MUSIC

Andy Jordan

Concorde 2, Madeira Drive, Brighton Doors 7pm. Tickets £11. Call 01273 673311

The Argus: MADE In Chelsea star Andy Jordan takes his acoustic guitar-powered pop out on the road to show there’s more to him than, in Zoolander’s words, “being really, really, ridiculously good looking”.

 

Radioland: Kraftwerk’s Radio-Activity Revisited

Komedia, Gardener Street, Brighton. Doors 7.30pm. Tickets £10. Call 0845 2938480.
The Argus: Radioland was born – a concert using Radio-Activity as its starting point and using vintage analogue synthesisers and a vocoder to explore the central concepts of the album. Support from Radio 9.

 

EVENTS & EXHIBITIONS

Leon Underwood: Figure And Rhythm

Pallant House Gallery, North Pallant, Chichester. From 10am to 5pm. Entry from £4.25. Call 01243 774557.

The Argus:

PAINTINGS, etchings, wood engravings and sculptures feature in the first major museum retrospective for 40 years of British artist Leon Underwood.

Underwood, who died in 1975, has been described as the precursor of modern sculpture in Britain. This exhibition, with one painting pictured inset, explores his non-Western art influences and his creation of the Brook Green School Of Drawing whose pupils included Henry Moore and Eileen Agar.

 

John McKean: The Impossibility Of Truly Seeing What Is In Front Of The Eyes

House Of Friendship, High Street, Lewes. From 9.30am to 1.30pm. Entry free. Call 01273 476469.

The Argus:

BRIGHTON-BASED photographer John McKean captures images which make you look twice, in an exhibition based around optical illusions rather than post-production trickery.

 

Dean Zeus Colman: Pills 

Prescription Art Gallery, Beaconsfield Parade, Brighton. Open: 11am to 7pm. It's FREE. www.prescriptionart.com 

The Argus: FORMER street artist Zeus has drawn on his memories of growing up during the 1980s explosion of club culture for his new exhibition of hand-sculpted over-sized ecstasy pills made from plaster and printed with their own authentic branding.

“I was fascinated by how despite being illegal, branded culture was so integral to this scene – with logos of every type identifying the different pills available,” he says.

“In the same way that people have favourite sweets growing up, people looked for their preferred brand of tablets for their night out.”

 

Three Dimensions 

Ink_d, North Road, Brighton. Open: 10am to 6pm. It's FREE. Call: 01273 645299 

BRIGHTON’s Ink_d art gallery is celebrating all things 3D ranging from ceramics to sculpture in a new group show, featuring contributions from Matt Smith, Dan Baldwin, Paul Scott, Gilles Buxton, Maria Rivans, Petro, Andy Doig and Graham Carter.

 

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Jubilee Library, Jubilee Square, Brighton. From 10am to 7pm. It's FREE. facebook.com/BrightonandHoveCityLibraries

PART-TIME students in City College Brighton And Hove’s Art And Design Foundation course will be displaying and selling their artwork in a variety of media from next week.

 

Sussex Beer and Cider Festival

Brighton Dome Corn Exchange, Church Street. Until Saturday, March 21. Today open 11am to 3pm and 5pm to 11pm. Tickets from £6. Call 01273 709709.

MORE than 170 real ales will be on offer as Sussex Beer And Cider Festival celebrates its 25th anniversary in a new home. Add to that more than 70 different bottled beers plus in excess of 50 ciders and perries, and the seasoned connoisseur will be left with an agony of choice over the weekend. This year’s silver anniversary event is in aid of Blind Veterans UK.  Visit sussexbeerfestival.co.uk for the full lists.

 

STAGE

Hairspray

Pavilion Theatre, Marine Parade, Worthing. Matinees at 2.30pm. Tonight at 7.30pm. Tickets from £12. Call 01903 206206

SET in early 1960s Baltimore as rock and roll was ending and social change beginning, Worthing Musical Theatre Company’s new production of Hairspray follows big-haired Tracy Turnblad’s dream of becoming a dancer. 

 

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Marlborough Theatre, Princes Street, Brighton. Starts 7.30pm. Tickets £12. Call 01273 273870

APOLLO Productions reimagine Shakespeare’s tragic love story of Romeo And Juliet for the 21st century setting it on a troubled housing estate with a reggae and hip hop soundtrack.

 

Brenda Bly – Teen Detective
Devonshire Park Theatre, Compton Street, Eastbourne. Starts 7.30pm. Tickets £10/£8. Call 01323 412000

MOIRA House Girls School present this 1950s musical spoof as the schoolgirl detective searches for clues after the lead of the end of term musical is flattened by a sandbag.

 

SICK FESTIVAL

Woe

Brighton Dome Studio Theatre, New Road. Starts 8pm. Tickets £12/£10. Call 01273 699733.

A TRIO of teenagers talk about memories of childhood neglect and abuse, accompanied by Edit Kaldor’s scientific representations of what is happening in their bodies and brains.