LISTINGS

Event date

Price

Event type

Venue

Saturday
19th May

Ambassador Hotel

My Name Is Antonino Calderone

Brighton Fringe Festival

Dramatisation of the true confessions of the Sicilian Mafioso

Date

Sat 19th May

Time

8pm

Price

£tbc Culture
Audio

Warehouse

Huxley

House and techno club night

Date

Sat 19th May

Time

11pm

Price

£5/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

Sat 19th May

Time

4pm

Price

£10/8 Culture
Beachigogo Bar

Good Times

Remember them? Maybe the feel-good retro tunes will jog your memory (in the White Room)

Date

Sat 19th May

Time

9pm

Price

Free Clubs
Beachigogo Bar

The R&B Lounge

R&B DJs (in the Main Room)

Date

Sat 19th May

Time

11pm

Price

£6/5 Clubs
Belushi's Bar

Unplugged

Rocket Dogs

Live acoustic duo

Date

Sat 19th May

Time

9pm

Price

Free Music
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

Sat 19th May

Time

8pm

Price

£10/8 Culture
Brighton Marina

The Boat Project - Arrival

Brighton Festival

At last year’s festival the public were asked to donate bits of wood that had some personal significance. That pile of nostalgic debris has now been turned into a seaworthy ship, and it’s heading our way

Date

Sat 19th May

Time

1pm

Price

Free Culture
Brighton Marina

Trolleys

Brighton Festival

Humorous street ballet with an electro score (involves trolleys)

Date

Sat 19th May

Time

2pm/3.15pm

Price

Free Culture
Brighton Marina

Push

Brighton Festival

Arty dance duet

Date

Sat 19th May

Time

2.45pm/4pm

Price

Free 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

Sat 19th May

Time

8pm

Price

£7.50/5 Culture
Brunswick

Andy Thomas & Rob Maloney

Brighton Fringe Festival

Dark comedy sketch show

Date

Sat 19th May

Time

3pm

Price

£7.50/6 Comedy
Brunswick

Cajun Zydeco Party II

Brighton Fringe Festival

Swamp blues and Cajun knees-up

Date

Sat 19th May

Time

8.30pm

Price

£8 Music
Caroline Of Brunswick

6 Foot Silly

Brighton Fringe Festival

Very silly clowning from the very tall stand-up duo

Date

Sat 19th May

Time

4.30pm

Price

Free Comedy
Caroline Of Brunswick

Eccentronic - We Won't Rock You

Brighton Fringe Festival

Electronic duo do an oddball humorous musical mash-up

Date

Sat 19th May

Time

5.30pm

Price

Free Music
Caroline Of Brunswick

Manos The Greek - An Immigrant's Tale

Brighton Fringe Festival

Stand-up comedian

Date

Sat 19th 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

Sat 19th 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

Sat 19th May

Time

10.45pm

Price

Free Comedy
Coalition

Blow

Vince Manganaro, Charly Lopez, Charles Green

The party never stops

Date

Sat 19th May

Time

3am

Price

£5 Clubs
Concorde2

Ska-Kestra

Big band jazz ska with no less than 14 horns

Date

Sat 19th May

Time

7pm

Price

£12/8 Music
Corn Exchange

5 x 15

Brighton Festival

Spoken word cabaret featuring five speakers with fifteen minutes each

Date

Sat 19th May

Time

8pm

Price

£10 Culture
Cowley Club

Cap In Hand, Wreck The Place Fantastic, Tli, Mother Sanger

Post-hardcore punk rockers

Date

Sat 19th May

Time

8.30pm

Price

£3 Music
Cube

Too Mucking Fuch

House DJs

Date

Sat 19th May

Time

8pm

Price

Free Pubs
Doctor Brighton's

Sexy Saturday

DJ Tony B

Date

Sat 19th May

Time

9.30pm

Price

Free Pubs
Dome

Tweet, Chirp and Flap Music Workshop

Brighton Festival

Hands-on musical activities and birdy crafts

Date

Sat 19th May

Time

11am

Price

£5 Culture
Dome

Tweet, Chirp And Flap

Brighton Festival

Interactive family concert all about birds

Date

Sat 19th May

Time

1pm

Price

£5-15 Music
Duke Of York's Cinema

Ponyo

Date

Sat 19th May

Time

11am

Price

£tbc Cinema
Duke Of York's Cinema

Two Years At Sea

Date

Sat 19th May

Time

1.30pm

Price

£tbc Cinema

Date

Sat 19th May

Time

8pm

Price

Free Pubs
Fortune Of War

Part Time Heroes

Album launch party

Date

Sat 19th May

Time

tbc

Price

£tbc Pubs
Grand Hotel

Private Lives

Brighton Fringe Festival

Noel Coward’s comedy of manners about a double honeymoon romance (advance booking only)

Date

Sat 19th May

Time

3pm

Price

£17/15 Culture
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

Sat 19th May

Time

7pm

Price

Free Music
Hydrant

Liabilities, Egos At The Door

Live music

Date

Sat 19th May

Time

5pm

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

Sat 19th May

Time

7.30pm

Price

£10/8 Culture
Jazz Place

Night At The Jazz Rooms

Russ Dewbury, Dumani

Legendary Brighton club returns to its old home for a night of heavy funk, soul, Afro and dance, etc

Date

Sat 19th May

Time

9pm

Price

£5/4/free Clubs
Jive Monkey

Alive & Swinging

Brighton Fringe Festival

Marilyn Monroe finds heaven a bore so she hooks up with Sinatra and Elvis for one last night of swinging

Date

Sat 19th May

Time

9pm

Price

£15 Music
Jubilee Library

Tales From India

Brighton Festival

Author, Jamila Gavin, tells stories drawn from Hindu folklore

Date

Sat 19th May

Time

10.30am

Price

£6 Culture
Jubilee Library

Sam Lloyd And Her Monster Mates

Brighton Festival

Fun and games with the children’s author

Date

Sat 19th May

Time

12.30pm/2pm

Price

£6 Culture
Jubilee Square

Hendrick's Library Of Delightfully Peculiar Writings

Brighton Fringe Festival

Gin company stuffs train carriage full of invented curiosities

Date

Sat 19th May

Time

8pm

Price

Free Exhibitions
Komedia

Oh Fairbrother, Where Art Thou?

Brighton Fringe Festival

Kooky character comedy

Date

Sat 19th May

Time

2pm

Price

£10/8 Comedy
Komedia

My Big Gay Italian Wedding

Brighton Fringe Festival

Broadway cult hit musical

Date

Sat 19th May

Time

3pm

Price

£10/8 Comedy
Komedia

Peter Stracker’s Brel

Brighton Fringe Festival

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

Date

Sat 19th May

Time

4.30pm

Price

£12/9 Music
Komedia

Scottish Falsetto Socks - Boo Lingerie!

Brighton Fringe Festival

Puppet show for kids with songs and sketches

Date

Sat 19th May

Time

7pm

Price

£10/9 Comedy
Komedia

Krater Comedy Club

Nick Helm, Ninia Benjamin, Jen Brister, Jim Smallman

Stand-up comedy

Date

Sat 19th May

Time

7pm/8pm/10.30pm

Price

£15-20 Comedy
Komedia

ipop!

Like an iPod full of party anthems on perpetual shuffle

Date

Sat 19th May

Time

11pm

Price

£3/free Clubs
Lectern

All Fingers And Thumbs

Brighton Fringe Festival

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

Date

Sat 19th May

Time

9pm

Price

£7.50/5 Comedy
Life

Juicebox!

New eclectic club night offering an nice alternative to the standard seafront malarky

Date

Sat 19th May

Time

11pm

Price

£5/3 Clubs
LMNOP Studios

Brighton Bingo

Brighton Fringe Festival

Fun photography contest for adults and families

Date

Sat 19th May

Time

11am

Price

£5 Culture
Lola Lo

Zombie Nation

Where the dancefloor is never dead

Date

Sat 19th May

Time

8pm

Price

£10/7/6 Clubs
Mesmerist

Juke Joint Jamboree

Rhythm & blues and rock&roll records from the days of the dance halls

Date

Sat 19th May

Time

9pm

Price

Free Pubs
Mucky Duck

Eclectic Chair

DJ Lamp

Indie, reggae, breaks and rock

Date

Sat 19th May

Time

9pm

Price

Free Pubs
New Venture Theatre

A Streetcar Named Desire

Tennessee Williams’ classic drama

Date

Sat 19th May

Time

tbc

Price

£tbc Culture
Nightingale Theatre

From Kabul With Love & Tracy Says...

Brighton Fringe Festival

A double bill of arty dance shows

Date

Sat 19th May

Time

4.30pm

Price

£8.50/6.50 Culture
Nightingale Theatre

If I Ruled The World

Brighton Fringe Festival

Interactive audio performance trail, starting at the Nightingale

Date

Sat 19th May

Time

12.45pm/2.45pm/4.45pm

Price

£5 Culture
Nightingale Theatre

Filthy Weekender Comedy

Brighton Fringe Festival

Late-night stand-up comedy

Date

Sat 19th May

Time

10pm

Price

£8.50/6.50 Comedy
Northern Lights

Smorgasbord

Brighton Fringe Festival

A mixed platter of stand-up comedy

Date

Sat 19th May

Time

8.30pm

Price

£10/8.50 Comedy
Ohso Social

Saturday Social

Date

Sat 19th May

Time

8pm

Price

Free Clubs
Old Market

Kid Carpet & The Noisy Animals

Rock&roll musical for kids pitched somewhere between Oliver Postgate and The Beastie Boys

Date

Sat 19th May

Time

2pm/4pm

Price

£8/6 Music
Old Market

Beach Party Animals

Brighton Fringe Festival

A 20-minute portrait of seaside eccentricity, shown every half hour

Date

Sat 19th May

Time

2pm

Price

Free Cinema
Paramount Old Ship Hotel

Cock & Tail Inn 2

Brighton Fringe Festival

Slapstick pub comedy set in the 80s

Date

Sat 19th May

Time

7.45pm

Price

£10/8 Comedy
Pavilion Theatre

An Instinct For Kindness

Brighton Festival

Personal reflections and ethical discussion about assisted dying

Date

Sat 19th May

Time

8pm

Price

£12.50 Culture
Preston Park

Moscow State Circus

Date

Sat 19th May

Time

3pm/7pm

Price

£tbc Culture
Ranelagh

The Void

Live 60s music

Date

Sat 19th May

Time

8.30pm

Price

Free Music
Regency Tavern

I Have Never Cared For Sunsets

Brighton Fringe Festival

Comedy puppet shows takes on the big themes of philosophy and politics and asks who pulls the strings

Date

Sat 19th May

Time

2.30pm/6.30pm

Price

£tbc Comedy
Riki Tik

Caught Up

Loren Heer, Neal Lewis

Underground house, funk, soul, boogie and disco

Date

Sat 19th 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

Sat 19th May

Time

7.30pm

Price

£8/6 Comedy
Sticky Mike's Frog Bar

Mixtape Launch Night

New hip hop, grime and bashment night

Date

Sat 19th May

Time

11pm

Price

£tbc Clubs
Theatre Royal

New Adventures - Matthew Bourne's Early Adventures

Brighton Festival

A triple bill of work by the pioneering choreographer

Date

Sat 19th May

Time

2.30pm/7.30pm

Price

£10-22.50 Culture
Three & Ten

Two-Headed

Brighton Fringe Festival

A play about two 19th century Mid-Western girls and their lifelong struggle with religion

Date

Sat 19th May

Time

1pm

Price

£9/7.50 Culture
Three & Ten

Age Of The Geek

Brighton Fringe Festival

Comedy and music show by and for unashamed geeks

Date

Sat 19th May

Time

3pm

Price

£8.50/7 Comedy
Three & Ten

The Beta Males - The Space Race

Brighton Fringe Festival

Storytelling and sketches about the Britain’s little-known contribution to the space race

Date

Sat 19th May

Time

5pm

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

Sat 19th May

Time

7pm

Price

£10/7 Music
Three & Ten

The Three Englishmen

Brighton Fringe Festival

Comedy sketches

Date

Sat 19th 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

Sat 19th May

Time

10pm

Price

£8.50/7 Comedy
Three & Ten

The Revolution Will Be Re-Tweeted

Brighton Fringe Festival

Stand-up from the activist comedian, Abie Philbin Bowman

Date

Sat 19th May

Time

11.40pm

Price

£8.50/7 Comedy
Vardean School

Slightly Unusual

Brighton Fringe Festival

Comedy illusionists

Date

Sat 19th May

Time

7.30pm

Price

£6-10 Comedy

Date

Sat 19th May

Time

7.30pm

Price

£10/free Music
Warren

Snow Play

Brighton Fringe Festival

Children’s theatre show

Date

Sat 19th May

Time

11am

Price

£6/5 Culture
Warren

Watch The Birdy

Brighton Fringe Festival

Children’s magic show

Date

Sat 19th May

Time

1pm

Price

£6/5 Culture
Warren

The Comedy of Errors

Brighton Fringe Festival

Shakespeare for sprogs

Date

Sat 19th May

Time

4.30pm

Price

£8/5 Culture
Warren

Pinter's Victoria Station & Family Voices

Brighton Fringe Festival

Two classic plays by the master of the absurd

Date

Sat 19th May

Time

6pm

Price

£10/8.50 Culture
Warren

Rainbow Ride

Brighton Fringe Festival

A multimedia song and dance show for kiddywinkles

Date

Sat 19th May

Time

7.30pm

Price

£9/7 Culture
Warren

Best Of Late Night Gimp Fight!

Brighton Fringe Festival

Dark and fast-paced comedy sketches

Date

Sat 19th May

Time

8.45pm

Price

£10/8.50 Comedy
Warren

Jesus - The Guantanamo Years

Brighton Fringe Festival

“Christ returns to earth, but He doesn’t get through US immigration because He’s a bearded, Middle Eastern guy who wants to die as a martyr”

Date

Sat 19th May

Time

10pm

Price

£9/7.50 Comedy
West Hill Hall

Tanya Davis, Lianne Hall, Gem Andrews

Touching poems and literate pop songs

Date

Sat 19th May

Time

8pm

Price

£7 Music
White Rabbit

The Mixer Men

DJ night

Date

Sat 19th May

Time

8pm

Price

Free Pubs
World's End

Unity HiFi’s One Love Warm Up!

Brighton DJ prepares for the reggae festival

Date

Sat 19th May

Time

8pm

Price

Free Pubs