Arts PREVIEW: Human League Alternate Universe Tour comes to Brighton Exactly 33 years since their greatest hit of all time The Human League are performing at the Brighton Centre on Friday, December 12. The Human League, one of the most influential pop groups of all time, are undertaking the Alternate Universe (AU) Tour – a 14-night nationwide tour of the UK at the en By Besi • 2 min read
Arts PREVIEW: Briefs: ‘The Second Coming’ at the Old Market Take six Australian hunks and one New Yorker of differing shapes and sizes, add a fierce portion of drag and mischievous masculinity, infuse with dancing, tumbling, juggling, acro-balancing, trapeze, hula hooping, lip syncing, six-inch heels, cover in sequins frocks and glamour, season with wicked w By Besi • 3 min read
Arts THEATRE PREVIEW: Peter and the Wolf: Dome Studio Chamber House Winds along with narrator Jonathan Butcher introduce us to Prokofiev’s classic composition and the wind family of instruments – with the help of a very long hosepipe and some rather fetching headpieces By Eric Page • 1 min read
Arts Winter Pride UK Arts Awards 2014 The second Winter Pride UK Arts Awards will be hosted by Irish broadcasting personality Brendan Courtney at Tobacco Dock in East London on Saturday, November 15. Winter Pride UK, a unique celebration of creativity and a dazzling display of the finest performance and visual arts, is open to all artis By Besi • 2 min read
Arts PREVIEW: X Factor 2015 live tour announced The X Factor Live Tour starts in Belfast on February 13, 2015 and comes to Brighton on Monday, March 16. You’ve taken the journey with them from the room to the arena, sat on the edge of your sofa during the dramatic six-seat challenge at bootcamp, travelled to judges’ houses and from this weekend w By Besi • 2 min read
Arts Gay chorus will be ‘Putting on the Glitz’ at the Theatre Royal Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus will be “Putting on the Gliz” amidst the Georgian splendour of the Theatre Royal Brighton on November 30, as the chorus raises the curtain on its most glamorous production yet. By Besi • 2 min read
Arts New musical director for Brighton Belles Brighton Belles (Gay) Women’s Chorus have appointed Erika Schilsky as their new musical director. The Belles were formed in 2013 by Deborah Wolf and Miranda Gunn. Following Miranda’s departure to pastures new, Nadia Bunker bravely took the Diva Wrangler role of MD, but left this term to give birth t By Besi • 1 min read
Arts REVIEW: The Girl of the Golden West: ENO The ENO’s revival of this unfamiliar Puccini opera has successfully shown us the honest human story in this adolescent melodrama without trashing its very sweet and delicate heart. it can be so easy to mock, so difficult to produce free of irony, but the story is deftly handled here. By Eric Page • 4 min read
Aneesa Chaudhry Arts PREVIEW: Aneesa Chaudhry Jazz Band ANEESA has built a career as a singer and performer. She embraces many musical forms, from jazz, swing, soul, eastern fusion, and duos to the full on sounds of big band – and is at home with them all. In fact Aneesa incorporates all of those influences to create her unique performance style. By Besi • 2 min read
Arts PREVIEW: The Marriage of Figaro A new production of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro is the centrepiece of the OperaUpClose autumn 2014 season. The cast features Louisa Tee as the Countess, fresh from rave reviews as Violetta in La Traviata at Soho Theatre, sharing the role with Fae Evelyn, alongside a host of OperaUpClose favourit By Besi • 1 min read
Arts REVIEW: Xerxes at ENO This is a great production, full of froth and fizz and presenting a non-stop evening of entertainment, with as many musical highpoint as comedic moments and well worth going along to the ENO to see this gorgeous revival. By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts PREVIEW: Brighton Early Music Festival Brighton Early Music Festival has been described as “early music with a distinctive Brighton twist” and is well known for doing things just a little bit differently. From the team who brought aerial dancers swinging from the rafters of St Bartholomew’s Church for their tenth anniversary in 2012, the By Besi • 2 min read
