volume 2. Issue 27 october 2010
gigs, clubs, culture, Brighton’s best listings
Brighton Live programme inside
photo biennial comedy festival White night
Grinderman
The (even) darker side of nick cave
molly landreth – see photo biennial, page 30
welcome to the fight
If you’re one of the 8,000 new students in town – or even one of the 24,000 that are coming back from a summer with the parental unit – then you’re arriving in Brighton in very interesting times. There’s a revolution going on. A quiet one, maybe, but an uprising all the same. Yeah, we lost a venue due to noise complaints over the summer, but this month the tireless campaigning of the Lewes Road Community Garden has led Tesco to decide not to open their 13th shop there. It really shows what can be done if you stand up for what you believe in. When we were putting our article about the garden together we tried in vain to get a political perspective from the council and hit a brick wall. Well, after reading that piece someone complained to their councillor who in turn complained to us, demanding a right to reply. Well, fuck you – you didn’t want to talk to us when you thought no one cared so why should we talk to you now you can see there are votes in it. But it shows hassling councillors gets results. Go and bother yours now – see what you can get them to suddenly care about.
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Contents
News New In Town Letters Gig Previews Interview: Grinderman Club Previews Club Review: Hat Club Club Review: Doctor’s Orders Culture Interview: Playgroup Brighton Live Programme Preview: Brighton Live Art: Photo Biennial Preview: Photo Fringe Preview: Brighton Comedy Festival Preview: White Night Critic Street Style Street Style Extra Feature: Broken Brighton Unsung Hero: Nigel Swallow Secret Eater: Pompoko In Conversation With: Seann Walsh Listings Six Of The Best: Dubstep
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maps & Atlases
NEWS
WORDS BY NICK COQUET, LYDIA STOCKBRIDGE
TESCO WITHDRAW
In a massive victory for common sense and an affirmation of the power of public protest, Tesco have sensationally abandoned plans to open their 13th Brighton & Hove store on the site of the former Lewes Road Community Garden. A few weeks ago things were certainly looking bleak for the opposition – a 2am raid by the developers had flattened the site by daybreak, its floral demeanour replaced by imposing fencing and the occupying protesters removed. But since then the strength of the uproar against the development plans seems to have sunk in with the supermarket giant. Fearful of lasting brand damage in a city whose customers they rely on to support their many existing shops, they’ve gone away with their tail between their legs. Now of course the question remains – what’s to become of the site? The campaign against the Tesco development had told us they’d confirmed sufficient sponsorship support to secure the land themselves, paving the way for affordable housing and independently owned retail units, but it would seem more likely that the development will continue more or less as planned. While Tesco are no longer in contention for the space, planning permission for the build is presumably in fairly advanced stages and the developers will in turn presumably want a quick resolution to their newly lost leaseholders. But while it may well turn out to be something of a hollow victory depending on who ends up cutting the ribbon, we shouldn’t underestimate the power of the people – SOURCE doffs its hat to everyone who made the garden happen and stuck with it through thick and thin, withstanding rain, wind and even fire. So what’s next?
BEAUTY BALLS-UPS
There’s nothing funnier than when a mate’s trying to cheer themselves up with a beauty treatment or a new hairdo and it goes tits up. Or they come home with a tattoo and the spelling’s all wonky. Or they go for a relaxing massage and lose an eye or something. With the obvious comedy potential of this in mind, as well as the social conscience of future disaster prevention, TV
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company Optomen Television are putting together a cavalcade of salon catastrophes for us to point and laugh at. If you want to warn the world about your own agoraphobia-prompting results, email beauty@optomen.com and get yourself on the telly.
CLASSICAL MASH-UP
This is always a slightly crazy sounding event – on their own the audiences for classical, folk, jazz and world music are a right piece of work, but throw them all together and it’s cultural carnage akin to the mods and rockers of 1964. The Brighton Early Music Festival does just that though, and this autumn’s outing, beginning on Friday 22nd, promises performances around the central theme of Ritual, with performances based around marriage, religion and death and stuff. Go to bremf.org.uk for the full skinny on the fest.
RECORD MILESTONES
Brighton certainly has its fair share of record labels – around 80 at the last count, we think. Most are one-person bedroom affairs, but two of the bigger names have coincidentally just hit something of a major milestone in their catalogue. Skint release their 200th record, a storming JFB remix of Fatboy’s Right Here Right Now and FatCat notch up their 100th album release with Maps & Atlases’ Perch Patchworks – both reviewed in this month’s Critic section. Good work, local label fellas!
RESIDENT INSTORE GIGS
...and supporting their album release with some hard promo graft, Maps & Atlases will be gracing us with their presence this month when they perform an acoustic set instore at Resident on Friday 8th. A limited edition 7” release from The Bees sees them paying a musical instore visit as well on Monday 4th, and The Strange Death Of Liberal England will be popping in on Tuesday 2nd November in support of their positively-titled album Drown Your Heart Again, on CD and digital download.
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NEWS
telegraphs
GET A ROOM, bOOKWORM
Normally the Hotel Pelirocco concerns itself with more hedonistic pursuits than book-learning, but they’re running a season of live literature events as a kind of carbon offset equivalent for booze and bad behaviour emissions. This month, on Sunday 10th, Australian novelist MJ Hyland is there, reading from her latest novel ‘This Is How’ and talking about writing books and that. She’s backed up by local authors Matthew Loukes and Martine McDonagh and there’s a raffle to win bookish prizes.
PARTY EXPORT
What does a good night out entail for you? Is it dancing, boozing, eating, knitting? Smirnoff vodka want to know, and they’ve unveiled plans for an international party crate exchange, whereby night owls from 14 countries pack up their own elements for a top night’s frolics and ship them to faraway shores, while we export our own night-in-a-box. November 27th is the big international exchange, but first the UK needs to agree what we send off. Join Zane Lowe in the quest to compile the UK crate at www.facebook.com/smirnoffgb.
DRUIDS ARMS FOR AIRSTRIKES
Nice Weather For Airstrikes make it their daily business to promote the cause of post rock to the masses – indeed their previous forays into the realm have seen live events in Portsmouth, Chichester and London as well as Brighton. Saturday 16th has them scheduling an all-dayer at the Druids Arms, with a bill of post rock, shoegaze, math and experimental acoustics beginning at 4pm. The local, national and international exponents of these rarified genres should be announced by the time you read this – go to niceweatherforairstrikes.co.uk for confirmations and stage times.
OXJAM TAKEOVER
Oxfam take over the city for the month of October to jam (musically speaking) for beehives to be sent to the Honduras, amongst other charitable things. Saturday 17th sees the Brighton Blast group raising money on their first birthday at the Sidewinder, accompanied by music, barbecue, competitions
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and games; donations are welcome. On Tuesday 19th, the Big Brighton Buskathon takes place in the Pavilion gardens, continuing at the Western Front later in the evening. Expect some familiar faces laying down their caps.
TELEGRAPHS ARE NO MORE
After five years on the road, The Telegraphs have decided to put the brakes on their time together. It always seems that the tricky second album can make or break a band, and unfortunately, due to a lack of funds for the foreseeable future, they’ve decided to call time. They split on a high though, playing their last ever show at this year’s Bestival, and they’re continuing their musical pursuits with Sam now drumming for Eager Teeth. Those who pine for what once was should look out for their soon to be released album of demos, The Light From Dead Stars.
EPIC FILM
A real turn-up for the books, EPIC is the first British-made documentary focusing on the audience, not the bands, as the great heroes of live music. Whether your opinion of watching a band play live is a near-religious experience, an obsession, or simply just having to work at the venue, the EPIC crew are on the lookout for gig-goers with those kinds of passions to come and take part in the film. Email them at epic@rsafilms.co.uk and get your 15 minutes.
DONKY PITCH
Brighton’s purveyors of all things skweee, wonk, and everything in between are bringing it to the mainstream. They’ll be launching the Donky Pitch label and new residency at Jam on Saturday 23rd, with a 12” EP release already on the way, due out Monday 1st November. Featuring major playas of the niche scene, Slugabed, Ghost Mutt and remixes from Mweslee, get your hands on a piece of history as the hip hop-flava’d, 8-bit bass sub-genre enters a new era.
CONTACT PUBLISHING
If writing’s your bag, put your pen down and get a load of this – Contact Publishing are offering £1,000 and a three-book publishing deal to the winner of their competition for aspiring writers. Authors must submit a plot synopsis, character sample and outline for a mini-series around the loose theme of ‘suspense’, although fantasy and horror fans need not apply. Authors will then be shortlisted for the grand prize, with 60 days to complete the 40,000 word challenge. Go to contact-publishing.com for more info.
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jonny woo’s gay bingo
NEW IN TOWN NIGHTS, SIGHTS AND RETAIL DELIGHTS WORDS BY EMMA BERTRAND, NICK COQUET, James Kendall JESSICA MARSHALL McHATTIE, LYDIA STOCKBRIDGE
THE YARD •
CBGB & OMFUG •
BRIGHTON POD •
JONNY WOO’S GAY BINGO
We had kinda given up on the Ocean Rooms re-opening as a club – in our heart of hearts we expected it to turn into luxury flats or something. But, hey, it’s back with a load of fancy Londoners in charge. So far it pretty much looks the same, except for a cool street-arty middle room, but there seems to be a more gay/ straight mix to the crowd than before. There’s loads of new nights, most excitingly Big Love which pops in on Saturday 2nd. Expect loads of house, pop and indie.
We got a Tweet about this new website promoting and selling original designs from our most talented designers and craftspeople, so we’re re-Tweeting it in magazine form for you. Brightonpod.com is the place to go to secure ownership of such rarified trinkets as a diplodocus lamp, a proper old school trimphone and a union jack doormat. The gear is attractively priced and is a good alternative to the everyone’s-got-that stuff on the high street.
Egremont Space •
Having scored a success during the Artists’ Open Houses in May with their Open House Virgins exhibits, Stephanie Young and Juliette Easter have decided to open their home for a weekend every month, billed as Egremont Space. All kinds of stuff like art, workshops, music and performance will keep the space moving each month, with a variety of works by local up and coming artists helping them up the art ladder. The next open weekend starts on Saturday 9th at 16 Egremont Place, from noon-6pm. Wipe your feet!
This new night at Komedia on Saturday 2nd promises to be the best place to be for all creaky old punk fans, with music dedicated to bands who famously played at the legendary New York club CBGB. Dating back from the 70s right up to 2005, the club played host to some of the most revolutionary bands – the likes of Blondie, Bad Brains, Black Flag and of course the Ramones, all likely lynchpins on the playlist tonight.
Jam explodes with number-based double entendres on Thursday 22nd for the first monthly installment of Johnny Woo’s Gay Bingo, from 11pm-3am. As one might imagine, it’s a riotous evening of performance pieces, dressing up, dancing to electro and cackling, all alongside the actual eyes-down action of the bingo itself. Unsurprising fans include Graham Norton and Pete Burns among their number, less obvious devotees apparently include Keiffer Sutherland. We can imagine his joy at the potential call for “24 – drink and drive more.”
KIN BAR •
It gives us enormous pleasure to bring you news that a venue has opened – you know, like the opposite of closing. Launching into the fray on Thursday 14th with Baghdad Country Club heading over to Church Road, the bar aims to become a hub for new music. They have a free entry policy for their shows, as well as a smokin’ hot atmosphere to rival its former days as Hove’s infamous strip joint, and an ‘ass walloping new PA system’.
WHO ARE THESE KIDS?! • SO DARN SO • Who Are These Kids?! And what is New Hero?! Despite being a ‘nitespot and discotheque’ since the 60s, Dyke Road’s gothicfronted club is still relatively and undeservedly unknown. But now it boasts a new live PA and hosts a novel mix of 80s nights, rock gigs and as of Friday 29th, a monthly hip hop night Who Are These Kids?! Launching with local scratch DJ gang Grandeurs of Delusion in a Halloween special, this night offers the dangerous combination of danceable rhythms and very cheap drinks.
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Like a delightful marriage of two SOURCE favourites, the most excellent fellows at So Darn So – promoters of the most wonderful pastoral nu folk (in the shape of Communion, Thursdays from the 28th), weird indie, lo-fi pop, irregular rock’n’roll and all things in between – have made an honest woman of The Hope. They’ll be packing upstairs to the gills with the likes of Wild Palms and Flashguns, plus a load of amazing club nights and the promise of free gigs to boot. Confetti at the ready now.
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gloria cycles’ final gig
letters CYCLING INTO THE SUNSET
Thanks for the Gloria Cycles gig preview – I was at Hectors House for their last ever show and it was really sad – I’ve never seen them so good. Can’t you make them change their minds? Esme via email Gloria Cycles were always good friends to SOURCE and vice versa, but sadly their minds seem made up. But there’s too much talent there to stay stifled, we’ll be first with the news when anyone resurfaces with new music.
TELLY GOLD
I was flicking through the channels this weekend at about 5am and came across this awful show called Brighton Rocks. I thought I was having a flashback – it was all about the Zap and Moshi Moshi opening, which must have been a good 10 years ago. WTF? gregor82 via email Yes, apparently Channel One are repeating this lamentable series from 2000-ish in the middle of the night for some reason. Get some sleep, gregor82, you’ll feel better.
STYLE WHORE
Now you’re giving out bottles of Tuaca for the Street Style person each month, I want in. When do you go out photographing people for it? I’ll make sure I scrub up nice. Natasha via email The Street Style photographer can pounce at any time, helping keep Brighton on its sartorial toes. No warning will be given.
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OCEAN SPRAY BLACK
Does anyone know what’s happening to the old Ocean Rooms? There is stuff going on in there and the exterior has been painted black!!?? Tina via Facebook Yeah, it’s now called The Yard. See New In Town (page 6) for the latest news on the venue.
EGGS: BEN’S EDICT
Nice fry-up feature, I’m a bit of a regular and even I haven’t tried a few of them. You missed out the king though, H’s on Coombe Road. A criminal omission! Ben via Twitter Funnily enough we’ve been in there since – opposite Manna, right? – and you’re right, it’s bona fide breakfast royalty.
BIG UP THE FRY-UP
I was most impressed by last month’s selection of Full Englishes you reviewed, it must have been hard to cut it down to just 10. As someone who has probably eaten more fry-ups than you (editor of SOURCE) have had hot meals in your life I was pleasantly surprised to read about breakfasts that I am yet to check out. My hot tip for that was missing from the list is the Sussex Farm Special from the Farm Cafe on North Road. The sausages are top notch. Kev via email Maybe we need to do another top 10 – we’d better wait til we’ve lost this mysterious extra few stone we’re suddenly carrying though…
TEA-BAGGING OFFER
Don’t surpose you’d need an extra pair of hands round at Source HQ? I make a mean cuppa tea… Oh, I really like your piece on Pinky this month – interesting fella! Steph, via Facebook Mean Cuppa Tea? Aren’t they that Brighton funk rock band? We get loads of calls and emails asking about internships and work placements – feel free to email us your details but the SOURCE suite of offices is full to bursting at the moment, people even take laptops to the bog here.
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mount kimbie
GIG PREVIEWS
WORDS BY NICK COQUET, BEN GILBERT, JAMES KENDALL, JESSICA MARSHALL McHATTIE, ANDREW PARRY, THE RECOMMENDER
WILL PAYNTER
Foundry Sun 3rd
Will is the only member of his band Three The Hard Way who’s managed to cross the pond from the US for a series of Brighton dates beginning on Sunday 3rd, as part of Americana Unplugged with Danni Nicholls. His journey’s success might be down to the grit and determination he learned as a Captain in the US Special Forces, but it’s roots based music he’s got in his sights tonight, with extra ammo in the shape of blues, folk, Latin and reggae. A mix of self-penned originals, classics and obscure covers, it’s a set to savour – check myspace.com/willpaynter for more dates this month. (NC)
MOUNT KIMBIE •
Jam Tues 5th
OXJAM PRESENTS… • Jam Weds 7th
The official kick-off for Oxjam Brighton’s month of charitable loudness is put on by Brighton’s highly influential Skint Records and has label founder Midfield General and the effervescent Kidda, plus a “very special guest” on the line-up. Given that this label has put out records by Fatboy Slim, FC Kahuna, Freq Nasty and Dave Clarke, amongst many others, we are expecting that guest to be very “special” indeed. And there’s nothing to lose as it’s for charity! (JMM)
JONATHAN RICHMAN Coalition Thurs 7th
One half of this duo is from Brighton, making this something of a homecoming show. Hype continues to follow them around, having released their debut album ‘Crooks And Lovers’ this summer, which sounds like a robot’s love letter written on a lonely laptop. They’re often slotted onto the dubstep shelf, which is perhaps the breakthrough sound of 2010, but in fairness that misses their minimalism and overall ambience. This will be an intriguing set, by a band capable of producing some groundbreaking soundscapes. (TR)
Down in the history books as one of about three people who actually knew who The Velvet Underground were during their ‘pomp’, Jonathan Richman moved to New York stalker-style in 1969, ending up on manager Steve Sesnick’s sofa polishing Lou Reed’s ego. Forty years later, he’s worked with John Cale and hammered the ‘Sister Ray’ homage ‘Roadrunner’ into music history, paving the way for punk and indie. With The Modern Lovers or as a solo star, this is a rock career deserving considerably more than 15 minutes of fame. (BG)
MUDHONEY
THE LOVELY BROTHERS •
Concorde 2 Tues 5th
You could argue that without Mark Arm and Steve Turner of Mudhoney, the DIY punk ethos would have never broken into America’s mainstream. Their previous band Green River made the first grunge record but, when they split into Mudhoney and (yuck) Pearl Jam, the former became Sub Pop’s flagship band and the touch paper for the Seattle scene. Their ‘Live At El Sol’ last year proved to a new generation that despite their shambolic appearance, they really can play live, and the sludge pop of ‘Touch Me I’m Sick’ and ‘Let It Slide’ never gets old. (JK)
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Komedia Studio Bar Sun 10th
Launching a new album this evening, The Lovely Brothers bring their songs of kebabs, old age and OCD to town. Comedic and satirical lyricism combine with new wave baroque in a kind of punk cabaret revue, replete with bizarre costuming including a couple of geezers in armed robbery ski masks, a lady in a scary, featureless mask, a tattooed ball gown bass diva and a front man in full club singer garb. It’s all entertaining, tongue-in-cheek stuff. (NC)
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GIG PREVIEWS
doom
NME RADAR TOUR Concorde 2 Mon 11th
NME rocks up to Brighton for its now biannual showcase, with ‘rock’ being the operative word, as this UK-wide jaunt includes a batch of indie bands who very much plug in their pedals. Consider it the antidote to the pop line-up of Hurts, Everything Everything and Darwin Deez from the spring tour. Headliners are The Joy Formidable, with their tidal wave of guitars, supported by Chapel Club, a successful pick from the recent batch of artists who are dispensing the new doom pop sound. (TR)
JUNIP
Komedia Mon 11th
Little has been heard from José González in recent years. But the spectacularly gifted Swedish guitarist, perhaps best known for his stunning remake of The Knife’s ‘Heartbeats’, has been busy. Dormant for a decade, González recently reformed Junip with Tobias Winterkorn and Elias Araya in a bid to take his acoustic adventures in new directions. The results, which feature on debut album ‘Fields’, are suitably epic and suggest that whether alone or in a group, he remains a knockout performer. (BG)
CARL BARAT
Coalition Fri 14th
If The Libertines were Morecambe & Wise, it seems clear which of the duo Carl Barat is. He may have had a sweet haircut and an eye for the ladies but when it came to drug taking, headlines and the occasional solo smash, the killer lines belonged to Doherty. No one was laughing when Barat unveiled the execrable Dirty Pretty Things. But with the band now back together, he should not be underestimated. Because all the best duos need a straight man. (BG)
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BAGHDAD COUNTRY CLUB • Kin Bar 14th Oct
More than just a great name, BCC deliver an anthemic mix of trashy verses and big choruses, and lyrically they definitely have something to scream about. Frontman Elliot’s vocal delivery is always dynamic, powerful and full of angst, with similarities to Manchester Orchestra’s Andy Hull. Guitarist Craig meanwhile is able to play the hooks while providing the audience with an amazing presence. If you like to see a real performance, make sure you find your way to one of their gigs before they sell out at venues across England. (AP)
DOOM
Concorde Sat 15th
Who is Doom? Is he Daniel Dumile, aka Zevlove X, a member of former New York hip hoppers KMD? Is he the London-born, Long Island-raised, metal-faced rapper, who took his name from Marvel Comics’ super villain Dr Doom? Is he one half of Bl_ck B_st_rds, Madvillain and Danger Doom? Is he King Geedorah, Metal Fingers, Viktor Vaughn? Or is he the Gorillaz, Ghostface and Thom Yorke collaborator? People, he is all of these things. Don’t expect the mask to slip tonight. (BG)
ROBYN
Concorde 2 Thurs 21
Ahead of Benedict XVI’s recent UK visit, Robyn issued some sound advice for the Pontiff. “We need a black Pope and she better be a woman/There’ll be no more celibacy/Even the Vatican knows not to fuck with me,” she thundered on new single ‘You Should Know Better’. After two new albums of robo-pop magnificence in four months, SOURCE has got a fiver on the Popemobile pulling up tonight on the seafront to confess there is a God, after all. (BG)
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GIG PREVIEWS
warpaint
PAMA INTERNATIONAL & MAD PROFESSOR Coalition Thurs 21st
The legendary Mad Professor returns to our shoreline and will be putting on a mighty show with Pama International. They’ve been receiving accolades for years for producing a thoroughly modern blend of soul, dub and reggae, and tonight they’ll be mixed fully live by Mad Professor, which promises to create an even more danceable spectacle. You’ll even get a free CD. (JMM)
DARWIN DEEZ
Digital Fri 22nd
If you like your pop stars to be quirky, intertwined with 80s references, sporting strange haircuts and packed out with indie anthems then look no further. This New York four-piece are about as random and playful as it gets live. Expect to see them all regularly dropping their instruments between songs, busting choreographed dance moves to tracks such as ‘Walk Like An Egyptian’. Perhaps this would prove annoying if they weren’t so damn good at transporting you to your own happy place. (TR)
BADLY DRAWN BOY Duke of York’s Tues 26th
What happened to Badly Drawn Boy? Ten years ago, he was the hottest property in A&R land, a baffling, banana-eating skewed sonic visionary, who snatched the Mercury prize with his debut, ‘The Hour Of Bewilderbeast’, and then claimed Springsteen’s crown was next. But pretty much ever since, Damon Gough’s been ploughing through sickly, over-produced, AOR quicksand, playing fish and chip shops and soundtracking an ITV film about the fattest man in Britain. Born to run? Born to wear slippers, more like. (BG)
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WARPAINT
Digital Fri 29th
It’s surprising to see them headline Digital already, so fresh is this four-piece from LA, but it’s perhaps down to the buzz that follows them around, for it is truly massive, with blogs and magazines fighting for their (stunningly beautiful) attention. This show follows their recent support of the Mercury-winning band, The xx, which tips a nod to their shoegazing, but in fairness the Californians aren’t quite as moody. They hypnotically mix the psychedelic with the genes of grunge. (TR)
JUMPING SHIPS • New Hero Sat 30th
If there is one local band gig that will be rammed this month it will be this one, the debut EP launch for Brighton’s top melodic post rock band. And if it’s in any way as good as the disc itself, the gig is going to be a smash. Always guaranteeing a performance, there’s the added edge that this is a Halloween-themed do. Not only is it free but there’s hand picked support from Hold Your Horses and You Cry Wolf. Be sure to get down, if only to be first to grab their EP. (AP)
DAN LE SAC VS SCROOBIUS PIP Concorde 2 Sun 31st
The relentlessly touring Essex boys return to Brighton, following the release earlier this year of their second album, ‘The Logic Of Chance’, on Rob Da Bank’s Sunday Best label. Dan Le Sac’s chopping board of samples is wrapped around the often witty and insightful banter of Scroobius Pip. The support band, Gaggle, are also worthy of a SOURCE tip, for the 20-strong, allgirl alt-choir are not quite like anything else. (TR)
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Gigs In Brighton... MOUNT KIMBIE Tuesday 5th October Jam 8pm £7 adv
YUCK Wednesday 6th October The Hope 8pm £6.50 adv
MAYDAY PARADE & THE MAINE Sunday 10th October
Coalition 7.30pm £10.50 adv
NME RADAR TOUR
feat. The Joy Formidable & Chapel Club
Monday 11th October Concorde 2 £9.50 adv
ROBYN Thursday 21st October Concorde 2 7.30pm £15 adv
WARPAINT Friday 29th October Digital 7pm £8 adv
BEDOUIN SOUNDCLASH Sunday 31st October Komedia 8pm £10 adv
FRIGHTENED RABBIT Saturday 27th November Komedia 8pm £11 adv
GOGOL BORDELLO Sunday 28th November Brighton Dome 7.30pm £17.50 adv
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Grinderman Nick Cave’s blues in black and white words by james kendall You could get burned as a heretic for suggesting – especially after the excellent ‘Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!’ – that Nick Cave’s best work recently hasn’t been with the Bad Seeds, the exalted band that’s been producing gothic masterpieces of various shades for the last quarter of a century. But with Grinderman the 53-year-old Hove resident and his bristly band of sonic guerrillas have never sounded so alive. New album ‘Grinderman 2’ arrived prefixed by the swamp-squall of ‘Heathen Child’, the soundtrack to one of the most ridiculous videos of the year. Cave, drummer Jim Sclavunos, bassist Martyn Casey and multi-instrumentalist Warren Ellis shoot lasers out of their eyes and fart fire while dressed as centurions. Despite some sinister undertones it’s a huge amount of fun – just like the explosive distorto-blues punk it’s promoting – and that’s the Nick we’re hoping to meet in suave Soho drinking den, The House of St Barnabas. Because, as one of music’s true intellectuals – he’s also a highly regarded novelist and screenwriter – the big man famously doesn’t suffer fools. Elegantly sprawled across a leather chair, at first he seems completely uninterested, intently enthusing to the reassuringly mellow Jim about the colour of the new LP’s vinyl. However, butting in we find an immediate common ground: a love for Brighton. “What a town!” he says, suddenly engaging. “I love Brighton. I think I’m there for the long haul, the duration. Alright, let’s fucking go for it.” Aptly, going for it is just what Grinderman are all about. They lock
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themselves in the studio for five days and improvise with noise, never shying away from exploring areas of wrongness or embarrassment. It’s very different to the controlled, cerebral Bad Seeds method of Cave bringing in his solitary, studied songs to be developed. “We will try things out that are maybe instantly regrettable,” admits Jim of the Grinderman sessions. “But by going to those remote territories we find things to do that are very different to what we’ve done before.” “Flutes, electronic drums…” says Nick to shared giggles. “I think we have more faith in the process now. Initially there was an element of panic – we’ve got to get something, we’ve got to get something – but now we just play for five days.” The lack of holding back is echoed in the lyrics. On the first outing Nick famously complained about not getting any action on ‘No Pussy Blues’. This time out, in ‘Kitchenette’, he offers to “stick my fingers in your biscuit jar” to save the object of his affection from her “brood of junky buck-toothed imbeciles/the ugliest fucking kids I’ve ever seen.” “There’s no way I can self-censor because it’s happening so fast, day after day after day,” he says. “I go to places that are different and more extreme usually than I do with the Bad Seeds. But I always take those words away and work on them, and turn them into acceptable, workable lyrics.” At times – and in very deep contrast to the Bad Seeds – the Grinderman lyrics come on like poetic Tourette’s. Is it coming from the deepest part of Nick Cave or is he playing a character? Slightly tongue-tied in the presence of a famously spiky interviewee, we ask Nick about the lyrical self-depreciation.
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“It’s ‘self-deprecation’,” he huffs, correcting us in a heartbeat, before pausing to think whether he can be bothered with the question. “I never play a character… I don’t know what to say about that. I use characters in songs, I think that there’s a narrator to these songs. I don’t take on some sort of persona, but I do write narrative songs from different points of view. It’s not like I’m the Thin White Duke.” Very much told, we push on very carefully with the idea bandied about – and even offered as a direct Cave quote – that Grinderman’s fun-time, sex-and-loud-guitars have been the soundtrack to a midlife crisis. “People have a reticence toward those of a certain age talking about certain things and they call that a midlife crisis,” Nick sighs, not unreasonably. “It’s one of those expressions that’s supposed to render what you do impotent in some way. I never saw it as a midlife crisis. I never had a midlife crisis. It’s a very superior point of view.”
– he doesn’t need a pat on the back from anyone. Jim – who was a key player in the no wave movement with his band Teenage Jesus & The Jerks before playing with The Cramps and Sonic Youth amongst many others – has a similarly regarded career and seems laidback enough not to care. The pair are clearly – after 14 years in the Bad Seeds – close friends, and are good company together. Is it easier for them to work in the democracy of Grinderman as apposed to the Bad Seeds where Nick gets top billing? “I think it’s pushing it a bit to call Grinderman a democracy,” Nick smiles. “I don’t think it’s democratic but it is a group effort,” adds Jim. “The Bad Seeds are a group effort too.” “There’s a lot of delegation that goes on with Grinderman that I think works really well,” Nick says. “For example if it comes to mastering a record I’m happy to have nothing to do with that and let Jim sort that out because he’s actually a producer. I tend to do the covers...because I failed art school.”
It seems that there’s a trust in Grinderman that couldn’t have There’s a feeling that if he could banish the intrusive poking at him come with a completely new set of musicians. by critics then Cave wouldn’t miss it, but in the gaps in our “Very much so,” nods Nick. “Grinderman is very much about interview he seems keen to find out what Alexis Petridis has trust, for me certainly – that I’m free to written about him in that day’s express myself in any way that I like Guardian. And when we ask if people because people understand that it’s part ‘get’ Grinderman he says that women of the process of trying to find something love it, “except the chick from The new and interesting.” Wire,” a sly joke about the accusations ALBUM: ‘Grinderman 2’ out now on Mute of misogyny from a female journalist WEB: www.grinderman.com Decades into his music career, Nick Cave at the chin-stroking magazine. VIDEO: tiny.cc/heathen-child-vid is rare among his peers in that he’s definitely still achieving that ambition. But Cave is filled with quiet confidence
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CLUB PREVIEWS
WORDS BY MATT BARKER, EMMA BERTRAND, ZAC COLBERT, NICK COQUET, JAMES KENDALL, JESSICA MARSHALL McHATTIE, THE RECOMMENDER, LYDIA STOCKBRIDGE
ADVENTURES AFTER DARK •
Coalition Wednesdays
There’s a lot of fun happening on midweek nights but this new weekly from Coaltion promises a focus on the music, showcasing a new live band every Wednesday, with a bit of indie, 80s pop and 90s hip hop spliced in between. Straight out of the gates the line-up is great, with Primary 1, Shy Child and Good Dangers all set to play in the coming months, and all for only a pound entry – we really can’t argue with those prices. (LS)
WAREHOUSE •
Audio Saturdays
The talk around town this month has been just what the Warehouse teaser ad in SOURCE was all about. Audio have revealed that it’s their new Saturday night concept. Like Summer Of Love (that really was a long summer) it’s free, as long as you get there before 1am. From that point your fiver entry is invested in some great underground, upcoming electro-based acts. Jokers Of The Scene – who throw the kitchen sink at the decks before blowing them up with synth dynamite – join Blogger’s Delight boss Casper C for the launch on Saturday 2nd and Thomas Gandy, Cassette Jam and Transformer also pop in. Most excitingly Kill Em All are throwing a Halloween party on the 30th with Filthy Dukes and Stopmakingme. Very promising start. (JK)
DARREN EMERSON Coalition Sat 2nd
It’s been so long since Darren Emerson was in Underworld that people have stopped mentioning it. Now they talk about his Underwater Record label. Except that’s all over with too, but worry not. Tonight is the Brighton launch of his new imprint Detone. ‘Decisions’, his latest for the label, echoes early Underwater or Futureshock, but with a more techno edge, while
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the label debut, ‘Gracelands’, had the African influences you’d imagine. All of which means we’ve not sure exactly where he’s at musically. Knocking out good tunes, if nothing else. “Massive” special guests are promised. (JK)
ALICE RUSSELL •
Coalition Sat 2nd
We love Alice Russell. Unlike American soul singers who seem to take it all way too seriously, Alice has got a wicked, wicked sense of humour and can always be found poking fun at herself or someone else. She’s got so much presence on stage, yet backed up by TM Juke and the rest of her band you might think she could get lost. But her voice powers right past the horn section, the backing singers and the super-solid rhythm section. A force of personality both on and off stage. (JK)
WASTED UV RAVE • The Honey Weds 6th
It’s such a brilliant idea we can’t quite believe that everyone isn’t doing it. Get the glowsticks out, persuade everyone into flouro colours, blast the lasers and lights and fire off confetti bombs for complete visual overload. Throw in loads of free stuff, including drinks and you just know where all the eager freshers are going to be tonight. (JK)
HOSPITALITY
Digital Sat 9th
The Hospitality label has carved out an eternal name for itself in the last decade, signing and helping break the biggest producers in liquid drum’n’bass, from High Contrast to new boy Netsky. Tonight the label’s esteemed boss London Elektricity tops the bill with Danny Byrd backing him up. The latter’s just released his return-to-the-scene tune ‘Ill Behaviour’ which is gathering some major radio play, and the former is the grandaddy of knickermoistening liquid beats, so as always this night’s going to do some serious damage. (ZC)
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BRIGHTON INSTITUTIONS • Globe Weds 13th
This is a nice little idea from The Globe, and we were delighted to be asked. Basically, a part of Brighton’s fabric gets asked to come down and play some records, have a bit of a party and hang out. If we weren’t playing it we’d describe it as our Unsung Heroes column but with music – but we won’t say that cos it sounds arrogant. Pop in and see us if you fancy hearing the music that gets SOURCE’s neighbours banging on the walls, want to talk to us about contributing, or even just want to find out why we never use picture bylines. Actually, just come and say hello. (JK)
UNDERGROUND REBEL BINGO Venue tbc Weds 13th
If the actual idea of bingo appeals to you but you’re put off by the aura of despair, false hope and futility that inhabits its traditional venues, then Underground Rebel Bingo is for you. ‘No old people, no boring people and no wankers’ are their three golden rules, and they’re more than made up for by loud music, shouting and swearing. The venue’s a secret at the moment but go to rebelbingo.com to find out how and where. (NC)
KISSY SELL OUT
Concorde 2 Thurs 14th
Since 2006 Kissy Sell Out has been the quintessential electro DJ everyone wants to get their mixing fingers on. His eccentric production style and energetic sets accrued him much attention, not least from Radio 1 where his slot is now a must-listen for all dance music enthusiasts. He’s a huge champion of unsigned music so you can expect to hear a wealth of new disco, party anthems and ravetastic tracks this evening. (ZC)
SCRATCH PERVERTS Concorde 2 Sat 16th
This multi-award winning DJ trio needs little introduction after being staples of the dance music scene for nearly 15 years now. Tony Vegas, Prime Cuts and Plus One mix, blend and indeed scratch the finest cuts from dubstep, hip hop and drum’n’bass. They never fail to rock whichever club is
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fortunate to have them grace the decks and so catching their live show tonight is a must for any beatnut. In support is new dubstep darling Katy B as well as Emalkay, whose grinding tune ‘When I Look at You’ solidified him as one to watch earlier this year. (ZC)
BULLION
Fortune of War Sat 16th
Everyone’s favourite seaside smugglers’ inn plays host to Bullion, a UK producer who’s been favourably compared to Flying Lotus and Hudson Mohawke, acclaimed by Gilles Peterson and Mary Anne Hobbs’ replacement Benji B, as well as lauded in LA and New York. His pared-down, beat-tape grooves are a welcome change from the repetitive dubstep-bynumbers many are peddling. (JMM)
FAKE BLOOD
Digital Sat 16th
Brighton seems to have become a home from home for this pioneer of the fidget house genre, as he returns to Digital with his basslines as fat as a Texan burger. Surely by now we don’t need to revisit the initial secrecy surrounding Touchè’s identity do we? Um. Anyway, support comes from the Blah Blah Blah team, who are so good at smashing their Digital residency that it often forces 10% more out of the headline act. (TR)
JEHST
Jam Sat 16th
Tonight features promoters The Doctor’s Orders’ repeat prescriptions Spin Doctor and Rusty Ryan, as well as marvellous medicine in the form of one Brighton’s most loved MCs, Jehst. Since ‘Return Of The Drifter’ became the most over-played song since James Blunt’s ‘Beautiful’, Jehst has been delighting audiences with clever lyrics and dope beats. Grab your Red Stripe and let the The Doctor’s Orders cure your winter ills. (JMM)
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KRS-ONE
Concorde 2 Fri 22nd
One of the original and historically most important hip hop artists, KRS-One is a massive draw for the Concorde in this special late night show from 11-4am. Unlike many of his later contemporaries, he eschewed the trappings of bitches and bling, preferring to use his profile to promote peace, but beneath his laudable moral outlook he still kicks some killer beats. You probably won’t have seen him before, and you might not get to again, so make sure you’re there. (NC)
THROWING SNOW Riki Tik Fri 22nd
Multi-pie-fingered Throwing Snow has been quietly building a reputation for himself. As the founder of experimental label A Future Without he’s more than proved his musical mettle for spotting new talent, and his website is awash with free downloads of new downtempo electronica and chilled dubstep. Tonight is a completely free opportunity to check out what he’s currently got his ears tuned to: expect to hear progressive, jangly tunes from his latest release plus a sneaky play of his upcoming Hyetal remix. (JMM)
TODDLA T
Audio Fri 22nd
Although he popped out of Sheffield in the wake of the Arctic Monkeys, the indie kid-looking Toddla T is straight up ruffneck, throwing dancehall and hip hop into electro and garage with full force. His Fabric Live mix from last year is – according to our designer Matt – “an absolute banger” and certainly after productions for the likes of Roots Manuva he’ll come loaded with a bass-heavy record bag. For the two gigs following this Audio appearance Mr T is in Fabric and then Santos in New York, so you know the boy is firing. (JK)
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CHEW THE FAT!
Audio Fri 29th
Continuing its Brighton outreach programme, the Chew the Fat! London club night brings such a heavyweight line-up down to our shores it’s bound to blow the bass bins on Audio’s speakers. Foamo leads the dubstep brigade with his rave-driven dancefloor killers followed by Reso whose grimey production style promises to bring some filthy tunes to the table. Last but not least are Warrior One, two producers making reggaeton-inspired basslines that’ll have you daggering before you can say BRRRAP! (ZC)
TEEN CREEPS •
The Hope Fri 29th
As part of the massive land-grab The Hope have recently made for proper underground indie club nights, Teen Creeps debuts there this month. To mark the migration, they’ve got one of SOURCE’s favourite underground indie bands, Phantom, to christen it. Phantom consists of Sam from The Maccabees and Tic from Jack Peñate’s band, and they make the most intense bleak-synthed, R&B-inflected indie you’ve heard. Because of the members’ other commitments they hardly ever play, so this is a rare, exciting treat. (MB)
ALEX CELLER
H Bar Sat 30th
Probably the H Bar’s biggest booking yet sees Greek ex-pat Alex Celler swing down from London in a month of international gigs. Though he’s only had his studio for half a decade there’s a real mid 90s feel to Alex’s productions but with a hint of that darkness from the last few years of the Ibizan underground. Think Loco Dice remixing Danny Tenaglia. If you’ve been following his productions and mixes on Cocoon, Buzzin’ Fly and Freak N Chic you might be surprised to find him in such an intimate spot in Hove, but don’t question how he got there – just lock yourself into his hypnotic percussion. (JK)
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Hat Club
Words by james kendall Photos by Sam WadMaN
It was a real shame when Hat Club disappeared a few years ago, but after a jaunt around the globe (including Ibiza and Bahrain) they’re back in a new home, and one that suits them to a tee. Straight off the bat the crowds are flocking in, not least due to the straight-up, accessible upfront house from a large crew of resident DJs who know just what the dancefloor is looking for. The venue is dressed
well – one of the best bits of decorating from a promoter at the moment – and with all the head adornment you won’t forget what night you’re at. Unlike the old days people aren’t quite on the hat-wearing message yet, but every month more and more turn up suitably attired, and the team supply headgear for anyone not yet with the programme. A fine club night and a growing brand – you really have to tip your hat to them.
TOP TEN
Robyn ‘Dancing On My Own (Michael Woods Remix)’ Denis The Menace ‘Bamboleo’ Denis The Menace & Chris Montana ‘Spanish Hustle’ Afrojack & Bobby Burns ‘Bungee’ Steve Angello ‘Knas’ Mark Knight & Wolfgang Gartner ‘Conscindo’ Sebastian Ingrosso & Dirty South ‘Meich Clocks (Fred Lilla Re-Edit)’ Adrian Lux ‘Teenage Crime (Axwell & Henrik B Remode)’ Tensnake ‘Coma Cat (Round Table Knights Mix)’ Jay C & Felix Baumgartner ‘Souk’
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THE DOCTOR’S ORDERS Words and photos by james kendall
Maybe we’re wrong but Brighton’s a hip hop town, right? There’s certainly enough weed smoked. But where are all the pure, traditional hip hop club nights? Slip Jam:B is still dropping beats – currently at The Hope – after a decade, and Jailbait is playing a load of 90s stuff to a new young crowd, but what about the heads? The Doctor’s Orders have come down from London to change all that, and they’re arriving loaded with props, not least from Time Out who called them “the kings of the capital’s hip hop scene”. They’ve got killer residents in the shape of Spin Doctor and Rusty Ryan who keep things soulful but
proper, and they’ve been booking some great quests – the night we popped down Rodney P & Skitz hit the stage for an extended set. The crowd is knowledgeable but still up for the party, and there’s as much dancing as head nodding. No wonder their nights at Fabric and The Big Chill House are so well regarded – it’s good to have them down here too. The Pharcyde ‘Runnin’ Q-Tip ‘Vibrant Thing’ Aloe Blacc ‘I Need A Dollar’ Marvin Gaye ‘Sexual Healing (DJ DIgga Edit)’ Impressions vs J-Dilla ‘Must Be In Love (Spin Doctor Edit)’ Notorious BIG ‘Juicy’ Jay Electronica ‘Exhibit C’ NEXT EVENT: Jam, Sat 16th with Jhest Poets Of Rhythm ‘More WEB: www.thedoctorsorders.com Mess On My Thing’ IN LONDON: tinyurl.com/doc-podcast A Tribe Called Quest ‘Electric Relaxation’ Soul II Soul ‘Fairplay’
TOP TEN
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CULTURE
WORDS BY JESSICA MARSHALL McHATTIE, james kendall, BEN MILLER
FILM: THE FIRST MOVIE Duke Of York’s Sun 3rd
Where kids in Hanover spend their yoghurt-enriched days dreaming of Harry Potter, kids in Iraq probably have their imagination sources less readily supplied. Mark Cousins went to one village to find out, giving his protégés cameras to record their lives. It’s followed by a question and answer session with the director and, like most other venues this month it seems, is only one highlight of a packed programme at everyone’s favourite picturehouse. (BM)
FILM: MR NICE Duke Of York’s Fri 8th-Thurs 14th
The fact that Welsh drug dealer Howard Marks became a media superstar in the mid 90s was odd to say the least. His ubiquitous autobiography really wasn’t much cop – try Robert Sabbag’s ‘Snowblind’ for a better smuggling book – but there’s no doubt he’s lived a fascinating life that, freed from the writing, ought to be a proper riot onscreen. Rhys Ifans seems perfect to play the laconic, anti-violence dope dealer, especially suited to the comedic set-up, though the film calmly deals with the real issues towards the end. (JK)
THEATRE: SEX IDIOT The Basement Fri 15th
The Guardian’s unimpressed description of Bryony Kimmings’s attempt to fashion a moustache out of pubic hair contributed by her audience was probably as entertaining as her Edinburgh performance, forming an appropriate critical reception for a woman possessed by insanity and the clutches of chlamydia. This breezy traipse through a 29-year-old’s sexual past is not one for the faint of heart but, even in a top-notch month, its singularity is assured. (BM)
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COMEDY: LATE NIGHT GIMP FIGHT Upstairs at Three & Ten Fri 15th-Sat 16th
Having sold out their run up in Scotland, the gimps promise to leave you “feeling violated, but in a good way” as they head south on a wave of euphoria following their Edinburgh Fringe award nomination. It marks the first show of the Brighton Comedy Fringe, which launches at the Three And Ten the previous night before scattering a gawpingly brilliant line-up across the rest of the month. (BM)
COMEDY: I.O.U. COMEDY Coalition Mon 18th
Lets face it: it’s mid-October, it’s a Monday, it’s probably raining, and you’re probably miserable. If you fancy doing something other than crying into your soup over Coronation Street, you could always try getting yourself to Coalition for a stellar comedy line-up. This night features mainstream comedians like Zoe Lyons as well as very promising newcomers such as Romesh Ranganathan and Ian Smith, all of whom have too many accolades to list. If you don’t enjoy yourself you probably don’t actually like comedy nights. (JMM)
COMEDY: DEATH DRIVE The Basement Fri 22nd
Tim Clare is a sweating rogue of a kitchen sink performer, too funny not to come under comedy but dramatic enough to provide swathes of pure theatre. His teenage suicide pact with his father is one starting point for a show which ventures into the realms of ukulele odes and confessional poetry, created by a writer whose spiritedly doomed attempt to win a book deal was a ThreeMinute Wonder on Channel 4, no less. (BM)
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FILM: LEGACY FILM FESTIVAL Lighthouse Sat 23rd
The programme around Brighton for Black History Month is well worth investigating, exemplified by this trio of short films. Paradise Lost explores life for gay Trinidadians outside of the carnival season, Homecoming follows a photographer returning to his native Huddersfield for an exhibition of his work on sexual and cultural identity, and Legacy looks at maternal relationships in Afro-Caribbean culture. Discussions with the directors follow the screenings. (BM)
FILM: EXIT TO BEACH • Duke of York’s Sun 24th
It’s impossible to live in Brighton without being aware of its seedier, darker sides, and this moving feature-length documentary follows the shadowy secret lives of Brighton’s homeless community. Dramatically shot and raw enough to maintain a gritty, real edge, Exit To Beach is a modern film that will capture the hearts of anyone familiar with Brighton’s side streets and park benches. Created by impressively talented Sussex students and using local musicians for the soundtrack, all proceeds of this viewing go directly to charity, improving the chances of Brighton’s homeless. (JMM)
THEATRE: IF THAT’S ALL THERE IS Pavilion Theatre Wed 27th – Fri 29th
Inspector Sands are a young company heading off to New York and Beijing after this run of outings in smaller UK venues, which gives you the chance to point and laugh at all the suckers who’ll probably be paying fortunes to see them when they get back. A hopeless wedding day and a cast of powerfully-played characters teetering on the edge of madness make for a tragicomic whirlwind to savour. (BM)
DANCE: AMRAM KHAN COMPANY Dome Thurs 28th
The centrifugal force of this performance, Vertical Road, is likely to leave dance fans in a boggle-eyed spin well into November. National Ballet of China collaborator Akram Khan puts his choreographic wizardry to use on performers from Asia, Europe and the Middle East for work based around universal myths of angels and the road between the earthly and the spiritual, throwing in a specially-commissioned Nitin Sawhney score for good measure. (BM)
EVENT: BEACH OF THE DEAD Brighton Station Sat 30th
Sometimes, just sometimes, Brighton deserves its label as a plain weird place. Saturday 30th will demonstrate this nicely, as over 1,000 citizens plan to awkwardly drag their whitepainted faces and bloodied limbs towards the sea in a citystopping celebration of zombified solidarity. Anyone is welcome to participate, the rules are listed on the Facebook page (our favourite is “don’t touch anyone!”) and with the town centre at a standstill, your safest bet is to join the rank ranks of the undead. (JMM)
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Playgroup Words and photo by james kendall
As one half of Playgroup, Declan Cassidy is putting his heart and soul into the city’s club nights. The first Playgroup Festival this summer was a huge success. Were you pleased with it? It surpassed all of our expectations. We kind of had an idea of what it was going to be like – we wanted it to be somewhere between Secret Garden Party and Bestival but very Brightonorientated and to involve the arts and performers. Like every festival, it’s down to the people who are there and the people who were there were… Brighton people. And Brighton people know how to have a good time. The way you promoted it seemed brave after Beachdown. Was the secrecy a worry? Whenever you do a festival in Brighton now you’re always going to be compared to the massive disaster that was Beachdown and I think a lot of people were still scared. We decided to keep it a secret line-up, a secret location, which if you’ve got faith in us is amazing. But if you don’t really know us, or you’ve been to a few shows but you’re not prepared to put down your 60 quid then a lot of people were scared because of Beachdown. But the 800 people who were there will all come back, and invite another ten people. But we don’t want to get too big and lose the soul and spirit of the festival. Why did you move your home to the Komedia? We’ve moved to the Komedia mainly because of the different spaces it gives us and the freedom to not only have a thousand people there, which means we can get bigger artists and bigger acts, but also because the Komedia is great to work with. What’s special about your third Halloween Spectacular? Well, we’ve broken the bank booking DJ Yoda. He’s obviously played in Brighton countless times but it’s always just been him on his own. And that’s fine. As much as there are great promoters in this town invariably people end up getting very lazy and are happy
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with just putting on DJ Yoda. And it will be a great show, but if you incorporate him into a full-on wild, three-floor, thousand person party – with 250 performers and acts, stilt walkers, face painters, walkabout characters, 25-piece live carnival bands – then you’ve really got something special. Playgroud are taking over the music at Hector’s House – what have you got planned? We’re going to try to bring in some cohesiveness. We’re working closely with a charity called Bottletop for the Friday nights and we’ve got some quite cool headliners kicking it off. DJ Format opens the first one on the 15th, then JFB and Hint. High Rankin is going to do one, Mr Thing. There’s a bit of a novelty of seeing that kind of calibre of DJ at Hector’s House. Your bookings are so diverse – is there something that makes it a Playgroup event? This month we’ve got nights ranging from Little Dragon to Arrested Development and in between a brand new electro swing night, White Mink. Then there’s a new student night at Hector’s, which is very different to Our Broken Garden, a beautiful Scandinavian band we’ve got on in November. But what makes a Playgroup event? I think diversity, a sense of fun, leaving your pretentions at the door. We really put our heart and soul into every show. I think it shows. We really try to make an effort with the décor, and the bands we pick. Above all of that it’s the people we involve – there’s only two of us that run the company but the Playgroup crew is much wider than that.
Do you ever have to put people on the naughty step at your Playgroup? That’s a good idea – we might have a naughty step at the next event. Dub Pistols started smoking onstage, which wasn’t cool, but everybody at Playgroup is lovely and behave BIG EVENT: Halloween Spectacular at Komedia Fri 29th themselves really well. WEB: tiny.cc/play-facebook Apart from perhaps the GET INVOLVED: info@playgrouplive.com promoters who can get a little wild now and again.
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As the summer draws on, the local music calendar looks forward to the annual Brighton Live Festival. This freeto-see celebration of Brighton music involves about 150 bands across 20 venues over 5 days; this year’s line up looks like one of the most interesting and strongest line ups in the festival’s seven year history.
Moreover, the festival still retains it’s ‘open access’ policy for much of it’s programme, and during the daytime of Saturday 9th October at the Latest MusicBar, a number of seminars and networking opportunities will take place, aimed at helping artists get to grips with the changing nature of today’s music industry.
BBC Introducing (at the Prince Albert), Juice FM (Latest) and Radio Reverb (Brunswick) will all host ‘curated’ events this year, add to that other curated events by the likes of the Great Escape (Hectors), international artist Z Star (Latest), SOURCE (Jam) and other local promoters and organisations, it’s easy to see why the 2010 festival aims to increase promotional and career opportunities for all.
On top of all this, the festivals main sponsors, Asahi beer, have dug even deeper into their pockets to facilitate a further free-to-see flagship event at Concorde 2, where national act Get Cape, Wear Cape and Fly headline a strong local bill on Thursday 7th October. For further details of who, what, where - including an exciting launch night at Madame Geishas on the 5th October – go along to www.brightonlive.net.
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Zone 1. Kemp Town
Zone 2. North Laine
Zone 3. South Lanes
Zone 4. Central
Zone 5. Hove
Wednesday OCTOBER 6th LATEST MUSICBAR
MRS FITZHERBERTS
up 8pm 9pm
8pm 9pm 10pm
down 6pm – 9pm 9pm
A Glimmer David Simon all ages event Starfish (youth) event: Z Star presents Night of very special guests plus Z Star herself in concert
Hour Hands Fitzroy Jet Glo
8pm 9pm 10pm
Esther Bertram Rayon Breed Darius Alexander
ALI CATS
BN1 presents
8:30pm 9:30pm
8pm 9pm 10pm
Sharon Lewis Tallulah May Jumping Ships
THE THREE AND TEN 8.30pm 10pm HECTORS HOUSE
Brighton Songwriters Luke Jones Playgroup presents
see website for line up: brightonlive.net THE HYDRANT
USSU presents
8pm 9pm 10pm
Broken Links Kobayashi Dog Section
THE DORSET ARMS 8.30pm 9.30pm
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Lu Cozma Cate Ferris
BBC Introducing: The South
8pm 9pm 10pm
The Toniks The Valentines Beautiful Word
THE FOUNDRY
UPSTAIRS AT THE THREE AND TEN Amanda Bes Ashley Hancock
THE PRINCE ALBERT
THE FLORIST 8.30pm 9.30pm
Rose Randles Amy Hill
THE BEESMOUTH 8pm 9pm 10pm
Creaking Chair Glen Belt Left at the Robot
LUCKY VOICE 8pm 9pm 10pm
Standard Lamps Lucky Jim Superlungs
unplugged sessions see website for details: brightonlive.net
THE PRINCE OF WALES 8.30pm 9.30pm
HOTEL PELIROCCO Radio Reverb presents
Daniel Brayson JB and Aaz
JAM
SOURCE presents
8pm 9pm 10pm
Monsters Build Mean Robots Crooked Mountain Crooked Sea Justice Force 5
THE BRUNSWICK
Radio Reverb presents
8pm 9pm
Wob Eliza Jaye &The Tarts PrjctMyhm
10pm
THURSDAY OCTOBER 7th LATEST MUSICBAR
THE HYDRANT
USSU presents
up 8pm 9pm
Last Days of Lorca Mr Eugene
8pm 9pm 10pm
Tribal Vibe Deadbeat Descendant Jim Stapley
down 6-9pm 9pm 10pm 11pm midnight
Jam Brighton (youth) Ember Honey Bruise Kelly Barnes band Jonny Loves House
8.30pm 9.30pm
Laura Hocking Danni Nicholls
8.30pm 9.30pm
Andrew Foster Amy Hill
JAM
SOURCE presents
8pm 9pm 10pm
AK/DK Kinema Transformer
MRS FITZHERBERTS
UPSTAIRS AT THE THREE AND TEN 8:30pm 9:30pm
THE DORSET ARMS
THE PRINCE OF WALES
Dani Blue Jaime Regan
8pm 9pm 10pm
New Sun Blues Tom Walker Group Clayton Strange
THE FOUNDRY
THREE AND TEN
THE FLORIST 8.30pm 9.30pm
Catherine Allin Russell Joslin
THE BEESMOUTH
8.30pm 9.30pm
Luke Jones Seadog
CONCORDE 2
C2 presents
ALI CATS
6pm – 4am see concorde2.co.uk for details
Get Cape Wear Cape Fly The Xcerts Munich The Agitator Autumn Red Jumping Ships plus late night club w/ acts
Spikey Promotions presents
HOTEL PELIROCCO
Blue Light unplugged presents…
8pm 9pm 10pm
Flake Brown Casey Edward Denman The Long Goodbye
8.30pm 9.30pm
Yokoko The Stars Down To Earth
HECTORS HOUSE
Playgroup presents
see website for line up: brightonlive.net
Amy Harrison Maria McAteer Bernice MacDonald
Oxjam presents
8pm 9pm 10pm
see website for details brightonlive.net
THE BRUNSWICK
LUCKY VOICE 8pm 9pm 10pm
Iris and the Wolves Frankie Young Zarbo
8pm 9pm 10pm
The Lanes Illustrators The Perils
FRIDAY OCTOBER 8th THE DORSET ARMS
LATEST MUSICBAR up 8pm 9pm down 6-9pm 9pm 10pm 11pm midnight
Tony Marks (Juice) presents Ramona Sweet Sweet Lies Starfish (youth) event Tony Marks (Juice) presents Seerauber Jenny Arp Attack Common Tongues Amongst The Pigeons DJ set
UPSTAIRS AT THE THREE AND TEN 8:30pm 9:30pm
Anna Searight Orchard Tales
THREE AND TEN 8.30pm 9.30pm
So Last Century String Band Stick In A Pot
HECTORS HOUSE
Great Escape presents
8pm 9pm 10pm
Hind Ear Amongst The Pigeons Lyrebirds
THE HYDRANT
USSU presents
8pm 9pm 10pm
Hollywood Assasins Blondes in Tokyo Amys Ghost
8.30pm 9.30pm
Jenna Bennett Kelly Barnes
MRS FITZHERBERTS 8pm 9pm 10pm
My Tour Of Duty Crude Pineapple The Junkhouse
THE FOUNDRY
Terrace Cred presents
8pm 9pm 10pm 10.30pm
Will Mussett The Long Goodbye Caitlin Stubbs Luke Hyttner
ALI CATS
Spikey Promotions presents
8pm 9pm 10pm
Tallulah May Mike Newsham De’Borah
Modern Fighting Vehicles Holy Vessels Pope Joan
THE PRINCE ALBERT
BBC Introducing: The South
8pm 9pm 10pm
Jazz Morley Robot Heart Muel
THE FLORIST 8.30pm 9.30pm
Goodfinn Rough Citizen
THE BEESMOUTH 8pm 9pm 10pm
Self Help Group The Recovery Position Poor Little Pierrette
Stevie Matt Carpanini Chris Simmons Oxjam presents see website for details brightonlive.net
THE BRUNSWICK
THE PRINCE OF WALES 8.30pm 9.30pm
SOURCE presents
8pm 9pm 10pm
HOTEL PELIROCCO
LUCKY VOICE 8pm 9pm 10pm
JAM
Brian McNamara Nick Williams
8pm 9pm 10pm
The Beautiful Word Man Ray Sky Pink Narcissus
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Brighton Live
Launch Party Brighton Live ‘invite only’ launch party; Tuesday 5th
October, 7pm til 11pm at Madame Geisha, East Street. With live performances from Ramona + Small Gods + Raising Maisie. Plus DJs, nibbles and Asahi. Listen to Juice 107.2FM for your chance to win VIP tickets.
Brighton Live
Lunchtime Busking Sessions The Sealife Centre’s ‘music tunnel’ will host a series of
acoustic lunchtime ‘busker concerts’ from midday til 2pm on Tuesday 5th, Wednesday 6th, Thursday 7th & Friday 8th October. Expect top quality local acoustic performances from top quality local acts.
Industry Seminar Day
at the Latest Music Bar Sat 9th October 2010 Midday til 5pm
UPSTAIRS
Bar opens at noon - come and network and take advantage of the ‘demo drop’ facility throughout the day 12.30pm - 2pm The Brighton Fringe Workshop Come and find out how you can be a part of England’s largest Fringe festival. The Brighton Fringe team will be on hand to offer advice on running an event, finding a suitable venue, how to best promote and market your event and more. The invitation is open to everyone whether you are a newcomer, an experienced artist or promoter, a venue manager or simply looking for some work experience. www.brightonfestivalfringe.org.uk 2pm-3.30pm The Music Industry: Where is it going and what models should Brighton’s ‘Do It Yourself’ artists be following? Incorporates an industry panel discussion and Q&A hosted by Mark Ede (BiG i AM), with music journalist Jeff Hemmings, (independent, former major label) international artist Z Star, Grammy nominated producer/songwriter David Courtney and international artist manager Phil Nelson. Expect each panellist to give an informal 10 minute ‘state of the nation’ address before opening up to questions from the floor. 3.30pm-4pm Know Your Rights - What every aspiring artist should know about basic contractual & intellectual property matters. A Legal Sound Check by ACUMEN MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT LAW. With speaker, Chris Boakes, Director of ACUMEN MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT LAW.
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4pm - 5pm Music Industry ‘Speed Dating’ Spend 5 ‘personal’ minutes with local promoters, radio presenters, music business lawyers, music journalists, artist management, producers, PR, record labels and the local press. Aim to get your questions answered, solve problems, discuss ideas and make business contacts. Don’t be shy…. these are a group of really nice people, who won’t make you feel intimidated by asking questions. Ask anything from the simple to the sublime! Limited numbers – book by registration on the day.
DOWNSTAIRS
1pm - 2pm Vocal Workshop with Johanna Harman 3pm - 4pm Vocal Workshop 2 with Johanna Harman 20 singers only per session, pre-booking essential via info@brightonlive.net Places are strictly limited and will be given on a first come, first served basis. But PLEASE, if you do book, please turn up (or at the very least advise us that you are cancelling) because, otherwise, you may be depriving others a place. During the hour long session, Jo will go through some key points of vocal technique, delivery and performance and, all things being equal, will give the opportunity for some group harmony singing. All ages and abilities welcome.
BIMM Fresher’s Gig Friday 8th October at coalition
Doors 7.30pm BIMM - Brighton Institute of Modern Music presents a night of BIMM bands including live performances from Mean Poppa Lean + Bang Bang Bang + Ice Black Birds, amongst others. Free entry. www.bimm.co.uk
Thank Yous:
With thanks to Simon, Christian and team at Asahi (Shepherd Neame), The PRS for Music Foundation, Juice 107.2FM, Brighton Source magazine, BBC Sussex, the White Nights Festival team and Brighton and Hove City Council. Also to the festival collective; Mark and Alison at BiGiAM Promotions, Dave Richards at She Likes Parties, Jayne and co at Excess Press, Trevor at Random Promotions, Joe Alferis, Bernice MacDonald and Eva ‘poster wonder’. Plus Blow Up, BIMM, Tori at USSU, Chand at UBSU and all the seminar and workshop contributors. Thanks to our board members, media partners and advertisers for all your support. And of course to all the Brighton bands and artists, venues, sound engineers, reps, promoters, security and staff that make Brighton Live possible. brightonlive.net myspace/brightonlivefestival facebook: brightonlive
PINK NARCISSUS
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tHREE DAYS OF FREE GIGS: go see these WORDS BY MATT BARKER, NICK COQUET, JAMES KENDALL, DAVID LETTS, LYDIA STOCKBRIDGE
PINK NARCISSUS •
RAMONA •
HIND EAR •
THE ROBOT HEART •
HOUR HANDS •
THE STARS DOWN TO EARTH •
Reanimating the putrefying corpse of Ziggy Stardust via a defibrillator shot of Jane’s Addiction, Pink Narcissus stride the stage like Colossus. Armed to the teeth with androgynous sneer and brash, caustic backing, they bellow a confidence that dares the audience to accept their manifesto of mayhem, creating a unique performance of unadulterated true rock’n’roll spirit. (NC)
Everyone’s favourite experimental electronic group Hind Ear are a real treasure of the Brighton music scene. Passively pop, their songs have a build-up of engineered rhythms, akin to the likes of High Places in their more twinkly moments. There’s a nod to The Knife’s abstract compositions in some places, and a less sad-sounding Thom Yorke in others – it’s wave after wave of beautifully composed noise. (LS)
Having finally pulled their fingers out and released their debut album ‘A Combination Of Errors’ a few months back, this lovely trio have blossomed into musical maturity. It’s a hazy, laidback (in a surfer-rock kind of way), and yet experimental sound. For fans of Pavement and Deerhoof in their pop moments it’s pure indie in the traditional sense of the word. (LS)
MAN RAY SKY •
Part of the mightily impressive, multi-disciplinary Beatabet collective, Man Ray Sky play delicately melodic psych rock with pastoral, Paisley Underground leanings. As all good psychonauts ought, they regularly interrupt the flow of their music with full-on, electronics-heavy wig-outs, but the band’s strong songwriting talents always make it back to the surface. (DL)
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Three-minute buzzsaw guitar fun from reasonably-likely-to Ramona. The songs are neat, the band are photogenic, and they’ve got a totally Scott Pilgrim name. Yeah, so they clearly like Blondie rather a lot, but so do we. The shot-on-a-cameraphone video to their current single ‘How Long’ pricked the ears of the NME too, if that still matters. (DL)
“Multi-harmony singing, clattering brushed drums, acoustic guitars and synths, glocks and pianos, bits of electronica” are how The Robot Heart describe their pared-down style, which we think pretty much sums it up. Like so many enterprising Brighton bands, the ‘Heart came about through chance encounters, playing often at the fabled Bleeding Hearts Club at the Prince Albert. (LS)
Old school indie pop six-piece The Stars Down To Earth craft very pretty, often folky, occasionally wonky music under the guidance of founding songwriter Alastair Gray. There’s elements of old English song in both Gray’s vocals and TSDTE’s arrangements, but their arsenal of glockenspiels and keyboards keeps the sound buoyant, fresh and beautiful. (DL)
WOB •
The irrepressible Wob has been a fixture on the scene for over 20 years, performing his infectiously upbeat tunes in every pub in the county, and seemingly every grass roots festival in the world. Wob’s appearance at Brighton Live this year creates a link from the city of today to the lost Brighton of The Zap Club, ‘Turn It Up’ and cassette-only Levellers demos. Top chap. (DL)
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SOURCE PRESENTS
So, you want three nights of top notch live Brighton music? Go straight to the SOURCE.
AK/DK •
Two drummers. You can never go wrong with two drummers. But what if you stop there? Well, then things start to get really interesting. One of the strangest bands on the Brighton Live line-up, but they’re surprisingly easy to get your noggin around. Rhythmic and synthy, they’re like a more direct Add N To (X) – you’ll be astounded how much they can achieve from behind their kits. (JK)
CROOKED MOUNTAIN CROOKED SEA •
We’ve been hearing a lot about post rock of late, not least within our own pages. The ‘Crookeds here are accomplished exponents, plying a trade of complex timings and driving guitar melodies. It hints at progressive arrangement but neatly sidesteps any accusations of pretention as they veer from raw aggression to introverted melancholy, all the while testing the amps’ capabilities. (NC)
JUSTICE FORCE 5 •
Bono and the G8 summit could take a leaf out of these guys’ book – the best way to save the world is through rock. Justice Force 5 gigs are like the best party you ever went to, with a firm yet tongue-in-cheek emphasis on the theatre of performance – all underpinned by some serious, comic booktranscending power chords by a gang of superheroes. You’ll definitely believe a band can fly. (NC)
KINEMA •
It crept up on us a bit – perhaps because singer Dom is a SOURCE scribe – but Kinema write world class pop songs. ‘Circles’ is one of the best singalongs of the last year in any genre. A soft synth electro pop sound with the bollocks of r’n’b, there’s no reason that they can’t be as big as Chromeo one day. They’re certainly picking up plenty of fans on the blogs already. (JK)
TOP TIPS
Duncan Hall - The Argus
“The Robot Heart’s EP ‘Dust’ was a great introduction to Tom Marsh’s classic songwriting. Their live show mixes acoustic guitars, computers and beautiful three-part harmonies with truly emotive lyrics. Plus don’t miss Glen Belt.”
Tony Marks - Juice FM
“With edgy, yet accessible tracks fronted by a great female vocalist, it looks like Ramona have got a massive future.”
Mark Ede - What’s Happening
“It’s really exciting to have an established international artist curating a night in the shape of Z-Star, plus I’d recommend
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MODERN FIGHTING VEHICLES •
As much as everyone loves the Fleet Foxes, we’ve always felt disconnected from America’s yee-haw country music. With a foot in both camps are whippersnappers Modern Fighting Vehicles, whose youthful British exuberance wholeheartedly embraces our colonial cousins’ rock’n’roll and folk traditions. Expect a whirlwind of enthusiasm from their glut of collaborators too. (MB)
MONSTERS BUILD MEAN ROBOTS •
In a progression from the electronic sound of their first album, they’re currently treading more organic ground, echoing Arcade Fire in places, as they make more of a faithful translation of their onstage sound to record. World events and surrealist self-realisation inform the songs that lilt with a soft artfulness that needs to be witnessed on the stage. (NC)
POPE JOAN •
Brighton’s best electro indie band ripped the arse out of our Great Escape party despite, or because of, the band before dramatically overrunning. With that in mind we had to have them back for a full set of glitched-up guitars, killer choruses and strong hooks. Sammy Aaron Jr has turned into a proper frontman and the rest of the band are really fucking cool too. Pope Joan have got it all. (JK)
HOLY VESSELS •
Unreal as it may seem, where once the indie youth of this country were in the mosh pit, or stiking fey poses wearing corduroy, surely the success story of the last 18 months has to be the meteoric rise of Mumford and Sons and the associated phenomenon of so-called nu folk. Holy Vessels are the Mumford-approved folk’n’roll darlings, and must be a shoo-in for huge things in 2011. (MB)
TRANSFORMER •
One of the most powerful bands to come out of Brighton in the last few years, Transformer have taken their banging electro funk right across Europe and back. As a frontman Johnny Giles just gets better and better – he’s taken to playing the keyboard with his head – but the whole band are real performers and the tunes are pretty catchy behind the beats. (JK)
everyone checking out Raising Maisie and Poor Little Pierrette, two unheard of up and coming bands.”
Jeff Hemmings Latest/Radio Reverb
“Rob the Rich are a lively spark within the dying embers of the current indie scene – crunchy, energetic, manic rhythms with a dollop of tropicana. Fantastic band name too. Also look out for Z-Star, Illustrators and Pink Narcissus.”
Phil Jackson - BBC Introducing
“Fresh back from their outing on The BBC Introducing Stage at T In The Park, Arp Attack make the kind of quirky electro pop that never fails to get my head bobbing up and down in a fashion that’s frankly unseemly for a man of my age. Jazz Morley and The Robot Heart are worth a look too.”
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photo biennial Words by james kendall
photo by viviane sassen
The Brighton Photo Biennial is a big deal. If you hadn’t clocked that before then the fact that Martin Parr is curating this year ought to hammer the point home. For those that don’t divide their non-Flickr time between Colourstream, Zoingimage and Clocktower Cameras, Mr Parr is one of Britain’s most important photographers, so it might come as a slight disappointment that he isn’t showing any of his own work. But as much as he’s a photojournalist, he’s also an enthusiastic curator and chronicler of images and artefacts. He collects boring postcards, Saddam Hussein watches and even big bags of crisps. The man is bemused by and interested in modern life, making him perfect for joining Brighton’s own Photoworks in putting together these five exhibitions under the title New Documents.
STRANGE & FAMILIAR: THREE VIEWS OF BRIGHTON Brighton Museum & Art Gallery
It makes sense that Parr – a photographer with a real sense of place – would have Brighton-based works as a key part of his offering, and the photographers he and Photoworks have chosen are hugely exciting. Hackney-based Stephen Gill literally put the city into his camera for Outside In, shoving items found on our streets – including a false eyelash, seaweed and fish tails – right onto the film. Japanese snapper Rinko Kawauchi meanwhile captured the swirling starlings around the pier. Best of all, Alec Soth came to town to shoot… Oh, actually he didn’t – he got busted without a work permit on the way over, but cleverly got his seven-year-old daughter to take the images. Knowing Parr’s love of the vernacular that probably excited the curator even more, and certainly promises to be an interesting view of our city.
QUEER BRIGHTON
Lighthouse
Obviously a photographer so interested in the idea of society would want to peer into the gay community Brighton is proud to call its own, and here Martin Parr has turned to Americans Molly Landreth and Zoe Strauss. The new work is split between the normal, everyday life of Brighton’s LGBT residents, an exploration of Pride and some wonderful straight-up portraits (see our Contents page for one of the finest images).
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A NIGHT IN ARGENTINA University of Brighton Gallery
Getting away from Brighton, Alejandro Chaskielberg and Esteban Pastorino Diaz provide what might be the most traditionally beautiful work of the Biennial. Both photographers shoot after dark, using the light of the moon, Chaskielberg adding flash to direct our focus without taking away from the magical atmosphere of his nocturnal vignettes. Pastorino Diaz meanwhile uses long exposures to make his architectural shots look luminous and peculiar. Both provide a new ways of seeing the world, which must sure have been what caught Parr’s eye.
NEW WAYS OF LOOKING Old Co-op Building
Though his induction into the world’s premier photo-journalism agency Magnum caused huge controversy, documentary photography is exactly what Parr does, albeit with less humanism and a more satirical edge. So a group exhibition of on that subject seems apt, with Parr digging deep across the world finding photographers from Algeria, China, India, Mexico, The Netherlands, Senegal, South Africa and the USA. Elements of portraiture, landscape, staged tableaus, urban life and more night shoots are promised, all with a new edge.
THE HOUSE OF VERNACULAR
Fabrica
Parr has always been fascinated by vernacular photography – photos viewed as art despite not being taken as such – most famously in his Autoportrait series, where he commissions pictures of himself from odd little studios. Here he finds seven new sources of commercial and non-professional photographers producing something special. Included are amateur family snapshots from America, photos of litter bins from the Design Council picture library, and shots of the insides of luxury private jets from the 60s and 70s. Expect to scratch your head the first time you see some of it but inexplicably finding yourself coming back for more.
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PHOTO FRINGE WORDS BY BEN MILLER AND JAMES KENDALL photo by Michael ormerod
Like the Festival Fringe, Brighton Photo Fringe shuns curation in favour of letting everyone have a go – but that’s not to say that these are snapshots by any old chancer with a DSLR and a Flickr habit. There’s a vast array of quality work on show, and it will be your only chance to see Martin Parr’s photography. As well as worldwide names there’s loads of local talent. Think of it as like the Open Houses but international and in galleries. Be sure to check the times though – there are some odd opening hours. Here’s our pick of eight from the 120 exhibitions going on.
BRIGHT NIGHTS Open Market Sat 2nd-Sat 16th Oct Photography at its most basic level is about capturing light, so this quartet of photographers are only making things more difficult for themselves by shooting at night. But the long exposures give a softer, otherworldliness to the work of Alex Bamford, Jean-Luc Brouard, Andrew Ford and Andre Lichtenberg. Four exceptional photographers coming out from the dark. (JK)
BRIGHTON THREADS Beyond Retro Sat 9th-Sun 31st Oct Every month we send Kevin ‘LomoKev’ Meredith out to look for the most interestingly dressed people in Brighton and every month he comes back with an amazing selection of off-kilter kids, stylish fashionistas and outright eccentrics. What makes his Street Style pictures so good is his use of the montage format, bringing focus from head to foot. Also check out his Daily Swim exhibition at the Swimming Club – Martin Parr says he will. (JK)
CLOSER Phoenix Sat 2nd Oct-Sun 14th Nov
Stuart Griffiths started taking photographs with an instamatic camera stowed in his jacket during his time as a Belfast soldier in the late 1980s, and more than 20 years later he’s finally got his first solo exhibition. Questioning the concepts and realities of enlisting, it was chosen from 200 entries as the centrepoint of the Brighton Photo Fringe. (BM)
DEGENERATION Sat 2nd Oct-Sun 14th Nov
The use of large-format cameras by contemporary landscape group Human Endeavour is fitting as they aim to tackle big issues. This time Alex Currie, Simon Carruthers and Richard
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Chivers (joined here by Oliver Perrott) head into estates earmarked for regeneration to examine the decline of social housing and its effect on society. It’s all a metaphor for today’s politics. (JK)
THE ELECTION PRoject/MAGGIE Old Co-op Building Sat 2nd Oct-Sun 14th Nov After seeing the Crane Kalman exhibition of his beautifully stark Russian ‘Motherland’ photos, Simon Roberts has become a real favourite of ours. This year he was out on the election trail, commissioned by the Houses Of Parliament, looking at the relationship between canvassing politicians and the voters. We don’t know what to make of Lisa Barnard’s ‘Maggie’ but her and Simon are talking at Brightclick II at the Basement on Wednesday 6th so we’ll find out more there. (JK)
NOTHING IS IN THE PLACE
Old Co-op Building Sat 2nd Oct-Sun 14th Nov A massive curated project by Jason Evans, Nothing Is In The Place is a subjective look back at the 90s, promising glimpses of political unrest, social upheaval and something called ‘analogue youth culture’. Yeah, yeah, but where this really gets exciting is the photographers involved. Nick Knight, Wolfgang Tillmans and Martin Parr are just three of more than 25 snappers allowing Evans to make new versions of their work. (JK)
STATES OF AMERICA
Crane Kalman Sat 2nd Oct-Sun 14th Nov At only 44 years old Michael Ormerod died just as he was finding real acclaim, and although he remains a cult figure this is the first exhibition of his work in almost a decade. William Eggleston’s sinister banality is taken on a Robert Frank-esque road trip to the forgotten edges of Midwest America. Ormerod’s name should be up there with the greats. (JK)
THE WASTED YOUTH Studio Ping-Pong Sun 3rd-Sun 17th If there’s one thing teenagers know how to do it’s partying. So this show from 17-year old Georgie Turner-Noble – a new name to us – is especially exciting. She’ll create a living room in the studio, throw a party and the pictures and decimation will become the exhibition, showing the “gradual destruction of teenage sobriety”. Hang on, is that all legal? (JK)
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COMEDY FESTIVAL WORDS BY NICK COQUET, JAMES KENDALL, JESSICA MARSHALL McHATTIE
stewart lee
The arrival of October in Brighton means two things – summer’s now been officially over for about five months and the Comedy Festival rolls into town once more. This programme of big hitters gathers together everyone from longstanding live act luminaries to the emerging crop of panel show breakouts. The rooms may be pretty large but early commitment is essential – ringing up and finding a show’s sold out isn’t funny at all. Here’s some we like the sound of.
JERRY SADOWITZ
Comedian, Magician, Psycopath Corn Exchange Sat 16th
Effectively banned from our TV screens after 1992’s Pall Bearer Revue attracted record complaints and prompted a BBC promise to never repeat or release it on DVD, Sadowitz has since plied a critically impeccable live career. This is the most deliciously offensive comedy we’ve ever seen; combined with close-up magic that he takes extremely seriously (see the ‘magicians only’ page on his crap website jerrysadowitz.com – password ‘Richard Kaufman’ – for an inkling…) it makes for a genuinely brilliant and, for anyone in his beady eye-line, terrifying live proposition. (NC)
STEPHEN GRANT FACEPALM Corn Exchange Sun 17th
If you’ve got any relationship with local live comedy you’ll have come across Stephen Grant. As compere (Chortle awardwinning, no less) of the Krater comedy club at Komedia he’s introduced them all, but out on his own he packs them in like a good’un. Mining his marriage break-up for red-mist material gives this show a new edge, as well as more general forehead-slapping revelations and a downtrodden bonhomie that’s seen him sell out every year since 2000. (NC)
STEWART LEE
Vegetable Stew Dome Tues 19th
It was great to see Stewart Lee back on TV in last year’s Comedy Vehicle, if a little frustrating that the BBC seemed not to trust him with a straight 30-minute stand-up slot. Most of the sketches that
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interspersed the brilliantly laconic live routine were poor, and an indignity they don’t foist on the seaside nan-fest of Michael McIntyre et al. This new live show is apparently a precursor to another TV series planned for 2011 – hopefully it will forgo the VT cutaways next time. (NC)
TERRY SAUNDERS
Six And A Half Loves Dome Weds 20th
True love isn’t generally viewed favourably by comedians, and this is one of the ways in which Terry Saunders stands out from the rest. This show leads on from his bittersweet YouTube success story Six And A Half Loves, which has had thousands of views and tells of poignant missed chances and slightly depressing scenes that will be familiar to even the smoothest operators amongst us. Cute without being sickening, and unexpectedly witty, this show hopes to make you leave feeling a little bit luckier in love. (JMM)
FOUR POOFS AND A PIANO Dome Thurs 21st
Okay, okay, you probably more or less know what to expect here. But if you’re a fan of kitch, camp barbershop quartets, Graham Norton, witty pop songs, penis jokes, glitterballs, smoke machines and fluffy little dogs, you’re in for a treat. And if you’re not, consider yourself warned. Four Poofs And A Piano have finally transcended back-up TV status and entered centre stage: it looks set to be quite the show. (JMM)
JIM JEFFRIES
Alcoholocaust Corn Exchange Sat 23rd
There’s something peculiar about Aussies that make them better at being offensive than anyone else, and Jim Jeffries topped the lot by actually getting punched on stage. Anyone with a 15-minute routine about the time he got a vibrating egg stuck up his arse is either completely fearless or very good at creating a fictitious character. His spat-out delivery and edgy confessions of misdemeanours give him the feel of a modern day Bill Hicks, minus the social politics. That’s not an empty compliment; Jeffries is pretty much as funny and shocking as that legend. (JK)
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WHITE NIGHT 2010
SPEND A NIGHT IN WHITE, NOT SAT IN words by nick coquet Yes, the end of British Summer Time on Saturday 30th heralds the arrival of dark evenings, bleak weather and heating bills, but there’s the bonus of an extra hour’s playtime overnight as the clocks go back. White Night 2010 is a festival of art, music, spoken word and performance that makes good use of the bonus 60 minutes, stretching the cultural goodness until dawn. This year’s theme is Illumination, as the city’s artists, venues, curators and programmers shine a light on the city and its psyche – all for free. This year’s programme is the biggest yet and looks set to attract a record 30,000 visitors. Here’s a few illuminating reasons why.
THE THEATRE OF WONDERS Friends Meeting House 9pm-4am Brighton Life Drawing Sessions present an in-and-outdoor programme of human form depiction. The Meeting House on Ship Street hosts a bevy of clothed and birthday-suited models presenting long, short and medium poses in the cabinet of curiosities-style Theatre Of Wonder, while The Cabinets Of Wonder are three travelling caravans meandering the streets, opening to reveal costumed models for al fresco life drawing.
MIDNIGHT MURAL Evolution Arts Centre 9pm-midnight Creating a mega mural by collaboration is your path to creative enlightenment here. Working alongside other artists is the key, using text, cutout images, drawings and paintings to illustrate your dreams and aspirations. A real sense of community comes out in the group effort, as the various tags and daubs contribute to an overall artistic personality that defines the place and time of its creation.
EARFILM CINEMA University of Brighton/Sallie Benney 8pm-2am Let’s face it; filmmakers are only ever projecting their own imaginations onto the screen, so Earfilms allow the viewer to totally customise the experience by using their own. Yes, the attendees are actually blindfolded as they sit back and allow cinematic storytelling with 3D sound to create a minds-eye movie all of their own. The programme is presented by Polar Bear and Daniel Marcus Clark, followed by a special late night opening of Brighton Photo Biennial: A Night In Argentina.
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BRIGHT SPARKS Jubilee Library 8pm–1am
Brightonart have utilised the best in modern audio and visual technology to create a contemporary art installation, in what will be its first appearance in its home town. Archive images with a special focus on the city’s black history will be projected and manipulated live, coming to life before your eyes to bring Black History Month to a fitting close.
SOS Sea Life Centre 6pm-2am
Away from its usual daytime guppy gawping, the Sea Life Centre invites you to an evening of illuminating culture. Discover some of the secrets of the deep and enjoy a little light music alongside some underwater wildlife, just yards from the real thing in situ, and hang about for some informative chat about how precious and fragile it all is, with actions points for saving it from the ravages of humanity.
LIGHT FINGERED PIANO TRAIL Across The City 6pm-4am Light fingers are what nearby residents will hope you’ll employ towards the end of this activity. For these are street pianos, placed around town, with the sole objective of sharing your, ahem, musical illumination and pianist prowess to passers-by. Last year the standard was annoyingly high, with queues of show-offs hoping to out-Jools-Holland each other, but there’s always space for a quick rendition of ‘Chopsticks’. Can we have a ‘heavy-handed drum kit trail’ next year?
MIDNIGHT HALF MARATHON Old Paddling Pool Midnight You’re never going to get a better time in a half marathon than if you start an hour before the clocks go back. We’d imagine that there’s something quite special about running through the street at night without the impetus of having knocked over someone’s kebab, and it’s in aid of the British Heart Foundation too. Register from 10.30pm.
THIRTEEN STEPS Various coffee shops 6pm-5am Spend a night of self improvement with 13 hourly talks and demonstrations from how to eat well in times of austerity, to how to flirt, via how to taste wine and how to swear. That’s the sort of self-improvement we can get behind.
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WORDS BY NICK COQUET, JAMES KENDALL
SINGLE: 900 SPACES • EP: SEANY CLARKE • Lady Go (Shake It Up)
The pair of songs making up this double a-side release are brimming over with new wave exuberance and charm. ‘Ballerina Dreamer’ bounces along like a puppy at a canine indie disco, its judicious use of a 4/4 rhythm section and up-down-up-down bassline securing its pogo status, with a nice Yahama home organ break for good measure. ‘Lady Echinacea’ is less dancefloor but perhaps all the more anthemic for it – proper girl-fronted indie pop seems a bit thin on the ground at the moment but this certainly helps redress the balance. (NC)
DEMO: BLACK! GARDENIAS! • (myspace.com/theblackgardenias)
Tattoos (lots of them, including a hurty palm-of-the-hand one), fuzzy guitars and rock rhythms are all quite common in bands, but the inclusion of a pair of deceptively sweetsounding female vocals on top conspire to make this really interesting. Their second set of demos, it shows a direct progression from their predecessors, with ‘Lady Gardenia’ and “Cloak & Dagger’ ticking the rockabilly rumble boxes while ‘Norma Jean’ demonstrates a bold foray into baroque balladry that builds to dramatic crescendo. Gigs are coming up, should be worth seeing. (NC)
ALBUM: THE BLUE HEARTS • Jukebox Of Maladies (Big Cactus)
From the outset this sounds like the work of an accomplished studio set-up – often we have to scrabble about for the potential in songs mired in a mush of budget production. Not so here, the sonic achievement exhibited throughout the album is usually reserved for international names. But gloss alone doesn’t necessarily make a record stand out from the crowd, that really takes genuinely good songs and those are certainly here in spades. Beefy rock rhythms snake around a catchy pop sensibility, with accomplished performances delivered by all. Definitely worth checking out. (NC)
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Funky Boy Racer (The Hook Up)
Former Hardkandy mainman Seany Clarke is back with a self-produced and largely self-played EP calling card – one that firmly nails his loves and influences to the mast. And it would appear those influences share the common denominator of the funk – Sly, Curtis and even Prince are all present in spirit as the vocal lilts around notes we’re personally incapable of reaching this side of puberty. Funk all too often gets fused in with rock these days so it’s nice to see a lighter and eminently poppier take on it here. (NC)
SINGLE: FATBOY SLIM • Right Here Right Now (JFB Remix) (Skint)
This is the future – in more ways than one. For Skint’s 200th release they commissioned a remix of one of their classics, JFB delivered it at 10am, Sir Norman gave it his thumbs up at 1pm before playing it on Radio 1 at 8.30pm. It was released on Juno at 9pm and was in the dubstep top 20 within a few hours. Phew. It’s a stunning mix – a throbbing bassline, loose drums and hip hop elements melt into all the memorable riffs. Next stop, the real charts? (JK)
SINGLE: FELGUK & TIM HEALY • Score (Surfer Rosa)
Fresh from tampering with Flo Rida and David Guetta’s new single for its raft of remixes, Felguk close the studio door behind our very own electro house head honcho Tim Healy. Classic euphoric rises straight from the textbook are ever-present, before cunningly dropping into deep breaks and dubstep. It’s a combination that works the floor perfectly and a broken-beat re-edit by Slyde, together with another dubstep workout by Screen Age & Junior Red, round off a properly credible set. (NC)
EP: GYPSY AND THE WOLF Perfect Rose (myspace.com/gypsyandthewolf)
A cursory background-seeking visit to the band’s MySpace page reveals a couple of proper heritage guitar endorsements that send the SOURCE eyebrows to the ceiling. Mark Knopfler, headband head-honcho out of Dire Straits, reckons they’re ace and Gary Moore, weatherbeaten erstwhile Thin Lizzy bloke, likes them so much he’s recorded a song with them. And it’s pretty good, too – some pastoral Foal-isms with a sparing use of guitars, banjo and what sounds like mandolin. All very nicely done and a welcome introduction to an interesting sounding outfit. (NC)
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EP: LENO GOLDSTEIN • K2EP1 (myspace.com/lenogoldstein)
There’s a swagger and lyrical insouciance about the Lenos that rather puts us in mind of Brett Anderson and even Brett Smiley (you’ll have to YouTube him). Finding glamour and decadence in the glummest of suburban trappings – Worthing and cigarette ends stuck in our mind – they accompany their threepenny operas with suitably down-at-heel keyboards and guitar. The sound would certainly benefit from more lavish recordings, but it’s carried by the self-belief, humour and dissolute style that drips from every pore. (NC)
ALBUM: MAPS & ATLASES Perch Patchwork (FatCat •)
A tickle under the chin and a stroke on the head for local label FatCat, as this is their 100th album release – not bad going in such tricky times. Maps & Atlases’ debut certainly likes to experiment – distinctive Chicago vocals and plenty of prog arrangement shape the band lineup, which brings brass, strings, and virtuoso guitar picking to the mix. Mature and intelligent, it’s pop by any other name but pop with an IQ – there’s certainly nothing throwaway here. It may take a while to get to know properly, but there’s plenty of reward when you do. (NC)
ALBUM: ROUGH CITIZEN • Echolocation (facebook.com/roughcitizen)
As the lengthy and engaging press release accompanying this CD acknowledges, making music at home is no longer the talisman it once was – anyone can knock out a few songs with a MacBook Pro and GarageBand. Trouble is, you need actual songs as well as the physical ability to record them. What separates this collection of poppy rock numbers from the rest of the homemade herd is the realness he’s strived for and achieved – not over-polishing the production and not relying on layer after layer of keyboards – and the sheer amiability of their delivery. (NC)
SINGLE: SEERÄUBER JENNY •
Push It Away / Waste Of Time (Label Fandango) Brightonian Fran Barker has teamed up with ex-Mint Royale person Neil Claxton for this new project, and the pair seem to have cracked it with their first release. Mid-tempo indie pop bustles along breezily on the opening track, with a vocal on top that almost recalls a Luke Kook intonation in places, and the more laid-back accompanying song pulls
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the pace back to showcase their ballad capabilities. As an introduction to a new band, it serves them very well. (NC)
ALBUM: SHRAG •
Life! Death! Prizes! (Where It’s At Is Where You Are) The first album proper following last year’s summation of five 7” singles, this is certainly an important moment for the band. Together since 2004, they’ve had time to decide what and where they want to be, and as a defining article of their work so far it suggests they have lofty ambitions. Scuzzy indie guitar and retro keyboards vie with an underlying pop song awareness, taking the tunes above the herd of selfconsciously arch and spiky bands who dominate the landscape. It might share the same influences of generationold indie stalwarts but injects a modern energy, humour and accessibility that keep it resolutely contemporary. (NC)
EP: FREEZING IN fRESSIN • (myspace.com/freezinginfressin)
Softly spun vocals paint evocative pictures on a canvas of uncomplicated guitar strums on this homemade EP, folky and beautifully bucolic in tone. ‘If You’re A Bird, I’m A Bird’ opens the trio of tracks, the double-tracked voice hypnotic against its sparse backing, while ‘My Favourite Clementine’ adds some nicely understated amplification to the rhythm while retaining the innocent charm of the lyric. Drums make a belated appearance on the final entry ‘Everywhere With You’ which rolls along perfectly nicely, but it’s the simpler arrangements really that do it for us. (NC)
ALBUM: THE XCERTS • Scatterbrain (Xtra Mile)
For their second album, chirpy guitar slashers The Xcerts sound like life has hit them. Sure there’s still an energy here – in places it comes on like Soundgarden or Stone Temple Pilots with the looseness of the White Stripes’ fuller songs – but there’s emotion and world weariness too. Like Nirvana in their ‘In Utero’ days, it suits them. Heavy emotion and raw sounds are expertly handled by US rock superproducer Mike Sapone who handles Brand New. It covers a lot of ground cohesively – even touching on Arcade Fire territory. Could it see The Xcerts break America? Maybe. (JK)
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Street Style
PHOTOS BY KEVIN MEREDITH AT LOMOKEV.COM WORDS BY NICK COQUET
The concept of Street Style is never about conforming to a high street pigeonhole – we love to celebrate the more individual looks around town. But we’ve rarely seen a simpler or better put together look as Rebecca Phoenix Lu – a kind of 50s South Pacific style worn with elegance and panache. She’s just back from Paris where she won a Texprint 2010 sponsorship award for her printed textiles. Texprint is a charity bridging the gap between graduates and industry. Her work was nominated by her tutors – this is clearly someone who knows what she’s doing when it comes to clothes. Have a look at texprint.org.uk. She can add a bottle of Tuaca to her winnings too – the girl is on fire. Dress from Beyond Retro “I collect vintage dresses – I have around 200 from the 1920s onwards and I change my look every day. I’m a hoarder. This is a 50s dress from Beyond Retro. The petticoat’s from there too, it went with the dress.” Shoes by Minna Parrika “They’re from Tatty Devine where I did my work placement, by an Italian designer.” Belt from New York “It’s from a flea market in New York. They’re Kissing Gourami fishes, you say? I didn’t know that!” Necklace from Tatty Devine “It just goes with everything else.”
Rebecca received a bottle of Tuaca for her sweet outfit, Tuaca being the perfect stylish drink, bringing out the subtle tones of vanilla and citrus when served long over ice with cola. Start chilled – finish responsibly.
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Angry comment at Lewes Rd: but a little unfair?
BROKEN BRIGHTON
SOURCE GETS SOME ANSWERS WORDS BY NICK COQUET photo by james kendall In putting together our Broken Brighton manifesto, we hit a constant brick wall trying to get an official position from the council. So when we heard Lynda Hyde, Tory councillor and chair of the planning committee was due on Paul Stones’ ‘In Brighton’ show (Radio Reverb 97.2FM, Mondays 5pm), we stuck our foot in the door and put some questions to her ourselves. The burning issue for us was whether the council has any policy regarding the protection of local character in our retail business make-up. The news isn’t that great, frankly. Lydia Hyde: “It’s very difficult to stop such an influx of largename stores – it’s down to planning policies. If a property has A1 retail use anyone can come in and use it as such. We’ve done an urban characterisation study – there are 34 conservation areas like the North Laine, Withdean, Rottingdean – they all have their own character. But if a large retailer wants to move into existing premises there’s nothing the council can do about it. It’s different if they’re new premises, then the study comes in. The Council’s not against supermarkets, they’re convenient and big employers. We do promote smaller local stores, they have higher economic impact – their profits are more likely to be spent in the local economy. But when the big Tesco opened in Hove in 2003 it brought additional shoppers to the area; their planning permission was based on their car park being available to serve other local shops. It does have more effect on fruit and veg shops than boutiques, but with the Tesco Local in Rottingdean, the local grocers and butcher both said they found it had no real impact on their trade either way. But planning permission can’t be refused on the basis of competition; it’s all down to government and planning law.” “With Starbucks, it was a change of use, yes. The policy at the time was that St James’s Street should be 50% retail, Starbucks made it just under that level by becoming a café on a previously shop-designated space. Their planning application was refused on that basis, but they appealed and the committee overturned the ruling because it was only just under 50%. Legally the applicant’s identity can’t be a consideration.”
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But if a local café business wanted to open in designated retail space, they wouldn’t have the means to launch the appeals Starbucks went through. “I agree – we didn’t like what Starbucks did, I can assure you. Our enforcement officers did everything they could. With the appeal process, the planning officers hear all the evidence from local opposition, residents’ petitions etc, but the retailer also gives evidence for why they want to open. It’s out of our hands; it’s the law of the land. Everyone has the right to appeal.” It seems the council are unwilling or at least powerless to do anything? “Sometimes you are powerless but I can assure you the council aren’t unwilling. Every councillor I meet regardless of their party wants to be there to do the best for the city. We recognise ourselves as public servants but we have to work within the law. We have to have a legal reason to refuse because the applicant will appeal and the council will have costs against it. We can’t make decisions outside planning law.” So there’s not a lot you can realistically do? “Big companies have big money, it’s happening all over the country. We can say no but we have to have grounds. Sometimes I’d love to go in and just say no, I don’t like it. Competition is not a planning consideration, sadly. Supermarkets are big employers, but yes, they close down local shops and open their own. I don’t like it either, personally. Supermarkets are taking over the world. But… the new coalition government are very keen on localism so residents should have a greater say. I’m all for that but for now we’re waiting for more guidance on it. It might seem like supermarkets are taking over the world, but the recent decision by Tesco to pull out of the Lewes Road Community Garden development site proves that local opposition can’t be ignored. PLCs can afford to appeal against decisions they don’t like and spread like wildfire through our towns, but they can’t afford the negative share value-hitting publicity that sustained protest brings. So do what you can – every little helps...
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UNSUNG HEROES 100 PEOPLE WHO MAKE BRIGHTON WHAT IT IS
NO.14 NIGEL SWALLOW Words by james kendall & Nick coquetoquet The North Laine Photography Gallery above Snooper’s Paradise is like a tourist office all of its own – their representations of our city are seen all over the world. We spoke to owner Nigel Swallow. What was the original ethos for the gallery? Representing diverse interpretations of what living in Brighton means to different people. Using popular imagery to bring in large audiences who were then exposed to less obvious perspectives, from photographers given the space to experiment. You’ve been taking iconic photos of our city for years – what makes a good photo of Brighton? It’s one that either you relate to personally but has a slight ‘edge’ to it, or that introduces you to a completely new perspective. It will always be subjective. I’d always be interested in finding another person’s idea of what constitutes a good photo of Brighton rather than my own view as invariably it improves my own perspective. How do you choose the photos for the calendar? We look at absolutely anyone’s work – a lot of it’s found online. It’s then a case of making 60+ images into a calendar a wide range of people will like. We do this in the gallery, getting customer feedback continually. The calendar starts to choose itself after an initial sprawl of images sees some ‘must haves’ stick out. Then we make a layout that flows and still includes key landmarks/events/a few surprises. What photographers are you particularly proud of supporting in the gallery? Kevin Mason (aka DarkDaze) is an obvious one – portraits of graffiti artists blown up large with the artist adding artwork on top. Casta Albon and her portfolio of local female impersonators, and Petrusco was someone who just deserved exposure. Kevin Sare had a set of images from the last month of his mother’s life after a long fight with cancer – they were very powerful and personal photographs. Are you really going to close down? What will you do next? Yes, the gallery is closing in January. The images will still sell online at brightonphotography.com and at Christmas 2011 we’ll be back with a calendar (and hopefully with a book at last!) in Churchill Square and hopefully a Christmas period exhibition. I just want to go back to why I started this in the first place and do projects using the experience I’ve gained.
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THE MEAL: We’re going to say three words to you, so listen carefully: tori chilli don. The ‘don’ bit means you get a bowl of rice, the tori part refers to the fact that it’s chicken and the final word you can work out for yourself. To our mind it’s the best meal on the menu, and it only costs £4.20 despite having big chunks of fried chicken, a decent amount of fluffy, sticky rice and just the right amount of sweet, tangy chilli sauce. For the money it’s fantastic, but dishes like the superb Japanese curries cost no more. For this visit we also grab yakisoba, choosing the chicken version, revelling in the fried noodles. The starters are more like side dishes coming at the same time. The Yakitori (£2.40) is skewered chicken with a subtle teriyaki sauce, while the spare ribs (£2.50) are wonderfully gloopy and honey coated.
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110 Church Street (07796 001927) Mon-Thurs 11:30-22:00, Fri-Sat 11:30-23:00, Sun 11:30-21:00
THE PLACE: People fall into two categories when it comes down to this tiny Japanese café: either, ‘Yeah, I’ve walked past it loads of times, how do you pronounce it?’ or, ‘Oh, I eat in there all the time’. We’re firmly in the latter camp. A hectic place, it’s perfect for a quick lunch or a between pint/purchase snack.
THE VERDICT: For the money we can’t think of many places to eat that are better. Mr Noodle on Queens Road and China China offer similar taste-per-pound ratios, but you can’t beat the central location. Even takeaways are more expensive these days. Honest good cooking, no wonder it’s busy from lunch to pub chucking out time. And if you’re in a rush don’t worry, it’s about as fast as food gets without being fast food. You want another reason to love the place? How about this: the name is the sound of a racoon beating its empty belly. WERE WE SUSSED: No, they bring out all the food at the same time. And anyway, we’ve been in there a hundred times and it’s always ace.
IN CONVERSATION WITH
SEANN WALSH COMEDY’S COMING HOME words by James Kendall and Nick Coquet
One of Brighton’s brightest stand-ups, Seann Walsh mines his own misery to turn that frown upside down. We spoke to him on the eve of his show at Brighton Comedy Festival.
SW: Only when it’s going well, yes, it’s very relaxed then. But when I’m dying on my arse, like one time in Edinburgh, I can have a panic attack. But Edinburgh went really well. I mean, I sold out every show and had extra shows booked, James Kendall: You’ve done a Grouchy Young Men show for TV… in some pretty big rooms. Seann Walsh: Yes, I’m generally quite unhappy. I don’t like other JK: People are talking about you as a rising star now. That people’s happiness. You know when you’re having a drink in the pub must be a buzz. and there are people laughing behind you, having a good time? That SW: Yes, but it makes it hard, ‘cos you don’t want anyone pisses me off. to ever say, ‘You used to be funny’. That’s the problem with JK: Other people’s laughter should be music to a comedian’s ears. people saying you’re going to be big. What if it doesn’t SW: Oh, I just like moaning. I’m happiest when I moan. happen? I’d be lying if I said that doesn’t play on my mind. JK: So you’re performing a new set, it must be different putting that JK: You’ve done Mock The Week and Michael McIntyre… together than just being spontaneously funny with your mates. SW: Yes, that was one of the best moments of my life – SW: I can’t just sit at a table and write. It has to actually happen to me, 2,000 people in the Bristol Hippodrome. A big room’s easier then I’ll sit in the Lanes, have a coffee and note it down. I don’t write cos it’s where you want to be. I’m more comfortable on a though, I just hate anything that feels like work – if I feel like I’ve got to big stage. I’ve done Mock The Week twice, and since then do something I’ll just switch off. at night, when people have had a few drinks, it’s “Oi! JK: Shitty things happening to you must make you think ‘this would Famous man!” They don’t know your name, or where make some good material’. they’ve seen you though. It’s very funny, I only get stopped SW: Only on reflection, not while it’s happening. It’s like when someone at night when people have had a few drinks. says, ‘Oh, we’ll laugh about that in a year’s time’ – it’s that, but maybe JK: You must go into real life anti-heckle mode? a few hours or a day or two later. SW: No. I remember being at the Komedia when I was 17, JK: Comedy must be a mixture of solitary work and bouncing ideas off saying “well done” to comedians, every one I saw. You can’t other people. take it for granted, people doing that, I always really SW: Being on stage is the solitary experience. It’s one of the safest appreciate it. places in the world. While you’re on stage you don’t have to pay bills, JK: And now you’re back in Brighton again. or go and meet someone, no one’s going to text you saying, ‘Where SW: I’ve already done the show in Edinburgh and I know it’ll are you?’ It’s escapism. be even better than when it I mean, it’s terrifying, started. The Brighton show will but it’s still the safest be the best one; it’s the one I place to be. The real most want to do. Hopefully it’ll world’s much more sell out and people will enjoy it. LIVE: I’d Happily Punch Myself In The Face, Pavilion, Sat 23rd terrifying. I love Brighton and I’ll never WEB: tinyurl.com/facebookseannwalsh JK: So you get to a leave. Travelling round the CHORTLE SAYS: “Howlingly funny…destined to be a comedy star.” point where you can country you realise just what a relax on stage. special place it is.
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AUDIO Tubelord, Tall Ship Live music 7pm £tbc BASEMENT Eilen Jewell, Barton Carroll Honky-tonk blues with a jazzy singer 7.30pm £12/11 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 playing early reggae and rocksteady 8pm £free BLACK LION Molly Malone Funk and hip hop DJ 8.30pm £free BRUNSWICK The Lost Highway Americana night 8pm £5/4 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Bend Over I’ll Drive Punky metal DJs 9pm £free COALITION Fridays I’m In Love Somewhat eclectic club night with 60s gems, indie and funky funk 11pm £4/3/2/1 COBBLER’S THUMB Dr Bluegrass & The Illbilly Eight Brighton’s busiest buskers, hi-octane country standards and pop covers put through the hillbilly thresher 9pm £free CONCORDE2 Skatonics, Blondee New ska band and Blondie tribute 7pm £10; Carbon: Aba Shanti, Calibre, Digital, Loxy, Lynx Drum and bass night 11pm £10 COWLEY CLUB Grass Window, Trash Kit, La La Vasquez Post punks from San Fran. Note: The Cowley is a private member’s club, but guests are welcome 8pm £donation DIGITAL Stonelove Indie rock&roll will never die 11pm £4/3 DUKE OF BEAUFORT Ska Vs Northern Soul DJs 9pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Made In Dagenham 1.30pm/4pm/6.30pm/9pm; London To Brighton 11.30pm EVERYBODY INN Processed Meat Dee Plume from Robots In Disguise helps out on the decks to play electro and hip hop 10pm £5/3 FISHBOWL Balaeric Assassins Of Love Beardy record-collecting guerilla DJs 9pm £free FULL MOON Bark @ The Moon DJs play sleazy rock&roll Details tbc FUNKY BUDDHA Drink, Dance, Repeat Cash in your student loan 11pm £5/3 FUNKYFISH The Funkyfish Club Soul, funk, jazz, Motown and 60s, 70s and 80s 10pm £5/4/2 GLOBE Disco Deviant Disco, funk and house from DJ Pablo Contraband 9pm £free GRAND CENTRAL All Time Top 100: Gonzo Disco Musical countdown with guest DJ 9.30pm £free H-BAR DJ Steven James Funky soul 9pm £tbc; Aura: Steve Mansfield, Billy Mauseth, Mick Yoeman & Doc Club night, house anthems 10pm £tbc HECTOR’S HOUSE Beatabet: La Dance Pour Le Floor Live music, DJs and visuals Details tbc HEIST Freedom Fridays DJs play classics both old AND new, thus demonstrating their powers of prophesy 9pm £free HONEY The Brighton Seafront Freshers Festival Start as you mean to go on 10pm £20 HOPE Stacked Nasty DJs playing blues, garage and soul 9pm £free HYDRANT DOWN The Resonators, Miss Polly, G-Flex Live reggae 9pm £free HYDRANT UP The Skints, Jaya The Cat, The Junk, The Liabilities Ska and dub bands 8pm £8/7.50 JAM Truth Album launch for New Zealand’s dubsteppers 11pm £4/3 JAZZ PLACE Soul Casserole A melting pot of hot funk beats and soul grooves 11pm £tbc KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club: Addy Van Der Borgh, Tom Wrigglesworth, Greg Davies, MC Tiffany Stevenson Stand-up comedy 7.30pm £16; Motorcity New clubnight for lovers of Motown and disco 10.30pm £5/3 KOMEDIA STUDIO Brighton Jazz Club: John Horler Quartet Live jazz 8pm £12/10 KOMEDIA UP Lonnie Liston Smith Veteran jazzer 7.30pm £16 LATEST MUSIC BAR Oxjam: The Rocker Switch, Danni Nicholls, Bad Bad Whiskey Live music 7.30pm £5; Frockabilly Queer-friendly jive and rockabilly night 8pm £7/6 LOFT Malicious Alternative club night 10pm £4/3/2 MARLBOROUGH Queer & Alternative Indie, pop and electro DJs Time tbc £free MARLBOROUGH THEATRE African Fusion Human Rights charity fundraiser with comedy, spoken word, visuals and music 8pm £5 NORTHERN LIGHTS Peppu Klubi: DJ Mastur-boi & Kava Konki Funky soul music Details tbc OCEANA The World In One Night With seven themed rooms you should find one you like 8pm £6/5/free OPEN HOUSE Brighton Folk And Blues Club: Flossie
Malavialle French folk singer mixing jazz standards with chanson classics Time tbc £6 PAV TAV INDIEcent Indie club playing indie pop and indie rock 11pm £3/2 PAVILION THEATRE African Night Fever Music, dance, film and food to mark the start of Black History Month 8pm £10 PENTHOUSE Amazing Classic rock Time tbc £free R-BAR Starlight Warm Up DJ Smithy plays disco and classic house 9pm £tbc REVENGE The Cut Up Boys Mash Up Mix 2010 Live Electro, D&B and trance from the MoS boys 10.30pm £7/5/3/free SUGAQUBE Classics & Anthems Big house tunes from DJ Cheets Time tbc £free THOMAS KEMP DJ Ben Coles 9pm £free THREE & TEN Don’t Feed The Poets Their dole should cover food (upstairs) 8pm £7/5; Will Sumsuch Hip hop, funk and disco DJ (downstairs) 10pm £free VOLKS Voltage: Drumsound & Bassline Smith, Youngman MC, Madman Army, DJ Addict, MC Style One, Thunder Banton, DJ Inta, Adge, Rerun & NME, Nitro, Kure, SO, SLB, Ultra Ego, Menos, RBRT, Huffy, Magnum, Gumbo, Lofty, Champion Bubbla, MC Speech, B-Kind, TT Ace, MC Kid, Kerizma, AK MC Jungle and D&B Technique Recordings special 11pm £5 WESTERN FRONT Release DJs play a bit of everything 9pm £free WEST HILL TAVERN Envy Electro and hip hop DJs 10pm £free
saturday 2nd
ABOVE AUDIO Summer Of Love Blackgrass DJ Mex playing funk and soul 10pm £5/free AUDIO Dub Pistols Live music 7pm £tbc; Warehouse Launch Party: Jokers Of The Scene, Casper C New house and techno club night 11pm £5/free BASEMENT Supper Club Bite-sized chunks of video art, performances and music 7.30pm £6/4 BELUSHI’S BAR Unplugged Live acoustic music 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Good Times Remember them? Maybe the retro tunes will jog your memory 9pm £5 BLACK LION Attic Monkeys Hey, check out my record collection! 8.30pm £free BRIGHTON BALLROOM Pop Kraft: Boogaloo Stu, Dolly Rocket, Sparklemotion, The Size Zero Albino & Darran Duran As if you need tunes when there’s cakes, hair-do salons and sock puppets 9.39pm £8/6 BRUNSWICK Spirit Local jazz quartet 8pm £6/4 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Replica Goth and industrial DJ tunes 9pm £free COALITION Alice Russell, Wax Tailor Live music 7pm £15; Detone: Darren Emerson The bloke from Underworld 11pm £8; Blow After Party: Vincent Manganaro, Carlos Riz, Aaron Palaez 3am £7/5/4 CONCORDE2 Brighton Breeze VW London to Brighton Traffic jams and Nazi cars 11am £free; Hurts, Claire Maguire Manc pop duo 7pm £9; The Prodigy Experience: The Jilted Generation, Biggsy & Jay Ruxspin, Youngsta & Redford, Zapback, Tone Idle, James D’Ley, Boxa, Stimpy, El Presidente Prodigy classics and old-skool dance anthems 11pm £5 CORN EXCHANGE Imelda May Irish rockabilly 8pm £17.50 COWLEY CLUB I-Lodica, Lowki Dub reggae 8pm £donation DIGITAL Pussycat Club If your house was this dirty you might have to call pest control 11pm £12/10/5 DOME London Philharmonic Orchestra Dvořák, Fauré and Saint-Saëns - with award-winning soloist Behzod Abduraimov 7.30pm £32.50/10 DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Furry Vengeance 11am; Made In Dagenham 1.30pm/4pm/6.30pm/9pm FISHBOWL Askew: Barry Dust, Gareth Stephens DJ set of soul, nu jazz and reggae tunes 9pm £free FULL MOON Jack Thunder Rocksteady, blues and ska Details tbc FUNKY BUDDHA Reflex 80s night for students too young to remember what it was really like. Sweatbands? No, skinheads breaking your face 11pm £5/3; Late Night Sessions DJ Mikee Hollywood keeps the party going 3.30am £tbc FUNKYFISH The Funkyfish Club Soul, funk, jazz, Motown and 60s, 70s and 80s 10pm £6/5 GEISHA ARTS Geisha Grooves: The Hallways Chilled grooves 4.30pm £free GLOBE Go Bang! 1st Birthday Party Ali and Affy go at it in the basement 9pm £free HAMPTON iLike iPod battles 8pm £free
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H-BAR Tech Noir DJs play housey stuff 9pm £tbc HECTOR’S HOUSE The Free For All A full house of alternative and indie bands 8.30pm £free; The Free For All After Show Messy post-gig drinking and dancing session 11pm £free HEIST Home Sean Quinn plays house tunes 9pm £free HONEY Hat Club: Hatty Lovehearts, Scott Cuba, Vince Frimpong, Hardorx, James Wilkinson, Ben G, Squiz House hits and hats 11pm £10 HOPE Da Doo Ron Ron It’s Alive!: Pussycat & The Dirty Johnsons, One Fathom Down, DJ Lonesome M A night dedicated to female-fronted and all-girl groups - the acceptable face of sexism 8.30pm £6/5 HORSE & GROOM Barabajagal Americana blues band 8.30pm £free HYDRANT DOWN Alice Indie, ska glam band 9pm £free JAM Gentleman Starkey, Seerauber Jenny, Eliza Jaye And The Tarts Live bands 8pm £4/3; Well Rounded, Altered Natives, Hackman, Submerse, Donga, Blake Come pray at the church of bass 11pm £4 JAZZ PLACE Hug Da Bug A hip hop and house party with a different theme each time 10pm £free KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club: Addy Van Der Borgh, Tom Wrigglesworth, Greg Davies, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 7pm/10.30pm £17.50/15 KOMEDIA STUDIO Comedy Club For Kids Comedy without the naughty bits 2pm £8/6; CBGBs Night devoted to the best bands to play the famous New York venue 9pm £3 KOMEDIA UP How To Survive A Zombie Apocalypse: Reloaded A seminar on the methods most likely to save your ass when the day comes 8pm £10/8; Guilty Pleasures: I Lost My Heart To A Starship Trooper Club for unreformed sinners 11pm £8/6 LIFE Hold Up! Proper indie disco 11pm £5 LIGHTHOUSE Molly Landreth, Dr Catherine Harper Debate with photographers about queer imagery 2pm £5 LOFT 13 Monsters Indie and hip hop night 11pm £5/4 MARLBOROUGH Cherry Pop Cheese and 80s trash with DJ Fondue Inferno Time tbc £free MARLBOROUGH THEATRE The Steampunk Hidden Underworld Live bands, steampunk stalls and absurdist stripteases 8pm £8/7 OCEANA Kinky Halo With seven themed rooms you should find one you like 8pm £8/free OMBAR Desert Island Showdown Dress like a pirate, dance like a nubile native 9pm £3 PAV TAV Back To The Future Retro tunes from before you were born 11pm £3/2 PENTHOUSE Smack That DJs Time tbc £free R-BAR Kinky Classics DJ King-K plays funky house 9pm £tbc REVENGE Kinky Dangerous Pop and R&B tunes 10.30pm £8/6/4/free ST LUKE’S CHURCH David Jenner Memorial Concert: The Brighton Singers, The Musicians of All Saints, Rachel Fryer, Paul Gregory In memory of Brighton-born guitarist and composer 7.30pm £6/4 SIDEWINDER Night Of The Living Fred Name that tune to win a shot of Tuaca 8pm £free SUGAQUBE Simply House House from DJ Cheets Time tbc £free THEATRE ROYAL The Country Girl Jenny Seagrove is a downon-her-luck actress chasing the limelight. Coincidentally, that’s what this play is about too 7.30pm £32-16.75 THOMAS KEMP DJ Button Down Funk soul brother 9pm £free THREE & TEN Bay Citee Molars Comedy songs by dentists 4pm £7/5; Thirteen Quarters Jazz Piano Trio: Music From Elsewhere New sonic landscapes dotted with familiar relics 8pm £7/6; Ruff Snippets DJ set (downstairs) 10pm £free VICTORY Fernando Poo DJ tunes from the days before Gary Glitter was a no-go area 9pm £free VOLKS Dubstep Fresh Free Party Broken NOte, Scamp, Scoundrel, THe Brss, Kokerboom, Bunkle, Antonio, Nocturnomath, Niquid, Llama Leaf, Hugo Nation Psytrance, dubstep, techno 11pm £free WESTERN FRONT Release DJs 9pm £free WEST HILL TAVERN If Reagan Played Disco Alternative sounds from the era of right-wing governments and middle-eastern bombing campaigns. No, the other one 9pm £free WORLD’S END Punky Reggae Party DJ night 8pm £tbc YARD Big Love Launch Party: Seamus Haji If your house was this funky you’d probably have to open the windows 8pm £free
sunday 3rd
AUDIO PVT Synth rock anthemites, formerly known as Pivot 7pm £8 BASEMENT Josephine Foster & The Victor Herrero Band, Caroline Weeks Live folk acts 7.30pm £12/10 BELUSHI’S Now That’s What I Call A Party Part 1 DJ Sean plays everything from A-ha to GaGa - now that’s what I call eclectic 9pm £free BLACK LION Dubrockerslive DJs playing dub, ska and funk and punk Time tbc £free BRUNSWICK Ukulele Sundays Pop songs played on ukulele novel, eh? 3pm £free; Ben Castle Live jazz 8pm £8 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK The Geekest Link Q. What element of Elvish grammar is known as an ómatehtar? 8.30pm £1 CORN EXCHANGE Gilad Atzmon With Strings Bebop jazzer explores Middle Eastern music with the help of a string quartet 8pm
£17.50/15 COWLEY CLUB Jo The Dirty Scavenger Acoustic alt-rock singer songwriter 5pm £donation DOME Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra Wagner, Lizt and Rachmaninov 2.45pm £32/9 DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA The End Of The Affair 11am; The First Movie & Mark Cousins Q&A 3.30pm; Made In Dagenham 1.15pm/6pm/8.30pm FIDDLER’S ELBOW Sham-Rock Open Mic It doesn’t have to be Irish music, but if it’s not you might get kneecapped 8.30pm £free FISHBOWL Recovery? Chilled reggae DJing from Asbest The Moor King and guests 9pm £free GEISHA ARTS Myminidisco Music for children and their parents 3pm £free GLOBE Rockoustic Open Mic 9pm £free HECTOR’S HOUSE Deep South Rock and metal DJs Details tbc HEIST Dub Defendant Jamaican sounds 8pm £free HONEY Afrodisiac DJ Jon Byrne keeps the weekend alive with some housey electro 11pm £3.50/2.50 KOBA Poets, Actually An afternoon of verse from a big old gaggle of poets 3pm £free KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club: Addy Van Der Borgh, Tom Wrigglesworth, Liam Mullone, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 8pm £11/6 KOMEDIA UP Bent Double: Andrew O’Neil, Host Zoe Lyons More stand-up comedy 7.30pm £10/8 LATEST MUSIC BAR Ian Mark Burzio Album launch for singer songwriter in the vein of the mighty James Morrison 7.30pm £8/7; 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 MARWOOD CAFE Brighton Filmmakers Coalition Meeting Get involved in local film projects 6pm £free R-BAR Sublime Sundays Acoustic sessions 5pm £free SIGNALMAN Open Mic Night 8pm £free SUGAQUBE Chill Sunday Lounge DJs Time tbc £free THREE & TEN Strung Out Live acoustic music 8pm £free WESTERN FRONT Live Guitarist Better than a dead one 4pm £free
monday 4th
ANCIENT MARINER Quiz Night Q1. Are those her ribs through which the Sun did peer, as through a grate? 8pm £1 AUDIO No Age, Male Bonding Minimalist experiments in DIY rock noise 8pm £12/10 BEE’S MOUTH The Bee’s Mouth Jazz Forum Join in for a jazz jam with the house band - there’s a free pint in it 8.30pm £free BELUSHI’S BAR Now That’s What I Call A Party Part 2 DJ Sean plays eclectic pop 9pm £free BRIGHTON BALLROOM Villagers, Cate Le Bon Mercurynominated Bright Eyes-esque indie songwriter 7pm £9 BLACK LION Drive-In: Dawn Of The Dead Cult films on an outdoor screen 8.30pm £free BRUNSWICK Open Mic Night 8pm £free COALITION Trash Mondays Filthy tunes for students and layabouts alike 10pm £3/2/free CONCORDE2 Delays Indie guitar band with a strange sideline in falsetto Europop anthems 7.30pm £10 CORN EXCHANGE Blue Camel Club Arty night for people with learning disabilities 7pm £4 DOME Mumford And Sons The band that saved the banjo 7pm £18.50 DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Made In Dagenham 1.30pm/4pm/6.30pm/9pm FULL MOON Quiz Night Details tbc FUNKY BUDDHA Trash Mondays Where students go to reformat their brain cells after a hard half-day’s studying Details tbc HAMPTON Music Quiz 8pm £1 HECTOR’S HOUSE Dad Disko Student cheese Details tbc HOBGOBLIN RVIVR, Break The Habit, Gundersons, Bird Calls Ex-Latterman band members do aggressive pop punk (upstairs) 8pm £5 HONEY Playground Cheesy and commerical chart choons 11pm £tbc HOPE No Coast, Pariso, The Jackals Live music 8pm £tbc JAM Mumford & Sons Aftershow Party DJ set from the band 11pm £5 KOMEDIA Grant-Lee Phillips Former frontman from Grant-Lee Buffalo plays a stripped-down solo set 7.30pm £14.50 LIFE Jailbait It’s a 90s club night. Trust us, you don’t want to google it 10.30pm £2/free OCEANA Calvin Harris DJ set from the king of electropop 9pm £6 PAVILION THEATRE An Evening With Fay Weldon Author and playwright talks about the things that influenced her work and life 8pm £10 PRINCE ALBERT Blank Dogs Live music 8.30pm £8 R-BAR Quiz With Liz 9pm £tbc SIDEWINDER Poker Night It’s about time for a gambling habit 9pm £5 THEATRE ROYAL Lark Rise To Candleford Play about 19th century rural life, adapted from Flora Thompson’s novel 7.45pm £29-12.75 THOMAS KEMP Pub Quiz Night Time tbc £1 VOLKS Strictly Reggae: Big T Dancehall, roots, revival 11pm £5/4.50 WEST HILL TAVERN The Big Quiz 8.45pm £1
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tuesday 5th
3 JOLLY BUTCHERS Open Mic Night 8pm £free AUDIO Let’s Kill Music Indie night 10pm £3/2 BEE’S MOUTH Sounds Like Science DJ electronica 8.30pm £free BELUSHI’S BAR Mods And Sods Mod and ska tunes 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Chaos A violent abyss of pure randomness/a pop punk club 9pm £3/2 BLACK LION Reggae BBQ Live music and DJs Time tbc £free BRIGHTON CENTRE John Barrowman Television actor sings about his relationship with Doctor Who 6.45pm £37.50/19.50 BRUNSWICK Jazz Jam Open session with house band 8pm £free CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK The Big Quiz 8.30pm £1 COALITION The Birthday Massacre Synth rock electronica 7pm £12; Don’t Forget Funky stuff, pop nuggets and housey bits 10.30pm £3/2/free CONCORDE2 Mudhoney Grunge veterans now on their 8th album 7pm £15; Rewind Dance classics and indie anthems 11pm £3/2/1 COWLEY CLUB Wildkatz Project Open mic jam for poets and musicians 8pm £free DIGITAL Glitterati Rub shoulders with the high society of drunk students 11pm £4/3 DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Stephen Fry: Wagner And Me 11am; Made In Dagenham 1.30pm/4pm/6.30pm/9pm FIDDLER’S ELBOW Quizness Time 8pm £1 GLOBE Basement Cinema Underground films, comfy seats, free popcorn 8pm £free HONEY Mojito Miami Beach Party: Jimmy Lobe, Tony Shadyak, RudeBen, Gabriel Angel, Dom Flo, Aaron George Smell the oranges and party like it’s springbreak and you’re on MTV 10pm £free HOPE Slip Jam:B The battleground for Brighton b-boys 8.30pm £free JAM Mount Kimbie Dubstep experimentors 8pm £7 KOMEDIA Ian Hunter And The Rant Band Mott The Hoople’s singer 7.30pm £18.50 LATEST MUSIC BAR Brighton Live: A Glimmer, David Simon See Brighton Live programme for details Time tbc £free; Brighton Live: Starfish Youth, Z Star See Brighton Live programme for details Time tbc £free LIFE The Vice Social Student dance party 11pm £3 PAV TAV Guerilla Rocks Club night for rock chicks, skater bois and indie kids 11pm £3/2/1 PAVILION THEATRE The End Samuel Beckett’s short story becomes a one-man tragicomedy with Conor Lovett 8pm £12.50/10/5 PRINCE ALBERT Shadow Empire, Mannequins, Sky Harbour Live music 8.30pm £4/3 R-BAR Twisted Karaoke & Fresher Scene Tour Cat and DJ Beast warm up the fresh meat 8pm £free REVENGE Blow Out Superheroes Dubstep and D&B party for LGBT freshers - time to get stuck in 10pm £4/2 RED LION General Knowledge Quiz 8pm £1 SIDEWINDER Open Mic Night 8pm £free SIGNALMAN Pub Quiz Are you a pub quiz whizz or a bit of a half wit? 8pm £1 THEATRE ROYAL Lark Rise To Candleford Play about 19th century rural life, adapted from Flora Thompson’s novel 7.45pm £29-12.75 THREE & TEN Brighton Live See Brighton Live programme for details 8pm £free THOMAS KEMP Poker Night 8pm £tbc VOLKS Wired Oxjam: Melinki, ReWerx, Shooter #1 D&B Oxfam benefit 10pm £3
wednesday 6th
ABOVE AUDIO The Doctor’s Orders Sick hip hop 11pm £free AUDIO Pete Lawrie, Tinashe, Lauren Pritchard Live music 7pm £tbc; Supercharged: Caspa Breaks 11pm £5 BEE’S MOUTH Brighton Live: Glen Belt See Brighton Live programme for details 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BAR Now That’s What I Call A Party Part 3 DJ Sean plays everything from a-ha to GaGa - now that’s what I call eclectic 9pm £free BLACK LION Fresh Acoustics Live music 8.30pm £free BRUNSWICK Brighton Live: Radio Reverb Night See Brighton Live programme for details 8pm £free COALITION Adventures After Dark The best of out of date indie and hip hop 10.30pm £1 COWLEY CLUB DJ Night Funk, soul, hip hop 9pm £free DIGITAL The Poundance Imagine if Poundland had a dancefloor - top pop tunes for a pittance 11pm £1 DOME Sussex Salon Series: The Expert Patient A talk about the pros and cons of using the net to diagnose your own medical problems - does it make life easier for doctors or does it just show them up? 8pm £6/4 DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Made In Dagenham 11am/1.30pm/4pm/6.30pm/9pm FISHBOWL Fisherman’s Chronicles Acoustic jam open to all
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8pm £free FULL MOON Open Mic New open mic for musicians, comics and poets Details tbc GLOBE Brighton Institutions: 412 Fashion DJ sets and stalls from the shops, clubs and labels that make Brighton unique 9pm £free HECTOR’S HOUSE Playgroup Vs Brighton Live See Brighton Live programme for details 8pm £free HONEY UV Rave Ultraviolet student night 10pm £tbc HOPE Yuck Shoegazy rock with ex-members of Cajun Dance Party 8pm £6.50 HYDRANT DOWN Brighton Live: Broken Links, Dogsection, Kobayashi See Brighton Live programme for details 7pm £free HYDRANT UP Linten Splinters Live music 7.30pm £4 JAM Soundtracks Songs from 80s films (upstairs) 8pm £4/3/free; Brighton Live: Source Magazine Presents There’s a small possibility that your overworked Source editor will have finalised tonight’s line-up by 7pm. If not, we’ll be showcasing the musical talents of the Source office: on spoons- Lucy Kamper, harmonising with her on flugel horn and euphonium will be our brass section Matt Barker and Ben Bailey, dropping rhymes we have Lydia Stockbridge and, as if this wasn’t enough, they’ll be visually accompanied by Nick Coquet demonstrating his daggering routine, in the manner of Howard Jones’ interpretive dancer Greg 7pm £free KOMEDIA DOWN Chris Addison Top notch stand-up from the star of The Thick Of It and In The Loop 8pm £17.50 KOMEDIA STUDIO Dan Mangan Canadian indie folk singer with a neat line in lyrics 7.30pm £6 KOMEDIA UP Jim Jones Revue Piano-driven 50s rock&roll band 7.30pm £10 LIFE We Run This Reality TV goes clubbing: vote for your favourite DJ 11pm £3/free MARLBOROUGH Open Mic 8pm £free MARLBOROUGH THEATRE Silver Wednesday Vintage movies with all the trimmings - ushers, pop corn girls and plenty of leg room 8.30pm £5 NORTHERN LIGHTS Prognosis Experimental psychedelic rock Details tbc OCEANA Fuzzy Logic Dance tunes for students 9pm £5/3.50/2 OPEN HOUSE Brighton Safehouse Jazz Improv jazz 7.30pm £tbc PAV TAV Student Night Does what it says on the proverbial tin Time tbc £2 PAVILION THEATRE The End Samuel Beckett’s short story becomes a one-man tragicomedy with Conor Lovett 1.30pm/8pm £12.50/10/5 PRINCE ALBERT Brighton Live See Brighton Live programme for details 8pm £free R-BAR Trickpop Pop and R&B from DJ Trick 8pm £free SIDEWINDER The Sidewinder Garden Quiz 8pm £1 SUSSEX CRICKET CLUB City Books: Chris Mullen Author reads from his diaries 6.30pm £6 THEATRE ROYAL Lark Rise To Candleford Play about 19th century rural life, adapted from Flora Thompson’s novel 7.45pm £29-12.75 THREE & TEN Brighton Live See Brighton Live programme 8pm £free THOMAS KEMP Kev’s Open Mic Free drink if you play 8pm £tbc VOLKS Stand Firm: Lowkey, Ina Sound D&B, dubstep and dancehall 11pm £tbc
thursday 7th
AUDIO Bastard Pop Musical mash up 11pm £2 BASEMENT Scratch Artists show you snippets of new work, then you tell them what you think 7.30pm £free BEE’S MOUTH Brighton Live: Oxjam Showcase See Brighton Live programme for details 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BAR Karaoke 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Mutant Pop Poppy and alternative sounds 9pm £2 BLACK LION Arthur Shilling Big beat and soul funk DJ 8.30pm £free BRUNSWICK Brighton Live: The Perils, The Illustrators, The Lanes See Brighton Live programme for details 8pm £free CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Brighton Bike Night Weekly biker’s social - leather, not lycra 7pm £free COALITION Jonathan Richman Classic folky pop from the Modern Lovers’ frontman 7.30pm £19.50/17.50; Secret Discotheque Retro disco, 80s pop and other ‘uncool’ tunes 10.30pm £4/3/2/1 CONCORDE2 Brighton Live: Get Cape Wear Cape Fly, The Xcerts, Munich, The Agitator, Autumn Red, Jumping Ships An afternoon with Brighton’s top indie bands 6pm £free CONSTANT SERVICE Dogs Don’t Dance Acoustic music Time tbc £free DIGITAL Sssshhhhh A club so secret they don’t want anyone to know Details unknown DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Made In Dagenham 1.30pm/4pm/6.30pm/9pm FIDDLER’S ELBOW Jazz Fantasia Funky swing jazz 8.30pm £free FISHBOWL Residents Association DJ Will Sumsuch plays hip hop, funk and world beats 10pm £free FUNKY BUDDHA Bump N’ Grind Ride the riddims, baby £2/1/ free GLOBE Hang The DJ! The democratisation of the dancefloor continues apace with another night of punter-picked playlists 9pm
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£free GRAND CENTRAL Swing DeVille Duo Gypsy jazz from the 1930s 8.30pm £free HECTOR’S HOUSE Stay Sick Vs Brighton Live See Brighton Live programme for details 8pm £free HOBGOBLIN John Crampton One man blues band 8pm £free HONEY The One: Squiz, Ben-G, Matt Jiggens, Gazz Marlow, Paul Hillyer R&B, hip hop, funk, indie and house - indecisive or eclectic? You decide... 11pm £1 HOPE Imaad Wasif Raga-rock guitarist with a folk touch 8pm £tbc HYDRANT Linten Splinters Rock duo 7.45pm £4 JAM Brighton Live: Source Magazine Presents If you played glockenspiel in your school assembly then you stand a good chance of being included in tonight’s line up- such is the organisational skill of the Source team. See program for final details 7pm £free; Thursday Night Fish Fry US rhythm & blues and original Jamaican ska 10pm £2/1 KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Tag Comedy: Jason Cook, Stephen Grant, Stuart Goldsmith Stand-up comedy 8pm £8.50/6.50 KOMEDIA STUDIO Hammer & Tongue With Rising Styles International Hip Hop Festival Rap and poetry from BarCode and Ben Mellor - plus an open slam hosted by the cruellest of wits, Rosy Carrick 7.30pm £5/4 KOMEDIA UP Mitch Benn And The Distractions Comedy songwriter from Radio 4 8pm £13/11 LATEST MUSIC BAR Brighton Live: Last Days Of Lorca, Mr Eugene See Brighton Live programme for details Time tbc £free; Brighton Live: Jam Brighton, Emberhoney, Bruise, Kelly Barnes Band See Brighton Live programme for details Time tbc £free LIFE Shameless: C-Dogg, DJ Nause Half a century of musical highlights and lowpoints 11pm £1 MARLBOROUGH THEATRE Licence A play by Jonathan Brown about one man’s Odyssey to save his son and sanity from sinister forces 7.30pm £8.50/6.50 OCEANA Pound Party R&B and dance tunes from the bargain bin 9pm £4/1/free PAV TAV The Moshpit Rock and metal night 10pm £3/2 PRINCE ALBERT Stanley Brinks Andre from Herman Dune 7.30pm £7/6 PRINCE GEORGE Open Mic Night 8pm £free R-BAR Girls On Top Offical Warm Up Pop and party tunes from DJ Fifilicious 8pm £tbc RED LION Music Quiz 8pm £1 REVENGE Girls On Top Foam Party Vs Emergency Room In terms of social lubricants the biggest foam cannon in the UK has got to be up there with Ecstasy and Twister 10.30pm £4/3 ST JAMES’ TAVERN Stay Sick, Stay Blue DJs play vintage surf and garage 8.30pm £free SIDEWINDER Ants In The Carpet British classics since the 80s 8.30pm £free SUGAQUBE Selective Sound: Unomass, Rojo Techno DJs Time tbc £free SUSSEX CRICKET CLUB City Books: Will Hutton Author reads from his book ‘Them And Us - Politics, Greed And Inequality’ 6.30pm £6 TEMPLE BAR The Brighton Improv Temple New night featuring guest groups riffing on the audience’s ideas 8pm £2 THEATRE ROYAL Lark Rise To Candleford Play about 19th century rural life, adapted from Flora Thompson’s novel 2.30pm/7.45pm £29-12.75 THOMAS KEMP Acoustic Sessions: Harry Bird & The Rubber Wellies Folk band based somehow in both Dublin and Bilbao 9pm £free THREE & TEN Brighton Live See Brighton Live programme 8pm £free VICTORY Balcony TV Live music 8pm £free VOLKS Slumped!: Ben Leo, Nicky Voltz If your house was this progressive it’d be a free-love commune 11pm £5/3.50
friday 8th
ABOVE AUDIO Friday Night Bar Sessions Local DJs 10pm £free AUDIO Abe Givoda Live music 7pm £tbc; Battlejam: JFB, A Skillz, Stig Of The Dump Turning the tables with some hip hop, dubstep and D&B 11pm £5/3 BEE’S MOUTH Brighton Live: Stevie, Matt Carpanini, Chris Simmons See Brighton Live programme for details 8pm £free BELUSHI’S BAR Muy Loco Pop and house DJs 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Abandoned Rock and metal night 10pm £3/2 BLACK LION Medium Rare DJs serving up a platter of semiobscure funk and soul 8.30pm £free BRIGHTON BALLROOM La Bistroteque New gastro-club night from Dynamite Sal and Eddie Voyager 8pm £5 BRUNSWICK Brighton Live!: Pink Narcissus, Man Ray Sky, The Beautiful Word See Brighton Live programme for details 8pm £free COALITION Mean Poppa Lean, Ice Black Birds, Bang Bang Bang Warning: BIMM bands may contain contrived over-emoting 7.30pm £3/2; Fridays I’m In Love Somewhat eclectic club night with 60s gems, indie and funky funk 11pm £4/3/2/1 COBBLER’S THUMB Swing Ninjas Gypsy jazz swing trio 9pm £free CONCORDE2 65 Days Of Static Instrumental post-rock, now with electro bits 7pm £10; DJ Derek, Unity Hi Fi, Sinner British reggae DJ 11pm £free
COWLEY CLUB Zygotic Band fundraiser for the volunteer-run venue 8pm £donation DIGITAL Stonelove Indie rock&roll will never die 11pm £4/3 DOME Best Of The Fest Comedy round up 8pm £16/14 DUKE OF BEAUFORT DJ Ben Vale Motown, funk and reggae DJ 8pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA A Town Called Panic 1.30pm/6.30pm; The Room 11.30pm; Mr. Nice 3.30pm/9pm EVERYBODY INN So Young But So Cold Icy synth goth 10pm £1; Another Fucking Club Night What might be mistaken for an outburst by a irate listings editor is actually a hip hop and D&B night - with some Kate Bush thrown in for no reason 10pm £free FISHBOWL Blackbelt Jonez Hip hop and funk from Radio Reverb’s ‘Beans On Toast’ guy 9pm £free FITZHERBERT’S The Hideout DJs play 60s beat and garage 8.30pm £free FULL MOON Dub Defendant Jamaican sounds 9pm £free FUNKY BUDDHA Drink, Dance, Repeat Cash in your student loan 11pm £5/3 FUNKYFISH The Funkyfish Club Soul, funk, jazz, Motown and 60s, 70s and 80s 10pm £5/4/2 GRAND CENTRAL All Time Top 100: What’s On Guide Musical countdown with guest DJ from the second best Brighton listings publication 9.30pm £free H-BAR Malfunktion Type 1’s new club night for lovers of tech, techno and tech-house 9pm £tbc HECTOR’S HOUSE The Great Escape Vs Brighton Live See Brighton Live programme for details 8pm £free HEIST Freedom Fridays DJs play classics both old AND new, thus demonstrating their powers of prophesy 9pm £free HONEY iParty Night Under 18s club night with an iPod gimmick 7pm £6 HOPE Maps & Atlases, Wild Dogs In Winter, Hocus Tocus, Billy Mather Noisey folk boys newly signed to local label FatCat 7.30pm £7 HYDRANT DOWN Brighton Live: Hollywood Assassins, Blondes In Tokyo, Amy’s Ghost See Brighton Live programme for details 9pm £free HYDRANT UP Goodtimes Music A night of good times, fun and dancing - what’s not to like? 8pm £free JAM Brighton Live: Source Magazine Presents By tonight our Brighton Live line up will be fully locked down, although not neccessarily by 7pm, or even 11pm. We like to keep you on your toes. See the pull-out in the centre of the mag for full details 7pm £free; Balkaneasca Brass-heavy gypsy beats 11pm £7/5 JAZZ PLACE Tongues Indie night 11pm £4/3 KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club: Jason Cook, Josh Howie, Jeff Innocent, MC Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 7.30pm £16; Motorcity New clubnight for lovers of Motown and disco 10.30pm £5/3 KOMEDIA STUDIO Brighton Jazz Club: Jean Toussaint Trio Live jazz 8pm £14/12 KOMEDIA UP John Lennon’s 70th Birthday: The Fab Beatles Lennon’s on sale again 7.30pm £12.50 LATEST MUSIC BAR Brighton Live: Starfish Youth, Amongst The Pigeons See Brighton Live programme for details Time tbc £free LIFE Dubpressure: Youngsta, Heny G, T! Macabre Unit, Clandestine Dubstep 11pm £5/4 LOFT Malicious Alternative club night 10pm £4/3/2 MARLBOROUGH Queer & Alternative Indie, pop and electro DJs Time tbc £free MARLBOROUGH THEATRE Licence A play by Jonathan Brown about one man’s Odyssey to save his son and sanity from sinister forces 7.30pm £8.50/6.50 NORTHERN LIGHTS DJ Bonzo Vs DJ Monty Python Details tbc OCEANA The World In One Night With seven themed rooms you should find one you like 8pm £6/5/free PAV TAV INDIEcent Indie club playing indie pop and indie rock 11pm £3/2 PAVILION THEATRE Robin Ince’s Bad Book Club New show by the clown prince of geeky comedy mixing science, atheism and crappy literature 7.30pm £12/10; Tommy Tiernan: Crooked Man Energetic and emotive comedy from the Irish charmer 9.15pm £14/12 PENTHOUSE Shy Guy Dancehall, soca, party vibes Time tbc £free PRINCE ALBERT Brighton Live See Brighton Live programme for details 8pm £free R-BAR Starlight Warm Up DJ Smithy plays disco and classic house 9pm £tbc RESIDENT RECORDS Maps & Atlases Instore show 6pm £free REVENGE Lollipop Vs Starlight Chart and house tunes 10.30pm £6/5/3 SUGAQUBE Classics & Anthems Big house tunes from DJ Cheets Time tbc £free THEATRE ROYAL Lark Rise To Candleford Play about 19th century rural life, adapted from Flora Thompson’s novel 7.45pm £29-12.75 THOMAS KEMP DJ Soup 9pm £free THREE & TEN Brighton Live See Brighton Live programme 8pm £free VICTORY Up Against It Punky trash, bubblegum and rock from the Born Bad DJs Time tbc £free VOLKS Cut Loose: Tango, Ratty, 2 Bad Mice, Equinox, Deep Blue Rumble in the jungle 11pm £12/8/7 WESTERN FRONT Release DJs play a bit of everything 9pm £free WEST HILL TAVERN Envy Electro and hip hop DJs 10pm
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saturday 9th
3 JOLLY BUTCHERS Shake Your Tailfeather Northern Soul, funk and ska from Worthing soul casuals 8pm £free ABOVE AUDIO Summer Of Love Blackgrass DJ Mex playing funk and soul 10pm £5/free AUDIO Errors, Twilight Sad New-wave guitars and electro sounds from Scottish four-piece signed by Mogwai 7pm £10/9; Warehouse: Thomas Gandey, Cassette Jam, Sam Schtumm New house and techno club night 11pm £5/free BELUSHI’S BAR Unplugged Live acoustic music 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Good Times Remember them? Maybe the retro tunes will jog your memory 9pm £5 BLACK LION Burnt Toast Radio Reverb DJ brings out the filth in funk 8.30pm £free BRIGHTON BALLROOM We Luv Pop Dynamite Sal’s trashbash 8pm £6 BRUNSWICK Matthew George’s Boogie Woogie Troop Old Orleans boogie woogie 8pm £6 COALITION Floorplay: Vince Frimpong, Gorgeous, Prok, Fitch Local electro house heroes 11pm £10/8/5; Blow After Party: Vincent Manganaro, Carlos Riz, Aaron Palaez 3am £7/5/4 COBBLER’S THUMB Wreck The Place Fantastic Collonics, The Silences, Guardians Of Love And Honour Loud and live music 8pm £free CORN EXCHANGE Sarah Millican: Chatterbox Stand-up from Edinburgh’s best newcomer 7.30pm £12/10; Adam Hills: Mess Around Ad-libber extraordinaire 9.30pm £14/12 CONCORDE2 My Passion, Dead By April, This Is Massacre Electro punk rock 7pm £8; B-Side: Adam Freeland, Will Saul, Evil 9, Nico De Transilvania, Foe Electro charity gig 7pm £8 COWLEY CLUB Slutdisko Up for some diskofunkelectrokitschpunk? 9pm £free DIGITAL Hospitality: London Elektricity, Danny Bryd, S.P.Y., Break, Stanza, MC Wrec, Dynamite, Stamina It’s an old-skool house party and you’re invited 10pm £12.50 DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Bridge To Terabithia 11am; Mr. Nice 1.30pm; A Town Called Panic 4pm; Met. Opera: Das Rheingold 6pm FISHBOWL Leigh Morgan, DJ Will Sumsuch DJ set from Urban Torque’s label manager 9pm £free FULL MOON Feral Cat Garage rock and rockabilly Details tbc FUNKY BUDDHA Reflex 80s night for students too young to remember what it was really like. BMX bikes? No, Thatcher stealing your milk 11pm £5/3; Late Night Sessions DJ Mikee Hollywood keeps the party going 3.30am £tbc FUNKYFISH The Funkyfish Club Soul, funk, jazz, Motown and 60s, 70s and 80s 10pm £6/5 GEISHA ARTS Geisha Grooves: The Hallways Chilled grooves 4.30pm £free GLOBE Beyond Groovy house DJs 9pm £free HAMPTON iLike iPod battles 8pm £free H-BAR Loose Nick Hook plays house tunes for you 9pm £tbc HECTOR’S HOUSE The Witchdoktors Live music and punky DJs 9pm £free HEIST Home Sean Quinn plays house tunes for you 9pm £free HONEY Jonathan Ulysses An electro odyssey to the heart of Ibiza 11pm £10 HOPE Islet, Grow Claws, Sweet Baboo Post-rock wig-out (upstairs) 8pm £6; I’m With Stupid Motorik rock, disco and hip hop from the DJ behind It Came From The Sea (downstairs) 9pm £free HYDRANT DOWN By Definition, Gutterfly, Dirty Scavenger, Sweet Ether Rock bands 7pm £free JAM The Sound Of Arrows Swedish pop 7.30pm £8; Jimmy Edgar Mystical funk from self-styled funky mystic 11pm £9 JAZZ PLACE Unhooked Generation The 60s are alive and well and living in Brighton 10pm £5/4 KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club: Jason Cook, Josh Howie, Jeff Innocent, MC Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 7pm/10.30pm £17.50/15 KOMEDIA STUDIO Witch Born Bad and Da Doo DJs play the grrrly side of punk and pop, from Grace Jones to The Gossip 11pm £5 LATEST MUSIC BAR Brighton Live: Daytime Seminars See Brighton Live programme for details Time tbc £free LIFE Hold Up! Proper indie disco 11pm £5 LOFT Dare Ladies night Details tbc MARLBOROUGH Cherry Pop Cheese and 80s trash with DJ Fondue Inferno Time tbc £free MARLBOROUGH THEATRE Licence A play by Jonathan Brown about one man’s Odyssey to save his son and sanity from sinister forces 7.30pm £8.50/6.50 NEW HERO Divadrome 80s night for those who were there the first time 9.30pm £5 NORTHERN LIGHTS John Lennon Birthday Party Happy birthday, dear John Details tbc OCEANA The World In One Night With seven themed rooms you should find one you like 8pm £6/5/free PAV TAV Back To The Future Retro tunes from before you were born 11pm £3/2 PAVILION THEATRE Phil Nichol: Welcome To Crazy Town Stand-up who likes to pretend he’s a beat poet in a 70s jazz club 7.30pm £12/10; Tommy Tiernan: Crooked Man Energetic and emotive comedy from the Irish charmer 9.15pm £14/12 PENTHOUSE Mustang Rumble 50s and 60s Time tbc £free PRINCE ALBERT End Of Level Baddie, Anagrams, Clown
Punky noise indie 8.30pm £4 R-BAR Kinky Classics DJ King-K plays funky house 9pm £tbc REVENGE Kinky Dangerous 5th Birthday White Party: Syke N Sugarstarr, Tara Mcdonald, Dulcie Danger, Verity Mayes, Lee Harris, King-K, Smithy & Alex Bake If your house was this uplifting you’d never need to take a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor ever again 10.30pm £8/6 SIDEWINDER Harry K’s Simply Dredd Reggae and party tunes 8pm £free SUGAQUBE Simply House House from DJ Cheets abd Jonny Hutsons Time tbc £free THEATRE ROYAL Lark Rise To Candleford Play about 19th century rural life, adapted from Flora Thompson’s novel 2.30pm/7.45pm £29-12.75 THREE & TEN Brighton Live See Brighton Live programme 8pm £free VOLKS Black Box: Tony Montana, Lapis, Jiminy Clackett, Taylortronic, Artifact, Gash, Ook, Basschimp, Fucknose Electro jungle pile-up 11pm £8/6 WESTERN FRONT Release DJs 9pm £free WEST HILL TAVERN Tonight We Fly Literate pop for romantic indie kids 9pm £free WORLD’S END Videostar Live bands 8pm £tbc
sunday 10th
3 JOLLY BUTCHERS Prime Cuts Comedy Night A selection of local stand-ups hosted by Eden Rivers 7.45pm £free AUDIO Space Age Hero Live music 7pm £tbc BELUSHI’S BAR Now That’s What I Call A Party Part 1 Everything from A-ha to GaGa 9pm £free BLACK LION Live & Swingin’ Gipsy Jazz Quintet Live music with a cavalier attitude to spelling 8.30pm £free BRUNSWICK Graeme Flowers Live jazz 8pm £8 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Mish Mash Rock & goth tunes 9pm £free COALITION Mayday Parade, The Maine Pop punk bands 7.30pm £10.50 CONCORDE2 The Last Cry, Verses, The Black Gardinias, Artisans, Echovirus, Dopefight, Enos, Drown In Entropy, Sweet Ether, Chainstreet Outside there’s a motorbike rally, inside there’s a load of indie rock bands 10am £free COWLEY CLUB Ruidosa Inmundicia, Agosny, Sauna Youth Hardcore international anarcho-punk 8pm £donation DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA A Town Called Panic 1.30pm/6.30pm; Mr. Nice 4pm/9pm FIDDLER’S ELBOW Sham-Rock Open Mic It doesn’t have to be Irish music, but if it’s not you might get kneecapped 8.30pm £free FISHBOWL Recovery? Chilled reggae DJing from Asbest The Moor King and guests 9pm £free GEISHA ARTS The Lovely Brothers, Anal Beard, The Priscillas, Cracktown, Viv Albertine, Healthy Junkies, Dogbones, Sumerian Kyngs, ASBO Retards, Another Day Lost, Dirty Scavenger, Richie Blitz Avant garde punk all-dayer with comedy, art, zines, cakes, tatooists and knitting - plus a huge bill of oddball ‘punk’ bands 12pm £free GLOBE Rockoustic Open Mic 9pm £free HECTOR’S HOUSE Black Chalk Celebrating Black History Month Details tbc HONEY Afrodisiac DJ Jon Byrne keeps the weekend alive with some housey electro 11pm £3.50/2.50 KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club: Jason Cook, Josh Howie, Jeff Innocent, MC Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 8pm £11/6 KOMEDIA STUDIO The Lovely Brothers, Cracktown Cultish cabaret punks launch a new album of satirical and vaudeville comedy tunes 7.30pm £15 KOMEDIA UP Think Floyd “They sent us along as a surrogate band, we’re gonna find out where you fans really stand” 7.30pm £15 MARWOOD CAFE Brighton Filmmakers Coalition Meeting Get involved in local film projects 6pm £free PAVILION THEATRE Warning: May Contain Nuts You don’t have to be mad to be a comedian but it helps - a night of comedy, songs and stories by people who’ve had mental health issues. Guests includes John Hegley and Seaneen Molloy 4pm £6/3; Andrew O’Neill: Occult Comedian Heavy metal character comedy 7.45pm £12/10 PRINCE ALBERT Crazy Arm, Attack! Vipers!, Kepi Ghoulie, Andrew Jackson Jihad, Trippin Violet, The Dead Beat Political punks from Plymouth. There’s plenty to be political about in Plymouth- Bretonside bus station would bring out anyone’s inner activist. And don’t even get us started on the horrors of Frankfurt Gate 6pm £5 R-BAR Sublime Sundays Acoustic sessions 5pm £free ST NICHOLAS’ CHURCH Florestan Trio Piano trio plays Schumann, Shostakovich and Haydn 3.30pm £tbc SIGNALMAN Open Mic Night 8pm £free SUGAQUBE Chill Sunday Lounge DJs Time tbc £free THREE & TEN Strung Out Live acoustic music 8pm £free WESTERN FRONT Live Guitarist Better than a dead one 4pm £free
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monday 11th
ANCIENT MARINER Quiz Night Q2. And is that Woman all her crew? 8pm £1 AUDIO Gold Panda Live music 7pm £tbc BEE’S MOUTH The Bee’s Mouth Jazz Forum Join in for a jazz jam with the house band - there’s a free pint in it 8.30pm £free BELUSHI’S BAR Now That’s What I Call A Party Part 2 Eclectic pop night 9pm £free BLACK LION Drive-In: Re-Animator Cult films on an outdoor screen 8.30pm £free BRUNSWICK Open Mic Night 8pm £free CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Gerry Bernstein: Section 21 Political stand-up (upstairs) 8.30pm £2 COALITION Trash Mondays Filthy tunes for students and layabouts alike 10pm £3/2 CONCORDE2 NME Radar Tour: The Joy Formidable, Chapel Club, Flats The NME likes these bands and thinks you should too 7.30pm £9.50 COWLEY CLUB Naked On The Vague, Peepholes, Meddicine Post punk weirdos 8pm £donation DOME Frankie Boyle: I Would Happily Punch Every One of You in the Face Mock The Week’s star gets aggro 7pm £20 DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA A Town Called Panic 1.30pm/6.30pm; Mr. Nice 4pm/9pm FULL MOON Quiz Night Details tbc FUNKY BUDDHA Trash Mondays Where students go to reformat their brain cells after a hard half-day’s studying Details tbc HAMPTON Music Quiz 8pm £1 HECTOR’S HOUSE Dad Disko Student cheese Details tbc HONEY Playground Cheesy and commerical chart choons 11pm £tbc HYDRANT UP Hang The Bastard, Lasting Traces, Lords, C Is For City Live bands 7pm £5 KOMEDIA STUDIO Rory McLeod Social commentary, folk music and high-speed rapping 7.30pm £12 KOMEDIA UP Junip Haunting indie folk songs from Jose González and his band 8.30pm £9 LATEST MUSIC BAR Marcus Bonfanti Young and varied bluesman 8pm £6/5 LIFE Jailbait It’s a 90s club night. Trust us, you don’t want to google it 10.30pm £2/free OCEANA Pure Filth Student night for West Street’s finest 9pm £2.50/free PRINCE ALBERT Maybe She Will, &U&I, TheDealWasForTheDiamond, Jumping Ships Post rock, post punk 7pm £7 R-BAR Quiz With Liz 9pm £tbc RESIDENT RECORDS Chapel Club Instore show 6pm £free SIDEWINDER Poker Night It’s about time for a gambling habit 9pm £5 THEATRE ROYAL Mugenkyo Taiko Drummers Traditional Japanese drumming troupe 7.30pm £23 VOLKS Strictly Reggae Dancehall, roots, revival 11pm £5/4.50
Tuesday 12th
3 JOLLY BUTCHERS Open Mic Night 8pm £free AUDIO Abe Vigoa Live music 7pm £tbc; Let’s Kill Disco Indie night 10pm £3/2 BEE’S MOUTH Sounds Like Science DJ electronica 8.30pm £free BELUSHI’S BAR Mods And Sods Mod and ska tunes 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Chaos A violent abyss of pure randomness/ a pop punk club 9pm £3/2 BRIGHTON BALLROOM Mice Parade, Silje Nes Live music 8pm £9.50 BRUNSWICK Jazz Jam Open session with house band 8pm £free COALITION Don’t Forget Funky stuff, pop nuggets and housey bits 10.30pm £3/2/free CONCORDE2 Rewind Dance classics and indie anthems 11pm £3/2/1 CORN EXCHANGE Russell Kane: Smokescreens & Castles Comedy musings on childhood 7.30pm £14/12; Kevin Bridges Glaswegian stand-up 9.30pm £14/12 COWLEY CLUB Wildkatz Project Open mic jam for poets and musicians 8pm £free DIGITAL Glitterati Rub shoulders with the high society of drunk students 11pm £4/3 DOME Frankie Boyle: I Would Happily Punch Every One of You in the Face Mock The Week’s star gets aggro 7pm £20 DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA The Leopard 11am; A Town Called Panic 2.30pm/6.30pm; Mr. Nice 4pm/9pm FIDDLER’S ELBOW Quizness Time 8pm £1 GLOBE Basement Cinema Underground films, comfy seats, free popcorn 8pm £free HONEY Mojito Miami Beach Party: Jimmy Lobe, Tony Shadyak, RudeBen, Gabriel Angel, Dom Flo, Aaron George Smell the oranges and party like it’s springbreak and you’re on MTV 10pm £free HOPE Alan Pownall Live music 8pm £6 KOMEDIA Polar Bear They say it’s jazz for people who don’t like jazz. Should be rammed 7.30pm £10 LATEST MUSIC BAR The Light Divided, Pink Narcissus Rock band with big tunes 8pm £5/4 LIFE The Vice Social Student dance party 11pm £3
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PAV TAV Guerilla Rocks Club night for rock chicks, skater bois and indie kids 11pm £3/2/1 PENTHOUSE Untitled Shoegazing and dreamy noise Time tbc £free PRINCE ALBERT Austin Lucas, Drag The River, Cory Branan Live bands 7.30pm £7.50 R-BAR Twisted Karaoke 8pm £free REVENGE Boobaloo Stu & Dolly Rocket’s Big Boogaloo Ball Cheeky pop smut from Stu and and his crew 10.30pm £3/2 RED LION General Knowledge Quiz 8pm £1 SIDEWINDER Open Mic Night 8pm £free SIGNALMAN Pub Quiz Are you a pub quiz whizz or a bit of a half wit? 8pm £1 THEATRE ROYAL The History Of The Big Bands Showcase of jazz favourites with Darius Campbell 7.30pm £21/19 THOMAS KEMP Poker Night 8pm £tbc
wednesday 13th
ABOVE AUDIO The Doctor’s Orders Sick hip hop 11pm £free AUDIO Jar Music Live music 11pm £tbc; Supercharged Breaks 11pm £tbc BASEMENT Are You Sitting Comfortably?: Wonder Short stories about magic and wonder - plus cupcakes, games and competitions 7.30pm £6/4 BEE’S MOUTH Open Mic 8.30pm £free BELUSHI’S BAR Now That’s What I Call A Party Part 3 Pop music 9pm £free BLACK LION Fresh Acoustics Live music 8.30pm £free BRUNSWICK The Noise Next Door Improvised comedy egged on by the audience 8pm £8/6 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK The Funnier Farm Comedy fun (upstairs) 8pm £5 COALITION Dinosaur Pile-Up, Tubelord Indie rock bands 7pm £7; Adventures After Dark The best of out of date indie and hip hop 10.30pm £1 CONCORDE2 Mark Chadwick Levellers frontman revisits 60s folk rock with his new band 7.30pm £14 DIGITAL The Poundance Imagine if Poundland had a dancefloor - top pop tunes for a pittance 11pm £1 DOME Al Murray: Barrel Of Fun Blokey banter from the pub landlord 8pm £25 DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA A Town Called Panic 1.30pm/6.30pm; Mr. Nice 11am/4pm/9pm FISHBOWL Fisherman’s Chronicles Acoustic jam open to all 8pm £free GLOBE Brighton Institutions: Brighton Source Magazine James Kendall and his motley crew of SOURCE sidekicks spread themselves over the entire Globe 9pm £free HECTOR’S HOUSE Here There Be Monsters, Vier, Calrisian, Orestea Metal and rock bands 7.30pm £2/1 HONEY Suck My Pop And I’ll suck yours 10.30pm £tbc JAM Soundtracks Songs from 80s films (upstairs) 8pm £4/3/free; Melt Banana, Drum Eyes Hardcore no-wave noise band (downstairs) 7.30pm £9 KOMEDIA Archie Bronson Outfit Psychedelic garage-rock band 8.30pm £12/10 LATEST MUSIC BAR David Lutes, Sharon Lewis, Ragz Jazz fused with pop, rock and Americana 7pm £5 LIFE We Run This Reality TV goes clubbing: vote for your favourite DJ 11pm £3/free MARLBOROUGH Open Mic 8pm £free MARLBOROUGH THEATRE Silver Wednesday: Nacho Martin The 1920s silent movie Nosferatu gets a new electronic soundtrack 8.30pm £6 OCEANA Fuzzy Logic Dance tunes for students 9pm £5/3.50/2 PAV TAV Student Night Does what it says on the proverbial tin Time tbc £2 PAVILION THEATRE Pete Firman: Jokes And Tricks Comedy magician 7.45pm £12/10 PENTHOUSE The Outer Church Psych, kraut, prog, cosmic, electronic Time tbc £free PRINCE ALBERT Thisfamiliarsmile, A Simple Disguise Live music 8pm £tbc R-BAR Trickpop Pop and R&B from DJ Trick 8pm £free RESIDENT RECORDS The Bees In-store show 6pm £free SIDEWINDER The Sidewinder Garden Quiz 8pm £1 THEATRE ROYAL PP Arnold American soul singer 7.30pm £22.50/20.50 THOMAS KEMP Kev’s Open Mic Free drink if you play 8pm £tbc WORLD’S END Oxjam Musical Festival Live music 8pm £tbc
THURSDAY 14th
AUDIO Shapeshifter Live music 7pm £tbc; Bastard Pop Musical mash-up 11pm £2 BRIGHTON BALLROOM Frazey Ford Formerly of The Be Good Tanyas, now dabbling in Cuban chords and meditative folk 8pm
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£14.50/12.50 BASEMENT The Last Romance (Ever), Once Upon A Something A double bill of new theatre pieces 7.30pm £4/2 BEE’S MOUTH Samuel Tellam Hip hop fusion 8.30pm £free
BELUSHI’S BAR Karaoke 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Mutant Pop Poppy and alternative sounds 9pm £2 BLACK LION Soul Casserole A melting pot of hot funk beats and soul grooves 8.30pm £free CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Brighton Bike Night Weekly biker’s social - leather, not lycra 7pm £free COALITION AC4, lan To Progress, Sak-Less Jack New band from the singer of The International Noise Conspiracy and Swedish hardcore band, Refused 7pm £7; Secret Discotheque Retro disco, 80s pop and other ‘uncool’ tunes 10.30pm £4/3/2/1 CONCORDE2 Kissy Sell Out, Union DJs, Graffitti6, Zeds Dead Eclectic electro 9pm £10 CONSTANT SERVICE The Green Hour Acoustic jazz Time tbc £free CORN EXCHANGE Ardal O’Hanlon Wide-eyed stand-up from Father Ted’s Dougal 7.30pm £18 DOME Al Murray: Barrel Of Fun Blokey banter from the pub landlord 8pm £25 DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA A Town Called Panic 1.30pm; Mr. Nice 4pm FIDDLER’S ELBOW Fiddler’s Live Lounge Jazz and folk music 9pm £free FISHBOWL Residents Association DJ Will Sumsuch plays hip hop, funk and world beats 10pm £free FUNKY BUDDHA Bump N’ Grind Ride the riddims, baby £2/1/ free GLOBE Hang The DJ! The democratisation of the dancefloor continues apace with another night of punter-picked playlists 9pm £free GRAND CENTRAL Swing DeVille Duo Gypsy jazz from the 1930s 8.30pm £free HECTOR’S HOUSE It’s Alive Live bands Details tbc HONEY The One: Squiz, Ben-G, Matt Jiggens, Gazz Marlow, Paul Hillyer R&B, hip hop, funk, indie and house - indecisive or eclectic? You decide... 11pm £1 HOPE Club Next Club night with live bands 8pm £tbc HYDRANT DOWN The Peppermint Beat Band Blues rock band 9pm £free HYDRANT UP The Mimics, Teen Age Grandad, The Wynd Rock bands 8pm £tbc JAM Thursday Night Fish Fry Early 50s US rhythm & blues and original Jamaican ska 10pm £2/1 KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club: Ninia Benjamin, Robert White, Dan Wright, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 8pm £8.50/6.50 KOMEDIA UP The Hamsters Play Jimi Hendrix Tribute from a band that’s been on the road far longer than Hendrix ever was 7.30pm £12.50 LATEST MUSIC BAR Catalyst Club Three guest speakers give a short talk about whatever their weird obsession is 8pm £5 LIFE Shameless: C-Dogg, DJ Nause Half a century of musical highlights and lowpoints 11pm £1 LIGHTHOUSE Assume Nothing Arty film about New Zealanders exploring unusual genders 2pm £5 MARLBOROUGH THEATRE Lady Day At Emerson’s Bar & Grill Billie Holiday tells the story of her troubled life and sings the songs that made it all worthwhile 8pm £8/7 MIDDLE STREET SYNAGOGUE Cantor Steven Leas, London Male Jewish Choir Jewish liturgical music 7.30pm £12/9 OCEANA Pound Party R&B and dance tunes from the bargain bin 9pm £4/1/free PAV TAV The Moshpit Rock and metal night 10pm £3/2 PAVILION THEATRE Paul Zerdin: Sponge Fest Revisited Ventriloquist comedy 8pm £12/10; Josie Long: Be Honourable! A comedienne’s call to arms taking in sainthood, politics and breakfasting 9.30pm £12/10 PENTHOUSE Electronic Musik Exactly that Time tbc £free PRINCE ALBERT Dead String Brothers, Society Live music 8pm £7 PRINCE GEORGE Open Mic Night 8pm £free R-BAR Girls On Top Offical Warm Up Pop and party tunes from DJ Fifilicious 8pm £tbc REVENGE Girls On Top UV Party Vs Emergency Room Q. What do you get if you mix Cyalume and hydrogen peroxide? A. A massive neon rave party! 10.30pm £4/3 ST JAMES’ TAVERN Stay Sick, Stay Blue DJs play vintage surf and garage 8.30pm £free SIDEWINDER Ants In The Carpet British classics since the 80s 8.30pm £free SUGAQUBE Big Thursday House DJs Time tbc £free SUSSEX CRICKET CLUB Montessori Quiz Night 7.30pm £5 THEATRE ROYAL The Armstrong & Miller Show Character comedy and catchphrase sketches 8pm £23 TEMPLE BAR The Brighton Improv Temple New night featuring guest groups riffing on the audience’s ideas 8pm £2 THOMAS KEMP Acoustic Sessions: Mike Newsham Folk rocker 9pm £free THREE & TEN Now We Are Five: Joanna Neary, Late Night Gimp Fight!, Mark Allen Launch of the Brighton Comedy Fringe 8pm £5 VICTORY Balcony TV Live music 8pm £free
friday 15th
ABOVE AUDIO Friday Night Bar Sessions: 412 Local DJs 10pm £free AUDIO Minimal Kids: Enzo Siffredi Playing with techno 11pm £8/5 BASEMENT Bryony Kimmings: Sex Idiot Confessional cabaret wherein a woman retraces her real-life misadventures in search of the bloke who gave her an STD 7.30pm £8/6 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 DJs serving up a platter of semiobscure funk and soul 8.30pm £free BRUNSWICK The Curst Sons Country rockabilly band 8pm £6/5 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Sleazy Listening: DJ Peter Von Sleaze Sleazy, like getting drooled on by a big biker. Did I say ‘like’? 9pm £free COALITION Carl Barât The Libertines frontman has ditched the Dirty Pretty Things and gone solo 7pm £12.50; Fridays I’m In Love Somewhat eclectic club night with 60s gems, indie and funky funk 11pm £4/3/2/1 COBBLER’S THUMB Charley Gordon Delta bluesman 9pm £free CONCORDE2 Doom, Drum Eyes, Jamie XX, Dels, Donga, One Inch Badge DJs, The Doctor’s Orders Striking fear into the hearts of other rappers 9pm £25 CORN EXCHANGE Stewart Francis Canadian comic with a quiver full of quips 7.30pm £14/12; Rich Hall Sardonic stand-up from the grumpy American on all the panel shows 9.30pm £12/10 DIGITAL Stonelove Indie rock&roll will never die 11pm £4/3 DOME Best Of The Fest Comedy round up 8pm £16/14 DUKE OF BEAUFORT DJ Jonny P Indie punk DJ Time tbc £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Back To The Future The ultimate retro movie 11.30pm FISHBOWL Blacklodge Disco boogie DJ 9pm £free FULL MOON Grindhouse! DJ Michael Mercury plays dirty, rockin’ blues Details tbc FUNKY BUDDHA Drink, Dance, Repeat Cash in your student loan 11pm £5/3 FUNKYFISH The Funkyfish Club Soul, funk, jazz, Motown and 60s, 70s and 80s 10pm £5/4/2 GLOBE Disco Deviant Disco, funk and house from DJ Pablo Contraband 9pm £free GRAND CENTRAL All Time Top 100: Urban Delights Musical countdown with guest DJ 9.30pm £free H-BAR Formulate: Mark Wall, Riskoteque, Blake, Donga, Drift, Kosine, F-Note, Lolster, Kernel MC DJ night 9pm £tbc HECTOR’S HOUSE B Side: DJ Format New music night supporting the Bottletop charity Details tbc HEIST Freedom Fridays DJs play classics both old AND new, thus demonstrating their powers of prophesy 9pm £free HOBGOBLIN Harry’s Tricks Gypsy jazz trio 8pm £free HONEY Lollipop Get your fingers sticky to R&B, hip hop and pop treats 10.30pm £7/5 HOPE Da Doo Ron Ron It’s Alive!: Jo Bartlett, Laura J Martin, The Lone Taxidermist A night dedicated to female-fronted and all-girl groups - the acceptable face of sexism 8.30pm £6/5 HYDRANT DOWN Tropical Underground, Acai Ensemble, Tropical Soundclash, DJ Slap Funky Latin band 9pm £free HYDRANT UP The Nik Turner Band, Whimwise, Slim Tin Slide, Dirty Scavenger One of them played with Hawkwind, but then who hasn’t? 8pm £tbc JAM Club Chat Noir: The Hot Club Of Belleville, Club Tabou Club music with swing bands 8.30pm £10/8 KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club: Ninia Benjamin, Robert White, Simon Lipson, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 7.30pm £16; Born Bad Come marvel at the array of retro-dresses and rockabilly nutters 11pm £6/5 KOMEDIA STUDIO Brighton Jazz Club: Asaf Sirkis Trio Live jazz 8pm £12/10 KOMEDIA UP Ministry Of Burlesque You know the score: a funfair of flirty showgirls, tassles and raised eyebrows 9pm £15 LIFE James Zabiela, Yusuf Sebaiti Tech house and breakbeat master 11pm £10 LIGHTHOUSE Queer Pecha Kucha Night Short multimedia presentations on queer stuff - contributors welcome 7pm £5/3 LOFT Malicious Alternative club night 10pm £4/3/2 MARLBOROUGH Queer & Alternative Indie, pop and electro DJs Time tbc £free MARLBOROUGH THEATRE Lady Day At Emerson’s Bar & Grill Billie Holiday tells the story of her troubled life and sings the songs that made it all worthwhile 8pm £8/7 OCEANA The World In One Night With seven themed rooms you should find one you like 8pm £6/5/free PAV TAV INDIEcent Indie club playing indie pop and indie rock 11pm £3/2 PAVILION THEATRE Isy Suttie: Love Lost In The British Retail Industry Musical comedy about supermarkets from Peep Show’s Dobby 7.45pm £12/10 PENTHOUSE Deep Cover Hip hop Time tbc £free PRINCE ALBERT Deadbeat Decendant Art Brut crossed with the Kinks - sassy lyrics, sweaty shirts and vintage rock&roll 3pm £5 R-BAR Starlight Warm Up DJ Smithy plays disco and classic house 9pm £free REVENGE X-Factor Friday Watch the wannabe idiots, then go dance 10.30pm £tbc
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ST GEORGE’S CHURCH Barbara Furtuna Sacred chants from Corsican quartet 8pm £15/12/9 SUGAQUBE Cheets’ Birthday It’s a house party! (in a bar) Time tbc £free THEATRE ROYAL The Armstrong & Miller Show Character comedy and catchphrase sketches 8pm £23 THREE & TEN Late Night Gimp Fight! Comedy sketch show (upstairs) 10pm £9/7; Will Sumsuch Hip hop, funk and disco DJ (downstairs) 10pm £free VICTORY Teen Dream DJ set of 60s garage, psychedelia and punk 9pm £free VOLKS Future Dub: Gussie P, Roots Garden, DJ As-if, CutlooseCrew, Kosine & X-Nation, Unity Hi Fi, Vibration lab, Insight & Voytek, Arkital Sound, L5D, Lowki, Ilodica, Mr Sleepz, Delta Lab, Gremlin, Maniac & Trouble, King Spinner, Lost in Music, Rezomines Dubstep and D&B all-nighter 10pm £3 WESTERN FRONT Release DJs play a bit of everything 9pm £free WEST HILL TAVERN Envy Electro and hip hop DJs 10pm £free
saturday 16th
ABOVE AUDIO Summer Of Love Blackgrass DJ Mex playing funk and soul 10pm £5/free ANCIENT MARINER The Acoustic Sessions: Bigfoot Museum Live music Details tbc AUDIO Warehouse: Transformer New house and techno club night 11pm £5/free BELUSHI’S BAR Unplugged Live acoustic music 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Good Times Remember them? Maybe the retro tunes will jog your memory 9pm £5 BLACK LION Molly Malone Funk and hip hop DJ 9pm £free BRIGHTON CENTRE Jeff Beck Ask your dad 7.30pm £36.50 COALITION Arrested Development Politically-conscious funk rappers 7.30pm £15; Swap-A-Rama Razzmatazz Clothesswapping London night comes to town 11pm £7; Blow After Party: Vincent Manganaro, Carlos Riz, Aaron Palaez 3am £7/5/4 CONCORDE2 Supercharged & Urban Needs: Scratch Perverts, Emalkay, Katy B 11pm £10 CORN EXCHANGE Sarah Millican: Chatterbox Stand-up from Edinburgh’s best newcomer 7.30pm £12/10 COWLEY CLUB Waitstock: The Causeway Occupation, Stick In A Pot, Gorse, DJ High Facts Indie, folk, stoner rock and hip hop 7.30pm £donation DIGITAL Fake Blood, Hot City, Blah Blah Blah DJs The house of electro nightmares 11pm £10 DOME Armstrong & Miller Comedy duo sign heir new book in the foyer 2pm £free; Jimmy Carr Smug and punchable or daringly provocative? 8pm £25 DRUID’S ARMS Nice Weather For Airstrikes A post-rock, mathrock shoegaze all-dayer 4pm £tbc DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA The Shaggy Dog 11am; The Twilight Saga: New Moon, Twilight Tame gothic nonsense for idiots 11pm FISHBOWL DJ Åbo, Ally Smith Jazz Room DJs play dirty jazz funk 9pm £free FULL MOON The Plague 60s beat, surf and psych rock Details tbc FUNKY BUDDHA Reflex 80s night for students too young to remember what it was really like. Denim and perms? No, racist policemen with sticks 11pm £5/3; Late Night Sessions DJ Mikee Hollywood keeps the party going 3.30am £tbc FUNKYFISH The Funkyfish Club Soul, funk, jazz, Motown and 60s, 70s and 80s 10pm £6/5 GEISHA ARTS Geisha Grooves: The Hallways Chilled grooves 4.30pm £free GLOBE The History Of House Tim Rivers charts the history of house music through the ages 9pm £free HAMPTON iLike iPod battles 8pm £free H-BAR Microtek If your house was this underground you’d need to get a high-speed elevator installed in the roof 9pm £tbc HECTOR’S HOUSE The Nordic Giant Visual Audio Show, Phoria, BreakinBear DVJs Massive Attack meets Tarantino 9pm £free HEIST Home Sean Quinn plays house tunes 9pm £free HOBGOBLIN PDSA Charity Gig: Black Cat Bone, The Mimmicks, Teen Age Grandad, Suicide Veil, Asbo Retards, Eliza Jay & The Tarts Charity all-dayer 2pm £2 HONEY Smartie Partie Club night for connoisseurs of four-to-thefloor happy house 11pm £10 HOPE Sparrow And The Workshop Dark folk trio from Glasgow 8pm £tbc HYDRANT UP Applefest: King Porter Stomp, Manouchska, Boy Com Gypsy ska from three top festival bands 8pm £6/5 JAM Gabby Young And Other Animals Jazzy and burlesquey swooner sitting somewhere between Bjork and Brian Blessed 7.30pm £8; The Doctor’s Orders: Jehst, Spin Doctor, Rusty Ryan Sick hip hop 11pm £free JAZZ PLACE Rock Brighton This is heavy stuff 10pm £4/2 KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club: Ninia Benjamin, Robert White, Tom Craine, Al Pitcher, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 7pm/10.30pm £17.50/15 KOMEDIA STUDIO Spellbound Apparently some 80s music
was actually quite good: let Cherry Foxx and Simon Price guide you through the alternative highlights of the decade 9pm £5/4 KOMEDIA UP South Coast Soul, DJ Format, Shamblin’ Sexton Live soul band launches Playgroup’s new funk night 8pm £8/6 LATEST MUSIC BAR Mauve, The Justice League Of Jazz Six-piece R&B band having fun with funky latin beats and jazzy gospel 9pm £4 LIFE Hold Up! Proper indie disco 11pm £5 LOFT Mimetic A nightclub in which house music will be played 11pm £5/2 MARLBOROUGH Cherry Pop Cheese and 80s trash with DJ Fondue Inferno Time tbc £free MARLBOROUGH THEATRE Lady Day At Emerson’s Bar & Grill Billie Holiday tells the story of her troubled life and sings the songs that made it all worthwhile 8pm £8/7 NORTHERN LIGHTS 3rd Annual Big Lebowski Party Screenings, costumes, bowling and quiz Details tbc OCEANA The World In One Night With seven themed rooms you should find one you like 8pm £6/5/free PAV TAV Back To The Future Retro tunes from before you were born 11pm £3/2 PAVILION THEATRE Susan Calman: Constantly Seeking Susan Self-discovery with jokes 7.30pm £12/10; Greg Davis: Firing Cheeseballs At A Dog Dour stand-up from The Inbetweeners’ Mr Gilbert 9.15pm £12.50 PENTHOUSE Ultrasound Dub and beats Time tbc £free PRINCE ALBERT Fighting Fiction, Our Time Down Here, High-Sides Live music 8.30pm £4 R-BAR Kinky Classics DJ King-K plays funky house 9pm £tbc REVENGE Kinky Dangerous Pop and R&B tunes 10.30pm £8/6/4/free ST BARTHOLOMEW’S CHURCH The Clerks: The Hours Sacred music featuring John Taverner’s Missa Gloria Tibi Trinitas 8pm £15/12/9 SIDEWINDER Shades Of Blue DJ Steelzawheelz & Drift play jazz, rare groove and electrofunk stuff Time tbc £free SUGAQUBE Simply House Upfront house tunes Time tbc £free THEATRE ROYAL The Armstrong & Miller Show Character comedy and catchphrase sketches 8pm £23 THOMAS KEMP DJ Button Down Funk soul brother 9pm £free THREE & TEN Nathan Penlington: Uri & Me A deconstruction of and homage to the world’s most famous spoon-bender, Uri Gellar 6pm £8/6; The Noise Next Door Improvised comedy troupe 8pm £8/6; Late Night Gimp Fight! Comedy sketch show 9.30pm £9/7; Monkey If you locked a primate in a room with enough records it would eventually become a funk and soul DJ (downstairs) 10pm £free UNITARIAN CHURCH Unni Løvlid Experimental Norwegian folk singer 11pm £10/8 VOLKS Frequency: Audio, Lenzman, D Double U, High Maintenance, Deceit Solid D&B, liquid dubstep 10pm £1 WESTERN FRONT Release DJs 9pm £free WEST HILL TAVERN Artists Only New wave and art school tunes 9pm £free WORLD’S END DJ Bushman Reggae, dancehall and dubstep 8pm £tbc
sunday 17th
ABOVE AUDIO Brighton Calling: Live Local bands Time tbc £free AUDIO 22-20’s, Sam Dale Live music Time tbc £7.50 BELUSHI’S BAR Now That’s What I Call A Party Part 1 9pm £free BLACK LION Dubrockerslive Ska, punk, trip hop and reggae 8.30pm £free BRUNSWICK Rockskool Showcase for kids from local schools to rock out 11am £5; Brighton Folk Monthly folk night 8pm £free CONCORDE2 Sabaton, Alestorm, Thaurorod Clash of the metal titans 7pm £12 CORN EXCHANGE Stephen Grant: Facepalm The host of Brighton’s Krater Club strikes out with a new show 7.30pm £12/10 DOME Jimmy Carr Smug and punchable or daringly provocative? 8pm £25 DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Back To The Future 11am; Alamar 1.30pm; Blood Of A Poet Live score by Steven Severin 7pm FIDDLER’S ELBOW Sham-Rock Open Mic It doesn’t have to be Irish music, but if it’s not you might get kneecapped 8.30pm £free FISHBOWL Recovery? Chilled reggae DJing from Asbest The Moor King and guests 9pm £free GEISHA ARTS Geisha Grooves: The Hallways Chilled grooves 4.30pm £free GLOBE Rockoustic Open Mic 9pm £free HECTOR’S HOUSE Black Chalk Celebrating Black History Month Details tbc HOBGOBLIN The Arteries, Human Steak, Rapsod, Cautionhorses, Kept By Casino, WWII Vs Dinosaur Punk alldayer Details tbc HONEY Afrodisiac DJ Jon Byrne keeps the weekend alive with some housey electro 11pm £3.50/2.50 HYDRANT DOWN Acoustic Night Live music 8pm £free HYDRANT UP 3 Strikes Out Live bands 8pm £4 KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club: Ninia Benjamin, Robert White, Tom Craine, Al Pitcher, Paul Pirie Stand-up
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comedy 8pm £11/6 KOMEDIA STUDIO Lorraine Bowen’s Suburban Exotica A repressed housewife finally let’s rip and ends up fufilling her dream of being a novelty keyboard performer 8pm £10/8 KOMEDIA UP Eliza Doolittle “I ain’t done nothin’ wrong by speaking to the gentleman. I’ve a right to sell flowers if I keep off the kerb” 7.30pm £10 LATEST MUSIC BAR Benjamin Francis Leftwich Songwriting finger-picker in the Iron And Wine camp, near the Jose Gonzales hotel 8pm £5 MARWOOD CAFE Brighton Filmmakers Coalition Meeting Get involved in local film projects 6pm £free PRINCE ALBERT Peter And The Test Tube Babies Punk alldayer headlined by Brighton’s original filthy lad punks 12 noon £tbc R-BAR Sublime Sundays Acoustic sessions 5pm £free ST GEORGE’S CHURCH Reem Kelani The Palestinian diva comes to Brighton for the World Sacred Music festival 8pm £15/12/9 SIGNALMAN Open Mic Night 8pm £free SUGAQUBE Chill Sunday Lounge DJs Time tbc £free THREE & TEN Richard Sandling’s Perfect Movie Cinephile comedian reworks famous movie moments (upstairs) 5pm £7/5; Strung Out Live acoustic music (downstairs) 8pm £free WESTERN FRONT Live Guitarist Better than a dead one 4pm £free
monday 18th
3 JOLLY BUTCHERS Acoustic Sessions Live music 8pm £free ANCIENT MARINER Quiz Night Q3. Is that a DEATH? And are there two? 8pm £1 BEE’S MOUTH The Bee’s Mouth Jazz Forum Join in for a jazz jam with the house band - there’s a free pint in it 8.30pm £free BELUSHI’S BAR Now That’s What I Call A Party Part 2 9pm £free BLACK LION Drive-In: House Of A Thousand Corpses Cult films on an outdoor screen 8.30pm £free BRUNSWICK Open Mic Night 8pm £free COALITION Trash Mondays Filthy tunes for students and layabouts alike 10pm £3/2 CONCORDE2 Professor Green Lilly Allen collaborator and upcoming cockney rapper 7.30pm £10 FULL MOON Quiz Night Details tbc FUNKY BUDDHA Trash Mondays Where students go to reformat their brain cells after a hard half-day’s studying Details tbc HAMPTON Music Quiz 8pm £1 HECTOR’S HOUSE Dad Disko Student cheese Details tbc HONEY Playground Cheesy and commerical chart choons 11pm £tbc HOPE Flashguns, I Dream In Colour Live bands 8pm £5/4 JAM I.O.U Comedy: Zoe Lyons, Romesh Ranganathan, Ian Smith, Anna Freyberg, Aidan Goatley, Tasha Dhanraj, Sean Mcloughlin Stand-up and be counted 8pm £3 KOMEDIA DOWN The Space Arts and media event 7.30pm £7.50/5 KOMEDIA UP Oysterband Acoustic set of songs plucked from the folk rockers’ long legacy 7.30pm £16 LIFE Jailbait It’s a 90s club night. We googled it for more details and now our hard drives have been confiscated by the filth. “It’s research for our music magazine, your honour” doesn’t stand up in Crown Court apparently 10.30pm £2/free OCEANA Pure Filth Student night for West Street’s finest 9pm £2.50/free PRINCE ALBERT Bella Spinx Live music 8.30pm £4 R-BAR Quiz With Liz 9pm £tbc ST MARY’S CHURCH Peter Broderick, Tsuki, A Lily Live music 7pm £9 SIDEWINDER Poker Night It’s about time for a gambling habit 9pm £5 THEATRE ROYAL The Rivals Like a spin-off sequel of To The Manor Born, Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s comedy of manners stars both Penelope Keith and Peter Bowles 7.45pm £33.50/16.75 THOMAS KEMP Pub Quiz Night Time tbc £1 VOLKS Strictly Reggae Dancehall, roots, revival 11pm £5/4.50
Tuesday 19th
3 JOLLY BUTCHERS Open Mic Night 8pm £free AUDIO Let’s Kill Disco Indie night 10pm £3/2 BEE’S MOUTH Sounds Like Science DJ electronica 8.30pm £free BELUSHI’S BAR Mods And Sods Mod and ska tunes 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Chaos A violent abyss of pure randomness / a pop punk club 9pm £3/2 BRUNSWICK Jazz Jam Open session with house band 8pm £free COALITION Don’t Forget Funky stuff, pop nuggets and housey bits 10.30pm £3/2/free CONCORDE2 Rewind Dance classics and indie anthems 11pm £3/2/1 COWLEY CLUB Wildkatz Project Open mic jam for poets and musicians 8pm £free DIGITAL Glitterati Rub shoulders with the high society of drunk
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students 11pm £4/3 DOME Stewart Lee: Vegetable Stew Brand new material from his forthcoming TV series. The backlash starts here! 8pm £17.50 DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Alamar 11am; Restrepo 6.30pm FIDDLER’S ELBOW Quizness Time 8pm £1 GLOBE Basement Cinema Underground films, comfy seats, free popcorn 8pm £free HONEY Mojito Miami Beach Party: Jimmy Lobe, Tony Shadyak, RudeBen, Gabriel Angel, Dom Flo, Aaron George Smell the oranges and party like it’s springbreak and you’re on MTV 10pm £free HOPE Jay Brannan, Stuart Warwick Live music 8pm £10 KOMEDIA DOWN An Audience With Mr Nice Want to hear the confessions of a drug smuggler but can’t afford to see Howard Marks? Why not hang around the bins behind London Road? 8pm £12 KOMEDIA STUDIO Kill It Kid Live music Time tbc £7 KOMEDIA UP Gavin Creel Broadway star comes to town 7.30pm £15 LIFE The Vice Social Student dance party 11pm £3 PAV TAV Guerilla Rocks Club night for rock chicks, skater bois and indie kids 11pm £3/2/1 PRINCE ALBERT Derider, Polar Night Live music 8.30pm £4 R-BAR Twisted Karaoke 8pm £tbc RED LION General Knowledge Quiz 8pm £1 REVENGE Sound As A Pound Charty tunes 10.30pm £2/free SIDEWINDER Open Mic Night 8pm £free SIGNALMAN Pub Quiz Are you a pub quiz whizz or a bit of a half wit? 8pm £1 SUSSEX CRICKET CLUB City Books: Audrey Niffenegger Author reads from her new book ‘The Night Bookmobile’ 6.30pm £6 THEATRE ROYAL The Rivals Like a spin-off sequel of To The Manor Born, Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s comedy of manners stars both Penelope Keith and Peter Bowles 7.45pm £33.50/16.75THOMAS KEMP Poker Night 8pm £tbc
wednesday 20th
ABOVE AUDIO The Doctor’s Orders Sick hip hop 11pm £free AUDIO Supercharged Breaks 11pm £tbc BELUSHI’S BAR Now That’s What I Call A Party Part 3 9pm £free BLACK LION Fresh Acoustics Live music 8.30pm £free BRUNSWICK Live N Laughing: Paul F Taylor, Lee Hume New night of comedy and music 7.45pm £5/4 COALITION Adventures After Dark The best of out of date indie and hip hop 10.30pm £1 CORN EXCHANGE Julian Clary: Lord Of The Mince The innuendos keep cumming 7.30pm £20/18 COWLEY CLUB SchMOVIES Presents: Injustice Documentary about police brutality - which the police tried to ban 8pm £free/ donation DIGITAL The Poundance Imagine if Poundland had a dancefloor - top pop tunes for a pittance 11pm £1 DOME Mark Watson Hey, aren’t you that funny bloke off the telly? 8pm £16.50 FISHBOWL Fisherman’s Chronicles Acoustic jam open to all 8pm £free FULL MOON Open Mic New open mic for musicians, comics and poets Details tbc GLOBE Brighton Institutions DJ sets and stalls from the shops, clubs and labels that make Brighton unique 9pm £free HOPE Gardner Street Circus Live bands 8pm £tbc HONEY Suck My Pop And I’ll suck yours 10.30pm £tbc JAM Soundtracks Songs from 80s films (upstairs) 8pm £4/3/free; Teeth Live music (downstairs) 7.30pm £7/6 KOMEDIA STUDIO Anais Mitchell Singer songwriter with intimate songs full of wit and detail 8.15pm £10 KOMEDIA UP The Midnight Beast Pop parody act - as seen on YouTube 7.30pm £7 LATEST MUSIC BAR Michael Wesnoth King, Sadie Jemmett Singer songwriter from alt country outfit The Good Sons 8pm £8/7 LIFE We Run This Reality TV goes clubbing: vote for your favourite DJ 11pm £3/free MARLBOROUGH Open Mic 8pm £free MARLBOROUGH THEATRE Silver Wednesday Vintage movies with all the trimmings - ushers, pop corn girls and plenty of leg room 8.30pm £5 OCEANA Fuzzy Logic Dance tunes for students 9pm £5/3.50/2 PAV TAV Student Night Does what it says on the proverbial tin Time tbc £2 PAVILION THEATRE Andrew Lawrence: Too Ugly For Television Tour Maybe you should sit in the back row 9.15pm £12/10 PENTHOUSE Da Do Dem Ragga Time tbc £free PRINCE ALBERT The Great Park, Takeda, Woodpecker Wooliams Live folk acts 8.30pm £6/5 R-BAR Trickpop Pop and R&B from DJ Trick 8pm £free SIDEWINDER The Sidewinder Garden Quiz 8pm £1 THEATRE ROYAL The Rivals Like a spin-off sequel of To The Manor Born, Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s comedy of manners stars both Penelope Keith and Peter Bowles 7.45pm £33.50/16.75 THOMAS KEMP Kev’s Open Mic Free drink if you play 8pm
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£tbc THREE & TEN Mike Wozniak & Henry Paker: The Golden Lizard Comedic investigation into the mystery of a missing naturalist 8pm £8/5
thursday 21st
AUDIO Bastard Pop Musical mash up 11pm £2 BEE’S MOUTH Diego Parada Jazz & Bebop Trio Jazz and bebop? 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BAR Karaoke 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Mutant Pop Poppy and alternative sounds 9pm £2 BLACK LION Burnt Toast Radio Reverb DJ brings out the filth in funk 8.30pm £free BRUNSWICK Bakk Lamp Fall West African fusion 7.30pm £4 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Brighton Bike Night Weekly biker’s social - leather, not lycra 7pm £free COALITION Mad Professor, Pama Intl Lord of the dub 7.30pm £12.50; Secret Discotheque Retro disco, 80s pop and other ‘uncool’ tunes 10.30pm £4/3/2/1 CONCORDE2 Robyn Swedish synth pop 7.30pm £15 CONSTANT SERVICE Hungry Joe Punky indie music Time tbc £free CORN EXCHANGE Shappi Khorsandi: The Moon On A Stick Sharp observational stand-up 7.30pm £14/12 DIGITAL Bar 9, 16 Bit, Bare Noize, Lost Dub, dub, dub Time tbc £7 FIDDLER’S ELBOW Ceol Agus Craic Traditional Irish tunes 8.30pm £free FISHBOWL Residents Association DJ Will Sumsuch plays hip hop, funk and world beats 10pm £free FUNKY BUDDHA Bump N’ Grind Ride the riddims, baby £2/1/ free GLOBE Hang The DJ! The democratisation of the dancefloor continues apace with another night of punter-picked playlists 9pm £free GRAND CENTRAL Swing DeVille Duo Gypsy jazz from the 1930s 8.30pm £free HECTOR’S HOUSE Risque Bisque Live music and DJs 8pm £free HOBGOBLIN Swing Ninjas Live jazz and swing trio 8pm £free HONEY The One: Squiz, Ben-G, Matt Jiggens, Gazz Marlow, Paul Hillyer R&B, hip hop, funk, indie and house - indecisive or eclectic? You decide... 11pm £1 HOPE Black Carrot Live music 8pm £6 HYDRANT UP Howlers Comedy Club Stand-up laughs 8pm £3 JAM Thursday Night Fish Fry Early 50s US rhythm & blues and original Jamaican ska 10pm £2/1 KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club: Paul Tonkinson, Lee Hume, Joe Wilkinson, Carey Marx, MC Stephen Grant Standup comedy 8pm £8.50/6.50 KOMEDIA STUDIO Afri-Can I Kick It? Soulful and funky tunes from Africa 10pm £3 KOMEDIA UP Faulty Towers: The Dining Experience A team of comedians do skits from the series while serving up a three-course meal 8pm £30 LIFE Shameless: C-Dogg, DJ Nause Half a century of musical highlights and lowpoints 11pm £1 MARLBOROUGH THEATRE Lady Day At Emerson’s Bar & Grill Billie Holiday tells the story of her troubled life and sings the songs that made it all worthwhile 8pm £8/7 NEW HERO Dub Defendant Jamaican sounds 10pm £2 NORTHERN LIGHTS Swing Ninjas Gypsy jazz swing trio Details tbc OCEANA Pound Party R&B and dance tunes from the bargain bin 9pm £4/1/free PAV TAV The Moshpit Rock and metal night 10pm £3/2 PAVILION THEATRE Alun Cochrane: Jokes, Life and Jokes About Life Real life might be stranger, but is it funnier? 7.45pm £12 PENTHOUSE Friends Of Well Rounded DJ night Time tbc £free PRINCE ALBERT Luke Doucet, Ben Rogers Live Americana 8pm £9/8 PRINCE GEORGE Open Mic Night 8pm £free R-BAR Girls On Top Offical Warm Up Pop and party tunes from DJ Fifilicious 8pm £tbc REVENGE Girls On Top Vs Emergency Room Trash tunes to get smashed to 8pm £4/3 ST JAMES’ TAVERN Stay Sick, Stay Blue DJs play vintage surf and garage 8.30pm £free SIDEWINDER Ants In The Carpet British classics since the 80s 8.30pm £free SUGAQUBE Big Thursday DJ Stevie plays house tunes Time tbc £free TEMPLE BAR The Brighton Improv Temple New night featuring guest groups riffing on the audience’s ideas 8pm £2 THEATRE ROYAL The Rivals Like a spin-off sequel of To The Manor Born, Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s comedy of manners stars both Penelope Keith and Peter Bowles 2.30pm/7.45pm £33.50/16.75 THOMAS KEMP Acoustic Sessions: Jenna Bennett Folky singer songwriter 9pm £free
THREE & TEN Brian Gittins And Friends Stand up comedy hosted by roadside café weirdo. Tonight his ‘friends’ include Adam Riches, Joe Wilkinson and Flange Kramer 8pm £9/7 VICTORY Balcony TV Live music 8pm £free VOLKS The Mighty Aba Shanti Thunder and lightning - Jah style 10pm £tbc
friday 22nd
ALI-CATS Acoustic Club Six hand-picked acoustic acts 8pm £3/2 AUDIO Guerilla, Toddla T Live music 11pm £5 ABOVE AUDIO Friday Night Bar Sessions Local DJs 10pm £free BASEMENT Tim Clare: Death Drive Comedian and novelist looks at the funny side of father-son suicide pacts 7.30pm £8/6 BEE’S MOUTH Hot Tip Hi Fi DJs playing early reggae and rocksteady 9pm £free BRIGHTON BALLROOM Brighton Rouged: Jason Abrahams, Paul Roberts, Laura Nixon, Arthur Shillin Singers and crooners to swing and swoon to 9.30pm £10 HEIST Dub Defendant Jamaican sounds 8.30pm £free BELUSHI’S BAR Muy Loco Pop and house DJs 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Abandoned Rock and metal night 10pm £3/2 BLACK LION Soul Casserole A melting pot of hot funk beats and soul grooves 8.30pm £free CONCORDE2 Neville Staple, The Meow Meows Specials’ rude boy who never stopped skanking 7pm £13; KRS One Aka Kris Parker, The Blastmaster, The Teacha, and The Philosopher 11pm £12.50 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Sleazy Listening: DJ Peter Von Sleaze Sleazy, like getting drooled on by a big biker. Did I say ‘like’? 9pm £free; Lee Hume: Stuff And Nonsense 2 Stand-up (upstairs) 8.30pm £5/4 COALITION Fridays I’m In Love Somewhat eclectic club night with 60s gems, indie and funky funk 11pm £4/3/2/1 CORN EXCHANGE Zoe Lyons: Clown Busting Award-winning local comedienne tries to get happy 7.30pm £14/12; Jack Whitehall: Learning Difficulties Embittered but energetic comedian discusses the mistakes we all make 9.30pm £14/12 COWLEY CLUB Gun Outfit, The Pheromoans Live bands 8pm £donation DIGITAL Darwin Deez, Cadets, Little Commits, Naive New Beaters Indie bands on tour 7pm £8; Stonelove Indie rock&roll will never die 11pm £4/3 DOME Best Of The Fest Comedy round up 8pm £16/14 DUKE OF BEAUFORT DJ Ben Vale Motown, funk and reggae DJ 8pm £free EVERYBODY’S BAR Another Sunny Day Indiepop Club 9pm £free FISHBOWL Jeff Daniels Soul-soaked hip hop DJ 9pm £free FULL MOON Dadstep! Music for grown-ups and punk parents Details tbc FUNKY BUDDHA Drink, Dance, Repeat Cash in your student loan 11pm £5/3 FUNKYFISH The Funkyfish Club Soul, funk, jazz, Motown and 60s, 70s and 80s 10pm £5/4/2 GLOBE The Soul Of Brighton Philly disco from Juice FM DJ 9pm £free GRAND CENTRAL All Time Top 100: Unkool Musical countdown with guest DJ 9.30pm £free H-BAR Deep Connection: Tom Vagabondo, A-Bee, Lazy Boys, Pete Shepherd, Jozo Mihalik, Semi Stef Deep tech 9pm £tbc HECTOR’S HOUSE B Side: JFB 2007’s UK DJ champion plays dub, hip hop and D&B Details tbc HEIST Freedom Fridays DJs play classics both old AND new, thus demonstrating their powers of prophesy 9pm £free HONEY Lollipop Get your fingers sticky to R&B, hip hop and pop treats 10.30pm £7/5 HOPE Perfume Genius Redemptive lo fi from Seattle songwriter 8pm £8.50/7.50 HYDRANT DOWN Goodtimes Music A night of good times, fun and dancing - what’s not to like? 8pm £free HYDRANT UP Last Of The Summer Grinds, Fleshrot, Surrounded By Disgust, Infestation, This Means War Metal night - this means you’ll be surrounded by an infestation of disgusting grinding flesh 8pm £5/4 JAM Jam Live Live music 7pm £free JAZZ PLACE Teen Creeps Indie night with live bands 10pm £5/4 KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club: Paul Tonkinson, Joe Wilkinson, Carey Marx, MC Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 7.30pm £16; Motorcity New clubnight for lovers of Motown and disco 10.30pm £5/3 KOMEDIA STUDIO Brighton Jazz Club: Benn Clatworthy Quartet Live jazz 8pm £12/10 KOMEDIA UP Faulty Towers: The Dining Experience A team of comedians do skits from the series while serving up a three-course meal 8pm £30 LIFE Deadly Rhythm: Rustie, Jackmaster, Paste, Ben White Bass-heavy beats 11pm £5 LOFT Malicious Alternative club night 10pm £4/3/2 MARLBOROUGH Queer & Alternative Indie, pop and electro DJs Time tbc £free MARLBOROUGH THEATRE Lady Day At Emerson’s Bar & Grill Billie Holiday tells the story of her troubled life and sings the
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songs that made it all worthwhile 8pm £8/7 NORTHERN LIGHTS DJ Jazzy Funky soul Details tbc OCEANA The World In One Night With seven themed rooms you should find one you like 8pm £6/5/free PAV TAV INDIEcent Indie club playing indie pop and indie rock 11pm £3/2 PAVILION THEATRE Frisky & Mannish: The College Years Twisted pop cabaret 9.15pm £12/10 PENTHOUSE Punk Vs Hardcore Guess what? It’s a night of punk and hardcore Time tbc £free PRINCE ALBERT Birdeatsbaby, Professor Elemental, Sweet Sweet Lies Theatrical piano-led cabaret rock, like an orchestral Dresden Dolls 8pm £4 R-BAR Starlight Warm Up DJ Smithy playing disco and classic house 9pm £tbc REVENGE X-Factor Friday Watch the wannabe idiots, then go dance 10.30pm £tbc RIKITIK Grandeurs Of Delusion & Residents Hip hop, garage and dubstep DJs 10pm £free ST BARTHOLOMEW’S CHURCH The Choral Pilgrimage 2010: Ceremony And Devotion - Music For The Tudors Music by William Byrd, Thomas Tallis and John Sheppard 8pm £22/6 SUGAQUBE Classics & Anthems Big house tunes from DJ Cheets Time tbc £free THEATRE ROYAL The Rivals Like a spin-off sequel of To The Manor Born, Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s comedy of manners stars both Penelope Keith and Peter Bowles 7.45pm £33.50/16.75 THREE & TEN Knock2Bag Comedy: Tim Key, Colin Hoult, Brian Gittins, Robin Buckland Award-winning London night down for a jolly 7.30pm £9/7.50; Humble Quest For A Universal Genius Anarchic quiz show hosted by Mark Allen 10pm £8/5; Ruff Snippets DJ set (downstairs) 10pm £free VICTORY :KINEMA: DJ set from the Brighton pop band’s singer 9pm £free VOLKS Critical: Kasra, Jubei, Vicious Circle, Fineprint Audio, Hiatus, Lp, Sub Sector, Ellfivedee, Random Scarves, Mr Sleepz, Kemist D, Neil Martin D&B and dubstep night 11pm £7 WESTERN FRONT Release DJs play a bit of everything 9pm £free WEST HILL TAVERN Brains Eclectic mish-mash from Superheroes of BMX 9pm £free WORLD’S END Not Now Bernard Live music 8pm £tbc
saturday 23rd
AUDIO Warehouse: Hijack New house and techno club night 11pm £5/free BELUSHI’S BAR Unplugged Live acoustic music 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Good Times Remember them? Maybe the retro tunes will jog your memory 9pm £5 BLACK LION Attic Monkeys Special Guests Night Hey, check out mine and my mate’s record collection! 9pm £free BRIGHTON CENTRE Thomas & Friends: A Circus Comes To Town In the states they’re not allowed to call him the Fat Controller. Whether this is political correctness gone mad or just a yankee expedient to avoid confusion the SOURCE does not know 11am/2pm £45/12 BRUNSWICK The Blues Corporation Live blues band 8pm £10 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Cazza Karaoke 8.30pm £free COALITION Wired: Vincent Manganaro, Carlos Lopez, Digital High, Vince Frimpong, Electro house and VJs 11pm £8; Blow After Party: Vincent Manganaro, Carlos Riz, Aaron Palaez 3am £7/5/4 COBBLER’S THUMB Fidgital Live fiddle vs DJ 8pm £free CONCORDE2 Devotion: Andy C, Logisitcs, Lomax, Example, MC Eksman, Gq, Fatman D Brighton’s busiest D&B night 11pm £10 CORN EXCHANGE Jim Jefferies: Alcoholocaust Everyone knows that being drunk makes you charming and funny 9.30pm £14/12 COWLEY CLUB The Max Levine Ensemble, Onsind, Gundersons Political punk and feminist folk 8pm £donation DIGITAL Playroom Housey hedonism in a playground of bouncy inflatable fun 11pm £12/10 DOME Sean Lock: Lockipedia “Best stand-up comedian ever” [citation needed] 8pm £17.50 DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Sus 1.30pm; Met Opera: Boris Godunov 5am FISHBOWL Sumsuch Disco and breaks from the Latenite Lounging DJ 9pm £free FULL MOON Vinyl Veterans Hip hop and psych rock Details tbc FUNKY BUDDHA Reflex 80s night for students too young to remember what it was really like. 8-bit home computers? No, carbombs and knee-cappings 11pm £5/3; Late Night Sessions DJ Mikee Hollywood keeps the party going 3.30am £tbc FUNKYFISH The Funkyfish Club Soul, funk, jazz, Motown and 60s, 70s and 80s 10pm £6/5 GEISHA ARTS Geisha Grooves: The Hallways Chilled grooves 4.30pm £free GLOBE Blacklodge Disco boogie DJ 9pm £free HAMPTON iLike iPod battles 8pm £free H-BAR Deeplicious: Bruno Amaral & Sergio Ob.li.vious, Steve Nasty, Steve Little, Secret Lemonade Drinker, Kion Deep house
10pm £3 HECTOR’S HOUSE Buzz Club: I Am Jack Blue Stragglers, Thieves By The Code Live bands Time tbc £free HEIST Home Sean Quinn plays house tunes 9pm £free HONEY Hed Kandi If your house was this sexy you’d never go outdoors 11pm £10 HOPE Notorious Hi Fi Killers, Stearica, Black Bombain Live music 8pm £5.50 HYDRANT DOWN YAAARD, Becky Becky Parenthesis Electro folk 9pm £free HYDRANT UP The Modern Exposition Folky classical electro 7.30pm £free JAM Donkey Pitch: Mweslee, Alexander Nut, Slugabed, Ghost Mutt Label launch night for wonky glitch heads 11pm £5 JAZZ PLACE Roots Garden Roots, reggae and dub 11pm £5/4 KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club: Paul Tonkinson, Joe Wilkinson, Carey Marx, MC Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 7pm/10.30pm £17.50/15 KOMEDIA STUDIO Brighton Rumble: Knocksville, DJ Dave Mumbles, Lucky Phil Rockabilly band and DJs 9pm £7; Da Doo Ron Ron DJs fixated with girlgroups and soul sirens 11pm £6/5 KOMEDIA UP Faulty Towers: The Dining Experience A team of comedians do skits from the series while serving up a three-course meal 2pm/8pm £35/30 LATEST MUSIC BAR Headwater, Rory Mulligan & The Imaginary Band, Adam Wilson Hunter Americana folk band 8pm £8 LIFE Hold Up! Proper indie disco 11pm £5 LIGHTHOUSE Do You Remember The First Time? Share your stories and help create a new online LGBT archive 12pm £tbc; Legacy Film Festival Short films for Black History Month on the themes of race and sexuality 6.30pm £5 LOFT Punk Rock Karaoke Hitting the right note was never what punk was about anyway 11pm £5/4 MARLBOROUGH Cherry Pop Cheese and 80s trash with DJ Fondue Inferno Time tbc £free MARLBOROUGH THEATRE Lady Day At Emerson’s Bar & Grill Billie Holiday tells the story of her troubled life and sings the songs that made it all worthwhile 8pm £8/7 MICRO The Pure Project: Magnus Asberg, Burt House deep, techno high 9pm £6 NORTHERN LIGHTS Duck Shoot DJs play alt grooves and lost classics 9pm £free OCEANA The World In One Night With seven themed rooms you should find one you like 8pm £6/5/free PAV TAV Back To The Future Retro tunes from before you were born 11pm £3/2 PAVILION THEATRE Seann Walsh: I’d Happily Punch Myself In the Face Local stand-up who will do anything for laughs 7.45pm £10 PENTHOUSE Mama Ko Mama Sa Vintage African sounds Time tbc £free R-BAR Kinky Classics DJ King-K plays funky house 9pm £tbc REVENGE Kinky Dangerous Pop and R&B tunes 10.30pm £8/6/4 ST GEORGE’S CHURCH Four Weddings And A Funeral If you turn up expecting bumbling fops you might be confused by these wedding madrigals from Renaissance-era Italy 7.30pm £tbc SALLIS BENNEY The Early Music Show Classical music from i Flautisti, Ensemble Amaranthos and The Artisans 1pm £tbc SIDEWINDER Danceteria All Daya! DJs Bushy, Ed & Toast spin a mix of disco, boogie, house and funk 8pm £free SUGAQUBE Simply House Upfront house tunes from DJs Carl Mills and Dave Kind Time tbc £free THEATRE ROYAL The Rivals Like a spin-off sequel of To The Manor Born, Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s comedy of manners stars both Penelope Keith and Peter Bowles 2 2.30pm/7.45pm £33.50/16.75 THREE & TEN John Osbourne: John Peel’s Shed Osbourne won a box of Peel’s records which took eight years to listen to and inspired this affectionate comic homage 5pm £5; Nathan Penlington: Uri & Me A deconstruction of and homage to the world’s most famous spoon-bender, Uri Gellar 6pm £8/6; Clever Peter: Blood Sweat and Tears Witty sketch show 8pm £8/6; Red Brick Comedy Club: Phil Kay, David James, Luke Toulson Stand up 10pm £10/7.50; Matt Barker Magnificently tanned DJ with impeccable hair (downstairs) 10pm £free VOLKS Lunarcy Full Moon Party Back for an old-skool jungle and dubstep all-nighter 11pm £5 WESTERN FRONT Release DJs 9pm £free WEST HILL TAVERN L’Amour Electronique French pop and electronic delights pour vous 9pm £free WORLD’S END Not Yet Dead Live music 8pm £tbc
sunday 24th
3 JOLLY BUTCHERS Acoustic Sessions Live music 8pm £free ABOVE AUDIO Brighton Calling: Live Local bands Time tbc £free BELUSHI’S BAR Now That’s What I Call A Party Part 1 9pm £free BLACK LION Dubrockerslive Ska, punk, trip hop and reggae Time tbc £free BRIGHTON CENTRE Thomas & Friends: A Circus Comes To Town In the states they’re not allowed to call him the Fat Controller. Whether this is political correctness gone mad or just a yankie
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monday 25th
3 JOLLY BUTCHERS Acoustic Sessions Live music 8pm £free ANCIENT MARINER Quiz Night Q4. Is DEATH that woman’s mate? 8pm £1 BEE’S MOUTH The Bee’s Mouth Jazz Forum Join in for a jazz jam with the house band - there’s a free pint in it 8.30pm £free BELUSHI’S BAR Now That’s What I Call A Party Part 2 9pm £free BLACK LION Drive-In: Devil’s Rejects Cult films on an outdoor screen 8.30pm £free BRUNSWICK Open Mic Night 8pm £free COALITION Trash Mondays Filthy tunes for students and layabouts alike 10pm £3/2 KOMEDIA UP Faulty Towers: The Dining Experience A team of comedians do skits from the series while serving up a three-course meal 2pm/8pm £35/30 COWLEY CLUB Cowley Bookshop Talk: Gabriel Kuhn A talk about revolution and drinking by a straight-edge punk author 7pm £free FULL MOON Quiz Night Details tbc FUNKY BUDDHA Trash Mondays Where students go to reformat their brain cells after a hard half-day’s studying Details tbc HAMPTON Music Quiz 8pm £1 HECTOR’S HOUSE Dad Disko Student cheese Details tbc HONEY Playground Cheesy and commercial chart choons 11pm £tbc LIFE Jailbait It’s a 90s club night. Trust us, you don’t want to google it 10.30pm £2/free MARLBOROUGH THEATRE Billy Budd Theatre North adapts a Herman Melville novel to tell a tale of mutiny and male desire in the 18th century 8pm £8/6 OCEANA Pure Filth Student night for West Street’s finest 9pm £2.50/free PRINCE ALBERT Bastard Child Death Cult, Lightbringer, Crypsis, Blod Drunk Full-on hardcore punk 7.30pm £5 R-BAR Quiz With Liz 9pm £tbc SIDEWINDER Poker Night It’s about time for a gambling habit 9pm £5 VOLKS Strictly Reggae Dancehall, roots, revival 11pm £5/4.50
Tuesday 26th 3 JOLLY BUTCHERS Open Mic Night 8pm £free AUDIO Let’s Kill Disco Indie night 10pm £3/2
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BEE’S MOUTH Sounds Like Science DJ electronica 8.30pm £free BELUSHI’S BAR Mods And Sods Mod and ska tunes 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Chaos A violent abyss of pure randomness / a pop punk club 9pm £3/2 BRUNSWICK The Animal ‘Voice’ In The Mating Game A lecture on the courtship rituals of mammals illustrated with recordings of animal ‘love songs’. Voyeuristic beastialists not welcome 7pm £6 COALITION Youngblood Brass Band Globe-trotting experimental jazzers with a foot in the hip door and a hand in the DIY scene 7.30pm £8; Don’t Forget Funky stuff, pop nuggets and housey bits 10.30pm £3/2/free CONCORDE2 Tinie Tempah, Chiddy Bang Grimey rapper 7pm £tbc; Rewind Dance classics and indie anthems 11pm £3/2/1 COWLEY CLUB Cowley Bookshop Talk: Stevphen Shukaitis A talk by the editor of Autonmedia Time tbc £free; Wildkatz Project Open mic jam for poets and musicians 8pm £free DIGITAL Glitterati Rub shoulders with the high society of drunk students 11pm £4/3 DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Cyrus 11am; Badly Drawn Boy The Mercury-winning indie singer tours his new album 9pm £17.50 FIDDLER’S ELBOW Quizness Time 8pm £1 GLOBE Basement Cinema Underground films, comfy seats, free popcorn 8pm £free HONEY Mojito Miami Beach Party: Jimmy Lobe, Tony Shadyak, RudeBen, Gabriel Angel, Dom Flo, Aaron George Smell the oranges and party like it’s springbreak and you’re on MTV 10pm £free HONEY Teen Creeps: Phantom New wave, punk and electro hits alongside a live band featuring members of The Maccabees and Jack Penate 10pm £5/4 KOMEDIA The Mighty Diamonds, The Rasites Live reggae 7.30pm £12 LATEST MUSIC BAR Processed Meat: Scream Club, Electrosexual, DJ Lauren A queer mishmash of electro pop 10pm £7/5 LIFE The Vice Social Student dance party 11pm £3 MARLBOROUGH THEATRE Billy Budd Theatre North adapts a Herman Melville novel to tell a tale of mutiny and male desire in the 18th century 8pm £8/6 PAV TAV Guerilla Rocks Club night for rock chicks, skater bois and indie kids 11pm £3/2/1 PENTHOUSE Funk Now, Hurt Later Funk and rare groove Time tbc £free PRINCE ALBERT What’s Your Vice, Poor Little Pierrette, Kendal Sant And The Rumour Live music 8.30pm £4/3 R-BAR Twisted Karaoke 8pm £free REVENGE Sound As A Pound Charty tunes 10.30pm £2/free RED LION General Knowledge Quiz 8pm £1 SIDEWINDER Open Mic Night 8pm £free SIGNALMAN Pub Quiz Are you a pub quiz whizz or a bit of a half wit? 8pm £1 THEATRE ROYAL The Three Musketeers And The Princess Of Spain A new swashbuckling adventure inspired by Alexandre Dumas’ story about 17th century sword-fighting dogs 7pm £30-12.50 THOMAS KEMP Poker Night 8pm £tbc THREE & TEN Joanna Neary: Youth Club Queen of character comedy goes back to Cornwall circa 1987 8pm £7/5
wednesday 27th
ABOVE AUDIO The Doctor’s Orders Sick hip hop 11pm £free AUDIO Supercharged: Krafty Kuts Breaks 11pm £tbc BEE’S MOUTH Open Mic 8.30pm £free BELUSHI’S BAR Now That’s What I Call A Party Part 3 9pm £free BLACK LION Fresh Acoustics Live music 8.30pm £free BRUNSWICK Music And Ritual In Remote Antiquity An illustrated lecture about what musical instruments were like 36,000 years ago - and how not that much has changed 7pm £6 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK The Funnier Farm Comedy fun (upstairs) 8pm £5 COALITION Adventures After Dark The best of out of date indie and hip hop 10.30pm £1 CONCORDE2 Swans, James Blackshaw Reformed NY postpunks 7.30pm £20 DIGITAL The Poundance Imagine if Poundland had a dancefloor - top pop tunes for a pittance 11pm £1 DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Cyrus 11am FISHBOWL Fisherman’s Chronicles Acoustic jam open to all 8pm £free GLOBE Brighton Institutions DJ sets and stalls from the shops, clubs and labels that make Brighton unique 9pm £free HONEY Suck My Pop And I’ll suck yours 10.30pm £tbc HYDRANT DOWN Upcdownc, Vile Imbeciles Live bands 8pm £tbc JAM Soundtracks Songs from 80s films (upstairs) 8pm £4/3/free; 3 Daft Monkeys Frenetic fiddling, gutsy guitar and driving drums (downstairs) 7.30pm £10 KOMEDIA Oxjam Music Festival Local bands raise cash for Oxfam 7pm £4
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LATEST MUSIC BAR Headwater Rootsy Americana with steel guitars, mandolin solos and three-part harmonies 8pm £8 LIFE We Run This Reality TV goes clubbing: vote for your favourite DJ 11pm £3/free MARLBOROUGH Open Mic 8pm £free MARLBOROUGH THEATRE Silver Wednesday: The Silent Movie David Watts jazzes up old films with breakbeat percussion and honky tonk piano 8.30pm £5 OCEANA Example DJ set from the London rapper 9pm £5/3.50/2 OPEN HOUSE Brighton Safehouse Jazz Improv jazz 7.30pm £tbc PAV TAV Student Night Does what it says on the proverbial tin Time tbc £2 PAVILION THEATRE If That’s All There Is Play about the breakdown of marriage and sanity inspired by a similiarly named Peggy Lee (or preferably Christina) song 8pm £12/10 PRINCE ALBERT Otis Gibbs, Will Burns Live music 8pm £9/8 R-BAR Trickpop Pop and R&B from DJ Trick 8pm £free SIDEWINDER The Sidewinder Garden Quiz 8pm £1 THEATRE ROYAL The Three Musketeers And The Princess Of Spain A new swashbuckling adventure inspired by Alexandre Dumas’ story about 17th century sword-fighting dogs 2.30pm £30-12.50THOMAS KEMP Kev’s Open Mic Free drink if you play 8pm £tbc THREE & TEN Gerry Howell’s The Fantastic Reality of Frederick Goodge One-man comedy play in which a novelist and private dick gets lost in his own imaginary world 8pm £8/5; Jouissance DJ set (downstairs) 7pm £free
thursday 28th
AUDIO Bastard Pop Musical mash-up 11pm £2 BEE’S MOUTH John Crampton One-man blues band 8.30pm £free BELUSHI’S BAR Karaoke 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Mutant Pop Poppy and alternative sounds 9pm £2 BLACK LION Dubrockerslive Ska, punk, trip hop and reggae 8.30 £free CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Brighton Bike Night Weekly biker’s social - leather, not lycra 7pm £free COALITION Secret Discotheque Retro disco, 80s pop and other ‘uncool’ tunes 10.30pm £4/3/2/1 CONCORDE2 The Complete Stone Roses Tribute band 7.30pm £14; Flying Lotus, Kutmah Hip hop auteur 11pm £15 CONSTANT SERVICE Vix Folky songwriter Time tbc £free DIGITAL MJ Cole Return of the 2step legend 11pm £tbc DOME Vertical Road Contemporary dance choreographed by Akram Khan and scored by Nitin Sawhney 8pm £20/10 FIDDLER’S ELBOW Fiddler’s Live Lounge Jazz and folk music 9pm £free FISHBOWL Residents Association DJ Will Sumsuch plays hip hop, funk and world beats 10pm £free FUNKY BUDDHA Bump N’ Grind Ride the riddims, baby £2/1/ free GLOBE Hang The DJ! The democratisation of the dancefloor continues apace with another new night of punter-picked playlists 9pm £free GRAND CENTRAL Swing DeVille Duo Gypsy jazz from the 1930s 8.30pm £free HECTOR’S HOUSE Club Fandango: Good Luck Jonathan Live music Details tbc HONEY The One: Squiz, Ben-G, Matt Jiggens, Gazz Marlow, Paul Hillyer R&B, hip hop, funk, indie and house - indecisive or eclectic? You decide... 11pm £1 HOPE Communion Live music 8pm £tbc JAM Tall Ships Live music fundraiser 7pm £5/3; Thursday Night Fish Fry US rhythm & blues and original Jamaican ska 10pm £2/1 KOMEDIA DOWN Comic Boom: Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 8pm £8.50/6.50 KOMEDIA UP Al Start: Spooky Songs For Children Fun and frolics for your little darlings including a rockin’ band and costume contest 3pm £6 LATEST MUSIC BAR Paula Darwish, Alexia Chellun Anthemic beats and rock sounds blend with traditional Turkish folk 7.30pm £6 LIFE Shameless: C-Dogg, DJ Nause Half a century of musical highlights and lowpoints 11pm £1 MARLBOROUGH THEATRE Billy Budd Theatre North adapts a Herman Melville novel to tell a tale of mutiny and male desire in the 18th century 8pm £8/6 OCEANA Pound Party R&B and dance tunes from the bargain bin 9pm £4/1/free PAV TAV The Moshpit Rock and metal night 10pm £3/2 PAVILION THEATRE If That’s All There Is Play about the breakdown of marriage and sanity inspired by a similiarly named Peggy Lee (or preferably Christina) song 8pm £12/10 PRINCE ALBERT Alektorophobia Live music 8.30pm £4 PRINCE GEORGE Open Mic Night 8pm £free R-BAR Girls On Top Fresk Fest Official Warm Up Halloween Special Pop and party tunes from DJ Fifilicious 8pm £tbc REVENGE Girls On Top Vs Emergency Room Freak Fest Charty tunes 10.30pm £4/3 ST JAMES’ TAVERN Stay Sick, Stay Blue DJs play vintage surf
and garage 8.30pm £free SIDEWINDER Ants In The Carpet British classics since the 80s 8.30pm £free SUGAQUBE Big Thursday House tunes with Gary Scott Time tbc £free TEMPLE BAR The Brighton Improv Temple New night featuring guest groups riffing on the audience’s ideas 8pm £2 THEATRE ROYAL The Three Musketeers And The Princess Of Spain A new swashbuckling adventure inspired by Alexandre Dumas’ story about 17th century sword-fighting dogs 2.30pm/7pm £30-12.50 THOMAS KEMP Acoustic Sessions: Sussex Jazz Quartet Live jazz 9pm £free THREE & TEN James Sherwood’s Piano Bar Musical stand up 8pm £8/5 VICTORY Balcony TV Live music 8pm £free
friday 29th
ABOVE AUDIO Friday Night Bar Sessions Local DJs 10pm £free AUDIO Chew The Fat: Foamo, Reso, Warrior One Electro night 11pm £8/5 BELUSHI’S BAR Muy Loco Halloween Special Pop and house DJs 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Abandoned Halloween Special Rock and metal night 10pm £3/2 BLACK LION Attic Monkeys Hey, check out my record collection! 8.30pm £free BRIGHTON CENTRE Vampires Rock Another bloody musical 7.30pm £23 BRUNSWICK Halloween Breakthrough Breast Cancer Charity fundraiser with live music 7pm £5 CONCORDE2 One Night Only Indie rock from the band who modelled for Burberry 7pm £10; Dawn Of The Dead! Bassy house from Lunarcy’s Chris Natural and the Freebass crew 11pm £free CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Sleazy Listening: DJ Peter Von Sleaze Sleazy, like getting drooled on by a big biker. Did I say ‘like’? 9pm £free; Funny Girls Stand-up, sketches and music upstairs 9pm £5/4 COALITION The Field, Walls Double-bill of shoegazey ambient pop from Kompakt Records 7.30pm £9; Fridays I’m In Love Somewhat eclectic club night with 60s gems, indie and funky funk 11pm £4/3/2/1 COWLEY CLUB Revolution Undead Style Now Riot grrl bands and queercore DJs 9pm £donation DIGITAL Warpaint Adventures in art rock 7pm £8; Stonelove Indie rock&roll will never die 11pm £4/3 DOME OMD Synth pop veterans tout new album 7pm £29.50 DUKE OF BEAUFORT Resident DJ Hip hop and roots reggae 8pm £free FISHBOWL LateNite Lounging: Will Sumsuch, Tim Mercer If your house was this deep it would need therapy 9pm £free FULL MOON Montalot Groove funk DJ with a taste for rockabilly Details tbc FUNKY BUDDHA Drink, Dance, Repeat Cash in your student loan 11pm £5/3 FUNKYFISH The Funkyfish Club Soul, funk, jazz, Motown and 60s, 70s and 80s 10pm £5/4/2 GLOBE Eclectic Chair: DJ Lamp A real buzz 9pm £free GRAND CENTRAL All Time Top 100 Musical countdown 9.30pm £free H-BAR BN-Free More deep house 9pm £3 HECTOR’S HOUSE Dirty Water Records V Stay Sick Halloween Special Live music 8pm £tbc HEIST Freedom Fridays DJs play classics both old AND new, thus demonstrating their powers of prophesy 9pm £free HOBGOBLIN Asbo Retards, The Junk, The Liabilities Punk bands 7.30pm £free HONEY Gary War, Tqqndo Frrr, Family Cold-wave synth drone 8pm £5; I Love R&B: Halloween Party Juicy house with a twist of hip hop 10.30pm £free HYDRANT DOWN Stars Down To Earth EP launch for romantic shoecore indie-rockers 9pm £free JAM Oxjam: Gazz Marlow, Iron Tyger, Target Girl Live music 9pm £10/4/3 KOMEDIA Playgroup: Halloween Special Three floors of spooky shenanigans including DJ Yoda and Carnival Collective 11pm £18/15 KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club: Loretta Maine, Reginald D Hunter, Gordon Southern, MC Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 7.30pm £16 KOMEDIA STUDIO Brighton Jazz Club: Christian Brewer Quintet Live jazz 8pm £12/10 LECTERN Nightingales, I Ludricrous, The Fallen Leaves, The Shapes, Son Of Oi - Terry McCann Indie punk tribute night to John Peel 7.30pm £10 LIFE Big Fish: A1 Bassline, Redlight, MC Asbo, Mumdance Dance music 11pm £5 LOFT Malicious Alternative club night 10pm £4/3/2 MARLBOROUGH Queer & Alternative Indie, pop and electro DJs Time tbc £free NEW HERO Grandeurs Of Delusion Turntablism, hip hop, D&B 11pm £4/3 NORTHERN LIGHTS DJ Tom Brain Indie rock tunes Details tbc OCEANA The World In One Night With seven themed rooms you should find one you like 8pm £6/5/free PAV TAV INDIEcent Indie club playing indie pop and indie rock
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saturday 30th
3 JOLLY BUTCHERS Dub And Ruff Stuffing T and Badger play dub and soul rarities 8pm £free AUDIO Warehouse: Kill Em All, Filthy Dukes, Stopmakingme New house and techno club night 11pm £5/free ABOVE AUDIO Summer Of Love Blackgrass DJ Mex playing funk and soul 10pm £5/free ANCIENT MARINER Voodoo Halloween Party New Orleans fancy dress and live music from the KJO Band 7.30pm BASEMENT White Night: Divine Passage Spilling into the Lighthouse, the venue gets a 60s NY makeover - you get transgressive yearning and gender confusion. Sound like a deal? 8pm £free BELUSHI’S BAR Unplugged Live acoustic music 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Good Times Remember them? Maybe the retro tunes will jog your memory 9pm £5 BLACK DOVE The Devil’s Music Western swing and dixieland DJs 8pm £free BLACK LION Burnt Toast: Halloween Spooktacular Radio Reverb DJ brings out the filth in funk 9pm £free BRIGHTON BALLROOM The Bombshellettes Live music Time tbc £10 BRUNSWICK Jim Stapley Band Blues band Details tbc CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Halloween Spectacular Time to dress up in scary black clothes and pretend you’re a seductive vamp 9pm £free COALITION Freaky Deak Halloween Party: Zombie Disco Squad 11pm £8; DPM After Party The party continues right here with more house, electro and techno 3am £7/5/4 COBBLER’S THUMB Halloween Party Live music and fancy dress 8pm £free CONCORDE2 Beach Of The Dead Official After Party: Justice Force 5, Fidgital, Flying White Dots, Bea De Ville, Kitty Peels When hell is full the dead will walk the earth, get drunk and end up at on the beach 5pm £3; The End Of The World: Zombie Attack! Holing up in a ready-stocked bunker might be the sensible thing to do, but even if you survive the attack what you gonna do when the dried fruit and tins of beans run out? Better to go out with one big and very messy party 10pm £5 COWLEY CLUB Jovian Hardcore band 8pm £donation DIGITAL Chase & Status, Tempa T, Maverick Sabre, The Prototypes Drum and bass night 10.30pm £13 DUKE OF BEAUFORT Euphoric Open mic for live hip hop acts 8pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Dawn Of The Dead, Planet Terror 11.30pm FIDDLER’S ELBOW Halloween Horrors DJ 9pm £free FISHBOWL Daddy Marcus Soul and funk DJ set 9pm £free FULL MOON Full Moon Dead Disco! Details tbc FUNKY BUDDHA Reflex 80s night for students too young to remember what it was really like. Knight Rider and Street Hawk? No, global AIDS pandemic 11pm £5/3; Late Night Sessions DJ Mikee Hollywood keeps the party going 3.30am £tbc FUNKYFISH The Funkyfish Club Soul, funk, jazz, Motown and 60s, 70s and 80s 10pm £6/5 GLOBE Music Is The Answer DJ Johnny Jones 9pm £free H-BAR Beatsworkin & Aura Halloween Special: Yiannis Balkizas, Jordan Peak, Yusuf Sebaiti, James Britton, Macro B Deep house 9pm £3 HECTOR’S HOUSE Playgroup In The Pub: Sickwax Live music Details tbc HEIST Home Sean Quinn plays house tunes 9pm £free
HONEY Haunted Halloween Party Fancy dress and funky house 10.30pm £10 HOPE So-Darn-So Scary So Special halloween DJ set (downstairs) 8pm £free; The Climbers, Mariner’s Children, Tristram Gentle and accomplished folk music from the Willkommen collective (upstairs) 8pm £tbc HORSE & GROOM The Sumerian Kyngs Psychedelic swamp grooves with former Damned keyboardist 8.30pm £free HYDRANT DOWN Halloween Battle Royal: Black Gardenias Live music 9pm £free HYDRANT UP SXVLTR, Plastic Gangster, Terrathorn Fancy dress club night with live bands 7.30pm £2 JAM Fish Fry Halloween Special Voodoo blues, mambo and jazz 10pm £tbc KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club: Loretta Maine, Reginald D Hunter, Gordon Southern, MC Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 7pm/10.30pm £17.50/15 KOMEDIA UP Dirty DC AC/DC tribute band play Back In Black in its entirety 8pm £12; Brighton Rock Classic rock night 11pm £6/5 LIFE Hold Up! Proper indie disco 11pm £5 BASEMENT White Night: Divine Passage Spilling into the Basement, the venue gets a 60s NY makeover - you get transgressive yearning and gender confusion 8pm £free MARLBOROUGH Cherry Pop Cheese and 80s trash with DJ Fondue Inferno Time tbc £free MARLBOROUGH THEATRE Marlboro Lights Bar wenches, music-hall cockneys and queer puppets all come out for White Night 9pm £free NORTHERN LIGHTS DJ Illson Party tunes Details tbc OCEANA Halloween Allnighter Dance night for students 8pm £8/free PAV TAV Snap Cackle & Britpop Halloween special 11pm £4 PAVILION THEATRE Don’t Let The Pigeon Drive The Bus! Kid’s show about the dangers of allowing birds to control large vehicles 11am/2pm £7/5; White Night French bands and DJs 9pm £free R-BAR Kinky Classics Halloween Special Haunted house 9pm £tbc REVENGE Kinky Dangerous Monsters Ball It’s all gone Lady GaGa - dress up as your favourite incarnation of the mythical goddess 10.30pm £8/6/4 ST BARTHOLOMEW’S CHURCH Montiverdi: The 1610 Vespers Part of the Brighton Early Music Festival 7.30pm £22/6; Ritual And Illumination Late-night classical concert for White Night 11pm £free SIGNALMAN Monster Mash Up Drink to the dead, dance for the devil 6pm £free SUGAQUBE Simply House Upfront house tunes Time tbc £free THEATRE ROYAL The Three Musketeers And The Princess Of Spain A new swashbuckling adventure inspired by Alexandre Dumas’ story about 17th century sword-fighting dogs 2.30pm/7pm £30-12.50 THOMAS KEMP Dead Famous Halloween Party Lively soul tunes for lifeless souls 9pm £free THREE & TEN Jarred Christmas Is Captain Curious Stand up comic from BBC2’s The Persuasionists 8pm £9/7; Brighton Comedy Fringe Saturday: Romesh Ranganathan, Naz Osmanoglu, Kieran Boyd, Sean McLoughlin, Murray Cummings and Tasha Dhanraj Brighton Comedy Fringe goes out with a bang 10pm £9/7; DJ Kinema White Night Special DJing from the pop band (downstairs) 9pm £free UNITARIAN CHURCH Rites Of Pleasure Baroque music themed around everyday rituals 1pm £10/8 VOLKS Evolution Some say drum and bass popped out readymade from God’s creation tube. They’re wrong Details tbc WESTERN FRONT Monster Mash Halloween Special DJ Luke Bracken plays party classics 9pm £free WEST HILL TAVERN Superheros of BMX Halloween Special Ghoulish tunes 9pm £free WORLD’S END Ian Mackenzie, Immediate A night of ska and rock&roll Details tbc YARD Subterfuge Having started life in 1981 this legendary local night returns for a big old electro goth halloween bash Time tbc £7/5
sunday 31st
ABOVE AUDIO Brighton Calling: Live Local bands Time tbc £free BLACK LION Drive-In: The Exorcist Cult films on an outdoor screen 8.30pm £free COALITION Halloweenesque Details tbc CONCORDE2 Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip, Gaggle, Kid A Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip - just a band! 7pm £25/20 CORN EXCHANGE Chrome Hoof, Horsemeat Disco Everexpanding cosmic collective of electro prog disco metallers 9pm £16/12.50 DIGITAL Mr Scruff’s Spooky Sunday Tea Party Five hour DJ set 9pm £8 DOME UB40 Perhaps surprisingly, the reggae brummies are still in work 7.30pm £35 DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA From Here To Eternity 1.30pm FIDDLER’S ELBOW Sham-Rock Open Mic It doesn’t have to be Irish music, but if it’s not you might get kneecapped 8.30pm £free FISHBOWL Recovery? Chilled reggae DJing from Asbest The
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Exhibitions
BELLIS GALLERY Degeneration Depressing photos of rundown housing estates 2-30 Oct £tbc BMC GALLERY I Witness Photography on the theme of wellbeing and mental health 13-25 Oct £tbc BRIGHTON MUSEUM & GALLERY Strange and Familiar: Three Views Of Brighton- Brighton Photo Biennial 2010 Three internationally recognised photogrphers take a look at our manor Stephen Gill: Outside In, Rinko:Kawauchi Murmuration and Alec Soth: Brighton Picture Hunt From 2 Oct until 14 Nov £tbc CASTOR & POLLUX Julia Trigg Typography colleges from local designer Until 17 Oct £tbc CRANE KALMAN Michael Ormerod: States Of America Photographic glimpses into the corrupt flipside of the American dream 2-30 Oct £tbc FRINGE FOCUS Brighton Photo Fringe The old Co-op building on London Rd turns into a gallery full of photography 2-30 Oct £tbc GREY AREA Shaping Silence Photography exhibition exploring the silences of empty spaces - like galleries? 2-23 Oct £tbc HOVE MUSEUM The Moving Image Exhibition examining how movement is portrayed by art and photography, with a child-friendly bent Until Dec £free INK_D Breath Of Life: Storm Thorgerson, Brendan Neiland Prints vaguely themed to fit a British Heart Foundation campaign Until 10 Oct £tbc LIGHTHOUSE Queer Brighton Photographs of gays by Molly Landreth and Zoe Strauss Until Oct 30 £free PERMANENT GALLERY Sussane Bürner: The Miller And The Sweep A portrait of Brighton revealed through the city’s shadows Until Oct 10 £tbc PHOENIX Artist’s Open Studios A weekend of diverse visual arts 16-17 Oct £tbc; Stuart Griffiths: Closer Photos on themes of war by a former soldier 2-30 Oct £tbc REGENCY TOWNHOUSE Lotta Antonsson: Experiments In Black Installation tracing the lives of the gallery’s previous residents 2-30 Oct £tbc
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Six Of The Best
Dubstep Landmarks words by Jed solawe
RUSKO
In the realm of underground dance music, the first decade of the new millennium must surely belong to dubstep. Born out of the fertile dregs of UK garage and the burgeoning grime scene, and cultivated by pirate radio, it has captured a huge slice of what was once drum’n’bass’s core audience and now dominates its older cousin. With the benefit of a bit of perspective, seany clarke here’s our six-point dubstep crib sheet.
Big Apple Records
Unarguably pivotal in the development of the early dubstep scene was this small record store in Croydon. In the late 90s/early noughties this shop became a meeting point for key players in this new musical movement and was frequently visited by such luminaries as Radio 1’s Plastician and N Type of Rinse FM, as well as the Digital Mystikz themselves – Mala and Coki. Behind the counter you were very likely to spot some future stars of dubstep including Hatcha – who fronted the first famous Dubstep Allstars Mix CDs – and Skream, probably dubstep’s most well known artist.
FWD>>
Crucial to the growth of dubstep was this night held originally at the Velvet Rooms in Soho. Founded in 2001, FWD>> (pronounced Forward) provided a venue for dubstep producers to meet and compare productions. The bass-heavy sounds of Skream, Benga, Oris Jay and Kode 9 would be heard booming through the soundsystem, while in the crowd many of today’s most famous dubstep artists could be seen swaying in time with the dubstep and dark garage rhythms.
Horsepower Productions ‘In Fine Style’
Credited as the first album release on Tempa records in 2002, Horsepower Productions’ seven-track long player hinted at the sound of what dubstep would become. With its mutated garage drum patterns and emphasis on the bassline, ‘In A Fine Style’ was a breath of fresh air in what some considered the commercially polluted UK garage scene of the time. Although it can’t really be described as an album of pure dubstep, its influence can certainly be felt in the records that followed it.
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Vex’d ‘Degenerate’
Released in 2005 by the ever forward-thinking label Planet Mu, the ‘Degenerate’ album by Vex’d really set the mark in terms of production standards and sound design innovation. It’s a dark and twisted journey into cavernous bass, surgical drums and analogue drones. Moody, futuristic, even industrial in some parts, this album was – and still is – groundbreaking in so many ways. Truly essential.
Skream
‘Midnight Request Line’
One of the first dubstep tunes to garner peak time commercial radio play, thanks partly to John Peel. ‘Midnight Request Line’ is one of Skream’s earliest releases having hit vinyl in 2005 on Tempa as the label’s 14th release. Its signature half-time beat would become a trademark for this new sound and provided inspiration to many aspiring artists.
Rusko
‘Cockney Thug’
Released in 2007 as the A-side of the ‘Babylon’ EP, ‘Cockney Thug’ was an instant hit – and with DJ support from world-renowned artists such as Diplo this track was to be heard far beyond its small UK home. Its insidiously catchy trumpet melody, unashamedly wobbly bassline and ironic British gangster banter have meant that this tune has become the dubstep equivalent of Marmite, you either love it or you hate it.
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