Brighton Lights: What to do in the city – w/c 30th January

Music, Entertainment & Comedy With Victoria Nangle

1 The Weather Station is the .fourth – and most forthright – album by The Weather Station. The most fully realized statement to date from Toronto songwriter Tamara Lindeman, it is a work of profound urgency, artistic generosity, and joy. Self-titled and self-produced, the album unearths a vital new energy from Lindeman’s acclaimed songwriting practice, marrying it to a bold new sense of confidence. And the focus of this tour.
Latest Musicbar, Thursday 1 February, 7.30pm, £1/9
2 Enjoying the love of the .common people, laying his hat all over the place, and asking you to come back and stay all over again is Paul Young, in town to play at the seaside and bringing special guests with him.
Concorde2, Saturday 3 February, 6.30pm, £25
3 Twenty-two years old and .still as gruesomely impressive as ever – The Circus Of Horrors is an amalgamation of bizarre and fantastic circus acts, a finalist on Britain’s Got Talent and the only circus to play in London’s West End in over 100 years.
Royal Hippodrome, Eastbourne, Saturday 3 February, 8pm, £18
4 Pop in to one of the Friday .lunchtime concerts at the Brighton Unitarian Church, a real gem. This week soprano Lucy Mair and pianist Joe Ward regale you with some Leonard Bernstein classics. From Barber to Bernstein: A Century of American Song is just the midday treat.
Brighton Unitarian Church, Friday 2 February, 12.30-1.15pm, £3.50
5 Who else would endeavour to set up a .comedy club in a refugee camp in Palestine? Mark Thomas is pushing to celebrate freedom of speech in a place where any freedoms are precious. He tells the tale alongside Faisal Abu Alhayjaa and Alaa Shehada, two performers, actors and now aspiring comics from the club, of this ambition and struggle in the most trying and unlikely of places. Showtime From The Frontline is sold out, but turn up on the night and hope for returns.
The Old Market, Tuesday 30 January, 7.30pm, £16/12
6 Following in the great traditions of .impressive venues, the Brighton Dome is starting the New Year hosting the titular Live At Brighton Dome. Hosting skills fall to the ever-talented and brilliant Daniel Kitson, with comedy poet and Alan Partridge co-star Tim Key headlining, supported by All Killa No Filla podcaster and Gein’s Family Giftshop member Kiri Pritchard-McLean, and The Mash Report’s Nish Kumar. Hoping to be the first in a series of regular Dome comedy mixed bill nights.
Brighton Dome, Saturday 3 February, 7.30pm, £20/15