Seagull Recommends 26/02

Hello and welcome back to Seagull Recommends! We know, we know: Seagull Recommends on a Monday? We're moving to a different cycle of recommendations on a Monday and your weekly briefing on a Friday. Let us know what you think!

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

🎶Gigs: Allie X is doing a signing and performance at Resident tonight at 6:30pm to celebrate her latest album, Girl With No Face (tickets); Fizz are at Chalk this Thursday, a collective of musicians and friends: dodie, Orla Gartland, Greta Isaac and Martin Luke Brown (tickets).

🎵Cabaret: Bad Clap Cabaret is at The Hope and Ruin on Tuesday. Held by Laurie Black and Clap Back Club, they're putting on a night of cabaret, drag, live music and more. Doors at 7pm (tickets)!

👩‍🍳Cookery class: Brighton Cookery School is holding a couples cooking class on Friday. Together you’ll cook an array of classic Greek dishes, then dine together. Cooks get prosecco on arrival, with bottomless wine and beer throughout. You'll make spanakopita, lamb slouvlaki, and warm honey pudding with pistachio ice cream (tickets).

🛍️Market: The vegan market at The Open Market returns this Saturday,
Enjoy exploring a brilliant range of plant-based bites and a fantastic range of gifts, crafts, beauty and other treats.FREE entry. 10am - 5pmWe have plenty of excellent traders each month that we host alongside our regular Saturday vendors.
Come down for brunch, lunch, a snack and a good browse of plenty of fab stalls.BOM is a diverse and vibrant independent market with units selling a variety of products. The vegan market, featuring these stalls, is a special monthly event and is 100% vegan.

🎼Instrument sale: This Saturday, Emmaus in Portslade is holding a musical instrument sale. They have everything from fixer-uppers to collectables: flutes, recorders, accordions, keyboards, drumkits, all sorts of percussion instruments, musical paraphernalia, and many more. Doors open at 9:30am, arrive early to avoid disappointment.

🍱Food: Curryoke at The Hope and Ruin is back for 2024! Food from 5-9pm on Tuesday, Karaoke from 7pm to late. Mini papads, house-made onion bhajis, mango chutney, raita plant-based butter 'chicken', tarka dhal, basmati rice, plus the regular menu. Drink deals too: Amstel and Heineken for £4, house spirit with mixer for £5, and Tuaca 3 for 2 for £7.

🍻Drink: We desperately need to get an oat latte and hole up at Bond Street Coffee with a book and watch the world go by for a few hours. In the window seat, obviously. It's the best one.

The Seagull had the pleasure of attending The Foundry for the launch party for Corponation, the buzzy new PC game from friends of The Seagull, local game developers Canteen. Everyone was wearing suits as befits a game about working in a corporate nation, and in their well-libated state they were admonishing me to “work hard”. Many congratulations to Sam and Vicki for all their hard work, and readers who are interested in Corponation can purchase it on Steam (it's currently on sale for 20% off!).