Surfer Blood play indie rock. That may not sound very interesting or particularly new – somehow though, they managed to be both of these things. The band’s auditory landscape swept from one corner to another. The jaunty nature of The Talking Heads
The best thing about The Great Escape is that you can stumble across a new favourite band almost by accident. And that is certainly what happened with Avi Buffalo, as the late cancellation by The Slits meant their UK debut set was moved into
The bassist is often the most maligned and neglected member of a band. Generally characterised as a wannabe guitarist, the list of legendary rock bassists is usually limited to the likes of Sting, Mark King, Lemmy and Phil Lynott. But San
Crowdsurfing and floor-bouncing at The Great Escape – who would have thought it? Well, possibly The Cribs as they know how to pick an opener. Hey Scenesters! came out of the blocks with an unrivalled release of energy to shatter the interim chatter.
One of the Great Escape’s main attractions is seeing usually civil spots transformed into sweaty, packed-out music hubs. Walk into Terraces on Marine Parade at any other time of the year and it’ll be chock-a-block with emotion-wrapped lovers gazing
I’d wondered how long it would be before the magical Great Escape line would be gently whispered into my ear. And barely five minutes into my first show, out it came, uttered with not a hint of irony, sharp as an A&R man’s dagger. “Just you wait,”
Ollie Rayner will make his first Championship appearance of the season next week full of confidence after leading Sussex to victory over Cambridge MCCU at Fenner's today. The 24-year-old off-spinner will replace Monty Panesar against Northamptonshire
The day the railway from London first came to town was one of the greatest in all Brighton’s long history. It happened on September 21, 1841, and large crowds gathered on hills near the new station to watch the first train leave for London at dawn
This card was posted in August 1939 from sunny Brighton only weeks before the Second World War started. It was sent in by Chris Fruin of The Drive, Hove, who laments the loss of the popular boating pool in the foreground. Behind it stands the West Pier
Deep beneath the Alps, an international team of scientists are mucking about with a big hadron collider in search of a Higgs-Botox molecule or something. Meanwhile, in the rather less dramatic locale of Hertfordshire, Professor Richard Wiseman
Queen Elizabeth, Hermann Goering and Cliff Richard – an unlikely trio perhaps, but they all have one thing in common – they’re all said to have graced the Spread Eagle Hotel in Midhurst with their presence. Tucked away in a quiet pocket
I started Patcham High School about a month ago and had work experience last week. I did my work experience at Scope. Scope is a charity organisation that supports disabled people and specifically people with cerebral palsy. Cerebral Palsy is a group
The messages that have stuck around in 40 years of environmental campaigning are worryingly thin on the ground – recycling, energy-saving light bulbs, and that’s about it. It’s not hugely inspiring, especially considering the wealth of adventures
This piece by acclaimed playwright Nick Warburton needed little in the way of lavish scenery to support itself. The rudimentary setting of a compartment carriage on a steam train gave a strong retelling on its first of a three-night run. Robin Saiki
It kind of defeats the object, but if you don’t enter the National Lottery you are much more likely to get the result of numbers you want! Lorraine Forbes Belmore Road, Eastbourne
Brighton and Hove City Council wants to revive an old by-law so it can prosecute drivers parking on grass verges (The Argus, April 9). I think the council should channel its efforts in to sorting the traveller problem first. Do travellers get prosecuted
I was rushed into the Royal Sussex County hospital last Saturday/Sunday morning (May 8/9) at 1am as an emergency. I was surprised and disgusted by of the number of drunks up there and the amount of swearing. As I was wheeled in there was a drunk arguing
I would like to say a big thank you to all the staff at Marks & Spencer in Western Road Brighton, I arrived there with my dad at 5.50pm on Friday, May 7 ,not realising the store shut at 6pm. I had a lot of shopping to get because my mum was unwell.
A few years ago, while looking out of my kitchen window into the back garden, I noticed feathers floating to the ground. On the lawn lay a collared dove and sitting above it on my washing line was a peregrine falcon. It hopped down, proceeded to pluck
With reference to the letter from Matt Russell (Letters, May 10) about the Wild Planet exhibition – Mr Russell, please note the following: It is an exhibition, not a shop. It is accessible for locals and visitors. It is free, not paid for, as in a building
Our party, the University Of The Third Age (U3A) visited Amberley recently. We visited the South East Energy Board/ EDF Electicity Museum. Several plates are displayed, such as those of Hastings and Southwick power stations. I wondered where the foundation
Keep Sussex Skating voices its need, or rather more accurately its demand, for a skating arena in Brighton or Hove (Letters 10 May). Where does it think funding for the building and its running costs will come from? Brighton and Hove City Council is
Following the general election I have looked at the results for the Sussex constituencies. Some interesting results provide a comparison between the First Past the Post (FPP) and Proportional Representation (PR) electoral systems. Under
I would like to say a word of thanks to my bus driver, John who works at Compass and drives the 106 Worthing to Henfield via Steyning and Lancing service. He is well liked by his passengers. Like his fellow driver Peter, he drops his passengers off
I would like to know where people come off expecting bus travellers to help with bus fares. The other day I was waiting for a bus and a man needed money to make up his fare. Initially he was polite in asking for money. But he soon became aggressive,
May I express my sadness through your paper at the passing of the good old- fashioned game of bingo. The clubs now prefer to sell you computers and touchpads to play. Of course, you don’t play them, as they do everything for you. So boring. Plus they
Why am I not shocked to read (The Argus, May 8) that a woman was robbed at knifepoint early in the evening at one of Brighton’s “remotely controlled” car parks, namely Trafalgar Street. I think that whoever in Brighton and Hove City Council decided
Why are Brighton bus fares so expensive? A Saver ticket is only good value if you want to stay on a bus all day long. But I don’t – I just want to go there and back. For £6, I can buy a return rail ticket to London. So I will, and I’ll spend my money
With reference to Melanie Nowocin’s letter (Letters, April 28): I think readers may wish to know that Polish Servicemen were used to insults. All three Polish armed Service branches were excluded from the Victory Parade in London in 1945. The British
I know the Royal Sussex County Hospital has had some bad press recently. However, I admitted myself to the A&E department on Friday night (May 7) with severe abdominal pain and I was very impressed with the service I received. I saw a GP twice, then
“I might join the Government”, proclaims Caroline Lucas on the front page of The Argus (May 10). How extraordinary. I wonder what the people in Brighton who voted Green make of this? Dr Lucas also tells us: “I hope my election will give me an independent
I agree with Adam Trimingham that a period of austerity lies ahead. It makes sense to grasp a nettle that has grown for decades. Bureaucracy is a curse which must now be addressed. We cannot continue to allow vast amounts of public money to be wasted
The queen of Brighton's tearooms is hanging up his tiara and tea towel to concentrate on a new business venture. David Daly has sold the iconic Tea Cosy in George Street, Kemp Town, and will serve his last customers there on May 24.
Godfrey Reggio’s film Koyaanisqatsi, a Hopi word meaning life out of balance, was released in 1982. Wow, what a long time ago! Those execs wearing loud check suits, that Sony Betamax ad – took you back, eh? Not really. This beautiful movie-without-words
Argus 2 for 1 offers Today War Notes at Freerange Tomorrow Uncle Vanya at Brighton Dome Monday Die Roten Punkte at Komedia
From the reminiscences of an elderly music hall star to a divorcee who’s learning to release her inner diva, Brighton Festival’s Platform has again turned up an intriguing body of new work. Launched by festival artistic director Andrew Comben when he
Patcham Junior School is enjoying yet another sporting success as the Year Six Football team faces Westdean Primary School in the final of the Fitzgerald Cup today. This follows a string of recent victories on the sports field. Last term, the
“Meet me on the platform and we’ll take the train to somewhere, don’t be late the train to somewhere only arrives once a year.” With this in mind we must seize the moment and live in the here and now, according to Theatre 21. Using physical theatre
Slashing red tape and reducing paperwork will be at the heart of new Policing Minister Nick Herbert’s plans to overhaul law enforcement, the Sussex MP has revealed. Mr Herbert, MP for Arundel and South Downs, told The Argus he was “very excited” about
Heavy rainfall has left large swathes of the county without any Blue Flag beaches. Although Brighton’s West Street beach held on to the award for the fourth year and Hove Lawns recaptured its lost flag, every resort to the east of the city failed to
A takeaway boss has been warned he’s had his chips if he keeps selling food after midnight. Rafael Margosyan, who runs the Armani Fish and Chip bar in Brighton, has been caught selling fast food after hours three times so far this year. He has now
Albion will play Premier League side Sunderland in a pre-season friendly in Portugal. The Seagulls will face Steve Bruce’s team at the 5,000-capacity Estadio Municipal de Albufeira on Wednesday July 21, with an evening kick-off expected at
Seagulls across Sussex are being shot and killed in their dozens. Bird protection groups have offered a £5,000 reward to catch the gunmen responsible for the deaths of up to 50 gulls in a string of attacks across the county in the last fortnight. The
Steve Ibbitson has admitted he would love to bring Simon Wormull back to Lewes. The one-time Tottenham midfielder was part of the Rooks squad that won Blue Square south in 2008 and is currently playing for Farnborough under former Lewes manager Steven
Police searching the home of a murdered prostitute found more than £37,000 in cash. Andrea Waddell, 29, was strangled at her flat in Brighton, in October last year. The first-floor flat in Upper Lewes Road was then set alight before her killer fled
A woman injured in a car crash is suing the driver who died. Erica Rutter, 27, was a passenger in Clayton Harffey's car when he ploughed into a tree. Mr Harffey, 32, died in the crash and front seat passenger Ms Rutter, of Church Marks Lane, East Hoathley
A sexual health charity has urged football fans to stay safe ahead of the World Cup. The warning comes after research by Brighton’s Terrence Higgins Trust South, revealed one in ten 18 to 34-year-olds drink so much during sports events they can’t remember
A schoolgirl is seriously ill in hospital after she was knocked down outside a police station. The 14-year-old had just got off a bus and was crossing the road when she was struck. Last night she was being treated at Great Ormond Street Hospital for
Two teenage friends died when their car crashed and they were thrown through the side window. Jack Fuller, 18, and his best friend Maurice McMahon, 19, were killed when the vehicle smashed into a concrete bollard and rolled over. Yesterday police crash
Worthing insist it was more important to save the club rather than to try to tempt Simon Colbran to stay. Colbran quit as manager on Wednesday after claiming the budget he was given for next season was unworkable. But the club’s financial problems go
David Norris has told the world’s top referee to show him the red card if he tries to ride in his own farewell meeting. But Eastbourne Eagles’ all-time record points scorer admits he has still not ruled out a return to his beloved local club. Norris
The number of people threatened with having their homes repossessed has plunged. In Brighton and Hove, 50 repossession orders were made by the courts in the first quarter of the year – down 43% on the same period last year. Latest figures from the Ministry
Thieves are using heavy machinery to steal street lanterns around Brighton and Hove. More than 60 lanterns have been stolen in the last week. It is thought they may be being sold on, or broken up for scrap. Brighton and Hove City Council said the thefts
A Hove man who told police he was a suicide bomber about to blow up two central London embassies has been jailed for 15 months. Abdelkader Sahli made the hoax bomb threat against the Tunisian and Iranian embassies in a 999 call on August 24 last year
The McCarthy era, when thousands of Americans with Communist sympathies suddenly found themselves imprisoned or unemployed because of the so-called witchhunts, threw up many villains. But few could boast of being equally despised by the left and the
Second Life is a place where all the shortcomings of your reality can be addressed with a simple click of a mouse. Short, divorced and working in a job you hate? Create a glamorous avatar to lead the life you wish you had on your computer screen
Previous solo show The Art Of Catastrophe saw Rachel Blackman portray with humour and heartrending candour the chaotic internal and external worlds of a woman whose life was collapsing around her. In the follow-up, the Brighton-based writer and performer
The European tour has been a coming-of-age rite of passage for young Americans ever since the jazz age when writers, musicians and artists traversed the continent searching for intellectual enlightenment and left-wing bohemianism. F Scott Fitzgerald
A 999 operator heard a man being attacked in Brighton after he called police for help. The 34-year-old suffered serious injuries on his face in Queen's Park, Brighton, at 2am. A Sussex Police spokesman said: "He had dropped his mobile
Cricket manager Mark Robinson admits he is in limbo about the Sussex futures of both Rana Naved and fellow Pakistani Yasir Arafat. Rana could extend his stay beyond May 22, when the short-term contract he signed as cover for Arafat, expires. But that
"Manchester has always been a very fertile area, it's always had a music scene. Maybe it's to do with the fact it is a university town, and it's always bloody raining so you have got to stay inside and take part in enforced jamming with your mates."
While the supposed antichrist Johnny Rotten fronts Country Life butter ads, the scribe his band denounced as the establishment’s voice remains the opinionated hack he always was. “Radiohead are the only major band who excite me now,” says former
"This is the most overtly romantic piece I’ve ever written,” Simon Stephens proclaims of his Brighton Festival world premiere Marine Parade. From a playwright who has made his name with sardonic, angry works concerned with middle-class school shootings
The temptation to peek through people’s windows when the curtains aren’t drawn is one most of us find hard to resist. David Rosenberg certainly holds his hand up to it. It’s this sense of voyeurism that informs Electric Hotel, the outdoor spectacle
It may not have the theatre’s literary power and narrative complexity, but Hofesh Shechter believes contemporary dance has the capacity to unearth deeper emotions. The head of Brighton Dome’s resident company, whose new world premiere, commissioned
One might be forgiven for thinking an opera was a strange place to examine a subject as sensitive as dementia. But director John Fulljames of The Opera Group believes that their Brighton Festival world premiere of The Lion’s Face is well within the
Adam Quinn has turned down a move into the Football League to commit his future to Crawley. The central defender revealed that he had spoken to a League Two club based in the north of England and two Conference outfits. Quinn, who joined Reds in 2008
See our historic houses, museums and art galleries from a different angle at the Museums At Night event this weekend. The annual celebration of UK culture, which ties in with the European event of the same name, aims to encourage people to make the
A bout of soul-searching normally follows a relationship split. But it takes a certain character to turn the introspection to comedy to share in public. Born in Glasgow to a Scottish father and a Belfast-bred mother, it’s no surprise to hear the
We needed a pretty big venue,” Jon Regan explains, “you know, for the iceberg.” For their third show, musical comedy trio Pluck re-imagine the story of the musicians who famously played on while the Titanic met its fate. “There seemed to be a
Normally when the audience is asked to pitch questions at the end of these talk events there comes a flurry of banalities which range from minute plot queries thrown by frustrated trainspotters to shameless, outright declarations of love from
He's probably best known today as the flamboyant turban-wearing occasional host of the Late Review and former roving reporter for The One Show. But the charismatic Scot’s life has long been tied up with food, not just professionally as a director on
It has been a good week for Sussex’s wicketkeepers as the battle to replace Matt Prior when he links up with England intensifies. Last weekend Andy Hodd made a Championship hundred against Middlesex and followed it two days later with an impressive 91
On a night when Theresa May’s appointment to the Home Office is described as “eyecatching” by the BBC’s Michael Crick, and the London Evening Standard lists the clothes and accessories “Sam Cam” chooses for the school run (before arranging the furniture
“When people come to see me I don’t want them to just have a good time. I also want them to have something to think about and discuss the next day. I don’t want them just to laugh and forget it.” So says Swedish stand-up comedian Magnus Betnér
Circolombia is one of the most exciting circus troupe’s around and a must-see for the 2010 Brighton Festival Fringe. It is a refreshing far cry from the traditional Big Top and recycles the strength of ex gymnasts and former dancers to create perfectly
The rise of Lady Gaga must have been a dream for the Lady Boys Of Bangkok. Not only is her music a perfect combination of disco stomp and camp choreography, there is also her out-of-this-world look and those tabloid rumours. She is just one of the
A former teashop which served cakes to Sir Winston Churchill has reopened to the public as part of Artists’ Open Houses. An exhibition of artists’ work is being shown at Dobells Farm Studio in Middelton Common Lane, Ditchling Common, Ditchling
Albion boss Gus Poyet has dismissed a report linking him with Portsmouth and insisted: “I want to stay here long term”. Poyet, currently under contract until next summer, expects to agree a new four-year deal with the Seagulls when he returns from a
Join us from 10.30am today for live coverage of Sussex's friendly against Cambridge MCCU and the final day at Fenner's. Click onto Cricket, Live Cricket and then the link at the top of the page.
Join us from 10.30am for live coverage of the final day of Sussex's friendly against Cambridge MCCU at Fenner's.
Sussex pair Mike Yardy and Luke Wright played their part as England stormed into the final of the ICC World Twenty20 with a crushing seven-wicket win over Sri Lanka at Beausejour Stadium. Yardy conceded just 21 runs from his four overs as Sri Lanka were
