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:Kinema: god’s gift to smooth pop
volume 2. Issue 29 December 2010 / January 2011
New year’s eve Listings & previews Vive La France! Sea Monsters
Tim Flach - see culture, page 24
no feaR, it’s new year
By now you’ve probably got a good idea of how we feel about New Year’s Eve – it’s a great chance to go crazy for one night with as many of your mates as possible, not a stress night of so-called ‘pressure’. A few years ago you had to choose between going to see a big name dance music DJ or having a house party but those days are over. There’s never been such a focus on the actual fun side of your NYE night out as there is now. Of course you can go and see a famous bloke behind the decks but it’s just as likely that it’s going to be your favourite resident spinning the tunes that they know you love. Depending on which side of the fence you sit there’s loads of choice, as you can see from the centre section of this month’s mag. We hope you enjoy this bumper double issue cos we’re not about until February now, although you can still find us on the web (www. brightonsource.co.uk), Facebook (Brighton SOURCE fan page), and on Twitter (@BrightonSOURCE). Until then have a lovely Christmas. And a fun New Year – it’s only a night out after all.
Personnel
Editor James Kendall ManageR Rosie Kendall Designer Matt Barker at Artwerk DEPUTY Editor Nick Coquet Sales Manager Lucy Kamper listings editor Ben Bailey NEWS editor Lydia Stockbridge CLUBS editor Zac Colbert Cover James Kendall, Rosie Kendall, Matt Barker, Markus Milcke
Contributors
Dan Bowden, Mike Bradford, Tom Chambers, Steve Clements, Jake Cunningham, Ben Gilbert, Sean Jordan, Keri Kennedy, Nicky Marchant, Jessica Marshall McHattie, Helen Murdoch, Ben Miller, Henry Powell, Kirsty Schofield. If you want to contribute to SOURCE email james@brightonsource.co.uk
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Contents
News New In Town Gig Previews Interview: Eager Teeth Club Previews Club Review: Warehouse Interview: :Kinema: Culture Art: Octopus Gallery Critic Feature: SOURCE Writers’ Chart Preview: Sea Monsters Festival Preview: Vive La France Festival New Year’s Eve Previews New Year’s Eve Listings Preview: Tattoo Convention Street Style Street Style Extra Christmas Gift Guide Unsung Hero: Tim Richardson Secret Eater: Treacle & Co In Conversation With: Ukulele Day Listings Six Of The Best: Not Just For Christmas
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NEWS
WORDS BY NICK COQUET, JAMES KENDALL, JESSICA MARSHALL MCHATTIE
BRIGHTON BEST OF BRITISH
Brighton has always had a pedigree as a great city for dance music and, despite the focus on our bands over the last few years, that’s still true. Says who, you ask? Says dance music bible DJmag, who have nominated loads of our beat experts for gongs in this year’s Best Of British Awards. Audio, Burns, Mount Kimbie and Shogun Audio (alongside ex-Brighton legends Annie Nightingale and Bonobo) have all made the shortlists for this year. Head over to djmag.com/bestofbritish/ to vote them to success.
SHOP TIL YOU…
OK, remember you promised yourself you’d start early this year? Like, not leaving it to the circle of hell that Dante forgot – Churchill Square on a mid-December weekend? Well, the Komedia has a couple of alternative options – first they’re hosting Brighton’s Secondhand & Craft Bazaar on Sunday 5th from 10am-4pm, featuring pre-loved gear and locally designed handmade items to suit the more individual taste.
…DROP
A week later on Sunday 12th, The Handmade Brighton Christmas Special at Komedia is the ideal way to pick up some handiwork by local artisans and designers. Or do something raise money for the Royal Alexandra Children’s Hospital by buying beautiful, handmade items ranging from jewellery, cards and more at the Christmas Craft Fayre at the Bristol Arms – check Facebook for the dates and more info.
MATCHBOX FLARE-UP?
It seems like only yesterday that we were sat with The Eighties Matchbox boys last month, hearing of their plans to release another album soon and stuff. So when a week later Guy McKnight announced onstage at Digital it would be their last show, we were as surprised as anyone. But that’s proved premature, they’re playing at least one more show at Concorde 2’s Maximalism Musical Extravaganza on Wednesday 15th December in aid of Martlets Hospice, with British Sea Power, Electric Soft Parade and loads more.
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the eighties matchbox b-line disaster
CLASSICAL CHRISTMAS
Those of you already fed up with Christmas could probably do with imbibing some genuine festive spirit. No, not advocat – get yourself in front of some lovely old Christmas music by candlelight at the St Nicholas Church on Dyke Road, on Saturday 18th at 7.30pm. The Hanover Band will be playing seasonal hits from Bach and Handel.
THE MISERABLE POOR
It must be great to be in a band like The Miserable Rich, travelling Europe playing gigs to adoring fans, but let’s be frank – there ain’t loads of money in it. But you can help with that. They’re asking fans to pledge money to help them make their new LP. See http://bit.ly/ miserablepledge or ask them about it at their Hydrant gig on Thursday 16th December, where they’ve got – shock horror – a drummer.
FANCY A BARGAIN?
If you’ve got a girlfriend you want to treat to something luxurious for Jesus’ birthday, or a boyfriend you want to give a little surprise to on Christmas morning, then you’ll want to be heading over to the studio of underwear goddesses Ophelia Fancy on Thursday 9th December, from 5-8pm. Get yourself down to Studio 26, New England House, for discount knickers, bras, stockings and nipple tassels.
BROKEN BRIGHTON, again
We knew that things weren’t going great for Taj, the ace ethnic grocery chain but it’s very sad to hear as we hit the presses that the Kemp Town store was closing. Worse still, Brightonandhovenews.org is reporting that Sainsbury’s are expected to dive into their warm grave. Morrisons, Tesco and the Co-op are already on St James’s Street. It’ll be coming up to the council elections when we get back, so rest assured we won’t let anyone brush this stuff under the carpet.
NO SHAME IN THE GAME
If gaming’s your thing, a couple of things are certain – your girlfriend will usually be cross with you, and you’ll like this exhibition. Another Castle: Illustrations From A Lifetime Spent Gaming features some of London and Brighton’s top up-and-coming illustrators and designers depicting their favourite games through art. You can challenge them in a Nintendo face-off to win discounts off the artworks. That’ll cheer up her indoors – a framed likeness of Sonic The Hedgehog…
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PAVILION ICE RINK
NEW IN TOWN WORDS BY NICK COQUET, LYDIA STOCKBRIDGE
PAVILION ICE RINK
GEOMIUM
NIGHTMOVES
MOJO TO GO GO
ANGST VS FUN
LOVE THY NEIGHBOUR
PAY & DISPLAY POP-UP GALLERY
ONE-STOPRECORDSHOP
We like the idea of going ice-skating over Christmas, so now there’s a decent sized outdoor rink at the Pavilion, we’re all about it – picturing ourselves laughing and skating about with rosy cheeks and festive jumpers and shit. There’s also a Due South restaurant and bar, a crèche to dump your brats in and a beginners area for idiots. It could become a nice annual tradition, if no one gets killed or anything.
A new mid-month Saturday night fixture comes to Jam in the shape of Nightmoves – resident DJs spinning slow jams, boogie, disco and funky house to a reported backdrop of 80s Miami décor and palm trees. This doesn’t mean, however, that attendees should shun socks and roll up the sleeves of their pastel-coloured linen suits while conducting cocaine wars via enormous mobile phones. Just in case there’s any confusion, like.
The tagline for this new regular event is “Swap books you don’t want for those you do with people you don’t know yet” and is part of The Mesmerist’s schedule of quirky but cool events. Turn up with some books you’ve read and you think might impress strangers, talk about them to the strangers, swap them with strangers, possibly get off with the strangers, all the while listening to some out-there music and drinking booze. The first social swap shop is on Sunday 12th December from 3-8pm and there’s a website at www.angst-vs-fun.com.
Gloucester Road is home to a new pop-up gallery and shop from Wednesday 3rd to Wednesday 24th December, an ‘ephemeral emporium’ according to the organisers. Exhibitors include Brighton first-timers Gemma Booth and Sharon Elphick, as well as Modern Toss, Maria Rivans and Cardigan, showing off their limited edition prints, photography, mid-20th century furniture and a bunch of other desirable stuff besides.
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Geomium is a new Brighton app that lets you plan your social life on your phone, kind of like the olden days. Look up local gigs, eats and drinks, see who among your friends is nearby and arrange to meet up, all in real time. Just like talking on the phone in fact, but obviously better. Or you could have a look at the iPhone (and Android, Blackberry) friendly, easy to navigate, constantly updated SOURCE website and phone your mates.
After a summer break, Mojo To Go Go returns with a new, more central venue on Saturday 8th January at the Volks. Joining the Mojo team is Simon Bridger (Da Doo Ron Ron, Brighton Soul All-Dayers) for sublime 60s soul, r’n’b, garage, psych and ska. Resident DJs and guests spin retro vinyl over two floors from 10pm to 3am. Future dates will be the second Saturday every two months.
Alas, the Freebutt may have closed its doors completely, but fear not, live music fans, as the promoting talent behind the cherished venue is venturing into pastures new. Under the new (and possibly tongue in cheek?) moniker, Love Thy Neighbour, they’ll be putting on shows throughout the city, bringing us the bands we love. Debuting at The Hope on Friday 10th December, The Rural Alberta Advantage will be taking the stage, playing heartfelt folk songs from their hometown of Alberta – get your tickets in advance for this one.
Purveyors of fine vinyl, Pure Pleasure Music and Vinyl Underground have teamed up to create a crate-digger’s paradise above vintage shop Wolf & Gypsy on Sydney street. They’ll be stocking a heady mix of electronica and hip hop rarities, specialising in new underground dance releases, vinylonly issues, Detroit house as well as 7” bargains. A lot of stock is coming out of storage, and with the amount of experience these guys have you can expect to find some real gems piled high in there. They even bought a load of 12”s off our editor.
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pulled apart by horses
GIG PREVIEWS WORDS BY DAN BOWDEN, mike bradford, NICK COQUET, BEN GILBERT, SEAN JORDAN, KERI KENNEDY, HELEN MURDOCH, JESSICA MARSHALL MCHATTIE
YOUNG BANDS NIGHT • Dome Weds 1st Dec
Brighton is the place to be for young musical talent, and this is celebrated at the iconic Dome theatre with performances from various local bands. The music stylings range from indie sextet Alice (one to watch), the punk alternative Blank Revolution and the bluesy When Monsters Walk. This event is perfect if you want to watch some bands trying something a bit different or if you just want to celebrate the variety of music Brighton offers. (HM)
Derriere •
PULLED APART BY HORSES & GAY FOR JOHNNY DEPP
Audio Weds 1st Dec
Brunswick Weds 1st Dec
Rockabilly quintet Derriere return to their Brighton roots for an intimate set in the Brunswick’s back room, combining rich, dusty vocals with dub grooves. Definitely on the more accessible side of rockabilly, the band evokes candlelit and smoky American jazz clubs, seedy moustaches and lipstick-ed cigarettes. And, if only for telling your mates afterwards, can you turn down the opportunity to spend the evening in the company of Gloria Stitts (...y’know, the vocalist)? (JMM)
VAMPIRE WEEKEND Brighton Centre Weds 1st Dec
How to fill a venue normally the preserve of Premier League darts, Dancing On Ice, A Question Of Sport or Alexandra Burke? For starters – the ability to retain an intimate charm, melodic wit and Big Apple flair while conquering huge crowds has been the mark of Vampire Weekend’s recent triumph. How much will tonight’s crowd care about Oxford commas, Congolese dance rhythms or
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rebel forces during the Nicaraguan civil war? When the tunes are this good, intellectualising fades away. Take note, Phil ‘The Power’ Taylor! (BG)
Leeds-based Pulled Apart By Horses return to Brighton after their Great Escape performance, and will most likely trash the place again. The band’s eponymous first LP on Trangressive was only released a few months ago and they’ve certainly given it a riotous road testing. Known for intense and injury-strewn gigs, they’re joined by New York’s Gay For Johnny Depp – hardcore vocalist Arty Shepherd screams of homoerotic love for Mr Depp whilst dressed as a vicar. It’ll be a good ‘un. (KK)
THE CORRESPONDENTS Concorde 2 Thurs 2nd Dec
The Correspondents mix drum’n’bass, jazz and electro swing like a fine cocktail, and they’re bringing their heady mixture of styles to the Concorde 2. With performances at Glastonbury and Bestival under their belts, Mr Bruce and Mr Chuckles know how to put on a show – expect toe-tapping tunes and irresistible musings on love, loss and letting yourself go. If you want some upbeat, jazzy hip hop this is the place to be, so grab your martini and don’t be late. (SJ)
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GIG PREVIEWS
delorean
INTRODUCING PLAY ‘ENdTRODUCING’ Concorde 2 Fri 3rd Dec
Do what?! A thirst for nostalgia has taken us from Dave Rubbish assailing the greats with a karaoke machete, to our idols rebooting a vague classic for one more mortgage fix. Now this. Tonight, a 10-piece band will apparently put DJ Shadow’s landmark 1996 masterpiece back together, playing it completely live, note-for-note, in what appears to be a turntablist X Factor. What’s next? Support from the SOURCE editorial husband and wife dream team, singing the Top Gun soundtrack? It could happen. (BG)
WE HAVE BAND
Audio Sat 4th
This fantastic London trio arrive in Brighton as part of The Recommender blog’s next showcase, bringing with them their brand of banging electronic pop tunes. With lead vocalist Darren’s special ability to drum whilst standing up and singing, you always get an eyeful as well as an earful from their consistently strong set. Support this time around has Brighton’s purveyors of pop noir, Mirrors, who are all set to blossom in 2011, alongside Bright Light Bright Light, neatly completing a night of electronic heaven. (MB)
BLOOD RED SHOES • Concorde 2 Weds 8th Dec
The poet James Agee once said that when you leave home you can never go back. Fortunately this doesn’t apply to Blood Red Shoes, making a welcome return to Brighton this December. Their debut album ‘Box Of Secrets’ and follow-up ‘Fire Like This’ mixed vulnerable lyrics with high-
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energy punk influences; managing to be poignant, angry and upbeat all at once. Next up is a break, a rest, and a third album, so get them while they’re hot. (SJ)
DELOREAN
Jam Weds 8th Dec
Opinions vary about the true godfathers of chillwave, the scene which has gushed so much warped, psychedelic electronica upon a whacked-out world in 2010. Neon Indian, Toro Y Moi and Washed Out have led the sunburnt charge but Spanish dance act Delorean’s credentials, from their Back To The Future-referencing name and Balearic backdrop, remain compelling. This is a playful, lush sound that, fittingly, looks the most capable of commercial lift-off, if they can raise their catatonic heads above sea level. (BG)
PETER ANDRE •
Brighton Centre Fri 10th Dec
It’s perhaps difficult to see why Harvey’s stepdad is selling tickets to his 38-date UK tour hand over fist, and to whom exactly. But Andre is a man many will feel they know intimately, what with eager TV cameras beaming his every move and vapid opinion into our homes as he stares over the precipice of obscurity. Parting with your hard-earned cash just to be in the same cavernous room as some bloke off the telly might seem a bit dim in these troubled times, but one suspects that’s the primary motive for most. It can’t be the music, really, can it? (NC)
NINJA TUNE XX
Concorde 2 Fri 10th Dec
Ninja Tune, one of the most innovative music labels in the UK, has turned 20. And to celebrate its birthday, it’s throwing a party for us. There may not be cake, but there’s trip hop hero Bonobo with Brighton-based soul singer Andreya Triana and a full live band, and support from the one and only Roots Manuva amongst others, so this night can’t fail to be a very special birthday party indeed – don’t let Ninja Tune finish its teenage years without a mighty celebration. (JMM)
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B R A S S N E C K p R E S E N t S
M U S I C
The CorrespondenTs
plus Mr. B The GenTleMan rhyMer, dJ niCk hollywood (dVJ show), dr deMenTo’s diaBoliC disCo + dJ niCo de TransilVania Thursday 2nd december concorde 2 // £8
wooden shJips*
plus GuesTs: howlin’ rain, Moon duo monday 6Th december concorde 2 // £14
MaXiMalisM**
a musical exTravaganza in aid of The marTleTs hosPice FeaTurinG The Myriad TalenT oF BriTish sea power, 80s MaTChBoX B-line disasTer, Field MusiC, The Chap, The eleCTriC soFT parade, The pure ConJeCTure + GuesT dJs + silenT auCTion wednesday 15Th december concorde 2 // £20
JusTin Townes earle *resCheduled daTe* wednesday 19Th January Komedia // £11
C.w. sTonekinG
Tuesday 25Th January Komedia // £12
* co-Pro wiTh The freebuTT ** Thomas & alex whiTe in asscociaTion wiTh brassnecK, iTb and concorde 2
ani diFranCo
wednesday 26Th January Komedia // £17.50
wire ***
plus neGaTiVe peGasus Tuesday 1sT february Komedia // £14
JiMMy weBB
+ Very speCial GuesT nell Bryden saTurday 5Th february sT. mary’s church // £22.50
wolF people
Tuesday 15Th february Prince alberT // £7
dean warehaM plays GalaXie 500
wednesday 16Th february Komedia // £13
duM duM Girls
wednesday 6Th aPril Komedia // £10
BrassneCk MusiC shows in london:
paul Brady @ union chaPel on 25/02/11 The radio depT @ scala on 05/12/10 The GodFaThers @ cargo on 01/12/10 *** co-Pro wiTh one inch badge
TicKeTs: rounder, residenT, see TicKeTs, TicKeTweb, we goT TicKeTs, giganTic
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GIG PREVIEWS
SCISSOR SISTERS Brighton Centre Sun 12th Dec
Despite somewhat diminishing national record sales – their debut was the UK’s best-selling album of 2004 yet subsequent releases have seen less universal clamour – the Scissor Sisters are still packing them in here in Brighton. The biggest venue in town could usually do with an atmosphere implant, and it’s certain to be in evidence tonight with an evening of camp dress-up and disco. Don’t feel like dancin’? You will. (NC)
DAVID LOWERY & JOHNNY HICKMAN Prince Albert Sun 12th Dec
David Lowery is best known for fronting 80s alt.rock institution Camper Van Beethoven, the eclectic Californians who gave us the satirical classic ‘Take The Skinheads Bowling’. When CVB split for a decade, Lowery teamed up with guitarist Johnny Hickman in the more MTV-friendly Cracker, scoring a bit 90s hit with ‘Low’, as well as the Chicks On Speedcovered ‘Eurotrash Girl’. This low-key Sunday afternoon show sees the pair performing songs by both Cracker and the reformed CVB. (SH)
SOPHIE ELLIS-BEXTOR Concorde 2 Sun 12th Dec
She’s the daughter of a Blue Peter presenter but Sophie is known for much more than having a famous mum. She’s also got a famous husband, a strange-shaped head and was once in an indie band before realising she’d gone through the wrong door at stage school and should have been making air-headed dance music instead. Expect to hear plenty of that tonight, in the shape of new album ‘Straight To The Heart’, for which the phrase “here’s one we made earlier” was surely invented. (BG)
ELECTRIC SIX
Concorde 2 Tues 14th Dec
Jack White has been responsible for some strange decisions. He got married to his sister, then tied the knot with a supermodel while floating down the Amazon in a canoe. Worst of all, he sang on ‘Danger! High Voltage’, the 2003 smash from Electric Six, officially Earth’s most irritating group thanks principally to singer Dick Valentine, whose wacky frontman
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skills generally reach their zenith when he produces a baguette. Don’t expect any special guest stars tonight. Do expect a power cut. (BG)
OK PILOT & PACER Cowley Club Sat 18th Dec
A treat for the punk rock crowd on the last Saturday before half of Brighton’s population leave for families around the country. Headliners are Exeter’s OK Pilot who have been making a name for themselves around Europe and the US with their Hot Snakes-meets-The Bronx style punk’n’roll. Pacer are a new UK punk rock band making waves having released their first record through The Bouncing Souls label. Support comes from three more Brighton DIY punk rock/hardcore bands. (DB)
James Blake
Life Fri 14th Jan
The terms ‘boundary-breaking’ and ‘electronic exploration’ are bandied around too much for our liking, but this is an artist who it’s difficult to describe without referring to his unique and, we said it, exploratory methods of creating tunes. Mercifully free from the usual trappings of the pretentious, Mount Kimbie’s pal released his debut this year and is much beloved by Radio 1. Catching him in a small-ish venue will undoubtedly prove rewarding. (JMM)
THE WALKMEN Concorde 2 Weds 26th Jan
You could have been forgiven for not realising The Walkmen have been around for just over 10 years. Formed in 2000 in New York by former members of Jonathan Fire*Eater, they’ll be bringing their sixth – yes sixth! – album ‘Lisbon’ to the Concorde 2 on the last night of their UK tour. Hamilton Leithauser’s gravelly vocal and Matt Barrick’s precision drumming on anthemic, soaring singles such as ‘The Rat’ and ‘Angela Surf City’ will have you no less than transfixed. (KK)
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Gigs In Brighton... AIDEN
Audio Thursday 2nd December 7pm £10 adv
YOUNG GUNS
Concorde 2 Saturday 4th December 7pm £8.50 adv
MATTHEW DEAR
Audio Wednesday 8th December 7pm £8.50 adv
BEN HOWARD
The Hope Tuesday 14th December 8pm £7 adv
MONA
Audio Saturday 18th December 7pm £6 adv
HURTS
Brighton Dome Wednesday 2nd February 7.30pm £14 adv
A DAY TO REMEMBER Brighton Dome Friday 4th February 7pm £15 adv
EXAMPLE
Brighton Dome Thursday 17th March 7.30pm £14 adv
THE KING BLUES
Concorde 2 Monday 28th March 7.30pm £10 adv
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EAGER TEETH
my side. Telegraphs will always remain very much like a family to me. We share an active interest in each other’s musical ventures of late, always with encouragement. And, oddly, I find myself in a band with Sam [drummer of Eager Teeth and Telegraphs] again. I reckon he thinks I’m stalking him or something. Which I am. Jamie: Animosity? No way. We were all friends before Hot Damn and continue to be now. Although I probably bore them all to death going on about Eager Teeth.
new band with bite WORDS BY JAMES KENDALL
Members of This City, Telegraphs, Chaos Days and Hot Damn in one band? It’s Brighton’s ultimate rock supergroup. The band seems to have come together really quickly – did you have eyes on working together for a while? Arran: As This City was drawing to an end for me I knew I wouldn’t be able to leave the music scene forever. I’d known Jamie for a little while, as he’d also temped for This City playing bass across Europe. We’d always spoken about doing a side project, so when I left he was the first port of call. Will’s been a close friend for years and was the obvious choice as he’s exactly what I was looking for in a front man. Gary: There’d been a couple of different line-ups prior to the current one; I guess this is the one that worked out the nicest. Sam and I are the newest additions, but the band was still in its infancy when we arrived. Being Arran’s virtual common-law livein life-partner, I’ve borne witness to the first discussions of Eager Teeth that came prior to the end of Telegraphs.
Are there any ego problems with everyone coming from other, really good, bands? G: Ha ha, not a chance! There’s nothing unique or individual about being in a band of any achievement in this town, so no one has cause to start blowing their own trumpet. This City and Telegraphs weren’t the only composites of the puzzle – Jamie was in Hot Damn, and Will sang in Chaos Days and also plays bass in the rather excellent Lightbringer. On a positive, it just means we are all seasoned musicians with absolutely no delusions of grandeur. Is this the new full-time project for you all? What are your plans for the future? A: I wouldn’t say it’s a full-time project yet, although we meet regularly to write, practice and have been in and out the studio recording, I think we all realise there’s life outside of the band. I think for too long we’ve all put our past bands ahead of everything to come away with nothing. We all miss playing live but don’t miss driving up and down the country for weeks on end, so I think we’re a long way from touring. But then if the right shows came up we could be persuaded.
Do Eager Teeth need to eclipse the success of your former bands for you to be happy? A: No, I achieved a lot of life ambitions whilst in This City, which I Any animosity with your old bands? am very grateful for, but towards the end of my time with them I A: I’m not sure to be honest. I played my last This City gig at a wasn’t quite happy. Being in Eager Teeth lets me write and perform sold out Koko in London supporting Hadouken. We were all equally with guys I love and trust. Whatever we go on to do, buzzing after a great performance and then returned to musically I am happier now than I’ve been for a long time. Brighton. The only way I could describe leaving that night was G: Success in a typical sense doesn’t really come into it for me – like the end of the classic movie Stand By the feeling of Me – after an amazing adventure everyone achievement walked away and vanished. The following comes from within. day was the first Eager Teeth practice. I Let’s face it, see George [ex-This City bass player, now whether success LIVE: Prince Albert, Weds 5th Jan in Calrisian] – he’s always in good sprits comes or it doesn’t, SINGLE: ‘Lights Out’ on iTunes, Amazon and Play.com now and seems to love what I’ve gone on to I still won’t get any WEB: myspace.com/eagerteeth do. As for the others, who knows? PRS money! G: There’s no animosity whatsoever from
FYI
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ratatat
CLUB PREVIEWS WORDS BY MATT BARKER, ZAC COLBERT, JAMES KENDALL, JESSICA MARSHALL MCHATTIE, KIRSTY SCHOFIELD
DIRTY MARTINI Brighton Ballroom Weds 1st Dec
MATTHEW DEAR
A brand new club night is starting next month, a slightly different take on the ubiquitous student club nights dotted around Brighton. Dirty Martini offers a far more decadent, glitzy affair, with music ranging from electro to swing and retro classics, as well as the more alternative entertainments such as burlesque dancers and fire eating. If you are looking for a place that not only offers a delightfully sinful name, but also a chance to dress up for the occasion and have a properly unique night out, then look no further. (KS)
To be honest we most expected to see Matthew Dear turn up in a Brighton club under his techno-based Audion alias, but we’re happy that he’s here to play live from his song-based ‘Black City’ and ‘Asa Breed’ LPs. Although this is an early show, Dear has been getting tough and slutty lately, meaning you should bring your dancing shoes for tracks like the industrial sex of ‘You Put A Smell On Me’ while the off-centre pop of ‘Neighbourhoods’ is sure to have the whole room bouncing. There’s a good chance you’ll be so hyped you’ll want to stay for Alix Perez afterwards. (JK)
CHEW THE FAT
ALIX PEREZ
Audio Fri 3rd Dec
It seems that the long-established Supercharged has got some competition from the capital for the moniker of Brighton’s best breaks and beats night. Chew The Fat continues its welcome invasion bringing us DJ Zinc, A1 Bassline and Warrior One. The former needs no introduction after producing top tracks in most dance genres and recently creating a completely new one – crack house – with his latest EP of the same name. Support A1 Bassline has solidified his position as a producer and DJ to watch in the new era of party crunk. (ZC)
RATATAT
Coalition Sat 4th Dec
Although we’re sure they’re jolly excited about playing Brighton again (theirs is always a fun show, and Brighton crowds are nothing if not up for a bit of fun), you’d have to say that anything is going to be a comedown after supporting Daft Punk on tour wouldn’t you? Ratatat make a kind of psyche disco melange – all arpeggiated guitar hooks and irresistible post-kraut grooves. But catchy. God, it’s catchy. (MB)
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Audio Weds 8th Dec
Audio Wed 8th Dec
For those who like their drum’n’bass deep and minimal, Alix Perez brings the noise. Lauded as one of the main leaders of the nu school by ATM magazine, Perez has touted his melodic mixing style all over Europe, and as a DJ who loves to read the crowd and take his audience on a journey every set is catered differently. His Orwellian album ‘1984’ defied genre classification, dipping into hip hop, electro and breaks, so tonight’s a cert for accomplished junglists who like their tunes diverse and engaging. (ZC)
PNAU
Concorde 2 Thurs 9th Dec
Their first album was recorded in a bedroom and hastily withdrawn from the shelves due to undeclared and appropriated sampling. Their most recent album gained them worldwide acclaim and a devoted new fan in Elton John. Who knows what will happen next? If you would like to be part of the next chapter, and you like to disco dance on Thursday nights, we recommend you go along to find out. Support sees New Young Pony Club playing some records and Is Tropical playing live. (JMM)
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CLUB PREVIEWS
sbtrkt
DUBPRESSURE •
Life Fri 10th Dec
Continuing its residency at Life, Dubpressure has a double celebration this month. It’s their own five-year anniversary as a forward-thinking Brighton club night but they also want to help all the students celebrate at the end of term. Helping throw essays in the air is Shackleton with his intricate beats and life-size basslines. In support is his Skull Disco partner Appleblim whose otherworldly dubstep is unmistakable and totally enchanting. (ZC)
HOSPITALITY
Digital Sat 11th Dec
Hospitality brings the two staples, old and new, of its liquid signings over the past decade. Headlining is the godfather of liquid funk – High Contrast – who defined the early 00s scene with his debut album ‘True Colours’. Then we have the highlytipped Netsky, whose natural production talent led to a swift signing to Hospital’s label late last year and the amount of quality rollers on his eponymous album has placed him up on a drum’n’bass pedestal as the next big thing. (ZC)
OPEN FIRE •
Concorde Sat 11th Dec
For god’s sake, stop thinking about yourself and your family, buying all that pointless crap – do something for charity like, say, going to see some bands and having a great party with the Playground crew. Open Fire is offering up reggae folk from Derriere, trip hop courtesy of A State of Mind, Origami Dinosaur’s gypsy ska and the Laylanas playing indie stuff from their new LP. On top there’ll be the usual Playgroup nonsense from the likes of the Ophelia Fancy girls and Charlie Bear’s Teddy Bear Picnic, and all the money goes to the Sussex MS Treatment Centre. (JK)
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RESONANCE
Life Fri 17th Dec
After putting in some time at Jam and the Jazz Place, Resonance is now hitting the seafront with its confident blend of upfront dance music and full on jungle decor. Tonight sees drum’n’bass veteran Nookie on the ones and twos along with Kromestar who always brings a little more dub with his step and EL-B whose dark 2-step garage classics contrasted with soft vocals have set precedent in the genre for years. (ZC)
AUDIO BULLYS
Digital Sun 19th Dec
It’s been a tumultuous year for the Audio Bullys; first the disappointment of having to postpone their UK tour due to Frank’s burst eardrum, then on the up their album ‘Higher Than The Eiffel’ was praised by critics who cited it as a return to form. Most recently the duo hit the electronic festival circuit hard in the field all summer. The last month of 2010 sees their hooligan house heading to Digital, so come help them round off the year on a positive note and a dirty beat. (ZC)
SBTRKT
Life Fri Jan 14th
You may have caught a weird, tribal-masked DJ knocking them dead at Digital earlier this year in support of Holy Fuck. Or you may have seen the said same mask behind the decks at FWD>> or Fabric. Such is the wide-ranging appeal of SBTRKT. On the back of releases on Young Turks and Brainmath – and featured spots on Rinse and Tempa Allstars – the shady SBTRKT brings his future garage/crack house to the peerless Aka Aka Roar’s first birthday. The long list of excellent support is headed by a backto-back set from Braiden and Brackles. (MB)
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collective, alongside Brimmer and Battery Powered. The crowd The summer (of love) is over. After several seasons of free electro certainly seem to like the change – Mex had a bevy of dancers and disco SOL is no more, but panic not. Warehouse has taken upstairs but the bar areas and outside smoking terrace were the idea and tweaked it a little bit. As long as you’re there before quiet compared to the rammed, dark, enthusiastic dancefloor. 1am – and really, why leave it so late to go clubbing – you can And that’s what it’s all about. still get in free and get into the house, techno and electro groove. The fiver that latecomers have to stump up is ploughed into bigger guests like Boy 8 WEB: www.audiobrighton.com Bit, Filthy Dukes and WHEN & WHERE: Audio, every Saturday Stopmakingme. The UPCOMING GUESTS: Alex Metric, Riton, Justin Martin, Burns night we popped down Solo was rocking the place with bouncy electro house. Sam Watts of Schtumm is still resident, but elsewhere it’s mainly new names in Round Table Knights ‘Calypso’ the form of Pete and Tensnake ‘Coma Cat (Round Table Knights Remix)’ Kristian from the excellent Boys Noize ‘Yeah’ Blah Geht’s Noch? ‘Body Jack’ Blah Justin Martin + Ardalan ‘Mr Spock’ Blah Gonzales ‘I Am Europe (DJEdjotronic Remix)’ Super Flu ‘Didschn (Format B Remix)’ French Fries ‘Senta’ Booka Shade ‘Regenerate (Popof Remix)’ Teki Latex ‘Dinosaurs With Guns’
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:KINEMA: machine-and-r&b lovers’ pop seduction Words by James Kendall Photo by James Kendall, Matt Barker and Rosie Kendall Christmas jumpers from a selection at Beyond Retro Thanks to Jonjo and Tom for welcoming us into their lovely home
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SINGLE: ‘My Beautiful Machines’ out on Hot Pockets in January WEB: www.kinema.co.uk LIVE: Jam, Weds 8th Dec (supporting Delorean) and Concorde 2, Sat 15th Jan
Four years ago Kinema front man Dom had an argument with his then girlfriend. He stropped his way into his studio to write a selfpitying, maudlin song about the misery of relationships, “or something really boring like that”. Turning on the equipment as he slumped down, a wall of LEDs twinkled at him. The little red and green lights winked a welcome home and suddenly all was right in the world. “All of a sudden I couldn’t write anything bad,” he recalls. “I just felt so good and so happy. I shut the door behind me and being in the studio filled me with such a wonderful warm feeling.”
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“It’s such a touching story!” laughs guitarist Andy. There’s a line in the chorus of the song that emerged that night, new single ‘My Beautiful Machines’, where Dom sings, “You’re never rude or mean to me” over jolly, picked guitars and gentle, lush keyboards and an 80s disco groove Chromeo would be proud of. It’s a subtle dig at his old girlfriend of the time but that’s as moody as the pop princes get. “The rest of it is pure synth love,” smiles Dom. “It’s the only song we’ve played in every one of our sets,” “And I haven’t had a girlfriend since,” Dom laughs. “That’s
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“We like things as undistorted as possible really,” says Ross, one of three studio geeks in the band. “As soon as we cross over into that rock realm we start to get a bit scared. Like, the guitar parts need to be sharp and concise, never strummed. Not pushing it and being showy, whacking a distortion pedal on it.” “Essentially it’s pop music,” says Kinema have written and Dom. “We want to get people to recorded an exclusive song especially for dance, we want to get people to you lucky SOURCE read ers called ‘3 listen to the lyrics, and we want to Wolf Moon’. You can down load it right no get the personality across in the tune w from our website ho mepage. as well.” www.brightons ource.co.uk It’s absolutely working on tracks like this year’s ‘Circles’ – a crystal-clear, soft-edged melodic seduction (more like the pseudo-geek fumbling of Erland Øye than getting touched up by Ne-Yo). Its soul-lifting chorus instantly takes squatter’s rights in your head. A recent addition to their set-list declares a love of Usher, not a typical touch-point for Brighton bands. We’ve known Dom long enough to know that it’s not a joke, but is his tongue just a little bit in cheek? Where do they draw the irony line? “It’s very hard – when you’re writing tunes about how you like Usher, and, you know, girls and dancing – to explain to people that you’re taking it really seriously,” says Dom. “We spend so much time and effort on the songs, every note is pored over. I’m sure people often think that we’re just messing around.” “It’s not as silly as some people think it is,” confirms Ross, who makes deadly serious dance music as Boss Kite, one of the British skweee scene’s major players.
KINEMA’S ChristMAS PRESENT
Kinema’s love of r’n’b comes from the fact that the studio is at the core of everything they do. They produce all of their own tracks and, like the polished American r’n’b acts, there’s not a note or sound out of place. Nothing jars. “When you listen to r’n’b it’s an absolutely beautiful, crisp sound,” Dom explains. “Playing some scratchy indie record after that doesn’t caress your ears in the same way. So you start listening to r’n’b more and more, just to get that fix.” “I think people really like r’n’b generally,” says Ross, “they just don’t want to admit it. They listen to loads of things that are definitely r’n’b, like Michael Jackson. If someone drops ‘Yeah’ by Usher in a room of drunk people they do all go crazy.” “We’re not into the whole ironic thing,” Andy confirms. “A lot of people think us listening to r’n’b is being ironic, taking the piss out of it. But we’re not. It’s very danceable – it gets girls moving – which has always been our thing too…” “We don’t make this macho twat music where it’s all, ‘Yeah! Grrrrr!’,” says Ross. “There’s no aggression and we like the sexiness about it.”
absolutely true! I’ve still got the machines.” “The thing is you can’t upgrade girlfriends,” offers Andy by way of an explanation. “And you can’t sell them on eBay when they get old either,” adds keyboard player Ross. With just a guitarist, a keyboard player and a singer, Kinema aren’t your average Brighton band. A clean-cut mix of r’n’b, classic house, disco and a touch of funk, you’re never going to see them rock out.
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The only downside of this smooth approach is that as Brighton’s premier pop band they’ve got no one to share a stage with. Promoters, looking to build bills of artists with an electronic edge struggle to find playmates for them, put them with inappropriate acts like brilliantly raucous AD/DK, something we were guilty of at our Brighton Live gigs (“We like those guys but we sound nothing like them,” smiles Andy). It’s not a problem in London where Kinema are adored. Straight away they started playing with bands like Grosvenor and My Tiger My Timing at parties where people wanted to dance. “We tend to mainly play in clubs, which is cool,” says Dom. “A gig tends to be everybody standing and watching. I just saw Chromeo and they had everyone dancing, I guess because they have the same thing – no one is really sure if they’re a band or a pop act. People respond to us by dancing rather than watching, which we really like.”
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tim flach at crane kalman
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announces that Barry Norman is also popping along this time for a chat with the hosts and a Q&A session. However they do it, we want a copy of their address book. (BM)
COMEDY: THE HUMBLE ART: GRAFIK WARFARE QUEST FOR UNIVERSAL GENIUS WORDS BY JAMES KENDALL, JENNIFER MARSHALL MCHATTIE, BEN MILLER
Studio Wonderland Sat and Sun 4th & 5th, 11th & 12th Dec
Edgier than The Edge balancing an octahedron on the end of a knife, Grafik Warfare invades Kemptown to offer up limited edition paintings, stencils, street art, clothing and more, from artists with names like Mishfit, T.Wat and Eyesaw. It’s part of a festive edition of Open Houses, the citywide invite for strangers to snoop through front rooms looking at some of the most spanking local art, which saw record visitor and venue numbers during its last venture in May. (BM)
FILM: CINECITY Various venues until Sun 5th Dec
Maybe it’s the UK Film Council’s execution via Dynamo Dave’s ever-swinging axe, but Cinecity seems to have been a little low-key this year. The line-up’s still brilliant though, featuring everything from showcases of shorts by Brighton filmmakers to a talk by British Film Institute Artistic Director Eddie Berg at Lighthouse, a live soundtrack to a Derek Jarman film at the Duke of York’s and a documentary on Britain’s shipping industry – voiced and scored by Carl Barat and Klaxons’ Anthony Rossomando – at the Sallis Benney. (BM)
TALK: THE SPACE Komedia Tues 7th Dec
Getting the chance to watch Frank Skinner for slightly more than the price of a continental pint in the Komedia vicinity seems implausible, not least in a month when Mr Fantasy Football could probably earn more sacks than Santa if he was sticking to the day job. Such is the admirable lure of The Space, which almost nonchalantly
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Upstairs at Three and Ten Fri 10th Dec
Dan Antopolski’s gags and staggering capacity for tomfoolery are frequently inspired, although his precise level of genius probably falls a bit short of universalism. Still, the infantile geek superhero and fringe favourite plays the Three and Ten as part of his UK tour earlier in the evening, and then bowls up for this boxing-style ding dong against Nick Helm, with both comics attempting to outwit each other during duels over a range of topics under the watchful eye of host Mark Allen. (BM)
EVENT: COMIC AND FANZINE FAIR Cowley Club Sat 11th Dec
If you’re the sort of bleeding pen and ink devotee who can’t stroll through a zinefest without the mocking lyrics of cult punk pillagers Anal Beard’s ‘Fanzine Nerd’ ringing in your ears, now’s the time to pull yourself together and stand proud in the face of a thousand badges and over-eager grins. There are more than 40 fanzine writers from Brighton’s prolific comic-making community here, plus a Manga portrait artist for your portraiture pleasure and bands later on. It’ll be bloody lovely. (BM)
NINE LESSONS AND CAROLS FOR GODLESS PEOPLE Dome Sun 12th Dec
Robin Ince is an atheist but enjoys Christmas so has put together a celebration of science (with songs and jokes) for fellow non-believers. Importantly this is not about Christian bashing, more like The Royal Variety Show meets the Royal Institution Christmas lectures. It’s never
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happened outside of London before but previous guests over the last couple of years have included Jarvis Cocker, Ricky Gervais and, of course, Richard Dawkins. As Ince says, “The only thing that will make people give up the comfort blanket of mysticism is showing them wonder.” (JK)
COMEDY: KNOCK2BAG COMEDY Proud Brighton Ballroom Sun 12th Dec
The award for December’s most random comedy gig goes to this one, with a line-up about as predictable as the bus times when there’s a spot of rain. Mulleted anachronism Paul Foot resurfaces with the show Noel Fielding directed in Edinburgh, Channel 4 haircut Alex Zane returns to his roots to provide a smattering of showbiz, and Pyecombe’s finest roadside café extraordinaire Brian Gittins bumbles along for the ride. They might be utter shit (except Gittins, who’s an indisputable local treasure), but it’s got to be worth witnessing. (BM)
EVENT: ARE YOU SITTING COMFORTABLY? The Basement Weds 15th Dec
Wandering down the Basement steps is usually an immersive experience – the glow of red lights in the winter darkness outside gives it away – so when they devise a candlelit rabbit warren with an atmosphere pitched somewhere between a 1950s tearoom and a deranged children’s party, you know you’re in for intensity. Storytelling terrors White Rabbit (last seen throwing a Summer Solstice all-nighter down there) run wild with the themes of macabre, horror and supernatural surprises. Not bad for a Wednesday. (BM)
ART: CRANE KALMAN CHRISTMAS EXHIBITION Crane Kalman until Fri 31st Dec
Samuel Hicks has won the attention of multinational ad execs since his debut show at Crane Kalman, a series of photographs showing dust blizzards and blistering sunrises from trips through New Mexico, Texas, California and Nevada. He returns as part of a group show featuring joyously bizarre pictures of magical dogs by Tim Flach, a series of portraits of the artistic hoi polloi from the 60s and 70s by David Steen and iconic black and white portraits of Steve McQueen which were recently released by his widow. (BM)
FILM: FELA!
Duke of York’s Thurs 13th Jan Ever seen a Nigerian afrobeat musical? Us neither, but we’re hoping this will transport us mentally into sunnier climes and distract us from the weather, for a couple of hours at least. Telling the inspirational story of Fela Kuti as an artist and political activist, this film has been nominated for a raft of awards for its captivating songs, choreography and styling. Grab a coffee, snuggle down into the Duke of York’s sofas, and enjoy escapism at its finest. (JMM)
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Octopus Gallery 28 York Place Studios
Words by james kendall screenprint by firehouse
“I’d like to be under the sea in an octopus’ garden in the shade,” mused Ringo when asked about his day off from the Beatles. But the arty clever clogs Lennon would probably much rather have headed to screenprint outpost Octopus Gallery, one of the most
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exciting new spaces to appear this year. Kicking off in July when the highly regarded BRAG collective were asked to curate an retrospective of their art prints and gig posters, the exhibition was such a success that BRAG member Rhys Wootten – the talent behind last month’s Mumdance cover – decided to move in permanently and Octopus was born. The posters are always stunning and a cut above the purely practical digital efforts that the average promoter can manage or afford to leave up in Grubs. Hours and hours are put into the design and handprinting and even though every poster is limited, prices can still be as low as £20 (going up to £300 for the rarer and most intricate designs).
December sees the gallery go international, with some of the biggest names of the screenprint community showing work, including Ron Donovan from San Francisco’s legendary Firehouse, Aussie Ken Taylor of Beyond the Pale and David D’Andrea from Chicago. In January Octopus gets local again with a showcase from Inkspot Press.
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WORDS BY MATT BARKER, NICK COQUET, JAKE CUNNINGHAM, JAMES KENDALL, HENRY POWELL
SINGLE: BELLERUCHE Fuzz Face (Tru Thoughts •)
As the opener to the ‘270 Stories’ album, ‘Fuzz Face’ was definitely the storm before the calm of the record. Tough beats and insistent bass riff along with a bluesy rock guitar sound that amount to a perfect offset for the soul vocal protestations poured over the top. Back-up track ‘Backyard’ comes in the shape of a Kidanevil remix and is more redolent of the dreamy hip hop we’ve come to know Belleruche for. All good. (NC)
ALBUM: THE CRAVE • Breaking The Silence (myspace.com/thecraveband)
Professing to ballsy rock’n’roll over emo or post-anything-at-all, The Crave are an immensely powerful and commercial machine without any concession to the studied cool of most local counterparts. They’re clearly thinking big, with US dates alongside the Foos and Springsteen under their belts and an album-launching tour with Status Quo already underway. It’s the sort of record the too-cool-for-school brigade might well avoid, but ultimately the dividends could and should be huge. (NC)
EP: EARLY GHOST • We Crossed the Waves
(myspace.com/earlyghost) Since releasing their eponymous debut, Early Ghost could have easily settled in with the Mumford and Sons of this world. Luckily, their new EP ‘We Crossed the Waves’ shows paths into darker, nu-folk territory. Although some tracks share the style of the first record, it’s the more intense, enigmatic songs that stand out. The slow burning ‘1914’ is the highlight, and the medieval tinged ‘Bernardo’ another strong point. Overall, an improvement from their debut, and hopefully the sound of things to come. (JC)
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ALBUM: GREGORY & THE HAWK Leche (FatCat •)
Lullaby-like vocals are the only real common denominator across this varied set of compositions – although all are rooted in a gentle pop sensibility and a delicate production that ranges from understated acoustic guitar to more full-on baroque arrangements. The Gregory and indeed the Hawk of the nomenclature are in fact New York’s Meredith Godreau, following up her 2008 debut ‘Moenie and Kitchi’ with another extremely likeable album you can’t fail to cosy up to. (NC)
SINGLE: TIM HEALEY & TOMCRAFT • Live It Love It (Surfer Rosa)
As well as getting SirReal back on the mic, Tim Healey has dragged old mate Tomcraft (of UK No.1 ‘Loneliness’ fame) into his Brighton studio. Together the Anglo-German tag team have put together a main room electro banger with huge drops and a nursery rhyme like vocal. Kidda’s mix has a throb that you might not expect from him, while Lützenkirchen – sometime Tomcraft production partner – is at his quirky techy best, again. (JK)
ALBUM: HELIOPAUSE •
Walk Into The Sea
(myspace.com/wecomefrombelfast) As their MySpace URL suggests, these are not born and bred Brightonians. But recent relocation and involvement with the Numbskull HQ umbrella (which has quickly become a byword for unsigned excellence) makes Heliopause something we need to tell you about. These are simply beautiful songs, soft and evocative, seeping into the consciousness and demanding repeated listening. We guess everyone maybe needs a reliable word of recommendation to check out something new – let this be ours to you. (NC)
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SINGLE: THE MEOW MEOWS • 7” (myspace.com/themeowmeowsband)
A fusion of ska’s rhythms and instrumentation with the energy of punk was what originally made the 2-Tone movement so exciting. It’s a formula the Meow Meows have revisited for the 21st century – adding in a pair of duellling female vocalists which certainly sets them apart from most of the other bands plying seemingly similar trades on the ska scene. The three tracks across this 500-limited 7” are launched at the Prince Albert on January 15th – well worth a look. (NC)
EP: MOUNT KIMBIE • Blind Night Errand (Hotflush)
In the late 90s, we would have taken any money against us writing about a cool, young, avant-dance band’s new UK garage single, and yet, here we are… Electronic two-piece Mount Kimbie are blazing urban music into forms that don’t involve yobs or Oxide & Neutrino. They fuse the diaphragm-rattling wobble bass of (certain) dubstep tunes with the 2-step of garage and then sugar the gloop with a bit of new-jack soft-synth. And it will make you dance. (MB)
SINGLE: MUMDANCE • Tarahtid EP (No Hats No Hoods)
It’s testament to Mumdance’s skills that he can drop tunes on the cream of labels across a whole variety of genres – this time proper grime imprint No Hats No Hoods. Trim & Jammer keep it East London while Jack visits Japan for a 80s kung fu video game-esque slab of sinogrime on the lead track. But what makes Mumdance’s stuff so good is that no matter what genre he’s making it sounds just like him – that A.D.D. global sound runs through him like he’s a stick of rock. (JK)
SINGLE: PANDA BEAR
Last Night at the Jetty (FatCat •)
In the past couple of years, Animal Collective’s particular niche of overly reverb-ed 80s slowjam-psyche cassette-pop has been flooded with hipster chillwave / glo-fi kids. Noah Lennox (aka
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Panda Bear, the engine behind Animal Collective) is returning to the label who discovered him and his band (Brighton’s very own FatCat, who also boast Sigur Rós, múm and the second coming of Vashti Bunyan amongst their achievements) to release a superlimited single that schools the hipsters in the art of writing a song, not just turning up the tape-hiss. (MB)
EP: SKY HARBOUR • Words Best Left Unsaid (facebook.com/skyharbour)
From the opening raining of riffs of the title track, it’s clear that Sky Harbour have their well-trained eye on the prize. Unsigned and only active for under a year, they’ve nonetheless made the kind of sound that graces far more experienced and funded outfits. Accomplished alternative rock is one thing, but this is inventive, catchy and commercial – boding well for a 2011 looking back on well-made beginnings and hopefully well-taken chances that seem certain to come their way. (NC)
EP: SLUGABED VS GHOSTMUTT Donky Stomp (Donky Pitch •)
The first EP from fledgling Brighton label Donky Pitch is a real stunner. Featuring tracks from GhostMutt and ex-Brighton boy Slugabed, Donky Stomp is awash with lush synth leads and expertly programmed off-kilter beats that will no doubt be popping up at the top end of your ‘most played’ lists for months to come. As confident in its minimalist element as it is at its most saturated, there’s little doubt that this is an emulous start from a promising young label. (HP)
DEMO: THE TENTH VIEW • (myspace.com/thetenthview)
Only in their first year of activity, The Tenth View are clearly still growing as a band. Nourished by a diet of unquestionably impeccable indie reference points, from ‘The Queen Is Dead’ to ‘Up The Bracket’, they manage to channel the epoch-making qualities of their influences and inject a brash youthful energy. It’s all going in the right direction – a recent EP was well received and dates are planned for the next few months – all well worth checking out. (NC)
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SOURCE WRITERS’ CHART Our journalists pick brighton’s best songs of the year WORDS BY MATT BARKER, STEVE CLEMENTS, NICK COQUET, STUART HUGGETT, JAMES KENDALL, LYDIA STOCKBRIDGE
1. MIRRORS ‘Ways To An End’ Mirrors’ first single for Skint was an infectious counting song, coming across like Kraftwerk covering ‘Senses Working Overtime’. Each unexpected Brighton appearance brought further refinements to their glossy electro pop, and they finished the year supporting, then remixing, synth pioneers OMD. We really, really want their album to come soon. (SH) 2. GLORIA CYCLES ‘If I Wanted To Tell You’ The last song ever played by this sadly missed indie pop band, the emotional performance was precursored with a shout of “Don’t cry!” from a wag in the audience. But this soaring ballad doesn’t need context to draw a tear – the layered, round robin vocals do that on their own. (JK) 3. THE AGITATOR ‘Give Me All That You Got’ After kicking arses and melting eardrums around our fair city and across the country for the whole of 2010, this rebel yell finally showed everyone else what we’ve known for some time. That The Agitator are two drummers, one berserk mouth, and a politically rousing train whose churning, whoopin’, hollerin’ anarcho-pop must surely be the soundtrack to this recession of discontent. (MB) 4. :KINEMA: ‘My Beautiful Machines (Drop Out Orchestra Remix)’ As much as we love :Kinema: and their r’n’b soft synth disco-pop, the two Drop Out Orchestra remixes (which are in fact live cover versions plus samples and studio trickery, and clock in at a combined total of well over 20 minutes) are such a mind-blowathon that we had to plump for them. Don’t agree? May we refer you to Mr Greg Wilson who regularly has them in his set. (MB) 5. THE MISERABLE RICH ‘Let Me Fade’ It’s been knocking around for years but for most made its mark accompanied by Ruth Georgina Barrett’s excellent Oliver Postgatemeets-Brian De Palma video animation. It features the usual sumptuous strings and perfectly arranged backing for James’ beautifully reflective vocal but something just lifts this to a higher level. Sublime. (SC) 6. MUMDANCE ‘Don’t Forget Me Now’ We can’t think of a single other artist who makes both grime and pop tunes that we’d want to listen to. This collaboration with Esser takes
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indie electro and slams it into world music. It’s the sort of thing that Basement Jaxx take into the top 10 – don’t underestimate this guy, he could do the same. (JK) 7. GRINDERMAN ‘Heathen Child’ We confess that we weren’t blown away with this on first listen – in fact it was the wacky/disturbing video that got column inches from most magazines – but the distortoblues punk soon drew us into its squalling, swirling apocalypse. Could teach most whippersnappers about how to make a racket. (JK) 8. BURNS ‘YSLM’ It’s been a great year for Burns, SOURCE cover aside. He’s up for a DJmag award (see News), produced Kelis, and worked with the legendary Fred Falke on this cast-iron NYE disco cut-up smash. Classic dance label DeConstruction liked it enough to release it. (JK) 9. SPARROW ‘All Of The Things You Were Hoping For’ Mining the styles of pop, rock and folk, Sparrow aren’t afraid to play up to all three. As much as the guitars dare the vocal harmonies to get in their way, there’s the balance of delicate balladry that this song simply redefines. (NC) 10. CROOKED MOUNTAIN, CROOKED SEA
‘One Hundred Yards Into The Desert’
As loud as it is sharp, conjuring up the likes of Fugazi for their angry reverberations; complicated rhythms are etched into their tracks. (LS) 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18.
LYREBIRDS ‘Now I Know Why’ COLD PUMAS ‘Jela’ BLOOD RED SHOES ‘Heartsink’ FOXES! ‘Who Killed Rob?’ ESBEN & THE WITCH ‘Marching Song’ ILLNESS ‘Old Song’ THE STARS DOWN TO EARTH ‘The Futurist’ THE EIGHTIES MATCHBOX B-LINE DISASTER
‘Mission From God’ 19. HIND EAR ‘Coconut’ 20. YAAKS ‘HRHRHYTHM’
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SEA MONSTERS An ode to their Brighton roots: It came from the depths WORDS BY LYDIA STOCKBRIDGE
Whoever said January was a bleak month can go eat their hat. Purveyors of all that’s warped, synth-laden and folkorientated, One Inch Badge Records are launching a fiveday Brighton band-fest alongside their new localcelebrating compilation, ‘Sea Monsters’ – the cream of the crop in B&H talent. Unwrap a whole new side of music as we take you through our favourites.
Salter Cane
This four-piece specialise in country – not of the Dolly Parton kind though. It’s rousing stuff that you can imagine going down a storm at a western hootenanny, sitting atop several straw bales. Pure grassroots, sung by the husky-voiced tones of lead guitarist and songwriter, Chris Askew.
Crowns On The Rats Orchestra
The seven-strong orchestral army march into new musical territory. They mix the classical up with the contemporary, combining violins, keys and trumpet with the usual guitars, bass and drums. The lyrics, laced with lines of poetic beauty, take your ears for a stroll up among the clouds.
The Squadron Leaders
Surfer rock of an even more out-there kind. They make a lot of sound for a three-piece act, with echoing guitar and a morose saxophone playing over a steady beat. It’s like listening to the soundtrack to an 80s film noir.
Drum Eyes
Everybody loves a bit of 8-bit, right? DJ Scotch Egg and friends create pop magic, evoking the sounds of Gameboys past, and turn it into something with a bit more depth than your Sonic theme tune – they give a genre previously considered a novelty some atmosphere.
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Cold Pumas
These lads have gone from strength to strength in recent months, another flower in the bouquet of Brighton bands to bloom this year. Having been included on a compilation put together by Radio 1’s Huw Stephens and Wichita records, this’ll be their first show in a while after hibernating away to produce a record. It’s the melting pot of surf, alt. indie and a fearless experimentalism that makes them so invigorating.
Speak Galactic
Relocating to Gothenberg made an impact on Owen Thomas. Creating their atmospheric debut over the first 18 months settling in, Speak Galactic emerge with a dreamily lo-fi pop folk record. It plays like a soundscape a little reminiscent to Silje Nes. Whatever it is, it’s good to listen to.
Pope Joan
The Brighton pop indie sensation of the moment. We’re inclined to agree with OIB’s Alex Murray when he said, “I think they could be the next big band out of Brighton.” They blew us away at our SOURCE show for Brighton Live, they can do no wrong.
Nullifier
An amalgamation of OIB cohorts, Nullifier feels like an experimental journey through harajuku-style synth pop and beyond. With choruses that get stuck in your head in a good way, and melodies with ever-cheery dispositions, what’s not to like?
Illness
They’re sick on their instruments – regarding their performance that is. Their timings are faultless, and their influences – Pavement, Hella and Shield Your Eyes are all nodded to in the rolling rhythmic melodies.
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Hind Ear
They have an uncanny knack for playing with sound – looping it, sampling it and layering it all together without it sounding pretentiously dismal. In fact, it’s genius. It’s still rough sounding, kind of like a punk take on IDM, or something.
Mary Hampton
The revered folk artist headlines Saturday’s show. She seems to effortlessly produce contemporary folk songs with strong traditionalist roots, a powerful combination that’s captivating to listen to.
Curly Hair
Coming from the holy grail of folk labels, the Wilkommen Collective, duo Curly Hair soon got the attention of BBC1 presenter Beth Elfyn among others with their pared-down tweeness. In songs like single ‘Pumpkin Eye’, ‘Hully Gully’ and ‘Blow The House Down’, even their song titles remind us of childhood nursery rhymes.
Jane Bartholomew
A new discovery of OIB, Bartholomew’s quirky folk act got their full attention. Her unusual voice is in a similar vein to Joanna Newsom for its fragility. An exciting act we’re looking forward to hearing more about in the coming year.
Robert Stillman
The newest singing to OIB, multi-instrumentalist Stillman entrances audiences with his grasp of multi-track tape compositions of full-blown, piano-based folk. If you were lucky enough to catch him at the Hauschka show back in November, you’ll want to reserve a place for this.
Stuart Warwick (Jacob’s Stories)
With tender vocals and tentative piano, like a bird tip-toeing on the keys, his performances are moving enough to make a whole room of drunks pipe down for an entire set – we’ve seen it done. A staple of OIB shows, Warwick is now venturing to pastures new, having collaborated with Leeds band Vessels on their latest album, ‘Meat Man, Piano Tuner, Prostitute’. Who knows what comes next?
Us Baby Bear Bones
The newest edition to the OIB family, Alex discovered the talented duo at White Night festival this year. In parts it sounds like a scratchy voicemail message from Karen O, in others it’s lush and pretty. Lovely vocals coupled with an accordion and percussive and acoustic accompaniments; their songs read like a fairytale.
Birdengine
There is an underlying darkness to Tillbury’s minimal folk, guaranteed to put thee under a trance. With songs cryptically titled ‘Buried In The Black Snow’ and ‘I’m Not Completely In Hiding Now’, he is a one-man mystery to behold.
FYI
When: Weds 26th – Sun 30th Jan 2011 Where: Prince Albert Web: myspace.com/oibrecords
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One Inch Badge’s Alex Murray
tells us about sea monsters and putting the brighton music scene on the UK map What is Sea Monsters all about? It’s not really a festival, more of a series of gigs inspired by Brighton Live. We wanted to create our version of that really. The gigs were an afterthought of the CD to be honest, the idea originally came about because there are so many amazing bands in Brighton that we love but we can’t release all of them, so in a way the shows are a snapshot of them all. The CD’s a fiver, and it’ll have worldwide distribution through Southern Records next year. I love the idea that kids around the world can check out the Brighton scene. You’ve got a bit of a reputation for releasing eclectic, experimental bands of all genres. Is this to showcase the more ‘out there’ bands in Brighton that may not get a look in otherwise? I formed OIB to support local music – a lot of bands that I work with never get shows with Brighton Live, so we did this really as our equivalent to it. Whose set are you most looking forward to? I really like this band Us Baby Bear Bones at the moment. They’ve only played two gigs, they played as part of White Night. They’re a really exciting, young band – a little like Cocorosie, very talented. The gigs happen over a week at the Prince Albert. Would you think about expanding the festival in years to come? I would like to expand it; we’re doing all five nights at the Albert. It’s pretty much our musical home; in our first year we exclusively did our shows there, now we do massive shows at Brixton and elsewhere. It’s nice to come home and stay true to our roots. Irrespective of how big the bands we work with become, we like to do our shows in small venues. It’s the fourth anniversary of the label, what are your proudest achievements? Loads. First of all getting our test pressings back for the My Device 7”, the first record we released and getting Casiotone For The Painfully Alone to record with us. We’ve loved his records for years, he loves our DIY thing and he committed to us. That was really exciting, he really gave us the confidence to do bigger things. Most recently, doing MF Doom was one of my biggest ones, he’d only played in the UK once in 14 years, only ever played in London too, so that was pretty fun having him down in Brighton. You’ve worked with a lot of big acts recently, and yet you’re putting only Brighton bands on the compilation – do you feel Brighton is still an important place for music? Brighton’s incredibly important to us, there’s no way OIB would exist anywhere else but Brighton. It’s the place where we developed our taste in music; we’re more excited if anything to take Brighton bands on tour than bigger artists. I also love the fact that all these really weird indie records that we put out are essentially funded by gangster rap like the Wu Tang Clan gigs we put on. I quite like the irony in that, in a way.
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VIVE LA FRANCE! AWORDS CROSS-CHANNEL MUSIC INTRODUCTION BY NICK COQUET, JAMES KENDALL Melting Vinyl are putting on their annual showcase of Gallic gigs across town in January – we speak to promoter Paul McGivern and offer some highlights. Melting Vinyl has got a really good relationship with our friends over the channel – how has it come about? Melting Vinyl have a long history of working with French artists, and Vive La France is very much a continuation of this relationship in partnership with the French Music Bureau, Bureau Export. With Brighton only a stone’s throw across the channel, it’s only fitting that Brighton should be the home of such a showcase event. What should people expect from the festival? What makes Vive La France really exciting is inviting artists to perform who play huge shows in their native country – audiences will have the opportunity to see arena fillers up close and personal. But we make it relevant to Brighton too, with local artists such as The Woo!worths and Les Zuts performing alongside artists from France under the title of ‘French Connections’. Sounds good – what else is going on? No showcase of French culture would be complete without the celebration of the Gallic art of food and wine. Providing the gastronomic flavour to Vive La France 2011 are relaxed French bistro Mange Tout and the newly-opened Plateau, also the home of the festival’s intimate after hours DJ sets, providing audiences and artists alike with a taste of France to accompany the feast of music on offer. We’ve also invited key players in the French music industry to talk about how the French scene has changed over the last 20 years and give them an opportunity to connect with local artists and audiences.
MÉLANIE PAIN Basement Thurs 27th Best known for jazzing up the Buzzcocks et al as the singer in Nouvelle Vague, Mélanie’s breathy vocals are set to turn The Basement into a Parisian café, with a rare performance of folk-pop chanson across the French and English tongues.
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LA BOETIE Komedia Thurs 27th
An electro pop UK debut for the opening show of the festival, La Boetie plunder the entire plugged-in past for their pulsating sound, from The Cure to Lykke Li. Their first album is set to arrive on these shores soon, but it’s preceded by a live reputation that long ago outgrew such intimate settings back home.
KKC ORCHESTRA Basement Fri 28th
This unique and seemingly unlikely Toulouse union between a drum’n’bass DJ, a swing guitarist and a rapper barely raises an eyebrow across the sea, such is the inventiveness of the Gallic groove. But the mix of swing and bling works a treat, so this is well worth a look.
ANORAAK Hope Fri 28th
Shipping a mix’n’match crate of Motown soul and US chillwave to the South of France and sneaking some Italo disco over the border for good measure, Anoraak’s polished pop delivery is an essential brand of carefree holiday-style escapism.
KID BOMBARDOS Hope Fri 28th
You might think it particularly un-French to distill the distinctly New York-esque disciplines of Velvet Underground decadence and the sprightly cynical indie of The Strokes, but Kid Bombardos have done just that and taken it all over France, from clubs to festivals, and now, like coals to Newcastle, to Brighton.
VLF AFTER PARTY Plateau Sat 29th
QUAND: Thurs 27th – Sat 29th Jan OU: Various venues LE WEB: www.meltingvinyl.co.uk
Get Your Acts Together DJs & friends take the stage at Saturday’s Plateau after party. These guys are like the live house band for much of the travelling French music business, backing the likes of Nouvelle Vague, Mélanie Pain and Phoebe Killdeer, so they really know their onions when it comes to the flavour of France.
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NYE PREVIEWS
WORDS BY ZAC COLBERT, JAMES KENDALL, JESSICA MARSHALL MCHATTIE
1920s SPEAKEASY Audio Above Audio’s morphed into a 1920s speakeasy replete with full decor, glamour and decadent private booths, while the terrace houses a live jazz band as well as a cigar and liquor bar to make it the classiest smoking area in Brighton. Downstairs Enzo Siffredi’s tech-house will help the ball properly drop come midnight. (ZC) DIRTY WATER VS STAY SICK Hector’s House It’s not all about dance music on NYE and this pairing ought to bring as much hedonism as even the most pilled up rave pit – booze, cheering, loud music, live bands, falling over, more booze. Stay Sick’s Cramps-ed up rock’n’roll is so much fun, Johnny Throttle’s punk can only send it over the edge. (JK) DOCTOR’S ORDERS Jam There isn’t much hip hop on this New Year’s Eve, perhaps because the Doctor’s Orders have nicked all the good DJs. DJ Format, DJ Vadim, JFB and Rusty Ryan will all be dropping good time party joints all night. (JK) GO BANG! Globe Disco has been the sound of the last couple of years – Aeroplane diving into the mainstream in 2010 with his amazing album – but Ali & Affy have been on this shit for years and really know their stuff. Guests Soft Rocks have been a serious underground name for a long time too. (JK) GUILTY PLEASURES/BORN BAD/SPELLBOUND Komedia Before you get too excited, these are three separate events, but each is a winner on its own merits. Spellbound is the cool underground 80s stuff from post-goth power couple Simon Price and Cherry Foxxx, Born Bad is rock’n’roll brilliance and all the cool clothes that go with it, and Guilty Pleasures is – really – just good pop honest music that people ought not to be embarrassed about liking. (JK) HED KANDI/HAT CLUB/I LOVE R&B The Honey Three clubs in one – three massive clubs at that – and this time you get all three for your entry price. If your mates like r’n’b but you want to go to a funky house night and you’ve got another friend who loves wearing hats, it’s your best option by far. (JK) IT IS STILL NEW YEARS EVE 1985 Coalition Girls pull up those fingerless lacy gloves, boys don your sports jackets and both sexes get your perms ready to party at the Coalition’s notorious 80s night. Dance in the New Year to the very best in global power pop, spandex-clad cock rock and 80s movie soundtracks. (ZC) LIFE’S TROPICAL Life At first we thought they weren’t going to turn on the air-con but
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looking at the poster we now know that the name refers to how damn hot the line-up is. Some of the best names in UK garage and dubstep – Wookie, Roska, Untold, Donga – alongside soul from Fish Fry and hip hop from the young Jailbait crew. (JK) LUNARCY Volks Tonight sees loads of the old school back to show the kids how it’s done (see also Positive and Stompa Phunk). Jungle crew Lunarcy have put together a huge line-up of DJs including EZ Rollers and invited Freebass, Kings Of Jungle and Zapback along for the ride. (JK) POSITIVE SOUNDS Prince Albert Brighton’s longest running night, Positive have been putting on legal and illegal parties for the people since 1992. They’ve run more New Year’s bashes than you’ve had hot dinners. If you’ve had fewer than 20 hot dinners. Expect great house music, a touch of breaks and a really good atmosphere. (JK) SCRATCH PERVERTS Digital Seeing in your New Year is Stonelove, the finest indie rock’n’roll guaranteed to be all thriller and no filler til 3am, at which point the turntable-molesting Scratch Perverts will make the first morning of your 2011 go with a bang, beat and bassline, Blah Blah Blah in tow. (ZC) STICK IT ON King & Queen Every time Stick It On get their civilian DJs onto the decks it’s instant party time, so with the atmosphere of NYE, this should be a blast. Concentrated big tunes, even if someone plays off piste their excitement of hearing their faves will pull you in. (JK) STOMPA PHUNK Funky Buddha What a lovely surprise – after the second room reunion of the Laurent Garnier show it looks like everyone’s favourite classic house crew are edging their way back in the game. This night will bring together as many of their talented residents as they can fit in the DJ booth. (JK) TRU THOUGHTS Fortune Of War The Fortune is a great little pub for raving in – if you get hammered enough you can convince yourself you’re partying in an upturned boat at the bottom of the sea. Hint and Flevan’s will be dropping the deep, jazzed out beats. (JK) WHAT ABOUT THE BEATS? Riki Tik WATB has DJs playing everything from party classics to garage, drum’n’bass and UK funky, accompanied by Welsh hip-hop producers Darkhouse Family. Expect drinks promotions, a party atmosphere and a glowing sense of pride when you check your bank balance on Monday and realise you didn’t have to pay to get in. (JMM)
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NYE LISTINGS AUDIO
1920’s Speakeasy Audio always go over the top on dressing the venue so get dressed to the nines yourself – Minimal Kids mate Enzo Siffredi provides the tech house downstairs 10pm
£15 (early bird ticket)
ANCIENT MARINER
New Year’s Eve Wardrobe Disasters & Charity Shop Mingers Party Look your worst 8pm £5
BEE’S MOUTH
John Crampton One-man blues band stamping his way into the new year 10pm £7
BELUSHI’S BAR NYE Party: DJ Knell R&B, dance and pop 9pm £10 BELUSHI’S BELOW Abandoned On NYE Rock and metal night 10pm £3/2 BLACK LION
New Year Tag Team Mash Up DJs and tunes get mashed
9pm £4
BRUNSWICK
Soul Town NYE Party Live soul and Motown covers band
7pm £12/10
CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK
New Year’s Eve Spectacular Wishing you an alt. Christmas 9pm £free
CASABLANCA
New Year’s Eve Soul and Motown tunes with live funk band
Time tbc £10
CHEQUERS New Year’s Eve Live bands Details tbc COALITION
It Is Still New Year’s Eve 1985 The last 25 years are a lie. The Berlin Wall and the Twin Towers never came down. Thatcher is still in power. Mullets are acceptable 11pm £15/12
COBBLER’S THUMB
Dr Bluegrass & The Illbilly Eight, DJ Captain Black Foot-stomping hillbilly hoedown 8pm £free
COWLEY CLUB
Slutdisko New Year’s Eve Party: Fashion Disasters Punky electro with barbie doll decor and anythinggoes dresscode 9pm £free
DIGITAL
Stonelove New Year’s Eve Party Indie rock&roll club 10pm £10; Scratch Perverts, Blah Blah Blah DJs, Frisco Disco, Battery Powered, Nunn Dance So much dancing you’ll need a three-day convalescence 3am £15
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DOCTOR BRIGHTON’S New Year’s Eve Party With DJ Tony B 9pm £tbc DOME
Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra: New Year’s Eve Viennese Concert John Bradbury conducts an series of waltzes, quadrilles and polkas 2.45pm £9-32
DUKE OF BEAUFORT New Year’s Eve Cheesy classics 8pm £free FIDDLER’S ELBOW NYE Fiddler’s Extravaganza Live music 8pm £tbc FISHBOWL NYE DJ night 9pm £free FORTUNE OF WAR
Tru Thoughts New Year’s Eve Party: Hint, Flevans Tru Thoughts DJs shower you with breaks and beats Details tbc
FOUNTAIN HEAD
James Bond Theme Night An opportunity to entertain the barstaff whilst ordering cocktails. They won’t have heard it before
Details tbc
FULL MOON
New Year’s Eve Dadstep! Music for punk parents and grown-up rock kids 9pm £tbc
FUNKY BUDDHA Stompa Phunk Classic house collective is back 10pm £15 FUNKYFISH
The Funkyfish Club Soul, funk, jazz, Motown - 60s, 70s and 80s 10pm £15
GLOBE
Go Bang! New Year’s Eve: Ali & Affy, Soft Rocks Jamie, Tim Rivers, Steve KIW 9pm £8/5
HAMPTON Welcome To 2011 NYE DJ party Details tbc H BAR
H Bar NYE Party: Billy Mauseth, Mick Yeoman, Adam H, DJ Cheeky, Beatswokin Celebration DJ tunes
9pm £tbc
HECTOR’S HOUSE
Dirty Water Vs Stay Sick New Year’s Eve Party Bands and DJs Details tbc
HEIST
The Chruch Of Muzika: TheDrunkPunks, Gary Eeks, NYLP, Coxy, D-Bongo, Dave King, Joe Wilkes, Carl Mills Afterlife-themed NYE party with a religio-kinky dress code 11pm £5/3
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HONEY
Hed Kandi, Hat Club, I Love R&B: Carl Hanaghan, Lucy Stone, Vince Frimpong, Carl Smeaton, Squiz, Ben G, Tom Maverick, Helene, The Vaughany DJ’s Three Honey nights come together for a house disco party
PAV TAV INDIEcent Indie club playing indie pop/rock 11pm £3/2 PRINCE ALBERT
9pm £20
Positive Sounds NYE Brighton’s long-runnning house night returns 8pm £tbc
The Hope House Party! Two floors of DJs and live music
NYE 2010 We’re heading for venus. Why? It’s the final countdown
HOPE
8pm £free
PV
Time tbc £5
HYDRANT UP
QUEEN’S HEAD
IRON DUKE NY Eve Hat Party 9pm £free JAM
R-BAR
JAZZ PLACE
ST GEORGE’S INN New Year’s Eve Party 80s and 90s fancy dress Details tbc SMUGGLERS NYE Special “The biggest tunes of the decade” 9pm £tbc SUGAQUBE
Punkerbunker New Year: The Junk, Asbo Retards Punk and ska night 7pm £5
The Doctor’s Orders: DJ Format, DJ Vadim, JFB, Rusty Ryan It’s a hip hop party 9pm £15/10 Club Malicious Vs The Moshpit Alternative anthems and ample air-guitar antics 10pm £20/5
KING & QUEEN
Stick It On NYE Cut out the middle man: tonight you play the songs you want to hear 9pm £15/10
KOMEDIA DOWN
Born Bad Rockabilly, vintage dresses and great garage scuzz
10pm £15
KOMEDIA STUDIO
Spellbound NYE Party “The 80s night for people who hate 80s nights” - Let’s party like it’s 1983 and we’re at a provinical goth club tanked up on snakebite & black 9pm £12
KOMEDIA UP
Rabbits, Ladders And Stars In Jars Kids’ story about a star-gazing rabbit told with puppets and live music 11am/2pm £8.50/6.50; Krater Comedy Club NYE Special Standup comedy 6pm/7pm £22.50; Guilty Pleasures NYE Special One last chance to sin before your resolutions come into effect 10pm £15
LATEST MUSIC BAR
The Railing Staines How does it feel to be a railing stain?
9pm £20
LIFE
Life’s Tropical NYE: Wookie, Roska, Untold, Jailbait, Fish Fry, Donga Huge line up for this tiki-themed UK garage/dubstep-centred party with a topping of party hip hop and soul 7pm £tbc
MESMERIST
The Brighton Blitz Vs. The G.I. Jive Cabaret acts, live swing bands and 40s and 50s DJs, with plenty of wartime nostalgia in between 7pm £5
NORTHERN LIGHTS
DJ Jazzy D Funk, soul and jazz – two letters better that the Soul II Soul fella Time tbc £free
OCEANA
New Year’s Eve 2010 Chunky dance, funky R&B with loads of fellow revellers 9pm £tbc
OPENHOUSE
NYE Party: Sweet Brothers Radio, Gordon Kaye Live music 8pm £10
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New Year’s Eve Barn Dance Live band, DJs and dancing
8pm £free
Girls On Top NYE Party Pop and party tunes from DJs Alpha and Smithy 8pm £5/free
REVENGE
Kinky Dangerous New Year’s Eve Party Pop and R&B tunes 9pm £tbc
New Year’s Eve “The best house tunes of the year” Time tbc
£5
THEATRE ROYAL Cinderella Time tbc £24 THOMAS KEMP
New Year’s Eve Party Party tunes and fancy animal dress
7.30pm £tbc
Three and ten
New Year’s Eve Party Party tunes from DJ NoMark
8.00pm £tbc
VICTORY
The Big 200 Resident DJs play the 200 best songs ever written
Time tbc £free
VOLKS
Lunarcy: Ez Rollers, Mr Natural & The Lunarcy Soundsystem, The Freebass Crew, James D’ley, Youngsta, Stimpy, Faceman, Pook, Loop de Ville, Life, Rob Redford, Kings Of The Jungle, Zapback, Carbon, Cut Loose, Junglizm, Unity Hardcore D&B, dubstep and jungle 10pm £10
WESTERN FRONT
NYE Party: Arthur Shillin’, Luke Bracken, Little My Electro swing mash-up, plus some live vocal performances
9pm £3/free
WEST HILL TAVERN
Brains Eclectic mish-mash from fringe-skirting Superheroes Of BMX 9pm £free
WORLD’S END
FutureDub NYE: Roots Garden, Arkitalsound, Unityhifi Crew, Mr Natural, King Spinner, Cutloose Crew, Satta, Kosine & Xnation, Zr1brkr, Lowki, Dialect, Ilodica A glimpse into the future of dubstep with a huge li 7pm £10/7
XUMA
All Our Friends In A Room Fun times Details tbc
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TATTOO CONVENTION Brighton Racecourse 29th & 30th January WORDS BY NICK COQUET photo by tom chambers
With as many as one in three British 16-44 year olds reportedly having gone under the needle, the Brighton figure must be, well, pretty much everyone. So it’s fitting that the emerging premier opening fixture on the European tattoo convention calendar should be here, arriving in town for the fourth time on its biggest outing yet.
DAN GOLD
Known as the trilby-hatted troubador of London Ink, Dan now runs Skunx Tattoo in London. His work is distinctively colourful, with a trademark graffiti-style undertone to much of his widely-admired folio.
Competitions, live music and entertainment, food and bars make it a tip top tatt day out, and there’s a free Brighton Rockabilly Rumble after party at the Concorde. More than 150 artists will be pushing ink, from local names like Into You, Magnum Opus, Nine and Angelic Hell, to stars of TV’s London Ink and a host of international specialists. Many normally have ages-long waiting lists, so a pre-booking here could be your chance to jump the queue. Here’s some names to look out for.
JOSE LOPEZ
PHIL KYLE
ROBERT HERNANDEZ
JIM MCAIRT
NICOLE LOWE
Proprietor of Brighton’s Magnum Opus, Phil is your archetypal old school tattooist and a real ambassador for the art. He’s equally at home on TV, the international circuit or inking here by the sea – tattooing for Phil is not something that stops at the skin-deep.
An artist we can personally recommend, Jim is a south coast legend whose reputation spreads all over the world. A founder member of the Into You Brighton team, he’s an experienced and spiritual artist and a real guru to those he’s helped along the way.
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Lopez is a real coup for the convention. His Lowrider studio in LA is probably the best exponent of the urban black and grey style, with intricate layering and shading that lends the work an eerily photographic nature.
Another world-renowned artist for whom realism is a trademark, Robert Hernandez plies his trade of dark and sinister work at Vitamin Tattoo in Spain, his own studio for the last decade.
From Auckland via scene stardom thanks to London Ink, Nicole’s reputation has been built on her ability to tackle any style of tattooing and make it her own – from Japanese to tribal her book is a definitive how-to of the art.
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Street Style
Photo by Kevin Meredith at lomokev.com WORDS BY NICK COQUET
You know a style’s officially timeless when it’s worn by someone who wasn’t born until decades after its original appearance – the 50s look sported by Polly here will never go out of fashion. It’s not difficult to assemble either – contemporary fashion houses faithfully reproduce much of the baby boomer couture that’s easy to offset with the odd original piece to give the overall look some genuine authenticity. Polly talks us through the look that never had it so good. Headscarf from H&M “It’s like a granny’s one – it’s really long so I can tie it in a bow.” Jacket from vintage shop in Washington DC “It’s just a classic rock’n’roll leather; I’ve had it about four years.” Shirt from Dirty Harry “It goes with the 50s look. It’s really big so I can tie it into a bow. I love bows!” Shorts from Primark “I love these, they’re very 50s-style. The tights are from Primark too.” Shoes “Not sure where these came from but they’re wedge shoes with a heel.” Socks from Primark “I love them, I wear them every day. They make your ankles look thin and they go with everything. It’s a real pinup look.” Bag from Snoopers Paradise “It’s a Kelly bag from the 40s or 50s, a classic design. I only got this a couple of months ago.”
Polly earns a bottle of Tuaca for her classic look, Tuaca being the perfect stylish drink, bringing out the subtle tones of vanilla and citrus when served long over ice with cola. Start chilled – finish responsibly.
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Christmas Gift Guide Dollydagger Boutique Tarina Tarantino Skull Bracelets – £24.99 exclusively at Dollydagger Boutique
6 Brighton Place www.dollydagger.com
Kate & Aud Bespoke leather satchels from £39
27 Trafalgar St, 07888 739820 07533 581344
Juju Elf jumper and Santa jumper – £28 each
24 Gloucester Road www.jujubrighton.com
Terre à Terre Terre à Terre vouchers make the perfect Christmas gift. No expiry date and can be used towards a meal or to purchase goodies to go
71 East Street www.terreaterre.co.uk
Wolf & Gypsy Vintage Handmade gold plated recast vintage pendant. Various styles available – £120.00
30 Sydney Street 01273 671797
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Jeremy Hoye Genie in a bottle gold-plated silver necklace – £150.00 from the ‘make a wish’ set of charms.
22a Ship Street 01273777207
Wolf & Gypsy Vintage Vintage leather shorts in various styles – £40.00
30 Sydney Street 01273 671797
Hope & Harlequin Phillipa Kunison gold drop earrings – a real statement piece, great for parties and Christmas balls – £115
31 Sydney Street www.hopeandharlequin.com
Ink_d Gallery Limited edition cushion by Dan Baldwin – £40
96 North Rd www.ink–d.co.uk
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Get Cutie Pencil dress – £99.50 Home to Brighton’s finest dresses. Prints and fit to die for
33 Kensington Gardens www.getcutie.co.uk
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Nola Inspired by the anchor tattoo, 22ct gold plate on silver necklace – £145
CHRISTMAS GIFT GUIDE
42 Gardner Street 01273 911006
Kate & Aud Original hand made jewellery – from £9.99
27 Trafalgar St 07888 739820 07533 581344
Jeremy Hoye Hoye Division T-shirt – £25.00 from www.hoyedivision.com
22a Ship Street 01273 777207
Magnum Opus Tattoo Tattoo prices vary, shirts and other clothing in stock Gift vouchers available 33 Upper North St 01273 271432
Dollydagger Boutique Wonka Bar Bag – £65 exclusively at Dollydagger Boutique
6 Brighton Place www.dollydagger.com
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UNSUNG HEROes 100 PEOPLE WHO MAKE BRIGHTON WHAT IT IS
NO.16: TIM RICHARDSON WORDS BY NICK COQUET PHOTO BY JAMES KENDALL
Tim Richardson’s award-winning Taboo and Lust shops are at the forefront of sexy Brighton retail. That makes him an unsung hero in our book. How many shops do you have now? Three – there’s Lust in the North Laine and Taboo by the station, and we’ve just opened a new Taboo in Hove. What was the idea behind Lust? I see Lust as a mixture of Ann Summers and Urban Outfitters – you can come in and buy something for your girlfriend and your mum. The variety of things in people’s baskets is fantastic – a picture frame for your granny and a butt plug. A lot of people buying that sex toy wouldn’t go into a sex shop like Taboo – friends of mine still haven’t been able to go through the door after seven years, they’re too nervous. I realised we had to get those products into a much more open retail environment. If you’re walking out of Ann Summers you’ve basically either bought lingerie or a sex toy, whereas here you could have bought a Banksy mug – that’s the beauty of it, it takes the embarrassment out of it. Is there stuff you can’t put in the window? I don’t put sex toys in the window; I think it’s wrong. We’ll put subtle things in the display, to let people know there are adult products in the shop, but you don’t need a great big dildo in the window. It would put people off. Don’t people prefers to buy this sort of thing online? We’re launching our Lust website soon and Taboo’s online now. There are two types of customer, the ones who do it all online and those who use it for research but still want the retail experience, to see and hold the product. It’s down to the training of the girls in the shop to give the customer what they want based on what they’ve seen online. Most women seem to have vibrators these days, are men’s attitudes to sex toys changing? There’s the Fleshlight masturbator, a lot of young guys buy them now. We all know everybody masturbates – it doesn’t make you blind. It’s a natural thing to do and if you can buy something that’s going to enhance it why not? And also buy your granny a picture frame at the same time…
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secret eater
Treacle & Co 01273 933 695
164 Church Road, Hove
THE PLACE: Previously available from Ethel’s Kitchen, Treacle & Co’s cakes already have a bit of a following, which might explain why, when we arrive one weekday lunchtime, there isn’t a single empty seat in the house. No big problem, one of the lovely waitresses happily pops downstairs for chairs and we squeeze onto the one spare table. Considering the place has only been open since summer it’s an incredible success story, and it seems that even as busy as they are these days the all-important quaintness is so ingrained that the experience still feels like visiting a lovely tea room. Pretty mismatched shabby chic décor definitely helps, as does the handmade/make do and mend feel.
THE MEAL: If you don’t fancy cake (what’s wrong with you?) then you might be in the wrong place. There’s a good but small choice of hot snacks like soup, and we start off with Welsh rarebit and French toast, both £4. The former is tangy with plenty of cheese and some perfectly roasted cherry tomatoes but the latter might be the highlight of the meal. Light and fluffy, it almost floats off the plate but is held down by crispy, tasty bacon, sweetened further with maple syrup. We hardly need a dessert after that, but when in Rome... The gorgeous orange and chocolate cake (£3.50) seems to change from an orange dominance to chocolate as we scoff it down. We didn’t even notice that it was – like a handful of the cakes – gluten free. The treacle tart (£3.50) wasn’t as sticky and treacly as our tester prefers, but possibly she’d overdosed on sugar after washing the lot down with a hot chocolate (£2.50).
THE VERDICT: Really lovely – it will be a joyous little part of any afternoon. Just walking in feels like you’re treating yourself. There are so many cakes that will catch your eye you’ll be back again and again. WERE WE SUSSED: It was so busy that we snuck in and out without anyone noticing really noticing, although that’s not to say the service wasn’t great. Taking pics was no trouble – why wouldn’t you want a photo of these pretty cakes?
IN CONVERSATION WITH
JIMMY CAIRNEY FOR
BRIGHTON UKULELE DAY WORDS BY NICK COQUET Photo by james kendall
Saturday 18th December is Brighton Ukulele Day, with workshops and our own Bobby McGees playing the Dome, supporting the Ukulele Orchestra Of Great Britain. We spoke to Weakest Link-winning Jimmy Cairney from the Bobbys about the resurgence of four-string strumming. The ukulele seems to be enjoying a popularity boost at the moment. Yes, there’s been a real resurgence over the last few years – brought about entirely by the music of The Bobby McGees! It’s a fairly easy instrument to pick up and start playing, and it’s a lot of fun as well. There’s a few really good ukulele groups in Brighton; there’s us obviously, The Half Sisters, Sophie Madeleine who’s a bit of an internet sensation and there’s Mr B The Gentleman Rhymer. So Brighton’s a real hotbed for it. There does seem to be a kind of punk ethic to some of it, with bands like the pUKEs… Yeah, and there’s one called Pukulele as well. When I first picked up a ukulele the first thing I worked out was ‘Anarchy In The UK’, which I’d never been able to quite get on a guitar, so I thought, “Aha, this is the instrument for me…” It is easy to pick up and play but to play well it’s pretty tricky. It’s kind of easy to learn but tricky to master. You’re playing at the Dome with the Ukulele Orchestra Of Great Britain, seemingly taking well-known songs and ‘uke-ing’ them up… Yeah, they’re a covers band. They’re very good at what they do, and what they do is cheesy covers. They’re all very accomplished technical players and you do sometimes kind of think, “Come on lads, write your own songs – let’s see what you can do.” But they play sold-out gigs all over the world, like Carnegie Hall in New York, so playing a gig with them at the Dome should be a nice one. The Dome is hosting workshops and tutorials as well. Yes, lots of people like to pick one up and have a little
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plink – whenever we play one of the ukulele festivals around the world we’re always asked to teach workshops as well. I don’t know if that happens with other instruments necessarily. So this Brighton show rounds off a pretty busy year for The Bobby McGees. Yes, we’ve been all over the world this year; Hong Kong, Spain, Sweden and Britain, and we’re looking to record at the moment. We built a studio a few years ago and were all set to record there but we got taken to Metway, the Levellers’ studio. It’s really quite impressive. I was like a child being shown a shiny toy – I was like, “I want to record in here, it’s amazing.” It’s just about finding a space in there, it’s quite busy. But we’ve got a good album and a couple of EPs’ worth of material, which we’ll be airing at the Dome. We’re hoping to have 21 dancers as well… Tell us a bit about your TURDS. That’s The Ukulele Research and Development Society. It was an open mic ukulele night that started maybe 10 years ago in Devon. I went along and it was a lot of fun so we decided to open our own version in Brighton. We have a set of rules to stop people being rubbish – no covers, cos all covers are crap, you’re not allowed the word ‘baby’ in any of your songs unless you’re Diana Ross, no ‘soul’ unless you’re James Brown. No singing about drugs unless you’re Shaun Ryder, nothing about alcohol unless you’re Shane McGowan. That cuts out about 75% of the people who play at open mic nights! We give away prizes if performers manage two songs without breaking any of the rules and we give the audience sweets so they shut up and listen. We then get them to write in a comments book, which is hilarious.
And finally, the patron saint of ukulele is… George Formby? For me it would have to be George Formby, yes. I had a great discussion/argument with someone on the internet, about a new Hawaiian ukulele player who was described as the Jimi Hendrix of the ukulele. He’s very BRIGHTON UKULELE DAY: Sat 18th Dec at the Dome. good, but I had to remind the BOBBY MCGEE’S: myspace.com/thebobbymcgees Hawaiian people that Jimi Hendrix TURDS: tinyurl.com/brightonturds was only the George Formby of the guitar.
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LISTINGS December / January 2010
wednesday 1st
ABOVE AUDIO The Doctor’s Orders This hip hop is sick 11pm £free
AUDIO Pulled Apart By Horses, Gay For Johnny Depp, Young Legionnaire Screamy, riffy alt rock 7pm £7.50; Supercharged: Marky Breaks 11pm £tbc BEE’S MOUTH Open Mic 8.30pm £free BELUSHI’S BAR Now That’s What I Call A Party Part 3 DJ Sean plays everything from a-ha to GaGa - now that’s what I call eclectic 9pm £free BLACK LION Fresh Acoustics Live music 8.30pm £free BLIND BUSKER Music Quiz True or false: Lemmy’s boil was attached to his face by a Hell’s Angel with a soldering iron during a raucous afterparty? 8.30pm £free BRIGHTON CENTRE Vampire Weekend 6.30pm £20 BRUNSWICK The Noise Next Door Improvised comedy egged on by the audience 8pm £8/6 CASABLANCA Spanish Breaks Club night with live funk band Time tbc £2/1/free COWLEY CLUB SchMOVIES: Afro-Punk The Movie Documentary about what it’s like being a black punk rocker. Note: The Cowley is a private member’s club, but guests are welcome 8pm £donation DIGITAL The Poundance Imagine if Poundstretcher had a dancefloor - top pop tunes for a pittance 11pm £4/3/1 DOME Michael Bolton Hey Mike, give us some of your lovely soft rock ballads 7.30pm £39.50 DOME FOYER Sussex Salon Series: What Difference Have Civil Partnerships Made? Activist and writer Peter Tatchell heads a panel discussing gay rights 8pm £6/4 DRUID’S ARMS We Change The Tempo DJ night 9pm £free DUKE OF BEAUFORT Poker Competition 7pm £5 DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest 11am/2pm/9.15pm; Blue Part of the Cinecity film festival 7pm FISHBOWL Fisherman’s Chronicles Acoustic jam open to all 8pm £free HECTOR’S HOUSE Skinny Machines Indie rock bands 8pm £free HYDRANT Sink Venice Live music 9pm £free JAM Gentleman’s Dub Club Nine piece dub and ska band 7pm £6; Adventures (After Dark): Penguin Prison Indie, dance and hip hop club with live synthpop act 11pm £1 CAFE KOBA Swap Shop Night Swap your clothes and DVDs for better ones 8pm £3 KOMEDIA DOWN New Act Night Brand new stand-up 8pm £7/5 KOMEDIA DOWN Popcorn Comedy Comedians and short film funnies 8pm £7/5 KOMEDIA UP The Brand New Heavies Acid funk jazzers - from the second summer of love to the latest winter of discontent 8pm £18.50 LOLA LO Rock A Hula: Big Dave Aloha, Tiki Stew, Hawaii Five O DJs spin 50s rock&roll and 60s soul Details tbc MESMERIST Swing Ninjas Gypsy jazz swing trio Details tbc OCEANA Fuzzy Logic Dance and dubstep student night 9pm £5/3.50/2 PAVILION THEATRE Young Bands Night: Alice, Blank Revolution, When Monsters Walk Not too young to rock 7.30pm £4 PRINCE ALBERT Wanderdown, The Junkhouse, Koresh Live music 8.30pm £4/3 PV World Aids Day Charity Bingo With Sally! 8pm £free R-BAR Trickpop Pop and R&B from DJ Trick 8pm £free ROCK INN Poker Night 8.30pm £5 SIDEWINDER The Sidewinder Garden Quiz 8pm £1; Night Of The Living Fred Name that tune to win a shot of Tuaca 8pm £free SUGAQUBE Bar Grooves House DJ Time tbc £free THOMAS KEMP Kev’s Open Mic 8.30pm £free VOLKS Dark Moon Party: Firefarm, Mr Nice, Buba King Live breaks act with fire performers and dubstep DJs Time tbc £4/3 WEST HILL TAVERN Glenn Todd, Monica Henter Live
acoustic music 8pm £free
thursday 2nd
AUDIO Aiden, Francesqa, The Dead Formats Live rock bands 7pm £10; Bastard Pop Musical mash up 11pm £2 BEE’S MOUTH The Bee’s Mouth Showcase Live music 9pm £free
BELUSHI’S BAR Karaoke 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Mutant Pop Poppy and alternative sounds 10pm £2
BLACK LION Dubrockerslive Reggae, ska and dub DJs 8.30pm £free
BRIGHTON CENTRE Scissor Sisters Stuffing subversive homosexual glam inside the trojan horse of electro pop since 2001 6.30pm £30 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Brighton Bike Night Weekly biker’s social - leather, not lycra 7pm £free CASABLANCA Mulatones Club night with live funk band Time tbc £2/1/free COALITION The Bluetones, Married To The Sea, The Lanes Britpoppers make a slight return 7.30pm £13; Secret Discotheque Retro disco, 80s pop and other ‘uncool’ tunes 10.30pm £4/3/2/1 CONCORDE2 The Correspondents Come and watch a man dance very excitedly to old jazz records 11pm £8 CORNERSTONE Son Of Movie Bar So you wanna make it in the glamorous world of film? Go shmooze with the movers and makers and other out-of-work actors 8pm £free DRUID’S ARMS The Druid’s Presents DJs and live music 8.30pm £free DUKE OF BEAUFORT Pubquiz 8pm £1 DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA My Afternoons With Margueritte 1.30pm; The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest 3.30pm/8.45pm; La Yuma Part of the Cinecity film festival Details tbc ENVY Get Some Commercial chart choons Time tbc £2 FIDDLER’S ELBOW Fiddler’s Live Lounge Live jazz and folk music 8.30pm £free FISHBOWL Residents Association DJ Will Sumsuch plays hip hop, funk and world beats 10pm £free FORTUNE OF WAR Afro-Connect: Pollito Boogaloo, DJ Abo Rwandan charity fundraiser 8pm £5 FLORIST Acoustic Lounge Live music 8pm £free GLOBE Hang The DJ! The democratisation of the dancefloor continues apace with another night of punterpicked playlists 9pm £free HOBGOBLIN Dr Bluegrass & The Illbilly 8 Brighton’s busiest buskers 8.30pm £free HONEY The One - Real VIP Hip hop and dubstep designed to make you feel special 11pm £1/free HYDRANT Left At The Robot Live music 9pm £free JAM Goldheart Assembly, Spring Offensive, Fiona Sally Miller Folky indie 7pm £6; Thursday Night Fish Fry Early 50s US rhythm & blues and original Jamaican ska 10pm £2/1 KENDAL ARMS Poker Tournament Details tbc KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club: Andrew Lawrence, Seann Walsh, Eddy Brimson, Brian Gittins, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 8pm £8.50/6.50 KOMEDIA STUDIO Hammer & Tongue An entertaining array of literate comedy and poetry hosted by the White Witch of wordplay, Rosy Carrick - and featuring the 2010 World Slam champ, Ian Keteku 7.30pm £5/4 LATEST MUSIC BAR The Illustrators Epic new indie band 8.30pm £4 LECTERN The Consoles Young indie rock band with a weakness for covers 7.30pm £4 LIFE Shameless Half a century of musical highlights and lowpoints 11pm £1 LIGHTHOUSE Lighthouse Monthly Talk: Eddie Berg The director of the British Film Institute discusses art, archives and the future of cinema 7pm £3 MESMERIST Live Thursday Joe Newman hosts a night of bluegrass and folk 9pm £tbc OCEANA Pound Party R&B and dance tunes from the bargain bin 9pm £6/5/free PAV TAV Kickstart My Heart Rock and metal night 11pm £3/2/free PRINCE ALBERT Jesse Malin & The St. Marks Social,
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A Million Years Edgy folk singer gets a new backing band and ends up sounding a bit like Springsteen 7.30pm £10 PV Weakest Link World Aids Day Fundraiser 8pm £free QUADRANT AKL Open Mic Night 8pm £free R-BAR Girls On Top Offical Warm Up Pop and party tunes from DJ Alpha 8pm £tbc RED LION Music Quiz 8pm £1 REVENGE Girls On Top Vs Emergency Room Pop music club 10.30pm £4/3/free ROCK INN Quiz Night 8.30pm £1 SALLIS BENNEY THEATRE Shukar Collective Part of the Cinecity film festival Details tbc SIDEWINDER Forgive Me Father For I Have Synthed Confess your shameful 80s love secret 8pm £free SUGAQUBE Weekend Warmup DJ Gary Scott plays dance tunes Time tbc £free THOMAS KEMP Unplugged Sessions Live acoustic music 9pm £free VICTORY Free Live Music Live music 8pm £free VOLKS Back To Back Special: High Maintenance b2b D double U, Maniac b2b Trouble, Dusty b2b Pablo Riddla, Comatoze b2b Kronical, Equation b2b Simon D, Threts b2b Matty B MC’s, Skitz b2b Double-J, Rizla D b2b Tremma D, Kerizma b2b Infamous, Jay T b2b Assasinator, Brown Noise b2b Kotch, Ensall b2b MR Sleepz, Vinyl Itchy b2b Chazanova, Muzza b2b Jesta, Arcane b2b Gsta It’s times like this SOURCE wishes someone would invent a collective noun for DJs. A drove of DJs? A doylt? A diaphragm? In any case, there’s a lot of them 10pm £2
WEST HILL TAVERN Open Mic 8pm £free
friday 3rd
AUDIO Nina Nastasia NY singer songwriter 7pm £tbc; Chew The Fat: DJ Zinc, A1 Bassline, Dem Slackers, Warrior One D&B and breakstep 11pm £8/5 BELUSHI’S BAR Muy Loco Pop and house DJs 9pm £free
BELUSHI’S BELOW Abandoned Rock and metal night 10pm £3/2
BLACK DOVE Hot Tip Hi Fi DJs playing early reggae and
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rocksteady 8pm £free BLACK LION Medium Rare DJs serving up a platter of semi-obscure funk and soul 8.30pm £free BRIGHTON CENTRE Diversity 6.30pm £29.50,21.50 BRUNSWICK The Lost Highway Americana night 8pm £5/4 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Sleazy Listening: DJ Peter Von Sleaze Sleazy, like getting drooled on by a big biker. Did I say ‘like’? 9pm £free CASABLANCA Laura Vane & The Lowdown Live music 10pm £5 CHEQUERS Friday Night Live Live music 9pm £tbc COALITION Fridays I’m In Love Somewhat eclectic club night with 60s gems, indie and funky funk 11pm £4/3/2/1 COBBLER’S THUMB Dr Bluegrass & The Illbilly 8 Brighton’s busiest buskers, hi-octane country standards and pop covers put through the hillbilly thresher 8.30pm £free CONCORDE2 Introducing, Fadadoo Project, Boy Com Live music Details tbc COWLEY CLUB Madame Mim, Dervish World music benefit for Calais migrants 9pm £donation DIGITAL Stonelove Indie rock&roll club 11pm £4/3 DOCTOR BRIGHTON’S Heads Up DJ 9.30pm £free DRUID’S ARMS Hot Pepper Sauce Reggae DJs 10pm £free DUKE OF BEAUFORT Smoke Stack DJs spin some old school ska 8pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Monsters 4.30pm/9pm; Somewhere Part of the Cinecity film festival 6.30pm; Wild At Heart 11.30pm FISHBOWL Keep It Wheel DJ Steve KIW plays rare disco, soul and boogie 9pm £free FORTUNE OF WAR Shakehandsletparty DJ night Details tbc FULL MOON Bark @ The Moon DJ Artful Dodger plays sleazy rock&roll 9pm £free FUNKY BUDDHA Drink, Dance, Repeat Cash in your student loan 11pm £5/3 FUNKYFISH The Funkyfish Club Soul, funk, jazz, Motown - 60s, 70s and 80s 10pm £6/3.50 GLADSTONE Southern Swords Live hip hop 8pm £free GLOBE The Stash DJs play rock&roll and northern soul 9pm £free H BAR DJ Stevens James Warming the room with some soul, funk and house anthems 9pm £tbc; Aura: Billy Mauseth, Mick Yeoman, Doc House club night 10pm £tbc HECTOR’S HOUSE Beatabet Live music, DJs and visuals Details tbc HOBGOBLIN Viking Moses, Withered Hand, Underground River Rocky Americana 7.30pm £6/5 HONEY Bonkerz Fridays All sorts of funky, dirty pop sounds
10.30pm £6/5/free HOPE The SlipJam Long Player Hip hop night with a Loopclash beat battle (upstairs) 9pm £free; Stacked Nasty DJs (downstairs) 9pm £free HYDRANT DOWN The Ramonas All-female Ramones tribute 9pm £free HYDRANT UP Lazy Habits, Scubaroots, Duncan An Disorderly Live hip hop, with ska and jazz influences 8pm £6/5 JAM Dice Roll 1D6: 1-2 you have a passable night listening to funky soul; 3-4 you have a laugh dancing to hip hop and doing gansta poses with your mates; 5 the cool breaks provide a perfect soundtrack to a night of exultant and joyful transcendence; 6 you get laid 10pm £3 KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club: Andrew Lawrence, Seann Walsh, Eddy Brimson, Brian Gittins, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 7.30pm £14/11; Motorcity Club for lovers of Motown, rock&roll and disco 10.30pm £5/3 KOMEDIA STUDIO Brighton Jazz Club: Julian Nicholas Band Tribute To Harry Beckett Live jazz, tonight remembering the great improv trumpeter 8pm £12/10 KOMEDIA UP Sarah Jane Morris: Where It Hurts Soul singer with a loud mouth 8pm £15/12 LATEST MUSIC BAR Frockin? Around The Christmas Tree Queer-friendly Jive and rockabilly night 8pm £7/6 LIFE Dagger Carnival vibes with The Heatwave 11pm £3 LOFT Club Malicious Guitar anthems and movie soundtracks 10pm £3/2/free MESMERIST Shake, Holler And Roll DJ Dave Walker plays old school jive 9pm £tbc MONTPELIER Souled Out Old school soul and disco from Juice DJ, Mick Fuller 9pm £free NEPTUNE Papa George Live blues band 8.30pm £free OCEANA Ministry Of Sound: Smoove R&B and garage 8pm £8/7/free OPEN HOUSE Brighton Folk And Blues Folk club hosted by Mark Cresswell and Helen Watson 8pm £6 PAV TAV INDIEcent Indie club playing indie pop and indie rock 11pm £3/2 PAVILION THEATRE The Treason Show Topical comedy taking satirical pot-shots at the poor and famous 8pm £12.50/10 PV Sugar Rush! DJ Bad Drag plays pop from across the ages Details tbc QUEEN’S HEAD Pog Catchy ska-influenced indie songs with witty takes on punky themes 8.30pm £tbc R-BAR X Factor Warm Up DJ Smithy plays chart tunes 9pm £tbc RED ROASTER Grit Lit Eight authors read hard-hitting short stories 7.45pm £5 REVENGE X Factor Friday Watch the wannabe idiots, then go dance 10.30pm £tbc SALLIS BENNY THEATRE Hiroshima Part of the Cinecity film festival Details tbc SMUGGLERS Bust It! DJ tunes 9pm £free SUGAQUBE Classics & Anthems Big house tunes from DJ Cheets Time tbc £free THREE & TEN Don’t Feed The Poets: Robert Auton, Dean Wilson, Bernadette Cremin, Ros Barber Witty wordsmiths and performance poets (upstairs) 8pm £7/5; Will Sumsuch Housey tunes (downstairs) 10pm £free VOLKS Freak Bazaar CD Launch: EVP, Sonic Species, Neuroplasm, Ginetik, Clayton, Tobermory, Addsimeon, Iaindub, Sergical Spirit, Tasha Konivolski Brighton trance showcase 11pm £7/5 WESTERN FRONT Release DJs play a bit of everything 9pm £free WEST HILL TAVERN Envy Electro and hip hop DJs 10pm £free WORLD’S END Blues From The South Presents Live acoustic music 8pm £tbc XUMA Bmore DJ Details tbc
saturday 4th
ABOVE AUDIO Warehouse Funk and rare soul from DJ Mex 10pm £5/free AUDIO We Have Band, Mirrors, Bright Light Bright Light Electro pop buzz-band supported by Brighton’s own synthpop hopefuls 7pm £7; Warehouse: Round Table Knights, Casper C Electro house night 11pm £5/free BEE’S MOUTH The Gaa Gaa’s, The Mulburys, DJ Dan Sharpe Live music Time tbc £free BELUSHI’S BAR Unplugged Live acoustic music 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Good Times Remember them? Maybe the retro tunes will jog your memory 9pm £5 BLACK LION Burnt Toast Radio Reverb DJ brings out the filth in funk 8.30pm £free BRIGHTON BALLROOM Pop Kraft Boogaloo Stu and crew play pop tunes while you play with sock puppets and make badges out of porno mags 9.30pm £8/6
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BRIGHTON CENTRE Pixie Lott 6.30pm £23.50 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Replica Goth and industrial DJ tunes 9pm £free CASABLANCA Funky Fiesta: Oomphf, The Southcoasters Club night with live funk soul band 10pm £7 CHEQUERS Saturday Night Asylum DJ night 9pm £tbc COALITION Ratatat Brooklyn electro duo 7.45pm £7.50; Swap-A-Rama Razzmatazz Swapping clothes with randoms is the new flirting 11pm £8; Blow After Party: Vincent Manganaro, Carlos Riz, Aaron Palaez It never stops 3am £7/5/4 COBBLER’S THUMB Radio 4Play The crew from Radio 4A present a night of decidedly non-festive music 8pm £free CONCORDE2 Young Guns, Swellers, Japanese Voyeurs Rock bands 7pm £8.50 DIGITAL Pussycat Club: Twisted Christmas If your house was this dirty you might have to call pest control 11pm £12/10/5 DOCTOR BRIGHTON’S DJ Tony B 9.30pm £free DOME Inhabit: A Unique Tour Of Brighton Dome Artists and performers have set little surprises in the nooks and crannies of this Grade 1 listed building 11am £free; The Bootleg Beatles If the Beatles were bigger than Jesus then these guys must be at least as big as L Ron Hubbard 8pm £23.50 DRUID’S ARMS Nostalgedelia DJ Ben Murphy 10pm £free DUKE OF BEAUFORT DJ Night Rockabilly, ska and soul 8pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Shrek Forever After 11am; Len Lye Shorts, Boy Who Turned Yellow Part of the Cinecity film festival Details tbc; Extraordinary Adventures Of Adele Blanc Part of the Cinecity film festival 6.30pm; Monsters 9pm ENVY LS Movement Funky underground sounds 10pm £3/2/free FIDDLER’S ELBOW DJ Arthur Schilling Rock&roll and funk tunes 9pm £free FISHBOWL Askew DJ set of soul, nu jazz and reggae tunes 9pm £free FORTUNE OF WAR Duncan Disorderly, Ben GC Chukin’s singer does a solo set of loop-assisted reggae Details tbc FULL MOON Bones DJs bring you lo fi garage blues and horror pop 9pm £free FUNKY BUDDHA Reflex The 80s are back! The perfect soundtrack to Tory cuts and mass unemployment 11pm £tbc; The Breakfast Club: Pop ‘Till You Drop DJ Mikee Hollywood keeps the party going 3am £5/3 FUNKYFISH The Funkyfish Club Soul, funk, jazz, Motown - 60s, 70s and 80s 10pm £6/3.50 GLOBE Together In Eclectic Dreams DJ night 9pm £free HAMPTON iLike iPod battles 8pm £free H BAR Tech Noir Christmas Special: Danny Chase, Nick Hook House music 9pm £tbc HECTOR’S HOUSE The Free For All A full house of alternative and indie bands 8.30pm £free; The Free For All After Show Messy post-gig drinking and dancing session 12pm £free HONEY Hat Club: Oliver Lang, David Lee, Vince Frimpong, Reservoir House, Carl Smeaton, Squiz, Ben G House hits and hats 11pm £10/5 HOVE TOWN HALL Happy Soul Club: Justin Langlands, Damian Le Bas, Steve McMahon, Keith Turner DJs cover the whole of the soul spectrum 9pm £7.50/5 HYDRANT DOWN Stars Down To Earth Indie rock band with an expansive sound and grand, eerie anthems 9pm £free HYDRANT UP Enos, Dopefight, Funeral Hag, By Definition Doomy metal 7.30pm £3 IRON DUKE She Talks To Rainbows DJs Mia & Misty play trippy tracks from the 60s and 70s 9pm £free JAM The Stash: AMiTY, Dr Pop Live indie bands 8pm £3/2; A Made Up Sound, Gon Gon, Donga, Alex Renegade Youth Live indie bands 11pm £7/5 KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club: Andrew Lawrence, Seann Walsh, Eddy Brimson, Brian Gittins, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 10.30pm £17.50 KOMEDIA STUDIO CBGBs Night based on the music from the NY venue 10.30pm £3 KOMEDIA UP Guilty Pleasures Club for unreformed sinners 11pm £8/6 LIFE Hold Up! Proper indie disco 11pm £5 MESMERIST Andy Mac And Friends DJ shows off his record collection 9pm £tbc; Midnight Mesermist Late night cabaret 12pm £tbc OCEANA The World In One Night With seven themed rooms you should find one you like 8pm £8/free PAV TAV Back To The Future Retro tunes from before you were born 11pm £3/2 PAVILION THEATRE The Treason Show Topical comedy taking satirical pot-shots at the poor and famous 8pm £12.50/10 QUADRANT The Laughing Horse Comedy Night Stand-up comedy 7.30pm £tbc R-BAR Kinky Classics DJ King-K plays funky house 9pm
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REVENGE Kinky Dangerous Pop and R&B tunes
10.30pm £8/6/4/3/free
SALLIS BENNEY THEATRE Brighton Screening Day Part of the Cinecity film festival Details tbc; Rime Of The Modern Mariner Part of the Cinecity film festival Details tbc SIDEWINDER Winter Wonderland A market with Christmas trees and trinkets - plus a Santa for the kids 2pm
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SMUGGLERS Magnetic Club tunes from DJs Outbreak and Sam Cadman 9pm £free SUGAQUBE Simply House House from DJ Cheets and Jamie Milton Time tbc £free THREE & TEN Pros From Dover Comedic sketch show (upstairs) 8pm £7/5; Ruff Snippets Funk, soul and disco tunes (downstairs) 10pm £free UNITARIAN CHURCH The Assembly Room Art and design market 10.30am £tbc VICTORY Up Against It Born Bad DJs play punky bubblegum trash 8pm £free VOLKS Burleske Housey circus techno Details tbc WALMER CASTLE Dr Bluegrass & The Illbilly 8 Brighton’s busiest country buskers host a festive hootenanny Time tbc £free WESTERN FRONT Release DJs play a bit of everything 9pm £free WEST HILL TAVERN If Reagan Played Disco Alternative sounds from the era of right-wing governments and middle-eastern bombing campaigns. No, the other one 9pm £free WORLD’S END Too Many Creeps At Christmas Live music 8pm £free XUMA Niall DJ from Gogglez Details tbc
sunday 5th
ABOVE AUDIO Sunday Service Live bands Time tbc £free
BEE’S MOUTH The Hive DJs wade through the subgenres of the 50s and 60s 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BAR Now That’s What I Call A Party Part 1 DJ Sean plays everything from A-ha to GaGa - now that’s what I call eclectic 9pm £free BRUNSWICK Rockskool Live music from local school kids 12pm/2pm £5; Qukulele A quick round-up of today’s gayness: the recorder is no longer gay, the ukulele stays gay for another fortnight 3pm £tbc; Terry Pack Jazz double bass 8pm £8 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK The Geekest Link Do you know the difference between D&D and a D10? 8.30pm £1 CHEQUERS Soul Ska Sessions Details tbc COALITION Bangbox, Jaguar Skills, Flash Git, Some Old Boy 10.30pm £8/6 CONCORDE2 Brighton Rumble Christmas Bash: The Longtall Texans, Dollar Bill One Man Band, The Ladykillers, Dave Mumbles, Lucky Phil, Mousie, Tiki Stew, Rockin Ratman Rockabilly and country bands, plus special guest DJs 3pm £7.50/6.50 CORN EXCHANGE Souled Out Classic soul tracks from a mass community choir 8pm £10 DOCTOR BRIGHTON’S The Great Christmas Quiz Raising money for Sussex Beacon 5pm £2 DOME Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra Music by Mendelssohn, Schumann and Tchaikovsky with guest conductor and soloist, Howard Shelley 2.45pm £9-32 DRUID’S ARMS The Downsound Sessions Trip hop and dub DJs 9pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Marti Eye Of The Canary, Animal Kingdom Part of the Cinecity film festival Details tbc; Monsters 4.15pm/9.15pm; Submarine 6.30pm FIDDLER’S ELBOW Sham-Rock Open Mic 8.30pm £free FISHBOWL Recovery? Chilled reggae DJing from Asbest The Moor King and guests 9pm £free GLOBE Rockoustic Open Mic 9pm £free HAMPTON Live Music Sundays Live music 8.30pm £free HECTOR’S HOUSE The Spirit Of Gravity & Club Zygotic: Warrior Squares, Bolides, Animal Magic Tricks, Young Christian Mothers Of The Third Reich, Hereharehere, Jez North, Noteherder & Mccloud, Terror Wogan, Slow Listener, Spirit Of Gravity Quartet, I’m Dr Buoyant, Mass, Bad Orb, Andrew Clare, Ian Murphy, Hrt Experimental electronic music all-dayer 3pm £free HEIST Dub Defendant Jamaican sounds 8pm £free HONEY Afrodisiac If your house was this sexy you’d never go outdoors 10.30pm £3.50/2; Rebel Red After Hours: Lee Haris, Jonny M Electro house after-party for the The Red Party at Oceana 3am £tbc HOPE Label Showcase US witch house 8.30pm £tbc HYDRANT Nordic Giants Unique Audio Visual Show,
Phoria Visual storytelling with a live band and short films 5.30pm £4/3 JAM Small Black, Pictureplane, Nullifier Live music Details tbc KING & QUEEN Quiz Night 7.30pm £1
KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club: Andrew Lawrence, Seann Walsh, Eddy Brimson, Brian Gittins, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 8pm £11/6 KOMEDIA STUDIO Silent Movie Experience West End
musician-performer jazzes up old films with breakbeat percussion and honky tonk piano 3.30pm £7.50/5.50; This Is What Chaos Smells Like The Awkward Silence present a brand new, utterly silly sketch show 8pm £5/4 KOMEDIA UP Brighton Second Hand & Craft Bazaar Everyone loves a good rummage 10am £free; Bent Double Cristmas Special: Susan Calman, Zoe Lyons Alternative comedy acts 7.30pm £10/8 LATEST MUSIC BAR Bark Like A Dog Blues Jam A chance for first-timers to shed their nerves - and old-timers to show off their licks (upstairs) 8pm £free; Autumn Red Alt country with a grungey edge (downstairs) Details tbc LECONFIELD Boozy Bingo 6pm £1 MARWOOD CAFE Brighton Filmmakers Coalition Meeting Throw ideas about and get involved in local projects 6pm £free NEPTUNE Simon And Sleeze Acoustic Blues Show Live music 8.30pm £free NIGHTINGALE THEATRE Scratch Artists show you snippets of new work, then you tell them what you think 8pm £donation OCEANA Wild Fruit Red Party 2010: Norman Cook Huge fancy dress charity club night, marking World AIDS Day 9.30pm £10/6/8 PRINCE ALBERT Elephant Micah, The Diamond Family Archive Folky lo-fi 8pm £7/6 PV Sundaylicious Showtime Live acoustic music 6.30pm £free R-BAR Sublime Sundays Acoustic sessions 5pm £free SUGAQUBE All Night Long Mr Ray and DJ Psycho spin some funk and soul Time tbc £free THREE & TEN Strung Out Live acoustic music 8pm £free UNITARIAN CHURCH Mary Hampton, ViV, Crayola Lectern English folk, piano tales and mulled wine 8pm £6 VOLKS Modern Mania: The Universal, The Spitfires, Jimmy Etheridge, DJ Colin De La Soul Live music 7.30pm £8
monday 6th
ABOVE AUDIO Twilight Lounge Live funk, soul and jazz Time tbc £free
ANCIENT MARINER Quiz Night 8pm £1 BEE’S MOUTH The Bee’s Mouth Jazz Forum Join in for a jazz jam with the house band - there’s a free pint in it 8.30pm £free BELUSHI’S BAR Now That’s What I Call A Party Part 2 Eclectic pop night 9pm £free BLIND BUSKER Open Mic Night 8.30pm £free BRIGHTON CENTRE Primary Schools Christmas Concert 2010 6.30pm £8.60/5.00 BRUNSWICK Open Mic Night 8pm £free COALITION Trash Mondays Filthy tunes for students and layabouts alike 10pm £5/3/free CONCORDE2 Wooden Shjips, Howlin’ Rain, Moon Duo Psychedelic space rock and poor spelling 7.30pm £14 CHEQUERS Reggae Reggae Night Roots, reggae and rocksteady Details tbc DRUID’S ARMS Quizageddon 8.30pm £1 DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Monsters 4.15pm/9.30pm FOUNTAIN HEAD Quiz Night 8.30pm £1 FULL MOON Quiz Night Time tbc £1 HAMPTON Music Quiz 8pm £1 HECTOR’S HOUSE Dad Disko Student cheese Time tbc £free HONEY Playground Cheesy chart choons and bouncy castles 11pm £tbc HOPE Boy & Bear Aussie folk band 8pm £tbc KING & QUEEN 80s Club Tropicana DJs play 1980s party music 8pm £free KOMEDIA DOWN Beacon Christmas Variety Show Charity cabaret with Maisie Trollette, Krissie Du Cann and others 8pm £12.50 LIFE Jailbait It’s a 90s club night. Trust us, you don’t want to google it 10.30pm £2/free OCEANA Vodka Heaven Where Russian alcoholics go to dance to R&B 9pm £5/4/3/free PRINCE ALBERT Tall Ships, Tangled Hair Experimental loop band 8pm £tbc QUADRANT Acoustic Showcase Live music Details tbc R-BAR Quiz With Liz 9pm £tbc SIDEWINDER Poker Night It’s about time for a gambling habit 9pm £5 SIGNALMAN Signalman Pub Quiz 8pm £1
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THOMAS KEMP Quiz Night Time tbc £1 VOLKS Strictly Reggae Dancehall, roots, revival 11pm £5/4.50
WEST HILL TAVERN The Big Quiz 8pm £free
Tuesday 7th
AUDIO Let’s Kill Disco Indie night 10pm £3/2 BEE’S MOUTH Roll ‘Dem Bones Blues, jazz and 60s tunes 8.30pm £free
BELL Tom B’s Open Mic Night 8.30pm £free BELUSHI’S BAR Totalled On Tuesday! Pop and dance DJ 9pm £free
BELUSHI’S BELOW Elements Drum&bass night 10pm
£2/1
BRIGHTON CENTRE Status Quo Fresh and innovative rock band 6.30pm £34.50 BRUNSWICK Jazz Jam Open session with house band 8pm £free CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK The Big Quiz 8.45pm £1 CHEQUERS Mic Chequers Jam Session Free pint for open mic’ers Details tbc COALITION Fat Tuesdays: Ninjasoniks A big mix of everything 11pm £3/2/1 COBBLER’S THUMB Play For Your Pint Open mic night 9pm £free CONCORDE2 UFO, Voodoo Six Classic hard rock band 7pm £18.50 COWLEY CLUB Wildkatz Project Open mic jam for poets and musicians 7pm £free DIGITAL CU Next Tuesday Student club night formerly known as Glitterati 11pm £4/3 DOME Squeeze, The Lightning Seeds A double-bill of recently-reformed two-hit wonders 7.30pm £33.50 DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow 11am; Monsters 4.15pm/8.45pm; Lemmy 6.30pm FIDDLER’S ELBOW Quizness Time 8pm £1 FULL MOON Open Mic New open mic for musicians, comics and poets Details tbc FUNKY BUDDHA The Candy Fiesta Cosmpolitan student party Time tbc £3/2 GLOBE Basement Cinema Underground films, comfy seats, free popcorn 8pm £free HONEY Latin Fever We’re not talking Ricky Martin, but then who is? 10pm £4/3 JAM Cat Face Party tunes, but no house music - cheap entry with a cat face 10.30pm £10/2 KING & QUEEN Karaoke Night 9pm £free KOMEDIA DOWN The Space: Frank Skinner, Barry Norman You’ve seen them on telly, now watch them talk in real life - they have real lips and everything 7.30pm £7.50/5 KOMEDIA UP Peter Owen Jones: More TV Vicar Presenter of ‘Extreme Pilgrim’ speaks about television and spiritual ethics 8pm £15 LECONFIELD Tuesday Teaser Pub quiz 9pm £1 LIFE The Vice Social Student dance party 11pm £3 PAV TAV Guerilla Rocks Club night for rock chicks, skater bois and indie kids 11pm £3/2/1 PRINCE ALBERT Derider, Lights Camera Attraction Live music 8pm £4/3 R-BAR Twisted Karaoke 8pm £free REVENGE Sound As A Pound Charty tunes 10.30pm £2/ free RED LION General Knowledge Quiz 8pm £1 ROCK INN Movie Night: Miracle On 42nd Street 5.30pm/8.30pm £free SIDEWINDER Open Mic Night 8pm £free THOMAS KEMP Poker Evening 8pm £tbc XUMA Uncle Al DJ night Details tbc
wednesday 8th
ABOVE AUDIO The Doctor’s Orders This hip hop is sick 11pm £free
AUDIO Matthew Dear Indie electronica 7pm £8.50; Supercharged: Alix Perez Breaks 11pm £tbc BASEMENT Mark Olson, Mark Wynn Former Jayhawks
singer does a solo set of country folk 7.30pm £11/10 BEE’S MOUTH Open Mic 8.30pm £free BELUSHI’S BAR Now That’s What I Call A Party Part 3 Pop music 9pm £free BLACK LION Fresh Acoustics Live music 8.30pm £free BLIND BUSKER Music Quiz True or false: Cheryl Cole was constructed using by-products from industrial chemical plants? 8.30pm £free
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CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK The Funnier Farm: Holly Walsh, James Acaster, Nick Helm, Robin Buckland, Pat Burtscher Stand-up comedy (upstairs) 8pm
FISHBOWL Residents Association DJ Will Sumsuch plays hip hop, funk and world beats 10pm £free
£5
FLORIST Acoustic Lounge Live music 8pm £free FULL MOON Fire At The Old Mill New wave and post
band Time tbc £2/1/free
GLOBE Hang The DJ! The democratisation of the
CASABLANCA Spanish Breaks Club night with live funk CONCORDE2 Blood Red Shoes, Flats, Not Cool Homecoming headline slot for punk pop duo 8pm £9.50 DIGITAL The Poundance Imagine if Poundstretcher had a dancefloor - top pop tunes for a pittance 11pm £4/3/1 DOME Ross Noble: Nonsensory Overload The Geordie stand-up back for more inspired silliness 8pm £21/19 DRUID’S ARMS We Change The Tempo DJ night 9pm £free DUKE OF BEAUFORT Poker Competition 7pm £5 DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Monsters 11am/3.45pm/9pm FISHBOWL Fisherman’s Chronicles Acoustic jam open to all 8pm £free HECTOR’S HOUSE Tatty Seaside Town Presents Live music Time tbc £free HOPE Twin Brother, Will Mussett, Narrow Minded Social Club, The Stash Tins, Daisy Drage, Conor Tidey Live music 8pm £tbc HYDRANT Gardner Street Circus Live music 9pm £free IRON DUKE Double Christmas W.I.T.D.E The tyranny of the guitar must be overthrown! An open mic night with a strict anti-axe policy 8pm £free JAM Delorean Barcelona dance mash up 7pm £8; Brother, Primary 1 Indie rock band 11pm £1 KENDAL ARMS Christmas Quiz Cash and bonus prizes Details tbc KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Christmas Kracker: Jarred Christmas, Ben Norris, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy with three-course meal 8.30pm £35 LATEST MUSIC BAR Shona Foster, Peanut Albinos Singer songwriter with a bouncy backing band and vocal tricks somewhat in the style of Regina Spektor 8pm £6 LIFE We Run This Garage Special: Artful Dodger, The Wideboy, Majestic If your garage was this banging you’d eventually get round to mending the door 11pm £5 LOLA LO Disco Daze Party tunes from DJ Mark Wilkinson 10pm £4/3/1 MESMERIST Swing Ninjas Gypsy jazz swing trio Details tbc NORTHERN LIGHTS John Lennon RIP Lennon music night Details tbc OCEANA End Of Term Snow Party Dance and dubstep student night 9pm £5/3.50/2 PAVILION THEATRE Robin And The Big Freeze A festive family show with music and puppetry 10am £8/6 PRINCE ALBERT Snakemen Play The Ruts Live music 8.30pm £6 PULL & PUMP Pickin Party Open session for American roots players 7.30pm £free PV Infamous PV Quiz Winning a few quid surely justifies a lifetime of filling your brain with inconsequential trivia 8pm £tbc R-BAR Trickpop Pop and R&B from DJ Trick 8pm £free ROCK INN Poker Night 8.30pm £5 ST GEORGE’S INN Quiz Night 8.30pm £1 SIDEWINDER The Sidewinder Garden Quiz 8pm £1 SUGAQUBE Bar Grooves House DJ Time tbc £free THOMAS KEMP Kev’s Open Mic 8.30pm £free VICTORY The All New Victory Quiz 8pm £free VOLKS Bangers And Mashed Fidgety electro Time tbc £1 WEST HILL TAVERN Acoustic Night Live music 8pm £free XUMA Them Indoors DJs from Turin Breaks and Tru Thoughts Details tbc
punk DJs 9pm £free
dancefloor continues apace with another night of punterpicked playlists 9pm £free HECTOR’S HOUSE Risque Bisque Live bands 8pm £free HOBGOBLIN Flash Bang Band Charismatic psycho-delic indie pop 8.30pm £free HONEY The One - Real VIP Hip hop and dubstep designed to make you feel special 11pm £1/free HOPE So Darn Hot Club Night Label-run club night with live music 8pm £free HYDRANT DOWN Sneaky Low Five Live music 9pm £free HYDRANT UP Polar, Reinventions, C Is For City, An Ocean Burial Live music 7pm £4 JAM Thursday Night Fish Fry Early 50s US rhythm & blues and original Jamaican ska 10pm £2/1 KENDAL ARMS Poker Tournament Details tbc KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Christmas Kracker: Jarred Christmas, Ben Norris, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy with three-course meal 8.30pm/9pm £35 LATEST MUSIC BAR Catalyst Club Three guest speakers give a short talk about whatever their weird obsession is 8pm £5; Cafe Scientifique Brave academics hit the road on a mission to make science fun 8pm £donation LECTERN Narow Minded Social Club Indie rock band 7.30pm £4 LIFE Shameless Half a century of musical highlights and lowpoints 11pm £1 MESMERIST Live Thursday Joe Newman hosts a night of bluegrass and folk 9pm £tbc NORTHERN LIGHTS Swing Ninjas Gypsy jazz swing trio Time tbc £free OCEANA Pound Party R&B and dance tunes from the bargain bin 9pm £6/5/free PAVILION THEATRE Robin And The Big Freeze A festive family show with music and puppetry 10am £8/6 PAV TAV Kickstart My Heart Rock and metal night 11pm £3/2/free PRINCE ALBERT Deporting Marta, Nameless Dead, Fracture Pattern, Etherial Fire Live rock music 8.30pm £4 PV Karaoke With Sally Vate! Details tbc QUADRANT AKL Open Mic Night 8pm £free R-BAR Girls On Top Snow Offical Warm Up Pop and party tunes from DJ Alpha 8pm £tbc REVENGE Girls On Top Snow Party Vs Emergency Room Pop music club 10.30pm £4/3/free ROCK INN Quiz Night 8.30pm £1 SIDEWINDER Forgive Me Father For I Have Synthed Confess your shameful 80s love secret 8pm £free SUGAQUBE Selective Sounds House DJ Time tbc £free THOMAS KEMP Unplugged Sessions Live acoustic music 9pm £free VICTORY Free Live Music Live music 8pm £free VOLKS JFB, Erb N Dub, Redford, Lofty, Roots And Alibi, Kasket And Cult, Steve Whittle Super scratch DJ 11pm £5/4.50 WEST HILL TAVERN Open Mic 8pm £free
friday 10th
AUDIO Guerilla: Marco Del Horno, The Prototypes ”Ho!
THURSDAY 9th
AUDIO Bastard Pop Musical mash-up 11pm £2 BEE’S MOUTH The Grits Live funk 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BAR Karaoke 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Mutant Pop Poppy and alternative sounds 10pm £2 BLACK LION Soul Casserole A melting pot of hot funk beats and soul grooves 8.30pm £free CASABLANCA Live Band Club night with live band Time tbc £2/1/free COALITION The Sadies, The Dials Psychedelic surf rockers 7.30pm £12/10; Secret Discotheque Retro disco, 80s pop and other ‘uncool’ tunes 10.30pm £4/3/2/1 DOME Ross Noble: Nonsensory Overload The Geordie stand-up back for more inspired silliness 8pm £21/19 DRUID’S ARMS Trip Down Live music 8.30pm £free DUKE OF BEAUFORT Pubquiz 8pm £1 DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Monsters 4.15pm; NT Live Hamlet 6.45pm ENVY Get Some Commercial chart choons Time tbc £2 FIDDLER’S ELBOW Fiddler’s Live Lounge Live jazz and folk music 8.30pm £free
Riddim” Time tbc £free
ABOVE AUDIO Friday Night Bar Sessions Local DJs Time tbc £free
BEE’S MOUTH Hot Tip Hi Fi DJs playing early reggae and rocksteady 9pm £free
BELUSHI’S BAR Muy Loco Pop and house DJs 9pm £free
BELUSHI’S BELOW Abandoned Rock and metal night 10pm £3/2
BLACK LION Molly Malone Funk and hip hop DJ 8.30pm £free
BRIGHTON BALLROOM Crash The Wedding
Dynamite Sal reclaims the best bits of naff wedding music 10pm £5/4 BRIGHTON CENTRE Peter Andre It is curious that you are expected to pay for this 7pm £28.50 BRUNSWICK Kalakuta Millionaires Latin funk 8pm £5
CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Sleazy Listening: DJ Peter Von Sleaze Sleazy, like getting drooled on by a big biker. Did I say ‘like’? 9pm £free CASABLANCA Oomphf Funky disco with live band 10pm £5
CHEQUERS Friday Night Live Live music 9pm £tbc COALITION Fridays I’m In Love Somewhat eclectic club night with 60s gems, indie and funky funk 11pm £4/3/2/1 COBBLER’S THUMB Wide Eyed Order And Friends
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Festive Fun And Frolics Electro-acoustic folk band 8pm £free
COWLEY CLUB I-Lodica And Lowki, Makating Dub act and ten-piece reggae band 7.30pm £donation
DIGITAL Stonelove Indie rock&roll club 11pm £4/3 DOCTOR BRIGHTON’S Heads Up DJ 9.30pm £free DOME Ninja Tune 20th Birthday Night Bonobo and his 12-piece band toast the label 7.30pm £20 DRUID’S ARMS The Druid’s Presents DJs and live music 8.30pm £free DUKE OF BEAUFORT DJ Night Rockabilly, ska and soul 8pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale 1pm/5pm; Somewhere 3pm/7pm; Simonsound 10pm EVERYBODY INN DJ Actif, Slackers DJs, Freeno, Bass Kadet Ska, mod and dance hall tunes Time tbc £4/ free FISHBOWL Jeff Daniels Soul and hip hop DJ 9pm £free FORTUNE OF WAR Shepdog And Kombine: Digga Please? DJ night Details tbc FULL MOON These Idle Hands DJs play alternative sounds 9pm £free FUNKY BUDDHA Drink, Dance, Repeat Cash in your student loan 11pm £5/3 FUNKYFISH The Funkyfish Club Soul, funk, jazz, Motown - 60s, 70s and 80s 10pm £6/3.50 GLOBE Donky Pitch Electronica and dubstep DJs 9pm £free H BAR Promoters Christmas Party Twelve DJs spinning 9pm £tbc HECTOR’S HOUSE Swap Party: Chancery Blame & The Gadjo Band, The Slytones Anti-sweatshop clothesswapping dress-up party with live gypsy bands 9pm £2 HONEY Bonkerz Fridays All sorts of funky, dirty pop sounds 10.30pm £6/5/free HOPE The Rural Alberta Advantage, The Robot Heart, Robert Stillman Lo-fi indie rock 8pm £6.50 HYDRANT Goodtimes Music Xmas Special Two floors of reggae, ska and dub 9pm £free IAMBIC ARTS THEATRE Gibb Rishes Monologue: The Silent Clown Has Found Her Voice Experimental musical theatre about life, love and clowns 8pm £10/8 IRON DUKE Please Stop Trying Indie grunge DJ 9pm £free JAM Balkaneasca Brassy Balkan beats with live musicians and belly dancers, not just the the usual blokey beergut wobble 11pm £7/5 KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Christmas Kracker: Jarred Christmas, Ben Norris, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy with three-course meal 2.45pm/8.30pm £40/35; Motorcity Club for lovers of Motown, rock&roll and disco 10.30pm £5/3 KOMEDIA STUDIO Sussex Jazz Club: Cleveland Watkiss Band Live jazz 8pm £15/13 KOMEDIA UP Krater Comedy Club: Jarred Christmas, Caimh McDonnell, Ben Norris, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 7.30pm £18.50 LOFT Club Malicious Guitar anthems and movie soundtracks 10pm £3/2/free MESMERIST Shake, Holler And Roll DJ Dave Walker plays old school jive 9pm £tbc NEPTUNE Miller Anderson Blues rock guitarist who played with T-Rex and the Spencer Davis Group 8.30pm £free NIGHTINGALE THEATRE Don Juan In Soho Moliere’s amoral anti-hero is transported to modern-day Soho and finds he fits right in 8pm £8.50/6.50 OCEANA The World In One Night With seven themed rooms you should find one you like 8pm £6/5/free PAV TAV INDIEcent Indie club playing indie pop and indie rock 11pm £3/2 PAVILION THEATRE Robin And The Big Freeze A festive family show with music and puppetry 10am/6pm £8/6 PRINCE ALBERT Villareal, Hatchdown, Angry Pedro Live music 8pm £4 PV Sugar Rush! DJ Bad Drag plays pop from across the ages Details tbc R-BAR X Factor Warm Up Funky house 9pm £free REVENGE X Factor Friday Watch the wannabe idiots, then go dance 10.30pm £tbc SMUGGLERS Bust It! DJ tunes 9pm £free SUGAQUBE Classics & Anthems Housey hits with DJ Cheet 2pm £free THREE & TEN Dan Antopolski: Turn Of The Century Stand-up comedy (upstairs) 8pm £8/6; The Humble Quest For Universal Genius Comedic quiz show with Dan Antopolski, Nick Helm and Mark Allen (upstairs) 10pm £8/6; Ruff Snippets Funk, soul and hip hop tunes (downstairs) 10pm £free VICTORY Teen Dream DJs play psychedelia, garage and punk 8pm £free VOLKS Erisian: Cooh, Wagawaga, Stazma The Junglechrist, Spitting Vitriol, Amental, In The Face Hardcore mutant jungle rave 11pm £6/5 WESTERN FRONT Release DJs play a bit of everything 9pm £free
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WEST HILL TAVERN Envy Electro and hip hop DJs 10pm £free
WORLD’S END South Side Presents Live music 8pm £free
XUMA Roo Tru Thoughts DJ Details tbc
saturday 11th
ABOVE AUDIO Warehouse Funk and rare soul from DJ Mex 10pm £5/free AUDIO Furyon, Imicus, Oaf Fearsome metal bands 7pm £8; Warehouse: Bobmo, Tom Staar Electro house night 11pm £5/free BELUSHI’S BAR Unplugged Live acoustic music 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Good Times Remember them? Maybe the retro tunes will jog your memory 9pm £5 BLACK LION Attic Monkeys Hey, check out my record collection! 8.30pm £free BLACK DOVE Duck Shoot Funky DJ 8pm £free BRIGHTON CENTRE Jools Holland 6.30pm £32.50 BRUNSWICK Jam Brighton Live music from local school kids 12pm £tbc; Tonight Matthew I will be the singer in a covers band 8pm £5 CASABLANCA Funky Fiesta: The Devotions Funky club night with Motown band 10pm £7 CHEQUERS Saturday Night Asylum DJ night 9pm £tbc; Blow After Party: Vincent Manganaro, Carlos Riz, Aaron Palaez It never stops 3am £7/5/4 COALITION Floorplay: Funkerman, James Wilkinson, Vince Frimpong, Georgeos 11pm £8/5; Blow After Party: Vincent Manganaro, Carlos Riz, Aaron Palaez It never stops 3am £7/5/4 COBBLER’S THUMB Chango Mutley: Boogalube, Emmentalicious, Around for Sound, I’m There With Jugs On, Handy Andy’s Sandy Ghandi Shandy, Velcro The Vicinity, For Your Eyebrows Only DJ night with a difference 9pm £free CONCORDE2 Open Fire: Derriere, Samsara, A State of Mind, Origami Dinosaur, Laylanas, Boycom, The Kleptones, DJ Odd Socks, Vice Walker, The Beardy Man, DJ Dad’s Old Vinyls, Shambush, The Reverend Zero Jones Mad Medicine Show, Charlie Bear’s Teddy Bear Picnic, The Lovely Ophelia Fancy Girls Bands, DJs and assorted performers raise cash for Sussex MS Treatment Centre 9pm £6 COWLEY CLUB Fanzine And Comic Fair Small press stalls selling lovingly-stapled homemade comics, tracts and zines 12 noon £free; Zounds, Pog First-wave anarcho punks 8pm £donation DIGITAL Hospitality: High Contrast, Netsky, B Complex, Transit Mafia, Mischief, Aka Roar D&B label takes over 10pm £12.50 DOCTOR BRIGHTON’S DJ Tony B 9.30pm £free DOME Brighton Goes Gospel: Ain’t No Stoppin’ Us Now Gospel choir directed by Karen Gibson 7pm £16/12/8 DRUID’S ARMS DJ NoMark Where’s Mark gone? 10pm £free DUKE OF BEAUFORT DJ Night Rockabilly, ska and soul 8pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Alladdin 11am; Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale 1.15pm; Somewhere 3.15pm/11pm; Met. Opera: Don Carlo 5.30pm ENVY LS Movement Funky underground sounds 10pm £3/2/free FIDDLER’S ELBOW SuperJam Funk, hip hop and disco records 9pm £free FISHBOWL DJ Åbo, Ally Smith Jazz Rooms DJs play dirty jazz funk 9pm £free FORTUNE OF WAR Meadowlands Festival Party Details tbc FULL MOON Grindhouse DJ Michael Mercury plays dirty, rockin’ blues 9pm £free FUNKY BUDDHA Reflex The 80s are back! The perfect soundtrack to Tory cuts and mass unemployment 11pm £tbc; The Breakfast Club: Pop ‘Till You Drop DJ Mikee Hollywood keeps the party going 3am £5/3 FUNKYFISH The Funkyfish Club Soul, funk, jazz, Motown - 60s, 70s and 80s 10pm £6/3.50 GLOBE Eclectic Chair: DJ Lamp A real buzz 9pm £free H BAR H Bar 3rd Birthday DJs, fire breathers and burlesque dancers 9pm £tbc HAMPTON iLike iPod battles 9pm £free HECTOR’S HOUSE Stay Sick Live music 9pm £free HONEY Fran Cosgrave, Jon Byrne, Helene, Tom Maverick, Squiz, Ben G Happy house hero headlines Honey 11pm £tbc HOPE Perfect Sound Together: Anagrams, The Robot Heart Indie night with a close focus on footwear 8pm £4/3; I’m With Stupid Motorik rock, disco and hip hop from the DJ behind It Came From The Sea (downstairs) 9pm £free HORSE & GROOM Bobby McGees Zombie Video Shoot Local tweecore band want you to dress up as a
corpse and do the groaning thing for their new music video 6pm £free HYDRANT DOWN Tropical Underground Latin funk night 9pm £free
HYDRANT UP Der Wunderlich Revue: Count Adriano Fettucini, British Heart, Team Mud, Der Wunderlichs
Pole-dancers and unicyclist-strippers share the stage with singers and cheerleaders in this tongue-in-cheek all-male cabaret 8pm £8 IAMBIC ARTS THEATRE Gibb Rishes Monologue: The Silent Clown Has Found Her Voice Experimental musical theatre about life, love and clowns 8pm £10/8 IRON DUKE Collage Club Relive the good old days of DIY hands-on cutting ‘n’ pasting 1pm £1 JAM Donkey Pitch: Rudi Zygadlo, Young Montana?, Ghost Mutt, Alphabets Heaven 11pm £7/5 JAZZ PLACE Unhooked Generation The 60s are alive and well and living in Brighton 10pm £5/4 KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Christmas Kracker: Jarred Christmas, Ben Norris, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy with three-course meal 8.30pm £40; Stone To The Bone Afrobeat, Motown and psychedelic soul 11pm £5 KOMEDIA STUDIO Witch Xmas Party: Viv Albertine Her from The Slits joins the Born Bad and Da Doo DJs to play grrrly side of punk and pop, from Grace Jones to The Gossip 10pm £5 KOMEDIA UP Krater Comedy Club: Jarred Christmas, Caimh McDonnell, Ben Norris, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 7pm £18.50; Brighton Rock Christmas Rock Night Unfasten those ponytail ties and let your hair down for some classic rock headbanging 11pm £6/5 LECTERN The Fallen Leaves, The Transients Garagey punk bands 8pm £8 MESMERIST Andy Mac And Friends DJ shows off his record collection 9pm £tbc; Midnight Mesermist Late night cabaret 12pm £tbc MYSTERY LOCATION My Secret Disco: Damon Martin, Casper C, Holly Cooper Disco Bloodbath DJ heads twisted Narnia theme party Time tbc £10/6 NIGHTINGALE THEATRE Don Juan In Soho Moliere’s amoral anti-hero is transported to modern-day Soho and finds he fits right in 8pm £8.50/6.50 OCEANA The World In One Night With seven themed rooms you should find one you like 8pm £8/free PAV TAV Back To The Future Retro tunes from before you were born 11pm £3/2 PAVILION THEATRE Robin And The Big Freeze A festive family show with music and puppetry 11am/2pm/6pm £8/6 PRINCE ALBERT Deadbeat Decendant Live music 8pm £tbc QUADRANT The Laughing Horse Comedy Night Stand-up comedy 7.30pm £tbc R-BAR Kinky Classics DJ King-K plays funky house 9pm £tbc REVENGE Kinky Dangerous: Therese Pop and R&B tunes 10.30pm £8/6/4/3/free SIDEWINDER Winter Wonderland A market with Christmas trees and trinkets - plus a Santa for the kids 2pm £free; Danceteria DJs Spinning a mix of disco, boogie, house and funk 8pm £free SMUGGLERS Magnetic Club tunes from DJs Outbreak and Sam Cadman 9pm £free SUGAQUBE Delirious: Carl Mills, Dave King Upfront house tunes Time tbc £free THREE & TEN Off The Cuff Comedy invented in real-time (upstairs) 8pm £8/6; Monkey Beats and grooves (downstairs) 10pm £free VOLKS Proper Gander: Koan Sound, Afterdark, Ellfivedee And Mr Sleepz, Rum Committee, Raw Tactics, Pappa Rudey, Kosine Dubstep, D&B and jungle night 11pm £5 WESTERN FRONT Release DJs play a bit of everything 9pm £free WEST HILL TAVERN Artists Only New wave and art school tunes 9pm £free WORLD’S END Immediate Presents Ska and skinhead reggae 8pm £free XUMA DJ Lornegerie DJ night Details tbc
sunday 12th
BELUSHI’S BAR Now That’s What I Call A Party Part 1 Pop music 9pm £free BLACK LION Live & Swingin’ Gypsy Jazz Live music 8.30pm £free
BRIGHTON BALLROOM Knock2bag: Paul Foot, Brian Gittins, Alex Zane, Ed Gamble Stand-up comedy 7.30pm £10 BRIGHTON CENTRE Scissor Sisters Stuffing subversive homosexual glam inside the trojan horse of electro pop since 2001 6.30pm £30 BRUNSWICK Sax Shop Big sound saxophone group
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Sunday 9:00am ‘Gratitude’ The Vicarage, Wilbury Rd, Hove, BN3 3PB
1.30pm £1; Ukulele Sundays Pop songs played on ukulele - novel, eh? 3pm £tbc; Paul Diello & Friends Melodic piano pop 8pm £6 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Mike Only, Adam Bennett, Joe Shier, Peter James Acoustic punk? 8pm £2 CHEQUERS Soul Ska Sessions Details tbc CORN EXCHANGE Christmas Tea Dance The Footloose Dance Orchestra invokes the lost age of the tea dance 2pm £12.50 DOME Robin Ince: Nine Lessons And Carols For Godless People Britain’s funniest atheist leads a handpicked gang of comics and musicians in search of the wonders of the world 7.30pm £15/12.50 DRUID’S ARMS The Downsound Sessions Trip hop and dub DJs 9pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Alladdin 11am; Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives 1.30pm; Somewhere 3.45pm/8.30pm; Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale 6pm FIDDLER’S ELBOW Sham-Rock Open Mic 8.30pm £free FISHBOWL Recovery? Chilled reggae DJing from Asbest The Moor King 9pm £free GLOBE Rockoustic Open Mic 9pm £free HAMPTON Live Music Sundays Live music 8.30pm £free HECTOR’S HOUSE Enos, Blackstorm, Dopefight Metal bands Details tbc HONEY Afrodisiac If your house was this sexy you’d never go outdoors 10.30pm £3.50/2 HOPE The Heartbreaks Indie band 8pm £6 HYDRANT Brighton Punk Project Acoustic punk 9pm £free JAM Teen Creep Xmas Party: Ty Segall, Fair Ohs Psychedelic garage rockers 7.30pm £7; Balkaneasca Brassy Balkan beats with live musicians and belly dancers, not just the the usual blokey beergut wobble 11pm £7/5 KING & QUEEN Quiz Night 7.30pm £1 KOMEDIA DOWN Count Arthur Strong’s Radio Show Good old fashioned light entertainment, recorded live for radio 7.30pm £free KOMEDIA STUDIO Silent Movie Experience West End musician-performer jazzes up old films with breakbeat percussion and honky tonk piano 3.30pm £7.50/5.50; Robb Johnson & The Irregulars: Ghost Of Love An album of folk rock songs weaving a nativity subtext into modern day settings 8pm £10 KOMEDIA UP Handmade Brighton Christmas Special Alternative craft and fashion market with clothing, furniture and jewellery from independent local talent 11am £free; Krater Comedy Club: Jarred Christmas, Caimh McDonnell, Ben Norris, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 8pm £12 LATEST MUSIC BAR T.U.R.D.S. The Ukulele Research & Development Society is a ukulele-only open mic night hosted by The Bobby McGees. This month’s special guest is indiepop hero Winston Echo 8pm £2 LECONFIELD Boozy Bingo 6pm £1 MARWOOD CAFE Brighton Filmmakers Coalition Meeting throw ideas about and get involved in local projects 6pm £free NEPTUNE Adrian Harvey Acoustic rock ala Neil Young 8.30pm £free NIGHTINGALE THEATRE Don Juan In Soho Moliere’s amoral anti-hero is transported to modern-day Soho and finds he fits right in 8pm £8.50/6.50 PAVILION THEATRE Robin And The Big Freeze A festive family show with music and puppetry 11am/2pm/5pm £8/6 PRINCE ALBERT David Lowery & Johnny Hickman, Deer Park Former Cracker bandmates do a stripped-back set of their 80s alt rock hits 2pm £12/9.50; Henry Cluney Acoustic solo set from founder member of Stiff Little Fingers 7.30pm £8 PV Sundaylicious Showtime Live acoustic music 6.30pm £free SUGAQUBE All Night Long Mr Ray and DJ Psycho spin some funk and soul Time tbc £free R-BAR Sublime Sundays & X-Factor Final Party Acoustic music, then some trash telly 5pm £free REVENGE The Afterparty: Sammy Jo DJ set from the Scissor Sisters’ tour DJ 10.30pm £7/5/4 SIGNALMAN Open Mic Night 8pm £free THREE & TEN Strung Out Live acoustic music 8pm £free
monday 13th
ANCIENT MARINER Quiz Night 8pm £1 BEE’S MOUTH The Bee’s Mouth Jazz Forum Join in for a jazz jam with the house band - there’s a free pint in it 8.30pm £free BELUSHI’S BAR Now That’s What I Call A Party Part 2 Pop music 9pm £free BLIND BUSKER Open Mic Night 8.30pm £free
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BRIGHTON CENTRE Tim Minchin A musical comedian whose songs are actually kind of funny 7.30pm £35 BRUNSWICK We Bop Christmas Choir Christmas carols from forty-strong choir 8pm £free CHEQUERS Reggae Reggae Night Roots, reggae and rocksteady Details tbc COALITION Trash Mondays Filthy tunes for students and layabouts alike 10pm £5/3/free CORN EXCHANGE Blue Camel Club Arty night for people with learning disabilities 7pm £4 DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale 1pm/6pm; Somewhere 3.30pm/8.30pm FOUNTAIN HEAD Quiz Night 8.30pm £1 FULL MOON Quiz Night Time tbc £1 HAMPTON Music Quiz 8pm £1 HECTOR’S HOUSE Dad Disko Student cheese Time tbc £free HONEY Playground Cheesy chart choons and bouncy castles 11pm £tbc HYDRANT Let’s Talk Daggers, Long Haul Live music 7pm £3/2 KING & QUEEN 80s Club Tropicana DJs play 1980s party music 8pm £free KOMEDIA UP Hullabaloo Choir Fiesty community choir performs a set of wintery carols 7.30pm £8/6 NEPTUNE More Music Mondays Monthly folk, rock and blues session 8.30pm £free NIGHTINGALE THEATRE Don Juan In Soho Moliere’s amoral anti-hero is transported to modern-day Soho and finds he fits right in 8pm £8.50/6.50 OCEANA Vodka Heaven Where Russian alcoholics go to dance to R&B 9pm £5/4/3/free R-BAR Quiz With Liz 9pm £tbc SIDEWINDER Poker Night It’s about time for a gambling habit 9pm £5 SIGNALMAN Signalman Pub Quiz 8pm £1 VOLKS Strictly Reggae Dancehall, roots, revival 11pm £5/4.50
Tuesday 14th
AUDIO Let’s Kill Disco Indie night 10pm £3/2 BEE’S MOUTH Sounds Like Science DJ electronica 8.30pm £free
BELL Tom B’s Open Mic Night 8.30pm £free BELUSHI’S BAR Totalled On Tuesday! Pop and dance DJ 9pm £free
BELUSHI’S BELOW Elements Drum&bass night 10pm
£2/1
BRUNSWICK Jazz Jam Open session with house band 8pm £free
CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Skeptics In The Pub Kenneth Humphreys gives a talk on whether Christmas is based on a myth. The SOURCE is a bit sceptical. Did you ‘c’ what we did there? 8pm £2 CHEQUERS Mic Chequers Jam Session Free pint for open mic’ers Details tbc COALITION Fat Tuesdays A big mix of everything 11pm £3/2/1 COBBLER’S THUMB Play For Your Pint Open mic night 9pm £free CONCORDE2 Electric Six Okay, but please not the Bulldog 7.30pm £10 COWLEY CLUB Wildkatz Project Open mic jam for poets and musicians 7pm £free DIGITAL CU Next Tuesday Student club night formerly known as Glitterati 11pm £4/3 DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA An Ordinary Execution Details tbc; Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale 1.30pm/6.30pm; Somewhere 4pm FIDDLER’S ELBOW Quizness Time 8pm £1 FULL MOON Open Mic New open mic for musicians, comics and poets Details tbc FUNKY BUDDHA The Candy Fiesta Cosmpolitan student party Time tbc £3/2 GLOBE Basement Cinema Underground films, comfy seats, free popcorn 8pm £free HECTOR’S HOUSE Stay Sick Live music 9pm £free HONEY Latin Fever We’re not talking Ricky Martin, but then who is? 10pm £4/3 HOPE Ben Howard Singer songwriter 7pm £8 JAM Un Autre Monde, Mirrors Club night with live music 9pm £3/2 KING & QUEEN Karaoke Night 9pm £free KOMEDIA STUDIO Henning And Otto’s German Christmas Do Dubious national stereotypes taken for a walk by this novel comic partnership 8pm £12 KOMEDIA UP The Magnets Christmas Show: Gobsmacked A capella vocal harmonies with some beatboxing thrown in 8pm £15/12 LECONFIELD Tuesday Teaser Pub quiz 9pm £1 NIGHTINGALE THEATRE Don Juan In Soho Moliere’s amoral anti-hero is transported to modern-day Soho and finds
he fits right in 8pm £8.50/6.50 PAV TAV Guerilla Rocks Club night for rock chicks, skater bois and indie kids 11pm £3/2/1 PRINCE ALBERT Fox Pockets Live music 8.30pm £tbc R-BAR Twisted Karaoke 8pm £tbc RED LION General Knowledge Quiz 8pm £1 REVENGE Sound As A Pound Charty tunes 10.30pm £2/ free ROCK INN Movie Night: How The Grinch Stole Christmas 5.30pm/8.30pm £free SIDEWINDER Open Mic Night 8pm £free THOMAS KEMP Poker Evening 8pm £tbc XUMA Roo DJ from Tru Thoughts Details tbc
wednesday 15th
ABOVE AUDIO The Doctor’s Orders This hip hop is sick 11pm £free
AUDIO Supercharged Breaks 11pm £5 BEE’S MOUTH Open Mic 8.30pm £free BELUSHI’S BAR Now That’s What I Call A Party Part 3 Pop music 9pm £free BLACK LION Fresh Acoustics Live music 8.30pm £free BLIND BUSKER Music Quiz True or false: Writing an
original song will become mathematically impossible by the year 2023? 8.30pm £free BRIGHTON CENTRE Madness 6.30pm £35 BRUNSWICK Teak Show’s Twisted Sketches Comedy sketch show 8pm £5 CASABLANCA Spanish Breaks Club night with live funk band Time tbc £2/1/free CONCORDE2 Maximalism: British Sea Power, Field Music, Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster, The Chap, Electric Soft Parade, The Pure Conjecture Brighton indie scene unites for charity fundraiser 6pm £20 DIGITAL The Poundance Imagine if Poundstretcher had a dancefloor - top pop tunes for a pittance 11pm £4/3/1 DRUID’S ARMS We Change The Tempo DJ night 9pm £free DUKE OF BEAUFORT Poker Competition 7pm £5 DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Somewhere 11am/3.50pm/8.30pm; Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale 1.30pm/6.30pm HOPE Dan Michaelson & The Coastguards, Modern Fighting Vehicles, Gabriel Burne Live music 8pm £tbc HYDRANT Sky Harbour Live music 9pm £free JAM Adventures (After Dark) Indie, dance and hip hop club with live acts 11pm £1 KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Christmas Kracker: Rob Deering, Sean Collins, Geoff Norcott, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy with three-course meal 8.30pm £40
KOMEDIA UP Ministry Of Burlesque Christmas Special You know the score: a funfair of flirty showgirls, tassles and raised eyebrows 9pm £15 MESMERIST Swing Ninjas Gypsy jazz swing trio Details tbc
OCEANA Fuzzy Logic Dance and dubstep student night
9pm £5/3.50/2
PAVILION THEATRE The Diva In Me A moving comedy pitting the golden era of the musical against the age of vacuous celebrity obsession 8pm £10/8 PRINCE ALBERT Negative Pegasus, Rooks, Soccer96 OIB Records launch show 8pm £tbc PV Infamous PV Quiz Winning a few quid surely justifies a lifetime of filling your brain with inconsequential trivia 8pm £tbc R-BAR Trickpop Pop and R&B from DJ Trick 8pm £free ROCK INN Poker Night 8.30pm £5 SIDEWINDER The Sidewinder Garden Quiz 8pm £1 SUGAQUBE Bar Grooves House DJ Time tbc £free THOMAS KEMP Kev’s Open Mic 8.30pm £free THREE & TEN Jouissance DJ set 8pm £free XUMA The Launch Of The Genrelizer DJs get excited about gadgets Details tbc
thursday 16th
AUDIO Bastard Pop Musical mash up 11pm £2 BEE’S MOUTH The Common Tongues Neo folk band 9pm £free
BELUSHI’S BAR Karaoke 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Mutant Pop Poppy and alternative sounds 10pm £2
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BLACK LION Attic Monkeys Hey, check out my record collection! 8.30pm £free BRIGHTON CENTRE Jeff Wayne’s War Of The Worlds A perfect fusion of classic sci fi and Abba-esque orchestral pop - now with Jason Donovan! 8pm £60-42.50 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Brighton Bike Night Weekly biker’s social - leather, not lycra (downstairs) 7pm £free; Kunt And The Gang Subtly witty punk band with songs called things like ‘Wank Fantasy’ and ‘I’m Gonna Lick You Out’ (upstairs) 8pm £5 CASABLANCA Live Band Club night with live band 11pm £2/1/free COALITION Secret Discotheque Retro disco, 80s pop and other ‘uncool’ tunes 10.30pm £4/3/2/1 DRUID’S ARMS Nice Weather For Airstrikes: Illness Mathsy post rock 8pm £free DUKE OF BEAUFORT Pubquiz 8pm £1 DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Somewhere 3pm/8pm; Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale 1pm/6pm ENVY Get Some Commercial chart choons Time tbc £2 FIDDLER’S ELBOW Live Lounge: Jazz Fantasia Swinging jazz 8.30pm £free FISHBOWL Residents Association DJ Will Sumsuch plays hip hop, funk and world beats 10pm £free FLORIST Acoustic Lounge Live music 8pm £free GLOBE Hang The DJ! The democratisation of the dancefloor continues apace with another night of punterpicked playlists 9pm £free HECTOR’S HOUSE StevieWonderland Tribute to the Motown legend 9pm £free HOBGOBLIN Chicken Shed Zeppelin Despite a name that makes them sound like dodgy tribute act, this lot are actually an old-time banjo ‘n’ fiddle band with traces of punk and plenty of gusto 8.30pm £free HONEY The One - Real VIP Hip hop and dubstep designed to make you feel special 11pm £1/free HOPE Communion Live music with a last minute change to the line-up – sure it’s still great 8pm £5 HYDRANT The Miserable Rich, Amy’s Ghost Orchestral folk pop 9pm £free JAM Thursday Night Fish Fry Early 50s US rhythm & blues and original Jamaican ska 10pm £2/1 KENDAL ARMS Christmas Poker Tournament Cash and bonus prizes Details tbc KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Christmas Kracker: Rob Deering, Sean Collins, Geoff Norcott, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy with three-course meal 8.30pm/9pm £45 LATEST MUSIC BAR Alive & Swinging Christmas Special A themed tribute to the glamour days of Sinatra and Monroe 8pm £8 LECTERN Drones, Jetglo Loud ‘n’ fast three-piece rock band 7.30pm £4 LIFE Shameless Half a century of musical highlights and lowpoints 11pm £1 MESMERIST Live Thursday Joe Newman hosts a night of bluegrass and folk 9pm £tbc OCEANA Pound Party R&B and dance tunes from the bargain bin 9pm £6/5/free PAVILION THEATRE The Diva In Me A moving comedy pitting the golden era of the musical against the age of vacuous celebrity obsession 8pm £10/8 PAV TAV Kickstart My Heart Rock and metal night 11pm £3/2/free
PRINCE ALBERT Deadwax Rock&roll band 8.30pm £4 QUADRANT AKL Open Mic Night 8pm £free R-BAR Girls On Top Offical Warm Up Pop and party tunes from DJ Alpha 8pm £tbc REVENGE Girls On Top Vs Emergency Room Pop and party tunes 8pm £tbc ROCK INN Quiz Night 8.30pm £1 SIDEWINDER Forgive Me Father For I Have Synthed Confess your shameful 80s love secret 8pm £free SUGAQUBE Weekend Warmup DJ Gary Scott plays dance tunes Time tbc £free THOMAS KEMP Unplugged Sessions Live acoustic music 9pm £free THREE & TEN Brian Gittins And Friends Stand-up comedy hosted by roadside café weirdo 8pm £9/7 VICTORY Free Live Music Live music 8pm £free VOLKS Under The Mistletoe: Artistic Fusion, DJ Nik Don, Pierre Reyes, Dannyboy Banging house and soulful R&B 10pm £tbc WEST HILL TAVERN Open Mic 8pm £free
Friday 17th
ABOVE AUDIO Disco Deviant: Matthew Burgess, Pablo Contraband DJs knock up a funk house mix 10am £free
AUDIO Tru Thoughts: Alice Russell, TM Juke Soul singer
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BASEMENT Trevor Moss & Hannah-Lou, King James
Husband-wife folk duo 7.30pm £8/7 BELUSHI’S BAR Muy Loco Pop and house DJs 9pm £free
BELUSHI’S BELOW Abandoned Rock and metal night 10pm £3/2
BLACK LION Soul Casserole A melting pot of hot funk beats and soul grooves 8.30pm £free BRIGHTON CENTRE Jeff Wayne’s War Of The Worlds A perfect fusion of classic sci fi and Abba-esque orchestral pop - now with Jason Donovan! 8pm £60-42.50 BRUNSWICK South Coast Revue Funky soul 8pm £6 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Sleazy Listening: DJ Peter Von Sleaze Sleazy, like getting drooled on by a big biker. Did I say ‘like’? 9pm £free CASABLANCA Oomphf Live funk band 10pm £5 CHEQUERS Friday Night Live Live music 9pm £tbc COALITION Fridays I’m In Love Somewhat eclectic club night with 60s gems, indie and funky funk 11pm £4/3/2/1 COBBLER’S THUMB Duncan Disorderly Chukin’s singer does a solo set of loop-assisted reggae 8pm £free CONCORDE2 RubyLux, Hold Fire, Back To Kerouac Alt pop rock 7pm £12/10 COWLEY CLUB SchMOVIES: Raiders Of The Lost Archives Confiscated by the police, this collection of short films tells the story of the Smash EDO campaign which led to the acquittal of six activists who ‘decomissioned’ the Brightonbased arms factory 8pm £free; Resist Psychic Death Punk, riot grrrl and queer core 10pm £donation DIGITAL Stonelove Indie rock&roll club 11pm £4/3 DOCTOR BRIGHTON’S Heads Up DJ 9.30pm £free DOME Christmas Carol Singing Festive classics with London Concert Orchestra 7.30pm £12.50-27.50 DRUID’S ARMS Hot Pepper Sauce Reggae DJs 10pm £free DUKE OF BEAUFORT DJ Night Rockabilly, ska and soul 8pm £free FISHBOWL Blacklodge Disco boogie DJ 9pm £free FORTUNE OF WAR Shakehandsletsparty Christmas Party DJ night Details tbc FULL MOON Dub Defendant Jamaican sounds 9pm £free FUNKY BUDDHA Drink, Dance, Repeat Cash in your student loan 11pm £5/3 FUNKYFISH The Funkyfish Club Soul, funk, jazz, Motown - 60s, 70s and 80s 10pm £6/3.50 GLOBE The Soul Of Brighton Old school soul from DJs Rob Richards and Mick Fuller 9pm £free H BAR Rewind Disco DJs 9pm £tbc HECTOR’S HOUSE B Side New music night supporting the Bottletop charity £4/3 10pm HONEY I Love R&B: Christmas Party Juicy house with a twist of hip hop 10.30pm £6/5/free HOPE Paris Meets Brighton: Kiusa, Fantango, North Pole Dancer Live music (upstairs) 8pm £4; Love Funk DJs (downstairs) 8pm £free HYDRANT DOWN Justice Force 5 Live music 9pm £free HYDRANT UP Guilty Pleasurez, Music For The Jackie Generation Live music 7pm £7 JAM Club Chat Noir Midwinter Special Vintage swing club with live bands 8.30pm £10/8 KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Christmas Kracker: Rob Deering, Sean Collins, Geoff Norcott, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy with three-course meal 2.45pm/8.30pm £45/35; Born Bad Rockabilly, vintage dresses and great garage scuzz 11pm £6/5 KOMEDIA UP Krater Comedy Club: Rob Deering, Geoff Norcott, Sean Collins, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 7.30pm £18.50 LATEST MUSIC BAR Dusty’s A new lesbian night 9pm £8/6 LIFE Nookie, El-B, Heny G, Phaelah, Bladerunner Garage, jungle and hip hop mash up 11pm £5 LOFT Club Malicious Guitar anthems and movie soundtracks 10pm £3/2/free MESMERIST Shake, Holler And Roll DJ Dave Walker plays old school jive 9pm £tbc NEPTUNE Dolly Dagger Live blues rock bands 8.30pm £free OCEANA The World In One Night With seven themed rooms you should find one you like 8pm £6/5/free PAV TAV INDIEcent Indie club playing indie pop and indie rock 11pm £3/2 PAVILION THEATRE The Diva In Me A moving comedy pitting the golden era of the musical against the age of vacuous celebrity obsession 8pm £10/8 PRINCE ALBERT Doll And The Kicks, Turncoat MozEndorsed indie disco-pop 8pm £4 PV Sugar Rush! DJ Bad Drag plays pop from across the ages Details tbc QUEEN’S HEAD John Crampton One-man blues band 8.30pm £free R-BAR X Factor Warm Up Funky house 9pm £tbc REVENGE X Factor Friday Watch the wannabe idiots, then go dance 10.30pm £tbc ST JOHN’S CHURCH Classics And Candlelight At Christmas Classical quartet with harp and soprano 7.30pm
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SMUGGLERS Bust It! DJ tunes 9pm £free SUGAQUBE Suga’s 6th Birthday DJ Cheet and ADSR blow out the candles Time tbc £free THEATRE ROYAL Cinderella Time tbc £24 THREE & TEN Rabbit In The Headlights Stand up comedy hosted by Laura Mugridge 8pm £6/5; Gareth Stevens DJ set 10pm £free VOLKS Beatsworkin And Knee Deep Xmas Party: Dave Mothersole, Jamie Bawn & Chris Eaton, Mark Allister, Harvey Bailey, James Britton, Adam Ryan, Mike Decourcy, Dave Daniels, Kasket, Cult, Ian Knight The House of Tribals takes on the House of Tech (but they lose because they only have spears) Time tbc £6 WESTERN FRONT Release DJs play a bit of everything 9pm £free WEST HILL TAVERN Brains Eclectic mish-mash from Superheroes of BMX 9pm £free XUMA BIMM Christmas Party It’s invite-only, so you can’t come. Not that you wanted to Details tbc
saturday 18th
ABOVE AUDIO Warehouse Funk and rare soul from DJ Mex 10pm £5/free
ANCIENT MARINER Acoustic Sessions: KJO Radio Band Live music 8pm £free AUDIO Mona Live music 7pm £6; Warehouse Xmas Party House and techno club night Details tbc BEE’S MOUTH Eclectic Chair It’s a real buzz 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BAR Unplugged Live acoustic music 9pm
£free BELUSHI’S BELOW Good Times Remember them? Maybe the retro tunes will jog your memory 9pm £5 BLACK LION Positivity Vs Vinyl Veterans: James Brown Night 9pm £free BRIGHTON BALLROOM Pop Kraft Christmas Cracker Boogaloo Stu and crew play pop tunes while you play with sock puppets and mess around with glitter 9.30pm £8/6 BRUNSWICK Kitty Cointreau’s BraHaHa Burlesque comedy revue 8pm £12 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Cazza Karaoke 8.30pm £free CASABLANCA Funky Fiesta Club night with live band 10pm £7 CHEQUERS Saturday Night Asylum DJ night 9pm £tbc COALITION Blow After Party: Vincent Manganaro, Carlos Riz, Aaron Palaez It never stops 3am £7/5/4 COBBLER’S THUMB Red Diesel Funk soul outfit with djembe drums 9pm £free CONCORDE2 Bad Manners If you like your ska hard and your frontmen big and sweaty, Buster’s your man 7pm £16 CORN EXCHANGE Christmas Ball Relive the days of ballroom dance with the Berkeley Square Society Band 8pm £12.50 COWLEY CLUB Ok Pilot, Pacer, The Dead Beat, Rooks, Bastion Rock&roll and punk bands 7pm £donation DIGITAL Gorgeous Christmas Bash: Jordan Peak, Vincent Manganaro, Charley Lopez, Yusef Sebaiti, Mike Gorgeous If your house was this sexy you’d get an awful lot of carpet burns 11pm £7 DOCTOR BRIGHTON’S DJ Tony B 9.30pm £free DOME Brighton Ukulele Day: Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain, The Bobby McGees Festival band play ukeified and thus comic pop covers 8pm £15/12.50 DOME FOYER Brighton Ukulele Day: Songs Of Love, Liberty And Idleness With Tom Hodgkinson The man who has made a living from promoting idleness plays and talks about ukes 6pm £5 DRUID’S ARMS Nostalgedelia DJ Ben Murphy 10pm £free DUKE OF BEAUFORT DJ Night Rockabilly, ska and soul 8pm £free ENVY LS Movement Funky underground sounds 10pm £3/2/free FIDDLER’S ELBOW Soul Casserole A melting pot of hot funk beats and jazzy Latin 9pm £free FISHBOWL DJs’ Christmas Party Funk, soul and hip hop tunes 9pm £free FORTUNE OF WAR Wah Wah Xmas Seaside Special: Dom Servini DJ night Details tbc FULL MOON The Plague DJs play beat, surf and psych rock 9pm £free FUNKY BUDDHA Reflex The 80s are back! The perfect soundtrack to Tory cuts and mass unemployment 11pm £tbc; The Breakfast Club: Pop ‘Till You Drop DJ Mikee Hollywood keeps the party going 3am £5/3 FUNKYFISH The Funkyfish Club Soul, funk, jazz, Motown - 60s, 70s and 80s 10pm £6/3.50 GLOBE Blacklodge Vs The Music Box Disco DJs 9pm £free HAMPTON iLike iPod battles 9pm £free
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H BAR End Of Year Xmas Party 9pm £tbc HECTOR’S HOUSE From Plan To Progress, Chief, The Fallthrough, Death Pedals Pop bunk and metal bands 8.30pm £free
HONEY Pukka Up If your house was this pukka you’d never run out of pies 11pm £10/5
HOPE Smorgasbord Promotions Launch Party DJs and live music 8pm £tbc
HYDRANT DOWN Asbo Derek, Don Bradmans, Kevin Two Sheds Comedy punk 8pm £free HYDRANT UP Random Hand, The Skints, Dirty Revolution Punk bands 7.30pm £7.50 IRON DUKE No One Has Good Taste Presumably
except DJ Phil - he likes alt indie rock 9pm £free JAM Club Chat Noir Midwinter Special Vintage swing club with live bands 8.30pm £10/8 JAZZ PLACE 100% Rock Metal Monthly Rock and metal, mostly 11pm £4/2 KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Christmas Kracker: Rob Deering, Sean Collins, Geoff Norcott, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy with three-course meal 8.30pm £45
KOMEDIA STUDIO Spellbound “The 80s night for people who hate 80s nights” - Simon Price rescues the good bits from the decade that ruined music 9pm £5/4 KOMEDIA UP Krater Comedy Club: Rob Deering, Geoff Norcott, Sean Collins, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 7pm £18.50; Da Doo Ron Ron Motown Xmas Party A celebration of Christmas, Tamla Motown and the club’s 13th birthday 11pm £7/6/5/4 OCEANA The World In One Night With seven themed rooms you should find one you like 8pm £8/free PAV TAV Back To The Future Retro tunes from before you were born 11pm £3/2 PAVILION THEATRE The Diva In Me A moving comedy pitting the golden era of the musical against the age of vacuous celebrity obsession 8pm £10/8 PRINCE ALBERT What’s The SP, Rocker Switch Live music 8.30pm £4 PV The PV Christmas Party DJ Bad Drag plays holiday pop 8pm £free QUADRANT The Laughing Horse Comedy Night Stand-up comedy 7.30pm £tbc THE MESMERIST We Luv Christmas Dynamite Sal on the decks Details tbc R-BAR Kinky Classics DJ King-K plays funky house 9pm £tbc REVENGE Kinky Dangerous Pop and R&B tunes 10.30pm £8/6/4/3/free SIDEWINDER Winter Wonderland A market with Christmas trees and trinkets - plus a Santa for the kids 2pm £tbc; Harry K’s Simply Dredd Reggae and party tunes 8pm £free SMUGGLERS Magnetic Club tunes from DJs Outbreak and Sam Cadman 9pm £free SUGAQUBE Suga’s 6th Birthday DJ Cheet, Unomass and Rojo blow out the candles Time tbc £free THEATRE ROYAL Cinderella Time tbc £24 THREE & TEN The Noise Next Door Improvised comedy egged on by the audience (upstairs) 8pm £8/6; Red Brick Comedy Club: James Acaster, Robin Buckland, Mike Wozniak, Luke Toulson Stand-up (upstairs) 10pm £10/7.50; Matt Barker Magnificently turned out DJ with impeccable hair (downstairs) 10pm £free VICTORY :Kinema: This month’s SOURCE cover stars do a DJ set of smooth 80s classics 9pm £free VOLKS Frequency Drum and bass in your face like a can of mace 10pm £1 WESTERN FRONT Release DJs play a bit of everything 9pm £free WEST HILL TAVERN Tonight We Fly Literate pop for romantic indie kids 9pm £free WORLD’S END Just What The Doctor Ordered New regular Americana night hosted by Dr Bluegrass & The Illbilly 8 8pm £free XUMA Turin Brakes DJ set Details tbc
sunday 19th
ABOVE AUDIO Brighton Calling: Live Live music from local bands 7pm £free
BEE’S MOUTH The Hive DJs wade through the subgenres of the 50s and 60s 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BAR Now That’s What I Call A Party Part 1 Pop music 9pm £free CHEQUERS Soul Ska Sessions Details tbc CORN EXCHANGE Winter Ceilidh Family foot-stomper 7pm £8-5 DIGITAL Gorgeous Christmas Bash: Audio Bullys Vincent Manganaro, Carlos Ruiz Lopez, De Puta Madre Hooligan house Time tbc £10 DOME Christmas Concert Classical Christmas music with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra 4pm £12.50-25
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DRUID’S ARMS The Downsound Sessions Trip hop and dub DJs 9pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Bolshoi: The Nutcracker 4pm FIDDLER’S ELBOW Sham-Rock Open Mic 8.30pm £free FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTIST The Timeless Gift Of Christmas A play celebrating the joy of Christmas - and the ideas of the 19th century founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy 3pm £free FISHBOWL Recovery? Chilled reggae DJing from Asbest The Moor King and guests 9pm £free GLOBE Rockoustic Open Mic 9pm £free HAMPTON Live Music Sundays Live music 8.30pm £free HONEY Afrodisiac If your house was this sexy you’d never go outdoors 10.30pm £3.50/2 HYDRANT Surfaces, CiLiCe, Mask Of Judas Live music 7pm £9 KING & QUEEN Quiz Night 7.30pm £1 KOMEDIA UP Baby Loves Disco Under 7s are introduced to the concept of clubbing 2pm £8; Krater Comedy Club: Rob Deering, Geoff Norcott, Sean Collins, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 8pm £12 LECONFIELD Boozy Bingo 6pm £1 MARWOOD CAFE Brighton Filmmakers Coalition Meeting throw ideas about and get involved in local projects 6pm £free NEPTUNE Mike The Mic Jazz from the 20s and 30s 8.30pm £free NIGHTINGALE THEATRE Short Cuts Artists show you snippets of new work, then you tell them what you think 8pm £donation PRINCE ALBERT Gypsy Stars It’s not gypsy swing, gypsy punk or gypsy electro-skiffle - it’s a twelve-piece traditional Romany band with a dance troupe in tow 6.30pm £6/4 PV Sundaylicious Showtime Live acoustic music 6.30pm £free R-BAR Sublime Sundays Acoustic sessions 5pm £free SIGNALMAN Open Mic Night 8pm £free SUGAQUBE All Night Long Mr Ray and DJ Psycho spin some funk and soul Time tbc £free THEATRE ROYAL Cinderella Time tbc £24 THREE & TEN Strung Out Live acoustic music 8pm £free WORLD’S END Vinnie’s Open Mic Night 8pm £tbc
monday 20th
ANCIENT MARINER Christmas Themed Quiz Night
THOMAS KEMP Quiz Night Time tbc £1 THREE & TEN Optic Acrobatic mime performers - with pint glasses as their only props - take a skewed look at the institution of the pub 8pm £6/5
VOLKS Strictly Reggae Dancehall, roots, revival 11pm £5/4.50
Tuesday 21st
AUDIO Born Ruffians, Young Rival, Lovepark Live music 7pm £8; Let’s Kill Disco Indie night 10pm £3/2 BEE’S MOUTH Roll ‘Dem Bones Blues, jazz and 60s tunes 8.30pm £free BELL Tom B’s Open Mic Night 8.30pm £free BELUSHI’S BAR Totalled On Tuesday! Pop and dance DJ 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Elements Drum&bass night 10pm £2/1 BRUNSWICK Jazz Jam Open session with house band 8pm £free CHEQUERS Mic Chequers Jam Session Free pint for open mic’ers Details tbc COALITION Fat Tuesdays A big mix of everything 11pm £3/2/1 COBBLER’S THUMB Ska Punk Christmas Live music that’s somehow both alternative and festive 8pm £free COWLEY CLUB Wildkatz Project Open mic jam for poets and musicians 7pm £free DIGITAL CU Next Tuesday Student club night formerly known as Glitterati 11pm £4/3 DOME Peter And The Wolf Live! Prokofiev’s modern fable on a big-screen with a live orchestra 3pm/5pm £12.50-17.50 FIDDLER’S ELBOW Quizness Time 8pm £1 FULL MOON Open Mic New open mic for musicians, comics and poets Details tbc FUNKY BUDDHA The Candy Fiesta Cosmpolitan student party Time tbc £3/2 GLOBE Basement Cinema Underground films, comfy seats, free popcorn 8pm £free HONEY Latin Fever We’re not talking Ricky Martin, but then who is? 10pm £4/3 KING & QUEEN Karaoke Night 9pm £free KOMEDIA UP Rabbits, Ladders And Stars In Jars Kid’s story about a star-gazing rabbit told with puppets and live music 11am/2pm £8.50/6.50 LECONFIELD Tuesday Teaser Pub quiz 9pm £1 OCEANA Under 18s Xmas Urban dubstep for nippers 7.30pm £7 PAV TAV Guerilla Rocks Club night for rock chicks, skater bois and indie kids 11pm £3/2/1
8pm £1
PAVILION THEATRE Ida Barr: Last Christmas (Possibly) A tentative farewell from the music hall star 8pm
a jazz jam with the house band - there’s a free pint in it 8.30pm £free BELUSHI’S BAR Now That’s What I Call A Party Part 2 Pop music 9pm £free BLIND BUSKER Open Mic Night 8.30pm £free BRUNSWICK Surfers Against Sewage Film screening and live music 8pm £tbc CHEQUERS Reggae Reggae Night Roots, reggae and rocksteady Details tbc COALITION Trash Mondays Filthy tunes for students and layabouts alike 10pm £5/3/free CORN EXCHANGE McObe Music: Forbidden Fruit Songs and tales of teenage angst by Jude Obermuller and Callum McIntyre 7.30pm £5 FOUNTAIN HEAD Quiz Night 8.30pm £1 FULL MOON Quiz Night Time tbc £1 HAMPTON Music Quiz 8pm £1 HECTOR’S HOUSE Dad Disko Student cheese Time tbc £free HONEY Playground Cheesy chart choons and bouncy castles 11pm £tbc HYDRANT Reinventions Live music 7pm £tbc JAM IOU Comedy: Brian Gittins, Robin Buckland, Alex Petrovic, Johnny Cochrane, Sarah Hendrickx, Sean McLoughlin Stand up comics 8.30pm £3 KING & QUEEN 80s Club Tropicana DJs play 1980s party music 8pm £free KOMEDIA UP Rabbits, Ladders And Stars In Jars Kid’s story about a star-gazing rabbit told with puppets and live music 2pm/4pm £8.50/6.50 OCEANA Vodka Heaven Where Russian alcoholics go to dance to R&B 9pm £5/4/3/free PAVILION THEATRE Ida Barr: Last Christmas (Possibly) A tentative farewell from the music hall star 8pm £12.50 PRINCE ALBERT Once Inch Badge Xmas Party A gig with tinsel 8.30pm £free R-BAR Quiz With Liz 9pm £tbc SIDEWINDER Poker Night It’s about time for a gambling habit 9pm £5 SIGNALMAN Signalman Pub Quiz 8pm £1
£12.50
BEE’S MOUTH The Bee’s Mouth Jazz Forum Join in for
PRINCE ALBERT Alice What’s the matter? 8.30pm £7 R-BAR Twisted Karaoke 8pm £free ROCK INN Movie Night: It’s A Wonderful Life 5.30pm/8.30pm £free
SIDEWINDER Open Mic Night 8pm £free THEATRE ROYAL Cinderella Time tbc £24 THOMAS KEMP Poker Evening 8pm £tbc THREE & TEN Pappy Christmas Comedy sketch troupe 8pm £8/5
XUMA Molly Malone And Friends Funk soul beats Details tbc
wednesday 22nd
ABOVE AUDIO The Doctor’s Orders This hip hop is sick 11pm £free
BEE’S MOUTH Open Mic 8.30pm £free BELUSHI’S BAR Now That’s What I Call A Party Part 3 Pop music 9pm £free BLACK LION Fresh Acoustics Live music 8.30pm £free BLIND BUSKER Music Quiz True or false: Westlife were invented by MI5 as a propaganda tool in preparation for the war on terror? 8.30pm £free
BRUNSWICK Live N Laughing Stand-up and live music 8pm £5/4
CASABLANCA Spanish Breaks Club night with live funk band Time tbc £2/1/free
DIGITAL The Poundance Imagine if Poundstretcher had a dancefloor - top pop tunes for a pittance 11pm £4/3/1 DOME Handel’s Messiah Four top soloists join the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Brighton Festival Chorus 7.30pm £15-30 DRUID’S ARMS We Change The Tempo DJ night 9pm
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DUKE OF BEAUFORT Poker Competition 7pm £5 FISHBOWL Fisherman’s Chronicles Acoustic jam open to all 8pm £free
HECTOR’S HOUSE Brighton Electric Presents Live bands Details tbc
JAM Adventures (After Dark) Indie, dance and hip hop club with live acts 11pm £1
KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Christmas Kracker: Steve Williams, Addy Van Der Borgh, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy with three-course meal 8.30pm £40
KOMEDIA UP Rabbits, Ladders And Stars In Jars Kids’ story about a star-gazing rabbit told with puppets and live music 11am/2pm £8.50/6.50; Suspiciously Elvis Christmas Special There may have been three wise men, but there’s only one king! But was it Elvis or Jesus? This confusing clash of cults comes with a six-piece band 8pm £20 MESMERIST Swing Ninjas Gypsy jazz swing trio Details tbc OCEANA Fuzzy Logic Dance and dubstep student night 9pm £5/3.50/2 PAVILION THEATRE Ida Barr: Last Christmas (Possibly) A tentative farewell from the music hall star 8pm £12.50 PRINCE ALBERT The Bleeding Hearts Club Return of the fabled acoustic night 8pm £tbc PULL & PUMP Pickin Party Open session for American roots players 7.30pm £free PV Special Christmas Quiz 8pm £tbc R-BAR Trickpop Pop and R&B from DJ Trick 8pm £free ROCK INN Poker Night 8.30pm £5 ST GEORGE’S INN Christmas Quiz 8.30pm £1 SIDEWINDER The Sidewinder Garden Quiz 8pm £1 SUGAQUBE Bar Grooves House DJ Time tbc £free THEATRE ROYAL Cinderella Time tbc £24 THOMAS KEMP Kev’s Open Mic 8.30pm £free THREE & TEN Katy And Rach Unprepared, unaided improvised comedy (upstairs) 8pm £7/5 WORLD’S END Nexus Christmas Party Get drunk to punk and funk 8pm £free XUMA Desert Ivan Discs Rock&roll and jive DJs Details tbc
thursday 23rd
BEE’S MOUTH Swing Ninjas Gypsy jazz swing trio 9pm £free
BELUSHI’S BAR Karaoke 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Mutant Pop Poppy and alternative sounds 10pm £2 BLACK LION Medium Rare DJs serving up a platter of semi-obscure funk and soul 8.30pm £free BRUNSWICK Left At The Robot Reggae and indie rock 8pm £4 CASABLANCA Live Band Club night with live band 11pm £2/1/free COALITION Secret Discotheque Retro disco, 80s pop and other ‘uncool’ tunes 10.30pm £4/3/2/1 DIGITAL Stonelove Indie rock&roll club 11pm £4/3 DUKE OF BEAUFORT Pubquiz 8pm £1 ENVY Get Some Commercial chart choons Time tbc £2 FIDDLER’S ELBOW Leerodi Traditional Irish Xmas Party Live music from Irish trad band 9pm £free FISHBOWL Residents Association DJ Will Sumsuch plays hip hop, funk and world beats 10pm £free FLORIST Acoustic Lounge Live music 8pm £free FORTUNE OF WAR Pretty Neat Records Party D&B and techno night raising money for Mind Details tbc FULL MOON Fire At The Old Mill New wave and post punk DJs 9pm £free HECTOR’S HOUSE Club Fandango Live music Details tbc HONEY The One - Real VIP Hip hop and dubstep designed to make you feel special 11pm £1/free IRON DUKE Henry’s Dad Beatles sing-a-long 8pm £free KENDAL ARMS Poker Tournament Details tbc KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Christmas Kracker: Steve Williams, Addy Van Der Borgh, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy with three-course meal 8.30pm £40 KOMEDIA UP Rabbits, Ladders And Stars In Jars Kids’ story about a star-gazing rabbit told with puppets and live music 11am/2pm £8.50/6.50; David Bowie Tribute Night 7.30pm £12.50 LATEST MUSIC BAR Alive & Swinging Christmas Special A themed tribute to the glamour days of Sinatra and Monroe 8pm £8 LECTERN The Consoles, IAMYOURHERO Young indie rock band with a weakness for covers 7.30pm £4
LIFE Shameless Half a century of musical highlights and lowpoints 11pm £1 MESMERIST Live Thursday Joe Newman hosts a night of bluegrass and folk 9pm £tbc OCEANA Pound Party R&B and dance tunes from the bargain bin 9pm £6/5/free PAV TAV Kickstart My Heart Rock and metal night 11pm £3/2/free PAVILION THEATRE Ida Barr: Last Christmas (Possibly) A tentative farewell from the music hall star 8pm £12.50 PRINCE ALBERT The Mess Around, Love Park, Prince Harry Live music 8pm £4/3 QUADRANT AKL Open Mic Night 8pm £free R-BAR Girls On Top Official Warm Up Pop and party tunes from DJ Alpha 8pm £tbc SIDEWINDER Forgive Me Father For I Have Synthed Confess your shameful 80s love secret 8pm £free SUGAQUBE Xtravaganza: Tom Vagabondo, Vit, M4J0 House DJs Time tbc £free THEATRE ROYAL Cinderella Time tbc £24 THOMAS KEMP Unplugged Sessions Live acoustic music 9pm £free THREE & TEN MusicBox Live acoustic music (upstairs) 8pm £5/4
friday 24th
ABOVE AUDIO Friday Night Bar Sessions Local DJs Time tbc £free
BELUSHI’S BAR Muy Loco Christmas Eve Party Pop and house DJs 9pm £free
BELUSHI’S BELOW Abandoned Xmas Eve Rock and metal night 10pm £3/2 BLACK LION Christmas Eve Woolly Jumper Party Bring out the cheese 8.30pm £free CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Sleazy Listening: DJ Peter Von Sleaze Sleazy, like getting drooled on by a big biker. Did I say ‘like’? 9pm £free CHEQUERS Christmas Eve Party Details tbc COALITION Fridays I’m In Love Somewhat eclectic club night with 60s gems, indie and funky funk 11pm £4/3/2/1 DOCTOR BRIGHTON’S Heads Up DJ 9.30pm £free DRUID’S ARMS The Druid’s Presents DJs and live music 8.30pm £free DUKE OF BEAUFORT DJ Night Rockabilly, ska and soul 8pm £free FULL MOON Warm Christmas Jumper Hits! Mince pies, mulled cider and cheesy Christmas hits 9pm £free FUNKY BUDDHA Drink, Dance, Repeat Cash in your student loan 11pm £5/3 FUNKYFISH The Funkyfish Club Soul, funk, jazz, Motown - 60s, 70s and 80s 10pm £6/3.50 GLOBE Christmas Eve Giveaway! Loads of free stuff! Ideal for lazy last minute christmas presents 9pm £free IRON DUKE Punk Christmas Carols 9pm £free JAZZ PLACE Bad Santa Party Guitar anthems and rock soundtracks 10pm £3/2/free KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club: Steve Williams, Addy Van Der Borgh, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 7pm £20; Motorcity Club for lovers of Motown, rock&roll and disco 10.30pm £5/3 KOMEDIA UP Rabbits, Ladders And Stars In Jars Kids’ story about a star-gazing rabbit told with puppets and live music 11am/2pm £8.50/6.50 LOFT Club Malicious Guitar anthems and movie soundtracks 10pm £3/2/free MESMERIST Shake, Holler And Roll DJ Dave Walker plays old school jive 9pm £tbc OCEANA Xmas Eve Christmas party hits 9pm £tbc PAV TAV INDIEcent Indie club playing indie pop and indie rock 11pm £3/2 PAVILION THEATRE Ida Barr: Last Christmas (Possibly) A tentative farewell from the music hall star 7pm £12.50 PV Twas The Night Before Xmas Party DJ Bad Drag plays holiday pop Time tbc £free RANELAGH Shauna Parker And The Saloon Bar Band Country swing outfit 8.30pm £free R-BAR Girls On Top Christmas Eve Party Mince pies dancefloor mincing 9pm £tbc SIDEWINDER Christmas Eve Party Shades of Blue DJs 8pm £free SUGAQUBE Xmas Eve Big house tunes from DJ Cheets Time tbc £free THEATRE ROYAL Cinderella Time tbc £24 VOLKS Strictly Reggae Xmas Eve Special Dancehall, roots, revival Details tbc WESTERN FRONT Xmas Eve Party DJs play indie and alternative classics 8pm £free WEST HILL TAVERN Envy Electro and hip hop DJs 9pm £free
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saturday 25th
If you’re intoxicated with Schloer and After Eights, wearing your new socks and a crumpled paper hat, listening to your grandad’s scintillating tales of pre-war cricket matches then you might need an exit strategy. Thank fuck for the R-Bar R-BAR Christmas Day Christmas karaoke party 7pm £tbc
sunday 26th
ABOVE AUDIO Brighton Calling: Live Live music from local bands 7pm £free
BELUSHI’S BAR Now That’s What I Call A Boxing Day DJ Sean plays everything from a-ha to GaGa - now that’s what I call eclectic 9pm £free BLACK LION Boxing Day Blow Out DJ Lanx won’t blow you out 9pm £free FIDDLER’S ELBOW Sham-Rock Open Mic 8.30pm £free FISHBOWL Recovery? Chilled reggae DJing from Asbest The Moor King and guests 9pm £free GLOBE Boxing Day Sunday Funday Hang out in a simulation of a Christmas family living room - with movies, mulled booze and board games 9pm £free HONEY Boxing Night Special Classic funky house 11pm £tbc KING & QUEEN Quiz Night 7.30pm £1 LECONFIELD Boozy Bingo 6pm £1 MARWOOD CAFE Brighton Filmmakers Coalition Meeting Throw ideas about and get involved in local projects 6pm £free OCEANA Ministry Of Sound R&B anthems 9pm £tbc R-BAR Boxing Day Christmas karaoke party 8pm £tbc SUGAQUBE Boxing Day Urban, funk and soul tunes Time tbc £free THEATRE ROYAL Cinderella Time tbc £24
monday 27th
ANCIENT MARINER Quiz Night 8pm £1 BEE’S MOUTH The Bee’s Mouth Jazz Forum Join in for a jazz jam with the house band - there’s a free pint in it 8.30pm £free BLIND BUSKER Open Mic Night 8.30pm £free BRUNSWICK Open Mic Night 8pm £free CHEQUERS Reggae Reggae Night Roots, reggae and rocksteady Details tbc COALITION Trash Mondays Filthy tunes for students and layabouts alike 10pm £5/3/free FOUNTAIN HEAD Christmas Quiz 8.30pm £1 FULL MOON Quiz Night Time tbc £1 HAMPTON Festive Music Quiz 8pm £1 HECTOR’S HOUSE Dad Disko Student cheese Time tbc £free HONEY Playground Cheesy chart choons and bouncy castles 11pm £tbc KING & QUEEN 80s Club Tropicana DJs play 1980s party music 8pm £free KOMEDIA UP Rabbits, Ladders And Stars In Jars Kids’ story about a star-gazing rabbit told with puppets and live music 11am/2pm £8.50/6.50 OCEANA Vodka Heaven Where Russian alcoholics go to dance to R&B 9pm £5/4/3/free PAVILION THEATRE Treason Show: That Was The Year That Was 2010 Topical comedy taking satirical potshots at the poor and famous 8pm £15/12.50 R-BAR Quiz With Liz 9pm £tbc R-BAR Girls On Top Rescue Party Pop, R&B and chart hits 10.30pm £4/3/free SIDEWINDER Poker Night It’s about time for a gambling habit 9pm £5 SIGNALMAN Signalman Pub Quiz 8pm £1 THEATRE ROYAL Cinderella Time tbc £24 VOLKS Strictly Reggae Dancehall, roots, revival 11pm £5/4.50
Tuesday 28th
BEE’S MOUTH Sounds Like Science DJ electronica 8.30pm £free
BELL Tom B’s Open Mic Night 8.30pm £free
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BELUSHI’S BAR Totalled On Tuesday! Pop and dance
MESMERIST Swing Ninjas Gypsy jazz swing trio Details
DJ 9pm £free
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£2/1
9pm £5/3.50/2
BELUSHI’S BELOW Elements Drum&bass night 10pm BRUNSWICK Jazz Jam Open session with house band 8pm £free
CHEQUERS Mic Chequers Jam Session Free pint for open mic’ers Details tbc COALITION Fat Tuesdays A big mix of everything 11pm £3/2/1
COBBLER’S THUMB Play For Your Pint Open mic night 9pm £free
DIGITAL CU Next Tuesday Student club night formerly
OCEANA Fuzzy Logic Dance and dubstep student night
PV Infamous PV Quiz 8pm £tbc R-BAR Trickpop Pop and R&B from DJ Trick 8pm £free SIDEWINDER The Sidewinder Garden Quiz 8pm £1 SUGAQUBE Bar Grooves House DJ Time tbc £free THEATRE ROYAL Cinderella Time tbc £24 THOMAS KEMP Kev’s Open Mic 8.30pm £free XUMA We Have Them Things That Play The Big Black Discs: Nick Da Record Vinyl-only DJ night Details tbc
known as Glitterati 11pm £4/3
DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA The Player 6.30pm FIDDLER’S ELBOW Quizness Time 8pm £1 FULL MOON Open Mic New open mic for musicians, comics and poets Details tbc FUNKY BUDDHA The Candy Fiesta Cosmpolitan student party Time tbc £3/2 GLOBE Basement Cinema Underground films, comfy seats, free popcorn 8pm £free HONEY Latin Fever We’re not talking Ricky Martin, but then who is? 10pm £4/3 KING & QUEEN Karaoke Night 9pm £free KOMEDIA DOWN Showstopper An all-singing alldancing musical that reinvents itself every night based on the audience’s suggestions (no matter how hard you try to mess it up with unrhymable words and improbable themes) 8pm £12 KOMEDIA UP Rabbits, Ladders And Stars In Jars Kids’ story about a star-gazing rabbit told with puppets and live music 11am/2pm £8.50/6.50; Michael Jackson Christmas Special What does Jacko have in common with Jesus? It’s not a rhetorical question, they actually have quite a lot in common: both of them rose from the grave; both of them are now thought of as white men; and both of them had a messiah complex. They did have their differences though 8pm £12 LECONFIELD Tuesday Teaser Pub quiz 9pm £1 PAV TAV Guerilla Rocks Club night for rock chicks, skater bois and indie kids 11pm £3/2/1 PRINCE ALBERT White Star Liners EP launch for indie pop locals Details tbc R-BAR Twisted Karaoke 8pm £free REVENGE Sound As A Pound Charty tunes 10.30pm £2/ free RED LION General Knowledge Quiz 8pm £1 ROCK INN Movie Night: The Wizard Of Oz 5.30pm/8.30pm £free SIDEWINDER Open Mic Night 8pm £free THEATRE ROYAL Cinderella Time tbc £24 THOMAS KEMP Poker Evening 8pm £tbc VOLKS Rob Smiley, Bubaking, Cockney Nutjob, Pook Electro breaks, house fixes 11pm £2/1 XUMA Lornegerie DJ Details tbc
w e d n e s d ay 29th
ABOVE AUDIO The Doctor’s Orders This hip hop is sick 11pm £free
BEE’S MOUTH Open Mic 8.30pm £free BELUSHI’S BAR Now That’s What I Call A Party Part 3 Pop music 9pm £free BLACK LION Fresh Acoustics Live music 8.30pm £free BLIND BUSKER Music Quiz True or false: Robbie
Williams is as appealing as a tropical cock-rotting virus? 8.30pm £free DIGITAL The Poundance Imagine if Poundstretcher had a dancefloor - top pop tunes for a pittance 11pm £4/3/1 DRUID’S ARMS We Change The Tempo DJ night 9pm £free DUKE OF BEAUFORT Poker Competition 7pm £5 FISHBOWL Fisherman’s Chronicles Acoustic jam open to all 8pm £free KOMEDIA DOWN Showstopper An all-singing alldancing musical that reinvents itself every night based on the audience’s suggestions (no matter how hard you try to mess it up with unrhymable words and improbable themes) 8pm £15/12 KOMEDIA UP Rabbits, Ladders And Stars In Jars Kids’ story about a star-gazing rabbit told with puppets and live music 11am/2pm £8.50/6.50 MARLBOROUGH THEATRE Silent Movie Experience West End musician-performer jazzes up old films with breakbeat percussion and honky tonk piano 3.30pm £7.50/5.50; This Is What Chaos Smells Like The Awkward Silence present a brand new, utterly silly sketch show 8pm £5/4
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thursday 30th
BELUSHI’S BAR Karaoke 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Mutant Pop Poppy and alternative sounds 10pm £2 BLACK LION SuperJam Funk, hip hop and disco records 8.30 £free
COALITION Secret Discotheque Retro disco, 80s pop and other ‘uncool’ tunes 10.30pm £4/3/2/1
DRUID’S ARMS The Druid’s Presents DJs and live music 8.30pm £free
DUKE OF BEAUFORT Pubquiz 8pm £1 ENVY Get Some Commercial chart choons Time tbc £2 FIDDLER’S ELBOW Fiddler’s Live Lounge Live jazz and folk music 8.30pm £free FISHBOWL Residents Association DJ Will Sumsuch plays hip hop, funk and world beats 10pm £free FLORIST Acoustic Lounge Live music 8pm £free HONEY The One - Real VIP Hip hop and dubstep designed to make you feel special 11pm £1/free JAM Thursday Night Fish Fry US rhythm & blues and original Jamaican ska 10pm £2/1 KENDAL ARMS Poker Tournament Details tbc KOMEDIA DOWN Showstopper An all-singing alldancing musical that reinvents itself every night based on the audience’s suggestions (no matter how hard they to mess it up with unrhymable words and improbable themes) 8pm £15/12 KOMEDIA UP Rabbits, Ladders And Stars In Jars Kids’ story about a star-gazing rabbit told with puppets and live music 11am/2pm £8.50/6.50; Comic Boom Stand-up comedy 8pm £8.50/6.50 LIFE Shameless Half a century of musical highlights and lowpoints 11pm £1 MESMERIST Live Thursday Joe Newman hosts a night of bluegrass and folk 9pm £tbc OCEANA Pound Party R&B and dance tunes from the bargain bin 9pm £6/5/free PAV TAV Kickstart My Heart Rock and metal night 11pm £3/2/free QUADRANT AKL Open Mic Night 8pm £free R-BAR Girls On Top Official Warm Up Pop and party tunes from DJ Alpha 8pm £tbc REVENGE Girls On Top Pop and party tunes 10.30pm £tbc SIDEWINDER Forgive Me Father For I Have Synthed Confess your shameful 80s love secret 8pm £free SUGAQUBE New Year Warmup Big dancey choons with DJ Jay North Time tbc £free THEATRE ROYAL Cinderella Time tbc £24 THOMAS KEMP Unplugged Sessions Live acoustic music 9pm £free
friday 31st NYE See pages 40-41
saturday 1st
BRIGHTON BALLROOM Pop Kraft Hangover Hootenanny Boogaloo Stu and crew play pop tunes while you play with sock puppets and make badges out of porno mags 9.30pm £8/6 BRUNSWICK The Blues Corporation Ten-piece blues band 4pm £free COWLEY CLUB Slutdisco Resurrection The NYE
electro punk party carries on 6pm £free DRUID’S ARMS The Druid’s Presents DJs and live music 8.30pm £free DUKE OF BEAUFORT DJ Night Rockabilly, ska and soul 8pm £free ENVY Lovestick New Year’s Day Party: Adam Ryan, Kirsten Sees, Magnus Asberg Funky underground sounds - witih live vocals 9pm £4/3/free FISHBOWL Askew DJ set of soul, nu jazz and reggae tunes 9pm £free FUNKYFISH The Funkyfish Club Soul, funk, jazz, Motown - 60s, 70s and 80s 10pm £6/3.50 OCEANA The World In One Night With seven themed rooms you should find one you like 8pm £8/free R-BAR Kinky Classics DJ King-K plays funky house 9pm £tbc REVENGE Kinky Dangerous Pop and R&B tunes 10.30pm £8/6/4/3/free SMUGGLERS Magnetic Club tunes from DJs Outbreak and Sam Cadman 9pm £free SUGAQUBE Workers’ Party It’s a NY celebration for bar staff - not a subversive meeting of downtrodden proletarians. Or maybe that’s the same thing? Time tbc £free
sunday 2nd
BEE’S MOUTH The Hive Retro DJing from the 50s and 60s 9pm £free
CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK The Geekest Link Do you know the difference between T1000 and an OCP-001? 8.30pm £1 DRUID’S ARMS The Downsound Sessions Trip hop and dub DJs 9pm £free FIDDLER’S ELBOW Sham-Rock Open Mic 8.30pm £free HAMPTON Live Music Sundays Live music 8.30pm £free HEIST Dub Defendant Jamaican sounds 8pm £free HONEY Afrodisiac If your house was this sexy you’d soon wear out the wallpaper 10.30pm £3.50/2 KING & QUEEN Quiz Night 7.30pm £1
KOMEDIA UP Bent Double: Raymond & Mr Timpkins, Zoe Lyons Alternative comedy acts 7.30pm £10.50/8.50 MARWOOD CAFE Brighton Filmmakers Coalition Meeting Throw ideas about and get involved in local projects 6pm £free
NEPTUNE The Ammonites, Stomp Mike, Thesius, Nick Stuart Old school Brighton punk band 8.30pm £tbc REVENGE S Club Live Live? Why are they even still living?
10.30pm £8/6/free
R-BAR Sublime Sundays Acoustic sessions 5pm £free SUGAQUBE All Night Long Mr Ray and DJ Psycho spin some funk and soul Time tbc £free
THEATRE ROYAL Cinderella Time tbc £24 VOLKS FutureDub: Vibration Lab, Unityhifi, Dialect, Lowki, Ellfivedee, Mr Sleepz, Kingspinner, Cutloose Crew, Kosine & Xnation, Daffy Dubs, Rockwood, Redford, Trouble & Maniac A glimpse into the future of dubstep 10pm £3
monday 3rd
ANCIENT MARINER Quiz Night 8pm £1 BEE’S MOUTH The Bee’s Mouth Jazz Forum Join in for a jazz jam with the house band - there’s a free pint in it 8.30pm £free BLACK LION The Lion, The Wit And The Frontal Lobe New pub quiz 8pm £1 BRUNSWICK Open Mic Night 8pm £free HAMPTON Music Quiz 8pm £1 HECTOR’S HOUSE Dad Disko Student cheese Time tbc £free HONEY Playground Cheesy chart choons and bouncy castles 11pm £tbc KING & QUEEN 80s Club Tropicana DJs play 1980s party music 8pm £free OCEANA Vodka Heaven Where Russian alcoholics go to dance to R&B 9pm £5/4/3/free PRINCE ALBERT The Bleeding Hearts Club Downbeat and melancholic acoustic music 8pm £tbc QUADRANT Acoustic Showcase Live music Details tbc R-BAR Quiz With Liz 9pm £tbc SIGNALMAN Signalman Pub Quiz 8pm £1 THEATRE ROYAL Cinderella Time tbc £24 THOMAS KEMP Quiz Night Time tbc £1 VOLKS Strictly Reggae Dancehall, roots, revival 11pm £5/4.50
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Tuesday 4th
AUDIO Let’s Kill Disco Indie night 10pm £3/2 BEE’S MOUTH Roll ‘Dem Bones Blues, jazz and 60s tunes 8.30pm £free
BELL Tom B’s Open Mic Night 8.30pm £free BELUSHI’S BAR Totalled On Tuesday! Pop and dance DJ 9pm £free
BELUSHI’S BELOW Elements Drum&bass night 10pm
£2/1
BRUNSWICK Jazz Jam Open session with house band 8pm £free
COWLEY CLUB Wildkatz Project Open mic jam for poets and musicians 7pm £free
DIGITAL CU Next Tuesday Student club night formerly known as Glitterati 11pm £4/3
FIDDLER’S ELBOW Quizness Time 8pm £1 HONEY Latin Fever We’re not talking Ricky Martin, but then who is? 10pm £4/3 HOPE The Slip Jam:B Open mic battleground for Brighton b-boys 8.30pm £free KING & QUEEN Karaoke Night 9pm £free PRINCE ALBERT Happy Birthday Boss! I Still Get That Same Old Feeling Presents: Pickerty Witch! Details tbc R-BAR Twisted Karaoke 8pm £free REVENGE Sound As A Pound Charty tunes 10.30pm £2/ free RED LION General Knowledge Quiz 8pm £1 ROCK INN Movie Night: Hangover 5.30pm/8.30pm £free THEATRE ROYAL Cinderella Time tbc £24 THOMAS KEMP Poker Evening 8pm £tbc
wednesday 5th
ABOVE AUDIO The Doctor’s Orders This hip hop is sick 11pm £free
AUDIO Supercharged Breaks 11pm £tbc BEE’S MOUTH Open Mic 8.30pm £free BELUSHI’S BAR Now That’s What I Call A Party Part 3 Pop music 9pm £free BLACK LION Fresh Acoustics Live music 8.30pm £free BRUNSWICK The Noise Next Door Improvised comedy egged on by the audience 8pm £8/6
CASABLANCA Spanish Breaks Club night with live funk band Time tbc £2/1/free DIGITAL The Poundance Imagine if Poundstretcher had a dancefloor - top pop tunes for a pittance 11pm £1 DRUID’S ARMS We Change The Tempo DJ night 9pm £free DUKE OF BEAUFORT Poker Competition 7pm £5 FISHBOWL Fisherman’s Chronicles Acoustic jam open to all 8pm £free LOLA LO Rock A Hula: Big Dave Aloha, Tiki Stew, Hawaii Five O DJs spin 50s rock&roll and 60s soul 8pm £3/2 OCEANA Fuzzy Logic Dance and dubstep student night 9pm £5/3.50/2 PRINCE ALBERT Anacondas, The Mire, Eager Teeth Live music 8pm £6 ROCK INN Poker Night 8.30pm £5 SUGAQUBE Bar Grooves House DJ Time tbc £free THOMAS KEMP Kev’s Open Mic 8.30pm £free
THURSDAY 6th
AUDIO Bastard Pop Musical mash-up 11pm £2 BELUSHI’S BAR Karaoke 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Mutant Pop Poppy and alternative sounds 10pm £2 BLACK LION Dubrockerslive Reggae, ska and dub DJs 8.30pm £free CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Brighton Bike Night Weekly biker’s social - leather, not lycra 7pm £free CASABLANCA Live Band Club night with live band 11pm £2/1/free DRUID’S ARMS The Druid’s Presents DJs and live music 8.30pm £free DUKE OF BEAUFORT Pubquiz 8pm £1 ENVY Get Some Commercial chart choons Time tbc £2 FIDDLER’S ELBOW Fiddler’s Live Lounge Live jazz and folk music 8.30pm £free FISHBOWL Residents Association DJ Will Sumsuch plays hip hop, funk and world beats 10pm £free
HONEY The One - Real VIP Hip hop and dubstep designed to make you feel special 11pm £1/free KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club Stand-up comedy 8pm £9/6.50 KOMEDIA STUDIO Hammer & Tongue Literate comedy, open slam and hip hop poetry from Kate Tempest 7.30pm £5/4 KOMEDIA UP The Space Arts and entertainment talks 7.30pm £7.50/5 LIFE Shameless Half a century of musical highlights and lowpoints 11pm £1 OCEANA Pound Party R&B and dance tunes from the bargain bin 9pm £6/5/free RED LION Music Quiz 8pm £1 ROCK INN Quiz Night 8.30pm £1 SUGAQUBE Weekend Warmup DJ Gary Scott plays dance tunes Time tbc £free THEATRE ROYAL Cinderella Time tbc £24 THOMAS KEMP Unplugged Sessions Live acoustic music 9pm £free WEST HILL TAVERN Open Mic 8pm £free
friday 7th
AUDIO Cyantific London DJ producer comes to town 11pm £tbc
BELUSHI’S BAR Muy Loco Pop and house DJs 9pm
£free
BELUSHI’S BELOW Abandoned Rock and metal night
10pm £3/2 BLACK DOVE Hot Tip Hi Fi DJs playing early reggae and rocksteady 8pm £free BLACK LION Arthur Shilling DJ plays big beat stompers 8.30pm £free CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Sleazy Listening: DJ Peter Von Sleaze Sleazy, like getting drooled on by a big biker. Did I say ‘like’? 9pm £free CASABLANCA Live Band Funky, no doubt 10pm £5 DIGITAL Stonelove Indie rock&roll club 11pm £4/3 DRUID’S ARMS Hot Pepper Sauce Reggae DJs 10pm £free DUKE OF BEAUFORT Smoke Stack DJs spin some old school ska 8pm £free FISHBOWL Keep It Wheel DJ Steve KIW plays rare disco, soul and boogie 9pm £free FORTUNE OF WAR Richie Phoe Reggae and rocksteady DJ Details tbc FUNKYFISH The Funkyfish Club Soul, funk, jazz, Motown - 60s, 70s and 80s 10pm £6/3.50 HECTOR’S HOUSE Beatabet Live music, DJs and visuals Details tbc HONEY Bonkerz Fridays All sorts of funky, dirty pop sounds 10.30pm £6/5/free HOPE Lulla Violet, The Fusion, Chased By Dogs Live music (upstairs) 8pm £tbc; Stacked Nasty DJs (downstairs) 9pm £free HYDRANT Sun Of Souls Live music 9pm £free KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club Stand-up comedy 7.30pm £14.50/11.50 KOMEDIA STUDIO Brighton Jazz Club: Sarah Gillespie Band Live jazz featuring Gilad Atzmon 8pm £14/12 OCEANA The World In One Night With seven themed rooms you should find one you like 8pm £6/5/free OPENHOUSE Folk Club Mark Cresswell and Helen Watson with guest Miller Anderson 8pm £tbc QUEEN’S HEAD Dr Bluegrass & The Illbilly Eight Brighton’s busiest buskers, hi-octane country standards and pop covers put through the hillbilly thresher Details tbc SMUGGLERS Bust It! DJ tunes 9pm £free SUGAQUBE Classics & Anthems Housey hits with DJ Cheet 2pm £free THEATRE ROYAL Cinderella Time tbc £24 THREE & TEN Will Sumsuch Housey tunes 10pm £free VOLKS Future Dub: Vibration Lab, Unityhifi, Dialect, Lowki, Ellfivedee, Mr Sleepz, Kingspinner, Cutloose Crew, Kosine & Xnation, Daffy Dubs, Rockwood, Redford, Trouble & Maniac A glimpse into the future of dubstep 10pm £3 WEST HILL TAVERN Envy Electro and hip hop DJs 10pm £free
BELUSHI’S BELOW Good Times Remember them? Maybe the retro tunes will jog your memory 9pm £5 BLACK LION Medium Rare DJs serving up a platter of semi-obscure funk and soul 8.30pm £free BLACK DOVE Duck Shoot Soulful dancefloor funk 8pm £free CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Replica Goth and industrial DJ tunes 9pm £free CASABLANCA Funky Fiesta Club night with live band 10pm £7 DRUID’S ARMS Nostalgedelia DJ Ben Murphy 10pm £free DUKE OF BEAUFORT DJ Night Rockabilly, ska and soul 8pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Met. Opera: La Fanciulla del West 6pm FIDDLER’S ELBOW DJ Arthur Schilling Rock&roll and funk tunes 9pm £free FISHBOWL Sumsuch Disco and breaks from the Latenite Lounging DJ 9pm £free FORTUNE OF WAR Flevans Bass wobble DJ Details tbc FUNKYFISH The Funkyfish Club Soul, funk, jazz, Motown - 60s, 70s and 80s 10pm £6/3.50 HAMPTON iLike iPod battles 9pm £free HECTOR’S HOUSE The Flip Flays Album launch for funky beachbums 9pm £free HONEY Hat Club: Jon Fitz, Brad Hudson, Vince Frimpong, Helen Cooper, Jordi Vegas, Squiz, Ben G House hits and hats 11pm £10/5 HOPE I’m With Stupid Motorik rock, disco and hip hop from the DJ behind It Came From The Sea 9pm £free HYDRANT Prince Harry Live music 9pm £free KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club Stand-up comedy 7pm/10.30pm £18/15.50; Stone To The Bone Afrobeat, Motown and psychedelic soul 11pm £5 KOMEDIA STUDIO Witch Born Bad and Da Doo DJs play the grrrly side of punk and pop, from Grace Jones to The Gossip 10pm £5 KOMEDIA UP Joe Strummer Remembrance Night: Rebel Truce, The Sex Pistols Experience and The Boiler Tributes to the Clash 7pm £12 OCEANA The World In One Night With seven themed rooms you should find one you like 8pm £8/free OPENHOUSE Kevin Barber Live music 8pm £tbc PRINCE ALBERT The Park, Fractured, Hi-Sides Live music Details tbc SMUGGLERS Magnetic Club tunes from DJs Outbreak and Sam Cadman 9pm £free SUGAQUBE Delirious: Carl Mills, Dave King Upfront house tunes Time tbc £free THEATRE ROYAL Cinderella Time tbc £24 THREE & TEN Ruff Snippets Funk, soul and disco tunes (downstairs) 10pm £free VOLKS Mojo To Go Go: Mary Boogaloo, Simon Bridger, Dave Crozier & Andy R, SkaVooVie Veronica, Bigger Boss Launch of new Motown and mod night 10pm £7 WEST HILL TAVERN If Reagan Played Disco Alternative sounds from the era of right-wing governments and middle-eastern bombing campaigns. No, the other one 9pm £free
sunday 9th
ABOVE AUDIO Sunday Service Live bands Time tbc £free
BELUSHI’S BAR Now That’s What I Call A Party Part 1 Pop music 9pm £free BLACK LION Live & Swingin’ Gypsy Jazz Live music 8.30pm £free
BRUNSWICK Heather Cairncross Live jazz 8pm £8 DRUID’S ARMS The Downsound Sessions Trip hop
and dub DJs 9pm £free
FIDDLER’S ELBOW Sham-Rock Open Mic 8.30pm
£free
FISHBOWL Recovery? Chilled reggae DJing from Asbest The Moor King 9pm £free
FOUNDRY Americana Unplugged: Dr Bluegrass & The Illbilly Eight Live country music 8pm £free GLOBE Rockoustic Open Mic 9pm £free HAMPTON Live Music Sundays Live music 8.30pm £free
saturday 8th
ABOVE AUDIO Warehouse Funk and rare soul from DJ Mex 10pm £5/free AUDIO Warehouse House and techno club night 11pm £5/ free BELUSHI’S BAR Unplugged Live acoustic music 9pm £free
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THEATRE ROYAL Cinderella Time tbc £24 THREE & TEN Strung Out Live acoustic music 8pm £free WEST HILL TAVERN Tonight We Fly Literate pop for romantic indie kids 9pm £free
DRUID’S ARMS We Change The Tempo DJ night 9pm £free
DUKE OF BEAUFORT Poker Competition 7pm £5 FISHBOWL Fisherman’s Chronicles Acoustic jam open to all 8pm £free
FISHBOWL Jeff Daniels Soul and hip hop DJ 9pm £free FORTUNE OF WAR Shakehandsletparty DJ night
9pm £5/3.50/2
FUNKYFISH The Funkyfish Club Soul, funk, jazz,
OCEANA Fuzzy Logic Dance and dubstep student night
monday 10th
ABOVE AUDIO Twilight Lounge Live funk, soul and jazz Time tbc £free
ANCIENT MARINER Quiz Night 8pm £1 BEE’S MOUTH The Bee’s Mouth Jazz Forum Join in for a jazz jam with the house band - there’s a free pint in it 8.30pm £free BELUSHI’S BAR Now That’s What I Call A Party Part 2 Pop music 9pm £free BLACK LION The Lion, The Wit And The Frontal Lobe New pub quiz 8pm £1 BRUNSWICK Open Mic Night 8pm £free HAMPTON Music Quiz 8pm £1 HECTOR’S HOUSE Dad Disko Student cheese Time tbc £free HONEY Playground Cheesy chart choons and bouncy castles 11pm £tbc KING & QUEEN 80s Club Tropicana DJs play 1980s party music 8pm £free NEPTUNE More Music Mondays Monthly folk, rock and blues session 8.30pm £free OCEANA Vodka Heaven Where Russian alcoholics go to dance to R&B 9pm £5/4/3/free SIGNALMAN Signalman Pub Quiz 8pm £1 VOLKS Strictly Reggae Dancehall, roots, revival 11pm £5/4.50
Tuesday 11th AUDIO Let’s Kill Disco Indie night 10pm £3/2
BELL Tom B’s Open Mic Night 8.30pm £free BELUSHI’S BAR Totalled On Tuesday! Pop and dance DJ 9pm £free
BELUSHI’S BELOW Elements Drum&bass night 10pm
£2/1
BRIGHTON CENTRE Holiday On Ice 2011: Energia Details tbc
BRUNSWICK Jazz Jam Open session with house band 8pm £free
CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Skeptics In The Pub Lectures on science and rationalism. Sounds interesting shame about the name (‘c’ last month’s listing) 9pm £free COWLEY CLUB In Zaire, Nope, Illness Afrobeat and Krautrock bands 8pm £donation DIGITAL CU Next Tuesday Student club night formerly known as Glitterati 11pm £4/3 FIDDLER’S ELBOW Quizness Time 8pm £1 GLOBE Basement Cinema Underground films, comfy seats, free popcorn 8pm £free HONEY Latin Fever We’re not talking Ricky Martin, but then who is? 10pm £4/3 KING & QUEEN Karaoke Night 9pm £free PRINCE ALBERT Dead Empire, Seero, The Nameless Dead Live music 8.30pm £4/3 RED LION General Knowledge Quiz 8pm £1 ROCK INN Movie Night: The Day The Earth Stood Still 5.30pm/8.30pm £free THEATRE ROYAL Cinderella Time tbc £24 THOMAS KEMP Poker Evening 8pm £tbc VOLKS Toothsayer Fidgety and minimal house 10pm £4/3
PULL & PUMP Pickin Party Open session for American roots players 7.30pm £free ROCK INN Poker Night 8.30pm £5 SUGAQUBE Bar Grooves House DJ Time tbc £free THEATRE ROYAL Cinderella Time tbc £24 THOMAS KEMP Kev’s Open Mic 8.30pm £free
thursday 13th
AUDIO Bastard Pop Musical mash up 11pm £2 BELUSHI’S BAR Karaoke 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Mutant Pop Poppy and alternative sounds 10pm £2 BLACK LION Soul Casserole A melting pot of hot funk beats and soul grooves 8.30pm £free BRIGHTON CENTRE Holiday On Ice 2011: Energia Details tbc CASABLANCA Live Band Club night with live band 11pm £2/1/free DRUID’S ARMS Trip Down Live music 8.30pm £free DUKE OF BEAUFORT Pubquiz 8pm £1 DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA NT Live: Fela 6.45pm ENVY Get Some Commercial chart choons Time tbc £2 FIDDLER’S ELBOW Live Lounge: Jazz Fantasia Swinging jazz 8.30pm £free FISHBOWL Residents Association DJ Will Sumsuch plays hip hop, funk and world beats 10pm £free GLOBE Hang The DJ! The democratisation of the dancefloor continues apace with another night of punterpicked playlists 9pm £free HECTOR’S HOUSE Risque Bisque Live bands 8pm £free HONEY The One - Real VIP Hip hop and dubstep designed to make you feel special 11pm £1/free HOPE So Darn Hot Club Night Label-run club night with live music 8pm £free HYDRANT Thieves By The Code Live music 9pm £free KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club Stand-up comedy 8pm £9/6.50 KOMEDIA UP Poets Vs MCs! Tweed vs tracksuit, beret vs cap, flounce vs mince 7.30pm £3/2 LIFE Shameless Half a century of musical highlights and lowpoints 11pm £1 OCEANA Pound Party R&B and dance tunes from the bargain bin 9pm £6/5/free PRINCE ALBERT Lout Presents Live music 8.30pm £tbc ROCK INN Quiz Night 8.30pm £1 SUGAQUBE Weekend Warmup DJ Gary Scott plays dance tunes Time tbc £free THEATRE ROYAL Cinderella Time tbc £24 THOMAS KEMP Unplugged Sessions Live acoustic music 9pm £free WEST HILL TAVERN Open Mic 8pm £free
Friday 14th
ABOVE AUDIO Friday Night Bar Sessions Local DJs
wednesday 12th
ABOVE AUDIO The Doctor’s Orders This hip hop is sick 11pm £free
AUDIO Supercharged Breaks 11pm £tbc BEE’S MOUTH Open Mic 8.30pm £free BELUSHI’S BAR Now That’s What I Call A Party Part 3 Pop music 9pm £free BLACK LION Fresh Acoustics Live music 8.30pm £free BRIGHTON CENTRE Holiday On Ice 2011: Energia Details tbc
CASABLANCA Spanish Breaks Club night with live funk band Time tbc £2/1/free
DIGITAL The Poundance Imagine if Poundstretcher had a dancefloor - top pop tunes for a pittance 11pm £1
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music 8.30pm £free
DUKE OF BEAUFORT DJ Night Rockabilly, ska and soul 8pm £free
Time tbc £free
AUDIO Minimal Kids Club night with stripped-back aesthetic 11pm £tbc BELUSHI’S BAR Muy Loco Pop and house DJs 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Abandoned Rock and metal night 10pm £3/2 BLACK LION Molly Malone Funk and hip hop DJ 8.30pm £free BRIGHTON CENTRE Holiday On Ice 2011: Energia Details tbc CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Sleazy Listening: DJ Peter Von Sleaze Sleazy, like getting drooled on by a big biker. Did I say ‘like’? 9pm £free CASABLANCA Live Funk Band 10pm £5 COBBLER’S THUMB Charley Gordon Delta ragtime blues 9pm £free COWLEY CLUB Smash Edo Benefit Gig 8pm £donation DIGITAL Stonelove Indie rock&roll club 11pm £4/3 DRUID’S ARMS The Druid’s Presents DJs and live
Details tbc
Motown - 60s, 70s and 80s 10pm £6/3.50
GLOBE Donky Pitch Electronica and dubstep DJs 9pm £free
HONEY Bonkerz Fridays All sorts of funky, dirty pop sounds 10.30pm £6/5/free JAM Balkaneasca Brassy Balkan beats with live musicians and belly dancers, not just the the usual blokey beergut wobble 11pm £7/5 KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club Stand-up comedy 7.30pm £14.50/11.50; Born Bad Rockabilly and great garage scuzz 11pm £6/5 KOMEDIA STUDIO Brighton Jazz Club: Simon Woolf’s All-Star Sextet Live jazz 8pm £14/12 OCEANA The World In One Night With seven themed rooms you should find one you like 8pm £6/5/free SMUGGLERS Bust It! DJ tunes 9pm £free SUGAQUBE Classics & Anthems Housey hits with DJ Cheet 2pm £free THEATRE ROYAL Cinderella Time tbc £24 THREE & TEN DJ Ruff Snippets Funk, soul and disco tunes 10pm £free VOLKS Analogue D&B night Details tbc WEST HILL TAVERN Envy Electro and hip hop DJs 10pm £free
saturday 15th
ABOVE AUDIO Warehouse Funk and rare soul from DJ Mex 10pm £5/free
ANCIENT MARINER Acoustic Sessions: Ash & Steph
Live music 8pm £free AUDIO Warehouse: Boy 8 Bit House and techno club night 11pm £5/free BELUSHI’S BAR Unplugged Live acoustic music 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Good Times Remember them? Maybe the retro tunes will jog your memory 9pm £5 BLACK LION Burnt Toast Radio Reverb DJ brings out the filth in funk 9pm £free BRIGHTON BALLROOM Pop Kraft Boogaloo Stu and crew play pop tunes while you play with sock puppets and mess around with glitter 9.30pm £8/6 BRIGHTON CENTRE Holiday On Ice 2011: Energia Details tbc BRUNSWICK Tonight Matthew “I will be the singer in a covers band” 8pm £5 CASABLANCA Funky Fiesta Club night with live band 10pm £7 COALITION Home: Disco Shed DJs, Kila Kela DJs and live music 11pm £9 COWLEY CLUB Queer Mutiny An all-day queer fest - a whole day of queerness! Details tbc DIGITAL Playroom Housey hedonism in a playground of bouncy inflatable fun 11pm £12/10 DRUID’S ARMS DJ NoMark Where’s Mark gone? 10pm £free DUKE OF BEAUFORT DJ Night Rockabilly, ska and soul 8pm £free FIDDLER’S ELBOW Molly Malone DJ night 9pm £free FISHBOWL DJ Åbo, Ally Smith Jazz Rooms DJs play dirty jazz funk 9pm £free FORTUNE OF WAR Askew Records Night: Gareth Stephens, Barry Dust Local label do the DJ duties Details tbc FUNKYFISH The Funkyfish Club Soul, funk, jazz, Motown - 60s, 70s and 80s 10pm £6/3.50 GLOBE Music Is The Answer DJ set from Johnny Jones 9pm £free HAMPTON iLike iPod battles 9pm £free HONEY Honey Electro disco club 11pm £10/5 KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club Stand-up comedy 7pm/10.30pm £17.50/15.50 KOMEDIA STUDIO Spellbound “The 80s night for people who hate 80s nights” - Simon Price rescues the good bits from the decade that ruined music 9pm £5/4 KOMEDIA UP Russell Howard: Work In Progress Mock The Week’s star on tour - sold out 8pm £tbc NORTHERN LIGHTS Duck Shoot Disco 70s dancefloor hits 9pm £free OCEANA The World In One Night With seven themed rooms you should find one you like 8pm £8/free PRINCE ALBERT Club Meow Meow Ska bands 8pm £4 SMUGGLERS Magnetic Club tunes from DJs Outbreak and Sam Cadman 9pm £free SUGAQUBE Simply House Upfront house tunes from DJ
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Cheets Time tbc £free THEATRE ROYAL Cinderella Time tbc £24 THREE & TEN Matt Barker Magnificently turned out DJ with impeccable hair (downstairs) 10pm £free VOLKS Satta Sounds, Slack Banta Reggae, jungle, ragga 10pm £
sunday 16th
ABOVE AUDIO Sunday Service Live bands Time tbc £free HONEY Afrodisiac If your house was this sexy you’d never go outdoors 10.30pm £3.50/2 BEE’S MOUTH The Hive Retro DJing from the 50s and 60s 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BAR Now That’s What I Call A Party Part 1 Pop music 9pm £free BRIGHTON BALLROOM Knock2bag: Pappy’s Fun Club, Roisin Conaty, Stan Stanley, Ed Gamble Stand up comedy 7.30pm £10 BRIGHTON CENTRE Holiday On Ice 2011: Energia Details tbc BRUNSWICK Ukulele Sundays Pop songs played on ukulele - novel, eh? 3pm £free; Brighton Folk Folk night with Amy Hill 8pm £free DOME Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra Music by Tchaikovsky and Delius 2.45pm £9-32 DRUID’S ARMS The Downsound Sessions Trip hop and dub DJs 9pm £free FIDDLER’S ELBOW Sham-Rock Open Mic 8.30pm £free FISHBOWL Recovery? Chilled reggae DJing from Asbest The Moor King and guests 9pm £free GLOBE Rockoustic Open Mic 9pm £free HAMPTON Live Music Sundays Live music 8.30pm £free HONEY Afrodisiac If your house was this sexy you’d never go outdoors 10.30pm £3.50/2 KING & QUEEN Quiz Night 7.30pm £1 KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club Stand-up comedy 8pm £11.50/6.50 KOMEDIA UP Russell Howard: Work In Progress Mock The Week’s star on tour - sold out 8pm £tbc MARWOOD CAFE Brighton Filmmakers Coalition Meeting Throw ideas about and get involved in local projects 6pm £free SUGAQUBE All Night Long Mr Ray and DJ Psycho spin some funk and soul Time tbc £free THEATRE ROYAL Cinderella Time tbc £24 THREE & TEN Strung Out Live acoustic music 8pm £free WEST HILL TAVERN Artists Only New wave and art school tunes 9pm £free
BEE’S MOUTH Roll ‘Dem Bones Blues, jazz and 60s tunes 8.30pm £free BELL Tom B’s Open Mic Night 8.30pm £free BELUSHI’S BAR Totalled On Tuesday! Pop and dance DJ 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Elements Drum&bass night 10pm £2/1 BRIGHTON CENTRE Holiday On Ice 2011: Energia Details tbc BRUNSWICK Jazz Jam Open session with house band 8pm £free COWLEY CLUB Wildkatz Project Open mic jam for poets and musicians 7pm £free DIGITAL CU Next Tuesday Student club night formerly known as Glitterati 11pm £4/3 FIDDLER’S ELBOW Quizness Time 8pm £1 GLOBE Basement Cinema Underground films, comfy seats, free popcorn 8pm £free HONEY Latin Fever We’re not talking Ricky Martin, but then who is? 10pm £4/3 KING & QUEEN Karaoke Night 9pm £free PRINCE ALBERT The Real McKenzies Canadian punks 7.30pm £7 RED LION General Knowledge Quiz 8pm £1 ROCK INN Movie Night: Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert 5.30pm/8.30pm £free THEATRE ROYAL Sally Morgan: Psychic Sally On The Road SOURCE wonders if she can see inside the minds of all the people laughing at her 7.45pm £23.50 THOMAS KEMP Poker Evening 8pm £tbc
ABOVE AUDIO Twilight Lounge Live funk, soul and jazz Time tbc £free
ANCIENT MARINER Quiz Night 8pm £1 BEE’S MOUTH The Bee’s Mouth Jazz Forum Join in for
a jazz jam with the house band - there’s a free pint in it 8.30pm £free BELUSHI’S BAR Now That’s What I Call A Party Part 2 Pop music 9pm £free BLACK LION The Lion, The Wit And The Frontal Lobe New pub quiz 8pm £1 BRIGHTON CENTRE Holiday On Ice 2011: Energia Details tbc BRUNSWICK Open Mic Night 8pm £free DRUID’S ARMS Quizageddon 8.30pm £1 HAMPTON Music Quiz 8pm £1 HECTOR’S HOUSE Dad Disko Student cheese Time tbc £free HONEY Playground Cheesy chart choons and bouncy castles 11pm £tbc JAM Smoke Fairies, Sea Of Bees Live music 7pm £7 KING & QUEEN 80s Club Tropicana DJs play 1980s party music 8pm £free OCEANA Vodka Heaven Where Russian alcoholics go to dance to R&B 9pm £5/4/3/free THOMAS KEMP Quiz Night Time tbc £1 VOLKS Strictly Reggae Dancehall, roots, revival 11pm £5/4.50
wednesday 19th
ABOVE AUDIO The Doctor’s Orders This hip hop is sick 11pm £free
AUDIO Supercharged Breaks 11pm £tbc BEE’S MOUTH Open Mic 8.30pm £free BELUSHI’S BAR Now That’s What I Call A Party Part 3 9pm £free BLACK LION Fresh Acoustics Live music 8.30pm £free BRIGHTON CENTRE Holiday On Ice 2011: Energia Details tbc
CASABLANCA Spanish Breaks Club night with live funk band Time tbc £2/1/free
COWLEY CLUB Grand Duke, Soccer 96, Fat Bicth Alt electro 8pm £donation
DIGITAL The Poundance Imagine if Poundstretcher had a dancefloor - top pop tunes for a pittance 11pm £1
DRUID’S ARMS We Change The Tempo DJ night 9pm DUKE OF BEAUFORT Poker Competition 7pm £5 FISHBOWL Fisherman’s Chronicles Acoustic jam open to all 8pm £free
KOMEDIA DOWN Justin Townes Earle American singer songwriter 7.30pm £11 OCEANA Fuzzy Logic Dance and dubstep student night 9pm £5/3.50/2 PRINCE ALBERT Dan Michaelson & The Coastguards, Tandy Hard The singer from Absentee doing country folk 8pm £8/7 ROCK INN Poker Night 8.30pm £5 SUGAQUBE Bar Grooves House DJ Time tbc £free THEATRE ROYAL The Circus Of Horrors: The Chapters From Hell Things that make you go “Argggh”, “Nahhh” and “Sod me, that must hurt” 7.30pm £30-14.75 THOMAS KEMP Kev’s Open Mic 8.30pm £free
thursday 20th
AUDIO Bastard Pop Musical mash-up 11pm £2 BELUSHI’S BAR Karaoke 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Mutant Pop Poppy and alternative sounds 10pm £2 BLACK LION SuperJam Funk, hip hop and disco records 8.30pm £free
BRIGHTON CENTRE Holiday On Ice 2011: Energia Details tbc
Tuesday 18th AUDIO Let’s Kill Disco Indie night 10pm £3/2
plays hip hop, funk and world beats 10pm £free
GLOBE Hang The DJ! The democratisation of the dancefloor continues apace with another new night of punterpicked playlists 9pm £free HONEY The One - Real VIP Hip hop and dubstep designed to make you feel special 11pm £1/free HOPE Communion Live music 8pm £free HYDRANT Crooked Mountain Crooked Sea Intense and shouty post rock 9pm £free KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club Stand-up comedy 8pm £9/6.50 LIFE Shameless Half a century of musical highlights and lowpoints 11pm £1 OCEANA Pound Party R&B and dance tunes from the bargain bin 9pm £6/5/free ROCK INN Quiz Night 8.30pm £1 SUGAQUBE Selective Sounds House DJ Time tbc £free THEATRE ROYAL In The Flesh: Pink Floyd Tribute Would you exchange a walk-on part in a play for a lead role in a covers band? 7.30pm £30-14.75 THOMAS KEMP Unplugged Sessions Live acoustic music 9pm £free WEST HILL TAVERN Open Mic 8pm £free
friday 21st
ABOVE AUDIO Friday Night Bar Sessions Local DJs
£free
monday 17th
FISHBOWL Residents Association DJ Will Sumsuch
CASABLANCA Live Band Club night with live band 11pm £2/1/free
DUKE OF BEAUFORT Pub quiz 8pm £1 ENVY Get Some Commercial chart choons Time tbc £2 FIDDLER’S ELBOW Live Lounge: Leerodi Live music from Irish trad band 9pm £free
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BELUSHI’S BAR Muy Loco Pop and house DJs 9pm
£free
BELUSHI’S BELOW Abandoned Rock and metal night
10pm £3/2 BLACK LION Soul Casserole A melting pot of hot funk beats and soul grooves 8.30pm £free BRIGHTON CENTRE Holiday On Ice 2011: Energia Details tbc CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Sleazy Listening: DJ Peter Von Sleaze Sleazy, like getting drooled on by a big biker. Did I say ‘like’? 9pm £free CASABLANCA Live Funk Band 10pm £5 COBBLER’S THUMB Fire Writers Americana act actually from America (well, some of them) 9pm £free DIGITAL Stonelove Indie rock&roll club 11pm £4/3 DRUID’S ARMS Hot Pepper Sauce Reggae DJs 10pm £free DUKE OF BEAUFORT DJ Night Rockabilly, ska and soul 8pm £free FISHBOWL Blacklodge Disco boogie DJ 9pm £free FORTUNE OF WAR Pollito Boogaloo Live Latin band playing tropical vibes to get you through the cold English winter Details tbc; Uncle Al DJ night Details tbc FULL MOON Dub Defendant Jamaican sounds 9pm £free FUNKYFISH The Funkyfish Club Soul, funk, jazz, Motown - 60s, 70s and 80s 10pm £6/3.50 GLOBE Together In Eclectic Dreams DJ night 9pm £free HONEY Bonkerz Fridays All sorts of funky, dirty pop sounds 10.30pm £6/5/free HOPE Love Funk DJs (downstairs) 8pm £free JAM Club Chat Noir: The Magic Number, The Swing Ninjas, DJ Mike The Mic Vintage swing club with live bands 8.30pm £12/10 KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club Stand-up comedy 7.30pm £14.50/11.50; Born Bad Rockabilly and great garage scuzz 11pm £6/5 KOMEDIA STUDIO Brighton Jazz Club: Dave Barry Four Tribute to Miles Davis 8pm £12/10 OCEANA The World In One Night With seven themed rooms you should find one you like 8pm £6/5/free PAVILION THEATRE Treason Show Topical comedy taking satirical pot-shots at the poor and famous 8pm £12.50/10 PRINCE ALBERT Cable Club Live music 8.30pm £4/3 SMUGGLERS Bust It! DJ tunes 9pm £free SUGAQUBE Classics & Anthems Big house tunes from DJ Cheets Time tbc £free THEATRE ROYAL Punt & Dennis Radio 4 comedians 7.30pm £24 WEST HILL TAVERN Brains Eclectic mish-mash from Superheroes of BMX 9pm £free
saturday 22nd
ABOVE AUDIO Warehouse Funk and rare soul from DJ Mex 10pm £5/free
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AUDIO Warehouse: Clouds House and techno club night 11pm £5/free
BELUSHI’S BAR Unplugged Live acoustic music 9pm
SIGNALMAN Open Mic Night 8pm £free SUGAQUBE All Night Long Mr Ray and DJ Psycho spin some funk and soul Time tbc £free
£free
THREE & TEN The Noise Next Door Improvised comedy egged on by the audience (upstairs) 6pm £tbc; Strung Out
Maybe the retro tunes will jog your memory 9pm £5 BLACK LION Medium Rare DJs serving up a platter of semi-obscure funk and soul 8.30pm £free BRIGHTON CENTRE Holiday On Ice 2011: Energia Details tbc CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Cazza Karaoke 8.30pm £free CASABLANCA Funky Fiesta Club night with live band 10pm £7 COBBLER’S THUMB Ska Punk Night Live music 8pm £free COWLEY CLUB Slutdisko Punky electro with barbie doll decor and anything-goes dresscode 9pm £free DRUID’S ARMS Nostalgedelia DJ Ben Murphy 10pm £free DUKE OF BEAUFORT DJ Night Rockabilly, ska and soul 8pm £free FIDDLER’S ELBOW Soul Casserole A melting pot of hot funk beats and jazzy Latin 9pm £free FISHBOWL Blackbelt Jonez A collector of rare hip hop and funk records 9pm £free FORTUNE OF WAR Throw Some Shapes DJ night Details tbc FUNKYFISH The Funkyfish Club Soul, funk, jazz, Motown - 60s, 70s and 80s 10pm £6/3.50 HAMPTON iLike iPod battles 9pm £free HONEY Pukka Up If your house was this pukka you’d never run out of pies 11pm £10/5 KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club Stand-up comedy 7.30pm/10.30pm £17.50/15.50 KOMEDIA STUDIO CBGBs Night based on the music from the NY venue 10.30pm £3 KOMEDIA UP Alive & Swinging With Marilyn Monroe A themed tribute to the glamour days of Sinatra and Monroe 9pm £15; Alive & Swinging Afterparty Arthur Shillin’ steers you through an evening of electro swing 11pm £6 OCEANA The World In One Night With seven themed rooms you should find one you like 8pm £8/free PAVILION THEATRE Treason Show Topical comedy taking satirical pot-shots at the poor and famous 8pm £12.50/10 PRINCE ALBERT Good Time Charlies Live music 8.30pm £tbc SMUGGLERS Magnetic Club tunes from DJs Outbreak and Sam Cadman 9pm £free SUGAQUBE Simply House Upfront house tunes Time tbc £free THEATRE ROYAL Gyles Brandreth: The One To One Show Actor, author, former MP and now comedian 7.30pm £19 THREE & TEN Joanna Neary: Youth Club Marvellous one-woman character comedy set in a 1987 Cornish youth club (upstairs) 8pm £8/6; Monkey Beats and grooves (downstairs) 10pm £free VOLKS Burleske: Masked Circus, Bruno Otranto Housey circus techno 11pm £7/5 WEST HILL TAVERN L’Amour Electronique French pop and electronic delights pour vous 9pm £free
Live acoustic music (downstairs) 8pm £free
BELUSHI’S BELOW Good Times Remember them?
monday 24th
ABOVE AUDIO Twilight Lounge Live funk, soul and jazz Time tbc £free
ANCIENT MARINER Quiz Night 8pm £1 BEE’S MOUTH The Bee’s Mouth Jazz Forum Join in for a jazz jam with the house band - there’s a free pint in it 8.30pm £free BELUSHI’S BAR Table Football World Cup Competition 8pm £tbc BLACK LION The Lion, The Wit And The Frontal Lobe New pub quiz 8pm £1 BRIGHTON CENTRE Holiday On Ice 2011: Energia Details tbc BRUNSWICK Open Mic Night 8pm £free COWLEY CLUB Cowley Bookshop Talk: Dr Judith Suissa A talk with lecturer and author of ‘Anarchism And Education’ 7pm £free HAMPTON Music Quiz 8pm £1 HECTOR’S HOUSE Dad Disko Student cheese Time tbc £free HONEY Playground Cheesy chart choons and bouncy castles 11pm £tbc KING & QUEEN 80s Club Tropicana DJs play 1980s party music 8pm £free KOMEDIA DOWN Will Self: What’s New About The New Year? Erudite grouch interviewed by Mathew De Abaitua 7.30pm £12 OCEANA Vodka Heaven Where Russian alcoholics go to dance to R&B 9pm £5/4/3/free PRINCE ALBERT Born To Lose Live music and DJs 8.30pm £4 SIGNALMAN Signalman Pub Quiz 8pm £1 VOLKS Strictly Reggae Dancehall, roots, revival 11pm £5/4.50
Tuesday 25th
AUDIO Let’s Kill Disco Indie night 10pm £3/2 BELL Tom B’s Open Mic Night 8.30pm £free BELUSHI’S BAR Totalled On Tuesday! Pop and dance DJ 9pm £free
BELUSHI’S BELOW Elements Drum&bass night 10pm
£2/1
BRIGHTON CENTRE Holiday On Ice 2011: Energia Details tbc
BRUNSWICK Jazz Jam Open session with house band 8pm £free
COWLEY CLUB Wildkatz Project Open mic jam for poets and musicians 7pm £free
DIGITAL CU Next Tuesday Student club night formerly
sunday 23rd
ABOVE AUDIO Sunday Service Live bands Time tbc £free
BELUSHI’S BAR Now That’s What I Call A Party Part 1 DJ Sean plays everything from a-ha to GaGa - now that’s what I call eclectic 9pm £free BLACK LION Dubrockerslive Reggae, ska and dub DJs 9pm £free BRIGHTON CENTRE Holiday On Ice 2011: Energia Details tbc BRUNSWICK Milestones Live jazz inspired by Miles Davis 8pm £10 DRUID’S ARMS The Downsound Sessions Trip hop and dub DJs 9pm £free FIDDLER’S ELBOW Sham-Rock Open Mic 8.30pm £free FISHBOWL Recovery? Chilled reggae DJing from Asbest The Moor King and guests 9pm £free HAMPTON Live Music Sundays Live music 8.30pm £free HONEY Afrodisiac If your house was this sexy you’d never go outdoors 10.30pm £3.50/2 KING & QUEEN Quiz Night 7.30pm £1 KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club Stand-up comedy 8pm £11.50/6.50 MARWOOD CAFE Brighton Filmmakers Coalition Meeting throw ideas about and get involved in local projects 6pm £free
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known as Glitterati 11pm £4/3
FIDDLER’S ELBOW Quizness Time 8pm £1 HONEY Latin Fever We’re not talking Ricky Martin, but then who is? 10pm £4/3
KING & QUEEN Karaoke Night 9pm £free KOMEDIA DOWN CW Stoneking & His Primitive Horn Orchestra, Brownbird Rudy Relic Blues and jazz raconteur 7.30pm £12
PRINCE ALBERT Raising Maise Live music 8pm £tbc RED LION General Knowledge Quiz 8pm £1 ROCK INN Movie Night: Breakfast At Tiffany’s 5.30pm/8.30pm £free
THOMAS KEMP Poker Evening 8pm £tbc
wednesday 26th
ABOVE AUDIO The Doctor’s Orders This hip hop is sick 11pm £free
AUDIO Supercharged: Shy Fx Breaks 10.30pm £tbc BEE’S MOUTH Open Mic 8.30pm £free BELUSHI’S BAR Now That’s What I Call A Party Part 3 Pop music 9pm £free BLACK LION Fresh Acoustics Live music 8.30pm £free BRIGHTON CENTRE Holiday On Ice 2011: Energia Details tbc
BRUNSWICK Live N Laughing Stand-up and live music 8pm £5/4
CASABLANCA Spanish Breaks Club night with live funk band Time tbc £2/1/free
COWLEY CLUB SchMOVIES: Punk’s Not Dead Documentary tracing the history of punk - it might not be dead, but it’s certainly changed over the years. The film features live footage and interviews with bands like Green Day and My Chemical Romance, as well as more likely inclusions such as Minor Threat and Henry Rollins 7pm £free DIGITAL The Poundance Imagine if Poundstretcher had a dancefloor - top pop tunes for a pittance 11pm £1 DRUID’S ARMS We Change The Tempo DJ night 9pm £free DUKE OF BEAUFORT Poker Competition 7pm £5 FISHBOWL Fisherman’s Chronicles Acoustic jam open to all 8pm £free HECTOR’S HOUSE Headquarters, Nitkowskit, Guns & Knives New York power pop and London math rock Time tcb £6/5 KOMEDIA DOWN Felix Dexter: Mutiple Personalities In Order Stand up comic from BBC2’s Bellamy’s People 8pm £15 KOMEDIA UP Ani Difranco, Jim Moray Singer songwriter 7.30pm £17.50 OCEANA Fuzzy Logic Dance and dubstep student night 9pm £5/3.50/2 PRINCE ALBERT Sea Monsters: Salter Cane, Crowns On The Rats Orchestra, The Squadron Leaders Part of the One Inch Badge mini-festival (see feature for details) 8pm £tbc PULL & PUMP Pickin Party Open session for American roots players 7.30pm £free ROCK INN Poker Night 8.30pm £5 SUGAQUBE Bar Grooves House DJ Time tbc £free THEATRE ROYAL Moscow City Ballet: The Sleeping Beauty Time tbc £32-27 THOMAS KEMP Kev’s Open Mic 8.30pm £free THREE & TEN Jouissance DJ set (downstairs) 9pm £free
thursday 27th
AUDIO Bastard Pop Musical mash-up 11pm £2 BASEMENT Vive La France: Melanie Pain, La Boetie, Les Zuts Chanson and pop bands - part of the Melting Vinyl mini-festival (see feature for details) 8pm £tbc
BELUSHI’S BAR Karaoke 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Mutant Pop Poppy and alternative sounds 10pm £2
BLACK LION Dubrockerslive Ska, punk, trip hop and reggae 8.30 £free BRIGHTON CENTRE Holiday On Ice 2011: Energia Details tbc CASABLANCA Live Band Club night with live band 11pm £2/1/free COALITION The Vaselines Make sure you buy a ticket, it’ll be hard to slip in round the back without being roughed up 7.30pm £12 DRUID’S ARMS The Druid’s Presents DJs and live music 8.30pm £free DUKE OF BEAUFORT Pubquiz 8pm £1 ENVY Get Some Commercial chart choons Time tbc £2 FIDDLER’S ELBOW Fiddler’s Live Lounge Live jazz and folk music 8.30pm £free FISHBOWL Residents Association DJ Will Sumsuch plays hip hop, funk and world beats 10pm £free HECTOR’S HOUSE Club Fandango Live music 8pm £5 HONEY The One - Real VIP Hip hop and dubstep designed to make you feel special 11pm £1/free HOPE Tonight We Fly, Harry & His Heartless Sleeve Live music 8pm £tbc KOMEDIA DOWN Comic Boom Stand-up comedy 8pm £8.50/6.50 KOMEDIA STUDIO Spirit Of Gravity: Glyphs, Cosmonaut Transfer, Organ Grinders Monkey, Broken Star Vs I’m Dr Buoyan Mind-dishevelling experiments in electronica 8.30pm £5 KOMEDIA UP Vive La France Launch Party Part of the Melting Vinyl mini-festival (see feature for details) 7.30pm £tbc LIFE Shameless Half a century of musical highlights and lowpoints 11pm £1 OCEANA Pound Party R&B and dance tunes from the bargain bin 9pm £6/5/free PLATEAU Vive La France Afterparty: Melanie Pain DJ set - part of the Melting Vinyl mini-festival (see feature for details) Details tbc PRINCE ALBERT Sea Monsters: Drum Eyes, Cold Pumas, Speak Galactic Part of the One Inch Badge mini-
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festival (see feature for details) 8pm £tbc ROCK INN Quiz Night 8.30pm £1 SUGAQUBE Xtravaganza: Tom Vagabondo, Vit, M4J0 House DJs Time tbc £free THEATRE ROYAL Moscow City Ballet: The Sleeping Beauty Time tbc £32-27 THOMAS KEMP Unplugged Sessions Live acoustic music 9pm £free VOLKS Upanddown Electro techno club night Details tbc WEST HILL TAVERN Open Mic 8pm £free
friday 28th
ABOVE AUDIO Friday Night Bar Sessions Local DJs Time tbc £free
AUDIO Battlejam: JFB, Ed Solo Freestyling and turntables
11pm £tbc
BASEMENT Vive La France: KKC Orchestra, Fredy Massamaba Hip hop and world music - part of the Melting Vinyl mini-festival (see feature for details) 8pm £tbc BELUSHI’S BAR Muy Loco Pop and house DJs 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Abandoned Rock and metal night 10pm £3/2 BLACK LION Attic Monkeys Hey, check out my record collection! 8.30pm £free BRIGHTON CENTRE Holiday On Ice 2011: Energia Details tbc CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Sleazy Listening: DJ Peter Von Sleaze Sleazy, like getting drooled on by a big biker. Did I say ‘like’? 9pm £free CASABLANCA Live Funk Band 10pm £5 CHEQUERS Dr Bluegrass & The Illbilly Eight Brighton’s busiest bluegrass buskers do an intimate acoustic set Details tbc DIGITAL Stonelove Indie rock&roll club 11pm £4/3 DUKE OF BEAUFORT DJ Night Rockabilly, ska and soul 8pm £free FISHBOWL LateNite Lounging: DJ Martin Lodge, Will Sumsuch, Tim Mercer If your house was this deep it would need therapy 9pm £free FORTUNE OF WAR Shakehandsletparty DJ night Details tbc FUNKYFISH The Funkyfish Club Soul, funk, jazz, Motown - 60s, 70s and 80s 10pm £6/3.50 GLOBE Eclectic Chair: DJ Lamp A real buzz 9pm £free HONEY I Love R&B Juicy house with a twist of hip hop 10.30pm £6/5/free HOPE Vive La France: Anoraak, Kim, Kid Bombardos, John D’range DJ Indie bands - part of the Melting Vinyl minifestival (see feature for details) 8pm £tbc KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club Stand-up comedy 7.30pm £14.50/11.50 KOMEDIA STUDIO Brighton Jazz Club: Jim Mullen’s Organ Trio With Stan Sulzmann Live jazz 8pm £12/10 KOMEDIA UP Justin Currie Scottish singer songwriter as seen in Del Amitri 7.30pm £17.50 OCEANA The World In One Night With seven themed rooms you should find one you like 8pm £6/5/free PLATEAU Vive La France Afterparty: JD DJ set - part of the Melting Vinyl mini-festival (see feature for details) Time tbc £free PRINCE ALBERT Sea Monsters: Pope Joan, Nullifier, Illness, Hind Ear Part of the One Inch Badge mini-festival (see feature for details) 8pm £tbc
SMUGGLERS Bust It! DJ tunes 9pm £free SUGAQUBE Classics & Anthems Big house tunes from DJ Cheets Time tbc £free THEATRE ROYAL Moscow City Ballet: Swan Lake Time tbc £32-27 THREE & TEN Rabbit In The Headlights Stand up comedy hosted by Laura Mugridge 8pm £6/5; DJ NoMark Where’s Mark gone? (downstairs) 10pm £free VOLKS Erisian Electro techno club night Details tbc WEST HILL TAVERN Brains Eclectic mish-mash from Superheroes of BMX 9pm £free
saturday 29th
ABOVE AUDIO Warehouse Funk and rare soul from DJ Mex 10pm £5/free AUDIO Warehouse: Russ Chimes House and techno club night 11pm £5/free BELUSHI’S BAR Unplugged Live acoustic music 9pm £free
BELUSHI’S BELOW Good Times Remember them? Maybe the retro tunes will jog your memory 9pm £5 BLACK LION Burnt Toast Radio Reverb DJ brings out the filth in funk 9pm £free BRIGHTON CENTRE Holiday On Ice 2011: Energia Details tbc BRUNSWICK Gypsy Swing Night A night of swinging gypsy 8pm £5 CASABLANCA Funky Fiesta Club night with live band 10pm £7 COWLEY CLUB Hunt Sab Benefit Gig 9pm £donation DRUID’S ARMS DJ NoMark Seriously, where is Mark? 10pm £free DUKE OF BEAUFORT DJ Night Rockabilly, ska and soul 8pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Delicatessen, Chapelier Fou Part of the Melting Vinyl mini-festival (see feature for details) 11pm £7/6 FIDDLER’S ELBOW SuperJam Funk, hip hop and disco records 9pm £free FISHBOWL Daddy Marcus Soul and funk DJ 9pm £free FORTUNE OF WAR Roo, Flevans Tru Thoughts DJs Details tbc FUNKYFISH The Funkyfish Club Soul, funk, jazz, Motown - 60s, 70s and 80s 10pm £6/3.50 GLOBE BlackLodge Boogie disco DJs 9pm £free HAMPTON iLike iPod battles 9pm £free HECTOR’S HOUSE The Free For All A full house of alternative and indie bands 8.30pm £free HONEY Hed Kandi Uplifting disco and house 11pm £10/5 HOPE Vive La France: Housse De Racket, The Woo! Woorths, Curry And Coco Indie electro - part of the Melting Vinyl mini-festival (see feature for details) 7.30pm £6/5 HYDRANT Tropical Underground Latin funk night 9pm £free KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club Stand-up comedy 7.30pm/10.30pm £17.50/15.50 KOMEDIA STUDIO Da Doo Ron Ron: Beatles (Female) Cover Versions Special Club night with a fixation on girl groups turns its attention to the fab four 11pm £6/5 OCEANA Monthly Allnighter Chunky dance, funky R&B 8pm £8/free PAV TAV Snap Cackle & Britpop “Weren’t the 90s great?” snarled Luke Haines of the Auteurs before they were even over. Dynamite Sal puts his verdict to the test 11am £3 PLATEAU Vive La France Afterparty Part of the Melting Vinyl mini-festival (see feature for details) Time tbc £free PRINCE ALBERT Sea Monsters: Mary Hampton, Curly Hair, Jane Bartholomew, Robert Stillman Part of the One Inch Badge mini-festival (see feature for details) 8pm £tbc SMUGGLERS Magnetic Club tunes from DJs Outbreak and Sam Cadman 9pm £free SUGAQUBE Simply House Upfront house tunes Time tbc £free THEATRE ROYAL Moscow City Ballet: The Sleeping Beauty Time tbc £32-27 THREE & TEN Off The Cuff Comedy invented in real-time (upstairs) 8pm £8/6; Matt Barker Magnificently turned out DJ with impeccable hair (downstairs) 10pm £free WEST HILL TAVERN Duck Shoot DJs play alt grooves and lost classics 9pm £free
sunday 30th
ABOVE AUDIO Sunday Service Live bands Time tbc £free
BELUSHI’S BAR Now That’s What I Call A Party Part 1 DJ Sean plays everything from a-ha to GaGa - now that’s what I call eclectic 9pm £free BLACK LION Dubrockerslive Reggae, ska and dub DJs 9pm £free BRIGHTON CENTRE Holiday On Ice 2011: Energia Details tbc DOME Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra An all-English programme featuring works by Walton and Vaughan Williams, with a pre-show talk 1.45pm/2.45pm £9-32 DRUID’S ARMS The Downsound Sessions Trip hop and dub DJs 9pm £free FIDDLER’S ELBOW Sham-Rock Open Mic 8.30pm £free FISHBOWL Recovery? Chilled reggae DJing from Asbest The Moor King and guests 9pm £free GLOBE Hot Tip Hi Fi DJs playing early reggae and rocksteady 9pm £free HAMPTON Live Music Sundays Live music 8.30pm £free HONEY Afrodisiac If your house was this sexy you’d probably get through a lot of pollyfilla 10.30pm £3.50/2 HOPE Summer 3 Live acts 8pm £3/2 KING & QUEEN Quiz Night 7.30pm £1 KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club Stand-up comedy 8pm £11.50/6.50
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KOMEDIA UP Vinylman Record Fair Stop playing those dirty mp3s and seek out the black circles of sound 9am £1 MARWOOD CAFE Brighton Filmmakers Coalition Meeting Throw ideas about and get involved in local projects 6pm £free PRINCE ALBERT Sea Monsters: Stuart Warwick, Us Baby Bear Bones, Birdengine Part of the One Inch Badge mini-festival (see feature for details) 8pm £tbc SUGAQUBE All Night Long Mr Ray and DJ Psycho spin some funk and soul Time tbc £free THREE & TEN Strung Out Live acoustic music 8pm £free
monday 31st
ABOVE AUDIO Twilight Lounge Live funk, soul and jazz Time tbc £free
ANCIENT MARINER Quiz Night 8pm £1 BELUSHI’S BAR Now That’s What I Call A Party Part 2 Pop music 9pm £free BLACK LION The Lion, The Wit And The Frontal Lobe
New pub quiz 8pm £1 BRUNSWICK Open Mic Night 8pm £free CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK PMSL Comedy Stand up comedy 9pm £6 HECTOR’S HOUSE Dad Disko Student cheese Time tbc £free HONEY Playground Cheesy chart choons and bouncy castles 11pm £tbc HYDRANT This Familiar Smile Live music 9pm £free KING & QUEEN 80s Club Tropicana DJs play 1980s party music 8pm £free OCEANA Vodka Heaven Where Russian alcoholics go to dance to R&B 9pm £5/4/3/free SIGNALMAN Signalman Pub Quiz 8pm £1 THOMAS KEMP Quiz Night Time tbc £1 VOLKS Strictly Reggae Dancehall, roots, revival 11pm £5/4.50
Exhibitions
A&E GALLERY Another Castle: Illustrations From A Lifetime Spent Gaming A homage to video games from local and London artists 4-19 Dec £free BELL PUB The Christmas Arts Open House: Gary Jones, Funky Red Dog, Limbo Street and pop art by local artists Until 31 Dec £free BRIGHTON MUSEUM & GALLERY Capturing Colour: Film, Invention And Wonder Exhibition telling the story of the inventors and artists who strived to recreate the world in glorious colour 4 Dec - 20 March £free CAPERS CAFE Mike Addison Photography exhibition Until 1 Jan £free CRANE KALMAN Christmas Exhibition The highlight of this show is Tim’s Flach photos of extremely weird dogs Until 31 Dec £tbc GLOUCESTER RD Pay & Display: Modern Toss, Gemma Booth, Sharon Elphick, Maria Rivans, Kate Jenkins Prints, photography and bits and bobs in a temporary pop-up gallery 3-24 Dec £free HOVE MUSEUM FINE ART GALLERY Picturing Stories A collection of oil paintings on the theme of storytelling Until March £free INK_D Xmas Art Bazaar Festive art-buying 3-24 Dec £tbc OCTOPUS GALLERY Ron Donovan, Ken Taylor, David D’Andrea An international exhibition of poster art Until Jan £free PHOENIX BRIGHTON Diastr Apocalyptic reflections on the world we live in, curated by Phil Cole and Alistair Duncan 2-12 Dec £free; Pigment And Light A light installation by Andrew Gifford with some landscapes by local painters 15-20 Feb £free
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CLIFF RICHARD
six of the best
NOT JUST FOR CHRISTMAS… WORDS BY NICK COQUET, JAMES KENDALL
Within the pantheon of pop, certain names are forever tarred with the festive brush of forced frivolity – hardy annuals whose shopping mall ubiquity over Christmas is like musical waterboarding. But this is to cruelly overlook their other, less seasonal work. So for the uninitiated, here are six artists who, like cute little puppies, are emphatically not just for Christmas.
CLIFF RICHARD ‘Move It’
Despite seemingly owning Christmas music for what felt like an interminable age, there’s plenty of plump meat in Cliff’s early catalogue. Originally billed as the British Elvis in the 50s, Cliff may have lacked the authentic rock’n’roll chops of his trans-Atlantic cohorts, but his neatly homogenised translation of black American attitude was perfect for wary UK audiences. Cliff’s quiff and sneer were wholesome and ultimately unthreatening, but a song like ‘Move It’, a Shadows-backed classic and a genuine UK music mould breaker, more than makes up for ‘Mistletoe & Wine’. (NC)
SLADE ‘Cum On Feel The Noize’
Authors of probably the most famous Christmas record – 1973’s ‘Merry Xmas Everybody’ is a guaranteed life-long pension of riches and cigars lit with £50 notes for all concerned – Slade began that particular year with an absulute belter. ‘Cum On…’ was a lyrical tribute to the band’s matchless live experience, which eschewed the poncing and polish of their glam image for a far heavier take on their misspelled magic. You might only know this one from Oasis’ rather lumpen cover version – if so you need to feel the noize as it was originally intended. (NC)
WIZZARD ‘See My Baby Jive’
Another 1973 perennial (beaten to the top spot by Slade), ‘I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day’ helped define the festive season for a generation. Then another one, and then another one. While we’re sure Roy Wood’s glad of the eternal income, he’d probably be quick to point out that this was far from the only string to his bow. ‘See My Baby Jive’ was Wizzard’s first number one single, hogging the spot for a month with its lush Phil Spector-esque take on glam rock. (NC)
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JONA LEWIE
‘You’ll Always Find Me In The Kitchen At Parties’
While ‘Stop The Cavalry’ is actually one of those Christmas songs you kind of don’t mind hearing year in, year out, it’s nonetheless destined for Jona’s eulogy headline. Which is a shame, as ‘Kitchen…’ is a proper pop classic from 1980, an era when eccentric nonsense was welcomed by the recordbuying public with open arms. Its Polymoog patronage is perhaps less remembered than other synth pop hits of the time, but the good people at Ikea at least recognised its brilliance when choosing the song for this year’s kitchen TV adverts. (NC)
THE POGUES
‘The Old Main Drag’
Fans of Shane McGowan’s Anglo-Irish crew of punk-folkers will be aghast that such a classic band should make this list but the simple fact is that people love ‘Fairytale Of New York’ but imagine they won’t like the Oirish-ness of the band’s other material. Nick Cave will tell you that McGowan is a true poet, and this simple banjo’n’accordion ballad lets the lyric scream. A shocking tale of a teenage runaway pulled into a world of selling handjobs for a fiver, being beaten up by the police and begging for drugs. It’s so harsh it makes ‘Fairytale’ sound like a, er, fairytale. (JK)
THE WAITRESSES ‘I Know What Boys Like’
Of all the record labels to put out a Christmas album, New York no wave imprint ZE had to be pretty low down the list, being better known as the home of Suicide’s Alan Vega and punksaxophonist James Chance. ‘Christmas Wrapping’ is a jolly little slice of new wave fun, and has moved from alt.Christmas to the mainstream but it’s not all The Waitresses did. ‘I Know What Boys Like’ joins the dots between the New York Dolls’ reclaiming rock’n’roll and the lo-fi pop of the C86 genre. (JK)
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