Reclaiming Chaplin's moustache for comedy, Richard Herring - the star of The Headmaster's Son and 90s double act Lee & Herring - muses on iconography, whether racists are closer than Liberals to believing that all people are the same and why an innocent square inch of facial hair has taken the blame for Nazism.
by: Mike Cobley
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Former Fist Of Fun Comic Courts Controversy
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 A Bullet Each For Marriage & Society
'Hedda Gabler…Hedda Gabler…Hedda Gabler’ , whispers the voice of the lover to his ex mistress - a sexual roughness in his voice matches the quiver in hers - and you could hear a pin drop in the long pause that fell upon the stage at the end of his words.
Hedda (Rosamund Pike) and Loevborg (Colin Tierney) are watched by her husband, Tessman (Robert Glenister) and Judge Brack (Tim McInnery).
As they stare at the couple on...
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 LGBT Students Marched With Support From PM
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has sent a personal message of support to everyone who attended this weekend's National Student Pride in Brighton.
In a written letter he hoped that everyone had “a fantastic weekend” before going on to confirm his support of gay students.
Confirming his – and the Labour Party's - belief in eq...
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 Groove Like An Egyptian With The Spatials
Sun Ra may have claimed to have sourced his musical landscape from the surface of Saturn, but Jerry Dammers' Spatial AKA Orchestra's reinterpretation of the great man's material was simply out of this world at Brighton Dome (05/03).
To many Dammers will be perpetually frozen in time circa 1979 to 1981, but in many ways his current incarnation of arranger, bandleader and performer is producing more forward thinking a...
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 Kodo: One Earth Tour Came To Brighton
…As the show reaches its climax the heaving sweating men, clutching great drum sticks the width of small trees, are beating and beating and beating and beating away at the great huge drum that dwarfs them (it would fill your living room) as they lean back in some kind of wild yoga stance and raise their arms time after time and the air fills with the noise, the great booming resonance – Yet it is not just the sound but the movement and the architecture of it all, both sound and presence has a sculptural quality so hard to pin down, and so finally they stop, the crowd roars and are on their feet, it is all over.
Many years ago a group of people disillusioned with the state of Japanese culture moved out to a remote island in the Sea of Japan. The Island was called Sado, a one-time commerci...
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 Shhh! It's Trailer Trash’s First Birthday Bash!
It’s Trailer Trash's first birthday at Komedia and the cult movie-themed club extravaganza is celebrating in style on Saturday 20 March with their most exquisitely decadent theme yet – Baz Luhrmann!
All the best bits from the director's films such as Moulin Rouge, Romeo and Juliet and Strictly Ballroom will be up on the big screen, setting the tone for a truly fabulous evening.
Along w...
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 Sussex Country Estate Contracts Oscars Fever!
Preparations for a sizzling evening of music and comedy are full speed ahead at Firle Place.
A performance of “Whose Oscar Is It Anyway?” from the Golden Age of Hollywood will be performed on 5th June to raise funds for local hospices.
Firle Place, the home of...
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 James Mason To Fight For King Of The Ring Title
Grappling fans are getting ready to rumble again when wrestling returns to the Brighton Centre on March 14.
And among the big names fighting for the King of the Ring title on the Sunday afternoon spectacular will be James Mason, one of Britain’s top stars, who made his last Brighton appearance 14 yea...
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 Musical Minimalist Presents 'Nightbook'
It is our great misfortune to announce that such was the power, wonder and beauty of Ludovico Einaudi's 'Nightbook' performance of modern classical/ avant-garde music (Dome Concert Hall, Sunday 28th Feb,) that our reviewer was so taken with such beauty simply flung his belongings into the air and ran off into the streets screaming something about the beauty of ideas and the horror of the ownership of the tangible and so thus consumable product.
So brilliant was the work in question that the idea of writing one of his usual fumbling attempts to get grips with a great moment of the arts, to somehow transform it into mere words was too m...
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 Broken Social Scene: Award-Winning Rockers
The team behind Europe's most anticipated new music festival and industry conference event, The Great Escape, is offering over 150 volunteers the chance to gain first-hand experience of life working in the music industry in a variety of key areas over the course of this year’s festival.
With more than 350 bands set to tear it up across more than 30 Brighton venues, this May, the prestigious annual festival will take place at a panoply of the best venues that the city has to of...
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 Seun Kuti Keeps His Dad's Afrobeat Flag Flying
What does a man who seemingly has it all - and even then reinvents it and receives it again – give himself for his 62nd birthday? Well, in the case of this year's Brighton Festival curator, Brian Eno, it's an evening of Afrobeat.
Afrobeat, which is a combination of Yoruba music, jazz, highlife, and funk rhythms, fused with percussion and vocal styles, popularised in Africa in the 1970s, came into being via the Nigerian multi-i...
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