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volume 2. Issue 47 AUGUST 2012
state of brighton special issue Rounder records closes Street style goes harajuku
cajmere at schtumm - see page 24
save our shops
Amazon! What’s not to like? Cheap books, bargain CDs, amazingly weird reviews of Armando Iannucci tote bags. They even deliver right to your house. So why have we decided not to buy from them any more? Yeah, it bothers us that Amazon sells one in every four books in the UK but, more importantly, in the process of achieving that ubiquity they’ve paid no tax on £7.9bn of sales. That’s doing nothing to support the infrastructure of the country at the time we need it most. And it’s not just Amazon, it’s Top Shop, Vodafone, Boots and many others. It’s little wonder that shops like Rounder – closing after 46 years – can’t compete. That’s what this is all about really, supporting the shops in Brighton that you feel offer something to the culture of the place. Not just shops like City Books, Resident and Jump The Gun, but also the clubs and pubs, cafes and services that you feel Brighton deserves to have. This issue of SOURCE offers up some great indies to buy records from, and plenty of people doing good stuff for the city that you can support, as well as our thoughts on the state of the city. Let us know what you think on Facebook and Twitter.
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Personnel
Editor James Kendall ManageR Rosie Kendall Designer Matt Barker at Artwerk DEPUTY Editor Nick Coquet Sales Manager Annie Lorenzini listings editor Ben Bailey sub editor Stuart Huggett CLUBS editor Zac Colbert STAFF WRITER Amy Bellchambers Jessica Marshall reviews editor McHattie Kenny Mc Cracken Cover
Contributors
Ian Chambers, Steve Clements, Nathaniel Forrester, George Herbert, Gavin Hughes, Lizzi Jameson, Sean Jordan, Amy Jo McLellan, Kevin Meredith, Ben Miller, Rob Orchard, Adam Peters, The Recommender, Hayley Simpson, Tomter. If you want to contribute to SOURCE email james@brightonsource.co.uk
Editorial Contacts
Tel: 01273 609955 Email: james@brightonsource.co.uk Write or send promos to: The Brighton SOURCE, PO Box 3313, Brighton, BN1 4BJ
Advertising
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Listings
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Contents
News New In Town Gig Previews Interview: Aroe Club Previews Club Review: Schtumm Club Review: Traumfrau Locally Sourced Culture Broken Brighton Record Shops Street Style Unsung Hero: Matt Dimmack Secret Eater: Kambi’s In Conversation With: Cara Courage Listings Six Of The Best: 80s Power Ballads
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News
words by stuart Huggett photo by James taylor
Playgroup postponed
Originally scheduled for the start of this month, Playgroup Festival has been postponed for seven weeks due to ecological concerns. The heaviest summer rains on record rendered the Eridge Park land (a Site Of Special Scientific Interest) unable to sustain setting up the festival site on time. Playgroup now takes place September 21st-23rd, by which time forecasters predict the unseasonably severe British weather to have improved. An Alternative Playgroup Festival party fills the gap at the Blind Tiger, August 3rd-5th.
Fatboy’s Pride
Following up his successful twin Amex shows back in June, Fatboy Slim has been confirmed for this year’s 20th anniversary Pride Brighton & Hove event. He joins the Freemasons on the bill at the Wild Fruit Dance Tent in Preston Park on September 1st, with Alexandra Burke headlining the Pop Stage. In further stadium DJ news, Chase & Status have been announced as Supercharged Arena headliners at Stanmer Park’s Shakedown festival on October 6th. On a similar subject, Supercharged’s Wednesday at Audio has now ended after over a decade at the breaks coalface.
Bingo star
Rock’n’Roll Bingo is back at the Concorde 2 on Saturday 11th, raising money for the Sussex MS Treatment Centre, with live music from Sweet Sweet Lies, Mean Poppa Lean and Fran Classic. The identity of this year’s mystery guest caller, teasingly trailed as being from one of the greatest British comedies of all time, will be revealed on the CelebBingoBrighton Facebook just before the night. Get in for £5 and get your cards marked for some fab prizes.
Photo submissions
Details of the fifth Brighton Photo Biennial, taking place from throughout October, have been announced. This year’s theme is ‘Agents Of Change: Photography And The Politics Of Space’, featuring work from activists, squatters, urban explorers and many others. Submissions are also sought for a Photobook Show at Jubilee Library during the biennial. For details on how to enter your self-published photo works for free, visit bpb.org.uk before September 6th.
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playgroup festival
HELLO DAVE
Brighton Comedy Festival returns to the city during October, in a new partnership with every student’s favourite post-pub TV channel, Dave. This year’s big name guests include Jack Dee, Mark Thomas and Ross Noble, with Alan Carr hosting the opening night gala at the Dome on October 5th. Visit brightoncomedyfestival.com to book.
Chilli burns
The annual Fiery Foods Festival (FFUK) returns to Victoria Gardens in September, with a celebration of the hottest foods from around the world. This year, the festival expands to three days, kicking off on Friday 14th with live music and some tongue burning feats of gluttony and endurance, including a world record attempt at the most jalapeno peppers eaten in one minute. More sedate entertainment includes the Chilli Gardeners’ Question Time and a home-made Amateur Hot Sauce Competition.
FREE GAK
With their bright yellow walls and vibrant shop shutters (the work of renowned street artist Ben Eine), the Guitar, Amp & Keyboard Centre stores on North Road have been supplying musical hardware, nudge-nudge photo opportunities and cheap gags for lazy headline writers (see above) for 20 years. They celebrate this milestone on August 4th, with a day of freebies, raffles, deals and demonstrations.
Open art
From September, galleries and artists’ houses around Brighton will open their doors for a new series of evening visits. The First Thursdays initiative takes place, as the name suggests, on the first Thursday of each month, from 6-9pm. Brighton’s open houses are always popular during their May and December seasons, and First Thursdays expands on this by inviting the city’s commercial galleries to get involved too. Keep an eye on firstthursdaysbrighton. co.uk for updates.
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Moulettes
SOURCE Mailout
Another Lazy Sunday
Music Robot
Be-Bop-a-Lula
The thinnest silver lining on the stormy black cloud that is Rounder closing (see page 38) is that it kicked us into sorting out the mailout we’ve been meaning to do for the last three years. Realising that we were going to miss their gig round up, we decided to step into the email-shaped hole. So each week we’ll send out a mix of news, gig and club recommendations, and listings. It should appear in your inbox every week in time to plan your weekend. All you need to do is head over to tinyurl.com/ SOURCEmailout and give us your email address. We suggest a work one, to help pass a boring afternoon.
Brighton-based music blog (and regular SOURCE contributors) The Recommender have teamed up with local company Scenestealer Productions to launch a new style of music discovery website. Music Robot aggregates tracks from 18 handpicked UK blogs and asks the public to then vote the tunes into their chart. Whether you know Abeano from Cougar Microbes, or The Pigeon Post from The Blue Walrus, or whether you have no clue where to start regarding the UK’s best-established music blogs, this site will deliver them all, plus a stream of awesome underground sounds. See musicrobot.co.uk
Sleepless
A new after hours club night of jackin’ house, fidget and electro launches at Life at the end of the month. Befitting its late running time (midnight ‘til 4am), the night’s called Sleepless and will feature guest DJs drawn from Brighton, London and beyond. Sleepless’ promoters are aiming for a stylish but mysterious, middle of the night vibe, so keep an eye on facebook.com/ sleeplessuk for further updates. The first Sleepless takes place on Friday 31st, admission £4/£3.
West Hill Music Quiz
The West Hill pub up above Brighton Station changed hands during the summer, and among the new weekly events is a rather smart Tuesday Music Quiz. The task of quizmaster is handed over to different hosts every week, with those nice people from Melting Vinyl, Born Bad, Another Sunny Day and Hold Up all taking it in turns to test your musical knowledge. It’s free to enter, so you’ve nothing to lose except the respect of your peers.
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Another Lazy Sunday are a collective of filmmakers who spend each Sunday shooting short documentary videos about new and unsigned musicians. Among the dozens of British and overseas artists featured so far are Brighton’s Moulettes and Richard Allan II, with Monsters Build Mean Robots lined up for the treatment this month. Live music showcases in Brighton, London, Oxford and elsewhere are planned, but in the meantime log on to anotherlazysunday. co.uk for a new film every weekend.
Last month’s public opening was slightly delayed, but Brighton’s newest seafront club FunFair should be throwing its doors open imminently, with a bunch of regular weekly nights all booked in. We’re particularly liking the look of Be-Bop-A-Lula on Wednesdays, a mix of 50s rock’n’roll, ska, doo-wop and soul fuelled by cheap rum deals and jiving. FunFair’s weekend events parallel the club’s circus carnival theme, with names like Smoke And Mirrors (Thurs), Fortune (Fri) and Magic (Sat) – check Listings for details.
Big screen
Head down to the seafront at the start of the month and you’ll find Brighton’s Big Screen, showing sporting events throughout the Olympics. The Big Screen operates 10am-10pm every day, until the games conclude on Sunday 12th. The programme is filled out with screenings of blockbuster films, with entry free on a first come, first served basis. The 100ft square LED screen is down by the West Pier, opposite the Metropole Hotel.
Pop-up Camping
A sort of magical mystery tour for the travel sick, Pop-up Camping is a new notion that throws an additional element of chance into your nights under canvas. Taking place over two weekends during August (the first on Saturday 11th, the second during the Bank Holiday), happy campers sign up to pitch their tents in a mystery location somewhere in Sussex, where they find surprise entertainment laid on. It’s all a bit secretive, so follow them on Twitter @YampCamp to get involved.
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TRADITIONAL
IRISH PUB
Live music five OLYMPICS nights a week All olympic sports including football - being showed on our two pull down projector screens and three 50� plasma screens.
Wednesday to Sunday
Sunday nights we are now opening til late Open mic night every Tuesday All welcome (Best acts will get a resident position on our own stage) Saturday 18th of August Our first Country & Western night, get out your cowboy boots, it will be a great night.
gig previews
Words by Ian Chambers, Steve Clements, Nathaniel Forrester, Stuart Huggett, Gavin Hughes, Lizzi Jameson, Sean Jordan, Jessica Marshall McHattie, Amy Jo McLellan, Adam Peters, The Recommender
Conor Maynard Concorde 2 Weds 1st
If you called most 19-year-olds “Brighton’s Justin Bieber” they’d probably assume it was an accusation, not a compliment, but for Conor Maynard it’s meant as the latter. If you believe the hype, he’s soon set to sell out the AMEX to thousands of ‘Mayniac’ teeny boppers and replace Harry Styles as the cougars’ favourite. Expect to see his pre-teen fans smuggled into the venue (or crying outside when refused entry) and adult fans pretending that they’re somebody’s sibling. (AJM)
Ty Segall
Green Door Store Weds 1st
It’s almost impossible to keep track of everything garage rocker Ty Segall has released since appearing on the Bay Area scene less than ten years ago. Already in 2012, Segall’s released two LPs for Drag City and In The Red (the first with Tim Presley’s White Fence, the second with Segall’s own band), with another solo full-length due before the year’s out. His reckless music trashes rock’n’roll, psych and metallic fuzz into a potent, high energy brew. Phew! (SH)
Charlotte Church Green Door Store Thurs 2nd
When ‘Voice of an Angel’ Charlotte Church announced this surprisingly low-key gig to promote her new Iron And Wine-influenced album, hirsute Brighton metallers A New Way To Trust jokingly asked to support her, sweetening the deal by offering several hundred pounds to the Cats Protection charity. Brilliantly, Church called their bluff, on the condition that they cover her corny pop hit ‘Crazy Chick’ on the night. They are, with brass knobs on. They’re happy, she’s happy, the cats are happy. Fantastic. (SH)
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Felix
ondatropica
Hope Thurs 2nd
For their first show with excellent music site Bowlegs (whose filmed band sessions are regularly shot in Brighton), local promoters Love Thy Neighbour bring minimal chamber pop trio Felix to The Hope. Filtering singer Lucinda Chau’s soft vocals through a gauze of restrained instrumentation, Felix are currently the lone British signings to Chicago’s renowned Kranky label. Members of the group have also toured as part of ambient drone act Stars Of The Lid and award-winning Amélie composer Yann Tiersen’s band. (SH)
Ondatrópica feat. Quantic Concorde 2 Thurs 2nd
The sound of Colombian cumbia greets Concorde 2 at the start of the month as an exciting new venture sees Will Holland, aka Quantic, shaking his stuff with Bogotá based Mario Galeano of Frente Cumbiero. Ondatrópica are these forces combined, creating bubbly Americana music from the past, present and future with a handful of talented musicians to boot. Bring dancing shoes, a body full of energy and, of course, your ticket. Oh, there’s DJ sets from Quantic and Mario Galeano too. Cool. (GH)
Hollerin’ Stollar & The Pine Top Boys Smugglers Fri 3rd
Formerly playing out as the Pine Box Boys, until a Californian troupe of the same name had a word, Mark Hollerin’ Stollar’s Pine Top Boys play no-nonsense rock’n’roll in the 50s Sun Records style, all country slide and stand up boogie. Slick up your quiff and dig out your check shirts, as the Brighton boys headline Russ Dewbury’s regular Grits & Gravy Friday night at Smugglers. It’s free entry, with Dewbury and guests spinning vintage 50s and 60s r’n’b sounds. (SH)
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Gigs In Brighton... WILLY MASON
Brighton Ballroom Wednesday 8th August £10 adv
VINTAGE TROUBLE
*SOLD OUT!* Komedia Wednesday 15th August
THE FELICE BROTHERS The Haunt Thursday 16th August £14.50 adv
JUNIOR BOYS
Green Door Store Sunday 19th August £8 adv
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SAVAGES
Old Man Luedecke Palmeira Fri 3rd
Hailing from Nova Scotia, double Juno Award winner Old Man Luedecke is one of Canada’s best loved and most intriguing roots singer-songwriters. One man alone on stage with his banjo, a driving rhythm punctuated by the stomping of his boots on a wooden floor - Old Man Luedecke’s name and choice of instrument may suggest a world gone by, but the lyrics and melodies that he creates are anything but. Yet if you listen carefully, you can still hear the unbroken line that connects Luedecke’s music to the bygone world of the likes of Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger. (IC)
SOURCE New Music Pavilion Theatre Sat 4th
Don’t know if you’ve heard, but, apparently, school’s out for summer. What are the kids to do? Get onstage at this month’s SOURCE New Music, that’s what. This evening’s ‘youth special’ includes The Basis, who happen to be management protégés of that nice Harry Hitchens off Young Apprentice and have a fine line in no nonsense, harmonica tinged indie rock. The Oxygen Thieves, Habit, Mellowphonic and Lauren Rebecca complete the bill. (SH)
Reel Big Fish
Concorde2 Mon 6th
Skacore veterans Reel Big Fish’s popularity peaked in the 90s, with their MTV hit ‘Sell Out’ and their BASEketball cover of A-ha’s ‘Take On Me’. Their time may have passed, but Reel Big Fish’s constant touring proves that they still possess that much loved spark from twenty years ago. Back in ’08, the Californian rockers saturated the Concorde with sweaty punters. So as they return with their brass at the ready, be prepared to leave with your ears blasted and skanking. (LJ)
Savages
Haunt Tues 7th
Why have this London quartet earned the tag of 2012’s most exciting band? At first you may think that there’s nothing on
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offer here but Siouxsie & The Banshees and Joy Division imitation, and of course those bands remain obvious references, what with all the motorik rhythms and challenging guitar work, but Savages’ live sets roll right over you. The energy, the attitude, the delivery, the vacant looks, it’s all here, and in Jehnny Beth they have a spellbinding, genuinely iconic frontwoman. (TR)
Capdown
Haunt Fri 10th
Illustrious ska outfit Capdown present a glittering one off show for y’all – if two stepping is your thing that is. Barricade the hipster parade and bring on the old school rebellion as Jake and the gang prepare to tear up the house with their determined ska-punk attitude. As Punker Bunker roll out the red carpet, The Haunt will inevitably feel much larger for the Milton Keynes boys and as for the turn out… you’ll appreciate your pound for the sound. (GH)
Echo Rain
Haunt Sat 11th
In aid of Teenage Cancer Trust, The Haunt hosts a night of promising pop and alternative rock. The show’s headlined by local pop punk band Echo Rain and features performances from more up and coming talent. Joining them on the line-up are Elissa Franceschi, whose surname will be familiar to fans of her brother Josh’s band You Me At Six, Somerset’s posthardcore female fronted outfit The Origin and recently formed The Chaser. Good music for an even greater cause. (AJM)
Jacuzzi Boys
Green Door Store Tues 14th
If you like your garage pop-tinged, with tight jeans and a Tumblr, this is for you. Florida’s Jacuzzi Boys are the epitome of modern surf rock, and since the release of heartfelt album ‘Glazin’’ in 2011, they’ve thrashed out a reputation for sunny, vintage-inspired songs, quirky artwork, and even cooler audiences. Listen out for ‘Island Ave’ – if you’re not nodding along to the chorus, we’ll eat our hats. Hotly-tipped Brighton locals Shudder Pulps will be there, providing the atmospheric garage build-up. (JMM)
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Toots & The Maytals Concorde Tues 14th
The unfamiliar may have been introduced to Toots & The Maytals through This Is England, which was in part a celebration of the power of community and reggae and ska music in bringing people together. Brought up on gospel in Kingston, Jamaica, Toots Hibbert formed his first group in 1961 and shows no signs of stopping yet. With timeless hits such as ‘Pressure Drop’ and ’54-46 (That’s My Number)’, their spirit might be just what we need if August turns into another washout. (SJ)
Damien Jurado
Blind Tiger Club Tues 14th
Singer-songwriter Damien Jurado has produced a consistent stream of literate, downbeat albums since he started issuing his own tapes in mid 90s Seattle. His releases for Sub Pop and Strictly Canadian brought Jurado an international following, although he remains something of a cult figure in the UK. Even so, tonight’s Blind Tiger show, promoting this year’s ‘Maraqopa’ album, is an intimate one by Jurado’s standards, so scoring an advance ticket is strongly recommended. (SH)
Introducing Take on Mr Scruff Concorde 2 Fri 17th
Introducing, the nine-piece live band that’s infamous for recreating DJ Shadow’s awesome back catalogue, strike again. This time they target Mr Scruff, that well known DJ, producer, cartoonist and tea maker from up north, with a résumé of jaw droppingly good beats and sample-based music. How do they do it? With a collection of independently brilliant musicians and not a sampler in sight. Introducing are simply fascinating. Check it out. (GH)
The Others
Prince Albert Sat 18th
Noughties indie rabble rousers The Others, most famous for their tannoy-wielding guerrilla gigs on Camden-bound tube trains, are back. Support comes from Brighton’s own crop of raucous no-nonsense fuzziness, White Star Liners (local hero Simon Cable Club’s band), and the fantastic Clowns, whose charismatic frontman jumps around the stage like a hysterical Bible-belt preacher
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frantically trying to exorcise himself and his congregation of inner demons. Just don’t stand too close to the speakers, this will be loud. (NJF)
Junior Boys Green Door Store Sun 19th
A long-awaited return tonight from Canada’s electronic pop specialists Junior Boys. Jeremy Greenspan and Matt Didemus have presented their beautifully produced, carefully textured songs across four albums to date, perhaps the best known of which remains their Polarisnominated second, ‘So This Is Goodbye’. This is one of a very small number of European club shows Junior Boys are playing this year. Miss out now and you could find yourself waiting a very long time to surrender to the beats again. (SH)
Of Monsters And Men Concorde 2 Tues 21st
Atmospheric folkpop sextet Of Monsters And Men scored a number one in their native Iceland when they released their debut ‘My Head Is An Animal’ earlier in the year. The multi-limbed grandeur of their music and Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir and Raggi Þórhallsson’s shared vocals have thrown up comparisons from Arcade Fire to The Civil Wars, and, although they’ve popped over to the UK once or twice before, this tour is their first full chance to introduce themselves to the Britain’s enthusiastic giggoing public. (SH)
Esben & The Witch Prince Albert Fri 24th
You want atmospheric? You got it. Hailing from Brighton, Esben & The Witch are one of those bands that feel more like a project, and can defy definition. Listening to their debut album ‘Violet Cries’ is like taking a walk through a desolate, beautiful landscape, all electronica, drums, and wailing vocals. This low key show finds the band previewing their second full length release, due this autumn. Should be a special one. (SJ)
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At The Edge Of The Sea Concorde 2 Sat 25th
David Gedge’s annual shindig returns with The Wedding Present performing their Albini-produced ’91 album ‘Seamonsters’ and probably a few selections from new record ‘Valentina’. The typically intriguing support bill includes Gedge’s Cinerama and reformed fellow Peel show favourites Cud. Local Gene genius Martin Rossiter continues his mission to return class to the pop song with a host of new miniepics, plus there’s readings from Catriona Child and live comic drawing by illustrator Lee Thacker. Great bands, no camping - the perfect festival. (SC)
Dark Dark Dark
Brighton Ballroom Tues 28th
Frank Fairfield
Prince Albert Tues 28th
Understated yet schmaltzy quintet Dark Dark Dark make songs that evoke faded American sidewalks, sundowns over the sand dunes and dancing alone. Ostensibly folk, they layer instruments with a sultry nonchalance, building to a swirling crescendo of low harmonies and defiant jauntiness. Last album ‘Wild Go’ came out back in 2010 and built them a global fanbase, but this tour’s in honour of their hotly tipped sequel ‘Who Needs Who’, to be released in October. Support comes from Twenty One Crows. (JMM)
Fairfield is an avid collector of 78s and his sets are often made up of treasures found on his search for field songs from around the globe. As if lifted straight out of the early 20th century, his technical brilliance on banjo and fiddle, his gentlemanly demeanour and the way he inhabits each song are nothing short of amazing to witness, with a sound so authentic you expect to hear scratchy surface noises behind him. Arrive early for Steven Finn’s stomping northern blues in support. (SC)
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THE MONSTER CEILIDH BAND WITH CALLER GILL EMERSON
THREE DAFT MONKEYS
OLD MAN LUEDECKE
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POP-UP PUB & GOOD FOOD Grange Gardens, Lewes Saturday 4 AUGUST 3 til 10.30pm
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AROE Most cities see the appearance of graffiti as a slide into decay. Thanks to The MSK Writer, Brighton has embraced it. Words By James Kendall Photo By Kenny Mc Cracken Assisted By Manon Pauffin, Monika Madja
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There was a white wall, and then 20 minutes later there was nine foot square piece of art. That’s all it took when Aroe painted the background of the SOURCE cover. Reaching into his stripped-down box of paint – he normally has a car boot full – he dove at the wall with astounding confidence, laying down big blocks of colour in seconds, the lines flowing straight from his brain to the wall, no sketches, no projectors and certainly no stencils. Still, he’s been doing it for a very long time now, since the early 80s, and nine foot square is like a doodle to the man who painted two-storey AT-ATs across Buxtons, and turned the previously drab Kensington Street into the most colourful back alley in England, watched over by a benevolent 30 foot James Brown. Scale is Aroe’s trademark, you see – big productions, ambition. As part of MSK, arguably the best graffiti crew in the world, he’s known for breathtaking pieces you can almost see from space. Most recently he’s captured the imagination of Brightonians, graffiti obsessives and hip hop fans with his immense re-creation of the cover of ‘Licensed To Ill’ as a tribute to recently-deceased Beastie Boy, MCA. So we’re pretty excited to see him paint something exclusively for SOURCE. “Oh, that was just something stupid thing, throwaway graffiti,” he says before giving us a crash course in bubble-lettered throw-ups and other parts of graffiti culture. “This throw-up art is an element of graffiti, and I don’t really love it cos it’s attached more to the destructive side. But I think that there’s a lot of beauty in something so simple.” The fast talking writer prides himself in being able to handle all aspects of the artform and reckons that if you’ve got a good throw-up it says a lot about the writer. If you ain’t got no letterform, the most amazing wall paintings mean nothing. And he would know about amazing wall paintings. That AT-AT piece took 50 hours to do, all drawn freehand with aerosols. “I might have a reference picture to look at but I would never, ever dream of using a stencil,” he says. “I would never, ever use a projector. I want what I do to be the painting. I don’t see that there’s any real skill in copying something. To spray through a piece of cardboard is just weak.” So called “street art” is a rant that Aroe is happy to get onto. When we admit to him we might make some schoolboy errors being outside the graff scene he says, “As long as you know the difference between graffiti and street art we’re gonna get on just fine.” He’s an imposing fella, brash and clearly quite fearless. Tales of him pulling the emergency cord on a Madrid train then painting it while it was stopped in a tunnel prove he’s no scaredy cat. But he’s also very funny, and keen to show he’s a normal family man who stays firmly on the right side of the law in the UK.
same as when people have a survey and it says the house is prone to damp. They should say, ‘The back of your house is next to the train line – it’s prone to graffiti.’” He still paints trains. Not only does he enjoy it but he feels he needs to do it in order to maintain the integrity of being an all round graffiti artist. But he paints them on the continent where you’re more likely to get a €50 fine than be banged up. His clean nose has helped him build a relationship with the council that has meant he’s able to paint huge pieces without looking over his shoulder. “Sarah Leach at the council is the most incredible woman. Every person in Brighton should thank her for what happened on Kensington Street,” he says. “I put the idea to her and she had the courage to say to the council, ‘I’m going to take this chunk of money and take this risk.’” Aroe says that it’s thanks to her that certain sites are deemed graffiti-friendly and everywhere else stays paint free, bar the odd tag. “There’ll always be tagging, just like there’ll always be litter,” says Aroe. “And, yes, I have had my house written on. It didn’t piss me off – I just got the white paint out and painted over it.” The sensible attitude of the council isn’t the only thing the Brighton scene has got going for it. The older writers have mentored a lot of the younger guys so they have respect for how things work. You don’t tag a proper painting or do a throw up over it – if you paint over one you have to create something better. “There’s always been a progressive and productive scene here,” Aroe explains. “Brighton is now known as a place for pushing and inventing new stuff. It’s a respected city. I meet writers in America that I really respect and they say they check the web for new Brighton graffiti every day. They look to what’s happening in Brighton to inspire them. Any success I have I would credit to this city.” Some of those Americans that have been keeping an eye on us are MSK, who invited Aroe to join them, a surprise that he describes as being akin to the 60s-era Rolling Stones asking you to play. His other crew is Heavy Artillery – a group that started locally but is now Europe-wide. “It’s funny to be in MSK and Heavy Artillery because they’re two brilliant crews in my opinion,” he beams. “To be in both of them is double fluky.” He’s being modest because what got him in such exalted company is not just his skills but his commitment to pushing things forward. The reason he hates street art so much is that it’s too easy – he says most street artists are failed graffiti artists. But he could be about to take on the likes of Banksy (a name Aroe won’t even let pass his lips) on his own set of rules. He’s got a huge, currently top secret, exhibition lined up which may kick off in New York. His work for that might mean we don’t see as many pieces around town for a while. But with the Beastie Boys piece costing him £150 in paint alone (and 13 hours of his time) that seems fair enough.
“I’m not a nasty person,” he stresses. “I own my own home, I’ve got kids, I’m a respectable member of society. But I don’t personally think graffiti hurts people. People attach far too much emotion to it. People say, ‘Oh, they’ve victimised me!’ No, what’s WEB: heavyartillerycrew.com happened is that you’ve MSK: twitter.com/aroemsk moved into a house which GALLERY: brightonsource.co.uk/features/aroe-gallery is in a good place where people wanna write. It’s the
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“I’m happy to do these paintings and give them to the people of Brighton as a compensation for the tags,” he says. The tags seem a very small price to pay now.
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Club Previews Words By Zac Colbert, Stuart Huggett, James Kendall, Jessica Marshall McHattie DJ DEREK PHOTO BY TOMTER at tomter.net
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Theo Parrish & Marcellus Dettmann
Modern Life Is Still Rubbish
This sounds a bit deep – but can you remember what Life was before it was Life? Well, it’s now one of Brighton’s finest clubs, and celebrating its third birthday tonight, but the pleasure’s all ours. Detroit techno gods Theo Parrish and Marcellus Dettman are playing an all night back to back set upstairs, which promises to keep partygoers on the floor until dawn. The rarely used room three is open too, with a brilliant homegrown line-up of DJs from AKAAKAROAR, Kung Fu and Enk. (JMM)
As any Blur fan knows, the band are headlining the Olympics closing ceremony concert in Hyde Park this weekend. Having half-inched the title of Damon and co’s best album (don’t argue) for their monthly free Britpop night, the Modern Life Is Still Rubbish crew are celebrating with a Blur special. Downstairs it’s the broader 90s selection, but upstairs it’s back to back Blur, promising album tracks, b-sides, rarities and all. ‘Popscene’? Alright! (SH)
Life Fri 3rd
Below The Line Green Door Store Thurs 9th
Fresh from their last bustling show at the Green Door, regular Ustreamers Below The Line are again demonstrating their knack for choosing underground producers you probably haven’t heard of yet, but will love in a few months. Top banana tonight is Gongon, a smooth-rolling bass producer with a penchant for groovy house a cappellas and a recent release on Brighton label Well Rounded. Warming the cobbles are Donga, Tanka, Dubloke and more. (JMM)
Futureboogie Showcase Audio Fri 10th
Schtumm presents a showcase from one of Bristol’s hottest labels. Futureboogie puts out the wares of Eats Everything, whose nuanced take on house involves Detroit techno, UK bass music and Burger King, as well as Waifs And Strays, whose laidback tracks are built from minimal grooves with simple and sexy chord progressions. Also on the bill tonight is a personal favourite of ours, Maxxi Soundsystem, whose disco delights are guaranteed to make you move your feet. (ZC)
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Hospitality
Digital Sat 11th
The crowds are big enough to make you groan, but with so many people squashed together it can be fun to play guess who touched me. Tonight’s Hospitality is helmed by Hazard, an uncompromising DJ who dives in hard so no one goes home. His grittier than a gutter drum’n’bass gets girls grinding and boys blasphemingly boisterously. Logistics is in tow to offer some light relief with his harmonious liquid melodies and the charismatic – even when he’s soaking in sweat – MC Wrec is on vocal duties. (ZC)
In The Face
Volks Fri 17th
Headlining is LV, whose tune ‘Sebenza’ with Okmalumkoolkat was released on Kode 9’s prestigious Hyperdub label in July. LV’s elongated syrupy drawl glazes over the skipping dancehall beat, with twinkling melodies and a squeaking synth line that sounds like it’s produced by one of the Night Slugs gang. The result is an unflinching club track, so it’s no surprise that it’s received major props from Gilles Peterson and Mary Anne Hobbs. In support are two prolific bass music crews, Z-Shed and Brock Out, coming down from London and Bristol respectively. (ZC)
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NU:TONE
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Audio Fri 17th
A creator of some of the finest liquid tracks, Nu:Tone confirmed his name as one of Hospital Records’ top ranking producers with ‘System’ feat Natalie Williams in 2007. This feelgood party roller had beats rattling over a warm bass swollen with optimism and never failed to get a rave hyper. His DJ collaborations with Logistics proved he could churn out the more hectic hi-hat laden jungle tunes too, so his sets always have a gritty tinge. (ZC)
No Brainer
Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Fri 17th
How ace a club name is No Brainer? If that appeals more than seeing ‘No trainers’ on a flyer, this could be right up your alley. You’ll probably be thinking young, dumb and full of scum, and you’ll probably be right. It’s another Teen Creeps outing, with garage rock, punk and lo-fi scuzz sounds and two secret live bands (“obviously fucking amazing ones”, they say). Need to know more? It’s free entry. That really is a no brainer. (SH)
Eddie Halliwell
Digital Sat 18th
“Eddie looks in to people’s eyes, and he performs. Incredible stage performance, incredible skills, and an almost telepathic ability to read a crowd.” Those were the wise words of DJ sage Judge Jules, when Eddie Halliwell was nominated by Mixmag in 2012 as the world’s greatest DJ ever, and who are we to argue with the Judge? Eddie’s storming sets are pure fire, with blistering mixing that takes no prisoners, always packing tons of energy. Vincent Manganaro from Minimal Kids is on hand to cool things down. (ZC)
Prince Fatty Fortune Of War Sat 18th
Prince Fatty – aka acid jazz producer-engineer Mike Pelanconi – brings his infectious collection of reggae and dub records to Brighton for a beachside party. Fresh from supporting The Stone Roses, Fatty’s gone from being a King Tubby pretender
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to being a large contender on the scene. The Outpost Imposters are also on the line-up, making this the perfect excuse to raise your beers and stay on the beach a little bit longer. (JMM)
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Digital Sat 25th
Unadulterated house music made for vampires by vampires. These creatures of the Canadian night have names you know: it’s Kenny Glasgow and Jonny White, and their debut album ‘The Drawing Board’ was a kinetic record of creeping deep house with crepuscular percussion and blubbing basslines. Oh, you’ve already seen them? Well bully for you, go to the gig anyway and wax lyrical about how you were bored of them before they were cool, or just get on the dancefloor and bop the night away. (ZC)
Wolfgang Gartner Coalition Sat 25th
It’s been a long while since Coalition have had a regular dance music night on a weekend and they kick off their new Union initiative with prestigious electro-house producer Wolfgang Gartner. This one-man band makes funky floor fillers with layered melodies and crunchy breaks that never fail to get the party crunked up. His tunes sound like Justice cross-pollinated with Skrillex and his first studio album ‘Weekend In America’ heralded the arrival of a special new talent. (ZC)
Bitter Disko
Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Sat 25th
Bitter Disko drags the much mythologised, underground atmosphere of New York’s downtown 80s club scene into the present, mixing post punk, no wave and mutant disco sounds with acid bursts, guitar noise and grimy electronics. Fortunately for the near-broke artists among us, it’s another Sticky Mike’s freebie, and – bonus – falls on the bank holiday this month. Open the door, get on the floor, everybody do the Factory Floor. (SH)
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Rumble On The Beach
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Prince Albert Sat 25th, Sun 26th
If you’re gonna throw a party, why not make a weekend of it? That’s exactly what Dave Mumbles decided to do when he couldn’t host his Rumble On The Beach at its usual Concorde home. So, the more intimate setting of the Albert gets two nights over the bank holiday weekend – and you know that’s gonna bring the country’s biggest rockabilly fans down to the coast for what promises to be a mini festival. Rhythm River Trio headline, while Razorblades come over from Germany. (JK)
Shogun Audio
Digital Sun 26th
The bank holiday Sunday sees Shogun Audio big boss man DJ Friction top the bill with Digital Soundboy’s head honcho Shy FX hot on his heels. That’s a double whammy too good to ignore, so we don’t care if you’re tired and you’ve been on it all weekend, you can sleep when you’re dead. Or tomorrow, which you have off. Plus, there’s also Rockwell’s menacingly sparse sonics to round off the night with a nakedly minimal and techy edge. (ZC)
Stick It On All-Dayer King & Queen Sun 26th
For their only King & Queen outing of the year Stick It On are really going for it. As well as the usual enthusiastic laymen behind the decks there’s a showing from everyone’s fave reggae OAP, DJ Derek, as well as the Family Funktunes fellas. Quite apart from the music there’s a casino upstairs, a rum bar and a free Jamaican BBQ. Not enough? Wow, you’re demanding. How about a million drum hits from the Carnival Collective band. Happy now? Good, see you there. (JK)
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SCHTUMM Words and photos by james kendall
What a way to celebrate five years: grabbing a cast-iron Chicago legend who’s really firing at the moment. Many know him as techno preacher man Green Velvet but he takes to the decks in his housier alter ego, Cajmere. Though the groove is deep, it’s still tough and twisted, something the clued-up crowd lap up. Cajmere’s 20-year-old track ‘Coffee Pot’ has them chanting the bizarre phrase “It’s time for the percolator” like it’s a mantra.
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Cajmere’s appearance shows how far Schtumm has come since putting their mates on in the basement of a Moroccan restaurant. Admittedly those mates were people like Radio Slave, Serge Santiago and Thomas Gandey. Originally a partnership between Sam Watts and Neal Lewis, the Maxxi Soundsytem fella has now handed over the reigns but is still a resident. As he dives off the decks and into a car heading to Fabric it obvious why he’s stepped back. But who could stay away from a pure house night of this relentless quality.
Maxxi Soundsystem ‘Regrets We Have No Use For’ Ben Pearce ‘What I Might Do’ Camiel Daamen ‘Lost in Love’ Late Night Tuff Guy ‘I Get Deeper’ DifferentMe ‘Back To Tomorrow (Catz n Dogz Remix)’ Chopstick & Johnjon ‘Listen’ Maceo Plex ‘Love Somebody Else’ Chamboche ‘Smoke Screen (KRL Remix)’ Julio Bashmore ‘Au Seve’ Alfie ‘Uncomfortably Numb’
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TRAUMFRAU
Words by james kendall photos by george herbert
There’s a great gay scene Traumfrau recognises it can pretty. The girls behind this night try to be a bit more inclusive for those girls that don’t fit into the mainstream. Normally at The Tube, this jaunt over to The Blind Tiger sees Le Tigre legend JD Samson take to the decks, playing a hip and poppy selection that culminates in Deniece Williams’ ‘Let’s Hear It For The Boy’.
in Brighton of course, but as be a little too shiny, young and exciting new queer – not gay –
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Men ‘Off Our Backs’ Peaches ‘Lose You’ Santigold ‘L.E.S Artistes’ Yeah Yeah Yeahs ‘Maps’ Sleater Kinney ‘Jumpers’ Bikini Kill ‘Double Dare Ya’ Raincoats ‘Off Duty Trip’ Crystal Castles ‘Baptism’ Sonic Youth ‘Cassette Dock’ Coco Rosie ‘Beautiful Boyz’ Hercules & Love Affair ‘Blind’ Yelle ‘Que Veux-tu (Madeon Remix)’
“I’m trying to be the cool kid at school because everyone is so cool,” Samson says, but the Traumfrauen are perhaps the most receptive and non-judgemental crowd around. As well as a live band and a theme – in honour of their guest this one was genderqueer – Traumfrau has interactive posters to encourage people to break down their barriers. This is not just a night to get drunk and dance at – it’s more playful than that. JD enjoyed it so much that she wants to come back. High and deserved praise for this exciting queer night.
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Locally Sourced Words By Stuart Huggett, Jessica Marshall McHattie
Album: Autumn Chorus
The Village To The Vale (Fading Records)
A gorgeous suite of string drenched post rock from Brighton quartet Autumn Chorus, with seven long tracks informed by the pastoral spirit of the Canterbury scene and, fittingly, Harvest Records. Italy’s Fading label have done a nice job with ‘The Village To The Vale’’s artwork, its rich rural imagery of rolling landscapes and low clouds complementing the sweeping, but controlled, grandeur of Autumn Chorus’ music. The progressive songwriting can be labyrinthine, so it’s simplest to just surrender to the flow. (SH)
Album: The Curst Sons
The Snake And The Money Jar (Curst Mountain)
On their fifth album, The Curst Sons trio continue to plough a furrow of good humoured, anglicised Americana. The familiar bluegrass sounds of washboard, mandolin and banjo are all present, but are struck with an energy that reveals The Curst Sons’ roots in 80s cowpunk and r’n’b. There’s a fair bit of good time hoedown going on among these 14 originals, but the band turn their hand to acappella chants and blues laments too, with some smart lyrical turns. (SH)
Single: Curxes Spectre (curxes.com)
After wowing us at The Great Escape, Curxes really prove their mettle with their new single ‘Spectre’. Powered by the driving synths and crashing drumpads of Macaulay Hopwood, and led by the arch and powerful 80s-inspired drawl of Roberta Fidora, the single is an electrifying, almost industrial force that’s every bit as mighty as their live sets, with its pounding, growling basslines. Reminiscent of The Knife with more distortion and grit, Curxes are a duo on the ascent. (JMM)
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Album: Matt Finucane Glow In The Dark (Light Crude)
A bit of a curious release from individualist songwriter Matt Finucane. Following last year’s debut ‘This Mucky Age’, album number two is a brave and entertaining collection of half sung, half spoken tracks, taking in Bowie-esque art rock, imaginatively bizarre sci-fi passages and muttered asides. Guitars are strummed lightly one moment, crashing into banks of fuzz the next, while lopsided percussion clanks and rumbles away beneath. Don’t confuse ‘Glow In The Dark’ with lo-fi rambling though, it’s strongly produced and impressively single minded. (SH)
Album: The Pure Conjecture Courgettes (Armellodie Records)
There’s something of a Brighton supergroup happening here on The Pure Conjecture’s assured debut. Led by former Actress Hands frontman Matt Eaton, the 11-strong band includes plenty of familiar faces from the Brakes/Electric Soft Parade axis, and fits neatly alongside the White brothers’ recent work. Neat melodic songwriting in the Postcard vein is fleshed out with cool organ and sax work, with a couple of soulful covers (including Hall & Oates’ ‘Go Solo’) adding to the relaxed feel. Go and dig it out. (SH)
Album: Sleepin’ Giantz Sleepin’ Giantz (Tru Thoughts)
Obviously we’d expect an album featuring the collaborative genius of garage producer Zed Bias and hip-hop heavyweights Rodney P and Fallacy to be brilliant, and this 11 track debut doesn’t disappoint. First single ‘Badungdeng’ is a 2-step, bass-heavy winner that’s rightly drawn a lot of praise online, but other tracks are equally deserving: ‘Raving Bully’ combines clever lyrics with a catchy chorus and a hypnotic bassline, while ‘Final Curtain’ featuring Jenna G is an epic, smooth anthem. (JMM)
Album: Soft Arrows
All Through The Sinew (softarrows.bandcamp.com)
A fantastically frazzled debut from the Soft Arrows duo, available as a generous ‘pay what you like’ download. Rapidly recorded last Christmas – all instruments laid down one day, all vocals on another – but not shabby, ‘All Through The Sinew’ piles up waves of buzzing, crackling guitars, rat-a-tat drumming and muffled vocals, taking care not to bury the shimmering tunes beneath. Woozy DIY psychedelia with a seasick shoegaze undertow, it’s an unassuming little release with some vibrant, thrilling songs inside. (SH)
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Words By Steve Clements, Stuart Huggett, Jessica Marshall McHattie, Ben Miller
Film: Awesome; I Fuckin’ Shot That! Duke of York’s Fri 3rd
Let’s be honest – when the soundtrack is 85 minutes of live Beasties numbers, most of us would probably tolerate accompanying visuals of a Tory party conference keynote speech on how to obliterate poor kids, delivered by Michael Gove in a tutu. As it is, 50 fans were given camcorders to capture a Beastie Boys gig at Madison Square Garden in 2004, with the collated footage – featuring appearances by DMC and Ben Stiller – debuted at Sundance in 2006. Now that’s totally awesome, dudes. (BM)
Film: Jaws Duke Of York’s Sat 4th
Can there be a better choice for a late night screening than Spielberg’s classic tale of three men in a boat going up against a rubber killer white shark? This amazing film gets better with each viewing, its popularity undiminished as proven with the recent re-release. It’s not just the fabulous score and occasional shocks; the camera work, beautifully crafted dialogue and the wonderful dynamic between Scheider, Dreyfuss and Shaw make Jaws an almost perfect movie. Anyone up for a skinny dip afterwards? (SC)
Film: Frighten Brighton Classic Horror Film Festival Komedia Sat 11th
Cat People sees randy ladies become panthers. Them! seizes on atomic animosity as giant ants attack 1950s New Mexico. Plague Of The Zombies and Phantasm feature both stereotypical and dwarfish versions of the walking dead. And Mad Love, from 1935, embraces extreme hand surgery and back-knifing courtesy of Dracula’s cinematographer. This all-day pant-shitter promises prizes and surprises, and you can pop in to see any film for a fiver if you can’t stay for the full day. (BM)
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Theatre: Macbeth Little Theatre Tues 14th – Sat 18th
Evil, according to the original premise of Macbeth, was an everyday force, hanging in the air as thickly as a brooding raincloud when you’re contemplating popping down the beach for a rum and coke. The Little base their version of the immortal piece on that hypothesis, placing badness as an external force rather than, say, the embodiment of George Osborne shaking hands with the peasants. This production also heads outside to Lewes Castle, the following Wednesday to Saturday. (BM)
Film: Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
Duke of York’s Fri 17th – Sun 19th
He’s been arrested, had his studio (featuring dozens of happy cats and dogs there) razed and, worst of all, been banned from Twitter. Chinese contemporary artist and activist Ai Weiwei’s treatment by officials who, among other things, beat him up in this film, should caution western arthouses dabbling with dubious authorities. For the rest of us, it’s a chance to find out more about the cult figure whose eight million sunflower seeds were bought by the Tate earlier this year. (BM)
Film: Dogs Have No Hell And Me Neither Northern Lights Fri 17th – Weds 29th
“Get your boots on and make sure you have enough of hairspray”, reads the invite from everyone’s favourite Scandi bar, unveiling an evening themed around Leningrad Cowboys Go America, an ice-thawingly great film about a Russian rock band with quiffs which make Elvis look like Nosferatu. It’s the central event of this mini-fest devoted to Aki Kaurismäki, the misfit-loving, pisshead Finnish film director who’s won stacks of awards, turning many of them down on noble political grounds. Jim Jarmusch fans will love him. (BM)
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paul merton: out of my head
Thurs 27, Fri 28 & Sat 29 September | 20:00 | £13 Pre-West End warm-up show. A night of sketches, music, magic and, variety with Paul Merton and friends.
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SUNDAY 16 September | doors 19:00, show 20:00 | £22 (£20) Legendary rock drummer, Ginger Baker, renowned for his work with Cream and Blind Faith, returns to the UK for a jazz fusion tour. With Pee Wee Ellis, Alec Dankworth & Abass Dodoo.
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What’sOnStage, Broadway Baby, Threeweeks
20 - 22 september | 20:00 (+ friday 14:00) | £10 - £15 Burgess’ infamous literary masterpiece of ultraviolence reworked for a new generation. 5STARS ‘Astonishing’ (WhatsOnStage), 5STARS ‘Breathtaking’ (Three Weeks).
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MONDAY 29 October 19:30 | £12 advance
FRIDAY 05 October | £10 adv.
Acclaimed UK quartet, national tour with self-titled album. Plus support TBC.
Freshly Squeezed present an Electro Swing Speakeasy. “One helluva turbo-charged party” Time Out.
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Event: Party For New Orleans
Event: Deadmen’s Smokehouse
Despite a definite lack of sun, Mardi Gras is a popular party theme this year. This shebang features prints, installations, paintings and drawings by local artists Charlotte Howe, Virginia Painter and Suki Price amongst others, along with good music and even better rum, and free costumed life drawing by Jake Spicer. It’s rare to find artwork by so many Brighton artists outside of an open house, so we recommend you take the opportunity. Entry is a mere suggested £2 with all proceeds going to an arts charity in New Orleans. (JMM)
Transplanting the spirit of an outlaw 50s biker meet onto a Brighton bank holiday weekend, Deadmen’s Smokehouse sets up at the Green Door Store for a day of rock’n’roll sounds, jiving, tattoos and retro styling. It doesn’t matter if you own a bike or not, so long as you appreciate the music and the imagery, both vintage and modern. The outdoor entertainment is free all day, with ticketed entry to the live music inside, including sets from Gentleman Starkey, The Repeat Prescriptions and The Interruptions. (SH)
Freemasons Sat 18th
Art: Twist And Make Phoenix Sat 18th
To alleviate Brighton’s chronic drought of kitsch make-your-own fairs (ahem), 30 craftmakers adroit at embroidery and claywork are pitching up at the Phoenix for the day, intent on saving our tea cosy-starved souls. They’ve been selected by a panel aiming to create a diverse line-up from the open application process, with an emphasis on taster workshops and demonstrations during the day. Tea and cakes, retro fruit cocktails and DJs will be providing the fuel and entertainment. Phoenix’s Isobel Smith previews a new puppetry performance too. (BM)
Art: 3D-Coform
University Of Brighton Gallery until Sat 25th
The relocation to Brighton of a 12th century pottery boat found in a Cyprus tomb in 1963, or a porcelain table fountain from the V&A based on an architectural masterpiece in Dresden, might sound unlikely. But this exhibition, currently touring Europe, shows how 3D technology can help unravel the mysteries of amazing artworks and artefacts, illuminating them for new audiences across the world. The restored Michelangelo, a portrait of Anthony van Dyck and the inner sanctums of Egyptian temples feature. (BM)
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Event: Alternative Notting Hill All-Dayer Concorde 2 Mon 27th
If it’s too sunny to even consider getting the stuffy train to London, the next best Notting Hill party’s right here by the beach. With rum punch, face-painting and jerk chicken on offer, as well as a astute line-up featuring One Roots, Kalakuta Millionaires and Carnival Collective, Concorde 2’s got all you need, except the semi-naked dancers, heavy police presence and Lily bloody Allen. Probably. (JMM)
Art: Cluster
Fabrica until Mon 27th
A sublimely talented basketmaker who has produced pieces for Kew and the National Trust, Annemarie O’Sullivan works from Lewes and takes inspiration from the South Downs, although her large-scale installation here is based on the huge weaved indoor coppice structures at The Weald & Downland Open Air Museum and The Woodland Enterprise Centre. The latest artist well-placed to respond to the already atmospheric space at Fabrica, her woven sculptures, made in finger-jointed sweet chestnut, have a feel which is playful and protective. (BM)
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END OF THE ROAD FESTIVAL 2012 31st August - 2nd September at the Larmer Tree Gardens, North Dorset
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The State Of The City We’ve lost a record shop but gained some venues how is Brighton holding up? Words By James Kendall Two years ago Brighton looked like it was falling off a cliff, culturally. Venues were closing, supermarkets were opening… anyway, you know all this. Twelve months ago things looked much better, the Green Door Store had opened, The Haunt was taking tentative steps and Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar had just been born. All good, we thought. Then after a year of contentment Rounder shut (see page 40) and Brighton’s music fans went into panic mode again. If such a cornerstone of the music scene could fail, what next? Well, we have to say that
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although we’re sad about Rounder, we’re generally pretty optimistic about the city. One of the most exciting developments is that the Duke Of York’s has bought the top floor of the Komedia and is opening a three-screen cinema right in the centre of the North Laine. The screens will have 149, 110 and 32 seats each, which we think will be perfect for supporting local filmmakers. It promises to become a real hub for the scene, one developing
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every day thanks to the easy availability of DSLR cameras for filming. Although it won’t be open for Cine-City this year (it ought to be finished in December), expect Duke’s At Komedia to push that festival up a notch in the future. Unfortunately it means we lose a venue space, but the benefits far outweigh that downside in our eyes. We might see promoters who had put on the more grown up gigs upstairs at the Komedia use The Old Market, which is no bad thing as it’s become an excellent arts venue. Generally things are looking positive on the venue front, certainly concerning clubs. On the site of the scuzzy old Core Club, FunFair’s opening party showed how much work they’d put into making something a little bit special. A ball pit, a bed of nails, lots of little hideaway rooms and an entrance through an old school gypsy caravan all give a feeling of a club bursting with ideas. Unfortunately the opening party wasn’t followed with an actual opening thanks to boring red tape issues but we’re looking forward to you all experiencing a little adventure down there when it opens on the first weekend of this month. Next up on the club front is a secretly-named venue from Matt Dimmock, who’s turned The Haunt into a cracking venue in the last few months. Picking up lots of gigs from the combustion of The Hydrant as a live venue (we’ll leave you to find out about this online – we’re staying well out of it), the booking by One Inch Badge’s Ade Dovey is making The Haunt a regular stop off for fans of live music. Club nights like Nowhere To Run, It Is Still 1985 and Moody Disco mean it’s as good for dancing in as watching bands. It’s good that Henron and Dani settled into The Haunt so well as their former venue New Hero is now a live action horror maze called Fear, “a daring journey of pure terror and unspeakable horrors.” The place uses special effects and trained actors to really fuck you up. We’ve certainly seen some dark things in there over the years. And been fucked up. But we were talking about secretly-named venues. Mr Dimmock has bought what used to be Pasha on the corner of West Street and Boyce’s Street and aims to turn it into a 80s NYC squat party. He says they are going to do “some shocking things” to the place. It’s certainly not going to be your average West Street club.
Coalition and Paulos Gibson at Life. Similarly to Sticky Mike’s, The Green Door Store has lived up to its potential using the great space for progressive music, never dropping that rather spikey ball. The Blind Tiger has also more than delivered on its promise with the Playgroup boys providing a great, off-kilter musical line up for the unique pub/cafe/venue/club set up. Just down the road The Gloucester – aka The Barfly – is back, but as a boozer rather than a club. You might think it’d be a bit gloomy to drink in but actually the place has beautiful windows that have been hidden for more than thirty years. Now owned by InnBrighton, the company is pouring money into turning it into a gateway to the North Laines. At the very least it’s great to have an abandoned building returned to use, but we are rather excited about this. We should see the fruits of their labour at the start of September. More positive pub news sees former club promoter Ian Huddy move to the West Hill, the boozer above Brighton station. He’s bringing his excellent indie night Hold Up there on Saturdays, with Born Bad and The Big Itch taking over Fridays. There’s also an Irish night on Sundays, a curry night on Thursdays and a pop quiz (see New In Town). Will we see more promoters try the pub game? The Freebutt appears no closer to opening, although some people are enjoying the venue. Squatters have settled in and are apparently making a bit of noise. We hear that, with some irony, the complaints to the council are being knocked back as the council can’t do anything about them, since the squatters don’t have a licence to revoke. It’s a perfect example of the saying ‘be careful what you wish for’. Elsewhere the relentless noise complaints seem to have dropped away somewhat, possibly due to support of the night entertainment industry being in the Greens’ manifesto. We’re still concerned about what will happen to The Druid’s Arms now that they’re face to face with a new housing development but we haven’t heard much from venues in danger from a lone complainer.
Already a success on West Street is Hed Kandi, for those that like their clubbing with a touch more glam. It seems they got in just before Tru owners Luminar imploded and have turned what could have easily become an empty space into a unique clubbing bar that people are genuinely excited to go to. The proposed 900 capacity venue Project, that would have been above it, hasn’t appeared, while work on the Hippodrome also seems to have been sidelined.
One thing that does seem to have taken a back seat is obvious, large scale protesting. There’s some debate in the SOURCE office about whether this is due to fear of heavyhanded police tactics like kettling or if there’s not so much to protest about on a local level. One success was the shutting down of the EDL march, and it was impressive to see our MP Caroline Lucas and the mayor, Bill Randall, on the counterprotest, unphased as things got a little aggressive. Other than that, and some work by UK Uncut, things seem to have gone online with 38 Degrees and Avaaz, two organisations that are beginning to have serious political power.
Another phoenix from the flames has been Psychosocial, taking over the old Ocean Rooms and already hanging around longer than The Yard managed. There are big changes afoot though, including a wise name change to Bloc1. They’re balancing top comedy from the likes of Roisin Conaty with serious dance nights like We Are Skint.
One real world campaign that’s had a win is the saving of Saltdean Lido. The council negotiated to buy the pool back and the future is now assured. If you want to go and celebrate with a bit of live ska, the Fat Belly Jones are playing the community centre behind it on Saturday 4th and we hope the gigs continue.
Meanwhile Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar has just celebrated a year in existence and we have to say that Sally Oakenfold has managed to turn the venue into a place with real character. She and the InnBrighton team are really thinking outside the box with regards to its future and backing it up with solid bookings, something echoed by Dave Richards over at
So, despite empty shops in the North Laine for the first time in memory, Brighton is still the best city in Britain – better than it was 12 months ago and much less of a worry than two years previously. Sure we’ll moan every now and again – how many coffee shops do we need! – but we’re very lucky to have everything we’ve got. So let’s keep on supporting it.
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record shops Stepping into rounder’s breach Words By Stuart Huggett, James Kendall
Rounder Records closed on July 29th after 46 years at the centre of our local music scene. Brighton’s oldest independent record shop just couldn’t make the numbers work as the music industry feels the pinch of not just the recession but also the move to digital formats. Primarily Rounder has become another victim of the iTunes/ Beatport/Pirate Bay axis. People who previously spent £8 on an imported vinyl 12” – Rounder’s bread and butter customers – either didn’t have that money or had moved to playing 99p digital files from CDJs or off their laptop. Added to that, it’s become so easy to download for free that it’s frequently, but perhaps hyperbolically, reported that many of the newest generation of music lovers never even think to pay for it. “We are closing because we can’t make it add up any more,” said Rounder in a written statement. “We are a business that has been decimated by downloads (both legal and illegal), VAT avoidance by the big online retailers, a double dip recession, and the decline of the high street. Our lease has ended and we have nowhere to go.” Rounder played a part in the city’s time in the musical spotlight. In the mid 90s, Norman Cook and Damian Harris both worked behind the counter before finding fame as Fatboy Slim and the head of Skint records respectively. They were just two of a huge range of people working in Brighton’s music business who did counter time in the shop. Most recently, dubstep DJ Riskotheque and The Agitator’s Derek Meins could be found serving up CDs and vinyl.
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Rounder records’ back wall, which was repainted by req weekly with album artwork
Owner Phil Barton says, “The shop and the staff have always striven to be the best. We are not able to deliver the best anymore and with the deepest regret I have to close the doors at the end of July. Rounder has been a part of my life, and my loyal staff’s lives for so long that having to close is a very bitter pill to swallow. We tried everything to stay open, but the basic economics were killing us.” “It’s a massive blow to Brighton,” says Nat of Resident Records. “One of the great things about Brighton has always been not only independent shops, but also independent record shops. People really need to think about the consequences of their choices when they’re shopping around to save money. Everyone’s saying how tragic it is that Rounder’s gone, but if you were shopping there then they’d still be here.” “The more record shops there are, the more people come shopping,” adds her partner Derry, who promises Resident are safe for now. “Like the more gigs are on, the more people go to gigs. People come here for the music scene, so the more of it there is, the better for everybody.” Fortunately for the city’s music fans, there is still a strong concentration of new and second hand record stores scattered around Brighton and Hove (see our guide on the next page). On a personal note, it’s possible that SOURCE would not be around now if it wasn’t for Rounder. I was working there when I heard about the editor’s job and certainly I have never been so clued up about music as I was in that year. We’re sure that the shop has weaved its way into the lives of every other music obsessive in Brighton too. (JK)
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Borderline
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One of Brighton’s longest serving, most knowledgeable record stores, Borderline leans towards specialist CD and vinyl issues, across genres including jazz, psychedelia, Americana and soul. The staff really love their music, and are happy to share their knowledge if you’ve time for a chat.
Cult Hero North St
Starting out in a tiny shop on Duke Street, the shop formerly known as Ape’s move to a more spacious North Street store means less jostling elbows in the ribs, and more passing trade. New and bargain CDs and DVDs are Cult Hero’s bread and butter, but there’s a strong cult book section, and decent racks of vinyl.
Dance 2
Western Rd
More than a record shop, Dance 2 is a lifeline to DJs. They hire out equipment like the otherwise unaffordable CDJs, PA speakers and lasers. They’ll also mend your gear when you bash it around too much. The music they sell crosses battlebreaks, d’n’b and hard dance, plus it’s also a great place to pick up flyers and tickets.
Endless Kensington Gdns, above Loaded
Born out of the ashes of Edgeworld – who now do a monthly pop up shop in The Blind Tiger – Endless also provide sounds for those off the beaten track. Carefully curated, the shop has a split personality – one half devoted to punk, garage and psych, the other half focused on bass, house and techno. They also manage to squeeze in free in-stores on Mondays too.
Fine Records George St, Hove
Hove’s only dedicated music store, Fine Records is also the city’s only dedicated classical outlet. There’s a huge range of new and used classical recordings on CD and vinyl, with strong selections of jazz, MOR, soundtracks and nostalgia.
One Stop Records Sydney St, above Wolf & Gypsy
Recently voted one of the five best vintage record shops in the UK in a Telegraph article by Wayne Hemingway, One Stop has the benefit of being run by Chris from the highly regarded neo-disco outfit Soft Rocks. He’ll knowledgably sell you deep house, techno, post dubstep and, of course, disco edits. The second hand section goes right back to the 60s.
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Punker Bunker Sydney St, below Immediate
Situated in the basement, down some very narrow stairs, Punker Bunker has a unique selection of punk sounds, second hand and new. Punker Bunker promote regular shows from the international punk underground too. Just don’t waste their time asking for “you know, that one in the Rimmel advert. Kate Moss rocks.”
Rarekind Trafalgar St
Now as famous for records as the graffiti crew are for their art, Rarekind specialise in funk, soul and hip hop in their main shop, while RK Bass deals with modern dance music from d’n’b to dubstep and anything fixated on the bassline. The main floor has plenty of quality second hand vinyl, plus a handful of CDs from the UK hip hop scene.
The Record Album
Terminus Rd
The granddaddy of Brighton’s record stores, The Record Album has been trading in the city since 1948. Its focus on film soundtracks has brought the shop an international reputation among DJs and collectors, with a jaw-dropping amount of vinyl pressings, both mint originals and reissues.
Resident Kensington Gdns
In Rounder’s absence, award-winning Resident is now unarguably Brighton’s premier independent record store, with the widest selection of alternative music in the city, on CD and vinyl. Resident does a strong trade in gig tickets too, and hosts plenty of in-store shows after hours.
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Sometimes new releases aren’t enough and only an afternoon of deep crate digging can satisfy that record buying itch. Wax Factor on Trafalgar Street has the biggest range of second hand sounds (and an excellent book section too), but both Across The Tracks on Sydney Street and Monkey Music on Baker Street regularly turn up gems. The mixed boxes of Snoopers Paradise, opposite Resident, also reward investigation. If you can’t find your desired disc at any of those, the massive, bi-monthly Vinylman Music Fairs at the Brighton Centre shouldn’t let you down.
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STREET STYLE Photos by kevin meredith at lomokev.com/style
Words by Amy Bellchambers
Let’s get something straight, Sweet Lolita is not fetishistic or sexual. It is feminine, frilly and growing in popularity, as we found out at Brighton’s Japanese Festival last month. Libby’s dedicated eye for detailing and consistency of colours, materials and patterns merge together to create an impeccable silhouette that even Alice in Wonderland would envy. Sweet Lolita is not simply a fad, it is a style that takes time, dedication and costs a fair bit too. This is not something for the faint-hearted, it takes a lot of time and confidence and for those who can pull it off, we salute you. (AB) Wig from GossipLoli “I own a collection of wigs like these as they are of an amazing quality, feel like real hair and the curls stay in place for ages.” Mask “The mask is part of Japanese culture, but I also wear it in order to make me unrecognisable around Brighton. I don’t want to get criticised for what I wear by people I know.” Dress and bow from Elegant Gothic Lolita Community Sale. “EGL is where people from all over the world sell off things they don’t want to wear anymore but others will. I think this dress was previously owned by a lady in Sweden.” Rings from auction websites and conventions. “They are all hand-made and were bought because they’re pretty and matched the theme of the outfit. I go to conventions because it means I can buy Lolita clothing and accessories without the usual expensive shipping costs and postage delays.” Umbrella from an anime store “I like the frills and dolly style look and it also matches my dress.” Socks from Baby, The Stars Shine Bright “The socks were expensive and took a long time to arrive. They came all the way over from Japan because you can’t buy many Lolita style clothes here. They are classic Lolita.” Shoes “The original pink shoes to match the outfit sadly didn’t arrive in time. These are just my casual black pumps.”
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Each Sunday in Tokyo teenagers swarm the streets of Harajuku, living their lives for the day as if it were an anime comic. Darcy became obsessed with Japanese culture last year and since then has coveted the Lolita look, one of the many trends in Harajuku street fashion. “It’s inspired by the Rococo era, but it’s very girl-like and elegant,” she says. “It’s all about decoration: pastel colours, cakes, sweets and things.” Brighton can be pretty out there in the fashion stakes but when we came across Darcy, who was on her way back from the Asahi anime festival, our eyes were really opened. “I get lots of stares but people are generally very accepting. Mostly people just ask to take pictures.” Hat from Kawaii Kids “Kawaii Kids is an online shop. I tend to get stuff online because it’s difficult to get stuff in England, except for comic conventions and Japanese festivals.” Wig from Gothiclolitawigs.com “My hair is a wig! I have a few so I can change the colour to go with what I am wearing.” Mask “Masks are a part of Harajuku street culture. People wear them on subways on the way to work so they don’t get ill but Harajuku incorporate it into their fashion and it is very common for them to wear one.” Dress from Angelic Pretty “Angelic Pretty is a Japanese online shop. It can be quite expensive buying all my clothes from Japan so I have to save up money by babysitting.” Lamb stuffed toy “I got this at a comic convention. They are usually found in arcades in Japan and are very popular in Harajuku because they are associated with the whole sweet, doll-like look.” Ice-cream necklace, cupcake ring and socks from London Comic Convention “I got these from stalls at comic conventions. The comic cons are a chance to get really dressed up but there is no competition to look the best. The whole Harajuku community is actually really relaxed.” Shoes “I ordered shoes online to wear at the anime festival I was just at but they didn’t come in time so I bought these ballet pumps and glued on pearlised bows.”
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Unsung Hero
100 people who make brighton what it is No 32. Matt Dimmack Words By Stuart Huggett In the space of 18 months, The Haunt has established itself as one of the city’s leading venues for new music. Haunt director Matt Dimmack has been running clubs in Brighton for the best part of 12 years. What potential did you see in the old KuKu club? I happened to run into Henron and Dani from Become Modern and they had a great design concept for a club. I knew that the only thing that could work in the Pool Valley site was a niche venue. Every other business that has occupied that site in the last 10 years has failed, but this concept was strong, appealing and made for Brighton. The building used to be an old cinema, so it was like it was purpose built for live performance. The Haunt has really come into its own - what do you love about the venue? As a company we’re not answerable to anyone; we’re 100% independent. We don’t like fights, attitude, or any sort of concept of superiority. I’m proud that you can come here and know that the place will be full of similarly minded people, not out to cause trouble, but just to have fun. To put it bluntly, we don’t let in twats! One Inch Badge operate the live music and their wealth of experience and contacts has seen that side of the business grow significantly. I believe that we have more live bookings than any other major venue in town now. What have been your most memorable nights? My favourite gig was Naughty By Nature. They completely blew the place up. The show ended with a mass stage invasion, rapping along to ‘Hip Hop Hooray’. The end of my week is crowned by ‘It Is Still 1985’. Become Modern have created a night that is, in my book, legendary: it constantly has the best people in it, plays music which doesn’t take itself too seriously, and does exactly what it say on the tin. I’m fairly sure it’s impossible not to love it.
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THE PLACE We can’t remember how long Kambi’s was closed – perhaps as long as four years – but we can remember how sad we felt when the doors remained shut. They were the masters of the kebab. Now we’re not talking the sort of 2am booze-soaker that The Lovely Brothers famously sang about – no, this was a healthy-feeling handheld meal that you could enjoy for lunch. So you can imagine how excited we were to see it open again recently. THE MEAL It’s not our initial plan to review Kambi’s twice, but that’s how it works out. We book a table on Friday night and eat in. The
menu is huge with loads of Lebanese dishes but it’s thoughtfully explained. The soujok (£4.50) looks like a big pile of mini chorizo sausages but they’re milder than their Spanish cousins, while the pleasant smoky moutabal (£4.50) is like a humous made with aubergine. The mains are extremely meat heavy. The mixed grill (£11.95) contains chicken, lamb, kufta and some off the ol’ elephant’s leg, with a little salad and a portion of rice. It’s all cooked nicely but the meat is a bit rubbery, feeling more quantity and quality. The shish tawouk (£8.95) is straight up grilled chicken, although with a nicely caramelised coating. Disappointingly neither comes with flatbread or sauces, other than a delicious handmade chilli number. So it’s with caution that we head back the next week for a takeaway shish wrap (£4.50). Oh my, it’s everything we hoped! Red onion, tomatoes, lettuce and gherkins mix perfectly with garlic and that homemade chilli sauce. Not too dry, balanced between spicy kick and fresh salad, and not dirty feeling in any way. They’re back. THE VERDICT If there’s a kebab in Brighton that’s as good as Kambi’s then we’ve yet to try it. Eating in was, bizarrely, less impressive but if you ask for some of the sauces you get in the wrap you could be onto a winner. WE’RE WE SUSSED No, they were pretty busy when we ate in, and when we had the kebab we legged it down the street quick smart.
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after investigating the music scene we look at the state of the arts Words By Stuart Huggett Photo By Rob Orchard Cara Courage is an international arts consultant involved with several organisations in the city, including Embassy Court, Brighton And Hove 10:10 carbon emission campaign and the Threshold architecture pop up event. Her current projects include researching a book length study of Brighton’s arts community. How healthy do you think the Brighton arts scene is currently? I’ve worked in the arts for about 15 years and in this time I have seen it go from strength to strength. The arts has a high profile here – there is a busy events calendar, it’s attracting funding, creating opportunities to show work in the city and is also leading the wider arts sector in many aspects. The Digital Festival is a great grassroots-initiated example of this. It’s still cheaper to live and work here in Brighton than London and it offers many a lifestyle they want. We are close to each other, to services that are here for artists. The lack of studio space has been an issue in the past but less so now, with studios like Blank adding to the volume, The Basement and Lighthouse hosting artists and flexi spaces like Super+Super starting.
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have? I would hope that Brighton does know the value of its arts, even at just the level of economic return. Any way that venues, the council and the business community here can mitigate the effects of the local funds cuts is worth investigating. How is Brighton’s artistic community viewed from the outside? Brighton is a jewel in the UK’s arts scene and I will defend that position against any naysayer. We have great artists, two great unis, a host of venues and talent developers, an arts manager at the council who works her socks off, and a public that is really receptive to arts. But it has been said that Brighton is a bubble, that artists ‘plateau’ here because they aren’t creatively stretched or the milieu of the Brighton lifestyle leads people to stay on one level, rather than raise their ambition. That’s said of the city anyway though, not just of the arts.
What are your favourite Brighton artists and events? I love the degree shows, the Photo Biennial, the Miniclick events at The Old Market, whatever the Phoenix and Lighthouse put on, and The Warren was a blessing. The folkbased scene is on a real upsurge and Bleeding Hearts curate What disadvantages face artists in Brighton? a great monthly night at the Albert, while Nick Hudson is one Artists are still facing some perennial issues. The London talent of the most prolific and singular talented musicians and drain is still a problem, and not all feel that there is a real scene filmmakers. I love the art and poems of Gary Goodman; Mary here once you get beneath the surface. Whilst people joke that Jane Ansell and Shaun Ferguson are both high profile artists you are tripping over artists in Brighton, you can see the same worth investigating; and Sam Hewitt – he’s often showing at faces at events and leave wondering where the new the Tin Drum or the Sidewinder. talent is. It’s coming into the city all the time of course, If I have to put my money they just may not be on the arts radar yet. Also, with so where my mouth is, the only many artists here, why isn’t Brighton attracting the art work I have bought recently WEB: caracourage.net agents to snap them up? Where’s the large white is that of Luke Beachey, a truly walled gallery space that other south coast places gifted and compelling artist.
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LISTINGS AUGUST 2012
Wednesday 1st
Above Audio Kung Fu Hard hitting hip hop night 8pm
£free
Belushi’s Bar Naughty Pop You shouldn’t, but you will
9pm £free Black Lion The Black Lion Acoustic Showcase Live music 8.30pm £free Bloc1 Subservience, Hole In The Sky, Wreckhead Live music 8.30pm £tbc Brighton Marina Creatures Of The Deep Children’s workshop with a marine theme 11am £free Brunswick The Light Brigade Live music 8pm £4/3 Caroline Of Brunswick Patrik Fitzgerald, Pog Acoustic singer songwriter from the days of punk 8pm £5 Coalition CoCo LoCo Commercial chart music for students 10.30pm £5/3/2/free Concorde2 Conor Maynard YouTube’s electro pop wunderkid (this show is now sold out) 7pm £13.50 Cowley Club Thee Bald Knobbers Live music 8pm £3 Cube Wicked Wednesdays House DJs Time tbc £free; Resident Session House DJs Time tbc £free Digital Poundance Like a coin operated dancefloor 11pm £4/3/1 Druid’s Arms We Change The Tempo DJ set of international sounds 9pm £free Duke Of Norfolk Pub Quiz 9pm £1 Duke Of York’s Cinema Where Do We Go Now? 11am £tbc; The Dark Knight Rises 2.15pm/5.45pm/9.15pm Fishbowl Tea & Biscuits: DJ Gareth Stephens Retro swing, soul and ska 10pm £free Freemasons The Love Club A showcase for music, art, poetry, film and whatever else you fancy 8pm £tbc Funfair Be-Bop-A-Lula Rock&roll, swing and soul 11pm £3/2 Globe Global Bass: DJ Ted Lauren DJ delves into the bassier side of jazz, gypsy and world music 9pm £free Green Door Store Ty Segall, Cold Pumas, Boneyards, Mysterons Live music 7pm £7; Hard Times Please sir, I want some more nowave disco 10.30pm £free Haunt The Subhumans Classic punk band who gave us the line: “Are you prepared to die for your beliefs or just to dye your hair?” 7.30pm £10 Komedia Laura Vane & The Vipertones Nine-piece funk soul supergroup 8pm £9.50/8 Latest Music Bar Tango Boot Camp Learn to tango like the Argentinians 8pm £3-8 Life Wavey Wednesays Not waving but dancing 11pm £free Madame Geisha Funk Da Soul Live funk and soul followed by more of the same from DJ Mr G 8pm £free Marlborough Open Mic 8pm £free Mash Tun Tin Cup Collective Live funk soul band 9pm £free Mesmerist The Swing Ninjas Gypsy swing band 9pm £free Molly Malone’s Nassau Royal Live music Time tbc £free Northern Lights Prognosis Set the DJ controls for the heart of psychedelia 9pm £free Oceana Pound Party R&B and disco tunes from the bargain bin 10.30pm £3/1/free Sallis Benney Theatre The Ethical Purpose Of Education Discussion with Nobel Prize winner, Sir Harry Kroto 7.30pm £tbc Thomas Kemp Kev & Jenna’s Open Mic 8.30pm £free Western Front Hush Hush Live acoustic music 8pm £free Woo Woo Karaoke Wednesdays 8pm £free
Thursday 2nd
Above Audio Schtumm! Disco and groove music 8pm
£free
Belushi’s Bar Karaoke 9pm £free Belushi’s Below Fallout Live Live rock bands 10pm
£3/2
Black Lion This Is The Modern World Mod-bothering DJ night 8.30pm £free Bloc1 A Forest of Stars, Wodensthrone, Acolyte, Stone Circle Live music 7.30pm £6 Caroline Of Brunswick Brighton Bike Night Weekly biker’s social - we’re talking leather, not lycra 7pm £free Coalition Secret Discotheque Replaying the
soundtrack to your youth 11pm £4/3/2 Cobbler’s Thumb Play For A Pint Open mic night 9pm £free
Concorde2 Quantic - Ondatropica Quantic returns to Brighton with a Colombian big band in tow 7.30pm £20/17.50 Cube Brighton Underground Dubstep, R&B and garage 8pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema My Neighbour Totoro 11:30am £tbc; The Dark Knight Rises 2.15pm/5.45pm/9.15pm Fiddler’s Elbow Live Lounge Live music 8.30pm £free Fishbowl Residents Association: DJ Will Sumsuch DJs play hip hop, funk and world beats 10.30pm £free Fountain Head Student Night DJs play indie and rock 8pm £free Freemasons Fashion Exchange Trade in your old rags for some new garb Details tbc Funfair Smoke And Mirrors Gypsy themed basement party 9pm £7/free Globe Hang The DJ! A night of punter-picked playlists 9pm £free Green Door Store Charlotte Church, A New Way To Trust The former child star turned pop star turned serious singer songwriter was held to ransom by a local metal band who said they’d give a donation to a cats home if she let them support her (the show is now sold out) 7.30pm £12; Hound Magazine Launch: Regal Safari, Anneka Magazine launch with live music 11pm £free Haunt Coconut College Thursday night party playing a right mix of stuff like Grimes, Smashing Pumpkins and Kayne West 11pm £3/2 Hobgoblin Cook The Rabbit Psychedelic Afro dance and electro samba reggae funk 8pm £tbc Honey Monkey Business It wouldn’t take an infinite number of monkeys to learn how to play a DJ set of chart music 11pm £3/free Hope Felix Minimalist chamber pop featuring members of Stars Of The Lid 8pm £6 Iron Duke ID Goes Acoustic Six live bands 8pm £free Komedia Krater Comedy Club: Jeff Innocent, Dan Evans, David Ward Stand-up comedy 8pm £5-18 Latest Music Bar Moya Details tbc Lola Lo Tom Foolery Electro, house and dubstep night 9pm £5/3 Madame Geisha Shmooze Old school chart mash-ups 10pm £4/3 Mash Tun They Mostly Come Out At Night Indie, electro and hip hop 9pm £free Mesmerist Dr Bluegrass & The Illbilly Eight Brighton’s busiest buskers - country standards and pop covers put through the hillbilly thresher 9pm £free Molly Malone’s Crackling Griffins Live music Time tbc £free Mucky Duck Open Mic Jam session with Joe Newman 8pm £free Nightingale Theatre Foundry Folk Union Psychedelic folk and trad ditties 8pm £8.50/6.50 Oceana Vodka Rocks Cheesy club night apparently named after a drinks promotion 10.30pm £3/free Prince George Souled Out DJs play funk, soul and Motown 8pm £free Quadrant Funny Side Up New comedy night hosted by Ade Foiadelli 8pm £free Ranelagh The Long Haul Country rock 8.30pm £free St James’ Tavern Stay Sick, Turn Blue DJs play vintage soul, jazz and blues 8.30pm £free Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar The Lanes, Fitsroy, Cassette Town Criers Indie dance rock 8pm £free; Sleaze ‘N’ Cheese Peter Von Sleaze plays easy listening and Vegas grind with some indie and country interludes (in the bar) 9pm £free Thomas Kemp Douzy ‘N’ Slyde Acoustic pub covers 9pm £free Victory Open Mic 8pm £free Volks Chordless Launch party for a new electro, drum&bass and dubstep night 11pm £5/3 White Rabbit The Move-Ons Open Mic 8pm £free
Friday 3rd
Above Audio Home House and disco DJs 9pm £free Audio Notorious Old skool hip hop 11pm £5/3 Belushi’s Bar Muy Loco Pop and house DJs with a dancing contest 9pm £free Belushi’s Below Abandoned Rock and metal night
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Black Dove Hot-Tip Hi-Fi DJ with a fine collection of vintage reggae and rocksteady records 8pm £free Black Lion Soul Casserole A melting pot of hot funk beats and soul grooves 8.30pm £free Blind Tiger Dixie Peach, Razor King, Jamie Irie, I David, Ras Ric Reggae night 8pm £5/3 Bloc1 Wideboy Generation, The MilkBar, Young Electrics Live music 8.30pm £4; Into The Void Metal night with more windmills than the Dutch lowlands 11pm £free Coalition Friday I’m In Love No more lectures for a day or two 11pm £1-5 Concorde2 Norman Jay, Soul Casserole, DJ As-If More good times with the Notting Hill DJ 11pm £5 Corn Exchange Rockshop 2012 Big Night Out Young musicians show off their skills after a week of workshops 7pm £6 Digital Stonelove Indie rock&roll club 11pm £4/3 Doctor Brighton’s Funky Friday: DJ Nick Hirst, DJ Wayne 9.30pm £free Druid’s Arms Hot Pepper Sauce DJ I.D.G. serves up a spicy mix of funk, soul and house 10pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema Ted 3.30pm/8.30pm £tbc; Awesome; I Fuckin’ Shot That! Beastie Boys concert filmed by 50 audience members 10.30pm £tbc Fishbowl Keep It Wheel DJ plays rare disco, soul and boogie 9pm £free Fortune Of War Fever Bands and DJs play Latin, salsa and reggae 9pm £free Freemasons The People’s Playlist Customers choose the tunes 9pm £free Funkyfish Back To The Oldskool Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10.30pm £2/free Gladstone Catch A Groove DJ Bozak shares his collection of funk, soul and hip hop 8.30pm £free Globe Rum Fridays: Eclectic Chair DJ Lamp mashes genres while you get mashed on rum 8pm £free Green Door Store Private: Fair Ohs Late night club with live bands 7pm £free H-Bar BedOne If your house was this progressive it’d have an organic herb garden on the roof watered by recycled bodily fluids Details tbc; DJ Dave Reece Old school funk, soul and house (in the bar) Details tbc Haunt Time & Space Machine Richard Norris’ cosmic funk band on a journey to find the perfect psychedelic groove 7pm £5; Death By Disco: Lee Foss, Marlon Mahroyan, Chemical Play, Yianni Techno DJ 11pm £10 Honey Lollipop ‘Pink Fridays’ Get your fingers sticky to R&B and pop treats 11pm £5/4/3 Hop Poles Control, Alt, Delete Resident DJs 9pm
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Iron Duke Live Band 9pm £free Jive Monkey My Friend Lester A saxy take on Billy Holiday songs 8pm £6 Komedia Krater Comedy Club: Jeff Innocent, Eddy Brimson, Phil Butler, Ian Moore Stand-up comedy 8pm £11.50-14.50; ipop! Like an iPod full of party anthems on perpetual shuffle 11pm £3/free Latest Music Bar Swingalicious 8pm £10 Life Theo Parrish, Marcellus Pittman, AkaAkaRoar!, Dagger, ENK, Kung Fu A clash of the Detroit techno titans
11pm £5 Loft Gigglestock Comedy night 7.30pm £3 Lola Lo Tiki Beats Totally tropical tunes 8pm £5/4/3 Madame Geisha Debonaire Social Club Funky house, soul and chart anthems 6pm £5/free Marlborough Skard 4 Lyfe Reggae and ska with a splash of the 80s and a dollop of dubstep 9pm £free Mesmerist Shake, Holla & Roll Vintage blues, swing and rock&roll 9pm £free Molly Malone’s Nassau Royal Live music Time tbc £free Mucky Duck Resident Mucky DJs 8pm £free Neptune John Crampton Foot-stomping blues explosion 8.30pm £free Oceana Escape With seven themed rooms you should find one you like 10.30pm £6/free Palmeira Old Man Luedecke, The Whispering Pines Canadian alt country singer 7.30pm £10/8 Prince Albert Bend Over I’ll Drive Rock&roll DJs (downstairs) 8.30pm £free; The Collision, Emperor Of The Stag, Pint Size Hero Live music 8.30pm £4 Proud Cabaret The Beautiful And The Damned Club night styled on Fitzgerald’s tale of low morals in high society 10.30pm £4/2 Ranelagh Moore English Live music 8.30pm £free Smugglers Grits And Gravy: Hollerin’ Stollar, The Pine Top Boys Club night playing vintage rhythm&blues, ska and swing 9pm £free St George’s Church Seven Year Itch - No Rash Decisions Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus sing you through the prickly dilemma of prickly relationships 8pm £12/10 Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Brighton Rocks: Run Young Lovers, Alice, The Watermelons, The Querelles Indie rock bands 7pm £4; Another Sunny Day There’s a club if you’d like to go and dance awkwardly to indie pop obscurities 11pm £free Thomas Kemp DJ Moler Funk, soul and rare grooves 9pm £free Volks One Love Festival Pre Party All Nighter: Ragga Twins, Platinum Sound, DJ As-If, Unity Hi-Fi, Mr Innovation, Rumble, Kernel Reggae, jungle, drum&bass and dubstep 10pm £4-8 Western Front DJ Russ Rockwell Vinyl grooves
8pm £free White Rabbit Ruff Snippets DJ plays hip hop, funk and soul 8pm £free
Saturday 4th
A-Bar Honey Hush Queer-friendly blues and rock&roll night with the Frockabilly gang. This time the it’s a “South Pacific meets Blue Hawaii” Pride fundraiser 9pm £free Above Audio Doctor’s Orders Seriously sick hip hop tunes 8pm £5/free Ancient Mariner The Acoustic Sessions: Luke Hyttner Live music 8.30pm £free Audio Warehouse: Solo House and techno club night 11pm £5/free Belushi’s Bar Unplugged 9pm £free Belushi’s Below Deviant Time to untie those pony tails and start headbanging 9pm £5/2 Black Lion Mile Wide Smile Club DJ plays everything from house and disco to funk and soul 4pm £free Blind Tiger Alternative Playgroup Festival! The crappy weather forced them to push the festival back to September so they’re getting a bunch of the bands to play over the weekend instead 2pm £free Brunswick Vocademy Kids’ vocal showcase 11am £tbc; The Harvest Sessions Folk night hosted by House Of Hats 8pm £5/4 Caroline Of Brunswick Bad To The Bone Rockabilly DJ makes old women blush and young women squeal 9pm £free Coalition Soul On The Beach: Bobby & Steve, Groove Assassin, Ted Lawrence, Shaun Escoffrey 10pm £6; Blow: Vince Manganaro, Charly Lopez, Charles Green The party never stops 3am £5 Cobbler’s Thumb Nedstarr Psychedelic power trio 8pm £free Concorde2 Monuments, Hacktivist, Surfaces, Some Will Be Saved, Upon the Shore Live music 7pm £8.50; Supercharged: Plump DJs, Fono, Initial K, Fi-Check, Made Up, DrDr, Jester, Trickster Breakbeat pioneers 11pm £7 Cube Simply House House DJs 8pm £free Digital Pussycat Club - Live & Unleashed DJs accompanied by live musicians, vocalists and club performance artists 11pm £10/8/5 Doctor Brighton’s Sexy Saturday: DJ Tony B 9.30pm £free Dome Founders Room Soulful Singing Drop in group singing workshop 11am £5 Dome Foyer Bar Saturday Lunchtime Jazz Live jazz 1pm £free Druid’s Arms DJ Green Man’s Garden Of Delights A carefully cultivated set of soul, psychedelia, funk and pop 10pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema Wall-E 11am £tbc; Ted 4pm/9pm £tbc Fiddler’s Elbow DJ Russ Rockwell Funk rock and psych soul 9pm £free Fishbowl Gareth Stephens DJ plays funk, nu-jazz and broken beats 9pm £free Fortune Of War Duncan Disorderly Disco and house classics 9pm £free Funkyfish Oldschool Saturday Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10pm £6/5 Gladstone Battle Of The Bands 8pm £free Globe Luke Brackenridge Mashed up party breaks 9pm £free Green Door Store Splitting The Atom: Clive Henry, Slow Listener, Four Manatees, Barrow Boys, Reds, Hakarl Guitar Quartet, Chemical Bbrench, Bolide, Glyphs, Amniotic, Brideburger, Doomsday Experimental noise all-dayer pushing the boundaries of both math rock and physics jazz 2pm £free; Sonic Switch Tru Thoughts DJ puts you in the on position with some choice beats and bass 11pm £free H-Bar Tidy Boys Ibiza DJ collective (this night has now sold out) Details tbc Haunt It Is Still 1985 Travel through time to an ancient realm where drum machines still sound novel and exciting 10.30pm £3 Honey Hat Club - Zoological: Soul Avengerz, Vince Frimpong & Ed Brumwell, Mike Wall, Steve Dewey, Dean Chapple, Jack Swaffer House hits and hats 11pm £5-8.50 Hop Poles Hop To The Beat DJs play funk and electro swing 9pm £free Hotel Pelirocco The British Eccentric Afternoon Tea Themed pop up restaurant with classic British music and fancy dress - includes afternoon tea cocktail 4pm £15 Iron Duke Unhooked Generation Retro DJs with an ear for 60s Motown and northern soul 9pm £free Jazz Place Night At The Jazz Rooms: Russ Dewbury Legendary Brighton club returns to its old home for a jazz, soul and funk party 9pm £5/4/free Jive Monkey Hip City Cats Rare northern soul and funky R&B 10pm £5 Komedia The British Invasion Mod For It DJ plays plays the best of 50 years of great British music - from Dusty to Dizzee 11pm £5; Krater Comedy Club: Jeff Innocent, Bethany Black, Phil Butler, Ian Moore Stand-up comedy 7.30pm/11pm £5-20 Life Juice Box Eclectic club night offering an nice alternative to the standard seafront malarky 11pm £5/3
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Lola Lo Zombie Nation Where the dancefloor is never dead 8pm £10/7/6 Madame Geisha Tokyo Stereo 6pm £5/free Marlborough Luck Me Up Pop party with DJ Dame Amy 9pm £free Mesmerist Juke Joint Jamboree Rhythm & blues and rock&roll records from the days of the dance halls 9pm £free Mucky Duck Sizzle And Pop! DJ Mick plays 50s rock&roll and 60s soul 9pm £free Oceana Sound Of Saturday Disco club for West Street’s finest 10.30pm £10/free Pavilion Theatre SOURCE New Music: Habit, The Basis Brighton’s best bands chosen by Brighton’s best listings mag 7.30pm £4 Proud Cabaret Blitz Party! Relive the highlife of wartime Britain in this 1940s themed ballroom blitz 10.30pm £4 St George’s Church Seven Year Itch - No Rash Decisions Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus sing you through the prickly dilemma of prickly relationships 8pm £12/10 Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Stay Beautiful - All Grrl Special Babes on the run with poisoned lips in a mess of eyeliner and spray paint 11pm £5/4 Thomas Kemp Bad To The Bone DJ makes old women blush and young women squeal 9pm £free Unitarian Church Fourth Page, Boom Logistics Ambient and improvised song 8pm £8/6 Victory Up Against It Born Bad DJs play an assortment of punky trash 9pm £free Volks Evolution: Original Sin, Hizzle Guy, Mattix & Futile, Overdose, Trouble & Maniac, Kronical, Trigga, Junior Red, Fyakid, Skitz, Double J, Kerizma, Caelum & Fearful, Argo & Scoundrel, Deadnoize, Jesta, Kilo, Senseless Drum&bass night 10pm £7/5 Western Front DJ James Ongley Soul, funk, breaks and disco 8pm £free White Rabbit The Mixer Men DJ night 8pm £free
Sunday 5th
Above Audio Enzo Siffredi & Friends House music 8pm £free
Black Lion Live & Swingin’ Lion Live gypsy jazz, swing and blues 8pm £free Blind Tiger Alternative Playgroup Festival! The crappy weather forced them to push the festival back to September so they’re getting a bunch of the bands to play over the weekend instead 2pm £free Brunswick Joe Cang Live pop and soul with a jazzy flavour 8pm £10 Cube Sunday Social Open decks session 8pm £free Duke Of Norfolk Live Music Night Live music from local artists 9pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema Swandown 11am £tbc; Outside Bet 1.30pm £tbc; Ted 4pm/9pm £tbc Dyke Road Park Cafe The Help Film screening and discussion with Friends of Dyke Road Park Film Club 6pm
£2.50
Fiddler’s Elbow Sham-Rock Open Mic
£free
8.30pm
Fishbowl Recovery? Reggae through the ages 9pm
£free
Food For Friends La Petite Fleur Jazz Band Lounge jazz while you eat 6.30pm £tbc Fountain Head Reggae & Roasts Reggae and chilled beats Time tbc £free Globe Handbaked Arcade Things were so much better in the 1990s when all we had was 64-bit games of Italian plumbers inexplicably racing against turtles and gorillas Noon
£free
Green Door Store Green Door Blues Big Itch DJs plus the resident blues band, Smokestack 10.30pm £free Hampton Arms The Porchlight Smoker Folk and bluegrass band 8pm £free Honey Sundown If your house was this sexy you’d never go outdoors 11pm £free Komedia Bent Double: Adams & Rea Zoe Lyons hosts a night of alternative comedy acts 7.30pm £5-10.50 Latest Music Bar Bark Like A Dog Blues Jam A chance for first-timers to shed their nerves - and old-timers to show off their licks 8pm £free Life Dagger Terrace Sessions Daytime DJs play dancehall, reggae and ska Time tbc £free Madame Geisha Salsa Brighton Salsa classes and salsa dancing 8.30pm £5 Molly Malone’s Fergal Lyden Live Irish music Details tbc Neptune Tracy Jane Sullivan Jazz, folk and reggae 8.30pm £free Northern Lights Northern Light Sundays The DJ has a lazy Sunday afternoon 4pm £free Prince Albert A Page Of Punk, Werewolves On Motorcycles High speed Japanese punk rock in the same vein as NOFX or RKL 8pm £5 Prince George Pub Quiz 8pm £1 Signalman Open Mic Open session hosted by local duo, Zoothyme 8pm £free Thomas Kemp Jazz In The Afternoon: Bags’ Groove Jazz Quartet Live jazz 4pm £free Victory Blues Sundays DJ plays blues and soul Time tbc £free Western Front E.M.E. Live band playing jazzy hip
hop, followed by an open jam 8pm £free White Rabbit Hush Hush Live acoustic music 8pm
£free
Woo Woo Sunset Sundays Terrace party with house DJs 4pm £free
Monday 6th
Ancient Mariner Quiz Night 8pm £1 Belushi’s Bar Pump Up The 90s Retro night dedicated to the decade that was dedicated to retro nights 9pm £free
Belushi’s Below United Nations Students of the world unite 10pm £tbc Booth Museum Investigating The Iguanodon Learn about the ornithopod dinosaur that existed roughly halfway between the first of the swift bipedal hypsilophodontids of the mid-Jurassic and the ornithopods’ culmination in the duckbilled dinosaurs of the late Cretaceous (this talk is aimed at children) 10.30am £2 Brunswick Open Mic 8.30pm £free Caroline Of Brunswick MovieBar So you wanna make it in the glamorous world of film? Go shmooze with the movers and makers and other out-of-work actors. Includes film screenings, Q&A with directors and a movie quiz 7.30pm
£free Coalition Trash Mondays & Jailbait The illicit union of Mr Trash and little Miss Jailbait 10.30pm £5/3 Concorde2 Reel Big Fish Californian ska punk 7.30pm £14.50 Duke Of York’s Cinema Bugsy Malone 11.30am £tbc; You’ve Been Trumped 6.30pm £tbc; Ted 4pm/9pm £tbc Gladstone Open Mic Night 9pm £free Green Door Store Punk V Hardcore: Witchcult, For This World Is Hollow And These Hands Have Touched The Sky, Self Loathing, Moral Panic Guess what? It’s a night of punk and hardcore bands 8pm £free Hampton The Hampton Quiz 8pm £1 Haunt Ramesses Doom sludge metal featuring ex-members of Electric Wizard and Lord of Putrefaction 7.30pm £6 Honey International Student Party New club night playing house, reggaeton and chart stuff 7pm/11pm £5/4 Life #Hashtag Funky house club with added Twitter confusion 10pm £3/2 Lola Lo Fat Poppadaddys Student indie night 9pm £3 Madame Geisha Mashup Funky house and chart remixes 10.30pm £2 Mesmerist Stroll On Mondays 60s and 70s night with DJs and film projections 8.30pm £free Prince Albert Bleeding Hearts Club Folky and melancholic acoustic music 8pm £3 Prince Arthur Open Mic Night 8.30pm £free Signalman Signalman Pub Quiz 8pm £1 Volks Strictly Reggae Dancehall, roots, revival 11pm £5/4
Tuesday 7th
Above Audio Cottontail Club Big band and jitter jive tunes 9pm £free Audio Guerilla Rocks Club night for rock chicks, skater bois and indie kids 11pm £3/2/1 Belushi’s Bar Back To The 80s Retro night dedicated to the only decade to spawn a revival which has lasted longer than the decade itself 9pm £free Black Lion Hit The Decks Open decks spin off (book a slot online) 9pm £free Bloc1 M*A*S*H New night playing punk, funk, disco, rave and everything else Details tbc Brunswick Jazz Jam Open session with a house band and special guests 8pm £free Cube Cube Live: Bright On The Beat Live music Time tbc £free Digital CU Next Tuesday It’ll teach the universities to timetable lectures for Wednesday mornings 11pm £4/3 Duke Of Norfolk Open Mic 9pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema Outside Bet 11am £tbc; Ted 4pm £tbc; Marina Abramovic - The Artist Is Present 6.30pm £tbc Fiddler’s Elbow QUIZness Time Are you a pub quiz whizz, or bit of a half-wit? 8pm £1 Fountain Head Student Night DJs play indie and rock 8pm £free Funfair When Will I Be Famous? New glam pop night for wanton wannabes 9pm £3/2 Gladstone Quiz Night 8.30pm £1 Globe Basement Cinema Underground films, comfy seats and free popcorn 8pm £free Green Door Store Pressed Session #2 Local bands recorded live and sold - merch while you wait 7.30pm £free Haunt Savages, Palma Violets Live music 7.30pm £6 Honey Latin Fever: DJ Aaron George, Gabriel Angel, Yersin Rivas Dance lessons followed by a tropically vibed salsa club 8pm/10pm £3/1/free Hope SlipJam B: SonnyJim, Eatgood Records Hip hop battleground for Brighton b-boys - with an open mic and deck rap session 8.30pm £free Lola Lo Dirtee Laundry Student night 10pm £6/4/2
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Madame Geisha Skint VJ Subnero combines big tunes and big screens 10.30pm £1 Molly Malone’s Open Mic Night Time tbc £free Preston Manor Play At The Manor Activities and games for kids 10.30am/1.30pm £4 Prince Albert Sylvester Anfang Ii, Hexenverfolgung, Embla Quickbeam Live music 8pm £6 Quadrant Open Mic Sessions Live music 9pm £free Red Lion Challenging General Knowledge & Music Quiz 8pm £1 Thomas Kemp Poker Evening 8pm £free
Wednesday 8th
Above Audio Kung Fu Hard hitting hip hop night 8pm
£free
Belushi’s Bar Naughty Pop You shouldn’t, but you will
9pm £free Black Lion The Black Lion Acoustic Showcase Live music 8.30pm £free Bloc1 Live ‘N’ Laughing: Matt Richardson Stand-up comedy and live music 8pm £7/4 Brighton Marina Creatures Of The Deep Children’s workshop with a marine theme 11am £free Brunswick Conversation Cafe Discussion group 7pm £5 Caroline Of Brunswick Funny HaHa Stand-up night hosted by Zoe Lyons 8pm £5 Coalition CoCo LoCo Commercial chart music for students 10.30pm £5/3/2/free Cube Wicked Wednesdays House DJs Time tbc £free Cube Resident Session House DJs Time tbc £free Digital Poundance Like a coin operated dancefloor 11pm £4/3/1 Druid’s Arms We Change The Tempo DJ set of international sounds 9pm £free Duke Of Norfolk Pub Quiz 9pm £1 Duke Of York’s Cinema Ted 11am/4pm/9pm £tbc Fishbowl Tea & Biscuits: DJ Gareth Stephens Retro swing, soul and ska 10pm £free Freemasons The Love Club A showcase for music, art, poetry, film and whatever else you fancy 8pm £tbc Funfair Be-Bop-A-Lula Rock&roll, swing and soul 11pm £3/2 Globe Global Bass: DJ Ted Lauren DJ delves into the bassier side of jazz, gypsy and world music 9pm £free Green Door Store Spirit Of Gravity: Gillian, Strangers From Birth, Left Hand Cuts Off The Right Vs TCH Brighton’s avant noise gang serves up some seriously skewed electronica 7.30pm £5; Hard Times Please sir, I want some more nowave disco 10.30pm £free Latest Music Bar Tango Boot Camp Learn to tango like the Argentinians 8pm £3-8 Life Wavey Wednesays Not waving but dancing 11pm £free Madame Geisha Funk Da Soul Live funk and soul followed by more of the same from DJ Mr G 8pm £free Marlborough Open Mic 8pm £free Mash Tun Sticthed Up Funk soul party band 9pm £free Mesmerist The Swing Ninjas Gypsy swing band 9pm £free Molly Malone’s Nassau Royal Live music Time tbc £free Northern Lights Mystery Train Rockabilly DJ 9pm £free Oceana Pound Party R&B and disco tunes from the bargain bin 10.30pm £3/1/free Proud Cabaret Willy Mason Downbeat folk singer songwriter 8pm £10 Ranelagh Haunted: Annaca New monthly gypsy folk night 8.30pm £free Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar I Am Arcade Playing retro video games is particularly exciting when it’s in a public place because it’s usually something you do in private, like emptying tubes of toothpaste over Barbie dolls 8pm £free Thomas Kemp Kev & Jenna’s Open Mic 8.30pm £free Western Front Hush Hush Live acoustic music 8pm £free Woo Woo Karaoke Wednesdays 8pm £free
Thursday 9th
Above Audio Schtumm! Disco and groove music 8pm
£free
Belushi’s Bar Karaoke 9pm £free Belushi’s Below Fallout Live Live rock bands 10pm
£3/2
Black Lion Attic Monkeys Vs Molly Malone’s Dex In The City Funk, soul and hip hop DJ battle 8.30pm £free; This Is The Modern World Mod-bothering DJ night
8.30pm £free Blind Tiger Zegema Beach, Popes Of Chillitown Live dub rock reggae 8pm £tbc Brunswick The Kings Mews EP launch for local funk band 8pm £tbc Coalition Secret Discotheque Replaying the soundtrack to your youth 11pm £4/3/2 Cobbler’s Thumb Play For A Pint Open mic night 9pm £free Cube Brighton Underground Dubstep, R&B and garage 8pm £free
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Duke Of York’s Cinema The Wizard Of Oz 11.30am £tbc; Ted 4pm/9pm £tbc Fiddler’s Elbow Live Lounge: Brian McNamara Live music 8.30pm £free Fishbowl Residents Association: DJ Will Sumsuch DJs play hip hop, funk and world beats 10.30pm £free Fountain Head Student Night DJs play indie and rock
8pm £free Globe Hang The DJ! A night of punter-picked playlists 9pm £free Green Door Store Thomas White, Flash Bang Band, Cloud Him from Electric Soft Parade performs his solo album, ‘The Maximalist’ 7.30pm £6/5; Below The Line: Tanka, Gongan, Donga, Dubloke Bass music so futuristic it thinks brain-operated space cars are passé 11pm £free Haunt Coconut College Thursday night party playing a right mix of stuff like Grimes, Smashing Pumpkins and Kayne West 11pm £3/2 Honey Monkey Business It wouldn’t take an infinite number of monkeys to learn how to play a DJ set of chart music 11pm £3/free Komedia Sam Kelly Modern folk music from a finalist of Britain’s Got Talent 7.30pm £9.50/8.50; Krater Comedy Club: Paul Sinha, Josh Howie, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 8pm £5-18 Latest Music Bar The Vesuvius Club: Paul Diello, Arthur And The Irrational, Anna Rice Live music 7.30pm £5 Lola Lo Tom Foolery Electro, house and dubstep night 9pm £5/3 Madame Geisha Shmooze Old school chart mash-ups 10pm £4/3 Mash Tun They Mostly Come Out At Night Indie, electro and hip hop 9pm £free Mesmerist The Steady Man Band Blues, funk and soul band 9pm £free Molly Malone’s Fergal Lyden Live Irish music Details tbc Mucky Duck Open Mic Jam session with Joe Newman 8pm £free Oceana Vodka Rocks Cheesy club night apparently named after a drinks promotion 10.30pm £3/free Prince Albert Gunshot Straight, The Move Ons Live music 8pm £4 Prince George Souled Out DJs play funk, soul and Motown 8pm £free Ranelagh Anthony Duke Country and Americana 8.30pm £free St James’ Tavern Stay Sick, Turn Blue DJs play vintage soul, jazz and blues 8.30pm £free Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Riff Til Yer Stiff DJ plays music to finger power chords to (in the bar) 9pm £free Victory Open Mic 8pm £free Volks Roll Through Drum&bass and dubstep, bass and beatbox 11pm £2 White Rabbit The Move-Ons Open Mic 8pm £free
Friday 10th
Above Audio Home House and disco DJs 9pm £free Audio Schtumm!: Eats Everything, Waifs & Strays, Maxxi Soundsystem, Futureboogie DJs Futureboogie Records label showcase 11pm £10/8 Belushi’s Bar Muy Loco Pop and house DJs with a dancing contest 9pm £free Belushi’s Below Abandoned Rock and metal night 10pm £3/2 Black Dove Mo Taters! DJs play vintage tunes from across the Americas 8pm £free Blind Tiger The Slytones Psychedelic garage blues rock 8pm £tbc Caroline Of Brunswick Funny Girls Stand-up, sketches and music (upstairs) 8pm £5/4; DJ Lost Rock and metal DJ (downstairs) 9pm £free Coalition Friday I’m In Love No more lectures for a day or two 11pm £1-5 Concorde2 Hardcore Breakdown 6th Birthday: Gammer & MC Storm, Technikore, Joey Riot, Darren Grant, Cruze, DJ C, Dave Skee, Jakka B, Mike Vapour, Mizel, Storm, Mayhem, Frikshon, Reconize, Thunda, Smash, Hursty, Mono, Intuition, Disrupta, Buzzman & Sparkle, Upfront, Distortion, Bernzy & Detonante, Chris Freefall, Trixta, DHD, Vision, Smiler, Lyrical Groover, Caos, Nu-E, Oddball 10pm £8 Digital Stonelove Indie rock&roll club 11pm £4/3 Doctor Brighton’s Funky Friday: DJ Nick Hirst, DJ Wayne 9.30pm £free Druid’s Arms DJ Tommy G Electro beats, indie and house tunes 10pm £free Duke Of Norfolk DJ MC Cashback DJ night 9pm £free Fishbowl Jeff Daniels Soul and hip hop DJ 9pm £free Fortune Of War Fever Bands and DJs play Latin, salsa and reggae 9pm £free Freemasons The People’s Playlist Customers choose the tunes 9pm £free Funkyfish Back To The Oldskool Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10.30pm £2/free Gladstone Catch A Groove DJ Bozak shares his collection of funk, soul and hip hop 8.30pm £free Globe Rum Fridays: TSOB Philly disco from Juice FM DJ 9pm £free Green Door Store Punk V Hardcore: Goodtime
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Boys Guess what? It’s a night of punk and hardcore bands 7.30pm £free; Soul-id Gold Soul, Motown and northern soul 11pm £free H-Bar Reckless Launch night for a new dance music club Details tbc Haunt Capdown, Crazy Arm, Beverley Kills Punky ska and dub band named after the downfall of capitalism 8pm £15; The 90s Hip Hop Sweatshop Hip hop classics 11pm £3 Honey Lollipop ‘Pink Fridays’ Get your fingers sticky to R&B and pop treats 11pm £5/4/3 Hop Poles Control, Alt, Delete Resident DJs 9pm £free Iron Duke Paul Murray Contemporary folk music 9pm £free Jive Monkey Retro Disco “Hey, I’ve got it! Let’s do a nightclub where we play music, not from now, but from the past!” 9pm £tbc Komedia Krater Comedy Club: Paul Sinha, Josh Howie, Rudi Lickwood, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 8pm £11.50-14.50; ipop! Like an iPod full of party anthems on perpetual shuffle 11pm £3/free Latest Music Bar Beat Brawl Bunch: Scribe Tribe, Gee Bag, Stash Sounds, Oliver Sudden, The Strange Neighbour, Downstroke & C0mplex, Faulty Clicks Beat battles and hip hop 9pm £free Life Crazy Legs Label Launch: Mele, Brackles, Ziro, TOYC, Crazy Legs Residents 11pm £8/6/4 Lola Lo Tiki Beats Totally tropical tunes 8pm £5/4/3 Madame Geisha Debonaire Social Club Funky house, soul and chart anthems 6pm £5/free Marlborough I <3 Electro DJs play alt electro 9pm £free Mesmerist Shake, Holla & Roll: Hollerin Stolla & The Pine Box Boys Vintage blues, swing and rock&roll 9pm £free Molly Malone’s Nassau Royal Live music Time tbc £free Mucky Duck Gold Chains No Brains A mix of carboot house, codeine krunk and chip shop hip hop 8pm £free Neptune Black N Blues Band Electric blues band 8.30pm £free Oceana Escape With seven themed rooms you should find one you like 10.30pm £6/free Preston Manor Hidden House - Behind The Scenes At Preston Manor 11am £10.50/8.50 Prince Albert Club Meow Meow Upfront and immediate ska night 8.30pm £4 Proud Cabaret Masquerade Ball Fancy dress club night with burlesque night 10.30pm £4/2 Smugglers Grits And Gravy New club night playing vintage rhythm&blues, ska and swing 9pm £free Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Modern Life Is Still Rubbish Join Dynamite Sal for a 90s Blur-heavy Britpop party 10pm £free Thomas Kemp Hot-Tip Hi-Fi DJ with a fine collection of vintage reggae and rocksteady records 8pm £free Volks Siren: Tech Itch, Denial, Nightmare & Oni, Kombine, D Double U, T-Lite Drum&bass night 11pm £5/ free Western Front DJ Night Funk, soul and hip hop 8pm £free White Rabbit The Infamous Jay & Rich DJ duo 8pm £free
Saturday 11th
Above Audio Doctor’s Orders Seriously sick hip hop tunes 8pm £5/free Ancient Mariner The Acoustic Sessions: Harry Trick’s Acoustic duo play pop music from the 20s, 30s and 40s 8pm £free Audio Minimal Kids: Rampa Minimalist electronica and techno 11pm £5/free Belushi’s Bar Unplugged 9pm £free Belushi’s Below Synergy Industrial goth and electro night 9pm £5/2 Black Dove The Chop Source DJ plays Caribbean rhythms and jump-jazz cuts 8pm £free Black Lion Black Lion Block Party: Burnt Toast DJs play sleazy soul and dirty breaks 4pm £free Blind Tiger Stay Sick!: Thee Vicars Bands and DJs play garage, punk and rock&roll 9pm £3/free Bloc1 We Are Skint: X-press2, Cut La Roc, Afghan Headspin Electronic dance music duo 10pm £10/8 Brunswick Caitlin Stubbs, The Galleons Live music
Doctor Brighton’s Sexy Saturday: DJ Tony B
9.30pm £free Druid’s Arms DJ Green Man’s Garden Of Delights A carefully cultivated set of soul, psychedelia, funk and pop 10pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema A Cat In Paris 11am £tbc; 24 Hour Party People 10.30pm £tbc Fiddler’s Elbow Beans On Toast Bits of funk and blues swimming in a reggae sauce 9pm £free Fishbowl We Are Three! DJs do a birthday bash for the Fishbowl 9pm £free Fortune Of War Flevans Funky breaks from the Tru Thoughts DJ 9pm £free Funkyfish Oldschool Saturday Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10pm £6/5 Gladstone Cassette Town Runners Live music 8pm £free Globe Alphabet City Disco DJs 9pm £free Green Door Store Drugs Indie rock club with live bands 7pm £4; Pop Not Pop - 24 Hour Party People Hacienda themed after party for the screening of 24 Hour Party People at the Duke Of York’s 11pm £free H-Bar Soul Damn Funky: Paul Trouble Anderson, Mick Fuller, Simon Andrews, Kate Wildblood, Queen Josephine, Russell Ruckman, Kevin Fernando, Twisthead London, Curly Deb, The Analysir, Roy Rogers Deep and soulful US house 8pm £5 Haunt Echo Rain Bands raise money for the Teenage Cancer Trust 7pm £3; It Is Still 1985 Travel through time to an ancient realm where drum machines still sound novel and exciting 10.30pm £3 Honey Chop It Up: Squiz, Willerby, Max Davenport Funky house, R&B and chart tunes 11pm £5-8.50 Hop Poles Hop To The Beat DJs play funk and electro swing 9pm £free Iron Duke DJ Dave Rave Is it a rave, Dave Rave? No, it’s a Britpop and grunge night 9pm £free Jazz Place Night At The Jazz Rooms: Russ Dewbury, Nick The Record, Sam Moffett, Congalita Rice Legendary Brighton club returns to its old home for a Nuyorican disco special 9pm £5/4/free Komedia Frighten Brighton: Mad Love, Cat People, Them!, Plague Of The Zombie, Phantasm A whole day of classic horror films, plus prizes and a guest appearance from Emily Booth from the Horror Channel Noon £15; Krater Comedy Club: Paul Sinha, Josh Howie, Rudi Lickwood, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 7.30pm/11pm £5-20 Life Juice Box Eclectic club night offering an nice alternative to the standard seafront malarky 11pm £5/3 Lola Lo Zombie Nation Where the dancefloor is never dead 8pm £10/7/6 Madame Geisha Tokyo Stereo 6pm £5/free Marlborough Luck Me Up Pop party with DJ Dame Amy 9pm £free Mesmerist Juke Joint Jamboree Rhythm & blues and rock&roll records from the days of the dance halls 9pm £free Molly Malone’s Jay Live music Time tbc £free Mucky Duck DJ Juan Corbi Hip hop, funk and beats 9pm £free Northern Lights The Phailing Queasents Victorian DJs play everything from Gogol Bordello right through to Queen 9pm £free Oceana Sound Of Saturday Disco club for West Street’s finest 10.30pm £10/free Prince Albert The Cravats, Deadbeat Descendant Wonky punk rock heroes 8pm £4 Proud Cabaret Pop Kraft Pop tunes and cheeky cabaret with Boogaloo Stu and crew 7pm £6 Ranelagh Wide Eyed Order Energetic ska punk with a gypsy edge 8.30pm £free Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Brighton Rocks: Mok, Ubertone, 0:00, Coco Alice Energetic dance-rock band with hip hop vocals and pop hooks 7pm £4; Ultimate Power Do you possess enough irony reserves to get you through an entire night of power ballads? 11pm £5 Thomas Kemp DJ Spindo Garage, rock and pop 9pm £free Victory Soul Casserole A melting pot of hot funk beats and soul grooves 8pm £free Volks The Theme Live music 7.30pm £5/3 Western Front The Infamous Jay & Rich DJ duo 8pm £free White Rabbit The Mixer Men DJ night 8pm £free
7.30pm £6
Sunday 12th
£15
Black Lion Live & Swingin’ Lion Live gypsy jazz, swing and blues 8pm £free Blind Tiger Forest Of Thoughts Fairytale Funfair Eat fanciful foods, learn magic tricks and make your own fairy wings at this fantasy fete. Presumably it’s for kids, but you never know Noon £2/1; Cirque De Cabaret - Fantastical Funfair An interactive extravaganza featuring a steampunk circus 8pm £tbc Caroline Of Brunswick General Knowledge Quiz 8.30pm £1 Cube Sunday Social Open decks session 8pm £free Duke Of Norfolk Live Music Night Live music from local artists 9pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema El Bulli 11pm £tbc Fiddler’s Elbow Sham-Rock Open Mic 8.30pm
Caroline Of Brunswick Shake ‘N’ Stomp: DJ Citizen Lane Surf, twang and garage tunes 9pm £free; Bad To The Bone Rockabilly DJ makes old women blush and young women squeal 9pm £free Coalition Pump Up The Jams: Willerby, DJ Outbreak Reviving the long-buried bodies of 90s house and pop ‘classics’ 11pm £5; Blow: Vince Manganaro, Charly Lopez, Charles Green The party never stops 3am £5 Concorde2 Charity Event: Mean Poppa Lean, Sweet Sweet Lies, Fran Classic, DJs Breakin’ Bear, Rock ‘N’ Roll Bingo, Guy Lloyd Top Brighton bands raise money for the Sussex MS treatment centre 8pm £5 Cube Simply House House DJs 8pm £free Digital Hospitality: Hazard, Logisitcs, S.P.Y., Callous, Evergreen Forest Records Premier drum&bass night 10pm
Above Audio Enzo Siffredi & Friends House music 8pm £free
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£free
Fishbowl Recovery? Reggae through the ages 9pm
£free
Food For Friends Ruth And Danny Soul, jazz and indie covers 6.30pm £tbc Fountain Head Reggae & Roasts Reggae and chilled beats Time tbc £free Globe Handbaked Arcade Things were so much better in the 1990s when all we had was 64-bit games of Italian plumbers inexplicably racing against turtles and gorillas Noon
£free Green Door Store Sunday Service Live music 7pm £free; Green Door Blues Big Itch DJs plus the resident blues band, Smokestack 10.30pm £free Hampton Arms South 55th Blues Band Live music 8pm £free Honey Sundown If your house was this sexy you’d never go outdoors 11pm £free Komedia Krater Comedy Club: Paul Sinha, Josh Howie, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 8pm £5-11.50 Life Dagger Terrace Sessions Daytime DJs play dancehall, reggae and ska Time tbc £free Madame Geisha Salsa Brighton Salsa classes and salsa dancing 8.30pm £5 Molly Malone’s Crackling Griffins Live music Time tbc £free Mucky Duck Quiz On My Face “Quiz night with a difference,” perhaps with a very special prize 8pm £1 Neptune Harry’s Tricks & Mike The Mic Recession era jazz tunes 8.30pm £free Northern Lights Northern Light Sundays The DJ has a lazy Sunday afternoon 4pm £free Prince George Pub Quiz 8pm £1 Ranelagh The Mick Clarke Band Blues guitar band 8.30pm £free Signalman Open Mic Open session hosted by local duo, Zoothyme 8pm £free Thomas Kemp Jazz In The Afternoon: Sam’s Jazz Duo Live jazz 4pm £free Victory Blues Sundays DJ plays blues and soul Time tbc £free Western Front E.M.E. Live band playing jazzy hip hop, followed by an open jam 8pm £free White Rabbit Hush Hush Live acoustic music 8pm £free Woo Woo Sunset Sundays Terrace party with house DJs 4pm £free
Monday 13th
Ancient Mariner Quiz Night 8pm £1 Belushi’s Bar Pump Up The 90s Retro night dedicated to the decade that was dedicated to retro nights 9pm £free
Belushi’s Below United Nations Students of the world unite 10pm £tbc Brunswick Open Mic 8.30pm £free Caroline Of Brunswick Classic Horror Movie Night: Night Of The Living Dead 7.30pm £2 Coalition Trash Mondays & Jailbait The illicit union of Mr Trash and little Miss Jailbait 10.30pm £5/3 Gladstone Open Mic Night 9pm £free Green Door Store Pictureplane US performance artist and electronic musician 7pm £6.50 Hampton The Hampton Quiz 8pm £1 Honey International Student Party New club night playing house, reggaeton and chart stuff 7pm/11pm £5/4 Latest Music Bar Dead Belgian The songs of Jacques Brel are alive and well 8.30pm £6 Life #Hashtag Funky house club with added Twitter confusion 10pm £3/2 Lola Lo Fat Poppadaddys Student indie night 9pm £3 Madame Geisha Mashup Funky house and chart remixes 10.30pm £2 Mesmerist Stroll On Mondays 60s and 70s night with DJs and film projections 8.30pm £free Neptune Open Mic 8.30pm £free Prince Albert Tiny Ruins, Fiona Sally Miller New Zealand singer songwriter last seen wooing the Great Escape crowds 8pm £8 Prince Arthur Open Mic Night 8.30pm £free Signalman Signalman Pub Quiz 8pm £1 Thomas Kemp Quiz Night 8pm £1 Volks Strictly Reggae Dancehall, roots, revival 11pm £5/4
Tuesday 14th
Above Audio Cottontail Club Big band and jitter jive tunes 9pm £free Audio Guerilla Rocks Club night for rock chicks, skater bois and indie kids 11pm £3/2/1 Belushi’s Bar Back To The 80s Retro night dedicated to the only decade to spawn a revival which has lasted longer than the decade itself 9pm £free Black Lion Hit The Decks Open decks spin off (book a slot online) 9pm £free Blind Tiger Damien Jurado, Megafaun US singer songwriter 7pm £12 Bloc1 M*A*S*H New night playing punk, funk, disco, rave and everything else Details tbc
Brunswick Jazz Jam Open session with a house band and special guests 8pm £free Caroline Of Brunswick Skeptics In The Pub Dr Graeme Archer talks about the statistics of voting 8pm £2 Concorde2 Toots & The Maytals Reggae royalty 7.30pm £19.50 Cube Cube Live: The Music Box Project Live music Time tbc £free Digital CU Next Tuesday It’ll teach the universities to timetable lectures for Wednesday mornings 11pm £4/3 Duke Of Norfolk Open Mic 9pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema Women On The 6th Floor 11am £tbc; Nostalgia For The Light 6.30pm £tbc Fabrica Colloquy Discussion about storytelling and weaving as art forms 4pm £free Fiddler’s Elbow QUIZness Time Are you a pub quiz whizz, or bit of a half-wit? 8pm £1 Fountain Head Student Night DJs play indie and rock 8pm £free Funfair When Will I Be Famous? New glam pop night for wanton wannabes 9pm £3/2 Gladstone Quiz Night 8.30pm £1 Globe Basement Cinema Underground films, comfy seats and free popcorn 8pm £free Green Door Store Jacuzzi Boys, Shudder Pulps Live music 7.30pm £6 Honey Latin Fever: DJ Aaron George, Gabriel Angel, Yersin Rivas Dance lessons followed by a tropically vibed salsa club 8pm/10pm £3/1/free Latest Music Bar Charity Chuckle New Act Night Laughter makes you feel good, especially when it’s for charity 8.30pm £8/5 Lola Lo Dirtee Laundry Student night 10pm £6/4/2 Madame Geisha Skint VJ Subnero combines big tunes and big screens 10.30pm £1 Molly Malone’s Open Mic Night Time tbc £free Preston Manor Play At The Manor Activities and games for kids 10.30am/1.30pm £4 Prince Albert Hands Make Fire, Light Brigade Live music 8pm £4 Quadrant Open Mic Sessions Live music 9pm £free Red Lion Challenging General Knowledge & Music Quiz 8pm £1 Thomas Kemp Poker Evening 8pm £free
Wednesday 15th
Above Audio Kung Fu Hard hitting hip hop night 8pm
£free
Belushi’s Bar Naughty Pop You shouldn’t, but you will
9pm £free Black Lion The Black Lion Acoustic Showcase Live music 8.30pm £free Bloc1 Under The Bridge Live music Details tbc Brighton Marina Creatures Of The Deep Children’s workshop with a marine theme 11am £free Brunswick Paper Faces Live music 8pm £tbc Coalition CoCo LoCo Commercial chart music for students 10.30pm £5/3/2/free Concorde2 Public Image LTD This show has now sold out 7.30pm £tbc Cube Wicked Wednesdays House DJs Time tbc £free; Resident Session House DJs Time tbc £free Digital Poundance Like a coin operated dancefloor 11pm £4/3/1 Druid’s Arms We Change The Tempo DJ set of international sounds 9pm £free Duke Of Norfolk Pub Quiz 9pm £1 Duke Of York’s Cinema The Five Year Engagement 11am £tbc Fabrica Stories Of Hiding, Trapping, Making And Saving Storytelling with Jamie Crawford 10.30am £free Fishbowl Tea & Biscuits: DJ Gareth Stephens Retro swing, soul and ska 10pm £free Freemasons The Love Club A showcase for music, art, poetry, film and whatever else you fancy 8pm £tbc Funfair Be-Bop-A-Lula Rock&roll, swing and soul 11pm £3/2 Globe Global Bass: DJ Ted Lauren DJ delves into the bassier side of jazz, gypsy and world music 9pm £free Green Door Store Hard Times Please sir, I want some more nowave disco 10.30pm £free Haunt Spectrum, One Unique Signal, Innerstrings Psychedelic Lightshow Psychotronic acid sounds with the guy from Spacemen 3 8pm £10/8.50 Komedia Vintage Trouble Soul and rhythm&blues band from LA (this show has now sold out) 7.30pm £12 Latest Music Bar Tango Boot Camp Learn to tango like the Argentinians 8pm £3-8 Life Wavey Wednesays Not waving but dancing 11pm £free Madame Geisha Funk Da Soul Live funk and soul followed by more of the same from DJ Mr G 8pm £free Marlborough Open Mic 8pm £free Mash Tun Tin Cup Collective Live funk soul band 9pm £free Mesmerist The Swing Ninjas Gypsy swing band 9pm £free Molly Malone’s Crackling Griffins Live music Time tbc £free Mucky Duck Overhead Wires Live music 8pm £free; A Little Groove Time: Jipsy Magic, Almost Orphans
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Informal acoustic night 8.30pm £free Oceana Pound Party R&B and disco tunes from the bargain bin 10.30pm £3/1/free Prince Albert The Peacocks, The River Jumpers Swiss rockabilly punks 8pm £7 Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Mixtapes, Starters, Eager Teeth, Summerslam 88 US new wave power pop 7.30pm £5 Thomas Kemp Kev & Jenna’s Open Mic 8.30pm £free Western Front Hush Hush Live acoustic music 8pm £free Woo Woo Karaoke Wednesdays 8pm £free
Thursday 16th
Above Audio Schtumm! Disco and groove music 8pm
£free
Belushi’s Bar Karaoke 9pm £free Belushi’s Below Fallout Live Live rock bands 10pm
£3/2
Black Lion Soul Casserole A melting pot of hot funk beats and soul grooves 8.30pm £free Blind Tiger Dub Organiser Jam session with a dub reggae band 8pm £3/free Brunswick The Long Goodbye, Rotait, Jake Mackay, Hayley Savage Live country rock 8pm £3 Coalition Secret Discotheque Replaying the soundtrack to your youth 11pm £4/3/2 Cobbler’s Thumb Play For A Pint Open mic night
9pm £free Concorde2 Public Image LTD This show has now sold out 7.30pm £tbc Cube Brighton Underground Dubstep, R&B and garage 8pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema The Five Year Engagement 11am £tbc Fiddler’s Elbow Fiddler’s Folk Off Live folk showdown 8.30pm £free; Live Lounge Live music 8.30pm £free Fishbowl Residents Association: DJ Will Sumsuch DJs play hip hop, funk and world beats 10.30pm £free Fountain Head Student Night DJs play indie and rock 8pm £free Freemasons Open Mic Night 8pm £free Globe Hang The DJ! A night of punter-picked playlists 9pm £free Grand Hotel Jazz @ The Grand Live swing and jazz in the Victoria Bar 8pm £free Green Door Store The Violens New York psychpop trio 7.30pm £tbc; Thursday Night Fish Fry Jamaican ska, R&B and rocksteady 11pm £free Hand In Hand Rave On! DJs Citizen Lane and Becky Boop play doo-wop and vintage pop 8pm £free Haunt The Felice Brothers NYC buskers now a touring country rock band 7pm £14.50; Coconut College Thursday night party playing a right mix of stuff like Grimes, Smashing Pumpkins and Kayne West 11pm £3/2 Honey Monkey Business It wouldn’t take an infinite number of monkeys to learn how to play a DJ set of chart music 11pm £3/free Jive Monkey This Is Elvis Jim Devereaux dons the sideburns and sequins 8pm £10 Komedia The Fab Beatles An exciting chance to hear all the Beatles’ hits played live by a band that looks a bit like them 7.30pm £13 Lola Lo Tom Foolery: A Level Results Party Electro, house and dubstep night 9pm £5/3 Madame Geisha Shmooze Old school chart mash-ups 10pm £4/3 Mash Tun They Mostly Come Out At Night Indie, electro and hip hop 9pm £free Mesmerist Tom Rodwell And Storehouse Blues and gospel improv band 9pm £free Molly Malone’s Fergal Lyden Live Irish music Details tbc Mucky Duck Open Mic Jam session with Joe Newman 8pm £free Oceana Vodka Rocks Cheesy club night apparently named after a drinks promotion 10.30pm £3/free Paris House Bar Zalel Gypsy jazz guitarist Details tbc Prince George Souled Out DJs play funk, soul and Motown 8pm £free Ranelagh Negritos Latin rhumba rock 8.30pm £free Victory Open Mic 8pm £free Volks Roll Through Drum&bass and dubstep, bass and beatbox 11pm £2 White Rabbit The Move-Ons Open Mic 8pm £free
Friday 17th
Above Audio Home House and disco DJs 9pm £free Audio Jazz Note: Nu:Tone & Eveson 11pm £6/4 Belushi’s Bar Muy Loco Pop and house DJs with a dancing contest 9pm £free Belushi’s Below Abandoned Rock and metal night 10pm £3/2
Black Lion Medium Rare DJs serve up a platter of semi-obscure funk and soul 9pm £free Blind Tiger Fat 45 Eleven-piece jump jive band 8pm £5/free Bloc1 Into The Void Metal night with more windmills than
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the Dutch lowlands 11pm £free Brunswick The Fabulous Red Diesel Funk band 8pm
£tbc
Caroline Of Brunswick Distortion Rock and metal DJs 9pm £free Coalition Friday I’m In Love No more lectures for a day or two 11pm £1-5 Concorde2 Introducing Take On Mr Scruff Having already toured a show based on DJ Shadow’s ‘Entroducing’, the gang return with a live set of tunes by the Mancunian DJ producer, Mr Scruff 11pm £12.50 Digital Stonelove Indie rock&roll club 11pm £4/3 Doctor Brighton’s Funky Friday: DJ Nick Hirst, DJ Wayne 9.30pm £free Druid’s Arms Hot Pepper Sauce DJ I.D.G. serves up a spicy mix of funk, soul and house 10pm £free Duke Of Norfolk Miss Scarlett DJ night 9pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema Ai Weiwei - Never Sorry 1pm £tbc; The Giants 3.30pm £tbc; Glyndebourne - Le Nozze Di Figaro 6pm £tbc Fishbowl What’s Wrong With Groovin’?: Ed Meme, Matt Beatwell Two DJs set out to answer the age-old question with a stack of drum-driven funk and soul 9pm £free Fortune Of War Fever Bands and DJs play Latin, salsa and reggae 9pm £free Freemasons The People’s Playlist Customers choose the tunes 9pm £free Funkyfish Back To The Oldskool Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10.30pm £2/free Gladstone Catch A Groove DJ Bozak shares his collection of funk, soul and hip hop 8.30pm £free Globe Rum Fridays: Balearia Balearic beats and disco delights 8pm £free Green Door Store Shoot The Dead Dance powered rock band 7.30pm £tbc; Sub Bop Down and dirty grunge night with added shoegaze 11pm £free H-Bar DJ Dave Reece Old school funk, soul and house (in the bar) Details tbc Haunt Wonder Yeahs Music from the glorious 1990s 11pm £3
Honey Lollipop ‘Pink Fridays’ Get your fingers sticky to R&B and pop treats 11pm £5/4/3 Hop Poles Control, Alt, Delete Resident DJs 9pm
£free
Iron Duke Live Band 9pm £free Jive Monkey Bass Drop Brand new electro swing and drum&bass night 10pm £tbc Komedia Krater Comedy Club: George Egg, Francesca Martinez, Ninia Benjamin, Dave Twentyman Stand-up comedy 8pm £11.50-14.50; Born Bad Vintage rockabilly for pompadour cats and polka dot kittens 11pm £6/5; ipop! Like an iPod full of party anthems on perpetual shuffle 11pm £3/free Life Dagger Notting Hill Carnival Warm-Up Warm-up for the carnival 11pm £free Lola Lo Tiki Beats Totally tropical tunes 8pm £5/4/3 Madame Geisha Debonaire Social Club Funky house, soul and chart anthems 6pm £5/free Marlborough Queer And Alternative DJ night 8pm £free Mesmerist Shake, Holla & Roll Vintage blues, swing and rock&roll 9pm £free Molly Malone’s Crackling Griffins Live music Time tbc £free Mucky Duck Catholic Discipline Space rock, electronica and cinematic sounds 8pm £free Neptune Shauna Parker & The Saloon Bar Band Country swing band 8.30pm £free Northern Lights Dogs Have No Hell And Me Neither Live music opens a mini film festival celebrating the Finnish director, Aki Kaurismaki 8pm £free Oceana Escape With seven themed rooms you should find one you like 10.30pm £6/free Prince Albert The Tribe, Johnny And The Lubes Live music 8pm £6/5 Proud Cabaret Rockabilly Rampage 10.30pm £4/2 Ranelagh Mike Newsham Acoustic Americana 8.30pm £free Smugglers Grits And Gravy New club night playing vintage rhythm&blues, ska and swing 9pm £free St Luke’s Church Brassik Brass ensemble play Venetian music and 80s TV theme tunes 7.30pm £6/4 Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Dollface, The Denim, As It Is, Sweet Jonny Live music 7pm £4; Dive Slow Hip hop and electronica from the BBC critic turned DJ (in the bar) 9pm £free; No Brainer New punk and garage rock night with live bands and DJs playing the likes of Black Flag, Bos Angeles and The Cramps 11pm £free Thomas Kemp DJ Miss Bianca 9pm £free Western Front DJ Russ Rockwell Vinyl grooves 8pm £free White Rabbit Ruff Snippets DJ plays hip hop, funk and soul 8pm £free
Saturday 18th
Above Audio Doctor’s Orders Seriously sick hip hop tunes 8pm £5/free Ancient Mariner The Acoustic Sessions: Tracy Jane Sullivan Singer songwriter does reggae, jazz, country and soul 8.30pm £free Audio Warehouse: No Artificial Colours House and techno club night 11pm £5/free
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Belushi’s Bar Unplugged 9pm £free Belushi’s Below Apocalypse Rock and the sort of metal that went by the name ‘nu’ 9pm £5/2 Black Lion Stop Go!: The Planet Groove Collective, DJ Lanx, DJ Dave Stone “Unbeatable beats” 8.30pm £free Blind Tiger London Afrobeat Collective, Flamingods Full on funk and soul band 8pm £5/free Bloc1 Moshpit Come and have a go if you think you’re ROCK enough 10.30pm £5/3 Brunswick Gadjo, The Tatsmiths Gypsy ska band 8pm £6
Caroline Of Brunswick Bad To The Bone Rockabilly DJ makes old women blush and young women squeal 9pm £free Coalition Old Yellow Bricks: DJ Monty, DJ Charles Green, Shmooze, Skank R&B, house and funky soul club 11pm £7/5; Blow: Vince Manganaro, Charly Lopez, Charles Green The party never stops 3am £5 Concorde2 Suspiciously Elvis, DJ Dave Mumbles Tribute band do a Vegas show to commemorate the 35th anniversary of the king’s death 7pm £14; Uprising: Futurebound & Matrix, Wilkinson, MC Skibadee Drum&bass night, formerly known as Devotion 11pm £tbc Cube Xpressive Sessions House DJs Time tbc £free Digital Fire It Up: Eddie Halliwell, D.O.D., Vincent Manganaro 11pm £12.50/10 Doctor Brighton’s Sexy Saturday: DJ Tony B
9.30pm £free Druid’s Arms DJ Green Man’s Garden Of Delights A carefully cultivated set of soul, psychedelia, funk and pop 10pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema Ai Weiwei - Never Sorry 6.30pm £tbc; The Giants 9pm £tbc Falmer Village WTF Festival Arty all-dayer with installations and music from AKDK and the Beatabet collective Noon £free Fiddler’s Elbow Soul Casserole A melting pot of hot funk beats and soul grooves 9pm £free Fishbowl DJ Åbo & Ally Jazz Room DJs play dirty funk and hot jazz 9pm £free Fortune Of War Prince Fatty & The Outpost Imposters The dub reggae producer visits the seashore 9pm £free Funkyfish Oldschool Saturday Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10pm £6/5 Gladstone The Red Deer People, One Brighton Life, Rory Indiana, Red Emperor, Slow Motion Sickness Live music 7.45pm £free Globe BOYF_ DJ plays tracks from the ‘Scene With No Name’ scene, i.e. the scene known as the groove-based dance music scene 9pm £free Green Door Store Metalfest VI: This Means War, Wreckhead, Stone Circle, Shreddertron, Blind Eye Fury, Exist Immortal, Hole In The Sky, Bleed Again, Wyrdforge “Hear me, my warriors, soldiers from all the edges of the world / Let us join our forces, to an army, united!” 2.30pm £7.50; Da Doo Ron Ron Club night run by an Amazonian matriarchy wherein male music has been banished in favour of soul sirens and 60s girl groups 11pm £free H-Bar Disko 3000 Launch Disco and house from the golden days of disco and house Time tbc £3/free Honey MYNT Lounge If your house was this funky you’d have to invest in some industrial cleaning products 11pm £5-8.50 Hop Poles Hop To The Beat DJs play funk and electro swing 9pm £free Jazz Place Night At The Jazz Rooms: Russ Dewbury Legendary Brighton club returns to its old home for a jazz, soul and funk party 9pm £5/4/free Komedia Spellbound “An 80s night for people who hate 80s nights” - Simon Price plays the alternative highlights of the decade 9pm £5/4; Krater Comedy Club: George Egg, Francesca Martinez, Dave Twentyman Stand-up comedy 7.30pm/11pm £5-20 Life Juice Box Eclectic club night offering an nice alternative to the standard seafront malarky 11pm £5/3 Lola Lo Zombie Nation Where the dancefloor is never dead 8pm £10/7/6 Madame Geisha Tokyo Stereo 6pm £5/free Marlborough Luck Me Up Pop party with DJ Dame Amy 9pm £free Mesmerist Juke Joint Jamboree Rhythm & blues and rock&roll records from the days of the dance halls 9pm £free Molly Malone’s Country Western Night Live music and cowboys hats Time tbc £free Mucky Duck Ross Never Sleeps DJ set 8pm £free Office Hot-Tip Hi-Fi DJ with a fine collection of vintage reggae and rocksteady records 8pm £free Preston Manor Hidden House - Behind The Scenes At Preston Manor 11am £10.50/8.50 Prince Albert The Others, White Star Liners, Clowns Live music 8pm £5 Proud Cabaret Saturday Night Swing Vintage swing night 10.30pm £4/2 Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Hollywood Tramp, Shattered Dreams Alternative rock bands raise money for WaterAid 7pm £5/4 Thomas Kemp DJ Spindo Garage, rock and pop 9pm £free Victory Teen Dream 60s garage and punk DJs 9pm £free Volks Frequency: Culture Shock, Mefjus, High Maintenance, D Double U, Sublok Drum&bass sessions 10pm £5/2
Western Front DJ Night Funk, soul and hip hop 8pm
£free
White Rabbit The Mixer Men DJ night 8pm £free
Sunday 19th
Above Audio Enzo Siffredi & Friends House music 8pm £free
Black Lion Live & Swingin’ Lion Live gypsy jazz, swing and blues 8pm £free Brunswick Brighton Folk Monthly folk night with Amy Hill 8pm £free Caroline Of Brunswick General Knowledge Quiz 8.30pm £1 Cube Sunday Social Open decks session 8pm £free Duke Of Norfolk Live Music Night Live music from local artists 9pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema Ai Weiwei - Never Sorry 9pm £tbc
Fiddler’s Elbow Sham-Rock Open Mic 8.30pm
£free
Fishbowl Recovery? Reggae through the ages 9pm
£free
Food For Friends La Petite Fleur Jazz Band Lounge jazz while you eat 6.30pm £tbc Fountain Head Reggae & Roasts Reggae and chilled beats Time tbc £free Globe Handbaked Arcade Things were so much better in the 1990s when all we had was 64-bit games of Italian plumbers inexplicably racing against turtles and gorillas Noon
£free
Green Door Store Junior Boys Ontario electro pop band with synths, rapping and techno beats 7.30pm £8; Green Door Blues Big Itch DJs plus the resident blues band, Smokestack 10.30pm £free Hampton Arms The Sunday Sessions Live acoustic music 8pm £free Honey Sundown If your house was this sexy you’d never go outdoors 11pm £free Komedia Krater Comedy Club: Ninia Benjamin, Tom Allen, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 8pm £5-11.50 Life Dagger Terrace Sessions Daytime DJs play dancehall, reggae and ska Time tbc £free Madame Geisha Salsa Brighton Salsa classes and salsa dancing 8.30pm £5 Molly Malone’s Jareth Live music Time tbc £free Neptune The Porchlight Smoker Folk and bluegrass band 8.30pm £free Northern Lights Dogs Have No Hell And Me Neither: I Hired A Contract Killer, Take Care Of Your Scarf Tatjana Mini film festival celebrating the Finnish director, Aki Kaurismaki 3pm/5pm £free Prince Albert Matt Finucane Live music 8.30pm £4 Prince George Pub Quiz 8pm £1 Ranelagh Simon Sparrow Blues rock guitarist 8.30pm
£free Signalman Open Mic Open session hosted by local duo, Zoothyme 8pm £free Thomas Kemp Jazz In The Afternoon: Miss Mandy Live jazz and blues 4pm £free; Tango Sessions 8pm £free Victory Blues Sundays DJ plays blues and soul Time tbc £free Western Front E.M.E. Live band playing jazzy hip hop, followed by an open jam 8pm £free White Rabbit Hush Hush Live acoustic music 8pm £free Woo Woo Sunset Sundays Terrace party with house DJs 4pm £free
Monday 20th
Ancient Mariner Quiz Night 8pm £1 Belushi’s Bar Pump Up The 90s Retro night dedicated to the decade that was dedicated to retro nights 9pm £free
Belushi’s Below United Nations Students of the world unite 10pm £tbc Brunswick Brighton Stanza Poetry group 7.30pm £5; Open Mic 8.30pm £free Caroline Of Brunswick Conspiracy Night: Zeitgeist After you’ve finished watching conspiracy documentaries you can try to spot the plain-clothed CIA agents taking notes about audience members 7.30pm £2 Coalition Trash Mondays & Jailbait The illicit union of Mr Trash and little Miss Jailbait 10.30pm £5/3 Fabrica Second Sight Tour and discussion with Naomi Kendrick 1.30pm £free Gladstone Open Mic Night 9pm £free Green Door Store Ceremony Hardcore punks from California 7.30pm £tbc; Punk V Hardcore Guess what? It’s a night of punk and hardcore 11pm £free Hampton The Hampton Quiz 8pm £1 Honey International Student Party New club night playing house, reggaeton and chart stuff 7pm/11pm £5/4 Life #Hashtag Funky house club with added Twitter confusion 10pm £3/2 Lola Lo Fat Poppadaddys Student indie night 9pm £3 Madame Geisha Mashup Funky house and chart remixes 10.30pm £2 Mesmerist Stroll On Mondays 60s and 70s night with DJs and film projections 8.30pm £free
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Northern Lights Thin Lizzy Night The boys aren’t back in town, but that’s doesn’t mean you can’t have a theme night 9pm £free Prince Albert Born To Lose Live music 8.30pm £3 Prince Arthur Open Mic Night 8.30pm £free Signalman Signalman Pub Quiz 8pm £1 Victory Some Dark Hollow Folk Night Old time tunes and lonesome laments 8pm £free Volks Strictly Reggae Dancehall, roots, revival 11pm
£5/4
Tuesday 21st
Above Audio Cottontail Club Big band and jitter jive tunes 9pm £free Audio Guerilla Rocks Club night for rock chicks, skater bois and indie kids 11pm £3/2/1 Belushi’s Bar Back To The 80s Retro night dedicated to the only decade to spawn a revival which has lasted longer than the decade itself 9pm £free Black Lion Hit The Decks Open decks spin off (book a slot online) 9pm £free Bloc1 M*A*S*H New night playing punk, funk, disco, rave and everything else Details tbc Brunswick Jazz Jam Open session with a house band and special guests 8pm £free Concorde2 Of Monsters And Men Icelandic indie folk 7.30pm £12 Cube Cube Live: Travis Eddie & Jon McGlashan Live music Time tbc £free Digital CU Next Tuesday It’ll teach the universities to timetable lectures for Wednesday mornings 11pm £4/3 Duke Of Norfolk Open Mic 9pm £free Fabrica Second Sight Tour and discussion with Naomi Kendrick 1.30pm £free Fiddler’s Elbow QUIZness Time Are you a pub quiz whizz, or bit of a half-wit? 8pm £1 Fountain Head Student Night DJs play indie and rock 8pm £free Funfair When Will I Be Famous? New glam pop night for wanton wannabes 9pm £3/2 Gladstone Quiz Night 8.30pm £1 Globe Basement Cinema Underground films, comfy seats and free popcorn 8pm £free Green Door Store This One’s For The Crew, Everyone Everywhere, Chalk Live music 7pm £5; Everyone Everywhere, Apologies I Have None, Chalk Talk Indie emo band with a 90s sound 8pm £5 Haunt Trust Side project of Canadian electronica trio, Austra 7.30pm £6 Honey Latin Fever: DJ Aaron George, Gabriel Angel, Yersin Rivas Dance lessons followed by a tropically vibed salsa club 8pm/10pm £3/1/free Lola Lo Dirtee Laundry Student night 10pm £6/4/2 Madame Geisha Skint VJ Subnero combines big tunes and big screens 10.30pm £1 Molly Malone’s Open Mic Night Time tbc £free Preston Manor Play At The Manor Activities and games for kids 10.30am/1.30pm £4 Prince Albert Light Brigade, Caden, Ryan Whitmore Live music 8pm £4 Quadrant The Trident Open mic night for trying out new material 8pm £free Red Lion Challenging General Knowledge & Music Quiz 8pm £1 Thomas Kemp Poker Evening 8pm £free
Wednesday 22nd
Above Audio Kung Fu Hard hitting hip hop night 8pm
£free
Belushi’s Bar Naughty Pop You shouldn’t, but you will
9pm £free Black Lion The Black Lion Acoustic Showcase Live music 8.30pm £free Bloc1 Live ‘N’ Laughing: Tom Rosenthal Stand-up comedy and live music 8pm £7/4 Brighton Marina Creatures Of The Deep Children’s workshop with a marine theme 11am £free Coalition CoCo LoCo Commercial chart music for students 10.30pm £5/3/2/free Cube Wicked Wednesdays House DJs Time tbc £free; Resident Session House DJs Time tbc £free Digital Poundance Like a coin operated dancefloor 11pm £4/3/1 Druid’s Arms We Change The Tempo DJ set of international sounds 9pm £free Duke Of Norfolk Pub Quiz 9pm £1 Fabrica Stories Of Hiding, Trapping, Making And Saving Storytelling with Jamie Crawford 10.30am £free; Performance With Jamie Crawford Discussion and oneoff performance by the storytelling artist 7pm £free Fishbowl Tea & Biscuits: DJ Gareth Stephens Retro swing, soul and ska 10pm £free Freemasons The Love Club A showcase for music, art, poetry, film and whatever else you fancy 8pm £tbc Funfair Be-Bop-A-Lula Rock&roll, swing and soul 11pm £3/2 Globe Global Bass: DJ Ted Lauren DJ delves into the bassier side of jazz, gypsy and world music 9pm £free Green Door Store Jackson Firebird Aussie rock
duo 7.30pm £tbc; Hard Times Please sir, I want some more nowave disco 10.30pm £free Latest Music Bar Tango Boot Camp Learn to tango like the Argentinians 8pm £3-8 Life Wavey Wednesays Not waving but dancing 11pm £free Madame Geisha Funk Da Soul Live funk and soul followed by more of the same from DJ Mr G 8pm £free Marlborough Open Mic 8pm £free Mash Tun Gypsy Switch Live music 9pm £free Mesmerist The Swing Ninjas Gypsy swing band 9pm £free Molly Malone’s Hannah Lynn Live music Time tbc £free Northern Lights Dogs Have No Hell And Me Neither: Man Without A Past Mini film festival celebrating the Finnish director, Aki Kaurismaki 8pm £free Oceana Pound Party R&B and disco tunes from the bargain bin 10.30pm £3/1/free Prince Albert Bridie Jackson & The Arbour, Birdengine, Hiawatha Telephone Company North East’s finest alt folk act takes a trip to Brighton to play with our own musical eccentrics 8pm £6; Bridie Jackson And The Arbour, Birdengine, Hiawatha Telephone Company Live music 8pm £6 Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar I Am Arcade Playing retro video games is particularly exciting when it’s in a public place because it’s usually something you do in private, like wearing a body wig woven from the multi-coloured manes of broken My Little Pony dolls 8pm £free Theatre Royal The Boys In The Band & The Girls In The Band Cabaret treatment of the 60s drama about gay issues, directed by Christopher Biggins 7.30pm £20 Thomas Kemp Kev & Jenna’s Open Mic 8.30pm £free Western Front Hush Hush Live acoustic music 8pm £free Woo Woo Karaoke Wednesdays 8pm £free
Thursday 23rd
Above Audio Schtumm! Disco and groove music 8pm
£free
Belushi’s Bar Karaoke 9pm £free Belushi’s Below Fallout Live Live rock bands 10pm
£3/2
Black Lion Mile Wide Smile Club DJ plays everything from house and disco to funk and soul 8.30pm £free Blind Tiger The Perch Creek Family Jug Band Bluegrass and old time jazz band featuring Australia’s best one-legged saw player 8pm £3 Brighton Centre Disney Live - Mickey’s Magic Show Moronic mouse character created by a cryogenically frozen Nazi (our legal team has asked us to make it clear that this is a funny joke and in no way are we suggesting that Walt was a fascist, or that the Disney organisation is extraordinarily litigious) Time tbc £16.50-23 Brunswick Wolfe, Jake Watson Live music 8pm £4/3; Ben Sarfas Quartet Live jazz funk band 8pm £6 Coalition Secret Discotheque Replaying the soundtrack to your youth 11pm £4/3/2 Cobbler’s Thumb Play For A Pint Open mic night
9pm £free Cube Brighton Underground Dubstep, R&B and garage 8pm £free Fiddler’s Elbow Live Lounge Live music 8.30pm £free Fishbowl Cut La Vis Jamaican riddims and urban beats 10.30pm £free Fountain Head Student Night DJs play indie and rock 8pm £free Freemasons Open Mic Night 8pm £free Globe Hang The DJ! A night of punter-picked playlists 9pm £free Green Door Store SORO Presents Live music 7pm £free; Donuts Hipster funk and hip hop gems 11pm £free Haunt Cass McCombs Nomadic US singer songwriter 7pm £9; Coconut College Thursday night party playing a right mix of stuff like Grimes, Smashing Pumpkins and Kayne West 11pm £3/2 Honey Monkey Business It wouldn’t take an infinite number of monkeys to learn how to play a DJ set of chart music 11pm £3/free Jive Monkey Club Berlin Cabaret and live music 8pm £4 Komedia Krater Comedy Club: Joe Rowntree, Sean Collins, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 8pm £5-18 Lola Lo Tom Foolery Electro, house and dubstep night 9pm £5/3 Madame Geisha Shmooze Old school chart mash-ups 10pm £4/3 Mash Tun They Mostly Come Out At Night Indie, electro and hip hop 9pm £free Mesmerist Sneaky Low Five Jazzy vintage tunes with sultry vocals 9pm £free Molly Malone’s Crackling Griffins Live music Time tbc £free Mucky Duck Open Mic Jam session with Joe Newman 8pm £free Oceana Vodka Rocks Cheesy club night apparently named after a drinks promotion 10.30pm £3/free Prince Albert Nitzam, Black Bonds, Rain Eater Live music 8.30pm £4
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Prince George Souled Out DJs play funk, soul and Motown 8pm £free Ranelagh The Diablos Americana and country rock 8.30pm £free St James’ Tavern Stay Sick, Turn Blue DJs play vintage soul, jazz and blues 8.30pm £free Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Catholic Discipline Noise rock, disco pop and acid folk from the Superheroes of BMX (in the bar) 8pm £free Theatre Royal The Boys In The Band & The Girls In The Band Cabaret treatment of the 60s drama about gay issues, directed by Christopher Biggins 7.30pm £20 Thomas Kemp Mode Music Presents Live music 9pm £free Victory Open Mic 8pm £free Volks Roll Through Drum&bass and dubstep, bass and beatbox 11pm £2 White Rabbit The Move-Ons Open Mic 8pm £free
Friday 24th
Above Audio Home House and disco DJs 9pm £free Audio DPM: Catz N Dogs House night 11pm £10/8 Belushi’s Bar Muy Loco Pop and house DJs with a dancing contest 9pm £free Belushi’s Below Abandoned Rock and metal night 10pm £3/2
Black Lion Molly Malone’s Dex In The City DJ night 9pm £free
Blind Tiger Imperial Tiger Orchestra Ethiopian band mixing modern and trad styles 8pm £tbc Bloc1 Reset Robot Dubby tech house Details tbc Brighton Centre Disney Live - Mickey’s Magic Show Moronic mouse character created by a cryogenically frozen Nazi (our legal team has asked us to make it clear that this is a funny joke and in no way are we suggesting that Walt was a fascist, or that the Disney organisation is extraordinarily litigious) Time tbc £16.50-23 Caroline Of Brunswick Eclectic Chair Eclectifying alt classics 8.30pm £free Coalition Friday I’m In Love No more lectures for a day or two 11pm £1-5 Digital Stonelove Indie rock&roll club 11pm £4/3 Doctor Brighton’s Funky Friday: DJ Nick Hirst, DJ Wayne 9.30pm £free Druid’s Arms DJ Tommy G Electro beats, indie and house tunes 10pm £free Duke Of Norfolk DJ MC Cashback DJ night 9pm
£free
Fishbowl Jon Kennedy DJ set from “one of the 3 most talented men in all of Stockport” 9pm £free Fortune Of War Fever Bands and DJs play Latin, salsa and reggae 9pm £free Freemasons The People’s Playlist Customers choose the tunes 9pm £free Funkyfish Back To The Oldskool Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10.30pm £2/free Gladstone Catch A Groove DJ Bozak shares his collection of funk, soul and hip hop 8.30pm £free Globe Rebellious Jukebox Funky and rockabilly buttshakers 9pm £free Green Door Store TRIIAL: Furrows, Fawn Spots, Sealings Genre-less dance party with bands and DJs 11pm £free H-Bar Pure Klass Launch: Billy Nasty If your house was this deep you might even survive a nuclear strike (of course you’d still perish due to starvation or radiation sickness) Details tbc Honey Lollipop ‘Pink Fridays’ Get your fingers sticky to R&B and pop treats 11pm £5/4/3 Hop Poles Control, Alt, Delete Resident DJs 9pm £free Iron Duke The Informers Blues funk band 9pm £free Jive Monkey Dynamic Neo Soul Jazz trio 8pm £5 Komedia Krater Comedy Club: Sean Collins, Paul Pirie, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 8pm £11.5014.50; ipop! Like an iPod full of party anthems on perpetual shuffle 11pm £3/free; New Untouchables Here come the mods! 11pm £8 Latest Music Bar Brighton Unsigned Live music 7.30pm £3 Lola Lo Tiki Beats Totally tropical tunes 8pm £5/4/3 Madame Geisha Debonaire Social Club Funky house, soul and chart anthems 6pm £5/free Marlborough A Bit Of Rough Indie, electro and dirty rock stuff 8pm £free Mesmerist Shake, Holla & Roll Vintage blues, swing and rock&roll 9pm £free Molly Malone’s Mike Doby Live music Time tbc £free Mucky Duck Heritage Old school classics picked by the pub’s chef 8pm £free Neptune Simon And Sleeze Trio Loud and nasty rhythm and blues band 8.30pm £free Northern Lights Young Livers Indie and punk DJ 9pm £free Oceana Escape With seven themed rooms you should find one you like 10.30pm £6/free Prince Albert Esben And The Witch, Cold Pumas Ethereal fairytale indie group do a rare hometown show 8pm £10/8 Ranelagh BWC Live: Shauna Parker, Lenna
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Santamaria Country rock fundraiser 8.30pm £free Smugglers Grits And Gravy New club night playing vintage rhythm&blues, ska and swing 9pm £free Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Brighton Rocks: The Beautiful Word, Our Colour Company, Tarq Bowen Breezy indie pop band with a summer vibe 7pm £4; Orange Soda A night of 90s chart hits (if that doesn’t fill you with dread then you obviously don’t remember the 90s) 8pm £free Theatre Royal The Boys In The Band & The Girls In The Band Cabaret treatment of the 60s drama about gay issues, directed by Christopher Biggins 7.30pm £20 Thomas Kemp DJ Moler Funk, soul and rare grooves 9pm £free Volks Legion Of Bass: J:Kenzo, Fused Forces, Kotch, Rezomine, C-Side & Bigman, Taps, Joofro, Fileti-O, Dreadbeat, Rumble & Pharmacist, Lock Stock Live Recordings, Trouble & Maniac, Threts & Invasion, Lady Jane, A1 & Aplex, Messa, Jaymac, Enel & Ace All your bass are belong to us 11pm £7/5/2 Western Front DJ Night Funk, soul and hip hop 8pm £free
Saturday 25th
Above Audio Doctor’s Orders Seriously sick hip hop tunes 8pm £5/free Audio Warehouse: Jordan Peak House and techno club night 11pm £5/free Belushi’s Bar Unplugged 9pm £free Belushi’s Below Faceplant Punk rock and ska night
9pm £5/2 Black Dove Devil’s Music DJs play swing, jazz and Dixieland 8pm £free Black Lion Black Lion Block Party: Burnt Toast DJs play sleazy soul and dirty breaks 4pm £free Bloc1 New Untouchables: Nuts DJs, Pete & Kris Tebbutt Part of the Brighton Mod weekender Details tbc Brighton Centre Disney Live - Mickey’s Magic Show Moronic mouse character created by a cryogenically frozen Nazi (our legal team has asked us to make it clear that this is a funny joke and in no way are we suggesting that Walt was a fascist, or that the Disney organisation is extraordinarily litigious) Time tbc £16.50-23 Brunswick The Flip Flays Live funk band 8pm £tbc Caroline Of Brunswick Core Of The Coalman Live music (upstairs) 8pm £4; Bad To The Bone Rockabilly DJ makes old women blush and young women squeal 9pm £free Coalition Wolfgang Gartner, Union Electro house wunderkid 11pm £12; Blow: Vince Manganaro, Charly Lopez, Charles Green The party never stops 3am £5 Concorde2 At The Edge Of The Sea: The Wedding Present, Cud, Martin Rossiter, Nightmare Air, Yaz Bebek, The Evil Son, Cinerama, Sawkestra The Wedding Present and their extended family take a trip to the seaside for an all-day indie fest - including a rendition of the entire ‘Seamonsters’ album 3pm £18; Freebass: Mr Natural, Lunarcy, Junglizm Crew Drum&bass, dubstep and jungle rave 11pm £free Cube Delirious Upfront house with Carl Mills, Dave King and Jo Wilkes Time tbc £free Digital Art Department: Charlie Banks, Marlon Mahroyan 11pm £12/10 Doctor Brighton’s Sexy Saturday: DJ Tony B 9.30pm £free Fiddler’s Elbow Beans On Toast Bits of funk and blues swimming in a reggae sauce 9pm £free Fishbowl Daddy Marcus Disco, soul and funk DJ 9pm £free Funkyfish Oldschool Saturday Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10pm £6/5 Gladstone The Infamous Community Afternoon BBQ and top scratch DJs 2pm £free; Electric Playboys - Is It Summer Yet?: Bass Drop DJs Vs Bootleg DJs Filthy electro, funk and drum&bass all-dayer 3pm £free Globe Sonic Safari: Will Sumsuch, Tim Sneath, Danny Williams, Nick Wilson, Deano Pressure Underground house music 10pm £free Green Door Store The Big Itch Back to basics rock&roll 11pm £free H-Bar SouthRes Launch night for house and trance club Details tbc Haunt The Deep Dark Woods Canadian alt country band 7pm £9; It Is Still 1985 Travel through time to an ancient realm where drum machines still sound novel and exciting 10.30pm £3 Honey Rosie Romero Funky house club 11pm £5-9 Hop Poles Hop To The Beat DJs play funk and electro swing 9pm £free Hope The Thirst Brixton indie rockers 8pm £8 Iron Duke She Talks To Rainbows 60s and 70s classics with DJ Juliette 9pm £free Jazz Place Night At The Jazz Rooms: Russ Dewbury Legendary Brighton club returns to its old home for a jazz, soul and funk special 9pm £5/4/free Komedia Krater Comedy Club: Sean Collins, Paul Pirie, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 7.30pm/11pm £5-20; New Untouchables Here come the mods! 11pm £12 Life Juice Box Eclectic club night offering an nice alternative to the standard seafront malarky 11pm £5/3 Lola Lo Zombie Nation Where the dancefloor is never
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dead 8pm £10/7/6 Madame Geisha Tokyo Stereo 6pm £5/free Marlborough Luck Me Up Pop party with DJ Dame Amy 9pm £free Mesmerist Juke Joint Jamboree Rhythm & blues and rock&roll records from the days of the dance halls 9pm £free Mucky Duck Soul Casserole A melting pot of red hot funk and soul 8pm £free Northern Lights Dogs Have No Hell And Me Neither: Leningrad Cowboys Theme Night Mini film festival celebrating the Finnish director, Aki Kaurismaki 8pm
£free Oceana Big Night Out Cheesy pop party 10.30pm £10/ free; Brighton Beach Party Bank holiday beats 10.30pm £5/free Prince Albert Rumble On The Beach Rockabilly Weekender: Rhythm River Trio, 56 Killers, Leanne & The Rockeros 8pm £14 weekend ticket adv/£10 per night Proud Cabaret Masquerade Ball Fancy dress club night with burlesque night 10.30pm £4/2 Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Lick It Up: Blind Eye Fury, Headface Live bands and DJs play air guitar anthems and cock rock classics 8pm £5/4; Bitter Disko DJ plays mutant funk, post punk funk and dark acid grooves (in the bar) 9pm £free Theatre Royal The Boys In The Band & The Girls In The Band Cabaret treatment of the 60s drama about gay issues, directed by Christopher Biggins 7.30pm £20 Thomas Kemp DJ Lamp 9pm £free Victory DJ Rob Taylor Soul, rock and alt pop 9pm £free Volks New Untouchables Bands, stalls and DJs as part of the Brighton Mod Weekender 1pm £free Western Front The Infamous Jay & Rich DJ duo 8pm £free White Rabbit The Mixer Men DJ night 8pm £free
Sunday 26th
Above Audio Enzo Siffredi & Friends House music 8pm £free
Ancient Mariner Bank Holiday Special: Soul Casserole, Evil Broke Elvis, Dustdee, Alkie Turner Northern soul, ska and Motown 8pm £free Black Lion Vinyl Vetarans Bank Holiday All Dayer: Foly, Southpaw, OMC, Tipster, Rob Life, Bobby Boucher, Mac McRaw, Scratchy Muffin, Matt The Hat Raw soul, heavy funk and classic hip hop 2pm £free Black Lion Live & Swingin’ Lion Live gypsy jazz, swing and blues 8pm £free Blind Tiger Dave & Ansell Collins Jamaican reggae ska legends 8pm £15 Bloc1 Brighton Twisted Market & Fetish After Party Noon/6pm £5 Brighton Centre Disney Live - Mickey’s Magic Show Moronic mouse character created by a cryogenically frozen Nazi (our legal team has asked us to make it clear that this is a funny joke and in no way are we suggesting that Walt was a fascist, or that the Disney organisation is extraordinarily litigious) Time tbc £16.50-23 Brunswick The Cat That Got Away Sketch comedy show 8pm £tbc Caroline Of Brunswick General Knowledge Quiz 8.30pm £1 Coalition B.A.N.K. Bank holiday club special 11pm £6 Concorde2 Gilles Peterson, DJ Modest, Hint, Beta Hector Clubby soul jazzer 9pm £10 Cube Much Mayhem Drum&bass and dubstep Time tbc £free Digital Shogun: Friction, Shy FX, Rockwell, Technimatic, Patch, SP:MC, Mantmast, Linguistics Drum&bass night 11pm £12 Duke Of Norfolk Shine On Garage and house tunes with DJ Miss Scarlet 9pm £free; Live Music Night Live music from local artists 9pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema A Monster In Paris 2D 10.30am £free Fiddler’s Elbow Folk & Cider Festival Street Party Outdoors live music all day 2pm £free; Sham-Rock Open Mic 8.30pm £free Fishbowl Strictly Fruit Punch Bank holiday DJs 8pm £free Food For Friends Hajar Solo vocalist does pop and jazz covers with some originals thrown in 6.30pm £tbc Fountain Head Reggae & Roasts Reggae and chilled beats Time tbc £free Freemasons Freemasons Festival Fancy Dress Weekend The challenge is to recreate the look of having spent three days without any sleep surrounded by mud and nutters Time tbc £free Globe Nowhere To Run The best of 60s Motown, soul and rock&roll 9pm £free Green Door Store Deadmen’s Smokehouse: Kitty Daisy & Lewis, The Straight Aces, Gentlemen Starkey A gathering of motorheads, leather ladies and bad boy bikers - with vintage stalls and rockabilly bands 2pm £12/4; Green Door Blues Big Itch DJs plus the resident blues band, Smokestack 10.30pm £free Hampton Arms So Last Century String Band Live acoustic music 8pm £free Honey Favella Fusion Willerby and Squiz play Latin house, reggaeton and chart stuff 8pm £tbc Honey Sevensins Classics House club 10.30pm £10/8 Komedia The Humble Quest For A Universal Genius
Absurd gameshow in which comedians are required to excel in every field of human knowledge 7pm £9/7; Krater Comedy Club: Sean Collins, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 8pm £5-11.50; New Untouchables Here come the mods! 11pm £12 Life Dagger Terrace Sessions Daytime DJs play dancehall, reggae and ska Time tbc £free; AkaAkaRoar!: Loefah, Thefft, Paleman, Res Garage, grime and bassheavy house - with added techno 11pm £8/6/4 Lola Lo Bang! August Bank Holiday The weekend ends not with a whimper, but a bang! 9pm £6/5/4 Madame Geisha Debonaire V Shmooze R&B, funky house and chart classics 10pm £5 Mesmerist Emperor Penguin Rhythm&blues band with a streak of 60s counter culture 9pm £free Molly Malone’s Fergal Lyden Live Irish music Details tbc Neptune The Ammonites Ska and reggae band 8.30pm £free Northern Lights Dogs Have No Hell And Me Neither: Crime And Punishment, Hamlet Goes Business Mini film festival celebrating the Finnish director, Aki Kaurismaki 3pm/5pm £free Prince Albert Rumble On The Beach Rockabilly Weekender: Razorblades, Midniters 8pm £14 weekend ticket adv/£10 per night Prince George Pub Quiz 8pm £1 Ranelagh Rabbit Foot Blues band with a hint of Africa 8.30pm £free Signalman Open Mic Open session hosted by local duo, Zoothyme 8pm £free Theatre Royal The Boys In The Band & The Girls In The Band Cabaret treatment of the 60s drama about gay issues, directed by Christopher Biggins 2.30pm/7.30pm £20 Thomas Kemp Jazz In The Afternoon: Lee Rainbow Hands And His Piano! Live jazz 4pm £free Tube Traumfrau Alternative DIY queer night with live bands and “music you actually like” 9pm £5 Victory Blues Sundays DJ plays blues and soul Time tbc £free Volks New Untouchables Bands, stalls and DJs as part of the Brighton Mod Weekender 1pm £free Western Front Summer Bank Holiday Special Live bands and DJs 4pm £free White Rabbit Bank Holiday Bonanza Bands and DJs Time tbc £free Woo Woo Sunset Sundays Terrace party with house DJs 4pm £free
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Ancient Mariner Quiz Night 8pm £1 Belushi’s Bar Pump Up The 90s Retro night dedicated to the decade that was dedicated to retro nights 9pm £free
Belushi’s Below United Nations Students of the world unite 10pm £tbc Brunswick Open Mic 8.30pm £free Caroline Of Brunswick Classic Sci-Fi Movie Night: Voyage To The Prehistoric Planet 7.30pm £2 Coalition Trash Mondays & Jailbait The illicit union of Mr Trash and little Miss Jailbait 10.30pm £5/3 Concorde2 Alternative Notting Hill All Dayer!: Carnival Collective, Puncture Kit, Kalakuta Millionaires, Dub ‘N’ Tuff All Stars, One Roots, Hot-Tip Hi-Fi 3pm £free
Gladstone Open Mic Night 9pm £free Green Door Store Metal Monday Full metal racket 8pm £free
Hampton The Hampton Quiz 8pm £1 Honey International Student Party New club night playing house, reggaeton and chart stuff 7pm/11pm £5/4 Life #Hashtag Funky house club with added Twitter confusion 10pm £3/2 Lola Lo Fat Poppadaddys Student indie night 9pm £3 Madame Geisha Mashup Funky house and chart remixes 10.30pm £2 Mesmerist Stroll On Mondays 60s and 70s night with DJs and film projections 8.30pm £free Prince Arthur Open Mic Night 8.30pm £free Signalman Signalman Pub Quiz 8pm £1 Theatre Royal The Boys In The Band & The Girls In The Band Cabaret treatment of the 60s drama about gay issues, directed by Christopher Biggins 7.30pm £20 Thomas Kemp Quiz Night 8pm £1 Victory Poetry Night Live poetry readings 8pm £free Volks Reggae All Dayer: King Tafari Love & Godfather Marcus, Roots Garden, Unity Hi-fi Crew, Dreadbeat, King Spinner, Jungle Rollers, Dialect & Kosine 1pm £free; Strictly Reggae Dancehall, roots, revival 11pm £5/4 White Rabbit Hush Hush Live acoustic music 8pm £free
Tuesday 28th
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ART AT FIVE Summer Exhibition Summery portraits and floral designs by resident artists and Rosana Ibarrola, Lesley Whelan and Liz Chapman Until Aug 31st ARTIST’S RESIDENCE HOTEL Friends & Other Animals An exhibition of painted portraits by the artist in residence, Kate Shields Until Aug 27th BRIGHTON MUSEUM & ART GALLERY Charlotte, The Forgotten Princess Exhibition about the short life of George IV’s popular daughter Until September; Fashion And The Flag The new wave of patriotism continues apace with this collection of clothes incorporating or influenced by the Union Jack Until Nov 25th; The Hole In Mount Hakone Prints and drawings inspired by the 19th century Japanese artist, Hiroshige Until Oct 21st FABRICA Cluster Site specific installation created by a Lewes basketmaker Until Aug 27th FISHING QUARTER GALLERY Susa Harrison Figurative fine art Aug 8th - 21st HOTEL PELIROCCO Booked In Photo portraits of writers and musicians from the Ace Stories literature events Until Aug 15th
HOVE MUSEUM & ART GALLERY My Favourite Toy Exhibition celebrating vintage toys Until Nov 6th; Five Senses Family-friendly exhibition exploring sensory experiences of visual arts Until Aug 31st INK_D Happy Birthday Peter Blake New and rare work by the godfather of pop art, the guy who did the ‘Sgt. Pepper’s’ sleeve Until Aug 5th PHOENIX GALLERY The Book Of Invisible Bridges Fourteen artists present works inspired by a book full of mysterious images and blank pages Until Aug 12th UNIVERSITY GALLERY 3D-COFORM Reshaping History Exhibits exploring ways in which our cultural heritage is being transformed by 3D technology Until Aug 25th VENTNOR HALL Dupont Art Club Pictures and paintings by local artists with a winner chosen by punters Aug 16th 18th
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six of the best
80s Power Ballads
Backcomb your hair and clench that fist, we’RE about to rock, with extreme emotion Words By Ben Bailey, James Kendall, Rosie Kendall
Foreigner
‘I Want To Know What Love Is’
The aim of the power ballad is to touch you emotionally, and most use a sledgehammer to crack that particular walnut. However this UK and US No.1 is kind of gentle – no big toms, no scream solos – but it swooshingly tugs at the heartstrings, as proved when we made a grown man cry while DJing it at The Sidewinder. Admittedly it was Valentine’s Day. As his friend comforted him we knew taking the record off would only highlight the situation, so let the six and a half minute 12” version do its worst. In the end we were almost in tears too. (JK)
Bon Jovi
‘Never Say Goodbye’
Back when New Jersey was synonymous with stadium rock rather than Snooki, hit-heavy ‘Slippery When Wet’ was a teen girl’s slippery wet dream. The fourth single from the album showed us chiselled-jawed Jon’s emotional side and, as we hugged a pillow, listening to him reminisce to his high school sweetheart, “Remember when we lost the keys? You lost more than that in my back seat, baby”, we imagined we were her - running our fingers over his ill-judged snakeskin mackintosh and through his monstrous highlighted tresses as he sensitively breached our maidenhead. (RK)
T’Pau
‘China In Your Hand’
We had a massive crush on Carol Decker despite the fact she was a positively ancient 30 years old when ‘China In Your Hand’ hit the top spot in 1987. A perfect example of the explosiveness of power ballads, after just 30 seconds of pretty pizzicato violins Cazza is belting it out over distorted guitars and big drums. When the screaming sax solo comes in we’ve ticked all the boxes and are gooey inside. So gooey that we’d missed the fact that the song is about Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. (JK)
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Marillion
t’pau
‘Kayleigh’
“Every musician is attractive,” says stand up du jour Louie CK. “Isn’t that a weird coincidence, that everyone who can play music also looks good?” Well, it wasn’t always so. In the 80s we had Fish, the lead singer of the desperately uncool Marillion – a man who looked like a prog rock builder. But who needs a pretty face when you’ve got songs this beautiful? Rather than an ode to the Yorkshire town, it’s an apology to some of the women he went out with. One was called Kay and had a middle name of Lee. If you’re called Kayleigh we’re pretty sure you’re under 27 years old. (JK)
Heart
‘Alone’
When rock bands get the pianos out you know it’s power ballad time. ‘Alone’ has the genre’s best ivory tinkling, as well as more hair than any other band in this list, which is high praise indeed. The drums are so big that a piano literally explodes in the video, while Cameron Crowe’s future wife and soundtracker Nancy Wilson ruts with her guitar in a way that would make Van Halen blush. Itself a cover (even E.R. actor John Stamos got there first), the song recently hit the No.2 position in the form of Alyssa Reid’s fuck-awful ‘Alone Again’. (JK)
Pandora’s Box ‘It’s All Coming Back To Me Now’
Having given Meatloaf and Bonnie Tyler their most famous fistclenchers, Jim Steinman nevertheless believed this eight minute epic was the most romantic song he’d ever written. Melding a necrophiliac reading of Wuthering Heights with a low-rent sense of grandeur, the song features two guitar solos, three double choruses and a never-ending finale. Later covered by Meatloaf and Celine Dion, this 1989 original was sung by Elaine Caswell, who reportedly collapsed five times during recording – presumably through sheer emotional exertion. Ken Russell directed the £35k-an-hour video, showing a gang of S&M dancers openly groping the protagonist’s corpse. In Steinman’s world, more can never be anything less than more. (BB)
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