Arts OPERA REVIEW: The Mastersingers of Nuremberg A great opening volley for the new season. As spectacular as it sounds, this triumphant display of wondrous Wagner is a treat worth sitting through. By Eric Page • 5 min read
Sam Bailey Arts Win a pair of tickets to see Sam Bailey X Factor winner Sam Bailey is appearing at the Brighton Centre on Saturday, February 14. Sam has a huge gay following in Brighton and her finale performance was the highlight of the main stage at Pride 2014 last August. Gscene have a pair of tickets to give away to some lucky person. By Besi • 1 min read
Wildblood & Queen Joesphine Arts Wildblood & Queenie’s Home Service on Radio Reverb 97.2FM Brighton’s most buxom DJing duo will be taking you on a rather pleasant aural ride of all things house, disco, queer-tech, electronica, and regal every month on Brighton’s award-winning community radio station Radio Reverb. By Besi • 2 min read
Arts Unwind at the Yoga Rave this weekend – but bring your own mat! This weekend over 200 Yoga lovers will be able to feel the rhythm of the bass as bass lovers tune in to the rhythm of their breathing, when Cat Duval of Brighton’s Nine Lives Yoga brings a Yoga Rave to the city as part of the Brighton Yoga Festival. The Yoga Rave concept combines dance music and yog By Paul Gustafson • 2 min read
Arts Women’s Performance Area returns to Preston Park The popular Women’s Performance Area will be returning to Brighton Pride at Preston Park on August 1. Following feedback from the lesbian community this popular feature of Brighton Pride is returning to provide women with a unique and welcoming space to meet up, chill out and enjoy their Pride day w By Besi • 1 min read
Arts Shakedown Festival returns to Waterhall, Brighton in August The Shakedown Festival returns to Waterhall in Brighton on Saturday, August 15 with international brands Defected, Hospitality, Digital Soundboy and Supercharged hosting the stages. Shakedown is now in its fifth year and is strictly an 18+ event. Since its creation in 1998, Defected has been at the By Besi • 2 min read
Arts Fundraising Gala for MindOut Bar Broadway in Steine Street are holding a Cabaret and Cocktail fundraising Gala this evening, January 30 to benefit MindOut, the LGBT mental health project. Entertainment will be provided by Lorainne Bowen, Boogaloo Stu and members of the Brighton’s Gay Men’s Chorus. By Besi • 1 min read
Arts Lorraine Bowen releases new single Singer, songwriter, performer, Lorraine Bowen, Queen of the Quirky Chorus, has come up with a great one! with her latest single, BEARS! Lorraine is fond of BEARS having cuddled up to loads of them during a freezing cold holiday at the Yumbo Centre, Gran Canaria. By Besi • 1 min read
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
