Arts Madame Butterfly: Opera Holland Park: Review To be frank, the set looked tatty. Bare plywood covered with strips of black material, and an equally cobbled-together-looking raised stage platform with rough, canvas edging didn’t bode well. But Neil Irish’s design for Opera Holland Park’s latest open air outing, Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, had a By Kat Pope • 3 min read
Music Lloyd Webber and the ‘Profumo Affair’ Love him or loathe him, a new musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber is big news. And today, therefore, is a big news day Stephen Ward (yes, that’s it’s rather mundane name) will premiere at the Aldwych Theatre on December 3 this year, and tickets go on sale as of today. With music by Lloyd Webber and […] By Kat Pope • 1 min read
Music Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus win a Golden Handbag Brighton’s Gay Men’s Chorus took the award for ‘Favourite LGBT Community Social/Leisure Organisation’ at the 2013 Golden Handbag Awards. The Golden Handbag Show took place Sunday 23 June at the Brighton Metropole Hilton, with the winners voted for by readers of Gscene magazine. The annual awards sho By Besi • 2 min read
Music ‘Live at All Saints Hove’ Now its 23rd year, All Saints Church in Hove plays host to a series of free lunchtime concerts every Wednesday from June to September at 1-2pm. The series is coordinated by Director of Music, Andrew Wilson. Admission is free, although there is a collection which goes towards the musicians’ fees. Rev By Besi • 1 min read
Music Queens Of Pop at Revenge tonight! Brothers, Ged and James Weir from Manchester are QOP. To their near million new fans they are much better known as the outrageously funny Queens of Pop. They formed by accident in October 2012 after Ged’s previous band Saltylips split and he asked James to help him out on some music. The brothers’ By Besi • 2 min read
Arts Entertainers to honour Guy Lewis at Memorial Show The Guy Lewis Music Memorial Show is on Monday, June 24 in the Oxford Suite at the Metropole Hilton Hotel on Kings Road, Brighton. Guy died suddenly earlier this year. The father of twin boys, he was awaiting the birth of his daughter, due a week later when he was taken unexpectedly ill with chest p By Besi • 2 min read
Arts Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus: Taken from behind (the scenes) Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus return to the familiar surrounds of St Georges Church in Kemptown for their next show, Taken from behind (the scenes) which is part of the new Brighton Pride Arts and Film Festival. Go back stage with the Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus as they put on another killer show! Witness By Besi • 1 min read
Music Brighton gay radio! Brighton Gay Radio is on line 24 hours a day playing poptastic music round the clock. DJ Mark ‘Marcia’ Jenkins, well known to Bulldog regulars as DJ Marcia is in charge of all programming which features camp classics from the last forty years of gayness. Mark has been resident DJ at the legendary Bu By Besi • 2 min read
Music ‘Tainted Love’ with Actually Gay Men’s Chorus Cabaret star Miss Jason will perform with Actually Gay Men’s Chorus when they take to the stage for their new show Tainted Love as part of this year’s Pride celebrations. The Chorus will perform iconic songs from the sixties to present day, written and performed by artists such as Adele, U2, the Be By Besi • 1 min read
Arts Kat calls Hello m’dears! Kat here, beginning a new weekly column letting you in on what I’ve been to see each week. It’s a ragbag of odds and sods so you might be surprised. You might even be vaguely entertained. If not, you lucky people, you always have the option of shutting down your browser. I, on […] By Kat Pope • 18 min read
Music Music: Martha Wainwright at Komedia The hugely expressive Martha Wainwright, little sister of Rufus and daughter of folk legends Kate McGarrigle and Loudon Wainwright III, will be performing an intimate gig at the Komedia, Brighton on Thursday, August 22 at 8pm. By Graham Robson • 1 min read
