Sunday 06 June 2010
Brighton Festival Event Continues Into July Thanks To Unprecedented Ticket Demand
Brian Eno, Brighton Festival's second Guest Artistic Director, has really enjoyed being in Brighton for the month and his contribution to this year's programme has been extraordinary
With his own events ranging from the acclaimed This is Pure Scenius! – his first live UK collaboration in over 30 years – to 77 Million Paintings with a record number of 29,000 visitors to Fabrica, to Apollo which received two sell-out standing ovations.
In his final Illustrated Talk he encouraged us to see the arts as an act of surrender like sex, drugs and religion, and Brighton Festival audiences have clearly been inspired by this as Brighton Festival sold more tickets in 2010 than ever before.
Alongside these, Eno also programmed some of his favourite artists and influenced the complete programme of events through his themes and ideas ranging from the environment to technology.
Brian Eno said: "I have thoroughly enjoyed it. It has been very nice being here and everybody I have worked with is wonderful. For me it has been an opportunity to put on a lot of shows I really wanted to see.
"I've been in Brighton for the whole month, it is a lovely city and the locals are lucky. Brighton Festival's growing reputation will mean more visitors, at the moment people go to Edinburgh without knowing what is going on, just because they know it is there.
"Brighton will have that soon enough, especially when people realise it is only 53 minutes from London."
Amongst the premieres, two of Brighton Dome and Festival's resident companies have particularly stood out from the crowd with sweeping 5-star reviews for both Hofesh Shechter"s Political Mother and dreamthinkspeak"s Before I Sleep, and for the first time ever a Brighton Festival event is extending beyond the Festival as due to popular demand.
Before I Sleep sold out 5,000 tickets by the second week of May and will now continue until 4th July with an additional 8,000+ tickets available of which half have already gone. Including this extended season, this event has sold more Festival tickets than any other.
Another first this year is Brighton Festival Radio on 87.7 FM broadcasting for four weeks from 26 April to 23 May, which has achieved over 1000 downloads from unique users who listened online alone to exciting and exclusive behind the scenes coverage and unique content.
In particular this has given Festival fans an opportunity to experience events that they couldn't make or that were sold out through live broadcasts from shows.
Andrew Comben, Chief Executive of Brighton Dome and Festival said:
"Brighton Festival is over for another year and we"ve had terrific events and some inspirational performances.
"This year the Festival sold more tickets than ever before and has gained a higher national and international profile.
"Brian Eno's artistic vision has resulted in works that have challenged, delighted and entertained across the last three weeks and really helped cement Brighton Festival as England's leading mixed arts festival."
For more information visit www.brightonfestival.org
by: Mike Cobley
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