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TALL SHIPS set sail for success
volume 2. Issue 48 september 2012
festival Previews: playgroup, Digital , Over the moon PHOTOS: dagger & Wonder Yeahs
Telepathe - see gigs, page 16
your gig charter
The other day we went to see Public Image Ltd play at the Concorde, which was absolutely astounding. But halfway through the gig someone whipped out a camera and started videoing a song. Not a problem, except that the camera was in front of our face. So we came home and wrote an editor’s letter about how people shouldn’t film at gigs, mainly cos they’re missing the fun of actually being there. As well meant as it was, at the last minute we spiked it (you can read it at tinyurl.com/ StopDontShoot). While worrying about the article’s tone we went to see The Wedding Present, again at the Concorde, and again brilliant. Not many cameras there but the 40-year-olds in the moshpit were going crazy to songs of heartbreak and despair. Was that right? We weren’t sure. But we thought that we should make a list of what should and shouldn’t be allowed at gigs. Or more to the point SOURCE readers should. So we want you to email the biggest gig-going sins to james@brightonsource.co.uk and we’ll write a charter. What are the rules on talking? Is it OK to bring four beers back from the bar to your mates down the front? Where should tall people stand? Let us know and we’ll draft up a version for debate on Facebook and Twitter and put the ratified version in the magazine.
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Contents
News New In Town Gig Previews Interview: Tall Ships Club Previews Club Review: Wonder Yeahs Club Review: Dagger Art: Undercliff Culture Locally Sourced Preview: Digital Festival Preview: Playgroup Festival Preview: Over The Moon Festival Street Style Unsung Hero: David Bramwell Secret Eater: La Choza In Conversation With: Bunty Listings Six Of The Best: Electronic Pioneers
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Audio’s Eighth Birthday 21.09.12
888 Audio, 10 Marine Parade, Brighton
Oneman Boddika Midland Blah Blah Blah Dj’s
Above Audio From 6pm
Robert Luis Dead Rose Music Company Pablo Contraband Neal Schtumm Ben Monk
£10/12 Tickets in advance www.audiobrighton.com
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Words By Amy Bellchambers, Stuart Huggett, James Kendall
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orbital - tickets available from source
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Well, we promised it, and we finally delivered – you can now buy tickets on brightonsource.co.uk. Most Brighton venues have already signed up and we’ve got tickets for the Concorde, The Haunt, Coalition, Komedia, The Blind Tiger, The Hope, Sticky Mike’s and more. If you want to find out about the newest tickets follow @SOURCEtickets on Twitter or sign up to our weekly news, gigs, and clubs mailout at tinyurl.com/SOURCEmailout. You can find links in our redesigned, better-than-ever online listings, on our website previews and flagged up in the magazine with the logo above. Already we have tickets for Gallows, Mystery Jets and Orbital, plus hundreds of other Brighton gigs and club nights. Promoters and anyone else who’d like to know more should visit tinyurl.com/SOURCEtix.
Pride party
At the start of the year it looked touch and go as to whether Pride would take place this summer at all. Fortunately, the city has pulled together to put on what could well be the biggest Pride party yet. The colourful LGBT Parade gets underway from Madeira Drive on Sat 1st at 11am. Tickets for the subsequent Preston Park party are available on the gate, starting at £10 for students. Fatboy Slim, Freemasons and Alexandra Burke are the main attractions,
Skatepark approved
It’s been a long time coming but the council has finally approved a concrete skatepark for The Level as part of its £2.2m Lottery grant-funded restoration. So far there’s £150,000 to build the sunken, polished concrete park north of the Rose Walk. There’s been a skate park at The Level since the 70s, but it’s been in a pretty poor state for a while so this is great news for the city’s skaters and BMX riders.
Beauty donations
We all have unwanted beauty products that we’ve left neglected on the bathroom shelf, so why not put them to
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good use? My Swish are holding a clothes swapping event at the Lansdowne Place Hotel on Sun 16th where unused toiletries will be donated to women who have experienced domestic violence and deserve a little luxury in their lives. The more products you bring along, the more points you get and the more points you have, the more you can exchange for others’ pre-loved fashion items. Simple.
Board of Brighton
Paul Stapleton, cartoonist and musician (Pog, Anal Beard), has rather a love/hate relationship with Brighton. His regular comic strip BN1 satirises, and occasionally just rips the piss out of, the colourful characters that make Brighton such a wonderful and irritating place to live. He’s now developed the brilliant BN1 – The Board Game, where players battle to have the most interesting day in the city, encountering dozens of local eccentrics and clichés en route. Copies can be ordered from worldofbeardandpog. co.uk/preorder.html
Good food
Brighton & Hove Food And Drink Festival is back for its Autumn Harvest, Fri 7th – Sun 16th. The usual array of cookery demonstrations and tasting events include events at such SOURCE favourites as Moshi Moshi, The Brewery Tap and Boho Gelato, and there’s family activities including Sussex Cheese Bowling and an apple juice assault course (the Wobblegate Wobblympics) down on Hove Lawns. Don’t forget it’s the chillitastic Fiery Foods Festival in Victoria Gardens, Fri 14th – Sun 16th too.
Furry fun
Nick Cave. Mayor Bill Randall. Jimmy from The Bobby McGee’s. Three Brighton icons, united by some luxuriant moustache work. Celebrate the world of facial fuzz at the British Beard & Moustache Championships at the Corn Exchange on Sat 15th. With 12 categories of hirsuteness on display, including a Best Made False Beard for those women and children struggling to grow their own. Michael ‘Atters’ Attree and Baron Bartholomew Black are your glamorous hosts.
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Only a few hops from the beach & the city centre, the Hop Poles is the little pub with the big personality. Whether it’s laid back lunch hours by day, or upbeat destination venue (boasting a new soundsystem and a collective of Brighton’s best DJs) by night, you’d best hop to it!
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A tradition of a genuinely warm welcome and first rate friendly service, is the hallmark of the friendliest watering hole in Brighton. Whether you are alone or with a group of friends, the craic is mighty and you will always feel at home at Molly Malones. Molly Malones has it all… The Whiskey Collection… The Atmosphere… The Music Sessions… The Competent and Friendly Staff… The Best pint of Guinness and Oh, the craic is mighty!
Wednesday through to Sunday open till 2am Fri/Sat/Sun 3x50’’ plasma screens & 2 pull down projector screens for all the up coming sporting events... All Semi & Final All Ireland matches will be shown on our Big screens in Mollys
Saturday 29th September Mods and Rocker come together to celebrate a music fuelled night at the one and only Molly Malones. So dust of your leather jackets and come join us for a feast of classic numbers from performer Mike Dobie. “You gotta be somebody, ain’t ya”
New In Town
Words By Amy Bellchambers, Ian Chambers, Stuart Huggett
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New York Coffee Club
Yum Yum Ninja
Live At The Palmeira
Soup-Urb
Green Brick
PEARLS bubble tea CAFE
The centre of Brighton is already over-run with Costas, Starbucks and Caffè Neros, so it takes a brave person to open an independent right alongside the chains. Rarely lacking selfbelief, Peter Andre is that man, and he and his brothers are the brains behind New York Coffee Club. They’ve picked a great location next to the Clock Tower, and the café includes a kids’ play area, so business for the pop charmer and his bros should be good.
Brighton & Hove have an exciting new music venue. Brighthelmstone Promotions have teamed up with the good folks at The Palmeira on Cromwell Road to bring the finest Americana to the city. The venue has a capacity of 130 and a brand new custom built stage and lighting rig. Appearing soon under the Live At The Palmeira banner are the likes of Mark Eitzel, The Dreaming Spires, Elliott Brood and Kelly Joe Phelps.
With fashionable roots, being located on the site of the old BIBA boutique along Queens Road, Green Brick buy and trade store is a haven for those bargain hunters with a love of labels. Not only can you buy, you can also trade your much-loved vintage clothes, shoes and accessories, putting your ethical mind at ease. A win-win situation we say.
HOURGLASS
Following the closure of Xuma bar in Seven Dials, Brighton’s Small Batch Coffee Company will be taking over the premises later in the year. In the meantime, pop up bar specialists Off The Map have been invited to bridge the gap between one business and the next by running a temporary late night venue on site – Hourglass. With live music and DJs lined up for their short residency, head up there to check out what’s happening soon, because by the time word gets around they might very well be long gone.
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Created by the team from Riddle & Finns in the Lanes and the former Due South seafront restaurant, Yum Yum Ninja is a new pan-Asian restaurant on Meeting House Lane. Diners can eat inside and out, with a courtyard area designed to replicate the experience of an Asian night market with its parasols, banners and festoon lighting. There’s an upstairs bar serving cocktails, sake, umeshu, Japanese whisky and other delights.
Punning urban food café Soup-Urb is now open on Trafalgar Street, offering a seasonal menu of fresh local food. The café’s great love is hearty, natural soups, with a rotating range of daily flavours available. There are plenty of other breakfasts, sandwiches, salads and other meals available, with an emphasis on Fair Trade, sustainable ingredients and bio-degradeable packaging.
Bubble tea is fairly new to British shores, although it’s a beverage that’s been gaining popularity around the world since its invention in 1980s Taiwan. Essentially, the ‘teas’ are fruit or milk blended drinks served with ‘bubbles’ of soft tapioca pearls or fruit jelly, and served hot or cold. Pearls Bubble Tea Cafe on Gardner Street are introducing the drink to Brightonians, and are already gaining big fans in the SOURCE office.
Zushi
There’s a new Japanese sushi café opening on Prince Albert Street in the Lanes this month. Zushi promises fresh fish and hand made dishes including Temaki Zushi (take away sushi in a hand-rolled cone) and traditional, pressed Oshi Zushi. The café comes complete with Japanese music and magazines, while their online shop offers more food and sushi making kits for sale.
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Words by MATT BARKER, Susan B. Bentley, Steve Clements, Jack Dutton, Joshua Feldman, Nathaniel Forrester, Stuart Huggett, Jake Kennedy (JKn), Jessica Marshall McHattie, Adam Peters, Thirza Tooes
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Euros Childs
Woodpecker Wooliams
When Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci split back in 2006, the prospect of frontman/all-rounder Euros Childs retreating to a life outside of music, or disappearing completely, was too depressing to contemplate. But we needn’t have worried. Since then, he’s appeared on a frankly alarming number of records and visited Brighton under various guises. Now back promoting ‘Summer Special’, staggeringly his tenth solo work, he’s playing to his charming glam-folk strengths once more, and is here backed – and supported – by Glasgow’s The Wellgreen. (JKn)
A specially curated night to launch the apiarist’s new avianthemed album ‘Bird School Of Being Human’. The combination of blissful yet haunting harp and the scratchy background of the songs are the perfect platform for Wooliams’ singular voice to sweep over. She’ll be performing as part of a trio and support comes from a newly formed dark folk super group named K L O W K, plus surprise special guests. Get there early for the home made honey mead. (SC)
Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Mon 3rd
Jeffrey Lewis
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Haunt Thurs 6th
Anti-folk legend Jeffrey Lewis has grown from a self-deprecating, pony-tailed comic book artist to become a respected elder statesman of the genre and a master of his craft. From early classics like ‘The Chelsea Hotel Oral Sex Song’, through an album of Crass covers, to collaborations with the legendary and infamous inhabitants of the New York underground, he remains a captivating, wryly funny outsider. He is the king to Kimya Dawson’s queen and long may he reign. (SC)
Water Tower Bucket Boys Haunt Fri 7th
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From Portland, Oregon, over the past few years the Water Tower Bucket Boys have rapidly become firm favourites with Brighton crowds, playing storming shows whenever they visit. Their music is a hard driving, fast picking, harmony fuelled mix of bluegrass, blues, cajun, folk and country, all combined with the lightning energy of their stage performances. In short, one of the best live bands you could wish to see. Support comes from hotly tipped locals Hatful Of Rain. (IC)
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St Andrew’s Church Sat 8th
Piney Gir
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Green Door Store Mon 10th
Kansas-born, North London-based, petticoated pop princess Piney Gir’s output ranges from snappy electronica to sunny country pop and her perky disposition never fails to charm. She’s been prolific of late, popping back and forth to LA to record and putting out an album a year since 2009’s ‘The Yearling’. She’s a whizz on melodica and accordion and her cute as a kitten bubblegum sound is guaranteed to raise a smile and melt the stoniest of hearts. (SC)
SWI On Tour
Ranelagh Mon 10th
Usually better suited to SOURCE’s Culture pages, Something Wholly Inappropriate is a monthly music and spoken word night: it traditionally features more of the latter due to its regular venue lacking an amplified music licence. With that in mind, crazy-hatted female curator Doctor Bongo has relocated to the Ran for this one-off ‘On Tour’ edition, showcasing bigger, louder musical acts. These include observational punksters Anal Beard, kazooligans ASBO Derek and chaos noise duo Binnsclagg. Expect the odd poem too. (AP)
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Hurray For The Riff Raff Green Door Store Tues 11th
Hurray For The Riff Raff began when singer-songwriter Alynda Lee Segarra left her native New York at the age of 17, hopping freight trains across the USA and finally ending up in New Orleans. The band clearly soak up the city’s rich cultural heritage with a swinging mix of swampy pop, country, surf rock and jazz, all perfectly realised on their new album ‘Look Out Mama’. Support comes from Mad Staring Eyes, fresh from appearing at Bestival. (IC)
Patti Smith
Dome Weds 12th
With the June album release of ‘Banga’ and touring with Neil Young & Crazy Horse later this year, Patti Smith refuses to go quietly into her pensionable years. Still political, loud and just a little bit scary, this gig follows last year’s sell-out music and poetry night at Bexhill’s De La Warr Pavilion. Come prepared with your coolest black clothes and some stompy big boots as the original punk rock goddess continues to show us all that “rock and roll is the people’s art”. (SBB)
The Last Carnival Concorde 2 Thurs 13th
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Roll up to the second stop of The Last Carnival’s summer tour, as the boys return to their home town after performing at Audio in April. They recently spent three days in Paris filming a video for the rocking ‘Stars’ and also found time to release an acoustic cover of The Killers’ mid-noughties classic ‘Mr Brightside’. Slick, quiffed and shaded, The Last Carnival are bringing big guitar anthems back to Brighton. Tom Staniford, Juno and Rory Indiana Kaye support. (JF)
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Meg Baird
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West Hill Hall Fri 14th
Vocalist in seminal psych-folk band Espers, Meg Baird returns to town following a truly spellbinding show last December. Her hauntingly beautiful voice and songs have quite rightly won her praise and comparisons to folk greats such as Sandy Denny and Jacqui McShee, while her latest album ‘Seasons On Earth’ was released on the acclaimed Drag City label. This is sure to be a really special evening in the lovely West Hill Hall. (IC)
Fatality Big Weekend Haunt/Concorde 2 Sat 15th/Sun 16th
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If you missed any of the big metal festivals this summer then the Fatality Big Weekend will definitely make up for it. Saturday’s Haunt line-up boasts an exciting mix of American metalcore bands like Iwrestledabearonce and For All Those Sleeping. Sunday at Concorde 2 takes things back to old school death metal, with the likes of Dying Fetus and Job For A Cowboy. Providing a mix that die-hards and new kids can all enjoy, Fatality isn’t the place for Granny. (TT)
Ginger Baker’s Jazz Confusion
The Old Market Sun 16th
Prior to becoming a 70s rock god, Ginger paid his dues on the vibrant London jazz scene, before joining Graham Bond’s influential rhythm’n’blues outfit Organisation, which also featured fellow Cream alumni Jack Bruce. Tonight he’s playing with James Brown’s sax blower Pee Wee Ellis, bassist Alec Dankworth and percussionist Abass Dodoo. He may be in his 70s and survived a rollercoaster lifestyle but he remains a powerful force. Expect a dynamic display of Monk influenced originals with an African flavour. (SC)
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advancepromotions Gigs In Brighton... AUDIO // OCT 5
THE MOONS
Saturday 8th September The Green Door Store £8 adv
AUDIO // OCT 6
HEY SHOLAY
Friday 14th September The Green Door Store £6 adv
THE HAUNT // OCT 24
MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK
Tuesday 18th September The Haunt £13.50 adv
RACHEL SERMANNI
THE HAUNT // NOV 9
Sunday 23rd September Latest Music Bar £7 adv
TWISTED WHEEL
Thursday 27th September The Green Door Store £9 adv
COALITION // NOV 9
GALLOWS
Wednesday 3rd October The Haunt £13 adv
ROLO TOMASSI
Monday 22nd October The Haunt £10 adv
CONCORDE 2 // DEC 6 24 HOUR TICKET HOTLINE: 0870 264 3333
ONLINE: www.seetickets.com / www.ticketweb.co.uk
Also available from HMV BRIGHTON/ RESIDENT MUSIC C2 BOX OFFICE / THE DOME BOX OFFICE (C2 events only)
REVEREND & THE MAKERS Tuesday 23rd October Concorde 2 £12.50 adv
SPECTOR
Thursday 25th October Concorde 2 £10 adv
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Richard Hawley Dome Weds 19th
Jens Lekman
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Haunt Fri 21st
Richard Hawley’s acclaimed solo career got off the ground with an eponymous 2000 debut, recorded with the encouragement of old Sheffield friends Steve Mackay and Jarvis Cocker, although he’s been a working musician since his school band Treebound Story got signed way back in 1986. This year’s ‘Standing At The Sky’s Edge’ found Hawley bringing back guitars in a big way to complement his smooth croon and long developed, forever in demand songwriting and production skills. (SH)
It’s often suggested Scandinavians understand the English language better than native speakers, and no-one confirms this more than Lekman. The intricate wordplay underpinning his darkly comic songs, about struggles in love and life, rate amongst the best songwriting of the past decade. Live, he’s an absolute charmer, someone who may well personally accompany you afterwards, singing, to the nearest bus stop (we’ve seen it happen). Expect uplifting, downbeat, fiery and mellow indie folk. Think Jeffrey Lewis meeting Leonard Cohen in a snowstorm. (AP)
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Make Good Your Escape
Leave your inhibitions at the door and prepare your mind for a technicolour frazzling, as it’s a Beatabet takeover at SOURCE New Music this month. Tonight, the ceaselessly inventive collective are launching the first chapter of Bunty’s ‘Multimos’ – a multimedia album in seven parts (see interview p54). metaLuna are on hand to supply vibrant digital projections, while support comes from instrumental guitar and electronics trio Spacenoid and jaw-droppingly hyperactive synth-rock noiseniks P For Persia. (SH)
Based around Brighton and Chichester, Make Good Your Escape had a flurry of national interest a few years back when they signed to venerable indie Fierce Panda, issuing some anthemic singles and an album, ‘Never Look Back Here Again’. In the end, management woes led to an early split following a sold out, 2007 Concorde 2 show. Recently reunited, they’re getting themselves back on track at this Haunt gig tonight, with a new song ‘Kleptomaniac’ to promote too. (SH)
Pavilion Theatre Thurs 20th
Dexys
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Dome Thurs 20th
Too many bands with only half the discography of Dexys are reforming, but these Brummies never split – despite leaving 26 years between albums. Instead they condensed, and on ‘One Day I’m Going To Soar’, performed in its entirety tonight, Kevin Rowland and co find themselves older but not necessarily any more mature. Hits are promised in the second half too, so expect flapping theatrics, flat caps, a coy conversational tone and sharp suits. And ‘Geno’ too, possibly. (JKn)
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Haunt Sat 22nd
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Aiden Grimshaw Concorde 2 Mon 24th
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After his early exit from the X Factor finals in 2010, Aiden Grimshaw went AWOL from the celebrity circuit, until being snapped up by RCA Records earlier this year, resurfacing at The Great Escape. His debut single ‘Is This Love’ peaked at #35 and was followed by the mawkishly named album ‘Misty Eye’. Grimshaw and his team have insisted the show is strictly over 16s only, leading us to wonder whether most of his fanbase have been excluded. (JF)
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Haunt Mon 24th
Lauded by the late John Peel and applauded for reinventing breakcore, the artist otherwise known as Aaron Funk is a long-haired legend in the world of glitch. With his previous live shows featuring kazoos and violas, and anything in between from IDM to orchestral samples, it’s impossible to predict exactly what a Venetian Snares gig will be like except to know it’ll be innovative. He may not have put out an album since 2010, but with over 20 full length releases in his back catalogue, we wouldn’t worry about a lack of material. (JMM)
Telepathe
Green Door Store Fri 28th
Although they seem to be a perennially under-the-radar act – apparently destined to be described as “hip” forever – this isn’t Brooklyn duo Telepathe’s first trip to Brighton. A full-to-capacity Digital hosted them last time, and no doubt the admission fee then was more than the very reasonable price tonight (free). Their 2009 debut was the perfect combination of softly melodious vocals and arch, dancey electronics, and this time around they’re on TV On The Radio’s David Sitek’s label. (MB)
Beth Jeans Houghton
Haunt Fri 28th
Beth and her imaginatively named cohorts The Hooves of Destiny bring their equally wacky explosion of kaleidoscopic glam-folk to the dark recesses of Pool Valley. Having toured with Jeffrey Lewis and Devendra Banhart, the angel-voiced Geordie songstress certainly has friends in the anti-folk aristocracy. Promoting her cryptically titled debut album ‘Yours Truly, Cellophane Nose’, Beth, who apparently relocated to the home of plasticity, Los Angeles, in 2011, will have seen plenty of artificial noses in her neighbourhood. (NJF)
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Tues 28 Aug Proud BrighTon BAllroom
ThursdAy 25 ocT The green door sTore
Dark Dark Dark + Twenty One Crows
Zombie Zombie + AKDK sATurdAy 10 novemBer The BAsemenT
TuesdAy 11 sePTemBer The hoPe
Husky + guests
Micah P Hinson + guests Wed 14 nov Proud BrighTon BAllroom
sun 23 sePT Proud BrighTon BAllroom
James Yorkston + Steve Elston
Lau + Blue Rose Code TuesdAy 20 nov KomediA (doWnsTAirs)
The Staves + guests
Tues 25 sePT The green door sTore
Jaill + guests
FridAy 30 nov sT georges church
Beth Orton + Sam Amidon
FridAy 28 sePTemBer The hAunT
Beth Jeans Houghton & The Hooves of Destiny + guests mondAy 1 ocToBer coAlTion
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Dan Le Sac & Friends + Merz WednesdAy 3 ocT The Blind Tiger cluB
Chapelier Fou + guests sATurdAy 13 ocToBer coAliTion 1
Micachu & The Shapes + guests mondAy 22 ocToBer coAlTion 1
Fránçois and the Atlas Mountains + guests
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TALL SHIPS CLEVER AND EMOTIONAL, ARE THIS TRIO THE ULTIMATE INDIE BAND? WORDS BY JAMES KENDALL PHOTO BY KENNY MC CRACKEN AT CREATE ASSISTED BY MATTHEW RING
Tall Ships are a confident band. Not arrogant, just quietly sure that they can do things right if they put in the graft. Take the last song on their long awaited, long worked on debut album ‘Everything Touching’. ‘Murmurations’ is a nine-minute song that takes two thirds of that time to really find its stride, but when it does it’s one of the most joyous songs to come out of Brighton this year. A light electric guitar flutters around a simple four to the floor kick drum and it’s three minutes before we even get any bass. But if you hang in there for as much time again, the emotive track builds as the drums arrive. A choir of over 30 friends, family and fans sing their hearts out from seven minutes and you wonder if the hairs on the back of your neck could stand up any more straight. It is – if we try to keep calm about things – an absolute masterpiece. “It’s the most Tall Ships song we’ve ever done,” says singer and guitarist Ric. “When we started we used loops, which by their very nature constantly go round. You repeat yourself and put it on top and ‘Murmurations’ is sort of the ultimate result of that. We wanted to get as many people on that track as possible so I think there’s about 40 or 45 people on there. I mean, 30 people in the choir that sing at the end and us guys playing instruments.”
the album is, Ric offers ‘Oscar’, a hard-edged, crunchy ballad. “Lyrically it’s the song that means the most to me,” he says. “It’s sung about someone who is very important to me and I love to perform it because I can completely lose myself in it. It’s just about that very pure feeling of when someone you love very much is hurting, and that kind of feeling where you’d just do anything for them.” Not only does Ric like to lay himself on the line personally when he sings the song, he enjoys performing it most when the person the song is about is there in the crowd to sing it to. It’s a pretty brave way to be on stage. “I think there’s nothing worse than vacuous lyrics,” Ric says with passion. “I think there’s a worrying trend at the moment in a lot of music where lyrically it’s all kind of empty, and singing about stuff that doesn’t mean anything to them. Every word I sing I believe in. If I didn’t believe in it then I just wouldn’t sing it.” That means the whole album is about real people the band know, real places they’ve been and their own emotions. It’s a hugely personal piece and that shows in the performance. ‘Everything Touching’ is very aptly named. This self-assuredness – doing things their own way, the right way – meant they were also confident enough to turn down the SOURCE cover last year, during the Seamonsters festival, preferring to wait for this moment when their album was ready to release. It turned out to be a wise move, as even without us thrusting their features into 60,000 readers’ faces they still sold out their gig faster than any of the other bands at the Brighton round up. “We were quite surprised by it because they did a whole week of that festival,” says bassist Matt. “We were completely baffled by it all, just to see how many people were in there. It was amazing.” Happily notching up the tickets sales since then, the next step is headlining The Haunt next month. “It feels like a step up,” admits drummer Jamie. “I’ve been to a couple of shows there but normally go for the It Is Still 1985 80s night, so it will actually be quite funny playing there.” It comes after some amazing gigs, as far away as Brazil and New York (for the CMJ festival), and including tours with Metronomy, 65daysofstatic and We Are Scientists. Oh, and they played Bestival last year too. “We’re very lucky as a band that we’ve been offered a lot of support slots,” says Jamie. “Through them we’ve played a hell of a lot of shows and got to where we are now. Through actually playing directly to people, they connected with us, because our recorded material previously I don’t think has ever really lived up to what the live experience is like.”
To add to the feeling, they recorded it in their old primary school, but emotion isn’t all Tall Ships have got. The title ‘Murmurations’ refers to the patterns that flocks of birds make One of the most important bands they’ve played with is when they fly in and out of each other. You know, like you see Tubelord. Tall Ships supported them on their first ever gig and starlings doing over the pier twice a year. It perfectly suits the Tubelord were impressed enough to take them under their way that the instruments and singing weave in and out of each wing. They took Tall Ships on tour as their support, produced other. So, yeah, they’re clever boys. Previous single ‘Plate their records and tour managed them. Tectonics’ and album track ‘Phosphorescence’ – alongside “They’ve actually been quite fundamental in our development ‘Ode To Our Ancestors’, which as a band,” says Matt. “That’s one of the great offers the compliment “You are a things about being in this band. Everyone we triumph of natural selection/ Every work with, we’re very close to. From Harriet who mutation leading to your perfection” does all our artwork, to our managers, we’re all ALBUM: ‘Everything Touching’ – show that the science extends very close.” out Mon 8th Oct beyond the complex and clinical LIVE: Fri 12th Oct, The Haunt – elements of their indie rock. Clearly that suits the band well. The people that tickets on brightonsource.co.uk But as intelligent as all this is, it murmurate through their lives have helped Tall WEB: wearetallships.co.uk comes straight from the heart. When Ships make one of the most emotionally arresting asked what his favourite song on albums of the year.
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Club Previews Words By Matt barker, Zac Colbert, Jack Dutton, Stuart Huggett, Jessica Marshall McHattie
Gay Beautiful Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Sat 1st
Stay Beautiful’s stylish nights of sleazy glamdrogyny are perfectly suited to this weekend’s Pride Brighton & Hove celebrations, and you can bet that DJs Simon Price, David Ryder-Prangley and Richey Watson have been brainstorming every LGBT track, artist or innuendo they can think of for weeks and weeks. There’s a chance to win an erotic Little Rooster vibro-alarm clock too, thanks to its inventor, Stay Beautiful’s own Trevor Baylis of glitter, Tony Maggs. (SH)
Move
Life Weds 5th
It’s been a while since a new mid-week dance music night shimmied into our calendar, so we’re more than happy to welcome Move, dedicated to showcasing the best up and coming talent from the UK bass scene. Expect to hear the cream of the British crop in house, techno, breaks and everything with a bit of bass. On the roster they’ve got South London Ordnance, Bheling & Simpson and Eliphino. We’re looking forward to the weekly Move livening up many a Wednesday to come. (ZC)
Bonobo
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Bonobo’s Simon Green is a New Yorker these days, but he’s out on tour and calling in on his old home tonight. Bonobo’s last full album, 2010’s ‘Black Sands’, teamed his downtempo beats with a newer electonic bass sound, plus the vocals of fellow Brighton songstress and Ninja Tunes labelmate Andreya Triana – pushed further on a remix companion out this year. For this show, Bonobo’s performing a DJ set alongside Tru Thoughts founder Robert Luis, triggering the live visuals as he goes. (SH)
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Green Door Store Fri 7th
For a while, your boys Aereo (a Teen Creeps endeavour) have been bringing the buzziest (and best) buzz bands to beautiful Brighton - from Blood Orange to Blouse. Sunless ‘97 are next up, and they are genuinely excellent. Main dude Ed Eke has taken things a world away from his previous outfit (Larrikin Love) into a place of half-broken synths and kraut-y grooves, with Matt McGough’s louche bass and Alice Davies’ sublime, tripped out vocals, all jammed out from around a table of musical bric-a-brac. (MB)
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Prolific hip hop guru El-P is wordy, paranoid and a devout sci-fi fan, and does a mean sideline in highly memorable remixes for artists as diverse as Das Racist and Dizzee Rascal. In the two decades he’s been active, he’s been committed to only releasing high quality works, and May’s release of his fourth studio ‘Cancer 4 Cure’ is no exception. Lead single ‘The Full Retard’’s delightful video of squirrel puppets living the coke-sniffin’, ho-lovin’ rap lifestyle shows his subversive humour’s still in place and his DJ sets are renowned as highly skilled and fun. (JMM)
Ninja Tune Vs Tru Thoughts
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Two fine British labels go head to head at tonight’s Concorde show. We were raving about Tru Thoughts’ supergroup Sleepin Giantz album last month, and all three of those bass heavyweights, Zed Bias, Rodney P and Fallacy, are in attendance this evening. Representing the Ninja Tune empire are Jake Wherry from hip hop specialists The Herbaliser, and Brighton’s own drum’n’bass scientists The Qemists. In keeping with Ninja Tune’s groundbreaking AV adventures, ‘infinity helmets’, ‘gameboy suits’ and ‘sound corridors’ are promised. (SH)
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Life Fri 21st
The AKA crew deliver more ROAR for the dancefloor with another stellar line-up. We could dance to the beat of Mosca’s drum every night ‘til our feet wore through to the bone: his love for house music underpins every set and means that Jus-Ed is an ideal dude to share the decks with. Ed’s the daddy of Northeastern deep house, with his label Underground Quality instrumental in spreading a love for the genre as well as spotting and developing talent in its infant stages. If anyone knows how to party it’s him. (ZC)
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Audio Fri 21st
Growing old ungracefully, Audio have got Tru Thoughts’ Rob Luis upstairs providing the slamming sounds to their free terrace BBQ, with Pablo Contraband and Neal Schtuum spinning inside later. Downstairs’ celebrations are headed by Boddika and Oneman. Boddika’s productions are at the forefront of electronic music, their dark pensiveness and instinctual edginess summed up in the acidic stomper ‘Swims’. Oneman is a DJ’s DJ – often mixing northern soul with the freshest new dubs of UK bass music, his sets always have us crate-digging the next day. (ZC)
Jack Beats
Digital Sat 22nd
More bombastic, bass driven fidget house from Jack Beats, the duo of ex-Scratch Pervert Plus One and Mixologist Beni G. The pair have two mini albums about to drop, including club banger ‘Careless’, where twanging synthlines reverberate with a warm affection as sing-along vocals bounce over the top. Dub Phizix and Strategy are in support to help bolster the already big room sonics with some gruff ruggedness, but hopefully sans the intimidating tribal headdress. (ZC)
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Donky Pitch vs Convex Collective Green Door Store Mon 24th
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Tonight’s a showcase by two of the most innovative crews in Brighton, Donky Pitch and Convex Collective. In the Donky Pitch corner are two Brighton debuts, the much-hyped Howse, a New York producer whose dense, hazy beats have gained support from all over the world, and Time Wharp, who fuses juke with heavy synths. Convex Collective keep it local with talented Sussex producers Max Buzuk, Miles Courtney and Manaca, and live visuals artist WhiskasFX. (JMM)
Mono/Poly
Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Weds 26th
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Frankly, ‘Punch The Troll In The Neck’ is a great song title, and non-sunny Californian Mono/Poly’s its proud creator. He’s been on our radar since the release of the unsettling and disconnected ‘Manifestations’ EP on Brainfeeder last year. Equally influenced by space, computer games, sleazy synths and plain old dubstep, his experimental tracks are led by a stuttering bass comparable to Samiyam or Teebs. Manni Dee, Alphabet’s Heaven and Simon Lxve are in support, representing Mono/Poly’s Brighton competition. (JMM)
People Under The Stairs Concorde 2 Thurs 27th
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The legendary hip hop collective People Under The Stairs return to the UK to share their charming suburban tales of summer laziness with the Brighton crowd. The good time duo are most in their element when smoothly combining accessible lyrics with Jazzy Jeff inspired hip hop beats. They have over a thousand sell out shows to their credit and should be a real treat for us here on the south coast. (JD)
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Going from strength to scorching strength, the Hot Wuk team continue to pack the crowds into the Concorde. Tonight’s bill is made extra special by the fact that The Heatwave are joined by General ‘Incredible’ Levy who will bring the noise with his ragga vocal talents. If you’re still not convinced then check out the latest Heatwave mix ‘Five Million Rewinds’ up on their Soundcloud, and if that doesn’t seal the booyaka deal you’re a racist paedophile. (ZC)
Annie Mac
Digital Sat 29th
Where all her energy comes from we don’t know, but whatever she’s on - we want some. Between her prime time Radio One slot on Fridays, playing Ibiza shows and UK festivals, how Annie has time to rock the Brighton pebbles is beyond us, but we’re glad she’s back. In tow is newcomer Kidnap Kid, whose lighter than air disco boogie is impossible not to fall in love with. The neo-house twinkles with good feeling and the helium vocals remind us of the halcyon days of dance music. (ZC)
Uprising
Concorde 2 Sat 29th
Alas, Devotion is no more. But worry not, as it’s being reincarnated as Uprising so there’s still a time and a place to cut the rug and chew your face off to blistering drum’n’bass. Headlining the launch night is a suitably big name, Andy C. The Ram Records boss and multiple award winning DJ and producer is backed up by Teebee and Calyx, who will bring their own atmospheric angle to the evening. (ZC)
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Wonder Yeahs Words Zac Colbert Photos by Sam Hiscox and Luke Kosta Semlekan-Tansey
The 90s was a great decade: Will Smith was cool, Super Nintendos were all the ‘Streets Of Rage’ and Joss Whedon gave us Buffy The Vampire Slayer. The music wasn’t half bad either and the Wonder Yeahs is here to remind us that kitsch can be cool, or at least, kitsch was cool.
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It was a time when the baggier your jeans were, the better, and although it’s a shame 90s fashion isn’t an entrance requisite (just imagine) it’s obvious everyone here loves the pop-punk of Weezer as much as the G-funk of Dre. The young but not student-centric crowd get down and revel in the camp as well as the classic as the DJs drop Ace Of Bass cheese straight after The Fugees.
Michael Jackson ‘Black & White’ Nirvana ‘Lithium’ R. Kelly ‘Bump n’ Grind’ Beastie Boys ‘Sure Shot’ Annie Lennox ‘Walking On Broken Glass’ Hole ‘Celebrity Skin’ Weezer ‘Say It Ain’t So’ Beck ‘Loser’ Pharoahe Monch ‘Simon Says’ Marc Cohn ‘Walking In Memphis’
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DAGGER Words By Zac Colbert Photos By FreshToDeath.com
On August 6th it was the 50th anniversary of Jamaican Independence Day, so we thought it only fitting to check out Dagger, Life’s night dedicated to celebrating half a century of rich Jamaican music.
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Free jerk chicken from the Caribbean kitchen lured us there early to line our stomachs but we stayed to rock steady to the rocksteady of Desmond Dekker and the bubbly dub of King Tubby. Every genre gets a look in: you’ll be merrily skanking to Beenie Man before Sean Paul drops in and your lighter’s flickering above your head. From reggae to ragga, soca to ska, dancehall to bashment, the old school riddims are kept fresh by blending in a bit of hip hop, grime and funky. All of which do something strange to the crowd’s dancing as it becomes increasingly dutty and debauched as the night progresses.
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Jimmy Cliff ‘Miss Jamaica’ Sizzla ‘No Other Like Jah’ Gappy Ranks ‘Money Out Deh’ Popcaan ‘Party Shot’ Lady Saw ‘Sycamore Tree’ Lutan Fyah ‘A Lie’ Shaggy ‘Bonafide Girl’ Errol Dunkley ‘Please Stop Your Lying’ JW & Blaze ‘Pelance’ Phyllis Dillon ‘Don’t Stay Away’
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The Undercliff Undercliff, Rottingdean Thur 6th and Sat 8th Words By Ben Miller
Cyclists and walkers who’ve weaved beyond the Marina will know there are few better places combining the geographically spectacular and tranquil than the undercliff at Rottingdean. So it’s a wonder, then, that more public art hasn’t been inspired by its beauty. The Digital Festival and Brighton & Hove Open Doors (who let the public in to hidden historic places each September) have organised this photographic foray by Jonathan Hyde, whose ambition befits the scenery. Projecting pictures, film and audio on to the cliff face, he wants to light up the space and show how it unites us, creating an amphitheatre within the crags of the chalk, positioning the wall as a fortress against the erosive sea. The projection starts at 7.30pm and lasts an hour and a half on both nights, and Lyn Neville of Brighton Walks hopes to convey the spirit of the undercliff with a short tour on the opening evening.
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Event: Brighton Craft Fair Friends’ Meeting House Sat 1st
‘Be local, buy local’ is a whole lot easier when the venue is slap bang in the middle of town. Held on the first Saturday of every month, the Brighton Craft Fair is packed to bursting with beautiful things handmade by lovely, local people. If you fancy a quiet afternoon’s perusal, head down to Ship Street between 11am and 5pm. It’s free too. (TT)
Film: Shut Up And Play The Hits Duke Of York’s Tues 4th
A quick return to Madison Square Garden following last month’s Beastie Boys film for the already legendary swansong from LCD Soundsystem. The film, as well as capturing the almost four hour performance, follows James Murphy in the days leading up to the concert, then shows him the morning after as he tries to make sense of the enormity of his decision to end the band. Following the film there’s a live (via satellite) Q&A with the man himself. (SC)
Art: Chewing Gum For The Eyes
Northern Lights from Tues 4th
Billy Mather describes his first solo show as a collection of belowaverage drawings and paintings, calling himself “conceited” and predicting your favourite listings mag will find it all “painfully unoriginal”. His words might be funnier than the migraine that exhibition descriptions usually resemble, but unfortunately they’re still bullshit because he’s one of the most brilliant illustrators in Brighton, with a particular talent for hilarious drawings of dream-like comic worlds. If you’ve enjoyed the art festooning Sticky Mike’s, don’t miss this. (BM)
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Film: Made In Birmingham: Reggae Punk Bhangra Caroline Of Brunswick Fri 7th
Birmingham’s contribution to the development of British reggae, punk and bhangra is deep rooted and often heavily political. Deborah Aston’s documentary investigation includes contributions from dozens of musicians from each of the overlapping scenes (from Steel Pulse and UB40, through The Beat and Dexys, to Achanak and Apna Sangeet). Brighton’s Spinningchilli team branch out from gig to movie promotion for this intimate screening, which includes a Q&A with Prefects/Nightingales guitarist Alan Apperley and Cravats/Very Things mainstay The Shend. (SH)
Film: Lawless
Duke of York’s Fri 7th – Thurs 13th
Want less overdubbed voices and more of Bane from The Dark Knight Rises? The man behind the villain, Tom Hardy, plays Forrest Bondurant – a “heavy with a heart” – in the second collaboration between John Hillcoat and Nick Cave, following 2005’s well-received The Proposition. In brutal Ohio, Guy Pearce plays a psycho and Gary Oldman is a gangster as chancers skirmish with the law and rival mobs. In a world lacking hard-edged Westerns, this one looks worthy of a little salivation. As a bonus, Cave and Hillcoat will get together for a Q&A chat after the Wednesday 5th showing. (BM)
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The Adventures of Alvin Sputnik: Deep Sea Explorer Described by the New York Times as ‘a theatrical Wall-E’, Australian master storyteller Tim Watts tells a tale of quiet heroism with a beguiling blend of live action, puppetry, animation, music and film. Sat 1 Sep, 2.30pm & 7.30pm
An evening of fun with comedian, novelist, actor, broadcaster & show-off Sandi Toksvig to celebrate her new novel Valentine Grey. Sat 1 Sep, 7.30pm, Concert Hall
Thurs 27, Fri 28 & Sat 29 September | 20:00 | £13 Pre-West End warm-up show. A night of sketches, music, magic and, variety with Paul Merton and friends.
Psychedelia, space rock and ragas from guitar legend Richard Hawley. Wed 19 Sep, 8pm, Concert Hall
Black History Month and Brighton Dome presents
Rum 'n Bass - A Reggae & Calypso Party Soak up the sounds, rhythms and tastes of the Caribbean in this sun-drenched celebration of island independence. Sat 29 Sep, 7pm, Corn Exchange
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Beatabet label presents the official Launch of new BUNTY project 'Multimos' with interactive visuals from Metaluna. Thu 20 Sep, 7.30pm, Pavilion Theatre
20 - 22 september | 20:00 (+ friday 14:00) | £10 - £15 Burgess’ infamous literary masterpiece of ultraviolence reworked for a new generation. Action to the Word’s electrifying and acclaimed all-male celebration of gorgeousness and gorgeousity arrives in Brighton direct from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. 5STARS ‘Astonishing’ (WhatsOnStage), 5STARS 20-22 September ‘Breathtaking’ (Three Weeks).
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University of Brighton Gallery Fri 14th – 21st
Brighton Uni MA shows are usually an exercise in unpredictable precocity, and a gaggle of artists from the Sequential Design, Illustration and Arts disciplines are destined to keep you boggling here. The promise of wordless comics set in 1940s California, interactive objects triggering sensory childhood memories and the perceived eccentricity of the animal world should moisten anyone’s curiosity. Autobiographical insights into anorexia and the emotional pertinence of a grass skirt growing in a chest of drawers sound equally enlightening. (BM)
Film: The Naked Civil Servant Jubilee Library Sun 16th
Showing as part of City Reads literary festival this is a free showing of Thames Television’s acclaimed Quentin Crisp biopic. John Hurt turned in a BAFTA winning performance as Britain’s greatest ‘stately homo’ and it remains a fascinating story of triumph in the face of adversity, peppered throughout with Crisp’s razor-sharp bon mots. His heroically dogged determination to be his own man and his unique perspective on life make for a moving and inspiring film. (SC)
Theatre: Oh My Irma Upstairs at Three and Ten Tues 18th
After receiving rave reviews for her oddball heroine, Mission Bird, Canadian actress Haley McGee decided to raise 5,000 bucks to take her wall-bouncing girl with a dodgy haircut on a small international tour. All those donations seem ostensibly gladdening given the funding crisis throttling chance-taking theatre, and even the reviews which were unimpressed suggest an intense performer with a twisted tale to tell. It’ll either tickle your belly or leave you staring into your pint, which are two sensations worth feeling in moderation. (BM)
Film: Do The Right Thing Duke of York’s Fri 21st
In the history of philosophy, some have said taking advice on your Friday night from SOURCE hacks is the reserve of the foolish. Not so here: anyone who hasn’t seen Spike Lee’s 1989 work of genius, based around racial tensions in Brooklyn in a
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rampaging take on street life with a feature debut for Martin Lawrence, is in for a cinematic masterpiece. We could fill the remainder of your favourite listings mag with the rundown of awards it has won. (BM)
Poetry: Brighton Poets Red Roaster Fri 21st
A caffeinated bardfest headlined by Tony Frisby, a lover of the Sussex landscape whose new collection, Letters To A Cave In Saltdean, aims for the feel of epic postcards, apparently supplemented by howling children. Frisby is an Irish voice with stories from the Middle East and London, and his travels have imbued him with the belief that existentialism is our best shot at understanding the world. He’s supported here by new young verse writer Alice Walker and Vanessa Austin Locke. (BM)
Art: Biba And Beyond: Barbara Hulanicki
Brighton Museum & Art Gallery 22nd Sept – 14th Apr
A cutting-edge style icon, once gracing the Brighton high street scene, Biba revolutionised the way we shop. Its affordable 60s fashion meant that we, the average civilian, could browse alongside our fashionable idols, something which Barbara Hulanicki has again recently made possible with a collection available in every teenage girls’ favourite haunt, tax dodging Topshop. In order to reminisce and appreciate Hulanicki’s work, ‘Biba And Beyond’ tells the story of this influential brand, through photography, illustrations, film and music. What’s more, if you’re lucky enough to be a Brighton resident, you get discounted entry. (AB)
Comedy: Paul Merton – Out Of My Head Old Market Thurs 27th – Sat 29th
In preparation for its West End run, Paul Merton brings his Out Of My Head show to Hove for three nights. Prior to his captaining duties on Have I Got News For You, Merton was best known from improv show Whose Line Is It Anyway?, whose pianist Richard Vranch joins in here, along with fellow Comedy Store Players alumni Lee Simpson and Merton’s longtime collaborator Suki Webster. A true night of variety, with sketches, stand up, music and magic on the bill. (SH)
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Album: The Thlyds Thalidomidas Touch (Corporate Records)
“Hey journalist, fuck you... I don’t care to be seen in your shit magazine” rails the chorus on track two of, er, our review copy. Mentored by the Lewes Cowell, Simon Indelicate, this teen toon trio’s debut CD is a turbo-charged electro punk swearfest. Jubilee single ‘I Fucked The Queen’ and ‘If I Wanted A Job (I’d Have Been Born A Cunt)’ are desperate to shock, but lovehate duet ‘I Fingered You’ and a Springsteen-esque closer reveal vulnerability behind the ire. A guilty pleasure. (AP)
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These three lads from Cornwall, now living in Brighton, have really been making a name for themselves in recent months. Following their spot at last month’s Hevy Festival, the release of their fantastically catchy new EP couldn’t have come at a better time. Gnarwolves play what they describe as “gruff poppunk”, think Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater videogames crossed with a love for post-hardcore and pizza. ‘Community, Stability, Identity’ and closing anthem ‘Coffee’ are stand-out tracks, but all six are incredibly infectious. (CB)
Album: Why Diet When You Could Riot (Tuff Enuff)
Lovely pinky-purple vinyl compilation of some of the bands who’ve played at Riots Not Diets’ excellent first 12 months of shows. Rounding up a baker’s dozen of riot grrrl and queercore bands, highlights include Ste McCabe’s irresistibly perky ‘Queer Clubbing’, Milky Wimpshake’s Buzzcocks-esque ‘Uncool Jerk’ and Woolf’s high energy trash through Elastica’s Brighton anthem ‘Annie’. Smart use of spoken word guests, crowd chatter and stage announcements from the West Hill Hall make this LP an essential snapshot of the scene. (SH)
Album: POG
Between The Station And The Sea (Beside The Birdbath)
The latest Pog album is a loosely-bound collection of tales of everyday failure set in Brighton. Though the band’s sound has evolved from lo-fi acoustic punk into lo-fi fiddle-led folk, the lyrics have lost none of their down-to-earth sensibilities.
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Anyone who’s seen Paul Stapleton’s biscuit-headed comic strips will recognise the sort of wry humour at work here. There’s songs about carboot sales and care homes, rants about trustafarians and a romantic ode to the old woman who feeds the birds on the Steine. A witty and quirky homegrown gem. (BB)
Album: Speak Galactic Severed (Cupboard Music)
Severed is the joint effort of producer Owen Thomas and live drummer Jim Morrison, and has taken years to craft. From the early days of bedroom production in Sweden to recent support slots for Casiotone For The Painfully Alone, their music has progressed and developed into something other-worldly and multi-influenced. Opener ‘Capsule’ is a soft, melodic track which sighs like waves, whilst ‘Lux’ builds into a aching crescendo. The album launch party is on Saturday 15th at Fitzherberts, where the very first LPs, hot off the presses, will be available to buy. (JMM)
Single: Dialect & Kosine Mount Zion / Got To Be Conscious (Jungle Alliance)
This double A-side from Dialect & Kosine sees them match the reggae vocals of King General with tight dub beats and Amen breaks. ‘Mount Zion’ is a relaxed yet vibrant tune, with a vibrating bassline and echoing vocals, whilst ‘Got To Be Conscious’ is a step into the political, with a heavy undercurrent, designed for the dancefloor. Overall it’s a successful release for late summer: ragga influences and understated production techniques lead to two very well-structured and gracious tunes. (JMM)
Album: SpectraSoul ‘Delay No More’ (Shogun Audio)
Despite a meteoric rise to fame, Jack and Dave took their time producing this album and it shows. Every track is well considered, whether it’s the coolly triumphant chords on ‘Light In The Dark’ or the technical precision of ‘Away With Me’ with its stripped back, minimally naked drum loops. The record’s got a maturity and contemplative patience that means it wouldn’t be out of place in the background of a Guardian readers’ down-with-the-kids dinner party as much as in the tinny earphones of that spotty school-boy on the bus. (ZC)
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Brighton Digital Festival Words By Stuart Huggett, Ben Miller
Running throughout September, Brighton Digital Festival sees the city’s artistic and digital communities coming together for a month of innovative collaboration. Programme events range from specialised talks and conferences to large scale performances and projections, with many free, educational pieces aimed at engaging with the city as a whole. Here’s just a handful of highlights, picked from the endless scroll of the festival website.
David Blandy: Odysseys Lighthouse Sat 1st - Sun 23rd
David Blandy is possibly the best – if not, certainly among the best – at transferring the pop culture of video games, video, anime and television into gallery settings, wittily deconstructing it but also spiking important thoughts about how this whirr of noise and immediacy permeates the way we process things. The exhibition, Odysseys, is accompanied by a screening of anime feature Princess Mononoke (Duke Of York’s, Mon 17th), a comic book workshop (Phoenix, Weds 19th) and a tournament on loads of arcade machines (Phoenix, Sat 22nd). (BM)
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Jubilee Square Sun 2nd
The launch event for the festival is an interactive digital fireworks display, projected onto the façade of Jubilee Library. First seen outside the Unitarian Church during 2008’s festival, and returning in new, higher resolution development, Seb Lee-Delisle’s creation allows audience members to use their body movements to trigger rocket explosions from glowing orbs of light. You point, they explode. Marvellous. (SH)
Brighton SF
Pavilion Theatre Thurs 6th
An evening of readings and discussions from three leading British SF authors: Brian Aldiss, Lauren Beukes and Brighton resident Jeff Noon. In the context of the festival, SF stands for the broader ‘speculative fiction’, an umbrella term incorporating science fiction, of course, as well as other fantasy writings. Veteran author Aldiss is the big draw here, with nearly 60 years of published short stories, novels, poetry and criticism to his name, including the literary kernel of Spielberg’s A.I. (SH)
Mini Maker Faire
Corn Exchange Sat 8th
Spilling out from the Corn Exchange and into the Dome bar and foyer, this year’s free Mini Maker Faire brings together over 50 stalls of scientific and craft creativity for all ages. Activities range from building
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model quadcopters (yes, a multi-rotor ‘copter) and hot air balloons to learning about digital coding. A foyer bar after-party features sound artists, DJs and interactive exhibits, and the chance to socialise more informally with the Faire’s stallholders. (SH)
Windowbot
Mesmerist / North Laine Sat 15th – Thurs 30th
Scattered along selected storefronts, Windowbots are Twitter powered, interactive robot photo booths. Does this even need further explanation? Ok then. Free to use, passers by send a tweet to the ‘bot, which displays a suggested pose to strike. One the photo’s taken, the ‘bot sends it to your Twitter feed, hash-tagged to compare with other people’s poses in an online gallery. It then eats your soul. (SH)
The dotBrighton Games Jam Skiff Fri 21st – Sun 23rd
A free weekend of game creation down at The Skiff on Gloucester Road. Participants are given 48 hours, working alone or in teams, to design a new game on a given theme. A background in video gaming isn’t a necessity, as any form of game (board, card, playground) is welcome, so if you’re feeling creative, book a place and get involved. The weekend finishes with everyone having a go at playing one another’s creations, with prizes for the best. (SH)
0-1
Nightingale Theatre Thurs 27th
A launch event for an iPhone app, bridging the ether from your mobile device to the world of the deities. The 0-1 app sounds just like the sort of technological advance to bend fragile minds, as, according to its developers, “0-1 will claim the iPhone as its humangodbot interface, peeling back the flesh-machine divide to speak with your digital soul.” On the other hand, wine and cakes will be available, so it’s not all apocalyptic techno-doom. (SH)
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It’s been a hell of a year for Playgroup. The party providers have turned The Blind Tiger into Brighton’s best café/pub/live venue/club and had a great response to the success of last year’s Playgroup Festival. There’s only been one slight snag, and that’s that the relentless pissing rain that we call summer meant the people who look after the beautiful festival site wouldn’t let us party on it cos it was sodden. Well now it’s had a chance to dry out everything is ready to go, which is great news because there’s no better way to end the summer than with a weekend at Playgroup.
The best clubbing is all about going out as a gang, so it makes sense that perhaps Brighton’s best dance music promoters are a proper gang themselves. Former SOURCE cover stars, the Blah Blah Blah quartet of DJs, designers, bloggers, label heads and more control every part of what they do – no detail is left unchecked. Currently playing a wider mix of party based house music than at any time in their five and a half year history, if you stay long enough you might even hear ‘Red Red Wine’. (JK)
Stepping things up last year, they hit on a perfect balance between intimate party vibes and bundles of entertainment. The line-up is better than ever – loads of local heroes and some interesting names from further afield – but you could take the music away and still have a great time.
The Correspondents
As well as the best fancy dress costumes in the land (this time with a lost toy theme), there are hundreds of other esoteric performers to keep you entertained. We were dancing last year when the tent suddenly filled with busty owls in Hooters t-shirts. Be prepared to come home from the weekend of Friday 21st to Sunday 23rd with some tales. Turn it up! Bring the toys!
Recent guests on Mumford And Sons’ Gentlemen Of The Road package tour, perennial Playgroup favourites The Correspondents’ mix of swing and breaks is subtly making them one of the country’s favourite underground festival acts. They may have the names of errant children’s entertainers, but Mr Bruce and Mr Chuckles are adept at whipping up a crowd’s energy without the aid of sugar, tartrazine or balloons. Chucking ragtime, scat and jazz into the mix, their daft dance music will make your party peak. (SH)
Anchorsong
Definitely one of Tru Thoughts’ most exciting recent signings, Anchorsong is a Japanese producer with a penchant for subtle, warm and slowbuilding electronica. Last month’s single release ‘Darkrum’ was highly praised, but his live shows are where it all comes together. Using instruments and sampling them live, creating loops and soundscapes, and singing in a surprisingly harmonious voice, Anchorsong’s set is one to prioritise. (JMM)
DJ Format
Format’s 2011 set at Playgroup was one of the best received of the whole festival, so it’d be foolish to miss this year’s installment. Effortlessly crossing genre boundaries from hip hop to funk to soul, via the occasional rock or indie snippet, Format mixes so smoothly that all you can do is marvel. Latest album ‘Statement Of Intent’ was released earlier this year and proves that his lust for crate digging is still as strong as ever. (JMM)
Anneka
Initially a promising vocalist heard on tracks by Starkey, Ital Tek and others, Brighton’s Anneka has progressed into a stunning multi-instrumentalist whose live sets have been impressing club crowds for months. If you haven’t had the opportunity to see her craft her haunting songs yet, don’t miss this opportunity – she’s comparable to a young PJ Harvey or Imogen Heap, and her latest tracks are her best yet. (JMM)
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So many bands make great claims of their own originality, but really, there’s no other act around quite like Gaggle. The invention of composer Deborah Coughlin, formerly of discopunk outfit 586, Gaggle are a 22-piece (or thereabouts) female choir with a unique approach to sound and image. On their Transgressive debut ‘From The Mouth Of A Cave’, the group combine their full throated chanting with pounding rhythms to bizarre effect. They’ll need a field of their own to camp in. (SH)
Centred on the duo of Jake Wherry and Ollie Teeba, The Herbaliser broke through in the 90s with a series of jazz influenced, instrumental hip hop albums for Ninja Tune. Numerous collaborations and soundtracks later, The Herbaliser are now gearing up for the release of new album ‘There Were Seven’ on their own Department H label. Their Playgroup appearance takes the form of a two hour DJ set, sure to be packed with the choicest hip hop tracks. (SH)
Treading the line between drum’n’bass and rock in an authentic way that Pendulum never managed, Brighton trio The Qemists have spent much of the three years since being on the SOURCE cover travelling the world playing to huge crowds, as well as popping up on the soundtrack to every videogame you’ve played recently. They’ll blow your head off live and promise to be the most aggressively intense band on the bill. (JK)
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Summer smashes often come out of nowhere, and this is what’s happened with Sam & The Womp’s instantly recognisable ‘Bom Bom’. The daft club cabaret track has won over Radio One and secured much props from Rizzle Kicks. By the time their Playgroup slot arrives, it could be number one all over Europe, or already played-out. In the meantime, all together now, “I’m the cat with the bass and drum, goin’ around like Bom Bom Bom!” Inescapable. (SH)
It’s too easy to use food metaphors here: the Soul Casserole crew cook up something special; they know how to mix the freshest and the tastiest tunes from the past 50 years; they cater for all tastes... OK, we’ll stop now. The three DJs behind Soul Casserole love soul music, but they also love reggae, ragga, blues and hip hop. They have the same enthusiasm for Aretha Franklin and Luther Vandross as they do for modern tracks, and they know how to throw a very good party. (JMM)
Master of the cut up, DJ Yoda has successfully walked the line between credible turntablism and comedy populism ever since the crossover success of his first major mixtape, ‘How To Cut And Paste Vol. 1’. Well over a dozen volumes later, Yoda’s still mixing up musical history: his latest track, ‘Happy’, is an uplifting collaboration with Boy George. For Playgroup, Yoda presents an audio-visual set, so expect some rapidfire picture editing to match his swift deck skills. (SH)
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Over The Moon Festival Words By Stuart Huggett
Timed to coincide with the autumn equinox, Over The Moon also presents one of the last chances to enjoy the outdoor festival season, as the nights finally start drawing in. In the lineage of the original 60s/70s festival movement, the weekend mixes live music with talks on all things ecological and spiritual, with plenty of hands-on workshops and family events for all ages to get stuck into. Here’s our pick of the weekend’s sounds.
Carnival Collective
Quite simply the biggest band in Brighton, if you’re going by sheer number of musicians on stage at any rate (usually around 35, but sometimes more). Actually, Carnival Collective could stake a good claim for most popular too, such is the all-embracing joy of their ever mutating hybrid of funk, ska, drum’n’bass, samba and the kitchen sink. Mathematicians have proved that if you’ve not seen Carnival Collective live so far, it’s only because you’re in them.
Dub Pistols
Barry Ashworth’s Dub Pistols rose up in the 90s big beat rush, bringing a broad interest in dub, reggae and hip hop to their music. There’s still a geezerish swagger to a lot of Dub Pistols music (check their version of The Stranglers’ ‘Peaches’, with recurring collaborators Terry Hall and Rodney P), and they’ve remained a perennially popular live draw. This is bound to be an energetic one.
Eat Static/Zubzub
Linked by their roots in Somerset’s free festival spacerock survivors Ozric Tentacles, Eat Static and Zubzub both explore the zones between electronic dance and psychedelic
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music. Now down to founder member Merv Pepler and collaborators, Eat Static were synonymous with the 90s Club Dog scene, with over 20 years of diverse trance explorations to their name. Ex-Ozrics bassist Zia Geelani’s Zubzub ladle extra live instrumentation into their psychedelic soup.
H2dr0p
If you’ve ever been distracted from finishing the washing up by the liquid chimes of the pans in the bowl, you’ll know where this act is coming from. Developed by Portuguese percussionist Nuno Brito, H2dr0p explores the resonant properties of water in contact with pots, pans and bowls, using loops and digital processing to create blooping, gulping symphonies. You might want to make sure you’ve, um, ‘gone’ before you go though.
Los Albertos
The archetypal Brighton band, Los Albertos combine Two-Tone ska-punk with bursts of dub, funk and cheery, self-deprecating humour. Seemingly forever on the verge of jacking the whole thing in, Los Albertos keep on coming back for more, and for that we’re always pleased. If they ever do split, it’ll be like the ravens leaving the Tower. Oh, and they may like a drink. Resistance is futile.
Transformer
SOURCE have been supporters of electro punk-funk outfit Transformer for the past few years, from their early A Certain Ratio influenced party starting, through to the release of their excellent single ‘Cinema Car’ (which landed them in The Inbetweeners and currently soundtracks a new C4 comedy). The current, stripped back line up still kill it live, with a full set of irresistible electronic tracks in their arsenal.
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Breezing through Brighton in all his sartorial splendour you’d think this guy was a rock star by day and an urban fashion super hero by night, ridding the world of drab and dreary clothing. But dressing like this is what Jaimes, a freelance stylist and fashion design student, needs to do to make his mark and get noticed in his career. “There are so many up and coming designers,” he says, “I need to have something that makes people remember me.” So is it just a clever, career-ladder climbing plan or is there more to what he calls his “in your face” look? “I’ve been on the street before and heard people gasp,” he says, “I like that whole shock factor – whether it be good or bad I do like the attention.” Sunglasses from Beyond Retro “I don’t ever wear black – except on sunglasses, belts or maybe a pair of shoes.” Jacket from Rokit “I don’t really like to wear things that I’ll see other people in. That’s my whole angle – that individuality and that unique-ness. I’d rather go to vintage shops, charity shops or car boot sales and pick up things that are one of a kind.” Shirt from Brick Lane “This is an Aztec ikat print. The patterns carved on walls and prints they used to wear would differentiate between the different Aztec tribes. I like knowing the cultural aspect behind clothes that people wouldn’t normally know.” Goofy vest from Primark “I paid 2 pounds for this! Not everything I buy has to be from a vintage shop or from a designer.” Jeans DIY “They were hot pink before and I stripped them down using bleach. As a stylist and designer I think it’s important to customise and it’s good to change things up. I think there is always something you can change about an item of clothing.” Trainers from Dr Martens “These have a creeper sole on them so they almost look like an orthopaedic shoe. They are really weird but I love them. I try to keep them clean by bleaching them but I think I’m going to spray them gold or silver next.”
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100 PEOPLE WHO MAKE BRIGHTON WHAT IT IS No.33 David Bramwell WORDS BY STUART HUGGETT Dr David Bramwell’s lengthy CV includes creating the Cheeky Guides book series, hosting The Catalyst Club at Latest MusicBar and fronting the haunted folk orchestra Oddfellow’s Casino. He’s organising the annual Brighton Zocalo street events on Thurs 9th. What is a Zocalo? Zocalo is a Mexican word, like piazza or plaza, referring to the spaces in a city where people naturally congregate. On one day of the year we all take a chair and sit outside our houses as a way of saying, I’m a friendly neighbour, come and have a chat. We get to know the people we live next door to and rekindle a sense of community.
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How can people get involved? Visit our website brightonzocalo.com, download the poster, stick it in your window and promise to take part on the day. The beauty of the Zocalo is that it requires no fund-raising, red tape or council approval, and is mercifully free of Union Jack bunting. How are the Cheeky Guides doing? This year’s Cheeky Walks book managed to creep into the top ten local paperbacks in Waterstones, which we were very happy about. Each walk is themed, ranging from art and sex to Lord Lucan and Katie Price. The Katie Price one is a bit tongue in cheek, but it’s still a lovely ramble. No-one’s going to be buying a yacht from the profits. Or even a model of a yacht for that matter.
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What are Oddfellow’s Casino up to? The next album is about halfway recorded. We’ve just released a single, ‘We Will Be Here’ with a video filmed in Margate’s Shell Grotto and the house of an artist in Ramsgate who only paints “bird nightmares”. The song is an anthem for the dead. Cheery stuff, as always. I’ve recently been recording some covers of Brighton bands I love, including Grasscut, Clearlake and Chimp. It’s an excuse to dabble with more upbeat electro-pop, a guilty pleasure that doesn’t quite gel musically with Oddfellow’s more melancholic, orchestrated pop. Any other projects in the pipeline? I’m a man who can’t sit still. I’m not sure if it’s a blessing or a curse. I’m currently working on a brand new project called a quiet night in with a Horlicks and a good book.
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La Choza 36 Gloucester Road (01273) 945 926 Tues-Weds 11:30am-6pm, Thurs-Sat 11:30am-9:30pm, Sun 11:30am-4:30pm THE PLACE You wait years for a Mexican street food joint and then two come along at once (although Carlos Burrito has now left the Wood Store to go on the festival circuit). Despite La Choza only being open a couple months it’s the talk of the town. And even without eating there it’s easy to see why. They have a simple menu where you choose between burritos, tacos, quesadillas and tostadas before picking a filling and a sauce. All the options weigh in at just over a fiver and you can eat in, grab a table outside or take your food away.
THE MEAL We pop in for lunch because it’s quick and easy and we know we’ll get a table without too much trouble. Knowing how big the burritos are we opt for one filled with BBQ Shack’s legendary pulled pork (£6), topped with habanero sauce. It’s huge, with lots of textures and flavours merging nicely: the zingy hot sauce, the slow-cooked pork, sour cream and refried beans filled out with rice. The soft tacos are piled with slow cooked spicy beef (£5.50) and topped with green salsa, all fresh with salad – not rubbery or unhealthy like bad Mexican food can be. Perhaps it’s greedy to have nachos (£4.50) too, but they’re loaded with cheese, jalapeños, sour cream, guacamole and refried beans and we can’t resist. They’re a meal on their own. The curros (£3.85) are an interesting and delicious crispy take on donuts with a gooey choc-caramel sauce. We don’t eat anything for the rest of the day and that’s on just a £10 a head spend. THE VERDICT Like the rest of Brighton we love this place. Even though they’ve only been open a couple of months, that shows they’ve come firing out of the gates. Great food, incredible value, big portions, jolly atmosphere, plus margaritas – what’s not to like? WERE WE SUSSED? Well, we’re in there all the time, and they know we’re from SOURCE as our office is on the same road, but we don’t think they knew we were reviewing the food today.
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Multicoloured Pop ARTIST PLAYS source’s digital festival SHOW words by stuart huggett Musician and visual artist Bunty, aka Kassia Zermon, is a member of Brighton’s Beatabet collective, “a coalition of musicians, sound artists, performers, film makers, dancers and theatre makers who run their own label and put on fun multi-discipline events without the wank.” She launches the first instalment of her multimedia album ‘Multimos’ at SOURCE New Music’s Beatabet Takeover this month. You go pretty off-piste – what’s your musical background? I’ve always sung, then I started recording lots of sounds onto minidiscs, and performed improvised gigs with a beatboxer and just two mics for a while. I studied music and visual art in Brighton, which opened my ears to all sorts of electronic, African, Japanese, minimalisto mayhem. How did you get involved with Beatabet? I met the Beatabet people six years ago when my mate Dave called me from our first creative residency in France. He was saying, “You’ve gotta come out Kas, there’s loads of tunes that need vocals. There’s also NO girls here!” Then it progressively turned into Beatabet as it is now. Why release ‘Multimos’ in instalments? It began with the seed of an idea and then grew this way, into an album in seven parts. It all became about numbers and colours, ending up with the number seven and the colour spectrum. All of the parts are linked. Each part is a ‘Mos’ and ‘Multimos’ is the whole.
being too precious. It’s like a game, guerrilla style: Twitter, Audioboo, Facebook, YouTube, blogs. There will be a very physical package and show as part of MOS 7, the final part. What can you tell us about the ‘Multimos’ characters? King Zacky is a multiple-headed, faceless being, but we can hear him speak. His heads have collaborated with the music, film and design so far. The Third Party Force are the audience and listeners. For now, please upload your most terrifying face to my website, there is an entire page dedicated to you! How else can people get involved? I’m developing the website to be able to collect audio to integrate into live shows, performed both online and at gigs. I also collected noises from the people in the street to use in August’s Undercurrent Weekend in Shoreham. I’m thinking up new ways of involvement all the time, but can’t give them away – that’s not as fun. What other projects are you involved with? I help run the Beatabet label, and we put on festivals and events together. I run ridiculous, and sometimes violent, beatsynth keep fit classes with Poppy Kaye, called Fitness Focus; sing and play percussion in a trio called Le Juki; and get performances together for events like Rock Gods (lots of simultaneous guitar solos turned up high) amongst all the other throwaway activities that occur.
What can we expect from your SOURCE New Music What are you planning for the multimedia components? performance? It’s being made up as I go along. The music is not yet Beats, bears, lullaby machines, dancing girls, interactive recorded, the films and apps have visuals from the mighty metaLuna and not yet been made, the characters much, much more. It’s part of Brighton are growing all the time. It’s intense Digital Festival. I’m especially looking Where: Brighton Dome, Pavilion Theatre because the release dates are every forward to Pixel Pyros’ digital fireworks When: Thurs 20th eight weeks. There’s no escaping it, display on Jubilee Library (Sun 2nd). Web: buntyvoid.com/multimos only going deeper. You can create The audience control the projections insane amounts of content without using sensors – rad!
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SATURDAY 1ST
ANCIENT MARINER The Acoustic Sessions: Shauna Parker And The Saloon Bar Band Country and western band 8.30pm £free BEACHIGOGO BAR Good Times Remember them? Maybe the feel-good retro tunes will jog your memory (in the White Room) 9pm £free; The R&B Lounge R&B DJs 11pm £5 BLACK LION Soul Casserole A melting pot of hot funk beats and soul grooves 8.30pm £free BLIND TIGER Woods Live music 6.30pm £10 BRUNSWICK The Harvest Sessions Folk night hosted by House Of Hats 8pm £5/4 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Bad To The Bone Rockabilly DJ makes old women blush and young women squeal 9pm £free COALITION Kitchen Pass: OPP, Bryony Masters, Lady Bex, DJ Miss Pink, Lohands, Ace Of Brace, Christian Guilt, LMC, Bradt Dykes House and hip hop Pride party 10.30pm £10/8; Blow: Vince Manganaro, Charly Lopez, Charles Green The party never stops 3am £5 CONCORDE2 Gaydar Girls On Top Mega Pride 3D UV Rave: Missy B, Smithy, Alpha, Fifilicious, Kelly L R&B and house pride fundraiser 10.30pm £7 COWLEY CLUB Queer Pride Night Free alternative to the “commercialised bollocks of the ‘official’ Pride events” 8pm £free CUBE Simply House: Cheets, Hutson, Gary Scott, Rob Holme, Joe Wilkes House DJs Time tbc £free DIGITAL Playroom Housey hedonism in a playground of bouncy inflatable fun 11pm £12/10 DOCTOR BRIGHTON’S Sexy Saturday: DJ Tony B 9.30pm £free DOME Sandi Toksvig Live She’s now a respected author and broadcaster but for people of a certain age she will always be the woman who answered the door on ‘No. 73’ 7.30pm £18.50 DOME FOYER BAR Saturday Jazz Live jazz 1pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Muppets From Space 11am £tbc; Berberian Sound Studio 1.30pm/6.30pm £tbc FIDDLER’S ELBOW DJ Russ Rockwell Funk rock and psych soul 9pm £free FISHBOWL Version Excursion The London club comes to town for a DJ party 9pm £free FORTUNE OF WAR DJ Scratchy Gogol Bordello’s tour DJ 9pm £free FREEMASONS DJ Moffatt 9pm £free FUNKYFISH Dreamboys Live The biggest cocks we’ve ever seen, shame about the weathered penises 6.30pm £tbc; Oldschool Saturday Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10pm £6/5 GLOBE The Music Box - Pride Disco special Disco with RIP Diego 9pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Drugs Indie flavoured live bands 7pm £4; Sonic Switch Tru Thoughts DJ puts you in the on position with some choice beats and bass 10.30pm £free HONEY Wildfruit ‘Jet Set’ Brighton Pride Weekend: Danny Verde, Kris Di Angelis, Doug Silva, Lil Alex 11pm £10 HOPE Gorse, Anacondaz, Broker, The Semper Teens Mutant metal noise rock 8pm £4; Soul Casserole A melting pot of hot funk beats and soul grooves (downstairs) 9pm £free JAZZ PLACE Night At The Jazz Rooms - End Of Summer Free Party: Russ Dewbury, Abo Helsinki Legendary Brighton club returns to its old home for a jazz, soul and funk party 9pm £5/4/free KOMEDIA The Maydays - Top Story Improvised comedy based on local news stories 7.30pm £8/6; The British Invasion Mod For It DJ plays plays the best of 50 years of great British music - from Dusty to Dizzee 11pm £5 LIFE Juice Box Eclectic club night offering an nice alternative to the standard seafront malarky 11pm £5/3 LOLA LO Zombie Nation Where the dancefloor is never dead 8pm £10/7/6 LONDON UNITY Decades DJ night plays indie and hip hop from the 70s onwards 8pm £free MADAME GEISHA Tokyo Stereo 6pm £5/free MARLBOROUGH THEATRE The LipSinkers: Pink Fringe Transvestite pop romp 8pm £8/6 MESMERIST Juke Joint Jamboree Rhythm & blues and rock&roll records from the days of the dance halls 9pm £free NORTHERN LIGHTS The Phailing Queasents Victorian DJs play everything from Gogol Bordello right through to Queen 9pm £free OPEN HOUSE Pride Party: Just Jack, Big Nigel Outdoor all-dayer with DJs and BBQ Noon £donation PAVILION THEATRE The Adventures Of Alvin Sputnik Deep Sea Explorer Kids’ puppet and animation show with storyteller Tim Watts 2.30pm/7.30pm £10/8
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PHOENIX GALLERY Artist Talk - David Blandy The artist discusses how we use media to create our identities 2pm £free PRINCE ALBERT Rosales, Rusted Guns Live music 8pm £4 SIGNALMAN Pride Party Fancy dress, fundraising, food and DJs 11am £2 STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Gay Beautiful Simon Price’s trashy indie club gets gayed up for Pride, so not much change there then 11pm £5/4 TUBE Last Stop New club night playing R&B and US hip hop 11pm £5 VOLKS Sicknote Pride Special: Mark Archer, Be.So, Sketchy Steve, Pook, SLD “I’m afraid Jimmy cannot do games today as his mind melted at a techno club last night” 11pm £10/8 WEST HILL TAVERN Hold Up! Mini pub version of the long-running indie club night 10pm £free
SUNDAY 2ND
BLACK LION Live & Swingin’ Lion Live gypsy jazz, swing and blues 8pm £free BLIND TIGER Voicebox Spoken word and live music open mic night 8.30pm £3 BRUNSWICK The Cat That Got Away Sketch comedy show with Andy Thomas and Rob Maloney 8pm £7/6 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK The Geekest Link: Digital Festival Possibly the only time in your life anyone will care how much you know about the Alien and Predator franchises, including the extensive computer simulations you ran to mathematically prove that the Aliens would win (downstairs) 8.30pm £1 COWLEY CLUB Porkeria Latino rawpunk from Texas 8pm £donation CUBE Sunday Social Open decks session 8pm £free DUKE OF NORFOLK Live Music Night Live music from local artists 9pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA North By Northwest 11am £tbc; Berberian Sound Studio 1.30pm/6.30pm £tbc EXCHANGE Cinema Club 9pm £free FIDDLER’S ELBOW Sham-Rock Open Mic 8.30pm £free FISHBOWL Recovery? Reggae through the ages 9pm £free FOOD FOR FRIENDS Hajar Solo vocalist does pop and jazz covers with some originals thrown in 6.30pm £tbc GLOBE Pride Aftermath Bloody Marys, hangovers and video games Noon £free GREEN DOOR STORE 900 Spaces, Arp Attack, Sparrow Record launch for disco-driven indie pop band 4pm £free; Green Door Blues Big Itch DJs plus the resident blues band, Smokestack 10.30pm £free HONEY Sundown If your house was this sexy you’d never go outdoors 11pm £free JUBILEE SQUARE PixelPyros: Digital Festival The Digital Festival kicks off with a digital firework display projected onto the front of the library 8pm £free LIFE Dagger Terrace Sessions Daytime DJs play dancehall, reggae and ska Time tbc £free LONDON UNITY Live Jazz 2.30pm £free MADAME GEISHA Salsa Brighton Salsa classes and salsa dancing 8.30pm £5 MARLBOROUGH THEATRE Trouser-Wearing Characters: Pink Fringe Rose Collins dips in and out of Noel Coward, Marlene Dietrich and Vincent Price 7.30pm £6/5 NEPTUNE Cate Ferris Live music 8pm £free NEW STEINE GARDENS The Pink Fringe Picnic: Pink Fringe Promenading performers and hands-on crafty things plus some special Victorian bathing machines! Noon £free NORTHERN LIGHTS Northern Light Sundays The DJ has a lazy Sunday afternoon 4pm £free PHOENIX GALLERY Error In Time A performance by Nancy Mauro-Flude related to David Blandy’s exhibition 2pm £free PRINCE ALBERT Barry Adamson He’s played with Magazine, The Birthday Party and The Bad Seeds - but also Visage. He’s now the frontman in a new band 8pm £10 PRINCE GEORGE Pub Quiz 8pm £1 RANELAGH Mike Ross Blues rock guitarist 8.30pm £free SIGNALMAN Open Mic Open session hosted by local duo, Zoothyme 8pm £free ST PETER’S CHURCH Ladies Accordion Orchestra Scottish tunes, waltzes and tangos in the church next to Preston Manor 2pm £9/7 WEST HILL TAVERN Traditional Live Irish Music 7pm £free
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ANCIENT MARINER Quiz Night 8pm £1 BRUNSWICK Harmonessence Vocal harmony choir in which anyone can sing 5.45pm £7; Open Mic 8.30pm £free CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK MovieBar So you wanna make it in the glamorous world of film? Go shmooze with the movers and makers and other out-of-work actors. Includes film screenings, Q&A with directors and a movie quiz 7.30pm £free COALITION Trash Mondays & Jailbait The illicit union of Mr Trash and little Miss Jailbait 10.30pm £5/3 DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Berberian Sound Studio 1.30pm/6.30pm £tbc GLADSTONE Open Mic Night 9pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Punk V Hardcore: Woolf Guess what? It’s a night of punk and hardcore bands 8pm £free HONEY International Student Party New club night playing house, reggaeton and chart stuff 7pm/11pm £5/4 HOPE Live Sessions Live music (downstairs) 9pm £free LIFE #Hashtag Funky house club with added Twitter confusion 10pm £3/2 LOLA LO Fat Poppadaddys Student indie night 9pm £3 LONDON UNITY Texas Hold Em Poker night for serious players 8pm £tbc MADAME GEISHA Mashup Funky house and chart remixes 10.30pm £2 MESMERIST Stroll On Mondays 60s and 70s night with DJs and film projections 8.30pm £free PRINCE ALBERT Lesbian Vs Manatees, Blackstorm Live music 8pm £5 SIGNALMAN Signalman Pub Quiz 8pm £1 STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Euros Childs, The Wellgreen, Adam Stearns The former singer of Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci comes to Brighton with his new band 8pm £8 VOLKS Strictly Reggae Dancehall, roots, revival 11pm £5/4 WEST HILL TAVERN Open Mic 8.30pm £free
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BRUNSWICK Jazz Jam Open session with a house band and special guests 8pm £free CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Laughtermath Audience + (Timing x Gags) = Laughter 8pm £3 COWLEY CLUB Brighton Antifascist Film & Info Night Some films about events in the world of “far right thuggery” 7.30pm £donation CUBE Cube Live: Bright On The Beat Live music Time tbc £free DIGITAL CU Next Tuesday It’ll teach the universities to timetable lectures for Wednesday mornings 11pm £4/3 DUKE OF NORFOLK Open Mic 9pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA North By Northwest 11am £tbc; Berberian Sound Studio 1.30pm/6.30pm £tbc; Shut Up And Play The Hits Documentary about LCD Soundsystem followed by a satellite Q&A with James Murphy 9pm £tbc EAGLE Hacks/Hackers Brighton: Digital Festival Speakers and talks from journalists and developers 6pm £tbc FABRICA Adventures In (The) Space: Digital Festival Talks and presentations about the role of digital technology for disabled creatives 6pm £tbc FIDDLER’S ELBOW QUIZness Time Are you a pub quiz whizz, or bit of a half-wit? 8pm £1 FUNFAIR When Will I Be Famous? New indie and pop night for wanton wannabes 9pm £free GLADSTONE Quiz Night 8.30pm £1 GLOBE Basement Cinema Underground films, comfy seats and free popcorn 8pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Pressed Session Live bands 7.30pm £free HONEY Latin Fever: DJ Aaron George, Gabriel Angel, Yersin Rivas Dance lessons followed by a tropically vibed salsa club 8pm/10pm £3/1/free HOP POLES Hopify Human jukebox takes requests 7pm £free KOMEDIA Magnet Speed Dating Plato said “likes attract” but Paula Abdul put forward the opposite argument - find out who was right in the next exciting instalment of speed dating! 8pm £20 LATEST MUSIC BAR Action For Happiness 8pm £free LOLA LO Dirtee Laundry Student night 10pm £6/4/2 LONDON UNITY Quiz 8pm £1 MADAME GEISHA Skint VJ Subnero combines big tunes and big screens 10.30pm £1 OLD MARKET Curioser And Curioser Wonderland themed art night 7pm £tbc OPEN HOUSE Jazz Work Shop Throw away those jazz mags and try out your trumpet in public 8pm £tbc PRINCE ALBERT Fools Knowledge, The Flip Flays, Ed Rees Live music 8pm £4/3 RED LION Challenging General Knowledge & Music Quiz 8pm £1 SIDEWINDER Open Mic Jam session with instruments provided 8.30pm £free VOLKS Oxjam Fundraiser Details tbc WEST HILL TAVERN Music Quiz - Melting Vinyl Music quiz hosted by a different Brighton promoter each week 8.30pm £free
WEDNESDAY 5TH
BLACK LION The Black Lion Acoustic Showcase Live
music 8.30pm £free BLIND TIGER Live ‘N’ Laughing: Ava Vidal Stand up comedy 8pm £10/5 COALITION CoCo LoCo Commercial chart music for students 10.30pm £5/3 CONCORDE2 Alabama Shakes (This show has now sold out) 7pm £tbc CUBE Resident Session House DJs Time tbc £free DIGITAL Poundance Like a coin operated dancefloor 11pm £4/3/1 DUKE OF NORFOLK Pub Quiz 9pm £1 DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA The Imposter 11am £tbc; Berberian Sound Studio 1.15pm/5.30pm £tbc; Lawless 8.15pm £tbc FISHBOWL Tea & Biscuits: DJ Gareth Stephens Retro swing, soul and ska 10pm £free FUNFAIR Be-Bop-A-Lula Rock&roll, swing and soul 11pm £3/2 GLOBE Global Bass: DJ Ted Lauren DJ delves into the bassier side of jazz, gypsy and world music 9pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Steampunk Night 7pm £tbc; Hard Times Please sir, I want some more nowave disco 10.30pm £free HONEY iCandy Chart music and funky house club 10.30pm £2/1/free KOMEDIA Apples & Eve EP launch for lyrical folk band 7.30pm £7/6 LATEST MUSIC BAR Is Copyright Fit For The Digital Age?: Digital Festival Debate event 6.30pm £tbc LIFE Wavey Wednesays Not waving but dancing 11pm £free LONDON UNITY Open Mic Music session hosted by the Shakesphere Trio 8pm £free MESMERIST The Swing Ninjas Gypsy swing band 9pm £free MOLLY MALONE’S Fergal Lyden Live Irish music 9pm £tbc NIGHTINGALE THEATRE Julius Caesar The Barefoot Players modernise Shakespeare’s political drama 7.30pm £8.50/6.50 NORTHERN LIGHTS Prognosis Set the DJ controls for the heart of psychedelia 9pm £free OLD MARKET iOpen: Pete Howells, Treylore Park Trache, Charlie Wilson, Kinetic Lexus, Abbie Palache, Rosemary Rimmer-Clay, Jack Psychosis, Nil Histic, Ms Merized, Liz Eastwood, Janine Maer, Desmond McLean New spoken word night featuring 18 local poets doing 8 minutes each 8pm £free OPEN HOUSE Safehouse Free jazz and avant garde improvisation 8pm £6/5 PRINCE ALBERT Acumedia 6.30pm £free; Franz Nicolay, Dominic Von Trapp, Chas Palmer-Williams Live music 8pm £7; Reverb Live! Details tbc SALLIS BENNEY THEATRE Cappe Conference Films and lectures on the three Rs - riot, revolt, revolution 8pm £210/105/60 STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR I Am Arcade Playing retro video games is particularly exciting when it’s in a public place because it’s usually something you do in private, like emptying tubes of toothpaste over Barbie dolls 8pm £free THEATRE ROYAL Puppetry And Storytelling 4pm £12
THURSDAY 6TH
BLACK LION This Is The Modern World Mod-bothering DJ night 8.30pm £free BLIND TIGER Extra Curricular, The E.M.E., Half Crown 7pm £5 COALITION Secret Discotheque Replaying the soundtrack to your youth 11pm £4/3/2 CONCORDE2 Bonobo DJ set with from Brighton’s prodigal son with support from Rob Luis 10pm £14 CUBE Brighton Underground Dubstep, R&B and garage 8pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Notorious 11am £tbc; Berberian Sound Studio 1.30pm/3.30pm £tbc; The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time: NT Live 7pm £tbc EXCHANGE Quiz Night 9pm £1 FABRICA Heritage Open Day Celebrating everyday rituals with performances and film, and, of course, cups of tea Time tbc £free FIDDLER’S ELBOW Live Lounge: Brian McNamara Live music 8.30pm £free FISHBOWL Residents Association: DJ Will Sumsuch DJs play hip hop, funk and world beats 10.30pm £free FREEMASONS Fashion Exchange Trade in your old rags for some new garb 8pm £tbc; The Orange Circus Live bluegrass 8.30pm £free GEORGE PAYNE Open Mic Jam session with instruments provided, in what used to be the Kendal Arms 8.30pm £free GLADSTONE Student DJs 8pm £free GLOBE Hang The DJ! A night of punter-picked playlists 9pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Spirit Of Gravity: Fernando Perales, Adam Bushell, MSG Brighton’s avant noise night 8pm £5 HAUNT Jeffrey Lewis & The Junkyard Anti-folk hero brings his band back to Brighton 7pm £9 HOP POLES Retail Therapy Motown beats 8pm £free HOPE The Social Live acoustic music 8pm £free IRON DUKE ID Goes Acoustic Six live bands 8pm £free KOMEDIA Hammer & Tongue: Simon Mole An entertaining mix of poetry and comedic verse - hosted by Rosy Carrick and
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BLACK DOVE Hot-Tip Hi-Fi DJ with a fine collection of vintage reggae and rocksteady records 8pm £free BLACK LION Stop Go!: The Planet Groove Collective, DJ Lanx, DJ Dave Stone “Unbeatable beats” 9pm £free BLIND TIGER Los Albertos Local heroes of special brew ska punk 8pm £5 BRUNSWICK The Lost Highway: Isaac De Heer, The Standard Lamps Live Americana and blues music 8pm £5/4 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Made In Birmingham Reggae Punk Bhangra Documentary screening about the classic bands of the brummie music scene, plus a Q&A with Alan Apperley of The Nightingales and The Shend of wonkpunks, The Cravats 8pm £5; Peter Von Sleaze Sleazy, like getting drooled on by a big biker. Did I say ‘like’? 9pm £free COALITION The Church Of Love And Ruin: Sage Francis, B. Dolan, What Cheer? Brigade, Vockah Redu & The Cru, Miss Nicholle Pride, Madge Of Honour, Nina Kate’s Unholy Sideshow Insane hip hop and jazz line-up 7pm £12.50; Friday I’m In Love No more lectures for a day or two 11pm £1-5 CONCORDE2 Trojan Sound System, Channel One Sound System, Brighton Loves Jungle, Satta Sound, Dagger Sound System Reggae, jungle and bashment sound clashes 11pm £5 COWLEY CLUB Kilnaboy, Barley Roots Collective, Richie Blitz Anarcho folk and acoustic punk raising funds for SchNEWS 8pm £donation DIGITAL Stonelove Indie rock&roll club 11pm £4/3 DOCTOR BRIGHTON’S Funky Friday: DJ Nick Hirst, DJ Wayne 9.30pm £free DOME dConstruct: Digital Festival Technology and culture conference 9pm £tbc DUKE OF NORFOLK DJ MC Cashback DJ night 9pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Anna Karenina 1pm/6.15pm £tbc; Lawless 3.45pm/9pm £tbc FISHBOWL Keep It Wheel DJ plays rare disco, soul and boogie 9pm £free FORTUNE OF WAR Fever Bands and DJs play Latin, salsa and reggae 9pm £free FREEMASONS The People’s Playlist Customers choose the tunes 9pm £free FUNKYFISH Back To The Oldskool Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10.30pm £2/free GLADSTONE Catch A Groove DJ Bozak shares his collection of funk, soul and hip hop 8.30pm £free GLOBE Rum Fridays: DJ Jeff Daniels Funk, soul, electro and disco 9pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Emma Pollock, RM Hubbert, Jane Bartholomew Scottish singer songwriter, formerly of The Delgados 6.30pm £8; AEREO: Sunless ‘97 Disco and synth pop night from the Teen Creeps peeps - plus a guest spot by our glorious editor, The James Kendall 9pm £free; Well Rounded: Sticky, Donga, Dom Glimpse the future of dance music Midnight £free HAUNT Water Tower Bucket Boys, Hatful Of Rain Breakneck bluegrass band from Oregon 7pm £10/8
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HONEY Lollipop ‘Pink Fridays’ Get your fingers sticky to R&B and pop treats 11pm £5/4/3 HOP POLES Control, Alt, Delete Resident DJs 9pm £free HOPE SlipJam B Hip hop battleground for Brighton b-boys 8.30pm £free IRON DUKE Boondock Live band plays English and Irish folk tunes 8.30pm £free JIVE MONKEY Donna Fullman Indie folk singer songwriter 8.30pm £6 KOMEDIA Krater Comedy Club: George Zach, Rob Deering, Paul Thorne, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 8pm £5-14.50 LATEST MUSIC BAR Swingalicious 8pm £10 LOLA LO Tiki Beats Totally tropical tunes 8pm £5/4/3 LONDON UNITY The Orange Circus Live bluegrass 8.30pm £free MADAME GEISHA Debonaire Social Club Funky house, soul and chart anthems 6pm £5/free MESMERIST Shake, Holla & Roll Vintage blues, swing and rock&roll 9pm £free MOLLY MALONE’S Crackling Griffins Live music 10pm £free MUCKY DUCK Gold Chains No Brains A mix of carboot house, codeine krunk and chip shop hip hop 8pm £free NEPTUNE Papa George Live blues 8.30pm £free NIGHTINGALE THEATRE Julius Caesar The Barefoot Players modernise Shakespeare’s political drama 7.30pm £8.50/6.50 NORTHERN LIGHTS DJ Prateek Gypsy dub DJ 9pm £free PAVILION THEATRE An Evening With Naomi Wolf The author of ‘The Beauty Myth’ discusses ideas from her forthcoming biography of the vagina 7.30pm £12 PRINCE ALBERT Club Meow Meow Ska night run by the cuddly kitten of Sydney Street, Ian Immediate 8pm £4; Bend Over I’ll Drive Rock&roll DJs (downstairs) 8.30pm £free SALLIS BENNEY THEATRE Cappe Conference Films and lectures on the three Rs - riot, revolt, revolution 8pm £210/105/60 SMUGGLERS Grits And Gravy New club night playing vintage rhythm&blues, ska and swing 9pm £free ST GEORGE’S CHURCH Brighton Jazz Club: John Law’s Three Ways Trio Jazz band featuring Julian Arguelles and Yuri Goloubev 8pm £15/12 STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Brighton Rocks: Emersis, Samurai, The Dead Celebs, In Dynamics Indie rock bands 7pm £4 TUBE District Hip hop and fidget house for ASBO curfew breakers 10.30pm £5/3; Motel Last chance saloon for electro house heads 2.30am £3 VOLKS Jungle Alliance: Dialect And Kosine, Timeless & Mystery, Jungle Junkie, Lotskee & Arcane, Daffy, King Spinner, Rumble, Remo, Unity Hi-fi, Kotch, L Drift, Ma Quest, Rezomine Mount Zion vinyl launch party with two floors of jungle, dancehall and dubstep 10pm £4-8
SATURDAY 8TH
ANCIENT MARINER The Acoustic Sessions: Laura Ward And Risen Road Gentle Americana folk band 8.30pm £free BEACHIGOGO BAR Good Times Remember them? Maybe the feel-good retro tunes will jog your memory (in the White Room) 9pm £free BLACK DOVE The Chop Source DJ plays Caribbean rhythms and jump-jazz cuts 8pm £free BLACK LION Attic Monkeys Block Party Outdoor DJs 4pm £free BLIND TIGER Stay Sick!: Mudlow Bands and DJs play garage, punk and rock&roll 9pm £3/free BRIGHTON ELECTRIC F’cking The Night: Fat Bicth, Cowtown, The Plummets Bring your own booze DIY show with alt math rock bands 8pm £3 BRUNSWICK The Twitnits Family-friendly comedy improv team 3pm £5/4 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Bad To The Bone Rockabilly DJ makes old women blush and young women squeal 9pm £free COALITION Deelux: Milton,Taymor Zadeh, Ollie Sturdy, G23 House and hip hop from the magical land of Ibiza 11pm £8/5; Blow: Vince Manganaro, Charly Lopez, Charles Green The party never stops 3am £5 CORN EXCHANGE Brighton Maker Faire: Digital Festival Interactive festival of arts and crafts, robot electronics and all kinds of do-it-yourself inventions 10am £free COWLEY CLUB Slutdisko Kitsch electropunk disco 9pm £donation CUBE Zodiac: Jon Woodhouse, Paul Hilditch, Cheets DJ play upfront house 8pm £free DOCTOR BRIGHTON’S Sexy Saturday: DJ Tony B 9.30pm £free DOME FOYER BAR Brighton Mini Maker Faire - After Dark: Digital Festival ‘After party’ for the maker faire with music, LEDs and lasers 8pm £tbc DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Despicable Me 11am £tbc; Anna Karenina 1.30pm/6.45pm £tbc; Lawless 3.45pm/9.30pm £tbc FISHBOWL Gareth Stephens DJ plays funk, nu-jazz and broken beats 9pm £free FORTUNE OF WAR Flevans Funky breaks from the Tru Thoughts DJ 9pm £free FUNKYFISH Dreamboys Live The biggest cocks we’ve ever seen, shame about the weathered penises 6.30pm £tbc; Oldschool Saturday Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10pm £6/5
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GLADSTONE One Roots, Johnson And The Believers Live reggae 8pm £free GLOBE BOYF_ DJ plays tracks from the ‘Scene With No Name’ scene, i.e. the scene known as the groove-based dance music scene 9pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE The Moons, Running Dogs, Chemical Smile Live music with support from Rizzle Kicks’ mates 7.30pm £8; Pop Not Pop House party pop night with Dynamite Sal 11pm £free HONEY Chop It Up: Squiz, Willerby, Max Davenport Funky house, R&B and chart tunes 11pm £5-8.50 HOP POLES Knead A Break DJ Mass Evil plays hip hop, breaks and bootlegs 9pm £free HOPE Chelsea, Brutal Regime, Skurvi 70s punk heroes (this gig is a rescheduled date) 8pm £8 IRON DUKE DJ Night DJ plays Britpop and 90s indie 8.30pm £free JAZZ PLACE Night At The Jazz Rooms Legendary Brighton club returns to its old home for a 90s hip hop special 9pm £5/4/free KOMEDIA Krater Comedy Club: George Zach, Dana Alexander, Rob Deering, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 7.30pm/8.30pm/10.30pm £5-20 LIFE Juice Box Eclectic club night offering an nice alternative to the standard seafront malarky 11pm £5/3 LOLA LO Zombie Nation Where the dancefloor is never dead 8pm £10/7/6 MADAME GEISHA Tokyo Stereo 6pm £5/free MESMERIST Juke Joint Jamboree Rhythm & blues and rock&roll records from the days of the dance halls 9pm £free MOLLY MALONE’S Nassau Royal Live music 10pm £tbc MUCKY DUCK Sizzle And Pop! DJ Mick plays 50s rock&roll and 60s soul 9pm £free NIGHTINGALE THEATRE Julius Caesar The Barefoot Players modernise Shakespeare’s political drama 7.30pm £8.50/6.50 NORTHERN LIGHTS DJ RC Viking Horny invasion party 9pm £free PALMEIRA Mark Eitzel, Small Town Jones Live music from the former frontman of American Music Club 8pm £12 PAVILION THEATRE Yiri Baa, Zimbaremabwe West African dance music 8pm £10/8 PRINCE ALBERT Quadrophonia Who do they think they are with a name like that? 8pm £5 PROUD CABARET Kiss Kraft Pop tunes and cheeky cabaret with Boogaloo Stu and crew 7pm £6 RANELAGH Wide Eyed Order Energetic ska punk with a gypsy edge 8.30pm £free ST ANDREW’S CHURCH Woodpecker Wooliams, KLOWK If you were in any doubt as to the folky authenticity of this show, you might be interested to learn that the entrance fee includes a shot of homemade honey mead produced by the singer’s own beehive 8pm £5 STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Brighton Rocks: Ham Legion, The Creaking Chair, Seadog, Dog Legs Tight-as-hell prog punk with a sense of fun and a pop heart 7pm £4 TUBE Last Stop New club night playing R&B and US hip hop 11pm £5 VOLKS Kaos: Hybrid Minds, Xilent, High Maintenance, Overdose, Hizzle Guy , Kronical, D Double U, Dusty, Standard Procedure, Double J, Skitz, Kerizma, Legacy & Infamous, Dirty Business, Q10, Dirty Methods, The Mighty Legion Of Bass Launch party for a new drum&bass night with a bunch of Audio Porn DJs and some live beatboxing 10pm £5/3/free WEST HILL TAVERN Hold Up! Mini pub version of the long-running indie club night 10pm £free
SUNDAY 9TH
BLACK LION Live & Swingin’ Lion Live gypsy jazz, swing and blues 8pm £free BRUNSWICK Bob Hillary & The Massive Mellow, Carrie Tree Rootsy folk pop band with the frontman of cult trip-hop group, The Ruffness 8pm £6 CONCORDE2 Ace Cafe Reunion Motorbikes, motorbikes everywhere 10am £free COWLEY CLUB SchMovies: All The Years Of Trying A documentary on the acoustic punk poet, Patrik Fitzgerald - with a live set by the man himself 8pm £donation CUBE Sunday Social Open decks session 8pm £free DUKE OF NORFOLK Live Music Night Live music from local artists 9pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Anna Karenina 1pm/6.15pm £tbc; Lawless 3.45pm/9pm £tbc EXCHANGE Cinema Club 9pm £free FIDDLER’S ELBOW Sham-Rock Open Mic 8.30pm £free FISHBOWL Recovery? Reggae through the ages 9pm £free FOOD FOR FRIENDS Hajar Solo vocalist does pop and jazz covers with some originals thrown in 6.30pm £tbc FREEMASONS Dave Barrie Acoustic guitarist plays covers and originals 9pm £free GLOBE Handbaked Arcade Things were so much better in the 1990s when all we had was 64-bit games of Italian plumbers inexplicably racing against turtles and gorillas Noon £free GREEN DOOR STORE Twisted Wheel Daytime northern soul party 2pm £free; Green Door Blues Big Itch DJs plus the resident blues band, Smokestack 10.30pm £free HONEY Sundown If your house was this sexy you’d never go outdoors 11pm £free HORSE & GROOM The Deadstring Brothers, Kelly Louise, The Bluestars Americana band that’s actually from
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MONDAY 10TH
ANCIENT MARINER Quiz Night 8pm £1 BRUNSWICK Harmonessence Vocal harmony choir in which anyone can sing 5.45pm £7; Open Mic 8.30pm £free CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Classic Horror Movie Night 7.30pm £2 COALITION Trash Mondays & Jailbait The illicit union of Mr Trash and little Miss Jailbait 10.30pm £5/3 DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Anna Karenina 1pm/6.15pm £tbc; Lawless 3.45pm/9pm £tbc FABRICA The Digital Art GONG Show 2012: Digital Festival 8pm £tbc GALLERY 40 Aimie Herbert - Ambience Private view for an exhibition of moody abstract paintings by the local artist 5pm £free GLADSTONE Open Mic Night 9pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Piney Gir, Correatown, Summer Hunter Kansas singer songwriter with great set of eclectic electro and retro dresses 7pm £6 HONEY International Student Party New club night playing house, reggaeton and chart stuff 7pm/11pm £5/4 LIFE #Hashtag Funky house club with added Twitter confusion 10pm £3/2 LOLA LO Fat Poppadaddys Student indie night 9pm £3 LONDON UNITY Texas Hold Em Poker night for serious players 8pm £tbc MADAME GEISHA Mashup Funky house and chart remixes 10.30pm £2 MESMERIST Stroll On Mondays 60s and 70s night with DJs and film projections 8.30pm £free NEPTUNE Open Mic 8.30pm £free PRINCE ALBERT Bleeding Hearts Club Folky and melancholic acoustic music 8pm £3 RANELAGH Anal Beard, Asbo Derek, Binnsclagg, Doctor Bongo Possibly legendary Brighton novelty punk band do stupid songs about fanzines, friendlessness and fuckbastards 8.30pm £free SIGNALMAN Signalman Pub Quiz 8pm £1 VOLKS Strictly Reggae Dancehall, roots, revival 11pm £5/4 WEST HILL TAVERN Open Mic 8.30pm £free
TUESDAY 11TH
BOM-BANE’S Station Cloud 99, Jane Bom Bane Intricate instrumentals and lush thee-part harmonies 8pm £5/4 BRUNSWICK Jazz Jam Open session with a house band and special guests 8pm £free CUBE Cube Live: The Music Box Project Live music Time tbc £free DIGITAL CU Next Tuesday It’ll teach the universities to timetable lectures for Wednesday mornings 11pm £4/3 DUKE OF NORFOLK Open Mic 9pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Woman In A Dressing Gown 11am £tbc; Anna Karenina 1.15pm/6.30pm £tbc; Lawless 4pm/9.15pm £tbc FIDDLER’S ELBOW QUIZness Time Are you a pub quiz whizz, or bit of a half-wit? 8pm £1 FUNFAIR When Will I Be Famous? New indie and pop night for wanton wannabes 9pm £free GLADSTONE Quiz Night 8.30pm £1 GLOBE Basement Cinema Underground films, comfy seats and free popcorn 8pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Hurray For The Riff Raff, Mad Staring Eyes New Orleans country folk collective 7pm £9 HAUNT Howlin Rain Live music 7.30pm £12 HONEY Latin Fever: DJ Aaron George, Gabriel Angel, Yersin Rivas Dance lessons followed by a tropically vibed salsa
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WEDNESDAY 12TH
BLACK LION The Black Lion Acoustic Showcase Live music 8.30pm £free BRUNSWICK Conversation Cafe Discussion group 7pm £5; Existential Pants Improv comedy show 8pm £5 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Funny HaHa: Jen Brister Stand-up comedy night 8pm £5 CHURCHILL SQUARE The Live Food Kitchen Culinary demonstrations with workshops and samples 11am £free COALITION CoCo LoCo Commercial chart music for students 10.30pm £5/3 COGAPP Kids’ Code Club: Digital Festival Programming workshop for kids aged 6-16 4.30pm £tbc CUBE Resident Session House DJs Time tbc £free DIGITAL Poundance Like a coin operated dancefloor 11pm £4/3/1 DOME Patti Smith The punk poetess of New York City 8.30pm £25/22.50 DUKE OF NORFOLK Pub Quiz 9pm £1 DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Anna Karenina 11am/1.15pm/6.30pm £tbc; Lawless 4pm/9.15pm £tbc FISHBOWL Tea & Biscuits: DJ Gareth Stephens Retro swing, soul and ska 10pm £free FUNFAIR Be-Bop-A-Lula Rock&roll, swing and soul 11pm £3/2 GLOBE Global Bass: DJ Ted Lauren DJ delves into the bassier side of jazz, gypsy and world music 9pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Mutiny On The Bounty, Love Among The Mannequins, Plague Sermon Hardcore math rock 7pm £6; Hard Times Please sir, I want some more nowave disco 10.30pm £free HAUNT Allo Darlin’ Live music 7pm £8 HONEY iCandy Chart music and funky house club 10.30pm £2/1/free HOPE The No Hope Blooze Sessions Live blues (downstairs) 8pm £free KOMEDIA A Place To Bury Strangers New York noise rock band 8pm £8 LIFE Wavey Wednesdays Not waving but dancing 11pm £free LONDON UNITY Open Mic Music session hosted by the Shakesphere Trio 8pm £free MESMERIST The Swing Ninjas Gypsy swing band 9pm £free MUCKY DUCK Louis Checkley Live jazz 8pm £free NIGHTINGALE THEATRE Opus Pericardium: Digital Festival Sound art generated from electrocardiogram readings 7.30pm £tbc NORTHERN LIGHTS Mystery Train Rockabilly DJ 9pm £free PHOENIX GALLERY Alex May - Painting With Light: Digital Festival The artist discusses his work with light painting and video mapping 7pm £tbc RANELAGH Haunted: Annaca, Lily Rae Catchy indie folk with great pop vocals 8.30pm £free STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Mark Morriss Pub Quiz The singer of The Bluetones hosts a pub quiz 8pm £free
THURSDAY 13TH
BASEMENT Trash Art Events Photography, film and sculpture celebrating ‘trash’ in all its forms 8pm £5 BLACK LION Soul Casserole A melting pot of hot funk beats and soul grooves 8.30pm £free BRUNSWICK Brunswick Showcase Live music 8pm £4/3 COALITION Secret Discotheque Replaying the soundtrack to your youth 11pm £4/3/2 CONCORDE2 The Last Carnival, Tom Staniford, Juno, Rory Indiana-Kaye Live music 7pm £10; LTJ Bukem Good Looking drum&bass 8pm £5 CUBE Brighton Underground Dubstep, R&B and garage
8pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Detachment 11am £tbc; Anna Karenina 1.15pm/6.30pm £tbc EXCHANGE Quiz Night 9pm £1 FIDDLER’S ELBOW Live Lounge Live music 8.30pm £free FISHBOWL Residents Association: DJ Will Sumsuch DJs play hip hop, funk and world beats 10.30pm £free FREEMASONS So Last Century String Band Live acoustic music 8pm £free GEORGE PAYNE Open Mic Jam session with instruments provided, in what used to be the Kendal Arms 8.30pm £free GLADSTONE Student DJs 8pm £free GLOBE Hang The DJ! A night of punter-picked playlists 9pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Admiral Fallow Live music 7.30pm £9; Oaf, The Frank Melena Band, The Collision Full frontal progressive punk 7.30pm £free HAUNT EL-P Live hip hop for the old Company Flow guy 7pm £13 HOBGOBLIN Azulao Live band plays Afro-Brazilian music with world music DJs 8pm £tbc HOP POLES Retail Therapy Motown beats 8pm £free HOPE Wet Nuns Bluesy lo-fi stoner punk 8pm £4; The Social Live acoustic music 8pm £free KOMEDIA Andy McKee, Preston Reed, Jon Gomm Live music 7.30pm £17.50; Guitar Masters UK: Andy McKee, Preston Reed, Jon Gomm A triple bill of shit-hot acoustic guitarists 7.30pm £17.50/15 LATEST MUSIC BAR Catalyst Club Guest speakers give a short talk about whatever their weird obsession is 8pm £5 LOLA LO Tom Foolery Electro, house and dubstep night 9pm £5/3 MADAME GEISHA Shmooze Old school chart mash-ups 10pm £4/3 MESMERIST Bad Bad Whiskey Skifflebilly trio 9pm £free MOLLY MALONE’S Crackling Griffins Live music 10pm £free MUCKY DUCK Open Mic Jam session with Joe Newman 8pm £free NIGHTINGALE THEATRE Mind The Gap: Digital Festival Video installation based on three women’s stories of working as prostitutes 7.30pm £tbc OLD MARKET Laughtermarket: Juliet Meyers, Johnny Wardlow, Philip Wragg, Daniel Rhino Fardell, Sami Stone Stand-up comedy 8pm £3 PRINCE GEORGE Souled Out DJs play funk, soul and Motown 8pm £free QUADRANT Funny Side Up New comedy night hosted by Ade Foiadelli 8pm £free RANELAGH The Diablos Americana country band 8.30pm £free ST JAMES’ TAVERN Stay Sick, Turn Blue DJs play vintage soul, jazz and blues 8.30pm £free STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Riff Till Yer Stiff Heavy rock night 8pm £free TEMPLE BAR Picasso Unmasked Funny and thoughtful plays by a local theatre group 7.30pm £4/3 THEATRE ROYAL Blue/Orange Joe Penhall’s battle of the wits about a patient who reckons his dad is a military dictator 7.45pm £10-35 TUBE Booty Bakery: Blonde Chicks, Tom Baker, Joe G, Oli P, Ben White New club night cooking up a big basket of bass and hip hop 11pm £3/free VOLKS Serotone: Brockie, Brown B, D Double U, Denial, Rivalize 11pm £2 WEST HILL HALL Carrie Elkin & Danny Schmidt Two singer songwriters for the price of one 7.30pm £9
FRIDAY 14TH
BLACK DOVE Mo Taters! Vintage American tunes from both sides of the Panama canal 8pm £free BLACK LION Molly Malone’s Dex In The City DJ night 9pm £free BLIND TIGER Backbeat Soundsystem 8pm £5 BRUNSWICK Major Tom One reason to go see this Bowie tribute band is so you can hilariously heckle them: “Can you hear me Major Tom?” 8pm £7 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Funny Girls Stand-up, sketches and music (upstairs) 8pm £5/4; DJ Lost Rock and metal DJ 9pm £free CAXTON ARMS Rowan Coupland, Rue Royale, Like Spinning Willkommen unplugged night showcasing acoustic songwriting at its finest and quietest 7.30pm £5.50 COALITION Friday I’m In Love No more lectures for a day or two 11pm £1-5 DIGITAL Stonelove Indie rock&roll club 11pm £4/3 DOCTOR BRIGHTON’S Funky Friday: DJ Nick Hirst, DJ Wayne 9.30pm £free DUKE OF NORFOLK Miss Scarlett DJ night 9pm £free; DJ MC Cashback DJ night 9pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Like - A Brighton Skateboard Film 11pm £tbc FISHBOWL Jeff Daniels Soul and hip hop DJ 9pm £free FORTUNE OF WAR Fever Bands and DJs play Latin, salsa and reggae 9pm £free FREEMASONS The People’s Playlist Customers choose the tunes 9pm £free FUNKYFISH Back To The Oldskool Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10.30pm £2/free GLADSTONE Catch A Groove DJ Bozak shares his collection of funk, soul and hip hop 8.30pm £free GLOBE Rum Fridays: TSOB Philly disco from Juice FM DJ
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9pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Hey Sholay, Blaenavon, Has Left The Building Live music 7.30pm £6; Ye Ye Fever Funky Afrobeat clubnight 11pm £free HAUNT Karin Park Live electro pop 7pm £8 HONEY Lollipop ‘Pink Fridays’ Get your fingers sticky to R&B and pop treats 11pm £5/4/3 HOP POLES Control, Alt, Delete Resident DJs 9pm £free HOPE Last Dinosaurs Summery power pop 8pm £6.50; Goodness Hip hop, funk and beats 9pm £free KOMEDIA Brighton Jazz Club: Christine Tobin - A Thousand Kisses Deep The songs of Leonard Cohen 8pm £14/12; Krater Comedy Club: Josh Widdicombe, Ryan Cull, Tom Goodliffe Stand-up comedy 8pm £5-14.50 LATEST MUSIC BAR Tango Boot Camp Learn to tango like the Argentinians 8pm £3-8; The Move-Ons, Tenderhooks, Outrage Live music 8pm £5/4 LIFE Brighton Up! Ska, rocksteady, ragga and dancehall - if it’s Jamaican they’ll play it 11pm £3/2 LIGHTHOUSE Pecha Kucha Night Brighton: Digital Festival A series of short sciencey presentations 7.30pm £tbc LOLA LO Tiki Beats Totally tropical tunes 8pm £5/4/3 LONDON UNITY The Tin Dogs Blues and folk band 8pm £free MADAME GEISHA Debonaire Social Club Funky house, soul and chart anthems 6pm £5/free MARLBOROUGH THEATRE Stark Naked Dallas: Pink Fringe The Texan soap opera given a campy makeover with “bigger wigs, higher heels, more gin and poppers” 8pm £8 MESMERIST Shake, Holla & Roll Vintage blues, swing and rock&roll 9pm £free MOLLY MALONE’S Nassau Royal Live music 10pm £tbc MUCKY DUCK Catholic Discipline Space rock, electronica and cinematic sounds 8pm £free NEPTUNE The Blackjacks Jump blues band 8.30pm £free; Paul Murray & Will Worth Contemporary folk 8.30pm £free NORTHERN LIGHTS DJ Oli Mixed up party tunes 9pm £free OLD MARKET Julian Clary - Position Vacant, Apply Within The campy comedian warms up for a UK tour 8pm £16 PRINCE ALBERT The Parkinsons, The Querelles, Stay Sick DJs Live music 7.30pm £tbc QUADRANT Regional Dialect Spoken Word Night You don’t have to have a regional accent to be a poet, but it helps 7.30pm £4 RANELAGH Boogie Woogie Troop Piano blues and swing 8.30pm £free SMUGGLERS Grits And Gravy New club night playing vintage rhythm&blues, ska and swing 9pm £free ST LUKE’S CHURCH Nathan Hassall And Friends Tribute to John Coltrane 7.30pm £6/4 STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Brighton Rocks: Tin Palace, Wild Cat Strike, This Modern Life, Black Fire Rising Live music 7pm £4; Modern Life Is Still Rubbish Join Dynamite Sal for a 90s Britpop party 11pm £free THEATRE ROYAL Blue/Orange Joe Penhall’s battle of the wits about a patient who reckons his dad is a military dictator 7.45pm £10-35 THOMAS KEMP Hot-Tip Hi-Fi DJ with a fine collection of vintage reggae and rocksteady records 8pm £free TUBE District Hip hop and fidget house for ASBO curfew breakers 10.30pm £5/3; Motel Last chance saloon for electro house heads 2.30am £3 VOLKS Freak Bazaar: Aphid Moon, Incredible Tide, VJ X-Sion Progressive and psychedelic trance 11pm £7/6 WEST HILL HALL Meg Baird, Jason Steel Haunting folk music with the frontwoman from Espers 7.30pm £10/9 WEST HILL TAVERN Born Bad Mini pub version of the rockabilly club night 10pm £free
SATURDAY 15TH
ANCIENT MARINER The Acoustic Sessions: So Last Century Swing Band Fiddle and banjo band 8.30pm £free BEACHIGOGO BAR Good Times Remember them? Maybe the feel-good retro tunes will jog your memory (in the White Room) 9pm £free BLACK LION Burnt Toast Black Lion Block Party DJs play sleazy soul and dirty breaks 4pm £free BRIGHTON MUSEUM EDUCATION ROOM Performing Spoken Word Spoken word event with Roy Hutchins 1.30pm £5/2 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Bad To The Bone Rockabilly DJ makes old women blush and young women squeal 9pm £free COALITION Old Yellow Bricks: DJ Monty, Shmooze, Skank R&B, house and funky soul club 11pm £7/5; Blow: Vince Manganaro, Charly Lopez, Charles Green The party never stops 3am £5 CONCORDE2 Ninja Tune Special: Qemists, Herbaliser, Zed Bias, Rodney P, Fallacy Night from classic beats label starring local drum&bass rockers, Qemists 11pm £10; Ninja Tunes Vs Tru Thoughts: Qemists, Herbaliser, Zed Bias, Rodney P, Fallacy 11pm £8 CORN EXCHANGE The British Beard And Moustache Championships Atters and his gang of gents parade their facial cultivations in front of an incredulous public wearing fake tashes 2pm £12.50 COWLEY CLUB Brighton Punx Picnic: Autonomads, Black Star Dub Collective, Headjam, Skub Zero, Wobbly Rebels, This Ends Here, Brain Jelly, Primeval Soup, Richie Blitz A whole weekend of sweat, vomit and punk 2pm £donation
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CUBE Simply House: Cheets, Hutson, Townsend House DJs Time tbc £free DIGITAL Free The Beats Because locking them in a four-tothe-floor groove is considered by some to be an act of oppression 11pm £5/free DOCTOR BRIGHTON’S Sexy Saturday: DJ Tony B 9.30pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA G-Force 2D 11am £tbc; Victim 2pm £tbc EXCHANGE Zed’s Dead Live music 9pm £free FIDDLER’S ELBOW Molly Malone’s Dex In The City DJ night 9pm £free FISHBOWL DJ Åbo & Ally Jazz Rooms DJs play dirty funk and hot jazz 9pm £free FITZHERBERT’S Speak Galactic, Plurals Launch party for Brighton’s ambient dream-pop duo 8pm £free FORTUNE OF WAR Miss Faricy & Phil Marten DJ night 9pm £free FUNKYFISH Dreamboys Live The biggest cocks we’ve ever seen, shame about the weathered penises 6.30pm £tbc; Oldschool Saturday Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10pm £6/5 GLADSTONE The Orange Circus Live bluegrass 8.30pm £free GLOBE Ghost Mutt & Grinel Bass in the basement with the Donky Pitch DJs 9pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE The Long Goodbye, Jake Mackay, Rotait, Hayley Savage Overhead Wires night with country rock band 7.30pm £4; Da Doo Ron Ron Club night with a obsession for girlgroups and soul sirens 11pm £free HONEY Honey Music: Vaughany DJs, Jon Byrne, Karl Bush, Squiz Funky house club 11pm £5-8.50 HOP POLES Hop To The Beat DJs play funk and electro swing 9pm £free HOPE Soul Casserole A melting pot of hot funk beats and soul grooves (downstairs) 9pm £free JAZZ PLACE Night At The Jazz Rooms Legendary Brighton club returns to its old home for a jazz, soul and funk party 9pm £4/3/free KOMEDIA Spellbound “An 80s night for people who hate 80s nights” - Simon Price plays the alternative highlights of the decade 9pm £5/4; Krater Comedy Club: Josh Widdicombe, John Lynn Stand-up comedy 7.30pm/8.30pm/10.30pm £520 LIFE Juice Box Eclectic club night offering an nice alternative to the standard seafront malarky 11pm £5/3 LOLA LO Zombie Nation Where the dancefloor is never dead 8pm £10/7/6 LONDON UNITY BN41 & The Shed The Portslade posse come to Brighton to eat curry and play a selection of power ballads 8pm £free MADAME GEISHA Tokyo Stereo 6pm £5/free MARLBOROUGH THEATRE Stark Naked Dallas: Pink Fringe The Texan soap opera given a campy makeover with “bigger wigs, higher heels, more gin and poppers” 8pm £8 MESMERIST Juke Joint Jamboree Rhythm & blues and rock&roll records from the days of the dance halls 9pm £free MUCKY DUCK DJ Juan Corbi Hip hop, funk and beats 9pm £free OFFICE Hot-Tip Hi-Fi DJ with a fine collection of vintage reggae and rocksteady records 8pm £free OLD MARKET King Porter Stomp Album launch for ska and hip hop big band led by MC Jonezy 8.30pm £6 PAV TAV Freeze The Atlantic, Hold Your Horse Is, Gunning For Tamar, Glass City Vice Weird timings + long instrumental interludes + very loud bits = math rock 7pm £6 PHOENIX GALLERY Creative Writing Writing event with Wendy Ann Greenhalgh 11am £10 PRESTON MANOR Hidden House - Behind The Scenes At Preston Manor 11am/2pm £10.50/8.50 PRINCE ALBERT Club Tic Tac 8pm £4 RANELAGH Slim Shack Rhythm and blues band 8.30pm £free STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Brighton Rocks: The Stars Down To Earth, Dead Whisky, She Crazy!, Screama Ballerina Indie rock band with a heavy-hearted majestic sound 7pm £4; Like After Party After party for the skateboard film showing at the Duke Of York’s 10pm £free; The Hush Club Club night for discerning fans of 50s and 60s vinyl sounds 11pm £4/3/2 THEATRE ROYAL Blue/Orange Joe Penhall’s battle of the wits about a patient who reckons his dad is a military dictator 2.30pm/7.45pm £10-35 THREE & TEN Ed Eales-White - Champions New character comedy from one third of Clever Peter 8pm £8/6 TUBE Last Stop New club night playing R&B and US hip hop 11pm £5 VOLKS Motive: Dom & Roland, Need For Mirrors, Maniac & Trouble, Threts & Invasion, Pablo Riddla, Sublok, Tech3, Double J, Raff, Remo, Lofty, Prozak, Aljmex, Hijak, Tunndrah, Agro, Scoundrel Drum&bass sessions 11pm £5/4/3 WEST HILL TAVERN Hold Up! Mini pub version of the long-running indie club night 10pm £free
SUNDAY 16TH
BLACK LION Live & Swingin’ Lion Live gypsy jazz, swing and blues 8pm £free BRUNSWICK Brighton Folk Monthly folk night hosted by Amy Hill 8pm £free CONCORDE2 The Womb To Waste Tour: Dying Fetus,
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Job For A Cowboy, Revocation, Cerebral Bore Hook-laden death metal 7pm £13 CORN EXCHANGE Herbie Flowers’ Jazz Breakfast Celebrated bassist smears your toast with his jazz 11am £6 CUBE Sunday Social Open decks session 8pm £free DUKE OF NORFOLK Live Music Night Live music from local artists 9pm £free EXCHANGE Cinema Club 9pm £free FIDDLER’S ELBOW Sham-Rock Open Mic 8.30pm £free FISHBOWL Recovery? Reggae through the ages 9pm £free FOOD FOR FRIENDS Ruth And Danny Soul, jazz and indie covers 6.30pm £tbc GLADSTONE Dubconscious Live dub and reggae all-dayer 2pm £free GLOBE Handbaked Arcade Things were so much better in the 1990s when all we had was 64-bit games of Italian plumbers inexplicably racing against turtles and gorillas Noon £free GREEN DOOR STORE Grit Lit: Digital Festival Flash lit fiction slam with prizes and readings 7pm £5; Green Door Blues Big Itch DJs plus the resident blues band, Smokestack 10.30pm £free HONEY Sundown If your house was this sexy you’d never go outdoors 11pm £free HOPE Thomas Truax, Birdeatsbaby, AMiTY NY inventortroubadour with a band full of homemade clockwork instruments 8pm £6.50 KOMEDIA Krater Comedy Club: Josh Widdicombe, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 8pm £5-11.50; Barber, Taylor & Reed Acoustic trio mixing Americana with Celtic and English folk 8pm £10 LANSDOWNE PLACE HOTEL My Swish Swap clothes and donate unwanted cosmetics to a charity helping victims of domestic violence 3pm £8/6.50 LIFE Dagger Terrace Sessions Daytime DJs play dancehall, reggae and ska Time tbc £free MADAME GEISHA Salsa Brighton Salsa classes and salsa dancing 8.30pm £5 MOLLY MALONE’S Nassau Royal Live music 10pm £tbc MUCKY DUCK Quiz On My Face “Quiz night with a difference,” perhaps with a very special prize 8pm £1 NEPTUNE Hot Tub Of Kemptown Western swing band 8.30pm £free NIGHTINGALE THEATRE Special Relationships Chris Fogg reads extracts from his book about growing up in the 50s and 60s and the political fallout from those decades 7.30pm £free NORTHERN LIGHTS Northern Light Sundays The DJ has a lazy Sunday afternoon 4pm £free OLD MARKET Ginger Baker’s Jazz Confusion The drummer from 70s rockers Cream turns his hand to fusion jazz 8pm £22/20 PRINCE GEORGE Pub Quiz 8pm £1 RANELAGH The Sharpees Live blues rock 8.30pm £free SIGNALMAN Open Mic Open session hosted by local duo, Zoothyme 8pm £free THEATRE ROYAL Blue/Orange Joe Penhall’s battle of the wits about a patient who reckons his dad is a military dictator 7.45pm £10-35 WEST HILL TAVERN Traditional Live Irish Music 7pm £free
MONDAY 17TH
ANCIENT MARINER Quiz Night 8pm £1 BRUNSWICK Harmonessence Vocal harmony choir in which anyone can sing 5.45pm £7; Brighton Stanza Poetry group 7.30pm £tbc; Open Mic 8.30pm £free CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Conspiracy Night: The Ring Of Power After you’ve finished watching conspiracy documentaries you can try to spot the plain-clothed CIA agents taking notes about audience members 7.30pm £2 COALITION Trash Mondays & Jailbait The illicit union of Mr Trash and little Miss Jailbait 10.30pm £5/3 DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Princess Mononoke David Blandy shows his favourite anime film - it’s supposed to be related to his Odysseys exhibition at the Phoenix Gallery 6.30pm £tbc GLADSTONE Open Mic Night 9pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Jessica Hoop Live music 7.30pm £8 HAUNT Torche Live music 7.30pm £10 HONEY International Student Party New club night playing house, reggaeton and chart stuff 7pm/11pm £5/4 HOPE Live Sessions Live music (downstairs) 9pm £free LIFE #Hashtag Funky house club with added Twitter confusion 10pm £3/2 LOLA LO Freshers’ Week Ramshackle Launch Night Dubstep, indie, hip hop and drum&bass 9pm £5/4 LONDON UNITY Texas Hold Em Poker night for serious players 8pm £tbc MADAME GEISHA Mashup Funky house and chart remixes 10.30pm £2 MESMERIST Stroll On Mondays 60s and 70s night with DJs and film projections 8.30pm £free PAV TAV Shoes And Socks Off, Someone Died, Katie Malco Weird timings + long instrumental interludes + very loud bits = math rock 7pm £4 SIGNALMAN Signalman Pub Quiz 8pm £1 STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Deep Time, Cinemascopes, Spacenoid, Birdskulls Pop duo from Austin Texas 8pm £6 THEATRE ROYAL Blue/Orange Joe Penhall’s battle of the wits about a patient who reckons his dad is a military dictator
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TUESDAY 18TH
BRUNSWICK Jazz Jam Open session with a house band and special guests 8pm £free CUBE Cube Live: Travis Eddie & Jon McGlashan Live music Time tbc £free DIGITAL CU Next Tuesday It’ll teach the universities to timetable lectures for Wednesday mornings 11pm £4/3 DUKE OF NORFOLK Open Mic 9pm £free FIDDLER’S ELBOW QUIZness Time Are you a pub quiz whizz, or bit of a half-wit? 8pm £1 FUNFAIR When Will I Be Famous? New indie and pop night for wanton wannabes 9pm £free GLADSTONE Quiz Night 8.30pm £1 GLOBE Basement Cinema Underground films, comfy seats and free popcorn 8pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Molly’s Lipps Live music 7pm £tbc; Donuts Hipster funk and hip hop gems 11pm £free HAUNT Motion City Soundtrack, Now Now, Me Live music 7pm £13.50 HONEY Latin Fever: DJ Aaron George, Gabriel Angel, Yersin Rivas Dance lessons followed by a tropically vibed salsa club 8pm/10pm £3/1/free HOP POLES Hopify Human jukebox takes requests 7pm £free LATEST MUSIC BAR Cafe Scientifique Let’s talk about science, baby 8pm £free LIGHTHOUSE Persistent Peril Vs Calika: Digital Festival Live digital performance merging animation and music 7pm £tbc LOLA LO Dirtee Laundry Student night 10pm £6/4/2 LONDON UNITY Quiz 8pm £1 MADAME GEISHA Skint VJ Subnero combines big tunes and big screens 10.30pm £1 MUCKY DUCK Jonny 8-Track Live music 8pm £free OPEN HOUSE Jazz Work Shop Throw away those jazz mags and try out your trumpet in public 8pm £tbc QUADRANT The Trident Open mic night for trying out new material 8pm £free RED LION Challenging General Knowledge & Music Quiz 8pm £1 SIDEWINDER Open Mic Jam session with instruments provided 8.30pm £free THEATRE ROYAL Blue/Orange Joe Penhall’s battle of the wits about a patient who reckons his dad is a military dictator 7.45pm £10-35 THREE & TEN Oh My Irma Macabre Canadian comedy 7.30pm £9/7.50 VOLKS Tuesday Takeover Drum&bass and dubstep 11pm £free WEST HILL TAVERN Music Quiz - Hold Up! Music quiz hosted by a different Brighton promoter each week 8.30pm £free
WEDNESDAY 19TH
BLACK LION The Black Lion Acoustic Showcase Live music 8.30pm £free; East Brighton Rhythm Section Resident band plays dub, soul and hip hop 8.30pm £free COALITION CoCo LoCo Commercial chart music for students 10.30pm £5/3 CUBE Resident Session House DJs Time tbc £free DIGITAL Poundance Like a coin operated dancefloor 11pm £4/3/1 DOME Richard Hawley, Lisa Hannigan English songwriter formerly of Pulp and Longpigs 8pm £20/18 DUKE OF NORFOLK Pub Quiz 9pm £1 FISHBOWL Tea & Biscuits: DJ Gareth Stephens Retro swing, soul and ska 10pm £free FUNFAIR Be-Bop-A-Lula Rock&roll, swing and soul 11pm £3/2 GLOBE Global Bass: DJ Ted Lauren DJ delves into the bassier side of jazz, gypsy and world music 9pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Milo Greene Live music 7.30pm £tbc; Hard Times Please sir, I want some more nowave disco 10.30pm £free HONEY iCandy Chart music and funky house club 10.30pm £2/1/free HOPE Cult Of Youth, Soft Arrows Live music 8pm £6 LIFE Move New dance music club 11pm £tbc LONDON UNITY Open Mic Music session hosted by the Shakesphere Trio 8pm £free MESMERIST The Swing Ninjas Gypsy swing band 9pm £free MOLLY MALONE’S Fergal Lyden Live Irish music 9pm £tbc MUCKY DUCK Live Music Night Hosted by Ruby Taylor 8pm £free PHOENIX GALLERY Comic Book Workshop Join David Blandy and Inko for a crash course in manga comic art - don’t forget to give every female a pair of impossible hips and huge imploring alien eyes 6.30pm £5 POET’S CORNER PUB Picasso Unmasked Funny and thoughtful plays by a local theatre group 7.30pm £4/3 PRINCE ALBERT Speakeasy Three Live band with burlesque and DJs 8pm £tbc STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR No Omega, Pariso, Grappler, Cult Cinema, Illusions Live music 7pm £6
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THURSDAY 20TH
BLACK LION This Is The Modern World Mod-bothering DJ night 8.30pm £free BRUNSWICK Matt Finucane, Danny Powell, Jessica Mary York Live music 8pm £4/3 COALITION Secret Discotheque Replaying the soundtrack to your youth 11pm £4/3/2 CUBE Brighton Underground Dubstep, R&B and garage 8pm £free DOME Dexys Kevin and the band play their new album from start to finish, followed by a few old favourites 7pm £25 EXCHANGE Quiz Night 9pm £1 FIDDLER’S ELBOW Fiddler’s Folk Off Live folk showdown 8.30pm £free FISHBOWL Residents Association: DJ Will Sumsuch DJs play hip hop, funk and world beats 10.30pm £free GEORGE PAYNE Open Mic Jam session with instruments provided, in what used to be the Kendal Arms 8.30pm £free GLADSTONE Student DJs 8pm £free GLOBE Hang The DJ! A night of punter-picked playlists 9pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Latterman, Attack! Vipers!, You Me & The Atom Bomb New York punk band 7.30pm £8; Thursday Night Fish Fry Jamaican ska, R&B and rocksteady 11pm £free HAUNT Smoke Fairies Live music 7pm £8 HONEY Propaganda Indie club 10.30pm £tbc HOP POLES Retail Therapy Motown beats 8pm £free HOPE The Social Live acoustic music 8pm £free JIVE MONKEY Club Berlin: IDC, Bela Emerson, Das Fenster, Saffron Reichenbacker Cabaret, art, DJs and live music 8pm £4 KOMEDIA Iron Boot Scrapers Pop songs played by a skiffle beat band 7.30pm £12/10 LATEST MUSIC BAR Wellsbourne Society The author of the ‘Cheeky Guide To Brighton’ hosts a discussion and film night dedicated to the history and folklore of the city 7.30pm £5 LOLA LO Tom Foolery Electro, house and dubstep night 9pm £5/3 MADAME GEISHA Shmooze Old school chart mash-ups 10pm £4/3 MESMERIST Sneaky Low Five Jazzy vintage tunes with sultry swinging vocals 9pm £free MOLLY MALONE’S Crackling Griffins Live music 10pm £free MUCKY DUCK Open Mic Jam session with Joe Newman 8pm £free NORTHERN LIGHTS Pop Up Digital: Digital Festival Discussion on how the sharing economy is using technology to change the world 8pm £tbc OLD MARKET A Clockwork Orange “Welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, well. To what do I owe the extreme pleasure of this surprising visit?” 8pm £10-15 PAVILION THEATRE SOURCE New Music: Beatabet Takeover Brighton’s best bands chosen by Brighton’s best listings mag 7.30pm £4 PRINCE ALBERT Pocket Drummer EP launch for local band 8pm £4 PRINCE GEORGE Souled Out DJs play funk, soul and Motown 8pm £free RANELAGH Anthony Duke Country and Americana 8.30pm £free STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Dress Theque, Little Fears, TORS Live music 8pm £3 THEATRE ROYAL Blue/Orange Joe Penhall’s battle of the wits about a patient who reckons his dad is a military dictator 2.30pm/7.45pm £10-35 TUBE Booty Bakery: Blonde Chicks, Tom Baker, Joe G, Oli P, Ben White New club night cooking up a big basket of bass and hip hop 11pm £3/free VOLKS Roll Through Drum&bass and dubstep, bass and beatbox 11pm £2
FRIDAY 21ST
VENUE Dave Clarke The techno baron comes to town 11pm £8 BLACK LION Medium Rare DJs serve up a platter of semiobscure funk and soul 9pm £free CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Distortion Rock and metal DJs 9pm £free; Controversy - The Prince Party! Simon Price and DJ Smogo pay homage to the lovable sex dwarf with a dress-up night of film, music and themed cocktails (upstairs) 10pm £2 COALITION Friday I’m In Love No more lectures for a day or two 11pm £1-5 CONCORDE2 Rival Sons Bluesy American band does rock with a hint of cock 7pm £10 CORN EXCHANGE Brighton Art Fair Browse and/or buy work by 130 artists 11am £6/5 DIGITAL Stonelove Indie rock&roll club 11pm £4/3 DOCTOR BRIGHTON’S Funky Friday: DJ Nick Hirst, DJ Wayne 9.30pm £free
DUKE OF NORFOLK DJ MC Cashback DJ night 9pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Do The Right Thing 11pm £tbc FISHBOWL Cut La Vis Jamaican riddims and urban beats 9pm £free FORTUNE OF WAR Fever Bands and DJs play Latin, salsa and reggae 9pm £free FREEMASONS The People’s Playlist Customers choose the tunes 9pm £free FUNKYFISH Back To The Oldskool Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10.30pm £2/free GLADSTONE Catch A Groove DJ Bozak shares his collection of funk, soul and hip hop 8.30pm £free GLOBE Rum Fridays: Eclectic Chair DJ Lamp mashes genres while you get mashed on rum 8pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Stone Foundation Live music 7pm £tbc HAUNT Jens Lekman Live music from the Scandinavian fella 7pm £13 HONEY Lollipop ‘Pink Fridays’ Get your fingers sticky to R&B and pop treats 11pm £5/4/3 HOP POLES Control, Alt, Delete Resident DJs 9pm £free HOPE I Am Giant Rock band 8pm £5 KOMEDIA Krater Comedy Club: Eddy Brimson, Sully O’Sullivan, Kerry Godliman, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 8pm £5-14.50; Born Bad Vintage rockabilly for pompadour cats and polka dot kittens 11pm £6/5 LIFE Carbon: DJ Krust, J Majik, Digital, Gremlinz, Escher, Voytek, Absent, Kosine, X nation, Context Drum&bass night 11pm £6 LOFT Brighton Swing Thing: The Hep Chaps Vintage music with live music, swing DJs and a lindy hop taster session 8pm £12/10 LOLA LO Tiki Beats Totally tropical tunes 8pm £5/4/3 LONDON UNITY Boondock Cornish bluegrass band 8pm £free MADAME GEISHA Debonaire Social Club Funky house, soul and chart anthems 6pm £5/free MESMERIST Shake, Holla & Roll Vintage blues, swing and rock&roll 9pm £free MOLLY MALONE’S Nassau Royal Live music 10pm £tbc MUCKY DUCK Unhooked Generation Retro DJs with an ear for 60s Motown and northern soul 8pm £free NEPTUNE Roland Chadwick Blues guitarist 8.30pm £free OLD MARKET A Clockwork Orange “Welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, well. To what do I owe the extreme pleasure of this surprising visit?” 2pm/8pm £10-15 PRINCE ALBERT Malcolm Holcombe, Elle Osborne Live music 8pm £8 QUADRANT Comedy Sans Frontières: Phil Kay, Gráinne Maguire, Rachel Parris, Joe Wells, Sami Stone Comedy gig raising funds for the humanitarian aid charity, Doctors Without Borders 8pm £6 RANELAGH Krissy Matthews Live blues rock 8.30pm £free REDROASTER Tony Frisby, Vanessa Austin Locke, Alice Walker Tony Frisby launches his latest poetry collection, ‘Letters From A Cave In Saltdean’ 7.30pm £tbc SKIFF The dotBrighton Game Jam: Digital Festival Meet up and make games over the weekend 7pm £tbc SMUGGLERS Grits And Gravy New club night playing vintage rhythm&blues, ska and swing 9pm £free STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Brighton Rocks: Subservience, Collisions, Sin To Survive Live music 7pm £4; Dive Slow Hip hop and electronica from the BBC critic turned DJ Mike Diver (in the bar) 9pm £free; Reverb Bistro From funky disco, through Chicago house into drum&bass and dubstep (in the club) 11pm £free THEATRE ROYAL Blue/Orange Joe Penhall’s battle of the wits about a patient who reckons his dad is a military dictator 7.45pm £10-35 TUBE District Hip hop and fidget house for ASBO curfew breakers 10.30pm £5/3; Motel Last chance saloon for electro house heads 2.30am £3 WEST HILL TAVERN Blue Night 50s and 60s blues 10pm £free
SATURDAY 22ND
ANCIENT MARINER The Acoustic Sessions: Alice Ska meets indie meets glam 8.30pm £free BEACHIGOGO BAR Good Times Remember them? Maybe the feel-good retro tunes will jog your memory (in the White Room) 9pm £free BLACK LION Soul Casserole All-Dayer A melting pot of hot funk beats and soul grooves 4pm £free BRUNSWICK Mark Edward’s Charity Jazz Roar Up Jazz fundraiser 8pm £10 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Bad To The Bone Rockabilly DJ makes old women blush and young women squeal 9pm £free COALITION Pump Up The Jam: Willerby, DJ Outbreak Reviving the long-buried bodies of 90s house and pop ‘classics’ 11pm £5; Blow: Vince Manganaro, Charly Lopez, Charles Green The party never stops 3am £5 CONCORDE2 Rose Royce Gwen Dickey and her reformed band play the hits from the ‘Carwash’ soundtrack 7pm £21 CORN EXCHANGE Brighton Art Fair Browse and/or buy work by 130 artists 10am £6/5 CUBE Factory Dance Mania: Muerto, Reboot, Justin Howard DJs play upfront house Time tbc £free DIGITAL Supercharged: Jack Beats, Dub Phizix, Fono, Casio, Fi-Chek, Bean, Shiver, Buster, Tom Sommerville
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SUNDAY 23RD
BLACK LION Live & Swingin’ Lion Live gypsy jazz, swing and blues 8pm £free BRUNSWICK Ukulele Jam It tastes sweet but a little woody 3pm £tbc; The Moors Klezmer, folk and gypsy band 8pm £6/4 CONCORDE2 The Beat Plus Meow Meow’s & DJ Darren Bennett (Madness Tour DJ) playing till late 7pm £18 CORN EXCHANGE Brighton Art Fair Browse and/or buy work by 130 artists 10am £6/5 CUBE Sunday Social Open decks session 8pm £free DUKE OF NORFOLK Live Music Night Live music from local artists 9pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Vertigo 11am £tbc EXCHANGE Cinema Club 9pm £free FIDDLER’S ELBOW Sham-Rock Open Mic 8.30pm £free FISHBOWL Recovery? Reggae through the ages 9pm £free FOOD FOR FRIENDS Hajar Solo vocalist does pop and jazz covers with some originals thrown in 6.30pm £tbc GLOBE Handbaked Arcade Things were so much better in the 1990s when all we had was 64-bit games of Italian
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plumbers inexplicably racing against turtles and gorillas Noon £free GREEN DOOR STORE Sunday Service Live music 6pm £free; Green Door Blues Big Itch DJs plus the resident blues band, Smokestack 10.30pm £free HAUNT The Meteors Classic 80s psychobilly band 7.30pm £15 HONEY Sundown If your house was this sexy you’d never go outdoors 11pm £free HOPE Graces Collide, Emersis Big impact rock 8pm £tbc KOMEDIA Krater Comedy Club: Sully O’Sullivan, Kerry Godliman, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy 8pm £5-11.50; Francesca Martinez Award-winning comedy show 8pm £12/10 LATEST MUSIC BAR Rachel Sermanni, Jacko Hooper, Jade Hopcroft Scottish singer songwriter who supported Mumford & Sons 8pm £7 LIFE Dagger Terrace Sessions Daytime DJs play dancehall, reggae and ska Time tbc £free MADAME GEISHA Salsa Brighton Salsa classes and salsa dancing 8.30pm £5 NEPTUNE Shady Grove Country and bluegrass band 8.30pm £free NORTHERN LIGHTS Northern Light Sundays The DJ has a lazy Sunday afternoon 4pm £free OLD MARKET Spun Glass Theatre - Scratch Sessions New writers try out ten minute plays, poems or whatever 3pm £1 PAVILION THEATRE Sound Screen: Digital Festival Video artists and electronic musicians 8pm £tbc PRINCE GEORGE Pub Quiz 8pm £1 PROUD CABARET James Yorkston, Steve Elston Live music 8pm £14.50/12.50 RANELAGH The Elevators Uplifting electric blues 8.30pm £free SIGNALMAN Open Mic Open session hosted by local duo, Zoothyme 8pm £free SKIFF The dotBrighton Game Jam: Digital Festival Meet up and make games over the weekend 7pm £tbc THREE & TEN Courage And Light Spoken word extracts from a work in progress 7pm £7/5 WEST HILL TAVERN Traditional Live Irish Music 7pm £free
GREEN DOOR STORE Jaill Sub Bop indie rockers 7pm £8.50/7.50 HANOVER BAD Ukes - Brighton After Dark Ukulele Session Informal gathering of ukulelists 8pm £free HONEY Latin Fever: DJ Aaron George, Gabriel Angel, Yersin Rivas Dance lessons followed by a tropically vibed salsa club 8pm/10pm £3/1/free HOP POLES Hopify Human jukebox takes requests 7pm £free JUBILEE LIBRARY Digital Convergence - Where Will It All End?: Digital Festival Discussion event addressing the limits of digital technology 5.30pm £free KOMEDIA The BBC Radio 2 New Comedy Award 2012 Ten comedians trying their damnedest to make you laugh 8pm £7 LATEST MUSIC BAR City Reads Book Quiz Annual literature quiz 7.30pm £5 LOLA LO Dirtee Laundry Student night 10pm £6/4/2 LONDON UNITY Quiz 8pm £1 MADAME GEISHA Skint VJ Subnero combines big tunes and big screens 10.30pm £1 OPEN HOUSE Jazz Work Shop Throw away those jazz mags and try out your trumpet in public 8pm £tbc PAVILION THEATRE John Soliman - Heads Or Tails Theatrical and comedic magic show 7.30pm £12/10 QUADRANT Open Mic Sessions Live music 9pm £free RED LION Challenging General Knowledge & Music Quiz 8pm £1 SIDEWINDER Open Mic Jam session with instruments provided 8.30pm £free STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Nightworkers, Last Of The Light Brigade, Of Empires Live music 7.30pm £4 THEATRE ROYAL Dry Rot John Chapman’s bookie-based comedy drama 7.45pm £12-29.50 VOLKS Tuesday Takeover Drum&bass and dubstep 11pm £free WEST HILL TAVERN Music Quiz - Another Sunny Day Music quiz hosted by a different Brighton promoter each week 8.30pm £free
MONDAY 24TH
BLACK LION The Black Lion Acoustic Showcase Live music 8.30pm £free BLIND TIGER Anchorsong, Polaroid 85 Live electronica from the Japanese beatmaker 8pm £5 COALITION CoCo LoCo Commercial chart music for students 10.30pm £5/3 CUBE Resident Session House DJs Time tbc £free DIGITAL Poundance Like a coin operated dancefloor 11pm £4/3/1 DUKE OF NORFOLK Pub Quiz 9pm £1 FISHBOWL Tea & Biscuits: DJ Gareth Stephens Retro swing, soul and ska 10pm £free FRIEND’S MEETING HOUSE Picasso Unmasked Funny and thoughtful plays by a local theatre group 7.30pm £4/3 FUNFAIR Be-Bop-A-Lula Rock&roll, swing and soul 11pm £3/2 GLOBE Global Bass: DJ Ted Lauren DJ delves into the bassier side of jazz, gypsy and world music 9pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE The Outer Church: Sone Institute, Tidal, Time Attendant Live music 7.30pm £5; Hard Times Please sir, I want some more nowave disco 10.30pm £free HAUNT Omar Rodriguez Lopez Group Live Music 7.30pm £9.50 HONEY iCandy Chart music and funky house club 10.30pm £2/1/free HOPE The No Hope Blooze Sessions Live blues (downstairs) 8pm £free LATEST MUSIC BAR The Vesuvius Club: The Galleons, Arthur And The Irrational, Kate Gerrard Live music 7.30pm £5 LIFE Move New dance club 11pm £tbc LONDON UNITY Open Mic Music session hosted by the Shakesphere Trio 8pm £free MESMERIST The Swing Ninjas Gypsy swing band 9pm £free MOLLY MALONE’S Hannah Lynn Live music 9pm £free MUCKY DUCK A Little Groove Time: Jipsy Magic Informal acoustic night 8pm £free NORTHERN LIGHTS Mystery Train Rockabilly DJ 9pm £free OPEN HOUSE Safehouse Free jazz and avant garde improvisation 8pm £6/5 PRINCE ALBERT Blue Room, Bella Feud, Harbour Lodge Live music 8pm £4 PULL AND PUMP The Sumerian Kyngs, Verity Sessions, Patrick Channon, Sam Brothers, Rotait Pub band does psychedelic swamp grooves 8pm £free SLICE SUSSEX RamJam - Pixel Playtime: Digital Festival Animation showcase 8pm £free STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Mono/Poly, Manni Dee, Alphabets Heaven, Simon Lxve Brainfeeder Collective member (see also Flying Lotus and Tokimonsta) flys over from LA for a live show of contorting beats 7pm £6; I Am Arcade While you geek out playing retro video games try and act excited as if you hadn’t already exhausted the nostalgic possibilities by downloading an emulator and geeking out on your own for the last few weeks - there’s a reason you’re beating everyone else at Mario’s Troublesome Blockage, or whatever the fuck it’s called 8pm £free THEATRE ROYAL Dry Rot John Chapman’s bookie-based comedy drama 7.45pm £12-29.50
ANCIENT MARINER Quiz Night 8pm £1 BOM-BANE’S Picasso Unmasked Funny and thoughtful plays by a local theatre group 7.30pm £4/3 BRUNSWICK Harmonessence Vocal harmony choir in which anyone can sing 5.45pm £7; Open Mic 8.30pm £free CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Classic Sci-Fi Movie Night: Evil Brain From Outer Space 7.30pm £2 COALITION Trash Mondays & Jailbait The illicit union of Mr Trash and little Miss Jailbait 10.30pm £5/3 CONCORDE2 Aiden Grimshaw, Seye Live music from an X-Factor reject 7.30pm £11.50 CORN EXCHANGE Blue Camel Club Party night for people with learning disabilities featuring bands, DJs and VJs 7pm £4 GLADSTONE Open Mic Night 9pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Donky Pitch: Howse, Time Wharp, Max Buzuk, Manaca, Miles Courtney, WhiskasFX 7pm £5 HAUNT Venetian Snares Live Music 7.30pm £12.50 HONEY International Student Party New club night playing house, reggaeton and chart stuff 7pm/11pm £5/4 HOPE Amen Dunes Live music 8pm £tbc LATEST MUSIC BAR Quick Fictions: Digital Festival Short story night 6.30pm £free LIFE #Hashtag Funky house club with added Twitter confusion 10pm £3/2 LOLA LO Freshers’ Week Ramshackle Launch Night Drum&bass, dubstep, indie and hip hop 9pm £3 LONDON UNITY Texas Hold Em Poker night for serious players 8pm £tbc MADAME GEISHA Mashup Funky house and chart remixes 10.30pm £2 MESMERIST Stroll On Mondays 60s and 70s night with DJs and film projections 8.30pm £free NEPTUNE Vinyl Night 8.30pm £free PRINCE ALBERT Born To Lose Live music 8pm £3 SIGNALMAN Signalman Pub Quiz 8pm £1 THEATRE ROYAL Dry Rot John Chapman’s bookie-based comedy drama 7.45pm £12-29.50 VOLKS Strictly Reggae Dancehall, roots, revival 11pm £5/4 WEST HILL TAVERN Open Mic 8.30pm £free
TUESDAY 25TH
BRUNSWICK Jazz Jam Open session with a house band and special guests 8pm £free CUBE Cube Live: Matt Bonner Live music Time tbc £free DIGITAL CU Next Tuesday It’ll teach the universities to timetable lectures for Wednesday mornings 11pm £4/3 DUKE OF NORFOLK Open Mic 9pm £free FIDDLER’S ELBOW QUIZness Time Are you a pub quiz whizz, or bit of a half-wit? 8pm £1 FUNFAIR When Will I Be Famous? New indie and pop night for wanton wannabes 9pm £free GLADSTONE Quiz Night 8.30pm £1 GLOBE Basement Cinema Underground films, comfy seats and free popcorn 8pm £free
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BLACK LION Matt Rose & The Tin Cup Collective Live funk soul band 9pm £free BLIND TIGER Gravenhurst, Eyes And No Eyes, Dead Hills Brooding orchestral folk on Warp Records 8pm £12/10 BRUNSWICK Brunswick Showcase Live music 8pm £4/3 CAXTON ARMS Digital Whizz Pub Quiz: Digital Festival Silly science games 8pm £tbc COALITION Secret Discotheque Replaying the soundtrack to your youth 11pm £4/3/2 CONCORDE2 People Under the Stairs, Cappo, Concept Of Thought 90s hip hop duo still going strong 8pm £10 CUBE Brighton Underground Dubstep, R&B and garage 8pm £free DOME Paul Merton’s Out Of My Head: Paul Merton, Lee Simpson, Richard Vranch, Suki Webster The cheeky comic does stand-up again for the first time in ages 8pm £13 DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Vertigo 11am £tbc EXCHANGE Quiz Night 9pm £1 FIDDLER’S ELBOW Live Lounge: Brian McNamara Live music 8.30pm £free FISHBOWL Cut La Vis Jamaican riddims and urban beats 10.30pm £free FREEMASONS Soul Casserole A melting pot of red hot funk and soul 9pm £free GEORGE PAYNE Open Mic Jam session with instruments provided, in what used to be the Kendal Arms 8.30pm £free GLADSTONE Student DJs 8pm £free GLOBE Luke Brackenridge Mashed up party breaks 9pm £free; Hang The DJ! A night of punter-picked playlists 9pm £free GRAND HOTEL Jazz @ The Grand Live swing and jazz in the Victoria Bar 8pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Twisted Wheel, The Valentines, Live Like Kings Live music 7.30pm £9 HONEY Propaganda Indie club 10.30pm £tbc HOP POLES Retail Therapy Motown beats 8pm £free HOPE Communion: Kins, Wolf Alice, Forestears Live music 7.30pm £5; The Social Live acoustic music 8pm £free KOMEDIA Comic Boom: David Trent Stand-up comedy 8pm £9/7/5 LATEST MUSIC BAR Speaky Spokey: Boy In The Cupboard Literary cabaret with poetry, short stories and films - plus wry words and fine sounds from indie folk trio, Boy In The Cupboard 8pm £5/4 LIGHTHOUSE Lowdef DV: Digital Festival One-minute videos by filmmakers and artists 8pm £free LOLA LO Tom Foolery Electro, house and dubstep night 9pm £5/3 MADAME GEISHA Shmooze Old school chart mash-ups 10pm £4/3 MESMERIST John Crampton Foot-stomping one-man blues explosion 9pm £free MOLLY MALONE’S Fergal Lyden Live Irish music 9pm £tbc MUCKY DUCK Open Mic Jam session with Joe Newman 8pm £free NORTHERN LIGHTS Faulty Sound Art Night: Digital Festival Experimental sound and video performances 7pm £tbc; Northern Darkness Nothing but the finest Nordic metal 9pm £free PARIS HOUSE Carlo Butera Sicilian guitarist Details tbc PRINCE ALBERT New Lows, Full Of Hell, Witch Cult, Piranha Live music 7pm £6 PRINCE GEORGE Souled Out DJs play funk, soul and Motown 8pm £free QUADRANT Laughing Horse Comedy Festival Four days of comedy Details tbc RANELAGH Something Blue Blues and Americana 8.30pm £free ST JAMES’ TAVERN Stay Sick, Turn Blue DJs play vintage soul, jazz and blues 8.30pm £free STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Fresh Punk!: Gnarwolves, As We Sink!, Fighting Fiction, River Jumpers, Lower The Flags, Young Attenborough, SummerSlam 88, Ben West Two floors of DIY punk bands and DJs 7pm £3 THEATRE ROYAL Dry Rot John Chapman’s bookie-based comedy drama 2.30pm/7.45pm £12-29.50 THREE & TEN Kevin Precious - Not Appropriate Comedy show about school teachers 7.30pm £9/7.50 TUBE Booty Bakery: Blonde Chicks, Tom Baker, Joe G, Oli P, Ben White New club night cooking up a big basket of bass and hip hop 11pm £3/free VOLKS Roll Through Drum&bass and dubstep, bass and beatbox 11pm £2
FRIDAY 28TH
BLACK LION Molly Malone’s Dex In The City DJ night 9pm £free BLIND TIGER East Park Reggae Collective, One Roots, Jabbawocky Hifi 8pm £5 BRUNSWICK Duotone, Luke Sital Singh, Bella McKendree Live music 8pm £6 CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Eclectic Chair Eclectifying alt classics with DJ Lamp 8.30pm £free; Cazza Karaoke 9pm £free COALITION Friday I’m In Love No more lectures for a day or two 11pm £1-5 CONCORDE2 Soul & Motown Night: Richard Street The
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SATURDAY 29TH
ANCIENT MARINER Cider Festival Cider, live music, kid’s stuff and cider 2pm £free BEACHIGOGO BAR Good Times Remember them? Maybe the feel-good retro tunes will jog your memory (in the White Room) 9pm £free BLACK LION Burnt Toast Black Lion Block Party DJs play sleazy soul and dirty breaks 4pm £free BRIGHTON CENTRE Tesco Wine Fair A nutty aftertaste? A subtle hint of cherry? No, a sickening foretaste of an homogeneous capitalist dystopia Noon £12/7 BRIGHTON ELECTRIC BandCalledMac, Lost In The Riots, Zero Map Post rockers hoping to drown out the other bands in the practice studio with their full-on ambient noise
7.30pm £tbc CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Bad To The Bone Rockabilly DJ makes old women blush and young women squeal 9pm £free COALITION Shakedown Warm Up Party Bands and DJ competing to play at Shakedown festival 6pm £tbc; Union: Breakage Where the crunk steps the ground breaks 10pm £12; Blow: Vince Manganaro, Charly Lopez, Charles Green The party never stops 3am £5 CONCORDE2 Uprising: Payback, Cyantific, Tantrum Desire, Rollz, MC Fun Drum&bass night, formerly known as Devotion 11pm £11 CORN EXCHANGE Rum ‘N Bass - A Reggae & Calypso Party: Dennis Bovell, Prince Fatty, DJ Horseman The sounds of the Caribbean served up with special island cuisine 7pm £10 CUBE Delirious: Carl Mills, Dave King, Joe Wilkes DJs play upfront house Time tbc £free DIGITAL Annie Mac, Kidnap Kid, Blah Blah Blah DJs Digital celebrate their 5th birthday with another top notch bill 11pm £15/12 DOCTOR BRIGHTON’S Sexy Saturday: DJ Tony B 9.30pm £free DOME Darren Hayes Solo show from the former Savage Gardener 7pm £19.50-35; Paul Merton’s Out Of My Head: Paul Merton, Lee Simpson, Richard Vranch, Suki Webster The cheeky comic does stand-up again for the first time in ages 8pm £13 DUKE OF NORFOLK Word Up! 80s tunes 9pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA On The Sly 11am £tbc; Holy Motors 1.30pm/6.30pm £tbc; Looper 4pm/9.15pm £tbc EAGLE Creative Chaos: Unknown Brothers, Young Electrics, REQ, Sara Abbott, Grace May Ballantyne, Garry Smith Pop-up art exhibition with life drawing, music, DJs and live graffiti 4pm £free FIDDLER’S ELBOW Soul Casserole A melting pot of hot funk beats and soul grooves 9pm £free FISHBOWL DJ Daddy Marcus Dancey disco and singalong soul 9pm £free FORTUNE OF WAR FIP Radio From Paris FIP DJs cross the channel for a night of cult eclecticism 9pm £free FUNKYFISH Dreamboys Live The biggest cocks we’ve ever seen, shame about the weathered penises 6.30pm £tbc; Oldschool Saturday Soul, funk, jazz and Motown 10pm £6/5 GLADSTONE Universal Players Live reggae 8pm £free GLOBE Kinfolk Soft Rocks play house, boogie, reggae and disco 9pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE American Werewolf Academy, Wussy American alt rock, especially for fans of Yo La Tengo 7pm £8; The Big Itch Back to basics rock&roll 11pm £free HAUNT Dan Deacon Live music 7pm £10 HONEY Hat Club: The BeatThiefs, Vince Frimpong, Damien Stone House hits and hats 11pm £5-9.50 HOP POLES Ear Wax DJs force hot ear worms into your skull 9pm £free HOPE Love Thy Neighbour Indie DJs 7.30pm £5 IRON DUKE She Talks To Rainbows 60s and 70s classics with DJ Juliette 8.30pm £free JAZZ PLACE Night At The Jazz Rooms: Russ Dewbury Legendary Brighton club returns to its old home for a jazz, soul and funk party 9pm £4/3/free KOMEDIA Krater Comedy Club: Nick Page, Carl Donnelly, Damian Clark Stand-up comedy 7.30pm/8.30pm/10.30pm £5-20; Mod For It Club night playing garage and Motown, soul and ska 11pm £5/4 LIFE Juice Box Eclectic club night offering an nice alternative to the standard seafront malarky 11pm £5/3 LOLA LO Zombie Nation Where the dancefloor is never dead 8pm £10/7/6 MADAME GEISHA Tokyo Stereo 6pm £5/free MARLBOROUGH THEATRE I Love You But We Only Have Fourteen Minutes To Save The Earth: Pink Fringe Each performer has 14 minutes to save the planet - armed only with live art, film and cabaret 8pm £10/8 MESMERIST Juke Joint Jamboree Rhythm & blues and rock&roll records from the days of the dance halls 9pm £free MOLLY MALONE’S Mike Doby Live music 10pm £free MUCKY DUCK Soul Casserole A melting pot of red hot funk and soul 8pm £free PAV TAV &U&I, Wot Gorilla, Delta Sleep, Pirate Video Company Weird timings + long instrumental interludes + very loud bits = math rock 7pm £5 PRINCE ALBERT Black Market III San Diego blues rock band featuring Scottie ‘Mad Dog’ Blinn from The Mississippi Mudsharks 8pm £5/4 PROUD CABARET Cabaret! Cabaret! Vintage vaudeville entertainment including magic, music and the ever-present burlesque 10pm £10/8 QUADRANT Laughing Horse Comedy Festival Four days of comedy Details tbc RANELAGH The Peter Caesar Band Live reggae 8.30pm £free STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Brighton Rocks: Holy Vessels, Derek Meins, Maker, Powis Americana rock band 7pm £4; Bitter Disko DJ plays mutant funk, post punk and John Peel favourites (in the bar) 9pm £free; Stick It On This is a night with a difference - one in which you become the DJ! An iPod is all you need to make your musical journey. YOU decide which requests to take, which classics to play and which selfindulgent B-sides to risk 11pm £tbc THEATRE ROYAL Dry Rot John Chapman’s bookie-based comedy drama 2.30pm/7.45pm £12-29.50 TUBE Last Stop New club night playing R&B and US hip hop 11pm £5 VOLKS The Mine: Tunnidge, Occult, Sparxy, Duku, Sibla,
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SUNDAY 30TH
BLACK LION Live & Swingin’ Lion Live gypsy jazz, swing and blues 8pm £free BRIGHTON CENTRE Tesco Wine Fair A nutty aftertaste? A subtle hint of cherry? No, a sickening foretaste of an homogeneous capitalist dystopia Noon £12/7 BRUNSWICK Real Music Club Live music 8pm £tbc COALITION UK Air Guitar Championships The emperor has a brand new Telecaster 8pm £5 CONCORDE2 The Lost Cities Tour With Tinchy Stryder 7.30pm £12.50 COWLEY CLUB Horse Loom, C Joynes, The Plummets Live acoustic music 8pm £donation CUBE Much Mayhem Drum&bass and dubstep Time tbc £free DOME Dome Discovery Tour Explore the historic venue’s backstage areas 11am £8.50/7.50 DUKE OF NORFOLK Live Music Night Live music from local artists 9pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Holy Motors 6.45pm £tbc; Looper 9.15pm £tbc EXCHANGE Cinema Club 9pm £free FIDDLER’S ELBOW Sham-Rock Open Mic 8.30pm £free FISHBOWL Recovery? Reggae through the ages 9pm £free FOOD FOR FRIENDS Ruth And Danny Soul, jazz and indie covers 6.30pm £tbc GLOBE Handbaked Arcade Things were so much better in the 1990s when all we had was 64-bit games of Italian plumbers inexplicably racing against turtles and gorillas Noon £free GREEN DOOR STORE Impaled Existence, Hole In The Sky, Wyrdforge, Bloodwork, Headface Full metal racket 6pm £2; Green Door Blues Big Itch DJs plus the resident blues band, Smokestack 10.30pm £free HONEY Sundown If your house was this sexy you’d never go outdoors 11pm £free KOMEDIA The Humble Quest For A Universal Genius Absurd gameshow in which comedians are required to excel in every field of human knowledge 7pm £9/7; Krater Comedy Club: Nick Page, Carl Donnelly, Damian Clark Stand-up comedy 8pm £5-11.50 LIFE Dagger Terrace Sessions Daytime DJs play dancehall, reggae and ska Time tbc £free MADAME GEISHA Salsa Brighton Salsa classes and salsa dancing 8.30pm £5 NEPTUNE Sam Chara & Tom Phelan Live music 8.30pm £free NORTHERN LIGHTS Northern Light Sundays The DJ has a lazy Sunday afternoon 4pm £free PAVILION THEATRE Future Delivery Films and improvisations on the theme of pregnancy tests 7.30pm £8/6 PRINCE GEORGE Pub Quiz 8pm £1 QUADRANT Laughing Horse Comedy Festival Four days of comedy Details tbc RANELAGH Blind Lemons Blues rock 8.30pm £free THEATRE ROYAL Al Murray - The Only Way Is Epic The dome-headed pub landlord returns for some more supposedly ironic blokey banter 3.30pm/7.30pm £26.50 WEST HILL TAVERN Traditional Live Irish Music 7pm £free
EXHIBITIONS
BOOTH MUSEUM Swimming With Plankton In 3D: Digital Festival A microscopic underwater adventure Sept 7th - 30th BRIGHTON MEDIA CENTRE Shock Of The Old Mini exhibition of paintings eschewing the gimmicky of conceptual art for a traditional figurative approach Sept 7th - 16th BRIGHTON MUSEUM & ART GALLERY Biba And Beyond: Barbara Hulanicki Fashion and photography exhibition Sept 23th - April 14th; Fashion And The Flag The new wave of patriotism continues apace with this collection of clothes incorporating or influenced by the Union Jack Until Nov 25th; The Hole In Mount Hakone Prints and drawings inspired by the 19th century Japanese artist, Hiroshige Until Oct 21st; New Cabinets For New Curiosities: Digital Festival Coders and digital artists let loose in the museum Sept 7th - Oct 21st COMMUNITY ARTS CENTRE Press Start!: Digital Festival Video games and video art by three uni graduates Sept 14th - 19th GALLERY 40 Georgina Morley - Little Women Until Sept 2nd; Aimie Herbert - Ambience A collection of abstract paintings by the local artist Sept 11th - 16th HOVE MUSEUM & ART GALLERY My Favourite Toy Exhibition celebrating vintage toys Until Nov 6th INK_D Carne Griffiths A new collection of the artist’s flowing and floral inky portraits Sept 6th - Oct 6th LIGHTHOUSE & PHOENIX GALLERY Odysseys Multimedia exhibition of art inspired by manga comics and video games Sept 1st - 23rd UNDERCLIFF WALK The Undercliff: Digital Festival A guided tour with a photography exhibition and audiovisual projections Sept 6th - 8th
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SIX OF THE BEST
ELECTRONIC PIONEERS
Words By Joel Dawes, Stuart Huggett, James Kendall
Fuck EDM. As anyone who was “largin’ it” in the 90s knows it’s simply called dance music. But electronic music goes back even further than that. David Guetta might not have much in common with Stockhausen, but without the likes of The Human League, Juan Atkins, Goldie and Depeche Mode he’d be strumming a guitar. So to tie in with this month’s Digital Festival here’s our pick of the artists who paved the way to Skrillex.
Kraftwerk
‘Autobahn’
This 1974 hymn to the German motorway system is still an incredible electronic achievement. Taking up the first side of Kraftwerk’s fourth album, ‘Autobahn’ opens with the sound of a car starting and a vocoder-treated voice intoning the title, before taking the listener out on a picturesque sonic drive. Beyond the timeless melody and simple lyrics (Kraftwerk’s first), it’s the tiny details that enthral: the Doppler effect synth passes, the tape-twisting spin through the radio dial. Intelligent, influential, beautiful. (SH)
Giorgio
‘From Here To Eternity’
The groundbreaking electronic pulse of Donna Summer’s ‘I Feel Love’ was an international smash, and stands alone from the rest of Giorgio Moroder’s classic disco productions for the diva. Giorgio was already an established, sometimes cheesy pop star in his own right on the continent, with ‘From Here To Eternity’ hitting the UK top 20 in autumn 1977, a couple of months after Summer’s no.1. Unjustly forgotten, ‘From Here To Eternity’ is a pocket symphony of analogue wonder – all of techno lies within. (SH)
New Order
‘Video 586’
Recorded to accompany the opening of The Hacienda club in 1982, this relentless, churning instrumental found New Order indulging in their love of electronic hardware for over 20 hypnotic minutes. Their heads-down investigation into the outer limits of sequencing, although undeniably self-indulgent, was soon whittled down into song form as ‘586’, the track that begat the giant dance-rock crossover of ‘Blue Monday’. Long available only in piecemeal, cassette form, it was 15 years before ‘Video 586’ was finally released in full. (SH)
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Jamie Principle
‘Your Love’
You probably know this song as The Source Featuring Candi Staton’s ‘You Got The Love’ (which slotted an old disco vocal on top), or even under Frankie Knuckles’ name, which frequently happened with Principle’s records. But apart from Knuckles tightening up the drums, Jamie invented house music as we know it on this home recording. Jesse Saunders’ sketchy, gimmicky ‘On & On’ might get the chronological props, but ‘Your Love’ is the first fully formed house record that you could still play out. Deep, sensual dance music you could get lost in. (JK)
Orbital
‘Impact’
They might not have gone to school with the Belleville Three (what on earth were they teaching in the classes that Juan Atkins, Derrick May and Kevin ‘Inner City’ Saunderson attended?) but the Hartnolls took techno to the stadiums. They were the first rave band to be able to perform live and keep people interested. How bad “club PAs” (as in personal appearances) were cannot be measured, so for Orbital to take on Glastonbury in 1994 and be crowned the band of the festival legitimised dance music. ‘Impact’’s big melodic riffs and distorted crescendo brought on a new era, and even rock and indie fans got on one. (JK)
Aphex Twin
‘Windowlicker’
The glitchy drums and almost unlistenably distorted last minute of Aphex Twin’s ‘Windowlicker’ should have consigned it to the record collections of just a few muso geeks. Instead its weird yet incredibly catchy hooks found a place in the hearts and heads of listeners everywhere. A UK top 20 hit, ‘Windowlicker’ helped bring experimental music in the mainstream. Cited as a major influence by the equally loved and hated Skrillex, Aphex Twin may be more important in his rise to Grammywinning fame than he might realise. (JD)
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