The Brighton Dome Comedy Festival heads into its final week with its biggest names, the Theatre Royal goes spooky for half-term, and there’s a handful of new places to eat. Here’s what’s on across the city from Monday 19 to Saturday 24 October. By Nick Staunton
Comedy: The Festival’s Big...
What?! Mark Thomas has been ‘standing up’ for 40 years? Impossible!! But how old does that make you…? Alas it is true; one of our oldest surviving alternative comics celebrates 40 years at the mic as he takes his brand-new show on the road this autumn.
So, here’s what he...
It’s a big weekend in the city. The Brighton Dome Comedy Festival opens, Crystal Palace come to the Amex, and a fresh batch of openings is worth leaving the house for. Here’s where we’d go.
Football: The Big One
Albion host Crystal Palace in the Premier League on Sunday at 1pm....
Brighton-born singer-songwriter Alfie Jukes has announced his debut album, Funny Little Feeling, out in April 2027 via Giant Music. Alongside the news comes a bright, high-energy new single, ‘Lucy, When You Wake Up’, which is out now.
Pre-save the album here and listen to the new single here.
A Letter in...
Award-winning comedian and writer Rosie Holt is back touring (25th OCtober ) this autumn with her brand-new show, The Illegal Aliens Have Landed! Revisiting her much-loved MP alter ego alongside a host of new characters, Holt blurs the line between politics and entertainment in a sharply observed new hour....
Forget the Pier and the Lanes. This is a locals' weekend: a citywide photography festival, a packed gig schedule across the city's small venues and a few pubs worth staying in once the evenings turn cold. Here's what's on across Brighton & Hove from Friday 9 to Sunday 11...
Brighton has lost two of its best-known LGBTQ+ venues this year. Now a show about disappearing queer nightlife is coming to the city. Congregational: An Alternative Choral Mass for the Nightclub plays Brighton Dome on Friday 30 October, and the city's own Brighton Rainbow Chorus will join creator and...
Olga Koch has one good story. Only it’s not really her story. Do you wanna hear it?
Fat Tom Cruise is part-history lesson, part-gossip session, and part-horror story. The show is about toxic masculinity, male loneliness, and the reality of the #metoo era - without ever actually mentioning any of...
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TICKETS ON SALE FOR ICONIC TV COMEDY UK TOUR 9 OCTOBER
AN EVENING WITH THE FAST SHOW
Friday 5 February 2027, 7.30pm (tickets on sale 9 October, 12pm)
Congress Theatre Eastbourne
30 years after The Fast Show finished its original BBC run, fans of “The defining comedy sketch show of the Nineties” (The Independent) are...
BRIGHTON, October 6, 2026 — Sleeper have announced their biggest UK tour since reforming, with the band set to take their forthcoming sixth studio album, End of the World, on the road across the UK in March and April 2027.
The tour will see Sleeper joined by South London four-piece...
