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best issue evah!
If you did a graph of the confidence of the SOURCE office about the issue we’re usually working on it would be up and down like a bride’s nightie. Week one we have no idea what to put in it. The second week sees us a bit more planned out and looking forward to really getting stuck in. By three weeks in we’re massively behind and we aren’t sure we’ll ever get it together. Then we get on it, but not quick enough and the frantic last couple of days make things tense. After a day of proofing and arguing about commas and weeding out the Americanized spellings someone will pipe up (and it’s normally the editor’s job), “I think this is the best issue we’ve ever done!” By the time it comes back from the printers we’re bored of it and want to make a better one. This issue – which is our 14th birthday – we’ve been excited about it all month. We talked to Bat For Lashes but didn’t even put her on the cover. No, we were too gripped by derby fever not to put the Brighton Rockers centre stage. We’ve also, slightly randomly, given you a board game for those encroaching nights. It’s a version of Paul Stapleton’s brilliant Brighton-based BN1 game. All that and 12 pages of previews. We just hope we haven’t ballsed it up in some way.
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Personnel
Editor James Kendall ManageR Rosie Kendall Designer Matt Barker at Artwerk DEPUTY Editor Stuart Huggett Sales Manager Annie Lorenzini listings editor Ben Bailey CLUBS editor Zac Colbert reviews editor Jessica Marshall McHattie Cover Kenny Mc Cracken
Contributors
Chris Biggs, Ian Chambers, Steve Clements, Joel Dawes, Jack Dutton, Joshua Feldman, Nathaniel Forrester, Jake Kennedy, Amy Jo McLellan, Ben Miller, Adam Peters, The Recommender, Hayley Simpson, Matt Smith, Paul Stapleton, Thirza Tooes. If you want to contribute to SOURCE email james@brightonsource.co.uk
Editorial Contacts
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Contents
News 4 New In Town 6 Gig Previews 8 Interview: Bat For Lashes 20 Club Previews 22 Club Review: Magic 30 Club Review: Booty Bakery 32 34 Culture Art: Create In Brighton 38 Game: BN1 SOURCE edition 40 Locally Sourced 44 Interview: Brighton Rockers 48 Preview: Cinecity 50 SOURCE Readers’ Gig Charter 52 Street Style 56 Unsung Hero: Tim Brown 60 Secret Eater: Plateau 62 In Conversation With: Boo Cook 64 Listings 66 Six Of The Best:Sports Films 78
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News
Words By Amy Bellchambers, Stuart Huggett, JAMES KENDALL
Moving Pictures
The Miniclicks events at the Photo Fringe have been great – talks and workshops that really get to the heart of the content, not the technical details. The one we’re most excited about – so excited we’re sponsoring it – ends the season on Tues 13th at The Old Market. Sixteen world class photographers get to show 20 slides and talk about each for 20 seconds, so things move pretty quickly. Signed up to the Pecha Kucha format are Taylor Wessing winner Jooney Woodward, 140 Characters photographer Chris Floyd, and Tim Bowditch, who will be talking about his ace Japanese tourist project.
Interstellar Motordrive
Uniting the distant worlds of progressive psychedelia and vintage vehicles, Pink Floyd’s Nick Mason is one of hundreds of enthusiasts taking part in the annual London To Brighton Veteran Car Run on Sun 4th. A regular participant in the charity drive, the event finds Mason seated behind a 5-litre, 1901 Panhard instead of his customary drum kit. Passing the chequered flag at Madeira Drive, the Veteran Car Run predates even the Floyd: it was first held in 1896.
Gatsby Fashion
Think class, elegance and flappers as Sussex University’s Fashion and RAG Societies bring you their most ambitious charity fashion show to date. On Weds 7th, Brighton’s fashionistas are invited to enter the opulent world of ‘The Great Gatsby’ at All Saints Church in Hove. From wedding dresses and exclusively designed lingerie to vintage finds from Beyond Retro, this isn’t your typical school hall, Inbetweenersesque charity fashion show.
Mean Poppa Gone
Brassy funk rock showmen Mean Poppa Lean have called it a day after seven years together. They bow out with an
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extended night of farewell shows on Fri 23rd, starting with two sets at The Haunt, featuring both the original and the current line-up of the band. Once The Haunt kicks out, they decamp to Sticky Mike’s for a late show of covers, collaborations and carousing. Tickets were flying out as we write, so bag yours before its too late, forever.
Glasgow See
By the time you read this you’ll have missed your chance to see the Brighton Photo Biennial, but don’t worry, the Photo Fringe still has a couple of weeks to run and there are some great new exhibitions for November. Probably the best of these is Human Endeavour’s follow up to the highly praised Degeneration. For Glasgow Effect they add a multimedia element to their large format landscape photos of the breakdown of urban spaces. It’s at the Phoenix from Tuesday 6th until Sunday 18th.
Olympic music
Sporting memories of London 2012 may be beginning to fade, but the souvenirs keep coming. Gentleman Starkey and Annaca both played on the Emerging Icons music stage in the Olympic Park this summer, and a tie-in album has just been released. The Brighton pair nab the opening two tracks on ‘Emerging Icons In The Park’, with 20 other competitionwinning acts from around the country joining them. The digital album costs a bargain £4.49 on iTunes.
Musical treasure
Singer, pianist and Belle And Sebastian collaborator Catherine Ireton plays the latest in her series of secret Treasure Tracks gigs on Sat 17th. Ireton took on the lion’s share of vocal duties on Stuart Murdoch’s God Help The Girl album project, soon to become a feature film. Previous Treasure Tracks shows have taken place in the Booth Museum and London Road Station (complete with ticket inspector musicians). Join catherineireton.com for a treasure map to this month’s show, in collaboration with SOURCE New Music.
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Blue Moon Brewing Company Presents
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WOODSTOCK UNPLUGGED at The Hop Poles THURSDAYS FROM 8PM
with the best lyricists, poets and musicians hand picked from around the country
Acts supplied by Sercet Door Events
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FOOD The finest pub grub in town serving full racks... of ribs that is! Homemade sausage ‘n’ mash, stuffed hand-made pies & don’t even get us started on our crackling pork belly!
Hop Food Festival
Thurs 8th ‘til Sat 10th Nov
Hop Poles food is back at it’s best, let’s Celebrate it!
TRADITIONAL
IRISH PUB
To make sure the Autumn blues don’t get the best of you, Molly Malone’s has been busy concocting its delicious mulled wine as well as crafting a brand new food menu with homely dishes such as our incomparable Molly’s Irish Stew with fresh soda bread.
Our student friendly drink promotions are on offer 7-days a week and rest assured we will be showing all live sports here on our projector and wide screens. If that’s not exciting enough, Molly Malone’s will proudly be presenting its very own weekly Open Mic Night to give you the chance to perform live on our stage. Keep in touch with us on our Facebook page for further details.
Molly Malone’s - Brighton’s Traditional Irish Bar Carling - £2.95 Stowford Press - £2.95 Large House red/white/rose - £3.10 3-4-2 on shots of Jäger, Sambuca, Tequila, Tuaca, all £5.90
NEW IN TOWN
Words By Zac Colbert, Stuart Huggett, Jessica Marshall McHattie
Riki Tik
Life’s forever busy promoters are now taking over Riki Tik and turning it into a Caribbean themed reggae bar. We’re seriously excited about the prospect of walking in from a cold rainy evening to a warm tropical oasis. If you’ve ever shaken your boo-tay at Dagger you’ll know what to expect: a range of carnivalesque vibes including dancehall, dub, hip hop and UK funky. This is exactly what a winter of discontent needs.
Paganini Ballroom
The Old Ship Hotel’s Paganini Ballroom has been in use since the 18th Century, when it was part of Brighton’s Assembly Rooms. On Thurs 8th, Lout drag the Ballroom into the modern era with a unique show by one of the year’s fastest rising bands, London post-punk quartet Savages. Whether this remains a one-off event or the city is gaining a plush new gig venue will become apparent in time, but of course we’re hoping it’s the latter.
Yolo’s
In these financially testing times, no-one wants to get their caffeine crack from a company that has barely paid tax for 14 years (hello Starbucks), which is a boon for the indies. Now open on the Hove side of Western Road, Yolo’s offers seasonal espresso blends, filter coffees and more, plus live acoustic music, massive cakes and the best halloumi salad we’ve ever sampled. There are three music sessions each day, and players interested in a 15 minute unplugged slot can get in contact at facebook.com/Yolosbrighton
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Drawing Club
Drawing Club is somewhere between a life drawing class and a gang of vigilante portrait artists. The idea behind it is that every Tuesday a flashmob of artists gather at a pre-determined location (usually a pub, to be fair) and sketch anyone they can see. Less nudity, more real-life drawing. Whether you fancy giving it a go or being an impromptu sitter, you can find out where the next chosen venue is at facebook.com/ drawing.clubbers.
Lenderise
Brighton is the launch city for Lenderise, a website that encourages the sharing of goods over ownership. Users offer items and skills they’re happy to lend to others for a nominal fee, with the site taking a 10% cut. Tagged with the buzz-phrase ‘collaborative consumption’, the lending library concept is on the increase (think of cloud storage music platforms and car pools) with many Brighton residents at the forefront of this community minded sharing. Have a browse at lenderise.com.
My Erotic Postcard
Female aficionados of French erotic postcards can now have their own portrait taken in the classic 1920s style. Iona Hodgson started recreating the sensitively styled nude shots while working as a freelance photographer in Spain, before moving her business to Brighton this year. Iona’s portraiture is aimed at women of all ages and shapes, and can be shot at home or in the studio. If your personal tastes are more Anaïs Nin than Fifty Shades, visit myeroticpostcard.com for details.
Elk
Few student nights like to describe themselves as student nights, so we won’t either. Launching on the 12th, Elk is Audio’s new late night Monday, aimed at those who like dancing into the early hours on £2 drinks to a soundtrack that includes Frank Ocean, Caribou and Grimes. It’s billed as a night of not just music but photography and, er, lifestyle, and it’ll be interesting to see how that works out in the depths of Audio.
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GIG PREVIEWS
Words By Chris Biggs, Ian Chambers, Steve Clements. Nathaniel Forrester, Stuart Huggett, JAMES KENDALL, Jake Kennedy, Jessica Marshall McHattie, Amy Jo McLellan, Adam Peters, The Recommender, Matt Smith
Pig Destroyer
Haunt Thurs 1st
Relapse Records’ grindcore/thrash icons give us the pleasure of a Brighton visit on a short tour that includes only three shows outside of the US. Having not played in the UK for eight whole years, we’re extremely privileged to have them in one of the town’s most hardcore-friendly venues. Guaranteed to be packed from wall to wall this could literally be a once in a lifetime opportunity, and with new album ‘Book Burner’ released just a few days before the gig you’re in for a disgusting postHalloween treat. (CB)
Lawson
Concorde 2 Fri 2nd
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Concorde 2 Sun 4th
Mercury Prize nominees Alt-J (who could well be Mercury Prize winners by the time you read this) have had a brilliant year. Formed back in 2007, their debut album ‘An Awesome Wave’ finally arrived in May, along with a hotly tipped set at The Great Escape, and since then they’ve hit the touring circuit hard. By melding folk, art rock and electronica with memorable riffs and heartfelt, unique vocals, they’ve created a chart-friendly, pop-tinged formula for success. (JMM)
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If you thought that Lawson were brothers, you may wonder why their ‘Hometown Tour’ has four different locations. If you knew they weren’t related and assumed they were manufactured, you’re also wrong. If you’re confused, you’ve mistaken them for Hanson or some other boy band. Their name doesn’t come from their birth certificates or an industry bigwig; it’s a tribute to the Dr Lawson who saved lead singer Andy Brown’s life. There’s a deeper side than their clean-cut image suggests. (AJM)
East London sisters Hannah and Colette Thurlow have slunk into the public consciousness with leather jackets, sneers and black skinny jeans. But beneath the cultivated grungy image is a musical style comparable to a modern Shirley Manson if she was Jamie xx’s little sister: punky, sincere vocals, crashing chord progressions and a lust to mix trash guitars with electronica. The release of this year’s wellproduced eponymous album has only served to build the hype further. (JMM)
Dog Is Dead
Ladyhawke
Haunt Sat 3rd
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Dog Is Dead have had huge summer success after becoming a favourite of Radio 1’s Huw Stephens. The Nottingham boys seem to have resurrected something long missed from the indiepop scene – variety. The combination of glockenspiel, sax and howling a cappella creates an atmosphere which you can’t help but move to. Having released their debut album ‘All Our Favorite Stories’ in October, this lot are certainly on the road to something big. (MS)
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Concorde 2 Mon 5th
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We were so excited by ‘Back Of The Van’ – it was like the second coming of 80s, solo-era Stevie Nicks. But at 2008’s Great Escape we’ve never been so underwhelmed. Ladyhawke looked like she’d rather be at home doing the washing up. But the self-titled debut had some nice pop hits and we forgave her. She must have nailed her stage fright as iTunes got her to do a live album and her new LP is much more in your face too. Time to give her another chance. (JK)
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Stig Of The Dump
Hope Tues 6th
Known for striking fear into the hearts of rap battle opponents, and probably the only UK hip hop veteran named after a childrens’ storybook, Stig Of The Dump is a kingpin of the scene. By the sound of his latest release ‘Cannon Fodder’, Stig’s still committed to sharp rhymes, cynicism and truth. Small Town Boredom is the support act and as ever with Slip Jam:B events there’s an open mic session hosted by last month’s SOURCE Unsung Hero Tom Hines. Guaranteed to be a hotbed of raw local talent and unpredictable battles. (JMM)
Poliça
Concorde 2 Tues 6th
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Formed following work in the group Gayngs, Minnesota’s Poliça are looking likely to become one of those slow burning success stories. Their bewitching ‘Give You The Ghost’ debut is obviously one signpost towards tonight’s show (which has notably been upgraded from The Haunt), from the double drummer set-up to Channy Leaneagh’s echo-laden, nearunintelligible vocals. But this comparatively young band’s more subtle impression is one of feel over the obvious direct hit, and cumulative sonic heartbreak over dated chestbeating. (JKY)
Spiritualized
Corn Exchange Tues 6th
Can there be another band so perfectly embodied by their frontman as Jason Pierce’s Spiritualized? With all the ‘highs’ and lows of the group’s aural assault, catching them live is something akin to a religious experience, at once contemplative, joyous and redemption seeking. When they’re loud, they’re very loud, and when they’re quiet, you can hear a pin drop. Expect blues, soul searching and an honesty still lacking anywhere else in rock. (JKY)
Mystery Jets
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Concorde 2 Weds 7th
Surprisingly, the last time Eel Pie indie rockers Mystery Jets set up stage on Madeira Drive, it wasn’t under the roof of the Concorde 2. Instead, during the Great Escape Festival, they played outside the venue – in a van. Their appearance on the Bands In Transit web series hasn’t been their only odd Brighton
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show - they’ve also previously gigged on the pier – but now they bow to convention. Don’t expect this night to be ordinary though, Mystery Jets just don’t need the gimmicks to entertain. (AJM)
Savages
Paganini Ballroom Thurs 8th
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The Old Ship Hotel’s lavishly carpeted and chandeliered ballroom seems an unusual venue for a post-punk band, but Savages (who played their first live gig less than a year ago, here in Brighton) can probably touch its distant ceiling, so highly have the music press hyped them up. Singer Jehnny Beth channels the spirit of Ian Curtis above a high-octane clatter of swirling riffs and hi-hat that justifies the media acclaim. This venue may date from 1750, but tonight we’re going to party like it’s 1979. (AP)
Ian McCulloch Concorde 2 Thurs 8th
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It’s a bit of a dream team at tonight’s return of the Mac, assuming you’ve a particular fondness for post-punk Scouse pop stars called Ian. McCulloch, of course, became an alternative icon as luscious frontman of Echo & The Bunnymen – a role he continues to fill alongside an ongoing solo career. He’s joined on guitar here by Ian Broudie: founder of The Lightning Seeds and producer of the Bunnymen’s classic ‘Crocodiles’ and ‘Porcupine’ LPs. We’re not gambling on a ‘Lips Like Sugar Coated Iceberg’ medley though. (SH)
Blood On The Dancefloor Coalition Fri 9th
Banish thoughts of that nice Sophie Ellis-Bextor from your mind, Florida’s Blood On The Dancefloor are a far more outlandish pop proposition. The bastard offspring of My Chemical Romance and Sigue Sigue Sputnik, BOTD’s high glam, electro-rock hybrid has seen them go down a storm in the States, with big Billboard and Beatport hits and a graduation to the main stage for this year’s Vans Warped Tour. It’s new romantic sorcery for the Skrillex generation, and they’ve come for our kids. (SH)
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Sunday 4th November The Green Door Store
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Monday 5th November Concorde 2
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Tuesday 6th November The Green Door Store
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Tuesday 6th November Komedia
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Thursday 8th November The Paganini Ballroom (part of The Old Ship Hotel)
The BloCkheaDs Friday 9th November Concorde 2
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Thursday 15th November Coalition
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Thursday 15th November The Haunt
GenTleman’s DuB CluB Monday 19th November Audio
arThur Brown
Wednesday 21st November Komedia
The soFT moon
Wednesday 28th November The Green Door Store
The skInTs
Friday 30th November The Haunt
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The Dreaming Spires Palmeira Fri 9th
Arbouretum
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A night of UK Americana comes to The Palmeira, headlined by the nation’s frontrunners of country tinged power-pop The Dreaming Spires. Think of Big Star, Gram Parsons,Teenage Fanclub their ilk and you’ll be mighty close to the sound of the Spires, which has won them plenty of praise and radio play from the likes of Steve Lamacq and co. on BBC 6 Music. Also on the bill is Danny George Wilson, frontman of Danny & The Champions of the World. (IC)
From Baltimore USA, Thrill Jockey’s masters of Americanapsych-folk return to town ahead of the release of their new album ‘Coming Out Of The Fog’. Arbouretum’s sound is a hazy and melodic mix of the likes of Crazy Horse, Wooden Shjips and Richard Thompson (Bearded Magazine describe them as sounding like “Neil Young and Wooden Shjips jamming over a bottle of fine sipping whiskey”). Support comes from a rare performance by Brighton locals Salter Cane. (IC)
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Clock Opera
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Green Door Store Fri 9th
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This young South London solo artist may have produced one of the albums of 2012 with his debut ‘Ark’, which arrived in October on the No Pain In Pop label. The album’s title is apt, as his range of ambitions includes ecclesiastical choirs, expansive minimalism and late-night electronica, all washed together in floods of atmosphere. Sam Howard takes his singing monks underwater in a pressurised submarine of sound, pushing boundaries that have seen him hailed as a “new Thom Yorke”. Melancholic symphonies just found a new conductor. (TR)
The D.O.T.
Haunt Sat 10th
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When Mike Skinner disbanded The Streets last year, an infinite number of monkeys would’ve struggled to second-guess his next collaborator. Rob Harvey had been frontman of Leeds psych revivalists The Music, whose brief reign as the next Stone Roses had faded from the memories of all but the hardcore. Together, Skinner and Harvey have produced The D.O.T.’s debut ‘And That’, a curious, state of the nation mash up of anthemic beats and wired ballads. However unexpected, it’s a rewarding team up. (SH)
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Haunt Mon 12th
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Considering it took a couple of years for Clock Opera to travel from their initial online buzz to eventual debut album, its final release wasn’t greeted with the sales and recognition once expected. It may well be a lesson in how not to control your album’s release cycle, but those who have heard it should know how impressive Guy Connelly is as a songwriter. The album’s consistent, heartfelt, kitchen-sink-and-all approach to alternative pop is remarkable, and when performed live you realise it was worth the wait. (TR)
Lucy Rose
Coalition Mon 12th
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Her regular guest vocals for Bombay Bicycle Club have helped Lucy Rose gain a well deserved following for her solo career. Seen at The Great Escape the past couple of years, her debut album ‘Like I Used To’ came out in September. Rose’s blissed out folk music has been compared to the likes of Laura Marling and Regina Spektor but is unique in the way it takes sombre subjects and turns them into something which leaves you feeling mellow and ready for bed. PJs are optional. (MS)
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Saturday 3 November CoalItIoN 1
moNday 10 deCember KomedIa StudIo
Tim Burgess + Hatcham Social
Roller Trio + guests
Saturday 10 November the baSemeNt
Micah P Hinson + A Band of Buriers
12 deCember
Melting Vinyl Christmas Party with special guests thurSday 7 February 2013 KomedIa
Wed 14 Nov Proud Cbaret brIghtoN
Courtney Pine + guests
Lau + Blue Rose Code
Sat 9 Feb 2013 St george’S ChurCh
thu 15 November greeN door Store
Fairport Convention + guests
Grasscut + The Creaking Chair tueSday 20 November blINd tIger Club
Oui Love Tour Juveniles + Wagner + Jupiter + Omega Male
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Night Folk: Embrace the Dark thurSday 29 November CoalItIoN 1
Gaggle + guests FrIday 30 November St georgeS ChurCh
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Beth Orton + Sam Amidon FrIday 7 deCember St georgeS ChurCh
Martha Wainwright + guests
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The Long Goodbye Hope Fri 16th
Most of the week, Alfie Bernardi can be found propping up the counter, or propped up by it, at his music shop on Trafalgar Street. He’s also managed to find the time to record ‘Fractures’, the third album by his country-folk band The Long Goodbye, which launches tonight at The Hope. With pedal steel, blues harmonica and as many guitars as they can lay their hands on, the group’s sound is in the golden lineage of idols Crazy Horse, The Byrds and The Band. (SH)
Milk Maid
Blind Tiger Fri 16th
Martin Cohen honed his musical skills as bassist for Manc rockers Nine Black Alps, before unveiling his own strong songwriting talent last year on Milk Maid’s debut Fat Cat LP ‘Yucca’. A home recorded take on the UK fuzz rock of the Jesus & Mary Chain and Swervedriver, Cohen rapidly pulled a full band together and fired out an even stronger follow up with this summer’s ‘Mostly No’, a howling set of overdriven surf music with the guitars up full. (SH)
Neil Halstead
Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Sun 18th
Archetypal Thames Valley shoegazers Slowdive were beset by some vicious press treatment in their time (the Manics’ Nicky Wire famously claimed to hate them more than Hitler), but behind those soft voices and sensitive fringes must have lain serious survivor instincts. Comically bad label decisions helped sink Slowdive, but frontman Neil Halstead and his bandmates soldiered on regardless. With his country influenced outfit Mojave 3 on hold again, Halstead released his third, folk tinged solo set ‘Palindrome Hunches’ in September. (SH)
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Bitter Ruin
Ranelagh Tues 20th
The recent addition of a cellist means we’re going to have to get used to referring to Bitter Ruin as a band rather than duo, although the focus remains the battling vocal theatrics and intense cabaret sensibilities of the couple up front. They’re about to embark on their highest profile dates yet, supporting Ben Folds Five on a tour that includes two nights at the 5,000 capacity Brixton Academy, a far cry from the tiny blues bar hosting this free pre-tour warm up. (AP)
Chad Valley/Trophy Wife Prince Albert Weds 21st
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With both these artists heavily involved in Oxford’s creative collective Blessing Force, which showcases art, performances and lots of new music in alternative spaces, this should be a gig that feels like one city visiting another. As if to show off the broad spectrum of output from their exciting scene, we get the white soul electronica of Chad Valley and the upbeat, tropical indie pop of Trophy Wife on an appetizing double bill. With those on offer, Oxford’s welcome down to Brighton any time. (TR)
Ghosting Season /Olugbenga Green Door Store Weds 21st
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Mancunian duo Ghosting Season are known for their creative and foreboding mixture of rock guitars and eerie techno. Their progressive 12’’ release ‘A Muffled Sound Of Voices’ travels through witch house and into more sinister territory. As Metronomy’s bassist, Olugbenga’s played in Brighton repeatedly and DJ’d extensively too, but this co-headline show is the debut of his own live material. With a love of bass and a talent for merging left field electronica sounds with jazz influences, 2013 is set to become the year Olugbenga breaks through. (JMM)
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Purity Ring
Haunt Thurs 22nd
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The Toronto duo return to Brighton following the summer release of their debut album ‘Shrines’, which successfully draws a line between Ariel Pink, Braids and The Knife. It maintains a strong 2012 feel, although that may well be because every music blog commentator worth their digitalised salt hasn’t shut up about it all year. Its consistent set of 11 songs has been accused of repetition, but when performed live the 808 fizz and the pulsing basslines suit the loud volumes an amplified gig can bring. (TR)
The Lovely Eggs Blind Tiger Fri 23rd
Seemingly on a mission to play every venue in Brighton, constantly touring couple The Lovely Eggs are driving back down from Lancaster for their umpteenth show in town. Live, it’s the louder and funnier the better, with guitar hero Holly and mop-topped drummer David’s rambling anecdotes frequently outlasting their furiously short and sweary songs. Recent collaborations with Gruff Rhys and Tjinger Singh suggest the cult favourites may at last be making a well deserved breakthrough. (SH)
Rubylux
Concorde 2 Sat 24th
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Thanks to their successful street gigs, Rubylux are often described as ‘professional buskers’. In contrast to Brighton’s other notable outdoor performers, such as the pan pipe player and that waistcoated fire juggler, this band offer something a little more appealing and a lot less awkward. While most people cross roads to avoid amateur artists, Rubylux always draw in a crowd. If you haven’t seen them in the street and want to find out what the fuss is about, don’t miss this gig. (AJM)
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Gallon Drunk Green Door Store Tues 27th
For much of the early 90s, Gallon Drunk were as widely known for being out on the town – usually in Camden, often with PJ Harvey in tow – as for their music. Their press profile may be more slender these days but live performances are always an intense, cathartic affair. Now a trio following the tragic death last year of bassist Simon Wring, Gallon Drunk’s brand of gothic gumbo stirs sinister lyrics into sleazy swamp rock. Fittingly, new album ‘The Road Gets Darker From Here’ is their darkest yet. (AP)
Peter Hook & The Light Concorde 2 Weds 28th
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In town performing the whole of Joy Division’s ‘Unknown Pleasures’, Peter Hook - a frequent visitor to our live scene raised eyebrows with his decision to tour his first band’s debut with no other original members. But put politics aside and treat the evening as a celebration of the post-punk milestone he was integral to some 32 years previous and you shouldn’t leave disappointed. The same probably cannot be said of messrs. Sumner and Morris though. (JKY)
Rodriguez
Dome Fri 30th
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Most people who have seen Searching For Sugar Man have flipped over the enigmatic lost legend Rodriguez, his amazing music and heart-warming story. It doesn’t matter that the filmmakers didn’t mention the earlier comeback shows, the documentary is a great testament to the sage-like troubadour and, having sold out four London dates, it looks like Sixto Rodriguez’s day has finally come. Every song on his 1970 debut Cold Fact is a lost gem and this is a rare opportunity to witness a truly inspirational performer. (SC)
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Brighton Centre Fri 30th
Between 1987 and 1989 the Mondays played Brighton four times but haven’t ventured down since, save for a tiny 2007 gig in Horatio’s. Tonight the classic line-up returns, larger than life and larger than they were, complete with Bez, Rowetta and inimitable E poet Shaun Ryder, who’s undergone something of a makeover since going into the I’m A Celebrity jungle. Support comes from 808 State, and the cavernous Brighton Centre may well provide the perfect location for a late 80s rave flashback or two, but these days there are curfews. Nevertheless: sorted, top one, etc. (JKY)
The Miserable Rich Dome Studio Fri 30th
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It’s a bittersweet night at SOURCE New Music this month, as Brighton favourites The Miserable Rich play what will be, for the time being at least, their farewell show. Stemming from multi-limbed folk collective Shoreline, The Miserable Rich recorded a series of bright, chamber pop albums interspersed with some inspired, string driven covers, from Pixies to Hot Chip. With founding cellist Will Calderbank off on a new bout of touring with Mumford & Sons, the band take an indefinite break after tonight. (SH)
The Mojo Fins
Old Market Fri 30th
This year’s ‘The Spirit’ EP was the most luminous release yet from Brighton’s master songcrafters The Mojo Fins, its soft guitar lines weaving an intricate, softly hypnotic web. In an early spirit of Christmas generosity, a cut of tonight’s ticket price will be donated to the Shelter and Rise charities. Also doing their bit at this evening’s show are the haunting, twisted orchestra of songwriter Shona Foster and gypsy folk band Apples And Eve. (SH)
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Brought Back Down To Earth For Her New Album Words By James Kendall
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For her third album ‘The Haunted Man’ Natasha Khan has stripped back her sound and her look to expose more of herself than ever. But it’s not been an easy process. Writer’s block took her to the edge of walking away from music, but courses at Brighton University and gardening at Charleston House gave her a new headspace to be creative again. It’s a more mature album from an artist who is ready to settle down. You’ve said that it’s quite an English album. How so? It was mainly about me deciding to stay put and live in England for most of the process of making it. It was borne out of wanting to put down my roots; walking around the Sussex Downs, going to the sea and really immersing myself in being in England. I started to do quite a lot of research on my English family and the history of England, looked at things that happened in our history that are affecting us still, like the war. I just really enjoyed not being in America! Coming home and falling back in love with England.
beautiful happening and the rest of it is being stuck in this mire trying to make sense of the confusion. What is it that you love about working with Beck? He wasn’t someone that I’d have specifically chosen, but because he approached me for the Twilight song and it ended up being so much fun, I thought that he’d be a fantastic person to bounce ideas off and jam with and try out different instruments. I really like his openness. He’s very eclectic in his tastes and he’s got a fantastic knowledge of music and a great art background, which is something that’s important to me as well. I liked his set up where he had his studio at home with his family and it’s a very balanced existence. It was a home away from home and quite grounding and good for me when I was in the midst of making this record. You’ve collaborated in your songwriting for the first time on ‘Laura’. Was that a difficult decision to make? It was quite hard. I think I’ve always been quite snobbish about it in the past but I wanted to see what it was like to work with someone that would push me a little bit in a direction, and teach me something that I didn’t know already. I feel that it was really nice to be collaborating with Justin [Parker, who has also worked with Lana Del Rey]. I had a brief. I wanted to write a piano song that was harkening back to those old 70s ballads, with a middle eight and traditional structure. But I always like to put my own angle on it, so the dark subject matter or whatever came through. And together we navigated it and came up with something that still sounded very much like me. I think it turned out really well. I’m happy with that song.
“it was a difficult process with some moments of clarity”
It feels like you’ve opened yourself up a lot more for this album. Is that accurate? Yeah, I think so. The vocal is much more present, I’ve stripped away a lot of the reverb and layers and denseness. I’ve returned to the sparseness of the first album in a way, but it’s bolder. The woman has reappeared from behind the little girl that started off my career. I feel like I’ve matured and in that maturing process I feel more confident about being more intimate with my listeners, just being more direct and honest and up front. It’s definitely more stripped back and more raw, and real, in a way. I’m not hiding so much.
And that seems to carry over to your image. The make up is much less bold, much less of a costume. More you. I think that too. I just got bored. I don’t want to repeat myself and after years of exploring that theatricality, the visual symbols and totems and colours and glitter and feathers and beautiful adornments – which I have really enjoyed – I felt like I can’t keep doing that because it doesn’t feel right. What feels true at the moment is to be stripped back and natural. I think there’ll still be theatricality to the live show because I enjoy that aspect and I think live shows should have that. But it’s more Natasha now, rather than a visual representation of a character. From what you’ve said about it the album sounds like it was tough to make. Did you enjoy it in the end or was it hard all the way through? I think it was an ongoing, difficult process with some moments of clarity and happiness punctuating it. But, because it took two and a half years to make, obviously I went through lots of different types of feelings. I think it was more of a marathon – I was in it for the long haul. What were the points that gave you the energy to push through it? Probably writing ‘Lilies’ on my sofa at home with my autoharp on my lap. That was a good moment. It came out really quickly and I felt like the sentiment was really interesting, and the theme of the song started to help define what the album was going to be about. There are lots of moments like that – recording with a male choir for ‘The Haunted Man’, when I went to visit Beck and he played crazy guitars on ‘Marilyn’. There’s moments where you feel there’s something really
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Do you think you’ll collaborate on songwriting again? It sounds like a positive experience. It was, but the whole emotional situation around that was quite challenging. There was a bit of a wrangle with the record company wanting me to write singles. I’m not sure how I’d feel about doing it again. I wouldn’t say it was the most comfortable situation I’ve been in but I think I made the best of something that was quite challenging. It turned out fine and it was lucky that it did. I’d have to wait and see what my reasons were for doing it again. Do you feel that you’ve made a path through the writer’s block that you suffered on this album for the future, or does that still worry you? I think that every time you get through an album, it’s almost like when women go through childbirth. The pain of it is so intense but once you have your beautiful baby nature makes you forget. Now that it’s done the memory of how difficult it was is fading and I’ve just got this beautiful thing that I’ve made. I think each time you start again it’s as intense. I think I’ve matured enough to realise that travelling all over the world and having tumultuous relationships and being sad doesn’t really help.
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CLUB PREVIEWS Words By Zac Colbert, Stuart Huggett, James Kendall, Jessica Marshall McHattie
DJ Vadim
Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Thurs 1st
Russian ex-pat DJ Vadim made his name in the early 90s, when the catatonically druggy beats of his Jazz Fudge label coincided with the earliest stirrings of what would soon be tagged trip hop. A true internationalist, Vadim’s carved out an enviable DJ career, fitted around numerous releases for the likes of Ninja Tune. Tonight’s live show shakes up the tempo, with Vadim and friends promoting his bouncing, upbeat new album ‘Don’t Be Scared’. (SH)
Propaganda
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Rockwell & SpectraSoul Audio Fri 2nd
A minimal sound that prioritises technical precision over big room, chart friendly tunes has established Rockwell as a DJ’s DJ and garnered him many an admirer from behind and in front of the turntables. He’s joined by local legends and labelmates SpectraSoul, whose critically praised debut ‘Delay No More’ proved they can produce a deeply meditative album that takes the listener on a sonic voyage as well as turn out banging singles that never fail to get hands in the air. (ZC)
Honey Thurs 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd, 29th
Ital
Vitalic
Mid-Week Mashup
International indie club institution Propaganda has added Brighton to its portfolio, taking over Thursday nights at The Honey. From small roots at the University Of Bristol, Propaganda now runs over 20 nights a week globally, from the UK to Australia, with big hitting celebrity DJs from the entertainment world and regular live mini-tours. Fingers crossed for some surprise guests reaching Brighton soon then. The same team also run sister night Ramshackle at Lola Lo on Mondays. (SH)
Concorde 2 Fri 2nd
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The last time we saw Vitalic it was at a midweek show in Coalition. Before he arrived the place was calm but at 8.30pm he took to the stage and the crowd – of mainly 30-somethings – went completely ballistic and stayed that way. After an hour or so of his noisy, grinding electro-tech, he knocked it on the head and everyone calmly left. It was really something. So imagine what he could do on a Friday night at a properly late hour. We reckon people are going to need carrying out. It’s a great start to the Concorde’s new Applesauce night. (JK)
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Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Tues 6th
If you like your Tuesdays late and your house music rough and fun, try this. Planet Mu’s Ital is headlining a two-floor takeover at Sticky Mike’s, with DJs in the bar for free, and a club night downstairs with live A/V show. Ital’s album ‘Hive Mind’ is a buzzing, beatdriven release, eschewing the typical house samples in favour of domineering rhythms, indistinct conversations, interesting arrangements and an underlying spookiness. Brighton’s CMJ and Grinel are amongst the support acts, promising undiscovered disco delights and fresh tracks from their record collections. (JMM)
Basement Club Weds 7th, 14th, 21st, 28th
Now that everyone’s back at uni, the Basement Club has launched their new, student-friendly Wednesday night, Mid-Week Mashup. Basement resident DJ Lee Harris mixes chart, pop and party anthems on the decks. They’re offering plenty of cheap drinks promos and, by joining the Legends Brighton group on Facebook, the chance to win a £100 bar bill, which has gotta be worth a click. Club entry includes access to the famed LGBT hangout Legends Bar upstairs, which is always open late for socialising in various states of sobriety. (SH)
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Wednesdays LOLGASMS FREE 10-3am
Join Boogaloo Stu for the wildest midweek party the world has ever known. fave-rave pop party anthems, Stu gets busy making your porno badge!or participate in a round of Stu’s legendary ‘Penny Up The Crack’ game
Thursdays ‘WHEN WILL I BE FAMOUS’ FREE 10-3am
A night for the wannabes. Dance like everybody is watching. The mega stars. The biggest egos. The try hards. Expect Tina Turner to Elvis Presley via WHAM!
Fridays FORTUNE - Saturdays MAGIC
9 till 4am - FREE 9-10pm, £3 10-11pm then £5 after As our FunFair God Bowie demands ‘Put on your red shoes and dance the blues!’ Motown, soul, 70’s rock, indie with a little bit of 90’s dance (only the good stuff!) all the way to sh*t-pop, floor-fillers that will have you dancin’, prancin’ and romancin’ to our Punch and Judy DJ booth. You bring the razzle dazzle and we’ll be providing shimmery shiny sparkly pop-up entertainment. be it a sword swallower snake charmer or other delights from our little black book of tricks... COCKTAIL HOUR 9-10pm COCKTAILS £5, BEERS £1.80
Sunday BODYSHAKERS
6-12am - £3 before 7pm £5 after £4 with flyer or NUS card Bodyshakers everywhere join the original creator of Fire Nightclub, (London) Stevie B brings you a series of wicked Sunday tea dances with the very best club anthems. Setting the scene for what is to be a weekly institution MID WEEK and SUNDAY DRINK DEALS: BEER £1.80 / ALL COCKTAILS £5 JAGERBOMBS 2 4 £5 / SHOTS £2 / VODKA MIXER £3 / RUM MIXER £3
DAY OF THE DEAD WEEKEND PARTY. Dress up and receive Sauza Tequila shots on arrival Nov 2nd and 3rd 9-4am
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major lazer
Concorde 2 Thurs 8th
Up until about five seconds before we went to press this show was happening in Eastbourne. But come on, we deserved it much more than those guys. When they played in Digital we took the roof off. Since then Diplo has been on a bit of a roll – being sampled by Beyonce and producing Snoop Dogg/Lion’s LP. Switch meanwhile has produced MIA’s ‘Bad Girls’ and something for Ke$ha we never listened to. The pair will have just released their own new album to draw from, ‘Free The Universe’, and will bring Chicago juke duo Flosstradamus in support who are always insane fun. (JK)
Basslaced Brighton
Life Fri 9th
The strength of the UK’s bass music scene is directly reflected in the amount of new nights celebrating the divergent genre. This Friday welcomes the launch of Basslaced Brighton, kicking off with UK garage frontman DJ EZ alongside newer poster boy Breakage – a brilliantly contrasting combination. EZ should bring the old school nostalgia inherent in the Pure Garage compilation CDs he mixed way back when, and Breakage can rep the more recent future garage side of things. (ZC)
Nathan Fake
Blind Tiger Fri 9th
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Thoroughly English lo-fi electronic artist Nathan Fake has been making unique and understated tracks for nearly a decade and his slow-building tunes are thought-provoking, inspiring and unobtrusive. Latest album ‘Steam Days’ draws further on his trademark sad themes, creating careful and melancholy electronica that will delight fans of Four Tet and Amon Tobin. It’s music to peacefully contemplate more than to dance to, but if that’s your bag you’ll have a great time. (JMM)
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Medlar & Manni Dee Green Door Store Fri 9th
It’s a bit of a Hit And Hope showcase this month at Below The Line, with Medlar and Manni Dee heading a line-up that draws heavily from the Brighton record label’s back catalogue. Label boss Ned Peglar’s Medlar is the moniker for his pure house music tracks, whilst Manni Dee’s latest EP release with Deft is a high-tempo, juke-influenced banger, and his multi-genre remixes are always great fun. Also representing are Unlikely and Dom, plus resident DJs. (JMM)
Disclosure
Digital Sat 10th
It was their remix of Jessie Ware’s ‘Running’ that really catapulted the Croydon brothers into the mainstream and now they’re rightfully dominating the electronic scene. Tracks like ‘Flow’ and ‘Tenderly’ also use the dubstep and 2-step elements inherent in their hometown sound as a foundation on which to build their more diverse jazz and hip hop influences. No doubt this is why soulful vocals feature regularly and work so damn well. House supremo Huxley supports with Bicep and your generous hosts the Blah Blah Blah DJs. (ZC)
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Jessie Ware and Disclosure in the same month? If only they were performing together. No, that’s greedy, and Jessie Ware deserves her own stage. Rising from the Rinse FM ranks she was soon featuring on tracks by SBTRKT and Joker before releasing her awesome debut album ‘Devotion’ in August this year. The record was an effortless fusion of electronic pop music, soulful vocals and arresting lyrics and we know for a fact she has the sort of sultry voice that sounds even better live. (ZC)
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Resonance & Run Tingz Sessions
Rudimental
Life Weds 14th
New York Transit Authority is another of those producers booked by Below The Line that only the achingly up-to-date will have heard of yet, so here’s a crib sheet: you’ve probably heard of him producing as Mensah; his FACT magazine mix back in March was a strippedback, smooth house masterpiece; he’s a big fan of the 808; and his tune ‘Off The Traxx’ will have Life’s dancefloor pounding. Don’t say we never help you out. (JMM)
Concorde 2 Fri 16th
It’s just as well all the Concorde’s rooms are open for this, because the line-up’s gigantic. Top Brighton promoters Resonance have been keeping quiet lately and now we know why – they’ve been planning one of the biggest jungle, dancehall and reggae nights of the year. Influential ragga MC Top Cat heads an extensive bill, which includes Serial Killaz ft MC Spyda, Aries and Serum & Bladerunner. The Run Tingz Cru have Solo Banton and Blackout J.A. as special guests, and in room two Dagger Sound System’s selections will be keeping the temperature up. (JMM)
In The Face
Volks Sat 17th
In The Face are going from strength to strength, carving out a nice slice of the clubbing market with their bombastic brand of bassline, and now they’re launching their own record label. This evening celebrates the latter success, with Kanji Kinetic headlining, who’s also behind their first release. His rave fuelled take on the sound draws heavily on jungle and house influences, as well as the Brooklyn scene where the genre’s flourishing. In support are Krissy B, Heapy and Audiogutter. (ZC)
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A full eight hours of electronica joy, this gig/club event starts in the early evening with a full live AV show from Plaid, with Face+Heel, the awe-inspiring Anneka and experimental Anchorsong in support. As night falls, the after party begins, seeing Reso, Slugabed and Tripper take to the decks. Brighton’s Convex Collective will be keeping spirits high in the bar too. If you don’t have the stamina for the full shebang, tickets are available separately for the gig and after party. (JMM)
Digital Thurs 22nd
It was impossible not to ‘Feel The Love’; Rudimental’s chart-topping tune wasn’t just everywhere – national radio, adverts, the Olympics – but it was also a fantastically joyous record. The intro, with those aquatic keys that sounded like someone playing an organ underwater, then the deep bass, ominously rumbling until John Newman’s sing-along vocals broke out and victorious brass trumpeted over the top, all made for a celebratory sound which refused to be ignored. No doubt this will be a top night of feel good d’n’b. (ZC)
Mak & Pasteman
Life Fri 23rd
Leeds production duo Mak & Pasteman have been putting out remixes for a while and their EP ‘Do The Same’ was released in April to near universal approval. Their style relies on mixed up future garage, soulful vocal snatches and a deep house beats, making for a sound that’s oddly familiar yet undeniably modern. Also on the line-up is Trevino, the house music alias of drum’n’bass hero Marcus Intalex, whose new direction has resulted in lively, techno-fused club hits. There are other secret acts still to be confirmed, so keep an eye out online too. (JMM)
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Marcus Intalex fits in shows at both Life and Audio tonight, and here helps MC DRS launch his album ‘I Don’t Usually Like MCs But...’. With a title that shows he’s got a healthy amount of self-awareness and doesn’t take himself too seriously, the album makes evident why MC DRS can make light hearted jibes at his profession – his vocal skills are undeniable and superior to many of his peers. This will be a night of chilled, forward thinking drum’n’bass and well-considered rhymes, of which there just aren’t enough. (ZC)
Union
Coalition Sat 24th
New night on the block (well, seafront) Union isn’t resting on its laurels. Keeping things fresh and proving they can romp with the more established electronic nights, they’ve booked AlunaGeorge and The 2 Bears. The latter duo play rave-happy dad house and demonstrate that the more mature clubbers don’t always dance like your old man at a wedding. AlunaGeorge are the chilled glitch duo responsible for that infectious smash ‘Your Drums, Your Love’, whose eponymous sample is slightly drawn out so it sounds delectable and stays in your head for days. (ZC)
David Rodigan’s Ram Jam Concorde 2 Fri 30th
One of the very few DJs with an MBE, and surely the only one to act alongside Joan Sims in Doctor Who, David ‘Ram Jam’ Rodigan has been championing reggae on British airwaves since way back in ‘78. Following recent dates with Diplo’s all-conquering dancehall project Major Lazer, he returns to the Concorde with Manc d’n’b duo Dub Phizix & Strategy, and the Venom and Dagger Sound Systems in tow. Wind your body like the Queen apparently does. (SH)
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MONDAYS HASHTAG# Everything from club classics to funky house, this is the place to be on Monday... Follow the trend!
FRIDAYS: 2ND BRIGHTON UP!
10pm ~ 5am. £2 Guestlist.
Trojan Sounsystem (Dex n FX), Dagger DJs, Flatline DJs, ADHD DJs.
WEDNESDAYS MOVE
11pm ~ Late. £3 B4 12
The new Dance weekly at LIFE focussing on the UK side of electronic music with the best in up coming talent from around the country! 7th ~ Mickey Pearce 14th ~ New York Transit Authority 21st ~ Karma Kid 28th ~ Tom Demac
9TH BASSLACED Breakage, DJ EZ, Jack Swift, Dubloke, The D.A. Room 2 hosted by ENK 11pm ~ Late. £5 Adv
SATURDAYS JUICE BOX
16TH MANMAKEMUSIC SHOWCASE
The seafront’s biggest & freshest party! Big tunes, party vibes, special treats each week and drink deals all night!
George FitzGerald, Leon Vynehall, Gang Colours (DJ Set), Trikk
11pm ~ 4am. £5
11pm ~ Late. £4/5/7
11pm ~ 4am. £2/3/4
23RD BELOW THE LINE Trevino, Bambounou, Mak & Pasteman, More TBC 11pm ~ Late. £4/5/7
30TH ROOTED PRESENTS… Shackleton (Live), Klute (Exclusive Techno Set), Black Amiga B2B East Court, Blake B2B Voytek, Kosine 10pm ~ 5am. £6 B4 11
NOVEMBER DAY ~ NIGHT ~ BAR ~ CLUB
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MAGIC
Words And Photos By James Kendall
When we announced the launch of FunFair on our website it became one of our most Liked stories. And then… nothing. Some frustrating delays took the wind out of their sails but we’re pleased to say the place is properly firing now. What’s so exciting about this place is not that they’re doing anything new but that they’re doing it so perfectly, with an amazing eye for detail. Everything from the décor to the music goes the extra mile.
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Magic has the immensely talented Rich Pack play Motownstyle soul, classic 70s rock and 90s indie and dance in a way you’ve never heard before. Making loops out of snippets of Aretha Franklin and the like, he beatmatches tracks that you’d think were impossible, all the while looking like he’s been kicked out of Kasabian for being too cool. Throw in pop-up surprises like sword swallowers and snake charmers and you can tell why everyone’s so excited to be here.
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David Bowie ‘Let’s Dance’ T-Rex ‘20th Century Boy’ The Kinks ‘You Really Got Me’ Mark Ronson Vs Rolling Stones ‘Sympathy For Diversion (Rich Pack Edit)’ The Caesars ‘Jerk it Out’ C&C Music Factory/White Stripes ‘Everybody Dance Now/Seven Nation Army (Rich Pack Edit Mash)’ The Contours ‘Do You Love Me?’ The Charlatans ‘The Only One I Know’ Adele vs The Prodigy ‘Rolling Up (Rich Pack Edit)’ Fleetwood Mac ‘The Chain’
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BOOTY BAKERY
Talking about melt in your mouth, partnering with Lick was a delicious stroke of genius. When clubbers start to overheat shaking their meat to Frank Oceans ‘Pyramids’ they can get refreshed with free ice-cream and frozen yoghurt. Booty Bakery is the place to bake your booty every Thursday night.
Words by Zac Colbert Photos By Luke Wright
Sometimes promoters come across a winning recipe for successful mid-week club nights and Booty Bakery might just have it. At 2am on a Thursday night the Tube’s dancefloor is like a pressure cooker as resident Booty DJ’s dish out a generous pinch of bass, 300 grams of electronica and a tablespoon of hip hop, in the form of Kendrick Lamar, AlunaGeorge and A$AP Rocky. But Booty Bakery don’t just book up-and-coming local DJs, they’re all about the international talent too with the likes of Brenmar and DJ Murlo mixing sets that melt in your mouth.
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Frank Ocean ‘Pyramids’ Jeremih Feat Natasha Mosley ‘Fuck U All The Time’ scHoolboy Q Feat. Kendrick Lamar ‘Blessed’ A$AP Rocky ‘Pussy Money Weed’ AlunaGeorge ‘Analyser’ Murlo ‘Sometimes’ Cyril Hahn ‘Say My Name’ Purity Ring ‘Fineshrine (DJ Slink Remix)’ Disclosure ‘Latch’ Brenmar ‘You Make Me Say’
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Culture
Words By Steve Clements, Stuart Huggett, Jake Kennedy, Ben Miller
Spoken Word: John Cooper Clarke Dome Thurs 1st
Poet John Cooper Clarke rose to prominence in the Manchester punk scene, with his distinctive nasal, speed driven delivery and hunched over, stick insect frame appearing at countless gigs, in the charts and on national TV. Clarke’s subsequent highs and lows were the subject of a BBC4 doc back in the spring, with a cameo appearance in Plan B’s Ill Manors adding to his ever-rising cultural appreciation. They teach his poetry in schools now. Quite right too. (SH)
Art: Occupational Hazard
Ink_d Gallery Fri 2nd Nov - Sun 2nd Dec
There aren’t many people who can claim to be the sixth member of Radiohead, but visual artist Stanley Donwood is justifiably one, having produced all their artwork (alongside Thom Yorke) since ‘The Bends’. His latest exhibition, debuting in Brighton this month, promises carnivorous goats, grinning bears, the Millennium Dome, disgraced bankers and ‘mild peril’. Also on show will be rare, sold out images and a new series of giclée prints. A digital poster has also been produced to commemorate the exhibit, which is available at the gallery. (JKY)
Talk: The Space Basement Tues 6th
These evenings for the media savvy, super-fans and raffle junkies continue to impress with their everexpanding contacts list of movers and shakers. Broadcaster Briggy Smale is hosting tonight and will be chatting to Deborah Nadoolman Landis, an Oscarnominated costume designer who has worked on many of husband John’s classic films, including
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Michael Jackson’s legendary ‘Thriller’ video. The second guest is BBC comedy producer Jon Plowman who’ll be discussing his work on, amongst others, Ab Fab and The Thick Of It. (SC)
Comedy: Brief History of History/Origin of Species Upstairs At Three And Ten Thurs 8th / Weds 14th
Feel like swallowing balloons every time Russell Howard’s Good News veers into focus? Everyone’s favourite comedy attic the Three And Ten attempts to cover the entire history of civilisation and 19th century science in a couple of gigs in an effort to save you from such midweek winter blues. Gordon Southern uses a tatty sampler and visual aids for the former (a sell-out at Melbourne International Comedy Festival, screams the blurb), and John Hinton – a Brightonian who also has international acclaim to boast of – provides the Darwinian stuff. (BM)
Comedy: Boris & Sergey/ Henning Wehn Upstairs At Three And Ten Sat 10th / Sun 25th
Linford Christie’s lunchbox in a g-string springs to mind when it comes to summing up the packed Three And Ten schedule this month. Or maybe that’s just us. Self-proclaimed “Balkan bad boys” Boris and Sergey are likely to be the most memorable vaudevillian duo you’ll ever see emerge from eastern Europe, and spoof German ambassador Henning Wehn will be warming up for his Christmas shows in London with carols along the lines of ‘Oh Tennenbaum’. (BM)
Theatre: Touching Bodies Nightingale Theatre Sun 11th
Based at the Crawley tower of thespianism that is the Hawth, community theatre company Pitchy Breath have a history stretching back 17 years, staging texts ancient and modern. Paul Macauley’s new play Touching Bodies is a tale of hidden lives, isolation, betrayal, love and brushes with the law, stopping off at the Nightingale for one night only on a short, catch-it-while-you-can tour. There’s every chance they’ll be the finest export from Crawley to get beyond the station this year. (BM)
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Frankie Boyle’s £50k libel win over the Daily Mirror last month, after the paper falsely described him as racist, served to underline how divisive his pushing of comic taboos is. Boyle’s appearances on Mock The Week, while often shockingly tasteless, were the clear highlight of the shows, but his subsequent Tramadol Nights series misfired badly. He’s avowedly left wing, yet writes columns for The Sun, making him equally loved, reviled and misunderstood. This ‘Last Days Of Sodom’ show could be a heavy couple of nights. (SH)
Theatre: The Dressing Book Nightingale Theatre Mon 19th
For critics who’ve seen its best manifestations, the words commedia dell’arte are excitingly pretentious, hinting at the possibilities of brilliant acting through subtle physicality and improvisation. The form can also signpost disaster when done badly. But in the hands of The Rude Mechanical Theatre Company, who’ve been whittling the convoluted art down to a deceptively simple-looking premise for at least a decade, it’s safe. Social conventions and tyrannical husbands get the works in this comedy helped by the V&A. (BM)
Comedy: John Shuttleworth Theatre Royal Tues 20th
Like fellow northern wordsmith John Cooper Clarke, John Shuttleworth creator Graham Fellows made his musical debut on original Manc punk indie Rabid Records, with the timeless novelty single ‘Jilted John’. It’s as Sheffield everyman Shuttleworth that Fellows has achieved his greatest success, his short sighted pop ambitions and domestic travails sustaining the character across a brace of radio and television series, Yorkshire Tea ads and theatre tours. He’s Alan Bennett with a Yamaha keyboard. (SH)
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Theatre: The Vagina Monologues Theatre Royal Thurs 22nd
In Brighton for one night only, Eve Ensler’s controversial Vagina Monologues are bound to get people talking. Not just comediennes trying to get a cheap laugh from ranting about their bathroom habits, the monologues deal with a variety of serious and universal women’s issues. This show will probably twist your brain until you have no idea what a vagina is any more. (TT)
Talk: BUG Radiohead Dome Thurs 22nd
Adam Buxton’s salute to the art of music video returns to Brighton for a celebration of Oxford’s globe conquering miserablists Radiohead. Whether you’re a fan or not, the band have unarguably produced some classic videos in their time, lending themselves to Friends-esque descriptions like The One With The Man Lying Down and The One With The Goldfish Bowl. Buxton supplies context, commentary and comedy, probably along the lines of his Bug TV show which, being on Sky, we haven’t seen, obviously. (SH)
Event: Art Junky 10 Phoenix Gallery Sat 24th & Sun 25th
The tenth Art Junky event is the perfect place to snoop around for oneoff Christmas gifts, or, if you prefer, to satisfy your own shopaholic tendencies. The gallery will be filled to bursting with stalls of clothes, crafts and knick-knackery, music courtesy of resident DJs and a pop-up cafe offering mulled wine and other winter goodies. For just a quid entry, why trail around in the rain when you can get everything you need for Christmas under one roof? (TT)
Dance: Jasmin VardiMon Company Dome Tues 27th
If you like physical theatre you’re spoilt for choice this month, as those multi-award winning, tutu-wearing boundless prancers from the impish, Sadler’s Wells associated Jasmin Vardimon Company return to the Dome. Watching them do their freakishly agile thing could convince you you’re a ballerina too. Take your shoes off and run outside, convinced the tables outside the Mash Tun are mere props in the fleet-footed, nimble-limbed production that is your life. Trip, order a pint, move on clumsily. (BM)
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Hitting the kind of high you expect from something religious, The Mojo Fins prove themselves to be an exceptional band, up there with the best indie rock has to offer. Support: Shona Foster and Apples & Eve.
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There are worse things to have in your pocket than £1000 – an angry rattlesnake for example. That would make getting your keys out tricky and the rattling would get annoying. So let’s concentrate on getting a grand in your pocket instead. First thing you need is Instagram. That’s the hard part (at least paying the smartphone tariff is), then all you need to do is upload a photo on the theme of ‘the musical hidden depths of Brighton’. Tag it with #hiddendepthsbrighton and you’re done. Then just think what to spend the money on. Ah, but there’s one thing in your way to reckless consumerism. The entries will be judged by our editor James Kendall and SOURCE Street Style photographer Kevin Meredith. They both have exhibitions running at the Photo Fringe – the former at The Hope and the latter at The Old Market – so ought to know what they’re looking for. Just make your photo really good. It’s all thanks to Create In Brighton and Tiger Beer, who you might remember from giving Matt C Stokes £1000 for his ‘Know The Not Known’ illustration. Again they’ll be putting an ace free party on at the Coalition for the winner and ten finalists, and anyone else who wants to come. This time Simian Mobile Disco will be playing their storming electro live. That’s on 18th November while the submission deadline is Friday 16th. See createinbrighton.co.uk for full info about the competition.
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Single: Abi Wade
Album/DVD: Fatboy Slim
Local cello maestro Abi Wade is off on tour with Patrick Wolf and has released this 7’’ in anticipation. Both sides are already toe-tapping favourites from her live sets and lose none of their honest charm when recorded. ‘Heavy Heart’ features Wade’s soaring, intimate folk vocals and her characteristic, unique cello tapping. Breathy harmonies enhance the genuine and soulful sound; this is Wade at her reproachful best. B-side ‘Faker’ is a sultry, proud tale which will resonate in your mind for days. (JMM)
As Brighton as a seagull shitting on your chips, Fatboy’s a local institution and his beach parties have provided some of the city’s most legendary nights out. This release covers the fifth Beach Bootique, actually held inland at the Amex Stadium earlier this year. The DVD set is a must-have for everyone who was there, with a CD mix from the night, featuring all the tracks played, and a full length film to bring back – or help recover – those memories. A bumper box set edition throws in even more memorabilia. (JMM)
‘Heavy Heart’ (Love Thy Neighbour)
‘Big Beach Bootique 5’ (Southern Fried)
Album: Puncture Kit
Album: Martin Rossiter
You may well have spotted Puncture Kit’s David Osborne busking around Brighton: he’s the fellow who fires off pummelling percussion workouts on his upended cycle-cumdrum kit. A whole album of deep drumming on the modified bike is a pretty specific listen, but Osborne and studio partner Castro’s d’n’b sensibilities feed deceptive pans, tweaks and dubs into the mix, making stretches of ‘The Bicycle Drummer’ work effectively as stripped down, beat heavy techno. Unexpectedly diverse and undeniably unique. (SH)
Eight long years since Gene bowed out, singer Martin Rossiter returns with this exceptional solo debut. Rossiter’s occasional shows here in his adopted Brighton home have been impressive, torch song affairs of just piano and voice, and ‘The Defenestration Of St Martin’ continues this stripped back approach. Opening the album, the 10-minute title track features a devastating vocal and is up there with Rossiter’s finest Gene songs. The remaining songs are more succinct, but no less affecting. (SH)
‘The Bicycle Drummer’ (puncturekit.bandcamp.com)
‘The Defenestration Of St Martin’ (Drop Anchor)
EP: King Dinosaur
Album: White Star Liners
Young Brighton-based producer King Dinosaur’s first release shows a maturity beyond his years, with swirling synths, calm melodies and restrained bass. ‘Frequency Of The Atmosphere’ is a mysterious, tense beast and the Ambassadeurs remix of ‘The Night’ is an inspired, cut-up take on the original that transforms it into something deeply foreboding. The only criticism is that the vocals, though heavenly and light, are a bit too slick: the frequent harmonising is distracting and can sound a little bit boy band. (JMM)
White Star Liners second full length is a confident set of smart alt-rock tunes, rich with the guitar pop sensibilities of Ash and The New Pornographers. Having scored some summer supports with reformed heroes Grandaddy, the latter’s Jason Lytle guests very briefly here, adding to a cast of backing vocalists that includes Marina Tiffeny of Numbskull labelmates Sparrow and Cat Bear Tree’s Zoe Konez. Nods to Blur’s brassy Britpop peak and the synthetic grandeur of ELO add to the crossover appeal. (SH)
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‘Shuffle’ (Comm:UNITY)
Partly recorded live in the analogue warmth of Liam Watson’s famous Toe Rag Studios, big band King Porter Stomp’s second album is an exuberant blend of upbeat ska, funk and hip hop workouts. The bass burrows deep beneath the sunshine brass, while guests including MC Elemental and The Resonators’ Faye Houston add extra voice to the band’s socially conscious barnstorming. Rapid, infectious current single ‘The Last Bat Train To Cuba’ comes with a storming d’n’b mix by JFB too. (SH)
‘Devilman’ (Small But Hard)
Devilman’s terrific debut album is a three-way collaboration between Bo Ningen’s Taigen Kawabe, Dokkebi Q’s Gorgonn and our old friend Shige Ishihara (DJ Scotch Egg). In the guise of Mr D, Ishihara carves out subsonic dub basslines, tolling away beneath Gorgonn’s fearsome, sheet metal drum programming and Kawabe’s panic attack vocals. Titles like ‘Elephant Dub’ and ‘Noise Step’ indicate the heavy dancefloor hybrids within, until ‘Last Black Emperor’ burns the whole edifice to the ground. (SH)
Album: Dark Horses ‘Black Music’ (Last Gang)
It’s been a fascinating ride for Dark Horses, from Brighton’s back rooms to national acclaim; one they’ve trod carefully so as not to dispel the swirling mystique around them. This supremely cool debut gets the limited singles ‘Radio’ and ‘Alone’ out of the way early on, before delving deeper into the leather-clad electric grooves they’ve concocted with Death In Vegas’ Richard Fearless. Unnecessary Talking Heads cover aside, ‘Black Music’ exists in an erotic dreamscape all of its own. (SH)
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‘Diggory’ (Singing Hinny)
Following up her delightful, whistle-along debut ‘Black Dog’, Jennifer Left’s new single ups the toe-tapping jazz elements in its ode to the troubled fellow of its title. Deceptively jolly then, although we’ve never met a Diggory in our life. Fresh from his work on King Porter Stomp’s album, Ninja Tune’s Banks adds a glittering remix. Worth seeking out for the B-side too, a sun-dappled strum through New Order’s ‘Temptation’ which is much smarter and effective than you might imagine. (SH)
‘Shadows’ (Creek Music)
Soft-edged folk pop quartet Native Roses’ second single is a subtle piece of autumnal balladry. ‘Shadows’ swings in sweetly enough, with light acoustic strums and watercolour piano notes, although James Knaggs’ sorrowful singing keeps the mood downbeat. It all turns on the second chorus, however, as Jessica Illsley’s vocals breeze in, lifting Knaggs upwards, as a synth pulse arrives to rally the musicians too. Native Roses have a touch of Fleetwood Mac about them here, no bad thing in our book. (SH)
EP: Unicorn Power ‘Catface’ (Substream)
‘Guarded’, the lead track on Unicorn Power’s latest EP (and first for Swedish label Substream) is a fun and bouncy synthpop tune, delighting in squelching synths and much sweeping stereo horseplay. The Tony Tronic remix uproots it to New York circa 1983, throwing even more squirting electro-disco in the pot. The other three songs on the EP are a bit gloomier, with post-punk and gothic overtones among the keyboard love. A mixed bunch then, but there are solid tunes within. (SH)
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Brighton Rockers LEADERS OF THE PACK Words By James Kendall
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One of the most positive things to come out of the Olympic coverage was how much everyone enjoyed the women’s events. After years of being marginalised, finally women’s sport was being taken seriously. Buzzed by seeing Jessica Ennis and co rack up the golds, acres of press was devoted to how we wanted to see more women’s sport on TV. So what happened? Fuck all. Back to the status quo – men’s football, men’s rugby, men’s darts. Which is why it’s so brilliant to discover roller derby, a sport predominantly played – and certainly dominated — by women. It’s inspiring a whole wave of girls to get involved, not least in Brighton where we have one of the best teams in the country. Yeah, really. The Brighton Rockers might have only been in existence for a
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couple of years but they’ve only lost one match out of 13, with an extremely respectable scoreline of 177-180 against the London Rollergirls, the team ranked third in Europe. To give you an idea of how impressive that is, the game was played behind closed doors with no audience as it wasn’t thought to be a fair match. Thanks to their performance our girls are now placed in the top ten teams in the continent. To get this good this quickly is amazing because it’s SO complicated. “I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone who’s gone to their first game and hasn’t said, ‘It was amazing but I didn’t have a fucking clue what was going on,’” admits Hairy Fairy. Basically it goes something like this. There’s a jammer on each team that has to lap the pack of blockers. It’s the pack’s job to help their own jammer while slowing down the opposing
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Vixen sagely. “It happens.” “We’ve had a few broken legs, four in fact, and many broken ribs, fingers and wrists,” says Rose Bleed counting on as yet un-shattered digits. In full flow roller derby looks pretty reckless, but actually everything is built in to make it as safe as possible. There are seven referees for a start. And it’s a penalty offence to take off any of your protective gear on the track, and most of it needs to remain even while you’re on the bench. There are very strict rules about how and where you can hit people. Those 40 pages are there precisely to make it safe. When we went to a training session we excitedly thought that we’d get a chance to play a game but as Mistress Von Uber Vixen patiently took us through some of the core skills – which mostly involved falling without knocking our teeth out – it became clear that not only would we get our arses kicked in seconds, we’d actually be a liability on the track. It was no surprise to find that you don’t get to play until you’ve nailed the basics. What was a surprise –as we tottered like Bambi on ice onto the track – was to see someone on the bench with a broken arm. Surely that had put her off, we asked naively. Not at all, she assured us, she was desperate to get skating again. The fact she was at practice with a broken limb gives you some idea of how hard the team members have been bitten by roller derby. For example Chariot Sophia, the girl at the front of our cover shot, broke her ankle and had to have pins in it. When the operation to have the pins removed clashed with match day she had the surgery delayed so she could play first. “That’s the kind of dedication we ask for,” says Hairy Fairy as they all laugh at the memory. “Even after training you come away with aches and pains. But I don’t think you ever expect to get properly hurt. We wouldn’t play it if we did.” As exciting as it is to find a women’s sport that’s getting so much attention what makes roller derby even more special is the wide range of women that make up the game, in age, background NEXT GAME: Vs Big Bucks High Rollers; GYSO and body shape. The latter is Roller Central, Shoreham, 17th especially beneficial to the team. WEB: brightonrockers.com “In the line up I’m quite big and VIOLENT MOVIE: tinyurl.com/BRmovie known for blocking,” says The Mighty Mighty Bash, the original coach who only left her team, the respected London Rockin’ Rollers, to skate with her protégés once she’d got them up to jammer, as for every opposing blocker the jammers pass they scratch. “But I can be a jammer too because I can take hits. get a point. So far, so simple, but the packs can’t be split by People won’t be able to force me out of bounds. Whereas more than ten feet, which makes roller derby extremely tactile. Rose is really nippy and can get through little gaps.” The two minute jams are rarely a race and players have to be “The good thing about the body size issue,” adds Hairy Fairy, very aware of what’s going on to not pick up penalties. There “is when someone joins you don’t say, ‘Oh no, a fat girl.’ You are 40 pages of rules to abide by. go, ‘I want that one, she’s going to be amazing.’ I’ve heard people that are bigger say that Bash inspires them because “You learn to skate, you learn to skate together, you learn to they didn’t know they’d be able to do a sport that fast. When fall, a lot, and then hit each other,” explains Rose Bleed. “And you see her she’s one of the fastest people on the team and then finally when you put it all together then you have to learn she’s so nimble.” how to play.” With the Brighton Rockers having sold out their last three And when it comes to practice the girls put the time in, three home bouts, and clearly heading for even great success, two hour sessions every week. Because if you play roller derby they’re only going to become more inspiring. The new gang in badly it’s pretty dangerous. town could kick your arse, but probably won’t, until you step “Even if you do it well it’s dangerous,” says Mistress Von Uber on the track.
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Words By Nathaniel Forrester, Stuart Huggett
Cinecity, the Brighton Film Festival, gets underway this month for its 10th year of screenings, performances and exhibitions. Festival co-director Tim Brown talks us through Cinecity’s history in this month’s Unsung Hero interview, while here we pick out a few SOURCE recommendations.
Seven Psychopaths Duke Of York’s Thurs 15th
Cinecity’s opening night movie this year is Martin McDonagh’s follow up to his violent, Oscar nominated gangster comedy In Bruges. Once again, Colin Farrell takes the leading role, as a screenwriter getting out of his depth in the LA crime world, as a dognapping plan goes dangerously awry. Seven Psychopaths’ mouthwatering cast includes Christopher Walken, Harry Dean Stanton, Woody Harrelson and Tom Waits. If you suspect some of these may be among the titular psychopaths, you’d be right. (SH)
From The Sea To The Land Beyond Duke Of York’s Fri 16th
British Sea Power’s second full length soundtrack commission, after their successful re-scoring of 1934’s Man Of Aran, continues their marine interests. From The Sea To The Land Beyond is a collage of coastal footage from the British Film Institute archives, drawing on a century of film-making around these isles. Having performed the soundtrack live alongside the film around the country this year, from the BFI itself to the end of Bournemouth Pier, tonight is British Sea Power’s hometown’s turn. (SH)
Drive
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soundtrack by French electronic producer College. College’s hypnotic synthesised beats work in perfect harmony with Gosling’s rubbergloved night drives and this should to be one hell of an evening of escapism. Then we will return to our Peugeot 106 with broken Pringles on the backseat and try to be that cool. (NJF)
The Paper Cinema’s Odyssey Dome Studio Weds 21st
Harking back to pre-cinema times of puppet shows and magic lanterns, The Paper Cinema present their lo-fi, high talent version of Homer’s Odyssey. Using cut outs, projections, live drawing and music, Odysseus’ epic voyage comes to life in unfolding layers of paper, card and light. You probably know how the adventure unfolds and the perils encountered (the Cyclops, the Sirens, Scylla and Charybdis and all), but the thrill of the tale is all in the telling. (SH)
Jukebox Fury – Zoom Lens Basement Fri 23rd
This month’s Jukebox Fury brings together live music, films, mixtapes and installations in an evening dedicated to the cinematic futurevisions of writer J.G. Ballard. Instead of David Cronenberg’s controversial adaptation of Ballard’s most famous novel, Crash, tonight offers the book’s little-seen precursor: an absorbing 1971 BBC film essay on the death drive urge, starring UFO’s Gabrielle Drake and Ballard himself, looping round the multi-storeys and wreckers’ yards of Watford. Cinecity patron and composer Barry Adamson picks a Ballardian playlist, and John Foxx presents a ‘film and sound seance’. (SH)
Music Film Weekender – Pop Up Cinema Basement Sat 24th – Sun 25th
Cinecity’s music strand continues at The Basement all weekend, with a full programme of recent documentaries and features. Local interest highlights of the Pop Up Cinema include Art Will Save The World (Niall McCann’s mischievous portrait of misanthropic anti-Britpop hero Luke Haines), Last Shop Standing (a study of the decline of the independent record shop, given added poignancy by this summer’s closure of Rounder) and Nick Cave salute Do You Love Me Like I Love You. (SH)
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SOURCE Readers’ Gig Charter Your Definitive List Of Gig-Going Crimes Is Ready For Discussion Words By James Kendall, SOURCE Readers Photos By James Kendall
A couple of months ago we found ourselves a little peeved by behaviour at some of the gigs we went to and so put out the idea of a Gig Charter. To say you took to the idea like a metaller to the moshpit is an understatement. Inconsiderate wankers have been ruining your special ‘moments’ for years and you spewed bile about people talking, taking photos and, well, spewing bile. So here’s your list of your worst offenders. Look out on Facebook soon for when we put all this to the vote and compile a finished document for your approval.
Talking
By far the biggest complaint that came back was people talking, especially through quiet gigs. Why do it?! Why pay a tenner to see a band and not listen to it? If someone asks you to be quiet, don’t you think that should be enough reason to pipe down? But a request for silence often leads to aggression. It takes a lot of balls to confront someone, so take that as a measure of how upset they are and go and finish your vital conversation about EastEnders at the bar. Matt Bassant of Audio told us about how he was so wound up by a group of five chatterers at The xx in his venue that he gave them their money back and asked them to leave. Fair play.
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Photos
A newish gripe as before digital cameras – or more specifically camera phones – this wasn’t a problem. Kris Mitchell, like lots of you, gets frustrated by “people watching a gig through their phone as they record it rather than actually experiencing it.” But it’s not just that. If you have a phone in front of your face while someone is videoing their favourite song you might as well be sat at home watching on the world’s worst TV. The problem is, says Lisa Wormsley, “the results are normally rather shit”. As for taking pictures with iPads? Outright ban, you all seem to be demanding.
Groping
Yeah, that little grope you have in the moshpit, that’s not an opportunist bit of fun, it’s straight up sexual assault. And, yes, despite the fact it’s illegal, immoral and the behaviour of a scumbag, it happens all the time. It’s absolutely disgusting and any blokes doing it need to have a firm fucking word with themselves. “I’m surprised this still happens in this day and age”, says Jenny Jones. “How would they like it if it was their sister?” Exactly. And no ‘accidental’ grinding either, for fuck’s sake. If you see this, speak up. Let’s stamp it out.
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Wayward Hair
A surprisingly popular one this, and one we hadn’t had much trouble with (except for SOURCE manager Rosie being engulfed head-to-waist in a dreadlock curtain after Primal Scream last year). “People dancing by flailing their long hair in everyone’s faces is rank,” says Stuart Adams. “Particularly those with unwashed dreads.” Yeah, that sounds nasty.
Anti-Dancing
As long as you keep your hair and limbs under control, dancing was generally seen as a good thing by SOURCE readers (“It should be compulsory at gigs in any part of the venue”, reckons Alison Taylor). The frustration was a Footloose-style shut down. “At an Elbow gig at The Dome I was moaned at for dancing”, says Tina Sutcliffe. “It’s a gig! You’re meant to have fun. If you wanna listen, go home and put yer headphones on. Leave us alone to have some fun.” Yeah, shut up grandad.
Snogging
The band are playing your ‘our tune’, emotions are high, you’re having a moment and the next thing you know you’re taken over with desire and are kissing your partner’s face off. That would all be fine if you weren’t six inches from five other people. It’s not an orgy, how about a bit of privacy? “No matter how close to the front I get, they’re always in front of me”, says Richard Julian Jones. “Get a room!”
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Spilling Pints
It’s a constant surprise how great people are at carrying multiple pints across a pub, but a gig provides a fairly substantial extra challenge to your skills. “People who try to carry four pints through a dancing, unaware crowd are so annoying”, says our Reviews Editor Jess, while Riki Tik manager Jack Donald complains about “people that spill their pints on my shoes”. Milo Belgrove has a radical solution: only sell bottled beer. “Nobody’s hair goes in a bottle nor does it get spilt everywhere.” Indeed.
Throwing Cups Of Piss
This one is more festival ‘fun’ than Brighton-based but if you’ve ever done this we’d really like to sit you down and have a good chat about your moral compass. You’re throwing your piss. At people. And it’s worth remembering it’s real people up there, even if you don’t like the songs they’re playing.
Pushing To The Front
At worst this is actually dangerous, at best it’s a bit rude. If you’re that keen on the band then get get to the front a few minutes before they start. “I hate people who think the best way to the front is to barge forward without stopping, as aggressively as they can”, says David Middleton. But there’s a further offence. “Also, groups of people who insist on holding hands when going to the bar or closer to the front”, reckons Robert Buckingham. “Gigs are not primary school outings.”
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Attention Seeking
This isn’t audience participation, you don’t get to choose the setlist, no matter how many times you shout for a song. “I hate obnoxious audience members who try to draw as much attention to themselves as possible,” adds Loz Reading, “particularly by overtly violent and aggressive moshing.” And having mates in the band doesn’t give you the right to act up. “When I saw 900 Spaces some bloke shouted ‘Oi Stew! Oi! Yeah! Stew!’ constantly, between every song,” recalls Toby Dore.
Smelling Bad
A bit of common courtesy here – wash your pits before you go and stand in a hot room very close to lots of other people. “B.O. after a sweaty night out is perfectly fine,” says Andrew White, “but before the first support, no.” Similarly farting. “Remember people,” says Megan Wright, “now there is no smoking at gigs there is no cover for this behaviour.” Five hundred people farting in a room with no windows? No thanks.
Tall People
Being short at a gig is a curse. So if you’re tall, show a bit of respect. “Take a glance behind”, suggests Jo Parker. “If there’s someone who genuinely can’t see then maybe shuffle somewhere that works better for both.” But it can be a torment for the tall too. “I get really narked when people who are standing behind me tut throughout the gig because they can’t see owing to my mega-lankiness”, says Robert Buckingham. There’s not much you can do about your height. In our experience the beanpoles need to get there early and let the little folk work around them. If you’ve got the height to see well don’t expect to be able to push to the front without getting it in the neck. Meanwhile sitting on someone’s shoulders means no-one behind you can see, so maybe keep that brief.
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Support The Support
You go to gigs cos you love music, so show some of that love to the musicians by watching the support bands, say quite a few of you. “Today’s supports are tomorrow’s main acts so listen to them”, says Steve Train. “I don’t like it when people clear off after their mate’s band has played,” adds Toby Dore. “If you don’t at least give the other bands a chance then you’re letting yourself down and the scene loses out on vital support.”
Topless Men
SOURCE’s Jess flagged up this one, which should have been left behind in the golden age of raving. Taking your top off isn’t going to keep you that much cooler than a t-shirt but does give you about a 99% chance of wiping your clammy body-sweat onto someone else. Get a nice breathable techno-fibre from a camping shop if overheating is that big a problem.
Buy Local
It’s not easy putting on gigs by local artists, so when you’re heading out for a night of entertainment how about sticking your hand in your pocket, suggests Toby Dore. “People who try to get into local band’s gigs without paying wind me up”, he says. “We put these on with money from our own pocket and anything we make just covers our costs, so you’re being a dick if you don’t pay.” You still want that guestlist?
Let People Have Fun
We’ll leave this to Christian Jegard from The Valentines: “I think as long as what you’re doing isn’t ridiculously disruptive and unsound, then people should be able to do whatever the fuck they like. It’s a gig not a memorial service. Just don’t be a dick, or an uptight Nazi. It’s just a band, its fine.” Of course where the line is drawn is the big issue here. And that’s what we want you to decide. We’ll keep you posted when we’re ready for your feedback to take it to the next stage.
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For some people, vintage means anything that’s been worn before, but Jenny is drawn to mid-century clothes and fashion from another era. She’s always been interested in costume and old films but it took a move down here five years ago for her to really embrace the look. “It’s easier to dress vintage here”, she says, “In Birmingham not so many people were into it.” She’s taken this obsession and turned it into Frantic About Frances, a pin up style lingerie label. “I get a lot of inspiration from the 50s”, she says. Check it out at franticaboutfrances. co.uk Hat from Martlets Hospice “It’s early 60s and it finishes off an outfit. I’ve got quite a lot of hats, but I don’t always wear them. They make an outfit seem more ladylike.” Glasses from eBay “They’re late 40s and I had my own lenses put in them. I love them because they’re so unusual and they’ve survived through 60-odd years. Apparently the arms are hand-rolled gold.” Jacket from charity shop “It flares out a little bit at the back, almost like a tailcoat. I can chuck it on and it makes any outfit look more formal.” Cardigan from Oxfam “It’s actually H&M but I thought it looked quite 50s. I like the colour and the beading on the front.” Dress from housemate “It’s original 50s but I don’t know where she got it. It’s hard to find that era’s dresses in good condition. I seem to have a fixation with 50s lilac dresses for some reason.” Handbag from charity shop “Oh god, my whole outfit is from charity shops! I like the shape and coincidentally it matched my hat.” Shoes from New Look “It’s nice that they’ve got a little heel, but they’re not too high so they’re ok to walk in.”
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100 People Who Make Brighton What It Is tim brown No.35 Words by Stuart Huggett This year marks the 10th edition of Cinecity, the Brighton film festival. Co-director Tim Brown has been involved from the start. What are the festival’s roots? We set up Cinecity in 2003; at that time Brighton had no dedicated film festival. I worked at the Duke Of York’s and the University Of Brighton, and that partnership remains the bedrock of the festival (Frank Gray, director of Screen Archive South East at the University, is Cinecity’s other co-director). Our roles haven’t really changed, it’s still about working through the year to raise money, forge links, visit a lot of festivals, and, of course, watch a lot of films and put the programme together. The annual festival is the main focus but now we collaborate with Brighton Festival and House Visual Arts Festival each May, and work with the Duke Of York’s and others to present films and screenings right throughout the year. What role do Cinecity’s patrons play? They sometimes curate programmes and select films, take part in Q&As or help out with contacts and recommendations. In 2009 Henry Normal tipped us off about a debut feature called Down Terrace which we squeezed into the programme at the last minute. Its director Ben Wheatley has gone on to make Kill List and he’s back at the festival with a preview of his very funny new film Sightseers. This year we’re welcoming a new patron to the team, musician and soundtrack composer Barry Adamson, who’s got involved straight away in the music and film programme. Which Cinecity events have you been most proud of? One of the most moving was Simon Fisher Turner and Black Sifichi presenting Derek Jarman’s Blue live; it was given a further magical twist by coming out of the Duke of York’s after such a powerful performance to a perfect, thick blanket of snow. The exhibition of the Quay Brothers’ décors and miniature film sets was special for us; it’s currently at the Museum Of Modern Art in New York. This year’s Hangover Square film set installation was quite a departure and got an incredible response. It’s exciting to be able to go into the splendour of the Music Room at the Royal Pavilion to screen films. We’re showing Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon there. This year we’ve put a special emphasis on debut features – there are around 15 in the programme. Ultimately, giving a platform to new talent and having that element of discovery is always the most exciting and rewarding thing.
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When we announced that we were heading to Plateau to do a food review our designer Matt, who knows about fine food (“What do you mean you’ve never eaten partridge?!” he once exclaimed), coolly declared it “the best restaurant in Brighton”. It’s not the first time we’ve heard such praise, but we held back from getting our Secret Eater disguises on as when we reviewed their sister café Mange Tout they were a bit cross because we only said they make “one of the best fry ups in Brighton”. The setting is certainly up to scratch – a modern, chic bare-brick-and-metal industrial vibe – but can the food live up to the hype?
THE MEAL
There’s a small menu that you can see online but the most important stuff changes every day and is written up on the blackboards. We choose a little from each, starting with the butternut squash risotto (£6) which is exquisitely creamy thanks to the ricotta. We’ve never made anything a fraction as nice with butternut squash. That’s joined by the spicy tuna loin (£7), which comes on a bed of pickled vegetables that could have so easily overpowered the soft, barely cooked tuna. The wasabi mayo completes the sushi feel beautifully. Onto the main course and the grilled bavette steak is astounding – full of flavour, peppery and smoky, but nowhere near as chewy as you’d expect from meat on the flank. It was clearly cooked with a deft touch, as were the soft chips. A bargain at £12. We add a sizable mixed leaf and Pecorino salad (£3.50) to the smoked partridge breast and confit leg (£7) to turn it into a filling main. Gamey with crispy skin, again there isn’t a flavour out of place.
THE VERDICT
We hope this doesn’t make them cross again but we think Plateau is one of the best restaurants in Brighton. The food was exceptional, and pretty reasonably priced. We’ll be back to try their sharing plateaus, starting with the hot meat one.
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We imagine there’s loads of food blogs uploading photos of Plateau’s stunningly presented food. No one mentioned anything.
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we judge brighton’s leading comic artist: he dreads it Words By Stuart Huggett Boo Cook’s comic artwork regularly appears in 2000AD and Elephantmen. Closer to home, his designs have featured on recent Tru Thoughts albums by Sleepin Giantz and Zed Bias. Check his drawing at boocook.tumblr.com. What comics did you enjoy as a kid? I lived on the edge of the Dartmoor, so anything I could get to feed my imagination in a fresh, exciting way was gratefully received. My grandpa used to send me a comic in the post each week – Look-in, The Beano. When I was 9 or 10, my pal Tom introduced me to 2000AD. A small bunch of mates and myself used to spend all our time trying to emulate its art styles and my passion for that has remained to this day. How did you get into professional illustration? My first published work was in 2000AD, but before that I’d done several small press and self-published projects. They’re an indispensible proving ground to try out your visual storytelling skills and get feedback from comics readers, to see how you can improve and develop. Once you’ve gained a certain level of confidence you can start sending bundles of work off to editors, but you have to be patient and tenacious, listen to what they say, take advice on board and keep sending. What skills do you need to be a comic artist? A really healthy dose of life drawing is invaluable as 99.9% of comic strips involve our complex human anatomy. Not many art colleges can teach you to draw the crazy stuff but if you couple your imagination with a solid grounding in the basics of painting, drawing and colouring you should be off to a good start. The bible to me as a kid was Stan Lee and John Buscema’s How To Draw Comics The Marvel Way, an awesome, all encompassing book for any aspiring comic artist. What strips do you most enjoy drawing? My favourites are ones with a science fiction angle and plenty of scope to give my imagination a tasty workout. Richard Starkings’ creation Elephantmen is great because I love drawing heavy hitters. The strip centres mainly around this
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group of massive human/animal genetic hybrids: they were engineered for war, but now the war is over they’re struggling with the complexities of re-integrating into a very Blade Runner future society in LA. With Judge Anderson Psi I get to play in the world of Judge Dredd, Mega City One. Judge Cassandra Anderson is a very well fleshed out, realistic character, with the full range of human emotion to portray, but due to her psychic abilities you can always expect some twisted psychedelic mayhem to go down, courtesy of writer Alan Grant. What other writers do you like working with? I’ve had some great sojourns into sci-fi with Rob Williams and strips like Asylum and Judge Dredd. I also really love the work of Al Ewing and had the chance to work with him a few times, which was great. At the moment I’m working on a strip for 2000AD called Gunheadz with my long time friend and incredible writer Tom Eglington. Not only is he technically very adept, he has a boundless imagination and crazy style which fits together really well with the way I like to make comics. Which up and coming artists do you admire? Lately I’ve been getting into James Harren’s work on B.P.R.D., Becky Cloonan on Conan and Nick Dyer’s Dredd work. Nick’s a fellow Brightonite, so we meet up quite often and discuss mind-blowing things like pen nibs and paper types. Joking aside, it’s great to have someone local who you can discuss the ins and outs of comic art with. What other commissions do you take? Advertising is a little dissatisfying on the soul front for me, so I tend to keep it comics or at least sci-fi based. Occasionally I’ll meet someone like Tru Thoughts’ wacky MD Paul Jonas who will need something space based or a bit crazy for an album cover. If I’m moved by the music or there’s some illustration work I can emotionally invest in I’ll always give it a pop. My collaboration with Elephantmen’s Richard Starkings seems to be an ongoing thing, so I always have a job or two in the pipeline with him, and I’m incredibly grateful to alien Matt Smith (AKA Tharg the Mighty), my editor at 2000AD, for keeping me in work for over 12 years now. With any luck there’ll be many more gigs to come.
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Thursday 1st
Motown 8pm £free
Proud Cabaret Laugh Out Proud: Jonny Awsum,
Above Audio Schtumm! Disco and house grooves Time tbc £free Audio Bastard Pop Musical mash-up 11pm £3/2/free Basement All That Is Wrong The story of a not-soconfused 18 year old brought to you by Belgian performance company, Ontroerend Goed 7.30pm £9/6 Blind Tiger Skinny Lister, Time For T Flirty folk band from London, with a passing nod to The Pogues 7pm £5; Roots Garden Reggae DJs with guest singers and live musicians 8pm £4/free Brunswick Nick Pynn & Kate Daisy Grant Avant-folk virtuoso with his own homemade instruments teams up with a quirky alt pop singer for a night of acoustic experimental folk music 8pm £7/5 Caroline Of Brunswick Zombie Bikers From Hell Biker’s gathering - we’re talking leather, not Lycra Time tbc £free; DJ Dave Mumbles Rockabilly and rock&roll 8pm £free Coalition Secret Discotheque Replaying the soundtrack to your youth 11pm £4/3/2 Concorde2 Gong Prog psychedelic rock legends (this show was originally at the Komedia, old tickets are still valid) 7.30pm £20 Constant Service Mark & Dodger Singalong piano music 8.30pm £free Cortlands Hotel Making Buses In Brighton And Hove Popular A talk by local bus boss, Roger French - let’s hope it runs on time 7.30pm £3/free Dome John Cooper Clarke The ‘Bard of Salford’ still hanging and banging on 8pm £17.50/15 Dome Cafe Bar This Is Just To Say Performance poetry from Hannah Jane Walker 6pm/9pm £12/10 Dome Studio Pocket Henry V Shakespeare’s patriotic play stripped back and retooled for the world of modern entertainment 3pm/7pm £7.50-10 Duke Of Norfolk Rock Night Classic rock tunes 8pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema Keiko - The Untold Story 11am £tbc; Hope Springs 1.30pm £tbc; 5 Broken Cameras 4pm £tbc; Timon Of Athens: NT Live 7pm £tbc; Beasts Of The Southern Wild 10.15pm £tbc Fabrica Agents Of Change: Jane Bom-Bane, David Bramwell, Mick Taylor, David Sheppeard, Tarik Elmoutawakii, Warren Carter Bitesize talks on nonconformity and alternative business models 7pm £free Fishbowl Residents Association: DJ Will Sumsuch DJs play hip hop, funk and world beats 10.30pm £free Fountain Head Student Night DJs play indie and rock 8pm £free Globe Hang The DJ! A night of punter-picked playlists 9pm £free Green Door Store Mark Gardener Solo show from the former frontman of shoegazers, Ride 7pm £8 Haunt Pig Destroyer Just in case their ludicrous name didn’t give it away, they’re a metal band 7pm £12; Coconut College Thursday night party playing a right mix of stuff like Grimes, Smashing Pumpkins and Kayne West 11pm £3/2 Honey Propaganda Indie club 10.30pm £4/3 Hop Poles Woodstock Unplugged Live music 8pm £free Hope Joshua James Singer songwriter 8pm £6 Komedia Hammer & Tongue: Laurie Bolger, Bohdan Piasescki An entertaining mix of poetry and comedic verse - hosted by Rosy Carrick and Mike Parker 7.30pm £5; Dan Clark - These Songs May Contain Jokes Funny indie songs and musical character comedy 8pm £16/14 Latest Music Bar Rod Picott Americana singer songwriter 8pm £tbc Lighthouse Monthly Talk: Edmund Clark Talks on digital art and culture 6.30pm £3 Mash Tun The Infamous Jay & Rich DJ duo play indie, rock, electro and dubstep 9pm £free Mucky Duck Open Mic Jam session with Joe Newman 8pm £free Nightingale Theatre Punched 3 Puppetry for grown-ups 7.30pm £8.50/6.50 Old Market Clockheart Boy Family show about a professor and his fantastical friends 11.30am/3pm £7/5; Shorts And Sweets Book Club: Guy Maupassant This month they’re discussing the French 19th century short story master 7.30pm £free Ouch Bar Live Funk Music 10.30pm £free Pav Tav Pav Tav Live Live music Details tbc Preston Manor How Did Lady Ellen Eat A Banana? Family activity day introducing the lost arts of Edwardian etiquette - bring your own banana 10.30am/1.30pm £8/6/4 Prince Albert Murmatron, Jacquemo Live music 8pm £4 Prince George Souled Out DJs play funk, soul and
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Above Audio Home House and disco DJs 9pm £free Audio Spectrasoul & Rockwell Details tbc Basement Quickfire Workshop Humorous artist,
Victoria Melody, helps you knock up a one-minute solo act to be performed at tomorrow’s Supper Club 1pm £free; Police Dog Hogan High energy seven-piece folk band 7.30pm £8/6 Blind Tiger Glass City Vice, The Ballpoints, RazmaFu Live music fundraiser for Doctors of the World 7.30pm £3.50 Brunswick The Starrlite Beatles Tribute band 8pm £8/6 Caroline Of Brunswick Peter Von Sleaze Sleazy, like getting drooled on by a big biker. Did I say ‘like’? 9pm £free Coalition Friday I’m In Love No more lectures for a day or two 11pm £2-5 Concorde2 Lawson Live music (this show has now sold out) 6.30pm £tbc; Applesauce Launch Party: Vitalic, The Loops Of Fury, Electric Playboys Club night with live bands and DJs 11pm £12 Cornerstone Jon Chickens Reggae, funk and soul DJ 9pm £free Cowley Club River Jumpers, Struggling For Reason, Vice Like Grip, Ducking Punches Belgian punk, pop punk, acoustic punk and punk 8pm £donation Digital Stonelove Indie rock&roll club 11pm £4/3 Doctor Brighton’s Funky Friday: DJ Nick Hirst, DJ Wayne 9.30pm £free Dome Ben Howard, Willy Mason Acoustic singer songwriter with folk leanings (this show has now sold out) 7pm £16; Diane Cluck, Salena Godden New York anti folk singer supported by spoken word poetess 8pm £10/8 Dome Cafe Bar This Is Just To Say Performance poetry from Hannah Jane Walker 6pm/9pm £12/10 Druid’s Arms Hot Pepper Sauce DJ I.D.G. serves up a spicy mix of funk, soul and house 10pm £free Duke Of Norfolk DJ MC Cashback DJ night 9pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema The Whale 11am £tbc; The Shining Official re-release preview 9pm £tbc Fabrica Late Night Opening and Biennial Tour: Annebella Pollen & Louise Purbrick Art and design lecturers show you round the city’s photography exhibitions 8pm £3 Fishbowl Keep It Wheel DJs plays rare disco, soul and boogie 9pm £free Fortune Of War Fever Bands and DJs play Latin, salsa and reggae 9pm £free Fountain Head Soulshyne Soulful house and original disco grooves with DJ Mick Fuller 9pm £free Friend’s Meeting House Soundscapes - Mozart’s Kegelstatt Trio: Brighton Early Music Festival DeNOTE performers play pieces for clarinet, viola and piano 8pm £15/13 Funfair Fortune New Motown, rock and soul night with
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hula-hoopers, contortionists and sword swallowers 9pm £5/3/free Funkyfish Thank Funk Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10.30pm £free Globe Rum Fridays: Eclectic Chair DJ Lamp mashes genres while you get mashed on rum 8pm £free Grand Central Dad’s Old Vinyl DJs play retro funk, pop and hip hop records 8.30pm £free Green Door Store Catherine Ireton The singer of Belle & Sebastian’s side project, God Help The Girl 7pm £6/5; AEREO: D/R/U/G/S, Teen Creeps DJs, James Kendall Electro and synth pop night with a live act and a DJ set from the glorious editor of this ‘ere rag 11pm £free Haunt Dizraeli & The Small Gods Seven-piece folk band led by the hip hop poet 7pm £10; Mulletover: Sebo K, Geddes, Wildkats, Marlon Mahroyan, Juan Baiz, Ricky Kay Moody Disco Halloween party 11pm £12 Honey Lollipop ‘Pink Fridays’ Get your fingers sticky to R&B and pop treats 11pm £5/4/3 Hop Poles 7x7 Seven DJs play seven inch records 9pm £free Hope Newkicks Upbeat acoustic music 9pm £free Jazz Place Gigglestock: Tez Ilyas Comedy night 7.30pm £4/3 Jury’s Out Live Music 5.30pm £free Komedia Paul Foot - Kenny Larch Is Dead Stand-up comedy 8pm £12.50; Krater Comedy Club: Pete Johansson, Rob Beckett, Lloyd Langford, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 8pm £16.50/13.50 Life Brighton Up!: Trojan Sounsystem, Dagger DJs, Flatline DJs, ADHD DJs Ska, rocksteady, ragga and dancehall - if it’s Jamaican they’ll play it 11pm £3/2; Disco Deviant: Andrew Weatherall, Pablo Contraband, Duncan Patterson Balearic, disco and house night with the pioneering DJ who co-produced Primal Scream’s Screamadelica 10pm £8 Lola Lo Tiki Beats Totally tropical tunes 8pm £5/4/3 Marlborough Theatre Lorraine Bowen Meets Barbara Moore Now in her 80s, the songwriter talks about the swinging 60s when she worked with the likes of Jimi Hendrix and Elton John 8pm £8/6 Mucky Duck Figure Of Wax DJ night 8pm £free Neptune John Crampton Foot-stomping blues explosion 8.30pm £free Nightingale Theatre Punched 3 Puppetry for grown-ups 7.30pm £8.50/6.50 Northern Lights The Phailing Queasents Victorian DJs play everything from Gogol Bordello right through to Queen 9pm £free Old Market Insites - Connections To Play Theatrebased games for kids to explore the building and produce a performance 10am £5/2 Pav Tav Beats Not Bombs DJ sessions 8pm £free; Show Me 90s Love: DJ Andy Gibbens “The biggest and best 90s tunes” 10.30pm £3/2 Prince Albert Piranhas, Fractured Ska punk pub band 8pm £5/4; Bend Over I’ll Drive Rock&roll DJs (downstairs) 8.30pm £free Ranelagh The East Brighton Rhythm Section Fat roots boogie 8.30pm £free Smugglers Grits And Gravy New club night playing vintage rhythm&blues, ska and swing 9pm £free Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Brighton Rocks: Derider, Killing Vegas, The Dead Life, Jipsy Magic Rock bands 7pm £4; Jazz Note: dRamatic, dbAudio, LSB, Lofty, S.T, Badger, Tempest Liquid drum&bass night with a change of venue and a new soundsystem 11pm £3 Theatre Royal The Sacred Flame W Somerset Maugham’s wartime drama 7.45pm £12-29.50 Three & Ten Discover Ben Target Stand-up comedy 8pm £8.50/7 Tube Cross The crew behind TRASH kick off a night of beats and bass 11pm £3/free; Motel Last chance saloon for electro house heads 2am £5 University Of Brighton Latenight Tour: Brighton Photo Biennial Louise Purbrick and Anabella Pollen discuss ‘the other’ in photography on a night tour of the Biennial exhibits 8pm £free Volks Jungle Alliance: Unity Hi-Fi, Krak In Dub, Dialect & Kosine, Kotch, Lotskee, Ma Quest, Arcane, Kingspinner, Defcon One, Chris Culture, Rumble, Remo, Jnr Dee Unity Hi-Fi 8th birthday bash with two floors of jungle, reggae and drum&bass 10pm £4-8 Western Front DJ One Time Funk, soul and classic hip hop 9pm £free White Rabbit Ruff Snippets DJ plays hip hop, funk and soul 8pm £free
Saturday 3rd
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Above Audio Doctor’s Orders Funk, soul and seriously
sick hip hop 8pm £5/free Ancient Mariner The Porchlight Smoker Folk and bluegrass band 8.30pm £free Audio Warehouse: Blah Blah Blah DJs, Alfie House and techno club night 11pm £5/free Basement Supper Club: Victoria Melody, Sabrina Mahfouz, Ultimate Dancer, Bunty, Lucy Ayrton A platter of bite-sized arty performances 8pm £8/6 Beachigogo Bar Good Times Remember them? Maybe the feel-good retro tunes will jog your memory (in the White Room) 9pm £free Blind Tiger Gypsy Disco Eastern European circus
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freaks on the rampage 8pm £4/2 Brunswick The Harvest Sessions Folk night hosted by House Of Hats 7.30pm £6/5 Coalition Tim Burgess, Hatcham Social The Charlatan’s front man tries out a new Nashville sound 7pm £17/15; We Luv House & Garage: Mark Radford, DJ Cameo, DJ Larizzle, Outbreak, Riskgo, Monsta Boy & Denzie, Funky Dee, Se7en, Scholar T And Teazer, Ma1, Luke Larrel, S.E.F, Melo-D, Decimal Celebrating a decade of house and garage 11pm £6 Coalition Blow: Vince Manganaro, Charly Lopez, Charles Green The party never stops 3am £5 Concorde2 Toyah Brighton appearance to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of ‘The Changeling’ and ‘Warrior Rock’ 7pm £19.50; Freebass - The Big Banger!: Mr Natural, Lunarcy Sound System, DJ Kosine Guy Fawkes rave with an explosive mix of booming bass 11pm £free Cooper’s Cask All Time Top 100 Guest DJs try to impress you with their impeccable record collections 9pm £free Digital Playroom Housey hedonism in a playground of bouncy inflatable fun 11pm £12/10 Doctor Brighton’s Sexy Saturday: DJ Tony B 9.30pm £free Dome London Philharmonic Orchestra The orchestra’s 2012/13 season kicks off with a concert of violin works by Nielsen, Dvořák and Rachmaninoff 7.30pm £tbc Dome Cafe Bar This Is Just To Say Performance poetry from Hannah Jane Walker 6pm/9pm £12/10 Dome Studio Speaky Spokey Literary cabaret with poetry, short stories and music 8pm £5 Druid’s Arms DJ Green Man’s Garden Of Delights A carefully cultivated set of soul, psychedelia, funk and pop 10pm £free Exchange Zed’s Dead Live band plays classic rock 8.30pm £free Fishbowl Gareth Stephens DJ plays funk, nu-jazz and broken beats 9pm £free Fortune Of War Jem Hannam Soul, funk and rock&roll tunes 9pm £free Funfair Magic New Motown, soul and rock club with circus style entertainment 9pm £5/3/free Funkyfish Dreamboys Live The biggest cocks we’ve ever seen, shame about the weathered penises 6.30pm £tbc; Oldschool Saturday Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10pm £6/5 Globe BOYF_ DJ plays tracks from the ‘Scene With No Name’ scene, i.e. the scene known as the groove-based dance music scene 9pm £free Green Door Store Sonic Switch Tru Thoughts DJ puts you in the on position with some choice beats and bass 11pm £free H-Bar The Codesouth.fm Radio Free Party The radio station hits the road 9pm £tbc Hanover Centre Flying Ear: Mary Hampton Cotillion, Crayola Lectern, Do You Feel What I Feel Deer Eerie and experimental folk ensemble 8pm £6/5 Haunt Dog Is Dead Anthemic indie pop 7pm £8; It Is Still 1985 Travel through time to an ancient realm where keytars are still pretty cool 11pm £3 Honey Honey Music: Jon Byrne, Karl Bush, Vaughany DJs, Tom Maverick, Matt Jiggins Funky house club 11pm £5-8.50 Hop Poles Hop To The Beat DJs play funk and electro swing 9pm £free Hope Das Robotique 80s indie, new wave and disco from the Teen Creep peeps 9pm £free Jazz Place Night At The Jazz Rooms Legendary Brighton club returns to its old home for a Brazilian beats special 9.30pm £4/3/free Komedia Krater Comedy Club: Pete Johansson, Chris Martin, Lloyd Langford, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 7pm/10.30pm £5-22 Life Juice Box Eclectic club night offering an nice alternative to the standard seafront malarky 11pm £5/3 Lola Lo Zombie Nation Where the dancefloor is never dead 8pm £10/7/6 Mucky Duck Sizzle And Pop! DJ Mick plays 50s rock&roll and 60s soul 9pm £free Nevil Sports Ground Family Fireworks Spectacular A series of colourful aerial explosions to celebrate the capture of a 17th century Catholic terrorist 5pm £8/5 Old Market The Short Film Loop: Brighton Photo Fringe A collection of short films by upcoming photographers and film makers 10am £free Ouch Bar Brighton’s Only Saturday Afternoon Open Mic 2.30pm £free Park Crescent Easy Skankin Reggae music with Jay Large 8pm £free Pav Tav Saturday Sensations Resident DJs 8pm £free Preston Manor Haunted House Tour The Manor’s merry housemaids take you on a light-hearted tour of the spooky house 10.30am £8/6/4 Prince Albert Day Of The Dead Party! Music and magic to mark the launch of a set of rockabilly schlock horror playing cards designed by Paul Zenon and Vince Ray 8pm £5 Quadrant Laughing Horse Comedy Club Stand-up comedy night 8pm £7/6 Ranelagh The Tatsmiths Folk punks launch their new album 8.30pm £free St Bartholomew’s Church The 1589 Florentine Intermedi - Celebrating An Extravagant Wedding: Zu Aerial Dance, Katy Hill, Deborah Roberts, Emily Gadd, Clare Wilkinson, Lucy Ballard, Mark Tucker, William Knight, Matthew Long, Robert Macdonald, The BREMF
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2013
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Renaissance Orchestra, BREMF Consort of Voices, The Renaissance Singers, Cantores Michaelis Ceremonial music of the high renaissance with aerial dance and visual effects 9pm £10-26 Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar The Lazlo Device, The Kaptors, Jake Beattie London post rock soundscapes 7pm £3; Stay Beautiful Babes on the run with poisoned lips in a mess of eyeliner and spray paint 11pm £5/4 Theatre Royal The Sacred Flame W Somerset Maugham’s wartime drama 2.30pm/7.45pm £12-29.50 Three & Ten Foil, Arms & Hog Irish sketch comedy about potatoes, racist stereotypes and potatoes 7.30pm £9/7.50; Pat Burtscher’s Patopotamoose Stand-up comedy 9pm £8.50/7 Three Graces Live Music 8pm £free Tube Last Stop Club night playing R&B and US hip hop 11pm £5 Victory Up Against It Born Bad DJs play an assortment of punky trash 9pm £free Volks Evolution: DC Breaks, Crissy Criss, Hashtag, Mattix & Futile, Hizzle Guy & Overdose, Maniac & Trouble, Junior Red, Skitz, Deadzone, Jesta, Kilo, Senseless Drum&bass night 10pm £8/6 West Hill Hall Riots Not Diets Halloween Party: Faggot, Methodist Centre, Skinny Girl Diet, Phat Trophies Homegrown indie night with riot grrrl and punk bands - plus a screening of The Craft 6pm £6 Western Front Figure Of Wax DJ night 9pm £free White Rabbit The Mixer Men DJ night 8pm £free
Sunday 4th
Blind Tiger DJ Format’s Weird & Wonderful Sundays Wonky records from the wonky DJ 7pm £free Brunswick Paul Busby Big Band Live jazz 8pm £9/5 Caroline Of Brunswick The Geekest Link Possibly the only time in your life anyone will care how many punchlines you can quote from xkcd.com 8pm £1 Concorde2 Δ ALT-J Mercury-nominated Leeds lads with a many-sided sound embracing indie, folk, electronica and all sorts of other stuff (this show has now sold out) 7pm £tbc Dome Sonnet In A Day Playwright and poet, Stephen Clark, reveals the beauty of the sonnet 11am £15; Bat For Lashes Electro art pop princess 8pm £17.50 Dome Foyer Tales Told To The Magic Carpet Music and storytelling for kids with Rachel Rose Reid 11.30am £7/5 Exchange Quiz Bingo 8pm £1 Fishbowl Recovery? Reggae through the ages 9pm £free Food For Friends Ruth And Danny Soul, jazz and indie covers 6.30pm £tbc Fountain Head Reggae & Roasts Reggae and chilled beats Time tbc £free Funfair Bodyshakers Polysexual dance party from London’s Fire club crew Details tbc Globe Handbaked Arcade Things were so much better in the 1990s when all we had was 64-bit games of Italian plumbers inexplicably racing against turtles and gorillas Noon £free Green Door Store The Crookes, Hey Sholay, Live Like Kings Live Music 7.30pm £7; Green Door Blues Big Itch DJs plus the resident blues band, Smokestack 10.30pm £free Hampton The Sunday Sessions Live acoustic music 8pm £free Haunt 2:54 Doom rock has never been so fun 7pm £8 Honey Sundown If your house was this sexy you’d never go outdoors 11pm £free Komedia Bent Double: Mary Bourke Zoe Lyons hosts a night of alternative comedy acts 7.30pm £5-10.50 Latest Music Bar Bark Like A Dog Blues Jam A chance for first-timers to shed their nerves - and old-timers to show off their licks 8pm £free Mucky Duck Quiz On My Face “Quiz night with a difference,” perhaps with a very special prize 8pm £1 Neptune Simon And Sleeze Trio Nice and nasty rhythm and blues band 8.30pm £free Northern Lights Northern Light Sundays The DJ has a lazy Sunday afternoon 4pm £free Old Market The Short Film Loop: Brighton Photo Fringe A collection of short films by upcoming photographers and film makers 10am £free; The Fall 36 years, 66 band members, 29 studio albums, blah, blah, blah 8pm £20 Preston Manor Edwardian Motoring An illustrated talk about old fashioned cars to mark the Veteran Car run through town 2pm £8/6/4 Prince George Pub Quiz 8pm £1 Ralli Hall The Genius Of Bach - The Goldberg Variations: Brighton Early Music Festival Some claim these works are the pinnacle of Western keyboard music, others say it was Jean Michel Jarre’s second album 3pm £10-15 Ranelagh Mike Ross Live blues and rock 8.30pm £free St Bartholomew’s Church Celebrating Gabrieli - 400th Anniversary Concert: Brighton Early Music Festival You dig the lavish Venetian polychoral stuff? 7.30pm £10-23 Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Dingus Khan, Dress Theque, Anni Jump Kannon Indie prog rock with three drummers and an electric ukulele 8pm £5 Thomas Kemp Jazz In The Afternoon: Bags’ Groove Jazz Quartet Live jazz 4pm £free; Tango Sessions 8pm £free
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Improvised Comical play based on audience suggestions 7.30pm £8/6.50 Victory Blues Sundays DJ plays blues and soul Noon £free Western Front The E.M.E. Live band playing jazzy hip hop, followed by an open jam 9pm £free White Rabbit Hush Hush Live acoustic music 8pm £free
Monday 5th
Above Audio Funky Town Details tbc Ancient Mariner Quiz Night 8pm £1 Blind Tiger Atlantiks Raucous electro duo throw a party with an AV show Time tbc £2/1
Brunswick Open Mic 8.30pm £free Caroline Of Brunswick MovieBar So you wanna
make it in the glamorous world of film? Go shmooze with the movers and makers and other out-of-work actors. Includes film screenings, Q&A with directors and a movie quiz 7.30pm £free Coalition Trash Mondays Filthy tunes for students and layabouts alike 11pm £5/3 Concorde2 Ladyhawke Two lovers doomed to lifelong separation by a demonic curse invoked by a jealous Kiwi electro popstar bishop 7pm £14 Green Door Store Punk V Hardcore Guess what? It’s a night of punk and hardcore 8pm £free Haunt Fat Poppadaddys The student indie night moves to a new home 11pm £3/2/free Latest Music Bar Intimate Brighton: Alice Amelia, Hope Rudd & Chuck SJ Hay Live music 8pm £4/3 Latin Lounge Forbidden Burlesque, live music and DJs 8pm £free Life #Hashtag Funky house club with added Twitter confusion 10pm £3/2 Lord Nelson Barber & Taylor Americana duo 8.30pm £free Ouch Bar Maddie Southorn, Elk Live music 8pm £free Palmeira Funky Fireworks Soul, funk and Motown tunes 7pm £free Pav Tav Red Tooth Poker 8pm £free Prince Albert Bleeding Hearts Club Folky and melancholic acoustic music 8pm £4/3 Ranelagh Will Johns Blues rock 8.30pm £free St Mary’s Church Nick Hudson And The Academy Of Sun Album launch for Brighton alt pop pianist 7.30pm £7 Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Ed Schrader’s Music Beat, Sealings, Keel Her, Bitches Baltimore bass and drums duo 8pm £5 Theatre Royal The Judas Kiss David Hare’s drama about the betrayal and downfall of Oscar Wilde 7.45pm £1939 Thomas Kemp Quiz Night 8pm £1 Volks Strictly Reggae Dancehall, roots, revival 11pm £5/4
Tuesday 6th
Above Audio Cottontail Club Big band and jitter jive tunes 9pm £free
Audio Guerilla Rocks Club night for rock chicks, skater bois and indie kids 11pm £3/2/1
Basement Jon Plowman & Deborah Nadoolman
Landis Briggy Smale hosts a Q&A with a movie costume designer and the producer of Absolutely Fabulous 7pm £10/8.50 Blind Tiger ATM After Dark: One Bright Life, Magic Powers, Red Emperor, Marlon Percy, Elijah MC, Mr Sleepz, Reika Hip hop, indie bands and a singer songwriter 8.30pm £donation Brunswick Jazz Jam Open session with a house band and special guests 8pm £free Caroline Of Brunswick Giraffe Comedy Club: Laurie Rowan, Nathan Kail New comedy night 7.30pm £3 Cowley Club Anime Film Season Watch an anime film, then write letters to political prisoners 8pm £tbc Digital CU Next Tuesday It’ll teach the universities to timetable lectures for Wednesday mornings 11pm £4/3 Dome Spiritualized Jason Pierce and his space rock collective return to the stage after a serious illness 7.30pm £19.50 Duke Of Norfolk Open Mic 9pm £free Fabrica Conversation Piece: Lorenza Ippolito, Edward Kibosek Informal discussion event about skill sharing in Kenya 2.30pm £free Fountain Head Student Night DJs play indie and rock 8pm £free Funfair M*A*S*H New night playing remixes and mashups of punk, funk, disco, rave and everything else 11pm £free Globe Basement Cinema Underground films, comfy seats and free popcorn 8pm £free Green Door Store Hooded Fang Live music 7.30pm £7; Donuts Hipster funk and hip hop gems 11pm £free Hampton The Hampton Quiz 8pm £1 Haunt Polica Electronic US indie 7.30pm £10 Honey Urbano Latino: DJ Aaron George, Gabriel Angel, Yersin Rivas Dance lessons followed by a tropically vibed salsa club 8pm/10.30pm £3/1/free
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Hop Poles Hopify Human jukebox takes requests 7pm
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Stig Of The Dump, Small Town Boredom, Hines, Neil Bizy Hip hop battleground for Brighton b-boys 8.30pm £free Jubilee Square Cinecity - Brighton Rock Unseen A series of stills from a key scene in the gangster tale mixes the classic 1947 film with images of modern Brighton Time tbc £free Jury’s Out Open Mic 9pm £free Komedia Krystle Warren Live music 7.30pm £15 Komedia Magnet Speed Dating Plato said “likes attract” but Paula Abdul put forward the opposite argument - find out who was right in the next exciting instalment of speed dating! 8pm £20 Latest Music Bar Action For Happiness “Creating a happier society for everyone” 7.30pm £free Marlborough Theatre Beside The Kitchen Table A brand new ghost story by the horror writer, Jasper Kent 7.45pm £10 Mash Tun 7x7 Seven DJs play seven inch records 8pm £free Old Market Yasmin Levy Singer songwriter mixing Spanish Flamenco, Argentinian Tango and the Portuguese blues of Fado 8pm £20 Ouch Bar Maddie Southorn, Tom Staniford Folk pop artist on a UK tour 8pm £free Pav Tav Acoustic Soul Live music 8pm £free Prince Albert Hawklords Soaring high on the winds of prog 8pm £10 Proud Cabaret Swing That Thing Details tbc Quadrant Open Mic Jam session hosted Jenna Bennett 8.30pm £free Red Lion Challenging General Knowledge & Music Quiz 8pm £1 Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Gatherying Hip hop and garage tunes 7pm £free; Deaf Club, Broken Hands, Little Fears Live bands 7.30pm £6; Ital Club night with live AV stuff 11pm £tbc Theatre Royal The Judas Kiss David Hare’s drama about the betrayal and downfall of Oscar Wilde 7.45pm £1939 Thomas Kemp Poker Evening 8pm £free Three & Ten Former Republic of Laugh-So-Hardia: Ed Gamble, Max Dickins, Stuart Hossack, Chris Quaile, Luke Capasso, Sean McLoughlin New comedy night 7.30pm £7/5 Volks Tuesday Takeover Drum&bass and dubstep 11pm £2.50/1
Wednesday 7th
Above Audio Cookin Beats Hip hop with a side of order of funk and a sprinkling of reggae 8pm £free
Blind Tiger Hey Rosetta! Live music 7.30pm £10 Brunswick Maria McAteer, Sam Walker Album launch
for Irish Trinidadian singer songwriter 7.30pm £6/5 Coalition CoCo LoCo Dancehall and dubstep music for students go to lose the plot to 10.30pm £5/3/1 Concorde2 Mystery Jets, Temples, The Night Ace indie band 7.30pm £14 Cornerstone Dirty Scavenger Grungy folk music 9pm £free Cowley Club Radical History Film Night: I Soy Cuba Documentary about the suffering of Cubans at the hands of the US 8pm £free Digital Poundance Like a coin operated dancefloor 11pm £4/3/1 Dome The Civil Wars Wow, these guys are Dome level now 7pm £17.50 Druid’s Arms We Change The Tempo DJ set of international sounds 9pm £free Duke Of Norfolk Pub Quiz 9pm £1 Fishbowl Suga Buddha Acoustic Session: Arthur & The Irrationals, Jamie Lawson, The Jar Family Live music (upstairs) 8pm £free; Tea & Biscuits: DJ Gareth Stephens Retro swing, soul and ska 10pm £free Funfair LOLgasm Midweek mayhem with Boogaloo Stu playing pop party anthems 11pm £free Globe Move Pre Party Warm up for Life’s new underground dance music night 9pm £free Green Door Store Holograms, Eagulls Live music 7pm £6; Hard Times Please sir, I want some more nowave disco 11pm £free Haunt Supercharged Drum&bass and breaks 11pm £3/2 Hotel Pelirocco An Antidote To Indifference: The Order Of The 12, Grasscut, Oddfellows Casino, Justin Saltmeris, The South Downs Way, Richard Norris, Andrew Phillips, Mathew Clayton Launch night for Caught By The River’s fanzine with live music, spoken word and DJs 7pm £3 Jazz Place Hot Mess: Cheeks Du Rhythm Launch night for new hip hop and electro night 10pm £3 Jubilee Square Cinecity - Brighton Rock Unseen A series of stills from a key scene in the gangster tale mixes the classic 1947 film with images of modern Brighton Time tbc £free Komedia Paper Aeroplanes Live music 7.30pm £8; Thea Gilmore Folky jazz pop songstress 7.30pm £12 Latest Music Bar Acumedia Time tbc £free; Reverb Live!: Noraay Live music 8.30pm £3/free Life Move: Mickey Pearce Underground dance music club 11pm £4/3/2 Marlborough Theatre Beside The Kitchen Table
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A brand new ghost story by the horror writer, Jasper Kent 7.45pm £10 Mash Tun Mash Tun Live Funk and rock covers band 8pm £free Northern Lights Prognosis Set the DJ controls for the heart of psychedelia 9pm £free Ouch Bar OMC Wired Live music 8pm £free Pav Tav Quiz Night 8pm £free Prince Albert Israel Nash Gripka Live music 8pm £8.50 Proud Cabaret Wedding Belle’s Reception: The Iron Boot Scrapers, The Devotions Band, Rockin Mark Vis, The Doo-Wop Girls, The Ditzy Kicks, Drummers Delight, Matt Wainwright, The Candy Queens An entire evening of wedding entertainers, for those who just want the slow dancing and not the slow decline into loveless chastity 7.30pm £free Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Sticky Mike’s Muso Pop Quiz 7pm £1; This Town Needs Guns, Delta Sleep, Cousin If only to cull some of Brighton’s math rock bands 7pm £7 Theatre Royal The Judas Kiss David Hare’s drama about the betrayal and downfall of Oscar Wilde 7.45pm £1939 Thomas Kemp Kev & Jenna’s Open Mic 8.30pm £free Three & Ten Romesh Ranganathan & Suzi Ruffel Works In Progress Double bill of new comedy shows 7.30pm £8/6.50 Three Graces Pub Quiz 8pm £free Western Front Hush Hush Live acoustic music 9pm £free
Thursday 8th
Above Audio Schtumm! Disco and house grooves Time tbc £free Audio Bastard Pop Musical mash-up 11pm £3/2/free Basement A Gesture That Is Nothing But A Threat Portuguese performance artists present a “hypnotic work of rapid verbal and physical repetitions” 7.30pm £8/6 Blind Tiger Jennifer Left Kooky folk ditties from June’s SOURCE cover star, launching her new single 8pm £5/4 Brunswick Bobwantshisheadback, The Long Goodbye, Ursus, Jack Wiseman Live music 8pm £5 Coalition Secret Discotheque Replaying the soundtrack to your youth 11pm £4/3/2 Concorde2 Ian McCulloch, Ian Broudie The Bunnyman is back but without the echoes 7pm £16.50 Constant Service Stark Live folk 8.30pm £free Dome Studio Original Allstars: Switch Zero, High Tyde, Double Negative, The Chaser, Departure From Normal, Crylike Jago, The Microflames Bringing together both of its young musicians’ collectives, aged from 9 to 19 7pm £5/4 Fabrica Artist Story: Barby Asante Contemporary artist talks about work 7pm £tbc Fishbowl Jeff Daniels Soul and hip hop DJ 9pm £free; Residents Association: DJ Will Sumsuch DJs play hip hop, funk and world beats 10.30pm £free Fountain Head Student Night DJs play indie and rock 8pm £free Funfair When Will I Be Famous? New power pop and glam night for wanton wannabes 9pm £free Globe Hang The DJ! A night of punter-picked playlists 9pm £free Green Door Store Spirit Of Gravity: Same Actor, Simon Katan, I’m Dr Buoyant, Official Licensed Product, Hope To Coax Brighton’s avant noise night presents an experimental film composer and some sitar electronica 8pm £5 Haunt Walking Papers, Gun American rock band stretching the definition of a ‘super group’ by teaming the Guns N’ Roses’ bassist with the drummer from Screaming Trees 7pm £12; Coconut College Thursday night party playing a right mix of stuff like Grimes, Smashing Pumpkins and Kayne West 11pm £3/2 Honey Propaganda Indie club 10.30pm £4/3 Hop Poles Woodstock Unplugged Live music 8pm £free Komedia Tigran Hamasyan Jazz pianist last seen being awkwardly introduced by Jools Holland 8pm £15; The Noise Next Door Comedy Lock-In Improv comedy troupe 8pm £10 Latest Music Bar Catalyst Club Guest speakers give a short talk about whatever their weird obsession is 8pm £5 Marlborough Theatre Beside The Kitchen Table A brand new ghost story by the horror writer, Jasper Kent 7.45pm £10 Mash Tun The Infamous Jay & Rich DJ duo play indie, rock, electro and dubstep 9pm £free Mucky Duck Open Mic Jam session with Joe Newman 8pm £free Old Market Laughtermarket: Jo Neary, Julie Jepson, Alex Petrovic, Dave Blood, Aidan Goatley, MC Dan Evans Playful character comedy from the Perrier Award winner 8pm £3 Ouch Bar Live Funk Music 10.30pm £free Paganini Ballroom The Savages, PINS Live music (in The Old Ship Hotel) 7.30pm £9 Pav Tav Pav Tav Live Live music Details tbc Prince Albert Dr Skado, Simonne & The Dark Stars Live music 8pm £4 Prince George Souled Out DJs play funk, soul and Motown 8pm £free
Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Riff Till Yer Stiff Heavy rock tunes (in the bar) 8pm £free; The Lanes Brighton indie band, of course 8pm £3 Theatre Royal The Judas Kiss David Hare’s drama about the betrayal and downfall of Oscar Wilde 2.30pm/7.45pm £19-39 Thomas Kemp The Swing Ninjas Gypsy jazz trio 9pm £free Three & Ten Gordon Southern’s A Brief History Of History “Mildly ambitious show” in which a comedian attempts to cover the history of civilisation in one hour with the help of a battered music sampler 7.30pm £8/6.50 Tube Booty Bakery: Blonde Chicks, Tom Baker, Joe G, Oli P, Ben White New club night cooking up a big basket of bass and hip hop 11pm £5/4/free Victory Open Mic 8pm £free Volks Roll Through Drum&bass and dubstep, bass and beatbox 11pm £2 White Rabbit The Move-Ons Open Mic 8pm £free
Friday 9th
Above Audio Home House and disco DJs 9pm £free Audio Full Volume If your bass was this filthy you’d have to take it back to the fishmongers Details tbc
Black Dove Mo Taters! Vintage American tunes from
both sides of the Panama canal 8pm £free Blind Tiger Live ‘N’ Laughing: Joel Dommett Standup with the MTV comedian 7pm £10/5; Nathan Fake Soulful and hard-edged techno 7pm £8 Brunswick Butchers Blues Band A meaty slab of bloody good blues 8pm £5 Caroline Of Brunswick Funny Girls: Gemma Goggin, Jo Public Stand-up, sketches and music (upstairs) 8pm £5/4 Coalition Blood On the Dancefloor Hotly-tipped electro-pop duo from Arizona 7pm £8; Friday I’m In Love No more lectures for a day or two 11pm £2-5 Concorde2 The Blockheads 35th Anniversary Tour for Ian Dury’s old band 7.30pm £17.50; Roots Garden Sound System Special: Nations Vibration, Roots Garden Selectors, Earl 16, Richie Phoe, Jabbawocky Hi-Fi Live reggae and DJs 11pm £5 Cornerstone DJ Coops Soul and funk boogie 9pm £free Digital Stonelove Indie rock&roll club 11pm £4/3 Doctor Brighton’s Funky Friday: DJ Nick Hirst, DJ Wayne 9.30pm £free Dome Deca Dance - Batsheva Ensemble International dance troupe do a retrospective of the Tel Aviv company 7.30pm £10-18.50 Dome Studio African Night Fever African music and dance troupe strive to dispel the dismal weather with some special Kinshasa sunshine 8pm £12/10 Druid’s Arms DJ Tommy G Electro beats, indie and house tunes 10pm £free Duke Of Norfolk DJ MC Cashback DJ night 9pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema Anchorman - The Legend Of Ron Burgundy 11.30pm £tbc East Slope Bar Lace & Whiskey Album launch for London’s growly rock balladeers 8pm £tbc Fitzherbert’s The Hideout DJs play raw grooves and garage punk 9pm £free Fortune Of War Fever Bands and DJs play Latin, salsa and reggae 9pm £free Funfair Fortune New Motown, rock and soul night with hula-hoopers, contortionists and sword swallowers 9pm £5/3/free Funkyfish Thank Funk Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10.30pm £free Globe Rum Fridays: TSOB Philly disco from Juice FM DJ 9pm £free Grand Central Dad’s Old Vinyl DJs play retro funk, pop and hip hop records 8.30pm £free Green Door Store Halls Electronica band 7pm £5; Electro Blues Remixed jukebox jump blues night with a live band 11pm £free Haunt Yasin Live music 6pm £10; Leftroom Records: Matt Tolfrey, Laura Jones, Gavin Herlihy and Sam Russo 11pm £12 Honey Lollipop ‘Pink Fridays’ Get your fingers sticky to R&B and pop treats 11pm £5/4/3 Hop Poles Knead A Break DJ Mass Evil plays hip hop, breaks and bootlegs 9pm £free Hope Young Man Live music 7.30pm £7; The Goodness Hip hop, funk and beats 9pm £free Iron Duke 12 Step Comedy Comedy show hosted by Ben Shannon 7.30pm £tbc Jury’s Out Live Music 5.30pm £free Komedia Brighton Jazz Club: Iain Ballamy’s ‘Anorak’ Featuring Gareth Williams Live jazz 8pm £15/12; Krater Comedy Club: Jeff Innocent, Josh Howie, The Noise Next Door Stand-up comedy 8pm £16.50/13.50 Latest Music Bar Marina Celeste, The Beautiful Word, Berenice Scott French singer songwriter who sang with Nouvelle Vague 7.30pm £13.50; Swingalicious 8pm £10 Life Basslaced: Breakage, DJ EZ, Jack Swift, Dubloke, The D.A., ENK Big bad bass night 11pm £5 Lola Lo Tiki Beats Totally tropical tunes 8pm £5/4/3 Marlborough Theatre Beside The Kitchen Table A brand new ghost story by the horror writer, Jasper Kent 7.45pm £10 Mucky Duck Gold Chains No Brains A mix of carboot
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house, codeine krunk and chip shop hip hop 8pm £free Neptune Juliette And The Romeos Live music 8.30pm £free New Venture Theatre The Price Arthur Miller’s hard-edged play about a family squabble set in the 60s Details tbc Northern Lights DJ Meerkuts 9pm £free Palmeira The Dreaming Spires, Danny George Wilson, Turnstile Junkpile Americana tinged power pop from Oxford 7.30pm £8/7 Pav Tav Beats Not Bombs DJ sessions 8pm £free Preston Manor Hidden House - Behind The Scenes At Preston Manor 11am/2pm £10.50/8.50 Prince Albert Asbo Retards, The Liabillities, Matt Black And The Emulsions Punk bands 8pm £6 Sallis Benney Theatre Bushman Brothers Electric guitar and drums duo 7.30pm £8 Smugglers Grits And Gravy New club night playing vintage rhythm&blues, ska and swing 9pm £free St George’s Church Celebrating Food, Wine And Song: Brighton Early Music Festival Picnic cabaret with medieval music 8pm £6-18.50 Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Brighton Rocks: The Consoles, JetGlo, ElleKaye, Half Crown Live music from some of Brighton’s best bands 7pm £4; Modern Life Is Still Rubbish Join Dynamite Sal for a retro indie party, this time with a Madchester special 11pm £free Theatre Royal The Judas Kiss David Hare’s drama about the betrayal and downfall of Oscar Wilde 7.45pm £1939 Thomas Kemp DJ Lamp 9pm £free Three & Ten Jonny & The Baptists Comedy blues band 8pm £8.50/7 Tube Cross The crew behind TRASH kick off a night of beats and bass 11pm £3/free; Motel Last chance saloon for electro house heads 2am £5 Volks Freak Bazaar: Hypnoise, Gilactic, Trancient, Clayton, Adsimeon, Somethin’ Groovy Progressive and psychedelic trance 11pm £7/6 Western Front DJ Russ Rockwell Funk and soul DJ 9pm £free White Rabbit DJ Capsun Vintage hip hop with a modern twist 9pm £free
Saturday 10th
Above Audio Saturday Bar Live Live music Time tbc
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Above Audio Doctor’s Orders Funk, soul and seriously sick hip hop 8pm £5/free
Ancient Mariner Left At The Robot Acoustic duo
from the Brighton band do a covers set 8pm £free Audio Minimal Kids Minimalist electronica and techno 11pm £5/free Basement Micah P Hinson, A Band Of Buriers Texas singer songwriter 8pm £14/12 Beachigogo Bar Good Times Remember them? Maybe the feel-good retro tunes will jog your memory (in the White Room) 9pm £free Blind Tiger Drum Unity - Morning Drum Circle Morning show for families that haven’t already had enough noise and beatings 11am £2/1; The Afternoon Sessions Headbanging bands from AMI with an open mic session 1pm £2; Stay Sick!: Juke And The All Drunk Orchestra Bands and DJs play garage, punk and rock&roll 8pm £3
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Performing Spoken Word Spoken word event with Roy Hutchins 1.30pm £5/2 Brighton Unitarian Church Winter Fair 11am £tbc Brunswick Rosi’s Tinted Spectacles Music, poetry and puppetry 8pm £tbc Coalition Nightowl: Funkagenda London club presents the ubiquitous dance DJ 11pm £10/8/6; Blow: Vince Manganaro, Charly Lopez, Charles Green The party never stops 3am £5 Concorde2 Claudia Brucken The front woman from 80s German avant pop group, Propaganda 7pm £18.50; The Kings Of The Jungle: DJ SS, Kenny Ken, Jumping Jack Frost, Nicky Blackmarket, Ray Keith, The Ragga Twins, Junglizm Cru, Mr Natural, The Lunarcy Sound System, Tek3 MC It’s like a jungle in there 11pm £8 Cooper’s Cask Sweetback: Matt The Hat, 2nd Hand Dan DJ night 8pm £free Cowley Club Slutdisko Electro punk disco madness 8pm £free Digital Disclosure, Huxley, Bicep, Javeon McCarthy, Blah Blah Blah DJs 11pm £12/10 Doctor Brighton’s Sexy Saturday: DJ Tony B 9.30pm £free Dome Deca Dance - Batsheva Ensemble International dance troupe do a retrospective of the Tel Aviv company 7.30pm £10-18.50 Dome Founders Room Telling Tales Informal storytelling workshop 2.30pm £4 Druid’s Arms DJ Paul Rock and indie classics 10pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema The Tempest: Met. Opera 5.55pm £tbc Exchange The Jackals Rhythm and blues band 8.30pm £free Fishbowl What’s Wrong With Groovin’?: Ed Meme, Matt Beatwell Two DJs set out to answer the age-old question with a stack of drum-driven funk and soul 9pm £free Fortune Of War Flevans Funky breaks from the Tru
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Thoughts DJ 9pm £free Funfair Magic New Motown, soul and rock club with circus style entertainment 9pm £5/3/free Funkyfish Dreamboys Live The biggest cocks we’ve ever seen, shame about the weathered penises 6.30pm £tbc; Oldschool Saturday Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10pm £6/5 Globe Kinfolk Soft Rocks play house, boogie, reggae and disco 9pm £free Green Door Store Drugs Indie flavoured live bands 7pm £4; Pop Not Pop House party pop night with Dynamite Sal 11pm £free Haunt The D.O.T. New project from Mike Skinner of The Streets and Rob Harvey of The Music 7pm £15; It Is Still 1985 Travel through time to an ancient realm where keytars are still pretty cool 11pm £3 Honey Chop It Up Funky house, R&B and chart tunes 11pm £5-9 Hop Poles Electric Playboys Electro swing DJs 7pm £free Hope Paper Playground EP launch for local synth & guitar trio 8pm £free Hope DJ Asbest The Recovery man plays a vinyl-only selection of 90s hip hop, funk and soul 9pm £free Jazz Place Night At The Jazz Rooms Legendary Brighton club returns to its old home for a funk soul party 9.30pm £4/3/free Komedia Krater Comedy Club: Jeff Innocent, Josh Howie, The Noise Next Door Stand-up comedy 7pm/10.30pm £5-22 Life Juice Box Eclectic club night offering an nice alternative to the standard seafront malarky 11pm £5/3 Lola Lo Zombie Nation Where the dancefloor is never dead 8pm £10/7/6 Marlborough Theatre Beside The Kitchen Table A brand new ghost story by the horror writer, Jasper Kent 2.30pm/7.45pm £10 Mucky Duck Unhooked Generation Retro DJs with an ear for 60s Motown and northern soul 8pm £free Old Market The Short Film Loop: Brighton Photo Fringe A collection of short films by upcoming photographers and film makers 10am £free Ouch Bar Brighton’s Only Saturday Afternoon Open Mic 2.30pm £free Pav Tav Saturday Sensations Resident DJs 8pm £free Quadrant Laughing Horse Comedy Club Stand-up comedy night 8pm £7/6 Ranelagh David Bowie Tribute Barry played guitar, jamming good with beard and belly 8.30pm £free Sallis Benney Theatre Celebrating Inspiration In Memory Of David Munrow: Brighton Early Music Festival Discussion event inspired by the early music enthusiast of the 1970s 1pm £10-18.50 St George’s Church The Born Free Tour - Brian May & Kerry Ellis The astrophysicist-cum-guitarist teams up with one of the We Will Rock You singers to save the world’s endangered animals by playing an acoustic candlelit show of Queen songs and West End hits 7pm £39.50 St Michael & All Angels Church Secret Carnivals: Brighton Early Music Festival Choral concert dedicated to the secret life of Renaissance nuns 7.30pm £15/13 Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Brighton Rocks: London Commands You, Black Bonds, Angels And Sailors, Poles Apart Live music 7pm £4; Back In The Day: DJ Rick Pickering, DJ Coops, A Man Like Benny Acid house and piano dance music for those who remember the late 80s/ early 90s and those who wish they’d been there 11pm £5/3 Theatre Royal The Judas Kiss David Hare’s drama about the betrayal and downfall of Oscar Wilde 2.30pm/7.45pm £19-39 Thomas Kemp DJ Moler Funk, soul and rare grooves 9pm £free Three & Ten Boris & Sergey’s Vaudevillian Adventure Theatrical puppetry from the Balkan boys 7.30pm £8.50/7; Nish Kumar - Who Is Nish Kumar? Here’s a hint: he’s one half of the comedy sketch duo, Gentlemen Of Leisure 9pm £8.50/7 Tube Last Stop Club night playing R&B and US hip hop 11pm £5 Victory Soul Casserole - Soul Custody DJs A melting pot of hot funk beats and soul grooves 8pm £free Volks Satta Sounds: Iron Dread, Equinox, King Bracket, Pastaman, Nick-ed, Bosslady, MK Ultra, Freefaze, Jester, Daytime Televisuals Jungle and drum&bass night 11pm £5 West Hill Hall Riots Not Diets: Roseanne Barrr, Golden Grrrls Album launch for riot grrrl lo-fi bands 7.30pm £6 Western Front Conrad No Fun DJ set from the Teen Creep 9pm £free White Rabbit The Mixer Men DJ night 8pm £free
Sunday 11th Blind Tiger The Flamenco Thief
Flamenco guitar music 1pm £free; The Flip Flays, The Weight, The Beautiful Word Funk band launch their new album 7.30pm £tbc Brighton Centre Brighton Records & CD Fair For those who still savor the thrill of the chase 9.30am £2; Zappa Plays Zappa Tribute show with Frank’s son Dweezil and his “rocking teenage combo” 7pm £29.50 Brunswick Edana Minghella Sultry jazz, blues and swing 8pm £8
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Concorde2 Lord Finesse & Jehst, Neil B, DJ Ideal,
Tappa, Vinyl Veterans The Bronx vet takes on a UK champ in this hip hop double bill 7pm £12/10 Corn Exchange Herbie Flowers’ Jazz Breakfast Celebrated bassist smears your toast with his jazz 11am £6 Dome Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra Pre-concert Interview 1.45pm £3; Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra Music by Verdi, Mozart and Sibelius 2.45pm £9-32 Dome Studio My Big Little Sister Light-hearted family play about what happiness means growing up in a consumer age 11.30am/2.30pm £7/5 Duke Of Norfolk Live Music Night Live music from local artists 8pm £free Exchange Quiz Bingo 8pm £1 Fishbowl Recovery? Reggae through the ages 9pm £free Food For Friends Java Duo Singer and guitarist play a set of jazzy songs 6.30pm £free Fountain Head Reggae & Roasts Reggae and chilled beats Time tbc £free Funfair Bodyshakers Polysexual dance party from London’s Fire club crew Details tbc Globe Handbaked Arcade Things were so much better in the 1990s when all we had was 64-bit games of Italian plumbers inexplicably racing against turtles and gorillas Noon £free Green Door Store Public Service Broadcasting Audio visual show 7pm £7; Green Door Blues Big Itch DJs plus the resident blues band, Smokestack 10.30pm £free Hampton The Sunday Sessions: Dr Bluegrass & The Illbilly 8 Brighton’s busiest buskers - country standards and pop covers put through the hillbilly thresher 8pm £free Haunt JJ Grey, Mofro 7pm £15 Honey Sundown If your house was this sexy you’d never go outdoors 11pm £free Komedia Krater Comedy Club: Jeff Innocent, Josh Howie, James Gill, Harriet Dyer Stand-up comedy 8pm £5-12 Latest Music Bar Alice Amelia, Tiny Dragons, One Roots Live music 7pm £4/3 Marlborough Theatre Beside The Kitchen Table A brand new ghost story by the horror writer, Jasper Kent 4pm £10 Mucky Duck Charity Quiz On My Face “Quiz night with a difference,” perhaps with a very special prize 8pm £1 Neptune Nick Stuart Live music 8.30pm £free Nightingale Theatre Touching Bodies A new play about the loneliness of crowds 7.30pm £8/7 Northern Lights Northern Light Sundays The DJ has a lazy Sunday afternoon 4pm £free Old Market The Short Film Loop: Brighton Photo Fringe A collection of short films by upcoming photographers and film makers 10am £free; Ten To One Book Launch of Pete Howells’ latest novel with readings and a Q&A 5pm £4 Prince Albert Arbouretum, Salter Cane Americana psych-folk from Baltimore signed to Thrill Jockey 8pm £7.50 Prince George Pub Quiz 8pm £1 Ralli Hall L’Chaim!: Brighton Early Music Festival Music and dance from the old Jewish World 3pm £10-18.50 Ranelagh Nigel Bagge & Eddie Armer Modern blues 8.30pm £free St George’s Church Celebrating Coronations: Brighton Early Music Festival Classical music inspired by those occasions in a nation’s life when the populace gets excited about having a new unelected tax burden 7.30pm £6-23 Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Elm Street, Wreckhead, Wyrd Forge, Crypsis Metal bands Details tbc Theatre Royal Lee Nelson The comedy chav persona of comedian, Simon Brodkin 7.30pm £23.50 Thomas Kemp Jazz In The Afternoon: Le Duo Live jazz 4pm £free Victory Blues Sundays DJ plays blues and soul Noon £free White Rabbit Hush Hush Live acoustic music 8pm £free
Monday 12th
Above Audio Funky Town Details tbc Ancient Mariner Quiz Night 8pm £1 Brunswick Open Mic 8.30pm £free Coalition Lucy Rose, Pete Rowe Indie singer
songwriter 7pm £8; Trash Mondays Filthy tunes for students and layabouts alike 11pm £5/3 Concorde2 Jessie Ware Live music (this show has now sold out) 7pm £10 Dome Joan Armatrading The duchess of old lady folk 7.30pm £29.50/24.50 Fabrica Two Years At Sea Art event in which you’re meant to watch a film about a Scottish hermit and draw a picture at the same time 8pm £3.50 Green Door Store La Shark Camp indie band with a hyperactive party vibe 7.30pm £6 Haunt Clock Opera Live music 7pm £8; Fat Poppadaddys The student indie night moves to a new home 11pm £3/2/free Latin Lounge Forbidden Burlesque, live music and DJs 8pm £free Life #Hashtag Funky house club with added Twitter confusion 10pm £3/2 Neptune More Music Monday Open mic night 8.30pm £free New Venture Theatre The Price Arthur Miller’s hard-edged play about a family squabble set in the 60s
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Rich Lown, The Nigel Passey Band, Alfie Ordinary, Robbie Bushell Live music from the X Factor man 7pm £7 Theatre Royal Driving Miss Daisy Gwen Taylor stars in the 1930s deep south drama 7.45pm £10-35 Volks Strictly Reggae Dancehall, roots, revival 11pm £5/4
Tuesday 13th
Above Audio Cottontail Club Big band and jitter jive tunes 9pm £free
Audio Guerilla Rocks Club night for rock chicks, skater
bois and indie kids 11pm £3/2/1 The rehearsal studio’s live music night 8pm £3 Brunswick Jazz Jam Open session with a house band and special guests 8pm £free Caroline Of Brunswick Skeptics In The Pub “An atheist’s guide to the Alpha Course” 8pm £2 Coalition Foster’s Comedy Crack Up: Carl Donnelly, Ahir Shah Controversial but silly stand-up 7pm £4 Cowley Club Patrick Dowson, Shield Your Eyes Live music 8pm £tbc Digital CU Next Tuesday It’ll teach the universities to timetable lectures for Wednesday mornings 11pm £4/3 Dome Bellowhead 11 piece folk megagroup 7pm £18 Duke Of Norfolk Open Mic 9pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema Keep The Lights On 11am £tbc Fountain Head Student Night DJs play indie and rock 8pm £free Funfair M*A*S*H New night playing remixes and mashups of punk, funk, disco, rave and everything else 11pm £free Globe Basement Cinema Underground films, comfy seats and free popcorn 8pm £free Green Door Store Exitmusic Live music 7.30pm £6; Donuts Hipster funk and hip hop gems 11pm £free Hampton The Hampton Quiz 8pm £1 Haunt Mumiy Troll, Echotape Crazy Russian rockers 7.30pm £10 Honey Urbano Latino: DJ Aaron George, Gabriel Angel, Yersin Rivas Dance lessons followed by a tropically vibed salsa club 8pm/10.30pm £3/1/free Hop Poles Hopify Human jukebox takes requests 7pm £free Jury’s Out Open Mic 9pm £free Komedia Martha Tilston Live music 7.30pm £12.50 Latest Music Bar Charity Chuckle: Aisling Bea Laughter makes you feel good, especially when it’s for charity 8.30pm £8/5 New Venture Theatre The Price Arthur Miller’s hard-edged play about a family squabble set in the 60s Details tbc Northern Lights Windmill Moth Glue, Black Neck Band Of The Common Loon, The Super Goons Live music Time tbc £free Old Market Miniclick And Photo Fringe Pecha Kucha Night: Peter Dench, Chris Floyd, James Kendall 16 photographers talk through their projects - including our very own editor with his ‘Best Before’ exhibition 6.30pm £free Pav Tav Acoustic Soul Live music 8pm £free Prince Albert Martin Oliver, Richard Allan II, Gust Taylor Live music 8pm £4/3 Quadrant Open Mic Jam session hosted Jenna Bennett 8.30pm £free Red Lion Challenging General Knowledge & Music Quiz 8pm £1 Sallis Benney Theatre Anthony McCall - Recent Works A lecture from the world renowned artist 6pm £tbc Theatre Royal Driving Miss Daisy Gwen Taylor stars in the 1930s deep south drama 7.45pm £10-35 Thomas Kemp Poker Evening 8pm £free Volks Tuesday Takeover Drum&bass and dubstep 11pm £2.50/1
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Wednesday 14th
Above Audio Cookin Beats Hip hop with a side of order
of funk and a sprinkling of reggae 8pm £free Blind Tiger Sea Of Bees, Barbarossa Eccentric Sacramento indie popper 7.30pm £10 Brunswick Existential Pants Improv comedy show 8pm £5 Caroline Of Brunswick Funny HaHa: Katherine Ryan Stand-up comedy night 8pm £5 Coalition CoCo LoCo Dancehall and dubstep music for students go to lose the plot to 10.30pm £5/3/1 Concorde2 Pulled Apart By Horses, Pure Love, DZ Deathrays Live music 7pm £10 Cowley Club Club Zygotic Live music fundraiser for the club 8pm £donation Digital Poundance Like a coin operated dancefloor 11pm £4/3/1 Druid’s Arms We Change The Tempo DJ set of international sounds 9pm £free Duke Of Norfolk Pub Quiz 9pm £1 Duke Of York’s Cinema Rust And Bone 11am £tbc
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Fabrica Craftaganza Live An arts and craft night with guest speakers, this time it’s the men behind TheBigForest 7.30pm £free Fishbowl Tea & Biscuits: DJ Gareth Stephens Retro swing, soul and ska 10pm £free Funfair LOLgasm Midweek mayhem with Boogaloo Stu playing pop party anthems 11pm £free Globe Move Pre Party Warm up for Life’s new underground dance music night 9pm £free Green Door Store Charli XCX Pop goth singer songwriter back by hip hop beats (this show has now been postponed) 7.30pm £8; Hard Times Please sir, I want some more nowave disco 11pm £free Haunt (SPUNGE) Live music 7pm £9; Supercharged Drum&bass and breaks 11pm £3/2 Komedia Marcus Foster London singer songwriter likely to appeal to fans of Tom Waits or Tim Buckley 7.30pm £7; Gerry McAvoy’s Band Of Friends - A Celebration Of Rory Gallagher Not a tribute act, just paying tribute to the great Irish blues rock guitarist 7.30pm £15 Latest Music Bar Alex Taylor, Max Gilkes Live music 8pm £5 Life Move: New York Transit Authority Underground dance music club 11pm £4/3/2 Mash Tun Mash Tun Live Funk and rock covers band 9pm £free New Venture Theatre The Price Arthur Miller’s hard-edged play about a family squabble set in the 60s Details tbc Northern Lights Mystery Train Rockabilly DJ 9pm £free Ouch Bar OMC Wired Live music 8pm £free Pav Tav Quiz Night 8pm £free Prince Albert Wildcat Strike, Fight Live music 8pm £4/3 Proud Cabaret Lau, Blue Rose Code Innovative contemporary folk group 8pm £16/14 Ranelagh Haunted: Annaca, Lu’Ami, Katharine Rose Catchy indie folk with great pop vocals 8.30pm £free Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Laetitia Sadier Solo show from the singer of Stereolab 7.30pm £10; I Am Arcade Playing retro video games is particularly exciting when it’s in a public place because it’s usually something you do in private, like wearing a body wig woven from the multi-coloured manes of broken My Little Pony dolls 8pm £free Theatre Royal Driving Miss Daisy Gwen Taylor stars in the 1930s deep south drama 7.45pm £10-35 Thomas Kemp Kev & Jenna’s Open Mic 8.30pm £free Three & Ten The Origin Of Species By Means Of Natural Selection Or The Survival Of (R)Evolutionary Theories In The Face Of Scientific And Ecclesiastical Objections: Being A Musical Comedy About Charles Darwin (1809-1882) The title pretty much says it all - Spalien Acecraft’s musical humorist takes on the legacy of the monkey man 7.30pm £9/7.50 Three Graces Pub Quiz 8pm £free Volks Except For Access Live music 8pm £5 Western Front Hush Hush Live acoustic music 9pm £free
Thursday 15th
Above Audio Schtumm! Disco and house grooves Time tbc £free Audio Bastard Pop Musical mash-up 11pm £3/2/free Blind Tiger Dub Organiser Jam session with a dub reggae band 8pm £3/free Brunswick Emma Stevens, Rob Vincent, Solar Maria, Lindsey Oliver Live music 8pm £5/4 Caroline Of Brunswick Romesh Ranganathan & Sean Mcloughlin Double bill of stand-up comedy 7pm £free Coalition The Milk, Running Dogs, High Tide Live music 7pm £10; Secret Discotheque Replaying the soundtrack to your youth 11pm £4/3/2 Concorde2 Plaid, Reso, Slugabed, Tripper, Face+Heel, Anneka AV set from the post-techno London duo 7.30pm £15; The Correspondents Live music 11pm £10 Constant Service Open Mic 8.30pm £free Duke Of Norfolk Rock Night Classic rock tunes 8pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema Private Peaceful 11am £tbc; Seven Psychopaths: Cinecity Film Festival 6.30pm £tbc Fabrica Armchair Critics: Lorenza Ippolito, Judith Alder Arty discussion event 7.30pm £tbc Fishbowl Residents Association: DJ Will Sumsuch DJs play hip hop, funk and world beats 10.30pm £free Fountain Head Student Night DJs play indie and rock 8pm £free Funfair When Will I Be Famous? New power pop and glam night for wanton wannabes 9pm £free Globe Hang The DJ! A night of punter-picked playlists 9pm £free Green Door Store Grasscut Ninja Tune electro duo featuring a former editor of the SOURCE 7pm £8.50/7.50; Thursday Night Fish Fry Jamaican ska, R&B and rocksteady 11pm £free Haunt Buck 65 Canadian rap raconteur 7pm £10; Coconut College Thursday night party playing a right mix of stuff like Grimes, Smashing Pumpkins and Kayne West 11pm £3/2 Honey Propaganda Indie club 10.30pm £4/3
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Horse & Groom The Bobby McGees, Charles
Latham, Nick Williams Tweecore ukulele indiepop 8pm £free Komedia Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman Live music 7.30pm £12; Live Soul Night: Daniela & Sarah Benton Soul and R&B singer songwriters 8pm £5 Latest Music Bar Denise Black’s Loose Screw 7.30pm £8/6 Mash Tun The Infamous Jay & Rich DJ duo play indie, rock, electro and dubstep 9pm £free Mucky Duck Open Mic Jam session with Joe Newman 8pm £free New Venture Theatre The Price Arthur Miller’s hard-edged play about a family squabble set in the 60s Details tbc Ouch Bar Live Funk Music 10.30pm £free Pav Tav Pav Tav Live Live music Details tbc Prince Albert Umez, Restlesslist, Vile Imbeciles Live music 8pm £4 Prince George Souled Out DJs play funk, soul and Motown 8pm £free Quadrant Regional Dialect You don’t have to have a regional accent to be a poet, but it helps 7.30pm £4 Ranelagh Shauna Parker & The Saloon Bar Band Country and swing band 8.30pm £free Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar The Earl Grey, Loose Lips, Screama Ballerina, Bearded Youth Quest Live music 7.30pm £4 Theatre Royal Driving Miss Daisy Gwen Taylor stars in the 1930s deep south drama 2.30pm/7.45pm £10-35 Three & Ten The Origin Of Species By Means Of Natural Selection Or The Survival Of (R)Evolutionary Theories In The Face Of Scientific And Ecclesiastical Objections: Being A Musical Comedy About Charles Darwin (1809-1882) The title pretty much says it all - Spalien Acecraft’s musical humorist takes on the legacy of the monkey man 7.30pm £9/7.50 Tube Booty Bakery: Blonde Chicks, Tom Baker, Joe G, Oli P, Ben White New club night cooking up a big basket of bass and hip hop 11pm £5/4/free Victory Open Mic 8pm £free Volks Roll Through Drum&bass and dubstep, bass and beatbox 11pm £2 White Rabbit The Move-Ons Open Mic 8pm £free
Friday 16th
Above Audio Home House and disco DJs 9pm £free Audio Schtumm!: No Artificial Colours, PBR
Streetgang Disco and underground house club 11pm £tbc Blind Tiger Milk Maid, Traams, Teen Creeps DJs Lofi indie band 7.30pm £5; DK New club night from the peeps behind the ace Ninjatunes radio show 11pm £5 Brunswick Gypsy Swing Live music 8pm £tbc Coalition Fucked Up Hardcore punk band with prog leanings and psychedelic tendencies 7pm £12; Friday I’m In Love No more lectures for a day or two 11pm £2-5 Concorde2 Easy Star All Stars - Thrillah The reggae band who did better-than-it-ever-should-have-been versions of ‘Dark Side Of The Moon’ and ‘OK Computer’ take on Jacko’s pre-plastic face classic 7pm £16; Run Tingz Sessions: Top Cat, Serial Killaz & Spyda, Run Tingz Cru & Solo Banton, Blackout Ja, Serum & Bladerunner, Aries & David Boomah, Knowledge, Wisdom, Trevor Sax, Papa Levi, Dagger Sound System, Prank Allstars, As-If, Unlikely, Akademics, Dom, Kitch, Soul Casserole 11pm £10 Cornerstone Ross Warm & Slim Jim DJ sets 9pm £free Cowley Club Radical Dance Faction, Pog, Ratbag Legendary dub poetry punks return with a new album 8pm £5 Digital Stonelove Indie rock&roll club 11pm £4/3 Doctor Brighton’s Funky Friday: DJ Nick Hirst, DJ Wayne 9.30pm £free Dome Frankie Boyle - The Last Days Of Sodom The tabloid-hounded comedian brings “the inchoate laughter of despair to a culture in freefall” 8pm £25 Dome Studio Hugh Hughes - Stories From An Invisible Town Funny and heartfelt family storytelling from the award-winning creator of the tragic-comic trilogy, ‘Story Of A Rabbit’ 7.30pm £12/10 Druid’s Arms Hot Pepper Sauce DJ I.D.G. serves up a spicy mix of funk, soul and house 10pm £free Duke Of Norfolk DJ MC Cashback DJ night 9pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema Sightseers + Q&A: Cinecity Film Festival 6.30pm £tbc; British Sea Power From The Sea To The Land Beyond: Cinecity Film Festival Brighton indie stalwarts play a live score to a film about the British coastline made from archive footage 11.30pm £16.50 Fishbowl Cut La Vis Jamaican riddims and urban beats 9pm £free Fortune Of War Fever Bands and DJs play Latin, salsa and reggae 9pm £free Funfair Fortune New Motown, rock and soul night with hula-hoopers, contortionists and sword swallowers 9pm £5/3/free Funkyfish Thank Funk Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10.30pm £free Globe Rum Fridays: Luke Brackenridge Mashed up party breaks 8pm £free
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Grand Central Dad’s Old Vinyl DJs play retro funk, pop and hip hop records 8.30pm £free Green Door Store Hey! Fever #1: Speak Galactic, The Astronauts, The Righteous Ones Of The Blazing Rockets, Redmaxx, Soft Arrows, Cousin Cupboard Music presents a new biennial band showcase 5.30pm £free; Well Rounded: Bass Clef, Hodge, Chris Farrell, Donga, Richter Glimpse the future of dance music 11pm £free Haunt Speech Debelle Live music 7pm £10; Wonder Yeahs Music from the glorious 1990s 11pm £3 Honey Lollipop ‘Pink Fridays’ Get your fingers sticky to R&B and pop treats 11pm £5/4/3 Hop Poles Control, Alt, Delete Resident DJs 9pm £free Hope The Long Goodbye, Rotait, Autumn And The Falls, Hayley Savage Album launch for Americana folk band 7.45pm £5 Hope DJ Will Sumsuch Old school hip hop, funk and soul with cult movies on the big screen 9pm £free Iron Duke Mae Martin Comedy show 7.30pm £tbc Jury’s Out Live Music 5.30pm £free Komedia Funny Women - Brighton Nights Comedy competition 8pm £10/8; Krater Comedy Club: Ninia Benjamin, Ben Norris, Rich Wilson, Stephen Grant Standup comedy 8pm £16.50/13.50; Born Bad Vintage rockabilly for pompadour cats and polka dot kittens 11pm £6/5 Life ManMakeMusic Showcase: George FitzGerald, Leon Vynehall, Gang Colours, Trikk The London electronica label takes over for the night 11pm £7/5/4 Lola Lo Tiki Beats Totally tropical tunes 8pm £5/4/3 Montpelier Inn Souled Out DJs play jazz funk, retro soul and Philly disco 9pm £free Mucky Duck Catholic Discipline Space rock, electronica and cinematic sounds 8pm £free Neptune Papa George Live blues 8.30pm £free New Venture Theatre The Price Arthur Miller’s hard-edged play about a family squabble set in the 60s Details tbc Palmeira Lazy Acre 5th Birthday Party: Bellman, Flash Bang Band, Synne Eileen & The Sunbeams Record label birthday bash with live bands 8pm £6 Pav Tav Beats Not Bombs DJ sessions 8pm £free Phoenix Gallery Aural Detritus Concert Series Cutting edge live improvisation 8pm £9/4 Prince Albert Route 66 Club: The Wildflowers Live music 8pm £4 Quadrant Comedy Sans Frontières: Nick Helm, Grainne Maguire, Joey Page, Mark Restuccia, Sami Stone Comedy gig raising funds for the humanitarian aid charity, Doctors Without Borders 8pm £9.50/6.50 Ranelagh Rabbit Foot Blues band with a hint of Africa 8.30pm £free Smugglers Grits And Gravy New club night playing vintage rhythm&blues, ska and swing 9pm £free Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Brighton Rocks: The Cryptics, Rising Tide, Fools Knowledge, El Pavlov Live music 7pm £4; Dive Slow Hip hop and electronica from the BBC critic and DJ, Mike Diver (in the bar) 9pm £free; Reverb Bistro From funky disco, through Chicago house into drum&bass and dubstep (in the club) 11pm £free Theatre Royal Driving Miss Daisy Gwen Taylor stars in the 1930s deep south drama 7.45pm £10-35 Thomas Kemp Hot-Tip Hi-Fi DJ with a fine collection of vintage reggae and rocksteady records 8pm £free Tube Cross The crew behind TRASH kick off a night of beats and bass 11pm £3/free; Motel Last chance saloon for electro house heads 2am £5 Volks Sine Language: Aba Shanti, V.I.V.E.K., Carbon, Originate Dub reggae sound system from London 11pm £6 West Hill Hall Blurt, King Alfred Man Of Leisure, Soul Punch Live music 7.30pm £5 West Hill Tavern Sweden Made Me The Scandocentric indiepop DJ night returns 9pm £free Western Front Soul Casserole A melting pot of hot funk beats and soul grooves 9pm £free White Rabbit Ruff Snippets DJ plays hip hop, funk and soul 8pm £free
Saturday 17th
Above Audio Saturday Bar Live Live music Time tbc £free; Doctor’s Orders Funk, soul and seriously sick hip hop 8pm £5/free Ancient Mariner The Chaplins Acoustic duo 8pm £free Audio Warehouse: Jaymo & Andy George House and techno club night 11pm £5/free Beachigogo Bar Good Times Remember them? Maybe the feel-good retro tunes will jog your memory (in the White Room) 9pm £free Blind Tiger Drum Unity - Morning Drum Circle Morning show for families that haven’t already had enough noise and beatings 11am £2/1; The Edgeworld Pop-Up Record Stall The much-missed record shop returns with a suitcase of vinyl to flog 11am £free; The Slow Revolt, Gizelle Smith Funk and soul groovemasters 8pm £5 Brunswick The Blues Corporation Ten-piece blues and soul band 8pm £10/9 Caroline Of Brunswick Bad Bad Whiskey Skifflebilly trio 7pm £free Coalition Old Yellow Bricks: DJ Monty, Shmooze, Skank R&B, house and funky soul club 11pm £7/5; Blow: Vince Manganaro, Charly Lopez, Charles Green The party never stops 3am £5
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Concorde2 Playgroup Plaid Official After Party: Reso, Slugabed, Tripper, Convex Collective 11pm £6/ free Cooper’s Cask Keep It Wheel DJ Steve Kiw plays rare disco, soul and boogie 8pm £free Cowley Club Black Fish Punk benefit gig 8pm £donation Digital Supercharged: Stanton Warrriors, Rack N Ruin, Brimmer West Country breakbeat duo 11pm £10 Doctor Brighton’s Sexy Saturday: DJ Tony B 9.30pm £free Dome Frankie Boyle - The Last Days Of Sodom The tabloid-hounded comedian brings “the inchoate laughter of despair to a culture in freefall” 8pm £25 Dome Cafe Bar Dome Discovery Tour Explore the historic venue’s backstage areas 10.30am £8.50; Latin Voices Live! Live music, food, film, talks, arts and crafts celebrating the Mexican day of the dead 1pm £free Dome Studio Hugh Hughes - Stories From An Invisible Town Funny and heartfelt family storytelling from the award-winning creator of the tragic-comic trilogy, ‘Story Of A Rabbit’ 7.30pm £12/10 Druid’s Arms DJ Tommy G Electro beats, indie and house tunes 10pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema Robot & Frank: Cinecity Film Festival 6.30pm £tbc Fishbowl DJ Åbo & Ally Jazz Rooms DJs play dirty funk and hot jazz 9pm £free Fortune Of War Molly Pop Hip hop and soul DJ 9pm £free Funfair Magic New Motown, soul and rock club with circus style entertainment 9pm £5/3/free Funkyfish Dreamboys Live The biggest cocks we’ve ever seen, shame about the weathered penises 6.30pm £tbc; Oldschool Saturday Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10pm £6/5 Globe Jeff Daniels House and disco DJ 9pm £free Green Door Store Empire! Empire!, Gnarwolves, The Reptilian 90s style emo rock from Michigan 7pm £5; Da Doo Ron Ron Club night with a obsession for girlgroups and soul sirens 11pm £free Haunt It Is Still 1985 Travel through time to an ancient realm where keytars are still pretty cool 11pm £3 Honey MYNT Lounge If your house was this funky you’d have to invest in some industrial cleaning products 11pm £5-8.50 Hop Poles Knead A Break DJ Mass Evil plays hip hop, breaks and bootlegs 9pm £free Hope Dylan LeBlanc, Ducks Fly To Moscow American singer songwriter 8pm £8; Soul Casserole A melting pot of hot funk beats and soul grooves (downstairs) 9pm £free Jazz Place Night At The Jazz Rooms Legendary Brighton club returns to its old home for a 90s hip hop special 9.30pm £4/3/free Komedia Krater Comedy Club: Ninia Benjamin, Ben Norris, Rich Wilson, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 7pm/10.30pm £5-22; Spellbound “An 80s night for people who hate 80s nights” - Simon Price plays the alternative highlights of the decade 9pm £5/4 Life Juice Box Eclectic club night offering an nice alternative to the standard seafront malarky 11pm £5/3 Lola Lo Zombie Nation Where the dancefloor is never dead 8pm £10/7/6 Mucky Duck Ross Never Sleeps DJ set 8pm £free New Venture Theatre The Price Arthur Miller’s hard-edged play about a family squabble set in the 60s Details tbc Office The Chop Source DJ plays heavyweight funk and Afro rhythms 8pm £free Old Market The Short Film Loop: Brighton Photo Fringe A collection of short films by upcoming photographers and film makers 10am £free Ouch Bar Brighton’s Only Saturday Afternoon Open Mic 2.30pm £free Pav Tav Saturday Sensations Resident DJs 8pm £free Prince Albert Club Meow Meow Ska night run by the cuddly kitten of Sydney Street, Ian Immediate 8pm £4/3 Proud Cabaret Pop Kraft Pop tunes and cheeky cabaret with Boogaloo Stu and crew 7pm £6 Quadrant Laughing Horse Comedy Club Stand-up comedy night 8pm £7/6 Ranelagh Rose Devine & The Devilles Country music 8.30pm £free Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Brighton Rocks: Shoot The Dead, Graces Collide, Sweet Ether, Wrecktheplacefantastic Live music 7pm £4; The Hush Club Club night for discerning fans of 50s and 60s vinyl sounds 11pm £4/3/2 The Old Courthouse Shoot the Wrx, Jeff Keen - A Study Day A series of talks about the artist and film maker, Jeff Keen, whose work is currently exhibited at Brighton Museum 2pm £free Theatre Royal Driving Miss Daisy Gwen Taylor stars in the 1930s deep south drama 2.30pm/7.45pm £10-35 Thomas Kemp DJ Miss Bianca 9pm £free Three & Ten Patti Plinko Kooky and vintage-styled jazz folk songstress 8pm £10/8.50 Tube Last Stop Club night playing R&B and US hip hop 11pm £5 Unitarian Church Winterfest: The Beautiful Word, The Galleons, Los Fantasticos, The Black Fields, Hat Full Of Rain Live music fundraiser for Amnesty International Noon £free Victory Teen Dream 60s garage and punk DJs 9pm £free Volks In The Face Bass mash-ups from Coin Operated Records Details tbc
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Western Front Figure Of Wax DJ night 9pm £free White Rabbit The Mixer Men DJ night 8pm £free
Sunday 18th
Blind Tiger Mankinka Griot Night Live world music
7pm £4 Brunswick Brighton Craft Alliance Craft fair Noon £free; Brighton Folk Monthly folk night hosted by Amy Hill 8pm £free Caroline Of Brunswick CTRL.ALT.QUIZ One geek-based quiz night was clearly not enough for the denizens of the Caroline 8pm £free Coalition Create Competition The grand final of the Create photography competition - with a live set from a special guest 8pm £free Concorde2 Heatwave, Aswad, Soul Survivors DJs 70s funk and disco band who gave us ‘Boogie Nights’ 7.30pm £20 Corn Exchange Aquinas Piano Trio Music by Rachmaninoff, Dvorák and Mendelssohn 11am £17.50/15 Dome Studio Steve Hewlett’s Amazing Variety Show 2.30pm £16/10 Duke Of York’s Cinema War Witch: Cinecity Film Festival 12.30pm £tbc; The Hunt: Cinecity Film Festival 6.30pm £tbc; Drive & College: Cinecity Film Festival 11.30pm £tbc Exchange Quiz Bingo 8pm £1 Fishbowl Recovery? Reggae through the ages 9pm £free Food For Friends Ruth And Danny Soul, jazz and indie covers 6.30pm £tbc Fountain Head Reggae & Roasts Reggae and chilled beats Time tbc £free Funfair Bodyshakers Polysexual dance party from London’s Fire club crew Details tbc Globe Handbaked Arcade Things were so much better in the 1990s when all we had was 64-bit games of Italian plumbers inexplicably racing against turtles and gorillas Noon £free Green Door Store Another Lazy Sunday #2 New night of art and videos 7pm £tbc; Green Door Blues Big Itch DJs plus the resident blues band, Smokestack 10.30pm £free Hampton The Sunday Sessions Live acoustic music 8pm £free Haunt Haim LA sisters pull off an unlikely fusion of folk and R&B 7.30pm £7 Honey Sundown If your house was this sexy you’d never go outdoors 11pm £free Hope Saint Saviour Theatrical genre-hopping singer songwriter 8pm £8 Komedia The Lovely Brothers Eccentric and anarchic comedy band play preposterous vaudeville power pop laced with satire, silliness and disturbing dance routines 8pm £4; Krater Comedy Club: Ninia Benjamin, Ben Norris, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 8pm £5-12 Latest Music Bar Steve And The Ghost Local band plays “spiky adventure pop” 8.30pm £tbc Neptune Sam Chara & Bing Lyle The songs of Edith Piaf, Jacques Brel and Dolly Parton 8.30pm £free Northern Lights Northern Light Sundays The DJ has a lazy Sunday afternoon 4pm £free Old Market The Short Film Loop: Brighton Photo Fringe A collection of short films by upcoming photographers and film makers 10am £free Prince Albert Wonk Unit, Slaves Live music 8pm £6 Prince George Pub Quiz 8pm £1 Ranelagh Simon Sparrow Blues rock guitarist 8.30pm £free Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Neil Halstead, Steven Blabbermouth Thompson Singer songwriter who paid his shoegaze duties with Slowdive before turning his hand to country pop with Mojave 3 7.30pm £8 Thomas Kemp Jazz In The Afternoon: Miss Mandy Live jazz and blues 4pm £free Victory Blues Sundays DJ plays blues and soul Noon £free Western Front The E.M.E. Live band playing jazzy hip hop, followed by an open jam 9pm £free White Rabbit Hush Hush Live acoustic music 8pm £free
Tuesday 20th
Above Audio Cottontail Club Big band and jitter jive tunes 9pm £free
Audio Guerilla Rocks Club night for rock chicks, skater
bois and indie kids 11pm £3/2/1 Juveniles, Jupiter, Wagner, Omega Male More Gallic electronica from the Francophiles at Melting Vinyl 8pm £6 Brunswick Jazz Jam Open session with a house band and special guests 8pm £free Cowley Club Jasmina Maschina, Bela Emerson & David K Frampton, Amniotic Live music 8pm £5; Club Zygotic: Jasmina Maschina, Bela Emerson, David K. Frampton Amniotic, DJ Jinn Finger Benefit gig for the club 8pm £5 Digital CU Next Tuesday It’ll teach the universities to timetable lectures for Wednesday mornings 11pm £4/3 Dome Don McLean The day the music died (again) 7.30pm £25-32.50 Dome Studio Dr Brown Befrdfgth Award-winning surrealist comedy 8pm £12/10 Duke Of Norfolk Open Mic 9pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema Big Screen Keen: Cinecity Film Festival 6pm £tbc; Hemel: Cinecity Film Festival 7.30pm £tbc Fountain Head Student Night DJs play indie and rock 8pm £free Funfair M*A*S*H New night playing remixes and mashups of punk, funk, disco, rave and everything else 11pm £free Globe Basement Cinema Underground films, comfy seats and free popcorn 8pm £free Green Door Store Donuts Hipster funk and hip hop gems 11pm £free Hampton The Hampton Quiz 8pm £1 Honey Urbano Latino: DJ Aaron George, Gabriel Angel, Yersin Rivas Dance lessons followed by a tropically vibed salsa club 8pm/10.30pm £3/1/free Hop Poles Hopify Human jukebox takes requests 7pm £free Jury’s Out Open Mic 9pm £free Komedia The Staves, Luke Sital-Singh Enchanting sisters of folk 8pm £11/9 Latest Music Bar Cafe Scientifique Let’s talk about science, baby 8pm £free Pav Tav Acoustic Soul Live music 8pm £free Prince Albert O.W.L.S, She Crazy, Shrine Live music 8pm £6 Quadrant The Trident Open mic night for trying out new material 8pm £free Ranelagh Bitter Ruin, Alfie Bernardi Cabaret trio 8.30pm £free Red Lion Challenging General Knowledge & Music Quiz 8pm £1 Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Verses, Attention Thieves Big anthemic rock 7pm £5 Theatre Royal John Shuttleworth Comedy keyboardist 7.30pm £17 Thomas Kemp Poker Evening 8pm £free Three & Ten Henning Wehn’s German Christmas Do Dubious national stereotypes taken for a walk by the selfappointed German Comedy Ambassador 8pm £9/7.50 Volks Tuesday Takeover Drum&bass and dubstep 11pm £2.50/1
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Wednesday 21st
Above Audio Cookin Beats Hip hop with a side of order of funk and a sprinkling of reggae 8pm £free
Monday 19th
Blind Tiger Live ‘N’ Laughing: James Redmond
Above Audio Funky Town Details tbc Ancient Mariner Quiz Night 8pm £1 Audio Gentleman’s Dub Club Live music 7pm £10 Brunswick Open Mic 8.30pm £free Coalition Trash Mondays Filthy tunes for students and
layabouts alike 11pm £5/3 Cowley Club Clothes Swap Swap your punk-badged army jacket for a big baggy jumper with frayed cuffs 6pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema I Wish: Cinecity Film Festival 6.30pm £tbc Freemasons Freemasons Relaunch Day 8pm £free Green Door Store Kabeedies Spiky energetic indie band 7pm £tbc Haunt Citizens!, Great Pagans Art school dancefloor indie band 7.30pm £8; Fat Poppadaddys The student indie night moves to a new home 11pm £3/2/free Latin Lounge Forbidden Burlesque, live music and
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DJs 8pm £free Funky house club with added Twitter confusion 10pm £3/2 Pav Tav Red Tooth Poker 8pm £free Prince Albert Snarkey Puppy Live music 8pm £4 Thomas Kemp Quiz Night 8pm £1 Victory Some Dark Hollow Extra Old time tunes and lonesome laments hosted by Ewan D Rodgers 8pm £free Volks Strictly Reggae Dancehall, roots, revival 11pm £5/4
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Stand-up comedy 8pm £10/5 Brunswick Performers Without Borders Cabaret, comedy and circus show 8pm £8 Coalition CoCo LoCo Dancehall and dubstep music for students go to lose the plot to 10.30pm £5/3/1 Cooper’s Cask Ska Va Voovie! Ska and rocksteady tunes 8pm £free Cornerstone Carla Maria Jennings Live acoustic music 9pm £free Digital Poundance Like a coin operated dancefloor 11pm £4/3/1 Dome Squeeze 8pm £45.00/32.50 Dome Studio The Paper Cinema’s Odyssey: Cinecity Film Festival A reimagining of Odysseus’s epic journey after the Trojan War - using paper cut-outs 7.30pm £12/10 Druid’s Arms We Change The Tempo DJ set of international sounds 9pm £free Duke Of Norfolk Pub Quiz 9pm £1 Duke Of York’s Cinema Shell: Cinecity Film Festival 6.30pm £tbc
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Fishbowl Suga Buddha Acoustic Session: Andrew Foster, Chaz Thorogood, Mark Wynn Live music (upstairs) 8pm £free; Tea & Biscuits: DJ Gareth Stephens Retro swing, soul and ska 10pm £free Funfair LOLgasm Midweek mayhem with Boogaloo Stu playing pop party anthems 11pm £free Globe Move Pre Party Warm up for Life’s new underground dance music night 9pm £free Green Door Store Ghosting Season, Olugbenga Edgy electronica with Metronomy’s bassist doing mash-up DJ stuff 7pm £6; Hard Times Please sir, I want some more nowave disco 11pm £free Haunt Supercharged Drum&bass and breaks 11pm £3/2 Komedia The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown, The Moulettes, The Slytones The god of hellfire, who’s actually a very lovely man 7.30pm £15; Peacock & Gamble - Don’t Even Want To Be On Telly Anyway Nice boys of comedy 7.30pm £10 Latest Music Bar Seraphim, Puppet Kings Live music 8pm £5 Life Move: Karma Kid Underground dance music club 11pm £4/3/2 Marlborough Theatre The Happy Clap Trap “A warm-hearted razzmatazz of absurdist turns” 8pm £5/4 Mash Tun Mash Tun Live Funk and rock covers band 9pm £free Mucky Duck A Little Groove Time: Jipsy Magic Informal acoustic night 8pm £free Ouch Bar OMC Wired Live music 8pm £free Pav Tav Quiz Night 8pm £free Prince Albert Chad Valley, Trophy Wife Live music 8pm £7 Ranelagh Zoe Hazel H Indie folk pop 8.30pm £free Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Dumb And Dumber Film Quiz Pub quiz only with questions about “the most awesome of movies” and also Dumb And Dumber 7.45pm £1; Brighton Band Mix Up: Blueprint Live music 8pm £4/3 Thomas Kemp Kev & Jenna’s Open Mic 8.30pm £free Three Graces Pub Quiz 8pm £free Volks Oldschool Upfront 11pm £tbc Western Front Hush Hush Live acoustic music 9pm £free
Thursday 22nd
Above Audio Schtumm! Disco and house grooves
Time tbc £free Audio Bastard Pop Musical mash-up 11pm £3/2/free Blind Tiger South Coast Swing Jazz, skifflebilly and swing - with a matching dresscode 8pm £5 Brighton Centre Holiday On Ice - Speed There’s several ways to interpret the title of this aerial ‘n’ ice dance show - it might be a cautionary tale about skating whilst on amphetamines or a gripping drama about an ice skater with a bomb strapped to the bottom of their skate. Or it might just involve people going really fast 7.30pm £12.50-50 Brighton Museum Shoot The Late Drop-in film workshops and a ‘film-score-a-thon’ 7pm £5/4 Brunswick Rattle Tales Local writers try out new stuff in an informal, interactive setting 8pm £4 Caroline Of Brunswick Thee Bald Knobbers, Karl MV Waugh, 15 Minutes Of Infamy DJs Live music 8pm £free; The Infernal Salon Alternative cabaret of experimental noise, poetry and DJs 8pm £tbc Coalition Secret Discotheque Replaying the soundtrack to your youth 11pm £4/3/2 Concorde2 Caravan Palace Parisian gypsy band with some added electro swing (this show has now sold out) 8pm £19 Constant Service Koan Brothers Live band playing country, rock and soul 8.30pm £free Corn Exchange Made12 Craft fair with 120 makers showing and selling their works Time tbc £5 Cortlands Hotel Notable Women Of Brighton And Hove A lecture by social historian, Helena Wojtczak 2pm £3/free Digital Supercharged: Rudimental, Lulu James, Woz Drum&bass night 11pm £7.50 Dome BUG Radiohead Adam Buxton presents the band’s music videos, audio-visual art and unseen rarities 8pm £16/14 Druid’s Arms The Lanes Brighton indie band, of course 8pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema A Liar’s Autobiography: Cinecity Film Festival 6.30pm £tbc Fiddler’s Elbow Fiddler’s Folk Off X: Rotait, Simone & The Dark Stars, Southern Rise, Jack Harrison, Kate Williams Showcase of independent local folk musicians 8.30pm £free Fishbowl Residents Association: DJ Will Sumsuch DJs play hip hop, funk and world beats 10.30pm £free Fountain Head Student Night DJs play indie and rock 8pm £free Freemasons The Semper Teens For fans of Ramones and New York Dolls 8pm £free Funfair When Will I Be Famous? New power pop and glam night for wanton wannabes 9pm £free Globe Hang The DJ! A night of punter-picked playlists 9pm £free Green Door Store Mac De Marco Weird and woozy lo-fi singer with some neat lyrics 7pm £6 Haunt Purity Ring Live music 7pm £8; Coconut College Thursday night party playing a right mix of stuff like Grimes,
Smashing Pumpkins and Kayne West 11pm £3/2
Honey Propaganda Indie club 10.30pm £4/3 Hop Poles Woodstock Unplugged Live music 8pm
£free
Komedia Dr Feelgood, The Dials Proto-punk pub rock band minus Wilko Johnson and Lee Brilleaux 7.30pm £15; Jazz Morley Young Dorest singer in the musical tradition that dates all the way back to Duffy 8pm £7 Latest Music Bar Gravy Train: Tom Hannay, Love Junk, Dig Lake Live music 8pm £tbc Mash Tun The Infamous Jay & Rich DJ duo play indie, rock, electro and dubstep 9pm £free Mucky Duck Open Mic Jam session with Joe Newman 8pm £free Ouch Bar Live Funk Music 10.30pm £free Pav Tav Pav Tav Live Live music Details tbc Phoenix Gallery Aural Detritus Concert Series Cutting edge live improvisation 8pm £9/4 Prince Albert Elk, Sasperilla, Mojo Jojo, Daniel & The Scandals Live music 8pm £4 Prince George Souled Out DJs play funk, soul and Motown 8pm £free Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Sussex Bass Society The student society leaves the safety of East Slope for a night of full-on bass 10.30pm £4/3 Theatre Royal Vagina Monologues More candid female empowerment, this time from Chelsee Healey, Vicky Entwistle and Hayley Tamaddon 7.45pm £20 Thomas Kemp David Ross Live music 9pm £free Three & Ten Henning Wehn’s German Christmas Do Dubious national stereotypes taken for a walk by the selfappointed German Comedy Ambassador 8pm £12.50/11 Tube Booty Bakery: Blonde Chicks, Tom Baker, Joe G, Oli P, Ben White New club night cooking up a big basket of bass and hip hop 11pm £5/4/free Victory Open Mic 8pm £free Volks Roll Through Drum&bass and dubstep, bass and beatbox 11pm £2 White Rabbit The Move-Ons Open Mic 8pm £free
Friday 23rd
Above Audio Home House and disco DJs 9pm £free Audio Soul:ution: Marcus Intalex 11pm £tbc Basement Jukebox Fury - Zoom Lens: Cinecity Film
Festival Live music, films, mixtapes and installations dedicated to the cinematic future-visions of writer, J.G. Ballard Details tbc Blind Tiger The Lovely Eggs, Local Girls Indie pop band 7pm £7.50/6; Lazy Habits, Poeticats Eight-piece hip hop brass band 11pm £5 Brighton Centre Holiday On Ice - Speed There’s several ways to interpret the title of this aerial ‘n’ ice dance show - it might be a cautionary tale about skating whilst on amphetamines or a gripping drama about an ice skater with a bomb strapped to the bottom of their skate. Or it might just involve people going really fast 2pm/7.30pm £12.50-50 Brunswick Jackson & The King Kickers, Flash Bang Band, The Badje Acoustic folk and blues with a gypsy edge 8pm £5/4 Coalition Friday I’m In Love No more lectures for a day or two 11pm £2-5 Concorde2 Secret Affair, The Lambrettas They are the mods 7pm £15; Dub Pistols, Rodney P High-energy hip hop ska band 11pm £3/free Corn Exchange Made12 Craft fair with 120 makers showing and selling their works Time tbc £5 Cornerstone Jon Chickens Reggae, funk and soul DJ 9pm £free Cowley Club Heck Tate, Ragweed DIY punk gig 8pm £tbc Digital Stonelove Indie rock&roll club 11pm £4/3 Doctor Brighton’s Funky Friday: DJ Nick Hirst, DJ Wayne 9.30pm £free Dome The Human League It’s where you go if you get promoted from the animal premiership 7pm £27.50 Dome Studio The Treason Show Topical songs and sketches from the long-running local comedy show 8pm £13.50/10.50 Druid’s Arms DJ Green Man’s Garden Of Delights A carefully cultivated set of soul, psychedelia, funk and pop 10pm £free Duke Of Norfolk DJ MC Cashback DJ night 9pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema Quartet: Cinecity Film Festival 6.30pm £tbc; Cobra Woman & White Dust: Cinecity Film Festival 11pm £tbc Fishbowl Calamity Jams Funky DJ tunes 9pm £free Fortune Of War Fever Bands and DJs play Latin, salsa and reggae 9pm £free Freemasons The People’s Playlist Customers choose the tunes 9pm £free Funfair Fortune New Motown, rock and soul night with hula-hoopers, contortionists and sword swallowers 9pm £5/3/free Funkyfish Dirty Retro Retro funk DJs 10.30pm £2 Globe TigerStyle Launch Party Food eating contests and DJs in the basement 9pm £free Grand Central Dad’s Old Vinyl DJs play retro funk, pop and hip hop records 8.30pm £free Green Door Store Mountain Fireworks Company Country blues with an undertow of heartbreak 7pm £tbc; TRIIAL: Thought Forms Genre-less dance party with bands and DJs 11pm £free Haunt Mean Poppa Lean Fun and funky cross-dressing
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party band play their last ever show 7pm £7 Honey Lollipop ‘Pink Fridays’ Get your fingers sticky to R&B and pop treats 11pm £5/4/3 Hop Poles Control, Alt, Delete Resident DJs 9pm £free Hope Ravens & Chimes New York indie rockers 8pm £8/7; DJ Russ Rockwell Indie, punk and Motown tunes 9pm £free Hotel Pelirocco Synthesize Me: Crayola Lectern DJ night with era-spanning electronic music and psychedelic light show 8pm £free Jury’s Out Live Music 5.30pm £free Komedia Krater Christmas Krackers Three comedians and three courses of Christmas grub - “But it’s still only November!” I hear you cry 6.30pm £39.50; Brighton Jazz Club: Jason Rebello Trio Live jazz 8pm £15/12 Life Below The Line: Trevino, Mak & Pasteman House and garage 11pm £7/5/4 Lola Lo Tiki Beats Totally tropical tunes 8pm £5/4/3 Mucky Duck Mucky Duck DJs Resident DJs play “whatever they can get away with” 8pm £free Neptune The Stuntmen Rock&roll jive duo 8.30pm £free Northern Lights Prohibition Theme Party Dress up and relive the heady days when you could only buy booze from gangsters 9pm £free Pav Tav Beats Not Bombs DJ sessions 8pm £free Prince Albert Mad Dog Mcrea, Cosmo Jarvis Lively folk rock drinking songs for pirates and gypsies 8pm £10 Ranelagh Wide Eyed Order Acoustic ska punk with a gypsy edge 8.30pm £free Smugglers Grits And Gravy New club night playing vintage rhythm&blues, ska and swing 9pm £free Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Brighton Rocks: The Nuts, Deadset, Departure From Normal, Jump The Gun Live music 7pm £4; Xanadu Disco and house tunes (in the bar) 9pm £free; An Audience With Mean Poppa Lean Afterparty for the local funkster’s farewell show at the Haunt. You’ll need a ticket from the gig to get in here. Expect boozy hugs and late night jamming 11.30pm £tbc Thistle Hotel Horse Scottish songstress 8pm £1518 Thomas Kemp DJ Spindo Garage, rock and pop 9pm £free Three & Ten Henning Wehn’s German Christmas Do Dubious national stereotypes taken for a walk by the selfappointed German Comedy Ambassador 8pm £12.50/11 Tube Cross The crew behind TRASH kick off a night of beats and bass 11pm £3/free; Motel Last chance saloon for electro house heads 2am £5 Volks The Legend Vs The Rookie: Kenny Ken Vs DJ Trouble, Swifty B, A1, Rezomine Up and coming DJs battle the big names in this new club night from Beg, Steal & Borrow 10pm £7/3 Western Front DJ Russ Rockwell Funk and soul DJ 9pm £free White Rabbit DJ Capsun Vintage hip hop with a modern twist 9pm £free
Saturday 24th
Above Audio Saturday Bar Live Live music Time tbc £free; Doctor’s Orders Funk, soul and seriously sick hip hop 8pm £5/free Ancient Mariner So Last Century String Band Live acoustic music 8pm £free Audio Warehouse: Coyu House and techno club night 11pm £5/free Basement Music Film Weekender - Pop Up Cinema: Cinecity Film Festival Details tbc Beachigogo Bar Good Times Remember them? Maybe the feel-good retro tunes will jog your memory (in the White Room) 9pm £free Blind Tiger Only Joe, Hylu & Jago Energetic ten-piece reggae band 8pm £5 Brighton Centre Holiday On Ice - Speed There’s several ways to interpret the title of this aerial ‘n’ ice dance show - it might be a cautionary tale about skating whilst on amphetamines or a gripping drama about an ice skater with a bomb strapped to the bottom of their skate. Or it might just involve people going really fast 12.30am/4.15pm/7.30pm £12.50-50 Brunswick Judge Trev Memorial Gig 2: Inner City Unit, Paradise 9, Thee Uncontrollables, Jaki Windmill Live music 8pm £12/10 Caroline Of Brunswick Release The Bats New club night playing the dark of the 80s - don’t request Wham! or you may be brushed aside by a clenched fist in a cut-off studded glove 8pm £free Coalition Coalition Vs UNION: The 2 Bears, Alunageorge Live house, hip-hop and soul from Raf Rundell and Joe Goddard from Hot Chip 11pm £12.50; Blow: Vince Manganaro, Charly Lopez, Charles Green The party never stops 3am £5 Concorde2 Rubylux, Franclassic, Echotape Live music from the Brighton boys who started out doing street gigs 7pm £10; Uprising: DJ Hype Drum&bass night 11pm £10 Cooper’s Cask Pablo Clements Unkle DJ 8pm £free Corn Exchange Made12 Craft fair with 120 makers showing and selling their works Time tbc £5 Cornerstone We R Bob Saxophone reggae duo 8.30pm £free Cowley Club Thee Bald Knobbers, Church Of Chaos, 15 Minutes Of Infamy DJs Live music 8pm £free
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Digital Full Volume If your bass was this filthy you’d have to take it back to the fishmongers 11pm £tbc Doctor Brighton’s Sexy Saturday: DJ Tony B 9.30pm £free Dome Rufus Wainwright Elton John called him “the greatest songwriter on the planet” but you might not want to listen to him (we don’t recommend it) 7pm £45/35 Druid’s Arms DJ Carl 10pm £free Duke Of Norfolk Word Up! Moustache-themed 80s tunes from DJ Lohands 9pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema In The House: Cinecity Film Festival 6.30pm £tbc Fabrica Innocent Interlopers - Artists And The Ethics Of Interaction Artist’s seminar Noon £tbc Fishbowl DJ Daddy Marcus Dancey disco and singalong soul 9pm £free Fortune Of War Diesler Bolton’s finest DJ 9pm £free Freemasons Saturday Night Disc Spinners: DJ Moffatt DJ night 8pm £free Funfair Magic New Motown, soul and rock club with circus style entertainment 9pm £5/3/free Funkyfish Dreamboys Live The biggest cocks we’ve ever seen, shame about the weathered penises 6.30pm £tbc; Oldschool Saturday Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10pm £6/5 Globe DJs Disco, house and electro 9pm £free Green Door Store Yeah Yeah Noh, ASBO Derek, Fractured Reformed John Peel post punks 7.30pm £10/8; The Big Itch Back to basics rock&roll 11pm £free Haunt Royal Republic Live music 7pm £7.50; It Is Still 1985 Travel through time to an ancient realm where keytars are still pretty cool 11pm £3 Honey Hat Club: Vince Frimpong, Damien Stone House hits and hats 11pm £5-8.50 Hop Poles Hop To The Beat DJs play funk and electro swing 9pm £free Hope Exhibit: DJ Murky Waters, LocustLung Hip hop, G funk and New York soul 9pm £free Iron Duke The Black Dog And Other Influences Comedic play about manic depression and trying to trick your therapist 7.30pm £tbc Jazz Place Night At The Jazz Rooms Legendary Brighton club returns to its old home for a jazz dance special 9.30pm £4/3/free Komedia Krater Christmas Krackers Three comedians and three courses of Christmas grub - “But it’s still only November!” I hear you cry 6.30pm £44.50; Krater Comedy Club: Carl Donnelly, Geoff Norcott, Ray Bradshaw, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 8pm £15; Mod For It Club night playing garage and Motown, soul and ska 11pm £5/4 Life Juice Box Eclectic club night offering an nice alternative to the standard seafront malarky 11pm £5/3 Lola Lo Zombie Nation Where the dancefloor is never dead 8pm £10/7/6 Mucky Duck Soul Casserole A melting pot of red hot funk and soul 8pm £free Ouch Bar Brighton’s Only Saturday Afternoon Open Mic 2.30pm £free Pav Tav Saturday Sensations Resident DJs 8pm £free Phoenix Gallery Art Junky 10 Two day art market with DJs, live music and over 50 stallholders 11am £1/free Preston Manor A Victorian Christmas Merriment Period parlour games and festive entertainment like wot they had in the old days 11am £13.50/11.50 Prince Albert Evil Son, They Might Swim, Dead Cars Live music 8pm £4 Quadrant Laughing Horse Comedy Club Stand-up comedy night 8pm £7/6 Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Brighton Rocks: AstroPhysics, Sublime Wizardry, DJ Shelley Mack, Stop Press!, Kings Mews Live music 7pm £4; Bitter Disko DJ plays mutant funk, post punk and John Peel favourites (in the bar) 9pm £free; Stick It On This is a night with a difference - one in which you become the DJ! An iPod is all you need to make your musical journey. YOU decide which requests to take, which classics to play and which self-indulgent B-sides to risk 11pm £tbc Theatre Royal An Evening Of Burlesque: Amber Topaz, The Folly Mixtures, Ivy Paige, Miss Ooh La Lou, Miss Felixy Splits, Bettsie Bon Bon, Liberty Sweet, AJ James, Kalki Hula Girl West End burlesque show comes to town 8pm £26/25 Three & Ten Off The Cuff Audience-seeded jokes made up on the spot 8pm £8/6 Tube Last Stop Club night playing R&B and US hip hop 11pm £5 Victory DJ Rob Taylor Soul, rock and alt pop 9pm £free Volks Siren Winter Warmer: Commix, Total Science, Skitty, Word Of Mouth, Denial, Voytek, Act1, MC Blackeye, MC Kerizma, Rivalize, Brown B Drum&bass night 11pm £5 Western Front Conrad No Fun DJ set from the Teen Creep 9pm £free White Rabbit The Mixer Men DJ night 8pm £free
Sunday 25th
Basement Music Film Weekender - Pop Up Cinema: Cinecity Film Festival Details tbc Blind Tiger Chain And The Gang, Summer Hunter, Shudder Pulps, Feature New music from the frontman of Weird War and The Make-Up 8pm £8 Brighton Centre Holiday On Ice - Speed There’s
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several ways to interpret the title of this aerial ‘n’ ice dance show - it might be a cautionary tale about skating whilst on amphetamines or a gripping drama about an ice skater with a bomb strapped to the bottom of their skate. Or it might just involve people going really fast 12.30am/4.15pm £12.50-50 Brunswick When Will I Be Famous? Comedy sketch show 3pm £tbc; Hope & Social, Emily Baker Live folk music 8pm £6/4 Concorde2 Alabama 3 Live music 7.30pm £18 Corn Exchange Made12 Craft fair with 120 makers showing and selling their works Time tbc £5 Dome Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra Music by Beethoven, Brahms and Weber with guest conductor and soloist Howard Shelley 2.45pm £9-32 Duke Of Norfolk Live Music Night Live music from local artists 8pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema Ernest & Celestine: Cinecity Film Festival 11am £tbc; Now Forager - A Film About Love And Fungi: Cinecity Film Festival 12.45pm £tbc; Bolshoi - The Pharaoh’s Daughter 3pm £tbc; Chasing Ice, Ninety Three Million Miles: Cinecity Film Festival 6.30pm £tbc Exchange Quiz Bingo 8pm £1 Fishbowl Recovery? Reggae through the ages 9pm £free Food For Friends Hajar Solo vocalist does pop and jazz covers with some originals thrown in 6.30pm £tbc Fountain Head Reggae & Roasts Reggae and chilled beats Time tbc £free Funfair Bodyshakers Polysexual dance party from London’s Fire club crew Details tbc Globe Handbaked Arcade Things were so much better in the 1990s when all we had was 64-bit games of Italian plumbers inexplicably racing against turtles and gorillas Noon £free Green Door Store Green Door Blues Big Itch DJs plus the resident blues band, Smokestack 10.30pm £free Hampton The Sunday Sessions: Shauna Parker & The Saloon Bar Band Country and swing band 8pm £free Haunt Ugly Duckling Witty and retro Californian hip hop group 7.30pm £10 Honey Sundown If your house was this sexy you’d never go outdoors 11pm £free Komedia The Humble Quest For A Universal Genius Absurd gameshow in which comedians are required to excel in every field of human knowledge 7pm £9/7; Krater Comedy Club: Carl Donnelly, Geoff Norcott, Ray Bradshaw, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 8pm £5-12 Latest Music Bar Brighton Twisted Market There’s no dress code at this fetish market - as long as you “keep the undercarriage covered” Noon £5; David Lemon 8pm £tbc Neptune Tracy Jane Sullivan Jazz, folk and reggae 8.30pm £free Northern Lights Northern Light Sundays The DJ has a lazy Sunday afternoon 4pm £free Phoenix Gallery Art Junky 10 Two day art market with DJs, live music and over 50 stallholders 11am £1/free Prince Albert Survivors’ Network Birthday Fundraiser: Pussycat, The Dirty Johnsons, Caitlin H-T, Killer’s Riches Empowered poetry and punky music 8pm £4 Prince George Pub Quiz 8pm £1 Ranelagh Kent Duchaine Delta blues 8.30pm £free Thomas Kemp Jazz In The Afternoon: Lee Rainbow Hands And His Piano! Live jazz 4pm £free Three & Ten Henning Wehn’s German Christmas Do Dubious national stereotypes taken for a walk by the selfappointed German Comedy Ambassador 8pm £12.50/11 Victory Blues Sundays DJ plays blues and soul Noon £free White Rabbit Hush Hush Live acoustic music 8pm £free
Monday 26th
Above Audio Funky Town Details tbc Ancient Mariner Quiz Night 8pm £1 Basement Music Film Weekender - Pop Up Cinema:
Cinecity Film Festival Details tbc Brunswick Open Mic 8.30pm £free Coalition Trash Mondays Filthy tunes for students and layabouts alike 11pm £5/3 Duke Of York’s Cinema Gregory Crewdson - Brief Encounter + Q&A: Cinecity Film Festival 6.30pm £tbc Green Door Store Boat To Row, Hot Feet, Dog In The Snow Harmony-stuffed instrument-swapping folk band from the Midlands 7pm £5 Haunt Fat Poppadaddys The student indie night moves to a new home 11pm £3/2/free Komedia The Revival Hour Live folk music 7.30pm £10; Marika Hackman Live music 7.30pm £6 Latin Lounge Forbidden Burlesque, live music and DJs 8pm £free Life #Hashtag Funky house club with added Twitter confusion 10pm £3/2 Neptune Nepp’d Tunes Punters play their favourite records so the DJ doesn’t have to 8.30pm £free Pav Tav Red Tooth Poker 8pm £free Prince Albert Born To Lose Live music 8pm £3 Victory Poetry Night Live poetry readings 8pm £free Volks Reggae & Bashment Party 11pm £tbc; Strictly Reggae Dancehall, roots, revival 11pm £5/4
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Tuesday 27th
Above Audio Cottontail Club Big band and jitter jive tunes 9pm £free
Audio Guerilla Rocks Club night for rock chicks, skater
bois and indie kids 11pm £3/2/1 Blind Tiger BIMM Showcase Music students released from their training camp for a brief foray into normal society 8pm £tbc Brunswick Jazz Jam Open session with a house band and special guests 8pm £free Digital CU Next Tuesday It’ll teach the universities to timetable lectures for Wednesday mornings 11pm £4/3 Dome Jasmin Vardimon - Freedom Dance theatre 7.30pm £18.50/10 Dome Studio Sussex Salon Series: Should Britain Become A Republic? We suspect there won’t be many people at this discussion who think the answer is “no” 8pm £6/4 Duke Of Norfolk Open Mic 9pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema Yossi: Cinecity Film Festival 6.30pm £tbc Fountain Head Student Night DJs play indie and rock 8pm £free Funfair M*A*S*H New night playing remixes and mashups of punk, funk, disco, rave and everything else 11pm £free Globe Basement Cinema Underground films, comfy seats and free popcorn 8pm £free Green Door Store Gallon Drunk, Dead Whisky Live music 7pm £8; Donuts Hipster funk and hip hop gems 11pm £free Hampton The Hampton Quiz 8pm £1 Hanover Pub BAD Ukes - Brighton After Dark Ukulele Session Informal gathering of ukulelists 8pm £free Honey Urbano Latino: DJ Aaron George, Gabriel Angel, Yersin Rivas Dance lessons followed by a tropically vibed salsa club 8pm/10.30pm £3/1/free Hop Poles Hopify Human jukebox takes requests 7pm £free Hope Hi Zero Poetry Readings: Caitlin Doherty, Jonny Liron “Fiercely fine modern poetry readings from across the now-zone of liminal word-love” 7.30pm £4 Jury’s Out Open Mic 9pm £free Komedia The Coronas Irish indie rockers 7pm £8; Ezio Live music 7.30pm £10 Latest Music Bar Alex Cornish Live music 8pm £8 Pav Tav Acoustic Soul Live music 8pm £free Prince Albert The Somefinks, Johnson & The Believers Live music 8pm £7.50 Quadrant Open Mic Jam session hosted Jenna Bennett 8.30pm £free Red Lion Challenging General Knowledge & Music Quiz 8pm £1 Thomas Kemp Poker Evening 8pm £free Three & Ten Penetrator Absurdist full-throttle theatre full of black comedy 7.30pm £8/6.50 Volks Tuesday Takeover Drum&bass and dubstep 11pm £2.50/1
Wednesday 28th
Above Audio Cookin Beats Hip hop with a side of order
of funk and a sprinkling of reggae 8pm £free Blind Tiger University Radio Falmer Big Ol’ Music Night 8pm £tbc Brunswick Jim Whyte’s Sonic Butterfly Live jazz 8pm £8/6 Coalition All The Young Great British guitar band 7pm £7; CoCo LoCo Dancehall and dubstep music for students go to lose the plot to 10.30pm £5/3/1 Concorde2 Peter Hook And The Light, Tiny Philips Hook and co perform Joy Division’s classic ‘Unknown Pleasures’ album 7.30pm £20 Corn Exchange Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls, Tim Barry, Jim Lockey & The Solemn Sun There’s no point giving a crap because it sold out months ago 7pm £tbc Cowley Club Safehouse: On The Edge, Vole Art rock and free jazz 8pm £6/5 Digital Poundance Like a coin operated dancefloor 11pm £4/3/1 Dome Founders Room Woodland Puppetry and interactive family theatre 10.30am £7/5 Druid’s Arms We Change The Tempo DJ set of international sounds 9pm £free Duke Of Norfolk Pub Quiz 9pm £1 Duke Of York’s Cinema I, Anna + Q&A: Cinecity Film Festival 6.30pm £tbc Fishbowl Tea & Biscuits: DJ Gareth Stephens Retro swing, soul and ska 10pm £free Funfair LOLgasm Midweek mayhem with Boogaloo Stu playing pop party anthems 11pm £free Globe Move Pre Party Warm up for Life’s new underground dance music night 9pm £free Green Door Store The Soft Moon, Dracula Lewis San Fran post punk band 7.30pm £10; Hard Times Please sir, I want some more nowave disco 11pm £free Haunt Supercharged Drum&bass and breaks 11pm £3/2 Jury’s Out Open Mic With Dave Blackwell Live music 8.30pm £free Komedia Juan Zelada Spanish folk rock pianist and singer 7.30pm £8 Latest Music Bar Small Shipwrecks Live music
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8pm £tbc Life Move: Tom Demac Underground dance music club 11pm £4/3/2 Mash Tun Mash Tun Live Funk and rock covers band 9pm £free Northern Lights Mystery Train Rockabilly DJ 9pm £free Ouch Bar OMC Wired Live music 8pm £free Pav Tav Quiz Night 8pm £free Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Here There Be Monsters, Black Fire Rising, Pink Narcissus, Bottlenex Hardcore metal from the homecoming Brighton band 8pm £3; I Am Arcade Playing retro video games is particularly exciting when it’s in a public place because it’s usually something you do in private, like wearing a body wig woven from the multicoloured manes of broken My Little Pony dolls 8pm £free Thomas Kemp Kev & Jenna’s Open Mic 8.30pm £free Three & Ten Penetrator Absurdist full-throttle theatre full of black comedy 7.30pm £8/6.50 Three Graces Pub Quiz 8pm £free Western Front Hush Hush Live acoustic music 9pm £free
Thursday 29th
Above Audio Schtumm! Disco and house grooves Time tbc £free Audio Bastard Pop Musical mash-up 11pm £3/2/free Blind Tiger Just-Is Hip hop, reggae, dubstep, dancehall and jungle 8pm £4/2 Brighton Electric F’cking The Night: Perch, Api Uiz, Halcyon Acid Festival Band Bring your own booze DIY show with alt rock, indiepop and Afrobeat bands 8pm £3 Brunswick Autumn Leaves: The Galleons, Jake Mackay, Ruby Colley & Isobel Anderson, Anima Tree, The Long Goodbye New folk night 7.30pm £4 Coalition Gaggle All-female alt pop group with dubsteppy beats and a grand total of 21 singers 7pm £12/10; Secret Discotheque Replaying the soundtrack to your youth 11pm £4/3/2 Concorde2 Tinchy Stryder - The Lost Cities Tour: Tinchy Stryder, KLiQ, ELRO Chart-topping Ghanaian grime star (this gig has been rescheduled from September) 7.30pm £12.50 Constant Service Tracy Jane Sullivan Live music 8.30pm £free Dome Founders Room Woodland Puppetry and interactive family theatre 10.30am £7/5 Dome Studio The Works Up and coming artists from all fields try out new stuff and discuss it with the audience 6.45pm £6/5 Duke Of Norfolk Rock Night Classic rock tunes 8pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema Gimme The Loot: Cinecity Film Festival 8pm £tbc; Turning: Cinecity Film Festival 10pm £tbc; Bone Boys: Cinecity Film Festival 11pm £tbc Fishbowl Cut La Vis Jamaican riddims and urban beats 10.30pm £free Fountain Head Student Night DJs play indie and rock 8pm £free Freemasons Dave Barrie Acoustic guitarist plays covers and originals 9pm £free Funfair When Will I Be Famous? New power pop and glam night for wanton wannabes 9pm £free Globe Hang The DJ! A night of punter-picked playlists 9pm £free Grand Hotel Jazz @ The Grand Live swing and jazz in the Victoria Bar 8pm £free Green Door Store Pragmatics Live music 7pm £3 Haunt Dan Mangan Vancouver folk singer who toured with The Decemberists and The Walkmen 7pm £10; Coconut College Thursday night party playing a right mix of stuff like Grimes, Smashing Pumpkins and Kayne West 11pm £3/2 Honey Propaganda Indie club 10.30pm £4/3 Hop Poles Woodstock Unplugged Live music 8pm £free Komedia Comic Boom: Ginger & Black Stand-up comedy 8pm £9/7/5; John Hegley - Beyond Our Kennel Dour yet superbly silly musical poet 8pm £12/9 Latest Music Bar Catalyst Club Guest speakers give a short talk about whatever their weird obsession is 8pm £5 Mash Tun The Infamous Jay & Rich DJ duo play indie, rock, electro and dubstep 9pm £free Mucky Duck Open Mic Jam session with Joe Newman 8pm £free Nightingale Theatre The Dressing Book Comedic play with a contemporary commedia dell’arte style 3pm/7.30pm £10/9/7 Northern Lights DJ Oli Party tunes 9pm £free; Northern Darkness Nothing but the finest Nordic metal 9pm £free Ouch Bar Live Funk Music 10.30pm £free Pav Tav Pav Tav Live Live music Details tbc Prince Albert Gordie Tentrees, Hill Country News Canadian alt-country band 8pm £8 Prince George Souled Out DJs play funk, soul and Motown 8pm £free Ranelagh The Radiokings Live rock and blues 8.30pm £free Theatre Royal Moscow City Ballet - The Nutcracker 7.30pm £19-36
Thomas Kemp Mode Music Presents Live music 9pm
£free
Three & Ten Penetrator Absurdist full-throttle theatre full of black comedy 7.30pm £8/6.50
Tube Booty Bakery: Blonde Chicks, Tom Baker, Joe G,
Oli P, Ben White New club night cooking up a big basket of bass and hip hop 11pm £5/4/free
Victory Open Mic 8pm £free Volks Roll Through Drum&bass and dubstep, bass and
beatbox 11pm £2
White Rabbit The Move-Ons Open Mic 8pm £free
Friday 30th
Above Audio Home House and disco DJs 9pm £free Audio Re:Flex: Sigma Garage, drum&bass and more bass 11pm £5/3 Black Dove Devil’s Music DJs play swing, jazz and Dixieland 8pm £free Blind Tiger Father John Misty Folk from the former Fleet Fox, John Tillman 7pm £10; ASBO Disco With Dizraeli 10pm £5 Brighton Centre Happy Mondays, 808 State Soundsystem To some they are Madchester heroes, to others they’re a pointless dirge with a singer only marginally more in tune than Ian Brown 6.30pm £32.50 Brunswick Mark Edward’s Charity Jazz Roar Up Jazz fundraiser 8pm £12/10 Coalition Friday I’m In Love No more lectures for a day or two 11pm £2-5 Concorde2 Dirty DC AC/DC tribute band with an obsessive sense of fidelity including the wearing of authentic footwear 7pm £10; Rodigan’s Ram Jam: David ‘Ram Jam’ Rodigan, Dub Phizix & Strategy, Venom Sound System, Kris Snakes & Monkey Harris, Dagger Sound System, Back Off & Monty, Harbinger, Sorele Drum&bass night 11pm £12 Cornerstone DJ Coops Soul and funk boogie 9pm £free Cowley Club Hellraiser Punk gig 8pm £tbc Digital Stonelove Indie rock&roll club 11pm £4/3 Doctor Brighton’s Funky Friday: DJ Nick Hirst, DJ Wayne 9.30pm £free Dome Rodriguez - Searching For Sugar Man You’ve seen the film now see the long-lost 70s folk-rock singer live 8pm £17.50 Dome Founders Room Woodland Puppetry and interactive family theatre 10.30am £7/5 Dome Studio SOURCE New Music: The Miserable Rich, Phoria, Them The Sky, Oliver Welby Brighton’s best bands chosen by Brighton’s best listings mag 7.30pm £6 Druid’s Arms Hot Pepper Sauce DJ I.D.G. plays old school funk, soul and house 10pm £free Duke Of Norfolk DJ MC Cashback DJ night 9pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema Hyde Park On Hudson: Cinecity Film Festival 6.30pm £tbc; V/H/S: Cinecity Film Festival 11pm £tbc Fishbowl Freestyle Records Funky DJ set from the label manager, Greg Boraman 9pm £free Fortune Of War Fever Bands and DJs play Latin, salsa and reggae 9pm £free Freemasons The People’s Playlist Customers choose the tunes 9pm £free Funfair Fortune New Motown, rock and soul night with hula-hoopers, contortionists and sword swallowers 9pm £5/3/free Funkyfish Thank Funk Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10.30pm £free Globe Rebel Juke Surf, funk and rock&roll tunes 9pm £free Grand Central Dad’s Old Vinyl DJs play retro funk, pop and hip hop records 8.30pm £free Green Door Store Iceage Live music 7.30pm £7; Ye Ye Fever Funky Afrobeat clubnight 11pm £free Haunt The Skints, Samsara, The Meow Meows Live music 7pm £10; Traumfrau Alternative DIY queer night with live bands and “music you actually like” 11pm £3/2 Honey I Love R&B Juicy house with a twist of hip hop and plenty of the R and the B 11pm £5 Hop Poles Breaking Bear 9pm £free Hope DJ Jimmy Lager Old school indie and Northern soul tunes 9pm £free Jury’s Out Live Music 5.30pm £free Komedia Krater Christmas Krackers Three comedians and three courses of Christmas grub - “But it’s still only November!” I hear you cry 6.30pm £49.50; John Hegley Beyond Our Kennel Dour yet superbly silly musical poet 8pm £12/9 Life Shackleton, Klute, Black Amiga, East Court, Blake, Voytek, Kosine Techno club 10pm £6 Lola Lo Tiki Beats Totally tropical tunes 8pm £5/4/3 Mucky Duck Hot-Tip Hi-Fi DJ with a fine collection of vintage reggae and rocksteady records 8pm £free Neptune Shauna Parker & The Saloon Bar Band Country swing band 8.30pm £free Old Market The Mojo Fins, Shona Foster, Apples & Eve Brighton indie rockers with some great support bands 8pm £12/10 Pav Tav Beats Not Bombs DJ sessions 8pm £free Phoenix Gallery Aural Detritus Concert Series Cutting edge live improvisation 8pm £9/4 Prince Albert Nasty Little Lonely, Words Without Readers Live music 8pm £5 Ranelagh BWC Live - Student Showcase Charity
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fundraiser featuring BIMM students 8.30pm £free
Smugglers Grits And Gravy New club night playing
vintage rhythm&blues, ska and swing 9pm £free St George’s Church Beth Orton, Sam Amidon With a newfound sense of purpose the singer songwriter returns to Brighton having put our her first album in six years 7pm £22/20 Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Shearwater, Will Samson Ambitiously high-concept indie rock 7pm £10; SUB BOP Vs MLISR Grunge battles Britpop as Dynamite Sal takes on herself in a 90s Fight Club style showdown (in the bar) 10pm £free; Late Night Lingerie Wall of sound grunge bands rock right through the small hours 11pm £3 Theatre Royal Moscow City Ballet - The Nutcracker 4pm/8pm £19-36 Thomas Kemp Hot Tamales: DJs Citizen Lane, HepCat Matt 50s and 60s rock&roll 9pm £free Three & Ten Rabbit In The Headlights Stand-up comedy night 8pm £6.50/5.50 Tube Cross The crew behind TRASH kick off a night of beats and bass 11pm £3/free; Motel Last chance saloon for electro house heads 2am £5 Volks Erisian Mutant jungle breakcore 11pm £7/5 White Rabbit Ruff Snippets DJ plays hip hop, funk and soul 8pm £free
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Six Of The Best
Sports Films
Words By Ben Bailey, Joel Dawes, James Kendall
You don’t have to be a stat-headed games fan to like sports films. Perfectly set up to drive a narrative, they instantly add an element of excitement to the final scenes. We’ll never forget the whole cinema chanting “Rocky! Rocky! Rocky!” as the titular hero bashed up Ivan Drago for his fourth outing. What’s interesting is that the type of sport isn’t a barrier to success. In fact many of the best of the genre have been about baseball which, let’s face it, is rounders without the accompanying picnic. Here’s six of the genre’s winners.
Raging Bull
Not just one of the best sport movies, but probably Martin Scorsese’s finest, and so one of the best films of all time. A tense and brutal, yet beautifully shot, period piece, everyone shines, especially Joe Pesci. But obviously this is the De Niro show. Though he famously put on more than four stone to play the slovenly fighter in later life, that was just a fraction of what he put into his career-defining performance. Even though there are just a few minutes of boxing, the hyper-real feel means that when you think of boxing what you see is grainy black and white. (JK)
Rollerball
Six years from now, in a corporate utopia full of sumptuous 70s décor, crime and war have been replaced by a futuristic version of roller derby involving motorbikes and spiked gloves. Flitting between brutal action scenes and a sinister portrayal of a society hooked on the spectacle of violence, the film’s startling climax both undermines the hero’s plight and implicates us, the audience. Director Norman Jewison was appalled at plans to start a real-life version of the sport. He must’ve been equally upset by the dumb-as-fuck 2002 remake ‘starring’ LL Cool J. (BB)
Bull Durham
“Oh Crash, you do make speeches!” says Susan Sarandon’s aging groupie after Kevin Costner gives his famous “I believe in the small of a woman’s back…” spiel. But actually this story of minor league baseball is rather understated and gentle. Much better than Costner’s ridiculous Field Of Dreams, this might have the same story as nearly every baseball movie (rag-tag team of no hopers gets good) but it doesn’t blindly stumble towards the
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dog town & z-Boys
final win. Ron Sheldon – a minor league baseball player himself – had a great run of sports movies, as did Kevin Costner. The two hit gold again with Tin Cup. (JK)
The Wrestler
Is wrestling a sport or a branch of pantomime? The Wrestler certainly paints a world that’s every bit as tough on the body as traditional bouts. Plasticine-faced former boxer Mickey Rourke, in a dream comeback gig, plays Randy ‘The Ram’ Robinson, an 80s star so far past his prime success is a distant memory. Rather like De Niro’s Jake LaMotta, Robinson can’t handle the fight of real life. So The Ram can’t escape the ring. His struggling relationships with a stripper he’s fallen for and his estranged daughter are almost as painful to watch as his failure to manage menial work. (JK)
Dogtown & Z-Boys
The dawn of modern skateboarding was bound to be an interesting story but the fact that the people involved were such street-tough outsiders makes this an incredibly powerful documentary. Director Stacy Peralta was a Z-Boy which gave him both access – to the protagonists and a wealth of visual material – and an insider’s viewpoint. The descent of Jay Adams’ raw talent to drugs and prison gives the latter part of the film an emotional heart you wouldn’t expect from the energy of the first half. Stacey’s Bones Brigade documentary drops any day, so get ready for chapter two. (JK)
Caddyshack
Chevy Chase and Bill Murray deliver classic performances in this golfing comedy from 1980. The cleverly-crafted script and use of several divergent yet interwoven story-lines really sets this apart from the average American farce. Rodney Dangerfield is on top form as an obnoxious nouveau riche golfer who constantly spits hilarious one-liners, while Bill Murray’s madcap battle with the gopher provides even more laughs. This gem is considered by many to be one of the finest sports comedies ever. Watching golf has never been so fun. (JD)
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