LISTINGS

Event date

Price

Event type

Venue

Sunday
27th May

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

Sun 27th May

Time

9pm

Price

Free Clubs
Blind Tiger

Rom Com Con

Brighton Fringe Festival

Lovelorn comedians put rom com cliches to the test

Date

Sun 27th May

Time

7pm

Price

£6.50/5.50 Comedy
Brighton Marina

The Boat Project - Departure

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 – watch it set sail on its maiden voyage

Date

Sun 27th May

Time

10am

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

Sun 27th May

Time

8pm

Price

£7.50/5 Culture
Brunswick

2012FM Not The Olympic Opening Ceremony

Brighton Fringe Festival

Comic tribute to the golden age of radio plays

Date

Sun 27th May

Time

2pm/4pm

Price

£5 Comedy
Brunswick

Heather Cairncross & David Newton

Live jazz

Date

Sun 27th May

Time

8pm

Price

£10/8 Music
Caroline Of Brunswick

Brighton Must Sees

Brighton Fringe Festival

Comedy showcase with some of the best fringe acts

Date

Sun 27th May

Time

3.15pm

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

Sun 27th 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

Sun 27th 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

Sun 27th 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

Sun 27th May

Time

8.15pm

Price

£5 Comedy
Caroline Of Brunswick

Jody Kamali - Dirty, Filthy, Rich

Brighton Fringe Festival

Spoof seminar with a ludicrous lifestyle guru

Date

Sun 27th May

Time

9.30pm

Price

£5/3 Comedy
Caroline Of Brunswick

Test Tube Comedy

Brighton Fringe Festival

Stand-up and sketch comedy acts hosted by Dec Munro

Date

Sun 27th May

Time

10.45pm

Price

Free Comedy
Chequers

Live Jazz

Date

Sun 27th May

Time

tbc

Price

Free Music
Coach House

A Venture Beyond The Fringe

Nil, Scrying Ylem

Live music

Date

Sun 27th May

Time

7.30pm

Price

£donation Music
Cube

Sunday Social

Open decks session

Date

Sun 27th May

Time

8pm

Price

Free Pubs
Dome

King Priam

Brighton Festival

Michael Tippett’s second opera performed by Britten Sinfonia and Brighton Festival Chorus

Date

Sun 27th May

Time

7pm

Price

£10-30 Music
Dome Foyer Bar

SOURCE New Music

Abi Wade

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

Date

Sun 27th May

Time

Noon

Price

Free Music
Dorset Gardens Peace Park

Fire

Brighton Festival

Poetry and classical music in praise of mankind’s enduring fascination with burning stuff

Date

Sun 27th May

Time

10pm

Price

Free Music
Druid's Arms

Nice Weather For Airstrikes Festival

Her Name Is Calla

Edgy acoustic music

Date

Sun 27th May

Time

3pm

Price

Free Music
Duke Of Norfolk

Live Music Night

Live music from local artists

Date

Sun 27th May

Time

9pm

Price

Free Music
Duke Of York's Cinema

Charge Of The Light Brigade

Brighton Festival

More Vanessa Redgrave

Date

Sun 27th May

Time

1.30pm

Price

£6.50-13 Cinema
Duke Of York's Cinema

Albert Nobbs

Date

Sun 27th May

Time

4.30pm

Price

£tbc Cinema
Duke Of York's Cinema

Moonrise Kingdom

Date

Sun 27th May

Time

11am/7.15pm/9.15pm

Price

£tbc Cinema
Fishbowl

Recovery?

Reggae through the ages

Date

Sun 27th May

Time

9pm

Price

Free Pubs
Fountain Head

Super Awesome Quiz

Pictionary, playdough, and a little bit of general knowledge

Date

Sun 27th May

Time

8pm

Price

£1 Pubs
Fountain Head

Reggae & Roasts

Reggae and chilled beats

Date

Sun 27th May

Time

Time tbc

Price

Free Pubs
Globe

Rockoustic

Liver acoustic music

Date

Sun 27th May

Time

8pm

Price

Free Music
Grand Hotel

Private Lives

Brighton Fringe Festival

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

Date

Sun 27th May

Time

3pm

Price

£17/15 Culture
Green Door Store

Tera Melos

Experimental jazz and electro math rockers from California

Date

Sun 27th May

Time

7pm

Price

£7 Music
Green Door Store

Green Door Blues

Blues band and DJs

Date

Sun 27th May

Time

10pm

Price

Free Music
Hampton

The Sunday Supper Sessions

Live acoustic music

Date

Sun 27th May

Time

7pm

Price

Free Music
Haunt

Awolnation

American indie pop band

Date

Sun 27th May

Time

7pm

Price

£8 Music
Hobgoblin

Kiss Of The Red Menace

Brighton Fringe Festival

Musical tribute to Kander & Ebb, the partnership behind Broadway classics like Cabaret, Chicago and Funny Lady

Date

Sun 27th May

Time

4.30pm/8.15pm

Price

Free Music
Hobgoblin

Divinely Bette

Brighton Fringe Festival

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

Date

Sun 27th May

Time

3.15pm/9.30pm

Price

Free Music
Honey

Sundays At The Honey

If your house was this sexy you’d need to keep the letterbox well-oiled

Date

Sun 27th May

Time

11pm

Price

£3/2/free Music
Jubilee Square

A Dirty Martini With Evelyn Waugh

Brighton Fringe Festival

Theatrical and debauched performance driven by the audience

Date

Sun 27th 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

Sun 27th May

Time

8pm

Price

Free Exhibitions
Komedia

The Silent Movie Experience

David Watts jazzes up old films with breakbeat percussion, honky tonk piano and a comedic touch

Date

Sun 27th May

Time

2pm

Price

£9/7 Cinema
Komedia

Krater Comedy Club

Benny Boot, Mark Olver, Keith Farnan, Stephen Grant

Stand-up comedy

Date

Sun 27th May

Time

8pm

Price

£5-11.50 Comedy
Latest Music Bar

Stories With Tea

Brighton Fringe Festival

Lynn Ruth Miller talks about life, loss and laughter – includes tea and biscuits

Date

Sun 27th May

Time

4pm

Price

£6 Culture
Latest Music Bar

Sadie And The Faded Ladies

Brighton Fringe Festival

An actress bumps into an old friend and starts to reminiscence, banter and sing the songs of the good old days

Date

Sun 27th May

Time

9pm

Price

£8 Culture
Life

Dagger Soundsystem Terrace Party

Reggae, dancehall, rocksteady and ska

Date

Sun 27th May

Time

3pm

Price

Free Clubs
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

Sun 27th May

Time

7.30pm

Price

£18.50 Culture
Neptune

In Cahoots

Folk and bluegrass band

Date

Sun 27th May

Time

8.30pm

Price

Free Music
Ohso Social

Sundown Sundaze

Beach party

Date

Sun 27th May

Time

7pm

Price

Free Clubs
Old Market

Cloud Man

Brighton Festival

Poetic puppetry for all the family

Date

Sun 27th May

Time

11am/1pm/3pm

Price

£8/6 Culture
Old Market

Beach Party Animals

Brighton Fringe Festival

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

Date

Sun 27th May

Time

2pm

Price

Free Cinema
Old Steine

The Hanging Gardens Of Brighton

Ska Cubano, Molotov Jukebox, Mr B Gentleman Rhymer, White Mink, The Boxettes, Kitten & The Hip, Los Albertos, Carnival Collective, Boujimiyo, Bunty Looping, The Carny Villains, Pollito Boogaloo, Hotclub Of Belleville, Zazoom, Swingalicious DJs, King Lagoon's Flying Sword Fish-Dance Band, Carnivalesque Cabaret & Circus, Sussex Swing Dancers, Worldshift Media

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

Date

Sun 27th May

Time

12.30pm

Price

£25/20 Music
Pavilion Theatre

Romesh Gunesekera & Abdulrazak Gurnah

Brighton Festival

Two novelists give readings and discuss ideas of exile and identity

Date

Sun 27th May

Time

1pm

Price

£8.50 Culture
Pavilion Theatre

The School Of Life

Brighton Festival

Short talks on the art of living well

Date

Sun 27th May

Time

3pm

Price

£10 Culture
Pavilion Theatre

Why Willows Weep

Brighton Festival

Short stories about nature

Date

Sun 27th May

Time

7.30pm

Price

£10 Culture
Preston Park

Moscow State Circus

Date

Sun 27th May

Time

2pm/5pm

Price

£tbc Culture
Quadrant

Charmian Hughes - Charmageddon!

Comedienne laughs in the face of the apocalypse (and snogs Chris Huhne)

Date

Sun 27th May

Time

8pm

Price

£4.50/3.50 Comedy
Riki Tik

The Lock In

DJ night with freebies

Date

Sun 27th May

Time

10pm

Price

Free Clubs
Signalman

Open Mic

Open session hosted by local duo, Zoothyme

Date

Sun 27th May

Time

8pm

Price

Free 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

Sun 27th 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

Sun 27th May

Time

5.45pm

Price

£5/3 Comedy
Temple Bar

Matt Green - Playful

Brighton Fringe Festival

Stand-up comedy

Date

Sun 27th May

Time

7.30pm

Price

£5 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

Sun 27th May

Time

9.30pm

Price

£tbc Comedy
Three & Ten

Ragnarök - The Weird Of The Gods

Brighton Fringe Festival

Comedy musical based on Norse mythology from the singer of the wacky lo-fi band, Spalien Acecraft

Date

Sun 27th May

Time

3pm

Price

£9/7.50 Comedy
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

Sun 27th May

Time

5pm

Price

£9/7.50 Culture
Three & Ten

My Gay Best Friend

Brighton Fringe Festival

Camp comedy play about a diva trapped in a toilet on her big night

Date

Sun 27th May

Time

6.45pm

Price

£10/8 Culture
Three & Ten

Pappy's

Brighton Fringe Festival

Comedy sketch troupe

Date

Sun 27th May

Time

8.30pm

Price

£9.50/8 Comedy
Victory

Blues Sundays

DJ plays blues and soul

Date

Sun 27th May

Time

tbc

Price

Free Pubs
Warren

Much Ado About Wenlock

Brighton Fringe Festival

Comical masked play about the Shropshire town that held its own rural Olympian Games in 1850

Date

Sun 27th May

Time

11.30am

Price

£8.50/6 Culture
Warren

The Big Bite-Size Vintage Tea Party

Brighton Fringe Festival

Musical theatre from a world gone by

Date

Sun 27th May

Time

2.30pm

Price

£12 Culture
Warren

Street Dreams

Brighton Fringe Festival

Clowning, puppetry and storytelling

Date

Sun 27th May

Time

4pm

Price

£8/6.50 Culture
Warren

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Brighton Fringe Festival

Shakespeare’s comical whimsy performed by Chyngton Youth Academy

Date

Sun 27th May

Time

4.15pm

Price

£8/6 Culture
Warren

Arnold Wesker's The Mistress

Brighton Fringe Festival

One-woman show about an adulterous fashion designer boozing with her mannequins

Date

Sun 27th May

Time

6pm

Price

£10/8.50 Culture
Warren

Bug By Tracy Letts

Brighton Fringe Festival

Psychological thriller from the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright

Date

Sun 27th May

Time

7.30pm

Price

£12.50/10.50 Culture
Warren

Fringe Club

Brighton Fringe Festival

Live music, cabaret and comedy curated by the Peanut Albinos

Date

Sun 27th May

Time

10pm

Price

£3.50/2.50 Music
White Rabbit

Hush Hush

Live acoustic music

Date

Sun 27th May

Time

8pm

Price

Free Music