GIGS, CLUBS, CULTURE & OVER 1,300 EVENT LISTINGS
WELL ROUNDED BRINGING HOUSE MUSIC BACK TO BN1
VOLUME 2. ISSUE 57 JULY 2013
SOURCE VIRGINS RETURNS BEST DAFT PUNK OBSURITIES SKATADAYS AND SKINT REVIEWED
US BABY BEAR BONES - SEE PAGE 32
VINYL DEMAND
This month’s cover stars Well Rounded are head over heels in love with vinyl, and that’s something that we can understand. There’s something about a physical object – something that’s not simply holding data – that gives it more of a place in your life. The cover art, the record shelves dominating your living room with a rainbow of spines, the history of music (some which will never be digitalised)… vinyl is just special. But there’s also another side. Ever since dance music went digital the previously impervious world of DJs has suddenly become open to everyone. If you’ve got a laptop, a tablet or even a smartphone you can put together a decent set that can rock any party. If you can find a couple of hundred quid for a midicontroller then there’s not a single club in the world that would turn you away if you were good enough. And with sync buttons doing most of the legwork you can be good enough. So what do you need to be a good DJ then? Simply great music, music you can put together in a way that no one else would think to. And where do you find this great music? Well, record shops are a good start. They have these great things called vinyl records.
BUY
SOURCE TICKETS
PERSONNEL
EDITOR James Kendall MANAGER Rosie Kendall Matt Barker at Artwerk DESIGNER DEPUTY EDITOR Stuart Huggett SALES MANAGER Annie Lorenzini LISTINGS & LIVE EDITOR Ben Bailey CLUBS & REVIEWS EDITOR Jessica Marshall McHattie COVER Kenny Mc Cracken at Create
CONTRIBUTORS
Chris Biggs, Steve Clements, Zac Colbert, Thomas H Green, Jake Kennedy, Ben Miller, Adam Peters, Craig Robinson, Tegan Tallulah, Anna Thomas. 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
To advertise contact: Annie Lorenzini Tel: 01273 609090 Email: annie@brightonsource.co.uk
ONLINE AT WWW.BRIGHTONSOURCE.CO.UK
LISTINGS
Email: listings@brightonsource.co.uk
EDITORIAL POLICY
We’re a community magazine and so only interview Brighton & Hove residents and preview events in the city. Every event previewed is open to the public and happening in the month the magazine is out.
CONTENTS
News New In Town Gig Previews Interview: Well Rounded Club Previews Club Review: Skatadays Club Review: Skint Culture Locally Sourced Festivals Extra Source Virgins: A Night At The Opera Street Style Unsung Hero: Andy Rossiter Secret Eater: Warung Tujuh In Conversation With: Ben Wheatley Listings Six Of The Best: Daft Punk Lost Classics
4 6 8 16 18 24 26 28 32 34 36 38 40 41 42 44 54
PAGE 3
NEWS
WORDS BY THOMAS H GREEN, STUART HUGGETT, BEN MILLER, ADAM PETERS, TEGAN TALLULLAH
PADDLE ROUND THE PIER
PADDLE SPLASH
FRESH ROCKERS
DV8 DECADE
ETHICAL SUPERMARKET
DRINK FESTS
BEACH MOVIES
PRIDE FILMS
MORE MOORE
Brighton’s big free watersports festival Paddle Round The Pier is back on Hove Lawns this month. As well as surfing, paddle boarding, kite surfing and kayaking, there’s plenty of street sports on dry land, including skating, free running and mountain biking. Live music across the weekend features Jennifer Left, Fat 45, Carnival Collective and over a dozen more. Paddle Round The Pier takes place Sat 6th – Sun 7th, raising money for the RNLI, Winston’s Wish and Surf Action charities.
Independent college Dv8 Sussex celebrates 10 years of nurturing music, fashion, digital media and live event talent in the city with a birthday at the Blind Tiger on Fri 5th. Live music comes from ska sensations The Meow Meows, and the night features appearances by Dv8 students and staff, old and new, including MCs, musicians and producers. It’s a private event but if you went to Dv8, worked with them or just wish to join the celebration, contact sussexevents@dv8training.com
The first weekend of the month brings two diverse drink festivals to the city, a big one at Stanmer House and a boutique one at The Victory pub. Fullers of Chiswick, brewers of London Pride, present their Pride & Prejudice festival of beer and music at Stanmer House with eight live bands, 30 real ales, cider and food. The Victory caters for a different palette with its Cider & Sussex Cheese festival, also featuring live music and DJs. Both events run Fri 5th – Sun 8th.
Named after a collective intent on giving greater prominence to overlooked works from Queer Cinema, Eyes Wide Open is a mini fest of limited-release films in collaboration with Brighton & Hove Pride. Screenings include Judy Garland’s final cinematic warble I Could Go On Singing, a doc and discussion with activist Bette Bourne, a double bill devoted to Divine and an evening of shorts. Swivel your paws towards Eyes Wide Open Cinema on your favourite social networking portal for the latest additions to the line-up.
PAGE 4
Local legends of roller derby – a full contact women’s sport on skates – the Brighton Rockers weren’t planning on taking on any more trainees until 2014. Perhaps prompted by recent results, which included a thumping in Glasgow and being knocked out of a London tournament by lower ranked Bristol, they’ve had a change of heart and are looking for a new intake of ‘fresh meat’ right now. Any proficient female skaters aged 18+ who fancy giving it a go should contact brightonrockers.com
The intriguingly named hiSbe (‘how it Should be’) is a new ethical supermarket set to open next month on London Road, once their crowd-funding scheme’s gathered some pennies. This social enterprise aims to ‘create a supermarket fit for the 21st century’ with ethical sourcing, good food and a futuristic design. Selling your standard household brands as well as local veg and loose wholefoods, if the prices are genuinely affordable we’ll be all over it like houmous on Ryvita.
Brighton’s Big Screen beach cinema returns to the lower prom next month, for a summer season of film and sports screenings. Expanding on its Olympics coverage last year, the programme mixes favourite blockbusters like Top Gun and Saturday Night Fever, cult movies and films with a local connection, such as Quadrophenia and the original Brighton Rock. The 2013 World Championships In Athletics from Moscow bulks up the sports coverage. Screenings are free but VIP tickets are also on sale.
After a fallow year, the Colour Out Of Space festival of experimental sound and art is set to return this November. In the meantime, organisers bring Thurston Moore (ex-Sonic Youth, now of Chelsea Light Moving) back for his second lowkey Brighton gig of the year on August 21st, in A Night Of Heliocentric Duo Exchange at the Blind Tiger. The duo performances will see Moore collaborate with COOS’ Dylan Nyoukis, Byron Coley with Savage Pencil and Karen Constance with Lauren Naylor.
BUY
SOURCE TICKETS
ONLINE AT WWW.BRIGHTONSOURCE.CO.UK
Alexis RAphAel | Applebottom | ben Ufo | bReAch cAtz n Dogz | cyAntific | DAniel AveRy | DAnny DAze DetRoit swinDle | Dimension | DJ ez | DJ sneAk enzo siffReDi | eRol AlkAn | fRienD within | J phlip kARmA kiD | kink (live) | leftwing & koDy | m.A.n.i.k mAxxi soUnDsystem | miDlAnD | mJ cole | moscA peRseUs | sAm RUsso | simiAn mobile Disco (DJ set) sUbb-An | t williAms | toDD eDwARDs wAze & oDyssey | wilkinson | xxxy
Audio 10 Marine Parade Brighton BN2 1TL
01273 606 906 info@audiobrighton.com audiobrighton.com aboveaudio / audiobrighton
NEW IN TOWN WORDS BY CHRIS BIGGS, ZAC COLBERT, STUART HUGGETT
DR MARTEN’S SHOP LAUNCH
J.W. LENNON’S
The recently refurbished Leconfield on Edward Street now boasts the title of ‘Ale House and Spirit Grocer’ with an IrishAmerican theme. With live bands weekly and a floor covered in sawdust, this new Guinness hole is certainly worth a visit. It’s probably worth mentioning that all the drinks are £3, and this isn’t just an opening promotion. If you’re looking for a knees-up and a tankard of ale, there’s no reason you shouldn’t do it here.
BOOGIE WONDERLAND
The Green Door Store host their first Boogie Wonderland on Thurs 4th, a free club night celebrating East Coast disco, Philly groove, New York boogie and hi-NRG soul. Taking time out from disrupting far right marches with the power of dance, the English Disco Lovers will be in attendance, alongside resident DJ Sam Moffett, Luther Ivan Dross (Teen Creeps, Sunday Seduction) and guests. Join the true disco lovers and come dance for peace, equality and unity all night long.
GRRRILLA
A night celebrating Brighton’s electronic music makers and illustrators launches at Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar on Weds 17th. For its first show, Grrrilla welcomes live guests Alphabet’s Heaven, Caveman Genius, King Dinosaur, MoMoTaRo and Sam Physics, with artists Alessandra Chambers, Jack Evans and Pete Sharp presenting their work at a pop up shop. Entry is £3 on the door.
MINKY MOOZ
Minky Mooz is an art, clothing and merchandise brand, specialising in products that are ethnically sourced, ecofriendly and perfect for parents and kids. The designs are vibrant and playful, like a cross between Plain Lazy and Paul
PAGE 6
Frank, but less expensive so the rest of us normalites can get involved. They’re having a super-fun happy time launch party at the Basement on Sat 20th from 1pm – 1am, with cakes and sweets for the kids and Brighton DJs rinsing out for the adults.
BOOST
Offering a wide range of fruit blends and smoothies, the new Boost Juice Bar in Churchill Square is proving hugely popular with health conscious shoppers, shifting nearly a thousand drinks in its opening day alone. Brighton’s fast turnover outlet is the latest addition to Boost’s rapidly expanding empire, with the bars already very familiar to overseas travellers thanks to its success in Australia and Asia.
DR MARTEN’S SHOP
Take a moment to check out people’s footwear on any Brighton street and you’ll quickly see that Dr. Marten’s boots are still top of the shoe tree. The iconic footwear brand has just opened its own store on Prince Albert Street, offering a full range of boots and accessories. Launched back in 1960, the Doc has been the choice of subcultures around the world, but, thanks to generations of Brightonians, Dr. Marten’s considers the city its ‘spiritual home’.
BLACK ROCK RECORDS
DJ Steve Mac, who found worldwide success with The Rhythm Masters, has set up a new label in Brighton that he says is all about “giving something back to the industry that’s given me so much.” Black Rock Records and its Publishing arm aim to develop and reward new house music talent, with Mac offering production support and his remix skills to all its signings. Black Rock’s debut release, The Unknown’s ‘Ghetto Party’, is out this month.
BUY
SOURCE TICKETS
ONLINE AT WWW.BRIGHTONSOURCE.CO.UK
OPEN FRIDAYS & SATURDAYS 8.00pm – LA TE SPEAKEASY, ABOVE THE WICK INN, WESTERN ROAD, HOVE
GIG PREVIEWS WORDS BY BEN BAILEY, STEVE CLEMENTS, STUART HUGGETT, JAKE KENNEDY, JESSICA MARSHALL MCHATTIE, ADAM PETERS, ANNA THOMAS
MISSION OF BURMA
Haunt Mon 1st
Although well-regarded in their first incarnation, Boston’s Mission Of Burma were unable to build on the success of their sole album (1982’s ‘Vs’) when guitarist Roger Miller began suffering from tinnitus brought on by the post punk band’s famously loud shows. Fans like REM and Moby kept Burma’s songs alive, and the band eventually reformed in 2002, with Shellac’s Bob Weston replacing innovative tape manipulator Martin Swope. They’ve since released four acclaimed LPs and are as viscerally thrilling live as ever. (SH)
SCOTT & CHARLENE’S WEDDING
ADVANCE BASE
SOURCE TICKETS
Hope Mon 8th
The artist formerly known as Casiotone For The Painfully Alone is back on the road under the moniker Advance Base. As you’d expect from a musician who defines his genre as ‘sad’, his new songs are bittersweet, a bit darker and more serious than Casiotone was, but with the same twinkly, stripped back style. This is the perfect music to lie back and watch the stars to, but if that’s not an option, it’ll also sound great upstairs at The Hope. (JMM)
SCOTT & CHARLENE’S WEDDING
JARROD DICKENSON & DAVID FORD
THOUGHT FORMS
MONNONE ALONE
Green Door Store Tues 2nd
With such a dumb trash TV name, you won’t be surprised to hear that Scott & Charlene’s Wedding are Aussies, hailing from the Melbourne home of Neighbours. Formed by slacker-atlarge Craig Dermody, S&CW mix up a loose grunge pop blend of Modern Lovers naivety and Mudhoney self-loathing, channelled through the driving Velvet Underground garage of Dermody’s adopted New York home. It’s a scuzz rock splurge a million miles from anything peddled by Kylie, Jason or Angry Anderson. (SH)
Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Weds 3rd
SOURCE TICKETS
Bristolians Thought Forms are not a band to rush things. Having got together back in 2004, they waited five years before releasing their first album, then until now for their second, the spectacular ‘Ghost Mountain’. It’s absolutely worth the wait, as anyone who’s seen them in supporting slots for Portishead and Esben And The Witch will testify. Atmospheric rhythms escalate into epic walls of sound, with a stage presence that’s magnetic. Sweet Williams support on a night that promises to astound. (JMM)
PAGE 8
Hope Weds 10th
These transatlantic buddies have toured the UK and US together before, although for Texas-born, Brooklyn-based songwriter Jarrod Dickenson this will be his first show in Brighton. Not so for David Ford, the quietly witty troubadour has been popping back and forth to the city since his teenage years in Eastbourne’s angsty guitarpop trio Easyworld. Ford has an inventive way with sampling and looping, Dickenson with intense Americana, and this is a good chance to catch them both up close. (SH)
Prince Albert Weds 10th
As the British winter sees many of our bands jet off down under for the sunny Oz festival circuit, so July appears to be the month in which our antipodean friends make the return trip, for Brighton’s, er, blazing seaside heat. Monnone Alone is a vehicle for songwriter Mark Monnone, formerly of widely adored Melbourne indiepoppers The Lucksmiths. Titles like ‘My Overdue Library Fines’ (from last year’s ‘Together At Last’ LP) pretty much give you the picture of Monnone’s sun-baked, melodic appeal. (SH)
BUY
SOURCE TICKETS
ONLINE AT WWW.BRIGHTONSOURCE.CO.UK
GIG PREVIEWS
SHUGGIE OTIS
MS MR
Haunt Thurs 11th
One of this year’s big SXSW tips, Ms Mr (pronounce it “miss mister”) are Lizzy Plapinger and Max Hershenow, a New York duo producing grand, ambitious pop music. Plapinger’s soaring vocals and the pounding studio orchestration of recent album ‘Secondhand Rapture’ suggest an anglophile ear attuned to the elemental thundering of Bat For Lashes and Florence Welch, so it’s no surprise that they’ve gigged with Marina & The Diamonds. A waterfall of colour and chorus, this could be big. (SH)
SHUGGIE OTIS
SOURCE TICKETS
Concorde 2 Thurs 11th
Yes! Damn right LA’s Shuggie Otis is still alive, and better still, he’s bringing his effortless, psych-tinged pop to the Concorde for one of the very first dates on his somewhat ominously named Neverending World Tour. You can bet he’ll look badass too. 39 years on from ‘Inspiration Information’, Otis is back to show he can still cut it, serving up the kind of sweetspot soul that’s been sampled by the likes of Beyoncé, J Dilla and Outkast. (JKY)
AMANDA PALMER & THE GRAND THEFT ORCHESTRA Concorde 2 Sat 13th
Having crowdsourced a record-breaking $1m to make last year’s ‘Theatre Is Evil’, the former Dresden Dolls singer then cancelled her UK tour to spend time with her best friend who was battling cancer. It was a brave decision, but this Twitter-obsessed ninja-gigger has a habit of doing things her own way. The pay-what-you-will album adds synths and new wave guitars to Palmer’s trademark piano cabaret punk without losing any of the dramatic hooks and razor-sharp lyrics. It’s dark, compelling stuff. (BB)
PAGE 10
THE LEE SCOTT NEWCOMBE ENSEMBLE Phoenix Sat 13th
Led by multi-instrumentalist and sound artist Lee Scott Newcombe, this is a performance that will expand on the concept of musical showmanship, combining an intimate live show with audience participation and artistic experimentation. Over the evening there will be five pieces, including ‘Rubik Musik’ in which a graphic score is printed onto the cubes and distributed amongst the audience, who effectively conduct the show. Featuring keyboard, saxophone and flute as well as various objects, the ensemble creates something unpredictable and beautiful. (JMM)
FIGHT LIKE APES Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Mon 15th
Whoever said you need guitars to form a rock band has obviously never listened to Fight Like Apes. After a two year hiatus the band are bringing their synth infused, alternative pop electronica to a select few UK venues. Drawing on influences from the Pixies to Mclusky, they add their own B-movie inspired spin with impassioned, shrill, punk vocals. Support comes from the SleaterKinney/Throwing Muses grunge styles of London’s Throwing Up. (AT)
FRIENDS & NO CEREMONY/// Coalition Tues 16th
SOURCE TICKETS
One of the highlights of last year’s Great Escape was witnessing Brooklyn’s indie club kids Friends tearing up Horatio’s on the pier, totally blowing away Niki & The Dove’s flat headline set. Their sound is very 80s New York with influences ranging from Talking Heads to Madonna and, more importantly, their live shows are a fun-packed party. Tonight’s a co-headline with Manchester’s enigmatic No Ceremony///, whose shifting post-rave pop experiments have slyly seduced DJs from Diplo to Radio One. (SC)
BUY
SOURCE TICKETS
ONLINE AT WWW.BRIGHTONSOURCE.CO.UK
1st July 2nd July 3rd July 4th July 5th July 6th July 7th July 8th July 9th July 10th July 11th July 12th July 17th July 20th July 22nd July 27th July 28th July 29th July
g
THE HOPEJULLIYVE 2013 29 and the SRH Presents - Hounds Of Hate Slipjam B Brighton Unsigned Alternate Presents - Tales Of George Brightons Finest Presents - Native Roses Forever Can Wait + Support End Of The Trail presents Normanton Street Never Been Kissed presents Mixed Tape II One Inch Badge Presents - Advance Base Slo The Music presents Molasses Jarrod Dickenson + David Ford Danger Music Presents - Hero and Eager Teeth Mel’s Allstars + Sinfiction One Inch Badge Presents - Warm Soda One Inch Badge Presents - Dinosaur Pile Up Favour The Brave present Loose Lips Brighton Unsigned Presents - Fragile Creatures End Of the Trail Presents - The Bright Ones Favour The Brave present Moodhoover
g
HOPE BAR
Open mic every Monday night not your ordinary night out 9pm - late - free
Pizza and a pint Tuesday £7.60 Friday 5th and 19th July - Superlungs 60/70’s ROCK & ROLL,PSYCHEDELIC ROCK,SURF & GARAGE,AFRO SKA/BLUES & KNEE TREMBLING SOLE BURNERS. 9pm-Late - free
Friday 12th July - Freakin Out GUITAR ANTHEMS FOR THE DISPOSABLE GENERATION. 9pm - Late - free 20th July - Teen Creeps Playing you the best in ELECTRO,SYNTH,NEW WAVE,ITALO DISCO 9pm - 2am - free Saturday 27th July - Hope and Glory Rabble Rousing Rock n Roll with Senor Mick 9pm - Late - free
For full listings / door times / more info check out our website: www.drinkinbrighton.co.uk/hope 11-12 Queen’s Road, Brighton, BN1 3WA
Saturday 20 July Sticky Mike’S Frog Bar
Friday 6 SepteMBer tHe BaSeMent
Two Gallants + Mozes & The Firstborn
Jim White + guests
Saturday 20 July towner eaStBourne
Corner House Club Night tueSday 23 July Blind tiger cluB
Dark Dark Dark + Lonesome Leash + Bella Feud
Friday 9 auguSt St george’S cHurcH
tHurSday 12 SepteMBer koMedia Studio
Emily Portman Trio + guests tueSday 22 octoBer koMedia Main Space
Tamikrest + guests tHurSday 7 noveMBer koMedia Main Space
The Dylan Project Monday 11 noveMBer koMedia Main Space
Laura Veirs + guests
An Evening Of Words & Music
Patti Smith & Tony Shanahan tHurSday 22 auguSt koMedia Main Space
Martha Wainwright + guests wedneSday 28 auguSt St george’S cHurcH
The Be Good Tanyas + Phil Cook tHurSday 29 auguSt lateSt MuSic Bar
Mark Mulcahy + House of Hats Sunday 1 SepteMBer tHe BaSeMent
Black Yaya (David Ivar/Herman Dune) Turner Cody meltingvinyl.co.uk
Melting vinyl tickets Resident Records – 01273 606 312 Dome Box Office – 01273 709 709 Union Records – 01273 474 053 ticketweb.co.uk seetickets.com age restrictions may apply. *tickets available direct from towner
GIG PREVIEWS
TUNABUNNY
TUNABUNNY
SOURCE TICKETS
Hope Thurs 18th
Fortunately for us, there’s more to Tunabunny than being the owners of the worst band name in the music industry. If you caught Shrag’s final shows when they hit Sticky Mike’s last year, you’ll remember the frenzied energy of their touring buddies. From Athens, Georgia (where, fittingly, they’ve gigged with the The B-52s), the band play merry havoc with your preconceptions, whipping up a swirl of snappy pop and post punk loopiness. Wear some shoes you can dance in. (JMM)
THE LEVELLERS
Dome Fri 19th
The none too surprising demand for tickets that triggered the transfer of this month’s long-awaited hometown Levellers show from St Bartholomew’s Church to the Dome takes away a little of the air of uniqueness from the evening, but will make up for it in volume, fun and the sheer number of fans freaking out in the hoedown. It’s their 25th anniversary concert, so if you’ve ever been a fan of the band’s politicised, unifying electric folk you really ought to be raising a flagon in salute. (SH)
THE MEOW MEOWS Gladstone Fri 19th
Like the 2-tone movement that inspired it, Brighton’s ska-revival scene can appear a bit blokey. This isn’t the case with the excellent Meow Meows, whose mixed sex membership and love of punk and soul makes them one of the most enjoyable live acts in the city. They take over The Gladstone tonight to launch their second album ‘Somehow We Met’, recorded after a successful PledgeMusic campaign with producer Prince Fatty, who lends DJ support along with Mutant HiFi. (SH)
PAGE 12
AKRON/FAMILY
Haunt Sat 20th
Freak folk wizards Akron/Family came to notice when Swans’ Michael Gira picked them up for his Young God label and enlisted them into the ranks of his Angels Of Light band. From early untethered experimental sessions in Brooklyn, Akron/ Family have found force and focus as an epic American psychedelic band, with a widescreen, rolling, rhythmic sound heard at its best on this year’s sixth album ‘Sub Verses’. They’ll be calling down the elements for tonight’s powerful show. (SH)
THE WURZELS
SOURCE TICKETS
Concorde 2 Sat 20th
Just when you thought the bottom of the (apple) barrel had been scraped when it came to retro acts, here’s The Wurzels with that song about a combine harvester, that one about drinking cider, and several more we’ve forgotten, also probably about cider. No doubt great to listen to sitting on a hay bale surrounded by sheep, whether Brighton’s appleheads will part with the cost of 10 litres of Westons Scrumpy just for the irony points of attending this gig remains to be seen. (AP)
HALF PINT
SOURCE TICKETS
Concorde 2 Sat 20th
Reggae singer Half Pint started performing on Jamaica’s soundsystems in the late 70s, releasing early singles for labels like King Jammy’s and Hitbound. Keeping his ear to the ground whenever he’s on the island, Keith Richards picked up on Half Pint’s hit ‘Winsome’, recording a version titled ‘Too Rude’ for The Rolling Stones’ ‘Dirty Work’ album. Half Pint brings his positive sounds to the Concorde for a late club show tonight with DJs from Unity Hi Fi and Brighton Up. (SH)
BUY
SOURCE TICKETS
ONLINE AT WWW.BRIGHTONSOURCE.CO.UK
22 BANDS AT THE GREEN DOOR STORE SATURDAY 3RD & SUNDAY 4TH AUGUST
TWO GALLANTS
Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Sat 20th
GIG PREVIEWS
‘Steady Rollin’’ their way through some select European dates this summer, Two Gallants play an intimate show at Sticky Mike’s that shouldn’t be missed. The duo have released four mind-blowing folky, bluesy rock albums in the past decade, with last year’s ‘The Bloom And The Blight’ delivering some of their finest and most thought provoking work yet. The breathtaking way the two Californian’s ballads of love, loss and life on the road translate to the live stage has to be seen to be believed. (CB)
SOURCE NEW MUSIC
Dome Studio Sat 27th
Excitable psych-pop trio Flash Bang Band spent part of this year’s Great Escape bobbing about up to their waists in the sea, using their waterproof pens to sign a record deal with Brighthelmstone Productions’ new At The Helm label. With debut album ‘Bite Your Tongue’ due out soon, the boys bring their feisty live show to this month’s SOURCE New Music. They’re joined by the bouncy, indie disco fun of 900 Spaces, dreampop group The Hundredth Anniversary and the vintage sounds of close harmony trio The Victory Dolls. (SH)
TREMBLING BELLS & MIKE HERON
Blind Tiger Sun 28th
There’s a generation or two separating these Scots craftspeople, but modern folk rock group Trembling Bells and former Incredible String Band singer Mike Heron have become firm allies, touring and recording together several times in recent years. Tonight’s show finds them sharing material and swapping songs from across the decades, a relaxed, welcoming lesson in these isles’ folk song history. With Trembling Bells’ background in improv and Heron’s psychedelic influence, a freewheeling element should shine through. (SH)
TWO GALLANTS
BIG BAND NIGHT 8.00pm-Late
Join us every Thursday for an evening of live music featuring new and established bands taking to the tallest pub stage in Brighton NUS Thursdays 8pm-1am: Carling £2.09 / pint Cider £3.09 / pint Shot Sambuca £0.99 25ml Coors Lite £1.49 bottle Stoli and Splash Jagermeister/Fire Bomb £1.99 Wine £1.99 250ml
All live Gaelic football and hurling matches shown on our big screens Follow us at facebook.com/mollymalonesbrighton for up-to-date listings on acts playing at Molly’s Big Band Night
Molly Malone’s Traditional Irish Pub 57 West Street, Brighton
WELL ROUNDED WITH FOUR LABELS, A WEEKLY CLUB NIGHT AND A RECORD SHOP, DONGA AND RICHTA ARE BRINGING THE MOST INTERESTING DANCE MUSIC TO BRIGHTON. ON VINYL. WORDS BY JAMES KENDALL PHOTO BY KENNY MC CRACKEN AT CREATE
CAPTION
FYI
CLUB NIGHT: Every Friday, Life SHOP:104 Trafalgar St, above Rarekind WEB: facebook.com/WellRoundedRecs
A few years ago you couldn’t get arrested playing house. The music, which characterised the 90s, was dead and buried to all but a few obsessives. But then it was saved by, of all things, dubstep. Some of that genre’s bored producers started looking back for inspiration, past garage into pure house music. Within a few years deep house would be the sound of Brighton’s dancefloors. Well Rounded was the record label that helped it get there. Headed up by Donga and his right hand man Richta, the label was born when Donga couldn’t believe no one was releasing one of the best tunes in his box, Deadboy’s ‘U Cheated’. He stepped up to the plate himself and the track not only put Well Rounded on the map, but also kickstarted the resurgence in 2-step. At once it sounded incredibly modern and completely classic, something that has come to define so many tracks on the label. Producers like Brighton boy Leon Vynehall have made a huge impression with tracks like the deep, sensual grooves of ‘Mauve’. The sound that Well Rounded call contemporary house, and some call simply bass, has caught the imagination of young producers and clubbers alike. “I think people have steadily been working backwards from garage at the end of the 90s towards house music from the early 90s,” says Donga, who has himself produced some of the
PAGE 16
label’s classics with his partner Blake. “It seems as if the influences are being reformed to have more bass impact for today’s generation. Even techno and late 80s acid house – it’s all back on the dancefloor again.” But the sounds that Well Rounded offer are more that just 4/4, leading to not one but four record labels under their umbrella. The main label hosts tracks that have a wider appeal (“By nature, not by design,” promises Donga) from “hands in the air, garage-influenced euphoria” through to “tropical bass-heavy fusions”. In addition there’s Well Rounded Housing Project, but even that boasts a wider sound than the name suggests – travelling from the ‘Slow Spectrum’ EP’s spacy downtempo house to jazzy tracks from Outboxx. It has also released remixes by deep house superstar Julio Bashmore, and was the label that launched Leon Vynehall, who now has had a session on Boiler Room and tracks on Aus. Making up the quartet are the new, vinyl-only Well Rounded Edits, and the decidedly off-the-wall Well Rounded Individuals. WRI – which is often a testing ground for new musical genres for Well Rounded to explore – bounces fantastically from Wheez-ie’s juke to Archie Pelago’s electronic jazz. The latter is
BUY
SOURCE TICKETS
ONLINE AT WWW.BRIGHTONSOURCE.CO.UK
releases we’ve ever put out happening between now and then.” In that ‘wrapping up’ period there’s also Well Rounded’s new Friday night summer residency at Life, a huge undertaking for a culture that now rarely sees clubs appear once a month. And as well as going weekly they’re also breaking conventional wisdom by not putting any of the DJs on the flyer. “We’re going to get some great people down to play but we’re not going to announce them because we don’t think that that should be the reason to go to a club,” explains Richta. “The night is about balancing things that people might not have heard before from the underground and bringing in beloved tracks from the history of house music, including associated genres like garage and original electro,” says Donga. “We’re as likely to play an early Todd Terry record or Armand Van Helden track, as we are something on an underground label from Bristol.” If anyone has got access to great tracks from the underground it’s Donga and Richta, thanks to the Well Rounded record shop in the Rarekind complex at the bottom of Trafalgar Street that also houses RK Bass. Well Rounded Vinyl Vendors is a tiny room but is packed with an incredible collection of 12” records that are curated as carefully as Donga would put together his set. “The digital thing just doesn’t satisfy me,” he explains, “which is why I opened a record shop. You’d be a nutter to open a record shop selling underground dance music vinyl if you wanted to make money. But we’re doing pretty well, and it seems like it’s building.” But what’s so special about vinyl? “We think it sounds better than other mediums in the club,” explains Richta. “We’ve had two DJs playing and one is playing vinyl and the other is playing CDs. With our backs turned we can tell the difference.” “My body can tell the difference,” adds Donga. “And when I play out sometimes the tune that goes off might be the second track on the B-side of a 12” that no one in the room has even got. People are missing a trick. You can have your own sound and identity.” That’s something Well Rounded have got in abundance. now sponsored by Ableton, just one of the success stories of Well Rounded. “A lot of stuff we do will have passed people by because it exists in the underground,” says Donga, “but many of the people we work with are incredibly talented, and going on to bigger things.” But big things aren’t what Well Rounded are all about. “Well Rounded is about as far away from a corporate way of doing things as you could imagine,” says Richta. “It’s instinctive and intuitive.” “The idea is that we do what we want to do and don’t pander to expectations,” adds Donga. “Beyond that we don’t have any sense of any musical strategy or agenda. If you asked me what the label would be sounding like in four months time, I couldn’t say.” If you hang out on websites like Fact you may think that in four months’ it will all be over. It’s been widely reported that Well Rounded are calling it a day, and in a manner of speaking that’s true. At the height of their success Donga is closing down the four labels to start again from scratch. “I think we need to stop and restart,” he explains. “It’s not an end, the new project is going to be something more in the line of an organisation, a collective. But we have got some of the best
BUY
SOURCE TICKETS
ONLINE AT WWW.BRIGHTONSOURCE.CO.UK
DONGA’S WELL ROUNDED FAVES THAT YOU MAY NOT BE FAMILIAR WITH
SPATIAL ‘Deconstructivist Dubs EP’ “Twerkin’ jerkin’ tracks that take bumpy bass to a different space.” WHEEZ-IE ‘Remember The Score EP’ “Linking acid to ‘ardcore to juke. Hard euphorics for the footwerkin’ ravers.” VARIOUS ‘Slow Spectrum EP’ “Four artists contribute to this drowsy drift of an EP. Slow motion soundtracks for space programmes.” VIDEODROME ‘Temptation’s Daughter’ Brash electro-pop with mad vocal delivery. Quite unique and a deserving hit in a parallel universe. BAD AUTOPSY ‘Cash Antics Vol 3’ “The first two rode some deserved hype but here we go deeper into r’n’b/ disco fusion. It’s pretty steamy!”
PAGE 17
CLUB PREVIEWS WORDS BY CHRIS BIGGS, ZAC COLBERT, JAMES KENDALL, JESSICA MARSHALL MCHATTIE, ANNA THOMAS
BANKS
Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Fri 5th
The Bug Collective present their second event, Bug 2.0, with usual residents Barry Grifter, Anna Chocola and T.C.C. oiling the decks with a mixture of well-chosen classics, unearthed originals and new music. Headlining the night is Banks, the Brighton local who’s recently signed to Ninja Tune, performing live. He’s a trained multi-instrumentalist as well as a very talented producer, so it’ll be an opportunity to see how he crafts the style that’s led him to remixes for the likes of Bonobo and Andreya Triana. (JMM)
JUNGLE ALLIANCE
Volks Fri 5th
Dialect & Kosine’s Jungle Alliance Recordings celebrate their second anniversary at the Volks with a nine hour party, headlined by Remarc, whose innovative, sliced and diced 90s productions have led him to be known as the king of the Amen break. Teaming up with Remarc tonight are Hackney soundsystem veterans the Ragga Twins, MCs whose conscious delivery goes right back to the 80s streets. It’s not a retro night though, as Jungle Alliance bring all the flavours of dancehall, drum’n’bass, dubstep and ragga to the table for true hardcore junglists. (SH)
THUGFUCKER
Smack Fri 5th
Thugfucker had a rather slow rise to their ‘overnight success’, clocking up seven years of solid releases on Music For Freaks and Brique Rouge before euphoric, quirky house track ‘Disco Gnome’ caught the ears of the Visionquest crew. From there they haven’t looked back, with the Greg half of the duo (as Life & Death) dividing people with fat basslined oddity ‘Step Aside’’s spoken vocal, but dividing nobody with its 5am doom groove. What they’ll play between those two tracks makes a very interesting prospect. Another great booking for Moody Disco. (JK)
PAGE 18
ULTRAMAGNETIC MC’S
RADIO NASTY
Volks Sat 6th
Sicknote’s techno gathering returns for an all-nighter headlined by Billy Nasty and Radioactive Man’s dark-edged Radio Nasty collaboration. It’s been 20 years since Nasty mixed the inaugural volume of Journeys By DJ, widely recognised as the first commercially available mix album, while Radioactive Man Keith Tenniswood’s credits stretch from his Sabres Of Paradise and Two Lone Swordsmen involvement to a brace of solo records on Rotters Golf Club. Radio Nasty finds the pair exploring the harder sounds of early rave. (SH)
ROBERT JAMES
Coalition Sat 6th
Iraq must be near the bottom of the list of places you’re likely to catch the clubbing bug. But that’s where former soldier and current Hot Creations producer Robert James found his inspiration – escaping the noise of mortar attacks in the cinema watching a Tiesto DVD. Nowadays he’s more likely to be dropping deep, chugging, tech-edged melodic house music at DC10 and Panorama Bar, quite a rise for someone so far removed from the culture. No wonder Pete Tong announced him as One To Watch in 2011. (JK)
ULTRAMAGNETIC MC’S Concorde 2 Sat 6th
SOURCE TICKETS
There’s been a flurry of golden age hip hop shows hitting Brighton over the last few months but this rare as hell outing is the icing on the cake. Ultramagentic MC’s reform with their original lineup (yes, and that includes Kool Keith) to perform their ahead of its time debut ‘Critical Beatdown’. Released in 1988, it’s now regarded as a new school classic, with producer Ced Gee arguably changing the way hip hop used samples and breaks forever. (AT)
BUY
SOURCE TICKETS
ONLINE AT WWW.BRIGHTONSOURCE.CO.UK
freakshow #1 y LioneL y Brighton’s Best kept secret night cLuB! opticaL iLLusion haLLway, gypsy caravan, Bed of naiLs, punch and Judy dJ Booth an aduLt size BaLL pit, to name Just a few of the cLuBs hidden treasures! for monthLy cLuB nights, one off parties, private hire and guest List visit our faceBook page.
/funfaircLuB ‘they’re doing it so perfectLy, with an amazing eye for detaiL. everything from the decor to the music goes the extra miLe’ the source 12-15 kings road Bn1 1ne (next to dr Brightons) 01273 757447 www.funfaircLuB.com or emaiL info@funfaircLuB.com
open tiLL Late
Ten yearS clean anD Sober anD counTing “Every now and then I take a moment to appreciate the difference between then and now. When my cocaine addiction was at its height, my life hit an all time low. The consequences and my fragile inability to stop using or deal with life spelt the beginning of the end . CA offered and gave me another chance. It was called tomorrow and it brought an end to my obsession and exchanged it with hope. My experience may appear unusually fortunate but in that intervening period I have witnessed countless others also find their own surrender...” 3 years and 6 months “In the end I was using every single day and I didn’t even enjoy it, I was totally addicted and couldn’t ever see it ending. I just couldn’t stop, my life was falling apart, I was desperately unhappy and miserable. Not even the thought of losing my son could make me stop. I was told about CA, went to meetings, listened to others and couldn’t believe there were people just like me out there.....I was not alone anymore. Today life is very different, I am present in mine and my son’s life, I am not the person I was all those years ago and I am finally happy.” 4 years and 8 months
Daily Meetings Throughout Sussex www.sussexcocaineanonymous.co.uk
0800 612 0225
“I was living in painful and miserable denial about my addiction for years, it took me a long time to see how hopeless things had got and that something needed to change. I had secretly wanted to stop using for a long time but was too scared to try, then I found Cocaine Anonymous. It was CA that gave me hope, hearing people’s stories about how they had got clean made me see that it might be possible for me too. It took a while but I eventually started to take on the suggestions I heard in meetings and the miracle happened, I stopped using Cocaine and Crack and I have my life back.” 4 years and 6 months
CLUB PREVIEWS
KIM ANN FOXMAN
PLAYAZ: DJ HYPE
SOURCE TICKETS
Concorde 2 Sat 6th
One of the genre’s long-term top dogs, DJ Hype is perhaps best known for his drum’n’bass mega hits in the 90s and for running Ganga Records, or perhaps for his pirate radio presence, or perhaps for his jump up drum’n’bass sets for Playaz nights at Fabric. Whatever it is, if you know DJ Hype, you’ll know his sets are a blinding selection of new and old, melding the best of drum’n’bass over the past two decades, and are not to be missed. (JMM)
THE PHARCYDE
Haunt Mon 8th
Oh shit, it’s jiggaboo time at The Haunt tonight. ‘Bizarre Ryde II The Pharcyde’ is in our humble opinion one of the best, most complete hip hop albums ever written. 20 years after its original release, whilst this show isn’t boasting the full original Pharcyde line-up, it does feature the styles of the inimitable Fat Lip, whose voice and flow are among the most distinctive ever to grace the genre. You’d be a fool to let this one be passin’ you by. (AT)
MARCH OF THE MERMAIDS Blind Tiger Weds 10th
Ever tried dancing with a fish tail or a peg leg? Warming up for the March Of The Mermaids family parade on Sat 27th, this evening’s tiki surf party celebrates all things fishy and nautical, raising funds for the Marine Conservation Society. Stay Sick DJs provide the soundtrack while partygoers shimmy around in their best mermaid, Hawaiian or pirate fancy dress. Live music includes blues guitarist John Crampton and the undersea theremin sounds of Sarah Angliss. (SH)
PAGE 20
ILLUSIONS FOR SALE Belushi’s Below Sat 13th
Tonight’s all about cheap drinks and bizarre themes, with DJs playing everything from Ceremony to Carly Rae Jepson, Wavves to Wham! and Death Grips to Shaggy. Essentially it’s a punk/ hardcore/alternative rock night with some stupid stuff thrown in. Other regular features include witch detection, crotch buffet and limbo sticks. Check out the Facebook page if you want to see some of the strangest promotional videos ever created. You had us at crotch buffet. (CB)
LEFTWING & KODY
Audio Sat 13th
Deep, echoing percussion, low slung synths and skittering grooves make Leftwing & Kody’s new brand of 2-step techno sound like progressive house from 20 years ago. Yet instead of appearing dated, it feels accomplished and classic, like it’s been round the block but got a brand new record bag. Their ‘Bump & Flex’ EP was one of the most popular releases in underground dance last year and we’re hugely excited to be able to catch one of their sets. (ZC)
KIM ANN FOXMAN
Haunt Sun 14th
Well, leaving Hercules & Love Affair seems to have worked out quite nicely for Kim Ann Foxman after all. She’s one of a handful of figures at the top of the deep house scene who can DJ, produce and sing – in fact only Maya Jane Coles can give Kim Ann a run for her money in the dance music triathlon. She’s mentioned growing up listening to Technotronic and there’s a slight touch of their poppy 90s synth in amongst her slinky beats on the likes of ‘Hypnotic Dance’. She’ll certainly keep things as fun as they are sultry at tonight’s Dirty Dance Klub. (JK)
BUY
SOURCE TICKETS
ONLINE AT WWW.BRIGHTONSOURCE.CO.UK
COM TRUISE
SOURCE TICKETS
CLUB PREVIEWS
Green Door Store Tues 16th
Our favourite musical spoonerism since Wevie Stonder, Com Truise is back in Brighton. Self-confessed synth obsessive Seth Haley has been making beats as Com Truise since 2009, and his sunshine-y, wavey songs melt over electronic basslines and funk-inspired rhythms. Latest album ‘In Decay’ was released last year on Ghostly International to acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic, and his live sets are always highly praised. (JMM)
JUST BLAZE
Concorde 2 Fri 19th
This heavenly union of trap and grime comes courtesy of TrapStyle and ENK, who are joining their considerable forces to put on a two room, five hour extravaganza. The night features, amongst others, Just Blaze, Butterz’ headman Terror Danjah, Sir Spyro, Charlie Traplin and LZ. It’s Just Blaze’s first time in Brighton for two years and he’s riding high on the success of his recent trap collaboration with Bauuer. Early bird tickets are a mere fiver and the night’s hosted by Ceezlin. (JMM)
XXXY
Audio Sat 27th
Xxxy’s delectable take on garage is as mouth watering as it is toe tapping. Blending sumptuous techno with high pitched samples and cumulonimbus basslines, it’s a style even more sexxxy than his name. With new releases on Ten Thousand Yen and Brighton’s own Well Rounded we’re hoping the Rinse FM regular has got some unheard treats in his record bag. But if he doesn’t, we still know he can have the most virginal dancefloor wriggling like rabbits on heat within minutes, so come prepared to get triple-xy. (ZC)
CAPTION
XXXY
WEDNESDAY 25 SEPTEMBER
CONCORDE 2 GIGSANDTOURS.COM CONCORDE2.CO.UK 01273 673 311
WEDNESDAY 16 OCTOBER
THE HAUNT
DEBUT ALBUM ‘WHERE THE HEAVEN ARE WE’ OUT 29 JULY FACEBOOK.COM/SWIMDEEPUK
GIGSANDTOURS.COM / 0844 811 0051 / 01273 606 312
A METROPOLIS PRESENTATION BY ARRANGEMENT WITH PRIMARY TALENT INTERNATIONAL
LONDONGRAMMAR.COM
A METROPOLIS MUSIC PRESENTATION BY ARRANGEMENT WITH CODA
PLUS GUESTS
MONDAY 21 OCTOBER
KOMEDIA
GIGSANDTOURS.COM / 01273 647 100 NEW SINGLE ‘COLOURS TO LIFE’ OUT NOW A METROPOLIS MUSIC PRESENTATION BY ARRANGEMENT WITH 13 ARTISTS
TUESDAY 22 OCTOBER
THE HAUNT
RESIDENT-MUSIC.COM | GIGSANDTOURS.COM | 01273 606 312 A METROPOLIS MUSIC PRESENTATION BY ARRANGEMENT WITH ITB
JAGWARMA.COM
CLUB REVIEW
SKATADAYS
While some ska nights can be about aggressive revivalism, you don’t need to be a skinhead or 7” collecting muso to enjoy the early 60s songs at Skatadays. With fun at the very core of things, it’s a great reminder of why this music refuses to die – it’s WORDS BY ZAC COLBERT AND JAMES KENDALL just great to dance to. PHOTOS BY JAMES KENDALL The punters tonight have smiles on their faces, drinks in their hands and sweat In the past Riki Tik has proven a tough on their brow – they’re space to get right. Part bar, part club, loving it, and so are we. part last resort, it has – at times – been Riki Tik have pulled off The Wailers ‘Simmer Down’ in a state of identity crisis. But the the boldest refit in recent Baba Brooks & His Band ‘Girls Town Ska’ Jamaican-themed makeover last Brighton memory and Laurel Aitken ‘Lonesome Traveller’ October may have cracked it and Skataday’s is the jewel in The Skatalites ‘Beardsman Ska’ Skatadays has the venue full to the brim its crown. Azzie Lawrence ‘Pempelen’ every weekend. The ska, rocksteady, Don Drummond ‘Confucius’ reggae and boss sounds coat the place Justin Hinds & The in positivity, optimism and a lovely Dominoes ‘Rub Up Push Up’ laissez-faire hedonism. NEXT EVENT: Riki Tik, Saturdays Lord Tanamo ‘Come Down’ WEB: facebook.com/Skatadays The Pyramids ‘Shot Gun’ RESIDENT DJS: Hot-Tip Hi-Fi, Robbie Toots & The Maytals Bowers and Jack Donald ‘Monkey Man’
TOP 10
FYI
PAGE 24
BUY
SOURCE TICKETS
ONLINE AT WWW.BRIGHTONSOURCE.CO.UK
CLUB REVIEW
It’s not over the top to say that Skint Records changed Brighton throughout the 90s – bringing people to the city for hi-octane party tunes the way that Cream brought people to WORDS AND PHOTOS BY JAMES KENDALL Liverpool for house music. So it’s been sad that Skint have had such a low profile in clubbing terms since the (Big Beat) Boutique limped to an end. But they’re back, and firing like the old days.
SKINT
Last month saw Sonny Wharton and The Wideboys take to the decks at Coalition for a good start, but a line up that tonight includes Double 99 of ‘RIP Groove’ fame and Mike Skinner of The Streets is exciting not just for those who are enjoying the 2-step/speed garage revival. Double 99’s Omar keeps it tight with some big basslines while Skinner mixes things up, covering ground as wide as Baaueresque, mega-dropping stompers and Craig David, via Thomas Bangalter’s ‘Spinal Scratch’ (see Six Of The Best). We can’t wait to see what’s next.
TOP TEN
Double 99 – ‘RIP Groove’ Storm Queen – ‘Look Right Through (MK Dub)’ Sonny Wharton – ‘Coffee & Keys’ The Streets – ‘Weak Become Heroes (Ashley Beedle Love Bug Vocal)’ Fatboy Slim & Riva Starr – ‘Eat, Sleep, Rave, Repeat’ Guy Andrews – ‘7am’ Murder He Wrote – ‘Magenta’ Martin Dawson & Glimpse – ‘Fat Controller’ Midfield General – ‘Bass Mechanic’ Joy O & Boddika – ‘Mercy (Boddika VIP)’
FYI
NEXT EVENTS: Casablanca, with Ashley Beedle, Aug 2nd or 9th (TBC) WEB: skintentertainment.com SOUNDCLOUD: soundcloud.com/skintrecords
PAGE 26
BUY
SOURCE TICKETS
ONLINE AT WWW.BRIGHTONSOURCE.CO.UK
CULTURE
WORDS BY STEVE CLEMENTS, STUART HUGGETT, BEN MILLER, ADAM PETERS
COMEDY: THE MAYDAYS CONFESSIONS! Komedia Fri 5th & Sat 6th
Brighton improv troupe The Maydays’ long-running Confessions! show finds them turning the audience’s secrets and life-stories into an on the spot cavalcade of comedy, songs and dancing. Having regularly had their private lives exposed at the Komedia, the city’s audiences have decided it’s the turn of our friends up north to get a dose of the Maydays’ medicine, flocking to pledge to the group’s Kickstarter fund to play Edinburgh Fringe. Target achieved, it’s time to heap embarrassment on the Scots. (SH)
THEATRE: AS YOU LIKE IT Queen’s Park Sat 6th
With the sort of romantic lure only foreseeable in Brighton were someone to invent a local dating site for hipsters, Shakespeare’s Forest Of Arden is the setting where four folk find their soulmates, united by those decidedly un-hipsterish traits of lust, beauty, teasing and wittiness. Outdoor theatre is a right old laugh and rugs, chairs, booze and fags are welcome. It’s also worth pointing out that the Illyria troupe are pretty adept at making the creative best of adverse weather conditions. (BM)
NICK HELM
TALK: BARBARA MOORE Greys Weds 10th
Barbara Moore was a secret starlet of the 60s and 70s, appearing, often anonymously, on countless records, radio and TV shows as vocalist, pianist, arranger and bandleader. From sessions with Hendrix and Elton John, to work on iconic programmes like The Saint and Alan ‘Fluff’ Freeman’s signature tune ‘The Sound Of The Swinging Cymbal’, Moore’s contribution to our cultural memory is huge but relatively little-known. Moore devotee and musical comedian Lorraine Bowen teases out tales from the maestro’s fascinating entertainment career in conversation this evening. (SH)
CABARET: PIFF THE MAGIC DRAGON Komedia Weds 10th & Sun 21st
Not many magicians can say they’ve shared a stage with both The Muppets and Mumford & Sons, but then not many magicians wear a dragon onesie or have a chihuahua for an assistant. These warm up dates for Piff’s new Edinburgh Festival show offer a mixture of classic magic tricks, deadpan comedy and audience members cooing over a small dog. Having first come to the public’s attention via a TV talent show, Piff’s growing fanbase defies his initial novelty tag. (AP)
COMEDY: SARA PASCOE / BRIDGET CHRISTIE
COMEDY: LAUGHTER MARKET - NICK HELM
Two performers who, once their hour is up, tend to leave you with, if you will, the sensation of having smelt good food rather than taken whatever the chef’s dealt you. Sara Pascoe, of BBC2’s Twenty Twelve and lots more besides, furrows a clever line in fast-paced existential pondering, while Bridget Christie, who made a series on feminism, Mind the Gap, for Radio 4 earlier this year, scorns the stupidity of misogyny in the age of technology. (BM)
The trouble with winning a Best Joke award at Edinburgh Fringe (as tonight’s Laughter Market headliner Nick Helm did a couple of years back) is that, straight away, audiences across the country will know your best gag. Fortunately, in Helm’s case, his jokes are often the least important part of his act. With one of the most belligerent personas on the circuit, Helm’s act combines violent song performance, sweat, self-disgust and lots of shouting. Brilliant, worrying and defiantly unique. (SH)
Upstairs At Three & Ten Weds 10th
PAGE 28
Old Market Thurs 11th
BUY
SOURCE TICKETS
ONLINE AT WWW.BRIGHTONSOURCE.CO.UK
july &
august
KEITH TAYLOR MEP PRESENTS A FILM BY LECH KOWALSKI A POWERFUL NEW FILM ABOUT COMMUNITIES FIGHTING FRACKING
band of skulls
>> sold out music
KiliLive presents:
friday 02 august | 19:30
post-roast comedy previews comedy
TOM presents:
// 2 Edinburgh Comedy Festival previews on 4 Sunday afternoons sundays 14 & 28 jul | 16:00 | £6.00 | listings online
slapdash galaxy
>> family-friendly, 7+ theatre
TOM presents:
// “Out of this world!” Broadway Baby
comedy
saturday 06 july | 14:00 | £14.00 [£10.00] | 7+ recommended comedy
FREE
NICK HELM
>> sold out
laughtermarket
henning wehn
thu 11 july | 20:00 | £4 otd
sun 29 september | 20:00
>> later in 2013:
summer 2013
the old market
pick up a brochure
music
UHC Vector
Brig hton, BN3 1JD » , Queens Par k Road, « The Hanover Pub 0pm Sunday 14 July, 7:0 5 or call 0207 250 841 www.drillbabydrill.eu For free tickets see : ussion disc n ope by wed Screenings follo
tunng
mon 21 october | 19:30
@TOMvenue
>>
www.theoldmarket.com bar events theatre comedy music
>> june //
me
t program
st 2013 even
july // augu
>> upper market st, hove, BN3 1AS | 01273 201 801
/TOMvenue
www. theoldmarket.com twitter.com/TOMvenue facebook.com/TOMvenue |
box office: 01273 201 801 (10am-6pm weekdays)
11a Upper Market Street, Hove, BN3 1AS
CULTURE
WE STEAL SECRETS
COMEDY: JOSH WIDDICOMBE/ CHARLIE BAKER
FILM: I AM DIVINE / FEMALE TROUBLE
One of many beneficiaries of last year’s Olympics madness was boyish stand up Josh Widdicombe, whose couch potato role on Channel 4’s smash Paralympics show The Last Leg introduced him to thousands of homes outside of the Dave panel show ghetto. This double-bonus Edinburgh preview ties him with Charlie Baker, whose comic talents go hand in hand with a serious acting CV, a second life as a jazz musician and an alter ego as a daytrip loving Mexican wrestler for Southern trains. (SH)
As part of Pride’s Eyes Wide Open cinema fest, the Duke’s and Riots Not Diets present a tantalising double bill of films featuring John Waters’ muse Divine. Hosted by Stephanie Starlet, with music courtesy of Prissylips, this late night event features a new documentary on the Baltimore bombshell followed by Divine’s gobsmacking performance as cha cha heels coveting Dawn Davenport in Female Trouble. Dressing up is encouraged, but it’s probably best to leave the dog turd eating to the experts. (SC)
Caroline Of Brunswick Tues 16th
COMEDY: RACHEL PARRIS / GRÁINNE MAGUIRE Caroline Of Brunswick Weds 17th
An accomplished singer and pianist with a glint in her eye and a gush of cynicism in her vocal chords, Rachel Parris’s Gleemocking, key-tinkering pisstakes seem better evolved with each of the young comedian’s tours. Hers is one of two Edinburgh previews here: Gráinne Maguire, as readers of the Evening Standard and The Independent may be aware, is a politics fan with a deceptively unassuming style concealing stinging one-liners and an understandably withering view of those expecting Irishreferencing material. (BM)
FILM: WE STEAL SECRETS: THE STORY OF WIKILEAKS Duke Of York’s Weds 17th
The times when Iceland was primarily a glacial glamspot where rock stars could do class As outside of Camden and everyone else could partake of holidays to justify their prohibitively expensive cameras seem long gone. These days it’s the home of freedom campaigners and retaliatory extraditions, and this film by documentarian Alex Gibney portrays some of the protagonists – specifically, Julian Assange and Bradley Manning – through an arsenal of interviews which offer frank insights into some highly complicated personalities. (BM)
PAGE 30
Duke Of York’s Fri 19th
THEATRE: THE COLLISION OF THINGS Nightingale Tues 23rd – Weds 24th
When a young couple and their lodger attempt new beginnings in the city, tragedy strikes early on. Surprisingly, though, Move To Stand’s new work isn’t aimed squarely at anyone whose attempt to commute to a career in London has been foiled by a naïve reliance on trains. It is, however, a new work by a company renowned for tight scripts and powerful physical theatricality, appearing as part of a preview tour that will culminate in eventual Edinburgh performances. (BM)
EVENT: OUT LATE Brighton Museum Thurs 25th
A pox it is, that deep underlying guilt of not going to the museum enough, what with its magnificent architecture, gallery updates (the first, in some recent cases, for decades) and excellent exhibitions programme. As excuse and enticement, this night is surely where it’s at: a fancy dress box, a rainbow animation station, speed flirting, a photo booth and pre-Pride coming out confessions all feature, plus, of course, the irresistible chance to get pissed and have a dance-off within those beautiful galleries. (BM)
BUY
SOURCE TICKETS
ONLINE AT WWW.BRIGHTONSOURCE.CO.UK
BOOKING & INFORMATION 01424 229 111 dlwp.com
Regina Spektor 29 July Tickets: £25
Daughter 16 October Tickets: £17
Lau 21 November Tickets: £14
LOCALLY SOURCED WORDS BY STUART HUGGETT, JESSICA MARSHALL MCHATTIE PHOTO BY JAMES KENDALL
TRAAMS
EP: GUY ANDREWS
ALBUM: RUBYLUX
Producer Guy Andrews’ new four-track EP, his first on FINA, is more upbeat and accessible than some of his previous work. Although still firmly in the techno camp, there are progressive beats and complex rhythms that linger in the mind, ears, and nodding heads of even the most casual listener. The pulsing drive of ‘Fixture’ features deceptively twinkly synths swimming over dark basslines, making for a track that’ll be keeping dancefloors warm all summer. (JMM)
Three years on from their self-released debut, buskers turned would-be arena rockers Rubylux return with the international might of Universal behind them. Unsurprisingly, ‘The World Goes Quiet’ is highly polished and radio friendly, a set of drivetime pop tunes and FM ballads in the vein of The Killers and The Script. However infectious their bright pop tracks are, it’s the transatlantic, Plain White T’s simplicity of ‘Lovers Of New York’ that might give them that surprise mega hit. (SH)
‘Annum’ (Fina Records)
SINGLE: JIPSY MAGIC
‘The World Goes Quiet’ (Luxury-B)
‘Hit The Road’ (Overhead Wires)
EP: TRAAMS
SINGLE: MURDER HE WROTE
EP: US BABY BEAR BONES
The second release on Brighton label Numerology Records takes Murder He Wrote’s sound in a completely different direction from his previous EP for Skint. ‘Magenta’ is a classic throwback to early 90s club house, with echoing samples and an addictive bassline, brought up to date by super-tight production. The single comes with five remixes, most of which are by fellow Brighton producers including Mitch Wade Cole and Lorenz Jacques, who subvert and transform the original. (JMM)
Befitting their mysterious nature, Us Baby Bear Bones’ new release is literally a puzzle, each of the 216 CDs fitting together to create one secret image. So it is that ‘What Starts With A U Ends In An I’ is a multi-faceted enigma, with glittering, fragmented dreampop tracks like ‘Ra(i)n’ and ‘You’ giving no easy readings however prettily constructed and sweetly sung. It’s a strange, self-contained world the trio inhabit, but easy answers are for lightweights. (SH)
Look past that Flower Fairy name and Jipsy Magic are a rather more down to earth party band. Their last two singles suggested a group struggling to recreate their live sound in the studio, but they’re much improved on ‘Hit The Road’, a track that lets their songwriting skills shine through. Yes, it’s a song about touring, but even if you’ve never been stuck in a van with your drummer’s arse for a pillow the road-weary vocal and lightly sprung guitar and bass patterns appeal. (SH)
‘Magenta’ (Numerology Records)
‘Ladders’ (FatCat)
There’s low key releases and then there’s Traams’ clattering FatCat debut, limited to 100 copies. On cassette. At this rate they’ll be pedalling round fans’ houses to hand deliver their album on wax cylinder. The trio deserve a wider hearing than this EP is likely to offer, their punked up motorik powered by insistent, off-kilter bass runs and squalling guitar fuzz. There’s a pop intelligence at work across these five tracks as much as a delight in flexibility and texture. (SH)
‘What Starts With A U Ends In An I’ (Love Thy Neighbour)
ALBUM: MUTE SPEAKER
SINGLE: THE WYTCHES
Mute Speaker’s new album is inspired by Jeff Noon’s 90s sci-fi novel ‘Vurt’ and like the book it’s a weird voyage down twisting club corridors, with unexpected turns and a kaleidoscopic plethora of influences. The 12 tracks are best listened to as one long journey, to appreciate the complex and interwoven samples and themes. There are some cracking standout tracks though – ‘Game Cat’ is a slinky, jazz groove and ‘Skull Shit’ is far more enticing than its name. (JMM)
It’s been mixed fortunes for The Wytches recently, with the splash made by this 7” tempered by the trio’s gear getting nicked in Birmingham. ‘Beehive Queen’ starts out like The Cramps in a coal cellar, all tightly wound garage twang, but quickly wallops into gear with a thundering psych riff and panicked vocal yelping. It’s a filthy surf stumble concealing all manner of sinister subtext, as if a séance has gone awry and the devil’s come to call. Don’t go into the cellar. (SH)
‘Dripfeeders’ (mute-speaker.bandcamp.com)
PAGE 32
‘Beehive Queen’ (Hate Hate Hate)
BUY
SOURCE TICKETS
ONLINE AT WWW.BRIGHTONSOURCE.CO.UK
FESTIVALS EXTRA
KINGS OF CONVENIENCE SEE GREEN MAN
WORDS BY STUART HUGGETT
KNEE DEEP
August 9th -10th / Saltash, Cornwall / £31 218 miles from Brighton
HEADLINERS: Running order TBC DON’T MISS: Drenge, Sweet Baboo, Wolf Alice The west country often gets missed by touring bands, but thankfully for Cornwall’s new music fans Knee Deep is helping redress the balance. With a capacity of just a thousand, it offers an intimate opportunity to pitch up alongside the latest noisy Xfm favourites. Free from sponsors and ads, it’s an old school way to see new school bands and its two stages are programmed so you don’t need to miss an act. Profits are shared among local charities. IN A NUTSHELL: A microcosm of new music uprooted from the city.
OVER THE MOON
September 13th – 15th / Hempstead, Hailsham / £99 21 miles from Brighton
HEADLINERS: The Freestylers DON’T MISS: Hackney Colliery Band, Dub Revolution Timed to coincide with the autumn equinox, Over The Moon mixes a thorough bill of Brighton bands and festival circuit favourites from around the world with a full programme of educational talks and playful workshops. Family orientated and ecologically run, this year’s festival is styling itself as a ‘Circus Of Dreams’, a realm defined by festival-goers’ imaginations. Approach with a creative open mind and you’ll enjoy one of the most diverse eco-festivals around. IN A NUTSHELL: An educational, communal celebration.
GREEN MAN
August 15th – 18th / Black Mountains, Wales / £145 210 miles from Brighton
HEADLINERS: Kings Of Convenience, Band Of Horses, Ben Howard DON’T MISS: Beak>, Parquet Courts, Swans
PAGE 34
Initially founded by Yellow Moon Band’s Jo Bartlett and Danny Hagan (who left the festival a couple of years back), Green Man started out as a small, psychedelic folk affair, predating the boutique festival trend. Now it’s expanded in size and styles to include a mouth-watering set of left-field bands on the smaller stages, but its the unrivalled bill of international music legends that gives Green Man its clout. IN A NUTSHELL: So much more than folk.
TRIBAL EARTH
August 15th – 18th / Laughton, Lewes / £99 29 miles from Brighton
HEADLINERS: Celtech, Duncan Disorderly, Smokey Taps DON’T MISS: Heal The Stand, King Size Slim A long four-days of getting back to nature, Tribal Earth is a small (500 capacity), family focused fest. The music side was still coming together as we went to press and spans the livelier ends of world, folk, dub and psychedelic sounds. There’s also a large programme of around 80 workshops of dance, drumming, healing and music. Keeping a global outlook, Tribal Earth donates its profits to the Pegasus Project charity, helping to house and educate street children in Nepal. IN A NUTSHELL: A safe and educational family space.
TWOTHREEFOUR
August 3rd – 4th / Green Door Store / Free 0 miles from Brighton
HEADLINERS: Special guests TBC DON’T MISS: IYES, Keel Her, Tigercub In a little over two years, the Green Door’s no-nights-off booking policy has seen just about every band in Brighton play. The venue celebrates the support it’s received from the local scene with a free weekend festival at the start of August, welcoming back 22 favourites from the hundreds of acts who’ve passed through its doors. They’re keeping the headliner announcements under wraps for the moment, but expect surprises. IN A NUTSHELL: A free and thorough showcase of the Brighton scene. The new Brighton Live?
BUY
SOURCE TICKETS
ONLINE AT WWW.BRIGHTONSOURCE.CO.UK
DR W F A CE TROUMACA F M GODS LO THE WYT ES SWE BABOO OR EZ VU THE PHY CS HO E BD K S CR HED BEAKS MY PDA SHALL FLY TOURI WS +MY MORE HEAD S & MORE ACTS TO BE NOUNCED SOON C EMA / ARTS & C S / LOCAL FE IVAL CUI WORKSHOPS / AL TIONS / SHOPS & AL VE VISUA / P DT HOS / GOOD T ES
K E EPFE IVAL.COM
PAGE 36
BUY
SOURCE TICKETS
ONLINE AT WWW.BRIGHTONSOURCE.CO.UK
SOURCE VIRGINS:
A NIGHT AT THE OPERA WORD BY JAMES KENDALL ILLUSTRATION BY CHLOE BATCHELOR AT CHLOEBATCHELOR.COM
THE REASONS
“I can’t believe you want to go to this, you hated We Will Rock You!” says SOURCE manager Rosie when the idea of going to the opera for SOURCE Virgins is pitched. And it’s true, I like films better than the theatre and I like a slow painful death better than musicals. That’s why I’ve never been. However there’s something very grown up about liking opera – it seems like, if you can persuade yourself to enjoy it, it’s a rubber stamp in the passport of being an adult. But all that wailing. All that ridiculousness. All those braying posh people. Really, life is too short, right? Yet there’s got to be something in it. At £20-£250 a ticket surely there’s going to be some serious effort put in. There are a lot of clever, creative people involved, and it sounds good on the British Airways adverts, if not so much on Britain’s Got Talent. Anyway, after several decades of avoiding opera like the plague, it might be time to embrace this anachronistic art form.
THE EXPERIENCE
Our night at hip opera nightclub Glyndebourne starts off in a very un-adult way by being late. The curtain raises as we race from our car in our finest clothes and we get put in the naughty seats, right in the rafters at the side of the stage. Also we don’t have time to go to the loo first and already need a wee before even the first mouth has warbled in this three and a half hour concert. The opera is Rusalka by Dvořák, a composer I’ve not only heard of, but actually like. Admittedly I fell in love with ‘Serenade In E’ when I discovered a synth version on the soundtrack of a skateboarding video. Like every opera and ballet, Rusalka seems to be something to do with a rich bloke falling in love with some sort of fairy, this time a water sprite. It’s in Czech, which we don’t understand, but things aren’t too hard to follow, mainly because it’s all so visual. Right from the off Rusalka is a feast for the eyes – like Michel Gondry directing The Little Mermaid as a live action Czech animation. It’s more opulent, more extravagant and more interesting than anything we’ve seen on stage before. If Tim Burton went opera this is what he’d do on a good day. It’s rather dark, and the first act is set in a dank pond with lots of creepy tentacles making lots of beautiful movements. Musically it’s not as extreme as you might have been led to believe. The opera-ness isn’t quite as intense in the context – yeah, there’s screaming and wailing but it sort of makes sense, particularly as the music is so lush. From our vantage point in the naughty seats we can see the orchestra pit and it’s fair to say there’s a lot of talent down there. The music they’re playing is beautiful and moving. Even the genre’s biggest detractors
BUY
SOURCE TICKETS
ONLINE AT WWW.BRIGHTONSOURCE.CO.UK
have to admit that there’s something intense and powerful coming from the voices onstage – obviously there’s no microphones and they’re filling the rather sizable room. Even a foghorn like Liam Gallagher would struggle to do that. Thankfully for our attention spans, our bladders and the crick in our necks, there are a couple of intermissions. Throughout the summer season people come with picnics and bottles of something that cost more than £4.99 in the reduced section of Tesco. But the torrential rain means there’s none of that tonight, which is a shame. Glyndebourne has lovely gardens and is built in a style that Kevin McCloud off Grand Designs would say brings the outside inside, with lots of open walls. He probably wouldn’t say that it looks like what would happen if someone turned the Dome into the world’s biggest sauna, but then he’s got more class than we have. It’s a striking, modern space, and not what we’d expected from the opera we’ve seen in the movies. The venue, like the set design and costumes, has moved with the times, even if the music is all olden days. We make sure that we take to our proper seats in plenty of time. “We’ll have to move again for the fat man,” says a clichéd posh woman somewhat startlingly as we wait for act two to begin. When the so-called ‘fat man’ arrives he make up for the mildest of disturbances by reassuring us that we had only missed the worst bit. He’s not even very fat. It’s interesting that the woman felt so put out by his walking down our aisle. Opera crowds are so well behaved. There’s no one taking photos on their phone, nobody gets up to go to the bar halfway through and most importantly no one talks. At all. Not even in the loud bits. These guys know how to put on a gig. Into the second act and it’s all change, coming on like Gosford Park meets Black Swan set at a fancy 90s wedding. It’s less dancy and more sing-talky, so it’s a revelation to discover that there are subtitles running above the stage. For about five minutes we’re happy to know what’s going on but then it becomes clear that opera moves very slowly indeed. Lacking the pace of, say, The Fast And The Furious 6, it transpires that the characters prioritise sounding interesting rather than saying something interesting. Rusalka makes up for this by becoming really quite saucy. Someone pretends a flower is a penis, the maids flash their knickers, and the water sprite king – who fittingly looks like Fish from Marillion (something that we might be alone in noticing) turns up with a massive cock on display. Meanwhile the prince gets a bit rapey and we ponder that if the water sprite girl is so keen that she gets her tail cut off to be with him you’d think she’d be a bit more, you know, up for it. This relationship doesn’t look like it’s going to go the distance, something the third act confirms by shoehorning in a massive downer ending. But rather like porn, the story is kinda beside the point. Opera is about the spectacle, and the otherworldly Rusalka has certainly been that. In the past we’ve talked about repeating the SOURCE Virgins articles, but on acid. If we ever do that, the opera article is going to be excellent.
WAS IT WORTH IT?
At a wallet-worrying £60 – the cost of seeing a band like Parquet Courts 10 times – it wants to be good. And you know what? It is, for a change at the very least. There were times when we were blown away by it. Will we be rushing back? Well so far we haven’t returned after about nine months. Nor have we listened to any opera on CD. But – like skydiving, eating oysters, and anal sex – it’s something you should try once.
PAGE 37
STREET STYLE
WORDS AND PHOTO BY JAMES KENDALL
From the way Charlie looks like all of the post-acid Beatles morphed together it should be no surprise that he’s a) in a psychedelic band (Paranoid Travellers check them out), and b) can be frequently found in Liam Gallagher’s Pretty Green emporium. In fact it turns out that he’s manager of the latter. What caught our beady eye with Charlie was how he managed to look like he’s been hanging out with his late 60s/early 70s musical icons like Cream and “1969 era Beatles” without looking like he’s in a costume. “The way I look isn’t authentic,” he admits, “but I guess it’s influenced by listening to all that music.” His modern silhouette is helped by wearing a from-the-era shirt alongside more current items. Ask anyone about their style these days and they’ll tell you they mix “vintage with high street”, when what they really mean is they wear some second hand clothes. But Charlie really does pair the two, and with real class. Jacket by Pretty Green “It’s based on the one that John Lennon wore at the Rock And Roll Circus when he played with The Dirty Mac. I like the fact it looks vintage but it fits like a new jacket.” Shirt, a gift “It was a Christmas present – my girlfriend’s stepdad bought a job lot of 60s shirts. I’m a big fan of paisley and I like how slim it is in the body. And it’s got a big collar – too many shirts these days have got tiny collars.” Belt by Calvin Klein “I bought it in a charity shop. The leather looks quite old, so that’s quite nice, and it’s got two prongs. I always look for a big buckle.” Jeans from charity shop “I either go one of two ways. If I get a straight legged pair of jeans I don’t want them to cling to my legs like drainpipes, I just want them straight all the way down, a bit long in the leg so I can roll them up. Or I get bootcut or flared jeans.” Shoes by Pretty Green “They’ve got a crepe sole and I like how they’re in between a smart shoe and a trainer. They’re a casual shoe you wear on a day to day basis or you can smarten them up with the rest of your outfit.”
PAGE 38
BUY
SOURCE TICKETS
ONLINE AT WWW.BRIGHTONSOURCE.CO.UK
Ñ THE FRiENdliEsT FEsTivAl oN EARTH Ñ
GREEN MAN 15-18 AuGusT GlANusk, bREcoN bEAcoNs - wAlEs
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
H
bANd oF HARsEs B bEN HowARd B kiNGs oF coNvENiENcE B PATTi sMiTH B MidlAkE B lAcAl NATivEs B THE HoRRoRs B JoHN cAlE B swANs B lOw B RAy HARPER B F#ck buTToNs villAGERs B bRiTisH sEA PowER B EdwyN colliNs B PhOsPHOREscENT B sToRNowAy B JoHNNy FlyNN B EROl AlkAN B sTEvE MAsON B THE PAsTEls B MATT bERRy B uNkNowN MARTAl oRcHEsTRA B Public sERvicE bRoAdcAsTiNG B MGN duo B lORd HuRoN B vERoNicA FAlls B MElodyÔs EcHO cHAMbER B wGds B ARcHiE bRoNsoN ouTFiT B JAMEs yARksToN B lAu B AllAH-lAs B PARquET couRTs B HAlF MooN RuN B ANNA voN HAusswAlFF B dARksTAR B bEAk> B JAN HoPkiNs B ANdREw wEATHERAll B TElEMAN B dANiEl AvERy B sAM AMidoN B swEET bAbG B ARbAuRETuM B JuliA HolTER B PEGGy suE B Fossil collEcTivE B ANd MANy MARE TEN ENTERTAiNMENT AREAs iN lusH wElsH wildERNEss ovER 1500 PERFoRMERs B MouNTAiNs! B 7 dAy cAMPiNG oPTioN B 24HR bARs B dusk Til dAwN boNFiREs B locAl AlE & cidER siPPiNG B GouRMET Food B PiPiNG HoT sHowERs B yoGA & MAssAGE
TickETliNE.co.uk/GREEN-MAN TEl: 0844 888 9991 bEsT MEdiuM sizEd FEsTivAl uk FEsTivAl AwARds 2010
2O13 GREENMAN.NET
GRAss RooTs FEsTivAl uk FEsTivAl AwARds 2012
UNSUNG HERO
100 PEOPLE WHO MAKE BRIGHTON WHAT IT IS NO. 42 ANDY ROSSITER WORDS BY STUART HUGGETT PHOTO BY JAMES KENDALL
Andy Rossiter promotes gigs with the Love Thy Neighbour collective, whose label has released music by Abi Wade and Us Baby Bear Bones. Having worked at the Freebutt before its closure, he’s now events booker at The Hope and Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar. When did you start Love Thy Neighbour? When the Freebutt got shut down in 2010, I instantly had zero income, so I went off and drove Esben And The Witch on tour around America. I was considering giving up promoting completely but then I got offered this band, Rural Alberta Advantage from Canada. I thought, yeah I’ll put them on and it started from there. Booking-wise, the Freebutt was essentially me and Alex from One Inch Badge. I used my contacts from back then for Love Thy Neighbour, then you pick up on new bands and music you really like and want to get involved in. Who else is involved? There’s just two of us really. For the label it’s myself and Dan from Esben And The Witch, then everything else on the management and promotions side is just me. Dan and I are both from Southampton originally so I’d actually known him for about 10 years. We’d always said we wanted to start a label, then we’ve discovered Abi Wade and thought this is the act we’ll set one up with. I think Love Thy Neighbour is mainly a grass roots, EP label. We see it as a stepping stone to try and get acts onto labels who’ve got more power and money to release their albums. What does your work at The Hope and Sticky Mike’s entail? There’s me and a guy called Chris, who used to be in Echo Rain, and we book both venues. Most of the shows are hired so it’s a case of weeding out the rubbish and trying to get the good stuff in there. They both sit differently in the Brighton music scene: The Hope’s more the place where a lot of touring bands play their first Brighton show and Sticky Mike’s seems to have carved a niche for local bands and late night rock shows. Having said that, Sticky Mike’s is getting more and more touring bands as their reputation gets better, so it’s going really well.
PAGE 40
BUY TICKETS AT BRIGHTONSOURCE.CO.UK/TICKETS
SECRET EATER
WARUNG TUJUH Pool Valley (01273) 720784 Mon–Sun 12–4pm, 6–11pm
THE PLACE It’s easy to get sucked into having Thai when you have an urge for Asian food, and of course there’s nothing wrong with a green/red/blue curry. But the world’s largest continent has quite obviously got much more to offer than that. Warung Tujuh is an authentic Indonesian eaterie, the first half of the name referring to the street food stalls popular over there. But the restaurant is nothing like a stall, instead having simple, stylish décor.
THE MEAL The cut-price lunch menu offers two dishes for £7, from which we select a sate daging starter – small charcoal grilled beef pieces on a skewer – which sits in a drizzle of soy with a side bowl of peanut sauce. The nasi goreng looks like an unprepossessing upturned bowl of rice, but once split open it reveals a well stuffed interior of large, juicy prawns, soft chicken pieces and thinly sliced veg. Spicy enough to leave a notable aftertaste, it’s addictive and extremely filling. Also from the cheap menu we have soto ayam, a chicken noodle soup that is fresh and zingy and with sliced egg, beansprouts, vermicelli noodles and some interesting ingredients we don’t recognise. The nasi campur tasting plate (£11.50) is huge, with lots of different flavours working together. The mild vegetable broth in the centre balances the tangy chilli sauce of the fried chicken fillet. There’s also salad, more creamy vegetable dishes and beef skewers. As we don’t want the satay sauce they make us a delicious thick soya dip for them. One of these dishes plus a starter will challenge even the greediest of diners. THE VERDICT You really can’t argue with the lunchtime set menu for value, and the platter was equally full of food for the money. With lots of fresh ingredients, and many tastes, both new and familiar, Warung Tujuh is a great place to explore a lesser known cuisine. WERE WE SUSSED? The waitress thought she recognised us, though she wasn’t sure where from, and was stationed right by our table while we tried to surreptitiously take photos with our oversized DSLR. So maybe sussed.
SOURCE’ S BESt fRy-Up!
7B Ship Street Gardens, Brighton, BN1 1AJ, 01273 205477 Mon, Tues, Thurs, Fri 9-3 Closed Wed Sat & Sun 9-3:30
IN CONVERSATION WITH:
BEN WHEATLEY
SIGHTSEERS’ DIRECTOR TAKES A TRIP BACK TO THE CIVIL WAR WORDS BY STUART HUGGETT PHOTO BY DEAN ROGERS Ben Wheatley is the acclaimed director of Down Terrace (shot in Brighton, where he lives with partner and scriptwriter Amy Jump), Kill List and Sightseers. His new film A Field In England stars regular collaborator Michael Smiley (Spaced), Julian Barratt (The Mighty Boosh) and Reece Shearsmith (The League Of Gentlemen) in a 17th century tale of mushrooms and madness.
people’s positions changing dramatically. A lot of the things that we see now, even down to how the banks work, were set up in the Civil War. We’re still reaping the influence of it now, with the recession. Stuff that was set up at that point is built into the system. So I think the Civil War looms heavily over everything in the western world, cos then you get France and America and it’s the beginning of democracy pretty much. In terms of the UK it’s probably that and the Industrial Revolution that are the most important and influential things that have happened.
“WE’RE STILL REAPING THE INFLUENCE OF THE CIVIL WAR NOW, WITH THE RECESSION”
Your film opens at cinemas on Fri 5th, with its TV broadcast (on Film4), DVD, VOD and download appearance happening on the same day. Why do this all at once? There’s a certain amount of screens in the UK so if you’re a big release maybe you can do 400, 500 screens. Everyone in Britain can get to see your film. But if you’re a film like A Field In England and you’ve got on in 10 screens, it doesn’t matter how good your press is because if people can’t get to a cinema near them within 10 or 20 minutes then they’re not going to go. They can’t see the film so your audience is totally limited at that point. By the time the DVD comes out, the initial press burst you get for a movie is lost, so then you have to do more, and at the end of that process it goes on telly. What you want for a small film is that word of mouth and that could be generated by the TV screening, so if you do it all at the start you’ve got more chance of all those different things feeding off each other. Where did the idea of the film come from? We’d been knocking it about for 10 years. Not this particular story, just a general idea that it’s going to be set in the English Civil War. What was attractive about that period is this idea of Britain totally changing and becoming radical and lots of different
PAGE 42
Which isn’t how schools teach British history. No, it’s weird isn’t it? There’s something very uncool about Cromwell, it could be something as boring as the fact that he’s got a wart, but people just don’t want to talk about it. That’s why I really like folk music. In the 70s and 80s there was a real prejudice against it, “Oh it’s not very good,’ but actually it’s the basic building blocks of our culture. It’s ignored because people think new things are always better but if you’ve not got any context about where you come from you can’t really understand where you are.
There are always pagan, primitive or folk elements to your films. Increasingly I think about what I would have been like 100 years ago, or 200 or a thousand. The person that I am probably wouldn’t have been much different really, and what’s interesting is how you would react to those times. If we’re the most successful point in our family, the sum total of all that DNA action over all that period, being born again and again and again, have we changed massively each time? I think that’s why I have this harking back to the past in my films because the present day isn’t as far in the future as we imagine. We’re just doing the same thing WHERE: Duke’s At Komedia again and again and the names change and WHEN: Fri 5th everyone swaps round the seats but it’s not WEB: afieldinengland.com actually any different to what it would’ve been hundreds of years ago.
FYI
BUY
SOURCE TICKETS
ONLINE AT WWW.BRIGHTONSOURCE.CO.UK
Create is the largest photographic studio complex on the South Coast, housing 3 multi-use studio spaces & gallery, with lighting equipment available to hire. We also offer a full range of photography courses. Designed by professional photographers, our 3 studios and darkroom are available to hire by the day/half day, or on an hourly rate, with both Bowens and Profoto lighting on site for studio or location shoots. We also offer venue hire, meeting room facilities and a gallery space. Create is only 5 minutes walk from Brighton Station with easy rail links to London.
Create Studios, Level 2, New England House, New England Street, Brighton, BN1 4GH 01273 601 965 / hello@welovecreate.com / www.welovecreate.com
LISTINGS JULY 2013
MONDAY 1ST
ANCIENT MARINER Quiz Night 8pm £1 BELUSHI’S Decadance DJ Jonesey plays the best of 70s, 80s and 90s stuff 10pm £free BLIND TIGER The 333 Club Live music 8pm £free BRUNSWICK Open Mic 7.30pm £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-ofwork actors. Includes film screenings, Q&A with directors and a movie quiz (upstairs) 7.30pm £free COALITION Trash Mondays Filthy tunes for students and layabouts alike 11pm £4/3 DUKE’S @ KOMEDIA The Good, The Bad And The Ugly 11am £tbc; The Globe - Twelfth Night 7pm £tbc FIDDLER’S ELBOW Super Mega Schwarzenegger Live music from Benny Brooke and Oliver Croome 8.30pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Punk V Hardcore Guess what? It’s a night of punk and hardcore bands 7pm £free GREYS Geoff Berner Accordion punk troubadour from Vancouver 8.30pm £8 HAUNT Mission Of Burma Post punk legends 7pm £12; Fat Poppadaddys Student indie night 11pm £3/2/ free HOPE Hounds Of Hate, Violent Reaction, Inherit, Xrepentancex Straight edge hardcore from Pennsylvania 7.30pm £5; Peace Open Mic Weekly open mic hosted by Chris Instinct 9pm £free KOMEDIA Sally-Anne Hayward - Hey Follower! Twitter-based comedy 7pm £5; Alistair Barrie - Universal Adapter Stand-up comedy 8.30pm £5 LATEST MUSIC BAR Intimate Brighton Live music 7.30pm £3 MESMERIST Flash Mob Jazz Raucous jazz band 9pm £free MUCKY DUCK Mucky Monday Sessions: The Redemptions Acoustic singer songwriter night 7.30pm £free NEPTUNE Rough Chowder Live cajun music 8.30pm £free PRINCE ARTHUR Broken Mic Open mic night hosted by Robin Coward 8pm £free QUADRANT Clocktower Cinema: Badlands New film night - this month’s theme is directorial debuts Details tbc ROYAL PAVILION David Sedaris - Let’s Explore Diabetes With Owls The US writer and comedian promotes his book of offbeat essays 7pm £10/8 SHAKESPEARE’S HEAD Harvest Moon Live acoustic music 8pm £free THEATRE ROYAL Relative Values Noel Coward’s satirical comedy of an English aristocrat in Hollywood 7.45pm £16.90-45.40 THOMAS KEMP Quiz Night 8pm £1 VOLKS Strictly Reggae Dancehall, roots, revival 11pm £5/4.50
TUESDAY 2ND
ABOVE AUDIO Cottontail Club Big band and jitter jive tunes 9pm £free BELUSHI’S Polka Electro mash-up with DJ Barlow 9pm £free BLACK LION Open Mic Night Live music 8.30pm £free BLIND TIGER Punky Reggae 7pm £4 BRUNSWICK Archway Choir Contemporary choir group 7.30pm £tbc; Jazz Jam Open session with a house band and special guests 8pm £free CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Giraffe Comedy Club Comedy night (upstairs) 7.30pm £3; Open Mic Hosted by Mike Mcmichelson and Kev De Souza 8.30pm £free CUBE Cube Live Live acoustic music 8pm £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 Aguirre, Wrath Of God 11am £tbc DUKE’S @ KOMEDIA Encore - Munch 150 1pm
BUY
SOURCE TICKETS
£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 Junk Club R&B student night 11pm £4/2 FUNKYFISH Cubashe Cuban salsa class and club 9.30pm £6/3 GLOBE Basement Cinema Underground films, comfy seats and free popcorn 8pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Scott & Charlene’s Wedding, Primitive Parts, Royal Limp, The Kingmob Velvetsy slacker pop 7pm £5; Donuts Hipster funk and hip hop gems 11pm £free KOMEDIA Lloyd Langford - Galoot Stand-up comedy 7pm £5; John Richardson - Name Of Show? Stand-up comedy (this show has now sold out) 8.30pm £5 LATEST MUSIC BAR Action For Happiness Self-help workshop and talks 7.30pm £free MASH TUN 7x7 Seven DJs play 7” records 9pm £free OLD MARKET Summer Jazz Night Brighton & Hove Youth Big Band play funk, soul and classic swing numbers 7.45pm £7/5 PAV TAV Wasted Years Music to cling desperately to your youth to 10.30pm £3/2/1 PRINCE ALBERT Edward Alice, Will Mavin, Kokopeli, Edward Sansom Live music 8pm £4/3 QUADRANT Open Mic Jam session hosted by Jenna Bennett 8.30pm £free RED LION Challenging General Knowledge & Music Quiz 8pm £1 SHOOSHH Pachanga Latino party playing reggaetron, merengue and ragga etc 10.30pm £3/free SIDEWINDER Open Mic Night 8.30pm £free ST GEORGE’S INN Pub Quiz 8pm £1 THEATRE ROYAL Relative Values Noel Coward’s satirical comedy of an English aristocrat in Hollywood 7.45pm £16.90-45.40 THOMAS KEMP Poker Evening 8pm £free WESTERN FRONT Hush Hush Live acoustic music 9pm £free
WEDNESDAY 3RD
ABOVE AUDIO Cookin Beats Hip hop with a side of order of funk and a sprinkling of reggae 8pm £free BASEMENT CLUB Mash Up Commercial house with DJ Lee Harris 11pm £free BELUSHI’S Guilty Pleasures Songs you shouldn’t like but like despite pretending not to like them 10pm £free BLACK LION The Black Lion Acoustic Showcase Live music 8.30pm £free BLIND TIGER Lethal Quizzle Pub quiz with zany rounds 8pm £1 BRIGHTON ARTS CLUB Electronica Sextronica Open mic for electric performers 7pm £free BRIGHTON CENTRE Strictly Confidential Dance show 2.30pm/7.30pm £19.50-39.50 BRUNSWICK CMP Showcase Live music from the new local label 8pm £free CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Comedy Open Mic Hosted by Pete Bennett and Maria Chinga (upstairs) 8pm £free COALITION CoCo LoCo Dancehall and dubstep music for students to lose the plot to 10.30pm £5/3/1 COWLEY CLUB King Bracket, I-Lodica, MC Fiero, Diana Levi Live music 7pm £2 DIGITAL Fresh Meat “First-year university students, yum” 11pm £1 DRUID’S ARMS We Change The Tempo DJ set of international sounds 9pm £free DUKE OF BEAUFORT Poker Night 8pm £5 DUKE OF NORFOLK Pub Quiz 9pm £1 DUKE’S @ KOMEDIA Beware Of Mr Baker 11am £tbc FISHBOWL Tea & Biscuits: DJ Gareth Stephens Retro swing, soul and ska 10pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE She Crazy, Kill Moon, Last Heir Garage rock, noise pop and filthy grunge 7pm £free HOPE Tales Of George, Ragweed, Skirts, Vyypers Alt rock bands 7pm £3
ONLINE AT WWW.BRIGHTONSOURCE.CO.UK
KOMEDIA John Richardson - Name Of Show? Stand-up comedy (this show has now sold out) 7pm £5; Mark Smith - The Most Astonishing Name In Comedy Stand-up comedy 7pm £18 LATEST MUSIC BAR Tango Boot Camp Learn to tango like the Argentinians 8pm £3-8; Ideas Man - The Stranger Notions Of Francis Galton The comedy writer behind Harry Hill’s TV Burp 8pm £5 MASH TUN Mash Tun Live Funk and rock covers band 9pm £free MESMERIST The Swing Ninjas Gypsy swing band 9pm £free NORTH LAINE PUB Quiz Kong Pub quiz 8pm £1 NORTHERN LIGHTS Prognosis Set the DJ controls for the heart of psychedelia 9pm £free PRESTON MANOR Hidden Lives - Domestic Service In The 1920s And 1930s 11am/2pm £10/8 PRINCE ALBERT A Promise, Preserver, Ignorance, Tomorrow Is Ours Live music 8pm £4/3 STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Thought Forms, Sweet Williams Live music 7.30pm £5; Sticky Mike’s Muso Pop Quiz 8pm £1 THEATRE ROYAL Skip’s After School Club - Roaring Twenties Overview 4pm £5; Relative Values Noel Coward’s satirical comedy of an English aristocrat in Hollywood 7.45pm £16.90-45.40 THOMAS KEMP Kev & Jenna’s Open Mic 9pm £free
THURSDAY 4TH
ANCIENT MARINER Jazz It Up Live jazz sessions 8.30pm £free AUDIO Bastard Pop Musical mash-up 11pm £3/2 BARLEY MOW Quiz Night 9pm £1 BELUSHI’S Karaoke 10pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW M Generation: DJ Honcho, DJ Meesta Sleeps “All the best tunes from when MTV still played music” 10pm £3/2/1 BLACK LION Common People Listen to classic indie tunes while you smoke some fags and play some pool (n.b. please bring your own pool table) (n.n.b. smoking isn’t permitted inside the pub anymore) 8.30pm £free BLIND TIGER Caxton Press Deep lyricism and heavy beats from the DJ/MC team 8pm £5 BRIGHTON ARTS CLUB Spoken Word Open Mic 7pm £free BRUNSWICK Open Sound Collective Electronic music night 8pm £free; All Things Must Pass Tribute to George Harrison 8pm £6 CHEQUERS Mouthleak Comedy: Sam Savage, Phil Jerrod, Dan Fardell, James McDonnell, George Patterson Stand-up comedy night hosted by Fraser Geesin 7.30pm £free COALITION Secret Discotheque Replaying the soundtrack to your youth 11pm £4/3/2 DRUID’S ARMS The Druids Folk Live folk music 9pm £free DUKE’S @ KOMEDIA Stories We Tell 11am £tbc FIDDLER’S ELBOW Live Lounge: Brian McNamara Live music 8.30pm £free FISHBOWL Residents Association DJ Will Sumsuch plays hip hop, funk and world beats 10.30pm £free FOUNTAIN HEAD Student Night DJs play indie and rock 8pm £free FUNFAIR Bug’A’Boo Hip hop and R&B ladies’ night 11pm £4/2 GEORGE PAYNE Open Mic Night 8.30pm £free GLOBE Wingdependance Day! Celebrate American Independence Day with Americana DJs and live music from the Food Fighters Noon £free GREEN DOOR STORE Spirit Of Gravity: Hobo Sonn, Animal Magic Tricks, The Ill Fitting Suit/s Brighton’s avant noise gang serves up some audio drama, performance art and analogue machine sounds 8pm £5; Boogie Wonderland East Coast disco meets Philly groove and then has a threesome with New York Boogie before inviting Hi-NRG soul around to take over 11pm £free HAUNT Tift Merritt & Band Singer songwriter with a soulful folk and country sound 7pm £14; Coconut College Thursday night party playing a right mix of stuff from A$AP Rocky to Grimes 11pm £3/2 HOPE Breakout, Natives Roses, Wildflowers, The Victorian Hunter Live music 8pm £5/4 KOMEDIA Ezio Acoustic rock&roll duo 7.30pm £10; The Maydays - Confessions Improv group turn your secrets into musical comedy 8pm £10/8; Krater Comedy Club: Luke Toulson, Jim Campbell, Gar Murran, Nathan Caton, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy night 8pm £9/6/5 LATEST MUSIC BAR Bert Miller & The Animal Folk Live music 8pm £4 MASH TUN They Mostly Come Out At Night Indie, electro and hip hop 9pm £free MESMERIST Smokestack Jazz and latin grooves with
harmonica and slide guitar 9pm £free NORTH LAINE PUB Brewery Tours Learn the secrets of beer brewing Time tbc £9.75 PRINCE ALBERT Cable Club Live music 8pm £4/3 PRINCE ARTHUR Paul Richards Latin and samba style guitarist 9pm £free PROUD CABARET 50 Shades Of Cabaret Fetish cabaret for people who’d never thought of being kinky before reading that book 7pm £24/10 QUADRANT Funny Side Up New comedy night hosted by Ade Foiadelli 8pm £free RANELAGH The Long Haul Live country rock 8.30pm £free RIKI TIK Big It Up! Resident DJs mine the golden era of dancehall and digital reggae 9pm £free SHOOSHH Azuri 10pm £3/free SMACK Fresh Thursdays DJ Mike Panteli entertains the students 10.30pm £5/3 STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Fresh Punk 4: River Jumpers, Southpaw Fakers, Loose Lips, Mother Tongue Two floors of DIY punk bands and DJs 7pm £4; Boss Tuneage An entire night of Bruce Springsteen more than his wife ever got 8pm £free THEATRE ROYAL Relative Values Noel Coward’s satirical comedy of an English aristocrat in Hollywood 2.30pm/7.45pm £16.90-45.40 THOMAS KEMP Douzy ‘N’ Slyde Acoustic pub covers 9pm £free VICTORY Open Mic 8pm £free VOLKS Roll Through Drum&bass and dubstep, bass and beatbox 11pm £3 WORLD’S END The Big Quiz Night 8pm £1
FRIDAY 5TH
ABOVE AUDIO Home Home is where the house is 9pm £free AUDIO Jailbait It’s a 90s club night. We googled it for more details and now our hard drives have been confiscated by the filth 11pm £tbc BASEMENT CLUB Friday Night Live With Lady LaRue Cabaret is a drag sometimes 11pm £free BELUSHI’S Funked Up Fridays House and R&B 10pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Abandoned Rock and metal night 10pm £3/2 BLACK DOVE Hot-Tip Hi-Fi DJ with a fine collection of vintage reggae and rocksteady records 8pm £free BLACK LION Medium Rare DJs serve up a platter of semi-obscure funk and soul 9pm £free BLIND TIGER Afriganza!: Awale, John Warr 10pm £5 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Rock The Caz Bar DJs play alt rock classics 9pm £free CHEQUERS For Those About To Rock The DJ salutes you 8pm £free COALITION Friday I’m In Love No more lectures for a day or two 11pm £3-6 CONCORDE2 Misty In Roots, Duncan Disorderly & The Scallywags Rastafarian reggae band going since the 70s 7.30pm £14.50 COWLEY CLUB 100 Raisons, Barracks, Wreck The Place, Andrew Cream Anarcho folk punk 8pm £4 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. plays old school funk, soul and house 10pm £free DUKE OF NORFOLK MC Cashback, Miss Scarlett DJs play funk, Motown, reggae and hip hop 9pm £free DUKE’S @ KOMEDIA A Field In England 6.30pm £tbc DUKEBOX THEATRE The Acoustic Proms Acoustic music with a classical twist 8pm £6/5 FISHBOWL Keep It Wheel DJs plays rare disco, soul and boogie 9pm £free FUNFAIR Circus Commercial music mash-up with fire breathing and snake charming sideshows 10pm £5/3 FUNKYFISH Thank Funk Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10.30pm £free GLADSTONE The Bus Stop Loonies, Anal Beard Plymouth’s silliest punk rock band come to town to play with their Brighton’s counterparts 9pm £free GLOBE The Get Down! DJ night playing a mix of Motown, soul, blues, funk and swing 8pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE No Consequence, Invocation, Linked Full metal racket 7pm £tbc; Trading Places 3 Local bands do Iggy & The Stooges 11pm £free HAUNT High Tyde, Don Komodo, Clipper Live music 7pm £5 HOP POLES Control Alt Delete Resident DJs 10pm £free HOPE Forever Can Wait, StreetfightSilence, Paper Cages, Fake The Attack Southampton alt rockers 7pm £6; Superlungs Rock&roll DJs sounds from the 60s and 70s 9pm £free
WWW.BRIGHTONSOURCE.CO.UK/LISTINGS MOBILE COMPATIBLE ONLINE LISTINGS
KOMEDIA Krater Comedy Club: Phil Chapman, Brendan Dempsey, Craig Hill, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy night 8pm £16.50; Jackport: Andy McLoughlin, Danny Modular, Frank Crofts New deep and soulful house night 11pm £free LATEST MUSIC BAR The Grand Kemptown Village Hall Fete, Music Recital & Vegetable Competition Retro stylings from those guys you’ve seen busking in straw boaters doing skiffle versions of pop songs, The Iron Boot Scrapers 8pm £8 LATEST MUSIC BAR Sugarkicks Burlesque club night Details tbc LIFE Well Rounded House and disco, funk and soul 11pm £tbc MARLBOROUGH THEATRE Mazloom Can you imagine being deported to Afghanistan to face violence and intimidation by the Taliban? If so, maybe you don’t need to see this play 7.30pm £5 MESMERIST Shake, Holla & Roll Vintage blues, swing and rock&roll 9pm £free NEPTUNE Smokestack Blues and jazz band 8.30pm £free NORTH LAINE PUB Ye Ye Fever DJs play funky afrobeat 9pm £free PALMEIRA Southern Tenant Folk Union Scottish folk group 8pm £10 PRINCE ALBERT Icca’s Belle Live music 8pm £4/3 PRINCE ARTHUR DJ Ed Meme Funk, northern soul and hip hop DJing from The Impellers’ head man 9pm £free PROUD CABARET Blitz Relive the highlife of wartime Britain in this 1940s themed ballroom blitz 7pm £34 QUADRANT Noche Flamenca Dance, song and guitar with international flamenco star Fiona Malena 8pm £10 RANELAGH The Roadrunners Blues and soul band 8.30pm £free SHOOSHH Runway Old school R&B and party mash ups 10pm £5/4/3/free SMACK Thugfucker Underground house night presumably with an erotic bouncer policy 11pm £9/8/7 STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Dexters, Dirt Royal, DJ Andy Lewis Denim indie mods 7pm £6; Songs For The Deaf Ear pounding rock and grunge from the 90s (in the bar) 9pm £3; Bug Summer 11pm £free THEATRE ROYAL Relative Values Noel Coward’s satirical comedy of an English aristocrat in Hollywood 7.45pm £16.90-45.40 THOMAS KEMP DJ Spindo Garage, rock and pop 9pm £free THREE & TEN Foil, Arms & Hog Irish sketch comedy about potatoes, racist stereotypes and potatoes 8pm £7/5.50 UNITARIAN CHURCH Nick Andrews And Friends Classical music 12.30pm £3 VICTORY Cider And Sussex Cheese Festival DJ Don Simon plays jazzhop and brassband party breaks 8pm £free VIEW Salsa Party Night Dance classes followed by club 9pm £9/7 VOLKS Jungle Alliance: Remarc, Ragga Twins, Dialect, Kosine, X-Nation, Timeless & Mystery, Rumble MC, Jnrd, Jahdan, Unity Hi-Fi, Misfit, Turner Two floors of jungle, reggae and dub 10pm £5-10 WESTERN FRONT Unhooked Generation Retro DJs with an ear for 60s Motown and northern soul 9pm £free
SATURDAY 6TH
ABOVE AUDIO Ruff Snippets DJ plays hip hop, funk and soul Time tbc £free ANCIENT MARINER Acoustic Sessions: Tracy Sullivan Singer songwriting mixing reggae, jazz and country 8pm £free AUDIO Warehouse: T.Williams House and techno club night 11pm £7/5/free BASEMENT CLUB Fusion: DJ Peter Castle, DJ Lee Harris Chart and club remixes 11pm £free BELL PUB Fully Toppa! Afro, gypsy and dub sounds with DJ Ed Snug 8pm £free BELUSHI’S Smashed DJ Moogle’s mash-up 10pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Deviant Time to untie those pony tails and start headbanging 10pm £5/4 BLACK LION Burnt Toast Black Lion Block Party DJs play sleazy soul and dirty breaks 3pm £free BLIND TIGER Paddle Round The Pier After Party Bands and DJs 8pm £3 BRIGHTON ARTS CLUB I Like The Go Go, The White Family, The Coolness Live music 8pm £6 BRUNSWICK Simonne & The Dark Stars, The Galleons, Nick Williams, Jake Mackay Live music 7pm £5/3 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Ska-B-Q 1pm £free CHEQUERS Laneway, Jack Omer, DJ Paul Tarantino Americana duo 8pm £free
PAGE 45
BECAUSE CHINESE TEA IS JUST TOO GOOD TO BE ENJOYED ONLY BY THE CHINESE.
36 St James’s Street Brighton BN2 1RG T 01273 96 58 57 www.caffeineshop.co.uk
LISTINGS ARE FREE BUT PLEASE... 1. Email to
listings@brightonsource.co.uk
every month, even for regular nights 2. The deadline for the August issue is July 15th
3. Send only the following details: venue, name of night, DJs/bands (etc) performing, opening time, prices, one sentence of description 4. That’s one sentence not an essay please, in the body of the email, not as an attachment. 5. Put the word listings and the
venue name in the email subject line 6. No photos or press releases
EVENT DETAILS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE. DO CHECK WITH VENUE.
PAGE 46
COALITION Vince Kidd Just some chump off the telly 7.30pm £7; Robert James, Squa, Balou, Martina, Sharkbait Tech house from Troupe Records 10.30pm £8-10; Blow: Vince Manganaro, Charly Lopez, Charles Green The party never stops 3am £5 COMMUNITY ARTS CENTRE Work Programme: Keith Robertson Part of a project in which visual artists are locked in a studio for a week - every Saturday you can check out what they’ve been up to 7pm £free CONCORDE2 Ultramagnetic MCs Uncrowned kings of hip hop 7.30pm £14.50; Playaz: DJ Hype, Original Sin, Annix, Hizzle Guy, Curious, DJ Rush Heavy jungle and drum&bass 11pm £7 DOCTOR BRIGHTON’S Sexy Saturday: DJ Tony B 9.30pm £free DOME Dance World Cup International dance contest for under 25s 5.30pm £5-12 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 The Smurfs 11am £tbc DUKE’S @ KOMEDIA The Croods 11am £tbc; Little Dieter Needs To Fly 1.30pm £tbc; A Field In England 4pm/9pm £tbc; The Bling Ring 9pm £tbc FIDDLER’S ELBOW Saturday Sizzlers DJs drop hot vinyl into your ears 8pm £free FISHBOWL Gareth Stephens DJ plays funk, nu-jazz and broken beats 9pm £free FREEMASONS Saturday Night Disc Spinners DJ night 9pm £free FUNFAIR Magic Dancefloor fillers from every era 9pm £5/3 FUNKYFISH Oldschool Saturday Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10pm £6/5 GLADSTONE Dubconscious Sounds, Pillers Of Dub Live dub and reggae 8pm £free GLOBE Upstairs At The Globe House and disco DJs 9pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Becky Becky, Dollboy Heavy krautrock, dirty electro pop and improv noise 7.30pm £free; Sonic Switch Tru Thoughts DJ puts you in the on position with some choice beats and bass 11pm £free HAUNT It Is Still 1985 Travel through time to an ancient realm where keytars are still pretty cool 11pm £3 HOP POLES Arthur Shillin’ Electro swing mash-ups 10pm £free KOMEDIA Krater Comedy Club: Brendan Dempsey, Kai Humphries, Craig Hill, Andrew Stanley Stand-up comedy night 7pm/10.30pm £5-22 KOMEDIA The Maydays - Top Story Improvised comedy based on local news stories 8pm £12.50/10 LIFE XXY Chromosome clubbing from the #Hashtag DJs 11pm £7/5/3 MARLBOROUGH THEATRE Storms & Strangers A play about a successful academic with a terrible secret 8pm £6.50/5.50 MESMERIST Juke Joint Jamboree Rhythm & blues and rock&roll records from the days of the dance halls 9pm £free NORTH LAINE PUB Soul Casserole A melting pot of red hot funk and soul 9pm £free NORTHERN LIGHTS DJ Jazzy D Jazz, funk and soul 9pm £free OLD MARKET Slapdash Galaxy Two shadow puppets flee their war-torn planet and set off through a galaxy made of bits of rubbish (there’s lots of it to go around, may as well use it for a storytelling theatre show) 2pm £14/10 PARIS HOUSE Live Jazz 4pm £free; TC’s Joyful Noise DJ Kenny on the decks 9pm £free PAV TAV Guerilla Rocks Club night for rock chicks, skater bois and indie kids 11pm £4/3/2 PRESTON MANOR Hidden Lives - Domestic Service In The 1920s And 1930s 11am/2pm £10/8 PRINCE ALBERT Ducktail DJs play 50s music 8pm £free; Folk Grinder, Bobby McGees Live music 8pm £5 RED LION The Dates Live music 8.30pm £free RIKI TIK Skatadays Reggae, rocksteady and vintage ska records 9pm £free STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Brighton Rocks: Moodhoover, Pirate Video Company, The Call Back Academy, Tough Luck Kid Live bands 7pm £4; Unhooked Generation Retro night with an ear for 60s Motown and northern soul (in the bar) 11pm £free; Stay Beautiful Classic alt rock, punk and glam, perfect for those with inner, outer or even in-the-eye-of-the-beholder beauty 11pm £5 THEATRE ROYAL Relative Values Noel Coward’s satirical comedy of an English aristocrat in Hollywood 2.30pm/7.45pm £16.90-45.40 THOMAS KEMP DJ Lamp 9pm £free UNITARIAN CHURCH Makers Boutique Locallymade homemade crafts and cakes 11am £free VICTORY Cider And Sussex Cheese Festival Born Bad DJs play an assortment of punky bubblegum trash 8pm £free VOLKS Sicknote: Radio Nasty, Radioactive Man, Ben Coda, POok & Gordon Darling, Sketchy Steve,
BUY
SOURCE TICKETS
Captain Wow, Andy Newland, Jack Fairhall, Dave Walshaw, Grimey, Slippy UK, Arblick Spule “I’m afraid Jimmy cannot do games today as his mind melted at a techno club last night” 11pm £8/5 WESTERN FRONT WEAR Vintage clothes and music stalls - plus ska and roots from Culture Front DJs 11am £free
SUNDAY 7TH
ABOVE AUDIO Enzo’s Daytime Party 4pm £free BASEMENT CLUB Pop!Candy DJ Claire Fuller plays pure non-stop pop 11pm £free BELUSHI’S Pub Quiz 8pm £free BLACK LION Live & Swingin’ Lion Live gypsy jazz, swing and blues 8pm £free BLIND TIGER Paddle Round The Pier After Party Bands and DJs 8pm £3 BRUNSWICK Arch Garrison, Crayola Lectern Minimalist and atmospheric folk songs from North Sea Radio Orchestra’s Craig Fortnam 8pm £tbc CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK The Geekest Link True or false: Starfleet was forced to make an amendment to their prime directive when numerous charges of sexual harassment were brought against Captain Kirk by all the alien girls in miniskirts he snogged back in the 60s 8.30pm £1 DUKE OF BEAUFORT Sunday Cinema Cult classics and free popcorn 8pm £free DUKE’S @ KOMEDIA The Smurfs 11am £tbc; A Field In England 4pm/9pm £tbc; The Bling Ring 8.30pm £tbc FIDDLER’S ELBOW Sham-Rock Open Mic 8.30pm £free FISHBOWL Recovery? Reggae through the ages 9pm £free FOUNTAIN HEAD Reggae & Roasts Reggae and chilled beats Time tbc £free FREEMASONS Jazz Machine Live jazz trio 7pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Green Door Blues Big Itch DJs plus the resident blues band, Smokestack 10.30pm £free HOPE Mixtape II: The Finds, Kill Moon, Twothirtytwo, Rachel Wilson It’s nice to see promoters giving a toss about what bands they put on together - here it’s not the genre that matters, but whether they’d sit well on an old school mixtape 8pm £4 KOMEDIA Bent Double: Andrew O Neil Zoe Lyons hosts a night of alternative comedy acts 7.30pm £510.50; Diane Spencer - Hurricane Diane Stand-up comedy 8pm £5 NEPTUNE Eliza Jaye Alt blues rock 8.30pm £free NORTH LAINE PUB Beat Burger DJ plays soul, funk, hip hop and reggae 8.30pm £free NORTHERN LIGHTS Northern Light Sundays The DJ has a lazy Sunday afternoon 4pm £free OPEN HOUSE David Potter’s Quiz Night 8pm £2 PRINCE ALBERT Crazy Arm Grassroots punk folk 8pm £6 QUADRANT Clocktower Cinema: Blood Sample New film night Details tbc RANELAGH Mike Ross Band Live blues rock 8.30pm £free RIKI TIK Night Food Rhythm&blues, calypso and ska inspired by 1950s Jamaican sound systems 9pm £free STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Fuck The Facts, Oblivionized, War Wolf Canadian grindcore band 7pm £5 THOMAS KEMP Jazz In The Afternoon: Bags’ Groove Jazz Quartet Live jazz 4pm £free THREE JOLLY BUTCHERS Ian Price Gypsy Jazz Experience Live music 3pm £free VICTORY Cider And Sussex Cheese Festival Live blues music Noon £free WORLD’S END Acoustic Night Live music 8.30pm £free
MONDAY 8TH
ANCIENT MARINER Quiz Night 8pm £1 BELUSHI’S Decadance DJ Jonesey plays the best of 70s, 80s and 90s stuff 10pm £free BLIND TIGER The 333 Club Live music 8pm £free BRUNSWICK Open Mic 7.30pm £free CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Angela Barnes New show from the award-winning comic (upstairs) 7.30pm £5 COALITION Trash Mondays Filthy tunes for students and layabouts alike 11pm £4/3 DUKE’S @ KOMEDIA When Harry Met Sally 11am £tbc; Glyndebourne - Le Nozze Di Figaro 7pm £tbc FABRICA Second Sight Katie Bailey and Hattie Lockhart-Smith take you on a multi-sensory tour of the exhibition 1.30pm £free FIDDLER’S ELBOW Super Mega Schwarzenegger
ONLINE AT WWW.BRIGHTONSOURCE.CO.UK
Live music from Benny Brooke and Oliver Croome 8.30pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Ed Wood, As It Is, Wrecktheplacefantastic, Ragweed Live music 7pm £free GREYS I See Hawks In LA Country rock band flying the “freak flag of freedom, eco-peace and psychedelic transcendence” 8.30pm £8 HAUNT The Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride II New album tour from the alternative US hip hoppers 7pm £15; Fat Poppadaddys Student indie night 11pm £3/2/free HOPE Advance Base The new musical guise of Owen Ashworth from Casiotone For The Painfully Alone 7.30pm £7.50; Peace Open Mic Weekly open mic hosted by Chris Instinct 9pm £free MESMERIST Flash Mob Jazz Raucous jazz band 9pm £free MUCKY DUCK Mucky Monday Sessions: Phil Wyatt Acoustic singer songwriter night 7.30pm £free NEPTUNE More Music Monday Open mic night 8.30pm £free PRINCE ARTHUR Broken Mic Open mic night hosted by Robin Coward 8pm £free QUADRANT Clocktower Cinema: 4 Lions New film night Details tbc SALLIS BENNEY THEATRE Cupp A talk with Prof David Watson about the design of the future and the future of design 6pm £tbc THEATRE ROYAL Tubular Bells For Two Mike Oldfield tribute duo performs his hit album 7.30pm £19-21 THOMAS KEMP Quiz Night 8pm £1 VOLKS Strictly Reggae Dancehall, roots, revival 11pm £5/4.50
TUESDAY 9TH
ABOVE AUDIO Cottontail Club Big band and jitter jive tunes 9pm £free BELUSHI’S Polka Electro mash-up with DJ Barlow 9pm £free BLACK LION Open Mic Night Live music 8.30pm £free BLIND TIGER Dead Fun DIY garage rock bands 8pm £free BRUNSWICK Archway Choir Contemporary choir group 7.30pm £tbc; Jazz Jam Open session with a house band and special guests 8pm £free CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Skeptics In The Pub A talk on the history and art of the tarot - plus plenty of guffawing at the naive fools who believe in it (upstairs) 8pm £2; Open Mic Hosted by Mike Mcmichelson and Kev De Souza 8.30pm £free CHEQUERS Open Mic With Wolf William 8pm £free CUBE Cube Live Live acoustic music 8pm £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 The Mexican Suitcase 11am £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 Junk Club R&B student night 11pm £4/2 FUNKYFISH Cubashe Cuban salsa class and club 9.30pm £6/3 GLOBE Basement Cinema Underground films, comfy seats and free popcorn 8pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Mikky Ekko Live music 7.30pm £8; Donuts Hipster funk and hip hop gems 11pm £free KOMEDIA Paddy Lennox - Suckerpunch Mischievous Irish stand-up 7pm £tbc; Damian Clark - G’Damo! High-octane observational comedy 8.30pm £tbc LATEST MUSIC BAR No Ink, No Entry! Show off your tattoos and check out other people’s tattoos - it’s all about tattoos. Tattoos! Details tbc PAV TAV Wasted Years Music to cling desperately to your youth to 10.30pm £3/2/1 PRINCE ALBERT Kerela, 10 Thousand Ghosts, Telepathetic Live music 7.30pm £4/3 QUADRANT Open Mic Jam session hosted by Jenna Bennett 8.30pm £free RED LION Challenging General Knowledge & Music Quiz 8pm £1 SHOOSHH Pachanga Latino party playing reggaetron, merengue and ragga etc 10.30pm £3/free SIDEWINDER Open Mic Night 8.30pm £free THOMAS KEMP Poker Evening 8pm £free THREE JOLLY BUTCHERS The Pickin’ Circle Live bluegrass and old time country music 8pm £free WESTERN FRONT Hush Hush Live acoustic music 9pm £free
WEDNESDAY 10TH
ABOVE AUDIO Cookin Beats Hip hop with a side of order of funk and a sprinkling of reggae 8pm £free BASEMENT CLUB Mash Up Commercial house with DJ Lee Harris 11pm £free BELUSHI’S Guilty Pleasures Songs you shouldn’t like but like despite pretending not to like them 10pm £free BLACK LION Daisy’s Jukebox Soul and jazz band fronted by Ceri Wood 8.30pm £free BLIND TIGER March Of The Mermaids Fin-Raiser: Stay Sick DJs, John Crampton, Sarah Angliss Marine conversation benefit gig with vintage mermaid films 8pm £4 BRIGHTON ARTS CLUB Electronica Sextronica Open mic for electric performers 7pm £free BRUNSWICK Indian Flavours, Filter Coffee, Akash Live music 8pm £7 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Funny HaHa: Zoe Lyons, Lynn Ruth Miller Stand-up comedy night (upstairs) 8pm £5 COALITION CoCo LoCo Dancehall and dubstep music for students to lose the plot to 10.30pm £5/3/1 DIGITAL Fresh Meat “First-year university students, yum” 11pm £1 DRUID’S ARMS We Change The Tempo DJ set of international sounds 9pm £free DUKE OF BEAUFORT Poker Night 8pm £5 DUKE OF NORFOLK Pub Quiz 9pm £1 DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Before Sunrise 11am £tbc; Before Sunrise & Before Sunset Double Bill 5.30pm £tbc; Before Midnight 9pm £tbc DUKE’S @ KOMEDIA The King Of Marvin Gardens 11am £tbc; The Emperor’s Naked Army 6.30pm £tbc DUKEBOX THEATRE Sarah Hendrickx, Aidan Goatley Two local comics warm up for their Edinburgh shows 8pm £free FABRICA Working Internationally: Emilia Telese, Jon Linstrum Two speakers discuss making and selling art abroad 6pm £tbc FISHBOWL Tea & Biscuits: DJ Gareth Stephens Retro swing, soul and ska 10pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Trash Talk, Astroid Boys Live music 7.30pm £9 HOPE Jarrod Dickenson, David Ford Live music 7.30pm £10 KOMEDIA Piff The Magic Dragon Humorous magic show 7pm £10 KOMEDIA Joey Page - Reality Is Outside, Paradise Is In Your Brain Stand-up comedy 8.30pm £5 LATEST MUSIC BAR Tango Boot Camp Learn to tango like the Argentinians 8pm £3-8 MASH TUN Mash Tun Live Funk and rock covers band 9pm £free MESMERIST The Swing Ninjas Gypsy swing band 9pm £free NORTH LAINE PUB Quiz Kong Pub quiz 8pm £1 PRINCE ALBERT Another Sunny Day: Monnone Alone, Summer Hunter, Totem Terrors Indiepop bands with ex-members of Lucksmiths and Shrag 8pm £5/4 STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Dave Evans, Stone Angels, Liquid Fuse, Toledo Steel Live music 7pm £5; 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 dressing up as the Pope and punching meat 8pm £free THEATRE ROYAL Ben And Holly’s Little Kingdom 1pm/4pm £9.50-16.50 THOMAS KEMP Kev & Jenna’s Open Mic 9pm £free THREE & TEN Sara Pascoe, Bridget Christie Comedy double bill 7.30pm £free
THURSDAY 11TH
ANCIENT MARINER Jazz It Up Live jazz sessions 8.30pm £free AUDIO Bastard Pop Musical mash-up 11pm £3/2 BARLEY MOW Quiz Night 9pm £1 BELUSHI’S Karaoke 10pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW M Generation: DJ Honcho, DJ Meesta Sleeps “All the best tunes from when MTV still played music” 10pm £3/2/1 BLACK LION Matt Rose & The Tin Cup Collective Live funk soul band 8.30pm £free BLIND TIGER Wormfood, Polaroid 85, Soccer 96 Cosmodelic afro punk, apparently 8pm £5 BRIGHTON ARTS CLUB Spoken Word Open Mic 7pm £free BRUNSWICK Flamenco Express Live flamenco music and dance 8pm £10/8 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK John Gordillo, Ivo Graham Political comedy (upstairs) 7.30pm £5 COALITION Secret Discotheque Replaying the soundtrack to your youth 11pm £4/3/2 CONCORDE2 Shuggie Otis 70s singer songwriter
WWW.BRIGHTONSOURCE.CO.UK/LISTINGS MOBILE COMPATIBLE ONLINE LISTINGS
(rescheduled from May, old tickets still valid) 7.30pm £22 DRUID’S ARMS Overhead Wires Local label live music showcase 8.30pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Therese Desqueyroux 11am £tbc DUKE’S @ KOMEDIA The Bling Ring 11am £tbc FABRICA Armchair Critics: Lorenza Ippolito, Libby Davy Arty discussion event about Buddhism and ‘participatory art practices’ 7pm £tbc FIDDLER’S ELBOW Live Lounge Live music 8.30pm £free FISHBOWL Residents Association DJ Will Sumsuch plays hip hop, funk and world beats 10.30pm £free FOUNTAIN HEAD Student Night DJs play indie and rock 8pm £free FUNFAIR Bug’A’Boo Hip hop and R&B ladies’ night 11pm £4/2 GEORGE PAYNE Open Mic Night 8.30pm £free GLADSTONE D&L Duo Funky acoustic covers 9pm £free GLOBE Hang The DJ! A night of punter-picked playlists 9pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Bandcalledmac Post hardcore brothers 7pm £free; LUX New electronica night with sound mapping and experimental visuals 11pm £free HAUNT Ms Mr New York boy-girl pop duo 7pm £9; Coconut College Thursday night party playing a right mix of stuff from A$AP Rocky to Grimes 11pm £3/2 HOPE Hero, Eager Teeth, Scream The Headlines, Glass City Vice, As It Is Pop rock and punk bands 7.30pm £4 KOMEDIA Christian Reilly - Songs Of Praise Comedy songs 7pm £5; The Noise Next Door Comedy Lock-In Improv comedy troupe 8pm £10 LATEST MUSIC BAR Catalyst Club Guest speakers give a short talk about whatever their weird obsession is 8pm £5 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 NORTH LAINE PUB Brewery Tours Learn the secrets of beer brewing Time tbc £9.75 OLD MARKET Laughtermarket: Nick Helm Stand-up comedy night 8pm £4 PRINCE ALBERT Digo, Classic Plastic, Electromud Live music 8pm £4/3 PROUD CABARET 50 Shades Of Cabaret Fetish cabaret for people who’d never thought of being kinky before reading that book 7pm £24/10 RANELAGH Bagger & Armer Harmonica blues folk 8.30pm £free RIKI TIK Big It Up! Resident DJs mine the golden era of dancehall and digital reggae 9pm £free SHOOSHH Azuri 10pm £3/free SMACK Fresh Thursdays DJ Mike Panteli entertains the students 10.30pm £5/3 STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Turbulence: Scarla Fields, Marinus, Zazu Live music 9pm £4/3 THEATRE ROYAL Ben And Holly’s Little Kingdom 1pm/4.30pm £9.50-16.50 VICTORY Open Mic 8pm £free VOLKS Roll Through Drum&bass and dubstep, bass and beatbox 11pm £3 WORLD’S END The Big Quiz Night 8pm £1
FRIDAY 12TH
ABOVE AUDIO Home Home is where the house is 9pm £free ANCIENT MARINER Cancer Research Charity Quiz 5.30pm £3/2 AUDIO Minimal Kids: Enzo Sifreddi Minimalist electronica and techno 11pm £5/free BASEMENT CLUB Friday Night Live With Lady LaRue Cabaret is a drag sometimes 11pm £free BELUSHI’S Funked Up Fridays: Go Commando House and R&B with live band 10pm £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 Yumi And The Weather, Shiva Electronic dream pop from the rising Brighton group 8pm £3; Big Badaboom! Swing, jive and burlesque dancing 10pm £5 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Rock The Caz Bar DJs play alt rock classics 9pm £free CHEQUERS Mezcal Soundsystem, The Mayan Kings Deep and tech house with live percussion 9pm £free COALITION Friday I’m In Love No more lectures for a day or two 11pm £3-6 CONCORDE2 Chester P, Trojan, Aba Shanti, Marvellous Cain UK hip hopper who founded Task Force 11pm £5/2
PAGE 47
COWLEY CLUB The Tuts, The Heavy Hearted, Perkie & The Perkettes, Breakers, Daskinsey4 DIY girl punk 7.30pm £3 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 MC Cashback, Miss Scarlett DJs play funk, Motown, reggae and hip hop 9pm £free DUKEBOX THEATRE Dionysus Lives New one-man play about what the Greek god of wine and revelry might get up to in the modern world 8pm £6 FISHBOWL Jeff Daniels Soul and hip hop DJ 9pm £free FUNFAIR Circus Commercial music mash-up with fire breathing and snake charming sideshows 10pm £5/3 FUNKYFISH Thank Funk Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10.30pm £free GLADSTONE Funky Mezcla’s Friday Night Fix DJ night 9pm £free GLOBE The Get Down! DJ night playing a mix of Motown, soul, blues, funk and swing 8pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE The Brompton Mix, Spit Shake Sisters Post punk death rock from Manchester 7pm £tbc; Electro Blues: The Cyborgs, Nick Hollywood Remixed jukebox jump night with live music from an Italian futuristic blues duo 11pm £free HOP POLES Control Alt Delete Resident DJs 10pm £free HOPE Mel’s Allstars, Sinfiction Barbershop punk benefit gig 8pm £5; Freakin Out “Guitar anthems for the disposable generation” 9pm £free KOMEDIA Krater Comedy Club: Jen Brister, Simon Evans, Mike Gunn, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy night 8pm £16.50; Missing Cat Club - The Echelon Couch: Charleston Bone, Retro Nelson, Frank Roots, LeeOn C Monthly club night mixing the sounds of Jamaica, Brixton and Berlin 11pm £3-5 LATEST MUSIC BAR Bliss Art’s Indian Summer Gig Live music 7.30pm £8 LIFE Well Rounded House and disco, funk and soul 11pm £tbc LOFT Brighton Swing Thing: The Hep Chaps Vintage night with live music, swing DJs and a lindy hop taster session 8pm £15 MESMERIST Shake, Holla & Roll Vintage blues, swing and rock&roll 9pm £free NEPTUNE Mad Max Band They are the rockers, they are the rollers, they are the out-of-controllers 8.30pm £free NORTH LAINE PUB Beat Burger DJ plays soul, funk, hip hop and reggae 8.30pm £free NORTHERN LIGHTS DJ Jazzy D Jazz, funk and soul 9pm £free OHSO SOCIAL Dirty Sunset Disco Metrosexual disco and house club 9pm £tbc PRINCE ALBERT The Welfares, Machete Live music 8pm £6.50 PRINCE ARTHUR DJ Machall The Czech hip hop DJ 9pm £free SHOOSHH Runway Old school R&B and party mash ups 10pm £5/4/3/free SMACK Smack, Crackle & Pop DJ Mike Panteli plays pop hits from the 80s onwards 9pm £free; Antro Late night student clubbing with Juice FM DJ, Mike Pantelli 1am £5/3 STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Lout & Jack Daniels Blowout Live music 8pm £free THEATRE ROYAL The Dreamboys The biggest cocks we’ve ever seen, shame about their weathered penises 7.45pm £21-23.50 THOMAS KEMP Hot-Tip Hi-Fi DJ with a fine collection of vintage reggae and rocksteady records 8pm £free THREE & TEN Pete Cain Thought-provoking comedy from the man with all the answers 8pm £7/5.50 UNITARIAN CHURCH The Lloyd Saxophone Quartet Baroque and boogie woogie 12.30pm £3; Le Juki, Linos Wengara, Gary Cove, Metaluna Psych folk album launch with video visuals 7.30pm £5 VOLKS Strictly Guestlist: JFB, Pixel Fist, Dan Stoves, Sightek, Tru Craft, Flx:mode, Simon Chambers, DJ Jester, Fin-Dot, Adam Ellis, Dan Pulse, Re-Run, Rik* With that many DJs and MCs to accomodate, a guestlist request seems futile 11pm £6
SATURDAY 13TH
ABOVE AUDIO Ruff Snippets DJ plays hip hop, funk and soul Time tbc £free ANCIENT MARINER Acoustic Sessions Live music 8pm £free AUDIO Warehouse: Left Wing, Cody House and techno club night 11pm £7/5/free BASEMENT CLUB Fusion: DJ Peter Castle, DJ Lee Harris Chart and club remixes 11pm £free
PAGE 48
BELUSHI’S Smashed DJ Moogle’s mash-up 10pm £free BLACK LION Stop Go! DJ Lanx plays funk, soul, mod, rock and indie 8.30pm £free BRIGHTON ARTS CLUB The Devil Rides On 8pm £tbc BRUNSWICK Rising Stars: The Dates Junior showcase from the local label 2pm £4; Brandon Lee Webb Live blues 8pm £7/5 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Ska-B-Q 1pm £free CHEQUERS Julia & The Wolf, Duality Munich singer songwriter duo big on harmonies 8pm £free COALITION Norman Jay, Ben Dreadzone More ‘Good Times’ with the Notting Hill DJ 11pm £8; Blow: Vince Manganaro, Charly Lopez, Charles Green The party never stops 3am £5 COMMUNITY ARTS CENTRE Work Programme: Fiona Winterflood, Megan Turner-Jones Part of a project in which visual artists are locked in a studio for a week - every Saturday you can check out what they’ve been up to 7pm £free CONCORDE2 Amanda Palmer & The Grand Theft Orchestra Blistering piano punk and witty tales of dysfunction from the former Dresden Dolls singer 6pm £17.50 COWLEY CLUB Joyce D’Vision, Los Cripis, Frau, Frozy Joy Division covers by a one-woman disco drag act - plus Argentinian street punks and shouty upstart grrrlgroups 7.30pm £5; Slutdisko Electro punk disco madness 11pm £free DOCTOR BRIGHTON’S Sexy Saturday: DJ Tony B 9.30pm £free DOME Dome Discovery Tour Explore the historic venue’s backstage areas 11am £8.50/7.50 DRUID’S ARMS Subvert Normality Post rock and punk band night 8pm £free DUKE’S @ KOMEDIA Akira 11pm £tbc DUKEBOX THEATRE Dionysus Lives New one-man play about what the Greek god of wine and revelry might get up to in the modern world 8pm £6 EXCHANGE Bad Bad Whiskey Skifflebilly trio 8.30pm £free FABRICA Flauguissimo Duo Guitar and flute duo play 19th century romantic music 2pm £tbc FIDDLER’S ELBOW Saturday Sizzlers DJs drop hot vinyl into your ears 8pm £free FISHBOWL What’s Wrong With Groovin’?: Ed Meme, Matt Beatwell Two DJs set out to answer the age-old question with a stack of drum-driven funk and soul 9pm £free FREEMASONS Saturday Night Disc Spinners DJ night 9pm £free FUNFAIR Magic Dancefloor fillers from every era 9pm £5/3 FUNKYFISH Oldschool Saturday Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10pm £6/5 GLOBE Upstairs At The Globe House and disco DJs 9pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Herxis Metal so black there is none more black 7pm £tbc; Pop Not Pop Pop night with Dynamite Sal 11pm £free HAUNT It Is Still 1985 Travel through time to an ancient realm where keytars are still pretty cool 11pm £3 HOP POLES Hop To The Beat DJs play hip hop and R&B 10pm £free HOPE Annaca, Farrow Catchy indie folk with great pop vocals 7.30pm £5 KOMEDIA Krater Comedy Club: Jen Brister, Simon Evans, Mike Gunn, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy night 7pm/10.30pm £5-22 LIFE XXY Chromosome clubbing from the #Hashtag DJs 11pm £7/5/3 MARLBOROUGH THEATRE Two Sisters Caroline Harding’s black comedy set in 1880s Russia 8pm £8/6.50 MESMERIST Juke Joint Jamboree Rhythm & blues and rock&roll records from the days of the dance halls 9pm £free NORTH LAINE PUB DJ Stu Funk and soul and grooves 9pm £free NORTHERN LIGHTS Rock In & Roll DJ night 8pm £free PARIS HOUSE Live Jazz 4pm £free; TC’s Joyful Noise DJ Kenny on the decks 9pm £free PAV TAV All Killer No Filler Rock and pop party tunes 11pm £4/3/2 PHOENIX GALLERY Lee Scott Newcombe Ensemble Arty and contemporary classical music concert 7.30pm £3 PRESTON MANOR Hidden Histories - A Real Life Lady Chatterley? Hear about the shady privates lives of Edwardian ladies 11am/2pm £10/8; Haunted House Experience Sit in on a vigil with Preston Manor’s ghost busters (includes tea and biscuits) 7.30pm £30/25 PRINCE ALBERT The Bright Ones, Saint Savanna, Fight, Swimmers Sleazy and stylish indie punk rock 8pm £4/3 PRINCE ARTHUR Berimbau Live trio plays music from
BUY
SOURCE TICKETS
Brazil 9pm £free PROUD CABARET Pop Kraft Pop tunes and cheeky cabaret with Boogaloo Stu and crew 10.30pm £8/6 RANELAGH The Gastrick Band Blues rock 8.30pm £free RIKI TIK Skatadays Reggae, rocksteady and vintage ska records 9pm £free ROYAL PAVILION Hidden Places, Familiar Faces A tour of the Royal Pavilion estate, starting at the Dome Cafe 10.30am £20 SMACK Cliche New club night playing commercial house and R&B - pretty much what it says on the tin 10pm £7/5; J’box: Thomas Gandey, Tough Love, Nolan, DPM New late night Saturday after party 2am £7/5/3 STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR MLISR Forgotten gems from the Britpop era (in the bar) 8pm £free; Skinny Lister, The Black Fields Late night party with the folk punk group 11.30pm £7 THOMAS KEMP DJ Mark Gogglez Dance classics 9pm £free THREE & TEN Mat Ewins - Once Upon A Time In The Jest Character comedy and sketches about the history of comedy 8pm £7.50/5.50 VICTORY Soul Casserole A melting pot of hot funk beats and soul grooves 9pm £free VOLKS Kaos Drum&bass night 11pm £tbc WESTERN FRONT DJ Dennis Castro Not only playing ‘muscle rhymes’ and ‘jiggy fitness’ but also ‘lazy garage’ and ‘blog pop’ 9pm £free WORLD’S END Electronic Playground 9pm £free
SUNDAY 14TH
ABOVE AUDIO Enzo’s Daytime Party 4pm £free BASEMENT CLUB Pop!Candy DJ Claire Fuller plays pure non-stop pop 11pm £free BELUSHI’S Pub Quiz 8pm £free BLACK LION Live & Swingin’ Lion Live gypsy jazz, swing and blues 8pm £free BLIND TIGER Playgroup Festival Big Meet! 8pm £free CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Express Yourself Live music, poetry and comedy (upstairs) 6pm £free CHEQUERS Eyal Shavit Acoustic Night Acoustic covers 6pm £free CORN EXCHANGE The Hare & The Tortoise Kids’ show which inadvertently undermines the capitalist work ethic 4.30pm £8/6 DUKE OF BEAUFORT Sunday Cinema Cult classics and free popcorn 8pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Cleopatra 11am £tbc DUKE’S @ KOMEDIA London International Animation Festival - Amazing Animations 2 11am £tbc FIDDLER’S ELBOW Sham-Rock Open Mic 8.30pm £free FISHBOWL Recovery? Reggae through the ages 9pm £free FOUNTAIN HEAD Reggae & Roasts Reggae and chilled beats Time tbc £free GREEN DOOR STORE Blood Red Throne, Flayed Disciple, Bloodshot Dawn, Acrania, Subservience, Hole In The Sky, Suicide Veil Watch out, the Norwegians are coming! (To headline an afternoon of death metal bands) 3pm £8; Green Door Blues Big Itch DJs plus the resident blues band, Smokestack 10.30pm £free HANOVER Drill Baby Drill Film about fracking 7pm £tbc HAUNT 7 Seconds Live music 6.30pm £13.50; Dirty Dance Klub: Kim Ann Foxman, Suze Rosser, Jon Bryne, DPM, CH33KS Underground house and disco night with a gay edge 11pm £8 KOMEDIA Krater Comedy Club: Simon Evans, Mike Gunn, Chris Turner, Pete Otway, Stephen Grant Standup comedy night 8pm £5-12 LATEST MUSIC BAR The Jam Brighton Show Young Brighton bands prove the kids are alright 2.30pm £3 MARLBOROUGH THEATRE Two Sisters Caroline Harding’s black comedy set in 1880s Russia 8pm £8/6.50 NEPTUNE Will Johns Blues rock 8.30pm £free NORTH LAINE PUB Sunday Seduction Smooth soul and rare grooves with LL Cool A and Luther Ivan Dross 4pm £free NORTHERN LIGHTS Northern Light Sundays The DJ has a lazy Sunday afternoon 4pm £free OLD MARKET Post-Roast Comedy Previews: Jam Comedy, Mark Dolan Stand-up comedy 4pm £6 OPEN HOUSE David Potter’s Quiz Night 8pm £2 QUADRANT Clocktower Cinema: Duel New film night Details tbc RANELAGH Stevie Ray Vaughan Tribute Act 8.30pm £free RIKI TIK Night Food Rhythm&blues, calypso and ska inspired by 1950s Jamaican sound systems 9pm £free STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Adam Zareba, Mara Simpson, Verity Sessions Three singer songwriters 8pm
ONLINE AT WWW.BRIGHTONSOURCE.CO.UK
£4 THOMAS KEMP Jazz In The Afternoon: Le Duo Live jazz 4pm £free; Tango Sessions 8pm £free THREE JOLLY BUTCHERS Ian Price Gypsy Jazz Experience Live music 3pm £free VICTORY Blues Sundays DJ plays blues and soul Noon £free VOLKS Psy Sundays: Maximillian, Morfinn, Arborean Artifact, Clayton, Sonic Species, Piatrixx, Psykinya A day and a night of psytrance 3pm £free
MONDAY 15TH
ANCIENT MARINER Quiz Night 8pm £1 BELUSHI’S Decadance DJ Jonesey plays the best of 70s, 80s and 90s stuff 10pm £free BLIND TIGER The 333 Club Live music 8pm £free BRUNSWICK Open Mic 7.30pm £free CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Wil Hodgson, Jessica Fostekew Nostalgic comedy show about old-school public information films (upstairs) 7.30pm £5 COALITION Trash Mondays Filthy tunes for students and layabouts alike 11pm £4/3 DUKE’S @ KOMEDIA Some Like It Hot 11am £tbc; Sunday 6.30pm £tbc FABRICA Going To See Culture Together Bringing older people together by showing them manuscripts hanging from the ceiling 2pm £tbc FIDDLER’S ELBOW Super Mega Schwarzenegger Live music from Benny Brooke and Oliver Croome 8.30pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Gaps Single launch for the glitchy guitar and laptop Brighton duo 7pm £free HAUNT Pelican Instrumental post-metal band from Chicago 7pm £12.50; Fat Poppadaddys Student indie night 11pm £3/2/free HOPE Peace Open Mic Weekly open mic hosted by Chris Instinct 9pm £free KOMEDIA Carly Smallman Stand-up show 7pm £5 LATEST MUSIC BAR Mano’s Daughter, 100 Robots, Hybrid Live electro dance bands 8pm £5/4 MARLBOROUGH THEATRE Two Sisters Caroline Harding’s black comedy set in 1880s Russia 8pm £8/6.50 MESMERIST Flash Mob Jazz Raucous jazz band 9pm £free PRINCE ARTHUR Broken Mic Open mic night hosted by Robin Coward 8pm £free QUADRANT Clocktower Cinema: Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? New film night Details tbc STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Fight Like Apes, Throwing Up Live music 8pm £7 THOMAS KEMP Quiz Night 8pm £1 VICTORY Songs From A Room Live folk music 8pm £free VOLKS Strictly Reggae Dancehall, roots, revival 11pm £5/4.50
TUESDAY 16TH
ABOVE AUDIO Cottontail Club Big band and jitter jive tunes 9pm £free BELUSHI’S Polka Electro mash-up with DJ Barlow 9pm £free BLACK LION Open Mic Night Live music 8.30pm £free BRUNSWICK Archway Choir Contemporary choir group 7.30pm £tbc; Jazz Jam Open session with a house band and special guests 8pm £free CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Josh Widdicombe, Charlie Baker Observational comedy (upstairs) 7.30pm £10; Open Mic Hosted by Mike Mcmichelson and Kev De Souza 8.30pm £free COALITION Friends Brooklyn post disco band, not to be confused with the 90s yuppie Starbucks sitcom 7pm £8 CONCORDE2 Local Natives Live music 7.30pm £18 CUBE Cube Live Live acoustic music 8pm £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 Man To Man 11am £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 Junk Club R&B student night 11pm £4/2 FUNKYFISH Cubashe Cuban salsa class and club 9.30pm £6/3 GLOBE Basement Cinema Underground films, comfy seats and free popcorn 8pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Com Truise Seth Haley’s “midfi synth-wave slow-motion funk” alter ego 7pm £8; Donuts Hipster funk and hip hop gems 11pm £free
HAUNT Japandroids Pounding drums and 90s fuzz from Canadian rock duo 7pm £10 KOMEDIA Henry Paker - Classic Paker Stand-up show 7pm £5; Romesh Ranganathan - Rom Com Stand-up comedy 8.30pm £5 LATEST MUSIC BAR Mal Webb, Johnny And Eagle Australian multi-instrumentalist also adept at beatbox yodelling 8pm £7 MARLBOROUGH THEATRE Up4aMeet? Gay comedy based on phone apps with people from X Factor and Big Brother 8pm £16 MASH TUN 7x7 Seven DJs play 7” records 9pm £free OLD MARKET The Drawing Circus - Spring Sprawl Themed drop-in life drawing session 7pm £5 PAV TAV Wasted Years Music to cling desperately to your youth to 10.30pm £3/2/1 PRINCE ALBERT Leeroy Stagger, Dennis Ellsworth Live music 8pm £8 QUADRANT Open Mic Jam session hosted by Jenna Bennett 8.30pm £free RED LION Challenging General Knowledge & Music Quiz 8pm £1 SHOOSHH Pachanga Latino party playing reggaetron, merengue and ragga etc 10.30pm £3/free SIDEWINDER Open Mic Night 8.30pm £free ST GEORGE’S INN Pub Quiz 8pm £1 THOMAS KEMP Poker Evening 8pm £free WESTERN FRONT Hush Hush Live acoustic music 9pm £free
WEDNESDAY 17TH
ABOVE AUDIO Cookin Beats Hip hop with a side of order of funk and a sprinkling of reggae 8pm £free BASEMENT CLUB Mash Up Commercial house with DJ Lee Harris 11pm £free BELUSHI’S Guilty Pleasures Songs you shouldn’t like but like despite pretending not to like them 10pm £free BLACK LION The Lion’s Raw! Live bands 8.30pm £free BLIND TIGER SAFARii Live music 8pm £free CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Gráinne Maguire’s One Hour All Night Election Special Political comedy show (upstairs) 7.30pm £5 COALITION CoCo LoCo Dancehall and dubstep music for students to lose the plot to 10.30pm £5/3/1 COWLEY CLUB Jungbluth, Lich Emo hardcore from Germany and apocalyptic hardcore from Kent 8pm £5 DIGITAL Fresh Meat “First-year university students, yum” 11pm £1 DOME FOUNDERS ROOM Ho Bina Singing and dancing for 2-4 year olds 10am £5 DRUID’S ARMS We Change The Tempo DJ set of international sounds 9pm £free DUKE OF BEAUFORT Poker Night 8pm £5 DUKE OF NORFOLK Pub Quiz 9pm £1 DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA We Steal Secrets - The Story Of Wikileaks 11am £tbc DUKE’S @ KOMEDIA In The Fog 11am £tbc; Rock And Roll’s Greatest Failure - Otway The Movie 9pm £tbc FABRICA Beneath The Floating Mountain Storytelling for adults with Jamie Crawford 7pm £tbc FISHBOWL Tea & Biscuits: DJ Gareth Stephens Retro swing, soul and ska 10pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Man Ray Sky, Cousin, Foreign Skin Beatabet night of psychedelics, rock and video visuals 7.30pm £free HAUNT Room 94 Earnest pop rock with three coiffured denim-clad brothers 7pm £7 HOPE Warm Soda Garage rock power pop 8pm £free KOMEDIA Joe Bor Is Jasper Cromwell Jones Standup comedy 7pm £5; Now That’s What I Carl Donnelly - Volume V Controversial but silly stand-up (upstairs) 8.30pm £25 LATEST MUSIC BAR Tango Boot Camp Learn to tango like the Argentinians 8pm £3-8 MARLBOROUGH THEATRE Up4aMeet? Gay comedy based on phone apps with people from X Factor and Big Brother 8pm £16 MASH TUN Mash Tun Live Funk and rock covers band 9pm £free MESMERIST The Swing Ninjas Gypsy swing band 9pm £free NORTH LAINE PUB Quiz Kong Pub quiz 8pm £1 OLD MARKET iOpen Even literary spoken word nights aren’t above propagating the advertising meme of putting a lower case i at the start of a word 7.30pm £free PRINCE ALBERT Martin Oliver Band, Lewis Tuff, Millie Manders, Nakisha Esnard Live music 8pm £4/3 QUADRANT Amy Blue Blues and old time singer songwriter 8pm £3 RANELAGH Hilary Scott US country singer 8.30pm £6 STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Dumb And Dumber Film Quiz Pub quiz with questions about “the most
WWW.BRIGHTONSOURCE.CO.UK/LISTINGS MOBILE COMPATIBLE ONLINE LISTINGS
awesome of movies” and also Dumb And Dumber 8pm £1; GRRRILLA: Alphabets Heaven, King Dinosaur, Caveman Genius, Momotaro, Sam Physics Electronica and illustration showcase 9pm £3 THEATRE ROYAL Henry VI - Harry The Sixth Nick Bagnall directs Shakespeare’s take on the War Of The Roses 7.45pm £16.90-32.90 THOMAS KEMP Kev & Jenna’s Open Mic 9pm £free WORLD’S END Snei Ap Band All-girl hard rockers from Italy 9pm £free
THURSDAY 18TH
ANCIENT MARINER Jazz It Up Live jazz sessions 8.30pm £free AUDIO Bastard Pop Musical mash-up 11pm £3/2 BARLEY MOW Quiz Night 9pm £1 BELUSHI’S Karaoke 10pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW M Generation: DJ Honcho, DJ Meesta Sleeps “All the best tunes from when MTV still played music” 10pm £3/2/1 BLACK LION Common People Listen to classic indie tunes while you smoke some fags and play some pool (n.b. please bring your own pool table) (n.n.b. smoking isn’t permitted inside the pub anymore) 8.30pm £free BLIND TIGER Dub Organiser Jam session with a dub reggae band 8pm £3/free BRUNSWICK The Master Blues Brothers Tribute band plays the movie’s hits 8pm £5 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Paul McCaffrey, Sam Savage Stand-up comic (upstairs) 7.30pm £5 COALITION Secret Discotheque Replaying the soundtrack to your youth 11pm £4/3/2 DRUID’S ARMS The Druids Folk Live folk music 9pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Cleopatra 1.30pm £tbc DUKE’S @ KOMEDIA A Field In England 11am £tbc; Man To Man 6pm £tbc FIDDLER’S ELBOW Live Lounge Live music 8.30pm £free FISHBOWL Residents Association DJ Will Sumsuch plays hip hop, funk and world beats 10.30pm £free FOUNTAIN HEAD Student Night DJs play indie and rock 8pm £free FUNFAIR Bug’A’Boo Hip hop and R&B ladies’ night 11pm £4/2 GEORGE PAYNE Open Mic Night 8.30pm £free GLOBE Hang The DJ! A night of punter-picked playlists 9pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE 4/4 DJ Mike Divers’ new dance music night 11pm £free HAND IN HAND Rave On! DJs Citizen Lane and Becky Boop play doo-wop and vintage pop 8pm £free HAUNT Coconut College Thursday night party playing a right mix of stuff from A$AP Rocky to Grimes 11pm £3/2 HOPE Tunabunny, Flowers, Slum Of Legs Live music 7.45pm £5.50 IRON DUKE ID Goes Acoustic Live music 8pm £free KOMEDIA Krater Comedy Club: Luke Benson, Joe Foster, Dane Baptiste, Markus Birdman, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy night 8pm £9/6/5 LATEST MUSIC BAR Club Criminal Two floors of rock and indie tunes 9pm £3/2 MARLBOROUGH THEATRE Up4aMeet? Gay comedy based on phone apps with people from X Factor and Big Brother 8pm £16 MASH TUN They Mostly Come Out At Night Indie, electro and hip hop 9pm £free MESMERIST Gypsy Switch Live music 9pm £free NORTH LAINE PUB Brewery Tours Learn the secrets of beer brewing Time tbc £9.75 PHOENIX GALLERY Artist Talk - Susie MacMurray The artist explains why she hung manuscripts from the ceiling 6pm £free PRINCE ALBERT Cable Club Live music 8pm £4/3 PROUD CABARET 50 Shades Of Cabaret Fetish cabaret for people who’d never thought of being kinky before reading that book 7pm £24/10 RANELAGH Shauna Parker & The Saloon Bar Band Country and swing band 8.30pm £free RIKI TIK Big It Up! Resident DJs mine the golden era of dancehall and digital reggae 9pm £free SHOOSHH Azuri 10pm £3/free SMACK Fresh Thursdays DJ Mike Panteli entertains the students 10.30pm £5/3 STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Riff Till Yer Stiff Heavy rock tunes (in the bar) 9pm £free THEATRE ROYAL Henry VI - Harry The Sixth Nick Bagnall directs Shakespeare’s take on the War Of The Roses 2.30pm £16.90-32.90; Henry VI - The Houses of York & Lancaster Nick Bagnall directs Shakespeare’s take on the War Of The Roses 7.45pm £16.90-32.90 THOMAS KEMP Mark Vis Live music knees-up with a mobile piano 9pm £free VICTORY Open Mic 8pm £free
PAGE 49
VOLKS Roll Through Drum&bass and dubstep, bass and beatbox 11pm £3 WORLD’S END The Big Quiz Night 8pm £1
FRIDAY 19TH
ABOVE AUDIO Home Home is where the house is 9pm £free AUDIO Moody Disco: Sub Ann House and deep house 11pm £12/10 BASEMENT CLUB Friday Night Live With Lady LaRue Cabaret is a drag sometimes 11pm £free BELUSHI’S Funked Up Fridays House and R&B 10pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Abandoned Rock and metal night 10pm £3/2 BLACK DOVE Chop Source DJ plays latin grooves, afro beats and tropical funk 8pm £free BLACK LION Soul Casserole A melting pot of hot funk beats and soul grooves 9pm £free BLIND TIGER Hush Hush Live music 7pm £free; Just For The Funk Of It Funky club night with a live band 10pm £5 BRUNSWICK The Blues Issue Live blues 8pm £tbc CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Rock The Caz Bar DJs play alt rock classics 9pm £free CHEQUERS Stevie Becks, Wendy’s Parade Live acoustic music 8pm £free COALITION Friday I’m In Love No more lectures for a day or two 11pm £3-6 CONCORDE2 Just Blaze, Terror Danjah, Sir Spyro, Schroff, Rakish Selector, Charlie Traplin, LZ, C-Beatz, Fortay, Some People Top hip hop producer headlines a night of trap and grime 11pm £7/5 DIGITAL Stonelove Indie rock&roll club 11pm £4/3 DOCTOR BRIGHTON’S Funky Friday: DJ Nick Hirst, DJ Wayne 9.30pm £free DOME Levellers Local folk rock legends celebrate their 25th anniversary 7pm £21.50 DRUID’S ARMS Hot Pepper Sauce DJ I.D.G. plays old school funk, soul and house 10pm £free DUKE OF NORFOLK MC Cashback, Miss Scarlett DJs play funk, Motown, reggae and hip hop 9pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA The World’s End 1pm/4pm/7pm £tbc; I Am Divine & Female Trouble 10pm £tbc FIDDLER’S ELBOW Friday Night Live Late night live music 9pm £free FISHBOWL Cut La Vis Jamaican riddims and urban beats 9pm £free FUNFAIR Circus Commercial music mash-up with fire breathing and snake charming sideshows 10pm £5/3 FUNKYFISH Thank Funk Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10.30pm £free GLADSTONE Meow Meows Album launch for the soul and ska band 9pm £free GLOBE The Get Down! DJ night playing a mix of Motown, soul, blues, funk and swing 8pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE The Community Payback Benefit Gig: Dread Messiah, Murdaball, Overload Death metal fundraiser 7pm £6; Sound Dance Bhangra, afrobeat and Persian pop 11pm £free HOP POLES Control Alt Delete Resident DJs 10pm £free HOPE Jipsy Magic Indie funk quartet launch their second single 8pm £5; Superlungs Rock&roll DJs sounds from the 60s and 70s 9pm £free KOMEDIA Krater Comedy Club: Paul McCaffrey, George Zach, Steve Harris, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy night 8pm £16.50; Born Bad Vintage rockabilly for pompadour cats and polka dot kittens 11pm £6/5 LIFE Well Rounded House and disco, funk and soul 11pm £tbc MARLBOROUGH THEATRE Up4aMeet? Gay comedy based on phone apps with people from X Factor and Big Brother 7pm/9pm £16 MESMERIST Shake, Holla & Roll Vintage blues, swing and rock&roll 9pm £free NEPTUNE Shauna Parker & The Saloon Bar Band Country swing band 8.30pm £free NORTH LAINE PUB Soul Casserole A melting pot of red hot funk and soul 9pm £free NORTHERN LIGHTS DJ Emonster 8pm £free PRESTON MANOR Costume Drama - Backstairs And Backstage A humorous and immersive theatrical experience 8pm £15/12 PRINCE ALBERT World Peace, The Downs, Sealings The only band who genuinely promotes World Peace 8pm £5 PRINCE ARTHUR Splatch Funk fusion band 9pm £free PROUD CABARET Mad Hatter’s Tea Party: Bitter & Twisted, Genini Pole Duo, Penelope Pin Up, Sugar Shane, Leon The Magician, Indescreeties Through The Looking Glass, Cherry Bella, Velvet Rose, DJ
PAGE 50
Arthur Shillin’ Burlesque and pole dancing party 7pm £10/7 SHOOSHH Runway Old school R&B and party mash ups 10pm £5/4/3/free SMACK Smack, Crackle & Pop DJ Mike Panteli plays pop hits from the 80s onwards 9pm £free; Antro Late night student clubbing with Juice FM DJ, Mike Pantelli 1am £5/3 ST GEORGE’S CHURCH Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus - Taken From Behind (The Scenes) Witness the bitchiness and backstabbing as thirty gay men sing together 7pm £12/10 ST LUKE’S CHURCH Violin And Piano Recital Classic music with David Angel and David Elwin 7.30pm £7/5/3 STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Brighton Rocks: Astrid’s Tea Party, Damn Dirty Humans, Strange Cages, The Vril Live bands 7pm £4; Dive Slow Hip hop and electronica from the BBC critic and DJ, Mike Diver (in the bar) 9pm £free; Reverb Bistro Club night serving up a mix of dubstep, hip hop, afrobeat and drum&bass 11pm £2 THEATRE ROYAL Henry VI - The True Tragedy Of The Duke of York Nick Bagnall directs Shakespeare’s take on the War Of The Roses 7.45pm £16.90-32.90 THOMAS KEMP DJ Moler Funk, soul and rare grooves 9pm £free THREE & TEN Katy & Rach, The Hee-Ha’s Comedy double bill with an improv theatre duo and a sketch ‘n’ song team 7.30pm £10/9 UNITARIAN CHURCH Evelyn Harrison Classical clarinet recital 12.30pm £3 VICTORY Victory Funk And Soul Club DJ Rich Guy from Carnival Collective 9pm £free VOLKS Brighton Loves Jungle: Don Rosco, Kosine, Bassbin Records Vs Originate, X Nation, Djinn, Keezee Jungle night 11pm £5/3 WESTERN FRONT John Crampton Foot-stomping blues explosion 9pm £free
SATURDAY 20TH
ABOVE AUDIO Ruff Snippets DJ plays hip hop, funk and soul Time tbc £free ANCIENT MARINER Summer Street Party Outdoors all-dayer with DJs, BBQ and bands 1pm £free AUDIO Warehouse: Sam Russo House and techno club night 11pm £7/5/free BASEMENT CLUB Fusion: DJ Peter Castle, DJ Lee Harris Chart and club remixes 11pm £free BELUSHI’S Smashed DJ Moogle’s mash-up 10pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Apocalypse - Comic Con Special Rock and the sort of metal that went by the name ‘nu’ 10pm £5/4 BLACK LION Burnt Toast Black Lion Block Party DJs play sleazy soul and dirty breaks 3pm £free BLIND TIGER Vamos!: Polito Boogaloo, Mr Bongo Live music from the Americas Details tbc BRUNSWICK School Of Rock Kids’ music showcase 1pm £tbc CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Ska-B-Q 1pm £free; The Infernal Salon Alternative cabaret of experimental noise, poetry and DJs (upstairs) 8.30pm £5 CHEQUERS Boy In The Cupboard, Hall Of Strangers Wry and blackly humorous songwriting from the indie folk trio - The Cure meets Belle & Sebastian 8.30pm £free COALITION SLS (Sounds Like Saturday) 11pm £5; Blow: Vince Manganaro, Charly Lopez, Charles Green The party never stops 3am £5 COMMUNITY ARTS CENTRE Work Programme: Carmel Pia, Aimie Herbert Part of a project in which visual artists are locked in a studio for a week - every Saturday you can check out what they’ve been up to 7pm £free CONCORDE2 The Wurzels Cider Festival Somerset’s finest ‘Scrumpy & Western’ band rolls into town 5pm £20; Half Pint Jamaican dancehall and ragga 11pm £8 COWLEY CLUB Kollaps Club, Drill Folly “Machinised industrial sonic soundscapes” or an industrial, EBM and post punk night, if you prefer 8pm £3 DOCTOR BRIGHTON’S Sexy Saturday: DJ Tony B 9.30pm £free DOME STUDIO SOURCE New Music: Flash Bang Band Brighton’s best bands chosen by Brighton’s best listings mag 8pm £4 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 The Croods 11am £tbc; The World’s End 1.30pm/4.15pm/6.30pm/9.15pm £tbc DUKE’S @ KOMEDIA NT Live - Macbeth 8.30pm £tbc; Manhattan 11.30pm £tbc DUKEBOX THEATRE Mae Martin Edinburgh comedy
BUY
SOURCE TICKETS
preview 8pm £6 FIDDLER’S ELBOW Saturday Sizzlers DJs drop hot vinyl into your ears 8pm £free FISHBOWL DJ Åbo & Ally Smith Jazz Rooms DJs play dirty funk and hot jazz 9pm £free FREEMASONS Saturday Night Disc Spinners DJ night 9pm £free FUNFAIR Magic Dancefloor fillers from every era 9pm £5/3 FUNKYFISH Oldschool Saturday Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10pm £6/5 GLOBE Upstairs At The Globe House and disco DJs 9pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Evil Scarecrow, Oaf, Phyrexia, Headface, Spinning Death Machine Metal band who accidentally tear gassed an audience and simultaneously dyed a venue red when their recreation of a Viking longboat funeral went somewhat awry 6pm £5; Soulful Strut Russ Dewbury and guests play funk, soul and electro jazz 11pm £free HAMPTON Rollin’ Dynamite DJ Ratman plays rockabilly and rock&roll tunes 9pm £free HAUNT Akron Family Live music 7pm £9; It Is Still 1985 Travel through time to an ancient realm where keytars are still pretty cool 11pm £3 HOP POLES Arthur Shillin’ Electro swing mash-ups 10pm £free HOPE Dinosaur Pile-Up, Tigercub, She Crazy Grunge rockers 8pm £7.50; Teen Creeps Electro, synth and Italo disco 8pm £free KOMEDIA Stuart Black Cult comedian in the making 7pm £5; Krater Comedy Club: Paul McCaffrey, George Zach, Steve Harris, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy night 7pm/10.30pm £5-22; Spellbound “An 80s night for people who hate 80s nights” - Simon Price plays the alternative highlights of the decade 9pm £5/4 LATEST MUSIC BAR Andrew Duhon New Orleans folk and blues singer songwriter 8pm £6/5 LIFE XXY Chromosome clubbing from the #Hashtag DJs 11pm £7/5/3 MARLBOROUGH THEATRE Up4aMeet? Gay comedy based on phone apps with people from X Factor and Big Brother 7pm/9pm £16 MESMERIST Juke Joint Jamboree Rhythm & blues and rock&roll records from the days of the dance halls 9pm £free NEW VENTURE THEATRE The Building Sarah Davies directs a promenade performance Details tbc NORTH LAINE PUB Heavy Action DJ night 9pm £free OFFICE Chop Source DJ plays latin grooves, afro beats and tropical funk 8pm £free PARIS HOUSE Live Jazz 4pm £free; TC’s Joyful Noise DJ Kenny on the decks 9pm £free PRESTON MANOR Hidden Garden - The Edwardian Kitchen Garden 11am/2pm £12/10 PRINCE ALBERT Johnny & The Danger Beast, Marble Buffalo Live music 8pm £4 PROUD CABARET Le Chat Noir Vintage burlesque cabaret with a three course meal 7pm £49 RALLI HALL Cubashe Cuban salsa class and club 9.30pm £10/5 RIKI TIK Skatadays Reggae, rocksteady and vintage ska records 9pm £free SMACK Cliche New club night playing commercial house and R&B - pretty much what it says on the tin 10pm £7/5; J’box: Thomas Gandey, Tough Love, Nolan, DPM New late night Saturday after party 2am £7/5/3 ST BARTHOLOMEW’S CHURCH Brighton Festival Chorus & BBC Singers Classical choral music 7.30pm £20/14 ST GEORGE’S CHURCH Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus - Taken From Behind (The Scenes) Witness the bitchiness and backstabbing as thirty gay men sing together 7pm £12/10 ST GEORGE’S INN Summer Showcase Live music 7.30pm £free STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Two Gallants San Fran folk rock duo with a nod to James Joyce 7pm £13; 2003 Indie music from the last ten years (in the bar) 9pm £free; Dude Ranch A place to like hang out and hear some awesome pop punk and emo 11pm £tbc THEATRE ROYAL Henry VI - Harry The Sixth Nick Bagnall directs Shakespeare’s take on the War Of The Roses 12.30pm £16.90-32.90; Henry VI - The Houses of York & Lancaster Nick Bagnall directs Shakespeare’s take on the War Of The Roses 4pm £16.90-32.90; Henry VI - The True Tragedy Of The Duke of York Nick Bagnall directs Shakespeare’s take on the War Of The Roses 7.45pm £16.90-32.90 THOMAS KEMP DJ Greg Gore Classic rock tunes 9pm £free THREE & TEN Off The Cuff Audience-seeded jokes made up on the spot 8pm £8.50/7 UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX AYA - Awakenings Documentary and discussion about Amazonian shamanism and the spiritual dimension of far-out drugs like ayahuasca 6.30pm £10/8
ONLINE AT WWW.BRIGHTONSOURCE.CO.UK
VICTORY Don Simon DJ The don of jazzhop brings along his collection of funk, soul, hip hop and modern brass band tunes 9pm £free VOLKS In The Face Where would you like your bass? 11pm £8/7 WESTERN FRONT Moochin’ DJ Lanx plays northern soul, classic rock and hot funk 9pm £free WORLD’S END Alcoholic Water Italian rockers 9pm £free
SUNDAY 21ST
ABOVE AUDIO Enzo’s Daytime Party 4pm £free BASEMENT CLUB Pop!Candy DJ Claire Fuller plays pure non-stop pop 11pm £free BELUSHI’S Pub Quiz 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 Art & Chat Artists talk and show off their work (upstairs) 7pm £free; Ctrl Alt Quiz Another geeky quiz night with rounds on video games and comic books 8.30pm £1 CHEQUERS Inertia Launch Night Downtempo electronic and acoustic music 6pm £free DUKE OF BEAUFORT Sunday Cinema Cult classics and free popcorn 8pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA The Croods 11am £tbc; The World’s End 2pm/5pm/8pm £tbc DUKE’S @ KOMEDIA The Croods 11am £tbc; Bette Bourne - It Goes With The Shoes 1pm £tbc; NT Live - Macbeth 2pm £tbc EMPORIUM Moving Pictures - Connie & Carla Classic movies, live debate and interactive performances 6pm £12.50 FIDDLER’S ELBOW Sham-Rock Open Mic 8.30pm £free FISHBOWL Recovery? Reggae through the ages 9pm £free FOUNTAIN HEAD Reggae & Roasts Reggae and chilled beats Time tbc £free GREEN DOOR STORE The Old Grey Whistle Test #3 Clips from the classic BBC series with sets from guest DJs 7pm £free; Green Door Blues Big Itch DJs plus the resident blues band, Smokestack 10.30pm £free HOPE Lost In Vegas Live rock&roll bands 8pm £4 KOMEDIA Krater Comedy Club: George Zach, Steve Harris, Allyson Smith, James Mullinger, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy night 8pm £5-12 LATEST MUSIC BAR Studio 9 Orchestra 18-piece jazz band 7pm £5 NEPTUNE Shady Grove Country and bluegrass band 8.30pm £free NEW VENTURE THEATRE The Building Sarah Davies directs a promenade performance Details tbc NORTH LAINE PUB Sunday Seduction Smooth soul and rare grooves with LL Cool A and Luther Ivan Dross 4pm £free NORTHERN LIGHTS Northern Light Sundays The DJ has a lazy Sunday afternoon 4pm £free OLD MARKET Spun Glass Theatre - Scratch Sessions New writers try out ten minute plays, poems or whatever 3pm £1 OPEN HOUSE David Potter’s Quiz Night 8pm £2 QUADRANT Clocktower Cinema: 12 Angry Men New film night Details tbc RANELAGH Kent Duchaine Delta blues 8.30pm £free RIKI TIK Night Food Rhythm&blues, calypso and ska inspired by 1950s Jamaican sound systems 9pm £free SALLIS BENNEY THEATRE Ragroof Tea Dance Stylish afternoon tea dance with 20s, 30s and 40s music 2pm £8/6 THOMAS KEMP Jazz In The Afternoon: Le Duo Live jazz 4pm £free THREE JOLLY BUTCHERS Ian Price Gypsy Jazz Experience Live music 3pm £free VICTORY Blues Sundays DJ plays blues and soul Noon £free
MONDAY 22ND
ANCIENT MARINER Quiz Night 8pm £1 BELUSHI’S Decadance DJ Jonesey plays the best of 70s, 80s and 90s stuff 10pm £free BLIND TIGER The 333 Club Live music 8pm £free BRUNSWICK Open Mic 7.30pm £free CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Richard Herring We’re All Going to Die! Edinburgh comedy preview for Stuart Lee’s former sidekick (upstairs) 7.30pm £10 COALITION Trash Mondays Filthy tunes for students and layabouts alike 11pm £4/3 DUKE OF NORFOLK Duke Unplugged Informal open session 8pm £free
DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA The World’s End 12.30pm/3.45pm/6.15pm/9.15pm £tbc DUKE’S @ KOMEDIA The Adventures Of Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert 11am £tbc; Springsteen & I 8.30pm £tbc FIDDLER’S ELBOW Super Mega Schwarzenegger Live music from Benny Brooke and Oliver Croome 8.30pm £free GREYS Martin Simpson Acoustic and slide guitarist 8.30pm £15 HAUNT Fat Poppadaddys Student indie night 11pm £3/2/free HOPE Peace Open Mic Weekly open mic hosted by Chris Instinct 9pm £free KOMEDIA Danny Ward - Pressure Point Stand-up comedy 7pm £5; The Comedy Zone 8.30pm £5 MESMERIST Flash Mob Jazz Raucous jazz band 9pm £free NEW VENTURE THEATRE The Building Sarah Davies directs a promenade performance Details tbc PRINCE ALBERT Deep Falls, The Mono Rail, Oddessa Live music 8pm £tbc PRINCE ARTHUR Broken Mic Open mic night hosted by Robin Coward 8pm £free QUADRANT Clocktower Cinema: Reservoir Dogs New film night Details tbc THEATRE ROYAL Soul Sister Musical about the life and work of Tina Turner 7.45pm £12.90-38.90 THOMAS KEMP Quiz Night 8pm £1 VOLKS Strictly Reggae Dancehall, roots, revival 11pm £5/4.50
TUESDAY 23RD
ABOVE AUDIO Cottontail Club Big band and jitter jive tunes 9pm £free BELUSHI’S Polka Electro mash-up with DJ Barlow 9pm £free BLACK LION Open Mic Night Live music 8.30pm £free BRUNSWICK Archway Choir Contemporary choir group 7.30pm £tbc; Jazz Jam Open session with a house band and special guests 8pm £free CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Sara Pascoe Vs The Truth, Lucy Frederick Edinburgh comedy preview 7.30pm £5; Open Mic Hosted by Mike Mcmichelson and Kev De Souza 8.30pm £free CHEQUERS Open Mic With Wolf William 8pm £free CUBE Cube Live Live acoustic music 8pm £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 Summer In February 11am £tbc; The World’s End 1.15pm/4pm/6.30pm/9.15pm £tbc EMPORIUM Dusty Limits - Post Mortem Comical musical cabaret 8.30pm £15 FABRICA Second Sight Katie Bailey and Hattie Lockhart-Smith take you on a multi-sensory tour of the exhibition 1.30pm £free; Fabrica Film Club: The Wild Blue Yonder 7.30pm £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 Junk Club R&B student night 11pm £4/2 FUNKYFISH Cubashe Cuban salsa class and club 9.30pm £6/3 GLOBE Basement Cinema Underground films, comfy seats and free popcorn 8pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Donuts Hipster funk and hip hop gems 11pm £free HANOVER PUB BAD Ukes - Brighton After Dark Ukulele Session Informal gathering of ukulelists 8pm £free HAUNT How’s Harry, Mr Tom, The Basis, Tired Angels South East indie rockers 7pm £5.50 KOMEDIA Zoe Lyons Silliness, satire and caustic one liners from the ubiquitous Brighton comic 7pm £5; Howard Read - Hide & Speak Award-winning stand-up and animator 8.30pm £5 NEW VENTURE THEATRE The Building Sarah Davies directs a promenade performance Details tbc ONCA Making Tracks: Abbie Palache, Christine Cooper, Joanna Coleman, Persephone Pearl, Nick Hunt Storytelling evening 7.30pm £tbc PAV TAV Wasted Years Music to cling desperately to your youth to 10.30pm £3/2/1 PRINCE ALBERT Director’s Cut, Sabotaged, Deaf From Behind Live music 8pm £4/3 QUADRANT Open Mic Jam session hosted by Jenna Bennett 8.30pm £free RED LION Challenging General Knowledge & Music Quiz 8pm £1 SHOOSHH Pachanga Latino party playing reggaetron,
WWW.BRIGHTONSOURCE.CO.UK/LISTINGS MOBILE COMPATIBLE ONLINE LISTINGS
merengue and ragga etc 10.30pm £3/free SIDEWINDER Open Mic Night 8.30pm £free THEATRE ROYAL Soul Sister Musical about the life and work of Tina Turner 7.45pm £12.90-38.90 THOMAS KEMP Poker Evening 8pm £free THREE & TEN Adam Kay Slightly sick versions of pop songs from the comedy doctor who found YouTube fame with his London Underground song 8pm £9.50/8 THREE JOLLY BUTCHERS The Pickin’ Circle Live bluegrass and old time country music 8pm £free WESTERN FRONT Hush Hush Live acoustic music 9pm £free
WEDNESDAY 24TH
ABOVE AUDIO Cookin Beats Hip hop with a side of order of funk and a sprinkling of reggae 8pm £free BASEMENT CLUB Mash Up Commercial house with DJ Lee Harris 11pm £free BELUSHI’S Guilty Pleasures Songs you shouldn’t like but like despite pretending not to like them 10pm £free BLACK LION Matt Rose & The Tin Cup Collective Live funk soul band 8.30pm £free BLIND TIGER Krusbär Jam Electronic open mic night for laptoppers and circuit benders 7pm £free CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Simon Donald, Sean McLoughlin Comedy show from the creator of Viz (upstairs) 7.30pm £5 COALITION CoCo LoCo Dancehall and dubstep music for students to lose the plot to 10.30pm £5/3/1 DIGITAL Fresh Meat “First-year university students, yum” 11pm £1 DRUID’S ARMS We Change The Tempo DJ set of international sounds 9pm £free DUKE OF BEAUFORT Poker Night 8pm £5 DUKE OF NORFOLK Pub Quiz 9pm £1 DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA The World’s End 11am/ 1.30pm/4.15pm/6.30pm/9.15pm £tbc DUKE’S @ KOMEDIA Play 11am £tbc; NT Live Macbeth 7pm £tbc EMPORIUM Dusty Limits - Post Mortem Comical musical cabaret 8.30pm £15 FABRICA György Ligeti’s Poème Symphonique In the 1960s a Hungarian composer wrote a piece involving 100 mechanical metronomes, now it’s being performed by members of the Brighton collective, Music Of Our Time 7pm £free FISHBOWL Tea & Biscuits: DJ Gareth Stephens Retro swing, soul and ska 10pm £free FONT Jack Omer Americana and folk 8pm £tbc GREEN DOOR STORE Thomas Truax New York inventor-troubadour backed by a band of homemade clockwork instruments 7pm £7 KOMEDIA Ricki Warwick Live music 7.30pm £10 LATEST MUSIC BAR Come Back Harriet, Ancient Times, The Little Victory Live music 7.30pm £6; Tango Boot Camp Learn to tango like the Argentinians 8pm £3-8 MASH TUN Mash Tun Live Funk and rock covers band 9pm £free MESMERIST The Swing Ninjas Gypsy swing band 9pm £free NEW VENTURE THEATRE The Building Sarah Davies directs a promenade performance Details tbc NORTH LAINE PUB Quiz Kong Pub quiz 8pm £1 PRINCE ALBERT Octopuses, Becky Becky, Do You Feel What I Feel Dear? Wonky indie pop with members of Foxes! and MC Fashion 8pm £4/3 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 bathing in a tub of plastic dust produced by taking a rotary sander to a souvenir of the queen 8pm £free STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Dirty Fingernails: Dead Whisky Live blues rock bands 8pm £4 THEATRE ROYAL Soul Sister Musical about the life and work of Tina Turner 7.45pm £12.90-38.90 THOMAS KEMP Kev & Jenna’s Open Mic 9pm £free THREE & TEN Caroline Hardie - Does My Face Look Big In This? Edinburgh comedy preview 8pm £7/5.50 VOLKS Tranquility Chilled dubstep 7pm £free WORLD’S END Old Rock Orchestra Rockers from Rome 9pm £free
THURSDAY 25TH
ANCIENT MARINER Jazz It Up Live jazz sessions 8.30pm £free AUDIO Bastard Pop Musical mash-up 11pm £3/2 BARLEY MOW Quiz Night 9pm £1 BASEMENT CLUB Mash Up Commercial house with DJ Lee Harris 11pm £free BELUSHI’S Karaoke 10pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW M Generation: DJ Honcho, DJ
PAGE 51
Meesta Sleeps “All the best tunes from when MTV still played music” 10pm £3/2/1 BLACK LION This Is Tomorrow Forward thinking DJ, Mike Zweyer 8.30pm £free BLIND TIGER Dirty Devine, Slytones Vaudeville funk rock 7.30pm £3 BRIGHTON MUSEUM Out Late Pre-Pride party with a fancy dress box and entertainments like ‘speed flirting’ and ‘coming out confessions’ 7pm £6/5/4 BRUNSWICK Zooberon Calling Live music 8pm £4 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Funmbi Omotayo Edinburgh comedy preview (upstairs) 7.30pm £5 COALITION Secret Discotheque Replaying the soundtrack to your youth 11pm £4/3/2 CONCORDE2 Sea Level Tour: Ash Grunwald, Ruarri Joseph, Polly Money Singer songwriters on a tour of UK beaches 7.30pm £15 DRUID’S ARMS Overhead Wire: Subvert Normality: Recluse Club Post rock and punk band night from local label showcase 8pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Les Invisibles 11am £tbc; The World’s End 1.30pm/4.15pm/6.30pm/9.15pm £tbc DUKE’S @ KOMEDIA Glyndebourne - Hippolyte Et Aricie 6.15pm £tbc; The Times Of Harvey Milk 6.30pm £tbc DUKEBOX THEATRE The Hee-Ha’s - Iprov Shuffle Improv comedy group use your iPod for inspiration 6.45pm £8/6 EMPORIUM Dusty Limits - Post Mortem Comical musical cabaret 8.30pm £15 FABRICA Artist Story - David Miles The artist gives a talk about his work 6.30pm £free FIDDLER’S ELBOW Fiddler’s Folk Off Sessions Folk me, those folkers are folking good 8pm £free FISHBOWL Cut La Vis Jamaican riddims and urban beats 10.30pm £free FOUNTAIN HEAD Student Night DJs play indie and rock 8pm £free FUNFAIR Bug’A’Boo Hip hop and R&B ladies’ night 11pm £4/2 GEORGE PAYNE Open Mic Night 8.30pm £free GLADSTONE Dirty Scavenger Grungy folk music 9pm £free GLOBE Hang The DJ! A night of punter-picked playlists 9pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE The Outer Church: Howlround, Hong Kong In The 60s, Cherry, Death And Vanilla Live music and weird noises 7pm £7 HAUNT Coconut College Thursday night party playing a right mix of stuff from A$AP Rocky to Grimes 11pm £3/2 KOMEDIA Comic Boom: Simon Evans Stand-up comedy 8pm £9/7/5; Krater Comedy Club: Gamarjobat, Andrew Stanley Stand-up comedy night 8pm £9/6/5 MASH TUN They Mostly Come Out At Night Indie, electro and hip hop 9pm £free MESMERIST John Crampton Foot-stomping one-man blues explosion 9pm £free NEW VENTURE THEATRE The Building Sarah Davies directs a promenade performance Details tbc NORTH LAINE PUB Thursday Night Live Live music 8.30pm £free PRINCE ALBERT Kind Sirs, Kill Moon, Derelicts Live music 8pm £4/3 PROUD CABARET 50 Shades Of Cabaret Fetish cabaret for people who’d never thought of being kinky before reading that book 7pm £24/10 RANELAGH Krissy Matthews Live blues 8.30pm £free RIKI TIK Big It Up! Resident DJs mine the golden era of dancehall and digital reggae 9pm £free SHOOSHH Azuri 10pm £3/free SMACK Fresh Thursdays DJ Mike Panteli entertains the students 10.30pm £5/3 THEATRE ROYAL Soul Sister Musical about the life and work of Tina Turner 2.30pm/7.45pm £12.90-38.90 VICTORY Open Mic 8pm £free VOLKS Roll Through Drum&bass and dubstep, bass and beatbox 11pm £3 WORLD’S END The Big Quiz Night 8pm £1
FRIDAY 26TH
ABOVE AUDIO Home Home is where the house is 9pm £free AUDIO DJ EZ Kiss FM garage DJ 8pm £7/5 BASEMENT CLUB Friday Night Live With Lady LaRue Cabaret is a drag sometimes 11pm £free BELUSHI’S Funked Up Fridays House and R&B 10pm £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 Les Enfants Terrible Live music 7pm
PAGE 52
£free; Balkan Kartel Live gypsy band and cabaret dance party 10pm £5 BRUNSWICK Harpin By The Sea: Joe Filisko, The Blackjacks, Will Wilde Blues bands play the blues - with plenty of harmonica 8pm £8/6 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Casual Violence Have Friends Sketch group and stand-ups (upstairs) 7.30pm £free; Rock The Caz Bar DJs play alt rock classics 9pm £free CHEQUERS DJ Sliiiiquo 10pm £free COALITION Friday I’m In Love No more lectures for a day or two 11pm £3-6 CONCORDE2 Youth Lagoon Erratic, minimalist beats and high-pitched ambience 7pm £12.50; Dub Pistols, Rodney P High-energy hip hop ska band 11pm £3/free DIGITAL Stonelove Indie rock&roll club 11pm £4/3 DOCTOR BRIGHTON’S Funky Friday: DJ Nick Hirst, DJ Wayne 9.30pm £free DUKE OF NORFOLK MC Cashback, Miss Scarlett DJs play funk, Motown, reggae and hip hop 9pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Eyes Wide Open Details tbc DUKEBOX THEATRE One Up One Down Stand-up comedy from Stephen Foster and Phil Reid 8pm £5 EMPORIUM Trouser Wearing Characters Rose Collis’ musical cabaret show 7.45pm £12; My Gay Best Friend Camp comedy play about a diva trapped in a toilet on her big night 9.30pm £12 FISHBOWL This Is Tomorrow Forward thinking tunes from DJ Mike Zweyer 9pm £free FUNFAIR Circus Commercial music mash-up with fire breathing and snake charming sideshows 10pm £5/3 FUNKYFISH Dirty Retro Retro funk DJs 10.30pm £free GLOBE The Get Down! DJ night playing a mix of Motown, soul, blues, funk and swing 8pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Punk V Hardcore: Mine, OK Pilot Guess what? It’s a night of punk and hardcore 7pm £free; Ye Ye Fever Funky afrobeat clubnight 11pm £free HARE & HOUNDS Deep Roots: Kings Hi-Fi, Concrete Roots Soundsystem Reggae night (upstairs) 10pm £5 HOP POLES Control Alt Delete Resident DJs 10pm £free HOPE Turbulence: The Weight, Beautiful Country Live music 8pm £4/3 KOMEDIA Krater Comedy Club: Gamarjobat, Ben Norris, Joseph Wilson, Andrew Stanley Stand-up comedy night 8pm £16.50 LIFE Well Rounded House and disco, funk and soul 11pm £tbc NEPTUNE Simon And Sleeze Trio Nice and nasty rhythm and blues band 8.30pm £free; Eliza Jaye Alt blues rock 8.30pm £free NEW VENTURE THEATRE The Building Sarah Davies directs a promenade performance Details tbc NORTH LAINE PUB Beat Burger DJ plays soul, funk, hip hop and reggae 8.30pm £free NORTHERN LIGHTS Northern Soul DJ night 8pm £free OHSO SOCIAL Dirty Sunset Disco Metrosexual disco and house club 9pm £tbc OLD MARKET Inspire: Jacob Ross, David Nwokedi, Umi Sinha The Caribbean writer reads from his work and discusses ideas with Sussex authors 7.30pm £5 PRINCE ARTHUR Soul Bangers Funky soulful hits with Balearic Assassins Of Love’s Steve Keep It Wheel 9pm £free PROUD CABARET Speakeasy Three course meal, burlesque show and club night 7pm £34 SHOOSHH Runway Old school R&B and party mash ups 10pm £5/4/3/free SMACK Smack, Crackle & Pop DJ Mike Panteli plays pop hits from the 80s onwards 9pm £free; Antro Late night student clubbing with Juice FM DJ, Mike Pantelli 1am £5/3 STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Brighton Rocks: Jetpack Elastic, Fickle Friends, The Promenade Live bands 7pm £4 THEATRE ROYAL Soul Sister Musical about the life and work of Tina Turner 7.45pm £12.90-38.90 THOMAS KEMP Hot Tamales 50s and 60s rock&roll from DJs Citizen Lane and HepCat Matt 9pm £free THREE & TEN Rabbit In The Headlights Stand-up comedy night hosted by Angela Barnes 8pm £6.50/5.50 UNITARIAN CHURCH Ambrose Page, Sarah Tobias & Peter Morris Grieg’s piano works with accompanied by readings 12.30pm £3 VOLKS Siren The sweet alluring song of hardcore drum&bass 11pm £5 WESTERN FRONT DJ Russ Rockwell Funk and soul DJ 9pm £free WORLD’S END Unity Hi-Fi Dub reggae DJs 9pm £free
BUY
SOURCE TICKETS
SATURDAY 27TH
ABOVE AUDIO Ruff Snippets DJ plays hip hop, funk and soul Time tbc £free ANCIENT MARINER Acoustic Sessions Live music 8pm £free AUDIO Warehouse: XXXY House and techno club night 11pm £7/5/free BASEMENT CLUB Fusion: DJ Peter Castle, DJ Lee Harris Chart and club remixes 11pm £free BELUSHI’S Smashed DJ Moogle’s mash-up 10pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Thunderstruck Stadium and classic rock club 11pm £5/4/3 BLACK LION Attic Monkeys If you locked a monkey in an attic with a pair of decks they would eventually knock out an awesome DJ set 8pm £free BLIND TIGER Trans*Frau: Rhyannon Styles, Lazlo Pearlman Post-Pride live music and DJs 8pm £7/5 BRIGHTON SEAFRONT March Of The Mermaids Aquatic fundraiser parade ending up at Audio Time tbc £free BRUNSWICK Under Great Southern Lights, Normaton Street Alt pop and funky soul band 8pm £6/5 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Ska-B-Q 1pm £free; Release The Bats Club night playing the dark of the 80s - don’t request Wham! or you may be brushed aside by a clenched fist in a cut-off studded glove (upstairs) 9pm £2 CHEQUERS Breaktime DJ Kool Hertz does remixes and bootlegs 10pm £free COALITION Pump Up The Jam Reviving the longburied bodies of 90s house and pop ‘classics’ 11pm £5; Blow: Vince Manganaro, Charly Lopez, Charles Green The party never stops 3am £5 COMMUNITY ARTS CENTRE Work Programme: Charles Robert Harrison, Philip Dix Part of a project in which visual artists are locked in a studio for a week - every Saturday you can check out what they’ve been up to 7pm £free CONCORDE2 Booka Shade DJs, Tom Frisco 11pm £10 COWLEY CLUB Recluse Club Punk and hardcore music 7pm £3 DOCTOR BRIGHTON’S Sexy Saturday: DJ Tony B 9.30pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA My Neighbour Totoro 11am £tbc; Shaun Of The Dead 4.15pm £tbc; Hot Fuzz 6.45pm £tbc EMPORIUM Trouser Wearing Characters Rose Collis’ musical cabaret show 7.45pm £12; My Gay Best Friend Camp comedy play about a diva trapped in a toilet on her big night 9.30pm £12 FIDDLER’S ELBOW Saturday Sizzlers DJs drop hot vinyl into your ears 8pm £free FISHBOWL DJ Daddy Marcus Dancey disco and singalong soul 9pm £free FREEMASONS Saturday Night Disc Spinners DJ night 9pm £free FUNFAIR Magic Dancefloor fillers from every era 9pm £5/3 FUNKYFISH Oldschool Saturday Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10pm £6/5 GLOBE Kinfolk Soft Rocks plays house, boogie, reggae and disco 9pm £free GREAT EASTERN Bad Bad Whiskey Skifflebilly trio headlining an all day music fest Time tbc £free GREEN DOOR STORE The Big Itch Back to basics rock&roll 11pm £free HAUNT It Is Still 1985 Travel through time to an ancient realm where keytars are still pretty cool 11pm £3 HOP POLES Hop To The Beat DJs play hip hop and R&B 10pm £free HOPE Fragile Creatures, Nightworkers, Red Butler, Walsaw Radio Rhythmical guitar pop 7.30pm £4/3; Hope And Glory DJ Senor Mick loves his rock&roll 9pm £free KOMEDIA Krater Comedy Club: Gamarjobat, Ben Norris, Joseph Wilson, Andrew Stanley Stand-up comedy night 7pm/10.30pm £5-22; Funny Women Brighton Nights Comedy competition 8pm £10/8; Magnet Speed Dating 28-45 Years That’s a long time to spend working out if you like someone 8pm £20; Mod For It Northern soul, Motown, 60s garage, new wave and ska 11pm £5/4 LIFE XXY Chromosome clubbing from the #Hashtag DJs 11pm £7/5/3 MESMERIST Juke Joint Jamboree Rhythm & blues and rock&roll records from the days of the dance halls 9pm £free NEW STEINE GARDENS Trans* Pride In the Park Outdoor stalls and entertainment celebrating diversity of sexuality and gender Noon £free NEW VENTURE THEATRE The Building Sarah Davies directs a promenade performance Details tbc NORTH LAINE PUB DJ Stu Funk and soul and grooves 9pm £free
ONLINE AT WWW.BRIGHTONSOURCE.CO.UK
OLD MARKET Funny Women - Semi-Final 2013 Comedy competition 8pm £10 PALMEIRA Tom Russell Singer songwriter 8pm £15 PARIS HOUSE Live Jazz 4pm £free; TC’s Joyful Noise DJ Kenny on the decks 9pm £free PRINCE ALBERT Moon Hop: DJ Dave Mumbles, Max Knight DJ night 8pm £free; Chelsea Live music 8pm £8.50 PRINCE ARTHUR DJ Jon Borthwick Still reliving the 80s (again) 9pm £free PROUD CABARET Le Chat Noir Vintage burlesque cabaret with a three course meal 7pm £49 RANELAGH Grizzly & The Grasshoppers Rootsy acoustic trio 8.30pm £free RED LION DJ Gremlin’s Rockin Stompers 9pm £free RIKI TIK Skatadays Reggae, rocksteady and vintage ska records 9pm £free SMACK Cliche New club night playing commercial house and R&B - pretty much what it says on the tin 10pm £7/5; J’box: Thomas Gandey, Tough Love, Nolan, DPM New late night Saturday after party 2am £7/5/3 STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Brighton Rocks: Black Rooster Black Shag, Paper Playground, Edward Sansom Live bands 7pm £4; Kaleidoscope Psychedelic hip hop DJing (in the bar) 11pm £free; Taste The Floor Listen to dirty indie and grunge music while you lick up your split beer 11pm £tbc THEATRE ROYAL Soul Sister Musical about the life and work of Tina Turner 2.30pm/7.45pm £12.90-38.90 THREE & TEN Henry Paker, Romesh Ranganathan Comedy double bill 8pm £7.50/5.50; Andrew & The Pony - Fable From A Stable Storytelling and music show on its way to Edinburgh fringe Details tbc VICTORY DJ Rob Taylor Soul, rock and alt pop 9pm £free VOLKS Motive Drum&bass sessions 11pm £5 WESTERN FRONT Heavy Tread Born Bad DJs play ska, punk and assorted trash 8pm £free WORLD’S END Cherry & The Poppers Live music 9pm £free
SUNDAY 28TH
ABOVE AUDIO Enzo’s Daytime Party 4pm £free BASEMENT CLUB Pop!Candy DJ Claire Fuller plays pure non-stop pop 11pm £free BELUSHI’S Pub Quiz 8pm £free BLACK LION Live & Swingin’ Lion Live gypsy jazz, swing and blues 8pm £free BLIND TIGER Trembling Bells & Mike Heron The psych-folk act teams up with a former member of the Incredible String Band 7.30pm £10 BRIGHTON CENTRE Brighton Records & CD Fair For those who still savour the thrill of the chase 9.30am £2 BRUNSWICK Ukulele Jam It tastes sweet but a little woody 3pm £5; Real Music Club Live music 8pm £tbc CHEQUERS Troubadour Acoustic Night Live acoustic music 8pm £free CORN EXCHANGE Herbie Flowers’ Jazz Breakfast Celebrated bassist smears your toast with his jazz 11am £6.50 DUKE OF BEAUFORT Sunday Cinema Cult classics and free popcorn 8pm £free EMPORIUM Moving Pictures - Transamerica Classic movies, live debate and interactive performances 6pm £12.50 FIDDLER’S ELBOW Sham-Rock Open Mic 8.30pm £free FISHBOWL Recovery? Reggae through the ages 9pm £free FOUNTAIN HEAD Reggae & Roasts Reggae and chilled beats Time tbc £free GREEN DOOR STORE Green Door Blues Big Itch DJs plus the resident blues band, Smokestack 10.30pm £free HOPE The Bright Ones, Blue Nation, Classic Plastic, Gunshot Straight Single launch for sleazy but stylish indie punk rockers 8pm £5 KOMEDIA Marcus Brigstocke Stand-up comedy 8pm £5; Krater Comedy Club: Gamarjobat, Zoe Lyons, Danny McLoughlin, Nabil Abdulrashid, Andrew Stanley Stand-up comedy night 8pm £5-12 LECTERN Sunday Jam Live music 8pm £free MARLBOROUGH THEATRE AH Men A career woman gets exactly what she wishes for when her husband announces that he wants a sex change 7.30pm £12/10 NEPTUNE Phil Saatchi Singer songwriter 8.30pm £free NORTH LAINE PUB DJ Tropikal Raw funk and soul tunes 4pm £free NORTHERN LIGHTS Northern Light Sundays The DJ has a lazy Sunday afternoon 4pm £free OLD MARKET Post-Roast Comedy Previews: Princess Savage, Dahl & Jones Stand-up comedy 4pm £6
OPEN HOUSE David Potter’s Quiz Night 8pm £2 PRINCE ALBERT Seethe Live music 8pm £tbc QUADRANT Clocktower Cinema: The 400 Bows New film night Details tbc RANELAGH The Jackals Rhythm and blues band 8.30pm £free RIKI TIK Night Food Rhythm&blues, calypso and ska inspired by 1950s Jamaican sound systems 9pm £free STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Sub Bop Down and dirty grunge night with added shoegaze (in the bar) 9pm £free; Late Night Lingerie Grunge bands rocking through the small hours 11pm £5/3 THOMAS KEMP Jazz In The Afternoon: Lee Rainbow Hands And His Piano! Live jazz 4pm £free THREE JOLLY BUTCHERS Ian Price Gypsy Jazz Experience Live music 3pm £free VICTORY Blues Sundays DJ plays blues and soul Noon £free WORLD’S END R&B Piano Jam We’re pretty sure they mean old school blues, not aggressively-sexualised chauvinistic pimp music 8.30pm £free
MONDAY 29TH
ANCIENT MARINER Quiz Night 8pm £1 BELUSHI’S Decadance DJ Jonesey plays the best of 70s, 80s and 90s stuff 10pm £free BLIND TIGER The 333 Club Live music 8pm £free BRUNSWICK Open Mic 7.30pm £free CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Jigsaw - Jiggle It High speed sketch comedy (upstairs) 7.30pm £6 COALITION Trash Mondays Filthy tunes for students and layabouts alike 11pm £4/3 DUKE’S @ KOMEDIA West Side Story 11am £tbc EMPORIUM The Silver Swans Close harmonies and quirky folk madrigals 8pm £8 FIDDLER’S ELBOW Super Mega Schwarzenegger Live music from Benny Brooke and Oliver Croome 8.30pm £free HAUNT Circle Takes The Square, Code Orange Kids, Full Of Hell, We Came Out Like Tigers Experimental American screamo 7pm £10; Fat Poppadaddys Student indie night 11pm £3/2/free HOPE Peace Open Mic Weekly open mic hosted by Chris Instinct 9pm £free KOMEDIA Gamarjobat Rock Out! Physical comedy 8pm £15/12 MESMERIST Flash Mob Jazz Raucous jazz band 9pm £free PRINCE ALBERT Brighton Rumble Rockin Show: Loz Rizlaz, Midniters Rockabilly bands and DJs 7pm £8/6; The Los Rizlaz, Midniters Eccentric masked Mexicans play full-on 50s and 60s rock&roll 8pm £8 PRINCE ARTHUR Broken Mic Open mic night hosted by Robin Coward 8pm £free QUADRANT Clocktower Cinema: Eraserhead New film night Details tbc THEATRE ROYAL Birdsong Sebastian Faulks’s WW1 novel brought to the stage 7.45pm £11-32.40 THOMAS KEMP Quiz Night 8pm £1; DJ Moler Funk, soul and rare grooves 9pm £free VICTORY Poetry Night Live poetry readings 8pm £free VOLKS Strictly Reggae Dancehall, roots, revival 11pm £5/4.50
TUESDAY 30TH
ABOVE AUDIO Cottontail Club Big band and jitter jive tunes 9pm £free BELUSHI’S Polka Electro mash-up with DJ Barlow 9pm £free BLACK LION Open Mic Night Live music 8.30pm £free BLIND TIGER BAYY Indie dance party 7.30pm £free BRUNSWICK Archway Choir Contemporary choir group 7.30pm £tbc; Jazz Jam Open session with a house band and special guests 8pm £free CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Nick Helm - One Man Mega Myth Shouty and romantic stand-up comic (upstairs) 7.30pm £6 CUBE Cube Live Live acoustic music 8pm £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 EMPORIUM The Silver Swans Close harmonies and quirky folk madrigals 8pm £8 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 Junk Club R&B student night 11pm £4/2 FUNKYFISH Cubashe Cuban salsa class and club 9.30pm £6/3 GLOBE Basement Cinema Underground films, comfy
WWW.BRIGHTONSOURCE.CO.UK/LISTINGS MOBILE COMPATIBLE ONLINE LISTINGS
seats and free popcorn 8pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Donuts Hipster funk and hip hop gems 11pm £free MASH TUN 7x7 Seven DJs play 7” records 9pm £free PAV TAV Wasted Years Music to cling desperately to your youth to 10.30pm £3/2/1 PRINCE ALBERT Sea Monsters Special Live music 8pm £5 QUADRANT Open Mic Jam session hosted by Jenna Bennett 8.30pm £free RED LION Challenging General Knowledge & Music Quiz 8pm £1 SHOOSHH Pachanga Latino party playing reggaetron, merengue and ragga etc 10.30pm £3/free SIDEWINDER Open Mic Night 8.30pm £free THEATRE ROYAL Birdsong Sebastian Faulks’s WW1 novel brought to the stage 7.45pm £11-32.40 THOMAS KEMP Poker Evening 8pm £free WESTERN FRONT Hush Hush Live acoustic music 9pm £free
WEDNESDAY 31ST
ABOVE AUDIO Cookin Beats Hip hop with a side of order of funk and a sprinkling of reggae 8pm £free BELUSHI’S Guilty Pleasures Songs you shouldn’t like but like despite pretending not to like them 10pm £free BLACK LION The Lion’s Raw! Live bands 8.30pm £free BLIND TIGER Code Of Thieves Time tbc £3 COALITION CoCo LoCo Dancehall and dubstep music for students to lose the plot to 10.30pm £5/3/1 DIGITAL Fresh Meat “First-year university students, yum” 11pm £1 DRUID’S ARMS We Change The Tempo DJ set of international sounds 9pm £free DUKE OF BEAUFORT Poker Night 8pm £5 DUKE OF NORFOLK Pub Quiz 9pm £1 DUKE’S @ KOMEDIA Slacker’s Club - The Conjuring 9.15pm £tbc FISHBOWL Tea & Biscuits: DJ Gareth Stephens Retro swing, soul and ska 10pm £free GOOD COMPANIONS Safehouse: Phil Minton Free jazz and avant garde improvisation 8pm £6/5 GREEN DOOR STORE The Recovery Position, Nightworkers Two man indie band 7pm £4 KOMEDIA MindOut For The Laughs Pride comedy revue raising money for the LGBT charity 7.30pm £12/10 LATEST MUSIC BAR Tango Boot Camp Learn to tango like the Argentinians 8pm £3-8 MASH TUN Mash Tun Live Funk and rock covers band 9pm £free MESMERIST The Swing Ninjas Gypsy swing band 9pm £free NORTH LAINE PUB Quiz Kong Pub quiz 8pm £1 PRESTON MANOR Hidden House - Behind The Scenes At Preston Manor 11am/2pm £15/12 PRINCE ALBERT Cable Club Live music 8.30pm £4/3 PROUD CABARET Laugh Out Proud Stand-up comedy night 7pm £10/8 THEATRE ROYAL Birdsong Sebastian Faulks’s WW1 novel brought to the stage 7.45pm £11-32.40 THOMAS KEMP Kev & Jenna’s Open Mic 9pm £free
EXHIBITIONS
ART AT FIVE Summer Exhibition New work by Adam Barsby, David Beatson and Lucinda Brown Until Aug 15th BRIGHTON FISHING MUSEUM GALLERY Makers’ Boutique Locally made arts and crafts Until Aug 6th BRIGHTON MUSEUM & ART GALLERY Jeff Koons Everything he touches turns to garish kitsch Until Sept 8th FABRICA Susie MacMurray The artist and musician hangs manuscripts from the ceiling July 6th - Aug 26th HOVE MUSEUM & ART GALLERY Into The Blue In the mood for some blues? This is an exhibition exclusively about blue stuff July 6th - Jan 21st INK_D Summer Group Show Summer inspired artworks hoping to inspire the summer Until July 21st NORTHERN LIGHTS Lucy Irving Illustrations and visual trickery From July 4th ONCA Making Tracks Forty artists team up with Sussex Wildlife Trust for an exhibition of art made by wild animals July 5th - Sept 15th PAINTING POTTERY CAFE Pop Goes Surrealism Mixed media exhibition of surrealist and pop art July 1st 31st ROYAL PAVILION Regency Colour And Beyond Exhibition about the interior decor of Britain’s biggest mosque Until Oct 13th UNIVERSITY GALLERY Sequenced Digital artwork, installations and interactive creations Until July 8th
PAGE 53
SIX OF THE BEST
DAFT PUNK LOST CLASSICS WORDS BY JAMES KENDALL ILLUSTRATION BY CRAIG ROBINSON AT CRAIGROBINSON.COM
So ‘Get Lucky’ is your favourite song of the year, you’ve bought the Daft Punk albums (and then taken ‘Human After All’ back to the shop to swap it for ‘Daft Club’), but where next? Here are six lesser-known tracks from Bangalter and Guy-Man from their early, arguably best, years.
THOMAS BANGALTER ‘Spinal Scratch’ (1996)
Released the same year as Daft Punk’s breakthrough track ‘Da Funk’, Thomas Bangalter clearly had so much creative energy as the pair readied their debut LP. There’s a sense of fun to ‘Spinal Scratch’, Bangalter nails a relentless groove but throws a lot of silly little tricks in (DJ scratching noises, half beat breakdowns) to keep things interesting. It’s the equal of any of the harder, noisier tracks on ‘Homework’ but a much easier listen.
I:CUBE
‘Disco Cubizm (Daft Punk Remix)’ (1996)
They haven’t done many remixes considering their long history through the golden years of dance music, but apart from their Franz Ferdinand ‘Take Me Out’ miss, Daft Punk have knocked them pretty much out the park. ‘Mothership Reconnection’ and Gabrielle’s ‘Forget About The World’ are on ‘Daft Club’, leaving this equally great, melodically repetitive piece of techdisco to dig from the crates. It slows the rather banging original down until the piano – nicked and looped from The Crusaders’ ‘Streetlife’ – is more in line with its original tempo and that disco swing is back.
THOMAS BANGALTER ‘Club Soda’ (1998)
A simple piece of 90s filter disco, ‘Club Soda’ is rather more refreshing than the gritty, jacking stuff usually found on Bangalter’s ‘Tracks On Da Rocks’ 12”s. A sliver of an old disco guitar riff is pitched right down to a very ‘now’ 120bpm for a sexy minimal groove. Warm and euphoric, it should find favour
PAGE 54
with anyone that liked ‘Get Lucky’. Like most of the stuff on Bangalter’s peerless Roulé imprint, this is firmly made for club play but is sexy and melodic enough to groove around your bedroom to.
ALAN BRAXE
‘Vertigo (Virgo Edit)’ (1997)
Although Braxe would later have the smash of 2000 with ‘Intro’, this raw, stuttered, clattering track needed Thomas Bangalter’s edit – using just a few seconds of the original – for it to rule the clubs. It gets more than halfway through before things kick in, showing how confident Bangalter was as a producer right from the get go. A stomping kick drum and disco strings turned techno – this took DJ Sneak’s cut up disco blueprint to the absolute jacking limit. Within a year Bangalter would leave that sound behind behind forever.
TOGETHER
‘Together’ (2000)
Before turning up on ‘Random Access Memories’ as the co-producer of ‘Contact’, DJ Falcon had some previous form with Bangalter. As well as releasing tracks on Roulé, the two worked on a couple of Ibiza smashes. First up was a self-titled single with a repetitive vocal refrain and fat, warm bassline that gave hints to the softer, 80s style of ‘Discovery’. Both this and the proto-electro house of ‘So Much Love To Give’ could have been chart hits but the pair decided to release them as 12” only singles. Oh, the old days.
LE KNIGHT CLUB
‘Rhumba’ (2002)
There’s long been an assumption that Bangalter is the talent behind Daft Punk, and certainly he’s got more classic solo tracks to his name (‘Music Sounds Better With You’ anyone?). But Guy-Man’s collaborations with Eric Chedeville had a decent run in the late 90s too, mostly with smooth, filtered disco cut ups. They may be low on ambition and ideas compared to Bangalter, but there’s the same lush feel as ‘Discovery’ or ‘RAM’, especially on this track, one of their last – all jaunty synth riffs and latin percussion.
BUY
SOURCE TICKETS
ONLINE AT WWW.BRIGHTONSOURCE.CO.UK
Live Music New cLub Nights After PArties JuLy coMiNg uP...
For More InFo drInkInbrIghton.co.uk/coalItIon
Mondays
Trash Mondays CoMe geT loCked up aT Trash
Wednesdays
nights
CoColoCo proMoTions presenTs
CoCo loCo
The CraziesT inTernaTional sTudenT nighT
Thursdays
seCreT disCoTheque unCool songs froM your youTh
fridays
friday i’M in love indie/60’s/eleCTro/funk
saTurday 6Th july
love BeaT & Troupe reCords presenT
roBerT jaMes (hoT CreaTions/dC 10) + squa + Balou + MarTina + sharkBaiT
saTurday 13Th july luCky 3’s presenTs
norMan jay (MBe) good TiMes sound sysTeM parTy
saTurday 20Th july king of CluBs presenTs
sounds like saTurday
live
Saturday 6th July
VINCE KIdd thE ZOO! tOur
+ SuppOrt
tuESday 16th July ONE INCh BadgE prESENtS
FrIENdS + NO CErEmONy
froM The TeaM ThaT Bring you Trash
saTurday 27Th july
puMp up The jaM
100% dediCaTed To 90’s danCe, house, garage and hip hop
sunday Mornings froM 3aM
BloW all nighTer laTe nighT TeCh house parTy
The BrighTon CoaliTion 171-181 Kings road arChes, Bn1 1nB BrighTonCoaliTion.wordpress.Com drinKinBrighTon.Co.uK/CoaliTion faCeBooK.Com/BrighTonCoaliTion TwiTTer.Com/CoaliTion_BTn general enquiries coalition@drinkinbrighton.co.uk BooKing enquiries dave@drinkinbrighton.co.uk
Design www.sarahferrari.com