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The Great Escape: The Island Club Interview

Modest as they are talented, Brighton’s The Island Club are turning heads with their intricate brand of melodic pop-rock. The Badger caught up with them before their packed out set…

Agony at The Amex as Brighton crash out of playoffs

Brighton Hove & Albion 1 – 1 Sheffield Wednesday Sheffield Wednesday win 3-1 on aggregate As 24,000 blue and white flags swung across The Amex it seemed even the sun…

East Review

Between the crowd’s gasps, laughs and did that really just happen? SUDS’s last show for this term was by no means the least — if anything it was the best…

British Summertime Hyde Park 2016 Preview

If you enjoy live music but camping’s not your thing, then British Summertime Festival held in the heart of the capital is the one for you. Held over a number…

Blurred Lines: Sexual assault survivors don’t need protecting from chart music

It’s been three years now since the release of Robin Thicke’s ‘Blurred Lines’ and despite it long disappearing out of the charts and therefore from Przym’s dance floor (thank god),…

A$AP Nast, Wiki and Sporting Life: Hedonism hits Brighton (Patterns, 1/5/2016)

“They said I didn’t have enough material for a tour.” A$AP Nast pauses, then flashes a sly smile. “Well fu*k that.” What follows can be accurately delineated as mayhem in…

The Great Escape Festival 2016 Preview

Next month sees the return of The Great Escape – Europe’s leading festival for new music. From Thursday 19th – Saturday 21st May, Brighton city centre will be taken over…

Brighton Buzz: Artists to watch this summer

Swedish sensation Tilda Allie dropped her first single this weekend, and she looks set to make waves within Brighton and beyond with her luscious brand of dreamy, atmospheric, electro pop.…

Connecting Clubs’ Charity Tournament Triumphs

Close your eyes and picture the perfect cricketing weather. Open them: you’re at Falmer Sports Centre. Connecting Club’s charity tournament was rightfully blessed with a gorgeous day for cricket, and…

Conservative Politics vs. Youth Art

For years the Conservative government’s relationship with youth culture and the arts have been fraught with fights between the state and young activists, fighting to protect their right to creativity…

The Night Manager

On March 27th BBC One aired the final episode of their six-part mini series, The Night Manager. Sustained continually with incredibly high viewing numbers – 10.18 million viewers tuning in…

Visual \/ Vocal

Visual V Vocal was Rhys Baker and Emma Phillips’s first in a series of events which bring together local artists in a fusion of sound and image. This event focused…

Is Country Music Just for Americans?

Could you see yourself loving music that celebrates riding around in a pick-up truck, partying in cornfields and drinking whisky? Maybe not, if you, like me, grew up in London,…

An interview with Lisbon

You’ve played in Brighton before, do you like it here or are there other cities you prefer to play in? M: I like Brighton because it’s a unique city and…

The Coral – Distance Inbetween

It’s been thirteen years since Wirral quintet The Coral dropped their self-titled debut and blew us all away. At the peak of their fame, it was their unique and technical…

EU Referendum: Sussex students say stay

Students have voted to give Sussex’s Students’ Union (UUSU) the green light to campaign for the remain side in the upcoming EU referendum on June 23. 543 students took part,…

Student politics is becoming narrower, polarising and hostile

In my first year at Sussex, one of the first things I was told about writing essays is that fence sitters aren’t welcome. To get good marks, you have to…

Rapper Akala talks decolonisation at Sussex

Photo: Akala with the organisers of the event. Award-winning Hip-hop artist Akala delivered ‘a talk on Hip-hop and Shakespeare’ on Wednesday 13th, as part of Sussex’s Decolonising Week. To a…

Escaping Our Digital Existence

Luke Richards discusses the development of our digital identity and the impact of technology in our daily lives. Technology tends to be ubiquitous in our daily lives; it is part…

NUS President elected amid ‘antisemitism’ row

Malia Bouattia has been elected as the new President of the National Union of Students (NUS), during Last week’s NUS National Conference in Brighton where allegations of antisemitism took centre-stage.…