LISTINGS

Event date

Price

Event type

Venue

Friday
25th May

All Saints' Church

Memorial

Brighton Festival

Alice Oswald’s retelling of Homer’s Iliad

Date

Fri 25th May

Time

6.30pm

Price

£10 Culture
Belushi's Bar

Muy Loco

Pop and house DJs with a dancing contest

Date

Fri 25th May

Time

9pm

Price

Free Clubs
Belushi's Below

Abandoned

Rock and metal night

Date

Fri 25th May

Time

10pm

Price

£3/2 Clubs
Blind Tiger

Rom Com Con

Brighton Fringe Festival

Lovelorn comedians put rom com cliches to the test

Date

Fri 25th May

Time

7pm

Price

£6.50/5.50 Comedy
Blind Tiger

The C Word

Brighton Fringe Festival

Comedy show put on by the people who brought you Russell Brand. Presumably that accounts for the name of the night

Date

Fri 25th May

Time

8pm

Price

£6/5 Comedy
Blind Tiger

Goodtimes Music

Reggae, ska, funk and dub

Date

Fri 25th May

Time

10pm

Price

£3 Clubs
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 25th May

Time

8pm

Price

£7.50/5 Culture
Brighton Music Hall

Vaudeville

Electro swing, burlesque and 50s blues

Date

Fri 25th May

Time

8pm

Price

Free Clubs
Brunswick

Boogie Woogie Troop

Brighton Fringe Festival

Piano blues and swing

Date

Fri 25th May

Time

8pm

Price

£10/8 Music
Caroline Of Brunswick

Eccentronic - We Won't Rock You

Brighton Fringe Festival

Electronic duo do an oddball humorous musical mash-up

Date

Fri 25th May

Time

4.35pm

Price

Free Music
Caroline Of Brunswick

Aaron Twitchen’s Quarter Life Crisis

Brighton Fringe Festival

The twenty-something post-uni dilemma examined with the help of stand-up, improv and a pinch of graduate psychological theory

Date

Fri 25th May

Time

5.45pm

Price

Free Comedy
Caroline Of Brunswick

Luisa Omielan - What Would Beyoncé Do?

Brighton Fringe Festival

Comedy improv for all the single ladies

Date

Fri 25th May

Time

7pm

Price

Free Comedy
Caroline Of Brunswick

Pandora's Box

Brighton Fringe Festival

Cabaret parody about a toilet attendant turned XXL stripper

Date

Fri 25th May

Time

8.15pm

Price

£5 Comedy
Caroline Of Brunswick

Meryl O'Rourke - Bad Mother

Brighton Fringe Festival

Mischievous comedy show about motherhood and other mistakes

Date

Fri 25th May

Time

9.30pm

Price

£6/4.50 Comedy
Coach House

A Venture Beyond The Fringe

Crayola Lectern, Jo Burke

Live music

Date

Fri 25th May

Time

7.30pm

Price

£donation Music
Coalition

Friday I'm In Love

No more lectures for a day or two

Date

Fri 25th May

Time

11pm

Price

£1-5 Clubs
Concorde2

Channel One Sound System

Mikey Dread, MC Ras Kayleb

Veterans of Notting Hill Carnival do a four hour vinyl roots set

Date

Fri 25th May

Time

11pm

Price

£2 Clubs
Corn Exchange

Can We Talk About This?

Brighton Festival

New physical theatre work with a political theme

Date

Fri 25th May

Time

8pm

Price

£10-22.50 Culture
Cube

Female Friday

House DJs who happen to be female

Date

Fri 25th May

Time

8pm

Price

Free Pubs
Digital

Stonelove

Indie rock&roll club

Date

Fri 25th May

Time

11pm

Price

£4/3 Clubs
Doctor Brighton's

Funky Friday

DJ Nick Hirst, DJ Wayne

Date

Fri 25th May

Time

9.30pm

Price

Free Pubs
Dome

War Sum Up

Brighton Festival

Multimedia opera fusing folklore with manga and choral music with electronica

Date

Fri 25th May

Time

8pm

Price

£10-22.50 Music
Druid's Arms

Nice Weather For Airstrikes Festival

&U&I

Post rock bands

Date

Fri 25th May

Time

7.30pm

Price

Free Music
Duke Of Norfolk

Miss Scarlett

DJ night

Date

Fri 25th May

Time

9pm

Price

Free Pubs
Duke Of York's Cinema

Albert Nobbs

Date

Fri 25th May

Time

5pm

Price

£tbc Cinema
Duke Of York's Cinema

Moonrise Kingdom

Date

Fri 25th May

Time

2pm/7pm/9.15pm/11.30pm

Price

£tbc Cinema
Easy Bar

DJ Night

Hip hop, R&B and reggae

Date

Fri 25th May

Time

8pm

Price

Free Pubs
Funkyfish

The Funkyfish Club

Soul, funk, jazz and Motown

Date

Fri 25th May

Time

10pm

Price

£6/3.50 Clubs
Gladstone

Catch A Groove

DJ Bozak shares his collection of funk, soul and hip hop

Date

Fri 25th May

Time

8.30pm

Price

Free Pubs
Globe

Rum Fridays

Affy Go Bang!

Disco, house and boogie

Date

Fri 25th May

Time

9pm

Price

Free Pubs
Green Door Store

Free Swim, Flash Bang Band, P For Persia

Experimental power pop with a bass-playing panda

Date

Fri 25th May

Time

7.30pm

Price

£tbc Music
H-Bar

Black Blooms

Electronic producer duo

Date

Fri 25th May

Time

tbc8pm

Price

£3/free Clubs

Date

Fri 25th May

Time

8pm

Price

£16 Music
Hobgoblin

Divinely Bette

Brighton Fringe Festival

One-woman show celebrating the life and work of Bette Midler with banter, ballads and comedy

Date

Fri 25th May

Time

9.30pm

Price

Free Music

Date

Fri 25th May

Time

8pm

Price

Free Music
Jive Monkey

The Master Blues Brothers

Tribute band plays the movie’s hits

Date

Fri 25th May

Time

9pm

Price

£10 Music
Jubilee Square

A Dirty Martini With Evelyn Waugh

Brighton Fringe Festival

Theatrical and debauched performance driven by the audience

Date

Fri 25th May

Time

7.15pm

Price

£9 Culture
Jubilee Square

Hendrick's Library Of Delightfully Peculiar Writings

Brighton Fringe Festival

Gin company stuffs train carriage full of invented curiosities

Date

Fri 25th May

Time

8pm

Price

Free Exhibitions
Komedia

Krater Comedy Club

Paul McCaffrey, Mark Olver, Keith Farnan, Stephen Grant

Stand-up comedy

Date

Fri 25th May

Time

8pm

Price

£11.50-14.50 Comedy
Komedia

Trailer Trash

Brighton Fringe Festival

The last of the theme club’s Komedia nights, this time it’s a hip hop block party with DJs, games, movie clips and a live set by Dr Syntax

Date

Fri 25th May

Time

9pm

Price

£10/8 Clubs
Komedia

Dressed In Black

Club night delves into the darker side of pop with stuff like Jacques Brel, Joy Division and Ennio Morricone

Date

Fri 25th May

Time

11pm

Price

£3 Clubs
Latest Music Bar

The Treason Show

Brighton Fringe Festival

Topical songs and sketches from the long-running local comedy show

Date

Fri 25th May

Time

8.30pm

Price

£13.50/10 Comedy
Latest Music Bar

Approaching 80

Brighton Fringe Festival

Cabaret and comedy from Lynn Ruth Miller

Date

Fri 25th May

Time

8.30pm/10.30pm

Price

£5 Culture
Life

Kung Fu Terrace Party

DJs play funk, soul, blues and hip hop

Date

Fri 25th May

Time

3pm

Price

Free Clubs
Lola Lo

Tiki Beats

Totally tropical tunes

Date

Fri 25th May

Time

8pm

Price

£5/4/3 Clubs
Marlborough Theatre

Mae-Day - I'm Not Waving, I'm Drowning

Brighton Fringe Festival

Musical comedienne

Date

Fri 25th May

Time

10pm

Price

£8/6 Culture
Mesmerist

Shake, Holla & Roll

Vintage blues, swing and rock&roll

Date

Fri 25th May

Time

9pm

Price

Free Pubs
Mystery Location

The Strange Undoing Of Prudencia Hart

Brighton Festival

Anarchic and musical theatre inspired by the border ballads of Scotland (the location is revealed when you book a ticket)

Date

Fri 25th May

Time

7.30pm

Price

£18.50 Culture
New Venture Theatre

Once Upon A Time In Brighton

Brighton Fringe Festival

Theatre stortellers read the winning entries from a Brighton-themed short story competition

Date

Fri 25th May

Time

7.45pm

Price

£6/5 Culture
Nightingale Theatre

Filthy Weekender Comedy

Brighton Fringe Festival

Late-night stand-up comedy

Date

Fri 25th May

Time

10pm

Price

£8.50/6.50 Comedy
Ohso Social

Dirty Sunset Disco

Metrosexual disco and house club

Date

Fri 25th May

Time

8pm

Price

£1 Clubs
Old Steine

The Hanging Gardens Of Brighton

Alabama 3, Son Of Dave, Gabby Young & Other Animals, Roots Garden, King Porter Stomp, Yes Sir Boss, The Undercover Hippy, Cut A Shine, Kidnap Alice, Slamboree, Man Ray Sky, Funkazoid, Ben Westwood, Carnivalesque DJs, Carnivalesque Cabaret & Circus, Shambushed, Worldshift Media

The festival ends with a fabulous three-day finale of bands and circus shenanigans

Date

Fri 25th May

Time

4pm

Price

£25/20 Music
Paramount Old Ship Hotel

Cock & Tail Inn 2

Brighton Fringe Festival

Slapstick pub comedy set in the 80s

Date

Fri 25th May

Time

7.45pm

Price

£10/8 Comedy
Pavilion Theatre

Sean Shibe

Brighton Festival

Classical guitarist

Date

Fri 25th May

Time

1pm

Price

£10 Music
Preston Park

Moscow State Circus

Date

Fri 25th May

Time

5pm/7.45pm

Price

£tbc Culture
Prince Albert

Rising Tide, Screama Ballerina

Live music

Date

Fri 25th May

Time

8.30pm

Price

£4/3 Music
Psychosocial

Orishas

Salsa bands and DJs

Date

Fri 25th May

Time

9pm

Price

£8/4 Music
Ranelagh

Dave Ferguson

Live Americana and blues

Date

Fri 25th 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 25th May

Time

9pm

Price

Free Clubs
Sallis Benney Theatre

The Cult Of The Ruin

Brighton Festival

David Dimbleby discusses whether our love of period dramas and ruined architecture amounts to a fear of the modern

Date

Fri 25th May

Time

7.30pm

Price

£10 Culture
Signalman

Signalman Cider Festival

Live music

Date

Fri 25th May

Time

Noon

Price

Free Music
St Bartholomew's Church

Brighton Festival Chorus

Brighton Festival

Female choir sings Brahms and Holst

Date

Fri 25th May

Time

9.30pm

Price

£15/10 Music
Temple Bar

What's The Time, Mr Wolf?

Brighton Fringe Festival

Darkly comic one-man play about a bedsit pagan accused of murder

Date

Fri 25th May

Time

4.30pm

Price

Free Comedy
Temple Bar

Balloon

Brighton Fringe Festival

Comedy show about a man and a balloon featuring a balloon and a man

Date

Fri 25th May

Time

5.45pm

Price

£5/3 Comedy
Temple Bar

Twonkey's Kingdom

Brighton Fringe Festival

Surreal cabaret show from the comedian and musician from the indie band, Dawn Of The Replicants

Date

Fri 25th May

Time

9.30pm

Price

£tbc Comedy
Theatre Royal

Circus Klezmer

Brighton Festival

Does what it says on the tin – contemporary circus acts and Jewish klezmer music

Date

Fri 25th May

Time

5pm/8pm

Price

£10-20 Culture
Three & Ten

Mating In Captivity

Brighton Fringe Festival

A play about a married couple who haven’t had sex for a year, 7 months and 14 days – not that anyone’s counting

Date

Fri 25th May

Time

5pm

Price

£9/7.50 Culture
Three & Ten

Who Did I Think I Was?

Brighton Fringe Festival

Tragicomedy about a reunited father and son – plus bicycles, electric shocks and spitfires

Date

Fri 25th May

Time

1pm/7pm

Price

£8.50/7.50 Culture
Three & Ten

Pappy's

Brighton Fringe Festival

Comedy sketch troupe

Date

Fri 25th May

Time

8.30pm

Price

£9.50/8 Comedy
Three & Ten

Max And Ivan Are... Con Artists

Brighton Fringe Festival

Comedy duo sketch show spoofing heist blockbusters

Date

Fri 25th May

Time

10pm

Price

£8.50/7 Comedy
Verdict

Julian Siegel Quartet

Live jazz

Date

Fri 25th May

Time

7.30pm

Price

£15/8 Music
Warren

Street Dreams

Brighton Fringe Festival

Clowning, puppetry and storytelling

Date

Fri 25th May

Time

4pm

Price

£8/6.50 Culture
Warren

The Girl With The Iron Claws

Brighton Fringe Festival

Storytelling theatre show for kids and their parents

Date

Fri 25th May

Time

6.30pm

Price

£12/9 Culture
Warren

Dumbwise - Faust

Brighton Fringe Festival

Goethe’s classic fable set to gypsy folk and blues ballads

Date

Fri 25th May

Time

8pm

Price

£12/10 Music
Warren

Bourgeois & Maurice Started A Band

Brighton Fringe Festival

Alternative musical cabaret from the freaky duo

Date

Fri 25th May

Time

10pm

Price

£12/11 Comedy
White Rabbit

WTF? Brighton

Wonky electro and synth pop nonsense

Date

Fri 25th May

Time

8pm

Price

Free Pubs
World's End

Fond Of Ruby

Indie rockers

Date

Fri 25th May

Time

8pm

Price

Free Music