Indie Brighton Listings: Monday 6th - Sunday 12th January
Happy New Year!
Plenty going on this week, so banish those back-to-work1 blues to a tiny box underneath the stairs and get out and have some adventures.
This is the week of looking at one’s bank balance and weeping, I know. But don’t worry: these are indie listings, so there are super-cheap and even free events listed below.
An update: I’ve added a new “further afield” section, for interesting stuff going on in Lewes, Shoreham, and beyond.2 This week: wassailing.
Brighton Listings
Monday 6th January
Stand Up Comedy Open Mic Night, The Actors, 8pm. Free. New material / brand new comedians night.
1 Irish 1 English, Caroline of Brunswick*, 7:30pm. £6. Likeable trad stand-up from Ollie Fox and Reece Kidd.
Jazz Night, The Bee’s Mouth, 9pm. Free. One hour of standards, one hour open forum - sign up and play with Brighton’s jazziest musicians.
Tuesday 7th January
Scoops Improv, The Actors*, 8pm. £4/7. This month featuring Jules and Heather of Maydays / AndAlso fame.
Ed’s Comedy Club, Presuming Ed’s, 8pm. Free. Open-mic night sometimes featuring students in the audience who don’t yet know what rhetorical questions are, much to the chagrin of the acts on stage.
Jazz Jam, The Brunswick, £3/free. 8pm. Assorted jazz musicians get together to make your evening… nice. £3 to guarantee table / admission.
Open Mic, The Paris House, 7:30pm - 10pm. Music open mic night in Brighton’s Frenchest bar.
Wednesday 8th January
Cool Aid Comedy, Caroline of Brunswick, 7:30pm. Free. Brighton’s longest-running new material stand-up night. Remember to greet both triumph and disaster as the same (imposters, I think).
Brighton Telltales, Yellow Book*, 7pm. Free. Spoken word and traditional storytelling night. N00bs welcome!
Rottweiler + support, Green Door Store, 8pm. £3. Youthful grunge-pop for a bargain price.
Queer AF Comedy, The Brunswick, 7pm. £10/15. Queer comedy night, this week headlined by Robert White.#
Open Mic, The Bees Mouth, 9pm. Free. Everything from music to poetry at this open mic night which promises to go on “until the end of time”. Sign-up from 8:30pm.
Thursday 9th January
catbandcat + Freddie J Watts + Le Lamb, The Prince Albert*, 8pm. £9. New music discovery night from Hidden Herd.
The Branding Needs Work, Caxton Arms*, 7:30pm. Your host, Simon, runs a new material and new human comedian night. The door to the room is via the stage, so bear this in mind if arriving late.
Friday 10th January
The Maydays: Confessions, Komedia, 7:30pm. £10/12. High-quality improv based around the embarrassing secrets of you, the audience.
The Curst Sons and special gusts, The Brunswick, 8:30pm. £10. Excellent longstanding swamp blues / rockabilly / folk outfit plus people they reckon are also good.
SHANE EMBURY (NAPALM DEATH) - DARK SKY BURIAL, The Prince Albert, 8pm. £12. The bassist out of Napalm Death brings his experimental side-project to the hairy kids of Brighton.
Saturday 11th January
Unicorn Baby Slay - a night at the pink castle, Hope & Ruin*, 7:30pm til late. £6. Bardcore, prog-folk &electro-pop. “Dress code: medieval”.
I f***ing hate clubbing, Green Door Store, 11pm - 4am. £5. “Brighton’s lamest club night” returns for more confusing playlists and dodgy crossfading.
Sunday 12th January
Music Open Mic, The Actors, 7:30pm. Free. One of the friendliest bars in Brighton, so go along and sing what you’ve got to sing.
The Art of the Slide, The Brunswick, 7:30pm. £10. Trad, big-band jazz for your delectation.
Further Afield
Saturday 12th January
Wassail by fire & candlenight, Lewes Saturday Folk Club, Elephant & Castle, 7:30pm. £6. Trad folk and seasonal wassail songs. “Bring a long twig from your own apple tree for our indoor wassailing ceremony to share in any blessing it might give.”
Hurstpierpoint Wassail, Millenium Garden, 5:30pm. Free. See in the new year the old-fashioned way, with trees to be wassailed to scare away the old and dark spirits of winter. If you can make it to the village centre for 11am, there is also a wassail-singing workshop with Jo Burke of the Brighton Folk Choir (booking advised).
That’s all for this week! Thanks for reading, and please do share if of interest - it really helps me build up a readership.
Today is the day a lot of office workers return to the office, or at least haul themselves from the sofa to the laptop for a series of important online meetings.
Sounds like the title to a very provincial science fiction B-movie.