Seagull Recommends 28/04
All the best events across the city
Hello and welcome back to Seagull Recommends! This week we've got a book launch, multiple festivals, and a talk of the town pertaining to The Great Escape. Enjoy!
By the way, we're having a launch party next month to celebrate our one year anniversary, 1,000 subscribers, the relaunch of our website and much more. Find out more below, and book your free ticket before they sell out.
If you come across anything coming up in the city that you think we should know about, let us know!
Seagull Recommends
🎶Gigs: Perch, a local DIY 'experimental art/math/indie/post/etc-rock' band are coming to The Hope and Ruin on Saturday, showcasing their third album The Magic Mountain—it's concept, it's inspired by trips to the Alps, it's exploring time and timelessness, it's going to be very good (tickets);
🎪Festivals: Foodies Festival is back at Preston Park this bank holiday weekend, with music from Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Scouting for Girls, and Martin Kemp, as well as GBBO chef Jurgen Krauss and local chefs from restaurants such as Seagull Recommended Little Fish Market and Isaac At (tickets); also this May bank holiday is Land Beyond, Brighton's first-ever electronic music festival (with camping)! Expect music from DNB All Stars, Andy C, LF System, Casey Spillman, Girls Don't Sync, and more (tickets).
🪩Club: This one's for everyone who played The Black Parade so much it stopped working: We Are Still Young emo club night is on Saturday! Music from My Chemical Romance, Paramore, New Found Glory, Hawthorne Heights, Blink 182, Fall Out Boy, Sum 41... the list goes on. Pass the black pencil eyeliner over when you're done with it (tickets)?
🎭Theatre: The Way Old Friends Do, a new comedy about devotion, desire and dancing queens, is at The Theatre Royal from Tuesday to Saturday. It is described as a heartfelt story that will appeal to anyone who how it feels to be a fan: of ABBA or of anyone. Set in the late 1980s, two Birmingham school friends tentatively come out: one as gay, the other - more shockingly - as an ABBA fan. Thirty years later, they reunite to form the world’s first ABBA tribute band – in drag (tickets).
🤣Comedy: Friend of The Seagull Dian Cathal is in Brighton on Sunday for a recording of their 2022 Brighton Fringe show, Generation Why, about the best and worst of the Millennial Generation & how Pokemon ruined us. All proceeds from the night will be donated towards Switchboard.org.uk, an LGBTQ crisis charity, and tickets are free.
🗣️Sound Affects: Sound Affects is back on Wednesday, with Adam & The Ants’ iconic drummer Dave Barbarossa, photographer Georgina Cook and synthwave artist Star Noir are all speaking. It's a night of talks about music and subcultures; all different genres, experiences and eras, so come with an open mind (tickets)!
🎨Life drawing: Next Tuesday, Bella Franks returns to the Feminist Bookshop for a life drawing workshop for all experience levels, with paper, charcoal, and a soft drink or tea included. All you need to bring is yourself and an open mind, but feel free to bring your own drinks and art supplies as well (tickets)!
🚴Bike ride: Tomorrow, Brighton & Hove Cycling Campaign, or Bricycles, are holding their first bike ride of the year! Meet at the Peace Statue in time to start at 2pm, following an easy route suitable for all ages and abilities–the group will go at the speed of the slowest person, so don't worry about being left behind. Make sure to check your bike is roadworthy beforehand here, and Bricycles will be on hand to pump any punctured tyres on the day.
📚Community library: Brighton Borrowers is a free to use community library of things, which aims to help our community deal with the cost of living as well as reduce our environmental impact. They are launching at the Open Market on Sunday from 11am, where people can find out more about how borrowing works. Membership and borrowing is free, though donations are encouraged for those who can afford it.
🍱Food: Team Seagull finally tried Earl's Sandwiches and it was everything we could have possibly asked for. Best bánh mì we've ever had!
🍻Drink: Our deputy editor went to a lovely pub! They said:
The Bees Mouth is lovely. Great vibe. Helpful and wonderful staff. Quirky decor. Very comfy chairs. Great place to pine over Pedro Pascal. Ask the bartender for recs!
Talk of the Town
The Great Escape & Italia Music Export Launch Party
Team Seagull were elated to be invited along to the launch event of The Great Escape at the Italian Cultural Institute in London’s beautiful Belgravia. Why not in Brighton, you might be asking? Because London has a gorgeous Italian Cultural Institute, and it made for a simply delightful venue for the night’s proceedings.
With cocktails from Nohrlund (a Danish company, but we won’t hold that against them), we had an entertaining evening listening to industry hotshots talking about the upcoming festival, and schmoozing with the attendees (and the bar staff, who loaded us up with cocktails to take away). We could not be more excited about the festival coming up in just two weeks, and we are beyond grateful to The Great Escape and the Italia Music Export for hosting such a dynamic, delicious, and devastatingly fun evening.
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