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OPEN MIC NIGHT ZUMBA CLASS JUSTIN AND THE KNIGHTS Tomorrow Turn up, sign up, plug in and play, Dance exercise classes for adults OF VALOUR (PG) today’s picks Sidewinder,St James’s Street, Brighton, and teenagers, Oakmeeds Community Unlikely hero in an animated adventure 07946 734836. Free, 8pm College, Station Road, Burgess Hill, Cineworld Brighton: stage...... 01273 562996. £5, 6.20pm 3D: 1.50pm and 6.40pm; 2D: 4.20pm F*** COME AND SING! Odeon Brighton: Buttons NEVILLE’S ISLAND events...... Informal community choir for all people 3D: 6pm; 2D: 3.40pm Play about a team-building exercise gone affected by cancer,Space For Change, KICK-ASS 2 (15) wrong,until September 28, Theatre In BRIGHTON JAPAN FESTIVAL Windlesham Avenue, Brighton, 07970 Jim Carrey joins this superhero sequel The Park,Oaklands Park,Chichester, Festival celebrating Japanese arts, 522058. £1 for refreshments, 6.30pm Odeon Brighton: 6.30pm 01243 781312. £8.50-£33, 7.30pm film, theatre, performance and culture, ONE DIRECTION – THIS IS US (U) FALLEN ANGELS until Sunday, Old Steine Gardens, Old Steine, Brighton, more information and walks ...... The story of the boyband’s rise to fame Production of Noël Coward’s divine Cineworld Brighton: 4pm programme on 01273 719195. 7pm comedy,until Saturday, Devonshire Park Odeon Brighton: 3D: 5.30pm; 2D: 3pm Theatre, Compton Street, Eastbourne, THE BIG DIG WEEK GHOST WALK OF THE LANES PAIN AND GAIN (15) F*** BUTTONS 01323 412000. £9-£22, 7.45pm To celebrate urban food growing 25 A 70-minute tour of Brighton’s most Comedy about iron-pumping kidnappers Concorde 2, Madeira Drive, gardens are showcasing community haunted quarter,just turn up, meet SEASIDE SPECIAL outside Druid’s Head, Brighton Place, Cineworld Brighton: 1pm Brighton, 7.30pm, £14, Variety show,Royal Hippodrome, projects in parks and orchards, visit 01273 328297. £8/£5, 7.30pm PLANES (U) 01273 673311 Seaside Road, Eastbourne, 01323 harvest-bh.org.uk/events/event/110/ An uplifting tale of a plucky crop duster 412000. £16/£14.50, 8.15pm Big-Dig-week for more info, various HEALTHY WALK SINCE releasing their debut locations across Brighton, 01273 Monthly hour-long walk, meet at Cineworld Brighton: 4.45pm album in 2008, the post-rock SQUAWKER AWARD HEATS 431700. Free, various times Martello Tower, on the Esplanade, RIDDICK (15) electro duo have maintained Early rounds of this year’s new comedy Seaford, 07740 899559. Free, 10am The Furyon is on another desolate land a consistent level of critical act competition, Komedia, Gardner Street, DIGITAL PLAYGROUND MID SUSSEX RAMBLERS Cineworld Brighton: acclaim that is pretty astounding. Brighton, 0845 2938480. £6, 8pm Digital networking event with idea Their newest LP, Slow Focus, pitching,retro gaming and live music, Eight-and-half-mile circular walk via Pooh 1.15pm, 6.30pm and 9.15pm doesn’t buck that trend, scoring Old Steine Gardens, Grand Parade, Sticks Bridge and Five Hundred Acre RUSH (15) universal praise. Touring to music ...... Brighton, 01273 719195. £5, 4pm Wood, meet in Ashdown Forest, Gills Lap Story of rivalry between two F1 legends promote the release, expect this car park, map ref TQ 467315, near Forest Cineworld Brighton: BRIGHTON AND HOVE WELLBEING Row,07840 129042. Free, 10.30am show to provide an atmospheric BLOODSHOT DAWN 12.20pm, 3.10pm, 6pm and 8.50pm wall of noise. CLUB LAUNCH Thrash metal band, support from Stress management evening with Odeon Brighton: SWEATSON KLANK Gotsu-Totsu-Kotsu, Hole In The Sky nutritional therapist Lucy McCrickard and film ...... 3.15pm, 6pm, 7.45pm and 8.45pm Green Door Store, Trafalgar and The Florentine Camerata,Green hypnotherapist Marco Anholts, Brighton Duke Of York’s: 4pm, 6.30pm and 9.15pm Door Store, Trafalgar Street Arches, Consulting Rooms, Clermont Road, Street Arches, Brighton, ABOUT TIME (12A) Duke’s@Komedia: 1pm 7pm, free, 07944 693214 Brighton, call Resident on 01273 Brighton, 07941 062229. £10, 6.30pm Sweet rom-com about a time traveller 606312 for tickets. £3-£5, 7pm Cineworld Brighton: THE GREAT BEAUTY (15) THE producer formerly known BRIGHTON AND HOVE ETHAN JOHNS 2pm, 5pm and 8pm A flashy writer changes tack (English subs) as Take is one of the latest DEBATING SOCIETY Odeon Brighton: Duke Of York’s: 1.30pm acclaimed artists to emerge from Veteran producer/multi-instrumentalist, With a debate titled ‘We [the UK] LA’s beat scene. The popularity support from Trevor Moss And Hannah Cannot Afford To Leave The EU’, St 3.10pm, 5.50pm and 8.30pm WE’RE THE MILLERS (15) of Klank’s jazzy electro output Lou,Komedia, Gardner Street, Brighton, John’s Day Centre, Palmeira Square, Duke’s@Komedia: Comedy about a small-time drug dealer has led to performances at 0845 2938480. £10, 7.30pm Hove, 08717 113328. £2, 8pm 1pm, 3.45pm and 9pm Cineworld Brighton: Sonar and Low End Theory, NO CEREMONY DEF LEPPARD – VIVA! HYSTERIA (12A) 2.30pm 5.15pm and 8.10pm FOGGS QUIZ Odeon Brighton: 8.15pm and radio play from taste- Ethereal electro-pop trio, The Hope, Featuring the best of the week’s punning Concert of the British band in Las Vegas makers such as Mary Anne Queen’s Road, Brighton, 01273 headlines, mandatory music round and Cineworld Brighton: 8.30pm WHITE HOUSE DOWN (12A) Hobbs and Gilles Peterson. 325793. £6, 7.30pm other creative pub quiz ideas including ELYSIUM (15) A White House tour goes wrong for ex-cop TEEN CREEPS PRESENT... CASTROVALVA tasting rounds, Foggs, Dyke Road, Sci-fi action blended with social commentary Cineworld Brighton: Experimental noise rock trio, support Brighton, £1 per player,8.30pm Cineworld Brighton: 9pm 2.40pm, 5.40pm and 8.40pm SHANNON AND THE CLAMS Odeon Brighton: from Exit International and Bad For Odeon Brighton: 3.45pm and 8.50pm The Hope, Queen’s SOUL OF THE CITY CHOIR 2.45pm, 5.45pm and 8.40pm Road, Brighton, 8pm, Lazarus,Prince Albert, Trafalgar Street, TASTER SESSION GROWN UPS 2 (12A) £6, 01273 325793 Brighton, 01273 730499. £4, 8pm The pop, soul and gospel choir host Sequel to comedy about immature adults PICKIN’ CIRCLE a taster session ahead of their new Odeon Brighton: 4pm Odeon Brighton, West Street, Brighton, Hailing from Oakland, California, Open session to come and play or listen term, St Paul’s School, St Nicholas 0871 2244007. Tickets £5.50-£8.95 this indie-rock band have IN A WORLD... (15) Road, Brighton, Free, 7.30pm a 1960s vintage sound with to Americana, bluegrass and old-time Comedy set in the voiceover artists industry Cineworld, Brighton Marina, Brighton, 0871 2002000. Tickets £5.60-£8.70 elements of doo-wop and surf American roots music, 3 Jolly Butchers, MEMORIES PAST GROUP Duke’s@Komedia: 4pm rock. They’re touring their latest North Road, Brighton, 01273 608571. For those aged 50+ to meet, talk, go INSIDIOUS 2 (15) Duke Of York’s Picturehouse, release, Dreams In The Rat Free, 8pm on outings and explore memories, bring The Lamberts return in this horror sequel Preston Circus, Brighton, House, an album that has been JAZZ JAM old photographs to generate ideas for Cineworld Brighton: 0871 9025728. Tickets £3-£9 given a big thumbs-up from Session with house band and regular rediscovering memories, Portslade 1.30pm, 4.10pm, 6.45pm and 9.20pm Duke’s@Komedia, Gardner Street, the online indie press. guests, The Brunswick, Holland Road, WRVS Centre, Windlesham Close, Odeon Brighton: Brighton, 0871 7042068. Tickets £3-£9 Hove, 01273 733984. Free, 8.30pm Portslade, 01273 421650. Free, 2pm 4.15pm, 6.45pm and 9.15pm Not all films and times are listed

HHH OUR CRITICS SAY.... all the latest reviews Emily Portman Trio, allusions, Portman remained accessible, Oh, and she also chats herself up but entreating the audience to sing along, Nina Conti rejects herself because she’s married. Komedia Studio Bar, and colourfully illustrating her songs Photo by Claes Welcome to the bonkers universe of – the “Ray Mears-style ballad” was an Gellerbrink the self-proclaimed “World’s fourth Brighton, Thursday entertainingly apt introduction to one. best ventriloquist”. CURRENT holder of the BBC Radio She also kept the arrangements varied and It has to be said, you never see her lips Two Folk Award for best original song, interesting, accompanying her bright, clear move. Her six puppets – monkey, daughter Emily Portman demonstrated her gift for vocal with banjo and concertina, while her Nina, Killer the pitbull, Stefan the builder, storytelling and songwriting at Komedia’s bandmates added further depth. Gran and poor old John – displayed a range Studio Bar. of voices and accents that made them real, Newton’s harmonies shone on the delicate a believable characters. Together with fiddler Rowan Rheingans capella Three Gold Hairs, while Rheingans’ and harpist Rachel Newton, she played bansitar added vibrancy to the mournful The interplay between the puppets and Conti a set packed with fairytales, myths and Scorching Sun, which sensitively addressed was on occasions so quick that it sounded as magical realism. war from the point of view of a mother. if they were both talking at the same time. She toyed with the ventriloquist/puppet Portman has a talent for taking an old Mark Dishman folk song or story as a start point and relationship masterfully – “You can’t know cleverly changing its focus. Two takes Nina Conti: Dolly Mixtures, more than I think,” said monkey, or did she on the Cinderella story, for example, say it to him? variously explored animal possession Ropetackle Arts Centre, Conti’s work with the audience was sharp and magical clothing. Shoreham, Thurday but never offensive. Her mouth mask-piece Hatchlings (the award-winner) was inspired with two audience members was hilarious. by the Greek story of Leda and the swan, THE finale of Nina Conti’s performance Contil brings her Dolly Mixtures to the Corn while Stick Stock told the gory tale of was the shredding of a naked 95-year-old Exchange on Sunday, October 13, as part of a wicked stepmother with delicious pensioner in a tree shredder. the Brighton Comedy Festival. Do not miss innocence and clever backing vocals. Another highlight was her eight-year-old it. She is probably better than fourth. For all her literary and mythological daughter playing the guitar with her face. Tom Locke

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