LISTINGS

Event date

Price

Event type

Venue

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
Coalition

Friday I'm In Love

No more lectures for a day or two

Date

Fri 18th May

Time

11pm

Price

£1-5 Clubs
Concorde2

Outlook Festival Launch

The Bug Feat Flowdan, Klute, Alix Perez, Rudimental, Reggae Roast

Date

Fri 18th May

Time

11pm

Price

£10 Music
Corn Exchange

Apparition

Brighton Festival

Dancing on the fine line between technology and humanity

Date

Fri 18th May

Time

7.30pm

Price

£17.50 Culture
Cube

Friday Club

House DJs

Date

Fri 18th May

Time

8pm

Price

Free Pubs
Digital

Stonelove

Indie rock&roll club

Date

Fri 18th May

Time

11pm

Price

£4/3 Clubs
Doctor Brighton's

Funky Friday

DJ Nick Hirst, DJ Wayne

Date

Fri 18th May

Time

9.30pm

Price

Free Pubs
Dome

Jessica Grimes & Fiachra Garvey

Brighton Festival

World class clarinetist and pianist play a selection of classic classics

Date

Fri 18th May

Time

1pm

Price

£10 Music
Dome

Live_Transmission - Scanner And Heritage Orchestra Rework Joy Division

Brighton Festival

Joy Division like you’ve never heard them, i.e. performed by a classical ensemble inside a giant interactive audiovisual gauze cube

Date

Fri 18th May

Time

8.30pm

Price

£22.50/20 Music
Duke Of Norfolk

DJ MC Cashback

DJ night

Date

Fri 18th May

Time

9pm

Price

Free Pubs
Easy Bar

DJ Night

Hip hop, R&B and reggae

Date

Fri 18th May

Time

8pm

Price

Free Pubs
Fishbowl

The Mixer Men

Reggae and hip hop DJ mash-up

Date

Fri 18th May

Time

9pm

Price

Free Pubs
Funkyfish

The Funkyfish Club

Soul, funk, jazz and Motown

Date

Fri 18th May

Time

10pm

Price

£6/3.50 Clubs
Gladstone

Catch A Groove

Funk, soul and hip hop

Date

Fri 18th May

Time

8.30pm

Price

Free Pubs
Green Door Store

Japandroids

Pounding drums and 90s fuzz from Canadian rock duo

Date

Fri 18th May

Time

7.30pm

Price

£8 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

Fri 18th May

Time

7pm

Price

Free Music
Honey

Lollipop ‘Pink Fridays’

Get your fingers sticky to R&B and pop treats

Date

Fri 18th May

Time

11pm

Price

£5/4/3 Clubs
Hydrant

Anti Fashion Night

Live music, art and DJs

Date

Fri 18th May

Time

7pm

Price

£3 Music
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

Fri 18th May

Time

7.30pm

Price

£10/8 Culture
Jubilee Square

Hendrick's Library Of Delightfully Peculiar Writings

Brighton Fringe Festival

Gin company stuffs train carriage full of invented curiosities

Date

Fri 18th May

Time

8pm

Price

Free Exhibitions
Komedia

Peter Stracker’s Brel

Brighton Fringe Festival

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

Date

Fri 18th May

Time

7pm

Price

£12/9 Music
Komedia

Krater Comedy Club

Nick Helm, Ninia Benjamin, Jen Brister, Jim Smallman

Stand-up comedy

Date

Fri 18th May

Time

8pm

Price

£11.50-14.50 Comedy
Komedia

Africa Unite 2012

Ozi Ozaa, Grupo Lokito

A fusion of African music from Ghana hi-life fusion to Congolese Rumba

Date

Fri 18th May

Time

8pm

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

Fri 18th May

Time

9pm

Price

£7.50/5 Comedy
Life

Kung Fu Terrace Party

DJs play funk, soul, blues and hip hop

Date

Fri 18th May

Time

3pm

Price

Free Clubs
Lola Lo

Tiki Beats

Totally tropical tunes

Date

Fri 18th May

Time

8pm

Price

£5/4/3 Clubs
Mesmerist

Shake, Holla & Roll

Vintage blues, swing and rock&roll

Date

Fri 18th May

Time

9pm

Price

Free Pubs
New Venture Theatre

A Streetcar Named Desire

Tennessee Williams’ classic drama

Date

Fri 18th May

Time

tbc

Price

£tbc Culture
Nightingale Theatre

Filthy Weekender Comedy

Brighton Fringe Festival

Late-night stand-up comedy

Date

Fri 18th May

Time

10pm

Price

£8.50/6.50 Comedy
Ohso Social

Dirty Sunset Disco

Metrosexual disco and house club

Date

Fri 18th May

Time

8pm

Price

£1 Clubs
Old Municipal Market

Bow Down

Brighton Festival

An ancient murder ballad reimagined by London Sinfonietta Academy

Date

Fri 18th 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

Fri 18th May

Time

7.45pm

Price

£10/8 Comedy
Pavilion Theatre

Swimming With My Mother

Brighton Festival

Affectionate and humorous cross-generational dance duet

Date

Fri 18th May

Time

6pm

Price

£12.50 Culture
Preston Park

Moscow State Circus

Date

Fri 18th May

Time

5pm/7.45pm

Price

£tbc Culture
Psychosocial

Carnival Carnage

Barulho, Cosmo Sheldrake, Dion Charles & Beta Hector, Mr Bongo, Black Cat Bone, Wide Eyed Order, DJ Robin D Rich, Mat Copcut, Eggs Legs

Samba funk, reggae and ska bands raise money for Kemptown Carnival

Date

Fri 18th May

Time

11pm

Price

£5 Music
Ranelagh

Trio Formaggio

Live music

Date

Fri 18th May

Time

8.30pm

Price

Free Music
Riki Tik

Work

Matt Barker, Dennis Castro

A silken river of alt pop, blog dance and hip twitching jiggy bangers

Date

Fri 18th May

Time

9pm

Price

Free Clubs
Sallis Benney Theatre

Medic Revue

Brighton Fringe Festival

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

Date

Fri 18th May

Time

7.30pm

Price

£8/6 Comedy
Sticky Mike's Frog Bar

Jipsy Magic, Fresh Like Dexie, Bat Country

EP launch for upbeat indie funk band

Date

Fri 18th May

Time

7pm

Price

£3 Music
Theatre Royal

New Adventures - Matthew Bourne's Early Adventures

Brighton Festival

A triple bill of work by the pioneering choreographer

Date

Fri 18th May

Time

7.30pm

Price

£10-22.50 Culture
Three & Ten

Age Of The Geek

Brighton Fringe Festival

Comedy and music show by and for unashamed geeks

Date

Fri 18th May

Time

3pm

Price

£8.50/7 Comedy
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

Fri 18th May

Time

7pm

Price

£10/7 Music
Three & Ten

McNeil & Pamphilon

Brighton Fringe Festival

Songs and sketches from the comedy double act

Date

Fri 18th May

Time

8.30pm

Price

£8.50/7 Comedy
Three & Ten

The Curse Of Horse And Louis

Brighton Fringe Festival

Musical and sketch comedy horror adventure

Date

Fri 18th May

Time

10pm

Price

£8.50/7 Comedy
Vardean School

Slightly Unusual

Brighton Fringe Festival

Comedy illusionists

Date

Fri 18th May

Time

7.30pm

Price

£6-10 Comedy
Verdict

Andy Macintosh Quartet

Live jazz

Date

Fri 18th May

Time

7.30pm

Price

£12/6 Music
Volks

Soundflow Festival Warm Up #4

Scamp, Lemon Drizlay Crew

Date

Fri 18th May

Time

10pm

Price

£7/5 Clubs
Warren

Snow Play

Brighton Fringe Festival

Children’s theatre show

Date

Fri 18th May

Time

11am

Price

£6/5 Culture
Warren

Watch The Birdy

Brighton Fringe Festival

Children’s magic show

Date

Fri 18th May

Time

1pm

Price

£6/5 Culture
Warren

Rainbow Ride

Brighton Fringe Festival

A multimedia song and dance show for kiddywinkles

Date

Fri 18th May

Time

7.30pm

Price

£9/7 Culture

Date

Fri 18th May

Time

8.45pm

Price

£10/8 Music
White Rabbit

WTF? Brighton

Wonky electro and synth pop nonsense

Date

Fri 18th May

Time

8pm

Price

Free Pubs