LISTINGS

Event date

Price

Event type

Venue

Tuesday
15th May

Above Audio

Cottontail Club

Big band and jitter jive tunes

Date

Tue 15th May

Time

9pm

Price

Free Pubs
Ambassador Hotel

My Name Is Antonino Calderone

Brighton Fringe Festival

Dramatisation of the true confessions of the Sicilian Mafioso

Date

Tue 15th May

Time

8pm

Price

£tbc Culture
Audio

Guerilla Rocks

Club night for rock chicks, skater bois and indie kids

Date

Tue 15th May

Time

11pm

Price

£3/2/1 Clubs
Bee's Mouth

Roll ‘Dem Bones

Lynch inspired 50s and 60s tunes

Date

Tue 15th May

Time

8.30pm

Price

Free Pubs
Belushi's Bar

Back To The 80s

Retro night dedicated to the only decade to spawn a revival which has lasted longer than the decade itself

Date

Tue 15th May

Time

9pm

Price

Free Pubs
Black Lion

Hit The Decks

Open decks spin off (book a slot online)

Date

Tue 15th May

Time

9pm

Price

Free Pubs
Brighton Marina

Wilde's The Importance Of Being Earnest

Brighton Fringe Festival

A trivial comedy for serious people set during the 1952 coronation

Date

Tue 15th May

Time

8pm

Price

£7.50/5 Culture
Brunswick

Ucanukulele

Rediscover your potential with the help of a small toy guitar

Date

Tue 15th May

Time

8pm

Price

£tbc Music
Brunswick

Jazz Jam

Brighton Fringe Festival

Open session with a house band

Date

Tue 15th May

Time

8pm

Price

Free Music
Caroline Of Brunswick

Brighton Must Sees

Brighton Fringe Festival

Comedy showcase with some of the best fringe acts

Date

Tue 15th May

Time

5.45pm

Price

Free Comedy
Caroline Of Brunswick

6 Foot Silly

Brighton Fringe Festival

Very silly clowning from the very tall stand-up duo

Date

Tue 15th May

Time

7pm

Price

Free Comedy
Caroline Of Brunswick

The One-Eyed Men's Friendship Formula

Brighton Fringe Festival

A trio of comedians who happen to be very good friends indeed

Date

Tue 15th May

Time

9.30pm

Price

Free Comedy
Caroline Of Brunswick

Test Tube Comedy

Brighton Fringe Festival

Stand-up and sketch comedy acts hosted by Dec Munro

Date

Tue 15th May

Time

10.45pm

Price

Free Comedy
Coalition

Back2Back

If your bass was this filthy you’d have to take it back to the fishmongers

Date

Tue 15th May

Time

11pm

Price

£4/3 Clubs
Cube

Cube Live

Bright On The Beat

Live music

Date

Tue 15th May

Time

8pm

Price

Free Music
Digital

CU Next Tuesday

It’ll teach the universities to timetable lectures for Wednesday mornings

Date

Tue 15th May

Time

11pm

Price

£4/3 Clubs
Druid's Arms

Druid's New Student Party

Electro house DJ

Date

Tue 15th May

Time

9pm

Price

Free Pubs
Duke Of Norfolk

Open Mic

Date

Tue 15th May

Time

9pm

Price

Free Music
Duke Of York's Cinema

Mozart's Sister

Date

Tue 15th May

Time

11am

Price

£tbc Cinema
Duke Of York's Cinema

Beloved

Date

Tue 15th May

Time

1.30pm/6.30pm

Price

£tbc Cinema
Duke Of York's Cinema

Jeff, Who Lives at Home

Date

Tue 15th May

Time

4.30pm/9.15pm

Price

£tbc Cinema
Gladstone

Quiz Night

Date

Tue 15th May

Time

8.30pm

Price

£1 Pubs
Globe

Basement Cinema

Underground films, comfy seats and free popcorn

Date

Tue 15th May

Time

8pm

Price

Free Cinema
Green Door Store

Funeral Suits, Holland, Paper Playground

Irish distortion (this is a rescheduled date, old tickets still valid)

Date

Tue 15th May

Time

7.30pm

Price

£6 Music
Hobgoblin

The SomeNews.co.uk Live Show

Brighton Fringe Festival

The news-obsessed DJ turns his hit radio show into a live stand-up act

Date

Tue 15th May

Time

7pm

Price

Free Music
Honey

Latin Fever

DJ Aaron George, Gabriel Angel, Yersin Rivas

Dance lessons followed by a tropically vibed salsa club

Date

Tue 15th May

Time

8pm/10pm

Price

£3/1/free Clubs
Hope

Fantasticus

French rock band on a tour of Brighton

Date

Tue 15th May

Time

8pm

Price

£tbc Music
Hydrant

Depth Charge

Live music

Date

Tue 15th May

Time

8pm

Price

Free Music
Hydrant

The Subliminals

Live music

Date

Tue 15th May

Time

8pm

Price

Free Music
Iambic Arts Theatre

Une Ile

Brighton Fringe Festival

Meditative theatre show about honesty and communication

Date

Tue 15th May

Time

7.30pm

Price

£10/8 Culture
Jive Monkey

Quiz Night

Date

Tue 15th May

Time

tbc

Price

£tbc Pubs
Jive Monkey

Wanted For Crimes Against Jazz

Brighton Fringe Festival

Comic cabaret combining bad pop and dubious jazz (in the theatre)

Date

Tue 15th May

Time

9pm

Price

£9 Music
Komedia

Peter Stracker’s Brel

Brighton Fringe Festival

Jamaican singer pays tribute to the master of chanson, Jacques Brel

Date

Tue 15th May

Time

7pm

Price

£12/9 Music
Komedia

Tick My Box & Fully Furnished

Brighton Fringe Festival

Comedy show about re-entering the strange world of dating

Date

Tue 15th May

Time

9pm

Price

£10/8 Comedy
Latest Music Bar

Gogol

Brighton Fringe Festival

Brian Capron stars in an existential drama set against the unrest of the 1970s and set to the music of Nick Pynn

Date

Tue 15th May

Time

3pm/6pm

Price

£10 Culture
Latest Music Bar

East By Steven Berkoff

Brighton Fringe Festival

Berkoff’s 1970s verse play about rites of passage in London’s East End

Date

Tue 15th May

Time

9.30pm

Price

£10/8 Culture
Lola Lo

Dirtee Laundry

Student night

Date

Tue 15th May

Time

10pm

Price

£6/4/2 Clubs
Mesmerist

The Mesmerist Conjurers Consortium

It could be a magical night

Date

Tue 15th May

Time

7.30pm

Price

Free Pubs
New Venture Theatre

A Streetcar Named Desire

Tennessee Williams’ classic drama

Date

Tue 15th May

Time

tbc

Price

£tbc Culture
Pavilion Theatre

Operation Greenfield

Brighton Festival

Fantastical theatre show about the awkwardness and beauty of adolescence (involves ladders)

Date

Tue 15th May

Time

9pm

Price

£10 Culture
Prince Albert

Halfway, Bella Fued, 000

Live music

Date

Tue 15th May

Time

8.30pm

Price

£4 Music

Date

Tue 15th May

Time

8pm

Price

£1 Pubs
St Mary's Church

Magdalena Reising & Andrew Ballantyne

Harp duo play classical music and popular songs

Date

Tue 15th May

Time

6pm

Price

£6 Music
Theatre Royal

Oedipussy

Brighton Festival

Sumptious and over-the-top subversion of the Greek tragedy

Date

Tue 15th May

Time

7.45pm

Price

£10-18.50 Comedy
Three & Ten

The Man With The Golden Pen

Brighton Fringe Festival

It’s 1952 and Ian Fleming is about to get married when he gets a visit from Mr Bond

Date

Tue 15th May

Time

6.45pm

Price

£9/7.50 Culture
Three & Ten

The Jolly Folly Of Polly The Scottish Trolley Dolly And Other Mini-Marvels

Brighton Fringe Festival

A play, a musical and an opera all rolled into 70 minutes of campy fun

Date

Tue 15th May

Time

8.30pm

Price

£10/7 Music
Three & Ten

The Silky Pair - Open Up

Brighton Fringe Festival

Comedy sketch duo

Date

Tue 15th May

Time

10pm

Price

£8/6.50 Comedy
Warren

Scallywags

Brighton Fringe Festival

Nazi occupied Britain imagined with physical theatre, music and puppetry

Date

Tue 15th May

Time

6pm

Price

£9/7 Comedy
Warren

Translunar Paradise

Brighton Fringe Festival

A supernatural love story told through the medium of mime and accordion music

Date

Tue 15th May

Time

8pm

Price

£14/11 Culture
Warren

Fringe Club - Sharon Lewis, Conrad Vingoe

Brighton Fringe Festival

Live music, cabaret and comedy curated by the Peanut Albinos

Date

Tue 15th May

Time

10pm

Price

£3.50/2.50 Music
World's End

Poker Night

Date

Tue 15th May

Time

8pm

Price

£tbc Pubs

Wednesday
16th May

All Saints' Church

Camille O’Sullivan - Changeling

Brighton Festival

French-Irish chanteuse delves into the dark songs of Jacques Brel, Kurt Weil and Nick Cave

Date

Wed 16th May

Time

8pm

Price

£16 Music
Ambassador Hotel

My Name Is Antonino Calderone

Brighton Fringe Festival

Dramatisation of the true confessions of the Sicilian Mafioso

Date

Wed 16th May

Time

8pm

Price

£tbc Culture
Audio

Supercharged

Drum&bass and breaks

Date

Wed 16th May

Time

11pm

Price

£6/4 Clubs
Basement

Condensed Choreographies

Brighton Festival

Three works of physical theatre pushing performers to their limits

Date

Wed 16th May

Time

7.30pm

Price

£15 Culture
Bee's Mouth

Open Mic

Date

Wed 16th May

Time

8.30pm

Price

Free Music
Belushi's Bar

Now That’s What I Call A Party

In this instance, it’s okay to judge a book by its cover

Date

Wed 16th May

Time

9pm

Price

Free Clubs
Belushi's Below

Detention

Date

Wed 16th May

Time

8pm

Price

Free Clubs
Black Lion

The Black Lion Acoustic Showcase

Live music

Date

Wed 16th May

Time

8.30pm

Price

Free Music
Brighton Electric

United Fruit, P For Persia, Cousin

A bring-your-own booze rehearsal room gig with the Glaswegian noise rockers

Date

Wed 16th May

Time

8pm

Price

£4 Music
Brighton Marina

Wilde's The Importance Of Being Earnest

Brighton Fringe Festival

A trivial comedy for serious people set during the 1952 coronation

Date

Wed 16th May

Time

8pm

Price

£7.50/5 Culture
Brunswick

Pants No String Attached

Brighton Fringe Festival

Improv comedy

Date

Wed 16th May

Time

8pm

Price

£tbc Comedy
Caroline Of Brunswick

Brighton Must Sees

Brighton Fringe Festival

Comedy showcase with some of the best fringe acts

Date

Wed 16th May

Time

5.45pm

Price

Free Comedy
Caroline Of Brunswick

6 Foot Silly

Brighton Fringe Festival

Very silly clowning from the very tall stand-up duo

Date

Wed 16th May

Time

7pm

Price

Free Comedy
Caroline Of Brunswick

Mike Sheer - Undergod

Brighton Fringe Festival

Canadian comic discusses the big man in the sky

Date

Wed 16th May

Time

8.15pm

Price

Free Comedy
Caroline Of Brunswick

The One-Eyed Men's Friendship Formula

Brighton Fringe Festival

A trio of comedians who happen to be very good friends indeed

Date

Wed 16th May

Time

9.30pm

Price

Free Comedy
Caroline Of Brunswick

Test Tube Comedy

Brighton Fringe Festival

Stand-up and sketch comedy acts hosted by Dec Munro

Date

Wed 16th May

Time

10.45pm

Price

Free Comedy
Chequers

Quiz Night

Date

Wed 16th May

Time

8pm

Price

£1 Pubs
Coalition

CoCo LoCo

Commercial chart music for students

Date

Wed 16th May

Time

10.30pm

Price

£5/3/2 Clubs
Cube

Wicked Wednesdays

House DJs

Date

Wed 16th May

Time

8pm

Price

Free Pubs
Digital

Poundance

Like a coin operated dancefloor

Date

Wed 16th May

Time

11pm

Price

£4/3/1 Clubs
Druid's Arms

We Change The Tempo

DJ set of international sounds

Date

Wed 16th May

Time

9pm

Price

Free Pubs
Duke Of Norfolk

Pub Quiz

Date

Wed 16th May

Time

9pm

Price

£1 Pubs
Duke Of York's Cinema

Beloved

Date

Wed 16th May

Time

11am/4pm

Price

£tbc Cinema
Duke Of York's Cinema

La Fille Mal Gardée

ROH. Live

Date

Wed 16th May

Time

7.15pm

Price

£tbc Cinema
Duke Of York's Cinema

Jeff, Who Lives at Home

Date

Wed 16th May

Time

1.30pm/10pm

Price

£tbc Cinema
Fishbowl

Tea & Biscuits

DJ Gareth Stephens

Retro swing, soul and ska

Date

Wed 16th May

Time

10pm

Price

Free Pubs
Fountain Head

Student Night

DJs play indie and rock

Date

Wed 16th May

Time

8pm

Price

Free Pubs
Globe

Global Bass

DJ Ted Lauren

DJ delves into the bassier side of jazz, gypsy and world music

Date

Wed 16th May

Time

9pm

Price

Free Pubs
Green Door Store

The Lovely Eggs, Mohit

Indie pop band

Date

Wed 16th May

Time

8pm

Price

£7/5.50 Music
Green Door Store

Hard Times

They can take our disposable income, but they’ll never take our nowave disco!

Date

Wed 16th May

Time

10.30pm

Price

Free Clubs
Hobgoblin

The SomeNews.co.uk Live Show

Brighton Fringe Festival

The news-obsessed DJ turns his hit radio show into a live stand-up act

Date

Wed 16th May

Time

7pm

Price

Free Music
Hope

Fantastic Racket!

Our Colour Company, The Beautiful Word, The Long Goodbye

A cynically exploitative yet self-aware battle of the bands

Date

Wed 16th May

Time

8pm

Price

£4 Music
Hope

The E.M.E.

Jazz hop DJs (downstairs)

Date

Wed 16th May

Time

8.30pm

Price

Free Pubs
Hydrant

Black Cat Bone

Blues night

Date

Wed 16th May

Time

8pm

Price

Free Music
Iambic Arts Theatre

Une Ile

Brighton Fringe Festival

Meditative theatre show about honesty and communication

Date

Wed 16th May

Time

9pm

Price

£10/8 Culture
Jive Monkey

Funk & Soul

DJs (in the bar)

Date

Wed 16th May

Time

8pm

Price

Free Pubs
Jive Monkey

Wanted For Crimes Against Jazz

Brighton Fringe Festival

Comic cabaret combining bad pop and dubious jazz (in the theatre)

Date

Wed 16th May

Time

9pm

Price

£9 Music
Komedia

Peter Stracker’s Brel

Brighton Fringe Festival

Jamaican singer pays tribute to the master of chanson, Jacques Brel

Date

Wed 16th May

Time

7pm

Price

£12/9 Music
Komedia

Spiers & Boden

Punky English folk duo

Date

Wed 16th May

Time

8.30pm

Price

£15 Music
Komedia

Tick My Box & Fully Furnished

Brighton Fringe Festival

Comedy show about re-entering the strange world of dating

Date

Wed 16th May

Time

9pm

Price

£10/8 Comedy
Latest Music Bar

Gogol

Brighton Fringe Festival

Brian Capron stars in an existential drama set against the unrest of the 1970s and set to the music of Nick Pynn

Date

Wed 16th May

Time

6pm

Price

£10 Culture
Lectern

All Fingers And Thumbs

Brighton Fringe Festival

Comedy theatre show about a kidnapping that doesn’t go quite as planned

Date

Wed 16th May

Time

9pm

Price

£7.50/5 Comedy
Mesmerist

The Swing Ninjas

Gypsy swing band

Date

Wed 16th May

Time

9pm

Price

Free Music
New Venture Theatre

A Streetcar Named Desire

Tennessee Williams’ classic drama

Date

Wed 16th May

Time

tbc

Price

£tbc Culture
Old Market

The Iron Boot Scrapers' Speakeasy

Brighton Fringe Festival

Dapper skiffle band does novelty pop covers

Date

Wed 16th May

Time

8pm

Price

£12/10 Music
Old Market

The Department Of Unreliable Memoirs

Brighton Fringe Festival

An interactive ‘show’ in which an audience of one (you) are helped to recall memories that are probably fictitious (repeated every ten minutes)

Date

Wed 16th May

Time

2pm

Price

£5 Culture
Paramount Old Ship Hotel

Cock & Tail Inn 2

Brighton Fringe Festival

Slapstick pub comedy set in the 80s

Date

Wed 16th May

Time

7.45pm

Price

£10/8 Comedy
Pavilion Theatre

Swimming With My Mother

Brighton Festival

Affectionate and humorous cross-generational dance duet

Date

Wed 16th May

Time

6.30pm

Price

£12.50 Culture
Preston Park

Moscow State Circus

Date

Wed 16th May

Time

5pm/7.45pm

Price

£tbc Culture
Prince Albert

Dub 'N' Tuff, Pocketsize

Live music

Date

Wed 16th May

Time

8.30pm

Price

£5 Music
Proud Cabaret

Der Wurst Of Der Wunderlich

Brighton Fringe Festival

Pole-dancers and unicyclist-strippers share the stage with singers and cheerleaders in this tongue-in-cheek all-male cabaret

Date

Wed 16th May

Time

7.30pm

Price

£10/8 Comedy
Psychosocial

Live 'N' Laughing

Tony Law, Tom Veryzer, Clint Westwood, Laurie Rowan, James Alderson

Stand-up comedy

Date

Wed 16th May

Time

7pm

Price

£7/4/3 Comedy
St Mary's Church

Magdalena Reising & Andrew Ballantyne

Harp duo play classical music and popular songs

Date

Wed 16th May

Time

6pm

Price

£6 Music
Theatre Royal

Oedipussy

Brighton Festival

Sumptious and over-the-top subversion of the Greek tragedy

Date

Wed 16th May

Time

7.45pm

Price

£10-18.50 Comedy
Three & Ten

The Man With The Golden Pen

Brighton Fringe Festival

It’s 1952 and Ian Fleming is about to get married when he gets a visit from Mr Bond

Date

Wed 16th May

Time

6.45pm

Price

£9/7.50 Culture
Three & Ten

The Jolly Folly Of Polly The Scottish Trolley Dolly And Other Mini-Marvels

Brighton Fringe Festival

A play, a musical and an opera all rolled into 70 minutes of campy fun

Date

Wed 16th May

Time

8.30pm

Price

£10/7 Music
Three & Ten

The Silky Pair - Open Up

Brighton Fringe Festival

Comedy sketch duo

Date

Wed 16th May

Time

10pm

Price

£8/6.50 Comedy
Volks

Switch Up

Drum&bass, electro and dubstep night

Date

Wed 16th May

Time

tbc

Price

£tbc Clubs
Warren

Translunar Paradise

Brighton Fringe Festival

A supernatural love story told through the medium of mime and accordion music

Date

Wed 16th May

Time

6pm/8pm

Price

£14/11 Culture
Warren

Fringe Club - House of Hats, Luke Sital Singh

Brighton Fringe Festival

Live music, cabaret and comedy curated by the Peanut Albinos

Date

Wed 16th May

Time

10pm

Price

£3.50/2.50 Music

Thursday
17th May

All Saints' Church

Camille O’Sullivan - Changeling

Brighton Festival

French-Irish chanteuse delves into the dark songs of Jacques Brel, Kurt Weil and Nick Cave

Date

Thu 17th May

Time

8pm

Price

£16 Music
Ambassador Hotel

My Name Is Antonino Calderone

Brighton Fringe Festival

Dramatisation of the true confessions of the Sicilian Mafioso

Date

Thu 17th May

Time

8pm

Price

£tbc Culture
Audio

Bastard Pop

Musical mash-up

Date

Thu 17th May

Time

11pm

Price

£3/2/free Clubs
Bali Brasserie

The Shed Show

Brighton Fringe Festival

Interactive poetry show based on John Davies’ experiences of traveling around Britain with his shed

Date

Thu 17th May

Time

4pm

Price

£10/8 Culture
Basement

Predator

Brighton Festival

Arnie’s alien jungle romp retold with action men, puppets and remote controlled cars

Date

Thu 17th May

Time

7pm

Price

£14/8 Culture
Basement

We Hope That You Are Happy (Why Would We Lie?)

Brighton Festival

Humorous play examines consumption and communication in the modern world

Date

Thu 17th May

Time

8.30pm

Price

£8 Culture
Bee's Mouth

Dr. Bluegrass & The Illbilly 8

Brighton’s busiest buskers – country standards and pop covers put through the hillbilly thresher

Date

Thu 17th May

Time

9pm

Price

Free Music
Belushi's Bar

Karaoke

Date

Thu 17th May

Time

9pm

Price

Free Pubs
Belushi's Below

Fallout Live

Live indie bands

Date

Thu 17th May

Time

10pm

Price

£3/2 Music
Brighton Marina

Wilde's The Importance Of Being Earnest

Brighton Fringe Festival

A trivial comedy for serious people set during the 1952 coronation

Date

Thu 17th May

Time

8pm

Price

£7.50/5 Culture
Brunswick

Paul Diello

Brighton Fringe Festival

Melodic piano pop

Date

Thu 17th May

Time

7.30pm

Price

£10/8 Music
Brunswick

Fringe Festival Buzz Party

Hip hop show headlined by Elijah MC

Date

Thu 17th May

Time

8pm

Price

£4 Music
Caroline Of Brunswick

Brighton Must Sees

Brighton Fringe Festival

Comedy showcase with some of the best fringe acts

Date

Thu 17th May

Time

5.45pm

Price

Free Comedy
Caroline Of Brunswick

Loving London - The Capital Cabaret

Brighton Fringe Festival

Comedic cabaret show about the history and highlights of the big smoke

Date

Thu 17th May

Time

7pm

Price

£6/4 Comedy
Caroline Of Brunswick

Mike Sheer - Undergod

Brighton Fringe Festival

Canadian comic discusses the big man in the sky

Date

Thu 17th May

Time

8.15pm

Price

Free Comedy
Caroline Of Brunswick

Test Tube Comedy

Brighton Fringe Festival

Stand-up and sketch comedy acts hosted by Dec Munro

Date

Thu 17th May

Time

10.45pm

Price

Free Comedy
Coalition

Secret Discotheque

Replaying the soundtrack to your youth

Date

Thu 17th May

Time

11pm

Price

£4/3/2 Clubs
Constant Service

Duncan Disorderly

Upbeat carnival reggae

Date

Thu 17th May

Time

8.30pm

Price

Free Music
Corn Exchange

Apparition

Brighton Festival

Dancing on the fine line between technology and humanity

Date

Thu 17th May

Time

7.30pm

Price

£17.50 Culture
Cowley Club

Left On Ruins, Crop Circles, 51st State

Crusty anarcho punk

Date

Thu 17th May

Time

8pm

Price

£3 Music
Cube

Da Bomb

Student DJ night

Date

Thu 17th May

Time

8pm

Price

Free Pubs
Dome Foyer Bar

SOURCE New Music

Beatabet

Brighton’s best bands chosen by Brighton’s best listings mag

Date

Thu 17th May

Time

tbc

Price

Free Music
Druid's Arms

Druid's Arms Presents

Live music

Date

Thu 17th May

Time

8pm

Price

Free Music
Duke Of York's Cinema

Jeff, Who Lives at Home

Date

Thu 17th May

Time

1pm/6pm

Price

£tbc Cinema
Duke Of York's Cinema

Beloved

Date

Thu 17th May

Time

3pm

Price

£tbc Cinema
Duke Of York's Cinema

The Best Of BUG - The Evolution Of Music Video

Brighton Festival

Adam Buxton screens highlights from the weird and wonderful world of the music video

Date

Thu 17th May

Time

8.30pm/10.30pm

Price

£14.50 Cinema
Fishbowl

Residents Association

DJ Will Sumsuch

DJs play hip hop, funk and world beats

Date

Thu 17th May

Time

10.30pm

Price

Free Pubs
Gladstone

Arthur Shillin'

Electro swing, funk and breaks

Date

Thu 17th May

Time

8.30pm

Price

Free Pubs
Globe

Hang The DJ!

A night of punter-picked playlists

Date

Thu 17th May

Time

9pm

Price

Free Pubs
Green Door Store

Bear In Heaven

Anthemic future rock

Date

Thu 17th May

Time

7.30pm

Price

£7 Music
Hobgoblin

The SomeNews.co.uk Live Show

Brighton Fringe Festival

The news-obsessed DJ turns his hit radio show into a live stand-up act

Date

Thu 17th May

Time

7pm

Price

Free Music
Honey

Swag

Electro, R&B and dubstep night

Date

Thu 17th May

Time

11pm

Price

£3/2 Clubs
Hotel Pelirocco

Tellin Stories

Tim Burgess

The Charlatans man reads from his new book

Date

Thu 17th May

Time

8pm

Price

£4 Culture
Iambic Arts Theatre

The Lover, The Wife

Brighton Fringe Festival

Comedy play about a wife who meets meets her exact opposite in her husband’s lover

Date

Thu 17th May

Time

7.30pm

Price

£10/8 Culture
Jive Monkey

Wanted For Crimes Against Jazz

Brighton Fringe Festival

Comic cabaret combining bad pop and dubious jazz

Date

Thu 17th May

Time

9pm

Price

£9 Music
Jubilee Square

Hendrick's Library Of Delightfully Peculiar Writings

Brighton Fringe Festival

Gin company stuffs train carriage full of invented curiosities

Date

Thu 17th May

Time

8pm

Price

Free Exhibitions
Komedia

Mat Ricardo - Three Balls And A New Suit

Brighton Fringe Festival

Juggling, magic and comedy

Date

Thu 17th May

Time

7pm

Price

£10/8 Comedy
Komedia

Krater Comedy Club

Nick Helm, Gary Tro, Rob Beckett, Stephen Grant

Stand-up comedy

Date

Thu 17th May

Time

8pm

Price

£5-18 Comedy
Komedia

Mr B The Gentleman Rhymer's Chap-Hop Hurrah!

Brighton Fringe Festival

Novelty banjolele ditties from the chap-hop chap

Date

Thu 17th May

Time

8pm

Price

£10/8 Music
Komedia

Guy Pratt's Wake Up Call

Brighton Fringe Festival

Musical comedy show from Pink Floyd’s touring bassist

Date

Thu 17th May

Time

9pm

Price

£12/10 Music
Lectern

All Fingers And Thumbs

Brighton Fringe Festival

Comedy theatre show about a kidnapping that doesn’t go quite as planned

Date

Thu 17th May

Time

9pm

Price

£7.50/5 Comedy
Life

That's My Sh!t

Club night playing hip hop, R&B, funk and soul

Date

Thu 17th May

Time

11pm

Price

£3/2/free Clubs
Lola Lo

Tom Foolery

Electro, house and dubstep night

Date

Thu 17th May

Time

9pm

Price

£5/3 Clubs
Mesmerist

Razorbacks

Rockabilly band

Date

Thu 17th May

Time

9pm

Price

Free Music
Mucky Duck

Open Mic

Jam session with Joe Newman

Date

Thu 17th May

Time

8pm

Price

Free Music
New Venture Theatre

A Streetcar Named Desire

Tennessee Williams’ classic drama

Date

Thu 17th May

Time

tbc

Price

£tbc Culture
Nightingale Theatre

Boogaloo Stu's Pop Magic

Brighton Fringe Festival

The camp cabaret star hosts a ‘reality theatre’ show in the which the audience writes and performs their very own pop song

Date

Thu 17th May

Time

10pm

Price

£8.50/6.50 Culture
Old Market

The Department Of Unreliable Memoirs

Brighton Fringe Festival

An interactive ‘show’ in which an audience of one (you) are helped to recall memories that are probably fictitious (repeated every ten minutes)

Date

Thu 17th May

Time

2pm

Price

£5 Culture
Old Municipal Market

Bow Down

Brighton Festival

An ancient murder ballad reimagined by London Sinfonietta Academy

Date

Thu 17th May

Time

6pm

Price

£10 Music
Paramount Old Ship Hotel

Cock & Tail Inn 2

Brighton Fringe Festival

Slapstick pub comedy set in the 80s

Date

Thu 17th May

Time

7.45pm

Price

£10/8 Comedy
Paris House

Remi Harris

Gypsy jazz virtuoso

Date

Thu 17th May

Time

tbc

Price

£tbc Music
Pavilion Theatre

Ashley Fripp

Brighton Festival

Young British pianist plays Haydn, Liszt and Rachmaninov

Date

Thu 17th May

Time

1pm

Price

£10 Music
Pavilion Theatre

Swimming With My Mother

Brighton Festival

Affectionate and humorous cross-generational dance duet

Date

Thu 17th May

Time

6pm

Price

£12.50 Culture
Pavilion Theatre

The Music And Legacy Of Joy Division

Brighton Festival

Punk’s not dead – it’s just turned into a highbrow panel discussion

Date

Thu 17th May

Time

8.30pm

Price

£8.50 Culture
Preston Park

Moscow State Circus

Date

Thu 17th May

Time

5pm/7.45pm

Price

£tbc Culture

Date

Thu 17th May

Time

8.30pm

Price

£4 Music
Proud Cabaret

Der Wurst Of Der Wunderlich

Brighton Fringe Festival

Pole-dancers and unicyclist-strippers share the stage with singers and cheerleaders in this tongue-in-cheek all-male cabaret

Date

Thu 17th May

Time

7.30pm

Price

£10/8 Comedy
Sallis Benney Theatre

Medic Revue

Brighton Fringe Festival

Comedy songs and sketches from the junior doctors of Sussex Medical School

Date

Thu 17th May

Time

7.30pm

Price

£8/6 Comedy
St John's Centre

And It’s Goodnight From Her

Brighton Fringe Festival

Sit down comedy stories inspired by the gentle rambling of Ronnie Corbett

Date

Thu 17th May

Time

4pm

Price

Free Comedy
St Mary's Church

Magdalena Reising & Andrew Ballantyne

Harp duo play classical music and popular songs

Date

Thu 17th May

Time

6pm

Price

£6 Music
Sticky Mike's Frog Bar

Catholic Discipline

Noise rock, disco pop and acid folk from the Superheroes of BMX

Date

Thu 17th May

Time

8pm

Price

Free Pubs
Theatre Royal

New Adventures - Matthew Bourne's Early Adventures

Brighton Festival

A triple bill of work by the pioneering choreographer

Date

Thu 17th May

Time

7.30pm

Price

£10-22.50 Culture
Three & Ten

The Man With The Golden Pen

Brighton Fringe Festival

It’s 1952 and Ian Fleming is about to get married when he gets a visit from Mr Bond

Date

Thu 17th May

Time

6.45pm

Price

£9/7.50 Culture
Three & Ten

The Jolly Folly Of Polly The Scottish Trolley Dolly And Other Mini-Marvels

Brighton Fringe Festival

A play, a musical and an opera all rolled into 70 minutes of campy fun

Date

Thu 17th May

Time

8.30pm

Price

£10/7 Music
Three & Ten

Insert Comedy Here!

Brighton Fringe Festival

Nick Hodder tries out a comedy show he bought off the internet

Date

Thu 17th May

Time

10pm

Price

£8/6.50 Comedy
Vardean School

Slightly Unusual

Brighton Fringe Festival

Comedy illusionists

Date

Thu 17th May

Time

7.30pm

Price

£6-10 Comedy
Victory

Open Mic

Date

Thu 17th May

Time

8pm

Price

Free Music
Volks

Flex It

Disarray, Tempest, Futureflex

Date

Thu 17th May

Time

10pm

Price

£2 Clubs
Warren

Snow Play

Brighton Fringe Festival

Children’s theatre show

Date

Thu 17th May

Time

11am

Price

£6/5 Culture
Warren

Watch The Birdy

Brighton Fringe Festival

Children’s magic show

Date

Thu 17th May

Time

1pm

Price

£6/5 Culture
Warren

Rainbow Ride

Brighton Fringe Festival

A multimedia song and dance show for kiddywinkles

Date

Thu 17th May

Time

7.30pm

Price

£9/7 Culture
Warren

Diabolical - The Magic Show

Brighton Fringe Festival

Top UK magicians

Date

Thu 17th May

Time

8.45pm

Price

£10/8 Culture
White Rabbit

The Move-Ons Open Mic

Date

Thu 17th May

Time

8pm

Price

Free Music
World's End

The Big Cash Quiz

Date

Thu 17th May

Time

8pm

Price

£tbc Pubs

Friday
18th May

Ambassador Hotel

My Name Is Antonino Calderone

Brighton Fringe Festival

Dramatisation of the true confessions of the Sicilian Mafioso

Date

Fri 18th May

Time

8pm

Price

£tbc Culture
Audio

Lost And Found

Crazy P Soundsystem

House and disco

Date

Fri 18th May

Time

11pm

Price

£tbc Clubs
Bali Brasserie

The Shed Show

Brighton Fringe Festival

Interactive poetry show based on John Davies’ experiences of traveling around Britain with his shed

Date

Fri 18th May

Time

4pm

Price

£10/8 Culture
Basement

Predator

Brighton Festival

Arnie’s alien jungle romp retold with action men, puppets and remote controlled cars

Date

Fri 18th May

Time

7pm

Price

£14/8 Culture
Basement

I Guess If The Stage Exploded...

Brighton Festival

Sylvia Rimat wants you to remember her show – using special tricks and memory techniques she attempts to ram the memory deep into your brain

Date

Fri 18th May

Time

8.30pm

Price

£8 Culture
Belushi's Bar

Muy Loco

Pop and house DJs with a dancing contest

Date

Fri 18th May

Time

9pm

Price

Free Clubs
Belushi's Below

Abandoned

Rock and metal night

Date

Fri 18th May

Time

10pm

Price

£3/2 Clubs
Blind Tiger

Copperdollar - The Back Of Beyond

The Glastonbury sideshow comes to town for an immersive and theatrical dance night with a ‘Day of the Dead’ theme – remember to keep your scythe next to where your heart used to be

Date

Fri 18th May

Time

8pm

Price

£10/8 Culture
Brighton Marina

Wilde's The Importance Of Being Earnest

Brighton Fringe Festival

A trivial comedy for serious people set during the 1952 coronation

Date

Fri 18th May

Time

8pm

Price

£7.50/5 Culture
Brighton Music Hall

Vaudeville

Electro swing, burlesque and 50s blues

Date

Fri 18th May

Time

8pm

Price

Free Clubs
Caroline Of Brunswick

Eccentronic - We Won't Rock You

Brighton Fringe Festival

Electronic duo do an oddball humorous musical mash-up

Date

Fri 18th May

Time

5.30pm

Price

Free Music
Caroline Of Brunswick

Luisa Omielan - What Would Beyoncé Do?

Brighton Fringe Festival

Comedy improv for all the single ladies

Date

Fri 18th May

Time

7pm

Price

Free Comedy
Caroline Of Brunswick

Manos The Greek - An Immigrant's Tale

Brighton Fringe Festival

Stand-up comedian

Date

Fri 18th May

Time

8.15pm

Price

£5/3.50 Comedy
Caroline Of Brunswick

Russ Powell - Powell To The People

Brighton Fringe Festival

Confessional comedy from the local stand-up

Date

Fri 18th May

Time

9.30pm

Price

Free Comedy
Caroline Of Brunswick

Mike Sheer - Undergod

Brighton Fringe Festival

Canadian comic discusses the big man in the sky

Date

Fri 18th May

Time

10.45pm

Price

Free Comedy