Arts Singing group launched for the over-60s Brighton and Hove City Council’s Hove Music and Arts service will be launching a singing group for people aged 60 and over to give people the opportunity to gain the known benefits of singing with others. Social Singing is a new weekly Brighton-based music group, for people aged 60 and over, and wil By Besi • 2 min read
Arts It’s Showtime! There is still time to design the cover for this year’s Brighton Fringe Family Guide. Brighton Fringe, the largest arts festival in England and one of the largest fringe festivals in the world, has extended the deadline on its competition for teenagers and kids to design the front cover of the Brigh By Paul Gustafson • 1 min read
Arts PREVIEW: Aneesa Chaudhry sings love songs During LGBT History Month, Aneesa Chaudhry will be bringing some amour to the Metro Deco Cafe in Kemptown on Sunday, February 15, with a little soiree entitled With Love From Me To You. Aneesa will be singing songs of Love, from her wide repertoire of songs. For as Aneesa says: “There is always more By Besi • 1 min read
Arts Bête Noire release their latest single ‘Piss on Putin’ London quintet Bête Noire has released its latest single, Piss on Putin, as a free download, and it is available now from the band’s official Soundcloud page. The single, inspired by the poster above, seen at a demonstration against the homophobia faced by LGBT people in Russia before the Sochi Wint By Besi • 1 min read
Arts REVIEW: ‘Right Here, Right Now’, Moroder/Minogue Right Here, Right Now: The Collaboration of a Career: Giorgio Moroder’s first album of original material for 30 years, featuring Kylie Minogue. …………YES HE of legendary 1970s true symphonic disco, composer and producer of the 12-minute dance-floor ode to the orgasm Love To Love You Baby, that launche By Besi • 2 min read
Arts MUSIC REVIEW: T’Pau – ‘Nowhere’ To the uninitiated Carol Decker and T’Pau are remembered for a smattering of hits most notably China In Your Hand and Heart & Soul. The stylistic gulf between those two international smashes should be a reasonable indication of the versatility of a band who at the time were not always afforded the c By Besi • 1 min read
Arts Actually Gay Men’s Chorus open evening Is one of your New Years resolutions to start a new interest? Have you always fancied singing but never had the confidence? If so, go along to St Andrews Church, Waterloo Street, Hove on January 22 from 8pm, where The Actually Gay Men’s Chorus will be holding an open evening for you to check out if By Besi • 1 min read
Arts REVIEW: Dirty Dancing, Eastbourne Dirty Dancing waltzed into the Congress Theatre, Eastbourne, this week for a short run until Saturday January 24. The original 1987 film, one of the most successful independent movies of all time, propelled American actor, dancer and singer-songwriter Patrick Swayze to international megastar status. By Besi • 3 min read
Arts Not such fragile dreams after all T’Pau, fronted by the vivacious Carol Decker shot to fame in the late 1980s with a string of Top 40 hits, most notably Valentine, Heart & Soul, China In Your Hand and I Will Be With You. By Craig Hanlon-Smith • 7 min read
Arts PREVIEW: ‘La Traviata’: Congress Theatre Eastbourne ‘La Traviata’, one of Verdi’s most popular operas, comes to Eastbourne’s Congress Theatre in February with a spectacular traditional production boasting a stellar international cast. The opera is Verdi’s interpretation of one of the most popular love stories of the 19th century, La Dame aux Camelias By Besi • 2 min read
Arts PREVIEW: ‘Anything Goes’ Congress Theatre, Eastbourne Cole Porter’s classic musical comedy Anything Goes sails into Eastbourne’s Congress Theatre in March with a sensational new production starring West End stars Debbie Kurup (The Bodyguard, Chicago, Sister Act) and Matt Rawle (Les Miserables, Miss Saigon, Evita). By Besi • 1 min read
Arts PREVIEW: Calamity Jane: Congress Theatre Eastbourne The classic musical Calamity Jane blows in from the Windy City to Eastbourne’s Congress Theatre on February 24-28. This exciting new production features West End stars Jodie Prenger (Oliver!, Spamalot and One Man, Two Guvnors) and Tom Lister (The Water Babies, Emmerdale). By Besi • 1 min read
