Brighton SOURCE Magazine October 2011

volume 2. Issue 38 october 2011

gigs, clubs, culture & Brighton’s best listings

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THE COMEDY ISSUE FEATURING: BRIGHTON COMEDY FESTIVAL, OXJAM, WHITE NIGHT

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laughING out loud You’d think that a seaside town would be sad that summer had ended, but we look forward to October every year.

Sure, there are days that are like living in Morrissey’s ‘Every Day Is Like Sunday’ but this month we kick out the tourists and welcome back the students. It’s not that we don’t enjoy our time with our international visitors (although they could walk just a little bit faster down Kensington Gardens in an ideal world) but they typically don’t want to see riot grrl documentaries and German techno DJs. So all the promoters in town hold everything back for the return of the university crowds and Brighton gets interesting again. This year the change is like night and day.

Our writers found 50 gigs this month that they felt passionately enough to take the time to write about. We’ve printed a huge four and a half pages of them (the rest will be online), and thrown in three and a half pages of club previews to go with them. Add in a page on the comedy festival, a page and a half of culture and further pages on White Night and Oxjam – that’s 13 pages of events carefully decoded and recommended. In keeping with our Comedy Issue it’s almost laughable.

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Personnel

Editor James Kendall ManageR Rosie Kendall Designer Matt Barker at Artwerk DEPUTY Editor Nick Coquet Sales Manager Lucy Kamper Sales emperor Rhys Trussler listings editor Ben Bailey CLUBS editor Zac Colbert WEB editor Erin O’Connor Cover Kenny Mc Cracken assisted by Amber Williams

Contributors

Dan Bowden, Ian Chambers, Craig Charley, Steve Clements. Zac Colbert, Ben Gilbert, Stuart Huggett, Tom Jenkinson, Keri Kennedy, Jessica Marshall McHattie, Amy Jo McLellan, Kevin Meredith, Ben Miller, Lisa Marie Mundy, Helen Murdoch, Rebecca Norris, Hayley Pearce, Adam Peters, The Recommender, Gary Scattergood If you want to contribute to SOURCE email james@brightonsource.co.uk

Listings

Email: listings@brightonsource.co.uk

Editorial Contacts

Tel: 01273 609955 Email: james@brightonsource.co.uk Write or send promos to: The Brighton SOURCE, PO Box 3313, Brighton, BN1 4BJ

Advertising

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Contents

News 4 New In Town

6 Gig Previews 8 Interview: Fear Of Men 16 Club Previews 20 28 Club Review: Go Bang 30 Club Review: The Blind Tiger 32 Culture Art: Jim McElvaney 34 Interview: Simon Evans 36 Preview: Brighton Comedy Festival 38 40 Preview: White Night 42 Preview: Oxjam Critic 44 SOURCE Virgins: Stand-Up Comedy 46 Street Style 48 Unsung Hero: Jill Edwards 50 Secret Eater: Krater Comedy Club 52 In Conversation With: The Treason Show 54 Listings 56 Six Of The Best: 21st Century Sit-Coms 70

MADE IN BRIGHTON •

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

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NEWS

WORDS BY NICK COQUET, JAMES KENDALL, JESSICA MARSHALL MCHATTIE photo by adam bronkhurst

SOURCE NEW MUSIC

Some of the people we book for our SOURCE New Music night we ask to appear because we want to show off how good they are.

Holy Vessels fell into that category, as do AK/DK who will play in November. But we signed up Sophie Madeleine to play at the Pavilion Theatre because we really wanted to see what she’s like.

Her LP, ‘The Rhythm You Started’ has been a summer office fave and we can’t wait to see Sophie and her ukulele (and band) on stage on Tuesday 4th.

WE ‘LIKE’ THIS

A few years since we all first logged on, Facebook is a strange constant now. Some of us have now blocked so many ‘friends’ it barely updates anymore, but Brighton comic artist Paul Stapleton still sees through it all – the your/you’re grammar conundrums, the new baby bores and dopey Farmville players – in his second Facebook comic book, ‘Achievements’. It’s a really funny read with a double edge to it; it kind of makes you realise you’re as much of a tit as everyone else on there. Check out pogscribbles.org.

KANDI COMES IN HANDY

If you’re a West Street aficionado who’s a bit tired of the seaside establishment scenery, your heart will be gladdened by the arrival of Hed Kandi. The coffee-table-friendly dance label has been granted planning permission to convert the former Tru premises into what our detective prowess tells us will almost certainly be some kind of new nightclub, with all dance music and flashing lights and stuff. They’re just waiting on a further application over what kind of signs they can put up outside – we’re hoping for one actually made of candy, that sweet-toothed clubbers can lick.

INCREASE THE GREASE

If you stick to West Street and don’t look too closely when you see a pair of platforms, you could almost be forgiven for forgetting Brighton’s reputation as the gay capital of England. But every now and then, something like Sing-A-Long Grease at the Duke of York’s

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comes along. A fundraiser for Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus on Saturday 1st, this actually is an audience participation viewing of Grease the musical, complete with singing tips beforehand, heckling cues and a goody bag for all participants. Fabulous.

BANGERS AND BOOZE

Running alongside National Cask Ale Week, the Bath Arms is rejoicing in a real ale and sausage festival, featuring wares from around the world as well as the brilliant local suppliers we enjoy in Brighton. Even vegetarians are catered for, and frankly, you’d need a good excuse to miss this. We suppose being under 18, Muslim or allergic would suffice. Other than that, no dice.

It’s at the Bath Arms from Saturday 1st to Sunday 9th.

DECEASE & ENLIST

Halloween isn’t just for children – it’s time for Beach Of The Dead again on Saturday 22nd. For a few days each year fake blood is worth its weight in cocaine, and for a good few hours traffic is at a standstill while Brighton’s inhabitants take to the streets as the undead, limping and moaning. This year the route begins at Victoria Gardens and there’s a rollicking beach after party at Concorde 2. If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em – details on Facebook.

burlesque overload

Brighton seems hell-bent on tasselling its nipples and straddling its poles at the moment, as the world of burlesque takes further hold with new nights popping up all over the place. Hove’s Medicine Chest is doing all-inone evenings on Thursdays 13th and 27th this month, which are 35 quid for a two-course meal and a cabaret show featuring Divine Miss Em. Brighton Rocks Bar’s new monthly night features Stella Starr and swinging, rocking, Latino and surf sounds from DJ Johnny Stylus. Friday 7th is this month’s date, and it’s free to get in.

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NEW in town

WORDS BY MATT BARKER, NICK COQUET, JESSICA MARSHALL MCHATTIE

AUTUMN SWING PARTY

The electro swing movement that’s set up permanent residence in Brighton, with club nights and scene-defining albums coming thick and fast, spreads its swing wings to the Medicine Chest for a new weekly Wednesday outing. The Autumn Swing Party boasts an apparently poll-topping menu where you can eat for a tenner, plus half-price happy hour cocktails and improbable musical mash-ups from Swaggerjax (a DJ outfit who’ve appeared on one of the White Mink albums) with a guest horn player. Swing down there.

DR SCARDO’S RECORDING CO.

So, you’re in a band, right? Yeah, who isn’t in Brighton?

You’ve got your funny hair sorted, your name’s suitably postmodern and ironic, your trousers are really quite alarming.

Time to lay down some actual music tracks then, eh? Luckily for you, Dr Scardo is a studio bod with years of worldwide experience under his belt and he’s just opened up a recording studio in Hanover – a perfect location for postrecording session pubbing and free parking (if you can find any). Have a look at the new set-up at dr-scardo.co.uk and see if it floats your boat.

I HATE MYSELF AND WANT TO PARTY

Tuesday 4th is the date ringed in Sticky Mike’s diary for the opening night of I Hate Myself And Want To Party, at his Frog Bar on Middle Street. Doors open at 11pm for a night of plaid, leather and grunge from the likes of Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana, Hole and Alice In Chains and many other denizens of the alt.90s musical canon. We’re promised visuals from MTV’s Daria, which was a really useless show, but the rest of this night smells proper teen-spirited.

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:AEREO:

Coming on like a bubbly chocolate bar fed through a broken spellcheck, :AEREO: has bagsied the first Friday of the month at the Green Door Store. Back from a busy summer of festival and party appearances, they’re promising live bands every month plus a whole load of electro, Italo disco and new wave, courtesy of DJs Teen Creeps, SOURCE’s own James Kendall and Ed Lilo.

It promises ‘the sound of the night’ – make of that what you will.

MODERN ROMANCE

Nailing its flag to the Monday mast at Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar is Modern Romance, with another new weekly night. There’s no real confusion over the sort of night to expect when you read the playlist; it’s Bowie, the Stones, Doors, Stooges, plus a history of agit-pop that takes in everyone from Morrissey to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. 10.30pm til late with cheap drinks and it’s just a quid in via appropriate Facebook page liking.

BELOW THE LINE

Taking their cues from the likes of Boiler Room, Below The Line will feature the best producers webcasting sets from The Tube every Tuesday night. Add to that the online frenzy that always surrounds these kinds of webcasts (forums going into meltdown when a new cut drops), this is a night for true fans, by true fans.

Line-ups are hush-hush, but we can tell you that by the time this goes to print, Phaeleh will have headlined the launch.

SUBSTANCE SEDUCE

Sundays: no longer just for roast dinners and iPlayer. Substance is a new night at Audio dedicated to helping you recover from the rest of your weekend, with chilled house, underground electronica and the occasional live percussionist. Starting off easy for the weekday workers, the night gets heavier into the early hours, making it the ideal place for those of us with unusual working and sleeping patterns. Cheap drinks deals and entry help seal the deal.

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Have you been to The Blind Tiger yet?

Last month, Playgroup transformed the old Hector’s House pub, in the centre of the City on Grand Parade, into a new venue for live music, DJs, art and games.

We’re now open all day every day, for great coffee, light meals, beer, cocktails and more.

EVERY DAY UNTIL 9PM

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Take a look online at playgroupbrighton.org, or see the back of this magazine, for our latest special event listings. October’s parties feature reggae legend Prince Fatty, the return of Brighton’s sleaziest rock ‘n’ roll night Stay Sick!, breaks and hip-hop from A-Skills and over 30 late night paloozas, with even more next month! shows are free before 9pm - so come along!

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Playgroup has always had a soft spot for Halloween and our parties are famous for the best fancy dress and the most eclectic line-up this side of the pet cemetery! 2011 is no exception - we’ve got one of the world’s best mash-up DJs battling a live 15-piece gypsy-style orchestra - DJ Yoda Vs. The Trans Siberian March Band!

Lots of DJs have remixed Balkan brass but DJ Yoda does it first totally LIVE, in one of only two UK dates.

You really have to see this collaboration to believe it!

Our Friday night Halloween special has sold out in advance every year for the past five, and is one of our favourite annual events - so book your ticket now!

CONCORDE 2 / FRIDAY 28TH OCTOBER 2011 / £12 ADV Tickets available at Resident / Rounder / Blind Tiger / concorde2.co.uk HIGHLIGHTS @THE BLIND TIGER: PRINCE FATTY 7 OCT / A-SKILLS 14 OCT DUB ORGANISER 20 OCT / GRASSCUT 23 OCT / WHITE NIGHT 29 OCT

GIG PREVIEWS

WORDS BY IAN CHAMBERS, BEN GILBERT, STUART HUGGETT, TOM JENKINSON, KERI KENNEDY, JESSICA MARSHALL MCHATTIE, AMY JO MCLELLAN, HELEN MURDOCH, ADAM PETERS, THE RECOMMENDER, GARY SCATTERGOOD

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POLARSETS

Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Sat 1st

Like Manchester before it three years ago, and Oxford over the last two years, Newcastle has experienced a recent bulge of quality bands who have reached out beyond its city’s boundaries and begun a march on the music press. Polarsets are a trio who may well hold the strongest promise from the recent North East batch, with their accessible, sing-a-long indie pop. Radio-friendly singles, with huge choruses and plenty of cowbell, are helping to fuel their ascent. (TR)

EMMY THE GREAT Duke of York’s Mon 3rd

The grandly yet aptly-titled Emmy The Great hasn’t had the commercial success of Laura Marling, nor the critical praise of Caitlin Rose, but she can more than hold her own against them when performing live. She arrives in Brighton on the back of her second album, ‘Virtue’, to play at the delightful Duke Of York’s Picture House. Expect a captivating concoction of charisma, bold lyrics and bittersweet melodies; this should be something special. (GS)

WILLIAM TYLER

Prince Albert Weds 5th

Best known as longtime member of Lambchop and Silver Jews, visionary guitar virtuoso William Tyler released his stunning solo album ‘Behold The Spirit’ on the esteemed Tompkins Square label late last year before being invited to tour with Yo La Tengo and Michael Chapman. He’ll be joined on this special double bill by Hiss Golden Messenger, whose ghostly folk blues has won many fans of late including David Bowie, who described his music as “mystical country, like an eerie yellowing photograph”. (IC)

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TENDER TRAP

Prince Albert Thurs 6th

Da Doo Ron Ron presents an extremely rare live appearance from Tender Trap. Featuring ex-Tallulah Gosh founder Amelia Fletcher and a cast of indie legends, they brim with the unquenchable spirit of classic pop. Keepin’ on with the melodic sunshine choogle are Summer Hunter, Brighton’s newest remedy to the eternal power pop void left by the death of the season. Finally, two-girl human juke-joint Dogtooth! grab your hand and drag you through their land of simple fables and clear voices. (LMM)

ED SHEERAN

Concorde 2 Thurs 6th

If you haven’t heard Ed Sheeran’s massive hit, his debut single ‘The A Team’ which was released back in July, you’ve probably been suffering some kind of severe ear problems. Relentlessly catchy and soulful, Sheeran’s folk indie singer-songwriter style isn’t particularly new, but he does it very well. He’s the kind of boy your mother would like you to bring home, but despite being on the gigging circuit for years, he’s still only 20 so he has plenty of time to mature into something perhaps more unusual. (JMM)

FENECH-SOLER

Concorde 2 Fri 7th

Deceptively foreign-sounding, Fenech-Soler are actually a pretty-boy four-piece from Northampton, with pop synth hits that seem worldlier than their tender years would have you assume. Despite looking a bit like the-band-that-Hollyoaksbuilt, their arching synthesisers, melodic indie harmonies and racing rhythms are as reminiscent of early synth popsters Depeche Mode and Erasure as much as modern incarnations like Ladytron and Calvin Harris. (JMM)

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Brighton welcomes back, after a no-show at this year’s Great Escape, the sartorially extravagant one-woman project signed to the consistently brilliant DFA label. Often compared to Goldfrapp and Fever Ray although more spontaneous and less orchestrated than both combined, Boltononian turned Berliner Janine Rostron brings her multimedia performance art to Sticky Mike’s. Expect pitchshifted vocals, filtered disco beats mixed with dark electronica, costumes and more unimaginable weirdness thrown in for good measure. (KK)

“Merely by staying away, you can create a myth,” stated Julian Cope recently. It’s an interesting claim from a music icon who, in actuality, has continued the construction of his own legacy not on silence and reclusion, but by obsessing over underground genres, standing stones and a mainly abominable line in absurdist rock that has no place alongside his solo work or that of The Teardrop Explodes. SOURCE wishes to hear only the latter tonight. But will the ‘Arch-Drude’ abide? (BG)

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ART BRUT

Haunt Tues 11th

Eddie Argos brings Art Brut to Brighton on the back of the band’s most accessible (and to our mind best) album ‘Brilliant! Tragic!’. While his trademark cutting lyrics remain, he’s toned down the tempo and enhanced the tunes. With Mr Argos freely admitting he ‘”actually tried singing on this album” and that he threw in a few songs to ‘”help you catch your breath”, this gig should be a tad different from their tried and tested floor-to-the-floor noise fests. (GS)

THE KILLS

Concorde 2 Fri 14th

Garage rock lounge gods The Kills have been around for over a decade now, and their detached post-punk releases have grown from sounding like typical West Coast bored suburbia to globally appreciated art rock revival. Retaining their stripped-back, minimalistic, fatalistic grooves has served them well – their latest album ‘Blood Pressures’ was released in April to high acclaim. Dig out your coolest band t-shirt, look uninterested, and get down discreetly with Mr Kate Moss and his female counterpart. (JMM)

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Concorde 2 Tues 18th

MARBLE VALLEY Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Thurs 20th

The endearingly beardy Pavement-drummer-turned-stonemasonturned-Pavement-drummer-once-more, Steve West takes on the role of front man and vocalist in his own band, Marble Valley, who have been releasing albums since 1997. Obsessive Pavement fan? You’ll pretty much like the abundance of slacker guitar with a stoner edge, while West’s humourous songs such as ‘Hip Hick Hop’ and ‘Computer Man’ will warm your heart indeed. (KK)

PETE FIJ • & TERRY BICKERS

Latest Musicbar Thurs 20th

With the cautionary tale of Creation Records’ rise and fall given a cinematic airing in this year’s Upside Down, it’s as good a time as any for two of the label’s former golden boys to reappear.

Adorable, and later Polak, front man Pete Fijalkowski has teamed up with House Of Love/Levitation guitar legend Terry Bickers, leading to Pavlovian salivating among the ‘set the controls to sonic cathedral’ effects pedal fraternity. Hollowmoon and Fujiya & Miyagi’s Matt ‘Ampersand’ Hainsby support. (SH)

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BRIGHTON INDIE POP WEEKENDER Horse & Groom Sat 22nd – Sun 23rd

Lo-fi, loud and insanely repetitive, hard-boiled indie duo The Lovely Eggs are 6 Music favourites. A married couple from Lancaster who sound like a de-discoed Ting Tings with better (by which we mean more infantile) lyrics and a more fried guitar sound. Their set marks the end of a weekend-long festival of indie music, also featuring the Tigercats, Pocketbooks, Bobby McGee’s and more. There’s no need to scramble for tickets or poach a friend’s as admission is free. (AP)

LINDI ORTEGA

Hope Sun 23rd

Imagine a Toronto-born Dolly Parton but with less plastic surgery and more rockabilly clothing, crooning country classics in a gravelly, soulful voice, telling tales about her favourite pair of boots, and you’ve got Lindi Ortega. Canada’s churning out folk indie singer-songwriters at the moment, and given that they’ve previously produced Celine Dion and Sum 41, they’ve got a lot to make up for. Listen out for hyper-bouncy ‘I’m No Elvis Presley’ from her last album. (JMM)

BAXTER DURY

Komedia Mon 24th

You might have seen Baxter standing alongside his dad Ian on the cover of ‘New Boots & Panties!!’ aged five. More recently, he was portrayed by Bill Milner in the 2010 big screen biopic Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll, featuring a stunning lead performance from Andy Serkis. But Dury Jr. is a terrifically accomplished musician in his own right, producing understated, soulful smoke rings of sound whenever the moment takes him. Reasons to be cheerful part four, then. (BG)

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THE HORRORS Concorde 2 Tues 25th

From backstage staff on Southend pier’s ghost train to the saviours of British music in the space of two albums, it’s been a stunning few years for The Horrors. Any suggestion the band might have fluked their transformation with 2009’s ‘Primary Colours’ album have been dispatched with this summer’s equally transcendent follow-up, ‘Skying’, and frontman Faris Badwan’s exotic collaboration with Canadian opera singer Rachel Zeffira, Cat’s Eyes. The only scary thing about them now, in fact, is their future. (BG)

PEGGY SUE •

Haunt Tues 25th

Always viewed as the most likely of Brighton’s Tweecore Class of 2006 to hit the mainstream, Peggy Sue’s sound has matured significantly, from early stripped-down guitar to a new album you’d expect to find on 4AD. Hopefully the amiable lo-fi enthusiasm and instrument swapping of their live performances hasn’t disappeared in amongst all the ethereal ambient electronica. Can there be such a thing as a grown-up tweecore band? Find out tonight. (AP)

GLASVEGAS

Old Market Wed 26th

The average footballer spends most of their time, SOURCE imagines, thinking about a bigger car, a bigger knob and a bigger harem of girlfriends. Not James Allan. During a lengthy, pre-Glasvegas Scottish football league career, the singer used to dance down the wing wracked with daydreams of Elvis Presley’s haircut, Phil Spector’s production and dark, heavyweight themes raining down from Glasgow’s circling thunderclouds. Now a fully fledged rock icon and former drug addict, a duet with Joey Barton surely awaits. (BG)

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TUESDAY 11 OCTOBER THE HAUNT

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The Kills + guests TUESDAY 18 OCTOBER BRIGHTON DOME

Noah & The Whale + guests FRIDAY 21 OCTOBER CONCORDE 2

Yann Tiersen Lanterns on the Lake SUNDAY 23 OCT BRIGHTON BALLROOM

Real Estate + Spectrals TUESDAY 25 OCTOBER CONCORDE 2

The Horrors + Toy WEDNESDAY 26TH OCTOBER TOM (FORMERLY THE OLD MARKET) 2

Glasvegas We Are Augustines THURSDAY 27 OCTOBER COALITION 1

Wu Lyf + guests MONDAY 31 OCTOBER TOM (FORMERLY THE OLD MARKET) 2

Guillemots + guests WEDNESDAY 2 NOVEMBER STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR

Twin Sister + guests THURSDAY 3 NOVEMBER COALITION 1

The Rapture + guests FRIDAY 4 NOV ST GEORGE’S CHURCH

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BASTILLE

Green Door Store Thurs 27th

This solo artist from London gained some online buzz earlier this year with a homemade video for his debut single, ‘Flaws’, which used snippets of the Terrence Mallick film Badlands. His market was immediately made apparent from a subsequent batch of unexpected YouTube covers by kids in their bedrooms. Viral hits aside, Dan Smith writes pop songs with heart, speaking directly to the hormonal Ellie Goulding or Frankmusik market. Radio 1 will no doubt be his playground once the buzz-following hipsters have moved on. (TR)

WU LYF

Coalition Thurs 27th

The inordinate amount of hype surrounding the mysterious WU LYF has given the raucous vocal harmonies and chaotic rhythms of their ‘heavy pop’ a lot to live up to. Head down to Coalition and listen yourself to the 2011 buzz band whose marketing genius had PRs scrabbling for notebooks worldwide. Though maybe now it’s about time they leave their illuminati-esque musings of a ‘World United’ behind and just get signed, get drunk, and enjoy their moment in the spotlight. (TJ)

CHARLIE SIMPSON Concorde 2 Fri 28th

Leaving Busted to pursue a career in rock was never going to be an easy road, and putting Fightstar on hold to go solo sounds just as tough. However, many sceptics have been proved wrong as his debut album ‘Young Pilgrim’ has gained a sea of favourable reviews as well as charting in the UK top 10. So if you want to hear his new direction of indie acoustic sounds you’re in the right place, but if you’d rather listen to ‘Year 3000’ or ‘Paint Your Target’, you’re wasting your time. (AJM)

900 SPACES

Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Fri 28th

Imagine Cyndi Lauper fronting Foals and you’re close to 900 Spaces’ ballsy, new wave disco rhythms and danceable, grinding synth pop. Support act The Stars Down To Earth write songs about hope in the face of disaster, combining sweet and affecting

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vocal harmonies with intelligent lyrics about love and science, and intense but melodic guitars. Lillies On Mars take the angular yet sensitive guitars and the fragile shoegaze of Lush and Slowdive and write the soundtrack for an imaginary David Lynch film. (LMM)

SILVER APPLES Concorde 2 Fri 28th

Portishead’s stupendously delayed 2008 album, ‘Third’, signalled not only their long-awaited comeback but also a debt of gratitude to New York’s Silver Apples, in the menacing kraut grind of ‘We Carry On’. Examining their formation closely, however, you might assume it would be Kraftwerk that owed props to the influential duo. Around the time of the band’s 1967 formation, they deployed an arsenal of nine audio oscillators and 86 manual controls operated by hands, feet and elbows. Behold, the real man-machine. (BG)

JOHN PEEL NIGHT Hydrant Sun 29th

For many music fans, the untimely death of John Peel in still leaves a hollow feeling inside. The BBC’s initial efforts to commemorate his passing with an annual ‘John Peel Day’ of gigs petered out after 2007, but others have helped to keep the flame alive in their own way every October. Spinning Chilli celebrate with an evening of Peel favoured acts including Vic Godard’s Subway Sect, The Shapes and Brighton’s own Piranhas 3D (The Piranhas, essentially). (SH)

REGAL SAFARI • Green Door Store Sat 29th

Here’s an exciting trio from our home city of Brighton. Well, we say trio, it’s made up of two musicians and one ‘visual artist’, which goes some way to explaining the intention and sound of these atmospheric electronic artists. Fitting somewhere between chillwave and the more meandering tunes from the early Underworld releases, their music surrounds the listener. Perhaps literally – they’ve been advising people to bring 3D glasses to their live sets. (TR)

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ROSIE VANIER

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Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Sat 29th

You might remember her as the pretty front woman of Rosie And The Goldbug, but following their breakup in 2009 this sister’s doing it for herself. Skittish, kittenish vocals bring to mind Kate Bush, Siouxsie Sioux and 80s disco electro, and the pounding garage style of her keyboards and drums are refreshingly stripped-back. Worth watching before she loses those delightfully Cornish touches – it’s all right, lover. (JMM)

ANNA CALVI

Concorde 2 Sun 30th

Beautiful, soulful and influenced by Nick Cave; if you like your girlie pop music on the dark side, Anna Calvi’s your woman.

Crooning with passionate moans above masterful vintage Telecasters and harmoniums, this is a woman on the ascent.

From being a YouTube hit last year, Anna Calvi scored a Top 40 with her eponymous debut album in January, has gained considerable admiration overseas and, if she doesn’t implode with romantic zeal, looks set to rise and rise. (JMM)

GUILLEMOTS

Old Market Mon 31st

Over a year since Fyfe Dangerfield flew solo at Brighton’s Komedia, he returns to the city with his Guillemots bandmates in tow to play a low-key show at the newly refurbished and re-invented Old Market. Whether you’ve been a fan for five years or just five minutes, this looks set to be a show to remember. If you can get your grubby mitts on a ticket, you owe it to yourself to attend (even if you only know ‘that song off the John Lewis advert’). (AJM)

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FEAR OF MEN WITH ECHOES OF LATE 80S CREATION AND 4AD, BRIGHTON’S NEW STARS ARE HIDING POP SONGS that chime IN hazy LAYERS OF BEAUTIFUL NOISE WORDS BY JAMES KENDALL PHOTO BY KENNY MC CRACKEN ASSISTED BY AMBER WILLIAMS, SHOT AT GARAGE STUDIOS

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Although famously ignored at the time, The Velvet Underground have become one of the most influential bands of all time because of the way that they mixed art and pop. While John Cale was studying with La Monte Young, Lou Reed was penning minor hits for Pickwick Records like ‘The Ostrich’. But it didn’t take two members of Fear Of Men to get together to hit similar gold; singer Jess already had a love of melody-based songs in her work for her Fine Art & History Of Art degree at Goldmiths.

She’d made a batch of instrumental soundscapes for an exhibition, to which Dan came along.

“We got talking about various loop pedals and different reverb effects,” says Jess, “and decided that we wanted to do something together.”

And so Fear of Men was born. It didn’t take long for the pair’s project to become more pop song orientated, driven by the back and forth of mixtapes that they would make for each other. The stuff Jess had made reminded Dan of a lot of the 4AD stuff that he loved, like Grouper and the Cocteau Twins – artists that still remain in the band’s sound today. Despite the atmospheric nature of those bands Jess says his history lesson helped her write proper songs.

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pretty much play any instrument, so slotted in easily behind the drums.

“I was like, ‘I wanna be in the band, I don’t care what I play!’” he says.

“It’s great that he can play so many instruments. I can play other instruments too, just not ones we really tend to use,” Lin says with a nod to her trumpet-playing days in jazz, soul and funk bands.

“Did you learn how play bass in a progressive Danish primary school, Lin, or is that a myth we made up?” asks Dan. “That’s true. I went to arts school from when I was five until I was 16.”

Fear Of Men had a drummer before Anthony though and it didn’t work out. Unfortunately Jess had already booked their first show.

The band had just one month to find Dalston-based Anthony and get stage-ready for a support slot with Former Ghosts.

“That was a good show,” says Anthony, with a mix of pride and slight surprise.

“That was a really good show,” echoes Lin. “It was quite amazing how it all happened so quickly. In the last seven months it’s happened so fast. We only actually formed the band in February.”

You might imagine that being so swift out of the gates with a live show that the first release took a while to get together. In fact Brighton’s off-kilter Sex is Disgusting empire released a cassette of their demos – half of which were from Jess’ solo artscape days – before that Green Door Store debut.

“Some of the tape is really roughly put together,” winces Jess.

“Anthony would probably puke up on it.”

“Jess asked me to put guitar on the two songs for her degree project but I only had an hour before they had to be in. I didn’t even have time to work out what to play so there are parts where I played the wrong bit and Jess had to scoop out the note in ProTools.”

There’s no getting away from the fact that it’s pretty raw, but actually all four songs on the ‘Hanna Schygulla Demos’ are surprisingly fully formed. ‘Phantom Limb’ has that same nostalgic, hidden pop joy as Cults while ‘Green Sea’ is a stripped-back woozy ballad full of emotional fragility. It sold out instantly and the band have plans to release more demo cassettes in between more expensive and time consuming studio-based vinyl releases.

“It’s pretty scrappy, but it was never an option to say no to it being released,” admits Jess. “It was really cool that someone was that interested, that early on. But we didn’t want lo-fi to be our aesthetic, because there’s an awful lot of bands doing that kind of thing. We changed our recording methods from then. But there were a few things that didn’t go how we wanted them to with our single too.”

“We wanted to write pop songs and bring a band element to it,” Dan says.

While it’s true that ‘Ritual Confession’ – a 7” from London’s hip Italian Originally looking for four singing musicians to make the Beach Babes imprint – has more sheen that that cassette, it’d be most of the harmonies she’d written, Jess found a wrong to paint it as anything other than completely real and vocalist and bassist in Lin. Shame she was actually charming. Classic indie pop, it draws a previous unconnected line looking for a flatmate at the time. between Echobelly and The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart. It chimes “I was really weird how well we got on,” Lin remembers with layers of fuzzy beauty – a total success and one of our favourite of that first Gumtree-fuelled meeting. “We didn’t talk Brighton songs of the year. It’s drawn radio fans as wide as the 6 much about the room, we started talking about music Music breakfast show and Frank Skinner. instead.”

“But we’re still trying to find our recorded sound, you might say,” “I think I asked really early on, ‘Can you play bass?’” shrugs Dan. Jess laughs.

That might all change as Dan from Esben & The Witch is going to It’s not something that landlords normally look for in a record their next single, a move that Fear Of Men hope will lead to a prospective tenant. more experimental studio experience.

Lin didn’t take the room, instead moving round the corner, but frequently Whichever way they go with their ended up jamming in sound their balance of old and Jess’ bedroom. new, pop and art, noise and Before Lin’s arrival melody has at its very core an Anthony was due to accessibility that’s going to spare WEB: fearofmen.bandcamp.com play bass. Luckily a Fear Of Men the Velvets’ years in SINGLE: ‘Ritual Confession’ 7” out now on Italian Beach Babes degree in music has the wilderness.

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CLUB PREVIEWS

WORDS BY CRAIG CHARLEY, ZAC COLBERT, STUART HUGGET, JAMES KENDALL, JESSICA MARSHALL MCHATTIE, LISA MARIE MUNDY, THE RECOMMENDER

UP AGAINST IT •

Victory Sat 1st

One for those in the know – they say “Alan, Steph and Leigh Anne play punk soul trash power pop disco party records.” We say if you’re craving disparate souls going mental to ‘Rabbit’ by Chas’n’Dave, ‘Instant Karma’ or ‘I Feel Love’ with no trace of self-consciousness then here’s your Holy Grail. Some trendy London type looking for the Next Big Thing to turn corporate and sell to the masses could do a lot worse than stealing UAI and forcing it overground. (LMM)

SBTRKT

Audio Weds 5th

Sometimes musicians who wear masks do so to distract from their sub-standard music. Sometimes they do so for anonymity and it doesn’t make one jot of difference, because their music is so irrepressibly catchy, soulful and innovative that wearing a cow on their heads couldn’t distract you from it. SBTRKT is firmly in the latter camp. Beautiful vocals layer over postdubstep and UK funky beats, and we recommend getting a ticket well in advance, because this is one of the most exciting shows for ages. (JMM)

DAEDALUS

Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Thurs 6th

Daedalus’ real name is Alfred Darlington, and he suits it: foppish hair, velvet smoking jackets, dandyish demeanour, and all the rest. Growing up in 70s California with twin obsessions of inventors and Welsh mountains has meant this curious child has grown up to be one of the most innovative, original and downright weird producers in the electronic music field, and tonight he’s putting on an intimate show for Brighton fans. If you like your bass music glitchy, intriguing and inspiring, get yourself a ticket. (JMM)

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COPPE’

Komedia Fri 7th

Tokyo musician Coppe’ has been self-releasing albums of intricate electronica since the mid 90s, linking up with collaborators from around the globe including Plaid, DJ Vadim and Peanut Butter Wolf. Her current UK tour raises funds for the 2011 Japanese Earthquake & Tsunami Relief Appeal, and its promoters Bit-Phalanx have enlisted Brighton’s Spirit Of Gravity collective to pull together tonight’s bill. An array of familiar SOG friends and guests appear, and one or two ‘very special’ surprises are promised. (SH)

4 HERO

Volks Fri 7th

Local boys Originate’s 1st birthday features old school legends and creators of the Reinforced imprint, 4 Hero. For 20 years it’s been the blueprint label for jungle, hardcore and drum’n’bass. But the great thing about this night isn’t just the calibre of the headliners, it’s the way the entire thing encapsulates the rush of genuine friendliness and unity present back in the day, rather than just the music. You’ll leave with the whole dancefloor knowing your name, where you’re from and what you’re on. (LMM)

SUPER DUBPRESSURE • Concorde 2 Fri 7th

For those of you who are new in the city this month, Dubpressure is a Brighton institution; a relentless bassdriven institution dedicated to educating the people of your new hometown in all things dubstep, reggae and dancehall.

This lesson’s being broadcast live on Get Darker TV, is rumoured to have a 70k soundsystem rig, and has Emalkay, Coki, N Type and Funtcase leading the classes. For a masterclass in loudness, get a ticket in advance. (JMM)

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CAMERA CLUB •

The Loft Fri 7th

What’s wrong with the promoters in town – why do you hate The Loft so much? It’s a great little club (when they’ve got enough bartenders on) but there’s hardly even any good nights there now 13 Monsters has finished. Well, Camera Club is going to revive this unloved venue with a night of r’n’b, blog electro and indie/pop (from artists as unconnected as Aaliyah, Designer Drugs and Fleetwood Mac), plus drink promos and a raffle for BOY LONDON clothes. Long X DJs, Fifilicious and Alis Pelleschi will be on the decks. Not bad for £2. (JK)

FREEBASS •

Concorde 2 Sat 8th

Freebass is, unsurprisingly, a night of free bass music, perfect at the end of term when those student loans are drying up. Of course, this is a freshers’ special so your loans will be in full force and ripe for the spending. Do so at the Concorde while cutting wobbly shapes on the dancefloor as the Freebass crew spin the best breaks, dubstep, drum’n’bass, jungle, reggae and house. But get there early because, as you’d expect, this night gets very full very fast. (ZC)

HOSPITALITY

Digital Sat 8th

This month’s instalment of Hospital Records brings a bill of their newer signings. Camo & Krooked burst onto the scene with their ‘Play It/Hidden Edge/Drop It’ EP on Basswerk in 2008, they were signed to Hospital in December 2010 after Grooverider said they were “one of the biggest talents in drum’n’bass” and in July this year provided a boisterous mix for Annie Nightingale’s Radio 1 show. Joining them is the Belgian producer Netsky who won four trophies at the 2011 Drum’n’Bass Awards including Best International Artist, Best Breakthrough Producer and Best Liquid DJ. Get your tickets quick as it always sells out. (ZC)

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MODESELEKTOR Digital Thurs 13th

Yes, you read correctly, German acid-techno-IDM duo Modeselektor are coming to tear holes in Digital’s soundsystem.

Having collaborated with pretty much everyone from Thom Yorke to Maximo Park as well as Apparat and Otto von Schirach, Modeselektor are notoriously genre-dismissive, and rejoice in the unpredictable. This rare live show also features a full visual show from Pfadfinderei, meaning the assault on the senses won’t be restricted to just your ears. (JMM)

FWD>>RINSE

Concorde 2 Sat 15th

The legendary dubstep night from London comes to rattle the rafters of Concorde 2 again, joining forces with pirate-turnedlegit radio station Rinse FM, which has been responsible for broadcasting the future sounds of UK bass music for the last 17 years and helping launch the careers of Katy B and Magnetic Man. Tonight Plastician heads the charge with Zinc, P Money, Youngsta and Ben UFO as the cavalry. There’s going to be a glorious range of tunes, from Plastician’s fusion of dubstep and grime to Zinc’s debaucherous crack house via the classic crate-digging styles of a Ben UFO set. (ZC)

OM UNIT

Riki Tik Sat 15th

Defiantly undefinable, Om Unit’s one of a new breed of London producers making beats for which no one’s thought of a genre name yet. Just as well, as it’ll probably be something ridiculous like ‘post-modern bass beat’ or ‘future Star Wars wonk’.

Anyway, his minimalist basslines and catchy swagger tunes have earned him a number of high-profile collaborations, and it’ll definitely be worth seeing him make the magic for free.

Support comes from one-to-watch Deft, Grinel and the WAT? residents. (JMM)

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SKEPTA

Concorde 2 Sun 16th

Never failing to surprise us, Skepta followed up his feature interview in the Guardian Guide with the release of his video for ‘All Over the House’. The video mainly consisted of graphic sex scenes between one very engorged dude and porn star Paris Rockxxx, who were doing the dirty deed, you guessed it, all over the house. This could have been an interesting cultural comment on the explicit nature of pop videos in the 21st Century or simply some additional material for his fan’s wank banks. It’s doubtful there will be a live reconstruction of the video at tonight’s gig but catching a performance of ‘Too Many Men’ is top of any grime enthusiast’s list. (ZC)

SUBMOTION ORCHESTRA

Coalition Sat 15th

Last seen in Brighton at the-venue-previously-known-as-Jam, Submotion Orchestra wowed the crowd and severely tested our ability to bear a sweat-dripping ceiling. Now back to these shores in a mercifully bigger venue, the Leeds-based sevenpiece band are here to promote their debut album, ‘Finest Hour,’ which was released in June. The album’s chilled, haunting symphonies are reworked live into crowd-rousingly raw reggae rhythms. (JMM)

DONAE’O

Audio Weds 26th

Garage has experienced a glorious revival over the last couple of years with labels like Night Slugs and Numbers and artists such as SBTRKT and Mosca putting out grooving 2-step and deep UK funky tracks. Critics have enjoyed coining it as postdubstep and future garage, so who better to take you on a tour of where it all began than DJ EZ? The Kiss FM DJ has been a stalwart partisan of UK garage since its origins in the late 90s and mixed the ‘Pure Garage’ CDs throughout the noughties so expect an encylopaedic evening from old school UKG to the best of the new breed. (ZC)

AKA AKA ROAR •

Life Thurs 27th

Bok Bok is the co-founder of London label Night Slugs, who along with Numbrs and Hessel Audio, are responsible for shaping the sound of recent British bass music. Supporting Bok Bok is Oneman, who’s climbed the ranks solely as a DJ, defying the idea that to do so you need to be producing your own tracks. His sets at Boiler Room and on Rinse FM display a penchant for old school garage, disco and house so tonight’s going to be a sonic love affair full of baby making music. (ZC)

VICE ISSUE LAUNCH Green Door Store Fri 28th

Audio Weds 19th

Donae’o is one of the premier stars of UK funky, and if that doesn’t mean anything to you, imagine Craig David got hold of a drum machine, lost some sleaze and gained some tribal influences. The lyrics aren’t exactly something Morrissey would be proud of, but the beats are dancey house and no one likes a song that tells a story any more, so take heed of Donae’o’s wise words and “sing party hard, and just wild out, yuh.” (JMM)

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London quintet Theme Park, fronted by twins Marcus and Miles, have enjoyed stacks of momentum on the blogs in 2011. With Bloc Party’s management also now on board, the industry machine is in full swing as they arrive in Brighton for October’s Vice party. Lengthy A&R queues were seen at their debut show in September to catch their excellent brand of impossibly catchy, alternative pop. Fans of Metronomy or Talking Heads will find their blend of percussive grooves and addictive guitar hooks utterly irresistible. (TR)

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PUMP UP THE JAM •

club previews Coalition Sat 29th

Older SOURCE readers will remember how pleasing it was when the 70s revival turned into an 80s revival and we imagine the new breed of clubbers are feeling the same pleasure right now. Out with Wham! and in with Snap, Prodigy and Livin’ Joy. Who better to usher in this new era – just in time for 8,000 18-year-olds to rock up with their loans – than Tomb Crew, who have been tearing up clubs from London to New York with this debauched fun for the last couple of years. You want more? Room 2 is hosted by DJ Outbreak playing a 90s jungle and garage set. Happy Halloween. (JK)

STANTON WARRIORS Digital Sat 29th

When one of the biggest names in breaks collaborates with a ghetto bass pioneer like Hervé, you know the result is going to be special, and last year’s ‘Bring You Down’ was just that. Since then the guys have released new studio album ‘The Warriors’, which includes the booty-bouncing beats of opening track ‘Get Up’ and the raggastep energy blast of ‘Turn Me Up Some’ - Zane Lowe’s “hottest record in the world” back in December. We imagine tonight will be full of big breakdowns and pulverising basslines, all with the Stanton signature. (ZC)

WRETCH 32

Concorde 2 Sat 29th

With three top 10 singles this year already it’s a good time to see Wretch 32 in a venue as small as the Concorde. The former grime MC made his move into mainstream music a few years ago but the release of ‘Black & White’ and subsequent singles ‘Traktor’, ‘Unorthodox’ and ‘Don’t Go’ has propelled him to international acclaim. As you’d expect from a singer with his roots in grime, Wretch 32 is an energetic performer and certainly worth a watch. (CC)

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CLUB REVIEW

GO BANG WORDS BY ZAC COLBERT

PHOTOS BY JAMES KENDALL

As night starts to dominate day we get less of that Vitamin D fix, so good Friday evenings are essential for our winter-bound mental health. Go Bang is the warehouse party held at the venue tucked under the railway station and as we verge off-road to walk over the muddy grit we could almost be trudging through an industrial estate to find those elusive parties of the 90s. Inside emanates the old school vibes too, with lo-fi v i s u a l s projected onto the rustic walls while the

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NEXT EVENT: Soft Rocks album launch, Sat 22nd Green Door Store WEB: gobangbrighton.blogspot.com GUEST DJS: Xanadu, Maxxi Sound System, Tim Rivers

TOP TEN

Dennis Parker ‘Like An Eagle (Todd Terje Edit)’ Stone ‘Girl I Love The Way You Move’ Candido ‘Jingo’ Bonar Radbury ‘Siula Grande’ Phutre ‘Rise From The Grave’

Loin Brothers ‘Gardens Of Vangulf (Tornado Wallace Remix)’ Gwen Guthrie ‘Peanut Butter (Larry Levan Mix)’ Deadly Sins ‘I Love You More’ Kinsmen ‘Get Up (Live Space Dub Edit)’ Miss Jackson Bootleg ‘Pleasure Principle (Labeija Dub Remix)’

Xanadu DJs whip up the iridescent crowd into a disco furore.

Tonight’s full title – House of Go Bang – not only nods to the acid house played by Tim Rivers and Steve KIW but it also reflects the community culture inherent in their warehouse parties: there’s a following, there’s a family and newbies are welcomed with mile-wide smiles. As we sweat away the hours on the dancefloor we can’t quite believe it’s all for free.

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A warm welcome awaits you at Molly Malone’s Irish Pub... along with a great selection of drinks (including Molly Malone’s Famous Brighton Stout), you can watch live sports, as well as some brilliant live music several nights a week.

Our tasty, freshly prepared menu will whet your appetite, including some of our favourite Irish dishes.

Molly’s Private Bar, situated on the lower ground floor is available for hire where you can bring your own ipod or decks – our large screen can project images from you laptop, or you can even just use the bar to watch your favourite game with friends.

Great NUS offers on drinks and food.

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CLUB REVIEW

THE BLIND TIGER WORDS AND PHOTOS BY JAMES KENDALL

You’ve got to admire Playgroup for not rushing into things on their redesign of Hector’s House. Now settled in, they’ve taken hammers to the place and The Blind Tiger has emerged – an understatedly stylish 300-capacity café bar, serving food in the day and providing the usual madcap Playgroup entertainment in the evening. They’ve put in a great height stage and a custom-designed soundsystem so it’s also a great place to see live music. It opens, incredibly, at 8am in the week if you’re looking for coffee and breakfast.

And every time you

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WEBSITE: playgroupbrighton.org FACEBOOK: tinyurl.com/TigerFace WHERE: 52-54 Grand Parade

TOP TEN

All coming live to The Blind Tiger Sam & The Womp ‘Bom Bom’ (15th Oct) Euphoria Steel Band ‘Sugar Bum Bum’ (29th Sept) Zen Death Squad ‘L. Ron Hubbard vs Jacques Cousteau’ (30th Sept) Kid Kanevil ‘Words & Spit’ (29th Sept) Grasscut ‘The Door In The Wall’ (23rd Oct) Derriere ‘Battle Plan’ (4th Nov) A.Skillz ‘California Soul’ (14th Oct) Gypsy Hill ‘Balaka’ (13th Oct) Prince Fatty ft. Horseman ‘Shimmy Shimmy’ (7th Oct) Yes Sir Boss ‘Not Guilty’ (21st Oct)

empty your wallet there, they give money to deserving local art projects. Jesus, it might just be perfect.

For the opening night their huge network of friends – and plenty of well-wishing strangers – turned up for a night of bands and DJs, and though the place was packed to bursting point there was nothing but good vibes. We fully expect this to become a major nocturnal stop-off as well as a great place to get caffeine and a bacon sandwich before those demanding drawing lessons at the university next door.

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CULTURE

WORDS BY STUART HUGGETT, BEN MILLER, LISA MARIE MUNDY

FILM: Melancholia Duke of York’s until Weds 5th

As well as being the Urban Dictionary definition of where most Brightonians spend their Sundays and the sort of title destined to be bestowed upon some ultra-hip future café in the North Laine, Planet Melancholia is the name of an ominous sphere heading towards the earth in this “beautiful movie about the end of the world”. Written by Palme d’Or winner Lars von Tier, it features a Cannes Best Actress-grabbing performance from demon-battling bride Kirsten Dunst, supported by Charlotte Gainsbourg and Kiefer Sutherland. (BM)

TALK: The Space Komedia Thurs 6th

Singlehandedly risking a superlative drought among writers agog at the big name line-up it announces every month, arts chit-chat panel The Space pulls yet another blockbuster pair of rabbits out of its headliner hat this time around. Skin – she of the otherworldly beauty and acidic lyrics that gave vocal and visual venom to Skunk Anansie – is joined by Brian Tufano, the cinematographer behind Trainspotting, Billy Elliot, Shallow Grave and Quadrophenia for a Briggy Smale interview.

It really is about time we went again. (BM)

EVENT: City Reads 2011 The Old Market until Sun 9th

City Reads is an excellent campaign promoting books across the city for a month, culminating in a weekend of fun from Thursday 6th. Speakers include definitive rum guide author Dave Broom, insights into Bob Marley and The Wailers’ Rastafarianism from cultural historian Colin Grant, dub reggae poet Linton Kwesi Johnson and workshops where you can have the perfect book prescribed for you. Andrea Levy, whose book ‘The Long Song’ is this year’s chosen City Read book, also leads a closing discussion. (BM)

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COMEDY: Foster’s Funny Live

Coalition Thurs 13th

Bloody bargain comedy night, sponsored by the champagnelike Aussie beer (any dissenters will be ruthlessly heckled) with an excellent midweek line-up. If you don’t know what Chris Martin and Rob Heeney are like from their regular appearances on TV and radio then it’s probably about time you found out, topping a bill completed by award-winning Middlesbrough magician Pete Firman and Stephen Grant, who you usually have to pay three times as much to see at the Komedia’s Krater Comedy Club. (BM)

BIG LEBOWSKI PARTY • Northern Lights Sat 15th

With typical Scandinavian idiosyncrasy, Northern Lights, one of The Lanes’ best-hidden gems, hosts the fourth annual celebration of everyone’s favourite dressing gown-wearing stoner loser. After a screening of the film you can see what condition your condition is in by entering the bowling competition, sampling In and Out burgers, Lingonberry pancakes and White Russians, and showing your dudeism in The Lebowski quiz (not for amateurs). Fancy dress is actively encouraged, pissing on rugs is not. (LMM)

COMEDY: Jo Neary and Simon Donald Upstairs at Three And Ten Weds 19th

If the main comedy fest is the glitzy but high-maintenance livein spouse, then the Three And Ten’s fringe is the filthy actionpacked romp of the sort Simon Donald, of Viz fame, would certainly approve. The writer for everyone’s favourite high-brow

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comic has brought his beef curtains down as part of a double-bill with the ever-stupendous Jo Neary, who’s bravely recounting her teenage years in a 1980s backwater certain to provide rich weaponry for her brilliantly cringeworthy style. (BM)

CABARET: Lorraine Bowen’s Polyester Fiesta • Komedia Sun 16th

From self-made instruments and ukulele axe-wielding to Casio organ-pounding and albums with names like ‘Clean Sheets’ and ‘Manhole’, there’s almost nothing local goddess Lorraine Bowen can’t (or possibly won’t) do. In this one, the self-proclaimed queen of kitsch’n’sync (boom boom) branches off into fashion – specifically, a celebration of her passion for a certain fabric that has been maliciously maligned for the past 70 years. A pair of dancers, a comedy scientist and some charity shop vinyl assist. (BM)

THEATRE: Love Letters

New Venture Theatre Sat 22nd - 29th

Ever wondered how the people you fancied but never quite got drunk enough to ask out reacted when you sent them all those clumsy texts? Two Americans read the awkward letters they exchanged during 50 years of frustrated canoodling in this celebration of coyness/cowardice, revealing their reactions as they go. It might sound like a dream for lazy actors, but it’s actually been extremely popular (Elizabeth Taylor once took it on) and won writer AR Gurney a Pulitzer Prize nomination. (BM)

EVENT: LE TIGRE HALLOWEEN PARTY West Hill Hall Sat 29th

Following on from March’s Ladies And Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains screening, Riots Not Diets present a second evening of grrrl-powered films and music. Le Tigre tour documentary Who Took The Bomp? gets its first British showing outside London, and after the chairs are pushed aside there are sets from Covergirl, Skinny Girl Diet and Candy Panic Attack. The last party was glorious, so throw in Halloween fancy dress and some White Night stragglers and this should be better still. (SH)

ART: Erotica

Naked Eye Gallery until Mon 31st|

Take a look at the website of Cornish “illuminating erotica” artists Swallow and Bone and you’ll find penises protruding from a swan and, in the award-winning work on display here, a shimmering chandelier from which several throbbing members arc in glowing neon red. Elsewhere in this show, James Hunting explores sensuality and desire through embroidery and Peter Jarrette presents naughty cartoons alongside works in acrylic, oil and chalk pastel by Lucy Porter. Hot under the collar exhibition of the month. (BM)

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PHOTOGRAPHY EVENTS Miniclicks Photography Talks: London to Brighton Sep 21st Murray Ballard Oct 4th LITERARY EVENTS New Writing South: Albie Sachs in conversation with Simon Fanshawe Oct 5th LITERARY EVENTS City Reads Big Weekend including Andrea Levy & Linton Kwesi Johnson Oct 7-9 COMEDY Brighton Comedy Festival @ TOM Oct 19-22 includes The Horne Section, Isy Suttie & much more, see website for details MUSIC Melting Vinyl and TOM present: GLASVEGAS Oct 26th GUILLEMOTS Oct 31st DRAMA Coming in November: New Theatre at the Old Market Two Bins present TEN MEN & AFTER PARTY The Old Market 11a Upper Market Street, Hove www.theoldmarket.com 01273 201 800

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STOP LOOKING AT THE WALLS, LOOK OUT THE WINDOW WORDS BY NICK COQUET Painting by jim mcelvaney

No Walls Gallery, Prince Albert St, until Sun 23rd

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Brighton’s most interesting newcomer in the art world, No Walls Gallery has carved a growing reputation as a vital platform for local art talent, presumably using the markup from the Hirsts and Banksys they sell to help finance their perhaps commercially riskier ventures. Brighton artist Jim McElvaney might be messing with the parameters of portraiture, but there’s definitely nothing inaccessible about this stunning work – his third exhibition for No Walls.

A mix of paintings, drawings and prints, this collection goes far beyond merely capturing a likeness. Impressionist portraiture is nothing new for sure, but the invitation to look, not only beyond the subject’s gaze, but also into the psyche and emotions of its creator, is what makes this an essential view. A massively promising young artist, McElvaney’s hometown showing precedes outings to Seoul, Moscow and London.

See it while you can.

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SIMON EVANS BRIGHTON STAND-UP

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COMES HOME WORDS BY NICK COQUET

Appearances at Latitude and the Edinburgh Comedy Fest, touring with Lee Mack and doing Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow have put Simon Evans firmly on the comedy map.

How did you start off in stand-up?

It was 1996. I didn’t really have a day job at the time; I was doing a bit of freelance journalism as well. It was very much an amalgam source of income – every little helps. Within a few weeks I was earning more from my gigs than it cost to leave the house, so from that point on it was all gravy. After about six months I started to think this could actually be my job. The self-confidence came quite quickly – with a lot of young comedians the jokes are fine, they’ve got comedy intelligence but the audience just feels tense when they can sense the comedian isn’t sure. It can take a while to get round that, but it all clicked quite quickly for me.

Has your act evolved since then?

It’s become slightly more defined but it was always quite supercilious and superior. The first couple of gigs I wore black jeans and a leather jacket – I thought I was a bit rock’n’roll but I sensed quite quickly that wasn’t how the audience perceived me or indeed what I was doing when I got up there. Then I found a red velvet smoking jacket. That set the tone really, a bit more lounge lizard, Leslie Phillips.

You’ve made reference to being educated, has that steered your comedy?

It must do. I mean, I did that line for a number of years but it was more a recognition of what I was doing already. I didn’t go to a fancy school at all. I think you have to be aware of what the audience sees in you – some things they buy, others they don’t. If you look at what they laugh at, you can see them going, yeah, that’s you. You have to try things out. There’s a philosophy of ‘fail fast’ which is basically trial and error but at speed – I think standup is best done like that, to react to what they’re laughing at and build on that.

How has the massive TV audience for affected the business?

I think people are changing their acts, but for the better really. People feel they have to strengthen or invigorate their act, throwing in bad language and controversy, to engage the interest of a roomful of comedy club drunks. But the sofa-seated audiences for McIntyre or the Apollo are probably in a better position to know

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what’s funny than a bunch of hen parties. There are more visible stepping-stones to world domination than when I started though, and there is definitely more appetite for stand-up than there used to be, and a wider idea of what a stand-up can do.

You mentioned controversy in some people’s acts – is anything taboo in yours?

No, there’s no subject I wouldn’t use. There are opinions I wouldn’t give credence to or appear to endorse. It’s a good question. I like to do material about racism without obviously wanting to be racist or wanting anyone to feel under attack. If you’re using irony you have to make sure it’s defensible, because there’s a certainty that someone won’t get it. Edgy comedy is good I think, working the edge of what’s acceptable to say is where the laughs are at their richest. But you will step too far occasionally and say something that, on second thoughts, is indefensible and that is a danger. Hopefully you’re judged on the entirety of what you do rather than the occasional line.

With Edinburgh looming so large, where does the Brighton Comedy Festival fit in?

Well, it fits in very neatly with me because I live here. I do think the Edinburgh Festival is a monstrously overblown institution though. It’s terribly difficult to make any impact if you’re not going up as a marquee name in a 3,000 seater.

It’s such a gamble, it’s so expensive and you have to leave home for four or five weeks. It’s a massive commitment. So I think Brighton, along with other festivals like Leicester for instance, is making life a lot easier for comedians who want to perform full-length shows.

You’ve mentioned Brighton in your show a fair bit, what else can we expect?

All comedians have a word or two to say about where they’re from, but Brighton has loads of well known aspects stand-up nowadays and observations you can make yourself – yes, some do travel better than others. The show I’m doing is kind of a revamped version of a show I did last year; this will be the last date of that. It’s called Fringe Magnet, and it’s basically the perspective of a man in his mid-40s LIVE: Corn Exchange Weds 19th with a couple of kids and looking at the WEB: simonevanscomedianetc.com world through ever more deeply CLIP: tinyurl.com/simonevansclip perplexed brows.

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BRIGHTON COMEDY FESTIVAL WORDS BY NICK COQUET, JAMES KENDALL

Edinburgh might be the best known comedy festival in the UK, but we’ve always been put off by the legions of experimental try-hards who seem to make up most of its programming (as well as it being, like, miles away and that). Here in Brighton we roll out our own fest every October, and while our various and delicious brands of oddness are celebrated in a variety of fringe events, the main bill tends towards more straight-up room-fillers.

Kicking off in impressive style is the Opening Night Gala on Friday 7th, with Jo Brand, Jack Dee, Sean Lock and Mark Watson all raising money for the Sussex Beacon. This is the comedy starting gun for two weeks of performance across the Dome complex, in a well-curated mix of panel show household names and fairly safe-bet unknowns.

ALUN COCHRANE Pavilion Theatre Sat 8th

Currently resting somewhere between Waterstones biography bestseller level and “I’ve seen that bloke somewhere…”, Alun Cochrane’s Moments Of Alan show arrives at something of a pivotal moment for the comic’s career trajectory. He’s taking what feels like the official 21st century route; honing his act in front of live audiences while building a national profile on the TV game show circuit. This show looks like a residency on Jonathan Ross’ sofa is already assured. (NC)

JEREMY HARDY Corn Exchange Tues 11th

Jeremy Hardy is a dyed-in-the-wool comic and a stage regular since 1984. Subverting the mainstream medium through political leanings was predominantly an 80s revolution in fact, while he was cutting his teeth around the alternative circuit.

But while Ben Elton’s “li’lbitofpolitics” approach is sell-bydate-stretching now, the socialist leanings of Hardy’s work continue to pervade all of his material, from this exemplary stand-up set to his regular Radio 4 appearances. (NC)

PAUL DANIELS Corn Exchange Thurs 13th

Since TV bigwigs decided a small man with questionable hair performing magic in a silly voice was a bit crap really, Paul Daniels has had to fight for reinvention. Hair Today, Gone

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Tomorrow is a show that reaps the rewards of post-modernism as he self-deprecates his way through an evening of comedy and magic – probably as far away from Jerry Sadowitz as it’s possible to get. Inevitably the show also features The Lovely Debbie McGee, whose unquestioning loyalty to “the millionaire Paul Daniels” has never faltered. (NC)

DAVID O’DOHERTY Pavilion Theatre Fri 14th

They say sarcasm is the lowest form of wit but clearly the lowest form of wit is the comedy song. But this dreadful genre – which we’ve even seen Stewart Lee tank with – has been reborn by David O’Doherty. Revving up his Yamaha keyboard (the sort you probably had as a child), his is the comedy of deliberate understatement and that British being-a-bit-crap thing we do so well. A self-deprecating mix of fantasy and literalness, best summed up by a song where Shakira turns up for sex and he sends her away in a taxi cos it just wouldn’t work out between them. (JK)

STEPHEN GRANT • Corn Exchange Sun 16th

If you’re in Brighton and you like your comedy, it won’t be long before you’re sat in front of Stephen Grant or at least reading a retweet of his online domestic observations. A double award-winning compère of the Komedia’s Krater Comedy Club, Grant’s own act is a wit-propelled whirlwind of observation, punning and questionable taste – deconstructing his own medium as he goes – that’s become an annual festival favourite as well as playing successfully outside of Brighton.

This hometown show is definitely one to shop early for. (NC)

SEANN WALSH • Corn Exchange Sat 22nd

We interviewed Seann in the run-up to last year’s sold-out festival show, and the intervening 12 months have seen this local fella continue his ascent up the national ladder. His new show Ying And Young continues the rich observational seam that’s seen him propping the doors in his flat open with awards like Chortle Best Breakthrough Act and Best Compère, as well as being in Dave’s Top 10 Stand-Ups. See him now before you’re watching him on a screen from the very back of the Brighton Centre. (NC)

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THE MUCKY DUCK MANCHESTER STREET, BRIGHTON DJS AND LIVE MUSIC DRINKS PROMOS CLASSIC PUB FOOD LOCAL ARTWORK AND GENERAL MUCKINESS

WHITE NIGHT WORDS BY STEVE CLEMENTS, JAMES KENDALL photo by steve glashier

We can’t think of another city that would encourage artists, musicians and performers to run wild through the night.

OK, maybe Amiens – the French town that came up with this whole Nuit Blanche idea and with whom Brighton has a great cross-cultural relationship now. But it’s a credit to Brighton council that the clocks going back is celebrated with over 70 events ranging from the straight-up fun to the chin-strokingly intellectual, many around this year’s theme of Utopias. Here’s a handful that we could make sense of, but go and explore and have adventures.

THE METAHUB Jubilee Square

The big commission of the night is by the AK/DK-related Beatabet and takes the form of a central hub for the streaming, mixing and collating of performances from across White Night.

VJs will remix audio and visuals, included those brought in on smartphones from the public. Hit this first and see what you like from the information coming in. (JK)

ALTERNATIVE VILLAGE FETE Old Steine Gardens

Contrasting the Metahub is another outdoor commission, an urban take on the ultimate country community event.

Scheduling it at night ought to give it a very different feel, the organisers suggesting a “licence to delve into the darker side of folk”. Expect artistic twists on tea and cake, games and country dancing. (JK)

NUIT BLANCHE/ LA LUNE DES PIRATES Prince Albert/Pavilion Theatre

It wouldn’t be a Brighton event without some bands playing and with these two events we get the best of Brighton and Amiens. The Albert hosts bands from France’s La Lunes Des Pirates venue and our own Bleeding Hearts and Numbskull.

Meanwhile the former bring some of their fave local Amiens bands to the absinthe bar-themed Pavilion Theatre. (JK)

PIANO TRAIL City wide

A great success last year – the idea of placing upright pianos around the city is inspired. Kids can make a racket with their fists, cack-handed amateurs

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can pick out a tune and if you’re lucky you’ll get to hear some truly talented show-offs playing everything from boogie woogie to a Tchaikovsky concerto. (SC)

ONE-MINUTE MANIFESTOS Fabrica

You know what’s wrong with the world right now?! We’re sure you do, and if you can articulate it into a one-minute manifesto then you can have it megaphoned throughout the night outside Fabrica, rather than just rabbitting in the kebab house like you normally do. (JK)

MIDNIGHT HALF MARATHON Details at bhf.org.uk/whitenight

Running is pretty boring in the daytime, but throw in the collapsed-drunk West Street steeplechase and the muggerpacemaker sprint section and you’re onto a winner. In all seriousness it’s in aid of the British Heart Foundation and promises to be wonderfully otherworldly. (JK)

URBAN FUTURE GOLF Brighthelm Centre Gardens

Now we’re not massive fans of golf but we’ve been right up for an urban version since seeing Spike Jonze’s Dinosaur Jr video.

This will surely be even better because as well as teaching us how to play, the city-based course finishes on an artistdesigned hole. (JK)

DAWN CHORUS Hove Bandstand

What better way to see the sunrise (at 5.30am) than at the ornate bandstand to the beautiful, delicate sounds of Nordic Giants. If you don’t have a ‘moment’ you’re made of stone. It’s organised by Playgroup so there might be some other surprises too with visuals as arresting as the music. (JK)

WHEN: Sat 29th WHERE: All across the city WEB: whitenightnuitblanche.com

BREAKFAST IN PARADISE Hove Centre

If you’ve made it through the whole night then you’re probably getting a bit hungry (or not hungry at all if you’ve been on the drugs), so how better to see in sunrise than a breakfast celebrating Black History Month. African treats will be washed down with music on the harp-like Kora. (JK)

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OXJAM

RAISING MONEY WITH ROCK WORDS BY NICK COQUET, TOM JENKINSON, JAMES KENDALL, HAYLEY PEARCE

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Everyone knows Oxfam – pretty much the biggest and widest-reaching hungry-helping organisation out there.

But folk who go to gigs and clubs aren’t always awake when Oxfam shops are open, which used to mean a sizeable chunk of young society weren’t on the giving radar. Until, that is, Oxjam came along – plugging in and plugging the generational gap.

FranClassic give a youthful take on a time-tested formula.

Their relaxed attitudes and a penchant for cheeky cover versions will have you either singing or spitting along in no time at all. (TJ)

A month of fundraising gigs and clubs, Oxjam is now in its fifth year, having raised more than £1.5 million in total to date.

There’s a nationwide programme of events listed over at Oxfam.org.uk/Oxjam – check here for dates and venues.

Here’s a selection of Brighton highlights.

One of the stars of the Playgroup Festival, Kovak’s mix of electro pop and classic indie has been picking up fans for them for years. Wonderfully energetic live, Annelies Van De Velde has a real stage presence and the boys in the band back her up with skills and personality too. Get ready to dance. (JK)

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Named after a song by The Doors, Angels And Sailors play their own brand of blues-infused rock which is fun and very easy on the ear. Their live performance is propelled by an effortlessly cool yet energetic onstage presence, and the song ‘Love Cup’ is a winner with its big chorus and a hearty harmonica section. (HP)

GOLDEN STRANDs

The Golden Strands’ debut EP showed them toying and experimenting with all manner of samples and synths to find their sound. With it now found, they’re leaving their beloved Isle Of Wight behind to get the people of Brighton on the dancefloor with their electro infused alt-pop. Let’s not disappoint them. (TJ)

FRANCLASSIC

Two guitars and a drum-kit – a typical indie set-up. Two guitars and a beatboxer – not quite so typical. Much like their percussionist,

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KOVAK •

ROYAL BLOOD

One of the most powerful three-pieces we’ve heard in a while, we kind of came across these fellas by accident while checking out the Brighton bands we didn’t already know.

‘Leaving’, the only song so far on their Facebook page, is a massive riff-laden rock beast of a tune. Royal Blood: send us more please. Reader: go see Royal Blood. (NC)

EXQUISITE NOISE Festival

Another local mini-fest going on this month is Exquisite Noise, run by local label Numbskull HQ and featuring artists from their roster and beyond. It’s three days of cool gigs in the Albert, from Thursday 13th, starring Jennifer Left, Black Black Hills and the return of The Half Sisters, plus many others in a four bands a night bill. There’s also a 16-track sampler that will be given away to the first 50 people to buy tickets in Rounder. Check out tinyurl.com/ExNoise.

FOXES! •

Having spent much of last year toiling on the road, Foxes! are back with an arsenal of new indie pop ammo. We’ve heard some of the evidence already in the form of an EP released a little while back, and this show is a timely reminder to acquaint yourself with the band’s high-energy performance. (NC)

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BRIGHTON’S BEST NEW MUSIC WORDS BY IAN CHAMBERS, NICK COQUET, JESSICA MARSHALL MCHATTIE Photo by shane hawkins

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SINGLE: DAUWD • What’s There (Pictures Music)

In a world where everyone’s a bedroom producer it takes something special to stand out, and this relative newcomer to the electronic music scene does that with aplomb.

Breathtakingly warm and organic, this track samples fingerclicks and breathy sighs, which layer into a rich and enveloping soundscape. The notable complexity and depth of Dauwd’s tunes place him far from his contemporaries, and if ‘What’s There’ and the two other tracks on this vinyl release are anything to judge by, we’ve hit gold. (JMM)

ALBUM: MARY HAMPTON •

Folly (Teaspoon)

The follow-up to her first album proper in 2008, the powerful ‘My Mother’s Children’, ‘Folly’ sees Mary Hampton once again retreat to almost medieval songcrafting traditions. The sophistication of the soft acoustic folk arrangements aside, the songs across this bewitching collection sound like they’re steeped in history and tradition. But that’s not to suggest it’s without vitality or isn’t contemporary – this is the most interesting folk new release we’ve heard in a long while. (NC)

EP: I AM AMITY •

I Spy (Bleep Music)

Opening this six-track EP/album is ‘I Spy’, which builds from a tribal art rock intro to a fixed-stare mantra that’s as much Polly Harvey as Pope Joan. As an opening track to any CD it’s a bold statement of intent, but as a suggestion of what’s to follow it’s surprisingly off-piste. For the remainder the band revert to jaunty, almost cabaret folk and masterful pop balladry, styles that suit the soft melancholy of the vocal to a tee and bring out the best in the band. A promising introduction. (NC)

ALBUM: KIDDA •

Hotel Radio (Skint)

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it’s always summer in Kidda’s world – the sonics of brooding melancholy are anathema here. This is non-stop irrepressible sunshine – an almost evangelical happiness bounding like a Labrador pup through every song. Hints of Go! Team retro and Fatboy party vibes make for lots of feelgood fun. (NC)

EP: THROWING SNOW • Shadower/Sanctum (Sneaker Social Club)

Throwing Snow’s new EP is a 90s-inspired take on dubstep, which sees him utilising old house sounds and snippets of soulful vocal to create ‘Shadower,’ a nostalgic masterpiece which will stir the memories of anyone who remembers rave music before it was pre-cursed with ‘nu.’ Weaving through percussive basslines and surging melodies, ‘Shadower’ takes the listener on a voyage of rediscovery we didn’t know we’d forgotten. B-side ‘Sanctum’ is a heavier beast, darkly atmospheric and strangely addictive. (JMM)

ALBUM: VARIOUS

Home Taping Is Music - Volume 2 (Woodland Recordings•)

The second instalment of the ‘Home Taping Is Music’ series compiled by the good folks at Woodland Recordings brings together 15 tracks by a whole host of artists. Included are the likes of Jane Bartholomew, The Great Park and Mute Swimmer; with highlights being Thirty Pounds of Bone’s sorrowful lament ‘Homefaring’ and the hauntingly beautiful folk ballad ‘Fare Thee Gentleman’ by Lucy Parnell. It’s limited to just 100 copies, all lovingly hand-stamped and packaged, so best get in there quick before they all go. (IC)

EP: VC •

The Trick (Donky Pitch)

Local label Donky Pitch are committed to bringing innovative electronica to Brighton and their third release is by Helsinkiborn VC, one of the best skweee producers around. That’s electronic-based hip hop to the uninitiated: entirely instrumental, featuring clean, simple basslines overlaid with funky, raw synths; a mix of vintage instruments with progressive rhythms. Six-track EP ‘The Trick’ is testament to the versatility within the genre, and is alternately bass-heavy, as on ‘Kind of Bad’ and slow-building, as on glitch-fest ‘The Trick.’ (JMM)

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SOURCE Virgins: Doing Stuff For the first time

Stand-up Comedy WORDS BY REBECCA NORRIS

ILLUSTRATION BY DAN BOWDEN AT DANBOWDENDESIGN.CO.UK

The Reasons

I have always been thought of as funny. It might have had something to do with being an ugly teenager – you compensate.

I’m a frequent ranter, whether it’s about politics or the fact that you should never wear leggings like proper trousers, and I’m always being stopped (quite rudely) mid-flow and told I should be a stand-up comic.

During university I nearly signed up for open mic nights on a fortnightly basis, chickening out just as frequently. I was not the best public speaker, which put me off, and the thought of performing in front of a crowd of my inebriated peers filled me with dread. I remember giving an English presentation about Roald Dahl at school and freezing for two solid minutes out of the allocated five minutes. Absolute nightmare.

“I started to speak – nobody booed or threw anything...”

After uni I decided to train as a barrister, although for reasons I won’t bore you with I decided not pursue it as a career. It did, however, leave me with some pretty solid public speaking skills and a complete lack of shame. I was finally ready.

The Experience

When you tell people you’re going to do stand-up, you find out that all of your friends can form a six degrees of separationtype link from themselves to an established comic. It’s one of life’s little known phenomena and consequently I had contacts coming out of my ears. Obviously I am not about to go around Facebooking professional comedians I don’t know. That could come across as bit stalker-ish. Quite apart from that I had no idea what I would actually ask them; maybe, ‘How do I be funny?’ Don’t think so. I decided to go it alone.

I found a suitable comedy night, the Top Banana Comedy Club at the Rose Hill Tavern near London Road. I had never been to the night before so I had no idea what I would be letting myself in for.

On the day of the gig, I was a state – nothing I had written down was at all funny. I stared at my scrawled notes (made a week previously and barely looked at since) for ages. What did they even say? How could I speak in public without having somebody to call Your Honour? What the flip was I doing? The latter, in capitals followed by four question marks, was my Facebook status as I made my way to the venue.

When I arrived at the pub my fears about performing were replaced with the sudden, intense and irrational fear of sitting in the wrong place, squeezing past tightly packed tables to the stage and then having to explain why I thought I should sit with the audience. The crowd was pretty tiny, most of them were my supporters so this fear was as insane as it sounds.

I eventually found the other comedians who were due to

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perform. They gave me helpful advice such as ‘just cry, that usually gets a laugh. So does nakedness’, but they were friendly and put me at ease. I was third on the bill so it gave me the opportunity to watch some of the other comedians and get a feel for what the audience was expecting. I quickly learned that while they were funny and had obviously done this before, none of them were exactly Michael McIntyre.

When it was my turn to go on, the compère gave me an excellent introduction, which may as well have consisted of the words ‘please be nice to this girl, she has no idea what she’s doing’ so the audience were prepared for total failure. They had their pity laughs ready.

All of my supporters had bought me drinks, and had lined them up in a nice row, so I could plunge myself into oblivion as soon as got off stage; such was their concern.

When I finally went on, I wasn’t nervous at all, the two glasses of wine I’d drunk before taking the mic helped, as did the knowledge that in five minutes it would all be over. I started to speak and nobody booed or threw anything. Amazingly, people laughed – genuinely – and I found the confidence to ad lib. I managed to remember my whole five-minute set and didn’t even hit myself in the face taking the microphone out of the stand. The organiser was very concerned that I hadn’t practised that bit.

It was over very quickly. Backstage, one of my fellow comedians (I’m a comedian now, you see) fist-bumped me and I was chuffed to bits when act number four on the bill asked me ‘Was that really your first gig?’

I was then able to relax and watch the rest of the show. The standard was varied but over all not bad for a free gig in a pub.

The headliner, Rosie Wilby, was hilarious and quite rightly showed everybody how it’s done. By that time I was nicely tipsy but I was still asking my entourage, ‘Are you sure it was any good?’

Was it worth it?

In a word, yes. It’s exactly like anything you do for an adrenalin rush; really scary beforehand then afterwards you want to do it again immediately. Comedy is, however, safer than throwing yourself off a cliff or out of a plane. I still can’t believe I did it and cannot get over the fact that I didn’t suck at it.

Even if it had gone really badly I think it still would have been worth going through the fear. I had plenty of opportunity to back out but knew that I would regret not doing it much more than I would have regretted being booed off stage and crying in a toilet. Plus I got to take home a flyer with my name on it.

Since it went so well I might even do it again, I hear that Rabbit In The Headlights at Upstairs at Three and Ten is a good gig, so maybe I’ll give that a go.

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

Despite the fact that Grace works in one of the best vintage shops in town – Tramp on Trafalgar Street – she’s most likely to be found rummaging about in charity shops.

“There’s something very satisfying about getting something from a charity shop,” Grace says, and she’s right.

The golden days of finding a whole history of fashion for pennies might be over, but there are still gems to be found among the rails bulging with last season’s Primark and George. And you get the bonus of no one else turning up in the same outfit, especially if you customise your purchases like model and violinist Grace. As the latest round of austerity measures bites into our wallets, there’s never been a better time to buy a sewing machine. With great chazzer finds becoming rarer, you have to make the good items fit.

Makeup “I always wear vibrant lipstick. Personally I think, more is more. I don’t feel like I could ever go subtle, so I always wear quite a lot of makeup.”

Top from Topshop “The lace is from a net curtain I got from a charity shop which I made into a collar, and added some ribbon and a charity shop brooch.

I customise a lot of my own clothes.”

Belt from charity shop “I have to wear stuff that fits me on the waist because I’ve got quite a curvy figure and I like the fact that this belt is quite chunky.”

Skirt from a friend “I’ve got a couple of skirts underneath it to pouf it out a bit. I like that it’s a bit 50s.”

Shoes from New Look “They’re just a nice staple item to have” Watch from great grandmother “I got it when she died. It doesn’t work any more unfortunately but I’ve got used to wearing it. I wear pearls and brooches quite a lot, but I don’t really wear any other jewellery.”

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100 PEOPLE WHO MAKE BRIGHTON WHAT IT IS NO.23 JILL EDWARDS words and photo by james kendall From running the UK’s best stand-up workshop to the Comic Boom Comedy Club, Jill Edwards is banging Brighton’s funny bone.

Your comedy workshops are extremely successful – can you make anyone funny?

I believe everyone’s already funny. If you’ve ever laughed – you have a ‘sense’ of humour. The word ‘sense’ means ‘an understanding of’ and ‘a feeling for’. Everyone already has that ‘understanding’ and ‘feeling’ for comedy. People just don’t tend to develop that particular sense unless they go into the comedy business. I show them how to access and develop their latent comedy skills. People can believe they’re not funny at all, which is usually what’s funny about them. It’s important to say that while everyone is capable of being funny, very few people are capable of being funny for a living.

You’ve set some amazing people on the right road – who’ve been your big successes?

They include Shappi Khorsandi, Hal Cruttenden, Shazia Mirza, Simon Evans, Francesca Martinez, Jimmy Carr, and his agent. Brighton successes include, Being Human creator Toby Whithouse, BBC New Comedy Award Winner 2011 Angela Barnes and Argumental’s new team captain Seann Walsh.

What’s the difference between being funny with your mates and funny onstage?

A shared idea of ‘what’s funny’ is probably one of the reasons why you’re all mates. Making your mates laugh in a pub is a world apart from performing well-crafted, concise, original comedy material on stage to an audience of total strangers. Your mates aren’t paying you money to make them laugh.

What qualities do you look for in a new act for your Comic Boom night?

Originality is key. If you go to a standard new act night there’s usually one, maybe two acts that stand out because they were brilliant. I put six of those stand-out acts on a bill each month with a headline circuit comic and a top MC. They need to entertain an upbeat, fun, friendly regular audience of around 300 who love original, interesting, fresh new comedy.

What’s your favourite joke?

The Government.

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KRATER COMEDY CLUB Thurs 7pm; Fri 7pm; Sat 6pm, 7pm; Sun 7pm Komedia, 44-47 Gardner Street (01273) 647100

THE PLACE

For most of the establishments we review, their menu is the main attraction. Restaurants sensibly prioritise in this manner.

But even eating in places whose primary function isn’t necessarily feeding you should still be a decent experience.

Highly regarded for the acts they put on every weekend, is the Komedia’s Krater Comedy Club grub laughable too?

THE MEAL

Firstly, be aware that the kitchen closes when the acts are about to come on. We arrived just after 7pm for an 8 o’clock show and ordered straight away, kind of just in time. Despite the vastness of the room the food came very quickly – light

bites/starters arrive with mains unless you prespecify you’d like them as starters. The Thai cod & prawn fishcake (£3.95) was crisp and spicy, with a decent chutney of tomato, red pepper and lime. Sussex beer battered fish and chips as a main (£9.60) was a good size and the batter was done to a tee, with a homemade tartare sauce setting it off perfectly. Chips, also available separately for £2.95, are well cooked and chunky. The cheeseburger (£9.60) was as thick as we’ve had for a while though the focaccia needed either more or less toasting, while the chicken wings were a bit disappointing – meaty but a little anaemic. The salad was delicious and loaded with feta though we did ask for no dressing, alas to no avail.

THE VERDICT

Because of the timing of the evening, the meal would feel a bit rushed if you’re not there in plenty of time to eat. But given sufficient table time, the food here is very serviceable indeed. It’s perhaps a little pricey, but you can get a meal deal with tickets and food for £25, which seems fair. As you might expect, the food plays second fiddle to the comedy – Jimmy Carr used to play here on the way up, so they’re good at picking names from the mountains of up-and-comers. On the night we went, Loretta Main’s intense musical comedy had them rolling in the aisles.

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We were sat with some strangers at our table and even they didn’t ask when we started photographing our plates.

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A BRIGHTON COMEDY satire INSTITUTION SINCE 2000, FEATURING WRITER, DIRECTOR AND PERFORMER MARK BRAILSFORD WORDS BY NICK COQUET PHOTO BY JAMES KENDALL

11 years on from The Treason Show starting, how has the climate of satirical comedy changed?

It changes with the winds of the political scene – Blair and Bush going was perhaps a golden age. Now with the coalition it’s like shooting fish in a barrel – it’s almost too easy sometimes. But also there’s other news that changes things.

The whole decade since 9/11 was a pretty amazing period of history. The whole Bin Laden thing, the wars – these have been horrendous things that also perhaps need to be lightened up for people to deal with.

How did you deal with 9/11?

We were in rehearsal and I was getting texts saying World War III had started. So for obvious reasons we junked the whole show. We left rehearsals, went into the William IV and watched with everyone else, all thinking the world has just changed immensely. You can’t just go in and take it on head-on and take the piss, it’s just too harsh. But then everybody needed to be cheered up in another way, with silly stuff and lots of songs.

You could feel the audience thinking, “What are they going to do?” We did acknowledge it; rather than just do a joke about it I tweaked a song, ‘The Times They Are A-Changing’.

When you’re watching things like that on the news, how soon can it become material?

It’s not an exact science. There’s a phrase, tragedy plus time… (equals comedy). You go by instinct and feel, and just try that line. The thing that still makes me laugh my head off when we look back at a show is the Diana joke reaction. We still get a “whooo!” but it’s become a pantomime reaction now. We’ve moved on from ‘it’s too soon’, but people still think they’d better boo a Diana joke; it’s funny because we’re pretending to be offended. Jokes take on these different phases and I love that journey.

Is anything beyond the pale for satire?

It’s about finding the right angle. With Diana – after she was tragically killed there was this point where it had been a few months and the conspiracy theories were flying around. We didn’t want to have a go at the royals or her kids so it was the press, wallowing in it and glorifying these conspiracies. Just sickening,

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some of it. So that’s what we had a go at. “Was it MI5 who killed her? Mossad? No, it was the florists!” So you’re still using it as a topical source of material but it’s a safe way of going about it.

Have you ever tried to translate The Treason Show to TV? Yes, but apparently we’re too controversial. A young producer – he was about 12 – came to see us in about… 05 or 07? There was an election on anyway. So we lightened it up a bit to make it more commercial but then it turned out he couldn’t make the April show and was apparently coming for May’s. So we thought, we’re not doing that again for him. It’s a topical sketch show, in election time. We’re going to do a lot of electionbased material. He said to us afterwards, “It’s a bit… political.”

I wanted to hit him. TV is so sensitive these days it’s just not worth thinking about.

You don’t only play in Brighton, you’ve taken the show on tour nationally.

And internationally – we had an amazing run in Berlin. But we have reduced the touring in general; a lot of the venues have made it financially difficult to do it now. And we cut back so we could keep it more of a Brighton show, moving to the Dome.

We’re touring next week though; we’ve built up a few venues that we go back to over the years. Places like the unglamoroussounding Old Town Hall in Hemel Hempstead. We’ll go to places like that and tailor the show to them, and they love that.

What’s getting the best audience reaction at the moment?

[Laughs] The Lib Dems. If the think-tank people wanted to see what people really think of the Lib Dems they should come and sit in on The Treason Show. The Coalition is just… it’s kind of become too easy but I can’t help it.

People are almost sleepwalking through it and not realising what’s happening.

Anything we do with Cameron and Nick Clegg as his lapdog – just big laughs NEXT EVENT: Fri 2nd-Sat 3rd every time. It’s an open goal for us.

December, Pavilion Theatre Basically being Cameron’s fag – people WEB: treasonshow.co.uk go, ‘Yes!’ That’s exactly what it looks 10TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL: like. I mean there’s obviously more to it tinyurl.com/treasonshow than that really, but yes, that’s what everyone perceives it to be.

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saturday 1ST

ANCIENT MARINER Tracy Sullivan Jazz and country singer songwriter 8pm £free AUDIO Warehouse: Reset! House and techno club night with Mex from Blackgrass playing rare grooves upstairs 11pm £7/5/free BEACHIGOGO The R&B Lounge R&B DJs (in the main room) 11pm £6/5; Good Times Remember them? Maybe the feel-good retro tunes will jog your memory (in the White Room) 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BAR Unplugged: Rocket Dogs Live acoustic duo 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Deviant Rock and metal club 9pm £5/2 BLACK LION Soul Casserole A melting pot of hot funk beats and soul grooves 8.30pm £free BLIND TIGER Malarki Farewell gig for Brighton funk band 7pm £2/free BRIGHTON BALLROOM Pop Kraft Pop tunes and cheeky cabaret with Boogaloo Stu and crew 7pm £8/6 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Replica Come and take your goth medicine 9pm £free CASABLANCA Funky Fiesta: The Devotions, SouthCoasters Soul and Motown club with a live band Time tbc £7 COALITION Elastic: Charles Green, Milton, George Nunn Big beat freshers’ special 11pm £5; Blow After Party: Vincent Manganaro, Carlos Riz, Aaron Palaez It never stops 3am £7/5/4 CONCORDE2 A Skylit Drive, I Set My Friends On Fire, Woe Is Me, Sleeping With Sirens Post-hardcore band from California 7pm £10; Heroes: Carl Barat, The Valentines, The Big Pink, Teen Creeps, Heroes DJS Camden club launches a new indie night 11pm £12/10 CUBE Simply House House DJs Time tbc £free DIGITAL Live & Unleashed A new monthly night with dancers, acrobats and wrestlers - as well as bands and DJs 11pm £10/8/5 DOCTOR BRIGHTON’S Sexy Saturday: DJ Tony B 9.30pm £free DRUID’S ARMS Lantern Fayre Afterparty DJ Kin;aesthetic play beats from around the world for the Level revellers 10pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Monster House 11am; Melancholia 3.45pm/8.30pm; Sing-A-Long-A Grease 11pm £12/15 EASY BAR Frenglish Connection, DJ RudeBen Live music and DJs 8pm £free FIDDLER’S ELBOW Saturday Sizzlers: DJ Russ Rockwell Funk rock and psych soul 9pm £free FISHBOWL Jeff Daniels Soul and hip hop DJ 9pm £free FITZHERBERT’S Negative Pegasus, Soft Arrows,

Rooks, Jimi Swells & The Long Range Forecast, M.U.F.F. DJs Surf, psych and garage night 8pm £free FORTUNE OF WAR Ed’s Party: Mufflewuffle, Foolish Felix & Nick The Record If you ever went to a Brighton acid house party back in the day, these guys were probably there 9pm £free FRIEND’S MEETING HOUSE Brighton Craft Fair Locally made art and gifts 11am £free FUNKYFISH The Funkyfish Club Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10pm £6/3.50 GLOBE Basement Party Brighton’s worst kept secret basement 2nd birthday party 9pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Digitalis, Tenek A special two-set 25th Anniversary show of local electronica 7.30pm £6; Tru Thoughts Club night with DJ Rob Luis 11pm £free H-BAR MUZIKA Doing It For The Kids: Seamua Haji, Kate Wildblood, Queen Josephine, Will Dawson, Gary Eeks, Ash Huntington, Phil Speller, Fergus, Howie, Echo Vacio, Nillionaire$, Dave King, Joe Wilkes, David H, Amrick Channa, Osaro, Dirty Mitts Feel good house party raising cash for children’s charities 8pm £4 HONEY Hat Club: Pascal Tokar, Jerry Roxx, Damien Stone, Vince Frimpong, Hardworx, Twisted Sounds, Jon Moore House hits and hats 10.30pm £10/8/5 HOTEL DU VIN Brighton Oktoberfest Beer festival Details tbc HOPE DRUGS: A Day At The Dogs, Tyrannosaurus Dead, Glass Sines, Bat Country, Jackals New indie rock band night 8pm £4/3 HYDRANT DOWN The Devil Wrays, Johnny And The Deathrays The Devil Wrays have all the best psychobilly tunes 8pm £free HYDRANT UP 999 Pop punk from one of the few ‘77 bands to catch on in the States 7.30pm £10/9 JUBILEE SQUARE Greek Dance: Kalamus Trio, Lyra Greek Dancers Costumed troupes perform traditional dances from ancient Greece (Part of Brighton Early Music Festival) 2pm £free

KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club: Addy Van Der Borgh, Dave Johns, Tom Rosenthal, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 7pm/8pm/10.30pm £7-18 KOMEDIA STUDIO The Maydays Improv group turn your secrets into musical comedy 7.30pm £8/6; CBGBs Club night playing the best bands from the famous New York venue 11pm £3 KOMEDIA UP Little Red Puppetry and live music for 3-7 year olds 2pm/4pm £8.50/6.50 LEVEL The Lantern Fayre: Barulho, The Tracy Sullivan

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Boogaloo All-day outdoor event with live bands, art stalls, games, workshops and theatre 12noon £free LIFE Hold Up! Long-running and much-loved indie night kept afloat by the influx of fresh-faced students 11pm £5 LOLA LO Zombie Nation Where the dancefloor is never dead 8pm £10/7/6 MARLBOROUGH THEATRE Cherry Pop Cheese and 80s trash with DJ Fondue Inferno 9pm £free MESMERIST Juke Joint Jamboree Vintage dancefloor gems from the days of jive and jazz 9pm £free MUCKY DUCK Sizzle & Pop! Rock&roll and 60s soul 9pm £free NEW VENTURE THEATRE The Servant Period play about a manservant who subverts the class system through meticulous obedience 7.45pm £9 PAVILION THEATRE African Night Fever African music and dance to mark the launch of Black History Month 8pm £10/8 PAV TAV Back To The Future Retro tunes from before you were born 11pm £3/2 PRINCE ALBERT Loudaphone, Das Fenster Live bands 8.30pm £4/3 RIKI TIK Schtumm!: Neal Lewis & Sam Watts Disco and underground house 9pm £tbc SALLIS BENNEY THEATRE The Drawing Circus Life drawing and live music 1pm £10-25 SIDEWINDER Gareth Stephens Soul and funk DJ 9pm £free STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Polarsets Upbeat tropical indie 7pm £5; Punk Rock Karaoke Hitting the right note was never what punk was about anyway 11pm £5 THEATRE ROYAL Three Days In May Political thriller about Churchill, Chamberlain and the outbreak of WW2 2.30pm/7.45pm £18.50-23.50 THOMAS KEMP DJ Bianca Rock&roll and swing tunes 9pm £free THREE & TEN Red Brick Comedy Club Stand-up comedy done the proper way - in front of a brick wall (upstairs) 10pm £10/8; Matt Barker Magnificently turned out DJ with impeccable hair (downstais) 10pm £free TUBE Paradis Dance music party from the 13 Monsters team 11pm £5/4 VICTORY Up Against It Born Bad DJs play an assortment of punky trash Time tbc £free VOLKS Auxilliary DNB: Distorted Minds, Majistrate,

Callide, Dangerous, Simon-D, Dusty, Equation, Double-J, Skitz, Jay-T, Kerizma, Remo, Legacy, Summit, Outline, Steffi Graft, Threts, Matty B, Jesta, Chazanova, Danny D Drum&bass night 11pm £5 WEST HILL TAVERN As You Were Vs Bitter Disko DJ clash emulating a ruckus between a 1950s Teddy boy, a punk rocker and a mutant disco dancer 9pm £free

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ABOVE AUDIO DJ Verity Mayes Time tbc £free AUDIO Substance Underground electronic music with tribal drumming 10pm £3/2 BELUSHI’S BAR Now That’s What I Call A Party What did you call it before? 9pm £free BLACK LION Live & Swingin’ Gypsy Jazz 8pm £free BLIND TIGER Smoke And Mirrors Masters of magic, spells and illusion 7pm £5 BRUNSWICK Lianne Carroll Live jazz 8pm £12 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK The Geekest Link Star Trek might have featured TV’s first inter-racial kiss, but which B-movie had the first inter-species rape scene? 8.30pm £1 COALITION Richmond Fontaine Alt country from Oregon 7.30pm £14/12 CORN EXCHANGE Frock Me! Vintage fashion fair 11am £5 CUBE Chilled Sundays Laid back grooves Time tbc £free DOME Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra Barry Wordsworth conducts Beethoven and Brahms 2.45pm £9-32 DUKE OF NORFOLK Live Music Night 9pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Melancholia 4pm/9pm FIDDLER’S ELBOW Sham-Rock Open Mic 8.30pm £free FOUNTAIN HEAD Reggae Roasts Chilled reggae beats Time tbc £free GLOBE Rockoustic Open Jam Live acoustic music 9pm

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£free GREEN DOOR STORE Sunday Service Live music 5pm £free; Green Door Blues Blues band and DJs 10pm £free HONEY Sundays At The Honey If your house was this sexy you’d never go outdoors 11pm £3/2/free HOPE High Hopes, These City Lights, Decodes Energetic pop punk band 7.30pm £3 HOTEL DU VIN Brighton Oktoberfest Beer festival Details tbc HYDRANT DOWN Steady Man Band, Breath, Chris Moon Blues funk band 8pm £free KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club: Addy Van Der

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Stand-up comedy 8pm £11.50/6.50 KOMEDIA STUDIO Short Fuse Stories: Ian Breckon A night of short stories, flash fiction and all manner of wordy wonders - this month’s theme is ‘Feast & Fetish’ 7.30pm £6/4.50 KOMEDIA UP Bent Double: Shazia Mirza Zoe Lyons hosts a night of alternative comedy acts 7.30pm £10.50/8.50 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 LECONFIELD Boozy Bingo Old is the new young 6pm £1 LOLA LO Encore Launch of new student night 9pm £5/4/3 MARLBOROUGH THEATRE Pop-Up-Sunday: Andrea Kenny Live acoustic music 7pm £free NEPTUNE Nick Stephenson Acoustic singer songwriter 8.30pm £free NEW VENTURE THEATRE The Servant Period play about a manservant who subverts the class system through meticulous obedience 2pm £9 OUCH! BAR Epic Jam Session Unburden yourself with a ten minute drum solo. No drums? Use your body! 8pm £free PAVILION THEATRE Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion Country rock with a psychedelic edge from Woody’s granddaughter and her hubby 7.30pm £15/12 PRINCE ALBERT The Queers, The Razorblades Pop punk legends, like The Ramones with harmonies 8pm £9 RANELAGH Mike Ross Live blues and rock 8.30pm £free RIKI TIK Riki Fliks Film night showing classic movies and new shorts Details tbc SALLIS BENNEY THEATRE Sain Zahoor Sufi street musician from Pakistan 2.30pm £15/12 SIGNALMAN Open Mic Night 8.15pm £free THOMAS KEMP Sunday Afternoon Jazz Jazz. In the afternoon. On a Sunday 4pm £free VOLKS Chiki Liki Tua, DJ Love, DJ Rado Slovakian ska band with an experimental and humorous bent 8pm £5

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ABOVE AUDIO Banana Island 10pm £2 ANCIENT MARINER Quiz Night 8pm £1 BELUSHI’S BAR Now That’s What I Call A Party What did you call it before? 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Fallout Live rock bands 9pm £2/1 BLIND TIGER The Mash Motown and vintage funk night 7pm £free BOM-BANE’S Old Sledge Virginia string band injecting new life into old-time hillbilly music 7pm £8/6 BRUNSWICK Open Mic Night 8.30pm £free CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Movie Bar So you wanna make it in the glamorous world of film? Go shmooze with the movers and makers and other out-of-work actors. Includes film screenings, Q&A with directors and a movie quiz 7.30pm £free COALITION Trash Mondays Filthy tunes for students and layabouts alike 10pm £5/3/free CUBE Hoi Polloi Northern soul for the masses Time tbc £free DRUID’S ARMS Quizageddon! The only pub quiz to have a Lionel Richie award 8pm £1 DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Melancholia 3pm/5.30pm; Emmy The Great Catchy and charismatic anti folk 9pm £tbc EXCHANGE INN Pub Quiz Time tbc £1 FOUNTAIN HEAD Open Mic Night 9pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Metal Mondays: Shrine 69, Meadows Full metal racket 7pm £free GREENHOUSE BAR Open Mic 9.30pm £free HAUNT Coconut College Dumbed-down party music 11pm £1 HOBGOBLIN Cheeky Pub Quiz: Freshers’ Special! 8pm £1 HOPE The Chevin Anthemic and synth-packed rock band 8pm £6 HOTEL DU VIN Brighton Foodie Awards 2011 Brighton & Hove Food And Drink Festival comes to a close Details tbc HYDRANT DOWN Sice Live music 8pm £free HYDRANT UP Bastions, Kerouac, Good Time Boy Energetic DIY punk band from Wales 6.30pm £6 KOMEDIA UP Pete & The Pirates English indie rock band 7.30pm £8 LIFE Jailbait Hits from the 90s for those too young to remember the first time 11pm £2 LOLA LO Fat Poppadaddys Student indie night 9pm £3 LORD NELSON Tim Broadbent Acoustic country and folk guitarist 8.30pm £free MARLBOROUGH THEATRE Life Cycles Life drawing, live music and spoken word 7.30pm £donation PRINCE ALBERT The Bleeding Hearts Club Downbeat and melancholic acoustic music 8pm £4 SIGNALMAN Pub Quiz 8pm £1 STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Where Is My Mind? Music quiz (in the bar) 8pm £1; Modern Romance Brand new indie night (in the club) 10.30pm £3/2/1 THEATRE ROYAL End Of The Rainbow Musical theatre based on the last days of Judy Garland 7.45pm £23.50-28.50

THOMAS KEMP Thru The Alphabet Quiz Night 8pm £1 VOLKS Strictly Reggae Dancehall, roots, revival 11pm £5/4.50

tuesday 4TH

BELUSHI’S BAR Totalled On Tuesday! Pop and dance 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW DJ Star DJ competition open to all 9pm £free BLACK LION Hit The Decks Open decks spin-off (book a slot online) 9pm £free BRUNSWICK Jazz Jam Open session with house band 8pm £free COALITION Full Volume If your bass was this filthy you’d have to take it back to the fishmongers 10.30pm £4/3/2 CONCORDE2 Brooke Fraser Storytelling folk pop singer songwriter 7pm £15 DIGITAL CU Next Tuesday It’ll teach the universities to timetable lectures for Wednesday mornings 11pm £4/3 DUKE OF NORFOLK Open Mic 9pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA One Day 11am FIDDLER’S ELBOW Quizness Time Are you a pub quiz whizz, or bit of a half-wit? 8pm £1 GLOBE Basement Cinema Underground films, comfy seats and free popcorn 8pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Nedry, Jacked In The Box Haunting soudscapes from dubstep indie band 7.30pm £5; Hard Times They can take our disposable income, but they’ll never take our nowave disco! 10pm £free HONEY LMFAO Tuesday It’s good that someone else finds R&B innately amusing 10.30pm £4/3/2 HOPE Slip Jam:B: Northern Structure, Reskabar Hip hop battleground for Brighton b-boys, hosted by Hines and Bizy (upstairs) 8.30pm £free HYDRANT DOWN The Lanes, Sandweaver Indie bands 8pm £free LATEST MUSIC BAR Papercuts: Catherine Ireton, Jules Craig, White Tiger, Vicky Tremain & Becca Dyer Excerpts of new material and works-in-progress by musicians, actors and storytellers 8pm £3 LECONFIELD Tuesday Teaser Pub quiz 9pm £1 LIFE Drop Out Student night that’s almost as likely to ruin your degree as Tory education policy 11pm £free LOLA LO Dirtee Laundry New venue for the long-running club night 10pm £6/4/2 LONDON UNITY Quiz Night Fun quiz with silly prizes 8pm £1 LORD NELSON General Knowledge Quiz Cash for questions 8.45pm £1 MESMERIST The Mesmerist Conjuring Consortium It could be a magical night 7.30pm £tbc MUCKY DUCK See You Next Tuesday Pub Quiz 8pm £1 NEW VENTURE THEATRE The Servant Period play about a manservant who subverts the class system through meticulous obedience 7.45pm £9 OLD MARKET MiniClicks Photography Talks: Murray Ballard Discussion event with award-winning photographer 6.30pm £free OPEN HOUSE Jazz Work Shop Open jazz session 8pm £tbc OUCH! BAR OMC! Open Mic Performers get a recording of their set and the chance of a paid gig 8pm £free PAV TAV Guerilla Rocks Club night for rock chicks, skater bois and indie kids 11pm £3/2/1 PAVILION THEATRE SOURCE New Music: Sophie Madeleine Brighton’s best bands chosen by Brighton’s best listings mag 7.30pm £4 PRINCE ALBERT They Might Swim, Jade Hopcroft Live bands 8.30pm £4/3 RED LION Challenging General Knowledge & Music Quiz 8pm £1 RIKI TIK Freaks DJs play poppy hip hop, poppy indie and pop 9pm £free SIDEWINDER Open Mic Night 8pm £free STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR New Look, Anneka Canadian electro pop duo seemingly unaware of the associations of their band name 7pm £5; I Hate Myself And Want To Party Grunge and riot grrrl night 10.30pm £3/2/1 THEATRE ROYAL End Of The Rainbow Musical theatre based on the last days of Judy Garland 7.45pm £23.50-28.50 THOMAS KEMP Poker Evening 8pm £tbc TUBE Below The Line New DJ night streamed live 11pm £2 VOLKS Play With Yourself: Mister Green, Decknician, Slick Rick, First Stance New electro house night 10pm £4/3/ free

wednesday 5TH

ABOVE AUDIO The Doctor’s Orders Seriously sick hip hop 10pm £free AUDIO SBTRKT Electronica remixes from the mystery masked man 7pm £9; Supercharged: Spectrasoul Drum&bass and breaks 11pm £tbc BELUSHI’S BAR Now That’s What I Call A Party What did you call it before? 9pm £free BLACK LION Last Post On The Bugle Open mic night 8.30pm £free BLIND TIGER Lethal Quizzle Pub quiz with zany rounds 8pm £1 BRUNSWICK Andy Walker, Matt Bonner, Ruse Live music 8pm £4/3 CASABLANCA Thanks For Your Request Funk and electro night with a live band Time tbc £2/1/free

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COALITION Chai Wallahs & Diplomats Of Sound Present: Yes Sir Boss, Tin Roots, Coda, JFB Cinematic rock with folky overtones 10pm £6/5 CUBE Cubed House to the power of three Time tbc £free DIGITAL The Poundance Throw a coin at the monkey and it will grind the organ for you 11pm £4/3/1 DRUID’S ARMS Change The Tempo! DJ plays international sounds 9pm £free DUKE OF NORFOLK Quiz Night 8pm £1 DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Drive 11am; Melancholia 4pm/9pm FISHBOWL The Mixer Men Reggae and hip hop DJ mashup 10pm £free FOUNTAIN HEAD Student Night Indie rock tunes Time tbc £free GLOBE Soundcloud Global Meetup Day 9pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Real Music Club: Kate Daisy Grant & Nick Pynn, In Cahoots, Simonne Weeks Quirky and playful pop singer teams up with multi-instrumental muso 8pm £6/5; The Jazz Store Live jazz with an open jam 11pm £free HAUNT Pon De Floor New chart and pop music night 11pm £2/1 HYDRANT DOWN Black State Highway, Loose Lips, Pirate Sky BIMM rockers 8pm £free LIFE Winning Alternative party music 11pm £3/2 LOLA LO Bora Bora Beach Party The summer nostalgia starts here 8pm £4/3/2 LONDON UNITY Open Mic 8.30pm £free MARLBOROUGH THEATRE Open Mic 8.30pm £free MASH TUN Tin Cup Collective Live funk and soul band 9pm £free MEDICINE CHEST Autumn Swing Party More of the electro swing thing 6.30pm £free MESMERIST Swing Ninjas Uptempo gypsy band 9pm £free MUCKY DUCK Band Night Live music 8pm £free NEW VENTURE THEATRE The Servant Period play about a manservant who subverts the class system through meticulous obedience 7.45pm £9 NORTHERN LIGHTS Prognosis Set the DJ controls for the heart of psychedelia 9pm £free OLD MARKET Albie Sachs In Conversation Simon Fanshawe interviews the judge and human rights activist who fought for gay rights in South African courts 7pm £10/8 OPEN HOUSE Safehouse Improvised live music 8pm £6/5 PHOENIX GALLERY Art Junky Arty jumble sale with craft stalls, DJs and face painting 11am £1/free PRINCE ALBERT William Tyler, Hiss Golden Messenger Alt country with the guitarist from Lamchop 8pm £8/7 RIKI TIK Hell On High Heels Sleazy rock and glam night 9pm £free SIDEWINDER Ice Cream Beats: Music To Melt To Hip hop night Details tbc STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Missing Andy Sky 1’s ‘Must Be The Music’ runners up 7.30pm £9/8 THEATRE ROYAL End Of The Rainbow Musical theatre based on the last days of Judy Garland 7.45pm £23.50-28.50 THOMAS KEMP Kev’s Open Mic 8.30pm £free VOLKS Switch Up Drum&bass and dubstep night 11pm £2/ free

thursday 6TH

ABOVE AUDIO Maxxi Soundsystem Nu disco DJs 10pm £free AUDIO Bastard Pop Musical mash-up 11pm £2/free BELUSHI’S BAR Karaoke 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW House Party It’s a house party, but it’s in a club so really it’s a club party, but they’re playing house music so it’s a house club, except they’re also playing electro 10pm £free BLACK LION Soul Casserole A melting pot of hot funk beats and soul grooves 8.30pm £free BLIND TIGER Maracatu Cruzeiro Do Sul, King Lagoon’s Flying Swordfish Dance Band Brazilian drumming and vocal troupe 7pm £4/free BRISTOL BAR Jack Kendon Live jazz 8pm £free BRUNSWICK Voodoo Funk: Kalakuta Millionaires, Soul Casserole DJs Funk night with live band 8pm £5 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Brighton Bike Night Weekly biker’s social - we’re talking leather, not lycra 7pm £free CASABLANCA Casa Jazz Jam Open jam for musicians to play as many fancy chords as they can 8pm £free; Casa Funk Jam Open jam for musicians to stay on the same chord for as long as they can 11pm £2/1 CENTRAL UNITED REFORMED CHURCH Rinaldo Reworked A mix of students and pros perform extracts from Handel’s opera (Part of Brighton Early Music Festival) 6.30pm £3/2 COALITION Secret Discotheque Replaying the soundtrack to your youth 11pm £4/3/2 COBBLER’S THUMB Analogue Underground Radio Open mic night that’s also a live radio broadcast 8pm £free CONCORDE2 Ed Sheeran Acoustic grime folk from the fresh-faced singer songwriter currently riding the rapids of instant fame (this show has now sold out) 7pm £tbc CUBE Cube Live Live acoustic music Time tbc £free DIGITAL Annie Mac Presents: Blah Blah Blah DJs 11pm £tbc DRUID’S ARMS Tiny Dragons Funky rock band 8.30pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA NT Live: The Kitchen 7pm FIDDLER’S ELBOW Live Lounge Live music 8.30pm £free

FISHBOWL Residents Association DJs play hip hop, funk and world beats 10.30pm £free GLOBE Hang The DJ! Daedelus After Party A night of punter-picked playlists 9pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Matthew Halsall Composer and trumpeter exploring the places mapped out by 60s modal jazz 7.30pm £10; Paradise City Are you heading for Venus? 11pm £free HAUNT Written In Waters Live music 7pm £tbc; Dark Party Indie night to end indie nights 11pm £tbc HONEY Exposed! Club night playing electro, dubstep and funky house 10.30pm £3.50/2 HOPE The Horn The Hunt Lo-fi loops&synths indie pop duo 8pm £4 HYDRANT DOWN Tangent, Concrete Lake, Brightlight City Rock bands 8pm £free HYDRANT UP Gama Bomb, Sworn Amongst, Here There Be Monsters, This Means War Thrash metal band whose song titles include ‘Zombie Kommand’, ‘Zombie Creeping Flesh’, ‘Zombi Brew’, ‘Zombie Blood Nightmare’ and, deviating somewhat from their muse, ‘Exhumed Maniac’ 7.30pm £7/5 KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club: Jeff Innocent, Steve Harris, Marlon Davis, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 8pm £9/6.50 KOMEDIA STUDIO Hammer & Tongue: Henry Bowers, Wilf Merttens An entertaining mix of poetry and comedic verse, hosted by Rosy Carrick and Mike Parker 7.30pm £5/4 KOMEDIA UP The Space: Skin, Brian Tufano Informal arts talk with the singer from Skunk Anansie and a cinematographer who worked on Trainspotting 8pm £8.50/5.50 LATEST MUSIC BAR Jaleo Flamenco Night 8pm £12/10 LIFE Jacques Greene, Koreless, Aka Farm House that Jacques built 11pm £5/4 LOFT MOSAIC Meltdown Fundraiser: Omar, Prince Fatty, Horseman & Hollie Cook, Don Letts, Miles Cleret, Shrapnel Live bands, DJs and MCs playing reggae, soul and funk 8pm £15/12 LOLA LO Kitsch Commercial but quirky club night 9pm £5/3 LONDON UNITY Texas Hold Em Poker night for serious players 8pm £5 MASH TUN They Mostly Come At Night Indie, electro and hip hop tunes 9pm £free MESMERIST Dr Bluegrass & The Illbilly 8 Brighton’s busiest buskers - country standards and pop covers put through the hillbilly thresher 9pm £free MUCKY DUCK Open Mic & Jam Session 8pm £free NEW VENTURE THEATRE The Servant Period play about a manservant who subverts the class system through meticulous obedience 7.45pm £9 PAV TAV Live Music 8pm £2 PHOENIX GALLERY Art Junky Arty jumble sale with craft stalls, DJs and face painting 11am £1/free PRINCE ALBERT Tender Trap, Summer Hunter, Dogtooth! Upbeat indie pop fronted by Talulah Gosh’s Amelia Fletcher 8pm £5 QUADRANT Fractured Toast: Kate Williams, Chuck S.J. Hay & Chris Alex Thom, Dave Blackwell Music and spoken word come together in this new storytelling gig night 8pm £free RANELAGH Hillbilly Deluxe Live country and Americana 8.30pm £free RIKI TIK Das Club Robotique Pre-gangsta hip-hop and post-disco disco 10pm £free STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Daedelus, Ambassaduers, Alphabets Heaven, Manni Dee Ninja tunes’ dandyish Monome maniplator (in the club) 7pm £5/4; Catholic Discipline Noise rock, disco pop and acid folk from the Superheroes of BMX (in the bar) 8pm £free; Thursday Night Fish Fry Jamaican ska and blues club (in the club) 11pm £3 ST JAMES’ TAVERN Stay Sick, Turn Blue DJs play vintage soul, jazz and blues 8.30pm £free THEATRE ROYAL End Of The Rainbow Musical theatre based on the last days of Judy Garland 2.30pm/7.45pm £23.50-28.50 THOMAS KEMP Unplugged Sessions Live music 8.30pm £free VICTORY Open Mic 8pm £free VOLKS Tenorfly, Festus, Earthquake Sound Dubstep, jungle and bashment 11pm £2/free WINDMILL Juice Free Music Thursday Live bands with an open mic session 8pm £free

friday 7TH

AUDIO Supercharged: Plump DJs Drum&bass and breaks 11pm £tbc BELUSHI’S BAR Muy Loco Pop and house DJs 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Abandoned Rock and metal night 10pm £3/2 BLACK DOVE Hot-Tip Hi-Fi DJs play early reggae and rocksteady 8pm £free BLACK LION Medium Rare DJs serve up a platter of semiobscure funk and soul 9pm £free BLIND TIGER Prince Fatty, Horseman Legendary roots and reggae DJ 7pm £4/free BRUNSWICK The Lost Highway Americana night 8pm £5 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Shake N Stomp Surf, twang and garage tunes 9pm £free CASABLANCA Funk & Soul Covers Band Funk and soul night with a live band 10pm £5 COALITION Friday I’m In Love No more lectures for a day or two 11pm £1-5 COBBLER’S THUMB The Gypsy Switch Live band injecting some rock&roll into gypsy folk 8pm £free CONCORDE2 Fenech-Soler, Paper Crows, The Special K’s Filthy electro pop (this show has now sold out) 7pm £tbc;

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Allout Super Dubpressure: Emalkay, Coki, N Type, Funtcase, Gangoon Dubz A 70k soundsystem and a whole

lotta dubstep 11pm £10 CORNERSTONE Giddy Up Funk and soul with DJ Jem 7pm £free CORN EXCHANGE Frisky & Mannish: Pop Centre Plus Part of Brighton Comedy Festival 9.30pm £14/12 COWLEY CLUB Zea, Lianne Hall, Becky Becky Parentheses Electro rock&roll from Amsterdam. Note: The Cowley is a private members’ club, but guests are welcome 8pm £donation CUBE Friday Club House DJs Time tbc £free DIGITAL Stonelove Indie rock&roll club 11pm £4/3 DOCTOR BRIGHTON’S Funky Friday: DJ Nick Hirst, DJ Wayne 9.30pm £free DOME Brighton Comedy Festival Opening Night: Jo

Brand,

Jack

Dee,

Sean

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Mark

Watson,

Abandoman, Andi Osho, Simon Evans All-star charity gala show Details tbc DRUID’S ARMS DJ Maxwell House Soul, funk and reggae 10pm £free DUKE OF NORFOLK DJ MC Cashback 9pm £free EASY BAR DJ Rudeben R&B, hip hop and reggae 8pm £free FISHBOWL Keep It Wheel DJs plays rare disco, soul and boogie 9pm £free FORTUNE OF WAR Fever: Caracazul Live band plays percussive Brazilian funk 9pm £free FUNKYFISH The Funkyfish Club Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10pm £6/3.50 GLOBE Rum Fridays! DJ night 9pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE David’s Lyre Mysterious singer songwriter with an 80s pop edge 7.30pm £5; Aereo: Teen Creeps, Ed Lilo, The James Kendall New electro and synth pop night from the Teen Creeps peeps - plus a DJ spot from the editor of Brighton’s best listings mag 11pm £free HAUNT Naughty By Nature Live music 7pm £15; Wonder Yeahs Music from the glorious 1990s 11pm £3 H-BAR Aura: Steve Mansfield, Billy Mauseth, Mick Yeoman House anthems 9pm £free HONEY Lollipop Get your fingers sticky to house and hip hop treats 10.30pm £5/4/3 HOPE Sissy & The Blisters Garage rockers (upstairs) 8pm £6; Stacked Nasty DJs play funk, soul and 60s garage (downstairs) 9pm £free HYDRANT DOWN P Is For Persia, Paris Riots Synthy noise rock 8pm £2/free HYDRANT UP Tropical Underground Latin funk night 8pm £tbc KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club: Jeff Innocent, Steve Harris, Marlon Davis, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 8pm £14.50/11.50 KOMEDIA STUDIO Coppe The godmother of Japanese electronica 7pm £5 KOMEDIA UP Who’s Who, Small Fakers A double bill of tribute bands impersonating The Who and Small Faces 7.30pm £12.50; Brighton Jazz Rooms: Russ Dewbury, Dom Servini, Alison David, Dal Robertson, Tim Mercer

Renowned Brighton club night returns with a mix of funk, soul, jazz and boogie 11pm £7/6 LATEST MUSIC BAR Michael De Leiburne & The Hot Wax Live Band Classic soul covers and bluesy acoustic originals (in the cafe bar) 8pm £5/4; Frockabilly Wild West Special Rockabilly and blues night with added cowboy fun (in the cabaret bar) 9pm £7/6 LIFE Nice & Funky Meets Headrush Ent: Sneakbo, DJ Cameo, Hotsteppa, DJ Outbreak South London rapper heads urban rave night Time tbc £8/5 LOLA LO Tiki Beats Totally tropical tunes 8pm £5/4/3 LONDON UNITY Buffo’s Wake Punky cabaret-tinged chorus hooks backed by rousing gypsy rhythms 8pm £free MARLBOROUGH THEATRE Benny’s Funeral, Manny’s Party Double bill of gay comedy theatre (upstairs) 7.30pm £8.50/6.50; Special People Club DJs play outsider pop, cretin rock and experimental trash (downstairs) 9pm £free MESMERIST Shake, Holla & Roll Swing jazz and R&B designed to get you dancing 9pm £free MUCKY DUCK The Mucky Club Soul, funk and hip hop night 8pm £free NEPTUNE Smokestack Blues and jazz band 8.30pm £free NEW VENTURE THEATRE The Servant Period play about a manservant who subverts the class system through meticulous obedience 7.45pm £10 OLD MARKET Dave Broom: Island Appetiser Talk and taster session with the author of the definitive rum guide (Part of City Reads Festival) 7pm £8 OUCH! BAR Retro Night Music from the 1980s 8pm £free PAV TAV Totally 80s Club night dedicated to the decade when it all went wrong 11pm £2 PAVILION THEATRE Phil Nichol: The Simple Hour Part of Brighton Comedy Festival 7.45pm £12/10; Adam Hills: Mess Around Part of Brighton Comedy Festival 9.15pm £12 PRINCE ALBERT Little Episodes Indie publishers project (upstairs) 8pm £5; Bend Over I’ll Drive Rock&roll DJs (downstairs) 8.30pm £free RANELAGH The Elevators Uplifting electric blues 8.30pm £free RIKI TIK ENK: Sheeeeeeeit!: Flatline, O’Ryan, LZ, Sam Sampadan, 8 Spirit, Tom Budakan Dubstep, grime and funky house 9pm £tbc SALLIS BENNEY THEATRE Monks Of Tashi Lhunpo Monastery Indian music and prayers with a troupe of colourful dancing monks 8pm £15/12 SIDEWINDER Philip Marten Rock&roll and jazz DJ set with Phil from Turin Breaks 9pm £free STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Bleech East London grunge

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pop three-piece 7.30pm £7/6; Kick Out The Jams New club night with no added gimmicks, just straight up rock&roll 11pm £free THEATRE ROYAL End Of The Rainbow Musical theatre based on the last days of Judy Garland 7.45pm £23.50-28.50 THOMAS KEMP DJ Brian Hip hop and club classics from the Flying White Dots guy 9pm £free THREE & TEN Gareth Stevens DJ playing funk, soul and old school hip hop 10pm £free TUBE Friday 45 From funk to disco and back again via deep house 11pm £2 VOLKS Originate: 4 Hero, Doc Scott, Skitty & Nolige,

Antidote, Quantum & Sound Surgeon, Kosine, Voytek, Rumble, Kernel, Lyrical, Dual, X Nation, Blake & Trim, Unity Hi Fi, Absent, P45, Context Vs Acer, Side-B, J Mcglynn Birthday bash for old-school jungle and drum&bass

night 11pm £6 WORLD’S END The DBs, Midnighters, Antony Hodgson Live Americana, blues and indie 8pm £free

saturday 8th

ANCIENT MARINER In Cahoots Folk and bluegrass band 8pm £tbc AUDIO Minimal Kids: Phillipe Bader Techno night 11pm £7/5/free BEACHIGOGO The R&B Lounge R&B DJs (in the main room) 11pm £6/5; Good Times Remember them? Maybe the feel-good retro tunes will jog your memory (in the White Room) 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BAR Unplugged Live acoustic music 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Synergy: The Ghost Of Lemora, Vampyre Heart Industrial goth and electro night with live bands 8pm £5/4/3 BLACK DOVE Chop Source DJ plays twisted funk and jumpjazz 8pm £free BLACK LION UnhookedGeneration Motown, rock&roll and northern soul night 9pm £free BLIND TIGER A Genuine Freakshow Only if you consider epic art rock to be a grotesque oddity 6pm £5; Stay Sick!: The Witchdoktors & Tobias Bands and DJs play garage punk and rock&roll 9pm £2/free CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Fire At The Old Mill Punk night 9pm £free CASABLANCA Funky Fiesta: Oomphf, SouthCoasters Soul and Motown club with a live band Time tbc £7 COALITION Rewind: JFB, Milk Teeth Crew, NoMark, Tom Yum Hip hop night with resident DJs and dancers 11pm £5-8; Blow After Party: Vincent Manganaro, Carlos Riz, Aaron Palaez It never stops 3am £7/5/4 CONCORDE2 Brighton To Brighton Cyclosportive Charity cycling event that starts at the finish line (but also takes in Ditchling Beacon and Ashdown Forest) Details tbc; Terrorvision, The Break Downs The Yorkshire Brit-rock lads are back from Oblivion to drink Tequila with Alice who Some People Say is their Pretend Best Friend 7pm £15; Freebass: The Freshers’ Special It’s a night of old school bass, breaks and beats - but then everything will seem old to the fresh-faced critters flooding into Brighton for freshers’ week 11pm £free CORNERSTONE Resident DJs 7pm £free CORN EXCHANGE Phil Jupitus Quartet: Made Up Part of Brighton Comedy Festival 7.30pm £15/13; Andrew Maxwell: The Lights Are On Part of Brighton Comedy Festival 9.30pm £14 CUBE Too Mucking Fuch DJs play tribal, tech and prog house Time tbc £free DIGITAL Hospitality: Camo & Krooked, Netsky, N3gus, Tomahawk, Callous, MC Wrec, Ad & Messy Premier drum&bass night 10pm £13.50 DOCTOR BRIGHTON’S Sexy Saturday: DJ Tony B 9.30pm £free DOME Best Of The Fest: Andi Osho, Andrew Maxwell, Alun Cochrane Highlights from Brighton Comedy Festival 8pm £16/14 DRUID’S ARMS DJ Green Man’s Garden Of Delights A mixed bag of soul, psychedelia, funk, folk and pop 10pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Cars 11am; Fire In Babylon 1.30pm; Clerks 11.30pm EASY BAR DJ Rudeben R&B, hip hop and reggae 8pm £free FIDDLER’S ELBOW Saturday Sizzlers: Molly Malone DJ night 9pm £free FISHBOWL Abo & Ally Smith Jazz Room DJs play dirty funk and hot jazz 9pm £free FORTUNE OF WAR Flevans Dubstep and breaks from the Tru Thoughts DJ 9pm £free FUNKYFISH The Funkyfish Club Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10pm £6/3.50 GLOBE The Acid House Vintage house and grooves 9pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Pop Not Pop Mixed up pop music party mayhem from Dynamite Sal and crew 11pm £free HAUNT It Is Still 1985 Travel through time to an ancient realm where it is still permissible to roll up the sleeves of your suit 10pm £3 H-BAR Terry Francis Guest DJ celebrating Beatsworkin’s second birthday party Details tbc HONEY Nightowl Tech house night treading the line between the mainstream and the underground 10.30pm £10/8/5 HOPE Dr Bluegrass And The Illbilly 8, The Beautiful Word, Qukulele Folk and indie birthday bash for Amnesty International and Wateraid 7.30pm £6 HYDRANT DOWN Alice, The Physics, Web Of Maya, Hollow Moon, Black Hats Indie glam band with a ska horn

section 8pm £free KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club: Jeff Innocent, Steve Harris, Marlon Davis, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 7pm/8pm/10.30pm £7-18 LATEST MUSIC BAR Swingtashtic: Sneaky Low Five,

Little Girl Blue, The Rocco Duo, Brighton Lindy Hoppers

A evening dedicated to jive, swing and facial hair 8pm £6/5 LIFE Hold Up! Long-running and much-loved indie night kept afloat by the influx of fresh-faced students 11pm £5 LOLA LO Zombie Nation Where the dancefloor is never dead 8pm £10/7/6 LORD NELSON Matt Phones & Black Pigeon DJ night 8pm £free MARLBOROUGH THEATRE Benny’s Funeral, Manny’s Party Double bill of gay comedy theatre (upstairs) 7.30pm £8.50/6.50; Cherry Pop Cheese and 80s trash with DJ Fondue Inferno (downstairs) 9pm £free MESMERIST Juke Joint Jamboree Vintage dancefloor gems from the days of jive and jazz 9pm £free NEW VENTURE THEATRE The Servant Period play about a manservant who subverts the class system through meticulous obedience 7.45pm £10/9 NORTHERN LIGHTS DJ Prateek Gypsy dub tunes 9pm £free OLD MARKET Colin Jackson & Paul Crooks: Who Do You Think You Are? An olympic hurdler and a novelist look into the history of their family tree (Part of City Reads Festival) 11am £5; A Celebration Of Bob Marley And The Wailers With Colin Grant A talk from the author of ‘I & I: The Natural Mystics’ (Part of City Reads Festival) 4pm £5; Linton Kwesi Johnson, Kei Miller Live poetry set and Q&A with dub reggae legend (Part of City Reads Festival) 8pm £12.50 PAV TAV Back To The Future Retro tunes from before you were born 11pm £3/2 PAVILION THEATRE Alun Cochrane: Moments Of Alun Part of Brighton Comedy Festival 7.45pm £12; Janey Godley: The Godley Hour Part of Brighton Comedy Festival 9.15pm £12/10 PRINCE ALBERT Dead Whiskey Live music 8.30pm £4 RIKI TIK Korova Milkclub: Johnny Rocks, Senor Mick Sex, droogs and electro disco 9pm £free SIDEWINDER Jennifer Left Live music and DJs 9pm £free STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR 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 10pm £5/4/3 THEATRE ROYAL End Of The Rainbow Musical theatre based on the last days of Judy Garland 2.30pm/7.45pm £23.50-28.50 THOMAS KEMP DJ Jody Lee Hooker Soul, dance and funk classics 9pm £free THREE & TEN Ali Broadcast Housey DJ set 10pm £free TUBE Hessle Audio: Pangaea, Objekt, Elgato DJs from the dubstep and techno label 11pm £5/4 VICTORY :KINEMA: DJ set of 80s classics from the Brighton pop band’s singer 9pm £free VOLKS Birthday Beats: Pixel Fist, Kouncilhouse,

Hoopz, Dan Stoves, Sightek, Bean, Simon Chambers, Tru Craft Electro, drum&bass and hard trance 11pm £6 WEST HILL HALL Mary Hampton Cotillion, Men Diamler, The Downing Street Years Album launch for enchanting folkstress and her new band 7pm £6/5 WEST HILL TAVERN Tonight We Fly Epic melodrama and literate indie pop 9pm £free

sunday 9th

ABOVE AUDIO DJ Verity Mayes Time tbc £free AUDIO Substance Underground electronic music with tribal drumming 10pm £3/free BELUSHI’S BAR Now That’s What I Call A Party What did you call it before? 9pm £free BLACK LION Live & Swingin’ Gypsy Jazz 8pm £free BLIND TIGER Hand Baked Arcade Retro video game installation giving you the chance to relive all those wonderful wasted years of futile pixel-pushing 4pm £4 BRUNSWICK Straight No Chaser Big band jazz swing 8pm £free CONCORDE2 Brightona 2011: Dropzone, Tripod Dave,

The Wookeez, Vox Beatles, Zed’s Dead, Aaron Keylock, Tell Wolves Tales, Saxonized, Plasticine, Kickfist!, Alison And The Earthquakes Another whole day of motorbikes

clogging up the roads, this time with a full-on line-up of live rock&roll 11.30am £free CUBE Chilled Sundays Laid back grooves Time tbc £free DUKE OF NORFOLK Live Music Night 9pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Bolshoi: Esmeralda 4pm FIDDLER’S ELBOW Sham-Rock Open Mic 8.30pm £free FOUNTAIN HEAD Reggae Roasts Chilled reggae beats Time tbc £free GLOBE Rockoustic Live acoustic music 9pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Sunday Service Live music 5pm £free; Green Door Blues Blues band and DJs 10pm £free HONEY Sundays At The Honey If your house was this sexy you’d get a lot of carpet burns 11pm £3/2/free HYDRANT DOWN Lunch A mixed platter of indie, electronica and folk 8pm £free HYDRANT UP Evita Don’t cry for me, Preston Circus 7.30pm £6 KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club: Jeff Innocent, Marlon Davis, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 8pm £11.50/6.50 KOMEDIA STUDIO Hal Cruttenden Stand-up comedy 8pm £12.50/10.50

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KOMEDIA UP Wilko Johnson, Ian Siegal Guitarist who founded 70s R&B band, Dr Feelgood 8pm £17.50 LATEST MUSIC BAR Samuel J, Elissa Franceschi Live music 8pm £4/3/2 LECONFIELD Boozy Bingo Old is the new young 6pm £1 MARLBOROUGH THEATRE Benny’s Funeral, Manny’s Party Double bill of gay comedy theatre 4pm £8.50/6.50; PopUp-Sunday: Yvonne Rawcliffe Stand-up comedy 7pm £free NEPTUNE Porchlightsmoker Folk and bluegrass band 8.30pm £free OLD MARKET Andrea Levy In Conversation With Suzi Feay Readings and discussion with the author of ‘The Long Song’ (Part of City Reads Festival) 3pm £8 OUCH BAR Polish Party: Marysia Band Live Polish music 7.30pm £free PAVILION THEATRE Paul Zerdin Part of Brighton Comedy Festival 7.45pm £12/10; Chris Cox: Fatal Distraction Part of Brighton Comedy Festival 9.15pm £12/10 PRINCE ALBERT Everybodies Got To Be Somewhere 2pm £tbc; Aiden Baker, Plurals, Lumbers Live music 8pm £5 RANELAGH Dave Peabody Folk and bluesman 8.30pm £free RIKI TIK Riki Fliks Film night showing classic movies and new shorts Details tbc SIGNALMAN Open Mic Night 8.15pm £free THEATRE ROYAL Bob The Builder: Live Can he fix it? Yes, but he won’t do it for a few weeks and he’ll probably charge you for not being there 1pm/3.30pm £18 THOMAS KEMP Tango Sessions Dance the early evening away 8pm £tbc VOLKS Brightona Live bands and DJs 12noon £tbc

monday 10th

ABOVE AUDIO Banana Island 10pm £2 ANCIENT MARINER Quiz Night 8pm £1 BELUSHI’S BAR Now That’s What I Call A Party What did you call it before? 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Fallout Live rock bands 9pm £2/1 BLACK LION The Lion, The Wit And The Frontal Lobe Pub quiz 9pm £free BLIND TIGER The Mash Motown and vintage funk night 7pm £free BRUNSWICK Open Mic Night 8.30pm £free COALITION Trash Mondays Filthy tunes for students and layabouts alike 10pm £5/3/free CUBE Hoi Polloi Northern soul for the masses Time tbc £free DIGITAL Ghost Poet, Breton Singer and producer who recently supported Metronomy 8pm £8.50 EXCHANGE INN Pub Quiz Time tbc £1 FOUNTAIN HEAD Open Mic Night 9pm £free GREENHOUSE BAR Open Mic 9.30pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Metal Mondays: Crypsis, Mutually Assured Destruction Full metal racket 7pm £free HAUNT Coconut College Dumbed-down party music 11pm £1 HYDRANT DOWN Battle Of The BIMM Bands Let’s hope it’s to the death 8pm £free KOMEDIA STUDIO Popcorn Comedy Comedians and short film funnies 7.30pm £7; Life’s A Gas New club night mixing glam, punk and bubblegum power pop 11pm £5 LIFE Jailbait Hits from the 90s for those too young to remember the first time 11pm £2 LOLA LO Fat Poppadaddys Student indie night 9pm £3 NEPTUNE Folk, Rock, Blues And Poetry Session 8.30pm £free QUADRANT Monday Night Comedy Club: Jessica Fostekew Stand-up comedy 7.30pm £5/3 SIGNALMAN Pub Quiz 8pm £1 STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Planningtorock Berlin-based electronic singer songwriter and video artist 7pm £10; Modern Romance Brand new indie night 10.30pm £3/2/1 VOLKS Strictly Reggae Dancehall, roots, revival 11pm £5/4.50

Tuesday 11TH

AUDIO And So I Watch From Afar Atmospheric and mathsy post-rock Details tbc BELUSHI’S BAR Totalled On Tuesday! Pop and dance 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW DJ Star DJ competition open to all 9pm £free BLACK LION Hit The Decks Open decks spin off (book a slot online) 9pm £free BRUNSWICK Jazz Jam Open session with house band 8pm £free CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Skeptics In The Pub Guardian columnist Juliet Jacques talks about her transgender journey 8pm £2 COALITION Robots In Disguise, Kovak, Rubicks UV rave party with electro indie bands 7pm £7/6; Full Volume If your bass was this filthy you’d have to take it back to the fishmongers 10.30pm £4/3/2 CONCORDE2 The Pierces Folk rock played by two sexy sisters. The fact they’re a duo makes them one order worse than The Corrs (unless you’re a straight woman or a gay man), but actually they’re better. Probably twice as good. In any case, it’s kind of academic because the gig has already sold out 7.30am £tbc

CORN EXCHANGE Jeremy Hardy Part of Brighton Comedy Festival 7.30pm £14/12 DIGITAL CU Next Tuesday It’ll teach the universities to timetable lectures for Wednesday mornings 11pm £4/3 DOME Shaun Parker: Happy As Larry Funny and playful fusion of ballet, breakdance and rollerskating 7.30pm £7.50-15 DUKE OF NORFOLK Open Mic 9pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Kind Hearts And Coronets 11am; Newsreel 1 7pm FIDDLER’S ELBOW Quizness Time Are you a pub quiz whizz, or bit of a half-wit? 8pm £1 GLOBE Basement Cinema Underground films, comfy seats and free popcorn 8pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Hard Times They can take our disposable income, but they’ll never take our nowave disco!

11pm £free HAUNT Art Brut Garage-y indie rock with comedy ranting 7pm £10.50/9.50 HONEY LMFAO Tuesday It’s good that someone else finds R&B innately amusing 10.30pm £4/3/2 HOPE Gorse, The Blue Stragglers Heavy riffing prog rockers 8pm £3 HYDRANT DOWN Thieves By Code, Funge, Kickfist Bluesy experimental rock band 8pm £free HYDRANT UP More Than Life, Break Even, Basement, Isolated, Hospitals, Up River A night of emo and hardcore 6pm £8.50 KOMEDIA UP Ben Howard, Michael Cassidy Rootsy singer songwriter with a novel guitar style (this show has now sold out) 7.30pm £9 LATEST MUSIC BAR Charity Chuckle: Mary Bourke Stand-up comedy 8.30pm £8/5 LECONFIELD Tuesday Teaser Pub quiz 9pm £1 LIFE Drop Out Student night that’s almost as likely to ruin your degree as Tory education policy 11pm £free LOLA LO Dirtee Laundry New venue for the long-running club night 10pm £6/4/2 LONDON UNITY Quiz Night Fun quiz with silly prizes 8pm £1 LORD NELSON General Knowledge Quiz Cash for questions 8.45pm £1 MESMERIST The Mesmerist Conjuring Consortium It could be a magical night 7.30pm £tbc MUCKY DUCK See You Next Tuesday Pub Quiz 8pm £1 OPEN HOUSE Jazz Work Shop Open jazz session 8pm £tbc OUCH! BAR OMC! Open Mic Performers get a recording of their set and the chance of a paid gig 8pm £free PAV TAV Guerilla Rocks Club night for rock chicks, skater bois and indie kids 11pm £3/2/1 PRINCE ALBERT This Is Beautiful Country, Red Roads, The Denim Live music 8.30pm £4/3 RED LION Challenging General Knowledge & Music Quiz 8pm £1 RIKI TIK Freaks DJs play poppy hip hop, poppy indie and pop 9pm £free SIDEWINDER Open Mic Night 8pm £free THEATRE ROYAL Earthquakes In London Epic drama set against the breakdown of society’s crash and onwards into an imagined future 7.45pm £13.50-27.50 THOMAS KEMP Poker Evening 8pm £tbc THREE & TEN Sam Walker And Friends Heartfelt and humorous multi-instrumentalist from Brighton band, The Muel 8pm £6/5 TUBE Below The Line New DJ night streamed live 11pm £2 VOLKS Play With Yourself: Mister Green, Decknician, Slick Rick, First Stance New electro house night 10pm £4/3/ free

wednesday 12TH

ABOVE AUDIO The Doctor’s Orders Seriously sick hip hop 10pm £free AUDIO Supercharged: Scratch Perverts Drum&bass and breaks 11pm £tbc BELUSHI’S BAR Now That’s What I Call A Party What did you call it before? 9pm £free BLACK LION Fresh Acoustics Live music 8.30pm £free BLIND TIGER Lethal Quizzle Pub quiz with zany rounds 8pm £1 BRUNSWICK Samuel Jay Ambient acoustic hip hop 8pm £tbc CARLUCCIO’S Opera A Tavola A three course feast with live opera singing 7pm £35 CASABLANCA Thanks For Your Request Funk and electro night with a live band Time tbc £2/1/free CUBE Cubed House to the power of three Time tbc £free DIGITAL The Poundance Throw a coin at the monkey and it will grind the organ for you 11pm £4/3/1 DOME Milton Jones: The Lion Whisperer Part of Brighton Comedy Festival 8pm £17.50 DRUID’S ARMS Change The Tempo! DJ plays international sounds 9pm £free DUKE OF NORFOLK Quiz Night 8pm £1 DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Melancholia 11am FISHBOWL The Mixer Men Reggae and hip hop DJ mashup 10pm £free FOUNTAIN HEAD Student Night Indie rock tunes Time tbc £free GLOBE Brighton Ableton Meet Up 8pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Ice, Sea, Dead People, Holy

State, Pink Screaming Voodoo Strip Club, Colonics Noise punk and garage bands 7pm £6.50/5.50; The Jazz Store Live jazz with an open jam 11pm £free

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HAUNT Pon De Floor New chart and pop music night 11pm £2/1 HYDRANT DOWN Stick In A Pot Wistful and melancholic indie folk band 8pm £free KOMEDIA DOWN Joe Wilkinson: My Mum’s Called Stella My Dad’s Called Brian Stand-up comedy from the star of the BBC3 sitcom, Him & Her 8pm £12.50 KOMEDIA STUDIO Emily Barker And The Red Clay Halo Rootsy Australian female folk band 7.30pm £12 KOMEDIA UP North Sea Radio Orchestra English folk band with proggy touches 7pm £12 LIFE Winning Alternative party music 11pm £3/2 LONDON UNITY Open Mic 8.30pm £free MARLBOROUGH THEATRE Open Mic 8.30pm £free MASH TUN Tin Cup Collective Live funk and soul band 9pm £free MEDICINE CHEST Autumn Swing Party More of the electro swing thing 6.30pm £free MESMERIST Swing Ninjas Uptempo gypsy band 9pm £free PAVILION THEATRE Alex Horne: Seven Years In The Bathroom Part of Brighton Comedy Festival 7.45pm £12; Delete The Banjax: Pigs & Ponies Part of Brighton Comedy Festival 9.15pm £12/10 PRINCE ALBERT Fall Of Messiah Post-rock vs math rock 8pm £5 RIKI TIK Hell On High Heels Sleazy rock and glam night 9pm £free SIDEWINDER Ice Cream Beats: Music To Melt To Hip hop night Details tbc STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Brighton Ableton Live Meetup Open Mac session for electrohead geeks 7.30pm £3 THOMAS KEMP Kev’s Open Mic 8.30pm £free THEATRE ROYAL Earthquakes In London Epic drama set against the breakdown of society’s crash and onwards into an imagined future 7.45pm £13.50-27.50 VOLKS Switch Up Drum&bass and dubstep night 11pm £2/ free

thursday 13th

ABOVE AUDIO Maxxi Soundsystem Nu disco DJs 10pm £free AUDIO Bastard Pop Musical mash-up 11pm £2/free BELUSHI’S BAR Karaoke 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW House Party House and disco party 10pm £free BLIND TIGER Nico De Transilvania, Gypsy Hill Balkan and electro swing with live band and DJ 8pm £5 BRISTOL BAR Jack Kendon Live jazz 8pm £free BRUNSWICK Jim Stapley, Autumn Red, Charly Coombs & The New Breed Live music 8pm £4/3/2 CASABLANCA Casa Jazz Jam Open jam for musicians to play as many fancy chords as they can 8pm £free; Casa Funk Jam Open jam for musicians to stay on the same same chord for as long as they can 11pm £2/ COALITION Fosters Funny Live: Rob Heeney, Chris Martin, Pete Firman, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 7.30pm £5; Secret Discotheque Replaying the soundtrack to your youth 11pm £4/3/2 COBBLER’S THUMB Analogue Underground Radio Open mic night that’s also a live radio broadcast 8pm £free CONCORDE2 Stiff Little Fingers Are better than any number of Limp Bizkits 7.30pm £16 CORN EXCHANGE Paul Daniels: Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow Part of Brighton Comedy Festival 7.30pm £15 CUBE Cube Live Live acoustic music Time tbc £free DOME Ed Byrne: Crowd Pleaser Part of Brighton Comedy Festival 8pm £20 DRUID’S ARMS TE Morris Sombre acoustica from the frontman of Her Name Is Calla 8pm £free FIDDLER’S ELBOW Live Lounge Live jazz 8.30pm £free FISHBOWL Residents Association DJs play hip hop, funk and world beats 10.30pm £free GLOBE Hang The DJ! A night of punter-picked playlists 9pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Paradise City Are you heading out on the highway to hell? 11pm £free HAUNT Dark Party Indie night to end indie nights 11pm £tbc HOBGOBLIN Birdeatsbaby Theatrical and gothic indie band in the same vein as The Dresden Dolls Details tbc HONEY Exposed! Club night playing electro, dubstep and funky house 10.30pm £3.50/2 HYDRANT DOWN Collisions, Deathtronics The collisions in question must be between the synths, the hard rock riffs and the dubstep beats 8pm £free KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club: The Noise Next Door, Craig Hill, Dan Evans Stand-up comedy 8pm £9/6.50 KOMEDIA UP Show Of Hands Acoustic roots duo 7.30pm £17/15 LATEST MUSIC BAR Catalyst Club Guest speakers give a short talk about whatever their weird obsession is 8pm £5 LIFE Butterz Takeover: Terror Danjah, Elijah & Skilliam, Trim London grime label bring along their DJs and MCs 11pm £6 LOLA LO Kitsch Commercial but quirky club night 9pm £5/3 LONDON UNITY Texas Hold Em Poker night for serious players 8pm £5 MARLBOROUGH THEATRE Rattle Tales Storytelling show with an emphasis on audience participation 7.30pm £3 MASH TUN They Mostly Come At Night Indie, electro and hip hop tunes 9pm £free MESMERIST John Crampton Foot-stomping blues explosion 9pm £free

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MUCKY DUCK Open Mic & Jam Session 8pm £free OUCH! BAR Neo Soul Night Soul and R&B Details tbc PAV TAV Live Music 8pm £2 PAVILION THEATRE Bridget Christie: Housewife Surrealist Part of Brighton Comedy Festival 7.45pm £12/10; Tom Slade Part of Brighton Comedy Festival 9.15pm £12/10 PRINCE ALBERT Sparrow, We Spies, Little Signals, Dan Shears & The Velveteen Orkestra Live music (part of the Exquisite Noise Festival) 8pm £5 RIKI TIK Das Club Robotique Pre-gangsta hip hop and post-disco disco 10pm £free ST JAMES’ TAVERN Stay Sick, Turn Blue DJs play vintage soul, jazz and blues 8.30pm £free STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR We Were Promised Jetpacks What you get is Scottish indie rock (in the club) 7.30pm £7; Catholic Discipline Noise rock, disco pop and acid folk from the Superheroes of BMX (in the bar) 8pm £free; Thursday Night Fish Fry Jamaican ska and blues club (in the club) 11pm £3 THEATRE ROYAL Earthquakes In London Epic drama set against the breakdown of society’s crash and onwards into an imagined future 2.30pm/7.45pm £13.50-27.50 THOMAS KEMP Unplugged Sessions Live music 8.30pm £free THREE & TEN The Brighton Comedy Fringe Launch: Jo Neary, Madame Galina, Mark Allen, Gerry Howell Standup comedy night 8pm £5 VICTORY Open Mic 8pm £free VOLKS Hit & Run: DJ Moony, DJ De, DJ Melody Kane, DJ Rudeben, DJ Stacey, Jovivaa, Lil Blak, Phatbones, Scribe Tribe, Afro Donz, Mc Lenzez, Mc TJ, MC Seb Adee Grime and hip hop night 10pm £5/3 WINDMILL Juice Free Music Thursday Live bands with an open mic session 8pm £free

friday 14th

AL DUOMO Inmotion: Kevin Griffiths New monthly night playing underground house and disco - with the head of the deep house label, Tsuba 11pm £5 AUDIO Strictly Drumz: Brookes Brothers Bass is also allowed 11pm £tbc BELUSHI’S BAR Muy Loco Pop and house DJs 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Abandoned Rock and metal night 10pm £3/2 BLACK DOVE Mo Taters! DJ set of 50s and 60s tunes from across the Americas 8pm £free BLACK LION Molly Malone’s Dex In The City DJ night 9pm £free BLIND TIGER Samuel J Album launch for jazzy hip hopper 7pm £free; A-Skills, The Electric Playboys International hip hop and breaks DJs 10pm £5/free BRUNSWICK Ska Toons Live ska band with some funk and jazz thrown in 8pm £5 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Distortion Rock and metal DJ (downstairs) 9pm £free; Funny Girls Stand-up, sketches and music (upstairs) 8pm £5/4 CASABLANCA No Town Like Motown Funk and soul club with a live band 10pm £5 COALITION Friday I’m In Love No more lectures for a day or two 11pm £1-5 COBBLER’S THUMB Buffo’s Wake Punky cabaret-tinged chorus hooks backed by rousing gypsy rhythms 8pm £free CONCORDE2 The Kills Bluesy punk duo featuring a former member of Blyth Power (this show has now sold out) 7pm £17/15; Trojan Sound System, Unity HiFi, Roots And Branches Live reggae showcase 11pm £5 CORNERSTONE Resident DJs Funk night 7pm £free CORN EXCHANGE Showstopper! The Improvised Musical Part of Brighton Comedy Festival 7.30pm £15/13; Rich Hall Part of Brighton Comedy Festival 9.30pm £15 CUBE Friday Club House DJs Time tbc £free DIGITAL Stonelove Indie rock&roll club 11pm £4/3 DOCTOR BRIGHTON’S Funky Friday: DJ Nick Hirst, DJ Wayne 9.30pm £free DOME Best Of The Fest Highlights from Brighton Comedy Festival 8pm £16/14 DRUID’S ARMS DJ Tommy G Electro, indie and house tunes 10pm £free DUKE OF NORFOLK DJ MC Cashback 9pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes 11.30pm EASY BAR DJ Rudeben R&B, hip hop and reggae 8pm £free FISHBOWL Gareth Stephens DJ playing funk, nu-jazz and broken beats 9pm £free FORTUNE OF WAR Fever: Melena De Pomelo Spanish night with live flamenco music and dancers 9pm £free FUNKYFISH The Funkyfish Club Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10pm £6/3.50 GLOBE Rum Fridays & TSOB Philly disco from Juice FM DJ 9pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Imperial Leisure Uplifting and energetic ska pop band 7.30pm £tbc; Ye Ye Fever Funky Afrobeat clubnight 11pm £free HAUNT Nowhere To Run The best of 60s Motown, soul and rock&roll 11pm £4/3 H-BAR DJ Steven James Classic house and disco (in the bar) Details tbc; Neveah: Amir Groove, Dan Gausden, Gareth Hall Progressive house and techno (in the club) 10pm £3.50 HOBGOBLIN Withered Hand Scottish folk pop 8pm £6 HONEY Lollipop Get your fingers sticky to house and hip hop treats 10.30pm £5/4/3 HOPE Love Thy Neighbour: Mazes, Milk Maid, Fear Of

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Men, FatCat DJs Indie night with live bands 8.30pm £6/5 HYDRANT DOWN L Sole Tace Metal so heavy it requires a new box on the periodic table 8pm £free HYDRANT UP Evile Thrash metallers from Huddersfield 8pm £free JAZZ PLACE Crazy Turtle Club Dress up and dance to proper old-time swing and jive 8pm £free KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club: The Noise Next Door, Craig Hill, Keith Farnan, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 8pm £14.50/11.50; Mod For It! Clubnight playing Motown, new wave, soul and ska 11pm £5/4 KOMEDIA STUDIO Brighton Jazz Club: Julian Joseph Trio Live jazz 7.30pm £15/13 KOMEDIA UP The Jamm Tribute band 8.30pm £12.50; Ultimate Power Do you possess enough irony reserves to get you through an entire night of power ballads? 11pm £3 LIFE Hot Wuk: Bok Bok, Oneman, Slackk & Trim, Aka DJ Garage, grime and bass-heavy house 11pm £8/7/6 LOLA LO Tiki Beats Totally tropical tunes 8pm £5/4/3 LONDON UNITY Folk Festival Five live bands 8pm £free MARLBOROUGH THEATRE Pussy Whipped DJs play electro, riot grrrl and 80s trash 9pm £free MESMERIST Shake, Holla & Roll Swing jazz and R&B designed to get you dancing 9pm £free MUCKY DUCK The Mucky Club Soul, funk and hip hop night 8pm £free NEPTUNE South Of 55th A tribute to Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf and John Lee Hooker 8.30pm £free NORTHERN LIGHTS DJ Elk 9pm £free OUCH! BAR Retro Night Music from the 1980s 8pm £free PAV TAV Totally 80s Club night dedicated to the decade when it all went wrong 11pm £2 PAVILION THEATRE Tommy Tiernan: Poot Part of Brighton Comedy Festival 7.45pm £17; David O’Doherty Is Looking Up Part of Brighton Comedy Festival 9.30pm £14/13 PRINCE ALBERT The Valentines, Goodluck Jonathan, Hockeysmith, Anagrams Live music (part of the Exquisite Noise Festival) 8pm £5 RANELAGH Kevin Murphy Singer songwriter 8.30pm £free RIKI TIK Mile Wide Smile Club: Simon Lee, Mickey Duke, Chri5tian Electro disco from one half of Faze Action 9pm £free SIDEWINDER Fip Radio DJs Vous aimez le son de la musique des Français, oui? 9pm £free STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Black History Month: Roots Garden, Afrobase, King Tafari Love, Afrogroove, African Night Fever Mellow acoustic music and spoken word followed by a full-on diverse dance night 7pm £5/3 THEATRE ROYAL Earthquakes In London Epic drama set against the breakdown of society’s crash and onwards into an imagined future 7.45pm £13.50-27.50 THOMAS KEMP DJ Molar Funk, electro and reggae 9pm £free THREE & TEN The Best Of Clever Peter Comedy highlights from the award-winning sketch group (upstairs) 8.30pm £8/6; Ruff Snippets DJ playing funk, soul and old school hip hop (downstairs) 10pm £free TUBE Friday 45 From funk to disco and back again via deep house 11pm £2 VICTORY DJ Lanx Bringing the mods and rockers together with hot funk and weird blues 9pm £free VOLKS Propergander: Sumgii & Dabbla, Ellfivedee, Side B, Mr Sleepz, Ceezlin, Alibi, Kosine, X-Nation, Voytek, Gremlin, Contex Drum&bass and jungle all-nighter 11pm £5

saturday 15th

ANCIENT MARINER Harry’s Tricks Live band plays popular hits from the 20s, 30s and 40s - with special guest Rene Ansell 9pm £free AUDIO Warehouse: Alex Metric House and techno club night - with Mex from Blackgrass playing rare grooves upstairs 11pm £7/5/free BEACHIGOGO The R&B Lounge R&B (in the main room) 11pm £6/5; Good Times Remember them? Maybe the feelgood retro tunes will jog your memory (in the White Room) 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BAR Unplugged Live acoustic music 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Apocolypse Classic metal headbangers and nu metal chain-swingers 9pm £5/2 BLACK LION Burnt Toast DJs play sleazy soul and dirty breaks 9pm £free BLIND TIGER Sam And The Womp, The Black Fields Gypsy swing and dubstep band 7pm £5/free BRUNSWICK Tonight Matthew Covers band 8pm £5 CASABLANCA Funky Fiesta Soul and Motown club with a live band Time tbc £7 COALITION Submotion Orchestra, Ruckspin, Double Drop Seven-piece bass-grooves ambient band 7.30pm £7 COALITION Old Yellow Bricks: DJ Monty, DJ Charles Green, Shmooze & Skank, B.A.N.K R&B, house and funky soul club 11pm £7/5; Blow After Party: Vincent Manganaro, Carlos Riz, Aaron Palaez It never stops 3am £7/5/4 CONCORDE2 Rubylux, The Bronze Medal, Penguins Kill Polar Bears Alt rock band take time out from guerilla gigging to do a show in a venue 6.30pm £10; FWD>>RINSE: Plastician, P Money, Zinc, Ben UFO, Youngsta, Crazy D London club comes to the coast for more grime and dubstep mischief 11pm £12 CORNERSTONE Giddy Up Funk and soul with DJ Jem 7pm £free CORN EXCHANGE Jack Whitehall: Let’s Not Speak Of This Again Part of Brighton Comedy Festival (this show is now

sold out) 7.30pm £15; Best Of… So You Think You’re Funny? Part of Brighton Comedy Festival 10pm £12/10 CUBE BUG House beats with Lidia De Luca and Alex Outram Time tbc £free DIGITAL Joy Orbison, Julio Bashmore, Blah Blah Blah DJs, Ben White South London’s hottest dubsteppy dance producer 11pm £8 DOCTOR BRIGHTON’S Sexy Saturday: DJ Tony B 9.30pm £free DOME Reginald D Hunter: Sometimes Even The Devil Tells The Truth Part of Brighton Comedy Festival 8pm £20/18 DRUID’S ARMS Everyone To The Anderson Chilled postrock sludge 8.30pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Met. Opera: Anna Bolena 6pm EASY BAR Miss Dangerous DJ night 8pm £free FISHBOWL What’s Wrong With Groovin’? DJs set out to answer the age old question 9pm £free FORTUNE OF WAR Fip Radio DJs Vous aimez le son de la musique des Français, oui? 9pm £free FUNKYFISH The Funkyfish Club Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10pm £6/3.50 GLOBE The Music Box Disco and techno played by a live band 9pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Sarah Blasko Australian singer songwriter 7.30pm £tbc; Stone To The Bone Club night specialising in 1970s funk vibes 11pm £free HAUNT Ugly Duckling Live music 7pm £15; It Is Still 1985 Travel through time to an ancient realm where keytars are still pretty cool 10pm £3 HONEY Pukka Up If your house was this pukka you’d never run out of pies 10.30pm £10/8/5 HOPE James Owen Fender, Foreign Office Poetic and nostalgic singer songwriter from Leeds 8pm £5 HYDRANT DOWN Dusty Rosko Live music 8pm £free KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club: The Noise Next Door, Craig Hill, Keith Farnan, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 7pm/8pm/10.30pm £7-18 KOMEDIA STUDIO Spellbound “An 80s night for people who hate 80s nights” - Simon Price plays the alternative highlights of the decade 9pm £5/4 KOMEDIA UP Kids Popcorn Comedy Kid-friendly comedy and short film funnies 2pm £8.50/6.50 LIFE Hold Up! Long-running and much-loved indie night kept afloat by the influx of fresh-faced students 11pm £5 LOLA LO Zombie Nation Where the dancefloor is never dead 8pm £10/7/6 LONDON UNITY A Day At The Dogs Indie band 8.30pm £free MARLBOROUGH THEATRE Cherry Pop Cheese and 80s trash with DJ Fondue Inferno 9pm £free MESMERIST Juke Joint Jamboree Vintage dancefloor gems from the days of jive and jazz 9pm £free MUCKY DUCK Eclectic Chair Buzzing tunes from DJ Lamp 9pm £free NORTHERN LIGHTS Annual Big Lebowski Night Bowling, fancy dress and White Russians 9pm £free PAV TAV Back To The Future Retro tunes from before you were born 11pm £3/2 PAVILION THEATRE Tommy Tiernan: Poot Part of Brighton Comedy Festival 7.45pm £17; Andrew Lawrence Part of Brighton Comedy Festival 9.30pm £12/10 PRINCE ALBERT Jennifer Left, The Half Sisters, Minor Sounds, Heliopause Live music (part of the Exquisite Noise Festival) 1pm £5; Black Black Hills, Clowns, White Star Liners, Tyrannosaurs Dead Live music (part of the Exquisite Noise Festival) 8pm £5 RIKI TIK It’s Goin’ Off: Om Unit, Deft, Grinel & W.A.T Forward thinking bass music with no best before date 9pm £tbc ST BARTHOLOMEW’S CHURCH James Vincent McMorrow, The Staves Soulful mythic folk Details tbc SALLIS BENNEY THEATRE Kora Festival West African music performed by seven masters of the instrument 7pm £12/9 SIDEWINDER Robbie Bowers DJ plays early rock&roll and jump blues 9pm £free SIGNALMAN Tuaca Day 1990s theme party with dressing up and DJs 8pm £free STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Terrible Feelings Swedish pop punk band 7pm £tbc; Hit Git & Split Rockabilly, ska and rock&roll club night 11pm £5/3 THEATRE ROYAL Earthquakes In London Epic drama set against the breakdown of society’s crash and onwards into an imagined future 2.30pm/7.45pm £13.50-27.50 THOMAS KEMP DJ Bindo Indie and rock classics 9pm £free THREE & TEN The Great Puppet Horn Satirical shadow puppets (upstairs) 7pm £8/6; The Gentlemen of Leisure: The Death Of The Novel Cultural comedy show with an arty streak (upstairs) 8.30pm £8/6; Jody Lee Indie DJ (downstairs) 10pm £free TUBE Wolf Music: Bicep This big bad wolf is gonna blow your house down 11pm £5/4 VOLKS Frequency: The Upbeats, Btk, High Maintenance, D Double U, Deceit, Slimm DJs, Double J, Kerizma, Mark One, Degs, Imfamous, HSD, Vinyl Itchie, El Presidente, Sub Lo, Flipside, DJ Whyz Drum&bass sessions 10pm £2

sunday 16th

ABOVE AUDIO DJ Verity Mayes Time tbc £free AUDIO Substance Underground electronic music with tribal drumming 10pm £3/free BELUSHI’S BAR Now That’s What I Call A Party What did

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you call it before? 9pm £free BLACK LION Live & Swingin’ Gypsy Jazz 2pm £free BLIND TIGER Forest Of Thoughts An evening of talks and experiments 6pm £5 BRUNSWICK Rockschool Music showcase for young bands 12.30pm £tbc; Brighton Folk Monthly folk night 8pm £free CONCORDE2 Skepta Grime MC who took P Diddy on an educational tour of London’s top grime spots 7pm £9 CORN EXCHANGE Tony Hawks: Random Fun Part of Brighton Comedy Festival 7.30pm £14/12; Stephen Grant: The Clown Joules Part of Brighton Comedy Festival 9.30pm £12/10 CUBE Chilled Sunday Laid back grooves Time tbc £free DOME Margaret Cho: Cho Dependent Part of Brighton Comedy Festival 8pm £20 DUKE OF NORFOLK Live Music Night 9pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA The Boy Mir pm FIDDLER’S ELBOW Sham-Rock Open Mic 8.30pm £free FOUNTAIN HEAD Reggae Roasts Chilled reggae beats Time tbc £free GLOBE Rockoustic Open Jam Live acoustic music 9pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Sunday Service Live music 5pm £free; Green Door Blues Blues band and DJs 10pm £free HAUNT Apparat, When Saints Go Machine Evolutionary electronic with Moderat’s Sascha Ring 7pm £tbc HONEY Sundays At The Honey If your house was this sexy you’d soon wear out the wallpaper 11pm £3/2/free HOPE Enablers, Kogumaza, Sweet Williams Proggy Californian post-rock band 8pm £7 HYDRANT DOWN Depth Charge: The Lanes, Pint Size Hero, Letters To Daisy Indie and rock night with an open mic spot 7pm £free HYDRANT UP Random Hand, The Junk, Anti Vigilante Punky ska bands 7.30pm £7 KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club: The Noise Next Door, Craig Hill, Keith Farnan, Maff Brown Stand-up comedy 8pm £11.50/6.50 KOMEDIA STUDIO Lorraine Bowen’s Polyester Fiesta!

A catwalk-cabaret celebrating 70 years of polyester, accompanied by novelty keyboard ditties 8pm £10 KOMEDIA UP Chapel Club Young London quintet taking another stab at post-punk shoegaze 7pm £10.50 LATEST MUSIC BAR World Service Project Edgy and experimental fusion of jazz, punk and improvised otherness 8pm £6 LECONFIELD Boozy Bingo Old is the new young 6pm £1 NEPTUNE Louis B Live acoustic blues 8.30pm £free PAVILION THEATRE Jason Cook: The Search For Happiness Part of Brighton Comedy Festival 7.45pm £12/10; Mike Wilmot Part of Brighton Comedy Festival 9.30pm £12/10 PRINCE ALBERT Eric Taylor Live music 7pm £10 RANELAGH Simon Sparrow Blues and rock 8.30pm £free RIKI TIK Riki Fliks Film night showing classic movies and new shorts Details tbc SIGNALMAN Open Mic Night 8.15pm £free THEATRE ROYAL Fascinating Aida: Cheap Flights Female musical comedy trio who took Ryan Air to task with their Irish folk satire 7.30pm £20.50 THOMAS KEMP Miss Mandy Live jazz duo 4pm £free THREE & TEN The Great Puppet Horn Satirical shadow puppets 7pm £8/6; The Gentlemen of Leisure: The Death Of The Novel Cultural comedy show with an arty streak 8.30pm £8/6

monday 17TH

ABOVE AUDIO Banana Island 10pm £2 ANCIENT MARINER Quiz Night 8pm £1 BELUSHI’S BAR Now That’s What I Call A Party What did you call it before? 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Fallout Live rock bands 9pm £2/1 BLIND TIGER The Mash Motown and vintage funk night 7pm £free BRUNSWICK Brighton Stanza Poetry group 7pm £5; Open Mic Night 8.30pm £free COALITION Trash Mondays Filthy tunes for students and layabouts alike 10pm £5/3/free CONCORDE2 NME Radar Tour: Wolf Gang, S.C.U.M, Niki & The Dove, DZ Deathrays Bowie & Byrne inspired solo act headlines the NME’s new bands tour 7pm £9 CORN EXCHANGE Andy Parsons: Gruntled Part of Brighton Comedy Festival 7.30pm £15 CUBE Hoi Polloi Northern soul for the masses Time tbc £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Mark Kermode: The Good, The Bad And The Multiplex 7pm EXCHANGE INN Pub Quiz Time tbc £1 FOUNTAIN HEAD Open Mic Night 9pm £free GREENHOUSE BAR Open Mic 9.30pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Metal Mondays: Taken By The Tide, Daor Full metal racket 7pm £free HAUNT Coconut College Dumbed-down party music 11pm £1 HYDRANT DOWN Sam Craddock, Mikee J Reds, Elemae, Vic Payne A night of live acoustica 8pm £free LATEST MUSIC BAR Annika Brown And The Deep, Buffo’s Wake, Dave Blackwell Circus-themed album launch party for folky singer songwriter 8pm £free LIFE Jailbait Hits from the 90s for those too young to remember the first time 11pm £2 LOLA LO Fat Poppadaddys Student indie night 9pm £3 PRINCE ALBERT Access To Music Live music showcase 8pm £tbc QUADRANT Monday Night Comedy Club: Jo Neary

Charming Cornish character comedy 7.30pm £5/3 SIGNALMAN Pub Quiz 8pm £1 STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR IOU Comedy: Pat Cahill, Matthew Highton, Alex Petrovic Stand-up comedy 8pm £4; Modern Romance Brand new indie night 10.30pm £3/2/1 THOMAS KEMP Thru The Alphabet Quiz Night 8pm £1 VOLKS Strictly Reggae Dancehall, roots, revival 11pm £5/4.50

Tuesday 18TH

BELUSHI’S BAR Totalled On Tuesday! Pop and dance 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW DJ Star DJ competition open to all 9pm £free BLACK LION Hit The Decks Open decks spin off (book a slot online) 9pm £free BRUNSWICK Jazz Jam Open session with house band 8pm £free COALITION Full Volume If your bass was this filthy you’d have to take it back to the fishmongers 10.30pm £4/3/2 CONCORDE2 Julian Cope Former singer of the Teardrop Explodes now on a one-man mission to prove that archaeology is the new rock and roll 7.30pm £17.50 CORN EXCHANGE Joe Pasquale Part of Brighton Comedy Festival 7.30pm £15/13 DIGITAL CU Next Tuesday It’ll teach the universities to timetable lectures for Wednesday mornings 11pm £4/3 DOME Noah & The Whale Lush English indie folk 7.30pm £17.50/15.50 DUKE OF NORFOLK Open Mic 9pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Beautiful Lies 11am FIDDLER’S ELBOW Quizness Time Are you a pub quiz whizz, or bit of a half-wit? 8pm £1 GLOBE Basement Cinema Underground films, comfy seats, free popcorn 8pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Circle, Baron, Brain Jelly “Apocalyptic Valkyries clad in studded leather hurtling across the frozen tundra on slavering Jabberwockies” 8pm £8; Hard Times They can take our disposable income, but they’ll never take our nowave disco! 10pm £free HAUNT Wakey! Wakey!, To Kill A King Brooklyn-based indie chamber pop 7pm £10 HONEY LMFAO Tuesday It’s good that someone else finds R&B innately amusing 10.30pm £4/3/2 HYDRANT DOWN The More Ons, Smiling Ivy Indie rock bands 8pm £free KOMEDIA DOWN Roachford Soulful singer songwriter responsible for the 1989 hit single, Cuddly Toy 7.30pm £16.50 KOMEDIA UP Sam Duckworth Solo project from the singer of Get Cape Wear Cape 7.30pm £10 LATEST MUSIC BAR Cafe Scientifique Let’s talk about science, baby 8pm £free LECONFIELD Tuesday Teaser Pub quiz 9pm £1 LIFE Drop Out Student night that’s almost as likely to ruin your degree as Tory education policy 11pm £free LOLA LO Dirtee Laundry New venue for the long-running club night 10pm £6/4/2 LONDON UNITY Quiz Night Fun quiz with silly prizes 8pm £1 LORD NELSON General Knowledge Quiz Cash for questions 8.45pm £1 MESMERIST The Mesmerist Conjuring Consortium It could be a magical night 7.30pm £tbc MUCKY DUCK See You Next Tuesday Pub Quiz 8pm £1 NIGHTINGALE THEATRE Matteo Fargion & Jonathan Burrows Exploring the connections between music and dance with a show that also part lecture, part stand-up routine 7.30pm £8.50/6.50 OPEN HOUSE Jazz Work Shop Open jazz session 8pm £tbc OUCH! BAR OMC! Open Mic Performers get a recording of their set and the chance of a paid gig 8pm £free PAV TAV Guerilla Rocks Club night for rock chicks, skater bois and indie kids 11pm £3/2/1 PRINCE ALBERT Viking Moses Indie legend 7.30pm £7/6 RED LION Challenging General Knowledge & Music Quiz 8pm £1 RIKI TIK Freaks DJs play poppy hip hop, poppy indie and pop 9pm £free ST GEORGE’S CHURCH eSTOMPie! School kids team up with a bagpipe player and a STOMP performer to knock out some Medieval and Arabic dance music (Part of Brighton Early Music Festival) 6pm £3/2 SIDEWINDER Open Mic Night 8pm £free THEATRE ROYAL Tartuffe Roger McGough’s adaptation of Molière’s period comedy 7.45pm £tbc THOMAS KEMP Poker Evening 8pm £tbc TUBE Below The Line New DJ night streamed live 11pm £2 VOLKS Play With Yourself: Mister Green, Decknician, Slick Rick, First Stance New electro house night 10pm £4/3/ free

wednesday 19TH

ABOVE AUDIO The Doctor’s Orders Seriously sick hip hop 10pm £free AUDIO Supercharged: Donaeo Drum&bass and breaks 11pm £tbc BELUSHI’S BAR Now That’s What I Call A Party What did you call it before? 9pm £free BLACK LION Last Post On The Bugle Open mic night 8.30pm £free

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BLIND TIGER Lethal Quizzle Pub quiz with zany rounds 8pm £1 BRUNSWICK Live N Laughing: Tom Rosenthal Stand-up comedy 8pm £10/6 CASABLANCA Thanks For Your Request Funk and electro night with a live band Time tbc £2/1/free COALITION Chatham County Line Live roots-based Americana 7pm £14/12 CORN EXCHANGE Barry & Stuart Live! Part of Brighton Comedy Festival 7.30pm £14/12; Simon Evans: Fringe Magnet Part of Brighton Comedy Festival 9.30pm £13 CUBE Cubed House to the power of three Time tbc £free DIGITAL The Poundance Throw a coin at the monkey and it will grind the organ for you 11pm £4/3/1 DOME Sarah Millican: Throughly Modern Millican Part of Brighton Comedy Festival 8pm £20 DRUID’S ARMS Change The Tempo! DJ plays international sounds 9pm £free DUKE OF NORFOLK Quiz Night 8pm £1 DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Midnight In Paris 11am; We Are Poets 6pm FISHBOWL The Mixer Men Reggae and hip hop DJ mashup 10pm £free FOUNTAIN HEAD Student Night Indie rock tunes Time tbc £free GREEN DOOR STORE Paul Curreri Folk and blues singer songwriter 7.30pm £tbc; The Jazz Store Live jazz with an open jam 11pm £free HAUNT Pon De Floor New chart and pop music night 11pm £2/1 HOPE Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Give the man a clap, cos he won a hip hop battle / He’s not a dapper chap, just a rapper from Seattle 7.30pm £6.50 HYDRANT DOWN IAM:YOURHERO Live music 8pm £free KOMEDIA DOWN Mechanical Bride Minimalist and elegant singer songwriter 8pm £7 KOMEDIA UP Zion Train, Samsara Dub dance pioneers of roots reggae 8pm £12 LIFE Winning Alternative party music 11pm £3/2 LONDON UNITY Open Mic 8.30pm £free MARLBOROUGH THEATRE Open Mic 8.30pm £free MASH TUN Tin Cup Collective Live funk and soul band 9pm £free MEDICINE CHEST Autumn Swing Party More of the electro swing thing 6.30pm £free MESMERIST Swing Ninjas Uptempo gypsy band 9pm £free MUCKY DUCK Band Night Live music 8pm £free OLD MARKET Tony Law: Go Mr Tony Go! Part of Brighton Comedy Festival 7.30pm £12/10; Andrew O’Neill: Alternative Part of Brighton Comedy Festival 9pm £12/10 PAVILION THEATRE Idiots Of Ants: Model Citizens Part of Brighton Comedy Festival 7.45pm £12/10; Roisin Conaty: Destiny’s Dickhead Part of Brighton Comedy Festival 9.15pm £12 PRINCE ALBERT It Came From Japan: Tokyo Pinsalocks, Galapagoss, Hondalady Live music 8pm £5 RIKI TIK Hell On High Heels Sleazy rock and glam night 9pm £free SALLIS BENNEY THEATRE Dementia Diaries By Maria Jastrzebska Literary drama told through interweaving monologues 7.30pm £10/8/5 SIDEWINDER Ice Cream Beats: Music To Melt To Hip hop night Details tbc STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Elephant Stone Montreal indie stoners 7pm £6/5 THEATRE ROYAL Tartuffe Roger McGough’s adaptation of Molière’s period comedy 7.45pm £tbc THOMAS KEMP Kev’s Open Mic 8.30pm £free THREE & TEN Gerry Howell: Moonshine And Trumpery Comedy show about identity, sandwiches and horses 8pm £7/5 VOLKS Switch Up Drum&bass and dubstep night 11pm £2/ free

thursday 20TH

ABOVE AUDIO Maxxi Soundsystem Nu disco DJs 10pm £free AUDIO Bastard Pop Musical mash-up 11pm £2/free BELUSHI’S BAR Karaoke 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW House Party House and disco party 10pm £free BLACK LION Loose Fit Indie DJ night 8.30pm £free BRIGHTON MUSEUM Positive Hair Day Talk Exploring the heritage and experiences of the local black community via the subject of hair 4pm £free BLIND TIGER Dub Organiser Jam session with dub reggae band 7pm £3/free BRISTOL BAR Jack Kendon Live jazz 8pm £free BRUNSWICK NSPCC Fundraiser: Guns Akimbo Gandhi, Simonne Weeks, Paradise 9 Brighton bands join forces to raise funds for children’s charity 8pm £5 CASABLANCA Casa Jazz Jam Open jam for musician’s to play as many fancy chords as they can 8pm £free; Casa Funk Jam Open jam for musician’s to stay on the same same chord for as long as they can 11pm £2/1 COALITION Secret Discotheque Replaying the soundtrack to your youth 11pm £4/3/2 COBBLER’S THUMB Analogue Underground Radio Open mic night that’s also a live radio broadcast 8pm £free CONCORDE2 Pop Will Eat Itself When they formed in 1986 the band’s name probably seemed prescient. Little did they know that pop would then go on to shit itself out and begin eating itself all over again 7.30pm £16; Retox No gimmicks, just beats and bass 11pm £2-5

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CORN EXCHANGE Zoe Lyons: Some Random Part of Brighton Comedy Festival 7.30pm £14/12; Best Of Chortle

Awards: Andrew Lawrence, Late Night Gimp Fight, Joe Lycett Part of Brighton Comedy Festival 9.30pm £14/12 CUBE Cube Live Live acoustic music Time tbc £free DOME Micky Flanagan: Out Out! Part of Brighton Comedy

Festival 8pm £17.50 DRUID’S ARMS Mulatones Live band playing a pumped-up mix of drum&bass, Balkan beats and Latin jazz 8pm £free FIDDLER’S ELBOW Live Lounge Live music 8.30pm £free FISHBOWL Residents Association DJs play hip hop, funk and world beats 10.30pm £free GOOD COMPANIONS Dr Bluegrass & The Illbilly 8 Brighton’s busiest buskers - country standards and pop covers put through the hillbilly thresher 8pm £free GLOBE Hang The DJ! A night of punter-picked playlists 9pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Andy White & Stephen Fearing Belfast troubadour collaborates with Canadian singer songwriter 8pm £10/9; Paradise City Are you bringing your daughter to the slaughter? 11pm £free HAUNT Dark Party Indie night to end indie nights 11pm £tbc HONEY Exposed! Club night playing electro, dubstep and funky house 10.30pm £3.50/2 HOPE Spotlight Kid, Lillian Gish Krautrock and shoegaze in one handy helping 7.30pm £6 HYDRANT DOWN Dharma Kin Live music 8pm £free HYDRANT UP Brighton Records Showcase Live music 8pm £2 KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club: Sean Collins, Paul Pirie, Andi Osho Stand-up comedy 8pm £9/6.50 KOMEDIA STUDIO Paul Foot: Still Life Surreal stand-up 8pm £12.50/10.50 LATEST MUSIC BAR Hollowmoon, Ampersand, Pete Fij, Terry Bickers “The aural equivalent of tearing a silk scarf from a rose bush.” 8pm £4/3 LIFE House Party! Dirty house mayhem 11pm £2 LOLA LO Kitsch Commercial but quirky club night 9pm £5/3 LONDON UNITY Texas Hold Em Poker night for serious players 8pm £5 MASH TUN They Mostly Come At Night Indie, electro and hip hop tunes 9pm £free MESMERIST Hollerin’ Stollar And The Pine Box Boys Foot-stomping blues explosion 9pm £free MUCKY DUCK Open Mic & Jam Session 8pm £free OLD MARKET Isy Suttie: Pearl & Dave Part of Brighton Comedy Festival 7.30pm £12/10; The Horne Section Part of Brighton Comedy Festival 9.30pm £15/13.50 PAV TAV Live Music 8pm £2 PAVILION THEATRE Nick Helm: Dare To Dream Part of Brighton Comedy Festival 7.45pm £12/10; Carl Donnelly 3: Carl Donnelier Part of Brighton Comedy Festival 9.15pm

£12/10 RANELAGH The Diablos Country rock 8.30pm £free RIKI TIK Das Club Robotique Pre-gangsta hip hop and post-disco disco 10pm £free PRINCE ALBERT Bullit, Drella, Another Costume Party Live music 8.30pm £4/3 ST JAMES’ TAVERN Stay Sick, Turn Blue DJs play vintage soul, jazz and blues 8.30pm £free STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Marble Valley, Horse Guards Parade Indie rock band with the drummer from Pavement (in the club) 7pm £7/6; Catholic Discipline Noise rock, disco pop and acid folk from the Superheroes of BMX (in the bar) 8pm £free; Thursday Night Fish Fry Jamaican ska and blues club (in the club) 11pm £3 THEATRE ROYAL Tartuffe Roger McGough’s adaptation of Molière’s period comedy 2.30pm/7.45pm £tbc THREE & TEN Phillip Jeays Witty and passionate singer whose contempt for the world is matched only by his love for Jacques Brel 8pm £8/5 VICTORY Open Mic 8pm £free VOLKS Subconscious: LX One, Benton, Marchmellow, Syz, Harbinger Dubstep night 11pm £6 WINDMILL Juice Free Music Thursday Live bands with an open mic session 8pm £free

friday 21ST

ANCIENT MARINER Soul Casserole A melting pot of hot reggae and Motown 8pm £free AUDIO Soul:R: Intalex, S.P.Y. Drum&bass label night 11pm £tbc BELUSHI’S BAR Muy Loco Pop and house DJs 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Abandoned Rock and metal night 10pm £3/2 BLACK LION Medium Rare Vs Molly Malone’s Dex In The City DJ night 8.30pm £free BLIND TIGER Yes Sir Boss Eight-piece brass and beats band 7pm £4/free BRUNSWICK Funky Buddha Band Their threefold path to enlightenment: funk, soul and Motown 8pm £5 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Funny Ha-Ha! Some people in a room trying to make you laugh (upstairs) 8pm £5; DJ Mendees & Clive Some people in a room trying to make you dance (downstairs) 9pm £free CASABLANCA Oomphf Funk and soul night with a live band 10pm £5 COALITION Friday I’m In Love No more lectures for a day or two 11pm £1-5 COBBLER’S THUMB Dr Bluegrass & The Illbilly 8 Brighton’s busiest buskers - country standards and pop covers put through the hillbilly thresher 8pm £free CONCORDE2 Yann Tiersen, The Lanterns On The Lake

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French multi-instrumentalist who composed the soundtrack to Amelie 7pm £18/16; Channel One Sound System Four hours of roots reggae from Notting Hill Carnival’s Mikey Dread 11pm £2 CORN EXCHANGE Jason Byrne: Cirque Du Byrne Part of Brighton Comedy Festival 7.30pm £15; Jimeoin: Lovely Part of Brighton Comedy Festival 9.30pm £14/12 CUBE Tech Noir House DJs Time tbc £free DIGITAL Stonelove Indie rock&roll club 11pm £4/3 DOCTOR BRIGHTON’S Funky Friday: DJ Nick Hirst, DJ Wayne 9.30pm £free DOME Best Of The Fest Highlights from Brighton Comedy Festival 8pm £16/14 DORSET ARMS Rockabilly Bash Rare and raucous rockabilly records with DJ Dave Mumbles 8pm £free DRUID’S ARMS Hot Pepper Sauce DJ Max plays funk, soul and house 10pm £free DUKE OF NORFOLK DJ MC Cashback 9pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Troll Hunter 11.30pm EASY BAR DJ Rudeben R&B, hip hop and reggae 8pm £free FISHBOWL Daddy Marcus Disco, soul and funk DJ 9pm £free FORTUNE OF WAR Fever: DJ Barry Dust Latin and salsa, funk and reggae 9pm £free FUNKYFISH The Funkyfish Club Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10pm £6/3.50 GLOBE Rum Fridays! DJ night 9pm £free GOOD COMPANIONS Ale Festival: The Swing Ninjas Live gypsy jazz, fete games and craft stalls 8pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Crash Club Presents Live music 7pm £5; Sub Bop Grunge isn’t dead 11pm £free HAUNT Tubelord Alt rock trio 7pm £tbc; Flava In Ya Ear It’z da sikest hip hop nite eva 11pm £4/3 H-BAR BodyBeat Drum & Bass: Crystal Clear, Brown B, Skatman B, Dead Noize, Bongo Bros Drum&bass night with live percussionists Details tbc HONEY Lollipop Get your fingers sticky to house and hip hop treats 10.30pm £5/4/3 HOPE Jam Grand: Gyratory Allstars, FUR, Frankie Young, Soul Food A new night of live bands playing funk, soul, hip hop and jazz 8pm £tbc HYDRANT DOWN Ellen And The Echo, The Vaudeville Live music 8pm £free KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club: Sean Collins, Steve Gribbin, Andi Osho Stand-up comedy 7.30pm £14.50/11.50; Born Bad Rockabilly and great garage scuzz 11pm £6/5 KOMEDIA STUDIO Jazz Morley, Amy Studt, Gabrielle Aplin, Kate Walsh, Ben Montague A whole covern of singer songwriters 8pm £15/13 KOMEDIA UP Voodoo Vaudeville: The Murder Musical Enter the underbelly of the West End musical in this dark cabaret 9pm £10 LATEST MUSIC BAR Family Funktunes & Vinyl

Veterans: Dante, Delv, SiSupahoop, Nick Mellor, Mac McRaw, Matt The Hat, Rob Life, Bobby Boucher, Mr Krum, Scratchy Muffin Funk, disco and hip hop night raising

funds for Rocking Horse Appeal 9pm £5 LIFE Hot Wuk: The Heatwave & Sticky Carnival and bashment vibes 11pm £3 LOLA LO Tiki Beats Totally tropical tunes 8pm £5/4/3 LONDON UNITY Second Hand String Band Ale and folk night 8.30pm £free LORD NELSON Beer Festival Live music and real ale 12noon £free MARLBOROUGH THEATRE I Heart Electro For all your dirty electro needs 9pm £free MESMERIST Shake, Holla & Roll Swing jazz and R&B designed to get you dancing 9pm £free MUCKY DUCK The Mucky Club Soul, funk and hip hop night 8pm £free NEPTUNE Adrian Harvey Live country, blues and rock&roll 8.30pm £free NORTHERN LIGHTS Hot-Tip Hi-Fi DJs play early reggae and rocksteady 9pm £free OLD MARKET Marcel Lucont: Encore Part of Brighton Comedy Festival 7.30pm £10; Josh Widdicombe: If This Show Saves Just One Life Part of Brighton Comedy Festival 9pm £10; Vikki Stone & The Flashbacks: Big Neon Letters Part of Brighton Comedy Festival 10.30pm £10 OUCH! BAR Retro Night Music from the 1980s 8pm £free PAV TAV Totally 80s Club night dedicated to the decade when it all went wrong 11pm £2 PAVILION THEATRE John Moloney: Butterflies With Stretchmarks Part of Brighton Comedy Festival 7.45pm £12/10; Pete Firman: Jiggery Pokery Part of Brighton Comedy Festival 9.15pm £12/10 PRINCE ALBERT Royal Blood, Chemical Choir, Plasticine Live music 8.30pm £tbc RANELAGH Bad Bad Whiskey Skifflebilly trio 8pm £free RIKI TIK Kung Fu Funk, soul and reggae night 9pm £free ST GEORGE’S CHURCH The Strictly BREMF Masked Ball Pull on your finest ruff and party like it’s 1699 (Part of Brighton Early Music Festival) 8pm £18/15 SALLIS BENNEY THEATRE A Journey Into Black Hairitage: My Nappy Roots Film exploring the politics, culture and history of African American hair 7.45pm £5/4 SIDEWINDER DJ Uncle Al Hip hop and funky breaks 9pm £free STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Boss Tuneage An entire night of Bruce Springsteen - more than his wife ever got (in the bar) 8pm £free; The Berg Sans Nipple, AK/DK Synth pop electronica duo (in the club) 7pm £8.50/7.50; Kick Out The Jams New club night with no added gimmicks, just straight up rock&roll (in the club) 11pm £free THEATRE ROYAL Tartuffe Roger McGough’s adaptation of

Molière’s period comedy 7.45pm £tbc THOMAS KEMP DJ Breakin’ Bear Electro-funk and club classics 9pm £free THREE & TEN The Humble Quest For Universal Genius Absurd gameshow in which comedians are required to excel in every field of human knowledge (upstairs) 8.30pm £8/6; DJ Juan Corbi DJ playing funk, soul and old school hip hop (downstairs) 10pm £free TUBE Friday 45 From funk to disco and back again via deep house 11pm £2 VOLKS Analogue: Dub Mafia Live Drum&bass Time tbc £6

saturday 22ND

ANCIENT MARINER Porchlightsmoker Folk and bluegrass band 8pm £free AUDIO Warehouse: Russ Chimes House and techno club night - with Mex from Blackgrass playing rare grooves upstairs 11pm £7/5/free BEACHIGOGO The R&B Lounge R&B (in the main room) 11pm £6/5; Good Times Remember them? Maybe the feelgood retro tunes will jog your memory (in the White Room) 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BAR Unplugged Live acoustic music 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW FacePlant New punk and ska night 10pm £5/4 BLACK LION Attic Monkeys There’s far worse things you could have in your attic than crates of vinyl. Here’s some of them: 1970s yogurt, an illegal kitten farm, Hitler 9pm £free BLIND TIGER Breakout Zoo Live reggae, funk and breakdancing 7pm £4/free BLATCHINGTON MILL SCHOOL The Beggar’s Opera Remix School kids perform a modernised version of John Gay’s 18th century comic opera (Part of Brighton Early Music Festival) 3pm £5/3 BRIGHTON BALLROOM Margot’s Bollywood Boudoir Cabaret and burlesque night with DJs playing sassy house and diva disco 10pm £10 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Cazza Karaoke 8.30pm £free CASABLANCA Funky Fiesta: Soul City Soul and Motown club with a live band Time tbc £7 COALITION Wired: Vincent Manganaro, Vince Frimpong, Charles Green, Charly Lopez House DJs and VJs 11pm £8; Blow After Party: Vincent Manganaro, Carlos Riz, Aaron Palaez It never stops 3am £7/5/4 COBBLER’S THUMB Livewire 3: Rough Citizen, Jipsy Magic, The Machiavelli, The Long Goodbye, Daniel James, Kate Williams Overhead Wires Music celebrate their 3rd birthday with a full-roster indie rock line-up 4pm £free CONCORDE2 Beach Of The Dead V: Flying White Dots, Teen Creeps, Breakin Bear, MC Cashback, Stay Sick DJS, Fred Bare & Acacia Blue Zombie afterlife-party with disco mash-up DJs and burlesque acts 4pm £3; Devotion: Andy C Drum&bass night 11pm £12.50; Channel One Sound System Four hours of roots reggae from Notting Hill Carnival’s Mikey Dread 11pm £2 CORN EXCHANGE Seann Walsh: Ying & Yang Part of Brighton Comedy Festival 7.30pm £12/10 CUBE Simply House House DJs Time tbc £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 Jack Whitehall: Let’s Not Speak Of This Again Part of Brighton Comedy Festival 8pm £15 DRUID’S ARMS DJ Green Man’s Garden Of Delights A mixed bag of soul, psychedelia, funk, folk and pop 10pm £free EASY BAR DJ Rudeben R&B, hip hop and reggae 8pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA The Story Of Lover’s Rock 1.30pm FIDDLER’S ELBOW Saturday Sizzlers: Soul Casserole A melting pot of hot funk beats and Latin jazz 9pm £free FISHBOWL Riddim Fruit & Cast A Blast Records: Ben Adams, Blend Mishkin, Cut La Vis Reggae, dancehall and hip hop DJs 9pm £free FORTUNE OF WAR JFB The UK DMC champion brings his turntables to the seafront 9pm £free FUNKYFISH The Funkyfish Club Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10pm £6/3.50 GLOBE The Acid House Old-school late 80s basement rave 9.30pm £free GOOD COMPANIONS Ale Festival: Wide Eyed Order Live gypsy jazz, fete games and craft stalls 12noon £free GREEN DOOR STORE Arcade (Not) Disco Coin-op arcade game retro fest 10am £free; Warm Brains, Colours, Pseudo Nippon Grungey Britpop-esque band featuring the guy out of Test Icicles 7.30pm £5/4; Go Bang Dance and disco club 11pm £free HAUNT Son Of Dave, Son Belly Stomping one-man blues racket 7pm £tbc; It Is Still 1985 Travel through time to an ancient realm where neon socks are quite the thing 10pm £3 H-BAR Contagious: Cheeky, Adam H, Dave Godding, Howie D, Nick T Vintage house and trance classics 9pm £3 HONEY Smartie Partie Club night for connoisseurs of four-tothe-floor happy house 10.30pm £10/8/5 HOPE The Hope Headbanger: Featuring Vier, Dead Empire, Dead Jester, Southern Discomfort, By Polaroid Heavy rock riffs raising funds for Oxfam 7.30pm £5 HORSE & GROOM Indie Pop Weekender: The Lovely Eggs, Tigercats, Anguish Sandwich, Tigercub, Stars Down To Earth, Beautiful Word Mini indie fest hosted by The

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Bobby McGees Details tbc HYDRANT DOWN New Town Kings, Electric River, Def City Collect Nine-piece ska and reggae band 8pm £free HYDRANT UP Fury UK, Shreddertron, Subservience Like being attacked by hammers, only noisier 8pm £tbc KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club: Sean Collins, Steve Gribbin, Andi Osho Stand-up comedy 7pm/8pm/10.30pm £7-18 KOMEDIA UP Erik Mongrain Acoustic guitarist with a selftaught ‘lap tapping’ style 7.30pm £14.50; Da Doo Ron Ron Club night with a thing for girlgroups and soul sirens, celebrating their 13th birthday - with guest DJ Simon Bridger 11.15pm £6/5/3 LIFE Hold Up! Long-running and much-loved indie night kept afloat by the influx of fresh-faced students 11pm £5 LOLA LO Zombie Nation Where the dancefloor is never dead 8pm £10/7/6 LORD NELSON Beer Festival Live music and real ale Time tbc £free MARLBOROUGH THEATRE The Steampunk Hidden Pleasure Garden An eccentric evening of neo Victorian music, burlesque and parlour games (upstairs) 8pm £8/5; Cherry Pop Cheese and 80s trash with DJ Fondue Inferno (downstairs) 9pm £free MESMERIST Juke Joint Jamboree Vintage dancefloor gems from the days of jive and jazz 9pm £free NEW VENTURE THEATRE Love Letters The story of two upper class Americans and their unfulfilled fifty-year romance told through theatrical readings from their letters 7.45pm £9 NORTHERN LIGHTS DJ Jazzy D Jazz, funk and soul 9pm £free OLD MARKET Diane Spencer: All-Pervading Madness Part of Brighton Comedy Festival 7.30pm £10; Late Night Gimp Fight Part of Brighton Comedy Festival 9.30pm £10 PAV TAV Back To The Future Retro tunes from before you were born 11pm £3/2 PAVILION THEATRE Little Howard’s Big Show Part of Brighton Comedy Festival 2pm £10/8; Funny Women Part of Brighton Comedy Festival 7.45pm £10 PRINCE ALBERT Club Meow Meow: Little Triggers, Soul Grenade Ska night 8.30pm £4 RANELAGH The Savages Classic rock 8.30pm £free RIKI TIK ALTA: Alvaro Hylander, Will Sumsuch, Tim ‘Bongos’ Mercer Deep, deep house 9pm £free ST GEORGE’S CHURCH A Song And Dance With The BREMF Players Dance music from the olden days (Part of Brighton Early Music Festival) 7.30pm £6-22 SALLIS BENNEY BBC Radio 3 Early Music Show: Les

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Interviews and special performances (Part of Brighton Early Music Festival) 1pm £free SIDEWINDER Philip Marten Rock&roll and jazz DJ set with Phil from Turin Breaks 9pm £free STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Singing Adams, Laura J Martin Indie rock band featuring members of The Broken Family Band, Absentee and Saloon 7pm £8/6.50 THEATRE ROYAL Tartuffe Roger McGough’s adaptation of Molière’s period comedy 2.30pm/7.45pm £tbc THOMAS KEMP DJ Jody Lee Hooker Soul, dance and funk classics 9pm £free THREE AND TEN Phillipa And Will Are In A Relationship Just in case you’ve not had enough FMLs from recently-dumped friends, now you can watch the story of a rocky romance told entirely through Facebook updates (upstairs) 6pm £7/5; Thom Tuck Goes Straight To DVD A man goes mad watching too many shit Disney films and now he wants to tell you all about it (upstairs) 7pm £8/6; Trevor Lock Stand-up comic with a flair for improvisation (upstairs) 8.30pm £8/6; Red Brick Comedy Club Stand-up comedy done the proper way - in front of a brick wall (upstairs) 10pm £10/8; Matt Barker Magnificently turned out DJ with impeccable hair (downstairs) 10pm £free TUBE Jackmaster DJ set from part of the Glasgow’s Numbers crew 11pm £5/4 VICTORY Fernando Poo Glam rock tunes from the days before Glitter was a dirty word 9pm £free VOLKS Simply Vinyl: Ant TC1, Artificial Intelligence, Octane & DLR, Zero T, Script, MC Fokus Celebrating ten years of Dispatch Records’ drum&bass 11pm £6 WEST HILL TAVERN L’Amour Electronique French pop and electronic delights pour vous 9pm £free

sunday 23RD

ABOVE AUDIO DJ Verity Mayes Time tbc £free BELUSHI’S BAR Now That’s What I Call A Party What did you call it before? 9pm £free BLACK LION Live & Swingin’ Gypsy Jazz 8pm £free BLIND TIGER Grasscut Ninja Tunes’ laptop electronica duo 7pm £5/free BRIGHTON BALLROOM Real Estate, Spectrals Lo-fi New Jersey indie rockers 7.30pm £10/9 BRIGHTON MUSEUM India Celebrations A day of traditional Indian music and lots of hands-on crafty activities 1pm £10/9 BRUNSWICK Full Circle Live jazz 8pm £7/5 CONCORDE2 Maverick Sabre Guitarist and rapper attempting to unite R&B and folk 7pm £10.50 CUBE Chilled Sundays Laid back grooves Time tbc £free DOME Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra Music by Haydn, Albinoni, Vivaldi and Mozart 2.45pm £9-32 DOME FOYER Herbie Flowers’ Jazz Breakfast Celebrated bassist smears your toast with his jazz 11am £5 DUKE OF NORFOLK Live Music Night 9pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Tomboy 1.30pm FIDDLER’S ELBOW Sham-Rock Open Mic 8.30pm £free

FOUNTAIN HEAD Reggae Roasts Chilled reggae beats Time tbc £free GLOBE Rockoustic Open Jam Live acoustic music 9pm £free GOOD COMPANIONS Ale Festival: Francis & Boyd Live folk, fete games and craft stalls 12noon £free GREEN DOOR STORE Sunday Service Live music 5pm £free; Green Door Blues Blues band and DJs 10pm £free HONEY Sundays At The Honey If your house was this sexy you’d need to keep the letterbox well-oiled 11pm £3/2/free HOPE Lindi Ortega Alt country singer tours her debut album 7.30pm £7 HORSE & GROOM Indie Pop Weekender: The Lovely Eggs, Tigercats, Anguish Sandwich, Tigercub, Stars Down To Earth, Beautiful Word Mini indie fest hosted by The Bobby McGees Details tbc HYDRANT DOWN The Broken Hearts, Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers Music to be broken to 8pm £free KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club: Sean Collins, Andi Osho Stand-up comedy 8pm £11.50/6.50 KOMEDIA UP Jerry Sadowitz: Comedian, Magician, Psychopath Some people might find this comedy offensive, some people might even find it funny 8.30pm £17.50 LATEST MUSIC BAR Paul Diello, Justin Saltmeris Melancholic piano pop 8pm £tbc LECONFIELD Boozy Bingo Old is the new young 6pm £1 LORD NELSON Beer Festival Live music and real ale Time tbc £free NEPTUNE Thesius And Friends Live acoustic rock 8.30pm £free NEW VENTURE THEATRE Love Letters The story of two upper class Americans and their unfulfilled fifty-year romance told through theatrical readings from their letters 2.30pm £9 PAVILION THEATRE Tucked In: Tim And Light Fairytale story about a boy and a cat 11.30am/2.30pm £5-22 PRINCE ALBERT Good Luck Mountain, Ana Egge, The Koan Brothers Live music 7.30pm £6 RANELAGH Blacken Blues Band New Orleans blues rock 8.30pm £free RIKI TIK Riki Fliks Film night showing classic movies and new shorts Details tbc ST BARTHOLOMEW’S CHURCH Sacred Hearts And Secret Music Musical drama based on the novel of the same name combining political intrigue and classical choirs (Part of Brighton Early Music Festival) 7.30pm £6-17 SIGNALMAN Open Mic Night 8.15pm £free THEATRE ROYAL Vagina Monologues Three women talk endlessly about their unmentionables 7.30pm £22.50/21 THREE AND TEN Phillipa And Will Are In A Relationship Just in case you’ve not had enough FMLs from recently-dumped friends, now you can watch the story of a rocky romance told entirely through Facebook updates 6pm £7/5; Thom Tuck Goes Straight To DVD A man goes mad watching too many shit Disney films and now he wants to tell you all about it 7pm £8/6; The Three Englishmen Very English humour with surreal sketches and comedy songs 8.30pm £8/6

monday 24th

ABOVE AUDIO Banana Island 10pm £2 AUDIO Substance Underground electronic music with tribal drumming 10pm £3/free ANCIENT MARINER Quiz Night 8pm £1 BELUSHI’S BAR Now That’s What I Call A Party What did you call it before? 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Fallout Live rock bands 9pm £2/1 BLACK LION The Lion, The Wit And The Frontal Lobe Pub quiz 9pm £free BLIND TIGER The Mash Motown and vintage funk night 7pm £free BRUNSWICK Open Mic Night 8.30pm £free COALITION Trash Mondays Filthy tunes for students and layabouts alike 10pm £5/3/free CORN EXCHANGE Chilingirian Quartet Music by Mozart and Ravel 7pm £17.50 CUBE Hoi Polloi Northern soul for the masses Time tbc £free EXCHANGE INN Pub Quiz Time tbc £1 FOUNTAIN HEAD Open Mic Night 9pm £free GREENHOUSE BAR Open Mic 9.30pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Metal Mondays: Gorse Full metal racket 7pm £free HAUNT Coconut College Dumbed-down party music 11pm £1 HYDRANT DOWN The M Theory, Elephants From Neptune Live music 8pm £free KOMEDIA DOWN Benjamin Francis Leftwich, Daughter Pretty Brit-folk 8pm £8 KOMEDIA UP Baxter Dury Upbeat “seaside psychedelia” from Ian’s son 7.30pm £8 LIFE Jailbait Hits from the 90s for those too young to remember the first time 11pm £3/2 LOLA LO Fat Poppadaddys Student indie night 9pm £3 PRINCE ALBERT The Rock Of Travolta, Hind Ear Neoclassical post-rock from Radiohead’s Oxford proteges 8pm £5 QUADRANT Monday Night Comedy Club: Nick Helm Stand-up comedian armed with the best joke of this year’s Edinburgh festival 7.30pm £5/3 SIGNALMAN Pub Quiz 8pm £1 STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Modern Romance Brand new indie night 10.30pm £3/2/1 THEATRE ROYAL Dr Marigold, Mr Chops Simon Callow stars in two short plays written by Charles Dickens 7.45pm £1334.50 VOLKS Strictly Reggae Dancehall, roots, revival 11pm £5/4.50

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BELUSHI’S BAR Totalled On Tuesday! Pop and dance 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW DJ Star DJ competition open to all 9pm £free BLACK LION Hit The Decks Open decks spin off (book a slot online) 9pm £free BRIGHTON CENTRE The Specials Ska revival band revived once more (this show has now sold out) 8pm £35 BRUNSWICK Jazz Jam Open session with house band 8pm £free COALITION The Gilded Palace of Sin: Chatham County Line, Salter Cane American bluegrass group 7.30pm £12; Full Volume If your bass was this filthy you’d have to take it back to the fishmongers 10.30pm £4/3/2 CONCORDE2 The Horrors, Toy Moody new wave for indie kids too hip to be proper goths (this show has now sold out) 8pm £14/12 DIGITAL CU Next Tuesday It’ll teach the universities to timetable lectures for Wednesday mornings 11pm £4/3 DOME Kate Rusby Singer songwriter with a finely-wrought style and a fresh take on traditional English folk 7pm £17.50 DUKE OF NORFOLK Open Mic 9pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Tomboy 11am; Why?, Serengeti Avant hip hop trio on a mini tour of special grand piano shows 9pm £tbc FIDDLER’S ELBOW Quizness Time Are you a pub quiz whizz, or bit of a half-wit? 8pm £1 FRIEND’S MEETING HOUSE Strictly Carnival! Traditional dance music for “people can’t sit still” (Part of Brighton Early Music Festival) 6.30pm £12/10 GLOBE Basement Cinema Underground films, comfy seats and free popcorn 8pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Hard Times They can take our disposable income, but they’ll never take our nowave disco!

11pm £free HAUNT Peggy Sue Brighton’s best post-folk pop duo have ditched the pirates, grown into a five-piece and returned with a brand new album 7.30pm £8; The Specials Aftershow Party 11pm £tbc HONEY LMFAO Tuesday It’s good that someone else finds R&B innately amusing 10.30pm £4/3/2 HYDRANT DOWN Band Camp: Battle Of The Bands Live music 8pm £free LATEST MUSIC BAR Dave Arcari Alt country guitar man with a rockabilly edge 8pm £6/5 LECONFIELD Tuesday Teaser Pub quiz 9pm £1 LIFE Drop Out Student night that’s almost as likely to ruin your degree as Tory education policy 11pm £free LOLA LO Dirtee Laundry New venue for the long-running club night 10pm £6/4/2 LONDON UNITY Quiz Night Fun quiz with silly prizes 8pm £1 LORD NELSON General Knowledge Quiz Cash for questions 8.45pm £1 MARLBOROUGH THEATRE Closer By Patrick Marber An uncompromising comedy of betrayal written by the playwright otherwise known as Peter O’Hanrahahanrahan 7.30pm £8.50/6.50 MESMERIST The Mesmerist Conjuring Consortium It could be a magical night 7.30pm £tbc MUCKY DUCK See You Next Tuesday Pub Quiz 8pm £1 NEW VENTURE THEATRE Love Letters The story of two upper class Americans and their unfulfilled fifty-year romance told through theatrical readings from their letters 7.45pm £9 NORTHERN LIGHTS Ska Day Get those knees warmed up for The Specials gig 5pm £free OPEN HOUSE Jazz Work Shop Open jazz session 8pm £tbc OUCH! BAR OMC! Open Mic Performers get a recording of their set and the chance of a paid gig 8pm £free PAV TAV Guerilla Rocks Club night for rock chicks, skater bois and indie kids 11pm £3/2/1 PRINCE ALBERT External Tapestry, Alexandra Tucker, Hexenverfolgung Live music 8pm £7.50 RED LION Challenging General Knowledge & Music Quiz 8pm £1 RIKI TIK Freaks DJs play poppy hip hop, poppy indie and pop 9pm £free SIDEWINDER Open Mic Night 8pm £free STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Josh Pyke, Passenger Australian indie singer songwriter 7.30pm £12/10; Phat Sessions Chalk your name up, join in the jam 10pm £4/3 THEATRE ROYAL Dr Marigold, Mr Chops Simon Callow stars in two short plays written by Charles Dickens 7.45pm £1334.50 THOMAS KEMP Poker Evening 8pm £tbc TUBE Below The Line New DJ night streamed live 11pm £2 VOLKS Play With Yourself: Mister Green, Decknician, Slick Rick, First Stance New electro house night 10pm £4/3/ free

wednesday 26TH

ABOVE AUDIO The Doctor’s Orders Seriously sick hip hop 10pm £free AUDIO Supercharged: DJ EZ Drum&bass and breaks 11pm £tbc BELUSHI’S BAR Now That’s What I Call A Party What did you call it before? 9pm £free BLACK LION Fresh Acoustics Live music 8.30pm £free BLIND TIGER Lethal Quizzle Pub quiz with zany rounds

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8pm £1 CASABLANCA Thanks For Your Request Funk and electro night with a live band Time tbc £2/1/free CORN EXCHANGE The Featherstonehaughs Lea Anderson’s contemporary dance company get inspired by the artist Egon Schiele 8pm £12.50/7.50 CUBE Cubed House to the power of three Time tbc £free DIGITAL The Poundance Throw a coin at the monkey and it will grind the organ for you 11pm £4/3/1 DOME Tindersticks A collaboration between the indie band and French filmmaker Claire Denis 8.30pm £18.50/15 DRUID’S ARMS Change The Tempo! DJ plays international sounds 9pm £free DUKE OF NORFOLK Quiz Night 8pm £1 DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Tomboy 11am FISHBOWL DJ Gareth Stephens Swing, soul and ska 10pm £free FOUNTAIN HEAD Student Night Indie rock tunes Time tbc £free GREEN DOOR STORE Juice New Music Showcase: The Special K’s, Curxes Electro pop band 7.30pm £4; The Jazz Store Live jazz with an open jam 11pm £free HAUNT Baby Dee, Doug Tielli American singer songwriter with performance art tendencies 7.30pm £13/10; Pon De Floor New chart and pop music night 11pm £2/1 HYDRANT DOWN Echo Rain, Streetfight Silence Live music 8pm £free HYDRANT UP Blackhoods, Sly And The Family Drone Live music 8pm £tbc LATEST MUSIC BAR PomPoms Up! Light-hearted show about the glamour business - hosted by Carol Cleveland, aka the ‘7th Python’ 8pm £10/8; Aging Is Amazing: A Cabaret A song and dance travesty staring Lynn Ruth Miller 9pm £10/8 LIFE Winning Alternative party music 11pm £3/2 LONDON UNITY Open Mic 8.30pm £free MARLBOROUGH THEATRE Closer By Patrick Marber An uncompromising comedy of betrayal written by the playwright otherwise known as Peter O’Hanrahahanrahan (upstairs) 7.30pm £8.50/6.50; Open Mic (Downstairs) 8.30pm £free MASH TUN Tin Cup Collective Live funk and soul band 9pm £free MEDICINE CHEST Autumn Swing Party More of the electro swing thing 6.30pm £free MESMERIST Swing Ninjas Uptempo gypsy band 9pm £free NEW VENTURE THEATRE Love Letters The story of two upper class Americans and their unfulfilled fifty-year romance told through theatrical readings from their letters 7.45pm £9 OPEN HOUSE Safehouse Improvised live music 8pm £6/5 OLD MARKET Glasvegas Cinematic wall-of-sound rock&roll 7pm £19/17 OUCH! BAR OMC! Wired Live Music Party The pick of the month’s open mic’ers 8pm £free PRINCE ALBERT Left Arm Pregnant Live music 7pm £4/3 RIKI TIK Hell On High Heels Sleazy rock and glam night 9pm £free SIDEWINDER Ice Cream Beats: Music To Melt To Hip hop night Details tbc STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Soulfood Funk, hip hop and disco night 10.30pm £3/2 THEATRE ROYAL Dr Marigold, Mr Chops Simon Callow stars in two short plays written by Charles Dickens 7.45pm £1334.50 THOMAS KEMP Kev’s Open Mic 8.30pm £free THREE AND TEN The Hee Ha’s Improvised comedy where you provide the ideas 8pm £7/5 VOLKS Switch Up Drum&bass and dubstep night 11pm £2/ free

thursday 27TH

ABOVE AUDIO Maxxi Soundsystem Nu disco DJs 10pm £free AUDIO Bastard Pop Musical mash-up 11pm £2/free BELUSHI’S BAR Karaoke 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW House Party House and disco party 10pm £free BLACK LION The Lion’s Raw! Live music 8.30pm £free BLIND TIGER King Lagoon’s Flying Swordfish Dance Band, Kalakuta DJs Live band 7pm £3/free BRISTOL BAR Jack Kendon Live jazz 8pm £free BRUNSWICK Jeudi Soir, King Size Slim New blues night 8pm £free CASABLANCA Casa Jazz Jam Open jam for musician’s to play as many fancy chords as they can 8pm £free; Casa Funk Jam Open jam for musician’s to stay on the same same chord for as long as they can 11pm £2/1 COALITION Wu Lyf Lo-fi indie buzz-band 7pm £9.50/8.50; Secret Discotheque Replaying the soundtrack to your youth 11pm £4/3/2 COBBLER’S THUMB Analogue Underground Radio Open mic night that’s also a live radio broadcast 8pm £free CONCORDE2 Turisas Not since Manowar has anyone been so successful in convincing themselves that they are a tribe of mythic warriors rather than a ridiculous metal band 7pm £12; Eskmo, Jeremiah Jae, Anxst Warp Records’ Brendan Angelides does a live AV set 11pm £free CUBE Cube Live Live acoustic music Time tbc £free DRUID’S ARMS Special Guest Check the pub’s fan page to solve the mystery Details tbc FIDDLER’S ELBOW Live Lounge Live music 8.30pm £free FISHBOWL The Mixer Men: 4 Deck Session Turntable mashups 10.30pm £free GLOBE Hang The DJ! A night of punter-picked playlists 9pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Bastille Indie electronica band that

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began life as a singer songwriter’s solo project 7.30pm £free; Paradise City Will you be gone when the morning comes?

11pm £free HAUNT Eileen Jewell Live music 7.30pm £tbc; Dark Party Indie night to end indie nights 11pm £tbc HONEY Exposed! Club night playing electro, dubstep and funky house 10.30pm £3.50/2 HOPE Communion: Nimmo & The Guantletts, Deaf Club, Foxx On Fire Live music 7.30pm £tbc HYDRANT DOWN Klink Presents Live music 8pm £free KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club: Kerry

Godliman, Rufus Hound, Adam Bloom, Stephen Grant

Stand-up comedy 8pm £9/6.50 KOMEDIA STUDIO The Spirit of Gravity: Bang The

Bore,

Ashtray

Navigations,

UltraHummanitarian,

Duncan Harrison, Hakarl Sailing on the strange seas of experimental electronica on the good ship improv 8pm £9/6.50 KOMEDIA UP Gorrid The Horrid And The Missing Ingredient Musical kid’s show in which Gorrid learn how to make a “witchy-poo feast” 2pm £6; Comic Boom: Loretta Maine Rising stars of stand-up 8pm £9/7 LATEST MUSIC BAR Speaky Spokey Literary cabaret with poetry, music short stories and films 7.30pm £5/4 LIFE Fingerbang Hip hop, reggae, dub and dancehall 11pm £3 LOLA LO Kitsch Commercial but quirky club night 9pm £5/3 LONDON UNITY Texas Hold Em Poker night for serious players 8pm £5 MASH TUN They Mostly Come At Night Indie, electro and hip hop tunes 9pm £free MARLBOROUGH THEATRE Closer By Patrick Marber An uncompromising comedy of betrayal written by the playwright otherwise known as Peter O’Hanrahahanrahan 7.30pm £8.50/6.50 MESMERIST Dr Bluegrass & The Illbilly 8 Brighton’s busiest buskers - country standards and pop covers put through the hillbilly thresher 9pm £free MUCKY DUCK Open Mic & Jam Session 8pm £free NEW VENTURE THEATRE Love Letters The story of two upper class Americans and their unfulfilled fifty-year romance told through theatrical readings from their letters 7.45pm £9 NORTHERN LIGHTS Folk Metal Night Unofficial Turisas warm up and afterparty 5pm £free PRINCE ALBERT Rod Picott Live music 7pm £10 RANELAGH Nicky Mitchell Blues and soul fundraiser 8.30pm £free RIKI TIK Das Club Robotique Pre-gangsta hip-hop and post-disco disco 10pm £free ST BARTHOLOMEW’S CHURCH Polyphony Through Space: From Plainchant To Spem In Alium Architectural vocal music including a live rendition of the ‘Forty Part Motet’ that you probably heard at Fabrica back in May (Part of Brighton Early Music Festival) 8pm £7-17 ST GEORGE’S CHURCH Oysterband & June Tabor Vintage folk rock 7.30pm £18 ST JAMES’ TAVERN Stay Sick, Turn Blue DJs play vintage soul, jazz and blues 8.30pm £free STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Catholic Discipline Noise rock, disco pop and acid folk from the Superheroes of BMX (in the bar) 8pm £free; Thursday Night Fish Fry Jamaican ska and blues club (in the club) 11pm £3 THEATRE ROYAL Dr Marigold, Mr Chops Simon Callow stars in two short plays written by Charles Dickens 2.30pm/7.45pm £13-34.50 THREE AND TEN Madame Galina: My Tutu’s Gone AWOL Musical comedy following the adventures of a ballerina drag queen ‘entertaining’ the troops in Iraq 8pm £8/6 VICTORY Open Mic 8pm £free WINDMILL Juice Free Music Thursday Live bands with an open mic session 8pm £free

friday 28TH

AUDIO Disco Deviant: Andrew Weatherall The techno heavyweight weighs in 11pm £tbc BELUSHI’S BAR Muy Loco Pop and house DJs 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Abandoned Rock and metal night 10pm £3/2 BLACK LION Stop Go!: The Planet Groove Collective, DJ Lanx, DJ Dave Stone “Unbeatable beats” 9pm £free BLIND TIGER Stay Sick’s Halloween Blow Out!: The Black Rash, The Rippers, Pussycat & The Dirty Johnsons Scary garage punk and rock&roll 9pm £8 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Dixie Fried Red hot rockabilly with DJ Lonesome M 9pm £free CASABLANCA RetroElectric Funk and soul night with a live band 10pm £5 COALITION Silver Apples, A Lily, Innerstrings Psychedelic Lightshow 1970s pioneers of avant electronica 7pm £11/9.50; Friday I’m In Love No more lectures for a day or two 11pm £1-5 COBBLER’S THUMB Analogue Underground Radio: Ladies’ Night Live music from female singer songwriters 8pm £free CONCORDE2 Charlie Simpson, We Were Evergreen, Dave Mcpherson, Andrew Balkwill Solo set from the singer of Fightstar still trying to shake off the legacy of being in Busted 7pm £12.50; DJ Yoda With Trans-Siberian March Band Did you hear the one about the turntabilist and the Balkan brass band? 11pm £15/12 CUBE Friday Club House DJs Time tbc £free DIGITAL Stonelove Indie rock&roll night (in the main club) 11pm £4/3; Freaky Friday: Matt Pickup, Mini Minx, Andy Simpson, Ricky Moore, Jimbean, Phizz, Soul-Vent Hard trance and hard house with a Halloween theme (in the Micro club)

11pm £7/5 DOCTOR BRIGHTON’S Halloween Ball: DJ Nick Hirst, DJ Wayne 9.30pm £free DRUID’S ARMS DJ Tommy G Electro, indie and house tunes 10pm £free DUKE OF NORFOLK DJ MC Cashback 9pm £free EASY BAR DJ Rudeben R&B, hip hop and reggae 8pm £free FISHBOWL Freestyle Records DJ set fromo the label manager, Greg Boraman 9pm £free FORTUNE OF WAR Fever: Melena De Pomelo Spanish night with live flamenco music and dancers 9pm £free FUNKYFISH The Funkyfish Club Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10pm £6/3.50 GLOBE Rum Fridays! DJ night 9pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Led Bib Inventive five-piece unable to decide if they are jazzers or rockers - and all the better for it 11pm £free; Vice Issue Launch & Dos & Don’t Book

Launch: Fair Ohs, Peace, Boneyards, Ganglians, Ed

Lilo, Teen Creeps Fashion mag party headlined by Afro-punk ska band 10pm £free HAUNT Nowhere To Run The best of 60s Motown, soul and rock&roll 11pm £4/3 H-BAR Bang! Halloween Special Haunted house music 9pm £tbc HONEY I Love R&B Juicy house with a twist of hip hop - and plenty of the R and B 10.30pm £5/free HYDRANT DOWN Darkside Presents 80s night 8pm £free HYDRANT UP Stone Cold, Running With Scissors, That Legendary Wooden Lion Progressive metal 8.30pm £7/6 KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club: Kerry

Godliman, Rufus Hound, Adam Bloom Stephen Grant

Stand-up comedy 8pm £14.50/11.50 KOMEDIA STUDIO Brighton Jazz Club: Julian Siegel Quartet, Liam Noble & Gene Calderazzo Live jazz 7.30pm £15/13 KOMEDIA UP Steve Ellis & The Soul Survivors Soul classics from the 60s 7.30pm £12.50 LATEST MUSIC BAR Keep Calm And Carry On

Screaming: Miss Utopia Blossom, Miss Bombshell, Fred Bare, Acacia Blue, Coco DeVille, Havana, The Beautiful Luxury Values Pole dancing and burlesque cabaret

10pm £7/5 LECTERN Twisted Frontier: Kate Williams Live music 7.30pm £3 LIFE Aka Aka Roar!: Bok Bok, Oneman, Slackk & Trim, Aka DJ Garage, grime and bass-heavy house 11pm £8/7/6 LOLA LO Tiki Beats Totally tropical tunes 8pm £5/4/3 LONDON UNITY Dr Bluegrass & The Illbilly 8 Country standards and pop covers put through the hillbilly thresher 8.30pm £free MARLBOROUGH THEATRE Closer By Patrick Marber An uncompromising comedy of betrayal written by the playwright otherwise known as Peter O’Hanrahahanrahan (upstairs) 7.30pm £8.50/6.50; The Marlborough Halloween Party DJ Fondue Inferno (downstairs) 8pm £free MESMERIST Shake, Holla & Roll Swing jazz and R&B designed to get you dancing 9pm £free MUCKY DUCK The Mucky Club Soul, funk and hip hop night 8pm £free NEPTUNE The Nigel Bagge Band Harmonica-led blues rock 8.30pm £free NEW VENTURE THEATRE Love Letters The story of two upper class Americans and their unfulfilled fifty-year romance told through theatrical readings from their letters 7.45pm £10 OUCH! BAR Retro Night Music from the 1980s 8pm £free PAV TAV Totally 80s Club night dedicated to the decade when it all went wrong 11pm £2 PRINCE ALBERT Crypsis, Meansteed Fast and thrashy metal 8pm £5 RANELAGH King Size Slim Live roots blues 8.30pm £free ST GEORGE’S CHURCH An Apple For My Love A varied mix of Celtic folk and English baroque (Part of Brighton Early Music Festival) 8pm £6-20 SIDEWINDER Beta Hector Tru Thoughts DJ 9pm £free STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR 900 Spaces, Lilies On Mars, Stars Down To Earth Disco pop, noise rock and indie bands 8pm £3; Kick Out The Jams New club night with no added gimmicks, just straight up rock&roll 11pm £free THEATRE ROYAL Dr Marigold, Mr Chops Simon Callow stars in two short plays written by Charles Dickens 7.45pm £1334.50 THOMAS KEMP Hep-Cat-Matt & Ollie Lane DJs play 50s rock&roll 9pm £free THREE & TEN Rabbit In The Headlights Comedy Fringe Finale Stand-up comedy night hosted by Angela Barnes with special guest Michael Fabbri (upstairs) 8pm £8; Jody Lee Indie DJ (downstairs) 10pm £free TUBE Friday 45 From funk to disco and back again via deep house 11pm £2 VOLKS Erisian Halloween Zombie Special: Aaron

Spectre, FFF, Jakub23, Katch Pyro, Danger Marc, Lemon Drizlay Crew, Test Tube Rabies, General Waste, In The Face, Cut Loose 11pm £tbc

saturday 29TH

ANCIENT MARINER Monster’s Ball: The Whistleblowers Halloween night with live spooky music 8pm £free AUDIO Warehouse: Solo House and techno club night - with Mex from Blackgrass playing rare grooves upstairs 11pm £7/5/ free BEACHIGOGO The R&B Lounge R&B (in the main room) 11pm £6/5; Good Times Remember them? Maybe the feelgood retro tunes will jog your memory (in the White Room) 9pm

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£free BELUSHI’S BAR Unplugged Live acoustic music 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Halloween Metal Special 9pm £5/2 BLACK DOVE The Devil’s Music DJs play swing, jazz and Dixieland 8pm £free BLACK LION Burnt Toast DJs play sleazy soul and dirty breaks 8.30pm £free BLIND TIGER White Night AV shows and live music mayhem 8pm £free CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Halloween Party “Hey, I like your halloween outfit - scary!” “What do you mean? These are my normal clothes...” (downstairs) 9pm £free; Sanity Valve Comedy rap duo (upstairs) 8pm £3 CASABLANCA Funky Fiesta: The Devotions Soul and Motown club with a live band Time tbc £7 COALITION Pump Up The Jam Halloween Special: Tomb Crew, DJ Outbreak It’s a 90s hip hop dance party!

11pm £5; Blow After Party: Vincent Manganaro, Carlos Riz, Aaron Palaez It never stops 3am £7/5/4 CONCORDE2 Wretch 32, Loick Essien, Teezy, Duchess Hip hopper emerging from the grime of Tottenham 7pm £10; The End Of The World DJs play your last requests as you party like there’s no tomorrow 11pm £tbc CORNERSTONE Fright Night! Funky zombie night 7pm £free CUBE Delirious Special House and electro DJs Time tbc £free DIGITAL Supercharged: Stanton Warriors A fearsome breakbeat fighting force 11pm £10.50 DOCTOR BRIGHTON’S Halloween Ball: DJ Tony B 9.30pm £free DOME FOYER Shambush! More White Night weirdness with a special utopian-themed game show 10pm £free DRUID’S ARMS The Main Ingredients DJs Hip hop and rock 10pm £free DUKE OF NORFOLK Halloween Party Special 9pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Met. Opera: Don Giovanni 6pm; John Carpenter All-Nighter 11pm EASY BAR DJ Rudeben R&B, hip hop and reggae 8pm £free FIDDLER’S ELBOW Attic Monkeys Halloween Horrors!

DJ night 9pm £free FISHBOWL DJ Sam Redmore Funk, soul, reggae and disco 9pm £free FORTUNE OF WAR White Night A chance to recover from the arty chaos 9pm £free FRIEND’S MEETING HOUSE Young Artists’ Showcase: From The Palaces To The Pastures Courtly and country dances (Part of Brighton Early Music Festival) 1pm £10/8 FUNKYFISH The Funkyfish Club Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10pm £6/3.50 GLOBE BlackLodge Disco, Italo and house 9pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Regal Safari Audio visual chillwave 7.30pm £3; The Big Itch Back to basics rock&roll 11pm £free HAUNT It Is Still 1985 Halloween Special Travel through time to an ancient realm where drum machines still sound novel and exciting 10pm £3 H-BAR Guy Williams Halloween Special Special guest DJ 9pm £tbc HONEY Honey Music Halloween Party: Rosie Romero, Vaughany DJs, Jon Byrne & Karl Bush Funky house and fancy dress night 10.30pm £8/5/free HYDRANT DOWN The Hotlines, Down To My Last Live music 8pm £free HYDRANT UP Vic Godard & Subway Sect, Piranhas 3D, The Fallen Leaves, The Shapes, DJ Ian Part Time Firstwave punk bands pay homage to John Peel 7.30pm £10 KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club: Kerry

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Stand-up comedy 7pm/8pm/10.30pm £7-18 LIFE Hold Up! Long-running and much-loved indie night kept afloat by the influx of fresh-faced students 11pm £5 LOLA LO Zombie Nation Where the dancefloor is never dead 8pm £10/7/6 MARLBOROUGH THEATRE White Night: Shoetopia 8pm £free MESMERIST Juke Joint Jamboree Vintage dancefloor gems from the days of jive and jazz 9pm £free MUCKY DUCK Killer Rock Karaoke 8pm £free NEW VENTURE THEATRE Love Letters The story of two upper class Americans and their unfulfilled fifty-year romance told through theatrical readings from their letters 7.45pm £10 NIGHTINGALE THEATRE White Night: Charnock Welsh performance artist, Sean Tuan, takes to the streets 7pm £8.50/6.50 NORTHERN LIGHTS Young Livers Halloween Special Time tbc £free OPEN HOUSE Halloween Party DJs and costume party Time tbc £free PAVILION THEATRE La Lune Des Pirates Bands and DJs play Gallic grooves for White Night 10pm £free PRINCE ALBERT Moon Hop Two DJs have a fight to decide who has the best collection of reggae and rockabilly records (downstairs) 8pm £free; White Night: Icarus Youth, Twin Twisters, A Poil Live music (upstairs) 8pm £free; White

Night: My Humble Attempt, John Morillion, Emilie Anne Charlotte Live music (upstairs) 12midnight £free QUEEN’S HEAD The Hush Club Club night for discerning

fans of northern soul, garage and ska Time tbc £5/3 RIKI TIK House Of Freaks: Halloween Special Trashy NYC basement party with the Young Tribes DJs 9pm £free ST BARTHOLOMEW’S CHURCH BREMF At White Night: Dance Meets Utopia Five ensembles perform an array of unusual classical music and dance (Part of Brighton Early Music Festival) 9pm/11pm £free SALLIS BENNEY THEATRE White Night: West Street Story Live video stream of Martin Ware’s experimental

soundscape on West Street - with a body language expert on hand in case you can’t decipher the obscene gestures of the drunken mob coming out of Yate’s Wine Lodge Time tbc £free SIDEWINDER Halloween Party With DJs shipped in from London and Manchester 9pm £free SIGNALMAN Dead Famous Halloween Party There’s prizes for the best ex-celeb, but going as Michael Jackson might be frowned upon by all the other zombies in red leather suits 7pm £free STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR White Night Arty visuals and films (in the bar) 5pm £free; Rosie Vanier Cornish singer and pianist (in the club) 7pm £7/6; The Power And The Glory Fist-clenching, lighter-wafting power ballads (in the club) 11pm £5/3 THEATRE ROYAL Dr Marigold, Mr Chops Simon Callow stars in two short plays written by Charles Dickens 2.30pm/7.45pm £13-34.50 THOMAS KEMP DJ Molar Funk, electro and reggae 9pm £free THREE & TEN White Night The whole building transformed into a vision of utopia 7pm £free TUBE Schtumm Halloween Special: Danny Daze, Maxxi Soundsystem, Neal Schtumm Disco and underground house 11pm £6 VOLKS Evolution Halloween Special: Kenny Ken,

Hamilton, Tantrum Desire, Mattix & Futile, Overdose, D Double U, Kronical, Fearless, Junior Red, Impact, Skitz, Double J Jungle and techno night 10pm £5 WEST HILL HALL RiotsNotDiets: Skinny Girl Diet, Covergirl Riot Grrrl night with live music and a film about Le Tigre 7pm £6

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ABOVE AUDIO DJ Verity Mayes Time tbc £free AUDIO Substance Underground electronic music with tribal drumming 10pm £3/free BELUSHI’S BAR Now That’s What I Call A Party What did you call it before? 9pm £free BLACK LION Live & Swingin’ Gypsy Jazz 8pm £free BLIND TIGER Swamp Meets Stomp: Black Cat Bone, Wide Eyed Order, The Steady Man Band Live bands play dirty blues and filthy funk 6pm £free BRUNSWICK The Crave, Chris Simmons Hard rock band 8pm £6 CONCORDE2 Anna Calvi Mercury-nominated gothic pop diva (this show has now sold out) 7.30pm £10.50 CUBE Chilled Sundays Laid back grooves Time tbc £free DIGITAL Supercharged: Mr Scruff Five hours of quirky teafuelled jazz beats 9pm £8 DOME Brighton Dome Discovery Tour Explore the historic venue’s backstage areas 11am £8; Steve Earle & The Dukes (And Duchesses) Politically correct country rock 7.30pm £28.50/26.50 DUKE OF NORFOLK Live Music Night 9pm £free FIDDLER’S ELBOW Sham-Rock Open Mic 8.30pm £free FOUNTAIN HEAD Reggae Roasts Chilled reggae beats Time tbc £free GLOBE Hot-Tip Hi-Fi DJs play early reggae and rocksteady 9pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Sunday Service Live music 5pm £free; Green Door Blues Blues band and DJs 10pm £free HONEY Sundays At The Honey If your house was this sexy you’d get through a lot of Polyfilla 11pm £3/2/free HOVE TOWN HALL Black History Month: Kofi Dako, Sa Mon Di DJs, live music, Caribbean food and stuff for kids to do 7pm £free HYDRANT DOWN National Snack Live music 8pm £free HYDRANT UP Halloween Metal Night “Dead cats hanging from poles, little dead are out in droves” 7.30pm £tbc KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club: Kerry Godliman, Rufus Hound, Adam Bloom, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 8pm £11.50/6.50 KOMEDIA UP Natty Soulful reggae pop 7.30pm £10 LECONFIELD Boozy Bingo Old is the new young 6pm £1 NEPTUNE Tracy Jane Sullivan Acoustic folk rock 8.30pm £free OLD BANK STEAK & RIBS RESTAURANT Imogen Ryall Trio Live jazz 7.30pm £7.50/free OUCH! BAR Brazilian Night Live Brazilian music 8pm £free PRINCE ALBERT Actions, The Ocean’s Eyes, Dying Breeds Live music 8pm £4 RANELAGH Killer Joe Where’s he going with that gun in his hand? 8.30pm £free RIKI TIK Riki Fliks Film night showing classic movies and new shorts Details tbc ST GEORGE’S CHURCH The Dancing Girls Of Granada Belly dancing and traditional Middle Eastern song (Part of Brighton Early Music Festival) 6pm £6-20; Young Artists’ Showcase: The Singing Girls Classical trio revisit the great ‘girl groups’ of the baroque (Part of Brighton Early Music Festival) 9pm £10/8 STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR The Grace And Death Of Us, The Cape Race, Loose Lips, Mojo Jojo Live music (part of Brighton Breakthrough Festival) 9pm £10 SIGNALMAN Open Mic Night 8.15pm £free THEATRE ROYAL Dave Gorman’s Powerpoint Presentation Documentarty-style stand-up comedy 8pm £20 THOMAS KEMP Miss Mandy Live jazz duo 4pm £free VOLKS Psy Sundays: Tantrix, Sonic Species, Miss Chief, Add Simeon, Sergical Spirit, Piatrix, Hilary Monkeys, Refractal, Clayton, Hugo Nation, Olivreh, Dave Chemical, Udy, Random Scarves Psytrance and live dubstep with a fancy dress zombie theme 2pm £free

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ABOVE AUDIO Banana Island 10pm £2 ANCIENT MARINER Quiz Night 8pm £1 BELUSHI’S BAR Now That’s What I Call A Graveyard Party Is that like a Monster Mash? 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Fallout Live rock bands 9pm £2/1 BLIND TIGER Shapes, &U&I, Mac, You Cry Wolf Punky post-rock noise bands 6pm £7; The Mash Motown and vintage funk night 7pm £free BRUNSWICK Open Mic Night 8.30pm £free CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK MovieBar Halloween Special Filmmakers night with a horror film theme 7.30pm £free COALITION Trash Mondays Filthy tunes for students and layabouts alike 10pm £5/3/free CUBE Hoi Polloi Northern soul for the masses Time tbc £free DIGITAL Shades Grave Halloween 10pm £tbc DOME Katy B Peckham nonsense 7.30pm £14.50 EXCHANGE INN Pub Quiz Time tbc £1 FOUNTAIN HEAD Open Mic Night 9pm £free FRIEND’S MEETING HOUSE Music And Dance In Remote Antiquity: An Illustrated Talk Dirk Campbell discusses traditional music from the Mediterranean and Middle East (Part of Brighton Early Music Festival) 8pm £7 GLOBE The Globe Halloween Fancy dress and scary movies 9pm £free GREENHOUSE BAR Open Mic 9.30pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Metal Mondays: Pagan Alter, Sea Bastard Full metal racket 7pm £free HAUNT Coconut College Halloween Special Dumbeddown party music 11pm £1 HYDRANT DOWN Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea Live music 8pm £free HYDRANT UP Exposure Presents Live music 7.30pm £tbc KOMEDIA UP Mona Stadium-sized retro rock&roll 7.30pm £9 LOLA LO Fat Poppadaddys Student indie night 9pm £3 OLD MARKET Guillemots Avant-garde indie pop 7pm £17.50/15.50 PRINCE ALBERT Born To Lose Halloween Special!

8.30pm £4/3 QUADRANT Monday Night Comedy Club: Flange Krammer Stand-up comedy from the Olympic shell-suited ladies man 7.30pm £5/3 SALLIS BENNEY THEATRE Monday Movies: The Evil Dead “Why have you disturbed our sleep; awakened us from our ancient slumber?” 5.30pm £3/2.50 SIGNALMAN Pub Quiz 8pm £1 STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Modern Romance Brand new indie night 10.30pm £3/2/1 THOMAS KEMP Thru The Alphabet Quiz Night 8pm £1 VOLKS Strictly Reggae Dancehall, roots, revival 11pm £5/4.50

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ARTIST RESIDENCE HOTEL Ralph Francis Fox: Kin Hundred year-old and modern day ‘tribes’ screen-printed in ink, blood & gold Until Oct 28th BRIGHTON MUSEUM & ART GALLERY Radical

Bloomsbury: The Art Of Duncan Grant And Vanessa Bell

The artists who set up Charleston house Until Oct 9th £6/4/3; George IV And His Friends Caricatures of the Prince Regent Until Nov 6th; Neil Brownsword: Relic Ceramics artist looks at social history and global capitalism through the prism of Staffordshire pottery Until Oct 30th; Ragamala: Paintings From India Music-inspired miniature paintings from the 15th and 16th century Oct 22nd - Jan 8th; Odi Oquosa: Beneath The Surface Sculptures, textiles and poetry inspired by the artist’s African roots Until Nov 20th FABRICA Melanie Manchot: Gathering A pair of art films looking at crowds and how people behave in public Oct 8th Nov 30th HOVE MUSEUM & ART GALLERY Mr Watt, Grumpy Man Of Metal Metal sculptures used to illustrate children’s books by Jon Mills Until Oct 11th; The Five Senses: Paintings From The Fine Art Collection Interactive familyfriendly exhibition exploring sensory aspects of art Until Mar 1st; Robot Invasion! An army of retro robots and space toys Oct 15th - Feb 21st NO WALLS GALLERY Stop Looking At The Walls, Look Out The Window Jim McElvaney skews portraiture in this collection of figurative drawings and painting Until Oct 23rd PHOENIX BRIGHTON Solar Systems Three ‘moving image’ works examine the mechanics of observing the sun Until Oct 15th PRINCE REGENT GALLERY Dress For Excess: Fashion In Regency England Exhibition looking at the extravagant clothes worn by George and his cohorts Until Feb 5th £4.909.80 ROCK INN Nature A collection of pictures by local photographers on the subject of nature Oct 1st - Oct 30th ROYAL PAVILION Dress For Excess: Fashion In Regency England A collection of the ridiculous clothes worn

by Georgian grandees Until Feb 5th UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON GALLERY Peter Vogel: The Sound Of Shadows The first major UK retrospective of the European artist renowned for his elegant interactive sound objects Oct 17th - Nov 7th

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21ST CENTURY SIT-COMS WORDS BY NICK COQUET, JAMES KENDALL

Usually sit-com round-ups feature the same old names, with aged Basil Fawlty and Del Boy episodes propping them up, but that made us wonder. Is the modern sit-com dead? Was My Family really the best the 21st century could come up with? Not on your life.

It might be more of an American-led genre these days, but Blightly, and even Australia, can still knock ‘em out of the park too from time to time.

ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT

If you saw this on BBC2 then you were doing well – another victim of Seinfield-esque shunting through the late night schedule. What most people thus missed was a pin-sharp, multi-layered character-based examination of just how hard families can be. Jason Bateman’s putupon Michael has to hold his selfish clan together after his crooked dad goes to prison. Clichés are turned on their heads, there’s irony in abundance and so many hidden jokes you could watch it forever. And that sarky voiceover? That’s film director Ron Howard, uncredited.

It was cancelled after three seasons, obviously. (JK)

CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM

Having co-created US mega-hit Seinfeld, syndicated all over the world and a licence to print money forever, Larry David was a man of leisure. Loafing about the place kicking his heels, getting on people’s nerves and flaunting a singular outlook on life that won him few friends – what better premise for an eight-and-counting-season sitcom? Improvised and naturalistic scripts bring this comedy of discomfort a horribly real edge, with endcredit twists that will take the whole episode to set up.

Watch through your fingers. (NC)

THE MIGHTY BOOSH

Coming from successful stage shows (directed by Stewart Lee) and a radio series (produced by Danny Wallace), Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt’s tripped-out

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sit-com really hit the ground running. Part of its success is that it’s a complete world that never gives itself a double take. A best mate who’s a gorilla? Obviously. A crack fox? Why not. Crimping? Sure.

As much as the whole thing seems like just twatting about, it’s a completely believable world. It’s obtuse yet has great one-liners; clever at the same time as being very, very stupid; cool and rather uncool. Will it ever return? (JK)

THE OFFICE

Widely regarded as a game changer in the world of sit-com, Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant’s creation ran for just two series here in the UK, but was taken up by HBO in the States who converted the existing episodes and then went on to make their own. Both David Brent and Michael Scott in the lead roles make for uneasy viewing as they manage their paper empires without a shred of selfawareness or genuine compassion. Everyone’s seen Gervais’ amusing dance, but the US version deserves investigation. (NC)

SUMMER HEIGHTS HIGH

The mockumentary format has really dominated this century’s best comedy but Chris Lilley – an Australian! – really gave things a twist by performing the three main SHH characters himself. Despite being played by a man in his 30s, selfish, arrogant Ja’mie is perhaps the best portrayal of a schoolgirl ever. At his best when exploring deeply unappealing characters (Mr G’s narcissistic drama teacher, disruptive teen Jonah), it’s surprising how quickly the parlour trick takes a backseat to the brutal comedy, especially when Mr G devises a musical based on the death of one of his pupils. (JK)

PEEP SHOW

Mitchell and Webb are masters of their own sketch comedy, but it’s in this elsewhere-scripted series that they’re truly in their element.

Student roommates whose flatshare strays ill-advisedly into the post-uni world of work and work avoidance, Mark and Jeremy nail down the Steptoe character disciplines of mutual loathing and need.

POV camerawork and some devastatingly honest inner voice portrayal opens up a window into the minds of 30-something men and reveal that life is, on the whole, a bit shit. (NC)

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