storytellers with a knack for physicality. Miranda, the haggish host puppet, is usually positioned as a monstrous master of ceremonies, but she’s invariably outdone by the gaggle of maniacal figureheads she heralds, confounding preconceptions of the strung art form and creating something substantially darker and more satisfying. Try not to cackle or soil your boxers. (BM)
ONCA until 31st May
Art: Ewen Spencer Create Thurs 4th – Fri 26th
Snogging in clubs, bedroom spliff sessions, rap-offs in warehouses and taxi cabs – you can feel the sweat and sleaze saturating Ewen Spencer’s images, although his more high-profile (but no less down-to-earth) collaborations have been with Jack White and Mike Skinner. In the same year that he produced the inlay shots for ‘Original Pirate Material’, Spencer was tipped for greatness by Martin Parr. This is a rare chance to see a homecoming by the photographer for The Face, Sleazenation and, latterly, Skins. (BM)
Comedy: Boothby Graffoe Komedia Thurs 11th
Boothby Graffoe has been playing the comedy circuit for so long he’s already retired once. As well as his joyful stand-up routines, Graffoe’s a musician too – a regular collaborator with Canada’s Barenaked Ladies and Brighton’s own Nick Pynn. He deftly combines both talents live, so you can sometimes lose track of whether you’re watching a comedian playing oddball tunes or a songwriter with exceptional on-stage banter. Either way, it’s a cause for celebration that he’s back on the boards. (SH)
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Dance: It’s Going to Get Worse and Worse and Worse, My Friend Basement Thurs 11th
Taking a speech by some gruesome neoconservative tit and turning it into both a transfixing, spooky convulsive reaction and an examination of the way emotions can entrance and poison, Lisbeth Gruwez’s piece is one of numerous transformations. This ain’t exactly an easy one, then, as the Belgian immerses herself in the increasing violence and despair of a televangelist’s address. But in what could well be the most compelling round of gesticulations ever, it fathoms beauty out of a frothy rant. (BM)
Poetry: Man Up, Jonny Fluffypunk!
Upstairs At Three And Ten Tues 16th & Weds 17th
No, hang on, is it poetry? Or theatre, or comedy? These genrecrossers with their Billy Childish looks and claims to be west country shamen – it’s enough to make anyone want to use the word pigeonholed. Fluffypunk is a moustachioed maverick who has won a number of slams and been lauded by many poets, so we’ll assume that will be his main trick for his new show, where he’s apparently agonising – via sock puppetry – over his responsibilities to his four-year-old son. (BM)
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Cirkopolis
A circus spectacular inspired by classic films Metropolis and Brazil Mon 6 & Tue 7 May
Apparat Krieg & Frieden A film and music project from this Berlin–based electronic artist Mon 13 May
Sam Lee and Friends Taking Folk back to its roots on a journey through the ancient songs of the British Isles Tue 14 May
Casus
Knee Deep
A breathtaking display of humanity and incredible physical skill Thu 23 May
Musik Kabarett Featuring Nina Hagen, David McAlmont, Jamie McDermott and The Irrepressibles Three critically-admired artists reinterpret some of the most influential theatrical songs of the 20th century Sat 25 May
Plus The Flaming Lips, Sinead O’Connor, Lucinda Williams, The Kite Runner, BUG: A Fatboy Slim Special, and much more
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last shop standing
Theatre: Mort
Film: I’m So Excited
The Brighton University Drama Society apparently spent the formative years of their existence drunk. However, it seems they occasionally sober up enough to produce serious theatre: taking on Shakespeare and Victor Hugo in the last few years. This month the company return to the Sallis Benney with their most ambitious show yet. Based on Terry Pratchett’s much-loved fourth Discworld novel, Mort is a story of a hapless boy and the Grim Reaper. A must for Discworlders. (CY)
Camper than a bivvy and a set of poles, Pedro Almodóvar’s new flick is a ridiculous air romp aboard a plane peopled by angsty Mexican-bound travellers and a trio of attendants whose double-entendres are the stuff of groans, brisk head thuds and slaps with wet fishes. Along the way, Penélope Cruz and Antonio Banderas are united for the briefest of kitschy cameos. Tonight’s screening is sandwiched by red carpet footage and a satellite interview with Almodóvar. (BM)
Sallis Benney Theatre Fri 19th – Sun 21st
Film: Last Shop Standing Duke’s At Komedia Sat 20th
Screening this afternoon as part of Brighton’s Record Store Day celebrations, Last Shop Standing is a celebration of the country’s surviving independent record shops and an investigation into why so many hundreds have closed in recent years. Borderline and Resident feature, as does the late Rounder Records, adding a poignant note to today’s retail festivities. Former Rounder employee Norman Cook is among the musical talking heads reminiscing about the importance of record shops to the community. (SH)
Duke Of York’s Tues 23rd
Art: Press and Release Phoenix from Sat 27th
The shifting sands we’re all stumbling along might make it somewhat hard to judge but, in some respects, the world of artists’ books and self-publishing seems stronger – or at least more prolific – than ever these days. Phoenix are putting some of the best examples of the lo-fi aesthetic into a purpose-built installation for your perusal, showcasing artists across a whole load of mediums with a focus on hand-made, limited edition and experimental formats. (BM)
Theatre: Silent
Theatre: Spun Glass – Scratch Sessions
It’s almost impossible not to be consumed by Pat Kinevane’s treatment of a homeless drinker who’s misplaced his mind, adorned as it is with breakneck theatricality, morbid humour and, in a one-night-only return for a show which has received no end of praise on the fringe circuit, a powerful message about loss and ill fortune. Fishamble, the Irish group behind it, are coming back to Brighton in aid of Emmaus, a charity that helps the homeless across the city. (BM)
Less than three years after forming, Spun Glass have established themselves as one of the most promising new theatre groups in the city – a reputation they’ve enhanced by repeating their inventive fringe shows far beyond the boundaries of Sussex. Five teams of new writers will be given ten-minute slots in which to test poetry, scripts, stories, stand-up and miscellaneous risky ideas here, offering a safe place to experiment or inspiration for those just there to watch. (BM)
Dome Sat 20th
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april ‘13 + may out
the big top ball // the glamour of the 1930s circus world...
Live music, beautiful dancing girls, acrobats, seductive burlesque acts, fire breathers, breathtaking aerialists & much more... // [All proceeds to The Linkylea Trust.]
SATURDAY 20 april | 19:30 | £14.00 earlybird // £18.00
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Peter Knapp presents:
all you ever wanted to know about…
OPERA!
Peter Knapp, provides hilarious insights into the extraordinary world of opera. With highlights from the operatic and musical theatre repertoire, accompanied by his own London-based orchestra. THURSDAY 18 april | 19:30 | £15.00
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TOM presents
nick pynn and kate daisy grant
// two multi-award-winning, 5 star shows Avant-folk masterpieces and quirky pop songs.
TOM present Les Enfants Terribles with:
the trench
// “A total theatre experience of engrossing intensity” The Stage: MUST SEE
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Needles & Nails 7-8 Kensington Gardens
Words And Photo By James Kendall
It’s not enough in London to have brightly coloured nails these days. The hippest girls are having unique designs painted onto their talons, thanks to nail bars like the pioneering Wah. If heading up to Dalston seems a bit of a trek then thank god for Scallywags’ newly opened Needles & Nails. It’s part tattoo parlour, part beauty salon, but what makes N&N exciting is what happens with that second N. Rather than employing nail technicians, the new venture above Loaded (where Edgeworld used to be) is staffed by fine art students. So if you want strawberries, Muppets or burgers painted on your claws you know they’ve got the skills. Basically your imagination (and the size of your nails) is the limit with what you can have done. Like Wah there’s a friendly, hangout-y vibe, but you might have to fight your way past MTV and Cosmopolitan magazine, who have both been down to check out Needles & Nails already.
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Brighton Festival Taster Session Sunday 12th May 5:15pm to 7:15pm As part of the Brighton Festival, Brighton’s first open water swimming programme is holding a free taster session for swimmers that are interested in joining the Pool to Pier Course. The session will involve a 45 minute Pool session followed by a sea theory session which outlines the fundamentals of tides, currents, and waves that make sea swimming such an exhilarating experience! Call: 01273 434 390 Email: pooltopier@brightonswimmingschool.com www.pool2pier.com
Fringe Club
Swinging live music, a secret garden and a latenight bar at the award-winning Warren. Plus DJs and dancing til late. Friday 3 May Kalakuta Millionaires
Friday 24 May Zoot Zazou + Zoophonium
Saturday 4 May Fat 45
Saturday 25 May Oscillator
Sunday 5 May Voodoo Love Orchestra
Sunday 26 May The Impellers
Swinging street music
10-piece heavy soul and funk powerhouse
Friday 10 May The Swing Ninjas
Friday 31 May The Speakeasy 3
Saturday 11 May Dende
Saturday 1 June Patti Plinko
Lively Afro-beat and funk
Classic 40s and 50sstyle Rock n Roll big band
New Orleans brass meets 20s dance music
9-piece calypso, cumbia, reggae, Afro-Latin party vibes
Vintage and electro swing
Ska, funk, psychedelia and jazzinfluenced festival favourites
Sassy, golden-age sounds and beautiful harmonies
Three-piece band consisting of strings, whisky bottles and old vinyl
Doors open 10.30pm £6 in advance £8 on the door
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Locally Sourced Words by Stuart Huggett, Jessica Marshall McHattie
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EP: Anushka
EP: The Creaking Chair
The hype machine has been whirring for this duo since last summer and we’re thrilled that their debut EP has finally been released. Producer Max, formerly of hip hop act Dirty Diggers, and magnetic front woman Victoria are a perfect match, creating tracks that are gloriously light despite rambunctious bass lines. Merging 90s house influences with playful, soulful vocals and cut-up beats, Anushka make an original sound that’s equally appropriate for a dirty dancefloor or driving in the sunshine. (JMM)
With roots as an alt-folk trio, The Creaking Chair have narrowed focus to become essentially the solo project of Andrew AC Cooper. As the musicians decreased, the scope of the music has widened, with layers of keyboards, loops and electronics colouring the palette. The title track appears twice, first as a mysterious, literate pop song, later as a lo-fi but lush instrumental, while ‘Spun’ adds effective synthetic brass and steel sounds. It’s a sweet and slightly ambient package. (SH)
‘Yes Guess’ (Brownswood Recordings)
Album: Charley Bickers
‘Our Frail Hearts’ (charleybickers.com)
Having spent time in the industry as performer (with War Makes Heroes), label boss and publisher, songwriter Charley Bickers’ solo debut has been a long time coming, sidelined by a succession of personal tragedies that inevitably colour the finished album. Despite the shadow of death, uplifting songs like ‘Three Little Words’ and ‘Burning Bridges’ help keep ‘Our Frail Hearts’ on the sunny side, with a full cast of collaborators (including The Verve’s Simon Jones) filling out Bickers’ lively tunes. (SH)
Single: Blaenavon ‘Into The Night’ (Paradyse)
Blaenavon is a town in south Wales, but the indie rock trio who’ve taken its name split their time between Brighton and Hants. However unassuming the boys appear, they’ve been quietly going places in the last 12 months, with this debut 7” arriving on an imprint of Foals’ home Transgressive Records. Blaenavon are a little moodier, the choppy guitar melodies of ‘Into The Night’ continually butting their heads on the chorus’ ceiling, while ‘Denim Patches’ is a shuffling, dour epic. (SH)
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‘Noise Body’ (Bouffant)
Album: Kellar
‘Fulminant’ (Foolproof Projects)
Reduced to a duo following the departure of David McNamee, Kellar’s Dan Cross and Andy Pyne get seriously creative with this epic double album of noise improvisations. The 14 tracks shift from simmering percussion rumbles and distant guitar to boiling battles of thundering drums and scorched effects work. The fearsome nine-minute descent of ‘Through Mantle And Core’ is the most full-on and impressive sequence, but there’s ample more on-the-fly electric experimentation here to get lost in for months. (SH)
Album: Laish
‘Obituaries’ (Folkwit)
Based around the songwriting of Willkommen Collective member Daniel Green, five-piece folk pop band Laish reconvene at last for this second album. Despite the gloomy title, much of ‘Obituaries’ is a breezy listen: ‘Warm The Wind’ and ‘Carry Me’ are among Laish’s poppiest songs, and the 60s nugget ‘Choice’ positively swings. Longer tracks ‘Visions’ and ‘Petty Ruiner’ find the Laish musicians enter into waves of flowing repetition, throughout which Green cunningly examines themes of love and death. Feels like springtime at last. (SH)
EP: Murder He Wrote
‘Your Code’ (Skint)
The latest release on Skint’s Under 5’s imprint is the debut EP from Brighton’s prolific Murder He Wrote. He’s released remixes for a diverse set of artists including Daughter, Sergio Fernandez and Mwen, but this three-track EP shows a stylistic progression into something deeper, more anxious and more synthy. Owl-eared listeners may recognise the tense rumblings of ‘Your Code’ from recent mixes by Throwing Snow and My Nu Leng, but even if you’re familiar with the sound, it’s unsettlingly good. (JMM)
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Record Store Day Special Words by Stuart Huggett
Single: Bat For Lashes ‘Laura’/’Marilyn’ (Parlophone)
Bat For Lashes has released a special 7” for Record Store Day every year since 2010, and this time around it’s a conceptual coupling of two tracks from last year’s ‘The Haunted Man’. You’ll already know the inescapable and beautiful ‘Laura’, finally making its appearance as a vinyl single. ‘Marilyn’, from Vogue’s online Love Songs Sessions, gets an entirely different, simple and propulsive arrangement with Natasha Khan’s reverberating guitar chords leading the way.
Single: The Leisure Society ‘Fight For Everyone’ (Full Time Hobby)
Taken from The Leisure Society’s new album ‘Alone Aboard The Ark’, ‘Fight For Everyone’ is a brighter than usual pop tune tugged along by a snappy 70s keyboard line straight off a Chicory Tip record. The group’s organic, brass and piano embellished sound is still present and correct, with leader Nick Hemming calling his Olympian-inspired vocals in from a retro radiogram set. This RSD 7” comes on blue vinyl.
Album: Metronomy
‘Pip Paine (Pay The £5000 You Owe)’ (Because Music)
Metronomy’s album debut finally gets a belated vinyl pressing for RSD, a double LP edition in a green fabric casing (matching the cloth packaging of the sought-after original CD edition). Far removed from their later incarnation as a sly dancepop group, ‘Pip Paine’ was an assemblage of Joe Mount’s bedroom electronic sketches, taped at home in Devon from 2002-06 and released while he was making his name as a resident on the Brighton scene. Pip Paine, where are you now?
VARIOUS: Tru Thoughts
Tru Thoughts’ RSD offerings include a new 7” from Rodney P from Sleepin’ Giantz/London Posse. The suave ‘Success’ finds him joined by soul vocalist Harleighblue and the Renegade Brass Band, with a first time on vinyl appearance for reggae groove ‘Live Up’ on the flip. Harleighblu reappears on the latest in Tru Thoughts’ Black Gold promo series with the unreleased ‘Enough Now’. A new take on Alice Russell’s ‘Breakdown’ and a couple of lush tracks from Hot 8 Brass Band and Natural Self round out the 12” EP.
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VARIOUS: FAT CAT
FatCat’s RSD selection includes a 2LP repress of Frightened Rabbit’s breakout second album ‘The Midnight Organ Fight’, coupled with its boisterous live companion set ‘Quietly Now’. Fellow Scots Twilight Sad and the pairing of jazz musician Bill Wells and Arab Strap’s Aidan Moffat reinterpret each other’s songs on a moody split 7”. Finally, London art-rave group Breton release a casually brilliant remix of ‘Population Density’ by Magnetic Man’s Artwork, coupled with one of ‘Governing Correctly’ by Ed Banger boss Busy P, on 12” purple vinyl.
MORE BRIGHTON RSD RELEASES Single: British Sea Power
‘Facts Are Right’/’Machineries Of Joy’ 7” (Rough Trade) Single: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
‘Animal X’ 7” pic disc (Bad Seed Ltd)
EP: Gross Magic / The History Of Apple Pie / Echo Lake / Novella
Split 12” repress (Marshall Teller) Single: The House Of Love
‘A Baby Got Back On Its Feet’ 7” version of their new single (Cherry Red) EP: The Wedding Present
‘4 Lieder’ 10” of German re-recordings (Scopitones) Album: ‘If’
Tribute to the West London record shop, incl. Bonobo & Fink (Ninja Tune)
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Tea & Cake WORDS BY ROSIE KENDALL
PHOTOS BY JAMES KENDALL
The ubiquitous cupcake, formerly the sole preserve of undersevens’ birthday parties and known simply as a bun, has taken over Brighton. But what if three inches of garish sickly ‘frosting’ isn’t really your thing, because you’re a grown up, and don’t even like Sex & The City? If, like SOURCE, you eschew the Yankee cupcake – all style over substance – then where do you go for a refined slice of cake with a nice cup of Darjeeling? Not the Mock Turtle if our experience is anything to go by (see our review at tinyurl.com/MockTurt). With the coffee drinkers taken care of in February’s coffee shop feature we asked for your tea and cake recommendations, and then spent a month troughing down butter-cream in the name of research. Competition was fierce and your favourite may be missing because it was kicked into touch by one of these exceptional cafés. This is all about cake - so we’ve ignored pastries, biscuits and tarts. We’ve even ignored cream teas though it hurt us to do so, except to mention that all of our picks serve one in its correct clotted cream format except for cream tea-free Marwood and Slice Sussex. 44 cakes later we assume the recovery position, book up a diabetes test and bring you SOURCE’s best tea and cake.
B&R
Tea and cake for two £10.50. Trafalgar Street, Brighton
Only open for six months, B&R feels like a well-kept secret at the moment. The parquet floor, rickety teak folding tables, wicker chairs and lacy tablecloths create the impression that we’re taking tea in an Edwardian colonial conservatory – helped by the huge windows which make this a quaint, calm spot for watching the world go by. The small selection of cakes doesn’t disappoint. We go for the light, citrusy carrot cake which has butter icing filling as delicate and fluffy as raw meringue. The chocolate and Guinness cake fortunately tastes nothing like Guinness other than a subtle booziness which puts us in mind of Christmas. The combination of a lemony cheesecake ‘head’ sitting on top of a brownie-esque sponge is unexpectedly delicious.
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Blackbird Tea Rooms
Cream Tea
With its panelled interior, chintzy china and broderie anglaise tablecloths Blackbird is a fully realised step back in time – the waitresses even have ‘Allo ‘Allo hairdos. Though lacking in chocolate options when we visit (presumably something to do with rationing) there are plenty of homemade cakes to choose from. We try the lemon drizzle cake – a classic WI example, with sloppy lemon curd sandwiching it together and glacé icing – and a Victoria sponge given a twist with the unusual blackcurrant jam and custardy vanilla filling. The cakes are excellent and reminiscent of your mum’s best efforts, and it’s a delightful experience with incredible attention to detail. We can’t fault it – it’s the priciest of our recommendations, but worth every farthing.
There might not be much elbow room, or as much character as some cafés in our list, but Cream Tea do make* exceedingly good cakes. There are loads of them to choose from too. Loads. We try the classic light fluffy Victoria sandwich which is dusted with icing sugar and tastes wonderfully fresh, and the chocolate orange cake which is in contention for our best overall cake – the gooey sponge and tangy chocolate citrus icing are outstanding. Slices are big enough to share if you’re skint, and they get extra points for serving proper Cornish Rodda’s clotted cream. Don’t let their tourist-friendly location put you off, this was top of our league table for most of the competition and is well worth a visit. (*buy and serve)
Tea and cake for two £12.30. Ship Street, Brighton
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Tea and cake for two £11.00. New Road, Brighton
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Marwood
At the top of the curved staircase which leads up from the general store we arrive in a French country kitchen, pleased to find we’ve inadvertently popped in for a cuppa with Papa and Nicole just before their photo shoot for an interiors magazine. The presentation of the slightly unusual cakes is exceptional, served with fresh fruit and a berry compote they prove the most middle class of all our cake eating adventures. The rustic carrot cake has big pieces of seed, carrot and fruit set against a light decadent icing, and almost tastes like it’s good for us. We thankfully can’t taste the almond in the orange and almond cake, nor can we tell that it’s gluten free, it’s so sticky and delicious.
Prioritising fun over refinement, Marwood is piled high with old tat and car boot curiosities, giving the space a very distinct personality. Their junk shop aesthetic spills over into the cheap and cheerful refreshments. No fancy bone china here - tea is strictly of the builders’ variety, served in big mugs. The enormous slabs of cake mean that you could happily share a slice in the run up to payday. We try the parsnip and caramel cake which is dense with a gingery edge, the parsnip comparable to carrot as a cake ingredient, with the caramel icing just the right side of sickly. The raspberry and white chocolate cake is very sweet with a hint of cheesecake, and leaves us needing a quiet lie down.
Tea and cake for two £12.20. Western Road, Hove
Tea and cake for two £8.50. Ship Street, Brighton
HOVE WINNER !
Mr Wolfe
Treacle & Co
Although the current vogue for coffeeshops is all monochrome and hard wooden edges, Mr Wolfe combine this style with an airy tranquil feel which is helped by the languid goth soundtrack of Low and sun pouring through the big windows. If this was an indie film the clientele would be falling in love – the tiny room is full of attractive singles reading broadsheet arts columns. The tea is as strong as hell but the owner couldn’t be nicer when asked for a hot water top up. The cakes are homemade by Mrs Wolfe, who has knocked up a chocolate beetroot raspberry cake, the earthy taste of the light sponge perfectly balanced by a zingy berry icing. We’re blown away by her incredible sticky chocolate fudge layer cake with orange blossom ganache which melts in our mouths. It’s a contender.
This bustling café, with its ramshackle interior of utilitarian butcher’s shop wall tiles and bare wood, is quirky and charming. It has the most extensive range of cakes, all of which are beautifully made by the owners. Impressed by the number of gluten-free options we struggle to choose but eventually plump for the glitzy Victoria sponge - which is extravagant with several layers of very buttery butter-cream and blackcurrant jam. The gluten-free white and dark chocolate kirsch and lemon cake is stunning – and arguably beats our two favourite chocolate orange cakes into joint second – with liqueur-laced cherries in the sponge and a lavish filling which tastes like fresh cream, although we’re told it’s made from white chocolate. A lot of love has gone into these cakes.
Tea and cake for two £10.60. Montpelier Place, Brighton
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Tea and cake for two £11.25. Church Road, Hove
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Sugardough
Talk Of Tea
Some of the vintage cafés we visit feel a bit like a Spirit Of The Blitz Theme Park but this one feels like it’s always been here, with its lovely old shop fittings, weighing scales and mismatched tables, all squeezed into the tiny shop amongst towers of full flour sacks, reminding us that this is a busy working bakery. The unassuming little cakes are a joy, served on pretty porcelain. The lemon and poppy seed has a dense, seed-packed sponge and interestingly leaves all the sweetness to the crunchy royal icing, which is topped by wonderful candied peel. We’re equally impressed by the flourless chocolate cake, with its indulgent truffle-like sponge and double layer of icing. A refreshingly simple and unique elevenses experience.
Tucked away just off Western Road, this homely little teashop feels like your mates’ front room but caters for the serious tea aficionados – with five pages of the menu devoted to the old Rosy Lee, which is made with filtered water and served in jolly little coloured teapots. The owner happily recommends a brew based on our personal preferences, with no sniffiness about our usual PG Tips habit. The cake selection is small but flawless. The apple cake is dense with chunks of fruit and a generous layer of cinnamon fondant icing which proves less cloying than the butter-cream we’re usually met with. The white chocolate and raspberry cake tastes fresh and fruity and is the best raspberry cake we try.
Tea and cake for two £9.90. Victoria Terrace, Hove
Tea and cake for two £10.75. Spring Street, Brighton
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Tea and cake for two £10.30. Church Street, Hove
With a dark, cosy interior that feels more arty pub than café, we can imagine hanging out in here all afternoon - even the fact that half the customers are mid-business meeting doesn’t detract from the relaxing atmosphere. The emphasis is clearly on the coffee but the friendly staff talk us through their homemade cakes, advising us that the carrot and orange cake with its sultana-stuffed sponge is “technically three of our five a day” although the rich cream cheese icing may well undo these unproven health benefits. The chocolate and red wine cake is a very grown up treat - the absence of cream and icing in no way a negative. The sponge is laden with firm dark chocolate and outclasses most of Brighton’s chocolate cakes.
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Makes one gluten and dairy-free cake. • Line 8” tin with baking paper. Set oven to 170*C. • Boil two medium oranges in water for three hours. Change the water twice and make sure they don’t boil dry (this removes the bitterness). Cut in half, scoop out and discard the centre. • Put the warm rind into blender. Add six large eggs and 200g caster sugar. Blend til thick and creamy in texture and light in colour. • Scrape into a bowl. Fold in 200g ground almonds and one level tsp baking powder. Pour into tin and bake for around 40 mins. A skewer inserted into the cake should come out clean if it’s ready. While cooking, make your chocolate glaze: • In a small pan, bring to boil 80ml water and 45g glucose syrup. Pour onto 150g chocolate (60-65% cocoa) and allow to melt. Mix together one heaped tsp cocoa powder and one tbs vegetable oil. Add to the chocolate. Mix well. Cool slightly before use. • Once cake is cooked, make a syrup out of 4 tbs caster sugar, 4 tbs water and two crushed cardamom pods. Bring to a simmer, allow to infuse for a few minutes, then strain onto cake. Allow cake to cool properly before glazing it. • Pour glaze on top of the cake and spread around to coat top and sides. Refrigerate to set.
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WORDS by james Kendall Photo bylomokev at lomokev.com/style
It’s been a very long and very dreary winter, almost monochromatic. So thank god for Johana, a ray of sunshine, a girl not afraid to embrace a dash of colour, here balanced beautifully with a sky-grey coat. “I’m from Colombia and we wear a lot of colourful stuff there,” she explains in the same accent as Modern Family’s Sofia Vergara. “I don’t find wearing colours difficult, maybe because I do it all the time. It’s easy for me to know what to match with what.” She’s taken the best that the high street has to offer and injected her own South American character into it. The result is a joyful outfit bursting with spring. “I do think about making the colours work together,” she explains. “If I am wearing colours I like to be colourful from head to toe – but maybe with a plain jacket. But if I wear just black and white I like to wear that from head to toe.” Coat from Topshop “I bought it because it’s shiny, it’s good when it rains. But I don’t wear a lot of high tech fabrics.” Earrings, a gift “I like big earrings, especially colourful ones. I wear them a lot.” Shirt from Levi’s “I love the colour. Colour is important to me – I think it’s in my culture.” T-shirt from Primark “I like big designs on t-shirts, but really I like this because it’s a cat and I love cats.” Trousers from Topshop “They are very comfy but are skinny so they fit well, and the colours again – bright flowers. When you go out everyone looks at you. I think the bright colours cheer people up.” Shoes from H&M “The colour of the soles is bright and they’re quite fashionable now.”
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No. 39 Anthony Prior
Words by Stuart Huggett Photo by James Kendall
Ex Stompa Phunk boss Anthony Prior took over Brighton’s Bagelman chain two years ago, after running nightclubs like Audio and Coalition for many years. He’s now planning more branches around and beyond the city. Why move from club promotion to bagels? I’d been a customer of Bagelman for years but never imagined I’d end up owning it. The guy who was running it was looking to move on and I was looking for a business to invest in, so my wife and I did a deal and took over. I’d been running venues, club nights and live music, which involved working all night, all week and all weekend. One of the main things I wanted to get away from was that lifestyle burden. What attracted you to Bagelman? It’s a trusted local brand and something I felt I could work with and develop. Although it was quite a big gamble I knew that part of what we were investing in was all the know-how within the business and we needed to protect that. How are you planning to develop the business? We’re working on a rebranding project and we’re about to start redesigning and refurbishing the existing shops. We’re also looking at a couple of interesting new sites around Brighton and then we’re going to take it into other towns. We have a bakery that serves our local shops, so we could replicate that model in other areas: set up another bakery and open shops around it, and probably work on a franchise model as well. What are Brighton’s favourite bagels? My favourite, which I had for lunch today, is still the Reuben, which is pastrami, dill pickle and tomato. That and the Lox Deluxe, which is smoked salmon and cream cheese, are the two best sellers. Over in Hove we’ve had things like the hot salt beef doing well, so we thought we’d bring it over to Brighton. The minute we introduced it in Bond Street it was a success. How much free time do you have these days? It’s a seven day a week business, but not a seven day job. I try to keep my work and home life separate and have time off as much as possible. I’ve got two babies so my time’s quite taken up hanging out with the children before I think about other things, but I go sailing and do a lot of running now.
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Food & Drink Festival Eat, drink and think local Words by Stuart Huggett
Frightened by the horsemeat? Getting sick over GM crops? Brighton & Hove Food & Drink Festival has been promoting local alternatives for over a decade and this Easter’s Spring Festival brings a full week of events to central Brighton (see website, FYI below). Managing director Nick Mosley is your guide. How big is the festival now? We run two festivals each year, the Spring Harvest and September’s Autumn Harvest, engaging with around 350 local food growers. We also run the weekly Churchill Square Farmers’ Market, and from 20th April we’re running another major monthly farmers’ market on Old Steine, which has been two years in the planning.
“I’ve no issue with eating horsemeat as long as it’s correctly labelled”
What are the consumer benefits of buying local? We should all be eating more locally and seasonally, but that doesn’t mean we can’t enjoy food and drink from abroad. Globalisation has meant that many of the poorest in the world are entirely reliant on the West buying their produce. To turn our backs on them would be sentencing them, their families and communities to abject poverty or worse. The ethics of food are an absolute minefield and there’s no easy solution. The festival obviously celebrates local food and drink, and creates ways for consumers to engage through our events and farmers’ markets, but until local food supply chains are established then we’ll never remove the dominance of the big supermarket chains and the convenience and economy they bring. How have recent meat scandals affected local producers? The horsemeat scandal has probably been a good thing on the whole. It’s made consumers from all walks of life think a little harder about what they’re putting into their mouths and what they’re feeding their children. It’s not only an issue about
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horsemeat entering the food chain, it’s also about the crap that goes into cheap meat produce – if you saw it in its raw state it would probably make you heave. We don’t like to preach about what people eat, however animal welfare, sustainability and locality are all seeping into the popular consciousness and that can only be a good thing. We don’t need to eat red meat every day of the week – there are plenty of delicious and healthy alternatives out there. But I’ve no issue with eating horsemeat as long as it’s not pumped full of veterinary drugs and is correctly labelled.
How does the festival reflect changing public tastes? When the festival was founded a decade ago, local food wasn’t really on the table. People enjoyed good food, but I don’t think they thought too hard about where it came from or the methods used to produce it. An interesting example of a local food we’ve nurtured is the Sussex wine industry. We’ve always put local wine at the heart of the festival events and it’s pleasing to see the profile grow not only in our region but also nationally and internationally.
What do you think about the minimum alcohol pricing proposals? Ultimately it’ll only affect the poorest in society: middle class drinkers are easily going to find a few more pence for a bottle of wine. I think we should probably be looking a little more cleverly at this, perhaps reducing tax for on-sales in pubs and bars but increasing tax for retailer off-sales. Brighton is packed with off-licences and corner shops that are selling the cheapest alcohol out there, and for some reason they all get WEB: brightonfoodfestival.com 24-hour licenses, whilst WHEN: Thurs 28th Mar - Weds 3rd Apr restaurants still struggle to gain TWITTER: twitter.com/brightonfood a midnight liquor license. The mind boggles.
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LISTINGS APRIL 2013
Monday 1st
Abandoned Warehouse Illegal Rave Old school themed rave in a squatted venue featuring local trance DJs, stilt walking ketamine dealers and costumed strippers re-enacting an armed police raid Time tbc £free Ancient Mariner Quiz Night 8pm £1 Bee’s Mouth The Bee’s Mouth Jazz Forum Jazz jam with a house band 8.30pm £free Brunswick Open Mic 7.30pm £free Caroline Of Brunswick MovieBar So you wanna make it in the glamorous world of film? Go shmooze with the movers and makers and other out-of-work actors. Includes film screenings, Q&A with directors and a movie quiz 7.30pm £free Coalition Trash Mondays Filthy tunes for students and layabouts alike 11pm £3/2 Duke Of York’s Cinema Lost And Found 11am £tbc; NT Encore - People 1pm £tbc Duke’s @ Komedia The Gospel According To Matthew 11am £tbc Fiddler’s Elbow Top Bananas Live music 8.30pm £free Freemasons Jazz Machine Live jazz trio 7pm £free Green Door Store Hookworms Leeds psych revivalists on the great Gringo Records 7pm £6 Greys The Diablos Americana and country rock 8.30pm £5 Hanover Centre Charity Fools Dance 1950s tea dance raising funds for the centre with a live swing band, cakes and sandwiches cut into little triangles 3pm £8 Haunt Fat Poppadaddys Student indie night 11pm £3/2/free Hobgoblin The Big Fat Juicy Quiz Pub quiz with interactive gameshow rounds 8pm £free Hope Live Sessions Live music (downstairs) 8pm £free Latest Music Bar DigiTune Live music 8pm £4/3 Life #Hashtag Funky house club with added Twitter confusion 10pm £3/2 Lola Lo JagerRocks Easter Hunt Details tbc Mesmerist Flash Mob Jazz Raucous jazz band 9pm £free New Venture Theatre The Rise And Fall Of Little Voice A funny and moving play about a reclusive child who ends up being a hustler’s ticket to the big time Details tbc; Boston Marriage Droll comedy of errors set in a Victorian drawing room Details tbc Prince Albert Delta Sleep, Axes, Quadrilles, Cousin Live music 7.30pm £4 Ranelagh The Stuart James Band Live blues rock 8.30pm £free Signalman Signalman Easter Real Ale Festival Real ales from local breweries and live music from local bands Time tbc £free; Signalman Pub Quiz 8pm £1 Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Moth, The Light Brigade, Atlantic Of Dego Live music 7.30pm £tbc Theatre Royal Abigail’s Party Mike Leigh’s classic 70s suburban drama 7.45pm £10-35 Thomas Kemp Quiz Night 8pm £1 Volks Future Dub Easter Bank Holiday All Dayer DJs and live music indoors and out 1pm £10/8/5 Volks Strictly Reggae Dancehall, roots, revival 11pm £5/4
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Tuesday 2nd
Above Audio Cottontail Club Big band and jitter jive tunes 9pm £free Audio OMG LOL “The biggest, hottest, sexiest, coolest, sickest night in the whole of East Sussex” (grills get in free) 11pm £1-4 Blind Tiger Hush Hush Live music 8pm £tbc Brunswick Jazz Jam Open session with a house band and special guests 8pm £free Caroline Of Brunswick Giraffe Comedy Club Comedy night (upstairs) 7.30pm £3; Open Mic Hosted by Mike Mcmichelson and Kev De Souza 8.30pm £free Concorde2 Swans Live music 7.30pm £17.50 Cooper’s Cask Pub Quiz 9pm £1 Digital CU Next Tuesday It’ll teach the universities to timetable lectures for Wednesday mornings 11pm £4/3 Dome Organ Recital With Michael Maine 3pm £10/7.50 Dome Studio The Victorian In The Wall Comic play by
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Bill Adamsdale 7.30pm £12/10 Duke Of Norfolk Open Mic 9pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema Fight 11am £tbc Duke’s @ Komedia Beauty And The Beast 10.30am £tbc; Lost And Found 11am £tbc; Caesar Must Die 6.30pm £tbc
Fiddler’s Elbow QUIZness Time Are you a pub quiz whizz, or bit of a half-wit? 8pm £1 Fountain Head Student Night DJs play indie and rock 8pm £free George Payne Bertie’s Brain Surgery Pub quiz Time tbc £1 Gladstone Quiz Night 8.30pm £1 Globe Basement Cinema Underground films, comfy seats and free popcorn 8pm £free Good Companions The Big Fat Juicy Quiz Pub quiz with interactive gameshow rounds 8pm £free Green Door Store Gunning For Tamar Math rockers 7pm £4; Donuts Hipster funk and hip hop gems 11pm £free Hope SlipJam B: Genesis Elijah, Emerge MC Hip hop battleground for Brighton b-boys with an open mic and deck rap sessions 8.30pm £free Komedia Manu Delago Handmade Nu jazz and classical chamber group headed by a guy from Björk’s band 8pm £12/10 Latest Music Bar Charity Chuckle Laughter makes you feel good, especially when it’s for charity 8pm £8/5 Life La Fever Urban and latin club 11pm £tbc New Venture Theatre The Rise And Fall Of Little Voice A funny and moving play about a reclusive child who ends up being a hustler’s ticket to the big time Details tbc; Boston Marriage Droll comedy of errors set in a Victorian drawing room Details tbc Prince Albert Bad Ideas, River Jumpers, Fighting Fiction, Harker Live music 8pm £4 Quadrant Open Mic Jam session hosted by Jenna Bennett 8.30pm £free Red Lion Challenging General Knowledge & Music Quiz 8pm £1 Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Holland, Cut Ribbons, Wild Cat Strike, Saint Savanna Indie band mixing the dark alt style of Mew/Brand New with the shoegaze sound of Slowdive or My Bloody Valentine 7.30pm £4 Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Drinky Doodle Music and drawing games (in the bar) 8pm £2 Theatre Royal Abigail’s Party Mike Leigh’s classic 70s suburban drama 7.45pm £10-35 Thomas Kemp Poker Evening 8pm £free White Rabbit Tin Cup Collective Live funk soul band 8pm £free
Wednesday 3rd
10 Below Hot Mess New hip hop, garage and bashment night 11pm £3 Above Audio Cookin Beats Hip hop with a side of order of funk and a sprinkling of reggae 8pm £free Audio After Dark Student house and bass night 11pm £2 Basement Club Mash Up Commercial house with DJ Lee Harris 11pm £free Bee’s Mouth Open Mic 8.30pm £free Blind Tiger Lethal Quizzle Pub quiz with zany rounds 8pm £1; Excursions: Chima Anya Hip hop jam session with live music backing 8pm £5/4 Brunswick Sam Walker & Fredrik Kinborn Live music
8pm £5 Coalition CoCo LoCo Dancehall and dubstep music for students to lose the plot to 10.30pm £5/3/1 Cowley Club Doctors Without Borders Fundraiser Live music with lute and percussion 8pm £4 Digital Fresh Meat New club night with a nondiscriminatory music policy - i.e. they play everything 11pm £1 Dome Studio The Victorian In The Wall Comic play by Bill Adamsdale 7.30pm £12/10 Druid’s Arms We Change The Tempo DJ set of international sounds 9pm £free Duke Of Beaufort Poker Night 8pm £5 Duke Of Norfolk Pub Quiz 9pm £1 Duke Of York’s Cinema Trance 11am £tbc Duke’s @ Komedia Caesar Must Die 11am £tbc; Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. 10.30pm £tbc Fishbowl Tea & Biscuits: DJ Gareth Stephens Retro swing, soul and ska 10pm £free
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Green Door Store Wild Belle, The New Union Indie rock by a slightly hippy sibling duo from Chicago 7.30pm £7; Indie Wednesdays Straight-up indie tunes
11pm £free Haunt Supercharged Drum&bass and breaks 11pm £3/2 Honey Dance Anthems 11pm £2/1/free Hope Teen Lo-fi NY singer songwriter 8pm £10/8 Horse & Groom Ben Paley And Tab Hunter Wednesday Traditional Music Sessions 8pm £free Iron Duke I Predict A Pop Quiz “A light hearted trip through the backstreets of pop trivia” 8pm £free Latest Music Bar Tango Boot Camp Learn to tango like the Argentinians 8pm £3-8; Benefit Scum Britain DJ Terri and Pink Narcissus celebrate living like a millionaire on £71 a week 8pm £5 Life Move Underground dance music club 11pm £4/3/2 Mash Tun Mash Tun Live Funk and rock covers band 9pm £free Mesmerist The Swing Ninjas Gypsy swing band 9pm £free Mucky Duck Quiz On My Face “Quiz night with a difference” perhaps with a very special prize 7pm £1; The Whim-Whams Live music 8pm £free New Venture Theatre The Rise And Fall Of Little Voice A funny and moving play about a reclusive child who ends up being a hustler’s ticket to the big time Details tbc; Boston Marriage Droll comedy of errors set in a Victorian drawing room Details tbc North Laine Pub Quiz Kong Pub quiz 7.45pm £1 Northern Lights Prognosis Set the DJ controls for the heart of psychedelia 8pm £free Prince Albert Ace Bushy Striptease, The Middle Ones, King Of Cats, Slum Of Legs Indie pop bands 7.30pm £5/4 Proud Cabaret Salsa Cubana Cuban night with dance classes, live bands and guest DJs 8.30pm £10/6 Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Balmorea Six-piece instrumental group from Texas 7.30pm £7; Sticky Mike’s Muso Pop Quiz 8pm £1 Theatre Royal Abigail’s Party Mike Leigh’s classic 70s suburban drama 7.45pm £10-35 Thomas Kemp Kev & Jenna’s Open Mic 9pm £free Three Graces Pub Quiz 8pm £free Western Front Hush Hush Live acoustic music 9pm £free White Rabbit The Move-Ons Open Mic 8pm £free
Thursday 4th
Audio Bastard Pop Musical mash-up 11pm £3/free Bee’s Mouth Language Games: Gramksi, Jon Clark, Teej Live hip hop with a house band 8pm £free Brunswick Paper Faces, Wildflowers, Linten Splinters Live music 8pm £5/4 Coalition Secret Discotheque Replaying the soundtrack to your youth 11pm £4/3/2 Druid’s Arms The Druids Folk Live folk music 9pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema The Gospel According To Matthew 11am £tbc Duke’s @ Komedia Beauty And The Beast 10.30am £tbc Fiddler’s Elbow Mike Newsham Americana and indie folk 8.30pm £free Fishbowl Residents Association: DJ Will Sumsuch DJs play hip hop, funk and world beats 10.30pm £free Fountain Head Student Night DJs play indie and rock 8pm £free Freemasons Live & Wine Live music 8.30pm £free Funfair Bug’A’Boo Hip hop and R&B ladies’ night 11pm £3/2 George Payne Open Mic Jam session with instruments provided 8.30pm £free Globe Hang The DJ! A night of punter-picked playlists 9pm £free Green Door Store Spirit Of Gravity: The Zero Map, Pawnsphinx, The Birds Of Death Valley Experimental sounds and avant garde noises 8pm £5; Deer Brains DJs chosen by the London blog 11pm £free Greys Julie Felix Ex-resident singer on the Frost report 8.30pm £10 Haunt Coconut College Thursday night party playing a right mix of stuff like Grimes, Smashing Pumpkins and Kayne West 11pm £3/2 Honey Sundown If your house was this sexy you’d never go outdoors 10pm £free; Do You Really Like It?: 2 Rotten Scoundrels, Rudeben, DJ Cartier, Smokie & Jay-P, DJ Ally, Leeroy Silk Club classics and old school garage 11pm £5/3 Hope Sabrina Altan, Gold Culture Live music 7.30pm £4; The Social Live acoustic music 8pm £free Horse & Groom Lock And Key Open Mic 8pm £free Hove Museum Act Now! Kids’ activities based on characters from Jacqueline Wilson books 1.30pm £5/4 Komedia Hammer & Tongue An entertaining mix of poetry and comedic verse - hosted by Rosy Carrick and Mike Parker 7.30pm £5 Latest Music Bar Dan Shears, Stark, Russell
Swallow And The Wolf, Kokopelli Live music 8pm £tbc Lighthouse Monthly Talk: Liam Young Performance lecture from an architect who can predict the future 6.30pm
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Lola Lo Tom Foolery Electro, house and dubstep night 9pm £5/3
Lucky Voice Acoustic Open Mic 8pm £free Mash Tun They Mostly Come Out At Night Indie, electro and hip hop 9pm £free Mesmerist Sneaky Low Five Jazzy vintage tunes with sultry vocals 9pm £free Mucky Duck Open Mic Jam session with Joe Newman 9pm £free New Venture Theatre The Rise And Fall Of Little Voice A funny and moving play about a reclusive child who ends up being a hustler’s ticket to the big time Details tbc; Boston Marriage Droll comedy of errors set in a Victorian drawing room Details tbc North Laine Pub Thursday Night Live Live music 8.30pm £free
Park Crescent Fiddlesparks Traditional Irish folk music 8.30pm £free Prince Albert Cable Club Live music 8pm £4 Prince George Souled Out DJs play funk, soul and Motown 8pm £free Proud Cabaret 50 Shades Of Cabaret Fetish cabaret for people who’d never thought of being kinky before reading that book 8pm £24 Quadrant Funny Side Up New comedy night hosted by Ade Foiadelli 8pm £free Ranelagh The Long Haul Live country rock 8.30pm
£free Riki Tik Big It Up! Resident DJs mine the golden era of dancehall and digital reggae 9.30pm £free Shooshh Azuri 10pm £3/free St James’ Tavern Bacon Fat Stay Sick DJs play 50s and 60s “R&R, R&B, tittyshakers and blues” 9pm £free Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Justice Force Five, The Food Fighters The superhero disco rockers return for a one-off crime-busting showdown 7pm £4.50; Apples & Eve, Emma Gatrill, Willowen Fine homegrown folk band 9pm £5/4 Theatre Royal Abigail’s Party Mike Leigh’s classic 70s suburban drama 2.30pm/7.45pm £10-35 Thomas Kemp Douzy ‘N’ Slyde Acoustic pub covers 9pm £free Three Graces Open Mic 8pm £free Victory Open Mic 8pm £free Volks Roll Through Drum&bass and dubstep, bass and beatbox 11pm £2 White Rabbit DJ Capsun Vintage hip hop with a modern twist 8pm £free
Friday 5th
10 Below Moshpit Come and have a go if you think you’re ROCK enough 10pm £4/3/2 Above Audio Home House and disco DJs 9pm £free Audio DPM If your house was this minimal you’d probably think a pissy phonebox was a luxury abode 11pm £8/5 Basement Quickfire Workshop Performance artist, Stacy Makishi, helps you knock up a three-minute solo act to be performed at tomorrow’s Supper Club 11am £free Basement Club Friday Night Live With Lady LaRue Cabaret is a drag sometimes 11pm £free Belushi’s Below Abandoned Rock and metal night
10pm £3/2 Black Dove Hot-Tip Hi-Fi DJ with a fine collection of vintage reggae and rocksteady records 8pm £free Blind Tiger Onlyjoe, Jabbawocky Hifi Ten-piece bass-heavy reggae group 10pm £5 Brunswick The Others Live blues band 8pm £tbc Caroline Of Brunswick Brighton Friday Night Stomp Live blues music 10pm £free Coalition Friday I’m In Love No more lectures for a day or two 11pm £2-5 Concorde2 The Wonderstuff 7.30pm £18.50; Forekast: French Fries New monthly house, bass and garage club 11pm £5 Digital Stonelove Indie rock&roll club 11pm £4/3 Doctor Brighton’s Funky Friday: DJ Nick Hirst, DJ Wayne 9.30pm £free Dome Emeli Sande Live music 7pm £29.50 Dome Studio First Fridays Monthly arty meeting with a “guest provocation” 5pm £free Druid’s Arms Hot Pepper Sauce DJ I.D.G. plays old school funk, soul and house 10pm £free Duke Of Norfolk Lady Lola DJ plays funk, Motown, reggae and hip hop 9pm £free Duke’s @ Komedia Finding Nemo 10.30am/1pm £tbc; Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. 1.15pm £tbc; Spring Breakers 4pm/6.30pm/9.30pm/11.30pm £tbc Fishbowl Keep It Wheel DJ plays rare disco, soul and boogie 9pm £free Fortune Of War Fever Bands and DJs play Latin, salsa and reggae 9pm £free Fountain Head Soulshyne Soulful house and original disco grooves with DJ Mick Fuller 9pm £free Funfair Circus Commerical music mash-up with fire breathing and snake charming sideshows 9pm £5/3
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Funkyfish Thank Funk Soul, funk, jazz and Motown
10.30pm £free Globe The Get Down! DJ night playing a mix of Motown, soul, blues, funk and swing 9pm £free Green Door Store Vic Godard & Subway Sect, ASBO Derek Premier punk postman plays proper post punk pop 7.30pm £10/8; Talking Heads Qu’est-ce que c’est? Une soirée dédiée à David Byrne! 11pm £free H-Bar Nick T From old school funk and soul to classic house (in the bar) 9pm £free Haunt Daniel Bortz, Marlon Mahroyan, Juan Baiz, Lee Garrett Underground house music 11pm £12/10/8 Hobgoblin Sunglasses After Dark 50s/60s delinquent rock&roll, surf and garage from the Stay Sick and Big Itch DJs 9pm £free Honey I Love R&B Juicy house with a twist of hip hop and plenty of the R and the B 11pm £5/4/free Hop Poles Arthur Shillin’ Electro swing mash-ups 10pm £free Hope DJ Jimmy Lager Old school indie and northern soul tunes 9pm £free Horse & Groom Wob Bouncy pop punk 8pm £free Komedia Jazz Morley Young Dorset singer in the musical tradition that dates all the way back to Duffy 8pm £7; Krater Comedy Club: Damian Clark, Michael Fabbri, Erich McElroy, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy night 8pm £16.50 Latest Music Bar Tenderhooks, The Move-ons, The Wildflowers Live music 8pm £5 Life Best Of British: Medlar, Wolf Music, Donga, Cedric Maison Three UK house labels come together - Well Rounded, Wolf Music and Hypercolour Time tbc £5/3/free Lola Lo Tiki Beats Totally tropical tunes 8pm £5/4/3 Mesmerist Shake, Holla & Roll Vintage blues, swing and rock&roll 9pm £free Mucky Duck Teenage Wasteland These DJs play both kinds of music: post punk AND new wave 8pm £free New Venture Theatre The Rise And Fall Of Little Voice A funny and moving play about a reclusive child who ends up being a hustler’s ticket to the big time Details tbc; Boston Marriage Droll comedy of errors set in a Victorian drawing room Details tbc North Laine Pub Beat Burger DJ plays soul, funk, hip hop and reggae (feel free to insert your own horse gag) 9pm £free Old Market Measure For Measure Shakespeare’s comic drama of sexual immorality transposed to the seedy world of 1930s cabaret clubs 8pm £12.50/10 Palmeira The Rockingbirds Live music 8pm £9 Park Crescent Mambo Jambo Acoustic roots duo 8.30pm £free Prince Albert Thieves By The Code, Fire Eyes, The Forgers Live music 8pm £4 Proud Cabaret Blitz Relive the highlife of wartime Britain in this 1940s themed ballroom blitz 7pm £34 Quadrant Comedy Sans Frontières: Luisa Omilean, Phil Jerrod, Pete Armstrong, Sam Stone Comedy gig raising funds for the humanitarian aid charity, Doctors Without Borders 7.15pm £9.50/6/5 Ranelagh The Roadrunners Blues and soul band 8.30pm £free Shooshh Runway Old school R&B and party mash ups 10pm £5/4/3/free Smugglers Pink Friday 9pm £free Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Songs For The Deaf Kurt Kobain Special DJs entertain us with grunge (in the bar) 9pm £free; Soul In The Dungeon Soul, funk and Motown club 11pm £2 Temple Bar Spinout! Rockabilly, blues and surf tunes with DJs Tiki Stew, Karl Thorne and Marco Juarez 8pm £1 Theatre Royal Abigail’s Party Mike Leigh’s classic 70s suburban drama 7.45pm £10-35 Thomas Kemp DJ Spindo Garage, rock and pop 9pm £free Three & Ten Brian Gittins - Work In Progress Unfinished comedy from the roadside cafe weirdo 8pm £7/5.50 Verdict Brighton Jazz Club: Ed Jones Quartet Live jazz 8pm £15/12 Volks Simon Townshend, Shotgun House, Ashley Dawes Who’s Simon Townshend? Pete’s little brother, that’s Who! 7.30pm £tbc; Jungle Alliance: Aries, Adam Prescott, Dialect & Kosine, Rkbass Crew, Unity Hifi, Lotskee, Klynch Two floors of jungle, reggae and drum&bass to mark a triple birthday bash and a launch party for Reggae Roast Records 11.30pm £5-10 Western Front Unhooked Generation Retro DJs with an ear for 60s Motown and northern soul 9pm £free White Rabbit Ruff Snippets DJ plays hip hop, funk and soul 8pm £free
Saturday 6th
10 Below Show Me Love 90s dance anthems with DJ Andy Gibbens 10.30pm £3/2 Ancient Mariner Acoustic Sessions: The Chaplins Acoustic duo do cover songs 8pm £free Audio Warehouse: Blah Blah Blah DJs House and techno club night 11pm £3/free Basement Supper Club: Stacy Makishi, Sabrina
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Mahfouz, Ryan Van Winkle, Yve Blake A platter of bitesized arty performances 8pm £8/6 Basement Club Fusion: DJ Peter Castle, DJ Lee Harris Chart and club remixes 11pm £free Bell Pub Fully Toppa! Afro, gypsy and dub sounds with DJs Ed Snug and Piatrixx 8pm £free Belushi’s Below Deviant Time to untie those pony tails and start headbanging 10pm £5/4 Blind Tiger Jennifer Left, The Windermere Super Group Upbeat folk ditties from the Geordie swing pop singer 7pm £3; Coda, Antelope Raw and bassy dubstep dance bands 10pm £5 Brighton Arts Club Spoken Word Open Mic Time tbc £free Brighton Centre IL Divo & Katherine Jenkins The classical crossover quartet team up with the mezzo soprano 7pm £35-85 Coalition Marc ‘Mk’ Kinchen, Maze And Masters, Charles Green Underground house and techno night with the pioneering Hot Creation DJ 11pm £14; Blow: Vince Manganaro, Charly Lopez, Charles Green The party never stops 3am £5 Concorde2 Rolling Zones How does it feel... to be a rolling zone? 7pm £13; Megadance: TC, Dimemsion, Xxtrakt, Inasound, Riot Squad, Moony, Fat Lion Hi-Fi, DJ LZ, Alex Slime, Primative People, Lofty, Arcane & Twist, Abstraction & Justus Jonas Meganew megamonthly megabass meganight 11pm £3 Cowley Club F’cking The Night: Van Coeur, Biscuit Mouth, Reds Doom drone folk from the Brighton group once known as Good Morning Captain 8pm £3 Digital Playroom Housey hedonism in a playground of bouncy inflatable fun 11pm £12/10/5 Doctor Brighton’s Sexy Saturday: DJ Tony B 9.30pm £free Druid’s Arms DJ Green Man’s Garden Of Delights A carefully cultivated set of soul, psychedelia, funk and pop 10pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema Mary Poppins 11am £tbc; The Notebook 11.30pm £tbc Duke’s @ Komedia Finding Nemo 10.30am/1pm £tbc; Spring Breakers 3.30pm/6pm/8.30pm/10.30pm £tbc; Dr Who And The Daleks 11am £tbc Exchange Dave Beckett Finger picking blues guitar 9pm £free Fiddler’s Elbow Saturday Sizzlers DJs drop hot vinyl into your ears 8pm £free Fortune Of War Duncan Disorderly Disco and house classics 9pm £free Freemasons Saturday Night Disc Spinners DJ night 9pm £free Funfair Magic Dancefloor fillers from every era 9pm £7/5/free Funkyfish Oldschool Saturday Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10pm £6/5 George Payne Sound Surgery DJ Andy Mac plays soul, funk, house and disco 9.30pm £free Globe Kinfolk 1st Birthday Soft Rocks plays house, boogie, reggae and disco 9pm £free Green Door Store Razoreater, Iced Out “Bring some ear plugs” 7pm £5; Sonic Switch Tru Thoughts DJ puts you in the on position with some choice beats and bass 11pm £free H-Bar Beatsworkin: Swayzac, Jamie Bawn & Chris Eaton, James Britton, Luke Fuller, Audio Villains, Mike Decourcy & Lloyd Attrill, Ministere, Steven James Quirky electro, deep bass and pounding tech beats 8pm £5 Haunt It Is Still 1985 Travel through time to an ancient realm where keytars are still pretty cool 11pm £3 Honey Flirt Hip hop, R&B and chart tunes 11pm £5/3 Hop Poles Knead A Break DJ Mass Evil plays breaks, beats and bootlegs 10pm £free Hope DJ Emmy & DJ Jame-Z DJ spins a curious mix of dub, hip hop and grunge (downstairs) 9pm £free Horse & Groom Piranhas Veteran ska pub band they’ve been on Top Of The Pops don’t you know? 8pm £free Komedia Krater Comedy Club: Damian Clark, Michael Fabbri, Erich McElroy, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy night 7pm/10.30pm £5-22 Latest Music Bar The Hypothetical Tour Of Somewhere No Sleep Till Brighton: Tom Shillito, Mike Garrett, Matt Shillito Live music 8pm £3 Life XXY Chromosome clubbing from the #Hashtag DJs 11pm £7/5/3 Loft Brighton Swing Thing Vintage night with live music, swing DJs and a lindy hop taster session 8pm £7 Lola Lo Zombie Nation Where the dancefloor is never dead 8pm £10/7/6 Marlborough Theatre Steampunk Hidden Cabaret Neo Victorian cabaret show with live music and burlesque 8pm £10/8 Mesmerist Juke Joint Jamboree Rhythm & blues and rock&roll records from the days of the dance halls 9pm £free Mucky Duck Sizzle And Pop! DJ Mick plays 50s rock&roll and 60s soul 9pm £free New Venture Theatre The Rise And Fall Of Little Voice A funny and moving play about a reclusive child who ends up being a hustler’s ticket to the big time Details tbc; Boston Marriage Droll comedy of errors set in a Victorian drawing room Details tbc
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North Laine Pub Heavy Action: Tucka, DJ MP45 DJ night 9pm £free OhSo Social Tell Sid It’s Saturday Beachfront bar playing modern remixes of 80s and 90s music 9pm £free Old Market Measure For Measure Shakespeare’s comic drama of sexual immorality transposed to the seedy world of 1930s cabaret clubs 8pm £12.50/10 Paris House Live Music Live band plays gypsy jazz, swing and bebop 4pm £free Pav Tav All Killer No Filler Rock and pop party tunes
11pm £4/3/2 Preston Manor Hidden Histories - A Real Life Lady Chatterley? Hear about the shady privates lives of Edwardian Ladies 11am/2pm £10/8; My House, My Life - Preston Manor Remembered It’s 1920 and Lady Ellen Thomas-Stanford is reminiscing about the Manor’s Edwardian heyday. You, the unshaven riff raff, get to eavesdrop 2pm/3.30pm £5 Prince Albert Eddie String & The Naughty Step, Twister, Unknown Brothers, Krypton Live music 8pm £4 Quadrant Laughing Horse Comedy Club: Jay Sodagar, Michael Fabbri, Nik Coppin, Mel Crosby, Lewis Bryan Stand-up comedy night 8.30pm £7/6 Ranelagh Ben Poole Blues rock 8.30pm £free Red Lion DJ Gremlin’s Rockin Stompers 9pm £free Riki Tik Skatadays Reggae, rocksteady and vintage ska records 9.30pm £free Shooshh J’adore Dance music, house and R&B club 10pm £7/5 Smack J’box: Russ Yallop, DPM, Jon Byrne, Ollie Sturdy New late night Saturday after party 2am £tbc Smugglers Saturday Night Chart and club anthems - plus hip hop, R&B and pop 9pm £free St George’s Inn Paul Diello Melodic piano pop 8pm £free Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Filthy Boy Live music 7pm £5; Unhooked Generation Retro night with an ear for 60s Motown and northern soul (in the bar) 9pm £free Theatre Royal Abigail’s Party Mike Leigh’s classic 70s suburban drama 2.30pm/7.45pm £10-35 Thomas Kemp DJ Lamp 9pm £free Three Graces Live Music 8pm £free Unitarian Church Makers Boutique Handmade Market Locally-made homemade crafts and cakes 11am £free; Sam Smith Live music 8pm £7 Victory Up Against It Born Bad DJs play an assortment of punky bubblegum trash 9pm £free Volks Simply Vinyl Drum&bass night dedicated to the black stuff 11pm £5 Western Front Culture Front Reggae and ska sounds with DJ Eone 9pm £free White Rabbit Go Go Gorilla Vinyl mash-up with the Moon Hop DJs 9pm £free White Room Disco Deja-Vu Retro soul, funk and disco that you’ve probably heard before 9pm £free
Sunday 7th
Basement Club Pop!Candy DJ Claire Fuller plays pure non-stop pop 11pm £free Blind Tiger Bambi, Poles Apart, The Jorneta Stream, Bayy, Fake Laugh Ambient noise and progressive math rock 7.30pm £3/free Brunswick Rock School Music showcase for hard rockin’ kids 1pm £tbc; The Dixie Ticklers New Orleans jazz 8pm £tbc Caroline Of Brunswick The Geekest Link Did you know that there’s a scene in Buffy The Vampire Slayer where someone fires over 40 rounds from two semiautomatic pistols without reloading, except the pistols are single-stacked and loaded with standard magazines which means they couldn’t possibly hold 20+ rounds each? If so, get your arse to the Caroline 8.30pm £1 Concorde2 The Mosh Lives Tour: Emmure, Chelsea Grin, Obey The Brave, Attila, Buried In Verona Heavy metal marauders comes to town 6pm £13 Duke Of Beaufont Sunday Film Night Cult movies and nostalgic classics 8pm £free Duke’s @ Komedia Finding Nemo 10.30am/1pm £tbc; Mary Poppins 11am £tbc; Spring Breakers 3.30pm/6pm/8.30pm £tbc Fiddler’s Elbow Sham-Rock Open Mic 8.30pm £free Fishbowl Gareth Stephens DJ plays funk, nu-jazz and broken beats 9pm £free; Recovery? Reggae through the ages 9pm £free Fountain Head Reggae & Roasts Reggae and chilled beats Time tbc £free Gladstone Professor Hard Times Blues, jazz and folk 2pm £free; Owls Of The Swamp, Frogbelly & Symphony Indie folk and surreal rock 8pm £free Globe Handbaked Arcade Things were so much better in the 1990s when all we had was 64-bit games of Italian plumbers inexplicably racing against turtles and gorillas Noon £free Green Door Store Westhill Blast Quartet, A Mouthful Of Bald Worms, Warrior Squares, Fondella, Stasis 73, Earth Creature, Daniel Alexander Hignell, Scottish James Brown, Uncouth, Lorah Pierre, Ewa Justka 2pm £free
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Green Door Store Green Door Blues Big Itch DJs plus the resident blues band, Smokestack 10pm £free Hope Sectarian Violence, Final Rage, Violent Reaction, Ego Trip It’s not often you come across a line-up that reads like chapter headings from a history book about the troubles in Northern Ireland 7.15pm £6 Hope Improvabananas DJs entertain with comical choices and audience requests (downstairs) Time tbc £free Horse & Groom Blues Jam 8pm £free Komedia Bent Double: Barbara Nice Zoe Lyons hosts a night of alternative comedy acts 7.30pm £5-10.50 Latest Music Bar Love Music Hate Racism Details tbc Lectern The Sunday Sermon Stripped down band night 6.30pm £free New Venture Theatre The Rise And Fall Of Little Voice A funny and moving play about a reclusive child who ends up being a hustler’s ticket to the big time Details tbc North Laine Pub The Austerity Blues Review “I woke this morning / My baby was gone / I couldn’t afford to keep him because the government cut my child benefit” 4pm £free Northern Lights Northern Light Sundays The DJ has a lazy Sunday afternoon 4pm £free Old Market Measure For Measure Shakespeare’s comic drama of sexual immorality transposed to the seedy world of 1930s cabaret clubs 8pm £12.50/10 Prince Albert Hard Skin Live music 8pm £7 Prince George Pub Quiz 8pm £1 Quadrant Save The Children Charity Comedy Night 7.30pm £7; Born To Laugh: Gary Colman, Mark Restuccia, Janet Bettesworth, David Hannat, Romesh Ranganathan Charity comedy night with political satire and stand-ups 8pm £5/4 Ranelagh Mike Ross Live blues rock 8.30pm £free Signalman Open Mic Open session hosted by local duo, Zoothyme 8pm £free Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Red Watch Rookies, Iida & George Blues rock bands raise money for the firefighters charity 7.30pm £2; HahaFresh!: Forbidden Colour, Lazenbleep, Hicks Bleepy Gameboy chiptune music with computer games and live illustration 8pm £free Thomas Kemp Jazz In The Afternoon: Bag’s Groove Jazz Quartet Live jazz 4pm £free Victory Blues Sundays DJ plays blues and soul Noon £free White Rabbit Hush Hush Live acoustic music 8pm £free
Monday 8th
Ancient Mariner Quiz Night 8pm £1 Audio SYT Trap music Time tbc £2 Bee’s Mouth The Bee’s Mouth Jazz Forum Jazz jam with a house band 8.30pm £free Blind Tiger The 333 Club Live music 7pm £tbc Brunswick Open Mic 7.30pm £free Coalition Trash Mondays Filthy tunes for students and layabouts alike 11pm £3/2 Dome Simple Minds The Glaswegian rockers tour their greatest hits album 7pm £49.50/37.50 Duke Of York’s Cinema The Gruffalo’s Child
11am £tbc Duke’s @ Komedia Finding Nemo 10.30am/1pm £tbc; The Servant 11am/6.30pm £tbc; Spring Breakers 3.30pm/6pm/8.30pm £tbc Fiddler’s Elbow Top Bananas Live music 8.30pm £free Green Door Store Sightings, Sealings, Mothers Of The Third Reich Live music 7.30pm £6.50 Haunt The Sheepdogs Canadian rock band 7pm £8; Fat Poppadaddys Student indie night 11pm £3/2/free Hope Live Sessions Live music (downstairs) 8pm £free Life #Hashtag Funky house club with added Twitter confusion 10pm £3/2 Mesmerist Flash Mob Jazz Raucous jazz band 9pm £free Prince Albert The Kid Kapechi, El Pavlov, The Great Big Bargain, The Redemptions Live music 8pm £4 Shooshh KISS New student club 8pm £4/3/2/free Signalman Signalman Pub Quiz 8pm £1 Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Steve Conte & The Ugly Truth New York Dolls’ guitarist and his band 7pm £6 Theatre Royal The 39 Steps Patrick Barlow’s ingenious adaptation of John Buchan’s spy novel 7.45pm £10-32 Thomas Kemp Quiz Night 8pm £1 Volks Strictly Reggae Dancehall, roots, revival 11pm £5/4
Tuesday 9th
Above Audio Cottontail Club Big band and jitter jive tunes 9pm £free Audio OMG LOL “The biggest, hottest, sexiest, coolest, sickest night in the whole of East Sussex” (grills get in free) 11pm £1-4 Bee’s Mouth Samuel Adams Live music 9pm £3 Blind Tiger Pink Narcissus Post punk exhibitionists
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Brunswick Jazz Jam Open session with a house band and special guests 8pm £free Caroline Of Brunswick Skeptics In The Pub Robert Llewellyn - the guy who played Kryten in Red Dwarf gives a talk about electric cars and how people have been tricked into thinking they’re rubbish (asking questions about Craig Charles might not go down so well) 8pm £2 Caroline Of Brunswick Open Mic Hosted by Mike Mcmichelson and Kev De Souza 8.30pm £free Cooper’s Cask Pub Quiz 9pm £1 Cowley Club Board Games Night Why couldn’t the deer go left? It wasn’t a turn based game! 7pm £free Digital CU Next Tuesday It’ll teach the universities to timetable lectures for Wednesday mornings 11pm £4/3 Dome Studio The Works Up and coming artists from all fields try out new stuff and discuss it with the audience (pre-booking required) 7.30pm £6/5 Duke Of Norfolk Open Mic 9pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema Everyday 11am £tbc Duke’s @ Komedia Finding Nemo 10.30am/1pm £tbc; The Gruffalo’s Child 11am £tbc; Spring Breakers 3.30pm/6pm/8.30pm £tbc; For Ellen 6.30pm £tbc Fiddler’s Elbow QUIZness Time Are you a pub quiz whizz, or bit of a half-wit? 8pm £1 Fountain Head Student Night DJs play indie and rock 8pm £free
Gladstone Quiz Night 8.30pm £1 Globe Basement Cinema Underground films, comfy seats and free popcorn 8pm £free Good Companions The Big Fat Juicy Quiz 8pm
£free Green Door Store Astro-Physics, Mok, Alex Adams Brighton hip hoppers 7.30pm £free; Donuts Hipster funk and hip hop gems 11pm £free Hove Museum Write Yourself Interactive workshop taking its cue from Jacqueline Wilson’s kids’ books 11am/1pm £5/4 Komedia Ryan Keen, Sam Bradley Live music 7.30pm £7.50 Latest Music Bar Action For Happiness Self-help workshop and talks 7.30pm £free Life La Fever Urban and latin club 11pm £tbc ONCA In The Valley Short story reading with Nick Hunt 7.30pm £donation Prince Albert Sweet Johnny, Electromud, King Mob Live music 8pm £4 Quadrant Open Mic Jam session hosted by Jenna Bennett 8.30pm £free Red Lion Challenging General Knowledge & Music Quiz 8pm £1 St George’s Inn Pub Quiz 8pm £1 Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar The Windmill Chapter, Cloud Live music 8.30pm £4 Theatre Royal The 39 Steps Patrick Barlow’s ingenious adaptation of John Buchan’s spy novel 7.45pm £10-32 Thomas Kemp Poker Evening 8pm £free Three & Ten Aaaand Now For Something Completely Improvised Comical play invented on the back of audience suggestions 7.30pm £8.50/7
Wednesday 10th
Above Audio Cookin Beats Hip hop with a side of order of funk and a sprinkling of reggae 8pm £free Audio After Dark Student house and bass night 11pm £2 Basement Club Mash Up Commercial house with DJ Lee Harris 11pm £free Bee’s Mouth Open Mic 8.30pm £free Blind Tiger Bunty Audio visual show full of loops, beats and synths 8pm £6/5 Brunswick Rotait, Will Mavin, Zoe Hazel, George Rawlings, Ed Mann Live music 8pm £tbc Caroline Of Brunswick Funny HaHa: Tiernan Douieb Stand-up comedy night with a comic adept at storytelling, political gags and general silliness 8pm £5 Coalition CoCo LoCo Dancehall and dubstep music for students to lose the plot to 10.30pm £5/3/1 Cowley Club If A Tree Falls - The Story Of The Earth Liberation Front Documentary about the international ecoterrorist group founded in Brighton in the early 90s 7.30pm £tbc Digital Fresh Meat New club night with a nondiscriminatory music policy - i.e. they play everything 11pm £1 Druid’s Arms We Change The Tempo DJ set of international sounds 9pm £free Duke Of Beaufort Poker Night 8pm £5 Duke Of Norfolk Pub Quiz 9pm £1 Duke Of York’s Cinema In The House 11am £tbc Duke’s @ Komedia Finding Nemo 10.30am/1pm £tbc; For Ellen 11am £tbc; Spring Breakers 3.30pm/6pm/8.30pm £tbc Fishbowl Tea & Biscuits: DJ Gareth Stephens Retro swing, soul and ska 10pm £free Green Door Store Nu Sensae Live music 7pm £tbc; Indie Wednesdays Straight-up indie tunes 11pm £free Haunt The House Of Love Late 80s indie rockers 7pm
£17.50; Supercharged Drum&bass and breaks 11pm £3/2 Honey Dance Anthems 11pm £2/1/free Horse & Groom Ben Paley And Tab Hunter Wednesday Traditional Music Sessions 8pm £free Iron Duke I Predict A Pop Quiz “A light hearted trip through the backstreets of pop trivia” 8pm £free Latest Music Bar Tango Boot Camp Learn to tango like the Argentinians 8pm £3-8 Life Move Underground dance music club 11pm £4/3/2 Mash Tun Mash Tun Live Funk and rock covers band 9pm £free Mesmerist The Swing Ninjas Gypsy swing band 9pm £free Mucky Duck Quiz On My Face “Quiz night with a difference” perhaps with a very special prize 7pm £1 North Laine Pub Quiz Kong Pub quiz 7.45pm £1 Northern Lights Mystery Train Rockabilly DJ 9pm £free ONCA White Bear River A new work in progress by Feral Theatre, inspired by an 18th century arctic explorer and featuring live music and puppetry 7pm/9pm £7/5 Park Crescent English Folk Sessions 8pm £free Prince Albert Furrow, North American War, Ancient Times Live music 7pm £4 Proud Cabaret Maya Parlor An evening of games, burlesque and magic tricks - with a pop-up art exhibition thrown into the mix 8pm £5/4 Ranelagh Brooks Williams Georgia roots guitarist 8.30pm £8 Sallis Benney Theatre Thinking The Political The Work Of Ernesto Laclau Three days of talks inspired by the Argentinian theorist Details tbc Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Canvas Wall, Melic Live music 7pm £5; I Am Arcade Playing retro video games is particularly exciting when it’s in a public place because it’s usually something you do in private, like dressing up as the Pope and punching meat 8pm £free Theatre Royal The 39 Steps Patrick Barlow’s ingenious adaptation of John Buchan’s spy novel 7.45pm £10-32 Thomas Kemp Kev & Jenna’s Open Mic 9pm £free Three Graces Pub Quiz 8pm £free Western Front Hush Hush Live acoustic music 9pm £free White Rabbit The Move-Ons Open Mic 8pm £free
Thursday 11th
Audio Bastard Pop Musical mash-up 11pm £3/free Basement It’s Going To Get Worse And Worse And Worse, My Friend Dance piece based on the trance-like oratory of ultraconservative American televangelist, Jimmy Swaggart 8pm £10/8 Blind Tiger Zen Elephant, Tatsmiths Gypsy folk and jazz band 8pm £5/3 Brunswick Amy Hill Folk country singer launches album inspired by Cat Stevens and Joni Mitchell 8pm £6/5 Coalition Secret Discotheque Replaying the soundtrack to your youth 11pm £4/3/2 Concorde2 Shadows Fall, Ill Nino Live music 7pm £15
Druid’s Arms Overhead Wires Local label live music showcase 8.30pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema The Servant 11am £tbc Duke’s @ Komedia Finding Nemo 10.30am/1pm £tbc; Spring Breakers 11am/4pm/9.30pm £tbc; Manet - Portraying Life A film about the exhibition at London’s Royal Academy of Arts 7pm £tbc Fiddler’s Elbow Paul Murray Contemporary folk music 8.30pm £free Fishbowl Residents Association: DJ Will Sumsuch DJs play hip hop, funk and world beats 10.30pm £free Fountain Head Student Night DJs play indie and rock 8pm £free
Freemasons Live & Wine Live music 8.30pm £free Funfair Bug’A’Boo Hip hop and R&B ladies’ night 11pm
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George Payne Open Mic Jam session with instruments provided 8.30pm £free Globe Hang The DJ! A night of punter-picked playlists 9pm £free Green Door Store Bearded Youth Quest Instrumental indie rock 7pm £tbc Haunt Coconut College Thursday night party playing a right mix of stuff like Grimes, Smashing Pumpkins and Kayne West 11pm £3/2 Honey Sundown If your house was this sexy you’d never go outdoors 10pm £free; Do You Really Like It?: 2 Rotten Scoundrels, Rudeben, DJ Cartier, Smokie & Jay-P, DJ Ally, Leeroy Silk Club classics and old school garage 11pm £5/3 Hope The Social Live acoustic music 8pm £free Horse & Groom Eliza Jaye Live music 8pm £tbc Komedia The Noise Next Door Comedy Lock-In Improv comedy troupe 8pm £19/10; Boothby Graffoe Nomad. No Sane Either… Eccentric musical comedian 8pm £12/10 Latest Music Bar Catalyst Club Guest speakers give a short talk about whatever their weird obsession is 8pm
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Lola Lo Tom Foolery Electro, house and dubstep night 9pm £5/3
Lucky Voice Acoustic Open Mic 8pm £free Marlborough Theatre Brian Gittins - Work In Progress Unfinished comedy from the roadside cafe weirdo 8pm £6
Mash Tun They Mostly Come Out At Night Indie, electro and hip hop 9pm £free Mesmerist Emperor Penguins Rhythm and blues rock band 9pm £free Mucky Duck Open Mic Jam session with Joe Newman 9pm £free New Venture Theatre Underneath The Lintel Theatre preview of a play about a librarian who tries to find out who anonymously returned a library book that was 113 years overdue Details tbc Nightingale Theatre Punched 4 Three nights of imaginative new puppetry 8pm £8.50/6.50 North Laine Pub Beaujacks Rock and blues cover band 8.30pm £free Old Market Laughtermarket: Joe Wells, Phil Lucas, Darryl Perry Stand-up comedy night 8pm £4 Prince Albert Eternal Tapestry, Jungfrau, Ceyote Live music 8pm £7.50 Prince George Souled Out DJs play funk, soul and Motown 8pm £free Proud Cabaret 50 Shades Of Cabaret Fetish cabaret for people who’d never thought of being kinky before reading that book 8pm £24 Redroaster Me, Me & Not Me: Tony Frisby, Vanessa Austin Locke, Alice Walker Poetry night with three great local poets 7.30pm £3 Riki Tik Big It Up! Resident DJs mine the golden era of dancehall and digital reggae 9.30pm £free Sallis Benney Theatre Thinking The Political The Work Of Ernesto Laclau Three days of talks inspired by the Argentinian theorist Details tbc Shooshh Azuri 10pm £3/free St James’ Tavern Bacon Fat Stay Sick DJs play 50s and 60s “R&R, R&B, tittyshakers and blues” 9pm £free Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Turbulence: Tied To The Mast, She Crazy, Classic Plastic Live music 9pm £4/3 Theatre Royal The 39 Steps Patrick Barlow’s ingenious adaptation of John Buchan’s spy novel 2.30pm/7.45pm £10-32 Thomas Kemp Mark Vis Live music knees up with a mobile piano 9pm £free Victory Open Mic 8pm £free Volks Roll Through Drum&bass and dubstep, bass and beatbox 11pm £2 White Rabbit Rebel Music New night playing garage, psych, punk and rock&roll 8pm £free
Friday 12th
10 Below Gigglestock: Sean McLoughlin Comedy night 7.30pm £4 Above Audio Home House and disco DJs 9pm £free Audio Circle Of Concept Live music Details tbc; Minimal Kids Minimalist electronica 11pm £tbc Basement Club Friday Night Live With Lady LaRue Cabaret is a drag sometimes 11pm £free Belushi’s Below Abandoned Rock and metal night 10pm £3/2
Black Dove Mo Taters! Vintage American tunes from both sides of the Panama canal 8pm £free Blind Tiger Team Ghost French electronic music group with a an ex-member of M83 8pm £5.50; Samsara, Ojo De Gringa Reggae and afro jazz electronica 10pm £5 Brunswick Old Colours, Goldie Reed, Matt Carpanini, Bryony Brooke Live music 7.30pm £5/4 Caroline Of Brunswick Funny Girls: The Short & Girlie Show Stand-up, sketches and music (upstairs) 8pm
£5/4 Coalition Friday I’m In Love No more lectures for a day or two 11pm £2-5 Concorde2 Irie Nation: Saxon Sound System, Unity Hi-Fi, Platinum Hi-Fi Reggae and roots night 11pm £5/2 Cowley Club Eureka California, Muncie Girls, Good Grief, Young Attenborough Indie punk bands 7.30pm £4 Digital Stonelove Indie rock&roll club 11pm £4/3 Doctor Brighton’s Funky Friday: DJ Nick Hirst, DJ Wayne 9.30pm £free Druid’s Arms DJ Tommy G Electro beats, indie and house tunes 10pm £free Duke Of Norfolk DJ MC Cashback DJ night 9pm £free Dukebox Theatre Films With My Dad Comedian Aidan Goatley shares memories of watching movies with his old man 8pm £5 Fiddler’s Elbow Friday Night Live Late night live music 10pm £free Fishbowl Jeff Daniels Soul and hip hop DJ 9pm £free Fortune Of War Fever Bands and DJs play Latin, salsa and reggae 9pm £free Funfair Circus Commerical music mash-up with fire breathing and snake charming sideshows 9pm £5/3 Funkyfish Thank Funk Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10.30pm £free
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Globe The Soul Of Brighton Soul, jazz, funk and disco tunes Time tbc £free; The Get Down! DJ night playing a mix of Motown, soul, blues, funk and swing 9pm £free Green Door Store Electro Blues Remixed jukebox jump blues night with a live band 11pm £free Haunt Rebel Bingo A clandestine organisation dedicated to the twin vices of bass and bingo 8pm £4 Hobgoblin Sunglasses After Dark 50s/60s delinquent rock&roll, surf and garage from the Stay Sick and Big Itch DJs 9pm £free Honey I Love R&B Juicy house with a twist of hip hop and plenty of the R and the B 11pm £5/4/free Hop Poles BreakinBear Dance music mash-ups 10pm £free Hope Afu-Ra, Bars Full Of Roses, The E.M.E. Underground NY rapper 8pm £tbc; East Collective Beatboxing, bass and keys ensemble with soulful vocals 9pm £free Horse & Groom Archie Deacon And The Bishops Live music 8pm £free Komedia The Maydays - Confessions Improv group turn your secrets into musical comedy 8pm £10/8; Krater Comedy Club: Carl Donnelly, Mike Gunn, Nathan Caton, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy night 8pm £16.50; Missing Cat Club: General Panic, Leon C, Andy Chick, Maxi Mcgoo New monthly club night mixing the sounds of Jamaica, Brixton and Berlin 11pm £free Lola Lo Tiki Beats Totally tropical tunes 8pm £5/4/3 Mesmerist Shake, Holla & Roll Vintage blues, swing and rock&roll 9pm £free Mucky Duck Gold Chains No Brains A mix of carboot house, codeine krunk and chip shop hip hop 8pm £free New Venture Theatre Underneath The Lintel Theatre preview of a play about a librarian who tries to find out who anonymously returned a library book that was 113 years overdue Details tbc Nightingale Theatre Punched 4 Three nights of imaginative new puppetry 8pm £8.50/6.50 North Laine Pub Soul Casserole A melting pot of red hot funk and soul 9pm £free Prince Albert Caramel Jack, Laura Ward & The Risen Road, Small Shipwrecks Live music 8pm £5/4 Proud Cabaret Speakeasy Supper Club Vintage burlesque night 7pm £34 Ranelagh East Brighton Rhythm Section Dub, soul and hip hop 8.30pm £free Redroaster Refugee Poetry Evening: Al-Sadiq Al-Raddi, Kate Adams, Jade Amoli-Jackson, Osama Ahmadani, Zewa & Heval Spoken word night with a Sudanese poet and a live Kurdish band 8pm £5 Sallis Benney Theatre Thinking The Political The Work Of Ernesto Laclau Three days of talks inspired by the Argentinian theorist Details tbc Shooshh Runway Old school R&B and party mash ups 10pm £5/4/3/free Smugglers Pink Friday 9pm £free Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Brighton Rocks: Devil In Detail, Gamble Street, Charged, Puppet Kings Live music 7pm £4; Jd Late And Live: Tony Yeah & The Forty Yard Stares, Whiskey For The Wounded, Louis Romegoux 11pm £free Theatre Royal The 39 Steps Patrick Barlow’s ingenious adaptation of John Buchan’s spy novel 7.45pm £10-32 Thomas Kemp Hot-Tip Hi-Fi DJ with a fine collection of vintage reggae and rocksteady records 8pm £free Three & Ten Katy & Rach, The Hee-Ha’s Double bill of improvised sketches, songs and comedy theatre 7.30pm £10/9 Volks Brighton & Hove Audio Council: Benson, Duku, Konklave, Pale Graphs, Sibla, Sterim The councillors of noise pass a motion to ensure the quality of local electronic music 11pm £4/2 Western Front DJ Russ Rockwell Funk and soul DJ 9pm £free White Rabbit DJ Capsun Vintage hip hop with a modern twist 8pm £free
Saturday 13th
10 Below Flori, Tom Sevinski, Dance!Dance!Dance! Deep house DJ from Black Key Records 10pm £6/5 Ancient Mariner The Acoustic Sessions: Corcovado Duo Brazilian jazz funk band 8pm £free Audio Duke Special Piano-based alternative songwriter whose dreads ‘n’ eyeliner look was co-opted by Tim Minchin Details tbc; Warehouse: Darius Syrossian House and techno club night 11pm £3/free Basement Club Fusion: DJ Peter Castle, DJ Lee Harris Chart and club remixes 11pm £free Bee’s Mouth The Wave Pictures Catchy and clever indie pop band on a three-date tour of tiny Brighton venues 8pm £9
Belushi’s Below Synergy Industrial goth and electro night 10pm £5/3 Black Dove Chop Source DJ plays Caribbean rhythms and jump-jazz cuts 8pm £free Blind Tiger Stay Sick 5th Birthday Blowout!: The Nuns Bands and DJs play garage, punk and rock&roll 9pm £3
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Brighton Arts Club Spoken Word Open Mic Time tbc £free
Brunswick Jacquemo Ska and funk band 8pm £5 Caroline Of Brunswick All My Friends New dance music night with no attitude and no genres (upstairs)
9pm £free Coalition Nightowl: Michael Woods, Dom Long, Ed Brumwell, Aaron Lewis, J.N.R, Suze Rosser, Scott Hill London house club takes over 11pm £10/8/6; Blow: Vince Manganaro, Charly Lopez, Charles Green The party never stops 3am £5 Concorde2 Drowning Pool, Fozzy Heavy metal band from Dallas 7pm £17; Lazy Habits, London Afrobeat Collective, Dizraeli, Downlow, Gypsy Disco Eight-piece beats and brass band 11pm £tbc Cowley Club Surrealist Slutdisko Electro queer punk club night with freaky decor and dressing up 8pm £free Digital Rinse FM: Boddika, Bicep, Sophie, Blah Blah Blah DJs 11pm £12/10 Doctor Brighton’s Sexy Saturday: DJ Tony B 9.30pm £free Dome Founders Room Children’s Storytelling Playwright, Dvora Liberman, entertains the kids with interactive tales 10am £free Dome Studio Knick Knack And Doo Dad - Reasons To Be Cheerful Kids’ show 11.30am/2.30pm £7/5 Duke Of York’s Cinema The Chronicles Of Narnia - Prince Caspian 11am £tbc Exchange Laura Day Duo Jazz and gypsy swing duo 9pm £free Fiddler’s Elbow Saturday Sizzlers DJs drop hot vinyl into your ears 8pm £free Fishbowl What’s Wrong With Groovin’?: Ed Meme, Matt Beatwell Two DJs set out to answer the age-old question with a stack of drum-driven funk and soul 9pm £free Fortune Of War Beta Hector Robotic soul music from the Tru Thoughts DJ 9pm £free Freemasons Saturday Night Disc Spinners DJ night 9pm £free Funfair Magic Dancefloor fillers from every era 9pm £7/5/free Funkyfish Oldschool Saturday Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10pm £6/5 Gladstone Captain Mantell, Sophie Lilliene Live music from Italy 8.30pm £free Globe Upstairs At The Globe House and disco DJs 8pm £free Green Door Store Jipsy Magic, The Flip Flays, Fresh Like Dexie Live music 7.45pm £5; Pop Not Pop Pop night with Dynamite Sal 11pm £free H-Bar Lisa Lashes 9pm £tbc Haunt Pere Ubu, Variety Lights Experimenting with rock sounds since 1975 8pm £17/15; It Is Still 1985 Travel through time to an ancient realm where keytars are still pretty cool 11pm £3 Honey Flirt Hip hop, R&B and chart tunes 11pm £5/3 Hop Poles Hop To The Beat DJs play hip hop and R&B 10pm £free Hope Shakedown Collective Blues covers band 9pm £free Horse & Groom Rumboogie Live music 8pm £free Komedia Krater Comedy Club: Carl Donnelly, Mike Gunn, Nathan Caton, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy night 7pm/10.30pm £5-22; The Maydays - Confessions Improv group turn your secrets into musical comedy 8pm £10/8 Life XXY Chromosome clubbing from the #Hashtag DJs 11pm £7/5/3 Lola Lo Zombie Nation Where the dancefloor is never dead 8pm £10/7/6 Marlborough Theatre The Watery Journey Of Nereus Pike “An epic tale of love, gods, sea creatures, an impromptu rave scene and a nautical jumper” 8pm £8.50/6.50 Mesmerist Juke Joint Jamboree Rhythm & blues and rock&roll records from the days of the dance halls 9pm £free Mucky Duck Unhooked Generation Retro DJs with an ear for 60s Motown and northern soul 9pm £free Nightingale Theatre Punched 4 Three nights of imaginative new puppetry 8pm £8.50/6.50 North Laine Pub Sticky Rhythms Eight-piece ska and reggae band 8.30pm £free Northern Lights DJ Åbo Funk and soul tunes 9pm £free OhSo Social Tell Sid It’s Saturday Beachfront bar playing modern remixes of 80s and 90s music 9pm £free Old Market The New 4 Poofs And A Piano - Bigger, Louder, Harder, Longer! Camp musical irreverence from the revamped troupe 7.30pm £15/12 Paris House Live Music Live band plays gypsy jazz, swing and bebop 4pm £free Pav Tav Guerilla Rocks Club night for rock chicks, skater bois and indie kids 11pm £4/3/2 Preston Manor Hidden House - Behind The Scenes At Preston Manor 11am/2pm £15/12 Prince Albert Deadbeat Decendant, Raised On Replicas, Kella Live music 8pm £4 Proud Cabaret Le Chat Noir Classic cabaret and vintage 7pm £44; Pop Kraft Pop tunes and cheeky cabaret with Boogaloo Stu and crew 10.30pm £8/6 Quadrant Laughing Horse Comedy Club: Vladimir
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McTavish, Del Strain, Zahra Barri, Alex Love, Sajeela Kershi Stand-up comedy night 8.30pm £7/6 Ranelagh We R Bob Unpredictable saxophone covers duo 8.30pm £free Red Lion Open Mic Night 8pm £free Riki Tik Skatadays Reggae, rocksteady and vintage ska records 9.30pm £free Shooshh J’adore Dance music, house and R&B club 10pm £7/5 Smack J’box: Wildkats, DPM, Chemical Play, Dene Sonnessa New late night Saturday after party 2am £tbc Smugglers Saturday Night Chart and club anthems - plus hip hop, R&B and pop 9pm £free Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Ultimate Power Do you possess enough irony reserves to get you through an entire night of power ballads? 11pm £6/5 Theatre Royal The 39 Steps Patrick Barlow’s ingenious adaptation of John Buchan’s spy novel 2.30pm/7.45pm £10-32 Thomas Kemp DJ Mark Gogglez Dance classics 8pm £free Three & Ten Patrick Morris, Nat Luurtsema Comedians work up their Edinburgh shows 7.30pm £7/5.50 Victory Soul Casserole - Soul Custody DJs A melting pot of hot funk beats and soul grooves 8pm £free Volks Motive: Jubei, Foreign Concept, Skeptical, Bringa, Maniac & Trouble Drum&bass sessions 11pm £5 Western Front DJ Dennis Castro Not only playing ‘muscle rhymes’ and ‘jiggy fitness’ but also ‘lazy garage’ and ‘blog pop’ 9pm £free White Room Disco Deja-Vu Retro soul, funk and disco that you’ve probably heard before 9pm £free
Sunday 14th
Basement Club Pop!Candy DJ Claire Fuller plays pure non-stop pop 11pm £free Brunswick Rumba De Bodas, Huggy, The Bears Latin pop 8pm £6/5 Caroline Of Brunswick Express Yourself Live music, DJs and MCs (upstairs) 5pm £free Corn Exchange Herbie Flowers’ Jazz Breakfast Celebrated bassist smears your toast with his jazz 11am
£6.50 Dome Studio Sound Screen Video artists and electronic musicians 8pm £5 Duke Of Beaufont Sunday Film Night Cult movies and nostalgic classics 8pm £free Duke’s @ Komedia Flaming Creatures & City Of Lost Souls A double bill of queer cinema classics and a talk with the journalist Juliet Jacques 11am £tbc; The Chronicles Of Narnia - Prince Caspian 11am £tbc Fiddler’s Elbow Sham-Rock Open Mic 8.30pm £free Fishbowl Recovery? Reggae through the ages 9pm £free Fountain Head Reggae & Roasts Reggae and chilled beats Time tbc £free Globe Handbaked Arcade Things were so much better in the 1990s when all we had was 64-bit games of Italian plumbers inexplicably racing against turtles and gorillas Noon £free Green Door Store The Steady Man Band Collective Live rhythm&blues and psych band 7pm £free; Green Door Blues Big Itch DJs plus the resident blues band, Smokestack 10pm £free Haunt Suburban Legends, Upbeat Allstars California ska 8pm £8 Hope Night Beds Singer songwriter drawing comparisons to Bon Iver and Fleet Foxes 8pm £7; Improvabananas DJs entertain with comical choices and audience requests (downstairs) Time tbc £free Komedia Graeme Clark An acoustic show by the Wet Wet Wet songwriter 8pm £10; Krater Comedy Club: Carl Donnelly, Mike Gunn, Sam Savage, Keiran Boyd, Bryan Lacey Stand-up comedy night 8pm £5-12 Lectern The Sunday Sermon Stripped down band night 6.30pm £free North Laine Pub Bluebell Propellors Live music 4pm £free Northern Lights Northern Light Sundays The DJ has a lazy Sunday afternoon 4pm £free Prince Albert Six Toes, Emma Gatrill, Daniel Green Dark folk acts 8pm £5 Prince George Pub Quiz 8pm £1 Quadrant The Wave Pictures Catchy and clever indie pop band on a three-date tour of tiny Brighton venues 8pm £9 Ranelagh Nigel Bagge & Eddie Armer Harmonica blues folk 8.30pm £free Rosehill Tavern AfroBase DJs play Afro tropical funk 6pm £free Signalman Open Mic Open session hosted by local duo, Zoothyme 8pm £free Thomas Kemp Jazz In The Afternoon: Le Duo Live jazz 4pm £free; Tango Sessions 8pm £free Three & Ten Tea For Two Preview Fast paced sketch show with a theatrical double act 8pm £6.50/4.50 Victory Blues Sundays DJ plays blues and soul Noon £free
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Ancient Mariner Quiz Night 8pm £1 Audio SYT Trap music Time tbc £2 Bee’s Mouth The Bee’s Mouth Jazz Forum Jazz jam with a house band 8.30pm £free Blind Tiger The 333 Club Live music 7pm £tbc Brunswick Open Mic 7.30pm £free Coalition Trash Mondays Filthy tunes for students and layabouts alike 11pm £3/2 Cowley Club Mediterranean Film Club 6pm £tbc Dome Mick Hucknall Sings American Soul He may have apologised to the thousands of women he slept with in the 80s but what about the thousands of people who’ve had to listen to his pointless lightweight soul ballads? 7.30pm
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Duke Of Norfolk Duke Unplugged Informal open session 8pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema London International Animation Film Festival - Shorts For Kids 11am £tbc Duke’s @ Komedia Arbitrage 11am £tbc Fiddler’s Elbow Top Bananas Live music 8.30pm £free Fitzherberts The Wave Pictures Catchy and clever indie pop band on a three-date tour of tiny Brighton venues 8pm £9 Green Door Store White Hills Live music 7.30pm £7 Haunt Adam Green & Binki Shapiro Anti-folk duet with the guy from The Moldy Peaches and the gal from Little Joy 7pm £11; Fat Poppadaddys Student indie night 11pm £3/2/free Hobgoblin The Big Fat Juicy Quiz Pub quiz with interactive gameshow rounds 8pm £free Hope Hi Zero! Poetry Contemporary poetry readings 7.30pm £4; Live Sessions Live music (downstairs) 8pm £free Lectern Super Student Quiz 8pm £1 Life #Hashtag Funky house club with added Twitter confusion 10pm £3/2 Mesmerist Flash Mob Jazz Raucous jazz band 9pm £free Prince Albert Dkh, King Goat, March Of The Desert Live music 8pm £tbc Shooshh KISS New student club 8pm £4/3/2/free Signalman Signalman Pub Quiz 8pm £1 Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar The Catharsis, Let’s Talk Daggers, Eyes Like Knives, In Remembrance Bladebased rock music 7.30pm £4 Theatre Royal The Mousetrap Murder mystery drama inspired by the classic board game 7.45pm £14.5032.50 Thomas Kemp Quiz Night 8pm £1 Volks Strictly Reggae Dancehall, roots, revival 11pm £5/4 White Rabbit The Mixer Men DJ night 9pm £free
Tuesday 16th
Above Audio Cottontail Club Big band and jitter jive tunes 9pm £free Audio OMG LOL “The biggest, hottest, sexiest, coolest, sickest night in the whole of East Sussex” (grills get in free) 11pm £1-4 Blind Tiger James Yorkston, The Pictish Trail, Seamus Fogarty Live music 7.30pm £14 Brunswick Jazz Jam Open session with a house band and special guests 8pm £free Caroline Of Brunswick Open Mic Hosted by Mike Mcmichelson and Kev De Souza 8.30pm £free Concorde2 Don Broco, Mallory Knox, Hey Vanity The finest alt rock Bedford has to offer 7.30pm £10 Cooper’s Cask Pub Quiz 9pm £1 Digital CU Next Tuesday It’ll teach the universities to timetable lectures for Wednesday mornings 11pm £4/3 Duke Of Norfolk Open Mic 9pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema Jack Reacher 11am £tbc; Once Upon A Crime 6.30pm £tbc Duke’s @ Komedia London International Animation Film Festival - Shorts For Kids 11am £tbc; Manet Portraying Life A film about the exhibition at London’s Royal Academy of Arts 3pm £tbc; Post Tenebras Lux 6.30pm £tbc Fiddler’s Elbow QUIZness Time Are you a pub quiz whizz, or bit of a half-wit? 8pm £1 Fountain Head Student Night DJs play indie and rock 8pm £free Gladstone Quiz Night 8.30pm £1 Globe Basement Cinema Underground films, comfy seats and free popcorn 8pm £free Good Companions The Big Fat Juicy Quiz 8pm £free Green Door Store Donuts Hipster funk and hip hop gems 11pm £free
Greys No.9 Bus To Utopia Dr David Bramwell explores the history and philosophy of some of the West’s most fantastical communities 7pm £free Haunt The Leisure Society Folk pop band 7pm £12 Latest Music Bar Cafe Scientifique Let’s talk about science, baby 8pm £free Life La Fever Urban and latin club 11pm £tbc Prince Albert Cable Club Live music 8pm £4/3 Quadrant Open Mic Jam session hosted by Jenna Bennett 8.30pm £free Red Lion Challenging General Knowledge & Music Quiz 8pm £1 Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Filthy Sticky Standup: Ginger & Black New comedy night 8pm £7/6 Theatre Royal The Mousetrap Agatha Christie’s murder mystery 7.45pm £14.50-32.50 Thomas Kemp Poker Evening 8pm £free Three & Ten Man Up, Johnny Fluffypunk! Amusing and witty wordplay from the poet and retired revolutionary 8pm £7/5
University Of Sussex Reproducing The Body The Manufactured Human In The Twenty-First Century Art talk (on the Falmer Campus) 5.30pm £free White Rabbit Tin Cup Collective Live funk soul band 8pm £free
Wednesday 17th
Above Audio Cookin Beats Hip hop with a side of order of funk and a sprinkling of reggae 8pm £free Audio After Dark Student house and bass night 11pm £2 Basement Club Mash Up Commercial house with DJ Lee Harris 11pm £free Bee’s Mouth Open Mic 8.30pm £free Blind Tiger Amplify Showcase Live music 8pm £4/3 Brunswick Crayola Lectern Album launch for oddball psychedelic pianist 8pm £5 Coalition CoCo LoCo Dancehall and dubstep music for students go to lose the plot to 10.30pm £5/3/1 Concorde2 So Solid Crew You’ve seen them, the rappers, the rap singers - on Top Of The Pops they have them
7.30pm £13.50 (this event is now cancelled) Cowley Club T.G. Gondard & Gael Moissonnier, Ian Murphy, Occult Hand, A Mouthful Of Bald Worms, DJ Bullety Nun Experimental French electronica 8pm £4 Digital Fresh Meat New club night with a nondiscriminatory music policy - i.e. they play everything 11pm £1 Druid’s Arms We Change The Tempo DJ set of international sounds 9pm £free Duke Of Beaufort Poker Night 8pm £5 Duke Of Norfolk Pub Quiz 9pm £1 Duke Of York’s Cinema The Place Beyond The Pines 11am £tbc Duke’s @ Komedia Post Tenebras Lux 11am £tbc Fishbowl Shugga Buddha Acoustic Session Live music 8pm £free; Tea & Biscuits: DJ Gareth Stephens Retro swing, soul and ska 10pm £free Green Door Store Bromheads Live music 7.30pm £8; Indie Wednesdays Straight-up indie tunes 11pm £free Haunt King Charles Classically trained folk pop singer songwriter 6pm £7; Supercharged Drum&bass and breaks 11pm £3/2 Honey Dance Anthems 11pm £2/1/free Horse & Groom Ben Paley And Tab Hunter Wednesday Traditional Music Sessions 8pm £free Iron Duke I Predict A Pop Quiz “A light hearted trip through the backstreets of pop trivia” 8pm £free Komedia Ben Montague Poppy singer songwriter with an ear for anthems 7.30pm £8; Patrick Monahan Shooting From The Lip Amusing Teesside anecdotalist 8pm £12 Latest Music Bar The Vesuvius Club: Rachel Ries, Arthur and The Irrational, The Black Feathers, The Galleons Live music 7.30pm £5; Tango Boot Camp Learn to tango like the Argentinians 8pm £3-8 Life Move Underground dance music club 11pm £4/3/2 Mash Tun Mash Tun Live Funk and rock covers band 9pm £free Mesmerist The Swing Ninjas Gypsy swing band 9pm £free Mucky Duck Quiz On My Face “Quiz night with a difference” perhaps with a very special prize 7pm £1; Rough Citizen, Anna Rice, Paul Sullivan, Sam Jordan Live music 8pm £free; North Laine Pub Quiz Kong Pub quiz 7.45pm £1 Old Market Craftaganza Live Contemporary arts and craft night with guest speakers 7.30pm £free Prince Albert Echotapes, Stray Dogs, The Dead Reds Krautrock-inspired post punk 8pm £6 Proud Cabaret Salsa Cubana Cuban night with dance classes, live bands and guest DJs 8.30pm £10/6 Ranelagh Haunted: Annaca Catchy indie folk with great pop vocals 8.30pm £free Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Demon Smiles, Three Summers Strong Live music 7.30pm £3:; Dumb And Dumber Film Quiz Pub quiz with questions about “the most awesome of movies” and also Dumb And Dumber 8pm £1 Theatre Royal The Mousetrap Agatha Christie’s murder mystery 7.45pm £14.50-32.50
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Thomas Kemp Kev & Jenna’s Open Mic 9pm £free Three & Ten Man Up, Johnny Fluffypunk! Amusing and witty wordplay from the poet and retired revolutionary 8pm £7/5
Three Graces Pub Quiz 8pm £free Volks Algorave: Andrew Sorensen “Sounds Wholly Or Predominantly Characterised By The Emission Of A Succession Of Repetitive Conditionals” 9pm £4/free Western Front Hush Hush Live acoustic music 9pm £free
White Rabbit The Move-Ons Open Mic 8pm £free
Thursday 18th
Audio Bastard Pop Musical mash-up 11pm £3/free Basement Under Construction Performances and discussions based on theatrical works-in-progress 7pm £free
Blind Tiger Dub Organiser Jam session with a dub reggae band 8pm £3/free Brunswick Flamenco Express: Jesus Olmedo, Javier Macías, La Joaquina & Chris Clavo Live flamenco music 8pm £10/8.50 Coalition Secret Discotheque Replaying the soundtrack to your youth 11pm £4/3/2 Concorde2 Big Daddy Kane, Kung Fu DJs Influential American MC who started out in 80s rap group, Juice Crew
7.30pm £12 Dome Studio Forgotten A poignant and humorous portrait of four elderly characters told through the unlikely fusion of Japanese Kabuki dance and Irish storytelling 7.30pm £12/10 Duke Of York’s Cinema Broken City 11am £tbc Fiddler’s Elbow Folk Off Session: Wolflung, Sam Jordan, Johnathan Brooks, Nathan Godfrey, Pocketsize Showcase of local blues and folk musicians 8pm £free Fishbowl Residents Association: DJ Will Sumsuch DJs play hip hop, funk and world beats 10.30pm £free Fountain Head Student Night DJs play indie and rock 8pm £free Freemasons Live & Wine Live music 8.30pm £free Funfair Bug’A’Boo Hip hop and R&B ladies’ night 11pm £3/2 George Payne Open Mic Jam session with instruments provided 8.30pm £free Globe Hang The DJ! A night of punter-picked playlists 9pm £free Green Door Store Healing Sounds: Johnson & The Believers, Tiny Dragons, The Ballpoints, Rotait Live music 6.30pm £3.50; Smells Like White Spirit Painting fundraiser with 90s tunes Details tbc Hand In Hand Rave On! DJs Citizen Lane and Becky Boop play doo-wop and vintage pop 8pm £free Haunt A Hawk And A Hacksaw Violin and accordion folk duo 8pm £12/10; Coconut College Thursday night party playing a right mix of stuff like Grimes, Smashing Pumpkins and Kayne West 11pm £3/2 Honey Sundown If your house was this sexy you’d never go outdoors 10pm £free; Do You Really Like It?: 2 Rotten Scoundrels, Rudeben, DJ Cartier, Smokie & Jay-P, DJ Ally, Leeroy Silk Club classics and old school garage 11pm £5/3 Hope Autumn Red, The Keys, BirdBrother Banjo folk rock 8pm £6/5/4; The Social Live acoustic music 8pm £free Horse & Groom Lock And Key Open Mic 8pm £free Komedia Nine Below Zero Great British blues band 7.30pm £15 Latest Music Bar The Indelicates, Pog, The Crippensix Indie rock band with knowing lyrics and catchy choruses 8.30pm £5 Lola Lo Tom Foolery Electro, house and dubstep night 9pm £5/3 Lucky Voice Acoustic Open Mic 8pm £free Mash Tun They Mostly Come Out At Night Indie, electro and hip hop 9pm £free Mesmerist John Crampton Foot-stomping blues explosion 9pm £free Mucky Duck Open Mic Jam session with Joe Newman 9pm £free North Laine Pub Johnson & The Believers Rocksteady and ska mixed with indie rock 8.30pm £free Old Market Shorts And Sweets Book Club Literature discussion made fun by the inclusion of confectionery 7.30pm £free Old Market All You Ever Wanted To Know About... Opera! Peter Knapp performs opera extracts in this lighthearted introduction to everyone’s least favourite art form 7.30pm £15 Park Crescent Fiddlesparks Traditional Irish folk music 8.30pm £free Prince Albert Fossil Collective Folky indie band 8pm £7 Prince George Souled Out DJs play funk, soul and Motown 8pm £free Proud Cabaret 50 Shades Of Cabaret Fetish cabaret for people who’d never thought of being kinky before reading that book 8pm £24 Quadrant Regional Dialect: Adam Kammerling,
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Jakaboski You don’t have to have a regional accent to be a poet, but it helps 7.30pm £4/3 Ranelagh Alex Roberts Folky blues singer 8.30pm £free Riki Tik Big It Up! Resident DJs mine the golden era of dancehall and digital reggae 9.30pm £free Shooshh Azuri 10pm £3/free St George’s Church Mountain Firework Company, Shona Foster Country folk band raise funds for Kemptown Carnival Time tbc £11/9 Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Riff Til Yer Stiff DJ plays music to finger power chords to (in the bar) 9pm £free Theatre Royal The Mousetrap Agatha Christie’s murder mystery 2.30pm/7.45pm £14.50-32.50 Three Graces Open Mic 8pm £free Victory Open Mic 8pm £free Volks Roll Through Drum&bass and dubstep, bass and beatbox 11pm £2 White Rabbit DJ Capsun Vintage hip hop with a modern twist 8pm £free
Friday 19th
10 Below Dub Love Disco Dub and disco with the Go Bang! boys, Ali and Affy 10pm £ Above Audio Home House and disco DJs 9pm £free Audio Nowhere To Run The best of 60s Motown, soul and rock&roll 11pm £4 Basement Club Friday Night Live With Lady LaRue Cabaret is a drag sometimes 11pm £free Belushi’s Below Abandoned Rock and metal night
10pm £3/2 Blind Tiger Willie & The Bandits, Bob Hillary And The Massive Mellow Live music 7pm £6/5; Roots Garden Reggae DJs with guest singers and live musicians 10pm £tbc Brunswick Bat Country, The Badje, Lisa Marie Glover Brighton-based indie folk rockers 8pm £5/4 Caroline Of Brunswick That’s A Hoedown Rhythm and blues and northern soul (upstairs) 10pm £free Coalition Friday I’m In Love No more lectures for a day or two 11pm £2-5 Concorde2 The Complete Stone Roses He is the resurrection (of Ian Brown) 7pm £14 Digital Stonelove Indie rock&roll club 11pm £4/3 Doctor Brighton’s Funky Friday: DJ Nick Hirst, DJ Wayne 9.30pm £free Dome Dome Discovery Tour Explore the historic venue’s backstage areas 11am £8.50/7.50 Dome Studio Forgotten A poignant and humorous portrait of four elderly characters told through the unlikely fusion of Japanese Kabuki dance and Irish storytelling 7.30pm £12/10 Druid’s Arms Hot Pepper Sauce DJ I.D.G. plays old school funk, soul and house 10pm £free Duke Of Norfolk Lady Lola DJ plays funk, Motown, reggae and hip hop 9pm £free Duxebox Theatre Stanza And Deliver Poetry night with guest poets and an open mic slot 8pm £4.50/3 Fishbowl Cut La Vis Jamaican riddims and urban beats 9pm £free Fortune Of War Fever Bands and DJs play latin, salsa and reggae 9pm £free Funfair Circus Commerical music mash-up with fire breathing and snake charming sideshows 9pm £5/3 Funkyfish Thank Funk Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10.30pm £free Globe The Get Down! DJ night playing a mix of Motown, soul, blues, funk and swing 9pm £free Green Door Store Jessica Bailiff Slowcore singer songwriter 7pm £7; Sub Bop Down and dirty grunge night with added shoegaze 11pm £free Haunt Dizraeli & The Small Gods Seven-piece folk band led by the hip hop poet 7pm £10; Wonder Yeahs Music from the 1990s 11pm £3 Hobgoblin Sunglasses After Dark 50s/60s delinquent rock&roll, surf and garage from the Stay Sick and Big Itch DJs 9pm £free Honey I Love R&B Juicy house with a twist of hip hop and plenty of the R and the B 11pm £5/4/free Hop Poles Arthur Shillin’ Electro swing mash-ups 10pm £free Hope Twinkle & The Sluts, Screama Ballerina, Dispute Settlement Mechanism Live rock bands support “womens’ right to choice and bodily autonomy” 7.30pm £4; Son Guarachando Cuban, salsa and latin music from a leading band on the Havana scene 9pm £free Horse & Groom Shauna Parker & The Saloon Bar Band Country and Americana 8pm £free Komedia Krater Comedy Club: Chris McCausland, Sean Collins, Paul Sinha, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy night 8pm £16.50; Born Bad Vintage rockabilly for pompadour cats and polka dot kittens 11pm £6/5 Latest Music Bar The Treason Show Topical songs and sketches from the long-running local comedy show 8pm £12.50; Amy In The Winehouse 10.30pm £8 Life Echo Festival Brighton Launch Party: Redshape, Braiden, Lorca Gearing up for the Croatian dance music festival Time tbc £8/6/4 Loft Greg Wilson, Pablo Contraband, Fingerman
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10.30pm £tbc; Disco Deviant: Greg Wilson, Fingerman, Pablo Contraband 80s electro DJ now a disco re-editer 10.30pm £10 Lola Lo Tiki Beats Totally tropical tunes 8pm £5/4/3 Marlborough Theatre The House Of Bernarda Alba Play by the Spanish dramatist, Federico García Lorca 7.30pm £12.50/10 Mesmerist Shake, Holla & Roll Vintage blues, swing and rock&roll 9pm £free Montpelier Inn Groove On Old School Pub Disco DJ Mick Fuller plays classic soul, jazz funk and disco Details tbc Mucky Duck Fenus In Vurs DJ Eddie Goatman plays sounds of the 60s and early 70s 9pm £free North Laine Pub Beat Burger DJ plays soul, funk, hip hop and reggae (feel free to insert your own horse gag) 9pm £free OhSo Social Pop Kraft Baby Pop tunes and cheeky cabaret with Boogaloo Stu and crew 9pm £free Pav Tav Brighton Punx Picnic 2013 Three days of punk and ska Time tbc £20 Preston Manor Costume Drama - Backstairs And Backstage A humorous and immersive theatrical experience 8pm £15/12 Prince Albert Laish, Emma Gatrill, Martha Rose Inventive folk rock collective kick off their second album tour 8pm £5.50 Proud Cabaret Masquerade Ball Burlesque night 7pm £34 Ranelagh Grizzly & The Grasshoppers Rootsy acoustic trio 8.30pm £free Royal Pavilion Hidden Places, Familiar Faces A tour of the Royal Pavilion estate, starting at the Dome Cafe 10am £20 Sallis Benney Theatre Mort Uni drama students adapt Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novel 7pm £7/5 Shooshh Runway Old school R&B and party mash ups 10pm £5/4/3/free Smugglers Pink Friday 9pm £free Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Brighton Road To Blissfields: The Watermelons, The Dirty Divine Bands battle it out for a slot at Blissfields festivals 7.30pm £3; Dive Slow Hip hop and electronica from the BBC critic and DJ, Mike Diver (in the bar) 9pm £free Theatre Royal The Mousetrap Agatha Christie’s murder mystery 7.45pm £14.50-32.50 Thomas Kemp DJ Moler Funk, soul and rare grooves 9pm £free Three & Ten Eric Lampaert, Ellie Taylor Double bill of Edinburgh comedy previews 7.30pm £7/7.50 Volks Siren: Utah Jazz, Chris Inperspective, Nathen ‘Flutebox’ Lee, Cold Fusion, Andy Skopes, Denial, DJ ST, Act One, D-Kode, Blackeye, B-Kind, Deefa, Aitch, Word Of Mouth, Kombine, Nightmare & Oni, Venser, Deadly Drum&bass night 11pm £5/free White Rabbit Ruff Snippets DJ plays hip hop, funk and soul 8pm £free
Saturday 20th
10 Below EDITcted House, disco, funk and boogie with DJ Fingerman and Chewy Rubs 10pm £5 Ancient Mariner Cider Festival Cider, live music, kid’s stuff and cider 1pm £free Audio Warehouse: Shadow Child House and techno club night 11pm £3/free Bar-B-Q Shack Salvation: Agzilla, Carl Grant, Leo Electroid, Jammin’, Para DJs explore the New York music scene circa the punk, disco and hip hop eras 9pm £free Basement Club Fusion: DJ Peter Castle, DJ Lee Harris Chart and club remixes 11pm £free Bee’s Mouth Future Ground Brighton music blogger, The Recommender, takes to the decks 9pm £free Belushi’s Below Apocalypse Rock and the sort of metal that went by the name ‘nu’ 10pm £5/4 Blind Tiger Flash Bang Band Catchy and charismatic indie rock 7pm £3; Oscillator, Meow Meows High energy ska band 10pm £5 Brighton Arts Club Spoken Word Open Mic Time tbc £free Brunswick Jake Mackay, Slow Wolf, Warsaw Radio, Rob Abbott, Mike Newsham Live music 8pm £5 Coalition Old Yellow Bricks: G23, Milton, Outbreak R&B, house and funky soul club 11pm £7/5; Blow: Vince Manganaro, Charly Lopez, Charles Green The party never stops 3am £5 Concorde2 Chas & Dave - St George’s Day Celebration One of rock’s great double acts back together again 6pm £22.50; JazzNote: Ivy Lab 11pm £tbc Digital Supercharged: Redlight, Bondax, Karma Kid Drum&bass night 11pm £10 Doctor Brighton’s Sexy Saturday: DJ Tony B 9.30pm £free Dome Studio Silent One-man physical theatre concerning the lost art of silence 7.30pm £12/10 Druid’s Arms DJ Green Man’s Garden Of Delights A carefully cultivated set of soul, psychedelia, funk and pop 10pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema Wreck-it Ralph 11am £tbc; A Clockwork Orange “Welly, welly, welly, welly, welly,
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welly, well. To what do I owe the extreme pleasure of this surprising visit?” 11.30pm £tbc Duke’s @ Komedia Last Shop Standing 4pm £tbc Exchange John Crampton Foot-stomping blues explosion 9pm £free Fiddler’s Elbow Saturday Sizzlers DJs drop hot vinyl into your ears 8pm £free Fishbowl DJ Åbo & Ally Smith Jazz Rooms DJs play dirty funk and hot jazz 9pm £free Fortune Of War Big Chill Takeover: Western Soul, Suisse Tony Big Chill resident DJs 9pm £free Freemasons Saturday Night Disc Spinners DJ night 9pm £free Funfair Magic Dancefloor fillers from every era 9pm £7/5/free Funkyfish Oldschool Saturday Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10pm £6/5 Globe Upstairs At The Globe House and disco DJs 8pm £free; BOYF_ DJ plays tracks from the ‘Scene With No Name’ scene, i.e. the scene known as the groove-based dance music scene 9pm £free Green Door Store Cloud, Becky Becky, Kellar Heavy krautrock, dirty electro pop and improv noise 7.30pm £free; Soulful Strut Russ Dewbury and guests play funk, soul and electro jazz 11pm £free Haunt The Other Tribe, Mausi Live music 7pm £6; It Is Still 1985 Travel through time to an ancient realm where keytars are still pretty cool 11pm £3 Honey Flirt Hip hop, R&B and chart tunes 11pm £5/3 Hop Poles Knead A Break DJ Mass Evil plays breaks, beats and bootlegs 10pm £free Hope Soul Casserole A melting pot of hot funk beats and soul grooves (downstairs) 9pm £free Horse & Groom Slim Lightfoot, Daniel Richards’ One Man Wall Of Sound Live music 8pm £free Komedia Krater Comedy Club: Chris McCausland, Sean Collins, Paul Sinha, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy night 7pm/10.30pm £5-22 Komedia Spellbound “An 80s night for people who hate 80s nights” - Simon Price plays the alternative highlights of the decade 9pm £5/4 Life XXY Chromosome clubbing from the #Hashtag DJs 11pm £7/5/3 Lola Lo Zombie Nation Where the dancefloor is never dead 8pm £10/7/6 Marlborough Theatre The House Of Bernarda Alba Play by the Spanish dramatist, Federico García Lorca 2.30pm/7.30pm £12.50/10 Mesmerist Juke Joint Jamboree Rhythm & blues and rock&roll records from the days of the dance halls 9pm £free Mucky Duck Ross Never Sleeps DJ set 9pm £free North Laine Pub Medium Rare DJs serve up a platter of semi-obscure funk and soul 9pm £free Northern Lights DJ RC Viking Horny invasion party 9pm £free Office Chop Source DJ plays Caribbean rhythms and jump-jazz cuts 8pm £free OhSo Social Tell Sid It’s Saturday Beachfront bar playing modern remixes of 80s and 90s music 9pm £free Old Market The Big Top Ball: The Swing Ninjas, The Speakeasy Three, The Wind-Ups, Flatfoot Mat, Lonesome M Deejay, Laura Luard, Kitty Peel, Cherry Bella, Hypno-Tech Arts, Bambi Beats, Sussex Swing Performers Swing bands, burlesque and circus performers raise money for the Linkylea Trust 7.30pm £18/14 Paris House Live Music Live band plays gypsy jazz, swing and bebop 4pm £free Pav Tav Brighton Punx Picnic 2013 Three days of punk and ska Time tbc £20 Prince Albert Control, Angry Agenda, The Liabilities Live music 8pm £tbc Proud Cabaret Le Chat Noir Classic cabaret and vintage 7pm £44 Quadrant Laughing Horse Comedy Club: Rick Kiesewetter, Meryl O’Rourke, Patrick Lappin, Eden Rivers, Lenny Peters Stand-up comedy night 8.30pm £7/6 Ranelagh The Informers Blues funk band 8.30pm £free Riki Tik Skatadays Reggae, rocksteady and vintage ska records 9.30pm £free Sallis Benney Theatre Mort Uni drama students adapt Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novel 7pm £7/5 Shooshh J’adore Dance music, house and R&B club 10pm £7/5 Smack J’box: HNQO, DPM, Ollie Sturdy, Nolan New late night Saturday after party 2am £tbc Smugglers Saturday Night Chart and club anthems - plus hip hop, R&B and pop 9pm £free Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Brighton Rocks: Arivmia, Degree Of Arc, Ethycs, Crimson Trace Live music 7pm £4; 2003 Indie music from the last ten years (in the bar) 9pm £free; Donuts Hipster funk and hip hop gems (in the club) 11pm £5/4 Theatre Royal The Mousetrap Agatha Christie’s murder mystery 2.30pm/7.45pm £14.50-32.50 Thomas Kemp DJ Greg Gore Classic rock tunes 9pm £free Three & Ten Off The Cuff Audience-seeded jokes made up on the spot 8pm £8/6 Victory Don Simon DJ The don of jazzhop brings along his collection of funk, soul, hip hop and modern brass band tunes 9pm £free
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Volks Frequency: Inside Info, Fourward, High Maintenance, D Double U, Sublok Drum&bass sessions 10pm £2
Western Front Culture Front Reggae and ska sounds with DJ Eone 9pm £free White Rabbit Go Go Gorilla Vinyl mash-up with the Moon Hop DJs 9pm £free White Room Disco Deja-Vu Retro soul, funk and disco that you’ve probably heard before 9pm £free
Sunday 21st
Basement Club Pop!Candy DJ Claire Fuller plays pure non-stop pop 11pm £free Blind Tiger Cate Ferris & The Little Unsaid Live music 7.30pm £3 Brunswick Brighton Folk: Donna Fullman, Sam Greene Monthly folk night with Amy Hill 8pm £free Dome Studio Swallowsfeet A new collaboration between nine dance theatre choreographers 7.30pm £5 Duke Of Beaufont Sunday Film Night Cult movies and nostalgic classics 8pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema Wreck-it Ralph 11am £tbc
Duke’s @ Komedia Wreck-it Ralph 11am £tbc; Flying Blind 4pm £tbc Fiddler’s Elbow Sham-Rock Open Mic 8.30pm
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Fishbowl Recovery? Reggae through the ages 9pm
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Fountain Head Reggae & Roasts Reggae and chilled beats Time tbc £free Globe Handbaked Arcade Things were so much better in the 1990s when all we had was 64-bit games of Italian plumbers inexplicably racing against turtles and gorillas Noon
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Green Door Store Green Door Blues Big Itch DJs plus the resident blues band, Smokestack 10pm £free Hope Improvabananas DJs entertain with comical choices and audience requests (downstairs) Time tbc £free Komedia Krater Comedy Club: Chris McCausland, Sean Collins, Harriet Dyer, Kwame Asante, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy night 8pm £5-12 Latest Music Bar Dead Belgian, Ursus The songs of Jacques Brel are alive and well 8pm £6 Lectern The Sunday Sermon Stripped down band night 6.30pm £free Marlborough Theatre The House Of Bernarda Alba Play by the Spanish dramatist, Federico García Lorca 2.30pm/7.30pm £12.50/10 North Laine Pub Splatch Funk fusion band 4pm £free Northern Lights Northern Light Sundays The DJ has a lazy Sunday afternoon 4pm £free Pav Tav Brighton Punx Picnic 2013 Three days of punk and ska Time tbc £20 Prince Albert Brighton Music Showcase Live music 8pm £tbc Prince George Pub Quiz 8pm £1 Ranelagh Simon Sparrow Band Live blues rock 8.30pm £free Sallis Benney Theatre Mort Uni drama students adapt Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novel 7pm £7/5 Signalman Open Mic Open session hosted by local duo, Zoothyme 8pm £free Thomas Kemp Jazz In The Afternoon: Le Duo Live jazz 4pm £free Victory Blues Sundays DJ plays blues and soul Noon £free White Rabbit Hush Hush Live acoustic music 8pm £free
Monday 22nd
Ancient Mariner Quiz Night 8pm £1 Audio SYT Trap music Time tbc £2 Bee’s Mouth The Bee’s Mouth Jazz Forum Jazz jam with a house band 8.30pm £free Blind Tiger The 333 Club Live music 7pm £tbc Brunswick Open Mic 7.30pm £free Coalition Trash Mondays Filthy tunes for students and layabouts alike 11pm £3/2 Duke’s @ Komedia Jack Reacher 11am £tbc Fiddler’s Elbow Top Bananas Live music 8.30pm
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Green Door Store Star & Dagger Something of a supergroup featuring members of White Zombie, Queens Of the Stone Age and Eagles Of Death Metal 7.30pm £8; Tarantino Night 11pm £3 Greys Jess Klein Gusty folk pop 8.30pm £10 Haunt Fat Poppadaddys Student indie night 11pm
£3/2/free Hope Elizabeth Davidman, Zoe Hendrickson Live acoustic music (downstairs) 7pm £5/4/3; Roam, ReVerbed, Orchards Live music 8pm £tbc Latest Music Bar Bedlam Crooks Live music 8pm £3 Lectern Super Student Quiz 8pm £1 Life #Hashtag Funky house club with added Twitter
confusion 10pm £3/2 Marlborough Theatre The House Of Bernarda Alba Play by the Spanish dramatist, Federico García Lorca 7.30pm £12.50/10 Mesmerist Flash Mob Jazz Raucous jazz band 9pm £free Neptune Juliette And The Romeos Live music 8.30pm £free Prince Albert Born To Lose Live music 8pm £3 Shooshh KISS New student club 8pm £4/3/2/free Signalman Signalman Pub Quiz 8pm £1 Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Demental Classic thrash with modern metal brutality 8pm £5 Thomas Kemp Quiz Night 8pm £1 Volks Strictly Reggae Dancehall, roots, revival 11pm £5/4
Tuesday 23rd
Above Audio Cottontail Club Big band and jitter jive tunes 9pm £free Audio OMG LOL “The biggest, hottest, sexiest, coolest, sickest night in the whole of East Sussex” (grills get in free) 11pm £1-4 Brunswick Jazz Jam Open session with a house band and special guests 8pm £free Caroline Of Brunswick Open Mic Hosted by Mike Mcmichelson and Kev De Souza 8.30pm £free Cooper’s Cask Pub Quiz 9pm £1 Digital CU Next Tuesday It’ll teach the universities to timetable lectures for Wednesday mornings 11pm £4/3 Duke Of Norfolk Open Mic 9pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema A Place In The Sun 11am £tbc; I’m So Excited! The screening of Pedro Almodovar’s new film preceded by live red-carpet footage and followed by a live satellite Q&A with the director 6.30pm £tbc Fiddler’s Elbow QUIZness Time Are you a pub quiz whizz, or bit of a half-wit? 8pm £1 Fountain Head Student Night DJs play indie and rock 8pm £free Gladstone Quiz Night 8.30pm £1 Globe Basement Cinema Underground films, comfy seats and free popcorn 8pm £free Good Companions The Big Fat Juicy Quiz 8pm £free Green Door Store Mono Records Showcase James Bond theme night for local label 7pm £free; Donuts Hipster funk and hip hop gems 11pm £free Hanover Pub BAD Ukes - Brighton After Dark Ukulele Session Informal gathering of ukulelists 8pm £free Haunt While She Sleeps, Feed The Rhino, Deadharts Metalcore band from the City of Steel 8pm £12 Hope Stanley Brinks, Freschard Andre from Herman Dune plays indie folk pop 7.30pm £6 Komedia The Bipolar World Tour - An Evening With Kinky Friedman 8.30pm £free Life La Fever Urban and latin club 11pm £tbc Marlborough Theatre The House Of Bernarda Alba Play by the Spanish dramatist, Federico García Lorca 7.30pm £12.50/10 Nightingale Theatre Special Relationships Chris Fogg reads extracts from his book about growing up in the 50s and 60s and the political fallout from those decades 7.30pm £8.50/6.50 Prince Albert The Redemptions, Beautiful Country, Land Of Youth Live music 8pm £4 Quadrant The Trident Open mic night for trying out new material 8pm £free Quadrant Open Mic Jam session hosted by Jenna Bennett 8.30pm £free Red Lion Challenging General Knowledge & Music Quiz 8pm £1 St George’s Inn Pub Quiz 8pm £1 Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Candela, Thieves & Shadows, Gunk Live music 8pm £4/3 Theatre Royal Passion Play Zoe Wanamaker stars in Peter Nichol’s dark comedy of infidelity 7.45pm £15-35 Thomas Kemp Poker Evening 8pm £free University Of Sussex What Is An Author Made Of? Literary talk with Dubravka Ugrešic 5.30pm £free
Wednesday 24th
Above Audio Cookin Beats Hip hop with a side of order of funk and a sprinkling of reggae 8pm £free Audio After Dark Student house and bass night 11pm £2 Basement Club Mash Up Commercial house with DJ Lee Harris 11pm £free Bee’s Mouth Open Mic 8.30pm £free; Lipstick & Picks Rock chicks rock 9pm £free Blind Tiger Common Tongues Folk band 8pm £tbc Brunswick This Is Elvis Jim Devereaux dons the sideburns and sequins 8pm £3 Coalition CoCo LoCo Dancehall and dubstep music for students go to lose the plot to 10.30pm £5/3/1 Concorde2 Peace Brum’s answer to Vampire Weekend return to Brighton after playing the NME tour at the Dome in Feb 7.30pm £tbc Cowley Club SchMovies: Squeeze Documentary
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With Chris Difford 7pm £tbc Digital Fresh Meat New club night with a nondiscriminatory music policy - i.e. they play everything 11pm £1 Dome Studio Hammer & Tongue - Bite! The Youth Slam Brighton’s infamous poets vs rappers show celebrated its 10 year anniversary back in January - now it’s got its own youth league 6pm £6 Druid’s Arms We Change The Tempo DJ set of international sounds 9pm £free Duke Of Beaufort Poker Night 8pm £5 Duke Of Norfolk Pub Quiz 9pm £1 Duxebox Theatre Chinese Whispers Storytelling for grown-ups 8pm £6/5 Fishbowl Shugga Buddha Acoustic Session Live music 8pm £free; Tea & Biscuits: DJ Gareth Stephens Retro swing, soul and ska 10pm £free Friend’s Meeting House Mopomoso, Alison Blunt Trio, Pat Thomas & Keith Tippett, House Full Of Floors Jazz improv group touring again after 21 years, supported at each show by likeminded local bands 7.30pm £6/5 Green Door Store Chuck Prophet & Mission Express The former frontman of Green On Red 7.30pm £14; Indie Wednesdays Straight-up indie tunes 11pm £free Haunt Supercharged Drum&bass and breaks 11pm £3/2 Honey Dance Anthems 11pm £2/1/free Hope Emporer The Stag, Thieves & Shadows, The Sleepwalks Live music 8pm £4 Horse & Groom Ben Paley And Tab Hunter Wednesday Traditional Music Sessions 8pm £free Iron Duke I Predict A Pop Quiz “A light hearted trip through the backstreets of pop trivia” 8pm £free Komedia Tom Mcrae Thoughtful acoustic singer songwriter 7.30pm £16; Magnet Speed Dating 28-45 Years That’s a long time to spend working out if you like someone 8pm £20 Latest Music Bar Tango Boot Camp Learn to tango like the Argentinians 8pm £3-8 Life Move Underground dance music club 11pm £4/3/2 Marlborough Theatre The House Of Bernarda Alba Play by the Spanish dramatist, Federico García Lorca 7.30pm £12.50/10 Mash Tun Mash Tun Live Funk and rock covers band 9pm £free Mesmerist The Swing Ninjas Gypsy swing band 9pm £free Mucky Duck Quiz On My Face “Quiz night with a difference” perhaps with a very special prize 7pm £1 Mucky Duck Ian Roland Live acoustic music 8pm £free Neptune Two Tin Dogs Live Americana and country music 8.30pm £free North Laine Pub Quiz Kong Pub quiz 7.45pm £1 Old Market iOpen Even literary spoken word nights aren’t above propagating the advertising meme of putting a lower case i at the start of a word 7.30pm £free Prince Albert Group Rhoda, Occult Hand, Meddicine, Apostille Live music 7.30pm £5 Proud Cabaret Laugh Out Proud: Joe Wilkinson, Nick Helm, Sam Fletcher, Paul Mccaffrey Stand-up comedy night 7pm £10/8 Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar I Am Arcade Playing retro video games is particularly exciting when it’s in a public place because it’s usually something you do in private, like bathing in a tub of plastic dust produced by taking a rotary sander to a souvenir of the queen 8pm £free Theatre Royal Passion Play Zoe Wanamaker stars in Peter Nichol’s dark comedy of infidelity 7.45pm £15-35 Thomas Kemp Kev & Jenna’s Open Mic 9pm £free Three Graces Pub Quiz 8pm £free Volks King Of The Swing Electro swing and funk night 8pm £5/3 Western Front Hush Hush Live acoustic music 9pm £free White Rabbit The Move-Ons Open Mic 8pm £free
Thursday 25th
Audio Bastard Pop Musical mash-up 11pm £3/free Basement The Father, The Son & The Holy Feast Theatrical work about migration and religion 8pm £10/8 Blind Tiger MO’FRO: Kalakuta Millionaires Funky afrobeat bands 8pm £5/3 Brunswick Zooberon Calling Live music 8pm £tbc Caroline Of Brunswick With Lumps, Plurals, Lapis Live music 8pm £4 Coalition Secret Discotheque Replaying the soundtrack to your youth 11pm £4/3/2 Cortlands Hotel Becoming A One Planet City Discussion forum with a panel of architects, urban planners and environmentalists 7.30pm £3/free Dome Ludovico Einaudi Ambient ‘alt classical’ minimalism from the Italian composer and pianist 8pm £29.50/24.50 Dome Studio SOURCE New Music: AK/DK Brighton’s best bands chosen by Brighton’s best listings mag 8pm £4
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Duke Of York’s Cinema Arbitrage 11am £tbc Eagle Not Another Gig Live acoustic music 9pm £free Fiddler’s Elbow Brian McNamara Covers songs and trad Irish tunes 8.30pm £free Fishbowl Cut La Vis Jamaican riddims and urban beats 10.30pm £free
Fountain Head Student Night DJs play indie and rock 8pm £free
Freemasons Live & Wine Live music 8.30pm £free Friend’s Meeting House The Notes Themselves New music for piano and chamber ensemble 7pm £6/5 Funfair Bug’A’Boo Hip hop and R&B ladies’ night 11pm
£3/2 George Payne Open Mic Jam session with instruments provided 8.30pm £free Globe Hang The DJ! A night of punter-picked playlists 9pm £free Green Door Store Boon Magazine Launch: New Union, Tigercub, Kill Moon, Demob Happy Live music launch party for a new Brighton magazine 7pm £3; Sleepless +1 Live bands and DJs 11pm £free Haunt The Moulettes, The Slytones, Robert Vincent, Woodland Blue Sinister and folky chamber pop 7pm £10; Coconut College Thursday night party playing a right mix of stuff like Grimes, Smashing Pumpkins and Kayne West 11pm £3/2 Honey Sundown If your house was this sexy you’d never go outdoors 10pm £free; Do You Really Like It?: 2 Rotten Scoundrels, Rudeben, DJ Cartier, Smokie & Jay-P, DJ Ally, Leeroy Silk Club classics and old school garage 11pm £5/3 Hope Communion Live music 8pm £5; The Social Live acoustic music 8pm £free Komedia Comic Boom: Roisin Conaty Stand-up comedy 8pm £9/7/5 Latest Music Bar Denise Black’s Loose Screw 7.30pm £8/6 Lectern Howler’s Comedy Club Comedy night with 8 stand-ups 8pm £4/3 Lola Lo Tom Foolery Electro, house and dubstep night 9pm £5/3 Lucky Voice Acoustic Open Mic 8pm £free Marlborough Theatre The House Of Bernarda Alba Play by the Spanish dramatist, Federico García Lorca 7.30pm £12.50/10 Mash Tun They Mostly Come Out At Night Indie, electro and hip hop 9pm £free Mesmerist Smokestack Blues and jazz band 9pm £free Mucky Duck Open Mic Jam session with Joe Newman 9pm £free North Laine Pub Leanne And The Rockeros Rockabilly band 8.30pm £free Northern Lights Northern Darkness Nothing but the finest Nordic metal 9pm £free Paris House Ian Price Gypsy Project Live music 9pm £free Prince Albert Dinosaur Pile Up Live music 8pm £7.50 Prince George Souled Out DJs play funk, soul and Motown 8pm £free Proud Cabaret 50 Shades Of Cabaret Fetish cabaret for people who’d never thought of being kinky before reading that book 8pm £24 Ranelagh Shauna Parker & The Saloon Bar Band Country and swing band 8.30pm £free Redroaster Pighog: John O’Donoghue, Linda Black, Deborah Tyler-Bennett Poetry readings Details tbc Riki Tik Big It Up! Resident DJs mine the golden era of dancehall and digital reggae 9.30pm £free Shooshh Azuri 10pm £3/free St George’s Church Edwyn Collins 7pm £20/18 St James’ Tavern Bacon Fat Stay Sick DJs play 50s and 60s “R&R, R&B, tittyshakers and blues” 9pm £free Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Jamie Knox, For Marla, Stacks Live music 8pm £4/3; Ojo De Gringa Jazzy electronica soul band 11pm £free Theatre Royal Passion Play Zoe Wanamaker stars in Peter Nichol’s dark comedy of infidelity 2.30pm/7.45pm £1535 Victory Open Mic 8pm £free Volks Roll Through Drum&bass and dubstep, bass and beatbox 11pm £2 White Rabbit Rebel Music New night playing garage, psych, punk and rock&roll 8pm £free
Friday 26th
10 Below Just For The Funk Of It: DJs Perry Louis, Ed Meme Funky club night 10pm £5 Above Audio Home House and disco DJs 9pm £free Audio Mallory Knox Live music Details tbc Audio Warehouse: Maxxi Soundsystem, Future Boogie House and techno club night 11pm £5/free Basement Chris Wood Award-winning folk guitarist and violinist 7.30pm £14/12 Basement Club Friday Night Live With Lady LaRue Cabaret is a drag sometimes 11pm £free Belushi’s Below Abandoned Rock and metal night
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Blind Tiger ASBO Disco White caps, trainers and super phat bass beats 10pm £5 Brunswick Glass Sines, Siglo 21, Light Parades Indie band night 8pm £5/3 Caroline Of Brunswick Casual Violence Have Friends Sketch group and stand-ups 7.30pm £free; Release The Bats Club night plays the dark side of the 80s - don’t request Wham! or you may be brushed aside by a clenched fist in a cut-off studded glove 9pm £2; Rock Karaoke Singing so delightful “the horrifying screams will haunt your soul for eternity” 9pm £free Coalition Friday I’m In Love No more lectures for a day or two 11pm £2-5 Concorde2 Hadouken! New rave dance punk 7pm £12.50; Jah Shaka Sound System 11pm £9 Cowley Club Thee Bald Knobbers, Thee Bald Kuntz Live music 8pm £4 Digital Stonelove Indie rock&roll club 11pm £4/3 Doctor Brighton’s Funky Friday: DJ Nick Hirst, DJ Wayne 9.30pm £free Druid’s Arms DJ Tommy G Electro beats, indie and house tunes 10pm £free Duke Of Norfolk DJ MC Cashback DJ night 9pm £free
Duke Of York’s Cinema The ABCs Of Death 11pm £tbc
Dukebox Theatre Mae Martin Comedy show 8pm
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Fishbowl Sir Beans OBE, Will Sumsuch Hip hop, funk and 80s electro with the Bristol DJ 9pm £free Fortune Of War Fever Bands and DJs play Latin, salsa and reggae 9pm £free Funfair Circus Commerical music mash-up with fire breathing and snake charming sideshows 9pm £5/3 Funkyfish Thank Funk Soul, funk, jazz and Motown
10.30pm £free Globe The Get Down! DJ night playing a mix of Motown, soul, blues, funk and swing 9pm £free Grand Hotel The Importance Of Being Earnest: Brighton Fringe Festival Oscar Wilde’s classic comedy of wit, identity confusion and blagging 1.45pm/4.30pm £30 Green Door Store The Growlers Jangly psychedelic garage rock from a bunch of Californian surf bums 7pm £tbc; High Pressure Nights Club night playing acid house, indie and 80s pop 11pm £free H-Bar BrunoNumeroUno Underground dance music from the CodeSouth DJ 9pm £tbc Haunt Attack Attack! Someone should really put these American metallers on the same bill as New Zealand noise punks, Die! Die! Die! 7pm £9; Traumfrau Alternative DIY queer night with live bands and “music you actually like” 11pm £5 Hobgoblin Sunglasses After Dark 50s/60s delinquent rock&roll, surf and garage from the Stay Sick and Big Itch DJs 9pm £free Honey I Love R&B Juicy house with a twist of hip hop and plenty of the R and the B 11pm £5/4/free Hop Poles Knead A Break DJ Mass Evil plays breaks, beats and bootlegs 10pm £free Hope The E.M.E., DJ J-Felix Eight-piece band incorporating jazz, hip hop, funk and general festival vibes (downstairs) 9pm £free Horse & Groom Matt & Lenna Live music 8pm £free Komedia How Things Work Live music from singer songwriters, indie bands and folk groups 7.30pm £6.50/4.50; Krater Comedy Club: Joe Rowntree, Phil Nichol, Roger Monkhouse, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy night 8pm £16.50; D:Port: Modular, Kosine, East Court, Dimensional Freaks, Steve Howard, Side FX, Cock One New club night playing cutting edge dance music 11pm £free Latest Music Bar The George Kypreos Band Greek bouzouki band 8.30pm £8/6 Life Below The Line & ENK House, grime and garage 11pm £5/3 Lola Lo Tiki Beats Totally tropical tunes 8pm £5/4/3 Marlborough Theatre Bette Bourne & Paul Shaw - A Right Pair Gay couple share anecdotes about their life on the stage 7.30pm £10/9 Mesmerist Shake, Holla & Roll Vintage blues, swing and rock&roll 9pm £free Mucky Duck Hot-Tip Hi-Fi DJ with a fine collection of vintage reggae and rocksteady records 8pm £free North Laine Pub DJ Veronica Stephens Ska and rocksteady DJ 9pm £free Northern Lights Young Livers Indie and punk DJ 9pm £free Prince Albert Clowns, Mum Dad & The Kids, Little Bird, Downing Street Years Live music 8pm £4 Proud Cabaret Blind Pig Vintage jazz and electro swing burlesque night 7pm £34 Ranelagh The Bushman Brothers Guitar and drums surfer duo 8.30pm £free Shooshh Runway Old school R&B and party mash ups 10pm £5/4/3/free Smugglers Pink Friday 9pm £free Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Sub Bop Down and dirty grunge night with added shoegaze (in the bar) 9pm £free; Late Night Lingerie: China Rats, The Flash Gordons, Glossy Coat, Theo Verney, Parker & The Flaming Wow
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Two night of nu grunge bands rocking through the small hours 11pm £3 Theatre Royal Passion Play Zoe Wanamaker stars in Peter Nichol’s dark comedy of infidelity 7.45pm £15-35 Thomas Kemp Hot Tamales DJs Citizen Lane and HepCat Matt play 50s and 60s rock&roll 9pm £free Three & Ten Rabbit In The Headlights Stand-up comedy night 8pm £6.50/5.50 Volks Legion Of Bass All your bass are belong to us 11pm £tbc Western Front DJ Russ Rockwell Funk and soul DJ 9pm £free White Rabbit DJ Capsun Vintage hip hop with a modern twist 8pm £free
Saturday 27th
10 Below Same As It Ever Was Dance music new and old with the 3 Andys 10.30pm £3 Ancient Mariner The Acoustic Sessions: Sam Chara Acoustic jazz tunes with a Parisian vibe 8pm £free Audio Warehouse: Bodhi House and techno club night
11pm £3/free Basement Club Fusion: DJ Peter Castle, DJ Lee Harris Chart and club remixes 11pm £free Belushi’s Below Thunderstruck Stadium and classic rock club 10pm £5 Black Dove Devil’s Music DJs play swing, jazz and Dixieland 8pm £free Blind Tiger The Blackfields, Native Roses Live band plays blues, latin, country and rock 7pm £3; Prince Fatty, Jabbawocky Hi-Fi New residency for the dub reggae producer 10.30pm £5 Brighton Arts Club Spoken Word Open Mic Time tbc £free Brunswick The Starrlite Beatles Tribute band 7.30pm £8/6 Coalition Jaguar Skills, Union Dubstep and drum&bass from the mystery ninja DJ 11pm £12.50; Blow: Vince Manganaro, Charly Lopez, Charles Green The party never stops 3am £5 Concorde2 Noisia, Misanthrop, Dose Dutch electro trio 11pm £15 Cowley Club Beats Of The World Roots reggae DJs 8pm £tbc Digital Saturday Rox Progressive and uplifting house anthems 11pm £7/5 Doctor Brighton’s Sexy Saturday: DJ Tony B 9.30pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema Met. Opera - Giulio Cesare 5pm £tbc Duke’s @ Komedia Batman 11pm £tbc Exchange Live Music 9pm £free Fiddler’s Elbow Saturday Sizzlers DJs drop hot vinyl into your ears 8pm £free Fishbowl DJ Daddy Marcus Dancey disco and singalong soul 9pm £free Fortune Of War Molly Pop Hip hop and soul DJ 9pm £free Freemasons Saturday Night Disc Spinners DJ night 9pm £free Funfair Magic Dancefloor fillers from every era 9pm £7/5/free Funkyfish Oldschool Saturday Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10pm £6/5 Gladstone Tarantism, Ratbag, Matt Stevens Live gypsy, folk and ska 8.30pm £free Globe Upstairs At The Globe House and disco DJs 8pm £free Grand Hotel The Importance Of Being Earnest: Brighton Fringe Festival Oscar Wilde’s classic comedy of wit, identity confusion and blagging 1.45pm/4.30pm £30 Green Door Store Another Sunny Day: The Bastards Of Fate, Joanna Gruesome, Cosines, Tyrannosaurus Dead Lo-fi indie bands and DIY noise pop 7pm £6/5; The Big Itch Back to basics rock&roll 11pm £free H-Bar Tech Noir: Seb Fontain DJs delve into the depths of tech 9pm £tbc Haunt Daniel & The Scandals, High Tyde, The Basis, Room Service Live music 7pm £5; It Is Still 1985 Travel through time to an ancient realm where keytars are still pretty cool 11pm £3 Honey Flirt Hip hop, R&B and chart tunes 11pm £5/3 Hop Poles Hop To The Beat DJs play hip hop and R&B 10pm £free Hope Brighton Unsigned: Rotait, Simonne & The Dark Stars, Mishkin Fitzgerald, Paul Diello Local online music mag presents a night of live music 7.30pm £4; DJ Will Sumsuch Old school hip hop, funk and soul with cult movies on the big screen 9pm £free Horse & Groom Ruckus Live music 8pm £free Jackie ‘O M Generation: DJ Honcho, DJ Meesta Sleeps “All the best tunes from when MTV still played music” 10pm £5/4/3 Komedia Krater Comedy Club: Joe Rowntree, Phil Nichol, Roger Monkhouse, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy night 7pm/10.30pm £5-22; Funny Women Brighton Nights Comedy competition 8pm £10/8; Mod For It Club night playing garage and Motown, soul and ska
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11pm £5/4 Life XXY Chromosome clubbing from the #Hashtag DJs 11pm £7/5/3 Loft Rock Of Ages In the beginning was the riff. Then came the horned finger salute, shortly followed by the legsapart head-down battle stance. This is the history of metal 10pm £5 Lola Lo Zombie Nation Where the dancefloor is never dead 8pm £10/7/6 Marlborough Theatre Bette Bourne & Paul Shaw - A Right Pair Gay couple share anecdotes about their live on the stage 7.30pm £10/9 Mesmerist Juke Joint Jamboree Rhythm & blues and rock&roll records from the days of the dance halls 9pm £free Mucky Duck Soul Casserole A melting pot of red hot funk and soul 9pm £free North Laine Pub Normanton Street Hip hop, soul and blues band 8.30pm £free Northern Lights DJ Meerkuts 9pm £free OhSo Social Tell Sid It’s Saturday Beachfront bar playing modern remixes of 80s and 90s music 9pm £free Old Ship Hotel Murder Mystery Dinner Theatre All the fun of crime and violence without any of the inconvenience of being arrested or dead - followed by a disco 7pm £tbc Paris House Live Music Live band plays gypsy jazz, swing and bebop 4pm £free Prince Albert The Filaments Live music 8pm £7.50 Proud Cabaret Le Chat Noir Classic cabaret and vintage 7pm £44 Quadrant Laughing Horse Comedy Club: Jay Forman, Debra Jane Appleby, Michael Mooney, Ed Caruana, Lewis Bryan Stand-up comedy night 8.30pm £7/6 Ranelagh The Blind Lemons Blues rock 8.30pm £free Riki Tik Skatadays Reggae, rocksteady and vintage ska records 9.30pm £free Shooshh J’adore Dance music, house and R&B club 10pm £7/5 Smack J’box: DPM, Chemical Play, Jon Byrne New late night Saturday after party 2am £tbc Smugglers Saturday Night Chart and club anthems - plus hip hop, R&B and pop 9pm £free Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Brighton Rocks: Come The Spring, A Room Swept White, The Chaser, Ugly Love Live music 7pm £4; Bitter Disko DJ plays mutant funk, post punk funk and dark acid grooves (in the bar) 9pm £free; Stick It On This is a night with a difference - one in which you become the DJ! An iPod is all you need to make your musical journey. YOU decide which requests to take, which classics to play and which self-indulgent B-sides to risk 11pm £5 Theatre Royal Passion Play Zoe Wanamaker stars in Peter Nichol’s dark comedy of infidelity 2.30pm/7.45pm £1535 Victory DJ Rob Taylor Soul, rock and alt pop 9pm £free Volks The Mine: Youngsta, Seven Klax, Quantum Soul, Nanobyte, Occult, Sibla , Duka, Gweni MC, Joe Raygun Dubstep and drum&bass night 11pm £6 Western Front DJ Dennis Castro Not only playing ‘muscle rhymes’ and ‘jiggy fitness’ but also ‘lazy garage’ and ‘blog pop’ 9pm £free White Rabbit The Mixer Men DJ night 9pm £free White Room Disco Deja-Vu Retro soul, funk and disco that you’ve probably heard before 9pm £free
Sunday 28th
Basement Club Pop!Candy DJ Claire Fuller plays pure non-stop pop 11pm £free Blind Tiger Lindy Hop Festival After Party Live dance band 7pm £5 Brighton Centre Brighton Records & CD Fair For those who still savour the thrill of the chase 9.30am £2 Brunswick Brighton Craft Alliance Craft fair Noon £free; Ukulele Jam It tastes sweet but a little woody! 3pm £tbc; Real Music Club: Funge, That Legendary Wooden Lion, Hana Burchell Live music 8pm £6/5 Concorde2 Hatebreed Connecticut metalcore 7pm £14
Dome Loudon Wainwright III Humorous folk songs from the head of the singer songwriter dynasty 8pm £25/22 Duke Of Beaufont Sunday Film Night Cult movies and nostalgic classics 8pm £free Duke’s @ Komedia Jasper, Penguin Explorer 11am £tbc
Fiddler’s Elbow Sham-Rock Open Mic 8.30pm
£free
Fishbowl Recovery? Reggae through the ages 9pm
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Fountain Head Reggae & Roasts Reggae and chilled beats Time tbc £free Globe Handbaked Arcade Things were so much better in the 1990s when all we had was 64-bit games of Italian plumbers inexplicably racing against turtles and gorillas Noon
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Grand Hotel The Importance Of Being Earnest: Brighton Fringe Festival Oscar Wilde’s classic comedy of wit, identity confusion and blagging 1.45pm/4.30pm £30 Green Door Store Physics House Band
Psychedelic prog outfit 8pm £6; Green Door Blues Big Itch DJs plus the resident blues band, Smokestack 10pm £free Hope Wooden Wand New York psychedelic country troubadour 8pm £8/6; Improvabananas DJs entertain with comical choices and audience requests (downstairs) Time tbc £free Komedia Krater Comedy Club: Phil Nichol, Roger Monkhouse, John Hastings, Mike Sheer, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy night 8pm £5-12 Latest Music Bar Brighton Twisted Market There’s no dress code at this fetish market - as long as you “keep the undercarriage covered” Noon £5 Lectern The Sunday Sermon Stripped down band night 6.30pm £free North Laine Pub Live Funky Soulful Sundays 4pm £free Northern Lights Northern Light Sundays The DJ has a lazy Sunday afternoon 4pm £free Old Market Spun Glass Theatre - Scratch Sessions New writers try out ten minute plays, poems or whatever 3pm £1 Prince George Pub Quiz 8pm £1 Ranelagh The Jackals Rhythm and blues band 8.30pm £free Signalman Open Mic Open session hosted by local duo, Zoothyme 8pm £free Thomas Kemp Jazz In The Afternoon: Lee Rainbow Hands And His Piano! Live jazz 4pm £free University Of Sussex Lindy Hop Festival Workshops, taster sessions and dancing championships 10am £tbc Victory Blues Sundays DJ plays blues and soul Noon £free White Rabbit Hush Hush Live acoustic music 8pm £free
Monday 29th
Ancient Mariner Quiz Night 8pm £1 Audio SYT Trap music Time tbc £2 Basement King Creosote, Gummi Bako Scottish singer songwriter 7.30pm £14/12 Bee’s Mouth The Bee’s Mouth Jazz Forum Jazz jam with a house band 8.30pm £free Blind Tiger The 333 Club Live music 7pm £tbc Brunswick Open Mic 7.30pm £free Coalition Trash Mondays Filthy tunes for students and layabouts alike 11pm £3/2 Duke’s @ Komedia ROH. - Nabucco 7.15pm £tbc Fiddler’s Elbow Top Bananas Live music 8.30pm
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Green Door Store Narrows, Coliseum Live music 7.30pm £8.50 Greys Hatful Of Rain Country and bluegrass band 8.30pm £7 Haunt Fat Poppadaddys Student indie night 11pm £3/2/free Hobgoblin The Big Fat Juicy Quiz Pub quiz with interactive gameshow rounds 8pm £free Hope Nately’s Whore’s Kid Sister, A Hundred Black Kites, Reds, Bermuda Ern, Riff Till Yer Still DJs Dark named character in drone rock band named after the un Catch-22 8pm £5; Live Sessions Live music (downstairs) 8pm £free Komedia Jamie N Commons Swamp rock and gospel blues from the BBC’s Sound of 2012 finalist 7pm £6; Minkley’s Night Of Mirth: Stuart Lee, Mark Watson, Nick Helm, Ed Gamble Top stand-ups pay their respects to the late local comic, Oliver Minkley 8pm £12/10 Latest Music Bar Paul Rose, Jack Moore Rock and blues guitarist 8.30pm £14 Lectern Super Student Quiz 8pm £1 Life #Hashtag Funky house club with added Twitter confusion 10pm £3/2 Mesmerist Flash Mob Jazz Raucous jazz band 9pm £free Neptune The Swing Ninjas Gypsy swing band 8.30pm £free Prince Albert Iron Chic, Baton Rouge, Bear Trade, Breakers Live music 8pm £6 Shooshh KISS New student club 8pm £4/3/2/free Signalman Signalman 100th Pub Quiz 8pm £1 Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar The Move-Ons, Oh Captain, The NoTempo’s, RePete Local rockers 7.30pm £4 Thomas Kemp Quiz Night 8pm £1 University Of Sussex Ace Stories Hungarian Literature Night: George Szirtes, Noemi Szecsi Readings and talks with a Hungarian novelist and poet (in ‘The Creativity Zone’ in the Pevensey III building) 7pm £8/7 Victory Poetry Night Live poetry readings 8pm £free Volks Strictly Reggae Dancehall, roots, revival 11pm £5/4
Tuesday 30th
sickest night in the whole of East Sussex” (grills get in free) 11pm £1-4 Blind Tiger R. Stevie Moore Weirdo singer songwriter who’s put out 400 albums since the 60s 7pm £6 Brunswick Jazz Jam Open session with a house band and special guests 8pm £free Cooper’s Cask Pub Quiz 9pm £1 Digital CU Next Tuesday It’ll teach the universities to timetable lectures for Wednesday mornings 11pm £4/3 Dome Pink Martini Twelve-piece ‘little orchestra’ mixing the sounds of Cuban dance bands, classical chamber ensembles and Japanese film noir soundtracks 8pm £26.50/23.50 Duke Of Norfolk Open Mic 9pm £free Fiddler’s Elbow QUIZness Time Are you a pub quiz whizz, or bit of a half-wit? 8pm £1 Fountain Head Student Night DJs play indie and rock 8pm £free Gladstone Quiz Night 8.30pm £1 Globe Basement Cinema Underground films, comfy seats and free popcorn 8pm £free Good Companions The Big Fat Juicy Quiz 8pm £free Green Door Store Barn Owl, A-Sun Amissa, Embla Quickbeam Live music 7.30pm £7.50; Donuts Hipster funk and hip hop gems 11pm £free Komedia Laura Mvula Brummie soul singer (this show has now sold out) 7.30pm £tbc Life La Fever Urban and latin club 11pm £tbc Northern Lights Scandinavian May Day Party 8pm £free Old Market The Drawing Circus - Spring Sprawl Themed drop-in life drawing session 7pm £5 Prince Albert Ha Ha Tonka Live music 8pm £8 Quadrant Open Mic Jam session hosted by Jenna Bennett 8.30pm £free Red Lion Challenging General Knowledge & Music Quiz 8pm £1 Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Radar Bros Live music 7.30pm £tbc Thomas Kemp Poker Evening 8pm £free Three & Ten Like They Are Theatre show about dealing with relationships and death 7.30pm £7 Three Graces Comedy Night 8pm £free White Rabbit Tin Cup Collective Live funk soul band 8pm £free
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COMMUNITY ARTS CENTRE Wowzers! New paintings by Edward Liddle Apr 5th - 14th FABRICA The Blue Route The Finnish artist Kaarina Kaikkonen uses second hand objects to create large scale installations Apr 6th - 27th FRIEND’S MEETING HOUSE Brighton & Hove Arts Council Spring Exhibition 150 artworks by local artists Apr
17th - 20th GALLERY 40 The Land, Sea And Sky New landscape paintings by Jason Little Apr 1st - 7th HOVE MUSEUM & ART GALLERY Daydreams And Diaries - The Story Of Jacqueline Wilson Learn about the characters and working practises of the best-selling children’s author Until Apr 30th INK_D Occupied Territories Ian Hodgson explores his sense of self with stark inky portraits Apr 5th - 21st ONCA Our Time In Ice Artists, writers, filmmakers and adventurers respond to the ‘changing arctic’ Until May 31st PHOENIX GALLERY Press & Release Celebrating the thriving culture of artists’ books Apr 27th - Jun 9th ROYAL PAVILION The Lost Pagodas An installation by Geraldine Pilgrim replacing some fancy Regency pagodas that now stand in Buckingham Palace Until Apr 2nd SLICE SUSSEX Timo Garcia Large canvas prints of photos taken by the house DJ on his travels Apr 12th - 19th SPACE @ CREATE Ewen Spencer New work by the former Face and Sleazenation photographer who’s been documenting subcultures for 20 years Apr 4th - 26th UNIVERSITY GALLERY Research - Beyond Words Student exhibition Apr 15th - Apr 29th
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Six Of The Best
Vegetarian eateries Words by Steve Clements, jessica Marshall McHattie, Rosie SWaffer
terre À Terre
When we said we could eat a horse, we didn’t mean it quite so literally. So, while the international meat industry gets its house in order, We pick out six of the city’s finest vegetarian and vegan eating out specialists.
Cowley Club
London Rd A pearl amongst swine on the love-it-or-hate-it London Road gateway to Brighton, this punky anarcho café/venue/meeting place is renowned for its fund-raising Sunday barbecues and bargain roasts. The Cowley serves the cheapest veggie lunch in town Wednesdays to Fridays, with a themed evening meal most Thursdays. It’s run by volunteers so expect an ever-changing menu at this friendly, politically active haven. You can also enjoy a fish gut-free beer from the vegan bar. (SC)
Gourmet Girls Pop-Up Restaurant
Islingword Rd The only place in town that offers a wholly plant-based gourmet dining experience, Gourmet Girls’ informal Friday night pop-up restaurant at Fanny’s Of Hanover is a much-loved staple for Brighton’s vegans. The seating is spread across two floors and the always inspired menu takes on a different theme each week. This month they have Japanese, Spanish, North African and Thai nights prepared by expert chef Paula Young. This little bring-a-bottle gem is deservedly popular so book in advance. (SC)
The george
Trafalgar St It’s incredibly brave for a pub to serve only vegetarian food, but this saintly boozer had our tipsy custom repeatedly before we even noticed the lack of meat. There’s a lot on offer at the George, and they encourage swapping sauces, dips and sides as you desire. The three-cheese nachos will keep even the most committed of carnivores sated, whilst the juicy halloumi burger makes us scoff at the memory of dry bean burgers and slimy portobello mushrooms. (JMM)
Terre À Terre
East St One of Brighton’s long established and most coveted foodie hotspots for veggies and omnivores alike, the award-winning Terre à Terre on East Street has recently re-opened after a pre-Christmas kitchen fire. The layout may have changed slightly but the playfully indecipherable offerings remain. You may not be sure what you’re ordering but the presentation and combination of flavours rarely disappoint. The staff are friendly and knowledgeable and eating there always feels like a special occasion. (SC)
food for friends
Kensington Gdns/Western Rd A small sanctuary amidst the hubbub of Kensington Gardens, Iydea is a regular award winner where the ever cheery staff serve up a fresh selection of hot and cold dishes, tasty juices and excellent cakes. Join the queue and work your way along the counter, choosing from pies, curry, falafel, pasta or chilli before finishing off with some salad and a splodge of hummus. If there are no seats, grab a delicious cup of soup to go for under a quid. Also coming soon to Western Road. (SC)
Prince Albert St Friendly and informal but still suitable for a special occasion, Food for Friends is, in many people’s opinion, the best vegetarian restaurant in the city. The food is absolutely delicious with a large variety of dishes and they also cater extremely well for people with food sensitivities. Dessert is a must as the banana fritters with rum batter are one of the best things we’ve ever tasted. Thoroughly deserving of being crowned Best Restaurant at the 2012 Brighton & Hove Foodies Awards. (RS)
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