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Photographer Diana Frangi meets Skint Records co-founder Damian Harris

God, isn’t Brighton just full of talent? My guest this week is Damian Harris, who, as the man behind Skint Records, has been creating some of the most exciting music of recent times – not surprising when you learn his first artiste was our local saint, FatBoy Slim.

If all that wasn’t enough, in his alter ego as DJ MIDFIELD GENERAL, whose new album General Disarray came out in April, he has put himself at the forefront of creative dance music, and has earned the soubriquet, ‘the supremo of big beat‘.

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Photographer Diana Frangi meets comedian Stephen Grant

If Stephen Grant’s career as a stand-up falters, he knows he can always go back to his first love, software design (he created his first game, Dieste, at the age of 13!). But billed as the ‘Renaissance man of comedy’ and definitely coming to a crest of public acclaim, he can let his computer gather dust for a while yet.

Born and still living in Brighton, he cut his comedy teeth at the Good Companions pub in the late ‘90s. Moving on to the Edinburgh Festival, he was spotted by BBC Radio, who took him on as a writer. Now he’s busy performing around the country to rave reviews. We can catch him on Wednesday 16 July at the Komedia starting at 9pm. www.komedia.co.uk

How did you get your break?
There’s not really ‘breaks’ in comedy, like there is in acting, dance etc. It’s a hard profession, but if you’re any good, you’ll always work.

The ‘breakthrough’, as such, came when I got a job writing jokes for Radio 1, which meant I could leave my day job and concentrate entirely on comedy.

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