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Scouting For Girls have come a long way since their first Brighton gig at the King and Queen pub over a year and a half ago. With an energetic Monday-night performance to a packed out Brighton Centre, these guys showed off just how popular they have become (especially with the girls!) ‘James Bond‘ was the perfect opening choice with fantastic visuals and ‘Heartbeat’ and ‘She’s So Lovely’ left the crowd on a massive high. The brilliant support from The Days and Sam Beeton was just a bonus.
Brighton Dome, 3 November
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Lucy Kamper

Victoria Nangle is finding days off sick are not good for your comedy health and has some tips for scriptwriters…

Whenever I end up watching daytime TV soap Doctors it’s generally because I’ve had to see the doctor. A small irony in life. Another was added on to it, as I coughed and spluttered through my dressing gown hood, when the storyline I caught myself watching featured a stand-up comedian character who takes the gamble and goes out to do a university gig, while still infectious with the chicken pox. This is all despite the pleas of his girlfriend. Halfway through his set he saw the error of his ways and declared his troth to the aforementioned girlfriend, stepping out of his stage persona and walking off stage and out the door, arm in arm with his one true love. Ah. And then as a postscript he gets a call on his answer machine saying that there was a big agent in who loved his new persona and could he do loads more gigs. Happy ever after, right? No!
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Andrew Kay on the perfect sausage roll and Sevendials gets ready to celebrate seven great years

Say sausage roll to me and you’re unlikely to get me excited. That was until I first tasted one of Edward’s luxury sausage rolls. That was some time ago at Sussex and the City. Then I discovered I could get them at The Sir Charles Napier, where I am a regular on Sunday evening for the quiz. Yes, if I have failed to eat properly I will treat myself to one of his sausage rolls, my current favourite being a chorizo style that packs a nice paprika kick. In fact even if I have eaten well I can be tempted to one, as they are really very good and a million miles away from the dismal, soggy, fat-drenched offerings so often found these days.
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Dani is cheered by the election of Barack Obama but annoyed by bad driving

I am excited today. The odd thing is that I am excited about things of a political nature. That has never happened. This morning as I write we found out that Barack Obama is to be the new president of America. I am happy about this. To be perfectly honest I didn’t think it was going to happen – but for the first time since Christmas I woke up happy. I am not really into politics at the best of times but this election really got me going – as it did many other people I know. One person I know would turn any conversation regarding the election onto a subject slightly closer to her heart. That is the ‘Americanisation’ of us. Mainly the Americanisation of our language.
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