Review: lost in music at Love Saves the Day

30th May 2016 Saturday 28th May I arrive at Eastville Park in the early afternoon, the warm Spring sun drying the ground from the downpour last night and providing a glow for those attendees finishing off the last of their… Continue Reading

Review: Negotiating the Expanding Beast of Dot To Dot 2016

28th May 2016 Though it’s not quite the glorious, almost unseasonably hot bank holiday sunshine that resided over last year’s tenth anniversary event, it’s nonetheless a lovely spring day which greets festival goers queuing up early at the Thekla wristband… Continue Reading

Must See Monday – Events of the Month: June 2016

30th June 2016 This months Must See Monday looks ahead to 70’s music legends, Summer Festivals and Comedy spectaculars: Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4Week 5 WEEK 1 TIP OF THE WEEK  What: The Alternative Comedy Trio // Where: The Lantern // When:… Continue Reading

Review: ‘History History History’ a powerful aligning of the personal and universal at The Cube

19th May 2016 The French Revolution, The Plague, Orson Welles “fucking up his second film” are – as Canadian born theatre producer and playwright Deborah Pearson suggests – all contingent factors on which our individual existences are predicated. A straightforward… Continue Reading

Review: Hauntingly beautiful dance in ‘Da-da-Darling’ at Mayfest

 20th May 2016 Nestled between Shirehampton and Lawrence Weston, stands King Weston House, in all it’s stately grandeur. Formerly the home of the Southwell family (bought by Sir Robert Southwell back in 1670), the old estate must have been witness… Continue Reading

Review: ‘The Complete Deaths’ & the hilarity of mortality at Old Vic

    17th May 2016           The premise of this new production from Spymonkey was certainly an irresistible one: In commemoration of the 400 years since the Bard of Avon shuffled off this mortal coil, the Brighton based physical comedy troupe… Continue Reading