3 top stand-up comedians are hosted by quick-fire MC Stephen Grant plus cold beer and tasty food available.
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Brighton Jazz Club operates every Friday throughout the year in our intimate Studio Bar, featuring an unparalleled collection of powerhouse performers and a wide selection of the jazz world’s most extravagant talents.
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An irreverent night of fun and frolics hosted by if.comedy Best Newcomer 2007 award nominee, Zoe Lyons.
A consuming brew of comedic delight, this gay friendly night promises a fabulous line up every time.
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Fife’s answer to Bob Dylan is an underground legend and a national treasure. Leven’s live shows are hilarious and entrancing. If you like Leonard Cohen check him out.
“a virtuoso mix of fine singing, precise playing, ... (click to read more)
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Raw and funky delicious melodic glam jazz. Reformed after 18 years, The Blow Monkeys are back – live and with a brand new album!
One of the great English pop bands of the 1980’s, their biggest hit Digging The Scene rocked ... (click to read more)
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A new material night hosted by if.comeddie winner Phil Nichol and Tiffany Stevenson. The best circuit comics try out new jokes in the shadow of a noose - will they have to resort to tried and tested material to win over the audience? A sell out ... (click to read more)
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American Poodle is an hysterically absurd take on the "special relationship" from opposite sides of the pond and it comes in two interspersed monologues.
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Fearless, colourful and maverick in the best tradition of English songwriters, Eliza tours her new album Dreams of Breathing Underwater. Powerful, vital and exuberant rhythms, absorbed from her travels around the globe, characterize this ... (click to read more)
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Get there early...20% off drinks before 7pm! Topical, satirical, musical sketch comedy at its best!
The Treason Show team trawl far and wide to find the most up-to-the-minute gags and savage political comment. Anyone that knows their ... (click to read more)
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Each month local DIY label Woodland Recordings presents challenging acoustic or experimental music from near and far.
Saturday 13 September: CANCELLED
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The power and poetry of Bob Dylan's music is honoured and celebrated by this 7-piece band whose repertoire includes a wide variety of Dylan songs, from rousing ensemble pieces with 4 part harmonies, to tender duets. Something for every Dylan ... (click to read more)
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Australian one-man dynamo Wally De Backer, like his fellow countrymen The Avalanches, humanizes bedroom beats, quirky samples, and the odd live instrument and weaves them into epic pop structures. Currently being bigged up as a ... (click to read more)
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One of the last remaining Bluesmen who learned from the old masters. Known in the blues world for his superb songwriting, guitar wizardry, warm soulful vocals, wit, and unforgettable live performances.
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Tues 16 Sept: London’s own favourite, The Local (‘Later with Jools Holland meets Phoenix Nights. Result!’ Time Out), returns to Brighton with My Brightest Diamond and Marla ... (click to read more)
Rose’s rough, been-through-a-lot, kind of voice is rated as sensational, powerful, genuinely moving and mesmeric by MOJO, Uncut, and Time Magazine. Like Lucinda Williams but with softer edges.
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Opened by the screening of the documentary We Dreamed America, an enthralling insight into the inspirations behind a new breed of British musicians, fascinated by the most American of genres.
Described as a twisted cross between ... (click to read more)
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Rising stars of the Californian New Wave, Iglu and Hartley's high energy synthed up rock anthems with semi rapped vocals makes them the missing link between Red Hot Chilli Peppers and The Flaming Lips.
The band have been ... (click to read more)
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We are delighted to welcome today's first lady of jazz to Komedia for the first time.
Clare Teal is a unique singer, songwriter, broadcaster and one of the country's leading vocal talents. With warm, elegant vocals and a polished but ... (click to read more)
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Brighton’s only night devoted to short fiction. A platform for local and national writing talent, Short Fuse is a relaxed affair – presented cabaret style with music and bar between readings.
Thurs 18 Sept: Nights at ... (click to read more)
The extravagantly beautiful voiced Brian Kennedy is one of Ireland’s most successful and best-loved performing artists.
Nine solo albums and acclaimed author, world tours and albums with Van Morrison, The Corrs and ... (click to read more)
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With costumes shamelessly camp, gaudy and fab, their instruments genuinely vintage and their wit irreverent, get Stoned on nostalgia as the Rollin’ Stoned play the hits including Jumping Jack Flash, Paint It Black, Not Fade Away and ... (click to read more)
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A wild and sexy night of delinquent rhythms. Red hot rockabilly, 50s rock'n'roll, 6Ts garage and girl groups, surf, sleaze, bop and exotica for discerning hep cats and kittens.
"Brighton's best night" Guardian Guide
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Bespoke suits, champagne flutes and a vibe you can't describe! Nicky Mitchell and The Hepkat Huzzahs Big Band take the stand. Krooners serenade our parade of cabaret stars. Turn out, tune up, drop in. Dresscode: Suavemode!
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After the hilarious success of Potted Potter, Dan and Jeff return with this new compressed caper! In search of talking parrots and mysterious buried treasure , they'll be recounting everyone's favourite pirate legends, from Long ... (click to read more)
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Final Cut continue their autumn season with intriguing programmes of the best short films from Brighton, Britain and the World!
Sun 21 Sept:
A special link-up to the Oska Bright film project, showing a selection of ... (click to read more)
Hot Club of Cowtown are the most globe-trotting, hard-swinging Western Swing trio on the planet.
Tours with Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson and The Mavericks keep them pretty busy…but tonight they introduce their new ... (click to read more)
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From pirate radio to Buckingham Palace and an MBE, Johnnie Walker tells the amazing story of how he came to be one of the best known and most loved broadcasters in Britain, with a voice recognised by millions.
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Drawing on blues, rock, funk and jazz influences among others Preston Reed’s vast range of explosively original music will forever change your expectations of a guitarist.
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Contemporary jazz, post rock, modern classical, electronica and leftfield hip hop – musicians, DJs and filmmakers get together for a new monthly residency.
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Komedia's monthly night of exciting new comedy without the gamble!
Brighton's own Jo Enright comperes a fast-paced quality show featuring a top headlining act plus rising stars from the comedy circuit.
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This guitar, bass and drums trio have long been established as our premier blues-rock attraction, having performed 4,000 concerts in 21 years. Although mainly playing their own brand of rootsy rock, blues and Americana, they are widely regarded ... (click to read more)
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A collective of some of the leading players of traditional Klezmer, Greek, Balkan and Gypsy music from Bulgaria, Greece and the UK, melded with driving live mixed beats to create irresistible Balkan Beats dancing music. Max Pashm perform ... (click to read more)
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Regular DJs Chris 'da doo' King and Simon Bridger spin nothing but female-fronted Northern Soul floorshakers from the swingin' 60s!
As seen on Channel 4, as heard on BBC Radio 4, as featured in The Guardian, Time Out, NME, The Times, The ... (click to read more)
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The new comedy by Stewart Lee, directed by Owen Lewis with Simon Munnery as Queen Elizabeth I and Miles Jupp as Sir Walter Raleigh.
Sir Walter Raleigh introduces an audience with his beloved Elizabeth I, the ... (click to read more)
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The churning urn of burning fun that is Vive La Fip continuament. Young and old. Hip and hip replacement. All human life is here. Expand your eclectic musical tastes as your drink, chat and dance... it’s the Parisian way!
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A clubbing extravaganza!
Well SDB just keeps on getting more and more super! Join us for another night of cabaret antics from BOOGALOO STU & DOLLY ROCKET ... (click to read more)
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News just in...a totally topical improvised comedy show with music, based on your cuttings from the local news on the day of the show.
Choose an article and watch as award-winning improvisors The Maydays and their live pianist create ... (click to read more)
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Following up from the NME New Noize Tour, these West London upstarts were one of the talking point of this year’s South-by-South West.
With an epic sound harking back to U2 and Echo & The Bunnymen, they ... (click to read more)
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Ladyhawke, named after the Matthew Broderick film of the same name, is a New Zealand pop rock band, essentially the solo project of Pip Brown, formerly of the band Two Lane Blacktop. Influenced by 1980s music, Ladyhawke is ... (click to read more)
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Well crafted, energetic garage rock.
Sadness and redemption; death and rebirth – such are the themes on The Duke Spirit’s long awaited second album Neptune. Looking for a band versed in rock’n’roll mythology and boasting ... (click to read more)
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The dazzling pianist, who has worked with the Brand New Heavies and Zero 7, weaves hypnotic ostinatos and jack-hammer chords into rousing climaxes that pledge allegiance to the dancefloor.
His brilliant new album ... (click to read more)
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From Ultravox, Visage, Thin Lizzy, The Rich Kids and Slik to co-organising Band Aid, Midge Ure’s latest live incarnation – Uncovered – combines his classic hits with a selection of songs that have influenced him along the way, ... (click to read more)
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Tag Comedy is back! Featuring 4 top UK comedians, all headliners from the Krater Comedy Club - with NO running order, NO set lists, and NO idea as to what they will be doing or talking about - a not-to-be missed comedy extravaganza!
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Bringing you the best in performance poetry and spoken word, plus guests from the cream of the UK and international scene and, of course, the open slam. Sign up early!
Thurs 2 Oct:
Featuring the fantastic Martin ... (click to read more)
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A dynamic, powerful tribute band with all of the energies, passion and angst of The Who at their peak.
After the success of their Live at Leeds show they return to recreate classic hits from Quadrophenia, evoking the atmosphere ... (click to read more)
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A fractured world where television meets real life; featuring bizarre live micro-cabaret spots, spooky short fi lms, spaced out DJ sets, experimental scientifi c demonstrations and of course, the kinematic fi rst episode of ‘The ... (click to read more)
5th September - CANCELLED
Your chance to rock the dancefloor, as for 15 minutes ordinary joes get to play their favourite records to titanic reactions from a party loving crowd. No DJ experience required.
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After 20 years in exile, Otto Ronaldi Jr returns to Stubberfields Circus to see off his father and inherit the old man’s clownic crown. Life, however, is never that simple.
A melanchomedy from Monkeydog Productions, with Robert ... (click to read more)
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Featuring original line-up of John Beck on keyboards, drummer Bob Dalton, and bass player Dick Nolan, with the addition of John Mitchell (Arena, Kino).
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Hot new Australian singer songwriter Gabriella Cilmi has been taking the UK music scene by storm since performing her infectious debut single Sweet About Me ... (click to read more)
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Juana Molina has been making quiet folktronica jewels for a while now. Not renouncing her Argentinean moods, Molina explores the wilder shores of folk, somewhat reminiscent of Animal Collective, or Devendra ... (click to read more)
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Worthing based singer songwriter Chris Simmons has established himself as one of the finest acoustic acts on the scene right now, with his songwriting being picked up by artists including Travis and ... (click to read more)
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Two Spot Gobi, now three years old, and with debut single Sunshine Lady behind them, return to Komedia before departing on their first US tour.
Brighton formed, the band appear fresh from the Summer gig and festival ... (click to read more)
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EARLY BIRD tickets only £10 until 11 Sept! After that tickets will be £12...
60s girl pop, soul & funk club night DDRR celebrate their 10th(!) Birthday with an extremely rare DJ appearance by Edwyn ... (click to read more)
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Brighton's resident Balkan club night finally welcomes one of the originators of Balkan fusion and shining lights of this years Glastonbury Festival... Balkan Beat Box mix modern hip-hop beats and wild live performance with Mediterranean, ... (click to read more)
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Felix Dennis is back with his ever popular ‘Did I Mention the Free Wine?’ tour to launch his new book of verse Homeless in my Heart.
Includes free wine and nibbles!
“An unforgettable evening... to hear him perform ... (click to read more)
