May 18, 2012 Entertainment
2013 Brighton Marathon on TV
The 2013 Brighton Marathon, which will take place on Sunday 14 April 2013, is to be broadcast on Channel 4. The Grounded Events Company, organisers of the Brighton Marathon, have announced that Channel 4 will broadcast a highlights package of next year’s event. This television package will include the Brighton Marathon itself, plus the Grand [...]
Brighton Fashion Week 2012: Brighton Fashion Week is back and bigger than ever
Brighton Fashion Week is back for 2012 from 30 May 2012 to 3 June 2012, presenting over 36 pioneering and established designers who will contribute to the five-day extravaganza of men and women’s fashion and beauty shows at various venues across the city. Launched back in 2005 as Brighton Frocks, the leading alternative fashion event [...]
Early birds catch the chilli – Fiery Foods Festival release early bird tickets
The Fiery Foods Festival 2012 (FFUK) returns this year and have released early bird tickets which will be available from the Fiery Foods website and the Chilli Pepper Pete shop on Trafalgar Street. The Fiery Foods festival returns for its fifth year from the 14- 16 September 2012 at Victoria Gardens, Brighton and is expected [...]
The Great Escape 2012: Top acts to look out for
One of the best things about going to festivals is discovering new music. And if you are looking for a new favourite band then look no further as Great Escape 2012 in Brighton is the perfect place to start. In fact, this year, I can count the number of bands that I actually have heard [...]
Local vocal school gets the X Factor from Andy Abraham
Local youngsters from vocal school Vocademy had an extra special master class with X Factor’s very own Andy Abraham, which took place last Wednesday 18 April at Ivy Arch Studios in Worthing. 30 students were selected from the Brighton, Worthing, Horsham and Mid Sussex schools to take part in the master class where they, alongside [...]
Brighton and Hove Olympic Torch Relay celebration moved to Sussex Cricket Ground
The official evening celebration of the Olympic Torch Relay reaching Brighton and Hove has been moved from Hove Lawns to the Sussex County Cricket Club on Monday 16 July 2012. The Olympic Flame celebrations had originally been planned for Hove Lawns but has been moved “to ensure the welfare of everyone attending such a large [...]
Professor Green and Katy B added to Shakedown 2012 line up
Professor Green and Katy B, plus Stooshe and Clement Marfo & The Frontline, have been added to the Shakedown 2012 music festival line up. Professor Green will perform before previously announced headliner, Dizzee Rascal in Stanmer Park. His debut album, ‘Alive Till I’m Dead’ crashed into the charts and went double-Gold, spawning four hit singles [...]
The Great Escape 2012: Fourth wave of acts confirmed for TGE 2012
42 bands have been added to the Great Escape 2012 line up as part of the fourth wave of confirmed acts for Brighton’s very own festival of new music. New acts set to hit Brighton for the Great Escape this year include legendary house pioneer DJ Leo Zero, disco-rock leftfielders We Have Band, Norfolk based [...]
Duke of York’s and Komedia Brighton to join forces to create new North Laine cinema
The Duke of York’s Picturehouse is to open a brand new, three screen cinema above Komedia in the North Laine in Brighton. The two iconic venues will work together to develop the Gardner Street site, with construction due to start this summer and planned completion in December 2012, just in time for the CINECITY Brighton [...]
Dizzee Rascal to headline Brighton’s Shakedown 2012
Dizzee Rascal has been announced as the headline act for Shakedown 2012 – Brighton’s very own music festival in Stanmer Park on 6 October 2012. Shakedown Festival will be returning to Brighton for its second year to mark the official end of the UK festival season. Last year’s Shakedown Festival saw 10,000 festival revellers party [...]
The Great Escape 2012: The Temper Trap confirmed for Great Escape Brighton Dome show
As part of the latest addition of 141 bands to The Great Escape 2012 festival line-up, Australian indie favourites The Temper Trap have been confirmed for the festival’s third Brighton Dome show. This performance headlining The Great Escape’s biggest venue marks The Temper Trap’s return to the festival after three years, making them a prime [...]
Turner painting of Brighton to go on show for first time in 100 years
A Turner painting of Brighton will go on public display for the first time in a century at the end of this month (31 March 2012). ‘Brighthelmston, Sussex’, a Turner watercolour, will go on show at Brighton Museum & Art Gallery from 31 March to 22 April, before becoming a star attraction of a new [...]
Thousands visit VegfestUK Brighton
Last weekend (17 and 18 March 2012), over 5,000 people attended VegfestUK Brighton 2012, making it one of the biggest ever veggie events anywhere in the world this year. Many stallholders at the Hove Centre, offering everything from cakes to pizzas, burgers to ice cream, and chocolate to curries, were sold out by early Sunday [...]
Plans unveiled for Brighton & Hove’s Olympic Torch Relay celebration
Brighton and Hove will welcome the Olympic Torch Relay on Monday 16 July – Day 59 of the Torch’s national journey. The street-by-street route of the London 2012 Olympic Torch through Brighton and Hove was unveiled yesterday (Monday 19 March 2012). The Olympic flame will stay overnight in Brighton and Hove on Monday 16 July [...]
City College Brighton and Hove students help Cinecity create ‘Hangover Square’ film-set for Brighton Festival 2012
City College Brighton and Hove, a corporate partner of the Brighton Festival, has joined forces with Cinecity to create a film-set for an imaginary screen version of Patrick Hamilton’s classic novel ‘Hangover Square’ as part of this year’s festival. Fifty years after the death of the iconic Sussex-born author and saloon bar laureate – much-admired [...]
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