Latest Festival Awards 2014

Nominees of the Latest Festival Awards were invited to the Latest Musicbar at the end of the festival to mark the annual award ceremony, which many feel is an engaging finish to the two festivals, Brighton Festival and Brighton Fringe. Hosted this year by Julian Caddy, Managing Director of Brighton Fringe, the audience were entertained by poet Chris Parkinson (Winner of the Best Literature and Workshop Event) who gave an impassioned and energetic performance, with beautiful, haunting music by Eliza Skelton and Friends.The awards are based on online votes by the public and reviewed by a panel of media and reviewer judges.

A huge amount of work goes into making Brighton Festival and Brighton Fringe happen and the awards are a way of recognising the efforts of local, national and international performers and local venues, who provide entertainment for a wide range of audiences of all ages, both locally and from further afield. Long may it all continue!

All shows featured in Brighton Fringe, except those marked with * which featured in Brighton Festival

Best Cabaret
WINNER: A Berlin Kabarett
NOMINEES: Hitch, Danielle Imara’s In Jail, Mr B The Gentleman Rhymer

Best Children’s Event
WINNER: Albert Einstein: Relativitively Speaking
(Junior Edition)
NOMINEES: I Believe In Unicorns*, Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland, The FoulPlay Fox Hunt, Thumbelina, Goldifox
NB: Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland is the Box Tale Soup version at the Warren, not the similarly-named Wonderland at the Dukebox

Best Classical Music Event
WINNER: Metamorphosen*
NOMINEES: Brighton Youth Celebrate Sir John Taverner*; Taverner’s Supernatural Songs*; Down By The Greenwood Side*

Best Comedy Show
WINNER: Love Sick
NOMINEES: Kitten Killers, The Fundamental Interconnectedness Of Everyone With An Internet Connection, George Egg: Anarchist Cook, Puppetgeist

Best Female Performer
WINNER: Kate Goodfellow (Smoking Ban)
NOMINEES: Liz Peters (Toybox), Jane Postlethwaite (Bite-Sized), Emma
Sarjeant (Jerk)

Best International Act
WINNER: Normal Heights
NOMINEES: Opus 7*, Jamie
MacDowell + Tom Thum, Jerk

Best Literature/Workshop Event
WINNER: Moonshine
NOMINEES: Writers Allowed Too, Comic Book Babylon

Best Male Performer
WINNER: Ben Richardson
(Bite-Sized)
NOMINEES: Lloyd Ryan Thomas
(The Opinion Makers/Dead In The Water), Mr B

Best Music Event
WINNER: Jamie MacDowell +
Tom Thum
NOMINEES: Eliza Skelton & Friends, Down By The Greenwood Side*, Emmylou Harris*

Best Outdoor Event
WINNER: The FoulPlay Fox Hunt
NOMINEES: Funny Peculiar Eccentric Brighton Tour, Walking: Holding

Best Theatre Performance
WINNER: Thief
NOMINEES: Pirates of Penzance Rebooted, Hedwig And The Angry Inch, Big Bite-Sized Breakfast

Best Venue
WINNER: Marlborough
NOMINEES: Warren, Dukebox, Brighton Spiegeltent

Most Ground-breaking Act
WINNER: Host
NOMINEES: Performr, Waterghosts

Outstanding Contribution to the Festival
The team behind Brighton Spiegeltent

Star of the Festival
Emma Sarjeant

Angi Mariani (Latest Magazine/TV), Alan Thomas (Latest TV)

Emma Sarjeant (Star of the Festival), accepting her award via “satellite”, actually via video on ipad

Gill Kay and Carole Britten of Brighton Festival (receiving the award for Best Classical Music Event on behalf of Metamorphosen)

Jack Stigner, Annie Brooks, Ulysses Black (Foulplay Productions, winners of Best Outdoor Event)

Ben Richardson (Best Male Performer), Jane Postlethwaite (nominee for Best Female Performer)

Jim Whyte, Eliza Skelton, Paul Simmons (Eliza Skelton and Friends, nominees for Best Music Event)

John Hinton and Jo Eagle of Tangram Theatre winners of Best Children’s Event for Albert Einstein: Relativitively Speaking (Junior Edition)

Peter Cox, Sue Parrish (winners of Best Cabaret, A Berlin Kabarett)

Steven Brett (accepting the award on behalf of Host, Most Groundbreaking Act)

Tarik Elmoutawakil (Best Theatre Performance), Abby Butcher (Best Venue – Marlborough Theatre), Dan Hills (Most Outstanding Contribution)

William Ranieri (Latest TV), Tim Ridgway (Latest TV)

Julian Caddy (MC & Director Brighton Fringe), Adrian Bristow (Outstanding contribution – Brighton Spiegeltent producer)

Sarah Johnson, Mill Goble (accepting the award on behalf of Normal Heights for Best International Act) Stephen Sobal (Love Sick), Amalia Vitale (Love Sick)