Community News BRIGHTON PRIDE FESTIVAL: Sheila McWattie Women’s Performance Tent line-up announced The Sheila McWattie Women’s Performance Stage at Brighton Pride is a fitting tribute to a much-loved local women’s rights activist, campaigner and pioneer. By Graham Robson • 2 min read
Arts CD REVIEW: Grace Jones: Warm Leatherette – Deluxe Edition Grace Jones is often lauded as an icon of grandiose style, almost a caricatured great-aunt to the somewhat clumsy niece Ga Ga, her music often taking a back seat in our distant memories of “didn’t she do…”. Her current run of album reissues should go some way to cementing her place in the hall of mu By Craig Hanlon-Smith • 2 min read
Arts PREVIEW: Nicky Mitchell live @ Bom-Bane’s Nicky Mitchell, former front woman of the legendary Kroon Kat Lounge, returns to the unique quirky and intimate setting of the most delightful Bom-Banes restaurant in the heart of the Gay Village, George Street, Kemptown. Sweet soulful jazz, rip-roaring blues, and some surprising original material. By Contributor • 1 min read
Arts PREVIEW: ‘London to Brighton’ featuring fine LGBT choirs from London and Brighton Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus and London Gay Men’s Chorus join forces to celebrate Brighton Pride in style. The two largest gay men’s choirs in the country will perform their concert, London To Brighton on Friday, August 5 at All Saints Church in Hove. By Graham Robson • 2 min read
Arts Tonight: ‘Songs Without Borders’ with the Rainbow Chorus Following their critically acclaimed sell-out Christmas Show, Brighton’s Rainbow Chorus present their latest summer concert, Songs Without Borders. By Contributor • 2 min read
Arts Legendary DJ Jon Pleased Wimmin returns DJ Jon Of The Pleased Wimmin (aka Jon Cooper) returns to the decks to play the Eagle Nightclub in South London’s Kennington tomorrow evening, Saturday June 25. The event marks the start of a hectic schedule, for the legendary DJ which will take in a number of nights around the UK together with his h By Graham Robson • 3 min read
Arts London Gay Men’s Chorus release charity single for Orlando victims London Gay Men’s Chorus (LGMC) today release their version of Simon & Garfunkel’s Bridge Over Troubled Water. Proceeds from the sale of the charity single will be split equally between the Orlando Victims Fund, organised by Equality Florida and Galop, a London based charity that works to reduce LGB By Graham Robson • 3 min read
Arts REVIEW: All Male HMS Pinafore@Theatre Royal For something so very gay it’s played utterly straight . It’s a parody of a parody of a parody, a Klien bottle of cleverness and shines with its love of the medium. It’s just the Queers who are getting the skewing this time round and that, my fellow benders, makes it all the more fun. By Eric Page • 4 min read
Arts Alesha Dixon to headline Pride in London Alesha Dixon will headline the main Trafalgar Square stage at Pride in London, on Saturday, June 25. The Britain’s Got Talent judge will be joining Jake Quickenden, Seann Miley Moore, Sinitta and La Voix among many others. By Besi • 1 min read
Samuel Cousins Arts Gay chorus appoint new musical director Actually Gay Men’s Chorus (AGMC) have appointed Samuel Cousins as their as their new Musical Director, to lead them into an exciting new decade, with his choral experience and boundless enthusiasm. By Besi • 2 min read
Arts Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus sing for Orlando dead Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus have recorded a video for the victims and families of those massacred in the biggest mass killing in US history, at Pulse Nighclub in Orlando, Florida. By Besi • 1 min read
Arts REVIEW: Pink Fringe: La Poule Plombee La Poule is the triumph of self delusion, she’s a dangerously unstable mix of abandoned Norma Desmond, a soupcon of young gifted Streisand some hefty dollops of Little Eddie from Grey Gardens, all folded into the fragile body of a falling apart Minnelli it’s a heady frothy explosive intoxicating stu By Eric Page • 3 min read
