GIGS, CLUBS, CULTURE & BRIGHTON’S BEST LISTINGS
ABI WADE NOUVEAU CELLO MAESTRO
VOLUME 2. ISSUE 42 MARCH 2012
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GREEN SHOOTS
It looks like Brighton has woken up out of its hibernation. There’s about twice as much stuff going on this month than we had space for in the magazine (lucky for you it’s all previewed and heading to brightonsource.co.uk). So let’s use this last bit of space for a quick rundown. First up, The Apples bring their ninepiece dirty funk/turntablism/Eastern melodies mix to the Blind Tiger on Sunday 11th. There’s loads of new club nights, including Songs For The Deaf, a night of alternative 90s anthems at the Pav Tav on every first Saturday, as well as more live hip hop at the Easy Bar (Phi Life Cypher on Friday 9th). A new label, Friendly Dinner, is releasing our Writer’s Poll winner, ‘A Drowning’ by Black Black Hills and there’s a pop-up kitchen at The Farm. Plus there are loads of sold out gigs worth getting ripped by touts for. Rizzle Kicks at the Concorde (Tues 13th/Weds 14th) will be immense and one to brag about when your mates see them at the Brighton Centre later this year. Elsewhere get begging for Van Morrison, The Cribs and Sinead O’Connor. Oh yeah, and all the other stuff in the magazine, if that doesn’t appeal.
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PERSONNEL
EDITOR James Kendall MANAGER Rosie Kendall DESIGNER Matt Barker at Artwerk DEPUTY EDITOR Nick Coquet SALES MANAGER Annie Lorenzini LISTINGS EDITOR Ben Bailey SUB EDITOR Stuart Huggett CLUBS EDITOR Zac Colbert REVIEWS EDITOR Jessica Marshall McHattie STAFF WRITER Thirza Tooes COVER Kenny Mc Cracken Shot at Create Studios.
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CONTENTS
News New In Town Gig Previews Interview: Abi Wade Club Previews Club Review: Proper Gander Club Review: Vanity Culture Critic Preview: See Festival SOURCE Virgins: Never Had A Tan Street Style Unsung Hero: George Ginn Secret Eater: Fitzherberts In Conversation With: DJ Format Listings Six Of The Best: Miserable Songs
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NEWS
WORDS BY STEVE CLEMENTS, STUART HUGGETT, JESSICA MARSHALL MCHATTIE, JAMES KENDALL, ADAM PETERS, THIRZA TOOES
HELP HANDMADE
Brighton is so special because we really value the unique and small-scale. The Lanes are one of our most popular city spots, and our countless markets do a roaring trade. Unfortunately bills still need to be paid, and Handmade Brighton is now desperately seeking new premises to continue its not-for-profit gallery. Showcasing work from over 60 local designers, this amazing enterprise would be a real shame to lose. If you have any ideas on an alternative venue, please contact handmade.co@hotmail.com.
KEMP TOWN GOES RIO
This year’s Kemp Town Carnival is coming up on June 9th, and organisers are starting the festivities early with two fundraising events this month. The Blind Tiger hosts a Carnival Spectacular on Tuesday 6th, with live music from groovers The Muel, ex-12 Stone Toddlers Mynie Moe and Balkanesque ska band Ratbags. Then on Friday 23rd, Concorde 2 welcomes Resonators, Carnival Collective and Roots Garden for an exuberant Dubraizer party. Visit kemptowncarnival.com for details.
FRINGE IN YOUR EYES
This year’s Brighton Fringe will see over 675 events taking place in 191 venues across the city, from May 5th to the 27th. The range of entertainment includes veteran guests Des O’Connor and Tony Benn, a full line-up of comedy (including Mark Steel, Gina Yashere and Isy Suttie), dozens of theatrical productions and countless unclassifiable performances in surprising and unusual places. Tickets go on general sale on March 1st, with the full printed brochure appearing mid-month.
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THE 2 BEARS
VEGFEST GROWS Hove Centre Sat 17th & Sun 18th
Vegfest, the annual jamboree for those that choose not to eat anything with a face, continues to go from strength to strength. There will be over 100 stalls spread over three floors, films and talks plus a licensed bar. With free entry, loads of tasty plant-based free samples and a full program of live bands, cooking demos and animal welfare discussions, this should satisfy everyone from the ‘vegetarians’ who eat fish and support the dairy trade to the most hard-line vegan.
FATBOY DJS ANNOUNCED
We’ve known about the event for a while but finally the line-up for Fatboy Slim’s Big Beach Boutique has been announced. Joining the man on Friday June 1st are Carl Cox, Luciano, The 2 Bears and Maya Jane Coles, with Saturday bringing along Nero, Annie Mac, DJ Fresh, Jaguar Skills, Doorly and Union. This year the festival will be held in the sparkly new AMEX stadium, and we predict everyone there will be shaking their wobbly bits.
ESCAPE THE LINE-UP
The Great Escape is a great place to catch acts that will be big in the next few years, before anyone besides their mums knows who they are. This year’s line-up ranges from the garage beats of Mujeres, to the tinkling ivories of Nils Frahms and post-hardcore of We Are The Ocean. If you’re deeply in the red then no worries, you can volunteer to help out and witness all the glory for nothing. TGE takes place May 10th to the 12th.
WARREN LOVESTICK TRIBUTE
It was with sadness that we returned in the New Year to the news that popular promoter Warren Lovestick had passed away. He promoted the events that gave him his adopted surname for seven years across Brighton, frequently for charity. His Pride parade antics were legendary. Saturday 17th sees Psychosocial given over to a night of remembrance, full of the funky underground house that he loved.
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The Fiddler’s Elbow Friday 16th March
St Patrick’s Weekender Warm-up
kicks off a craic-ing weekend of st patrick’s day partying!
Saturday & Sunday 17th &18th March
The Legendary St Patrick’s Day Street Party at the Fiddler’s Elbow
two whole days of street party celebrations!
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Brighton's Original & Best Irish Pub Boyce’s Street (between West St & Middle St)
NEW IN TOWN WORDS MATT BARKER, STUART HUGGETT, JAMES KENDALL JESSICA MARSHALL MCHATTIE, THIRZA TOOES
BRIGHTON SKATEBOARDS
IPOP!
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THE VERDICT
GUERILLA ROCKS
HOLD UP!/JUICEBOX
BOHEMIA
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THE WELLSBOURNE SOCIETY
Endless nights are dedicated to anthem nostalgia, of every genre. But iPop! blows them all out of the water as it spans five, yes, five decades of floor fillers to help remind you of all the god-awful things you wore. Following Komedia’s Krater Comedy Club, anyone who fancies a dance afterwards gets in free, though at £3 on the door it won’t break the bank. The night boasts great DJs like Iced Gems (of Unhooked Generation fame) and best of all they’re always amenable to requests.
With electro swing so ubiquitous on the local club scene, it’s only natural for Brighton audiences to clamour for some authentic jazz. And now they have it, in the shape of The Verdict, our first ever purpose-built jazz venue, on Edward Street. Friday 2nd sees their first club night with the Simon Robinson trio, and a heavy-hitting programme booked up til May, plus there’s a café and bar open from 8am til late. Nice.
It’s all change down on the seafront for Saturday nights. Indie night stalwart Hold Up! – after eight years at Life – has shuffled over to The Tube and Juicebox has jumped in its place. Apparently it’s all working out perfectly: Hold Up love the intimate setting chock full of music lovers, while Juicebox has been a riot of partygoers going mental to the high-octane mix of indie and dance, thrown down by Eddie The Goatboy Matatatat and George Nunners. Everyone’s a winner.
For a club as shiny new as PsychoSocial you’d expect a load of new nights, and here’s another fresh feather in their cap. Incognito is promising three rooms of psychedelic and progressive trance topped with techno, electro, house, fidget, gypsy, dub and glitch. As if that’s not enough the crew, in association with Liquid Records (whose Beatnik and Slackbaba headline the launch on Sat 3rd), are making it a multimedia affair with bucketloads of décor.
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A new online outlet for the city’s skater community, Brighton Skateboards specialises in manufacturing and importing boutique and retro skate brands. Ranging from US longboards to iconic 70s reissues (check out their great nostalgic, multicoloured plastic board in the photo above), you can browse the initial ranges at brightonskateboards.com. The team are also planning a bunch of outdoor skate events for Brighton during the summer.
Bringing the noise to The Pav Tav for the past six years, guitarabusing club night Guerilla Rocks has moved down to the prom for a new residency at Audio. Smashing together alternative sounds from rock to indie, metal to punk, Guerilla Rocks takes place every Tuesday from 11pm. Pretty much guaranteed messy and unpretentious fun.
Having been carefully and lovingly restored, with many of its original features, this three-storey café and late lounge ought to be swish. With a ‘library room’ and a faux grass carpeted roof terrace included in the design, it’s the sort of venue you could visit every day. During the day a full breakfast and lunch menu will be available, and cream teas are on offer in the afternoons. During the evenings take full advantage of the well-stocked bar, or catch one of the weekly jazz nights.
Ever wondered how Brighton went from a shabby, seaside town to the popular, vibrant city it is today? If your interest in local history goes beyond wanting to be able to answer the questions at a pub quiz, go to a meeting of The Wellsbourne Society. Meeting quarterly, this group celebrates all aspects of our history. The opening night will include a showing of a rare BBC documentary about Brighton, and will be followed by slides, spoken histories and musical accompaniments. The first one is at The Latest Music Bar on Wednesday 21st.
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Friday Nite (free) Saturday 17th
10-11pm Irish Champion Dancers take the floor - Hopping Mad Scoil Rinse na hÉireann 11-till late Live Irish Music with The Celtic Tí-grrs - a traditional Irish trio that will keep you on your feet all night long.
"This is the only place to be on St.Patricks weekend" hope to see you all here!
1pm-3pm The Cracklin' Griffins - traditional Irish songs and music, plus some of the greats from the Pogues and Waterboys back- catalogues. 3-5pm Irish Champion Dancers take the floor. 5-7pm Ireland v England Six Nations live on our big screens. Surprise visit from Ireland - Hint: he is looking for his pot of gold!!! 8-10pm Fred Bullock is a 24 yr old singer and guitarist, known in Brighton for his Irish charm and incredible vocals. 10-onwards Live Irish Music with The Celtic Tí-grrs, support act for The Saw Doctors known to be the emerald gems out of Eire.
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18th
(free)
Traditional Food served all day!
GIG PREVIEWS
WORDS BY JESSICA MARSHALL MCHATTIE, ADAM PETERS, REBECCA LINZY, STUART HUGGETT, TOM JENKINSON, MATT BARKER, IAN CHAMBERS, STEVE CLEMENTS, TOM JENKINSON
PORTICO QUARTET
Komedia Thurs 1st
Portico Quartet’s debut album, ‘Knee-deep In The North Sea’ was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize in 2008, and their original, subtle take on jazz has been enthralling audiences ever since. Having started out as buskers, they retain a charming improvised feel in their live sets. Distinctive not just because of their use of the Hang instrument, but because of a rhythmic melancholy which stays with the listener long after the song ends. Enchanting. (JMM)
SPOTLIGHT KID Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Fri 2nd
Nostalgic shoegazers Spotlight Kid are bringing the psychedelic 90s back one hip-sway at a time. September’s album ‘Departure’ shows maturity in their style, and each track was recorded in one take, adding to the lo-fi appeal. Listen out for ‘Can’t Let Go (This Feeling)’, a slow-building future classic. Support comes from Tyrannosaurus Dead, who are rapidly getting a reputation as one of Brighton’s best live acts, and atmospheric lounge band The Witches. (JMM)
ALLO DARLIN’
Haunt Sat 3rd
Anglo-Australian quartet Allo Darlin’s eponymous album made a fair splash in the indiepop pool a couple of years back. They’re well connected within the scene: ukulele-wielding lynchpin Elizabeth Morris has guested with Darren Hayman, Tender Trap and A Little Orchestra amongst others (the Orchestra’s Monster Bobby turning up on Allo Darlin’s ‘Dreaming’ too), while fellow Aussie bassist Bill Botting was half of ace, recently departed, synthcore duo Moustache Of Insanity. Now Kent-based, this is their Brighton debut. (SH)
SLEIGH BELLS
Concorde 2 Sat 3rd
Probably the most aggressive noise-pop band to ever be featured on Gossip Girl, American twosome Sleigh Bells have conquered that tricky area between pure commercial appeal and hardcore post-punk ideals. Second album ‘Reign Of Terror’ was released in February, so expect to hear stand-out
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JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION
track ‘Born To Lose’ and new ones from the LP as well as old classics such as ‘Kids’ and ‘Rill Rill.’ Sultry 80s-esque Charli XCX is lead support. (JMM)
THE JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION
Haunt Tues 6th
For more than twenty years, without a change in line-up, this trio have been ploughing their musical furrow: beloved of hacks and musicians, but never quite crossing over into the mainstream. Even when Jack and Meg White hit paydirt with their punky garage blues concoction, the band who wrote the recipe remained at the margins. A crying shame, as the sheer noisy enthusiasm on offer tonight demonstrates. JSBX are the warm crackly vinyl that fathered your antiseptic White Stripes CDs. (AP)
SELEBRITIES & SLOW MAGIC
Hope Tues 6th
Synth-soaked Brooklyn trio Selebrities are so convincingly evocative of 1980s northern England that it’s hard to believe they aren’t the strange spawn of Marc Almond and Gary Numan. Disco, electro, pop – even in a scene saturated with 80s lust, Selebrities manage to stand out as original and effective. Lightly addictive and unforgettable, this isn’t a show you’ll regret. Slow Magic are equally compelling, with breathy overtones and a sense of fantasy you’ll remember from watching The NeverEnding Story, but with an even better soundtrack. (JMM)
MELANIE C
Concorde 2 Weds 7th
That’s right, everyone’s least favourite Spice Girl’s all grownout of Adidas and doing shows by herself. She might be the only one who could sing, but despite reasonable post-Spice chart success, will she always be remembered for high kicks and ill-advised tattoos? Fifth solo studio album ‘The Sea’ (geddit?) was released in November to a strong critical reception, so maybe there’s life in the old Girl yet. (JMM)
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GIG PREVIEWS
LIANNE LA HAVAS
HOBBIE STUART
Komedia Weds 7th
Isn’t YouTube great? More talking cats than you could ever need, biting babies, countless really bad videophone recordings that are completely inaudible, and Hobbie Stuart. This handsome Brighton lad’s been uploading atmospheric, acoustic and heavily auto-tuned covers of mostly female pop stars, and he’s probably the closest thing we have to a smooth-voiced, smoothchested Brighton Beiber. Hundreds of thousands of views can’t be wrong, right? Right. (JMM)
LIANNE LA HAVAS
Coalition Thurs 8th
Sweet, fresh, crisp and eloquently delivered. Delightful, wise and ever so soulful. A voice which makes up for so much that others lack. She pulls on your heart strings and makes your pulse race a little faster. Her depth and range make you feel like you’re riding a high and glorious wave. Journey through the memories and emotions you have, have had, never had and always wanted. Lianne La Havas is destined for great things. (RL)
MELANCOLONICA Marlborough Thurs 8th
Three Brighton locals are on the bill for this night, which promises to indulge your winter melancholy. So if you’re feeling more Morrissey than Miley, come and wallow. Folksy singersongwriter Kristin McClement will be soothing the crowds with her earthy vocals, heavenly kook Stuart Warwick’s sweet and beautiful tones will allow you to drift on your thoughts, and gentle acoustic band Twenty One Crows will vocalise your inner anguish and strife. Remember, misery loves company. (JMM)
JOHNNY FOREIGNER Green Door Store Thurs 8th
Indie-pop Birmingham trio Johnny Foreigner have outlasted many of their contemporaries, and after five years are still delighting fans of their distinctive take on pop punk. Their
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17-track fourth album, ‘Johnny Foreigner Vs Everything’ was released last November to a cacophony of praise from fans, and with a reputation for explosive live shows this should be impressive. Influential math-rock band We Are The Physics are also on the line-up, along with arty local grunge outfit Love Among The Mannequins. (JMM)
ANCHORSONG
Blind Tiger Club Fri 9th
After supporting Bonobo last month, Anchorsong comes to the excellent Blind Tiger Club. His simple, peeled-back beats are effortless and unadulterated. Rhythmically beautiful, the laid back harmonies indulge your conscious and keep your senses floating as if on hot air. Subtly funky and delicious. It draws you in gradually, no need for race or chase. A seemingly natural high. Highly recommended. (RL)
THREE TRAPPED TIGERS Green Door Store Fri 9th
They shake the metaphorical stick at the contemporary beat manufacturing industry. The sensational Three Trapped Tigers create heavy, complex, industrial, gentle, eccentric, free, random and ordered sounds. They tear apart, reshape and redefine the standard, constructing musical forms and structures like intergalactic architects. They make most contemporary outfits taste like candy floss. Not to be minced with; a gig for the truly courageous beat-freak. (RL)
PALMFEST
Palmeira Sat 10th
Put on by the good folks at Brighthelmstone Promotions, The Palmeira in Hove will be hosting the first ever Palmfest, a UK Americana all-dayer headlined by the godfather of UK Americana himself, Peter Bruntnell and his band. Also on the bill are the highly rated Small Town Jones, Bap Kennedy, and Robert Vincent, while Brighton is represented by the return of Caramel Jack as well as The Self Help Group and The Jamie Freeman Agreement. (IC)
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EARTH
SHARON JONES & THE DAP KINGS
Concorde 2 Sat 10th
Probably the best and most authentic funk band performing today, this New York outfit make a welcome return to the seafront. They’ve been putting out quality music for years but the songs really come into their own when played live. Sharon’s powerhouse vocals are augmented by Binky Griptite’s slick guitar and the punchiest horn section since the JB’s. If you like your soul music down and dirty, fat and frenetic, this bunch are your wet dream come true. (SC)
EARTH
Haunt Mon 12th
In the grunge-rich 90s, Seattle’s Earth were touted as the heaviest band alive, their crushing, speed-reduced riff instrumentals pouring from speakers like lava. Very much a cult concern back in the day, the intervening years have seen Earth’s unique low frequency explorations slowly seep into the fabric of rock. After a long absence, during which numerous drone disciples, notably Sunn O))) kept their flame alive, Earth returned with a broader palette coloured by parched country and minimal classicism. (SH)
CAVE PAINTING
Pavilion Theatre Tues 13th
Local boys Cave Painting, despite this being their debut headlining show in Brighton, are definitely heading in the direction of ‘made good’. This outing coincides with the release of their first single on major label Mercury Records, with whom they also have an album coming later in the year. You’ll find CP sitting between Chapel Club and Arcade Fire with just a pinch of Metronomy – all doomy atmospherics and fragile melodies, but with a handy beat up their sleeve when called for. (MB)
SUBMOTION ORCHESTRA Concorde 2 Fri 16th
Breathy, soulful vocals and a live seven-piece band creating dubstep from its roots upwards have scored this Leeds outfit some well received beachside festival slots, and some highly dedicated fans. Deep bass soundscapes prevail under jazzy grooves, twinkly instrumentals and heavenly trip hop melodies,
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reminiscent of a more passionate Cinematic Orchestra. But if they invoke the crowd to drone ‘Cro-aayy-sherr, Croayy-sherr’, don’t encourage them. It’s annoying. We’re in Brighton, and it’s probably raining. (JMM)
ALL THE YOUNG Green Door Store Thurs 29th
Self-described as having the “brain, brawn and balls” to bring in a “brave new frontier” of indie rock, All The Young’s egos certainly match their sound. Their press shots only attest to this, all sharp suits and sunglasses like an Oasis that grew up on a strict diet of Coldplay and Reservoir Dogs. They’ve even got their own potential family feud in the Dooley brothers. Clichés aside though, this really is the new forefront of Brit rock. Sigh. (TJ)
GHOSTPOET
Coalition Thurs 29th
Celebrating our fair city’s many creative genii, this is the grand prize draw of a talent show that’s been unfolding for the past month: the SOURCE-associated Create In Brighton competition has chosen 30 of the best submissions and exhibited examples of the best photography, graphic design and illustration we can manage on the walls of many local pubs. If you haven’t ‘liked’ your favourite on Facebook yet, you can’t complain when someone dreadful wins. Thick-tongued rap bard Ghostpoet’s playing the finale for free. (JMM)
SOURCE NEW MUSIC Pavilion Theatre Thurs 29th
Man Ray Sky headline this month’s SOURCE New Music showcase, with support from seven-piece folk/hip hop band Dizraeli & The Small Gods. Part of Brighton’s multidisciplinary Beatabet collective, Man Ray Sky’s membership overlaps with previous SOURCE headliners AK/DK. Man Ray Sky share similar interests in transcendent motorik, but their multiple guitars plug them into a more psychedelic and expansive groove. The band head to Norway this summer to record their debut album under the midnight sun. (SH)
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Thursday 1 March LaTesT Music Bar
Tuesday 1 May KoMedia (doWnsTairs)
Rachel Sermanni Stuart Warwick Luke Sital-Singh
Patrick Watson + Guests
Friday 9 March sT GeorGe’s church
Sinead O’Connor + guests Tuesday 13 March KoMedia (upsTairs)
The Writing On The Wall: Tony Benn & Roy Bailey *Rescheduled event, old tickets are still valid. Wednesday 28 March LaTesT Music Bar
Jonny Kearney & Lucy Farrell + Kate + Jamie Francis (Stark)
Monday 21 May KoMedia (doWnsTairs)
Sharon Van Etten + guests sunday 10 June TheaTre royaL
Andrew Bird + guests Tuesday 12 June The BLind TiGer cLuB
David Thomas Broughton + guests Thursday 21 June coaLiTion 1
Best Coast + guests
Wednesday 28 March coaLiTion 1
Craig Finn (The Hold Steady) We Three and The Death Rattle
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SOUNDS YOU’VE NEVER HEARD FROM A CELLO
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If you want to succeed at something, make it your own – that’s what they say. Well, we’ve never seen anyone play the cello like Abi Wade. One of the classiest instruments you can pilfer from your school’s orchestra cupboard, Abi has forsaken the sophistication to, well, hit it with sticks. Yeah, fine, we hear you say, very art college, but this is all happening in swirls of rhythmic harmony while she plucks at the strings and sings beautiful, off kilter folk songs. As if that wasn’t enough she’s got a bass kick happening with one foot and a tambourine attached to the other. We’ve got no idea how she does it. And, it turns out, neither has she. “I can’t really do it separately,” Abi admits with a smile. “If you asked me ‘What are you playing on the bass drum?’ I wouldn’t know. I have to do it all together. It’s about getting into a rhythm I guess.” She describes it as visual – she sees it as a circuit of hits. “I know that it starts with the bass drum, then the tambourine, and then up to a stick. So I kind of see it like a circle and it just flows. I don’t know why, I can just do it,” she laughs. If you’re considering getting an instrument to bash about, the cello would be pretty far down most people’s list. We guess they must be tougher than they look. “Actually they’re quite delicate,” says Abi. “They don’t like heat, they don’t like cold. My cello has been remarkably good so far, so fingers crossed. I almost take it as a sign that it’s okay to be rough with it cos it hasn’t broken yet.” She’s put the poor thing through a lot of strain though: mud, sand, and it doesn’t like it when she hits the strings directly on the song ‘Faker’. “The bridge is starting to bend,” she confesses. Abi started with the cello at the age of nine, so it’s perhaps not surprising that she’s started to turn away from the traditional ways of playing the instrument. Her choice came down simply to the fact that she just liked the look of it. “It was the most impressive one I was given a choice of at primary school,” she recalls. “I don’t think my mum was too pleased though. It was a bit big for the car.”
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Although her mother didn’t think much to the cello, it’s an instrument most people seem to like. We’ve got a soft spot for it from our days watching Lori Singer in the Fame TV show. “I guess it’s ‘cause it’s so wholesome,” Abi suggest, “and the tone and tonality of it is just so rich. It’s actually the most closely linked to the human voice. it’s got the same range and the same timbre.” Although she’s loaded down with pedals, boxes and sticks when she takes to the stage, one thing that’s absent from Abi’s set up is the omnipresent loop petal that solo artists seem to be addicted to these days. We have to say that we’re really pleased by it’s absence. Okay, we’ll get off the fence – we really don’t like them. “A lot of people have said that to me,” says Abi. But keeping to what her – admittedly impressive – four limbs and voice can do at once could lead to possible limitations down the line. At the moment the simplicity is what makes it so special – adding stuff to it could take away from the uniqueness. It’s a similar position to the one that The Agitator found himself in when he tried adding dance beats and samples to his blues stomping. Will Abi be sticking rigidly to the formula? “The sound will progress I think,” she considers. “I’m quite lucky because I play the piano as well, so I think I’ll probably bring some of that in just to get a bit of diversity. I love harmonies, so I’ll possibly get someone else to do some vocal harmonies as well. But I’d like to try and keep it so that it can all be done on stage, so that it’s not completely different live.” Her first EP – ‘And Blood And Fire’, released on Andy Rossiter and Daniel Copeman from Esben & The Witch’s Love Thy Neighbour label – stuck very much to what we’d seen of Abi live. Showing that the songs are strong enough to stand up without needing to see the spectacle of how they’re performed, the thing that leaps out is how much space Abi is able to provide around the lyrics. Bringing to mind Regina Spektor and Joanna Newsome, her voice is at the same time fragile and strong, sensual and pure. All four songs are different enough to hide the fact that it’s all based around the cello. “I haven’t done much recording so I didn’t want to go way out before I tried the basics,” she explains. “I wanted to just have it quite grounded. I felt that was more me. But I may try something new next time. We’ll see.” One thing that strikes us is how difficult it must be to write songs not just on your own but also that have so much going on at the same time. Abi says that she usually starts with a cello riff or a beat. “Sometimes I’ll find something which makes an interesting sound on the cello and build a piece around that,” she says. “Generally it’s a riff, and then I put things in that I feel will add to the sound. Like I brought a brush in recently because I wanted a ‘chshh’ sound. It wasn’t that I wanted to write a song around a brush, I just thought that it’d sound good.”
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Brushes, sticks, boxes – it’s all sounds good to us. But most of all it sounds like nothing we’ve heard before. And that’s why Abi Wade is so exciting. She’s really made that cello her own.
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CLUB PREVIEWS WORDS BY JESSICA MARSHALL MCHATTIE, ZAC COLBERT, TIM LINCOLN, MATT BARKER
SPIRIT OF GRAVITY Green Door Store Thurs 1st
As synonymous with the Green Door Store as cobbled dancefloors and failing to buy drinks with a credit card, the venue’s curious collection of deer heads and antlers receives its honours this evening. Rumbling instrumentalists June Deer (ex Waxed Apple/The Mutts) have the name, but they’re trumped conceptually by Fallow’s quite possibly unsettling soundscapes of cervine field recordings. Rounding out the bill, neither Andy Wheddon nor Embla Quickbeam has yet promised further stag do antics, but there’s still time. (SH)
THEO PARRISH & JULIO BASHMORE Life Fri 2nd
We don’t like to use the term ‘legendary’ but Detroit house god Theo Parrish is getting there. Heavily influenced by jazz greats such as Miles Davis and Nina Simone, his genre-rejecting re-edits have earned him a level of accessibility few techno producers could hope for. Support comes from Julio Bashmore, Bristol’s man of 2011, who’ll be spinning house dancefloor fillers like ‘Battle For Middle You’. More than just a big line-up, this is huge. Weighty. Obese. (JMM)
POCKET FULL OF DOVES Riki Tik Sat 3rd
They’ve been talking about it for months and finally here it is, SOURCE editor James Kendall and Kinema boss Dom Ashton’s night devoted to piano house. It aims to cross the divide from acid house anthems like Joe Smooth’s ‘Promised Land’ through Italo house classics like ‘Last Rhythm’ right up to the new wave of deep, melodic numbers from the likes of
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Julio Bashmore and Azari & III. Expect misty-eyed old ravers joining hands with kids throwing their hands in the air. (MB)
JACK BEATS
Concorde 2 Sat 3rd
What, a dance track that samples Leonard Cohen? We first thought it was blasphemy but the sample’s so succinct and poignantly placed in Jack Beat’s ‘End of Love’ that we soon approved. For their live tour the wobble house supremos have gone balls out, not literally. But not only do they promise a plethora of visuals as well as a bunch of new tunes from their forthcoming album there’s also the chance to get on stage with the duo, “bringing the fans closer to the music.” Yeah. (ZC)
ANDY C
Audio Wed 7th
The Ram Records boss has won more DJ Of The Year awards than we can shake a trophy at. His NYE sets did permanent damage to our hearing and we regret absolutely nothing. As far as production style goes, Andy C’s tunes are that no holds barred, rave your tits off type of drum’n’bass that eschews new liquid trends for traditional jungle sensibilities. They are big room rollers with gurning basslines and rapid fire drum loops, so we’ll be at the front dancing like it’s ‘99. (ZC)
RAREKIND HIP HOP SHOWCASE
Concorde 2 Fri 9th
Behold as the Concorde fills with b-boys. Heads nod, Red Stripes are held aloft, and the smoking area is suspiciously fragrant – it can only be a Rarekind night. This one features Mr Thing, 2000’s DMC Scratch Champion, and Yungun, who’s been defying expectations since he started breaking out of Eton aged 14 to rap at open mic nights. Five hours of the finest hip hop for free means only one thing – get down early. (JMM)
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Green Door Store Fri 9th
The last one was so good that someone soiled themselves on the dancefloor, no lie. We’ve reviewed it in the past and had a whopping great time while still managing to go home with clean underwear. So after a month to wash off the skid marks they’ve returned with Bass Clef, whose mix for Fact Magazine exhibited a love for African dance music. In support are the stalwart Ye Ye Fever DJs playing the best highlife, soukous and afrobeat bangers. (ZC)
GILLES PETERSON Concorde 2 Sat 10th
Like a jazz John Peel, Gilles Peterson’s inclusive and original shows on Radio 1 have made him one of the station’s bestloved DJs. Credited with bringing acid jazz to the mainstream and having released over 100 jazz compilations, there’s no questioning his knowledge of the genre. Get those dancing shoes on. Support comes from Hint, whose latest album ‘High Intake’ is out on the 19th, Belleruche’s producer DJ Modest, and a Beta Hector DJ set. (JMM)
HOTWUK
Concorde 2 Fri 16th
Is it too obvious to say that HotWuk are on fire? Oh, too late, we just did it. After sell-out shows at Life last year they’ve now brought bashment partiers The Heatwave to an even bigger venue. These guys deliver the unadulterated carnival vibes to every rave they play at, whether it’s Brighton, Bristol or their weekly show on Rinse FM. This white hot night’s gonna have you skanking by the beach like it’s summer. (ZC)
JAKWOB
Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Thur 22nd
We were briefly worried that Jakwob had got lost in wobble bass forever but new tune ‘Electrify’ has dispelled such trepidation via a return to the harmonious coupling of female vocals over dubstep snares and transcendent chords that made his name in the first place. His singles have always alluded to the producer’s talent as a multi-instrumentalist and fortunately his DJ sets confirm this, spanning his wide influences from jazz and folk to hip hop and jungle. (ZC)
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CYANTIFIC
Audio Fri 23rd
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He doesn’t always get the headlines the more recognizable names of Hospital’s crew like Netsky and High Contrast do, but Cyantific’s responsible for one of the first liquid tunes we can remember. ‘Neon Skyline’ had that playful tone that features throughout his work, with irrepressible funk in both the beats and bass as well as vocal snippets that retain the soulful edge of the lady singer. And ‘Bounce It’ of last year proved he hasn’t lost that signature scientific sound. (ZC)
The handsomely floppy haired fellow looks like he could star in a British romcom but fortunately Subfocus concentrated on making dance music. His latest effort ‘Falling Down’ feels too much like generic chart friendly dubstep where wobbling turkey neck basslines and breathy female vocals are the trend, but it’s still a pleasant little ditty and there’s no doubt his set this evening will include the shameless d’n’b of ‘Timewarp’ and ‘Rock It’ so we’ll be down there, rocking it. (ZC)
THIRSTY EAR CREW Riki Tik Sat 24th
Sheffield hellraisers Matter Of Fact, Dr Bad Touch and Powlo are down from the grim Midlands to teach us Southern softies how to drink rum, party hard and fuse funk, soul, jazz and northern soul into a night that makes the dancefloor heave. Which sounds like fighting talk to us, so come down and keep up Brighton’s fine heavy-drinking, crazy-dancing reputation. Support, or competition, comes from local residents Murder He Wrote and JDevious. (JMM)
WORMS
Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Fri 30th
Following a raucous launch do at The Green Door Store in January, Worms moves across town to Sticky Mike’s for its second instalment. Brighton stalwarts Citizen K of the legendary Bust The Box and Mark Lerman of minimal pioneers Kliks (and guests) play dance music to dance to: electronic bass music of all kinds and from all eras. With the Bust The Box soundsystem bringing the noise this should be a seriously bassy treat. Entry is a bargain £2/£3. (TML)
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These days there aren’t enough club nights where Brighton artists headline, but for the last two years Proper Gander has been rectifying this by promoting the city’s talent on the same level as headliners. Tonight local lad Riskotheque tops the bill. He’s one of the hardest working producers on our scene, with releases on Ninja Tune and Disfigured Dubz, as well as Love Sick Recordings which he co-owns with MarchMellow and Southbound Hangers. His set has the Volks crowd raving like their drinks depend on it. Even
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the smoking area empties as everyone rushes onto the dancefloor and gets tribal to 120-170 bpm bass music. It’s not an easy act to follow but Afterdark and EllFiveDee go in hard, putting the Volks 12K sound system under heavy fire. By the end of the night the floor’s a mess and there’s sweat condensed on the ceiling, exactly how it should be.
S.T Files ‘Crack Den’ Macabre Unit ‘Deep Within (Demon VIP)’ The Four Owls ft.Dirty Dike ‘Much Too Much’ Mr Sleepz ‘Tune Fi Beef’ Zero G ‘Stamina’ Redlight ‘Source 16’ Riskotheque ‘Platonia’ Side B ‘Your Disguise’ Burial ‘Space Ape’ Mark System ‘Love Dub’
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VANITY
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When Vanity promoters ComePlay say “clubbing for the well-dressed and genetically blessed” they’re not lying. Operating a Studio 54 entry system, it pays to look good at Hed Kandi as the immaculately presented get plucked from the queue and sent straight through into the dazzling white interior. Inside the pulsating beat of David Guetta’s ‘Titanium’ pours out of the Martin Audio sound system.
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Avici ‘Levels’ Rihanna ‘We Found Love’ DJ Fresh ‘Hot Right Now’ David Guetta ‘Titanium’ Rizzle Kicks ‘Mama Do The Hump (Remix)’ Flo Rida ‘Good Feeling’ Labrinth ‘Earthquake’ LMFAO ‘Party Rock Anthem’ LMFAO ‘Sexy And I Know It’ Rihanna ‘You Da One’
Although the music policy is definitely not for muso geeks (Rihanna, Flo Rida and LMFAO feature heavily), there’s boundless fun to be had feeling like a celebrity in the VIP booths, sipping champagne under cool lighting and disco ball chandeliers. The lavishness of Miami’s club culture, where glitz and glamour are in full celebration, rings true here. The sound system isn’t cranked to 11, so the patrons can enjoy conversation, camera flashes and the amorous advances of the opposite sex.
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SPOKEN WORD: HAMMER & TONGUE Komedia Thurs 1st
Brighton’s First Lady of poetry Rosy Carrick hosts another rendition of Hammer & Tongue, and if you haven’t been down to one yet, you should probably go and apologise. The country’s biggest and best community of slam poets celebrates the art of live literature and gives verse about all manner of relevant topics; it’s both awe-inspiring and a little intimidating. Each month has special guests from the poetry world and local residents showcasing their latest pieces. (JMM)
FILM: BANFF MOUNTAIN FILM FESTIVAL WORLD TOUR Komedia Fri 2nd
Beautiful, breathtaking, and inherently dangerous, this collection of short films shot by Canada’s most active thrillseekers displays stunning scenery and shocking sporting stunts in equal measure: kayakers, skiers and cyclists defy gravity and common sense. Whether you’re an adrenaline seeker yourself, or just like watching other people take the risks, there’s nothing like seeing it on the big screen. These films travel the world sharing scenes, and there are lots of prizes and giveaways for the audience. (JMM)
FILM: FIGHT CLUB Duke of York’s Fri 2nd
Whether you think Fight Club’s a genius adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk’s vision, a modern classic in cinematic art, or you just want to perv over a bare-chested Brad, there’s room for everyone on the Duke’s cushy seats. This may be “your life, and it’s ending one minute at a time,” but we can think of worse ways to spend 139 of them. (JMM)
SPOKEN WORD: SOMETHING WHOLLY INAPPROPRIATE Earth & Stars Mon 5th
This eccentric spoken word night celebrates its first birthday with caustic verse and cake. Curated by youthful behatted lady poet Doctor Bongo, SWI bridges the gap between poetry evening and open mic night, with several performers providing
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musical accompaniment to their prose. Singers from local bands like Anal Beard, Wob and Spalien Acecraft regularly perform their lyrics as spoken word at this monthly pot pourri, while the more traditional acts are largely gleaned from the younger end of Brighton’s bedraggled poetry scene. (AP)
TALK: HARRY WATTS Old Market Tues 6th
Still little more than a year old, Jim Stephenson’s Miniclicks talks have already established themselves as the centre point of Brighton’s photography scene. A mix of local heroes like Luca Sage and Ewan Spencer and snappers from further afield such as Chris Floyd and Peter Dench, each month sees a photographer talk through their work. This month, in association with SOURCE, Harry Watts will be discussing his still life photographs – frequently of found “accidental sculptures” – as well as his experiences assisting Martin Parr and Simon Roberts. (JK)
THEATRE: HEDDA GABLER Little Theatre Tues 6th – Sat 10th
Just in case you thought you had no need for a translation of a 19th century classic from the pen of Norwegian writer Henrik Ibsen to get the blood boiling on an Arctic March night, The Little pitch up to prove you wrong. The heroic Hedda is most usually compared to a female Hamlet, a well-won title given the trail of horrendous husbands, fawning sops, vengeance, hate, lust and deceit which froth frenziedly into a ferocious and violent climax. Kapow. (BM)
COMEDY: NORMAN LOVETT: LOL@NOLO/FUNNYHAHA Caroline of Brunswick Weds 7th/14th
Could there be a better setting for Red Dwarfer Norman Lovett’s understated, anecdotal, meandering and occasionally unintentionally hilarious style? Well, no, probably not, because upstairs at the Caz is quite small. Turn up again the following Wednesday and you’ll probably get covered in sweat by Nick Helm, the slightly mad character comedian who won the vote for the funniest joke at the Edinburgh Fringe last year. He headlines Funnyhaha, hosted by the marvellous Julie Jepson. And it’s only a fiver. (BM)
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A love of signwriting and some masterful glassblowing allows Andy Doig to illuminate the gallery with an avalanche of large crosses and star shapes. He’s inspired by fairground art from the 1960s and 1970s, which apparently helped allay any fears of dodgy mechanisms, and also presents Kiss Me Quick, a neon flashback to his daytrips to Bohemia-by-the-Sea as a yoof. Yes and Silence, two pieces handbuilt in acrylics, are tributes to European signage techniques of the 1970s. (BM)
SPOKEN WORD: TONY BENN & ROY BAILEY Komedia Tues 13th
A rescheduled appearance by these old campaigners should make for an interesting evening. Arguably Britain’s greatest living politician and enthralling diarist, Benn may be frail but his razor-sharp mind remains defiantly intact. Perfectly paired with socialist folk singer Bailey, this pair of great Britons has been performing together since the 1970s. We’re not sure if they will alternate or collaborate but this opportunity to bear witness to the intellectual common sense of both men should really not be missed. (SC)
THEATRE: THE TABLE Pavilion Theatre Thurs 15th
Existential crises aren’t just for days out in Worthing – they’re not even solely for humans, as this excellent show starring a troubled, cardboard-headed puppet proves. Blind Summit use all sorts of tricks to keep you guessing on a weave through form, black humour, crime and Beckett-style theatrical techniques. At the risk of constantly name-checking Edinburgh Fringe within this esteemed cultural bible, the praise they earned up there was every inch deserved. Toy actors have never made such invigorating theatre. (BM)
THEATRE: WIZZLE AND MINCE/THE RISE AND FALL OF LITTLE VOICE New Venture Theatre Fri 16th/from Sat 31st
Anyone who might have thought Jane Horrocks needed to speak up and cut out the waifish meekness a bit would have
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felt cruel and foolish after the film version of this rags-to-riches story cantered to industry glory back in 1998. New Venture are certs to capture the humour and affectations of Jim Cartwright’s spirit-gladdening story of anaemic-looking talent, but before that there’s a one-off evening exploring more of the writer’s work on Friday 16th, complete with readings and prizes. (BM)
COMEDY: BOOTHBY GRAFFOE AND NICK PYNN Komedia Sun 25th
Hull people have always been good to Brighton – John Prescott gave us a football stadium, the Housemartins gave us Norman Cook (both tenuous, admittedly) and now Boothby Graffoe is back to make you snigger and sing. Like a magical soul-cleansing biscuit to exorcise every bad memory you have of twee bellends subjecting you to dreadful approximations of music and comedy, Graffoe is both brilliant on strings and a singular stand-up act to reckon with. He’s bringing his new album with him. (BM)
FILM: INTO THE ABYSS Duke Of York’s Tues 27th
A tale from death row with sections filmed just eight days before one of the interviewees was executed, German cinema god Werner Herzog’s study of Americans Michael Perry and Jason Burkett – sentenced to death and life imprisonment respectively for triple homicide – was perhaps the most intense documentary of 2011. More precisely, it concentrates on the people affecting and affected by their plot to steal a car and subsequent incarceration. A satellite questions and answers session with Herzog follows the film. (BM)
THEATRE: I, BERTOLT BRECHT
Pavilion Theatre Fri 30th – Sat 31st
Short of slicking back your quiff, chomping on a cigar, timewarping to the Weimar Republic circa 1925 and lurking in the shadows at obscure theatres once you’re Rhineside, getting a handle on all things Brechtian can be rather tricky. Just as well this army of actors and musicians will do it for you, then, with stories, scenes, songs and poems picking over Bertie’s politically-charged, no-holds-barred array of outpourings, plus a bunch of Kurt Weill songs and projected footage. Ist lecker. (BM)
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ALBUM: NICK BAXTER Tints (music.nickbaxter.net)
The kind of multi-instrumentalist who presumably spent his formative years locked in a music cupboard, Nick Baxter’s clearly a very talented musician. Some tracks, such as ‘You I & She,’ are reminiscent of Jack Johnson’s gentle guitars and hum-a-long vocals, albeit with more swearing, making the album feel accessible enough to be mainstream radio-friendly. Others, like ‘Halfway Home,’ are the sort of genuine folk best heard around a campfire. This 11-track album has very tight production, and we hear he’s scouting for musicians to help make the magic live. (JMM)
SINGLE: CURXES Haunted Gold (curxes.com)
Curxes follow up last year’s singles double header (‘The Constructor’ and ‘Creatures’) with this gothic piece of electronic pop melodrama. The synthetic percussive stabs owe much to the clanging metallic samples of Depeche Mode’s ‘Construction Time Again’, while Roberta Fidora’s vocals veer towards Siouxsie Sioux’s stricter moments. There’s pounding contemporary beats underlying the industrial 80s influence, but following Trevor Jackson’s recent ‘Metal Dance’ compilation for Strut, Curxes would be well positioned for an EBM revival. (SH)
SINGLE: FRICTION Led Astray (Shogun Audio)
Congratulations to Shogun Audio boss Friction for getting his Radio 1 residency, and with this new job what better time to release a banger. ‘Led Astray’ has a razorblade whirr that gulps and then folds in on itself. Contrast that with some lovely orchestral chords and an inoffensive vocal hook and voila – you’ve got yourself a chart-friendly dance tune. Fans of Friction’s blistering sets may be expecting more bollocks but radio listeners are lapping this up. (ZC)
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Now slimmed to a trio, Mirrors have broken cover with seven new songs of soft-edged synthpop. With its uplifting chorus, opening track ‘Dust’ packs the most immediate punch. The
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remaining songs are more subdued, but indicate that Mirrors’ listening tastes have broadened beyond their initial Kraftwerk homage to include the less fashionable likes of Blancmange (‘Blood Diamond’) and Erasure (‘Leave Me Here’). The vague EP title may refer to the release date of Mirrors’ second album, which this download funds. (SH)
ALBUM: PEPE DELUXÉ Queen Of The Wave (Catskills)
Finnish freakbeat manglers Pepe Deluxé’s fourth full-length has been five years in the making, and, against pretty much all sane expectations, they’ve delivered a tour de force psychedelic concept album. The basis for this ‘esoteric pop opera’ is a preposterous-sounding, but genuine, 19th century Atlantean dream-text, Frederick S. Oliver’s ‘A Dweller On Two Planets’. Pepe Deluxé take Oliver’s imaginative mythology and, with a huge cast of vocalists and musicians, run wild across the terrains of international exotica. Mind-blowingly addictive. (SH)
ALBUM: SOCCER96 Soccer96 (Demons Are Real)
Just when you think you know all there is to know about Brighton’s electronic music scene, along come two men calling themselves Danalogue and Beatamax to change everything. Clearly inspired by 8-bit computer games, Soccer96 have a rock-y passion and pure caffeinated energy, which is rarely found in their contemporaries – a driven tension that isn’t afraid of being obvious at the expense of being great. Carefully layered soundscapes belay a freneticism that’s nothing short of inspiring, especially on ‘SuperWarrior.’ The album launch is at the Green Door on the 24th. (JMM)
ALBUM: SWEET SWEET LIES
The Hare, The Hound & The Tortoise (Something Nothing)
The long-awaited debut from Brighton’s favourite besuited altcountry sextet assembles their three animal-branded EPs. Cleverly scathing lyrics of doomed love sit atop music that veers from the rollicking guitar races of the opening Hare quartet, through the melancholy waltz of a clearly wounded Hound, to the whiskey-sodden country confessionals of Tortoise. While the track order causes a lull in energy levels in the middle section, quality shines throughout on what is surely a springboard to wider national recognition. (AP)
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SEE: THE BRIGHTON
DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL WORDS BY STUART HUGGETT
Starting as a specialist documentary strand within Brighton’s CineCity, See Festival has grown rapidly into a major independent event in its own right. Now in its seventh year, it has expanded to cover nine continuous days of features, shorts and seminars, with guest speakers from the worlds of film, music and politics. See programmes its screenings by theme, exploring global and domestic social issues under the headings of Conflict, Revolution and Hidden Worlds, with a lively chunk of music events and BAFTA-presented entertainment. Here’s a handful of highlights.
PLANEAT
Stick Mike’s Frog Bar Sat 24th
Caroline Lucas MP joins Planeat co-director Or Shlomi for a Q&A session at this afternoon’s film screening. Planeat examines the western world’s reliance on a meat and dairy diet, and investigates alternatives that could improve the health of ourselves and our planet. With contributions from farmers, doctors, chefs and scientists, the film aims to show how the interlinked problems of population growth, agriculture and environment may be solved in a sustainable and palatesatisfying way.
BLOOD IN THE MOBILE Friends Meeting House Thurs 29th
Blood In The Mobile sets out the argument that mobile phone companies around the world are fuelling civil war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo by sourcing mineral components from the country’s ravaged eastern region. Since 1998, it is estimated that the ongoing fighting has claimed more fatalities than World War II, despite the formal ending of hostilities in 2003. The film follows the links from the world’s deadliest conflict to the palms of its viewers’ hands.
BIRD ON A WIRE Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Fri 30th
A timely screening of this long-buried documentary, following January’s release of Leonard Cohen’s first album in eight years, ‘Old Ideas’. Tony Palmer’s promotional portrait failed to meet the songwriter’s initial approval (Cohen demanded a re-edit from a third party), and on release allegedly opened and closed on the same day. 294 cans of Palmer’s footage turned up in a Hollywood warehouse in 2009, enabling the director to re-assemble his original vision of this lost study of Cohen’s 1972 tour.
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SHAUN RYDER
Corn Exchange Fri 30th
In the aftermath of Happy Mondays’ 90s burnout, the concept of Shaun Ryder in any kind of two-way conversation would have been a real head scratcher. The Madchester icon has proved to be far smarter and more enduring than his detractors imagined, fighting his way back from personal and financial troubles to a position as TV presenter, author and, once again, chief of the original Mondays line-up. Tonight, Ryder chats and previews footage from his forthcoming series on UFOs.
TOWIE: STRUCTURING REALITY Corn Exchange Sat 31
The first of two BAFTA events for See’s concluding weekend, this afternoon promises to “deconstruct structured reality”, which sounds like a nightmare from within the Matrix. Rather, it offers a behind-the-scenes insight into the reality TV phenomenon that in two years has changed the way Britain speaks. Even The Only Way Is Essex’s most attentive fans struggle to disentangle the spontaneous from the scripted in the ITV2 series, so the creative team’s insights into cast selection and staging should be fascinating.
ANYONE CAN PLAY GUITAR Corn Exchange Sat 31st
“For every band that makes it, there is a band that should have” runs the tagline of this Stewart Lee narrated history of Oxford’s music scene. Whether or not The Candyskins or Dustball really were unfairly overlooked by the world at large, contributions from the city’s biggest successes (Radiohead, Supergrass, Foals) give this fan-funded feature a wide appeal. Followed by a Q&A with director Jon Spira, and an acoustic set from dreamboat former Ride frontman Mark Gardener.
SENNA: A MASTERCLASS Corn Exchange Sun 1st April
A BAFTA presentation of 2010’s hugely popular documentary on the life and death of Formula One hero Ayrton Senna. Made with the full co-operation of Senna’s family, who provided hours of home video, the film makes extensive use of thrilling motor racing footage, including in-cockpit shots and knucklewhitening collisions. The accompanying masterclass allows members of Senna’s creative team to demonstrate some of the techniques used in assembling this award-winning feature.
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march: comedy
the invisible dot tour 2012: comedy’s new wave
One of the most exciting and innovative production companies in the country, The Invisible Dot Ltd have worked extensively with cutting edge comedians Tim Key, Mark Watson, Daniel Kitson and Simon Amstell. They now present a snapshot of the most exciting and experimental acts around... Headlined by Jonny Sweet (Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer), with sisteract sketch duo Toby and standup comic Nick Mohammed.
saturday 10 march, 20:00, £12 (£9)
event
doug allan: life behind the lens
Adventures, encounters and insights from the cameraman behind Blue Planet, Life, Human Planet, Planet Earth & more. wednesday 14 march, 19:30, £15
& much more
TOM’s bar:
Now open every Thursday and Friday from 6pm.
TOM’s bar
Featuring the following events and more (listed online). pick music night
Improvised string music: bring your guitar, violin, banjo or simply your ears.
fridays 2 & 16 march, 20:30, free
miniclick photography night comedy
tuesday 6 march, 19:30, free
the old market movies
See theoldmarket.com for specific listings.
fridays 9 & 23 march, 19:00, free
laughtermarket comedy night
New monthly comedy night, with Katherine Ryan, Darren Maskell, Roz Ryan, Andrew Theodorou, MC Sami Stone & Mystery Guests.
music
thursday 8 march, 19:30, £1.50
where I’m calling from: contemporary poetry
thursday 15 march, 19:00, free
abi wade + support
Abi Wade plays cello, vocals and a stomp box; songs of loving, forgiveness and hope.
thursday 22 march, 20:00, free
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NEVER HAD A TAN WORDS AND PHOTOS BY KENNY MC CRACKEN
THE REASONS
It’s the early 8os and I’m under a beach towel with loads of sand sticking to my sun cream like a full-body sand vajazzle. I use my finger to remove some from under the elastic of my Superman Speedos and peek my head out for long enough to complain to my mum, “This country is too hot for me and we should never come here again.” It’s Carmarthen Bay in Wales and the temperature is a sweltering 23 degrees. Coming from Scotland the only proviso for survival is a waterproof skin; there is nothing advantageous about having UV protection. It only became apparent when we travelled to
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the tropics of south Wales that I needed help in the form of suntan lotion. Not only was my body coated in a thick layer of lotion but also my eyes were bright red as they too had been coated with sun cream on a river of salty sweat. The nearest I ever come to being tanned is in the height of summer – if you stand far enough away from me my freckles give the illusion of colour. Other than that I’m pretty much a reddish pink all year round. If I do get sunburnt my freckles look green and I will most likely get ill and have amazingly scary nightmares due to a combination of dehydration and sunstroke. Ouch.
THE EXPERIENCE
There is a much safer and less painful process to getting a tan these days. Spray tan has arrived – I’d seen it and heard about it but had never thought about having one until now. Secretly I’ve always been jealous of tanned people. They walk around looking all even and white-teethed. It’s just another day for them and I’ve always wanted to join the gang. I dare say I was nervous before my session as I had all sorts of pre-conceived ideas about what I might look like on the other side. Dale Winton sprang to mind a few times and it didn’t help that I’d just watched Anchorman the night before; I couldn’t help but think of comedy tans. Charlie was the beauty therapist who had the job of spraying my pasty body and making me into a bronzed Adonis.
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Apparently I could either strip to my pants or put on the thong provided – Charlie did give me a heads up and tell me that the thong was “a bit revealing” so I opted to keep my dignity intact and my underwear on. Putting on my hair cap, I regressed straight back to the fearful child that I was back in Wales. The only difference was my pants didn’t have Superman on them. I stepped into the pod and asked nervously, “Does it come in different shades?” I felt a bit like I was ordering a sofa. Charlie explained that there was a ‘medium’ option, which would look natural, or ‘dark’, which presumably wouldn’t. I opted for medium, as I didn’t want to go for the hard stuff on my first go. Charlie picked up the tanning airbrush and started spaying me down. I was verbally manipulated into several different bodybuilder poses until my body was evenly covered. Once I was done acting like Arnold Schwarzenegger, Charlie left me to blow-dry myself with the tube from the airbrush. At first glance I looked slightly browner, but I already looked more evenly toned than my former self. Charlie told me that as the day went on I would get progressively darker and by the evening I’d be as brown as I was going to get. I know it’s just a psychological effect but I walked out feeling healthy and I must admit I felt good about how I looked. I knew I had a browning journey to travel as the day went on but just from one look in the mirror I had an overwhelming feeling of
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change – it’s like how a new and different haircut makes you feel. When I got back to the office, every time I turned round to ask a question I got a louder “oh my god, you’re getting browner...” At one point I got “Bob Monkhouse!” When I got home I took my clothes off and had a good look at myself in the mirror. I looked mental. I slept with the tan on as advised and dreamt of Baywatch and Miami Vice.
WAS IT WORTH IT?
My girlfriend certainly appreciated it and people have been saying, “The studio must be going well – have you been somewhere warm?” So while it must look natural I still have no qualms about saying it’s a spray tan. My comedy tan has turned out to be not so comedic after all but actually a nice and worthwhile experience. I know it’s winter but the effect on my self-image, and to a certain extent vanity, has left me feeling like it’s a warm summer day. But while I like the novelty of looking brown it’s just not natural for me – I’m Scottish and no amount of factor-anything would really send me that colour. My colouring is distinctive – especially down here on the coast – and I wouldn’t permantly change it for anything. Thanks to Exposure Tanning: Queens Rd, (01273) 771 770
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STREET STYLE WORDS BY JAMES KENDALL PHOTO BY KEVIN MEREDITH AT LOMOKEV.COM/STYLE
When buying vintage (or, as they used to be called, old) clothes sometimes you have a dive into a size that isn’t the perfect fit. Mizzy has sidestepped that problem by going supersized and it looks great. Coming on as if she’s walked straight off the set of the ‘Like A Virgin’ video in her bouncer’s jacket, the faded denim is almost a dress on her. “Madonna is probably my biggest style influence,” Mizzy confirms. “But I’ve been through loads of 80s phases. I had a Shakespear’s Sister look.” But it’s Mizzy’s cheekiness that really pulls this off, something she shares with her idol. Boyfriend denim just stepped up a gear. Bow in hair from Urban Outfitters “I always wear bows in my hair – I quite like to have big hair so I can get away with big bows.” Sunglasses by Ralph Lauren “They’re from my mum. They’re really old. I like sunglasses to be either really small and round or vintage styles like the ones that point outward, or vintage RayBans. Or maybe chunky Victoria Beckham ones if you’re going glamorous.” Scarf from i gigi “It’s from my mum’s shop on Western Road. It’s made of goat and is very warm.“ Jacket by Levis “I wear it everywhere. It’s just easy. It goes with everything. It’s XXL – I’ve also got sized 16 dungarees even though I’m size 8. I buy everything really big.” Tights “They’re ripped and laddered tights and fishnets together. I often wear two pair cos most of mine are ripped so I like to layer them.” Shoes by Dr Martens “At first they were really uncomfortable but now they’re really comfy and I can wear them with everything.”
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100 PEOPLE WHO MAKE BRIGHTON WHAT IT IS NO.27 GEORGE GINN WORDS STUART HUGGETT, PHOTO BY JAMES KENDALL The Record Album on Terminus Road has been selling soundtrack albums, on vinyl, to its discerning customers since the 1940s. Now in his 80s George Ginn has has no plans to stop or, heaven forbid, start selling CDs. How long have you had the shop? The shop was established in 1948 while I was in the Air Force. When I left in 1960 I had a two year gap before I took over the shop. It was the normal rock-based second hand shop but over the course of the next couple or three years I imposed my own interests, while still catering for every need. My main interest is theatre and film. Who buys records from you? Most of my customers are in their teens and twenties. I deal with most of the DJs and people who sample, and all the rock groups like The Kooks and The Coral tend to end up in here too. The Avalanches spent the whole day in the shop. Radiohead were the last to come in – Thom whatever his name is. Damon Albarn’s been in. But Amon Tobin is one of my best customers and I even received due credit on his last compact disc. Who’s made your favourite soundtracks? My favourite film composers are the composers who composed in the symphonic style. That period is referred to as the Golden Age, with composers like Franz Waxman and Bernard Herrmann. There’s only one composer now, in my estimation, who equates with those and that’s John Williams. He does compose in a symphonic style. But my favourite is a chap called Erich Korngold, who did the music for the film Kings Row. Where do all these gems come from? I don’t know what governs releasing soundtracks but they are increasingly re-pressing some vintage material. For example there are three classic Nino Rota albums that have just been released in Italy, limited to 500 each. I have to dig a little bit. There’s over a thousand soundtracks and original stage show recordings in stock and 99.99% of those are totally brand new, unplayed copies, although they may date back thirty years or so.
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SECRET EATER
Until you find the specials board. Tempted by the ham, egg and chips (classic pub grub), we decide on the more exotic sausages, colcannon, roasted beetroot and red wine gravy (£6.50). As bangers and mash goes, it’s pretty damn good. Tasty, meaty sausages that are nice and brown, on top of mash mixed with cabbage (that’s the colcannon), and peas floating in loads of gravy. We don’t clock that the beetroot is missing and there’s big apologies when the chef notices. No problem as it’s insanely hot right to the last mouthful. The bubble and squeak, pesto mushrooms and grilled mozzarella FOOD SERVED NOON-2PM MON-SAT (£5.50) is a similar success. The bubble is lovely and crunchy on top, where it peeks out from the pile of melted cheese, and the pesto mushrooms are a revelation. They even win over the fungi-shunning guest we brought.
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THE PLACE
Say what you like about posh restaurants, curry houses and burger joints, there are times when there’s nothing better than some proper pub grub. But let’s not forget, a pub is for drinking in. Bollocks to gastro-pubs that are no good for settling in for the afternoon, we just want a bit of something to keep us going. Fitzherberts show where their priorities lie by only opening the kitchen for a couple of hours a day. Oh yeah, they have Sundays off too. No roast for you, get another pint in.
THE VERDICT
THE MEAL
We met someone who used to be part of the SOURCE team and it was obvious he was a local but he didn’t grass us up, at least until after we left. And forgetting the beetroot suggests we weren’t sussed. Nice service anyway.
Page one of the slender menu is a selection of interesting sandwiches, while page two is chilli and burgers. And that’s it.
For the money it’s really very good. We spent just over a tenner and even had a soft drink. At that price you can afford to get your stomach lined for a gentle afternoon session. We guess that’s the idea.
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IN CONVERSATION WITH
DJ FORMAT WORDS BY JESSICA MARSHALL MCHATTIE
Mature b-boy DJ Format chats to us about his new album and live show, Manfred Mann, Swiss record shops, the decline of hip hop, and being a reluctant front-man.
visuals – it blends my old stuff, my new stuff, and The Simonsound stuff in a really danceable set. The Brighton gig’s on the 2nd March at the Concorde, which is frighteningly soon. We want to make people have a good time.
Your third album ‘Statement of Intent’ just came out – how has your style evolved? After a lot of trial and error I’ve gone back to what I do best, which is straight-up hip hop. What’s different is the collaborators: I’ve been open to live musicians and branched out exploring bluesy British jazz, especially horns, and classic Blue Note sounds. This will sound cheesy – Manfred Mann influenced me too. And I never viewed working with Jurassic 5 as a big deal because I grew up with those guys, but to work with Edan and Mr Lif felt like a coup. Edan doesn’t put out many records, but when he does, it’s hip hop perfection. The song we did, ‘Spaceship Earth’, is rap meets psychedelic rock. There’s a couple of almost cinematic, soundtrack-based things, which I think are the best tracks I’ve ever done in that area.
Who are your favourite Brighton musicians or producers? Derriere, my girlfriend Sarah’s band – they’re old rhythm’n’blues. Beta Hector are another of my favourites, and to be honest, most of my friends revolve around those two. Some friends my age put on a night called The Vinyl Veterans, which caters for good hip hop and funk the way we like it. How do you think the hip hop scene changed in the last decade? It’s got worse and worse. It’s not about how good your music is but how good you are at self-publicity. Hip hop for me is a culture and an art form: DJing, MCing, graffiti, breakdancing... There are so many aspects that you can be involved in and participate in straight away. Everyone thinks they can rap or make a beat; you know, everyone thinks they’re a DJ. I don’t want to sound like I’m telling people off but it’s hard to find hip hop nights now where there’s the right balance of creating a welcoming party atmosphere, of men and women, where the music is good and, dare I say it, positive. I don’t want to listen to gangster nonsense.
Do you still get the same buzz digging for records as you used to? Tell us about your new live show. Oh yeah, absolutely. I rarely buy new releases but there’s nothing I like I am really looking forward to it but I’m not a more than getting lost in a dusty old record shop and going through piles frontman with a massive ego – I’m happier in the and piles of old records with a portable record player until I find that background. Being the focal point in the new live magical moment. I go to Across The Tracks and Wax Factor in Brighton, show – it’s, er, interesting territory for me. I’d rather but my best digging is abroad, particularly Switzerland. I’m always scared be locked in the studio all day working magic with to give away secrets so won’t name any cities! I’ve been lucky there. samples, but DJing and live shows enable this. Most live hip hop performances are boring; people So what advice would you give to someone starting out as a producer stand around and the now? Any advice from a mature b-boy? MCs deliver the songs Try to keep your feet on the ground. Don’t put you love but shouted, yourself out there as the best thing since sliced and nothing is really bread. Network with people on the same level and bettered. If you enjoy my share knowledge. But try to be original – if you ALBUM: ‘Statement of Intent’ out now DJ sets in clubs, this is an discover a sample that no-one’s used, keep it to LIVE: Concorde 2, Fri 2nd enhanced version with yourself and be the first to use it. Where’s the WEB: djformat.com synths and effects and satisfaction in sounding like everyone else?
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LISTINGS MARCH 2012
THURSDAY 1ST
AUDIO Bastard Pop Musical mash-up 11pm £3/2/free BLACK LION This Is The Modern World Mod-bothering DJ night 8.30pm £free BLIND TIGER Cook The Rabbit Psychedelic Afro dance and electro samba reggae funk 9pm £3/free CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Brighton Bike Night Weekly biker’s social - we’re talking leather, not lycra 7pm £free COALITION Secret Discotheque Replaying the soundtrack to your youth 11pm £4/3/2 COBBLER’S THUMB AnalogueUndergroundRadio Open mic night broadcasted live 8pm £free CONSTANT SERVICE Jimmy Rae Blues and soul singer 8.30pm £free
CUBE Da Bomb: Burst FM, Urf Student DJ night 8pm £free DRUID’S ARMS Nice Weather For Air Strikes: Bella Karadasis, The Internet Local label indie showcase 8pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Young Adult 1.30pm £tbc; The Comedy Of Errors: NT Live 7pm £tbc; The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel 4pm/10.15pm £tbc FIDDLER’S ELBOW Live Lounge: Brian McNamara Traditional Irish music 8.30pm £free FISHBOWL Residents Association: DJ Will Sumsuch DJs play hip hop, funk and world beats 10.30pm £free GLOBE Hang The DJ! A night of punter-picked playlists 9pm £free
GREEN DOOR STORE Spirit Of Gravity: June Deer, Fallow, Andy Wheddon, Embla Quickbeam Field recordings, circuit bending, abstract soundscapes - Brighton’s avant noise gang have found a new home 8pm £5; Shameless Famously debauched pop night 11pm £free HED KANDI Caramel 11pm £5/3 HONEY Swag New R&B and dubstep night 11pm £3/2 JIVE MONKEY Open Mic Night Open mic hosted by Dominic Von Trapp 9pm £free KOMEDIA Hammer & Tongue: Daniel Spicer, Anna Freeman An entertaining mix of poetry and comedic verse hosted by Rosy Carrick and Mike Parker 7.30pm £5/4; Portico Quartet Experimental London band pushing percussion grooves and ambient classical touches 7.45pm £12.50; Krater Comedy Club: Ninia Benjamin, Alistair Barrie, David Connor, Jim Campbell, Will Marsh, Maff Brown Stand-up comedy 8pm £5-18
LATEST MUSIC BAR Rachel Sermanni Scottish singer songwriter who supported Mumford & Sons 8pm £8/7 LOLA LO Tom Foolery New electro, house and dubstep night 9pm £5/3
MESMERIST Bad Bad Whiskey Skifflebilly trio 9pm £free MUCKY DUCK Open Mic Jam session with Joe Newman 8pm £free
OCEANA Pound Party R&B and disco tunes from the bargain bin 10.30pm £3/free OLD MARKET Shorts And Sweets Book Club Literary discussion and sweeties 7.30pm £free PAVILION THEATRE A-LADD-IN Adult pantomime about a young boy who ventures into a dark wet cave and rubs someone’s lamp to uncork a gaseous man who satisfies his wishes 5pm/8pm £17 PRINCE ALBERT Death Of An Artist, From Afar, Surfaces, Switch Zero Live music 8.30pm £4/3 PSYCHOSOCIAL Oh! You Pretty Things Live music 8.30pm £4/3
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Gallery 40, 40 Gloucester Road Brighton Ben Gold’s Festival Nights photography, Finn Dean’s illustrations from Cuba & more... See facebook.com/theartcollective for private viewing details
QUADRANT Fractured Toast Music and spoken word come together in this unique storytelling gig night 8pm £free RANELAGH The Long Haul Country rock 8.30pm £free REGENCY TAVERN The Peter Davies & Mark Hodge Show Live music from a pianist and singer 8pm £free ST JAMES’ TAVERN Stay Sick, Turn Blue DJs play vintage soul, jazz and blues 8.30pm £free STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Welsh Rare Beats Welsh party for St David’s day 8pm £free THEATRE ROYAL The King’s Speech David Seidler’s drama about a monarch who developed a debilitating stammer, unfortunately it wasn’t Prince Philip Time tbc £tbc THOMAS KEMP David Ross Live music 9pm £free THREE & TEN Church: DJ Rooster, DJ Bmore Rock&roll, R&B, ska and northern soul 8pm £free VOLKS Loud & Dirty Sounds: Prozak Vs Prozak, Mike The Barber, Alibi, Morfius & Fraction Man, Kinundrum, N-Dorphin, Mgma, Lsdean, Ace MC, Dekoy, Reefa MC, Zano The Messenger, Threts & Invasion, Kotch, Caelum, Prospect, Primate & Ezra Drum&bass 11pm £3 WHITE RABBIT The Move-Ons Open Mic 8pm £free WORLD’S END The Big Cash Quiz 8pm £tbc
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AUDIO DPM: Matt Tolfrey, Thomas Gandey House night 11pm £10/7
BLACK DOVE Hot-Tip Hi-Fi DJ with a fine collection of vintage reggae and rocksteady records 8pm £free BLACK LION Soul Casserole A melting pot of hot funk beats and soul grooves 9pm £free
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BRUNSWICK The Lost Highway Live Americana and blues music 8pm £5 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK ReallyGoodStock: Sanity Valve, Professor Elemental Comedy hip hop duo host a night of musical comedy acts (upstairs) 8pm £free; Shake ‘N’ Stomp: DJ Citizen Lane Surf, twang and garage tunes 9pm £free COALITION Friday I’m In Love No more lectures for a day or two 11pm £1-5 COBBLER’S THUMB Flip & Trip Old skool hip hop tunes 8pm £free
CONCORDE2 The Cribs Indie rockers who recently supported The Sex Pistols 7pm £18; DJ Format & Simon Sound, Mac Mcraw, Tom Yum, Momark Live AV show 11pm £5
CUBE Friday Club House DJs 8pm £free DIGITAL Stonelove Indie rock&roll club 11pm £4/3 DOCTOR BRIGHTON’S Funky Friday: DJ Nick Hirst, DJ Wayne 9.30pm £free DRUID’S ARMS Hot Pepper Sauce DJ I.D.G. plays old school funk, soul and house 10pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Fight Club 11.30pm £tbc EASY BAR DJ Rudeben R&B, hip hop and reggae 8pm £free FISHBOWL Keep It Wheel DJs plays rare disco, soul and boogie 9pm £free FREEMASONS ALTA Proper underground house music with DJs Jeff Daniels, Danny Williams and Sumsuch on rotation 9pm £free
FUNKYFISH The Funkyfish Club Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10pm £6/3.50 GLOBE The Recommender DJ set from the Brighton blogger 8pm £free
GREEN DOOR STORE The Milk, Byron, Running Dogs New retro band doing old style r&b in a newish 60s way 7.30pm £6; Citizens! Art school dancefloor indie band 11pm £free; AEREO: Citizens Electro and synth pop night from the Teen Creeps peeps 11pm £free H-BAR Bang!: Vince Frimpong, Dene Sonnessa, Jay Freeland Funky house night Time tbc £tbc HAMPTON DJ Moffet Disco rock 9pm £free HAPPY CELL Biodanza World music and free-form dance session 7.20pm £10 HED KANDI Vanity House and electro club 10pm £4 HONEY Lollipop ‘Pink Fridays’ Get your fingers sticky to R&B and pop treats 11pm £5/4/3 HOPE Stacked Nasty DJs play funk, soul and 60s garage (downstairs) 9pm £free HYDRANT Crazy Arms, Apologies I Have None, Great Cynics Grassroots punk folk 8pm £tbc JIVE MONKEY This Is Elvis Jim Devereaux dons the sideburns and sequins 8.30pm £free KOMEDIA BANAFF Mountain Film Festival Short films celebrating mountains and the people who do crazy stuff on them 7.30pm £13/11 KOMEDIA Krater Comedy Club: Ninia Benjamin, Alistair Barrie, Paul Thorne Stand-up comedy 8pm £11.50-14.50; The Maydays - Top Story Improvised comedy based on local news stories 8pm £8/6; Electric Cocktail Thirty years of underground electronic music condensed into one night 11pm £5/4 LATEST MUSIC BAR Joymask Album launch for funky jazz brass band 8pm £free; The George Kypreos Band Greek bouzouki band 9pm £8/5 LIFE AkaAkaRoar!: Theo Parrish, Julio Bashmore, Bobby Champs Four hour set by the house legend 11pm £8/7/5 LOLA LO Tiki Beats Totally tropical tunes 8pm £5/4/3 MARLBOROUGH This Is England, Skard 4 Lyf Reggae and ska with a splash of the 80s and a dollop of dubstep 9pm £free MESMERIST Shake, Holla & Roll Vintage blues, swing and rock&roll 9pm £free MUCKY DUCK The Mucky Club DJ plays soul, funk and hip hop 8pm £free NORTHERN LIGHTS DJ Åbo Funk and soul tunes 9pm £free
OCEANA Escape With seven themed rooms you should find one you like 10.30pm £6/free OLD MARKET Pick Music Open session for American and English folk players 9pm £free PAVILION THEATRE A-LADD-IN Adult pantomime about a young boy who ventures into a dark wet cave and rubs someone’s lamp to uncork a gaseous man who satisfies his wishes 5pm/8pm £17 PRINCE ALBERT Jamie N Collins Live music 8pm £6.50; Bend Over I’ll Drive Rock&roll DJs (downstairs) 8.30pm £free PSYCHOSOCIAL Athena Women’s night club 10pm £7/6 RANELAGH The Steady Man Band Blues, funk and soul 8.30pm £free
REGENCY TAVERN Honky Tonk Live jazz 8pm £free RIKI TIK ENK Vs MIMM: Hanc Limit, Redstar, LZ Dub and grime showcase 9pm £free SIDEWINDER Hot Biscuit DJ plays hip hop, indie and funk hits 9pm £free STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR DNA: Amoss, Voytek, Kosine, Side-B, Primate, Ezra 10pm £5/4 THEATRE ROYAL The King’s Speech David Seidler’s drama about a monarch who developed a debilitating stammer, unfortunately it wasn’t Prince Philip Time tbc £tbc THOMAS KEMP DJ Molar 9pm £free UNITARIAN CHURCH Jamie N Commons Swamp rock
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and gospel blues from the BBC’s Sound of 2012 finalist 7.30pm £tbc
VERDICT Simon Robinson Trio Live jazz 2.30pm £free VICTORY Open Mic 8pm £free VOLKS Jungle Alliance IV: Curtis Lynch, Ruben Da Silva, MC Trooper, Kosine, X-Nation, Dialect, Kingspinner, Axiomatt, Mr Sleeps, Rezomine, Side:B, Lotskee, Mrsleepz Two floors of jungle, dancehall and dubstep 11pm £6/5 WHITE RABBIT WTF? Brighton Wonky electro and synth pop nonsense 8pm £free WORLD’S END Video Stars Live music 8pm £free XUMA The Bop Bands and DJs play rock&roll and blues 9pm £free; Wang Dang Doogle DJs play blues, ska, jazz and rock&roll 10pm £free BLIND TIGER Local Posse: Lazy Habits, Klumzy Tongue and Joe Driscoll Improv session with some funky hip hop big bands 8pm £5/free
SATURDAY 3RD
A-BAR Honey Hush Queer-friendly blues and rock&roll night with the Frockabilly gang 9pm £free ALIBI Comedy Cooler Local underground comedy 8pm £4 ANCIENT MARINER The Acoustic Sessions: Sam Chara & Bing Lyle Acoustic duo play jazz tunes with a Parisian vibe 8pm £free
AUDIO The Jezabels, Special K’s Gothic indie from down under 7pm £9.50; Warehouse: Boy 8 Bit, Blah Blah Blah DJs House and techno club night 11pm £5/free BEACHIGOGO BAR Good Times Remember them? Maybe the feel-good retro tunes will jog your memory (in the White Room) 9pm £free; The R&B Lounge R&B DJs (in the Main Room) 11pm £6/5 BLACK DOVE Paradiso! DJs play vintage exotica, mambo and swing 8.30pm £free BLACK LION Burnt Toast DJs play sleazy soul and dirty breaks 9pm £free BLIND TIGER The Resonators Live dub reggae band 8pm £4
BRIGHTON BALLROOM Pop Kraft Pop tunes and cheeky cabaret with Boogaloo Stu and crew 7pm £6 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Teenage Wasteland These DJs play both kinds of music: post punk AND new wave (downstairs) 9pm £free COALITION DJ Ez, DJ Pioneer, DJ Dubl, Spidey G, Mr Kaos, Dagger Sound System Old school garage, funky house, and sexy R&B 11pm £8/6; Blow: Vince Manganaro, Charly Lopez, Charles Green The party never stops 3am £5 COBBLER’S THUMB AnalogueUndergroundRadio Dub Party Dub night streamed and broadcast live on the radio 8pm £free
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CONCORDE2 Sleigh Bells American noise pop duo 8pm £12; Supercharged: Jack Beats, Jackmaster, Marcus Nasty & Ranking, Rattus Rattus, Aljmex, Rivalize, Fi-Chek, Shiver, DJ Jester DJ duo blending hip hop and dubstep with electro and drum&bass 11pm £10 CUBE Simply House House DJs 8pm £free DIGITAL Pussycat Club - Live & Unleashed DJs accompanied by live musicians, vocalists and club performance artists 11pm £10/8/5 DOCTOR BRIGHTON’S Sexy Saturday: DJ Tony B 9.30pm £free
DOME Britten Sinfonia At Lunch £10/7.50
Chamber music Noon
DOME Van Morrison Van the man returns for more smiles and good times 8pm £45-75 DOME FOUNDERS ROOM Poems Are Easy Compose and perform poems with the help of a pro, Roy Hutchins 2pm £free
DOME FOYER BAR Tenth Anniversary Celebrations It’s been ten years since the Dome was refurbished to the tune of £22m - why not come along and have some bubbly to remember the days when people had money to spend on fun stuff? 1pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Scooby-Doo 11am £tbc EASY BAR Fam Daniels, Legs MC, Lucky Hip hop floor fillers 8pm £free
FIDDLER’S ELBOW Molly Malone’s Dex In The City DJ night 9pm £free FISHBOWL Gareth Stephens DJ plays funk, nu-jazz and broken beats 9pm £free FLORIST DJ Night Vintage R&B, soul and ska 8pm £free FREEMASONS Aran Reynolds & Ollie Sturdy Classic and funky house DJs 8.30pm £free FUNKYFISH The Funkyfish Club Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10pm £6/3.50 GLOBE The Music Box Chanelling the disco vibe of Ron Hardy’s legendary Chicago club 9pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Haight Ashbury, Laura J Martin, Emit Bloch Sunshine shoegaze psych 8pm £6/5; Stone To The Bone Club night specialising in 1970s funk vibes 11pm £free
a night of piano house from Joe Smooth to Julio Bashmore, joining generations together in sweet harmony.
sat 3rd march riki tik 10pm-3am free djs: james kendall, aashton&swift
H-BAR Tech-Noir: Darren DOne, Danny Chase, Nick Hook DJs delve into the depths of tech Time tbc £tbc HAUNT Allo Darlin’, Vadoinmessico, The Vaudeville Indie twee pop 7pm £7 HED KANDI Twisted Disco Time tbc £5/free HONEY Hat Club: Rob Wilder, Sam Dungate, Vince Frimpong, BANG!, Georgeous, Jay Freeland, Dene Sonessa House hits and hats 11pm £8/5 JAZZ PLACE Night At The Jazz Rooms: Russ Dewbury, The Soul Sisters Legendary Brighton club returns to its old home for a night of heavy funk, soul, Afro and dance, etc 9pm £5/4/free
KOMEDIA The Maydays - Confessions Improv group turn your secrets into musical comedy 8pm £10/8; Krater Comedy Club: Ninia Benjamin, Alistair Barrie, Paul Thorne, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 7pm/8pm/10.30pm £15-20; ipop! Like an iPod full of party anthems on perpetual shuffle 11pm £3/ free
KOMEDIA Brighton Rock Classic rock and metal night 11pm
£6
LATEST MUSIC BAR Phantom Limb, Jo Harman Bristol band mixing country, soul and gospel 7.30pm £6.50 LIFE Juicebox! New eclectic club night offering an nice alternative to the standard seafront malarky 11pm £5/3 LOFT After Dark Gallery Charity Art Auction Art show with live music and DJs raising money for Barnardo’s 7pm £7.50 LOLA LO Zombie Nation Where the dancefloor is never dead 8pm £10/7/6
MARLBOROUGH Luck Me Up Pop party with DJ Dame Amy 9pm £free
MESMERIST Juke Joint Jamboree Rhythm & blues and rock&roll records from the days of the dance halls 9pm £free MUCKY DUCK Sizzle And Pop! DJ Mick plays 50s rock&roll and 60s soul 9pm £free OCEANA Sound Of Saturday Disco club for West Street’s finest 10.30pm £10/free PAV TAV Songs For The Deaf Ear pounding rock and grunge from the 90s 11pm £3 PAVILION THEATRE A-LADD-IN Adult pantomime about a young boy who ventures into a dark wet cave and rubs someone’s lamp to uncork a gaseous man who satisfies his wishes 5pm/8pm £17 PSYCHOSOCIAL Incognito Techno and dub 10pm £8/5 RIKI TIK Pocket Full Of Doves Piano house night 10pm £free SHAKESPEARE’S HEAD Bitter Disko DJ plays mutant funk, post punk and John Peel favourites 8pm £free STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Stay Beautiful A mess of eyeliner and spray paint 11pm £6/5 THEATRE ROYAL The King’s Speech David Seidler’s drama about a monarch who developed a debilitating stammer, unfortunately it wasn’t Prince Philip Time tbc £tbc THOMAS KEMP Discopolis: DJ Brian Flying White Dots 9pm £free
THREE GRACES Tooflemac Acoustic rock and soul covers band 8pm £free TUBE Hold Up! Long-running and much-loved indie night kept afloat by the influx of fresh-faced students 11pm £5 VERDICT Simon Spillet Quartet Live jazz 7.30pm £15/8 VICTORY Up Against It Born Bad DJs play an assortment of punky trash 8pm £free VOLKS Electric Playboys: Dirtbomb, Moai, Arthur Shilling, Granted, Luke B, Dan Sampayo, Stebo, Head Fuzz, DJ Y-Not, Slim D, Phat Pants Filthy electro, funk and drum&bass 11pm £5/free
WHITE RABBIT The Mixer Men DJ night 8pm £free WORLD’S END DJ Keerti House, funky house and everything in between 8pm £free
SUNDAY 4TH
BLACK LION Live & Swingin’ Lion Live gypsy jazz, swing and blues 9pm £free BLIND TIGER My Swish Swap your unwanted clothes 11am £freeVoicebox Spoken word and live music open mic night 8pm £3
BRUNSWICK The Light House Crew Jazz funk band 8pm £tbc
CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK The Geekest Link Possibly the only time in your life anyone will care how much you know about the back story of minor characters from Middle Earth who even Tolkien considered too insignificant to mention 8.30pm £1 CORN EXCHANGE Herbie Flowers’ Jazz Breakfast Celebrated bassist smears your toast with his jazz 11am £6 CUBE Trance Sunday: Derskon, Tommy T Trance DJs 8pm £free
DOME Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra Barry Wordsworth conducts a concert of classic music from England and Hungary, including works by Elgar, Vaughan Williams and Dvořák 2.45pm £9-32
DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Mysteries Of Lisbon 11am £tbc; Berliner Philharmoniker Live - Thielemann Mayer 6.30pm £tbc
EASY BAR Reggae And Roast Noon £free FIDDLER’S ELBOW Sham-Rock Open Mic 8.30pm £free FISHBOWL Recovery? Reggae through the ages 9pm £free FOOD FOR FRIENDS Hajar Solo vocalist does pop and jazz covers with some originals thrown in 6.30pm £free FOUNTAIN HEAD Reggae & Roasts Reggae and chilled beats Time tbc £free GLOBE Rockoustic Open Mic 8pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Funeral Suits Irish distortion 7.30pm £6; Green Door Blues Blues band and DJs 10pm £free HED KANDI Kandi Love 9pm £5 HONEY Sundays At The Honey If your house was this sexy you’d never go outdoors 11pm £3/2/free HOTEL PELIROCCO Ace Stories: Alison MacLeod, Robert Dickinson, Laura Hunter Live literature event with readings and talks with authors 6pm £3 KOMEDIA The Sundae Club Kids’ event with workshops, games and dancing 11am £6/4; Bent Double: Paul Sinha, Joe Lycett, Susan Murray Zoe Lyons hosts a night of alternative comedy acts 7.30pm £10.50/8.50; Krater Comedy Club: Ninia Benjamin, Alistair Barrie, The Noise Next Door, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 8pm £5-11.50 LATEST MUSIC BAR Bark Like A Dog Blues Jam A chance for first-timers to shed their nerves - and old-timers to show off their licks 8pm £free OPEN HOUSE Quiz Night 8pm £2 PAVILION THEATRE A-LADD-IN Adult pantomime about a young boy who ventures into a dark wet cave and rubs someone’s lamp to uncork a gaseous man who satisfies his wishes 5pm/8pm £17 PRESTONVILLE ARMS General Knowledge Quiz 9pm £1 PRINCE ALBERT To Kill A King, Glass City Vice, 900 Spaces Folk rock band from Leeds 7.30pm £7; Little Episodes: The Official Queue Facebook Page, Plasticine, Robert James Selby Live music 7.30pm £7/5 RANELAGH Mike Ross Live blues and rock 8.30pm £free REGENCY TAVERN Sunday Lunch Jerome plays the piano 8pm £free
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SIGNALMAN Open Mic Open session hosted by local duo, Zoothyme 8pm £free THEATRE ROYAL The Circus Of Horrors - The Ventriloquist Alternative 1920s themed circus show 7.45pm £15.50-23.50 THOMAS KEMP Jazz In The Afternoon: Groove Jazz Quartet Live jazz 4pm £free VERDICT Simon Spillet Quartet Live jazz 7pm £15/8 VICTORY Blues Sundays DJ plays blues and soul Time tbc £free; Quiz Night 8pm £1 WHITE RABBIT Hush Hush Live acoustic music 8pm £free WORLD’S END Open Mic Night 8pm £free
MONDAY 5TH
ANCIENT MARINER Quiz Night 8pm £1 BLACK DOVE The Bell Jar MP3 Club Reinventing the record club 8.30pm £tbc BRIGHTON CENTRE The Wanted Whoever wants them can have them. We don’t mind, really 6.30pm £27.50/19.50 BRUNSWICK Harmonessence Vocal harmony choir 5.30pm £7; Open Mic 8.30pm £free CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK MovieBar So you wanna make it in the glamorous world of film? Go shmooze with the movers and makers and other out-of-work actors. Includes film screenings, Q&A with directors and a movie quiz 7.30pm £free COALITION Trash Monday Filthy tunes for students and layabouts alike 10.30pm £5/3/free CONCORDE2 Band Of Skulls Southampton alt rockers (this show has now sold out) 8pm £15 FOUNTAIN HEAD Open Mic Open mic for musicians and comedians 9pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Punk V Hardcore Guess what? It’s a night of punk and hardcore 7.30pm £free LATEST MUSIC BAR BIMM Party Live music and fancy dress 7.30pm £4/2 LIFE Jail Bait Hits from the 90s for those too young to remember the first time 11pm £2 LOLA LO Fat Poppadaddys Student indie night 9pm £3 LONDON UNITY Texas Hold Em Poker night for serious players 8pm £tbc MARLBOROUGH Dames Games Quiz night 8.30pm £1 MESMERIST Stroll On Mondays 60s and 70s night with DJs and film projections 8.30pm £free OCEANA Vodka Rocks Cheesy club night apparently named after a drinks promotion 10.30pm £3/2/free PRINCE ALBERT Bleeding Hearts Club: Fire Eyes, Lux Harmonium, Al Chamberlain, King of Cats Gently downbeat and melancholic acoustic music 8pm £3 SIGNALMAN Signalman Pub Quiz 8pm £1 STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Where Is My Mind? Music quiz 8pm £1 THEATRE ROYAL Dreamboats And Petticoats Musical set in the 60s featuring Roy Orbison and Chuck Berry songs 7.45pm £18-33
THREE GRACES Knit Wits Craft club to swap stories and stitches 7pm £free VOLKS Strictly Reggae Dancehall, roots, revival 11pm £5/4.50
TUESDAY 6TH
AUDIO Guerilla Rocks Club night for rock chicks, skater bois and indie kids 11pm £3/2/1 BLACK LION Hit The Decks Open decks spin off (book a slot online) 9pm £free BLIND TIGER Kemp Town Carnival Spectacular: The Muel, Mynie Moe, The Ratbags Swing beat and anarchistic Balkanesque ska raising funds for Kemp Town Carnival 8pm £4 BRUNSWICK Ucanukulele Rediscover your potential with the help of a small toy guitar 7.30pm £5; Jazz Jam Open sessions with a house band 8pm £free CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Laughtermath Audience + (Timing x Gags) = Laughter 7.30pm £3 COALITION Back2Back If your bass was this filthy you’d have to take it back to the fishmongers 11pm £4/3 CUBE Cube Live Cancer Charity: Jon Mclgashan, Donny Utton Live music fundraiser 8pm £free DIGITAL CU Next Tuesday It’ll teach the universities to timetable lectures for Wednesday mornings 11pm £4/3 DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA The Iron Lady Cynical obit flick released just in time to cash in on the much-anticipated death of the milk-snatching, union-wrecking, boat-sinking harridan-inblue. Then again, she’s old now so you have to forgive her for all that - just like they did when her old dictator friend Pinochet came to stay 11am £tbc DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Khodorkovsky 6.30pm £tbc FIDDLER’S ELBOW QUIZness Time Are you a pub quiz whizz, or bit of a half-wit? 8pm £1 FLORIST The Florist Music Quiz 8pm £1 GLOBE Basement Cinema Underground films, comfy seats and free popcorn 8pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Melodramas Indie rock band 7.30pm £tbc; Hard Times They can take our disposable income, but they’ll never take our nowave disco! 11pm £free HAUNT Jon Spencer Blues Explosion Blowing up in a shower of rock&roll noise blues since 1991 Time tbc £16 HED KANDI Vudu 11pm £4/3/2 HONEY Latin Fever: DJ Aaron George, Gabriel Angel, Yersin Rivas Dance lessons followed by a tropically vibed salsa club 8pm/10pm £3/1/free HOPE SlipJam B Hip hop battleground for Brighton b-boys Leen’s Elite all freestyle special 8.30pm £free KOMEDIA The Duke Spirit, Sissy & The Blisters Garage rock and psychedelia 8pm £10 LATEST MUSIC BAR Astrid Williamson, Iris & The Wolves, Minor Sounds Melodic and moody folk pop singer 8.30pm £6/5
LECONFIELD Quiz Night 9pm £1 LOLA LO Dirtee Laundry Student night 10pm £6/4/2 LONDON UNITY Fun Pub Quiz Have your brain drained by
a drag queen 8.30pm £1 MESMERIST The Mesmerist Conjurers Consortium It could be a magical night 7.30pm £free OLD MARKET Miniclicks: Harry Watts Photography presentation and talk, in association with SOURCE. See Culture for more details 7pm £free OPEN HOUSE Jazz Work Shop Throw away those jazz mags and try out your trumpet in public 8pm £tbc PAVILION THEATRE Sussex Salon Series - A Matter Of Life And Death: Professor Bobbie Farsides, Gavin Ashenden The Queen’s chaplain and a medical ethicist discuss whether we have the right to end our lives - stuff like this was so much simpler when the queen made those decisions 8pm £6/4 PRINCE ALBERT Nimmo & The Gauntlets, Stone Beach, Mike Wilton, Standard Lamps Whimsical indie pop 8pm £7 RED LION Challenging General Knowledge & Music Quiz 8pm £1
REGENCY TAVERN Mark Hodge’s Brighton Piano Bar ‘Ave a sing song round the ol’ Joanna 8pm £free THEATRE ROYAL Dreamboats And Petticoats Musical set in the 60s featuring Roy Orbison and Chuck Berry songs 7.45pm £18-33
THOMAS KEMP Poker Evening 8pm £free THREE GRACES Open Mic With Marcus 8.30pm £free WORLD’S END Poker Night 8pm £tbc
WEDNESDAY 7TH
AUDIO Supercharged: Andy C, MC id Drum&bass and breaks 11pm £8/7/6 BLACK LION The Black Lion Acoustic Showcase Live music 8.30pm £free BLIND TIGER Lethal Quizzle Pub quiz with zany rounds 8pm £1
BRISTOL BAR Jack Kendon Jazz Band Live jazz 8pm £free BRUNSWICK An Irish Man Does Magic Nathan O’Donnell is his name 7.30pm £8 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Norman Lovett - LOL@ NoLo One man show from the dour stand-up whose face played Red Dwarf’s Holly 8.30pm £6 COALITION CoCo LoCo Commercial chart music for students 10.30pm £5/3/2 CONCORDE2 Melanie C 7.30pm £15 CUBE Wicked Wednesdays House DJs 8pm £free DIGITAL Poundance Like a coin operated dancefloor 11pm £4/3/1
DRUID’S ARMS We Change The Tempo DJ set of international sounds 9pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel 11am £tbc FISHBOWL Tea & Biscuits: DJ Gareth Stephens Retro swing, soul and ska 10pm £free FOUNTAIN HEAD Student Night DJs play indie and rock 8pm £free
GLOBE Global Bass: DJ Ted Lauren Dub, digi and dancehall 9pm £free
GREEN DOOR STORE Hardcore Show Eight bands in forty minutes 7pm £5; The Jazz Store Live jazz with an open jam 11pm £free
GREENHOUSE EFFECT BAR Open Mic Night 9pm £free KOMEDIA Hobbie Stuart, Elli Ingram Guitarist and singer who forged a career doing pop covers on YouTube 8pm £8 LATEST MUSIC BAR The Sun Pilots, Pink Narcissus, Echo Rain Live music 8pm £5/4 LONDON UNITY Open Mic Night Open session hosted by Pemma Ashdown 8.30pm £free MESMERIST The Swing Ninjas Gypsy swing band 9pm £free
NORTHERN LIGHTS Prognosis Set the DJ controls for the heart of psychedelia 9pm £free OCEANA Fuzzy Logic Dance and dubstep student night 9pm £3.50-5
OPEN HOUSE Safehouse Free jazz and avant garde improvisation 8pm £6/5 PRINCE ALBERT Austin Lucas, Dan Webb & The Spiders, Joe Tilson Punk from the US 8pm £7 PSYCHOSOCIAL Under The Bridge Live music 8pm £free THEATRE ROYAL Dreamboats And Petticoats Musical set in the 60s featuring Roy Orbison and Chuck Berry songs 7.45pm £18-33
THOMAS KEMP Kev & Jenna’s Open Mic 8.30pm £free THREE GRACES Quiz Night 8pm £1 VICTORY The Victory Book Club Monthly discussion on a selected book 8pm £free VOLKS Switch Up Drum&bass, electro and dubstep night Time tbc £tbc
XUMA Quiz Night Cash-in the hitherto useless knowledge stored in your brain 8.30pm £tbc
THURSDAY 8TH
AUDIO Bastard Pop Musical mash-up 11pm £3/2/free BLACK LION Soul Casserole A melting pot of hot funk beats and soul grooves 8.30pm £free BLIND TIGER Super Mishto Balkan beats and live gypsy music 7pm £4 BRUNSWICK Existential Pants Improv comedy show 8pm £5
CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK International Women’s Day Party Women, eh? Can’t live with ‘em, can’t propagate the species without them 8pm £free COALITION Lianne La Havas Soulful singer with a classic voice (this show has now sold out) 7pm £tbc; Secret Discotheque Replaying the soundtrack to your youth 11pm £4/3/2
COBBLER’S THUMB AnalogueUndergroundRadio Open mic night broadcasted live 8pm £free; International Women’s Day Spoken word and craft event 8pm £free CONCORDE2 Labrinth Cowell-endorsed rap pop (this show has now sold out) 7pm £tbc
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CONSTANT SERVICE Mark & Dodger Singalong piano music 8.30pm £free CUBE Da Bomb: Burst FM, Urf Student DJ night 8pm £free DRUID’S ARMS Druid’s Arms Presents Live music 8pm £free
FIDDLER’S ELBOW Live Lounge Live music 8.30pm £free FISHBOWL Residents Association: DJ Will Sumsuch DJs play hip hop, funk and world beats 10.30pm £free GLOBE Hang The DJ! A night of punter-picked playlists 9pm £free
GREEN DOOR STORE Johnny Foreigner Live music 7.30pm £6; BIAAS Dance music student night 11pm £free HED KANDI Snapback 11pm £3 HONEY Swag New R&B and dubstep night 11pm £3/2 HOPE Rae Morris Young singer songwriter from Blackpool (upstairs) 7.30pm £tbc HOVE TOWN HALL Sussex Beer & Cider Festival 230 kegs of real ale sitting on the wall Time tbc £tbc JIVE MONKEY Open Mic Night Open mic hosted by Dominic Von Trapp 9pm £free KOMEDIA Krater Comedy Club: Tom Deacon, Damian Clarke, Doc Brown, Zoe Lyons, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 8pm £5-18; Chris Ramsey - Offermation Stand-up comedy 8pm £10 LATEST MUSIC BAR Catalyst Club Guest speakers give a short talk about whatever their weird obsession is 8.30pm £5 LIFE Back Off! Hip hop and house, garage and grime 11pm £4/3/2
LOLA LO Tom Foolery New electro, house and dubstep night 9pm £5/3
MARLBOROUGH THEATRE Melancolonica: Stuart Warwick, Twenty One Crows, Kristin McClement The saddest songs sound better in the smaller places 8pm £5 MESMERIST Dr Bluegrass & The Illbilly Eight Brighton’s busiest buskers - country standards and pop covers put through the hillbilly thresher 9pm £free MUCKY DUCK Open Mic Jam session with Joe Newman 8pm £free
OCEANA Pound Party R&B and disco tunes from the bargain bin 10.30pm £3/free OLD MARKET Laughtermarket: Katherine Ryan, Darren Maskell, Roz Ryan, Andrew Theodorou, Sami Stone Standup comedy 8pm £1.50 PRINCE ALBERT Greg(o)rian, Sea Bastard, Eternal Torment Live bands 8pm £4 PSYCHOSOCIAL Live ‘N’ Laughing: James Redmond Stand-up comedy 7.30pm £5-8; Oh! You Pretty Things Live music 8.30pm £4/3; Outheloop: J-Bass, Subtone, Burst Radio DJs Electro breaks 10pm £tbc RANELAGH Kris Dollimore Swampy blues rock 8.30pm £free SIGNALMAN Signalman Real Ale Festival Real ales from local breweries and live music from local bands 8pm £free ST JAMES’ TAVERN Stay Sick, Turn Blue DJs play vintage soul, jazz and blues 8.30pm £free STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Catholic Discipline Noise rock, disco pop and acid folk from the Superheroes of BMX 8pm £free
THEATRE ROYAL Dreamboats And Petticoats Musical set in the 60s featuring Roy Orbison and Chuck Berry songs 2.30pm £18-33
THOMAS KEMP Swing Ninjas Gypsy jazz trio 9pm £free THREE & TEN Church: DJ Rooster, DJ Bmore Rock&roll, R&B, ska and northern soul 8pm £free; Luke Toulson - Laid Back Grouch Stand-up comedy 8pm £7/5 THREE GRACES Prime Cuts Comedy Stand-up comedy 8pm £free
VOLKS Siren: Dr S Gachet, D Double U, Voytek, ST, Denial, MJD, Double J, Twin FX, Kerizma, Breezer, Fatal, Perception, Jay Steppa, DSB, Chalky, Skaliba, Dubzil, Raknowledge Drum&bass night 11pm £tbc WHITE RABBIT The Move-Ons Open Mic 8pm £free WORLD’S END The Big Cash Quiz 8pm £tbc
FRIDAY 9TH
AUDIO Notorious Old skool hip hop 11pm £5/3 BLACK DOVE Mo Taters! DJs play vintage tunes from across the Americas 8pm £free BLACK LION Medium Rare DJs serve up a platter of semiobscure funk and soul 9pm £free BLIND TIGER Anchorsong Live electronica from the Japanese beatmaker 8pm £5 BRIGHTON BALLROOM Friday Night Speakeasy “Roll up! Roll up!” Indoor circus with fire-breathing beauties, ring leaders and roaring lions – followed by a club night 10.30pm £5 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Funny Girls Stand-up, sketches and music (upstairs) 8pm £5/4; Get Some Metal with DJ Andy Lost 9pm £free COALITION Friday I’m In Love No more lectures for a day or two 11pm £1-5 COBBLER’S THUMB Carlos & Donzy Live blues and soul with an open jam session 8pm £free CONCORDE2 BIMM End Of Term Party Brighton Institute of Modern Music releases its performers for a brief foray into normal society 7pm £2; Rarekind Hip Hop Showcase: Mr Thing, Yungun Hip hop night 11pm £free CUBE Friday Club House DJs 8pm £free DIGITAL Stonelove Indie rock&roll club 11pm £4/3 DOCTOR BRIGHTON’S Funky Friday: DJ Nick Hirst, DJ Wayne 9.30pm £free DOME The Maccabees Local indie favourites return with a new album and a big new stadium sound (this show has now sold out) 7pm £17 EASY BAR Phi Life Cypher, Frenglish Connexion, DJ Rudeben Live hip hop 8pm £free FISHBOWL Jeff Daniels Soul and hip hop DJ 9pm £free FREEMASONS ALTA Proper underground house music with DJs Jeff Daniels, Danny Williams and Sumsuch on rotation 9pm £free
FUNKYFISH The Funkyfish Club Motown 10pm £6/3.50
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Soul, funk, jazz and
GLOBE TSOB: Rum Fridays Philly disco from Juice FM DJ 8pm £free
GREEN DOOR STORE Three Trapped Tigers 7pm £7; Ye Ye Fever Funky Afrobeat clubnight 11pm £free H-BAR Neveah: Amir Groove, Dan Gausden, Gareth Hall Progressive house and techno (in the club) Time tbc £tbc; DJ Steven James Classic funk and disco (in the bar) Time tbc £tbc HAMPTON DJ Oddsox & Friends 9pm £free HAUNT Future Islands Baltimore synth pop trio 7pm £8 HED KANDI Vanity House and electro club 10pm £4 HONEY Lollipop ‘Pink Fridays’ Get your fingers sticky to R&B and pop treats 11pm £5/4/3 HOVE TOWN HALL Sussex Beer & Cider Festival 230 kegs of real ale sitting on the wall Time tbc £tbc HYDRANT Anti Nowhere League Punk diehards 7.30pm £10 JIVE MONKEY The Jive Monkey Cabaret Cabaret with Dolly Rocket - plus an uncensored and partially undressed Marilyn Monroe 9pm £free KOMEDIA Boot Led Zeppelin Tribute band faithfully reproduces Zeppelin’s classic moments - let’s hope they skip the incident with the groupie and the baby shark 7.30pm £13; Tony Kofi’s Standard Time Trio: Brighton Jazz Club Live jazz 8pm £14/12; Krater Comedy Club: Tom Deacon, Doc Brown, Zoe Lyons, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 8pm £11.50-14.50 LATEST MUSIC BAR Stash Sounds Live hip hop night 9pm £free
LIFE Critical Sound: Break, DJ Die, Kasra, Foreign Concept, ENK Drum&bass all the way 11pm £5 LOLA LO Tiki Beats Totally tropical tunes 8pm £5/4/3 MARLBOROUGH Millions Of Peaches Alternative electro night 9pm £free MARLBOROUGH THEATRE This Is Jonny Woo Cabaret and poetry from London’s ‘Tranny Superstar’ 8pm £8.50/6.50 MESMERIST Shake, Holla & Roll Vintage blues, swing and rock&roll 9pm £free MUCKY DUCK Chip Shop Hip Hop: DJ Fletcher C Ellis 8pm £free
NORTHERN LIGHTS Bitter Disko DJ plays mutant funk, post punk and John Peel favourites 9pm £free OCEANA Escape With seven themed rooms you should find one you like 10.30pm £6/free OLD MARKET The Old Market Movies Classic films 7pm £free
PRINCE ALBERT The Megaphonic Thrift, The Witches, No Problems Norwegian indie pop drizzled in guitar noise 7.30pm £6
PSYCHOSOCIAL Scandalous: Luca M Tech house extraordinaire 10pm £7/5 RANELAGH Slim Shack Rhythm and blues band 8.30pm £free
RIKI TIK Reggae Bombing: Boulevard Soundsystem, Serocee, DJ Cut La Vis Reggae, hip hop and Caribbean bashment 9pm £free SIDEWINDER Hot Biscuit DJ plays hip hop, indie and funk hits 9pm £free SIGNALMAN Signalman Real Ale Festival Real ales from local breweries and live music from local bands 8pm £free STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Another Sunny Day There’s a club if you’d like to go and dance awkwardly to indie pop obscurities 11pm £3 THEATRE ROYAL Dreamboats And Petticoats Musical set in the 60s featuring Roy Orbison and Chuck Berry songs 7.45pm £18-33
THOMAS KEMP DJ Jody Lee Hooker 9pm £free VERDICT Roy Hilton’s ‘Tribute To Horace Silver’ Live jazz 7.30pm £12/6
VICTORY Open Mic 8pm £free VOLKS Freak Bazaar Progressive and psychedelic trance 11pm £tbc
WHITE RABBIT WTF? Brighton Wonky electro and synth pop nonsense 8pm £free WORLD’S END R.E.E.S. Showcase Live music 8pm £free XUMA Wang Dang Doogle DJs play blues, ska, jazz and rock&roll 10pm £free
SATURDAY 10TH
ANCIENT MARINER The Acoustic Sessions: Neal McBride Irish folk and acoustic funk rock 8pm £free AUDIO Minimal Kids: Dan Caster Minimalist electronica and techno 11pm £5/free BEACHIGOGO BAR Good Times Remember them? Maybe the feel-good retro tunes will jog your memory (in the White Room) 9pm £free; The R&B Lounge R&B DJs (in the Main Room) 11pm £6/5 BLACK DOVE The Chop Sauce DJ plays Caribbean rhythms and jump-jazz cuts 8pm £free BLACK LION Burnt Toast DJs play sleazy soul and dirty breaks 9pm £free BLIND TIGER Stay Sick!: Pussycat & The Dirty Johnsons Bands and DJs play garage, punk and rock&roll 9pm £3/free BRUNSWICK Tonight Matthew I will be the singer in a covers band 8pm £5 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Replica Goth and industrial night 9pm £free COALITION Rewind: Jungle Brothers Old school hip hop night 11pm £7; Blow: Vince Manganaro, Charly Lopez, Charles Green The party never stops 3am £5 CONCORDE2 Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings Nine-piece Brooklyn funk soul band (this show has now sold out) 7.30pm £tbc; Gilles Peterson, DJ Modest, Hint, Beta Hector 11pm £10
CONSTANT SERVICE The Social Constant: Phil The Void, Slap Ed Funk, soul and ska 8pm £free CORN EXCHANGE Blanca Li Dance Company - ElektroKif Urban street dance group does physical theatre with techno and Afrobeat 2pm/8pm £12-17.50 CUBE Delirious vs House Boutique House DJs 8pm £free DIGITAL Shogun: Friction, Prototypes, 16 Bit, Spectrasoul, MC SP, Mantmast Drum&bass night 10pm £12 DOCTOR BRIGHTON’S Sexy Saturday: DJ Tony B
9.30pm £free
DOME Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Music by Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky, Sibelius and Grieg 7.30pm £1027.50
DOME FOUNDERS ROOM Poems Are Easy Compose and perform poems with the help of a pro, Roy Hutchins 2pm £free
DRUID’S ARMS DJ Green Man’s Garden Of Delights A mixed bag of soul, psychedelia, funk, folk and pop 10pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Coraline 2D 11am £tbc EASY BAR Fam Daniels, Legs MC, Lucky Hip hop floor fillers 8pm £free
FIDDLER’S ELBOW Beans On Toast Bits of funk and blues swimming in a reggae sauce 9pm £free FISHBOWL DJ Åbo & Ally Jazz Rooms DJs play dirty funk and hot jazz 9pm £free FREEMASONS Aran Reynolds & Ollie Sturdy Classic and funky house DJs 8.30pm £free FUNKYFISH The Funkyfish Club Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10pm £6/3.50 GLOBE S*** Hot Soundsystem Nu disco DJ 9pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Halls Electronica band 7.30pm £4.50; Pop Not Pop: Eddie The Goatboy, Matatatat, Dynamite Sal, DJ Halfbeat Mixed up pop music party mayhem from Dynamite Sal and crew 11pm £free H-BAR J00F Editions John ‘00’ Fleming plays a birthday set Time tbc £tbc
HED KANDI Twisted Disco Time tbc £5/free HONEY Smartie Partie Anthemic sounds from the promised land of Ibiza 11pm £8/5 HOPE Monument Valley Folky singer songwriter from London (upstais) 7.30pm £tbc HOVE TOWN HALL Sussex Beer & Cider Festival: Common Tongues 230 kegs of real ale - plus live music from the neo folk group Time tbc £tbc JAZZ PLACE Night At The Jazz Rooms: Russ Dewbury, Siggi Awasote Legendary Brighton club returns to its old home for a night of heavy funk, soul, Afro and dance, etc 9pm £5/4/free JIVE MONKEY Hoofin: DJ Switchblade Si, DJ Johnny Stylus DJs play blues, rockabilly and swing - plus tunes from all the associated subgenres 8.30pm £free KOMEDIA Krater Comedy Club: Tom Deacon, Doc Brown, Zoe Lyons, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 7pm/8pm/10.30pm £15-20; Funny Women Comedy by women to celebrate International Women’s Day 8pm £10/8; ipop! Like an iPod full of party anthems on perpetual shuffle 11pm £3/free; Life’s A Gas Club night playing glam, punk and bubblegum power pop 11pm £5 LATEST MUSIC BAR Funky Buddha Band Their threefold path to enlightenment: funk, soul and Motown 7.30pm £5/3 LIFE Juicebox! New eclectic club night offering an nice alternative to the standard seafront malarky 11pm £5/3 LOLA LO Zombie Nation Where the dancefloor is never dead 8pm £10/7/6
MARLBOROUGH Luck Me Up Pop party with DJ Dame Amy 9pm £free
MARLBOROUGH THEATRE This Is Jonny Woo Cabaret and poetry from London’s ‘Tranny Superstar’ 8pm £8.50/6.50 MESMERIST Juke Joint Jamboree Rhythm & blues and rock&roll records from the days of the dance halls 9pm £free MUCKY DUCK The Recommender The Brighton blogger takes to the decks 9pm £free NORTHERN LIGHTS Return Of The Phailing Queasents 9pm £free
OCEANA Sound Of Saturday Disco club for West Street’s finest 10.30pm £10/free OLD MARKET The Invisible Dot Tour: Jonny Sweet, Toby & Nick Mohammed Stand-up comedian and sketch duo 8pm £12/9
PALMEIRA Palmfest A whole day of Americana singer songwriters 2.30pm £15/13 RANELAGH The East Brighton Rhythm Section Fat roots boogie 8.30pm £free RIKI TIK Mile Wide Smile Club: Mark Rae, Mickey Duke, Chri5tian Housey dance DJs 9pm £free SIGNALMAN Signalman Real Ale Festival Real ales from local breweries and live music from local bands 8pm £free STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR New Build A kind of supergroup featuring members of Hot Chip & LCD Soundsystem 7pm £7; Unhooked Generation Retro club night with an ear for 60s Motown and northern soul 11pm £5/4 THEATRE ROYAL Dreamboats And Petticoats Musical set in the 60s featuring Roy Orbison and Chuck Berry songs 2.30pm £18-33
THOMAS KEMP DJ Spindo 9pm £free THREE & TEN Off The Cuff - The Village Improv comedy group explore the sinister goings-on in an imaginary village 8pm £8/6
THREE GRACES Dirty Weekend Live music 8pm £free TUBE Hold Up! Long-running and much-loved indie night kept afloat by the influx of fresh-faced students 11pm £5 UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX Canticle Chamber Choir Sings Bach B Minor Mass Thirty-strong choir perform Bach’s late masterwork 7.30pm £10/8/5 VERDICT Jim Mullen, Terry Seabrook Trio Live jazz 7.30pm £10/5
VICTORY :KINEMA: DJ set of 80s classics from the Brighton pop band’s singer 9pm £free VOLKS Autopsy Darkside drum&bass 11pm £tbc WEST HILL TAVERN Tonight We Fly Epic melodrama and literate indie pop 9pm £free WHITE RABBIT The Mixer Men DJ night 8pm £free WORLD’S END Unity Hi-Fi Dub reggae DJs 8pm £free
SUNDAY 11TH
BLACK LION Live & Swingin’ Lion Live gypsy jazz, swing and blues 9pm £free BLIND TIGER The Apples Nine-piece funk turntablism from Tel Aviv 8pm £12/10 BRUNSWICK Ukulele Jam It tastes sweet but a little woody
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Seddon & Mike Hastings, Slim Tim Slide & Jaki Windmill Local multi-instrumentalist teams up with the singer songwriter formerly of the Incredible String Band 8pm £6/5 CONCORDE2 Aba Shanti Dub reggae sound system from London 11pm £free CUBE Sunday Social Open decks session 8pm £free DOME Ben L’Oncle Soul Classic soul from the French singer 7.30pm £17.50/15
DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Bolshoi - Le Corsaire 3pm £tbc
EASY BAR Reggae And Roast Noon £free FIDDLER’S ELBOW Sham-Rock Open Mic 8.30pm £free FISHBOWL Recovery? Reggae through the ages 9pm £free FOOD FOR FRIENDS Hajar Java Duo Pop and jazz covers with some originals thrown in 6.30pm £free FOUNTAIN HEAD Reggae & Roasts Reggae and chilled beats Time tbc £free GLOBE Rockoustic Open Mic 8pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Bullit Indie rock band 7.30pm £tbc; Green Door Blues: Andy Twyman, The Big Itch Blues band and DJs 10pm £free HED KANDI Kandi Love 9pm £5 HONEY Sundays At The Honey If your house was this sexy you’d get a lot of carpet burns 11pm £3/2/free JIVE MONKEY Tabula Rasa: DJ Switchblade Si, DJ Johnny Stylus Humorous play about sex, relationships and our unconscious attempts to sabotage our chances 8pm £6 KOMEDIA Gabrielle Aplin Multi-instrumentalist singer songwriter - as seen on the interweb (this show has now sold out) 7.30pm £tbc; Krater Comedy Club: Doc Brown, Zoe Lyons, Andrew Ryan, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 8pm £5-11.50
LATEST MUSIC BAR The Best Of Catalyst Club TV Pilot Night Guest speakers give a short talk about whatever their weird obsession is 7pm £free MASTER MARINER Keith Baxter Trio Live jazz 3pm £free OCEANA Little Black Dress 10.30pm £5 PAVILION THEATRE Folded Feather - Suitcase Circus Kids’ puppetry circus 11.30am/2.30pm £7/5 RANELAGH The Elevators Uplifting electric blues 8.30pm £free
REGENCY TAVERN Sunday Lunch Jerome plays the piano
8pm £free
SIGNALMAN Signalman Real Ale Festival Real ales from local breweries and live music from local bands 8pm £free THOMAS KEMP A Bit Of Banter Comedy night with local and London stand-ups 8pm £free; Tango Sessions 8pm £free VICTORY Blues Sundays DJ plays blues and soul Time tbc £free; Quiz Night 8pm £1 WHITE RABBIT Hush Hush Live acoustic music 8pm £free
MONDAY 12TH
ANCIENT MARINER Quiz Night 8pm £1 BLACK DOVE The Bell Jar MP3 Club Reinventing the record club 8.30pm £tbc BRUNSWICK Harmonessence Vocal harmony choir 5.30pm £7
BRUNSWICK Open Mic 8.30pm £free COALITION Trash Monday Filthy tunes for students and layabouts alike 10.30pm £5/3/free FOUNTAIN HEAD Open Mic Open mic for musicians and comedians 9pm £free HAUNT Earth, Mount Eerie, Ô Paon Seattle drone doom pioneers 7.30pm £tbc HYDRANT BandCalledMac, MC Fashion Post rock EP launch 8pm £free KOMEDIA The Adventures Of Andy Kershaw The journalist and broadcaster discusses his work, life and new book 8pm £15 LIFE Jail Bait Hits from the 90s for those too young to remember the first time 11pm £2 LOLA LO Fat Poppadaddys Student indie night 9pm £3 LONDON UNITY Texas Hold Em Poker night for serious players 8pm £tbc MARLBOROUGH Dames Games Quiz night 8.30pm £1 MESMERIST Stroll On Mondays 60s and 70s night with DJs and film projections 8.30pm £free OCEANA Vodka Rocks Cheesy club night apparently named after a drinks promotion 10.30pm £3/2/free SIGNALMAN Signalman Pub Quiz 8pm £1 STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR IOU Comedy: Lloyd Griffith, Anna Freyberg, Tommy Rowson, Joe Foster, Mark Smith Stand-up comedy night 8pm £4 THOMAS KEMP Quiz Night 8pm £1 THREE GRACES Knit Wits Craft club to swap stories and stitches 7pm £free VOLKS Strictly Reggae Dancehall, roots, revival 11pm £5/4.50
TUESDAY 13TH
AUDIO Guerilla Rocks Club night for rock chicks, skater bois and indie kids 11pm £3/2/1 BLACK LION Hit The Decks Open decks spin off (book a slot online) 9pm £free BRUNSWICK Jazz Jam Open sessions with a house band 8pm £free
COALITION Back2Back If your bass was this filthy you’d have to take it back to the fishmongers 11pm £4/3 CONCORDE2 Rizzle Kicks Hip hop party rappers catapulted into the charts by their appearance on the front cover of last June’s SOURCE (this show has now sold out) 7pm £10 CUBE Cube Live Live music 8pm £free DIGITAL CU Next Tuesday It’ll teach the universities to timetable lectures for Wednesday mornings 11pm £4/3 DOME Lord Of The Dance In terms of Ireland’s international reputation, even the IRA were less of a burden that these line dancing knee freaks 8pm £25-35.50
FIDDLER’S ELBOW QUIZness Time Are you a pub quiz whizz, or bit of a half-wit? 8pm £1 FLORIST The Florist Music Quiz 8pm £1 GLOBE Basement Cinema: How I Became An Asylum Seeker Screening of a play about women asylum seekers in the UK, followed by a Q&A with the cast 8pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Cove Scary live music 7.30pm £tbc; Hard Times They can take our disposable income, but they’ll never take our nowave disco! 11pm £free HAUNT Veronica Falls, Novella, Peace Indie pop with a lo-fi 80s feel 7pm £7.50 HED KANDI Vudu 11pm £6/4/2 HONEY Latin Fever: DJ Aaron George, Gabriel Angel, Yersin Rivas Dance lessons followed by a tropically vibed salsa club 8pm/10pm £3/1/free JIVE MONKEY Tabula Rasa: DJ Switchblade Si, DJ Johnny Stylus Humorous play about sex, relationships and our unconscious attempts to sabotage our chances 8pm £6 KOMEDIA The Writing On The Wall: Tony Benn & Roy Bailey Anecdotes, songs and storytelling from the renowned folk singer and the MP who left parliament to “spend more time on politics” 8.15pm £17.50 LATEST MUSIC BAR Charity Chuckle Laughter makes you feel good, especially when it’s for charity 8pm £8/5 LECONFIELD Quiz Night 9pm £1 LIFE We Press Play: DJ JMD, ENK, Southern Invasion DJs, Raw Element New club night with live graffiti and beat boxing 11pm £tbc
LOLA LO Dirtee Laundry Student night 10pm £6/4/2 LONDON UNITY Fun Pub Quiz Have your brain drained by a drag queen 8.30pm £1 MESMERIST The Mesmerist Conjurers Consortium It could be a magical night 7.30pm £free OCEANA Patsy Palmer Someone from Eastenders does a DJ set 10.30pm £6/free OPEN HOUSE Jazz Work Shop Throw away those jazz mags and try out your trumpet in public 8pm £tbc PAVILION THEATRE Cave Painting Epic and polished indie rock 7.30pm £6.50 PRINCE ALBERT Itchy Teeth, The Durbarrys, Lion Bark Live music 8.30pm £4/3 QUADRANT Jake Mackay, Rough Citizen, Kate Williams Country folk singer 7.30pm £free RED LION Challenging General Knowledge & Music Quiz 8pm £1
REGENCY TAVERN Mark Hodge’s Brighton Piano Bar ‘Ave a sing song round the ol’ Joanna 8pm £free THEATRE ROYAL Legally Blonde - The Musical Obviously two films of pointless chick flick nonsense wasn’t enough 7.45pm £18.50-59.50
THOMAS KEMP Poker Evening 8pm £free THREE GRACES Open Mic With Marcus 8.30pm £free VICTORY Dom Knight Live blues with the guitarist from Eighties Matchbox and Bad For Lazarus 8pm £free WORLD’S END Poker Night 8pm £tbc
WEDNESDAY 14TH
AUDIO Supercharged: Markey Drum&bass and breaks 11pm £6/4
BLACK LION The Black Lion Acoustic Showcase Live music 8.30pm £free BRISTOL BAR Jack Kendon Jazz Band Live jazz 8pm £free BRUNSWICK Conversation Cafe Discussion group 7.30pm £5
CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Funny HaHa: Nick Helm Stand-up comedy night 8pm £5 COALITION CoCo LoCo Commercial chart music for students 10.30pm £5/3/2 CONCORDE2 Rizzle Kicks Hip hop party rappers catapulted into the charts by their appearance on the front cover of last June’s SOURCE (this show has now sold out) 7pm £10 CUBE Wicked Wednesdays House DJs 8pm £free DIGITAL Poundance Like a coin operated dancefloor 11pm £4/3/1
DOME Lord Of The Dance In terms of Ireland’s international reputation, even the IRA were less of a burden that these line dancing knee freaks 2.30pm/8pm £25-35.50 DRUID’S ARMS We Change The Tempo DJ set of international sounds 9pm £free FISHBOWL Tea & Biscuits: DJ Gareth Stephens Retro swing, soul and ska 10pm £free FOUNTAIN HEAD Student Night DJs play indie and rock
emulator and geeking out on your own for the last few weeks there’s a reason you’re beating everyone else at Mario’s Troublesome Blockage, or whatever the fuck it’s called 8pm £free THEATRE ROYAL Legally Blonde - The Musical Obviously two films of pointless chick flick nonsense wasn’t enough 7.45pm £18.50-59.50
THOMAS KEMP Kev & Jenna’s Open Mic 8.30pm £free THREE GRACES Quiz Night 8pm £1 VICTORY Conversation Club It’s good to talk, apparently 8pm £free
VOLKS Switch Up Drum&bass, electro and dubstep night Time tbc £tbc
WHISTLESTOP INN Express Comedy Stand-up comedy with a community vibe 7.30pm £4 XUMA Quiz Night Cash-in the hitherto useless knowledge stored in your brain 8.30pm £tbc
THURSDAY 15TH
AUDIO Bastard Pop Musical mash-up 11pm £3/2/free BLACK LION The Lion’s Raw! Live bands 8.30pm £free BLIND TIGER Dub Organiser Jam session with a dub reggae band 8pm £3 BRIGHTON CENTRE Billy Connolly - The Man Live Scottish comedy from the Scottish comedian 8pm £35 BRUNSWICK BIMM Acoustic Folk Showcase Showcase sets from students of the music college 8pm £tbc COALITION Secret Discotheque Replaying the soundtrack to your youth 11pm £4/3/2 COBBLER’S THUMB AnalogueUndergroundRadio Open mic night broadcasted live 8pm £free CONCORDE2 Underground Rebel Bingo Club Motivational Seminar A clandestine organisation dedicated to the twin vices of bass and bingo 8pm £4 CONSTANT SERVICE Open Mic Night Open mic hosted by Fretless 8.30pm £free CUBE Da Bomb: Burst FM, Urf Student DJ night 8pm £free DOME Lord Of The Dance In terms of Ireland’s international reputation, even the IRA were less of a burden that these line dancing knee freaks 8pm £25-35.50 DRUID’S ARMS The Long Goodbye, Anna Rice, Otti Albeitz, Joan & Chris Alex Thom Live Americana and folk 7pm £free
FIDDLER’S ELBOW Live Lounge Live music 8.30pm £free FISHBOWL Residents Association: DJ Will Sumsuch DJs play hip hop, funk and world beats 10.30pm £free GLOBE Hang The DJ! A night of punter-picked playlists 9pm £free
GREEN DOOR STORE Trainwreck, Dopefight, Lich Hardcore German screamo metal 8pm £6/5; SEXTAPE R&B and filth for fashionable students 11pm £free HED KANDI Made The most sophisticated club night on all of West Street 11pm £5/3 HONEY Swag New R&B and dubstep night 11pm £3/2 JIVE MONKEY Open Mic Night Open mic hosted by Dominic Von Trapp 9pm £free KOMEDIA Krater Comedy Club: Matt Green, Dave Fulton, Tom Veryzer, Stefano Paolini, Naz Omanogalu, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 8pm £5-18 LATEST MUSIC BAR Ellen And The Echo, Lu’Ami Live music 8.30pm £4/3 LIFE Sweatbox Classic dance and retro trance 11pm £tbc LOLA LO Tom Foolery New electro, house and dubstep night 9pm £5/3
MESMERIST Razorbacks Rockabilly band 9pm £free MUCKY DUCK Open Mic Jam session with Joe Newman 8pm £free
NIGHTINGALE THEATRE Carp Blanche: Colossal Crumbs Existential puppet show in which a 1920s fish discovers the internet 7.30pm £tbc OCEANA Pound Party R&B and disco tunes from the bargain bin 10.30pm £3/free OLD MARKET Where I’m Calling From: Joe Luna, Laurens Verdonkschot Contemporary poetry night 7pm £free PAVILION THEATRE Blind Summit - The Table ‘Extreme puppetry’ show that went down a storm in Edinburgh 8pm £12.50/10
PRINCE ALBERT Pontiac Live music 8pm £tbc PSYCHOSOCIAL Oh! You Pretty Things Live music 8.30pm £4/3
GLOBE Global Bass: DJ Ted Lauren Dub, digi and dancehall
RANELAGH The Diablos Country rock 8.30pm £free ST JAMES’ TAVERN Stay Sick, Turn Blue DJs play vintage soul, jazz and blues 8.30pm £free STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Catholic Discipline Noise rock, disco pop and acid folk from the Superheroes of BMX 8pm
GREEN DOOR STORE Alice Gold Hipster popstar in the making 7.30pm £7; The Jazz Store Live jazz with an open jam
THEATRE ROYAL Legally Blonde - The Musical Obviously two films of pointless chick flick nonsense wasn’t enough
8pm £free 9pm £free
11pm £free
GREENHOUSE EFFECT Open Mic Night 9pm £free JIVE MONKEY Tabula Rasa: DJ Switchblade Si, DJ Johnny Stylus Humorous play about sex, relationships and our unconscious attempts to sabotage our chances 8pm £6 KOMEDIA Dog Is Dead Dyslexic Nietzschean indie pop band 7pm £6.50; Rose Vanier Cornish songstress formerly of Rosie & The Goldbug 8pm £6 LONDON UNITY Open Mic Night Open session hosted by Pemma Ashdown 8.30pm £free MESMERIST Swing Ninjas Album launch for Brighton’s hard swingin’ gypsy jazz trio 9pm £free NORTHERN LIGHTS Mystery Train Rockabilly DJ 9pm £free OCEANA Fuzzy Logic Dance and dubstep student night 9pm £3.50-5
OLD MARKET Doug Allan - Life Behind The Lens A talk by the Blue Planet cameraman 7.30pm £15 PRINCE ALBERT Lift Music, Sleep Room Live music 8pm £4
PSYCHOSOCIAL Under The Bridge Live music 8pm £free STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR I Am Arcade While you geek out playing retro video games try and act excited as if you hadn’t already exhausted the nostalgic possibilities by downloading an
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THOMAS KEMP Mode Music Presents Live music 9pm £free
THREE & TEN Church: DJ Rooster, DJ Bmore Rock&roll, R&B, ska and northern soul 8pm £free VOLKS Subliminal: High Maintenance, Bringa, Overdose UK, aGRO, Awfer, DJ Rootz, Rotten Scoundrel 11pm £5/4 WHITE RABBIT The Move-Ons Open Mic 8pm £free WORLD’S END The Big Cash Quiz 8pm £tbc
FRIDAY 16TH
ABOVE AUDIO Don’t Panic - Rise Above Live art and DJs 10pm £free
AUDIO Supercharged: Plump DJs Electro house and breaks 11pm £7
BLACK LION Stop Go!: The Planet Groove Collective, DJ Lanx, DJ Dave Stone “Unbeatable beats” 8.30pm £free BLIND TIGER Derriere Old school rockabilly blues and R&B band 8pm £5/2 BRIGHTON CENTRE Billy Connolly - The Man Live Scottish comedy from the Scottish comedian 8pm £35
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BRUNSWICK Voodoo Funk: Kalakuta Millionaires Afro funk night with live band 8pm £5 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Distortion Rock and metal DJs 8pm £free COALITION Friday I’m In Love No more lectures for a day or two 11pm £1-5 COBBLER’S THUMB Ginger Chloe’s Night What will the mysterious ‘Ginger Chloe’ be doing? The only way to find out is to come on down - unless you a) know her, b) are her, c) happen to have access to her email account 8pm £free CONCORDE2 Submotion Orchestra, Planas Atmospheric and experimental jazz dub band 7pm £8.50; Hot Wuk Spring Bashment: Lady Chann, The Heatwave, Sticky, Dagger Soundsystem, Renegade Youth Carnival and bashment vibes 11pm £4
CUBE Friday Club House DJs 8pm £free DIGITAL Stonelove Indie rock&roll club 11pm £4/3 DOCTOR BRIGHTON’S Funky Friday: DJ Nick Hirst, DJ Wayne 9.30pm £free DOME The Stranglers, The Popes Not-quite-punk rockers play their hits 7.30pm £23 DRUID’S ARMS DJ Green Man’s Garden Of Delights A mixed bag of soul, psychedelia, funk, folk and pop 10pm £free EASY BAR DJ Rudeben R&B, hip hop and reggae 8pm £free FIDDLER’S ELBOW St Patrick’s Weekender Warm Up Live music 8pm £free FISHBOWL The Mixer Men Reggae and hip hop DJ mash-up 9pm £free
FORTUNE OF WAR AfroConnect: Kasai Masai World music fundraiser for Rwandan charity 8pm £6/5 FREEMASONS ALTA Proper underground house music with DJs Jeff Daniels, Danny Williams and Sumsuch on rotation 9pm £free
FUNKYFISH The Funkyfish Club Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10pm £6/3.50 GLOBE DJ Jeff Daniels: Rum Fridays Funk, soul, electro and disco 8pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE John Harvey, Anjan Saha, 4thirtythree Performance poetry with live jazz and improv 7.30pm £8/6; Pretty Clueless And Mean Dance like you’re in a high school movie and you’ve just beaten the bully 11pm £free H-BAR DJ Steven James Classic funk and disco (in the bar) Time tbc £tbc
HED KANDI Vanity House and electro club 10pm £4 HONEY Lollipop ‘Pink Fridays’ Get your fingers sticky to R&B and pop treats 11pm £5/4/3 HOPE Lazy Habits Eight-piece beats and brass band 8pm £tbc; Soul Casserole A melting pot of hot funk beats and soul grooves 8.30pm £free KOMEDIA Krater Comedy Club: Dave Fulton, Stefano Paolini, Naz Omanogalu, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 8pm £11.50-14.50; Back To Berlin The songs of Brecht and Weill 8pm £8.50; Radio City Comedy theatre done the oldfashioned radio way 9pm £10/8; Born Bad Vintage rockabilly for pompadour cats and polka dot kittens 11pm £6/5 LATEST MUSIC BAR Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out “Mindsplitting sonic dripping psychedelia” 9pm £5/3 LIFE Brighton Student Union Elections Monster Results Party! 8pm £tbc LOLA LO Tiki Beats Totally tropical tunes 8pm £5/4/3 MARLBOROUGH Q&A Queer and alternative tunes 9pm £free
MESMERIST Shake, Holla & Roll Vintage blues, swing and rock&roll 9pm £free MUCKY DUCK Bitter Disko DJ plays mutant funk, post punk and John Peel favourites 8pm £free NIGHTINGALE THEATRE The Adventures Of Woundman And Shirley Theatrical storytelling 8pm £8.50/6.50 NORTHERN LIGHTS DJ Åbo Funk and soul tunes 9pm £free
OCEANA Escape With seven themed rooms you should find one you like 10.30pm £6/free OLD MARKET Pick Music Open session for American and English folk players 9pm £free PAVILION THEATRE African Night Fever African music and dance troupe strive to dispel the dismal weather with some special Kinshasa sunshine 8pm £10/8 PRINCE ALBERT White Light, The Stranded, This Modern Life, Annacondaz EP launch for local covers band 8.30pm £4 RANELAGH King Size Slim Boogie blues 8.30pm £free RIKI TIK Kung Fu Hard hitting hip hop and house night 9pm £free
SIDEWINDER Hot Biscuit DJ plays hip hop, indie and funk hits 9pm £free STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Dive Slow “From Kanye to Kuedo, Planet Mu to Planet Rock” (in the bar) 8pm £free; Soulfood Funk, hip hop and disco night (in the club) 11pm £3 THEATRE ROYAL Legally Blonde - The Musical Obviously two films of pointless chick flick nonsense wasn’t enough 7.45pm £18.50-59.50
THOMAS KEMP DJ Danny 9pm £free VERDICT Ben Castle Quartet Live jazz 7.30pm £12/6 VICTORY Open Mic 8pm £free VOLKS Originate - Chapter V: DJ Trace, Genotype, Double O & Mantra, Kosine, Voytek, Mickey Freeze, Mystery, Timeless, Rumble MC, Kernal, Scalpel MC, Unity Hi Fi, Blake, Raw, Side-B, F-Note, Daffy, Threts, Invasion Hardcore drum&bass 10pm £5 WHITE RABBIT WTF? Brighton Wonky electro and synth pop nonsense 8pm £free WORLD’S END Psykick: Gully, Harpo, Mr Meander, Loveable Rogue Psy-trance night 9pm £tbc XUMA Wang Dang Doogle DJs play blues, ska, jazz and rock&roll 10pm £free
SATURDAY 17TH
ANCIENT MARINER The Acoustic Sessions: Funk-Shun Upbeat acoustic band serande you for St Patrick’s Day 8pm £free
AUDIO Warehouse: DJ Pirupa House and techno club night
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BEACHIGOGO BAR Good Times Remember them? Maybe the feel-good retro tunes will jog your memory (in the White Room) 9pm £free; The R&B Lounge R&B DJs (in the Main Room) 11pm £6/5 BLACK LION Burnt Toast DJs play sleazy soul and dirty breaks 9pm £free BLIND TIGER Beta Hector Robotic funk music from the Tru Thoughts DJ Time tbc £tbc BRUNSWICK Hot Wax Live Covers band 8pm £6/5 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK From The Grave A silk-lined casket of psychobilly and horrorpunk 9pm £free CHOP IT UP Chop It Up St Patrick’s Day Special: Charles Green, Squiz, Tom Maverick, Willerby Funky house, R&B and pop 11pm £3-7.50 COALITION Old Yellow Bricks: DJ Monty, DJ Charles Green, Shmooze, Skank R&B, house and funky soul club 11pm £7/5; Blow: Vince Manganaro, Charly Lopez, Charles Green The party never stops 3am £5 COBBLER’S THUMB The Bad Billy Band, Kitschysink Pop covers and quirky live band 8pm £free CONCORDE2 The Answer Classic rock 7pm £15; Freebass Drum&bass, dubstep and jungle rave 11pm £free CUBE Simply House House DJs 8pm £free DIGITAL Free The Beats Because locking them in a four-tothe-floor groove is considered by some to be an act of oppression 11pm £5/free DOCTOR BRIGHTON’S Sexy Saturday: DJ Tony B 9.30pm £free
DOME London Philharmonic Orchestra Music by Mendelssohn, Weber, Sibelius and Vaughan Williams 7.30pm £10-32.50
DOME FOUNDERS ROOM Poems Are Easy Compose and perform poems with the help of a pro, Roy Hutchins 2pm £free
DRUID’S ARMS Hot Pepper Sauce DJ I.D.G. plays old school funk, soul and house 10pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Mr Bean’s Holiday 11am £tbc
EASY BAR Fam Daniels, Legs MC, Lucky Hip hop floor fillers 8pm £free
FIDDLER’S ELBOW St Patrick’s Day Street Party Celebrate the spirit of the Emerald Isle with live music, DJs, dancing, and for some reason, rugby Noon £free; Soul Casserole A melting pot of hot funk beats and soul grooves 9pm £free FISHBOWL What’s Wrong With Groovin’?: Ed Meme, Matt Beatwell Two DJs set out to answer the age-old question with a stack of drum-driven funk and soul 9pm £free FLORIST DJ Night Vintage R&B, soul and ska 8pm £free FREEMASONS Aran Reynolds & Ollie Sturdy Classic and funky house DJs 8.30pm £free FUNKYFISH The Funkyfish Club Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10pm £6/3.50 GLOBE Headroom Vintage house grooves 9pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE I Remember Tapes, Two Spot Gobi, The Move-ons, Alex The Great Electronic rockers with nostalgia on their sleeves 7.30pm £4; Da Doo Ron Ron Club night with a obsession for girlgroups and soul sirens 11pm £free H-BAR Platinum 57 Launch: Dene Sonnesa, Nookie Swanky house night Time tbc £tbc HAMPTON DJ Unmixed Master’s Irish Crew St Patrick’s day party 9pm £free HED KANDI Twisted Disco Time tbc £5/free HORSE & GROOM Bad Bad Whiskey’s St Patrick’s Day Knees Up Skifflebilly trio 8.30pm £free JAZZ PLACE Night At The Jazz Rooms: Russ Dewbury, Alison David Legendary Brighton club returns to its old home for a night of heavy funk, soul, Afro and dance, etc 9pm £5/4/free JIVE MONKEY The Jive Monkey Trio Live jazz 10pm £free KOMEDIA Comedy 4 Kids Comedy without the rude bits 2pm £8.50/6.50; Krater Comedy Club: Dave Fulton, Stefano Paolini, Naz Omanogalu, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 7pm/8pm/10.30pm £15-20; Spellbound “An 80s night for people who hate 80s nights” - Simon Price plays the alternative highlights of the decade 9pm £5/4; ipop! Like an iPod full of party anthems on perpetual shuffle 11pm £3/free LIFE Juicebox! New eclectic club night offering an nice alternative to the standard seafront malarky 11pm £5/3 LOLA LO Zombie Nation: Paddy’s Revenge Where the dancefloor is never dead 8pm £10/7/6 MARLBOROUGH Luck Me Up Pop party with DJ Dame Amy 9pm £free
MESMERIST Juke Joint Jamboree Rhythm & blues and rock&roll records from the days of the dance halls 9pm £free MUCKY DUCK St Patrick’s Day Party 8pm £free NIGHTINGALE THEATRE The Adventures Of Woundman And Shirley Theatrical storytelling 8pm £8.50/6.50 NORTHERN LIGHTS DJ Oli Party tunes 9pm £free OCEANA Sound Of Saturday Disco club for West Street’s finest 10.30pm £10/free; St Patrick’s Day Knees Up 10.30pm £10/free
OLD MARKET Journey To X A play about teenagers seeking fame and fortune and ending up with only friendship 8pm £7/5 OPEN HOUSE St Patrick’s Day Live music Time tbc £tbc PRINCE ALBERT Club Meow Meow Ska night 8pm £4 PSYCHOSOCIAL Analogue Underground Radio Live music and DJs 10pm £4/3 QUEEN’S HOTEL The Hush Club Club night for discerning fans of northern soul, garage and ska 9pm £5/3 RANELAGH The Jackals Rhythm and blues band 8.30pm £free
RIKI TIK In Motion: Loren Heer, Bryn Critchard, Jake Bibby, Filippo Blasi, Marcus Smith Funk, disco, house and soul 9pm £free
STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Xanadu Disco night 11pm £free
THEATRE ROYAL Legally Blonde - The Musical Obviously two films of pointless chick flick nonsense wasn’t enough 2.30pm £18.50-59.50
THOMAS KEMP DJ Bianca 9pm £free VERDICT The Org Trio Live jazz 7.30pm £5/free VICTORY St Patricks Day Teen Dream Special Punk and garage DJs celebrate the only saint to have been in the pay of
the Guiness brewery 9pm £free VOLKS A Bunch Of Cuts: D Bridge, Ulterior Motive & Klute, Simply Vinyl 11pm £7 WHITE RABBIT The Mixer Men DJ night 8pm £free WORLD’S END Buckler’s Reel Folk and jig bands 8pm £free
SUNDAY 18TH
BLACK LION Live & Swingin’ Lion Live gypsy jazz, swing and blues 9pm £free BRUNSWICK Brighton Folk Monthly folk night 8pm £free CONCORDE2 Brighton Northern Soul Alldayer: Ion Tsakalis, Soul Sisters, Colin Baldock, Craig ‘Swifty’ Simpson, Simon Bridger, Ady Croasdell, Darren Bennett, Ian Immediate, Killer Ska Records, Dave Crozier, Mojo To Go Go, Veronica, Skavoovie 3pm £5 CUBE Sunday Social Open decks session 8pm £free DOME Kuss Quartet Berlin-based string quartet subtly experimenting with works by Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky 11am £17.50/15
EASY BAR Reggae And Roast Noon £free FIDDLER’S ELBOW St Patrick’s Day Street Party Live music and Irish dancing 2pm £free FISHBOWL Recovery? Reggae through the ages 9pm £free FOOD FOR FRIENDS Miss Mandy Jazz Duo Soulful guitar jazz 6.30pm £free FOUNTAIN HEAD Reggae & Roasts Reggae and chilled beats Time tbc £free GLOBE Rockoustic Open Mic 8pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Sunday Service Live music 6.30pm £free; Green Door Blues Blues band and DJs 10pm £free HAUNT Hed PE Californian rap rock outfit Time tbc £tbc HED KANDI Kandi Love 9pm £5 HONEY Sundays At The Honey If your house was this sexy you’d soon wear out the wallpaper 11pm £3/2/free KOMEDIA Ruby Turner R&B and soul singer 7.30pm £18; Krater Comedy Club: Dave Fulton, Stefano Paolini, Naz Omanogalu, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 8pm £5-11.50; Graeme Clark An acoustic show by the Wet Wet Wet songwriter 8pm £9 LATEST MUSIC BAR The Wynd Live music 8pm £3 MARLBOROUGH THEATRE The Dead Victorians Music hall comedy show by a band equipped with accordians, tubas and Chinese chastity belts 8pm £10/8/6 OLD MARKET Journey To X A play about teenagers seeking fame and fortune and ending up with only friendship 8pm £7/5 OPEN HOUSE Quiz Night 8pm £2 PRINCE ALBERT Mark Wynn, Rat Catchers Mallets Live music 8pm £5; Born To Lose 8.30pm £3 RANELAGH Simon Sparrow Blues rock guitarist 8.30pm £free
REGENCY TAVERN Sunday Lunch Jerome plays the piano 8pm £free
SIGNALMAN Open Mic Open session hosted by local duo, Zoothyme 8pm £free THEATRE ROYAL Legally Blonde - The Musical Obviously two films of pointless chick flick nonsense wasn’t enough 7.45pm £18.50-59.50
THOMAS KEMP Jazz In The Afternoon: Miss Mandy Live jazz 4pm £free VICTORY Blues Sundays DJ plays blues and soul Time tbc £free; Quiz Night 8pm £1 WHITE RABBIT Hush Hush Live acoustic music 8pm £free WORLD’S END Rotait Chilled acoustic music 8pm £free
MONDAY 19TH
ANCIENT MARINER Quiz Night 8pm £1 BLACK DOVE The Bell Jar MP3 Club Reinventing the record club 8.30pm £tbc BRUNSWICK Harmonessence Vocal harmony choir 5.30pm £7; Brighton Stanza Poetry group 7.30pm £5; Open Mic 8.30pm £free
COALITION Trash Monday Filthy tunes for students and layabouts alike 10.30pm £5/3/free CORN EXCHANGE Blue Camel Club - Raving Under The Rainbow Party night for people with learning disabilities featuring bands, DJs and VJs 7pm £4 FOUNTAIN HEAD Open Mic Open mic for musicians and comedians 9pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Access To Music Music from the college kids 7pm £tbc LATEST MUSIC BAR DigiTune: Cordelia, Christina Rotondo 8pm £4/3 LIFE Jail Bait Hits from the 90s for those too young to remember the first time 11pm £2 LOLA LO Fat Poppadaddys Student indie night 9pm £3 LONDON UNITY Texas Hold Em Poker night for serious players 8pm £tbc MARLBOROUGH Dames Games Quiz night 8.30pm £1 MESMERIST Stroll On Mondays 60s and 70s night with DJs and film projections 8.30pm £free OCEANA Vodka Rocks Cheesy club night apparently named after a drinks promotion 10.30pm £3/2/free RESIDENT RECORDS Thomas White Instore gig and album launch 6pm £free SIGNALMAN Signalman Pub Quiz 8pm £1 THEATRE ROYAL Legally Blonde - The Musical Obviously two films of pointless chick flick nonsense wasn’t enough 7.45pm £18.50-59.50
THREE GRACES Knit Wits Craft club to swap stories and stitches 7pm £free VICTORY Some Dark Hollow Folk Night Old time tunes and lonesome laments 8pm £free VOLKS Strictly Reggae Dancehall, roots, revival 11pm £5/4.50
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TUESDAY 20TH
AUDIO Guerilla Rocks Club night for rock chicks, skater bois and indie kids 11pm £3/2/1 BLACK LION Hit The Decks Open decks spin off (book a slot online) 9pm £free BRIGHTON CENTRE The Australian Pink Floyd Show “They sent us along as a surrogate band, we’re gonna find out where you fans really stand” 6.30pm £29.50 BRUNSWICK Jazz Jam Open sessions with a house band 8pm £free
CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Laughtermath Audience + (Timing x Gags) = Laughter 7.30pm £3 COALITION Back2Back If your bass was this filthy you’d have to take it back to the fishmongers 11pm £4/3 CUBE Cube Live Live music 8pm £free DIGITAL CU Next Tuesday It’ll teach the universities to timetable lectures for Wednesday mornings 11pm £4/3 FIDDLER’S ELBOW QUIZness Time Are you a pub quiz whizz, or bit of a half-wit? 8pm £1 FLORIST The Florist Music Quiz 8pm £1 GLOBE Basement Cinema Underground films, comfy seats and free popcorn 8pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Half Hour Hotel Atmosrock band launches their debut record 7pm £free; Hard Times They can take our disposable income, but they’ll never take our nowave disco! 11pm £free HED KANDI Vudu 11pm £6/4/2 HONEY Latin Fever: DJ Aaron George, Gabriel Angel, Yersin Rivas Dance lessons followed by a tropically vibed salsa club 8pm/10pm £3/1/free HYDRANT Pocket Drummers Live music 7pm £free LATEST MUSIC BAR Cafe Scientifique Let’s talk about science, baby 8pm £free LECONFIELD Quiz Night 9pm £1 LOLA LO Dirtee Laundry Student night 10pm £6/4/2 LONDON UNITY Fun Pub Quiz Have your brain drained by a drag queen 8.30pm £1 MESMERIST The Mesmerist Conjurers Consortium It could be a magical night 7.30pm £free OPEN HOUSE Jazz Work Shop Throw away those jazz mags and try out your trumpet in public 8pm £tbc PRINCE ALBERT Unicorn Power, Marinus Guitar-driven electro squelch gadget glam 8.30pm £4/3 RED LION Challenging General Knowledge & Music Quiz 8pm £1
REGENCY TAVERN Mark Hodge’s Brighton Piano Bar ‘Ave a sing song round the ol’ Joanna 8pm £free THEATRE ROYAL Legally Blonde - The Musical Obviously two films of pointless chick flick nonsense wasn’t enough 7.45pm £18.50-59.50
THOMAS KEMP Poker Evening 8pm £free THREE GRACES Open Mic With Marcus 8.30pm £free WORLD’S END Poker Night 8pm £tbc
WEDNESDAY 21ST
AUDIO Supercharged: Rusko Dubstep and breaks 11pm £7 BLACK LION The Black Lion Acoustic Showcase Live music 8.30pm £free BLIND TIGER Lethal Quizzle Pub quiz with zany rounds 8pm £1
BRISTOL BAR Jack Kendon Jazz Band Live jazz 8pm £free BRUNSWICK Sleepy Music: The Steamkings, Beachy Head Music Club, Siglo 21 8pm £tbc COALITION CoCo LoCo Commercial chart music for students 10.30pm £5/3/2 CUBE Wicked Wednesdays House DJs 8pm £free DIGITAL Poundance Like a coin operated dancefloor 11pm £4/3/1
DRUID’S ARMS We Change The Tempo DJ set of international sounds 9pm £free FISHBOWL Tea & Biscuits: DJ Gareth Stephens Retro swing, soul and ska 10pm £free FOUNTAIN HEAD Student Night DJs play indie and rock 8pm £free
GLOBE Global Bass: DJ Ted Lauren Dub, digi and dancehall 9pm £free
GREEN DOOR STORE Mark Holub Freak improv from the Led Bib frontman 7pm £5; The Jazz Store Live jazz with an open jam 11pm £free GREENHOUSE EFFECT BAR Open Mic Night 9pm £free KOMEDIA The Civil Wars Indie Americana duo (this show has now sold out) 7pm £tbc; Pete Firman - Jiggery Pokery The best comedy conjuror since Paul Daniels 8pm £12/10 LONDON UNITY Open Mic Night Open session hosted by Pemma Ashdown 8.30pm £free MESMERIST The Swing Ninjas Gypsy swing band 9pm £free
OCEANA Fuzzy Logic Dance and dubstep student night 9pm £3.50-5
PRINCE ALBERT The Queers, The Dead Class, The Hotlines US punks 8pm £9 PSYCHOSOCIAL Under The Bridge Live music 8pm £free THEATRE ROYAL Legally Blonde - The Musical Obviously two films of pointless chick flick nonsense wasn’t enough 7.45pm £18.50-59.50
THOMAS KEMP Kev & Jenna’s Open Mic 8.30pm £free THREE GRACES Quiz Night 8pm £1 VOLKS Switch Up Drum&bass, electro and dubstep night Time tbc £tbc
XUMA Quiz Night Cash-in the hitherto useless knowledge stored in your brain 8.30pm £tbc
THURSDAY 22ND
AUDIO Bastard Pop Musical mash-up 11pm £3/2/free BLACK LION This Is The Modern World Mod-bothering DJ night 8.30pm £free
BRIGHTON CENTRE Chris Rea 6.30pm £33.50 BRUNSWICK Rotait, Poco Tiger Live music 8pm £tbc COALITION Secret Discotheque Replaying the soundtrack to your youth 11pm £4/3/2 COBBLER’S THUMB AnalogueUndergroundRadio Open mic night broadcasted live 8pm £free CONSTANT SERVICE Tracy Jane Sullivan Live music 8.30pm £free
CUBE Da Bomb: Burst FM, Urf Student DJ night 8pm £free DRUID’S ARMS Druid’s Arms Presents Live music 8pm £free
DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Romeo And Juliet: ROH Live 7.15pm £tbc
FIDDLER’S ELBOW Live Lounge Live music 8.30pm £free FISHBOWL Residents Association: DJ Will Sumsuch DJs play hip hop, funk and world beats 10.30pm £free GLOBE Hang The DJ! A night of punter-picked playlists 9pm £free
GREEN DOOR STORE Mudlow Heavy rock 7pm £4/3 HED KANDI Cubed 11pm £5/3 HONEY Swag New R&B and dubstep night 11pm £3/2 JIVE MONKEY Open Mic Night Open mic hosted by Dominic Von Trapp 9pm £free KOMEDIA Krater Comedy Club: James Cook, Jeff Innocent, Stephen Grant, David Morgan Stand-up comedy 8pm £5-18
LATEST MUSIC BAR The Treason Show Topical songs and sketches from the long-running local comedy show 8.30pm £12.50
LIFE Dirty Stop Out House party vibes from DJ James Brown Is Dead 11pm £tbc LOLA LO Tom Foolery New electro, house and dubstep night 9pm £5/3
MESMERIST John Crampton Foot-stomping blues explosion 9pm £free
MUCKY DUCK Open Mic Jam session with Joe Newman 8pm £free
OCEANA Pound Party R&B and disco tunes from the bargain bin 10.30pm £3/free OLD MARKET Abi Wade Folk pop cellist and singer currently residing on the SOURCE front cover 8pm £free PRINCE ALBERT The Dirt Daubers, The Surning Condors Hillbilly punk with members of the Legendary Shack Shackers 8pm £8
PSYCHOSOCIAL Live ‘N’ Laughing Stand-up comedy 7.30pm £5-8; Outheloop: J-Bass, Squiggle, Burst Radio DJs Electro breaks 10pm £tbc QUADRANT It’s A Phase Video art night 8pm £free RANELAGH Shauna Parker & The Saloon Bar Band Country and swing band 8.30pm £free ST JAMES’ TAVERN Stay Sick, Turn Blue DJs play vintage soul, jazz and blues 8.30pm £free STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Catholic Discipline Noise rock, disco pop and acid folk from the Superheroes of BMX 8pm £free
THEATRE ROYAL Legally Blonde - The Musical Obviously two films of pointless chick flick nonsense wasn’t enough 2.30pm £18.50-59.50
THREE & TEN Church: DJ Rooster, DJ Bmore Rock&roll, R&B, ska and northern soul 8pm £free; Philip Jeays Witty and passionate singer whose contempt for the world is matched only by his love for Jacques Brel 8pm £8/5 WHITE RABBIT The Move-Ons Open Mic 8pm £free WORLD’S END The Big Cash Quiz 8pm £tbc
FRIDAY 23RD
AUDIO Cyantific Drum&bass 11pm £5-3 BLACK LION Molly Malone’s Dex In The City DJ night 9pm £free
BLIND TIGER Emerging Species: The Gentle Mystics Ska and gypsy label showcase 9pm £4 BRIGHTON CENTRE Joe Bonamassa American blues rocker 6.30pm £30-50 COALITION Friday I’m In Love No more lectures for a day or two 11pm £1-5 COBBLER’S THUMB Steve And The Ghost Local band plays “spiky adventure pop” 8pm £free CONCORDE2 Dirty DC AC/DC tribute band with an obsessive sense of fidelity including the wearing of authentic footwear 7pm £10; Dubraiser: Resonators, Carnival Collective, Roots Garden, Kin;Aesthetic, Robin’D’Rich, Mcop, Eggs Leggs, Mykle Dub reggae and live breaks raising funds for Kemp Town Carnival 10pm £5 CUBE Friday Club House DJs 8pm £free DIGITAL Stonelove Indie rock&roll club 11pm £4/3 DOCTOR BRIGHTON’S Funky Friday: DJ Nick Hirst, DJ Wayne 9.30pm £free DOME Dorothy Stringer Dance Show 2012 All-ages school dance show 7pm £8.50 DRUID’S ARMS DJ Tommy G Electro beats, indie and house tunes 10pm £free EASY BAR DJ Rudeben R&B, hip hop and reggae 8pm £free FISHBOWL Blackbelt Jonez Hip hop, funk, beats and breaks 9pm £free
FREEMASONS ALTA Proper underground house music with DJs Jeff Daniels, Danny Williams and Sumsuch on rotation 9pm £free
FUNKYFISH The Funkyfish Club Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10pm £6/3.50 GLOBE BOYF_: Rum Fridays DJ plays tracks from the ‘Scene With No Name’ scene, i.e. the scene known as the groovebased dance music scene 8pm £free; DJs Disco, house and electro 9pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Imperial Leisure Uplifting and energetic ska pop band 7pm £8; ANTIGHOSTMOONRAY: Great Pagans, Bernholz, Gazelle Twin DJs Off key electronics 11pm £free
H-BAR Twisted Launch: Gary Lock, Sean Branton, Karl Bush, Adam Deer Underground tech house Time tbc £tbc HAMPTON DJ Oddsox & Friends 9pm £free
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HED KANDI Vanity House and electro club 10pm £4 HONEY Lollipop ‘Pink Fridays’ Get your fingers sticky to R&B and pop treats 11pm £5/4/3 HYDRANT Sound Of Guns It kind of does what it says on the tin 7.30pm £6 JIVE MONKEY The Jive Monkey Cabaret Cabaret with Dolly Rocket - plus an uncensored and partially undressed Marilyn Monroe 9pm £free KOMEDIA Krater Comedy Club: Jeff Innocent, The Noise Next Door, Danny Buckler, Maff Brown Stand-up comedy 8pm £11.50-14.50; Iain Ballamy Quartet Featuring Gareth Williams: Brighton Jazz Club Jazz band led by the sax player known as the ‘fantastic Englishman’ 8pm £15/13; Trailer Trash Cult movie fancy dress night with burlesque and twisted cabaret - this time it’s 1920s prohibition fun 9.30pm £10/8 LATEST MUSIC BAR The Treason Show Topical songs and sketches from the long-running local comedy show 8.30pm £12.50
LIFE ENK 1st Birthday Big bass birthday bash 11pm £tbc LOLA LO Tiki Beats Totally tropical tunes 8pm £5/4/3 MARLBOROUGH I <3 Electro DJs play alt electro 9pm £free MARLBOROUGH THEATRE The Cosmos, The Cosmetics Nick Field’s search for belonging takes him from goth clubs to new age raves in this intimate spoken word theatre show 8pm £8.50/6.50
MESMERIST Shake, Holla & Roll Vintage blues, swing and rock&roll 9pm £free NORTHERN LIGHTS Chris & Lee DJ night 9pm £free OCEANA Escape With seven themed rooms you should find one you like 10.30pm £6/free OLD MARKET The Old Market Movies Classic films 7pm £free
PAVILION THEATRE The Tempest Shakespeare’s tragicomedy performed by students from Sussex Downs College 7pm £6/5
PRINCE ALBERT The Detonators, Loudaphone, The Collision Live bands 8.30pm £4 RANELAGH The Dials Psychedelic country rock 8.30pm £free
SIDEWINDER Hot Biscuit DJ plays hip hop, indie and funk hits 9pm £free STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Reverb Bistro: Rusta, Adoki, L.Izard From funky disco, through Chicago house into drum&bass and dubstep (in the club) 11pm £3 THEATRE ROYAL Legally Blonde - The Musical Obviously two films of pointless chick flick nonsense wasn’t enough 7.45pm £18.50-59.50
THOMAS KEMP DJ Jody Lee Hooker 9pm £free VERDICT Jack Kendon Quintet Live jazz 7.30pm £5/free VICTORY Open Mic 8pm £free VOLKS Brighton Loves Jungle: Biggsy, Pastaman, Dub One, Kosine, Dialect, Dr...um, Axiomatt, Daffy, Grandpa Abe, Jonnie Cache, Dom Jungle night 11pm £4/3 WHITE RABBIT WTF? Brighton Wonky electro and synth pop nonsense 8pm £free WORLD’S END Rebellious Jukebox DJ night 8pm £free XUMA Wang Dang Doogle DJs play blues, ska, jazz and rock&roll 10pm £free
SATURDAY 24TH
ANCIENT MARINER The Acoustic Sessions: Tracy Jane Sullivan Singer songwriter does reggae, jazz, country and soul 8pm £free
AUDIO Warehouse: Till Von Sein House and techno club night 11pm £5/free BEACHIGOGO BAR Good Times Remember them? Maybe the feel-good retro tunes will jog your memory (in the White Room) 9pm £free; The R&B Lounge R&B DJs (in the Main Room) 11pm £6/5 BLACK LION Medium Rare DJs serve up a platter of semiobscure funk and soul 9pm £free BLIND TIGER Kalakuta Millionaires Twelve-piece Afro Cuban orchestra 8pm £4 BRIGHTON CENTRE Bear Grylls: Mud, Sweat And Tears, The Live Tour 2012 The star of TV’s Man Vs Wild shares his experience of parachute accidents, surviving in the wild and eating weird insects 7.30pm £39.50 BRUNSWICK Brighton Jazz School Showcase End of term jazz gig 1pm £tbc; The People’s String Foundation, The Tatsmiths, The Gypsy Switch Upbeat gypsy folk 8pm £5/4 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Cazza Karaoke 8.30pm £free
COALITION Blow: Vince Manganaro, Charly Lopez, Charles Green The party never stops 3am £5; Hey Boy, Hey Girl Dance music with a party atmosphere 11pm £5 CONCORDE2 Devotion: Sub Focus, MC ID, DC Breaks, Shock One Drum&bass night 11pm £12.50 CUBE Too Mucking Fuch House DJs 8pm £free DIGITAL Playroom Housey hedonism in a playground of bouncy inflatable fun 11pm £12/10 DOCTOR BRIGHTON’S Sexy Saturday: DJ Tony B 9.30pm £free
DOME Dome Discovery Tour Explore the historic venue’s backstage areas 11am £8.50/7.50; Dorothy Stringer Dance Show 2012 All-ages school dance show 7pm £8.50 DOME FOUNDERS ROOM Poems Are Easy Compose and perform poems with the help of a pro, Roy Hutchins 2pm £free
DRUID’S ARMS Main Ingredients Live Showcase Live bands play funk and soul 9pm £free EASY BAR Fam Daniels, Legs MC, Lucky Hip hop floor fillers 8pm £free
FABRICA Brighton Craftaganza 10.30am £free
Handmade craft market
FIDDLER’S ELBOW DJ Russ Rockwell Funk rock and psych soul 9pm £free FISHBOWL Richie Cox & Sumsuch A crate of funk, jazz and disco records all the way from Brixton - plus a DJ to play them 9pm £free
FREEMASONS Aran Reynolds & Ollie Sturdy Classic and
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funky house DJs 8.30pm £free FRIEND’S MEETING HOUSE School of Doc - Learning Through the Lens: See Documentary Film Festival Young people get a hands-on day of film making 10am £tbc; Tales From The Town Of Runners: See Documentary Film Festival Documentary masterclass with Jerry Rothwell 11.30am £tbc FUNKYFISH The Funkyfish Club Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10pm £6/3.50 GREEN DOOR STORE Soccer ‘96 Live music 7.30pm £tbc; Go Bang Warehouse party crew 11pm £free H-BAR Recoverworld: Activa, Matt Bowdidge, Richrad Mattiot Driving trance music, not trance driving music - there’s a big difference Time tbc £tbc HED KANDI Twisted Disco Time tbc £5/free HONEY Pukka Up If your house was this pukka you’d never run out of pies 11pm £8/5 JAZZ PLACE Night At The Jazz Rooms: Afro Funk Special! Legendary Brighton club returns to its old home for a night of heavy funk, soul, Afro and dance, etc 9pm £5/4/free KOMEDIA Krater Comedy Club: Jeff Innocent, The Noise Next Door, Danny Buckler, Jim Smallman Stand-up comedy 7pm/8pm/10.30pm £15-20; ipop! Like an iPod full of party anthems on perpetual shuffle 11pm £3/free LATEST MUSIC BAR The Treason Show Topical songs and sketches from the long-running local comedy show 8.30pm £12.50
LIFE Juicebox! New eclectic club night offering an nice alternative to the standard seafront malarky 11pm £5/3 LOLA LO Zombie Nation Where the dancefloor is never dead 8pm £10/7/6
MARLBOROUGH Luck Me Up Pop party with DJ Dame Amy 9pm £free
MARLBOROUGH THEATRE The Cosmos, The Cosmetics Nick Field’s search for belonging takes him from goth clubs to new age raves in this intimate spoken word theatre show 8pm £8.50/6.50
MESMERIST Juke Joint Jamboree Rhythm & blues and rock&roll records from the days of the dance halls 9pm £free MUCKY DUCK Eclectic Chair: DJ Lamp Indie, reggae, breaks and rock 9pm £free OCEANA Sound Of Saturday Disco club for West Street’s finest 10.30pm £10/free OFFICE Hot-Tip Hi-Fi DJ with a fine collection of vintage reggae and rocksteady records 8pm £free PRINCE ALBERT Cherry & The Poppers Live music 8.30pm £4
RIKI TIK It’s Goin’ Off 008: Thirsty Ear Vs W.A.T? DJs Forward thinking bass music with no best before date 9pm £free STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Life In A Day & Britain In A Day: See Documentary Film Festival Film screenings followed by a Q&A 11.30am £tbc; Planeat: See Documentary Film Festival Film screening and Q&A with the director and Caroline Lucas 2pm £tbc; Hell And Back Again: See Documentary Film Festival Film screening 5pm £tbc; Back To The Future Retro tunes from before you were born 11pm £4/3 THEATRE ROYAL Legally Blonde - The Musical Obviously two films of pointless chick flick nonsense wasn’t enough 2.30pm £18.50-59.50
THOMAS KEMP Bad To The Bone DJ makes old women blush and young women squeal 9pm £free VERDICT Jim Mullen, Terry Seabrook Trio Live jazz 7.30pm £10/5
VOLKS Sicknote “I’m afraid Jimmy cannot do games today as his mind melted at a techno club last night” 11pm £tbc WEST HILL HALL Riots Not Diets: Ste Mccabe, The Ethical Debating Society, Roseanne Barrr First birthday party for homegrown indie night with riot grrrl, metal and queertechno bands - plus a screening of Tank Girl 6pm £6 WEST HILL TAVERN L’Amour Electronique French pop and electronic delights pour vous 9pm £free WHITE RABBIT The Mixer Men DJ night 8pm £free WORLD’S END Funkalicious DJ Dobby plays house and funk, and possibly some funky house 8pm £free
SUNDAY 25TH
BLACK LION Live & Swingin’ Lion Live gypsy jazz, swing and blues 9pm £free BLIND TIGER John Crampton Foot-stomping blues explosion 8pm £2 BRUNSWICK Saxshop Sax workers blow hard on their horns 2pm £free
CONCORDE2 The Selector, The Meow Meows Ska legend returns to the fray with a ten-piece band including Pauline Black and Gaps Hendrickson 7.30pm £13 CUBE Help For Heroes Charity Night: Chris Shepherd, Cheets DJ fundraiser 8pm £free DOME Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra Barry Wordsworth conducts a concert of music by Debussy, Rachmaninov and Berlioz 2.45pm £9-32 EASY BAR Reggae And Roast Noon £free FIDDLER’S ELBOW Sham-Rock Open Mic 8.30pm £free FISHBOWL Recovery? Reggae through the ages 9pm £free FOOD FOR FRIENDS Miss Mandy Jazz Duo Soulful guitar and vocals jazz 6.30pm £free FOUNTAIN HEAD Reggae & Roasts Reggae and chilled beats Time tbc £free FRIEND’S MEETING HOUSE My Heart Of Darkness: See Documentary Film Festival Film screening 1pm £tbc; 66 Months Film screening and seminar 3pm £tbc; A New Home: Film screening and seminar 4.45pm £tbc; Take A Long Look Discussion event about relationships and responsibility in long term filmmaking 4.45pm £tbc; The Interrupters Film screening 8pm £tbc
GLOBE Rockoustic Open Mic 8pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Driver Drive Faster, Flash Bang Band, Stars & Sons, Dexy & The Hand Me Downs Weirdo indie pop from Manchester, or thereabouts 8pm £4; Green Door Blues Blues band and DJs 10pm £free HED KANDI Kandi Love 9pm £5 HONEY Sundays At The Honey If your house was this sexy you’d need to keep the letterbox well-oiled 11pm £3/2/free
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HOTEL PELIROCCO Ace Stories: James Miller Live literature event with readings and a talk with the author of Lost Boys and Sunshine State 6pm £3 KOMEDIA Boothby Graffoe & Nick Pynn - Bang! Is This Your Vehicle, Sir? Comedy songs 7.30pm £12/10; Krater Comedy Club: Jeff Innocent, The Noise Next Door, David Morgan Stand-up comedy 8pm £5-11.50; The Humble Quest For A Universal Genius Absurd gameshow in which comedians are required to excel in every field of human knowledge 8pm £9/7 LATEST MUSIC BAR Studio 9 Orchestra 18-piece jazz band 8pm £8 PAVILION THEATRE Romeo And Juliet Shakespeare’s grand romance performed by students from Sussex Downs College 7pm £6/5 RANELAGH The Will Johns Band Blues rock 8.30pm £free REGENCY TAVERN Sunday Lunch Jerome plays the piano
IAMBIC ARTS THEATRE A Balloon For Allah, Lyrics Revolt: See Documentary Film Festival Documentary double bill 7.15pm £tbc LATEST MUSIC BAR Nick Hudson, The Long Goodbye, Joe Nockles Piano folk pop and performance poetry 8pm £4 LECONFIELD Quiz Night 9pm £1 LOLA LO Dirtee Laundry Student night 10pm £6/4/2 LONDON UNITY Fun Pub Quiz Have your brain drained by a drag queen 8.30pm £1 MESMERIST The Mesmerist Conjurers Consortium It could be a magical night 7.30pm £free OPEN HOUSE Jazz Work Shop Throw away those jazz mags and try out your trumpet in public 8pm £tbc PAVILION THEATRE A Winter’s Tale Shakespeare’s romcom performed by students from Sussex Downs College 7pm
SIGNALMAN Open Mic Open session hosted by local duo, Zoothyme 8pm £free STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Just Do It: See Documentary Film Festival Film screening and Q&A 5.45pm £tbc; Dragonslayer Film screening 8pm £tbc THOMAS KEMP Jazz In The Afternoon: Lee And His Piano! Live jazz 4pm £free VICTORY Blues Sundays DJ plays blues and soul Time tbc £free; Quiz Night 8pm £1 WHITE RABBIT Hush Hush Live acoustic music 8pm £free WORLD’S END Shakespeare Trio Quirky retellings of the Bard’s famous sonnets 8pm £free
8pm £1
8pm £free
MONDAY 26TH
ANCIENT MARINER Quiz Night 8pm £1 BLACK DOVE The Bell Jar MP3 Club Reinventing the record club 8.30pm £tbc BRUNSWICK Harmonessence Vocal harmony choir 5.30pm £7
BRUNSWICK Open Mic 8.30pm £free COALITION Trash Monday Filthy tunes for students and layabouts alike 10.30pm £5/3/free DOME Joan Baez The great godmother of singer writers everywhere 7.30pm £39.50 FOUNTAIN HEAD Open Mic Open mic for musicians and comedians 9pm £free FRIEND’S MEETING HOUSE How To Start A Revolution: See Documentary Film Festival Film screening 8pm £tbc GREEN DOOR STORE Irongiant US metal band 7.30pm £tbc
GREYS Rachel Harrington & The Knock Outs Rootsy soul singer from Seattle 6pm £10 IAMBIC ARTS THEATRE Circus of My Sun, Lunik IX: See Documentary Film Festival Documentary double bill 8pm £tbc LIFE Jail Bait Hits from the 90s for those too young to remember the first time 11pm £2 LOLA LO Fat Poppadaddys Student indie night 9pm £3 LONDON UNITY Texas Hold Em Poker night for serious players 8pm £tbc MARLBOROUGH Dames Games Quiz night 8.30pm £1 MESMERIST Stroll On Mondays 60s and 70s night with DJs and film projections 8.30pm £free OCEANA Vodka Rocks Cheesy club night apparently named after a drinks promotion 10.30pm £3/2/free PAVILION THEATRE A Midsummer Night’s Dream Shakespeare’s poetic whimsy performed by students from Sussex Downs College 7pm £6/5 PRINCE ALBERT Access To Music Music from the college kids 8.30pm £tbc SIGNALMAN Signalman Pub Quiz 8pm £1 STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR The Four Year Plan: See Documentary Film Festival Film screening 8pm £tbc THOMAS KEMP Quiz Night 8pm £1 THREE GRACES Knit Wits Craft club to swap stories and stitches 7pm £free VICTORY Poetry Night Live poetry readings 8pm £free VOLKS Strictly Reggae Dancehall, roots, revival 11pm £5/4.50
TUESDAY 27TH
AUDIO Guerilla Rocks Club night for rock chicks, skater bois and indie kids 11pm £3/2/1 BLACK LION Hit The Decks Open decks spin off (book a slot online) 9pm £free BRIGHTON CENTRE X Factor Live Tour 2012 The only X they’ve got is the crosshairs of my rifle trained on their foreheads 6.30pm £32.50
BRUNSWICK Jazz Jam Open sessions with a house band 8pm £free
COALITION Back2Back If your bass was this filthy you’d have to take it back to the fishmongers 11pm £4/3 CUBE Cube Live Live music 8pm £free DIGITAL CU Next Tuesday It’ll teach the universities to timetable lectures for Wednesday mornings 11pm £4/3 DOME The Waterboys Celtic folk rockers with a new sevenpiece line up 8pm £28.50/25 DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Into The Abyss Film screening and a satellite Q&A with Werner Herzog 6.15pm £tbc FIDDLER’S ELBOW QUIZness Time Are you a pub quiz whizz, or bit of a half-wit? 8pm £1 FLORIST The Florist Music Quiz 8pm £1 FORAGERS PUB C.U.L.T. Stand-up comedy 8pm £4 GLOBE Basement Cinema Underground films, comfy seats and free popcorn 8pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Leddra Chapman Singer songwriter 8pm £7; Hard Times They can take our disposable income, but they’ll never take our nowave disco! 11pm £free HED KANDI Vudu 11pm £6/4/2 HONEY Latin Fever: DJ Aaron George, Gabriel Angel, Yersin Rivas Dance lessons followed by a tropically vibed salsa club 8pm/10pm £3/1/free
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RED LION Challenging General Knowledge & Music Quiz REGENCY TAVERN Mark Hodge’s Brighton Piano Bar ‘Ave a sing song round the ol’ Joanna 8pm £free STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Bob And The Monster: See Documentary Film Festival Documentary about indie rocker Bob Forrest 8pm £tbc THOMAS KEMP Poker Evening 8pm £free THREE GRACES Open Mic With Marcus 8.30pm £free WORLD’S END Poker Night 8pm £tbc
WEDNESDAY 28TH
AUDIO Supercharged: Trolley Snatcha Drum&bass and breaks 11pm £6/4 BLACK LION The Black Lion Acoustic Showcase Live music 8.30pm £free BRIGHTON CENTRE X Factor Live Tour 2012 The only X they’ve got is the crosshairs of my rifle trained on their foreheads 6.30pm £32.50
BRISTOL BAR Jack Kendon Jazz Band Live jazz 8pm £free BRUNSWICK Open Mic Comedy Night Comedy course students do their stuff 8pm £tbc COALITION Craig Finn, We Three, The Death Rattle Solo set from The Hold Steady’s frontman 8pm £14.50/12.50; CoCo LoCo Commercial chart music for students 10.30pm £5/3/2 CONCORDE2 Pokey LaFarge Americana fusion (this show was originally at the Haunt, old tickets are still valid) 7.30pm £10 CUBE Wicked Wednesdays House DJs 8pm £free DIGITAL Poundance Like a coin operated dancefloor 11pm £4/3/1
DOME Matt Cardle The 2010 model of Simon Cowell’s singer songwriter range 7pm £26.50 DRUID’S ARMS We Change The Tempo DJ set of international sounds 9pm £free FISHBOWL Tea & Biscuits: DJ Gareth Stephens Retro swing, soul and ska 10pm £free FOUNTAIN HEAD Student Night DJs play indie and rock 8pm £free
FRIEND’S MEETING HOUSE The Crisis Of Civilization: See Documentary Film Festival Film screening and Q&A 7.15pm £tbc; Confessions Of An Eco-Terrorist Film screening 9.20pm £tbc
GLOBE Global Bass: DJ Ted Lauren Dub, digi and dancehall 9pm £free
GREEN DOOR STORE Jacuzzi Boys 7.30pm £tbc; The Jazz Store Live jazz with an open jam 11pm £free GREENHOUSE EFFECT BAR Open Mic Night 9pm £free IAMBIC ARTS THEATRE Zero Silence, Krisis: See Documentary Film Festival Documentary double bill 8pm £tbc LATEST MUSIC BAR Jonny Kearney, Lucy Farrell 8pm £9/8
LONDON UNITY Open Mic Night Open session hosted by Pemma Ashdown 8.30pm £free MESMERIST The Swing Ninjas Gypsy swing band 9pm £free
NORTHERN LIGHTS Mystery Train Rockabilly DJ 9pm £free OCEANA Fuzzy Logic Dance and dubstep student night 9pm £3.50-5
OPEN HOUSE Safehouse: Dave Draper, Ntshuks Bonga Free jazz and avant garde improvisation 8pm £6/5 PRINCE ALBERT The Quest House Refugees 8.30pm £4/3
PSYCHOSOCIAL Under The Bridge Live music 8pm £free STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR I Am Arcade While you geek out playing retro video games try and act excited as if you hadn’t already exhausted the nostalgic possibilities by downloading an emulator and geeking out on your own for the last few weeks there’s a reason you’re beating everyone else at Mario’s Troublesome Blockage, or whatever the fuck it’s called 8pm £free THOMAS KEMP Kev & Jenna’s Open Mic 8.30pm £free THREE GRACES Quiz Night 8pm £1 VOLKS Switch Up Drum&bass, electro and dubstep night Time tbc £tbc
XUMA Quiz Night Cash-in the hitherto useless knowledge stored in your brain 8.30pm £tbc
THURSDAY 29TH
AUDIO Bastard Pop Musical mash-up 11pm £3/2/free BLACK LION The Lion’s Raw! Live bands 8.30pm £free BRIGHTON CENTRE X Factor Live Tour 2012 The only X they’ve got is the crosshairs of my rifle trained on their foreheads 6.30pm £32.50
BRUNSWICK Fat Thursday Night: King Size Slim Blues band 8pm £free COALITION Ghostpoet Electro producer with a mellow jazz edge - this night is also the final of the Create art competition 7pm £free; Secret Discotheque Replaying the soundtrack to your youth 11pm £4/3/2 CONCORDE2 ATOM Live Showcasing the best from the UK Music Student Network Noon £free CONSTANT SERVICE Pub Quiz 8.30pm £1 CORN EXCHANGE Candoco Dance Company - Turning
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20 A twenty year retrospective by the acclaimed dance company 7.30pm £12.50/10/6.50 CUBE Da Bomb: Burst FM, Urf Student DJ night 8pm £free DOME Roberto Fonseca, Ayanna Cuban jazz from the Buena Vista Social Club pianist 7.30pm £17.50/15 DRUID’S ARMS Nice Weather For Air Strikes: Speekeasy, Kim Slade Local label indie showcase 8pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA She Stoops To Conquer: NT Live 7pm £tbc FIDDLER’S ELBOW Live Lounge Live music 8.30pm £free FISHBOWL Mixer Men - 4 Deck Sessions Turntable mashups 10.30pm £free GLOBE Hang The DJ! A night of punter-picked playlists 9pm £free
GREEN DOOR STORE All The Young Great British guitar band 7.30pm £7; Thursday Night Fish Fry Jamaican ska, R&B and rocksteady 11pm £free HED KANDI D’Marcha 10pm £5/3 HONEY Swag New R&B and dubstep night 11pm £3/2 IAMBIC ARTS THEATRE Blood In The Mobile: See Documentary Film Festival Film screening 8pm £tbc JIVE MONKEY Open Mic Night Open mic hosted by Dominic Von Trapp 9pm £free KOMEDIA Comic Boom: Elis James Stand-up comedy 8pm £9/7; Andy Zaltzman: Armchair Revolutionary Stand-up sits down to discuss economic idiocy 8pm £10 LATEST MUSIC BAR Speaky Spokey Literary cabaret with poetry, music, short stories and films 8pm £5/4 LOLA LO Tom Foolery New electro, house and dubstep night 9pm £5/3
MARLBOROUGH THEATRE Ball & Other Funny Stories About Cancer Squeezing laughs from the sponge of uncomfortable material 8pm £8.50/6.50 MESMERIST Harry’s Tricks Pop music from between the wars 9pm £free MUCKY DUCK Open Mic Jam session with Joe Newman 8pm £free
NIGHTINGALE THEATRE Open Cinema Shorts: See Documentary Film Festival Film screenings 12.30pm £tbc; University Showcase Film screenings 1.30pm £tbc; Brighton Film School Showcase Film screenings 5.30pm £tbc; Caring For Calum Film screening and Q&A 7.15pm £tbc; Bonnington Square Film screening and Q&A 7.15pm £tbc; Invisible Airs Film screening and Q&A 7.15pm £tbc NORTHERN LIGHTS Northern Darkness Nothing but the finest Nordic metal 9pm £free OCEANA Pound Party R&B and disco tunes from the bargain bin 10.30pm £3/free PAVILION THEATRE SOURCE New Music: Man Ray Sky, Dizraeli And The Small Gods Brighton’s best bands chosen by Brighton’s best listings mag 7.30pm £4 PRINCE ALBERT Lighting Dept, Paper Playground Live bands 8.30pm £4/3 PSYCHOSOCIAL Oh! You Pretty Things Live music 8.30pm £4/3
RANELAGH Alex Roberts Folky blues singer 8.30pm £free REGENCY TAVERN The Regency Review A pleasant evening of piano and popular song 8pm £free ST JAMES’ TAVERN Stay Sick, Turn Blue DJs play vintage soul, jazz and blues 8.30pm £free STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Mauerkunst Brighton artists paint the bar before your very eyes 8pm £free; Superheroes: See Documentary Film Festival Film screening 8pm £tbc THREE & TEN Church: DJ Rooster, DJ Bmore Rock&roll, R&B, ska and northern soul 8pm £free WHITE RABBIT The Move-Ons Open Mic 8pm £free WORLD’S END The Big Cash Quiz 8pm £tbc
FRIDAY 30TH
AUDIO Battlejam: JFB, Featurecast Hip hop night 11pm £3-5
BLACK LION Attic Monkeys Vs DJ Lanx Two DJs fight for the right to party 9pm £free BLIND TIGER The Mocambos, The Grits, The Impellers Dirty funk and soul Time tbc £tbc BRUNSWICK Ben Sarfas Jazz fusion quartet 8pm £6; Special Treat Presents: Lightning Joe And The Furious Fifty Fives, The Camden Cat, Ten Sheds Big blues beats and rock&roll riffs 8pm £5 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Eclectic Chair Eclectifying alt classics 9pm £free COALITION Friday I’m In Love No more lectures for a day or two 11pm £1-5 COBBLER’S THUMB Red Diesel Live soul music from the festival favourites 8pm £free CONCORDE2 Wiley The crime lord returns (this is a rescheduled show, old tickets still valid) 7pm £12 CORN EXCHANGE In Conversation With Shaun Ryder: See Documentary Film Festival The Happy Mondays frontman discusses his documentary series about UFOs 8pm £14 CUBE Female Friday House DJs who happen to be female 8pm £free
DIGITAL Stonelove Indie rock&roll club 11pm £4/3 DOCTOR BRIGHTON’S Funky Friday: DJ Nick Hirst, DJ Wayne 9.30pm £free DRUID’S ARMS Main Ingredients DJs Rock, hip hop and beats 9.30pm £free FISHBOWL Freestyle Records Funky DJ set from the label manager, Greg Boraman 9pm £free FREEMASONS ALTA Proper underground house music with DJs Jeff Daniels, Danny Williams and Sumsuch on rotation 9pm £free
FUNKYFISH The Funkyfish Club Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10pm £6/3.50 GLOBE Kate Wildblood & Queen Josephine Techy house and bouncy disco 9pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE VICE Issue Launch Bands and DJs promoting the post-ironic fashion mag 11pm £free H-BAR Bang!: Vince Frimpong, Dene Sonnessa, Jay Freeland Funky house night Time tbc £tbc
HAMPTON DJ Moffet Disco rock 9pm £free HAUNT Shearwater, Julie Doiron Big and ambitious indie rock 7pm £10
HED KANDI Vanity House and electro club 10pm £4 HONEY I Love R&B Juicy house with a twist of hip hop - and plenty of the R and the B 11pm £5 HOPE Soul Casserole A melting pot of hot funk beats and soul grooves 8.30pm £free HYDRANT Bangers, Sam Russo, PJ Bond Loud but melodic pop punk 7.30pm £free JIVE MONKEY The Ukes Of Hazzard, Ma Polaine’s Great Decline, Dan Korn & The Choppy Waters Live music 8pm £4 KOMEDIA The Rolling Zones How does it feel to be a Rolling Zone? 7.30pm £13 Krater Comedy Club: Gary Delaney, Cary Marx, Elis James, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 8pm £11.50-14.50; Dressed In Black Club night delves into the darker side of pop with stuff like Jacques Brel, Joy Division and Ennio Morricone 11pm £3 LATEST MUSIC BAR Huggy And The Bears Live music Time tbc £tbc
LOLA LO Tiki Beats Totally tropical tunes 8pm £5/4/3 MARLBOROUGH Back To The 80s DJ night 9pm £free MARLBOROUGH THEATRE Strange Hungers Claude and Maud’s comedy lecture on the hidden histories of dyke icons 8pm £7/5
MESMERIST Shake, Holla & Roll Vintage blues, swing and rock&roll 9pm £free MUCKY DUCK Hot-Tip Hi-Fi DJ with a fine collection of vintage reggae and rocksteady records 8pm £free NORTHERN LIGHTS Young Livers Indie and punk DJ 9pm £free
OCEANA Escape With seven themed rooms you should find one you like 10.30pm £6/free PAVILION THEATRE I, Bertolt Brecht The story of the Marxist playwright told via cabaret, music and drama 7.30pm £7.50-12.50
PRINCE ALBERT The Pop Guns, Broken Star Live music 8.30pm £4
PSYCHOSOCIAL Orishas Salsa bands and DJs 9pm £8/5 RANELAGH Mike Newsham Acoustic Americana 8.30pm £free
RIKI TIK Schout New night from the Schtumm team 9pm £free
SALLIS BENNEY THEATRE Vocal Opposition!: Claire Martin, Jim Mullen, Polly Toynbee, Julie Jepson, We-Bop, Hullaballoo, Raised Voices Comedy and music anti-cuts fundraiser 7.30pm £10/6 SIDEWINDER Hot Biscuit DJ plays hip hop, indie and funk hits 9pm £free STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Bird On A Wire: See Documentary Film Festival Documentary about Leonard Cohen 8pm £tbc; Worms: Citizen K, Mark Lerman Dance music to dance to whilst dancing 11pm £3/2 THOMAS KEMP Hot Tamales: DJs Citizen Lane, HepCat Matt 50s and 60s rock&roll 9pm £free THREE & TEN Rabbit In The Headlights Stand-up comedy hosted by Angela Barnes 8pm £6/5 VERDICT Steve Melling Trio, Nigel Hitchcock Live jazz 7.30pm £15/8
VICTORY Open Mic 8pm £free VOLKS Toasted: Slyde, 2 Bit Thugs, Cutmaster Swift, Ed Braeling, InkBlack, DJ Wigley, Ice Cold Radio, DGS, Roland Samuel, DJ Santi, Andreas Anderson, Steff Vee Breaks & house 11pm £5 WHITE RABBIT WTF? Brighton Wonky electro and synth pop nonsense 8pm £free WORLD’S END Funkollectif Soundsystem, DJ Miss Polly, DJ Actif, MC Tappa Roots Live electro funk band 8pm £free XUMA Wang Dang Doogle DJs play blues, ska, jazz and rock&roll 10pm £free
SATURDAY 31ST
ANCIENT MARINER The Acoustic Sessions: Harry’s Tricks, Rene Ansell Popular music from the before the war 8pm £free
AUDIO Warehouse: Solo House and techno club night 11pm £5/free
BEACHIGOGO BAR Good Times Remember them? Maybe the feel-good retro tunes will jog your memory (in the White Room) 9pm £free; The R&B Lounge R&B DJs (in the Main Room) 11pm £6/5 BELUSHI’S BELOW Alex Arnout The man from Ibiza says dance 11pm £6 BLACK DOVE Devil’s Music: DJ Terrible Murder Blues, Miss Turnstiles, Citizen Lane DJs play swing, jazz and Dixieland 9pm £free
BLACK LION Molly Malone’s Dex In The City DJ night 9pm
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BLIND TIGER Breakout Zoo Live reggae and dub 8pm £5 BRUNSWICK South Coast Soul Revue Eight-piece funk soul band 8pm £6 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Punk In Drublic Dunk PJs 9pm £free
COALITION Pump Up The Jams Reviving the long-buried bodies of 90s house and pop ‘classics’ 11pm £5 CONCORDE2 The Twang A pointless rerun of the worst aspects of 90s music, i.e. Oasis 7.30pm £12.50; Soundwave Festival Croatia Launch Party: DJ Yoda, Kutmah, Anchorsong, Hint, Wrongtom, Boba Fatt Hip hop, funk, soul and disco 11pm £10 CORN EXCHANGE Anyone Can Play Guitar: See Documentary Film Festival Radiohead, Supergrass and Foals feature in this documentary about the Oxford music scene followed by an acoustic set from Ride’s Mark Gardener 7pm £12 CUBE Simply House House DJs 8pm £free DIGITAL FWD Rinse: Zinc, N-Type, Icicle, Artwork, Marcus Nasty, Trim, Brackles London club comes back to the coast for more grime and dubstep mischief 11pm £tbc DOCTOR BRIGHTON’S Sexy Saturday: DJ Tony B 9.30pm £free
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DOME Terry Garoghan - The Last Ever Brighton The Musical! Terry does a farewell show after sixteen years of affectionately taking the piss out of Brighton and its inhabitants 8pm £18.50
DRUID’S ARMS Gyratory Allstars Possibly the only funk band to be named after a complicated roundabout 9.30pm £free EASY BAR Fam Daniels, Legs MC, Lucky Hip hop floor fillers 8pm £free
FIDDLER’S ELBOW Soul Casserole A melting pot of hot funk beats and soul grooves 9pm £free FISHBOWL DJ Daddy Marcus Dancey disco and singalong soul 9pm £free FREEMASONS Aran Reynolds & Ollie Sturdy Classic and funky house DJs 8.30pm £free FUNKYFISH The Funkyfish Club Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10pm £6/3.50 GLOBE Soft Rocks Disco drops and Balearic beats 9pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Stab, Violent Arrest Metal double bill 7.30pm £free; The Big Itch Back to basics rock&roll 11pm £free
H-BAR Matrix - Back In The Day Take a trip down memory lane to the olde times of classic drum&bass Time tbc £tbc HAUNT Sound Central Studios Showcase Live music 7pm £6
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INK_D Andy Dog - Fun Affair Art inspired by the mechanics and flamboyance of the fairground Until Mar 9th PHOENIX BRIGHTON Broken Ground: Derek Besant, Pete Marsh, Jayne Wilson Three artists explore architecture, technology and urban chaos Until Mar 25th UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON GALLERY Interim Show A collection of student work including installations, paintings and prints Mar 3rd - Mar 8th; Frame, Shape & Shift Moving image, sculpture and photography by second year students Mar 17th Mar 22nd
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SIX OF THE BEST
MISERABLE SONGS WORDS BY NICK COQUET, JAMES KENDALL, ROSIE KENDALL, BEN MILLER
Music can be a life-affirming celebration, an arms-in-theair care-avoider, a memory marker for your loveliest moments. Yes, that’s all well and good for people with stuff to celebrate and be cloyingly happy about. For the rest of us, however, it’s something to wallow in as we blunder through life pinballing from one emotional catastrophe to another. Here’s half a dozen of our anguish anthems.
ABBA
‘The Winner Takes It All’
Just a pop band, right? Not at all – haven’t you listened to ABBA lyrics? Every good song contains a crippling lack of confidence, even the Alan Partridge-adored ‘Knowing Me, Knowing You’. Taking the Fleetwood Mac model of all getting divorced and then making an album about it, ABBA upped the ante with the blokes writing the songs and getting their exes to sing them. Brutal. “Tell me does (s)he kiss, like I used to kiss you?” asks Bjorn of Agnetha through her own voice. Still, there’s some pretty pianos near the end. (JK)
JOHNNY CASH
‘Hurt’
Pretty much overlooked in its original Nine Inch Nails incarnation, the Cash injection to his cover version was one of pure woe. And who can blame him – he recorded the song and its attendant video knowing he was on the way out, with its derelict museum imagery and piano cover-closing finale hammering the point home like blunt nails in a coffin. His missus June skulks about in the clip too, offering no light relief to the situation with the hindsight of her own imminent demise. Poignant, poetic and perfectly pessimistic. (NC)
THE SMITHS
‘How Soon Is Now?’
A mid-80s student staple that continues to cheer the modern miserablist malcontent, this song challenges all others in the affliction stakes of gloom. “We’re going clubbing - that’ll be fun, right Moz? Cheer you up a bit? Well, it won’t if you go and stand on your own, leave on your own, go home and cry and want to die. You’re really not trying, are you?” Morrissey’s lyrics are unfairly maligned - the Pope of Mope etc - but in this case he’s really only got himself to blame. The suicidal whining
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of his words combined with the life-affirming lift of Marr’s music remains one of pop’s most perfect conundrums. (NC)
SIMON & GARFUNKEL
‘The Boxer’
It doesn’t matter how good a person you are, how hard you try – get struck down by bad luck and the big city can chew you up and spit you out. The pugilist in question has been fucked over, having “squandered my resistance on a pocket full of mumbles, such are promises”. He’s not looking for much, just a low paid job but ends up taking comfort with prostitutes, the only place he can find affection. Wow, he’s really been beaten down. Still, ends on a positive note, right? “I am leaving/but the fighter still remains.” The towel has been thrown in. (JK)
MALCOLM MIDDLETON ‘Devil And The Angel’
Pave your heart over with slabs of sleet-beaten, stone-cold concrete on a suicidal Sunday in Glasgow. You could pick most tracks from Malcolm Middleton – the former Arab Strapper with song titles like ‘Death Love Depression Love Death’ and ‘Ballad Of Fuck All’ – and be left profoundly morose. The amazing Scottish singer songwriter hints at salvation among the despair in trademark style in this one, but as usual there can only be one winner. Guitars multiplied by gloom to the million. (BM)
THE POGUES
‘And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda’
“Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood” said author Frank McCourt. Similarly, worse than the ordinary miserable song is the miserable Irish song, and worse yet is the miserable Pogues song. Dental role model Shane McGowan excels in writing romanticised tales of woe, but here he covers an Australian 70s folk song about a boy plucked from his carefree, outback-wandering life and sent to Gallipoli to get his legs ripped off by Turkish artillery in WW1. Incredibly, this has never been used to soundtrack a forces recruitment ad. (RK)
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