Brighton SOURCE April 2010

volume 2: Issue 21 April 2010

brighton’s best listings culture clubs gigs Health La roux Peggy Sue WILD PALMS FRICTION UFFIE

Interviewed:

hornblower brothers Gary Mulholland

BURNS baby burns, electro inferno

:Kinema: - see critic page 34

get lost

OK, hands up; we admit that we’re good – we think – with paper but when it comes to tags and code we’ve been pretty useless over the last 11 years. Our website was a PDF download site that turned into an overly ambitious, uncontrollable HTMLfest, then a holding page, then an alright but slowly updated affair which fell apart and got hacked… But now we’re fully on it. Not only are all the listings up there and mobile phone compatible (so you can check them on your iPhone and Blackberry from the pub), there’s also years of great interviews and features. Best of all you can also read this month’s magazine either as web pages or a digital flip mag format. And longtime readers won’t believe this, but it’s updated every day.

EVERY BLOODY DAY! Even on Sundays, when we’re hungover. The news we break goes onto the web first, and we Twitter it out to our 1,500 lovely loyal followers so they’re right up to date. There are also links on brightonsource.co.uk to our Facebook, Flickr, Last.fm, MySpace and Issuu pages. You could spend weeks getting lost in it all.

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Personnel

Editor The James Kendall ManageR Rosie Kendall Designer Matt Barker at Artwerk DEPUTY Editor Nick Coquet Sales Manager Lucy Kamper listings editor Fox Fisher NEWS editor Lydia Stockbridge Web editor Anya Sanders Cover The James Kendall / Artwerk

Contributors

Nicholas Blake, Mike Bradford, Zac Colbert, Laurence Dean, Dionne Elizabeth, Nicole Holgate, Stuart Huggett, Ben Miller, The Pistoleers, The Recommender, Pia Webley.

Listings

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Advertising

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Contents

News 4 New In Town 6 Letters 8 Gig Previews 10 Interview: Hornblower Brothers 18 Club Previews 20 Club Review: Latin Fever 24 Club Review: Minimal Kids 26 Interview: Burns 28 Culture 30 Art: Wild Planet 32 Critic 34 SOURCE Virgins: Day In A Wheelchair 36 Street Style 38 Street Style Extra 39 Unsung Hero: Magpie Recycling 42 Secret Eater: The Barley Mow 44 In Conversation With: Gary Mulholland 46 Listings 48 Six Of The Best: Chillwave 58

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GLORIA CYCLES

NEWS

RUNNING, ROCKING, READING, FROCKING WORDS BY NICK COQUET, LYDIA STOCKBRIDGE, PIA WEBLEY send us any news to news@brightonsource.co.uk

CYCLES SOUNDTRACK GLORY

Gloria Cycles’ ascendency continues with the inclusion of their sweet indie pop song ‘Religious’ on the soundtrack of what looks like being a massive hit movie. My Last Five Girlfriends is a Brit rom-com that looks like a cross between Nick Hornby and Richard Curtis – IMDb rates it as a very respectable 8.4 with ‘witty and ingenious ideas’, which bodes well. It follows a good few months for the Cycles, touring Europe and having ‘Wonderbus’ in a Samsung camera advert. Their LP – which has been delayed for the film – is out now.

BIG SCREEN JUSTICE

Local crime fighting rockers The Justice Force 5 feature in a new documentary concerned with titting about in a spandex outfit and generally saving the world from dastardly cackling villains. The film, Superhero Me, includes footage of the band’s rammed ‘Save The World’ EP launch at Coalition from last summer, as well as some valuable insight into the journey from mere mortal man to fearless caped crusader. You can see the band in the trailer at tinyurl.com/superherome.

NO SNICKERING – IT’S THE MARATHON

Brighton’s very first marathon takes place on Sunday 18th, starting at Preston Park and ending at Madeira Drive. There are 12,000 places available with many runners racing the 26.2 miles for a local charity. If you can’t be bothered to pound the pavements yourself, enjoy the marathon as a spectator – there are 12 entertainment sites along the route as all those poor redfaced and puffing people run to destinations they could quite easily have got a bus to.

HAIRY YES, EXTINCT NO.

Metal fans of Brighton unite, Mammothfest has arrived. It was born out of a dream, nay a vision, to bring to Brighton some of

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the finest international bands as well as highlighting local acts such as Blind Eye Fury, Here There Be Monsters, Uncle Debauchery and Swallowing Shotguns. Mammothfest, debuting in September, will be held at Hove Town Hall, where 27 bands, including the greatly renowned Orange Goblin, will rawk their way across two stages to an unabated crowd of 1,300.

NO MR BOND, WE EXPECT YOU TO READ

As modern society mongs out in front of YouTube and Facebook with drool dripping down its chin, it’s worth remembering that back in the olden days we actually read books for our entertainment. City Reads is an annual citywide reading initiative and has just launched in Brighton. The idea is that the whole city buries its nose in a particular tome and chats about its themes with strangers at bus stops and in supermarket aisles. This year it’s Ian Fleming’s From Russia With Love, the fifth Bond outing from 1957. There are copies being given away all round the place and related bookish events around town til the end of May.

MOONLIGHT SERENADE

St Martlets Midnight Walk, having managed to raise over £164,000 since its inception, has the women of Brighton and Hove donning flashing bunny ears and strutting their stuff again on Friday 18th June. The 13-mile circuit begins and ends at the Brighton Racecourse, with refreshment pit stops en route and a goody bag at the end. “It’s all about dressing up and spending a night walking through Brighton with friends,” organiser Antonia Sheperd says, “a way of remembering loved ones”.

SUSSEX ECO AWARDS

The Sussex Eco Awards promotes awareness of the need for green living in all aspects of public life, businesses and schools.

New to this year’s September awards are food companies and volunteers, the unsung heroes of the green movement. Brighton has always been a conscious city, and the Sussex Eco Awards stands as a bar to maintain these high standards. Get nominating via their website sussexecoawards.org.uk and find more information on how to get involved.

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THE TRUDY

NEW IN TOWN

FRESH NIGHTS, SIGHTS AND RETAIL DELIGHTS WORDS BY NICK COQUET, LYDIA STOCKBRIDGE, PIA WEBLEY Send news local stuff to news@brightonsource.co.uk

IT’S ALIVE

BLUE LIGHT INITIATIVE

THE SMUGGLERS

MEADOWLANDS FESTIVAL

Da Doo Ron Ron are starting a female-fronted-pop live band night at The Hope, as a companion to their club night. It’s Alive runs on the first Saturday of the month and launches on Saturday 3rd with The Trudy, a definitive realisation of lady larynx power pop in the classic tradition of Blondie and other awesome stuff like that.

LIke watching football in pubs but frustrated by the visual limits of its two-dimensional entertainment? The Smugglers has installed a 3D TV, upon which you can watch the first European 3D sports broadcast – Chelsea versus Manchester United on Saturday 3rd.

It’ll be like John Terry’s in the room with you. Calm down, ladies!

LUCKY VOICE LIVE

Lucky Voice is opening its doors to the Sussex unsigned band scene every Thursday after 8pm, offering bands a song spot in their famed karaoke catalogue. Join the gang beforehand and get a free cocktail with each one bought. The band will play out a specially selected mix of cover versions along with their own original material to woo you as you booze.

THE EMPEROR’S NEW CLONES

Jam brings us a hybrid night of live bands and laptop electronics in The Emperor’s New Clones. Arriving on Saturday 10th with the industrious electronic artist David E. Sugar joined by My Toys Like Me, expect an eclectic alt-pop concoction of “house keyboards, sub-bass rolls, trip hop blasts” alongside the ghostly, haunting vocals of singer Francis Noon.

CLUB MALICIOUS

Something ‘sleazy and cheesy’ this way comes, in the form of Club Malicious, a new wallet-friendly night every Friday at The Loft.

Expect a variety pack of tunes, from Doris Day, Prince, Beck, C+C Music Factory to The Cramps. Hosted by Pete Von Sleaze with weekly guests, gain free entry with a flyer and crazy-cheap drinks throughout the night. Join their Facebook page and queue-jump.

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The Blue Light Initiative have launched their collective musical musings at The Latest Music Bar, showcasing the daintily-twee Bobby McGees to the more indie The Stars Down to Earth, pop-folksters Yokoko and the seminal The Beautiful Word to liven up a Tuesday evening.

With naughty old Beachdown off the festival map seemingly for good, where else are you going to camp and wig out this summer? Why, Meadowlands of course! The nearest residential fest we can think of, it’s about four miles from Lewes, with The Bays, North Sea Radio Orchestra, Transformer and The Shadow Orchestra all on the bill so far. It goes down from May 29th – 31st, get more info from meadowlandsfestival.com.

FAT FACE

The old post office on Ship Street is turning into a quite frankly amazing new Fat Face shop, opening on Friday 9th. Fat Face knocks out a pretty cool range of clobber for men, women and kids, all on an ‘active lifestyle’ kind of kick. We snuck in already and the shop is going to be a real experience to match that.

LIVE LOUNGE

If live music every night of the week is your craving, The Live Lounge on Albion Street is a good place to be. Run by musicians, it has an in-house band who also run the bar, a proper sound engineer and PA and, as well as showcasing loads of live music, is also available as a rehearsal space. Food is planned for the coming months, check their Facebook page.

G CASINO

The Grosvenor Casino has always been a fun place to separate yourself from a bit of money, but the nagging belief that their name carried a superfluous ‘rosvenor’ always played on our minds. So they’ve dropped it, had a major facelift and relaunched as G Casino, with new slots, tables and cocktails.

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LETTERS NICE PLACE ART STUDIO

Just wanted to give you props for pointing out that York Place Art Studio in the mag last month. I was wandering past it on Saturday night and there was all sorts of weird and wonderful stuff going on. Someone even gave me a free glass of wine. Excellent stuff!

Rachel via email Ah good, yes it’s a funky little place isn’t it? That was their official launch – we popped our heads in a bit earlier too.

NO ABSENCE FOR THIS ELK

I was reading SOURCE at home today, and just as I was up to the review of Absent Elk’s ‘Emily’ in Critic it came on the radio – Jonathon Ross played it. Spooky eh?

Lauren via email That’s some weird voodoo shit going on right there, Lauren. Great media minds think alike.

ARE ‘CARS’ ELECTRIC?

Having walked past what seems like a thousand parking bays in town for electric rechargeable cars, I finally saw one plugged in today. Fuck me, it’s a funny looking thing. It’s outside the Caroline of Brunswick if you fancy a laugh. reverend23 via email Yes, we’ve seen that too. That’s what the future looks like, rev. We’ll all be driving them, and eating a pill for our tea.

A RIGHT ROYAL WRITE UP

Chuffed with our review in @BrightonSource, thanks guys, glad u enjoyed! @royalsov, via Twitter It was our pleasure – really, it was. The recommendations came via Twitter so if anyone has got any other things around town they’ve enjoyed send ‘em in 140 characters with our username (@BrightonSource) and we’ll give it our full attention. Oh, the power of the Internet!

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GOING BLANK AGAIN

What’s going on on page 31?! I thought it would be a good place to doodle – a graphic interpretation of Hitler’s moustache perhaps. On a lighter note SOURCE Virgins was most enjoyable. @hannahselectric, via Twitter Ah yes, page 31. Well, er, it was another advert for interns where the text was really small to sort the wheat from the chaff. Oh, no, actually it was a breathing space for the eyes for the many people who get SOURCE and read it straight through without stopping. Actually, we were trying out a new minimal design. Or maybe a last minute advert got lost on the way to the printers and they never thought to bloody well mention it.

Letter of the month

SOURCE VIRGINS VIRGIN

You made a bit of a show of SOURCE Virgins being back and I’d never read it before (I’ve only been living in Brighton a few months) so I thought I’d read it. It was really good. Nick Coquet’s got balls to do it. I know – I’ve seen them, along with the rest of Brighton.

Lisa, via email Ha ha, very good. If you liked that you might also like Nick getting his kit off for the nudist beach, the gay sauna, a back, sack and crack wax and other misadventures – all of which can be read on www.brightonsource.co.uk.

Just search for ‘SOURCE Virgins’.

Letter Of The Month wins a case of Pear Cider from our good friends at Magners.

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Gig Previews words by MIKE BRADFORD, NICK COQUET, DIONNE ELIZABETH, NICOLE HOLGATE, STUART HUGGETT, THE RECOMMENDER, PIA WEBLEY

WILLKOMMEN COLLECTIVE The Corn Exchange Sat 3rd

The Willkommen Collective, Brighton’s best known and highly lauded folk collaboration, are back for another night of melodic mayhem following the successful tours that several of their offshoot bands scarpered off on recently. The Leisure Society will be headlining with support from Sons Of Noel And Adrian and a few other mystery guests. Expect liberal amounts of musical dexterity, folk whimsy, and a night to herald the long awaited arrival of Brighton summertime. (NH)

HUNX & HIS PUNX Prince Albert Weds 7th

Unmissable bubblegum fun from Gravy Train!!!!’s Hunx and his, er, Punx. With ultra tuneful, very knowing, garage guitar hi-jinks aplenty (check out ‘Cruising’s cheeky appropriation of New Order’s glorious ‘Age Of Consent’ riff), Hunx ramps up the homoerotic appeal of 50s doo wop and rock’n’roll into the John Waters-directs-Grease night out of your dreams. Beware, he may bring along his helium-voiced animated sidekicks The Chiphunx for a few tribute numbers too. (SH)

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hunx & his punx

BOWLING FOR SOUP

Concorde 2 Thurs 8th

A bit of a no-brainer this one. Back in the early days of the Vans Warped Tour, before No Doubt dirtied the good name of Californian ska punk, there was a slice of good-time, sunshine pop that was forever on mid-to-late 90s teen flicks – think Save Ferris, Reel Big Fish – and Bowling For Soup were right there (despite being from Texas). They write funny songs about burritos and drinking and do the odd non-ironic ironic cover of 80s classics. A no-brainer in more than one sense. (MB)

CANDI STATON

Concorde 2 Fri 9th

Coming on the heels of some fantastic old soul legends slaying new and (mostly) old audiences alike (see Martha Reeves and the Vandellas (twice), Sister Sledge, Terry Callier, Marlena Shaw et al), it’s time for some sweet Candi.

The appeal is irresistible: a living legend with bright, peerless, undiminished talent, playing all-time classic tunes, live on stage, on your doorstep. That’s some serious bragging rights for your grandkids. Expect ‘Young Hearts Run Free’ and ‘You Got The Love’ and, y’know, other stuff. (MB)

THE KING BLUES

Komedia Sat 10th

The King Blues are one of the better underground punk rock groups around, resculpting their gorgeous medium with a pinpoint precise delivery of powerfully expressive lyrics and a mixture of heart-jumping beats, warm fuzzy guitar and impassioned exuberance. Now headlining a major tour across Europe, it seems they’re finally getting the recognition they justly deserve for their well-observed rock rap arrangements. Catch them intimate before global stardom hits. (NH)

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VASHTI BUNYAN St George’s Church Sat 10th

Vashti is the ultimate 60s heroine – fragile, solemn and intimate vocals with an honest approach to life, love and everything in between. With a career spanning over 40 years, inspired by Dylan and including a stint in Donovan’s Herbridean Island commune, it’s no wonder the likes of Devendra Banhart and Joanna Newsom celebrated Vashti’s resurgence with a ‘nu folk’ seal of approval. But don’t hold that against her – signed to local label FatCat, this legend with (rare) valid cult status makes a welcome return to a suitably exquisite venue. (DE)

I LUDICROUS

Greenhouse Effect Sat 10th

A rare chance to see Peel show legends I Ludicrous outside of their usual London stomping ground, courtesy of unlikely promoters The Brighton & Hove Curry Guide (under their alter ego Spinning Chilli). A dry, southern equivalent to Half Man Half Biscuit, I Ludicrous’ deadpan stories of pubs and football are hacked out with the droning, one chord wonderment of The Fall, if they’d been dopeheads and never discovered amphetamines.

Top entertainment for the venue’s real ale heads. (SH)

ROLO TOMASSI Engine Room Thurs 15th

Brighton is a lesser place without Maths Class who have all chipped off to London to find their fortunes with a new name and new drummer. Our favourite (printable) memory of them is their Great Escape party where Rolo Tomassi played in bassist Al’s bedroom. Absolute mania: screaming, shouting, diving around – and that was just the band. They were pretty powerful performers, even a couple of years ago, and their dynamic post-hardcore is tight enough to get the party started even in the more conventional setting of the Engine Room. (JK)

ELLIE GOULDING

Digital Fri 16th

Having won the BBC Sound Of 2010 Poll and The Brits Breakthrough Award, Ellie followed up with a number one single

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and a number one album, so could her promise get delivered any better? Well, if you read the Guardian’s review, or the critique on Drowned In Sound, then you might believe Ellie’s actually a bit average, with bags of ludicrous hype. The backlash may be predictable, but seeing as they can’t all be right we suggest you judge for yourselves. (TR)

THE BEAT

Concorde 2 Fri 16th

The mirror in their bathroom may well be reflecting some craggy visages these days, but The Beat are still remarkably good value live, with a canon of crowd pleasers that time doesn’t seem to dim. Never quite the critical or commercial draw of onetime labelmates The Specials, and suffering the tricky departure of original lead singer Dave Wakeling, the band have nonetheless toured incessantly to heaving rooms of creaky-kneed old rude boys. Tonight should be no exception, and has the added bonus of bouncy ska locals The Meow Meows as support. (NC)

HEALTH

Audio Mon 19th

After releasing ‘Get Colour’ in 2009, HEALTH have cemented their place among the hipsters of the day, ^&reaching a new maturity in their repertoire, yet remaining accessible to the mainstream. ‘Die Slow’, a standout track from the aforementioned blends perfectly angular guitar noises similar to Liars, with the industrial dance vibe heard on early Rapture records as a starting point for this enterprising act. See them at Audio for what promises to be a blinder. (LS)

CHRIS CUNNINGHAM The Dome Mon 19th

This should be a fascinating and possibly terrifying evening with Chris Cunningham, illustrious music moviemaker and oftentimes collaborator with Aphex Twin. The Dome should afford the perfect backdrop for a dark, disturbing, and mind-warping audio and visual polyphony, including support from an unknown special guest (come on, Richard James!). Mystery over the support aside, this will be a unique and unforgettable experience, as long as you can afford the seats that provide the best view. (NH)

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our attention outright, with their angular guitars and styled vocals.

The Recommender’s been promoted to Saturday nights on the back of the buzz they’ve generated thus far, so we expect a night of fulfilled promise all round. (MB)

LIGHTNING SEEDS Dome Sat 24th

Ian Broudie has made a fair few pleasing tunes over the years – who can forget ‘Lucky You’, ‘Pure’ and that football’s coming home one? Deserving milestones along pop music’s long road, all of them. But while they’re ubiquitous radio fodder, the band (basically Broudie and some jobbing musos) never developed any kind of live reputation, to the point where going to see them now somehow seems a bit of an odd idea. Those stupid sunglasses he wears day and night don’t help his cause much either. (NC)

nedry

NEDRY

The Basement Sat 24th

BOY GEORGE

Dome Tues 20th

Everyone’s favourite pop felon gets back to his proper day job after sweeping the streets with this visit to Brighton. It’s billed as a possibly tricky mix of hits, covers and new material – hopefully the Boy with the tattooed bonce won’t be too obtuse in the weighting of the set towards a load of stuff no one knows or really wants to hear. But either way, when he’s not busy chaining up rent boys he’s still got one of the best white soul voices around, and he’s sure to be good value if that’s your bag. (NC)

BEAR IN HEAVEN

Freebutt Weds 21st

Brooklyn currently has the undivided attention of the hipster blogs, steadily producing some of the world’s most inventive and refreshingly creative new music. Considering Bear In Heaven have several albums under their belts, it’s perhaps testament to their quality that they’re still at the forefront of the New York borough’s scene. Recently touring with the excellent Oh No Ono and the hotly tipped Freelance Whales, they bring their alternative, electronic, dreamlike pop to the UK, prior to returning to the USA for SXSW. (TR)

WILD PALMS

The Recommender / Jam Sat 24th Post-punk indie music is a well-weathered sound that’s been familiar to us for decades now. It therefore takes something rather special to earn our attention and something even more remarkable to keep it fixated. Well, this exciting, new London four-piece buys

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There’s a unique dark art practiced by this three-piece.

Initially they’ll envelope you with Chris and Matt’s gripping synths and juddering samples, but it’s the extraordinary, thunderous basslines, as big as a Spielberg storm cloud, that will really back you up against the wall. Just before your breath seems to fail you the beautiful vocals of Ayu Okakita drift in. Mesmeric music like this hasn’t been lifted to these heights since the likes of Portishead or Bjork. (TR)

LA ROUX

Dome Weds 28th

A silly haircut and vocals that mess around with the auto-tune too much won’t spoil our appreciation of this Brixton duo’s talents.

Accusations of not being able to sing properly dismiss Elly Jackson’s undoubted skills and abilities for penning an electro pop tune rammed with catchy hooks. Their story could be one of two lessons; firstly in not believing the initial hype, but just as importantly not believing the subsequent trendy doubters.

There’s plenty left to enjoy after the dust has settled. (TR)

THREE TRAPPED TIGERS Freebutt Weds 28th

There aren’t enough Holy Fucks in the world. Sure, they always pop into Brighton when they’re on tour (they’re back next month) but if you like a bit of instrumental glitch you’d be as wise to check out these young pups too. Closer to techno than the Canadians, these Brits share the same quiet and pretty/noisy and abrasive two-prong attacks. Prog, electronica, punk and post rock all rolled into one shifting set of songs. (JK)

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black rebel motorcycle club

BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB

VOODOO GLOW SKULLS Prince Albert Thurs 29th

Concorde 2 Thurs 29th

Creators of tracks such as the sleaze-blues of ‘Spread Your Love’, rock titans BRMC return to Concorde 2 for an intimate show which will showcase material from their brilliant new album ‘Beat The Devil’s Tattoo’. Adopting a more acoustic and bluesy sound, critics have pronounced this as the band’s best work. Support comes in the form of hugely exciting new local art rock band Dark Horses. (PW)

WIN JD SET TICKETS TO SEE AN EXCLUSIVE LIVE REINTERPRETATION OF THE HUMAN LEAGUE’S ‘DARE’

The Albert’s usual cosy atmosphere will be ramped up to uncomfortably hot and sweaty heights tonight for the Voodoo Glow Skulls, one of California’s best exports in hardcore ska and still enough of a secret to experience in such intimate surroundings. Just as well – this is music best experienced with a steaming throng and a dripping ceiling, the occasional shower of lager the only respite from the heat. There won’t be any respite from the skanking though, be warned. (NH)

Jack Daniel’s is making music history in London, bringing together Shy Child, Infadels, Zoot Woman, The Shortwave Set and Kids on Bridges as they rework The Human League’s decade defining album ‘Dare’ at an unforgettable JD Set. We have four tickets for you and your pals to attend the exclusive London gig, which takes place at Dingwalls in Camden on Wednesday 5th May. The Prize includes accommodation and £50 per person towards travel. For the past three years The JD Set has partnered members of musical royalty with hot new names from the underground in gigs up and down the UK. To enter, answer this question: Which track does NOT feature on The Human League’s ‘Dare’ album?

A) B) C)

‘Don’t You Want Me’ ‘Love Action’ ‘Poker Face’

Email your answer with your name, age, address and telephone number to competition@brightonsource.co.uk.Entrants must be over 18.

Competition deadline: 19th April 2010. For full T&Cs please visit tinyurl.com/jdsetterms.

Know when to unplug. Please drink Jack Daniel’s responsibly.

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The Hornblower Brothers

Upbeat, eccentric 6 Music darlings release their latest burst of charmingly DIY folk-pop Words by Lydia stockbridge Photo by the James Kendall

You’ve been around for years but your debut EP, ‘Adventures in the National Geographic’, came out in 2009 – did it take a while to record?

Antony: It took ages to actually get the first one out. It was a self-release so we had to arrange everything, from artwork to distribution. It sounds clichéd but we are a very DIY band really, we do most things ourselves.

Brighton bands on their label and The Freebutt get the best shows in town – the booking there is really good.

‘if they get rid of BBC 6 Music, it would be like urinating on the grave of John Peel.’

From that experience, do you prefer gigging to recording?

James: We always like playing in front of a live audience. I think we have a good banter with the crowd that we play in front of. It can get a bit intense if we’re cooped up in the studio, but even if we’ve played a song a million times in a practice room, it can still seem like a brand new one when we’re playing down the Albert. We do have fun recording ourselves though as it’s not quite as pressured as being in a studio.

Any plans to do more collaborative projects/split releases with other local artists in the future?

Nathaniel: We’d like to do split EPs, It’s nice to recognise the music of another band and it’s a good feeling when playing music becomes a communal activity and not something competitive.

You’re off to Manchester to see Marc Riley for your second BBC 6 Music live session after our interview. How has the station helped you progress as a band?

Antony: Geoff at Static Caravan wouldn’t have approached us about releasing the next single if we hadn’t played the BBC 6 Music session the first time around. The last gig we had in London, a group of people came up to us afterwards and said how they’d heard us on the show and came along to the gig off the back of that.

Are you a DIY band aesthetically out of choice or necessity?

Antony: It’s a bit of both in all honesty, Geoff, the owner of Static Caravan, heard the first EP and liked it a lot and asked us if we wanted So you must have some thoughts on the current to release a single through him. He’s been really supportive and his petition to save BBC 6 Music. approach is exactly the same sort of thing that we’d do ourselves.

Antony: We have quite Nathaniel: We enjoy doing it strong feelings about it. It’s this way through an independent really hard for small bands label, everything’s on our own to get onto the radio, let terms, and we’re not being alone record live sessions, rushed into anything, which is LIVE: Latest Music Bar Sun 11th and if they get rid of BBC 6 all you could want from a label SINGLE: ‘Give And Receivers’/’Ghost Of Kerouac’ Mon 19th what’s the alternative? really.

WEB: myspace.com/thehornblowerbrothers James: It would almost be like urinating on the grave You featured on O.I.B’s of John Peel.

Christmas compilation ‘Krampus Is Coming’, with other great Brighton bands, Foxes!

What does the rest of 2010 have in store for The and Curly Hair. Was that fun?

Hornblower Brothers?

James: We played a launch party for the compilation in December Gary: We’ve got a tour coming together for next month to and it was great, a real coming together of all the best bands in promote the release of our next single, ‘Give And Receivers’ Brighton and just a really great atmosphere. and the single launch at the Latest Music Bar. Anthony: We think O.I.B records in particular have some really good

FYI

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Club Previews Words by Pia Webley, Zac Colbert, James Kendall

PLAYGROUP FESTIVAL LAUNCH PARTY

Concorde 2 Sat 3rd

Best news of the month? Probably that Playgroup are hosting a festival this summer. More on that next issue but in the meantime here’s a launch party that will give you some idea of the madness that you can expect. JFB is going to be launching an idea he’s been working on for ages – sampling a five-piece band and working them into beats live before your eyes. There’s also Burulho, a 30 piece Brazilian samba orchestra, and original rocksteady and ska band Shofar Allstars, plus loads of DJs. And – it gets better – the whole launch party is free. (JK)

HOSPITALITY

Digital Sun 4th

Always bettering themselves, Hospitality hits Digital hard this bank holiday Sunday with a line-up that breaks the mould. Logistics backto-back with NuTone is the killer pairing topping the bill and, like that’s not enough to burst your ear drums, enter Netsky, Camo, Krooked, Utah Jazz and Brookes Brothers. Expect the finest liquid drum’n’bass all night hosted by MCs Wrec, Darrison and AD. It goes without saying these tickets will sell like blazing hot cross buns, so ravers best book well in advance. (ZC)

CASPA

Digital Sat 10th

Subprime plays host to one of dubstep’s murkiest producers, Caspa.

Hella busy between hosting his bi-monthly night at Fabric and an excessive tour that takes him to the four-corners of middle earth, tonight sees him down in Brighton for a night that’s guaranteed to be big. Supporting him is none other than dubstep’s own lion tamer Rod Azlan, as well as the SubSplash DJs, so your dancing feet are going to be properly spoilt for choice. (ZC)

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CASPA

MARTIJN TEN VELDEN Coalition Sat 10th

Possibly their biggest guest to date sees Toolroom Knight Martijn Ten Velden visit Prok & Fitch’s excellent Floorplay shindig. He’s the perfect guest, having been instrumental in breaking the big room electro house sound alongside sometime partner Mark Knight. While the latter has become more maximal – with a trance influence coming from his Ibiza residency – Ten Velden has stripped things back a bit. Tracks like last year’s smash ‘Together’ are still big though, and will fit Floorplay perfectly. (JK)

THE REVENGE

Audio Fri 16th

There are two things that get us all excited about DJ sets – one, a Brighton debut and two, someone who can weave together something special from just their own productions.

This first trip to Brighton for The Revenge ticks both boxes, with the hotly tipped Ooft DJ bringing a big pile of dubbed out disco and classic house re-edits and productions down from Glasgow to Disco Deviant to join brother in arms Pablo Contraband. (JK)

FRICTION

Audio Weds 21st

Where else can you see a world class DJ like Friction play for just a fiver? Supercharged is still killing Wednesdays after all this time and a booking from one the top drum’n’bass DJs around is exactly the reason why. Last time we spoke to Friction about his love of Supercharged he was talking excitedly about playing a breaks set but the shift in the club’s music policy over the last year or so means there’s every chance he’s here to tear things up with one of his trademark diverse drum’n’bass sets. (JK)

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JOHN DAHLBÄCK

Digital Sat 24th

Following last month’s James Zabiela night (with it’s rather generous free album for everyone), the second Digital Presents night sees Sweden’s tech house master John Dahlbäck drive into town – he lives in London now. Alongside his cousin Jesper – as Hugg & Pepp – the young producer has really put his country on the economic electro map. His Pickadoll imprint is always worth checking with Zoo Brazil, Sebastien Leger and more appearing, giving you an idea of where he’s coming from. (JK)

LOOKING SOUND

Riki Tik Sat 24th

Dubstep, breaks and drum’n’bass sound pretty good but they aren’t much to look at – until now with this rapidly emerging collective of sound and visual manipulators. It’s funny where things turn up though, and Riki Tik is playing host to some great local VJs and visual DJs. Rad!oSam is the resident video scratch/ mix artist and DJ Maxi Mcgoo from Brighton’s Phonic FM88.8 fm always keeps things interesting. They’ve got some interesting stuff coming up at the Fringe but this is free so there’s no reason not to get a early heads up. (JK)

DON DIABLO

Honey Club Sat 24th

Holland might be best known for trance, but there’s been a pretty strong electro house scene growing there for a while now. Don Diablo is standing on some serious shoulders to be seen all the way over the North Sea – tracks with Example and Sidney Sampson have been smashing it with rough beats, harsh synths and hooligan chanting. There’s so much energy in his productions this Seven Sins appearance ought to be intense. (JK)

PRIDE’S 18TH BIRTHDAY PARTY Bar 211 Sat 24th

Help raise money for Brighton and Hove pride by attending Pride’s Bright And Beautiful party, a night consisting of a champagne reception, DJs, face painting, hypnogician Kiegan

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Vallelly and drag act Lady James, who will be hosting the night.

Tickets are £10 per person which will bust you into the Honey Club for gratis after midnight. Get your tickets on the door or via the Pride website at brightonpride.org. (PW)

UFFIE

Concorde 2 Sat 24th

Love her or hate her, the electro scene is a much more vibrant place for the existence of potty-mouthed Lolita Uffie. Taking rapping to its most naïve and raw edges, her lyrics could make PRJCT MYHM blush. But it’s not all about being “ready to fuck”, with Feadz and Mr Oizo behind her productions, and collaborations with Justice, her tracks can bang as hard as she claims to. She’s been promising to come to Brighton for years, let’s hope she makes it now she’s got her long-delayed album to promote. (JK)

SMASH & GRAB Concorde 2 Fri 30th

“The only night devoted to kissing and dancing,” boast the team behind this established Thursday night at Proud Galleries. Is there anything that sounds like more fun? How about throwing in a – very, very, very – special live guest (it’s too secret to say, but beyond exciting), great DJs in the form of The Queens Of Noize playing 80s anthems, 90s hip hop, house and slow dances – all with a love theme. Head onto the Facebook page to see how goddamn cool it is, and fun to boot. Don’t miss this one. (JK)

FELIX DA HOUSECAT Life Fri 30th

Wow, what a line-up this month for Big Fish Little Fish Cardboard Box. Ed Banger’s Feadz (2nd), quirky house bod Style Of Eye (9th), big room electro funk up-and-comer Mowgli (16th) and the ghetto destruction of local hero High Rankin (23rd) could all rate as the month’s highlight. Well, that is, if Felix Da Housecat didn’t turn up to play a club that he could fill five times over. Yep, this is going to be exciting as Felix always brings the party – mixing up pop and indie classics into brutal electro. The guy pretty much invented electroclash after all. Go and buy a ticket now cos this will sell out early. (JK)

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Latin fever Words by the james kendall Photos by Nicholas Blake

salsa and merengue lessons from 9pm for those that need them, when the club proper kicks off Jimmy Lobe, Shadeyak and RubeBen get hips swinging with a mix of reggaeton, r’n’b, dancehall, funky Latin and UK funky for the hot young crowd in the main room, while salsa, merengue and bachata keep the old school dancers happy in the back room. If you need a little loosening there are some great drinks promos, but you’d better make sure you’ve come to throw some shapes.

To be brutal we sometimes think that European and American electronic tracks don’t deserve the name ‘dance music’. Most people don’t throw themselves into the dancefloor – it’s more like low impact aerobics at the busiest gym in the world. Now, South Americans – there’s a bunch who really know how to dance. If you disagree, check with any girl whether Patrick Pitbull ‘I Know You Want Me’ Swayze was sexy busting those Latin Daddy Yankee ‘Gasolina’ moves in Dirty Dancing. This Don Omar ‘Virtual Diva’ Tuesday night has barely settled Black Eyed Peas ‘I Gotta into the Honey Club and already Feeling’ it’s turned the heat right up.

Wisin Y Yandel ‘Rakata’ Starting nice and early with Bellini ‘Samba De Janeiro’ Daddy Yankee ‘Lo Que Paso, Paso’ Pitbull ‘Hotel Room Service’ DJ Chuckie ‘Let The Bass Kick’ Elvis Crespo ‘Suavemente’

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EVENT: Every Tuesday, Honey Club WEB: www.salsabrighton.com FACEBOOK: tiny.cc/latinface

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The Coalition Arches, Brighton 171 - 181 Kings Road In The Main Room:

Eddie the Goatboy, Mattatat In the Sideshow Saloon:

Dj Nause, Dj Halfbeat & C-Dogg

Sparkle Motion - our in house dance troupe!

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Tattoo Parlour... Face Painting...Glowsticks...Sweets...Popcorn...and More!

SAT APR 17 11 - 4am - Includes entrance to after-party til 7am!

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CLUB review

Minimal Kids Words by the james kendall Photos by the pistoleers

It might have been going for less than a year but Minimal Kids has already become part of Brighton’s clubbing landscape – helped, of course, by the best branding since everyone stopped getting Cream tattoos. Yes, the one thing that isn’t minimal about this night is the crowds, with hundreds of people rolling in and out until 5am one Friday a month.

The promoters Jonny Fynan and Vincent Manganaro of Trash

Mondays and after party Blow respectively bring a mix of young students and European clubbers, while the older crowd who miss Stompa Phunk and Kliks have also found a new home. The main thing that the night has managed is to achieve is to make minimal techno appeal to the hardcore and casual clubber alike.

When: Audio, Fri 2nd Daniel Steinberg, WEB: www.minimalkids.com Format B, H.O.S.H FORMAT B MIX: have all been down tiny.cc/minimalkids flying the flag for the international scene, while this month sees their biggest guest yet, Dirtybird boss Claude VonStroke. The Kids are taking over.

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Justin Martin & Claude VonStroke ‘Beat That Bird’ JFTH, Enzo Siffredi ‘Ketamine Dance’ Daniel Steinberg ‘Rush Me’ Enzo Siffredi ‘Mexico’ Sascha Braemer ‘Go Loco’ Hanne Lore ‘An Der Waterkant (Super Flu Remix)’ James Jackson ‘What’s That’ Loko ‘Lakausa’ Jako ‘Fire’ M.in & David Keno Feat Meggy ‘Sickness’

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Deadmau5, Kelis and Fred Falke have kept Burns so busy that he’s hardly at home, but Brighton’s new superstar DJ is only just warming up

URNS WORDS and photo BY THE JAMES KENDALL

Sometimes you can see success coming a mile off. It was pretty clear that Mylo’s debut album was going to be a smash and now Burns, the man many people are comparing him, to looks ready to eclipse that prodigal son. The association isn’t completely unfair – both have as much of a way with melody as they do with club-firing electro beats, both have a dual love of pop and harder dance music and both could charm the birds from the trees.

The result is a selection of four EPs that sound strangely just like him. It’s not just that balance of toughness and musicality, but there’s an emotional feel somewhere between melancholy and euphoria that he’s made his own. You feel the layers of synths in tracks like the French-sounding ‘Burns 4’ EP opener ‘So Many Nights’ while the cut up vocals and loose percussion work on your hips. No wonder it picked up early support from Ed Banger’s DJ Mehdi, who stuck it on the über-hip electro label’s Christmas mixtape. Fred Falke is such a fan that he just had Burns over to his studio to work on some tracks and Burns is heading out on tour across Australia with Surkin. That’s some pretty cool friends he’s got there.

But one new friend above all others looks like pushing Burns to new levels. Finding himself on the same album launch party bill as Burns, Deadmau5 – one of the biggest artists to hit dance music in the last five years – was so impressed by the Brighton dweller that he invited him to open up for him on a month long tour of America, playing to 2,000 to 3,000 people every night.

Burns accepted immediately.

“The crowd reactions were amazing over there,” Burns recalls. “In America they aren’t as exposed to the real underground stuff that we are over here. So it’s like playing to fresh ears. It’s good because it feels like you’re opening people’s eyes to the scene.

Because me and Deadmau5 had a completely differing style in what we played it worked really well.

Though it happened just last November, Burns is already seeing the fruits of playing a new sound to the Mau5’s fans.

“I just got back from America this week from touring with Calvin Harris and I noticed a few followers that have come from the Deadmau5 tour,” he smiles.

“It’s definitely working out the way I hoped it would.”

“The crowd reactions were amazing in America – they aren’t as exposed to underground stuff so it’s like playing to fresh ears.”

While the Scot seems to have turned away from the limelight Brighton’s new superstar DJ also already has plans to step into the shadows, producing other people. Burns casually drops the fact that he’s knocked out the opening track on Kelis’ new album into the last few moments of our interview, as if it was the sort of thing one might forget. Still, when we’ve been talking about debut LPs, mix albums and US tours with Deadmau5 and Calvin Harris, perhaps it’s no surprise that he didn’t get round to the r’n’b superstar.

If you haven’t seen Burns play in Brighton – or didn’t even know that he lived here – that’s no big surprise. Recently squeezing in just his second gig since moving down last year, he’s more likely to be found in London or abroad.

“I’ve been really busy since I got here so I haven’t had the chance to explore Brighton as much as I’d want to,” he laments. “But just the environment here changes you. You’ve got the sea and the beach and it definitely puts you in a better mood than sitting in a room in Stafford does.”

While he’s been pleased to move away from the musical wasteland that is the midlands, being set apart from the rest of the dance music world has worked in Burns’ favour. Being cut off from his peers he had to decide for himself what was cool, what sounded good, what path he should take.

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Now there’s an understatement.

After dropping his fourth EP this month, the next step is his mix album in early May. Likely to be called simply ‘This Is Burns: The Mixtape’, CD one delivers the sort of set you could expect to hear from him if he wasn’t too busy to play in Brighton, while a second disc shows what he likes to listen to on the rare occasions he finds himself at home alone.

From there it’s the debut album, something that will sound a little different to his dancefloor based EPs. “It’s becoming more pop with more vocals but hopefully in a cool way,” he says. “It’s definitely a different sound to the EPs – hopefully it sounds refreshing. I’m just trying to do what I feel at the time. I don’t know if that’s a good or bad thing – it does mean it’s less identifiable. But it’s selfish and for my own enjoyment. I’m hoping that it will help me in making stuff for other people, a realm that I’m just stepping into now.”

Ah, yeah, Kelis. Burns is typically modest about the whole thing.

“I sent her some stuff I had lying around that I wasn’t sure about for my album but she put her vocal on and it sounds really good,” he says. “The main producers are Boys Noize, David Guetta and myself. It’s flattering to be in amongst those big names. I’m excited to be able to go out and buy it in a shop.”

EP: ‘Burns 4’ EP out Mon 12th TWITTER: @thisisburns MYSPACE: www.myspace.com/thisisburns

Something tells us he’s going have plenty of opportunity for that sort of retail therapy for many years to come.

This star is going to burn brightly.

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CULTURE

WORDS BY ZAC COLBERT, NICK COQUET, BEN MILLER

TALK: THE SPACE The Basement Thurs 1st

In the absence of the research the notion should have incited from us, it’s possibly a slight overstatement to suggest Cockney Rebel were a “key influence” on Blur and Suede, although their reappearance at the Dome later this year illustrates they still hold a certain level of sway. Frontman Steve Harley stars here (and might even play a short set if you’re lucky), joined by Ashley Pharoah, who was largely responsible for primetime BBC dramas Life On Mars and Ashes To Ashes. (BM)

ART: BRIAN ENO – 77 MILLION PAINTINGS Fabrica Fri 2nd

Better known for his ambient but powerful soundscapes this visual installation isn’t actually that far removed. 77 Million Paintings is a continually evolving sound and moving image piece, which finds Eno exploring light itself as a medium.

Generative software remixes handmade slides prepared by the artist in advance, to form 77 million unique artworks automatically, which begets the title. Recently shown at the Venice Bienniale and Milan Triennale, it now finds itself in Brighton’s Fabrica gallery where you can see and hear its wonder for free. (ZC)

COMEDY: SARA PASCOE VS HER EGO Upstairs At Three And Ten Fri 16th

Steady improvement is no guarantee of promise for stand-ups,

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77 million paintings

most of whom seem liable to bomb without trace at any moment.

Hyperactive sneerer Sara Pascoe is building on firm foundations though, already getting away with chucking in some of the lamest gags imaginable whenever temptation gets the better of her.

When she hits the spot, which she frequently does these days, it’s because of her ability to combine whirlwind energy with tongue-twisting wit. Her ebullient self-hype could become convincing tonight. (BM)

THEATRE: MY ARM The Basement Sat 17th – Sun 18th

Tim Crouch’s touching story of a boy who holds his arm in the air for decades is a one-man journey which remains compelling if only for its opportunistic use of props provided by the unsuspecting audience. It’s rare to see Crouch’s acidic observation of childhood thought patterns round these parts nowadays, what with the man himself winning a major publishing deal for the story and worldwide tours since it debuted at Edinburgh back in 2003, so catch it if you can. (BM)

COMEDY: FRANKIE BOYLE Dome Sat 17th – Sun 18th

The acerbic Scot brings his brand of gallows humour to town with the endearingly titled I Would Happily Punch Every One Of You In The Face show. Having pretty much made his name on Mock The Week, his material became a bit too near the knuckle for a cowering BBC, namely his gag about the queen being so old her pussy was haunted. No longer on the show, this is your only chance to see him at his live best. It’s selling fast but there are extra dates for October on sale now. (NC)

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FILM: THE CABINET OF DR CALIGARI

Duke of York’s Weds 21st

Just in case an escapee from a lunatic asylum marauding around town with a hypnotized human death clock slave doesn’t sound cool enough in a world where The Wolfman actually gets released, The DoY has only gone and set this 90-year-old silent black and white classic to a live score.

Creepy German expressionist cinema with added drums, bass, guitars, flutes, saxophones and cellos – there’s a tiny possibility this won’t be brilliant, but the risk certainly isn’t worth staying in for. (BM)

EXHIBITION: DREAM HOME Phoenix from Sat 24th

In a prescribed twist on the Open Houses concept, the Phoenix (which has been looking a bit shiny and intriguing recently) is about to turn into a domestic labyrinth of darkened corners and hidden surprises. Sour milk and dirty washing (probably) aren’t on the agenda for the 11 artists involved, instead preferring to pour their hopes, dreams and fantasies into the space in between introducing a strange, eerie cast of characters along the way. Home is where the art is, etc. (BM)

COMEDY: KNOCK2BAG Latest Music Bar Thurs 29th

Inaugurating the hands-down winner of the worst-named comedy night at a venue rarely known for dusting off the comedy cobwebs on a pre-festival Thursday, the devisers of this London chuckle club must have considerable confidence in their new monthly session down here. Tim Key, the engagingly shambolic poet in residence on Charlie Brooker’s Screenwipe, headlines a line-up of hotly-tipped relative newcomers including rapper-turned-gagster Doc Brown, excellent up-and-coming sketch quartet Delete The Banjax and punchline killer Fergus Craig. (BM)

THEATRE: ICARUS New Venture from Fri 30th

Even if the term site-specific makes you shift your focus quicker than direct eye contact from Mandy Dingle across a sparsely-populated bar, you have to concede that one day, before you get too old for all this festival nonsense, you too could end up embroiled in some theatrical hit-or-miss along Marine Parade. The New Venture provides us with the first such opportunity this year, as three performers take you on a storytelling “emotional journey” inspired by Ovid’s famed heroto-zero poem. (BM)

FESTIVAL: BRIGHTON FRINGE OPENING NIGHT New Road and Jubilee Square Fri 30th

Brace yourself, breathe deeply, roll up, roll up… it’s not quite here yet, but the Fringe is just around the corner for another year. By the time you read this you won’t even have to give yourself a seizure trying to scroll through hundreds of pages of online listings in the absence of a printed guide to the freaks and frivolities awaiting us all. Taster performances and previews kick it off here, continuing on a daily basis throughout the festival in May. (BM)

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ART WILD PLANET WORDS BY NICK COQUET

Photograph © Anup Shah / Wild Planet

When art presents itself in everyday situations, there’s no excuse to not get involved. If you stroll along the beach this spring and summer, you’ll have more to feast your eyes on than sunburnt Londoners making nuisances of themselves.

Wild Planet is a new touring exhibition of 80 images from the Wildlife Photographer Of The Year, each captioned with the story of the photo and background on its subject.

The images, from polar bears to pelicans, are presented al fresco in large scale, illuminated at night, and there’s a dedicated retail space opposite East Street which will be selling gifts, homeware and memorabilia based on the photographs. The exhibition is all free, you might learn something about the world you live in, and the photos are great. Go see.

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WHERE: Brighton Seafront, between the piers WHEN: Until 26th September, lit from dusk til 11pm WEB: www.visitbrighton.com

Wild Planet features images from Wildlife Photographer of the Year, which is owned by the Natural History Museum, London and BBC Wildlife Magazine

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CRITIC words by matt barker, NICK COQUET, THE RECOMMENDER, LYDIA STOCKBRIDGE

ALBUM: BURNT CROSS / A.U.K

The Earth Dies Screaming (Tadpole)

With the mantle of punk rock being mostly hijacked and misrepresented by American pop nonsense like Green Day, it’s heartening to see the reins being grabbed back by some homegrown descendents of the likes of Conflict or Flux Of Pink Indians. Burnt Cross are from the angry side of the punk street – tracks like ‘Governed By Fools’, ‘This Bloody Age’ and ‘Police Brutality’ spell out their dissatisfied manifesto pretty clearly, set against some good old fashioned two-chord pogo. (NC)

ALBUM: THE CURST SONS The Original And Genuine (Curst Mountain)

Brighton bluegrass stompers The Curst Sons deliver their fourth album in the shape of ‘The Original And Genuine’.

The 13 tracks of sometimes macabre, always engaging lyrical numbers, take their influences from Americana, blues, Irish folk to roots and more, embracing the history of these genres and adapting them into something new and just as exciting. Mark Lamarr, always a fan of old time music, is an admirer – catch one of their animated live shows for a rip-roaring good time. (LS)

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EP: DAMAGED

Duvets And Duct Tape (myspace.com/damageduk)

As the first track assaults our ears and blows bits of paper around the SOURCE office, we realise we’re in the presence of something a bit special here. There’s been lots of female-fronted rock over the years, but few deliver the goods with as much balls as this, if such wasn’t a contradictory analogy. There’s definitely a touch of the Brody Dalles about CJ’s screamed vocal, but the backing is way heavier, raunchy as hell and worth looking out for. (NC)

EP: DIRTY LEAVES (myspace.com/dirtyleavesband)

Unashamed ribald rock action here; an unrelenting and unrepentant riff ride that recalls the six-string abuse of Josh Homme and Dave Grohl in particular. A solid back line powers the songs along at freight train pace, tight and fill-heavy drums with a non-intrusive bass you can often feel rather that straight up hear. Punk overtones pepper the four tracks but the overriding sense is one of a strong rock grounding with a leaning to the dark side. (NC)

SINGLE; DUKE RAOUL

Strange / Dead Echoes (Prime Cut)

An auspicious debut single from a band we’ve been waiting quite patiently for, this more than lives up to expectation. Raoul deliver a pair of equal billing tracks from the fine old tradition of well crafted songs bent slightly out of shape by distended guitar work from the Sonic Youth or MBV schools. Raoul have been building a solid following via dates with Jetpacks and Esben, climb aboard and join up now. (NC)

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ALBUM: GLORIA CYCLES Campsite Discotheque (A&G)

Well, it’s certainly been some time coming. This is an album whose awaited status at SOURCE has officially been ‘eagerly’ since their first perfectly formed singles arrived on our doorstep.

So, does it measure up to our lofty expectations? Hell, yes. From the word go this is an assured and, dare we say, essential collection of jaunty indie psychedelia that both consolidates their work to date and promises much for the future. The appearance of ‘Religious’ on hit Brit flick My Last Five Girlfriends should help them seize the moment, for now it’s surely theirs for the taking.

Enjoy this sound now, who knows where they’ll be at when they reappear for the next LP, without this one’s delay we hope. (NC)

ALBUM: JUNKBOY Koyo (Enraptured)

The album title ‘Koyo’ itself translating from Japanese to mean ‘gentle sunlight’, each track here feels like a musical interpretation of the expression, a rich tapestry of cosmic folk melodies to beckon in the spring sunshine. This is the fourth album released by brothers Mik and Rich, aka Junkboy, and it’s a truly Brighton affair, with the boys joined on several tracks by various Willkommen friends and Gazelle Twin lending her eerily beautiful vocals to ‘Dr Rendezvous’. A breathtaking piece to be cherished. (LS)

ALBUM: MICHAEL MCLINN The Task At Hand (myspace.com/michaelmclinn)

Harpist Michael McLinn has enlisted the talents of former SOURCE cover stars Esben And The Witch to add some electronic scope to his second album. The juxtaposition of gentle classicism and glitchy studio trickery makes for an otherworldly listen that broadens the horizons of his chosen instrument into genuinely original areas – certainly uncompromising in its arrangement but never inaccessible. (NC)

ALBUM: PEGGY SUE

Fossils And Other Phantoms (Wichita) It was with great anticipation that we received this Peggy Sue debut. In a definite confirmation of their ascendency it was recorded in Brooklyn by producers John Askew and Alex Newport, who previously worked with Death Cab for Cutie and Two Gallants. A bold entrance, with brash drumming, clear, searing vocals, there’s no mistaking this album for background music, it demands to be heard with its distinctive, unpolished quality. Despite numbering just three they generate a much bigger sound, and they do it well. (LS)

EP: PRJCT MYHM Prjct Myhm EP (Booty Galaxy)

We’re all for payola at SOURCE, and the thoughtful Jiffy inclusion of a Smirnoff miniature, paracetamol and codeine tablets and some kids plasters guarantee almost any band our affection.

They needn’t have bothered though; we’ve been vocal about our love for the bad-hand-at-Scrabble-sounding PRJCT MYHM since we first got the demos of these songs. The dubstep sleaze of ‘KeepItMoving’ is still our favourite and we still can’t quite look the effing and jeffing lyric of ‘EasySex’ in the eye, but on the whole it’s a winning mix from a band clearly going places. (NC)

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EP: SATTA

Creation (myspace.com/sattauk)

As we write this beneath an azure sky of deepest summer (well, it’s blue at least), we can’t help but turn our minds to the warmer times ahead. Sitting about outside boozing, the sun beating down, a faint spliffy whiff in the air, good times. All we know about Satta is that they’re the perfect soundtrack to these sorts of days.

What used to be called trip hop in the olden days is given some more substantial beats and a bit more genuine skanking soul, all adding up to a sound that shoos away the winter blues. (NC)

ALBUM: SPARROW Sparrow (myspace.com/sparrowbrighton)

If you were to imagine what a female-fronted band called Sparrow might sound like, you’d probably be forgiven for coming up with ‘something rather twee’. Indeed, this was approaching our first impression as the album began, but across the 12 tracks the honey-sweet vocals are put through a good variety of paces, from folky pop to more or less out and out rock, with some nice jazzy experimentalism along the way. It’s all good stuff, well worth an inquisitive MySpacing. (NC)

SINGLE: TOMMY TURBO AND THE TURBERVILLES (Her Name is) Sophie (Sons)

When a band comes along in matching mod suits and spats, it always makes our ears prick up. There’s nothing smarter than a band who all dress in the same suits. Worked for the Beatles, worked for the Wombles. Throw in a horn section that nods an immaculate French crop to very old Dexys Midnight Runners records and it’s all pretty much enough to make you turn a blind eye to the band’s name, which is a bit of a clunker to be honest.

The song itself, included here as vocal and karaoke instrumental versions, is a solid r’n’b (the old type) stomper which makes us all excited about hearing more. (NC)

EP: WE WERE PROMISED JETPACKS The Last Place You’ll Look (FatCat)

Shame on you if you let this Scottish band’s accomplished debut album, ‘These Four Walls’, pass you by when it got released back in 2009. It successfully served up roaring post punk alongside melody and beauty. This new EP, or mini album, includes two tracks from their debut reworked to haunting effect, but the three new songs show off a maturity not seen before. Their signature climactic builds are maintained, but their usual raw edges have been compensated with a newly discovered vulnerability. (TR)

SINGLE: :KINEMA: Circles (Hot Pockets)

In a world where Lady Gaga’s new number one sounds like a Gwen Stefani album filler, where does the discerning pop fan go for their hits? Take a few keytar soft-synths from filter disco, some fat-ass r‘n’b drum loops, Whitest Boy Alive’s natty guitar sprinkles and a white soul voice that would make George Michael [insert public toilet joke here], and you’ve got :Kinema:’s gloriously catchy celebration of relationships “going round in circles.” Lovetorn synthpop which would, in an alternate universe, be on Radio 1’s A-list and have a David LaChapelle video. (MB)

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a day in A WheeLchair WORDS BY NICK COQUET

illustration by fox fisher

THE CONCEPT

We experience things we haven’t experienced before, and tell you about them. Despite the stern warnings of parents and teachers, Nick Coquet never did end up breaking his spine through swinging back on a chair and spending the rest of his life in a wheelchair. But he could have done, so what would it have been like?

THE REASONS

help I could get, frankly. It’s knackering pushing yourself along the whole time, especially on streets where the pavement’s camber constantly conspires to put you in the gutter.

So Churchill Square is quite wheelchair friendly, it turns out. The disabled toilet is well appointed. None of the shops have steps into them. I had a good old wheel around in there, in and out of various shops perfecting my manoeuvres, and then out onto North Street. Wheeling down there was a breeze; I actually had to slow down to avoid hacking down a load of pensioners. I cut into the North Laine, which was pretty busy. I know how hard it can be dragging a buggy round town, but that has nothing on this. To start with, your only eye-level companions are those in buggies, who generally stared at me with the quizzical innocence of youth. But while most people did try to get out of my way, plenty just blundered into my path as shop windows caught their eye. It’s a proper ball-ache weaving around idiots who don’t think to step slightly aside as you trundle towards them.

“I KNOW HOW HARD IT CAN BE DRAGGING A BUGGY ROUND TOWN, BUT THAT HAS NOTHING ON THIS”

We’re all guilty of swinging the car into a disabled parking space, or occupying a disabled toilet. It’s only for a minute. There are too many of them anyway. No one ever uses them. But they’re there for a reason. I wanted to see how it felt to be reliant on able-bodied town planning, see if it measured up.

THE EXPERIENCE

I borrowed a wheelchair off the Martlets Hospice, friends of SOURCE and all round good people. The plan was to spend a day going about my business from the vantage point of a self-propelled seat. I could have sat at a desk all day in my wheelchair, but there’s no real challenge there.

So I went into town for some shopping.

Crossing the road, I saw another wheelchair user coming towards me. Now, I drive a VW Camper, and used to ride Vespas. When you see someone else with one you give them a cheery wave, and for a second it crossed my mind to maybe do the same – perhaps a passing high-five or pointing at my legs and giving a smiling shrug. But she didn’t look like she wanted to acknowledge our seated kinship, probably for the best really.

The shops here weren’t nearly so manageable. Steps, narrow doorways and cramped interiors all made for irritating challenges to my mobility and purchasing potential. Maybe disabled people don’t buy retro clothing or chintzy nicknacks; they certainly don’t buy them easily here.

Stopping off at The Dorset for a swift half, I had to wait for someone to unbolt the double door to let me in. But at least I got a seat outside once I’d been served.

From here I wheeled back out onto Queens Road to get the bus back.

I live at the top of a bastard-steep hill, which can barely be I thought I’d go to Sainsbury’s. I kind of needed to anyway. By now my walked up, let alone wheeled. So I parked down the dexterity with the chair had gotten pretty good. I bottom and gingerly got the chair out. was able to shunt myself onto the bus with a minor Strapping myself in, I wheeled along to wheelie, and weaved into my allocated space with the bus stop. So far so good. The the all athleticism of that BBC One ident wheelchair pavements weren’t great, and you quickly bloke with the dreadlocks. realise that even the mildest bump or There are more than 750,000 kerb can almost pitch you onto your The supermarket was a breeze. I didn’t go on the wheelchair users in the UK, face. I don’t get buses too often at the travelator thing, fearing that might not end well.

1.5% of the population, with best of times, so wasn’t sure if the two There’s a lift there, so I used that. The nice 20,000 new users every year. that sailed past me as I sat patiently at customer services lady got me a trolley extension the roadside were because I wasn’t for the chair, and kind people got high shelf items waving them down or they couldn’t be down for me. I did wonder how I’d carry all the gear arsed. Let’s assume the former, as the driver who stopped home so I went easy on the shopping list, but the bags hooked onto for me actually got out to push me on, his suspension not the chair’s handles easily enough. Back out onto the street, across quite dropping to kerb level. I asked if I needed a ticket, he Lewes Road and back up Coombe Road, where once no one was said not to worry. Nice guy. It turned out I was facing the looking I miraculously regained the use of my legs, guiltily folded the wrong way so I did a 19-point turn among the buggies and chair down and stuck it in the back of the van. put on my handbrakes. “That’s better,” said a biddie in one of the elderly seats. “We can see you now!”

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WAS IT WORTH IT?

It’s certainly an eye-opener to experience life from a challenged perspective. Mostly people were kind and helpful, without being patronising. No one tutted at me, and I did breach a few toes in the Churchill Square lift. But I’m going to be a bit more careful swinging back on my chair now, just in case.

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When we saw Louisa we thought, perfect, we can talk about how the expansion of To Be Worn Again and the arrival of Beyond Retro has created a generation of young dressers who bypass the high street and get everything second hand. We were ready to talk about how eco concerns and the recession had brought the end to semidisposable clothes and how much of a victory that is for individualism. Then we interviewed Louisa and discovered the high street is ahead of us on the post-vintage, premium charity and imported cheap clothing boom. H&M and Primark make a big showing in her outfit meaning that if you come up short at Starfish and the like, all’s not lost – though we’ll always try for something unique when we can find it. On days when we can’t get anything in our size second hand it’s a relief to know we don’t have to go middle of the road though.

Coat from H&M “I had to go to a wedding in America and it was snowing. It dresses down and dresses up.”

Cardigan from Shelter “It’s got reindeers on which I like.”

Skirt from Forever 21 “I got it in America, It was just really cheap.”

Tights from Primark “They’re my usual attire – they look like spider’s webs which is cool.”

Boots by Dr Marten “They’re patent and they go with everything, they’re so practical.”

Bag from Primark “It’s big and good for carrying stuff really.”

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UNSUNG HEROES 100 PEOPLE WHO MAKE BRIGHTON WHAT IT IS NO.8: MAGPIE RECYCLING WORDS BY NICK COQUET

For nearly 20 years Magpie have been at the forefront of the city’s recycling alchemy, introducing a mindset we all now live by.

What prompted you to start Magpie?

At the time it was mainly a lobbying campaign group against there being no collections in Brighton, to get the council’s arses into gear. It worked – they now use the same techniques we’ve used for the last 20 years.

Was there much resistance to recycling in Brighton at the start?

The public were crying out for it, but the council just weren’t into the idea. We were up to 5,000 customers then, it’s fewer now because the council do it for free. We have to make money after all, and the price we get for materials is much lower since the global economic crisis.

When did recycling first gain political respect?

In the last five years I think, it’s become a really hot topic. All councils have to show they’re recycling; all businesses have to show they’re doing something with their waste. But there’s no back-up from government; no one’s saying people making things should use x-amount of recycled materials and use less packaging in the first place. Big companies like Viola and Team Waste are offering services where they weren’t before – everyone’s doing it, to the point where we’ve thought about dropping the ‘recycling’ from our name – it’s become so cashed in on.

What should people recycle more of?

Generally, re-use should come before recycling, but if you’re promoting something to focus on it’d be plastics – out of the five types of plastic only two of them are readily recyclable, so expanding on that is essential. Also generally working towards a paperless economy, not printing things you don’t need to.

What’s the weirdest thing you’ve had come in?

I picked up a large Edwardian mirror by a bin the other day, people don’t see the value in the things they’re throwing away.

And some 1920s wicker transportation baskets, still with the labels on from their ships – I wanted to take those home. Your eyes do light up. Sometimes people just buy things and throw them away – it’s a sad reflection on society really.

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sweets behind the bar and loads of chalkboard fun. In fact an expansive specials board pulled us in when we discovered we couldn’t eat in at the rather promising Pizzaface across the road.

THE MEAL

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THE PLACE

There’s always been a lot of affection for the Barley Mow – we’re not sure we’ve heard anyone say a bad word about the place. Found just far enough down St George Street to attract Kemptown villagers rather than the city centre crowd, it’s a proper boozer with a few cute touches like

There’s a small regular offering of steak, scampi (proper wholetail stuff) and doorstep sandwiches but the Barley Mow seems to like to mix things up with a rather good range of fish and seafood, pies and chops on ever changing specials boards. The gammon with pineapple, eggs and chips (£8.25) tempts us – must be the old school vibe – which isn’t wise journalistically as gammon is what it is really. It comes with two eggs though and the huge chunky chips are soft and fluffy in the middle. As well as a range of standard burgers there is a special in the form of a chorizo, sun-blushed tomato and cheese offering (a rather pricey £10.25).

Thick and homemade, it doesn’t skimp on the sunblushed tomato and is a nice twist on a classic. The salad is fairly conventional but most importantly tastes nice and fresh. We are full enough to forget to order puddings so miss out on sticky toffee pudding (£4.25).

THE VERDICT

Yeah, pretty good but perhaps a little expensive. They’re not reinventing the wheel but if you like solid old-school grub in a friendly environment this could be just the ticket. The pub gets a lovely mix of old and young and this food seems to fit the clientele perfectly.

WERE WE SUSSED?

Not at all – even though it was quiet we grabbed our photos like ninjas, took all our notes in our heads and crept out politely.

performance

In conversation with

Gary Mulholland Q Magazine And Observer Music Monthly Writer Turns His Hand To Movies For His Third Book

cinema redemption.

James Kendall: After a life writing about JK: There must be some bands music it must have been a bit stressful making who suit making movies while the leap to films, even if it was rock’n’roll they’re still alive though. movies.

Privilege GM: It’s hard to get away from Garry Mulholland: It was such a joy to “An apocalyptic vision of everything bad the Rolling Stones, in the sense sit down and watch movies, even bad movies. popular culture could be used for in your that Performance and Gimme And quite honestly it’s easier writing about film worst nightmares.”

Shelter are outrageously good than it is music – you can refer to actual things Expresso Bongo films of two completely different that happen. With a record you have to decide “A hilariously savage and cynical late 50s types. And in those two films what the story is, you have to decide what it all musical about the utter idiocy of there’s a vision of everything means. I don’t think I realised how difficult rock’n’roll.” that is dark and wrong about writing about music was having only done it.

Easy Rider rock. The Who have come out JK: But there must have been a load of bad “It’s not about people playing guitars but of it well. Tommy is kinda silly movies in a genre best called a mixed bag. it’s the best film about what people felt but stood up better than I Music films can date pretty badly. rock’n’roll meant in the 60s.” thought. Quadrophenia is GM: Purple Rain I’d absolutely adored. I loved Performance fantastic and The Kids Are Prince but I hadn’t seen it since it came out. I sat “The British mirror of Easy Rider – the Alright shows how much more down to watch it excitedly to discover it’s one of whole idea of Mick Jagger and gangsters exciting rock bands used to be. the worst films ever made. I could not believe the is inspired.”

It’s essentially an hour and a level of misogyny. I think I was so blown away by Stardust half’s worth of clips and you Prince at the time that if I was noticing it I was “David Essex as the most unpleasant can imagine how entertaining putting it out of my head. human being in film history and his demise an hour and a half’s worth of JK: We still have the Miley Cyrus and Jonas from rock god to dead man.” clips of the Kaiser Chiefs would Brothers types of artists who are already very be. visual, or even televisual, but on the whole it JK: Without his movies Elvis seems like a genre that’s dying out a bit.

Presley could have been a much more powerful rock’n’roll star.

GM: It is dying out for the reason that there haven’t been too You could say they almost killed his career. many successful rock movies and after a while film companies GM: You could say that but he is an extraordinary 20th century have worked out that it’s really hard to pull them off. Now it falls story – the king that had too much. This dream career that Elvis into two categories. Firstly, every band now has a documentary was meant to have where he didn’t go into the army and just on their DVD or CD – apparently its fascinating to walk around made tough rock’n’roll records behind a band with a would have meant that Elvis handheld camera while ended up as Gene Vincent or they go on tour and something. The bad movies are make crap jokes about vital to the myth. It’s a terrible and Spinal Tap. And then BOOK: Popcorn: Fifty Years of Rock ‘n’ Roll Movies is out now sad story but it’s a better story there’s big blockbuster WEB: garrymulholland.com than “he made great records”. It things like Walk The ON BLACK SABBATH: tinyurl.com/GMsabbath makes the 68 Comeback Special Line – dead rock stars a far more emotional thing. and endless themes of

Rock n Reel

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LISTINGS April 2010

thursday 1st

AUDIO B-Pop Live music 7pm £tbc; Bastard Pop Pop and indie antics 11pm £2 BASEMENT BAR The Space Presents: Steve Harley & Ashley Pharoah Co-writers of Life On Mars and Ashes to Ashes 7.30pm £6/5 BELUSHI’S BAR Karaoke Prizes 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Party On The Ceiling Bands & DJs 9.30pm £2 BLACK LION Don’t Stop Me Now!: Gary Mulholland, Ash Bird All that is cool and not cool about drums and guitars 8.30pm £free BRUNSWICK Fringe Preview Party Smarty Pants Productions hosts this taster night 7.30pm £free CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Brighton Bike Night Bikers’ social with Timmeh 9pm £free CASABLANCA The Clovers Soulful funky popcakes and live covers 11pm £2/1 COALITION Secret Discotheque Retro disco, 80s pop and other ‘uncool’ tunes 10.30pm £3/2/1 CONCORDE 2: Nu Music Live & Unsigned: Lovepark, The Morning Orchestra, King and I, Prince Harry, Groucho Brighton talent 7pm £5; Spiritual Elements 12th Birthday: Fabio & Grooverider, The Ratpack, DJ Quantam, Havok Sound System, Carbon DJs Music from the legends 11pm £8 COWLEY CLUB Gin Panic, Apologies, I Have None, CautionHorses, Rooftops, The Dead Beat 5 hardcore punk and post rock bands. That guitarist from Gin Panic is a Suicide Girl don’t ya know 7.30pm £donations DIGITAL Blah Blah Blah: Joy Orbison, Starsmith Live performances and DJs playing clever mixes, beats and such 9pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Kick-Ass 9pm ENTOURAGE iPod Tastic Largest group gets to plug their iPod in for half an hour! Have the monopoly with your massive crew and subject the club to your fave tunes 7pm £free EXCHANGE Quiz Night Fire up your noggin for loadsa prizes 8.45pm £free FISHBOWL Residents Association Hip hop, funk, disco, world & house 10pm £free FREEBUTT Blue Hearts, The Dirty Sweet Live music 7.30pm £8 FREEMASONS You Don’t Fool Me Live music of your choosing, bring your mp3s 8pm £free GLOBE Max & The Swing Commanders Live jazz for peeps who don’t like jazz 8pm £free GRAND CENTRAL Swing DeVille Duo Gypsy jazz 8.30pm £free GREAT EASTERN DJ Shamblin Sexton’s Music To Drink Bourbon To Western swing, cajun, good ol’ bluegrass and country 9pm £free HONEYCLUB Fusion Eggstravaganza: Squiz, Ben-G, Matt Jiggens, Gazz Marlow, Paul Hillyer, Johnny M, James Martinez House, R&B, indie Bank Holiday Special 11pm £3/1 HOPE The Blackbirds, The Perils Live music 7.30pm £free HYDRANT BCC Brighton Community College end of term gig 8pm £free JAM Thursday Night Fish Fry Early 50s US rhythm & blues and original Jamaican ska 10pm £3 JUGGLER Soul & Blues Open Mic Night Those well trained BIMM monkeys get happy hour prices 8pm £free KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Tag Comedy Club Quality standup with Stephen Grant 8pm £8.50/6.50 LATEST MUSIC BAR The Funky Buddha Band Contemporary funk and soul covers 8pm £5 LUCKY VOICE Stray Dog, Jade Hopcroft Live cover band 8pm £free JUGGLER DJ Lamp R&B, dance and jazz tunes continued from the day before 8pm £free MADAME GEISHA Slackers Convention: Tim Healey, Deekline, JFB, Ed Solo, Luqas & Pav Giant Pussy Records put on an electro-house & booty-breaks party 10pm £9/6 MARLBOROUGH Karaoke Sing it wonky and loud 8pm £free OCEANA Maundy Thursday Seven themed rooms for you to stumble around, lose your friends, find new ones and spill your vodka and coke in 9pm £tbc OLD MARKET Families At War: The Accrington Pals, Picnic On A Battlefield Exploring the theme of war through performance 7.30pm £8/6.50 OM Do You Know Who I Am?: Brett Allen, James Brady, Marlon Mahroyan DJs playing upfront house 8pm £free PENTHOUSE Hot-Tip Hi-Fi Discover the lost reggae gems

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PONANA Pick & Mix Taking requests 10.30pm £1 PRINCE ALBERT Ramonas Live music 8pm £tbc PROVIDENCE Time Brings Age, Inner Horizon Live music 8pm £1 R BAR Girls On Top Vs Emergency Room Warm Up!: DJ Fifilicious, Louise C Party tuuunes 12pm £free REVENGE Emergency Room Vs Girls On Top: Dave Whelan, Mike Di Scala Dump your girlfriend and make out with someone else’s 10.30pm £5/3 ST JAMES TAVERN Stay Sick, Turn Blue Rock&roll, rockabilly, 60s garage 8.30pm £free SIDEWINDER Ants In The Carpet British music from 1980s to now 8pm £free SUGACUBE Weekend Warmup: The Funk Rockers Club Old skool funk and breakbeat 2pm £free THEATRE ROYAL The History Boys Alan Bennett’s boys at school play 2.30pm/7.45pm £tbc VICTORY Open Mic Night 8pm £free VOLKS Southern Invasion: DJ Faceplant D&B and dubstep 10pm £tbc WEST HILL TAVERN Envy Electro, fidget, hip hop, synth pop treats for your aural pleasure 10pm £free

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ABOVE AUDIO Above Audio Bar Sessions On rotation: Benji Boko, Andy Mac, James D’ley, Contraband, Senor Mick, Willerby, :Kinema: and Battery Powered 7pm £free AUDIO Minimal Kids Claude VonStroke works us to a frenzy with his techno treats 11pm £10 BELUSHI’S BAR Muy Loco Funky house, pop, R&B 9.30pm £free

BLACK LION Chef du Party: Out Of The Frying Pan And Onto The Flyer 5 decades of tasty tunes from Chef Oli 8.30pm £free BRUNSWICK The Lost Hightway: The Epstein, Dan Shears Americana night, yo 8pm £5/4 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Pog, Deadon, Phillip Jeays, Son of Portslade Live bands 8pm £free; Freak n Chic Punk, disco, goth, whatever 9pm £free CASABLANCA Live Room: Oomphf Live funk for you to strut your funky stuff 11pm £2/1 COALITION Freak Bazaar: Pogo, Master Blasters, DeepBrianFromBosis, Zooch, Ginetik Prog and full power psy trance 11pm £10/8 COBBLER’S THUMB Strawberry Noise Live Local acts 8pm £free CONCORDE 2 Silent Disco: No DJ and DJ OD Very ODD party, where you plug yourself in to R&B, D&B, pop, indie dance and every friggin genre you can imagine 11pm £8 DIGITAL Stonelove Indie rock night 11pm £5/4 DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Lourdes 6.30pm; Kick-Ass 4pm/9pm ENGINE ROOM Glamour Of The Kill York Metalcore with clean vocals and backing growls 7pm £6.50 ENTOURAGE Fresh Fridays Student friendly night 8pm £free FAIRTRADE GALLERY Thomas White Live music as part of April Alternative Festival 9pm £5 FISHBOWL Keep It Wheel Steve KIW spins disco, funk, soul, rock&roll 9pm £free FORTUNE OF WAR Shake Hands Lets Party: Pollito Boogaloo Lady DJs So Molly, Heidi, Pippa, Bianca playing tunes from past 50 years 9pm £free FREEMASONS Bad Friday Naughty beats to put you in the weekend mood 8pm £free FUNKY BUDDHA Drink, Dance, Repeat Dan Doubledecks, Charles Green & Mikee Hollywood with an eclectic dance mix 11pm £5/3 FUNKYFISH The Funkyfish Club Funky DJ Delboy spins 4 funky decades on 4 funky decks. How many funky hands does this funky man have? 10pm £6/3.50 GLOBE Disco Deviant: Pablo Contraband, Tim Rivers Disco funk house goodies 10pm £free GRAND CENTRAL Tracks: Dan, Niall, Stu Shake your ass to hip hop, disco, house, dub and breaks 8pm £free HANBURY Mojo To Go Go 60s groovers for you to shake your money-maker to 9.30pm £6 HEIST Soul Damn Funky House music of various persuasions 9pm £free HOBGOBLIN Gorse, Gerda Blank Live music 8pm £free HONEYCLUB 11-16 Year Olds Club Night Maybe needs more effort on the name but you get the picture 6.30pm £6; Hardsouth: Lucy Fur Like regular house but faster and bouncier

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11pm £10/8/5 HOPE Stacked Nasty: Neil By Mouth DJs spinning rhythm&blues, garage, soul and the dreaded funk 9pm £free HYDRANT Fuckrag McGinty’s Birthday Why, he sounds like a charmer 8pm £free HYDRANT UPSTAIRS Palalia Live music 8pm £tbc JAM Don’t Stop Believin’ No genre or decade, classic after classic 11pm £4/3 JAZZ PLACE It’s Northern Soul 60s and 70s classics 11pm £6/5 JUGGLER Zora & The Tatsmiths Folk trio flaunt their skills on traditional instruments 8pm £free KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club Stand-up shenanigans 7.30pm £14.50/£10 KOMEDIA STUDIO Mod For It 4 DJs playing 40s & 50s rockabilly and northern soul 9pm £4 LATEST MUSIC BAR Linten Splinters!: Easter Bunny Roadkill Haunting acoustic rock 8pm £5/3 LOFT Club Malicious: Pete Von Sleaze Playing alternative sleaze and cheese, you lucky thing 9pm £5/3/2 LIFE Big Fish Little Fish Cardboard Box: DJ Feadz (Ed Banger) Fidget, bass, electro 11pm £6/5/4 MARLBOROUGH Q&A (Queer & Alternative) Guest DJs, free pool 5pm £free NEPTUNE Blues Night Special: Dolly Dagger Live blues 8.30pm £free OCEANA The World In One Night 7 themed rooms to stumble around in 8pm £tbc OLD MARKET Families At War: The Accrington Pals, Picnic On A Battlefield Exploring the theme of war through performance 7.30pm £8/6.50 OM Something For The Weekend DJ playing house Easter Special 9pm £free PAVILLION THEATRE The Treason Show Satirical swipes at the world of politics, sport and pop culture 8pm £12.50 PAV TAV Kick Out The Jams: DJs Dynamite Sal, Eddie The Goatboy, Steve and Muffy Indie night 11pm £3 PENTHOUSE Amazing! Classic rock and power ballads 7.30pm £free PONANA Ice Box: DJ Washington R&B and hip hop treats 10.30pm £3 PRINCE ALBERT Forestears, For Marla, Atmosphere and the Dot Dot Dot, Foxx Bandits Live music, go Bandits! 8pm £tbc PROVIDENCE Battle Of The Bands 2010AD: The Slytones, 100 Robots, Polar Night Live music 8pm £2 R BAR Tops & Bottoms Freemasons Warm Up!: DJ Smithy Funky bunky wunky house 12pm £free REVENGE Lollipop Gleeks Vs Peachy Plus The Freemasons DJ set from the boys 10pm £8/5 SUGACUBE Suga Sessions House music ranging from the chunky to the dirty 2pm £free THEATRE ROYAL The History Boys Alan Bennett’s boys at school play 2.30pm/7.45pm £tbc THREE & TEN Will Sumsuch DJ action 10pm £free VOLKS Fragment: Easter All Nighter: DJ Souljah, Dan Marshall, Bmk, Scrambled Ed, Biggsy, Fucknose, MechOrga, b2b, Phat-Bad-Jah, Muggle Ninja warriors unite to fight a common enemy of noise...silence! 11pm £5 WESTERN FRONT DJ Action Alternative indie, disco, old skool dance and party classics for you to stick in your pipe and smoke 9pm £free WORLDS END PUB PrimElectric: Young Electrics Bands do their thang 8pm £free

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AUDIO Blogger’s Delight: Camel House, electro & techno treats 11pm £free BASEMENT Supper Club Nibble tapas and devour bite-size morsels of performance, video art, installations and interactions 7.30pm £6/4

BELUSHI’S BAR Credit Crunch Saturdays Live acoustic duo 9pm £free

BELUSHI’S BELOW Good Times: Retro Disco Party 9pm £5

BLACK LION Attic Monkeys 60s classics, rare 70s, 80s hip hop treats 8.30pm £free BRUNSWICK Allen Chicken Blockbuster Tony Haase & Roy Hutchins bring the laffs 2.30pm £free CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Laugh Down Babylon Cheap as chips comedy 9pm £2 CASABLANCA Funky Fiesta: The Devotions All aboard the soul train with a live cover band 10pm £7 COALITION Black Rabbit: Seaside Easter Hop Psytrance from D Ramirez, Guy Williams, Bones and Justin Ballard 11pm £8/5; Blow (afterparty) Tuunes from Vincent Manganaro, Alex Outram, Aaron Pelaez 3am £free COBBLER’S THUMB Chango Mutley: Boogalube, Emmentalicious, Around for Sound, I’m There With Jugs On, Handy Andy’s Sandy Ghandi Shandy, Velcro the Vicinity, For Your Eyebrows Only Loadsa music crammed into one night 8pm £free CONCORDE 2 UK Guns n Roses Meant to be pretty close to the real deal, does that mean hissy fits and tight spandex from the ginger prince? We love that Axl Rose is an anagram for oral sex 7pm £12.50; Playgroup Festival Launch Party: JFB, Burulho, Shofar Allstars, Them DJs JFB sample 5 live musicians on stage, creating brand new tracks and beats before your eyes 11pm £free

CORN EXCHANGE Willkommon Collective: The Leisure Society, Sons of Noel and Adrian Collective turned record label showcase their shiny gems 8pm £12.50 DIGITAL Schizoteque Improv actors and you, sweetie dahling, filmed in a club, to a soundtrack of bass-junk & rave-punk 11pm £5; Pussycat Club It’s a Rio Carnival innit 11pm £12/8 DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Lourdes 6.30pm; Kick-Ass 4pm/9pm; UP 2D 11am ENTOURAGE Release: DJ Ash Playing weekend grooves 8pm £free FAIRTRADE GALLERY Black Carrot, The Crucks Live music as part of April Alternative Festival 9pm £5 FISHBOWL Askew: Barry Dust, Gareth Stephens Expect broken beats, nu-jazz and reggae 9pm £free FORTUNE OF WAR Deck Chairs present You Got Papped Put on a nice frock and VOGUE 9.30pm £free FREEBUTT Spectrum 7, Hold Your Horse Is, Crooked Mountain Crooked Sea Live music 7pm £5 FREEMASONS Saturday Showdown DJ Resident keeps the music flowing 8pm £free FUNKY BUDDHA Buddha Soul: DJ Mike Pantelli Funk, soul, r&b, house 11pm £10; After party 3am £5 FUNKYFISH Brighton Comedy Club 4 comedians to make you laff 7pm £14.95 The Funkyfish Club Funky DJ Delboy spins 4 funky decades on 4 funky decks. How many funky hands does this funky man have? 10pm £6/3.50 GLOBE Go Band Basement Sessions: Affy & Ali Disco, e-funk and boogie from your fave brighton bloggers 9pm £free GRAND CENTRAL Panda Bear, Noise Attack Dissonant pop, obscure hip hop and synth-tastic space disco biscuits to dip in your beer 9pm £free HANBURY Pop Kraft Easter Eggstravaganza!: DJ Boogaloo Stu, The Size Zero Albino, Darran Duran Things to make and do and pop music too. Make your own mini-me and outrageous party games like shitlips, easter egg up the crack and put your finger in the cream 10pm £8/6 HEIST Home: Sean Quinn House music of various persuasions 9pm £free HONEYCLUB Judgement Sunday at Sevensins: Judge Jules Get ready for that chunky underground techno-house sound. Total legend 11pm £10 HOPE Da Doo Ron Ron: It’s Alive! feat. The Trudy plus Pussycat & the Dirty Johnsons Female fronted pop and rockabilly action 8.30pm £5 HYDRANT Mudlow Live music 8pm £free HYDRANT UPSTAIRS Toxic Rock Live music 8pm £tbc JAM The Stash Live music and Stash DJs playing 50s to 70s treats 8pm £4/2 JAZZ PLACE Hug Da Bug: Hug Da Bunny Easter ‘Beats and Treats’ Birthday Bash! Beats galore for all you easter chicks and chumps 10pm £2 JUGGLER DJ Lamp R&B, dance and jazz tunes continued from the day before 8pm £free KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club Stand-up shenanigans 7pm/10.30pm £17.50 KOMEDIA STUDIO Comedy Club 4 Kids Exactly that 2pm £8/6; Vive La Fip Tunes from France, or is it Brighton? Expect eclectic delights 9pm £6/5 KOMEDIA UP Guilty Pleasures Don’t be ashamed to like that cheesy cheese 11pm £10 LECTERN Battle Of The Bands, 1st Round: The Maxibons, The Felony, The Reverence, For Marla Support your fave 7pm £2 LIFE Hold Up! Indie night 11pm £5 MARLBOROUGH Cherry Pop DJ Fondue Inferno brings the cheese 8pm £free NORTHERN LIGHTS DJ Jay Funk, reggae and soul tunes 8pm £free OCEANA The World In One Night 7 themed rooms to stumble around in 8pm £tbc OM Brighter Days DJ playing deep and soulful house 9pm £free PAVILLION THEATRE The Treason Show Satirical swipes at the world of politics, sport and pop culture 8pm £12.50 PAV TAV Back to The Future! A decade of music per hour.

Alternative music from the 70s, 80s 90s & the naughties 11pm £3/2 PENTHOUSE Smack That Eclectic DJs 7.30pm £free PONANA Scandal: DJ Dre R&B and commercial chart 10pm £tbc PRINCE ALBERT Hollywood Assassins, Dates, Bob Wants His Head Back Live music 8pm £tbc, Dollydagger DJs Spinning in the bar for your drinking pleasure 8pm £tbc PROVIDENCE Ramona, Breakin Bear, The Maxibons Live music 8pm £2 R BAR Kinky Classics DJ King K mashing up the decks with some funky spunky house 12pm £free REVENGE Kinky Dangerous: The Sharp Boys With special visit from a boy band10.30pm £7/5/3 SUGACUBE Suga Sessions House music ranging from the chunky to the dirty 2pm £free THEATRE ROYAL The History Boys Alan Bennett’s boys at school play 2.30pm/7.45pm £tbc THREE GRACES 1st Birthday: DJ Fondue Inferno Come celebrate good times 8pm £free THREE & TEN Rusty Ryan DJ action 10pm £free VICTORY Up Against It Born Bad DJs play glitter beat, power pop, punky trashy bubblegum, hot slop, rag mop and other things too 8pm £free VOLKS Strictly Guestlist: As Loud As You Like It: Hoopz, Rachel UV, Dan Stoves, Moocher, Robbie Boy, SiGhTeK, Mr

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Vengance Hard house electro-tech progressive phatness 10pm £6 WEST HILL TAVERN If Reagan Played Disco Music circa 1979-90 8.30pm £free WESTERN FRONT DJ Action Alternative indie, disco, old skool dance and party classics for you to stick in your pipe and smoke it 9pm £free WORLDS END PUB 100% Conscious Reggae Reggae dub action all night 8pm £free XUMA DJ Night Mysterious no-name DJ takes to the decks 9pm £free

sunday 4TH

BELUSHI’S BAR 1st Annual Rock, Paper, Scissors International Championship Winner goes to Paris for the final.

For real! 8pm £free BLACK LION Sunday Sessions: Dubrockers Live Dub, reggae, ska, punk, trip hop and funk 6pm £free BRUNSWICK Rockskool Student bands perform end of year show 11am/3.30pm £5, Sue Richardson Jazz vocalist and trumpet playing 8pm £8 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK The Geekest Link Was your imaginary childhood friend a unicorn? Was Willow the best film like, ever? Does your Second Life avatar have wings and a magical mystical tail? Do you own a floor length leather coat?

Can you answer these questions and others like them correctly in Klingon? Good for you, this quiz is yours for the taking 8.30pm £1

COALITION Frequency DJs spinning house, breaks, electros 10pm £free

CONCORDE2 Finley Quaye, Tin Roots British reggae don plays tracks from three 2010 releases 8pm £10; Official Finlay Quay After Show Party: Unity Hi Fi, Sista Sessions, Tappa Roots, Natty Sax, DJ As-If Dub reggae action 11pm £3 DIGITAL Hospitality Bank Holiday: Logistics, Nutone, Netsky, Camo and Crooked, Utah Jazz, Brookes Brothers, MC Wrec, Darrison & AD Get down for some quality tunes 10pm £12.50

DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Lourdes 6.30pm; Kick-Ass 4pm/9pm; Food, Inc 11am ENGINE ROOM Death Angel, Crypsis Live thrash metal from California 7.30pm £12 FAIRTRADE GALLERY Chris Difford, Nik Barrel Live music as part of April Alternative Festival 9pm £6 FISHBOWL Easter Sunday Social: Jeff Daniels, Will Sumsuch Eggs and bunnies all dancing to hip hop and funk 9pm £free

FREEMASONS Easter Spunday Live music of your choosing, bring your mp3s 8pm £free FUNKY BUDDHA Drink, Dance, Repeat Bank Holiday Special Dan Doubledecks, Charles Green & Mikee Hollywood with an eclectic dance mix 11pm £5/3 GLOBE Easter Sunday Funday Decks and boardgames in the basement Noon £free; Hot Tip HiFi 100% pure Jamaican, man 9pm £free

GREAT EASTERN Jonny Green Live blues and rock & roll 8pm £free

HONEYCLUB Hed Kandi: Futrure Sound Bank Holiday Special: Nathan Lee, Gavin Koolman, Adam Butterworth, Lidia De Luca The future of house music to keep the weekend alive 11pm £10/12 HYDRANT Club Zygotic DJs DJs from that crazy club spoon feed our ears 8pm £free JAM Friends Electric Quirky Welsh electro-pop. Fun times!

10.30pm £3

KING & QUEEN Stick It On Popular night, visit stickiton.co.uk to apply to DJ 4pm £10/9 KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club Quality stand-up that’s much funnier than these listings 8pm £11/6 KOMEDIA UP Bent Double: Zoe Lyons Laffs a plenty for queers and chums 7.30pm £10/8 LATEST MUSIC BAR Joni Keen and the Euan Stevenson Trio The Ella and Oscar Tribute Show details tbc; Bark Like A Dog Blues Jam Join in or replace band members if you can play BB King, Jimi Hendrix, Cream etc 8pm £free NEPTUNE Alternative Music Night: Adrian Harvey Live acoustic rock Neil Young stylee 8.30pm £free OCEANA Cherry Drop Sunday Service Get trolleyed here and call in ‘sick’ on Monday, you heathen 9pm £tbc OM For Those Who Wanna Get Down DJ playing classic tunes 9pm £free PENTHOUSE Felt Up! DIY, craft, mess-making, music related events & projects 2pm £free PRINCE ALBERT Ninja Gun, Break The Habit, Just Panic, S.T.F.U., Wrecktheplacefantastic Live music 6pm £5 R BAR Sublime Sundays: Live Acoustic and Karaoke Rock soul and indie covers 12pm £free REVENGE Girls On Top Vs Vanilla Naughty Manchester ladies-night has fisticuffs with trashy Brighton night 10.30pm £5 ST JAMES TAVERN Pollito Boogaloo Live music 7pm £free SEVEN STARS Mike The Mic And Friends Mike and his pals give your ears a workout 4pm £free SUGACUBE Club Sunday: Bad Bunny Beats House music 2pm £free THREE & TEN Strung Out Sundays Music and such 8pm £free TRU Wild Fruit: Fruit In Wonderland: The Hoxton Whores,

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Neil Duffle, Jonny M Down the rabbit hole to this dark and fruity world, with your mad hat and top drag. Epic gay club night 10pm £10/8 VOLKS Labrynth Vs Zodiac: Easter Special: Lidia da Luca, Luke Folkes, Ross Bennett, Paul Bennett, Paul Hilditch, Altobelli, Jon Woodhouse, DJ Lucas Dark n deadly tunes 11pm £5

monday 5th

ANCIENT MARINER Quiz Hosted by the lovely Sarah with a boozy bonus round 8pm £1 BELUSHI’S BAR Quiz night 8.30pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Latin Mondayz Salsa & samba on the decks 9pm £2/free BLACK LION Happy Mondays Open decks and mics 8pm £free

COALITION Trash Mondays Eclectic student night 10.30pm

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DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Lourdes 6.30pm; Kick-Ass

4pm/9pm FREEBUTT Ice Sea Dead People, Kid Pang, Rooks What a terrible band name- let’s hope the music is better 7.30pm £3 FUNKYFISH Salsa Pimente All abilities 8pm £6 HOPE The H’Open Mic 8.30pm £free HYDRANT UPSTAIRS Club Zygotic Music from the Zygotes 8pm £tbc OCEANA Pure Filth Student night (read: cheap) for the fashionable and glam. Is this a contradiction in terms? 9pm £tbc OM CV DJ George Buko playing deeeeep house 9pm £free PONANA Fat Poppadaddys It’s an indie dance disco 10.30pm £2 PRINCE ALBERT Kill The Captain, Buntylooping, Whisky Face Live music 8pm £tbc R BAR Liz’s Quiz From pop music to the latest TV shows 12pm £free SIDEWINDER Poker night It’s about time for a gambling habit 9pm £5 WEST HILL TAVERN The Big Quiz Use your noggin 8.40pm £1 VOLKS Strictly Reggae: Big T Dancehall, roots, revival 10pm £5/4.50

tuesday 6th

ABOVE AUDIO Fresh Acoustic Random acts of liveness 7pm £free

AUDIO Club NME: The Molotovs, The Kensingtons Live indie and DJs 10.30pm £3/2 BELUSHI’S BAR Mod For It DJs playing ska 10pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Elements D&B 9pm £1 BLACK LION Tuesday Club Live sets and music joy 8pm

£free

CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK The Big Quiz 8.30pm £1 COALITION Don’t Forget - Fiesta R&B, disco, pop, funky latin and house music to shake your booty to 10.30pm £3/2 DIGITAL Glitterati Exclusive student night 11pm £4/3 DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Lourdes 6.30pm; Kick-Ass 4pm/9pm; The Last Station 11am FORTUNE OF WAR Open Mic: Anthony Whitehead Sing your heart out to the seagulls and sailors 9pm £free GLOBE Basement Cinema Classic and underground film screening 8pm £free HONEYCLUB Salsa Brighton & Latin Fever Sort out yr two left feet at the salsa & merengue lessons at 9, then stay for freestyle club action afters 9pm £tbc HOPE Slip Jam:B Long running hip hop jam, with open mics and decks feat a live PA from False Beard/Fat Suit 8.30pm £free

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JAM Friends Electric, Acusis Live music 8pm £4; Pot Kettle Black Indie club 11pm £2/1 JUGGLER Recorded Open Mic Night Have your performance recorded and take it away the same night to re-live the glory of performing to a pub full of strangers 8pm £free LATEST MUSIC BAR Funk Up: Chris Cape, The Eleven 37s, Storm Engine, Mista-kite Live music 7.30pm £3/2 LIFE The Vice Social Student dance night 11pm £3/2 OM OM-bience DJs playing chilled house 8pm £free PAV TAV Guerilla Rocks Rock, indie, metal & punk to mosh to 10.30pm £3/2

PENTHOUSE Broken Birdcage Indie, dub and electro

7.30pm £free

PRINCE ALBERT Young Electrics, The Vaudeville, I Am Your Hero Live music 8pm £tbc REVENGE Sound As A Pound: Ruby Roo Enter the raffle to win £500 11pm £1 SEVEN STARS Retro Cult Classic Film Nights Log on to www.sevenstarsbrighton.co.uk to vote for film to be shown 8pm

£free

SIDEWINDER Open Mic Night Come and play 8pm £free SIGNALMAN Quiz Test your wits, hosted by the Fat Controller

8pm £free

SUGACUBE Laidback Beats House music to chillax to 2pm £free

THEATRE ROYAL The Pirates of Penzance

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pirates, flat footed policemen and blushing beauties in the Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera 7.45pm £tbc XUMA Open Mic Various musicians for your aural pleasure 9pm £free

wednesday 7th

ABOVE AUDIO Doctors Orders A heavy prescription of hip hop and soul 7pm £free AUDIO Supercharged: Plastician, Tomb Crew Beats and treats 11pm £5/4 BELUSHI’S BAR Old Skool Sessions 90s house 10pm £free

BELUSHI’S BELOW Strapped: Student Night House, rock and pop 10pm £free BLACK LION Fresh Acoustics Local live music 8.30pm £free CASABLANCA Live funk & DJ £2/£1/free before 11pm COALITION Remedy Mid-week medicine of the musical variety. Expect R&B, pop, dubstep and commercial dance 10:30pm £3/2 DIGITAL Poundance Dance floor destroyers 11pm £1 DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Lourdes 6.30pm; Kick-Ass 4pm/9pm; The Last Station 11am FISHBOWL Fisherman’s Chronicles Acoustic jam open mic session 8pm £free FREEBUTT Mount Eerie, No Kids Clever alt indie from West Coast peeps 7.30pm £8.50 GRAND CENTRAL Harry Tricks & The Magic Number Live gipsy swing 8.30pm £free HYDRANT UPSTAIRS MC Tempo Live rap 8pm £tbc LATEST MUSIC BAR Phil King, Carrie Tree, Emily Baker DIY blues soul folk rock man 8pm £5 LIFE Broke? Dubstep, hip hop, D&B, house, electro 10.30pm £1 MARLBOROUGH Open Mic Go for it 8.30pm £free MARLBOROUGH THEATRE Silver Wednesday Old fashioned candle-lit cinema 7.30pm £Donation NORTHERN LIGHTS Prognosis DJs Pyschedelic adventuring into the progressive sounds of yesteryears, from all corners of the universe 8pm £free OCEANA Get Lost Student night 9pm £tbc OM OM-bience DJs playing chilled house 8pm £free PENTHOUSE Hunx and his Punx, Human Hair, Le Racket Awesome USA filthy queer band 7.30pm £tbc R Bar Alternative Beast Indie, rock and electro from DJ Beast 8pm £free SUGACUBE Bar Grooves House music 2pm £free THEATRE ROYAL The Pirates of Penzance Orphaned pirates, flat footed policemen and blushing beauties in the Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera 7.45pm £tbc XUMA Quiz Night 2nd place wins the biggest prize 8.30pm £free

thursday 8th

AUDIO Bastard Pop Musical mash up 11pm £2 BELUSHI’S BAR Karaoke 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Party On The Ceiling Two bands & DJ 9.30pm £2

BLACK LION Attic Monkeys 60s, 70s and 80s treats nicked from DJ Dad’s attic 8.30pm £free CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Brighton Bike Night Bikers’ social 7pm £free CASABLANCA Stitched Up Funky soul popness with live band and DJ 11pm £2/1 COALITION Secret Discotheque Retro disco, 80s pop and other ‘uncool’ tunes 10.30pm £3/2/1 CONCORDE 2 Bowling For Soup Massive pop punk outfit play tracks from their 7 albums 7pm £12 DIGITAL Robots In Disguise Quirky electro outfit on tour 7.30pm £10

DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Lourdes 6.30pm; Kick-Ass

4pm/9pm ENTOURAGE iPod Tastic Largest group gets to plug their ipod in for half an hour! Have the monopoly with your massive crew and subject the club to your fave tunes 7pm £free EXCHANGE Quiz Night Fire up your noggin for loadsa prizes 8.45pm £free FAIRTRADE GALLERY The Bobby McGees, Bella Spinks Live music as part of April Alternative Festival 9pm £3 FISHBOWL Residents Association Hip hop, funk, disco, world & house 10pm £free FREEMASONS noWax Live music of your choosing, bring your mp3s 8pm £free GLOBE Rockoustic Showcasing local live acts 9pm £free GRAND CENTRAL Swing DeVille Duo Gypsy jazz 8.30pm £free GREAT EASTERN The Swing Ninjas Lie country 8pm £free HANBURY King Creosote Fence and Domino Records talent Kenny Anderson gives us a healthy dose of psych-pop and lush folk 8pm £9 HOBGOBLIN Imperial Can, Fashanu, Onsind Live Music 7.30pm £free

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HONEYCLUB Fusion: Squiz, Ben-G, Matt Jiggens, Gazz Marlow, Paul Hillyer, Johnny M, James Martinez House, R&B, indie 11pm £3/1 HYDRANT Woodpecker Williams Live entertainment 8pm £free HYDRANT UPSTAIRS Club Zygotics Music from the Zygotes 8pm £tbc JAM Thursday Night Fish Fry Early 50s US rhythm & blues and original Jamaican ska 10pm £3 KOMEDIA STUDIO Spirit of Gravity Present Electronica and visuals 8pm £5/4 KOMEDIA UP BrokeNCYDE, Jeffree Star, Synthetic Season USA crunkcore for the kids 7.30pm £9 LATEST MUSIC BAR Catalyst Club It’s a debate with subjects ranging from voodoo to tinned meat 8pm £5 LIFE Shameless: C-Dogg, DJ Nause Spinning the best and worst of half a century 11pm £1 MARLBOROUGH Karaoke Sing it proud 8pm £free OCEANA Pound Party It’s another cheap as chips partaay, hosted by DJ Mike Panteli 9pm £tbc OLD MARKET Hoe-down in B-town: Kate’s Kitchen Band Live barndancing action and fundraiser for Brighton Crossroads.

Finally there’s a use for those dungarees 7.30pm £10/8 OM Thank Funk DJs playing funk 8pm £free PONANA Pick & Mix Taking requests 10.30pm £1 PRINCE ALBERT Clockworks, Us And Them, Phoria Live music 8pm £tbc; Bar Flipslide: Lucky Phil, Dave Mumbles Alive DJs 8pm £free PROVIDENCE The Lullabies, Mondo Kong, Target Girl Live music 8pm £1 R BAR Girls On Top Vs Emergency Room Warm Up!: DJ Fifilicious, Louise C Party tuuunes 12pm £free REVENGE Girls On Top Vs Emergency Room: DJ Smithy, DJ Louise C, DJ Fifilicious Dump your girlfriend and make out with someone else’s 10.30pm £4/3 ST JAMES TAVERN Stay Sick, Turn Blue Rock&roll, rockabilly, 60s garage 8.30pm £free SIDEWINDER Ants In The Carpet British music from 1980s to now 8pm £free SANCTUARY CELLA Top Banana: Nicholas Cooke, James Snodgrass, Benjamin Pritchard, Matt Whistler, Larry Dead, Neil Dagley, Jim Holland, Claire Parker, Sean McLoughlin Live comedy with 9 stand-ups hosted by Richard Massing 8pm £2 SUGACUBE Weekend Warmup Upfront house 2pm £free THEATRE ROYAL The Pirates of Penzance Orphaned pirates, flat footed policemen and blushing beauties in the Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera 2.30pm/7.45pm £tbc VICTORY Open Mic Night 8pm £free VOLKS Skank: Kromoestar, Inaound, Mickey Freeze, MC Papa Rudy, Ultrasound, 2manysteps, Moony, G-Flex Dub, bass, grime night 11pm £2

friday 9th

ABOVE AUDIO Above Audio Bar Sessions On rotation: Benji Boko, Andy Mac, James D’ley, Contraband, Senor Mick, Willerby, :Kinema: and Battery Powered 7pm £free AUDIO Milk Teeth Incredibly cool night with SPTRKT and Urban Nerds and chums playing grime and dubstep, just the way you like it 11pm £5/3 BELUSHI’S BAR Muy Loco Funky house, pop and danceoffs 9pm £free BLACK LION Molly Malone Live DJ action 8.30pm £free CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK The Infernal Salon Experimental live music from HRT and guests 8pm £tbc; Mish Mash Dj Mendees spins metal and goth 9pm £free CASABLANCA RetroElectric Who’s got the funk? Live band plays 10pm £5 COALITION David Rodigan & Nextmen Soul Safari XR2, David ‘Ram Jam’ Rodigan, The Nextmen and MC Wrec are making it happen, get down and feel the viiibes 10pm £12.50 COBBLER’S THUMB Flip & Trip: DJs Nimmo, Toxic Nonsense Get down with the old-skool hip hop 8pm £free CONCORDE2 Candi Staton We’ve ‘got the love’ for this legendary Soul artist 7pm £18; Candi Staton Official After Party DJ Mick Fuller spins some classics 11pm £free DIGITAL Stonelove Indie rock&roll night 11pm £5/4 DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA I Am Love 4pm/9pm ENTOURAGE Fresh Fridays Student friendly night 8pm £free

FAIRTRADE GALLERY Mary Hampton, Serafina Steer, Robert Stillman Live music as part of April Alternative Festival

9pm £5

FISHBOWL Blackbelt Jonez ‘Beans on Toast’ radio show fella brings us hip hop and funk times 9pm £free FORTUNE OF WAR Shake Hands Lets Party Lady DJs So Molly, Heidi, Pippa, Bianca playing tunes from past 50 years 9pm £free FREEMASONS Friday Fling Tunes to keep you alive 8pm £free FUNKY BUDDHA Drink, Dance, Repeat Dan Doubledecks, Charles Green & Mikee Hollywood with an eclectic dance mix 11pm £5/3 FUNKYFISH The Funkyfish Club Funky DJ Delboy spins 4 funky decades on 4 funky decks. How many funky hands does this funky man have? 10pm £6/3.50 GLOBE Music Is The Answer: Johnny Jones Eclectic selection with an eclectic direction 9pm £free GRAND CENTRAL Tracks: Dan, Niall, Stu Shake your ass

to hip hop, disco, house, dub and breaks 8pm £free HEIST Soul Damn Funky House music of various persuasions 9pm £free HONEYCLUB Kidology London clubnight comes to the sea, featuring Mark Wilkinson (aka Dab Hands) spinning house 9pm £tbc HOVE PARK TAVERN Ginger Flowers Live music 8pm £free HYDRANT Bipolar Music ups and downs 8pm £free INK Muzika: TheDrunkPunks, Hardworx, Coxy, Lil Alex, Justin Howard Fashion fun and flirtation 9pm £7/5 JAM Live And Love Showcasing talent, with peformances from James Robinson and James Lown 7.30pm £5/4; Don’t Stop Believin’ No genre or decade, classic after classic 11pm £4/3 JAZZ PLACE Tongues It’s a post-punk French disco. Ooh la la 11pm £4/3 JUGGLER JellyApe One man ska band featuring a ukelele AND a gameboy 8pm £free KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club Stand-up shenanigans 7.30pm £14.50/10 KOMEDIA STUDIO Brighton Jazz Club: Jake Goss ‘Banyan’ 8pm £12/10 LATEST MUSIC BAR Charity Chuckle Monthly stand-up for comedy for a good cause 8pm £5; Frockabilly Queer run, straight friendly rock&roll and rockabilly night. A refreshing change from gossiping and getting trashed at R-bar 10pm £5 LIFE Big Fish Little Fish Cardboard Box: Style of Eye Fidget, bass, electro 11pm £6/5/4 LOFT Club Malicious: Pete Von Sleaze Playing alternative sleaze and cheese, you lucky thing 9pm £5/3/2 MARLBOROUGH Q&A (Queer & Alternative) Guest DJs, free pool 5pm £free NEPTUNE Alternative music night: Robert Brown Folk rock 8.30pm £free OCEANA The World In One Night 7 themed rooms to stumble around in 8pm £tbc OM Something For The Weekend DJ playing house 9pm £free PAV TAV Kick Out The Jams: DJs Dynamite Sal, Eddie The Goatboy, Steve and Muffy Indie night 11pm £3 PENTHOUSE Lilo Feast Across the board non-hipster music for hipsters (they’ll hate that description) 7.30pm £free PONANA Ice Box: DJ Washington R&B and hip hop treats 10.30pm £3 PRINCE ALBERT The Grit Live music 8pm £tbc PROVIDENCE Armen, The Hi-Sides, Goldrush Radio, Neil Sullivan Live music 8pm £2 R BAR Tops & Bottoms: DJ Smithy Funky bunky hunky house 12pm £free REVENGE Lollipop Gleeks Vs Peachy: Alex Barker, Stewart T, King K House treats and manly meats 10.30pm £5/3 SUGACUBE Suga Sessions House music ranging from the chunky to the dirty 2pm £free THEATRE ROYAL The Pirates of Penzance Orphaned pirates, flat footed policemen and blushing beauties in the Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera 7.45pm £tbc THREE GRACES Rebel Rebel: DJ Aquarius Mystery musical treats 8.30pm £free THREE & TEN Ruff Snippets DJ action 10pm £free TOM’S BAR Processed Meat: DJ Aye Aye, Beast Super queer super fun times with peeps who actually bother to dress up. This month’s theme is masked ball, so bring your face 10pm £3 VOLKS Carbon D&B party 11pm £tbc WEST HILL TAVERN Brains With the Superheros of BMX 9pm £free WESTERN FRONT DJ Action Alternative indie, disco, old skool dance and party classics for you to stick in your pipe and smoke 9pm £free WORLDS END PUB Get Rhythm: Hootenanny Get down with the live American roots 8pm £free

saturday 10th

AUDIO Club: SOL Winter Sessions House, electro & techno treats 11pm £free BELUSHI’S BAR Credit Crunch Saturdays Live acoustic duo 9pm £free

BELUSHI’S BELOW Good Times: Retro Disco Party 9pm £5

BLACK LION Medium Rare Rare funk grooves if you like being funky and strutting your funky stuff 8.30pm £free BRIGHTON CENTRE Bad Company Original members reunited to do eight special shows 7.30pm £34.50 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Oliver Orion, Pog Live music 8pm £tbc; Circuitry Industrial, electro, and digital hardcore 9pm £free

CASABLANCA Funky Fiesta All aboard the soul train 10pm £7

COALITION Floorplay: Martin Ten Yelden, Prok & Fitch, Lee Garrett Classic pop club night 10.30pm £10/8/7; Blow After Party: Vincent Manganaro, Alex Outram, Aaron Palaez 3am £7/5/4 COBBLER’S THUMB FBM Tribute Night Documentary premiere and fancy dress for the kings of BMX 8pm £free CONCORDE2 Thank You Anyway Brighton 4-piece rock the

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Concorde 7pm £5; It’s Free And Full Of Bass!!: Nicky Blackmarket, Lunarcy Soundsystem, Mr Natural, Junglizm Cru, Youngsta, Unity HiFi Dirty D&B, dubstep, breaks, house, electro, yo! 11pm £free DIGITAL Sub Prime: Caspa, The Others, Rod Azlan, Subsplash DJs Live beat action 11pm £11 DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA I Am Love 4pm/9pm; Fantastic Mr Fox 11am ENGINE ROOM Snake Eyed Mamas Club Live music with DJs playing rock&roll and 50s R&B 11pm £4 ENTOURAGE Release: DJ Ash Playing weekend grooves 8pm £free FAIRTRADE GALLERY Zion & The White Boys, Carl Finlay Live music as part of April Alternative Festival 9pm £5 FISHBOWL Sumsuch Latenite Lounging Records boss returns to take you on a journey through house 9pm £free FORTUNE OF WAR Deck Chairs: Flevans Expect soul, funk, breaks, dub, hip hop, house, TUUUNES 9pm £free FREEBUTT Clayton Strange Live music 7.30pm £free FREEMASONS Saturday Showdown DJ Resident keeps the music flowing 8pm £free FUNKY BUDDHA Buddha Soul: DJ Mike Pantelli Funk, soul, R&B, house 11pm £10; After party 3am £5 FUNKYFISH Brighton Comedy Club 4 comedians to make you laff 7pm £14.95 The Funkyfish Club Funky DJ Delboy spins 4 funky decades on 4 funky decks. How many funky hands does this funky man have? 10pm £6/3.50 GLOBE Disted Twisco Broken beats and underground soul music 9pm £free GRAND CENTRAL Panda Bear, Noise Attack Dissonant pop, obscure hip hop and synth-tastic space disco biscuits to dip in your beer 9pm £free GREENHOUSE EFFECT I Ludicrous, Fractured, Dog End Disco Live music and DJ Ian Part Time 8pm £5 HANBURY We Luv Pop Outrageous pop party 6pm £8/6 HECTORS HOUSE Stay Sick!: King Salami, Black Rash Live treats from the King of luncheon meat and DJs playing garage, punk, rock&roll 8pm £free HEIST Home: Sean Quinn House music of various persuasions 9pm £free HONEYCLUB Sevensins: John Byrne Pumping house, techno, electro 11pm £10 HYDRANT Vitas’ Birthday, Wide Eyed Order, Los Tos Some ska punk to get you in the mood 8pm £free JAM The Emperor’s New Clones Pres. David E. Sugar, My Toys Like Me New night new new new live electronics, indie and pop 10.30pm £7 JUGGLER DJ Lamp R&B, dance and jazz tunes continued from the day before 8pm £free KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club Stand-up shenanigans 7pm/10.30pm £17.50/15 KOMEDIA UP The King Blues Acoustic punks 7pm £9.50; Brighton Rock 40 years of classic rock and metal 11pm £6/5 KOMEDIA STUDIO Stone To The Bone - 1st Birthday feat Chris ‘Da Doo Ron Ron’ & Jon ‘Born Bad’ playing disco, motown grooves 11pm £5 LIFE Hold Up! Indie night 11pm £5 MARLBOROUGH Cherry Pop DJ Fondue Inferno brings the cheese 8pm £free MARLBOROUGH THEATRE Tom’s Salon: Your Country Needs You 1940s queer cabaret with prizes for the best costumes 8pm £5/4 OCEANA The World In One Night 7 themed rooms to stumble around in 8pm £tbc OLD MARKET The Perils, The Laylanas, Strange Animals, DJs Vito Benito & Agenda Blender Charity fundraiser of mayhem and mystery in aid of the earthquake victims of Haiti 7pm £15/10 OM Beatsworkin & Knee Deep: Mark Allister, Mike Decourcy DJs playing tech house treats 9pm £free PAV TAV Back To The Future Indie, dance, pop, rock from the decades 11pm £3/2 PENTHOUSE Eagle Legs Riot grrl, soul, indie 7.30pm £free PONANA Scandal: DJ Dre R&B and commercial chart 10pm £tbc PRINCE ALBERT Deadbeat Descendant, The Orphans Live music 8pm £tbc PROVIDENCE We Are Jonah, Paper Faces Live music 8pm £2 R BAR Kinky Classics DJ King K mashing up the decks with some funky spunky house 12pm £free REVENGE Kinky Dangerous With DJs Stewart T and Smiffy, playing pop and house 10.30pm £5/3 SIDEWINDER Shakedown: Shades Of Blue Funk vs Jazz feat steelzawheelz & drift 8pm £free SUGACUBE Suga Sessions House music ranging from the chunky to the dirty 2pm £free THEATRE ROYAL The Pirates of Penznace Orphaned pirates, flat footed policemen and blushing beauties in the Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera 2.30pm/7.45pm £tbc THREE & TEN Matt Barker Tunes and beats and solid grooves 10pm £free VICTORY Fernando Poo Indie fuzz, mash up and general strangeness 9pm £free VOLKS Black Box 5th Birthday Bash: Dave the Drummer Fresh mash-up dubstep stylee 11pm £8/6 WEST HILL TAVERN Tonight We Fly Epic cinema tunes for the romantically doomed 9pm £free WESTERN FRONT DJ Action Alternative indie, disco, old skool dance and party classics for you to stick in your pipe and smoke 9pm £free

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WORLDS END PUB Videostars! From 1980 to now, an indie rock journey 8pm £free XUMA DJ Night Mysterious no-name DJ takes to the decks 9pm £free

sunday 11th

BELUSHI’S BAR Open Mic Session 8.30pm £free BLACK LION Djangonauts Live swingin’ gypsy jazz quintet 6pm £free

COALITION Frequency DJs playing house 10.30pm £free CONCORDE2 Plan B Ben Drew promises an intimate performance 7pm £sold out CORN EXCHANGE Joanna MacGregor Classical recital 8pm £18/15/10

DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA I Am Love 4pm/9pm; Where The Wild Things Are 11am FISHBOWL Recovery?: Asbest The Moor King Totally chilled blend of rare raggae and soul 9pm £free GLOBE Sunday Funday Decks and boardgames in the basement Noon £free GREAT EASTERN Stuart Reed Live country 8pm £free HONEYCLUB Spectrum: Jon Byrne & Steven James Sexy house to keep the weekend alive 11pm £3/2 KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club: Susan Murry, Addy Borgh, Josh Howie Stand-up shenanigans 8pm £11/6; Brighton Rock 4 decades of solid rock and metal for you to shake your hair to 11pm £6 LATEST MUSIC BAR The Hornblower Brothers, Curly Hair, Flash Bang Band Jazz tropical punk band give us a tune or three from their popular Adeventures in the National Geographic album 6pm £4 MRS FITZHERBERTS Zora & The Tatsmiths Punk jazz folk trio 8pm £free OM Sunday Shoutin: Lee Garratt DJ playing classic tunes 9pm £free

PRINCE ALBERT Conquest of Steel, Contant State of Terror, Whole In The Head, Brutal Regime Live music of the heavy persuasion 7pm £tbc SEVEN STARS Mike The Mic And Friends Mike and his pals give your ears a workout 4pm £free SUGACUBE Club Sunday Filthy dirty house music for your filthy dirty ears 2pm £free THEATRE ROYAL Debbie Reynolds Celebrating 50 years of show biz 7.30pm £tbc THREE & TEN Strung Out Sundays Live music of the acoustic nature 8pm £free WORLDS END PUB Mr Bullocks Sunday Club Open mike and acoustic loveliness 8pm £free

monday 12th

ANCIENT MARINER Quiz Hosted by the lovely Sarah with a boozy bonus round 8pm £1 BELUSHI’S BAR Quiz Night 8.30pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Latin Mondayz Salsa & samba on the decks 9pm £2/free BLACK LION Happy Mondays Open decks and mics 5pm £free

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DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA I Am Love 4pm/9pm; Angus & Julia Stone, Alan Pownall Surf-folk duo bring the sunshine 9pm £12

FREEBUTT Royal Bangs, Grow Claws Quirky indie electronica from Tennesssee quartet 7.30pm £6 FUNKYFISH Salsa Pimente All abilities 8pm £6 HOPE The H’Open Mic 8.30pm £free LIFE Aka Aka Roar: Unlikely, Ben White, Tessiture Inspirational dubstep 11pm £3/2 OCEANA Pure Filth Student night (read: cheap) for the fashionable and glam. Is this a contradiction in terms? 9pm £tbc

OLD MARKET City Books: Jim Crace With 9 previous books, this Birmingham based writer shares his words 6.30pm £6

OM CV DJ George Buko playing deeeeep house 9pm £free PENTHOUSE Beach Coma Killing hundreds of musical birds with two decks 8pm £free PONANA Fat Poppadaddys It’s an indie dance disco 10.30pm £2 R BAR Quiz With Liz 8pm £1 SIDEWINDER Poker night It’s about time for a gambling habit 9pm £5 THREE GRACES Pub Quiz Swot up 8.30pm £free VOLKS Strictly Reggae: Big T Dancehall, roots, revival 10pm £5/4.50

tuesday 13th

ABOVE AUDIO Fresh Acoustic Random acts of liveness 7pm £free

AUDIO Club NME: Dan Shears Indie and such 10.30pm

£3/2

THE BASEMENT Tom White Brakes and Electric Soft Parade frontman gives us aural pleasure 8pm £7

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BELUSHI’S BAR Mod For It Scooterist sounds 10pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Elements D&B 9pm £1 BLACK LION Tuesday Club Live sets and music joy 8pm £free

CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Skeptics In The Pub With Professor Zoltan Dienes 8pm £2 COALITION Don’t Forget - Fiesta R&B, disco, pop, funky latin and house music to shake your booty to 10.30pm £3/2 CONCORDE2 Joshua Radin You may recognise his music from Grey’s Anatomy and American Idol, this fella’s self taught don’t ya know 7pm £10 DIGITAL Glitterati Exclusive student night 11pm £4/3 DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA I Am Love 4pm/9pm; Crazy Heart 11am FORTUNE OF WAR Open Mic: Anthony Whitehead Sing your heart out to the seagulls and sailors 9pm £free GLOBE Basement Cinema Classic and underground film screenings 8pm £free HONEYCLUB Salsa Brighton & Latin Fever Sort out yr two left feet at the salsa & merengue lessons at 9, then stay for freestyle club action afters 9pm £tbc HOPE Rizzle Kicks Checkout this blend of hip hop, pop and indie 8pm £3 JAM Out Of The Blue Live music showcase 8pm £3; Pot Kettle Black Indie night playing old and new gems 10pm £2/1 JUGGLER Recorded Open Mic Night Have your performance recorded and take it away the same night to re-live the glory of performing to a pub full of strangers 8pm £free KOMEDIA Brighton Rock Rock in its many forms (soft, hard, adult-orientated?) and even some of that metal stuff 11pm £6 LATEST MUSIC BAR The Crookes Live urchin folk 7.30pm £5

LIFE The Vice Social Student dance night 11pm £3/2 MARLBOROUGH THEATRE Improv Comedy Showcase With the kings of improv, The Maydays 8pm £5 OLD MARKET City Books: Rupert Thomson, Mick Jackson Readings from various novels 6.30pm £6 OM OM-bience DJs playing chilled house 8pm £free PAV TAV Guerilla Rocks Rock, indie, metal & punk to mosh to 10.30pm £3/2

PRINCE ALBERT Holy Vessels, Small Gods, Louis May and Band Live music 8pm £tbc REVENGE Sound As A Pound: Ruby Roo Enter the raffle to win £500 11pm £1 SEVEN STARS Retro Cult Classic Film Nights Log on to www.sevenstarsbrighton.co.uk to vote for film to be shown 8pm £free SIDEWINDER Open Mic Night Come and play 8pm £free SIGNALMAN Quiz Test your wits, hosted by the Fat Controller 8pm £free SUGACUBE Spanish Techno: DJ Unomass Deep dirty nasty house 2pm £free THEATRE ROYAL Oklahoma! Farmers and cattlemen on the Western Frontier 7.45pm £tbc XUMA Open Mic Various musicians for your aural pleasure 9pm £free

wednesday 14th

ABOVE AUDIO Doctors Orders A heavy prescription of hip hop and soul 7pm £free AUDIO Supercharged: Cyantific, Alix Perez Get your breaks on 11pm £3 BASEMENT White Rabbit presents: Are You Sitting Comfortably? Magic! Follow the rabbit to a 50s tearoom freaky party. Eat free sweet treats, make a wish, and be enchanted by a Special Guest Magician 7.30pm £6/4 BELUSHI’S BAR Old Skool Sessions 90s house 10pm £free

BELUSHI’S BELOW Strapped: Student Night House, rock and pop 10pm £free BLACK LION Fresh Acoustics 4 hours of local live music 8.30pm £free CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK The Funnier Farm Check carolineofbrunswick.co.uk for full line-up of funny folk 8pm £5 CASABLANCA Live band & DJ Soul funk pop treats 11pm £2/1 COALITION Remedy Mid-week medicine of the musical variety. Expect R&B, pop, dubstep and commercial dance 10:30pm £3/2 DIGITAL Poundance Dance floor destroyers 11pm £1 DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA I Am Love 4pm/9pm; Crazy Heart 11am FISHBOWL Fisherman’s Chronicles Acoustic jam open mic session 8pm £free FREEBUTT Liam Frost Live rock and soul from solo boyo 7.30pm £8 GRAND CENTRAL Harry Tricks & The Magic Number Live gypsy swing 8.30pm £free HOPE Purple Turtle: Blitz Kids, Exit International Intriguing music apparently 8pm £free JAM The Emperor’s New Clones: My Tiger My Timing Live music 8.30pm £7 KOMEDIA UP The Professionals The world of work (and how to avoid it). Featuring a themed open mic: ‘Jobseekers Allowance’ details tbc

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LATEST MUSIC BAR Lauren Pritchard Voice like honey dipped in honey, go see if you like honey 7.30pm £5; Terry Emm, Jinder, Alex Hall Clever singer-songwriter 8pm £5 LIFE Broke? Dubstep, hip hop, D&B, house, electro 10.30pm £1 MARLBOROUGH Open Mic Go for it 8.30pm £free OLD MARKET City Books: AC Grayling Readings from ‘Thinking of Answers: Questions in the the Philosophy of Everyday Life’ 6.30pm £6 OM OM-bience DJs playing chilled house 8pm £free PENTHOUSE The Outer Church Brain damage for the discerning psychonaut 7.30pm £free SUGACUBE Substance: Whitwell & Bence House and beats 2pm £free THREE GRACES AREACODE273 Music and such 9pm £free THEATRE ROYAL Oklahoma! Farmers and cattlemen on the Western Frontier 2.30pm/7.45pm £tbc VOLKS New Pollution: Student Sessions: Synamatix, Bringa, Skimish, Dubstar, Niotic, Keefos, Cut Swifty, Jepadee Dupstep, D&B 10pm £3 XUMA Quiz Night 2nd place wins the biggest prize 8.30pm £free

thursday 15th

AUDIO Bastard Pop Pop mash-up 11pm £2 BELUSHI’S BAR Karaoke 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Party On The Ceiling Two bands & DJ 9.30pm £2

BLACK LION Medium Rare Rare funk grooves if you like being funky and strutting your funky stuff 8.30pm £free BRIGHTON CENTRE Diversity Aiden Davis brings A Toy Story to life 6.30pm £18.90 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Brighton Bike Night Bikers’ social 7pm £free; Occulture HRT hosts this night of experimental music 8pm £free CASABLANCA Live band & DJ Soul funk pop time 11pm £2/1

COALITION Secret Discotheque Retro disco, 80s pop and other ‘uncool’ tunes 10.30pm £3/2/1 DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA I Am Love 4.30pm/9pm; The Adventures Of Prince Achmed 2pm ENGINE ROOM Rolo Tomassi & Trash Talk 4 boys & 1 girl play stuff 7.30pm £9 ENTOURAGE iPod Tastic Largest group gets to plug their iPod in for half an hour! Have the monopoly with your massive crew and subject the club to your fave tunes 7pm £free EXCHANGE Quiz Night Fire up your noggin for loadsa prizes 8.45pm £free FAIRTRADE GALLERY Nick Hudson, Glen Belt Live music as part of April Alternative Festival 9pm £3 FISHBOWL Residents Association Hip hop, funk, disco, world & house 10pm £free FORTUNE OF WAR B-Side: Ali B, Matt Neale, Foe Bottletop’s fundraiser 8pm £tbc FREEBUTT Peter Lyons, Kerry Leathan, Mr James Bright, Dogtanion Live music 7.30pm £tbc FREEMASONS noWax Live music of your choosing, bring your mp3s 8pm £free GLOBE Rockoustic Live acoustic showcase 9pm £free GRAND CENTRAL Swing DeVille Duo Gypsy jazz 8.30pm £free GREAT EASTERN The Crucks Live country 8pm £free HONEYCLUB Fusion: Squiz, Ben-G, Matt Jiggens, Gazz Marlow, Paul Hillyer, Johnny M, James Martinez House, R&B, indie 11pm £3/1 HOPE Rothko, The Stash Tins, Will Mussett, Hannah Burton, Conor Tide Loadsa talented peeps from singersongwriters to full live acts 8pm £tbc JAM Thursday Night Fish Fry Early 50s US rhythm & blues and original Jamaican ska 10pm £3 KOMEDIA DOWN Idiots Of Ants Fast paced comedy sketch show from Edinburgh festival sell-outs 8pm £12/10 KOMEDIA STUDIO The Humble Quest For A Universal Genius: Mark Allen, Danielle Ward, Michael Fabbri Comedians battle it out to win a rennaissance title 8pm £6/4.50 LATEST MUSIC BAR Cafe Scientifique: Phillip Moriarty Scientific progress and the economic impact facility 7.30pm £free LIFE Shameless: C-Dogg, DJ Nause Spinning the best and worst of half a century 11pm £1 LUCKY VOICE Acusis Live cover band 8pm £free MARLBOROUGH Karaoke Sing it proud 8pm £free OCEANA Pound Party It’s another cheap as chips partaay, hosted by DJ Mike Panteli 9pm £tbc OLD MARKET Youth Arts Festival Launch Night Showcasing works from talented bastards younger than you 7pm £free OM Thank Funk It’s Thursday DJ playing tunes 9pm £free PENTHOUSE Gray Matterz 80s music you will like 8pm £free PONANA Pick & Mix Taking requests 10.30pm £1 PRINCE ALBERT Duke Raoul, The Flash Bang Band, Parker and the Flowing Wow Live music with weird names 8pm £tbc PROVIDENCE Prowess, White Bus, Adhora Live 8pm £1

R BAR Girls On Top Vs Emergency Room Warm Up!: DJ Fifilicious, Louise C Party tuuunes 12pm £free REVENGE Girls On Top Vs Emergency Room plus Mini Viva: DJ Smithy, DJ Louise C, DJ Fifilicious Dump your girlfriend and make out with someone else’s 10.30pm £4/3 ST JAMES TAVERN Stay Sick, Turn Blue Rock&roll, rockabilly, 60s garage 8.30pm £free SIDEWINDER Ants In The Carpet British music from 1980s to now 8pm £free SUGACUBE Weekend Warmup House music and anthems 2pm £free THEATRE ROYAL Oklahoma! Farmers and cattlemen on the Western Frontier 2.30pm/7.45pm £tbc VICTORY Open Mic Night 8pm £free VOLKS Donkey Pitch Vs Lowriders: Slugabed, Coco Bryce, Ghost Mutt, Ruwedata, Co2ro, Beatnologic, Donkey Pitch Friendly soundclash action 10pm £3/1

friday 16th

ABOVE AUDIO Above Audio Bar Sessions On rotation: Benji Boko, Andy Mac, James D’ley, Contraband, Senor Mick, Willerby, :Kinema: and Battery Powered 7pm £free AUDIO Disco Deviant: The Revenge Disco and deep house from Pablo Contraband & Wolf Music 11pm £7/6 BASEMENT My Arm A story about an empty gesture and being an NYC icon 7.30pm £8/6 BELUSHI’S BAR Muy Loco Funky house, pop and danceoffs 9pm £free BLACK LION Dubrockerslive Dub, reggae, ska, punk, trip hop and the dreaded funk 8.30pm £free CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK DJ Lamp DJ behind Electric Chair comes to the C of B 9pm £free COALITION Evolution: The Uncontrolabelz, U.N.C.Z, Skibadee, FunstaMC, Harry Shotta, Ruffstuff 90 minute live showcase and some badass D&B, breaks and hip hop action 10pm £5

COBBLER’S THUMB Andrea Kenny and the Cavalry Jumblesale blues 7-piece to help you taste that summer sun

8pm £free CONCORDE 2 The Beat, The Meow Meows Awesome Two Tone ska band play 30 years of songs 7pm £15; The Beat Official After Party Da Doo Ron Ron’s DJ Simon Bridger keeps the peeps happy clappy 11pm £free DIGITAL Ellie Goulding, Primary 1 Sold Out show 7.30pm £sold out; Stonelove Indie rock&roll night 11pm £5/4 ENTOURAGE Fresh Fridays Student friendly night 8pm £free FAIRTRADE GALLERY Period Recording Launch Live music as part of April Alternative Festival 9pm £free FISHBOWL The Black Lodge & Ali Black Boogie and wonk special 9pm £free FORTUNE OF WAR Shake Hands Lets Party Lady DJs So Molly, Heidi, Pippa, Bianca playing tunes from past 50 years 9pm £free FREEMASONS Friday Fling Tunes to keep you funky 8pm £free FUNKY BUDDHA Drink, Dance, Repeat Dan Doubledecks, Charles Green & Mikee Hollywood with an eclectic dance mix 11pm £5/3 FUNKYFISH The Funkyfish Club Funky DJ Delboy spins 4 funky decades on 4 funky decks. How many funky hands does this funky man have? 10pm £6/3.50 GLOBE Cool Hand Luke Funk disco and general good time vibes 9pm £free GRAND CENTRAL Tracks: Dan, Niall, Stu Shake your ass to hip hop, disco, house, dub and breaks 8pm £free HANBURY Club Chat Noir 20s and 30s, 2 live bands, DJ Mike the Mic 7pm £9/7 HECTORS HOUSE Dirty Water Records: The Pricillas, Thee Exciters, The Misbegotten Live music 8pm £free HEIST Soul Damn Funky House music of various persuasions 9pm £free HONEY CLUB Lollipop Heavy dosings of R&B, hip hop, house, pop and more 11pm £tbc HOPE The Black Gardenias, Birdbeatsbaby, Bitter Ruin Female fronted retro rockabilly and indie mashup band. Oh boy!

8pm £free HYDRANT Chukin EP Launch Come and hear the live version of the recording 8pm £free JAM The Alfonz Live music 7.30pm £4; Don’t Stop Believin’ No genre or decade, classic after classic 11pm £4/3 JUGGLER Bunty Self improvising looping diva using her own vocal chords and a sound pedal 8pm £free KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club Quality stand-up 7.30pm £14.50/10 KOMEDIA STUDIO Brighton Jazz Club: Renato D’Aiello Quartet LIve jazz 8pm £12/10 LIFE Big Fish Little Fish Cardboard Box: Mowgli Fidget, bass, electro 11pm £6/5/4 LOFT Club Malicious: Pete Von Sleaze Playing alternative sleaze and cheese, you lucky thing 9pm £5/3/2 MARLBOROUGH Q&A (Queer & Alternative) Guest DJs, free pool 5pm £free MARLBOROUGH THEATRE Library Tapes, Woodchucker Swedish peeps play live 8pm £5 NEPTUNE Country Music Night Special: Hillbilly Deluxe Live country action 8.30pm £free NORTHERN LIGHTS DJ Prateek Metal gypsy dub 9pm £free

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OCEANA The World In One Night 7 themed rooms to stumble around in 8pm £tbc OM Pampero: Mimetic Monthly Spanish night 8pm £free PAV TAV Kick Out The Jams: DJs Dynamite Sal, Eddie The Goatboy, Steve and Muffy Indie night 11pm £3 PENTHOUSE Club Seal Oddball electro and pop for all you weirdos 7.30pm £free PONANA Ice Box: DJ Washington R&B and hip hop treats 10.30pm £3

PRINCE ALBERT Ramona, The Sarah Michelles, Bucket Joy Not sure about the music but the Sarah Michelle’s bassist has nice tits [Is this kind of casual sexual objectification of women acceptable if a girl writes it? It is? That’s ok then. Ed.] 8pm £tbc PROVIDENCE Telepathetic, Plastic Gangster, Whytel, Astrophysics Live music 8pm £2 R BAR Tops & Bottoms: DJ Smithy Funky bunky hunky house 12pm £free REVENGE Lollipop Gleeks Vs Peachy: Alex Barker, Stewart T, King K House treats and manly meats 10.30pm £5/3 ST GEORGES CHURCH Vashti Bunyan, Jane Bartholomew Female singer-songwriters 7.30pm £16 SUGACUBE Suga Sessions House music ranging from the chunky to the dirty 2pm £free THEATRE ROYAL Oklahoma! Farmers and cattlemen on the Western Frontier 7.45pm £tbc THREE GRACES Fall From Grace Mystery musical treats 9pm £free THREE & TEN Will Sumsuch DJ action 10pm £free VOLKS Future Dub presents: Celt Islam, Arkital Sound, Defcon One, Lowki, Ilodika, Mista k9, Rezound, Sebadee, Mooney, Unity HiFi Crew, Natty Sax, X Nation b2b Kosine, Lost In Music, King Spinner Dubstep night 11pm £tbc WEST HILL TAVERN Envy Electro synth hip hop joy 9pm £free WESTERN FRONT DJ Action Alternative indie, disco, old skool dance and party classics for you to stick in your pipe and smoke 9pm £free WORLDS END PUB Bass Like A Slapped Arse Hip hop, dubstep, reggae and wonk tunes 8pm £free

saturday 17th

ANCIENT MARINER Acoustic Sessions: The Magic Number Dixie swing duo gone wild 8pm £free AUDIO The Redfest Showcase: Ice Black Birds, The Valentines, Jouis, Kensingtons, Last Carnival Live music 7.30pm £4/3; SOL: Monsieur Monsieur, Schtumm! House, electro, techno 11pm £free BELUSHI’S BAR Credit Crunch Saturdays Rocket Dog’s live acoustic duo 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Good Times: Retro Disco Party 9pm £5 BLACK LION Burnt Toast Soul, funk, breaks, hip hop 8pm £free CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Cazza Karaoke Get your rocks off!! 8pm £free; Laugh Down Babylon Stand up from people who are probably funnier than you but for a few quid, who cares? 9pm £2 CASABLANCA Funky Fiesta All aboard the soul train 10pm £7 COALITION Pop Musik: Mattatat, Eddie The Goatboy, DJ Nause, Halfbeat, C-Dogg Tattoo parlour, popcorn & sweeties.

Check out Sparkle Motion, the in-house dance troupe 11pm £6/5; Blow After Party: Vincent Manganaro, Alex Outram, Aaron Palaez 3am £7/5/4 CONCORDE 2 Audio Bullys Return of the West London DJs 8pm £12.50; Supercharged: Scratch Perverts, Jack Beats, Nero Beats and jams from the kings11pm £12.50 DIGITAL Playroom Chart, mixes, chooons, electro-trance awww yeah 11pm £12/8 ENTOURAGE Release: DJ Ash Playing weekend grooves 8pm £free FAIRTRADE GALLERY Red Shark In Vegas, Conrad Vigoe Live music as part of April Alternative Festival 9pm £4 FISHBOWL DJ Abo & Ally Smith Dirty funk 9pm £free FORTUNE OF WAR Deck Chairs: Disco Shed Here to lasso you to their beats and put a smile on yr ugly mug 9.30pm £free FREEBUTT Caribou Live music from Canadian electro misfit 7.30pm £8 FREEMASONS Saturday Showdown DJ Resident keeps the music flowing 8pm £free FUNKY BUDDHA Buddha Soul: DJ Mike Pantelli Funk, soul, r&b, house 11pm £10; After party 3am £5 FUNKYFISH Brighton Comedy Club 4 comedians to make you laff 7pm £14.95 The Funkyfish Club Funky DJ Delboy spins 4 funky decades on 4 funky decks. How many funky hands does this funky man have? 10pm £6/3.50 GLOBE Donky Pitch Electro, hip hop, dubstep 9pm £free GRAND CENTRAL Panda Bear, Noise Attack Dissonant pop, obscure hip hop and synth-tastic space disco biscuits to dip in your beer 9pm £free HEIST Home: Sean Quinn House music of various persuasions 9pm £free HONEYCLUB Sevensins: Eric Kupper & Timo Garcia, Gavyn Mytchel Pumpking house, electro and techno from total legends 11pm £10 HYDRANT The Don Bradmans Tell Don I want my casserole dish back 8pm £free HYDRANT UPSTAIRS Gerry Berstine Live 8pm £tbc

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WESTERN FRONT DJ Action Alternative indie, disco, old skool dance and party classics for you to stick in your pipe and smoke 9pm £free WORLDS END PUB Cake Music that sounds like jelly, icecream and fondant fancies 8pm £free XUMA DJ Night Mysterious no-name DJ takes to the decks 9pm £free

sunday 18th

BELUSHI’S BAR Open Mic Session 8.30pm £free BLACK LION Sunday Sessions Presents Dubrockers Live Dub, reggae, ska, punk, trip hop and funk 6pm £free COALITION Frequency House, breaks and electro 10pm £free

CONCORDE2 Brighton Marathon Cashing in on being close to the finishing line, this venue’s open all day long with music and refreshments 10am £free FISHBOWL Recovery?: Asbest The Moor King Totally chilled blend of rare raggae and soul 9pm £free GLOBE Sunday Funday Decks and boardgames in the basement Noon £free GREAT EASTERN Dave Beckett Live blues 8pm £free HONEYCLUB Spectrum: Jon Byrne & Steven James Sexy house to keep the weekend alive 11pm £3/2 HYDRANT UPSTAIRS 12 Step Plan Live music to get you back on track 8pm £tbc KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club Stand-up shenanigans 8pm £11/6 KOMEDIA STUDIO Final Cut Featuring shorts you really must see, from award winners to quirky works 7.30pm £4 KOMEDIA UP Mari Wilson’s Threesome 80s soul icon with piano and guitar backing 7.30pm £15 LATEST MUSIC BAR The Jacqui Young Band, Culpepper Live Americana, blue and country 7pm £5 OM Sunday Shoutin: Lee Garratt DJ playing classic tunes 9pm £free PRINCE ALBERT The Accelerators, The Hotlines, The Murderburgers, The Atoms, The Redundancies, Beverly Kills Live bands 5pm £6 SEVEN STARS Mike The Mic And Friends Mike and his pals give your ears a workout 4pm £free SUGACUBE Club Sunday Dirty house beats 2pm £free THEATRE ROYAL Katy Brand’s Big Ass Tour Comedy sketch show 8pm £tbc THREE & TEN Strung Out Sundays Live music of the acoustic nature 8pm £free

JAM The Doctors Orders Pub Quiz & Clubnight with DJ Harry Love 8pm £6/5 JUGGLER DJ Lamp R&B, dance and jazz tunes continued from the day before 8pm £free KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club Stand-up shenanigans 7pm/10.30pm £17.50/15 KOMEDIA STUDIO Spellbound 1st Birthday: Sigue Sigue Sputnik 80s night for people who hate 80s feat legendary 80s psych-punks live 9pm £5/4 LIFE Hold Up! Indie night 11pm £5 MARLBOROUGH Cherry Pop DJ Fondue Inferno brings the cheese 8pm £free OCEANA The World In One Night 7 themed rooms to stumble around in 8pm £tbc PAV TAV Back To The Future Indie, dance, pop, rock from the decades 11pm £3/2 PAVILION THEATRE Lyngo Theatre: What A Wonderful World A playful interactive show for 2 - 5 year olds 11am/2pm/4pm £8/6 PENTHOUSE Ultrasound Dub, house, hip hop 7.30pm £free PONANA Scandal: DJ Dre R&B and commercial chart 10pm £tbc PRINCE ALBERT Club Meow Meow with Friends, Tubby Does Dallas Live music with weird names 8pm £tbc PROVIDENCE South of Saturn, Atra Cura Live music 8pm £2 R BAR Kinky Classics DJ King K mashing up the decks with some funky spunky house 12pm £free REVENGE Kinky Dangerous With DJs Stewart T and Smiffy, playing pop and house 10.30pm £5/3 SIDEWINDER Simply Dredd: Harry K It’s a reggae bootles party 8pm £free SUGACUBE Suga Sessions House music ranging from the chunky to the dirty 2pm £free THEATRE ROYAL Oklahoma! Farmers and cattlemen on the Western Frontier 2.30pm/7.45pm £tbc THREE GRACES Go Kat Go Mystery musical treats 8pm £free THREE & TEN Monkey Real monkey DJ 10pm £free UNITARIAN CHURCH Oddfellows Casino, Jason Pegg Lost lonely ballads and soft-spoken pop of the highest order. And it all sounds better in a church 8pm £7 VOLKS Frequency: DC Breaks, 6 Deck Special, loxy, D Double U, High Maintenance, Deceit D&B sessions 11pm £1 VICTORY Teen Dream 60s tunes 9pm £free WEST HILL TAVERN Artists only Bubblegum and synth pop, new wave, riot grrl, whatever 9pm £free

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monday 19th

ANCIENT MARINER Quiz Hosted by the lovely Sarah with a boozy bonus round 8pm £1 AUDIO Health Live rock from LA 7pm £9 BELUSHI’S BAR Quiz Night 8.30pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Latin Mondayz Salsa & samba on the decks 9pm £2/free BLACK LION Happy Mondays Open decks and mics 5pm £free

COALITION Trash Mondays Eclectic student night 10.30pm £3/2/free

DOME Chris Cunningham Award winning video artist presents a live multimedia AV show 8pm £20/16 FREEBUTT Ricky Warwick Pimping his unique brand of tough folk 7.30pm £6 FUNKYFISH Salsa Pimente All abilities 8pm £6 HOPE The H’Open Mic 8.30pm £free JAM I.O.U. Comedy Funny folks for the cost of a pint 8pm £3 KOMEDIA DOWN John Smith 20-something folk genius 7.30pm £10

KOMEDIA UP Robyn Hitchcock: Electric Soft Boys frontman gives us some tunes from memory lane as well as some very tall stories 7.30pm £12.50 LATEST MUSIC BAR The Ukelele Research and Development Society Open Mic It’s back to the 30s with the Hot Potato Syncopators crooning to classics 7.30pm £2 LIFE Aka Aka Roar: EI-B, Deadboy, Donga Inspirational dubstep 11pm £3/2 NEPTUNE Alternative music night: J’m & H Ska funk reggae 8.30pm £free OCEANA Pure Filth Student night (read: cheap) for the fashionable and glam. Is this a contradiction in terms? 9pm £tbc OM CV DJ George Buko playing deeeeep house 9pm £free PONANA Fat Poppadaddys It’s an indie dance disco 10.30pm £2 PRINCE ALBERT Willkommen Records: Laish, Kristin McClement, Adelaide’s Cape Live bands play honest, humble and uplifting songs 8pm £5.50 R BAR Quiz With Liz 8pm £1 ST JAMES TAVERN Pollito Boogaloo Live music 7pm £free SIDEWINDER Poker night It’s about time for a gambling habit 9pm £5 THEATRE ROYAL The Woman In Black Adaptation of Susan Hill’s novel 7.45pm £tbc VOLKS Strictly Reggae: Big T Dancehall, roots, revival 10pm £5/4.50

Tuesday 20th

ABOVE AUDIO Fresh Acoustic Random acts of liveness 7pm £free

AUDIO Club NME: Ice Black Birds Indie for the Redfest Showcase 10.30pm £3/2 BLACK LION Tuesday Club Anything goes music-wise 8pm

£free

COALITION Don’t Forget - Fiesta R&B, disco, pop, funky latin and house music to shake your booty to 10.30pm £3/2 CONCORDE 2 Efterklang, Heather Woods Broderick DIY Copenhagen band 8pm £10 DOME Boy George The Karma Chameleon visits our partytown to sing and dance and have costume changes. He’s got a new album out apparently 8pm £25/20 DIGITAL Glitterati Exclusive student night 11pm £4/3 FORTUNE OF WAR Open Mic: Anthony Whitehead Sing your heart out to the seagulls and sailors 9pm £free FREEBUTT Wooden Ships, The Misbegotten, Welfare Mothers Country-rock-indie band 7.30pm £9.50 GLOBE Basement Cinema Classic and underground film screenings 8pm £free HONEYCLUB Salsa Brighton & Latin Fever Sort out yr two left feet at the salsa & merengue lessons at 9, then stay for freestyle club action afters 9pm £tbc HOPE Save 6 BBC 6 music is facing the axe so back this night for the station that backs emerging talent 8pm £free JAM Pot Kettle Black Indie night playing old and new gems 10pm £2/1

JUGGLER Recorded Open Mic Night Have your performance recorded and take it away the same night to re-live the glory of performing to a pub full of strangers 8pm £free LATEST MUSIC BAR Magdalena Reising Scottish singer harpist gives us folk and jazz treats 7.30pm £6/5 LIFE The Vice Social Student dance night 11pm £3/2 OM OM-bience DJs playing chilled house 8pm £free PAV TAV Guerilla Rocks Rock, indie, metal & punk to mosh to 10.30pm £3/2 PENTHOUSE Felt Up! DIY, craft, mess-making, music related events & projects 2pm £free PRINCE ALBERT Fiona Sally Miller, The Occasionals, Albatross Live music 8pm £tbc REVENGE The Big Boogaloo Ball: Boogaloo Stu, Dolly Rocket Pro entertainers give us enormous knockers, tight buns and big hair, just how we like it 11pm £3 SEVEN STARS Retro Cult Classic Film Nights Log on to www.sevenstarsbrighton.co.uk to vote for film to be shown 8pm £free SIDEWINDER Open Mic Night Come and play 8pm £free SIGNALMAN Quiz Test your wits, hosted by the Fat Controller 8pm £free SUGACUBE Laidback Beats Sit, drink and chillax 2pm £free THEATRE ROYAL The Woman In Black Adaptation of Susan Hill’s novel 7.45pm £tbc XUMA Open Mic Various musicians for your aural pleasure 9pm £free

wednesday 21st

ABOVE AUDIO Doctors Orders A heavy prescription of hip hop and soul 7pm £free AUDIO The Pipettes Phil Spector pop revival, with a more modern twist 7pm £8; SuperCharged: Friction, ID Anthems and awesome mixes 11pm £5/4 BASEMENT The Travelling Band 6-piece peddling their sunshine-pop 7.30pm £8 BLACK LION Fresh Acoustics Local live music 8.30pm £free

CASABLANCA Live band and DJ Funk in the Latin Quarter

11pm £2/1

COALITION Remedy Mid-week medicine of the musical variety. Expect R&B, pop, dubstep and commercial dance 10:30pm £3/2 CONCORDE 2 The Underground Rebel Bingo Club Alternative gambling yeah 10pm £tickets only available at rebelbingo.com DIGITAL Poundance Dance floor destroyers 11pm £1 DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA The Cabinet Of Dr Caligari 9pm FISHBOWL Fisherman’s Chronicles Acoustic jam open mic session 8pm £free FREEBUTT Bear In Heaven, Nullifier, Mewgatz Brooklyn Krautrock 7.30pm £6.50 GRAND CENTRAL Harry Tricks & The Magic Number Live gipsy swing 8.30pm £free HOPE Lawson Young indie whipper-snappers 8pm £3 JAM Chuckin & Friends Ska and funk action 9pm £1 LIFE Broke? Dubstep, hip hop, D&B, house, electro 10.30pm £1 MARLBOROUGH Open Mic Go for it 8.30pm £free MARLBOROUGH THEATRE Silver Wednesday Old fashioned candle-lit cinema 8pm £Donation OM OM-bience DJs playing chilled house 8pm £free PENTHOUSE Play It! Themed fun with DJ action 2pm £free

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PRINCE ALBERT Take Three Girls: Sarah Petite, Ange Boxall, Amy Hill Female musicians 8pm £tbc REVENGE Death To Disco / Lost & Found: Lyndz Lohand, Louise C, Beast The ladies bring us indie beats 11pm £2 SUGACUBE Orange Wednesday: Steve Whittle House music 2pm £free THEATRE ROYAL The Woman In Black Adaptation of Susan Hill’s novel 7.45pm £tbc VOLKS 3D Fundraiser Student night for Uni of Brighton WMCP fundraiser 10pm £tbc WESTERN FRONT Phil Mills Authentic retro grooves with upbeat contemporary appeal 9pm £free

THURSDAY 22ND

AUDIO Good Shoes, Is Tropical, Rob The Rich Indie pop from your fave footwear 7pm £8; Bastard Pop Pop and indie antics 11pm £2 BASEMENT Scratch! Works in progress from new performers 7.30pm £free

BLACK LION Chef du Party: Out Of The Frying Pan And Onto The Flyer 5 decades of tasty tunes from Chef Oli 8.30pm £free CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Brighton Bike Night Bikers’ social 7pm £free; Off the Cuff Improvised, interactive, live TV show 8pm £tbc CASABLANCA Grand Majestic All aboard the soul train 11pm £2/1 COALITION Secret Discotheque Retro disco, 80s pop and other ‘uncool’ tunes 10.30pm £3/2/1 CONCORDE 2 Letz Zep 30 years of Led Zeppelin classics for you and your Dad 7pm £14 ENTOURAGE iPod Tastic Largest group gets to plug their iPod in for half an hour! Have the monopoly with your massive crew and subject the club to your fave tunes 7pm £free EXCHANGE Quiz Night Fire up your noggin for loadsa prizes 8.45pm £free FAIRTRADE GALLERY Dunia Flamenco Duo, Charley Villiers Live music as part of April Alternative Festival 9pm £3 FISHBOWL Residents Association Hip hop, funk, disco, world & house 10pm £free FREEBUTT Strange Boys R&B crew from Austin Texas 7.30pm £7 FREEMASONS noWax Live music of your choosing, bring your mp3s 8pm £free GLOBE Rockoustic Live acoustic showcase 9pm £free GRAND CENTRAL Swing DeVille Duo Gypsy jazz 8.30pm £free GREAT EASTERN Early Bird Special Live western swing 8pm £free HONEYCLUB Fusion: Squiz, Ben-G, Matt Jiggens, Gazz Marlow, Paul Hillyer, Johnny M, James Martinez House, R&B, indie 11pm £3/1 HOPE The Rifle Volunteer Indie acoustic pioneers 8pm £3 HYDRANT Rebellious Jukebox Live music from the eclectic rebels 8pm £free JAM Thursday Night Fish Fry Early 50s US rhythm & blues and original Jamaican ska 10pm £3 KOMEDIA STUDIO Rosie Wilby: The Science of Sex Comedy-take on the subject of attraction 8pm £6/5 LATEST MUSIC BAR Get Up / Stand Up Music and comedy to raise money for Cancer Research 8pm £5/4 LIFE Shameless: C-Dogg, DJ Nause Spinning the best and worst of half a century 11pm £1 MARLBOROUGH Karaoke Sing it proud 8pm £free MARLBOROUGH THEATRE Hannah Brackenbury Silly songs and plinky plonky piano in this music based comedy set 9pm £4/3 OCEANA Pound Party It’s another cheap as chips partaay, hosted by DJ Mike Panteli 9pm £tbc OM Thank Funk It’s Thursday DJ playing tunes 9pm £free PENTHOUSE Stop Rockin’ Fake Shit A big tasty RIPS sandwich. That’s rock, indie, punk and ska 2pm £free PONANA Pick & Mix Taking requests 10.30pm £1 PRINCE ALBERT Mary Hampton, Jim Causley, Jo Burke Glacial folk and accordian storytelling 8pm £5/4 PROVIDENCE Stars Down To Earth Live music 8pm £1 R BAR Girls On Top Vs Emergency Room Warm Up!: DJ Fifilicious, Louise C Party tuuunes 12pm £free REVENGE Heaven Vs Hell Weekender: Girls On Top Vs Emergency Room Hellish house and dressing up 10.30pm £4/3 ST JAMES TAVERN Stay Sick, Turn Blue Rock&roll, rockabilly, 60s garage 8.30pm £free SIDEWINDER Ants In The Carpet British music from 1980s to now 8pm £free SUGACUBE Weekend Warmup Upfront house and anthems 2pm £free THEATRE ROYAL The Woman In Black Adaptation of Susan Hill’s novel 2.30pm/7.45pm £tbc VICTORY Open Mic Night 8pm £free VOLKS Love Music Hate Racism: JFB, Sukh Knight, Riskotheque, Unlikely, Voytek, Jibba, G Double, Alys Blaze Heavyweight Fundraiser 10pm £5/3 XUMA Drag Queen Bingo: Trudy Styles Life ain’t a drag when you’ve got comedy and gambling under one roof 8.30pm £free

friday 23rd

ABOVE AUDIO Above Audio Bar Sessions On rotation: Benji Boko, Andy Mac, James D’ley, Contraband, Senor Mick, Willerby, :Kinema: and Battery Powered 7pm £free AUDIO Deadly Rhythm: Toddla T Dubstep from the maaaan 11pm £6

BELUSHI’S BAR Muy Loco Funky house, pop and danceoffs 9pm £free BLACK LION Attic Monkeys 60s classics, rare 70s, 80s hip hop treats 8.30pm £free BRIGHTON TRADES AND LABOUR CLUB Electricity In Our Homes Tongues present this night of post-punk and French disco. Ooh la la 11pm £5/3 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK The Vinyl Countdown Decades of tunes on scratchy circular plastic 9pm £free CASABLANCA Funk You Live music 10pm £5 COBBLER’S THUMB Root Around Reggae TUUUNES 8pm £free CONCORDE 2 Big Beat Boutique Reunion: Fatboy Slim, Bentley Rhythm, Cut La Roc, Jon Carter, Midfield General, Hardknox, Wildstyle Bob Nimble This is no doubt gonna be a killer night of beats and treats, but it’s all sold out, buggersticks!

10pm £sold out DIGITAL Stonelove Indie rock&roll night 11pm £5/4 ENTOURAGE Fresh Fridays Student friendly night 8pm £free FAIRTRADE GALLERY Ben Ottewell (Gomez), The Robot Heart Live music as part of April Alternative Festival 9pm £7 FISHBOWL Jeff Daniels Disco, funk, and soul soaked hip hop from newest signing to Team Fishbowl 9pm £free FORTUNE OF WAR Shake Hands Lets Party Lady DJs So Molly, Heidi, Pippa, Bianca playing tunes from past 50 years 9pm £free FUNKY BUDDHA Drink, Dance, Repeat Dan Doubledecks, Charles Green & Mikee Hollywood with an eclectic dance mix 11pm £5/3 FUNKYFISH The Funkyfish Club Funky DJ Delboy spins 4 funky decades on 4 funky decks. How many funky hands does this funky man have? 10pm £6/3.50 FREEBUTT Misty’s Big Adventure, Flash Bang Band, Yokoko, Amity Musical treats from the twee and lovely 7.30pm £5 FREEMASONS Friday Fling Tunes to keep you funky 8pm £free GLOBE The Soul Of Brighton: Mick Fuller, Paul Nicholas Deep soulful house and broken beats 9pm £free GRAND CENTRAL Tracks: Dan, Niall, Stu Shake your ass to hip hop, disco, house, dub and breaks 8pm £free HEIST Soul Damn Funky House music of various persuasions 9pm £free HONEY CLUB Union Students: Have you done all your essays? 11pm tbc HYDRANT Anal Beard, The Lovely Bros Ska punk legends 8pm £free JAM Bones Avant pop, hip hop and synth-tastic treats and sounds to woo ladies with 10pm £2; Don’t Stop Believin’ No genre or decade, classic after classic 11pm £4/3 JUGGLER The Djangonauts Sizzling swinging Gypsy Jazz Quartet 8pm £free KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club Quality stand-up 7.30pm £14.50/10 KOMEDIA STUDIO Brighton Jazz Club: Michael Janisch Sextet A tribute to Sax Summit 8pm £14/12 LATEST MUSIC BAR Sirens: Mad Hatters Tease Party Burlesque action with a wonderland twist 10pm £7; Jasmine Ava Band Live music details tbc LIFE Big Fish Little Fish Cardboard Box: High Rankin Fidget, bass, electro 11pm £6/5/4 LOFT Club Malicious: Pete Von Sleaze Playing alternative sleaze and cheese, you lucky thing 9pm £5/3/2 MARLBOROUGH Q&A (Queer & Alternative) Guest DJs, free pool 5pm £free MARLBOROUGH THEATRE Pre-Fringe Sneaky Peek Binge Music, comedy and weirdness showcase hosted by Johnny Acecraft 7pm £5 NEPTUNE Pappa George Singing the blues so you don’t have to 8.30pm £free NORTHERN LIGHTS DJ Oli Funk and soul tunes of the alternative nature 9pm £free OCEANA The World In One Night 7 themed rooms to stumble around in 8pm £tbc OM OM And Friends: Billy Nasty DJ playing tunes 9pm £free PAV TAV Kick Out The Jams: DJs Dynamite Sal, Eddie The Goatboy, Steve and Muffy Indie night 11pm £3 PONANA Ice Box: DJ Washington R&B and hip hop treats 10.30pm £3 PRINCE ALBERT Los Fantasticos, Squadron Leaders Live music 8pm £tbc PROVIDENCE Battle Of The Bands 2010AD: The Deal Was For The Diamond, Sweet Ether & Aim, Fire Live music 8pm £2 R BAR Tops & Bottoms: DJ Smithy Funky bunky hunky house 12pm £free REVENGE Heaven Vs Hell Weekender: Lollipop Gleeks Vs Peachy With DJs Stewart T and Alex Baker, King K and Richard Jones, playing electro pop and house 10.30pm £5/3 SUGACUBE Suga Sessions House music ranging from the chunky to the dirty 2pm £free

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THEATRE ROYAL The Woman In Black Adaptation of Susan Hill’s novel 7.45pm £tbc THREE & TEN Ruff Snippets DJ action 10pm £free VOLKS Analogue: Survival, Christina Nicola, Insight, LP, Cronicle, Sub Sector Live D&B night 10pm £5/4 WESTERN FRONT DJ Action Alternative indie, disco, old skool dance and party classics for you to stick in your pipe and smoke 9pm £free WORLDS END PUB Dub Fi Dub Dubplate injection from Platinum Vibes 8pm £free

saturday 24th

AUDIO SOL Sessions: Cagedbaby, Darid Parr House of electro & techno 11pm £free BASEMENT BAR Nedry, Lost Idol, Raf & O Live electronica and haunting vocals 8pm £5 BELUSHI’S BAR Credit Crunch Saturdays Rocket Dog’s live acoustic duo 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Good Times: Retro Disco Party 9pm £5

BLACK LION Burnt Toast Soul, funk, breaks, hip hop 8pm £free

BRIGHTON CENTRE The Australian Pink Floyd Cover band 8pm £33.21 CASABLANCA Funky Fiesta All aboard the Soul train 10pm £7

COALITION Wired: David Curtis Vincent Manganaro, Carlos Ruiz House and electro for you gyrate to 11pm £10; DPM (Afterparty) House, electro, and techno 3am £7/5/4 COBBLER’S THUMB Rebellious Jukebox Rockers, rollers, stompers and strollers yo 8pm £free CONCORDE 2 Horsepower: Uffie The lovely electro pixie is back to tease and please us. Get ready to Uff, with an Urban Outfitters fashion fair thrown in 7pm £10; Devotion: Dillinja, Original Sin DJs and MCs 11pm £10 COWLEY CLUB Experimental Extravaganza: Argument About Yellow, Bunty Live musical experiments and secrets 8pm £donation

CRANE KALMAN GALLERY Reflections on Photography Asking photographers ‘What have you learned from photography?’ Answers on a postcard and auctioned off 6pm

£free

DIGITAL John Dahlback Swedish house music producer spins some treats 11pm £10 DOME The Lightening Seeds If you despise generic overplayed pop from the 90s, don’t go to the Dome at 8pm 8pm

£22.50

DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA The Railway Children Part of 100th Birthday Celebrations, do some Edwardian dress-up 10am

ENTOURAGE Release: DJ Ash Playing weekend grooves 8pm £free

FAIRTRADE GALLERY Folklaw 1: Richard Warren, Brendan Casey, Steve Gullick Live music as part of April Alternative Festival 9pm £4 FISHBOWL Daddy Marcus Soul, disco funk 9pm £free FORTUNE OF WAR Deck Chairs: DJ Derek, DJ Stavros It’s a reggae party 9.30pm £free FREEBUTT Paper Tiger, Achilles, Atrodelic Live music

7.30pm £5

FREEMASONS The Roman Empire Strange opulent cocktails and general treachery 7pm £free FUNKY BUDDHA Buddha Soul: DJ Mike Pantelli Funk, soul, r&b, house 11pm £10; After party 3am £5 FUNKYFISH Brighton Comedy Club 4 comedians to make you laff 7pm £14.95 The Funkyfish Club Funky DJ Delboy spins 4 funky decades on 4 funky decks. How many funky hands does this funky man have? 10pm £6/3.50 GRAND CENTRAL Panda Bear, Noise Attack Dissonant pop, obscure hip hop and synth-tastic space disco biscuits to dip in your beer 9pm £free HEIST Home: Sean Quinn House music of various persuasions 9pm £free HONEYCLUB Sevensins: Don Diablo Get ready for that chunky underground techno-house sound from this Amsterdam based artist 11pm £10 HOPE Gaoler’s Daughter, Dorcia Checkout this blend of uplifting melodies and brooding harmonies which make up the genre of indie 8pm £3 HYDRANT Ska Bans Live music 8pm £free JAM The Recommender: Wild Palms Live music and battery powered DJs 9pm £3 JUGGLER DJ Lamp R&B, dance and jazz tunes continued from the day before 8pm £free KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club Stand-up shenanigans 7pm & 10.30pm £17.50/15 KOMEDIA STUDIO Da Doo Ron Ron Hip Shakin’ Mamas Special!: Chris ‘Da Doo’ King, Simon Bridger 60s girl garage nuggets and Motown mixes, what a treat! 11pm £6/5 LIFE Hold Up! Indie night 11pm £5 MARLBOROUGH Cherry Pop DJ Fondue Inferno brings the cheese 8pm £free NORTHERN LIGHTS DJ James Rock action 9pm £free OCEANA The World In One Night 7 themed rooms to stumble around in 8pm £tbc

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OM New Venture Launch Party Anything goes party 9pm £free

PAV TAV Back To The Future Indie, dance, pop, rock from the decades 11pm £3/2 PONANA Scandal: DJ Dre R&B and commercial chart 10pm £tbc

PRINCE ALBERT Dog End Disco, Fractured, The Park, Hi-Sides Live music 8pm £tbc PROVIDENCE Rock Night: Last Days Of Lorca, 900 Spaces, Hitomi Live music 8pm £2 R BAR Kinky Classics DJ King K mashing up the decks with some funky spunky house 12pm £free REVENGE Heaven Vs Hell: Kinky Dangerous With DJs Stewart T and Smiffy, playing pop and house 10.30pm £5/3 SIDEWINDER Danceteria: Bushy, Ed, Toast Disco, boogie, house and the dreaded funk 8pm £free SUGACUBE Suga Sessions House music ranging from the chunky to the dirty 2pm £free THEATRE ROYAL The Woman In Black Adaptation of Susan Hill’s novel 2.30pm/7.45pm £tbc THREE GRACES This Is My Epicentre Mystery musical treats 8pm £free THREE & TEN Rusty Ryan Tunes and beats and solid grooves 10pm £free VICTORY Teen Dream It’s a 60s garage revival 9pm £free VOLKS Dubstep Mayhem Filthy dub 11pm £tbc WEST HILL TAVERN L’amour Electronique Pop a la Francais and synth sounds 9pm £free WORLDS END PUB Repunk Live band action presented by the Frank Melina Band 8pm £free WESTERN FRONT DJ Action Alternative indie, disco, old skool dance and party classics for you to stick in your pipe and smoke 9pm £free XUMA DJ Night Mysterious no-name DJ takes to the decks 9pm £free

sunday 25th

AUDIO Sunday Sundae It must be almost summer since it’s the return of getting mish mashed with the beautiful peeps on ‘the day of rest’. Expect house classics 8pm £free BELUSHI’S BAR Open Mic Session 8.30pm £free BLACK LION Sunday Sessions: Dubrockers Live Dub, reggae, ska, punk, trip hop and funk 6pm £free COALITION Frequency House, breaks, electro 10.30pm £free CONCORDE 2 Shakespears Sister 80s and 90s synth pop band return after a 13 year hiatus. Get your lighters ready for ‘Stay’ 7.30pm £14 DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA The Roots And Branches Of American Music 8.30pm ENGINE ROOM Sonic Boom Six: Knock Out, Meatloaf at St Mary’s, Twice As Nice Soundclash action with dancefloor savvy reggae, hip hop and punk 7.30pm £8 FISHBOWL Recovery?: Asbest The Moor King Totally chilled blend of rare raggae and soul 9pm £free FREEBUTT Your Twenties Synthy bloops and beeps, lush harmonies and frenzied guitar from Gabriel of Metronomy fame 7.30pm £7/6 GLOBE Sunday Funday Decks and boardgames in the basement Noon £free GREAT EASTERN Harvey Bloom Live blues from the man formerly known as Jez Tonkin 8pm £free HONEYCLUB Spectrum: Jon Byrne & Steven James Sexy house to keep the weekend alive 11pm £3/2 HOPE Jazz Magazine Live session feat Eddie Myer Trio, DJ Adam King 6pm £free HYDRANT Blackbart Weird name, good music? 8pm £free KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club Stand-up shenanigans 8pm £11/6 KOMEDIA STUDIO The Maydays - Tonight’s Top Story Comedy improv from The Maydays 8pm £8/6 NEPTUNE Simon & Sleeze Acoustic blues 8.30pm £free OM Sunday Shoutin: Lee Garratt DJ playing classic tunes 9pm £free PRINCE ALBERT Winging it Comedy Afternoon Live funnies 3pm £tbc; Communion with Handshake, Holy Vessels Live music 8pm £tbc SEVEN STARS Mike The Mic And Friends Mike and his pals give your ears a workout 4pm £free SUGACUBE Club Sunday Dirty filthy house beats 2pm £free THEATRE ROYAL Witness for the Prosecution Agatha Christie at his best 7.45pm £tbc THREE & TEN Strung Out Sundays DJ action 8pm £free

a “merry band of bastards” 8pm £tbc FUNKYFISH Salsa Pimente All abilities 8pm £6 HOPE The H’Open Mic 8.30pm £free LATEST MUSIC BAR Funky Monk: Chukin, The Vibes, Pow! Town A night of funk, soul and dance for Cancer Research 8pm £5/4 LIFE Aka Aka Roar: Shortstuff Inspirational dubstep 11pm £3/2 OCEANA Pure Filth Student night (read: cheap) for the fashionable and glam. Is this a contradiction in terms? 9pm £tbc OM CV DJ George Buko playing deeeeep house 9pm £free PENTHOUSE Beard: Anything by Steven O’Malley Down in the dumps? Got the blues? Despise those happy-go-lucky wankers? Get your sorry ass down to this night of doom and gloom so you can glare at the person next to you through your pint glass before stumbling home to cry yourself to sleep 8pm £free PONANA Fat Poppadaddys It’s an indie dance disco 10.30pm £2 PRINCE ALBERT Born To Lose Live bands and DJs 8pm £tbc R BAR Quiz With Liz 8pm £1 SIDEWINDER Poker night It’s about time for a gambling habit 9pm £5 THREE GRACES Pub Quiz Swot up 8.30pm £free THEATRE ROYAL Witness for the Prosecution Agatha Christie at his best 7.45pm £tbc VOLKS Strictly Reggae: Big T Dancehall, roots, revival 10pm £5/4.50

Tuesday 27th

ABOVE AUDIO Fresh Acoustic Random acts of liveness 7pm £free

AUDIO Club NME: Sweet Sweet Lies EP Launch Indie and such 10.30pm £3/2 BLACK LION Tuesday Club Anything goes music-wise 8pm

£free

COALITION Don’t Forget - Fiesta R&B, disco, pop, funky latin and house music to shake your booty to 10.30pm £3/2 CONCORDE 2 Alphabeat, Eliza Doolittle Pop cuties do their thang 7.30pm £12 DIGITAL Glitterati Exclusive student night 11pm £4/3 DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA NT Live: The Habit Of Art

1pm FORTUNE OF WAR Open Mic: Anthony Whitehead Sing your heart out to the seagulls and sailors 9pm £free FREEBUTT The Safety Fire, Cycleman, Stone Cycle, Once A Wolf Live music 7.30pm £tbc GLOBE Basement Cinema Classic and underground film screenings 8pm £free HONEYCLUB Salsa Brighton & Latin Fever Sort out yr two left feet at the salsa & merengue lessons at 9, then stay for freestyle club action afters 9pm £tbc JAM Pot Kettle Black Indie night playing old and new gems 10pm £2/1 JUGGLER Recorded Open Mic Night Have your performance recorded and take it away the same night to re-live the glory of performing to a pub full of strangers 8pm £free KOMEDIA UP Amparo Sanchez Intimate yet energetic live music from sextet 7.30pm £14 LATEST MUSIC BAR The Sussex Jazz Orchestra Keeping the tradition of high quality music 7.30pm £3/2 LIFE The Vice Social Student dance night 11pm £3/2 OM OM-bience DJs playing chilled house 8pm £free PAV TAV Guerilla Rocks Rock, indie, metal & punk to mosh to 10.30pm £3/2 PRINCE ALBERT Lulla Violet, Labasheeda Live music 8pm £5/4 REVENGE Sound As A Pound: Ruby Roo Enter the raffle to win £500 11pm £1 SEVEN STARS Retro Cult Classic Film Nights Log on to www.sevenstarsbrighton.co.uk to vote for film to be shown 8pm £free SIDEWINDER Open Mic Night Come and play 8pm £free SIGNALMAN Quiz Test your wits, hosted by the Fat Controller 8pm £free SUGACUBE Laidback Beats Exactly that 2pm £free THEATRE ROYAL Witness for the Prosecution Agatha Christie at his best 7.45pm £tbc XUMA Open Mic Various musicians for your aural pleasure 9pm £free

wednesday monday 26th 28th

ANCIENT MARINER Quiz Hosted by the lovely Sarah with a boozy bonus round 8pm £1 BELUSHI’S BAR Quiz Night 8.30pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Latin Mondayz Salsa & samba on the decks 9pm £2/free BLACK LION Happy Mondays Open decks and mics 5pm £free

COALITION Trash Mondays Eclectic student night 10.30pm £3/2/free

FREEBUTT Crippled Black Phoenix Gloomy live music from

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ABOVE AUDIO Doctors Orders A heavy prescription of hip hop and soul 7pm £free AUDIO The Primitives, Lucky Soul Popular 80s indie band crash into town 7pm £12 Supercharged: Ac Slater, High Rankin Breaks with Krafty Kuts 11pm £3 BLACK LION Fresh Acoustics Local live music 8.30pm

£free

CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK The Funnier Farm: Isy Suttie

Stand up comedy from Rob Deering and six others 8pm £5 CASABLANCA Latin Quarter Live funk 11pm £2/1 COALITION Remedy Mid-week medicine of the musical variety. Expect R&B, pop, dubstep and commercial dance 10:30pm £3/2 DOME La Roux On The Gold Tour, catch this electro pixie while she’s hot 8pm £15 DIGITAL Poundance Dance floor destroyers 11pm £1 ENGINE ROOMS Dope Fight, Flies Are Spies From Hell, Arteriosus, Umlaut Live music 8pm £4 FISHBOWL Fisherman’s Chronicles Acoustic jam open mic session 8pm £free FREEBUTT Three Trapped Tigers, Talons, Sways Drumpads, peddles and samplers 7.30pm £5.50 GRAND CENTRAL Harry Tricks & The Magic Number Live gipsy swing 8.30pm £free HOPE Sound For A Pound Three guitar bands for....two pounds (bit of a misleading name for the evening then, eh) 8pm £2 HYDRANT UPSTAIRS Flies of Spies Live music 8pm £tbc KOMEDIA DOWN Hypnotic Brass Ensemble Chicago 9-piece 7.30pm £15 KOMEDIA STUDIO Popcorn Comedy Funny videos, standup and character comedians 7.30pm £16 KOMEDIA UP Show Of Hands Acoustic duo 7.30pm £16 LIFE Broke? Dubstep, hip hop, D&B, house, electro 10.30pm £1 MARLBOROUGH Open Mic Go for it 8.30pm £free OM OM-bience DJs playing chilled house 8pm £free PENTHOUSE Get Your Geek On A party force with bleeps and bass on their mind 7.30pm £free PRINCE ALBERT Speakyourheartout, In Gratitude, Portia Conn, Sam Little Live music 8pm £5/4 REVENGE Death To Disco / Lost & Found: Lyndz Lohand, Louise C, Beast The ladies bring us indie beats 11pm £2 SUGACUBE Bar Grooves House music ranging from the chunky to the dirty 2pm £free THEATRE ROYAL Witness for the Prosecution Agatha Christie at his best 7.45pm £tbc WESTERN FRONT The Biscuit Chronicles Fringe Festival preview show, expect an ODD sampler of acts 8pm £free if you book drinkinbrighton.co.uk/western XUMA Quiz Night 2nd place wins the biggest prize 8.30pm £free

thursday 29th

BLACK LION Chef du Party: Out Of The Frying Pan And Onto The Flyer 5 decades of tasty tunes from Chef Oli 8.30pm £free CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Brighton Bike Night Bikers’ social 7pm £free CASABLANCA Stitched Up Soulful funky popcakes 11pm £2/1 COALITION Secret Discotheque Retro disco, 80s pop and other ‘uncool’ tunes 10.30pm £3/2/1 CONCORDE 2 Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Dark Horses The support band is gonna knock you off your boots. We love Dark Horses and all their black magic. Too bad this gig’s sold out 8pm £sold out DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Erasing David 8.30pm ENGINE ROOM Discharge Old school punk with a disgusting name. Formed in 1977, mixing hardcore punk and metal 7.30pm £9 ENTOURAGE iPod Tastic Largest group gets to plug their iPod in for half an hour! Have the monopoly with your massive crew and subject the club to your fave tunes 7pm £free EXCHANGE Quiz Night Fire up your noggin for loadsa prizes 8.45pm £free FISHBOWL Residents Association Hip hop, funk, disco, world & house 10pm £free FREEBUTT Minnaers Live music 7.30pm £tbc FREEMASONS noWax Live music of your choosing, bring your mp3s 8pm £free GLOBE Rockoustic: Headstyle Live acoustic showcase 9pm £free GRAND CENTRAL Swing DeVille Duo Gypsy jazz 8.30pm £free GREAT EASTERN Amy Harrison and the Secondhand String Band Good ol’ bluegrass 9pm £free HONEYCLUB Fusion: Squiz, Ben-G, Matt Jiggens, Gazz Marlow, Paul Hillyer, Johnny M, James Martinez House, R&B, indie 11pm £3/1 HOPE Synthetiquette Electro themed night presented by Pause and DJ set from Videodrome 9pm £3 JAM Thursday Night Fish Fry Early 50s US rhythm & blues and original Jamaican ska 10pm £3 JAZZ PLACE Contort Yourself Postpunk, coldwave, jazz, live bands, projections 10pm £4 KOMEDIA DOWN Comic Boom Quality stand-up with Seann Walsh and chums 8pm £8.50/6.50 KOMEDIA UP The Blockheads, The Perils Legends playing classics 8pm £15 LATEST MUSIC BAR Knock2bag, Tim Key, Doc Brown, Colin Hoult, Brian Gittins, Delete the Banjax, MC Fergus Craig Loadsa comedians 8pm £8; Swing Fever 6 piece band

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a la Rat Pack 7.15pm £10/9/8 LIFE Shameless: C-Dogg, DJ Nause Spinning the best and worst of half a century 11pm £1 LUCKY VOICE Live Lounge: 900 Spaces Live cover band 8pm £free MARLBOROUGH Karaoke Sing it proud 8pm £free OCEANA Pound Party It’s another cheap as chips partaay, hosted by DJ Mike Panteli 9pm £tbc OM Thank Funk Its Thursday DJs Vince Frimpong, Jamie Wadman and Lee Garrett 8pm £free PONANA Pick & Mix Taking requests 10.30pm £1 PRINCE ALBERT Voodoo Glow Skulls, The Junk, Fighting Fiction Live music 7.30pm £8 PROVIDENCE Turncoat, The Tenth View, Perspex Wrecks Live music 8pm £1 R BAR Girls On Top Vs Emergency Room Warm Up!: DJ Fifilicious, Louise C Party tuuunes 12pm £free REVENGE Girls On Top Foam Party Vs Emergency Room Don’t forget your flip flops and beach wear. Less is more!

10.30pm £4/3 ST JAMES TAVERN Stay Sick, Turn Blue Rock&roll, rockabilly, 60s garage 8.30pm £free SIDEWINDER Ants In The Carpet British music from 1980s to now 8pm £free SUGACUBE Weekend Warmup House music and anthems 2pm £free THEATRE ROYAL Witness for the Prosecution Agatha Christie at his best 2.30pm/7.45pm £tbc VICTORY Open Mic Night 8pm £free VOLKS The Mighty Aba Shanti Heavy weight sound system.

Sound of Jah Lightening and Thunder 10pm £tbc

friday 30th

ABOVE AUDIO Disco Deviant: Pablo Contraband Join Pable and Cosmic Boogie for some slo mo house and disco classics 10pm £free AUDIO Killa Kella Beatboxing genius 7pm £tbc; Battlejam: JFB, Ed Solo Enjoy beer and rap with this super successful night of turntablism 11pm £5/3 BELUSHI’S BAR Muy Loco Funky house, pop and danceoffs 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Club Flash Brand spankin’ new 80s night 10pm £tbc BLACK LION Medium Rare Rare funk grooves if you like being funky and strutting your funky stuff 8.30pm £free CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK The Infernal Salon Live experimental performace for your host HRT and guests 8pm £free; Open House II: Citizen Wolf Art exhibition launch 9pm £free

CASABLANCA Live Room Live funk for you to strut your funky stuff 11pm £5 CONCORDE 2 Smash & Grab Brighton Launch Party: Queens of Noize, Baby Grace, Sally Sexface, The James Kendall Expect a photobooth, dress up box, 80s pop anthems, 90s hip hop and some slow dance action too- not to mention SOURCE’s very own Mr Kendall with his selection of show tunes and bhangra mash ups. What’s that you say Kendall? You’ll be playing love songs? Sorry, my mistake 10pm £6 DIGITAL Stonelove Indie rock&roll night 11pm £5/4 ENTOURAGE Fresh Fridays Student friendly night 8pm £free FISHBOWL Latenite Lounging: Will Sumsuch, Tim Mercer Expect disco, funk, soul, house 9pm £free FORTUNE OF WAR Shake Hands Lets Party Lady DJs So Molly, Heidi, Pippa, Bianca playing tunes from past 50 years 9.30pm £free FREEBUTT Carla Bozulich’s Evangelista, Mute Swimmer, Euchrid Eucrow Master craftsman, epic and dark 7.30pm £9 FREEMASONS Three Colours....Red Wear some red for some interesting offers 8pm £free FUNKY BUDDHA Drink, Dance, Repeat Dan Doubledecks, Charles Green & Mikee Hollywood with an eclectic dance mix 11pm £5/3 FUNKYFISH The Funkyfish Club Funky DJ Delboy spins 4 funky decades on 4 funky decks. How many funky hands does this funky man have? 10pm £6/3.50 GLADSTONE Zora & the Tatsmiths Bank holiday bedlam with punk jazz folk trio 9pm £free GRAND CENTRAL Tracks: Dan, Niall, Stu Shake your ass to hip hop, disco, house, dub and breaks 8pm £free HEIST Soul Damn Funky House music of various persuasions 9pm £free HONEYCLUB I love R&B: Squiz, Ben G House fused with a twist of hip hop 11pm £free HOPE Spark Female vox and dark mix of electronica and rock 8pm £6 HYDRANT UPSTAIRS The Jake Jon & Bisha Show Live entertainment 8pm £tbc JAM Don’t Stop Believin’ No genre or decade, classic after classic 11pm £4/3 JAZZ ROOMS Soul Casserole Funk, latin jazz and beats galore 8pm £4/3 JUGGLER DJ Kalashnikov Fierce fiesty funkadelic funk off 8pm £free KOMEDIA DOWN Krater Comedy Club Stand-up shenanigans 7.30pm £14.50/£10 KOMEDIA UP The Smiths Indeed Smiths coverband with DJs from November Spawned a Mozzer 8pm £10

LATEST MUSIC BAR Chris Cross Comedy magic show, not for the easily offended 8pm £tbc; Ska Toons Ska skanked-up jazz instrumentals and off-beat reworkings of classic pop 8pm £8/7 LOFT Club Malicious: Pete Von Sleaze Playing alternative sleaze and cheese, you lucky thing 9pm £5/3/2 LIFE Big Fish Little Fish Cardboard Box: Felix Da House Cat Fidget, bass, electro 11pm £6/5/4 MARLBOROUGH Q&A (Queer & Alternative) Guest DJs, free pool 5pm £free MARLBOROUGH THEATRE Not Just Another Pretty Face: Janice Perry Show with interval 8pm £10/8 NEPTUNE The Ammonites: Stomp Mike, Thesius, Nick Stuart Ska reggae 8.30pm £free NORTHERN LIGHTS Vappu Finnish Labour Day Party 9pm £free

OCEANA The World In One Night 7 themed rooms to stumble around in 8pm £tbc OLD MARKET Damon & Naomi Dream pop, folk, rock duo, formerly of Galaxie 500 7.30pm £8 PAV TAV Kick Out The Jams: DJs Dynamite Sal, Eddie The Goatboy, Steve and Muffy Indie night 11pm £3 PENTHOUSE MUFF Girls playing tunes by girls. Hot 7.30pm £free

PONANA Ice Box: DJ Washington R&B and hip hop treats 10.30pm £3 PRINCE ALBERT The Beautiful Word, Mine By Midnight, The Angry Pedro Live music 8pm £tbc PROVIDENCE Battle Of The Bands 2010AD: Deadbeats, Optimus Is Primed, Sugar Road, Black Cat Bone Live music 8pm £2 REVENGE Lollipop Gleeks Vs Peachy With DJs Stewart T and Alex Baker, King K and Richard Jones, playing electro pop and house 10.30pm £5/3 SANCTUARY CAFE Andy Thomas: Crimes Against Humanities Teachers School related comedy 8pm £tbc, Melons a Trois: Shoot it! Absurd sketch comedy a la Monty Python 9.30pm £tbc SUGACUBE Suga Sessions House music ranging from the chunky to the dirty 2pm £free THEATRE ROYAL Witness for the Prosecution Agatha Christie at his best 7.45pm £tbc THREE & TEN Agent T DJ action 10pm £free VICTORY Beans On Toast Radio Reverb Master Blackbelt Jones on the decks 9pm £free VOLKS Slackers Convention: Monk3y, Logic Beats, bass and party non-sense for the discerning under-achiever 11pm £5/4 WEST HILL TAVERN Envy Indie, synth pop, dance, hip hop glee 10pm £free WESTERN FRONT DJ Action Alternative indie, disco, old skool dance and party classics for you to stick in your pipe and smoke 9pm £free WORLDS END PUB Unity Hi-Fi Roots, dub and reggae just for you 8pm £free

Exhibitions

BRIGHTON MUSEUM & ART GALLERY From Sickert to Gertler: Modern British Art from Boxted House Where artists hung out after WW2 17 April to 12 September £tbc; The Spice of Life We can’t believe it’s taken so long for the curators to put together an exhibition of condiment containers and salt shakers.

Surely Brighton has been crying out for this Until 8 August £free CASTOR AND POLLUX Julie Doucet Linocut prints from chronigues de New York £free April 23 - 24 May CRANE KALMAN Cream Showcase of graduate photography talent £free Until 4 April HOVE MUSEUM Precious: Reclaiming Art & Craft Contemporary craft created from recycled tat £free Until 23 May INK_D Renegade Potters and Exreme Crafts Extreme craft show, from potters to subversive needlework Until 11 April £free IMPURE ART New Collection Featuring erotic and sexy art from Perry Sullivan, Sarah Batt, Katy Bailey and more 11 April until 31 April £free ORIENTAL HOTEL You Make Me Gay Brand guerillas, stencil and screen print Until 31 May £free PERMANENT GALLERY Platform-X (A) Max Mosscrop Resident artist showcase £free Until 11 April RODHUS GALLERY Terrain: Caitlin Hefferman Very visual art using paper and coloured pencil Until 24 April £tbc WEST HILL TAVERN Collages and Paper Cuts: Sarah Pain Exactly what it says on the tin 1 April - 30 April £free YORK PLACE GALLERY CubCulture: Women Taking over York Place studios with affordable screenprints, mix media, oil paintings and photography treats Until 1st May £free

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SIX OF THE BEST

CHILLWAVE WORDS BY LAURENCE DEAN

Chillwave is that perfect summer that always happened to someone else – days without end, lounging at the beach, driving up to the hills to watch the fireflies play amongst the dry grass, holiday romances and psychedelic substances that your cousin brought back from Mexico, oh, and you’re definitely Californian.

For a genre that only found a name last July, chillwave is blissfully rising ever upward. You can be fancy and trace its roots back to shoegaze, 80s synth pop or ambient house but in the end the feeling you’re left with is that M83’s album ‘Saturdays=Youth’ has a lot to answer for.

Washed Out

One man and his bedroom of delights. Slow, grooving synths and vocals that drip reverb onto the hot sand. Chillwave has been described as lo-fi, but as a rule a scene with this much delay and reverb can’t really fit that mould. Washed Out takes the houseinspired route to create ambient tracks that you can actually enjoy without having to imagine being surrounded by ex-hippies on a beach in Ibiza. An audio shot of pure post-coital bliss mainlined into the heart.

Neon Indian

Coming at you with song titles like ‘Should Have Taken Acid With You’ and ‘Terminally Chill’, experience the lovely analogue synth squelches and slow house beats of Neon Indian. It’s the sound of the house party your older brother went to when you were 14, recorded on VHS and watched back years later. It’s nostalgia, a fantasy, a blend of warm fuzz and breathy vocals that whisper happy thoughts at you from behind the haze of smoke...

Chillwave does so lend itself to being described in terms of childhood reminisence.

Best Coast

Their singer Bethany has a tattoo of California on her arm! While the last two artists are definitely coming from a land of analogue synths and chillout rooms, Best Coast are true Californians whose parents played the Beach Boys to them day and night.

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Lo-fi drums clatter behind reverberating guitars and crooning female vocals. Even though chillwave has been around for a gnat’s whisker of time, it has managed to develop a second wave of bands that have been co-opted into the scene. Like Best Coast, they evoke that same perfect childhood summer, it’s just that they do it in an even more analogue way.

Pearl Harbor

Piper and Sky, sisters and founding members of Pearl Harbor can so easily be the poster girls of this scene. Rocking the ultimate Californian hippie chick look, with long blonde hair bleached white from the sun and sea and a stoner attitude to rival Cypress Hill. Their sound is akin to Best Coast though maybe just that bit better. Sparkling clean guitars and echoing harmonies, rainbows over the surf, dreamy, distant and just a little sad. They’re signed to champions of chillwave, Mexican Summer, a label that also includes Washed Out and many others.

Bye Bye Blackbird

This band from San Francisco are midway between the sighing guitars of Pearl Harbor and the spiralling synths of Washed Out. There are so many bands that run in and out of chillwave territory – Ariel Pink, Black Moth Super Rainbow and the like – but Bye Bye Blackbird have both feet in the sand. There are hints of MGMT and Passion Pit, but in the end they are firmly stuck in the dreamy childlike realm of hands clapping, soda cans opening and burning leaves under a midday sun.

Memory Tapes

This six of the best wouldn’t be complete without Memory Tapes, the recording alias of New Jersey-based Dayve Hawk. Though from the gritty east coast, all thoughts of Atlantic storms and cold winters are banished as Memory Tapes provides the dancing at the end of a long day of wandering the hills and beaches of an imagined youth. We’re tired as the sun settles into the ocean, but we smile to our friends, head inside and blissfully drift off onto the dance floor. Tomorrow there’s a festival to drive to down the coast, with friends that never age and skies that stretch forever.

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