Arts

Identity politics is a pertinent issue in today’s society, and A Number exposes the struggle of defining identity in a categorically saturated world. In a futuristic narrative where cloning is…

On the 26th October I had the chance to go see Erin Markey’s BONER KILLER at The Marlborough. I wasn’t sure what to expect from a show with such an…

On Friday 20th October, that institution of the Brighton music scene, The Haunt, played host to up-and-coming indie band Coasts, touring the UK in promotion of their second studio album…

King Nun and BLOXX opened for headliner INHEAVEN at The Haunt on the 18th in the last show on the UK leg of the top-billed band’s tour. And if we…

One album that does not get the recognition it deserves is Elton John’s Album ‘Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy’. I know Elton John is not unheard of. In…

It’s Thursday night, and me and a couple of hundred others are spending our evening watching the closing night of Nick Mulvey’s Wake Up Now tour at the De La…

Content warning: sexual harassment To an extent, we are all complicit in maintaining the established power structures at the core of the Western film industry. Hollywood has been scrutinised, in…

Usually after hearing nothing but positive reviews of a film, I watch it with a slight scepticism; scepticism that my reaction won’t match the high expectation set, but Nicholas Winding…

The origins of theatre can be traced as far back as 532 BC during the classical Greek and Roman times. For most of that, it was men who were involved…

The Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts (ACCA) will be hosting a discussion centring around the influential intellectuals of the Bloomsbury Group on Friday 10 November. In partnership with the…

Wolf Alice have been a busy band touring for the past couple of months around the UK and America doing in-store gigs. They show us that performing live is still…

Wolf Alice’s punk, 80s synth-pop, grunge, and folk influences meld together to form something original and non-imitative. ‘VOAL’ is bolder with lyrics that reach down to a more personal space…

Comedy-science trio Festival of the Spoken Nerd are heading to The Old Market as part of their UK tour: You Can’t Polish A Nerd. Merging science experiments and gawky comedy,…

In darkness: twenty minutes, twenty participants, twenty headphones, and one container – Séance is an audio performance that will send chills down your spine. As a Halloween special, writer Glen…

After the much-heated debate in 2014, the rules for the Man Booker took a 360-degree turn from a solely British enterprise to an internationally global one. The rules made it…

At Hove’s The Old Market, the stage was spectacularly set for a ghoulish night of horror (and light-hearted entertainment) for fast-approaching Halloween. Unfortunately, Le Navet Bet’s performance of Dracula: The…

Sunday 5 November Komedia will be hosting monthly stand-up comedy night Bent Double. The show runs every first Sunday of the month and consists of 2 acts, a headliner and…

“Stop! Stop shopping! Stop! Stop shopping!” So chants the procession of the neon-clad, New York-based gospel choir into the little theatre at The Marlborough. With vibrant dungarees, mesh tops, neck…

Picking A Number was an easy choice. Director and actor Tom Chown explains his love for Caryl Churchill and how her “lineage of plays throughout her career, from Cloud Nine…

The play, Fame, was superbly acted by the Brighton Theatre Group (BTG). The performance was well timed, and enthusiastic until the very end. The actors took their roles very seriously,…