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LISTINGS
Event date
Price
Event type
Venue
Monday
28th May
Ancient Mariner
Quiz Night
Belushi's Bar
Pump Up The 90s
Retro night dedicated to the decade that was dedicated to retro nights
Duke Of York's Cinema
Moonrise Kingdom
Gladstone
Open Mic Night
Hampton
The Hampton Quiz
Komedia
Kathryn Williams - The Pond
The Mercury-nominated singer songwriter in a new vintage pop and ethnic folk trio
Old Market
James Campbell's Comedy 4 Kids
Brighton Fringe Festival
Stand-up comedy without the rude bits
Preston Park
Moscow State Circus
Psychosocial
Into The Void
New metal night that’s likely to feature more windmills than a farm in the Dutch lowlands
Sallis Benney Theatre
Raiders Of The Lost Ark
Monday Movies
Indiana Jones fights the Nazis for a box of evil fireworks
Signalman
Signalman Pub Quiz
Tuesday
29th May
Belushi's Bar
Back To The 80s
Retro night dedicated to the only decade to spawn a revival which has lasted longer than the decade itself
Duke Of York's Cinema
Moonrise Kingdom
Gladstone
Quiz Night
Honey
Latin Fever
DJ Aaron George, Gabriel Angel, Yersin Rivas
Dance lessons followed by a tropically vibed salsa club
Jive Monkey
Quiz Night
Old Market
Stella
Brighton Fringe Festival
A play about two female astronomers from different centuries who are united by the stars
Preston Park
Moscow State Circus
World's End
Poker Night
Wednesday
30th 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
Brunswick
Southdown Housing Association Party
Chequers
Quiz Night
Duke Of York's Cinema
Moonrise Kingdom
Green Door Store
Nightingales, Ted Chippington, Piranhas 3D
First wave art-punk indie band supported by cult anti-comedian
Green Door Store
Hard Times
They can take our disposable income, but they’ll never take our nowave disco!
Old Market
Stella
Brighton Fringe Festival
A play about two female astronomers from different centuries who are united by the stars
Psychosocial
Live 'N' Laughing
Joey Page, Kieran Poole, Jarred Christmas, The Beautiful Word
Stand up comedy and live indie music
Thursday
31st May
Bee's Mouth
Live Music
Caroline Of Brunswick
Pog, The Astronauts, Lilly Rae
Witty songs of everyday failure set to punky and bouncy folk
Coach House
A Venture Beyond The Fringe
Bela Emerson & David K Frampton, Ron Caines & Joshua, Jason Williams
Live music
Concorde2
Bob Geldof
The man who saved the world is back with a new band to prove he is more than simply the progenitor of vapid tabloid-faced offspring
Duke Of York's Cinema
Moonrise Kingdom
Komedia
Adam Kay - Smutty Songs
Brighton Fringe Festival
Slightly sick versions of pop songs from the comedy doctor who found YouTube fame with his London Underground song
Nightingale Theatre
Unhappy Birthday
New show about celebrity, sexual identity and a woman waiting to see if Morrissey will come to her birthday party. Stars Amy Lamé – and possibly Morrissey
Old Market
Stella - Rehearsed Reading
Reading of a work about women, stars and women who look at stars
Sticky Mike's Frog Bar
Catholic Discipline
Noise rock, disco pop and acid folk from the Superheroes of BMX
White Rabbit
The Move-Ons Open Mic
World's End
The Big Cash Quiz
Friday
1st Jun
Amex Stadium
Big Beach Bootique
Fatboy Slim, Carl Cox, Maya Jane Coles, Luciano, The 2 Bears
Norman’s annual knees-up goes inland
Caroline Of Brunswick
Hardwired Festival Pre-Party
Industrial party to get you in the mood for tomorrow’s big gig
Cowley Club
Brighton Antifascists Benefit
Utonomads, Disco//Oslo, Corn On The Rob
If you don’t go to this gig it means you’re a Nazi
Digital
Fatboy Slim ‘Big Beach Boutique 5’ After Party
Maya Jane Coles, The 2 Bears, Jaymo & Andy George, Blond:Ish, Zeb Wayne
Duke Of York's Cinema
The Source
Gritty documentary following the exploits of a Brighton magazine as it struggles against corruption to bring truth to the people of the city – not really, it’s a film about a tribe of woman who refuse to have sex with their husbands until they sort out the village irrigation
Duke Of York's Cinema
Battle Royale
Green Door Store
VICE Issue Launch
Mmoths, Solar Bears, The Neat, Physics House Band, Real Fur, Dennis Castro, George Nunn, The DSG
Bands and DJs promoting the post-ironic fashion mag
Komedia
Krater Comedy Club
Addy Van Der Borgh, Iain Stirling, Stephen Carlin, Stephen Grant
Stand-up comedy
Komedia
Ultimate Power
Do you possess enough irony reserves to get you through an entire night of power ballads?
Nightingale Theatre
Unhappy Birthday
New show about celebrity, sexual identity and a woman waiting to see if Morrissey will come to her birthday party. Stars Amy Lamé – and possibly Morrissey
Psychosocial
Glam Rock Night
Riki Tik
Work
Matt Barker, Dennis Castro
A silken river of alt pop, blog dance and hip twitching jiggy bangers
Sticky Mike's Frog Bar
Death By Disco
Puente & Rosch, Anthony Moore & Emre, Chemical Play
Spanish gangsta house duo
Saturday
2nd Jun
Amex Stadium
Big Beach Bootique
Fatboy Slim, Nero, Jaguar Skills, Doorly, Annie Mac, DJ Fresh, Union
Norman’s annual knees-up goes inland
Blind Tiger
Stick It On
This is a night with a difference – one in which you become the DJ! An iPod is all you need to make your musical journey. YOU decide which requests to take, which classics to play and which self-indulgent B-sides to risk
Brunswick
Mods & Rockers Unite
Slimshack, The Stuntman
Country rockers team up with a blues soul band to promote subcultural harmony
Coach House
A Venture Beyond The Fringe
Simon Drinkwater, The Sunsets Over Whitehawk, The Y Bend
Live music
Coalition
Pump Up The Jams - “An Unofficial Big Beach Bootique After Party”
Willerby, DJ Outbreak
Digging up the long-buried bodies of 90s house and pop ‘classics’
Concorde2
Miss Pole Dance UK 2012
Modern women in control of their lives and proud of their bodies, not desperate exhibitionists catering to a male-dominated sex industry
Digital
Fatboy Slim ‘Big Beach Boutique 5’ After Party
Redlight, Friction, Doorly, Southern Fried All Stars
Duke Of York's Cinema
The Source
Green Door Store
Wild World Festival
Foreign Objects, Sauna Youth, La La Vasquez, Bhurgeist, Slowcoaches
Two full days of live bands
H-Bar
Recoverworld
Woody Van Eyden, Richrad Mattiot
Driving trance music, not trance driving music – there’s a big difference
Haunt
It Is Still 1985
Travel through time to an ancient realm where drum machines still sound novel and exciting
Hobgoblin
Queen's Big Beach Boutique Jubilee Weekender
Fun and games in the garden to celebrate the long and prosperous reign of Norman Cook
Jazz Place
Night At The Jazz Rooms
Legendary Brighton club returns to its old home for a night of heavy funk, soul, Afro and dance, etc
Komedia
Krater Comedy Club
Addy Van Der Borgh, Iain Stirling, Stephen Carlin, Stephen Grant
Stand-up comedy
Life
Juicebox!
New eclectic club night offering an nice alternative to the standard seafront malarky
Ohso Social
Saturday Social
Old Market
Hardwired Festival
Grendel, Code 64, Deviant Uk, System:Fx, Kommand+Kontrol, Method Cell, Dreams Divide, Surgyn, Cease2xist
By the late 20th century the population of the western world became increasingly brutalised by an oppressive regime of industrial capitalism warping their senses to the point where the sound of machinery was considered high art, the noise of metallic grinding was a thing of beauty and the ear-rupturing roar of electronic distortion became suitable entertainment for an all day music festival
Sunday
3rd Jun
Belushi's Bar
Now That’s What I Call A Party
In this instance, it’s okay to judge a book by its cover
Caroline Of Brunswick
The Geekest Link
Did you know that the Uzi 9mm which Arnie inspects in the gun shop scene in the film Terminator is actually a short barrelled version of the weapon which would have been illegal to sell over the counter in 1984? If so, then get your arse down to the Caroline
