Brighton SOURCE May 2011

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THE FESTIVAL ISSUE

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volume 2. Issue 33 MAY 2011

Dark Horses ride the lightning

THE FESTIVAL ISSUE

HOLY VESSELS - SEE GIG PREVIEWS

vote for a great party Yes, sure, we bang on about this a lot, but it’s time to vote again. Get down to your polling station on Thursday 5th and pick a councillor you think might look after the things you love in these choppy times. Not sure who that is? No, to be honest, us neither – but electing a little anti-Coalition buffer zone might help. Just something to think about. And when, at the same time, you’ve registered your views on Alternative Vote you get to go and party with a clear conscience that you’ve done your job as a citizen of this city. And what a party we’re going to have.

The Great Escape is, well, great – and even if you haven’t managed to get a ticket you can still get into a lot of the Alternative Escape events. The Brighton Festival is a bit trickier without having sorted your entry already (the best stuff goes quickly), but double check with the box office as tickets often get returned.

The Fringe meanwhile…well, you could go to 20 things every day and still not make a dent in it (though your sanity might suffer). What a city we live in – aren’t you glad you took the time to vote to protect it?

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Contents

News/New In Town 4 Gig Previews 6 Interview: Dark Horses 12 Club Previews 14 Club Review: Witch!

20 Club Review: Teen Creeps 22 Critic 24 26 Preview: The Great Escape 30 Preview: Alternative Escape 32 Preview: Brighton Festival 34 Preview: Brighton Fringe 36 Preview: Artists Open Houses 38 Preview: UK Festivals 46 Art: House Of Curiositea SOURCE Virgins: 48 Never Been Beaten Up 50 Street Style 52 Consume: Dollydagger Unsung Hero: Andrew Comben 54 56 Secret Eater: The Bath Arms In Conversation With: 58 House/Artists Open Houses Listings 60 Six Of The Best: Festival Performances 78

MADE IN BRIGHTON •

We’re all about the homegrown here at SOURCE, and a red dot next to an artist, event or label indicates they’re proper local heroes you can be proud of.

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NEWS

WORDS BY MATT BARKER, NICK COQUET, JESSICA MARSHALL MCHATTIE, BILL ROBINSON

all hail the ale

Ale, lager, cider and stout: the four cornerstones of British heritage. It used to be that real ale was the reserve of chunky knitwear beardos, but times have changed. On Thursday 14th to Sunday 17th of July Brighton Beer Festival is bringing over 250 top quality brews to The Old Paddling Pool, along with great live bands, games and live radio broadcasts for your entertainment.

Even if beer’s not your poison there’s something for everyone here – hell, they’re even serving cocktails.

wake up BRIGHTON

STICK YOUR OAR IN

Considering at its heart it’s a load of slightly mad people flailing around the West Pier, Paddle Round The Pier has done well to become the largest annual free beach festival in Europe.

Crammed with showcases of up and coming musical talent, extreme sports demos and family entertainment, this year it hopes to attract over 50,000 visitors and raise £1m for charity.

This may be the only chance you’ll get to see a plane, iceberg or wild west wagon haphazardly ‘racing’ round the West Pier so get down to Hove Lawns on July 2nd and 3rd.

victory tastes like pie MOUND WOUND DOWN Fed up yet with having cultural events shoved at you from all directions? Think again – this is the kind of festival that will appeal to even the most curmudgeonly fellow and another one for the enthusiastic tipple sampler. Featuring a delightful array of ales from local breweries such as Arundel, Whites and WJ King, and a delicious selection of pies from festival-favourite Pieminister, the Victory Inn is taking the time to celebrate the Best Of British on Sunday 1st, without a royal face in sight.

PARADING ONCE MORE

Electric Soft Parade and Brakes luminaries Alex and Thomas White’s first (notable) outfit are “getting the band back together” to play some of their much loved back catalogue. By some, we actually mean all. Literally. ESP have been playing every single song they ever wrote, album by album, for the last two months at the Prince Albert. This month (on the 25th) they’re doing their last full album, ‘No Need To Be Downhearted’, and then next month (June 29th) they’re doing the rather exciting bonus package, including a load of rarities and unreleased material.

enable your cable

Hove Lagoon has long been the place in town for watersports (outside of the specialist clubs, of course), and they’ve just stepped up a gear with the introduction of Wake Up Brighton, the south coast’s first cable wake park. If you don’t know cable wakeboarding, you’re basically towed at 20mph by a cable in a continuous ride without being dropped in the drink or letting go of the handle, as you show off doing sweet jumps and tricks and stuff. You can rent all the gear you need there and also do beginners’ courses – go to wakeupbrighton.co.uk and start leaping in and out of the water.

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As seems to be the way when community gardens take shape, The Mound, close to the Earth & Stars pub, has received an eviction notice. It had lain derelict for 14 years until it was lovingly transformed into community space for growing food, composting and as a general family hangout, and the organisers are currently on bailiff-watch, seeking to save it from closure. If you’re annoyed at this latest clampdown on community spirit, why not email your MP Caroline Lucas about it, at caroline.lucas.mp@ parliament.uk.

SCREAM 2

Scream Studios, in Enterprise Point just off Lewes Road, has been struggling to stay afloat recently, but Access To Music Brighton, the government-funded music college, has taken over.

They’re promising a major refurb with new facilities, free recording and rehearsal time, a dedicated learning space with iMacs running Reason, Logic and other music software, plus a new recording studio coming soon. Go to myspace.com/ atmrehearsal for more information.

DO THE CHARLESTON

The 22nd annual Charleston Festival is a literary celebration bringing together high profile authors and workshops for aspiring writers in the beautiful grounds of Lewes’ Charleston House. From Friday 20th to Sunday 29th the line-up runs from heavyweight novelists, historians and global adventurers, including big hitters like PD James, Melvyn Bragg and Paul Theroux. With a very diverse set of topics, there’s bound to be one that appeals, and it’s worth the trip to see the beautiful grounds of Charleston House anyway.

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GIG PREVIEWS WORDS BY MATT BARKER, NICK COQUET, JAKE CUNNINGHAM, BEN GILBERT, STEVE CLEMENTS, LIAM LIDBITTER, STUART HUGGETT, BILL ROBINSON

ALOE BLACC

Concorde 2 Mon 2nd

LA’s Stone’s Throw label – run by legendary producer/DJ/crate digger Peanut Butter Wolf – have of late been carving themselves a niche as the 21st century Motown, being, as they are, home to several of the best young soul voices since Berry Gordy’s heyday. Aloe Blacc is one such voice. On first listen to his ‘Good Times‘ album, you’d swear blind that you’d discovered a longlost, classic Otis Redding LP. Truly wonderful, and a rare appearance this side of the Atlantic. (MB)

GONJASUFI

Jam Mon 2nd

Californian yoga teacher-cum-singer Sumach Ecks had labelmate Flying Lotus help in the production of his 2010 psychedelic hip hop album ‘A Sufi And A Killer’, which was met with much acclaim. Making trip hop with the emphasis on the word trip, the unpronounceable Gonjasomethingorother has been prevalent in the San Diego hip hop scene since the mid 90s. And he’s playing a few festivals this summer, including Bangface, so this gig at Jam is a good chance to see him and possibly be sober enough to remember afterwards. (BR)

THE HIGH LLAMAS Komedia Weds 4th

High Llamas shows come around once in a blue moon, such is the extremely relaxed work rate of Sean O’Hagan and friends.

Formerly the melodic foil to the acerbic Cathal Coughlan in Microdisney, O’Hagan has spent the past 20 years expanding his instrumental talents across numerous High Llamas albums, the group often travelling in tandem with like-minded retro futurists Stereolab. The High Llamas’ leisurely blend of lush symphonic pop and simmering analogue tones makes for some rather gorgeous entertainment. (SH)

HOLY VESSELS • Green Door Store Thurs 5th

Holy Vessels have been bothering our radar for some time now, with headliner-killing slots at Communion amongst others, and a

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batch of demos cut with one-time Agitator and Maccabees producer Iain Harvie. Theirs is a transatlantic take on so-called nu folk, lying more in the camps of countrified, foot-stomping rock’n’roll and floorboard rattling hoe-downs than any wetblanket balladry. Front man Frank sits neatly alongside someone like Elvis Costello – a wild-west dancehall Cockney with a penchant for poetics. Support comes from the gobsmacking Filthy Boy. (MB)

14 ICED BEARS •

Prince Albert Sun 8th

Blimey, here’s a surprise. Rob Sekula’s 14 Iced Bears released a string of classic indie pop singles in the late 80s (notably the infectious ‘Come Get Me’ – one of the first and very finest Sarah Records 7”s), picked up a couple of Peel sessions, got progressively more psychedelic, then dropped off the map altogether. And now, apropos of nothing in particular, they’re back with a hometown gig – in our book, this is far more exciting than any Stone Roses reunion. (SH)

MIKE & THE MECHANICS Brighton Centre Thurs 12th

If Phil Collins is just a bit too racey for your tastes, you’ll find solace in the musical Mogadon of Mike Rutherford, his Genesis cohort and, bewilderingly, poor second-place charisma rival. 10 million worldwide record sales since 1984 prove the public are, on the whole, content to put up with anything dolloped in front of them, as the clunking dead dad sentiment of slop like ‘The Living Years’ attests. Never a venue renowned for its atmosphere, tonight the Centre will be an actual rib-crushing vacuum. (NC)

ADAM ANT

Concorde 2 Mon 16th

Adam Ant’s last trip to a UK seaside town ended in the sort of tawdry headlines we’ve come to expect from the former 80s chart pin-up. He managed to offend half of Portsmouth during a concert last year, after telling aghast Christian audience members to “fuck off”. But a low-key renaissance still seems possible following years of problems with mental illness, as he readies new album ‘Marrying The Gunner’s Daughter’, his first in 15 years.

Just leave your car alternators at home. (BG)

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Gigs In Brighton...

EMMURE

Concorde 2 Sunday 1st May £11 adv 6pm

TIM BOOTH

Komedia Monday 2nd May £18 adv 7.30pm

ABSENT ELK

Audio Thursday 5th May £8 adv 7pm

ROLO TOMASSI

Green Door Store Friday 6th May £8 adv 7.30pm

BEN HOWARD

Latest Music Bar Friday 13th May £6 adv 2pm

MAYDAY PARADE Concorde 2 Sunday 15th May

£12.50 adv 7.30pm

MILES KANE

Audio Sunday 22nd May £9 adv 7pm

BEDOUIN SOUNDCLASH Concorde 2 Monday 23rd May £12 adv 7.30pm

THE DUKE SPIRIT Audio Friday 3rd June £10 adv 7pm

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chain & The gang

CHAIN & THE GANG Prince Albert Mon 16th

The Albert welcomes the return of Ian Svenonius (Nation Of Ulysees, The Make-Up, Weird War) to these shores, with his super-funky, soulful garage outfit Chain & The Gang. As a musician, essayist and broadcaster, Svenonius is consistently thought provoking and entertaining, exposing the trickery at the heart of superficial acts of musical rebellion. Chain & The Gang arrive just in time to scourge the city streets of all that corporate crap left over from The Great Escape. (SH)

OLLY MURS

Brighton Centre Mon 16th

Olly Murs has got more star quality than Brian Cox and Sir Patrick Moore shopping for a new telescope. The former recruitment consultant enjoyed a nondescript part-time soccer career with Essex Senior League also-rans Witham Town, before winning £10 on ‘Deal Or No Deal’. On the 2009 X Factor, he lost to Joe McElderry, a singer so doomed he may as well change his name to Michelle McManus. So how to explain his chart-topping pop career? His dad owns the UK Top 40. Fact. (BG)

LEE ‘SCRATCH’ PERRY Dome Fri 20th

The Upsetter is joined by Adrian Sherwood and Max Romeo as he brings dub to the Dome, in what promises to be an authoritative journey through its ear-splitting whip cracks and bowel-loosening bass rumblings. Back in the day, evenings like this would typically be viewed through a complementary fug of marijuana smoke – this would seem unlikely tonight, what with political correctness going mad and everything. Red-eyed rascals will probably be sneaking out to the Pavilion Gardens though, should you feel so inclined. (NC)

THE ALARM

Concorde 2 Fri 20th

Here’s one for the teenagers – ask your misty-eyed dad about the halcyon backcombed days of 1983 when The Alarm insisted that

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‘68 Guns’ would never die. This tour marks 30 years of their rabble-rousing, Welsh valleys take on outlaw rock – they may well have more use for Just For Men than the Silvikrin firm-hold these days but the chance to see anthemic gems like ‘Marching On’ and ‘Blaze Of Glory’ is one you should probably take. This is one alarm that has no snooze button. (NC)

MILES KANE

Audio Sun 22nd

One-time Rascals front man and Alex Turner collaborator, Miles Kane has now hit the ground running as a solo artist. Straight off a support tour from Beady Eye, Miles and his band are showing off tracks from debut ‘The Colour And The Trap’. What should you expect? From searing guitar riffs which hark back to Haight Ashbury-era psychedelia, to delicate Scott Walker-esque arrangements which echo much of Miles’ Last Shadow Puppets efforts. He’s back and he’s got the choruses to prove it. (LL)

BEDOUIN SOUNDCLASH Concorde 2 Mon 23rd

They may only have the one song but after a few drinks, and what will definitely be an enthusiastic crowd, ‘When The Night Feels My Song’ will go down an absolute storm. Although the band have suffered plenty through illness and some line-up changes over the years, they’re still as strong as ever. With more and more sunlight coming through the arches every day, a few reggae sounds can never be a warmer indicator that the summer has begun. (JC)

FUNERAL PARTY Concorde 2 Thurs 26th

As the world bids farewell to James Murphy and LCD Soundsystem we welcome to Brighton one of his many apprentices. With the same amount of energy and carnage as any LCD show, this Californian four-piece are a bit punk, a bit dance and a bit of everything else. Their biggest single ‘New York City Moves To The Sound Of LA’ will create the greatest havoc, and with a reputation for an incredible live show, make sure you’re in attendance. (JC)

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DURAN DURAN

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Brighton Centre Mon 30th

They don’t make them like this anymore.

There was a sense of hedonistic drama, exotic glamour and pop power about Duran Duran in their 80s pomp, exposing rivals Wham! as the wet mummy’s boys with shuttlecocks down their shorts that they were. While the band’s music may have failed to transfer into the modern era, the dashing looks largely remain not only in the chiselled jaw of John Taylor but also Simon Le Bon’s still eye-popping wife Yasmin. Wild boys, never lose it. (BG)

SYSTEM 7 Concorde 2 Weds 25th

Blending ambient house with uncompromising space rock to produce electronic dance music of both up and down tempo, System 7 were formed by Gong’s Steve Hillage in the early 90s, when post-club acts like The Orb started playing his band’s 1979 LP ‘Rainbow Dome Musick’. The collaborative outfit (Derrick May and Youth have been involved) get their name from the Mac operating system in circulation at the time of their forming and they’ve been making cosmic grooves ever since. Raving whippersnappers as well as the more mature dance fan will be filling up Concorde 2 for this evening. Perhaps on acid. (ZC)

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Dark Horses

Words by James kendall Photography: Kenny Mc Cracken Assistants: Matt Hodson and Sam wilson Art Direction: Kenny Mc Cracken, with Pierre Angelique and Ali Tollervey for Dark Horses Make Up: Anna Inglis Hall Hair: Emma Hedges Styling: Megan Dow Studio: Garage Studios

There are two groups of people that go by the name Dark Horses. One is a set of talented musicians who live in the world we all share. They might drink in the same pub as you, give you a smile as you walk down the street – hell, you might even see them in the supermarket. But the other Dark Horses are a more interesting prospect. They’re a leather-clad group of neo-rock stars who apparently sleep under the pier and live in a grainy black and white world of smoke lit by the taillights of a beaten up ‘57 Chevy. Both make incredible music, a stunning mix of scuzzy lo-fi indie and krautrock-influenced dance music that seems totally futuristic and like the whole of rock’n’roll history at the same time. Debut single ‘Alone’ comes on like PJ Harvey’s ‘Is This Desire’ dragged into a Merry Pranksters’ rave to lose itself.

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Normally we’d want to get the people behind the music, break past the image to discover the personalities. But with Dark Horses the carefully-honed mythology is so exciting, so complete, that to even discover that the band members breathe air rather than pure nicotine would be to ruin the spell. Do we want them to break character, and anyway, will they even give us the truth if we ask?

“That depends on what you ask and how you ask it,” says singer Lisa with a coy smile. “It depends what we want to tell you.”

“No,” admits guitar playing Andy in response to our doubts, “She’s going to make it all up.”

As well as the Dark Horses-logoed biker jackets and capes there

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across all the mediums they work in.

“If you send out a signal, a certain soundwave, and it oscillates in a certain way then only certain people are going to hear it,” she claims. “And if those people hear it, they’re the people that you want to hear it anyway and then they’ll come and find you. And that’s essentially what it’s about, energetically.”

“I’ll give you a reality, an actual thing that happened,” says Andy.

“I was working with Unkle and Lisa was working with Unkle and we both lived in Brighton. She had an acoustic band and I played electric guitar.”

“I wanted someone who could play guitar but who couldn’t play guitar, and Andy fitted the bill really well,” finishes Lisa, dragging us thankfully back to the cryptic.

“I don’t know if it’s a myth so much as our own reality”

are art house films, a mysterious red pyramid that appears on their artwork, an allergy to colour photos (our cover shot is the first we’ve seen), invented biographies, and even an obtuse motto, “The lightning is within you”. Hell, one of them goes by the name Tommy Chain and plays, wait for it, a heavy, metal chain.

As myths go, they’ve certainly put the graft in.

“I don’t know if it’s a myth so much as our own reality,” suggests Lisa. “You can live in whichever reality you want to, and we just create one that we enjoy.”

So you’re saying that what the audience perceives of Dark Horses is pretty much it – it’s not an act, not a construct?

“That’s part of it but at the same time you project what you want on to something anyway,” explains Lisa. “So Dark Horses is all about a space that people can be in and feel a certain thing, think a certain thing and be quite open and be quite free.”

Despite not really knowing whether we want to know the real answer or not, we ask how the band came together. Lisa dodges our dilemma by offering a kind of shadowy spirituality that lurks

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There’s a delicate balance to rock’n’roll, a pull of opposites. Too artful and you lose the rawness, the grind, the sex and violence of the genre – things get too considered. But go too far the other way and you end up like Oasis. Most importantly though there’s a line you don’t want to cross and head into…

“Pretentiousness,” Andy concludes before we can say it. It’s clearly a word that the highly visual band have come into contact with before. What’s more important, the emotion of the music, or the art of the image?

“Well we’ve been really lucky because we’ve had visual direction, artistic collaboration, photographers involved in the project of Dark Horses since the beginning,” Lisa explains with a nod to Wiz, a hugely talented director who has made videos for Dizzee Rascal, Suede and many in between. “That’s always been part of the animal, part of the beast. Everyone has their own particular element that they’re drawn into focusing on. But it’s meant to be more of a collaborative, creative experience together. I wouldn’t say one’s more important than the other, it depends who you ask in the group.”

“I think the boys in the band would say that they were more interested in trying to make some nice music,” Andy says, stressing that he counts Lisa as a boy. “But we’re lucky, because most bands don’t tend to have that access to those great, creative people like Wiz.” Another key part of the gang is photographer Ali Tollervey who has been documenting the band for so long he’s been snapped up to show his Dark Horses pictures as part of the Fringe. The evocative black and white images taken on grainy film have the feel of Pennie Smith in her 70s heyday and really add to the band’s mystique.

But with external elements like Wiz’s artistic input playing such an important role, can Dark Horses be the gang they appear in print and on screen? Surely it can’t be a democracy, and does that matter anyway?

“There’s two sides to it,” considers Andy. “There’s the stuff we’re doing musically and there’s the art side of it. They’re two different things and definitely there’s people making things look a certain way, and perhaps the band don’t have a big hold on that.”

“Yet at the same time we’re all feeding from the same water source,” adds Lisa, “so we’re still very much part of a unit. We take adventures together, you know.”

When those adventures include things like playing their third ever gig on the huge stage of Brixton Academy supporting Kasabian, making their tracks with Richard Fearless and putting out beautiful artefacts like their newsprint book, you know this is a gang that you’d want to be part of. Regardless of whatever the reality might be.

FYI

LIVE: Sat 14th May, Jam at the Great Escape WEB: darkhorsesmusic.com EXHIBITION: AM Gallery, Weds 25th-Tues 31st

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CLUB PREVIEWS WORDS BY MATT BARKER, JAMES KENDALL, JESSICA MARSHALL MCHATTIE

PAUL WOOLFORD

The Tube Sun 1st

One of the first people to start playing electronic house music when the rest of the world was cutting up disco loops and shoving them through filters, Wooly has turned further and further towards techno over the decade since. In fact now he’s on the books of highly respected Detroit Premiere Artists with Carl Craig and Kenny Larkin – which is true acceptance. If you know him from 2005’s glitch classic ‘Erotic Discourse’ or from his more recent Cocoon or Planet-E releases you’ll relish seeing one of the most respected DJs in such an intimate space. (JK)

DAVID GUETTA Brighton Centre Thurs 5th

You know what, David Guetta is actually one hell of a DJ. Seriously into the music (deep and tough electro house, when he gets the chance), he’s able to achieve the sort of live remixing on CDJs that less talented people require Ableton for. He’s the master at creating the feeling of an event – the people who bought their tickets months ago will leave having had the time of their nights. Actually, we’re wasting our time here – you either love him or hate him. Shame, this pop star deserves more of a chance in the underground. (JK)

ICICLE

Audio Weds 11th

Influential Dutchman Icicle is part of the Shogun Audio gang, who are well known for their rocking parties in Brighton. Highly technical with throbbing basslines, Icicle’s approach to drum’n’bass is intelligent, with sweet melodies over the sharp breaks. Clearly techno-driven, his music has gripped fans of many genres, and his latest releases show a diversity that puts him way ahead of his contemporaries. (JMM)

NEW ZEALAND SHAPESHIFTER Concorde 2 Wed 11th

New Zealand Shapeshifter were signed to Hospital Records last

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year in order to globally release their latest album ‘The System Is A Vampire’, along with a collection of new remixes under the rejigged title ‘The System Is A Remix’. So tonight we can expect to hear some brand new tracks from the live drum‘n’bass act who fuse vocals, synths, sax and samples to create tunes with rich soul and an unstoppable groove. Their powerhouse sound has uplifting vibes, dirty grinds and seems to be driven by a force of nature. (ZC)

MOSCA

Life Fri 13th

Mosca’s aquatic dubstep track ‘Nike’ turned heads in 2010 and garnered attention from Mary Anne Hobbs and Gilles Peterson.

Rather than box him in with categories and genrefication, he professes to make straight up club music to get dancefloors bubbling. His tunes flex with garage, niche, hip hop and house elements. This evening he’s backed up by new jack swing maestro Krystal Klear, 8-bit bass head Fantastic Mr Fox and SOURCE’s very own Bark Matter. (ZC)

JACKMASTER

The Tube Sat 14th

Jack Revill shuns the idea of making music “with the objective of furthering your career as a DJ, or to become famous.” Hence why he’s focused on articulating himself via his mixing. The Numbers co-founder is fresh from compiling the ‘Fabriclive 57’ CD, rocking Austria’s Snowbombing festival, and signing some top talent like Deadboy and Jamie xx to the Numbers label. So his efforts have been well spent out of the studio and tonight he treats us to a two hour set. (ZC)

CARIBOU

Digital Sat 14th

Blah Blah Blah DJs continue their run of booking the biggest names in dance music, last month they brought us Annie Mac, this month it’s Caribou. In 2010 Dan Snaith, the meticulous mathematician turned composer, defined the sound of our summer with his album ‘Swim’. Full of folktronica and sunshine pop it was perfect for hazy days on the beach. Groove with him at Digital where he’s got support from celestial electro stars Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs and of course the resident Blah Blah Blah boys. (ZC)

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tokimonsta

DIGITAL SOUNDBOY Audio Weds 18th

Digital Soundboy is undeniably one of the premier drum’n’bass labels out there, and head honcho Shy FX heads the bill at this showcase night. Previously a mainstay of the commercial drum‘n’bass scene, Shy FX has been busy in recent years producing new talent, but his forthcoming album shows a return to form. Support comes from UK Funky pioneer Donae’o and the eclectic B Traits, the one and only Digital Sound-girl. (JMM)

RUMBLE IN THE JUMBLE Digital Thurs 19th

Somehow, someone has managed to arrange a night in which all of the quality club nights across town (Poundance, Shameless, Stonelove, Aka Aka Roar, Hospitality) send their DJs to gang up and assault Digital’s Funktion One soundsystem, all in aid of charidee. The mental health charity MIND is the grateful recipient of the cash that you lucky clubbers will no doubt be queuing up along the beach to spend, which we can confidently assert is more than you can say for most of your dough. It’s going to be rather big. (MB)

PARADISE CITY

Green Door Store Thursdays from 19th “Take me down to the paradise city,” requested Axl Rose. “Where the doors are green and the girls are pretty.” But he was selling himself short – he should have asked for karaoke, a live covers band called The Green Store Doors and Kiss-style face painting.

We also heard the DJs are going to be off duty strippers. Well, if you’re going to do a cock rock night, it’s worth going all out.

Sense and taste was never a genre necessity. (JK)

TIEFSCHWARZ

Audio Fri 20th

The brothers Schwarz made some amazing deep house records for the Classic label and then in a complete U-turn dominated crunchy electro house in the mid-noughties. Their remixes of

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Phonique’s ‘The Red Dress’ and Spektrum’s ‘Kinda New’ stand up as some of the best club tracks of the last decade. But in another twist they are now leading the charge in percussive and clinical deep tech house. They’re genuine legends so we’ll just go with the flow. (JK)

DJ WOODY

Jam Fri 20th

DJ Woody’s been a master turntablist for over a decade, and is credited with innovating and inspiring scratchers for years. After winning multiple awards and accolades, he’s created an audiovisual set that delivers live visual scratching alongside his music; a possible foray into the future of live electronic performances.

Woody’s been deemed a “DJ demi-god” by DJ Yoda and “highly entertaining and unique” by Hexstatic, so it would be rude not to go and check for yourselves. (JMM)

JACK BEATS

Digital Sat 21st

Jack Beats are a party crunk production duo made up of Scratch Pervert Plus One and Benji G from the Mixologists. Together they make bombastically bass-driven house that wobbles up to big breakdowns and fills floors faster than Ronseal’s quick drying floor filler. They’ve recently returned from a trip to Baltimore and Philadelphia with Breakage so who knows what sort of US-inspired inflections their new tunes might have. Dance music don DJ Zinc is also in the building, spinning his own unique genre – crack house. (ZC)

TOKIMONSTA

Jam Thurs 26th

Los Angeles based Tokimonsta’s take on future electronic hip hop is infused with psychedelic whimsy, and has been winning her friends in high places (Flying Lotus and Mary-Anne Hobbs to name a couple) and influencing people across the world. Her name sums it up: ‘toki’ means bunny rabbit in Korean while ‘monsta’ needs no explanation, and the combination of sweet ambience and hard beats is a special one. As the latest stop on her seemingly endless world tour, she’s bringing her bass-heavy tropical beats to Brighton. (JMM)

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THE LINE-UP •

club previews Foggs Bar Fri 27th

The Line-Up is a relatively new night in Brighton but on their third outing they’ve already managed to book emerging talent White Powder Gold. This London duo aren’t your typical skinny-jeaned crooners, their brand of indie has obvious dubstep, hip hop and electro influences to equate a sound that’s simultaneously laddish and thoughtful. There’s also a showcase of local talent including DJ Bean, DJ No Skillz and urban bard Spliff Richard. (ZC)

VICE

Green Door Store Fri 27th

Everybody hates on Vice but to be fair, can you think of a free magazine that’s anywhere near as good? Alright, that SOURCE thing is decent, but most freesheets are a waste of paper, and there aren’t many paid rags better than Vice either.

So stop moaning, get down to Greedos on the last Friday of each month, pick up your copy and have a dance. They’re even putting on TEETH! live this month and Teen Creeps and 20 Jazz Funk Greats will DJ. Happy now? (JK)

DOCTOR’S ORDERS Coalition Sun 29th

Just Blaze and Alchemist go head to head in a two-hour faceoff on four turntables. After a couple of sell-out shows in London last year these two cream of the American crop producers bring their sound clash to Brighton. If you want to get ready to rock steady at a night of head nodding hip hop then pick up your ticket quick because these guys have got some dedicated fans – one MySpace ho messaged Alchemist, “I’m gonna put your name on my ass.” Beat that. (ZC)

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Witch!

WORDS BY ZAC COLBERT

PHOTOs by JAMES KENDALL

We live in generously terrible times – instead of just one incompetent man running the country we have two. Lucky us. So you’ll understand why we’ve begun wondering how different things might be if a woman was Prime Minister [Erm, Thatcher anyone? – Ed]. Witch! at Komedia seems to be on a similar train of thought, bringing Brighton a night that celebrates all female-fronted music from the 70s up to now.

Chris ‘Da Doo Ron Ron’ and Jon ‘Born Bad’ play punk, pop, dance and rock to a jiving floor full of coiffured quiffs, polka-dot dresses and black eyeliner.

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FYI

NEXT EVENT: Sat 14th, Komedia Studio Bar FUTURE GUESTS: Jenna Price, Kate Nash WEB: tinyurl.com/witchkomedia

TOP TEN

Daisy Chainsaw ‘Love Your Money’ The Bristols ‘Questions I Can’t Answer’ Suzi Quatro ‘Devil Gate Drive’ Best Coast ‘Bratty B’ Stevie Nicks ‘Edge Of Seventeen’ Amerie ‘1 Thing’ Bikini Kill ‘Rebel Girl’ Salt N Pepa ‘Mind Your Own Business’ Blondie ‘Pretty Baby’ The Rattles ‘The Witch’

An already lively dancefloor explodes with joy as Hole is played.

Courtney Love releases her raw vocals over grungy guitars and the girls and guys really lose themselves in unselfconscious revelry. It tells you everything you need to know about the crowd. From there Komedia’s Studio Bar is pulsating with a love for female pop as diverse as Beyonce, Elastica and Blondie. And who can honestly resist the charms of Mis-Teeq?

We vote Alesha Dixon for PM – wouldn’t that be scandalous?

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TEEN CREEPS words and photos by james kendall

One of the most important elements to a great club night is a cohesive music policy. And if that can be unique then, well, you’ve cracked it (unless you like thrash gabba). Just a year old and already there’s a ‘Teen Creeps record’ – a mix of synth pop, old school electro and the Italo end of disco, normally instrumental and typically something the trio of DJs have sourced from obscurity or your NEXT EVENT: Friday 3rd June half-forgotten WEB: tinyurl.com/TeenFacebook memories.

WHO’S BEEN: The xx, Maccabees, There’s also Little Boots and Warpaint something very pleasing about the way Conrad, Luther and Sam all take to the decks at the same time – as if the DJing is three times better than if they played one at a time.

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download these photos from brightonsource.co.uk The trio balance the cool (in both senses of the word) electronic side by inviting bands to play live. The Gaa Gaa’s, Phantom and Ty Segall have all taken to the stage, while the night we went down Skirts played their first ever gig of noisy dancefloor rock.

It all attracts a crowd who like music, like dancing and don’t like an identikit night out. Our kind of people.

TOP TEN

Casco ‘Cybernetic Love’ Flock of Seagulls ‘I Ran’ New Order ‘Bizarre Love Triangle (Extended 12” Mix)’ Methusalem ‘Zombie’ Pet Shop Boys ‘Paninaro (Italian Rework)’ R.A.F. ‘Self Control’ Mr Flagio ‘Take A Chance (Instrumental)’ Vandroid ‘Master and Slave (Van She Remix)’ Divine ‘Love Reaction’ Black Devil Disco Club ‘The Devil In Us (Elite Technique Mix)’

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CRITIC

BRIGHTON’S BEST NEW MUSIC WORDS BY STEVE CLEMENTS, NICK COQUET

two spot gobi

ALBUM: A DANCING BEGGAR • Follow The Dark

SINGLE: THE MISERABLE RICH •

We reviewed an EP by this fella a couple of years ago, and seeing this CD in the pile we remembered it instantly – hearing this will tell you why it stuck in our minds. Seven instrumental pieces made up from soft guitars, piano and ambient notions of atmosphere – it’s as far from dancing as one can get but definitely begs investigation. It’s the sort of music you can imagine coming from the trees rather than conventional instrumentation – don’t ask us to define exactly why but we love it. (NC)

They’ve thrown out the rulebook for this one and have stepped up as a worthy replacement for the late John Barry with a broodingly sweeping single. A slow-building filmic mantra with woozy violin, this is high drama narrated by a lovelorn spectre with unfinished business. This slice of Grand Guignol is backed by ‘For Heaven’s Sake’, which instantly takes you skipping through a meadow with a cartoon bluebird on your shoulder. Live favourite ‘Monkey’ is given a dramatic makeover climaxing with a Black Mass chant. (SC)

EP: CHASED BY DOGS •

SINGLE: SUPERLUNGS •

Technically, any band with a guitar-based sound can achieve the status of ‘heavy’ – just plug in a few pedals, crank it and spank it. But too many forget that heaviness for its own sake will just weigh the listener down. Luckily Chased By Dogs remember to bring some melody to the party, singing rather than screaming with choruses with hooks so big they could land a pissed-off shark. A growing gig schedule to promote the EP shows the chase is just beginning. (NC)

Our introduction to Superlungs begins pleasantly enough – some melodic guitar work tags obediently alongside the vocal intro – but then we were taken a bit by surprise. The spiel that came with the CD announced this was a real band with no polish, but to describe the onslaught of heavy, Audioslave-ish riffing that suddenly springs from the traps as such possibly does it a disservice. Superb production sets off the song to admirable effect and the other tracks included, from their forthcoming album, suggest more good things are on the way. (NC)

As If It Were Light (Audiobulb)

Smoke. Fire. Lies (myspace.com/chasedbydogs)

EP: FOXPOCKETS • The Corale & The Albatross (Reverb Worship)

We have to be honest, a lot of what arrives on our desk dressed as experimental folk can only really be judged within its genre rather than within a wider field. But Foxpockets transcend its stylistic confines and have come up with an eminently accessible and charming trio of songs; accordion, glockenspiel and banjo setting off some beautifully sung compositions that bounce along with a kind of modern medieval charm. One of the band members appears to have the head of a massive crow, which obviously helps their cause. (NC)

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Anything’s Possible (Humble Soul)

Nobody (YellowFish)

DEMO OF THE MONTH:

ADAMSK •

(soundcloud.com/adamsk) It’s always nice when a demo arrives as part of an artist’s masterplan – AdamSK sends them as a DIY introduction to an album, ‘Binaural Beats’, which he plans to have finished by June. A degree in music production has clearly stood him in good stead; as well as playing the entire repertoire from electronic to acoustic, he’s developed a good sense of pop sensibility in the songs’ assembly which remind us of some late-period Blur with a bit of Arcade Fire, maybe. We look forward to getting the full album when it’s done. (NC)

ALBUM: TWO SPOT GOBI • The Sun Will Rise (IRL)

We’re not sure what the band name’s all about, but the album title is bang on the money. Feel-good pop can often bring with it a cloying sense of grinning Toploader-ism, but the Gobis’ sound perfectly summarises the summer without being relentlessly bouncy and buoyant.

The California sunshine that provided the backdrop to the recording has seeped deep into the songs, which shine with an optimism that looks set to play out for the band. Dates with Newton Faulkner, Michael Buble and Bruno Mars are swelling their audience, who can’t fail to dig this. (NC)

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THE FESTIVAL ISSUE

Great Escape

HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE MUSIC FEST ACROSS TOWN THIS MONTH Thurs 12th - Sat 15th WORDS BY JAKE CUNNINGHAM, BEN GILBERT, KELLY GRIFFIN, JESSICA MARSHALL MCHATTIE, SEAN JORDAN, THE RECOMMENDER photo by james kendall

the vaccines

FRIENDLY FIRES

YAAKS

THE NAKED AND FAMOUS

THREE TRAPPED TIGERS

After staying out of the spotlight for a while Friendly Fires are back, and may we all have mercy from lead singer Ed Macfarlane’s liquid hips. Apparently they’re dance punk, but really, these three guys from Hertfordshire just make excellent indie pop tunes with a samba twist. With songs that force you to throw some shapes, it’s no surprise that the first festival of the summer is the first to get the band that’ll be the sound of the summer. (JC)

Straight from New Zealand this electro pop outfit are gathering a lot of hype after being featured in the BBC’s Sound Of 2011 list. Their big single ‘Young Blood’ gained massive popularity after being covered by Jessie J, following in the footsteps left by Passion Pit but adding some dancefloor melodies; and as well as writing tunes suitable for any club, the great thing about The Naked and Famous is they’ll treat you to some post-rock masterpieces too. (JC)

THE VACCINES

Some bands seem to burst into success out of nowhere, and before you know it their music is everywhere. The Vaccines have churned out indie hits that are definitely accomplished musically; Pete Robertson’s drumming in particular is incredible. They’ve cited 80s hardcore as their influence and it shows, with catchy tunes and high energy but maybe sometimes lacking in depth. This isn’t where their popularity comes from though. In the end this is more pop than rock, but likeable pop all the same. (SJ)

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Eastbourne boys YAAKS have a thing for strange spelling and capitals, their latest single ‘HRHRRHYTHM’ has gained quite a bit of airplay over the radio and they’re set to take you by storm.

With bits of Friendly Fires and Foals thrown together with some extended instrumentals in there too, they’re making remarkably well-crafted songs, with a foot stomping brilliance that surely makes them ones to watch. Plus, they have an auxiliary percussionist in the band too, and that’s just brilliant. (JC)

With their debut album ‘Route One Or Die’ out at the end of the month, Three Trapped Tigers are on the loose all over the UK. Following favourable comparisons with Battles, Sigur Rós and Foals, their album is highly anticipated, so catch their show for a sneak preview. Blending emotional post-rock with live electronica and classical elements, with a large side of tortured vocals, Three Trapped Tigers’ diverse influences enable them to create a novel sound that separates them from their contemporaries. (JMM)

KATY B

Having risen from being a teenage guest singer to a force in her own right, Katy B’s avoided the typical trappings of being a Brit School graduate. She pens catchy lyrics over dubstep produced by some of the field leaders, such as Benji B and Geeneus. While having friends in the scene undoubtedly

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helped, this Brit School girl has chosen an unconventional route into the charts, and as Rinse FM’s prettiest darling, we can expect to see much more of her in the next year. (JMM)

LUKE ABBOTT

Fresh from shows supporting Four Tet and releasing a well-received album, Holkham Drones on Border Recordings, 2011 looks set to be the year that Norfolk’s Luke Abbott gets the attention he deserves.

An experimental electronic artist and producer in the vein of Nathan Fake crossed with Boards of Canada, Abbott effortlessly weaves a rich tapestry of contrasting sounds into a beautiful, unpredictable creation, both rhythmic and refreshing. His live sets are reportedly both more ethereal and, more importantly, bass-heavy than his records, so bring your dancing shoes. (JMM)

DJ SHADOW

The mighty DJ Shadow is in Brighton for the festival, and for those lucky enough to get a ticket, you’re in for an unforgettable treat.

Instrumental hip hop pioneer, innovative sample-based producer, trailblazing turntablist, creative visionary, God… The list of praise is continuous for DJ Shadow, and well deserved. Witness the master in action live for an experience that you will be able to brag about for the rest of your life. (JMM)

WARPAINT

Following the release of their debut album late last year, Warpaint have emerged as one of the hottest contenders for best new band.

Their debut ‘The Fool’, out through Rough Trade, is a stunning feat of velvety psychedelic rock, weaving hypnotic harmonies with pulsating drums and dreamy washes of guitars and synths. With the Los Angeles all-girl quartet’s album receiving rave reviews from major outlets – and given their gig at last year’s Great Escape was a standout – you can expect this to be one of the highlights of this year’s festival. (KG)

RADIO DEPT

The Radio Dept have cited the Pet Shop Boys as an influence – well it sounds like them if they were on an all night drug-fuelled drive, contemplating joy, despair and everything in between. Described as shoegazing dream pop, their hypnotic chill out sound sucks you into a world of cityscapes in the nowhere hours between day and night.

It should leave you with a slow burning buzz, if not a shock to the system. (SJ)

GROUP LOVE

If you like your indie pop music anthemic and uplifting then this Los Angeles five-piece will be for you. Creating songs that start simply and build up to a crashing climax is their finest trick and they do it fantastically well. Contagious indie music like this has earned them plenty of online coverage in recent months, as well as a signature with the Atlantic sub-label Canvasback. The debut album should be in the middle of its release cycle so we hope to catch the band in full live swing. (TR)

CLOUD CONTROL

This Australian quartet are an absolute joy to watch live. Although they’re better known in their homeland, having released their debut album ‘Bliss Release’ there many months ago, they’re now setting their sights on the UK. They arrive with a set of off-kilter vocal harmonies that you’ll be hard-pressed to find bettered during this

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festival, alongside a string of radio-friendly indie pop hits in the waiting. Warm, rewarding and not to be missed. (TR)

TROPHY WIFE

There’s a music scene that’s recently developed in Oxford called Blessing Force. It’s been responsible for unifying a handful of interesting indie bands. You can catch examples of this exciting movement throughout this year’s Great Escape, with Chad Valley and Fixers both appearing, but perhaps the best of the bunch is Trophy Wife. Their intelligent indie pop trinkets are laced with some utterly beautiful moments, alongside plenty of swaying beats. (TR)

ALEX CLARE

This north London solo artist has an exciting debut album coming out later this year and, due to the distinctive soulful vocals that belie his years, it will be an LP that’s bound to be noticed. Add to this the fact that he’s had one of the hottest production teams on board in the shape of Diplo and Switch and you can understand why he earned the major label signature from Island Records. (TR)

ECHO LAKE

You can’t read a review of this London-based band without the words ‘buzz’ and ‘hype’ written all over it. The blog world wet its virtual pants as Echo Lake released their initial ‘Young Silence’ EP earlier this year, on the equally buzzing independent record label No Pain In Pop. Be prepared, as their live sets are usually very loud, as they blast out their wallof-sound, reverbed shoegaze. That’s if you’re lucky enough to get in of course. (TR)

FOSTER THE PEOPLE

Having initially got backing from the successful independent record label Neon Gold, the chatter quickly got going online for this American three-piece, eventually earning them a signing to the major label Columbia. Their pop music is tinged with sunshine and will perfectly suit a slot at this May music festival by the beach. Their shows will be in demand, but they’re expected to be doing at least two performances over the weekend. (TR)

BEAT CONNECTION

This duo from Seattle have just released their debut album, ‘Surf Noir’, on the Moshi Moshi imprint label, Tender Age. Fans of the afropop of Miike Snow will adore this set, as they bounce through their fantastic blend of beats and soundscapes. The buzz is riding high for them currently as they play a set of UK gigs, so expect this Brighton showcase to be packed. (TR)

REAL FUR

This East London trio are an intriguing bunch, throwing a selection of events around London called Safari Funk parties, inside unusual venues. They show off their superb tropical indie pop tunes and make it feel more like a party than a gig, in a unique setting. This showcase is happening under the Great Escape radars – it’s the only show you’ll see inside a launderette. It will fill up fast, so get there early on the Saturday night. (TR)

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SUFJAN STEVENS

GREAT ESCAPE

SOURCE has witnessed some pretty special moments in music over the years. Seeing Sufjan Stevens transfix the congregation of a 100 year-old Icelandic church a few years back will certainly take some beating. His performance that night saw the one-man orchestra wearing wings, a testimony to his vaulting ambition which once included an album quinquanology encompassing all American states, now wisely ditched. No matter, because tonight’s gig should still showcase the unrivalled skills of a bravura modern day pop composer with few equals. (BG)

DOG IS DEAD

You could measure the amount of buzz about this exciting quintet from Nottingham by the number of A&R reps queuing outside their shows. Their live set is very special, as they deliver their intelligent pop music infused with elements of indie and folk. The best instruments on show, aside from the trumpets and saxophones, are their astonishing combination of vocals, which will be competing for the public’s hearts alongside Mumford & Sons by the end of the year. (TR)

FACTORY FLOOR

Listening to Factory Floor is akin to being trapped inside a synthesizer.

Like New Order doing an early 80s Berlin DJ set, they count drummer Stephen Morris amongst their disciples, alongside Throbbing Gristle, Liars, Gavin Russom, No Age and Fuck Buttons. But just because the London three-piece make hypnotic, motorik techno, don’t start throwing about comparisons with urban futurism and industrial production. “My Dad used to take us fucking walking and all that, a lot of the outdoors kind of thing,” the band retort, pointedly. (BG)

SUFJAN STEVENS

ALTERNATIVE ESCAPE WORDS BY MATT BARKER, NICK COQUET, JAMES KENDALL, BILL ROBINSON

THE FESTIVAL ISSU E

There’s plenty of parties going on in parallel to the Great Escape, some that you don’t need an wristband for, some that are free. Here’s a few that caught our eye.

PRINCE ALBERT & CABLE CLUB Prince Albert Weds 11th

The Cable delivers a strong live line-up featuring What’s Your Vice, Nimmo & The Gauntletts, Clowns and the rapidly rising Sparrow. We reviewed their album a while back and just had that faith confirmed by a glowing report from The Times, they’re well worth a look for accessible folky pop. (NC)

BEYOND RETRO

Beyond Retro Thurs 12th-Sat 14th Some of the many wonderful nuggets that you find when you lift up the obelisk that is The Great Escape are the afternoon instores that Beyond Retro host in their cavernous, old-school warehouse depot premises. There’ll be tea, cake and loads of amazing bands, and all of this without having to brave a heaving booze-dungeon in the middle of the night. (MB)

RECOMMENDER VS DROWNED IN SOUND Audio Fri 13th

Possibly the best after party of TGE sees premier music website Drowned In Sound hook up with leading Brighton blog The Recommender. Four bands are spread over five nocturnal hours with Tender Age’s Beat Connection and launderette-loving Real Fur. Promises to be a proper party rather than a chin-stroking ‘showcase’. (JK)

THE AGENCY GROUP Magnum Opus Fri 13th

Recently playing to a full house at Concorde 2, you’ll never again see politically-aware, distorto-reggae pop stars King Blues in such an intimate venue – a tattoo shop. They’re joined by The Minutes and Black Lungs in one of our favourite ink emporiums and it’s free too, so get there early. In fact you should probably start queuing now. (BR)

LOUT Latest Music Bar Fri 13th

Lout are a key player in the Great Escape, and they’re using their knowledge of the lay of the land to showcase some excellent talent. They’re bringing out the big guns with chill out king Ben Howard accompanied by the gentle Lucy Rose plus special guest. (BR)

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THe FeSTIVAL ISSUe

BRIGHTON FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS FROM AUNG SAN SUU KYI’S CURATION WORDS BY JESSICA MARSHALL MCHATTIE, NICK COQUET, BEN BAILEY, LYDIA STOCKBRIDGE

EVOLUTION OF FEARLESSNESS

University of Brighton Gallery from Sat 7th Digital media artist Lynette Wallworth devises “responsive environments”, immersing visitors in far-off lands in a style which has pervaded New York’s Lincoln Center and the Melbourne International Arts Festival.

Here she’s crafted a set of 11 portraits of women living in her native Australia who have survived wars, concentration camps or extreme violence in countries including Afghanistan, Sudan, Iraq and El Salvador. This has resulted in an uplifting installation which chimes with the story of Festival director Aung San Suu Kyi. (LS)

MESOPOTAMIAN DRAMATURGIES

The Old Municipal Market Sat 7th – Sun 29th Turkey and Iraq split the Middle East region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, an epicentre of ancient world civilisation which retains huge strategic and symbolic importance as the physical and cultural borderline between East and West. Seeing it as a ‘grey area’ where meaning can shift as dramatically as its volatile weather, former Turner Prize nominee Kutlu Ataman has made a series of artworks and films exploring marginalisation and political and environmental tension in lands where modernism is peeking through. (BM)

10 WAYS TO DIE ON STAGE The Basement Weds 18th and Thurs 19th

Edward Rapley is one of The Basement’s supported artists, a wiry experimentalist who makes videos of himself standing still on YouTube (top marks for SOURCE research there) and is consumed by the awkwardness of facing an audience one-on-one, bereft of props and shiny lights. The hopes and failures of his life come wrapped in a typically self-emasculating performance, complete with stand-up, fables, dance, live art, clowning, balloons and paddling pools along the bewildering gauntlet between childhood memory and adult loss. (BM)

JOHN CALE

Dome Mon 23rd

The Velvet Underground fella, whose broad Welsh accent still never fails to surprise us, is in town with a concert based around the Brighton Festival’s over-arching themes of exile and home. Taking in selections

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JOHN CALE

from his 40-year songwriting career that fit this bill, the evening should include a wide variety of styles from postclassical and avant-gardism to up-tempo modern rock, at which he is still very adept. And he’s eminently more charming than his mate Lou Reed, who’s a proper miserable old bastard. (NC)

JON RONSON Pavilion Theatre Thurs 26th

One in 100 people are psychopaths, and as journalist Jon Ronson found out when he met the man who invented the official test, there are tell-tale signs. It turns out most of them work in business and politics. Ronson’s previous books saw him hanging out with extremists and New Age wackos, his new one looks at a more dangerous sort of crazy: those in power. With the same disarming tact as Louis Theroux and a keen eye for the absurd, Ronson’s reporting is full of intrigue and humour – even when he’s questioning his own sanity. (BB)

DROLES D’OISEAUX Victoria Gardens Fri 27th

The crème de la crème of French street theatre producers, the blue men from Marseille will be parading through town on Friday. At 7.30pm Generik Vapeur are marching from Victoria Gardens as part of a surreal Pimp My Ride-style procession to The Level. A train of white cars will be trailed and hung from a giant clothesline before being splattered in a rainbow of colours. You might want to wear painting clothes for this one. (LS)

THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC

Dome Sun 29th

Adrian Utley of Portishead and Will Gregory of Goldfrapp have joined forces to create an original live score for this classic 1920s silent film, known for its stultifying and eerie scenes. Accompanied by live percussionists and a choir amongst other musicians, Utley and Gregory weave a glorious, dramatic story alongside the film, amplifying tension and heightening the impact of the scenes. Prepare to be gripped. (JMM)

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the FestiVAL issue

FRINGE

WORDS BY BEN BAILEY, STUART HUGGETT, JAMES KENDALL, JESSICA MARSHALL MCHATTIE, BEN MILLER

cock & tail Inn

SHOW AND TELL

Upstairs At Three And Ten various dates

ZOMBIE SCIENCE 1Z

A Fringe smorgasbord up in the Three And Ten loft. Tim Clare escapes knife-wielding hecklers and honours female icons via rap battles (Sunday 15th and 29th), Nathan Penlington deconstructs Uri Geller through metal bending and oil dowsing (Friday 27th and Saturday 28th) and John Osborne recounts the box of John Peel records he won which took eight years to listen to (Saturday 28th and Sunday 29th).

Stand-ups Simon Munnery (Wed 25th) and Edward Aczel (Saturday 28th) also have new shows. (BM)

The inventions of science fiction have a strange tendency to prompt the real thing, probably because most scientists begin life as eager geeks. Hence jetpacks and robots. This is worrying given pop culture’s current mania for the undead. In the meantime, zombie enthusiasts can start preparing for the big day with this spoof lecture from Theoretical Zombiologist, Doctor Austin. As well as learning the ‘real science’ of zombieism students are taught a module on treating the condition. They say prevention is better than a cure, but not when the cure involves baseball bats and chainsaws. (BB)

ANNABEL GILES TALKS TOO MUCH •

Three And Ten Sun 1st, Sun 15th, Sun 22nd, Sun 29th Former face of Max Factor, former Mrs Midge Ure, and former TV regular (hooray for 80s kids’ favourites Razzamatazz and Going Live!), these days Annabel Giles lives here in Brighton, turning her hand to the odd bit of writing and, fortunately for us, occasional stints as a stand-up comedian. We caught her doing a low-key slot at The Poets’ Corner last year, winning the pub over with her self-deprecating glamour and filthy asides. Absolutely fabulous, go see. (SH)

PETER CASE Green Door Store Tues 17th

Singer-songwriter Peter Case began his musical career in San Francisco power pop trio The Nerves, who released just one 7” EP before splitting: its lead track ‘Hanging On The Telephone’ would have ensured their immortality, even without Blondie’s cover. Case continued mining guitar gold with The Plimsouls, turning up in early Nic Cage teen-flick Valley Girl, before striking out solo. The Grammy nominated, Springsteenrecommended Case brings his adult-oriented songs to the Fringe alongside Brighton’s Luke Hyttner. (SH)

COCK & TAIL INN •

Ship Hotel Wed 18th-Sat 21st, Weds 25th-Sat 28th Perhaps best known for their films, Driftwood are going all out to win awards with this 70s-style comedy based in the titular pub. Only Fools & Horses and Father Ted are touch points, but given a dash of sauce as eight boozers fight it out to score the inheritance of the former landlord. His long lost daughter announces that only one of them will grab the money. Expect chaos and plenty of laughs. (JK)

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Caroline Of Brunswick, Mon 23rd – Weds 25th

HITLER ALONE

The Old Courtroom, Thurs 26th – Sun 29th A 70-minute monologue from a suicidal dictator might not sound much like entertainment, but there’s no denying the Führer still holds a strange and enduring fascination – both as a figure of fun and an avatar of pure evil. The real Adolf surely lies somewhere between the two and it’s this contrast that drives Paul Webster’s obsessively researched portrayal: one minute he’s raging with war lust, the next he’s lost in some sort of sentimental homoerotic fantasy. Suggesting that Hitler was human may rile some people, but it’s certainly a fact worth remembering. (BB)

NICE WEATHER FOR AIRSTRIKES • The Druids Arms, Fri 27th – Mon 30th

NWFA’s four-day post rock extravaganza is back with a cherrypicked line-up of local and national artists: Shapes from Big Scary Monsters’ record label, Alright The Captain, and if you didn’t catch them at their ace Freebutt show, The Strange Death Of Liberal England are all on this year’s bill. Introspective local lads Nordic Giants, Monsters Build Mean Robots and Crowns On The Rats Orchestra will also be cramming onto the makeshift stage. (LS)

SUPPER CLUB • The Basement Thurs 28th

One of Brighton’s coolest, best kept secrets is The Basement’s monthly Supper Club, which showcases an eccentric array of short performances, from flash fiction to one-man plays, live installation art and comedy, impromptu song and dance and bawdy experimentation.

This special event is a selection of their finest pieces from the past year, so a perfect introduction to the night if you’re new to Supper Club, and a perfect summary if you’re not. (JMM)

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artists OPEN HOUSES

THE FESTIVAL IS SUE

Words by Nick Coquet, ben miller

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There’s so much going on with the Artists Open Houses, but here are a few that we particularly liked the look of.

Now, go and explore.

HOUSE 2011

Various venues throughout May A joyfully dense crush of playful local and visiting guest artists splashed throughout a series of city spaces in an imaginative avant-garde accompaniment to Open Houses.

There are really too many to name, but from performances at Phoenix and bicycle theatre in Portslade to Cinecity audio installations at the Nightingale and expert-selected works at the majestic Regency Town House, the programme welcomes an impressively wide alliance of artists known for surprises. Check out aoh.org.uk for all the details. (BM)

NIGHTINGALES The Nightingale throughout May

After one of the Nightingale theatre team had her photo taken for your SOURCE editor James Kendall’s ‘People I’ve Met’ series, she showed it to her bosses and they installed said editor as official portrait photographer for the leftfield space. The resulting portraits of the people who work and perform there are simultaneously both stark and quirky, with a range of faces captured off stage, some letting the mask slip more readily than others. (NC)

NED HOSKINS

109 Stanford Avenue, Sat and Sun 7th-29th Open Houses are such subjective experiences that suggesting which makeshift art dens you might enjoy on your voyeuristic adventures is a bit like trying to predict which spot on the beach you’ll pick this summer. Ned Hoskins was savvy enough to dream up showing work in artists’ homes during the festival 30 years ago, so why not start by perusing the work of the painter responsible for hundreds of them ushering you in for tea, cake, art and random conversations? (BM)

FUTURES PAST

Octopus Gallery Sat and Sun 7th-29th Having said the above, if you’re fearing twee jumpers and awkward chats with people whose canvasses make you wish you’d brought petrol and matches to the party, then Octopus Gallery is certain to be über-cool. We’ve seen these illustrators, pop printmakers and vintage poster creators in the all-conquering Brighton Rocks Artists Group, and their run of bands, brands and record label commissions include Nokia, Vogue, i-D and the Guardian. (BM)

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UK FESTIVALS SOME FESTIVALS HAPPEN OUTSIDE BRIGHTON, APPARENTLY…

WORDS BY NICK COQUET, JAKE CUNNINGHAM, STEPHANIE DUNLEAVY, JESSICA MARSHALL MCHATTIE, BILL ROBINSON

SHAKEDOWN

JULY 9 / STANMER PARK / £35 5.5 MILES FROM BRIGHTON

HEADLINERS: Razorlight, Mark Ronson, Example DON’T MISS: Freemasons, Rivastarr, Prok & Fitch There’s no better way to spend a summer’s day than with a great outdoor party. Forget about the idea of dance all-dayers being a Global Gathering-style filthy rave, Shakedown has put together a line-up of quality names that pop fans will have heard of and dance aficionados will respect. The big day out features a mix of DJs and live acts – Example, for example, is always a festival favourite. While it finishes early there are after parties planned for those with stamina. (BR) IN A NUTSHELL: Dance names you know come and party in Brighton

GLASTONBURY

JUNE 22-26 / GLASTONBURY / £200 130 MILES FROM BRIGHTON

HEADLINERS: U2, Coldplay, Beyonce DON’T MISS: Crystal Castles, Everything Everything, Primal Scream Yes, the big one. No other festival garners the same hype as the yearly pilgrimage to Pilton. The whole line-up can of beans has finally been spilled, so we know the Pyramid Stage headliners and the fact that Fleet Foxes, The Chemical Brothers and Mumford and Sons will all be in attendance too. It’s either a drought or a deluge, so pack your flipflops and wellies, and although we don’t know what the weather will do, we’re definitely in for a good time. (JC) IN A NUTSHELL: A city-sized spectacle under canvas

LATITUDE

JULY 14-17 / SUFFOLK / £170 160 MILES FROM BRIGHTON

HEADLINERS: The National, Paolo Nutini, Suede DON’T MISS: Bombay Bicycle Club, Foals, The Vaccines In its sixth outing Latitude is putting more emphasis on its slogan ‘It’s more than just a music festival’ than ever. Although the line-up boasts

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fields of the nephilim razorlight - see shakedown

incredible talent, with a decent bag of headliners and many more on the bill, it’s still the non-music schedule that’s really amazing. A live Never Mind the Buzzcocks, a Q&A with Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon and the Royal National Ballet all contribute to the truth of the slogan and a wideranging cultural cornucopia. (JC) IN A NUTSHELL: Radio 4 in a field

BANGFACE

MAY 13-15 / CAMBER SANDS / £159 52 MILES FROM BRIGHTON

HEADLINERS: Leftfield, Jeff Mills, Amen Allstars DON’T MISS: Gonjasufi, Atari Teenage Riot, Chris Clark This weekender is pretty much the closest you can come to the hedonistic illegal raves of the late 80s/early 90s, and is essentially a riotous debauchery fest. If you’re a fan of acidic sounds, raves, slogans, and waking up with your brain seeping out of your ears, get yourself to Bangface where you’re guaranteed a mental weekend, and all in a Pontins Holiday Park. Nuts, with a soundtrack to match. (BR) IN A NUTSHELL: A raving mad chaos fest

END OF THE ROAD SEPTEMBER 2-4 / DORSET / £145 101 MILES FROM BRIGHTON

HEADLINERS: Beirut, Joanna Newsom, Mogwai DON’T MISS: The Fall, Midlake, Gruff Rhys There’s a really nice vibe about this West Country gathering – intimate and uncluttered, it’s a world away from the hoards of pilled-up partygoers who frequent other fests. It’s kind of like a mini family camping holiday with more activities than usual, like the obvious draw of the music plus art, workshops for all ages, comedy and cinema, all taking place in beautiful surroundings and helped along by great food and drink. (NC) IN A NUTSHELL: Creative viewing and doing

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snoop dogg - see lovebox

LOVEBOX

JULY 15-17 / HACKNEY / £31-108 56.9 MILES FROM BRIGHTON

HEADLINERS: Snoop Dogg, The Wombats, Scissor Sisters DON’T MISS: Beth Ditto, The Drums, Robyn The most properly festival-like atmosphere of the London outdoor events, Lovebox has evolved a distinctive character for itself over the last eight years. Snoop doing ‘Doggystyle’ will be worth seeing, and the unofficial Sunday ‘Gay Day’ looks set to close the weekend in flamboyant style with the perfect-for-outdoors antics of the Scissor Sisters. It’s an eclectic mix of music and fun that attracts a wide-ranging and enthusiastic crowd. (NC) IN A NUTSHELL: True festival vibes in an urban setting

MEADOWLANDS MAY 27-29 / LEWES / £80 11 MILES FROM BRIGHTON

HEADLINERS: Hot Club De Paris, Penguin Café, Turin Brakes DON’T MISS: Mirrors, Jo Harman, The Miserable Rich For the greener Brightonians out there, Meadowlands offers a carbon-neutral showcase of local and national talent. Set in the grounds of a Sussex manor house, this bio-fuelled three-day festival features a Tru Thoughts club night on Friday followed by two nights of eco-friendly music. Also on offer is home-cooked food and at 50p a pop the luxury toilets are an unusual but welcome festival treat. (BR) IN A NUTSHELL: Intimate and local, it won’t cost the earth

LETS ROCK THE MOOR MAY 21 / MAIDENHEAD / £20 77 MILES FROM BRIGHTON

HEADLINERS: Rick Astley, T’Pau, The Real Thing DON’T MISS: Curiosity Killed The Cat, The Quotes, Who Are You? If you’re at a festival and ‘Never Gonna Give You Up’ starts playing then you might think your mates have Rick Rolled you. But no, this is the real Rick Astley, backed up with other huge 80s stars T’Pau

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and Curiosity Killed The Cat. It’s like a live version of It Is Still 1985. There’s a handful of covers bands including Stereophonics and Who tributes and some original songs from local Cookham bands. That’s a lot of entertainment for 20 quid. (JK/BR) IN A NUTSHELL: Bringing back the 80s, at that decade’s prices

GLADE

JUNE 10-12 / WARWICKSHIRE / £135 144 MILES FROM BRIGHTON

HEADLINERS: Trentemøller, Global Communication, Adam Beyer.

DON’T MISS: Skrillex, Krafty Kuts, Dub FX After the unfortunate events that led to its cancellation last year, Glade has ‘stripped back to its shiny grass roots’, away with the big top tents in favour of smaller, intimate stages and a more relaxed vibe. New to this year, the Sanctuary away from the mayhem offers blissful treats to replenish achey bodies; there’s free yoga classes too. The LZRDM (laser dome) contains 40 individually-controlled lasers to beam you up like, spiritually, man as you dance the night away. (BR) IN A NUTSHELL: Grassroots ravin’

BESTIVAL

SEPTEMBER 8-11 / ISLE OF WIGHT / £170 64 MILES FROM BRIGHTON

HEADLINERS: The Cure, Pendulum, Primal Scream DON’T MISS: PJ Harvey, Crystal Castles, The Drums Curator Rob da Bank has definitely pulled out the schedule of the year with this year’s Bestival. Yes, the Isle of Wight extravaganza of whimsy and wonder is back and brags the line-up of line-ups – The Cure, Pendulum, Primal Scream presenting ‘Screamadelica’, Brian Wilson, PJ Harvey, Fatboy Slim, Kelis, Big Audio Dynamite, Paloma Faith, Noah and The Whale, Groove Armada, The Drums, Katy B, The Maccabees, and The Village People. Speaks for itself really. (JC) IN A NUTSHELL: Dress-up fun in the sun

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SECRET GARDEN PARTY JULY 21-24 / CAMBRIDGSHIRE / £155 134 MILES FROM BRIGHTON

HEADLINERS: Leftfield, Guillemots, Mylo DON’T MISS: Alabama 3, Mystery Jets, The Bees Bringing the random fun of Bestival to the Cambridgshire countryside, SGP is the festival idealist’s dream come true. A huge line-up of music across a mass of intimate stages is often a mere distraction from the enormous sense of oneness and adventure its attendees seem to revel in. No corporate banners and a kind of co-operative approach to the event’s financing and reinvestment make it a really cool thing to be a part of. (NC) IN A NUTSHELL: Big scale festival vibes in a small scale setting

LARMER TREE JULY 13-17 / SALISBURY / £197 101 MILES FROM BRIGHTON

HEADLINERS: Seasick Steve, Jools Holland, Imelda May DON’T MISS: Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain, Bellowhead, Ozomatli If you’re not looking for an all-night-raving, mosh-pitting experience but still want to get to a festival this summer, Larmer Tree is perfect. Voted the Best Family Festival at the UK Festival Awards 2008, this is definitely somewhere you can take your little bro or sis for their first festie experience. With a wide variety of genres and a veritable smorgasbord of activities including theatre, art and even a film club from the godlike movie critic Mark Kermode. (BR) IN A NUTSHELL: Family fun with something for everyone, not just music lovers

THE BIG CHILL AUGUST 4-7 / LEDBURY / £165 176 MILES FROM BRIGHTON

HEADLINERS: Kanye West, Chemical Bros, Rodrigo y Gabriela DON’T MISS: Metronomy, Janelle Monae, Warpaint Bloody hell, The Big Chill has only managed to bag Kanye West for their festival. With a booking like that there won’t be much

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chilling – this is party time. But it’s still in the beautiful setting of Eastnor Castle Deer Park and Rodrigo y Gabriela will be bringing acoustic loveliness so the link to the past isn’t completely gone.

We like this new vibe though – the BC has really made its mark as a revitalised festival for non-rabid dance fans. Art, films, cabaret and comedy round off a varied and eclectic event. (JK) IN A NUTSHELL: It’s big. It’s not as chilled as it used to be

PLAYGROUP

AUGUST 5-7 / TUNBRIDGE WELLS / £77 33.1 MILES FROM BRIGHTON

HEADLINERS: The Correspondents, Hexstatic, High Rankin DON’T MISS: Nordic Giants, Hint, The Apples Playgroup’s secretive debut went down a treat last year – bringing together the creative movers and shakers of Brighton for one big three-day magical musical bender. We’re talking bands, acrobats, cabaret performers, jugglers and dancers all in the picturesque location of Eridge Park, complete with hidden wooded glades. It’s not all about music either, expect art installations from world famous graffiti artists, giant origami dinosaurs and the Gin’ll Fix It agony aunt bar serving up solace in a highball or three. (BR) IN A NUTSHELL: The best bits of Brighton in a field

STANDON CALLING AUGUST 11-14 / HERTFORDSHIRE / £120 102 MILES FROM BRIGHTON

HEADLINERS: Spiritualised, Battles, Penguin Café DON’T MISS: Born Ruffians, John Cooper Clarke, Caravan Palace One of the best festivals we went to last year, Standon Calling is an intimate, fancy dress-loving affair which punches way above its weight, especially in its indie-based line-up. It has a reputation for spotting upcoming talent and mixing it with classic artists of the last decade or so, Standon is also the only UK festival to feature the combination of a swimming pool, all night bars and a nightclub. Thank god they have excellent lifeguards. (BR) IN A NUTSHELL: Intimate with a great line-up and beautiful setting

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OUT OF THE ORDINARY SEPTEMBER 23-25 / HAILSHAM / £45 28 MILES FROM BRIGHTON

HEADLINERS: TBC DON’T MISS: TBC No line-up confirmed as we write this, but Out Of The Ordinary is a three-day, season’s end festival loosely aimed at the longer-haired elements of the community. Its many attractions are grouped under the elemental themes of air, fire, earth and water, and the emphasis is firmly on a natural and holistic experience with ethical produce and organic booze. This is a good one to get kids into the true sprit of festival experience at a young and impressionable age. (NC) IN A NUTSHELL: A festival vibe like you see on great old documentaries

BOOMTOWN FAIR

AUGUST 11-14 / SECRET LOCATION / £97 1 HOUR FROM SOUTHWEST LONDON

HEADLINERS: Gogol Bordello, Goldie Looking Chain, DJ Zinc DON’T MISS: The King Blues, The Selecter, Barrington Levy Having completely nailed bass-heavy music, this year Boomtown have added jump up swing and gypsy to their mash-up of reggae, hip hop, dubstep and rockabilly. Highlights include the Bassline Circus stage, hosting a chunky selection of Foreign Beggars, Ms Dynamite and JFB. With old fashioned bars and discos playing music from the 50s for the old and the old of heart, Boomtown truly is great if you love bass heavy music, with plenty to explore if you don’t. It’s getting better every year, and Gogol Bordello are always worth seeing. (BR) IN A NUTSHELL: Bass and more bass topped with rock’n’roll

FIRST DAYS OF FREEDOM JULY 15-18 / SECRET LOCATION / £79 50 MILES FROM BRIGHTON

HEADLINERS: Mystery Jets, Tinchy Stryder, Zane Lowe DON’T MISS: Dry The River, Dirtyphonics, Tempa T A brand new lifestyle, extreme sports, music and general coming of age festival, this is aimed squarely at school and college leavers – 10,000 of whom are hoped will arrive at this undisclosed location in

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Kent. The festival grounds are filled with inflatable dome venues forming a micro-city of entertainment, including live bands, the best of clubbing with UV raves and foam parties, and even a full circus fairground. There’s a serious side too for the lower octane attendee, with talks and workshops.

IN A NUTSHELL: The last summer outing with all your school and college mates – make it count

READING

AUGUST 26-28 / READING / £192 82 MILES FROM BRIGHTON

HEADLINERS: My Chemical Romance, The Strokes, Muse DON’T MISS: Pulp, Friendly Fires, Metronomy This year’s Reading doesn’t actually have the greatest main stage line-up ever; there’s no big reunion on the cards and no extraordinarily massive headliner. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t still one of the best festivals in the country, especially if you venture outside the main arena. The campsite banter is always brilliant, the sense of camaraderie with everyone is incredible, the music is generally great and the potential for anarchy to explode at any time is always welcome. (JC) IN A NUTSHELL: Rock mainstay outstanding in its field

SUNRISECELEBRATION JUNE 2-5 / WARMINSTER / £108 147 MILES FROM BRIGHTON

HEADLINERS: Lamb, The Beat, System 7 DON’T MISS: The Correspondents, The Orb, Jono McCleery Sunrise takes its role as the UK’s leading sustainable arts and music festival very seriously, concentrating their effort of building “organically grown good vibes”. The bohemian atmosphere is clear to see from an array of alternative lifestyle talks and workshops, plus there’s a line-up that includes the best 90s chilled out sounds and trippy electronica, mixed with reggae and world sounds. A healthy handful of folk with Johnny Flynn and Jono McCleery give this festival a relaxed feel. (BR) IN A NUTSHELL: Chilled out and green

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ART

HOUSE OF CURIOSITEA

WORDS BY NICK COQUET photo by abigail horn & kitty peels

During the weekends of the Fringe, Kitty Peels and Abigail Horn are part of a group transforming a large gallery space beneath a secret seafront Georgian house into a cross between a Mad Hatter’s tea party and a Grimm Brother’s fairytale. The House of Curiositea promises twisted textiles, cunning crafts and beautiful photography, set against a vintage tea party full of old fashioned treats and antique crockery, plus live music, dressing up and unexpected surprises round every corner.

As well as Kitty and Abigail’s collaborative photos, Saffron Reichenbacker will be illustrating her obsession with the past, former SOURCE cover artist Kate Shields will be delving into the macabre with her oil paintings, and much more. This is the ultimate Brightonian avenue into the minds of our talented local artists – the prohibition speakeasy nature of the event means you have to apply for the address, but it looks like it’ll be well worth the effort. Find the dusty old key to your curiositea at house-of-curiositea.co.uk.

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“something hit me hard on my left temple, knocking me to the floor” Page 48

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THE REASONS

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does prove the old adage To be honest I’ve never about how appearances worried about getting can be deceiving. assaulted, as I’m the kind Three weeks after the of guy that stays out of incident I was virtually trouble. Sure, in my back to normal. My main testosterone-fuelled youth annoyances during the I got into the odd scrape healing process came – which normally involved from being unable to me attempting an illshave, due to a swollen advised headbutt before face, and not being able being thrown out of a club to rinse my hair thanks to – but those days are in the sutures. Both are the past. However, when essential for me to feel four thugs decided to human. Also being unable change this nonchalant to see clearly does tend WORDS BY BEN SCOTT attitude when they to be a hindrance.

ILLUSTRATION BY EMILIE JEAN MARIA LASHMAR at LASHMAR.COM temporarily rearranged However I’m thanking my my face, it seemed a lucky stars that there is no good idea to share their permanent damage. In emphatic viewpoint with the wider world – you’ll be pleased to fact I didn’t even have a hangover the next day, though I would note that I’ve decided to let words do the talking for me and not advise going for a bacon sarnie instead of getting a kicking. my fists.

NEVER BEEN BEATEN UP

THE EXPERIENCE

It had been a good night out; pints had been drunk, new friends made and I like to believe the shapes I ended up throwing in Audio were of my normal unique standard. Feeling a touch sleepy I left the club about 2.15am and headed back towards my bachelor pad on Elm Grove. I decided to take my usual route home, cutting across back through Hanover and along Ashton Rise. But this wander home was not to conclude in its normal way with me tucked up snoring in bed having devoured half a loaf of bread. The following is what my patched-up memory tells me.

I remember a voice from the flats above yelling, I don’t know if it was at me. Four people ran up behind me, on hearing them I began to turn and caught a glimpse of one of them. This snapshot was followed by a blur of an arm before something hit me hard on my left temple, knocking me to the floor. I immediately pulled myself into a foetal position, saw some white shoes moving and then I was unconscious.

My next groggy memory is of being cradled in the arms of a woman whose name I do not know and face I sadly cannot remember. My good Samaritan had been brave enough to look after an unconscious person covered in blood and I am thankful.

I really hope her clothes did not have to be dry-cleaned. The emergency services soon arrived and they carted me off to A&E. They discovered that the copious amount of blood was coming from a leak in my head, which needed five stitches. After the nurse had finished she popped her head round the curtain to ask a doctor to check if she’d “done it right.” This was not the most reassuring phrase to hear in a hospital.

The rest of my night was spent in A&E where I cried like I’ve never done before. In between I was running back and forth to the loo, not to go to the toilet but because it had a mirror. I was determined that somehow I would write a story from this mess and I would therefore need photos. During the early hours of the morning I also gave a fairly useless statement to the police, had an x-ray and agreed with one of the other patients that if he had been with me we would have indeed “decked those arseholes.”

I decided to go home and get looked after by my parents while I recovered. On the way to the station a woman looked at me and then said to her little daughter: “Don’t look at the nasty thug.”

Tired of the looks I had been getting and seeing whispers behind cupped hands, I turned and, putting on my poshest accent, said: “Excuse me ma’am but I am not a thug, just someone who was in the wrong place at the wrong time.” She apologised, but it

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WAS IT WORTH IT?

All night long I was shocked to be in tears. It seems like a natural reaction but I should explain a bit about myself; I’m a country bumpkin who has had more scrapes, cuts, bumps, bruises and bashes than I can remember. It’s a normal state of affairs for me to be injured in some way. However, I never cry (apart from at the end of Cool Runnings, Armageddon and The Secret Millionaire).

But I was so shaken up by this I could not stop shaking and sobbing. I wasn’t terrified that it was going to happen again, nor that I was going to be permanently injured, but that it had happened full stop. That it had happened, not to someone else, but to me, the quintessential average Joe. The one word that has been spinning round in my head is why?

I’ve gone over and over that night in my head and I had no problems in the club, nor was I in a bad mood. I’m not the kind of person who starts fights and I don’t go around randomly abusing people. They were not mugging me as I still had my phone and wallet. In fact, I would genuinely rather they had been stolen so I could make some sense of the whole mess. Perhaps they thought I was someone else; dark hair, 5’10”, slim build with jeans on – I could have looked like anyone. Or perhaps I yelled something back at the voice from the flats, but then what could I have said to have deserved being assaulted? I don’t know and I doubt I ever will.

So what have I learned then? At first I was fixated on the fact that the people who live in newspapers and on the TV do actually exist in real life. But I’m an optimist and I decided to focus on the fact that yes, there are some people like that, but there are also people who will go out of their way to help you out, like my Samaritan. And lastly, always stick to the busiest and most well-lit streets. It’s better to spend 10 minutes walking than lose a week of your life with a bust up face, a woolly head and feeling completely and utterly emasculated.

It’s now two months since the assault and I am physically fixed.

The police could not find any CCTV of the incident as there were no cameras in the area and the witness appeal came to nothing.

Therefore there is nothing more that they can do, and the people who did this are still living here in Brighton. So if you ever see someone who looks like the bloke who nearly scored for Crawley against United then be careful, he might be looking for some more fun.

See the photos Ben took three hours after the incident (that the illustration is based on) at tinyurl.com/BeatenUp

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STREET STYLE PHOTO BY KEVIN MEREDITH AT LOMOKEV.COM WORDS BY JAMES KENDALL

There’s a wonderful looseness to fashion at the moment, at least at street level. For the first time in ages girls are finding loads of items they love and, you know, just wearing them.

The strict rules of the past have been put aside for a while and we have to say it’s so refreshing.

It’s like girls are covering themselves with style glue and rolling about in the best jumble sales of all time.

Nicole has subtly linked her items together here (patterned scarf and patterned tights, green jacket with green head band) and clearly has a great eye for colour but there’s a feeling that this outfit comes from the heart not the head.

We especially love the feathered hair adornment against the striking hue of her tresses – quirky headwear is always a good move. Let’s make that a rule when rules come back into fashion.

Feather head band from Topshop “I like accessorising my hair with head bands.”

Scarf from Majorca “I’m really into that mustard colour at the moment.”

Jacket from an old vintage shop “It’s my boyfriend’s, he gave it to me. It’s some old horse riding jacket.”

Skirt from Zara “I wear high-waisted things all the time.”

Tights from Primark “I like the pattern because it was reversed, usually the pattern is the darker part.”

Reebok trainers from Schuh “I like the fact they have gold laces, I love gold.

I wear a lot of hi-top trainers but I do wear a lot of shoes as well.”

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Consume

Dolly Dagger 6 Brighton Place

01273 748 019

WORDS BY BILL ROBINSON PHOTO BY JAMES KENDALL

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For a while now 40s and 50s Americana has been making its presence felt on the high street, but scene stalwart Dollydagger has been nailing that look for the last five years and doing it at a much higher quality.

The online boutique – now a lovely shop in The Lanes – was started when owner and founder Emma started importing the clothes she loved from the States quite simply because she couldn’t find the garments she wanted here in Blighty.

different, but still maintain a feminine edge.

The vintage-inspired clothes showcase retro history brought up-to-date and feature designers such as Tarina Tarantino and Vivienne Westwood. These amazing pieces look like they’re from the 50s but fit like they’re from the 21st century.

“All of our garments are manufactured locally,” says manager Simon. “We use better quality fabrics, our garments are well cut and designed to fit a curvier figure.”

Dollydagger opens up a killer look to girls of any age, shape and income that’s normally difficult to source – with gingham, spots and stripes appealing to those who want to look

“Dressing up is nice,” adds Emma. “It’s good to dress up and wear a nice frock. So that’s what we’re about.”

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THE FESTIVAL ISSU

UNSUNG HEROES 100 PEOPLE WHO MAKE BRIGHTON WHAT IT IS NO. 19 ANDREW COMBEN WORDS BY BILL ROBINSON

What do you do for Brighton Festival?

I’m chief executive of Brighton Dome and Festival. The great thing about my job is that there isn’t a typical day. It can involve meetings with companies, Brighton and Hove City Council, the Arts Council, to the Finance Committee. I lead the team both managerially and artistically which can be quite hectic as one of the largest arts venues in the South East and largest arts festivals in the country.

How do you choose the guest directors? How much do they choose in the programme?

There is a complex set of questions to answer when thinking about who’s best to be guest director for Brighton Festival, but most of all I’m looking for someone who captures the spirit of this city and can express it powerfully – through their own creativity or through the values they symbolise. The practicalities of working with each different guest director varies enormously from year to year.

Community is important to the Dome – how do you involve the regular folk in the performing arts?

Brighton Dome has many projects that run year round, all aimed at involving the widest possible number of people in all the work we do. We host regular open days, we hold workshops for people of various ages and abilities. And crucially we work with various groups from across the region, in targeted and specific creative work developed especially for them.

Is there something which kick started your interest in art and culture?

I grew up as a chorister and some of my earliest memories are of unaccompanied choral singing, so that’s something I always come back to. Fabrica’s presentation of Janet Cardiff’s 40-part motet this year is an incredibly nostalgic experience for me for that reason.

What will be highlight of the festival for you?

I’m particularly looking forward to Mexico’s Teatro de Ciertos Habitantes who are making their first visit to the UK. They are bringing Monsters And Prodigies – a riotous music theatre piece about castrati – and El Gallo which is co-commissioned by Brighton Festival.

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reckoned there were quite a few good ones, and promised a blog on the subject, eventually. While we look forward to that we managed to find out his favourite so far. As you might have guessed from the big letters at the start of this page, he rated the Bath Arms.

Secret eater

Bath Arms Meeting House Lane (01273) 731864 Noon-5pm, 6pm-10pm

THE PLACE: We’re always on the look out for good places to eat and we’re not the only ones. David – one of the lovely guys in Brighton’s world class opticians Bromptons – told us that he’d been doing a SOURCE-style round-up of the best burger-and-apint offerings our city’s many boozers were serving up. He

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THE MEAL: Upon arrival we discover that the Bath Arms is more than just a mere burger joint.

There’s a daily-changing menu that on our visit had a lamb burger as part of good range of upper-middle end pub favourites. Settled into the restaurant-esque back room – the sunlight streaming through the skylight – we opt for fish and chips and burger, of course. The burger doesn’t look like much, mainly as the bun appears a bit anaemic, but boy does it taste good, bread and all. Meaty and moist without being greasy, a nice touch is that the salad and relish comes on the side so, finally, a burger untainted by gherkin.

Fluffy white potatoes made for great potato wedges too, soft and chunky. The fish meanwhile is beautiful – jaw-dropping as it arrives gleaming to the table. The batter is light and it comes on a decent bed of chips with lightly minted mushy peas. We’d have maybe preferred it a little more cooked but it’s great quality.

THE VERDICT: Good value, great setting and real solid pub grub. The service was friendly and cheery too. What’s not to like?

WERE WE SUSSED? Yeah, I think we were. The guy behind the bar cheers when we go in delivering SOURCE, so might have known our faces. The food arrived before we got the camera out but we think they knew. We get the impression the service is always this good though.

THE FESTIVAL ISSuE

IN CONVERSATION WITH

ARTISTS OPEN HOUSES WORDS BY NICK COQUET Photo ‘Rider Spoke’ by BLAST THEORY

The Festival and Fringe are full of quirky happenings and events, but the Artists Open Houses always stand out for us. Along with their curated partner festival House, they offer public access to all kinds of art in domestic settings.

We spoke to Judy Stevens, the director for both, and Helen Cann, a committee member and marketing organiser.

So, the open houses have been running for 30 years now.

Helen: Yes, that’s the basis of the guerrilla marketing we’re running this year. We’re inviting people to come up with art based around the number 30 and post it on the website, which we’ll be using to advertise the open houses with.

Judy: Ned Hoskins first opened his house 30 years, then over the next couple of years it spread out into the first Fiveways trail, and on from there.

It’s really come together over the last few years.

Judy: To start with it was all part of the Festival, then over the years it came over to the newly created Fringe. But it broke away because it wasn’t featured in the brochure – the trails were all producing their own leaflets which was just about fine for the people who live here but it was impossible for people from outside Brighton. So seven years ago we brought it all together with one brochure, all using the same logo and house banners – that branding and identity also gave it a wider awareness.

As with the curated Festival and free-for-all of the Fringe, House and the AOH offer a similar variety.

Judy: Yes, there’s no criteria for the open houses, that’s part of its beauty. You get students, schoolchildren, marginalised artists, and it covers all areas of the city; from Portslade out to Lewes, Ditchling and Newhaven. Other cities and other countries have similar events but we’re the original and also the largest – there are 154 houses taking part this year.

commission on sales there, sometimes as much as 75%. It makes it a bit crazy.

Judy: Yes, it’s the artists controlling their own exhibitions rather than a gallery making money out of them. It’s about artists finding a space to exhibit their own work.

Helen: It’s so random, some houses look like a gallery where everything’s all nicely framed, then you get others with a guy sitting next to his picture saying, “please like it” – its really cool, like Russian roulette.

Cutting out the commission must make the art more affordable and make a positive difference to sales potential.

Judy: Well, we’ve done two visitor surveys which both said the open houses created over £1m of turnover…

Helen: I used to make a grand over three or four weekends. A lot of artists make half of their turnover for the year here.

The non-curated side of the programme usually includes some interesting concepts.

Judy: Yes, it’s not all art in frames on walls. This year we have a ceramic artist who’s turning her whole house into a ceramic installation, and it’s actually crossing over with House. Her partner is a sound artist who’s made a sound installation in response to her ceramics – you get an iPod when you walk in – it’s a great crossover between the two. Another good one is a woman who’s whitewashing her walls every night, then during the day people come in and draw anything they like.

Helen: Audience involvement is a big thing. A lot of it in the past was looking at art on walls and buying – there’s obviously a big place for that but it’s important to have a fun element to it all as well, basically anything goes. Last year in Hove a guy painted a picture on an easel and just sat next to it saying, “is it art?” It’s really interesting; I like the idea of that. Is it? What makes it ‘art’?

That must throw up some extremes.

And it’s not just houses – I’ve seen exhibitions in church Judy: Yes, I used to do one a couple of years ago, mostly normal halls and more traditional gallery spaces. things on the walls for Christmas presents, but we gave over our Helen: It is actually mostly houses. sitting room to an Indonesian artist I really love that about it – it’s less who brought in a dirty old bath, it intimidating, especially if you don’t had soap in it with bits of hair know much about art. You can just stuck all over it. And people go in, look around and have a cup became furious. It’s brilliant that WHEN: Weekends in May of tea. For such a creative city people got so cross, that art has WEB: aoh.org.uk / aoh.org.uk/house-festival Brighton has a real lack of gallery the power to infuriate and spark MORE: See our highlights on page 34 space, and the artists have to pay some interesting debates.

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LISTINGS MAY 2011

sunday 1st

ABOVE AUDIO Live Music & DJs 4pm £free AUDIO Play Vs Swag On: Kate Wildblood, Queen Josephine, Mikalis, Milk Teeth Crew LMC, Bradt, DJ Lady Bex A Wild Fruit bank holiday bash with two floors of funk, house and hip hop 6pm £5/4/2 BELUSHI’S BAR Now That’s What I Call A Party Part 1 DJ Sean plays everything from A-ha to GaGa - now that’s what I call eclectic 9pm £free BLACK LION Dubrockerslive DJ set of ska, punk, trip hop and reggae 8pm £free BRUNSWICK Qukulele A quick round-up of today’s gayness: the Bolivian nose flute is no longer gay, the ukulele stays gay for another fortnight 3pm £tbc CHEQUERS Claude & Baz Live reggae Time tbc £free COALITION Floorplay: Prok & Fitch, Lee Garrett & James Wilkinson, Georgous & Vince Frimpong, Carl Fidler, Carl Smeaton The house market is booming 10pm £10/8/5; Blow After Party: Vincent Manganaro, Carlos Riz, Aaron Palaez It never stops 3am £7/5/4 CONCORDE2 Emmure, Winds Of Plague, War From A Harlots Mouth, iwrestledabearonce, Visions Deathcore mosh metal 6pm £11; THTC Launch Party: Trojan Soundsystem, Coki, Jehst, Roots Garden, Propergander DJs Reggae, dubstep and hip hop 11pm £8 COWLEY CLUB M’aidez C’est May Day: Albion St, Barley Roots, Fox Pockets Folky fundraiser for Calais migrants. Note: The Cowley is a private members’ club, but guests are welcome Time tbc £donations CUBE Right Royal Knees Up: Phill North, Mr Howard, Funk Rockers DJs mash it up in honour of our royal overlords Time tbc £free DIGITAL Friction, Kamo & Krooked, Prototypes, Prophecy, Dynamite, SP:MC, Mantmast DJ known for his three-deck drum&bass mash-ups 10.30pm £12.50 DRUID’S ARMS The Sunday Sessions Live music 6pm £free DUKE OF NORFOLK Live Music Night 9pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Walkabout 1.30pm; Farewell (L’Affaire Farewell) 4pm/9pm EASY BAR Diversity R&B and hip hop with DJ Rudeben 8pm £free FIDDLER’S ELBOW Sham-Rock Open Mic 8.30pm £free FISHBOWL Love Unlimited: DJ Åbo, Ally Smith, Gareth Stephens DJs play jazz, funk and reggae - with added live percussion 9pm £free FORTUNE OF WAR Shakehandsletsparty Molly Malone plays a bit of everything 9pm £free FOUNDRY Americana Unplugged Live music 8pm £free FRINGE BAR Sunday Soundclash Reggae night with Unity Hi-fi 8pm £3 GLADSTONE Swafe BBQ Tyni and crew play hip hop beats in the garden 2pm £free GLOBE Hot-Tip Hi-Fi DJs play early reggae and rocksteady 9pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Sunday Service Live acoustic music 5pm £free; Green Door Blues: Smokestack, Tobias Blues band and DJs 9pm £free HAMPTON Live Music Sundays Showcase for local acts 8.30pm £free HAND IN HAND Live Jazz Living Room 8pm £free HOBGOBLIN Royal Cider Festival Day 3 Featuring live music, stalls, games, DJs and a talent show Noon £free HONEY Smartie Partie Club night for connoisseurs of fourto-the-floor happy house 8pm £10 HYDRANT UP The Forgetters, Red Don, Vanilla Pod Live music 8pm £7.50 JAM Hush Up!: Teeth, Martin Kemp, Bad Autopsy, Tom@RAMP, Hush DJs Bass music from the future and also the 1980s 11pm £6 KOMEDIA STUDIO Crazy Shauna Parker sings the songs of Patsy Cline 8pm £7/5 KOMEDIA UP Bent Double Zoe Lyons hosts a night of alternative comedy acts, including Barbara Nice 7.30pm £10.50/8.50 LIFE Hot Wuk! Bank Holiday Bashment: The Heatwave, Sticky Carnival dancehall vibes 10pm £3 LOLA LO All That Glitters... Masquerade ball 8pm £5/4/3 MESMERIST Swing My Roast Live swing and gypsy jazz 3pm £free; Dress Up And Dance DJ party 9pm £free NEPTUNE Adrian Harvey Acoustic rock a la Neil Young 8.30pm £free PRINCE ALBERT The Greenmantle Beltaine Celebration Live music 7pm £tbc RANELAGH Mike Ross Live blues 8.30pm £free R-BAR Sublime Sundays Acoustic sessions 5pm £free; Karaoke Queens 8pm £free REVENGE Girls On Top Foam Party Huge phallic foam-

spraying cannons seem somehow out of place in a lesbian club 10.30pm £5/3/free SIDEWINDER Cider Festival Local DJs and local ciders Details tbc STANMER PARK Brighton Barefoot A 5k competitive run, or a 1k fun run - both without shoes 11am £10/free THOMAS KEMP Sunday Afternoon Jazz Jazz. In the afternoon. On a Sunday 4pm £free; A Bit Of Banter New comedy night with local and London stand-ups 8pm £free THREE & TEN Annabel Giles Talks Too Much Comedy show in which any and every question is answered - except ones about geography (upstairs) 7pm £9/7; DJ Ali Hatch Motown and funk (downstairs) 10pm £free TUBE Paul Woolford, Neal Lewis, Sam Watts, Yusuf Sebaiti Techno night 11pm £6/5 VOLKS Funkatech Records Bank Holiday Special: Napt, Pyramid, Specimen A, Cubit, Fatface, James D’ley, Scoundrel, Incyte, Miss Trouble Bass, dubstep and electro night 11pm £7/5 VICTORY Ale & Pie Festival Sussex ales and handmade pies Details tbc WHITE RABBIT Jazz Sundays 3pm £free XUMA Songs From The Canyon Live acoustic music with folk and blues DJs 5pm £tbc

monday 2nd

ANCIENT MARINER Quiz Night 8pm £1 BELUSHI’S BAR Now That’s What I Call A Party Part 2 DJ Sean plays eclectic pop 9pm £free BLACK LION Hit The Decks Open decks spin-off (book a slot online) 9pm £free BRUNSWICK Open Mic Night 8pm £free COALITION Best Coast, Spectrals Scuzzy surf pop 7pm £13/11; Trash Mondays Filthy tunes for students and layabouts alike 10pm £5/3/free CORNERSTONE Son Of Movie Bar So you wanna make it in the glamorous world of film? Go shmooze with the movers and makers and other out-of-work actors. Includes film screenings, q&a with directors and a movie quiz 8pm £free CONCORDE2 Aloe Blacc A new blend of old-school hip hop, jazz and soul 7pm £13.50 CUBE Monday Mischief Dance music DJs Time tbc £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Taxi Zum Kio 1.30pm; Farewell (L’Affaire Farewell) 4pm/9pm FORTUNE OF WAR Interpretations Throw Some Shapes DJs 9pm £free FRINGE BAR Sshwob Vs Koyannisqatsi Live interpretation of classic film soundtrack 7pm £3 GLADSTONE Open Mic 8.30pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Metal Mondays Metal bands and DJs 7.30pm £free HAMPTON Music Quiz 8pm £1 HOBGOBLIN Cheeky Pub Quiz (downstairs) 8pm £1 HOPE Barn Owl, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, Hexenverfolgung Doom-laden ambient rock 8pm £7/5.50 JAM Gonjasufi Warp Records’ inventive and paranoid hip hopper backed by live band 7.30pm £9.50 KOMEDIA UP Tim Booth Solo set from the former frontman of James 7.30pm £18 LATEST MUSIC BAR The Bell Jar: Madeline Heart, The Found Objects Band Dark folk singer supported by a comedy act, gramophone records and Swedish cakes Details tbc LIFE Jail Bait It’s a 90s club night. We googled it for more details and now our hard drives have been confiscated by the filth 11pm £2 LOLA LO Fat Poppadaddys Student indie night 9pm £3 PRINCE ALBERT The Bleeding Hearts Club Downbeat and melancholic acoustic music 8pm £3 R-BAR Quiz With Liz Details tbc SIDEWINDER Poker Night It’s about time for a gambling habit Time tbc £5 THEATRE ROYAL Avenue Q Musical about a lively New York street told with puppets and actors 7.45pm £13.5033.50 THREE & TEN SOS Sessions Acoustic Live music 8pm £free THOMAS KEMP Thru-The-Alphabet Quiz Night 8pm £1 VICTORY Ale & Pie Festival Sussex ales and handmade pies Details tbc VOLKS Strictly Reggae Dancehall, roots, revival 11pm £5/4.50

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tuesday 3rd

ABOVE AUDIO Audio Music Quiz 8pm £2 AUDIO Old’s Kool New old-skool night where old is the new new 11pm £3/2 BELUSHI’S BAR Totalled On Tuesday! Pop and dance 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Elements Drum&bass night 10pm £2/1 BRUNSWICK Jazz Jam Open session with house band 8pm £free CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK National Pub Quiz 8.30pm £1 COWLEY CLUB Wildkatz Project Open mic night 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 Rabbit Hole 11am; Farewell (L’Affaire Farewell) 4pm/9pm FIDDLER’S ELBOW Quizness Time Are you a pub quiz whizz, or bit of a half-wit? 8pm £1 FOGG’S Quiz Night Prizes for those who have the foggiest 8pm £1 FRINGE BAR Belleruche Tru Thoughts turntablism 8pm £12/10; Belleruche Afterparty DJ Hint plays hip hop, soul and electronica 10.30pm £free GLADSTONE Quiz 8.30pm £1 GLOBE Basement Cinema Underground films, comfy seats, free popcorn 8pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Kohwi Psychedelic sleep music 8pm £4; Hard Times “Heartache, struggle, misery and booze” - what’s not to like? 11pm £free HAUNT Dogging II: The Tony Yeboah Soundsystem, Murlo, Figure Of Wax Second run for electro bashment night 11pm £4/3 HONEY Rehab 101 New clubnight playing a bit of everything 10.30pm £3/2/1/free HOPE Slip Jam:B Hip hop battleground for Brighton b-boys 8.30pm £free HYDRANT DOWN Alex Bay Live blues soul band 8pm £free JAM SASS: Born To Be Wild DJs Alex and Dan Poole Time tbc £3.50 KOMEDIA UP The Leisure Society Polished folk-pop band 8pm £10 LECONFIELD Tuesday Teaser Pub quiz 9pm £1 LIFE The Vice Social Student dance party 11pm £3 LOLA LO Camera Sexy new clubnight run entirely by girls - good to see them having a little go 9pm £5/3 MESMERIST The Mesmerist Conjuring Consortium Club for magicians - watch and learn Time tbc £tbc PRINCE ALBERT Iris The Fool, Jane Doe And The Undesirables, Dan Scot Live music 8.30pm £4/3 R-BAR Karaoke Unplugged Details tbc RED LION General Knowledge Quiz Q. What general is a Detroit-based manufacturer of automobiles? 8pm £1 REVENGE Supersonic DJ Lee Harris 11pm £3/2/free SIDEWINDER Open Mic Night 8pm £free THEATRE ROYAL Avenue Q Musical about a lively New York street told with puppets and actors 7.45pm £13.5033.50 THOMAS KEMP Poker Evening 8pm £tbc THREE & TEN Harold Pinter Shorts Eight micro-plays from the master of the absurd 8pm £7

wednesday 4th

ABOVE AUDIO The Doctor’s Orders Sick hip hop 10pm £free AUDIO Supercharged: Benny Page Breaks 11pm £tbc BELUSHI’S BAR Now That’s What I Call A Party Part 3 DJ Sean plays everything from a-ha to GaGa - now that’s what I call eclectic 9pm £free BLACK LION Fresh Acoustics Live music 8.30pm £free BRIGHTON BALLROOM Joseph Arthur Ohio songwriter with a poetic bent Details tbc CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Rockbusters Rock and metal pub quiz with a ‘Name That Riff!’ round featuring a live guitarist 8.30pm £1 CASABLANCA Thanks For Your Request Live funk and Spanish flamenco music Time tbc £2/1/free CONCORDE2 Candi Staton Teen soul singer turned 70s disco diva turned 90s dance music vocalist 7.30pm £20 COWLEY CLUB Gabriel Kuhn Talk on the early German anarchist, Gustav Landauer Details tbc CUBE Cubism Soulful house tunes Time tbc £free DIGITAL The Poundance Imagine if Poundland had a dancefloor - top pop tunes for a pittance 11pm £4/3/1 DRUID’S ARMS Change The Tempo DJ night 9pm £free DUKE OF NORFOLK Pub Quiz 9pm £1 DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Rabbit Hole 11am; Farewell (L’Affaire Farewell) 4pm/9pm FISHBOWL The Mixer Men Hip hop, soul and reggae DJs 10pm £free FOUNTAIN HEAD Student Night Indie rock tunes Time tbc £free FRINGE BAR Grok Lectures Talks from the digital arts institute 7pm £free GLADSTONE Mellow Mix DJs 8pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Pocket Rocket’s Jam Open jam sessions 7.30pm £free; The Jazz Store Live jazz 11pm £free

HECTOR’S HOUSE Run Young Lovers, Arkland, Kinnie The Explorer Indie bands 8pm £2 HYDRANT UP Bloodstock Semi Finals A blood-letting ritual to appease the vengeful gods of metal 7.30pm £3 JAM Howling Bells Australian indie rockers 7.30pm £8; Decadent Nights: Coco De Ville 11pm £4 KOMEDIA DOWN The Blues Band A kind of supergroup of 1960s British bluesmen 7.30pm £22 KOMEDIA UP The Llamas American folk meets Euro electro meets Brazilian jazz 8.30pm £13 MESMERIST Swing Ninjas Uptempo gypsy band Time tbc £free PRINCE ALBERT The Fusion, New Sun Blues, Wired Desire Live music 8.30pm £4/3 RANELAGH The Peccadilloes Tribute to Dr Feelgood 8.30pm £free R-BAR Turning Tricks Pop and R&B from DJ Trick 8pm £free RIKI TIK Time To Awesome Future beats rub shoulders with their classic cousins 10pm £free SIDEWINDER The Sidewinder Garden Quiz 8pm £1 SIGNALMAN Quiz Night 8pm £1 THEATRE ROYAL Avenue Q Musical about a lively New York street told with puppets and actors 7.45pm £13.5033.50 THOMAS KEMP Kev’s Open Mic 8.30pm £tbc THREE & TEN Harold Pinter Shorts Eight micro-plays from the master of the absurd 8pm £9.50/7.50 XUMA Seven Dials Pub Quiz Cash-in the hitherto useless knowledge stored in your brain 8.30pm £1

thursday 5th

ABOVE AUDIO Maxxi Soundsystem Nu disco DJs 10pm £free AUDIO Absent Elk, Hold Fire, The Icarus Youth Pop rock from the land of fjords 7pm £tbc; Bastard Pop Musical mash-up 11pm £2/free BELL PUB Funky Red Dog & Gary Jones Pop art preview 7pm £free BELUSHI’S BAR Karaoke 9pm £free BLACK DOVE Super Mishto: Mr B the Gentleman Rhymer, Dimitri The Trumpeter Novelty ukulelist reclaiming hip hop for the upper classes 8pm £free BLACK LION Soul Casserole A melting pot of hot funk beats and soul grooves 8.30pm £free BRIGHTON BALLROOM Heather Peace Acoustic chill out music Details tbc BRIGHTON CENTRE David Guetta DJ with a head of hair to rival the mighty Matt Barker 8pm £25.33 BRUNSWICK Music, Magic, Mayhem Live music from Matallicats 8pm £5 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Brighton Bike Night Weekly biker’s social - leather, not lycra 7pm £free CASABLANCA Back2Basics: The Morning Orchestra Melodic indie band with a classic pop sound Time tbc £2/1/ free COALITION Secret Discotheque Retro disco, 80s pop and other ‘uncool’ tunes 10.30pm £1-4 CONCORDE2 Gentleman’s Dub Club, The Agitator High energy dub and ska band 8pm £7 CUBE United Nations Of House: DJ Jay North Credible house Time tbc £free DIGITAL Chock-A-Bloc: Toddla T New bass-driven clubnight featuring the bashment boy 11pm £7 DRUID’S ARMS DubClub Live reggae and dub bands 9pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Farewell (L’Affaire Farewell) 3pm/9.30pm; NT Live: Frankenstein 6.45pm FIDDLER’S ELBOW Live Lounge Live music 8.30pm £free FISHBOWL Residents Association DJs play hip hop, funk and world beats 10.30pm £free FRINGE BAR Catalyst Club Guest speakers give a short talk about whatever their weird obsession is 7pm £7; Shambush: Freak-O-Rama DJs and live bands 10pm £6 GLADSTONE DJ Night Hip hop, soul and funk 8pm £free GLOBE Hang The DJ! A night of punter-picked playlists 9pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Holy Vessels Live music 7.30pm £free; TRIIAL Genre-less dance party with a secret band and guest DJ 11pm £free HAND IN HAND You Dig? Cool cat DJ tunes from the 50s and 60s 8pm £free HAUNT Thursday Night Fish Fry Jamaican ska, R&B and rocksteady 10pm £3 HECTOR’S HOUSE Jam And Toast: The Wolf Larsens, Cosmo Live music fundraiser for SIFE Sussex 8pm £3 HOBGOBLIN Live Music Thursdays 9pm £free HONEY Exposed! R&B and hip hop clubnight 10.30pm £2 HOPE Shuga Buddha: Foxpockets, Public Service Broadcasting, Twin Brother, Ewan D Rogers Live music 8pm £3 HYDRANT UP Alasdair Roberts, Thirty Pounds Of Bone Scottish folk 8pm £11/10 JAM Thomas Truax Eccentric anti-folk troubadour backed by a host of homemade mechanical ‘band mates’ 7pm £6; Mr B The Gentleman Rhymer, Fungle Brothers, James Green Novelty ukulelist reclaiming hip hop for the upper classes 11pm £6/5/4 KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club: Holly Walsh, Linus Lee, Tom Roche, Rob Deering, Will Smith,

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Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 8pm £9/6.50 KOMEDIA STUDIO Hammer & Tongue An entertaining mix of poetry and comedic verse - hosted by Rosy Carrick and Mike Parker 7.30pm £5/4 KOMEDIA UP The Urban Voodoo Machine Twelve-piece gypsy blues band with a fat streak of dark humour 7.30pm £10 LOLA LO Kitsch Commercial but quirky clubnight 9pm £5/3 MESMERIST Dr Bluegrass & The Illbilly 8 Brighton’s busiest buskers - country standards and pop covers put through the hillbilly thresher 9pm £free PRINCE ALBERT Little Signals, Villareal, We Spies Live music 8.30pm £4/3 RANELAGH Hillbilly Deluxe Live Americana 8.30pm £free R-BAR Girls On Top Warm Up Pop and party tunes to get you in the mood for more of the same 9pm £tbc RED ROASTER Catweazle Club Intimate open mic for spoken words and music 8.30pm £4/3 REVENGE Girls On Top Loves David Guetta Well, someone has to, other than SOURCE’s editor James Kendall, who wishes he could kiss him forever 10.30pm £4/3/free RIKI TIK Das Club Robotique Upbeat post-disco DJ party Details tbc ROSE HILL TAVERN The Informers Live blues and soul 8pm £free ST JAMES’ TAVERN Stay Sick, Turn Blue DJs play vintage R&B, rock&roll and garage 8.30pm £free THEATRE ROYAL Avenue Q Musical about a lively New York street told with puppets and actors 7.45pm £13.5033.50 THREE & TEN Opening Night Showcase: Nicky Mitchell, Late Night Gimp Fight, Abi Roberts, McNeil & Pamphilon, Joey Page A taster of top fringe comedy acts 8pm £5 UNITARIAN CHURCH Strauss/Warschauer Duo With Merlin & Polina Shepherd New York husband and wife duo play Jewish music from the Yiddish, klezmer,and Hasidic traditions 8pm £12/9 VICTORY Open Mic 8pm £free WEST HILL TAVERN Open Mic 8pm £free WHITE RABBIT Open Mic 9pm £free WINDMILL Free Music Thursdays Juice FM presents an open mic followed by headline band 8pm £free XUMA Seven Dials Of Soul Resident DJs play funk, hip hop and electro 9pm £tbc

friday 6th

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ABOVE AUDIO Bar Sessions DJs Time tbc £free AUDIO Strictly Drumz: Delta Heavy 11pm £tbc BRIGHTON BALLROOM Supper Club Cabaret, burlesque and a three-course meal 7pm £34.50; Your Disco Needs You Decadent disco dance party 10pm £6 BRIGHTON BUDDHIST CENTRE The Edwardian Cello A musical soiree from 1912 wittily recreated by Michael Lunts 7.30pm £9/7 BELUSHI’S BAR Muy Loco Pop and house DJs 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Abandoned Rock and metal night 10pm £3/2 BLACK DOVE Hot-Tip Hi-Fi DJs play early reggae and rocksteady 8pm £free BLACK LION Medium Rare DJs serving up a platter of semi-obscure funk and soul 8.30pm £free BRUNSWICK The Lost Highway Americana night 8pm £5/4 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Shake ‘N’ Stomp Surf & twang with DJ Citizen Lane (downstairs) 9pm £free; Funny Girls Stand-up, sketches and music (upstairs) 8pm £5/4 CASABLANCA Oomphf Funky disco covers band 10pm £5 CHEQUERS Dr Bluegrass & The Illbilly 8 Brighton’s busiest buskers, hi-octane country standards and pop covers put through the hillbilly thresher Time tbc £free COALITION Fridays I’m In Love Somewhat eclectic clubnight with 60s gems, indie and funky funk 11pm £1-4 CONCORDE2 Rarekind UK Hip Hop Show Case: Phi Life Cypher, Rhyme Asylum, Fliptrix, Kashmere, Verb T, Special School, Scribe Tribe, Hazod, Hines, As If, Evil Ed, Fidel Cutstro, Neil B, Louis Headnod, Tyni Hip hop show 11pm £free COWLEY CLUB Fuck The Festival: Agatha & the Christies, Embla, Quickbeam, Dylan Nyoukis, Keston Sutherland, Alan Hay, Ben Graham, Andi Devine, DJ Mystery Lesson, DJ Tag-Team Holmes & Breakfast Music and poetry offered up as an alternative to Brighton Festival’s “middle-brow bourgeois crap” 7.30pm £donations CUBE Delirious House DJs Time tbc £free DIGITAL Stonelove Indie rock&roll club 11pm £4/3 DOCTOR BRIGHTON’S DJ Nick Hirst 9.30pm £free DRUID’S ARMS Maxwell House Reggae, funk and Motown and DJ 9pm £free DUKE OF NORFOLK DJ Cashback 9pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA 13 Assassins 1.30pm/6.30pm; Drive Angry 3D 11.30pm EASY BAR Pitch Slap! Swing and bass with DJ Arther Shillin’ 8.30pm £free FISHBOWL Keep It Wheel DJs plays rare disco, soul and boogie 9pm £free FOGG’S Sonic Fondu DJ night 8.30pm £free FRINGE BAR Club Carnival: Los Piratas, Carnival Collective, Boycom, AK/DK, Barulho, A State Of Mind, Father’s Grasp, Tracey Sullivan Band, James Riley,

Robin’D’Rich, Radio Giramundo, Baca The Baca, Graham Scullin A big one-off reggae funk party in the old Ocean Rooms to raise funds for Kemp Town Carnival 9pm £6-10 FUNKYFISH The Funkyfish Club Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10pm £4/free GLADSTONE Benny & The Gits Live music 8pm £free GLOBE The Stash DJs play rock&roll and northern soul 9pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Rolo Tomassi, Holy State, No Coast, Mega Shark Cut and paste hardcore rock 7.30pm £8/6; Matador Vs Anticon New clubnight meshing indie and hip hop 11pm £free HAMPTON Mod For It! DJ set of Motown, soul and ska 8pm £free H-BAR Aura: Steve Mansfield, Billy Mauseth, Mick Yeoman DJs play house anthems 9pm £free HOBGOBLIN The Justice Force Five Fancy dress party with local superhero disco rockers (upstairs) 8pm £4/3 HONEY Lollipop Get your fingers sticky to R&B, hip hop and pop treats 10.30pm £5/4/3 HOPE Stacked Nasty DJs play 50s R&B and 60s garage (downstairs) 9pm £free HYDRANT UP Woody Pines, Steven Finn Ragtime and rootsy Americana from North Carolina 8pm £11/10 IRON DUKE Nobody Has Good Taste Except DJ Phil - he likes rock and indie 9pm £free KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club: Kerry Godliman, Rob Deering, Will Smith, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 8pm £14.50/11.50 LATEST MUSIC BAR Jo Harman Bluesy rock chick Time tbc £10/8 LIFE Supercharged: Marcus Nasty, Spyro, Mensah If your garage was this grimey you’d have to beat your albino manservant for negligence 11pm £4 LOLA LO Tiki Beats Totally tropical tunes 8pm £5/4/3 MESMERIST Shake Holla & Roll Swing jazz and R&B geared around the dancefloor Time tbc £free NEPTUNE The Andy Smythe Band Live band 8.30pm £free OHSO SOCIAL Dirty Sunset Disco House and electro night with a sort of Baywatch theme 8pm £3 PRINCE ALBERT Bend Over I’ll Drive Rock&roll DJs (downstairs) 8.30pm £free; Austin Lucas, Digger Barnes, Mike Scott Live music (upstairs) 8pm £7 R-BAR Disco Bomb Banging club classics Details tbc REVENGE Lollipop Vs Lickz Upfront R&B and garage 10.30pm £6/5/3 RIKI TIK Ecletrik Electronic music DJ with a loose grip on genre 10pm £free ROSE HILL TAVERN Rory Mulligan & His Imaginary Band Live blues, folk and swing jazz 8pm £free SIDEWINDER Forgive Me Father For I Have Synthed Confess your shameful 80s love secret 8pm £free TERRACES Dinner Dance Party Eat, drink, dance Time tbc £25.95 THEATRE ROYAL Avenue Q Musical about a lively New York street told with puppets and actors 5.30pm/8.30pm £13.50-33.50 THOMAS KEMP DJ Night 9pm £free THREE & TEN The Big Smoke Play about a women’s descent into madness inspired by the lives of Virginia Wolf and Sylvia Plath (upstairs) 5pm £5; Harold Pinter Shorts Eight micro-plays from the master of the absurd (upstairs) 6.45pm £9.50/7.50; Late Night Gimp Fight! Dark and fastpaced comedy sketches (upstairs) 8.30pm £9/7; DJ NoMark Eclectic house beats (downstairs) 10pm £free; Red Brick Comedy Club Stand-up comedy done properly - in front of a brick wall (upstairs) 10pm £10/8 TUBE Motel New clubnight for electro house heads 11pm £5/3 VOLKS Future Dub 2nd Birthday: Mungo’s Hi Fi, Pablo Riddla, Unity Hi-fi, X-Nation, Kosine, Lost In Music, Lj, Mr Sleepz & Showdem, Arkitalsound & L-Drift, Sub:side, Trouble & Maniac, D:tek, Cutloose Crew, Voytek, Insight, Redford, Gremlin, Kingspinner, Lostkee, Daffydubz, Paperboy, Side:b Dubstep and roots all-nighter 11.30pm £7/5 WEST HILL TAVERN Envy Electro and hip hop DJs 10pm £free XUMA Super Mariott & His Bros Funk and soul DJ Details tbc

saturday 7th

ABOVE AUDIO Terrace Party DJs 4pm £free; Mex From Black Grass 10pm £5/free AUDIO Thomas Gandey 11pm £5/free BASEMENT Northern Soul One-woman theatre show about everyday adventures in the weird world of Northern Soul 6.30pm £10; My Stories, Your E-Mails Comical confessions from Ursula Martinez’s inbox 8pm £10; Survival Tactics An artist recounts her attempts to dodge categorisation and still be herself 9.30pm £10 BEACHIGOGO BAR Good Times DJs play retro disco classics next door to the Honey 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BAR Unplugged: Rocket Dogs Live acoustic duo 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Club NME Indie music 9pm £5 BLACK LION Burnt Toast DJs play sleazy soul and dirty breaks 9pm £free BRIGHTON BALLROOM Supper Club Cabaret, burlesque and a three-course meal 7pm £34.50; Pop Kraft Saturday Special! Boogaloo Stu and crew play pop tunes

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while you play with sock puppets and make badges out of porno mags 7pm £8/6 BRIGHTON BUDDHIST CENTRE Soulful Singing Funky and uplifting African harmonies 2pm £10/7; The Edwardian Cello A musical soiree from 1912 wittily recreated by Michael Lunts 7.30pm £9/7 BRIGHTON TOWN HALL The New World Order Five politically-charged short plays by Harold Pinter Time tbc £17.50 BRUNSWICK Mr Pineapple Head Clowning for kids 12.30pm £6; Andy Thomas: Boundstone Lane Awardwinning comedy set in Lancing, a place not often associated with mirth. Or awards. Or anything really 4pm £10/7.50 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Shades Of Blue Kerry Hodgkin sings the blues (upstairs) 4.15pm £6/4; Kiss Of The Red Menace Melody La Rouge’s tribute to the songs of Kander & Ebb (upstairs) 6.45pm £6/4; Seaside Sundae Lara A King hosts a night of comedy and music (upstairs) 8pm £5; Replica Goth and industrial night (downstairs) 9pm £free CASABLANCA Funky Fiesta: The Cover Up Live soul and Motown band Time tbc £7 COALITION Carnivalesque & Balkanesca: Merlin Shepherd And The Balkanesca All-Stars, Molotov Jukebox 10pm £10/8 CONCORDE2 Kings Of The Jungle: DJ SS, Micky Finn, Randall, Top Buzz, Nicky Blackmarket, Navigator MC Jungle roughneck royalty 11pm £8 CORN EXCHANGE Groupe Acrobatique De Tangier: Chouf Ouchouf Energetic Moroccan acrobats 6pm £20/15 COWLEY CLUB ABC Benefit 8pm £donations CUBE Simply House DJ night Time tbc £free DOCTOR BRIGHTON’S DJ Tony B 9.30pm £free DOME Asian Dub Foundation: Music Of Resistance One-off agit-prop event with collaborators including Jimmy Cauty 8.30pm £10-18.50 DIGITAL Pussycat Club: Ship Wrecked If your house was this dirty you’d have to call pest control 11pm £10/8/5 DRUID’S ARMS DJ Ben Murphy 9pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Aung San Suu Kyi: Lady Of No Fear Documentary profile of the Burmese activist 1pm £6-13; 13 Assassins 6.30pm EASY BAR Good Vibrations! Soulful party tunes with DJ Luke Braken 8.30pm £free FIDDLER’S ELBOW Saturday Sizzlers: Beans On Toast Funk, blues and reggae DJ set 9pm £free FISHBOWL Gareth Stephens DJ playing funk, nu-jazz and broken beats 9pm £free FOGG’S Sam Chara Live electro swing 8.30pm £free FRINGE BAR Secret Saturdays Secret Garden Party presents live bands and performers in the old Ocean Rooms building 10pm £12/10 FUNKYFISH The Funkyfish Club Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10pm £6/free GLADSTONE Live Bands & DJs Time tbc £free GLOBE Blacklodge Disco boogie DJ 9pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE 4thirtythree Improvised music and spoken word 7.30pm £10/8; Soul Casserole A melting pot of hot funk beats and soul grooves 11pm £free HAMPTON iLike Bring your iPod and play your own tunes - you might like it, but will anyone else? 9pm £free H-BAR Steve James, Billy Mauseth DJs play old school soul and funk Details tbc HECTOR’S HOUSE The Free For All: The Beautiful Word, Phantom Runners, Chemical Choir, Odd Red War Scars, Pitch Live music 8.30pm £free; The Free For All After Show Post-gig drinking and dancing 12midnight £free HONEY Hat Club: The BeatThiefs, Damien Stone, Vince Frimpong, Reservoir House, Jonny Hutson, Squiz & Ben G House hits and hats - Hat Club compilation release party 10.30pm £10/8/5 HOPE The Stash Indie punk night with bands and DJs 8.30pm £4/3 HYDRANT UP Die So Fluid, Idiom, My Red Angel, The Sculptures Rock bands 7.30pm £7 JAM South Coast Soul Revue Eight-piece soul band 8pm £6/5/3 KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club: Kerry Godliman, Rob Deering, Will Smith, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 7pm/10.30pm £18/15.50 KOMEDIA STUDIO Asta Nielsen Is Dead: A Silent Movie A silent movie takes form on stage with the use of projected texts and images 5.15pm £5; The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Company Comedy songs, sketches and violence 6pm/7pm £10/9; Maydays: Confessions!

Improvised comedy based on your deepest secrets 9.15pm £8; CBGBs Clubnight playing the best bands from the famous New York venue 10.30pm £3 KOMEDIA UP Comedy Club 4 Kids Comedy without the rude bits 2pm £8.50/6.50; Alive & Swinging Marilyn Monroe finds heaven a bore so hooks up with Sinatra and Elvis for a night 9pm £17.50; Alive & Swinging After Party Electro swing party with Arthur Shillin’ and Mr B The Gentleman Rhymer 11pm £6/free LECONFIELD MiTunes The latest skirmish in the war waged by the iPod against DJs 8pm £free LIFE Hold Up! Proper indie disco 11pm £5 LOLA LO Zombie Nation The dancefloor is never dead 8pm £6/4/3 MESMERIST Shake Holla & Roll Swing jazz and R&B geared around the dancefloor Time tbc £free NEW VENTURE THEATRE All My Sons Arthur Miller’s classic drama of conscience 7.45pm £9 PALMEIRA Hans Chew, Deer Park Americana songwriter 8pm £8/7 PAVILION THEATRE 5x15: A.L Kennedy, Fatima

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Bhutto, Lenn Sissay, Colin Thubron Five speakers each with fifteen minutes to spout off 7.30pm £8.50 PRINCE ALBERT Tales Of George, Tyrannosaurus Dead Live music 8.30pm £4 QUADRANT Vladimir McTavish, Anna Freyberg, Mark Restuccia, Matthew Highton, Clara Electra, Sajeela Kershi Stand-up comedy 8.45pm/10.15pm £6/5 RANELAGH Naomi Bedford & Paul Simmonds Country duo 8.30pm £free R-BAR Kinky Classics DJ King K plays funky house Details tbc REVENGE Kinky Dangerous Pop and R&B tunes 10.30pm £8/6/4/3/free RIKI TIK ALTA: Danny Williams, Harold Heath DJ night Time tbc £free ROSE HILL TAVERN The Stashtins Folk duo 8pm £free ST ANN’S WELL GARDEN Compagnie Carabosse: Jardin Flambeau Outdoor fire sculptures 8.30pm £free SIDEWINDER Night Of The Living Fred Name that tune to win a shot of Tuaca 8pm £free TERRACES Dinner Dance Party Eat, drink, dance Time tbc £25.95 THEATRE ROYAL Avenue Q Musical about a lively New York street told with puppets and actors 4pm/7.45pm £13.50-33.50 THREE & TEN The Simon Welsh Poetry Show Poet looks at the dreams and nightmares that we will to come true (upstairs) 1pm £8/5; The Three Englishman Comedy sketch show 3pm £8/6; The Big Smoke Play about a women’s descent into madness inspired by the lives of Virginia Wolf and Sylvia Plath (upstairs) 5pm £9.50/7.50; Harold Pinter Shorts Eight micro-plays from the master of the absurd (upstairs) 6.45pm £9.50/7.50; Late Night Gimp Fight! Dark and fast-paced comedy sketches (upstairs) 8.30pm £9/7; Red Brick Comedy Club Stand-up comedy done properly - in front of a brick wall (upstairs) 10pm £10/8; Matt Barker Magnificently turned out DJ with impeccable hair (downstairs) 10pm £free; Music Box: Improvised Musical Off-the-cuff comedy songs from a top-notch team comprised of The Maydays, Oxford Imps, Hoopla and News Revue (upstairs) 11.55pm £8/6 TUBE Kassem Mosse, Furreshu Deep experimental synth sounds Time tbc £5/free VICTORY Up Against It Born Bad DJs play an assortment of punky trash Time tbc £free VOLKS Proper Gander 1st Birthday: Voytek, Kosine Vs James D’ley, Ellfivedee B2b Mr Sleepz Ft Lethal Junkie, Phinga, Gremlin, Context, L.A.D.S, Alibi, Kruger, El Presidente Drum&bass and dubstep all-nighter 2pm £free WEST HILL TAVERN Duck Shoot DJ set of alt grooves and twisted funk 9pm £free WHITE RABBIT Mixer Men DJ night 9pm £free XUMA The Two Wrongies Comedy and music collide Details tbc

sunday 8th

ABOVE AUDIO Live Music & DJs 4pm £free BASEMENT Northern Soul One-woman theatre show about everyday adventures in the weird world of Northern Soul 6.30pm £10; My Stories, Your E-Mails Comical confessions from Ursula Martinez’s inbox 8pm £10; Survival Tactics An artist recounts her attempts to dodge categorisation and still be herself 9.30pm £10 BELUSHI’S BAR Now That’s What I Call A Party Part 1 9pm £free BLACK LION Live & Swingin’ Gypsy Jazz Live music 8pm £free BRIGHTON BUDDHIST CENTRE The Edwardian Cello A musical soiree from 1912 wittily recreated by Michael Lunts 7.30pm £9/7 BRUNSWICK Mr Pineapple Head Clowning for kids 12.30pm £6; Andy Thomas: Boundstone Lane Awardwinning comedy set in Lancing 4pm £10/7.50; Lianne Carroll Live jazz 8pm £12 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Shades Of Blue Kerry Hodgkin sings the blues (upstairs) 5.30pm £6/4; Matt Rudge: Half A Hero Comical tale about a man who loses half of his manhood (upstairs) 6.45pm £3/2; Seaside Sundae Lara A King hosts a night of comedy and music (upstairs) 8pm £free; The Geekest Link Possibly the only time in your life that anyone will care how much you know about Obi-Wan Kenobi 8.30pm £1; Kiss Of The Red Menace Melody La Rouge’s tribute to the songs of Kander & Ebb (upstairs) 9.15pm £6/4 CORN EXCHANGE Groupe Acrobatique De Tangier: Chouf Ouchouf Energetic Moroccan acrobats 6pm £20/15 COWLEY CLUB Strong Loopy Lashes Post punk psychedelia 8pm £donations CUBE Sunday Chill Laid back grooves Time tbc £free DOME Early Ghost Folk band who toured with Beirut (in the foyer) Noon £free; Sparky In The Clouds Blues folk band (in the foyer) 1pm £free; Orchestra Of the Age Of Enlightenment & Brighton Festival Chorus: Fidelio Beethoven’s only opera, centred on the plight of a political prisoner 7pm £12.50-35 DRUID’S ARMS The Sunday Sessions Live music 6pm £free DUKE OF NORFOLK Live Music Night 9pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Alice In Wonderland 3D 11am; 13 Assassins 1.30pm/6.30pm FIDDLER’S ELBOW Sham-Rock Open Mic 8.30pm £free FISHBOWL Recovery? Chilled reggae DJing from Asbest

The Moor King and guests 9pm £free FOUNDRY Americana Unplugged Live music 8pm £free FRINGE BAR Noise Toys Noise sculpture and electronics workshop 1pm £5/free; 8 Bit Beats Chip-tune and geekery themed electronic clubnight 8pm £6 GLADSTONE Professor Hardtimes Blues and soul 2pm £free GLOBE Rockoustic: Glen Belt, Joan Live music 9pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Sunday Service Live acoustic music 5pm £free; Green Door Blues: Smokestack, Jez Tonkin Blues band and DJs 9pm £free HAMPTON Live Music Sundays Showcase for local acts 8.30pm £free HAND IN HAND Live Jazz Living Room 8pm £free HECTOR’S HOUSE Tatty Seaside Town Indie rock night 7pm £tbc HONEY Afrodisiac If your house was this sexy you’d never go outdoors 10.30pm £2.50/2/free HOPE She Cries Acoustic Sunday Live music (downstairs) 8pm £free HYDRANT UP Hold Your Fire Melodic punk rock 7pm £tbc JAM Superheroes Vs Villians Fancy dress fundraiser 10pm £2 JUBILEE SQUARE The Boat Project Donate a bit of wood and it will one day become a boat Noon £free KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club: Rob Deering, Will Smith, Richard Rycroft, Jackson Voorhaar, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 8pm £11.50/6.50 KOMEDIA STUDIO Hugging Barb Wire Music and theatre about a bloke’s bipolar breakdown 12.45pm £6/5; The Nonsense Bleaky funny one-man character comedy 3.30pm £8/6; Maydays: Confessions! Improvised comedy based on your deepest secrets 8.15pm £8; Mr B Novelty ukulelist reclaiming hip hop for the upper classes 10.30pm £8 LECONFIELD Boozy Bingo Old is the new young 6pm £1 MESMERIST Swing My Roast Live swing and gypsy jazz 3pm £free NEPTUNE Nick Stephenson Acoustic guitarist 8.30pm £free NEW VENTURE THEATRE All My Sons Arthur Miller’s classic drama of conscience 2.30pm/7.45pm £9 PAVILION THEATRE Philip Hensher And Louise Doughty Two writers discuss their work 1pm £8.50; Derek Landy: Skulduggery Pleasant Murder mystery yarn from award-winning writer 2pm £5; 33 Revolutions Per Minute Billy Bragg, Dorian Lynsky and Luke Bainbridge discuss the role of the protest song 3pm £8.50; Linda Grant And Naomi Alderman Two writers reflect on the hopes and realities of university life 5pm £8.50; Jackie Kay And Helen Oyeyemi Literary talk with a novelist and a poet 8pm £8.50 PHOENIX BRIGHTON Still Life: An Audience With Henrietta Moraes Sue MacLaine celebates the 1950s artist’s model and girl about Soho 7pm £12/10 PRINCE ALBERT 14 Iced Bears Live music 8pm £6 QUADRANT Vladimir McTavish, Mark Cornell, Matthew Highton, Barnaby Slater, Neil Cole, Sajeela Kershi Standup comedy 8.45pm/10.15pm £6/5 RANELAGH Goofer Dust Live blues and country 8.30pm £free R-BAR Sublime Sundays Acoustic sessions 5pm £free; Karaoke Queens 8pm £free ST ANN’S WELL GARDEN Compagnie Carabosse: Jardin Flambeau Outdoor fire sculptures 8.30pm £free SALLIS BENNEY The Owl And The Pussycat Edward Lear’s classic poem retold with puppets and live music 11am/1pm/3pm £7/5 THOMAS KEMP Sunday Afternoon Jazz Jazz. In the afternoon. On a Sunday 4pm £free THREE & TEN The Simon Welsh Poetry Show Poet looks at the dreams and nightmares that we will to come true (upstairs) 1pm £8/5; The Three Englishman Comedy sketch show (upstairs) 3pm £8/6; The Big Smoke Play about a women’s descent into madness inspired by the lives of Virginia Wolf and Sylvia Plath (upstairs) 5pm £9.50/7.50; Harold Pinter Shorts Eight micro-plays from the master of the absurd (upstairs) 6.45pm £9.50/7.50; Cate Ferris Folktinged singer songwriter (upstairs) 7pm £7.50/5; SOS Sessions Acoustic Live music (downstairs) 8pm £free; Punk Strut: The Movie Musical documentary about punk rockers (upstairs) 10pm £9/7 VOLKS Soul Sunday 2pm £free WHITE RABBIT Jazz Sundays 3pm £free XUMA Songs From The Canyon Live acoustic music with folk and blues DJs 5pm £tbc

monday 9th

ANCIENT MARINER Quiz Night 8pm £1 BELUSHI’S BAR Now That’s What I Call A Party Part 2 9pm £free BLACK LION Hit The Decks Open decks spin-off (book a slot online) 9pm £free BRUNSWICK Televisor Retrofuturist music with Theremin and robots 8pm £8/7 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Shades Of Blue Kerry Hodgkin sings the blues (upstairs) 5.30pm £6/4; Best Of Whyteleafe Comedy Club Stand-up comedy (upstairs) 8pm £free; Kiss Of The Red Menace Melody La Rouge’s tribute to the songs of Kander & Ebb (upstairs) 9.15pm £6/4 COALITION Trash Mondays Filthy tunes for students and

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layabouts alike 10pm £5/3/free CORN EXCHANGE Groupe Acrobatique De Tangier: Chouf Ouchouf Energetic Moroccan acrobats 7pm £20/15 CUBE Monday Mischief Dance music DJs Time tbc £free DOME Who Is The Hero Of Brighton And Hove?

Speakers nominate, you decide. Will it be Simon Fanshawe or David Van Day? 6pm £free DRUID’S ARMS Quizageddon! 8.30pm £1 DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA 13 Assassins 1.30pm/6.30pm FORTUNE OF WAR Shakehandsletsparty A soulful funky mix from DJ Sue 9pm £free FRINGE BAR Smoke And Mirrors Comedy and magic 8pm £5 GLADSTONE Open Mic 8.30pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Metal Mondays Metal bands and DJs 8pm £free GREYS Gypsy Stars Traditional East European Romany gypsies - playing guitars, accordians and violins Time tbc £6 HAMPTON Music Quiz 8pm £1 HOBGOBLIN Cheeky Pub Quiz 8pm £1 HYDRANT UP The Black Spiders, Japanese Voyeurs, Sweet Ether Sleaze rock warriors 7.30pm £8.50 KOMEDIA STUDIO Art Theatre piece from Rasmina Reza centred around the pitfalls of honesty 7pm/9pm £10; Atters Attree’s Paranormal Terrors Who you gonna call? A tweed dandy with a waxed tash? 8pm £10 LIFE Jail Bait It’s a 90s club night. We googled it for more details and now our hard drives have been confiscated by the filth 11pm £2 LOLA LO Fat Poppadaddy’s Student indie night 9pm £3 MASTER MARINER Dario Fo’s The Open Couple Satirical play based on a battle of the sexes 8pm £6 NEPTUNE Live Music 8.30pm £free NEW VENTURE THEATRE All My Sons Arthur Miller’s classic drama of conscience 7.45pm £9 PAVILION THEATRE Copenhagen Chamber Ensemble Danish chamber group play the best of baroque: Vivaldi, Handel and Bach 1pm £8.50; House Short performance pieces, something like a scratch night 8pm £6 PRINCE ALBERT Iron Chic Live music 8pm £6 QUADRANT Helen Keen, Oliver Meech, Lenny Peters, Pete Campbell-Wells, Tony Bournemouth, Gareth Berliner Stand-up comedy 8.45pm/10.15pm £6/5 R-BAR Quiz With Liz Details tbc ROYAL PAVILION Lucy Crow, Andrew Staples, Malcolm Martineau Three young performers play pieces

by Schubert and Beethoven 8pm £30 ST BARTHOLOMEW’S CHURCH Monteverdi: Vespers From The Selva Morale Part of Brighton Early Music Festival 7.30pm £12/10 SALLIS BENNEY Carey Young & Immo Klink 6pm £7/4 SIDEWINDER Poker Night It’s about time for a gambling habit Time tbc £5 THREE & TEN Joey Page: Sparklehorse Supermind Comedy show from the surrealist dandy 9.30pm £7/5 VOLKS Strictly Reggae Dancehall, roots, revival 11pm £5/4.50

Tuesday 10th

ABOVE AUDIO Audio Music Quiz 8pm £2 AUDIO Old’s Kool New old-skool night where old is the new new 11pm £3/2 BASEMENT 5x5 Five performances in a fifty five minute show for an audience of five 3.30pm £20 BELUSHI’S BAR Totalled On Tuesday! Pop and dance 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Elements Drum&bass night 10pm £2/1 BLACK DOVE The Bell Jar Unplugged: Nick Williams, Justin Saltmeris Double bass and accordian blues folk Details tbc BRIGHTON TOWN HALL The New World Order Five politically-charged short plays by Harold Pinter Time tbc £17.50 BRUNSWICK Bellylicious: Confessions Of A DanceFloor Diva A bellyful of cabaret treats 7.30pm £12 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Skeptics in The Pub: David Allen Green Law blogger, Jack of Kent (upstairs) 8pm £2; National Pub Quiz (downstairs) 8.30pm £1 CORN EXCHANGE Talking To Terrorists: Peter Taylor, David Aaronovitch A journalist discusses his experiences of war and conflict 7.30pm £10 COWLEY CLUB Wildkatz Project Open mic night 8pm £free DIGITAL CU Next Tuesday It’ll teach the universities to timetable lectures for Wednesday mornings 11pm £4/3 DRUID’S ARMS Maybeshewill, You Slut!, Atlases, The Deal Was For The Diamond Post rock shoegazey stuff 8pm £free DUKE OF NORFOLK Open Mic 9pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA The Fighter 11am; 13 Assassins 1.30pm/6.30pm FIDDLER’S ELBOW Quizness Time Are you a pub quiz whizz, or bit of a half-wit? 8pm £1 FOGG’S Quiz Night Prizes for those who have the foggiest 8pm £1 FRIEND’S MEETING HOUSE Terry Seabrook’s Milestones Play Sketches Of Miles Live jazz by and inspired by Miles Davis 8pm £12/10 FRINGE BAR Drawing Circus Life drawing somehow incorporating theatre and burlesque 7pm £9

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GLADSTONE Quiz 8.30pm £1 GLOBE Basement Cinema Underground films, comfy seats, free popcorn 8pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Ear Pwr 7.30pm £free; Hard Times “Heartache, struggle, misery and booze” - what’s not to like? 11pm £free HONEY Rehab 101 New clubnight playing a bit of everything 10.30pm £3/2/1/free HOPE Cherry Suede, The Mars Patrol Acoustic set from a Canadian band who are pleased when they get compared to Bon Jovi 8pm £10 JAM Smack My Stitch Up: Sew Much LOL 90s night run by textile students 10pm £4/3 KOMEDIA STUDIO Passiondale, Minor Sounds Noise rock with improvised vocals from former Celebricide voyeur/ vocalist Tim Leopard 8pm £6/5 KOMEDIA UP Yellowman Rapid-fire Jamaican dancehall rapper 7.30pm £15 LECONFIELD Tuesday Teaser Pub quiz 9pm £1 LIFE The Vice Social Student dance party 11pm £3 LOLA LO Camera Sexy new clubnight run entirely by girls - good to see them having a little go 9pm £5/3 MASTER MARINER Dario Fo’s The Open Couple Satirical play based on a battle of the sexes 8pm £10 MESMERIST The Mesmerist Conjuring Consortium Club for magicians - watch and learn Time tbc £tbc NEW VENTURE THEATRE All My Sons Arthur Miller’s classic drama of conscience 7.45pm £9 PAVILION THEATRE Clara Mouriz, Joseph Middleton Young mezzo-soprano performs a mix of Haydn, Rossini and Schubert 1pm £8.50; Sadie Jones, Mirza Waheed Two writers discuss the problems of fictionalising experiences of war 8pm £8.50 PRINCE ALBERT Caladonians, Joan Live music 8.30pm £3 QUADRANT Gareth Berliner, Paco Erhard, Oliver Meech, Liz Skitch, Damien St John, Annabel Giles Stand-up comedy 8.45pm/10.15pm £6/5 R-BAR Karaoke Unplugged Details tbc RED LION General Knowledge Quiz Q. What general is a theory of relativity developed by Albert Einstein? 8pm £1 REVENGE Supersonic DJ Lee Harris 11pm £3/2/free SIDEWINDER Open Mic Night 8pm £free THEATRE ROYAL Circa Australian dance troupe do an arty take on circus acrobatics 8pm £5-20 THOMAS KEMP Poker Evening 8pm £tbc THREE & TEN The Big Smoke Play about a women’s descent into madness inspired by the lives of Virginia Wolf and Sylvia Plath 8.30pm £9.50/7.50; A Pocketful Of Dreams Short plays by students set in a variety of musical eras, including those of Bing Crosby and Def Leppard 4pm/6.30pm £7/4; Damion Larkin: Cuddly Winner A stockbroker re-examines his life after ditching his career to become a comedian 10pm £8/6

wednesday 11th

ABOVE AUDIO The Doctor’s Orders Sick hip hop 10pm £free AUDIO Supercharged: Icicle Breaks 11pm £tbc BASEMENT 5x5 Five performances in a fifty five minute show for an audience of five 3.30pm £20 BELUSHI’S BAR Now That’s What I Call A Party Part 3 Pop music 9pm £free BLACK LION Fresh Acoustics Live music 8.30pm £free BRIGHTON TOWN HALL The New World Order Five politically-charged short plays by Harold Pinter Time tbc £17.50 BRUNSWICK The Noise Next Door Improvised comedy egged on by the audience 8pm £8/6 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Rockbusters Rock and metal pub quiz with a ‘Name That Riff!’ round featuring a live guitarist (downstairs) 8.30pm £1; Spalien Acecraft Wacky childlike songs from becostumed band (upstairs) 8pm £free; Skitch Tease Naked woman plays comedy songs on tiny accordian (upstairs) 10.20pm £6/5 CASABLANCA Thanks For Your Request Live funk and Spanish grooves Time tbc £2/1/free CONCORDE2 NZ Shapeshifter Dub soundscapes and heavy grooves 7pm £10 CORN EXCHANGE The Pleasures And Politics Of Food Jay Rayner heads a discussion with a panel of foodie types 7.30pm £10 COWLEY CLUB David Berry A talk on homophobia in the French extreme left 7pm £free; Garfunkel & Simon EP launch 8pm £donations CUBE Cubism Soulful house tunes Time tbc £free DOME Gardenia Cabaret theatre starring an all-singing alldancing gang of aging trannies 8pm £7.50-18.50 DIGITAL The Poundance Imagine if Poundland had a dancefloor - top pop tunes for a pittance 11pm £4/3/1 DRUID’S ARMS Change The Tempo DJ night 9pm £free DUKE OF NORFOLK Pub Quiz 9pm £1 DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA The Fighter 11am; 13 Assassins 1.30pm/6.30pm FISHBOWL The Mixer Men Hip hop, soul and reggae DJs 10pm £free FOUNTAIN HEAD Student Night Indie rock tunes Time tbc £free FRINGE BAR Phoenix Gallery Drop In Arts Taster Workshops 12.30pm £free; Catalyst Club Guest speakers give a short talk about whatever their weird obsession is 7.30pm £7; Club Maassah! World music

clubnight, afterparty for Orcestra del Sol 10.30pm £5/free GLADSTONE Mellow Mix DJs 8pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Emil Friis, The Sea Will Decide Brooding country rock 8pm £6/5; The Jazz Store: Stu Blagdon & Steve Aston Django-style jazz guitarists 11pm £free HECTOR’S HOUSE Winterhours, Origami Dinosaur, Anagrams, Standard Lamps Indie rock night 8pm £free HOPE BIMM: Up & Coming Live music from the music college 8pm £tbc JAM The Watermelons, Ellekaye, The Vaudeville Antisweatshop clothes swap night with live bands 8pm £tbc KOMEDIA DOWN Barb Jungr: River Singer songwriter with a penchant for chanson 8pm £12/10 KOMEDIA STUDIO Me! Me! Me! Musical comedy from Mr B, Desmond O’Connor and Sarah-Louise Young 9pm £10 KOMEDIA UP Orkestra Del Sol Energetic live band mixing up carnival sounds with brassy ska and klezmer 8pm £10 MASTER MARINER Dario Fo’s The Open Couple Satirical play based on a battle of the sexes 8pm £10 MESMERIST Swing Ninjas Uptempo gypsy band Time tbc £free NEW VENTURE THEATRE All My Sons Arthur Miller’s classic drama of conscience 7.45pm £9 PAVILION THEATRE Leonid Gorokhov & Laura Van Der Heijden Classical duo armed with cello and piano 1pm £8.50; New Voices: Luke Wiliams, Naomi Woods, Stephen Kelman, Lisa Holloway Three authors read from their debut novels 8pm £6 PRINCE ALBERT Clowns, Nimmo And The Gauntlets, Sparrow, What’s Your Vice Live music 7.30pm £4/3/free PULL & PUMP Pickin Party Open session for US roots music 7.30pm £free QUADRANT Charmain Hughes, Sam Stone, Paco Erhard, Kate Roxborough, Pat Burtscher, Dave Stand-up comedy Chawner, Sajeela Kershi 8.45pm/10.15pm £6/5 R-BAR Turning Tricks Pop and R&B from DJ Trick 8pm £free RIKI TIK Time To Awesome Future beats rub shoulders with their classic cousins 10pm £free SIDEWINDER The Sidewinder Garden Quiz 8pm £1 THEATRE ROYAL Circa Australian dance troupe do an arty take on circus acrobatics 8pm £8-20 THOMAS KEMP Kev’s Open Mic 8.30pm £tbc THREE & TEN A Pocketful Of Dreams Short plays by students set in a variety of musical eras, including those of Bing Crosby and Def Leppard 4pm/6.30pm £7/4; The Big Smoke Play about a women’s decent into madness inspired by the lives of Virginia Wolf and Sylvia Plath 8.30pm £9.50/7.50; Damion Larkin: Cuddly Winner A stockbroker re-examines his life after ditching his career to become a comedian 10pm £8/6 VOLKS Stomp Out Cancer: Atomic Drop, DJ ButterFingaz Vs Psyklone, Deckheads, Tone Idle, Alex Shindig, Kris Dee, Crises, Papa Rudey, Hi-Def, Urban Culture Club Electro charity fundraiser Time tbc £6/5 XUMA Seven Dials Pub Quiz Cash-in the hitherto useless knowledge stored in your brain 8.30pm £1

THURSDAY 12th

ABOVE AUDIO Maxxi Soundsystem Nu disco DJs 10pm £free AUDIO PVT, Suuns, The Soft Moon, NLF3 Part of The Great Escape Details tbc; Great Escape Bastard Pop Afterparty Musical mash-up 11pm £2/free BASEMENT 5x5 Five performances in a fifty five minute show for an audience of five 3.30pm £20 BELUSHI’S BAR Karaoke 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Mutant Pop Poppy and alternative sounds 10pm £1 BLACK LION SuperJam Funk so rare it bleeds 8.30pm £free BRIGHTON CENTRE Mike & The Mechanics 8pm £40 BRIGHTON TOWN HALL The New World Order Five politically-charged short plays by Harold Pinter Time tbc £17.50 BRUNSWICK The Big Bite-Size Banquet Comedy show 7pm/9pm £15/10 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Seaside Sundae Lara A King hosts a night of comedy and music (upstairs) 8pm £free; An Audience With The Hee-Ha’s Improv comedy group (upstairs) 8pm £6/5; Skitch Tease Naked woman plays comedy songs on tiny accordian (upstairs) 10.20pm £6/5 CASABLANCA Back2Basics Soul and disco clubnight with live band Time tbc £2/1/free COALITION The Great Escape: Miami Horror, Frank Turner, Black Lungs, Fight Like Apes, Iiris Live music Details tbc; Secret Discotheque Retro disco, 80s pop and other ‘uncool’ tunes 10.30pm £1-4 CONCORDE2 The Great Escape: Radio Radio, Mz Bratt, Dels, Example Live music 7pm £tbc CUBE United Nations Of House: DJ Jem Credible house Time tbc £free DIGITAL Great Escape After Party 11pm £tbc DOME DJ Shadow, Beardyman New audio-visual show from the trip hop pioneer 8pm £15 DRUID’S ARMS Druid Presents: Wasp Factory Live music 8.30pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA 13 Assassins 1pm/6pm

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FIDDLER’S ELBOW It’s All About Jack! Bands and DJs pay tribute to Jack Daniels. It’s a celebration of a genuine folk hero and very much not a marketing event for a whiskey brand 8.30pm £free FISHBOWL Residents Association DJs play hip hop, funk and world beats 10.30pm £free FORTUNE OF WAR The Great Escape Details tbc FRINGE BAR Ninjatune Alternative Escape 8pm £5/free GLADSTONE DJ Night Hip hop, soul and funk 8pm £free GLOBE Hang The DJ! A night of punter-picked playlists 9pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE TRIIAL Genre-less dance party with a secret band and guest DJ 11pm £free HAND IN HAND Wolves & Leopards DJ Cut La Vis shares his collection of vintage reggae records 8pm £free HAUNT Thursday Night Fish Fry Jamaican ska, R&B and rocksteady 10pm £3 HECTOR’S HOUSE The Great Escape 8pm £free HOBGOBLIN Live Music Thursdays 9pm £free HONEY Exposed! R&B and hip hop clubnight 10.30pm £2 HOPE The Great Escape Live music Details tbc HOTEL PELIROCCO Brighton Album Club A classic album played from start to finish 8pm £free HYDRANT UP The Great Escape Live music Details tbc JAM The Great Escape: Sissy & The Blisters, And So I Watch You From Away, Young British Artist, Hey Rosetta!, In Flight Safety Live music 7.15pm £tbc KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club: Susan Calman, Fergus Craig, Kishore Nayar, Colin Owens, Paul Sinha, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 8pm £9/6.50 LIFE The Great Escape: Worship, Rebeka, Paper Crow Live music Details tbc LOLA LO Kitsch Commercial but quirky clubnight 9pm £5/3 MESMERIST Sneaky Low Five Live jazz and jive band Details tbc NEW VENTURE THEATRE All My Sons Arthur Miller’s classic drama of conscience 7.45pm £9 NIGHTINGALE THEATRE Poland 3 Iran 2 Two-man play about football, fatherhood and revolution 7.30pm £8.50/6.50 PRINCE ALBERT The Great Escape: PVT, Alpines Live music Noon £tbc; The Great Escape: Dry The River, Mechanical Bride, Monument Valley, The Mountains & The Trees Live music 7.30pm £tbc QUADRANT Gareth Berlinner, Jem Brookes, Liz Skitch, Bob Slayer, Anna Freyberg, Sajeela Kershi Stand-up comedy 8.45pm/10.15pm £6/5 RANELAGH Dave Peabody Folk and bluesman 8.30pm £free R-BAR Girls On Top Warm Up Pop and party tunes to get you in the mood for more of the same 9pm £tbc RED ROASTER Grit Lit: Neil Ansell, Ed Siegle, Tim Lay, Dan Tsu, Dan Holloway Live literature from a host of gritty writers 7.45pm £7/6 REVENGE Girls On Top Vs Emergency Room “Brighton’s biggest lesbian night” - there will be average sized lesbians too 10.30pm £4/3/free RIKI TIK Das Club Robotique Upbeat post-disco DJ party Details tbc ROSE HILL TAVERN Jackson Acoustic folk and blues with a gypsy edge 8pm £free ST JAMES’ TAVERN Stay Sick, Turn Blue DJs play vintage R&B, rock&roll and garage 8.30pm £free ST GEORGE’S CHURCH Trevor Pinnock & Friends Harpsichordist leads his chamber group to Purcell and Bach 7.30pm £17.50/12.50 ST MARY’S CHURCH Max Richter, Hauschka, Dustin O’Halloran A showcase of post-classical musicans from the local FatCat label 7.30pm £18.50 SALLIS BENNEY A Tale Of Two Peters: Peter James, Peter Squires Discussion on crime with a novelist and a gun crime expert 7pm £5 THEATRE ROYAL Circa Australian dance troupe do an arty take on circus acrobatics 8pm £8-20 THREE & TEN Bed & Breakfast A darkly comic story about village life 1pm £5; The Great Puppet Horn Satirical social commentary delivered by shadow puppets 7pm £8/6.50; The Death Of The Novel Cultural comedy show with an arty streak 8.30pm £8/6.50; Damion Larkin: Cuddly Winner A stockbroker re-examines his life after ditching his career to become a comedian 10pm £8/6; Punk Strut: The Movie Musical documentary about punk rockers 11.30pm £9/7 VICTORY Open Mic 8pm £free VOLKS Strictly Dub & Rockers Reggae night featuring Governorturbomatic, Lion Heart and F.I Rockers sound systems 10pm £4 WEST HILL TAVERN Open Mic 8pm £free WHITE RABBIT Open Mic 9pm £free WINDMILL Free Music Thursdays Juice FM presents an open mic followed by headline band 8pm £free XUMA Seven Dials Of Soul Resident DJs play funk, hip hop and electro 9pm £tbc

friday 13th

ABOVE AUDIO Bar Sessions DJs Time tbc £free AUDIO The Great Escape: The Recommender Vs Drowned In Sound Details tbc BASEMENT 5x5 Five performances in a fifty five minute show for an audience of five 3.30pm £20

BRIGHTON BALLROOM Carnivalesque Electro swing clubnight Details tbc BELUSHI’S BAR Muy Loco Pop and house DJs 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Abandoned Rock and metal night 10pm £3/2 BLACK DOVE Mo Taters! DJ set of 50s and 60s tunes from across the Americas 8pm £free BLACK LION Soul Casserole A melting pot of hot funk beats and soul grooves 8.30pm £free BRIGHTON BALLROOM Supper Club Cabaret, burlesque and a three-course meal 7pm £34.50 BRIGHTON BUDDHIST CENTRE Josh Peach: Light House Live music from six piece acoustic ensemble 7.30pm £12 BRIGHTON TOWN HALL The New World Order Five politically-charged short plays by Harold Pinter Time tbc £17.50 BRUNSWICK The Black Hats, James Bay Folk rock band 8pm £6/5 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK David Innes: The Untied Kingdom Britain’s intolerance of difference gets lampooned (upstairs) 5.30pm £free; From Head To Toe In Berlin 1930s cabaret with Maria Hackemann (upstairs) 6.45pm £6; Seaside Sundae Lara A King hosts a night of comedy and music (upstairs) 8pm £free; Distortion Rock and metal DJ (downstairs) 9pm £free; Joe Rowntree: Funny Man He’s a stand-up comedian, so he’d better be (upstairs) 9.15pm £4/3; Skitch Tease Naked woman plays comedy songs on tiny accordian (upstairs) 10.20pm £6/5 CASABLANCA Soul City Live funk and soul covers band 10pm £5 COALITION The Great Escape: Bag Raiders, Stopmakingme, The Radio Dept, Handsome Furs, Thus:Owls, Said The Whale Live music Details tbc; Fridays I’m In Love Somewhat eclectic clubnight with 60s gems, indie and funky funk 11pm £1-4 CONCORDE2 The Great Escape: 22, The Phoenix Foundation, Ed Sheeran, The View Live music 7pm £tbc; The Bays Improvised dance music with a live band 11pm £12 COWLEY CLUB Primeval Soup, Clear As Mud Benefit gig for Brighton AntiFascists 8pm £donations CUBE Friday Club: Cheets, Jonny Hutson House DJs Time tbc £free DIGITAL The Great Stonelove Escape Indie rock&roll club 11pm £4/3 DOCTOR BRIGHTON’S DJ Nick Hirst, DJ Wayne 9.30pm £free DRUID’S ARMS In-D Electro DJ night 9pm £free DUKE OF NORFOLK DJ Cashback 9pm £free EASY BAR Pitch Slap! Swing and bass with DJ Arther Shillin’ 8.30pm £free FIDDLER’S ELBOW Heroes Run 2011 Launch Party Music to make you feel super 7pm £free FISHBOWL Jeff Daniels Soul DJ 9pm £free FOGG’S Peter Von Sleaze DJ night 8pm £free FORTUNE OF WAR The Great Escape Details tbc FRINGE BAR First Column And Raygun Records Live music label showcase 1pm £free; Euphonios Records Live music label showcase 7pm £free; Back To The Future Club Live music showcase 7.30pm £5/free; Back To The Future Club Vs Tracks N Glitter Indie dance club 11pm £5/free; Zig A Zig Ah! Hits from the 90s 11pm £5/free FUNKYFISH The Funkyfish Club Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10pm £4/free GLADSTONE The Gyratory Allstars Live music Time tbc £free GREEN DOOR STORE Tongues Minimalist experimental sounds for the discerning clubber 11pm £free JAM The Great Escape: Baskerville, Dinosaur Pile-Up, Bones, Black Drawing Chalks, Hind Ear Live music 7.15pm £tbc HAMPTON Mod For It! DJ set of Motown, soul and ska 8pm £free H-BAR Deepconnection: Shepherd, Rusty Fox, Tom Vagabondo, A-Bee If your house was this underground you’d need a very long periscope to peer at your neighbours Details tbc HECTOR’S HOUSE The Great Escape 8pm £free HOPE The Great Escape Live music Details tbc HYDRANT Goodtimes Music Ska and reggae 8pm £free HONEY Lollipop Get your fingers sticky to R&B, hip hop and pop treats 10.30pm £5/4/3 KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club: Susan Calman, Paul Thorne, Paul Sinha, Stephen Grant Standup comedy 8pm £14.50/11.50 LATEST MUSIC BAR Ben Howard Singer songwriter with an outdoorsy take on life and a odd percussive style of playing guitar 2pm £6 LIFE The Great Escape: The Wave Pictures, Visions Of Trees, T3eth Live music Details tbc; Great Escape Afterparty: Mosca, Krystal Klear, Fantastic Mr Fox 11pm £5/free LOLA LO Tiki Beats Totally tropical tunes 8pm £5/4/3 MESMERIST Shake Holla & Roll Swing jazz and R&B geared around the dancefloor Time tbc £free NEPTUNE Papa George Boogie piano 8.30pm £free NEW VENTURE THEATRE All My Sons Arthur Miller’s classic drama of conscience 7.45pm £9 NIGHTINGALE THEATRE Poland 3 Iran 2 Two-man play about football, fatherhood and revolution 7.30pm £8.50/6.50 OHSO SOCIAL Dirty Sunset Disco: Dulcie Danger House and electro night with a sort of Baywatch theme 8pm £3 PAVILION THEATRE DJ Shadow In Conversation

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Talking about his work to date, especially his fancy new audiovisual show 2pm £10 PRINCE ALBERT The Great Escape: Gallops, Man Without Country, Hot Horizons, Ps I Love You Live music Noon £tbc; The Great Escape: David’s Lyre, Let’s Buy Happiness, Rachel Sermanni, Gwilym Gold Live music 7.30pm £tbc QUADRANT Paul F Taylor, Jem Brookes, Bob Slayer, Liz Skitch, Pat Burtscher, Sara-May Philo, Sajeela Kershi Stand-up comedy 8.45pm/10.15pm £6/5 RANELAGH The Beautiful Word, The Bobby McGees Brighton’s happiest indie pop band 8.30pm £free R-BAR Disco Bomb Banging club classics Details tbc REVENGE Lollipop Vs Lickz Upfront R&B and garage 10.30pm £6/5/3 RIKI TIK Ecletrik Electronic music DJ with a loose grip on genre 10pm £free ROSE HILL TAVERN Brostock 3, Steve & The Ghost, The Vinyls, Triple Chicken Combo, Grim & The Consequences Indie and doom rock bands 7.30pm £free ST BARTHOLOMEW’S CHURCH Spem In Alium: Forty Part Motet Horseshoe-shaped choir sings polyphonic Renaissance masterpiece by candle light 10pm £15 ST LUKE’S CHURCH Sebastian Stanley: Spanish Album Young concert pianist takes on pieces by Haydn, Liszt and Brahm 7.30pm £6/4 SIDEWINDER Forgive Me Father For I Have Synthed Confess your shameful 80s love secret 8pm £free TERRACES Dinner Dance Party Eat, drink, dance Time tbc £25.95 THEATRE ROYAL Circa Australian dance troupe do an arty take on circus acrobatics 8pm £8-20 THOMAS KEMP DJ Night 9pm £free THREE & TEN Bed & Breakfast A darkly comic story about village life (upstairs) 1pm £5; The Inside Man, The Interview A double-bill of snappy, twist-driven new plays by Matthew Turner (upstairs) 3pm £5; Thom Tuck Goes Straight To DVD A man goes mad watching too many shit Disney films and now he wants to tell you all about it (upstairs) 7pm £8/6; Pappy’s Comedy sketch troupe (upstairs) 8.30pm £9.50/7.50; Ruff Snippets Funk, soul and hip hop DJ set (downstairs) 10pm £free; Red Brick Comedy Club Stand-up comedy done properly - in front of a brick wall (upstairs) 10pm £10/8 TUBE Motel New clubnight for electro house heads 11pm £5/3 VOLKS Chapter II: Data, Morphy, Theory, Invisible Man, Sol, Carbon Residents DJs Jungle night 11pm £tbc WEST HILL TAVERN Brains Eclectic mish-mash from Superheroes of BMX 9pm £free WHITE RABBIT WTF One must deduce from the name that this electro DJ night will be wild tremendous fun 9pm £free XUMA Radio Reverb’s Big Night Out Acoustic sessions Details tbc

saturday 14th

ABOVE AUDIO Terrace Party DJs 4pm £free; Mex From Black Grass 10pm £5/free ANCIENT MARINER Ru Home, Bob Lane Live folk and jazz 8pm £free AUDIO Warehouse: Kill Em All House and techno clubnight - with Mex from Blackgrass playing rare grooves upstairs 11pm £5/free BASEMENT 5x5 Five performances in a fifty five minute show for an audience of five 3.30pm £20 BEACHIGOGO BAR Good Times DJs play retro disco classics next door to the Honey 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BAR Unplugged Live acoustic music 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Club NME Indie music 9pm £5 BLACK DOVE The Devil’s Music, Hot-Tip Hi-Fi, Mo’ Taters DJ night to celebrate the Black Dove’s first birthday 8.30pm £free BLACK LION Burnt Toast DJs play sleazy soul and dirty breaks 8.30pm £free BRIGHTON BALLROOM Supper Club Cabaret, burlesque and a three-course meal 7pm £34.50; Margot’s Departure Lounge Burlesque striptease, divas and DJs Details tbc BRIGHTON TOWN HALL The New World Order Five politically-charged short plays by Harold Pinter Time tbc £17.50 BRUNSWICK Music, Magic & Mayhem 3pm £6/5; South Coast Soul Revue Eight-piece soul band 8pm £6 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK From Head To Toe In Berlin 1930s cabaret with Maria Hackemann (upstairs) 4.15pm £6; David Innes: The Untied Kingdom Britain’s intolerance of difference gets lampooned (upstairs) 5.30pm £free; Nathan Cassidy: Fantastica! Edgy stand-up comedy (upstairs) 6.45pm £5/4; Seaside Sundae Lara A King hosts a night of comedy and music (upstairs) 8pm £5; Fire At The Old Mill New wave and post punk DJ (downstairs) 9pm £free CASABLANCA Funky Fiesta: No Town Like Motown Live soul and Motown music Time tbc £7 COALITION The Great Escape: White Denim, Foster The People, K.Flay, Sali, Starsmith DJ, Charli XCX, Stopmakingme Live music Details tbc CONCORDE2 The Great Escape: Malpas, Dry The River, The Antlers, Okkervil River, Factory Floor, WolfGang Live music 7pm £tbc

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COWLEY CLUB Second Hand Book Sale 10am £tbc; Club Zygotic 8pm £tbc CUBE PODEX: Howie D, Justin Howard Housey DJ night Time tbc £free DIGITAL Caribou, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Blah Blah Blah DJs DJ set from the dream pop weirdo 11pm £10 DOCTOR BRIGHTON’S DJ Tony B 9.30pm £free DOME Sufjan Stevens Folk songwriter now toying with drum machine and synthesizer sound collages 8pm £22.50 DRUID’S ARMS DJ NoMark Where’s Mark gone? 9pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Met Opera: Die Walkure 5pm EASY BAR Good Vibrations! Soulful party tunes with DJ Luke Braken 8.30pm £free FIDDLER’S ELBOW Molly Malone’s Decks In The City DJ night 9pm £free FISHBOWL Great Escape: Kill It Kid, Skinny Machines, Crowns On The Rats Orchestra, The Common Tongues, Daughter, Felix Fables, Jim Stapley Live music 1pm £free; DJ Åbo, Ally Smith Jazz Room DJs play dirty funk and hot jazz 9pm £free FOGG’S Vinnimile Live music Time tbc £free FORTUNE OF WAR The Great Escape Details tbc FRINGE BAR IRL Records Live music label showcase 7pm £5; The Best Of SXSE Live music showcase and afterparty 8pm £5/free FUNKYFISH The Funkyfish Club Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10pm £6/free GLADSTONE Bakk Lamp Fall, The Musical Teacher, Nuff Girls In A Bongle African fusion band with reggae DJs 7pm £free GLOBE The Great Escape 9pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Pop Not Pop Mixed-up pop music party mayhem 11pm £free HAMPTON iLike Bring your iPod and play your own tunes - you might like it, but will anyone else? 9pm £free H-BAR Burnski, Taymor Zadeh, Ministere, Paperboy DJ, Andy Mather, Saira These DJs play all three sorts of music: deep house, deep techno and tech house 9pm £5 HECTOR’S HOUSE The Great Escape 8pm £free HONEY Honey: Vince Frimpong, Vaughany DJs, Jon Byrne, Squiz & Ben G, Tom Maverick, Helene Funky house night 10.30pm £10/5 HOPE The Great Escape Live music Details tbc HYDRANT DOWN Caribbean Food & Acoustic Bands Jamaican fundraiser 3pm £tbc HYDRANT UP The Drop Dub, ska and reggae DJs 8pm £4/3 JAM The Great Escape: Yaaks, Dent May, Team Ghost, Dark Horses, Little Red Live music 7.15pm £tbc JAZZ PLACE Unhooked Generation Retro clubnight with an ear for 60s Motown and northern soul 11pm £3 KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club: Susan Calman, Paul Thorne, Paul Sinha, Stephen Grant Standup comedy 7pm/10.30pm £18/15.50 KOMEDIA STUDIO Witch! Born Bad and Da Doo DJs play the grrrly side of punk and pop, from Grace Jones to The Gossip 11pm £5 KOMEDIA UP Said The Whale Part of The Great Escape Details tbc LECONFIELD MiTunes The latest skirmish in the war waged by the iPod against DJs 8pm £1 LIFE Hold Up! Proper indie disco 11pm £5 LOLA LO Zombie Nation The dancefloor is never dead 8pm £6/4/3 MESMERIST Shake Holla & Roll Swing jazz and R&B geared around the dancefloor Time tbc £free NEW VENTURE THEATRE All My Sons Arthur Miller’s classic drama of conscience 7.45pm £9 NIGHTINGALE THEATRE Poland 3 Iran 2 Two-man play about football, fatherhood and revolution 4pm/7.30pm £8.50/6.50 OLD SHIP HOTEL Oscar Wilde’s Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime Stage adaptation of Wilde’s short story about a comically inefficient murderer 7.30pm £tbc PAVILION GARDENS 2 Rien Merci: Gramoulinophone French street theatre Noon/2pm/4.30pm £free PHOENIX BRIGHTON Still Life: An Audience With Henrietta Moraes Sue MacLaine celebates the 1950s artist’s model and girl about Soho 3pm/7pm £12/10 PRINCE ALBERT The Great Escape: And So I Watch You From Afar, Funeral Suits, Fionn Regan Live music Noon £tbc; The Great Escape: King Charles, Starfucker, Out Like A Lion, Moddi, Our Mountain, The Sounds Live music 7.30pm £tbc QUADRANT Juliet Meyers, Jem Brookes, Kevin McCarron, Bob Slayer, Joe Munrow, Sajeela Kershi Stand-up comedy 8.45pm/10.15pm £6/5 R-BAR Kinky Classics DJ King-K plays funky house Details tbc REVENGE Kinky Dangerous Pop and house tunes 10.30pm £8/6/4/3/free RANELAGH Simon Sparrow Blues guitarist 8.30pm £free RIKI TIK ALTA: MrCenzo, Will Sumsuch London DJ and producer Time tbc £free ROSE HILL TAVERN Afro Groove African music from DJs and bands 7.30pm £free ST NICHOLAS’ CHURCH Four Quartets TS Eliot’s epic poem accompanied by a Beethoven string quartet 8pm £17.50 SALLIS BENNEY Rachel Barnett: Draw Me A Bird Birdbased theatre piece for kids 11am/2pm £7/5 SIDEWINDER Shades Of Blue Jazz and rare groove records 8pm £free

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TERRACES Dinner Dance Party Eat, drink, dance Time tbc £25.95 THEATRE ROYAL Circa Australian dance troupe do an arty take on circus acrobatics 3pm/8pm £5-20 THREE & TEN Bed & Breakfast A darkly comic story about village life (upstairs) 1pm £8/6; The Inside Man, The Interview A double-bill of snappy, twist-driven new plays by Matthew Turner (upstairs) 3pm £8.50/6.50; The Train Job Comedy conspiracy caper (upstairs) 5pm £8.50/6.50; The Great Puppet Horn Satirical social commentary delivered by shadow puppets (upstairs) 7pm £8/6.50; Pappy’s Comedy sketch troupe 8.30pm £9.50/7.50; Juan Corbi DJ plays funk, soul and old school hip hop (downstairs) 10pm £free Red Brick Comedy Club Stand-up comedy done properly - in front of a brick wall (upstairs) 10pm £10/8; Off The Cuff: The Village Improv comedy group explore the sinister goings-on in an imaginary village (upstairs) 11.55pm £8/6 TUBE Jackmaster Dance DJ from the Glaswegian Numbers gang Time tbc £5 VICTORY :Kinema: DJ set of 80s classics from the Brighton pop band’s singer 9pm £free VOLKS MoJo To Go-Go: Andy R, Smart Phil, Simon Bridger, Colin Baldock Garage, psych and ska night 11pm £7/4 WEST HILL HALL The Karavan Ensemble: Anima Sitespecific performance using physical theatre, music and visual imagery to explore human nature 8pm £8/6 WEST HILL TAVERN Tonight We Fly DJs play literate pop for romantic indie kids 9pm £free WHITE RABBIT Mixer Men DJ night 9pm £free XUMA Special Guest DJ Details tbc

sunday 15th

ABOVE AUDIO Live Music & DJs 4pm £free BASEMENT Pop Up Cinema: Honey Award-winning Turkish father-son film 5pm £7/6; Pop Up Cinema: When China Met Africa Documentary examining the growing footprint of a global power 7pm £7/6; Pop Up Cinema: Fleurs Du Mal Drama looking at the role played by the internet in the 2009 Iranian elections 9pm £7/6 BELUSHI’S BAR Now That’s What I Call A Party Part 1 9pm £free BLACK LION Live & Swingin’ Gypsy Jazz Live music Time tbc £free BRIGHTON TOWN HALL The New World Order Five politically-charged short plays by Harold Pinter Time tbc £17.50 BRUNSWICK Mr Pineapple Head Clowning for kids 12.30pm £6; The Big Bite-Size Banquet Comedy show 2.30pm/4.30pm £15/10; Lucy Bundy Is Fake Bush Cheeky tribute act 8pm £10 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Best Of Whyteleafe Comedy Club Stand-up comedy (upstairs) 4.15pm £free; David Innes: The Untied Kingdom Britain’s intolerance of difference gets lampooned (upstairs) 5.30pm £free; Matt Rudge: Half A Hero Comical tale about a man who loses half of his manhood (upstairs) 6.45pm £3/2; Seaside Sundae Lara A King hosts a night of comedy and music (upstairs) 8pm £free; Sal & Steve Semi-sexual comedy double-act (upstairs) 9.10pm £free; Skitch Tease Naked woman plays comedy songs on tiny accordian (upstairs) 10.20pm £6/5 COALITION The Great Escape Live music Details tbc CONCORDE2 Mayday Parade, Francesqa Pop punk band from Florida 7.30pm £12.50 CUBE Sunday Chill Laid back grooves Time tbc £free DIGITAL Alternative Escape Matinee Show: Set Your Goals, Lower Than Atlantis, Decade American punk pop with hardcore tendencies 4pm £10 DRUID’S ARMS The Sunday Sessions Live music 6pm £free DUKE OF NORFOLK Live Music Night 9pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Burma Soldier Film about the former soldier and junta member who risked everything to become a pro-democracy activist 1pm £6-13 FIDDLER’S ELBOW Sham-Rock Open Mic 8.30pm £free FISHBOWL Recovery? Chilled reggae DJing from Asbest The Moor King and guests 9pm £free FORTUNE OF WAR DJ Derek Reggae DJ legend 9pm £free FOUNDRY Americana Unplugged Live music 8pm £free FRINGE BAR Number 9 Bus To Utopia Comedy from the creator of the Cheeky Guide to Brighton, David Bramwell 7.30pm £7 GLOBE Rockoustic: Duncan Disorderly Live reggae with loops 9pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Brave New World 2011 Sonic Circus Switzerland Alternative Swiss bands on tour 5pm £free; Sunday Service Live acoustic music 5pm £free; Green Door Blues Blues band and DJs 9pm £free HAMPTON Live Music Sundays Showcase for local acts 8.30pm £free HAND IN HAND Live Jazz Living Room 8pm £free HONEY Afrodisiac If your house was this sexy you’d soon wear out the wallpaper 10.30pm £2.50/2/free HOPE Swimming Indie pop cloaked in a MBV-style guitar haze 8pm £5 HYDRANT UP Mama Rosin, Robbie Skitmore Band Cajun and zydeco rock 8pm £9/8 KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club: Susan Calman, Rhys Jones, Javier Jarquin, Paul Sinha, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 8pm £11.50/6.50

KOMEDIA STUDIO The Silent Movie Experience David Watts jazzes up old films with breakbeat percussion, honky tonk piano and a comedic touch 1pm £8.50/6.50; Hugging Barb Wire Music and theatre about a bloke’s bipolar breakdown 5.45pm £6/5; Funny Women Awards Standup comedy from the ladies 7.30pm £10/8 KOMEDIA UP Baby Loves Disco Under 7s are introduced to the concept of clubbing 2pm £8; Movin’ Melvin Brown: Soul To Soul From slavery to soul music - via tap-dancing and comedy 3pm/8pm £10-17.50 LECONFIELD Boozy Bingo Old is the new young 6pm £1 NEPTUNE Boogie Woogie Group Boogie blues 8.30pm £free NEW VENTURE THEATRE All My Sons Arthur Miller’s classic drama of conscience 2.30pm/7.45pm £9 NIGHTINGALE THEATRE Poland 3 Iran 2 Two-man play about football, fatherhood and revolution 4pm/7.30pm £8.50/6.50 OLD SHIP HOTEL Oscar Wilde’s Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime Stage adaptation of Wilde’s short story about a comically inefficient murderer 3pm £tbc PAVILION GARDENS 2 Rien Merci: Gramoulinophone French street theatre 11am/2pm/4.30pm £free PHOENIX BRIGHTON Still Life: An Audience With Henrietta Moraes Sue MacLaine celebates the 1950s artist’s model and girl about Soho Noon/3pm/7pm £12/10 PRINCE ALBERT Das Racist, Suave Debonair Hip hop matinee 2pm £7; Marysia Band, JB Band Two folk bands from Eastern Europe show Brighton’s legions of gypsy bands how it’s done 7.30pm £5 QUADRANT Kevin McCarron, Mark Cornell, Charmain Hughes, Jason Manley, Oliver Meech, Ben Harrington, Sajeela Kershi Stand-up comedy 8.45pm/10.15pm £6/5 R-BAR Sublime Sundays Acoustic sessions 5pm £free; Karaoke Queens 8pm £free ST ANDREW’S CHURCH Unsung Heroine: Troubadour Beatriz De Dia Part of Brighton Early Music Festival 7.30pm £12/10 SALLIS BENNEY Rachel Barnett: Draw Me A Bird Birdbased theatre piece for your cute sprogatons 11am/2pm £7/5 THEATRE ROYAL Milton Jones: Lion Whisperer Standup comedian 8pm £15 THOMAS KEMP Sunday Afternoon Jazz Jazz. In the afternoon. On a Sunday 4pm £free; Tango Dance the night away 8pm £free THREE & TEN Bed & Breakfast A darkly comic story about village life (upstairs) 1pm £8/6; The Inside Man, The Interview A double-bill of snappy, twist-driven new plays by Matthew Turner (upstairs) 3pm £8.50/6.50; Tim Clare: How To Be A Leader Comedy and poetry about the uses and abuses of power (upstairs) 5pm £8/6; The Great Puppet Horn Satirical social commentary delivered by shadow puppets (upstairs) 7pm £8/6.50; SOS Sessions Acoustic Live music (downstairs) 8pm £free; 7th Funniest Show In the Fringe Is this comedy double-act self-effacing or just honest? (upstairs) 10pm £8/6 VOLKS Klub Revolution: DJ X, DJ Virus, Kaos & Red Eye, DJ Renstar, Nessy DJ, DJ Grimz, The Revolution 8pm £5 WEST HILL HALL The Karavan Ensemble: Anima Sitespecific performance using physical theatre, music and visual imagery to explore human nature 8pm £8/6 WHITE RABBIT Jazz Sundays 3pm £free XUMA Songs From The Canyon Live acoustic music with folk and blues DJs 5pm £tbc

monday 16th

ANCIENT MARINER Quiz Night 8pm £1 BASEMENT Aung San Suu Kyi: Lady Of No Fear Documentary profile of the Burmese activist 6pm £7/6; Pop Up Cinema: Professor Heard’s Old Curiosity Show Clips of circus-style freaks and other antique oddities 7.45pm £7/6; Pop Up Cinema: Professor’s H****’s Erotic Magic Lantern Show Watch what Victorian gents had to make do with to get their jollies 9pm £7/6; Spike And Mike’s Sick And Twisted Festival Of Animation Tasteless and generally offensive trash 10pm £7/6 BELUSHI’S BAR Now That’s What I Call A Party Part 2 9pm £free BLACK LION Hit The Decks Open decks spin-off (book a slot online) 9pm £free BRIGHTON BALLROOM Berlinernacht New show telling the tale of forgotten Berliners at a 1930s cabaret Details tbc BRUNSWICK Brighton Stanza Poetry group 7pm £5; Televisor Retrofuturist music with Theremin and robots 8pm £8/7 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Spalien Acecraft Wacky childlike songs from becostumed band (upstairs) 8pm £free; Bob Darwin: Look At The Teeth On That Spoof wildlife lecture from Aussie expert (upstairs) 9.15pm £free; Skitch Tease Naked woman plays comedy songs on tiny accordian (upstairs) 10.20pm £6/5 COALITION Trash Mondays Filthy tunes for students and layabouts alike 10pm £5/3/free CONCORDE2 Adam Ant (This show is now sold out) 7.30pm £tbc CORN EXCHANGE Charles Lineham Company: The Fault Index, The Clearing Double-bill of dance works 8pm £15/12.50 COWLEY CLUB Monty & The Puma Fruits, Me With Others Folk gig 8pm £donations

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CUBE Monday Mischief Dance music DJs Time tbc £free DOME Children’s Theatre: A Place On The International Stage? Discussion event (in the Founders Room) 11am £free FRINGE BAR Robin And Partridge Comedy night 7.30pm £5 GLADSTONE Open Mic 8.30pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Metal Mondays Metal bands and DJs 7.30pm £free HAMPTON Music Quiz 8pm £1 HOBGOBLIN Cheeky Pub Quiz 8pm £1 HOPE The Horn The Hunt Live music 8pm £tbc JAM I.O.U. Comedy: James Acaster, Ian Smith, Dave Thompson, Lloyd Griffith, Damien Kingsley, Andy Bryant Comedy from up-and-comers and already-theres 8pm £3 KOMEDIA DOWN Webb Sisters Folk pop duo 7.30pm £11 KOMEDIA UP Counterpoint: Zu Aerial Dance Company Dance duet with scary acrobatic stuff 8.30pm £11/8.50 LIFE Jail Bait It’s a 90s club night. We googled it for more details and now our hard drives have been confiscated by the filth 11pm £2 LOLA LO Fat Poppadaddys Student indie night 9pm £3 NEW VENTURE THEATRE All My Sons Arthur Miller’s classic drama of conscience 7.45pm £9 PRINCE ALBERT Chain And The Gang, Comet Gain, The Sticks Live music 8pm £8 QUADRANT Helen Keen, Quita Doubleday, Chris Norton Walker, David Hannant, Gary Southam, Lenny Stand-up comedy Peters, Gareth Berliner 8.45pm/10.15pm £6/5 R-BAR Quiz With Liz Details tbc ST BARTHOLOMEW’S CHURCH The Secret Life Of Nuns! Part of Brighton Early Music Festival 7.30pm £12/10 SIDEWINDER Poker Night It’s about time for a gambling habit Time tbc £5 THOMAS KEMP Thru-The-Alphabet Quiz Night 8pm £1 THREE & TEN Joey Page: Sparklehorse Supermind Comedy show from the surrealist dandy 9.30pm £7/5 VOLKS Strictly Reggae Dancehall, roots, revival 11pm £5/4.50

Tuesday 17th

ABOVE AUDIO Audio Music Quiz 8pm £2 AUDIO Old’s Kool New old-skool night where old is the new new 11pm £3/2 BASEMENT Pop Up Cinema: Civic Life A series of films made with local residents and community groups 6pm £7/6; Pop Up Cinema: Selected Films from artists shortlisted for last year’s Jarman Award 8pm £7/6; Pop Up Cinema: Spike And Mike’s Sick And Twisted Festival Of Animation Tasteless and generally offensive trash 10pm £7/6 BELUSHI’S BAR Totalled On Tuesday! Pop and dance 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Elements Drum&bass night 10pm £2/1 BRIGHTON BALLROOM Berlinernacht New show telling the tale of forgotten Berliners at a 1930s cabaret Details tbc BRIGHTON TOWN HALL The New World Order Five politically-charged short plays by Harold Pinter Time tbc £17.50 BRUNSWICK Sonny Spells: Are You Game? Cheesy comedy camp 4pm £12/10; The Big Bite-Size Banquet Comedy show 7pm/9pm £15/10 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Moz & Shmozle Standup, songs and sketches from anarchic double-act (upstairs) 4.15pm £free; Snigger Happy Up and coming stand-ups (upstairs) 5.30pm £free; Good Time Charlie’s Got The Blues New play about self-loathing in Las Vegas (upstairs) 6.45pm £5/4; Spalien Acecraft Wacky childlike songs from becostumed band (upstairs) 8pm £free; National Pub Quiz (downstairs) 8.30pm £1; Bob Darwin: Look At The Teeth On That Spoof wildlife lecture from Aussie expert (upstairs) 9.15pm £free; Skitch Tease Naked woman plays comedy songs on tiny accordian 10.20pm £6/5 CORN EXCHANGE What Next?: The Future of Burma Discussion event 7.30pm £10 COWLEY CLUB United Fruit, P For Persia Live music 8pm £tbc DIGITAL CU Next Tuesday It’ll teach the universities to timetable lectures for Wednesday mornings 11pm £4/3 DOME Richard Hahlo & Jem Wall: The New World Order Discussion about Hydrocracker’s revival of Harold Pinter plays (in the Founders Room) 11am £free DUKE OF NORFOLK Open Mic 9pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA The Moon Inside You 6.30pm FIDDLER’S ELBOW Quizness Time Are you a pub quiz whizz, or bit of a half-wit? 8pm £1 FOGG’S Quiz Night Prizes for those who have the foggiest 8pm £tbc FRINGE BAR Miss Demeanor (downstairs) 7pm £9; Robin And Partridge Comedy night 7pm £5 GLADSTONE Quiz 8.30pm £1 GLOBE Basement Cinema Underground films, comfy seats, free popcorn 8pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Peter Case & Luke Hyttner’s Colour Club 7.30pm £tbc; Hard Times “Heartache, struggle, misery and booze” - what’s not to like? 11pm £free HECTOR’S HOUSE The Lanes Indie band Details tbc HONEY Rehab 101 New clubnight playing a bit of everything 10.30pm £3/2/1/free

HOPE Caleb Hawley, Alex Berger, Chrissi Poland A trio of NY singer songwriters 8pm £tbc JAM DrinkyDoodle Music and drawing games 8pm £free KOMEDIA DOWN Terry Reid The rock and soul singer they call ‘Superlungs’ 8pm £17.50 KOMEDIA UP Steve Mason Solo set from the singer of the Beta Band 7.30pm £12 LECONFIELD Tuesday Teaser Pub quiz 9pm £1 LIFE The Vice Social Student dance party 11pm £3 LOLA LO Camera Sexy new clubnight run entirely by girls - good to see them having a little go 9pm £5/3 MASTER MARINER Dario Fo’s The Open Couple Satirical play based on a battle of the sexes 8pm £10 MESMERIST The Mesmerist Conjuring Consortium Club for magicians - watch and learn Time tbc £tbc NEW VENTURE THEATRE All My Sons Arthur Miller’s classic drama of conscience 7.45pm £9 PAVILION THEATRE And The Horse You Rode In On: A Sequence Of Serious Follies Darkly comic exploration of extremism and belief 8pm £15 PRINCE ALBERT Dead Empire, Death Ape Disco, Lights Camera Attraction Live music 8.30pm £4/3 QUADRANT Paul Ricketts, Mark Jeary, Moz, Pete Campbell-Wells, Darren Maskell, Annabel Giles Standup comedy 8.45pm/10.15pm £6/5 RED LION General Knowledge Quiz Q. What general is a hospital set up to deal with a wide range of injuries and diseases? 8pm £1 R-BAR Karaoke Unplugged Details tbc REVENGE Supersonic DJ Lee Harris11pm £3/2/free ROYAL PAVILION Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet 8pm £30 SALLIS BENNEY Spring Awakening Musical based on Frank Wedekind’s controversial 1890s’ play about teenage sexuality 7.30pm £14/10 SIDEWINDER Open Mic Night 8pm £free THEATRE ROYAL Midsummer: A Play With Songs Musical comedy about a New Town relationship 8pm £5-15 THOMAS KEMP Poker Evening 8pm £tbc THREE AND TEN Phillipa And Will Are In A Relationship Just in case you’ve not had enough FMLs from recentlydumped friends, now you can watch the story of a rocky romance told entirely through Facebook updates 1pm £5; Abi Takes You Up The Aisle A musical journey to the altar 7pm £8/6.50; The Inside Man, The Interview A double-bill of snappy, twist-driven new plays by Matthew Turner 8.30pm £8.50/6.50; Music Box: Improvised Musical Off-the-cuff comedy songs from a top-notch team comprised of The Maydays, Oxford Imps, Hoopla and News Revue 10pm £8/6

wednesday 18th

ABOVE AUDIO The Doctor’s Orders Sick hip hop 10pm £free AUDIO Supercharged Breaks 11pm £tbc BASEMENT 10 Ways To Die On Stage Edward Rapley toys with storytelling, comedy and clowning 7.30pm £10; The Art Of Laughter Jocular lecture about whether or not we have the choice to laugh 9pm £15 BELUSHI’S BAR Now That’s What I Call A Party Part 3 9pm £free BLACK LION Fresh Acoustics Live music 8.30pm £free BRIGHTON BALLROOM Berlinernacht New show telling the tale of forgotten Berliners at a 1930s cabaret Details tbc BRIGHTON TOWN HALL The New World Order Five politically-charged short plays by Harold Pinter Time tbc £17.50 BRUNSWICK Sonny Spells: Are You Game? Cheesy comedy camp 4pm £12/10; The Noise Next Door Improvised comedy egged on by the audience 8pm £8/6 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Moz & Shmozle Standup, songs and sketches from anarchic double-act (upstairs) 4.15pm £free; Snigger Happy Up and coming stand-ups (upstairs) 5.30pm £free; Good Time Charlie’s Got The Blues New play about self-loathing in Las Vegas (upstairs) 6.45pm £5/4; Best Of Whyteleafe Comedy Club Standup comedy (upstairs) 8pm £free; Rockbusters Rock and metal pub quiz with a ‘Name That Riff!’ round featuring a live guitarist (downstairs) 8.30pm £1; Bob Darwin: Look At The Teeth On That Spoof wildlife lecture from Aussie expert (upstairs) 9.15pm £free; Bethany Black: Black Rainbow Stand-up comic looks at the state of the world and despairs (upstairs) 10.30pm £6/5 CASABLANCA Thanks For Your Request Live funk and Spanish grooves Time tbc £2/1/free COALITION Kora Festival Launch: Jali Burama Mbye, Jally Kebba Susso, Kadialy Kouyate, African Night Fever Traditional West African music 8pm £10/8 CONCORDE2 Hayseed Dixie Hillbilly tribute to AC/DC 7.30pm £15 CORN EXCHANGE Carol Ann Duffy Readings and discussion with the Poet Laureate 8pm £10 COWLEY CLUB Clothes Swap 6pm £tbc CUBE Cubism Soulful house tunes Time tbc £free DIGITAL The Poundance Imagine if Poundland had a dancefloor - top pop tunes for a pittance 11pm £4/3/1 DOME Told By An Idiot: Morning After Told By An Idiot discuss their festival residency (in the Founders Room) 11am £free; Apocrifu Dance theatre with a Corsican choir 8pm £7.50-18.50 DRUID’S ARMS Change The Tempo DJ night 9pm £free DUKE OF NORFOLK Pub Quiz 9pm £1 FISHBOWL The Mixer Men Hip hop, soul and reggae DJs

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10pm £free FOUNTAIN HEAD Student Night Indie rock tunes Time tbc £free FRINGE BAR Drawing Circus Life drawing somehow incorporating theatre and burlesque 7pm £9; As With Colour So With Sound 60s AV spectacular with Simon Sound and DJ Format 9.30pm £6 GLADSTONE Mellow Mix DJs 8pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Narrows Live music 7.30pm £6.50; The Jazz Store: Lawrence Jones, Brighton Jazz Allstars Live jazz 11pm £free HOPE Strobe Circus, Trails, 21 Gun Salute Dub and drum&bass fusion band 8pm £4/3 JAM Nordic Giants, Kinnie The Explorer Acoustic ambient duo 7pm £3 KOMEDIA DOWN New Act Night Jill Edwards shows off her new crop of comic talent 8pm £7/5 KOMEDIA UP The Woods: The Muel, Moulettes The venue turned into a forest full of musical and theatrical surprises 7.30pm £7 MASTER MARINER Dario Fo’s The Open Couple Satirical play based on a battle of the sexes 8pm £10 MESMERIST Swing Ninjas Uptempo gypsy band Time tbc £free NEW VENTURE THEATRE All My Sons Arthur Miller’s classic drama of conscience 7.45pm £9 OLD SHIP HOTEL The Cock And Tail Inn Nostalgic sitcom-style comedy show set in a 1970s Somerset pub 7.45pm £10/8 PAVILION THEATRE Finzi Quartet Music by Mendelssohn and Ravel 1pm £8.50; And The Horse You Rode In On: A Sequence Of Serious Follies Darkly comic exploration of extremism and belief 8pm £15 PRINCE ALBERT David Thomas Broughton, Sarabeth Tucek Experimental songwriter 8pm £9/8 QUADRANT Neil McFarlane, Sam Stone, Kate Roxborough, Lou Sanders, Jessica Forteskew, Sajeela Kershi Stand-up comedy 8.45pm/10.15pm £6/5 R-BAR Turning Tricks Pop and R&B from DJ Trick 8pm £free RIKI TIK Time To Awesome Future beats rub shoulders with their classic cousins 10pm £free SALLIS BENNEY Spring Awakening Musical based on Frank Wedekind’s controversial 1890s’ play about teenage sexuality 7.30pm £14/10 SIDEWINDER The Sidewinder Garden Quiz 8pm £1 SIGNALMAN Quiz Night 8pm £1 THEATRE ROYAL Midsummer: A Play With Songs Musical comedy about a New Town relationship 8pm £5-15 THOMAS KEMP Kev’s Open Mic 8.30pm £tbc THREE & TEN Phillipa And Will Are In A Relationship Just in case you’ve not had enough FMLs from recentlydumped friends, now you can watch the story of a rocky romance told entirely through Facebook updates 1pm £5; Abi Takes You Up The Aisle A musical journey to the altar 7pm £8/6.50; 7th Funniest Show In the Fringe Is this comedy double-act self-effacing or just honest? 8.30pm £8/6; The Real MacGuffins Comedy sketch show 10pm £7/5 XUMA Seven Dials Pub Quiz Cash-in the hitherto useless knowledge stored in your brain 8.30pm £1

thursday 19th

ABOVE AUDIO Maxxi Soundsystem Nu disco DJs 10pm £free AUDIO Ra Ra Riot US indie rock band 7pm £tbc; Bastard Pop Musical mash-up 11pm £2/free BASEMENT 10 Ways To Die On Stage Edward Rapley toys with storytelling, comedy and clowning 7.30pm £10; The Art Of Laughter Jocular lecture about whether or not we have the choice to laugh 9pm £15 BELUSHI’S BAR Karaoke 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Mutant Pop Poppy and alternative sounds 10pm £1 BLACK LION Attic Monkeys Hey, check out my record collection! 9pm £free BRIGHTON BALLROOM Berlinernacht New show telling the tale of forgotten Berliners at a 1930s cabaret Details tbc BRIGHTON TOWN HALL The New World Order Five politically-charged short plays by Harold Pinter Time tbc £17.50 BRUNSWICK Sonny Spells: Are You Game? Cheesy comedy camp 4pm £12/10; Jordan Reyne Folk tales, acoustic loops and Celtic melodies 7pm/9pm £5 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Moz & Shmozle Standup, songs and sketches from anarchic double-act (upstairs) 4.15pm £free; Snigger Happy Up and coming stand-ups (upstairs) 5.30pm £free; Good Time Charlie’s Got The Blues New play about self-loathing in Las Vegas (upstairs) 6.45pm £5/4; Bob Darwin: Look At The Teeth On That Spoof wildlife lecture from Aussie expert (upstairs) 9.15pm £free; Bethany Black: Black Rainbow Stand-up comic looks at the state of the world and despairs (upstairs) 10.30pm £6/5 CASABLANCA Back2Basics Soul and disco clubnight with live band Time tbc £2/1/free COALITION Secret Discotheque Retro disco, 80s pop and other ‘uncool’ tunes 10.30pm £1-4 CONCORDE2 Show Of Hands, Miranda Sykes, Rodney Branigan West Country folk duo 7.30pm £16 CORN EXCHANGE Christopher Maltman & Joseph Middleton Classical concert with pianist and baritone singer

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7.30pm £20/15 CUBE United Nations Of House: M4JO, Muerto Credible house Time tbc £free DOME Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui: Morning After Dancer and choreographer discusses their show, Apocrifu (in the Founders Room) 11am £free; Donna Fullman Acoustic indie folk (in the foyer) Noon £free; Giant Sand, Devon Sproule Alt-country Americana 8pm £18/16 DRUID’S ARMS Up C Down C, Colonics, Overhead, The Albatross, Angles Post rock shoegazey stuff 8pm £free FIDDLER’S ELBOW It’s All About Jack! Bands and DJs pay tribute to Jack Daniels 8.30pm £free FISHBOWL Residents Association DJs play hip hop, funk and world beats 10.30pm £free FOGG’S Open Mic Night 8pm £free FRINGE BAR Catalyst Club Guest speakers give a short talk about whatever their weird obsession is 7pm £7;

Dukebox 70s theme party with live funk 10pm £6 GLADSTONE DJ Night Hip hop, soul and funk 8pm £free GLOBE Hang The DJ! A night of punter-picked playlists 9pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE 4thirtythree Improvised music and spoken word 7.30pm £8/6; Paradise City New cockrock night (see club previews) 11pm £free HAND IN HAND Cross-Continental Road Trip World music and international psychedelia 8pm £free HAUNT Thursday Night Fish Fry Jamaican ska, R&B and rocksteady 10pm £3 HECTOR’S HOUSE Press To Meco, Lights Of Paris, Under The Steel Sky, Odd Red War Scars Alternative rock bands 7pm £5 HOBGOBLIN Live Music Thursdays 9pm £free HONEY Exposed! R&B and hip hop clubnight 10.30pm £2 HOPE :Kinema: Local pop band treading the fine line between irony and 80s disco 8pm £tbc HOTEL PELIROCCO Synthesize Me: Thomas H Green, Tom Mugridge, Mat Hay DJ night with era-spanning electronic music and psychedelic light show 8pm £free JAM Les Petites Parisiennes French burlesque acts 8.30pm £8 KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club: Jen Brister, Robert Commiskey, Doc Brown, Chris Ramsey, Owen O’Neil, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 8pm £9/6.50 KOMEDIA UP Russel Kane: Smokescreens & Castles (This show has sold out) 8pm £tbc LOLA LO Kitsch Commercial but quirky clubnight 9pm £5/3 MESMERIST Dr Bluegrass & The Illbilly 8 Brighton’s busiest buskers - country standards and pop covers put through the hillbilly thresher 9pm £free NEW VENTURE THEATRE All My Sons Arthur Miller’s classic drama of conscience 7.45pm £9 OLD COURTROOM Vita! Multimedia-enhanced physical theatre exploring ideas of cellular and spiritual rebirth 5.30pm £10/8 OLD SHIP HOTEL The Cock And Tail Inn Nostalgic sitcom-style comedy show set in a 1970s Somerset pub 7.45pm £7/6 PAVILION THEATRE Milos Karadaglic Montenegran guitar virtuoso 1pm £8.50; And The Horse You Rode In On: A Sequence Of Serious Follies Darkly comic exploration of extremism and belief 8pm £15 PRINCE ALBERT Pablo And The Paint Sets, Holland Live music 8.30pm £4/3 QUADRANT Kevin Dewsbury, Richard Fox, Jem Brookes, Anthony Miller, Richard Rycroft, Paul Langton, Sajeela Kershi Stand-up comedy 8.45pm/10.15pm £6/5 RANELAGH The Diablos Live country rock 8.30pm £free R-BAR Girls On Top Warm Up Pop and party tunes to get you in the mood for more of the same 9pm £tbc RED ROASTER Catweazle Club Intimate open mic for spoken words and music 8.30pm £4/3 REVENGE Girls On Top Vs Emergency Room “Brighton’s biggest lesbian night” 10.30pm £5/3/free RIKI TIK Das Club Robotique Upbeat post-disco DJ party Details tbc ROSE HILL TAVERN Cate Ferris, Lucy Elliott, Abi Wade Live acoustic music 7.30pm £free ST JAMES’ TAVERN Stay Sick, Turn Blue DJs play vintage R&B, rock&roll and garage 8.30pm £free SALLIS BENNEY Shakespeare for Lunch: Romeo & Juliet A reworked version of the play aimed at a wider audience, including kids 1pm £5/4; Spring Awakening Musical based on Frank Wedekind’s controversial 1890s’ play about teenage sexuality 7.30pm £14/10 THEATRE ROYAL The Lady Of Burma Liana Gould stars in Richard Shannon’s drama about Aung San Suu Kyi 7.30pm £5-15; Midsummer: A Play With Songs Musical comedy about a New Town relationship 9.30pm £5-15 THOMAS KEMP Acoustic Songwriters Live music 8pm £free THREE & TEN Phillipa And Will Are In A Relationship Just in case you’ve not had enough FMLs from recentlydumped friends, now you can watch the story of a rocky romance told entirely through Facebook updates 1pm £5; Abi Takes You Up The Aisle A musical journey to the altar 7pm £8/6.50; Pope Benedict: Bond Villain It all makes perfect sense: he has a German accent, a shadowy Nazi past and heads a sinister organisation bent on world domination. Plus he’s called Joseph Ratzinger 8.30pm £8.50/6.50; The Real MacGuffins Comedy sketch show 10pm £7/5; Punk Strut: The Movie Musical documentary about punk rockers 11.30pm £9/7

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VICTORY Open Mic 8pm £free VOLKS Simply Vinyl: Bailey, Storm, Randall, Doc Khan & Deefa, DJ S.T, Maj Purist DJs Details tbc WEST HILL TAVERN Open Mic 8pm £free WHITE RABBIT Open Mic 9pm £free WINDMILL Free Music Thursdays Juice FM presents an open mic followed by headline band 8pm £free XUMA Seven Dials Of Soul Resident DJs play funk, hip hop and electro 9pm £tbc

friday 20th

ABOVE AUDIO Bar Sessions DJs Time tbc £free AUDIO Brand New Start Metally rock band from the US 7pm £tbc; Tiefschwarz Electro house duo 11pm £tbc BASEMENT It’s About Time Someone wrote a funny and probing show about it 7.30pm £15; Cheap Lecture, Cow Piece Musical, dance and spoken word pieces explore time and mortality 9pm £15 BELUSHI’S BAR Muy Loco Pop and house DJs 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Abandoned Rock and metal night 10pm £3/2 BLACK LION Molly Malone’s Dex In The City A nondiscriminatory DJ set covering funk, punk, hip hop and ska 8.30pm £free BRIGHTON BALLROOM Supper Club Cabaret, burlesque and a three-course meal 7pm £34.50; T.F.I. Pop Kraft Boogaloo Stu and crew put on an extra night of campy pop fun 7pm £8/6 BRIGHTON TOWN HALL The New World Order Five politically-charged short plays by Harold Pinter Time tbc £17.50 BRUNSWICK Sonny Spells: Are You Game? Cheesy comedy camp 4pm £12/10; Paul Diello Melancholic piano pop 7.30pm £10 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Moz & Shmozle Standup, songs and sketches from anarchic double-act (upstairs) 4.15pm £free; Snigger Happy Up and coming stand-ups (upstairs) 5.30pm £free; Good Time Charlie’s Got The Blues New play about self-loathing in Las Vegas (upstairs) 6.45pm £5/4; DJ Clive & Mendees Industrial, punk and goth (downstairs) 9pm £free; Joe Rowntree: Funny Man He’s a stand-up comedian, so he’d better be (upstairs) 9.15pm £4/3; From Head To Toe In Berlin 1930s cabaret with Maria Hackemann (upstairs) 10.30pm £6 CASABLANCA Live Funky Disco Covers 10pm £5 COALITION Gay Bingo You don’t have to be gay to play, and even if you are it won’t help - the game is entirely luckbased 7.30pm £12/8; Friday I’m In Love Somewhat eclectic clubnight with 60s gems, indie and funky funk 11pm £1-4 CONCORDE2 The Alarm, The Last Republic Welsh hair rockers 7pm £15; Roots Garden Rhythm Force Live Showcase, Resonators, Nick Manasseh, Bob Skeng, Ras Zacharri, Ruben Da Silva, Cate Ferris, Dark Angel Reggae and dub night 11pm £8 CORN EXCHANGE Stephen Hough Classical recital from award-winning pianist 1pm £10/7.50; Zoya Phan: Little Daughter Novelist and activist discusses Burma 7.30pm £10 COWLEY CLUB Atom Buzz, Stool Sample Comedy metal Details tbc CUBE Friday Club: Cheets, Gustav House DJs Time tbc £free DIGITAL Stonelove Indie rock&roll club 11pm £4/3 DOCTOR BRIGHTON’S DJ Nick Hirst, DJ Wayne 9.30pm £free DOME Christopher Maltman: Morning After A conversation with the baritone singer (in the Founders Room) 11am £free; Elsa Hewitt Soulful singer songwriter (in the foyer) Noon £free; Rebel Music: Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, Max Romeo, Adrian Sherwood In celebration of dub 8pm £1522.50 DORSET ARMS Bama Lama Club DJ Dave Mumbles plays R&B and rocksteady 8pm £free DRUID’S ARMS Maxwell House Reggae, funk and Motown DJ 9pm £free DUKE OF NORFOLK DJ Cashback 9pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Close Encounters Of The Third Kind 11.30pm EASY BAR Pitch Slap! Swing and bass with DJ Arther Shillin’ 7pm £free FISHBOWL Sumsuch Funk, soul and hip hop DJ 9pm £free FOGG’S OnPoint: GMT, Grasshopper DJ night 8pm £free FREEMASON’S TAVERN Duck Shoot DJ set of alt grooves and twisted funk 8pm £free FRINGE BAR BN1 Magazine Party Live bands presented by Brighton’s other listings magazine 7pm £3; Goodtimes Music Ten live acts over the three floors of what used to be the Ocean Rooms 10pm £8/6 FUNKYFISH The Funkyfish Club Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10pm £4/free GLOBE The Soul Of Brighton Philly disco from Juice FM DJ 9pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Parts & Labor Indie punk band 7.30pm £tbc; Ye Ye Fever Funky Afrobeat clubnight 11pm £free HAMPTON Mod For It! DJ set of Motown, soul and ska 8pm £free HAUNT White Mink Italian Mafiosi Special: The Sweet

Life Society, Enzo Siffredi, Nick Hollywood Electro swing night with a one-off mafia theme 7.30pm £10/6 H-BAR Electric Boogie Breaks, hip hop and disco DJs (in the bar) Details tbc; Reamplified New night playing tech and deep house (in the club) 9pm £free HECTOR’S HOUSE SchNEWS Live music fundraiser 8pm £tbc HONEY Lollipop Get your fingers sticky to R&B, hip hop and pop treats 10.30pm £5/4/3 HOPE Strychnine Nights Clubnight with Holy Vessels on the decks 9pm £free HYDRANT UP Jonny Kearney & Lucy Farrell, The Long Hill Ramblers English folk duo 8pm £10/9 IRON DUKE Alternative Karaoke 8pm £free JAM DJ Woody Live AV set from scratch DJ champion 11pm £free KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club: Doc Brown, Chris Ramsey, Owen O’Neil, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 8pm £14.50/11.50; Born Bad Rockabilly and great garage scuzz 11pm £6/5 KOMEDIA STUDIO The Lovely Brothers Cross-dressing kebab fetishists in a kind of punked-up music hall comedy 8.30pm £5/4 KOMEDIA UP Viva Le Cabaret Vaudeville, comedy and cabaret 8pm £12/10 LIFE Renegade Hardware: Ink, Loxy, Siren, Khanage, Skeptical Drum&bass so cutting edge you could use it to carve portals to parallel dimensions populated by talking polar bears 11pm £7 LOLA LO Tiki Beats Totally tropical tunes 8pm £5/4/3 MESMERIST Shake Holla & Roll Swing jazz and R&B geared around the dancefloor Time tbc £free NEPTUNE John Crampton Bluegrass and country 8.30pm £free NEW VENTURE THEATRE All My Sons Arthur Miller’s classic drama of conscience 7.45pm £9 OHSO SOCIAL Dirty Sunset Disco: Dulcie Danger House and electro night with a sort of Baywatch theme 8pm £3 OLD SHIP HOTEL The Cock And Tail Inn Nostalgic sitcom-style comedy show set in a 1970s Somerset pub 7.45pm £10/8 OLD COURTROOM Vita! Multimedia-enhanced physical theatre exploring ideas of cellular and spiritual rebirth 5.30pm £7/6 PAVILION THEATRE And The Horse You Rode In On: A Sequence Of Serious Follies Darkly comic exploration of extremism and belief 8pm £15 PRINCE ALBERT Silver Brazilians, Los Fantasticos Live music 8.30pm £5 QUADRANT Iszi Laurence, Richard Rycroft, Lou Sanders, Mark Jeary, Jessica Forteskew, Sajeela Kershi Stand-up comedy 8.45pm/10.15pm £6/5 RANELAGH Autumn Red, Conrad Vingoe Alt country bands 8.30pm £free R-BAR Disco Bomb Banging club classics Details tbc REVENGE Lollipop Vs Lickz Upfront R&B and garage 10.30pm £6/5/3 RIKI TIK Ecletrik Electronic music DJ with a loose grip on genre 10pm £free ST LUKE’S CHURCH Joseph Spooner & Glen Capra A century of Russian music for piano and cello 7.30pm £6/4 SALLIS BENNEY Spring Awakening Musical based on Frank Wedekind’s controversial 1890s’ play about teenage sexuality 7.30pm £14/10 SIDEWINDER Forgive Me Father For I Have Synthed Confess your shameful 80s love secret 8pm £free TERRACES Dinner Dance Party Eat, drink, dance Time tbc £25.95 THEATRE ROYAL The Lady Of Burma Liana Gould stars in Richard Shannon’s drama about Aung San Suu Kyi 7.30pm £5-15; Midsummer: A Play With Songs Musical comedy about a New Town relationship 9.30pm £5-15 THOMAS KEMP DJ Night 9pm £free THREE & TEN Be Prepared And Other Stories Ten short stories with Matthew Bellwood (upstairs) 1pm £5; Phillipa And Will Are In A Relationship Just in case you’ve not had enough FMLs from recently-dumped friends, now you can watch the story of a rocky romance told entirely through Facebook updates (upstairs) 2.30pm £6/5; The Dog-Eared Collective: Dogs On Show Surreal and anarchic sketch troupe (upstairs) 3.30pm £8/6.50; Richard Crawley: The Boy A play about gender crisis inspired by Germaine Greer’s selfsame-titled book of feminist art-porn 5pm £8/6; Delete The Banjax Sketches and comedy songs (upstairs) 7pm £8.50/6.50; Pope Benedict: Bond Villain It all makes perfect sense: he has a German accent, a shadowy Nazi past and heads a sinister organisation bent on world domination. Plus he’s called Joseph Ratzinger (upstairs) 8.30pm £8.50/6.50; Gareth Stevens DJ set (downstairs) 10pm £free; Red Brick Comedy Club Stand-up comedy done properly - in front of a brick wall (upstairs) 10pm £10/8 TUBE Motel New clubnight for electro house heads 11pm £5/3 UNITARIAN CHURCH Art & Design Market Two-day art mart 11am £free VICTORY Teen Dream 60s garage and punk DJs 9pm £free VOLKS The Slacker’s Convention: Far Too Loud, Kickflip, LuQas, Matt Slack, Myst, Dirtbomb, Moai, PoOK, Deitrich, Ma Quest All underachievers need are big breaks 11pm £5/3 WEST HILL HALL The Karavan Ensemble: Anima Sitespecific performance using physical theatre, music and visual imagery to explore human nature 8pm £8/6 WEST HILL TAVERN Brains Eclectic mish-mash from

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Superheroes of BMX 9pm £free XUMA DJ Stylus & The Stimulators Swing and reggae from the man behind the sound of Lost Vagueness 9pm £free

saturday 21st

ABOVE AUDIO Terrace Party DJs 4pm £free; Mex From Black Grass 10pm £5/free ANCIENT MARINER Tracy Sullivan Acoustic reggae and soul singer 8pm £tbc AUDIO Warehouse: Solo House and techno clubnight with Mex from Blackgrass playing rare grooves upstairs 11pm £5/free BASEMENT I Came By Myself To A Crowded Room Through a telescope high above the street, an audience of one watches a conspiracy unfurl (booking essential) Noon £5; It’s About Time Someone wrote a funny and probing show about it 7.30pm £15; Tiburón Tigre Does the hungry shark of fascism lurk beneath the surface of art and sexuality? Find out in this intimate and challenging performance 6.45pm/8pm/9.15pm £15; Cheap Lecture, Cow Piece Musical, dance and spoken word pieces explore time and mortality 9pm £15 BEACHIGOGO BAR Good Times DJs play retro disco classics next door to the Honey 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BAR Unplugged Live acoustic music 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Club NME Indie music 9pm £5 BELL PUB Live Painting Pop art event Time tbc £free BLACK DOVE Chop Source DJ set of broken beats and twisted jazz 8.30pm £free BLACK LION DJ Lanx Funk, northern soul and indie classics 9pm £free BRIGHTON BALLROOM Supper Club Cabaret, burlesque and a three-course meal 7pm £34.50; Modern Lovers Retro stereo and cult pop with a Belle & Sebastian DJ set 10pm £6 BRIGHTON BUDDHIST CENTRE Where Stories Come Alive A whole day of storytelling - plus comedy, music and puppetry 2pm £free BRIGHTON CENTRE Olly Murs “Please Don’t Let Me Go” 6.30pm £26.50 BRIGHTON TOWN HALL The New World Order Five politically-charged short plays by Harold Pinter Time tbc £17.50 BRUNSWICK Sonny Spells: Are You Game? Cheesy comedy camp 4pm £12/10; Cajun Dawgs: Cajun Zydeco Party Live band playing blues, country and rock&roll 8pm £8 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Moz & Shmozle Standup, songs and sketches from anarchic double-act (upstairs) 4.15pm £free; Snigger Happy Up and coming stand-ups (upstairs) 5.30pm £free; Good Time Charlie’s Got The Blues New play about self-loathing in Las Vegas (upstairs) 6.45pm £5/4; Unplugged & Unsober Acoustic punk and folk (upstairs) 8.30pm £3; Cazza Karaoke (downstairs) 8.30pm £free CASABLANCA Funky Fiesta: No Town Like Motown Live soul and Motown music Time tbc £7 COALITION Carnivalesque/Tusk & Garter: El Andaluz, Billie Rae, Professor Elemental, DJ Bird Man, DJ Byrn, Carnivalesque DJs 10pm £10/8 CONCORDE2 Ska-kestra Live Twenty-piece ska orchestra led by Mark Bassey 7pm £12; Guilty Pleasures: Let’s Get Physical Disco Workout Party Get all sweaty with Dynamite Sal and crew 11pm £12/10 CORN EXCHANGE Mark Ravenhill: Playing With Fire Lecture from the playwright who gave us Shopping And Fucking 2pm £8.50; Article 19: Freedom Of Information And The Right To Know WikiLeaks’ founder, Julian Assange heads a panel debate on free speech 6pm £10 COWLEY CLUB Two Idiots And A Fuckwit Sounds intriguing, no? 8pm £tbc CUBE Simply House DJ night Time tbc £free DIGITAL Supercharged: Jack Beats, Zinc Bassy house duo with traces of hip hop and techno 11pm £12 DOME Noemie Ducimetiere, Cosmo & Elian Solo performance from the folky lead singer of Gentle Mystics (in the foyer) 1pm £free; Balkan Brass Battle: Fanfare Ciocarlia Vs Boban I Marko Markovic Orkestar Gypsy groups fight it out 7.30pm £15-22.50 DOCTOR BRIGHTON’S DJ Tony B 9.30pm £free DRUID’S ARMS DJ Ben Murphy 9pm £free EASY BAR Good Vibrations! Soulful party tunes with DJ Luke Braken 8.30pm £free FIDDLER’S ELBOW Saturday Sizzlers: Soul Casserole Funky DJs beats with some Latin jazz thrown into the pot 9pm £free FISHBOWL Ed Meme Jazz, funk and hip hop DJ 9pm £free FORTUNE OF WAR Mo Kolours One Handed Music’s latest signing 9pm £free FRIEND’S MEETING HOUSE Sussex Trombone Project Jazz and Latin band led by five ‘boners 1pm £6.40/4.50 FRINGE BAR Secret Saturdays Secret Garden Party presents live bands and performers in the old Ocean Rooms building 10pm £12/10 FUNKYFISH The Funkyfish Club Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10pm £6/free GLOBE Go Bang! Ali and Affy go at it in the basement 9pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Nightworkers Live music 7.30pm £tbc; Stone To The Bone Clubnight specialising in 1970s

funk vibes 11pm £free HAMPTON iLike Bring your iPod and play your own tunes - you might like it, but will anyone else? 9pm £free H-BAR Tech Noir DJs delve into the depths of tech 9pm £3 HECTOR’S HOUSE Stay Sick: The Sundae Kups San Diego surf band and garage punk DJs 9pm £free HONEY Pukka Up If your house was this pukka you’d never run out of pies 10.30pm £10/5 HYDRANT DOWN Tropical Underground Latin funk night 9pm £free HYDRANT UP Arrows Of Love, Arkland Live music 8pm £5 IRON DUKE She Talks To Rainbows DJs play 60s and 70s swing 9pm £free JAM Diplomats Of Sound: Yes Sir Boss, Tin Roots, Joe Driscoll, DJ Moneyshot Bristol-based reggae pop 11pm £10/7 JUBILEE LIBRARY Interactive Storytelling And Drawing With Guy Parker-Rees For sprogatons aged 3 to 6 10.30am £5; Happy Birthday Peepo! Interactive kids’ show based on the classic picture book 12.30pm/2.30pm £6 KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club: Doc Brown, Chris Ramsey, Owen O’Neil, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 7pm/10.30pm £18/15.50 KOMEDIA STUDIO Clemency Dark and surreal comedy theatre about some strange housebound sisters 2.15pm £7; Desmorphia Cabaret with Desmond O’Conner and his comedy songs 4pm £8; Maydays: Confessions!

Improvised comedy based on your deepest secrets 6.45pm £8; Spellbound “The 80s night for people who hate 80s nights” - the alternative highlights of the decade 9pm £5/4 KOMEDIA UP Popcorn Comedy Comedians and short film funnies 8pm £10; Balkan Brass Battle Afterparty: DJ Sacha Dieu, Nico De Transilvania, Merlin Sheperd Quintet, Billie Rae, Zu Aerial Dance 11pm £8/6 LECONFIELD MiTunes The latest skirmish in the war waged by the iPod against DJs 8pm £1 LIFE Hold Up! Proper indie disco 11pm £5 LOLA LO Zombie Nation The dancefloor is never dead 8pm £6/4/3 MASTER MARINER Dario Fo’s The Open Couple Satirical play based on a battle of the sexes 7pm £10 MESMERIST Shake Holla & Roll Swing jazz and R&B geared around the dancefloor Time tbc £free NEW VENTURE THEATRE All My Sons Arthur Miller’s classic drama of conscience 7.45pm £9 NORTHERN LIGHTS Stand Up Comedy Details tbc OLD SHIP HOTEL The Cock And Tail Inn Nostalgic sitcom-style comedy show set in a 1970s Somerset pub (downstairs) 7.45pm £10/8; Oscar Wilde’s Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime Stage adaptation of Wilde’s short story about a comically inefficient murderer (upstairs) 7.30pm £tbc OLD COURTROOM Vita! Multimedia-enhanced physical theatre exploring ideas of cellular and spiritual rebirth 2pm £7/6 OLD MARKET Play Please! Interactive installation and performance for kids and curious parents 11am/2pm £10 OLD PADDLING POOL SITE Alive! Art and dance piece about the joy of life Time tbc £free; The Iron Man Ted Hughes modern-day fairytale told by a deaf and disabled ensemble Time tbc £free; Tribal Assembly Physical theatre and hip hop dance Time tbc £free; That’s The Way To Do It! Punch and Judy break free of their booth and run amok on the seafront Time tbc £free PAVILION THEATRE Philip Higham Classical cello recital of Bach and Britten 1pm £8.50; And The Horse You Rode In On: A Sequence Of Serious Follies Darkly comic exploration of extremism and belief 8pm £15 PHOENIX BRIGHTON Still Life: An Audience With Henrietta Moraes Sue MacLaine celebates the 1950s artist’s model and girl about Soho 3pm/7pm £12/10 PRINCE ALBERT The C TV Allstars, Meow Valletes Live music 8pm £4 QUADRANT Juliet Meyers, Wayne The Weird, Jem Brookes, Giacinto Palmieri, Anna Freyberg, Moz, Sajeela Kershi Stand-up comedy 8.45pm/10.15pm £6/5 R-BAR Kinky Classics DJ King-K plays funky house Details tbc REVENGE Kinky Dangerous Pop and house tunes 10.30pm £8/6/4/3/free RIKI TIK ALTA: Jeff Daniels, Danny Williams DJ night Time tbc £free ST ANDREW’S CHURCH Her Leaves Be Greene Part of Brighton Early Music Festival 6pm £12/10 SIDEWINDER Harry K’s Simply Dredd Reggae and party tunes 8pm £free TERRACES Dinner Dance Party Eat, drink, dance Time tbc £25.95 THEATRE ROYAL Midsummer: A Play With Songs Musical comedy about a New Town relationship 7pm £5-15; For Alfonso: A Wilde Evening At The Royal Play about the young man who Oscar Wilde picked up at Worthing Pier 9.45pm £5-15 THREE & TEN Be Prepared And Other Stories Ten short stories with Matthew Bellwood (upstairs) 1pm £8/6; Phillipa And Will Are In A Relationship Just in case you’ve not had enough FMLs from recently-dumped friends, now you can watch the story of a rocky romance told entirely through Facebook updates (upstairs) 2.30pm £7/5; The Dog-Eared Collective: Dogs On Show Surreal and anarchic sketch troupe (upstairs) 3.30pm £8/6.50; Richard Crawley: The Boy A play about gender crisis inspired by Germaine Greer’s selfsame-titled book of feminist art-porn (upstairs) 5pm £8/6; Delete The Banjax Sketches and comedy songs (upstairs) 7pm £8.50/6.50; The Train Job Comedy conspiracy caper (upstairs) 8.30pm £8.50/6.50; Monkey If you locked a

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primate in a room with enough records it would eventually become a beats and grooves DJ (downstairs) 10pm £free; Red Brick Comedy Club Stand-up comedy done properly - in front of a brick wall (upstairs) 10pm £10/8; Off The Cuff: The Village Improv comedy group explore the sinister goings-on in an imaginary village (upstairs) 11.55pm £8/6 TUBE Well Rounded: Geiom, Donga, Stickie Davis, Dubloke House and bass night Time tbc £5 UNITARIAN CHURCH Art & Design Market Two-day art mart 10am £free VOLKS Burleske: James Copeland, Bruno Otranto, The Menu, Andy Satellite Circus beats and freaky techno 11pm £8/5/3 WEST HILL TAVERN Artists Only New wave and art school tunes 9pm £free WEST HILL HALL The Karavan Ensemble: Anima Sitespecific performance using physical theatre, music and visual imagery to explore human nature 8pm £8/6 WHITE RABBIT Mixer Men DJ night 9pm £free

sunday 22nd

ABOVE AUDIO Live Music & DJs 4pm £free AUDIO Miles Kane Former singer of The Rascals who co-fronted The Last Shadow Puppets with Alex Turner 7pm £9 BASEMENT I Came By Myself To A Crowded Room Through a telescope high above the street, an audience of one watches a conspiracy unfurl (booking essential) Noon £5; Tiburón Tigre Does the hungry shark of fascism lurk beneath the surface of art and sexuality? Find out in this intimate and challenging performance 6.45pm/8pm/9.15pm £15 BLACK LION Live & Swingin’ Gypsy Jazz Live music 8pm £free BRIGHTON TOWN HALL The New World Order Five politically-charged short plays by Harold Pinter Time tbc £17.50 BRUNSWICK Mr Pineapple Head Clowning for kids 12.30pm £6; The Big Bite-Size Banquet Comedy show 2.30pm/4.30pm £15/10; Andy Thomas: Boundstone Lane Award-winning comedy set in Lancing, a place not often associated with mirth. Or awards. Or anything really 8pm £10/7.50 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Moz & Shmozle Standup, songs and sketches from anarchic double-act (upstairs) 4.15pm £free; Snigger Happy Up and coming stand-ups (upstairs) 5.30pm £free; Matt Rudge: Half A Hero Comical tale about a man who loses half of his manhood (upstairs) 6.45pm £3/2; Best Of Whyteleafe Comedy Club Standup comedy (upstairs) 8pm £free CORN EXCHANGE People’s Choice Debate Public debate with a topic chosen by ‘the people’ Noon £4; Asa Briggs An historian discusses his role in the WW2 Enigma codebreaking team 2.30pm £10; Writing Freedom: Bidisha, Deborah Moggach, Jake Arnott Panel discussion about the right to write 6.30pm £10 COWLEY CLUB Lia & Hope Live music 8pm £tbc CUBE Simply House DJ night Time tbc £free DOME Madame Pepper Soulful and folky singer songwriter (in the foyer) 1.15pm £free; 5 New Poets: Seni Seneviratne, Shazea Quraishi, Karen McCarthy Woolf, Rowyda Amin, Denise Saul Poetry readings to celebrate the launch of a new Bloodaxe anthology (in the Founders Room) 2pm £8.50; City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra & Brighton Festival Chorus Playing Elgar’s Cello Concerto and Jonathan Dove’s modern oratorio, There Was A Child 3pm £10-30 DRUID’S ARMS The Sunday Sessions Live music 6pm £free DUKE OF NORFOLK Live Music Night 9pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Day For Night, The Silken Skin 1pm FIDDLER’S ELBOW Sham-Rock Open Mic 8.30pm £free FISHBOWL Recovery? Chilled reggae DJing from Asbest The Moor King and guests 9pm £free FORTUNE OF WAR Pollito Boogaloo Live band play South American sounds 9pm £free FOUNDRY Americana Unplugged: Joshua Caole Live music 8pm £free FRINGE BAR Phoria Chilled electronica 7pm £3 GLOBE Rockoustic: Alex Thom, A Man Called Marcus Live acoustic music 9pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Sunday Service Live acoustic music 5pm £free; Green Door Blues Blues band and DJs 9pm £free HAMPTON Live Music Sundays Showcase for local acts 8.30pm £free HAND IN HAND Live Jazz Living Room 8pm £free HAUNT 2ManyDJs, Midfield General, Henron Mash-up masters come to town for an intimate show with Skint’s original big beater. This is very, very sold out 10pm £22.50 HONEY Afrodisiac If your house was this sexy you’d get a lot of carpet burns 10.30pm £2.50/2/free HOPE Kurt Vile & The Violators Lo-fi indie folk 8pm £9 HORSE & GROOM The Lovely Eggs, The Bobby McGees Playground chants backed by dirty rock guitar 8.30pm £free HYDRANT UP Forever Never, Vier Metal band 8pm £6 JUBILEE LIBRARY Poetry And Storytelling With Sean Taylor Riddles and wordplay for kids 10am £5; Interactive Illustration With Bruce Ingman Picture book fun with kids’ author and illustrator 2pm £5

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KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club: Doc Brown, Chris Ramsey, Owen O’Neil, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 8pm £11.50/6.50 KOMEDIA STUDIO Clemency Dark and surreal comedy theatre about some strange housebound sisters 2.15pm £7; The Silent Movie Experience David Watts jazzes up old films with breakbeat percussion, honky tonk piano and a comedic touch 3.30pm £8.50/6.50; Cabaret Whore Encore Award-winning diva show returns to whore itself a second time 8pm £8; Me! Me! Me! Musical comedy from Mr B, Desmond O’Connor and Sarah-Louise Young 9.30pm £10 KOMEDIA UP Al Start’s Excellent Songs For Children: A Pirate Adventure Catchy songs, silly stories and good ol’ gloop 3pm £6; Good Time Charlie’s Got The Blues New play and songs from Sam Devereaux 6pm £5/4 LECONFIELD Boozy Bingo Old is the new young 6pm £1 MESMERIST Swing My Roast Live swing and gypsy jazz 3pm £free NEPTUNE Hat Full Of Rain Blues rock night 8.30pm £free OLD COURTROOM Vita! Multimedia-enhanced physical theatre exploring ideas of cellular and spiritual rebirth 4.30pm £7/6 OLD MARKET Play Please! Interactive installation and performance for kids and curious parents 11am/2pm £10 OLD SHIP HOTEL Oscar Wilde’s Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime Stage adaptation of Wilde’s short story about a comically inefficient murderer 3pm £tbc PRINCE ALBERT The Foghorn Trio, Danni Nicholls Bluegrass band 8pm £8/7 PHOENIX BRIGHTON Still Life: An Audience With Henrietta Moraes Sue MacLaine celebates the 1950s artist’s model and girl about Soho Noon/3pm/7pm £12/10 QUADRANT Neil McFarlane, Giacinto Palmieri, Dan Wright, Charmain Hughes, Pete Campbell-Wells, Sajeela Kershi Stand-up comedy 8.45pm/10.15pm £6/5 RANELAGH Kent DuChaine Delta blues 8.30pm £free R-BAR Sublime Sundays: Max Miller & Friends Acoustic sessions 3pm £free; Karaoke Queens 8pm £free ST GEORGE’S CHURCH The Four Seasons Part of Brighton Early Music Festival 7.30pm £12/10 THOMAS KEMP Sunday Afternoon Jazz Jazz. In the afternoon. On a Sunday 4pm £free THREE & TEN Be Prepared And Other Stories Ten short stories with Matthew Bellwood (upstairs) 1pm £8/6; Phillipa And Will Are In A Relationship Just in case you’ve not had enough FMLs from recently-dumped friends, now you can watch the story of a rocky romance told entirely through Facebook updates (upstairs) 2.30pm £7/5; The Dog-Eared Collective: Dogs On Show Surreal and anarchic sketch troupe (upstairs) 3.30pm £8/6.50; Richard Crawley: The Boy A play about gender crisis inspired by Germaine Greer’s selfsame-titled book of feminist art-porn (upstairs) 5pm £8/6; Delete The Banjax Sketches and comedy songs (upstairs) 7pm £8.50/6.50; SOS Sessions Acoustic Live music (downstairs) 8pm £free; Pope Benedict: Bond Villain It all makes perfect sense: he has a German accent, a shadowy Nazi past and heads a sinister organisation bent on world domination. Plus he’s called Joseph Ratzinger (upstairs) 10pm £8.50/6.50 VOLKS Psy Sundays: Kayaman, Psykinya, Dave Chemical, Clayton, Shamanix, Nimbus, Hugo Nation, Morfinn, Olivreh 2pm £free WEST HILL HALL The Karavan Ensemble: Anima Sitespecific performance using physical theatre, music and visual imagery to explore human nature 8pm £8/6 WHITE RABBIT Jazz Sundays 3pm £free XUMA Songs From The Canyon Live acoustic music with folk and blues DJs 5pm £tbc

monday 23rd

ANCIENT MARINER Quiz Night 8pm £1 BELL PUB Funky Red Dog & Gary Jones Pop art closing party Time tbc £free BELUSHI’S BAR Now That’s What I Call A Party Part 2 9pm £free BLACK LION Hit The Decks Open decks spin-off (book a slot online) 9pm £free BRUNSWICK Sonny Spells: Are You Game? Cheesy comedy camp 4pm £12/10; Music, Magic & Mayhem 7.30pm £6/5 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Zombie Science 1Z Spoof lecture on the real science behind zombies (upstairs) 8pm £6/5; Dan Antopolski Stand-up comedian (upstairs) 9.30pm £6 COALITION Trash Mondays Filthy tunes for students and layabouts alike 10pm £5/3/free CONCORDE2 Bedouin Soundclash Canadian ska rockers 7.30pm £12 COWLEY CLUB UMLAUT Live music 8pm £tbc CUBE Monday Mischief Dance music DJs Time tbc £free DOME Neil Bartlett: Morning After Brighton-based author and performer talks to broadcaster Amy Lamé about his new production, For Alfonso 11am £free; John Cale & Band: Emigre/Lost & Found Songs on the theme of exile and home from composer and founder member of The Velvet Underground 8pm £22.50/18.50 DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Keith James: The Songs Of Leonard Cohen 9pm FRINGE BAR 3D Design Exhibition Brighton students show off their stuff Noon £free GLADSTONE Open Mic 8.30pm £free

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GREEN DOOR STORE Metal Mondays Metal bands and DJs 8pm £free HAMPTON Music Quiz 8pm £1 HOBGOBLIN Cheeky Pub Quiz 8pm £1 HOPE Common Tongues Single launch for local indie folk band 8pm £tbc JAM Different Strokes: Michael Fabbri, Liam Williams, Flange Krammer, Sean McLoughlin Charity comedy gig 8pm £5 KOMEDIA STUDIO Art Theatre piece from Rasmina Reza centred around the pitfalls of honesty 7pm/9pm £10 LIFE Jail Bait It’s a 90s club night. We googled it for more details and now our hard drives have been confiscated by the filth 11pm £2 LOLA LO Fat Poppadaddys Student indie night 9pm £3 PAVILION THEATRE Jerwood Young Artists Two singers from Glyndebourne Chorus perform operatic excerpts 1pm £8.50; Working Title Works-in-progress from up-andcoming choreographers 8pm £6 PRINCE ALBERT Thank You, Time Brings Age Live music 8pm £5 QUADRANT Richard Rycroft, Geoff Cotton, McNeil & Pamphilon, David Hannant, The TinaMarinas, Damian Kingsley Stand-up comedy 8.45pm/10.15pm £6/5 R-BAR Quiz With Liz Details tbc SALLIS BENNEY Photography Lecture 6pm £7/4 SIDEWINDER Poker Night It’s about time for a gambling habit Time tbc £5 THREE & TEN Pope Benedict: Bond Villain It all makes perfect sense: he has a German accent, a shadowy Nazi past and heads a sinister organisation bent on world domination. Plus he’s called Joseph Ratzinger 10pm £8.50/6.50 VOLKS Strictly Reggae Dancehall, roots, revival 11pm £5/4.50

Tuesday 24th

ABOVE AUDIO Audio Music Quiz 8pm £2 AUDIO Old’s Kool New old-skool night where old is the new new 11pm £3/2 BELUSHI’S BAR Totalled On Tuesday! Pop and dance 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Elements Drum&bass night 10pm £2/1 BLACK DOVE The Bell Jar Unplugged: Nick Williams, Justin Saltmeris Double bass and accordian blues folk Details tbc BRIGHTON TOWN HALL The New World Order Five politically-charged short plays by Harold Pinter Time tbc £17.50 BRUNSWICK Sonny Spells: Are You Game? Cheesy comedy camp 4pm £12/10; An Evening With The Vogueabonds Sassy cabaret 8pm £9/7 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Good Time Charlie’s Got The Blues New play about self-loathing in Las Vegas (upstairs) 6.45pm £5/4; Zombie Science 1Z Spoof lecture on the real science behind zombies (upstairs) 8pm £6/5; National Pub Quiz (downstairs) 8.30pm £1; Simon Ambrose: Charlatan Part magic show, part lecture on the history of how illusionists have conned the public through the ages. Apparently, it still happens nowadays! (upstairs) 9.30pm £5/4 COALITION The Mountain Goats Live music 7pm £17/15 CORN EXCHANGE Monsters And Prodigies Baroque musical about the castrati, mixing circus vibes, academic treaties and physical comedy 7.30pm £17.50/15 COWLEY CLUB Wildkatz Project Open mic night 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 Burma VJ: Reporting From A Closed Country Video journalists become the target of the Burmese government 6.30pm £6-13 FIDDLER’S ELBOW Quizness Time Are you a pub quiz whizz, or bit of a half-wit? 8pm £1 FOGG’S Quiz Night Prizes for those who have the foggiest 8pm £1 FRINGE BAR Catalyst Club Guest speakers give a short talk about whatever their weird obsession is 7.30pm £7 GLADSTONE Quiz 8.30pm £1 GLOBE Basement Cinema Underground films, comfy seats, free popcorn 8pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Unsigned Talents Live music 7.30pm £tbc; Hard Times “Heartache, struggle, misery and booze” - what’s not to like? 11pm £free HOBGOBLIN The TinaMarinas Comedy show featuring a pair of blonde bombshells wittering on about waxing, sunbeds and shopping 6.30pm £free HONEY Rehab 101 New clubnight playing a bit of everything 10.30pm £3/2/1/free HYDRANT DOWN 95-c Punk rock band 8pm £free KOMEDIA STUDIO The Nonsense Bleaky funny one-man character comedy 6pm £8/6; Spirit Of Gravity: Geoff Leigh & Magnus Alexanderson, HereHareHere Sonic adventures in the land of post-everything electronica 8.30pm £5/4 KOMEDIA UP Stephen Grant: The Clown Joules New stand-up show from the host of Krater Comedy Club 8pm £12/10 LECONFIELD Tusday Teaser Pub quiz 9pm £1 LIFE The Vice Social Student dance party 11pm £3

LOLA LO Camera Sexy new clubnight run entirely by girls - good to see them having a little go 9pm £5/3 MASTER MARINER Dario Fo’s The Open Couple Satirical play based on a battle of the sexes 8pm £10 MESMERIST The Mesmerist Conjuring Consortium Club for magicians - watch and learn Time tbc £tbc PAVILION THEATRE Heath Quartet The Dome’s resident string quartet plays some Beethoven 1pm £8.50 PRINCE ALBERT Monti Saldo, G-Minor Live music 8.30pm £4/3 QUADRANT Glen Maney, McNeil & Pamphilon, David Baucutt, Laurence Tuck, Geoff Cotton, Annabel Giles Stand-up comedy Details tbc R-BAR Karaoke Unplugged Details tbc RED LION General Knowledge Quiz Q. What general was a WW2 military leader known as Patton? 8pm £1 REVENGE Supersonic DJ Lee Harris 11pm £3/2/free SALLIS BENNEY Up-Stream Showcase New work from deaf and disabled artists 4pm £tbc SIDEWINDER Open Mic Night 8pm £free THOMAS KEMP Poker Evening 8pm £tbc THREE & TEN McNeil And Pamphilon: Addicted To Danger! Comic sketch duo 10pm £8/6 WALMER CASTLE BAD Ukes: Brighton After Dark Ukulele Session Informal gathering of ukulelists - this time the night has a country theme 8.30pm £free

wednesday 25th

ABOVE AUDIO The Doctor’s Orders Sick hip hop 10pm £free AUDIO Supercharged Breaks 11pm £tbc BASEMENT The End The SOURCE knows what you’ll be thinking about Michael Pinchbeck‘s theatrical study of loss and departure, we can’t wait for The End either 7.30pm £10; Death Is Certain Ponder the theme of mortality as a German artist destroys cherries in forty different ways, including hanging and electrocution. Warning: no cherries will be injured during this performance (due to the fact the term ‘injury’ can only really be applied to living creatures, not cherries. Cherries

are fruit) 9pm £10 BELUSHI’S BAR Now That’s What I Call A Party Part 3 9pm £free BLACK LION Fresh Acoustics Live music 8.30pm £free BRIGHTON TOWN HALL The New World Order Five politically-charged short plays by Harold Pinter Time tbc £17.50 BRUNSWICK Sonny Spells: Are You Game? Cheesy comedy camp 4pm £12/10; Live ‘N’ Laughing: David James, Clint Westwood, Rue Barratt Stand-up comedy 8pm £10/7.50 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Zombie Science 1Z Spoof lecture on the real science behind zombies (upstairs) 8pm £6/5; Rockbusters Rock and metal pub quiz with a ‘Name That Riff!’ round featuring a live guitarist (downstairs) 8.30pm £1; Simon Ambrose: Charlatan Part magic show, part lecture on the history of how illusionists have conned the public through the ages. Apparently, it still happens nowadays! 9.30pm £5/4 CASABLANCA Thanks For Your Request Live funk and Spanish grooves Time tbc £2/1/free COALITION Custard Comedy: The Hospital DJ Ivan Brackenbury, Mitch Benn Musical comedy acts 7pm £10/8 CONCORDE2 System 7 Progressive house, trance and techno 10pm £10 CORN EXCHANGE Monsters And Prodigies Baroque musical about the castrati, mixing circus vibes, academic treaties and physical comedy 7.30pm £17.50/15 CUBE Cubism Soulful house tunes Time tbc £free DIGITAL The Poundance Imagine if Poundland had a dancefloor - top pop tunes for a pittance 11pm £4/3/1 DOME Claudio Valdes Kuri: Morning After Theatre director discusses his work, Monsters And Prodigies (in the Founders Room) 11am £free; Laurie Anderson: In Conversation Musician and performance artist talks about her work and influences 8.30pm £10 DRUID’S ARMS Change The Tempo! DJ night 9pm £free DUKE OF NORFOLK Pub Quiz 9pm £1 FISHBOWL The Mixer Men Hip hop, soul and reggae DJs 10pm £free FOUNTAIN HEAD Open Mic Night Time tbc £free FRINGE BAR The Sonic Power Of Fruit & Vegetables 7.30pm £6.50; 3D Design Fundraiser Live bands and DJs 10pm £4 GLADSTONE Mellow Mix DJs 8pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Social Circkle, Big Kids, The Shitty Limits Hardcore punks from the US 8pm £5; The Jazz Store: The Church Of Pepper Live jazz 11pm £free HOPE Nathaniel Rateliff Rootsy singer songwriter Time tbc £4 HYDRANT DOWN Alaska, Lightbringer, Take Courage, Senator, C Is For City, Up River Live music 7pm £5 KOMEDIA DOWN Mulatu Astatke Ethiopian music meets jazz for a tryst on stage 8pm £18.50 KOMEDIA STUDIO Pete The Temp Satirical multimedia theatre about an anti-capitalist admin boy 7pm £tbc; Rob Rouse: The Great Escape This is a comedy show and nothing to do with the local music festival, or, for that matter, the film. It’s about Rob moving to the Peak District 9pm £12.50 KOMEDIA UP Martha Tilston Fey folkstress 7.30pm £12

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MASTER MARINER Dario Fo’s The Open Couple Satirical play based on a battle of the sexes 8pm £10 MESMERIST Swing Ninjas Uptempo gypsy band Time tbc £free NEW VENTURE THEATRE Four Play Fast-paced, comedic whodunnit with alternate endings 7.45pm £9 OLD SHIP HOTEL The Cock And Tail Inn Nostalgic sitcom-style comedy show set in a 1970s Somerset pub 7.45pm £10/8 PAVILION THEATRE Aquinas Piano Trio Music by Mozart and Mendelssohn 1pm £8.50; The Growing Room A play about humanity’s capacity for hope 8pm £6 PRINCE ALBERT Chris T-T, Electric Soft Parade Politically-tinged indie singer songwriter 8.30pm £5 PULL & PUMP Pickin Party Open session for US roots music 7.30pm £free QUADRANT Matt Richardson, Sam Stone, Richard Rycroft, Lenny Peters, Marc Burrows, Sajeela Kershi Stand-up comedy 8.45pm/10.15pm £6/5 R-BAR Turning Tricks Pop and R&B from DJ Trick 8pm £free RIKI TIK Time To Awesome Future beats rub shoulders with their classic cousins 10pm £free ROYAL PAVILION Mahan Esfahani: Bach’s Goldberg Variations Iranian harpsichordist plays one of the “towering achievements of Western music culture” 8pm £30 SALLIS BENNEY Up-Stream Showcase New work from deaf and disabled artists 10.30am £tbc SIDEWINDER The Sidewinder Garden Quiz 8pm £1 THEATRE ROYAL Butley Comedy drama about the world of academia 7.45pm £tbc THOMAS KEMP Kev’s Open Mic 8.30pm £tbc THREE & TEN The Boom Jennies Observational humour and semi-surreal sketches from a boisterous trio 7pm £8/6; Simon Munnery: Mock The Strong Droll but cleverlyconceived stand-up from the creator of BBC2’s Attention Scum 8.30pm £8/6; McNeil And Pamphilon: Addicted To Danger! Comic sketch duo 10pm £8/6; Punk Strut: The Movie Musical documentary about punk rockers 11.30pm £9/7 VOLKS Snoopy’s Bass Shack Clubnight from a triple entente of bass comprised of Slacker’s Convention, Funk Collective and Unity Hi-fi 9pm £5 XUMA Seven Dials Pub Quiz Cash-in the hitherto useless knowledge stored in your brain 8.30pm £1

thursday 26th

ABOVE AUDIO Maxxi Soundsystem Nu disco DJs 10pm £free BASEMENT The End Michael Pinchbeck‘s theatrical study of loss and departure 7.30pm £10; Death Is Certain Ponder the theme of mortality as a German artist destroys cherries in forty different ways, including hanging and electrocution.

Warning: no cherries will be injured during this performance (due to the fact the term ‘injury’ can only really be applied to living creatures, not cherries. Cherries are fruit) 9pm £10 BELUSHI’S BAR Karaoke 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Mutant Pop Poppy and alternative sounds 10pm £1 BRIGHTON TOWN HALL The New World Order Five politically-charged short plays by Harold Pinter Time tbc £17.50 BRUNSWICK Sonny Spells: Are You Game? Cheesy comedy camp 4pm £12/10; The Big Bite-Size Banquet Comedy show 7pm/9pm £15/10 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Good Time Charlie’s Got The Blues New play about self-loathing in Las Vegas (upstairs) 6.45pm £5/4; Seaside Sundae Lara A King hosts a night of comedy and music (upstairs) 8pm £free; An Audience With The Hee-Ha’s Improv comedy group (upstairs) 9.15pm £6/5 CASABLANCA Back2Basics Soul and disco clubnight with live band Time tbc £2/1/free COALITION Secret Discotheque Retro disco, 80s pop and other ‘uncool’ tunes 10.30pm £1-4 CONCORDE2 Funeral Party, Kitten, Tribes Indie dancepunk band 7pm £9.50 CORN EXCHANGE Monsters And Prodigies Baroque musical about the castrati, mixing circus vibes, academic treaties and physical comedy 7.30pm £17.50/15 CUBE United Nations Of House: DJ Oleg Belshin Credible house Time tbc £free DOME Mahan Esfahani: Morning After Iranian harpsichordist in conversation (in the Founder Room) 11am £free; Laurie Anderson: Delusion Musical theatre meditation on life and language 8pm £20-28.50 DRUID’S ARMS Druid Presents: The Black Hats Live music 8pm £free FIDDLER’S ELBOW The New Irish Live Lounge: Brian McNamara Contemporary Irish music 8.30pm £free FISHBOWL The Mixer Men: 4 Deck Session Turntable mashups 10.30pm £free FRINGE BAR Institute Of Unnecessary Research Performance experimentation by mad scientists (downstairs) 7.30pm £4; The Sonic Power Of Fruit & Vegetables 7.30pm £6.50 GLADSTONE DJ Night Hip hop, soul and funk 8pm £free GLOBE Hang The DJ! A night of punter-picked playlists 9pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Beatabet 7.30pm £tbc; Paradise City New cock-rock night (see club previews) 11pm £free

HAND IN HAND Carl’s Dansette Party! Rare tunes in glorious mono 8pm £free HAUNT Thursday Night Fish Fry Jamaican ska, R&B and rocksteady 10pm £3 HECTOR’S HOUSE RisQue BisQue Live music and short film night 8pm £free HOBGOBLIN Live Music Thursdays 9pm £free HONEY Exposed! R&B and hip hop clubnight 10.30pm £2 HOPE Casual Violence: Sanity Valve & The G Street Band Comedy rap with a live band 8pm £tbc HOTEL PELIROCCO Brighton Album Club A classic album played from start to finish 8pm £free JAM Tokimonsta Woozy late-night dream music 7.30pm £free KOMEDIA DOWN Comic Boom: Mike Wosniak Rising stars of stand-up 8pm £9/7 KOMEDIA STUDIO Pete The Temp Satirical multimedia theatre about an anti-capitalist admin boy 7pm £tbc; Cabaret Whore Encore Award-winning diva show returns to whore itself a second time 9pm £8 KOMEDIA UP Glenn Hughes Funky rock bassist who used to be in Deep Purple 7.30pm £22 LATEST MUSIC BAR Culture Shock Live music and DJs 8pm £5 LOLA LO Kitsch Commercial but quirky clubnight 9pm £5/3 MESMERIST John Crampton One-man blues band Time tbc £free NEW VENTURE THEATRE Four Play Fast-paced, comedic whodunnit with alternate endings 7.45pm £9 OLD SHIP HOTEL The Cock And Tail Inn Nostalgic sitcom-style comedy show set in a 1970s Somerset pub 7.45pm £10/8 PAVILION THEATRE Alexander Karpeyev Classical piano recital 1pm £8.50; Jon Ronson: The Psychopath Test A journalist talks about his new book which saw him take an unexpected foray into the world of madness 8pm £8.50 PRINCE ALBERT Cable Club Live music 8pm £4 QUADRANT Dave Cohen, Nathan Cassidy, Dan Cardwell, David Baucutt, Doug Segal, John Hinton, Sajeela Kershi Stand-up comedy 8.45pm/10.15pm £6/5 RANELAGH Nicky Mitchell Blues and soul singers 8.30pm £free R-BAR Girls On Top Warm Up Pop and party tunes to get you in the mood for more of the same 9pm £tbc RED ROASTER Catweazle Club Intimate open mic for spoken words and music 8.30pm £4/3 REVENGE Girls On Top Wild Life Vs Emergency Room Connect with your inner animal via house tunes, jungle decor and face painting 10.30pm £4/3/free RIKI TIK Das Club Robotique Upbeat post-disco DJ party Details tbc ROSE HILL TAVERN An Audience With... Live music 7.30pm £free ST JAMES’ TAVERN Stay Sick, Turn Blue DJs play vintage R&B, rock&roll and garage 8.30pm £free ST NICHOLAS’ REST GARDEN As You Like It Shakespeare’s romantic cross-dressing comedy 6pm £8-14 SALLIS BENNEY Up-Stream Showcase New work from deaf and disabled artists 10.30am £tbc THEATRE ROYAL Butley Comedy drama about the world of academia 7.45pm £tbc THREE & TEN The Boom Jennies Observational humour and semi-surreal sketches from a boisterous trio 7pm £8/6; The Death Of The Novel Cultural comedy show with an arty streak 8.30pm £8/6.50; Nathan Cassidy: Fantastica! Edgy stand-up comedy 10pm £8/6 VICTORY Open Mic 8pm £free VOLKS Reggae & Dancehall Party 11pm £tbc WEST HILL TAVERN Open Mic 8pm £free WHITE RABBIT Open Mic 9pm £free WINDMILL Free Music Thursdays Juice FM presents an open mic followed by headline band 8pm £free XUMA Seven Dials Of Soul Resident DJs play funk, hip hop and electro 9pm £tbc

friday 27th

ABOVE AUDIO Bar Sessions DJs Time tbc £free AUDIO Verses, Adelaide, Day Of Sirens, Echo Rain Classic-sounding rock and soul band 7pm £tbc; Riva Starr Dance music remixer blowing up big on the blogs 11pm £tbc BEE’S MOUTH Chop Source DJ set of broken beats and twisted jazz 8.30pm £free BELUSHI’S BAR Muy Loco Pop and house DJs 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Abandoned Rock and metal night 10pm £3/2 BLACK LION Burnt Toast Filthy funk and soul 9pm £free BRIGHTON BALLROOM Supper Club Cabaret, burlesque and a three-course meal 7pm £34.50; The Tusk & Garter Club Revisit the good old days of the colonial empire with this strange combination of world music, steampunk fancy dress, belly dancing and live swing bands 10pm £7 BRIGHTON TOWN HALL The New World Order Five politically-charged short plays by Harold Pinter Time tbc £17.50 BRUNSWICK Sonny Spells: Are You Game? Cheesy comedy camp 4pm £12/10; The Sound Guy’s Choice: Fellow Stranger, Son Of Kirk, The Galleons, Caitlin Stubbs, Charlie Sloan Live music 7pm £7/5 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Luisa Omielan: Clowning Around Comedy and clowning free-for-all (upstairs) 4.15pm

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£free; Gerry Howell: Moonshine And Trumpery Comedy show about identity, sandwiches and horses (upstairs) 5.30pm £free; Good Time Charlie’s Got The Blues New play about self-loathing in Las Vegas (upstairs) 6.45pm £5/4; Seaside Sundae Lara A King hosts a night of comedy and music (upstairs) 8pm £free; Dixie Fried Rockabilly with DJ Lonesome M (downstairs) 9pm £free; Joe Rowntree: Funny Man He’s a stand-up comedian, so he’d better be (upstairs) 9.15pm £4/3; From Head To Toe In Berlin 1930s cabaret with Maria Hackemann (upstairs) 10.30pm £6 CASABLANCA Soul City Live funk and soul covers band 10pm £5 COALITION Fridays I’m In Love Somewhat eclectic clubnight with 60s gems, indie and funky funk 11pm £1-4 CONCORDE2 Revolt, The Painted Smiles, Enos! Metal night 11pm £tbc CUBE Friday Club: Cheets, Jem House DJs Time tbc £free DIGITAL Stonelove Indie rock&roll club 11pm £4/3 DOCTOR BRIGHTON’S DJ Nick Hirst, DJ Wayne 9.30pm £free DOME Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre: Morning After Discussion about the perils and pleasures of taking the Bard on the road (in the Founders Room) 11am £free; Liam Jordan Singer songwriter with a nod or two to Bob Dylan and Neil Young (in the foyer) 1.15pm £free; Jessica Bruno With Lyrical Way Rocky pop and soul (in the foyer) 2pm £free; Academy Of St Martin In The Fields Classical concert with music by Haydn, Mendelssohn and Brahms 8pm £10-32.50 DORSET ARMS Buzzin DJ Dave Mumbles and Rockin Ratman play rockabilly trash 8pm £free DRUID’S ARMS Nice Weather For Airstrikes: Shapes, Silent Front, Last Days Of Lorca, Orders Of The British Empire Four-day post-rock mini-fest (see Fringe previews) 8pm £free DUKE OF NORFOLK DJ Cashback 9pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA The Tingler 11.30pm EASY BAR Pitch Slap! Swing and bass with DJ Arther Shillin’ 7pm £free FISHBOWL Freestyle Records Funky DJ set from label boss 9pm £free FOGG’S The Line-Up! DJs, poetry and live music 8pm £free FRINGE BAR Peter Gregson & Jamie Shaw Collaborative improvisation between an artist and a cellist 8pm £5; Dub Pressure Dubstep and electronica night 10.30pm £7 FUNKYFISH The Funkyfish Club Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10pm £4/free GLADSTONE Live Bands & DJs Time tbc £free GLOBE Eclectic Chair Buzzing tunes from DJ Lamp 9pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Alessi’s Ark Gentle singer songwriter from the new school of folk 7.30pm £7.50; Vice Issue Launch: Teeth!, The Racket, Teen Creeps, 20 Jazz Funk Greats, FREAKS DJs 11pm £free HAMPTON Mod For It! DJ set of Motown, soul and ska 8pm £free HAUNT Nowhere To Run The best of 60s Motown, soul and rock&roll 11pm £4/3 H-BAR KickAss If your house was this underground you might even survive a thermonuclear attack 9pm £tbc HECTOR’S HOUSE Bands Night 8pm £tbc HONEY I Love R&B Juicy house with a twist of hip hop 10.30pm £5/free HYDRANT UP Thee Oh Sees, Pussy Cat & The Dirty Johnsons, Agatha & The Christies Live bands 7pm £8 JAM Desire, Mikee B, Insight, DJ Makalah If your garage was this old-school you’d probably have a Morris Minor in there Time tbc £5/2 KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club: Marlon Davis, Bennett Arron, Dan Atkinson, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 8pm £14.50/11.50 KOMEDIA STUDIO Mr B Novelty ukulelist reclaiming hip hop for the upper classes 5.30pm £8; Claudia Aurora: Fado Dramatic Portuguese torch songs 7.45pm £12/10; Lucifer: My Part In New Labour (And How I Invented Coalition Government) Comedy show from Terry Newman of Bremner, Bird and Fortune fame 10.30pm £8/6 KOMEDIA UP Africa Unite: Sakama Live Show Band, Seckou Keita Tanzanian band collaborates with African Kora maestro 7.30pm £12/10 LIFE Deadly Rhythm: Addison Groove, Dark Sky, Dubloke, Sticky Davis Total basstards 11pm £7/5 LOLA LO Tiki Beats Totally tropical tunes 8pm £5/4/3 MESMERIST Shake Holla & Roll Swing jazz and R&B geared around the dancefloor Time tbc £free NEPTUNE The Nigel Bagge Band Country rock 8.30pm £free NEW VENTURE THEATRE Four Play Fast-paced, comedic whodunnit with alternate endings 7.45pm £9 NORTHERN LIGHTS DJ Jazzy D Funk and soul tunes Details tbc OHSO SOCIAL Dirty Sunset Disco House and electro night with a sort of Baywatch theme 8pm £3 OLD SHIP HOTEL The Cock And Tail Inn Nostalgic sitcom-style comedy show set in a 1970s Somerset pub 7.45pm £10/8 PAVILION THEATRE Shai Wosner Piano recital of pieces drawn from the classical, romantic and contemporary eras 1pm £8.50; Mohsin Hamid And Hisham Matar Two authors discuss identity, home and exile 8pm £8.50 PRINCE ALBERT Mok, Ikarus Youth, International Diamond Thieves Hugely energetic dance-rock band with hip hop vocals and pop hooks 8.30pm £4/3 QUADRANT Kevin Shepherd, Richard Rycroft, Lenny

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Peters, Bob Slayer, Sajeela Kershi Stand-up comedy 8.45pm/10.15pm £6/5 R-BAR Disco Bomb Student Pride party with banging club classics Details tbc REVENGE Lollipop Vs Lickz Upfront R&B and garage 10.30pm £6/5/3 RIKI TIK Ecletrik Electronic music DJ with a loose grip on genre 10pm £free ROSE HILL TAVERN The Lanes, Koresh Indie bands 8pm £free ST NICHOLAS’ REST GARDEN As You Like It Shakespeare’s romantic cross-dressing comedy 6pm £8-14 SALLIS BENNEY Chris Bradford: Samurai Vs Ninja!

Martial artist and author of the best-selling Young Samurai series gives a demonstration for kids with storytelling and sword displays 5pm £5; Book Camp For Adults Masterclass on writing children’s books 7pm £20 SIDEWINDER Forgive Me Father For I Have Synthed Confess your shameful 80s love secret 8pm £free TERRACES Dinner Dance Party Eat, drink, dance Time tbc £25.95 THEATRE ROYAL Butley Comedy drama about the world of academia 7.45pm £tbc THOMAS KEMP DJ Night 9pm £free THREE & TEN Music For Two Guitars Classical guitar duo take the greats to the Great Unwashed with pieces by Giuliani, Poulenc and Albéniz (upstairs) 1pm £5; Sweet Heart Quirky play about childhood, parenting and love (upstairs) 3pm £5; Thom Tuck Goes Straight To DVD A man goes mad watching too many shit Disney films and now he wants to tell you all about it (upstairs) 5pm £8/6; The Boom Jennies Observational humour and semi-surreal sketches from a boisterous trio (upstairs) 7pm £8/6; Nathan Penlington: Uri And Me Comedian and magician pays tribute to the massive spoon bender (upstairs) 8.30pm £8/6; DJ NoMark Eclectic house beats (downstairs) 10pm £free; Red Brick Comedy Club Stand-up comedy done properly - in front of a brick wall (upstairs) 10pm £10/8 TUBE Motel New clubnight for electro house heads 11pm £5/3 VICTORIA GARDENS Generik Vapeur: Droles d’Oiseaux A convoy of white cars are hung on a washing line and splashed with paint 7.45pm £free VOLKS Analogue: Dub Mafia, Frustrated Natives, Voytek, Hiatus, LP, Roam, Neil Martin, Champagne Charlie Drum&bass and dubstep night 10pm £5 WEST HILL HALL The Karavan Ensemble: Anima Sitespecific performance using physical theatre, music and visual imagery to explore human nature 8pm £8/6 WHITE RABBIT WTF One must deduce from the name that this electro DJ night will be a wickedly titillating fantasy 9pm £free XUMA The Genre-Lizer Musical mayhem hosted by The Two Wrongies Details tbc

saturday 28th

ABOVE AUDIO Terrace Party DJs 4pm £free; Mex From Black Grass 10pm £5/free ANCIENT MARINER Porchlightsmoker Folk and bluegrass band 8pm £free AUDIO Warehouse: Pleasurekraft House and techno clubnight - with Mex from Blackgrass playing rare grooves upstairs 11pm £5/free BASEMENT Supper Club’s Greatest Hits A hand-picked platter of bite-sized arty performances 7.30pm £15 BEACHIGOGO BAR Good Times DJs play retro disco classics 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BAR Unplugged Live acoustic music 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Club NME Indie music 9pm £5 BLACK LION Molly Malone’s Dex In The City A nondiscriminatory DJ set covering funk, punk, hip hop and ska 9pm £free BRIGHTON BALLROOM Supper Club Cabaret, burlesque and a three-course meal 7pm £34.50; La Bordello Boheme: A Night At The Circus Vintage fire eaters, showgirls and lots of bendy people 10pm £7.50/7 BRIGHTON BUDDHIST CENTRE A Meaningful Life A talk with a personal slant on the Buddha’s teachings 2pm £free; Soulful Singing Funky and uplifting African harmonies 3pm £10/7 BRIGHTON CENTRE The Wiggles: Greatest Hits Twenty years of annoying children’s songs 1pm/4pm £16 BRIGHTON TOWN HALL The New World Order Five politically-charged short plays by Harold Pinter Time tbc £17.50 BRUNSWICK Mr Pineapple Head Clowning for kids 12.30pm £6; The Big Bite-Size Banquet Comedy show 2.30pm/4.30pm £15/10; The Blues Corporation Live!

Nine-piece blues band 8.30pm £10/9 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Luisa Omielan: Clowning Around Comedy and clowning free-for-all (upstairs) 4.15pm £free; Gerry Howell: Moonshine And Trumpery Comedy show about identity, sandwiches and horses (upstairs) 5.30pm £free; Good Time Charlie’s Got The Blues New play about self-loathing in Las Vegas (upstairs) 6.45pm £5/4; Seaside Sundae Lara A King hosts a night of comedy and music (upstairs) 8pm £5; Eclectic Chair Buzzing tunes from DJ Lamp (downstairs) 9pm £free CASABLANCA Funky Fiesta: The Devotions Live soul and Motown music Time tbc £7 CORN EXCHANGE Izzeldin Abuelaish: I Shall Not Hate Peace campaigner puts his refusal to hate to the test by

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talking to Simon Fanshawe 3pm £8.50; El Gallo Darkly humorous mix of theatre and opera, sung in a made-up ‘gibberish’ language 7.30pm £15/12.50 COWLEY CLUB Slutdisko Up for some diskofunkelectrokitschpunk? 9pm £free CREW CLUB Bivouac A gang of blue men wander through Whitehawk setting fire to stuff 8.30pm £free CUBE Simply House DJ night Time tbc £free DIGITAL Playroom Housey hedonism in a playground of bouncy inflatable fun 11pm £12/10 DOCTOR BRIGHTON’S DJ Tony B 9.30pm £free DOME Generik Vapeur: Morning After Street theatre company explains why they hung a convoy of white cars on a washing line and splashed them with paint (in the Founders Room) 11am £free; Marika Hackman Indie folk singer (in the foyer) 12.15pm £free; Apples And Eve Bluesy jazz and folk band (in the foyer) 1pm £free; Twenty-One Crows Brooding folk (in the foyer) 2pm £free DRUID’S ARMS Nice Weather For Airstrikes: Delta Sleep, The Continuous Battle Of Order, Theo, Alright The Captain Four-day post-rock mini-fest (see Fringe previews) 8pm £free EASY BAR Good Vibrations! Soulful party tunes with DJ Luke Braken 8.30pm £free FIDDLER’S ELBOW Saturday Sizzlers: Superjam Funk so rare it bleeds 9pm £free FISHBOWL Daddy Marcus Disco, soul and funk DJ 9pm £free FOGG’S Splatch! Live jazz and funk fusion 8pm £free FREEMASON’S TAVERN Duck Shoot DJ set of alt grooves and twisted funk 8pm £free FRINGE BAR Crowd Share Noon £free; Rachel Rose Reid, Daniel Marcus Clarke Cabaret and storytelling 4pm £8.50; Alan Fancy dress and electronica 9pm £10/8 FUNKYFISH The Funkyfish Club Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10pm £6/free GLADSTONE Running Numbers, Deceptakut, Lion 9 Live band playing hip hop, dubstep and drum&bass Details tbc GLOBE The Acid House A journey through the history of house 9pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Doom Metal Japanese Fundraiser 7.30pm £tbc; The Big Itch R&B and rock&roll from the 50s and 60s 11pm £free HAMPTON iLike Bring your iPod and play your own tunes - you might like it, but will anyone else? 9pm £free H-BAR Nick T & Howie D DJs play old school soul and funk 9pm £free HECTOR’S HOUSE Beats & Burlesque: Unity Hi-fi, Thursday Night Fish Fry Reggae acts, DJs and dancers 8pm £5/4 HONEY Wild Fruit: Nick Tcherniak, DJ Guimarães DouGuim, Thiago Drewry, Bradt Dykes, Nicole De Leiburne, Patrick Lilley Brazilian beach pool party 10.30pm £10/8/5 HYDRANT Sparks Convention Literary event with live music, films and quiz Noon/6pm £6/free KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club: Marlon Davis, Dan Atkinson, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 7pm/10.30pm £18/15.50 KOMEDIA STUDIO Folded Feather Kids’ show presented by an anarchic sock 12.30pm/3pm £10/8; James Campbell’s Comedy For Kids 2pm £8.50/6.50; Lucifer: My Part In New Labour (And How I Invented Coalition Government) Comedy show from Terry Newman of Bremner, Bird and Fortune fame 5.45pm £8/6; How Things Work: Das Fluff, Yumamameemama, The Silence Live music 7.45pm £6/4; The Nonsense Bleaky funny one-man character comedy 10.30pm £8/6; Da Doo Ron Ron: DJ Rhoda Dakar Clubnight with a fixation on girlgroups and soul sirens 11pm £7/6 KOMEDIA UP The Rising: Bruce Springsteen Tribute 7.30pm £12 LECONFIELD MiTunes The latest skirmish in the war waged by the iPod against DJs 8pm £1 LIFE Hold Up! Proper indie disco 11pm £5 LOLA LO Zombie Nation The dancefloor is never dead 8pm £6/4/3 MASTER MARINER Dario Fo’s The Open Couple Satirical play based on a battle of the sexes 3pm/7pm £10 MESMERIST Shake Holla & Roll Swing jazz and R&B geared around the dancefloor Time tbc £free NEW VENTURE THEATRE Four Play Fast-paced, comedic whodunnit with alternate endings 7.45pm £9 OLD PADDLING POOL SITE Heartland Aerial dance theatre 3pm/5pm £free OLD SHIP HOTEL The Cock And Tail Inn Nostalgic sitcom-style comedy show set in a 1970s Somerset pub 7.45pm £10/8 PAVILION THEATRE Bane III Amusing one-man genre parody in which a hard-boiled detective monologues and mimes his way through noir cliches 8pm/9.30pm £12.50 PHOENIX BRIGHTON Still Life: An Audience With Henrietta Moraes Sue MacLaine celebates the 1950s artist’s model and girl about Soho 3pm/7pm £12/10 PRINCE ALBERT Moon Hop Club DJs Dave Mumbles and Max Knight have a fight to decide who has the best collection of reggae and rockabilly records 8pm £free QUADRANT Nik Coppin, Richard Rycroft, Lenny Peters, Bob Slayer, Dan Wright, Sajeela Kershi Stand-up comedy 8.45pm/10.15pm £6/5 R-BAR Kinky Classics DJ King-K plays funky house Details tbc REVENGE Kinky Dangerous: Lee Harris Primal Instinct Pop and house tunes 10.30pm £8/6/4/3/free RIKI TIK ALTA: Urban Torgue Torque’s label manager

joins the team for Sumsuch’s EP launch party Time tbc £free ROSE HILL TAVERN Roots & Branches Reggae and ska tunes 7.30pm £free ST NICHOLAS’ REST GARDEN As You Like It Shakespeare’s romantic cross-dressing comedy 1pm/6pm £8-14 SALLIS BENNEY Nick Sharratt Live drawing and poetry from wacky kids’ author (this show is now sold out) Noon £5; Anthony Browne Interactive family event with kids’ illustrator 1pm £5; Martin Brown: Horrible Histories Learn to draw the nasty bits of the past with the illustrator of the best-selling children’s history series 2pm £5; Charlie Higson’s History Of Horror Co-creator of The Fast Show - now a kids’ author - shares his passion for zombies and gruesome ghouls 4pm £5; Anthony Browne In Conversation With Joe Browne Children’s Laureate plays games and discusses childhood with his son 6.30pm £5 SIDEWINDER Danceteria DJs Spinning a mix of disco, boogie, house and funk 8pm £free TERRACES Dinner Dance Party Eat, drink, dance Time tbc £25.95 THEATRE ROYAL Butley Comedy drama about the world of academia 2.30pm/7.45pm £tbc THOMAS KEMP Robert Day Who is that strange cloaked figure in the corner of the tavern? You approach him nervously and notice he has a number of fancifully illustrated cards spread out on the table before him. “Sit down,” says the mysterious stranger, “I’ve been expecting you.” Pub clairvoyant gives half-hour psychic readings 2pm £20 THREE & TEN Music For Two Guitars Classical guitar duo take the greats to the Great Unwashed with pieces by Giuliani, Poulenc and Albéniz (upstairs) 1pm £7.50/6; Sweet Heart Quirky play about childhood, parenting and love (upstairs) 3pm £9/7; John Osbourne: John Peel’s Shed Osbourne won a box of Peel’s records which took eight years to listen to and inspired this affectionate comic homage (upstairs) 5pm £8/6; Edward Aczel Does Not Exist Existentially-confused anti-comedian (upstairs) 7pm £8/6; Nathan Penlington: Uri And Me Comedian and magician pays tribute to the massive spoon bender (upstairs) 8.30pm £8/6; Red Brick Comedy Club Stand-up comedy done properly - in front of a brick wall (upstairs) 10pm £10/8; Matt Barker Magnificently turned out DJ with impeccable hair (downstairs) 10pm £free; Off The Cuff: The Village Improv comedy group explore the sinister goings-on in an imaginary village (upstairs) 11.55pm £8/6 THREE GRACES This Is My Epicentre Live acoustic acts 8pm £free TUBE Sigha Dubstep and techno night Time tbc £5/free UNITARIAN CHURCH For The People Media Presents: The Acoustic Sessions Live acoustic music, hosted by Invokal 7pm £8/6 VICTORY Fernando Poo Glam rock tunes from the days when Glitter wasn’t a dirty word 9pm £free VOLKS Wrong Music Fucked up noise music Details tbc WEST HILL TAVERN L’Amour Electronique French pop and electronic delights pour vous 9pm £free WEST HILL HALL The Karavan Ensemble: Anima Sitespecific performance using physical theatre, music and visual imagery to explore human nature 8pm £8/6 WHITE RABBIT Mixer Men DJ night 9pm £free WILD PARK As The World Tipped Aerial dance theatre 9.30pm £free XUMA Luis Slim Italian DJ with a case full of R&B, rare groove and other ‘titty shakers’ Details tbc

sunday 29th

ABOVE AUDIO Live Music & DJs 4pm £free AUDIO Bull By The Horns Charity Fundraiser: Evil Nine 10pm £tbc BELUSHI’S BAR Now That’s What I Call A Party Part 1 DJ Sean plays everything from a-ha to GaGa - now that’s what I call eclectic 9pm £free BLACK LION Vinyl Vetarans vs Positivity Charity BBQ All-dayer: Foly, Southpaw, OMC, Tipster, Rob Life, Bobby Boucher, Mac McRaw, Scratchy Muffin, Matt The Hat Big fat slabs of raw funk, sizzling hot soul and bloody hip hop carcasses 2pm £free BRIGHTON CENTRE John Bishop: Sunshine Brand new show from the stand-up comedian 7pm £25 BRIGHTON TOWN HALL The New World Order Five politically-charged short plays by Harold Pinter Time tbc £17.50 BRUNSWICK 2FM Radio City 3D Comedy theatre done the old-fashioned radio way 2.30pm/4.30pm £5; Andy Thomas: Boundstone Lane Award-winning comedy set in Lancing, a place not often associated with mirth. Or awards.

Or anything really 4pm £10/7.50 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Luisa Omielan: Clowning Around Comedy and clowning free-for-all (upstairs) 4.15pm £free; Gerry Howell: Moonshine And Trumpery Comedy show about identity, sandwiches and horses (upstairs) 5.30pm £free; Good Time Charlie’s Got The Blues New play about self-loathing in Las Vegas (upstairs) 6.45pm £5/4; Simon Ambrose: Charlatan Part magic show, part lecture on the history of how illusionists have conned the public through the ages. Apparently, it still happens nowadays! (upstairs) 9.30pm £5/4 COALITION The Swing Thing: Ragroof Theatre, Don Dapper’s Midnight Stompers, Carnivalesque DJs An afternoon of salon-style vintage dance rhythms 2pm £10/8;

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Improvised comedy based on your deepest secrets 8.15pm £8 KOMEDIA UP Murray Lachlan Young: Cautionary Tales For Children II Poetry and stand-up 2pm £8.50/6.50; Nice & Neary Comedy from Joanna Neary and Barbara Nice 7.30pm £12/10 LECONFIELD Boozy Bingo Old is the new young 6pm £1 LIFE Hold Up! Proper indie disco 11pm £5 LOLA LO Bank Holiday Special 9pm £5/3 MASTER MARINER Dario Fo’s The Open Couple Satirical play based on a battle of the sexes 3pm/7pm £10 MESMERIST Swing My Roast Live swing and gypsy jazz 3pm £free; Dress Up And Dance DJ party 9pm £free NEPTUNE Simon And Sleeze Acoustic Blues Show Live music 8.30pm £free NEW VENTURE THEATRE Four Play Fast-paced, comedic whodunnit with alternate endings 2.30pm/7.45pm £9 OLD SHIP HOTEL Oscar Wilde’s Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime Stage adaptation of Wilde’s short story about a comically inefficient murderer 7.30pm £tbc OLD PADDLING POOL SITE Heartland Aerial dance theatre 3pm/5pm £free PAVILION THEATRE Bane Trilogy All three parts of Joe Bone’s genre parody in which a hard-boiled detective monologues and mimes his way through noir cliches 7.45pm/9.30pm £30-12.50 PRINCE ALBERT Nightingales, Ted Chippington, Kev Hayley First wave art-punk indie band supported by notorious anti-comedian 7.30pm £10/8 QUADRANT Bruce Fummey, Sam Stone, Rob Coleman, Bob Slayer, Luisa Omielan, Chiff Powell, Ivor Dembina Stand-up comedy 8.45pm/10.15pm £6/5 QUEEN’S PARK Freedom Picnic 2pm £free RANELAGH Fran McGillivray & Mike Burke Live blues 8.30pm £free

R-BAR Sublime Sundays Acoustic sessions 5pm £free; Karaoke Queens 8pm £free REVENGE Girls On Top Slumber Party DJs and PJs 10.30pm £5/free RIKI TIK Jody Van Jefford, Mick Hennessy, Alex Rose, DJ Blush DJ sets from the Soundcanvas team Time tbc £free ST NICHOLAS’ REST GARDEN As You Like It Shakespeare’s romantic cross-dressing comedy 1pm/6pm £8-14 SALLIS BENNEY Aliens, Robots And Elephantmen: Telling Stories With Pictures Discussion about the status of comic books and graphic novels with Chris Riddell, Paul Collicutt and Boo Cook 2pm £5; Queen Of Hearts Children’s Book Quiz (this show has now sold out) 4pm £6 SIDEWINDER Cider Festival Local DJs and local ciders Details tbc SIGNALMAN Bring On Summer Ska and punk night 8.30pm £free THOMAS KEMP Sunday Afternoon Jazz Jazz. In the afternoon. On a Sunday 4pm £free; A Bit Of Banter New comedy night with local and London stand-ups 8pm £free THREE & TEN Music For Two Guitars Classical guitar duo take the greats to the Great Unwashed with pieces by Giuliani, Poulenc and Albéniz (upstairs) 1pm £7.50/6; ; Sweet Heart Quirky play about childhood, parenting and love (upstairs) 3pm £9/7; John Osbourne: John Peel’s Shed Osbourne won a box of Peel’s records which took eight years to listen to and inspired this affectionate comic homage (upstairs) 5pm £5; Tim Clare: How To Be A Leader Comedy and poetry about the uses and abuses of power (upstairs) 7pm £8/6; SOS Sessions Acoustic Live music (downstairs) 8pm £free; Don’t Feed The Poets: End Of Festival Cabaret Musicians and poets go out with a bang (upstairs) 10pm £7/5 TUBE Groove Odyssey Five hour electro house epic with Bobby & Steve 11pm £5 VOLKS Wonkay Dub and electro all-dayer 2pm £free WEST HILL HALL The Karavan Ensemble: Anima Sitespecific performance using physical theatre, music and visual imagery to explore human nature 8pm £8/6 WHITE RABBIT Jazz Sundays 3pm £free XUMA Songs From The Canyon Live acoustic music with folk and blues DJs 5pm £tbc

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AUDIO Sabotage Emo-ish metal band 10pm £3/2 BELUSHI’S BAR Now That’s What I Call A Party Part 2 9pm £free BLACK LION Hit The Decks Open decks spin off (book a slot online) 9pm £free BRIGHTON CENTRE Duran Duran Do you remember when boy bands played real instruments, produced their own material and wrote classic pop songs? Do you? Do you JLS? Do you? 6pm £35-55 BRUNSWICK Sonny Spells: Are You Game? Cheesy comedy camp 12.30pm £12/10; The Sound Guy’s Choice: Fellow Stranger, Son Of Kirk, The Galleons, Caitlin Stubbs, Charlie Sloan Live music chosen by the sound man 7pm £7/5 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Luisa Omielan: Clowning Around Comedy and clowning free-for-all (upstairs) 4.15pm £free; Funny Ha Ha: Amadeus Martin Stand-up comedy compered by Mock The Week’s Holly Walsh (upstairs) 8pm £5 COALITION Trash Mondays Filthy tunes for students and layabouts alike 10pm £5/3/free CUBE Monday Mischief Dance music DJs Time tbc £free DRUID’S ARMS Nice Weather For Airstrikes: Nordic Giants, Evi Vine, Juffage, The Slow Revolt, Speak Galactic Four-day post-rock mini-fest (see Fringe previews) 2pm £free FRINGE BAR Closing Party The Fringe Bar ends its festival run with art, live music and roving performers 6pm £tbc GLADSTONE Open Mic 8.30pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Metal Mondays Metal bands and DJs 8pm £free HAMPTON Music Quiz 8pm £1 HOBGOBLIN Cheeky Pub Quiz 8pm £1 HYDRANT UP Bloodstock Final A blood-letting ritual to appease the vengeful gods of metal 7.30pm £3 KOMEDIA DOWN The Noise Next Door: All Star Lock In Stand-up, panel show and improvised comedy 7.30pm £10/8 KOMEDIA STUDIO Folded Feather Kids’ show presented by an anarchic sock 12.30pm/3pm £10/8 LIFE Jail Bait It’s a 90s club night. We googled it for more details and now our hard drives have been confiscated by the filth 11pm £2 LOLA LO Fat Poppadaddys Student indie night 9pm £3 NEW VENTURE THEATRE Four Play Fast-paced, comedic whodunnit with alternate endings 7.45pm £9 OLD SHIP HOTEL Oscar Wilde’s Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime Stage adaptation of Wilde’s short story about a comically inefficient murderer 3pm £tbc PRINCE ALBERT Die! Die! Die!, Negative Pegasus, Soft Arrows, Eager Teeth Discordant art punk trio from New Zealand 8pm £5 QUADRANT Kevin Shepherd, Rachel Anderson, Luisa Omielan, Chris Norton Walker, Dan Cardwell, Damian Stand-up comedy Kingsley, Ivor Dembina

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Tuesday 31st

ABOVE AUDIO Audio Music Quiz 8pm £2 AUDIO Old’s Kool New old-skool night where old is the new new 11pm £3/2 BELUSHI’S BAR Totalled On Tuesday! Pop and dance 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Elements Drum&bass night 10pm £2/1 BRUNSWICK Jazz Jam Open session with house band 8pm £free CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK National Pub Quiz 8.30pm £1 COWLEY CLUB Wildkatz Project Open mic night 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 FIDDLER’S ELBOW Quizness Time Are you a pub quiz whizz, or bit of a half-wit? 8pm £1 FOGG’S Quiz Night Prizes for those who have the foggiest 8pm £1 GLADSTONE Quiz 8.30pm £1 GLOBE Basement Cinema Underground films, comfy seats, free popcorn 8pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Charles Hayward 7.30pm £7; Hard Times “Heartache, struggle, misery and booze” what’s not to like? 11pm £free HONEY La Bomba New urban and Latin club 10.30pm £3/2/free HOPE Brighton Records Showcase Live music 8pm £tbc JAM Phat Sessions Full band open jam session 10pm £4/3 LECONFIELD Tuesday Teaser Pub quiz 9pm £1 LIFE The Vice Social Student dance party 11pm £3 LOLA LO Camera Sexy new clubnight run entirely by girls - good to see them having a little go 9pm £5/3 MESMERIST The Mesmerist Conjuring Consortium Club for magicians - watch and learn Time tbc £tbc PRINCE ALBERT Little Signals, Villareal, We Spies Live music 8.30pm £4/3 R-BAR Karaoke Unplugged Details tbc RED LION General Knowledge Quiz Q. What general is a category of knowledge often tested during pub quizzes? 8pm £1 REVENGE Supersonic DJ Lee Harris11pm £3/2/free SIDEWINDER Open Mic Night 8pm £free THEATRE ROYAL Live Suggs! The Madness man talks about his life and sings some songs 8pm £31 THOMAS KEMP Poker Evening 8pm £tbc VOLKS Strictly Reggae Dancehall, roots, revival 11pm £5/4.50

ExhibitionS

ART AT FIVE Spring Exhibition Florals, landscapes and abstracts Until 31 May £tbc BELL PUB Funky Red Dog & Gary Jones Vibrant pop art paintings of Bruce Lee and dog-headed mods 7-30 May £free BRIGHTON MUSEUM & GALLERY Radical Bloomsbury: The Art Of Duncan Grant And Vanessa Bell Until 9 October £6/4/3 CASTOR & POLLUX Lasse Skarbovik Paintings and prints by Scandinavian illustrator Until 30 May £tbc FABRICA The Forty Part Motet: Janet Cardiff Sound installation based on renaissance choral music Until 30 May £free FISHING QUARTER GALLERY Home Is Where The Art Is You’ve seen an open house turned into a gallery - this is a gallery transformed into a home Until 12 May £tbc HOVE MUSEUM FINE ART GALLERY Mr Watt, Grumpy Man of Metal Metal sculptures used to illustrate children’s books by Jon Mills Until 27 September £free INK_D Modern Toss: Modern Cloth Subversive tea-towels and royal shitnaks Until 29 May £tbc NAKED EYE GALLERY North And South Mixed media exhibition from Patrick O’Donnell and Ian Hodgson Until May 31 £tbc OCTOPUS GALLERY Futures Past Fantastical screenprinted posters 6-29 May £free OLD MUNICIPAL MARKET Kutlug Ataman: Mesopotamian Dramaturgies Turkish artist looks at modernism in the middle east 7-29 May £free PHOENIX BRIGHTON Shifting Boundaries Eight artists take a look at what we understand by domestic space 7 May-12 June £tbc UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON GALLERY Lynette Wallworth: Evolution Of Fearlessness Multimedia installation depicting the plight of female refugees from around the world 7 May - 9 June £free

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the FestiVAL issue

SIX OF THE BEST

FESTIVAL PERFORMANCES WORDS BY MATT BARKER, NICK COQUET, MATT HODSON, STUART HUGGETT, JAMES KENDALL, SALLY OAKENFOLD PHOTO BY ANDY COOK

OK, so most of the time we make grand plans to see this band in that field, then that band in this tent, and come home having missed most of them and not remembering much about any of it at all. But on the rare occasions we’ve got our act together we’ve seen some great performances at festivals. In fact, here’s six of them.

DAVID BYRNE & REI MOMO

Central Park 1990

By pure chance I overheard the gig was rescheduled. Now nothing could stop me. The band were awesome. It was hot, most people left.

I couldn’t – I was mesmerised and perplexed by my hero. With the band gone David walked to the side of the stage picked up a tape player and a guitar. “Hey, I’ve got a song I wanna play you,” he said.

And then he did, to me and a handful of others. Psycho killer, qu’est-ce que c’est,fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa far… (SO)

NIRVANA

Reading 1991

This was my first ever festival, and Nirvana (in their pre-‘Nevermind’ days) played in the middle of the afternoon on day one, between Silverfish and Chapterhouse. They were stupidly fun. Their male go-go dancer had ‘GOD IS GAY’ scrawled on his chest, Eugene Kelly sang ‘Molly’s Lips’, Thurston Moore wandered onstage for a bit, and things climaxed when Krist Novoselic threw his bass into Dave Grohl’s kit, leaving Kurdt Kobain (sic) strumming away alone, grinning. Brilliant.

Although when Nirvana headlined the following year, I went to watch The Rockingbirds instead. (SH)

ORBITAL

Glastonbury 1994

Aside from catching Orbital at the height of their recorded powers, this headline slot became an era-defining moment in the world’s perception of dance music. No longer confined to clubs, this was techno in the big outdoors. While Phil and Paul noodled amidst their keyboard confines with their headlamps bobbing in the midsummer dusk, the Somerset air was thick with repetitive beats for the first time, interspersed with crowd-pleasing Bon Jovi and Belinda Carlisle samples. (NC)

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the mae shi

RADIOHEAD

Glastonbury 1997

Having seen them play on the ‘Bends’ and ‘OK Computer’ tours I knew that the evening was going to be special.

Kicking off with ‘Lucky’ as the crowd were pulled into an epic 90-minute set, I prepared myself for some serious pushing and shoving as soon as Radiohead launched into the chorus. This continued as they barraged through two albums worth of golden charms. It got hotter, tighter, sweatier, I had a few fisticuffs – it was brilliant. Despite all this it never really felt as though anyone else was there with me, I was too fixated. (MH)

BON IVER

Great Escape 2008

We’d heard the story – heartbroken man moves to log cabin for winter to make an album, alone – but most of the Pressure Point was there having heard no music. But from the off we were all torn to our souls – raw, tender, beautiful.

When they asked us to supply the backing vocals to ‘The Wolves’ we sang our hearts out and the feeling of collectively being part of something special was sealed. The most respectful crowd we’ve seen – no fucking talking followed rapturous applause – meant they could finish with an acoustic bonus song from the middle of the crowd. (JK)

THE MAE SHI

Great Escape 2009

8-bit E-number pop played by an LA hardcore troupe, spurred on by the previous year’s Horatio’s Bar epic meant expectations were boiling over. However when the support band left the stage 20 minutes before the venue was due to close, it didn’t look good for a repeat performance.

Eschewing any changeover, the Mae Shi simply plugged in and flew into their set. Half a song later, most of their number had scaled speaker stacks, the bar or the hands of the convulsing pit – crowd and band intertwined in mid-air rapture. The short-lived ADD abandon was closed by the entire crowd swaddled in ‘The Mae Sheet’, their huge embroidered parachute. (MB)

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