Brighton Lights – What to do in the city: w/c 31st January

Music & Entertainment with Joe Fuller

1 You’ll be pleased to hear that it’s my birthday this Sunday, and to celebrate I will be watching the BPO at the Dome. They’ll be playing Mozart Symphony No. 29, Haydn Cello Concerto No. 1 and Mendelssohn’s Italian Symphony. I love Mendelssohn’s music: it’s got beautiful, bold melodies but also emotional depth and musical heft.
Brighton Dome, 5 Feb, 2.45pm

2 C Duncan reminded me of the brilliant band Papercuts with his debut album Architect released in 2015. He’s gone more experimental and electronic with his second album The Midnight Sun, although recent single ‘Other Side’ still retains the poppy sensibilities and prominent vocals of his earlier work.
Komedia, 31 Jan, 7.30pm, £10

3 Live cinema screenings are a convenient and fun way to get my opera fix: the Duke’s At Komedia in particular has stunning sound and a sharp screen to immerse yourself in. The Royal Opera House present Il Trovatore: a classic Verdi opera with plenty of love duets and rousing choruses.
Duke’s At Komedia, 31 Jan, 7.15pm

4 I saw this show at Edinburgh Fringe last year and it was brilliant: a finely crafted, bitter critique of someone obsessed with a privileged notion of perfection. Georgina is more than a crude character however, the whole work has real heart and a great message behind it, as well as a fantastic comic actor in Anna Morris.
Komedia, 5 Feb, 8pm, £10-£11

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Comedy with Victoria Nangle

5 Where better to kick off your tour about living large than here? Eleanor Conway – comedian, music journalist, presenter – shares all of her dirty secrets in her debut show ‘Walk Of Shame’. From working for the Triads in Asia to rinsing London’s Tinder population, these are marvellous adventures.
Komedia, Friday 3 February, 7.30pm, £10/8

6 Elf Lyons is a fresh, funny and thoughtful voice in the comedy landscape. ‘Pelican’ is her second show, mixing personal stories with feminist questions, packing punchlines and a remarkably likeable persona. This time she’s wondering if everyone wants to kill their mother, or if it’s just her.
Caroline Of Brunswick, Tuesday 31 January, 7.45pm, £7/5

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Arts with Brighton’s Arty

7 Following her recent travels in Southeast Asia, the beaches of the Thai coast have provided fresh inspiration for ceramicist Rowena Gilbert, taking her work in a new direction. You can see the results at Cameron Contemporary Art, Hove, where ‘Coast Series #2’ responds to the skylines and shores of these tropical islands, capturing the constantly changing hues and movements of these spaces with accents of waves splashing against rocks and birds in flight.
It’s a step away from Rowena’s more controlled work of past years: a more abstract interpretation that embraces intuitive mark-making, showing this artist’s more playful side. Until 20 February.
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