The clubbing scene in Brighton is amongst the best in the UK. Whatever your into: house, techno, electro, drum and bass, grime, breaks, minimal, latin, soul, funk, dub, reggae or electronica - Brighton clubs have it all.
Below you'll find previews of the all the best club nights in Brighton and Sussex.
Truly a shindig that looks as terrifying as it does unmissable, Brighton's own asylum for ill-advisedly quiffed rockabilly madmen meets a fierce friend in the form of London's Gypsy Hotel.
Having previously fallen foul of sudden grant withdrawals, the Brighton Hip-Hop Festival returns this week in the form of Rising Styles, continuing the not-for-profit promotion of beats, rhymes and life by the sea.
Goldie's string of releases on his record label and classic 1995 debut, Timeless, are of sufficiently disparate quality to his second LP and dabbles in art to make him a genuinely divisive figure.
For someone who has invited ravers to clamber onto four-poster beds, enlisted spidermen to scale the walls of some of Brighton's biggest venues and let the city's finest drag queen run riot with a guitar on stage, Jan King's daredevil clubnights were inspired by mundane beginnings.
Audio's Summer Of Love 2008 continues with Riton. He was the first non-hip-hop
act to be signed to Manchester's sorely missed Grand Central label and his debut longplayer, Communicated, was hailed by everyone from Laurent Garnier to Ewan Pearson.
This will be the debut Brighton show from Busy P, aka Pedro Winter, who is as famous for managing Daft Punk for the past 12 years as he is for his own music.
"We've really cut down on the fat compared to the first album. We love that record but it's a bit more of a journey," says The Presets' Kim Moyes of the Australian electro duo's sophomore release, Apocalypso. "We wanted this one to be a real slam-dunk, so you put it on and it grabs you straight away.
UK magazine Classic Rock is teaming up with long-established club night Brighton Rock to
bring you "a full-throttle night
of guitar-fuelled debauchery".
Headliners Pendulum (DJ set) are a drum 'n' bass trio from Perth, Australia, who grew up playing in punk and metal bands. Their debut album Hold You Colour sold almost a quarter of
a million copies and its follow-up, In Silico, finally arrived in May. It reached number two
in the UK charts despite receiving mixed reviews and
saw the boys incorporating
even more rock and electronic influences into their sound.
