Brighton SOURCE March 2010

Pope Joan An unholy noise

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Source virgins returns

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POLYARNYE NOCHI (POLAR NIGHTS) YORK PLACE ART STUDIOS – SEE ART, PAGE 32 SIMON ROBERTS (see art, page 30)

stop Bloody moaning

Right, that’s enough lounging around on the sofa under a duvet moaning about having the sniffles – spring is here. We’ve made it through another winter and now it’s time to get out there and start having fun again. With that in mind we’ve extended our gig previews section to almost double its size, letting you know about more of the great bands that visit our fair city as well as highlighting more local bands. In addition to wedging that in we’ve also found space for the return of SOURCE Virgins, the feature you guys are always asking to have back. If you’ve not seen it before, we try out new experiences and let you know what they’re like, mainly so you don’t have to embarrass yourself doing them. Usually it involves some nakedness from our deputy editor and true to form his cock stars again this month. We’re not saying Never Seen Star Wars on BBC4/Radio 4 ripped us off, but if you’ve seen that Johnny-come-lately version you’ll kind of know what to expect.

Although ours is sometimes funny.

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Personnel

Editor The James Kendall ManageR Rosie Kendall Designer Matt Barker at Artwerk DEPUTY Editor Nick Coquet Sales Manager Lucy Kamper listings editor Fox Fisher Web editor Anya Sanders Cover Kevin Mason / Garage Studios

Contributors

Emma Bertrand, Mike Bradford, Ian Chambers, Zac Colbert, Matthew Day, Laurence Dean, Dionne Elizabeth, Peter James Field, Ben Gilbert, Nicole Holgate, Stuart Huggett, Amy Lavelle, Ben Miller, Andy Parker, Dan Pearce, The Recommender, Lydia Stockbridge, Pia Webley

Listings

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Advertising

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Contents

News New In Town Letters Gig Previews Interview: Pope Joan Club Previews Club Review: Kill Em All Club Review: Aka Aka Roar Interview: Steve Mac Culture Art: York Place Art Studios Critic SOURCE Virgins: Life Modelling Street Style Street Style Extra Consume: Hope & Harlequin Unsung Hero: Andy Mac Secret Eater: Royal Sovereign In Conversation With: Real Ale Listings Six Of The Best: Spacemen 3

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NEWS

SINGING, BOOZING, BIDDING, SHMOOZING WORDS BY Nick Coquet, Dan Pearce, Pia Webley

MIDWEEK MADONNA MURDERING

Private karaoke venue Lucky Voice is offering 50% off room hire on Wednesdays to those brilliant enough to have a Brighton postcode (either home or work). Embarrass yourself in front of your colleagues, friends and housemates and select your favourite songs to massacre from an extensive collection. What a lovely excuse to break up the midweek monotony with a good old sing song.

GOT ANY QUO?

Brighton Record & CD Fair is back at the Brighton Centre on Sunday 21st, with 130 stalls over two floors. Sift through the crates for that original copy of ‘Trout Mask Replica’ that you can pretend to have liked for years or just complete your Adam Ant 7” collection, all at reasonable prices. It’s a good thing in the age of the download that dealers and collectors still have the choice to buy and sell in the hands-on environment of fairs. Open 9.30am til 4pm.

NOT JUST BEARDY BOOZE

The Campaign For Real Ale are hosting the Sussex Beer & Cider Festival at Hove Centre, from Thursday 11th to Saturday 13th. This year’s festival features an impressive selection of ciders, perries, country wines and British and foreign bottled beers. The downstairs bar has been designated as the Sussex Bar and will be exclusively stocking beers brewed in our very own home town. It’s always a popular event so be sure to check the website for tickets – sussexbeerfestival.co.uk. (See In Conversation With, page 46)

OCEAN AUCTION

If you fancy yourself as a bit of a Peter Stringfellow, start growing that ratty mullet, gather yourself some bimbo eye candy and get bidding for the Ocean Rooms – the recently troubled venue is being auctioned off on Friday 5th. A planned £100m redevelopment of the surrounding area, taking in the Uni annexe, NCP car park and all around there, could mean you end up with some prime real estate. It’s expected to go for around £750,000, so don’t go into the auction and accidentally scratch your nose or you might find yourself lumbered with a bit of an unplanned cashflow crisis.

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Phil Daniels

KIDS FROM FAME

Now in its 86th year, Springboard, Brighton and Hove’s Youth Performing Arts Festival, hits town this month. With music, drama and dance spread across Brighton & Hove High School, Roedean School and the Old Market, it’s a good chance to encourage our talented youngsters with some applause and recognition. From Sunday 14th-21st, with dance highlights at the Dome in April – type theoldmarket. co.uk into your internet machine to find out more.

KEEP IT QUIRKY

Here at SOURCE we quite like the idea of sticking it to The Man. While we obviously have to have big corporate shops in Brighton to attract outsider shopper drones, it’s really important for the city to retain its character and reputation for quirky and creative outlets too. If this is something that floats your boat too, there’s a new website at keepbrightonunique. org, which will help you direct your energies towards tasty local bacon rolls rather than evil Big Macs.

JIMMY!

If, like us, you could never watch Phil Daniels on EastEnders without picturing him totalling Sting’s scooter, shagging Leslie Ash and gobbling pills like TicTacs, then the news that he’s written a book called Class Actor will be mod music to your ears. But better still, you can bother him in person when he signs copies at Waterstones on Sunday 6th at 2pm. Don’t try and drag him down ‘that’ alley though, ladies.

CLASS SHOWING

Got a job or at Uni? See your taxes at work or shamelessly copy work off other students – it’s a win/win situation for all who visit Here And Now Part II, a photography, performance and visual arts exhibition of work from second year students at the University of Brighton. Get down to the Uni Gallery on Grand Parade from Tuesday 16th and grab yourself a piece of the arts action.

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New in town

Fresh nights, sights & retail delights Words by Emma Bertrand, Nick Coquet, Lydia Stockbridge

marwood CAFÉ

HONEY CLUB

GUILTY PLEASURES

MAMMOTH COFFEE

MARWOOD CAFÉ

It’s all go down the seafront as the Honey Club unveils a lavish refurbishment, including sumptuous new furnishings as well as a luxurious VIP area which you can gaze longingly into or smugly out of, depending on your social standing in clubland. Highlights on the Honey’s schedule for the near future include Kiss Da Funk, back from Leeds on Friday 19th with Rob Tissera at the controls, and Freemasons, playing their pumping funky house at Sevensins on Saturday 6th.

As longstanding advocates of Starbucks avoidance, we’re happy to bring you news of a new independent caffeine outlet that’s opened, nicely outside the Mocha-in-every-other-shop confines of the city centre. Mammoth Coffee is at 35 Ditchling Road opposite The Level, and instead of raping the local retail landscape with identikit could-be-anywhere offerings, it’s buzzing with local creativity and high-end liquid jump-start, sandwiches and desserts. Artists and musicians are already a weekly thing, and they’re expanding into kids’ story hours, language swaps and scrap book parties.

Share your shame and rejoice as national treasure Guilty Pleasures starts up a monthly residency at Komedia on Saturday 6th, having swept across festivals and clubs over the country in the past four years from humble beginnings at a working men’s club in Hammersmith. Confess online to your easy listening habits along with celebrities from Russell Brand to Suggs and Sophie Ellis-Bextor – this night promises to celebrate with glittering pomp all those long lost hits, so dust off your dancing shoes and make a shameless tit of yourself prancing about to Spandau Ballet.

A new fortnightly music night at Marwood Café on Ship Street hosts an array of performers, starting with poetry and ending with the in-house band Golden Sounds, not forgetting the singers, MCs and beatboxers in between. A small but very charismatic venue offers the chance of a more sophisticated gig experience on the first and third Wednesday of each month. Watching the bands won’t cost you a penny to get in, but if you do enjoy yourself a donation upon leaving is welcomed.

APRES VOUS RECORDS

COACHWERKS

A fledgling new music label collective spanning Brighton and Camberley, Apres Vous began by giving friends’ bands a leg up in touting their wares. Co-founded by members of Hold Your Horse Is and Jealous Again, keep your ears to the ground for more seminal acts soon to be unearthed. The first of this month sees the release of Brighton’s own Crooked Mountain, Crooked Sea’s latest E.P ‘It’s The Falling That Counts, Not the Landing’, available via mail order and iTunes.

It’s been an ongoing project for a while now, but building at Coachwerks is finally nearing completion. Taking over a disused bus garage, with the aid of volunteers, they have transformed the area into a public space comprising creative studios, a community cafe and a small venue. A regular timetable of events and workshops, screenprinting, photographic darkrooms, performance studios and sound recording are all available. Get in touch and volunteer, or realise projects of your own. For more information visit coachwerks.org.uk.

BRIGHTON GUITARS

SPONSORED WAX OFF

Migrated from their former home above To Be Worn Again, Brighton Guitars has resurfaced in a new, three-floor premises at the other end of Sydney Street. With new acoustic and vintage rooms, as well as widening their electric and second hand ranges, they’re also doing guitar lessons for kids and advanced students and planning singer songwriter gigs in the garden when the weather warms up. All this and their noticeboard makes for a great outreach service for anyone on the local guitar scene.

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As part of a wider campaign to raise much needed funds for The St Martlets Hospice, one local resident is holding a beard-tastic fundraiser at The Loft on Friday 5th, daring the hairiest in our community to shave against cancer. Not exclusive to men, ladies and the follically-challenged are encouraged to come and help with the mammoth task of waxing fifty sponsored bearded wonders upon donation. The entry fee is up to you so dig deep and help this worthy pursuit.

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THE PRJCT MYHM

Letter of the Month: VULGAR JOURNOs

Letters

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SHOOTING BLANKS

Did you run out of steam after tarting up the rest of the magazine and decide you couldn’t be bothered to design an advert asking for interns? I thought you missed out a page to start with then I noticed the tiny words. I’ve got a job so I don’t really care but wouldn’t you have had a better response if you put a proper advert in? Anyway, the rest of the mag looks good.

But what I was going to say was how much does Bob Mould look like Steve Jobs on the letters page?

Lee, via brightonsource.co.uk Actually Lee we had an amazing response to the minimal intern advert, so much so that we’re gonna have to say we’re closing our doors for a few months.

LOOKING SHARP

Enjoyed the new look source mag! Saw the mags flying off the shelf at the Eagle pub the other day whilst eating a chicken pie @audiobrighton via twitter Thanks Audio, we really hope that it makes the magazine more accessible and useful. Props to our designer for going all sensible and practical and not hunting out snazzy but unreadable fonts. Have a pat on the back Matt.

PRJCT CMPLT

Our debut EP is finished, gonna be released in April. Stay tuned for more details. And check out our new blog – bootygalaxy. wordpress.com/ @prjctmytmblud via Twitter Alongside Transformer’s album, PJCT MYHM’s EP has got to be one of the most exciting debuts on the calendar, Thanks for letting us know guys, we’ll review it next month.

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Thanks for your snobby, stuck-up New In Town section in the February issue. “Vulgar pikeys”? “B&H-reeking, overly competitive pensioner proles”? Does Nick Coquet really hate poor people, or was he trying to be funny? When it’s well written I’m all for a bit of bite, but printing this makes you seem like a bunch of nasty, smug journalists, and you do yourselves no credit. Nice mag otherwise, Jocelyn, via email Sorry to have caused offence Jocelyn but pikeys and proles aren’t poor people, they’re people without decorum or style. Completely different.

We can promise you we’re all a lot poorer than we are smug over here at SOURCE. Nick’s lovely and was just being sassy. But he does reek of B&H. Letter Of The Month wins a case of Pear Cider from our good friends at Magners.

ROAST ROUND UP RESPONSE ROUND UP

Enjoyed your roundup of best pubs for Sunday roasts, but you missed out my favourites, Dover Castle and Earth & Stars! @rosieclarke via Twitter Best roast? Not the Sidewinder, they once had Zebra on the menu, far too fucking stripy. All about the Yeoman, you pay a premium but it’s worth it for the high grade pile of food that ends up on your table. @BenPetrucci via Twitter Earth And Stars – it’s almost as good as I make at home. Avoid The Basketmakers it’s vile... @ItWasDarkDaze via Twitter The Basketmakers is best – massive portions, best pub in town, all the trimmings. And cheesy leeks (they’re good, honest!) @RobOrchard via Twitter The Royal Sovereign on Preston Street, huge roasts that feel like restaurant food, parsnip crisps on top and “real” gravy! @Laurence_Conrad via Twitter We counted 14 different types of vegetable with our last roast @ The Windmill! Surely a record? @The_Recommender via Twitter Loads of feedback on this feature so we’ll take it in order. The Earth & Stars was highly recommended towards the end of the feature Rosie, and we’ll definitely be there next year. There’s a new chef at The Sidewinder Ben, so don’t be scared. DarkDaze vs Rob Orchard – interesting responses there, we fall right in the middle.

We’d heard so much good stuff about the Sov, Laurence, that we headed over there (see page 44). Amazing. Can anyone beat The Recommender’s 2.8 days of five-a-day record?

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THE XX

Komedia Mon 1st

Look up the word hype in the dictionary and it now says “see The XX”, so generous is the buzz that’s followed this band around over the last year. They topped many magazine and blog ‘Best Of’ lists for 2009, following their self-titled release in August. We had previously caught them at Loop festival and have to admit they looked a little lost on the Dome’s larger stage, a fact they’ll have to remedy if they continue their ascendancy, but at least the Komedia will be suitably intimate. (TR)

DIZZEE RASCAL Brighton Centre Tues 2nd

Has Dizzee sold out? If an alien were to sit down at SOURCE HQ this afternoon and listen to his Mercury-winning debut ‘Boy In Da Corner‘ – all stabbing beats and rhymes with shanking tales to match – back-to-back with the chart-topping 18-30 Ibiza hip hop of his most recent effort, ‘Tongue N Cheek’, puzzled looks would surely follow and not just because of the crashed spaceship in Queen’s Gardens. However, ET’s first observation would surely be “Who’s this wanker Calvin Harris?” (BG)

VELO

Jam Weds 3rd

Following their successful launch party, one of Brighton’s best barometers of new music, The Recommender blog, showcases its next suggestion. This time around it’s Velo, rising stars in the London music scene, with their polished synth pop. Brighton band :Kinema: will prove ideal support with their equally glossy workout. In addition Eleni Mettyear’s photobooth returns, ready to capture all you exhibitionists. Lastly, don’t forget to grab your free, exclusive mixtape, handed out at the end of each night. (MB)

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MIKA

Brighton Centre Weds 3rd

“Let him go off and club with every supermodel in London and rest on the cool laurels that he has laid for himself like prickly thorns.” Not the words of Jesus in the Really New Testament but fresh from Mika’s mouth. He, understandably, took great offence at Alan “I discovered Oasis” McGee’s recent suggestion that the infernally bright and chipper star “should have been shot at birth”. Harsh words, admittedly. But wrong? No worse than digging up the Gallagher brothers, surely. (BG)

TUBELORD

Freebutt Weds 3rd

Kingston-based Tubelord are often to be found as a support or headline act in The Freebutt, but we have no compunction about thoroughly endorsing them every time they do. As part of One Inch Badge’s line-up, they promote an ethic of Brighton-centered musical brilliance as well as an amazing mash of melodic, hook-filled rock and arse-kicking guitar riffs.

Put on your skinniest jeans and catch them while you can at an intimate venue. (NH)

LITTLE DRAGON

Coalition Wed 3rd

Now, Sweden churns out its fair share of melodic pop bands, however Little Dragon are clearly a new breed, successfully reviving the soulful-rhythmic-electronic sound circa 2006.

Despite the name conjuring images of fierce mythological creatures, Little Dragon are polite, somewhat spiritual, wholesome, vegan Swedes (sans clichés) and clean… until they start performing. If you’ve ever been lucky enough to catch them live, you’ll know to expect dirty funk, wild cowbells and a tight, wild sweat pit of smiles (sauna not required). (DE)

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BLOOD RED SHOES Komedia Fri 5th

One of the warmest moments of last year’s Breeders-curated All Tomorrow’s Parties festival was seeing both Blood Red Shoes and Foals making it onto the bill. As well as a swelling of Brighton pride, it was heartening that all those formative years spent peddling Cat On Form and The Edmund Fitzgerald singles to inebriated ATP punters had finally come to apt fruition with a suitable billing. Anyway, Blood Red Shoes are back in town, promoting their new, rather shiny garage pop album ‘Fire Like This’ at Brighton’s most eagerly-awaited comeback show this month (sorry, Doll & The Kicks at Audio on Saturday 6th). (SH)

MEMORY TAPES

Freebutt Tues 9th

With his debut album ‘Seek Magic’, New Jersey-based Dayve Hawk, former frontman of Philadelphia-based Hail Social, finally got serious. Merging previous aliases Memory Cassette and Weird Tapes into one dazzling whole, the album’s centrepiece, ‘Bicycle’, is amongst 2009’s most emphatic and brilliant singles, the kind of melancholic yet hands-in-the-air electro-pop exultation New Order used to make before they changed their name to Bad Lieutenant and still couldn’t get arrested. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss, then. (BG)

GRIZZLY BEAR Corn Exchange Thurs 11th

Two of American music’s finest ‘alternative’ guitar bands for the price of one this evening. Headlining are Brooklyn’s near peerless

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Grizzly Bear, who, with 2009’s lush and swooning ‘Veckatimest’, proved that not all guitar bands on Warp have to be Maximo Park. Opening up are Beach House, who look to steal this year’s plaudits for themselves with the equally hymnal dream-pop of knockout new album ‘Teen Dream’. SOURCE is unsure who will come out on top tonight. You, probably, if you’re going. (BG)

MUMFORD AND SONS Corn Exchange Fri 12th

The skyrocketing popularity of these folk rockers is clearly shown in their rapid upward movement through the venues of Brighton.

They’re now comfortably filling The Corn Exchange as part of a very sold out UK tour, which is then launching them across Europe and presumably on to total world domination. It’s difficult to say whether the Corn Exchange is a bit staid a venue for a band who inevitably inspire a good deal of whirling and jigging from the crowd, but whatever happens is guaranteed to be utterly enchanting. (NH)

WHY?

Komedia Sun 14th

Ohio anti-folk hip hop band Why? return to the UK after their latest release, ‘Eskimo Snow’, their fourth and most softly brooding work in the 11 years they’ve existed. We’re ecstatically excited to experience their razor-sharp lyricism, beautiful timing, unusual time signatures, expressive fluctuating keyboard melodies and contemplative, bittersweet life attitude live on stage. The scary looking person fighting their way to the front and singing violently along to ‘The Hollows’ will be us, but we imagine we’ll be one of many. (NH)

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SPECTRUM

Freebutt Tues 16th

You have been warned - things are about to get trippy at The Freebutt as former Spaceman 3 man Pete Kember (aka Sonic Boom) makes a welcome return under his Spectrum moniker for an evening of mind-expanding and acid-drenched psych.

With a new album ‘On The Wings Of Mercury’ set for release later in the year, expect to hear new material plus a hefty dose of back catalogue classics from one of the country’s true sonic mavericks. (IC) (See Six Of The Best, page 58)

FOUR TET

Concorde 2 Weds 17th

A stupendous month in music for Brighton is topped by oneman ecstasy dance hero Kieran Hebdon. He comes armed with terrific new album ‘There Is Love In You’, a near perfect rainbow distillation of his hypnotic sonic glitterdust. Live shows are an exhibition in tech dexterity, sometimes hard, sometimes soft, usually staggering. We suggest you also check out ‘Moth’, the recent limited edition 12” with dubstep kingpin Burial, which proved an unmissable meeting of two of our greatest 21st century electronic minds. (BG)

AUTECHRE

Pavilion Theatre Thurs 18th

When the Dome box office announced this rare appearance by the secretive Manc pair, the flow of excitable messageboard chatter took even seasoned IDM posters by surprise. Rob Brown and Sean Booth’s limelight-eschewing personas, coupled with their run of uncompromising noughties albums, have made Autechre Warp’s most celebrated cult artists.

Amongst those helping shake the foundations tonight are Rob Hall – one of Booth and Brown’s cohorts in the Gescom project – and extreme noise artist Russell Haswell. (SH)

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THOMAS TRUAX

Freebutt Fri 19th

Straight outta Wowtown, one-man steampunk band Thomas Truax is famed for his array of bizarre homemade instruments, including amped-up gramophone mutant The Hornicator and much abused flywheel rhythm box Sister Spinster. Truax affectionately treats his Heath Robinson inventions as musicians in their own right, arguing and apologising to them throughout his performances. His most recent, self-explanatory album ‘Songs From The Films Of David Lynch’ upped Truax’s profile considerably, putting scores under the influence of this most charming man. (SH)

EDITORS

Dome Sat 20th

The enigmatic Editors are back touring their latest album, ‘In This Light And On This Evening’. For a Brummie band whose quiet but bold presence has easily filled the main stage at countless festivals since their first album, they are still somewhat underrated in the nation’s consciousness. Expect the Dome to provide the perfect luxurious backdrop for these smartly-dressed young men in their continually rich balance of orchestral, anthemic rock and pulsing, room-shaking electro-tinged laments. (NH)

BRUISE

Three and Ten Sat 20th

The fantastic Bruise rarely play outside of London, except perhaps on the summer festival circuit, so it’s essential that you catch them here while you can. They’re an amazing mix of very simply arranged rock music, with a richness and dexterity that’s showstopping.

Singer Isobel has a way of blowing your head off with thoughtprovoking lyrics blasted effortlessly from her powerful lungs, backed by delicate and expressive guitar. An unsettling and atmospheric set is guaranteed, plus some euphoric new material to boot. (NH)

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THE JOY FORMIDABLE Audio Mon 22nd

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possible, guitars thrashed and bleeding, and headbanging from audience and band alike.

Nachtmystium’s American black metal will provide this for you without the embarrassing white face paint and spike-wristed posturing of this genre’s bands of old. In the close quarters of the Engine Room though, even the band’s more progressive and psychedelic side won’t stop you from feeling that the dark lord is rising from beneath the floor. (LD)

If you like your indie powerful, amicable “Atlases, The Lullabies, Hold Your and as full of melodic choruses as Horse Is and Left Hand Red...” possible, then this Welsh trinity are well worth checking out. Fantastic songs such as ‘Whirring’, ‘Cradle’ or ‘Austere’ “the admission price is surely worth it from their debut album ‘A Balloon for the expected sing-along...”

Called Moaning’ are remarkably mighty, which surprises when you see it played Prince Albert Mon 29th live by the tiny frame of lead singer, The artist formerly know as Andre Herman Ritzy. It’s also worth noting that this Dune, Stanley Brinks has been a busy man of late, touring and headline tour brings with it a support slot from Airship, an recording with The Wave Pictures, the outcome of which can be unsigned band currently getting noticed on the blogs. (TR) heard in the form of his eponymous album. Complete with his trademark lyrical whimsy and a bunch of charmingly ramshackle, simple, yet effecting songs, it all brings to mind a European Jonathan Richman – and that ain’t a bad thing in our book. (IC)

THE STRANGLERS

TURIN BRAKES Concorde 2 Sat 27th

The lovely Turin Brakes are still going, quietly producing dewey and gorgeous folk rock. You’ll definitely get to hear the soporific ‘Painkiller’ (the summer rain song) but they have other songs as well, with a surprising amount of heart-wrenching punch to meet the rolling, lackadaisical nature of their singles. This tour is a kind of celebration of their previous years, and they’re guaranteed to saturate you with wistful sentiment for summers past, and affirmative joy for the year ahead. (NH)

NACHTMYSTIUM Engine Room Sun 28th

Sometimes you just need your drums played as fast as humanly

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STANLEY BRINKS

DAN LE SAC vs SCROOBIUS PIP Concorde 2 Mon 29th

Stupid names aside, there’s a fair bit of talent and originality crammed into this pair of Essex boys. They produce rather brave music that nobody else could quite achieve, which is an especially difficult thing in this day and age. Poetic spoken words, which range from political comment to insightful observation, are spat out by Scroobius Pip in his styled accent. Dan Le Sac meanwhile fills in the rest with beats and samples, regularly matching Pip’s resourcefulness. (TR)

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POPE JOAN Pontificating on the rise of brighton’s indie popstars Words by james kendall photo by kevin mason at garage studios

From day one we’ve had a soft spot for Pope Joan. An enjoyably scratchy post punk band who compliment their angular riffs with quirky synths, their songs rattled along in a whirl of slashed guitars and shouting. Their debut release, eight-track mini-album ‘Hot Water, Lines & Rickey Machines’ had a raw charm, especially the jerky chant along of ‘No TV’. All well and good, but if we’re honest we didn’t peg them for huge things.

Then ‘Centurions’ happened. Cock-sure electro pop with insistent guitar lines and a killer chorus, it showed that they could write songs – real singalong, stick-in-your-head songs. In our

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contributor-voted Best Of 2009 chart, only The Maccabees and Bat For Lashes polled higher. Now they were a very exciting prospect indeed.

“It was the first track we made after the mini-album and was the starting point of a new approach,” explains singer and guitarist Sammy Aaron Jr. “It was a watershed moment really, what’s been has been and we don’t worry about looking back on it,” adds David Coomber, responsible for the bass and some of the synths.

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“Now we’re much better at letting the song breathe rather than putting in the part that we want to play,” reckons drummer Andre Millin.

New single ‘Dictator’ is probably their most stripped back, relaxed, song-like track yet. Gentle, but with that same tautness, it shows that their way with melodies works at speeds other than ‘breakneck’ – another sign that the band are growing.

“It was knocking about the same time as ‘Centurions’,” says Sammy. “It came together quickly on our second go at it.”

The new version has come from working with Cribs and Biffy Cyro producer Mark Williams in a strange, but cost effective, set up. Pope Joan self-record their stuff in practice rooms, bedrooms and The Freebutt and then send them to Mark for mixing. It’s a clever idea and points to their records getting even better when they move from a pro-am set up into full studio sessions.

“It’s working really well,” says Tom. “Mark brought a freshness to ‘Dictator’ because he really liked it.

Another song the producer likes is ‘Volumes’, the b-side of ‘Centurions’, and he’s urging the band to let him re-record it and put it centre stage.

“There’s more of 50s surf kind of guitar sound. It’s not quite as glitchy, but it’s got a glitch element to it.”

“I think we’ll do that with him and release it later on,” says Tom. “But we’ve got bags of new stuff as well. Influence wise there was a bit more of 50s twist, like a surf kind of guitar sound. It’s not quite as glitchy, but it’s got a glitch element to it.”

“I’ve been listening to a lot of the things I played growing up,” adds Sammy, “the blues things I loved like Howling Wolf and Bo Diddly as well as Buddy Holly. We don’t sound like that but it’s informing the songwriting. In the past we wouldn’t have wanted to put too much of that stuff in but all of a sudden I’m more comfortable with the things that have influenced me personally rather than what’s stylistically right for the band.”

Getting a hold of their influences has been a key part in the growth of Pope Joan. The band has always been a bit of a musical soup, but the elements could bang together.

“Everyone throws so many influences into the melting pot,” confirms Tom. “It’s really satisfying when they all work but it takes a bit more effort. Some bands start off with an idea of what they are going to do and it’s more of a focused, deliberate process. It’s been a lot more organic for us, which is why it’s taken longer to hit the nail on the head and get something that we’re all happy with.”

“We’ve finally learned how to gel our styles, bring in the right influences,” adds David.

“We have a collective Live: Prince Albert, Sun 21st mindset now of what we Single: ‘Dictator’ Mon 29th are trying to achieve Web: www.myspace.com/popejoan rather than just stumbling upon it,” Sammy admits.

FYI What must have seemed like a big gamble at the time seems now like a pretty shrewd move. By throwing all they had at ‘Hot Water, Lines & Rickey Machines’ they’ve had to basically start again with a completely new batch of songs and, it turns out, a much stronger set.

“We took what was useful from it and left behind what wasn’t working,” David says.

“I think on the mini-album it feels like we were battling to all get our oar in,” adds synth/guitar playing Tom Windsor, “whereas now less is more.”

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It all bodes well for the album that Pope Joan are working towards for the end of the year. Eight songs down and a couple of singles on the way, they’re starting to sound like a band that could deliver a proper hit album, God bless them.

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Club Previews

Matt Barker, Zac Colbert, Stuart Huggett, James Kendall, The Recommender, Pia Webley

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FREEMASONS

Jazz Club Casablanca hosts an amazing funky night on Thursdays often using amazing live bands such as Stitched Up – a four-piece who have all enjoyed working all over the world covering everything from early soul and funk to modern rock and pop. They have an awesome ability to get everybody dancing and create a funky atmosphere, couple that with cheap drinks and you have a pretty good night. (PW)

If you like your house music classy, funky and fun you’ve probably already got this in the diary. Brighton’s big name remixers – Beyonce loved the mix they did for her – and producers, they always bring the party. And now we’ve got ‘Love On My Mind’ stuck in our heads. (JK)

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TEEN CREEPS Jazz Rooms Friday 26th

There was a time, oh dwellers of clubland, that clubs played not JUST dubstep, or fidget, but a more heterogenous selection. And not in a “‘Jump Around’, then Queen, then La Roux” kinda way, but in the way that every other tune you’d have your socks blown off by some forgotten new wave gem, or an underground future classic. Teen Creeps, a new venture from the lads who brought you the Smack That blog, aims to have you up at the booth asking “what the fuck was that?” by shoehorning together The Only Ones with Vitalic and XTC with ODB. (MB)

SNEAKER SOCIAL CLUB Coalition Fri 5th

This new night from Hypercolour’s Jamie Russell is aiming for the wider booking policy of the early part of the decade, when nights like The Boutique would mix things up for a music loving crowd. Trainers are encouraged as they want you to get right into the tunes, and the booking policy reflects that. David ‘Trus’me’ Wolstencroft from Prime Numbers brings soulful beats, while arguably the godfather of UK funky, Roska, supplies a mix of Carl Craig and Todd Edwards-sounding 90s US garage. There’s a bin to donate your own sneakers (and shoes) to TRAID too, which is a nice touch. (JK)

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Honeyclub Sat 6th

SUNDAY SOCIAL

Concorde 2 Sun 7th Despite their rightly lauded origins as innovators of shivering, bloodless funk noir (their chilling Factory debut ‘All Night Party’ and desiccated take on Banbarra’s ‘Shack Up’ merely the tip of a formidable iceberg), A Certain Ratio’s later diversions into Latin flavoured pop seemingly diluted their personalities to such an extent that they finally evaporated. ACR’s reformation was hardly anticipated, but their set at Beachdown (remember that?) was a festival highlight. Heavily influenced Brighton acolytes Transformer add to a strong, charitable bill tonight that includes Steve Mac (see interview), deep house god Kenny Hawkes and house pioneer Danny Rampling. (SH)

WASTED UV RAVE Honeyclub Fri 12th

After a great night last October, Wasted is back with another UV Rave, now at the Honeyclub. It’s pretty much exactly what it says on the tin – ultraviolet light, UV décor, glowsticks, facepainting and a mash up of electro and indie. It’s only three quid in advance, and there’s cheap drinks all night so you can’t go wrong really. (JK)

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EROL ALKAN

Digital Sat 13th

Brighton’s club kids and dancefloor elite knocking their knees, definitely one to get your tickets for in advance. (ZC)

Wax On present the original mash-up master (who famously turned his back on the scene at its height for more interesting pastures) as he treks up and down the country before jetsetting off to California for the Coachella Festival. He’s been busy remixing his nips off with the likes of Boys Noize and Yeah Yeah Yeahs so expect to hear some dutty productions of pure electro sexiness. Joining him in the booth will be residents People Get Real bringing their own brand of dance-floor terrorism and Eskimo Twins with their darker electronic sound with twists of pop sensibilities. (ZC)

JAMES ZABIELA

FORTIES TO THE NOUGHTIES

BOOTY GALAXY RECORDS LAUNCH

Concorde 2 Sat 13th

Smirnoff had a pretty good idea recently – hold a competition to see who could come up with the best concept for a party and then bung them a shitload of money to make it happen. This one won, for good reason. Staring in the 1940s every decade gets an hour to showcase its best bits – burlesque, disco, rave, rock’n’roll. The guys behind it have spunked all Smirnoff’s prize money on the night so expect it to be pretty spectacular, not least as you get six New Year’s Eves in the seven themes. Be warned, the first decade starts at 9pm. (JK)

VITALIC

Coalition Thurs 18th

NOISY! That’s Vitalic’s thing. When ‘La Rock 01’ came out in 2001 it was absolutely mind-blowing and ushered in the whole nasty electro sound that still gets a lot of play these days. New LP ‘Flashmob’ is really good too, sort of more of the same – synthy, gnarly – but really polished. The man has got enough anthems to rock the place, even though it’s an early show. Bring tissues to mop up the blood from your ears. (JK)

AUDIO BULLYS

Concorde 2 Sat 20th

West Londoners Tom Dinsdale and Simon Franks burst onto the scene in 2002 and coined the catchphrase ‘Hooligan House’ to label their sound of energetic urban beats and rambunctious but socially aware wordplay. So expect the Concorde to be roadblocked with

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Digital Sat 20th

Without James Zabiela we’d probably still be playing vinyl.

Such a head fuck were his CDJ-melting sets when he first blew onto the scene that he opened everyone’s minds to what was possible with this new equipment. A highly technical tech house DJ, we’re keen to see what he can do with the new CDJ 2000. Ready to upgrade your DJ booth Digital? (JK)

Jam Weds 24th

We love PRJCT MYHM and are mighty impressed that amongst all the myhm they have managed to get it together to collect some of Brighton’s best bass-driven artists onto a killer EP. Skwee fella – and :Kinema: member – Boss Kite joins the filthy electro-hop crew alongside the double drumming art grooves of AK/DK and our local dubstep star Riskotheque.

Expect serious chaos. (JK)

HERVé

Audio Fri 26th

Fidget pioneer…blah blah blah…Count & Sinden member... blah blah blah…ace DJ…blah blah blah…playing at Blah Blah Blah…blah blah blah. (JK)

STICK IT ON

Hanbury Sat 27th

When Rob came up with the idea for Stick It On he must have been right pleased with himself. A good day’s work, that one.

Because the simple fact is that for all the technicalities and obsession with beat matching, DJing is about one thing: playing good tunes, preferably with enthusiasm. Giving regular punters 15 minutes of fame behind the decks means there’s an urgency to the night as the DJs cram in their favouriterecord-evah. Never a dull moment. (JK)

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Kill Em All

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Kill Em All is a fucking cool night. Not only does it often rock up at Fabric, it also boasts a list of guests over the last seven years that sounds like the end of LCD Soundsystem’s ‘Losing My Edge’. Erol, the Chemicals, Friendly Fires, Boys Noize, our own Maccabees, Crystal Castles, and, aptly, James Murphy have joined the promoters Filthy Dukes. Simian Mobile Disco and Justice were pretty much residents too, before anyone knew too much about them. What we’re trying to say is that this mix of indie and dance music is right on it. If you want to see great DJs and bands upfront – if only for bragging rights – you’ve come to the right place, especially now that the Londoners have Hot Chip ‘One Life Stand (Carl branched out to a monthly Brighton affair. So far we’ve Craig Remix)’ had Micachu DJing, Ou Est Le Swimming Pool and O. Azari & III Children, plus ace resident DJ Riton. The highlight of ‘Reckless (With Your Love)’ March’s jaunt is We The XX Have Band playing ‘VCR (Matthew Dear Remix)’ live. Like we said, Ian Brown pretty fucking cool.

‘Stellify (Filthy Dukes Remix)’ WHEN: Coalition Fri 26th Boy 8-Bit ‘A City Under Siege Web: kill-em-all.co.uk/ (Stopmakingme Remix)’ Filthy Dukes Mix: Computer Juice tinyurl.com/kill-mix ‘Computer Juice’ Four Tet ‘This Unfolds’ Egyptian Hip Hop ‘Hazel Groove’ Mount Kimbie ‘Sketch On Glass’ Boys Noize ‘Transmission (Tiga Remix)’

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AKA AKA ROAR

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It’s been four years since we popped down to JuJu to catch Skream – in the bloody Jazz Rooms!

– so it’s not surprising to find dubstep fragmenting into sub-genres. Aka Aka Roar stays away from the ruffneck wobble bass stuff in favour of the more tuneful, intelligent end that melts into 2 step and even techno, known variably as funkstep, techstep, future garage, or melodic dub. Many of the scene’s most interesting names have already been down – including Appleblim, Ramadanman and Untold, meaning that the crowd is right on the dancefloor locked into the music rather than falling around the bar. Normally nights are split between good DJ/progressive music policy or cheap drinks/crazy behaviour, but Aka Aka Roar manages to balance a bit of all of it with Darkstar a clued up crowd ready for fun and ‘Aidy’s Girl Is A Computer’ good drink deals. This month Shortstuff & Geoim your two quid gets you sets ‘No Hand Signals’ from Hyetal, Ben UFO, Bok Crystal Fighters Bok, and James Blake. A ‘I Love London (Brackles Remix)’ killer start to a new Untold ‘Stop What You’re essential Doing (James Blake Remix)’ midweek Martyn ‘Friedrichstrasse’ session.

Lil Wayne ‘A Milli (Harmonimix)’ Joy Orbison ‘So Derobe’ DVA ‘Ganja’ WHEN: Life Every Monday Mosca ‘Nike’ Facebook: tinyurl.com/akaface El-B ‘Buck & Bury’ DJ MIX: tinyurl.com/akamix

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STEVE MAC House music’s sound boffin steps to the decks for The Sunday Social words by james kendall

How did you get involved in It’s easier than ever to make the massive Sunday Social music now – is that a good event? thing?

The promoter Ash is a friend of What the technology has done is WEB: www.myspace.com/mrstevemac mine and he asked me if I could given the younger generation a Sunday Social: Concorde 2, Sun 7th talk to Danny Rampling and see chance. I remember when I was Also Playing: Danny Rampling, A Certain Ratio, if I could get him on the gig. I got starting out at 15, an S900 sampler Justin Robertson, Kenny Hawkes, Transformer pulled into it as well, but it’s all that could sample 10 seconds cost for a good cause, the Children’s about three grand. There’s no way Burns Trust. And it’s a great lineyou could have afforded it at that up. I’m really looking forward to seeing Kenny Hawkes cos I age. But Beatport are putting out 3,000 records a week. The haven’t seen him play in ages. I used to go and hang out at quality control is lacking. People don’t use synthesizers or Space at Bar Rhumba in the mid 90s and I always liked what he compressors or mixing consoles any more, everything is done played. A great DJ. inside the computers. These things give the sound a colour.

When it’s all done in one machine, everything is going to sound You’ve got your first album coming under your own name the same. haven’t you?

I’ve done one as part of The Rhythm Masters but this is my first What’s the most extravagant bit of equipment you have in solo LP. It’s coming out on Nic Fanciulli’s Saved Records and is a your studio? mix of deep house, techno, some traditional house, a few vocals.

I’ve got a lovely speaker set up, a full range Genelec system, It’s kinda old school sounding but with a futuristic technology which are very expensive – between £12,000 and £15,000. But kick. I’m working on another album at probably the most extravagant purchase the moment, which is more organic, was these Neve equalizers from one of the there’s a lot of live instruments original 70s desks. The guy wanted eight involved. grand cash for them and I bought them.

They’re worth so much more now but You’re really prolific – how many handing over all that cash – it’s half the tracks do you make a year? down payment on a flat for god’s sake.

I probably release around 20 to 30 a year – it’s quite a lot. My next one is You have some incredible people come ‘The Noise Bastard’, the first track off the album, with a Santos and work in your studio though, don’t you? mix. The album will follow soon after. My next single on Smack, They’re just friends really, but yeah. Recently I’ve been working my record label, will be out in April. I took a step back from with Cagedbaby, D.Ramirez, Mark Brown from Cr2, Dave Spoon, remixing a couple of years back; it was getting on my tits a bit.

Paul Harris, and Nic Fanciulli, who I’ve been working with for The A&R men want it a certain way and you’ve got your spin on around four years. If someone has an idea I know how to get it it and it’s a fight. out of the speakers very quickly. I work very fast.

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COMEDY: CHRIS ADDISON

Komedia Sat 6th

In a crueller parallel universe, Chris Addison never made his name as a geeky spin doctor in The Thick of It, and is still presenting dire late-night clip shows in between playing miniscule comedy clubs. As it is, his satirical breakthrough has seen the middle class bastion of zipwire energy, unstinting self-deprecation and anti Daily Mail diatribes snap up endless successful radio and TV shows. He’s even having to do an earlier show for this one after the initial gig sold out. (BM)

THEATRE: BANE II Upstairs at Three and Ten Sat 6th

Twisting film noir and pulp fiction with smoke and mirrors physicality and characters morphing at breakneck pace, Joe Bone’s original portrayal of Bruce Bane – a hired hand scaling the murky streets in fearless pursuit of an evil implicitly lurking around every corner – was one of the highlights of the Fringe last year.

Returning with more mystifyingly summoned sound effects (there’s a brilliant accompanying guitarist in there somewhere), the gravel-voiced avenger’s updated escapades are a cause you can believe in. (BM)

THEATRE: HUIS CLOS Upstairs at Three and Ten Tues 9th – Thurs 11th

Catch a few board-treading local prodigies as Brighton Young Actors have a crack at Jean-Paul Sartre’s existential tale from hell, where a group of hapless souls are left to poke and prod over each other’s worst desires in a collective dark night of the soul. It’s sure to resonate with anyone who’s made the sorry traipse out for a swift soothing Guinness after an all-nighter at the

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Volks. Hell is other people, as the most famous quotation from this one suggests. (BM)

THEATRE: THE SEAGULL The Little Theatre Tues 9th – Sat 13th

A full-blooded barnstormer for The Little this month in the form of Anton Chekhov’s late 19th century classic featuring a quartet of thespian Russians sparring with their own fragile egos in a cry for help running on sex, showbiz, hope and despair. Strictly speaking it’s got enough pathos to qualify as a kind of tragicomedy, but the depth of character given to each individual makes it much more affecting than that would suggest. A powerful bit of drama well worth watching. (BM)

PERFORMANCE: THIS IS NOW The Basement Thurs 11th

Experienced dancers Tom Roden and Pete Shenton combine some niftily hilarious dance moves with great big slabs of nostalgia based around the original ‘Now That’s What I Call Music!’ album from 1983, which Roden illegally recorded onto cassette from vinyl. Their choice of genre meshing means they draw plenty of odd comparisons, usually involving Morecambe and Wise and Rambert Dance Company. In truth they’re original, random and liable to make you piss yourself. Especially if you’ve got a soft spot for Heaven 17. (BM)

COMEDY: DAVE GORMAN Theatre Royal Sun 14th

Dave Gorman’s journey on a pushbike between 32 nationwide gigs takes on a comedic rags-to-riches twist in light of the ticket

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prices for this one. From the doppelganger-hunting TV show to the gasless road trip around America and the publicity picture of the man himself in a ratty old charity shop cardigan, he’s clearly moved into the realms of safe mainstream appeal – the fact he’ll probably pack out the Royal attests to the ubiquity of his fuzzy, gentle approach, although he’s capable of more acerbic things. (BM)

EXHIBITION: RENEGADE POTTERS AND EXTREME CRAFT Ink_D, from Fri 12th

Still a bit of a mystery at the time of writing, the name of this show begs further investigation, especially in the hands of Ink_d. We know Carrie Reichardt, a potter who fires anarchic messages onto vintage plates, is involved, as are War Boutique, a protest group who subvert military uniforms and bulletproof vests. Also on board is Jimmy South, a glass wizard who carves luminous grenades among other attempts to “make very ugly objects beautiful”. We’ll get our placards and Dr Martens out. (BM)

THEATRE: ONE MAN LORD OF THE RINGS Theatre Royal Weds 24th

Following his successful outing with the One Man Star Wars Trilogy, Charles Ross is back with a singular take on Tolkien, the three films reduced to a one-hour performance. No costumes, no props, just a pair of elbow pads and the wit and imagination to sift through the hours and hours and hours of arse-achingly dull cinema to arrive at its essential narrative crux, all delivered at breakneck speed. Can we request a 10-minute Schindler’s List next? (NC)

COMEDY: RICHARD HERRING: HITLER MOUSTACHE

Komedia Weds 24th

Sporting new facial hair, the star of The Headmaster’s Son and 90s double act Lee and Herring aims to tackle racism head on with comical flare and intelligent wit. Having been acquainted with his bushy upper lip for some time he sets out to test his audience, creating moral dilemmas by asking is the moustache offensive or are we ridiculous to think so? With in-depth research and touching on iconography, Herring delivers a laugh-heavy and topical debate. (EB)

TALK: MARK KERMODE Duke Of York’s Mon 29th

Born Bad pin-up Mark Kermode’s rockabilly haircut could be about to get primetime exposure if his rumoured succession of Jonathan Ross on the Beeb’s Film 2010 materialises, although he’s uncharacteristically cagey about his chances. In the meantime, the unstoppably loquacious Observer and Culture Show cinema critic has got his own book to publicise, which should be worth a read simply for the full account of the infamous interview during which legendary German director Werner Herzog was hit by a bullet. (BM)

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The notion of art as an exclusive club, with musty old portraits hung in drafty galleries, is thankfully long consigned to the past. These days, especially in forwardlooking locales like Brighton, you’re far more likely to encounter art as part of a wider sensory experience, Warhol’s ‘happenings’ finding a 21st Century reality.

York Place Studios, a couple of doors up from the Hobgoblin, is one such hub of creativity. Until May and possibly beyond it’s host to CUB, with affordable art including screen prints and paintings as well as mix media using 100-year old book pages, shellac and thread. It’s also a constantly evolving design and print studio with projections and tunes WHERE: York Place Studios. 28 York Place providing a conducive backdrop to both WEB: cubculture.com artistic creation and consumption, with OPEN: From noon every day free drop-in consultations for your own design commissions.

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THE miserable rich

SINGLE: 12 STONE TODDLER This Suit

ALBUM: THE CLIMBERS

SINGLE: ABSENT ELK

EP: CROOKED MOUNTAIN, CROOKED SEA It’s The Falling

(Amazon)

This latest instalment from the Toddlers’ plan to confirm their reservation at pop’s top table appears to make the assumption that they’re already there – starter polished off and eagerly awaiting the main course. This is the sound of a band who’ve already hit whatever big time is possible these days in the world of quirky, riff-tastic guitar pop, and they’re just waiting patiently for the rest of us to catch up.

We’ve said it before, but it has to happen for them before too long. (NC)

Emily (Amazon)

A press release which helpfully suggests namechecks like U2, Coldplay and The Kooks as reference points possibly does more harm than good with sniffy music journos, but luckily we eschew such promotional flim flam. The Elk’s single is tight as a drum skin; a catchy portion of indie pop fare which should be cash in the bank for any radio plugger worth their salt, boding extremely well for their debut album ‘Caught In The Headlights’. If you fancy someone called Emily, this would be a good song to put first on that stalker’s mix CD you were planning to give her. (NC)

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The Good Ship (Willkommen Records)

Another addition to the ever expanding Willkommen Collective, The Climbers are a new studio-based project formed by Nick and Christian of The Leisure Society and aided by a whole host of guest collaborators including Dan Michaelson (Absentee, The Coastguards) and various members of Sons of Noel & Adrian, Shoreline and Laish. The 11 tracks here make up a melodically rich and wonderfully diverse collection, veering from shuffling banjo-led folk and dusty piano duets through to upbeat barroom-style stomps. Another stylish and ambitious release from the ever-unpredictable folks at Willkommen. (IC)

That Counts, Not the Landing (Apres Vous)

Their debut release having pricked the ears of Tom Robinson Introducing late last year, the subversive post-rock quartet offer up five new tracks for our delectation. Comparable to the likes of Fugazi, At The Drive In and in quieter moments Red House Painters, they display an unnervingly raw yet constrained sound in the complexities of their timings. The EP moves through unabated noise to simplistic reflections, ‘It’s The Falling That Counts, Not The Landing’, is an impressive followup EP. (LS)

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ALBUM: THE DIAMOND FAMILY ARCHIVE One To Twenty (Electronic Musik)

Taking a slight detour from his usual hauntingly atmospheric folk, The Diamond Family Archive instead opts for a slight change of scenery with an album of instrumentals. Playing all manner of guitars, percussion, electronic effects, banjos and harmoniums, what we have here are an enchanting 10 tracks of lush, brooding soundscapes, all lazy grace and diverse instrumentation, the nearest comparison being the gently blissed out tunes of Brightback Morning Light. This is undoubtedly music made for lonesome country wanderings, and you sure won’t want to return home afterwards. (IC)

ALBUM: FRIGHTENED RABBIT

The Winter Of Mixed Drinks (FatCat)

Now here’s a band to get excited about. Their third album sees them finally realise the potential they’ve always hinted at, with a marked progression in, well, just about every element of the record. An expansive sound with exquisite production polishing anthemic and hypnotic arena indie songs, if there was any justice in the world Frightened Rabbit would be its house band.They’re deservedly picking up plaudits everywhere from Q to the News Of The World, the latter without recourse to any of the band shagging John Terry. (NC)

SINGLE: HADOUKEN

Turn The Lights Out (JFB Remix) (myspace.com/hadouken)

Ordinarily we’d steer clear of non-Brighton nu rave shenanigans, but when there’s a JFB remix propping up the tracklisting then naturally we’re going to be all over it like paparazzi on Posh Spice. The Pendulum rockism of the track is stripped back to reveal beats like a robot kicking his way into a panic room; fuzzy squelches and minimal turntable touches battle with string stabs, while still allowing the frenetic vocal a central role. Job well done

by JFB – tightening up the tune without smothering it. (NC)

ALBUM: HERE THERE BE MONSTERS Inherent

(Black Match)

Produced by Gez Walton (Blackstorm, The Ghost Of A Thousand), ‘Inherent’ is as dirty as it gets. HTBM’s debut release has been well worth the wait after several years of successful touring around the UK and Europe. Fan favourites Kanine Vs Feline and Welcome To Barbados join Trojans and Driven to create an excellent start to the year for Brighton metal. (AP)

EP: HIGH RANKIN

Occupation: Pimp And Gambler (Cheap Thrills)

Woe betide you if you happen to be lurking anywhere near the bass bins when this drops. The four tracks across the EP are a heavy, layered precipitation of bass, deep and squelchy in both sound and lyrical suggestion. At times we’re drawn back to the EBM sounds of mid-period Nitzer Ebb or Front 242, but this is no

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retro ride, this is all about a relentless flurry of beats which rain down thick and fast. (NC)

SINGLE: THE MISERABLE RICH Somerhill (Humble Soil)

The much beloved Brighton curios return with another sublime slice of chamber pop. We love the way TMT take the road less travelled and turn it into an entirely accessible musical thoroughfare. Lots of bands cynically bung in a string section to give ballads more gravitas, but here it lends the quietly charming songs a timeless natural quality and a sincerity that truly deserves a wider consumption. We bet Wes Anderson would love it. (NC)

SINGLE: PEGGY SUE Watchmen (Wichita)

There’s a certain vindication for SOURCE in bringing news of a new Peggy Sue single, together with a new record deal and a general marked progression in their fortunes since they first graced our pages. Now properly in contender territory, with an officially eagerly-awaited new album on the release schedule, the trio open proceedings with this brooding and dramatic single – unmistakably Peggy Sue as we know and love them, just that little bit more so. (NC)

ALBUM: TURNCOAT

An Adventure In Skill And Chance (Turncoat Music)

It’s been something of a rocky road so far for Turncoat; the last few years have seen them go through acrimonious splits, writer’s block, major label signing and subsequent dropping, eventually coming up for air in 2010 with a polished debut album to show for their time of turmoil. Taut indie guitar rhythms back a deadpan, almost Billy Bragg vocal, forming a sound that stands out as rather original in a sea of similarity. (NC)

ALBUM: THOMAS WHITE The Maximalist (Cooking Vinyl)

Having been in one band that people have heard of is an achievement most musicians don’t manage. You can imagine Thomas White sitting his grandkids on his knee waxing lyrical about the Electric Soft Parade glory days as they suck on Werthers Originals. Since then he’s played with, among others, Brakes, British Sea Power, Restlesslist, Sparks and Patrick Wolf and wound up with this, his second solo album. With such a Rolodex of famous names at his disposal it’s maybe surprising that he’s played, recorded and mixed it all himself, but it’s by no means compromised by such control freakery. (NC)

ALBUM: ZERO dB

One Offs, Remixes And B Sides (Tru Thoughts)

We were all about the ‘Bongos, Bleeps And Basslines’ album a few years back, so it’s a long overdue treat to get a 23-track tidyup of Zero dB’s significant and prolific output since then. Like it says on the sleeve, it brings together a slew of the busy boys’ reinterpretations and rarities, much of which has been frustratingly hard to get hold of, as well as new and exclusive material. All tinged with a jazzy loveliness, Latin steam, dirty beats and bass, this is an essential set. (NC)

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Life modelling Source Virgins:

Words by nick coquet drawing by Peter James Field (peterjamesfield.co.uk)

THE CONCEPT

scratching of charcoal and pencil upon paper broke the uneasy silence, such concerns left me surprisingly quickly to be honest.

Here it is, take it or leave it. Draw and be damned.

After those first few brief poses came the lengthy sitting. I reclined on some black fabric arranged over some cushions, with the only prop I’d thought suitable to bring – a trusty SOURCE magazine, which I pretended to read. In the nude, as one often does. I stared at a page, reading it over and over until I couldn’t focus on As an experiment in the concept of the words anymore. embarrassment, exhibitionism, body Before I did this people asked if I was image and erection control, surely worried about, ahem, enjoying it too much. I can only say that nothing measures up to the intimate scrutiny of the life drawing while at first my main topic of thought was my genitalia and a class. It’s almost a cliché in its undesirability for most people, but bunch of people staring at it, thankfully tumescence was the last surely it can’t be that bad. Well, we’d see… thing on its mind. When you sit very, very still for that length of time you do feel it shift against your thigh from time to time – hey, it has a mind of its own at the best of times – but after a few minutes my mind was more concerned with my thumb. I was I arrived at Jake’s class early and he talked me through the lying with the magazine in a reading pose, held in one hand, my evening. A few quick two-minute poses, one extended 45-minute thumb supporting it upright. It wasn’t long pose, then a few 20-minute sessions. before it was an incredible effort to keep it Standing, sitting, kneeling, reclining. I put aloft. Cock? What cock? on a rather nice silk kimono, awaiting the The studio played classical music, arrival of the lucky students. conducive to artistic endeavour. It was It turned out one of them was Kate WHEN: Jake Spicer’s Brighton Life impossible to time – pop songs chime in Kamikaze, who painted our Bat For Drawing drop-in sessions run on Mon, at a few minutes each so you can figure Lashes cover a while back. Another was Weds, Thurs, Sat maybe an album’s worth is 45 minutes.

Emma from Ophelia Fancy, our Christmas CONTACT: 07805 201 057 After what seemed like 100 years Jake cover stars. I was meeting both for the WEB: jakespicerart.co.uk announced we had about 10 minutes left. first time, a SOURCE ambassador at a After another half century the pose was somewhat social disadvantage, in the complete. We were on to the now leisurely nude under my shiny kimono. They 20-minute poses. weren’t bothered though.

These passed relatively quickly. I sat again, I stood again – arms When the 10 students were at their easels the kimono fell away, folded and head on one side, like a bouncer. Defiant, I thought. and there I was, naked as the day I was born. My first pose was Draw and be damned. The two hours were up, and I slipped standing. I remembered John Hurt as Quentin Crisp life modelling backstage to put my clothes back on. We all sipped tea and in The Naked Civil Servant, my only real reference point, and I’m chatted, the social equilibrium restored. Except they’d all seen afraid I struck a similarly theatrical pose – leaning on a pole with my bum. a hand on one hip. 10 people, 11 counting Jake, were now looking at my naked form. Eight of them were women.

Gentleman readers will be aware of the natural preparation for public scrutiny of their cocks. You flap it about a bit to wake it up.

Well, quite apart from the £20 Jake handed me for my troubles, But you can’t really do that in front of people. It’s just not socially yes, absolutely. The uneasy feeling about being naked passed acceptable. The same readers will also be aware that any sense almost immediately, as did any concern about penile perception. of vulnerability can cause its cowardly retreat into the sanctity of It came out looking quite respectable, I thought, despite its facing one’s body, like a deep-sea mollusc or something. As the the artist in a stare-out contest. I’ll almost certainly do it again.

We do stuff we’ve never done before and tell you all about it. Nick Coquet had never posed in the nude in front of a class of artists.

Jake Spicer runs a life drawing class, which usually has female models – well, let’s combine them and redress that artistic balance.

THE REASONS

“It has a mind of its own at the best of times…”

THE EXPERIENCE

FYI

WAS IT WORTH IT?

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Street Style Photos by Kevin Meredith aka lomokev at lomokev.com Words by Nick coquet

There’s nothing like dressing for the season – and this is certainly nothing like dressing for the season. Maria caught our eye as we prowled the streets of Brighton in search of style warriors, cheerfully sporting a 12th night-defying Christmas jumper, with an optimistic pair of shorts while the rest of us were shivering about the place in long johns.

Her general fashion manifesto is a fondness for vintage items and lots of red – she talked us through her look: Jacket “It’s my 11 year-old sister’s, from H&M Kids, worn for the cropped effect with short sleeves.”

Jumper “It’s from Dirty Harry, with a Christmas tree, lots of Disney characters and a gingerbread man. I wear it all year round.”

Shorts “From Top Shop. Yes, it is a bit cold for shorts, I know. I’ve got a fur coat back in the car just in case.”

Tights “I never wear less than a 40-denier, unless they’re the ones with black seams up the back.”

Boots “From Office – yes they’re quite high, they’re 11-hole.”

Bag “From Paul’s Boutique. It’s a Chanel copy, I can’t really afford the real thing at the moment.”

Wristbands “I went to my first festivals last summer so I’ve kept the wristbands from them.

I’ve got a Big Chill and a Reading one on. They drip a bit after a shower but they don’t itch too much.”

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consume

HOPE & HARLEQUIN 31 Sydney Street 01273 675222 Words by Nick Coquet

“It’s hard to let some things go but you can’t keep everything.

Your job is to find something a new home, with someone who can do something with it.”

While fashion has a quick, mass-market turnover, vintage wear is the enduring and individual choice for the discerning dresser.

For the last three years, Hope & Harlequin has been a goldmine of unique charm, the place to find an item that simply makes your heart sing. In their weekly stock gathering expeditions, it’s that instant response they look for, as well as fabric, cut, quality, individuality, neatness, beauty, quirkiness and humour.

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Customising and fitting garments gives the customer something that’s perfect for them, an individual item to mix with modern pieces.

Louise from Hope & Harlequin also has a history in bespoke bridal wear, and has brought this expertise to the shop. With a range of vintage nuptial outfitting as well as their own collection of made-toorder vintage pattern dresses, they cater for the bride who wants something different from the run of the mill.

With prices ranging from £25 up to about £1,800 including madeto-order, there’s something to suit every purse. While their own philosophy is more about what you buy than where you buy it, Hope & Harlequin is always a safe bet for some classic clothing.

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Unsung Heroes 100 People who make brighton what it is No.7: Andy Mac

A DJ and A&R man who doesn’t shout about how important he is? Unheard of, but that’s how low key Andy Mac is, despite having the best job in town.

What’s your role at Skint and Loaded?

It’s kind of multi-headed, I’m A&R Manager for Skint, have some input on Loaded, and we’ve recently started an artist management arm to the company which I’m getting more and more involved with What’s makes a Skint record and what makes a Loaded record?

It’s a good question without a simple answer. Firstly it’s the same small team of people working on both labels. Both labels have and do release club orientated or more commercial tracks. For example Loaded have released underground electronic acts like Super_Collider and top 10 singles by Freemasons, while Skint have released hit commercial singles

by X-Press 2 and Fatboy, and heavy club tracks by Alter Ego and Dave Clarke. I guess you could describe it as Skint’s yin to Loaded’s yang.

What’s been your proudest Skint/Loaded moment?

After 14 years here that’s a tough one, there have been so many but I guess for me there’s what I’d call the Fatboy Phenomenon around the release of the ‘You’ve Come A Long Way Baby’ album. For about two years it was non-stop, number one singles and albums, the Spike Jonze videos, so many awards – a really surreal time.

How did you get into music and the music business?

I was 17 in 1989 and got swept up in the whole acid house explosion, a life-changing time, mainly at the old Zap Club listening to resident DJs like Chris Coco, Carl Cox, and Damian Harris my future boss, I soon got into DJing myself and spent the next few years doing the Brighton circuit and beyond and then a little bit of music production, and through this met the partners in Skint, JC, Tim and Damian. I was recording sporadically in their studio when the label started to really take off in 1996, they needed a spare set off hands, I started making the tea, and I’m still here.

Do you think that you’ll get bored of music?

Nope can’t see it, tastes change all the time and I might get bored with one sound or genre, but then something new comes along, blows you away and everything’s very exciting again.

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Secret eater

Royal Sovereign 66 Preston Street (01273) 323289 Mon-Fri: noon-3pm, 6pm-10pm. sat-sun: noon onwards

THE PLACE

Of all the pubs we didn’t go to on our big roast-fest last issue, probably the place that got the most props was the Royal Sovereign. Placed as it is on ‘Restaurant Road’ it really needs to be good at grub to stop people wandering over to China China and the like. Bowling up on the off-chance at well past 9pm, we’re impressed to discover food served until ten. The place is packed and cosy with a really nice atmosphere. We’ve got high hopes for our meal.

THE MEAL

Despite the number of eateries among its neighbours, there aren’t many places to enjoy British cuisine meaning the Sov can

stake its territory with an ever-changing menu of classics with a twist. We grab a ‘light bite’ of ribs to go with the meal and it’s immense. A mountain of meat, which falls off the bone when we pick it up, it’s more Indian than Chinese coming with a coriander and satay-like creamy, nutty sauce. The big portions – especially for the money – are echoed in the main dishes. The belly pork is not just chunky but contains no fat – none at all. It comes with soft bubble and squeak, crisp parsnip chips, braised red cabbage and rich apple gravy.

Even more impressive is the lentil shepherd’s pie with a tender lamb shank where the shepherd would usually be. Proper Irish peasant food, it comes with deliciously boiled bacon and savoy cabbage, moist and tasty. Let just say we needed a doggy bag.

VERDICT

Clearly SOURCE readers really know their stuff; this place is amazing. It’s not the cheapest pub grub but the prices are reasonable and the food is great. The Royal Sovereign is up there not just with the best places to eat on Preston Street but also with the top of the gastro-pubs in Brighton like the Yeoman and the Forager, albeit at a keener price.

WERE WE SUSSED

We didn’t do anything unusual – we even had a good excuse for carrying a massive camera – but the staff were incredibly, almost suspiciously, attentive. We think that they’re genuine though, which makes the Sov just about the best service in town.

Sussed? Probably not.

IN CONVERSATION WITH

REAL ALE Words by Nick Coquet photo by sam hiscox

With the Sussex Beer & Cider Festival hitting Hove this month (see News, page 4) we caught up with Miles Jenner, Harveys’ Head Brewer, to talk about the Campaign For Real Ale’s gradual move into the mainstream.

NC: The Sussex Beer & Cider Festival seems a good way to get the message across.

MJ: Yes, the Sussex Bar there shows the great range and diversity of cask conditioned beers available, it demonstrates the essence of local beer. With a cask-conditioned beer – a Nick Coquet: Real ale sales have increased over the last year… real ale – there’s quite a short shelf life: about eight weeks Miles Jenner: I think in a declining beer market the real ale sector from the time it’s put into casks to consumption, probably is taking more of a proportion of it, yes. less than that. Traditionally beers have always been served NC: And real ale isn’t just down to the independence of the brewery. with local brewers supplying within a certain radius of their MJ: No, it’s defined by CAMRA as a beer where yeast feeds on the brewery, it’s a very environmentally sound principle to work residual sugars in the cask to produce an evolution of CO2 naturally on, working within a small area rather than sending beers up to condition the beer. It’s a live product that and down the country. It’s very much undergoes what we call secondary fermentation about providing niche products within in the cask. a local market.

NC: So there’s a distinct difference between NC: It must be frustrating seeing so that and something like John Smith’s. much lager emphasis in the beer MJ: Well, John Smith’s is a very good keg market, especially with younger product where they filter the yeast out and it’s drinkers forming long-term carbonated, served as a light beer, but it’s not preferences. a living product.

MJ: Our experience is that the lager market is declining at the moment and real ale is in the NC: The CAMRA Save Our Pubs campaign has never been more ascendancy. I think that was true certainly, that young timely. people would start on lagers, I’m not so sure it’s still the MJ: No, there’s certainly a tremendous amount of problems out there, case. An increasingly large number of young responsible people are struggling in many instances, particularly in country pubs. drinkers enjoy cask ale as a niche product and it’s something I think there’s a very real need to put the pub back at the centre of the that’s no longer considered old fashioned. community once more.

NC: Would that old fashioned view have been down to the NC: I suppose the proliferation of chain pubs has had an effect. clichéd stuffy image of real ale drinkers; all beards and MJ: Where pub companies have put a range of beers in, with jumpers? independent brewers a lot of our MJ: I don’t think so really, I business is free trade customers think each generation just where we’re one beer on a bar with rejects the choices of the a number of others; that makes up a previous generation. I think good 85% of our custom. For the it’s come into its own now.

Where: Sussex Beer & Cider Festival at Hove Centre remainder, we own 48 pubs and our The alco-pop generation When: Thursday 11th to Saturday 13th tenants buy from our range of has largely gone, it’s a far WEBSITE: www.camra.org.uk beers. more sensitive and NC: So it’s not a closed shop from appreciative element of the chains, just stocking national youth that are looking at brands? cask beer. CAMRA in its early day was a campaigning body MJ: No, no. Some of the chains do buy cask ales from independent with tremendous success, I think it’s viewed as being a very brewers. well established, well respected pressure group now.

“the lager market is declining and real ale is in the ascendancy.”

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LISTINGS March 2010

monday 1st

Belushi’s BAR Quiz Night 8.30pm £free Belushi’s Below Latin Mondayz Salsa & samba on the decks 9pm £2/free Black Lion Happy Mondays Open decks and mics 5pm £free Coalition Trash Mondays Eclectic student night 10.30pm £3/2/free duke of norfolk Poker Night 8pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema Micmacs 3.30pm/9pm FREEBUTT Errors On Rock Action label, expect crunchy instrumental ‘math rock’ 7.30pm £9/8 Hope The H’Open Mic 8.30pm £free HYDRANT You Tube Share your faves with the pub 8pm £free komedia UPSTAIRS The XX With all the hype it’s no wonder this gig is SOLD OUT 8pm £tbc LEGENDS Miss Jasons Monday Mayhem Feat. Gay Your Cards Right 9pm £free; Chic DJ Steve Lush spins disco anthems in the basement 11pm £free Life Aka Aka Roar: Hyetal Inspirational dubstep 11pm £3/2 OM CV: George Buko DJ playing deeeeep house 9pm £free Prince Albert Dextro, Lost Idol, Sounds Like Science Live electronic and psychedelia 8pm £tbc sidewinder Poker night 9pm £5 Theatre Royal Haunted A tale of obsession featuring Brenda Blethyn and Niall Buggy 7.45pm £tbc Volks Strictly Reggae: Big T Dancehall, roots, revival 10pm £5/4.50 West Hill tavern Quiz Night 8.45pm £1

TUESDAY 2nd

Audio Club NME Indie music joy 11pm £3/2 Belushi’s BAR Mod For It Rocker h8erz 10pm £free Belushi’s below Elements D&B 9pm £1 Black Lion The Lion’s Raw Brighton live bands 8pm £free Brighton CENTRE Dizzee Rascal Catch this talented old school to hip hop urban legend 7.30pm £20.43 Brighton Dome Danza Contemporanea de Cuba: Demo-N & Crazy, Folia, Mambo 3XXI Cuban ensemble, dance & performance 7.30pm £22.50/18/15/10 Caroline of brunswick Quiz Night Silly challenges for goths and freaks 8.30pm £1 Coalition Salsa Brighton Learn the moves for the clubnight later 8pm £6/4; Viva Latino: DJ Dubl Salsa & merengue music 10pm £3/2 cornerstone Son Of Movie Bar Networking for filmmakers and fans 7pm £free DIGITAL Glitterati Exclusive Student Night 11pm £4/3 Duke of Norfolk Open Mic Including tapdancers, poetry and all kinds of music 9pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema Micmacs 11am/4pm/9.30pm Fiddler’s Elbow Quizness Time Pub Quiz 8pm £1 FREEBUTT Seven Year Kismit, Eleventh Apparition, Here There be Monsters, Blind Eye Fury, Kickfist Death and black metal 7pm £7 Globe Basement Cinema Classics and underground flicks with free popcorn oh boy oh boy 8pm £free hanbury Showcase Open mic hosted by Alex Thorn 7pm £5 honeyclub Salsa Brighton Sort out yr two left feet at the salsa & merengue lessons at 9, then stay for freestyle club action afters 9pm £tbc jam Out Of The Blue Live something tbc 8pm £tbc; Pot Kettle Black Indie night playing old and new gems 10pm £2/1 juggler Are You B.I.M.M.? Music from students and anyone equally passionate 8pm £free komedia DOWNSTAIRS Lisa Mitchell Can one have too much candy-coated folk-pop? Probably not. Get your fix here.

7.45pm £7/6 LEGENDS Scene Queen DJ Lil Alex spins in the Basement club 11pm £free life The Vice Social Student dance night 10.30pm £3/2 PAV TAV Guerilla Rocks Rock, indie, metal & punk to mosh to 10.30pm £3/2 penthouse Broken Birdcage Indie electro dub sounds 7.30pm £free

Prince Albert The Lanes, Sharks Live indie joy 8pm £tbc PV Quiz Infamous 8pm £free RIKI TIK Hip Hop Tuesdays DJ Tyni keeps it real 8pm £free seven stars Retro Cult Classic Film Nights Log on to www.sevenstarsbrighton.co.uk to vote for film to be shown 8pm £free SIDEwinder Open Decks Competition Come and play 8pm £free SIgnalman Quiz Test your wits, hosted by the Fat Controller 8pm £1 Theatre Royal Haunted A tale of obsession featuring Brenda Blethyn and Niall Buggy 7.45pm £tbc Western front The Lobster Quadrille From 50s to present day feat Ollie and Bryn of Laylanas fame 8pm £free WORLDS END Wii Night Leave your stinking pit of a bedroom to play computer games amongst the booze loving public 8pm £free

wednesday 3rd

Audio Supercharged: Caspa, Rod Azian TRG Breaks 11pm £5/4 Belushi’s BAR Old Skool Sessions 90s house 10pm £ f r e e Belushi’s Below Strapped: Student Night House, rock and pop 10pm £free Black Lion Fresh Acoustics Local live music 8.30pm £free Brighton Dome Danza Contemporanea de Cuba: Demo-N & Crazy, Folia, Mambo 3XXI Cuban ensemble, dance & performance 7.30pm £22.50/18/15/10 Brunswick The Noise Next Door Improvisational comedy 8pm £8/6 CASABLANCA Funky Resident Band Taking requests in the Latin Quarter 11pm £2/1 coalition Little Dragon, Woo!Worths Must see uber cool epic electro pop fronted by quirky hot Japanese Swede 7pm £9; Remedy Mid-week medicine of the musical variety.

Expect R&B, pop, dubstep and commercial dance 10:30pm £3/2 Concorde2 Family Entertainments present: Stiff Little Fingers, Penetration Punk from the originals 7.30pm £16 DIGITAL Poundance Dance floor destroyers 11pm £1 DRUIDS ARMS Peppermint Beat Band, Coco Alice Live music 8pm £free Duke of Norfolk Quiz Night Winner takes all 9pm £1 Duke Of York’s Cinema Micmacs 11am 4pm/9.30pm Fishbowl Fisherman’s Chronicles Acoustic jam open mic session 8pm £free freebutt Tubelord Pop songs for rock kids. Incredibly catchy tunes in realtime 3-D, OMG check them out TONIGHT, or put on your slippers and accept you’re an old man 7.30pm £6.50 hanbury Salsa Dance class 8pm £6 heist Sub:Side Dubstep session, step to, step to 8pm £free HYDRANT Quiz Night Music themed quiz with air guitar round 8pm £free jam The Recommender: Velo, Kinema Ace new live music night from SOURCE writer with bands and DJs 8pm £4/3 JuGGLER Difficult Easy Listening Soothing and exciting electro for your ears 8pm £free LATEST Music Bar When I’m Pretty: Plus, DJ Tendraw, Adam Lygo & EMB, DJ Melita London night comes to the sea. ‘Strangely-flavoured frozen junk pop’, how appetising 8pm £4 LEGENDS Gabbi’s Games Bring on the competition 11am £free; Dirty Handbag DJ Gabbi brings the party to the basement club 11pm £free life Broke? Dubstep, hip hop, D&B, house, electro 10.30pm £1 marlborough Open Mic Go for it 8.30pm £free penthouse Pleasestoptrying Alternative music, inspired

by Codeine 7.30pm £free Prince Albert 2 Bars On The Electric Heater Club: Topov’s Monkey Business Live music 8pm £tbc RIKI TIK To The Floor: Jay & Rick It’s a mental indie, rock, electro party 8pm £free Sanctuary cella Intro Music Networking Live music,

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open mic and speakers 8pm £3 SIDEwinder Open Decks Competition Come and play 8pm £free; Quiz Winners take pot 8pm £1 Theatre Royal Haunted A tale of obsession featuring Brenda Blethyn and Niall Buggy 7.45pm £tbc three & ten The Adventurists Spoken word and off-thecuff tomfoolery 8pm £7/5 VARSITY Open Mike Night There’s a song in everyone 8pm £free

thursday 4th

Audio 2-4-1 Thursdays Pop antics 11pm £tbc Belushi’s Bar Karaoke Prizes 9pm £free Belushi’s Below Party On The Ceiling Bands & DJs 9.30pm £2 black lion Don’t Stop Me Now!: Gary Mulholland, Ash Bird 8.30pm £free Brighton Dome Kodo: Taiko Drummers Japanese drummers create a really physical theatre experience 7.30pm £25.50/22.50/18.50 Brunswick Inki, Paper Faces, Forestears Live music 8pm £4/3 caroline of brunswick Brighton Bike Night Bikers’ social 7pm £1 CASABLANCA Stitched Up: Mike Davies Soulful funky popcakes 11pm £2/1 coalition Secret Discotheque Retro disco, 80s pop and other ‘uncool’ tunes 10.30pm £3/2/1 DRUIDS ARMS Open Mic Live music from YOU 9pm £free Duke of Norfolk Live Music: Zarbo One man band spectacular 9pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema Micmacs 11am 4pm/9pm Fiddler’s Elbow Fresh Acoustics Local live music 8.30pm £free Fishbowl Residents Association Hip hop, funk, disco, world & house 10pm £free FiTZHERBERTS Citizen Lane’s Mods vs Rockers Enjoy some Motown, R&B, 60s and blues at this cozy little haven 8pm £free freebutt Atlases, The Lullabies, Hold Your Horse Is, Left Hand Red Red Stripe Award live music 7.30pm £free freemasons noWax Live music of your choosing, bring your mp3s 8pm £free funky BUDDHA Steady On Tunes from Robert Luis, Hint, Maddslinky aka Zed Bias 10.30pm £free George Open Mike Night Don’t be shy 8pm £free Globe Rockoustic: Headstyle Live acoustic showcase 9pm £free GRand central Swing DeVille Duo Gypsy jazz 8.30pm £free GREAT EASTERN DJ Shamblin Sexton’s Music To Drink Bourbon To Western swing, cajun, good ol’ bluegrass and country 9pm £free hanbury Husky Rescue Helsinki ambient pop on Catskills 8pm £8.50 heist Big Trouble in Little Brighton: AJ Moore Spinning disco, house, electro 8pm £free Honeyclub Fusion: Squiz, Ben-G House, R&B, indie 11pm £3/1 HYDRANT Winter Fusion Circus Variety of acts to entertain your eyes and ears 8pm £free Jam Thursday Night Fish Fry Early 50s US rhythm & blues and original Jamaican ska 10pm £3 JuGGLER Wang Dang Doodle Alison Boston Trio presented

by Brighton & Hove Blues Music Society 8pm £free Komedia down Krater Comedy Club Quality stand-up with Stephen Grant 7.30pm £8.50/6.50 komedia UP A Servant to Two Masters Fast paced adaption of Carlo Goldini’s 18th century comedy feat.

Beyonce-style dance moves 7.30pm £8/6 komedia Studio Hammer and Tongue Wordsmiths strut their stuff 7.30pm £5/4 Latest music bar The Beachy Head Music Club Cheerful, witty and lush melodies 8pm £6 LEGENDS Coreaoke Tammy Twinkle hosts this prize infested comp 9pm £free; DLite DJ Lee Harris with some house 11pm £free .IFE Shameless: C-Dogg, DJ Nause Spinning the best and worst of half a century 11pm £1 .IGHTHOUSE Greg Garvey The artist and academic presents work to inspire 7pm £free MY HOTEL Exclusively for all you high maintenance bitches: Gossip about all those losers at work while you get your nails done AND have a cocktail at the Merkaba bar 6pm £20 northerN lights Slow Dazzle 60s & 70s rock and blues 8pm £free penthouse Hot-Tip Hi-Fi Discover the lost reggae gems 7.30pm £free Prince Albert Alektorophobia, The Lieutenants, Mistress, Deadbeats Live music 8pm £tbc providence Lowlife Presents: The Valentines, States of Emotion Live music 8pm £1 REVENGE Girls On Top: Thursgay Dump your girlfriend and make out with someone else’s 10.30pm £5/3 RIKI TIK DJ Homeslice Breaks, beats, hip hop 8pm £free ST JAMES TAVERN Stay Sick, Turn Blue Rock&roll, rockabilly, 60s garage 8.30pm £free Theatre Royal Haunted A tale of obsession featuring

Brenda Blethyn and Niall Buggy 2.30pm/7.45pm £tbc victory Open Mic Night 8pm £free Volks Auxillary: Jayden, Selecta b2b Shufunk D&B 10pm £tbc Worlds end The Big Cash Quiz Come on boffins 8pm £1

friday 5th

Audio Milk Teeth: Terror Danjah, Butterz, Pariah Supahfly night with loads of creatives at the helm. Expect great grime and dubstep and fun times with cool kids 11pm £tbc Belushi’s Bar Coyote Ugly Funky house, electro and dance-off 9pm £free Belushi’s BElow Dress Up Fridays School disco theme 10pm £2/free Black Lion Chef du Party: Out Of The Frying Pan And Onto The Flyer 5 decades of tasty tunes from Chef Oli 8.30pm £free brighton centre JLS X Factor pop treats for all the family 7pm £27.08/22.99 Brighton Dome Jerry Dammers’ Spatial A.K.A. Orchestra The Specials founder brings his 19-piece orchestra of reggae and rock 8pm £20/17.50 BRUNSWICK The Lost Hightway: The Epstein, Dan Shears Americana night, yo 8pm £5/4 caroline of brunswick Pandemonium: DJ Peter von Sleaze Rock and metal 9pm £free; Smarty Party Cabaret: Al Kerr, Johnny Armstrong, Lee Hume A line up of clever comedians and free smarties 8pm £5 CASABLANCA Live Room: The Cover Up Live funk for you to strut your funky stuff 11pm £2/1 Coalition Sneaker Social Club: David Wolstencroft aka Trus’me, Roska House disco, dubstep, garage & techno treats 10.30pm £8/5 Cobbler’s Thumb Strawberry Noise Live Local acts 8pm £free DIGITAL Stonelove Indie rock night 11pm £5/4 DRUIDS ARMS Hot Pepper Sauce Hot funk soul reggae 10pm £free Fishbowl Keep It Wheel Steve KIW spins disco, funk, soul, rock&roll 9pm £free Fortune Of War Shake Hands Lets Party: Pollito Boogaloo Lady DJs So Molly, Heidi, Pippa, Bianca playing tunes from past 50 years 9pm £free freebutt Voodoo Six, Wreckhead, Pyre Cock rock 7.30pm £6 funky buddha Drink, Dance, Repeat Dan Doubledecks, Charles Green & Mikee Hollywood with an eclectic dance mix 11pm £5/3 funkyFISH The Funkyfish Club DJ Delboy spins 4 decades on 4 decks. How many hands does this man have?

10pm £6/3.50 Globe Disco Deviant: Pablo Contraband, Tim Rivers Disco funk house goodies 10pm £free hanbury The Antlers Live indie-folk 7pm £8 heist Soul Damn Funky House music of various persuasions 9pm £free Hobgoblin Lipstick Vibrators, The Maydays Live music 8pm £free Honeyclub 11-16 Year Olds Club Night Maybe needs more effort on the name but you get the picture 6.30pm £6; Hardsouth: Circus Of Wrong! Like regular house but faster and bouncier 11pm £10/8/5 Hope Stacked Nasty: Neil By Mouth DJs spinning 50s and 60s 9pm £free HYDRANT DJ Psychobilly Music while you drink your beer 8pm £free jam Don’t Stop Believin’ No genre or decade, classic after classic 11pm £4/3 JuGGLER Light: DJ Lamp R&B, dance and jazz tunes while you drink your 9 to 5 job away 8pm £free Komedia Down Krater Comedy Club Stand-up shenanigans 7.30pm £14.50/£10 Komedia studio Brighton Jazz Club: Phronesis 8pm £12/10 Komedia UP Blood Red Shoes Return of Brighton twopiece to promote their new album. Yay! 8.30pm £8 LATEST MUSIC BAR Itchy Fingers Live rock cover band 8pm £6 LEGENDS Celebration With your old chum Dolly Rocket 11pm £free LOFT Beardfest 2010: Martlets Charity Fundraiser The bearded beware! If you attend this event you will look like an asshole if you don’t agree to having it removed. Ladies can donate money to pull off a wax stip attached to a man 10pm £donation life Big Fish Little Fish Cardboard Box: Hostage Fidget, bass, electro 11pm £6/5/4 marlborough Q&A (Queer & Alternative) Guest DJs, free pool 5pm £free marlborough theatre International Women’s Day Fundraiser for RISE, with live female acts 8pm £4 Neptune Blues Night Special: Smokestack Live blues 8.30pm £free Northern lights DJ Elk Playing soul, jazz and disco rock 8pm £free OM Something For The Weekend DJ playing house 9pm £free PAV TAV Kick Out The Jams: DJs Dynamite Sal, Eddie

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The Goatboy, Steve and Muffy Indie night 11pm £3 penthouse Amazing! Classic rock and power ballads 7.30pm £free Prince Albert Sparrow, Time Brings Age, Tom and the Tides Live bands 8pm £tbc PrOVidence Sound Factory presents: Battle of the Bands 2010AD 4 bands compete in 1st Heat 8pm £2 RIKI TIK Nick Maxwell, DJ Insight Hip hop, D&B, breaks and all that good stuff 8pm £free Sallis benney theatre Grimm’s Fairy Tales Brighton Uni drama crew go Grimm Details tbc SIDEwinder Simply Dredd: Harry K Reggae bootleg party 8pm £free Theatre Royal Haunted A tale of obsession featuring Brenda Blethyn and Niall Buggy 7.45pm £tbc thomas kemp All Time Top 100 Special guest DJs offer their best tunes 8pm £free three & ten Don’t Feed the Poets Comedy, poetry, spoken word, how absurd 8pm £7/5 victory Beans On Toast Radio Reverb Master Blackbelt Jones on the decks 9pm £free VOLKS Sicknote: The Geezer, Scorb, N-Coder, Adsimeon, Sketchy Steve, I.T.S Techno vs psytrance 11pm £7 West Hill tavern Envy Indie, synth pop, dance, hip hop 10pm £free Western front Bar Breaks Beats: DJ Stupid Kid, Judge Mental, Mute Hip hop, electro, house 9pm £free WORLDS END PUB Young Electrics Bands do their thang 8pm £free

saturday 6th

Audio Doll and the Kicks Sugary rock, eccentric pop 7pm £7/6; SOL Winter Sessions: Bloggers Delight, Momma’s Boy House, electro & techno treats 11pm £free Basement Supper Club Nibble tapas and devour bite-size morsels of performance, video art, installations and interactions 7.30pm £6/4 Belushi’s Bar Credit Crunch Saturdays Live acoustic duo 9pm £free Belushi’s Below Good Times: Retro Disco Party 9pm £5 Black Lion Attic Monkeys 60s classics, rare 70s, 80s hip hop treats 8.30pm £free Brunswick Los Albertos Ska band with a lot of fans 8pm £5 brighton centre Rock V Funk Family show 7.30pm £10/7; Ronan Keatig Irish pop king 7.30pm £30 Brighton Dome Terry Garoghan: Sing-a-Long-aBrighton The Musical Catchy songs about this seaside town, a pleasure for visitors and residents alike 8pm £18 caroline of brunswick Replica Goth, industrial, EBM 9pm £free; Laugh Down Babylon Cheap as chips comedy 9pm £2 CASABLANCA Funky Fiesta All aboard the Soul train 10pm £5 Coalition Student Pride: Love Music Hate Homophobia 10pm £15; Blow After Party: Vincent Manganaro, Alex Outram, Aaron Palaez 3am £7/5/4 Cobbler’s Thumb Chango Mutley: Boogalube, Emmentalicious, Around for Sound, I’m There With Jugs On, Handy Andy’s Sandy Ghandi Shandy, Velcro the Vicinity, For Your Eyebrows Only Loadsa music crammed into one night 8pm £free Concorde2 Tom McRae The rescheduled show from Sept, all tickets bought last year remain valid. Singer/songwriter spectacular 7.30pm £12.50; Kings Of The Jungle: DJ SS, Micky Finn, Ray Keith, Nicky Blackmarket, Raga Twins, Junglizim Cru Dance with the Jungle massive 11pm £8 cowley club WDM Climate and Trade Justice: Steve and the Ghost, Green Bean, Birthmark, Turtle, Pete Fijalkowski & Terry Bickers, Chris Paradox, Fleassy Malloy Live bands for a good cause at this rather rough diamond bar with organic and cheap booze 7pm £4 DIGITAL Pussycat Club Glittery sparkley night with Geek, Chic or Unique theme. Pets win prizes 11pm £12/10/5 DRUIDS ARMS Nostalgiadelia Soul funk DJ action 10pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema Ice Age 11am Engine room White Hills, Pontiak Loud and heavy bands so leave your gran at home 8pm £tbc Fishbowl Askew: Barry Dust, Gareth Stephens Expect broken beats, nu-jazz and reggae 9pm £free Fortune Of War Deck Chairs: FIP Radio presents Expect soul, funk, breaks, dub, hip hop, house, TUUUNES 9pm £free freebutt Blackfish, James Cleaver Quintet, Heights Hardcore 7.30pm £5 freemasons Saturday Showdown DJ Resident keeps the music flowing 8pm £free funky buddha Buddha Soul: DJ Mike Pantelli Funk, soul, r&b, house 11pm £10; After party 3am £5 funkyFISH The Funkyfish Club DJ Delboy spins 4 decades on 4 decks. How many hands does this man have?

10pm £6/3.50 Globe Music Is The Answer: Johnny Jones DJ JJ spins eclectic tunes 9pm £free greenhouse effect The Sumerian Kyngs Experimental psychedelic live music 8.30pm £3 Hanbury Pop Kraft Saturday Special: DJ Boogaloo Stu,

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The Size Zero Albino, Darran Duran Things to make and do and pop music too. Make your own mini-me and outrageous party games like shitlips, penny up the crack and put your finger in the cream 10pm £8/6 HECTORS HOUSE Free for All Party in a pub, yo 8.30pm £free heist Home: Sean Quinn House music of various persuasions 9pm £free Honeyclub Sevensins presents Freemasons Pumping house & electro 11pm £12 Hope Joanna and the Wolf, Nila and the Rajas Folk rock from Lithuanian front lady Joanna Glaza 8pm £3 HYDRANT The Meow Meows, The Carribbian, The Liabilities Live music 8pm £tbc Jam The Stash: Kensingtons, Shirley, Dog End Disco Live music and Stash DJs playing 50s to 70s treats 8pm £4/2 JuGGLER DJ Lamp R&B, dance and jazz tunes continued from the day before 8pm £free Komedia Down Krater Comedy Club Stand-up shenanigans 7pm/10.30pm £17.50 komedia studio Comedy Club 4 Kids Exactly that 2pm £8/6; Vive La Fip Tunes from France, or is it Brighton?

Expect eclectic delights 9pm £6/5 Komedia UP Guilty Pleasures Don’t be ashamed to like that cheese 11pm £10 life Hold Up! Indie night 11pm £5 LEGENDS Ignition DJ Lee Harris with chart and house 11pm £free marlborough Cherry Pop DJ Fondue Inferno brings the cheese 8pm £free northerN lights DJ James Funk and soul tunes 8pm £free OM Beatsworkin: Dominique Dannile, Tony Nunn DJ playing deep and tech house 9pm £free PAV TAV Back to The Future! A decade of music per hour.

Alternative music from the 70s, 80s 90s & the naughties 11pm £3/2 penthouse Smack That Eclectic DJs 7.30pm £free PRINCE ALBERT Club Meow with the Meow Meows Live bands with Dollydagger DJs in the main bar 8pm £tbc PrOVidence Sound Factory presents: 70s Cop, Being Jo Francis, Unfolds Indie rock night for all you indie rockers 8pm £2 RIKI TIK Shades of Blue 50s to 70s jazz treats 8pm £free Sallis benney theatre Grimm’s Fairy Tales Brighton Uni drama crew go Grimm Details tbc SIDEWINDEr Hyperlink: DJ Barry Dust All that funky jazzy shit throughout the decades 8pm £free Theatre Royal Haunted A tale of obsession featuring Brenda Blethyn and Niall Buggy 2.30/7.45pm £tbc three & ten Clever Peter Comedy sketch group 7pm £8/6; Bane II One-man comedy noir from Bruce 8.30pm £8/6 Volks Psychedelicous: Tek-Noir, Datomass Niquid, Sick Nik, Ad Simeon Electro-tech progressive phatness 11pm £8 Walmer castle Unmixed Master & Kevin SpaceyDisco It’s a RockPopRaveDisco at your fave local boozer 8pm £free West Hill Tavern If Reagan Played Disco Music circa 1979-90 8.30pm £free Western front Partytime DJs playing hip hop, house, electro and party classic 9pm £free WORLDS END PUB Dub Fi Dub Reggae dub action all night 8pm £free

sunday 7th

Belushi’s Bar Open Mic Session 8.30pm £free Black Lion Sunday Sessions: Dubrockers Live Dub, reggae, ska, punk, trip hop and funk 6pm £free Brighton Dome Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra Bach and Tchaikovsky 2.45pm £8-32 caroline of brunswick The Geekest Link Was your imaginary childhood friend a unicorn? Was Willow the best film like, ever? Does your Second Life avatar have wings and a magical mystical tail? Do you own a floor length leather coat?

Can you answer these questions and others like them correctly in Klingon? Good for you, this quiz is yours for the taking 8.30pm £1 coalition Frequency DJs spinning house, breaks, electros 10pm £free Concorde2 The Sunday Social: A Certain Ration, Danny Rampling, Justin Robertson, Transformer, Steve Mac All profits to The Children’s Burns Trust, feat live funk, house and electro from total legends 5pm £15 DRUIDS ARMS The Downtown Sessions Trip hop and broken down grooves to wind down your hectic weekend 9pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema Move Music Masterclass 6pm Fiddler’s Elbow Sham-Rock Open Mic 9pm £free freebutt Gift of Gab, PRJCT MYHM, Blue Ducks Rap attacks from ex-Blackalicious bloke 7.30pm £9.50 Globe Sunday Funday Decks and boardgames in the basement Noon £free GREAT EASTERN Denis Privett & Piers Clark Live swing and Americana 8pm £free hanbury Cabaret Lunch Live cabaret from The Enchanted Noon £free; The Tin Angel presents: Baby Dee Price

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includes two classes 8pm £10 Hobgoblin S.S.S., Down & Outs, Shitty Limits, Crypsis Live music 7pm £free honeyclub Spectrum: Jon Byrne & Steven James Electro to keep the weekend alive 11pm £3/2 Hope ExLovers Girl/boy harmonies galore 8pm £5 HYDRANT Open Mic Night With Carol of Carnival Collective fame 8pm £free Komedia down Krater Comedy Club Quality stand-up that’s much funnier than these listings 8pm £11/6 Komedia UP The Musicians of Bremen Tender tale with original music 2pm £8/6; Bent Double: Zoe Lyons Laffs a plenty for queers and chums 7.30pm £21.50/10/8 lATEST music bar Mama Rosin Young rebels smashing genre boundaries 8pm £5 LEGENDS Cabaret: Lady Imelda Diva time 3.15pm £free; Fever Disco and pop 11pm £free marlborough theatre Steampunk Hidden Planaterium Music and cabaret from another time 3pm £7/6 Neptune Alternative Music Night: Simon and Sleeze Live acoustic blues 8.30pm £free Old Market Brodsky Quartet: Frank Bridge, Britten, Ravel High art 11am £22/14/10/7; Carducci Quartet: Haydn, Moeran, Mendelssohn Strings 11am £22/14/10/7 OM Sunday Shoutin: Lee Garratt DJ playing classic tunes 9pm £free Penthouse Felt Up! DIY, craft, mess-making, music related events & projects 2pm £free Prince Albert Picore, Headquarters Live music 8pm £tbc Sallis benney theatre Grimm’s Fairy Tales Brighton Uni drama crew go Grimm Details tbc seven stars Mike The Mic And Friends Mike and his pals give your ears a workout 4pm £free sT JAMES TAVERN Pollito Boogaloo DJs play their latin tunes 7pm £free volks WeightedM: DJ Psychos Bday Bash Dark n deadly tunes served up by WM crew 4pm £free WORLDS END PUB Mr Bullock’s Sunday Club Open mic: come and stare, try if you dare 8pm £free

monday 8th

audio James McCartney Paul’s artistic son gives us what he’s got?? 7pm £free Belushi’s BAR Quiz night 8.30pm £free Belushi’s Below Latin Mondayz Salsa & samba on the decks 9pm £2/free Black Lion Happy Mondays Open decks and mics 5pm £free Coalition Trash Mondays Eclectic student night 10.30pm £3/2/free duke of norfolk Poker Night 8pm £free Freebutt Eric Cheneux, Dead Rat Orchestra Jazz to bossa guitar 7.30pm £5 Hope The H’Open Mic 8.30pm £free; Cheneux, First Aid Kit Swedish folk 8pm £tbc HYDRANT You Tube Share your faves with the pub 8pm £free LEGENDS Miss Jason’s Monday Mayhem Feat. Gay Your Cards Right 9pm £free; Chic DJ Steve Lush spins disco anthems in the basement 11pm £free Life Aka Aka Roar: Ben UFO Inspirational dubstep 11pm £3/2 Old Market Blue Camel Club Artistic achievements of peeps with learning disabilities. Carers go free 7pm £3 OM George Buko DJ playing deeeeep house 9pm £free penthouse Beach Coma Motown, soul and more Noon £free Prince Albert Viv Albertine’s Limerence, Little Eris, Wet Dog Mind-worm melodies and twisted lyrics from debut EP ‘Flesh’. Do not miss seeing the driving force behind hugely influential band The Slits 8pm £tbc Sallis benney theatre Pound Event: Peter Own Jones Cheap as chips lecture on media, documentaries and the BBC 7pm £1 sidewinder Poker night 9pm £5 Theatre Royal Hedda Gabler Fiesty heroine played by Anna Carteret 7.45pm £tbc thomas kemp Pub Quiz 8pm £free three graces Mind Boggling Quiz Interactive rounds 8.30pm £free Volks Strictly Reggae: Big T Dancehall, roots, revival 10pm £5/4.50

tuesday 9th

Audio Club NME Indie and such 11pm £3/2 Basement Melting Vinyl present: Rozi Plain, Francois, The Atlas Mountains Lo-fi electronics meet dreamlike songs 8pm £8.50/7.50 Belushi’s BAR Mod For It DJs playing ska 10pm £free Belushi’s below Elements D&B 9pm £1 Black Lion Tuesday Club Live sets and music joy 8pm £free Brighton Centre Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Tour Beatles fantasy band and more 7pm £25.05 Brighton Dome The Stranglers Yes it’s the originals!

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First formed in 1974, see them before they split or die 7pm £23 Brighton Media Centre Frankly Outrageous Dark comedy featuring 3 men, 1 flat and a corpse 8pm £7.50 Brunswick Open Mic Come and stare or try if you dare 8pm £free Caroline of brunswick Quiz Night 8.30pm £1; Skeptics In The Pub: Dr Robert Stovold’s Food For Though Lecture with your beer 8pm £2 Coalition Salsa Brighton Learn the moves for the clubnight later 8pm £6/4; Viva Latino: DJ Dubl Salsa & merengue music 10pm £3/2 Concorde 2 Idlewild Still touring after 7 albums 8pm £15 DIGITAL Glitterati Exclusive student night 11pm £4/3 Duke of Norfolk Open Mic Including tapdancers, poetry and all kinds of music 9pm £free Fiddler’s Elbow Quizness Time Pub Quiz 8pm £1 FREEBUTT Memory Tapes Davve Hawk serves up his dreamy dance pop style 7.30pm £6 Globe Basement Cinema: Woodstock Special Classic and underground film screening 8pm £free honeyclub Salsa Brighton Sort out yr two left feet at the salsa & merengue lessons at 9, then stay for freestyle club action afters 9pm £tbc HYDRANT Games Night Come and play 8pm £free jam Out Of The Blue Live something tbc 8pm £tbc; Pot Kettle Black Indie night playing old and new gems 10pm £2/1 juggler Are You B.I.M.M.? Music from students and anyone equally passionate 8pm £free Latest music bar Blue Light Initiative Launch Party: The Stars Down to Earth, The Beautiful Word, Yokoko, The Bobby McGees Killer line-up for quirky indie pop and that scottish bloke from the Bobby McGees has a lovely beard and is a really nice bloke 8pm £5/4 LEGENDS Scene Queen DJ Lil Alex spins in the Basement club 11pm £free life The Vice Social Student dance night 10.30pm £3/2 marlborough Quiz Winner takes all 8pm £1 PAV TAV Guerilla Rocks Rock, indie, metal & punk to mosh to 10.30pm £3/2 penthouse Rate Noise Electro and Ninja Tunes 7.30pm £free Prince Albert Melodica Melody & Me Godfathers of folk-step 7.30pm £7 RIKI TIK Hip Hop Tuesdays DJ Tyni keeps it real 8pm £free seven stars Retro Cult Classic Film Nights Log on to www.sevenstarsbrighton.co.uk to vote for film to be shown 8pm £free Sallis benney theatre Democracy in Crisis: Caroline Lucas Lecture series hosted by Centre for Applied Philosophy & Ethics 6pm £free SIDEwinder Open Decks Competition Come and play 8pm £free SIgnalman Quiz Test your wits, hosted by the Fat Controller 8pm £1 Theatre Royal Hedda Gabler Fiesty heroine played by Anna Carteret 7.45pm £tbc Three and ten Huis Clos Young actors dealing with death 7.30pm £6/5 Volks Toothsayer Electro, hip hop, balkan beats 10pm £tbc West Hill Tavern Open Mic With Chump, Ollie & Jack 8.30pm £free Western front The Lobster Quadrille From 50s to present day feat Ollie and Bryn of Laylanas fame 8pm £free WORLDS END Wii Night Leave your stinking pit of a bedroom to play computer games amongst the booze loving public 8pm £free

wednesday 10th

Audio Supercharged: Starkey Beats and treats 11pm £5/4 Belushi’s BAR Old Skool Sessions 90s house 10pm £ f r e e Belushi’s Below Strapped: Student Night House, rock and pop 10pm £free Black Lion Fresh Acoustics Local live music 8.30pm £free Brighton centre Katherine Jenkins Hot classical crossover artist 7.30pm £55/45/37.50 Brighton Dome Jethro Tull Forty years later, 60 million albums sold, still rocking in the free world 7.30pm £28.50/25.50 Brighton Media Centre Frankly Outrageous Dark comedy featuring 3 men, 1 flat and a corpse 8pm £7.50 BRUNSWICK Laugh Your Bits Off: Lee Hume, Dan Evans Comedy gems 8pm £5 caroline of brunswick The Funnier Farm Stand up 8.30pm £5 CASABLANCA Live funk & DJ £free before 11pm/£2/£1 coalition Remedy Mid-week medicine of the musical variety. Expect R&B, pop, dubstep and commercial dance 10:30pm £3/2

DIGITAL Poundance Dance floor destroyers 11pm £1 Duke of Norfolk Quiz Night Winner takes all 9pm £1 Fishbowl Fisherman’s Chronicles Acoustic jam open mic session 8pm £free Freebutt Kids Love Lies London pop-punk fronted by brit Kathleen Hanna 7.30pm £6 hanbury Salsa Dance class 8pm £6 heist Sub:Side Dubstep session, step to, step to 8pm £free hOPE Bring Back Summer!: Chunkin, The Morning Orchestra, Mondo Kong Three bands fool us into thinking it’s summer. Bring on sunburn, lager tops and broken sunglasses 8.30pm £2 HYDRANT Quiz Night Music themed quiz with air guitar round 8pm £free JuGGLER Bakk Lamp Fall 5 piece traditional West African band 8pm £free Komedia down Alex Horne: Wordwatching One man’s comedy attempt to get a new word into the dictionary 8pm £10/8 Komedia Studio Oddfellow’s Casino, Jason Pegg Orchestral electronics 7.30pm £5; Short Fuse Hairy music and readings about the fibrous dead protein 8pm £5 Komedia UP Meeting Joe Strummer Passionate punk comedy 8.30pm £12.50/10 Latest music bar Jouis, The Sly Tones, Illustrators Psychdelic jazz pop 8pm £4 LEGENDS Gabbi’s Games Bring on the competition 11am £free; Dirty Handbag DJ Gabbi brings the party to the basement club 11pm £free life Broke? Dubstep, hip hop, D&B, house, electro 10.30pm £1 marlborough Open Mic Go for it 8.30pm £free marlborough theatre Silver Wednesday Old fashioned candle-lit cinema 8pm £Donation penthouse The Outer Church Brain damage for the discerning psychonaut 7.30pm £free Prince Albert Three Big Black presents Live bands 8pm £tbc R Bar Midweek Mash up Indie, rock and electro from DJ Beast 8pm £free RIKI TIK To The Floor: Jay & Rick It’s a mental indie, rock, electro party 8pm £free SIDEwinder Open Decks Competition Come and play 8pm £free; Quiz Winners take pot 8pm £1 Theatre Royal Hedda Gabler Fiesty heroine played by Anna Carteret 7.45pm £tbc Three and ten Huis Clos Young actors dealing with death 7.30pm £6/5 VARSITY Open Mike Night There’s a song in everyone 8pm £free

thursday 11th

Audio Bastard Pop Launch Night Musical mash up 11pm £2 Basement This Is Now: New Art Club Nolstalgic dancea-thon from dance duo Tom and Pete and they run through an illegal mix-tape from 1983 7.30pm £8/5 Belushi’s Bar Karaoke 9pm £free Belushi’s Below Party On The Ceiling Two bands & DJ 9.30pm £2 Black Lion Attic Monkeys 60s, 70s and 80s treats nicked from DJ Dad’s attic 8.30pm £free Brighton Dome Charley Boorman Live: The Inside Story Gives his perspective of travelling from London to NYC, The Long Way Round with Ewan McGregor - he’ll be travelling from London to Brighton via Norway tonight 7.30pm £18.50 Brighton Media Centre Frankly Outrageous Dark comedy featuring 3 men, 1 flat and a corpse 8pm £7.50 Brunswick Achilles, Beat Presidents Live pop, rock&roll 8pm £4/3 caroline of brunswick Brighton Bike Night Bikers’ social 7pm £1 CASABLANCA Live band & DJ Funky soul popness 11pm £2/1 coalition Secret Discotheque Retro disco, 80s pop and other ‘uncool’ tunes 10.30pm £3/2/1 coRN EXCHANGE Grizzly Bear, Beach House Brooklyn indie rockers show us their teeth 7pm £16 coNCOrde 2 Levi Roots, Maffia, Fluxy Reggae Reggae Sauce man gives us a taste of all-star tuuunes Bob Marley style 7.30pm £14 DIGITAL Thursday Club/Subsplash: Datsik, Trolly Snatcha, Cookie Monster, Flux Pavillion Live tunes 11pm £5 DRUIDS ARMS Open Mic Live music from YOU 9pm £free Duke of Norfolk Live music: Zarbo One man band spectacular 9pm £free Fiddler’s Elbow Fresh Acoustics Local live music 8.30pm £free Fishbowl Residents Association Hip hop, funk, disco, world & house 10pm £free Freebutt Sennen? Mystery band 7.30pm £tbc freemasons noWax Live music of your choosing, bring your mp3s 8pm £free

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funky BUDDHA Steady On Tunes from Robert Luis, Hint 10.30pm £free George Open Mike Night Don’t be shy 8pm £free Globe Rockoustic Showcasing local live acts 9pm £free GRand central Swing DeVille Duo Gypsy jazz 8.30pm £free hanbury The Club Smooch Burlesque and other live teats, we mean treats 8pm £tbc heist Big Trouble in Little Brighton: AJ Moore Spinning disco, house, electro 8pm £free Honeyclub Fusion: Squiz, Ben-G House, R&B, indie 11pm £3/1 hope Liam Lever Young hotshot shows us his glammed-up synthpop balls 8pm £6 HYDRANT Hattie Hatstar Fags, fights and boyfriends, sung by working class heroine 8pm £tbc HYDRANT UpSTAIRS Access to Music Live music 8pm £tbc Jam Brute Chorus Details tbc 9pm £tbc; Thursday Night Fish Fry Early 50s US rhythm & blues and original Jamaican ska 10pm £3 JuGGLER Wang Dang Doodle Alison Boston Trio presented

by Brighton & Hove Blues Music Society 8pm £free Komedia studio Spirit of Gravity Present Electronica and visuals 8pm £5/4 Latest music bar Catalyst Club It’s a debate with subjects ranging from voodoo to tinned meat 8pm £5 LEGENDS Coreaoke Tammy Twinkle hosts this prize infested comp 9pm £free; DLite DJ Lee Harris with some house 11pm £free LIFE Shameless: C-Dogg, DJ Nause Spinning the best and worst of half a century 11pm £1 marlborough Karaoke Sing it proud 8pm £free marlborough theatre Don’t Take Drugs: Casual Violence Dark, sick and twisted comedy, just the way you like it 8pm £5 penthouse Get Your Geek On Bleeps and bass 7.30pm £free Prince Albert The Perils, Brownstar, Portslade, Dirty Scavenger Live music 8pm £tbc Providence Lowlife: Ramona, In Cases, London Commands You Live music 8pm £1 R BAR Girls On Top Warm Up With DJ Dulcie Danger 8pm £free REVENGE Girls On Top: Thursgay Dump your girlfriend and make out with someone else’s 10.30pm £5/3 RIKI TIK DJ Homeslice Breaks, beats, hip hop 8pm £free ST JAMES TAVERN Stay Sick, Turn Blue Rock&roll, rockabilly, 60s garage 8.30pm £free Sanctuary Cella Top Banana: Jason Blackwater, Sue Gaston, Rob Dumbrell, Alex Petrovic, Mark Cornell, Andy Allen, Sam Savage, Any Byrant, Phil Dukes Live comedy with 9 stand-ups hosted by Romesh Ranganathan 8pm £2 Theatre Royal Hedda Gabler Fiesty heroine played by Anna Carteret 2.30/7.45pm £tbc Three and ten Huis Clos Young actors dealing with death 7.30pm £6/5 victory Open Mic Night 8pm £free Volks Skank: Kromoestar, Inaound, Mickey Freeze, MC Papa Rudy, Ultrasound, 2manysteps, Moony, G-Flex Dub, bass, grime night 11pm £5/3 Worlds end The Big Cash Quiz Come on boffins 8pm £1

friday 12th

audio Friday Night Hero Live music 7.30pm £tbc; Club: Minimal Kids: H.O.S.H 11pm £6/5 Belushi’s Bar Coyote Ugly Funky house, electro and dance-offs 9pm £free Belushi’s BElow Dress Up Fridays Dressing up night.

Santa & his elves theme. Really? 10pm £2/free Black Lion Medium Rare Rare funk grooves if you like being funky and strutting your funky stuff 8.30pm £free Brighton Media Centre Frankly Outrageous Dark comedy featuring 3 men, 1 flat and a corpse 8pm £7.50 Brunswick Matthew George’s Boogie Woogie Troop Spirit of New Orleans piano 8pm £6 caroline of brunswick Al Baker and the Dole Queue, The Ruby Kidd, Pog Expect socialist folk-punk 8pm £4/3; Mish Mash Dj Mendees spins metal and goth 9pm £free CASABLANCA RetroElectric Who’s got the funk? Live band plays 10pm £5 coalition Phenomenal Handclap Band Total treat from NYC collective whose live performance is more church frenzy than rock. This is progressive soul 8pm £tbc Concorde2 Think Floyd Tribute to the Pink 7.30pm £15, Beat Redemption - Brainfeeder Special: Flying Lotus, Martyn, King Midas Sound System, Actress Awesome live electronic music 11pm £10 coRN EXCHANGE Mumford and Sons Songs from chart topping ‘Sigh No More’ album 7pm £12 DIGITAL Stonelove Indie rock night 11pm £5/4 DRUIDS ARMS Foe and Friends Funk soul hip hop reggae gems 10pm £free Fishbowl Return of the Funky Man DJ ‘J’ spins an eclectic music session 9pm £free FiTZHERBERTS The Hideout Totally boss 60s garage &

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beat 8.30pm £free Fortune Of War Shake Hands Lets Party: Pippa & Friend Lady DJs So Molly, Heidi, Pippa, Bianca playing tunes from past 50 years 9pm £free Freebutt Two Spot Gobi Nu jazz melodies 7.30pm £5 freemasons Friday Fling Tunes to keep you alive 8pm £free funky buddha Drink, Dance, Repeat Dan Doubledecks, Charles Green & Mikee Hollywood with an eclectic dance mix 11pm £5/3 funkyFISH The Funkyfish Club DJ Delboy spins 4 decades on 4 decks. How many hands does this man have?

10pm £6/3.50 Globe Cool Hand Luke Good time vibe disco tunes 9pm £free hanbury The Myna Morgans Live music 7pm £6 heist Soul Damn Funky House music of various persuasions 9pm £free Honeyclub Wasted UV Rave Party Dig out your neons, whistles, inflatables, sunglasses; it’s gonna be bright all night.

Expect electro-rave, indie-rave, remixes and anthems or all persuasions 11pm £tbc Hydrant WEO presents: Wide Eyed Order Live music 8pm £free HYDRANT UPstairs Rexs’ Night General debauchery 8pm £tbc INK Kidology: Mark Wilkinson Smashing up the dancefloor, but not literally 9pm £free jam Dont Stop Believin’ No genre or decade, classic after classic 11pm £4/3 JuGGLER Light: DJ Lamp R&B, dance and jazz tunes while you drink your 9 to 5 job away 8pm £free Komedia UPstairs David Bowie Tribute Night Feat.

Absolute Bowie to take you on a journey of Bowie’s tight-pants 7.30pm £12/10; Balkaneasca! Andy Satellite and Nico serve up some brass heavy Balkan and Gypsy beats 11pm £8/6 Komedia Down Krater Comedy Club Stand-up shenanigans 7.30pm £14.50/10; Balkanesca Gypo beats 11pm £8/6 Komedia Studio Brighton Jazz Club: John Donaldson 8pm £12/10 Latest music bar Charity Chuckle Brian Gittins and comedy chums help raise money for Haiti 7pm £6; Poleoke Choose a track and dance sexy-like 10pm £5 LEGENDS Celebration With your old chum Dolly Rocket 11pm £free life Big Fish Little Fish Cardboard Box: HiJack, Warrior One Fidget, bass, electro 11pm £6/5/4 lOFT Malicious Launch for new flt sleaze & cheese night 10.30pm £5/3/2 marlborough Q&A (Queer & Alternative) Guest DJs, free pool 5pm £free marlborough theatre Don’t Take Drugs: Casual Violence Dark, sick and twisted comedy, just the way you like it 8pm £5 Neptune Blues Night Speical: Kris Drollimore Swamp stoming Blues 8.30pm £free Northern lights DJ Abo & James Playing soul, jazz and latino 8pm £free OM Mimetic: Ivan Barbero, Bruno Oranto DJ playing tech house 9pm £free PAV TAV Kick Out The Jams: DJs Dynamite Sal, Eddie The Goatboy, Steve and Muffy Indie night 11pm £3 penthouse Lilo Feast Across the board non-hipster music for hipsters (they’ll hate that description) 7.30pm £free Prince Albert The Peacocks, The Razorblades, The Hotlines Live music 8pm £tbc PrOVidence Sound Factory presents: Battle of the Bands 2010AD 4 bands compte in 2nd Heat 8pm £2 RIKI TIK Nick Maxwell, DJ Insight Hip hop, D&B, breaks and all that good stuff 8pm £free Sidewinder The Shakedown Presents: Shades of Blue Funk vs Jazz 8pm £free Theatre Royal Hedda Gabler Fiesty heroine played by Anna Carteret 7.45pm £tbc thomas kemp All Time Top 100 Special guest DJs offer their best tunes 8pm £free three & ten WitTank Comedy sketches 8pm £7/5 Volks Psyence Psytrance party 11pm £tbc West Hill tavern Envy Indie, synth pop, dance, hip hop 10pm £free Western front Bar Breaks Beats: DJ Stupid Kid, Judge Mental, Mute Hip hop, electro, house 9pm £free WORLDS END PUB Get Rhythm: Hootenanny Get down with the live American roots 8pm £free

saturday 13th

aL Duomo Pure Natural Vibes Live drummers jam with reggae, ska and dub tunes 11pm £5/4 audio Club: SOL Winter Sessions House, electro & techno treats 11pm £free Belushi’s Bar Credit Crunch Saturdays Live acoustic duo 9pm £free Belushi’s Below Good Times: Retro Disco Party 9pm £5 Black Lion Burnt Toast Sleazy soul and filthy funk

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8.30pm £free Brighton centre Chris Rea Road to Hell man impresses us with his gravelly voice 7pm £29.50 Brighton Dome London Philharmonic Orchestra Shumann, Brahms, Ravel 7.30 £10-32.50 Brighton Media Centre Frankly Outrageous Dark comedy featuring 3 men, 1 flat and a corpse 8pm £7.50 brunswick Tonight Matthew 7-piece cover band 8pm £5 CASABLANCA Funky Fiesta All aboard the soul train 10pm £5 Coalition Floorplay: Noir, Prok & Fitch, Lee Garrett The next electro house superstar DJs’ club night 10.30pm £10/8/7; Blow After Party: Vincent Manganaro, Alex Outram, Aaron Palaez 3am £7/5/4 Concorde2 Forties To The Noughties It’s a celebration partytime spectacular with seven decades and six NYEs. Each hour is a full decade and when it’s up, it’s time to celebrate the New Year! Expect burlesque, Elvis, fireworks and rap battles.

Superfuntimes 9pm £8 Cowley club La Slut Le Disko Frog themed electropunk dance party for the chic and the freaks 8pm £donations DIGITAL Wax:On presents: Erol Alkan, People Get Real, Eskimo Twins Live beat action 11pm £11 DRUIDS ARMS Get Yuh Own DJs pimping their hip hop, jazz, world and future music 10pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema Where The Wild Things Are 11am ENGINE ROOM Snake Eyed Mamas Club Live music with DJs playing rock&roll and 50s R&B 11pm £4 Fiddler’s Elbow Legendary St Patrick’s Street Money The 13th year of celebrations, including live bands and Irish dancers Noon £free Fishbowl Sumsuch & Danny Williams Latenite Lounging Records boss returns to take you on a journey through house 9pm £free Fortune Of War Deck Chairs: Flevans Expect soul, funk, breaks, dub, hip hop, house, TUUUNES 9pm £free freebutt Sounds of Guns Pencil live music 7.30pm £tbc freemasons Saturday Showdown DJ Resident keeps the music flowing 8pm £free funky buddha Buddha Soul: DJ Mike Pantelli Funk, soul, R&B, house 11pm £10; After party 3am £5 funkyFISH The Funkyfish Club DJ Delboy spins 4 decades on 4 decks. How many hands does this man have?

10pm £6/3.50 Globe Go Bang Basement Session Basement party with Affy and Ali playing groove and e-funk 9pm £free Hanbury We Luv Pop Outrageous pop party 6pm £8/6 hectors house Stay Sick The Devil Wrays and The Razorblades live & garage punk rock&roll 8pm £free heist Home: Sean Quinn House music of various persuasions 9pm £free hope SlipJam Long Player: Slip Jam:B Crew 11th anniversary bash feat rap dating and other hip hop related treats 9pm £free Honeyclub Sevensins: Lottie Pumping house & electro, R&B 11pm £12 Hydrant The Bohemianauts Tango, polka, gypsy-swing 8pm £free HYDRANT upstairs Club Zygotic: Bilge Pump, Caution Horses, Emotikkon, Slow Listener, DJ Fokker Wolfe Live music 8.30pm £5 JAM Banned Live Music 10.30pm £6 JuGGLER DJ Lamp R&B, dance and jazz tunes continued from the day before 8pm £free Komedia Down Krater Comedy Club Stand-up shenanigans 7pm/10.30pm £17.50/15 Komedia Up James Taylor Quartet Boogaloo beats, R&B and movie themes 8pm £15; Brighton Rock 40 years of classic rock and metal 11pm £6/5 Komedia Studio Stone To The Bone feat Chris ‘Da Doo Ron Ron’ & Jon ‘Born Bad’ playing disco, Motown grooves 11pm £6/5 Latest music bar Big Wheels Revue Classic Detroit Motown live 7.30pm £10/8 LEGENDS Ignition DJ Lee Harris with chart and house 11pm £free life Hold Up! Indie night 11pm £5 marlborough Cherry Pop DJ Fondue Inferno brings the cheese 8pm £free marlborough theatre Don’t Take Drugs: Casual Violence Dark, sick and twisted comedy, just the way you like it 8pm £5 northerN lights The Hushclub DJ spinning blues, ska, garage soul 8pm £free OM Brighter Days: Roy Rogers, Kate Wildblood, Queen Josephine, Affy, Russell Ruckman, DJ Joolz, Natureboy DJs spinning all types of house 9pm £free PAV TAV Back To The Future Indie, dance, pop, rock from the decades 11pm £3/2 penthouse Eagle Legs Riot grrl, soul, indie 7.30pm £free Prince Albert Deadbeat Descendant live music 8pm £tbc PROVIDENCE Sound Factory: Theives By The Code, The Hi-Sides, Raised On Replicas Heavy rock night 8pm £2 REVENGE Kinky Dangerous With DJs Stewart T and Smiffy, playing pop and house 10.30pm £5/3 SIDEwinder SOURCE Office Stereo Our editor The James Kendall gives us that killer mix of 80s pop, electro and

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indie sounds 8pm £free Theatre Royal Hedda Gabler Fiesty heroine played by Anna Carteret 2.30pm/7.45pm £tbc three & ten The Noise Next Door Impro comedy night 8pm £8/6; International Stand-up Surreal sprinklings 9.30pm £8/6; Matt Marker Tunes and beats and solid grooves 10pm £free victory Up Against It Born Bad DJs bring you bubblegum, punky trash-tastic hot slop and rag mop, yo 10pm £free Volks Black Box, Up: Paul Langley, Tony Montana, Taylortronic, Jiminy Clacket Fresh mash-up dubstep 11pm £8/6 WATERSTONES Cathi Unsworth Crime novelist signs copies of Bad Penny Blues and answers questions from public sleuths Noon £free West Hill Tavern Tonight We Fly Epic cinema tunes for the romantically doomed 9pm £free Western front Partytime DJs playing hip hop, house, electro and party classic 9pm £free WORLDS END PUB Videostars! From 1980 to now, an indie rock journey 8pm £free

sunday 14th

Belushi’s Bar Open Mic Session 8.30pm £free Black Lion Sunday Sessions: Dubrockerslive Dub, reggae, ska, punk, trip-hop and the dreaded funk 6pm £free Brighton Dome Richard Alston Dance Company 8pm £17.50/12.50/10/7.50 brunswick Radio City Theatre Classical scripts, contemporary comedy and live sound effects fused 1.30pm/3.30pm £5; Spirit Mingus inspired originals by Simon D’Souza 8pm £5/4 coalition Frequency DJs playing house 10.30pm £free Fiddler’s Elbow Craic Agus Ceol Continuation of Saturday’s street party, with live bands and ceilidh dancing Noon £free Freebutt Tenebrous Liar Live music 7.30pm £tbc Globe Sunday Funday Decks and boardgames in the basement Noon £free GREAT EASTERN Max and the Swing Commanders Jazz to gyrate to 8pm £free hanbury The Sunday Cabaret Lunch With music from The Enchanted Noon £free honeyclub Spectrum: Jon Byrne & Steven James Electro to keep the weekend alive 11pm £3/2 Hydrant Open Mic Night with Carol 8pm £free Komedia Down Krater Comedy Club: Sarah Millian, Gary Delaney Stand-up shenanigans 8pm £11/6 Komedia UP Lucy Porter: Foold’s Gold Comedy about our obsession with gold. One lucky member of the audience gets to eat real gold, thus increasing their value, until they go for a poo or, should we say, ‘gold nuggets’ 7.30pm £25.50/14/12 Latest music bar Sam Chara sings Edith Piaf Includes stories and songs by Leonard Cohen and Billy Holiday 8pm £5; Bob Slayers Sunday Roasting Comedy for the clinically insane 8pm £4 LEGENDS Cabaret: Lady Imelda Diva time 3.15pm £free; Fever Disco and pop 11pm £free Neptune Alternative Music Night: Sodden Rum Irish music 8.30pm £free Old Market Springboard: Brighton & Hove Youth Performing Arts Festival Platform for music & performance Details tbc OM Sunday Shoutin: Lee Garratt DJ playing classic tunes 9pm £free Prince Albert Melodica, Melody & Me live music 8pm £tbc R BAR Sublime Sundays Live acoustic, barmy bingo, karaoke Noon £free seven stars Mike The Mic And Friends Mike and his pals give your ears a workout 4pm £free Theatre Royal Dave Gorman If your name’s Dave, this gig is for you 8pm £tbc three & ten Strung Out Sundays Live music of the acoustic nature 8pm £free

monday 15th

Belushi’s BAR Quiz Night 8.30pm £free Belushi’s Below Latin Mondayz Salsa & samba on the decks 9pm £2/free Black Lion Happy Mondays Open decks and mics 5pm £free brunswick Nick Howard NYC singer songwriter 8pm £tbc Coalition Trash Mondays Eclectic student night 10.30pm £3/2/free Duke Of York’s Cinema Dirty Oil 6.30pm freebutt The Smoking Hearts, Whitemare, Rooks, The Ugly Sisters Loud punk&roll 7.30pm £3 Hope The H’Open Mic 8.30pm £free HYDRANT You Tube Share your faves with the pub 8pm £free JAM I.O.U. Comedy Showcasing the finest comedy treats on the national and local circuit 8pm £3 Latest music bar The Ukelele Research and Development Society Open Mic Featuring the Half Sisters

(don’t these ladies get around!) 7.30pm £2 LEGENDS Miss Jason’s Monday Mayhem Feat. Gay Your Cards Right 9pm £free; Chic DJ Steve Lush spins disco anthems in the basement 11pm £free Life Aka Aka Roar: Bok Bok Inspirational dubstep 11pm £3/2 OM George Buko DJ playing deeeeep house 9pm £free Penthouse Forever Pudding Killing hundreds of musical birds with two decks 8pm £free R BAR Quiz With Liz 8pm £1 sidewinder Poker night 9pm £5 thomas kemp Pub Quiz 8pm £free Volks Strictly Reggae: Big T Dancehall, roots, revival 10pm £5/4.50

tuesday 16th

Audio Club NME Indie and such 11pm £3/2 Belushi’s BAR Mod For It Scooterist sounds 10pm £free Belushi’s below Elements D&B 9pm £1 Black Lion Tuesday Club Live sets and music joy 8pm £free brunswick Open Mic Return of the mic 8pm £free Caroline of brunswick Skeptics in the pub Dr Robert Stovold ponders food and life 8pm £2 Coalition Salsa Brighton Learn the moves for the clubnight later 8pm £6/4; Viva Latino: DJ Dubl Salsa & merengue music 10pm £3/2 DIGITAL Glitterati Exclusive student night 11pm £4/3 Duke of Norfolk Open Mic Including tapdancers, poetry and all kinds of music 9pm £free Fiddler’s Elbow Quizness Time: Get out your noggin 8pm £1 Freebutt Spectrum, Medicine and Duty, The Hills Have Riffs Hypnotic pop from ex-Spaceman 3 7.30pm £7.50 Globe Basement Cinema Classic and underground film screenings 8pm £free hanbury Showcase Open mic hosted by Alan Thorn 7pm £5 honeyclub Salsa Brighton Sort out yr two left feet at the salsa & merengue lessons at 9, then stay for freestyle club action afters 9pm £tbc HYDRANT Games Night Come and play 8pm £free jam Pot Kettle Black Indie night playing old and new gems 10pm £2/1 juggler Are You B.I.M.M.? Music from students and anyone equally passionate 8pm £free LEGENDS Scene Queen DJ Lil Alex spins in the Basement club 11pm £free life The Vice Social Student dance night 10.30pm £3/2 PAV TAV Guerilla Rocks Rock, indie, metal & punk to mosh to 10.30pm £3/2 Penthouse Felt Up! DIY joy with other zine-sters 8pm £free Prince Albert Glen Belt, Hollow Moon, Das Fenster Live bands 8pm £tbc RIKI TIK Hip Hop Tuesdays DJ Tyni keeps it real 8pm £free seven stars Retro Cult Classic Film Nights Log on to www.sevenstarsbrighton.co.uk to vote for film to be shown 8pm £free SIDEwinder Open Decks Competition Come and play 8pm £free SIgnalman Quiz Test your wits, hosted by the Fat Controller 8pm £1 volks USSU Drama Society: Noahs Ark Party All the animals two by two 10pm £free Western front The Lobster Quadrille From 50s to present day feat Ollie and Bryn of Laylanas fame 8pm £free WORLDS END Wii Night Leave your stinking pit of a bedroom to play computer games amongst the booze loving public 8pm £free

wednesday 17th

Audio The Hidden Cameras Loadsa energy from this ensemble of Canadian misfits 7pm £10; Supercharged: Nero Get your breaks on 11pm £tbc Basement White Rabbit presents: Are You Sitting Comfortably? Secrets! Follow the rabbit to a 50s tearoom freaky party. Eat free sweet treats, confess your sins and hear stories written in invisible ink 7.30pm £6/4 Belushi’s BAR Old Skool Sessions 90s house 10pm £free Belushi’s Below Strapped: Student Night House, rock and pop 10pm £free brunswick Middle Age Rampage Character comedy frm Dyball & Kerr 8pm £tbc Black Lion Fresh Acoustics Local live music for St Patrick’s day special 8.30pm £free CASABLANCA Live band & DJ Soul funk pop treats 11pm £2/1 coalition Remedy Mid-week medicine of the musical variety. Expect R&B, pop, dubstep and commercial dance

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10:30pm £3/2 Concorde 2 Four Tet, Nathan Fake, RocketNumberNine Jazz and electronica from Domino records creative 8pm £12/10 Duke of Norfolk Quiz Night Winner takes all 9pm £1 Fiddler’s Elbow St Patrick’s Day 90 years of celebrating the craic! Noon £free Fishbowl Fisherman’s Chronicles Acoustic jam open mic session 8pm £free Freebutt Lupen Crook, Bitter Ruin, Fire Writers, The Creaking Chair Gypsy punk from Jamie-T type front-man 7.30pm £6 hanbury Salsa Dance class 8pm £6 heist Sub:Side Dubstep session, step to, step to 8pm £free hydrant Quiz Including air guitar round, at former Hare & Hounds 8pm £free JuGGLER Bakk Lamp Fall 5 piece traditional West African band 8pm £free Komedia Up Peter Green Fleetwood Mac founder is back with a band 7.30pm £20 Kuku Riskoteque, Raw Tactics, Stephen 412, DJ Fraida & Kaos Express With promises of live VJs and UV dancers 8pm £4 Latest music bar PaperFaces, Adhora Folk rock soul 7.30pm £4 LEGENDS Gabbi’s Special St Patrick’s Day Games Bring on the competition 11am £free; Dirty Handbag DJ Gabbi brings the party to the basement club 11pm £free life Broke? Dubstep, hip hop, D&B, house, electro 10.30pm £1 marlborough Open Mic Go for it 8.30pm £free Penthouse Play It! Themed fun 7.30pm £free Prince Albert The Crucks, Bad Bad Whiskey Live music 8pm £tbc R Bar Midweek Mash up Indie, rock and electro from DJ Beast 8pm £free RIKI TIK To The Floor: Jay & Rick It’s a mental indie, rock, electro party 8pm £free SANCTUARY CELLA The Maydays and Friends, Existential Angst Comedy treats from award winning improv crew 8pm £7/5 SIDEwinder Open Decks Competition Come and play 8pm £free; Quiz Winners take pot 8pm £1 Theatre Royal Wife After Death New comedy from Rising Damp writer Eric Chappell starring Tom Conti 7.45pm £tbc VARSITY Open Mike Night There’s a song in everyone 8pm £free Volks St Patrick’s Day Party Dance like you love guinness 10pm £tbc

thursday 18th

Audio Bastard Pop Pop mash-up 11pm £2 Belushi’s Bar Karaoke 9pm £free Belushi’s Below Party On The Ceiling Two bands & DJ 9.30pm £2 Black Lion Chef du Party Chef Oli cuts his way through 5 decades of tasty tunes 8.30pm £free Brighton Dome The Soldiers: The Coming Home Tour Two Sergeants and one Corporal 7.30pm £29.50/26.50 brunswick Salsa Night Salsa lessons and dancing, live music 8pm £10/8 caroline of brunswick Brighton Bike Night Bikers’ social 7pm £1 CASABLANCA Live band & DJ Soul funk pop time 11pm £2/1 coalition Vitalic Wildly acclaimed electro-techno anthem creator playing tunes from Flashmob 8pm £15; Secret Discotheque Retro disco, 80s pop and other ‘uncool’ tunes 10.30pm £3/2/1 ConcordE 2 BIMM End Of Term Party Part 1 Young stars in their eyes 7pm £4; Haitan Benefit Gig: Fat 45, Fanfara, Kalakuta Millionaires, Manoushka, Pollito Boogaloo, Nhasitafari Drink and dance like a tit to raise money for Disaster Emergency Committee 8pm £5 minimum donation DRUIDS ARMS Open Mic Live music from YOU 9pm £free Duke of Norfolk Zarbo One man band spectacular 9pm £free Fiddler’s Elbow Fresh Acoustics Local live music 8.30pm £free Fishbowl Residents Association Hip hop, funk, disco, world & house 10pm £free Freebutt Brother Ali, DJ BK-ONE, Monkey Sons Rap action from Rhymsayers don. Clever lines expertly delivered by a fat albino. We love him 7.30pm £6.50 freemasons noWax Live music of your choosing, bring your mp3s 8pm £free funky BUDDHA Steady On Tunes from Robert Luis, Hint 10.30pm £free George Open Mike Night Don’t be shy 8pm £free Globe Rockoustic Live acoustic showcase 9pm £free GRand central Swing DeVille Duo Gypsy jazz 8.30pm £free

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GREAT EASTERN Bad Bad Whiskey Live rockabilly and rock&roll 8pm £free hanbury The Samartie Parties Cabaret evening featuring comedy and live musical treats 7pm £6/5 heist Big Trouble in Little Brighton: AJ Moore Spinning disco, house, electro 8pm £free Honeyclub Fusion: Squiz, Ben-G House, R&B, indie 11pm £3/1 hope Jeff the Chef Another DJ chef, this time serving up a sprinkling of ska, dub and reggae 9pm £free hydrant Jes Aronstam Live music, with his little green men 8pm £free Jam Thursday Night Fish Fry Early 50s US rhythm & blues and original Jamaican ska 10pm £3 JuGGLER Wang Dang Doodle Alison Boston Trio presented

by Brighton & Hove Blues Music Society 8pm £free Komedia down Hazel O’Connor and the Bluja Project Sax and piano for some originals and classics from this lady trio 8pm £26.50/15 Komedia Studio The Humble Quest For A Universal Genius: Mark Allen, Danielle Ward, Michael Fabbri Comedians battle it out to win a renaissance title 8pm £6/4.50 Komedia upstairs The Tiger Lillies: The Songs of Shockheaded Peter and Peter Gorey Stories Godfathers of alt cabaret 8.30pm £26.5015 Latest music bar Grrrl Folk at its Finest! Al Start Band, Zoox Live music from ladies who know how to entertain 8pm £6/5; Cafe Scientifique How proteins change their shape: insights into Alzheimers 7.30pm £free LEGENDS Coreaoke Tammy Twinkle hosts this prize infested comp 9pm £free; DLite DJ Lee Harris with some house 11pm £free .IFE Shameless: C-Dogg, DJ Nause Spinning the best and worst of half a century 11pm £1 .IGHTHOUSE Experience In Mind: Through the Mind’s Eyes II Exhibition of creative work representing young folk’s experiences of mental health 6.30pm £free northerN lights Swing Ninjas Unplugged acoustic night to save the world 8pm £free OM Thank Funk It’s Thursday DJ playing tunes 9pm £free Prince Albert Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby Live music 8pm £tbc PrOVidence Lowlife: The Sylence, Fracture Pattern, Leaving St Francis Live bands 8pm £2 RANELAGH The Diablos Boot stompin’ country 9pm £free RIKI TIK DJ Homeslice Breaks, beats, hip hop 8pm £free ST JAMES TAVERN Stay Sick, Turn Blue Rock&roll, rockabilly, 60s garage 8.30pm £free Theatre Royal Wife After Death New comedy from Rising Damp writer Eric Chappell starring Tom Conti 2.30pm/7.45pm £tbc Three and Ten Brian Gittins Entertainment from roadside cafe owner 8pm £8/6 victory Open Mic Night 8pm £free Volks Voltage: NME, Rerun, Liquid Edge, Mattix & Futile, Overdose, Style One, Speach, Mekar, Skitz, Ak MC, Champion Bubbla, Jambo etc D&B and MC action 10pm £tbc Worlds end The Big Cash Quiz Come on boffins 8pm £1

friday 19th

Audio Norman Jay Techno King 11pm £8/5 Belushi’s Bar Coyote Ugly Funky house, electro and dance-off 9pm £free Black Lion Sunday Sessions Presents: Dubrockerslive Dub, reggae, ska, punk, trip hop and the dreaded funk 8.30pm £free Brighton Dome Peter Andre: The Revelation Tour Chest-waxed man-doll lip syncs to his one hit. Well done Pete, it’s good to keep busy when you’re heartbroken 7pm £23 brunswick Sweet Hove Chicago 7-piece blues band 8pm £free caroline of brunswick Thee Big Black DJ Rizzanski plays all your fave stoner rock 9pm £free CASABLANCA Oomphf Live funky disco 10pm £5 Coalition Hush Ya Beak: Breakage ‘Foundation’ Album Launch Party: Breakage, Shy FX, Newham Generals, Stamina MC, Dread MC Tuuunes 10pm £10 concorde 2 BIMM End Of Term Party Part 2 So talented they’re having two parties 7pm £4 minimum donation, Family Entertainments present: Blast! With Eatstatic, Slycho, DJ Kristian, Monster, Niquid, Shamanix Expect psychedelic space rock, more kitch samples from B-movies and intelligent dance tracks to move your booty to 11pm £12.50 DIGITAL Stonelove Indie rock night 11pm £5/4 DRUIDS ARMS Hot Pepper Sauce Hot funk soul reggae 10pm £free Fishbowl The Black Lodge Funky special 9pm £free Fortune Of War Shake Hands Lets Party: Bianca & Heidi Lady DJs So Molly, Heidi, Pippa, Bianca playing tunes from past 50 years 9pm £free Freebutt Thomas Truax Invented instruments for an original sound 7.30pm £5.50 freemasons Friday Fling Tunes to keep you alive 8pm £free

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funky buddha Drink, Dance, Repeat Dan Doubledecks, Charles Green & Mikee Hollywood with an eclectic dance mix 11pm £5/3 funkyFISH The Funkyfish Club DJ Delboy spins 4 decades on 4 decks. How many hands does this man have?

10pm £6/3.50 Globe Disted Twisco Alex Webb plays broken beat, house, underground soul 9pm £free hanbury Club Chat Noir 20s and 30s, 2 live bands, DJ Mike the Mic 7pm £9/7 heist Brighter Days: Russell Ruckman, Mick Fuller House music of various persuasions 9pm £free Honey club Kiss Da Funk: Rob Tissera, Bobby Tee Heavy dosings of house on house 11pm £8.50/6 Hope Synthetiquette: Pause, Videochrome Electro themed night 9pm £3 hydrant Too Many Cracks Brighton Ska at its best 8pm £free jam Don’t Stop Believin’ No genre or decade, classic after classic 11pm £4/3 JuGGLER Light: DJ Lamp R&B, dance and jazz tunes while you drink your 9 to 5 job away 8pm £free Komedia down Krater Comedy Club Quality stand-up 7.30pm £14.50/10, Born Bad Rad rockabilly night 11pm £6/5 Komedia studio Brighton Jazz Club: Geoff Gascoyne Bop pop 8pm £12/10 Komedia UPSTAIRS Showstopper! The Improvised Musical Apparently amazing 8.30pm £16.50/15/12/10 Latest music bar Ska Bar: The Hotknoves, The Big Head Reggae ska soul and googie bags 8pm £5 LEGENDS Celebration With your old chum Dolly Rocket 11pm £free life Big Fish Little Fish Cardboard Box: Cassette Jam and Burns Fidget, bass, electro 11pm £6/5/4 lOFT Malicious New alt sleaze & cheese night 10.30pm £5/3/2 marlborough Q&A (Queer & Alternative) Guest DJs, free pool 5pm £free marlborough theatre Gentlemen’s Relish: Members Club Theatre lectures, music and comedy with nibbles and board games 7.30pm £6/5 Neptune Rock and Blues Night Special: Roadworks Live blues 8.30pm £free Northern lights DJ Abo Playing soul, jazz and latino 8pm £free Old Market Springboard: Brighton & Hove Youth Performing Arts Festival Platform for speech & drama Details tbc PAV TAV Kick Out The Jams: DJs Dynamite Sal, Eddie The Goatboy, Steve and Muffy Indie night 11pm £3 penthouse Club Seal Oddball electro and pop 7.30pm £free Prince Albert Riot Riot, The Valentines, The Kensingtons, 10th View Live bands 8pm £tbc PrOVidence Sound Factory presents: Battle of the Bands 2010AD 4 bands compte in 3rd Heat 8pm £2 RIKI TIK Nick Maxwell, DJ Insight Hip hop, D&B, breaks and all that good stuff 8pm £free Sidewinder Harry Ks ‘Simply Dredd’ It’s another reggae, bootleg party 8pm £free thomas kemp All Time Top 100 Special guest DJs offer their best tunes 8pm £free Theatre Royal Wife After Death New comedy from Rising Damp writer Eric Chappell starring Tom Conti 7.45pm £tbc victory :Kinema: Smooth 80s classics 9pm £free Volks Future Dub presents: The Connexxion Tour Hip hop, reggae, dubstep, jungle feat. Ayawaska, Brother Culture, Lowkidubs etc 10pm £7/5 West Hill tavern Superheroes of BMX Oddball DJ selection of pop, electro and more 9pm £free Western front Bar Breaks Beats: DJ Stupid Kid, Judge Mental, Mute Hip hop, electro, house 9pm £free WORLDS END PUB Bass Like A Slapped Arse Hip hop, dubstep, reggae and wonk tunes 8pm £free

saturday 20th

Audio Club SOL Winter Sessions: Riva Starr, Schtumm!

House of techno electro 11pm £free Belushi’s Bar Credit Crunch Saturdays Rocket Dog’s live acoustic duo 9pm £free Belushi’s Below Good Times: Retro Disco Party 9pm £5 Black Lion Burnt Toast Soul, funk, breaks, hip hop 8pm £free Brighton Dome Editors Indie Rockers on tour 7pm £20 caroline of brunswick Cazza Karaoke 8pm £free; Laugh Down Babylon Stand up 9pm £2 CASABLANCA Funky Fiesta: The Devotions All aboard the soul train 10pm £5 Coalition Pop Musik: Mattatat, Eddie The Goatboy Tattoo parlour, popcorn & sweeties 11pm £8/6/5; Blow After Party: Vincent Manganaro, Alex Outram, Aaron Palaez 3am £7/5/4

Cobbler’s Thumb Red Diesel Live groove and soul band 8pm £free concorde 2 Audio Bullys Return of the West London DJs 8pm £14.50/12.50; Carbon 6th Birthday - The Big One: 40K Funktion One Rig, Randall, Digital, Klute, Break, C4C, Prolix, Zero T. Sabre, Insight, Voytek, Absent, Unseen Come celebrate with the crew 11pm £9.50/5 DIGITAL James Zabiela, Tom Budden, Scott Bradford Live music 11pm £11 DRUIDS ARMS Nostalgiadelia Soul funk DJ action 10pm £free DUKE of York’s cinema Underdog 11am, The Mojo Fins, The Half Sisters Single launch party for Amazon records band including live music from the band 11pm £10/8/6 Fishbowl DJ Abo & Ally Smith Dirty funk 9pm £free Fortune Of War Deck Chairs: Gilla residency Gilla guests. Expect soul, funk, breaks, dub, hip hop, house, TUUUNES 9pm £free fREEBUTT Nick Harper, Georgia Ruth Fine acoustic singer songwriting from self taught genius 7.30pm £10 freemasons Saturday Showdown DJ Resident keeps the music flowing 8pm £free funky buddha Buddha Soul: DJ Mike Pantelli Funk, soul, R&B, house 11pm £10; After party 3am £5 funkyFISH The Funkyfish Club DJ Delboy spins 4 decades on 4 decks. How many hands does this man have?

10pm £6/3.50 Globe Donky Pitch Electro, hip hop, dubstep 9pm £free H-Bar Deepalicious: Steve Whittle, Danny Williams, Steve Little, Jamie Bawn, Dave Daniels, Discoboy, Tim Sneath, Manda Dex Launch party 10pm £free hanbury Mojo to GoGo Super 60s and vinyl night 9pm £6 heist Home: Sean Quinn House music of various persuasions 9pm £free Honeyclub Sevensins: Chuckle Pumping house & electro 11pm £12 hope The Deal Was For The Diamond, Jonny And The Freeze, The Pursuit Prog rock 8pm £3 hydrant Pink Crowbar It’s a bloody funk explosion 8pm £free HYDRANT upstairs Club Zygotic: P for Persia, Illness Album launch night 8.30pm £4 JAM The Doctors Orders Pub Quiz & Clubnight with DJ Harry Love 8pm £6/5 JuGGLER DJ Lamp R&B, dance and jazz tunes continued from the day before 8pm £free Komedia down Krater Comedy Club Stand-up shenanigans 7pm/10.30pm £17.50/15 Komedia STUDIO Spellbound 80s night for people who hate 80s 9pm £6/5 Komedia up Trailer Trash Presents: Baz Luhrmann Excessive movie-themed fire & burlesque night of glee 9.30pm £10/8 LEGENDS Ignition DJ Lee Harris with chart and house 11pm £free life Hold Up! Indie night 11pm £5 marlborough Cherry Pop DJ Fondue Inferno brings the cheese 8pm £free NEW ROAD The Brighton Chocolate Festival Day one of this outdoor chocoholic frenzy. Binge yourself silly on hot, raw, savoury and sweet treats 10pm £free Northern lights DJ Abo Playing soul, jazz and latino 8pm £free Old Market Springboard: Brighton & Hove Youth Performing Arts Festival Platform for speech & drama Details tbc OM Its Only 1st Birthday: Vince Frompong, Lee Garrett DJ playing tunes 9pm £free PAV TAV Back To The Future Indie, dance, pop, rock from the decades 11pm £3/2 PAVilion theatre Young Dance: Telling Tales If you’re aged 4 to 7, checkout these stories told via the medium of dance 11am/2pm £8/6 penthouse Ultrasound Dub, house, hip hop 7.30pm £free Prince Albert Turncoat, Shirley, Nimmo and the Gauntletts Live bands 8pm £tbc PROVIDENCE Sound Factory: Shoot The Dead, Plastic Gangster, Standing On Giants Rock night 8pm £2 RIKI TIK No School Breaks: DJ Homeslice Beats, breaks and bongo action 8pm £free Sallis benney theatre Green Architecture Day Illustrated talks, exhibitions and workshops 10am £free Sidewinder Like A Sex Machine 70s tribute night - get your big trousers, big shoes and big hair on 9pm £free St Nicholas’s church At-Ma, Vocal Explosion Choir Fundraiser held by world groove music troupe 7pm £10 Theatre Royal Wife After Death New comedy from Rising Damp writer Eric Chappell starring Tom Conti 2.30pm/7.45pm £tbc three & ten Bruise Georgeous acoustic music 8pm £7/5 Volks Darklight D&B Details tbc Victory Teen Dream 60s tunes 9pm £free West Hill tavern Artists only Bubblegum and synth pop, new wave, riot grrl, whatever 9pm £free Western front Partytime DJs playing hip hop, house, electro and party classic 9pm £free WORLDS END PUB BassWarfare D&B, dubstep and reggae in yr face 8pm £free

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sunday 21st

Belushi’s Bar Open Mic Session 8.30pm £free Black Lion Sunday Sessions Presents Dubrockers Live Dub, reggae, ska, punk, trip hop and funk 6pm £free Brighton Dome Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra Concert with a Russian theme 2.45pm £8-32 Brunswick Ukulele Sundays 30 ukeleles playing pop hits, oh boy!! 3pm £free; Gilad Atzmon Jazz sax and clarinet king 8pm £7 coalition Frequency House 10pm £free concorde2 The Hype, Illustrators, Midnight Embassy Super popular Brighton bands 7.30pm £6 DRUIDS ARMS The Downtown Sessions Trip hop and broken down grooves to wind down your hectic weekend 9pm £free Fiddler’s Elbow Sham-Rock Open Mic 9pm £free FREEBUTT The Colour Movement Prog and experimental rock 7.30pm £6 Globe Sunday Funday Decks and boardgames in the basement Noon £free GREAT EASTERN Hatful of Rain Live country 8pm £free hanbury Cabaret Lunch Live cabaret Noon £free honeyclub Spectrum: Jon Byrne & Steven James Electro to keep the weekend alive 11pm £3/2 hydrant Open mic With Carol, at former Hare & Hounds 8pm £free Komedia down Krater Comedy Club Stand-up shenanigans 8pm £11/6 Komedia studio Final Cut New shorts for film buffs 7.30pm £4 Komedia UP Why? Extremely likeable anti-folk meets hip hop from handsome Cincinnati trio 8pm £12 Latest music bar Vineyard, The Evening Service Live music 7pm £free LEGENDS Cabaret: Lady Imelda Diva time 3.15pm £free; Fever Disco and pop 11pm £free Neptune Alternative Music Night: Funk You Like Terrible name, let’s hope the music is better 8.30pm £free NEW ROAD The Brighton Chocolate Festival Last day of this outdoor chocoholic frenzy. Come back for more, you dirty porker? Binge yourself silly on hot, raw, savoury and sweet treats 10pm £free Old Market Springboard: Brighton & Hove Youth Performing Arts Festival Platform for speech & drama Details tbc OM Sunday Shoutin: Lee Garratt DJ playing classic tunes 9pm £free Prince Albert An Afternoon With The Junk Live bands 2.30pm £tbc; Communion Live bands 7.30pm £tbc seven stars Mike The Mic And Friends Mike and his pals give your ears a workout 4pm £free sT JAMES TAVERN Pollito Boogaloo DJs play their latin tunes 7pm £free Theatre Royal Abba Gold Tribute band 2.30pm/7.45pm £tbc WORLDS END PUB Zarbo One man band 8pm £free

monday 22nd

audio The Joy Fomidable, Baddies, Airship Indie music 7.30pm £7; Belushi’s BAR Quiz Night 8.30pm £free Belushi’s Below Latin Mondayz Salsa & samba on the decks 9pm £2/free Black Lion Happy Mondays Open decks and mics 5pm £free Brighton Dome Let’s Dance Various schools dance showcase 7pm £7.50 Coalition Trash Mondays Eclectic student night 10.30pm £3/2/free Concorde2 Family Entertainments present: Marlena Shaw, The Jo Harman Project Jazz soul diva 7.30pm £17 duke of norfolk Poker Night 8pm £free Freebutt Rizzle Kicks Live music 7.30 £tbc funky buddha Mashed Up M.I.A. vs Michael Jackson and the like 8.30pm £2/1/free Hope The H’Open Mic 8.30pm £free HYDRANT You Tube Share your faves with the pub 8pm £free Komedia Up Emergenza Festival Semi-finals feat. 8 bands in 30 min slots 7pm £12/8 Latest music bar Totally To Blame Indie punk from da yoofs 7.30pm £3 LEGENDS Miss Jason’s Monday Mayhem Feat. Gay Your Cards Right 9pm £free; Chic DJ Steve Lush spins disco anthems in the basement 11pm £free Life Aka Aka Roar: James Blake Inspirational dubstep 11pm £3/2 OM George Buko DJ playing deeeeep house 9pm £free prince albert Born To Lose Live bands and miserable DJs. Happy Birthday Juliette! 8pm £tbc sidewinder Poker night 9pm £5 Theatre Royal Going Out: Lee Mac BAFTA winning comedy 8pm £tbc Volks Strictly Reggae: Big T Dancehall, roots, revival 10pm £5/4.50

Tuesday 23rd

Audio Club NME Indie 11pm £3/2 Belushi’s BAR Mod For It Mod & ska 10pm £1 Belushi’s below Elements D&B 9pm £1 Black Lion Tuesday Club Anything goes music-wise 8pm £free Brighton Dome Let’s Dance Various schools dance showcase 7pm £7.50 Brunswick Open Mic 8pm £free Coalition Salsa Brighton Learn the moves for the clubnight later 8pm £6/4; Viva Latino: DJ Dubl Salsa & merengue music 10pm £3/2 DIGITAL Glitterati Exclusive Student Night 11pm £4/3 Duke of Norfolk Open Mic Including tapdancers, poetry and all kinds of music 9pm £free Fiddler’s Elbow Quizness Time Pub quiz 8pm £1 freebutt The Kabeedies Pop-punk indie band 7.30pm £7 Globe Basement Cinema Classic and underground film screenings 8pm £free honeclub Salsa Brighton Sort out yr two left feet at the salsa & merengue lessons at 9, then stay for freestyle club action afters 9pm £tbc HYDRANT Games Night Come and play 8pm £free jam Out Of The Blue Live something tbc 8pm £tbc; Pot Kettle Black Indie night playing old and new gems 10pm £2/1 juggler Are You B.I.M.M.? Music from students and anyone equally passionate 8pm £free Komedia studio Desperate 4 Love Poetry and prose from your local wordsmiths 8pm £3 Komedia Up Emergenza Festival Semi-finals feat. 8 bands in 30 min slots 7pm £12/8 lATEST MUSIC BAR Future Shorts, KinAesthetic Cutting edge short films including Massive Attack’s new video 7.30pm £5 LEGENDS Scene Queen DJ Lil Alex spins in the Basement club 11pm £free life The Vice Social Student dance night 10.30pm £3/2 marlborough Quiz Winner takes all 8pm £1 PAV TAV Guerilla Rocks Rock, indie, metal & punk to mosh to 10.30pm £3/2 penthouse Rate Noise Electro and Ninja Tunes 7.30pm £free Prince Albert Rothko, Mike Wilton, The Stash Tins Live bands 8pm £tbc RIKI TIK Hip Hop Tuesdays DJ Tyni keeps it real 8pm £free seven stars Retro Cult Classic Film Nights Log on to www.sevenstarsbrighton.co.uk to vote for film to be shown 8pm £free SIDEwinder Open Decks Competition Come and play 8pm £free SIgnalman Quiz Test your wits, hosted by the Fat Controller 8pm £1 Three and ten This Is Not A Circus: Joey Page Comedy world 8pm £5 Volks Simply Vinyl Scratchy sounds from lovely 12 X 12 inchers 10pm £tbc Western front The Lobster Quadrille From 50s to present day feat Ollie and Bryn of Laylanas fame 8pm £free WORLDS END Wii Night Leave your stinking pit of a bedroom to play computer games amongst the booze loving public 8pm £free

wednesday 24th

Audio Supercharged Breaks 11pm £tbc Belushi’s BAR Old School Sessions 90s house 9pm £1 Belushi’s Below Strapped: Student Night House, rock and pop 10pm £free Black Lion Fresh Acoustics Local live music 8.30pm £free Brighton Dome Let’s Dance Various schools dance showcase 7pm £7.50 brunswick Night Of The Pooka Comedy about love, lost possessions and found hand grenades 8pm £8/6 CASABLANCA Live band and DJ Funk in the Latin Quarter 11pm £2/1 coalition Remedy Mid-week medicine of the musical variety. Expect R&B, pop, dubstep and commercial dance 10:30pm £3/2 DIGITAL Poundance Dance floor destroyers 11pm £1 Duke of Norfolk Quiz Night Winner takes all 9pm £1 Fishbowl Fisherman’s Chronicles Acoustic jam open mic session 8pm £free freebutt Last Days of Lorca, Upcdownc Jagged racket with epic vox 7.30pm £4 hanbury Salsa Dance class 8pm £6 heist Sub:Side Dubstep session, step to, step to 8pm £free hydrant Quiz Including air guitar round, at former Hare & Hounds 8pm £free

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jam PRJCT MYHM: Boss Kite, AK/DK, Riskotheque Cutting edge electro for Booty Galaxy Records launch 10pm £5 JuGGLER Bakk Lamp Fall 5 piece traditional West African band 8pm £free Komedia Up Emergenza Festival Semi-finals feat. 8 bands in 30 min slots 7pm £12/8 Komedia Down Richard Herring: Hitler Moustache Comedy about fascists and liberals 8pm £12.50 LATEST MUSIC BAR Dani Blue Live music 8pm £3 LEGENDS Gabbi’s Games Bring on the competition 11am £free; Dirty Handbag DJ Gabbi brings the party to the basement club 11pm £free life Broke? Dubstep, hip hop, D&B, house, electro 10.30pm £1 marlborough Open Mic Go for it 8.30pm £free marlborough theatre Silver Wednesday Old fashioned candle-lit cinema 8pm £Donation Old Market John Simpson: Unreliable Sources, How the 20th Century was reorted Talk from hack 6.30pm £6 Prince Albert Peggy Sue Quirky Brighton faves 7.30pm £tbc R Bar Midweek Mash up Indie, rock and electro from DJ Beast 8pm £free RIKI TIK To The Floor: Jay & Rick It’s a mental indie, rock, electro party 8pm £free SIDEwinder Open Decks Competition Come and play 8pm £free; Quiz Winners take pot 8pm £1 Theatre Royal One Man Lord Of The Rings One man and his elbow pads present the Tolkien trilogy 7.30pm £tbc VARSITY Open Mike Night There’s a song in everyone 8pm £free victory Glue Gun ‘91 Behind Bars crew offering life, death and prizes 8pm £free

thursday 25th

Audio Bastard Pop Mash-up pop to spread on your kebab 11pm £2 Basement Scratch! Works in progress from new performers 7.30pm £free Belushi’s Bar Karaoke 9pm £free Belushi’s Below Party On The Ceiling Two bands & DJ 9.30pm £2 Black Lion Modern Life Is Rubbish Old school rock 8.30pm £free Brighton Dome Let’s Dance Various schools dance showcase 7pm £7.50 caroline of brunswick Brighton Bike Night Bikers’ social 7pm £free CASABLANCA Grand Majestic All aboard the Soul train 11pm £2/1 coalition Secret Discotheque Retro disco, 80s pop and other ‘uncool’ tunes 10.30pm £3/2/1 DRUIDS ARMS Open Mic Live music from YOU 9pm £free Duke of Norfolk Live music: Zarbo One man band spectacular 9pm £free Fiddler’s Elbow Fresh Acoustics Local live music 8.30pm £free Fishbowl Residents Association Hip hop, funk, disco, world & house 10pm £free Freebutt Islands, Restlesslist Ex-Unicorns new band with plenty-o-surprises for you 7.30pm £6 funky BUDDHA Steady On Tunes from Robert Luis, Hint, Maddslinky aka Zed Bias 10.30pm £free George Open Mike Night Don’t be shy 8pm £free Globe Rockoustic Live acoustic showcase 9pm £free GRand central Swing DeVille Duo Gypsy jazz 8.30pm £free GREAT EASTERN Early Bird Special Live western swing 8pm £free hanbury Angie Palmer Live music from the lady herself 7pm £7 heist Sub:Side Dubstep session, step to, step to 8pm £free Honeyclub Fusion: Squiz, Ben-G House, R&B, indie 11pm £3/1 hydrant Dirty Scavenger Jo and her band 8pm £free Jam Thursday Night Fish Fry Early 50s US rhythm & blues and original Jamaican ska 10pm £3 JuGGLER Wang Dang Doodle Alison Boston Trio presented

by Brighton & Hove Blues Music Society 8pm £free Komedia down Comic Boom! Comedy 8pm £16.50/8.50/6.50 Komedia Studio Popcorn Comedy Films to make you laff 8pm £tbc Komedia upstairs John Hegley: The Adventures of Monsieur Robinet Comedy about a frenchman 8.30pm £12/8 Latest music bar Kabaret Bisexuelle: Katja Von Kassel, Nikky Mitchell, Short and Girlies, Katrina Cabaret of 1980s for all you sexy bisexuals and your lovers 8pm £tbc LEGENDS Coreaoke Tammy Twinkle hosts this prize infested comp 9pm £free; DLite DJ Lee Harris with some house 11pm £free LIFE Shameless: C-Dogg, DJ Nause Spinning the best and

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worst of half a century 11pm £1 OM Thank Funk It’s Thursday DJ playing tunes 9pm £free penthouse Stop Rocking Fake Shit Punk, ska, rock, whatever 7.30pm £free Prince Albert Adam Kidd, Junkyard Choir Live music 8pm £tbc PROVIDENCE Lowlife Presents: Vernie & Bertrum, White Star Liners, Wanderdown Live Music 8pm £1 Ranelagh Shauna Parker and the Saloon Bar Band Western music for your boots and horse to dance to 8.30pm £free REVENGE Girls On Top: Thursgay Dump your girlfriend and make out with someone else’s 10.30pm £5/3 RIKI TIK DJ Homeslice Breaks, beats, hip hop 8pm £free ST JAMES TAVERN Stay Sick, Turn Blue Rock&roll, rockabilly, 60s garage 8.30pm £free Theatre Royal Traces Urban acrobatics 7.45pm £tbc Three and ten Musicbox Acoustic artistcs inc. Cate Ferris 8pm £7/5 victory Open Mic Night 8pm £free Volks The Mighty Aba Shanti The sound of Jah Lightening and Thunder 10pm £tbc Worlds end The Big Cash Quiz Come on boffins 8pm £1

friday 26th

Audio Herve: Blah Blah Blah DJs Electro, fidget and house 11pm £8/5 Belushi’s Bar Coyote Ugly Funky house, electro and dance-off 9pm £free Belushi’s BElow Dress Up Fridays Dressing up night 10pm £2/free Black Lion Burnt Toast Sleazy soul and filthy funk 8.30pm £free Brunswick South Coast Soul Revue Classic and contemporary soul 8pm £5 caroline of brunswick The Vinyl Countdown Decades of tunes on scratchy circular plastic 9pm £free; Passion Fetish Party Dress to impress in your very best waterproof shiny gear Details tbc CASABLANCA Funk Live music 10pm £5 coalition Kill Em All: Riton, Filthy Dukes (DJ), Micachu (DJ), Solo, O. Children (live) Stopmakingme New music night 8pm £8 Cobbler’s Thumb La Belle et La Beat Eccentric eclectic tuuunes 8pm £free concorde 2 From The Jam Stiff Little Fingers bassist plays songs that defined a generation 7pm £20; Soul & Motown Night Stay after the gig for some tunes 11pm £5 DIGITAL Stonelove Indie rock night 11pm £5/4 DRUIDS ARMS Foe and Friends Funk soul hip hop reggae gems 10pm £free Engine Room Imperial Leisure, King Porter Stomp, Meow Meows Part hip hop, part punk 7pm £7 Fishbowl LateNite Lounging: Will Sumsuch, Tim ‘Bongos’ Mercer Disco, funk, soulful house 9pm £free Fortune Of War Shake Hands Lets Party: Molly Malone Lady DJs So Molly, Heidi, Pippa, Bianca playing tunes from past 50 years 9pm £free funky buddha Drink, Dance, Repeat Dan Doubledecks, Charles Green & Mikee Hollywood with an eclectic dance mix 11pm £5/3 funkyFISH The Funkyfish Club DJ Delboy spins 4 decades on 4 decks. How many hands does this man have?

10pm £6/3.50 FREEBUTT Fleshrot, Infestation, Malicious Disfigurement, Flayed Disciple Soft pop your gran might like. Only kidding, it’s death metal innit 7.30pm £6 freemasons EOM After Work Party For the hard workers of Brunswick and beyond 5pm £free; Friday Fling Tunes to keep you alive 8pm £free GLOBE HotTip HiFi Early reggae and roots tunes 9pm £free heist Soul Damn Funky House music of various persuasions 9pm £free Honey club Blatant: Kanio Headling, Keiran Brindley, Sam Bylett, My Mate Bass Techno of the minimal kind 11pm tbc hope The Circus Sands, Way Tangent Exciting band with sleazy basslines 8pm £tbc hydrant Tragic Roundabout Punk jazz of the eastern european persuasion 8pm £free INK Ibiza Rebublic Party like it’s summer in Spain 9pm £tbc JAM Spend the Night Together: The Perils, Kovak, Avondale Live music 8pm £4/3; Don’t Stop Believin’ Successful DJs play their guilty pleasures 8pm £4/3 JuGGLER Light: DJ Lamp R&B, dance and jazz tunes while you drink your 9 to 5 job away 8pm £free Komedia down Krater Comedy Club Quality stand-up 7.30pm £14.50/10 Komedia Studio Brighton Jazz Club: Liam Noble Trio 8pm £12/10 Komedia UP Playgroup Whole venue in use for this ‘festival in a club’ experience. Does this mean dirty wellies, cold beans and rank toilets? Surely not 11pm £12/10 latest music bar This Is Elvis, Mamas Gun Join highly rated Elvis impersonator for night of retro classics 7pm £6 LEGENDS Celebration With your old chum Dolly Rocket

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11pm £free life Big Fish Little Fish Cardboard Box: Kidda and Black Noise Fidget, bass, electro 11pm £6/5/4 lOFT Malicious New alt sleaze & cheese night 10.30pm £5/3/2 marlborough Q&A (Queer & Alternative) Guest DJs, free pool 5pm £free Neptune The Mad Max Duo Featuring Sam Chara and her lovely voice 8.30pm £free Northern lights Love Unlimited DJ Abo & Snorkkeli playing soul, jazz and latino 8pm £free OM OM And Friends: Colin Dale DJ playing tunes 9pm £free PAV TAV Kick Out The Jams: DJs Dynamite Sal, Eddie The Goatboy, Steve and Muffy Indie night 11pm £3 Pavilion theatre Cimarron Infectious Columbian rhythm 8pm £12.50/10 penthouse No More Mr Lo-Fi Party tunes, indie-style 7.30pm £free Prince Albert Super U, Trail, Pete York Band Live bands 8pm £tbc PrOVidence Sound Factory: Battle of the Bands 2010AD 4 bands compte in 4th Heat 8pm £2 RIKI TIK Nick Maxwell, DJ Insight Hip hop, D&B, breaks and all that good stuff 8pm £free SIDEwinder Danceteria: Bushy, Ed & Toast Boogie, house, disco & funk attack 6.30pm £free thomas kemp All Time Top 100 Special guest DJs offer their best tunes 8pm £free Theatre Royal Traces Urban acrobatics 7.45pm £tbc three & ten Rabbit In The Headlights Comedy hosted

by Laura Mugridge 8pm £6/5 volks Erisian Turns 4: X & Trick, Igneon System, Scamp, Shedcore D&B, Dubstep and murky basslines 11pm £5/4 West Hill tavern Turn up, Tune In Mad For It’s Jody Lee DJs 9pm £free Western front Bar Breaks Beats: DJ Stupid Kid, Judge Mental, Mute Hip hop, electro, house 9pm £free WORLDS END PUB Unity Hi-Fi Roots, dub and reggae just for you 8pm £free

saturday 27th

Audio The Automatic Popular indie glee 7pm £9; SOL Winter Sessions: Transformer House of electro & techno 11pm £free Belushi’s Bar Credit Crunch Saturdays Live acoustic 9pm £free Belushi’s Below Good Times: Retro Disco Party 9pm £5 Beyond retro Kustom Box Workshop Learn how to transform clothes with a little classic pimping, inc feathers, lace and buttons 10am £free Black Lion Medium Rare Rare funk grooves if you like being funky and strutting your funky stuff 8.30pm £free caroline of brunswick Wicked & Dreadful Sounds Rock&roll from Born Bad DJ 9pm £free CASABLANCA Funky Fiesta All aboard the Soul train 10pm £7 Coalition Wired Is One: Vincent Manganaro, Carlos Ruiz Come celebrate good times 11pm £10 Cobbler’s Thumb Wide Eyed Order Presents Live funk folk 9pm £free Concorde 2 Turin Brakes Mostly acoustic music tonight 6pm £16.50; Devotion: DJ Hazard, Phantasy, Eskman, MC Skibadee DJs and MCs 11pm £5 Digital Playroom Interactive dance night with bouncy things, face painting and general silliness 11pm £12/8 DRUIDS ARMS Get Yuh Own DJs pimping their hip hop, jazz, world and future music 10pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema Planet 51 11am, Met. Opera: Hamlet, 5pm Fishbowl Daddy Marcus Soul, disco funk 9pm £free Fortune Of War Deck Chairs Tru Thoughts Roo guests. Expect soul, funk, breaks, dub, hip hop, house, TUUUNES 9pm £free FREEBUTT Chris TT, Tom Williams & The Boat, The Self Help Group Live music 7.30pm £7 freemasons Mad Hatters Tea Party Strange shooters, tea pots and general oddity 7pm £free; Saturday Showdown DJ Resident keeps the music flowing 8pm £free funky buddha Buddha Soul: DJ Mike Pantelli Funk, soul, R&B, house 11pm £10; After party 3am £5 funkyFISH The Funkyfish Club DJ Delboy spins 4 decades on 4 decks. How many hands does this man have?

10pm £6/3.50 GLOBE The Recess Disco, nu-disco, friendly electro, breaks and more 8pm £free hanbury Stick It On Be a DJ for your 15 mins fame 9pm £6 heist Home: Sean Quinn House music of various persuasions 9pm £free Honeyclub Sevensins:Johnstar Pumping house & electro, R&B 11pm £12 Hope Achilles, Dirty Scavenger, Orchid Trip Big riffs, upbeat tempos, earth rock and punk trio 8pm £3

JAM The Recommender Live music, details tbc 9pm £tbc JuGGLER DJ Lamp R&B, dance and jazz tunes continued from the day before 8pm £free Komedia down Krater Comedy Club Stand-up shenanigans 7pm & 10.30pm £17.50/15 KOMEDIA STUDIO Da Doo Ron Ron Girls In The Garage Special: Chris ‘Da Doo’ King, Simon Bridger 60s girl garage nuggets and motown mixes, what a treat! 11pm £6/5 KOMEDIA UP Ministry of Burlesque Promises of frisky burlesque and Victorian villainy 9pm £26.50/15 LEGENDS Ignition DJ Lee Harris with chart and house 11pm £free life Hold Up! Indie night 11pm £5 marlborough Cherry Pop DJ Fondue Inferno brings the cheese 8pm £free OM Beyond: Rich Harmer, Kowboy K Anything goes party 9pm £free Pav tav Snap, Crackle & Brit Pop: C-Dogg and Dynamite Sal Britpop treats and US alt indie 11pm £3/2 Pavilion theatre Scratch Night Artistic shorts 8pm £free Prince Albert Gordon Russell & The Snakemen Live music from former Dr Feelgood member 8pm £tbc PROVIDENCE Sound Factory: Tom And The Tides, Our Fathers, London Commands You Rock night 8pm £2 RIKI TIK Looking Sound KGB Visuals, Radiosam impress us with live VJ action and video scratch sets 8pm £free Sidewinder The Shakedown: Shades of Blue Funk vs Jazz 8pm £free ST Georges Church Thee Silver Mountain Zion Subtle yet powerful Canadian melodies 7.30pm £16/14 Theatre Royal Traces Urban acrobatics 2.30pm/7.45pm £tbc three & ten Off the Cuff Mental impro comedy 8pm £7/5; Red Brick Comedy Club Andrew Lawrence stands up 10pm £10/7.50; Senor Mick Tunes and beats and solid grooves 10pm £free Victory Fernando Poo (is back...) A promise of general strangeness as well as mash-ups, indie fuzz and party pop 9pm £free Volks Wrong Music Filthy D&B 11pm £tbc West Hill TAVERN L’amour Electronique Pop a la Francais and synth sounds 9pm £free WORLDS END PUB Repunk Live band action presented by the Frank Melina Band 8pm £free Western front Partytime DJs playing hip hop, house, electro and party classic 9pm £free

sunday 28th

Belushi’s Bar Open Mic Session 8.30pm £free Black Lion Sunday Sessions: Dubrockers Live Dub, reggae, ska, punk, trip hop and funk 6pm £free brunswick Saxophone Showcase 20+ saxophonists play modern hits rather loudly 12pm £3; Brighton Songwriters Showcase for every man, woman and dog who write songs for other people’s ears 7pm £tbc coalition Frequency House, breaks, electro 10.30pm £free cONCORDE 2 Tunng Folktronica 8pm £12.50 DRUIDS ARMS The Downtown Sessions Trip hop and broken down grooves to wind down your hectic weekend 9pm £free Fiddler’s Elbow Sham-Rock Open Mic 9pm £free Freebutt Geoff Farina, Chris Brokaw, Laish Abstract lyrics and clever guitar from Karate frontman 7.30pm £7 Globe Sunday Funday Decks and boardgames in the basement Noon £free GREAT EASTERN Phil Mills Live blues 8pm £free hanbury Cabaret Lunch Live cabaret Noon £free honeyclub Spectrum: Jon Byrne & Steven James Electro to keep the weekend alive 11pm £3/2 hoPE Jazz Magazine Live session feat Eddie Myer Trio, DJ Adam King 6pm £free Komedia down Krater Comedy Club Stand-up shenanigans 8pm £11/6 komedia studio This Just In.... Comedy improv from The Maydays 8pm £8 LEGENDS Cabaret: Lady Imelda Diva time 3.15pm £free; Fever Disco and pop 11pm £free old market Carducci Quartet Haydn, Moeran, Mendelssohn 11am £22/14/10/7; Hullabaloo Community Quire Feisty community choir 7.30pm £8 OM Sunday Shoutin: Lee Garratt DJ playing classic tunes 9pm £free Pavilion theatre The People’s Theatre Company: How the Koala Learnt to Hug Sing-a-long songs for kids 11am/2pm £7/5 penthouse Hip Hop Karaoke You are a BADASS rapper 7.30pm £free Prince Albert The School, Foxes! Hyper-melodic pop indie soul from rising talent signed to Elefant 8pm £5; seven stars Mike The Mic And Friends Mike and his pals give your ears a workout 4pm £free three & ten Projecktor Film Club Short film showcase 6pm £5

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monday 29TH wednesday 31ST

Basement Double Bill: Emma Bennett, Edward Rapley Emma creates suggestive mental images before twisting them into new shapes, building strange worlds, then killing them off.

Edward shows 10 Ways To Die On Stage 7.30pm £8/6 Belushi’s BAR Quiz Night 8.30pm £free Belushi’s Below Latin Mondayz Salsa & samba on the decks 9pm £2/free Black Lion Happy Mondays Open decks and mics 5pm £free brunswick Brighton Folk Live music 8pm £free Coalition Trash Mondays Eclectic student night 10.30pm £3/2/free cONCORDE 2 Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip, B. Dolan, Sound of Rum Heroin electro set to poetry 8pm £14.50/12.50 Duke Of York’s Cinema Mark Kermode: It’s Only A Movie Tour 7.30pm Hope The H’Open Mic 8.30pm £free HYDRANT You Tube Share your faves with the pub 8pm £free LEGENDS Miss Jasons Monday Mayhem Feat. Gay Your Cards Right 9pm £free; Chic DJ Steve Lush spins disco anthems in the basement 11pm £free Life Aka Aka Roar Inspirational dubstep 11pm £3/2 Old MARKET City Books: Peter Own Jones Talks about his new book ‘Letters from an Extreme Pilgrim: Reflections on Life, Love and the Soul’ 6.30pm £6 OM Monday Shoutin: Lee Garratt DJ playing classic tunes 9pm £free Pavilion theatre Sounds from the City Talent showcase of solo artists and bands 7.30pm £4.75 prince albert Stanley Brinks, King James Freschard Live bands 7.30pm £7 sidewinder Poker night 9pm £5 Theatre Royal The History Boys Alan Bennett’s school themed theatre 7.45pm £tbc thomas kemp Pub Quiz 8pm £free Volks Strictly Reggae: Big T Dancehall, roots, revival 10pm £5/4.50

Tuesday 30TH

Audio Club NME Indie 11pm £3/2 Belushi’s BAR Mod For It Mod & ska 10pm £1 Belushi’s below Elements D&B 9pm £1 Black Lion Tuesday Club Anything goes music-wise 8pm £free Brunswick Open Mic 8pm £free Coalition Salsa Brighton Learn the moves for the clubnight later 8pm £6/4; Viva Latino: DJ Dubl Salsa & merengue music 10pm £3/2 DIGITAL Glitterati Exclusive Student Night 11pm £4/3 Duke of Norfolk Open Mic Including tapdancers, poetry and all kinds of music 9pm £free engine rooms Computers, Outcry Collective Live music 7.30pm £7.50 Fiddler’s Elbow Quizness Time Pub Quiz 8pm £1 Globe Basement Cinema Classic and underground film screenings 8pm £free hanbury Showcase Live music hosted by Alex thorn 7pm £5 honeclub Salsa Brighton Sort out yr two left feet at the salsa & merengue lessons at 9, then stay for freestyle club action afters 9pm £tbc hope The Heartbreaks Indie surf music. Shut your eyes and imagine that California sunshine 7pm £6 HYDRANT Games Night Come and play 8pm £free jam Out Of The Blue Live something tbc 8pm £tbc; Pot Kettle Black Indie night playing old and new gems 10pm £2/1 juggler Are You B.I.M.M.? Music from students and anyone equally passionate 8pm £free LEGENDS Scene Queen DJ Lil Alex spins in the Basement club 11pm £free life The Vice Social Student dance night 10.30pm £3/2 Old market Rory Bremner Political satire from well established funnyman Details tbc PAV TAV Guerilla Rocks Rock, indie, metal & punk to mosh to 10.30pm £3/2 Prince Albert Cable Cub presents Robin Momie Live bands 8pm £tbc RIKI TIK Hip Hop Tuesdays DJ Tyni keeps it real 8pm £free seven stars Retro Cult Classic Film Nights Log on to www.sevenstarsbrighton.co.uk to vote for film to be shown 8pm £free SIDEwinder Open Decks Competition Come and play 8pm £free SIgnalman Quiz Test your wits, hosted by the Fat Controller 8pm £1 Theatre Royal The History Boys Alan Bennett’s school themed theatre 7.45pm £tbc Western front The Lobster Quadrille From 50s to present day feat Ollie and Bryn of Laylanas fame 8pm £free WORLDS END Wii Night Leave your stinking pit of a bedroom to play computer games amongst the booze loving public 8pm £free

Audio Supercharged Breaks with Krafty Kuts 11pm £tbc Belushi’s BAR Old School Sessions 90s house 9pm £1 Black Lion Fresh Acoustics Local live music 8.30pm £free brunswick Middle Age Rampage Character based comedy from Dyball and Kerr 8pm £tbc Caroline of Brunswick The Funnier Farm: Isy Suttie Stand up comedy with Dobby from Peep Show 8pm £5 CASABLANCA Latin Quarter Live funk 11pm £2/1 coalition Remedy Mid-week medicine of the musical variety. Expect R&B, pop, dubstep and commercial dance 10:30pm £3/2 DIGITAL Poundance Dance floor destroyers 11pm £1 Duke of Norfolk Quiz Night Winner takes all 9pm £1 Fishbowl Fisherman’s Chronicles Acoustic jam open mic session 8pm £free FREEBUTT Leigh Mary Stokes If Kate Nash was an angsty teen still 7.30pm £6 hanbury Salsa Dance class 8pm £6 heist Sub:Side Dubstep session, step to, step to 8pm £free hydrant Quiz Including air guitar round, at former Hare & Hounds 8pm £free jam CookTheRabbit Live music 9pm £tbc JuGGLER Bakk Lamp Fall 5 piece traditional West African band 8pm £free LATEST MUSIC BAR Call Me Jolene Dark melodic songs 7.30pm £4 LEGENDS Gabbi’s Games Bring on the competition 11am £free; Dirty Handbag DJ Gabbi brings the party to the basement club 11pm £free life Broke? Dubstep, hip hop, D&B, house, electro 10.30pm £1 marlborough Open Mic Go for it 8.30pm £free old market Act Productions: Families At War War! What is it good for? 7.30pm £8/6.50 penthouse Suck My Deck Love vs hate 7.30pm £free Prince Albert Shark Catching For Beginners, Horse Joiners, Hungry Lepers Live music 7.30pm £5 R Bar Midweek Mash up Indie, rock and electro from DJ Beast 8pm £free RIKI TIK To The Floor: Jay & Rick It’s a mental indie, rock, electro party 8pm £free SIDEwinder Open Decks Competition Come and play 8pm £free; Quiz Winners take pot 8pm £1 Theatre Royal The History Boys Alan Bennett’s school themed theatre 7.45pm £tbc Three and ten Katy and Rach Make Stuff Up Spontaneous theatre 8pm £7/5 VARSITY Open Mike Night There’s a song in everyone 8pm £free volks Structure Drum n Bass Launch Night: Heist, Erb N Dub, Overdose, Maniac, Trouble, Comatoze, Black Label, Riskotheque A whole host of D&B talent 10pm £tbc

Exhibitions

Brighton Museum & Art Gallery The Land Girls: Cinderellas of the Soil An exhibition of land girl related stuffpredominantly pairs of ilegally altered khaki britches. Those naughty, naughty girls Until 14 March £free; The Spice of Life We can’t believe it’s taken so long for the curators to put together an exhibition of condiment containers and salt shakers. Surely Brighton has been crying out for this Until 8 August £free; Jewels On The Nile Images, paintings and etchings of Egypt captured in the 19th and 20th century Until March £free HOVE MUSEUM Precious: Reclaiming Art & Craft Contemporary craft created from recycled tat £free Until 23 May Ink_d Renegade Potters and Exreme Crafts Extreme craft show, from potters to subversive needlework 12th March until 11 April £free Phoenix Gallery A Journey Through ‘U’ Same Sky art collective take up residence to create giant installations based of bodily systems. Expect giant paper mache monsters From 20 February to 28 March £free Rodhus Gallery Terrain: Caitlin Hefferman Very visual art using paper and coloured pencil 26 February - 24 April £tbc York place gallery CubCulture Taking over York Place studios with screenprints, mix media, oil paintings and photography treats. Guest artists include Jane Sampson, Jack Nash and James Kendall 20th Feb - 1st May £free XUMA Flood The Valley: Jimmy Swoops & Atardis Brand guerillas, stencil and screen print 11 February - 11 March £free

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SIX OF THE BEST

SPACEMEN 3 WITH SPECTRUM IN TOWN THIS MONTH WE BRING YOU THE SERMON OF SPACEMEN 3 WORDS BY NICK COQUET

The history of ‘alternative’ music is littered with so-called important bands – names kids would drop in the timehonoured tradition of cooler-than-thou; bands that never sold out and never sold much at all. Jason Pierce and Pete Kember’s legendary and truly influential Spacemen 3 were the name on every tripped out scenester’s lips in the late 80s, despite never troubling the mainstream. So with Spectrum making a welcome visit this month (see Gig Previews) we thought it was time to preach the righteous sermon of Spacemen 3 and their Bonsai family tree of Spectrum and Spiritualized.

SPACEMEN 3 ‘REVOLUTION’

“For all the fucked up children of the world… we give to you…

Spacemen 3.” Taking the didactic manifesto of the MC5 and reducing it to a single droned chord, moved just two frets along every eighth note and back again in a perfect realisation of minimalism, polemic and sheer sonic assault, this is what finally put the band on the map after a few years in the indie hinterland.

While bands like Sonic Youth were already treading a similar musical path around New York, this was certainly a musical kick up the arse for Rugby, Warwickshire.

SPACEMEN 3 ‘HYPNOTISED’

By the time of their fourth and final album ‘Recurring’, all was not well in the Spaceman camp. The two sides of the album were effectively recorded as solo works, with just one track, a Mudhoney cover, featuring both Pierce and Kember together.

This sprawling epic, from Jason’s section, is a clear and tantalising precursor to the hypnotic keyboard tremolo of Spiritualized, and an obvious realisation of their manifesto of ‘taking drugs to make music to take drugs to’.

SPACEMEN 3 ‘LORD CAN YOU HEAR ME?’

Oddly, considering their less than Sunday Best advocacies over the years, much of Kember and Pierce’s work both together and apart shares the common thread of gospel music. Perhaps one man’s psychedelic self-medication is another’s unwavering belief in an unlikely deity. But cod psychology aside, this is an unfussy

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and irreverence-avoiding piece of hypnotic beauty, a simple arrangement and pleading vocal that would only raise the most uncharitable of eyebrows were it to turn up on Songs Of Praise.

SPIRITUALIZED ‘LADIES AND GENTLEMEN WE ARE FLOATING IN SPACE’

Conspicuously absent from last month’s Valentines compilations, this is nonetheless one of the most beautiful songs ever written – featuring and presumably about band keyboardist Kate Radley, who ended up leaving Pierce for that lanky goon Richard Ashcroft. With its frank and desperate admission ‘all I want in life’s a little bit of love to take the pain away’, repeated over a simple looped chord descent and ground control radio comms, it was the perfect opener and title track to an essential album.

SPIRITUALIZED ‘IF I WERE WITH HER NOW’

The second song on the ‘Lazer Guided Melodies’ record, this was a perfect embodiment of the band’s formative releases. With its backwards-echoey vocals, single chord repetition and single floor tom percussion build into keyboard and sax crescendo, it still reminds us of staring, saucer-eyed, at the unfurling visuals behind the band on various stages. Luckily sitting down on the sticky floor was encouraged at gigs – mosh pits were always a bugger for skinning up in.

SPECTRUM ‘HOW YOU SATISFY ME’

Pete Kember, or Sonic Boom as his mum almost certainly doesn’t call him, was somewhat cast aside when the rest of Spacemen 3 splintered into Spiritualized, but he dusted himself off and got back to the business of making proper druggy music.

After an album as Sonic Boom called ‘Spectrum’, he released his first album as Spectrum, ‘Soul Kiss (Glide Divine)’ in 1992. This single from it is markedly different from Pierce’s post-S3 work, being perhaps more song-based than Spiritualized’s ethereal builds, yet the common threads of psychedelic rock repetition and acid-drenched everything remain.

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