Seagull Recommends 05/05

Hello and welcome back to Seagull Recommends! This is our last regular recommends before it's all Fringe Fridays, so we hope you enjoy it.

By the way, have you booked your (free!) ticket for our party at the end of the month? If not, why not?!

If you come across anything coming up in the city that you think we should know about, let us know!

🎶Gigs: It's nearly time for The Great Escape! From Wednesday 10th to Saturday 13th the city will be abuzz with your next favourite band (you just don't know it yet). Buy a ticket and stumble from venue to venue to see the next big thing, or enjoy The Alternative Escape which is also a genuinely wonderful time. Or, why not both? Our editor is excited for Edie Bens, Pacific Avenue, Phoeve Go, Sorcha Richardson, Baby Cool, Katie Gregson-Macleod, Røry, She's In Parties, The Big Moon, Üla... and that's just her planned gigs for Thursday. There's so much good stuff happening everywhere all at once (tickets).

🤣Comedy: Bent Double, Komedia's longest running monthly comedy club, only has two shows left before its massive 18 year run ends. MC'd by Zoe Lyons, it's one of the best-known LGBTQ+ comedy nights on the circuit. The last (regular) dates are Sunday 7th May and Sunday 4th June (tickets).

👗Clothes swap: The Rose Hill is holding a clothes swap with a twist tomorrow: it's a party clothes swap! It's a zero waste, circular economy project organised by Sew Fabulous Brighton. There's pre-loved out out clothes as well as personal stylists on hand to help. Bring your (good condition, clean, party) clothes to swap and exchange them for tokens to spend (tickets).

🦻Audio trail: Hidden: Brighton, a youth-led project that's part of the Clock Tower Sanctuary, has created a four-part audio trail which takes visitors around familiar locations in the city and invites them to spend some time ear to ear with the voices of young people experiencing homelessness. Through this, listeners can get to know the people, their thoughts and ideas, and see Brighton through their eyes. Well, ears (tickets).

📚Book launch: The Feminist Bookshop is hosting Alice Slater on Wednesday, to celebrate the launch of her debut thriller Death Of A Bookseller.  The evening will begin with a short reading by Slater, followed by a discussion about her inspiration, our culture's obsession with true crime, the complexities of female friendship and more, and will end with a Q&A and book signing (tickets).

🍱Food: The weather keeps getting nicer and nicer, and we're craving Gelato Gusto: lychee sorbeto, cookies and cream gelato, banoffee vegan gelato... it's time to queue round the block for some delicious sweet treats.

☕️Coffee: Stoney Point is a really nice little tucked away coffee shop, right on the border of Brighton and Hove in Montpelier Place. They brew Monmouth coffee, as well as a variety of single estate coffees, and their espresso changes according to the crop, season and flavour profiles, they have very good things on toast, the music always introduces our editor to something new and fun each time, and the staff are just lovely (big up Jez!). Only open 8am to 1pm Monday to Friday and 10am to 2pm Saturday and Sunday, worth getting up early for.