February
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Discussion / music
THE SPACE
BRIGHTON’S UNIQUE REGULAR ARTS AND MEDIA EVENT COMES TO THE BASEMENT
Date: Thu 4th February
Doors: 7.30pm
Tickets: £6 (£5 concession)
Lisa Holloway talks to film director Nicolas Roeg, forty years since the release of his debut film, the cult classic Performance; and to major arts figure, Sir Christopher Frayling. With performance from singer/songwriter, Johanna Harman. The informal atmosphere of The Space brings together the creative community offering the opportunity to hear about the life of and work of fascinating creative professionals. Hand picked by the curators of The Space the evening is renowned for the quality of guests and interviewers alike.
AMAZING RAFFLE PRIZES! Including tickets to Bradford International Film Festival and to East End Film Festival. Memberships to Duke of York's and V&A plus films, books, gigs and cinema!
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Performance
LOVE LETTERS STRAIGHT FROM YOUR HEART
Date: Sun 14th February
Doors: 4.30pm & 7.30pm
Tickets: £8 (£6 concession)
Let's raise our glasses to long lost loves and current lovers, to mums, to dads and to absent friends. Uninvited Guests stage an event that is somewhere between a wedding reception, a wake and a radio dedication show. We speak of our own and other's loves - deep, passionate, ambivalent and unrequited - and dedicate songs to them.
If you want to join us on this happy occasion, send a song dedication to someone you love to marketing@thebasement.uk.com Tell us what they mean to you and why you've chosen this piece of music.Your letters of love may become part of the show, romantic gestures or signs of friendship, shared publicly between us. Be our witnesses and we'll be yours.
Please send all submissions by Friday 12th February.
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Story-telling / performance
ARE YOU SITTING COMFORTABLY?
LOVE!
Date: Wed 17th February
Door: 7.30pm
Tickets: £6 (£4 concessions)
Love is in the air, is all around, is a drug… so join us for evening of original storytelling in the White Rabbit's candlelit warren. Part fifties tearoom, part deranged children's party, we will woo you with irresistible new stories straight from the heart, featuring local writers, embracing this month’s theme: LOVE. We invite you to enjoy FREE cakes, sweets, treats, and to enter our Valentine’s poem competition to win a White Rabbit Love Kit just in time for the big day. Grab a "Teapot Cocktail" from the bar, and help us to give Love a bad name… follow the bunny... down, down, down
“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”
Oscar Wilde |
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Work-in-progress performance
SCRATCH!
Date: Thurs 25th February
Doors: 7.30pm
Tickets: FREE!
Continuing our support of early career artists and the promotion of new work, The Basement is pleased to present Scratch! This is an opportunity for early career artists to present works in progress and for audiences to contribute their thoughts and critical insight to the creation process. Each Scratch! event will present 3 – 4 short excerpts from brand new performances followed by a post show discussion with the artists.
We are keen to hear from artists, performers and theatre-makers who are in the process of making new work.
If you are interested in presenting works-in-progress at Scratch! please send a summary of the work you wish to show, details of previous performances, a CV, and a DVD or links to online media of the work you wish to show or other previous works to Greg Mickelborough: greg@thebasement.uk.com |
March
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Discussion / music
The Space presents…
JOHN HOWARD DAVIES & SALLY HERBERT IN CONVERSATION
With live music from Paul Diello
Date: Thurs 4th March
Doors: 7.30pm
Tickets: £6 / £5 (Concessions) available through The Space website: www.thespace.me.uk
Join us for a unique opportunity to meet a legendary television comedy producer and one of the UK’s leading music producers. John Howard Davies is best known as a director and producer of seminal British sitcoms including Monty Python's Flying Circus, Fawlty Towers, The Goodies and The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin. Sally Herbert has worked with the cream of British music, providing arrangements for Florence and the Machine, Radiohead, Robbie Williams, Travis, Kylie, Manic Street Preachers and Muse. She has performed live with artists such as Paul McCartney, Doves, Elbow and Massive Attack. |
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Performance
SUPPER CLUB
Date: Sat 6th March
Doors: 7.30pm
Tickets: £6 / £4 (Concessions)
In 2010 Supper Club returns with a rich concoction of the experimental, the eccentric and the intoxicating. A host of artists from across the UK and beyond will present bite-sized chunks of performance, video art, music, interventions, installation and interactions. Grab a drink and a tasty bite to eat at the bar then sit back and take it in. Curated and hosted by The Basement’s Supported Artists, Supper Club is fast building a reputation as a night not to be missed. They plot a Saturday night for you and your friends, but you won’t know what’s on the menu until it’s served.
‘…the combination of something to nibble with a keenly priced bar and some of Brighton’s more interesting culture vultures makes for quite a temptation’, The Brighton Source, December 2008 |
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Music
Melting Vinyl present
ROZI PLAIN, FRANCOIS & THE ATLAS MOUNTAINS
An intimate night of Fence Records' finest..
Date: Tues 9th March
Doors: 8pm – 11pm
Tickets:£7.50 Advance / £8.50 on the door
Rozi Plain, has been working on the ferries that bob in and out of the city of Bristol, along the Avon, whilst creating her own beautifully intimate music that captures life slowly floating by. Her stunning debut album, ‘Inside. Over Here‘ was released on Fence Records Autumn 2008.
We also welcome back to Brighton multi-talented artist/musician and latest signing to Fence Records, Francois & The Atlas Mountains. Lo-fi electronics meets dreamlike songs, with lyrics fluctuating between English and French, the Gallic troubadour infuses this with an undertone of African influences. The night is completed the incredible bizarro-folk troupe from France, Uncle Jellyfish.
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Performance
THIS IS NOW
New Art Club
Date: Thurs 11th March
Doors: 7.30pm
Tickets: £8 / £6 (Concessions)
In 1983, Tom illegally taped the first ‘Now That’s What I Call Music’ LP (side one) onto a C60 cassette. 25 years later he found it in a drawer and a new show was born. Join Britain’s funniest dance duo as they deconstruct this first ever Now album and jump headlong into the dark pool of days gone by and come out covered in a filthy 80’s gunk. Wrestling with classic hits from Bonnie Tyler and Duran Duran, amongst others, will Tom and Pete be able to save the audience from drowning in nostalgia?For more information on New Art Club visit www.newartclub.org / www.myspace.com/newartclub
“a slick, warmly delivered, blood funny slice of modern dance-meets-comedy fun” – The List |
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Story-telling / performance
White Rabbit presents:
ARE YOU SITTING COMFORTABLY? SECRETS!
Date: Wed 17th March
Doors: 7.30pm
Tickets: £6 / £4 (Concessions)
Grab your cloak and dagger for a furtive yet sumptuous evening of original storytelling in the White Rabbit's candlelit warren. Part fifties tearoom, part deranged children's party, we reveal clandestine new stories written in invisible ink, featuring local writers for this month’s theme: SECRETS. We invite you to enjoy FREE cakes, sweets, treats, and to use our confessions box to air the skeletons in your closets! Grab a "Teapot Cocktail" from the bar, cross your heart , hope to die, and follow the bunny ... down, down,down
If you are a writer and have a short story to share with our audience, please e-mail Bernadette Russell: areyousittingcomfortably@live.com |
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Work-in-progress performance
SCRATCH!
Date: Thurs 25th March
Doors: 7.30pm
Tickets: FREE!
Continuing our support of early career artists and the promotion of new work, The Basement is pleased to present Scratch! This is an opportunity for early career artists to present works in progress and for audiences to contribute their thoughts and critical insight to the creation process. Each Scratch! event will present 3 – 4 short excerpts from brand new performances followed by a post show discussion with the artists. If you are interested in presenting work at Scratch! please e-mail Greg Mickelborough: greg@thebasement.uk.com |
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Performance
DOUBLE BILL
Date: Tues 30th March
Doors: 7.30pm
The Basement presents two of the UK’s most exciting new performance writers:
THICK DESCRIPTION
Emma Bennett
In this performance of surreal digressions and looping logic, Emma Bennett creates suggestive mental images before twisting them into new shapes, building strange worlds, then casually wiping them out. Birds of paradise strut across men’s shirts, stags stalk the greetings card display, a tin of pineapple chunks becomes disconcertingly aroused. Somehow, from somewhere, something is saying “thank you”. |
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10 WAYS TO DIE ON STAGE
Edward Rapley
'Don't worry...Things will get worse!'
Welcome to the world of Edward Rapley, a landscape of balloons and paddling pools, childhood memories and adult loss, in a show that plays with stand-up, story telling, dance, live art and clowning. 10 Ways to Die on Stage brings one man's life, full of hopes and failures, into bewildering detail. |
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