Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar Due to Close
The surprising news was released via the venue’s Facebook page on Tuesday afternoon, announcing: “There are far too many issues that cannot be resolved to make carrying on viable” Hundreds…
In Conversation with Alannah Myles
This week we had the pleasure of interviewing Alannah Myles, the 1991 Grammy winner for best female rock vocal performance for her outstanding vocal abilities for the well known song…
American Animals: the quasi-documentary that packs a punch
Half-documentary, half-crime-drama, American Animals is an innovative piece of work. Under Bart Layton’s precise direction, this challenging style heightens the moments of farcical comedy and adrenaline-pumping crime scenes whilst also…
BlacKkKlansman – Infiltrating White America
Despite its 1970s setting, Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman very much has its focus on the age of Trump and Black Lives Matter. BlacKkKlansman opens with scenes from two other films, Gone…
Books Every Fresher Should Read
Starting university comes with both exciting but potentially daunting changes, with both moving away from home and studying at degree level posing to be two new challenges. Here’s The Badger’s…
INCREDIBLES 2: The Sequel with a Feminist Twist
One key film in the development of anyone who grew up in the early 2000s was The Incredibles (2004). It’s comedy, vibrancy, and general sense of fun made it a…
Dive into Brightonian Culture
Boredom is impossible when you throw yourself into everything this weird and wonderful city has to offer. The specific and unique cultural wonders of Brighton are indeed endless however I…
Oh, baby, baby, did you see Britney at Pride?
During this year’s Pride Festival, Brighton had the honour of welcoming international pop star and voice of the early 2000s, Britney Spears, to the main stage. Undoubtedly, the show was…
Verve Couture – Musicality, kitsch & ignition: the beginning of a series
Pictured: Zac Black At Proud Cabaret audiences were spellbound as if at night at the circus, yet this was not like Angela Carter’s magical realist novel; Verve Couture enthralled its…
Fleabag on stage at The Old Market – review
Last Monday at 8pm at Brighton’s The Old Market, I sat myself down in my theatre seat eagerly awaiting the start of Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s celebrated Bafta-winning Fleabag. Having been an…
Fleabag preview
Following the mass success of the Bafta award-winning BBC Series, DryWrite and Soho Theatre are about to hit the stage with Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s cult hit Fleabag, next week at Brighton’s…
Brighton Festival: Ezra Furman at the Dome
Having completed my final semester of university with modules on punk history and queer arts, it was fitting that I rounded off my end-of-assessment celebrations by attending Chicago rocker Ezra…
The Tempest review
As the sun begins to set over Hove Green, tinnies of Red Stripe are cracked open, tartan blankets are strewn, and families tuck into their picnic hampers. It’s an unusual…
A Glass Half Empty review
For those of us coming to the end of another year of university study, the prospect of careers, marriages and babies may seem a long way off. It comes as…
DollyWould at The Old Market review
Sh!t Theatre’s DollyWould is a hilarious, thoughtful and experimental performance piece. The award winning show has the Sh!t Theatre duo integrating comedy, storytelling, personal experience and music. The show’s focus,…
Shakespeare in the sun – The Tempest preview
In a world of dystopian King Lears and female Hamlets, Shakespeare’s classics are constantly being reimagined for the modern day. There’s something oddly refreshing then about the phenomenally back-to-basics traditional…
Review: Nick Cave Double Bill at The Old Market (TOM’s Film Club)
What a phenomenal contrast these two films present when watched side-by-side. In essence, together they are capable of tracing inner and outer metamorphoses of their subjects. The brutality of loss…
Dollywould at The Old Market preview
From the 22nd May – 25th May 2018 DollyWould will be showing at The Old Market. An exciting new show, presented by Sh!t Theatre, who won the Fringe First Award…
Exhibition: Io-sono Fedilouu
Last week artist Fedilou made her debut exhibition in the downstairs space of Morelli Zorelli, a quaint vegan Italian restaurant in Hove, featuring a collection of intimate sketches, paintings and…
Adam review
If you have been a stranger to the stage this spring and decide to see one contemporary show, let it be Adam. This reviewer went in entirely blind. Slowly, as…
