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volume 2. Issue 53 MARCH 2013
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You know the 1,300 odd listings you find at the back of the magazine every month? Ben types them all in by hand, and then stops for a minute to think of something useful or funny to say about them. “If your bass was this filthy you’d have to take it back to the fishmongers,” he suggests of Full Volume at Audio for example. Serious work. But that’s not why we’re giving him props this month. When we’re not grinding him down in listings hell he comes in, for not enough money, to sort out something lots of you might not have noticed we do – live reviews. Of course everything in the magazine is about stuff happening in the month ahead so there are no reviews inside, but online there are literally hundreds. In the last few weeks we’ve had reviews of Everything Everything, Dinosaur Jr, every single band that played at Sea Monsters, Thurston Moore and Orbital. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. To be honest Ben is going to have to share the award with his amazing team of skilled reviewers and photographers who are absolutely knocking it out of the park with careful analysis and beautiful imagery. If you haven’t explored brightonsource.co.uk/reviews yet you’re in for a huge treat.
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Contents
News New In Town Gig Previews Interview: British Sea Power Club Previews Club Review: Donuts Club Review: Supercharged Culture Art: Billy Mather Locally Sourced Street Style Unsung Hero: Colin Wakefield Secret Eater: Neighbourhood In Conversation With: Late Night Lingerie Listings Six Of The Best: Afrobeat
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NEWS
Words by Steve Clements, Nathaniel Forrester, Stuart Huggett, James Kendall, Jessica Marshall McHattie
Great Escape line-up
It’s the most exciting weekend in Brighton’s musical year and The Great Escape looks like being every bit as cutting edge and interesting as ever before. They’re filling more than 30 venues with bands as diverse as the dreamy Unknown Mortal Orchestra, neo-r&b outfit AlunaGeorge and the euphoric synth pop of Chvrches. Bastille are the first of the big Dome shows announced. TGE takes over the city from 16th-18th May and you can see the line-up at tinyurl.com/GreatLineUp.
Hip Hop Workshop
Brighton-based music charity AudioActive are putting on another Hip Hop Foundation, a series of free weekly workshops starting in March and running throughout the year. If you’re young and want to learn about rap, music production, live looping, collaboration or performance skills, have a look on the website audioactive.org.uk. Hip-pop princes Rizzle Kicks started out on the programme and play a one-off AudioActive benefit gig at the Dome on Weds 27th.
Young Pride
National Student Pride comes to Brighton from Fri 1st – Sun 3rd, for a weekend of entertainment, networking and support aimed at the city’s LGBT youth. Events include a meet-up with live music in the Dome foyer on Saturday afternoon, with a club night featuring The X Factor’s Lucy Spraggan in the Corn Exchange that evening, plus an LGBT pub crawl and plenty more clubbing at Revenge, Charles Street and Legends across the weekend. See studentpride.co.uk for details.
Let There Be Light
With construction work underway on the new skatepark at The Level, Brighton’s skate community are hoping to raise extra cash to put floodlights in. A fundraising gig takes place at the
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Latest MusicBar on Fri 1st, with music from Dub Organiser, DJs including Roots Garden and DJ Format, raffles and merch and a chance to take a close look at the new Level plans. Admission is £5, with all proceeds going to the lighting fund.
It Came From Africa
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An exciting first for the city this month: Afriganza! is a four day extravaganza of African sounds and culture at the Blind Tiger, across Thurs 14th – Sun 17th. Music comes from African bands and afro-inspired UK artists, embracing everything from Congolese soukous to electronica infused with Nigerian funk. Highlights include Egypt 80 member Dele Sosimi’s Afrobeat Orchestra, Brighton’s resident Gambian kora king Jali Mbye and electronic producer Bass Clef. Art, films, dance and drumming workshops and a spot of grub ought to keep everyone happy.
Veg Out
The nation’s vegans can rightfully get on their high-horses over the current Dobbinburger scandal, so it’s perfect timing for the Hove Centre’s annual plant munchers’ jamboree. Vegfest is a great excuse to fill your non-leather boots with an array of tasty free samples and discounted goodies while brushing up on animal rights issues. There’s also kids’ entertainment, music and comedy, headlined by Sara Pascoe and Andrew O’Neil. Vegfest runs across Sat 16th & Sun 17th, admission free.
Hope For Lido
Just as we’re emerging from another dreary winter comes this splendid news: the iconic Saltdean Lido has gone to tender. The previous leaseholder had plans to partially fill in the pool and build 102 flats, but campaigners are now bidding to take control of the site for another 50 years and bring the much loved lido back into use. Dig out your bathing suits, don those cats’ eye shades and keep your fingers crossed.
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NEW IN TOWN Words by Claire Beveridge, Ian Chambers, Luke Gallin, Stuart Huggett, Jessica Marshall McHattie
At The Helm Records
The people behind Brighthelmstone Promotions have branched out and formed their own record label At The Helm Records. Having already released the acclaimed ‘Freight Ships’ by Small Town Jones last year, the following few months will see the debut album from Brighton favourites Flash Bang Band hit the shops as well as albums from Australian country rockers Michael Meeking & The Lost Souls and hotly tipped young singer-songwriter Stevie Ray Latham.
Late Night
If you’re the type of person who gets to the early hours of a midweek morning and thinks, “you know what, I fancy going clubbing now”, then your insomniac prayers or amphetamine delusions have been answered. The Tube’s unimaginatively titled solution is Late Night Wednesdays, ‘late’ meaning 2 – 6am, every week. There are loads of club nights that turn out around three, so if you have more stamina than Ron Jeremy in a sea of blue pills, get down and go ‘til dawn.
Bellota
Opened on the old site of La Tasca on North Street, comes a new, independent, unbranded concept bar serving authentic Spanish tapas and cava. Bellota has a varied and extensive menu, offering delicious nibbles (with plenty for the veggie and gluten free amongst us) and fizz to enjoy whilst watching the world go by. Verging on fine dining but keeping its social, informal roots, this joint is sure to bring some olé olé to the high street.
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The Blind Tiger’s latest night for new bands gets underway this month. Les Enfants Terribles brings together three or four bands from Brighton and beyond on the last Friday of the month, with
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apples & Eve
each edition themed around a different genre. The Good Friday launch line-up was still TBC when SOURCE went to press, but it’s free entry and, if you get the urge, BOGOF on mojitos from 7-10pm. Be sure to check out Billy Mather’s murals while you’re there (see Art feature, p34).
New skin
Some good news for all you ink-loving people out there, Skin Candy has reopened in new premises on Baker Street after receiving an ink-over of its own. Skin Candy’s body art professionals are highly regarded in the culture, and the new look studio has grabbed the attention of big names in the tattoo world, from Preston Circus all the way to Los Angeles. So whether it’s a sleeve for a man, or a tribal for your Nan, Skin Candy’s got you covered.
10 Below
Intimate basement club The Jazz Place is undergoing a refurbishment this month and reopens under its new name 10 Below on Sat 30th. Opening night is in the hands of the On The Beach Collective, launching their new night DubLoveDisco with guest Nick The Record joining residents Darren Murphy and Sam Moffett for a night of disco, house, hip hop and funk. You’ll find 10 Below down underneath Smugglers bar in the Lanes.
BrightonsFinest
Promoters BrightonsFinest are launching their new monthly music night at Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar in April. Headlining the debut show are folk pop band Apples & Eve, following up the release of their latest single ‘L’Homme (The Man’) for Amazon Records. Support comes from Sons Of Noel & Adrian member Emma Gatrill and Bournemouth folk trio Willowen. Head along on Thurs 4th April, admission £5.
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St.Patricks Weekender @ Molly Malones Get ready for the Irish celebration of the year this St. Patricks Day at Molly Malone’s. With all the RBS 6 Nations action on the big screens, Irish dancing, live music, perfectly – poured Guinness and a range of Irish-inspired dishes, there really is no better way to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day anywhere else other than Molly Malone’s. weekender kicks off on with live Irish music Friday 15th March The into the early hours of the morning, bringing you the very best of Irish cheer.
Malone’s is open from 10am-4am. We Saturday 16th March Molly will be kick-starting the celebrations with live Irish music from the outstanding Crackling Griffins who will be sure to get us all in the swing of swings early on. As the weekender progresses we will be joined by other fantastic live music acts to keep up on our feet as well as Irish dancers and you may even see a leprechaun or two! If that’s not enough, there will also be some incredible spot prize giveaways.
Ireland vs Italy 2.30pm England vs Wales 5pm weekend closes with an amazing Irish Sunday 17th March The performance from the dancers of Manning
School, featuring some World Championship dancers who are mentored by coaches from Lord of the Dance and The River Dance. We will also have live Irish music throughout the whole day. Get ready for the biggest party of the year!
Traditional Food served all day!
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Damo Suzuki
Green Door Store Fri 1st
Singer Damo Suzuki was discovered by pioneering German group Can – the former busker fronting the band for their run of classic early 70s albums. In recent years he’s been on a seemingly neverending tour, collaborating with local musicians wherever he turns up. He returns to the Green Door here as part of the Willkommen Collective’s ‘Echo’ mini-festival, with a band made up of tonight’s supports Sons Of Noel And Adrian, Soccer 96 and Eyes & No Eyes. (SH)
Frankie Cocozza
Haunt Sat 2nd
After being infamously axed from The X Factor in 2011, Frankie Cocozza continued to trade on his bad boy image by running round the Celebrity Big Brother house naked. Like a rock’n’roll Rylan Clark, Cocozza’s returning to ‘work’ but we’re not sure why he’s bothering – or who cares. However, if his remaining devotees will still pay for the ‘VIP’ experience of meeting and greeting Frankie, he’ll be the one laughing all the way to the bank. (AJM)
Melody’s Echo Chamber Haunt Sun 3rd
Perth, Western Australia never had much of a presence in the international rock world until the close-knit triumvirate of Tame Impala, Pond and Melody’s Echo Chamber forced a worldwide breakthrough last year. Based around the dreamy songwriting of French singer Melody Prochet, the latter’s debut mixed the classic 60s influences of Françoise Hardy and Serge Gainsbourg with Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker’s trademark frazzled psych production. Whether the band topple into outright wig out weirdness live remains to be seen. (SH)
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Bird
Hope Mon 4th
Fronted by singer Adele Emmas and guitarist Sian Williams, Liverpool trio Bird make soaring, atmospheric, pop-tinged folk. Currently uniting the likes of Rob Da Bank, Huw Stephens, Tom Robinson and Zane Lowe in appreciation, the group’s music is hauntingly ethereal and draws on influences such as Kate Bush, Fleetwood Mac and the Cocteau Twins. Seeing them in the intimate setting of The Hope will be sure to give you whole layers of goose bumps and spine tingles. (AT)
Wet Nuns
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Other than having one of the best names for a band we’ve seen in a while, Wet Nuns also make gut churning, hard hitting, whisky fuelled, dirty satanic blues, and they make it loud. Describing their main influences as women, death, skulls, beards and booze, this stripped back, fired up duo come to Brighton to support their latest EP release ‘Broken Teeth’. Their chaotic live show promises to deliver music straight from the depths of rock’n’roll hell. (AT)
Interlocutor
Hope Weds 6th
Another new band from the tireless Alex White of Electric Soft Parade, this will be Interlocutor’s debut headline show. The 11-piece group are playing their as yet unreleased debut album live in its entirety, complete with spaced out visuals courtesy of Innerstings Psychedelic Lightshow. Expect a melodic and soulful take on the chiming chords of Big Star, complete with brass section. Also on the bill are Brighton locals Crayola Lectern and Octopuses. (IC)
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Maps & Atlases Green Door Store Thurs 7th
Breaking out slightly from the math rock scene, 2013 sees Chicago based Maps & Atlases experimenting more with their alt-rock roots to create what they describe as a truly inviting brand of boundary-busting, asymmetrical pop. With the release of their 2012 album ‘Beware & Be Grateful’ on Brighton label FatCat Records they have been able to more successfully balance their post rock creativity with their songcraft. Support comes from Farewell JR and Dress Theque. (AT)
MC Cashback
Blind Tiger Thurs 7th
Most of our recent sightings of Brighton rapper MC Cashback had been in his cunningly named DJ MC Cashback guise, getting the end-of-the-week party started behind the decks of the Duke Of Norfolk. But now he’s proper back, launching his album of hip hop recipes ‘The Dinnersty’ at the Blind Tiger tonight. Keeping it socially conscious, Cashback’s on a mission to teach you how to prepare his favourite food, from ‘Jerk Chicken’ to ‘Homemade Burgers’. Tasty, tasty, very, very tasty. (SH)
Keaton Henson Booth Museum Thurs 7th / Fri 8th
Confessional songwriter Keaton Henson’s first album, 2010’s self-released ‘Dear...’, gained him a huge following. Last month’s much-publicised follow up ‘Birthdays’ is another collection of touching, heartfelt tracks which could only feel more affecting if observed live under the watchful eyes of a hundred stuffed animals. Which, fortunately, is exactly what the Booth Museum contains. Hot demand means a second date’s been added, so nobody needs to miss out on the experience. (JMM)
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Hot 8 Brass Band
Coalition Fri 8th
Hot 8 Brass Band’s second album ‘The Life And Times Of...’ was met with rapturous applause from critics and civilians alike. The Treme stars’ versions of ‘Ghost Town’ and ‘Sexual Healing’ add a Mardi Gras spin and are among the best covers we’ve ever heard. The high octane combination of soul, hip hop and jazz is a surefire mood enhancer, so if seasonal affected disorder has got you feeling SAD, come check out Hot 8 Brass Band. (ZC)
Lene Lovich
Green Door Store Sat 9th
Euro-American new waver Lene Lovich brought a refreshing uniqueness to Top Of The Pops in the late 70s with several energetic hits on the trailblazing Stiff Records, including the classic ‘Lucky Number’. Anyone who went to the Green Door’s excellent ‘Song Of Miriam’ Kurt Weill celebration last year can bear witness to Ms Lovich retaining her individual style in both dress and performance. This time around she’ll be performing her own songs, so expect a lot of “eh ooh, eh ooh”. (SC)
TST.X
Green Door Store Sat 16th / Sun 17th
Promoters Tatty Seaside Town celebrate 10 years of all things leftfield with a festival of old friends and new favourites. Hardcore survivors Joeyfat and Hey Colossus rub up against hometown experimentalists I’m Being Good and Hamilton Yarns and a dozen more noisy names from the UK underground. TST’s persuasive arm twisting has forced a bunch of one-off reunions too, not least the simian rock action of their secret headliners (and there’s a clue). TST’s Colin Wakefield is our SOURCE Unsung Hero, p38. (SH)
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Gigs In Brighton... MELODY’S ECHO CHAMBER Sunday 3rd March The Haunt
THE JOY FORMIDABLE Monday 4th March Concorde 2
SAN CISCO
Tuesday 5th March Green Door Store
THE PRETTY THINGS Wednesday 6th March Komedia
MAN LIKE ME
Tuesday 12th March The Haunt
KILO KISH + THE INTERNET Saturday 16th March Audio
STORNOWAY
Wednesday 20th March Concorde 2
CANCER BATS
Friday 22nd March The Haunt
BRITISH SEA POWER Monday 25th March The Old Market
RAE MORRIS
Tuesday 26th March The Marlborough
JOHN SMITH
Wednesday 27th March Komedia
TOM STANIFORD Sunday 31st March Green Door Store
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Miss May I
Haunt Mon 18th
If you’re seeking some metalcore to kick off your week then the closing date of Miss May I’s UK tour is just the night for you. Squeezing in headline shows on their days off from supporting Bullet For My Valentine, the Ohio thrashers make sure their British fans can see them before they head to mainland Europe and the American festival circuit. Don’t miss out – their worldwide commitments might mean they won’t be returning this year. (AJM)
Culture
Komedia Weds 20th
The first of two heavyweight reggae gigs this month comes from Culture, whose classic ‘Two Sevens Clash’ was inspired by a Marcus Garvey speech warning of impending apocalypse. Recorded at Joe Gibbs’ studio, the album was perfect for the punk/reggae cross-pollination of 1977 and a firm favourite of John Peel. With the late Joseph Hill’s son Kenyatta taking over on vocal duties and original member Albert Walker still a part of the trio this promises to be a great night of authentic reggae. (SC)
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Think Arab On Radar. Think Melt Banana and The Locust. Think Sonic Youth, The Melvins and Nirvana. Think Converge and Oathbreaker. Think The Blood Brothers, Circle Takes The Square and Lightning Bolt. Think Sunn O))), Merzbow and DJ Speedranch. Think Crass. Think Liars, Daughters, Boris, Metz, Korn and Wolf Eyes. Think Ex-Models and Pissed Jeans and Mike Patton. Now forget everything you just read and go and see this band if it’s the last thing you do, which is a strong possibility. (CB)
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Dreadzone
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Concorde 2 Thurs 21st
Electro dub legends Dreadzone formed 20 years ago from the remains of Mick Jones’ Big Audio Dynamite, releasing debut LP ‘360°’ on Creation before hitting the charts with follow up ‘Second Light’. Loved for their bass-heavy sound and intelligent use of live electro and vocal samples, the festival favourites return to skank out the Concorde stage prior to the release of seventh album ‘Escapades’. DJ Greg Dread and bass man Leo Williams are joined here by the unmistakable reggae vocals of MC Spee. (LG)
Willy Moon
Haunt Tues 26th
New Zealander William Sinclair seems to have modelled himself on a hybrid of Plan B and Johnny Ray but it’s serving him well. His song ‘Yeah Yeah’ soundtracked the recent iPod TV ads and Jack White put out the spaghetti western murder ballad ‘Railroad Track’ on his Third Man label. The sharpsuited Moon featured on many ones-to-watch lists last year so let’s see if his updated take on rock’n’roll lives up to the hype. (SC)
Chapel Club
Haunt Weds 27th
A couple of years back, London’s Chapel Club were another middlingly successful guitar group. Debut album ‘Palace’ was by turns anthemic and dour, all a bit White Lies really, despite the presence of former Hope Of The States guitarist Michael Hibbert. Since then, they’ve had a rethink, switched labels and returned with single ‘Good Together’, a kaleidoscopic electronic epic showcasing their new, exploratory pop direction. Chapel Club have burst from black and white into full spectrum colour, always a good move. (SH)
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U-Roy & Yellowman
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Concorde 2 Weds 27th
This strong double bill of toasting giants is a rare treat for reggae lovers. Huge stars in Jamaica, U-Roy and Yellowman both made their mark in the 70s and 80s and continue to add spiritual vibes and consciousness to the bump’n’grind dancehall style. Having survived an aggressive cancer that took away part of his face, Yellowman played an excellent set at the Komedia for 2011’s Fringe Festival. Get your brightest tracksuit on, skin up, and get down to Madeira Drive. (SC)
Dragonette
Coalition Fri 29th
Although best known for their featured credit on the Martin Solveig dance hit ‘Hello’, Dragonette have also written plenty of chartworthy pop songs themselves. Largely snubbed by mainstream radio playlists, the Canadian electro act are yet to crack the UK Top 40. However, their own material is certainly not inferior to such frequent collaborators as Solveig, Basement Jaxx and Kaskade. Thankfully for us, Coalition have noted their potential and growing popularity and bring them here along with The Special Ks. (AJM)
LATE NIGHT LINGERIE Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Fri 29th / Sat 30th
Sticky Mike’s ultra messy Late Night Lingerie club pulls together 12 noisy bastard bands for a double dose of Easter hedonism. Promoter Eddie The Goatboy’s Skirts are joined by feral London post punkas Ice Sea Dead People, ex-Kill Kenada types The Semper Teens, garage racketeers The Gaa Gaa’s (their first Brighton show for a year) and loads more scuzzbuckets. SOURCE are In Conversation With LNL on p40. (SH)
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British Sea Power
a decade after releasing 6 music listeners’ 9th favourite song ever, BSP return with their most accessible lp yet Words By James Kendall Illustrations By Oleg Pulemjotov at olegpulemjotov.com
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Back at the break of the millennium things weren’t going too well for the humble indie band. Britpop had bored itself to death and The Strokes had still to get people excited about rock’n’roll again. The NME hadn’t invented The Libertines yet, and Coldplay were the group influencing young musicians. And then a band called British Air Powers, a band full of ideas and energy, moved down from Reading. Brighton was saved. A slight name change and 13 years later they are – mostly – still here and still resolutely on top of their game. Last year alone saw their Krankenhaus club residency at The Haunt, a lauded soundtrack, a gig at CERN and 30 new demos released. Those demos have been whittled down and polished up into a new album that could easily be argued to be their most enjoyable, certainly their most accessible and concise. ‘Machineries Of Joy’ rattles along full of melody, charm and emotion. The title track soars, with alt.country slide guitar and soft, positive vocals over a motorik beat. An instrumental version should soundtrack the ‘success and failure’ montage of every British sporting event this year. ‘What You Need The Most’, meanwhile, is like a fairy tale musical produced by Dave Fridmann, before ‘Monsters Of Sunderland’ squeals with its foot firmly on the monitor.
“I think it’s enjoyable because you get a bit of time to have a daydream and a think,” reckons Yan. “You’re not being constantly subjected to ‘This means this’ like in a normal narrative documentary. It’s a bit more poetic and your mind can wonder. It’s quite relaxing.” But they don’t only do sea-related soundtracks. They’ve also created music for Andrei Ujica’s Out Of The Present, a film about the international space station Mir, even playing the music at CERN - just before the discovery of the Higgs Boson. “I think it was that screwdriver you dropped into that hole,” Yan jokes to Noble of the Higgs find. “It’s a different world to the other films. It’s colour and it’s technology. But it’s still about people and their emotions at the end of the day. It seems like they change when they see the world from a distance for so long. They go a bit hippie-fied in the end. Go a bit soft.” As unusual as it was to see the band materialise at such a high profile science event it was nothing to seeing them appear at No.9 in 6 Music’s listeners’ poll of their favourite songs. ‘Remember Me’ – the band’s raucous second single from 2001 – popped up ahead of Radiohead, Arcade Fire and countless other big name bands. “For a band our size we were punching above our weight,” says Noble. “There’s someone out there that loves us.” “It’s obviously a very good song,” deadpans Yan. “I remember writing it. I thought it was good when I did it. I remember being very happy with the introduction.”
“Krankenhaus was halfway between an Andy Warhol Factory event and Saturday Swapshop”
Another song to shake you by the lapels is ‘K-Hole’ which sounds like – despite the title and subject matter – a lost classic of some 90s indie disco you remember vaguely (or it might just be the ketamine confusing things again). It’s all riffs, screams and singalong ‘oooh’s and more fun than one song ought to contain. Noble titled the demo after the drug and when it came to Yan to write the words he thought he’d stick with that name, and “get into that mindset as much as I can.” “It’s based on an evening with our sound engineer who did all the Krankenhaus nights – tequila with ginger beer, and ketamine,” admits the hungover Noble with a cracked smile.
The whole album has a lightness that’s certainly a change of pace from the hour long ‘Valhalla Dancehall’. Yan says that he felt like some of their previous songs seemed like the band were “telling people off”. He reckons that things are confusing enough at the moment, that people need a break. “When we started I felt like the world was kind of getting better, almost like a progression,” he laughs, like a man who has to otherwise he’ll cry. “But it seems like it’s all gone round in a big circle and it’s probably worse than it’s ever been now. So I felt like it would be nice if the record left you feeling better about yourself or about your life. It’s quite challenging for me to do that.”
It’s not a song that’s trying desperately to be popular, but then British Sea Power have had a decade of success by doing things their own way. Last year rather than trek up and down the country they played six residencies in Brighton, at The Haunt, an idea that harked back to their classic Club Sea Power nights at The Lift (now The Hope). But did it match up to the old days? “Yeah, definitely,” says Noble. “I don’t know if I ever enjoyed it originally,” says Yan with a smile. “They were mostly fear-based nights.” The Club Sea Power nights had Earl Brutus do a radio show, a 1940s fashion show and a 200 year old folk troupe (“they sound better than they actually were,” claims Noble unconvincingly) but the Krankenhaus nights were no slouches either. Savages played their first ever gig at the first one, Bo Ningen and Palma Violets took to the stage, as did a Japanese Queen covers band called Queer. “We had quite a high standard,” Noble says. “Loads of bands who could do that venue on their own now. Plus raffles, choc ices and communist table tennis.” “It was halfway between something very arty, like an Andy Warhol Factory event, and Saturday Swapshop,” reckons Yan.
It’s not the only music they’ve made recently. Following their brilliant soundtrack for Man Of Arran, BSP re-imagined and re-recorded some of their songs for the highly acclaimed documentary From The Sea To The Land Beyond, a stunningly moving and charming film of old seaside footage put together by documentary filmmaker Penny Woolcock. It GIG: Old Market, Mon 25th blew everyone away when it was shown on LP: ‘Machineries Of Joy’, out Mon 1st April BBC4 at the end of last year. With no WEB: britishseapower.co.uk narration, British Sea Power’s music took centre stage.
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Which pretty much sums British Sea Power up. “Enthusiastic amateurism” is their term for it. Having too many ideas to sit still is how we’d describe it. Brighton has been lucky to have their chaotic energy for so long.
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CLUB PREVIEWS
Words by Zac Colbert, Luke Gallin, Stuart Huggett, James Kendall, Jessica Marshall McHattie, Anna Thomas
Forekast
Cyril Hahn
Concorde 2 Fri 1st
There’s another new club night in town, but this one is serious. With a line-up this good for their launch party, we have high hopes for Forekast, who’ll be taking over the Concorde on the first Friday of each month. They say they’ll be bringing you the future of house, bass and garage, but these acts are already the present: Dark Sky’s previous Brighton gigs have been fantastic, Breach has been on the scene for years and T.Williams’ selections are always inspired. (JMM)
Axel Boman
Life Fri 1st
ABBA fan Axel Boman is headlining this joint promotion by Aka Aka Roar and Schtumm, and if you only know him for the 2010 club smasher ‘Purple Drank’ there’s plenty more to this Swedish house champ. Recent mixes have classic, slow-burning house undertones with the odd eclectic swerve into acid and techno, always perfectly timed. Brighton’s upbeat house headmaster Leon Vynehall is also on the bill, celebrating the hot reaction to his latest EP ‘Rosalind’ on Well Rounded Housing Project. Also playing are London duo Casino Times and Neal Schtumm. (JMM)
DJ Premier
Concorde 2 Thurs 7th
Arguably the greatest hip hop producer the world has ever seen comes to Brighton for the first time. Known as the beats behind former hip hop duo Gang Starr, which saw him create a run of classic albums (notably 1991’s ‘Step In The Arena’) with the late MC Guru, Premier has blessed the industry with his talents for over 20 years. His use of percussion and jazz samples, on Gang Starr tracks such as ‘You Know My Steez’ and ‘Moment Of Truth’, is one of the reasons why he’s still among the most sought after producers around. This evening of live hip hop finds him appearing alongside Statik Selektah, Tappa, Neil B and Murder He Wrote. (LG)
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Lunice
Audio Fri 8th
You can barely enter a club without hearing a pitched down Beyoncé sample these days, but Cyril Hahn does it best: his version of ‘Say My Name’ is more addictive than blue Smarties. His mix of retro pop vocals over woozy hip hop, clean house beats and simplistic basslines has won the Vancouver-based producer legions of fans over here, from Annie Mac and Rob Da Bank to Diplo, The xx and er, The Sun. It’s not clever, but it is big. (JMM)
Lunice
Life Fri 8th
Lunice Fermin Pierre II is one of the most fun electronic producers in the field. With undisputed credentials thanks to releases on LuckyMe (as Lunice) and on Warp Records (as half of TNGHT with Hudson Mohawke), this Canadian is hotly hyped and renowned for high energy performances and relentlessly fresh hip hop mixes. Donuts and Be Nothing DJs will be warming the decks at a night you will not want to miss. (JMM)
Bass Culture Clash Concorde 2 Fri 8th
Tonight’s like an education on the influence of Jamaican sounds on British bass music but it’ll be way more fun than school and a lot cheaper than university. The Heatwave top the bill, with Top Cat coming an ironic second. Skibadee and Stylo G will be presiding over the clash of old meets new in the world of drum‘n‘bass, jungle, dancehall and everything else that has roots in Jamaican culture. (ZC)
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Horizon Festival Launch Volks Fri 8th
The latest addition to the international festival season is Horizon, a seven-day celebration of snow and electronic music set on the slopes of Bulgaria. It’s a bit like a package holiday but with a better soundtrack and the festival organisers are raising the excitement with a series of local launch parties, including this one with dBridge and Kahn. There’s also a full spread of Brighton bass producers set to keep the party cool but not chilled, including Voytek, Murder He Wrote, Alors Cors and Kosine. (JMM)
Mosca
Digital Sat 9th
Mosca’s like a cool ambassador for British club music. He’s one of the In New DJs We Trust on Radio 1, where he promotes the best in deep house, dancehall, techno and grime, and his sets are unpredictable with at least a few surprise selections dropped. He’s joined by Dusky and their fresh yet accomplished underground house and Paleman, whose FACT mix stomped through our office speakers just last week. Makes us think that tonight might just be March’s best line-up. (ZC)
Tache Club
Coalition Sat 9th
If you’re a Movember man or a Cat Face kind of girl then Tache Club, which launches tonight, is for you. Coalition welcomes all, from bearded ladies to beardless babies, for a night of dirty music and dirtier facial hair. Tickets cost £5 advance and no tache means no entry, so get growing and get grooming. For those who can’t, or won’t grow the upper lip look, they’ll be someone with a big marker pen at the door to help you out. (LG)
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Nowhere To Run
Audio Fri 15th
After a packed out, sweaty debut in January, Brighton’s best 60s night makes a triumphant return to Audio. Playing music from all corners of the era, expect to hear soul, rock’n’roll, garage, pop and the odd northern soul banger thrown in for good measure, as well as 60s cult movies shown all night. It’s only £4 all night and if last month was anything to go by, we recommend you get there early. Dress up, get down and beehive yourself. (AT)
Lockah
Green Door Store Fri 15th
It’s hard to believe, but this is Donky Pitch’s first foray into a club slot, with all previous parties being over by the witching hour. This time they’re in it for the long haul with the dancefloor open until 4am, and the price (free) and the line-up (great) are guaranteed to keep you there until the lights come up. It’s an EP launch for Aberdeen’s Lockah, whose previous release on Mad Decent sub-label Jeffrees was a subtle, well crafted electronic dream. Slugabed, Ghost Mutt and Grinel are also on the bill. (JMM)
climbers
Loft Fri 15th
Disco Deviant are on unbelievable form right now, booking the very best DJs that play on the boundary of disco and house. You might have seen head honcho Paul Budd and Andrew Weatherall pictured at the night in The Guardian recently. Climbers are another killer booking, coming all the way from Mexico on the back of their Get Physical release ‘Equal Responsibility’ becoming a DD anthem. ‘Left Your Love’, their new track with Yasmine Azaiez, is beautiful, gentle disco house the likes of which used to pop up on Naked Music back in the day. Expect house music that touches your heart. (JK)
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Syd The Kyd and Matt Martians - known as The Internet - are among the breakout names to arrive from the LA hip hop collective Odd Future, although this set of producers removed most of the OFWGKTA clash by making a fusion of neo-soul and hip hop. Among their releases and numerous remixes, The Internet have found time to produce the other artist on tonight’s bill, Kilo Kish, whose futuristic groove pop has been tipped by insiders as a one-to-watch in 2013. (TR)
Eliphino
Audio Sat 17th
Saturdays at Audio can always be trusted if you’re after a healthy dose of house, but this week’s booking of Eliphino is a little different, as his production influences lie just as firmly with garage and hip hop. His DJ sets are known for being particularly diverse, with dancehall, drum’n’bass and jungle tangents thrown into the mix, leading to a fun and unpredictable party that’s accessible to fans of many genres. And there’ll be plenty of house from the Warehouse residents supporting, in case you’re worried. (JMM)
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Concorde 2 Fri 22nd
Having honed his patter on the 80s comedy circuit, as a political poet railing against Thatcherism, Reaganomics and apartheid, Craig Charles’ latter-day radio career hosting 6 Music’s specialist Funk & Soul Show has let his mouth run free in the way his other roles (oh, you know, Red Dwarf, Robot Wars, Coronation Street) haven’t. He brings his spin-off Funk & Soul Club back to Brighton tonight, with comedy costumed musical support from wild festival entertainers The Cuban Brothers. (SH)
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The E.M.E.
Hope Fri 22nd
With The Hope’s new spoken word night Waxing Lyrical launching upstairs this evening, 8-piece Brighton band The E.M.E. take over the main bar for a night of live funk, soul, hip hop and jazz sounds. Packing a powerful brass section, The E.M.E. mix original jams with choice, surprise covers and instrumentals. With releases on Tokyo Dawn and Pragmatic Theory under his belt, E.M.E. guitarist J-Felix takes to the decks afterwards for more Dilla-esque beats and cuts. (SH)
Blawan
Life Fri 22nd
His early releases of gnarled techno on Hessel Audio quickly garnered Blawan a loyal following and every track since has risen to the challenge. ‘Getting Me Down’ added a warm fluid element to his sound and topped many top 10 lists in 2011. When he played last year it was one of the rowdiest raves of the month and this time he’s also got Dense & Pika providing support, so anything could happen. (ZC)
Carl Cox
Digital Thurs 28th
Cut Some Rug is a night of club classics for those that miss the halcyon days of dance music. It kicks off with Carl Cox, a British house music pioneer and integral component in the evolution of the 90s rave scene. He’s got Russell Small and Jon Rundell in tow, as well as Steve and Andy Mac, who can soundtrack all the shouts of “This is more like it!” and “It’s not how it used to be!” (ZC)
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Justin Martin
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Justin Martin’s set was our highlight of Dirtybird’s takeover last year. Now he’s topping the bill at Audio, bringing the tenacious tongue in cheek style that manifested beautifully on his debut album ‘Gardens & Ghettos’. Tunes like ‘Ruff Stuff’ and ‘The Sad Piano’ balance the robust with the melodic, giving his San Fran house a UKG tinge, which is maybe why he’s such a huge hit with clubbers over here. Minimal Kids are in support, but somehow we doubt he’ll need any help. (ZC)
Oneman
Audio Sat 30th
The DJ’s DJ has a rough and ready style that barges you onto the dancefloor and doesn’t let go until the end of the night. Nor should you want to. Oneman’s sets not only make you move but they always include a plethora of tunes that Shazam doesn’t even know. Generally speaking, his sound is like the re-invention of old school garage, with the best bits of dubstep, grime and funky thrown in. (ZC)
Sonic Youth Sunday Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Sun 31st
As you might imagine, here’s a whole night dedicated to inspirational alt-rock legends Sonic Youth. With a career spanning over three decades and a multitude of side projects, Sonic Youth took the DIY ethos of the punk generation and made it their own. Sub Bop DJs and guests will be choosing their favourite Sonic Youth and offshoot sounds, with a whole host of SY visuals. And it’s free. “With you Sunday never ends.” 100%. (AT)
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DONUTS
Words and Photos By Jessica marshall mchattie
Sometimes the premise for a successful club night seems so obvious you wonder why it hasn’t already been running for years. A musical policy of classic hip hop with 90s pop hits and the occasional leftfield banger from whatever genre the DJ fancies; the friendliness of the crowd; the price – always free – and the late closing policy of the Green Door Store makes for a brilliant combination.
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All the faces in the crowd, from the shiniest freshers surging at the front to NEXT EVENT: Every Tuesday at Green Door Store the dinosaurs in the WEB: facebook.com/DonutsBrighton bar, are happy. There’s a sincerity and lack of pretension: everyone goes to Donuts to have a good time, and that’s what they have, unfailingly. In fact, it’s so popular that they’re starting a The Mary Jane Girls ‘All Night Long’ new monthly night at Sticky Jurassic 5 ‘Concrete Schoolyard’ Mike’s on a Saturday, so Mos Def ‘Ms. Fat Booty’ those of us with early Q-Tip ‘Let’s Ride’ midweek starts KRS-One ‘Sound Of Da Police’ can share the Lauryn Hill ‘Everything Is Everything’ fun. Mobb Deep ‘The Learning’ Afrika Bambaataa ‘Zulu War Chant (The Funky Remix)’ Notorious B.I.G. ‘Hypnotize (Murder He Wrote Remix)’ Flying Lotus ‘Massage Situation’
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Huge drops, hip hop vocals and bowelloosening basslines – it’s an incredible set. No one is even going for cigarettes in case they miss something. And the man himself is having just as much fun, going mental behind the decks. Our Words By James Kendall Photos By Nima Elm photographer can’t move in the crowd but sums things up when he announces In what has to be the best bit of booking since the Coalition that it “feels like the start of something new.” The crowd put got Skrillex behind the decks, Supercharged tonight it more simply when Baauer finishes and they chant announces the level of its rebirth by putting on the artist “God! God! God!” at him before scrabbling for sitting at No.1 in the charts. Baauer has been ruling the handshakes and autographs. Supercharged is internet for the last fortnight with back with fire in the viral flood of ‘Harlem Shake’ its belly – long videos and he takes similar live the king control over The Haunt tonight. of midweek clubbing. NEXT EVENTS: Every Wednesday, The Haunt FUTURE GUESTS: Redlight, Bondax, Zinc, S.P.Y WEB: yesyoudo.co.uk Skream ‘Sticky’ Gorgon City ft. Yasmin ‘Real’ Baauer x Just Blaze ‘Higher’ Wilkinson ‘Take You Higher’ Fleur ‘Turn The Lights On (The Prototypes Remix)’ Dismantle ‘Dots’ Obey City ‘Neva Knew (Baauer Remix)’ TNGHT ‘Higher Ground’ Gorgon City ‘Thor’ Dimension ‘Synth City’
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Words by Stuart Huggett, Jessica Marshall McHattie, Ben Miller
the ghost of piramida
EVENT: Sick! Festival
FILM:TheGhostOfPiramida
A new festival of performance, dance, film and digital art, Sick! sets out to find new ways of talking about and dealing with sickness, whether mental or physical, ethical or spiritual. Sick! brings together a diverse programme of events focussed on The Basement, including Yann Marrusich’s durational bodyshock performance Bleu Remix and The Vacuum Cleaner’s psychiatric autobiography Mental. Other films, debates and shows take place at The Old Market, Duke’s At Komedia and Sallis Benney Theatre; see thebasement.uk.com for full programme. (SH)
In the summer of 2011, Danish post rock band Efterklang visited the abandoned mining settlement Piramida on Norway’s isolated Svalbard archipelago, gathering field recordings for their album of the same name on 4AD. The trip was documented by director Andreas Koefoed and the result is The Ghost Of Piramida, a hour-long feature narrated by one of the town’s former Russian inhabitants. Following acclaim on the art house circuit, Sticky Mike’s have got hold of the film for a free screening tonight. (SH)
Various Venues Fri 1st – Sat 16th
EVENT: Miniclick
Green Door Store Sat 2nd / Old Market Thurs 28th
Usually a platform for film and photography get-togethers around Brighton, Miniclick has decided to honour International Women’s Day (on the 8th) with a month of events supporting female photographers. It begins with a day of advice and debates in the company of numerous people who know more than yer average mortal when it comes to cunning camerawork, and ends with talks by acclaimed contemporary practitioners Alma Haser and Natasha Carauna. Search out Miniclick online for the full programme. (BM)
THEATRE: Canary Little Theatre Sat 2nd – Sat 9th
Jonathan Harvey, the writer of Gimme Gimme Gimme and a co-scripter for Corrie, says this brief history of gay rights is the work he’s most proud of. There’s certainly a prescient edge to the fable, first performed in 2010 and making its amateur premiere at The Little. It starts with two Scouse lovers forced to keep their passion unspoken 50 years ago, but winds up in the more revolutionary setting of London’s Heaven club during the 1980s. (BM)
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Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Tues 5th
THEATRE: Axis
Upstairs At Three And Ten Tues 5th – Fri 8th / Tues 19th – Fri 22nd
Hot new performances for a snip, with three pieces to choose from. Unwrap Your Candy is a study of devilish prodigies, unspoken secrets and atrocious acts in the vein of Hitchcock and Roald Dahl. Fighetta Fighetta – surely worth the name alone – are bringing unsettling baroque in a show called Vesta, and Cockroach pits biology against love and savagery as a group of teacher-led students attempt normality against a backdrop of war. “What is bravery?” they ask. Fringe theatre, of course. (BM)
MUSIC: Steve Reich Radio Rewrite Dome Thurs 7th
No end of eulogising could overstate Steve Reich’s influence for 50 years, although the master of minimalism’s plans for this performance, alongside the London Sinfonietta, sort of summarise the mind-bending genius of it all. ‘Double Sextet’, for two sextets of flute, clarinet, violin, cello, vibraphone and piano, won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Music, and ‘2x5’ unites electric strings with pairs of drum sets, pianos and bass guitars. The big draw, ‘Radio Rewrite’, channels two Radiohead songs – guitarist Jonny Greenwood has been a collaborator. (BM)
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THE light surgeons
FILM: SuperEverything Dome Mon 11th
While certain embittered hacks have spent lonely summers picking pebbles out of their shoes on Worthing beach, audiovisualists The Light Surgeons have had some right good recent holidays: Kuala Lumpur, India, New Zealand and Texas have witnessed their films, installations and live performances on tour. Commissioned by the British Council and crafted alongside Malaysian artists, their return to Brighton – having performed at the riot of experimentation that was Loop Festival in 2009 – is a cinema show with a live orchestra. (BM)
Music: Cage Without Silence Unitarian Church Sat 16th
Stop someone on the street and ask them about 20th century composer John Cage and, ironically, chances are you’ll be met with silence. Even those laypeople who have heard of Cage will most likely only know of his ‘silent’ composition ‘4’33”’. Cage Without Silence – a collaboration between Radio Reverb, Safehouse Collective, Spirit Of Gravity and The Tacet Ensemble – attempts to fill this gap in our knowledge, skipping the quiet bit in favour of works for massed radios, chamber orchestra, piano, radios and more. (SH)
ART: Chilled To The Bone: Ice Age Sussex Brighton Museum And Art Gallery from Sat 16th
“Can you believe there were ever icebergs off the coast of Brighton?” boggles the blurb for this show, to which the weary reply from Brightonians bemoaning this never-ending winter is surely a resounding yes. Whining aside, this looks a great exhibition: tools, carvings, animal bones and Victorian mysteries feature, illustrating how lions once roamed Sussex above seas so high they threatened to flood the Pavilion. The plight of Boxgrove Man, the oldest known human ancestor in Britain, is also revealed. (BM)
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Comedy: Casual Violence Have Friends Caroline Of Brunswick Fri 29th
Six-man sketch crew Casual Violence started out in Brighton and after a few years of critical acclaim on the comedy circuit they’ve come home for a monthly night at the Caroline Of Brunswick. Their offbeat, fast-paced sketches incorporate songs and tragicomedy with clever writing and a bleak, classic style. This night stars absurdist Will Franken, female clown/ sketch duo Twisted Loaf, darkly dramatic double act Ellis & Rose and the Casual Violence troupe themselves. (JMM)
THEATRE: Boston Marriage New Venture from Sat 30th
It’s unlikely the New Venture will see many Tories taking their seats for this Boston Marriage. David Mamet’s funny Victorian ding-dong pits three upper-class women in a battle of barbs, owing much to infatuation and intimate intensity. An enormous emerald necklace, too much money and gleaming droplets of farce – all of which possess dramatic acumen, as a pleasant stroll down West Street often proves - heighten the fray, not to mention a touch of steampunk and plenty of anachronistic innuendo. (BM)
ART: Multifunctioning Vessel Factory The Hope until 2nd June
You might recognise the globular, multicoloured, multilimbed, densely packed alien worlds of MVF from their giant works overlooking bassbin barndances at The Volks, or hanging nattily up the road at the reliably arty Black Dove. The duo’s most recent works, on display here until the culmination of the Fringe in May, include four more large-scale pieces, realised in typically surreal, boundlessly colourful style. Our pubs, as usual, are giving the galleries some stylish competition. (BM)
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Let’s be honest, the toilets in The Blind Tiger have never been the prettiest of places. But thanks to the skills of Billy Mather you’ll be throwing beer down your neck at double speed just to get another look at the bold lines of his naïve cartoon-like painting. Even if you don’t want to hang out in public toilets there are still plenty of other places you can see Billy’s work. As well as doing posters and artwork for Sticky Mike’s he’s lent his skills to FatCat, Love Thy Neighbour and Sub Bop. His childlike drawings are alternatively sinister and joyful or an unsettling combination of both. Look out this month for his take on the classic ‘Goo’ imagery for Sonic Youth Sunday (Sticky Mike’s Sun 31st). “My influences include Benjamin Shahn, Luke Best and Phillip Guston”, he says. “I enjoy any work that is simultaneously playful and dark.” As well as humour and wit hidden in the macabre, there’s precision and detail disguised in his loose style. It seems right to experience the beauty of his work in a lavatory. Plus it’s art that’s totally free to experience. Although you may want to spend a penny while you’re there. billymather.co.uk
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Single: Apples & Eve
Single: Sumsuch
Apples & Eve used to be a duo of honey voiced singer Eve Rose and drummer Francine Perry – who we’d guess was ‘Apples’, except Perry’s made from pears. Anyway, the addition of fiddler Jonas Aaron to the now four-piece band is the trump card on ‘L’Homme (The Man)’, his string work adding a fluid undertow to the verses, lifting like a kite after each lilting chorus. It’s a stirring blend of English and American folk influences, but not, surprisingly, French. (SH)
With all proceeds going directly to Mind, the mental health charity, this is a single with a purpose, created in memory of a good friend of the producer. ‘This Old Town’ features delicate piano chords that layer over downtempo emotional beats with shaking, tentative moves into each verse. The gentle and unsettling vocals are courtesy of Matty Eeles, formerly part of Alice Russell’s band. Disclosure Project’s remix makes the song into a meaty anthem. (JMM)
‘L’Homme (The Man)’ (Amazon Records)
‘This Old Town’ (Apollo)
Single: Black Black Hills
Album: Stuart Warwick
It’s been coming for a while but this is Black Black Hills fully embracing the crooner that Sammy Aaron Jr has been playing with for some time. A proper love song, from the bottom of BBH’s heart, there are no whoops or screams or glitches, just a pure vocal performance with subtle organ backing that crescendos in the most gentle way. If this had been on Nick Cave’s new album we wouldn’t have been disappointed. Pope Joan seem like a long way away now. (JK)
Former Jacob’s Stories performer Stuart Warwick returns with a second solo album loosely themed around issues of gender identity. Never one to shy away from the unusual, the eurotrash inspired video to ‘Crush’ is resplendent with shots of stilettos impaling chocolate cakes, buxom wenches and primary coloured backgrounds: in combination with his doleful tune about a desolate love affair the outcome is disparate and unnerving. Elsewhere, sensitive, subtle songs like ‘Cherished Muscle’ reclaim Warwick’s position as an English bedsit Perfume Genius. (JMM)
‘Far From My Arms’ (blackblackhills.com)
EP: Pink Narcissus
‘Blood On The Page’ (reverbnation.com/pinknarcissus)
Sidelining the carnival theatrics of their earlier releases, the six songs on ‘freak rock’ band Pink Narcissus’ strong new EP are their most immediate yet. However chaotic their innumerable gigs become, the band’s glam-punk sound has only grown sharper. Poet and frontman Oli Spleen is at his most open and loving on ‘Victim’, while the metallic guitar lines of ‘Orphan Eyes’ find the band at their most melodic. There’s a launch party with oddball allies Birdeatsbaby at the Blind Tiger on Tues 12th (SH)
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‘The Butcher’s Voice’ (Laugh Riot Records/Faux Discx)
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‘Safehouse’ (woodlandblue.bandcamp.com)
The woozy folk of ‘Safehouse’’s title track has an enveloping style that is instantly calming and Cordelia Gartside’s innocent vocals make it sound like something you’d hear around the campfire in a half-remembered dream. The rest of Woodland Blue’s EP is equally downtempo, taking indie music out of skinny jeans and into the forest. ‘Map Of The World’ showcases the band’s vocal section and a strength that isn’t forced in the other songs. As a debut, it’s very promising. (JMM)
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Street Style Words By James Kendall Photo By lomokev at lomokev.com/style
We didn’t chat to Luke about his clothes when we took this month’s Street Style photo and had huge troubles tracking him down afterwards to talk through his quirky ‘hip hop geek’ look. But in doing so we learned loads about him. Firstly, he’s Brighton’s favourite new busker, with a sweet voice he lets float over his ever-present tape player. When we sent out “Do you know this guy?” messages the response was uniformly, “Yes, he’s amazing!” This led us to his Soundcloud – soundcloud. com/luke-tyrone-fincher – full of lovely sparse r’n’b. When at last we got hold of him he was soundchecking for a gig at the BRIT School he attends and was as sweet and interesting as his get up for the four minutes we had with him before he disappeared again. An enigma. Keep an eye out for him on the streets of Brighton and you might be rewarded with a lovely song. Glasses from Specsavers “I like the vintage look of them.” Denim Jacket from vintage shop in Suffolk “It’s really warm. It looks like a heavy jacket, and I like that.” Jumper from H&M “I really like the pattern and the material is very wintery. I wear a lot of patterns. I like funky things, unusual stuff.” Jeans from H&M “I usually wear skinny jeans. I have a couple of pairs of cords but I wear jeans a lot.” Trainers by Nike “My gran got them for me for my birthday. I have quite big feet so she had to order them from America. They go with pretty much every outfit I can wear. I like the colour.” Tape player by Alba “I just found it in my attic. I use it for busking all the time.”
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Fáilte mór Éireannach chuig an Fiddler's Elbow The Fiddler’s St Patrick’s Day Celebrations (now in its 18th year) Kicking off on Friday evening with live music from 8 ‘til late, the party gets into full swing on Saturday when we take over Boyce’s Street with live music, an outside bar, Irish stews, BBQs and live coverage of the 6 Nations on our large screens, inside and out. On Sunday we have a session to end all sessions as we celebrate the man himself, St Patrick. Doors open at 10am and the Carey’s School of Irish Dancing start us off at mid-day, followed by over 10 hours of live music. Prepare for more craíc, shenanigans and, of course, more Guinness than you could shake a shillelagh at! 17 hours of live music
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100 people who make brighton what it is No.38 Colin Wakefield Words By stuart huggett Photo By james kendall
Tatty Seaside Town promoter Colin Wakefield celebrates 10 years of leftfield gigs with the TST.X festival at the Green Door Store this month (Sat 16th / Sun 17th). His Edgeworld Pop-Up Record Stall regularly serves up underground sounds at the Blind Tiger. What’s happening at TST.X? It’s a get together of old friends and a few current bands I really like, like Sealings. There’s a bunch of bands who have reformed for it, like Teen Sheikhs, and some very special guests which I’m not allowed to announce cos they can’t risk a load of London bookers hassling them thinking they’ve got back together. And we’re bringing back the Naughty Corner from the Freebutt days, where musicians who don’t need a PA play in between the main acts; people like Iain Paxon from Hamilton Yarns on his mic’d-up bike. Ten years is a long time in DIY promotion. Well I’ve only ever done it for fun really. The objective for each show is to not lose money. If I can cover my expenses then that’s job done and the rest is shared around or put into the next show. There are so many promoters around that you’re always competing. You’ve got to try and find your market, make it attractive, put together considered bills in the right venue. My one yardstick when I set out to do a show is, would I go myself? If I can achieve that, that’s a winner. Do you promote shows further afield? No, I just stick to Brighton really, apart from being involved in Supernormal festival (in the Chilterns). I had such a great time there as a punter and thought, this is good but I think I can help you out a bit. Last year I pulled that off and turned it around so it wasn’t actually losing money. I thought I was just going to be helping out but I actually booked probably 85% of it, a lot of TST regular bands I knew I could rely on. How’s the record stall going? Brighton’s good enough, but I almost do it out of a social angle, to see the regulars that do come. The pop-up stall does far better in other towns to be honest, places like Portsmouth, Southampton or Canterbury, where there’s not really any shops to speak of. I’m still buying new stuff in and selling mail order as well so I’m constantly busy one way or another.
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THE PLACE Ben Gill is a Brighton legend. When he writes his autobiography we’ll be at the front of the queue to buy it – his time as owner of the Ocean Rooms is merely one of the chapters in his life. But while we wait for the book we can hang out at his new café bar – a slice of New York settled in Kemptown. As you can expect from the man who found a Banksy painting he forgot he had, it’s full of street art, screenprints, cool objects and great branding, while having a stripped back dive bar feel. There’s also a huge garden for the summer but we sensibly decide to sit inside and try the food. THE MEAL The menu is small but ever changing – previously we’ve had an outstanding fishfinger sandwich – and we decide we must
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THE VERDICT Good food and value for money, but that’s only half the story. The place has a real vibe to it. It looks great and was lively on the cold Tuesday we visited. If you want a quick meal, or to hang out over a few drinks or a coffee, there are few places as cool as Neighbourhood. WERE WE SUSSED We know Ben well and if we’d have turned up with a camera he’d have clocked our plan right away. Luckily after asking him about serving times we had a change of plans and visited a day early. Not sussed.
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Late Night Lingerie Bringing back
Brighton rock Words by Stuart Huggett Photo by deano harrington
Eddie The Goatboy’s building a new Brighton music scene at his Late Night Lingerie club. With films, albums, exhibitions and festivals in the works, all wrapped up in provocative artwork, he wants the world to take notice. How did Late Night Lingerie come about? It started back in December 2011 as a night for my band Skirts, where we’d just pick our mates to play. The plan was to do three or four a year but Sticky Mike’s bullied me into doing it monthly. I started running out of mates to put on, so we made all these adverts for certain kinds of bands to come to us. And my god, they all stepped out of the woodwork, bands I’d never heard of before. There’s a certain scene bubbling under the surface in Brighton, full of garage, grungy, surfy, psychedelic type bands.
old punk magazine. I thought, this is brilliant, I should do this. I can just fold up a bit of paper, put something rude on the cover that we can’t really put on a poster, and that’s the programme. I get an artist to do the front and I say to them, think of the most disgusting thing you can imagine and draw it. So we’ve had some brilliant ones and they’re getting worse. And better. We have a different artist every month for the posters too. They’re all screenprinted and we want to put on a show during The Great Escape with a pop up shop to sell them at – the artists gets half the profit, the other half will go back into Late Night Lingerie.
“We thought that we’d fake a scene, but now we’ve created one”
What makes the shows special? There’s always a couple of established groups but we’re putting on bands between 11pm and 3am so there’s no headline slot. Often bands only begrudgingly want to go on at 2 o’clock, but those have been some of the best shows I’ve seen. It’s not like a normal gig, we want everyone to be drunk, we want people to jump on stage. We’ve had people getting up and singing with the bands because everyone’s pissed. Things like that make things more fun and unique.
What’s happening at the bank holiday festival? Because it’s Easter we thought a lot of people might be coming out and we wanted to put on something special, get a good pissed up weekend. It’s 12 bands over the two days, so it’s a ‘best of’ showcase, plus a couple of new bands who’ve been on our radar. Has anyone been offended by your artwork? No, never actually, if anything I’ve only ever had praise. I’ve never had any criticism for the zine we give out. I’ve got this DVD called Punk: Attitude by Don Letts and in that you get a free copy of Sniffin’ Glue, the
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What’s the film you’re working on? Originally we were going to make a documentary about Brighton, showcasing the sessions we did down Brighton Electric studios, but now we’re going to make it into a series. It’s a celebration of Brighton now, saying how none of us have got any money, but we’re just going to do things our own DIY way. We’ll be doing a free show soon that we’re inviting anyone down to, where Steve Glashier, the director, will do a lot of filming. We’ll blog it as an internet thing and hopefully speak to the Duke’s about getting it screened. There’s an album we’re releasing with that as well, I’ve just had the audio back from Brighton Electric. And there’s another CD which I’ve picked about 16 bands to submit tracks for: that should be ready for March and we’ll sell that cheap on the door and give it away to label people.
You want the industry to take notice then? Yeah, I look at scenes like Manchester, Sheffield and Liverpool and I think, what’s Brighton famous for? Initially we thought we’d fake a scene so we’d fool all these record companies into believing they were missing out on something down here. Now we’ve created one by accident, we’ve brought all these bands together. One of them’s producing one of the others, one’s doing a website for another, the artists who’ve done the posters are doing artwork for the bands. It’s bringing WHERE: Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar artists and musicians together and we all WHEN: Fri 29th / Sat 30th use Late Night Lingerie as a banner. We WEB: Facebook.com/lnlclubnights come as a pack now, like a pack of wolves, so if one band gets picked up then we all get picked up. That’s the idea, we stick together.
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LISTINGS MARCH 2013
Friday 1st
10 Below Malicious From Slayer to Gaga and back again 10pm £tbc Above Audio Home House and disco DJs 9pm £free Al Duomo Rebel Rabble: David Ethics, Al Marzocchi, Matt Slackers, Stuart Bruce, Hannah Sherlock Underground house and techno club 10pm £free Audio Full Volume If your bass was this filthy you’d have to take it back to the fishmongers Time tbc £7/5 Basement Culture Cake: Sick Festival Learn how to do that special ‘performance art’ face in this all-day workshop with Bobby Baker 11am £free Basement Club Lady LaRue Cabaret is a drag sometimes 9pm £free 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 Blind Tiger Live And Wired Live music from BIMM bands 7pm £2/1; Los Chincos, King Lagoons, Flying Swordfish Band The kings of tropical rock&roll 10pm £5 Brunswick Bubsie & The Beat Bros Funky soul pop band 8.30pm £6/5 Caroline Of Brunswick DJ Jody Lee Hooker Mod For It DJ plays alt rock classics Details tbc; Brighton Stomp: Charlie Sloan, Sonic Gypsy, Kaptain Boogie, Kev D’sousa Blues jam night (upstairs) 8pm £free Charles Street National Student Pride Registration drinks for the weekend LGBT event 7.30pm £free Coalition Friday I’m In Love No more lectures for a day or two 11pm £2-5 Concorde2 The Magic Band Avant garde blues pranksters revisit the zany legacy of Captain Beefheart 7pm £18.50; Forekast Launch Party: Breach, Dark Sky, T. Williams, Dom 877, Dr Dr, Mr Rezzonate, Fono, Luka T, Dominion, Eptune New monthly house, bass and garage club 11pm £9/7/6 Digital Stonelove Indie rock&roll club 11pm £4/3 Doctor Brighton’s Funky Friday: DJ Nick Hirst, DJ Wayne 9.30pm £free Dome Studio First Fridays Monthly arty meeting with a “guest provocation” 5pm £free; Jack And His Big Stalk Alternative panto Time tbc £19 Druid’s Arms Hot Pepper Sauce DJ I.D.G. plays old school funk, soul and house 10pm £free Duke Of Norfolk DJ MC Cashback DJ night 9pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema Lore 1.30pm/6.30pm £tbc; Stoker 4pm/9pm £tbc; Goodfellas 11.30pm £tbc East Slope Bar Palestine Solidarity Fundraiser Live hip hop benefit gig Details tbc Fountain Head Soulshyne Soulful house and original disco grooves with DJ Mick Fuller 9pm £free Friends’ Meeting House Office Politics: Brighton Science Festival Oliver James and Kevin Dutton discuss the psychology of management and explain how most bosses are arrogant, Machiavellian psychopaths (not true - Ed) 7.30pm £9/6 Funfair Angel Funfair Dancefloor anthems from the Platinum Angels 9pm £7/5/free Funkyfish Thank Funk Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10.30pm £free Globe The Get Down! DJ night playing a mix of Motown, soul, blues, funk and swing 8pm £free Green Door Store Damo Suzuki, Eyes & No Eyes, Soccer96, Sons Of Noel And Adrian Can’s improv nutter teams up with local folk prog collective for some out-there fun 5.30pm £9.50; AEREO Disco and electro night from the Teen Creeps peeps 11pm £free H-Bar Spank Details tbc Haunt Moody Disco: Heidi, DJ T, Marlon Mahroyan, Juan Baiz, Ricky Kay House and deep house 11pm £tbc; Scroobius Pip’s We Are Lizards The hip hop beat poet brings his Shoreditch club night to Brighton 11pm £6 Hobgoblin Brighton Improv Jam Improvised comedy and open music jam 8pm £4 Hop Poles Arthur Shillin’ Electro swing mash-ups 10pm £free Hope DJ Section1 Hip hop and glitch, drum&bass and garage 8pm £free; SlipJam B: Tony D, Locksmyth, Barcode Hip hop battleground for Brighton b-boys with
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10 Below Show Me Love 90s dance anthems with DJ Andy Gibbens 10.30pm £3/2 Audio Warehouse: Hot Since 82 House and techno club night 11pm £5/free Basement Supper Club: Sick Festival A platter of bite-sized arty performances hosted by Bobby Baker 8pm £8/6 Basement Club Fusion: DJ Peter Castle, DJ Lee Harris Chart and club remixes 11pm £free Bell Pub Fully Toppa! Afro, gypsy and dub sounds with DJs Ed Snug & Piatrixx 8pm £free Black Lion Burnt Toast DJs play sleazy soul and dirty breaks 9pm £free Blind Tiger Running Numbers & Ojo De Gringa, Pedal Band Jazz and afrobeat band 7pm £2/1; Club Kovak The electro pop band return to their former haunt to host a night of live music with a guest DJ set from Verve producer and Killing Joke bassist, Martin Glover 10pm £5/4 Brunswick The Harvest Sessions: House Of Hats, The Self Help Group, Katharine Rose Folk night 7.30pm £6/5 Coalition Snapback: DJ Dubl, Outbreak, Epicx, Bringa Old school clubbing 11pm £7/5/3; Blow: Vince Manganaro, Charly Lopez, Charles Green The party never stops 3am £5 Concorde2 Megadance: Original Sin, Serial Killaz, Gangoon Dubz & Hizzle Guy & Bolger, Riot Squad, Sleepygee, Abstraction, Justus Jonus, Lz, The D.A., Munxi, Turner, Pure Soundsystem, Alex Slime, Lofty, Shiver, St, Maniak, Rush Meganew megamonthly megabass meganight 11pm £3
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Corn Exchange National Student Pride The LGBT event rounds off with a club night 10.30pm £tbc Digital Playroom Housey hedonism in a playground of bouncy inflatable fun 11pm £12/10/5 Doctor Brighton’s Sexy Saturday: DJ Tony B 9.30pm £free Dome National Student Pride LGBT event with talks, stalls and live music Noon £free Dome Studio Jack And His Big Stalk Alternative panto Time tbc £19 Druid’s Arms DJ Green Man’s Garden Of Delights A carefully cultivated set of soul, psychedelia, funk and pop 10pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema Monsters, Inc 11am £tbc; Lore 2pm £tbc; Met. Opera - Parsifal 5pm £tbc; Stoker 11pm £tbc Fabrica Craftaganza Two days of handmade crafts and arty trinkets 10.30am £free Freemasons Saturday Night Disc Spinners DJ night 9pm £free Funfair Magic Dancefloor fillers from every era 9pm £7/5/free Funkyfish Oldschool Saturday Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10pm £6/5 Globe Upstairs At The Globe House and disco DJs 8pm £free Green Door Store Loch Lomond, Seadog Oregon music collective putting a twist on traditional chamber folk 7pm £5.50; Sonic Switch Tru Thoughts DJ puts you in the on position with some choice beats and bass 11pm £free H-Bar Soul Damn Funky: Richard Earnshaw, The Real Decoys, Russell Ruckman, Kevin Fernando, Roy Rogers, Steven James, Curly Deb, The Analysir Deep and soulful house club celebrates its third birthday 8pm £5 Haunt Frankie Cocozza One of X Factor’s cynically engineered ‘controversial’ rejects 7pm £tbc; It Is Still 1985 Travel through time to an ancient realm where keytars are still pretty cool 11pm £3 Hop Poles Knead A Break DJ Mass Evil plays breaks, beats and bootlegs 10pm £free Hope Soul Casserole A melting pot of hot funk beats and soul grooves (downstairs) 9pm £free Hove Centre 23rd Sussex Beer And Cider Festival Details tbc Jubilee Square A Wall Is A Screen: Sick Festival A guided tour with short films offers a “guerrilla-style intervention transforming the architectural fabric of the city” 6.30pm £free Komedia Krater Comedy Club: Addy Van Der Borgh, Ben Norris, Imran Yusuf, Stephen Grant Standup comedy night 7pm/10.30pm £5-22 Life XXY Chromosome clubbing from the #Hashtag DJs 11pm £5/3 Lola Lo Zombie Nation Where the dancefloor is never dead 8pm £10/7/6 Mesmerist Juke Joint Jamboree Rhythm & blues and rock&roll records from the days of the dance halls 9pm £free Mucky Duck Sizzle And Pop! DJ Mick plays 50s rock&roll and 60s soul 9pm £free New Venture Theatre How To Disappear Completely And Never Be Found Dark humour abounds in this surreal existential play by Fin Kennedy Details tbc; Altered Egos One-woman show written and performed by poet Bernadette Cremin Time tbc £10/8 North Laine Pub Beat Burger DJ plays soul, funk, hip hop and reggae (feel free to insert your own horse gag) 9pm £free Oceana Weekend Has Landed 10.30pm £10/free Prince Albert Oxygen Thieves, Atlantic, Emperor The Stag, Helen Nicholson Live music 8pm £4 Quadrant Big Saturday Night: Addy Van Der Borg, Adam Belbin, Don Biswas, Andrew Watts, Sajeela Kershi Stand-up comedy 8.30pm £7/6 Red Lion Open Mic Night 8pm £free Revenge National Student Pride Afterparty for the LGBT event 2am £tbc Riki Tik Skatadays Reggae, rocksteady and vintage ska records 8pm £free Sallis Benney Theatre Big Science Saturday: Brighton Science Festival A whole day of discussions and lectures on everything from time travel, the paradox of infinity and the limits of the human body 10am £10/6 Sallis Benney Theatre Ben Goldacre - Bad Pharma: Brighton Science Festival The Guardian’s ‘Bad Science’ columnist exposes the role of scaremongering journalists and pharmaceutical corporations in making everyone think they have some fancy new medical symptom. It doesn’t mean you’re special: it means you’re a precious and gullible attentionseeking hypochondriac. Either that, or you’re seriously ill in which case ignore the above 7pm £15/12 Sidewinder DJ Night 8pm £free Smugglers Saturday Night Chart and club anthems - plus hip hop, R&B and pop 9pm £free St Bartholomew’s Church The Glory of Venice Music by Brahms, Gabrieli, William Harris and Bernard Hughes 7.30pm £18/12 St George’s Inn Acoustic Lounge Live music 7pm
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£free Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Unhooked Generation Retro night with an ear for 60s Motown and northern soul (in the bar) 9pm £free; Stay Beautiful - Bowie Special Simon Price rallies the “diamond dogs, queen bitches and scary monsters” for a night of glam punk dress up 11pm £5/4 Theatre Royal Maurice’s Jubilee Comedy drama written by and starring Nichola McAuliffe 2.30pm/7.45pm £10-35 Three & Ten Adam Kay - Painfully Weak Slightly sick versions of pop songs from the comedy doctor who found YouTube fame with his London Underground song 8pm £9.50/8 Tube Fat Pops Saturdays The student indie night opens a weekend branch 11pm £4/3/2 Unitarian Church Makers Boutique Handmade Market Locally-made homemade crafts and cakes 11am £free Victory Up Against It Born Bad DJs play an assortment of punky trash 9pm £free Volks Sicknote: Sterling Moss, Acid Ted, Incognito, Liquid James, Sketchy Steve, Scotty, Sld, Goa Rod-T, Niquid, Sleazy Steve, Piatrixx “I’m afraid Jimmy cannot do games today as his mind melted at a techno club last night” 11pm £5
Sunday 3rd
Basement Under Observation: Sick Festival Short films and ‘durational performances’ including one in which a man exudes a blue liquid through his skin over the course of an hour 3.30pm £free Basement Club Pop!Candy DJ Claire Fuller plays pure non-stop pop 11pm £free Black Lion Live & Swingin’ Lion Live gypsy jazz, swing and blues 8pm £free Blind Tiger One Night In Nepal Fundraiser with auctions, art and ambient music 7pm £donation Brunswick Rory & The Island, Pipe & Tabor Live music 8pm £6/4 Caroline Of Brunswick The Geekest Link Possibly the only time in your life anyone will care how much you know about 22nd century warp core science 8.30pm £1 Dome Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra Music by Mozart and Bach 2.45pm £9-32 Dome Studio Jack And His Big Stalk Alternative panto Time tbc £19 Duke Of York’s Cinema Lore 1.30pm/6.30pm £tbc; Stoker 4pm/9pm £tbc Duke’s @ Komedia Monsters, Inc 11am £tbc; Amour: Sick Festival 1pm £tbc Fabrica Craftaganza Two days of handmade crafts and arty trinkets 10.30am £free Fountain Head Reggae & Roasts Reggae and chilled beats Time tbc £free Freemasons The Preston Prince Jazz Infusion Live music Time tbc £free Globe Handbaked Arcade Things were so much better in the 1990s when all we had was 64-bit games of Italian plumbers inexplicably racing against turtles and gorillas Noon £free Grand Hotel The Grand Swish The clothes swapping event goes upmarket Time tbc £10/8.50 Green Door Store The Steady Man Collective Psychedelic rhythm and blues bands 7pm £free; Green Door Blues Big Itch DJs plus the resident blues band, Smokestack 10pm £free Haunt Melody’s Echo Chamber, Fear Of Men Live music 7.30pm £8 Hope Concrete Knives French indie pop with a nod to the 80s and a wink to The Maccabees 8pm £6; Improvabananas DJs entertain with comical choices and audience requests (downstairs) Time tbc £free Komedia Bent Double: Dana Alexander Zoe Lyons hosts a night of alternative comedy acts 7.30pm £510.50 Latest Music Bar Granny’s Gone Wild New play written and performed by Lynn Ruth Miller 9.30pm £13 New Venture Theatre Altered Egos Onewoman show written and performed by poet Bernadette Cremin Time tbc £10/8 North Laine Pub DJ Veronica Stephens Ska and rocksteady DJ 4pm £free Old Market Henning Wehn - Henning Knows Bestest Dubious national stereotypes taken for a walk by the self-appointed German Comedy Ambassador 8pm £12/10 Prince Albert The Liabilities, Smackjoint Live music 7.30pm £5 Ranelagh Kent Duchaine Delta blues 8.30pm £free Sallis Benney Theatre Big Science Sunday: Brighton Science Festival A day of discussion about the science of communication 10.30am £10/6; Richard Wiseman On The Paranormal: Brighton Science Festival The author and professor discusses the psychology of the paranormal and argues there’s weird enough stuff going on without looking for traces of ectoplasm 8pm £9/6 Signalman Open Mic Open session hosted by local
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duo, Zoothyme 8pm £free Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Zatokrev, From The Bogs Of Aughista, Caravan Of Whores, Death Ape Disco, March The Desert Sludge and stoner metal 7pm £4 Theatre Royal Jethro - 2013 West country comic 7.30pm £20.50 Victory Blues Sundays DJ plays blues and soul Noon £free
Monday 4th
Audio SoapBox Details tbc Blind Tiger The Big Bop! Vintage tunes from the 40s, 50s and 60s 8pm £free Brunswick Open Mic 7.30pm £free Caroline Of Brunswick MovieBar So you wanna make it in the glamorous world of film? Go shmooze with the movers and makers and other out-ofwork actors. Includes film screenings, Q&A with directors and a movie quiz 7.30pm £free Coalition Trash Mondays Filthy tunes for students and layabouts alike 11pm £3/2 Concorde2 The Joy Formidable, Kill It Kid, Night Engine Welsh alt rockers 7.30pm £12.50 Duke Of York’s Cinema Peppa Pig - Grandpa Pig’s Computer & Other Stories 11am £tbc; Lore 12.30pm/6pm £tbc; Stoker 3pm/8.30pm £tbc Green Door Store Punk V Hardcore Guess what? It’s a night of punk and hardcore 8pm £free; Media Fundraiser 11pm £3 Haunt Fat Poppadaddys The student indie night moves to a new home 11pm £3/2/free Hop Poles Secret Garden Cinema 9pm £free Hope Bird, Lolly & The City Of Flies Atmospheric scouse trio 8pm £4 Hope Live Sessions Live music (downstairs) 8pm £free Life #Hashtag Funky house club with added Twitter confusion 10pm £3/2 Lord Nelson Brighton Acoustic Session: Hatful Of Rain Country folk band 7.30pm £free Mesmerist Flash Mob Jazz Raucous jazz band 9pm £free Pitcher And Piano Super Ape, Jetpack Elastic Live music and DJs raise money for a stage production of Terry Pratchett’s Mort 8pm £3 Prince Albert Staer, Black Packers, Americans, DJ Future Proof Sex Beak Live music 8pm £6/5 Signalman Signalman Pub Quiz 8pm £1 Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Wet Nuns, thedealwasforthediamond Bluesy lo-fi stoner punk 8pm £6.50 Theatre Royal The Rise And Fall Of Little Voice Comedy drama 7.45pm £10-32.50 Volks Strictly Reggae Dancehall, roots, revival 11pm £5/4
Tuesday 5th
Above Audio Cottontail Club Big band and jitter jive tunes 9pm £free Audio Shut Your Trap Hip hop night 11pm £4/2 Black Lion Open Mic Night Live music 8.30pm £free Blind Tiger Birdskulls, Mandeville Live music 8pm £tbc Brighton Centre Olly Murs Rizzle Kicks’ X Factor mate 6.30pm £32.50 Brunswick Jazz Jam Open session with a house band and special guests 8pm £free Caroline Of Brunswick Giraffe Comedy Club Comedy night (upstairs) 7.30pm £5; Open Mic Hosted by Mike Mcmichelson and Kev De Souza 8.30pm £free Cube Cube Live: Matt Bonner Live music 8pm £free Digital CU Next Tuesday It’ll teach the universities to timetable lectures for Wednesday mornings 11pm £4/3 Dome Michael Woodridge Organ recital 3pm £10/7.50 Duke Of Norfolk Open Mic 9pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema The Impossible 11am £tbc; Lore 1.30pm/6.30pm £tbc; Stoker 4pm/9pm £tbc Duke’s @ Komedia Peppa Pig - Grandpa Pig’s Computer & Other Stories 11am £tbc; Mea Maxima Culpa - Silence In The House Of God 6.30pm £tbc Fountain Head Student Night DJs play indie and rock 8pm £free Gladstone Quiz Night 8.30pm £1 Globe Basement Cinema Underground films, comfy seats and free popcorn 8pm £free Green Door Store San Cisco Australian indie pop band 7pm £7; Donuts Hipster funk and hip hop gems 11pm £free Haunt Alex Adams Singer songwriter 7pm £6; Cat Face Having conquered the internet, our feline overlords have now branched out into running club nights in which humans are encouraged to don pretend whiskers as a form of humiliating entertainment for their masters 11pm
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£10/2 Komedia Robyn Hitchcock Singer songwriter who made his name with 70s psychedelic folk rockers, The Soft Boys 7.30pm £14 Life Salsa Brighton Salsa classes followed by dance party 8.30pm/11pm £6/4 Lola Lo Dirtee Laundry Student night 10pm £6/4/2 Old Market The Animals And Children Took To The Streets Immersive and subversive theatre show mixing live music and performance with films and animation 8pm £12/10 Prince Albert Be Nothing Presents Live music 8pm £tbc Quadrant Open Mic Jam session hosted by Jenna Bennett 8.30pm £free Red Lion Challenging General Knowledge & Music Quiz 8pm £1 Sidewinder Open Mic Jam session with instruments provided 8.30pm £free St George’s Inn Pub Quiz 8pm £1 Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Efterklang - The Ghost Of Piramida A film about the Danish trio’s visit to an abandoned mining town in Russia 8pm £free Theatre Royal The Rise And Fall Of Little Voice Comedy drama 7.45pm £10-32.50 Three & Ten Vesta Theatre piece devised by Fighetta Fighetta 8pm £8.50/7
Wednesday 6th
Above Audio Cookin Beats Hip hop with a side of order of funk and a sprinkling of reggae 8pm £free Audio After Dark Student house and bass night 11pm £3/2 Basement Club Mash Up Commercial house with DJ Lee Harris 11pm £free Black Lion The Black Lion Acoustic Showcase Live music 8.30pm £free Blind Tiger Lethal Quizzle Pub quiz with zany rounds 8pm £1 Brighton Centre Olly Murs Rizzle Kicks’ X Factor mate 6.30pm £32.50 Brunswick Jaime Regan Album launch for local singer songwriter and band Time tbc £5 Coalition CoCo LoCo Dancehall and dubstep music for students go to lose the plot to 10.30pm £5/3/1 Concorde2 Wednesday 13 Goth rocker who used to front the Murderdolls 7pm £12.50 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 Beaufort Poker Night 8pm £5 Duke Of Norfolk Pub Quiz 9pm £1 Duke Of York’s Cinema Lore 11am/1.30pm/6.30pm £tbc; Stoker 4pm/9pm £tbc Earth & Stars Something Wholly Inappropriate Spoken word night’s 2nd birthday featuring poetry, music and cake 7pm £free Funfair Dirtee Angels Electro swing party 10.30pm £3/free Globe Move Pre Party Warm up for Life’s new underground dance music night 9pm £free Green Door Store Spirit Of Gravity: Baconhead, Twenty Twenty, Sonic Roundabout Experimental sounds and avant garde noises 8pm £5; Indie Wednesdays Straight-up indie tunes 11pm £free Haunt Godsized Hairy rockers continue the classic rock tradition of hairy rockers doing classic rock 7pm £6; Supercharged Drum&bass and breaks 11pm £3/2 Hop Poles Secret Garden Cinema 9pm £free Hope Interlocuter, Crayola Lectern, Octopuses Debut show for the new band of Alex White from Electric Soft Parade 8pm £6/5 Iron Duke I Predict A Pop Quiz “A light hearted trip through the backstreets of pop trivia” 8pm £free Komedia The Pretty Things, The Standard Lamps Blues rockers whose claims to fame include playing in an early incarnation of The Rolling Stones, being banned from New Zealand after setting alight to a bag of crayfish and officially having the longest hair in the UK 7.30pm £18.50/14 Latest Music Bar Tango Boot Camp Learn to tango like the Argentinians 8pm £3-8 Life Move Underground dance music club 11pm £4/3/2 Mesmerist The Swing Ninjas Gypsy swing band 9pm £free Mucky Duck Quiz On My Face “Quiz night with a difference” perhaps with a very special prize 7pm £1; The Whim-Whams Live music 8pm £free North Laine Pub Quiz Kong 8pm £1 Oceana #Yolo! Dance, dubstep and drum&bass 10.30pm £5/3.50; Bingo Players Dutch dance DJ duo 10.30pm £6/5/4 Old Market The Animals And Children Took To The Streets Immersive and subversive theatre show mixing live music and performance with films and animation 8pm £12/10 Prince Albert Society Live music 8pm £6
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Sidewinder Movie Night Showing films chosen by the audience via Facebook 8.30pm £free Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar MMoths Irish electronica 7.30pm £5.50; Sticky Mike’s Muso Pop Quiz 8pm £1 Theatre Royal The Rise And Fall Of Little Voice Comedy drama 7.45pm £10-32.50 Thomas Kemp Kev & Jenna’s Open Mic 9pm £free Three & Ten Unwrap Your Candy Doug Wright’s theatre piece inspired by Hitchcock, Roald Dahl and mental disorders 8pm £8.50/7 Tube Late Late night house club 2am £5/4/3 Volks Bass Hertz: Cabbie, Levela, Harry Bizzle, Samy Nicks & Rekwest, Dusty, Equation, Agro, Too Greezey, Rotten Scoundrel, MC Double J, Kerizma, Dirty Buziness, Legacy, Instigator, Marx, Aljmex, Brighton Rock, DJ Prior, Threts 10pm £4/3
Thursday 7th
10 Below Hot Mess New hip hop, garage and bashment night 11pm £3 Audio Bastard Pop Musical mash-up 11pm £3/free Basement Eleonora: Sick Festival Physical theatre piece ‘about’ Alzheimer’s disease 8pm £10/8 Bee’s Mouth Language Games Live hip hop cypher with a house band Time tbc £free Black Lion Keep Diggin’ B-boy breaks and funk drops with DJ Mark Stafford 8.30pm £free Blind Tiger MC Cashback 8pm £3 Brunswick The 1930s, Rich Keam Irish folk and Americana 8pm £5/4 Coalition Secret Discotheque Replaying the soundtrack to your youth 11pm £4/3/2 Concorde2 DJ Premier, Statik Selektah, Tappa, Neil B, Murder He Wrote Houston hip hopper from Gang Starr 7pm £10 Dome Steve Reich - Radio Rewrite The minimalist composer teams up with the London Sinfonietta to perform his famous Clapping Music piece as well as a new work inspired by Radiohead songs 7.30pm £10-26 Duke Of York’s Cinema I Wish 11am £tbc; Lore 1.30pm/6.30pm £tbc; Stoker 4pm/9pm £tbc Fountain Head Student Night DJs play indie and rock 8pm £free Freemasons Live & Wine Live music 8.30pm £free Funfair Bug’A’Boo Hip hop and R&B ladies’ night 10.30pm £3/2 George Payne Open Mic Jam session with instruments provided, in what used to be the Kendal Arms 8.30pm £free Globe Hang The DJ! A night of punter-picked playlists 9pm £free Green Door Store Maps & Atlases, Farewell JR, Dress Theque Chicago math rock 7pm £11/9; Sandwich Club Fundraiser Disco squeezed between tasty slabs of glitch and dancehall 11pm £free Haunt Coconut College Thursday night party playing a right mix of stuff like Grimes, Smashing Pumpkins and Kayne West 11pm £3/2 Hope Woodpigeon, Collectress Multi-instrumentalist does “post-genre in an orchestral folk-pop context” 7.30pm £6; The Social Live acoustic music 8pm £free Komedia Hammer & Tongue: Adam Kammerling, Liz Greenfield An entertaining mix of poetry and comedic verse - hosted by Rosy Carrick and Mike Parker 7.30pm £5; Terry Alderton - Season 4? Stand-up comedy 8pm £14/12 Latest Music Bar Konoba, Jenna Bennett, Jacko Hooper Brighton’s ‘cosmic pop’ group launch their debut album 8pm £3 Lola Lo Tom Foolery Electro, house and dubstep night 9pm £5/3 Lucky Voice Acoustic Open Mic 8pm £free Mesmerist Leanne And The Rockeros Rockabilly band 9pm £free Mucky Duck Open Mic Jam session with Joe Newman 9pm £free North Laine Pub The California Gypsys Indie rock band 8.30pm £free Oceana OMG Oh my god, it’s a club night for students! 10.30pm £3/free Old Market Shorts And Sweets Book Club This month they’re discussing short stories by Aldous Huxley 7.30pm £free; The Animals And Children Took To The Streets Immersive and subversive theatre show mixing live music and performance with films and animation 8pm £15/12 Prince Albert The Spitshake Sisters, Caucasian Mountain Dog, Durango Live music 8pm £4 Proud Cabaret 50 Shades Of Cabaret Fetish cabaret for people who’d never thought of being kinky before reading that book 8pm £24 Ranelagh The Long Haul Live country rock 8.30pm £free Riki Tik Big It Up! Resident DJs mine the golden era of dancehall and digital reggae 8pm £free St James’ Tavern Bacon Fat Stay Sick DJs play 50s and 60s “R&R, R&B, tittyshakers and blues” 9pm £free Theatre Royal The Rise And Fall Of Little Voice
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Comedy drama 2.30pm/7.45pm £10-32.50 Three & Ten Vesta Theatre piece devised by Fighetta Fighetta 8pm £8.50/7 Tube Late Late night house club 2am £5/4/3 Victory Open Mic 8pm £free Volks Roll Through Drum&bass and dubstep, bass and beatbox 11pm £2
Friday 8th
10 Below Gigglestock Comedy night 7.30pm £4 Above Audio Home House and disco DJs 9pm £free Audio Cyril Hahn Swiss house DJ with a fondness for R&B remixes (this night has now sold out) 8pm £tbc Basement Club Lady LaRue Cabaret is a drag sometimes 9pm £free Black Dove Mo Taters! Vintage American tunes from both sides of the Panama canal 8pm £free Black Lion Medium Rare DJs serve up a platter of semi-obscure funk and soul 9pm £free Blind Tiger Kemptown Carnival Fundraiser: Dende, Cozinha, Bloco Branco 8pm £5 Brunswick Funky Buddha Band Their threefold path to enlightenment: funk, soul and Motown 8pm £5/3 Caroline Of Brunswick Funny Girls Stand-up, sketches and music (upstairs) 8pm £5/4 Coalition Friday I’m In Love No more lectures for a day or two 11pm £2-5 Concorde2 Stiff Little Fingers, Ed Tudor Pole One for the Brighton punk calendar 7pm £16; Bass Culture Clash: The Heatwave, Top Cat, Skibadee, Stylo G, Rtkal, The Rasites British bass music pays homage to its Jamaican influences with live sets and battles 11pm £5 Digital Stonelove Indie rock&roll club 11pm £4/3 Doctor Brighton’s Funky Friday: DJ Nick Hirst, DJ Wayne 9.30pm £free Dome Caro Emerald Big band swing jazz 7pm £tbc Dome Cafe Bar Drawing Conversations Art exhibition of work made by female artists during a research project on identity and disability Time tbc £free Druid’s Arms DJ Tommy G Electro beats, indie and house tunes 10pm £free Duke Of Norfolk Lady Hola DJ plays funk, Motown, reggae and hip hop 9pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema Caesar Must Die 6.30pm £tbc Duke’s @ Komedia Robot & Frank 4pm/6.15pm/8.30pm £tbc; Hedwig And The Angry Inch 11pm £tbc Dukebox Theatre 12 Step Comedy Six stand-up comedians 8pm £5 Funfair Angel Funfair Dancefloor anthems from the Platinum Angels 9pm £7/5/free Funkyfish Thank Funk Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10.30pm £free Globe The Get Down! DJ night playing a mix of Motown, soul, blues, funk and swing 8pm £free Green Door Store Lindi Ortega, Zervas & Pepper Americana songstress 7.30pm £8 Door Store Electro Blues: Green Heymoonshaker, Nick Hollywood, Electro Blues DJs Remixed jukebox jump blues night with a live raw blues guitar and beatboxing duo 11pm £free H-Bar Scandalous Vs DeepSouth Electronic dance music vs melodic house Details tbc Haunt The Last Carnival Big and brash indie rock band 7pm £12/10; Gypsy Disco Eastern European circus freaks on the rampage 11pm £5/4 Hop Poles BreakinBear Dance music mash-ups 10pm £free Hope Ex-Easter Island Head, Luo, Crop Circles DJs, Faux Flux Experimental drone sounds from the Liverpool music collective 8pm £6/5; The Goodness Hip hop, funk and beats 9pm £free Komedia Bacalao Ten-piece salsa band 8pm £10; Krater Comedy Club: Susan Calman, Doc Brown, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy night 8pm £16.50/13.50 Latest Music Bar Tiny Dragons EP launch for funky rock band 8pm £3 Life Lunice, Hudson Mohawk 11pm £8/6 Lola Lo Tiki Beats Totally tropical tunes 8pm £5/4/3 Marlborough Theatre Boy In A Dress Autobiographical musings in cabaret form from La JohnJoseph 7.30pm £8.50/6.50 Mesmerist Shake, Holla & Roll Vintage blues, swing and rock&roll 9pm £free Mucky Duck Gold Chains No Brains A mix of carboot house, codeine krunk and chip shop hip hop 8pm £free North Laine Pub Soul Casserole A melting pot of red hot funk and soul 8pm £free Oceana Weekend Has Landed 10.30pm £6/free Old Market The Animals And Children Took To The Streets Immersive and subversive theatre show mixing live music and performance with films and animation 8pm £15/12 Prince Albert Wildcat Strike Live music 8pm £4 Proud Cabaret Speakeasy Burlesque night Time
tbc £34 Ranelagh Boss Caine Live Americana music 8.30pm £free Royal Pavilion Geraldine Pilgrim - Splendour Site-specific event inspired by the history and architecture of the Royal Pavilion 7pm/8pm/9pm £5/4 Sidewinder DJ Night 8pm £free Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Brighton Rocks: Jipsy Magic, Ellekaye, Joshua Gilbert, Joel Peter Live music 7pm £4; Eagles For Hands Old school hip hop tunes (in the bar) 9pm £free; Into The Void Metal night with more windmills than the Dutch lowlands 10.30pm £3/2 Theatre Royal The Rise And Fall Of Little Voice Comedy drama 7.45pm £10-32.50 Thomas Kemp Hot-Tip Hi-Fi DJ with a fine collection of vintage reggae and rocksteady records 8pm £free Three & Ten Unwrap Your Candy Doug Wright’s theatre piece inspired by Hitchcock, Roald Dahl and mental disorders 8pm £8.50/7 Tube Cross The crew behind TRASH put on a night of beats and bass 11pm £3 Verdict Brighton Jazz Club: Kit Downes Quartet Feautring Julian Siegel Live jazz 8pm £15/12 Volks Horizon Festival: D-Bridge, Kahn, Voytek, Kosine, ADHDJS, Alors Cors Drum&bass and dubstep night to launch the Bulgarian underground dance music festival 11pm £8/6
Saturday 9th
10 Below Nice 2 B Nice Noughties anthems 10pm £3/2/1 Audio Warehouse House and techno club night 11pm £5/free Basement Club Fusion: DJ Peter Castle, DJ Lee Harris Chart and club remixes 11pm £free Black Dove The Chop Source DJ plays latin grooves, Afro beats and tropical funk 8pm £free Black Lion Attic Monkeys Vs Molly Malone’s Dex In The City Funk, soul and hip hop DJ battle 8.30pm £free Blind Tiger Stay Sick!: The Bonnevilles Bands and DJs play garage, punk and rock&roll 9pm £3 Brunswick Lem & The White Fire, Jessica Mary York Soul pop band 8pm £5/4 Caroline Of Brunswick DJ Jody Lee Hooker Mod For It DJ plays alt rock classics Details tbc Coalition Tache Club Will you keep a stiff upper lip or will you tache and gurn? 11pm £5; Blow: Vince Manganaro, Charly Lopez, Charles Green The party never stops 3am £5 Concorde2 2ManyDJs, Bobby Tank, The James Kendall Reinventing how to spoil the broth all over again (this night has now sold out) 11pm £20 Corn Exchange UK Banff Mountain Film Festival Short films by and for mountain climbers and adventure sports nuts 7.30pm £13/11 Digital Blah Blah Blah: Mosca, Dusky, Paleman House DJ edging in the direction of dancehall 11pm £10/8 Doctor Brighton’s Sexy Saturday: DJ Tony B 9.30pm £free Dome Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Hollywood Blockbusters Musical highlights from fifty years of film scores 7.30pm £10-27.50 Dome Studio Consumed Play about the changing nature of China 7.30pm £12/10 Druid’s Arms Milestone Pianist plays boogie woogie and blues Time tbc £free Duke Of York’s Cinema Caesar Must Die 7.45pm £tbc Duke’s @ Komedia Robot & Frank 4pm/6.15pm/8.30pm £tbc Freemasons Saturday Night Disc Spinners DJ night 9pm £free Funfair Magic Dancefloor fillers from every era 9pm £7/5/free Funkyfish Oldschool Saturday Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10pm £6/5 Globe Upstairs At The Globe House and disco DJs 8pm £free Green Door Store The Lene Lovich Band, Das Fluff, DJ Cheesemaster Live music 7.30pm £13/12; Pop Not Pop Pop night with Dynamite Sal 11pm £free H-Bar Tech Noir: Tim Cullen, Nick Hook, Danny Chase, Pat Waller, Oleg Belshin, Corbi, Deano Pressure, Terry Waller DJs delve into the depths of tech 9pm £tbc Haunt Bouncing Souls, Cheap Girls, Luther Late 80s punk rockers from New Jersey 7pm £12; It Is Still 1985 Travel through time to an ancient realm where keytars are still pretty cool 11pm £3 Hope Joe Banfi, David McCaffrey Singer songwriter who they say sounds like Kurt Cobain 8pm £6 Komedia Krater Comedy Club: Susan Calman, Doc Brown, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy night 7pm/10.30pm £5-22; Mitch Benn - Reduced Circumstances Musical comedian often heard belting out topical numbers on Radio 4’s The Now Show 7.30pm £12/10
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Latest Music Bar Bat Country EP launch for Brighton-based indie folk rockers 8pm £5 Life XXY Chromosome clubbing from the #Hashtag DJs 11pm £5/3 Lola Lo Zombie Nation Where the dancefloor is never dead 8pm £10/7/6 Mesmerist Juke Joint Jamboree Rhythm & blues and rock&roll records from the days of the dance halls 9pm £free Mucky Duck Unhooked Generation Retro DJs with an ear for 60s Motown and northern soul 8pm £free Neighbourhood Dead Horse Vs Late Night DJ mash-up 8pm £tbc North Laine Pub Dr Bluegrass & The Illbilly 8 Brighton’s busiest buskers - country standards and pop covers put through the hillbilly thresher 7pm £free Oceana Weekend Has Landed 10.30pm £10/free Old Market The Animals And Children Took To The Streets Immersive and subversive theatre show mixing live music and performance with films and animation 3pm/8pm £15/12/10 Pav Tav Guerilla Rocks Club night for rock chicks, skater bois and indie kids 11pm £4/3/2 Prince Albert The Surfin’ Lungs Live music 8pm £tbc Proud Cabaret Le Chat Noir Classic cabaret and vintage Time tbc £44 Quadrant Big Saturday Night: Lateef Lovejoy, Sean McLauchlin, Mike Winters, Nik Coppin, Lenny Peters Stand-up comedy 8.30pm £7/6 Ranelagh Grizzly & The Grasshoppers Rootsy acoustic trio 8.30pm £free Red Lion DJ Gremlin’s Rockin Stompers 9pm £free Riki Tik Skatadays Reggae, rocksteady and vintage ska records 8pm £free Royal Pavilion Geraldine Pilgrim - Splendour Site-specific event inspired by the history and architecture of the Royal Pavilion 6.30pm/7.30pm/8.30pm/9.30pm £5/4 Sidewinder New Menu Launch Party Live music, DJs and magic tricks 6pm £free; DJ Night 8pm £free Smugglers Saturday Night Chart and club anthems - plus hip hop, R&B and pop 9pm £free Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Brighton Rocks: The Vinyls, The Art Club, Love Buzzard Live music 7pm £4; Kaleidoscope Eclectic proggy DJing from The Physics House Band (in the bar) 9pm £free; Night Sweats #3: Royal Blood, Broker, She Crazy, Eager Teeth, The Light Brigade Rock and punk bands 9pm £3; Back In The Day Acid house and piano dance music for those who remember the late 80s/early 90s and those who wish they’d been there 11pm £5/3 Theatre Royal The Rise And Fall Of Little Voice Comedy drama 2.30pm/7.45pm £10-32.50 Three & Ten Wil Hodgson - Kidnapped By Catwoman Chippenham’s cult storyteller recounts his geeky childhood in this confessional new show 8pm £8.50/7 Tube Fat Pops Saturdays The student indie night opens a weekend branch 11pm £4/3/2 Victory Soul Casserole - Soul Custody DJs A melting pot of hot funk beats and soul grooves 8pm £free Volks Electric Playboys: Featurecast Filthy electro, funk and drum&bass - with a big bass ghetto funk headliner 11pm £5
Sunday 10th
Basement Incontinental: Sick Festival Stories, songs and dance inspired by the age-old artistic muse of incontinence 8pm £10/8 Basement Club Pop!Candy DJ Claire Fuller plays pure non-stop pop 11pm £free Black Lion Live & Swingin’ Lion Live gypsy jazz, swing and blues 8pm £free Blind Tiger Hidden Orchestra, Calico, 2econdclass Edinburgh’s electronic jazz collective with duelling drumkits 8pm £12 Brunswick Ant Law Live jazz 8pm £8 Caroline Of Brunswick Express Yourself Live music, DJs and MCs (upstairs) 6pm £tbc Corn Exchange Coffee Concert Series: Modigliani Quartet Music by Beethoven and Ravel 11am £17.50/15 Duke Of York’s Cinema Outrage Beyond 4pm £tbc; Caesar Must Die 6.30pm £tbc Duke’s @ Komedia Acoustic Routes 1.30pm £tbc; Robot & Frank 4pm/6.15pm/8.30pm £tbc Fabrica Spring Craftaganza Alternative fair for handmade crafts and arty trinkets 10.30am £free Fountain Head Reggae & Roasts Reggae and chilled beats Time tbc £free Globe Handbaked Arcade Things were so much better in the 1990s when all we had was 64-bit games of Italian plumbers inexplicably racing against turtles and gorillas Noon £free Green Door Store King The Native Grunge pop band 7pm £free; Green Door Blues Big Itch DJs plus the resident blues band, Smokestack 10pm £free Haunt Tom Odell Singer songwriter from the BIMM
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stable (this show has now sold out) 7pm £tbc Hope Polly & The Billet Doux, Jennifer Left, Bella Spinks Bristol band described by The Sunday Times as “a harmonious blend of folk, rock, blues, soul and gospel” 8pm £6; Improvabananas DJs entertain with comical choices and audience requests (downstairs) Time tbc £free Komedia Krater Comedy Club: Susan Calman, Joe Lycett, Simon Donald, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy night 8pm £5-12 North Laine Pub Kings Mews Feelgood funk jazz from the eight-piece soul band 5pm £free Prince Albert Poino, Sweet Williams, Umlaut, DJ Future Proof Sex Beak Live music 8pm £6/5 Ranelagh Mike Ross Band Live blues rock 8.30pm £free Signalman Open Mic Open session hosted by local duo, Zoothyme 8pm £free Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Will & The People Live reggae 7pm £6 Victory Blues Sundays DJ plays blues and soul Noon £free
Monday 11th
Blind Tiger The Big Bop! Vintage tunes from the 40s, 50s and 60s 8pm £free Brunswick Open Mic 7.30pm £free Coalition Trash Mondays Filthy tunes for students and layabouts alike 11pm £3/2 Dome Studio SuperEverything The Light Surgeons and members of The Heritage Orchestra give a live audio visual performance with footage shot in Malaysia 8pm £15 Duke Of York’s Cinema Peppa Pig - Miss Rabbit’s Day Off & Other Stories 11am £tbc Duke’s @ Komedia Acoustic Routes 11am £tbc; Our Children: Sick Festival 6.30pm £tbc Green Door Store Vinyl Ain’t Dead DJs spin the black circle 11pm £3 Haunt Saint Vitus LA doom metal veterans 7pm £14; Fat Poppadaddys The student indie night moves to a new home 11pm £3/2/free Hop Poles Secret Garden Cinema 9pm £free Hope Live Sessions Live music (downstairs) 8pm £free Komedia Tom Baxter This show was originally on Oct 1st 2012, old tickets still valid 7pm £12.50 Latest Music Bar The Bell Jar: Nick Williams, Heart Of A Dog, Milly Hirst, The Knights, Lonesome Heights Candles, cake and some woozy blues folk from a singer songwriter who’s supported Ben Howard and Willy Mason 8pm £3 Life #Hashtag Funky house club with added Twitter confusion 10pm £3/2 Mesmerist Flash Mob Jazz Raucous jazz band 9pm £free Prince Albert Club Tic Tac 8pm £4/3 Signalman Signalman Pub Quiz 8pm £1 Theatre Royal Hormonal Housewives Comedy drama about women of a certain age, starring Margi Clarke 7.45pm £12-21 Volks Strictly Reggae Dancehall, roots, revival 11pm £5/4
Tuesday 12th
Above Audio Cottontail Club Big band and jitter jive tunes 9pm £free Audio OMG LOL Launch night for commercial house club Time tbc £1 Black Lion Open Mic Night Live music 8.30pm £free Blind Tiger Pink Narcissus Post punk exhibitionists 8pm £5 Brunswick Jazz Jam Open session with a house band and special guests 8pm £free Caroline Of Brunswick Skeptics In The Pub Panorama’s John Sweeney talks about the culture of fear and coercion inside the Church of Scientology 8pm £2; Open Mic Hosted by Mike Mcmichelson and Kev De Souza 8.30pm £free Corn Exchange Lawson Live music 7pm £14 Cube Cube Live: Matt Bonner Live music 8pm £free Digital CU Next Tuesday It’ll teach the universities to timetable lectures for Wednesday mornings 11pm £4/3 Duke Of Norfolk Open Mic 9pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema Les Miserables 11am £tbc Duke’s @ Komedia Peppa Pig - Miss Rabbit’s Day Off & Other Stories 11am £tbc; A Liar’s Autobiography 3D 6.30pm £tbc Fountain Head Student Night DJs play indie and rock 8pm £free Gladstone Quiz Night 8.30pm £1 Globe Basement Cinema Underground films, comfy seats and free popcorn 8pm £free Green Door Store The Alex Bay Band, Ed Prosek, The Common Tongues Live music 7pm £3;
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Donuts Hipster funk and hip hop gems 11pm £free Haunt Man Like Me Music to browse a furniture store to 7pm £7 Komedia Foy Vance Irish folk troubadour 7.30pm £11 Latest Music Bar Action For Happiness Self-help workshop and talks 7.30pm £free Life Salsa Brighton Salsa classes followed by dance party 8.30pm/11pm £6/4 Lola Lo Dirtee Laundry Student night 10pm £6/4/2 Prince Albert Thieves & Shadows, Fresh Like Dexie, The Monroes 8pm £4/3 Quadrant Open Mic Jam session hosted by Jenna Bennett 8.30pm £free Red Lion Challenging General Knowledge & Music Quiz 8pm £1 Sidewinder Open Mic Jam session with instruments provided 8.30pm £free Theatre Royal Harry Hill - Sausage Time Awkward character comedy 7.30pm £31 Three & Ten Racing Minds Improvised comedy quartet 7.30pm £8.50/7
Wednesday 13th
Above Audio Cookin Beats Hip hop with a side of order of funk and a sprinkling of reggae 8pm £free Audio After Dark Student house and bass night 11pm £3/2 Basement Club Mash Up Commercial house with DJ Lee Harris 11pm £free Black Lion East Brighton Rhythm Section Resident band plays dub, soul and hip hop 8.30pm £free Blind Tiger Access To Music Acoustic music from the college kids 8pm £free Caroline Of Brunswick Funny HaHa: Michael Legge Stand-up comedy night with Northern Ireland’s angriest funny man 8pm £5 Coalition CoCo LoCo Dancehall and dubstep music for students go to lose the plot to 10.30pm £5/3/1 Concorde2 BIMM End Of Term Party Music students perform in earnest 7.30pm £2 Digital Poundance Like a coin operated dancefloor 11pm £4/3/1 Dome Founders Room Ho Bina Singing and dancing for 2-4 year olds 10am £5 Dome Studio Seaming To, Kira Kira Live music 8pm £12/10 Druid’s Arms We Change The Tempo DJ set of international sounds 9pm £free Duke Of Beaufort Poker Night 8pm £5 Duke Of Norfolk Pub Quiz 9pm £1 Duke’s @ Komedia A Liar’s Autobiography 3D 11am £tbc Funfair Dirtee Angels Electro swing party 10.30pm £3/free Globe Move Pre Party Warm up for Life’s new underground dance music night 9pm £free Green Door Store Lastwind Psychedelic space rock punks 7pm £8; Indie Wednesdays Straight-up indie tunes 11pm £free Haunt Theme Park London indie band compared to Talking Heads and Bombay Bicycle Club 7pm £8.50; Supercharged Drum&bass and breaks 11pm £3/2 Hop Poles Secret Garden Cinema 9pm £free Iron Duke I Predict A Pop Quiz “A light hearted trip through the backstreets of pop trivia” 8pm £free Komedia Sam Carter Singer songwriter 8pm £12/10 Latest Music Bar James Robinson Singer songwriter who not only sounds a bit like Jamie Cullum but advertises himself as such (upstairs) 8pm £6/5; Tango Boot Camp Learn to tango like the Argentinians 8pm £3-8 Life Move Underground dance music club 11pm £4/3/2 Mesmerist The Swing Ninjas Gypsy swing band 9pm £free Mucky Duck Quiz On My Face “Quiz night with a difference” perhaps with a very special prize 7pm £1 North Laine Pub Quiz Kong 8pm £1 Oceana #Yolo! Dance, dubstep and drum&bass 10.30pm £5/3.50 Prince Albert Wreckless Eric, Amy Rigby Live music 8pm £8 Ranelagh Haunted: Annaca Catchy indie folk with great pop vocals 8.30pm £free Sallis Benney Theatre ASMAA: Sick Festival Film screening followed by a discussion about HIV 6pm £free Sidewinder Movie Night Showing films chosen by the audience via Facebook 8.30pm £free Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar I Am Arcade Playing retro video games is particularly exciting when it’s in a public place because it’s usually something you do in private, like cutting up old copies of the SOURCE to make masks of porn stars 8pm £free Theatre Royal Harry Hill - Sausage Time Awkward character comedy 7.30pm £31 Thomas Kemp Kev & Jenna’s Open Mic 9pm £free Tube Late Late night house club 2am £5/4/3
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Thursday 14th
Audio Bastard Pop Musical mash-up 11pm £3/free Basement Mad Gyms And Kitchens: Sick Festival Veteran performance artist offers a ‘wellness roadshow’ 5pm/9pm £10/8 Black Lion Strictly Business Funk and hip hop with DJ Blackbelt Jones 8.30pm £free Blind Tiger Afriganza!: Joe Driscoll & Sekou Kouyate Kora-based dance music duo 8pm £6 Brighton Centre Olivia Newton-John The girl that every greasy boy wanted to get physical with sets off on her first UK tour since 1978 7.30pm £45 Coalition Secret Discotheque Replaying the soundtrack to your youth 11pm £4/3/2 Concorde2 Johnny Marr The former Smith tours his new solo album (this show has now sold out) 7.30pm £tbc Druid’s Arms Overhead Wires Local label live music showcase 8.30pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema Argo 11am £tbc Duke’s @ Komedia Robot & Frank 11am £tbc Fountain Head Student Night DJs play indie and rock 8pm £free Freemasons Live & Wine Live music 8.30pm £free Funfair Bug’A’Boo Hip hop and R&B ladies’ night 10.30pm £3/2 George Payne Open Mic Jam session with instruments provided, in what used to be the Kendal Arms 8.30pm £free Globe Hang The DJ! A night of punter-picked playlists 9pm £free Green Door Store Lapalux Electronic music producer mixing up house, hip hop and R&B 7pm £6; Karaoke 11pm £free Greys Blair Dunlop, Carrivick Sisters Fairport Convention’s guitarist 8.30pm £10 Haunt Coconut College Thursday night party playing a right mix of stuff like Grimes, Smashing Pumpkins and Kayne West 11pm £3/2 Hope The Social Live acoustic music 8pm £free Iron Duke ID Goes Acoustic Live music 8pm £free Komedia Jim Moray Inventive folk singer songwriter 7.30pm £12; The Noise Next Door Comedy Lock-In Improv comedy troupe 8pm £19/10 Latest Music Bar Catalyst Club Guest speakers give a short talk about whatever their weird obsession is 8pm £5 Lola Lo Tom Foolery Electro, house and dubstep night 9pm £5/3 Lucky Voice Acoustic Open Mic 8pm £free Mesmerist John Crampton Foot-stomping blues explosion 9pm £free; King Size Slim Boogie blues 9pm £free Mucky Duck Open Mic Jam session with Joe Newman 9pm £free North Laine Pub Anna Sin & The Jukebox Bandits 50s skiffle band 8pm £free Oceana OMG Oh my god, it’s a club night for students! 10.30pm £3/free Preston Manor Hidden Histories - A Real Life Lady Chatterley? Hear about the shady privates lives of Edwardian ladies 11am/2pm £10/8 Prince Albert Along Came Shifty, Amy Lauren, A Couple Of Mums Live music 8pm £donation Proud Cabaret 50 Shades Of Cabaret Fetish cabaret for people who’d never thought of being kinky before reading that book 8pm £24 Ranelagh Shauna Parker & The Saloon Bar Band Country and swing band 8.30pm £free Riki Tik Big It Up! Resident DJs mine the golden era of dancehall and digital reggae 8pm £free Sallis Benney Theatre Breaking Taboos: Sick Festival Debate about the stigma of sickness 6pm £free; Pole Fitness And Porn ‘Empowerment’ Aestheticising The New Misogyny Philosophy seminar series Details tbc St James’ Tavern Bacon Fat Stay Sick DJs play 50s and 60s “R&R, R&B, tittyshakers and blues” 9pm £free Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Digo, TRAAMS, Caucasian Mountain Dog Lo-fi trash rock 9pm £tbc Theatre Royal The Russian State Ballet Of Siberia - La Fille Mal Gardee Classical ballet 7.45pm £13.50-37.50 Tube Late Late night house club 2am £5/4/3 Victory Open Mic 8pm £free Volks Roll Through Drum&bass and dubstep, bass and beatbox 11pm £2
Friday 15th
Above Audio Home House and disco DJs 9pm £free Audio Nowhere To Run The best of 60s Motown, soul and rock&roll 11pm £5 Basement Club Lady LaRue Cabaret is a drag sometimes 9pm £free Black Lion Stop Go! DJ Lanx plays funk, soul, mod,
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rock and indie 9pm £free Blind Tiger Afriganza!: London Afrobeat Collective, BassClef A weekend of live afrobeat music 8pm £6 Brunswick The Red Dirt Skinners, Delaney, The Long Goodbye Live music 8pm £6/5 Caroline Of Brunswick That’s a Hoe Down! DJ Jody Lee plays rhythm and blues, funk and northern soul 10pm £free Coach House Sunsets Over Whitehawk Live music 7.30pm £tbc Coalition BIMM End Of Term Showcase Music students perform in earnest 7pm £tbc; Friday I’m In Love No more lectures for a day or two 11pm £2-5 Concorde2 Irie Nation: Zion Trian Sound System With Perch & Dubadadda, Prince Fatty & Horseman, One Roots Live, Unity Hi-Fi, Dagger Sound System New reggae and roots night 11pm £2 Corn Exchange An Evening With Rich Hall Absurdist rapid-fire stand-up 8pm £15 Digital Stonelove Indie rock&roll club 11pm £4/3 Doctor Brighton’s Funky Friday: DJ Nick Hirst, DJ Wayne 9.30pm £free Dome Studio Dogs Don’t Do Ballet Musical comedy puppet show for kids 11.30am/2.30pm £7/5 Druid’s Arms Hot Pepper Sauce DJ I.D.G. plays old school funk, soul and house 10pm £free Duke Of Norfolk DJ MC Cashback DJ night 9pm £free Duke’s @ Komedia Miami Vice 11pm £tbc Duxebox Theatre Stanza And Deliver Poetry night with guest poets and an open mic slot 8pm £4.50/3 Funfair Angel Funfair Dancefloor anthems from the Platinum Angels 9pm £7/5/free Funkyfish Thank Funk Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10.30pm £free Globe The Get Down! DJ night playing a mix of Motown, soul, blues, funk and swing 8pm £free Green Door Store The Hundredth Anniversary Local indie band launches their new single 7pm £free; Donky Pitch: Lockah 11pm £free Haunt Breed 77 Gibraltar band mixing alt metal and flamenco 7pm £tbc; Wonder Yeahs Music from the 1990s 11pm £3 Hop Poles Arthur Shillin’ Electro swing mash-ups 10pm £free Hope Molly Nilsson, Meddicine, Van Stonholdt, Edible Arrangements Swedish synth pop 7pm £6; DJ Will Sumsuch Old school hip hop, funk and soul with cult movies on the big screen 9pm £free Komedia N.O.N.C.E. Steve Larkin’s one-man poetry show about how he ended up in the unlikely position of ‘poet-in-residence’ at a high security prison 8pm £10/7.50; Krater Comedy Club: John Moloney, Rudi Lickwood, Lucy Porter, Maff Brown Stand-up comedy night 8pm £16.50/13.50 Latest Music Bar The George Kypreos Band Greek bouzouki band 8.30pm £8/6 Life ENK 2nd Birthday Big bass birthday bash 11pm £4 Loft The Climbers, Pablo Contraband, Ben Monk 10.30pm £7; Disco Deviant: Climbers, Pablo Contraband, Ben Monk Disco, house and boogie 10.30pm £7 Lola Lo Tiki Beats Totally tropical tunes 8pm £5/4/3 Mesmerist Shake, Holla & Roll Vintage blues, swing and rock&roll 9pm £free Mucky Duck Fenus In Vurs DJ Eddie Goatman plays sounds of the 60s and early 70s 8pm £free North Laine Pub Beat Burger DJ plays soul, funk, hip hop and reggae (feel free to insert your own horse gag) 9pm £free Oceana Weekend Has Landed 10.30pm £6/free Old Market Who Says I’m Sick?: Sick Festival Pre-show debate about the social dimensions of mental illness 6.30pm £free; Parkin’son: Sick Festival Father and son come together through the medium of dance, providing insights about Parkinson’s disease along the way 8.30pm £10/8 Prince Albert DB Band, Classic Plastic Bongo rock featuring Mick Quinn from Supergrass 8pm £6 Proud Cabaret Masquerade Fancy dress club night with burlesque night Time tbc £34 Ranelagh BWC Live: Emberhoney Indie noir charity fundraiser 8.30pm £free Sidewinder DJ Night 8pm £free Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Brighton Rocks: The Denim, Chemical Smile, Classic Plastic, Grand Parade Live music 7pm £4; Dive Slow Hip hop and electronica from the BBC critic and DJ, Mike Diver (in the bar) 9pm £free; Reverb Bistro: Falla, DJ Geenee, Relapse, O.Pearls, MC Pinnikal, Oli Mac Club night serving up a mix of dubstep, hip hop, afrobeat and drum&bass 11pm £free Theatre Royal The Russian State Ballet & Orchestra Of Siberia - La Fille Mal Gardee Comic romantic ballet 7.45pm £13.50-37.50 Three & Ten Pros From Dover Comedy sketch show 8pm £8.50/7 Tube Cross The crew behind TRASH put on a night of beats and bass 11pm £3
Volks Originate: Storm, Tango, Lennie De Ice & Maddness, C4C Hardcore junglism 10pm £6
Saturday 16th
10 Below Dance Dance Dance: Kid Who, Pablo Contraband London producer DJ who co-founded the Baruva label 10pm £6/5/3 Audio Kilo Kish, The Internet Live music 7pm £12.50; Warehouse: Eliphino House and techno club night 11pm £5/free Basement Mental: Sick Festival Autobiographical performance piece by the ‘artist activist’ known as The Vacuum Cleaner - not to be confused with Hoover the ‘art hooligan’ from Spaced 4pm/6pm £10/6 Basement Club Fusion: DJ Peter Castle, DJ Lee Harris Chart and club remixes 11pm £free Belushi’s Below Apocalypse: DJ Lost, DJ Honcho Rock and the sort of metal that went by the name ‘nu’ 10pm £5/4 Black Lion Burnt Toast DJs play sleazy soul and dirty breaks 9pm £free Blind Tiger Afriganza!: Dele Sosimi, Bronzehead A weekend of live afrobeat music 8pm £7 Brunswick Vocademy Kids’ vocal showcase 1.30pm £tbc; Cabaret Evening Comedy, music, drag and burlesque 8pm £8 Caroline Of Brunswick All My Friends New dance music night with no attitude and no genres (upstairs) 8pm £free Coalition Old Yellow Bricks R&B, house and funky soul club 11pm £7/5; Blow: Vince Manganaro, Charly Lopez, Charles Green The party never stops 3am £5 Concorde2 Kings Of The Jungle 4th Birthday: Brockie, Micky Finn, Ray Keith, Bryan Gee, Bladerunner, MC Fearless, The Junglizm Cru, Lunarcy Soundsystem, The Freebass Crew Birthday bash for Brighton’s biggest jungle night 11pm £8 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; London Philharmonic Orchestra Music by Beethoven, Schumann and Elgar 7.30pm £32.50-10 Dome Founders Room Children’s Storytelling Playwright, Dvora Liberman, entertains the kids with interactive tales 10am £free Dome Studio A Pulso - Im-Pulse Physical theatre 6pm £8; A Pulso - In Transit Physical theatre 8pm £8 Druid’s Arms DJ Green Man’s Garden Of Delights A carefully cultivated set of soul, psychedelia, funk and pop 10pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema Met. Opera - Francesca da Rimini 4pm £tbc Freemasons Saturday Night Disc Spinners DJ night 9pm £free Funfair Magic Dancefloor fillers from every era 9pm £7/5/free Funkyfish Oldschool Saturday Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10pm £6/5 Globe Upstairs At The Globe House and disco DJs 8pm £free Good Companions Beginners Solo Charleston Workshop 11.30am £10 Green Door Store TST.X Two days of bands to mark the 10th birthday of local promoters, Tatty Seaside Town 2pm £10; Soulful Strut Russ Dewbury brings a new monthly funk,disco, Afro, electro jazz and soul night to the cobbles 11pm £free H-Bar Zulu Night Launch: My Digital Enemy, Jason Chance, Loui Flores, Ed Brumwell The Brighton label Zulu Records launch a new tech house night Details tbc Hampton Rollin’ Dynamite DJ Ratman plays rockabilly and rock&roll tunes 9pm £free Haunt Forestears Indie ska band 7pm £tbc; It Is Still 1985 Travel through time to an ancient realm where keytars are still pretty cool 11pm £3 Hop Poles Knead A Break DJ Mass Evil plays breaks, beats and bootlegs 10pm £free Hope The Black Fields, Wildflowers, Brian MacNamara Country blues band celebrates St Paddy’s day 8pm £8; Exhibit: DJ Murky Waters, LocustLung Hip hop, G funk and New York soul (downstairs) 9pm £free Hove Centre VegfestUk Brighton 2013 Two days of stalls, talks and great food - for those who prefer to live and let live (and their reluctant partners) 11am £free Komedia Krater Comedy Club: John Moloney, Lucy Porter, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy night 7pm/10.30pm £5-22; Spellbound “An 80s night for people who hate 80s nights” - Simon Price plays the alternative highlights of the decade 9pm £5/4 Life XXY Chromosome clubbing from the #Hashtag DJs 11pm £5/3 Lola Lo Zombie Nation Where the dancefloor is never dead 8pm £10/7/6 Mesmerist Juke Joint Jamboree Rhythm & blues and rock&roll records from the days of the dance halls 9pm £free Mucky Duck Ross Never Sleeps DJ set 8pm £free
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New Venture Theatre Wizzle And Mince Explore the work of playwright Jim Cartwright with readings, videos and discussion Time tbc £8/7 North Laine Pub Medium Rare DJs serve up a platter of semi-obscure funk and soul 9pm £free Oceana Weekend Has Landed 10.30pm £10/free Office The Chop Source DJ plays latin grooves, Afro beats and tropical funk 8pm £free Old Market Rent Jonathan Larson’s hit musical about New York bohemians 7.30pm £12/8 Preston Manor Haunted House Experience 7.30pm £30/25 Prince Albert Muncie Girls Live music 8pm £tbc Proud Cabaret Le Chat Noir Classic cabaret and vintage Time tbc £44 Quadrant Big Saturday Night: George Egg, Joe K, Mark Diamond, Darren Walsh, Lewis Bryan Standup comedy 8.30pm £7/6 Ranelagh East Brighton Rhythm Section Dub, soul and hip hop 8.30pm £free Riki Tik Skatadays Reggae, rocksteady and vintage ska records 8pm £free Rosehill Tavern Electro Sleaze DJ Peter von Sleaze plays electro swing, gypsy punk, burlesque beats and Steampunk vaudeville 8pm £free Royal Pavilion Familiar Faces, Hidden Places A tour of the Royal Pavilion estate, starting at the Dome Cafe 10am £20 Sidewinder DJ Night 8pm £free Smugglers Saturday Night Chart and club anthems - plus hip hop, R&B and pop 9pm £free Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar 2003 Indie music from the last ten years (in the bar) 9pm £free; Donuts Hipster funk and hip hop gems (in the club) 11pm £5/4 Theatre Royal The Russian State Ballet Of Siberia - Swan Lake Tchaikovsky’s romantic tragedy about a flock of birds endowed with the power to break people’s necks with their wings 2.30pm/7.45pm £13.5037.50 Three & Ten Pros From Dover Comedy sketch show 8pm £8.50/7 Tube Fat Pops Saturdays The student indie night opens a weekend branch 11pm £4/3/2 Unitarian Church Roddy Woomble The Idlewild singer now ploughing a folk furrow Noon £14; Cage Without Silence Radio Reverb presents a celebration of John Cage’s music - i.e. actual audible sounds 7.30pm £12/8 Victory Blue Jeynes DJs Casting the widest net possible by playing 60s rock and 90s hip hop 9pm £free Volks Erisian - We Are VII: Weasel Busters, Fexomat, Dub One, C3B, Hodge Podge Darkside drum&bass, hardcore rave and mutant jungle 10pm £9/7
Sunday 17th
Basement Club Pop!Candy DJ Claire Fuller plays pure non-stop pop 11pm £free Black Lion Live & Swingin’ Lion Live gypsy jazz, swing and blues 8pm £free Blind Tiger Afriganza!: Zimbaremabwe A weekend of live afrobeat music 7pm £5 Brunswick Vocademy Kids’ vocal showcase 1.30pm £tbc Concorde2 Claudia Brucken The front woman from 80s German avant pop group, Propaganda (this is a rescheduled show, old tickets are still valid) 7.30pm £18.50 Dome Studio A Pulso - The Sound Of Words Physical theatre 10am £12; A Pulso - Show Off Physical theatre for all ages 3pm £7; A Pulso - In Transit Physical theatre 7pm £8 Duke Of York’s Cinema The Spirit Of ‘45 Film screening and a satellite Q&A with director, Ken Loach 3pm £tbc Duke’s @ Komedia Sunday 11am £tbc; Gangs Of Wasseypur Parts 1 & 2 1.45pm £tbc Fountain Head Reggae & Roasts Reggae and chilled beats Time tbc £free Globe Handbaked Arcade Things were so much better in the 1990s when all we had was 64-bit games of Italian plumbers inexplicably racing against turtles and gorillas Noon £free Good Companions Learn To Dance In A Day! Lindy Hop workshop 12.30pm £10 Green Door Store TST.X Two days of bands to mark the 10th birthday of local promoters, Tatty Seaside Town 2pm £10; Green Door Blues Big Itch DJs plus the resident blues band, Smokestack 10pm £free Hope Improvabananas DJs entertain with comical choices and audience requests (downstairs) Time tbc £free Hove Centre VegfestUk Brighton 2013 Two days of stalls, talks and great food - for those who prefer to live and let live (and their reluctant partners) 11am £free Komedia My Mini Disco Clubbing for kids, with a dance instructor and face painting 2pm £8; Lisbee Stainton Folk pop singer 7.30pm £8; Krater Comedy Club: John Moloney, Danny Ward, Paul McCaffrey, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy night 8pm £5-12
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Latest Music Bar Joel Peters Live music Details tbc Lola Lo St Patrick’s Day Details tbc North Laine Pub St Patrick’s Day Live traditional music Time tbc £free Oceana St Patrick’s Day A celebration of the Irish saint who chased snakes out of Ireland, invented hurling and helped establish the Guinness brewery 10.30pm £tbc Prince Albert My First Tooth Live music 8pm £4 Ranelagh Simon Sparrow Band Live blues rock 8.30pm £free Signalman St Patrick’s Open Mic Knees Up Open session hosted by local duo, Zoothyme 8pm £free; Open Mic Open session hosted by local duo, Zoothyme 8pm £free Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Dead Harts, Black Dogs, Bleak Falls Hardcore metal and punk bands 7pm £5 Theatre Royal Hairy Bikers - Larger Than Live Anecdotes and cookery 7.45pm £25 Victory Blues Sundays St Patrick’s Special DJ plays blues and soul Noon £free
Monday 18th
10 Below Japeworm Comedy New comedy night 7.30pm £1 Audio Atomic - Fundraiser Bass night Details tbc Blind Tiger The Big Bop! Vintage tunes from the 40s, 50s and 60s 8pm £free Brunswick Open Mic 7.30pm £free Coalition Trash Mondays Filthy tunes for students and layabouts alike 11pm £3/2 Duke Of York’s Cinema Peppa Pig - Muddy Puddles & Other Stories 11am £tbc Duke’s @ Komedia Quartet 11am £tbc; Eyes Wide Open - The Garden 6.30pm £tbc Haunt Miss May I American metalcore band 7pm £10; Fat Poppadaddys The student indie night moves to a new home 11pm £3/2/free Hop Poles Secret Garden Cinema 9pm £free Hope Live Sessions Live music (downstairs) 8pm £free Komedia Rick Redbeard The main man from Glasgow’s The Phantom Band strikes out with a solo set of gravelly rural folk 8pm £7 Latest Music Bar Van Susans, Jipsy Magic, The Hundredth Anniversary, The Stars Down To Earth Live music 7.30pm £5 Life #Hashtag Funky house club with added Twitter confusion 10pm £3/2 Mesmerist Flash Mob Jazz Raucous jazz band 9pm £free Signalman Signalman Pub Quiz 8pm £1 Victory Some Dark Hollow Extra Old time tunes and lonesome laments hosted by Ewan D Rodgers 8pm £free Volks Strictly Reggae Dancehall, roots, revival 11pm £5/4
Tuesday 19th
Above Audio Cottontail Club Big band and jitter jive tunes 9pm £free Audio OMG LOL Commercial house club Time tbc £3/1 Black Lion Open Mic Night Live music 8.30pm £free Blind Tiger Healing Sounds Live music 8pm £tbc Brunswick Jazz Jam Open session with a house band and special guests 8pm £free Caroline Of Brunswick Open Mic Hosted by Mike Mcmichelson and Kev De Souza 8.30pm £free Concorde2 Cody Chesnutt The modern soul troubadour comes to town 7pm £15 Cube Cube Live: Matt Bonner Live music 8pm £free Digital CU Next Tuesday It’ll teach the universities to timetable lectures for Wednesday mornings 11pm £4/3 Dome Studio Sussex Salon Series This month’s topic is the future of the European Union 8pm £6.50/4 Duke Of Norfolk Open Mic 9pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema Quartet 11am £tbc Duke’s @ Komedia Peppa Pig - Champion Daddy Pig & Other Stories 11am £tbc; Bullhead 6.30pm £tbc Fountain Head Student Night DJs play indie and rock 8pm £free Gladstone Quiz Night 8.30pm £1 Globe Basement Cinema Underground films, comfy seats and free popcorn 8pm £free Green Door Store Fiction Young indie hopefuls who’ve already garnered the mandatory comparisons to Talking Heads and XTC 7pm £7; Donuts Hipster funk and hip hop gems 11pm £free Komedia Palace: Facta, K-Lone, C beats, Shift K3y, Random P, General Roots New student night with house DJs, live hip hop and AV displays Time tbc £3/2 Latest Music Bar Cafe Scientifique Let’s talk about science, baby - this time it’s the sexy subject of
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coastal management 7.30pm £free Life Salsa Brighton Salsa classes followed by dance party 8.30pm/11pm £6/4 Lola Lo Dirtee Laundry Student night 10pm £6/4/2 Marlborough Theatre Gargantua Performance, animation and puppetry vaudeville show 8pm £6/5 Prince Albert The Smokin’ Aces, No One Man, Jetpack Elastic Live music 8pm £4/3 Quadrant The Trident Open mic night for trying out new material 8pm £free Red Lion Challenging General Knowledge & Music Quiz 8pm £1 Sidewinder Open Mic Jam session with instruments provided 8.30pm £free St George’s Inn Pub Quiz 8pm £1 Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Filthy Gig Dog Live music 8pm £7/6 Three & Ten Cockroach Five students and their teacher attempt to continue as normal in the middle of a huge war 8pm £8.50/7
Wednesday 20th
Above Audio Cookin Beats Hip hop with a side of order of funk and a sprinkling of reggae 8pm £free Audio After Dark Student house and bass night 11pm £3/2 Basement Club Mash Up Commercial house with DJ Lee Harris 11pm £free Black Lion East Brighton Rhythm Section Resident band plays dub, soul and hip hop 8.30pm £free Brighton Centre The Script Irish indie rockers 6.30pm £29.50 Brunswick Brunswick Showcase: Kimberley Anne, Russell Swallow, The Wolf Live music 8pm £tbc Coalition CoCo LoCo Dancehall and dubstep music for students go to lose the plot to 10.30pm £5/3/1 Concorde2 Stornaway The Oxford indie band promote their second album 7.30pm £13 Corn Exchange Just As We Are Dance theatre from Ben Wright’s bgroup 8pm £15/12.50/7.50 Cowley Club Loup, Aqua Dentata, Hákarl, Occult Hand, DJ Future Proof Sex Beak Free jazz noiseniks from France 8pm £4 Digital Poundance Like a coin operated dancefloor 11pm £4/3/1 Dome Studio Money The Game Show Playful and political interactive game show hosted by two hedge fund managers turned performance artists 7.30pm £12/10 Druid’s Arms We Change The Tempo DJ set of international sounds 9pm £free Duke Of Beaufort Poker Night 8pm £5; Quiz Bingo 9pm £1 Duke Of Norfolk Pub Quiz 9pm £1 Duke’s @ Komedia Bullhead 11am £tbc Funfair Dirtee Angels Electro swing party 10.30pm £3/free Gladstone Access To Music Live music from the college kids 7pm £free Globe Move Pre Party Warm up for Life’s new underground dance music night 9pm £free Good Companions The Heat Death, West Hill Blast Quartet Scandinavian improv jazzers 8pm £6/5 Green Door Store The Great Escape Local Launch Don’t worry, it doesn’t actually start for another two months 7pm £free; Indie Wednesdays Straight-up indie tunes 11pm £free Haunt Supercharged Drum&bass and breaks 11pm £3/2 Hop Poles Secret Garden Cinema 9pm £free Hope Tiny Ruins, Fiona Sally Miller New Zealand singer songwriter 7.30pm £3 Iron Duke I Predict A Pop Quiz “A light hearted trip through the backstreets of pop trivia” 8pm £free Komedia Mark Thomas - Manifesto The stand-up activist does a warm-up show in preparation for a new radio series 7.30pm £10/8; Culture With Kenyatta Hill Jamaican reggae band 8pm £15/12.50 Latest Music Bar Tango Boot Camp Learn to tango like the Argentinians 8pm £3-8; Reverb Live! Live music 8.30pm £3 Life Move Underground dance music club 11pm £4/3/2 Marlborough Theatre The Happy Clap Trap “A warm-hearted razzmatazz of absurdist turns” 8pm £5/4 Mesmerist The Swing Ninjas Gypsy swing band 9pm £free Mucky Duck Quiz On My Face “Quiz night with a difference” perhaps with a very special prize 7pm £1 North Laine Pub Quiz Kong 8pm £1 Oceana #Yolo! Dance, dubstep and drum&bass 10.30pm £5/3.50 Old Market iOpen Even literary spoken word nights aren’t above propagating the advertising meme of putting a lower case i at the start of a word 7.30pm £free Prince Albert Monocure Synth punk horror rockers 8pm £4 Sidewinder Movie Night Showing films chosen by the audience via Facebook 8.30pm £free
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Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Dumb And Dumber Film Quiz Pub quiz with questions about “the most awesome of movies” and also Dumb And Dumber (in the bar) 8pm £1; Riots Not Diets: Divorce, Roseanne Barrr, Sealings Riot grrrl night with lo-fi punk bands 8pm £5 Thomas Kemp Kev & Jenna’s Open Mic 9pm £free Three & Ten Cockroach Five students and their teacher attempt to continue as normal in the middle of a huge war 8pm £8.50/7 Tube Late Late night house club 2am £5/4/3
Thursday 21st
Audio Bastard Pop Musical mash-up 11pm £3/free Black Lion Matt Rose & The Tin Cup Collective Live funk soul band 8.30pm £free Blind Tiger Dub Organiser Jam session with a dub reggae band 8pm £3/free Brighton Museum Too Late? Brighton Museum takes an alternative late look at climate change and the ice age 7pm £5/4 Brunswick Arthur & The Irrational, Paul Diello, Alan Bonner Live music 8pm £5 Coalition Secret Discotheque Replaying the soundtrack to your youth 11pm £4/3/2 Concorde2 Dreadzone Dub and hip hop fusion 7.30pm £16 Dome Studio Money The Game Show Playful and political interactive game show hosted by two hedge fund managers turned performance artists 7.30pm £12/10 Druid’s Arms Overhead Wires: One Bright Life, Echo & The Beats, Oh Captain Local label live music showcase 8.30pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema NT Live - People 7pm £tbc Fountain Head Student Night DJs play indie and rock 8pm £free Freemasons Live & Wine Live music 8.30pm £free Funfair Bug’A’Boo Hip hop and R&B ladies’ night 10.30pm £3/2 George Payne Open Mic Jam session with instruments provided, in what used to be the Kendal Arms 8.30pm £free Globe Hang The DJ! A night of punter-picked playlists 9pm £free Green Door Store Die! Die! Die! Noisy New Zealand pop punk 7.30pm £10/8; Back Off Glitch, grime and garage - if it’s electronic they’ll play it 11pm £free Greys Dean Owens Scottish singer songwriter 8.30pm £10 Haunt Simon McBride Belfast guitarist 7pm £12.50; Coconut College Thursday night party playing a right mix of stuff like Grimes, Smashing Pumpkins and Kayne West 11pm £3/2 Hope The Social Live acoustic music 8pm £free Komedia Mari Wilson - The Beehive & Me Musical memoir from the 80s pop singer with the 60s look 8pm £15/12.50; 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 Wellsbourne Society The author of the ‘Cheeky Guide To Brighton’ hosts a discussion and film night dedicated to the history and folklore of the city 8pm £5 Lola Lo Tom Foolery Electro, house and dubstep night 9pm £5/3 Lucky Voice Acoustic Open Mic 8pm £free Marlborough Theatre Al Lewis Album launch for Welsh singer songwriter 10pm £6 Mucky Duck Open Mic Jam session with Joe Newman 9pm £free Nightingale Theatre Firecracker Youth Theatre - Work In Progress Extracts and scenes by contemporary playwrights 7.30pm £5 North Laine Pub Matt Rose & The Tin Cup Collective Live funk soul band 8.30pm £free Oceana OMG Oh my god, it’s a club night for students! 10.30pm £3/free Prince Albert Stars Down To Earth, Words Without Readers, TheEvilSon Indie rock band with a heavy-hearted majestic sound 8pm £4/3; Mr B The Gentleman Rhymer, Dream Themes Novelty banjolele ditties from the chap-hop chap 8pm £6.50 Proud Cabaret 50 Shades Of Cabaret Fetish cabaret for people who’d never thought of being kinky before reading that book 8pm £24 Quadrant Regional Dialect: Zia Ahmed You don’t have to have a regional accent to be a poet, but it helps 7.30pm £4/3 Ranelagh Pocket Size Bluegrass band 8.30pm £free Riki Tik Big It Up! Resident DJs mine the golden era of dancehall and digital reggae 8pm £free Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Dead Whisky, Alamein’s Torch, Rotait Live alt country and rock&roll 9pm £5 Three & Ten Cockroach Five students and their teacher attempt to continue as normal in the middle of a huge war 8pm £8.50/7
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Friday 22nd
Above Audio Home House and disco DJs 9pm £free Audio Schtumm!: Waifs & Strays, Forresst Disco and underground house club 11pm £8 Basement Club Lady LaRue Cabaret is a drag sometimes 9pm £free Black Lion Medium Rare DJs serve up a platter of semi-obscure funk and soul 9pm £free Blind Tiger Half Crown Live music 7pm £3/2; Ye Ye Fever Afrobeat afterparty for African Night Fever at the Dome 10.30pm £3 Caroline Of Brunswick DJ Jody Lee Hooker Mod For It DJ plays alt rock classics 9pm £free Coach House The March Hare Experimental crossover between artists and musicians 7.30pm £donation Coalition Friday I’m In Love No more lectures for a day or two 11pm £2-5 Concorde2 Gabrielle Aplin Multi-instrumentalist singer songwriter - as seen on the interweb (this show has now sold out) 7pm £tbc; Craig Charles’ Funk And Soul Show, The Cuban Brothers, Soul Casserole DJs, Beatwell, Sir Funk Live music 11pm £10 Digital Stonelove Indie rock&roll club 11pm £4/3 Doctor Brighton’s Funky Friday: DJ Nick Hirst, DJ Wayne 9.30pm £free Dome Jack Dee What makes a comedian return to stand-up after an absence of six years? “I want to spend less time with my family,” says Jack 8pm £21 Dome Studio African Night Fever African music night featuring Ghanaian Afro funk band KonKoma 8pm £10 Druid’s Arms DJ Tommy G Electro beats, indie and house tunes 10pm £free Duke Of Norfolk Lady Lola DJ plays funk, Motown, reggae and hip hop 9pm £free Funfair Angel Funfair Dancefloor anthems from the Platinum Angels 9pm £7/5/free Funkyfish Thank Funk Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10.30pm £free Globe The Get Down! DJ night playing a mix of Motown, soul, blues, funk and swing 8pm £free Green Door Store The Travelling Band Live music 7.30pm £7.50; Sound Dance Bhangra, afrobeat and Persian pop 11pm £free H-Bar March Of The Penguins: Jamie Bawn, Danny Williams, Audio Villains Deep house with a hint of disco Details tbc Haunt Cancer Bats, Brutality Will Prevail, Empress Toronto hardcore punk 7pm £10 Hop Poles Knead A Break DJ Mass Evil plays breaks, beats and bootlegs 10pm £free Hope Waxing Lyrical: Chill Pill Collective, Anthony Anaxagarou, Frankie Stew, Harvey Gunn, Deanna Rodger Brand new spoken word night 7pm £5/4; The E.M.E., DJ J-Felix Eight-piece band incorporating jazz, hip hop, funk and general festival vibes (downstairs) 9pm £free Komedia Krater Comedy Club: Barry Castagnola, Daliso Chaponda, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy night 8pm £16.50/13.50; Born Bad Vintage rockabilly for pompadour cats and polka dot kittens 11pm £6/5 Latest Music Bar Speaky Spokey Literary cabaret with poetry, short stories and music 8pm £5; The Treason Show Topical songs and sketches from the long-running local comedy show 8pm £12.50 Life AkaAkaRoar!: Blawan, Dense, Pika 11pm £6 Lola Lo Tiki Beats Totally tropical tunes 8pm £5/4/3 Marlborough Theatre The LipSinkers Transvestite pop romp 8pm £10/8 Mesmerist Shake, Holla & Roll Vintage blues, swing and rock&roll 9pm £free Mucky Duck DJ Machall The Czech hip hop DJ 9pm £free Nightingale Theatre Firecracker Youth Theatre - Work In Progress Extracts and scenes by contemporary playwrights 7.30pm £5 North Laine Pub Dave Crozier Rockabilly DJ 9pm £free Oceana Weekend Has Landed 10.30pm £6/free Prince Albert The Derellas, The Witchdoktors, Thee Sherbert Peardrop Explosion Live music 8pm £5 Proud Cabaret Speakeasy Burlesque night Time tbc £34 Ranelagh Rose Devine & The Devilles Country music 8.30pm £free Sidewinder DJ Night 8pm £free Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Brighton Rocks: Galleons, Nick Williams Surefooted country pop 7pm £4; Mlisr Vs Songs For The Deaf 90s rock and Britpop tunes (in the bar) 9pm £free; Bug Beats, bass, techno and electro house 11pm £free Three & Ten Cockroach Five students and their
teacher attempt to continue as normal in the middle of a huge war 8pm £8.50/7 Tube Cross The crew behind TRASH put on a night of beats and bass 11pm £3 Verdict Brighton Jazz Club: Kevin Flanagan’s Riprap Quartet Live jazz 8pm £14/12 Volks Brighton Loves Jungle: Ricky Force, Warped Dynamics, Pastaman, Biggsy & Axiomatt Jungle night 11pm £6/4
Saturday 23rd
10 Below Chemical Play: Soul Of Man, House Of Dice DJs, Searchlight House and deep bass DJs 10pm £5/3 All Saints Church Brighton Orpheus Choir The choir performs Fauré’s Requiem and Vaughan Williams’ The Pilgrim’s Journey 7.30pm £12/6 Audio Warehouse: Squarehead, KRL House and techno club night 11pm £5/free Basement Club Fusion: DJ Peter Castle, DJ Lee Harris Chart and club remixes 11pm £free Black Lion Attic Monkeys Vs Stop Go!’s DJ Lanx Soul, funk, hip hop, ska, rock and indie - as long as it’s on vinyl they’ll play it 8.30pm £free Blind Tiger Womankind: Greymatter, Hana Piranha, Screama Ballerina, Simonne And The Dark Stars Female fronted pop and punk rock bands raise money for the charity, Womankind Worldwide 6.30pm £7/5; Zen Hussies, Spanner Jazz Punx Foot-stomping heavy brass swing band 10pm £5/4 Brighton Museum Biba Believers A day of events and activities to celebrate Biba, the 60s fashion store 11am £tbc Brunswick Real Music Club: Redbus Noface, Local Girls, Hall Of Strangers, LSD-25 Live music fundraiser for Tim Smith of the Cardiacs 8pm £7/6 Caroline Of Brunswick The Outer Church Live music and weird noises (upstairs) 9pm £tbc Coach House The March Hare Experimental crossover between artists and musicians 5pm/7pm £donation Coalition Pump Up The Jam Reviving the longburied bodies of 90s house and pop ‘classics’ 11pm £5; Blow: Vince Manganaro, Charly Lopez, Charles Green The party never stops 3am £5 Concorde2 Nazareth Scottish band still touring after 40 years of hard rockin’ 7pm £20; Kung Fu Live hip hop night 11pm £7/5/3 Digital Free The Beats Because locking them in a four-to-the-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 Druid’s Arms Decades DJ plays 60s psych, indie, punk and electro 10pm £free Duke Of Norfolk Indie Night DJ night 9pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema The Perfect 10 With Phil & Phill 9.30pm £tbc Freemasons Saturday Night Disc Spinners DJ night 9pm £free Funfair Magic Dancefloor fillers from every era 9pm £7/5/free Funkyfish Oldschool Saturday Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10pm £6/5 Globe Upstairs At The Globe House and disco DJs 8pm £free Green Door Store Ancient Ascendant Full metal racket 7pm £5 H-Bar Badhabit: Slipmatt, DJ Curious, Christopher Ross, Lee Gardner, Aaron Carter, Grant Bungey Jungle, drum&bass and tech house Details tbc Haunt It Is Still 1985 Travel through time to an ancient realm where keytars are still pretty cool 11pm £3 Hop Poles Hop To The Beat DJs play hip hop and R&B 9pm £free Hope Brighton Unsigned Local music mag presents a night of live music 7.30pm £4; Exhibit: DJ Murky Waters, LocustLung Hip hop, G funk and New York soul (downstairs) 9pm £free Komedia Krater Comedy Club: Barry Castagnola, Daliso Chaponda, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy night 7pm/10.30pm £5-22 Life XXY Chromosome clubbing from the #Hashtag DJs 11pm £5/3 Lola Lo Zombie Nation Where the dancefloor is never dead 8pm £10/7/6 Mesmerist Juke Joint Jamboree Rhythm & blues and rock&roll records from the days of the dance halls 9pm £free Mucky Duck Blonde On Blonde ‘Fraid not lads, it’s a DJ playing 60s psyche and soul records 9pm £free North Laine Pub Soul Casserole A melting pot of red hot funk and soul 8pm £free Oceana Weekend Has Landed 10.30pm £10/free Old Market Terry Garoghan - The Devil Keeps Tugging New show from the man responsible for the affectionate musical piss-take, ‘Brighton The Musical’ 8pm £10 Old Ship Hotel Murder Mystery Dinner Theatre All
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the fun of crime and violence without any of the inconvenience of being arrested or dead - followed by a disco 7pm £tbc Prince Albert The Barbacans, Stay Sick DJs Italian garage punk band 8pm £tbc Proud Cabaret Pop Kraft Pop tunes and cheeky cabaret with Boogaloo Stu and crew 10.30pm £8/6 Quadrant Big Saturday Night: Darius Showjoy, Bobby Mair, George Casavetti, Sarfah Iles, Sajeela Kershi Stand-up comedy 8.30pm £7/6 Riki Tik Skatadays Reggae, rocksteady and vintage ska records 8pm £free Sidewinder DJ Night 8pm £free Smugglers Saturday Night Chart and club anthems - plus hip hop, R&B and pop 9pm £free Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Brighton Rocks: Glass Sines, Strange Cages, Karlek Live music 7pm £4; Bitter Disko DJ plays mutant funk, post punk funk and dark acid grooves (in the bar) 9pm £free; Stick It On This is a night with a difference - one in which you become the DJ! An iPod is all you need to make your musical journey. YOU decide which requests to take, which classics to play and which self-indulgent B-sides to risk 11pm £5 Three & Ten Off The Cuff Audience-seeded jokes made up on the spot 8pm £8.50/7 Tube Fat Pops Saturdays The student indie night opens a weekend branch 11pm £4/3/2 Victory DJ Rob Taylor Soul, rock and alt pop 9pm £free A.M.C., Shimon, Loko, High Volks Kaos: Maintenance, Six Blade, D Double U, Kronical, Threts & Invasion, Lotskee, Aljmex, Kilo, Rootz, Rivalize, Haynzee, Dirty Buziness, Mark One, Chatem, Kerizma, Legacy, Serotone Drum&bass night 10pm £7/5
Sunday 24th
Basement Club Pop!Candy DJ Claire Fuller plays pure non-stop pop 11pm £free Black Lion Live & Swingin’ Lion Live gypsy jazz, swing and blues 8pm £free Brighton Centre Brighton Records & CD Fair For those who still savor the thrill of the chase 9.30am £2 Brunswick Saxshop Sax workers blow hard on their horns 1.30pm £5; Ukulele Jam It tastes sweet but a little woody 3pm £5; Cabaret Evening Comedy, music, drag and burlesque 8pm £8 Concorde2 The Selecter Ska legend returns to the fray with a ten-piece band including Pauline Black and Gaps Hendrickson 7.30pm £15 Cowley Club Colin Webster & Mark Holub, Andrew Clare & Jason Williams & Dan Palmer, Noteherder & Mccloud, Hereharehere, DJ Future Proof Sex Beak 8pm £5 Dome Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra Music by Stravinsky and Ravel 2.45pm £9-32 Dome Studio Clare Summerskill - Well That Explains It All! Comedy show about sexual orientation 7.30pm £14/10 Fountain Head Reggae & Roasts Reggae and chilled beats Time tbc £free Globe Handbaked Arcade Things were so much better in the 1990s when all we had was 64-bit games of Italian plumbers inexplicably racing against turtles and gorillas Noon £free Green Door Store Kid Congo & The Pink Monkeybirds, Querelles, Stay Sick DJs Live music 7pm £10; Green Door Blues Big Itch DJs plus the resident blues band, Smokestack 10pm £free Hope Improvabananas DJs entertain with comical choices and audience requests (downstairs) Time tbc £free Hotel Pelirocco Ace Stories: Hannah Vincent, Simonne And The Dark Stars Live literature event with readings and talks with authors 6pm £5 Komedia The Sundae Club Kids’ event with workshops, games and dancing 10.30am £8.50/6.50; Krater Comedy Club: Rich Wilson, Daliso Chaponda, Danny Mcloughlin, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy night 8pm £5-12 North Laine Pub Splatch Funk fusion band 4pm £free Old Market Scratch Sessions New writers try out ten minute plays, poems or whatever 3pm £1 Prince Albert Soul Sisters Review 8pm £tbc Ranelagh Vaughan Again Stevie Ray tribute act 8.30pm £free Signalman Open Mic Open session hosted by local duo, Zoothyme 8pm £free Three & Ten Emily Baker Soulful singer songwriter 7.30pm £8/6 Victory Blues Sundays DJ plays blues and soul Noon £free
Monday 25th
Blind Tiger The Big Bop! Vintage tunes from the 40s, 50s and 60s 8pm £free
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Brunswick Open Mic 7.30pm £free Coalition Trash Mondays Filthy tunes for students and layabouts alike 11pm £3/2 Concorde2 Bastille Electro pop band fronted by producer, Dan Smith (this show has now sold out) 7pm £10 Dome Eels Indie rock band touring their 10th album 7pm £23.50 Green Door Store Bahamas 60s-styled Canadian guitarist 7pm £8 Greys Cathryn Craig, Brian Willoughby Brit Americana with the guitarist from The Strawbs 8.30pm £10 Haunt Fat Poppadaddys Student indie night 11pm £3/2/free Hop Poles Secret Garden Cinema 9pm £free Hope Live Sessions Live music (downstairs) 8pm £free Life #Hashtag Funky house club with added Twitter confusion 10pm £3/2 Mesmerist Flash Mob Jazz Raucous jazz band 9pm £free Prince Albert June Paik, Me, Goliath And Warwolf Live music 8pm £4/3 Signalman Signalman Pub Quiz 8pm £1 Theatre Royal Marti Pellow He will feel you with his fingers, he will feel you with his toes 7.30pm £33.50 Victory Poetry Night Live poetry readings 8pm £free Volks Strictly Reggae Dancehall, roots, revival 11pm £5/4
Tuesday 26th
Above Audio Cottontail Club Big band and jitter jive tunes 9pm £free Audio OMG LOL Commercial house club Time tbc £3/1 Black Lion Open Mic Night Live music 8.30pm £free Brunswick Jazz Jam Open session with a house band and special guests 8pm £free Caroline Of Brunswick Open Mic Hosted by Mike Mcmichelson and Kev De Souza 8.30pm £free Cube Cube Live: Matt Bonner Live music 8pm £free Digital CU Next Tuesday It’ll teach the universities to timetable lectures for Wednesday mornings 11pm £4/3 Dome Skunk Anansie 90s funkish rockers 7pm £24 Duke Of Norfolk Open Mic 9pm £free Fountain Head Student Night DJs play indie and rock 8pm £free Gladstone Quiz Night 8.30pm £1 Globe Basement Cinema Underground films, comfy seats and free popcorn 8pm £free Green Door Store Donuts Hipster funk and hip hop gems 11pm £free Haunt Willy Moon New Zealand singer mixing a 50s yuppie look with a 90s fashion shoot look 7pm £9.50 Hope Retro Stefson Icelandic alt pop band 7.30pm £6/5 Life Salsa Brighton Salsa classes followed by dance party 8.30pm/11pm £6/4 Lola Lo Dirtee Laundry Student night 10pm £6/4/2 Marlborough Theatre Rae Morris, James Bay Young singer songwriter from Blackpool 8pm £7 Oceana Maundy Thursday Mash-Up 10.30pm £3/ free Old Market The Drawing Circus - Spring Sprawl Themed drop-in life drawing session 7pm £5 Prince Albert Maschin, Shrine, Last Heir Live music 8pm £4/3 Quadrant Open Mic Jam session hosted by Jenna Bennett 8.30pm £free Red Lion Challenging General Knowledge & Music Quiz 8pm £1 Sallis Benney Theatre Ethics, Evil, Violence The Cases Of Torture And War Workshop Philosophy and politics conference 10am £40/10 Sidewinder Open Mic Jam session with instruments provided 8.30pm £free Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar United Ghosts Live music 8pm £tbc
Wednesday 27th
Above Audio Cookin Beats Hip hop with a side of order of funk and a sprinkling of reggae 8pm £free Audio After Dark Student house and bass night 11pm £3/2 Basement Club Mash Up Commercial house with DJ Lee Harris 11pm £free Black Lion Matt Rose & The Tin Cup Collective Live funk soul band 8.30pm £free Caroline Of Brunswick Art & Chat Artists talk and show off their work 7.30pm £free Coalition CoCo LoCo Dancehall and dubstep music for students go to lose the plot to 10.30pm £5/3/1 Concorde2 World Rub A Dub Masters: U Roy, Yellowman, General Trees, Little Twitch, King Stur Gav, Volcano Hi Power Sound System Reggae soundclash 8pm £18
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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 Beaufort Poker Night 8pm £5; Quiz Bingo 9pm £1 Duke Of Norfolk Pub Quiz 9pm £1 Funfair Dirtee Angels Electro swing party 10.30pm £3/free Globe Move Pre Party Warm up for Life’s new underground dance music night 9pm £free Green Door Store Charlie Bickers, Abi Wade Live music 7pm £free; Indie Wednesdays Straight-up indie tunes 11pm £free Haunt Chapel Club London synthpop band 7pm £tbc; Supercharged Drum&bass and breaks 11pm £3/2 Hop Poles Secret Garden Cinema 9pm £free Iron Duke I Predict A Pop Quiz “A light hearted trip through the backstreets of pop trivia” 8pm £free Komedia John Smith Devon folk singer with a percussive guitar style that’s more inventive than his name 7.30pm £8 Latest Music Bar Ben Poole Blues guitarist Details tbc; Tango Boot Camp Learn to tango like the Argentinians 8pm £3-8 Life Move Underground dance music club 11pm £4/3/2 Mesmerist The Swing Ninjas Gypsy swing band 9pm £free Mucky Duck Quiz On My Face “Quiz night with a difference” perhaps with a very special prize 7pm £1; Overhead Wires: Kokopelli, Kate Williams, Annika Brown And The Deep, Paul Murray Singer songwriter night 8pm £free North Laine Pub Quiz Kong 8pm £1 Oceana #Yolo! Dance, dubstep and drum&bass 10.30pm £5/3.50 Old Market Craftaganza Live Contemporary arts and craft night with guest speakers 7.30pm £free Prince Albert Orden Mundial, Obediencia Live music 8pm £tbc Pull And Pump Off The Cuff Acoustic Session: Amy Hill, Flooding Rivers, Oh. Captain, Hayley Savage, Jake Mackay Live acoustic music 8pm £free Sidewinder Movie Night Showing films chosen by the audience via Facebook 8.30pm £free Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar I Am Arcade Playing retro video games is particularly exciting when it’s in a public place because it’s usually something you do in private, like bathing in a tub of plastic dust produced by taking a rotary sander to a souvenir of the queen 8pm £free; Oh Captive, As It Is, River Jumpers, Summerslam 88, We The Isles Pop punk 8pm £2 Thomas Kemp Kev & Jenna’s Open Mic 9pm £free Tube Late Late night house club 2am £5/4/3
Thursday 28th
Audio Bastard Pop Musical mash-up 11pm £3/free Black Lion Soul Casserole A melting pot of hot funk beats and soul grooves 9pm £free Blind Tiger MO’FRO: Kalakuta Millionaires, Son Guarachado, DJ Russ Dewbury Funky afrobeat bands 8pm £5/3 Brunswick Bouncing Into Spring Concert: Bob Hillary & The Massive Mellow, The Undercover Hippy Live music 8pm £6 Coalition Secret Discotheque Replaying the soundtrack to your youth 11pm £4/3/2 Concorde2 La Roux The electro popper returns with a “warm and sexy” new direction 7pm £12; Blah Blah Blah Easter Bonanza: Maya Jane Coles, Huxley, Blah Blah Blah DJs 11pm £tbc Cortlands Hotel A Land Of Wild Nature And Wild Prospects - From Heartache To Hope In The National Park A lecture by South Downs chief, Phil Belden 2pm £3/free Digital Carl Cox, Russell Small, Jon Rundell, Steve Mac, Andy Mac 9pm £tbc Dome Studio SOURCE New Music Brighton’s best bands chosen by Brighton’s best listings mag 8pm £4 Druid’s Arms The Druids Folk Live folk music 9pm £free Duke’s @ Komedia ROH - The Adventures Of Alice In Wonderland 7.15pm £tbc Fountain Head Student Night DJs play indie and rock 8pm £free Freemasons Live & Wine Live music 8.30pm £free Funfair Bug’A’Boo Hip hop and R&B ladies’ night 10.30pm £3/2 George Payne Open Mic Jam session with instruments provided, in what used to be the Kendal Arms 8.30pm £free Globe Hang The DJ! A night of punter-picked playlists 9pm £free Green Door Store The Stone Angels Full metal racket 7pm £3; Sleepless +1 Live bands and DJs 11pm £free Haunt Bo Ningen Heavy psych fuzz from Japan via
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London 7pm £8; Coconut College Thursday night party playing a right mix of stuff like Grimes, Smashing Pumpkins and Kayne West 11pm £3/2 Hope Communion Live music 8pm £5; The Social Live acoustic music 8pm £free Komedia Comic Boom: Elis James Stand-up comedy 8pm £9/7/5 Latest Music Bar Denise Black’s Loose Screw 7.30pm £8/6 Lola Lo Tom Foolery Electro, house and dubstep night 9pm £5/3 Lucky Voice Acoustic Open Mic 8pm £free Mesmerist Bat Kat Boppers & Hollerin Stollar Retro rock&roll band 9pm £free Mucky Duck Open Mic Jam session with Joe Newman 9pm £free North Laine Pub East Brighton Rhythm Section Funk, soul and reggae band 8.30pm £free Oceana OMG Oh my god, it’s a club night for students! 10.30pm £3/free Old Market Miniclick: Alma Haser, Natasha Caruana Photography presentation and talk 7pm £free Ouch Bar Electro Sleaze DJ Peter von Sleaze plays electro swing, gypsy punk, burlesque beats and steampunk vaudeville 10pm £free Prince Albert Sea Bastard, Trollkraft Doom rock 8pm £5 Proud Cabaret 50 Shades Of Cabaret Fetish cabaret for people who’d never thought of being kinky before reading that book 8pm £24 Ranelagh The Orange Circus Live bluegrass 8.30pm £free Redroaster Pighog: Judith Cair, Nicholas Murray, William Palmer Poetry readings Details tbc Riki Tik Big It Up! Resident DJs mine the golden era of dancehall and digital reggae 8pm £free Sidewinder Songs From The Canyon Acoustic sessions 8pm £free Signalman Signalman Easter Real Ale Festival Real ales from local breweries and live music from local bands Time tbc £free St James’ Tavern Bacon Fat Stay Sick DJs play 50s and 60s “R&R, R&B, tittyshakers and blues” 9pm £free Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Bongo Fury, Fjokra Live music 8pm £free Tube Late Late night house club 2am £5/4/3 Victory Open Mic 8pm £free Volks Roll Through: Heny G, Southbound Hangers, MC Raff Drum&bass and dubstep, bass and beatbox 11pm £4/3/2
Friday 29th
10 Below Just For The Funk Of It Funky club night 10pm £4/3 Above Audio Opening Terrace Party 4pm £free; Home House and disco DJs 9pm £free Audio Justin Martin Time tbc £12/10/8 Basement Club Lady LaRue Cabaret is a drag sometimes 9pm £free Black Lion Good Friday Tag Team Resident DJs give each other a slap on the back 9pm £free Blind Tiger We Spies, Animal Language, Girlfriend, Lion Bark Live music 7pm £free; Backbeat Soundsystem, They Say Jump, Atlantiks Eight-piece reggae funk band 10pm £5 Caroline Of Brunswick Casual Violence! And Friends Sketch group and stand-ups 7.30pm £donation; DJ Jody Lee Hooker Mod For It DJ plays alt rock classics 9pm £free Coalition Dragonette, The Special Ks, Frida Sundemo Canadian electro band 7pm £9; Friday I’m In Love No more lectures for a day or two 11pm £2-5 Concorde2 Dub Pistols, Rodney P High-energy hip hop ska band 11pm £3/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 Resident DJs 10pm £free Duke Of Norfolk DJ MC Cashback DJ night 9pm £free Duke’s @ Komedia ROH - Nabucco 7.15pm £tbc Dukebox Theatre Two Halves Of Guinness One man show about the life and work of Alec Guinness 8pm £5 Funfair Angel Funfair Dancefloor anthems from the Platinum Angels 9pm £7/5/free Funkyfish Thank Funk Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10.30pm £free Globe The Get Down! DJ night playing a mix of Motown, soul, blues, funk and swing 8pm £free Green Door Store New St Adventure Time tbc £4; Ye Ye Fever Funky afrobeat clubnight 11pm £free H-Bar Reckless Dance music club 9pm £4/3 Hare & Hounds Deep Roots: Nation’s Vibration, Roots Garden, Daddy Noddy, Natty, Kings Hi-Fi Reggae night 10pm £5 Haunt Battlejam: Ed Solo & JFB 11pm £7/5 Hop Poles The Mobile Disco 10pm £free
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Hope English Sporting Defeat Guitar-led indie pop with a post punk edge 8pm £4; Soul Casserole A melting pot of hot funk beats and soul grooves (downstairs) 9pm £free Komedia Krater Comedy Club: Pete Johansson, Jeff Innocent, Steve Shanyaski, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy night 8pm £16.50/13.50; Alan Francis Expands Scottish comedian rails against the modern world 8pm £9/7 Latest Music Bar Tom Hannay Live music Details tbc Life Jail Bait Reunion The naughty 90s night is back for one last rifle through the music of your youth 11pm £2 Lola Lo Tiki Beats Totally tropical tunes 8pm £5/4/3 Mesmerist Shake, Holla & Roll Vintage blues, swing and rock&roll 9pm £free Mucky Duck Hot-Tip Hi-Fi DJ with a fine collection of vintage reggae and rocksteady records 8pm £free Neighbourhood Motel Pop Up Garden Party Pre-club DJing in a ‘town centre urban oasis’ 5pm £tbc Oceana Weekend Has Landed 10.30pm £6/free Palmeira Glossary, Austin Lucas, Sam Barrett Tennessee country rockers, just signed by Xtra Mile 8pm £9 Prince Albert Hi Jack Stories, Siglo 21 Live music 8pm £4 Proud Cabaret Speakeasy Bank Holiday Special Burlesque night Time tbc £34 Ranelagh The Will Johns Band Blues rock 8.30pm £free Sidewinder DJ Night 8pm £free Signalman Signalman Easter Real Ale Festival Real ales from local breweries and live music from local bands Time tbc £free Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Sub Bop Down and dirty grunge night with added shoegaze (in the bar) 9pm £free; Late Night Lingerie Two night of nu grunge bands rocking through the small hours 11pm £5/3 Three & Ten Rabbit In The Headlights Stand-up comedy night hosted by Angela Barnes 8pm £6.50/5.50 Tube Cross The crew behind TRASH put on a night of beats and bass 11pm £3 Volks Conception: Easy Groove, Ramos, Timeless & Mystery, Kosine, Voytek, Disrupta & A1 Old school, jungle and acid house 11pm £8/6
Saturday 30th
10 Below On The Beach Nick the Record joins Darren Murphy and Sam Moffett 10.30pm £5 Audio Warehouse: Oneman House and techno club night 11pm £5/free Basement Club Fusion: DJ Peter Castle, DJ Lee Harris Chart and club remixes 11pm £free Belushi’s Below Thunderstruck Stadium and classic rock club 10pm £5 Black Lion Burnt Toast DJs play sleazy soul and dirty breaks 9pm £free Blind Tiger Fragile Creatures, Garden Heart Guitar pop band 7pm £3; Prince Fatty, Jabbawocky Hi-Fi New residency for the dub reggae producer 10.30pm £7/5 Brighton Centre Alfi Boe, Emilia Mitiku English tenor singer 6.30pm £25-47.50 Brighton Town Hall The April Fool’s Weekend Lecture With Dr Bramwell Brighton’s cheeky historian gives an illustrated talk about the influence of famous tricksters and pranksters 7.30pm £7 Brunswick Fake Bush Musical homage to Kate 8pm £tbc Caroline Of Brunswick Rock Karaoke Singing so delightful “the horrifying screams will haunt your soul for eternity” 9pm £free; Release The Bats New club night playing the dark of the 80s - don’t request Wham or you may be brushed aside by a clenched fist in a cut-off studded glove 10pm £2 Coalition SLS (Sounds Like Saturday) 11pm £7/5; Blow: Vince Manganaro, Charly Lopez, Charles Green The party never stops 3am £5 Concorde2 Brighton Rumble Rockin Show: Charlie Thompson, Pine Top Boys Rockabilly bands and DJs 8pm £8 Digital Saturday Rox Progressive and uplifting house anthems 11pm £7/5 Doctor Brighton’s Sexy Saturday: DJ Tony B 9.30pm £free Dome Wallace & Gromit’s Musical Marvels Music from the films including Mozart, Debussy and Stravinsky - plus some new animations 2.30pm/7pm £15-35 Dome Studio Rumpelstiltskin Music, puppetry and storytelling Noon/3pm £7/5 Druid’s Arms Druids Open Decks Get in touch with the pub if you fancy spinning some tunes 10pm £free Dukebox Theatre Two Halves Of Guinness One man show about the life and work of Alec Guinness 8pm £5 Freemasons Easter Weekend DJ Set 9pm £free Funfair Magic Dancefloor fillers from every era 9pm £7/5/free Funkyfish Oldschool Saturday Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10pm £6/5
Green Door Store Bob Log III, Mudlow, Stay Sick DJs Blues punk from the mystery human cannonball 7pm £10; The Big Itch Back to basics rock&roll 11pm £free H-Bar J00F With John 00 Fleming Trance music album launch 9pm £5 Haunt Mok Energetic dance-rock band with hip hop vocals and pop hooks 7pm £tbc; It Is Still 1985 Travel through time to an ancient realm where keytars are still pretty cool 11pm £3 Hop Poles Bank Holiday Weekender: House Party Vs Wedding Reception 10pm £free Hope This Modern Youth Moddish rock&roll band from Coventry 8pm £4 Hope DJ Will Sumsuch Old school hip hop, funk and soul with cult movies on the big screen 9pm £free Komedia Krater Comedy Club: Pete Johansson, Jeff Innocent, Steve Shanyaski, Stephen Grant Standup comedy night 7pm/10.30pm £5-22; Funny Women - Brighton Nights Comedy competition 8pm £10/8; Mod For It Northern soul, Motown, 60s garage, new wave and ska 11pm £5/4 Life XXY Chromosome clubbing from the #Hashtag DJs 11pm £5/3 Loft Rock Of Ages In the beginning was the riff. Then came the horned finger salute, shortly followed by the legs-apart head-down battle stance. This is the history of metal 10pm £5 Lola Lo Zombie Nation Where the dancefloor is never dead 8pm £10/7/6 Mesmerist Juke Joint Jamboree Rhythm & blues and rock&roll records from the days of the dance halls 9pm £free Mucky Duck Soul Casserole A melting pot of red hot funk and soul 9pm £free North Laine Pub Beat Burger DJ plays soul, funk, hip hop and reggae (feel free to insert your own horse gag) 9pm £free Oceana Weekend Has Landed 10.30pm £10/free Old Market Alive & Swinging Marilyn Monroe finds heaven a bore so she hooks up with Elvis and Amy Winehouse for one last night of swinging 9pm £15 Phoenix Gallery Art Junky Arty indoor market 11am £1/free Prince Albert Rawk Vs Thrash: Meansteed, Crypsis, Driven, Schisse Minnelli Metal bands fight it out in a “battle to the deaf” 8pm £5 Proud Cabaret Le Chat Noir Classic cabaret and vintage Time tbc £44 Quadrant Big Saturday Night: Pete Johansson, Ola, Thanyia Moore, Stephen Thomas, Sajeela Kershi Stand-up comedy 8.30pm £7/6 Riki Tik Skatadays Reggae, rocksteady and vintage ska records 8pm £free Sidewinder DJ Night 8pm £free Signalman Signalman Easter Real Ale Festival Real ales from local breweries and live music from local bands Time tbc £free Smugglers Saturday Night Chart and club anthems - plus hip hop, R&B and pop 9pm £free Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Cassette Town Criers Beatnik electronica 7pm £tbc; Late Night Lingerie Two night of nu grunge bands rocking through the small hours 11pm £5/3 Tube Fat Pops Saturdays The student indie night opens a weekend branch 11pm £4/3/2 Victory Soul Casserole’s Dumani & Peter Dred DJs A melting pot of hot funk beats and soul grooves 9pm £free Volks Evolution Drum&bass night 10pm £tbc
Sunday 31st
Above Audio Warehouse Residents Day Party 4pm £free Audio Enzo Siffredi & Friends Minimal house music Details tbc Black Lion Vinyl Vetarans Bank Holiday All Dayer: Foly, Southpaw, OMC, DJ Format, Tipster, Rob Life, Bobby Boucher, Mac McRaw, Scratchy Muffin, Matt The Hat Raw soul, heavy funk and classic hip hop 3pm £free Blind Tiger Louis Barabbas And The Bedlam Six, Sweet Sweet Lies ‘Lyric-driven dirt swing’ from the cabaret jive band 8pm £4/3 Brunswick Brighton Craft Alliance Craft fair Noon £free; Terry Pack Quartet Live jazz 8pm £tbc Coalition Kitchen Pass House and hip hop party 10.30pm £5 Corn Exchange Herbie Flowers’ Jazz Breakfast Celebrated bassist smears your toast with his jazz 11am £6.50 Digital Koan Sound 11pm £free Duke Of Norfolk Live Music Night Live music from local artists 8pm £free Fountain Head Reggae & Roasts Reggae and chilled beats Time tbc £free Gladstone Bank Holiday All Dayer Live bands and DJs Time tbc £free Globe Easter Sunday All Dayer: 10 David, Ye Ye
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ExhibitionS
BRIGHTON MUSEUM & ART GALLERY Biba And Beyond: Barbara Hulanicki Fashion and photography exhibition Until Apr 14th; Shoot The Wrx Retrospective of the post-war avant garde artist and film-maker, Jeff Keen Until Apr 21th HOTEL PELIROCCO Brainchild Iconoclastic scupltures made from toys and nostalgic detritus by the artist known as Uzi Until Mar 20th HOVE MUSEUM & ART GALLERY Daydreams And Diaries - The Story Of Jacqueline Wilson Learn about the characters and working practises of the best-selling children’s author Until Apr 30th JUBILEE LIBRARY 13 Women Artwork by 13 women (and now men too) to mark International Women’s Day Mar 1st - 15th; French Mottershed Photography exhibition depicting the mini dramas and everyday events that happen around Brighton Until Mar 10th NEUE FROTH KUNSTHALLE **** Three-part exhibition in a pop-up gallery on Queens Road curated by Kate Lyddon and Alex Bowen Until Mar 3rd and Mar 16th 31st NO WALLS GALLERY If It Doesn’t Make Sense, That’s Fine Solo exhibition by Jim McElvaney Until Mar 3rd PHOENIX GALLERY 32 Paintings This exhibition attempts to explain why people paint pictures when it’s so much easier and more fashionable to be a conceptual artist Until Mar 24th PRINCE REGENT GALLERY Charlotte, The Forgotten Princess Exhibition about the daughter of George IV who would’ve beaten Queen Vic to the throne if she’d not died at age 21 Until Mar 10th ROYAL PAVILION The Lost Pagodas An installation by Geraldine Pilgrim replacing some fancy Regency pagodas that now stand in Buckingham Palace Until Apr 2nd SPACE @ CREATE Flore Cast Two day exhibition of photos to mark the launch of a new skateboarding magazine Mar 1st - 2nd; Henrik Purienne - What Do You Say To Them That’s So Fucking Funny? Fashion photographer with a talent for making models laugh Mar 7th - 24th UNIVERSITY GALLERY 170 Seconds, In-Transition Student exhibition Until Mar 5th; 170 Seconds, Face To Face Student exhibition Mar 15th - 22nd
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Six Of The Best
Afrobeat Words By Leo Piggott And Sam Telford Illustration By Sam Telford
Everyone likes the idea of afrobeat but very few of us know where to start in this mysterious genre. So we asked Leo Piggott and Sam Telford of Ye Ye Fever to give us a quick lesson before the Afriganza! festival. “These sounds partially represent the hotbed of musical activity surrounding Nigeria and Ghana from the 60s to the 80s”, they explain. “Check out a mix of these tracks at mixcloud.com/YeYeFever and enjoy!”
African Brothers Dance Band ‘Ebi Te Yie’
An outstanding Ghanian band led by P.S.K. Ampadu, whose joyous and often wild vocals lead a call and response of incredible harmonies. He also heads the three-guitar interplay, as they casually throw around cycling, reverby melodies that swirl around your head – a compelling element of highlife music from the area. The drums are jazzier than some other bands of the time and the way this works with the layers of polyrhythms from the percussionists creates a tremendous energy.
Sir Victor Uwaifo & His Melody Maestros ‘Obodo Eyo (Ekassa 12)’
A musician, writer, sculptor and musical instrument inventor, it seems Uwaifo has succeeded at everything by sheer will of his personality. Though he began as a highlife musician, he embraced many styles and as they passed in and out of fashion. He made sure to stamp each with his ebullient vocals, guitar and (later on) synths. This joyful tune is from his classic early 70s period.
Fela Kuti ‘Yellow Fever’
Fela Kuti was a Nigerian saxophonist, pianist and bandleader. He was also a musical and political revolutionary who – along with his drummer Tony Allen – is widely credited with inventing the afrobeat genre, mixing African rhythms, jazz and funk. ‘Yellow Fever’ encapsulates their musical vision perfectly. Allen’s masterful
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drums slip around the indomitable pulse, alongside hypnotic funk guitars, pumping basslines and stabbed horn riffs. Fela pours out ferocious piano and sax solos before launching into an impassioned diatribe against the practice of African people lightening their skin.
Ebo Taylor
‘Love & Death’
A true giant of Ghanian music, Ebo mixes his country’s traditional musical and lyrical themes with highlife, funk and jazz to create his own unique take on the afrobeat sound. This track has it all – a killer head blasted out by the horns, a rhythm that you can’t help but dance to, that beautiful, vintage electric piano sound, Taylor’s signature subtle and choppy guitar lines and a chorus of singers with a heartfelt and dark allegory on love. The entire sound evokes sweaty dance parties in balmy Ghana nights.
T.P. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo
‘Unité Africaine’
On any given day our favourite tune by this legendary Beninese band could be a number of different songs, but this one is doing it right now. Also it seems fitting to choose one composed by band leader and founder Melome Clement, since he passed away late in 2012. Is it afrobeat, afro-latin, disco? It’s all of these things! It begins with a monumental horn stab into a filigree of lead guitar, a silky riff and then in comes the spacey synth and groove. 18 glorious minutes follow.
Dele Abiodun
‘Ori Gbe Wa De Bi ‘Re’
This deep and funky track draws you in with the groove and charismatic thwack of the talking drum, a chief instrument for Nigerian juju artists like Dele Abiodun. In ‘Ori Gbe...’ he takes the form to a whole other space. The sound is strangely timeless, as ripples CLUB NIGHTS: Tempo No Tempo at The and bursts of synths or whistles play Mesmerist Sat 16th; Ye Ye Fever at Green with the raw percussive instruments. Door Store, Fri 29th His slide guitar style defies belief, using FESTIVAL: Afriganza!, Blind Tiger Club long moments of tension, odd rhythms Thurs 14th-Sun 17th (see News) and eerie melodies as the bass emerges to a popping, disco-y flurry.
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