Bloomsbury Street Open House

One of the best things about the May festival is undoubtedly the Open House Trail. With so many to visit you want to be sure not to miss out on the best.

One not to miss is Bloomsbury Street that is exhibiting work by over 10 artists including Brighton favourites Anna Tilson, Ken Eardley, Liz Toole and Nigel Peake who currently has a collection at Habitat.

The range of work on show includes ceramics, urban screen prints, contemporary paintings, jewellery, vintage crockery mosaics and knitted accessories. For a full list of artists see the Bloomsbury Street website.

12 Bloomsbury Street
11am - 6pm
every Saturday and Sunday in May
Cake also available!!

Brighton Folk: Pinkyvision

Psychedelic skulls, fresh prints and paper magic on the beach brought to you by the incredible Pinkyvision experience.

Having recently relocated to Brighton, Pinkyvision has exploded with a whirl of electric colours in East London, Berlin, Seattle, Brighton and for The Big Chill, Dior, Justin Timberlake and Darth Vadar (o yes)!

Pinky's first Brighton show was at Toy Life in June last year and you might recognise his work from elsewhere in Brighton.

Describing his work as a "vision [that] takes in the city and the sea, pattern and shape and you and me, it’s art for everyone", you're best taking in the full story at the Pinkyvision website



Buy work from the Pinkyvision website or Ink_D

Brighton restaurants hit the top spot

We reported last week that Brighton was the top UK city for Music and this week it seems our restaurants are also top spot! OpenTable has announced that Brighton’s Momma Cherri restaurant has made it into their Top 10 Booked Restaurant List. Momma Cherri shot to fame on Gordon Ramsey’s Hell’s Kitchen TV programme in 2005 and quickly became a popular Brighton eatery.

OpenTable is a world wide dining network that allows you to search for availability in real-time and reserve a table instantly. Other Brighton restaurants in the OpenTable network include The Arrogant Frog, The Meadow, and the Saint Restaurant, Food for Friends, Blanch House, Indian Summer, Camelia Restaurant @ South Lodge Hotel and Sevendials.

Now there's no reason to miss out on a table at one of Brighton's finest restaurants!
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RadioReverb: Fifty Non-Stop Hours Of Celebration & Fund-Raising

RadioReverb has been broadcasting on FM for twelve months and is preparing to celebrate in style.

Its ‘Up & Out’ breakfast team are to mark the event with a big, gay, caffeine fuelled, sleep depravation experiment.

Presenters Cat & Chris will attempt to broadcast for fifty hours non-stop from Brighton and Hove’s only community radio station.

That’s 3000 minutes - equivalent to 180,000 seconds of unique broadcasting. Now that’s what you call a big breakfast!

Read the full Brighton Magazine Article.

Brighton is the top for music in the UK

Well, we always knew that Brighton was the best for everything anyway, but it has now been declared the top for music in the UK by Internet radio station Dandelion Radio.

If you're wondering how this was worked out, Dandelion Radion say "The formula used is to look at the number of bands/artists from the town who gained an entry in the festive fifty (run for many years by John Peel, and since his death by us at Dandelion) and compare this with the size of the town's population at the last census. From this, we can generate a ratio that, Brighton's case, works out at 1:10,330, as Brighton has produced 13 entries from a population of 134,293. Its nearest challenger, Oxford, has a ratio of 1:13,001."

Check out Dandelion Radio for Mark Whitby's Brighton show that will be streaming throughout the month.

The Purple Cow is Back

The Udderbelly will once again be throwing it's purple legs (and errr uders) in the air this May. Returning for a second year to the Old Steine, a stones throw from the seafront, the fantastic Udderbelly and its sister venue the Udder Place have just released their programme of events for this years month long Fringe Festival. See our Brighton magazine article for a run down of what we can expect.

It seems that the Spiegeltent will also be back this year, after much negotiating over a place to host it, it will now be located at St Peter's Church.

One Love: A Festival To Eclipse All Others

Event organisers have announced plans to host the UK’s first festival to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of one of the world’s greatest ever rock gigs.

One Love, a magical, three-night music festival, will take place from the 15th – 17th August, in recognition of the anniversary of Bob Marley’s infamous 1978 One Love concert.

Read the full Brighton Magazine.

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