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Meeting Joe Strummer: When Two Classes Clashed The Future Was Unwritten @ Komedia

When Jason Pitt blunders his way through a part of Hamlet making it sound very ordinary, and then quotes from the Clash track Clampdown making it sound better than Shakespeare, he captures the essence of this production; its humour, its pathos and its integrity.

by: Howard Young (Arts Editor)
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Strummer's Ideals Remained Intact @ Komedia
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Wed 10 Mar `10
The Stranglers: Back In Black & Still On Track @ Brighton Dome
JJ Burnel @ Brighton Dome By Andy Sturmey

What was angst may have long been replaced by a unity of celebration, and what were young band inner tensions may now have been cemented over by a decade of band stability and a collective return to purpose .. but in some ways time had stood still when the Stranglers took to Brighton Dome's Concert Hall (09/03) stage and delivered a set that spanned more than four decades.
Boasting three original members - and three equally iconic figures - the Stranglers, back to a four piece since the change of the millennium, are now cooking on a musical gas that had for a lon... more >>

Tue 09 Mar `10
Hedda Gabler: A Heroine Years Ahead Of Her Time Has Her Moment @ Theatre Royal Brighton
A Bullet Each For Marriage & Society

'Hedda Gabler…Hedda Gabler…Hedda Gabler’ , whispers the voice of the lover to his ex mistress - a sexual roughness in his voice matches the quiver in hers - and you could hear a pin drop in the long pause that fell upon the stage at the end of his words.
Hedda (Rosamund Pike) and Loevborg (Colin Tierney) are watched by her husband, Tessman (Robert Glenister) and Judge Brack (Tim McInnery). As they stare at the couple on... more >>

Tue 09 Mar `10
Richard Herring Treads A Fine Line With His Take On Hitler’s Moustache
Former Fist Of Fun Comic Courts Controversy

Reclaiming Chaplin's moustache for comedy, Richard Herring - the star of The Headmaster's Son and 90s double act Lee & Herring - muses on iconography, whether racists are closer than Liberals to believing that all people are the same and why an innocent square inch of facial hair has taken the blame for Nazism.
Herring recently justified his show in the Guardian (in response to to an article by Guardian critic Brian Logan) – which contained the following: “In my show I get into a spiral... more >>

Tue 09 Mar `10
Heather Mills – Can She Cook? Yes She Can… Veggie Cookery Demo @ The Brighton Eco Veggie Fayre
V Bites Owner & Charity Campaigner

Hove-based charity campaigner Heather Mills can not only skate – she can cook too, and will be doing just that during her 3pm Cookery Demo at The Brighton Eco Veggie Fayre on Saturday March 20th at The Hove Centre.
Her famous veggie restaurant V Bites is doing the catering at the show, and her recently acquired award winning company Redwood is also at the show with their incredible range of meat... more >>

Mon 08 Mar `10
Gordon Brown Came Out In Support Of Gay Students
LGBT Students Marched With Support From PM

Prime Minister Gordon Brown has sent a personal message of support to everyone who attended this weekend's National Student Pride in Brighton.
In a written letter he hoped that everyone had “a fantastic weekend” before going on to confirm his support of gay students. Confirming his – and the Labour Party's - belief in eq... more >>

Sat 06 Mar `10
Jerry Dammers' Spatial AKA Orchestra: The Space Race Was Done & Dusted @ Brighton Dome
Groove Like An Egyptian With The Spatials

Sun Ra may have claimed to have sourced his musical landscape from the surface of Saturn, but Jerry Dammers' Spatial AKA Orchestra's reinterpretation of the great man's material was simply out of this world at Brighton Dome (05/03).
To many Dammers will be perpetually frozen in time circa 1979 to 1981, but in many ways his current incarnation of arranger, bandleader and performer is producing more forward thinking a... more >>

Fri 05 Mar `10
Japanese Drum Troupe Were Primal, Profound & Playful In Equal Measure @ Brighton Dome
Kodo: One Earth Tour Came To Brighton

…As the show reaches its climax the heaving sweating men, clutching great drum sticks the width of small trees, are beating and beating and beating and beating away at the great huge drum that dwarfs them (it would fill your living room) as they lean back in some kind of wild yoga stance and raise their arms time after time and the air fills with the noise, the great booming resonance – Yet it is not just the sound but the movement and the architecture of it all, both sound and presence has a sculptural quality so hard to pin down, and so finally they stop, the crowd roars and are on their feet, it is all over.
Many years ago a group of people disillusioned with the state of Japanese culture moved out to a remote island in the Sea of Japan. The Island was called Sado, a one-time commerci... more >>

Thu 04 Mar `10
Trailer Trash: Decadent Dress Compulsory @ Themed Cabaret Celebration
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It’s Trailer Trash's first birthday at Komedia and the cult movie-themed club extravaganza is celebrating in style on Saturday 20 March with their most exquisitely decadent theme yet – Baz Luhrmann!
All the best bits from the director's films such as Moulin Rouge, Romeo and Juliet and Strictly Ballroom will be up on the big screen, setting the tone for a truly fabulous evening. Along w... more >>

Wed 03 Mar `10
“Whose Oscar Is It Anyway?” Hollywood High Jinks At Firle Place
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Preparations for a sizzling evening of music and comedy are full speed ahead at Firle Place.
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Tue 02 Mar `10
American Rumble Wrestling Spectacular Is Back In Brighton For Top Grappling Action
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Grappling fans are getting ready to rumble again when wrestling returns to the Brighton Centre on March 14.
And among the big names fighting for the King of the Ring title on the Sunday afternoon spectacular will be James Mason, one of Britain’s top stars, who made his last Brighton appearance 14 yea... more >>


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