Arts Win pair of tickets for music and arts festival in Preston Park this weekend Gscene have a pair of free tickets, value £150, to give away for entry to the new family music and arts festival, Together the People, at Preston Park this weekend Saturday, September 5. By Gary Hart • 1 min read
Arts New music and arts festival for Preston Park in September Together The People (TTP) is a 5,000 capacity, non-camping music and arts festival created and founded by local music promotions company One Inch Badge. The Festival will take place on the weekend of September 5-6 and will celebrate music, food, community, film and arts in the city of Brighton & Hov By Gary Hart • 3 min read
Arts PREVIEW: Stereophonics to appear in Brighton in December The Stereophonics will perform at The Brighton Centre on Tuesday, December 15, 2015 as part of their 10 date UK Arena Tour. After their critically acclaimed recent performance at T in the Park and a headline slot at V Festival, the Stereophonics have announce ten UK dates this December including a s By Contributor • 1 min read
Arts PREVIEW: ‘Thank You For The Music’ comes to Eastbourne The world’s longest-running ABBA concert show Thank You For The Music, celebrates its 22nd anniversary when it visits Eastbourne on August 26. The production’s Lycra-tight harmonies and superb musicians have been delighting live music fans for longer than Bjorn, Benny, Agnetha and Frida did during t By Contributor • 2 min read
Arts PREVIEW: Club Abstract at the Towner Legendary club night returns to the Towner Art Gallery in Eastbourne, all themed with the dynamism of Abstraction. The night is inspired by the current exhibition of the radical abstract artist William Gear. By Contributor • 2 min read
Arts Totnes Town Council to mark Pride week by raising rainbow flag In a gesture of support and solidarity for the local LGBT community, Totnes Town Council will raise the rainbow flag over Totnes Civic Hall during Totnes Pride week. The flag raising ceremony will take place on Monday, August 31 2015 at 6.30pm and everyone is invited to attend. By Paul Gustafson • 3 min read
Arts Good Vibrations choir brings joy to hospice community The Martlets Good Vibrations choir has been performing at open gardens around Brighton & Hove to raise money for the Martlets Hospice. The forty strong choir is made up of hospice patients, family members, staff and volunteers singing under the musical direction of local singer and voice coach Anees By Gary Hart • 2 min read
Arts ‘Bed… and Breakfast’ with Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus is tonight Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus continue their 10th Anniversary Celebrations with their contribution to this years Pride Arts Festival this year, Bed… and Breakfast. Is it a holiday romance, or just a dirty weekend? High season or low rent? Check in with Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus for a thoroughly musical By Gary Hart • 2 min read
Arts PREVIEW: Mikado and HMS Pinafore in Portsmouth The National Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company sails into Portsmouth with two sparkling new productions of the much-loved HMS Pinafore and The Mikado at the beginning of a nine week tour around the UK in September. By Contributor • 2 min read
Arts The Propolis – Synth Pop Lives! The era of synth pop duos dominating the charts may have passed, but the enduring influence of the 80s lives on through brothers Tom and Matthew Sanderson whose new act The Propolis first blossomed when they began connecting with some of Brighton’s more eclectic LGBTQI friendly electronic music comm By Contributor • 4 min read
LGBTQ+ News Dannii Minoque completes Manchester Pride line-up Dannii Minoque will join Alesha Dixon and La Voix, on the main stage at the Big Weekend in Manchester, starting Friday, August 28. With just six weeks until Manchester Pride, organisers have added pop queen Dannii Minogue to the line-up, where she will perform a headline set, presented by G-A-Y, on By Gary Hart • 3 min read
Rainbow Chorus Arts Rainbow Chorus to celebrates 18th birthday in July The Rainbow Chorus will be celebrating their 18th birthday year in style with two concerts on July 17 and 18 at St George’s Church in Kemptown called #RC18! The chorus led by Musical Director Aneesa Chaudhry and supported by accompanist Mojca Monte will be performing an eclectic selection of music f By Gary Hart • 2 min read
Sheila McWattie Arts SheilaFest: A celebration of the life of a community activist The former organisers of the Women’s Performance Tent at Brighton Pride are organising a Pride Eve night of live music and laughs to celebrate the life of Sheila McWattie. Sheila, the much-loved Brighton based journalist, community activist and passionate supporter of the Brighton Women’s Centre, di By Gary Hart • 2 min read
Arts To Stockholm with Love Following Mans Zelmerlow’s win at the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest, in Vienna with his pop song Heroes, Stockholm in Sweden has been chosen as the Host City for the Eurovision Song Contest in May 2016. By Gary Hart • 2 min read
Arts Pride brings back the nineties to Manchester Manchester Pride, the LGBT charity, is inviting Mancunians to celebrate the 25th anniversary of charity fundraising in the city, by donning nineties dress and enjoying some classic tunes from the decade. By Gary Hart • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Three Degrees at Concorde2 It’s barely ten minutes into their live set at Brighton’s Concorde2, when Helen Scott of the Three Degrees reminds a seemingly ecstatic crowd of their placing in The Guinness Book of Records as the longest running all female trio in music history. By Craig Hanlon-Smith • 2 min read
Arts PREVIEW: Judy: The Songbook of Judy Garland An all-star cast joins Judy Garland’s daughter, Lorna Luft in this remarkable tribute to a true legend. Judy Garland dominated stage and screen for five decades, boasting critically acclaimed performances in A Star is Born and The Wizard of Oz as well as a renowned film partnership with Mickey Roone By Contributor • 2 min read
Arts MUSIC REVIEW: T’Pau live at Royal Vauxhall Tavern T’Pau, fronted by the formidable Carol Decker are a band enjoying something of a renaissance since a successful 25th Anniversary Tour in 2013. Their return to the touring arena has not least of all revealed something of an LGBT following, cemented by this one-off acoustic show at The Royal Vauxhall By Craig Hanlon-Smith • 2 min read
Arts PREVIEW: Collabro – The Act Two Tour 2016 Less than a year after winning Britain’s Got Talent, Collabro are undertaking their second national tour in 2016 topping off an astounding year for the band which has seen them go global. The band will tour the length and breadth of the country playing venues including London’s iconic Royal Albert H By Contributor • 2 min read
Arts Trans folk and creativity in the arts in Brighton May 2015: another mixed-weather Spring, mixed-bag Election, mixed-media Festival and Fringe. The Arts scene continues loud and proud (rain or shine) in the People’s Republic of Brighton and Hove – with Trans persons making their mark on the varied and vibrant cultural life of the City. By Contributor • 2 min read
Arts PREVIEW: The Sound of Music The hills will come alive once again with The Sound of Music, as the much loved musical returns to Eastbourne in a brand new production at the Congress Theatre from Monday 13 – Saturday July 18. By Contributor • 2 min read
Arts “DJing is more than just making people dance!” – DJ Prisss So, Prisss, what do you do? “I love putting collages of creative unheard sounds onto the dance floor. Creating delightful soundscapes woven with deep textures, processed clips of geo-political commentary and other carefully chosen noises. “I am fascinated with synthesising ideas from all realms and By Gary Hart • 3 min read
Arts Ella Henderson to play Brighton Pride Platinum selling artist Ella Henderson will be making an exclusive Brighton Pride main stage appearance on August 1. Ella Henderson will be joining the main stage line up at the Brighton Pride Festival in Preston Park on Saturday, August 1 for her only UK Pride show of 2015. By Graham Robson • 1 min read
Arts Obituary: Peter Lindars Peter Steven Lindars passed away on April 20, 2015. He was born to Maeve Lindars and the late Michael Cheevers on July 2 1970, at North Middlesex Hospital in Edmonton. He attended Chesterfield Junior and then Enfield Grammar schools, before leaving school to work for Bairstow Eves Estate Agency in L By Contributor • 2 min read
