Arts DJ Profile: Lee Harris Queenie catches up with a lovely fella who’ll definitely having you dancing and prancing throughout 2018. Whether it’s in London, Dublin, Southampton, Portsmouth or Sydney blooming Australia, Lee Harris is the man to put a definite spring in your step. Or should that be Steps? By Queen Josephine • 2 min read
Arts Jess Glynne and Ella Eyre join Pride Festival Weekend lineup Drum and bass powerhouse Ella Eyre and Jess Glynne have been added to the bill for the Pride Festival Weekend on August 4-5. By Besi • 1 min read
Arts PREVIEW: Actually Gay Men’s Chorus: Ovation – Every Song An Encore! Actually Gay Men’s Chorus return this Spring with a concert jam-packed with emotion, spine-tingling anthems and breathtaking performances to keep you on the edge of your seats and begging for more! By Contributor • 1 min read
Arts INTERVIEW: Peter Cox – An 80s Icon! The king of wishful thinking, Peter Cox is on the phone with Ray A-J, and wants a word (or two)….. about his upcoming tour. By Ray A-J • 10 min read
Arts Martlets to hold ‘living with loss’ support day in May Martlets Hospice will hold a unique bereavement support day on Wednesday, May 16 at Friends Meeting House, Brighton. The Good Grief event is for anyone who has ever experienced loss or for those who would simply like to understand more about grief. Open to everyone, the day is being held as part of By Besi • 3 min read
Arts INTERVIEW: BAFTA Award-winning composer Jessica Curry chats to Nick Boston BAFTA Award-winning composer Jessica Curry has championed the genre of video game music in her highly successful ClassicFM show, High Score, as well as composing works for the London Gay Men’s Chorus and others, and collaborating with Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy. Her recent successful tour of Dear By Contributor • 4 min read
Arts COMPETITION: Final chance to win a pair of tickets to the 70s/80s Disco Ball on Saturday, March 3 Gscene have five pairs of tickets to give away for the closing party at the B RIGHT ON LGBT Community Festival 2018. Dance the night away on the disco bunny dance floor at the 70s/80s Disco Ball fundraiser for the Rainbow Fund in the Phil Starr Pavilion on Saturday, March 3, from 7.30pm. By Graham Robson • 1 min read
Arts Tonight at B RIGHT ON LGBT Community Festival: An Evening with Gabriella Parrish As part of LGBT HISTORY MONTH and The B RIGHT ON LGBT Community Festival, the Brighton & Hove LGBT Community Safety Forum presents An Evening with Gabriella Parrish. Gabriella will be singing musical theatre, power ballads and party anthems with her live band Human Jukebox, all raising money for Acc By Contributor • 1 min read
Arts Music Review: Talma are casting you Out to sea with nothing but a paddle Welcome to the stormy voyage through rock band Talma’s debut E.P. Out to sea. You’re in the middle of the sea. Empty horizons surrounding you. Brisk biting winds encapsulate the air-from every direction they’re pulling at your hair, snatching at your skin as the freezing ocean slowly laps up the sid By Ray A-J • 5 min read
Arts REVIEW: The Seven Doors of Danny @Phil Starr Pavilion This morality tale in words and music performed as part of B RIGHT ON LGBT Community Festival first saw the light of day as a concert item and it has grown and developed since its premiere in 2016. Further development and bulking out could make it a first class piece of musical theatre. By Brian Butler • 2 min read
Arts PREVIEW: Lullaby – DJ Sigala with Paloma Faith British DJ Sigala releases new single Lullaby with Paloma Faith. The popular DJ, producer and songwriter releases his latest single Lullaby today. Featuring Brit award winner Paloma Faith, the electronic dance track is an amalgamation of Sigala’s iconic sound and the singer’s unique voice. By Ray A-J • 1 min read
Arts Tonight at B RIGHT ON LGBT Community Festival: The Seven Doors of Danny A new musical based on Shakespeare’s The Seven Ages of Man with music by Ricky Horscraft, words by John McCullough with additional material for musical theatre adaptation by Tom Slater-Hyndman. Performed by members of Actually Gay Men’s Chorus, University of Sussex Symphony Orchestra, guest performe By Besi • 1 min read
Arts OPERA REVIEW: Iolanthe @ENO Iolanthe English National Opera This all new production of Iolanthe has a different director Cal McCrystal from the ENO G&S smash hit Pirates of Penzance, but looks like being as huge a success as that was. McCrystal – who is newish to opera – plays it straight, proper Gilbert and Sullivan and this By Eric Page • 5 min read
Arts B RIGHT ON LGBT Community Festival: Paul Diello – EPICENE Award winning singer songwriter Paul Diello brings his gender-blending extravaganza ‘Epicene’ to the B Right On LGBT Community Festival after a sold out success at Brighton Fringe. Paul Diello invites you to his gender-blending celebration of iconic women in music. After a run of three sold out, fiv By Besi • 2 min read
Arts Mayor of Brighton & Hove opens B RIGHT ON LGBT Community Festival The Mayor of Brighton & Hove, Councillor Mo Marsh officially opened the 2018 B RIGHT ON LGBT Community Festival last night (February 16) celebrating Brighton’s contribution to LGBT History Month. By Besi • 2 min read
Arts Britney to receive 2018 GLAAD Vanguard Award International Mega Star Britney Spears, to be honoured as one of the most prominent LGBT+ icons of all time, at the 2018 GLAAD Vanguard Awards. The awards ceremony will take place on Thursday, April 12 at the Beverley Hilton in Los Angeles. By Besi • 2 min read
Arts DJ PROFILE: Claire Fuller We’ve survived January and are still coping with all the rubbish this crazy world seems determined to chuck at us. So it must be time for a bit of healing, particularly when Cupid’s set to twang that arrow. By Queen Josephine • 2 min read
Arts Sing for fun with RC+ RC+ (Rainbow Chorus Plus) is a community initiative from the Rainbow Chorus, Brighton’s long-standing LGBT choir. The ‘plus’ is there to highlight the fact that the group is an extension of the main choir and is open to the entire LGBT+ communities, embracing cis, trans and non-binary members with a By Besi • 3 min read
Arts PREVIEW: 45 Minutes of organ music 45 Minutes of Music @The Meeting House, University of Sussex, Brighton. The increasingly successful series of 45 Minutes of Music @ the Meeting House continues on February 28. There are four monthly concerts on the last Wednesday (except March) of each month till May. All start at 12 noon (March’s By Besi • 2 min read
Arts Queens on TV: girlband Denim set to see small screen spotlight Drag Queen pop group in production to feature on their own TV show. The comedic crew of queens are making their small screen debut, in their TV show of the same name. Produced by independent company Red Planet Pictures, of British favourites Death in paradise and Hooten and the Lady, the mockumentar By Ray A-J • 2 min read
Arts Like to sing but don’t know where? Continuing a long tradition in Brighton, Music for Life in association with Bar Broadway host weekly piano bars every Tuesday from 9-11pm. Each week, performers sing a mix of songs from the American songbook, songs from the shows, novelty songs or whatever else they choose. By Besi • 1 min read
Arts OPERA REVIEW: Satyagraha @ENO Visually it’s astonishing, blending and weaving itself with an endless sense of movement, representing the public support for Gandhi in the printed press. I was transfixed as the second part rose to its crescendo and with the projections, movement of actors, changing lighting effects and full of for By Eric Page • 5 min read
Arts MUSIC REVIEW: LGBTQIA (A New Generation) by Matt Fishel We’re Queer, we’re here, and rocking out this year. Welcome to the Queer rock track celebrating the Generation of freedom. Rock is heavy, harsh, hard hitting and inherently political; It’s a tough act to follow. By Ray A-J • 3 min read
Arts Celebrate love and diversity at Refugee Valentine LOVE is in the air! A line up of local musicians, Yamaya (Afrobeat Funk Fusion) and Alaa (Oud and vocals from Syria) will bring the music of their international origins to create a night that defies categorization as either global or local. By Besi • 1 min read
