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If you live in the UK (or are planning to visit) and can get to Brighton in May this year, there’s a wealth of creative “hits” on offer at the Brighton Fringe. Below is a selection of some of the most interesting events taking place and links to buy tickets.


The Parlure Tent:
Website: www.theparlure.com
Having put together an enviable programme of cabaret-focused events. Due to limited space, there is simply too much of interest to mention in this blog so I will simply say, for some of the best cabaret and theatre of the fringe, visit their website.


Also, sensitive to the current economic climate, The Parlure has put together a selection of free daytime concerts.
Venue: Parlure Spiegeltent & Garden (The), The Old Steine
Tickets: www.theparlure.com


The Ladyboys of Bangkok

Website: http://www.ladyboysofbangkok.co.uk/




The Brighton Fringe would not be the Brighton Fringe without the “Ladyboys Of Bangkok”. It may or may not be a highlight (maybe this year I’ll wander over and see), but with a gruelling schedule of two shows a day for 25 days, with no days off and every show pretty much sold out, it is surely worth a look? Spectacular costumes and performances which will leave you questioning gender boundaries for years to come.

Venue: Sabai Pavilion, Victoria Gardens, Grand Parade.
Dates: 1st -25th May – two shows a day.
Book Tickets Here

Piano Recital (Piano Not Included)
Website: www.goldmanensemble.com

Exploring the old adage “the show must go on” and based on a true story, Piano Recital combines music, dance and theatre to look at what happens when there’s no pianist and a belly dancer arrives instead of a ballerina…

Venue: Friends’ Meeting House, Ship Street
Dates: 2nd, 3rd, 16th May
Book Tickets Here


And The Devil May Drag You Under

“Vaudivillian thrills and the best circus and cabaret performers in London sing for their souls in an unforgettable night of diabolical delights.”




Venue: St Andrew’s Church, Waterloo Street
Dates: 2nd-5th, 7th-12th,14th–19th, 21st and 22 May
Book Tickets Here


Bedroom Lullaby – Lorraine Bowen Experience
Website: www.lorrainebowen.co.uk

Certainly one of the oddest (and most expensive) offerings available this year; for an “entry fee” of £50, Lorraine Bowen will turn up at your house, set up in your bedroom and “sing you to sleep accompanied by a selection of soft instruments and easy-listening backing tracks”.

It is pitched as “the ultimate chill out experience”, but with three performances every night 9pm, 10pm and 11pm (including travelling time) one wonders how relaxing all that clock watching can possibly be. However, as you can see below, it’s a little less relaxing than you might think.




Venue: Your bedroom
Dates: 3rd -25th May
Book Tickets Here


Electroplasm (séance, theremins, death ballads)

Website: www.spacedog.biz/gigs/electroplasm

“A chilling combination of live music, automata and theatre, in The Marlborough, Brighton’s gracefully distressed Regency theatre.”

Sarah and Jenny Angliss (Spacedog UK) join psychologist, skeptical paranormal investigator and Quirkology author Richard Wiseman for one of the strangest shows on the Fringe.

A haunting soundscape is created live using the female voice, bells, vintage synth and Theremin and loosely based on Weill and Brel ballads, songs from The Wickerman and some of the Spacedog’s own numbers and electronic interpretations of 13th-century tales of necromancers and accompanied by some unsettling home-made automata including “Uncanny Valerie – a moving, ‘all-seeing’ 1950s doll”.

At the end of the performance the theatre will fall into complete darkness, as Wiseman invites the audience to participate in a theatrical reconstruction of a Victorian séance.




Dates: 8th, 9th, 10th May three performances per night 9.40, 10.50 and 11.55pm
Book Tickets Here


David Devant And His Spirit Wife – 02 May

Indieoma favourites David Devant and His Spirit Wife, fronted by Vessel, aka Mr Solo, are now regular fixtures at the Brighton Festival (they hailed from here in their early days). The band has released 3 studio albums and a double disc rarities collection since 1997 and a new album is expected later this year.




Venue: Sundown Show bar, The Green at St Peter’s Church, York Place
Book Tickets Here

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