LISTINGS

Event date

Price

Event type

Venue

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