Hans Chew: Weds 9th May
Described as sounding like Jerry Lee Lewis playing with The Faces, Brooklyn’s Hans Chew returns to Brighton with a hatful of new songs.
Nick Coquet is the Deputy Editor of SOURCE. He also presents Wednesday’s Breakfast In Brighton on Reverb 97.2fm and The Florist’s fortnightly music quiz, designs websites and stands about in the nude for life drawing classes. He’s shaken hands with Meat Loaf and bumped into Keith Richards, just so he could say he’s touched him.
Good news: a follow-up Shakedown has been confirmed for 2012, on Saturday October 6th. Early bird tickets available now.
It’s always interesting to visit places with stuff to gawp at, so experience some new coffee magic at The Alchemist.
It seems there’s a market in Brighton for just about everything, so one for fetish related bits ‘n’ bobs fits in just fine.
Our Create In Brighton photography and illustration competition, in association with Tiger Beer, moves on to its semi-finals this month.
Be in a marathon, without breaking a sweat. Stand about as a marshal, organising the knackered as they wheeze through town.
Want your graphic novel to be the best thing since sliced bread? Get some free tips from QueenSpark Books and Tim Pilcher.
Now in it’s fifth year, Brighton’s Tattoo Convention will attract over 175 worldwide artists such as Jondix, Jose Lopez and Prizeman keen to spread their mark at this colourful event.
Create In Brighton inspires those local illustrators and photographers out there who are keen to make a name for themselves. With prices like £1000 and a months long exhibition space this is an opportunity to good to miss out on.
Born out of Pope Joan, Black Black Hills are, according to lead singer Samuel Aaron, “just a new band really”. Currently redirecting their sound live to produce “sonic textures” with “lots of percussion”, it would seem an out with the old and in with the new attitude springs to mind. Nick Coquet caught up with them to find out whats happening.
100 people who make brighton what it is: No.24 Steve Glashier.
A video and commercial director of international repute, Steve Glashier built up his first showreel making amazing promos for Brighton bands like Blood Red Shoes and The Lodge, something he still loves to do.
Rarely will you find a writer put down their pen and perform in the industry they’ve been critiquing; partly because they can’t and partly because of fear. But not Nick Coquet, he was there at Rokaoke to deliver the goods.
With Brighton having such a rich heritage in the film industry, it would be appropriate to see how the film industry is coping in 21st century Brighton. With a range of schemes and organisations to help prospective film makers coupled with the creative lifeblood that breeds in Brighton, you can be assured that producing your own feature isn’t as difficult as it might seem, despite the recession.
It’s a long time since art was the exclusive preserve of galleries. From Henry Moores to stencils on doors, there’s now seemingly nowhere original art can’t take root. But a hotel room?
After an unconvincing first album, The Horrors are beginning to sound even better than they look. Nick Coquet was there at Concorde 2 to witness them not only fill their boots but outgrow them too, as Erin O’Connor took photos.
A Brighton comedy satire institution since 2000, The Treason Show features writer, director and performer Mark Brailsford. Mark spoke with SOURCE about juicy material and why something called a Show is not on telly, among other funny things.
Sussex beer geeks regularly travelled up to London’s Pimlico to visit this much lauded temple of rare brews, but no more.
A three-day festival coinciding with the end of the Fringe, an interesting, Babylon-inspired weekender.
The Vaccines may have shot to fame in the blink of an eye, but they’re still not dazzled by the bright lights of the Brighton Centre.
Each speaker from the MA photography students at Brighton University – gets to show up to 20 slides, with just 20 seconds per slide.
Well Rounded proved themselves to be forward-thinking like Mystic Meg when they released Deadboy’s ‘U Cheated’ back in 2009.
Juice Box is a club night that remembers that what going out is all about is have an insane amount of fun. Even if that involves The Village People.
Ifan Dafydd and Elephino are exciting prospects but we’re most excited to see Gang Colours at this Great Escape special.
Blah Blah Blah been chosen to host an after party at Exit Festival, so tonight doubles as a warm-up party and birthday celebration.
Described as sounding like Jerry Lee Lewis playing with The Faces, Brooklyn’s Hans Chew returns to Brighton with a hatful of new songs.
This two-nighter features local acts drawn from three specific indie genres; tweecore, dark cabaret and folk punk
Brighton’s great hope are bringing their atmospheric guitar anthems to a stadium near you soon, but first they’re ready to rule the Great Escape.
Lorca has seen his tracks appear on Essential Mixes from both Modeselektor and Scuba and on über-hip labels Left_Black, Third Ear and Live Ones.
Described as sounding like Jerry Lee Lewis playing with The Faces, Brooklyn’s Hans Chew returns to Brighton with a hatful of new songs.
A three-day festival coinciding with the end of the Fringe, an interesting, Babylon-inspired weekender.
Well Rounded proved themselves to be forward-thinking like Mystic Meg when they released Deadboy’s ‘U Cheated’ back in 2009.
The spring Food Festival brings markets, cooking demonstrations, taster sessions, games and competitions to the streets of Brighton & Hove.
The Vaccines may have shot to fame in the blink of an eye, but they’re still not dazzled by the bright lights of the Brighton Centre.
Mizzy has sidestepped the impossible problem of getting the perfect fit in vintage clothes by going supersized and it looks great.
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