Mr Bongo 30th anniversary – Moses Boyd leads the way in eclectic celebration of music
It is safe to say Brighton-based record label Mr Bongo has earned its name as the best champions of diverse music in town. Director of Operations Graham Luckhurst asserted that…
Brighton Festival: 30 Years Of Mr Bongo preview
Back in the heyday of 1989, when Tina Turner and Kylie Minogue dominated the charts, and Prince was is his Batman-score phase, something else was brewing on Berwick Street in…
Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff turns to editing with new anthology Mother Country
Brighton Festival is due to take place from 4 to 26 May and there are set to be so many exciting literary events on offer. The festival this year is…
Candice-Carty Williams launches new book Queenie
Candice-Carty Williams is set to feature at Brighton Festival’s event Shapeshifters on 12 May alongside the equally talented Zawe Ashton. She will be discussing her brand new book, Queenie, which…
Peacock Poetry Prize
The annual arts festival, Brighton Festival, will be returning to Brighton this May, commencing from 4 May until the 28 May. The return of the festival also comes with the…
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…
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…
Brighton Festival Fringe: Anima
Anima was about light and darkness as metaphors for life. How exposed are we or why do we chose to stay in the darkness? What does each of them bring…
Brighton Festival Fringe: This Time Tomorrow
This Time Tomorrow was quite possibly the best performance I have ever seen. Comprised of four fifteen minute vignettes taking place in four cars in Hanover Community Centre it was…
Brighton Festival Fringe: This Is Just To Say
Apologising is one of the most distinctively British things out there. In a culture where one is taught to say sorry from a very early age, it has quickly become…
Brighton Festival Fringe: Front
There is something novel about a performance in a shop window. Not quite as novel as it would have been a decade ago, since then the concept of watching a…
Breaking News: Brighton Festival is launched…
In the cold, dark mornings of February, talking of summer can be about as welcomed as resting a hot iron on your face. The organisers of the Brighton Festival seemed…