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Thursday 23rd February 2012

The Science Of Bees

Brighton Science Festival

Find out more about the plight of the bumblebee

Date:

Thu 23rd Feb

Venue

Friends Meeting House

Time

6.30pm

Price

Free Culture

Shrag, Tunabunny, The Metatrons, Dogtooth!

Local indie pop favourites

Date:

Thu 23rd Feb

Venue

Sticky Mike's Frog Bar

Time

7pm

Price

£5.50 Music

NME Awards Tour 2012

Two Door Cinema Club, Metronomy, Tribes, Azealia Banks

These are the bands you have to like

Date:

Thu 23rd Feb

Venue

Dome

Time

7pm

Price

£19.50 Music

INME

Big riffs and mosh pits

Date:

Thu 23rd Feb

Venue

Concorde2

Time

7.30pm

Price

£12 Music

Communion

Kyla La Grange, Native Roses

Live music (upstairs)

Date:

Thu 23rd Feb

Venue

Hope

Time

7.30pm

Price

£5 Music

Heart In Hand, Dead And Divine

Live music (upstairs)

Date:

Thu 23rd Feb

Venue

Hydrant

Time

19.30pm

Price

£tbc Music

Narc Showcase

Live music

Date:

Thu 23rd Feb

Venue

Green Door Store

Time

7.30pm

Price

£tbc Music

Star Quality

Lisa Goddard stars in Noel Coward’s comedy drama

Date:

Thu 23rd Feb

Venue

Theatre Royal

Time

2.30pm/7.45pm

Price

£12-32 Culture

Danni Nicholls

Country and bluegrass singer

Date:

Thu 23rd Feb

Venue

Great Eastern

Time

tbc

Price

Free Music

Catalyst Club

Guest speakers give a short talk about whatever their weird obsession is. This time they’ll be celebrating the lovelier things in life – computer games, hedgehogs and custard

Date:

Thu 23rd Feb

Venue

Latest Music Bar

Time

8.30pm

Price

£5 Culture

The Minutes, Tigercub, Dead Whisky, Black Bonds

Dublin rock trio

Date:

Thu 23rd Feb

Venue

Prince Albert

Time

8pm

Price

£6 Music

ID Goes Acoustic

Live music

Date:

Thu 23rd Feb

Venue

Iron Duke

Time

8pm

Price

Free Music

Steve Lake

The frontman of 80s punk band Zounds plays an acoustic solo set

Date:

Thu 23rd Feb

Venue

Caroline Of Brunswick

Time

8pm

Price

£5 Music

Philip Jeays

Witty and passionate singer whose contempt for the world is matched only by his love for Jacques Brel

Date:

Thu 23rd Feb

Venue

Three & Ten

Time

8pm

Price

£8/5 Music

Open Mic

Jam session with Joe Newman

Date:

Thu 23rd Feb

Venue

Mucky Duck

Time

8pm

Price

Free Music

Mcnazza Presents

Live music

Date:

Thu 23rd Feb

Venue

Hydrant

Time

8pm

Price

Free Music

Catholic Discipline

Noise rock, disco pop and acid folk from the Superheroes of BMX

Date:

Thu 23rd Feb

Venue

Sticky Mike's Frog Bar

Time

8pm

Price

Free Clubs

Club Maassah

World music club with live Afrobeat and Nigerian funk

Date:

Thu 23rd Feb

Venue

Blind Tiger

Time

8pm

Price

£9/free Clubs

Student Mashup

Funk and electro

Date:

Thu 23rd Feb

Venue

Gladstone

Time

8pm

Price

Free Pubs

A-LADD-IN

Adult pantomime about a young boy who ventures into a dark wet cave and rubs someone’s lamp to uncork a gaseous man who satisfies his wishes

Date:

Thu 23rd Feb

Venue

Pavilion Theatre

Time

5pm/8pm

Price

£17 Comedy

Comic Boom

Iain Stirling

Stand-up comedy

Date:

Thu 23rd Feb

Venue

Komedia

Time

8pm

Price

£9/7 Comedy

The Noise Next Door Comedy Lock-In

Improv comedy troupe

Date:

Thu 23rd Feb

Venue

Komedia

Time

8pm

Price

£10/8 Comedy

The Permanent Way

Play about the privatisation of the railways and the resultant crashes

Date:

Thu 23rd Feb

Venue

New Venture Theatre

Time

Time tbc

Price

£tbc Culture

Throw Some Shapes

Bullion

The One Handed DJ

Date:

Thu 23rd Feb

Venue

Fortune Of War

Time

8pm

Price

£tbc Pubs

The Move-Ons Open Mic

Date:

Thu 23rd Feb

Venue

White Rabbit

Time

8pm

Price

Free Music

So Trio

Live gypsy jazz

Date:

Thu 23rd Feb

Venue

Paris House

Time

8pm

Price

Free Music

Boss Tuneage

An entire night of Bruce Springsteen – more than his wife ever got (in the bar)

Date:

Thu 23rd Feb

Venue

Sticky Mike's Frog Bar

Time

8pm

Price

Free Pubs

Live 'N' Laughing

James Acaster

Stand up comedy

Date:

Thu 23rd Feb

Venue

Psychosocial

Time

8.30pm

Price

£10/6 Comedy

The Diablos

Americana country band

Date:

Thu 23rd Feb

Venue

Ranelagh

Time

8.30pm

Price

Free Music

Stay Sick, Turn Blue

DJs play vintage soul, jazz and blues

Date:

Thu 23rd Feb

Venue

St James' Tavern

Time

8.30pm

Price

Free Pubs

Live Lounge

Live music

Date:

Thu 23rd Feb

Venue

Fiddler's Elbow

Time

8.30pm

Price

Free Music

The Lion's Raw!

Live bands

Date:

Thu 23rd Feb

Venue

Black Lion

Time

8.30pm

Price

Free Music

Karaoke

Date:

Thu 23rd Feb

Venue

Belushi's Bar

Time

9pm

Price

Free Pubs

Mike Newsham

Rocking and folky Americana

Date:

Thu 23rd Feb

Venue

Bee's Mouth

Time

9pm

Price

Free Music

Sizzurp

Lil Wayne, Tyler, Gucci Mane

Swaggy hip hop with added crunk

Date:

Thu 23rd Feb

Venue

Riki Tik

Time

9pm

Price

Free Pubs

Northern Darkness

Nothing but the finest Nordic metal

Date:

Thu 23rd Feb

Venue

Northern Lights

Time

9pm

Price

Free Pubs

Kitsch

Commercial but quirky club night

Date:

Thu 23rd Feb

Venue

Lola Lo

Time

9pm

Price

£5/3 Clubs

A Dangerous Method

Date:

Thu 23rd Feb

Venue

Duke Of York's Cinema

Time

4pm/9pm

Price

£tbc Cinema

They Mostly Come Out At Night

Indie, electro and hip hop

Date:

Thu 23rd Feb

Venue

Mash Tun

Time

9pm

Price

Free Pubs

John Crampton

Foot-stomping blues explosion

Date:

Thu 23rd Feb

Venue

Mesmerist

Time

9pm

Price

Free Music

Hang The DJ!

A night of punter-picked playlists

Date:

Thu 23rd Feb

Venue

Globe

Time

9pm

Price

Free Pubs

Fallout Live

Live indie bands

Date:

Thu 23rd Feb

Venue

Belushi's Below

Time

10pm

Price

£3/2 Music

Pound Party

R&B and disco tunes from the bargain bin

Date:

Thu 23rd Feb

Venue

Oceana

Time

10.30pm

Price

£3/free Clubs

Mixer Men - 4 Deck Sessions

Turntable mash-ups

Date:

Thu 23rd Feb

Venue

Fishbowl

Time

10.30pm

Price

Free Pubs

Secret Discotheque

Secret Discotheque 4th Birthday

Replaying the soundtrack to your youth

Date:

Thu 23rd Feb

Venue

Coalition

Time

11pm

Price

£4/3/2 Clubs

John Peel's Shed

John Osbourne won a box of Peel’s records which took eight years to listen to and inspired this affectionate comic homage

Date:

Thu 23rd Feb

Venue

Old Market

Time

tbc

Price

£tbc Comedy

Overhead Wires

Local label live music showcase

Date:

Thu 23rd Feb

Venue

Druid's Arms

Time

tbc

Price

Free Music

Exposed!

Willerby, Squiz, Dan Creasy

Club night playing electro, dubstep and chart nonsense

Date:

Thu 23rd Feb

Venue

Honey

Time

11pm

Price

£3/2 Clubs

Buddy Holly Night - Winter Dance Party

Date:

Thu 23rd Feb

Venue

Green Door Store

Time

11pm

Price

Free Clubs

Bastard Pop

Musical mash-up

Date:

Thu 23rd Feb

Venue

Audio

Time

11pm

Price

£2/free Clubs

Friday 24th February 2012

John Foxx & The Maths, Gazelle Twin

Analogue pioneer dragged back into relevance by ongoing synthpop nostalgia

Date:

Fri 24th Feb

Venue

Haunt

Time

7pm

Price

£20 Music

The Old Market Movies

Classic films

Date:

Fri 24th Feb

Venue

Old Market

Time

7pm

Price

Free Cinema

Biodanza

World music and free-form dance session

Date:

Fri 24th Feb

Venue

Happy Cell

Time

7.20pm

Price

£10 Music

Marius Neset's Golden Xplosion Quartet

Brighton Jazz Club

Live jazz

Date:

Fri 24th Feb

Venue

Komedia

Time

7.30pm

Price

£15/13 Music

Free Swim, Twin Brother, Stick In A Pot

Experimental power pop with a bass playing panda

Date:

Fri 24th Feb

Venue

Green Door Store

Time

7.30pm

Price

£5 Music

The Subhumans, Headfuct

Classic punk band who gave us the line: “Are you prepared to die for your beliefs or just to dye your hair?”

Date:

Fri 24th Feb

Venue

Hydrant

Time

7.30pm

Price

£10 Music

Keep It Cash

Tribute act celebrates Johnny Cash’s 80th birthday

Date:

Fri 24th Feb

Venue

Komedia

Time

7.30pm

Price

£13 Music

Robin Ince - Happiness Through Science

Brighton Science Festival

Erudite and shambolic stand-up explores the human condition

Date:

Fri 24th Feb

Venue

Sallis Benney Theatre

Time

7.30pm

Price

£8/6 Comedy

Star Quality

Lisa Goddard stars in Noel Coward’s comedy drama

Date:

Fri 24th Feb

Venue

Theatre Royal

Time

7.45pm

Price

£12-32 Culture

Soul Casserole

A melting pot of hot funk beats and soul grooves

Date:

Fri 24th Feb

Venue

Rock & Roller

Time

8pm

Price

Free Pubs

Synthesize Me

Thomas H Green, Tom Mugridge, Chris Tomsett

DJ night with era-spanning electronic music and psychedelic light show – tonight celebrating their second birthday

Date:

Fri 24th Feb

Venue

Hotel Pelirocco

Time

8pm

Price

Free Clubs

DJ Rudeben

R&B, hip hop and reggae

Date:

Fri 24th Feb

Venue

Easy Bar

Time

8pm

Price

Free Pubs

Bitter Disko

DJ plays mutant funk, post punk and John Peel favourites

Date:

Fri 24th Feb

Venue

Mucky Duck

Time

8pm

Price

Free Pubs

Rabbit In The Headlights

Stand-up comedy hosted by Angela Barnes (upstairs)

Date:

Fri 24th Feb

Venue

Three & Ten

Time

8pm

Price

£6/5 Comedy

Tiki Beats

Totally tropical tunes

Date:

Fri 24th Feb

Venue

Lola Lo

Time

8pm

Price

£5/4/3 Clubs

Bootleg

Shirt Tail Stompers

Electro swing night with a live swing band

Date:

Fri 24th Feb

Venue

Blind Tiger

Time

8pm

Price

£3/free Clubs

House Of Hats

Live folk music

Date:

Fri 24th Feb

Venue

Brunswick

Time

8pm

Price

£4/3 Music

The Blues Corporation

Ten-piece blues band

Date:

Fri 24th Feb

Venue

Brunswick

Time

8pm

Price

£10 Music

A-LADD-IN

Adult pantomime about a young boy who ventures into a dark wet cave and rubs someone’s lamp to uncork a gaseous man who satisfies his wishes

Date:

Fri 24th Feb

Venue

Pavilion Theatre

Time

5pm/8pm

Price

£17 Comedy

Krater Comedy Club

Stand-up comedy

Date:

Fri 24th Feb

Venue

Komedia

Time

8pm

Price

£11.50-14.50 Comedy

The Permanent Way

Play about the privatisation of the railways and the resultant crashes

Date:

Fri 24th Feb

Venue

New Venture Theatre

Time

Time tbc

Price

£tbc Culture

Fever

Caracazul

Latin, salsa and reggae DJs – and a live Brazilian band

Date:

Fri 24th Feb

Venue

Fortune Of War

Time

8pm

Price

Free Pubs

DJ Night

From pub rock to disco fever

Date:

Fri 24th Feb

Venue

Hampton Arms

Time

8pm

Price

Free Pubs

Dad’s Old Vinyl

DJs play retro records

Date:

Fri 24th Feb

Venue

Grand Central

Time

tbc

Price

£tbc Pubs

WTF? Brighton

Wonky electro and synth pop nonsense

Date:

Fri 24th Feb

Venue

White Rabbit

Time

8pm

Price

Free Pubs

Open Mic

Date:

Fri 24th Feb

Venue

Victory

Time

8pm

Price

Free Music

Gadzooks

European folk with a twist of gypsy jazz

Date:

Fri 24th Feb

Venue

London Unity

Time

8.30pm

Price

Free Music

Catalyst Club

Guest speakers give a short talk about whatever their weird obsession is

Date:

Fri 24th Feb

Venue

Latest Music Bar

Time

8.30pm

Price

£5 Culture

Al Start, Qukulele

BWC Live

Folk pop and ukulele mash-ups raising money for Brighton Women’s Centre

Date:

Fri 24th Feb

Venue

Ranelagh

Time

8.30pm

Price

Free Music

Loki, Safehouse, Owls

Live music

Date:

Fri 24th Feb

Venue

Prince Albert

Time

8.30pm

Price

£4 Music

Shauna Parker & The Saloon Bar Band

Country swing band

Date:

Fri 24th Feb

Venue

Neptune

Time

8.30pm

Price

Free Music

Catch A Groove

Funk, soul and Motown

Date:

Fri 24th Feb

Venue

Gladstone

Time

8.30pm

Price

Free Pubs

Muy Loco

Pop and house DJs with a dancing contest

Date:

Fri 24th Feb

Venue

Belushi's Bar

Time

9pm

Price

Free Clubs

Skittish

Hint

The past and present of house and hip hop

Date:

Fri 24th Feb

Venue

Riki Tik

Time

9pm

Price

Free Clubs

ID Does Karaoke (Differently)

Karaoke night, this time with a Glam Rock theme

Date:

Fri 24th Feb

Venue

Iron Duke

Time

9pm

Price

Free Pubs

Eclectic Chair

Eclectifying alt classics

Date:

Fri 24th Feb

Venue

Caroline Of Brunswick

Time

9pm

Price

Free Pubs

DJ Oli

Party tunes

Date:

Fri 24th Feb

Venue

Northern Lights

Time

9pm

Price

Free Pubs

Hot Tamales

DJs Citizen Lane, HepCat Matt

50s and 60s rock&roll

Date:

Fri 24th Feb

Venue

Thomas Kemp

Time

9pm

Price

Free Pubs

ALTA

Proper underground house music with DJs Jeff Daniels, Danny Williams and Sumsuch on rotation

Date:

Fri 24th Feb

Venue

Freemasons

Time

9pm

Price

Free Pubs

The Jive Monkey Cabaret

Cabaret with Dolly Rocket – plus an uncensored and partially undressed Marilyn Monroe

Date:

Fri 24th Feb

Venue

Jive Monkey

Time

9pm

Price

Free Music

Freestyle Records

Funky DJ set from the label manager, Greg Boraman

Date:

Fri 24th Feb

Venue

Fishbowl

Time

9pm

Price

Free Pubs

I <3 Electro

DJs play alt electro

Date:

Fri 24th Feb

Venue

Marlborough

Time

9pm

Price

Free Pubs

Shake, Holla & Roll

Vintage blues, swing and rock&roll

Date:

Fri 24th Feb

Venue

Mesmerist

Time

9pm

Price

Free Pubs

DJ Flying White Dots

Date:

Fri 24th Feb

Venue

Thomas Kemp

Time

9pm

Price

Free Pubs

Attic Monkeys Vs Molly Malone’s Dex In The City

Funk, soul and hip hop DJ battle

Date:

Fri 24th Feb

Venue

Black Lion

Time

9pm

Price

Free Pubs

The Curst Sons

Old time blues and hillbilly band

Date:

Fri 24th Feb

Venue

Horse & Groom

Time

9pm

Price

Free Music

Buzzin

DJ Rockin' Ratman, DJ Tim Ott Jones

Rockabilly, rock&roll and 60s instrumentals

Date:

Fri 24th Feb

Venue

Dorset

Time

9pm

Price

Free Pubs

The Bop

Bands and DJs play rock&roll and blues

Date:

Fri 24th Feb

Venue

Xuma

Time

9pm

Price

Free Music

Funky Friday

DJ Nick Hirst, DJ Wayne

Date:

Fri 24th Feb

Venue

Doctor Brighton's

Time

9.30pm

Price

Free Pubs

Vanity

House and electro club

Date:

Fri 24th Feb

Venue

Hed Kandi

Time

10pm

Price

£4 Clubs
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