Archive For The “Brighton Festival” Category
Kicking off this year is a gallery of a few moments stolen from last year. Contained in the above slideshow are a selection of Brighton pictures that never made it online last year, including of the Children’s Parade that kicks off the festival, the…
At £20 per ticket, this event deserved a better sound system, but overhearing an earnest debate on who performed the original “Burning Down The House” – Talking Heads or Tom Jones? was worth the price of admission alone. Tony Allen of course played on neither version, but as Brian Eno pointed out in his introduction, 
I had the immense pleasure of seeing this man live tonight – Mr Tony Allen, the co-founder of Afrobeat and Fela Kuti’s former drummer. Although I arrived late to the show, the rhythms got me grooving immediately and the strains of the week fell off lik…
Even his most vehement detractors would concede that Martin Amis, on form, is one of the most brilliant writers we have. A master of the comic novel, and an inspiration to Will Self and Zadie Smith amongst countless others, he has also proved to be a provocative commentator; his views on our and other cultures [...]
Photo by secretlondon123Standing in my polling booth, the space where the white noise in my head that had been the huge quandry over who to vote for in Britain’s 2010 General Election finally dissipated and I was left with nothing but five boxes and a …
On Monday I went to a discussion/debate event, called “Judging a book: what makes good writing?”, that was part of Brighton Festival. The people on the panel were: author Sue Eckstein, Myriad’s Editor Vicky Blunden, literary agent Hannah Westland, Boo…
Fabrica in Brighton is presenting 77 Million Paintings as part of Brighton Festival 2010. Brian Eno is this year’s Guest Artistic Director and this free exhibition is running until the end of May. The exhibition uses translucent and richly coloured abstract images, mainly hand drawn on 35mm slides, to form component elements that are almost [...]
