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
Arts REVIEW: Otello at ENO This was a stark and emotionally harrowing production and one of the most thrilling and upsetting Otellos I’ve seen, but the utterly monstrous and slithering compellingness of Summers’ Iago is it’s real triumph. Perhpas this was Alders point all along, to redirect us into the dark heart of this Oper By Eric Page • 4 min read
Arts PREVIEW: Excellent songs for children at the Old Market Friday, September 19 is National talk like a pirate day! What better way to celebrate all things swashbuckling than with an action-packed musical pirate adventure show! This family musical will capture your imagination and sail off with it into the sunset. It will take place at the Old Market in Hov By Besi • 2 min read
Music PREVIEW: Brighton Early Music Festival 2014 Firmly established as part of Brighton’s autumn cultural calender, Brighton Early Music Festival 2014 extends across three weekends from October 24 to November 9. This year’s theme is of cities, musical centres and the journeys between them, looking to transport attendees to Rome, Paris, Warsaw or S By Mitchell Orriss • 2 min read
Arts Calling all ‘budding’ singers! Brighton and Hove’s Actually Gay Men’s Chorus and Actually Gay Women’s Chorus will both be holding open rehearsals during September. Whether you currently sing, or just think you sound good in the shower, the Choruses could be the place for you. Both Choruses perform all year round, producing their By Besi • 1 min read
Arts REVIEW: Kate Bush Like The Sun Coming Out: my evening with Kate Bush, by Craig Hanlon-Smith. Such was the volcanic response from the audience at the Hammersmith Apollo on Saturday night, at the end of the first week of Kate Bush’s residency there, that her (assumed) comments of gratitude in between songs during the o By Besi • 3 min read
Arts PREVIEW: Lily Allen at Brighton Centre Lily Allen will play the Brighton Centre on Thursday, November 27 as part of a nine date tour. The tour includes a headlining show at the highly prestigious Edinburgh Hogmanay Show on December 31 which will see Lily bring in 2015 at the ‘Home of Hogmanay’. Lily, who has been touring extensively al By Besi • 1 min read
Arts REVIEW: Matt Alber, Latest Bar Matt Alber at Latest Bar Brighton on July 31 in association with Authentic Productions. Sometimes all you need to hear is one bar before a singer gets to you. I had never heard of Matt Alber before I saw his concert posted by a member of the Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus and was not sure […] By Contributor • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Looking Glass: Paul Diello Brighton-based singer/songwriter Paul Diello performed a rousing set at Brighton Pride in time for the release of his second album, Looking Glass. The collection kicks off with the ‘80s-tinged single, ‘(I Am A) Voodoo Doll’, a creeping, almost hypnotic, track surely suitable for a late-night shimmy By Graham Robson • 1 min read
LGBTQ+ News Rainbow Chorus new members night in September Rainbow Chorus, the South East’s only LGBT-mixed choir, will be launching a new ‘Members Night’, for those seeking new inspiration and melodious music, at St George’s Church, Kemptown on Monday, September 15 from 7pm. The chorus, a non-auditioning choir, have just celebrated their most successful ye By Besi • 1 min read
Arts REVIEW: Tavener at Royal Albert Hall Nick Boston reviews BBC Prom 25: Monday, August 4 2014, 9.15pm at The Royal Albert Hall Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Heath Quartet, The Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips (conductor) Sir John Tavener (1944-2013): Ikon of Light (first performance at the Proms) Requiem Fragments (BBC commission, world pre By Contributor • 4 min read
Arts PREVIEW: Botchit & Scarper ‘Push Play’ for Sonia Top names from the world of beats and bass music have donated an exclusive track to the double CD compilation album Push Play in support of the leukaemia charity the African Caribbean Leukaemia Trust. The compilation has been inspired by the untimely passing of Sonia Akow, a DJ, label A&R and PR ass By Besi • 1 min read
