Monday 21st May 2012
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. This is a talk with the crew and artistic directors
Date:
Mon 21st May
Venue
Brighton Marina
Time
11am
Price
£3
Culture
Brighton Fringe Festival
Comedy show about a man and a balloon featuring a balloon and a man
Date:
Mon 21st May
Venue
Temple Bar
Time
5.45pm
Price
£5/3
Comedy
Brighton Fringe Festival
Comedy play about Shakespeare’s characters becoming self aware
Date:
Mon 21st May
Venue
Warren
Time
6pm
Price
£12/10
Comedy
Brighton Festival
Musical and cinematic show featuring a 30-strong choir and inspired by the history of the Paralympic Games
Date:
Mon 21st May
Venue
Corn Exchange
Time
6pm
Price
£5
Music
Pop punk band (upstairs)
Date:
Mon 21st May
Venue
Hydrant
Time
7pm
Price
£10
Music
Brighton Fringe Festival
Quirky comedy science show from the creator of Radio 4′s ‘It Is Rocket Science’
Date:
Mon 21st May
Venue
Caroline Of Brunswick
Time
7pm
Price
£5/4
Music
Brighton Fringe Festival
Tim Clare’s comedy show about inspirational women and dubious leaders – from Willy Wonka to Jim Jones
Date:
Mon 21st May
Venue
Komedia
Time
7pm
Price
£8/6
Comedy
Poetry group
Date:
Mon 21st May
Venue
Brunswick
Time
7.30pm
Price
£5
Culture
New production of Bizet’s tragic opera
Date:
Mon 21st May
Venue
Old Market
Time
3pm/7.30pm
Price
£15
Music
Date:
Mon 21st May
Venue
Preston Park
Time
5pm/7.45pm
Price
£tbc
Culture
Old time tunes and lonesome laments
Date:
Mon 21st May
Venue
Victory
Time
8pm
Price
Free
Music
Brighton Fringe Festival
Ten-strong comedy improv team
Date:
Mon 21st May
Venue
Brunswick
Time
8pm
Price
£5/4
Comedy
Metal to wrestle by
Date:
Mon 21st May
Venue
Green Door Store
Time
8pm
Price
Free
Music
Brighton Fringe Festival
A trivial comedy for serious people set during the 1952 coronation
Date:
Mon 21st May
Venue
Brighton Marina
Time
8pm
Price
£7.50/5
Culture
Live music
Date:
Mon 21st May
Venue
Hydrant
Time
8pm
Price
Free
Music
Play for a pint
Date:
Mon 21st May
Venue
Chequers
Time
8pm
Price
Free
Music
Live music
Date:
Mon 21st May
Venue
Prince Albert
Time
8pm
Price
£5
Music
Brighton Fringe Festival
Broadway cult hit musical
Date:
Mon 21st May
Venue
Komedia
Time
6pm/8pm
Price
£10/8
Comedy
Dark acoustic lullabies from the Brooklyn singer songwriter
Date:
Mon 21st May
Venue
Komedia
Time
8pm
Price
£9.50
Music
Brighton Festival
Live avant-garde audiovisual composition inspired by spending a year living with a pig
Date:
Mon 21st May
Venue
Theatre Royal
Time
8pm
Price
£10-17.50
Music
Date:
Mon 21st May
Venue
Ancient Mariner
Time
8pm
Price
£1
Pubs
Date:
Mon 21st May
Venue
Signalman
Time
8pm
Price
£1
Pubs
Brighton Festival
Fairport Convention’s singer celebrated by a big gang of musicians including members of Bellowhead and Joan As Police Woman
Date:
Mon 21st May
Venue
Dome
Time
8pm
Price
£15-22.50
Music
Brighton Festival
Debut play from performance poet, Kate Tempest
Date:
Mon 21st May
Venue
Pavilion Theatre
Time
8pm
Price
£12.50
Culture
Brighton Fringe Festival
Gin company stuffs train carriage full of invented curiosities
Date:
Mon 21st May
Venue
Jubilee Square
Time
8pm
Price
Free
Exhibitions
Brighton Fringe Festival
Cabaret parody about a toilet attendant turned XXL stripper
Date:
Mon 21st May
Venue
Caroline Of Brunswick
Time
8.15pm
Price
£5
Comedy
Jazz jam with a house band
Date:
Mon 21st May
Venue
Bee's Mouth
Time
8.30pm
Price
Free
Music
French rock band on a tour of Brighton
Date:
Mon 21st May
Venue
Blind Tiger
Time
8.30pm
Price
£tbc
Music
Date:
Mon 21st May
Venue
Hampton
Time
8.30pm
Price
£1
Pubs
60s and 70s night with DJs and film projections
Date:
Mon 21st May
Venue
Mesmerist
Time
8.30pm
Price
Free
Pubs
Date:
Mon 21st May
Venue
Gladstone
Time
9pm
Price
Free
Pubs
Student indie night
Date:
Mon 21st May
Venue
Lola Lo
Time
9pm
Price
£3
Clubs
Brighton Fringe Festival
Absurdst and bawdy sketch show
Date:
Mon 21st May
Venue
Komedia
Time
9.15pm
Price
£12/10
Comedy
Brighton Fringe Festival
A comedian tries to laugh at the absurdity of his dysfunctional existence
Date:
Mon 21st May
Venue
Three & Ten
Time
9.30pm
Price
£8/6.50
Comedy
Brighton Fringe Festival
Comedy drama set in 1970s Texas
Date:
Mon 21st May
Venue
Latest Music Bar
Time
9.30pm
Price
£8/5
Culture
Brighton Fringe Festival
Live music, cabaret and comedy curated by the Peanut Albinos
Date:
Mon 21st May
Venue
Warren
Time
10pm
Price
£3.50/2.50
Music
Retro night dedicated to the decade that was dedicated to retro nights
Date:
Mon 21st May
Venue
Belushi's Bar
Time
10pm
Price
Free
Pubs
Filthy tunes for students and layabouts alike
Date:
Mon 21st May
Venue
Coalition
Time
10.30pm
Price
£5/3/free
Clubs
Brand new and ungoogleable club night
Date:
Mon 21st May
Venue
Life
Time
10.30pm
Price
£3/2
Clubs
New metal night that’s likely to feature more windmills than a farm in the Dutch lowlands
Date:
Mon 21st May
Venue
Psychosocial
Time
11pm
Price
Free
Clubs
Dancehall, roots, revival
Date:
Mon 21st May
Venue
Volks
Time
11pm
Price
£5/4.50
Clubs
Tuesday 22nd May 2012
Brighton Festival
The avant-garde composer talks about the work that was inspired by spending a year living with a pig
Date:
Tue 22nd May
Venue
Dome Founders Room
Time
11am
Price
£3
Music
Date:
Tue 22nd May
Venue
Duke Of York's Cinema
Time
11am
Price
£tbc
Cinema
Brighton Fringe Festival
Comedy showcase with some of the best fringe acts
Date:
Tue 22nd May
Venue
Caroline Of Brunswick
Time
5.45pm
Price
Free
Comedy
Brighton Fringe Festival
Comedy show about a man and a balloon featuring a balloon and a man
Date:
Tue 22nd May
Venue
Temple Bar
Time
5.45pm
Price
£5/3
Comedy
Brighton Fringe Festival
Comedy play about Shakespeare’s characters becoming self aware
Date:
Tue 22nd May
Venue
Warren
Time
6pm
Price
£12/10
Comedy
Brighton Fringe Festival
A double bill of short student plays inspired by Cream, Blondie and Squeeze
Date:
Tue 22nd May
Venue
Three & Ten
Time
5.30pm/7pm
Price
£7/5
Culture
Brighton Fringe Festival
Quirky comedy science show from the creator of Radio 4′s ‘It Is Rocket Science’
Date:
Tue 22nd May
Venue
Caroline Of Brunswick
Time
7pm
Price
£5/4
Music
Brighton Fringe Festival
Storytelling show featuring a tangle of tales and ancient poetry
Date:
Tue 22nd May
Venue
Latest Music Bar
Time
7pm
Price
£6/5
Music
Brighton Fringe Festival
Tim Clare’s comedy show about inspirational women and dubious leaders – from Willy Wonka to Jim Jones
Date:
Tue 22nd May
Venue
Komedia
Time
7pm
Price
£8/6
Comedy
Multi-instrumental Norweigan-cum-Balkan folk rock band
Date:
Tue 22nd May
Venue
Concorde2
Time
7pm
Price
£7.50
Music
Brighton Festival
What can we do to save a world run and ruined by ‘Banksters’?
Date:
Tue 22nd May
Venue
Pavilion Theatre
Time
7pm
Price
£8.50
Culture
Brighton Festival
Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo Eshun talk about “destabilising the dominant narrative of western culture by making work that can portray new possible visions for the future:
Date:
Tue 22nd May
Venue
Fabrica
Time
7.15pm
Price
£tbc
Culture
Live music
Date:
Tue 22nd May
Venue
Green Door Store
Time
7.30pm
Price
£tbc
Music
A showcase of learning disabled musicians
Date:
Tue 22nd May
Venue
Old Market
Time
7.30pm
Price
£5/3
Music
Brighton Festival
Nine jugglers juggling
Date:
Tue 22nd May
Venue
Theatre Royal
Time
7.30pm
Price
£5-17.50
Culture
It could be a magical night
Date:
Tue 22nd May
Venue
Mesmerist
Time
7.30pm
Price
Free
Pubs
Brighton Festival
Anarchic and musical theatre inspired by the border ballads of Scotland (the location is revealed when you book a ticket)
Date:
Tue 22nd May
Venue
Mystery Location
Time
7.30pm
Price
£18.50
Culture
Date:
Tue 22nd May
Venue
Preston Park
Time
5pm/7.45pm
Price
£tbc
Culture
Brighton Fringe Festival
A new play about the love lives of CND activists inspired by both Anton Chekhov and Florence & The Machine
Date:
Tue 22nd May
Venue
Jive Monkey
Time
8pm
Price
£8/6
Culture
Brighton Fringe Festival
Goethe’s classic fable set to gypsy folk and blues ballads
Date:
Tue 22nd May
Venue
Warren
Time
8pm
Price
£12/10
Music
Brighton Fringe Festival
Open session with a house band
Date:
Tue 22nd May
Venue
Brunswick
Time
8pm
Price
Free
Music
Date:
Tue 22nd May
Venue
Jive Monkey
Time
tbc
Price
£tbc
Pubs
Date:
Tue 22nd May
Venue
Red Lion
Time
8pm
Price
£1
Pubs
Brighton Fringe Festival
A trivial comedy for serious people set during the 1952 coronation
Date:
Tue 22nd May
Venue
Brighton Marina
Time
8pm
Price
£7.50/5
Culture
Matt Bonner
Live music
Date:
Tue 22nd May
Venue
Cube
Time
8pm
Price
Free
Music
Live music
Date:
Tue 22nd May
Venue
Komedia
Time
8pm
Price
£16
Music
French rock band on a tour of Brighton
Date:
Tue 22nd May
Venue
Hope
Time
8pm
Price
£tbc
Music
Underground films, comfy seats and free popcorn
Date:
Tue 22nd May
Venue
Globe
Time
8pm
Price
Free
Cinema
Date:
Tue 22nd May
Venue
World's End
Time
8pm
Price
£tbc
Pubs
Brighton Festival
Double bill of African musicians – one a bluesy jazz singer, the other a rootsy rapper
Date:
Tue 22nd May
Venue
Dome
Time
8pm
Price
£10-15
Music
Brighton Fringe Festival
Gin company stuffs train carriage full of invented curiosities
Date:
Tue 22nd May
Venue
Jubilee Square
Time
8pm
Price
Free
Exhibitions
Brighton Fringe Festival
Cabaret parody about a toilet attendant turned XXL stripper
Date:
Tue 22nd May
Venue
Caroline Of Brunswick
Time
8.15pm
Price
£5
Comedy
Informal gathering of ukulelists
Date:
Tue 22nd May
Venue
Walmer Castle
Time
8.30pm
Price
Free
Music
Brighton Fringe Festival
Folky music hall cabaret from a skiffle punk band
Date:
Tue 22nd May
Venue
Three & Ten
Time
8.30pm
Price
£8/6.50
Music
Date:
Tue 22nd May
Venue
Gladstone
Time
8.30pm
Price
£1
Pubs
Tight-as-hell prog punk with a sense of fun and a pop heart
Date:
Tue 22nd May
Venue
Prince Albert
Time
8.30pm
Price
£4/3
Music
Big band and jitter jive tunes
Date:
Tue 22nd May
Venue
Above Audio
Time
9pm
Price
Free
Pubs
Electro house DJ
Date:
Tue 22nd May
Venue
Druid's Arms
Time
9pm
Price
Free
Pubs
Retro night dedicated to the only decade to spawn a revival which has lasted longer than the decade itself
Date:
Tue 22nd May
Venue
Belushi's Bar
Time
9pm
Price
Free
Pubs
Open decks spin off (book a slot online)
Date:
Tue 22nd May
Venue
Black Lion
Time
9pm
Price
Free
Pubs
Date:
Tue 22nd May
Venue
Duke Of Norfolk
Time
9pm
Price
Free
Music
Brighton Fringe Festival
Absurdst and bawdy sketch show
Date:
Tue 22nd May
Venue
Komedia
Time
9.15pm
Price
£12/10
Comedy
Brighton Fringe Festival
Canadian comic discusses the big man in the sky
Date:
Tue 22nd May
Venue
Caroline Of Brunswick
Time
9.30pm
Price
Free
Comedy
Brighton Fringe Festival
Comedy drama set in 1970s Texas
Date:
Tue 22nd May
Venue
Latest Music Bar
Time
9.30pm
Price
£8/5
Culture
Brighton Fringe Festival
A comedian tries to laugh at the absurdity of his dysfunctional existence
Date:
Tue 22nd May
Venue
Three & Ten
Time
10pm
Price
£8/6.50
Comedy
Student night
Date:
Tue 22nd May
Venue
Lola Lo
Time
10pm
Price
£6/4/2
Clubs
DJ Aaron George, Gabriel Angel, Yersin Rivas
Dance lessons followed by a tropically vibed salsa club
Date:
Tue 22nd May
Venue
Honey
Time
8pm/10pm
Price
£3/1/free
Clubs
Brighton Fringe Festival
Stand-up and sketch comedy acts hosted by Dec Munro
Date:
Tue 22nd May
Venue
Caroline Of Brunswick
Time
10.45pm
Price
Free
Comedy
Club night for rock chicks, skater bois and indie kids
Date:
Tue 22nd May
Venue
Audio
Time
11pm
Price
£3/2/1
Clubs
It’ll teach the universities to timetable lectures for Wednesday mornings
Date:
Tue 22nd May
Venue
Digital
Time
11pm
Price
£4/3
Clubs
If your bass was this filthy you’d have to take it back to the fishmongers
Date:
Tue 22nd May
Venue
Coalition
Time
11pm
Price
£4/3
Clubs
Wednesday 23rd May 2012
Date:
Wed 23rd May
Venue
Duke Of York's Cinema
Time
11am
Price
£tbc
Cinema
Brighton Festival
Speakers from The Writers Retreat demystify the world of writing and publishing
Date:
Wed 23rd May
Venue
Pavilion Theatre
Time
4pm
Price
£8.50
Culture
Brighton Fringe Festival
Darkly comic one-man play about a bedsit pagan accused of murder
Date:
Wed 23rd May
Venue
Temple Bar
Time
4.30pm
Price
Free
Comedy
Brighton Fringe Festival
Comedy showcase with some of the best fringe acts
Date:
Wed 23rd May
Venue
Caroline Of Brunswick
Time
5.45pm
Price
Free
Comedy
Brighton Fringe Festival
Comedy show about a man and a balloon featuring a balloon and a man
Date:
Wed 23rd May
Venue
Temple Bar
Time
5.45pm
Price
£5/3
Comedy
Brighton Fringe Festival
Comedy play about Shakespeare’s characters becoming self aware
Date:
Wed 23rd May
Venue
Warren
Time
6pm
Price
£12/10
Comedy
Brighton Fringe Festival
A double bill of short student plays inspired by Cream, Blondie and Squeeze
Date:
Wed 23rd May
Venue
Three & Ten
Time
5.30pm/7pm
Price
£7/5
Culture
Brighton Fringe Festival
Tim Clare’s comedy show about inspirational women and dubious leaders – from Willy Wonka to Jim Jones
Date:
Wed 23rd May
Venue
Komedia
Time
7pm
Price
£8/6
Comedy