Brighton SOURCE February 2011

BRITISH SEA POWER in OUR ‘take control’ issue plus diY Music, protesting & Art

gigs, clubs, culture & Brighton’s best listings

volume 2. Issue 30 FEBRUARY 2011

esben & The WITCH - see critic, Page 34

take control

Oh God, it’s such a grim time isn’t it?

Wrong, 2011 is gonna be amazing. There seriously hasn’t been a more exciting time to be young and alive for years. People are turning their backs on the old capitalist constants and saying, ‘Bollocks, I’m going to do it myself and I’m going to do it my way.’ British Sea Power dragged their own recording gear into the country, concocting the sounds they wanted; Soft Rocks produced their own records in their own studio and released them themselves; the Handmade Cooperative crafted their own art and even opened their own shop to sell it, sharing the profits fairly; Jonny Reggae set up his own company to help bands avoid major record labels; loads of you decided you’d had enough of a government you didn’t elect implementing policies it’s not mandated for. Yeah, revolution! That might seem a bit polemic, but actually we really believe that things can change. How pissed off are you about Vodaphone and Topshop not paying their taxes (you should be)? The UK Uncut movement might have made your Christmas shopping a bit tricky, but finally we’re talking and shouting about the stuff that affects us. Keep it up, it’s time to take back the power, and that’s what this whole issue of SOURCE is about.

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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, Matt Barker

Contributors

Daz Carnaby, Charlotte Chorley, Zac Colbert, Dani Colyer, Jake Cunningham, Yannik Eilers, Ben Gilbert, Sophie Hadlum, Stuart Huggett, Sean Jordan, Keri Kennedy, Jessica Marshall McHattie, Ben Miller, Adam Peters, The Recommender, Paul Stapleton If you want to contribute to SOURCE email james@brightonsource.co.uk

Editorial Contacts

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Contents

News 4 New In Town Venue Special 6 New In Town 8 Gig Previews 10 Interview: British Sea Power 16 Club Previews 18 Club Review: 13 Monsters 24 Club Review: Friday I’m In Love 26 Interview: Soft Rocks 28 Culture 30 Art: Johnny Hannah: Burning Love 32 Critic 34 Feature: Take The Power Back 36 SOURCE Virgins: Protesting 38 Street Style 40 Street Style Extra 41 Unsung Hero: Jonny Reggae 42 Secret Eater: Earth & Stars 43 In Conversation With: Handmade 44 Listings 46 Six Of The Best: Protest Songs 54

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NEWS

words by Dani Colyer, nick coquet, Lydia Stockbridge

ZINE SCENE

The Brighton Zine Fest is back, celebrating all that’s great about the photostat’n’staples DIY publishing scene.

Saturday 19th will see fans get together at the Cowley Club (10am – 6pm) for collaborative zine making and workshops.

The evening gig at the Cowley will feature zine-making bands, and Sunday’s fair at the Hanover Centre will be a place to spend a couple of quid, swap the fruits of your labour, and drink some more tea with like-minded zinesters.

PINK PAST

Lip Schtick have put together a whole host of events this February to celebrate LGBT History month. Setting up shop at the Marlborough Theatre, as part of the Pink Fringe, performers new and legendary will be taking to the stage; including performance artist Lavinia Co-Op, an original member of comedy troupe the Bloolips, rising spoken word star Nick Field, NY drag king Diane Torr reflects on Dusty Springfield and Time Out critic’s choice, intellectual drag queen Timberlina. See pinkfringe.org.uk.

SOWING AND GROWING

Seed-swapping has become a bit of a cult trend with gardening enthusiasts for swapping ‘outlawed’ plants and commercially unavailable fruits, helping strains of lesserknown vegetation to thrive. Hove’s Seedy Sunday community meet-up is turning 10 this month, celebrating with a day of workshops, stalls and talks on biodiversity.

Pick up tips on beekeeping, composting and chat to the seed doctors at hand for some germinating know-how.

Head to Hove Town Hall on Sunday 6th, 10am – 4.30pm.

NIPPON NIGHTS

London’s most authentic Japanese club night is coming to the Hobgoblin on Friday 4th. Hear the likes of Polysics, Mad Capsule Markets, Dir En Grey, with eclectic Tokyo pop act Hibari making their UK live debut – a bit like a softer, even more playful version of DJ Scotch Egg. They’re also bringing along the ultimate photo opportunity, a purikura

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TIMBERLINA

booth. Instead of all cramming into a tiny Photo-Me booth, Japanese teenagers are getting papped in these spacious sticker-slash-photo booths crammed with hundreds of schmaltzy backgrounds of kittens and love hearts – take away a photo to remember.

don’t escape to the bar

The first music festival on the Brighton calendar springs into action over three days in May – yes, The Great Escape is back. The first of over 300 bands playing across 30 venues have been announced, including Friendly Fires, Warpaint, Katy B and many more. Early bird tickets are available for just £35 until Tuesday 15th February from www. escapegreat.com or local outlets Resident and Rounder. Some shows, including Friendly Fires, are at The Dome, requiring a £6 wristband top-up – but it’s still big music for small money.

FRANCLASSIC COIN IT IN

Once again proving that Brighton’s got talent, funky acoustic trio FranClassic have won the revered Open Mic UK 2010 competition, beating 5,000 other entrants to claim the top spot at London’s indigO2.

The likely lads as overall winners have it made, with a record contract and professional management from Future Music Management, a UK tour, £15,000 towards a single release, national press coverage and a complete repackaging of their ‘look’. Expect to see a lot of these guys.

can it be? DAMO’S DOWN

New night Yeah Yeah Industrial Estate at the Green Door store is the most densely cultural event we’ve seen listed in ages. Cult music figure Damo Suzuki, of the legendary krautrock band Can, is coming to town with the Damo Suzuki Network, together with Brighton ‘sound carriers’ AK/DK and VJs Metaluna in what will be a live, totally improvised set.

Loads of other offbeat arty stuff will be taking place at the opening on Friday 11th – sound installations, film screenings and interviews.

FESTS GOING GOOD

No financial setbacks in sight for these homegrown festivals: Playgroup is rounding up talent and volunteers for their three-day event at their now trademark secret location. They’ll be getting everyone into the spirit for their 150 artist fun-fest at their Concorde 2 launch party on Friday 4th (see Club Previews). Meanwhile, the comparatively serene Meadowlands festival in Lewes will be adding comedy and spoken word tents, curated by London’s Bang Said The Gun troupe.

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green door store

New in Town:

Venue ResuRrection Last summer’s Broken Brighton issue really hit home as we all went into a blind panic when live venue after venue had their doors shut, to the astonished cries of the city’s gig-goers. But you can’t keep a good scene down. It’s 2011, and venues new and renovated are making a comeback. Here’s the good news.

GREEN DOOR STORE

Shakin’ Stevens was always banging on about how it was all happening behind the green door, and it turns out he was right.

One of the most exciting, completely new venues has opened in the arches under the station with a stripped back, industrial, Williamsburg vibe. There’ll be gigs pretty much every night, or you can pop in for a drink. There are loads of club nights too, mainly with no door tax (only Saturdays have a entry cost). There are too many to mention but Dynamite Sal of We Luv Pop fame is starting sassy sister night, Pop Not Pop. Teen Creeps find a perfect home for their new wave synth and electro on the last Friday. The Happiest Place on Earth, meanwhile, may seem an overly confident name for a new club night, but when it’s hosted

by Moshi Moshi offshoot label, Tender Age, it’s a pretty safe bet it probably will be. Every genre’s welcome, as long as it’s good, basically. In a world of social networking OCD, the Green Door introduces the no-hype night TRIIAL, a word-of-mouth band and DJ night harking back to the days when an emerging band’s every utterance wasn’t Twitter-pated. It’s all about putting your trust in the new tastemakers, and seeing the best of the unknown. Metal, jazz and blues are all making a serious weekly showing too.

THE HAUNT

Tucked away next to the Poole Valley coach station, The Haunt is a hip new makeover for a club that hasn’t been on everyone’s radar, KuKu. Championing the new wave of bands that embrace a crossover into all things synth, pop and electronica, their starspangled launch line-up – on Thursday 3rd – serves as a taster for the nights that follow. There’s a heady concoction of cool contemporary artists on the bill, including our favourite Brighton menswear ambassadors, Mirrors, playing live alongside the hotlytipped London pop trio Is Tropical. And that’s just for starters.

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Headlining is a tag-team of the hippest front women around; Romy Madley Croft of the Mercury-winning act The XX, and Kim Ann Foxman from the disco-centric brilliance of Hercules & Love Affair. As Henron and his team are at the controls of The Haunt it makes sense to see legendary 80s night It Is Still 1985 is setting up camp weekly from Saturday 5th. We’re sure you all know how good it is by now, and those who don’t, it’s a mere three pounds entry to find out.

FREEBUTT

The announcement of the reopening of The Freebutt came as a huge surprise. The new-old owners, The Joiners – who ran it before the OIB/Dark Party/Lonely Ghost/et al crew took over – are carrying out the soundproofing as we type. They’re even promising to do away with the troublesome pillar we often found ourselves stuck behind. A new stage, PA and lighting system are also being brought in. The launch party had been pushed back due to some council-related complications at the time of going to print; but we’re keeping them crossed it’ll all be put to rights.

Welcome back old friend.

SESSION

Born out of the ashes of the Engine Room opposite the West Pier, the venue has been transformed from its former days as a punk/grunge grotto. Kitted out in style with a brand new sound system, cloakroom and sophisticated paint job, it’s now aimed at the more discerning clubber. Open every week till 6am; Friday’s r’n’b night is drinks deals galore, Cristal a-flowin’, Saturday is more of a funky house vibe, but Thursdays are reserved for student types so don’t fret, all are welcome.

YARD/ocean rooms

We had high hopes for the Ocean Rooms’ takeover by the Yard; Friday nights’ Under The Volcano had real promise, but alas it seems the once award-winning venue has had the wind taken out of its sails for the moment. It’s up for auction at Christie’s again sometime in the future, so hopefully it’ll see a new lease of life soon.

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NEW IN TOWN

HOLY VESSELS

STRYCHNINE NIGHTS

THE GET DOWN

MODERN TOSS APP

YOUR DISCO NEEDS YOU

NOT FORGOTTEN

ITCHY FEET

First Fridays of the month see The Hope hosting a different kind of DJ night. The Holy Vessels, local purveyors of pastoral Americana, are teaming up with mates in bands to play the sort of music that floats their respective boats, so expect something different to your usual four-to-the-floor DJ sets when The Agitator and The Maccabees take to the decks in coming months.

Everyone’s favourite foul-mouthed Brighton illustrators, Modern Toss, are bringing Mr Tourette, the home clubber and friends to our screens. The lads have been busy compiling The Daily Toss for your i-Whatever. For £1.19, get four seasons’ worth of the cartoon that’ll have you ‘shitting bricks of laughter’ every morning, yeah?

Good ideas for club nights are few and far between but this is the best we’ve heard for a while. Savannah’s Sam Moffett is reviving some of Brighton’s classic house nights for special one-offs, including Tonka, Coco and Shake Yer Wig. Original decor and DJs are promised, to help take you back to your clubbing past.

It start on Friday 11th at the Brighton Ballroom.

PHWOAR!

Phwoar! aims to bring single, creative and all manner of interesting types together for a night of high-brow activities and possible partnering. Learn the lindy hop, or admire the artwork on the walls at the Basement on Saturday 12th. It doesn’t matter who or what you’re into, as long as you’re stylishly single.

THE ROSE HILL TAVERN

The quaintly named Rose Hill Tavern off London road is under new management, bringing it up to speed with an eclectic roster of live music events as well as comedy and Monday’s pub quiz nights. Real ales, Sunday roasts and billiards are also on the agenda for traditionalist pub-goers, too.

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“A night for drinking and dancing, positivity and solid grooves... expect to hear tracks you’ve never heard before.” Heroes of the local DJ scene Matt Insight and Russ Rockwell spin authentic funk, northern soul and rare grooves. Launching Thursday 3rd at the Funky Buddha Lounge with low drink and door prices.

Studio 54 is back, baby. Step out in true opulent 70s style for Brighton Ballroom’s brand new club night launching on Friday 4th. With Spellbound DJs Simon Price and Jon Poole playing from their extensive collections, alongside hostess Cherry Foxxx.

See ultra-camp dance troupes, burlesque beaus and plenty of sparkling retro glitz.

Itchy Feet are bringing their successful and ever-growing oldskool rock’n’roll club night to town. They’re promising vintage tracks of jump blues, ska, soul and all those other genres for a night “devoid of pretension and dedicated to pure, honest fun.”

Coming to the Concorde 2 on Wednesday 23rd.

BUSK STOP

Ex-Freebutt promoter Andy Rossiter has teamed up with one of our favourite tipples, Brugal rum, to promote Brighton talent. 15 local boozers and venues across town will host the carefullypicked selection of bands and fine Brugal cocktails. Any money made in the process goes to the bands. Find more lovely details on drinkinbrighton.co.uk.

FAB FREE FRIDAYS

The Ranelagh blues bar is allowing local indie bands to grace its stage on selected Fridays this year. ‘Fab Free Fridays’ kicks off on Friday 11th with Lewes agitprop popsters The Indelicates, with gigs later this month for dark cabaret duo Bitter Ruin and everyone’s favourite ukulele maniacs, the Bobby McGee’s. As the name suggests, admission is free.

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GIG Previews WORDS BY CHARLOTTE CHORLEY, JAKE CUNNINGHAM, BEN GILBERT, STUART HUGGETT, SEAN JORDAN, KERI KENNEDY, JESSICA MARSHALL MCHATTIE, THE RECOMMENDER

WIRE

Komedia Tues 1st

Watford Art College’s enduring gift to the world, Wire’s on/off career has ranged from tongue-in-cheek punk, proto hardcore, performance art and glowing electronic pop. Reduced to a trio following the departure of founding guitarist Bruce Gilbert (Matt Simms of gentle indie folk It Hugs Back is Wire’s surprise current fourth limb), the group’s accessibly abrasive new album ‘Red Barked Tree’ shows the unique, cryptic belligerence of songwriters Colin Newman and Graham Lewis has remained intact. (SH)

ILIKETRAINS

Hope Weds 2nd

Guitar music is dead. Put down that plank of composite materials, young man, and plug your brain into an iPad. Actually, scratch that, because if there is a band still extolling the virtues of this seemingly disintegrating tradition it’s this Leeds four-piece.

Sufficiently twisted to command mythical, if low budget, attention, debut album ‘Elegies To Lessons Learnt’ was a harrowing history lesson while new collection ‘He Who Saw The Deep’ is more fiction but no less power. British rock’s very own Mallard locomotive has arrived. (BG)

WHAT’S YOUR VICE? • Hector’s House Thurs 3rd

Local girl-fronted alt.rock band What’s Your Vice? headline this female-fronted night at Hector’s, exhibiting their tight, trashy, rhythmic guitars, throbbing basslines, and punky, vacuous lyrics.

Support comes from the talented Iris the Fool, who are also a Brighton-based, female-led four-piece, this time with catchy pop songs and soaring vocals; and Londoners Indigo Earth, a multitalented group with earthy, bohemian sounds and meandering tales to tell. Definitely worth heading down for, especially as it’s free entry. (JMM)

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freelance whales

A DAY TO REMEMBER Dome Fri 4th

Boasting the ability to blur punk pop with brutal hardcore beats and push the boundaries of musical evolution to its limits, A Day To Remember ignite the demands of a generation unsatisfied with the conventional, identikit bands forced at them. Bred from the creative depths of Florida, this fivesome have overtaken stereos and mosh pits globally and produced their latest album, ‘Homesick’ – their heaviest and catchiest yet. Sending shudders through the underground with their indefinable spark of something truly unique, these guys are set to rattle your bones. (CC)

JIMMY WEBB

St Mary’s Church Fri 4th

“I am a lineman for the county/And I drive the main road.

Searching in the sun for another overload/I hear you singing in the wire/I can hear you through the whine/And the Wichita Lineman, is still on the line.” Words that have left SOURCE and its editor starry-eyed on many occasions and if there ever was a greater gig recommendation than Glen Campbell’s 1968 pop masterpiece, written by tonight’s esteemed guest star, we have yet to hear it. (BG)

FREELANCE WHALES Audio Sat 5th

This New York five-piece play the intimate surroundings of Audio as they arrive in the UK for a handful of dates. Their album ‘Weathervanes’, arrived last summer and drew comparisons from Death Cab For Cutie to Arcade Fire to Sufjan Stevens, packed as it is with tune after tune of charming indie pop. Expect layered, atmospheric pop songs that you can hum along to and a multitude of instruments on show, some of which you’ve never heard of (what’s a waterphone?). (TR)

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white lies

WHITE LIES

Corn Exchange Mon 7th

The resurgence of 80s techno is clearly far from over, making the pop music scene feel sometimes like a long night of cover bands. If this sounds cynical, it is, and has led to constant comparisons for White Lies with older bands. Harry McVeigh’s voice has been compared to Ian Curtis, but White Lies refer to Talking Heads as a bigger influence, mixing haunting vocals with an upbeat sound. Judge them on their own merits, just don’t, like us, mention Joy Division. (SJ)

LITTLE COMETS

Audio Weds 9th

At best you could stand this band on the shelf alongside The Maccabees or Foals, but at worst you could hide them amongst The Hoosiers or The Feeling. In fairness there’s a lot of melody and charm in their finest moments, culminating in their fantastic tune, ‘Isles’, which brings out the best from the only working class band in math rock. They fell out with major label Columbia, so we will see if the Tyneside four-piece have flourished under independence as they release their debut album. (TR)

MAN LIKE ME

Jam Weds 9th

You already know this band, although you may not be aware of it. They’re the dancing duo that flirt around the kitchen sets of the recent Ikea advert, to the 80s Jona Lewie tune, ‘You’ll Always Find Me At The Kitchen At Parties’. We should dislike them, with this commercial bit of bending over alongside their usual comedy lyrics, but alas we promise their live set will win you over. They jam like they don’t care, encourage infectious dance routines and are set to inherit the Madness crown. (TR)

THE SATURDAYS Brighton Centre Tues 15th

The new Girls Aloud? Yeah, right. While the name speaks of a 24-hour rubdown in the pop pleasuredome with no work in

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the morning, it feels more like a drab midweek locked in a coal shed.

Cheryl and co have entered the pantheon of animated pop icons, boasting a handful of chart bangers seemingly recorded in space.

But Frankie and whatever the other ones are called have less good songs than Babylon Zoo. Tellingly, tonight’s gig takes place on a Tuesday. (BG)

DEAN WAREHAM Komedia Weds 16th

Dean Wareham quit stratospheric Massachusetts trio Galaxie 500 at the start of the 90s, but has been unafraid of playing the occasional old song of theirs in his shows over the years. Tonight he plays a full set of Galaxie 500 classics, performed with his partner Britta Phillips (once of shoegazers The Belltower, and, wonderfully, the singing voice of kids’ cartoon Jem) and band. A smattering of covers and Dean & Britta’s own Luna tunes are more than likely. (SH)

THE GO! TEAM •

Concorde 2 Weds 16th

The Go! Team refuse to play by the conventional rules of punctuation, and this is only the start of their rebellious style. Bursting out of Brighton in 2004, Ian Parton’s group mixes so many genres it’s hard to keep up; electro, soul, hip hop, even bhangra and folk. What comes out of this experiment is something altogether fresh and uplifting. See them live at the Concorde, just leave your old rules at the door. (SJ)

NME AWARDS TOUR Dome Thurs 17th

This year’s NME awards tour boasts a line-up that will definitely be shaking the multi-coloured tents come the summer. Starting proceedings are the hotly-tipped Vaccines who are definitely going to be one to watch this year. They’re followed by one of the best bands to come out of 2010, the un-genre-ably excellent Everything Everything. Dubstep super group Magnetic Man take to the stage next, headliners Crystal Castles will certainly provide a suitably chaotic finale. (JC)

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TWIN SHADOW

gig previews Audio Thurs 17th

It’s perhaps a good sign that bookings for this artist already mean he’s almost constantly touring between now and May. We even noticed a show already scheduled for September. Blogs such as Stereogum adore him and so now does everyone else who comes into contact with his sparkling debut album, ‘Forget’, released late last year. It feels like David Bowie doing Echo & The Bunnymen covers, but with one foot firmly in this new decade. If you go to gigs to discover new artists then go to this. (TR)

GLASSER

Hope Weds 23rd

On last year’s debut ‘Ring’, Glasser’s Cameron Mesirow constructed a languid album of percussive balladry from her multi-layered vocal loops and broad palette of hypnotic instrumentation. ‘Ring’ has been a sleeper hit since its autumn release, but we’ve had to wait several months for Glasser to make it back across the Atlantic for this month’s short string of dates. Mesirow can handle solo Glasser performances impressively (see YouTube), although she’s due to perform with a full band tonight. (SH)

GRUFF RHYS

St Georges Church Sat 26th

Super Furry Animals front man Gruff Rhys makes a welcome return to Brighton, promoting his third solo LP ‘Hotel Shampoo’.

The title was inspired by his extensive collection of mini shampoo bottles acquired from hotels whilst touring the world. He’ll be supported and backed by Welsh post surf outfit Y Niwl (The Fog).

Expect kaleidoscopic, psychedelic melodies in the perfect acoustic setting of St George’s Church. Grab yourself a beer and pull up a pew. (KK)

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A MIRRORS & SOURCE OFFERING WORDS BY NICK COQUET

Well, it’s only right really. We’ve been all over Mirrors since they first burst onto the Brighton circuit, we gave them their debut cover almost a year ago and they scooped our office band of the year title for 2010. So when it came to someone co-promoting the launch night for their frankly ace debut album ‘Lights And Offerings’ (see our review on page 34), we kicked the competition in the shins and elbowed our way into the plans.

The album launch is on Thursday 24th from 8-11pm at the Green Door Store, under the arches on Trafalgar Street. It’s free to get in, Mirrors will be performing a live album preview PA and we’ll be spinning some suitable tunes. This will most likely be your last chance to see the band in such an intimate subterranean setting, so grab it while you can.

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British Sea Power aWords decade in and our local heroes hit the zeitgeist and the dancehall by stuart huggett, photo by james Kendall & Matt Barker

SOURCE is in the Heart & Hand with half of British Sea Power and singer ‘Yan’ Scott Wilkinson is trying to debunk some of the myths that cling to the adopted Brighton band.

“I think once something’s been written down, people don’t take into account that it was 10 years ago.

They’re not very accurate, music journalists”, he considers, with a glance at the Dictaphone.

“Yeah,” says guitarist Martin Noble backing him up. “In 2002 we wore the same jackets for about a year, and it just lasts. It’ll take a while for people to realise. It’s like you still get photos of just the four of us, or even with Eamon [Hamilton, now of Brakes] in the band.”

British Sea Power today, the line-up responsible for this year’s triumphant album ‘Valhalla Dancehall’ – and its predecessor, their

imaginative soundtrack to Robert Flaherty’s semi-fictional 1934 documentary ‘Man Of Aran’ – is a six-piece, with keyboardist Phil Sumner and viola player Abi Fry brought into the fold as full band members.

Sitting in the pub this afternoon, Yan, Noble and Phil are drinking slowly (Noble: “I would’ve got you one, Phil, but I haven’t got any money. I’ve only got 50 pence.” Phil: “We need to sell some records, eh?”) but are in good spirits. The trio only aired their frustrations with their public image after SOURCE asked if this was the meaning behind the lyric ‘It’s militant, not military’ on ‘Valhalla Dancehall’’s thundering opening track ‘Who’s In Control’.

“Sort of,” says Yan. “But it’s also saying that people should just pay a bit more attention to detail in general, really. And partly it’s

“With our recording budget we bought a load of microphones and rented a farmhouse for 18 months”

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you see. They can tell you everything that’s going to happen.”

BSP have been with Rough Trade Records for a decade, and the label seems to give them a pretty free hand in organising their affairs. Noble has just finished booking a series of support acts for this month’s UK tour, including Bo Ningen, Teeth Of The Sea and Dutch Uncles. Such independence is rare, even in the indie scene, and the band is aware they wouldn’t receive the same amount of trust if they were starting out today.

“There’s so much riding on it, isn’t there?” says Phil. “If you’re a band now, you get signed, you cost a certain amount of money for a label, and they’re probably going to want to think twice before letting you go off and do what you want to do.”

“And [Rough Trade boss] Geoff Travis is no Alan Sugar,” adds Noble. “But this time round he trusted us to record ourselves.

With our recording budget we bought a load of microphones and rented a farmhouse in Selmeston for 18 months. If we’d have turned up with a load of crap, we’d have spent all the money and that would have been it.”

Yan took up residence in the farmhouse for the duration of the recordings, blending so naturally with the Sussex countryside that he earned a new nickname – Stig Of The Dump. “Sometimes the doors would be locked and you’d have to wake him up by knocking and wait for him to come down,” says Noble. “Looking an absolute state with his hair all over. Abi and Neil [‘Hamilton’ Wilkinson, Yan’s bassist brother] lived there all the time they were down so he’d have some companions.”

Hamilton and Abi have swapped Brighton life for the peace of the Scottish isles, but the miles separating the bandmates haven’t caused any problems. “Neil works on his songs up in Skye”, explains Phil. “He spends quite a lot of time up there doing that, then brings them down, and Woody will do the drums to them.

It’s worked out fine really.”

Later this year BSP hope to start a Valhalla Dancehall club night in Brighton. “We’d have to commit to once a month for six months,” says Noble. “Maybe in summer when we’re doing festivals we could have a night in the week. We might play at one or two, but we might do something alternative to British Sea Power. Get all sorts of different things in, different DJs. M.I.A would be good! But we’re probably setting our sights a bit high.”

Of course, BSP have been here before, with their legendary Club Sea Power shows a decade ago. “That was Jeff ‘Disastronaut’ Reed’s idea,” says Noble. “He said we could do our own club at The Lift [now The Hope], but we shouldn’t play any other shows.

I think he turned down us supporting The Strokes at The Lift as well, because he only wanted us to play once a month. But it was good, it gave us a month to buy clothes, buy plastic owls and stuff like that, get all these branches, a month to dream before the actual shows.”

At that time the band issued their debut single ‘Fear Of Drowning’ on their own Golden Chariot label but, according to Noble, “didn’t have any aspirations” to be part of Brighton’s DIY scene.

However, as they reminisce with SOURCE, it occurs to Noble that maybe the time is right to revive the label. “Rough Trade are a good rhyme.” letting us do our own CD to take on tour with us,” he says, Many listeners have picked up on the prescience of the song’s indicating a CD-R he’s brought along. “It’s got alternative versions hookline, ‘Sometimes I wish protesting was sexy on a Saturday of album tracks, different mixes, demos and remixes. I guess it night’ in the light of the last couple of months’ student protests. could be on Golden Chariot – our second release. That’d be Phil’s noticed it: “I think there’s been a couple of reviews with good, wouldn’t it?” people going, ‘Oh yeah...’”

DIY to BSP may just involve Harveys-fuelled debates about “‘...Cashing in!’” finishes Yan. “They don’t realise how long it building a wardrobe as a stage set, but their banter reveals the takes to record stuff. It was written like 18 months ago. It’s quite natural independence that’s served them so well over the past 10 a soothsaying song that one, isn’t it? Like the whole library years. protest thing.”

“You can have a cigarette in the The song also contains the wardrobe onstage, Phil,” says Noble. entertaining lines, ‘I’m a big “Now you’re interested, aren’t you?” fan of the local library. I just laughs Yan. ‘It’s hard to find anywhere read a book, but that’s to smoke at gigs without going mad.”

ALBUM: ‘Valhalla Dancehall’ out now on Rough Trade another story’.

“I don’t think it’s become more LIVE: Komedia, Weds 23rd/Thurs 24th Feb “I’m always ahead of the difficult,” says Phil. “Sometimes you WEB: www.britishseapower.co.uk game,” Yan smiles. “That’s just do it. Just break the rules.” my science fiction interest,

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CLUB PREVIEWS Words By MATT BARKER, DAZ CARNABY, ZAC COLBERT, JAMES KENDALL, JESSICA MARSHALL MCHATTIE

THE REFLEX

Funky Buddha Saturdays

As you might tell from the Duran Duran-referencing name, The Reflex is a new 80s night promising not only the best of that genre but also the worst too. That might sound like a strange idea until you have a few drinks inside you, but drunken singalongs are pretty much guaranteed. If you fancy giving it a go, the Buddha are offering one person guestlist for them and ten mates, plus two bottles of Prosecco and two crates of beer to get the party started.

A runner up will get free entry for them and five mates. Just email competition@brightonsource.co.uk for a killer night out, completely gratis. (JK)

BACK TO BASICS The Haunt Fri 4th

There’s no snow now so Club Foundation, who had to pull their last night because of bad weather, can return with a massive old-school line-up; Funky Flirt, Innovation, Shockin, Trix and Loops plus a gaggle of MCs from the drum’n’bass phonebook; Det, Fearless, Deeza, and Starz.

Tonight is held in a brand new venue – The Haunt (see News Special) and it boasts a blistering new sound system, which will leave your ears humming for days. (DC)

NUMBERS

Life Fri 4th

Life’s Friday night parties are becoming a fixture in our clubbing calendar, consistently booking the freshest acts redefining dance music. This evening Glaswegian collective Numbers are in town – a melting pot of a crew combining record labels, DJs and club nights and garnering props from the Guardian, Fabriclive and Dazed & Confused.

Tonight two of their hottest signings top the bill; Jackmaster who won DJ Mag’s ‘Best Breakthrough DJ’ award in 2010 and Deadboy, whose heartbreak garage will have you cutting some teary-eyed shapes on the dancefloor. (ZC)

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TENSNAKE

Audio Fri 4th

Strange to say it, but Tensnake is probably clubbing’s next superstar producer. His was the biggest underground club track of last year (the disco house anthem ‘Coma Cat’), and the slew of piano/synth disco coming in its wake can only complete the inevitable bump into mainstream acclaim. For Tensnake’s live set, DJ support comes from Brighton’s own Maxxi Soundsystem, whose star is rising faster than the express elevator at Studio 54. Their huge re-edit of Alexander O’Neal’s ‘Criticize’ is being fêted by everyone, up to and including Annie Mac on Radio 1. (MB)

PLAYGROUP FESTIVAL LAUNCH • Concorde 2 Fri 4th

One of the best things about last year was that, despite the fallout from Beachdown, Playgroup managed to get a grassroots festival going.

After the success of 2010 it’s no surprise to see it back for 2011 – and this party celebrates the fact that the £55 early bird tickets are on sale.

Fifteen-piece Klezmer and Balkan beat orchestra, the Trans-Siberian March Band, are the highlight of the launch party and they’re joined by Tru Thoughts’ Benji Boko and a whole load of other talent. (JK)

FWD>>

Concorde 2 Sat 5th

London’s Rinse FM have been the go-to grassroots station for grime, dubstep et al for 16 years. Their sell-out club night FWD>> is coming to Brighton, with pioneering stalwarts Plastician, Joker, Roska, D Double E and Jamie George all coming down to shake us up. If you have more than a passing interest in dubstep, you’ll already have heard of these artists, and if you haven’t, you probably won’t be interested in going even if we give the most glowing of previews. So instead, we’re going to give you some lesser known facts about three of the biggest stars in the dubstep constellation: Joker’s favourite colour is purple, Plastician is a huge fan of greasy chicken, and Roska has a stellar repertoire of knock, knock jokes. Only two of those are true, but this definitely is: this night will be huge. (JMM)

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HOSPITALITY

Digital Sat 12th

2010 was a year of chart success for Danny Byrd with tunes like ‘Sweet Harmony’ and ‘Ill Behaviour’ pushing his revival of classic rave tracks to commercial acknowledgment. Also topping the all-star line-up are the Austrian duo Camo & Krooked, two of the most exciting new signings on the Liquid label, mashing up dancefloors with original productions like the soulful ‘Turn Up The Music’ and the rough, rugged and raw ‘Climax’. There’s a long list of supports including Marcus Intalex, NU:Tone and Callous. (ZC)

SHOGUN AUDIO •

Audio Fri 18th

Shogun Audio has an exciting showcase of its emerging talent tonight. Freshest are duo The Prototypes, whose anthemic roller ‘Cascade’ demonstrated a big room sound with infectious vocals and earned them support from Radio1’s nighttime posse – Zane Lowe, Annie Mac and Annie Nightingale. Another name from the toted new breed of producers are Spectrasoul who have managed to distinguish themselves from a saturated drum’n’bass scene with their deeply progressive tracks like ‘Shades of Blue’ and ‘Poseidon’. (ZC)

FRAGMENT

Volks Fri 18th

Fusing jungle, drum’n’bass and even some dubstep, this is a night that has been bubbling away for quite some time now. But this evening marks Fragment’s triple birthday celebration so to guarantee the party goes with a bang the Undiluted Recordings’ owner, Brockie, is coming to town. The Kool FM founder and jungle legend has been producing big basslines since 1988.

Throw in Zen, Innovation, Deeza, Starz and Robott means that the Volks is going to go off. (DC)

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SIMON BAKER

Life Fri 18th

Another new night and a very promising one at that. Moody Disco, despite the name, is all about quality underground house and techno. The first guest is 2020 Vision and Crosstown Rebels artist Simon Baker, promoting his forthcoming ‘Traces’ LP, a set of driving tech house, reportedly a touch more delicate than his recent singles. He’s joined by fellow Space Ibiza DJs Dalton & Trench, plus a back room hosted by Zoon. An impressive line-up straight out of the gates. (JK)

DARK SKY & SHORTSTUFF

Jam Sat 19th

Our favourite production trio Dark Sky return to Brighton, bringing their unique musical mixing pot of garage, dubstep and futuristic 2 step. Very much in demand in the remix world (it takes something special to appeal to both The xx and Kelis), too many chefs do not spoil the broth in this kitchen. They’re playing alongside Shortstuff, who if you’re a bass fan will need no introduction: he’s prolific on the dubstep scene, and his clunky pared-down beats have won over fans of many other genres too. (JMM)

EROL ALKAN

Digital Sat 19th

In 1997 he set the precedent for London’s dance music scene with his club night Trash, more recently he helped save BBC 6 Music with eclectic sets that mixed easy listening vibes with forwardthinking electronica, and he’s a Chilly Gonzalez champion, releasing Chilly’s ‘Never Stop’ on his Phantasy Sound label. He is of course Erol Alkan, a DJ so deft he could turn country and western into an anthemic club banger via his natural gift for sonic alchemy. (ZC)

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JULIO BASHMORE Green Door Store Sat 19th

The name somehow evokes nostalgic thoughts of Hawaiian shirts, Euro pop and medallions on hairy chests, but in fact Julio Bashmore is a ginger chap named Matt from Bristol, who makes wonderfully relaxed house music. Capable of making house cool even in this dubstep era, Julio’s understated, stripped-back take on the genre deserves recognition for being uplifting, light, and above all unpredictable, in a genre where all too many can’t manage it. (JMM)

JAMIE WOON

Audio Tues 22nd

Having recently come fourth in the BBC’s Sound Of 2011 Jamie Woon’s music blends electronica and soul to produce stripped down, breathy tunes like ‘Wayfaring Stranger’ and ‘Night Air’ which have already gained massive crossover success with dubstep remixes by Burial, Ramadanman and Deadboy. As with any artist who makes the BBC Sound Of 2011 shortlist, this London troubadour is set for big things this year so catching him somewhere more intimate such as Audio will very soon be impossible. (ZC)

VENETIAN SNARES Coalition Thur 24th

Lauded by the late, great John Peel and credited with re-inventing breakcore, Venetian Snares is terrifying to the uninitiated and worshipped by his fans. Flawlessly blending breakcore with glitch, surreal vocals and sounds we can only describe as ‘noise’, the artist otherwise known as Aaron Funk creates confusing, frenetic soundscapes which will cause you to either gaze blankly in confusion or dance like a recently escaped lunatic. We recommend the latter. (JMM)

ROLL DEEP

Concorde 2 Fri 25th

Since its inception in 2002, London’s finest grime collective has seen members come and go, beef eaten and squashed but the three founders remain; Wiley (the UK’s appointed grime minister), Flow Dan and Breeze. Tonight they showcase their first number one single, the 2010 hit ‘Good Times’ with guest vocalist Jodie

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Connor whose hook reels you in and perfectly punctuates the clubby chorus. It’s tunes like this that continue the cartel’s chartfriendly evolution. (ZC)

JAMES BLAKE & JOY ORBISON

Life Fri 25th

The BBC’s Sound Of 2011 poll featured lots of mediocre pop acts with huge marketing budgets, but slipped in there too was the amazing James Blake, the 21-year-old Londoner who has pioneered the current crop of producers who are smashing the urban gutter swing of dubstep into the noir, speccy, plaintive clicks and bleeps of IDM and electronica. Between him and co-headliner Joy Orbison, this line-up is basically the future of bass-based music, in one venue on one night. (MB)

DARKSTAR

Coalition Sat 26th

Filled with passionate bleeps, dark rhythms and whining synths, Darkstar songs sound like an overly emotional, lovesick robot made an album to win back his deserting cyborg girlfriend.

Darkstar often release on Hyperdub Records and much has been made of their ‘hyperdub’ sound – a fusion of 2 step, dubstep, electronica and since 2010, synthetic vocals from new vocalist James Buttery. Smooth, drone-y melodies soar over melancholy basslines creating an elegant, futuristic and unmistakably atmospheric symphony. (JMM)

SNEAKER SOCIAL CLUB Jam Sat 26th

The only night we know of that’s devoted to trainers is back, with a slight change to the music policy. The order of the day is “crossover bass music bizzness”, with Ramadanman collaborator Midland topping the bill. If you like Joy Orbison and Burial then you’ve find plenty to enjoy in his warm and fragmented house music. He’s back by fellow Aus Music artist Al Tourettes who’s been playing Panorama Bar and releasing tracks for Appleblim’s Apple Pips imprint, as well as turning up on the soundtrack to Black Swan. As you can tell, the guy is firing right now. (JK)

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13 monsters Words and Photos by JAMES KENDALL

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You’ve got to hand it to 13 Monsters, there’s no other club in Brighton like it.

Packed to the rafters but committed musically to take the path least travelled, NEXT EVENT: The Loft, Sat 5th it’s got a huge following precisely WEB: 13monsters.co.uk because they play music you won’t hear RESIDENTS: 20jazzfunkgreats, anywhere else. With one of the best Matt Mama Ko, Ed Lilo and crowds in town, the young dressed up Sex Is Disgusting and dressed down music lovers get straight to the dancefloor and pretty much stay there all night. A completely genreless affair, the playlist goes from pretty serious dance music to modern pop r’n’b to no-fi, LA punk. It’s timeless too – while you might hear a load of tracks that aren’t out for another six months, the disparate DJ team also dig out stuff across the decades, as far back as 50 years ago. Born out of The Do, 13 Monsters is much more accessible that you might expect – there’s plenty of melody and above all it’s filled with fun and enthusiasm.

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TOP TEN

Hyetal ‘Phoenix’ Redlight ‘Stupid Bab Lee ‘Sous Les Cocotier’ Pains Of Being Pure At Heart ‘Heart In Your Heartbreak’ Beyonce ‘Freakum Dress’ Chin Chin ‘Dark Days’ Paul McCartney ‘Temporary Secretary’ Mueran Humanos ‘Cosmeticos Para Cristo’ Divorce ‘Early Christianity’ Echo Lake ‘Young Silence’

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FRIDAY I’M IN LOVE Words by Zac Colbert

Brighton nightlife spoils its punters – whether you’re after live music or a DJ behind the decks, the pubs, clubs and bars in town always have something to offer. And that’s just midweek, let alone on Friday nights when there’s a plethora of events to help you celebrate the start of the weekend. Consequently promoters go to great lengths to distinguish their night from the rest of the rabble; hat themes, booking big name DJs or even getting a bouncy castle in front of the club.

The Fat Poppadaddys crew eschew all these gimmicks, focusing on making their club night at Coalition, Friday I’m in Love, honestto-God simple fun. And that it certainly is, as Matt Robinson spins a crowd-pleasing mix of party pop, chart-friendly drum’n’bass and indie, ensuring the dancefloor is throbbing all evening. Brightly-coloured bodies thrust and thrash around as Beyonce blends into Danny Byrd who switches to Arctic Monkeys. Students come for the drinks offers but they stay for the lack of pretense and ‘let’s have a laugh’ vibe. If you’re

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looking for an accessible club night with its own quirky character your heart will skip a beat when it finds Friday I’m in Love.

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Fatboy Slim ‘Praise You’ Mumford & Sons ‘Little Lion Man’ Jet ‘Are You Gonna Be My Girl’ House Of Pain ‘Jump Around’ The Specials ‘A Message To You Rudy’ Danny Byrd feat I-Kay ‘Ill Behaviour’ Sum 41 ‘Fat Lip’ Wiseguys ‘Oh La La’ The Rolling Stones ‘Paint It, Black’ The Police ‘Roxanne’

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SOFT ROCKS

underground disco stars re-edit the rules words by james kendall

What made you decide to put out your records on your own label, Disco Powerplay?

The benefits are having complete artistic control, being able to put what you want out, getting remixers of your own choice, choosing the artwork. When you put music out via a third party you’re lucky to get any of this. The music industry has changed beyond recognition and the majors don’t have the power or money they once did, so in this day and age the DIY approach is always the best way in our opinion, unless you have a likeminded soul who believes in what you do.

You’ve got three albums coming out this year – what are they all about?

We have this edit LP due in early February, an original music LP via ESP Institute in NYC and a remix album of the original LP at the end of the year, plus a ton of other stuff including a mix CD. Also we’ve just started up a new label promoting other people’s music that we like. This will range from full on 4/4 dancefloor gear to ambient noodling. Already in the bag are five releases penned for this year including a collaboration with our sisters-in-arms Alice Russell and Jo Marshall-Fraser, and her inspirational gospel singing pals.

one sound or genre. Every day we find inspiration in new and old music so it’s relatively easy for us to keep things moving along without too much of a struggle.

It helps with having four of us in Soft Rocks as you always have someone to fall back on if you’re struggling to keep the faith.

Disco is a very loose word to us so the music on Disco Powerplay can range from Africa right the way through to the moon.

Are you re-editors or producers?

Both. We were originally only doing edits when we first started but the obvious progression was to make our own music which we are now mainly concentrating on. It’s obviously been a big learning curve and the more you get into it the more you want to get out of it.

What’s the difference between a re-edit and a remix?

With a re-edit you are usually working within a rigid structure and chopping and changing things around to make them sound better. When you do a remix your world’s your oyster and you can use as much or as little as you want from the track and then build your own vision of what you think it should sound like around it.

Which DJs and clubs play your records?

From the likes of the old guard DJs like Andrew Weatherall, Trevor Jackson, DJ Harvey and Rob Da Bank to the new breed of Tim Sweeney, Prins Thomas, Lindstrom and Todd Terje. More importantly to us is that we get a lot of support from the recordbuying Joe Public as they’re the ones that keep us going. You can hear our music in establishments as far away as New Zealand to Horsemeat Disco’s Eagle boozer in South London.

We don’t DJ in the UK as much as we would like – especially London – but we do get to to play all over the world; last year saw us in ALBUM: ‘Disco Powerplay’ out on Disco Powerplay, Mon 14th various locations like WEB: myspace.com/softrocksrecordings Moscow, Helsinki, Ibiza, RADIO SHOW: deepfrequency.com San Fran and New York.

What appeals about the album format rather than more singles?

I guess the freedom to stretch out and show all sides of the Soft Rocks sound. Unfortunately in the download world we live in this doesn’t seem to be the case anymore, as most people just pick and choose what songs they like rather than listening to it as it was meant to be – as an entire piece of work – which is a shame.

How do you keep the balance of keeping things fresh and still having that classic Balearic disco sound?

Keeping it fresh to us means not being pigeonholed into

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CULTURE WORDS BY NICK COQUET, BEN MILLER

EVENT: The Space Komedia Weds 2nd

Oh how we love The Space, which always induces the sense of blindly lobbing a couple of darts at a corkboard covered in minute photos of random celebrities when it comes to predicting the line-up each month.

This time it’s BBC Four controller Richard Klein – who deserves a handshake for Charlie Brooker’s Screenwipe alone – and 80s new wave symbol Clare Grogan, whose fresh-faced finesse was far too good for Ian Beale’s sleazy wooings during her time on Eastenders. (BM)

DANCE: Danish Dance Theatre Dome Fri 4th and Sat 5th

As a 30th birthday present to the company which is a dance institution in Scandinavia, the Danish Ministry of Culture and various other arty bodies have helped them embark on a first major UK tour. In a luggage haul not seen since the Vikings last invaded, they’ve brought manly contests for supremacy between the five male dancers making the trip, live drummers, duets, the immortal texts of Ecclesiastes and awardwinning classical movements along for the tumultuous ride. (BM)

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Marty work his magic at the best cinema in the world? It’ll be like going to an 80s night, but instead of all that pesky dancing you can kick off your hi-tops and wish the Doc was your surrogate dad again. Rowan Joffe’s updated version of Brighton Rock, set in the mods’n’rockers 60s with a cast including Helen Mirren and Sam Riley, will surely push the buttons if McFly doesn’t. (BM)

EVENT: Story Studio Komedia Studio Bar Sun 13th

At the risk of getting beheaded by less prominent yarn spinning collectives, Short Fuse was almost certainly the most consistent and long-running night of narratives in Brighton, teasing us with “vaudeville flash fiction” and performers who were enviably reliable at making your pissed up tales of woe sound flabby and tedious. Now they’re back with Story Studio, bringing the vocab, narratives, music, visuals and cabaret to the Studio Bar, including a film recounting a dodgy encounter in the Royal Pavilion, apparently. (BM)

FESTIVAL: BRIGHTON FILM: Back to the Future SCIENCE FESTival All-Nighter / Brighton Rock Various venues from Sun 13th

Duke of York’s Sat 5th / Fri 4th – Thurs 10th

Seriously, dude, what could be better than a Saturday night watching

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Three weeks of geeks, as a less charitable preview might have you believe – this is a citywide celebration of science and technology that shuns the very notion of stuffy old textbooks. The diverse and interactive programme

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features a bewildering array of interest-piquing topics, including soldering, underwater music, chemistry in cooking and zombie science – reignite your own passion for science or bully your kids into enjoying it. Brightonscience.com has all the details your brain can handle. (NC)

EVENT: Making Bread The Basement Sat 19th

There’s no point waiting on those Tories to bring communities together for creative gatherings to nourish the soul, and Making Bread know it. A gaggle of individuals dedicated to art, spoken word and music straight out of Brighton, they aim to provide a stage and space for some of the best musicians, DJs and brush-sprayers. They also encourage “live art as the evening progresses”, which is possibly the most polite invitation to get drunk and be silly we’ve ever heard. (BM)

THEATRE: MARTLET’S MUSICAL Dome Sat 19th

A benefit for the Martlets Hospice, our charity heroes about town, this is a musical spectacular by anyone’s definition.

Around 100 performers, mostly from local theatre groups, belt out extracts from shows like The Lion King, Oliver and West Side Story, all raising dough for the hospice. Previous outings have raised £150,000, so it all ends up in the right place. (NC)

ART: Pigment & Light Phoenix til Sun 20th

It’s always rewarding to see the artists based in the Phoenix emerge from the darkened upstairs corridors to reveal their genius to the world. Julian Vilarrubi has made huge, glorious oil paintings of the views he sees from the top of the building, and Andrew Gifford has made luminous cityscapes of the Palace Pier at night, becoming radiant kinetic lightworks constructed from pure pigment, neon and tungsten. June Frickleton’s richly coloured, painstakingly layered abstract paintings complement those viewpoints perfectly. (BM)

COMEDY: Tim Key Pavilion Theatre Mon 21st

Blimey – two references to Charlie Brooker on one Culture page? Anyone would think we were mourning the demise of a certain Monday morning newspaper column. Tim Key was the resident poet on Newswipe, and he continues the verses in his stage show, full of odes to the minutiae of life rounded off with crude conclusions. Occasionally bumbling, highly loveable in a non-painful way and almost always genuinely unhinged, he’s won numerous awards and even been nominated for a BAFTA. (BM)

FILM: SEE FESTIVAL

Komedia/Old Court House Thurs 24th – Sun 27th Documentary filmmaking returns to Brighton for its now annual celebration, with screenings, premieres, workshops and discussions across a tightly packed four-day schedule.

We haven’t seen the finalised line-up yet, but the involvement of documentary legend Nick Broomfield – who seems to have headphones and a boom mic permanently grafted to his extremities – is a sure sign of the pedigree on offer. Check the festival website at seefestival.org for updates we might not have seen yet. (NC)

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JOHNNY HANNAH: BURNING LOVE CASTOR & POLLUX, KINGS ROAD ARCHES WORDS BY NICK COQUET

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This is the second solo exhibition for Johnny Hannah, residing underneath the arches.

Burning Love continues his distinctive use of handmade graphic type and sketchy, scratchy illustration that recalls a past – Gallic and beyond – from way off the beaten tourist track.

A mix of lino, screen and painted pieces, Hannah’s work does tend towards a nostalgic and age-belying bygone era – certainly beyond his own 40 years. A folio including depictions of sailors’ sea shanties, jazz musicians, tin toys and Coney Island have seen commissions from the likes of Vogue, The Guardian and the New York Times, culminating in this new collection, loosely timed for Valentine’s Day. With that in mind, the pieces include cut-out heart paintings, prints with corsets and some Parisian flare, all guaranteed to get a better love reaction than petrol station flowers.

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THE BEST OF NEW BRIGHTON MUSIC Words by Nick Coquet

ALBUM: ANAGRAMS • We Form A Shelter (Aspidistra)

Bands seem not to describe themselves as ‘indie’ too much these days – usually keener to ascribe something more arch or post-modern to their sound. But Anagrams take the term back and run with it. This debut album was largely self-recorded in a local school hall, but rather than bringing any sonic constraint this frugal approach has resulted in some beautifully resonant acoustics, a real room-filling sound that hints at future venuepacking success. Some great songs, with some lovely structural builds, make us want to hear more. (NC)

ALBUM: ESBEN AND THE WITCH •

Violet Cries (Matador)

Since, and, ahem, principally because of, appearing on our cover exactly one year ago, the Esbens have elevated beyond local hopefuls into a national prospect. The BBC included them in their Sound Of 2011 poll and they narrowly missed out on a Q Magazine ‘Next Big Thing’ award. This astonishing sounding debut album fulfills all this promise and more – it’s a haunting and ethereal take on gothic pomposity that ramps the horror atmosphere to the max, with swirling loops of vocal extremity amid caustic crashes and amplified nightmares. You won’t exactly be whistling any of the tunes, but this will still knock you sideways. (NC)

esben & The WITCH

Gaga pulp pap. Shona Foster is the latest to stick her flag on the summit of atmospheric pop. Occasionally vocally redolent of Beth Gibbons, it’s backed with a fully rounded band, taking in dramatic baroque, simple folk and psyche wig-outs – successfully ambitious in the scope of the sound yet retaining a definite keen eye on accessibility. (NC)

ALBUM: MIRRORS • Lights And Offerings (Skint •)

In all the years of SOURCE, no band has enjoyed the unanimous love of the staff as much as Mirrors. They ran away with our 2010 writers’ choice top spot in December – one writer even took a self-funded trip to Germany to see them live. It’s perhaps odd for an album to have so much internal office hype to live up to, but we’ve all been really, really looking forward to this. We already knew all the tracks individually, but as a debut body of work this is simply peerless – layers of electronics providing a soulful warmth and atmospheric accompaniment to dramatic and epic songs, making up a package that’s long outgrown its lazy comparisons with synth pop’s ancestry. It’s brilliant. (NC)

ALBUM: BEN OTTEWELL • Shapes And Shadows (Eat Sleep)

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ALBUM: SHONA FOSTER •

The Moon & You (Beach Hut •) The last couple of years have seen a resurgence of accomplished female vocals, repeated affirmation that it needn’t all be Cheryl and

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THE FORESTEARS • (myspace.com/forestears)

A pair of tracks arrived from this local outfit, presenting the light and shade of the band’s repertoire. ‘Tally Ho’ fittingly leads the charge, a Leveller-y stomp nicely brightened by some stirring brass. ‘Messiah’ takes the tempo down somewhat allowing the vocal more of a centre stage against a shuffling beat. Again the brass adds an individual polish to the track, uncomplicated in arrangement but the perfect condiment to the main dish.

Promising stuff. (NC)

The songwriter and distinctive voice of Mercury-bagging indie shamblers Gomez finally releases his debut solo album. Five years in the making, it’s generally a move away from the full band sound of Gomez, happier to exist in more sumptuous simplicity.

There’s no sparseness to the arrangement though, it’s room-filling epic balladry with lush strings peppering the mix. It sounds like the songwriting contribution from Tuung’s Sam Genders has helped the music find its own identity outside of Gomez, while obviously retaining a definite vocal familiarity. (NC)

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TAKE THE POWER BACK THERE’S A NEW AGE OF PROTEST AND THINGS HAVE CHANGED WORDS By James Kendall, Still from ‘give me all that you got’ by the Agitator For years politicians have been moaning about the ‘apathetic youth’. Well, we bet in 2011 those MPs are looking back mistyeyed at the glorious old days when we all sat back and let them get away with murder while turning up our iPods and shrugging our shoulders. Because things have changed dramatically over the last year, and we’re now fired up to stand up for what we believe in. Between the student protests and the UK Uncut movement, the people shouting loudest that they’re not going take any more shit are a new group of protesters – passionate young people ready to fight not only for the things that affect them, but also for the things that they believe in.

Last year Derek Meins stopped being a self-proclaimed ‘famous poet’ and became The Agitator – a rabble-rousing blues singer who wanted us to ‘Get Ready’ to fight our corner. It turned out he was in exactly the right place at the right time. The month he released his debut single the coalition government crept into power with all sorts of plans to change the country. Derek was already fired up by the economic situation – bank bailouts and all that followed – before the policies were announced.

“It’s not just me that it’s happened to,” he stresses. “A lot of people who are around the same age as me, or younger even, have become a lot more politicised all over the country. A lot of it is to do with the economic state of things – well, that was the

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precursor to it all – but all the suggested spending cuts have only added fuel to the something that was catching on around the country anyway.”

Frequent – but not exclusive – singer of protest songs, Chris TT, meanwhile is an old hand at this, having been around long enough to know what Thatcherism means first hand. He’s extremely excited about what this new generation can achieve and has a pretty good idea of why so many SOURCE readers are so fired up.

“The difference between now and a few years ago is that many of the things we hold dear are genuinely under threat,” he says thoughtfully. “Even when there were things to talk about politically, our core stuff – music, being able to go out, being able to culturally express ourselves and to enjoy a rich range of things – tended not to be under direct threat.”

Now, he says, we live in an environment where – whether it’s a club full of bleeps and kids or an art exhibition – you’re seeing creative people, in high and low culture, fighting tooth and nail to survive. The things that people love might simply not be around if they don’t fight for them.

“If your taste is just X Factor, Strictly and Dancing On Ice then you’re safe,” he reckons. “But if your taste is even the tiniest bit more edgy than that – whether it’s alternative music of any kind,

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black and white that a protest has failed or it’s succeeded. I think the fact that people club together, and go out on the streets and make a point of showing the people that are making these decisions that they care about these things they’re closing down is in itself is a success.”

“It’s amazingly impressive as an onlooker,” adds Chris. “There’s been 15 years of, not apathy, but quietness for student activity.

Comfort. A lot of people marched against the Iraq war but what we all did was go on one march. It was huge, but it was very well organised and civil. The fact that we’re less than a year into the coalition government and they’re talking about using water canons on, effectively, teenagers – that’s a measure of how successful the protests are being.”

One hugely important feature of the new wave of protesting is the use of the internet. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and blogs play an important part in both the organisation of demonstrations and the broadcasting of them afterwards. Chris points to how the student protestors avoided kettling by tweeting ever-changing meeting points that they ran between. Although they paid a heavy price at the next demo, they’re leaning how to beat the old guard with technology they understand better.

“The organisation of protests being done through Twitter and Facebook is a big part of why so many young people are becoming involved,” believes Derek.

“These things are popping up far faster and far more cleverly because of social media and the communication tools we’ve got,” confirms Chris.

Another place where the internet is proving to be really important is in informing the news. It’s no secret or surprise that in strikes and protests the media show a bias towards the authority position. Ask any sociology student. But now, with Facebook, blogs and Twitter, the first point of call for information isn’t necessarily from the old news sources.

“And now it’s far more difficult for the authorities to lie about what happened,” says Chris. “Because there are so many witnesses taking footage. We’re not just relying on the BBC and Channel 4 to show us a reporter who’s embedded on the police side of the lines. We’re seeing live reports, written reports and footage from within the protests.”

The perfect example of this is when Jody McIntyre was dragged out of his wheelchair by the police at a protest and the story was initially dismissed as a crazed myth. That was until footage from a fellow demonstrator got it onto YouTube and the media was forced to cover the story. or you like an occasional trip to the theatre – then the current situation politically is going to massively affect your life.”

But what’s interesting is that most of the protesting is happening not just at a NIMBY (not in my backyard) level but is a principled campaign. Sure the students you see on TV are protesting against increased fees for students, but the planned massive personal price rise in education kicks in after they leave. They’re doing it for their younger brothers and sisters and the generation that’s following them. The baby boomers – who benefited from free education – might be pulling up the ladder behind them but the young generation today refuse to play that game.

“And it’s a more powerful protest because of that,” nods Chris.

The positivity shines through the student demonstrations. With youth on its side the massive crowds are not ground down by having seen it all before – and seen it potentially fail. With a wave of support for them from outside the people that hit the streets, it all adds together to give a real feeling that the protesters can achieve their aims. There are people that aren’t involved, but that still cheer at every step of the way. It might not be reflected in the media particularly but it’s there.

“It’s massively important that people do show their interests and voice their opinions,” says Derek. “I don’t think it can ever be as

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So what should you do if you are feeling like it’s time your voice was heard. Well, both Chris and Derek say the internet is the perfect starting point.

“The first thing is the reading and the listening,” explains Chris, who has spent years as a journalist. “If you’re interested in an issue do searches on YouTube. Some people are detaching themselves from the news because they’re upset by things but I think this is a really good time to not do that.”

Derek meanwhile suggests the Coalition Of Resistance website (coalitionofresistance.org.uk), which is meeting point for demonstrators all around the country, and 38degrees.org.uk which holds a lot of petitions.

“It’s worth following the student occupations on Twitter,” he suggests. “Click onto the UCL one and you can find all the people they follow themselves. There are loads of different protest and organisations that they always tweet about.”

But will you just be wasting your time? For a man in his early 20s Derek sums things up with exactly the sort of idea the old politicians used to say to the apathetic youth.

“It’s massively important that people get up and do these protests and petitions as citizens in the type of democracy that we live in,” he stresses. “It’s one of the benefits of the system we live in.”

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PROTESTING SOURCE VIRGINS: DOING STUFF FOR THE FIRST TIME

WORDS BY SOPHIE HADLUM ILLUSTRATION BY PAUL STAPLETON

The resumption of Tory government in May last year has seen levels of civil protest rise again to 1980s levels.

Sophie is 19 years old and wasn’t even born when the Poll Tax demos turned ugly, but recent announcements of drastic public service cuts made her take to the streets.

THE REASONS

I think people got complacent with government over the 13 years Labour were in power; some of my friends even said that the Tories getting in would at least galvanise people into action again, stir them up a bit. No one in my family votes Tory but I wanted to approach my own political leanings from a neutral standpoint – I did my research on party policy and started going to the Labour Party society at uni. I’m 19 and a student, so I’m acutely aware of the financial burden the cuts will create, but perhaps more important for me is the devastating loss of jobs in the public sector. I was a bit young for the massive anti-war demos of 2003, but now it was time I got involved.

THE EXPERIENCE

At the tail end of 2010 I went on two distinctly different protests. The first was an anti-cuts demo to coincide with the Tory Party conference at the National Indoor Arena, Birmingham, in October. I was the only Labour member on the bus up from Sussex; it was mainly Socialist Party members. They sat plotting chants for the day; ‘Let’s start a revolution’, ‘Call a general strike’. I kept out of all that to be honest.

They’re fairly radical people but there was no hint of violence – the plan was just to march to the conference and make ourselves heard.

way overblown, though.

It was really raining all day, which I think took a lot of the wind out of the sails of the protest. I was expecting it to last for hours, with sit-ins and stuff, but it kind of lost momentum and fizzled out. David Cameron did come to the window and watch us though, so who knows? Maybe some of it sank in.

It was all very different to the Millbank student protests a month later. The Birmingham march did get some media coverage but everyone saw this, for obvious reasons. My friend and I went on the march, which was very thoroughly policed – to the extent that people were just marching and feeling a bit powerless, that it was almost being suppressed by the authorities to avoid too much exposure for the students’ cause.

So when the march finished, there were all these NUS reps ushering people away down what I imagine were pre-approved dispersal routes. But there were others saying no, let’s go to Tory HQ. So we went along with the crowd to the courtyard outside Millbank; we arrived just as the windows starting getting kicked in. I wasn’t involved in any of the violence but I have to admit I got swept along with the chanting and the rising anger, to the point where we were waiting for the windows to go in so we could get inside.

With hindsight I realise the implications of what that could have meant, the career implications of an arrest. But there was a definite feeling of being influenced by your surroundings, of moving with the pack.

“WE ARRIVED JUST AS THE WINDOWS STARTED GETTING KICKED IN”

We congregated in a massive car park to start with – the crowd seemed to be mostly over 25s, listening patiently to speeches before we moved off. There were Chinese whisper-type mutterings going through the crowd, like “there’s 10,000 coming down from Sheffield,” but they never really materialised. We marched on to the National Indoor Arena, between 5-7,000 people we reckoned. I kind of expected more uproar, not violence necessarily, but it was all very peaceful. I found myself catching up with the Communist Party section of the march and deliberately held back; I didn’t want to be representing them.

There was a kind of anarchist element – I saw about 10 people with scarves over their faces. People reported after these demos about police brutality and over-reaction – I certainly saw this tiny element of the crowd isolated for a couple of hours by around 60 officers. They weren’t actually doing anything but you could say they maybe looked threatening. People around me were shouting about human rights infringements, but I guess if they looked like they were going to cause trouble it’s sensible to take precautions.

I’d certainly say the police-to-protester ratio in this instance was

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It was all really exciting but I got a bit annoyed when the crowd started turning on the police, antagonising them. The violence with batons you saw on TV was very selective I think, they’re mostly just doing their job. We couldn’t really see what was happening. But the police are also part of the public sector and facing massive cuts of their own – we were shouting “Join us” to them, but they didn’t really listen...

WAS IT WORTH IT?

Yes, definitely. You can’t condone violent behaviour but you also can’t fail to see the difference in media coverage for the causes behind the protests. The reporting encourages more people to get involved next time – the effects of a protest aren’t felt straight away in that sense. I have to say I’d think carefully about joining a student-led demo again; it was certainly more exciting and satisfying to be part of but personally I preferred the values behind the more general cuts protest in Birmingham. Leaving uni with a massive debt is obviously not good, but it’s not quite as devastating as losing your job. I’m certainly planning on attending more protests, all different causes but still anti-coalition policies.

People are starting to care more in general, I think – more people want to get involved, from a local level to nationally.

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STREET STYLE photos by kevin meredith at lomokev.com

It’s all very well raving on about the 80s and 90s, but what about the much-maligned 1970s? It’s not all kipper ties and Bay City Rollers tartan y’know. Bradley here is rocking a sort of late 70s crossover look – a slouchy-shouldered blue leather jacket hits the urban rake look, albeit one from The Sweeney. Add into that a gentlemanly gallery-owner’s silk scarf, a pair of Victorian spiv boots and a penny farthing necklace charm, and you’ve got the Thin White Duke’s dealer. A strong look, and no gold or neon in sight.

Scarf by Tie Rack “It’s a Jungle Book scarf. My friends call me Mowgli, so I thought it was quite appropriate. It’s silk one side and wool on the other. I got it from a charity shop for a couple of quid.”

Pendant from ex-girlfriend “It was a present – it’s a little penny farthing. I like small things, it’s very detailed. Penny farthings are cool.”

Shirt from Dirty Harry “It’s a striped number – I got it last year. I like the 70s style of it.”

Leather jacket from Oxfam “I got it about five years ago. It’s a bit different, a bit of a puffy sort of shape, I haven’t worn it for a while but it’s good to get it out again.”

Waistcoat from Top Man “When I got it five years ago I thought it looked nice and old even though it was new. It fits great. It has an aged look that I like.”

Jeans by Levi’s “They’re 501s – I got them in Scunthorpe of all towns. I normally wear tighter jeans though. Its nice to get out of tight jeans now and again.”

Belt from Charity “It’s my favourite belt. I like the details. It’s nice and thick – I don’t like skinny belts.”

Boots from Aldo “They might not look it but they’re pretty comfortable.

They’re a great colour and they’ve worn in great. I’ve got a lot of shoes but these are my favourites.”

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100 PEOPLE WHO MAKE BRIGHTON WHAT IT IS NO.16 JONNY REGGAE WORDS & PHOTO BY JAMES KENDALL You’ve done loads over the years – could you give us a quick rundown?

Jack of all trades, master of some – DJ, promoter, record shop owner, radio presenter, record label and publishing company owner, music consultant, artist management and now involved in launching a speaker company.

What was your proudest moment at the helm of Catskills Records?

Getting the delivery of our first single and pulling the vinyl from the box, watching our bands play at big festivals, hearing one of our tracks appear randomly on TV. I suppose the most exciting was having a Sunday night chart run down barbecue and hearing Pepe Deluxé get played in the Top 20.

What’s The Hook Up Consultancy all about?

It’s about giving bands support, wise words, advice and contacts. We can either help bands find their direction, do some press or radio plugging, or even label manage for bands. It’s like having the support of a record label without giving away your songs to them.

You’ve run a label for years, why do you suggest that many bands are better off going the DIY route?

If a band wants to just release its own material, it gives them full control of the way they do it, and they’ll keep their copyrights. If ultimately you want a record deal, doing a few releases yourself is much more likely to get a label’s attention than sending out hundreds of demos. Of course it means hard work and dedication but if you haven’t got that as a band then you’ll get nowhere anyway. But Catskills was a DIY label from the start anyway.

Oh, how come you’re called Jonny Reggae?

The name came from an MC called Drunken Master. In the early 90s I DJed for a reggae sound system called Killa Riddim, I went on to set up Roots Garden after that so I was pretty much just DJing reggae for about five years. After that I moved on and was playing all kinds of music but the name stuck. ‘Jonny All Genres’ doesn’t quite have the same ring to it really.

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recommended as the jewel we missed in the top 10.

But not wanting to be rash, we asked for new tips and this place came up again and again. There’s obviously some consistency if, in the fast moving world of roasts, it’s getting props after a year. We feel pretty confident this is gonna be good.

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Earth & Stars Windsor St (01273) 722879 12.30pm-4pm (approx)

THE PLACE A year on from our huge roast round-up – which you can still read on brightonsource.co.uk, of course – and we’re just about ready to get stuck into a pub-based Sunday lunch again. But where to start? Well, how about the Earth & Stars, the one you guys most

THE MEAL There’s a misunderstanding that the Earth & Stars is an organic pub, but that hasn’t been the case for a while. That’s a good thing – ‘natural’ cola is rank – but the return to the chemical world doesn’t mean that we’re looking at hormone-injected crap. The quality of meat and veg is right up there with The Forager: local, free range and organic where possible. The lamb shank is particularly good with a stewed taste, the meat crumbling onto our fork to leave the cleanest bone we’ve ever seen. The sizable pork belly is similarly soft and tasty. The crackling doesn’t look like much but turns out to be salty and crunchy. Perfectly cooked leeks, peas, carrots, red cabbage and white cabbage are all thrown in together in buckets of rich gravy, while parsnip crisps, a Yorkshire pud, crisp and soft roast potatoes make up a huge plate full of food.

THE VERDICT All the roasts are around a tenner but really worth it. Properly cooked without gastro showing off. A straight up, top quality Sunday lunch. No wonder it’s so raved about around Brighton.

WERE WE SUSSED? No way. We’ll never get sussed doing roast reviews cos the barstaff are either too rushed off their feet or hungover from Saturday night. We must stress that the Earth & Stars were busy, not hanging.

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unachievable for both the artist and the customer – the only person who wins is the gallery.

WORDS BY NICK COQUET ILLUSTRATION BY handmade’s YANNIK EILERS AT THEADMIRALSPISSBOX.BLOGSPOT.COM

It must be a tricky business model to convince a landlord with.

Well, we didn’t tell them! I originally had it as a sweet shop on my own and wanted to do something different. Kirstin was doing the seafront market and craft fairs, and we brought the two together. It’s been compared to the Open Houses – they’ve been really popular here – it’s like that but a shop on the high street, which the tourists get to browse.

We’ve written before about the distinctly nonBrighton character of a lot of new local retail outlets, so it’s good to see a shop offering local designers a decent return on their endeavours. We spoke to Lynne Davis and Kirstin Stride from Handmade cooperative’s management team.

And you keep costs down by working for free as a co-operative.

Yes, there’s a core management team who all do a day each in the shop, but then we all get a space to display in the shop in return. It’s a nice balance; we’ve all got other jobs and things that we do.

The shop only opened last April, and it seems to have become the go-to outlet for local designers.

We get the odd outsider approach us but we do try and keep it local, yes – there’s so much talent in Brighton we don’t need to go elsewhere really. The artists have complete control in what they sell and how they display it.

They decorate their own spaces and control their own pricing. The shop’s business model is that we rent them the space and they do what they like with it.

That must free the designers up to be more creative.

Yes, they get to learn about how to place their products, how things sell when you move them around and display them differently – they basically have a shop within a shop.

It makes it affordable for the artists. There’s loads of galleries in Brighton that take 50 or 60% which makes it really unaffordable for people to buy, as the artists have to put the prices up to make any margin on it. It just makes it

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There seems to be a good balance of permanent and passing designers in the shop.

Yes, there’s a bit of a waiting list but it depends on what they do – we like to keep it varied. If it’s the same people all the time it could get a bit dull. We do half spaces now – it’s £60 a month for a space and £30 for a half so you get people just trying it out, but there are a core six or seven people who’ve been with us since the beginning, from the Handmade Fair days at the Komedia.

Not relying on physical sales yourselves must allow more creativity in the ranges you stock.

When you’re filling a shop with stock you need to sell you tend to be quite limited with what you select, sticking to guaranteed items. We get things in we might not buy ourselves, and some sell really well – that’s the exciting thing about it. Some people don’t sell that much but they like the space to keep trying new things. So far, a year in, it’s all working really well – we’re selling to people just out of uni up to a lady who must be getting on for 90. People get what we’re doing, and here in Kemptown they’re just glad we’re not another coffee shop.

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lowpoints 11pm £1 MESMERIST The Cat’s Meow Live swing jazz bands Time tbc £free PRINCE ALBERT Poor Little Pierrette, Little Signals, Rares Live music 8.30pm £4/3 QUADRANT AKL Open Mic Night 8pm £free RANELAGH Hillbilly Deluxe Live Americana 8.30pm £free R-BAR Girls On Top Warm Up Pop and party tunes to get you in the mood for more of the same 9pm £tbc REVENGE Girls On Top Vs Emergency Room Pop music club 10.30pm £4/3/free ROSE HILL TAVERN John Crampton Live blues 8pm £free ST JAMES’ TAVERN Stay Sick Turn Blue! DJs play vintage blues, soul and funk 8.30pm £free SIDEWINDER Forgive Me Father For I Have Synthed Confess your shameful 80s love secret 8pm £free SUGAQUBE Weekend Warmup: Gary Scott Dance DJ Time tbc £free THEATRE ROYAL Yes Prime Minister Classic political satire updated for the modern world of financial meltdown and international intrigue 7.45pm £21-30 VICTORY Open Mic 8pm £free WEST HILL TAVERN Open Mic 8pm £free WHITE RABBIT Open Mic 9pm £free WINDMILL Free Music Thursdays Juice FM presents an open mic followed by headline band 8pm £free WORLD’S END The Big Cash Quiz 8pm £tbc

friday 4th

ABOVE AUDIO Bar Sessions DJs Time tbc £free AUDIO Maxxi Soundsystem: Tensnake German producer does live set 11pm £8/6 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 SuperJam Funk so rare it bleeds 8.30pm £free BRIGHTON BALLROOM Your Disco Needs You! Brand new 70s styled clubnight with outlandish dresscode 10pm £6 BRIGHTON CENTRE Jason Manford Stand-up comic with a good line in observational comedy 7.30pm £20 BRUNSWICK The Lost Highway Americana night 8pm £5/4 CHEQUERS Friday Night Live Live music 9pm £tbc COALITION Club NME: The Last Carnival, Johnny Foreigner, Raising Maisie, Vinyl Jacket, The Following Announcement, Sky High Indie bands Time tbc £8/7/5; Fridays I’m In Love Somewhat eclectic club night with 60s gems, indie and funky funk 11pm £4/3/2/1 CONCORDE2 Playgroup Festival Launch Party: Benji Boko, DJ Yoda, Trans Siberian Marching Band, Zen Death Squad, Boycom, Electric Playboys A taster of the delights Playgroup will be serving up later in the year 10pm £8 CORN EXCHANGE Danish Dance Theatre Contemporary dance from Scandinavia’s foremost troupe 8pm £15/12.50/10 DIGITAL Stonelove A dancing and drinking club for fans of indiestyle music 11pm £4/3 DOCTOR BRIGHTON’S DJ Nick Hirst 9.30pm £free DOME A Day To Remember Melody-driven hardcore rock band 7pm £15 DUKE OF NORFOLK DJ Cashback 9pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Brighton Rock 1.30pm/4pm/6.30pm/9pm EVERBODY INN Another Sunny Day Indiepop Club All the best indie pop sub genres in one room 9pm £free FISHBOWL Blacklodge Disco boogie DJ 9pm £free FORTUNE OF WAR The Swing Ninjas, Lorne Rawlings Live swing jazz with brass Time tbc £free FUNKY BUDDHA Drink, Dance, Repeat Unpretentious and boozy student night 11pm £5/3 FUNKYFISH The Funkyfish Club Soul, funk, jazz, Motown 60s, 70s and 80s 10pm £6/3.50 GLOBE The Stash DJs play rock&roll and northern soul 9pm £free GRAND CENTRAL Dad’s Old Vinyl Soul, funk and disco records 8pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Go Bang Disco Princes’ secret warehouse sessions 11pm £free HAMPTON Mod For It! DJ set of Motown, soul and ska 8pm £free HECTOR’S HOUSE Beatabet Live music, DJs and visuals 8pm £free HONEY Bonkerz Fridays All sorts of funky, dirty pop sounds 10.30pm £5/1 HOPE Stacked Nasty & Stay Sick DJs pay tribute to Lux Interior of the Cramps (downstairs) 9pm £free HYDRANT DOWN The Ramonas All female tribute act 9pm £free JAM Hellenic Night: Kypreos Band Greek night with bouzouki band 9pm £10/7 KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club: Phil Nichol, Carey Marx, Ben Norris, Danny Buckler, Dan Evans, Tiffany Stevenson Stand-up comedy 8pm £14.50/11.50 KOMEDIA STUDIO Brighton Jazz Club: Simon Purcell Quintet Live jazz 8pm £14/12 KOMEDIA UP BANFF Mountain Film Festival World Tour Short films about adrenaline junkies going up mountains and doing crazy shit 7.30pm £11/10; Funk And Soul Club: Jezebel Sextet, Hook And Sling DJs, Ed Meme & Sir Funk Argentinian metal night. That’s a lie, it’s actually a funk and soul club 11.30pm

£8/5 LATEST MUSIC BAR The Master Blues Brothers R&B tribute band 8pm £5 LIFE Numbers: Jackmaster, Deadboy, Redinho, Spencer Techno and hip hop, electro and dubstep 11pm £6 MARLBOROUGH Queer & Alternative Indie, pop and electro DJs (downstairs) 8.30pm £free; Installation Instilettos Cockney cabaret from NY drag queen, Lavinia Co-Op (upstairs) Time tbc £8.50/6.50 MESMERIST Shake Holla & Roll Swing jazz and R&B geared around the dancefloor Time tbc £free NORTHERN LIGHTS DJ Abo Soul, funk and Latino Details tbc PAV TAV INDIEcent Indie club playing indie pop and indie rock 11pm £3/2 PRINCE ALBERT Bend Over I’ll Drive Rock&roll DJs (downstairs) 8.30pm £free QUADRANT Asian Provocateurs Sketch Show Details tbc RANELAGH Ian Parker Soul singer 8.30pm £free R-BAR Disco Bomb If your house was this explosive you might want to get your gas pipes checked Details tbc REVENGE Lollipop Dance and house hits 10.30pm £6/5/3/free SMUGGLERS Bust It Funk, soul and hip hop DJs 9pm £free SUGAQUBE Suga Sessions: Cheets, Jamie Milton House DJs Time tbc £free THEATRE ROYAL Yes Prime Minister Classic political satire updated for the modern day 7.45pm £21-30 THOMAS KEMP DJ Jon Button Down 9pm £free THREE & TEN Will Sumsuch Eclectic housey DJ (downstairs) 10pm £free VOLKS Legion Of Bass Launch Night: Commix & Icicle New D&B and dubstep night Time tbc £7/5 WESTERN FRONT Bar Breaks Beats DJ night 9pm £free WEST HILL TAVERN Envy Electro and hip hop DJs 10pm £free WHITE RABBIT Wtf A night of dirty disco funk, not that surprising 9pm £free WORLD’S END Teenage Grandad Band night with DJ 8pm £tbc

saturday 5th

ANCIENT MARINER The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers Acoustic rock and blues 8pm £free AUDIO Freelance Whales NY indie rock band 7pm £tbc; Warehouse: Congorock House and techno clubnight - plus Mex from Blackgrass playing rare grooves upstairs 11pm £5/free BASEMENT Ben Weaver, Boss Caine Live country and Americana 7.30pm £10/9 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 Phuture Frequency & Burnt Toast: Q The Physicist, Southbound Hangers, iambic Phuture Frequency anniversary - celebrating ten years of D&B and hip hop 9pm £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 BRIGHTON CENTRE Jason Manford Stand-up comic with a good line in observational comedy 7.30pm £20 BRUNSWICK Harpin’ Festival: The Blackjacks, The Uncontrollables, Bill Eborn & The Wilsons Harmonica workshops during the day with live music in the evening 11am/8pm £6/5 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Replica Goth and industrial DJ tunes (downstairs) 9pm £free; Open Mic Night (upstairs) 8pm £free COALITION Blow After Party: Vincent Manganaro, Carlos Riz, Aaron Palaez It never stops 3am £7/5/4 CONCORDE2 Rinse FWD: Joker, Plastican, Roska, D Double, Jamie George London’s pioneering dubstep night hits Brighton for the first time 11pm £12 CORN EXCHANGE Danish Dance Theatre Contemporary dance from Scandinavia’s foremost troupe 8pm £15/12.50/10 DOME Paul Lewis The award-winning pianist plays a triple bill of Schubert sonatas 7.30pm £10-20 DIGITAL Pussycat Club: Rockstars & Popstars If your house was this dirty you might have to call pest control 11pm £10/8/5 DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Race To Witch Mountain 11am; Brighton Rock 1.30pm/4pm/6.30pm/9pm; Back To The Future All-Nighter! 11pm FIDDLER’S ELBOW Saturday Sizzlers: Attic Monkeys DJs play a bit of everything 9pm £free FISHBOWL Askew DJ set of soul, nu jazz and reggae tunes 9pm £free FORTUNE OF WAR Ben Gc, Duncan Disorderly Beats & treats Time tbc £free FUNKY BUDDHA Reflex The 80s are back! The perfect soundtrack to Tory cuts and mass unemployment 11pm £5; 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 The Music Box Disco, Italo, techno 9pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE White Mink Speakeasy Electro swing night 8pm £10/6 HAMPTON iLike Bring your iPod and play your own tunes - you might like it, but will anyone else? 9pm £free HECTOR’S HOUSE The Free For All: Karl Phillips And The Midnight Ramblers, Marlarki, The Kitchies A full house of alternative and indie bands 8.30pm £free; The Free For All After Show Messy post-gig drinking and dancing session 11pm £free

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HONEY Hat Club: Camilo Franco, Damien Stone, Carl Smeaton & Vince Frimpong, Twisted Beats & Reservoir House, Squiz & Ben G House hits and hats 10.30pm £10/5 HOPE The Lovely Eggs, The Loves, Flash Bang Band Eccentric indie two-piece 8pm £5.50 HYDRANT DOWN Samsara Ska reggae 9pm £free HYDRANT UP Spear Of Destiny Post punk British rockers 7.30pm £10 KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club: Phil Nichol, Carey Marx, Ben Norris, Danny Buckler, Dan Evans, Tiffany Stevenson Stand-up comedy 7pm/10.30pm £18/15.50 KOMEDIA STUDIO Maydays: Tonight’s Top Story Improvised comedy based on local news stories 7.30pm £8; CBGBs Club night devoted to the best bands from the legendary New York venue 11pm £3 KOMEDIA UP Guilty Pleasures Club for unreformed sinners 11pm £10 LIFE Hold Up! Proper indie disco 11pm £5 MARLBOROUGH Cherry Pop Cheese and 80s trash with DJ Fondue Inferno (downstairs) 8.30pm £free; The Steampunk Hidden Mystic Parlour: Bitter Ruin, Unwoman Neo Victorian cabaret with burlesque, games and novelty bands (upstairs) 8.30pm £6/5 MESMERIST Shake Holla & Roll Swing jazz and R&B geared around the dancefloor Time tbc £free PAV TAV Back To The Future Retro tunes from before you were born 11pm £3/2 PRINCE ALBERT The Filaments, Asbo Retards, The Liabilities Punk ne’er-do-wells 7.30pm £7.50 QUADRANT The Laughing Horse Comedy Night Stand-up comedy Details tbc R-BAR Kinky Classics DJ King-K plays funky house Details tbc REVENGE Kinky Dangerous Pop and R&B tunes 10.30pm £8/6/4/3/free ROSE HILL TAVERN Top Banana Comedy Club: Starring Joey Page, Lee Hume Stand-up comedy 7.30pm £free ST MARY’S CHURCH Jimmy Webb, Nell Brydon Live music 7pm £22.50 SIDEWINDER Night Of The Living Fred Name that tune to win a shot of Tuaca 8pm £free SMUGGLERS Magnetic Pre-club beats from Unity Talent DJs 9pm £free SUGAQUBE Simply House House from DJ Cheets Time tbc £free THEATRE ROYAL Yes Prime Minister Classic political satire updated for the modern day 2.30pm/7.45pm £21-30 THOMAS KEMP DJ Molar 9pm £free THREE & TEN Matt Barker Magnificently turned out DJ with impeccable hair (downstairs) 10pm £free VICTORY Up Against It Born Bad DJs play an assortment of punky trash Time tbc £free VOLKS Funkatech Records, Specimen A, NAPT, Far Too Loud, Cubit, Fatface, James D’Ley, Incyte, Miss Trouble, Proper Gander, Youngsta, Scoundrel , Ell Five Dee, Mr Sleeps, Pook Electro, dubstep, breakbeats 11pm £tbc WESTERN FRONT DJ Night Electro and funk stuff 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 Anti Cheese DJs delve into the world of funky house 8pm £free

sunday 6th

ABOVE AUDIO Audio Music Quiz Launch 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 8.30pm £free BRUNSWICK Qukulele Gay and lesbian ukulele group 3pm £free; Alex Garnett Live jazz 8pm £8 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK The Geekest Link Q. What is the manner of Dracula’s chilling demise in the Hammer movie, Prince of Darkness? 8.30pm £1 CONCORDE2 The Underground Rebel Bingo Club Clandestine meeting of bingo and bass fans 8pm £4 DOME Creole Choir Of Cuba A capella Haitian folk songs 8pm £20/17.50/15 DUKE OF NORFOLK Live Music Night 9pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Brighton Rock 1.30pm/4pm/6.30pm/9pm 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 Jam 9pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Sunday Service Live acoustic music 5pm £free; Green Door Blues Blues bands and DJs 9pm £free HAMPTON Live Music Sundays Showcase for local acts 8.30pm £free HEIST Hot-Tip Hi-Fi DJs playing early reggae and rocksteady 8pm £free HONEY Afrodisiac If your house was this sexy you’d get a lot of carpet burns 10.30pm £3.50/free HOPE Sunday Sessions DJ Don Simon plays a downtempo mix of electronica and grooves (downstairs) 2pm £free HOVE TOWN HALL Seedy Sunday Seed-swapping event for anyone with a garden, an allotment patch or an interest in sustainable food 10am £2 HYDRANT UP Once A Wolf 7.30pm £tbc KING & QUEEN Pub Quiz 7.30pm £1

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KOMEDIA STUDIO Simon Munnery: Self Employed Deviously brilliant veteran of stand-up 8pm £12/10 KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club: Phil Nichol, Carey Marx, Ben Norris, Danny Buckler, Dan Evans, Tiffany Stevenson Stand-up comedy 8pm £11.50/6.50 KOMEDIA UP Bent Double Zoe Lyons hosts a night of alternative comedy acts 7.30pm £10.50/8.50 LATEST MUSIC BAR The Bayou Brothers Rowdy uptempo Cajun band (downstairs) 7.30pm £4; 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 MARLBOROUGH Karaoke 4pm £free MESMERIST Swing My Roast Live swing and gypsy jazz 3pm £free PRINCE ALBERT The Wilders Hillbilly honkytonk 7.30pm £12 RANELAGH Mike Ross Blues and country rock 8.30pm £free R-BAR Sublime Sundays Acoustic sessions 5pm £free ROSE HILL TAVERN Jazz Sessions 7pm £free SIGNALMAN Open Mic Night 8pm £free SUGAQUBE All Night Long Hip hop and funk from DJ Mr Ray Time tbc £free THEATRE ROYAL John Shuttleworth: A Man With No More Rolls Sheffield’s finest comedy synthesizer player takes on the nation’s morals 7.30pm £18 THOMAS KEMP Sussex Jazz Quartet Live music 5pm £free THREE & TEN Strung Out Live acoustic music 8pm £free; The Noise Next Door: White Show Part of the Five Colours Season (upstairs) 6pm £8/6 WHITE RABBIT Live Jazz 3pm £free

monday 7th

ANCIENT MARINER Quiz Night 8pm £1 BELUSHI’S BAR Now That’s What I Call A Party Part 2 DJ Sean plays eclectic pop 9pm £free BLACK LION The Lion, The Wit And The Frontal Lobe Pub quiz 8pm £1 BRIGHTON CENTRE John Bishop Stand-up comedian 7pm £25 BRUNSWICK Open Mic Night 8pm £free COALITION Trash Mondays Filthy tunes for students and layabouts alike 10pm £5/3/free CORN EXCHANGE White Lies Bombastic doom-laden indie rockers 7.30pm £16 DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Brighton Rock 1.30pm/4pm/6.30pm/9pm GREEN DOOR STORE Monday Metal Metal bands and DJs 8pm £free HAMPTON Music Quiz 8pm £1 HOPE Lulu And The Lampshades Jaunty lo-fi folk pop foursome 8pm £5/4 KING & QUEEN 80s Club Tropicana Music from the 1980s 8pm £free LATEST MUSIC BAR Stealing Sheep, Spree, Richard O’Flynn Live music 8.30pm £tbc LIFE Jail Bait It’s a 90s club night. We googled it for more details and now our hard drives have been confiscated by the filth 11pm £2 PRINCE ALBERT The Bleeding Hearts Club Downbeat and melancholic acoustic music 8.30pm £tbc QUADRANT Sam Stones Monday Comedy Club Details tbc R-BAR Quiz With Liz Details tbc ROSE HILL TAVERN Pub Quiz 7pm £free SIDEWINDER Poker Night It’s about time for a gambling habit Time tbc £5 SIGNALMAN Pub Quiz 8pm £1 SUGAQUBE DeepSoul Maison Deep house with DJ Jason Pepperell Time tbc £free THEATRE ROYAL Yes Prime Minister Classic political satire updated for the modern day 7.45pm £21-30 THOMAS KEMP Quiz Night 8pm £1 VOLKS Strictly Reggae Dancehall, roots, revival 11pm £5/4.50 WESTERN FRONT Motown Mondays DJs play soul and Motown Time tbc £free

Tuesday 8th

AUDIO Lights Out 11pm £tbc BELUSHI’S BAR Totalled On Tuesday! Pop and dance 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Elements Drum&bass night 10pm £2/1 BRUNSWICK Jazz Jam Open session with house band 8.30pm £free CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Skeptics In The Pub Talk by the founder of Skeptic (sic) magazine, Wendy Grossman 8pm £2 CHEQUERS Open Mic Chequers 9pm £tbc COALITION Dirty Cash Launch Night Grimey, grungey night for filthy sinners and dirty minds Time tbc £4/3/2 COOPER’S CASK General Knowledge, General Nonsense Quiz 9pm £1 DIGITAL CU Next Tuesday Student club night formerly known as Glitterati 11pm £4/3 DUKE OF NORFOLK Open Mic 9pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Miral 11am; Brighton Rock 1.30pm/4pm FIDDLER’S ELBOW Quizness Time Are you a pub quiz whizz, or bit of a half-wit? 8pm £1 GLOBE Basement Cinema Underground films, comfy seats,

free popcorn 8pm £free GOLDEN CANNON Poker Night 8pm £5 GREEN DOOR STORE Hard Times Leftfield disco punk from Born Bad DJ 11pm £free HONEY Latin Fever We’re not talking Ricky Martin, but then who is? 10pm £4/3 HYDRANT DOWN Crooked Mountain Crooked Sea, Axis Of, Tourist Killed By Shark Post rock noiseniks 8pm £free KING & QUEEN Karaoke Night 9pm £free LATEST MUSIC BAR Charity Chuckle Stand-up comedy 8pm £6/5 LIFE The Vice Social Student dance party 11pm £3 MASH TUN Mash. Drink. Repeat. Rock, indie and electro tunes 9pm £tbc MESMERIST The Mesmerist Conjuring Consortium Club for magicians - watch and learn Time tbc £tbc PAV TAV Guerilla Rocks Club night for rock chicks, skater bois and indie kids 11pm £3/2/1 PRINCE ALBERT Monti Saldo, Stars And Sons, G-Minor Live music 8.30pm £4/3 R-BAR Karaoke Unplugged Details tbc REVENGE Sound As A Pound Charty tunes 11pm £2/free RED LION General Knowledge Quiz 8pm £1 SIDEWINDER Open Mic Night 8pm £free THEATRE ROYAL Yes Prime Minister Classic political satire updated for the modern day 7.45pm £21-30 THOMAS KEMP Poker Evening 8pm £tbc VOLKS Toothsayer: Nico De Transylvania, Bear Thrills, Tenderloin, Mancub & Millie Techno and garage rubbing shoulders with Balkan beats 10pm £4/3 WESTERN FRONT Ruby Tuesdays DJs play 60s rock&roll Time tbc £free

w e d n e s d ay 9th

ABOVE AUDIO The Doctor’s Orders Sick hip hop 11pm £free AUDIO Little Comets, The Big Sleep ‘Kitchen sink indie’ 7pm £6; Supercharged: Andy C Breaks 11pm £tbc 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 DIGITAL The Poundance Imagine if Poundstretcher had a dancefloor - top pop tunes for a pittance 11pm £4/3/1 DUKE OF NORFOLK Pub Quiz 9pm £1 DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Brighton Rock 11am/1.30pm/4pm/6.30pm/9pm FISHBOWL Fisherman’s Chronicles Acoustic open jam followed by DJs 8pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE The Jazz Store Live jazz with an open jam 11pm £free HECTOR’S HOUSE Crafty: The Beautiful Word, Tom Rock & Cassieroll, Ellie May, Jakaboski This ‘twisted tea party for crafty kids’ promises a mix of magicians, life drawing and live music Time tbc £5/3 HOPE The Phoenix Foundation New Zealand indie band 8pm £7 JAM Man Like Me Indie ska band with a grimey edge 7pm £7; Club NME: BlackCherry, The Tenth View, Poor Little Pierrete Live bands 10pm £3 LATEST MUSIC BAR Acoustosaurus: James Bay, Run Tallulah Run, KP & Squizz, Sam Heath Acoustic fundraiser for The British Tinnitus Association 8pm £4/3 LIFE Dagger Rinse FM’s The Heatwave bring bashment dancehall vibes to Brighton - don’t forget your bucket and step ladder 11pm £3 MARLBOROUGH Open Mic (downstairs) 8pm £free; Silver Wednesday: The Man Who Laughs 1920s cinema classic given an electronica soundtrack (upstairs) 8.30pm £6/5 MASH TUN Tin Cup Collective Live funk soul band 9pm £tbc MESMERIST Swing Ninjas Uptempo gypsy band Time tbc £free PRINCE ALBERT The Fallthrough, Cap In Hand, The Ranters Live punk bands 7.30pm £4 R-BAR Trickpop Pop and R&B from DJ Trick 8pm £free SIDEWINDER The Sidewinder Garden Quiz 8pm £1 THEATRE ROYAL Yes Prime Minister Classic political satire updated for the modern day 7.45pm £21-30 WEST HILL TAVERN Acoustic Night: Penny Simon & Theo, Dani Blue, Peter Garofalo Live music 8pm £free

THURSDAY 10th

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 BRUNSWICK Shona Foster Album launch for local diva with a voice in the vein of Regina Spektor’s 8pm £tbc COALITION Secret Discotheque Retro disco, 80s pop and

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other ‘uncool’ tunes 10.30pm £4/3/2/1 DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Brighton Rock 1.30pm/4pm/6.30pm/9pm FIDDLER’S ELBOW Live Lounge: Jazz Fantasia A whole lotta jazz 8.30pm £free FISHBOWL Residents Association DJ Will Sumsuch plays hip hop, funk and world beats 10.30pm £free GLOBE Hang The DJ! A night of punter-picked playlists 9pm £free GOLDEN CANNON Live Music 8pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Remember Remember Electro postrockers 8pm £6; TRIIAL Genre-less dance party with a secret band and guest DJ 11pm £free HECTOR’S HOUSE Risque Bisque: Soccer 96, Diagonal Live bands and short films 8pm £tbc HOBGOBLIN Dr Bluegrass & The Illbilly 8 Country standards and pop covers put through the hillbilly thresher 9pm £free HONEY Exposed! Does it mean you’ll be exposed to new music? Or is it ‘exposed’ as in people being able to see into the crevice of your cleavage? It’s up to you 10.30pm £2 HOPE Vile Imbeciles, The Slytones, The Bardot Death jazz rockers 8pm £5/4 HYDRANT DOWN The Casbahs 9pm £free JAM Thursday Night Fish Fry Jamaican ska, R&B and rocksteady 10pm £2/1 KENDAL ARMS Poker Tournament 8.30pm £5 KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club: Stuart Goldsmith, Sean Collins, Mike Gunn, Maff Brown Stand-up comedy 8pm £9/6.50 KOMEDIA UP Teddy Thompson, David Ford Singer songwriter with a folk-rock family and a tendency for emotionally self-slagging lyrics 8pm £15/13 LATEST MUSIC BAR Catalyst Club Three guest speakers give a short talk about whatever their weird obsession is 8pm £5 LIFE Shameless Half a century of musical highlights and lowpoints 11pm £1 MARLBOROUGH Sex, Drag And Male Roles Diane Torr’s book launch featuring performances and moustache making 7.30pm £free MESMERIST The Cat’s Meow Live swing jazz bands Time tbc £free PRINCE ALBERT Treetop Flyers, Mid-West Blues Country rock band 8pm £8/7 QUADRANT AKL Open Mic Night 8pm £free RANELAGH Delta Ladies Bluegrass duo 8.30pm £free R-BAR Girls On Top Valentine’s Warm Up Pop and party tunes to get you in the mood for more of the same 9pm £tbc REVENGE Girls On Top Vs ER Angels & Devils Party Valentine’s party with pop and urban soundtrack 10.30pm £4/3/ free ROSE HILL TAVERN Bands Night Live acoustic indie rock 7.30pm £free ST JAMES’ TAVERN Stay Sick Turn Blue! DJs play vintage blues, soul and funk 8.30pm £free SIDEWINDER Forgive Me Father For I Have Synthed Confess your shameful 80s love secret 8pm £free SUGAQUBE Selective Sounds: Unomass, Rojo Techno DJs Time tbc £free THEATRE ROYAL Yes Prime Minister Classic political satire updated for the modern day 2.30pm/7.45pm £21-30 THOMAS KEMP Whispering Ghosts Live music 8pm £free VICTORY Open Mic 8pm £free VOLKS Simply Vinyl Details tbc WEST HILL TAVERN Open Mic 8pm £free WHITE RABBIT Open Mic 9pm £free WINDMILL Free Music Thursdays Juice FM presents an open mic followed by headline band 8pm £free WORLD’S END The Big Cash Quiz 8pm £tbc

friday 11th

ABOVE AUDIO Bar Sessions DJs Time tbc £free AUDIO Strictly Drumz: S.P.Y. Housey garage 11pm £5/3 BELUSHI’S BAR Muy Loco Pop and house DJs 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Abandoned Rock and metal night 10pm £3/2 BLACK DOVE Mo’ Taters DJs play 50s and 60s tunes from across the Americas 8pm £free BLACK LION Molly Malone Funk and hip hop DJ 8.30pm £free BRIGHTON BALLROOM Not Forgotten! Dig out your old glowsticks, it’s an old skool rave Time tbc £5 BRUNSWICK The Cajun Dogs Blues country band 8pm £5 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Funny Girls Stand-up, sketches and music (upstairs) 8pm £5/4 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 CONCORDE2 Rarekind UK Hip Hop Show Case 11pm £tbc DIGITAL Stonelove A dancing and drinking club for fans of indiestyle music 11pm £4/3 DOCTOR BRIGHTON’S DJ Nick Hirst 9.30pm £free Dorset A Roller Skating Jam Named “Friday” A night of Funk, Disco, Go-Go and Boogie, but predominently HIP HOP 9pm £Free DUKE OF NORFOLK DJ Cashback 9pm £free EVERYBODY INN So Young But So Cold Wrap up warm, the chillwave is here 10pm £free FISHBOWL Jeff Daniels Soul and hip hop DJ 9pm £free FITZHERBERT’S The Hideout DJs playing 60s pysch and garage 9pm £free

FORTUNE OF WAR Shakehandsletsparty Bianca and Sue play a bit of everything Time tbc £free FUNKY BUDDHA Drink, Dance, Repeat Unpretentious and boozy student night 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 GRAND CENTRAL Dad’s Old Vinyl Soul, funk and disco records 8pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Yeah Yeah Industrial Estate: Damo Suzuki, AK/DK The bloke from Can does an improvised set with a Brighton band - see ‘News’ for more info 5pm £7/6; Tongues Minimalist experimental sounds for hipsters 11pm £free HAMPTON Mod For It! DJ set of Motown, soul and ska 8pm £free HECTOR’S HOUSE Something For Nothing Records New monthly music night 8pm £free HONEY Bonkerz Fridays All sorts of funky, dirty pop sounds 10.30pm £5/1 HOPE Eclectic Chair Buzzing tunes from DJ Lamp (downstairs) 9pm £free; Love Thy Neighbour: Restlesslist New monthly clubnight with live bands and indie DJs (upstairs) 9pm £4/3 HYDRANT DOWN The Forestars 9pm £free HYDRANT UP Metal 2 The Masses Battling for a Bloodstock slot 7.30pm £free KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club: Stuart Goldsmith, Sean Collins, Mike Gunn, Maff Brown Stand-up comedy 8pm £14.50/11.50 KOMEDIA STUDIO Brighton Jazz Club: Mick Hutton Group Live jazz 8pm £12/10 KOMEDIA UP Ivy Paige’s Fabulous Dare you enter the burlesque boudoir? Can you handle the scandal? Cabaret night with songs and circusy stuff 9pm £12/10 LATEST MUSIC BAR Frockabilly Vintage Hawaiian and rockabilly night 8pm £7/6 LIFE Dubpressure: Horsepower, Instra:Mental, Clandestine Dubstep pioneers 11pm £5 MARLBOROUGH Dressed To Disgress Filthy electro (downstairs) 8.30pm £free; Donald Does Dusty Diane Torr re-examines her teenage years and pays tribute to Dusty Springfield (upstairs) 8pm £8.50/6.50 MESMERIST Shake Holla & Roll Swing jazz and R&B geared around the dancefloor Time tbc £free PAV TAV INDIEcent Indie club playing indie pop and indie rock 11pm £3/2 PRINCE ALBERT The Valentines, The Mulburys, Mourning Laughter, Angry Pedro Live music 8.30pm £4 QUADRANT Laughing Horse New Act Show Details tbc RANELAGH The Indelicates, Lily Rae Arch and knowing indie 8.30pm £free R-BAR Disco Bomb If your house was this explosive it’d probably mean you live in a minefield Details tbc REVENGE Kieron Richardson Live PA set from Hollyoaks actor, whatever that means 10.30pm £6/5/3/free ROSE HILL TAVERN Left At The Robot, Catherine Ferris, Lucy Elliot Live acoustic music 7.30pm £free SMUGGLERS Bust It Funk, soul and hip hop DJs 9pm £free SUGAQUBE Suga Sessions: Cheets House DJs Time tbc £free THEATRE ROYAL Yes Prime Minister Classic political satire updated for the modern day 7.45pm £21-30 THOMAS KEMP DJ Ben Coles 9pm £free THREE & TEN Ruff Snippets Funk, soul and hip hop DJ set 10pm £free; Terry Saunders: Six And A Half Loves A one-man romantic comedy about the fortunes of three perfect couples 8pm £8/6 VOLKS Roguestate, Arkitalsound, Kosine & L.Drift, Unity Hi-Fi, Ellfivedee & Mrsleepz, Cut Loose Crew, DJ Chronic, Lost In Music, Rezomine & Rezound, Maniac & Trouble, Redford & X-Nation, Gremlin, Kingspinner Dub and step of every description 10pm £5 WESTERN FRONT Bar Breaks Beats DJ night 9pm £free WEST HILL TAVERN Brains Eclectic mish-mash from Superheroes of BMX 9pm £free WORLD’S END Luva-Dub: Adele Harley, Platinum, Chris Culture, Sista Sessions Reggae night 9pm £free

saturday 12th

ANCIENT MARINER We Love The Ancient Mariner Party Hip hop, big beats and Valentine treats 8pm £free AUDIO Funeral Party Dancy indie band 7pm £tbc; Warehouse: Riton House and techno clubnight - plus Mex from Blackgrass playing rare grooves upstairs 11pm £5/free BASEMENT Phwoar! Art exhibition, DJ night and lindy hop classes for single people 7pm £6.50/5.50 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 Medium Rare DJs serving up a platter of semiobscure funk and soul 9pm £free BLACK DOVE Duck Shoot Soulful dancefloor grooves 8pm £free BRUNSWICK Soul To Squeeze, Mauve Live soul and Motown 8pm £6 COALITION Floorplay: Mark Storie, Prok, Fitch, Vince Frimpong, Georgous Toolroom records DJ and Bang birthday party Details tbc; Blow After Party: Vincent Manganaro, Carlos Riz, Aaron Palaez It never stops 3am £7/5/4 CONCORDE2 Kings Of The Jungle: Micky Finn, The Ragga Twins, Don Brockie, Ray Keith, Jumping Jack Frost, Bryan

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Gee, Freebass Birthday bash for Brighton’s biggest jungle night 11pm £8 COOPERS CASK Sweet Back Funk, reggae and soul DJ Details tbc DIGITAL Hospitality: Danny Bryd, Camo & Crooked, Marcus Intalex, NU:Tone Feat. Natalie Williams, Callous, Wrec, Dynamite, Ruthless D&B label takes over 10pm £13.50 DOCTOR BRIGHTON’S DJ Tony B 9.30pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Met. Opera: Nixon In China 6pm FIDDLER’S ELBOW Saturday Sizzlers: DJ Arthur Schilling Rock&roll DJ 9pm £free FISHBOWL Sumsuch Disco and breaks from the Latenite Lounging DJ 9pm £free FORTUNE OF WAR Flevans Dubstep and breaks from the Tru Thoughts DJ Time tbc £free FUNKY BUDDHA Reflex The 80s are back! The perfect soundtrack to Tory cuts and mass unemployment 11pm £5; 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 GOLDEN CANNON Valentine’s Weekend DJs 8pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Pop Not Pop Mixed up pop music party mayhem 11pm £6/5/3 HAMPTON iLike Bring your iPod and play your own tunes - you might like it, but will anyone else? 9pm £free HECTOR’S HOUSE Stay Sick A night of punky psychobilly 8pm £free HONEY Judge Jules You have been sentenced to a night of house arrest 10.30pm £10/5 HOPE The Stash: Lovepark, Dr Pop, Vernie & Bertum Indie punk night 8.30pm £3/free HYDRANT UP Vic Godard & Subway Sect, The Sideliners, Kev Hayley, Son Of Oi, Terry McCann, DJ Ian Part Time Old skool punk 7.30pm £10/8 JAM Sad Day For Puppets, Tripwires, Telstar Fuzzy Swedish shoegaze 7pm £5; J-Dilla Tribute: Spin Doctor, Rusty Ryan, Mr Thing, Sarah Love Charity fundraiser for the London producer 10.30pm £7/5 JAZZ PLACE Unhooked Generation Retro clubnight with an ear for 60s Motown and Northern Soul 11pm £3 KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club: Stuart Goldsmith, Sean Collins, Mike Gunn, Maff Brown Stand-up comedy 7pm/10.30pm £18/15.50 KOMEDIA STUDIO Maydays: Funny Women Best of female stand-up 7.30pm £tbc; Witch Born Bad and Da Doo DJs play the grrrly side of punk and pop, from Grace Jones to The Gossip 11pm £5 KOMEDIA UP Carnivalesque - The Lovers Ball: Fanfara, Los Piratas, Tropical Sound Clash Fancy dress Valentine’s special with swing divas and live brass bands 8.30pm £10 LATEST MUSIC BAR Love Revolution Lesbian Valentine’s night with live music, cabaret and DJs 8pm £12/10 LIFE Hold Up! Proper indie disco 11pm £5 MARLBOROUGH Desperate And Dateless Ball You have two days to fnd a mate before Valentine’s day - go! (downstairs) 8.30pm £free; Donald Does Dusty Diane Torr re-examines her teenage years and pays tribute to Dusty Springfield (upstairs) 8pm £8.50/6.50 MESMERIST Shake Holla & Roll Swing jazz and R&B geared around the dancefloor Time tbc £free NORTHERN LIGHTS DJ Abo Soul, funk and Latino Details tbc PAV TAV Back To The Future Retro tunes from before you were born 11pm £3/2 PRINCE ALBERT Silvery, Deadbeat Decendant Indie bands 8pm £4 QUADRANT The Laughing Horse Comedy Night Stand-up comedy Details tbc R-BAR Kinky Classics DJ King-K plays funky house Details tbc REVENGE Kinky Dangerous: Diva Therese Pop and housey tunes 10.30pm £8/6/4/3/free ROSE HILL TAVERN Afro-Groove African music and dance 7.30pm £free SIDEWINDER Shades Of Blue Jazz and rare groove records 8pm £free SMUGGLERS Magnetic Pre-club beats from Unity Talent DJs 9pm £free SUGAQUBE Delirious: Carl Mills, Dave King Upfront house tunes Time tbc £free THEATRE ROYAL Yes Prime Minister Classic political satire updated for the modern day 2.30pm/7.45pm £21-30 THREE & TEN Juan Corbi DJ plays funk, soul and old school hip hop (downstairs) 10pm £free VICTORY :KINEMA: DJ set of 80s classics from the Brighton pop band’s singer 9pm £free VOLKS Love ‘n’ Hate: Running Numbers, Boy Com, Zen Death Squad Alternative Valentine’s night 9pm £8/6/5 WESTERN FRONT DJ Night Electro and funk stuff 9pm £free WEST HILL TAVERN Tonight We Fly DJs play literate pop for romantic indie kids 9pm £free WORLD’S END Band Night 8pm £free

sunday 13th

BASEMENT Singing Adams New outfit from former frontman of Broken Family Band 7.30pm £7/6 BELUSHI’S BAR Now That’s What I Call A Party Part 1 9pm £free BLACK LION Live & Swingin’ Gypsy Jazz Live music Time

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tbc £free BRUNSWICK Toni Kofi Live jazz 8pm £8/7 DOCTOR BRIGHTON’S Great Big Quiz 5pm £tbc DOME Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra The darker side of romance explored in pieces by Mozart, Beethoven and Schumann 2.45pm £9-32 DUKE OF NORFOLK Live Music Night 9pm £free FIDDLER’S ELBOW Sham-Rock Open Mic 8.30pm £free FISHBOWL Recovery? Chilled reggae DJing from Asbest The Moor King 9pm £free GLOBE Rockoustic: Gemma Hadridge 9pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Sunday Service Live acoustic music 5pm £free; Green Door Blues Blues bands and DJs 9pm £free HAMPTON Live Music Sundays Showcase for local acts 8.30pm £free HECTOR’S HOUSE Kayo Dot, Tartar Lamb, Nick Hudson’s Academy Of Sun Avant-rock 7pm £7 HONEY Afrodisiac If your house was this sexy you’d never go outdoors 10.30pm £3.50/free HOPE She Cries Acoustic Sunday Live music 8pm £free KING & QUEEN Pub Quiz 7.30pm £1 KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club: Stuart Goldsmith, Sean Collins, Mike Gunn, Maff Brown Stand-up comedy 8pm £11.50/6.50 KOMEDIA STUDIO Story Studio: Hearth And Home Launch for new night of short stories, flash fiction and all manner of wordy wonders 7.30pm £6/4.50 KOMEDIA UP Baby Loves Disco Under 7s are introduced to the concept of clubbing 2pm £8; An Evening With Andy McKee Virtuosic acoustic guitarist 7.30pm £15/12 LATEST MUSIC BAR Heartbreak Extravaganza: The Beautiful Word, Flash Bang Band, dEAD cARS Brighton’s happiest indie pop band attempts to do lovelorn with the help of some heartbroken poets 8pm £5/4 MESMERIST Swing My Roast Live swing and gypsy jazz 3pm £free PALMEIRA Philosophy In Pubs: The Science Of Murphy’s Law Why the toast always lands butter side down - or why seagulls always shit on you when your heading out, never when you’re going home 7pm £free PAVILION THEATRE Big Wooden Horse: The Way Back Home Interactive theatre adventure for kids 11am/2pm £7/5 PRINCE ALBERT Cosmo Jarvis Live music 7.30pm £6 RANELAGH Alex Roberts Folk and blues singer 8.30pm £free R-BAR Sublime Sundays Acoustic sessions 5pm £free ROSE HILL TAVERN Jazz Sessions 7pm £free SUGAQUBE All Night Long Hip hop and funk from DJ Mr Ray Time tbc £free THEATRE ROYAL Lenny Henry: Cradle To Rave A show all about how much he likes music 7.30pm £27.50 THREE & TEN Strung Out Live acoustic music 8pm £free THREE JOLLY BUTCHERS Prime Cuts Comedy: Roz Ryan, Wayne Connolly, Sophie Buijsen, Andrew Theodorou, Tim Watts, Jo Public, Colin Rogers, Dan Walker, Eden Rivers Stand-up comedy 8pm £free WHITE RABBIT Live Jazz 3pm £free

monday 14th

ANCIENT MARINER Special Valentine’s Quiz 8pm £1 BELUSHI’S BAR Now That’s What I Call A Valentine’s Party 9pm £free BLACK LION The Lion, The Wit And The Frontal Lobe Pub quiz 8pm £1 BRIGHTON CENTRE Alexandra Burke Ex-Factor winner 6.30pm £30 BRUNSWICK Open Mic Night 8pm £free CAPRICHOS Valentine’s Day Supper Monroe and Sinatra sing as you and your other half enjoy a three-course meal 7.30pm £17.50 COALITION Trash Mondays Filthy tunes for students and layabouts alike 10pm £5/3/free CORN EXCHANGE Valentine’s Ball Classic ballroom dance with the Berkeley Square Society Band 8pm £14 GOLDEN CANNON Valentine’s Day Live music 8pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Death Cabaret, Arteriosus, Umlaut Hardcore thrash bands 11pm £free HAMPTON Music Quiz 8pm £1 HECTOR’S HOUSE Stay Sick Anti-Valentine’s Cramps special 9pm £free KING & QUEEN 80s Club Tropicana Music from the 1980s 8pm £free LATEST MUSIC BAR The Big Swing Live: A Night Of Swinging Love! Six-piece band play Pack Pat classics 8pm £10/9 LIFE Jail Bait It’s a 90s club night. We googled it for more details and now our hard drives have been confiscated by the filth 11pm £2 OFFICE Student Speed Dating Speed not supplied 9pm £free PAVILION THEATRE Bourgeois & Maurice: Shedding Skin Alternative musical cabaret from the freaky duo 8pm £12.50/10 QUADRANT Shaggers Valentine’s Special Details tbc R-BAR Quiz With Liz Details tbc R-BAR Blow Out: Gender Blender Throw your bits in the mixer for a student Valentine’s night with draggy dress and anything goes music 10.30pm £4/2 ROSE HILL TAVERN Pub Quiz 7pm £free SIDEWINDER Valentine’s Night Spanish guitarists seranade you with romantic music as you gaze lovingly at each other 7pm £tbc

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SUGAQUBE DeepSoul Maison Deep house with DJ Jason Pepperell Time tbc £free THEATRE ROYAL Master Class Award-winning play about the opera singer Maria Callas 7.45pm £17-29 VOLKS Strictly Reggae Dancehall, roots, revival 11pm £5/4.50 WESTERN FRONT Motown Mondays DJs play soul and Motown Time tbc £free WHITE RABBIT DJ Smooth & MC Dimlit Romantic nonsense 9pm £free WORLD’S END Tragic Roundabout Anti Valentine’s night with local ska favourites 8pm £free

Tuesday 15th

AUDIO Lights Out 11pm £tbc BELUSHI’S BAR Totalled On Tuesday! Pop and dance 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Elements Drum&bass night 10pm £2/1 BRIGHTON CENTRE The Saturdays Slutty pop for misguided teens 7.30pm £24.51 CHEQUERS Open Mic Chequers 9pm £tbc COALITION Dirty Cash: Florrie Grimey, grungey night for filthy sinners and dirty minds Time tbc £4/3/2 COOPER’S CASK General Knowledge, General Nonsense Quiz 9pm £1 DIGITAL Sleigh Bells, Teeth Live music 7pm £9; CU Next Tuesday Student club night formerly known as Glitterati 11pm £4/3 DUKE OF NORFOLK Open Mic 9pm £free FIDDLER’S ELBOW Quizness Time Are you a pub quiz whizz, or bit of a half-wit? 8pm £1 GLOBE Basement Cinema Underground films, comfy seats, free popcorn 8pm £free GOLDEN CANNON Poker Night 8pm £5 GREEN DOOR STORE Hard Times Leftfield disco punk from Born Bad DJ 11pm £free HECTOR’S HOUSE Duke Garwood Guitarist with a passion for Delta blues 8pm £6/5 HONEY Latin Fever We’re not talking Ricky Martin, but then who is? 10pm £4/3 HOPE Look! We Can Draw! Live music 7.30pm £4/3 KING & QUEEN Karaoke Night 9pm £free LATEST MUSIC BAR Emily Barker & The Red Clay Halo Live music 7.30pm £7 LIFE The Vice Social Student dance party 11pm £3 MASH TUN Mash. Drink. Repeat. Rock, indie and electro tunes 9pm £tbc MESMERIST The Mesmerist Conjuring Consortium Club for magicians - watch and learn Time tbc £tbc PAV TAV Guerilla Rocks Club night for rock chicks, skater bois and indie kids 11pm £3/2/1 PAVILION THEATRE Young Bands Night: Sky Harbour, Tonight We Fly, The Miscreants Indie rock made by the kids 8pm £4 PRINCE ALBERT Wolf People, The Liftmen Live folk rock with a progressive edge 7.30pm £7 R-BAR Karaoke Unplugged Details tbc RED LION General Knowledge Quiz 8pm £1 REVENGE Sound As A Pound Charty tunes 11pm £2/free SIDEWINDER Open Mic Night 8pm £free THEATRE ROYAL Master Class Award-winning play about the opera singer Maria Callas 7.45pm £17-29 THOMAS KEMP Poker Evening 8pm £tbc WESTERN FRONT Ruby Tuesdays DJs play 60s rock&roll Time tbc £free

w e d n e s d ay 16th

ABOVE AUDIO The Doctor’s Orders Sick hip hop 11pm £free AUDIO Supercharged: Marky Breaks 11pm £tbc BELUSHI’S BAR Now That’s What I Call A Party Part 3 9pm £free BLACK LION Fresh Acoustics Live music 8.30pm £free CONCORDE2 The Go! Team If you have a problem with generic indie, and no one else can help, and if you can find the venue, then maybe you should watch... The Go Team! 8pm £12 COOPER’S CASK SkaVaovie Classic ska tunes from DJ Veronica Details tbc COWLEY CLUB SchMOVIES: The War You Don’t See John Pilger’s new film about how the consquences of war are ignored by the mainstream media Note: The Cowley is a private member’s club, but guests are welcome 8pm £donation DIGITAL Devil Sold His Soul, Feed The Rhino, This Is Massacre Post hardcore progressive metal 7pm £7.50; The Poundance Imagine if Poundstretcher had a dancefloor - top pop tunes for a pittance 11pm £4/3/1 DUKE OF NORFOLK Pub Quiz 9pm £1 FISHBOWL Fisherman’s Chronicles Acoustic open jam followed by DJs 8pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE The Jazz Store Live jazz with an open jam 11pm £free HOPE Before Machines, Heliopause Indie rock from Belfast 8pm £4 HYDRANT UP Metal 2 The Masses Battling for a Bloodstock

slot 7.30pm £free JAM Club NME: Day Of The Sirens, The First, Out For Tomorrow Live bands 10pm £3 KOMEDIA DOWN Daniel Sloss Emerging observational comic with years very much on his side 7.30pm £9.50/8.50 KOMEDIA STUDIO Bleech New London band with a grungey Britpop sound 7.30pm £7/6 KOMEDIA UP Dean Wareham Plays Galaxie 500 Guitarist from Luna and Dean & Britta revisits his late 80s lo-fi rock days 7.30pm £13 LATEST MUSIC BAR Dave Lynn: My Funny Valentine 8pm £5 LIFE Kool Kids Klub: Lil Silva Come and get bassed 11pm £3 MARLBOROUGH Open Mic (downstairs) 8pm £free; Silver Wednesday: Artw*ank Vintage porno/arthouse films (upstairs) 8.30pm £6/5 MASH TUN Tin Cup Collective Live funk soul band 9pm £tbc MESMERIST Swing Ninjas Uptempo gypsy band Time tbc £free PRINCE ALBERT Sarah McClurg, Silvercreek, Dani Nichols Live music 8pm £8 R-BAR Trickpop Pop and R&B from DJ Trick 8pm £free ROSE HILL TAVERN Open Mic Night 7.30pm £free SIDEWINDER The Sidewinder Garden Quiz 8pm £1 THEATRE ROYAL Master Class Award-winning play about the opera singer Maria Callas 7.45pm £17-29 THOMAS KEMP Kev’s Open Mic 8.30pm £tbc

thursday 17th

AUDIO Twin Shadow New wave bedroom synth 7pm £tbc; 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 so rare it bleeds 8.30pm £free BRUNSWICK Existential Pants Improvised comedy fundraiser for Kenyan kids 8pm £6 COALITION Secret Discotheque Retro disco, 80s pop and other ‘uncool’ tunes 10.30pm £4/3/2/1 DIGITAL Beardyman, JFB Brighton’s best bearded beatboxer - this is a rescheduled show, original tickets still valid 10pm £8.50 DOME Shockwaves NME Awards Tour 2011: Crystal Castles, Magnetic Man, Everything Everything, The Vaccines What does the NME look for in a band? The fact their tours are sponsored by a hair product might give you a clue.

However, this time round the art-rockers are accompanied by a dubstep supergroup 7.30pm £16.59 FIDDLER’S ELBOW Live Lounge: Leerodi Jigs, reels and that sort of ting 9pm £free FISHBOWL Residents Association DJ Will Sumsuch plays hip hop, funk and world beats 10.30pm £free GLOBE Hang The DJ! A night of punter-picked playlists 9pm £free GOLDEN CANNON Live Music 8pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE TRIIAL Genre-less dance party with a secret band and guest DJ 11pm £free HOBGOBLIN Live Music Thursdays 9pm £free HONEY Exposed! Does it mean you’ll be exposed to new music? Or is it ‘exposed’ as in people being able to see into the crevice of your cleavage? It’s up to you 10.30pm £2 HOPE Skedaddle: Annie Jump Cannon, Pesto, Raymond Detritus Inventive and quirky post-prog thrash band 7.30pm £free JAM Thursday Night Fish Fry Jamaican ska, R&B and rocksteady 10pm £2/1 KENDAL ARMS Poker Tournament 8.30pm £5 KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club: Paul McCaffrey, Steve Gribbin, Damian Clark, Robert Heeney Stand-up comedy 8pm £9/6.50 KOMEDIA STUDIO How Things Work: Bruise, The Silence, Minor Sounds, Chip Mobbs Local music night headed by progressive folk duo 8pm £6/4 LATEST MUSIC BAR Cafe Scientifique: Rhythms Of Life Talk about the body clocks that run our lives 8pm £free LIFE Shameless Half a century of musical highlights and lowpoints 11pm £1 MESMERIST The Cat’s Meow Live swing jazz bands Time tbc £free PAVILION THEATRE The Plasticine Men: Keepers Awardwinning theatre collective retell the true-life tale of a sinister incident at Smalls Lighthouse in the 18th century 8pm £10/8 PRINCE ALBERT Holton’s Opulent Oog With Casey Edward Denman Alt-country and lo-fi folk 8pm £7/6 QUADRANT AKL Open Mic Night 8pm £free RANELAGH The Diablos Country rock 8.30pm £free R-BAR Girls On Top Warm Up Pop and party tunes to get you in the mood for more of the same 9pm £tbc REVENGE Girls On Top Vs Emergency Room Pop music clubnight 8pm £4/3/free ROSE HILL TAVERN Bands Night Live acoustic indie rock 7.30pm £free ST JAMES’ TAVERN Stay Sick Turn Blue! DJs play vintage blues, soul and funk 8.30pm £free SIDEWINDER Forgive Me Father For I Have Synthed Confess your shameful 80s love secret 8pm £free SUGAQUBE Weekend Warmup: Jay North Dance DJ Time

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tbc £free THEATRE ROYAL Master Class Award-winning play about the opera singer Maria Callas 2.30pm/7.45pm £17-29 THOMAS KEMP Mike Rock’N’Folkin’ Roll Newsham Live music 8pm £free THREE & TEN Brian Gittins And Friends Stand-up comedy hosted by roadside café weirdo. Tonight his ‘friend’ is Matty Crosby 8pm £9/7 VICTORY Open Mic 8pm £free VOLKS Upandown: nomass, Leandro Rojo, Alversen, Discoboy, Muerto, Pixeleyes Collective, Samer Maroun, Alex Anpilogov 11pm £3/free WEST HILL TAVERN Open Mic 8pm £free WHITE RABBIT Open Mic 9pm £free WINDMILL Free Music Thursdays Juice FM presents an open mic followed by headline band 8pm £free WORLD’S END The Big Cash Quiz 8pm £tbc

friday 18th

ABOVE AUDIO Bar Sessions DJs Time tbc £free AUDIO Shogun Audio: Prototypes, Alix Perez, Spectrasoul 11pm £8/6 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 BALLROOM White Mink: The Correspondents, Nico De Transilvania Electro swing vs speakeasy jazz 9.30pm £10/8 BRUNSWICK The Funky Buddha Band Live funk and soul 8pm £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 CONCORDE2 Dave Angel International techno DJ 11pm £3/2 DIGITAL Stonelove A dancing and drinking club for fans of indiestyle music 11pm £4/3 DOCTOR BRIGHTON’S DJ Nick Hirst 9.30pm £free DOME Penguin Café, Portico Quartet Avant-garde muso collective blending folk, classical and god knows what else 8pm £16/12.50 DUKE OF NORFOLK DJ Cashback 9pm £free FISHBOWL Keep It Wheel DJ Steve KIW plays rare disco, soul and boogie 9pm £free FORTUNE OF WAR Pollito Boogaloo, Gareth Stephens, Barry Dust Latin American roots band Details tbc FUNKY BUDDHA Drink, Dance, Repeat Unpretentious and boozy student night 11pm £5/3 FUNKYFISH The Funkyfish Club Soul, funk, jazz, Motown 60s, 70s and 80s 10pm £6/3.50 GLOBE The Soul Of Brighton Philly disco from Juice FM DJ 9pm £free GRAND CENTRAL Dad’s Old Vinyl Soul, funk and disco records 8pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Calrisian Live music 8pm £tbc; Ye Ye Star Funky afrobeat clubnight 11pm £free HAMPTON Mod For It! DJ set of Motown, soul and ska 8pm £free HECTOR’S HOUSE Nonsense Music and visual art 8pm £4/3 HONEY Bonkerz Fridays All sorts of funky, dirty pop sounds 10.30pm £5/1 HOPE Grasscut, Spokes, Standard Planets Glitchy electro tunes from Warp Records duo (upstairs) 8pm £7/6; Love Funk DJ night (downstairs) 9pm £free HYDRANT UP Crazy Arm, The Dissociates, Longing For Tomorrow, The Gundersons Live punk bands 7.30pm £6 KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club: Paul McCaffrey, Steve Gribbin, Damian Clark, Robert Heeney Stand-up comedy 8pm £14.50/11.50; Born Bad Rockabilly and great garage scuzz 11pm £6/5 KOMEDIA STUDIO Brighton Jazz Club: Phronesis Live jazz 8pm £12/10 KOMEDIA UP Jam Tarts Discover the unlikely joy of hearing indie pop classics sung by a fifty-strong choir 8pm £9/8 LATEST MUSIC BAR Imagine The Beatles It’s easy if you try 8pm £10 LIFE Moody Disco: Simon Baker, Dalton & Trench, Cedric Maison, Marlon Mahroyan, George Buko New house and techno night 11pm £5 MARLBOROUGH Queenie Is In The House Housey electro (downstairs) 8.30pm £tbc; The Cosmos, The Cosmetics (A Work In Progress) British subcultures form the backdrop to this tragicomic tale of self-discovery, delivered via poetry and theatrical storytelling (upstairs) 8pm £5/4 MESMERIST Shake Holla & Roll Swing jazz and R&B geared around the dancefloor Time tbc £free NORTHERN LIGHTS Disney Night Cartoon costumes and weird music in honour of everyone’s favourite cryogenic nazisympathiser Details tbc PAV TAV INDIEcent Indie club playing indie pop and indie rock 11pm £3/2 PRINCE ALBERT Day At The Dogs, Arkland, Mannequin, Vienna Live music 8pm £4/3 QUADRANT Pete’s Absurdia Cabaret Details tbc RANELAGH Bitter Ruin, Mishkin Drama student duo play at being spooky cabaret emos 8.30pm £free R-BAR Disco Bomb If your house was this explosive you might want to get your gas pipes checked Details tbc REVENGE Lollipop Dance and house hits 10.30pm £6/5/3/

free ROSE HILL TAVERN Suave Debonaire Amusingly quirky hip hop 7.30pm £free SMUGGLERS Bust It Funk, soul and hip hop DJs 9pm £free SUGAQUBE Suga Sessions: Cheets House DJs Time tbc £free THEATRE ROYAL Master Class Award-winning play about the opera singer Maria Callas 7.45pm £17-29 THOMAS KEMP DJ Jon Button Down 9pm £free THREE & TEN Gareth Stevens DJ set 10pm £free THREE AND TEN The Humble Quest For Universal Genius: Mark Allen, Nat Luurtsema, Kent Valentine Absurd gameshow in which comedians are required to excel in every field of human knowledge 8pm £8/6 VICTORY Teen Dream DJ set of punk and 60s garage scuzz 9pm £free VOLKS Fragment Birthday: DJ Zen, MDS, Trouble, RoBoTT, Mandidextrous, Synthetic Jungle mayhem 11pm £tbc WESTERN FRONT Bar Breaks Beats DJ night 9pm £free WEST HILL TAVERN Brains Eclectic mish-mash from Superheroes of BMX 9pm £free WORLD’S END DJ Night 8pm £free

saturday 19th

ANCIENT MARINER Acoustic Sessions Live music 8pm £free AUDIO Rocksounds Tour: Dinosaur Pile Up, The Xcerts, Japanese Voyeurs Rock mag’s pick of Britain’s best alternative bands 7pm £7.50; Warehouse: Filthy Dukes, Stopmakingme House and techno clubnight - plus Mex from Blackgrass playing rare grooves upstairs 11pm £5/free BASEMENT Making Bread Interactive arty happening with ‘open-pen’ drawing tables as well as music and spoken word stuff 8pm £5/4 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 BRUNSWICK South Coast Soul Revue Soul and funk music 8pm £6 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Cazza Karaoke 8.30pm £free COALITION Blow After Party: Vincent Manganaro, Carlos Riz, Aaron Palaez It never stops 3am £7/5/4 CONCORDE2 Roots Garden Reggae & Dub Sound System Special: Nations Vibration, Leroy Horns, Roots Garden Crew 11pm £5 CORN EXCHANGE Martlets Musical Spectacular Charity fundraiser full of hits from the musicals 4.30pm/7.30pm £19/17.50/15 DIGITAL Erol Alkan Electro DJ behind the notorious London club, Trash 11pm £10 DOCTOR BRIGHTON’S DJ Tony B 9.30pm £free DOME Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Pieces by Rimsky-Korsakov and Strauss telling tales of Sinbad, Aladdin and Don Quixote 7.30pm £27.50/10 FIDDLER’S ELBOW Saturday Sizzlers: Soul Casserole Funky Latin DJs 9pm £free FISHBOWL DJ Åbo, Ally Smith Jazz Room DJs play housey funk 9pm £free FORTUNE OF WAR DJ Derek Vintage reggae Details tbc FUNKY BUDDHA Reflex The 80s are back! The perfect soundtrack to Tory cuts and mass unemployment 11pm £5; 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 Boogie disco DJs 9pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Well Rounded: Julio Bashmore Bass riddims 11pm £6 HAMPTON iLike Bring your iPod and play your own tunes - you might like it, but will anyone else? 9pm £free HECTOR’S HOUSE Future Entertainments DJs remix 80s and 90s classics - so you don’t have to Details tbc HONEY Pukka Up If your house was this pukka you’d never run out of pies 10.30pm £10/5 HOPE Family Funktunes: Ears Wide Open, Slipstream, Dante, Delv, SiSupahoop Radio Reverb fundraiser with two floors of funk and disco DJs 8.30pm £4 HYDRANT DOWN Zen Elephant 9pm £free HYDRANT UP Heart In Hand Hardcore band 8pm £5 JAM Hush Up Brighton: Shortstuff, Dark Sky, Tom Kerridge Funky garage, dubstep and house 11pm £6 KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club: Paul McCaffrey, Steve Gribbin, Damian Clark, Robert Heeney Stand-up comedy 7pm/10.30pm £18/15.50 KOMEDIA STUDIO Spellbound ‘An 80s night for people who hate 80s nights’ - let Cherry Foxx and Simon Price guide you through the alternative highlights of the decade 9pm £5/4 KOMEDIA UP Bellylicious The Sequel: Confessions Of A Bellydance Diva Cabaret show with plenty of belly laughs 8pm £12 LIFE Hold Up! Proper indie disco 11pm £5 MARLBOROUGH Cherry Pop Cheese and 80s trash with DJ Fondue Inferno 8.30pm £free MESMERIST Shake Holla & Roll Swing jazz and R&B geared around the dancefloor Time tbc £free NORTHERN LIGHTS Duck Shoot Disco 70s and 80s disco tunes 9pm £free

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PAV TAV Back To The Future Retro tunes from before you were born 11pm £3/2 PRINCE ALBERT The Dakota Stars, The Vinyls, The Pink Oboes Live music 8pm £4 QUADRANT The Laughing Horse Comedy Night Stand-up comedy Details tbc R-BAR Kinky Classics DJ King-K plays funky house Details tbc REVENGE Kinky Dangerous: Lee Harris Pop and house tunes 10.30pm £8/6/4/3/free ROSE HILL TAVERN Denbe Afro Latin tunes 7.30pm £free SIDEWINDER Harry K’s Simply Dredd Reggae and party tunes 8pm £free SMUGGLERS Magnetic Pre-club beats from Unity Talent DJs 9pm £free SUGAQUBE Simply House Upfront house tunes from DJs Cheets and Hutson Time tbc £free THEATRE ROYAL Master Class Award-winning play about the opera singer Maria Callas 2.30pm/7.45pm £17-29 THREE & TEN Monkey DJ set (downstairs) 10pm £free VOLKS Frequency: Shimon, Blokhe4d, D Double U, High Maintenance, Deceit Dubstep and D&B night 10pm £1 WESTERN FRONT DJ Night Electro and funk stuff 9pm £free WEST HILL TAVERN Artists Only New wave and art school tunes 9pm £free WHITE RABBIT Live & Kicking The DJs are booked but Trevor and Simon are yet to confirm 9pm £free WORLD’S END Mr Harrison’s Tea Party Live bands 8pm £free

sunday 20th

BELUSHI’S BAR Now That’s What I Call A Party Part 1 9pm £free BLACK LION Dubrockerslive Reggae, ska and dub DJs Time tbc £free BRUNSWICK Rockschool Showcase for the kids to rock out 12pm/3pm £3; Ukulele Sundays Twenty five ukulele players in the same room 3pm £free; Brighton Folk Monthly folk night 8pm £free DUKE OF NORFOLK Live Music Night 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: Alan Bonner 9pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Sunday Service Live acoustic music 5pm £free; Green Door Blues Blues bands and DJs 9pm £free HAMPTON Live Music Sundays Showcase for local acts 8.30pm £free HECTOR’S HOUSE SchNEWS Fundraiser: Blyth Power, The Astronauts, Pog This is what happens when a trainspotter gets into punk, recruits a kick-arse keyboard player and writes anthemic folk rock about obscure historical events 8pm £5 HONEY Afrodisiac If your house was this sexy you’d soon wear out the wallpaper 10.30pm £3.50/free HOPE Suuns Dark drone rock from Montreal 8pm £tbc HYDRANT DOWN Acoustic Ska 9pm £free HYDRANT UP Jackhammer Metal Night 7.30pm £free KING & QUEEN Pub Quiz 7.30pm £1 KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club: Paul McCaffrey, Steve Gribbin, Damian Clark, Robert Heeney Stand-up comedy 8pm £11.50/6.50 KOMEDIA STUDIO The Zen Bicycle Club Freeform improvisation blending eastern and western styles 8.30pm £6/5 MESMERIST Swing My Roast Live swing and gypsy jazz 3pm £free PRINCE ALBERT A.S.B.O. Retards, The Jack Brews, Richie Blitz, The Barracks Live music 7.30pm £4 RANELAGH Dave Peabody Folk and bluesman 8.30pm £free R-BAR Sublime Sundays Acoustic sessions 5pm £free ROSE HILL TAVERN Jazz Sessions 7pm £free SIGNALMAN Open Mic Night 8pm £free SUGAQUBE All Night Long Hip hop and funk from DJ Mr Ray Time tbc £free THREE & TEN Strung Out Live acoustic music 8pm £free; The Green Show Part of the Five Colours Season (upstairs) 6pm £8/6 THREE JOLLY BUTCHERS Offal: Ged Butcher, Alan Sellers, Michael Mooney, Jo Public, Eden Rivers, Mark Mann, Jim Grant, Ben Salter, Sarah Hendricx Stand-up comedians try out new material 8pm £free WHITE RABBIT Live Jazz 3pm £free WORLD’S END Alchemy Benefit Gig Live music 8pm £donations

monday 21st

ANCIENT MARINER Quiz Night 8pm £1 AUDIO Morning Parade, Munich, The Mulburys Rock band with electronics and aspirations of stadium grandeur 7pm £tbc BELUSHI’S BAR Now That’s What I Call A Party Part 2 9pm £free BLACK LION The Lion, The Wit And The Frontal Lobe Pub quiz 8pm £1 BRUNSWICK Open Mic Night 8pm £free COALITION Trash Mondays Filthy tunes for students and layabouts alike 10pm £5/3/free CONCORDE2 Datsik, Andy C, Dynamite, MC GQ Dubstep

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wonderkid 7.30pm £10 GREEN DOOR STORE Monday Metal Metal bands and DJs 8pm £free HAMPTON Music Quiz 8pm £1 HECTOR’S HOUSE Rats On Rafts, The Dead Lovelies, Ellekaye New wave and indie bands 8pm £free HOPE La Shark, A Human Double headliners release dual single on So Darn So Records 8pm £tbc JAM I.O.U. Comedy: Simon Evans, Joey Page, Mark Stephenson, Katerina Vrana and Rupert Boon Comedy from up-and-comers and already-theres 8pm £3 KING & QUEEN 80s Club Tropicana Music from the 1980s 8pm £free LIFE Jail Bait It’s a 90s club night. We googled it for more details and now our hard drives have been confiscated by the filth 11pm £2 PAVILION THEATRE Tim Key: The Slutcracker Off-kilter comedian armed also with poems, films and a suit 8pm £10.50/8.50 PRINCE ALBERT Dutch Uncles, Young British Artists, Lovepark Live music 8pm £6 QUADRANT Sam Stones Monday Comedy Club Details tbc R-BAR Quiz With Liz Details tbc ROSE HILL TAVERN Pub Quiz 7pm £free SIDEWINDER Poker Night It’s about time for a gambling habit Time tbc £5 SIGNALMAN Pub Quiz 8pm £1 SUGAQUBE DeepSoul Maison Deep house with DJ Jason Pepperell Time tbc £free THEATRE ROYAL Reluctant Debutante Jane Asher and Belinda Lang in a comedic drama about the 1950s upper-class 7.45pm £17-29 THOMAS KEMP Quiz Night 8pm £1 VOLKS Strictly Reggae Dancehall, roots, revival 11pm £5/4.50 WESTERN FRONT Motown Mondays DJs play soul and Motown Time tbc £free

Tuesday 22nd

AUDIO Jamie Woon Soulful singer songwriter 7pm £9; Lights Out 11pm £tbc BELUSHI’S BAR Totalled On Tuesday! Pop and dance 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Elements Drum&bass night 10pm £2/1 BRUNSWICK Jazz Jam Open session with house band 8pm £free CHEQUERS Open Mic Chequers 9pm £tbc CONCORDE2 Carl Barat Former Libertine’s frontman ditches Dirty Pretty Things and goes solo 8pm £14 COOPER’S CASK General Knowledge, General Nonsense Quiz 9pm £1 DIGITAL CU Next Tuesday Student club night formerly known as Glitterati 11pm £4/3 DUKE OF NORFOLK Open Mic 9pm £free FIDDLER’S ELBOW Quizness Time Are you a pub quiz whizz, or bit of a half-wit? 8pm £1 FORAGERS C.U.L.T. Comedy: Angela Barnes, Jim Holland, Claire Parker, Adam Race, Martin Henley, Nick Dent Kev Quatermass comperes a night of top Brighton stand-up Time tbc £4/3 GLOBE Basement Cinema Underground films, comfy seats, free popcorn 8pm £free GOLDEN CANNON Poker Night 8pm £5 GREEN DOOR STORE Hard Times Leftfield disco punk from Born Bad DJ 11pm £free HONEY Latin Fever We’re not talking Ricky Martin, but then who is? 10pm £4/3 HYDRANT UP Decodes 7.30pm £free KING & QUEEN Karaoke Night 9pm £free LATEST MUSIC BAR Dark Side Of The Tune Quiz Night 7.30pm £tbc LIFE The Vice Social Student dance party 11pm £3 MASH TUN Mash. Drink. Repeat. Rock, indie and electro tunes 9pm £tbc MESMERIST The Mesmerist Conjuring Consortium Club for magicians - watch and learn Time tbc £tbc PAV TAV Guerilla Rocks Club night for rock chicks, skater bois and indie kids 11pm £3/2/1 PRINCE ALBERT Gallions, Fox Pockets, Lucy Elliot Live music 8.30pm £4/3 R-BAR Karaoke Unplugged Details tbc REVENGE Sound As A Pound Charty tunes 11pm £2/free RED LION General Knowledge Quiz 8pm £1 SIDEWINDER Open Mic Night 8pm £free THEATRE ROYAL Reluctant Debutante Jane Asher and Belinda Lang in a comedic drama about the 1950s upper-class 7.45pm £17-29 THOMAS KEMP Poker Evening 8pm £tbc THREE AND TEN Brett Goldsein Grew Up In A Strip Club Real-life confessions of a former strip club manager 8pm £7/5 WALMER CASTLE BAD Ukes: Brighton After Dark Ukulele Session Informal gathering of ukulelists 8.30pm £tbc WESTERN FRONT Ruby Tuesdays DJs play 60s rock&roll Time tbc £free

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w e d n e s d ay 23rd

ABOVE AUDIO The Doctor’s Orders Sick hip hop 11pm £free AUDIO Supercharged: Scratch Perverts 11pm £tbc BELUSHI’S BAR Now That’s What I Call A Party Part 3 9pm £free BLACK LION Fresh Acoustics Live music 8.30pm £free BRUNSWICK Live ‘n’ Laughing Stand-up and live music 8pm £5/4 CONCORDE2 Itchy Feet Brighton Launch Party Swing, soul and ska - rock&roll, R&B and reggae 10pm £5 COOPER’S CASK Blues Classic blues tunes from DJ Veronica Details tbc DIGITAL The Poundance Imagine if Poundstretcher had a dancefloor - top pop tunes for a pittance 11pm £4/3/1 DUKE OF NORFOLK Pub Quiz 9pm £1 FISHBOWL Fisherman’s Chronicles Acoustic open jam followed by DJs 8pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE The Jazz Store Live jazz with an open jam 11pm £free HOPE Glasser Experimental electronic sounds tempered by angelic singing and acoustic instruments 8pm £8.50/7.50 HYDRANT UP Metal 2 The Masses Battling for a Bloodstock slot 7.30pm £free JAM Young Rebel Set Seven-piece ‘urban folk’ band 7pm £7; Club NME: Deadwax Live music 10pm £4/3 KOMEDIA UP British Sea Power This month’s SOURCE cover stars return to the fray for another round of grand indie pop (now sold out, extra date added for tomorrow) 7.30pm £13.50 MARLBOROUGH Open Mic (downstairs) 8pm £free; Silver Wednesday: The Silent Movie Experience David Watts provides his own quirky soundtrack (upstairs) 8.30pm £6/5 MASH TUN Tin Cup Collective Live funk soul band 9pm £tbc MESMERIST Swing Ninjas Uptempo gypsy band Time tbc £free PRINCE ALBERT Flood Of Red Live music 8pm £5 R-BAR Trickpop Pop and R&B from DJ Trick 8pm £free SALLIS BENNEY Fearful Symmetry Sounds like a prog rock album, in actual fact it’s a talk about how symmetry seems to crop up in stuff like evolution and chemistry 7.30pm £7/5/3 SIDEWINDER The Sidewinder Garden Quiz 8pm £1 THEATRE ROYAL Reluctant Debutante Jane Asher and Belinda Lang in a comedic drama about the 1950s upper-class 7.45pm £17-29 THOMAS KEMP Kev’s Open Mic 8.30pm £tbc THREE & TEN Katy And Rach Unprepared, unaided improvised comedy (upstairs) 8pm £6/5

thursday 24th

AUDIO Bastard Pop Musical mash-up 11pm £2 BASEMENT Charlie Parr, Serious Sam Barrett Bluesy slideguitarist 7.30pm £10/9 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 COALITION Venetian Snares, DJ Scotch Egg Live music 7.30pm £11; Secret Discotheque Retro disco, 80s pop and other ‘uncool’ tunes 10.30pm £4/3/2/1 CONCORDE2 Grinspoon, Jettblack, Floors And Walls, Rocket Dolls Australian rockers 7.30pm £10 FIDDLER’S ELBOW Live Lounge Live music 8.30pm £free FISHBOWL Residents Association DJ Will Sumsuch plays hip hop, funk and world beats 10.30pm £free GLOBE Hang The DJ! A night of punter-picked playlists 9pm £free GOLDEN CANNON Live Music 8pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE TRIIAL Genre-less dance party with a secret band and guest DJ 11pm £free HOBGOBLIN Live Music Thursdays 9pm £free HONEY Exposed! Does it mean you’ll be exposed to new music? Or is it ‘exposed’ as in people being able to see into the crevice of your cleavage? It’s up to you 10.30pm £2 HOPE Communion Live music 8pm £tbc HYDRANT Dukebox Music and slam poetry7.30pm £tbc JAM Thursday Night Fish Fry Jamaican ska, R&B and rocksteady 10pm £2/1 KENDAL ARMS Poker Tournament 8.30pm £5 KOMEDIA DOWN Comic Boom: Ginger & Black, Seann Walsh Stand-up comedy 8pm £9/7 KOMEDIA STUDIO Spirit Of Gravity: Komuso, Barking Toad, Laboratoro Weird adventures with electronic music and poetry 8.30pm £5/4 KOMEDIA UP British Sea Power This month’s SOURCE cover stars return to the fray for another round of grand indie pop 7.30pm £13.50 LIFE Shameless Half a century of musical highlights and lowpoints 11pm £1 MESMERIST The Cat’s Meow Live swing jazz bands Time tbc £free

PAVILION THEATRE Dick Whittington And His Cat Maisie Lewd adult panto with no shortage of Dick jokes 5pm/8pm £17 PRINCE ALBERT Ragweed, Deporting Marta, Wreck The Place Fantastic, I Am Your Hero Live music 8pm £4 QUADRANT AKL Open Mic Night 8pm £free RANELAGH Nicky Mitchell Jazz, soul and comedy 8.30pm £free R-BAR Girls On Top Warm Up Pop and party tunes to get you in the mood for more of the same 9pm £tbc REVENGE Girls On Top Vs Emergency Room Pop music clubnight 10.30pm £4/3/free ROSE HILL TAVERN Bands Night Live acoustic indie rock 7.30pm £free ST JAMES’ TAVERN Stay Sick Turn Blue! DJs play vintage blues, soul and funk 8.30pm £free SIDEWINDER Forgive Me Father For I Have Synthed Confess your shameful 80s love secret 8pm £free SUGAQUBE Weekend Warmup: Gary Scott Dance DJ Time tbc £free THEATRE ROYAL Reluctant Debutante Jane Asher and Belinda Lang in a comedic drama about the 1950s upper-class 2.30pm/7.45pm £17-29 THREE AND TEN Music Box Local acoustic music 8pm £5/4 VICTORY Open Mic 8pm £free VOLKS Gonzo: Rob Smiley, Matt Matheson Electro, house and techno 11pm £5/4/3 WEST HILL TAVERN Open Mic 8pm £free WHITE RABBIT Open Mic 9pm £free WINDMILL Free Music Thursdays Juice FM presents an open mic followed by headline band 8pm £free WORLD’S END The Big Cash Quiz 8pm £tbc

friday 25th

ABOVE AUDIO Bar Sessions DJs Time tbc £free AUDIO Disco Deviant: Greg Wilson, Pablo Contraband, Matthew Burgess Disco, funk and house 11pm £8/7/5 BELUSHI’S BAR Muy Loco Pop and house DJs 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Abandoned Rock and metal night 10pm £3/2 BLACK LION Medium Rare DJs serving up a platter of semiobscure funk and soul 8.30pm £free BRIGHTON TOWN HALL The Alpha Project Theatre piece questioning belief in psychic abilities - performances take place every hour in the old police cells 10am £10/8 BRUNSWICK Spirit Simon D’Souza’s jazz sextet follows Charlie Mingus in search of unusual fusions 8pm £6/4 CARLUCCIO’S Inspirational Breakfast: ManagemANT The B&H Chamber of Commerce asks: do we really need managers?

They suggest that maybe ants have the answer. The SOURCE asks: should we worry that economists are inspired by a totalitarian species of mindless worker-minions? Find out over a fancy Italian breakfast 7.45am £24/12.50 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 CONCORDE2 Roll Deep Rising grime figures 7pm £11; Revolt Alternative club with circus acts, zombies and live bands 11pm £5 DIGITAL Stonelove A dancing and drinking club for fans of indiestyle music 11pm £4/3 DOCTOR BRIGHTON’S DJ Nick Hirst 9.30pm £free DOME Anton & Erin: Puttin’ On The Ritz A celebration of ballroom dance with a live orchestra and them two off Strictly Come Dancing 7.30pm £35/29.50/24.50 DUKE OF NORFOLK DJ Cashback 9pm £free FISHBOWL LateNite Lounging: Will Sumsuch, Tim Mercer If your house was this deep it would need therapy 9pm £free FORTUNE OF WAR Shakehandsletsparty Molly Malone plays a bit of everything Details tbc FUNKY BUDDHA Drink, Dance, Repeat Unpretentious and boozy student night 11pm £5/3 FUNKYFISH The Funkyfish Club Soul, funk, jazz, Motown 60s, 70s and 80s 10pm £6/3.50 GLOBE Eclectic Chair Buzzing tunes from DJ Lamp 9pm £free GRAND CENTRAL Dad’s Old Vinyl Soul, funk and disco records 8pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Maths Live music 8pm £tbc; Teen Creeps New wave and electro clubnight with live guests at midnight 11pm £free HAMPTON Mod For It! DJ set of Motown, soul and ska 8pm £free HECTOR’S HOUSE Stay Sick DJs and bands play punky psychobilly 8.30pm £tbc HONEY I Love R&B Juicy house with a twist of hip hop 10.30pm £6/5/free HOPE Polly And The Billets Doux, Fiano Sally Miller, The Forestears, Kristin McClement Jazzy country band 8pm £6/5 HYDRANT DOWN Sun Of Souls 9pm £free JAM Cat Face There’s anti-cheese party music and a big discount for wearing feline features 10.30pm £10/2 KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club: Al Barrie, Rufus Hound, Tom Price Stand-up comedy 8pm £14.50/11.50 KOMEDIA STUDIO Brighton Jazz Club: Kevin Flanagan Quartet Live jazz 8pm £12/10 KOMEDIA UP SEE: The Brighton Documentary Film Festival 2011 See ‘Culture’ preview for more info 11am £tbc; Richard Herring: Christ On A Bike - The Second Coming Herring explores an atheist’s affinity with the Messiah in this revamp of his first ever solo show 8pm £15 LATEST MUSIC BAR Sirens Goes To The Love Shack:

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Miss Bombshell, Size O Albino, Havana & Rose, Chi Chi Revolver Dare you follow? Saucy cabaret and kitchy pop awaits you... 10pm £7/5 LIFE AKAAKAROAR!: James Blake, Joy Orbison, Blawan, Nightmoves DJs Forward thinking bass music 11pm £8 MARLBOROUGH Retro Disco DJ night (downstairs) 8.30pm £free; A Woman On The Verge (A Work In Progress) A bearded lady muses on matters of faded glamour, social burdens and home baking (upstairs) 8.30pm £6.50/5.50 MESMERIST Shake Holla & Roll Swing jazz and R&B geared around the dancefloor Time tbc £free NORTHERN LIGHTS DJ James Indie rock classics Details tbc OLD COURT HOUSE SEE: The Brighton Documentary Film Festival 2011 See ‘Culture’ preview for more info 5pm £tbc PAV TAV INDIEcent Indie club playing indie pop and indie rock 11pm £3/2 PAVILION THEATRE Dick Whittington And His Cat Maisie Lewd adult panto with no shortage of Dick jokes 5pm/8pm £17 PRINCE ALBERT Sparrow, Flash Bang Band, Raising Masie Live music 8.30pm £4 QUADRANT Shaggers Details tbc RANELAGH The Bobby McGees, Clare King A couple having a series of domestics and make-ups to a ukulele backing 8.30pm £free R-BAR Disco Bomb If your house was this explosive you might want to get your gas pipes checked Details tbc REVENGE Go Launch Party: The Freemasons House DJs and sexy go go boys - if you’re lucky you might even get a secret handshake 10.30pm £tbc ROSE HILL TAVERN Jay Leighton Live acoustic music 7.30pm £free SMUGGLERS Bust It Funk, soul and hip hop DJs 9pm £free SUGAQUBE Suga Sessions: Cheets, Brady House DJs Time tbc £free THEATRE ROYAL Reluctant Debutante Jane Asher and Belinda Lang in a comedic drama about the 1950s upper-class 7.45pm £17-29 THOMAS KEMP DJ Funkenstein 9pm £free THREE & TEN DJ NoMark Where’s Mark gone? (downstairs) 10pm £free; Rabbit In The Headlights Stand-up comics tread the boards (upstairs) 8pm £6/5 VOLKS In The Face: Kanji Kinetic, ITF Mutant dubstep mash up 10pm £tbc WESTERN FRONT Bar Breaks Beats DJ night 9pm £free WEST HILL TAVERN Envy Electro and hip hop DJs 10pm £free WORLD’S END Unity Hi Fi Reggae DJs 8pm £free

saturday 26th

AUDIO Warehouse: Burns House and techno clubnight - plus Mex from Blackgrass playing rare grooves upstairs 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 DOVE The Devil’s Music Western swing and dixieland DJs 8pm £free BLACK LION Attic Monkeys Hey, check out my record collection! 9pm £free BRUNSWICK Bakk Lamp Fall Percussion-based Senegalese music 7.30pm £7/5 COALITION Darkstar, Vision Of Trees, John Roberts Synthpop meets dubstep 7.30pm £7.50; Wired: Hardworx, Vincent Manganaro, Charly Lopez DJs and VJs 11pm £8; Blow After Party: Vincent Manganaro, Carlos Riz, Aaron Palaez It never stops 3am £7/5/4 CONCORDE2 Devotion: Hype, Original Sin, Benny Page, Skibabee Drum&bass, breakbeat and electronica 11pm £10 COOPERS CASK Craperet! ‘The worst cabaret you will ever see!’ - a bold claim indeed Time tbc £free DIGITAL Playroom Housey hedonism in a playground of bouncy inflatable fun 11pm £12/10 DOCTOR BRIGHTON’S DJ Tony B 9.30pm £free DOME London Philharmonic Orchestra Music by Schubert, Rachmaninov and Beethoven 7.30pm £32.50/10 DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Met. Opera: Iphigenie En Tauride 6pm EVERYBODY INN Glory Hole Busy homoerotic disco club - it’s one out, one in 10pm £1 FIDDLER’S ELBOW Saturday Sizzlers: SuperJam Funk so rare it bleeds 9pm £free FISHBOWL Daddy Marcus Soul and funk DJ set 9pm £free FORTUNE OF WAR The Big Chill Handover Club swap with Bristol’s Big Chill Bar; Dave Smeaton and Suisse Tony take over for the night Details tbc FUNKY BUDDHA Reflex The 80s are back! The perfect soundtrack to Tory cuts and mass unemployment 11pm £5; 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 DJ Night Funk, northern soul and disco 9pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Crash The Wedding Your chance to reclaim the best bits of naff wedding music 11pm £6/5/3 HAMPTON iLike Bring your iPod and play your own tunes - you

might like it, but will anyone else? 9pm £free HECTOR’S HOUSE Playgroup! ‘A festival in a pub’ - but with better toilets 8pm £free H-BAR The Masquerade Motel: Carl Mills, Howie D, Justin Howard, Coxy, Nick Tee, Gary Eeks, Osaro Musika celebrate their 2nd anniversary with a themed party mixing decadence and disco 9pm £tbc HOBGOBLIN BnW Ale Festival Barn Dance! Live country music, dance lessons, hay bales and cheap ales 2pm £free HONEY Hed Kandi Uplifting disco and house 10.30pm £10/5 HOPE Because Worse Things Happen At Sea: Gorse, Tyler Rome, The Causeway Occupation Indie rock and punk 7.30pm £5 HYDRANT DOWN Tropical Underground 9pm £free HYDRANT UP Water Tower Bucket Boys, Hatful Of Rain Country and bluegrass bands 8pm £9/8 JAM Exlovers Dreamy and romantic indie pop band 7pm £7; Midland & Al Tourettes, Cedric Maison & Chris K Put on your dubstep shoes 11pm £10/7 KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club: Al Barrie, Rufus Hound, Tom Price Stand-up comedy 7pm/10.30pm £15.50 KOMEDIA STUDIO Da Doo Ron Ron Ronettes Shangri-Las Bad Girl Special Clubnight with a fixation on girlgroups and soul sirens 11pm £6/5 KOMEDIA UP SEE: The Brighton Documentary Film Festival 2011 See ‘Culture’ preview for more info 10am £tbc; Tina Dico Danish singer songwriter with new album out 8pm £12 LATEST MUSIC BAR The Brighton Youth Orchestra String Ensemble 8pm £6/5; Poleoke: Interactive erotic exercise competition 10pm £10 LIFE Hold Up! Proper indie disco 11pm £5 MARLBOROUGH Cherry Pop Cheese and 80s trash with DJ Fondue Inferno (downstairs) 8.30pm £free; A Woman On The Verge (A Work In Progress) A bearded lady muses on matters of faded glamour, social burdens and home baking (upstairs) 8.30pm £6.50/5.50 MESMERIST Shake Holla & Roll Swing jazz and R&B geared around the dancefloor Time tbc £free NORTHERN LIGHTS DJ Oli Funk and soul Details tbc OLD COURT HOUSE SEE: The Brighton Documentary Film Festival 2011 See ‘Culture’ preview for more info 10am £tbc PAV TAV Snap Cackle & Britpop Join Dynamite Sal for a fullblown 90s party 11am £3 PAVILION THEATRE Dick Whittington And His Cat Maisie Lewd adult panto with no shortage of Dick jokes 5pm/8pm £17 PRINCE ALBERT Bermondsey Joyriders, The De Rellas Live punk bands 8pm £8.50 QUADRANT The Laughing Horse Comedy Night Stand-up comedy Details tbc R-BAR Kinky Classics DJ King-K plays funky house Details tbc REVENGE Gay For Johnny Depp, The Computers, Easy Hips Live music 2pm £6; Kinky Dangerous Pop and R&B tunes 10.30pm £8/6/4/3/free ROSE HILL TAVERN Roots And Branches Reggae and ska tunes 7.30pm £free SIDEWINDER Danceteria DJs Spinning a mix of disco, boogie, house and funk 8pm £free SMUGGLERS Magnetic Pre-club beats from Unity Talent DJs 9pm £free SUGAQUBE Simply House Upfront house tunes from DJ Cheets Time tbc £free THEATRE ROYAL Reluctant Debutante Jane Asher and Belinda Lang in a comedic drama about the 1950s upper-class 2.30pm/7.45pm £17-29 THOMAS KEMP DJ Molar 9pm £free THREE & TEN Matt Barker Magnificently turned out DJ with impeccable hair (downstairs) 10pm £free; Off The Cuff Comedy invented in real-time (upstairs) 8pm £8/6; Red Brick Comedy Club: Phil Kay, Romesh Ranganathan, Robin Buckland, Luke Toulson Stand-up comedy (upstairs) 10pm £10/7.50 VICTORY Fernando Poo Glam rock tunes from the days before Glitter was a dirty word 9pm £free VOLKS The Big Bang Dubstep and D&B night 11pm £tbc WESTERN FRONT DJ Night Electro and funk stuff 9pm £free WEST HILL TAVERN L’Amour Electronique French pop and electronic delights pour vous 9pm £free WORLD’S END Not Yet Dead Live bands 8pm £free

sunday 27th

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 Time tbc £free BRUNSWICK Liane Carroll & Ian Shaw Live jazz 8pm £15 DOME Tinie Tempah Chart-topping London rapper 7pm £16.50 DUKE OF NORFOLK Live Music Night 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 GREEN DOOR STORE Sunday Service Live acoustic music 5pm £free; Green Door Blues Blues bands and DJs 9pm £free HAMPTON Live Music Sundays Showcase for local acts 8.30pm £free HECTOR’S HOUSE The Lovely Brothers A night of oddball

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monday 28th

ANCIENT MARINER Quiz Night 8pm £1 BELUSHI’S BAR Now That’s What I Call A Party Part 2 9pm £free BLACK LION The Lion, The Wit And The Frontal Lobe Pub quiz 8pm £1 BRIGHTON BALLROOM The Tusk & Garter Club: The Veering Wheels, SpaceDog, Carnivalesque DJs Relive the good old days of the colonial empire with this strange mixture of world music, steampunk fancy dress, belly dancing and live swing bands 10pm £7/5 BRUNSWICK Open Mic Night 8pm £free CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Roflcopters Comedy Club: Alex Zane, Matthew Crosby, Joey Page Stand-up 8.30pm £1 COALITION Trash Mondays Filthy tunes for students and layabouts alike 10pm £5/3/free GREEN DOOR STORE Monday Metal Metal bands and DJs 8pm £free HAMPTON Music Quiz 8pm £1 KING & QUEEN 80s Club Tropicana Music from the 1980s 8pm £free LATEST MUSIC BAR Kate, K. Daisy Grant, Lloyd Davies Alternative folk pop 8pm £2 LIFE Jail Bait It’s a 90s club night. We googled it for more details and now our hard drives have been confiscated by the filth 11pm £2 PRINCE ALBERT Born To Lose Details tbc QUADRANT Sam Stones Monday Comedy Club Details tbc R-BAR Quiz With Liz Details tbc ROSE HILL TAVERN Pub Quiz 7pm £free SIDEWINDER Poker Night It’s about time for a gambling habit Time tbc £5 SIGNALMAN Pub Quiz 8pm £1 SUGAQUBE DeepSoul Maison Deep house with DJ Jason Pepperell Time tbc £free THEATRE ROYAL Tell Me On A Sunday Imagine if Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote a musical inspired by the same duff romantic tropes that fuelled a hundred too many rom-coms. You need imagine no longer 7.45pm £17-29 VOLKS Strictly Reggae Dancehall, roots, revival 11pm £5/4.50 WESTERN FRONT Motown Mondays DJs play soul and Motown Time tbc £free

Exhibitions

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 Until 20 March £free CASTOR & POLLUX Burning Love Valentine’s show by Jonny Hannah 12 Feb - 13 March £tbc HOVE MUSEUM FINE ART GALLERY Picturing Stories A collection of oil paintings on the theme of storytelling Until March £free INK_D New In & Old Out Group show of old and new work, like an arty equivalent of a January sale Until 20 Feb £tbc LIGHTHOUSE Archivia Screenings of regional heritage films 4-13 Feb £tbc; Laboratory Life Artists and scientists come together to mess about with cutting edge medical technology 22-28 Feb £tbc MAGNUM OPUS Gavin Watson: Skins No stylised television teenagers here - just big prints of images of punks and skinheads Until 5 Feb £tbc PHOENIX BRIGHTON Pigment & Light: Andrew Gifford, June Frickleton, Julian Vilarrubi Exploring colour through painting and luminous installations Until 20 Feb £free

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SIX OF THE BEST

PROTEST SONGS WORDS BY NICK COQUET, JAMES KENDALL

If music really changed things in any tangible sense, it would have been made illegal by now. But that hasn’t stopped generations of songwriters defining the zeitgeist, soundtracking the times and generally socking it to The Man. Here’s half a dozen agit-pop artists who liked stirring shit up – maybe the unrest at the moment will encourage a new generation to revive the protest song.

BILLIE HOLIDAY ‘Strange Fruit’ (1939)

Hardly ‘All You Need Is Love’, ‘Strange Fruit’ in the hands of Billie Holiday is one of the most harrowing records of all time. In performance the blues queen looks and sounds like she’s going break down, explode in anger or be sick. And for good reason. You don’t need to dig too deep behind the gentle, melancholic melody to find the horrific subject matter, lynching: “Black body swinging in the southern breeze/Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees”. Upsettingly powerful stuff. (JK)

EDWIN STARR ‘WAR’

(1970)

Possibly an even more powerful anti-conflict rhetoric than Culture Club’s ‘War Song’, Edwin Starr’s defining moment was a big, bad-ass sucker punch for Nixon’s out-ofcontrol Vietnam fiasco. It was in fact originally recorded by the Temptations but lacked the sheer lung-busting vitriol Starr brought to the party. For such a polemic to reach number one on Billboard in the conservative USA of 1970 is incredible, and it remains probably the most famous protest song ever. (NC)

ROBERT WYATT ‘SHIPBULDING’ (1982)

Written by Elvis Costello but given its definitive poignancy by the haunting voice of Robert Wyatt, ‘Shipbuilding’ was a thinking man’s Falklands protest song, at a time when the genre had all but dried up. What it lacked in a shouty,

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picket line chorus was more than made up for by the quietly intellectual paradox of providing steelworks employment replacing sunken vessels and then sending those same local men off to die in them. Suede covered this for the ‘Help’ benefit album, but their version was no good. (NC)

THE SPECIAL AKA

‘FREE NELSON MANDELA’ (1984)

27 years ago Nelson Mandela wasn’t the happy, waving bloke in a loud shirt we know today, he was doing stir for standing up for black rights in apartheid-ridden South Africa. Jerry Dammers of the Specials wasn’t having any of it though, and penned this African music-based protest classic, sung by Stan Campbell. It would take six more years for Mandela to be freed, but for many this was their introduction to his prison plight and a galvaniser in his campaign for eventual freedom. (NC)

MORRISSEY

‘MARGARET ON THE GUILLOTINE’ (1988)

Not a hit single or even a particularly well known title from Moz’s canon, but this frank and eerie album closer from his solo debut ‘Viva Hate’ encapsulates much of the nation’s feelings towards the Iron Lady, in the wake of a decade’s protest and persecution. He presents his message simply, an iron fist in a velvet ballad glove: “People like you make me feel so tired/When will you die?” A haunting Spanish guitar refrain tails the lyric, fading to the absolute finality of the weighty blade sounding its deadly and decapitatory descent. (NC)

PUBLIC ENEMY

‘FIGHT THE POWER’ (1989)

Chuck D described PE’s music as a black CNN – a media voice for the hitherto disenfranchised. Bus seating was no longer a legal issue, but young black America still wouldn’t have dared imagine an afro comb in the White House bathroom. This clarion call from ‘Fear Of A Black Planet’ called for the audience to organise in order to revolutionise, chastising ‘Don’t Worry, Be Happy’ for its lie-down-and-take-it rhetoric and Elvis and John Wayne’s national reverence despite extolling redneck racism.

Black America had fought hard for its freedom and relative equality, this was a harsh reminder not to sit back and relax. (NC)

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