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Brighton gig listings - a selection of the best bands and artists playing in Brighton with videos and ticket links.

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The best galleries in Brighton, each of these show stunning exhibitions all year round. We provide links to maps, their websites, plus listings of current shows for each.

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ART: Robert Goff: An Etcher in the Wake of Whistler, Brighton Museum

Thursday, January 19th, 2012

Invoking a big name like Whistler might help us find a pathway into the work of a lesser known artist, but it won’t help if that pathway is misleading. I’ve struggled to see much similarity between Robert Goff (1837-1922) the Hove based etcher and James Whistler (1834-1903), the painter whose splashy canvases and book The Gentle Art of Making Enemies outraged the art establishment of the time.

ART: Where to buy artist-made Christmas gifts in Brighton

Saturday, December 10th, 2011

Still struggling with the seasonal shopping? It doesn’t all have to be trawling through Amazon or fighting the crowds at Churchill Square. Christmas is the perfect opportunity to support the arts and buy something truly special. Here are three of the best places in Brighton to buy creative Christmas gifts.

GIG REVIEW: The Besnard Lakes at Brighton Ballroom, 23/11/11

Saturday, November 26th, 2011

The Besnard Lakes probably have an amazing record collection. Shelves of 70s soft-rock rarities, obscure progressive concept albums and original copies of out of press early 90s shoegaze classics.

GIG REVIEW: Cautionhorses / Ragweed / Toe, the Cowley Club, 22/10/11

Tuesday, October 25th, 2011

The gig started with Toe. But before they came on we were subjected to choral, opera and 20s music, which was a pleasant change from the sort of nonsense you often get between bands.

PREVIEW: Hand Baked Arcade, Blind Tiger (previously Hector’s House), 9/10/11

Saturday, September 24th, 2011

If you’ve ever longed to return to the video gaming simplicity of previous years, or just yearn to beat someone to a pulp on Street Fighter 2 like you used to do to your brother after school, then start practising your special moves – the Handbaked Arcade is coming to Brighton.

Timber Timbre gig review, Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar, Brighton, 01/09/2011

Sunday, September 4th, 2011

“I don’t believe in ghosts, but I have seen the demon host.” With lyrics like these, who needs harrowing music to convey a sense of the impending apocalypse? But then with instruments sounding this lush, you wouldn’t want Timber Timbre to go acapella…