Killing Joke – Part Two: A massive gig at the Royal Albert Hall

KILLING JOKE + JAMES LAVELLE – ROYAL ALBERT HALL, LONDON 12.3.23 Today is a big and monumental date in any self-respecting Killing Joke fan’s calendar and a long year has passed since the band announced tonight’s performance at the Royal Albert Hall. They were due to...
Posted On 14 Mar 2023 at 9:22 pm

Killing Joke – Part One: A tiny gig at The 100 Club

KILLING JOKE – THE 100 CLUB, LONDON 9.3.23 January 27th, 9.59am and my finger was poised over the keyboard in hope that I would be able to purchase a ticket to see the mighty Killing Joke, my second favourite band of all-time, play at the 350 capacity 100 Club at 100 Oxford...
Posted On 14 Mar 2023 at 9:20 pm

New pub in Brighton shopping centre to have licence to 1am

A gastropub company has been granted a drinks licence to stay open until 1am at its new venue in Churchill Square shopping centre, in Brighton. New World Trading Company convinced a Brighton and Hove City Council licensing panel that the Botanist would not add to the area’s...

Dishoom to open Brighton restaurant

Posh Indian chain Dishoom is planning on opening a Brighton restaurant in The Lanes. The restaurant, famous for its bacon naan rolls and black daal, already delivers to most of the city from the Deliveroo “dark kitchen” in Hove. But this opening will allow Brighton...
Posted On 14 Mar 2023 at 3:45 pm

Jury identifies concerns at inquest into death of Brighton woman

A jury spelt out significant concerns when it returned its conclusions about the death of a woman from Brighton who hanged herself last year. Caroline Forte, 35, a self-employed graphic designer, was on leave from a hospital where she had been detained when she died at her home...
Posted On 14 Mar 2023 at 3:09 pm

Students hold vigil for classmate threatened with deportation

Hove students are holding a vigil today to support one of their classmates who is being threatened with deportation. Ann Bashir, 16, and her sister and mother are appealing the rejection of their asylum claim, which they made after fleeing Sudan in 2020. She came to Brighton to...
Posted On 14 Mar 2023 at 3:05 pm

No meeting of minds over cuts to lifeguard service

Three meetings took place in public at the town hall last week – the Health and Wellbeing Board, the Adult Social Care and Public Health Sub-Committee and the Tourism, Equalities, Communities and Culture Committee. I attended the first two and they were much more positive and...
Posted On 14 Mar 2023 at 2:09 pm

Heartworms heading to the Green Door Store ahead of their Great Escape appearance

The Brighton & Hove News Music Team first caught up with Heartworms on 17th January last year when they performed at The Old Blue Last in Shoreditch, London, we observed that “Heartworms present some interesting post-punk. The singer wears a Che Guevara beret (complete with...
Posted On 14 Mar 2023 at 12:22 pm

Fantastic Negrito announces Brighton concert

Part love story, part history lesson, Fantastic Negrito’s extraordinary new album, ‘White Jesus Black Problems’, is an exhilarating ode to the power of family and the enduring resilience of our shared humanity. Inspired by the illegal, interracial romance of his seventh...
Posted On 14 Mar 2023 at 11:06 am

Richard Osman ‘plays it cool’ and asks for bus honour for his grandad

TV presenter Richard Osman has responded to Brighton buses’ offer to discuss honouring him on one of their buses by suggesting his grandfather would be a better choice. Ok, ok, I need to play this cool. https://t.co/2ddafZEYWT — Richard Osman (@richardosman) March 14, 2023...
Posted On 14 Mar 2023 at 10:28 am
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