Archive for May, 2009
At this weekend's Japanese festival (kindly brought to the people of Brighton by Moshi Moshi) Seiko Kato caught my woefully inexperienced and lazy eye. A graduate from the University of Brighton, and now a freelance illustrator, she has produced an startling range of collages, drawings, textiles and 3D montages. All made from or inspired by items she has built up ...
ART JUNKY 4
Sunday 28 June 12 noon - 6pm Phoenix Brighton
The first SUMMER Art Junky, an eclectic and busy bazaar, with artists, makers, collectors, performers & anyone else who has unusual object d'art to sell. Bringing together the best of Brighton’s lively jumble sale culture and its enterprising ...
Sellindge Music Festival Tickets: Ends June 1st
Two Nights in UMI HOTEL Brighton: Ends October
Record Buying in Hove. There are still a few places out there where you can sate your Cd buying urges.
Iydea - Vegetarian Kitchen. It is all freshly made, organic and fun, without being too boring and wholesome.
Meow Meows, The Slackers
Brighton Engine Rooms Friday 15th May 2009
Reviewed by Amy Russell
It was a horrendous night in Brighton as I made my way along the seafront to the Engine Rooms, and being my first visit to the venue I was a little lost when I asked people outside a bar where it is. The lad stepped ...
David Bramwell on a quest to find out the history of a framed moustache that his great Aunt left him.
This is the place that has the best teachers and charges the least money... Can you ask for any more? Beginners get to learn, learners get to carry on and there is room in there for the competent too. Classes run all day from sunrise 'till late. Why wold anybody want to go anywhere else? Well I suppose it does smell a bit, but maybe ...
Seek and destroy - live a rock star life for an evening, ASBO optional.
Brighton is turning Japanese. I really think so.
The Japanese Street Festival will transform Bartholomew Square into an authentic Matsuri. But it might be a little too authentic for some...
In trying to replicate the true feel of a Japanese festival a whale is being trucked into the centre ...
World Premiere...
Femmes Fatales
Old Market, Hove, 22nd May, 2009
Here's the sell..
Vavavavoom! will be channelling their years of knowledge and success into a pioneering approach, conquering new territory to present an innovative diverse set of theatre productions with a Burlesque twist. “Femmes Fatales” is the first of these extravaganzas!
So that is not just nipple tassels ...
You shall go to the ball!
The Hussy profiles Toni Pickles
Toni Pickles, the design force behind Brighton-based bespoke dress and corset designer Get Waisted, takes pride in initiating all of her ideas from scratch and working closely with her client transforming them into a modern day Cinderella.
Busy Toni ...
Thousands to cycle naked against the environmental credit crunch
Click HERE to see photos of this years event
Get"as bare as you dare"
The Level, Sunday 14th June 12.00 Noon
Follow me for the latest news on the World naked bike ride...
The Great Escape Diary - Day 3 After busing to and from Eastbourne for a prior commitment I ran past the 'secret' Babyshambles gig that was taking place outside of Audio and to the Spiegeltent for the last minute acoustic set by Ben Kweller. Kweller seemed happy and at ease, flatterd by the sing-a-long on ...
Tim Dowling loves to google himself. But he has stopped, so he may never read this.
When not self-googling he champions ukulele players, throws out pot smokers and fills my Saturdays with the minutiae of his family life. If I was him I would also tell everybody about my life. Because I too would be payed to.
Tom Dowling, what ...
Mackerel Fayre
Sunday, May 17th
Brighton Fishing Museum
This is not some made-up event like the Burning of the Clocks. The fish fayre has been going for centuries.
The proud history of the fair began when an observant fisherman noticed that mackerel had the ability to learn tricks. Like dogs. The first trick they were taught was to prostrate themselves ...
Tea leaves are so passe.
The Great Escape Diary - Day 2 It feels rather bizarre cooping onself in the dingey confines of the Arc on a grey afternoon to watch bands, at least at most other festivals you're in a field, here you're where you would be on a Thursday night, except not drunk and - in my case - clutching a much ...
Great Escape Diary - Day 1 Getting off to a late start due to work and acting commitments I made my way into Jam for the tail end of We Were Promised Jetpacks, a band with a name close to my heart. Their Scottish indie-pop sound was instantly appealing and emotive, and once I'd found a perch ...
Find a Fluffing Job
Let's not get into why the job search has begun again for the 100th time let's see why it has become harder. So, after re-locating to Cardiff and joining hundreds of agencies
I resort to looking for a cleaning job, but alas, even the duster needs a levels now.
The phone rings and someone from an agency ...
The Animals of Butter Bridge
Psychedelic Folk-Comedy
@ Brighton Unitarian Church, New Road (Venue 39)
20th-24th May, 10.15pm - 11.15pm
£6.50 (£5 concessions)
A mysterious disease is spreading, and The Fox has run away with The Rabbit. The Badger, The Mouse and The Panther are sent to look for them - but the path to redemption ne'er did run smooth... Life, ...
If you enjoy music that features the same three words repeated over and over and over, and at times resembles the monotonous buzz of an electric toothbrush. Then this place will put the schizzzle in your nizzle, and you may well meet your very own footballer, and who knows, become his wife?
Election-Idol is an all singing and all dancing satire on the countries fascination with reality tv shows and its ambivilance towards politics.
If you only get a chance to go to one open house -which means you must be really-really busy- the The Hussy says go to.... Ben Allen's House It is a fucking huge mansion, the likes of which I forgot exist. There are probably still families of Victorian servants living in the 
Win a Pair of Tickets For The Loop Festival
Your Hussy loves you. And just to prove it we would like to give a pair of tickets for this year's Loop Festival to you.
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All you need to do to get the ...
Loop the Loop
Now heading into its third year Loop returns as a two day event, at Victoria Gardens in central Brighton, in 2009. Bigger than ever the music and digital art festival is spread across specially created performance areas in the heart of Brighton.
Freshly ...
House is all about bringing the everyday domestic environment into art galleries.
And The Devil May Drag You Under
The individually superb cabaret acts are made doubly-good by becoming part of the whole; the whole is made doubly-good for being performed in a church.
So, that means this show is four times better than superb.
The circusy bits may not have had the Vegas ...
Looking hot on Brighton beach....
When the sun comes out in Brighton, a certain buzz fills the air. The beach volley ball courts fill up, the live reggae music starts playing and people start wearing a great deal less.
After sitting in the sunshine for awhile on Sunday, drinking my ice-cold Bulmers, I couldn't help but notice that a few of ...
'That's me in the spotlight, losing my religion...'
When my dad found out I was moving to Brighton, he launched an insistent campaign to get me to reconsider. He suggested Worthing, or at a push, Shoreham. Naturally, I ignored him.
When the deed was done, and my boyfriend of the time and I were firmly ensconced in our first city pad (above ...
Jarvis Cocker gets a part time job in the Resident Music record shop in Brighton.
When I was growing up, the boy who lived next to me seemed to have everything.
Remote control car, skateboard, Salter science kit, Hungry Hippos. The works.I covetted his every possession.
One Christmas, we both got a BMX. His was better than mine, but this was the closest I ever was going ...
