Viva Brighton Issue #77 July 2019

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A family-friendly, one-day festival, produced by Jazz re:freshed, celebrating Jazz and Jazz-inspired music and culture. This year’s line-up includes: Theon Cross, Zara McFarlane, Rosie Turton, DJs and much more. Sat 27 Jul, 12pm – 8pm £10* (under 16s FREE) 12-piece ensemble Icebreaker and pedal steel guitarist BJ Cole play music by ground-breaking composers, including Scott Walker and JLin, as well as Brian Eno’s classic album Apollo, performed alongside the original film of the Apollo expeditions. ‘Moving and sublime’ ««««« The Guardian Sun 21 Jul, 7.30pm Brighton Dome Concert Hall £17.50/£22.50* brightondome.org *A £2.50 per order charge applies for all phone and online bookings brightondome.org *A £2.50 per order charge applies for all phone and online bookings
MUSIC .......................... Ben Bailey rounds up the local music scene MEAN POPPA LEAN Thu 4th, Hope & Ruin, 8pm, £13 In the remote and more innocent age of the mid- 2000s, Mean Poppa Lean emerged from Brighton with a wardrobe of colourful clothes and a deeply unhip mix of funk and rock which went down a storm in certain quarters. They played tons of shows around Brighton and toured Europe, all the while balancing slick musicianship with good-natured humour. After seven years they hung up their vintage threads and called it a day in 2012. Another seven years later they’re back for more, with a reunion tour and a comeback gig at the Hope & Ruin. As the band’s blurb puts it, Mean Poppa Lean are ready ‘to open the valve where funk has been stored and pressurized, waiting for release.’ 12 STONE TODDLER Thu 11th, Concorde 2, 7pm, £10 Another band that were first active in the decade that nobody knows what to call, 12 Stone Toddler made their own comeback last year with their long-awaited third album, Idiolalia. Released on local label Freshly Squeezed, the record proved to be just as wildly eclectic as their previous stuff. The band’s restless genre-wandering is both a blessing and a curse: though their live shows are always varied and somewhat unpredictable it also means trying to describe their sound is pointless. This show, billed as ‘Best Of Brighton’, features an art display from Cassette Lord, Loud Shirt beer samples and street food from Hash Machine. Art pop deviants Clowwns also make a welcome return, alongside alt rockers Bad Laws and singer-songwriter duo The Mann & I. ROBB JOHNSON Sun 14th, Brunswick, 7pm, £10 This one-off gig sees folk hero Robb Johnson performing tracks from his epic song suite Ordinary Giants, which recounts his father’s life story in the context of 100 years of British history. Beginning with the Armistice in 1918, the loose narrative is shaped by songs and poems offering a snapshot of life as it was lived, with period pastiches and reworked standards along the way. Robb’s songs flip from tender and funny to forthright as he sings about the rise of fascism, the birth of the welfare state and the ongoing battle to save what remains of the postwar dream. The eight-piece band assembled for this rendition features several folky notables as well as Robb’s own son on drums, nicely rounding off the family lineage. TRAGIC ROUNDABOUT Fri 26th, Haunt, 7pm, £10 Probably one of Brighton’s longest-running bands, local legends Tragic Roundabout have been knocking about since the 90s at least. Starting out as a kind of busking collective, the band apparently got their name from an incident at an Irish festival after refusing to play on a roundabout on the outskirts of town (who knows what really happened). Over the years they became a mainstay of festivals and protests, bringing a kind of Bonzo Dog humour to their mash-up of ska, klezmer and gypsy music. Though the line-up remains acoustic, with banjo, clarinet and accordion to the fore, the band are ultimately inspired by the punky spirit of old Brighton. Get there early and you’ll catch the down-to-earth comic accordion ditties of Hattie Hatstar. ....43....
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Page 6 and 7: CONTENTS ..........................
Page 8 and 9: THIS MONTH’S COVER ARTIST .......
Page 10 and 11: CLARITY IN A COMPLEX WORLD Time to
Page 12 and 13: NOW IN OUR 6 th GLORIOUS YEAR! IN P
Page 14 and 15: CURATOR’S CITY ..................
Page 17: BITS AND PUBS .....................
Page 20 and 21: CAT FLETCHER MELANIE REES CLAIRE PO
Page 22 and 23: SUMMER PATIO STYLE Transform your g
Page 24 and 25: BITS AND BOOKS THE KING FROM OVER T
Page 26 and 27: INTERVIEW .........................
Page 28 and 29: BRIGHTON PHOTOGRAPHY You won’t fi
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Page 36 and 37: “If women do not attain roughly e
Page 38 and 39: Newly opened shop and gallery on Po
Page 41: COLUMN ...........................
Page 45 and 46: PRIDE .............................
Page 47 and 48: INTERVIEW .........................
Page 49 and 50: THEATRE ...........................
Page 51 and 52: GRAPHIC NOVEL .....................
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Page 67 and 68: THE WAY WE WORK This month Adam Bro
Page 69 and 70: THE WAY WE WORK Keith Manger, Healt
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Page 76 and 77: RECIPE ............................
Page 78 and 79: A-news bouche The Community Kitchen
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FEATURE ...........................
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WILDLIFE ..........................
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