Brighton Lights: What to do in the city – w/c 21st November

Music, Entertainment & Comedy with Victoria Nangle

1 Touring their latest album, featuring their latest hit single ‘Scared Of The Dark’, and marking 20 years in the business – say what?! – Steps brings the costumes, the lights, and most importantly the tunes to town. Find Latest 7’s exclusive interview with Faye Tozer earlier in the year here http://tinyurl.com/ybl9bcu9
Brighton Centre, Thursday 23 November, 7pm, from £44.60
2 Scottish born, but having spent her formative years in California and Glasgow, Kerri Watt has a distinct style that has truly been influenced by such contrasting locations. Citing Sheryl Crow, John Mayer and The Rolling Stones all as influences that have contributed to her sound, Kerri has found her music being regularly played on Radio 2.
Komedia, Sunday 19 November, 7.30pm, £7
3 Catalyst Psychogeography Special: Weird Wiltshire is hosted by David Bramwell, with guests speakers Dr Mike Pringle and Hilda Sheehan – who will explore the millennia recorded so solidly in the lumps, bumps, and megaliths of Wiltshire’s ancient landscape.
Latest Musicbar, Thursday 23 November, 8pm, £7
4 Malik Nashad Sharpe arrives in Brighton with $elfie$. This is the third work in a series built around understandings of Black and Queer aesthetics performed against our current political moment. Malik performs his choreographic projects under the artistic name marikiscrycrycry.
Marlborough Pub & Theatre, Saturday 25 November, 7.30pm, £9.50/7.50
5 Bringing loads of energy, props, and ideas with his new show The Man With Three Brains, Jason Byrne arrives like a whirling dervish of comic creativity. To find out more about the show and Mr B, check out Latest 7’s exclusive interview with the remarkable comedian here http://tinyurl.com/yattrtoj
The Old Market, Saturday 25 November, 8pm, £19.50
6 Join George Lewis (host of BBC’s Top Gear: Extra Gear, as heard on BBC R4) for his new show about his angst-ridden geeked-out teenage years. Expect nineties references, embarrassing diary entries, and tales from when Lewis did what you should never do in secondary school: be yourself. Especially when your self is so weird. A multi-award winner, Lewis also reached the final of the BBC New Comedy Award in 2016.
Caroline Of Brunswick, Wednesday 22 November, 7.45pm £5/4

COMING SOON

7 Carve yourself up a generous slice of American Pie, set out upon a starry starry night and make a date with legendary singer-songwriter Don McLean. Since first hitting the charts in 1971, McLean has picked up over 40 gold and platinum records world-wide and, in 2004, was inducted into the Songwriters’ Hall of Fame. A festival favourite, with a back catalogue to make you misty.
De Law Warr Pavilion, Friday 4 May 2018, £40/34

8 On her fourth (and tellingly self-titled) album as The Weather Station, Polaris Prize-nominated (Canada’s Mercury!) Tamara Lindeman reinvents – and more deeply roots – her extraordinary, acclaimed songcraft, framing her precisely detailed, exquisitely wrought prose-poem narratives in bolder and more cinematic musical settings.
Latest Musicbar, Thursday 1 February 2018, £11/9