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Customers at a garden centre in Portslade have raised more than £3,000 for local charities. As a result, Mayberry garden centre manager Mark Brumfitt handed over a cheque for £3,391 to two Lions Club representatives. The money – raised this year at the family-owned garden centre...

PHATS & SMALL + SLEEPER + STEVE MASON + ROSE ELINOR DOUGALL + SCOTT BOOTH + RUBBER JAW – ST ANN’S WELL GARDENS, HOVE 18.05.19 A lively set from Phats & Small brought the audience to their feet as the duo brought the St Ann’s Well Gardens Spring Festival to a close....

Fringe Review: Circus’Cision: Those That Made the Cut by Head First Acrobats 17 May 2019 Bosco Theatre Well if you like really sexy muscular acrobats this is the show for you. No-holds barred, hilarious action from the Fringe favourites and stalwarts of the Bosco and Spiegeltent...

CABBAGE + THE C33’S – THE HAUNT, BRIGHTON 03.05.19 As the Cabbage adage goes, better late than never with a review of their live gig at The Haunt on Friday May 3rd. The Mossley boys hit Brighton for the first time in just over a year, on a chilly Friday evening for the...

ELECTRIC SIX + SCARE TAXI – THE CON CLUB, LEWES 15.05.19 I got a tingle of excitement when I heard that Detroit’s Electric Six were bringing their sleazy fusion of rock and dance music to Sussex for two gigs this year. They play Brighton’s Concorde 2 on Friday 29th...

Review: Cosmo Sheldrake, Bunty, Alabaster de Plume. The Spiegeltent, 9 May 2019 It’s not often I start a gig by shouting “The Moss! North side of the trees!” repeatedly, until the artist in question finally remembers the lyrics to his eponymous and arguably most popular...

Kotuku and Moon Child, Bird Life Productions. Bosco Theatre, The Spiegeltent, 18 May 2019 In this simple, sweetly original puppet/masked mime show, a moon baby escapes his crescent cradle in search of his bouncing ball and falls to a Earth where he discovers the beach and meets a...

  The Attenborough centre felt like a fitting venue for Jaamil Olawale Kosoko’s Seancers, as a centre for the creative arts on Sussex University campus.  The stage was set with a huge silver X, reminiscent of Malcom X, old vintage cotton undresses, creepily suspended from...

Fringe Review: Space Cadette By Laurie Black 16 May 2019 Bosco Theatre Laurie Black has turned green! The beautiful, two-tone, black and white cabaret vixen has added a new colour to her palette. It is an alien green skin that she uses as a disguise to hitch a ride to the moon....

UK SUBS + 40 SHILLINGS OF THE DRUM – HOPE & RUIN, BRIGHTON 12.05.19 Tonight we made our way over to Brighton, which has been really busy over the past few days with The Great Escape New Music Festival. We have reviewed no less than 100 performances from it, which you...