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Volume 2: Issue 18 | December 2009 / January 2010

We’ve done it – we’ve all made it through another year and, supposedly, a proper miserable one at that. But we have to say we’ve had a great time, and suspect that you have too. Looking back over the last year of SOURCE magazines, there’s been loads of positive stuff happening in Brighton. Bat For Lashes, in her only local interview anywhere, told us about playing to 50,000 supporting Radiohead, while Fink talked us through what it was like writing US No.1 songs for Jon Legend. Tru Thoughts celebrated their tenth birthday with us, while at the opposite end The Half Sisters caused a huge stir when we introduced them on our cover. And when a New York manager saw Telegraphs on our cover, he jumped straight on a plane to talk serious business. Finally releasing a single after killing it live for years, Transformer filled us in on appearing on Channel 4 comedy The Inbetweeners. SOURCE’s mates The Maccabees came back with an album we never even expected, while their friends the Lyrebirds joined them on the bill at their headline Brixton Academy gig. Heels Catch Fire, prior to a great set at a brilliant SOURCEfest, missed SXSW but got invited again next year. So, a damn good year. And that was just our cover stars. We hope you had as much fun.

Editor The James Kendall Designer Matt Barker @ Artwerk DEPUTY Editor Nick Coquet Sales Manager Lucy Kamper Reality Manager Rosie Kendall Web editor Anya Sanders Cover By Darkdaze for Garage Studios Contributors Matt Barker, Milo Belgrove, Ian Chambers, Zac Colbert, Nick Coquet, Francesca Corvino, Ben Gilbert, Stuart Hugget, Laura Kelly, James Kendall, Amy Lavelle, Tim Lincoln, Ben Miller, The Recommender, Adam Strandt

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Contents

News Pleased To Meet You Letters Gig Previews Interview: Ophelia Fancy Club Previews Interview: Riscotheque Club Review: Thursday Club Club Review: New Slang Culture Art: Alex Bamford – Moonlighting Critic New Year's Eve Club Previews Street Style Street Style Extra SOURCE's Best Of 2009 Christmas Gift Guide Streets Of Brighton: Marine Parade Unsung Hero: Buz Secret Eater: The Manor Interview: Mean Poppa Lean Listings Six Of The Best: Christmas Movies

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Bye Bye You Noughtie things

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NEWS nikky french (lucky new car not pictured)

Market opens its Hungry Like The Wolf exhibition on Saturday 12th at the Brighton Media Centre. If you’re in the mood for some art this Christmas, either as a gifting opportunity or just some selfish indulgence, this is a good place to buy from the artists themselves at knockdown, pre-gallery prices. And making a festive nuisance of yourself with the mulled wine they thoughtfully make available, of course. WINTER WONDERLAND The Brighton Centre might ordinarily inspire something less than actual festive cheer or indeed joy in any shape or form, but Sunday 20th will change all that. The ice rink is opening on the same day as Brighton Christmas Market – which promises a Santa grotto, a pampering zone for lady shoppers (presumably while the downtrodden men of Brighton put up shelves or something), carol singing and a general festive overload as a backdrop to you parting with your hard-earned. There’s a great array of stalls booked in, so it should actually be quite good for Churchill Square-avoidance shopping.

FRENCH GETS A LIFT A couple of months ago we said lovely things about a single we got sent in from Argument About Yellow. Now we’ve had our opinion entirely vindicated by the good people at Hyundai cars, no less. They ran a competition to score some footage of their cars whizzing about, with the prize being a brand new Hyundai car worth around 15 grand for the winner to whizz about in. In an in-it-to-win-it fit of creativity, Nikky French from the band did just that, and wouldn’t you know, he’s now the lucky winner at the wheel. Well done Nikky, let’s hope your arguments about yellow don’t run to traffic lights.

WORDS BY NICK COQUET

DON’T FANNY ABOUT If you have an eye for a sure-fire, vagina-based modern art investment then this could be right up your street. Brighton artist Jamie McCartney is part way through an already infamous piece, The Great Wall Of Vagina, which is a wall sculpture featuring 280 plaster casts of ladies’ front bottoms preserved for all eternity in all their unashamed labial glory. Shares in the piece are being sold in advance of its completion for £250 each, with the dividend based on the eventual sale price – you can imagine this would be way more than the £7,000 the share issue will raise. It sounds like a winner to us, go to jamiemccartney.com for more info and a sneaky peak. ROUND THE HOUSES How we loved the Artists Open Houses this summer, traipsing dog dirt through people’s homes and snooping through their stuff. Oh, and we contemplated a load of top art as well. So we’re pleased to see there’s another three weekends of it before Christmas; one you’ve just missed, 5-6th and 12-13th. It’s a good opportunity to get your hands on some unique Christmas gifts – ceramics, jewellery, lighting, stuff like that – while supporting upcoming talent and simultaneously thumbing your nose at corporate capitalism. Go to aoh.org.uk for venues. ARTISTIC INDULGENCE Very little says exciting, original, fresh and unique to us less than Duran Duran, so it’s with a presumed post-modern irony that the Guerrilla Art

EAT (EC)STATIC Ecstatic Beings is the new book co-authored by SOURCE contributor Kate Magic and Shazzie, the two leading lights in the UK raw food world. Subtitled, ‘144,000 ways to Eternal Ecstatic Bliss,’ this is about what happens when you take it to the next level, when all that yoga and detoxing and reiki starts to kick in. Full colour throughout, like a Jackie Annual on acid, as well as articles there's quizzes, puzzles, photostories, and even cut-out and keep dolls. Available from the Guarana Bar in Brighton, or get it online at rawliving.eu or Amazon. RETURN OF THE MACC We always like it when a local band gets props nationwide, so it’s with a smug glow that we report The Maccabees are headlining the 2010 NME Awards Tour, which comes to the Dome on February 15th. It’s been a good year for the band, with the Wall Of Arms album going down great everywhere. Here’s to even bigger and better things next year. ESCAPE TO SPRINGTIME If the winter is getting you down, why not suck a thoughtful tooth and picture where you’re going to be next May, when Spring is sprung and Summer’s on the horizon. Why, The Great Escape of course! Brighton’s fifth festival of up-front music is now open for band registration and early-bird tickets for just 35 quid – escapegreat.com is the place you need to be at to secure your involvement.

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Pleased To Meet you

Brett le bratt

words by matt barker, NICK COQUET, LYDIA STOCKBRIDGE

BOW TIE’S NOT A NO-NO TIE Brett le Bratt is our favourite new designer at Rag & Bone – one of the most innovative boutique gallery spaces in Brighton. He's striving to make the bow tie an accessible and contemporary fashion item again, with a younger, nonantique shop owner image. A series of foppish and dandy styles together with more art-based designs with layered silk flowers and leather-look rubber can be ordered alongside Brett’s bespoke shirt designs for a completely one-off look. OOPS! OH MY Those in the North-Laine-know will possibly already be aware of Oops!, a small independent fashion label and studio. Traditional tweeds and jerseys with bright African prints, hand-dyed silks and vintage fabrics, there’s a definite emphasis on multifunctionalism in the garments. Emily Bosence, the label’s head honcho, is looking for collaborators, so up and coming talents from the worlds of photographers, designers, illustrators, rappers or even choirs should email emilybosence@googlemail.com. ROBOTS TAKE SAN FRAN Like a benevolent dance music puppet-master, Pop Musik's Eddie Goatboy is serving up not one but two excellent nights, both kicking off this month. First is the robo-clad synth fest that is Robot Rock, every Wednesday at Coalition, which spans the gap between the first wave of 80s synth pop and the current crop of remix royalty and keyboard kings. Next up is San Frandisco, another crossgenerational dance party, marrying today’s nu disco cool with the golden era of flashing-dancefloor chic – this time at the Funky Buddha every Tuesday. NONE MORE BLACK Mammoths, according to history and that, were large, hairy types who didn’t keep apace with emerging civilisation and died out. So it’s with a presumed keen sense of humour that Mammothfest is the name of Brighton’s new metal festival, with a launch party at Hector’s House on Saturday 5th. L'esprit du clan, Godsized, Blind Eye Fury, HTBM, Lithurgy, Swallowing Shotguns and loads more of the best local metal bands from 2009 will be gracing the stage from 1pm, and it’s only four quid to get in.

ZYGOTIC FUNKY We all know the Hare and Hounds pub has had its ups and downs in the past musically. However, under new management and promoters the Zygote Collective, the wheels of change have been set in motion. Upstairs is being transformed from its current musty state into a shiny new venue with a new PA to boot. Zygote Collective have an ear for the left-field, with Drum Eyes, Ümlaut and Hind Ear set to play in the coming months. BEAUTIFUL MINDS Although it's an illness like any other, there’s still too much of a tendency to stigmatise young people with mental health issues, so it’s a good thing that Hove YMCA and Mind in Brighton & Hove have come together to create experienceinmind.co.uk, a new website dedicated to all areas of mental health issues. From reaching out to those in need of help to educating volunteers, this is a good thing. ALL TIME EXTRA TIME It’s bye bye Globe and hello Thomas Kemp (on St George's Road in Kemptown) for the All Time Top 100. The music policy stays the same, with guest DJs like Kirk Brandon and Pete Wiggs spinning their favourites this year. The Kemp is hosting the ATT100 Christmas Party on Friday 18th with a line-up of local DJs, and the Fortune of War has the honour of their New Year’s Eve party. Catch the ATT100 radio show on radioreverb.com 97.2FM every other Thursday from 9-10pm. OLD SCHOOL SPOOL Back Row Brighton is a memoir to moviegoing from yesteryear, when practically every street had its own cinema and bingo was a far-off prospect of greedy granny grappling. Accompanying the book is a Lost Cinemas Of Brighton & Hove 2010 calendar, with then-and-now pictures of lost establishments. Borders and Waterstones are obvious first-try purchase points. AKA IS SPECIAL Life is putting Mondays on the dubstep map with new night Aka Aka Roar pushing the progressive buttons, with fans of the past, present and future developments the genre has to offer. Funkstep, future garage, melodic dub – whatever you want to call it the Aka people love it and want you on board. Kicking proceedings off on January 11th is Skull Disco co-founder Appleblim.

letters THE TIMES THEY ARE A-COPYING I really liked your Rock Moustaches article. Did you see that the Times ripped it off about four days later though? They did 25 but it wasn’t as funny as yours. Someone told me that Nick Cave has shaved his off now though. It’s a shame, he looked pretty cool with it. Kate, via email As it happens we have a hotline in to Nick Cave via someone who works at his record company. Apparently the moustache went down the plughole in mid-October, because "Nick just fancied a change, I think”. You heard it here first. MO WOMAN MO CRY I thought I’d better get involved in this Movember thing that you wrote about. I never really thought about prostate cancer before, so I suppose that’s a good thing, but the main reason was that I wanted to grow a moustache and my girlfriend always stops me. Now it’s for charity she can’t say anything. Ha! I don’t really like the term ‘mo’ though. The shortened version of moustache is ‘tache. Rick, via www.brightonsource.co.uk Same, same on the girlfriend front. Although the single men in the SOURCE office are bemoaning the complete lack of casual sex that they seem to have signed up to, it’s been fun to be a part of the ridiculousness. We’ll be back on it next year. WEBSHITE What’s going on with your website? I tried to look at the listing and there was nothing there, just a blank white page with some strange writing. Pretty minimal but not that helpful. I think it’s been hacked or you broke it or something. Jenny, via email Yeah, some fucking hacker cunts broke it on purpose for no good reason that we can see. It’s like internet tagging – apparently they destroyed 17,000 sites. Thanks hackertwats, just what we need. It should be all back to normal now, with the full listings, all the SOURCE back catalogue, previews, fashion, food – the lot. READER HATES BANKING WAITS I don't know if this is the right forum, but why oh why do Barclays shut all but one of their tills at 4.40pm when they don't actually close until 5pm? All the staff were stood round giggling and chatting while the public queued like mugs round the block waiting for one single till. It makes me so mad. So what is SOURCE going to do about it? Rosemary, via www.brightonsource.co.uk Well, we've written to our MP, we've staged a sit-in, we've printed and distributed defamatory pamphlets highlighting their South African apartheid naughtiness in the 80s and we put some dog poo through their letterbox. Will that do? Seriously though, why did you send this to us?

HERO WORSHIP Your Unsung Heroes column is a good idea, I’ve been enjoying it. Respect for choosing Rounder, I think record shops are really important. What they said made a lot of sense. Matt, via email Cheers, the Unsung Heroes piece makes us feel all warm inside when we write it. These people deserve their time in the spotlight as much as any musician.

letter of the month TIP TOP TOP LIPS

Good to see you supporting Movember in this month's issue. My mo' is coming on great guns. If there's this much to it at the halfway mark, then by the end of the month at should be a masterpiece! There's definitely strength in numbers. After initial fear about how the 'tache would go down in my staid workplace environment, I was pleased to see an email from a colleague asking for sponsorship. It turns out that there's a whole nine people on the floor taking part in Movember, and there's a range of styles from goatees through to big porn 'taches. Our daily moustache catch-up is a great distraction from what we're meant to be there for. I was a bit disappointed not to see Sgt Pepper era Beatles in your Six Of The Best Rock Moustaches inside the back cover – Surely Lennon, McCartney, Starr and Harrison beat the Kings of Leon, both follically and musically? Rob, via email We wrestled on the office carpet til we were red in the face about which rock 'taches should go in, and the remainder went onto the SOURCE website version of the feature. The Beatles are indeed there, as is Frank Zappa. Meanwhile yours is coming on a treat – we've printed the photo you attached for all the lucky lady SOURCE readers... Letter Of The Month wins a case of Pear Cider from our good friends at Magners.

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GIG Previews

M ADNESS Brighton Centre Weds 2nd Dec This year’s warmly received concept album The Liberty Of Norton Folgate finally gave Madness back some of the credibility they’d frittered away since their 90s reformation (the continuous nostalgia tours, Suggs’ questionable TV career). An intelligent, literate survey of London’s hidden histories, it unexpectedly aligned Madness with cultural chroniclers as diverse as Ackroyd,

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CLOWNS Prince Albert Weds 2nd Dec Featuring members of Brakes, The Poppycocks and Restlesslist, Clowns are without a doubt one of Brighton’s finest live bands, turning wherever they play into a sweaty, heaving mass. Oh and they rock like one mean bastard. For the uninitiated among you, expect peculiar and twisted tales set to dirty garage rock riffs, combining the rockabilly swagger of the Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster with the pop sensibilities of early Squeeze. Disturbing yet darkly playful, if you haven’t had the live experience before then where the hell have you been? Prepare to be well and truly clowned. (IC)

FRANKMUSIK Concorde 2 Weds 2nd Dec This South London 24-year old used to be a beatboxer known as Mr Mouth, but has since gone on to carve out a cleverly worked electro pop career. A social networking master, particularly MySpace, which he cleverly utilised to play a tour throughout the UK staying in nothing but his online friends’ (fans) houses on his travels. 2009 has been good to him, following the popularity-boosting backing that comes with the BBC Sound Of 2009 poll, to Davina McCall, to the student Gay Pride association. (TR)

Wobble and Sinclair. It’ll probably be 80s hits all the way for this Christmas knees-up, but a deserved celebration nonetheless. (SH)

P ART CHIMP Engine Room Sat 5th Dec South London’s greatest noise-punkers seem shy about revealing the full details of their composition, beyond chimp. Should we presume they are part human? No. The reason their make-up has not yet been fully disclosed is because much of it is flesh-eating zombie. How else to explain new album Thriller, other than it being the sound of a band coming out of the closet dripping with shame and blood? You think they’re paying their last respects to Michael Jackson? Don’t be ridiculous. (BG)

MúMConcorde 2 Mon 7th Dec

Experimental Icelandic troubadours Múm (‘moom’) are at the forefront of cinematic soundscape, heavy with soaring harmonies and a warm, rich electronic thread. However, numerous line-up changes, most notably their former lead singer, have seen the band inevitably changing their style in a well-received musical departure, capturing their life-affirming performances in their live show. Electronic washes, haunting melodies and whimsical cries go towards creating something of a religious experience. (AS)

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gig previews of the year contender, here comes Little Dragon. Fellow residents of Gothenburg, the four-piece are a bit less wired and weird, a bit more Gang Gang Dance if they were fronted by a Japanese Lykke Li. They may be Little but tonight you can expect to see the Dragon roar. (BG)

LIGHTNING BOLTAudio Fri 11th Dec

Back in the UK once again at the behest of ATP (this date falls between two successive weekend appearances at the festival), Lightning Bolt shoot along to Brighton to melt more minds at Audio. The duo’s preference for setting up on venue floors rather than on stage can make it impossible to see anything more than flailing fan bodies from a few feet back, but their trademark ultra overdriven noise attack is devastating wherever you stand. (SH)

ST ATUS QUO Brighton Centre Fri 11th Dec With Chas & Dave (RIP) no longer, who next to stagger on pointlessly hoping for a knighthood? Step forward Status Quo, who rocked Glastonbury to within ten miles of its life this summer and are still the real deal, apparently. “What always comes to mind is Oasis”, said Francis Rossi recently. “Bored shitless they look. I'm not saying they're a bad band, but that to me isn't rock'n'roll.” Exactly. Liam Gallagher should go bald immediately, save for a nasty rat’s tail. (BG)

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S T E P H E N MALKMUS Komedia Tues 8th Dec With the Pavement reunion dates fast approaching, the calls for Famethrowa and Date With Ikea promise to be deafening tonight. So did the scrum for a comeback get too loud for the band’s forever contrary frontman? While we wait for him to bring on the major leagues he’s brought out the Jicks for a more intimate affair than Brixton Academy. The Jicks stuff may not be his strongest, but the man is an indie rock superhero – he can do as he pleases and we’ll lap it up. (JK/BG)

BOB MOULD Concorde 2 Weds 9th Dec If you don’t know this artist then you may well know the rippled influence of his work on many others, ranging from REM to Pixies and Nirvana. Emerging out of the 70s punk scene, he first formed Hüsker Dü, who remained something of a cult band. Later on he returned with a new group, Sugar, and released one of the forgotten classics of 1992, the album Copper Blue. Investigate his back catalogue and you’re likely to find all the missing links of your rock collection. (TR)

LITTLE DRAGON Jam Weds 9th Dec 12

Just how do the Swedes do it? It must be something they put in the pop, because with many of us still being peeled from the ceiling in the warm afterglow of Fever Ray’s eponymous album

ALTERNATIVE TVEngine Room Sat 12th Dec

Mark Perry’s first wave punk group were seminal in the true sense of the word, sowing seeds in the undergrowth of British culture that continued to blossom in the intervening decades. ATV’s classic early singles served as templates for many 80s garage bands, while the links Perry made between post-punk experimentalism and the free festival scene spread ATV’s influence wider still. A line can be drawn from Perry’s groundbreaking Sniffin’ Glue ‘zine to the SOURCE in your hand, too. (SH)

LIL YALLEN Brighton Centre Sun 13th Dec We’ve all dreamt about pop stars. We used to spend as much time hanging out with Bono as we did our parents as a kid. Thankfully, brain surgery means that doesn’t happen anymore. More recently, Lily Allen has become a companion in the land of nod. Much vilified for her supposed nepotistic rise to fame and lack of talent, we’d happily dismiss both accusations, particularly if it gave us another shot at an illicit fumble tonight. Yes, the girlfriend knows. (BG)

THE HORRORS Concorde 2 Sun 13th Dec Say what you like about these five posh boys with their trademark winklepickers, black goth clothing and bowl haircuts, but there’s no denying their 2009 sophomore album, Primary Colours, turned out to be one of the surprise stars of the year. Critical acclaim was followed by a Mercury Music prize nomination and a corner was definitely turned in the wider national opinion. We fully expect to see the usual committed lookalike fans joined this time around by a batch of well-earned new followers. (TR)

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gig previews

P ARAMORE Brighton Centre Thurs 17th Dec Featuring heavily on the movie soundtrack to the teenage literary sensation of our time (Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight series, of course), this gig by well scrubbed US college rock kids Paramore is inevitably long sold out. The combination of Meyer’s celibate vampire tales and Paramore’s moral metal (the band are proud Christians) makes up the highly acceptable face of pseudo-alternative American culture these days. Parents, you have nothing to fear. Rock fans, run to the hills. (SH)

THE PADDINGTONS Freebutt Thurs 17th Dec The best things in life are free and, whilst society remains in the grips of the credit crunch, such clichés should be embraced. This is made so much easier by The Paddingtons’ decision to release single Shame About Elle, from second album No Mundane Options, for free and then celebrating with a fully-fledged tour. While Germany banked their November dates, December sees the band back on their native soil. You will of course have to pay for your ticket… (AL)

BAD MANNERS Concorde 2 Sun 20th Dec

They’re back...again! Well Buster Bloodvessel, (only original member) is certainly still around. Forming in the mid 70s amongst the 2-Tone explosion, Bad Manners somehow crept between the gaps, albeit with some super big hits. Although seen as somewhat of a novelty act in their heyday that doesn’t take away from the impressive back catalogue. And so pushing their latest greatest hits collection Walking In The Sun we're sure the bald, big-bodied Buster will no doubt revel in another chance for live obscenity. (AS)

MORE GIG PREVIEWs

An d se co nd at BRIGHTONSOURCE op in io ns .CO.UK/bands KING JAMES “Making their debut Brig hton appearance, Kin g James is the new coll aborative project betwee n the Diamond Family Arc hive and Thirty Pounds of Bone…” PART CHIMP “Heavy sludge rock bas tards Part Chimp hav e been ploughing a furrow of fuzzy amp sludge for the best part of the dec ade. …” LIGHTNING BOLT “Imagine being a roadie in Lightning Bolt, Rhode Island’s, if not the wo rld’s, greatest dement ed guerrilla noise duo…” THE BOOKHOUSE BO YS “Like a blood-soaked Tarantino soundtrack, the ethereal hypodermic nee dle that resuscitates her e comes way of nine me mbers, two drum kits and an orchestral brass sec tion…”

31st December 2009 til beyond...

JAM Middle Street Brighton

A fun filled night of innocent pleasures and guilty secrets to welcome in the mysterious new decade that doesn’t even have a name yet! We have a line up of djs who are used to rockin’ parties around town playing a selection of their guiltiest of guilty pleasures for YOUR NYE pleasure. Playing music from the 60’s to the present day, no genre or decade will be left unturned as we plough our way through classic after classic. We will turn the basement into an enchanted forest whilst upstairs will be a Mad Hatters Tea Party with party snacks if you get peckish...

DJs from POP MUSIK // SHAMELESS // DYNAMITE BOOGALOO // WE LUV POP! // SNAP CRACKLE & BRITPOP Plus pub prices and cheap bottles of Bubbly! 10pm til 4am £12 in advance from Rounder, Resident and wegottickets.com

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ophelia fa BRIGHTON’S fashion frontline shoot to kill

Out of all of the cover stars we’ve had since DarkDaze’s imagination started to go wild, we’ve never arrived at the shoot to find any of them helping to build the set. But a few hours before Ophelia Fancy’s Emma and Stevie were in front of the lens they were very much hands on in making the image. Hugely talented girls, they also made the props, the costumes and styled the shoot. In a way it’s an extension of their work with long time

collaborator DarkDaze on the brilliant fashion magazine Gang Up, of which they’re co-founders, when they’re not making bespoke costumes and hosting parties in the wildest fancy dress outfits you’ve seen. Oh, we almost forgot – they run one of the most highly regarded lingerie companies in the country too. Let’s get this out of the way from the off – Ophelia Fancy’s knickers aren’t cheap, sometimes costing more that a hundred quid. But they are wonderful. The new collection is called Clowning Around, and the imaginary muse that gives the company its name has joined the circus. The result is midnight blue gingham and dusty pink silk loveliness with frills, ruffles and bows to die for. It’s beautiful rather than slutty. “Emma and I do not make sexy underwear at all,” stresses Stevie, dressed in white. “We make underwear directed at girls rather than boys,”

words by JAMES KENDALL

Photo by darkdaze for garage studios

“We make underwear directed at girls rather than boys,”

nipple covers. Stevie was working at She Said, Brighton’s amazing ‘erotic boutique’ at the time and had seen what was selling. She’d clearly picked something up because they sold out of their wares on the stall that first day. “We never sat down and thought, ‘We should be a lingerie company,’” says Stevie, “it was like, ‘What have we got here? This will do.’” They’d been working on the market for maybe four or five months when they entered Alternative Fashion Week. They beat about 80 other designers and won enough money for the deposit on a studio in New England House. “That’s where it went proper,” says Emma. “We stopped going to Portobello Market and started stocking in shops like Coco De Mer and Bordello.”

The pair met whilst studying fashion at the University of Brighton but refused to follow their classmates to the jobs in London (“We’re Essex girls so Brighton’s quite good for us, it’s a big city as far as we’re concerned,” smiles Emma). Instead, after a bottle of vodka between them at a party, they were the only two from a bunch that promised to do a stall on Portobello Market to actually follow it up. They didn’t have a lot of material but they had scraps left from their university collection, enough to make knickers and bras and

Ophelia Fancy is a label full of ideas, there’s always a story, a theme, like the underwear is just a part of a bigger picture. So where do the ideas come from? “It’s weird,” says Emma. “We panic that we haven’t sorted out the next collection and we sit down and even if we haven’t spent very much time together the same ideas come through. We generally design it all in a day.” The pair are great friends and as well as working together, spend a lot of time with each other. They see the same films, read the same books, make the same friends. “We don’t even have to talk about it but we’re absorbing the same influences,” says Stevie. “So we sit down thinking we haven’t got any ideas and then it all comes quite easily. We don’t know how it happens.” There’s such a strong ethos behind the label that you’d imagine it took months or years to form a picture of what Ophelia Fancy was all about. Not so, it seems. “It probably only took a day,” claims Stevie. “I know that’s really bizarre.” It spreads out to the hours of darkness too – the pair can often be found livening up a club night or event with their amazing costumes. There might be a lot of zombies around at the moment, but none to touch these girls. And their dusty clowns are untouchable. “If me and Stevie could sing or dance we’d be performers but unfortunately we can’t,” smiles Emma, “so we do the fancy dress and go on a rampage.” “We get away with so much more dressed like this,” admits Stevie pointing to her soldier outfit. “But day to day we are tomboys. We dress like 15 year old boys.” “I asked someone the other day, ‘What would you say my style is?’ They said, ‘It’s a bit like shit grunge, isn’t it.’ Erm, cheers.” The girls stress that the idea that people have of them as the perfect embodiment of 1942 glamour isn’t true. They love fashion of all eras, as shown by their extraordinary fashion-forward styling on Gang Up magazine, the second edition of which is due in January. “We might go past a shop and see amazing shoes that are neon,” Emma says, “but we can’t use those in an Ophelia Fancy shoot. That’s fine, but it’s not what we’re all about. Gang Up is a further expression that Emma and I are fashion designers.” Beyond more Gang Up and working on their next collection, Emma and Stevie want to do more bespoke costuming for performers, and if their outfits for the SOURCE cover are anything to go by they’ll have another huge success on their hands. “Emma and I are trained in tailoring and business and people look at us sometimes like, ‘Funny girls dressed up funny, they haven’t got a brain,’” reckons Stevie. Really? You’d be crazy to underestimate these two. Get tangled up with them and they’re going to come out on top.

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adds Emma, in red. “It’s to make girls feel g r e a t , ” continues Stevie. “It covers up a little bit too much, probably. It’s not about sexy, red lace, it’s about frilly stuff that covers up a little bit but gives girls massive amounts of confidence.” “Boys would probably put the girls in less but actually the girls in more feel sexier,” reckons Emma. “In this day and age where the standard size for a woman is 12-14 we want to wear more.”

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club previews

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LAIDBACK LUKE &A-TRAKHoney Club Fri 4th

It’s madness to see A-Trak – great electro producer, Kanye’s tour DJ and DMC champion – second on the bill ever. For us he’d be above Laidback Luke, but then Luke is basically an honorary member of the Swedish House Mafia, only Dutch. Quite a night then. (JK)

WORDS BY NICK COQUET, JAMES KENDALL, THE RECOMMENDER

WILD FRUIT RED PARTYOceana Sun 6th Dec

The annual Red Party fundraising event challenging HIV/AIDS and homophobia comes to Oceana. Joining the hedonistic party crowd this evening is Beverley Knight, who appears as part of the main stage show at 11pm, alongside a plethora of famous faces like Boy George, Patsy Palmer, Rowetta and The Freemasons. Spread across seven themed party rooms packed with red-fancy-dressed punters, this should be a busy, bonkers night. Those with the energy can stop off at the Rebel Afterhours at the Honeyclub from 3am. (NC)

P AUL OAKENFOLD Oceana Thurs 8th Yeah, you read right – fucking Paul Oakenfold. An absolute legend who now lives in LA and hardly ever DJs in the UK, and certainly not at Oceana, you’d think. This might be the only chance to see the acid house pioneer DJ here. Last time we saw him he was still on that fluoro goa trance thing but he was still ace. We can’t forgive him for the bloody Big Brother theme tune though. (JK)

DUB TO DUBSTEP Digital Thurs 10th It’s good to have an idea where you’ve come from so you know where you’re going. Not many club nights come with an essay and Arts Council funding but this examination of the roots of dubstep is a little bit special. Dub is a fascinating area but better than a lecture

is the fact that this lesson comes from some of the biggest names in the two scenes – Channel One, Jazzsteppa and Kromestar – behind the decks. One of the most interesting nights of the month for sure. If you want to read that essay, let us know and we’ll stick it on our website. (JK)

2 MANY DJS Concorde 2 Thurs 10th Dec The two Dewaele brothers are due to arrive as an early Christmas present from the Horse Power team. This is a venue that could be filled twice over by these Belgium kings of the knob twiddle, almost seeming like a warm up gig for the two larger shows that follow at Brixton Academy. Away from their band Soulwax, these leaders of the bastard pop genre will turn their mashers to just about anything; from Dolly Parton to Peaches, so expect the unexpected at its best. (TR)

WELUVPOP:WE LUVED 2009 Hanbury Sat 12th Dynamite Sal’s essential round up of the year is back. You really don’t want to miss it as she’s got infallible taste. Erm, that’s all we’ve got on this one.

DEKKER JOHAN udio Sat 19th

A Basically we don’t know anything about Dekker & Johan, except two things. Dekker has been DJing regularly at Fabric ever since it opened. That’s one. The other is that the pair’s mix of The Hours was a techmasterpiece – moody, clinical and big. Does that persuade you down to this? How about the fact that it’s free?

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Digital, Every Thursday

For a while now the Thursday Club have been hosting some of the best alt.dance events in Brighton’s midweek calendar. In the last couple of months alone they’ve had The Count & Sinden, Annie Mac, Friction, Major Lazer and Caspa pop in. Arguably the leader of the young dance scene is Fake Blood and by midnight Digital is already busy. But by 1.30am it’s completely roadblocked as he steps into the booth with a beaming smile. There’s a roar of anticipation from the crowd who are on some tantric brink and about to fall over. Opening with the Carl Orff track used for the X-Factor intro music he sets the tone for a tongue-in-beat Machiavellian set.

Words by Zac Colbert

photos by Milo Belgrove

Fake Blood took his mask off quite a while ago now but the crowd still respond with an eager excitement, wanting to get a real glimpse of the DJ in the neon-soaked flesh. He works his set with a steady

progression, building up his ravey remixes so the whole of Digital swells with sweaty limbs and vivid colours. The squeaky basslines and cyber punk Ibiza house are grounded by the likes of Florence & The Machine keeping his adoring crowd well in the loop. In fact, the crowd are so in the loop when he climaxes with a manic ferocity that everyone’s whipped into a crowd surfing frenzy – there’s even a bra or two being thrown at the booth. But this isn’t even the end; Fake Blood grants his hankering revellers four more encores so that everyone can go home, fully exercised and ready to drop.

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New Slang Audio, every Tuesday

It’s funny how things ebb and flow. A decade ago you couldn’t get a full night’s sleep for all the great midweek dance nights (Gogglez especially springs to mind) but then when The Strokes hit everything became an indie night. Now pop music dominates but electro is really coming back as the student-friendly clubbing choice (see Thursday Club). And what about the poor indie kids – where are they supposed to go? Well, New Slang, basically. All the old guard – Mad For It, Snide etc – have packed up and left this lively young pup to hold the fort, if that’s not a slightly confusing but delightful mixed metaphor. Let’s be clear though, New Slang have history. For a while now they’ve been ruling Kingston with a night of the same name that has tempted Foals, The Maccabees, Crystal Castles and many more to take to their stage. As we’re writing apparently Babyshambles are soundchecking. No such luck down south yet, but it’s a solid DJ-based night already with bands promised in the future. Los Campesinos! are booked for February, which ought to be a cracker.

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So at the moment we have a decent indie night for a decent price (£3), a bundle of drinks for £2.20, and DJs who really know their apples. The playlist includes MGMT, Phoenix, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart and the Phenomenal Handclap Band. Just great tunes all night then. No wonder they’re the biggest indie night in Kingston – will they repeat the success here?

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mother was a nun in an amateur production of The Sound Of Music, and one of the guitarists actually died during the performance. The actor has enlisted his folks for a re-enactment of that fateful evening's events in this witty, nostalgic comedy which has steadily established a growing reputation on the fringe circuit this year. (BM)

Event: Grit Lit Red Roaster Thurs 3rd A literary night choosing blood and guts over sentiment, Grit Lit is returning with nine writers – most of them award-winning – following their sold-out show at the Fringe. Their headliner is Isabel Ashdown, whose debut novel Glasshopper took on the story of a teenager growing up with his alcoholic mother in 1980s Portsmouth, and the salacious theme continues through tales of drugs and gangsters at the Marina, possessed mothers, prison cells and missing persons. (BM)

Ta l k : T h e Space Latest MusicBar Thurs 3rd Another real coup for The Space this month, luring three big names to the Latest cavern again. Everyone’s favourite gold-jawed drum'n'bass gangster, Goldie, will be discussing

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WORDS BY NICK COQUET, BEN MILLER

Dance: Entity Dome Weds 2nd – Thurs 3rd

As anyone who’s been transfixed by Random Dance Company’s previous visits to the Dome will tell you, Wayne McGregor is probably the most powerful choreographic mind in the country. For Entity, Massive Attack collaborator Jon Hopkins and Brian Eno have written an electro soundtrack to fit McGregor’s vision of 10 dancers being moved by computer software in a utopian take on theories of evolution. In turns unsettling, balletic and fierce, it’s a long way from your average four to the floor. (BM)

Theatre: Post Show Party Show The Basement Thurs 3rd The Lincoln stage where Michael Pinchbeck’s parents met in 1970 was an unlikely love scene – his father was playing a Nazi and his

conducting operas in the Royal Albert Hall, cameo roles in Bond films and going on Big Brother, presumably in preference to any talk of his musical implosion in the late 90s. Bestselling crime writer Ian Rankin – the Deputy Lieutenant of Edinburgh, no less – and Arts Foundation Songwriting Award winner Emily Baker also star. (BM)

Theatre: The L ying Kind New Venture Theatre Fri 5th – Fri 12th Anthony Neilson’s The Lying Kind is one of the stranger theatre pieces of recent years. It kicks off with a pair of inept policemen informing an elderly couple of the death of their daughter, and goes on to depict a vigilante antipaedophile parent group and a cross-dressing vicar in a work of pure farce. The relentlessly dark comedy has

often ended with mixed results for companies who attempt it, but the New Venture’s penchant for surrealism should justify their choice. (BM)

T h e at r e : Chicago Dome Weds 16th – Sun 20th Part of the appeal of this production, which has been running for the last 12 years, has been its ability to attract some wildly disparate names to its ranks, from Jerry Springer to Justin Lee Collins. The Brighton leg of the current UK tour brings musical veteran and all-round proper nice guy (we met him once) Gary Wilmot to the starring role of Billy Flynn. It might not be the most discerning theatrical experience around but this is entertainment painted with broad strokes and its longevity should be quality assurance enough. (NC)

Art: 1-2-3-4 Fabrica Fri 18th

Courtesy of the typically imaginative Grey Area Gallery, this explosion of art and music is putting some decidedly unholy artists in front of the Fabrica altar and letting them run with it. Among the names involved are Turner Prize winner Martin Creed, the artist known as Bob and Roberta Smith and David Blandy, who was last seen messing around with kung fu figures at Grey Area. Further weirdness comes from Masked gatecrashers Plastique Fantastique and burlesque rock band The Coolness. (BM)

Art: Eine and Zeus Ink_D until Thurs 24th

Ben Eine threw in his job working for a city bank to spend his days making huge, typographical works of art – often covering entire walls with one word – on the surrounding streets. He’s rumoured to have painted some of Banksy’s rats, so this Crimes and Punishment show with 3D obsessive and sculptor Zeus is, as the gallery puts it, a clash of “urban art heavyweights”. Upstairs, Modern Toss’s Shit Nak Shop is promising to cure any seasonal hangovers. (BM)

Film: Cinema P aradiso Duke of York’s Tues 29th The programme at the Duke’s this month is dominated by the excellent CineCity festival (see last month’s SOURCE), but this Oscar-winning romantic classic about a boy whose formative years are transformed by a tiny cinema in post-war Italy is comparable with anything on the bill. Suitably enough, this screening will raise funds for a charity formed by DOY manager Jon Barrenechea to save a single-screen cinema threatened by demolition in the Nicaraguan mountain town where he spent his early movie-going years. (BM)

Film: The Wizard Of Oz Duke of York’s Sun 20th As much a part of Christmas as bitter family altercations, suicidal loneliness and dumping unwanted puppies, The Wizard Of Oz arrives to the big screen to instill some festive cheer in our icy, black hearts. Join your fellow friends of Dorothy for this lunchtime showing, which obviously promises lots of participatory audience cackling and caterwauling. The lovely old bar at the Duke’s might have something to do with this, and all the better for it. (NC)

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WORDS BY james kendall

Moonlighting "I photograph to see what the world looks like in photographs," street photography god Garry Winogrand once said. In many ways Alex Bamford goes one stage further by photographing Sussex at night in order to make it look different. With parallels in Ryan McGinnley’s recent Moonage exhibition, Moonlighting – Alex’s first show – makes Earth look like an alien landscape. His exposures, only possible on two or three days either side of a full moon, last from three to ten minutes (“Too short is dark, too long looks like daytime,” he explains), leaving a stillness under dramatic skies. But that’s not the only exposure concern. Alex often treks out in temperatures that require thermals on thermals, as low as -10°C in the snow. In fact it was snow that inspired the whole project. As an art director on an advertising shoot in Japan, Alex watched the snow blowing off the top of Mount Fuji by

moonlight. Returning home he started with windmills – you can see one as November’s North Lane Photography calender pic – three years ago and has now moved on to adding his own light. “I recently started taking out gelled lights and utilised years of bad dancing technique to create the light fight series,” he says of his colourful balls and ribbon twirls. As beautiful as any landscapes we’ve seen of the county, Alex’s photos shows that there’s light in even the darkest situations. A metaphor for the recession maybe.

Alex Bamford's Moonlighting The Eagle from Tues 1st – Thurs 31st Dec

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rendition of a musical blueprint they clearly love and fully understand; their obvious long-time patronage of their sleeve-worn influences stands them in good stead here. Best enjoyed with a pint in your hand that you won’t mind spilling. (NC)

EP: THE HORNB L O W E R BROTHERS Adventures In The National Geographic (Bellboy Records)

With four tracks clocking in at just over 12 minutes The Hornblower Brothers sure don’t hang around, but if anything you wish they’d stay a little while longer. Conjuring up some gleefully uplifting indie pop their sound is a wonderfully melodic jangle, taking influences such as Half Man Half Biscuit and Jeffrey Lewis and adding a distinct English flavour of their own, bringing to mind some of the Cherry Red and Postcard bands of the 80s. Marc Riley and Steve Lamacq love them and on this evidence it’s easy to see why. (IC)

S I N G L E : H U S K Y RESCUE We Shall Burn Bright (Catskills)

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WORDS BY IAN CHAMBERS, NICK COQUET, JAMES KENDALL

critic ALBUM: 4 OR 5 MAGICIANS Empty Derivative Pop Songs (Smalltown America)

Singer and songwriter Dan Ormsby cuts a rueful and ruminative figure as he systematically works his way through life’s follies and fallibilities, from petty dishonesties to several wry exposés on life lived in a band. Despite being recorded for about £100, the band’s sound nevertheless far outweighs the weary cynicism in much of the lyrics, their attention to melody and hooks thankfully as concentrated as their world-view. Plaudits are rolling in for the band and we’re happy to be part of that accellerating bandwagon. (NC)

DEMO: DILATORS (myspace.com/thedilators)

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A 21st century take on four-piece, punky pub rock doesn’t need to ingest any influences from this side of the late 70s – there’s a danger of dilution through modernisation that this ain’t-broke-don’t-fix-it outfit cannily avoid. The Dilators (we recommend avoiding a Google image search…) ply a faithful

It’s been a bit quiet over at Catskills Towers recently, but we couldn’t be more pleased to see the return of Finnish dark pop outfit Husky Rescue. We Shall Burn Bright sees the dreamers get rocky, with insistent guitars and swift, complicated snares driving the usual layers of atmospherics. It all builds towards a swirling expanse of excitement – not necessarily what we’d expect from them. Excellent, and also currently free as a download. Worth twice the price. (JK)

A L B U M : KRAFTY KUTS Against The Grain (Against The Grain)

What most DJs wouldn’t do to get their hands on Krafty Kuts’ personal re-edit collection. Well, you can get 19 of his sliced up favourites here on this mix album, from Mickey Slim’s frantic Hit The Club to DJ Dan’s big room electro-hop of N20. That not enough for you? How about a bonus disc of 28 Against The Grain classics slammed together? There’s loads of Krafty on there, but 58 seconds of Ed Solo’s Sludge reminds us how good the label is as it slips into Bass Phenomenon. A stunning value release. (JK)

SINGLE: LAST DA YS OF LORCA I Start Fires We Start Riots (Nice Weather For Airstrikes) Featuring this month’s most socially irresponsible song title, the Last Days deliver an upfront slab of progressive fretboard frottage. They manage to straddle the powerhouse riffing of towering rock outfits like Muse, whose vocal influence is clear here without resorting to pale imitation, as well as more tricksy arrangements and experiments in time signature. This particular track has already featured in the latest Danny ‘Fackin’ Dyer film Jack Said, which isn’t exactly a byword for discerning product placement but gives you an idea of the band’s burgeoning commercial potential. Well worth keeping an eye out for. (NC)

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S I N G L E : MISERABLE RICHCovers (Humble Soul) The Willkommen Collective’s bar room pop outfit are known for successfully turning their string section to other people’s songs. And while we wait for the second album here’s a quartet of lovely cover versions. That the tracks here sound more like the Miserable Rich than they do The Stranglers, Iggy Pop, Pixies and the Eurythmics shows how strong their own sound is – a modern take on traditional instruments. The gentle orchestral take on Iggy’s Shades is perhaps the highlight, but they’re all gems. (JK)

DEMO: MUNICH Into The Rain (myspace.com/maurakincaid) We get plenty of demos that are good for what they are - £50 well spent – but this two tracker sounds like a million dollars. After seven minutes it’s obvious that the newly-renamed Maura Kincaid are heading to the big time. The quality is especially impressive as Into The Rain is recorded live, its brooding epicness perfectly realised, all slashed and chimed guitars and heartbleeding vocals. Right Place Right Time has the same widescreen emotion as Coldplay at their best. No wonder Munich won Q Magazine’s Emerging Talent competition. It’s just the start. (JK)

S I N G L E : S O M E TH I N G BEGINNING WITH LSay / Mean (Drift) After recently lending their sublime vocal talents to Graham Coxon’s live band, SBL return with their second release, coming in the form of a double a-side download only single. Say rocks along in a PJ Harvey type groove, all seductive rhythms and electric guitar flourishes, while Mean opts for a more acoustic direction, complete with lush finger-picked guitar and their trademark hazy female vocals, all slowly building into a flurry of electronic beats. With a debut album due next year we should be in for a real treat. (IC)

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ALBUM: SUPER U We Live In Bazakhstan (Sack The Juggler) When this popped onto the cluttered SOURCE desk we remembered the name from a few months back when we brought you news of their debut single. Now in long-player mode, Super U continue to plough their highly agreeable furrow of folky pop, sowing catchy seeds of artful narrative along the way. We note from their press release that we weren’t alone in making Belle & Sebastian comparisons last time around, but Super U’s heart and vitality elevate them above anything that could be described as twee or samey – these 11 tracks invite the listener on a proper trip through the tempos. (NC)

SINGLE: THE TWILIGHT SAD Seven Years Of Letters (FatCat) Despite hailing from about as far away from Brighton as a UK resident can physically be, this Scottish quartet had the sense to sign to Brighton’s FatCat label, hence this coverage in your favourite seaside magazine. The single is powerful stuff, with My Bloody Valentine Loveless guitars duelling against Sonic Youth Daydream Nation guitars while the best Caledonian vocals since The Proclaimers insist they’re “on a hiding to nowhere”. Yes, they’re very specific references but the press release suggested The Cure, Neu and Wire, which we’re very familiar with and didn’t get at all. We liked it though. (NC)

ALBUM: VARIOUS Floorplay Music Presents Round:One (Floorplay) It’s testament to how hard Prok & Fitch work that they are already releasing a round-up of their highly regarded label. Mixed by the pair themselves, the 12 tracks sum up their sound perfectly, despite having productions and remixes from Orbital (as Golden Girls), Filthy Rich and ATFC. Plenty of house-y sexiness, electro throb and dynamics that work as well on your iPod as they do in a club – they’ll be huge stars, believe us. (JK)

ALBUM: VIV Sea Shells Listening (Pebble) Described as free improv/noise/weird folk, Viv carefully and thoroughly eschew any notion of traditional tune structure, yet still manage to create a work with great emotional appeal. The album title is the clue here – put a seashell to your ear and you won’t hear a catchy threeminute pop song, but you’ll love the sublime sound you hear. Viv take gentle glockenspiel and guitar, snatches of anti-lingual voice and eerily nostalgic brass nuances and recreate that sensation perfectly. The most inexplicably beautiful thing we’ve heard this month. (NC)

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could host the Coalition’s NYE (Pop Musik, maybe, but that ruins the hyperbole). Proper big room house with a community feel, this one is gonna be rammed, especially with a live set from My Digital Enemy.

Hed Kandi: The Glitter Ball Honeyclub NYE has traditionally been a night of glamour and there’s nothing more glamorous than Hed Kandi, always popular with girls in nice dresses who like their music. John Jones and Jamie Richards are at the decks, but no one is bigger than the Hed Kandi brand, one that really knows what its audience wants. Great house with a soulful edge.

Hold Up Old Market

Shunted out of Life for the night, Hold Up could shine with the biggest indie night in town. Crowd-pleasing tunes mean the dancefloor should be rammed, but this should be a great venue to hang out in too.

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Born Bad/ Spellbound Komedia Two choices for getting away from the modern world as 2009 turns into 2010 at the Komedia – Spellbound is the best for 80s underground fans who stay out of the sunshine, while rockabillies and rock’n’rollers will want to leave their switchblades at the door of Born Bad. Two killer nights – but separate, you’ll need to buy a ticket for one or the other.

words by JAMES KENDALL

Don’t Stop Believin’ Jam

An unabashed trot through every decade of amazing pop with Dynamite Sal’s crew, including DJs from Pop Muzik, Shameless, We Love Pop and Snap, Crackle & Britpop (Eddie The Goatboy, DJ Nause and DJ Halfbeat for a start). Promises to be more fun than is strictly sensible.

F l o o r p l ay NYE Special Coalition

Another amazing year for Prok & Fitch – packed night every month, some killer singles, debut compilation – so who else

It’s Still 1985 New Hero

For New Hero the calendar is stuck – but stuck in a great time, the mid 80s. Henron has got more enthusiasm than shame so expect to be sucked into singing along to Phil Collins with hipsters who don’t remember him the first time around. Lucky them.

Life NYE Life

One of the biggest events of the night sees Life expand into a three-room extravaganza, taking on the garage and the café on each side. The latter is being hosted by SOURCEfest’s man behind the scenes, Dave ‘She Likes Parties’ Richards, while Kompakt and Schtumm get all acid house in the garage. Maxxi Soundsystem bring the Idjut Boys’ wonky disco house into the main club meanwhile.

Minimal Kids Audio NYE

For the last few outings New Year’s has been maximal for Audio but for 2009 they’ve gone the other way with a proper, serious heads down dance fest. Cagedbaby is back again, this time after a year in France, joined by electro house up’n’comer Riva Starr, rounding of a great year of remixes and productions. Minimal Kids DJs will fill the gaps.

New Years Eve Spectacular Hobgoblin It’s not all about poncey dance music for NYE – the Hobgoblin are bringing the rock with an astounding line-up that includes Trippin’ Violet and ASBO Retards, among many of the city’s best bands, plus Brighton Rumble and Punker Bunker DJs. It’s also free, so more money for booze.

Pussycat Club/ Brodinski Digital

Always a popular NYE, the two-pronged attack of Pussycat Club and the more underground after party means there’s something for most house fans at Digital. The Pussies go with a Fabulous Las Vegas theme, including quickie weddings, while Brodinski and Blah Blah Blah get destructive at 3am with massive basslines and tougher electro house sounds.

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S u p e r charged Concorde 2

As you might expect from a club night that grabs amazing guests for their midweek sessions, Supercharged have got a huge lineup of beat-heavy names for this massive do. Crack House dweller Zinc conquered drum’n’bass and then turned his back on the sound for his own nasty take on fidget house. He’s joined by Loefah, Nero, Brookes Brothers and Qemists, completing a killer line-up of breakbeat at all tempos up to d’n’b. It’s going to make your best top sweaty.

Stick It On’s New Year’s Eve Hootenanny King & Queen Everybody wants to DJ on New Year’s Eve, so what better night than one where all get 15 minutes to torture everyone else. Check the website if you want to spin, don’t just turn up with a bag of 12 inches – and go wild, no minimal techno here please, we want to have fun.

Tru Thoughts NYE Party Funky Buddha

Brighton’s best jazzed-out post-funk and neo-soul label is starting a new free night at the Funky Buddha in 2010 called Steady On. This is a prologue to the main event, with label boss Robert Luis, Hint and Flevans behind the decks. Ought to be a good night as the three of them always throw down great tunes for dancing, and it’s only £12.

Complete listings:

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ancient mariner New Years Eve Party Circus themed fancy dress party with live DJs 8pm £5 Audio NYE Cagedbaby, Riva Starr, Minimal Kids 11pm £25 Barneys NYE Special DJ line up Time tbc £5 BASEMENT NYE Party: DJs Lee Harris, Peter Castle Disco anthems 9pm £free

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BEES mouth The Hoodangers Blue Note-style funk 9pm £tbc Belushi’s Bar NYE Elements Special D’n’b, funky electro 9pm £5 Black Lion Burnt Shrimps Burnt Toast and Old Shrimp Eyes team up 8.30pm £3 Brighton Dome New Year’s Eve Viennese Concert Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra perform traditional classics 2.45pm £8-32 brunswick The Grand Majestic and DJs 8pm £10 Caroline of Brunswick New Year’s Eve Extravaganza 9pm £free CASABLANCA Live soul, funk & DJ 9pm £12 Coalition Floorplay NYE Special Prok & Fitch, My Digital Enemy (live) Sean Hughes, James Wilkinson, Lee Garrett 10pm £20/15; Blow Afterparty Vincent Manganaro, Alex Outram 3am £7/5/4 cobblers thumb Hootenanny the Second Live funk band and DJs 8pm £free

concorde 2 Supercharged: Zinc, Loefah, Nero, BrookesBrothers, Qemists Amazing line-up of the biggest names in beat-driven dance music 9pm £15+ COWLEY CLUB In Every Home... A Heartache Big Queer New Year Disco EBM, voodoobilly, punk Details tbc Digital Pussycat Club: Fabulous Las Vegas - Nippa

Downey, Audio Pimps, Alex Outram, James Brady, Casper Gaday Pyros, glitter, Vegas weddings 10pm; Digital Afterparty - Brodinski, Blah Blah Blah DJs

£32.50 (both) / £15 (afterparty) / £25 (Vegas) druids arms NYE Satta Live Live hip hop, funk, soul soundsystem 9pm £free Duke of beaufort New Years Eve Soul, Motown, old school funk, US garage and classic rave 7pm £free duke of norfolk NYE Party Superhero fancy dress and cash prize raffle 8pm £2 Duke Of York’s Cinema Nowhere Boy 4pm, 6pm; The White Ribbon 1pm earth and stars NYE Party 8pm £free Easy Bar Free Fall D&B, dubstep 9pm £free exchange NYE Party Fancy dress fun 8pm £free Fiddler’s Elbow Fiddle-sticks Local live music to bring in the New Year 9pm £free Fishbowl NYE Party DJs to party til the early hours to 9pm £tbc Fortune Of War All Time Top 100 - The All Time Top 100! Only the best party tunes to see in the new year 9pm £5 fountainhead NYE Party Power ballad fancy dress theme 8pm £5 funky buddha Tru Thoughts NYE Party: Robert Luis, Hint, Flevans Upfront dance, jazz, funk, soul, hip hop, dubstep and breaks with label boss 9pm £free Globe Global Gathering An ‘all stars’ line-up of resident DJs playing a little bit of everything 8pm £free Hampton NYE Party Sweatshop vs The Black Lodge with deep funk, heavy soul grooves, disco, boogie, hip hop, house and everything else in between 9pm £free hare & hounds upstairs Peter & the Test Tube Babies Punk pensioners 9pm £10 HOBGOBLIN New Years Eve Spectacular: Trippin Violet, ASBO Retards, Blind Eye Fury, Los Mendozas, Black Rash, Goo Goo Muck, Brighton Rumble and Punker Bunker DJs Live bands and punky merriment 8pm £free Honeyclub Hed Kandi: The Glitter Ball Glamorous soulful house from John Jones and Jamie Richards 9pm £tbc Hope NYE Party Shona Foster live and DJs Marc Lessner and Lee Charles, an interesting, different night out with lovely singer songwriter 8pm £6 hub NYE Party 8pm £tbc Jam Don’t Stop Believin’ Wander through the enchanted forest, join in the mad hatters’ tea party and dance to the likes of local DJs Eddie The Goatboy, DJ Nause, Dynamitem Sal and DJ Halfbeat 10pm £12; NYE Afterparty La Giesta Underground house, techno, electro 4am £7.50/ juggler NYE Juggernaut Classic house and jazz anthems 8pm £free Karma New Years Eve Time tbc £10

it’s still 1985

9pm £tbc Komedia down Krater Comedy Club Stand-up laughs to take you into the new year with Simon Evans, Zoe Lyons, Michael Fabbri and MC Stephen Grant Time tbc £tbc; Born Bad Calling all delinquents for a night of rockabilly, 50s rock&roll, sleaze, surf and exotica 10pm £10 Komedia studio Penguin Long Nose Puppets’ new show based on the award winning children’s book 2pm £8.50/6.50; Spellbound Did your mum get you crimpers for Christmas? Power them up and dance in the new year to some alt 80s classics 9pm £10 Komedia up Trailer Trash! Presents Pirates Of The Carribean Rum-ridden pirate party night with circus acts, burlesque beauties, rock & roll, electro, neo swing and more treasures 9.30pm £16.50/14 Kulture Naughty Thursdays: DJ Rob Grand Dance, R&B, indie 7pm £free latest Music Bar Greg Marshall Creation, Event and Walkabout resident 8pm £15; Soultown Sound of Motown 8pm £20 life Life NYE Idjut Boys, Maxxi Soundsystem DJs, Kliks DJs plus secret special guest 10pm £17.50 Lucky Voice NYE At Lucky Voice An hour’s free karaoke to get you in the party spirit 3pm £free mash tun NYE Party Party games galore 9pm £free New Hero It Is Still 1985 Two floors of 80s, straight from your mum’s Now 5 album 10pm £10/8 advance open house NYE Just Jack DJ set 8pm £10 PELHAM ARMS NYE Swing Deville, DJ Mike The Mic 9pm £10 penthouse Hip Hop Karaoke Just as it says on the tin, but with selected free drinks til 2010 to get you loosened up 8pm £20 prince albert The Valentines, The Flash Bang Band, Yokoko and more Live artists 8pm £tbc Providence Sound Factory NYE Party: Wendy’s Parade & DJS 8pm £2

quadrant NYE Party DJs and fancy dress 7pm £free Riki tik Looking Sound Presnts NYE Dubstep, breaks and drum & bass with multi projection video scratch and live VJs 10pm £free st george’s inn NYE Beach party fancy dress and party tunes from DJ Loft Monkey 7pm £free shakepeares head NYE Party Live DJs 8pm £free Sidewinder Danceteria Swop Shop Dance the night away to disco, house and funk and swap your clothes whilst you do it 7pm £7/5 signalman NYE Bash Live music 7pm £free sugaqube Charmain, Bence, Andrew Whitwell DJs 7pm £free Theatre Royal Peter Pan Boy refuses to grow up, hangs out with fairies and pirates - could be based on half the blokes in Brighton 1.30pm £26 Three & Ten Rusty Ryan (The Doctors Orders) & guests DJ set 10pm £free three graces NYE Party Masked ball 8pm £free thomas kemp NYE Party Fancy dress and live DJs 9pm £7.50/5 tru House Party Big room anthems and house, electro, R&B classics 10.30pm £3/1.50 victory NYE Party: Fernando Poo vs Kinema Victory resident battles it out with electro-pop local legends 8pm £free Volks Slackers Convention NYE Breaks and beats with Pav & LuQas 11pm £10/8 West Hill tavern New Year’s Eve 80s Party 9pm £free western front NYE DJs playing house, funk, indie, wonky pop, electro and disco 9pm £2 White rabbit NYE Party: Tommy The Mod And Mental Mat Mods And Rockers themed night 8pm £free worlds end Future Dub New Years Eve 2009: Tearout Faction, Cutloose Crew, Arkital Sound, Unity HiFi Crew, Ital Love, Lowki, Dialect, Kosine, L Drift, Redford, Voytek Dubstep, jungle, reggae 7pm £10/8 xuma NYE Party Live DJs 8pm £tbc

KING & QUEEN Stick It On’s New Year’s Eve Hootenanny Take your own records, inevitably lose them

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street style

This month we hand over our Street Style section to the Creative & Media Diploma students at Varndean College for some fresh eyes on Brighton's fashion. As we enter a new decade it seems like some people are looking to move away from the 80s revival that’s been going now since electroclash brought the trash in 2001. So, what’s next? The 90s, obviously. Shauna here was just three years old when Hole’s Pretty On The Inside came out, and while Courtney Love’s kinderwhore look was much more extreme, there’s elements of grunge in the scruffy layers and ripped tights. Yeah, actually, what’s going on with all the knackered hosiery on young legs these days? Shauna happily admits to taking a key to hers, and we suspect that other holey leg coverings aren’t down to the recession. Here’s the rules anyway – one ladder is bad, loads of holes is good. The more fucked up the better which is good for one thing if nothing else – winding your mum up. Unless she was down the front at Nirvana gigs of course. Jacket from Mango Scarf made by mum’s friend Hoodie by Levi’s Shirt from Beyond Retro Shorts from Top Shop Tights self-ripped Bag from American Apparel Glasses from Specsavers

photos by Photography students on the Creative and Media Diploma, Varndean College

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Street style EXTRA

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THE MACCABEES

top 20 of 2009

our writers pick the city's songs of the year 1. The Maccabees No Kind Words There was never any doubt Brighton’s loveliest superstars could write great pop songs but where did this brooding shock of angst come from? Apparently the difficult band transition between albums wasn’t responsible for lyrics like “Dear friend of mine is/testing his body/tempting disaster“, but this is clearly from deep in Orlando’s soul. Exploding into the most soaring guitar solo of the year it’s enough to have you rip out your heart and offer it up to ease the pain. An intense soundscape – almost makes us cry live. 2. Bat For Lashes Daniel Beautiful and gentle electronic pop, this ode to Natasha’s first love would have stood out as a highlight on Kate Bush’s Hounds Of Love album. As it was, it was an indication that Bat For Lashes is one of the best singer songwriters and refuses to paint herself into a corner, willing to leave the magic and wolves behind.

WORDS BY Source Writers

3. Pope Joan Centurion We were blown away when we heard this. Talk about upping your game, this could be the catchiest indie electro stomper of the year. Abrasive bleeps and sharp guitar slashes prop up a sing-along chorus we didn’t expect. 4. Maths Class Peach Maths Class were good, then they decided to write songs and they got great. This has been the only example of their next stage, but a killer chorus welded to their taut dynamics means they can’t go wrong when they emerge with a new set. 5. Half Sisters Our Dancing Skeletons It’s barely even a scratchy demo, but still sounds amazing and is as catchy as H1N1. A delightful idea – that when you die your skeleton will be with the bones of your unrequited love – it’s as sweet as the girls themselves.

6. Mirrors Look At Me They look like Kraftwerk, sound like OMD and have a softer take on the melancholy of Joy Division – is there any doubt that Mirrors will be massive this time next year? Formed out of the ashes of Mumm-Ra, this project should be much bigger. 7. Hereldeduke All I Know Beautiful melancholic hip hop – and it’s not often we can say that. New mixes popped up on this single release but it was all about those plaintive analogue synths which work so well at the languid pace. Dance ballad of the year. 8. Telegraphs I Don’t Navigate By You If you wanted to argue that a boy/girl call-and-response tale of longing/hating from two conflicted lovers is a bit of an open goal, well Telegraphs burst the bloody net with this. It’s everything you could ask – heavy, wrenching, impassioned and bitter. 9. The Agitator Get Ready Drums. Shouting. Foot-stamping…that’s it. But wow, how powerful. The passion of the stunning live performances is transferred onto this demo. We can’t wait until it comes out of [censored] Studio and gets remixed by [censored] and [censored]. 10. Freeland Do You As loose as dance music can get, Motley Crüe’s Tommy Lee throws his sticks around like a smacked-out John Bonham while the Marine Parade boss remakes Emerge as a dirty 2 step record. His best in years. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20.

Gloria Cycles Chancer Lyrebirds Closer Transformer Cinema Car Sons Of Noel & Adrian Rivers The Qemists feat Jenna G On The Run Thirty Pounds Of Bone The Jonah Shanty Surfaces The Broken Black Peggy Sue Lover Gone Esben & The Witch Eumenides Ed Solo Watch Your Eyes

christmas gift guide Nola Multi-coloured love mug – holds half a pint of tea (or gin!). British-made. £14.50 42 Gardner St 01273 911006 info@nolaboutique.co.uk

Vans Shop Authentic White £34.99 Chukka Boot Black £39.99 Old Skool Purple £39.99 38 West St 01273 777378

Musicroom Yamaha Portable Digital Keyboard Perfect for all levels with a host of features: 102 songs, worldfamous grand piano sound. £109 90 Western Rd 01273 775607 www.musicroom.com/brighton Seven Veils Go on punk, make your girlfriend's day! Alternative dance gift vouchers From £20 each 01273 885585

Ju-Ju Blend She retro deer jacket £40 Pop retro Christmas jumper £30 24 Gloucester Rd

Cyberdog Walking a dog in Zero-G ain’t no walk in the park £23 13 Sydney St www.cyberdog.net

Art At Five Golden Pines by Serena Sussex 30x20 cm £99 Ideal Christmas gift. Original paintings under £100 5 Bartholomews 01273 774222 www.artatfive.com

Musicroom Fender Acoustic Guitar Pack Comes with a CD-60 Fender Acoustic guitar (black and sunburst), DVD, tuner, strings and picks. £129.99 90 Western Rd 01273 775607 www.musicroom.com/brighton

Fruity Fur Coat by Yumi Retro Style (without the smell!) £85 8 Gardner St

Magnum Opus Tattoo Tattoo prices vary, shirts and other clothing in stock Gift vouchers available 33 Upper North St Fit U Personal Training £35.00 per hour, joint Personal training £60.00 per hour. Brighton FitU is all about fitness and you, simple. Holly Skinner 07850 139401 holly@brighton-fit-u.com www.brighton-fit-u.com

Kate & Aud Pocket watches £20 to £35 27 Trafalgar St 07888739820 / 07544581344

Kate & Aud Hand crafted vintage inspired leather bags. From £39 27 Trafalgar St 07888739820 / 07544581344

Guarana Bar Make your own raw chocolate (800g) just how YOU like it £24.99 SPECIAL PRICE 36 Sydney Street www.guaranaco.com

Kite Surf Kings A perfect gift & a great experience; learn to Powerkite, Kitesurf or Landboard. Gift vouchers are available from just £30 www.kitesurfkings.com

Source Album of 2009 Whitest Boy Alive - Rules Available from Rounder (01273) 325440 Resident (01273) 606312

GenEric Look Sharp T-shirt, available in blue, white, purple and sorbet www.thisisgeneric.co.uk

Rock Cakes "Jonathan" Silver Tooth pendant with a gold crown and diamond eyes. £310 www.rockcakes.com info@rockcakes.com 07795078683

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streets of brighton:

Marine

parade Each month we peer through curtains, lurk on street corners and sift through dustbins, looking for evidence of cool places to live. Not for our own benefit, you understand, we already live in a lovely house. No, this is an entirely altruistic endeavour – we don’t want you to end up crying yourself to sleep in some grimy, whore-ridden crack den with your paltry bin bags of worthless belongings strewn around you. So this month, why not lower the tone of Marine Parade? That’s that long road along the seafront, right? Yes, it runs from the Palace Pier right up to the Marina. So, pretty cool sea views then. But don’t I need to be some kind of millionaire to live there? A lot of the places along there will cost an absolute fortune, yes. But there are definitely rental bargains to be found – you can have a pier view and still afford to eat.

Words by nick coquet photo by james kendall

Eat, you say. Where will I do that? It’s just a row of poshlooking houses. Well if you’re terminally lazy, the Bristol Bar is on the front there. It’s a big pub with a decent menu. But you already know that, right? The owner told us some mystery customer had left behind a plastic bag with a penis pump in it recently, so it sounds like you’ve been in before… Er, I don’t know what you’re talking about. Tell me more about this Marine Parade. OK, well it’s a pretty long road so depending on whereabouts you are, you’re handy for the Concorde, the Volks, Audio, er, and crazy golf. The road is mostly residential, but don’t forget you’re one road down from St James Street so the glittering delights of Kemptown’s bars and restaurants are pretty much right on your doorstep. As of course is the beach, which is a bit quieter up this end than between the piers. The nudist bit is up here as well of course, should you want to tan that tiny penis of yours. Look, it wasn’t my damn bag. I’ve never seen it before. Now drop it. If you say so. But if you wanted to get a load of random fellas to manhandle this ‘mystery-sized’ penis of yours, you should head up to Duke’s Mound, which is all those bushes up by the Marina. It’s a renowned cruising area for the less-than-fussy. Maybe I will. It’s not like it’s illegal or anything, right? Well it kind of is really, public indecency and all that. But the place is never exactly crawling with cops, not on-duty cops anyway. This is Brighton after all – enjoy!

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Unsung Heroes

100 People Who Make Brighton What It Is No.5 buz

Words by nick coquet photo by james kendall

Godfather of the Brighton punk scene, the city wouldn’t be the same without Punker Bunker’s Buz How healthy is the Brighton punk scene? There are lots of people in Brighton who like punk rock whether it be old school 80s, pop-punk, grindcore, oi!, crossover, hardcore, D beat or one of the dozens of subgenres that are out there. We get a nice mix of people at our shows, all ages and backgrounds who just want to see good bands. There are some great bands that have come to light recently in Brighton. Trippin Violet, Blackstorm and, of course, ASBO Retards. Punk seems like a scene that keeps healthy in the background – is that true? It’s primarily a roots music that comes from the people and doesn’t need an industry behind it to keep it going. There will always be garage punk bands banging away in back rooms with spotty nerds putting out their records and writing zines. As long as a scene doesn’t become elitist it will survive. Some people can be very precious about their particular little scene and it becomes inclusive and self-referential. Is your passion for music is as strong as it was back in the day? If not more so. We only put on bands we want to see and I’m still seeing great bands appearing from around the world. This year we’ve seen some great shows from the likes of The Night Marchers, World/Inferno Friendship Society and Git Some. In December we have Dillinger Four back after seven years and, of course, the mighty Dan Potthast. Shows are starting to stack up for 2010 with Cannabis Corpse, The Slackers, Chris Murray and The Peacocks and loads more. What sort of thing do you sell in the Punker Bunker record shop? We try and stock tiny obscure punk labels no one else does. I based the shop on places I used to go in my youth. We stock new, and some used, CDs and vinyl along with T-shirts, zines, tickets etc. I feel fortunate that we’ve been able to do it for so long as record shops around the world are closing at such a rate. By keeping small and niche hopefully we can survive. You’ve put on some real legends – which are the ones that stick out? Too many to name really! If I was pushed I’d say 7Seconds at the Freebutt, Avail, Rezillos, Scared Of Chaka, The X-Rays, MU330, Capdown, The Dickies, Nomeansno, The Slackers, Guitar Wolf. Too many.

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SECRET EATER

Words & photo by james kendall

THE PLACE: Pokeno Pies arrived in a flourish of awards so it was a bit of a shock when it just closed down. But phoenix-style goodness came out of foodies’ loss when The Manor popped up from nowhere. A little oasis on one of the busiest streets in town, it’s an unfussy place but with understated class. But is the food any good?

The Manor 52 Gardner Street (01273) 691700 Tue-Wed 10:30-16:00 Thu-Fri 10.30am-9.30pm Sat-Sun 10.30pm-6.00pm THE MEAL: We have no struggle find something to eat on the small menu of light bites and ‘autumn mains’ – plenty of dishes jump out at us. We pick the halloumi and orange salad with chilli dressing – normally a main – as a starter to share and two sets of cutlery are brought without complaint. The chillidrenched leaves are tempered nicely by the orange, letting the grilled cheese and mountain of olives shine. The beef stew is thick and rich with tender meat – just how you’d hope stew to be. Likewise the lamb shank falls to bits when we prod it with a knife, while the best word for the gravy is indulgent. We go for the Lyonnaise potatoes (cooked in stock) but the subtle flavours are perhaps wasted with such powerful sauces. Though we barely have room we snuffle down a couple of deserts with enthusiasm. The hazelnut meringue with toffee sauce has ice cream filling and is deemed “yum-ee” while the chocolate fudge cake is lovely and dense.

THE VERDICT: There’s not a lot of room for calm and quaint in the middle of the North Laine, but The Manor has managed it. Lovely food, homely atmosphere, it’s a great place to stop off for lunch but an even better way to finish off a shopping trip. Not especially cheap, but worth it. WERE WE SUSSED? Yeah, we’re pretty sure we were, though no one said anything. The service was spotless from start to finish though, and the meal was good before we got the camera out.

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Recipe

in association with SLOW COOKED PORK BELLY Take 1kg belly of pork, score into the skin 1/2cm deep, 1cm apart in both directions. Rub salt, lemon juice and white wine vinegar deep into the skin. Place on a roasting dish on a bed of roughly chopped onion, carrot and celery. Fill the dish with water until it comes up to the bottom of the meat. Place in a 100째C oven and cook for approximately four hours until tender. Then cook at 220째C for 20 minutes until the skin is brown, crispy and not burnt. Leave the meat to rest. Meanwhile strain off the juices, reduce by half and season to taste.

Serve the meat with the finished gravy and creamy mashed potatoes.

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Mean Poppa

lean

WORDS BY tim lincoln

A high-kicking maelstrom of raw funk power and hot pants, MPL are up for a UK Festival Award

How did you enjoy your tour with Floors & Walls? Christian Jennings Barnes: We had an absolute blast. Gravesend was one of the best. C-Dogg: You wouldn't expect much of a shitty pub in the middle of an industrial estate. Rob: We turned up and were like "No, surely, this can't be it," and then we noticed this little venue on the side – awesome sound system, great stage… Grills: And they made us dinner! CJB: They cooked us dinner. And free beer all night. We had a 12-year old kid giving us all beers. CD: You'd go up and go "Can I have a beer?" and he's like [cockney accent] "Alright, I got Sol, Carlsberg, Strongbow." "I'll have a Sol please, mate", and he'd say, "Do you want a glass?" [laughter]. Was it a messy one? CJB: It was disgusting, yeah. A lot of Travelodge debauchery. We've become massive fans of Travelodge. Becky: Next time we play in Brighton we're gonna stay in the Brighton Travelodge even though we all live here, because it's better than our houses.

A lot of bands want to be taken seriously and look cool – do you think it's easier to be fun? CJB: We take our music completely seriously, we just don't take ourselves too serious. CD: We can be having a real shitter; stuck in traffic in a van, and it's all fucked, and everyone hates each other, but, y'know, you just strap on [raucous laughter]. G: That's what happens at Travelodge! CD: Alright, you put on your hot pants, and your bits and bobs and shit, and it makes it a lot easier, you're in character, you have fun more easily. BE: It bridges the gap as well, people feel a lot more comfortable, they go "Oh my god, why are you wearing that, you're so fat." [laughter] CD: Geezers come up to me and say [geezer voice] "Alright man, I really enjoyed your set, right, it's all that funky stuff, isn't it, but like why do you need to wear the little pants and all that?" Bass: "I can see your cock and balls, mate, and I can see your arse, can't I? I'm not bent or anything, y'know, I like your music, but I'm not gay." CD: "What, you're from Brighton? What, are you all benders?" [laughter] What came first, the rock or the funk? CJB: It's really the rock for us, Me and C-Dogg came down from Oxford to Brighton to start MPL, we had this idea of a funk-driven rock band, so they kinda came together. Finding the inspiration for it we originally came from rock; we started listening to Rage Against The Machine when we were much younger, started listening to hip hop, then started making the connection to records, funk and disco and soul records that you already sort of knew. And then from there the net of music you listen to grows wider and wider as you go on, and that led us to stuff like Morris Day & The Time, and Zapp, the 80s kind of thing that we based MPL on really. CD: Bands who were ostentatious and showy like Parliament, putting on incredible out-of-this-world costumes and putting on these wild shows, and we thought well, there's no real reason why, if we've got the balls, that six white guys can't do that on a budget of nothing.

Mean Poppa Lean play the Hanbury Club, Thursday 10th. Single Sheryl Crow is out now.

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Listings tuesday 1st

Audio Chali 2na Live music 7pm £tbc BASEMENT Scene Queen DJ lil’ Alex 11pm £free Bee’s mouth Sounds Like Science DJs Electronica grooves

8.30pm £free

Belushi’s BAR Mod For It Mod & ska 10pm £free Belushi’s below Elements Drum & bass 9pm £1 Black Lion Tuesday Club Open decks and mics 8pm £free brunswick Smarty Pants Do Christmas Christmas show with a meal 1pm £30; Open Mic 8pm £free caroline of brunswick Occulture Live music and peculiar performance 8pm £tbc; Quiz Night 8.30pm £1 CASTOR & POLLUX Andy Lovell: Limited edition screenprints Observational drawings and paintings 11am £free; Mike Levy: Paintings & monoprints 11am £free Coalition Salsa Brighton Learn the moves for the club night later 8pm £6/4; Latin Fever Salsa and meringue dance party 10pm £3/2

cobblers thumb Open Mic Forget singing for your supper - it’s play for your pint at the cobblers 8.30pm £free CONCORDE 2 First Blood Tour: Gunfire 76, Bullets Octane Wednesday 13 Kiss-influenced offshoot 7.30pm £12+ cornerstone Son Of Movie Bar Screenings, quiz and hanging out for filmmaker types 8pm £free Digital Glitterati Student night 11pm £5/4/3 Duke of Norfolk Open Mic Night 9pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema (500) Days Of Summer 11am; A Serious Man 1.30pm, 4pm, 9pm; Ivul 6.30pm Easy Bar Inkfish Tuesdays Request night 8pm £free ENGINE ROOM Kid Congo Powers, Pink Monkey Birds, The Sticks Live music 7pm £tbc Fiddler’s Elbow Quizness Time Pub quiz 8pm £1 Fountainhead Open Mic 9pm £free Freebutt Out Of Sight, Lights and Sounds, Save Your Breath Pop punk 7.30pm £6 funky buddha San Frandisco Launch Party Classic and new proper disco- no hen night cheese, think DFA not YMCA 11pm £free

Globe Basement Cinema: Belleville Rendezvous, The Fisher King Classic and underground film screenings 8pm £free HOBGOBLIN The Luchagors, Damaged, Gunshot Straight Live bands details tbc Honeyclub Quids In Anything goes music policy 11pm £1 hope Goldhawks, The Perils, Hold Fire, Ice Black Birds Live bands 8pm £6 INK_D Eine & Zeus: Crimes And Punishments Street artists exhibit in pen and ink 10am £free jam Kong Presents Local bands 8pm £4/2 jazz place Roots Garden Roots & reggae 11pm £4/3.50 juggler Are You B.I.M.M? Live music from BIMM students 8pm £free

latest Music Bar Small Gods Raucous rock and brooding ballads 8pm £3 life The Vice Social Student dance night 10.30pm £3/2 mash tun Wax On Wax Off Movember comes to an end and the staff get waxed. Ouch mate 8pm £free; Mash. Drink. Repeat DJs Rich and Jay with rock, indie and electro 9pm £free open house Jazz Workshop We’re jammin’ 8pm £3 Pav Tav Guerilla Rocks Indie, rock, punk and ska 10.30pm £3/2/1

penthouse Rate Noise Music from unsigned producers Time

tbc £free

PHOENIX GALLERY Win! Win! Win! Interactive multimedia exhibition with sinister funfair games and toys 11am £free Prince Albert Bijou, Trippin Violet, London Commands You Live bands 8pm £tbc quadrant Piers Clark & Jason Henson Gypsy jazz 8pm £3 RODHUS GALLERY Abbi Kiki: Lighting Ideas details tbc Revenge Sound As A Pound Lady Bex plays electro, pop, dance and cheese 10.30pm £1 Riki tik Swafe Hip hop, reggae, funk and soul 11pm £free SANCTUARY CAFE Folk acoustic night 7.30pm £tbc seven stars Retro Cult Classic Film Nights Log on to www. sevenstarsbrighton.co.uk to vote for film to be shown 8pm £free signalman Quiz Night Time tbc £free sugaqube Laid Back Beats House Time tbc £free thomas kemp Nuts Poker League Bring your poker face 7.30pm £free

Three & Ten Sparks Flash Fiction Read or be read to by local authors 8pm £5 West Hill tavern Open Mic With Tapehead 8.30pm £free xuma Open Mic 8pm £free

wednesday 2nd

Audio Supercharged Breaks 10.30 £5/3 BASEMENT Gabbi’s Dirty Handbag: DJ Gabbi Dirty handbag and house 11pm £free Bee’s mouth Open Mic Night 8.30pm £free Belushi’s BAR Old Skool Sessions 90s house 10pm £free Belushi’s Below ‘Strapped’ Student Night House, rock and pop 10pm £free Black Lion Fresh Acoustics Local live music 8.30pm £free brighton centre Madness Join 5,000 creaky old skinheads for some blokey nostalgia 6.30pm £33.50 brunswick Smarty Pants Do Christmas Christmas show with a meal 1pm £30; The Noise Next Door Comedy improv 8pm £8/6

cobblers thumb Texas Hold’em Cash poker 8pm £5 concorde 2 Frankmusik, Killa Kela Retro synth pop hipster, mate of our snapper Louie Banks, plus beatboxer support 7.30pm

£10

corn exchange Wayne McGregor/Random Dance: Entity Dance and multimedia performnce with a soundtrack from Jon Hopkins and Joby Talbot 8pm £17.50/15/10 CORNERSTONE WhatAboutTheQuiz? Fancy dress pop quiz

time tbc £free

Digital The Poundance 11pm £4/3/1 Duke of Norfolk Quiz Night Winner takes all 8pm £1 Duke Of York’s Cinema (500 Days Of Summer) 11am; A Serious Man 1.30pm, 4pm, 9pm; Sallis Benney Theatre: Blue Beard 8pm Fishbowl Fisherman’s Chronicles Acoustic jam open mic session 8pm £free fortune of war DJ Night New and upcoming DJs 8pm

£free

Globe Open Mac Opportunity to play live set 9pm £free HAND IN HAND Craft Night Decorate pub, earn booze 7pm £free

HEIST Subside: Rezound, Zero One Breaker, Mista K-9 Dubstep, heavy bass beats 9pm £free INK_D Eine & Zeus: Crimes And Punishments Street artists exhibit in pen and ink 10am £free Komedia down New Act Night Brand new stand-up acts 8pm £7/5

Komedia up Simply Barbara The Streisand cabaret experience (if thats your thing) 8pm £15 Kulture Wii Wednesdays Free wii and DJ Rob Grand playing dance, R&B and student anthems 7pm £free latest Music Bar Goodnight Eddie, Rothko Live bands 8pm £3/2

life Lets Kill Disco Electro, indie, d’n’b, breaks 10.30pm £1 mash tun Tin Cup Collective Five piece soul funk band 9pm £free

ocean rooms University Of Life Student night with live bands Time tbc £2 old Market Regency Society Lecture Musical evening with readings 7pm £5/free open house Safehouse Experimental live jam 8pm £3/2 penthouse Hawnay Troof, Psuedo Nippon Stutter filled jams, obviously 7.30pm £free PHOENIX GALLERY Win! Win! Win! Interactive multimedia exhibition with sinister funfair games and toys 11am £free Prince Albert Clowns, Foxes! Live bands 8pm £tbc Riki tik To The Floor Indie, rock and electro 10pm £free RODHUS GALLERY Abbi Kiki: Lighting Ideas details tbc SANCTUARY CAFE Jarmila Xymena Gorna, Mamaloshen Live world music 7.30pm £tbc Sidewinder Garden Quiz Winner takes the pot 8pm £1 sugaqube Bar Grooves House Time tbc £free Three & Ten Clothes To Fall Apart In Theatre about a ‘Very Sad Woman’, her death and Bette Davis 8pm £6/5 Volks D&B, dubstep 11pm £2/free West Hill tavern Gunpowder Poker Cards and cash 7.30pm £7

xuma Quiz 8.30pm £1

thursday 3rd

Audio Shameless Pop antics 11pm £2 basement Post Show Party Show A piece of theatre by Martin Pinchbeck 7.30pm £6/4; DLite: DJ Lee Harris Commercial house 11pm £free Bee’s mouth Splatch! Amazing funk fusion exclaims Jeff Howlett 8.30pm £tbc Belushi’s Bar Karaoke 9pm £free Belushi’s Below Party On The Ceiling Two bands & DJ 9.30pm £2

Black Lion Come As You Are: Gary Mulholland, Ash Bird New rock & roll night 8.30pm £free BRIGHTON CENTRE Here Come The Girls: Lulu, Anastacia and Chaka Khan Menopausal menagerie of mumsy mewlers 7pm £40/30/25

brunswick Smarty Pants Do Christmas Christmas show with a meal 1pm £30; Bitter Ruin Acoustic theatrics 8pm £3 caroline of brunswick Brighton Bike Night Bikers’ social 7pm £free CASABLANCA Live music from Cover Note & DJ £free before 11pm/£2/£1

CASTOR & POLLUX Andy Lovell: Limited edition screenprints Observational drawings and paintings 11am £free; Mike Levy: Paintings & monoprints 11am £free Coalition Secret Discotheque Shamelessly unfashionable music we secretly love 11pm £3/2/1 concorde 2 Herbaliser, Tinroots Live set from jazz funkers 7.30pm £10+

corn exchange Wayne McGregor/Random Dance: Entity Dance and multimedia performnce with a soundtrack from Jon Hopkins and Joby Talbot 8pm £17.50/15/10 CORNERSTONE Spanish Invasion Bilingual fun time tbc £free Digital Major Lazer Soundsystem, Mumdance, Blah Blah Blah DJs Time tbc £10+ duke of norfolk Sicknote Pre-club night with live music

8pm £free

Duke Of York’s Cinema A Serious Man 1.30pm, 4pm, 9pm; Sallis Benney Theatre: Blue Beard 8pm; Boogie Woogie 6.30pm Easy Bar Free Fall D&b and dubstep 9pm £free exchange Quiz night Cash, food and booze prizes 8.45pm £1.50 Fiddler’s Elbow Leerodi Trad Irish Session 8.30pm £free

Fishbowl Residents Association Hip hop, funk, disco, world & house 10pm £free

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Listings Freebutt This Means War, By Definition, Sweet Ether, Desperata Live bands 7.30pm £tbc funky buddha Bang Bang DJ request night 9pm £free GEORGE Open mic night 8pm £free Globe Rockoustic: Flake Brown New night showcasing local live acts 9pm £free hare & hounds PUB Chukin Live music details tbc hare & hounds upstairs Elegant Salsa Dancing 7pm £6 tbc

hectors house Its Alive: Lulla Vilet, Lenient Genies Jamangeladave 8.30pm £free hub Open Mic 8.30pm £free Honeyclub Fusion House, R&B, indie 11pm £3/1 INK_D Eine & Zeus: Crimes And Punishments Street artists exhibit in pen and ink 10am £free Jam Thursday Night Fish Fry Early 50s US rhythm & blues and original Jamaican ska 10pm £3 juggler Are You B.I.M.M? Live bands 8pm £free Komedia down Tag Comedy Stand-up 8pm £8.50/6.50 Komedia studio Hammer & Tongue 2009 Grand Slam Final Performance poetry with ‘Kung’ Henry Bowers 7.30pm £5 Kulture Naughty Thursdays: DJ Rob Grand Dance, R&B, indie 7pm £free latest Music Bar The Space: Goldie, Ian Rankin D&B DJ and crime author visit media event 8pm £6/4 life Club NME New music 10.30pm £2/1 my hotel/bottle Souled Out 70s and 80s soul, rare groove, jazz-funk, philly, salsa 8pm £free NEW HERO Where Is My Mind? Music conoisseurs night 10pm £2

Old Market Geno Washington & The Ram Jam Band Soul legend known for his 60s live albums 7pm £15 Pelirocco Idle Hands: Haunted Beehive With Plan B magazine DJs 8pm £free penthouse Not For Resale Meatbreak’s selection of DIY demos, releases & promos 7.30pm £free PHOENIX GALLERY Win! Win! Win! Interactive multimedia exhibition with sinister funfair games and toys 11am £free prince albert Turncoat, Shadow Empire, Nimmo and the Gauntletts 8pm £tbc Providence Sound Factory Stripped: The Sussex Jazz Orchestra Acoustic jazz 8pm £free quadrant AKL Open Mic 8pm £free Revenge Girls On Top Trashy lesbian night 10.30pm £4/3 Riki tik Show-go-cube-oh Eclectic 10pm £free RODHUS GALLERY Abbi Kiki: Lighting Ideas details tbc st james tavern Stay Sick, Turn Blue Stay Sick DJs playing 50s r&r, rhythm and blues, blues, rockabilly, 60s garage, surf and exotica 8.30pm £free SANCTUARY CAFE Jarmila Xymena Gorna, Mamaloshen Klezmer Band An East European performer of such note that we feel a bit scared that we haven’t included her in the Gigs Previews section, as we may now face the wrath of her promoter. Radio 3 hearts her, and whilst ‘she wouldn’t describe herself as a singershe doesn’t use words’ there will be ‘virtuoso’ vocals, over a selection of some of her 150 backing tracks. Her promoter and Radio 3 know how important she is. Good for them 8pm £7 sugaqube Weekend Warmup Upfront house, anthems Time tbc £free

Three & Ten Clothes To Fall Apart In Theatre about a ‘Very Sad Woman’, her death and Bette Davis 8pm £6/5 tru House Party Big room anthems, house, electro, r&b 10.30pm £3/1.50

victory Open Mic Night 8pm £free Volks Sicknote: D.A.V.E. the Drummer, Julian Liberator, Antispin Techno vs psytrance 11pm £5/4 White rabbit Open Mic 8pm £free xuma Swishing Party Bring your old tat and go home with some new rad glad rags 7pm £free

friday 4th

Audio Battlejam Beardyman & JFB 10pm £8/5 BASEMENT King James And Friends, The Great Park 8pm £5 donation; Celebration: DJ Peter Castle Commercial house 11pm £free

Barneys DJ Rich Harmer Details tbc Belushi’s Bar Coyote Ugly Funky house, electro and dance-off 9pm £free Belushi’s BElow Dtess Up Fridays Compulsory school uniform 10pm £2/free Black Lion Old Shrimp Eyes Is Back: DJ Lanx Funk, Northern soul, mod revival & indie classics 8.30pm £free brighton dome Kate Rusby: Christmas Kate Local folk artist with a full brass quintet 8pm £19.50/15.50 Brunswick Hey Negrita Live music Details tbc Caroline of brunswick Pandemonium: Peter von Sleaze Rock, metal 9pm £free CASABLANCA Live funk 10pm £5 CASTOR & POLLUX Andy Lovell: Limited edition screenprints Observational drawings and paintings 11am £free; Mike Levy: Paintings & monoprints 11am £free Coalition Censored: JV Love Special Naughty house 10pm £tbc

cobblers thumb Strawberry Noise Live local bands 9pm £free

concorde 2 Trojan Soundsytem Legendary reggae label sticks Earl Gateshead behind the decks 11pm £3/4 CORNERSTONE WhatAboutTheDJs? DJs DOV Ville, Ally time tbc £free

cowley club Old Codes New Chaos Cassetteboy DJ Set, Alphabets Heaven, Harry Neve Plus hip hop, elecronica, dubstep DJs 10pm £3 donation Digital Stonelove Indie rock & roll 11pm £6/5/4 Druid’s arms Hot Pepper Sauce Funk, soul, reggae 10pm £free

Duke of beaufort DJ Derek Eclectic mix 7pm £free

Duke Of York’s Cinema Bunny & The Bull 4pm, 9pm; In The Night Garden: Upsy Daisy Dances with the Pinky Ponk 11am; Oil City Confidential 6.30pm ENGINE ROOM Sonic Syndicate Live death metal 7pm £7; Deviant: Metal Night with DJ Justin Trouble, Andy Lost, Alex K666 11pm £tbc Fishbowl Keep It Wheel Steve KIW with rare disco, funk, soul, rock & roll 9pm £free fortune of war Roo (Tru Thoughts) Tropical funk, beats and breaks Details tbc Freebutt Future of the Left, Tubelord Live bands 7.30pm £9

funky buddha Drink, Dance, Repeat Dan Doubledecks, Charles Green & Mikee Hollywood with an eclectic dance mix 11pm £5/3

Globe DJs 9pm £free hampton arms Mod For It 60s Mod party 8pm £free hare & hounds PUB Tragic Roundabout Live music details tbc

hare & hounds upstairs Planet Trousza Rock covers 8pm £2

hectors house Its Alive: The Kensingtons, Morning Orchestra, Amity, Buz 8.30pm £free HOBGOBLIN Metal Night: Colt 44 and more Live bands details tbc

Honeyclub 11-16 Year Olds Club Night Maybe needs more effort on the name but you get the picture 6.30pm £6 Fool’s Gold: Laidback Luke, A-Trak Dutch DJ voted No.46 in the world in the DJmag Top 100 joined by Kayne West’s tour DJ and DMC champion 11pm £tbc Hope The SlipJam Long Player: Koaste, Suave Debonair, Nick Maxwell, Shelley Mack, Richie Cunningham New night of hip hop from the SlipJam:B team 9pm £free Ink Ibiza Republik Collaboration of Kidology and Savacion DJs 8pm £free

INK_D Eine & Zeus: Crimes And Punishments Street artists exhibit in pen and ink 10am £free jam Common Room Live music 8pm £5/3; Broke Dubstep, jungle, breaks, d’n’b 11pm £free juggler Light: DJ Lamp R&b, dance and jazz fusion 8pm £free

Karma DJ Delboy Funk from four decades 10pm £free Komedia down Krater Comedy Club: Keith Farnan, Barry Castagnola and MC Stephen Grant Stand-up shenanigans 7.30pm £12.50/10

komedia studio Brighton Jazz Club: New Jazz Couriers 8pm £15/13/11

Komedia up Voodoo Vaudeville 10th Birthday Party The surreal anarchic cabaret celebrates a decade of filthy pleasures 9pm £10

Kulture Fresh Fridays: DJ Pete Bristow Dance, r&b, indie 7pm £free

Lectern Friday Frenzy Student night with live music 8pm £free LEGENDS Celebration with Dolly Rocket Pop sounds time tbc

£free

life Daft Life Alternative dance, electro and indie leaning house 11pm £5/4

loft Michael Jackson Charity Night Cha mon 9.30pm £tbc neptune Blues and R&B Night Special: Blues Deluxe Upbeat blues 8.30pm £tbc NIGHTINGALE THEATRE Believe Four women’s tales of war 7pm £8.50/6.50

old market Souled Out Brighton’s community soul choir perform uplifting soul and funk with roots in gospel and r&b 8.30 £10/8

open house Brighton Folk & Blues Club Acoustic guitarist Paul Downs 7pm £5 Pav Tav Kick Out The Jams Rock, indie night 11pm £3/2 penthouse Amazing! Classic rock and power ballads 7.30pm £free

PHOENIX GALLERY Airtime 09 Open to all visual and applied artists for info and tips 3pm £free; Win! Win! Win! Interactive multimedia exhibition with sinister funfair games and toys 11am

£free

Prince Albert Who’s Afear’d, Mel’s Allstars, Wotnots Live bands 8pm £tbc Providence Sound Factory: The Wasp Factory, The Lanes, Mike Wilton Indie live bands 8pm £2 RODHUS GALLERY Abbi Kiki: Lighting Ideas details tbc quadrant Live DJs Funk, soul and disco 9pm £free Revenge X Factor Fridays & Lollipop vs Altitude Musical comp followed by camp dance music and glittery fabulousness 10.30pm £5/3/free Riki tik Askew Recordings: DJ Barry Dust Soul, funk and eclectic 10pm £free sugaqube Suga Sessions House from Brian Cheetham Time tbc £free

volks Regime Free Party: Oozat, Darkness, Japery, RDS220 , Mondoshawan, Fuknose, DJ Essar details tbc West Hill tavern Envy Indie, synth pop, dance and hip hop 9pm £free

white rabbit WTF: Achilles DJ Mr Matthew Garland & Stef F 8pm £free xuma After Work Club Live DJs 5pm £free

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Listing beats, nu jazz, soul, funk, reggae 9pm £free fortune of war You Got Papped Christmas Party Not for the camera shy details tbc Freebutt Erland and the Carnival, Flash Bang Band, Seadog Live band featuring The Verve guitarist 7.30pm £tbc funky buddha Buddha Soul: DJ Mike Pantelli Funk, soul, r&b, house 11pm £10; After party 3am £5/3 Globe Disted Twisco Alex Webb playing disco, deep house, broken beats and underground soul 9pm £free Hampton Gimme Shelter Matt Purnell plays 60s, 70s and 80s funk and soul 8pm £free Hanbury PopKraft Christmas Cracker! Festive cabaret, puppetry, pop and porn from Boogaloo Stu and Fake Bush 10pm £8/6

hare & hounds PUB Chickenshed Zeppelin Live music

details tbc

hare & hounds upstairs Oi Xmas Party Punky party’

4pm £15/10

Listings are free But please READ THE RULES before you send them in: • Email your listings to our new address: listings@brightonsource.co.uk, including the venue name & the word "listings" in the subject. • The deadline for February listings is January 15th please! • Please send listings every month, even for regular nights. • Inclusion is not guaranteed.

hectors house Mammothfest Launch Party: L’esprit du Clan, Godsized, Blind Eye Fury, Here There Be Monsters, Lithurgy, Swallowing Shotguns, Uncle Debauchery, Arteriosus, Snakebite, Nervous Endings Massive rock and metal festival with international and local acts 1pm £tbc hoPE Lost Cat, Cloudshaper Live music 8pm £5 honeyclub Sevensins: Lucien Foort Electro, tech house, funky house and r&b 11pm £10+ INK_D Eine & Zeus: Crimes And Punishments Street artists exhibit in pen and ink 10am £free jam The Stash Unsigned bands 8.30pm £4/3 jazz place Soul Casserole Hip hop, funk, soul, breaks 11pm £4

Karma DJ Delboy Funk from four decades 10pm £10/5/free Komedia down Handmade Brighton Alternative Craft and Fashion Fair 11am £free; Krater Comedy Club: Keith Farnan, Barry Castagnola and MC Stephen Grant Stand-up shenanigans 7pm, 10.30pm £16.50 komedia studio Comedy Club For Kids Take the kids out for a laugh - featuring Zoe Lyons and Josh Widdicombe 2pm £8/6; Vive La Fip! Club night inspired by the Parisian radio station 10pm

£6/5

Komedia upstairs Kroon Kat Lounge Festive retro cabaret 9pm £17.50

Kulture Freak Out: DJ Ash Hunt Fancy dress night 7pm

£free

latest Music Bar Adam Davis Band 14 year old Churchill Square busker comes indoors 6pm £5; The Scene Groovy London 60s and 70s heads south 9pm £5; Christmas Party Special Live music with optional meal 8pm £25 (meal)/£7/6 (no meal)

LEGENDS Pre Ignition with Ignition DJs Disco anthems 7pm

£free

saturday 5th

Al Duomo Shebeen Funk, soul, reggae, hip hop, jazz 10.30pm

£5

ancient mariner Hat party Party tunes and silly hats 7.30pm £1/free

Audio SOL House, electro, techno 11pm £free Barneys DJ Giorgio Honey Details tbc basement Supper Club A night of art chaos and performance 6.30pm £6/4

Belushi’s Bar Credit Crunch Saturdays Live acoustic duo 9pm £free

Belushi’s Below Good Times Over 25s party with 70s, 80s soul, funk, disco, classics, anthems 9pm £5 Black Lion Attic Monkeys Top tunes from the last 5 decades 8.30pm £free

brighton centre Alice Cooper Glam geriatric 7pm £32.50

brighton dome The Bootleg Beatles Christmas Concert 30th anniversary tour 8pm £22.50 brunswick Jam Brighton Kiddy rock showcase Noon £tbc Caroline of brunswick Steampunk Craft Fair 6pm £free; Replica Goth and industrial DJs 9pm £free CASABLANCA Live music from The Retrospects & DJs 10pm £7

CASTOR & POLLUX Andy Lovell: Limited edition screenprints Observational drawings and paintings 11am £free; Mike Levy: Paintings & monoprints 11am £free coalition Junkbox 4th Birthday Worthy (Dirtybird), Claude Von Stroke 11pm £12/10/8; Blow Afterparty Vincent Manganaro, Alex Outram, Aaron Pelaez 3am £7/5/4 cobblers thumb Radio 4A PresentsT&K’s Late Live Lunch Tunes from Radio 4A’s most listended to show 8pm £free concorde 2 Raindance Rave Festival: Baby D PA, Slipmatt, Jumpin Jack Frost, Zapback residents 11pm £8 CORNERSTONE WhatAboutTheBeats? Interpretations DJs Future beats and classics time tbc £free COWLEY CLUB In Every Home... A Heartache 3rd Birthday Party Anarchist queer go-go with synthetic disco, punk and junk 10pm £2

Digital Pussycat Club: Welcome To The Ice Hotel 11pm

£15/10

Druid’s arms Winter Festival Festive fun 3pm £free; Nostalgiadelia Funk, soul 12am £free Duke of beaufort SatNiteIsGonnaBAlwrite Ska, backbeat, indie 8pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema A Moment In June 1.30pm; Bunny & The Bull 4pm, 9pm; Charlie & The Chocolate Factory 11am; Sallis Benney Theatre: Straight 8 09 8pm; Samson & Delilah 6.30pm ENGINE ROOM The Ookey Ook DJs Jon & Steph Ska, classic rock’n’roll 11pm £5 Fishbowl Askew Barry Dust and Gareth Stephens play broken

life Hold Up! Indie night 11pm £5 loft 13 Monsters Indie 11pm £5/4 NIGHTINGALE THEATRE The World’s Wife Stage version of poetry collection from the Poet Laureate 7pm £8.50/6.50 old market Bal Masque Kids’ Appeal charity masked ball 6pm £tbc

pav tav Back To The Future Alternative music from the last four decades 11pm £3/2 penthouse Smack That Eclectic DJs 7.30pm £free PHOENIX GALLERY Win! Win! Win! Interactive multimedia exhibition with sinister funfair games and toys 11am £free; Win! Win! Win! Performance evening: Man Ray Sky, Beatabet Collective, Bunty, Officer 82 Live bands 7pm £free Prince Albert Dolly Dagger DJs 8pm £tbc Providence Sound Factory: Sexmess, Dead Empire, Gunshot Straight Glam rock night 8pm £2 Revenge Kinky Dangerous Pop, chart and funky vocal house from Stu, Smiffy and Dulcie Danger 10.30pm £5/3/free Riki Tik Wolf Music Disco, cosmic boogie and house 10pm £free

RODHUS GALLERY Abbi Kiki: Lighting Ideas details tbc Sidewinder Beat Jerky Latin, soul, funk, jazz & reggae Time

tbc £free

st bartholomew’s church BREMF Before Christmas: The Christmas Vespers Festive baroque 7.30pm £10/8 sugaqube Suga Sessions House from Brian Cheetham & Tom Love Time tbc £free Theatre Royal Peter Pan Boy refuses to grow up, hangs out with fairies and pirates - could be based on half the blokes in Brighton 2pm & 7pm £26 thomas kemp DJs Eclectic 9pm £free Three & Ten Rusty Ryan DJ set 10pm £free; Katy & Rach Make Stuff Up Improvised theatre comedy 8pm £7/5 Victory Up Against It Born Bad DJs playing power pop, glitter beat, punk trash, bubblegum 9pm £free volks Psychedelicious Psytrance, breaks 11pm £8/6 West Hill tavern If Reagen Played Disco Alternative ‘80s (plus ‘79) (oh and plus ‘90) 9pm £free White rabbit Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit Eclectic DJs 8pm £free

sunday 6th

AUDIO Acoustic Ladyland Live music 7pm £tbc Belushi’s Bar Open Mic Session 8.30pm £free Belushi’s Below Latin Sundayz Salsa, samba 9pm £2/

free

Black Lion Dubrockers Live Dub, reggae, ska, punk, trip hop, funk 6pm £free brighton centre Will Young Pop’s Mr Nice 7pm £35 brighton dome Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra Barry Wordsworth conducts a bit of Rossini, Beethoven and Brahms 2.45pm £8-32

Brunswick Radio City Comedy theatre 2pm £5; Ian Shaw Jazzy vocals 8pm £10 caroline of brunswick The Geekest Link Do you love Labyrinth? Was Willow the best film like, ever? Does your Second Life avatar have wings and a magical fantasy tail? Do you own a

floor length leather coat? Can you answer these questions and others like them correctly in Klingon? Good for you, this quiz is yours for the taking 8.30pm £1 CASTOR & POLLUX Andy Lovell: Limited edition screenprints Observational drawings and paintings 11am £free; Mike Levy: Paintings & monoprints 11am £free coalition Frequency House night 10.30pm £free druids arms The Downsound Sessions Downtempo beats, grooves, laid back latin and trip hop 9pm £free duke of norfolk Chip And Friends Live music 8pm £free

Duke Of York’s Cinema Bunny & The Bull 4pm, 9.30pm; A Prophet 6.30pm; How To Be Loved 11am Fiddler’s Elbow Sham-Rock Open Mic 9pm £free Fishbowl Recovery? Chilled blend of rare reggae, soul & jazz 9pm £free

Freebutt Hardcore All dayer Live bands Details tbc HANover Hanover Comedy Club aka Neil’s House Party Comedy 8pm £free HAND IN HAND Mountain Music: Secondhand String Band Live bluegrass 8pm £free honeyclub Spectrum: Jon Byrne & Steven James Electro to keep the weekend alive 11pm £3/2 hope Alisdair Roberts, Elle Osbourne, Naomi Foyle Poetry and alternative folk night in support of Gaza Freedom March 7pm

£7/6

INK_D Eine & Zeus: Crimes And Punishments Street artists exhibit in pen and ink 10am £free Komedia Short Fuse Spoken word, stories and poetry Details

tbc

Komedia down Krater Comedy Club: Keith Farnan, Barry Castagnola and MC Stephen Grant Stand-up shenanigans 8pm £10/6

Komedia up Bent Double Gay friendly comedy 7.30pm £12 latest Music Bar Sussex Colombia Solidarity Bands, DJs and speakers Details tbc lectern Fifteen Minutes Of Fame Open stage- perform alone or with the house band 8pm £free LEGENDS 16th Birthday with Miss Jason, Maisie Trollette, Lady Imelda, Lucinda Lashes Disco anthems 3.30pm £free my hotel/merkaba Something On Sundays DJs spinning an eclectic mix 8pm £free neptune Alternative Music Night: Forever Young A tribute to Neil and Bob 8.30pm £tbc oceana Wild Fruit Red Party Paint the town red with special guest star Beverley Knight 8.30pm £12/10 Oki-Nami Kimono Night If your Japanese aunt never trussed you up in a kimono and those crazy flip flop socks when you were young, before forcing you to drink freaky frothy green stuff then you haven’t lived. Here’s your chance to make up for it by trying on some traditional Japanese clothing, eating sushi and drinking sake cocktails 6pm £20 penthouse Felt Up Craft Club Drop in craft making day with travelling craft library and chill out tunes 12pm £free PHOENIX GALLERY Win! Win! Win! Interactive multimedia exhibition with sinister funfair games and toys 11am £free Prince Albert Communion Live band 8pm £tbc quadrant Quiz Night 8pm £free Riki tik Wildcard Soul, funk, hip hop and nu-jazz 10pm £free RODHUS GALLERY Abbi Kiki: Lighting Ideas details tbc st andrew’s church A Medieval Christmas Candlelit celebrations with carols, ballads, chants and readings 7.30pm £10/8

sir Charles Napier Pub Quiz “Bloody hard” the reckon prove them wrong and win a cash prize 8.15pm £free seven stars Mick The Mic And Friends Live music 4pm £free

sugaqube Club Sunday House Time tbc £free thomas kemp Open Mic 8pm £free Theatre Royal Peter Pan Boy refuses to grow up, hangs out with fairies and pirates - could be based on half the blokes in Brighton 1.30pm £26 Three & Ten Strung Out Sundays DJ set 8pm £free VOLKS Bass And Beats For Burma Dubstep d’n’b, electro

10pm £3/2

White rabbit Jazz Sundays Live music 3pm £free xuma Diego Parada Live jazz 8pm £tbc

monday 7th

BASEMENT Chic: DJ Steve Lush Disco anthems 11pm £free Bee’s mouth Jazz Forum All welcome to join in with the house band 8.30pm £free Belushi’s bar Quiz Night 8.30pm £free Black Lion Happy Mondays Open decks and mics 5pm £free

brunswick Smarty Pants Do Christmas Christmas show with a meal 1pm £30; We Bop Harmony Christmas 40-piece choir, soul, funk, gospel 8pm £free CASTOR & POLLUX Andy Lovell: Limited edition screenprints Observational drawings and paintings 11am £free; Mike Levy: Paintings & monoprints 11am £free Coalition Trash Mondays Student Night 10.30pm £2/free concorde 2 Múm Proper lovely soundscape electronic pop from Icelandic band 8pm £12.50+ CORNERSTONE Vinyl Exchange Stick It On-type night time tbc £free

druids arms Quizageddon Pub questioning 8.30pm £1 duke of norfolk Poker Night 8pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema Bunny & The Bull 4pm, 9pm; In The Night Garden: Everybody All Aboard The Ninky Nonk Kid and LSD abuser fun 11am exchange Poker Night 8pm £tbc fountainhead Quiz Complete with play dough and singing rounds 8pm £1 Freebutt Tweak Bird, Sausage Party, P Is For Persia Live bands 7.30pm £5.50 funky buddha Mashed Up M.I.A. vs Michael Jackson and

INK_D Eine & Zeus: Crimes And Punishments Street artists exhibit in pen and ink 10am £free juggler Mondays AKL Open Mic 8pm £free komedia studio Ben Howard 8pm £6 KULTURE uDirtyStopOut: DJ Nonstopmashup Indie, old skool club night 8pm £free latest Music Bar Bhopal Fundraiser Live music and DJs 7pm £5 donation; Breakthrough With Rough Trade Live music and DJs 8pm £3/2 Lectern Super Quiz Night Music, film, general knowledge 8pm £free

LEGENDS Drag With No Name Monday Gangbang (Not actual gangbang) 9pm £free Life Aka Aka Roar New club for discerning dubsteppers Time

tbc £3/2

Old Market Blue Camel Club For learning disabled pople and their mates 7pm £3/carers free Prince Albert Los Perros D’amor, Andy Atit, Joel Pudding, Rebel Control Live bands 8pm £tbc RODHUS GALLERY Abbi Kiki: Lighting Ideas details tbc st georges inn Quiz Night 8pm £1 sidewinder Poker night 9pm £5 Theatre Royal Peter Pan Boy refuses to grow up, hangs out with fairies and pirates - could be based on half the blokes in Brighton 1.30pm & 7pm £26 Volks Strictly Reggae Dancehall, bashment, roots, revival 10pm £5/4.50

West Hill tavern Quiz Night 8.45pm £1

t u e s day 8th

Audio New Slang Alternative, indie and electro 10pm £3/2 BASEMENT Scene Queen DJ lil’ Alex 11pm £free Bee’s mouth Sounds Like Science DJs Electronica grooves

8.30pm £free

Belushi’s BAR Mod For It Mod & ska 10pm £free Belushi’s below Elements Drum & bass 9pm £1 Black Lion Tuesday Club Open decks and mics 8pm

£free

BRIGHTON CENTRE James Morrison 6.30pm £27.50 brunswick Smarty Pants Do Christmas Christmas show with a meal 1pm £30; Open Mic 8pm £free caroline of brunswick Kunt & The Gang, Mr B, Sanity Valve If, as a child, you regularly enjoyed the Kenny Everett show, especially the bits about snot and tits, then this could be your new favourite pop act. High brow 8pm £5; Quiz Night 8.30pm £1

CASTOR & POLLUX Andy Lovell: Limited edition screenprints Observational drawings and paintings 11am £free; Mike Levy: Paintings & monoprints 11am £free Coalition Salsa Brighton Learn the moves for the club night later 8pm £6/4; Latin Fever Salsa and meringue dance party 10pm £3/2

cobblers thumb Open Mic Forget singing for your supper - its play for your pint at the cobblers 8.30pm £free CORNERSTONE Open Mic Night time tbc £free Digital Glitterati Student night 11pm £5/4/3 Duke of Norfolk Open Mic Night 9pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema Bunny & The Bull 4pm, 6pm; Collings & Herring Live Podcast 9pm; Funny People 11am Easy Bar Inkfish Tuesdays Request night 8pm £free Fiddler’s Elbow Quizness Time Pub quiz 8pm £1 Fountainhead Open Mic 9pm £free Freebutt Thomas Dybdahl, The Robot Heart, Guided By Lights, Simon Lynge Norwegian singer songwriter 7.30pm £7 funky buddha San Frandisco Classic and new proper disco- no hen night cheese, think DFA not YMCA 11pm £free Globe Basement Cinema: Science Of Sleep, The Nightmare Before Christmas Classic and underground film screenings 8pm

Sidewinder Shades Of Blue Funk vs jazz special featuring Steelzawheelz and Drift 8pm £free signalman Quiz Night Time tbc £free sugaqube Laid Back Beats House Time tbc £free thomas kemp Nuts Poker League Bring your poker face 7.30pm £free

Three & Ten Pappy Christmas Everybody! Sketch comedy

8pm £8/6

Volks Champion Sounds Garage, dubstep, reggae 10.30pm

£1

West Hill tavern Acoustic Night 8pm £free xuma Open Mic 8pm £free

wednesday 9th

£free

Belushi’s Below ‘Strapped’ Student Night House, rock and pop 10pm £free Black Lion Fresh Acoustics Local live music 8.30pm £free BRIGHTON CENTRE UB40 Reggae with more cod than Bird’s Eye 7pm £35 brunswick Smarty Pants Do Christmas Christmas show with a meal 1pm £30; The Bawdy House Sleazy cabaret 7.30pm £10

cobblers thumb Texas Hold’em Cash poker 8pm £5 Concorde 2 Bob Mould Husker Du and Sugar legend is back 8pm £15+ Digital The Poundance 11pm £4/3/1 Duke of Norfolk Quiz Night Winner takes all 8pm £1 Duke Of York’s Cinema Bunny & The Bull 4pm, 9pm; Funny People 11am Fishbowl Fisherman’s Chronicles Acoustic jam open mic session 8pm £free fortune of war DJ Night New and upcoming DJs 8pm £free

Freebutt Slaraffenland Live bands 7.30pm £5 Globe Open Mac Opportunity to play live set 9pm £free HAND IN HAND Silent Movie Showing Chaplin and that 9pm

£free

INK_D Eine & Zeus: Crimes And Punishments Street artists exhibit in pen and ink 10am £free Jam Little Dragon Live music 7pm £7 juggler Bakk Lamp Fall Five piece traditional West African band 8pm £free Komedia up Oysterband Folk 7.30pm £15 Kulture Wii Wednesdays Free wii and DJ Rob Grand playing dance, R&B and student anthems 7pm £free latest Music Bar Christmas Party Special Live music with optional meal 8pm £25 (meal)/£7/6 (no meal) life Lets Kill Disco Electro, indie, d’n’b, breaks 10.30pm £1 mash tun Tin Cup Collective Five piece soul funk band 9pm £free

NIGHTINGALE THEATRE Student Christmas Show Foundation students from ACT’s festive do 7pm £tbc OCEANA End Of Term Snow Party With like a snow machine and everything 9pm £4/3/2 ocean rooms University Of Life Student night with live bands Time tbc £2 pavilion theatre Them With Frozen Tails Children’s panto alternative 10am/1.30pm £8/6/5 penthouse The Outer Church Joseph Stannard from The Wire (the magazine not the TV show) plays wigged out old tunes 7.30pm £free

£free

Prince Albert Jouis, Luke Hytner, Rothko Live bands

tbc

Riki tik To The Floor Indie, rock and electro 10pm £free RODHUS GALLERY Abbi Kiki: Lighting Ideas details tbc Sidewinder Garden Quiz Winner takes the pot 8pm £1 sugaqube Bar Grooves House Time tbc £free Theatre Royal Peter Pan Boy refuses to grow up, hangs out with fairies and pirates - could be based on half the blokes in Brighton 1.30pm & 7pm £26 three & ten Pappy Christmas Everybody! Sketch comedy

hare & hounds PUB Singles Nite Snog a stranger details

Honeyclub Quids In Anything goes music policy 11pm £1 INK_D Eine & Zeus: Crimes And Punishments Street artists exhibit in pen and ink 10am £free jam Kong Presents Local bands 8pm £4/2 jazz place Roots Garden Roots & reggae 11pm £4/3.50 juggler Are You B.I.M.M? Live music from BIMM students 8pm £free

komedia up Stephen Malkmus and The Jicks Ex-Pavement indie superhero 8pm £14 latest Music Bar Tudi Bem Brazilian samba funk band 8pm £5

life The Vice Social Student dance night 10.30pm £3/2 mash tun Mash. Drink. Repeat DJs Rich and Jay with rock, indie and electro 9pm £free NIGHTINGALE THEATRE Student Christmas Show Foundation students from ACT’s festive do 7pm £tbc OCEANA Paul Oakenfold DJ set 8pm £9 open house Jazz Workshop We’re jammin’ 8pm £3 Pav Tav Guerilla Rocks Indie, rock, punk and ska 10.30pm £3/2/1

pavilion theatre Them With Frozen Tails Children’s panto alternative 10am/1.30pm £8/6/5 Prince Albert Seadog, The Creaking Chair & Mid-West Blues Live bands 8pm £4/3 Revenge Sound As A Pound Lady Bex plays electro, pop, dance and cheese 10.30pm £1 Riki tik Swafe Hip hop, reggae, funk and soul 11pm £free RODHUS GALLERY Abbi Kiki: Lighting Ideas details tbc

8pm £tbc

8pm £8/6

three graces Area Code 273 Quirky bluesy tex mex 9pm

£tbc

Volks Drum&bass and dubstep 11pm £2/free West Hill tavern Gunpowder Poker 7.30pm £tbc xuma Quiz 8.30pm £tbc

thursday 10th

Audio Shameless Pop antics 11pm £2 BASEMENT DLite: DJ Lee Harris Commercial house 11pm

£free

Bee’s mouth Sweet Sweet Lies Live band 9pm £free Belushi’s Bar Karaoke 9pm £free Belushi’s Below Party On The Ceiling Two bands & DJ 9.30pm £2

Black Lion Attic Monkeys Top tunes from the last 5 decades 8.30pm £free

brighton centre Abba - The Show Like Bjorn Again, but not 7.30pm £35 brunswick Smarty Pants Do Christmas Christmas show with a meal 1pm £30; Elise Project Upbeat funk ‘n’ dancin’ 8pm £4

CASABLANCA Live music & DJ £free before 11pm/£2/£1 CASTOR & POLLUX Andy Lovell: Limited edition screenprints Observational drawings and paintings 11am £free; Mike Levy: Paintings & monoprints 11am £free Coalition Secret Discotheque Shamelessly unfashionable music we secretly love 11pm £3/2/1 concorde 2 BIMM End Of Term Party Well, there ought to be some good music 7pm £4, Horse Power: 2ManyDJs In their day the best DJs on the planet 10.30pm £SOLD OUT CORNERSTONE Spanish Invasion Bilingual fun time tbc £free

Digital Thursday Club/Vagabondz: Channel One, Jazzsteppa, Kromestar 11pm £7+ Duke of beaufort B Movies Godzilla. And the rest 7pm

£free

duke of norfolk Sicknote Pre-club night with live music

8pm £free

Duke Of York’s Cinema Bunny & The Bull 4pm, 9pm Easy Bar Free Fall D&b and dubstep 9pm £free exchange Quiz night Cash, food and booze prizes 8.45pm

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the like 8.30pm £2/1/free Honeyclub Detention Student night with r&b, indie 10.30pm £3/2/free; Rebel Afterhours: DJs Jonny M, Jon Byrne, Tasty Tim 3am £tbc Hope The H’Open Mic 8.30pm £free

£1.50

Fiddler’s Elbow Fiddle-sticks Local live music 9pm

£free

Fishbowl Residents Association Hip hop, funk, disco, world & house 10pm £free Freebutt Piney Gir, The Bobby McGees, An Argument About Yellow 7.30pm £5.50 funky buddha Bang Bang DJ request night 9pm £free GEORGE Open mic night 8pm £free Globe Rockoustic: Flake Brown New night showcasing local live acts 9pm £free hare & hounds PUB Pavarotty Live music details tbc hare & hounds upstairs Club Zygotic Surf punk & sleaze 8pm £4 hectors house Its Alive: Natalies Box, They Were Bears 8.30pm £free

hub Open Mic 8.30pm £free Honeyclub Fusion House, R&B, indie 11pm £3/1 hope The Pangs Electro-soul five piece 8pm £3 INK_D Eine & Zeus: Crimes And Punishments Street artists exhibit in pen and ink 10am £free Jam Thursday Night Fish Fry Early 50s US rhythm & blues and original Jamaican ska 10pm £3 juggler Are You B.I.M.M? Live bands 8pm £free Karma Break For The Border Mexican/Latino night Details

tbc

komedia down Krater Christmas Krackers Festive standup fun with your 3 course Christmas dinner thrown in 8.45pm

£35/30

komedia up Heavy Load’s ‘Wild Things’ Album Launch Party Disabled activist musicians from all over the world showcase their work 8pm £5 Kulture Naughty Thursdays: DJ Rob Grand Dance, R&B, indie 7pm £free latest Music Bar Catalyst Club Lecture club of obscurities 8pm £5

LEGENDS Karaoke with Tammy Twinkle Disco anthems 9.30pm £free

life Club NME New music 10.30pm £2/1 my hotel/bottle Souled Out 70s and 80s soul, rare groove, jazz-funk, philly, salsa 8pm £free NIGHTINGALE THEATRE Student Christmas Show Foundation students from ACT’s festive do 7pm £tbc pavilion theatre Them With Frozen Tails Children’s panto alternative 10am/1.30pm £8/6/5 Pelirocco Idle Hands: Jon Slade and Chris King For that Born Bad/Da Doo Ron Ron kind of experience 8pm £free penthouse The Sett Film screenings and photography from Sussex University newspaper 7.30pm £free prince albert Flipside with D.Js Lucky Phil & Dave Mumbles Live bands 8pm £tbc Providence Sound Factory Stripped: Anna Searight, Kate Garrand, Toby Slater Acoustic live 8pm £free RODHUS GALLERY Abbi Kiki: Lighting Ideas details tbc quadrant AKL Open Mic 8pm £free Revenge Girls On Top Trashy lesbian night 10.30pm £4/3 Riki tik Show-go-cube-oh Eclectic 10pm £free st james tavern Stay Sick, Turn Blue Stay Sick DJs playing 50s r&r, rhythm and blues, blues, rockabilly, 60s garage, surf and exotica 8.30pm £free SANCTUARY CAFE Top Banana Open mic comedy 8pm £5/4

sugaqube Weekend Warmup: Gary Scott Upfront house, anthems Time tbc £free Theatre Royal Peter Pan Boy refuses to grow up, hangs out with fairies and pirates - could be based on half the blokes in Brighton 1.30pm & 7pm £26 three & ten Brian Gittins and Friends Comedy 8pm £8/6 tru House Party Big room anthems and house, electro & r&b classics10.30pm £3/1.50 victory Open Mic Night 8pm £free Volks Borgore Dubstep 10pm £tbc White rabbit Local Live Live bands 8pm £free

friDAY 11TH

Audio Lighning Bolt, Pseudo Nippon Live music 7pm £tbc Barneys DJ Andy G Details tbc basement Jingle Bollocks Naughty Christmas party including alternative panto 7.30pm £49 Belushi’s Bar Coyote Ugly Funky house, electro and dance-off 9pm £free Belushi’s BElow Dress Up Fridays Santa and elves

gsDecember 2009

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theme 10pm £2/free Black Lion Medium Rare Funk, soul and rare grooves 8.30pm £free

BRIGHTON CENTRE Status Quo One of them wears a wig. Allegedly. 6.30pm £31.50 Brighton Dome Only Men Aloud Christmas themed 7pm £20/26/29.50

Brunswick No Town Like Motown Motown and soul 8pm

£5

Caroline of brunswick Pandemonium: Peter von Sleaze Rock, metal 9pm £free CASABLANCA Live funk 10pm £5 CASTOR & POLLUX Andy Lovell: Limited edition screenprints Observational drawings and paintings 11am £free; Mike Levy: Paintings & monoprints 11am £free Coalition Freak Bazaar Prog, psy-trance, plus downtempo room 10.30pm £10/8 cobblers thumb La Belle et la Beat Weird and eccentric sounds 8pm £free concorde 2 BIMM End Of Term Party A second night where there ought to be some good music 7pm £4, Super Dub Pressure: Distance, Cyrus, Chef, Breakage Another killer dubstep line up 11pm £10+ Digital Stonelove Indie rock & roll 11pm £6/5/4 druids arms Foe & Friends Funk, soul, reggae & dance 10pm £free

Duke of beaufort DJ Derek Eclectic mix 7pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema In The Night Garden: Everybody All Aboard The Ninky Nonk 11am; Where The Wild Things Are 1.30pm, 4pm, 6.30pm, 9pm

ENGINE ROOM Deviant: Metal Night with DJ Justin Trouble, Andy Lost, Alex K666 Details tbc Fishbowl The Black Lodge Disco, soul, electro funk 9pm

£free

Fortune Of War The Impellers A live and DJ set from the Brighton soul funk outfit details tbc freebutt Hold Fire Live bands 7.30pm £tbc funky buddha Drink, Dance, Repeat Dan Doubledecks, Charles Green & Mikee Hollywood with an eclectic dance mix 11pm £5/3

Globe DJ’s 9pm £free Hampton Fiftyseven DJs playing funk 8pm £free Hanbury Mojo2GoGo Xmas Party 60s mod, ska and styish soul 9.30pm £6/4 hare & hounds PUB The Blox Live music details tbc hare & hounds upstairs The Tofu Love Frogs Live music 8pm £5 Honeyclub Union drum’n’bass, dubstep and dance anthems 10.30 £5

hope Slim Shack, The Godfathers Live rhythm and blues 8pm

£3

Ink Ibiza Republik Collaboration of Kidology and Savacion DJs 8pm £free

INK_D Eine & Zeus: Crimes And Punishments Street artists exhibit in pen and ink 10am £free jam Broke Dubstep, jungle, breaks, D&B 11pm £free juggler Light: DJ Lamp R&B, dance, jazz fusion 8pm £free Karma DJ Delboy Funk from four decades 10pm £free komedia down Krater Christmas Krackers Festive standup fun with your 3 course Christmas dinner thrown in 2.45pm £39; 8.45pm £35/30

Komedia Studio Brighton Jazz Club: Ben Castle Quartet 8pm £12/10/8

komedia up Krater Comedy Club Stand up with Michael Fabbri, Steve Gribbin, JJ Whitehead and MC Stephen Grant 7pm £18.50; Balkaneasca! Balkan and gypsy beats 11pm £tbc Lectern Friday Frenzy Student night with live music 8pm £free life Daft Life Alternative dance, electro and indie leaning house 11pm £5/4

neptune Simon and Sleeze Trio Rhythm and blues 8.30pm £tbc

NIGHTINGALE THEATRE Student Christmas Show Foundation students from ACT’s festive do 7pm £tbc Pav Tav Kick Out The Jams Rock, indie night 11pm £3/2 penthouse Lilo Feast Across the board non-hipster music for hipsters (they’ll hate that description) 7.30pm £free Prince Albert Club Meow with Meow Meows and guests Punk, rock & roll 8pm £tbc Providence Sound Factory: The Hatters, Bear pop, Stalebreak Rock night 8pm £1 quadrant Live DJs Funk, soul and disco 9pm £free Revenge X Factor Finalist & Lollipop vs Altitude Musical comp followed by dance music and glittery fabulousness 10.30pm £5/3/free Riki tik Looking Sound Presents 3D Beats Dubstep, breaks and drum & bass with multi projection video scratch and live VJs 10pm £free

saturday 12th

Audio SOL Blogger’s Delight feat. Jo Jo De Freq Electro, techno, house 11pm £free Barneys DJ Pablo Contraband Details tbc basement Jingle Bollocks Naughty Christmas party including alternative panto 7.30pm £49 Belushi’s Bar Credit Crunch Saturdays Live acoustic duo 9pm £free

Belushi’s Below Good Times Over 25s party with 70s, 80s soul, funk, disco, classics and anthems from Mick Fuller 9pm £5 Black Lion Burnt Toast Funk, soul, breaks, hip hop 8.30pm £free

BRIGHTON CENTRE Jools Holland & his Rhythm & Blues Orchestra Boogie woogie bobbins 7.30pm £31.50 Brighton Dome London Philharmonic Orchestra JukkaPekka Saraste conducts Beethoven and Brahms (their music, not them, this isn’t Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure or something) 7pm £20/26/29.50

Brunswick Brighton Ukelele Group 3pm £free; Tinroots, King Porter Stomp Live reggae, hip hop, funk 8pm £6/5 Caroline of brunswick Laugh Down Babylon Stand up 9pm £2; Ever-Winter Night: DeLirium Metal DJ 9pm, £free CASABLANCA Live funk and soul plus DJs 10pm £7 CASTOR & POLLUX Andy Lovell: Limited edition screenprints Observational drawings and paintings 11am £free; Mike Levy: Paintings & monoprints 11am £free coalition Floorplay Prok & Fitch, Vince Frimpong, Georgeous 10.30pm £10/8/7; Blow After Party Underground house, electro and techno, 3am £7/5/4 cobblers thumb The Jazz Sessions Think The Gotan Project and more 8pm £free Concorde 2 Har Mar Superstar Electro pop sex dwarf 7pm £9+, Wiggle & Positive Xmas: Terry Francis and Nathan Coles Tech house pioneers 11pm £7+ CORNERSTONE WhatAboutTheBeats? Interpretations DJs Future beats and classics time tbc £free COWLEY CLUB Slutdisko Electropunk disco 9pm £free Digital Hospitality: High Contrast, Logistics, Break, Die, Subwave 11pm £12.50+ druids arms Get Yuh Own Hip hop, funk soul 10pm £free Duke of beaufort SatNiteIsGonnaBAlwrite Ska, backbeat, indie 8pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema Clouzot’s Inferno 1.30pm; Miracle On 34th Street 11am; Where The Wild Things Are 3.30pm, 6pm, 8.30pm

ENGINE ROOM Alternative TV, The Fallen Leaves, Chester, DJ Ian Part Time Punk 7pm £8/7, Planet Hex 80s, goth, punk, industrial 10.30pm £tbc Fishbowl Daddy Marcus Sing-a-long session of soul, disco, funk and party classics 9pm £free Fortune Of War Discoshed: Disco Shed details tbc Freebutt The Crave, Rocket Dolls Live bands 7.30pm £7 funky buddha Buddha Soul: DJ Mike Pantelli Funk, soul, house 11pm £10 Globe Basement House Party Grooves and dance 9pm £free

hampton Blacklodge Eclectic mix of soul, funk, disco, boogie, rare 60s 8pm £free Hanbury We Luv Pop: We Luved 2009 All the good bits of the last year 9.30pm £8/6 hare & hounds PUB Lex Angel Live music details tbc hare & hounds upstairs Ska All Dayer details tbc hectors house The Big Free For All Xmas Party: The Fadadoo Project, Second Time Lucky, Son Of Robot, RedManRed, Our Fathers, Amity Live bands and festive fun 8.30pm £free

honeyclub Sevensins: Hoxton Whores Electro, tech house, funky house and r&b 11pm £10 Hope Yokoko, The Beautiful Word, The Morning Orchestra Christmas fancy dress party with live bands 8pm £3 Hove Centre Brighton Goes Gospel Christmas Concert 7.30pm £tbc

INK_D Eine & Zeus: Crimes And Punishments Street artists exhibit in pen and ink 10am £free Iron Duke Dr Razzu Album Launch DIY Performance art, DIY poetry and DIY rock & DIY roll- does their DIY ethic come across? 9pm £tbc

jam Sweet Sensation Live lovers’ rock time tbc £5 jazz place Real Shocks Indie 11pm £tbc Karma DJ Delboy Funk from four decades 10pm £10/5/free komedia down Krater Christmas Krackers Festive standup fun with your 3 course Christmas dinner thrown in 8.30pm £35/30; Brighton Rock Fancy Dress Freestyle fancy dress night with classic rock and metal tunes from the last four decades11pm

RODHUS GALLERY Abbi Kiki: Lighting Ideas details tbc SANCTUARY CAFE Acapella Fusion Unaccompanied singing, featuring soprano Celia who we met in a bar recently 8.30pm £4 Sidewinder Get Yuh Own: DJs Rad Stewart & Legendary TP Hip hop, soul, jazz, funk, world and future 9pm £free sugaqube Suga Sessions House from Brian Cheetham Time

£6

Theatre Royal Peter Pan Boy refuses to grow up, hangs out with fairies and pirates - could be based on half the blokes in Brighton 2pm & 7pm £26 thomas kemp All Time Top 100 Special guest DJs offer their best tunes 8pm £free; SWAP PARTY Live music for War On Want

£free

tbc £free

8pm £free

Three & Ten Agent T DJ set 10pm £free Victory Beans On Toast: Radio Reverb’s BlackBelt Jones Hip hop & funk 9pm £free Volks Carbon D’n’b 11pm £6/5 West Hill tavern Envy Indie, synth pop, hip hop and dance 10pm £free

xuma After Work Club Live DJs 5pm £free

Komedia Studio Stone To the Bone Psychedelic soul, Motown, afro-beat and funk 11pm £6/5; komedia up Krater Comedy Club Stand up from Michael Fabbri, Steve Gribbin, JJ Whitehead and MC Stephen Grant 7pm

£18.50

Kulture Freak Out: DJ Ash Hunt Fancy dress night 7pm

latest Music Bar Christmas Party Special Live music with optional meal 8pm £25 (meal)/£7/6 (no meal) Lectern Schwervon!, My Sad Captains, Foxes!, Superman Revenge Squad Schwervon! are the cornerstone of the New York anti-folk scene - proper good live 7.30pm £6 life Hold Up! Indie night 11pm £5 NIGHTINGALE THEATRE Student Christmas Show Foundation students from ACT’s festive do 7pm £tbc ocean rooms Eye Candy Funky house, urban details tbc old Market Carburlesque...Back In The Stockings Seasonal tease 7.30pm £15/12 pavilion theatre Them With Frozen Tails Children’s panto alternative 11am/2pm/5pm £8/6/5

penthouse Ultrasound Dubstep, house and hip hop 7.30pm £free

Prince Albert Surfin’ Lungs, Leonard and Bubba’s Delicious Goo Goo Cluster, R/R Live bands 8pm £tbc Revenge Kinky Dangerous Pop, chart and funky vocal house from Stu, Smiffy and Dulcie Danger 10.30pm £5/3/free Riki tik 3Soul Kolective: David Holness & Defunk Funk, soul, jazz, broken beats 11pm £free RODHUS GALLERY Abbi Kiki: Lighting Ideas details tbc SANCTUARY CAFE Rapunzel Gets Down Women only performance night 9pm £6 Sidewinder Tape2Tape The James Kendall’s life changing mix of 80s pop, electro and indie 9pm £free sugaqube Suga Sessions House from Brian Cheetham & Aaron Pelaez Time tbc £free Theatre Royal Peter Pan Boy refuses to grow up, hangs out with fairies and pirates - could be based on half the blokes in Brighton 2pm & 7pm £26 thomas kemp DJs Eclectic 9pm £free Three & Ten Manly Matt ‘Moustache’ Barker DJ set 10pm £free; The Noise Next Door Improvised comedy 8pm £8/6; International Stand-Up Comedy 9.30pm £/8/6 three graces This Is My Epicentre Acoustic showcase 8pm £free

Tom’s Bar Destination Frantic New garage and psych club night 9pm £free Unitarian Church Spyros Dendrinos Classical guitarist 7pm £8/6

Volks BlackBox Techno, electro 11pm £8/6 west hill tavern Tonight We Fly Melodramatic and moody- the tracks, not the DJs 9pm £free White rabbit Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit Eclectic DJs 8pm £free

sunday 13th

Audio Communion Indie, alt bands and DJs 7pm £free BASEMENT Fever: DJ Ross Alexander Disco pop 11pm £free Belushi’s Bar Open Mic Session 8.30pm £free Belushi’s Below Latin Sundayz Salsa, samba 9pm £2/

free

Black Lion Dubrockers Live Dub, reggae, ska, punk, trip hop and funk 6pm £free brighton centre Lily Allen 6.30pm £23 Brighton Dome Christmas Concert Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Brighton Festival Chorus and Brighton Festival Youth Choir get together for a few festive tunes 4pm £10-25 Brunswick Saxophone Showcase Jazz and pop 1pm £free; Christmas Night Carol singing and festive belly dancing 7pm £10/8

CASTOR & POLLUX Andy Lovell: Limited edition screenprints Observational drawings and paintings 11am £free; Mike Levy: Paintings & monoprints 11am £free coalition Frequency House 10.30pm £free concorde 2 U Roy, The Abyssinians Two of reggae’s biggest names from the golden era 7pm £15+ Druid’s arms The Downsound Sesions Downtempo beats 9pm £free

duke of norfolk Max And Guests Live music 8pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema Clouzot’s Inferno 1.30pm; Where The Wild Things Are 3.30pm, 6pm, 8.30pm ENGINE ROOM OM, Sloath, Jovian Live music details tbc Fiddler’s Elbow Sham-Rock Open Mic 9pm £free Fishbowl Recovery? Reggae, sou, jazz 9pm £free Freebutt The Bookhouse Boys, Black Gold, Mute Swimmer Live bands 7.30pm £7.50 Hanbury Winter Breton Ceidlih with Balkan Beats DJs, dance lessons and live band 8pm £8/6 HAND IN HAND Live Jazz Living Room Raucous drinking songs 8pm £free hare & hounds PUB Kwiz Nite With a great Plasticine round, apparently details tbc honeyclub Spectrum: Jon Byrne & Steven James Electro to keep the weekend alive 11pm £3/2 INK_D Eine & Zeus: Crimes And Punishments Street artists exhibit in pen and ink 10am £free komedia up Krater Comedy Club Stand up from Michael Fabbri, Steve Gribbin, JJ Whitehead and MC Stephen Grant 8pm

£12

latest Music Bar 3sum Sundays: Ben Poole Band, Paul Diello & Friends, Neil Newsham Live music 7.30pm £6/4 lectern Fifteen Minutes Of Fame Open stage- perform alone or with the house band 8pm £free LEGENDS Sunday Cabaret with Laquasha Lonz 3.15pm £free

my hotel/merkaba Something On Sundays DJs spinning an eclectic mix 8pm £free neptune Alternative Music Night: Mike The Mic 20s and 30s jazz 8.30pm £tbc old market Doric Quartet Playing Mozart, Janacek and Beethoven 11am £22/10/7; Santa’s Coming Gay Men’s Chorus from Last Choir Standing 4pm & 8pm £10/8 pavilion theatre Them With Frozen Tails Children’s panto alternative 11am/2pm/5pm £8/6/5 penthouse Felt Up Craft Club Drop in craft making day with travelling craft library and chill out tunes 12pm £free prince albert Dan Potthast Experience, Random Hand, Mike TV Live bands 8pm £tbc quadrant Quiz Night 8pm £free Riki tik Wildcard Soul, funk, hip hop, nu-jazz 10pm £free RODHUS GALLERY Abbi Kiki: Lighting Ideas details tbc seven stars Mick The Mic And Friends Live music 4pm £free

m o n day 14th ancient mariner Pub quiz 8pm £1 BASEMENT Chic: DJ Steve Lush Disco anthems 11pm £free Bee’s mouth Jazz Forum All welcome to join in with the house band 8.30pm £free Belushi’s bar Quiz Night 8.30pm £free Black Lion Happy Mondays Open decks and mics 5pm

£free

BRIGHTON CENTRE Ricky Gervais: Science Funny little fat man. His words, not ours 7.30pm £30 brunswick Smarty Pants Do Christmas Christmas show with a meal 1pm £30; Salsa Night 8pm £10/8 CASTOR & POLLUX Andy Lovell: Limited edition screenprints Observational drawings and paintings 11am £free; Mike Levy: Paintings & monoprints 11am £free Coalition Trash Mondays Student Night 10.30pm £2/free CORNERSTONE Vinyl Exchange Stick It On-type night time tbc £free

duke of norfolk Poker Night 8pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema Where The Wild Things Are 1pm, 3.30pm, 6pm, 8.30pm exchange Poker Night 8pm £tbc fountainhead Quiz Complete with play dough and singing rounds 8pm £1 freebutt Apse, Pope Joan Experimental rock 7.30pm £tbc funky buddha Mashed Up M.I.A. vs Jacko and that sort of thing 8.30pm £2/1/free Honeyclub Detention Student night with R&b, indie 10.30pm £3/2/free

Hope The H’Open Mic 8.30pm £free INK_D Eine & Zeus: Crimes And Punishments Street artists exhibit in pen and ink 10am £free juggler Mondays AKL Open Mic 8pm £free Komedia up Suspiciously Elvis The king himself, a six piece and your re-incarnated 70s Vegas show 8pm £18.50 komedia studio William D Drake and Crayola Lectern Live pianist 8.30pm £7.50 KULTURE uDirtyStopOut: DJ Nonstopmashup Indie, old skool club night 8pm £free latest Music Bar Phantom Limb, Bigbang, Laylanas Live country-tipped music 8pm £6/6 Lectern Super Quiz Night Music, film, general knowledge 8pm £free

LEGENDS Drag With No Name Monday Gangbang (Not actual gangbang) 9pm £free Life Aka Aka Roar New club for discerning dubsteppers Time

tbc £3/2

Prince Albert Born To Lose Live bands and DJs 8pm

£tbc

RODHUS GALLERY Abbi Kiki: Lighting Ideas details tbc sidewinder Poker night 9pm £5 Theatre Royal Peter Pan Boy refuses to grow up, hangs out with fairies and pirates - could be based on half the blokes in Brighton 1.30pm & 7pm £26 three graces Quiz Interactive rounds 7.30pm £free Volks Strictly Reggae Dancehall, bashment, roots, revival 10pm £5/4.50

t u e s day 15th Audio New Slang Alternative, indie and electro 6pm £5/4 BASEMENT Scene Queen DJ lil’ Alex 11pm £free Bee’s mouth Sounds Like Science DJs Electronica grooves 8.30pm £free

Belushi’s bAR Mod For It Mod & Ska 10pm £free Belushi’s below Elements Drum & bass 9pm £1 Black Lion Tuesday Club Open decks and mics 8pm £free BRIGHTON CENTRE Ricky Gervais: Science Funny little fat man. His words, not ours 7.30pm £30 brunswick Smarty Pants Do Christmas Christmas show with a meal 1pm £30; Open Mic 8pm £free caroline of brunswick Quiz Night 8.30pm £1 CASTOR & POLLUX Andy Lovell: Limited edition screenprints Observational drawings and paintings 11am £free; Mike Levy: Paintings & monoprints 11am £free Coalition Salsa Brighton Salsa and meringue social 8pm £6/4; Latin Fever Salsa and meringue dance party 10pm £3/2 cobblers thumb Open Mic Forget singing for your supper - its play for your pint at the cobblers 8.30pm £free CoNCORDE 2 Electric Six Gay Bar-frequenting disco punk band still going it seems 7.30pm £10+ CORNERSTONE Open Mic Night time tbc £free Digital Glitterati Student night 11pm £5/4/3 Duke of Norfolk Open Mic Night 9pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema Clouzot’s Inferno 11am; Where The Wild Things Are 1.30pm, 4pm, 6.30pm, 9pm Easy Bar Inkfish Tuesdays Request night 8pm £free Fiddler’s Elbow Quizness Time Pub Quiz 8pm £1 Fountainhead Open Mic 9pm £free funky buddha San Frandisco Classic and new proper disco- no hen night cheese, think DFA not YMCA 11pm £free Globe Basement Cinema: Gremlins, Tokyo Godfathers Classic and underground film screenings 8pm £free Honeyclub Quids In Anything goes music policy 11pm £1

hope Nice Nice Meets Thursday Night Fish Fry Xmas Extrvaganza Ska, rocksteady, Jamaican 50s r&b 8pm £3 INK_D Eine & Zeus: Crimes And Punishments Street artists exhibit in pen and ink 10am £free jam Kong Presents Local bands 8pm £4/2 jazz place Roots Garden Roots & reggae 11pm £4/3.50 juggler Are You B.I.M.M? Live bands 8pm £free latest Music Bar Call Me Jolene, Das Fenster Gene’s Martin Rossiter’s new band 7.30pm £4; Christmas Party Special Live music with optional meal 8pm £25 (meal)/£7/6 (no meal) life The Vice Social Student dance night 10.30pm £3/2 mash tun Mash. Drink. Repeat DJs Rich and Jay with rock, indie and electro 9pm £free old Market Will Self & Ralph Steadman Writing god with Britain’s largest vocabulary and Hunter S Thompson’s scratchy illustrator talk about the collection of their Independant walking columns 6.30pm £6 open house Jazz Workshop 8pm £3 Pav Tav Guerilla Rocks Indie, rock, punk and ska 10.30pm £3/2/1

penthouse Rate Noise Music from unsigned producers Time

tbc £free

prince albert Win Prizes, mistakes.in.animation Live bands 8pm £free quadrant Piers Clark & Jason Henson Gypsy jazz 8pm £3 Revenge Sound As A Pound Lady Bex plays electro, pop, dance and cheese 10.30pm £1 Riki tik Swafe Hip hop, reggae, funk and soul 11pm £free RODHUS GALLERY Abbi Kiki: Lighting Ideas details tbc seven stars Retro Cult Classic Film Nights Log on to www. sevenstarsbrighton.co.uk to vote for film to be shown 8pm £free signalman Quiz Night Time tbc £free sugaqube Laid Back Beats House Time tbc £free Three & Ten The Pitchfork Disney Theatre with twins, chocolate and dreams 7.30pm £6/5 west hill tavern Open Mic With Tapehead 8.30pm £free xuma Open Mic 8pm £tbc

wednesday 16th

Audio Supercharged Breaks 10.30 £5/3 BASEMENT Gabbi’s Dirty Handbag: DJ Gabbi Dirty handbag and house 11pm £free Bee’s mouth Open Mic Night 8.30pm £free Belushi’s BAR Old Skool Sessions 90s house 10pm £free Belushi’s Below ‘Strapped’ Student Night House, rock and pop 10pm £free Black Lion Fresh Acoustics Local live music 8.30pm £free BRIGHTON CENTRE Ricky Gervais: Science Funny little fat man. His words, not ours 7.30pm £30 brighton dome Chicago The Musical With Gary Wilmot 7.30pm £17.50-31.50

brunswick Smarty Pants Do Christmas Christmas show with a meal 1pm £30; Laugh Your Bits Off Stand Up comedy from Paul Wilson and his gang 8pm £6 caroline of brunswick The Funnier Farm Xmas Special Panto from Brian Gittins & Angelos Epithemiou 8pm £5 CASABLANCA Live funk & DJ £free before 11pm/£2/£1 CASTOR & POLLUX Andy Lovell: Limited edition screenprints Observational drawings and paintings 11am £free; Mike Levy: Paintings & monoprints 11am £free coalition Robot Rock 80s synth, electro rock and indie pop 10.30pm £1

cobblers thumb Texas Hold’em Cash poker 8pm £5 Digital The Poundance 11pm £4/3/1 Duke of Norfolk Quiz Night Winner takes all 8pm £1 Duke Of York’s Cinema Where The Wild Things Are 11am, 1.30pm, 4pm, 6.30pm, 9pm Fishbowl Fisherman’s Chronicles Acoustic jam open mic session 8pm £free fortune of war DJ Night New and upcoming DJs 8pm £free

Freebutt Caimbo 7.30pm £5 Globe Wrong Music For wrong’uns 9pm £free INK_D Eine & Zeus: Crimes And Punishments Street artists exhibit in pen and ink 10am £free juggler Bakk Lamp Fall Five piece traditional West African band 8pm £free komedia down Krater Christmas Krackers Festive standup fun with your 3 course Christmas dinner thrown in 8.45pm £40/35

Komedia Studio Final Cut Screening of new international shorts 7.30pm £4 Kulture Wii Wednesdays Dance, R&B, student anthems 7pm

£free

latest Music Bar Big Wheels Revue Detroit music from Brighton players 7.30pm £tbc life Lets Kill Disco Electro, indie, d’n’b, breaks 10.30pm £1 mash tun Tin Cup Collective Five piece soul funk band 9pm £free

OCEANA Silent Disco Headphone malarkey 9pm £4/3/2 ocean rooms University Of Life Student night with live bands Time tbc £2 open house Safehouse Experimental live jam 8pm £3/2 Prince Albert The Dials, The Laylanas, Heavy Horse Band Live bands 8pm £tbc Riki tik To The Floor Indie, rock and electro 10pm £free RODHUS GALLERY Abbi Kiki: Lighting Ideas details tbc Sidewinder Garden Quiz Winner takes the pot 8pm £1 sugaqube Bar Grooves House Time tbc £free Theatre Royal Peter Pan Boy refuses to grow up, hangs out with fairies and pirates - could be based on half the blokes in Brighton 2pm & 7pm £26 Three & Ten The Pitchfork Disney Theatre with twins, chocolate and dreams 7.30pm £6/5

Victory Glue Gun 91 Poetry, comedy, live music and performance 8pm £free Volks Drum&bass and dubstep 11pm £2/free West Hill tavern Gunpowder Poker 7.30pm £tbc xuma Quiz 8.30pm £tbc

thursday 17th

Audio Shameless Pop antics 11pm £2 basement DLite: DJ Lee Harris Commercial house 11pm £free

Bee’s mouth John Crampton One man blues band - a brave idea 9pm £free Belushi’s Bar Karaoke 9pm £free Belushi’s Below Party On The Ceiling Two bands & DJ 9.30pm £2/1

Black Lion Attic Monkeys & Guest Chimp Motown, 60s classic, 70s funk, 80s hip hop and the latest 8.30pm £free brighton dome Chicago The Musical With Gary Wilmot

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Three & Ten Strung Out Sundays DJ set 8pm £free VOLKS Psychedelic Sunday all dayer Psy-trance with DJ Dave Chemical and Niquid 6pm £free White rabbit Jazz Sundays 3pm £free xuma Diego Parada Live jazz 8pm £tbc

7.30pm £17.50-31.50

brunswick Smarty Pants Do Christmas Christmas show with a meal 1pm £30; Matthew George’s Boogie Woogie Troop Like what Jools Holland does. Probably 8pm £5 CASABLANCA Live music & DJ £free before 11pm/£2/£1 CASTOR & POLLUX Andy Lovell: Limited edition screenprints Observational drawings and paintings 11am £free; Mike Levy: Paintings & monoprints 11am £free Coalition Secret Discotheque Shamelessly unfashionable music we secretly love 10.30pm £3/2/1 concorde 2 Simon Fowler and Oscar Harrison from Ocean Colour Scene Well, at least it’s not the whole band acoustic set 7.30pm £10+ CORNERSTONE Spanish Invasion Bilingual fun time tbc £free duke of norfolk Sicknote Pre-club night with live music 8pm £free

Duke Of York’s Cinema Where The Wild Things Are 1pm, 3.30pm, 6pm, 8.30pm Easy Bar Free Fall D&b and dubstep 9pm £free ENGINE ROOM UK Subs, Control, Drone Rebels Live punk with Cheerful Charlie and pals 7.30pm £10 exchange Quiz night Cash, food and booze prizes 8.45pm £1.50

Fiddler’s Elbow Fiddle-sticks Local live music 9pm £free Fishbowl Residents Association Hip hop, funk, disco, world & house 10pm £free Freebutt The Paddingtons, Cinematics, I Love Zagreb Live bands 7.30pm £7.50 funky buddha Bang Bang DJ request night 9pm £free GEORGE Open mic night 8pm £free Globe Rockoustic: Danse Macabre, Helen’s Evil Twin Live music 8pm £free hare & hounds PUB Prehab Live music details tbc hare & hounds upstairs Elegant Salsa Dancin’ 7pm £6 hectors house Its Alive: Your Army, Trip To Dover Live bands 8.30pm £free Honeyclub Fusion House, R&B, indie 11pm £3/1 Hope Tom Aylott Live electronic rock 8pm £3 hub Open Mic 8.30pm £free INK_D Eine & Zeus: Crimes And Punishments Street artists exhibit in pen and ink 10am £free Jam Thursday Night Fish Fry Early 50s US rhythm & blues and original Jamaican ska 10pm £3 juggler Are You B.I.M.M? Live bands 8pm £free komedia down Krater Christmas Krackers Festive standup fun with your 3 course Christmas dinner thrown in 8.45pm £40/35

Komedia Studio The Maydays! Maverick comedy improv 8pm £7/5

Kulture Naughty Thursdays: DJ Rob Grand Dance, R&B, indie 7pm £free life Club NME New music 10.30pm £2/1 my hotel/bottle Souled Out 70s and 80s soul, rare groove, jazz-funk, philly, salsa 8pm £free OCEANA Over 30s Night Sedate clubbing 9pm £4/free Pelirocco Idle Hands: Brighton Rumble Rockabilly Club DJs 8pm £free Prince Albert Salter Cane, Caramel Jack, The Self Help Group Live bands 8pm £tbc Providence Sound Factory Stripped: Tabitha Smith, Russian Cat Party, Samantha Horwill, The Unreliable Narrator Acoustic night 8pm £free quadrant AKL Open Mic 8pm £free Revenge Girls On Top Trashy lesbian night 10.30pm £4/3 Riki tik Show-go-cube-oh Eclectic 10pm £free RODHUS GALLERY Abbi Kiki: Lighting Ideas details tbc st james tavern Stay Sick, Turn Blue Stay Sick DJs playing 50s r&r, rhythm and blues, blues, rockabilly, 60s garage, surf and exotica 8.30pm £free sanctuary Unicorn Power, Cannibal Gymnastics, Boy In The Cupboard Live bands 8pm £2 sugaqube 5th Birthday Brian Cheetham DJs Time tbc £free Theatre Royal Peter Pan Boy refuses to grow up, hangs out with fairies and pirates - could be based on half the blokes in Brighton 2pm & 7pm £26 Three & Ten The Pitchfork Disney Theatre with twins, chocolate and dreams 7.30pm £6/5 tru House Party Big room anthems, house, electro, R&B classics10.30pm £3/1.50 White rabbit Open Mic Night 8pm £free victory Open Mic 7.30pm £free Volks Southern Invasion Dubstep, D&B 10pm £4/3 xuma Swishing You A Merry Christmas Bring your old tat and go home with some new rad glad rags 7pm £free

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friday 18th

Barneys DJ Rich Harmer Details tbc BASEMENT Celebration: DJ Peter Castle Gay party night 11pm £free

Belushi’s Bar Coyote Ugly Funky house, electro and danceoff 9pm £free Black Lion Dubrockers Live Dub, reggae, ska, punk, trip hop, funk 6pm £free brighton dome Chicago The Musical With Gary Wilmot 5.30pm/8.30pm £17.50-31.50

brunswick Smarty Pants Do Christmas Christmas show with a meal 1pm £30; Tonight Matthew Covers band from 60s90s 8pm £5 Caroline of brunswick Pandemonium: Peter von Sleaze Rock, metal 9pm £free CASABLANCA Live funk £10pm £5 CASTOR & POLLUX Andy Lovell: Limited edition screenprints Observational drawings and paintings 11am £free; Mike Levy: Paintings & monoprints 11am £free Coalition Carnivalesque 10.30pm £11/9/7/6 cobblers thumb Spunky Onions DJ night with room for requests 8pm £free Concorde 2 The Horrors Best comeback of 2009 - great wigged-out kraut-gaze 7pm £10.50, The Ratpack, Slipmatt, Phantasy Original rave heroes 11pm £5+ CORNERSTONE WhatAboutTheDJs? DJs DOV Ville, Ally time tbc £free

Digital Stonelove Indie rock & roll 11pm £6/5/4 Druid’s arms Hot Pepper Sauce Funk, soul 10pm £free Duke of beaufort DJ Derek Eclectic mix 7pm £free ENGINE ROOM Deviant: Metal Night with DJ Justin Trouble, Andy Lost, Alex K666 Details tbc Fishbowl Return Of The Funky Man DJ ‘J’ with funky eclectic tunes 9pm £free Fortune Of War Part Time Heroes DJ set details tbc Freebutt Dead Swans, More Then LIfe, TRC, The Glory Local hardcore 7.30pm £tbc funky buddha Drink, Dance, Repeat Dan Doubledecks, Charles Green & Mikee Hollywood with an eclectic dance mix 11pm £5/3

Globe DJs 9pm £free Hampton Fiftyseven DJs playing funk 8pm £free Hanbury Club Chat Noir: Midwinter Special: The Hot Club of Belleville, The Ukes of Hazard, DJ Mike The Mic Gypsy and 20s & 30s swing, live bands and DJs 7pm £10/8/5/4 hare & hounds PUB Fishmas Party details tbc hare & hounds upstairs Bass Party 10pm £free hectors house Stay Sick! Xmas Special: The Irridates, The Black Rash Tesseract Live music 8pm £free Honeyclub Hard South: Krunchie, Salerno, Drummer, Phizz, Chris Toxic, Laylah Hard dance night Time tbc £8 hope Panda Punch Presents Drum and bass, dubstep, trance 8pm £3

Ink Ibiza Republik Collaboration of Kidology and Savacion DJs 8pm £free

INK_D Eine & Zeus: Crimes And Punishments Street artists exhibit in pen and ink 10am £free jam Aerosolik Xmas Party 7pm details tbc; Broke Dubstep, jungle, breaks, drum & bass 11pm £free juggler Light: DJ Lamp R&b, dance and jazz fusion 8pm £free

Karma DJ Delboy Funk from four decades 10pm £free komedia down Krater Christmas Krackers Festive standup fun with your 3 course Christmas dinner thrown in 2.45pm £39

Komedia up Krater Comedy Club: Raymond, Mr Timpkins Revue, Lloyd Langford and MC Stephen Grant Stand-up shenanigans 7pm £18.50 Lectern Friday Frenzy Student night with live music 8pm £free life Daft Life Alternative dance, electro and indie leaning house 11pm £5/4

neptune Blues Night Special: Papa George The man from Top London Blues 8.30pm £tbc OCEANA Dreamboys live “Look at me, look at me, look at me! My mum didn’t show me enough love so now I tie an old bit of elastic round my weatherbeaten cock and parade around in a velcro-ed sailor suit for money.” Surely only Katie Gorman is desperado enough to want to watch this? 8pm £5 Pav Tav Kick Out The Jams Rock, indie night 11pm £3/2 penthouse Club Seal Eclectic mix from Superheroes Of BMX, who we still owe cider to 7.30pm £free Prince Albert White Star Liners, Sparrow, Liebharts Live bands 8pm £tbc Providence Sound Factory: Jia, The Strutt, Flange, Unfolds Rock night 8pm £2 quadrant Live DJs Funk, soul and disco 9pm £free Revenge X Factor Fridays & Lollipop vs Altitude Musical comp followed by camp dance music and glittery fabulousness 10.30pm £5/3/free RODHUS GALLERY Abbi Kiki: Lighting Ideas details tbc Riki tik Flevans Tru Thoughts DJ 10pm £free Sidewinder Get Yuh Own: DJs Rad Stewart & Legendary TP Hip hop, soul, jazz, funk, world and future 9pm £free sugaqube 5th Birthday Cheets & SQ Allstars play house Time tbc £free

Theatre Royal Peter Pan Boy refuses to grow up, hangs out with fairies and pirates - could be based on half the blokes in Brighton 7pm £26 thomas kemp All Time Top 100 Special guest DJs offer their best tunes 8pm £free Three & Ten Rusty Ryan DJ set 10pm £free; Clever Peter Comedy sketches 8pm £8/6 three graces Fall From Grace DJ Fondue Inferno playing disco, funk, 80s, 90s and 00s 8pm £free Victory Kinema Pop, dance rock and smooth 80s classics 9pm £free

West Hill tavern Envy Indie, synth pop, dance, hip hop

10pm £free

xuma After Work Club Live DJs 5pm £free

saturday 19th

ancient mariner Christmas Acoustic Sessions Review The best six bands from this year’s sessions 8pm £free Audio SOL: Dekker & Johan 11pm £free Barneys DJ Pablo Contraband Details tbc BASEMENT Ignition: DJ Peter Castle House and chart sounds 11pm £free

Belushi’s Bar Credit Crunch Saturdays Live acoustic duo 9pm £free

Belushi’s Below Good Times Over 25s party with 70s, 80s soul, funk, disco, classics and anthems from Mick Fuller 9pm £5 Black Lion Return Of The Funky Man Justin P plays breaks, beats, soul and funk 8.30pm £free brighton dome Chicago The Musical With Gary Wilmot 5pm/8.30pm £17.50-31.50

Brunswick Los Albertos Live geezer ska 8pm £5 caroline of brunswick Cazza Karaoke 9pm £free CASABLANCA Live funk and soul & DJ 10pm £7free CASTOR & POLLUX Andy Lovell: Limited edition screenprints Observational drawings and paintings 11am £free; Mike Levy: Paintings & monoprints 11am £free coalition Pop Musik: All We Want For Christmas Is You Face-painting, tattoo parlour and popcorn pop 11pm £10/8/6/5; Blow After Party Underground house, electro and techno, 3am £7/5/4

cobblers thumb KUA Charity Fundraiser Live music and nibbles 8pm £free Concorde 2 Eighties Matchbox Xmas Disaster Black leather rock’n’roll with massive line-up put together by the Brighton band 9pm £free Corn Exchange Christmas Ball: The Berkeley Square Society Band 8pm £12.50 CORNERSTONE WhatAboutTheBeats? Interpretations DJs Future beats and classics time tbc £free Digital Playroom: Audio Pimps, Sam Dowling, DJ Roben Funky house, electro grooves 11pm £10-15 Duke of beaufort SatNiteIsGonnaBAlwrite Ska, backbeat, indie 8pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema Fantastic Mr Fox 1pm; Les Contes d’Hoffman 6pm; Me and Orson Welles 10.30pm; The Red Shoes 3pm ENGINE ROOM Classic Rock From AC/DC to ZZ Top 11pm

£5

Fishbowl Sumsuch Xmas Special DJ Sumsuch from Latenight Lounging with some festive funk, hip hop, house and breaks 9pm £free Fortune Of War Christmas Party Resident DJs in relay and christmas spirit details tbc Freebutt Divine Chaos, Terrathorn, Mutually Assured Destruction, Crypsis/Hawka Hurricane Live bands 7.30pm £tbc

funky buddha Buddha Soul: DJ Mike Pantelli Funk, soul, r&b, house 11pm £10; After party 3am £5/3 Globe Donky Pitch - Donky Goes Global Head nodding electronica, hip hop, dubstep, skweee 9pm £free Hampton Gimme Shelter Matt Purnell plays 60s, 70s and 80s funk and soul 8pm £free hobgoblin Stay Sick v Punker Bunker NYE Special Live bands, Brighton Rumble DJs 7pm £free honeyclub Sevensins: The Japanese Popstars Electro, tech house, funky house, r&b starring amazing live stadium dance band in the Underworld/Orbital mold 11pm £10 Hanbury Margot’s Parties: Margot’s Purple Reign Dressed up dancing 7.30pm £8 hare & hounds PUB Manjinga Live music details tbc hectors house Buzz Club: Saw Gang Buzz, I Am Jack, Longtomb, The Misbegotten, Thieves By The Code, Wodtv 7pm £free

INK_D Eine & Zeus: Crimes And Punishments Street artists exhibit in pen and ink 10am £free jam The Doctor’s Orders Live hip hop 9pm £8/7 Karma DJ Delboy Funk from four decades 10pm £10/5/free komedia down Krater Christmas Krackers Festive standup fun with your 3 course Christmas dinner thrown in 8.45pm £45/40

Komediaup Krater Comedy Club: Raymond, Mr Timpkins Revue, Lloyd Langford and MC Stephen Grant Stand-up shenanigans 7pm £18.50; Da Doo Ron Ron Motown Xmas Party Celebrating 50 years of one of the best labels ever 11pm

£7/6/5

Komedia Studio Spellbound Alternative 80s xmas partythought you’d never hear All About Eve’s Martha’s Harbour again? Hopefully you won’t hear it at Spellbound either. But you might get to dance to Church Of No Return or Bauhaus, and that’s never a bad thing 9pm £5/4 Kulture Freak Out: DJ Ash Hunt Fancy dress night 7pm

£free

life Hold Up! Indie night 11pm £5 neptune Rocking Blues Night Special: Miller Anderson 8.30pm £tbc

ocean rooms Punk Rock Karaoke New venue for spiky sing-along 11pm £5; Hush Club 50s/60s garage and soul 11pm

£5/£3

pav tav Snap, Crackle and Britpop Xmas Special With special guest DJ Ace from Skunk Anansie 11pm £4/3 penthouse Eagle Legs Riot grrrl, punk and soul 7.30pm £free

Prince Albert Deadbeat Descendant Live band 8pm £tbc Providence Sound Factory: The Valentines (TBC), Not Dead Yet, Totem Cats Rock night 8pm £2 Revenge Kinky Dangerous Pop, chart and funky vocal house

from Stu, Smiffy and Dulcie Danger 10.30pm £5/3/free Riki tik DJ Oddsocks Eclectic 10pm £free RODHUS GALLERY Abbi Kiki: Lighting Ideas details tbc Sidewinder Like A Sex Machine 70s tribute night - get your big trousers, big shoes and big hair on 9pm £free sugaqube Suga Sessions House from Brian Cheetham Time

tbc £free

Theatre Royal Peter Pan Boy refuses to grow up, hangs out with fairies and pirates - could be based on half the blokes in Brighton 2pm & 7pm £26 thomas kemp DJs Eclectic 9pm £free Three & Ten Monkey DJ set 10pm £free; Clever Peter Comedy sketches 8pm £8/6; Red Brick Comedy Club Late night stand up 10pm £10/7.50 Three Graces This Is My Xmasentre: The Dan Markland Band, Nick McKenna, The Stars Down To Earth, The Unreliable Narrator Lively Christmas take on regular unplugged night 8pm £free volks Frequency D’n’b 10pm £free west hill tavern Artists Only Girl pop and art rock 9pm £free

worlds end Harlem shuffle and soul classics details tbc xuma Antiques Fair With food stall from Momma Cherri 1pm £free

sunday 20th

Audio Sunday Sundae DJs 9pm £tbc BASEMENT Fever: DJ Ross Alexander Disco pop 11pm £free Belushi’s Bar Open Mic Session 8.30pm £free Belushi’s Below Latin Sundayz Salsa & samba on the decks 9pm £2/free Black Lion Dubrockers Live Dub, reggae, ska, punk, trip hop and funk 6pm £free brighton dome Chicago The Musical With Gary Wilmot 3pm £17.50-31.50

Brunswick Digby Fairweather Not the biggest dog in the world, a jazz trumpet guy 8pm £8 CASTOR & POLLUX Andy Lovell: Limited edition screenprints Observational drawings and paintings 11am £free; Mike Levy: Paintings & monoprints 11am £free coalition Frequency House with Adam Freeland, Alex Metric, Evil Nine & DJ Nico 10.30pm £8 CONCORDE 2 Bad Manners Bald ska bloke bounces around for xmas 7.30pm £15+ Corn Exchange Winter Ceilidh: The Sussex Pistols Annual Christmas dance with a kiddies ‘chill out room’, in case they’re peaking too hard and need some ambient dub to level them back out 7pm £8/5 druids arms The Downsound Sessions Downtempo beats, grooves, laid back latin and trip hop 9pm £free duke of norfolk Chip And Friends Live music 8pm £free

Duke Of York’s Cinema Fantastic Mr Fox 4pm; Me and Orson Welles 9pm; The Red Shoes 6pm; The Wizard Of Oz “I don’t think we’re in Kansas anymore, Toto. I think this SatNav’s fucked...” 1pm Fiddler’s Elbow Sham-Rock Open Mic 9pm £free Fishbowl Recovery? A chilled blend of rare reggae, soul & jazz 9pm £free

HAND IN HAND Craft Night Decorate pub, earn booze 7pm £free

honeyclub Spectrum: Jon Byrne & Steven James Electro to keep the weekend alive 11pm £3/2 INK_D Eine & Zeus: Crimes And Punishments Street artists exhibit in pen and ink 10am £free Komedia Down Krater Comedy Club: Raymond, Mr Timpkins Revue, Lloyd Langford and MC Stephen Grant Stand-up shenanigans 8pm £12; Komedia studio Penguin Long Nose Puppets’ new show based on the award winning children’s book 2pm, 4pm £8.50/6.50

Komedia up Baby Loves Disco Dance the afternoon away with the littl’uns 2pm £8; Stars In Their Mince Pies Festive tributes to end all 8pm £8/6 lectern Fifteen Minutes Of Fame Open stage- perform alone or with the house band 8pm £free my hotel/merkaba Something On Sundays Eclectic DJs 8pm £free

neptune Alternative Music Night: ‘J’m and H Classic ska, funk and reggae 8.30pm £free penthouse Felt Up Craft Club Drop in craft making day with travelling craft library and chill out tunes 12pm £free quadrant Quiz Night 8pm £free Riki tik Wildcard Soul, funk, hip hop and nu-jazz 10pm £free RODHUS GALLERY Abbi Kiki: Lighting Ideas details tbc seven stars Mick The Mic And Friends Live music 4pm £free

sir Charles Napier Pub Quiz “Bloody hard” the reckon prove them wrong and win a cash prize 8.15pm £free sugaqube Club Sunday House Time tbc £free Theatre Royal Peter Pan Boy refuses to grow up, hangs out with fairies and pirates - could be based on half the blokes in Brighton 1.30pm £26 Three & Ten Strung Out Sundays 8pm £free White rabbit Jazz Sundays 3pm £free xuma Diego Parada Live jazz 8pm £tbc

monday 21st

£free

Brunswick Samba Night 8pm £10/8

£free

duke of norfolk Poker Night 8pm £free exchange Poker Night 8pm £tbc fountainhead Quiz complete with play dough and singing rounds 8pm £1 Freebutt The Handshake Affair 7.30pm £tbc funky buddha Mashed Up 8.30pm £2/1/free Honeyclub Detention Student night with R&b, indie 10.30pm £3/2/free

Hope The H’Open Mic 8.30pm £free INK_D Eine & Zeus: Crimes And Punishments Street artists exhibit in pen and ink 10am £free jam I.O.U Comedy New comedy night 8pm £3 juggler Mondays AKL Open Mic 8pm £free komedia up Stars In Their Mince Pies ‘Tonight Matthew I will be..’ 8pm £8/6 Komedia studio Penguin Long Nose Puppets’ new show based on the award winning children’s book 11am, 2pm £8.50/6.50

KULTURE uDirtyStopOut: DJ Nonstopmashup Indie, old skool club night 8pm £free latest Music Bar Christmas Party Special Live music with optional meal 8pm £25 (meal)/£7/6 (no meal) LEGENDS Drag With No Name Monday Gangbang (Not actual gangbang) 9pm £free Life Aka Aka Roar New club for discerning dubsteppers Time

tbc £3/2

Prince Albert The Pursuit, South of Saturn, Dr Razzu Live bands 8pm £tbc RODHUS GALLERY Abbi Kiki: Lighting Ideas details tbc st georges inn Quiz Night 8pm £1 sidewinder Poker night 9pm £5 Theatre Royal Peter Pan Boy refuses to grow up, hangs out with fairies and pirates - could be based on half the blokes in Brighton 1.30pm & 7pm £26 Volks Strictly Reggae Dancehall, bashment, roots, revival 10pm £5/4.50

t u e s day 22nd BASEMENT Scene Queen DJ lil’ Alex 11pm £free Bee’s mouth Sounds Like Science DJs Electronica grooves 8.30pm £free

Belushi’s BAR Mod For It Jimmy! 10pm £free Belushi’s below Elements D&B 9pm £1 Black Lion Christmas Reggae Barbecue Reggae bands, DJs and Jamaican food 6pm £1/free Brighton Dome Brendan Live and Unjudged Strictly Come Dancing’s Brendan Cole prances about doing a ‘sensual rumba and elegant foxtrot’, assisted by guests in fake tan and sequins 7.30pm £12.50-29.50

brunswick Open Mic 8pm £free caroline of brunswick Quiz Night 8.30pm £1 CASTOR & POLLUX Andy Lovell: Limited edition screenprints Observational drawings and paintings 11am £free; Mike Levy: Paintings & monoprints 11am £free Coalition Salsa Brighton Learn the moves for the club night later 8pm £6/4; Latin Fever Salsa and meringue dance party 10pm £3/2

cobblers thumb Open Mic Forget singing for your supper - its play for your pint at the cobblers 8.30pm £free CORNERSTONE Open Mic Night time tbc £free Digital Glitterati Student night 11pm £5/4/3 Duke of Norfolk Open Mic Night 9pm £free Easy Bar Inkfish Tuesdays Request night 8pm £free Fiddler’s Elbow Quizness Time Pub Quiz 8pm £1 FORAGERS The People vs Stand-Up Comedy Best Of Year Show Sean McLoughlin, Lana Garth, Romesh Ranganathan, Val Lee, Rupert Boon, Claire Parker. Alan Seabrook hosts 7.30pm £4/2

Fountainhead Open Mic 9pm £free Freebutt Casiotone For The Painfully Alone, Tubelord, Nullifier OIB Records Christmas party 7.30pm £tbc funky buddha San Frandisco Classic and new proper disco- no hen night cheese, think DFA not YMCA 11pm £free Globe Basement Cinema: Citizen Kane, The Hudsucker Proxy Classic and underground film screenings 8pm £free Honeyclub Quids In Anything goes music policy 11pm £1 INK_D Eine & Zeus: Crimes And Punishments Street artists exhibit in pen and ink 10am £free jam Kong Presents Local bands 8pm £4/2 jazz place Roots Garden Roots & reggae 11pm £4/3.50 juggler Are You B.I.M.M? Live music from BIMM students 8pm £free

Komedia studio Penguin Long Nose Puppets’ new show based on the award winning children’s book 11am, 2pm £8.50/6.50

komedia up Stars In Their Mince Pies Festive tributes to end all tributes 8pm £8/6 latest Music Bar Playground Bang A Round Spellbound team head back a decade to the 70s 8pm £5/4 life The Vice Social Student dance night 10.30pm £3/2 mash tun Mash. Drink. Repeat DJs Rich and Jay with rock, indie and electro 9pm £free open house Jazz Workshop 8pm £3 Pav Tav Guerilla Rocks Indie, rock, punk and ska 10.30pm £3/2/1

Prince Albert Shirley, Half Sisters Live bands 8pm £tbc

Revenge Sound As A Pound Lady Bex plays electro, pop, dance and cheese 10.30pm £1 Riki tik Swafe Hip hop, reggae, funk, soul 11pm £free RODHUS GALLERY Abbi Kiki: Lighting Ideas details tbc st georges inn The Merrymakers Live band 8pm £free seven stars Retro Cult Classic Film Nights Log on to www. sevenstarsbrighton.co.uk to vote for film to be shown 8pm £free signalman Quiz Night Time tbc £free sugaqube Laid Back Beats House Time tbc £free Theatre Royal Peter Pan Boy refuses to grow up, hangs out with fairies and pirates - could be based on half the blokes in Brighton 2pm & 7pm £26 thomas kemp Nuts Poker League Bring your poker face 7.30pm £free

West Hill tavern Acoustic night 8.30pm £1 xuma Open Mic 8pm £free

wednesday 23rd

BASEMENT Gabbi’s Dirty Handbag: DJ Gabbi Dirty handbag and house 11pm £free Bee’s mouth Open Mic Night 8.30pm £free Belushi’s BAR Old Skool Sessions 90s house 10pm £free Belushi’s Below ‘Strapped’ Student Night House, rock and pop 10pm £free Black Lion Fresh Acoustics Local live music 8.30pm £free Brighton Dome Brendan Live and Unjudged Strictly Come Dancing’s Brendan Cole prances about doing a ‘sensual rumba and elegant foxtrot’, assisted by guests in fake tan and sequins 7.30pm £12.50-29.50

Brunswick A Christmas Carol Dickens gubbins for the joyless 8pm £tbc CASABLANCA Live funk and soul & DJ £free before

11pm/£2/£1

CASTOR & POLLUX Andy Lovell: Limited edition screenprints Observational drawings and paintings 11am £free; Mike Levy: Paintings & monoprints 11am £free coalition Robot Rock 80s synth, electro rock and indie pop 10.30pm £1

cobblers thumb Texas Hold’em Cash poker 8pm £5 Digital The Poundance 11pm £4/3/1 Duke of Norfolk Quiz Night Winner takes all 8pm £1 Fishbowl Fisherman’s Chronicles Acoustic jam open mic session 8pm £free fortune of war DJ Night New and upcoming DJs 8pm £free

freebutt The Hornblower Brothers, Curly Hair, My Device EP launch party 7.30pm £12 INK_D Eine & Zeus: Crimes And Punishments Street artists exhibit in pen and ink 10am £free juggler Bakk Lamp Fall Five piece traditional West African band 8pm £free Komedia studio Penguin Long Nose Puppets’ new show based on the award winning children’s book 11am, 2pm

Easy Bar Free Fall Drum & bass and dubstep 9pm £free exchange Quiz night Cash, food and booze prizes 8.45pm £1.50

Fiddler’s Elbow Fiddle-sticks Local live music 9pm £free Fishbowl Residents Association Hip hop, funk, disco, world & house 10pm £free funky buddha Bang Bang DJ request night 9pm £free Hampton Christmas Eve Party Xmas favourites and party tunes 8pm £free hare & hounds upstairs Peter & The Test Tube Babies Live music 9pm £10 Honeyclub Fusion House, r&b, indie 11pm £3/1 Hope Time Crisis Club Night Christmas Special Live bands and rockstar karaoke 8pm £3 INK_D Eine & Zeus: Crimes And Punishments Street artists exhibit in pen and ink 10am £free Jam Thursday Night Fish Fry Early 50s US rhythm & blues and original Jamaican ska 10pm £3 juggler Are You B.I.M.M? Live bands 8pm £free Komedia studio Penguin Long Nose Puppets’ new show based on the award winning children’s book 11am, 2pm £8.50/6.50

Kulture Naughty Thursdays: DJ Rob Grand Dance, R&B, indie 7pm £free life Club NME New music 10.30pm £2/1 OCEANA Christmas Eve Night Festive clubbing 8pm £5 open house Yuletide Sit In Mulled wine. And the rest 7pm £5

quadrant AKL Open Mic 8pm £free RANELAGH Shauna Parker & The Saloon Bar Band Americana 8.30pm £free

Revenge Girls On Top Trashy lesbian night 10.30pm £4/3 Riki tik Show-go-cube-oh DJ Orx playing soul, funk, rock and pop 10pm £free st james tavern Stay Sick, Turn Blue Stay Sick DJs playing 50s r&r, rhythm and blues, blues, rockabilly, 60s garage, surf and exotica 8.30pm £free Sidewinder Christmas Party Festive music (if you haven’t yet had your total fill) 9pm £free sugaqube Christmas Eve Special Brian Cheetham Time tbc

£free

Theatre Royal Peter Pan Boy refuses to grow up, hangs out with fairies and pirates - could be based on half the blokes in Brighton 1.30pm £26 tru House Party Big room anthems and house, electro & r&b classics 10.30pm £3/1.50 West Hill tavern Envy indie, synth pop, dance and hip hop 8pm £free

White rabbit Christmas Eve Party Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit DJs 8pm £free

xuma Jazz Carols Live jazz 8pm £free

friday 25th

Belushi’s Bar Christmas Day Party Food, drink, games 10pm £2/free

£8.50/6.50

Sidewinder Christmas Day More festive music and food if you want to get out of the house Noon £free

£free

saturday 26th

komedia up The Real Thing: 50 Years Of Motown Live 70s act The Real Thing playing hits like ‘You To Me Are Everything’ and classic Motown on the decks from DJ Mick Fuller 7.30pm £12 Kulture Wii Wednesdays Free wii and DJ Rob Grand playing dance, R&B and student anthems 7pm £free life Lets Kill Disco Electro, indie, D&B, breaks 10.30pm £1 mash tun Tin Cup Collective Five piece soul funk band 9pm ocean rooms University Of Life Student night with live bands Time tbc £2 open house Safehouse Experimental live jam 8pm £3/2 Prince Albert Deadlines, Orchid Thieves, Hi-sides, Wanderdown Live bands 8pm £tbc Riki tik To The Floor Indie, rock and electro 10pm £free RODHUS GALLERY Abbi Kiki: Lighting Ideas details tbc Sidewinder Garden Quiz Winner takes the pot 8pm £1 sugaqube Bar Grooves House Time tbc £free Theatre Royal Peter Pan Boy refuses to grow up, hangs out with fairies and pirates - could be based on half the blokes in Brighton 2pm & 7pm £26 Volks Drum&bass and dubstep 11pm £2/free West Hill tavern Gunpowder Poker 7pm £7 xuma Quizmas Special 8.30pm £tbc

thursday 24th

Audio Shameless Pop antics 11pm £2 Barneys Xmas Eve Special line up Details tbc BASEMENT Tammy Twinkle’s Christmas Eve Party: DJ Lee Harris Sounds of 2009 11pm £free Belushi’s Bar Karaoke 9pm £free Belushi’s Below Party On The Ceiling Two bands & DJ 9.30pm £2

Audio SOL House, techno, electro 11pm £free BASEMENT Boxing Day Party: DJ Lee Harris Disco anthems from 2009 10pm £free Belushi’s Bar Credit Crunch Saturdays Live acoustic duo 9pm £free

Belushi’s Below Good Times Over 25s party with 70s, 80s soul, funk, disco, classics and anthems from Mick Fuller 9pm £5 Black Lion Attic Monkeys Boxing Day Spectacular Top tunes from the last four decades and a little more festive indulgence 8.30pm £free Digital Shades Rave Boxing Day Bash: Doorly, Blah Blah Blah DJs 11pm £10/7 Duke of beaufort SatNiteIsGonnaBAlwrite Ska, backbeat, indie 8pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema Nowhere Boy 4.15pm, 9.15pm; The White Ribbon 6.15pm ENGINE ROOM Snake Eyed Mamas Club Night Rock&roll, psychobilly, 50s r&b, surf, trash, old school 11pm £5 funky buddha Buddha Soul: DJ Mike Pantelli Funk, soul, r&b, house 11pm £10; After party 3am £5/3 honeyclub Sevensins: Boxing Day Special Electro, tech house, funky house and r&b 11pm £tbc Kulture Freak Out: DJ Ash Hunt Fancy dress night 7pm £free

latest Music Bar Stylus Recordings Boxing Day Bonanza DJs 8pm £8/6 life Hold Up! Indie night 11pm £5 Riki tik Shades Of Blue 50s, 60s & 70s jazz and jazz funk 10pm £free

Black Lion Christmas Eve Party Mulled wine, mince pies and Slade of course 8.30pm £free Caroline Of brunswick Pandemonium Rock and metal from Peter Von Sleaze 8pm £free CASTOR & POLLUX Andy Lovell: Limited edition screenprints Observational drawings and paintings 11am £free; Mike Levy: Paintings & monoprints 11am £free CORNERSTONE WhatAboutSanta? Festive fun with mince pies time tbc £free Duke of beaufort Christmas Eve Party DJ and fre buffet

sidewinder Boxing Day Party DJs 7pm £free sugaqube Boxing Day Beats House 7pm £free Theatre Royal Peter Pan Boy refuses to grow up, hangs out with fairies and pirates - could be based on half the blokes in Brighton 2pm & 7pm £26 thomas kemp DJs Eclectic 9pm £free Three & Ten Senor Mick DJ set 10pm £free

duke of norfolk Sicknote Pre-club night with live music

Belushi’s Bar Open Mic Session 8.30pm £free BASEMENT Christmas Fever: DJ Ross Alexander Disco pop

Time tbc £free 8pm £free

sunday 27th 11pm £free

CASTOR & POLLUX Andy Lovell: Limited edition screenprints Observational drawings and paintings 11am £free; Mike Levy: Paintings & monoprints 11am £free Coalition Trash Mondays Student Night 10.30pm £2/free Concorde 2 Comeback To The Waterfront Biker’s Special Charity live music 6pm £donations CORNERSTONE Vinyl Exchange Stick It On-type night time tbc

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Belushi’s Below Latin Sundayz Salsa & samba on the decks 9pm £2/free Black Lion Sunday Sessions presents Dubrockers Live Dub, reggae, ska, punk, trip hop and funk 6pm £free Brighton Dome Brendan Live and Unjudged Strictly Come Dancing’s Brendan Cole prances about doing a ‘sensual rumba and elegant foxtrot’, assisted by guests in fake tan and sequins 2.30pm/7.30pm £12.50-29.50 coalition Frequency House 10.30pm £free druids arms The Downsound Sessions Downtempo beats, grooves, laid back latin and trip hop 9pm £free duke of norfolk Max And Guests Live music 8pm £free

Duke Of York’s Cinema Nowhere Boy 4.15pm, 9.15pm; The White Ribbon 1.15pm, 6.15pm Fiddler’s Elbow Sham-Rock Open Mic 9pm £free Fishbowl Recovery? A chilled blend of rare reggae, soul & jazz 9pm £free HAND IN HAND Craft Night Decorate pub, earn booze 7pm £free

honeyclub Spectrum: Jon Byrne & Steven James Electro to keep the weekend alive 11pm £3/2 jazz place Throw Some Shapes Jazz, funk and soul 11pm

£free

Komedia down Krater Comedy Club: Carey Marx, Rhod Rhys and MC Stephen Grant Stand-up shenanigans 8pm £10 Komedia up Showstopper! The Improvised Musical Every night a different musical 8pm £16/14/12 latest Music Bar Octavio Scapin, Charlotte Glasson Prolific Brazilian composer 8pm £5 my hotel / merkaba Something On Sundays DJs spinning an eclectic mix 8pm £free neptune Alternative Music Night: The Ammonites, Stomp Mike, Thesius, Nick Stuart Ska and reggae 8.30pm £free quadrant Quiz Night 8pm £free seven stars Mick The Mic And Friends Live music 4pm £free

sir Charles Napier Pub Quiz “Bloody hard” the reckon prove them wrong and win a cash prize 8.15pm £free sugaqube Club Sunday House Time tbc £free Theatre Royal Peter Pan Boy refuses to grow up, hangs out with fairies and pirates - could be based on half the blokes in Brighton 1.30pm & 7pm £26 tru Wild Fruit F**k Christmas Special With Christmas officially over why not come and celebrate it all again with snow machines and ‘bad’ santas. Bah humbug 10pm £12/10/8/6 White rabbit Jazz Sundays 3pm £free xuma Diego Parada Live jazz 8pm £tbc

m o n day 28th

ancient mariner Pub quiz You may really need to get out of the house by now 8pm £1 BASEMENT Chic: DJ Steve Lush Disco anthems 11pm £free Bee’s mouth Jazz Forum All welcome to join in with the house band 8.30pm £free Belushi’s bar Quiz Night 8.30pm £free Black Lion Christmas Happy Mondays Open decks and mics 5pm £free Brighton Dome Brendan Live and Unjudged Strictly Come Dancing’s Brendan Cole prances about doing a ‘sensual rumba and elegant foxtrot’, assisted by guests in fake tan and sequins 2.30pm/7.30pm £12.50-29.50 CASTOR & POLLUX Andy Lovell: Limited edition screenprints Observational drawings and paintings 11am £free; Mike Levy: Paintings & monoprints 11am £free Coalition Trash Mondays Student Night 10.30pm £2/free CORNERSTONE Vinyl Exchange Stick It On-type night time tbc £free

duke of norfolk Poker Night 8pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema Nowhere Boy 4.15pm, 9.15pm; The White Ribbon 1.15pm, 6.15pm exchange Poker Night 8pm £tbc fountainhead Quiz Complete with play dough and singing rounds 8pm £1 funky buddha Mashed Up 8.30pm £2/1/free honeyclub Detention Student night with R&b, indie 10.30pm £3/2/free

Hope The H’Open Mic 8.30pm £free juggler Mondays AKL Open Mic 8pm £free Komedia up Showstopper! The Improvised Musical Every night a different musical 8pm £16/14/12 KULTURE uDirtyStopOut: DJ Nonstopmashup Indie, old skool club night 8pm £free LEGENDS Drag With No Name Monday Gangbang (Not actual gangbang) 9pm £free Life Aka Aka Roar New club for discerning dubsteppers Time tbc £3/2

sidewinder Poker night 9pm £5 three graces Quiz 8.30pm £free Volks Strictly Reggae Dancehall, bashment, roots, revival 10pm £5/4.50

xuma Mistletoe And Wine Festive music and lots of cheese 8pm £free

t u e s day 29th

Audio New Slang Alternative, indie and electro 10pm £3/2 BASEMENT Scene Queen DJ lil’ Alex 11pm £free Bee’s mouth Sounds Like Science DJs Electronica grooves 8.30pm £free

Belushi’s BAR Mod For It Mod & ska 10pm £free Belushi’s below Elements D&B 9pm £1 Black Lion Tuesday Club Open decks and mics 8pm £free brunswick Open Mic 8pm £free CASTOR & POLLUX Andy Lovell: Limited edition screenprints Observational drawings and paintings 11am £free; Mike Levy: Paintings & monoprints 11am £free Coalition Salsa Brighton Learn the moves for the club night later 8pm £6/4; Latin Fever Salsa and meringue dance party 10pm £3/2

cobblers thumb Open Mic Forget singing for your supper - it’s play for your pint at the cobblers 8.30pm £free Digital Glitterati Student night 11pm £5/4/3 Duke of Norfolk Open Mic Night 9pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema Nowhere Boy 4.15pm, 9.15pm; The White Ribbon 1.15pm; Cinema Paradiso 6.15pm Easy Bar Inkfish Tuesdays Request night 8pm £free Fiddler’s Elbow Quizness Time Pub Quiz 8pm £1 Fountainhead Open Mic 9pm £free funky buddha San Frandisco Classic and new proper disco- no hen night cheese, think DFA not YMCA 11pm £free Globe Basement Cinema Classic and underground film screenings 8pm £free Honeyclub Quids In Anything goes music policy 11pm £1 jam Kong Presents Local bands 8pm £4/2 juggler Are You B.I.M.M? Live music from BIMM students 8pm £free

Komedia up Showstopper! The Improvised Musical Every night a different musical 8pm £16/14/12 latest Music Bar Funk Up Funk based rock with The Eleven 37s 7.30pm £3/2 life The Vice Social Student dance night 10.30pm £3/2 mash tun Mash. Drink. Repeat DJs Rich and Jay with rock, indie and electro 9pm £free open house Jazz Workshop We’re jammin’ 8pm £3 Prince Albert Us And Them, The World According To Live bands 8pm £tbc Revenge Sound As A Pound Lady Bex plays electro, pop, dance and cheese 10.30pm £1 Riki tik Swafe Hip hop, reggae, funk and soul 11pm £free sanctuary Brighton Poetry Society Open mic with music interlude 8pm £4/3 seven stars Retro Cult Classic Film Nights Log on to www. sevenstarsbrighton.co.uk to vote for film to be shown 8pm £free signalman Quiz Night Time tbc £free sugaqube Laid Back Beats House Time tbc £free Theatre Royal Peter Pan Boy refuses to grow up, hangs out with fairies and pirates - could be based on half the blokes in Brighton 1.30pm & 7pm £26 thomas kemp Nuts Poker League Bring your poker face 7.30pm £free

Volks Wonkay Records Pre NYE Free Party Live bands and DJs, psy trance, dubstep, electro, trip hop 11pm £free West Hill tavern Open Mic With Tapehead 8.30pm £free xuma Open Mic 8pm £free

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friday 1st

BASEMENT NY - Day After Party: DJ Peter Castle Disco anthems 11pm £free Belushi’s Bar Coyote Ugly Funky house, electro and dance-off 9pm £free Black Lion New Year’s Day Warm Down Live DJs 8.30pm £free

Brunswick The Blues Corporation Live blues fundraiser 2pm £free

Duke of beaufort DJ Derek Eclectic mix 7pm £free ENGINE ROOM Deviant: Metal Night with DJ Justin Trouble, Andy Lost, Alex K666 11pm £tbc Fishbowl Keep It Wheel Steve KIW with rare disco, funk, soul and a touch of rock & roll 9pm £free Fortune Of War Live bands 9pm £free funky buddha Drink, Dance, Repeat Dan Doubledecks, Charles Green & Mikee Hollywood with an eclectic dance mix 11pm £5/3

Globe Honorary Sunday Funday Decks and boardgames in the basement Noon £free HOPE Downstairs: Stacked Nasty 50s r’n’r, 60s garage, soul & funk 9pm £free hub New Year’s Day Party 1pm £free jam Broke Dubstep, jungle, breaks, drum & bass 11pm £free juggler Light: DJ Lamp R&b, dance and jazz fusion 8pm £free

Kulture Fresh Fridays: DJ Pete Bristow Dance, R&B, indie 7pm £free

Lectern Friday Frenzy Student night with live music 8pm £free LEGENDS NYD Party Pure pop sounds 7pm £free life Daft Life Alternative dance, electro and indie leaning house 11pm £5/4

quadrant Live DJs Funk, soul and disco 9pm £free Riki tik Askew Recordings: DJ Barry Dust Soul, funk and eclectic 10pm £free sugaqube SQ Residents DJs Time tbc £free Theatre Royal Peter Pan Boy refuses to grow up, hangs out with fairies and pirates - could be based on half the blokes in Brighton 1.30pm £26 thomas kemp All Time Top 100 Special guest DJs offer their best tunes 8pm £free xuma Playlistswaylist 8.30pm £free

saturday wednesday 2nd 30th Audio SOL NYE Hangover Special House, electro, techno 11pm £free

BASEMENT Ignition: DJ Peter Castle House and chart sounds

audio Supercharged Breaks 10.30 £5/3 BASEMENT Gabbi’s Dirty Handbag: DJ Gabbi Dirty handbag and house 11pm £free Bee’s mouth Open Mic Night 8.30pm £free Belushi’s BAR Old Skool Sessions 90s house 10pm £free Black Lion Fresh Acoustics Local live music 8.30pm £free CASABLANCA Soul, funk, disco DJ £free CASTOR & POLLUX Andy Lovell: Limited edition screenprints Observational drawings and paintings 11am £free; Mike Levy: Paintings & monoprints 11am £free coalition Robot Rock 80s synth, electro rock and indie pop 10.30pm £1

cobblers thumb Texas Hold’em Cash poker 8pm £5 Digital The Poundance 11pm £4/3/1 Duke of Norfolk Quiz Night Winner takes all 8pm £1 Duke Of York’s Cinema Nowhere Boy 4.15pm, 9.15pm; The White Ribbon 1.15pm, 6.15pm Fishbowl Fisherman’s Chronicles Acoustic jam open mic session 8pm £free fortune of war DJ Night New and upcoming DJs 8pm £free

Komedia down Comic Boom! New comedy 8pm £8.50/6.50

Komedia up Showstopper! The Improvised Musical Every night a different musical 8pm £16/14/12 Kulture Wii Wednesdays Free wii and DJ Rob Grand playing dance, R&B and student anthems 7pm £free life Lets Kill Disco Electro, indie, D&B, breaks 10.30pm £1 mash tun Tin Cup Collective Five piece soul funk band 9pm £free

ocean rooms University Of Life Student night with live bands Time tbc £2 Sidewinder Garden Quiz Winner takes the pot 8pm £1 sugaqube Bar Grooves House Time tbc £free Theatre Royal Peter Pan Boy refuses to grow up, hangs out with fairies and pirates - could be based on half the blokes in Brighton 2pm & 7pm £26 Volks Drum&bass and dubstep 11pm £2/free xuma Quiz 8.30pm £tbc

11pm £free

Belushi’s Below Good Times Over 25s party with 70s, 80s soul, funk, disco, classics and anthems from Mick Fuller 9pm £5 Black Lion Attic Monkeys Motown, 60s classic, 70s funk, 80s hip hop and the latest 8.30pm £free CASABLANCA Soul, funk, disco DJs Time tbc £free Cobbler’s Thumb Radio 4A’s T&K Presents Late Live Lunch 9pm £free Druid’s arms Reggae Sessions Irie sounds 10pm £free Duke of beaufort SatNiteIsGonnaBAlwrite Ska, backbeat, indie 8pm £free ENGINE ROOM The Ookey Ook DJs Jon & Steph Ska, classic rock’n’roll 11pm £5 Fishbowl Askew: Barry Dust, Gareth Stephens Broken beats, new jazz, soul, funk, reggae 9pm £free Freebutt Arms and Sleepers Live band 7.30pm £3.50 funky buddha Buddha Soul: DJ Mike Pantelli Funk, soul, r&b, house 11pm £10; After party 3am £5 Hampton Gimme Shelter Matt Purnell plays 60s, 70s and 80s funk and soul 8pm £free Honeyclub Sevensins Pumping house & electro 11pm £10 Komedia down Krater Comedy Club: Phil Butler, Zoe Lyons Quality stand-up 7pm & 10.30pm £17.50 Komedia Studio Penguin Puppet show for kids from Polly Dunbar book 2pm £8.50/6.50 Kulture Freak Out: DJ Ash Hunt Fancy dress night 7pm £free

LEGENDS Pre Ignition with Ignition DJs Disco anthems time tbc £free

life Hold Up! Indie night 11pm £5 Pav Tav Back To the Future! Alternative music from the 70s, 80s, 80s and 00s 11pm £3/2 quadrant Laughing Horse Comedy Club Five comedians on offer 7.30pm £6/5 Riki Tik Shades Of Blue 50s, 60s, jazz and jazz funk 10pm £free

Sidewinder Beat Jerky Latin, soul, funk, jazz & reggae Time tbc £free

sugaqube Suga Sessions House from Brian Cheetham Time tbc £free

thomas kemp DJs Eclectic 9pm £free Theatre Royal Peter Pan Boy refuses to grow up, hangs out with fairies and pirates - could be based on half the blokes in Brighton 2pm & 7pm £26 xuma Playlistswaylist 8.30pm £free

BASEMENT Fever: DJ Ross Alexander Disco pop 11pm £free

Belushi’s Bar Open Mic Session 8.30pm £free Belushi’s Below Latin Sundayz Salsa & samba on the decks 9pm £2/free Black Lion Sunday Sessions presents Dubrockers Live Dub, reggae, ska, punk, trip hop and funk 6pm £free caroline of brunswick The Geekest Link Do you love Labyrinth? Was Willow the best film like, ever? Does your Second Life avatar have wings and a magical fantasy tail? Do you own a floor length leather coat? Can you answer these questions and others like them correctly in Klingon? Good for you, this quiz is yours for the taking 8.30pm £1 coalition Frequency House 10pm £free Druid’s arms The Downsound Sessions Down tempo beats, grooves, laid back latin, trip hop 9pm £free duke of norfolk Chip And Friends Live music 8pm £free

Fiddler’s Elbow Sham-Rock Open Mic 9pm £free Fishbowl Recovery? A chilled blend of rare reggae, soul & jazz 9pm £free Globe Sunday Funday Decks and boardgames in the basement Noon £free honeyclub Spectrum: Jon Byrne & Steven James Electro to keep the weekend alive 11pm £3/2 Komedia down Krater Comedy Club: Milton Jones, Adam Tempest, Tom Rosenthal Stand-up shenanigans 8pm £10/6 Komedia Studio Penguin Puppet show for kids from Polly Dunbar book 2pm £8.50/6.50 Komedia up Bent Double: Helen Keen, Cathy P, Raymond & Mr Timpkins Revue Gay friendly stand-up 7.30pm £12/8 LEGENDS Sunday Cabaret with Sandra 3.15pm £free Quadrant Quiz Night 8pm £free Riki tik Wildcard Soul, funk, hip hop and nu-jazz 10pm £free seven stars Mick The Mic And Friends Live music 4pm £free

sugaqube Club Sunday House Time tbc £free Theatre Royal Peter Pan Boy refuses to grow up, hangs out with fairies and pirates - could be based on half the blokes in Brighton 1.30pm £26 thomas kemp Open Mic 8pm £free xuma Jazz Duo 8pm £free

monday 4th

audio Glue d’n’b, dubstep10pm £3/2 BASEMENT Chic: DJ Steve Lush Disco anthems 11pm £free Belushi’s BAR Quiz Night 8.30pm £free Black Lion Happy Mondays Open decks and mics 5pm

£free

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

duke of norfolk Poker Night 8pm £free exchange Poker Night 8pm £tbc fountainhead Quiz Interactive rounds 8pm £free funky buddha Mashed Up M.I.A. vs Michael Jackson and the like 8.30pm £2/1/free Hope The H’Open Mic 8.30pm £free Honeyclub Detention School disco, r&b, indie 10.30pm

£3/2/free

juggler Mondays AKL Open Mic 8pm £free KULTURE uDirtyStopOut: DJ Nonstopmashup Indie, old skool club night 8pm £free Lectern Super Quiz Night Music, film, general knowledge 8pm £free

LEGENDS Drag With No Name Monday Gangbang (Not actual gangbang) 9pm £free Life Aka Aka Roar Inspirational dubstep 10pm £2/tbc quadrant Vinyl Exchange Night Source rare records and listen/mix on the decks before you buy 7pm £free st georges inn Quiz Night 8pm £1 sidewinder Poker night 9pm £5 thomas kemp Pub Quiz 8pm £free West Hill tavern Quiz Night 8.45pm £1

TUESDAY 5TH

Audio New Slang Alternative, indie, electro 10pm £3/2 BASEMENT Scene Queen DJ lil’ Alex 11pm £free Belushi’s BAR Mod For It Rocker h8erz 10pm £free Belushi’s below Elements D&B 9pm £1 Black Lion Tuesday Club Open decks and mics 8pm £free Brunswick Open Mic 8pm £free Caroline of brunswick Quiz Night 8.30pm £1 Coalition Salsa Brighton Learn the moves for the clubnight later 8pm £6/4; Latin Fever Salsa & merengue music 10pm

£3/2

hope Slip Jam B Open mic hip hop jam and DJs 9pm £free Honeyclub Quids In Anything goes music policy 11pm £1 jam Kong Presents Local bands 8pm £4/2 jazz place Roots Garden Reggae 11pm £4/3.50

juggler Are You B.I.M.M? Live music from BIMM students 8pm £free

life The Vice Social Student dance night 10.30pm £3/2 mash tun Mash. Drink. Repeat DJs Rich and Jay with rock, indie and electro 9pm £free open house Jazz Workshop We’re jammin’ 8pm £3 penthouse Rate Noise Music from unsigned producers 7.30pm £free

Prince Albert Glenbelt, The Sea Will Decide, Antony Hurley Live bands 8pm £tbc Riki tik Swafe Hip hop, reggae, funk and soul 11pm £free seven stars Retro Cult Classic Film Nights Log on to www. sevenstarsbrighton.co.uk to vote for film to be shown 8pm £free sugaqube Laid Back Beats House Time tbc £free three graces Poker Time tbc £free West Hill tavern Open Mic With Tapehead 8.30pm £free xuma Danny Green, Adam Rains Acoustic set 8pm £free

wednesday 6th

Audio Supercharged Breaks 11pm £1 BASEMENT Gabbi’s Dirty Handbag: DJ Gabbi Dirty handbag and house 11pm £free Belushi’s BAR Old Skool Sessions 90s house 10pm £free Belushi’s Below ‘Strapped’ Student Night House, rock and pop 10pm £free Black Lion Fresh Acoustics Local live music 8.30pm £free Brunswick The Noise Next Door Improvisational comedy 8pm £8/6

CASABLANCA Live funk & DJ £free before 11pm/£2/£1 coalition Robot Rock Wonky pop and 80s synth classics 10.30pm £1

cobblers thumb Texas Hold’em Cash poker 8pm £5 Duke of Norfolk Quiz Night Winner takes all 9pm £free Fishbowl Fisherman’s Chronicles Acoustic jam open mic session 8pm £free fortune of war DJ Night New and upcoming DJs 8pm

£free

Globe Open Mac Improv live set 9pm £free juggler Bakk Lamp Fall Five piece traditional West African band 8pm £free Kulture Wii Wednesdays Free wii and DJ Rob Grand playing dance, R&B and student anthems 7pm £free life Lets Kill Disco Electro, indie, d’n’b, breaks 10.30pm £1 mash tun Tin Cup Collective Five piece soul funk band 9pm £free

ocean rooms University Of Life Student night with live bands Time tbc £2 open house Safehouse Experimental live jam 8pm £3/2 Riki tik To The Floor Indie, rock and electro 10pm £free Sidewinder Garden Quiz Winner takes the pot 8pm £1 sugaqube Bar Grooves House Time tbc £free Theatre Royal Never Forget Take That tribute act discover who they really are by pretending to be someone else - these band-based musicals don’t spend much time on the plot do they?

7.45pm £34.50/31.50 xuma Quiz 8.30pm £tbc

thursday 7th

Audio Shameless Pop antics 11pm £2 Belushi’s Below Party On The Ceiling Bands & DJs 9.30pm £2

black lion Come As You Are: Gary Mulholland, Ash Bird 8.30pm £free

Brunswick The Soaring Hearts Country blues 8pm £5 caroline of brunswick Brighton Bike Night Bikers’ social 7pm £1 CASABLANCA Live music & DJ £free before 11pm/£2/£1 coalition Secret Discotheque Retro disco, 80s pop and other ‘uncool’ tunes 10.30pm £3/2/1 druids arms Quizageddon Pub questioning 8.30pm £1 Duke of Norfolk Live bands 9pm £free Exchange Quiz Night 8.45pm £1.50 Fiddler’s Elbow Fiddle-sticks Local live music 9pm £free Fishbowl Residents Association Hip hop, funk, disco, world & house 10pm £free funky buddha Bang Bang Hip hop, D&B and dubstep 11pm £1

GEORGE Open mic night 8pm £free Globe Rockoustic: Headstyle Live acoustic showcase 9pm

£free

Honeyclub Fusion House, R&B, indie 11pm £3/1 hub Open Mic 8.30pm £free Jam Club NME New music 8pm £4/2; Thursday Night Fish Fry Early 50s US rhythm & blues and original Jamaican ska 10pm £3 juggler Are You B.I.M.M? Live music from BIMM students 8pm £free

komedia down Krater Tag Comedy: Stephen Grant New fast paced format for comedy 8pm £8.50/6.50 Kulture Naughty Thursdays: DJ Rob Grand Dance, R&B, indie 7pm £free my hotel/Bottle Souled Out 70s, 80s, rare groove, disco, jazz funk and philly details tbc penthouse Not For Resale Meatbreak’s selection of DIY demos, releases & promos 7.30pm £free quadrant AKL Open Mic 8pm £free Riki tik Show-go-cube-oh DJ Orx playing soul, funk, rock and pop 10pm £free ST JAMES TAVERN Stay Sick, Turn Blue r’n’r, rockabilly, 60s garage 8.30pm £free

sugaqube Weekend Warmup: Gary Scott Upfront house, anthems Time tbc £free Theatre Royal Never Forget Take That tribute act discover who they really are by pretending to be someone else - these band-based musicals don’t spend much time on the plot do they?

5pm & 8.30pm £34.50/31.50

victory Open Mic Night 8pm £free

friday 8th

Audio Warehouse Tomb Crew, Boogaloo Crew 11pm £8/5 Belushi’s Bar Coyote Ugly Funky house, electro and dance-off 9pm £free Belushi’s BElow Skool Disco Traffic light party 10pm £2/

free

Black Lion Return Of The Funky Man: Justin P Dirty breaks, beats, soul & funk 8.30pm £free Brunswick Laugh Your Bits Off Monthy stand-up 8pm £8/6

caroline of brunswick Pandemonium: DJ Peter von Sleaze Rock and metal 9pm £free CASABLANCA Live funk & 10pm £5 Coalition Muzika’s 1st Birthday: Toby Jones, Gary Eeks, Tom Knight, D-Bongo House party 10.30pm £7/5/4 Cobbler’s Thumb Strawberry Noise Live Local acts 8pm

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£free

druids arms Hot Pepper Sauce Funk, soul, reggae 10pm

£free

Duke of beaufort DJ Derek Eclectic mix 7pm £free ENGINE ROOM Deviant: Metal Night with DJ Justin Trouble, Andy Lost, Alex K666 11pm £tbc Fishbowl Return of The Funky Man DJ ‘J’ with an eclectic mix 9pm £free Fortune Of War Live bands 9pm £free funky buddha Drink, Dance, Repeat Dan Doubledecks, Charles Green & Mikee Hollywood with an eclectic dance mix 11pm £5/3

Globe DJs 9pm £free hampton arms Mod For It 60s Mod party with soul, ska, Motown, new wave and Northern soul 8pm £free hare & hounds upstairs Tarantism Celtic punk 9pm £6/5

Honeyclub 11-16 Year Olds Club Night Maybe needs more effort on the name but you get the picture 6.30pm £6; Hed Kandi Funky, uplifting soulful house from the glam crew 11pm £10/8 jam Broke Dubstep, jungle, breaks, drum & bass 11pm £free juggler Light: DJ Lamp R&b, dance and jazz fusion 8pm £free

Komedia Down Krater Comedy Club: Dougie Dunlop, Jeff Innocent, Terry Alderton, Stephen Grant Stand-up shenanigans 7.30pm £12.50/10 Kulture Fresh Fridays: DJ Pete Bristow Dance, R&B, indie 7pm £free

Lectern Friday Frenzy Student night with live music 8pm £free life Daft Life Alternative dance, electro and indie leaning house 11pm £5/4

open house Brighton Folk & Blues Club: Phil Beer Fiddler from Show Of Hands 7pm £5 PAV TAV Kick Out The Jams: DJs Dynamite Sal, Eddie The Goatboy, Steve and Muffy Indie night 10.30pm £4/3 penthouse Amazing! Classic rock and power ballads 7.30pm £free

Prince Albert Dog End Disco, Fractured, The Park Live bands 8pm £tbc quadrant Live DJs Funk, soul and disco 9pm £free Riki Tik PRO Session Hip hop, breaks, drum and bass 8pm

£4

sugaqube Suga Sessions House from Brian Cheetham Time

tbc £free

Theatre Royal Never Forget Take That tribute act discover who they really are by pretending to be someone else - these band-based musicals don’t spend much time on the plot do they?

5pm & 8.30pm £34.50/31.50

thomas kemp All Time Top 100 Special guest DJs offer their best tunes 8pm £free three & ten Earth Calling Johnny Acecraft ComedyMartian pop star falls to earth 8pm £7/5 Victory Up Against It Glitter beat, power pop, punk and trash from Born Bad crew 9pm £free West Hill tavern Envy Indie, synth pop, dance, hip hop 10pm £free

xuma Playlistswaylist 8.30pm £free

saturday 9th Audio SOL Bloggers Delight 11pm £free Belushi’s Bar Credit Crunch Saturdays Live acoustic duo 9pm £free

Belushi’s Below Good Times Over 25s party with 70s, 80s soul, funk, disco, classics and anthems from Mick Fuller 9pm £5 Black Lion Burnt Toast with Radio Reverb Funk, soul, breaks & hip hop 8.30pm £free Brunswick The Parlophones 60s covers band 8pm £5 caroline of brunswick Replica Goth and industrial DJs

9pm £free

CASABLANCA Live funk, soul & DJ 10pm £7 Coalition Floorplay Resident Special: Prok & Fitch, Lee Garrett, Vince Frimpong, Georgeous 10.30pm £10/8/7; Blow After Party: Vincent Manganaro, Alex Outram, Aaron Palaez 3am £7/5/4

Cobbler’s Thumb The Jazz Sessions Chilled out jazz 9pm

£free

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backbeat, indie 8pm £free Duke Of York’s Cinema Der Rosenkavalier 6pm Fishbowl Sumsuch Funk, hip hop, house and breaks 9pm £free

Fortune Of War Roo (Tru Thoughts) Funk, soul, hip hop 9pm £free

funky buddha Buddha Soul: DJ Mike Pantelli Funk, soul, r&b, house 11pm £10; After party 3am £5 Globe Basement House Party Disco, house, funk and boogie 9pm £free

Hampton Gimme Shelter Matt Purnell plays 60s, 70s and 80s funk and soul 8pm £free Hanbury We Luv Pop! We Luv Electro Pop Yay, who doesn’t like a bit of synth pop after all? 7pm £8/6 hare & hounds upstairs Raise It To The Sound Benefit night 8.30pm £5/4 HECTORS HOUSE Stay Sick!: Thee Vicars Live music 8pm £free

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exchange Poker Night 8pm £tbc fountainhead Quiz Interactive rounds 8pm £free Freebutt Shield Your Eyes, Sly & the Family Drone Punk 7.30pm £5

funky buddha Mashed Up M.I.A. vs Michael Jackson and the like 8.30pm £2/1/free Hope The H’Open Mic 8.30pm £free Honeyclub Detention School disco, r&b, indie 10.30pm £3/2/free

juggler Mondays AKL Open Mic 8pm £free Komedia down Steve Dela’s Fantasmagoria Magic 8pm £12.50/10

KULTURE uDirtyStopOut: DJ Nonstopmashup Indie, old skool club night 8pm £free Lectern Super Quiz Night Music, film, general knowledge 8pm £free

Life Aka Aka Roar: Appleblim Inspirational dubstep 10pm £2/

tbc

Honeyclub Sevensins Pumping house & electro 11pm £10 JAM The Stash Unsigned bands 8.30pm £4/3 komedia Up Joe Strummer Remembrance Night: Take The 5th, Death Or Glory Soundsystem Charity night remembering that bloke out of The Clash 7pm £10 Komedia down Krater Comedy Club: Dougie Dunlop, Jeff Innocent, Terry Alderton, Stephen Grant Quality stand-up 7pm

quadrant Vinyl Exchange Night Source rare records and listen/mix on the decks before you buy 7pm £free sidewinder Poker night 9pm £5 Theatre Royal Dancing In The Streets Big show celebration of Motown 7.45pm £28.50/25.50 thomas kemp Pub Quiz 8pm £free three graces Quiz Interactive rounds 7.30pm £free

komedia studio Stone To The Bone Born Bad and Da Doo Ron Ron DJs spin psychedelic soul and afrobeat 11pm £5 Kulture Freak Out: DJ Ash Hunt Fancy dress night 7pm

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& 10.30pm £17.50

£free

life Hold Up! Indie night 11pm £5 NIGHTINGALE THEATRE Movement 12 7pm £5 ocean rooms Hush Club 50s/60s garage and soul 11pm £5/£3

penthouse Smack That Eclectic DJs 7.30pm £free PRINCE ALBERT Creature, They Cried Land Live bands 8pm £tbc

quadrant Laughing Horse Comedy Club Five comedians on offer 7.30pm £6/5 Riki Tik Wolf Music Disco and house and cosmic boogie 10pm £free

Sidewinder Tape2Tape The James Kendall’s mesmerising mix of 80s pop, electro and indie 9pm £free sugaqube Suga Sessions House from Brian Cheetham Time tbc £free

thomas kemp DJs Eclectic 9pm £free Theatre Royal Never Forget Take That tribute act discover who they really are by pretending to be someone else - these band-based musicals don’t spend much time on the plot do they? 4pm & 7.45pm £34.50/31.50

three & ten Earth Calling Johnny Acecraft ComedyMartian pop star falls to earth 8pm £7/5 three graces This Is My Epicentre Acoustic showcase 8pm £free

Victory ::Kinema:: Indie pop, dance rock and smooth 80s 9pm £free

west hill tavern Tonight We Fly Cinematic and epic pop melodrama 9pm £free xuma Playlistswaylist 8.30pm £free

Audio New Slang Indie 10pm £3/2 Belushi’s BAR Mod For It Why don’tcha all f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-fade away? 10pm £free Belushi’s below Elements D&B 9pm £1 Black Lion Tuesday Club Open decks and mics 8pm £free Brunswick Open Mic 8pm £free Caroline of brunswick Quiz Night 8.30pm £1 Coalition SalsaBrighton Learn the moves for the clubnight later 8pm £6/4; Latin Fever Salsa & merengue music 10pm £3/2

cobblers thumb Open Mic Forget singing for your supper - its play for your pint at the cobblers 8.30pm £free Duke of Norfolk Open Mic Night 9pm £free Fiddler’s Elbow Quizness Time Pub Quiz 8pm £1 Fountainhead Open Mic Music, poetry, magic, comedy and storytelling 9pm £free funky buddha San Frandisco Classic and new proper disco- no hen night cheese, think DFA not YMCA 11pm £free Globe Basement Cinema: Chungking Express, Save The Green Party Classic and underground film screenings 8pm £free hope Synth Attack Electro 9pm £3 Honeyclub Quids In Anything goes music policy 11pm £1 jam Kong Presents Local bands 8pm £4/2 jazz place Roots Garden Roots & reggae 11pm £4/3.50 juggler Are You B.I.M.M? Live music from BIMM students 8pm £free

sunday 10th

life The Vice Social Student dance night 10.30pm £3/2 mash tun Mash. Drink. Repeat DJs Rich and Jay with rock, indie and electro 9pm £free open house Jazz Workshop We’re jammin’ 8pm £3 Pav Tav Guerilla Rocks Indie, rock, punk and ska 10.30pm

£free

Prince Albert Lullabies, Prowess, Times Brings Age Live bands 8pm £tbc Riki tik Swafe Hip hop, reggae, funk and soul 11pm £free seven stars Retro Cult Classic Film Nights Log on to www. sevenstarsbrighton.co.uk to vote for film to be shown 8pm £free sugaqube Laid Back Beats House Time tbc £free Theatre Royal Dancing In The Streets Big show celebration of Motown 7.45pm £28.50/25.50 West Hill Tavern Acoustic Night 8.30pm £1 xuma Danny Green, Adam Rains Acoustic set 8pm £free

Audio Communion 6pm £5/4 Belushi’s Bar Open Mic Session 8.30pm £free Belushi’s Below Latin Sundayz Salsa & samba on the decks 9pm £2/free Black Lion Sunday Sessions presents Dubrockers Live Dub, reggae, ska, punk, trip hop and funk 6pm £free Brunswick The Great Orchestra Of Christmas Charity Polish fundraiser details tbc coalition Frequency DJs playing House 10pm £free duke of norfolk Max And Guests Live music 8pm Fiddler’s Elbow Sham-Rock Open Mic 9pm £free Fishbowl Recovery? A chilled blend of rare reggae, soul & jazz 9pm £free Globe Sunday Funday Decks and boardgames in the basement Noon £free honeyclub Spectrum: Jon Byrne & Steven James Electro to keep the weekend alive 11pm £3/2 Komedia down Krater Comedy Club: Dougie Dunlop, Jeff Innocent, Terry Alderton, Stephen Grant Quality stand-up 8pm

£4/3/2

lectern Fifteen Minutes Of Fame Open stage- perform alone or with the house band 8pm £free Quadrant Quiz Night 8pm £free Riki tik Wildcard Soul, funk, hip hop and nu-jazz 10pm £free seven stars Mick The Mic And Friends Live music 4pm sugaqube Club Sunday House Time tbc £free xuma Jazz Duo 8pm £free

CASABLANCA Live funk & DJ £free before 11pm/£2/£1 coalition Robot Rock Wonky pop and 80s synth classics

m o n day 11th

£free

ancient mariner Pub quiz 8pm £1 audio Glue d’n’b, dubstep11pm £3/2 Belushi’s BAR Quiz night 8.30pm £free Black Lion Happy Mondays Open decks and mics 5pm £free

BRUNSWICK Nocturne - Fifteen Years Ago I Killed My Sister Theatre about tragedy and triumph and stuff 8pm £5 Coalition Trash Mondays Eclectic student night 10.30pm

£3/2/free

druids arms Quizageddon Pub questioning 8.30pm £1 duke of norfolk Poker Night 8pm £free

7.30pm £free

Prince Albert The Big Black presents Live music 8pm £tbc

Riki tik To The Floor Indie, rock and electro 10pm £free Sidewinder Garden Quiz Winner takes the pot 8pm £1 sugaqube Bar Grooves House Time tbc £free Theatre Royal Dancing In The Streets Big show celebration of Motown 7.45pm £28.50/25.50 three & ten The Adventurists Music, storytelling and performance 8pm £7/5 three graces Area Code 273 Quirky bluesy tex mex 9pm £tbc

west hill tavern Gunpowder Poker 7.30pm £7 xuma Quiz 8.30pm £tbc

thursday 14th

Audio Shameless Pop antics 11pm £2 Belushi’s Bar Karaoke 9pm £free Belushi’s Below Party On The Ceiling Two bands & DJ 9.30pm £2

Black Lion Attic Monkeys 5 decades of tunes from Motown, 60s classics, 70s funk, 80s, hiphop and beyond 8.30pm £free BRUNSWICK The Finds, The Tales Live indie 8pm £3 CASABLANCA Live music & DJ £free before 11pm/£2/£1 coalition Secret Discotheque Retro disco, 80s pop and other ‘uncool’ tunes 10.30pm £3/2/1 Concorde 2 OK Go American indie popster jump off their treadmills to travel to Brighton 7.30pm £11+ Duke of beaufort B-Movie Obligatory popcorn 7pm £free

Duke of Norfolk Live bands 9pm £free Exchange Quiz Night 8.45pm £1.50 Fiddler’s Elbow Fiddle-sticks Local live music 9pm £free Fishbowl Residents Association Hip hop, funk, disco, world & house 10pm £free Freebutt Vivian Girls 7.30pm £9 funky buddha Bang Bang Hip hop, drum & bass and dubstep 11pm £1 GEORGE Open mic night 8pm £free Globe Rockoustic: Nick Hudson, Michael McLinn New night showcasing local live acts 9pm £free Honeyclub Fusion House, R&B, indie 11pm £3/1 hope B.I.M.M Live schowcase from BIMM students 8pm £3 hub Open Mic 8.30pm £free Jam Club NME New music 8pm £4/2; Thursday Night Fish Fry Early 50s US rhythm & blues and original Jamaican ska 10pm £3 juggler Are You B.I.M.M? Live music from BIMM students 8pm £free

Kulture Naughty Thursdays: DJ Rob Grand Dance, R&B, indie 7pm £free my hotel/Bottle Souled Out 70s, 80s, rare groove, disco, jazz funk and philly details tbc Pav Tav Dirty Words Indie, rock, electro 10.30pm £2 Prince Albert Paperface, Stalebreak Live music 8pm £tbc

Providence Sound Factory Stripped: Autumn Red (acoustic), Mike Newsham, Others Acoustic night 8pm £free quadrant AKL Open Mic 8pm £free Riki tik Show-go-cube-oh DJ Orx playing soul, funk, rock and pop 10pm £free ST JAMES TAVERN Stay Sick, Turn Blue r’n’r, rockabilly, 60s garage 8.30pm £free sugaqube Weekend Warmup: BIMM special Upfront house, anthems Time tbc £free Theatre Royal Dancing In The Streets Big show celebration of Motown 7.45pm £28.50/25.50 victory Open Mic Night 8pm £free

wednesday friday 15th 13th

Audio Supercharged Breaks 10.30pm £5/3 Belushi’s BAR Old Skool Sessions 90s house 10pm £free Belushi’s Below ‘Strapped’ Student Night House, rock and pop 10pm £free Black Lion Fresh Acoustics Local live music 8.30pm £free BRUNSWICK Nocturne - Fifteen Years Ago I Killed My Sister Theatre about tragedy and triumph and stuff 8pm £5 caroline of brunswick Cazza Comedy Stand up

£11/6

ocean rooms University Of Life Student night with live bands Time tbc £2 penthouse The Outer Church Joseph Stannard from The Wire (the magazine not the TV show) plays wigged out old tunes

8.30pm £7

10.30pm £1

£free

Freebutt Saxon Shore Post rock from Fleet Foxes’ Josh Tillman 7.30pm £5.50 juggler Bakk Lamp Fall Five piece traditional West African band 8pm £free Kulture Wii Wednesdays Free wii and DJ Rob Grand playing dance, R&B and student anthems 7pm £free life Lets Kill Disco Electro, indie, d&b, breaks 11.30pm £1 mash tun Tin Cup Collective Five piece soul funk band 9pm £free

NEW HERO Fancy Dress Party 10pm £3

audio Minimal Kids Techno 11pm £8/5 Belushi’s Bar Coyote Ugly Funky house, electro and dance-off 9pm £free Belushi’s BElow Dress Up Fridays Dressing up night 10pm £2/free

Black Lion Dubrockers Live Dub, reggae, ska, punk, trip hop and funk 6pm £free Brunswick Cajun Dawgs, Heavy Horse Country and blues 8pm £5

caroline of brunswick Pandemonium: DJ Peter von Sleaze Rock and metal 9pm £free CASABLANCA Live funk 10pm £5 coalition Carnivalesque 10.30pm £11/9/7/6 Cobbler’s Thumb Spunky Onions: Funky Gibbon DJ taking requests 8pm £free Concorde 2 Exit Avenue, Mimi Soya, The Critical Live bands 6pm £8+; Super Dub Pressure: Plastician, Youngsta, Jakes Huge dubstep line up 11pm £8/10+ druids arms Foe & Friends Funk, soul, beats 10pm £free Duke of beaufort DJ Derek Eclectic mix 7pm £free ENGINE ROOM Deviant: Metal Night with DJ Justin Trouble, Andy Lost, Alex K666 11pm £tbc Fishbowl The Black Lodge Disco, soul & electro-funk in the mix 9pm £free Fortune Of War Live bands 9pm £free funky buddha Drink, Dance, Repeat Dan Doubledecks, Charles Green & Mikee Hollywood with an eclectic dance mix 11pm £5/3

Globe DJs 9pm £free

£free

Komedia Down Krater Comedy Club: Junior Simpson, Sarah Millian, Gary Delaney Stand-up shenanigans 7.30pm

£14.50/10

Komedia Studio Brighton Jazz Club: David Newton Trio 8pm £14/12/10

Kulture Fresh Fridays: DJ Pete Bristow Dance, R&B, indie 7pm £free

Lectern Friday Frenzy Student night with live music 8pm £free life Daft Life Alternative dance, electro and indie leaning house 11pm £5/4

PAV TAV Kick Out The Jams: DJs Dynamite Sal, Eddie The Goatboy, Steve and Muffy Indie night 10.30pm £4/3 pavilion theatre On Race Hill A play about Brighton inspired by a dark history details tbc penthouse Lilo Feast Across the board non-hipster music for hipsters (they’ll hate that description) 7.30pm £free Prince Albert Flipside with Jailbait and guests Live bands 8pm £tbc

PROVIDENCE Sound Factory: Justice Force 5, Thieves By The Code, Angst, Paperface (TBC) Rock night 8pm £2 quadrant Live DJs Funk, soul and disco 9pm £free Riki Tik PRO Session Hip hop, breaks, drum and bass 8pm

£4

Sidewinder Get Yuh Own: DJs Rad Stewart & Legendary TP Hip hop, soul, jazz, funk, world and future 9pm £free sugaqube Suga Sessions House from Brian Cheetham Time

tbc £free

Theatre Royal Dancing In The Streets Big show celebration of Motown 5pm & 8.30pm £28.50/25.50 thomas kemp All Time Top 100 Special guest DJs offer their best tunes 8pm £free three graces Fall From Grace 9pm £free Victory Beans On Toast: Radio Reverb’s BlackBelt Jones Hip hop & funk 9pm £free West Hill tavern Envy Indie, synth pop, dance, hip hop 10pm £free

xuma Playlistswaylist 8.30pm £free

saturday 16th Audio SOL Cagedbaby 11pm £free Belushi’s Bar Credit Crunch Saturdays Live acoustic duo 9pm £free

Belushi’s Below Good Times Over 25s party with 70s, 80s soul, funk, disco, classics and anthems from Mick Fuller 9pm £5 Black Lion Medium Rare Funk, soul, rare grooves 8.30pm

£free

brunswick Jia Acoustic folk rock 8pm £5 caroline of brunswick Ever-Winter Night: DeLirium Metal DJ 9pm, £free CASABLANCA Live funk & DJ 10pm £7 Coalition Pop Musik: Mattatat, Eddie The Goatboy, Sparkle Motion Classic pop club night 11pm £tbc; Blow After Party: Vincent Manganaro, Alex Outram, Aaron Palaez 3am

£7/5/4

Cobbler’s Thumb Acoustic Night Live acts 8pm £free Concorde 2 Opening Party See C2 website for more Details

tbc

Druid’s arms Get Yuh Own Hip hop, funk, soul 10pm

£free

Duke of beaufort SatNiteIsGonnaBAlwrite Ska, backbeat, indie 8pm £free ENGINE ROOM Classic Rock From AC/DC to ZZ Top 11pm £5

Fishbowl Keep It Wheel Steve KIW with rare disco, funk, soul and a touch of rock & roll 9pm £free Fortune Of War Niall And Dan Gogglez Soul, house, electro and beats 9pm £free funky buddha Buddha Soul: DJ Mike Pantelli Funk, soul, r&b, house 11pm £10; After party 3am £5 Globe Donkey Pitch Electronica, hip hop, dubstep 9pm £free Hampton Gimme Shelter Matt Purnell plays 60s, 70s and 80s funk and soul 8pm £free Hanbury Boogaloo Stu’s PopKraft Outrageous porn pop party 7pm £8/6 hope Alice Live band 8pm £3 Honeyclub Sevensins Pumping house & electro 11pm £10 JAM The Doctor’s Orders: Jazzie B The famous Soul II Soul bloke DJs 10pm £7/5 Komedia Down Krater Comedy Club: Junior Simpson, Sarah Millian, Gary Delaney Stand-up shenanigans 7pm/10.30pm £17.50/15

Komedia Up Ministry Of Buresque’s High Tease Strippers that don’t leave you feeling guilty in the morning 9pm £15 Komedia Studio Spellbound Alternative 80s night- thought you’d never hear the Mission’s Deliverance again? Hopefully you won’t hear it at Spellbound either. But you might get to dance to Floorshow or the Dead Kennedys, and that’s never a bad thing 9pm £5/4

Kulture Freak Out: DJ Ash Hunt Fancy dress night 7pm

£free

life Hold Up! Indie night 11pm £5 ocean rooms Punk Rock Karaoke New venue for spiky sing-along 11pm £5; Hush Club 50s/60s garage and soul 11pm

£5/£3

old Market Sparkling New Year Ball Proper dancing like on that Strictly show - beginers and experienced dancers welcome 8pm £15/12

pavilion theatre On Race Hill A play about Brighton inspired by a dark history details tbc penthouse Ultrasound Dubstep, house and hip hop 7.30pm £free

PROVIDENCE Sound Factory: The Beautiful Word, Sweet Charlotte Folk and acoustic night Details tbc quadrant Laughing Horse Comedy Club Five comedians on offer 7.30pm £6/5 Riki tik Looking Sound Presents 3D Beats Dubstep, breaks and drum & bass with multi projection video scratch and live VJ’s 10pm £free

sugaqube Suga Sessions House from Brian Cheetham Time

tbc £free

Theatre Royal Dancing In The Streets Big show celebration of Motown 7.45pm £28.50/25.50 three & ten The Noise Next Door Comedy 8pm £8/6; International Stand Up 9.30pm £8/6 thomas kemp DJs Eclectic 9pm £free West Hill Tavern Artists Only Art school pop, new wave and girl bands 9pm £free xuma Playlistswaylist 8.30pm £free

sunday 17th

Belushi’s Bar Open Mic Session 8.30pm £free Belushi’s Below Latin Sundayz Salsa & samba on the decks 9pm £2/free Black Lion Sunday Sessions presents Dubrockers Live Dub, reggae, ska, punk, trip hop and funk 6pm £free Brunswick Kind Of Blue Miles Davis tribute act 8pm £7 coalition Frequency DJs playing House 10pm £free CONCERT HALL Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra 2.45pm £32/28/23/18/12/8

druids arms The Downsound Sessions Downtempo beats, grooves, soul, laid back latin, trip hop 9pm £free duke of norfolk Chip And Friends Live music 8pm

£free

sugaqube Club Sunday House Time tbc £free xuma Jazz Duo 8pm £free

m o n day 18th

audio Glue d’n’b, dubstep 11pm £2 Belushi’s BAR Quiz Night 8.30pm £free Black Lion Happy Mondays Open decks and mics 5pm

£free

BRUNSWICK Straight No Chaser 30-piece swing and jazz band 8pm £free Coalition Trash Mondays Eclectic student night 10.30pm £3/2/free

duke of norfolk Poker Night 8pm £free exchange Poker Night 8pm £tbc fountainhead Quiz Interactive rounds 8pm £free freebutt Ivyrise, The Rileys 7.30pm £tbc funky buddha Mashed Up M.I.A. vs Michael Jackson and the like 8.30pm £2/1/free Hope The H’Open Mic 8.30pm £free Honeyclub Detention School disco, r&b, indie 10.30pm

£3/2/free

jam I.O.U Comedy New comedy night 8pm £tbc juggler Mondays AKL Open Mic 8pm £free KULTURE uDirtyStopOut: DJ Nonstopmashup Indie, old skool club night 8pm £free Lectern Super Quiz Night Music, film, general knowledge 8pm £free

Life Aka Aka Roar Inspirational dubstep 10pm £2/tbc quadrant Vinyl Exchange Night Source rare records and listen/mix on the decks before you buy 7pm £free st georges inn Quiz Night 8pm £1 sidewinder Poker night 9pm £5 thomas kemp Pub Quiz 8pm £free

t u e s day 19th

Audio Delphic, Mirrors Excellent OMD-esque catchy-as-fuck synth pop at a Kraftwerk fancy dress party, and that’s just the support band Time tbc £7; New Slang Indie 10pm £3/2 Belushi’s BAR Mod For It Scooterist sounds 10pm £free Belushi’s below Elements D&B 9pm £1 Black Lion Tuesday Club Open decks and mics 8pm £free Brunswick Open Mic 8pm £free

Caroline of brunswick Quiz Night 8.30pm £1 Coalition SalsaBrighton Learn the moves for the clubnight later 8pm £6/4; Latin Fever Salsa & merengue music 10pm

£free

cobblers thumb Open Mic Forget singing for your supper - its play for your pint at the cobblers 8.30pm £free Duke of Norfolk Open Mic Night 9pm £free Fiddler’s Elbow Quizness Time Pub Quiz 8pm £1 Fountainhead Open Mic Music, poetry, magic, comedy and storytelling 9pm £free funky buddha San Frandisco Classic and new proper disco- no hen night cheese, think DFA not YMCA 11pm £free Globe Basement Cinema: A Bittersweet Life, Miller’s Crossing Classic and underground film screenings 8pm £free Honeyclub Quids In Anything goes music policy 11pm £1 jam Kong Presents Local bands 8pm £4/2 juggler Are You B.I.M.M? Live music from BIMM students 8pm £free

life The Vice Social Student dance night 10.30pm £3/2 mash tun Mash. Drink. Repeat DJs Rich and Jay with rock, indie and electro 9pm £free open house Jazz Workshop We’re jammin’ 8pm £3 Pav Tav Guerilla Rocks Indie, rock, punk and ska 10.30pm

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Hampton Fiftyseven DJs playing funk 8pm £free Honeyclub Hard South Like regular house but faster and bouncier 11pm £10/8/5 jam Broke Dubstep, jungle, breaks, drum & bass 11pm £free juggler Light: DJ Lamp R&b, dance and jazz fusion 8pm

£4/3/2

penthouse Rate Noise Music from unsigned producers 7.30pm £free

Prince Albert Donna Fullman, Violet Society, Remmy’s Tab Live bands 8pm £tbc Riki tik Swafe Hip hop, reggae, funk and soul 11pm £free seven stars Retro Cult Classic Film Nights Log on to www. sevenstarsbrighton.co.uk to vote for film to be shown 8pm £free sugaqube Laid Back Beats House Time tbc £free West Hill tavern Open Mic 8.30pm £free xuma Danny Green, Adam Rains Acoustic set 8pm £free

wednesday 20th

Audio Supercharged Breaks 11pm £5/3 Belushi’s BAR Old Skool Sessions 90s house 10pm £free Belushi’s Below ‘Strapped’ Student Night House, rock and pop 10pm £free Black Lion Fresh Acoustics Local live music 8.30pm £free Brunswick Laugh Your Bits Off Comedy night from local hopefuls 8pm £6/5 CASABLANCA Live funk & DJ £free before 11pm/£2/£1 coalition Robot Rock Wonky pop and 80s synth classics 10.30pm £1

cobblers thumb Texas Hold’em Cash poker 8pm £5 Duke of Norfolk Quiz Night winner takes all 9pm £free Fishbowl Fisherman’s Chronicles Acoustic jam open mic session 8pm £free fortune of war DJ Night New and upcoming DJs 8pm

£free

Freebutt HTRK 7.30pm £5.50 Globe Wrong Music For wrong’uns 9pm £free juggler Bakk Lamp Fall Five piece traditional West African band 8pm £free Kulture Wii Wednesdays Free wii and DJ Rob Grand playing dance, R&B and student anthems 7pm £free life Lets Kill Disco Electro, indie, d&b, breaks 11.30pm £1 mash tun Tin Cup Collective Five piece soul funk band 9pm £free

ocean rooms University Of Life Student night with live bands Time tbc £2 Riki tik To The Floor Indie, rock and electro 10pm £free Sidewinder Garden Quiz Winner takes the pot 8pm £1 sugaqube Bar Grooves House Time tbc £free west hill tavern Gunpowder Poker 7.30pm £5 xuma Quiz 8.30pm £tbc

thursday 21st

Audio Shameless pop antics 11pm £2 Belushi’s Bar Karaoke 9pm £free Belushi’s Below Party On The Ceiling Two bands & DJ 9.30pm £2

Black Lion Attic Monkeys Five decades of tunes from Motown, 60s classics, 70s funk, 80s, hip hop and beyond 8.30pm £free

brunswick Jaime Regan Live music 8pm £tbc CASABLANCA Live funk & DJ £free before 11pm/£2/£1 coalition Secret Discotheque Retro disco, 80s pop and other ‘uncool’ tunes 10.30pm £3/2/1 CONCERT HALL Way To Blue: The Songs Of Nick Drake A night of tributes curated by the dead singer’s producer Joe Boyd 8pm £27.50, £22.50

Hope Emergenza Festival International battle of the bands details tbc

Honeyclub Fusion House, R&B, indie 11pm £3/1 hub Open Mic 8.30pm £free Jam Club NME New music 8pm £4/2; Thursday Night Fish Fry

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Early 50s US rhythm & blues and original Jamaican ska 10pm £3 juggler Are You B.I.M.M? Live music from BIMM students 8pm £free

Komedia Down Pappy’s Fun Club Edinburgh sell out sketch show makes it down south 8pm £12/10 Kulture Naughty Thursdays: DJ Rob Grand Dance, R&B, indie 7pm £free my hotel/Bottle Souled Out 70s, 80s, rare groove, disco, jazz funk and philly details tbc Pav Tav Dirty Words Indie, rock, electro 10.30pm £2 Prince Albert Small Gods Live music 8pm £tbc PROVIDENCE Sound Factory Stripped Acoustic night 8pm £free

quadrant AKL Open Mic 8pm £free Riki tik Show-go-cube-oh DJ Orx playing soul, funk, rock and pop 10pm £free ST JAMES TAVERN Stay Sick, Turn Blue r’n’r, rockabilly, 60s garage 8.30pm £free sugaqube Weekend Warmup: Northbrook Special Upfront house, anthems Time tbc £free victory Open Mic Night 8pm £free

friday 22nd

Belushi’s Bar Coyote Ugly Funky house, electro and dance-off 9pm £free Belushi’s BElow Dress Up Fridays Fancy dress night 10pm £2/free

Black Lion Medium Rare Funk, soul, rare grooves 8.30pm

Listing

BRUNSWICK South Coast Soul Revue Soul funk ass-movers 8pm £5

caroline of brunswick Cazza Karaoke 8pm £free; Laugh Down Babylon Stand up 9pm £2 CASABLANCA Live funk, soul & DJ 10pm £7 Coalition Wired: Vincent Manganaro, Carlos Ruis Electro, tech-house club night with live VJs 11pm £10/8; Blow After Party: Vincent Manganaro, Alex Outram, Aaron Palaez 3am £7/5/4 Cobbler’s Thumb Barabajagal Live folk, roots and blues 9pm £free

concorde 2 Welcome To 2010 Concorde 2 Big Weekender Weekend of big guests and drinks promos, see C2 website Details tbc

CONCERT HALL The Treason Show details tbc Druid’s arms Nostalgiadelia Funk, soul 10pm £free Duke of beaufort SatNiteIsGonnaBAlwrite Ska, backbeat, indie 8pm £free ENGINE ROOM Snake Eyed Mamas Club Night Rock&roll, psychobilly, 50s r&b, surf, trash, old school 11pm £5 Fishbowl Sumsuch & Danny Williams Deep house 9pm £free

fortune of war Uncle Al Soul, hip hop and funk 9pm £free

Globe Music Is The Answer Eclectic electric 9pm £free Hampton Gimme Shelter Matt Purnell plays 60s, 70s and 80s funk and soul 8pm £free hare & hounds upstairs EMI Label Launch details tbc Honeyclub Sevensins Pumping house & electro 11pm £10 Hope Emergenza Festival International battle of the bands details tbc

£free

JAM Hot Chip (DJ set), Grosvenor, Kinema* Live music and DJs 10pm £tbc Komedia down Krater Comedy Club: Ian Stone, Paul F Taylor, Phil Nichol, Paul Redwood, Stephen Grant Stand-up shenanigans 7pm & 10.30pm £17.50/15 Kulture Freak Out: DJ Ash Hunt Fancy dress night 7pm

Details TBC 8pm £free

life Hold Up! Indie night 11pm £5 cean rooms Vegas Live swing, dancing girls and casino 11pm £TBC; Hush Club 50s/60s garage and soul 11pm £5/£3 penthouse Eagle Legs Riot grrrl, punk and soul 7.30pm

details tbc

Prince Albert Wanderdown, My Element Live bands 8pm

£free

PROVIDENCE Sound Factory Rock night 8pm £2 quadrant Laughing Horse Comedy Club Five comedians on offer 7.30pm £6/5 Riki Tik DJs 10pm £free sugaqube Suga Sessions House from Brian Cheetham Time

caroline of brunswick Pandemonium: DJ Peter von Sleaze Rock and metal 9pm £free CASABLANCA Live funk 10pm £5 Coalition Evolution 10.30pm £tbc concorde 2 Welcome To 2010 Concorde 2 Big Weekender Weekend of big guests and drinks promos, see C2 website Cobbler’s Thumb Peel Fresh Rockabilly, blues and swing CONCERT HALL Jimmy Carr: Rapier Wit Another chance to see the sold-out Festival show 8pm £22.50; The Treason Show druids arms Hot Pepper Sauce Funk, soul, reggae 10pm Duke of beaufort DJ Derek Eclectic mix 7pm £free ENGINE ROOM Deviant: Metal Night with DJ Justin Trouble, Andy Lost, Alex K666 11pm £tbc Fishbowl Blackbelt Jonez Hip hop and funk 9pm £free Fortune Of War Live bands 9pm £free funky buddha Drink, Dance, Repeat Dan Doubledecks, Charles Green & Mikee Hollywood with an eclectic dance mix 11pm £5/3

Globe DJs 9pm £free hampton Blacklodge Eclectic mix of soul, funk, disco, boogie, rare 60s 8pm £free Hope Emergenza Festival International battle of the bands details tbc

Jam Broke Dubstep, jungle, breaks, drum & bass 11pm £free juggler Light: DJ Lamp R&b, dance and jazz fusion 8pm £free

Komedia down Krater Comedy Club: Ian Stone, Paul F Taylor, Phil Nichol, Paul Redwood, Stephen Grant Quality stand-up 7.30pm £14.50/10 Komedia studio Brighton Jazz Club: John Law ‘Art Of Sound’ Trio 8pm £12/10/8 Kulture Fresh Fridays: DJ Pete Bristow Dance, R&B, indie 7pm £free

Lectern Friday Frenzy Student night with live music 8pm £free life Daft Life Alternative dance, electro and indie leaning house 11pm £5/4

PAV TAV Kick Out The Jams: DJs Dynamite Sal, Eddie The Goatboy, Steve and Muffy Indie night 10.30pm £4/3 penthouse Superheroes Of BMX Eclectic mix from Superheroes Of BMX, who we still owe cider to 7.30pm £free portland live Freed Free tribute band 8.30pm £3 Prince Albert Stars Down To Earth Live band 8pm £tbc PROVIDENCE Sound Factory: Bucket Joy, Violet Society (TBC) Rock night 8pm £2 quadrant Live DJs Funk, soul and disco 9pm £free Riki Tik PRO Session Hip hop, breaks, drum and bass 8pm £4

Sidewinder Get Yuh Own: DJs Rad Stewart & Legendary TP Hip hop, soul, jazz, funk, world and future 9pm £free sugaqube Suga Sessions House from Brian Cheetham Time tbc £free

thomas kemp All Time Top 100 Special guest DJs offer their best tunes 8pm £free West Hill tavern Envy Indie, synth pop, dance and hip hop 10pm £free

xuma Playlistswaylist 8.30pm £free

saturday 23rd

ancient mariner Acoustic Sessions: Gloria Cycles, Caramel Jack 8pm £tbc Audio SOL House, disco, electro 11pm £free Belushi’s Bar Australia Day Party PillBilly’s live acoustic duo 9pm £free

Belushi’s Below Good Times Over 25s party with 70s, 80s soul, funk, disco, classics and anthems from Mick Fuller 9pm £5 Black Lion Return Of The Funky Man: Justin P Dirty breaks, beats, soul & funk 8.30pm £free

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thomas kemp DJs Eclectic 9pm £free three graces This Is My Epicentre Acoustic showcase 8pm £free

Victory Fernando Poo Country, classic pop, folk, electro, rock ‘n’ roll, techno 9pm £free West Hill tavern L’Amour Electronique Bubblegum and synth pop, a la francais 9pm £free xuma Playlistswaylist 8.30pm £free

sunday 24th

Belushi’s Bar Open Mic Session 8.30pm £free Belushi’s Below Latin Sundayz Salsa & samba on the decks 9pm £2/free Black Lion Sunday Sessions Presents Dubrockers Live Dub, reggae, ska, punk, trip hop and funk 6pm £free Brunswick John Turville Live music 8pm £7 coalition Frequency House 10pm £free druids arms The Downsound Sessions Down tempo beats, grooves, soul, laid back latin, trip hop 9pm £free duke of norfolk Max And Guests Live music 8pm £free

Fiddler’s Elbow Sham-Rock Open Mic 9pm £free Fishbowl Recovery? A chilled blend of rare reggae, soul & jazz 9pm £free Globe Sunday Funday Decks and boardgames in the basement Noon £free honeyclub Spectrum: Jon Byrne & Steven James Electro to keep the weekend alive 11pm £3/2 Komedia down Krater Comedy Club: Phil Nichol, Paul Redwood, Stephen Grant Stand-up shenanigans 8pm £11/6 lectern Fifteen Minutes Of Fame Open stage- perform alone or with the house band 8pm £free Old Market Chopin Fest Not loads of people cutting things up, but Llyr Williams on the paino playing classical 8pm £22/10/7 pavilion theatre Contemporary Dance Workshop: Jasmin Vardimon Company 11am £35 penthouse Craft Aid Kit Drop in craft making day with travelling craft library and chill out tunes 12pm £free Prince Albert Pokey LaFarge & the South City Three Live bands 8pm £tbc quadrant Quiz Night 8pm £free Riki tik Wildcard Soul, funk, hip hop and nu-jazz 10pm £free seven stars Mick The Mic And Friends Live music 4pm £free

sugaqube Club Sunday House Time tbc £free xuma Jazz Duo 8pm £free

m o n day 25th audio Glue d’n’b, dubstep 11pm £2 ancient mariner Pub quiz 8pm £1 Belushi’s BAR Quiz Night 8.30pm £free

Black Lion Happy Mondays Open decks and mics 5pm £free

Coalition Trash Mondays Eclectic student night 10.30pm

£3/2/free

juggler Mondays AKL Open Mic 8pm £free Komedia Up Will Self: Lugubrious Monday Probably Britain’s greatest writer celebrates the most depressing day of the year he’s very funny in the flesh 7.30pm £12 Lectern Super Quiz Night Music, film, general knowledge 8pm £free

Life Aka Aka Roar Inspirational dubstep 10pm £2/tbc prince albert Speakyourheart, Tall Ships, Wilson Fisk, Let’s Talk Daggers Live bands 8pm £tbc quadrant Vinyl Exchange Night Source rare records and listen/mix on the decks before you buy 7pm £free sidewinder Poker night 9pm £5 Theatre Royal Present Laughter Comedy of manners from the clever bugger Noel Coward 7.45pm £26 thomas kemp Pub Quiz 8pm £free three graces Quiz Interactive rounds 7.30pm £free

T u e s day 26th

Audio New Slang Indie 10pm £3/2 Belushi’s BAR Mod For It Mod & ska 10pm £1 Belushi’s below Elements D&B 9pm £1 Black Lion Reggae Barbecue Reggae bands, DJs and Jamaican food 6pm £1/free Brunswick Open Mic 8pm £free Caroline of brunswick Quiz Night 8.30pm £1 Coalition SalsaBrighton Learn the moves for the clubnight later 8pm £6/4; Latin Fever Salsa & merengue music 10pm £3/2

cobblers thumb Open Mic Forget singing for your supper - its play for your pint at the cobblers 8.30pm £free Duke of Norfolk Open Mic Night 9pm £free Fiddler’s Elbow Quizness Time Pub Quiz 8pm £1 Fountainhead Open Mic Music, poetry, magic, comedy and storytelling 9pm £free funky buddha San Frandisco Classic and new proper disco- no hen night cheese, think DFA not YMCA 11pm £free Globe Basement Cinema: M.A.S.H., Withnail And I Classic and underground film screenings 8pm £free Honeyclub Quids In Anything goes music policy 11pm £1 jam Kong Presents Local bands 8pm £4/2 jazz place Roots Garden Roots & reggae 11pm £4/3.50 juggler Are You B.I.M.M? Live music from BIMM students 8pm £free

life The Vice Social Student dance night 10.30pm £3/2 mash tun Mash. Drink. Repeat DJs Rich and Jay with rock, indie and electro 9pm £free open house Jazz Workshop We’re jammin’ 8pm £3 Pav Tav Guerilla Rocks Indie, rock, punk and ska 10.30pm £4/3/2

Prince Albert Sons Of Noel & Adrian, Alessi’s Ark Live bands details tbc seven stars Retro Cult Classic Film Nights Log on to www. sevenstarsbrighton.co.uk to vote for film to be shown 8pm £free sugaqube Laid Back Beats House Time tbc £free Theatre Royal Present Laughter Comedy of manners from the clever bugger Noel Coward 7.45pm £26 West Hill Tavern Acoustic Night 8pm £free xuma Danny Green, Adam Rains Acoustic set 8pm £free

wednesday 27th

Audio Supercharged Breaks with Joker, Jakwob 11pm £5/3 Belushi’s BAR Old School Sessions 90s house 9pm £1 Belushi’s Below ‘Strapped’ Student Night House, rock and pop 10pm £free Black Lion Fresh Acoustics Local live music 8.30pm £free brunswick Burns Night Scottish knees up and inevitable alleyway puking 8pm £tbc Caroline of Brunswick The Funnier Farm: Marcel Lucont Stand up comedy 8pm £5 CASABLANCA Live funk & DJ £free before 11pm/£2/£1 coalition Robot Rock Wonky pop and 80s synth classics 10.30pm £1

juggler Bakk Lamp Fall Five piece traditional West African band 8pm £free Kulture Wii Wednesdays Free wii and DJ Rob Grand playing dance, R&B and student anthems 7pm £free life Lets Kill Disco Electro, indie, d&b, breaks 11.30pm £1 mash tun Tin Cup Collective Five piece soul funk band 9pm £free

ocean rooms University Of Life Student night with live

thursday 28th

Audio Shameless Pop antics 11pm £1 Belushi’s Bar Karaoke 9pm £free Belushi’s Below Party On The Ceiling Two bands & DJ 9.30pm £2

Black Lion Modern Life Is Rubbish Old school rock 8.30pm

£free

CASABLANCA Live music & DJ £free before 11pm/£2/£1 coalition Secret Discotheque Retro disco, 80s pop and other ‘uncool’ tunes 10.30pm £3/2/1 Duke of beaufort B-Movie Obligatory popcorn 7pm £free

Duke of Norfolk Live bands 9pm £free Exchange Quiz Night 8.45pm £1.50 Fiddler’s Elbow Leerodi Trad Irish Session Come and join in the craic 8.30pm £free Fishbowl Residents Association Hip hop, funk, disco, world & house 10pm £free funky buddha Bang Bang Hip hop, drum & bass and dubstep 11pm £1 GEORGE Open mic night 8pm £free Globe Rockoustic: Mike Newsham Live acoustic showcase 9pm £free

Komedia down Comic Boom! Comedy 8pm £8.50/6.50 Komedia up Hammer & Tongue: Poets vs MCs Rappers and rhymers slug it out in a ‘fierce and legendary’ battle 7.30pm

£3

Komedia Bar The Lovely Brothers Madness meets Art Brut meets The Mighty Boosh in musical cabaret 8pm £5 Kulture Naughty Thursdays: DJ Rob Grand Dance, R&B, indie 7pm £free my hotel/Bottle Souled Out 70s, 80s, rare groove, disco, jazz funk and philly details tbc Pav Tav Dirty Words Indie, rock, electro 10.30pm £2 PROVIDENCE Sound Factory Stripped Acoustic night 8pm £2

quadrant AKL Open Mic 8pm £free Riki tik Show-go-cube-oh DJ Orx playing soul, funk, rock and pop 10pm £free ST JAMES TAVERN Stay Sick, Turn Blue r’n’r, rockabilly, 60s garage 8.30pm £free sugaqube Weekend Warmup: Gary Scott Upfront house, anthems Time tbc £free Theatre Royal Present Laughter Comedy of manners from the clever bugger Noel Coward 7.45pm £26 victory Open Mic Night 8pm £free xuma Drag Queen Bingo 8.30pm £free

friday 29th

Audio Battlejam JFB & Beardyman do some uber-turntablism 11pm £8/5

Belushi’s Bar Coyote Ugly Funky house, electro and dance-off 9pm £free Belushi’s BElow Dress Up Fridays Dressing up night 10pm £2/free

Black Lion Pigeonhold: Will B 8.30pm £free Brunswick The Curst Sons Hillbilly rock 8pm £5 caroline of brunswick The Infernal Salon Pecul;iar performance and live music 8pm £tbc; Pandemonium: DJ Peter von Sleaze Rock and metal 9pm £free CASABLANCA Live funk 10pm £5 coalition Kill Em All : Boy 8-Bit, Filthy Dukes, In Flagranti, Ou Est Le Swimming Pool New music night 10.30pm £tbc Cobbler’s Thumb Live Blues 9pm £free concorde 2 Beat Redemption: Kode 9 Big name dubstep DJ plays launch party, plus stalls and much more 10.30pm £8+ Druid’s arms Foe & Friends Soul, hip hop beats 10pm £free

Duke of beaufort DJ Derek Eclectic mix 7pm £free ENGINE ROOM Deviant: Metal Night with DJ Justin Trouble, Andy Lost, Alex K666 11pm £tbc Fishbowl Latenight Lounging Disco, funk, soulful house 9pm £free

Fortune Of War Live bands 9pm £free funky buddha Drink, Dance, Repeat Dan Doubledecks, Charles Green & Mikee Hollywood with an eclectic dance mix 11pm £5/3

Globe DJs 9pm £free Hampton Fiftyseven DJs playing funk 8pm £free Hare & Hounds Club Zygotic: Drum Eyes, Lamp, HRT, Umlaut Live bands plus Deadfly Hi-Fi and Shindig DJs 8.30pm £6.50 juggler Light: DJ Lamp R&b, dance and jazz fusion 8pm

£free

Komedia down Krater Comedy Club: Benjamin Crellin, Pippa Evans, Tom Craine, Stephen Grant Quality stand-up 7.30pm £14.50/10

Komedia Studio Brighton Jazz Club: Stan Tracey Trio 8pm £15

Kulture Fresh Fridays: DJ Pete Bristow Dance, R&B, indie 7pm £free

Lectern Friday Frenzy Student night with live music 8pm £free life Daft Life Alternative dance, electro and indie leaning house 11pm £5/4

olD Market Justin Adams, Juldeh Camara Gambian punk fusion 7.30pm £12.50 PAV TAV Kick Out The Jams: DJs Dynamite Sal, Eddie The Goatboy, Steve and Muffy Indie night 10.30pm £4/3 penthouse No More Mr Lo-Fi Party tunes, indie-style 7.30pm £free

Prince Albert The Crucks, Prehab, Rosettes, Brickwork Lizards Live bands 8pm £tbc PROVIDENCE Sound Factory Indie night 8pm £2 quadrant Live DJs Funk, soul and disco 9pm £free Riki Tik PRO Session Hip hop, breaks, drum and bass 8pm

£4

Sidewinder Like A Sex Machine 70s tribute night - get your big trousers, big shoes and big hair on 9pm £free sugaqube Suga Sessions House from Brian Cheetham Time

tbc £free

Theatre Royal Present Laughter Comedy of manners from the clever bugger Noel Coward 7.45pm £26 thomas kemp All Time Top 100 Special guest DJs offer their best tunes 8pm £free three & ten Rabbit In The Headlights New stand ups 8pm

£6/5

West Hill tavern Turn up, Tune In Mad For It’s Jody Lee DJs 9pm £free xuma Playlistswaylist 8.30pm £free

saturday 30th

al duomo Muzika*: Howie, Gary eks, Justin Howard, D-Bongo House debauchery 10.30pm £7/5/4 Audio SOL:Devo C2 11pm £free Belushi’s Bar Credit Crunch Saturdays Live acoustic 9pm £free

Belushi’s Below Good Times Over 25s party with 70s, 80s soul, funk, disco, classics and anthems from Mick Fuller 9pm £5 Black Lion Burnt Toast Funk, soul, breaks & hip hop 8.30pm

£free

Brunswick Grand Avenue Music Funk’n’soul-athon 8pm

£6/5

CASABLANCA Live funk, soul & DJ 10pm £7 Coalition X-Press 2 & Skint Records Release Party 11pm £10/8; DPM After party 3am £7/5/4 Cobbler’s Thumb Spunky Onions: Funky Gibbon DJ request night 8pm £free CORN EXCHANGE Tom Paxton US folk 8pm £20 Digital Miike Snow Live synth pop 7.30pm £10/8 Druid’s arms BOOM(ting) d’n’b, dubstep 10pm £free Duke of beaufort Vulcan Full Moon Party 7pm £free ENGINE ROOM Brighton Rumble Rockabilly night 11pm £8 Fishbowl Daddy Marcus Soul, disco funk 9pm £free Fortune Of War Dom Servini (Wah Wah 45s) UK soul, funk and jazz and rare tunes 9pm £free funky buddha Buddha Soul: DJ Mike Pantelli Funk, soul, r&b, house 11pm £10; After party 3am £5 Globe DJs 9pm £free Hampton Gimme Shelter Matt Purnell plays 60s, 70s and 80s funk and soul 8pm £free HARE & HOUNDS PUB Mels AllStars, The Whatnots Country Punk details tbc HOBGOBLIN The Goo Goo Muck Live bands 8pm £free Honeyclub Sevensins Pumping house & electro 11pm £10 Hope Time Crisis Club Live bands and rockstar karaoke 8pm £3

JAM La Fiesta Latin house, techno & electro 4am £6/5 Komedia down Krater Comedy Club: Krater Comedy Club: Benjamin Crellin, Pippa Evans, Tom Craine, Stephen Grant Stand-up shenanigans 7pm & 10.30pm £17.50/15 KOMEDIA STUDIO Da Doo Ron Ron Ace 60s soul girl night - loads of fun 11pm £6/5 Komedia Up Showstopper! The Improvised Musical Sounds dangerous to us but Time Out liked it 8pm £16/14/12 Kulture Freak Out: DJ Ash Hunt Fancy dress night 7pm

£free

life Hold Up! Indie night 11pm £5 ocean rooms Punk Rock Karaoke New venue for spiky sing-along 11pm £5; Hush Club 50s/60s garage and soul 11pm

£5/£3

Pav tav Snap, Crackle & Brit Pop Sounds from the 90s 11pm

£4/3

pavilion theatre Magic In A Day with Tom Silburn Wizard school 10am £25 penthouse Viewfinder 7.30pm £free Prince Albert The Valentines Live band 8pm £tbc PROVIDENCE Sound Factory Rock night 8pm £2 quadrant Laughing Horse Comedy Club Five comedians on offer 7.30pm £6/5 Riki tik 3Soul Kolective: David Holness & Defunk Funk, soul, jazz and broken beats 11pm £free Sidewinder Danceteria Disco, boogie, house and funk 6.30pm £free

sugaqube Suga Sessions House from Brian Cheetham Time

Theatre Royal Present Laughter Comedy of manners from the clever bugger Noel Coward 7.45pm £26 three & ten Off The Cuff Improvised comedy 8pm £7/5 three graces Go Cat Go Rockabilly 8pm £free thomas kemp DJs Eclectic 9pm £free Victory Fernando Poo Country, classic pop, folk, electro, rock ‘n’ roll, techno 9pm £free White rabbit Glock’n’Spiel: Version 101 Underground house & techno 8pm £free xuma Playlistswaylist 8.30pm £free

sunday 31st

£10

coalition Frequency House 10pm £free CONCERT HALL Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra 2.45pm £32/28/23/18/12/8

cONCORDE 2 Tattoo Convention Aftershow Live band, burlesque and more 8pm £free with wristband/£5 druids arms The Downsound Sessions Down tempo beats, grooves, soul, laid back latin, trip hop 9pm £free Fiddler’s Elbow Sham-Rock Open Mic 9pm £free Fishbowl Recovery? A chilled blend of rare reggae, soul & jazz 9pm £free Globe Sunday Funday Decks and boardgames in the basement Noon £free honeyclub Spectrum: Jon Byrne & Steven James Electro to keep the weekend alive 11pm £3/2 Komedia down Krater Comedy Club: Krater Comedy Club: Benjamin Crellin, Pippa Evans, Tom Craine, Stephen Grant Stand-up shenanigans 8pm £11/6 komedia studio Argus! The Musical Comedy improv from The Maydays 8pm £7/5 lectern Fifteen Minutes Of Fame Open stage- perform alone or with the house band 8pm £free pavilion theatre Sing-Along-A Sandwich On-A-Sunday Quite literally, singing and sandwiches. Bring your own sandwich 11am £20 penthouse Craft Aid Kit Drop in craft making day with travelling craft library and chill out tunes 12pm £free Prince Albert Winging It Comedy Night 8pm £tbc quadrant Quiz Night 8pm £free Riki tik Wildcard Soul, funk, hip hop and nu-jazz 10pm £free seven stars Mick The Mic And Friends Live music 4pm £free

sugaqube Club Sunday House Time tbc £free three & ten Projektor Film Club Short indie films 6pm £5 xuma Jazz Duo 8pm £free

Exhibitions

brighton media centre Hungry Like The Wolf An exhibition of work that will appeal to your wilder self, the Guerilla Art Market presents a preview of work from selected artists accompanied by a soundscape from a local five piece. The invitation to explore ‘natural magic and modern mysticism’ with an anarchic twist looks promising December 3rd 7pm £tbc Brighton Museum & Art Gallery The Land Girls: Cinderellas of the Soil An exhibition of land girl related stuffpredominantly pairs of ilegally altered khaki britches. Those naughty, naughty girls Until 14 March £free; The Spice of Life We can’t believe it’s taken so long for the curators to put together an exhibition of condiment containers and salt shakers. Surely Brighton has been crying out for this Until 8 August 2010 £free; Jewels On The Nile Images, paintings and etchings of Egypt captured in the 19th and 20th century Until March 2010 £free; Time And Place Brighton and Hove Black History present stories from people who came from former British colonies in the 1950’s70’s to train and work for the NHS Until 13 December £free; Operation Scipio Paintings by Cyril Mount taken during his military service during World War II including Operation Scipio - the famous battle at Wadi Akarit in Tunisia Until 7th February £free castor and pollux Mike Levy Paintings and monoprints Until 31st Dec £free

Crane Kalman Simon Roberts: Polyarnye Nochi (Polar Nights) Exhibition leading on from his aclaimed photographic examination of contemporary Russian society Until 7 February £free

hove museum War Stories Local tales from the home front Until 10 January £free; Precious: Reclaiming Art And Craft Exhibition of works made from reclaimed objects From 30 January until 23 May £free

Ink_d Eine Zeus: Crimes and Punishments Eine and Zeus get together with a ‘collaboration in pen ink’- a font themed, alphabettispaghetti kind of graffiti street art affair Until 24 December £free Mad Hatter Miguel Ivorra Exhibition of colourful pop art from local Spanish artist 12-23 December £free new england house Christmas Open Studios Over 30 artists exhibiting wares such as ceramics, glassware, textiles, painting, prints and more with mulled wine and mince pies on ofer while you browse for those Christmas presents you can’t really afford 10-11 December Noon £free Phoenix Gallery Win! Win! Win! A highly interactive multimedia exhibition which is as much a game as it is a visit to a gallery. One lucky visiot will ‘win’ and be treated to the “prize’ whatever that mey turn out to be Until 6 December £free Rodhus Gallery Abi Kiki: Lighting Ideas Solo artist Until 22 December £tbc

tbc £free

bands Time tbc £2 open House Safehouse: On The Edge, Monty Oxymoron, The Wildcard Quartet Experimental Improvisation 8.30pm £6/5 Prince Albert Speakyourheart, Tall Ships, Let’s Talk Daggers, Wilson Fisk Gig to celebrate live album 7.30pm £4 Riki tik To The Floor Indie, rock and electro 10pm £free Sidewinder Garden Quiz Winner takes the pot 8pm £1 sugaqube Bar Grooves House Time tbc £free Theatre Royal Present Laughter Comedy of manners from the clever bugger Noel Coward 7.45pm £26 xuma Quiz 8.30pm £tbc

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Six of the best:

CHRISTMAS movies

words by MATT BARKER, NICK COQUET, JAMES KENDALL

With Christmas telly scheduling saturated with a plethora of cable crap and satellite shite, the days of the nation sitting down as one to fart and fall asleep in front of the same film are sadly over. They may have been the hundredth showings of the same un-festive James Bonds, but we were safe in the knowledge that we weren't missing out on anything – up and down the land it was pretty much either that or some weird opera on Channel 4. Still, we want proper Christmas movies, so switch to channel SOURCE for a back-to-back marathon. BAD SANTA About as far away from the traditional notion of the beardy fella in red as you could imagine, Billy Bob Thornton’s Santa is entirely devoid of festive spirit. Along with his evil elf sidekick he works the mall grottos, emptying the safes when they close and being pissed and awful to the kids during the day. Its horrid tone schmaltzes up a bit at the end though, and Bad becomes Good. This is the only film depiction of Father Christmas we can recall where he makes children cry, pisses himself in the Santa chair and fucks a fat woman up the arse. (NC) ABOUT A BOY OK, so it’s got Hugh Grant in it, but it’s also got the cocky one out of Skins with a haircut that brings tears to your eyes. It might as well have been directed by Richard Curtis (it isn’t), but Nick Hornby wrote it and it’s not a bad role-reversal story. But the reason this is here is that the soundtrack by Badly Drawn Boy is a career best, with a great Christmas song that plays an integral part of the plot. (JK) TRADING PLACES Believe it or not, there was a time when Eddie Murphy made ace films. With not a ‘hilarious’ fat suit in sight, he’s on legendary form here as the impecunious street hustler Billy Ray Valentine, whose life is swapped with Dan Aykroyd’s corporate financier Louis Winthorpe for a one dollar bet. Yes it’s a sociological examination of race and class,

but the festive setting magnifies its feel-good ending and makes you feel all lovely and Christmassy. And, of course, you get to see Jamie Lee Curtis’ boobs. (NC) THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL Of course there are umpteen hundred versions of A Christmas Carol, but we have a feeling old Chuck Dickens never imagined three rats in hula skirts singing This Is My Island In The Sun bad santa when writing. Such is the genius of Henson’s Muppets. Every Christmas box is ticked – it’s funny, silly, touching and intelligent without being crass, soppy or preaching. And in ultimate Christmas box-tickery, there is no wrong age to enjoy it. Only sulky, juvenile teens think the Muppets are lame. The muppets. (MB) DIE HARD An oaf-headed festive orgy of people getting shot, blown up and generally killed to bits, the first Die Hard outing is still the best yet. A load of terrorists take an office Christmas party hostage, missing out on capturing Bruce Willis because luckily he’s off having a piss. The terrorists quickly realise it’s a big mistake to mess with the vest, as Bruce systematically works his way through them in a building-wide game of cat and mouse, dramatically ending people’s lives and chucking corpses out of high windows as he goes. It’s not Fellini or anything, but this and all its sequels are big, dumb and brilliant. (NC) THE GHOSTS OF OXFORD STREET Coming out of the weird musical hinterland of 80s romantic drunks, this is a Malcolm McLaren-written, directed and (pretentiously) narrated musical history of Oxford Street. The cast list is essentially the last people in the BBC bar at Jools’ Hootenanny 1989: Tom Jones, Sinead O’Connor, Shaun Ryder, Shane MacGowan, Rebel MC, Rowetta, Leigh Bowery and Kirsty MacColl. The result is a romantically shambolicin-a-Pogues-y sort of a way, costume-drama Christmas curiosity, peppered with odd musical contributions from the cast. And Sinead O’Connor with hair. In a Victorian bonnet. (MB)