Seagull Recommends 15/07

Hello and welcome back to Seagull Recommends!

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

🏳️‍⚧️Trans Pride: Trans Pride is this weekend! Proceedings kick off on Friday, with a fundraiser for Trans Pride at Arcobaleno—from 7:30pm, expect performances from Ahno, Under the Ivy, Limbslacker and Sekinue; on Saturday, meet for the protest march from 11am, with speeches at 11:30am—the march starts at midday, and the route is below; Saturday afternoon will involve a speaker stage in Jubilee Square, performances and community stalls in the Brighton Dome Corn Exchange from 1pm to 6pm, a family picnic area in Dorset Gardens with community stalls, acoustic and spoken word performances, and community stalls, a dance tent and a bar in New Steine Gardens; the after party venue is the Corn Exchange, Saturday evening from 7pm to late, organised by Traumfrau (tickets).

🎶Gigs: Psych-pop, prog rock and heavy garage Australians, Psychedelic Porn Crumpets, are at Concorde 2 on Wednesday (tickets); Amsterdam fuzzy pop post punkers, The Klittens, are at The Hope and Ruin this Thursday (tickets); theatrical rockers silktape are at The Prince Albert this Friday, for just £7 (tickets)!

🤣Comedy: Forge Comedy Club is back this Friday at Ironworks Studios, with comedy from Gbemi Oladipo, Kate McGann, Jonathan Elston, Dave Wilder, and MC Stephen Grant (tickets).

🍻Beer Festival: The Brunswick Summer Beer Festival is back for another year! At Brunswick Pub from Friday to Sunday, expect 15 cask ales, 20 keg craft bears, 8 ciders, food from Freds Kitchen, and live music. No tickets needed!

🎙️Talk: Robert Jeeves of Step Back in Time, and Andy Garth of Brighton & Hove Stuff will be giving a talk at West Hill Hall tomorrow evening, with photos of the West Hill and Seven Dials area from the early 1900s onwards. Doors are at 7pm, tickets are £5 on the door with a subsidised bar.

🎨Collage Club: A perennial Seagull favourite, Cult Milk's Collage Club returns to The Hope and Ruin this Tuesday. Drop in from 6pm to 9pm, bring some magazines to donate if you can, and unwind and have fun while making a lovely collage. Or a terrifying collage. Up to you, really. Beer prizes available, and entry is free!

🍱Food and drink: Adam went to Red Fish on Trafalgar Street:

I had a Turkish tea that was very nice, it was very strong, and I also had, they have these specific sort of Turkish pastry, it's really nice. It's got all the pictures everywhere which are very sweet, drawn by customers, it's just very cosy and pleasant.

☕️Coffee: Some members of Team Seagull also went to Blend & Brew on Trafalgar Street:

The only place where you can blend into a rainforest. Plug sockets, upside down. Cosy! What is there to say? I feel like I say that every time you ask me. A very soothing ambient drone. And they just swapped to jazz, but we did have ambient music and that was quite nice, it did feel like I was listening to Selected Ambient Works 85-92. The thing about the coffee is that it was just coffee, which is a good thing. The beautiful thing about a lot of these coffee shops around North Laine is the coffee is just coffee. You know what you're going to get, especially if you're like us and you get the same thing everywhere you go. The sweet vanilla was very sweet.