Charities are asking people in the South East 'what’s in your heart?' in an alternative Valentine's message for lovebirds and singletons alike.
by: Mike Cobely
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 Crooked Mountain Crooked Sea Aim For Festival Slot
The Great Escape, Europe's most anticipated new music festival and industry conference event, has announced its first wave of acts for its landmark fifth annual Brighton outing.
Taking over more than thirty venues throughout the city and hosting over 350 bands playing across three days, the event will once again bring to light the most vibrant new bands g...
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 The Mercury Prize Nominated Kathryn Williams
Kathryn Williams, the immensely talented Geordie singer-songwriter famed for her beautiful and intimate folk-tinged songs, heads to Komedia in support of her eighth album release, The Quickening, the follow-up to the critically-acclaimed Two, which saw Williams collaborate with Neill MacColl.
Plenty has changed in the ten years since Kathryn Williams released her first record, 1999's Dog Leap Stairs, famously recorded for a large two figure sum (eighty quid).
As the Liverpool-br...
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 Polish & Imagination @ Theatre Royal Brighton
Just when you think that the Rambert Dance Company seem to be heading into the safety zone, into the predictable, aiming to 'entertain' - just at the moment you begin to think all this is true - they come out and truly knock your socks off.
In a series of dance routines to mark part of the Darwin centenary celebrations, in a tour that kicked off at the Theatr...
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 Breaking The Code: Fascinating But Tragic Tale
Hugh Whitemore's fascinating but tragic story - Breaking The Code at the New Venture Theatre - of Alan Turing: mathematician, ‘father’ of computer science and a gay man in an intolerant era.
A relevant and timely production following Gordon Brown's recent statement in recognition of the appalling and inhumane way that Turing was treated for being gay.
Compassionate and o...
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 Jemima Dury @ Brighton's Cineworld
To celebrate the opening of Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll, at Cineworld Brighton, Jemima Dury, daughter of legendary punk rocker Ian Dury, opened the first evening screening of the biopic.
Like a gold coin dropping into the fountain of eternal culture, Ian Dury's song, Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll, has paved it...
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 The Insect Circus @ Brighton Festival Fringe
Brighton Festival Fringe is turning over a new leaf for 2010: they are powering all their outdoor entertainment purely on sunlight.
The Fringe is teaming up with local company Firefly Solar to run all the stages at Fringe City on renewable energy.
Fringe City is the ultimate Brighton street party. This unique sho...
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 Tom McRae: Brooklyn To London Via Brighton
British singer-songwriter Tom McRae has been quietly moving up the ranks of the most respected songwriters after releasing four critically acclaimed studio albums over the last nine years.
Now, after a year away from touring, during which Tom moved back to London from Brooklyn, he is about to release his fifth studio album.
The Alphabet of Hurricanes is an album in two ...
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 Hugh Cornwell Gets The Wadey Treatment
With both Hugh Cornwell and The Stranglers set to visit Brighton this Spring, it seems a fitting time for the Brighton Magazine to feature an author who recently turned up on our radar when he issued not only the Hooverdam Companion, an excellent tome devoted to Mr Cornwell’s recent and most talked about album, but also an issue of Hound Dawg Magazine devoted in its entirety to the Stranglers.
Chris Wade is the author's name, and though only in his mid-twenties he's already authored a couple of very fine books, including more >>
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 JTQ Set To Rock Their Organ @ Komedia
Komedia has done the sums, counted the number of seats and totted up the ticket sales – the exciting result is that the much loved south-coast venue is just a few tickets away from selling its 1,000,000th ticket, sixteen years after it opened in Brighton.
Komedia co-founder and Director Colin Granger estimates the millionth ticket to be sold in the next seven days –
“We're literally on the cusp of selling our millionth ticket, and with ou...
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 Brighton Resident Jack Hazelgrove's Winning Slogan
With Labour's plans to legislate on voting reform facing renewed barriers at cabinet, campaigners are stepping up their attack on the high profile blockers – with a little help from one Brighton local.
The Vote for a Change campaign, which has led calls for a reform referendum, has unveiled the billboar...
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