Shivoo Sounds Fundraiser for Jason Walker

6pm // Latest Music Bar // Donations on Entry

This event is being organised as a fundraiser for friend, Jason Walker. “Sadly over lock down he had to come back to England from the Philippines, and leave his family behind there, so he could enough money to support them and build them a house… Jason sadly passed away yesterday and his house he was building for his family is left under construction. He didn’t even get to meet his baby in person, I would love for this fundraiser to be a success so we could help him fulfill the making of his house for his girlfriend and children. Thanks in advance everyone.”

You can donate to the fundraiser here, https://gofund.me/ebdec5d4

Indigo Club

Doors 7.30pm // Latest Music Bar // Tickets 

INDIGO CLUB returns to Latest Music Bar in Brighton with another fantastic night of social meet-ups, award-winning live music & comedy PLUS an 80s classics dance party!

MEET @ 7.30pm – doors open for drinks, chats and meet-ups
SHOW @ 9pm – three top cabaret performers with award-winning music & comedy sets
DANCE @ 10.30pm – the dance floor is open for business until 1am… and this month’s music theme is… 80s CLASSICS!

INTRODUCING OUR LIVE ACTS…

// KITTY CASSIS – madcap nonsense from the outrageous northern experimental beauty therapist (aka Aimee Cooper).
// WOBBIE WOBBIT – unique and convivial musical fun from this North London songwriter.
// SALLYANN FELLOWES – award-winning stand-up comedy filled with hilarious real-life anecdotes.

ENTRY – £9 advance/online – 18+ ONLY
Tickets on the door (cash/card) or in advance via WeGotTickets (booking fee applies)

Mind Spun + Parent + Parabellum

Doors 7.30pm // Latest Music Bar // Tickets

Mind Spun is a swiss mathrock band based in Lausanne.
The band, born in 2016 started a tribute to the post metal band Animals as Leaders. They got great feedback for the first EP, played at the Montreux Jazz Festival and have now recorded a brand new album. Winners of JazzContreBand contest and now touring Europe.

7.30 p.m. : Parabellum
8.15 p.m. : Parent
9 p.m. : Mind Spun

We are Parabellum, An instrumental Progressive rock Band formed in 2021, playing at Venues in and around Brighton. Parabellum is Known for their Huge energy, Big Sound, and Unique Songwriting while keeping to the classic trio of Guitar, Bass, and Drums. Their repertoire consists of entirely original songs, from Ambient reverbed guitar to Drum machines, synths, and crazy fuzzed octave guitar.

Brighton International Animation Festival

Doors 10.30am // Latest Music Bar // Tickets

Brighton International Animation Festival is set to take place at Latest Music Bar on Saturday 15th and Sunday 16th April.  Taking place for the second year running, the festival is a fantastic celebration of iconic animation and showcases the best in the next generation of filmmakers – UK and International. As well as an impressive programme, this year the festival will include an exciting AR exhibit and the One Bum Cinema Club will be making an appearance. All films are subtitled with BSL interpreters at all events, making it fully accessible for deaf & hard of hearing.

2023 judge’s prestige panel includes Emmy and Oscar-nominated director Joanna Quinn, who will also be hosting her first UK retrospective at the festival for the first time in years. Barry Purves – whose work ranges from the stop motion 80s Wind in the Willows to feature films like Mars Attacks! And King Kong – will be giving a masterclass on the Sunday, and Hannah Lau Walker – a pioneer of women in the animation industry.

You can book tickets online now for the jam-packed two-day programme, including:

To Be Human – focusing on the human condition. Living with Alzheimer’s, child soldiers, body image and men’s knitting groups are just some of the topics explored in this collection of films from countries including Australia, Egypt through to UK.

The (un)Natural World – Science, the environment and creatures of the earth are the focus of this programme. Expect sea creatures, insect specialists and hot-blooded flowers in the programme from countries including Taiwan, Iran and Sri Lanka.

Wild Characters – Use of personification and exaggeration are some of the joys of designing and working with character within animation. Clocks, clowns, huge sausage dogs and Elton John all feature in this collection of films that all have a character-based focus.

This festival is also one of firsts, featuring Queer As F**K: a special curated programme of Queer Animation not seen in other animation festivals, that explores an array of contemporary queer culture from terfs and gender identity to sex positivity. BIAF will also feature No Planet B – an Augmented Reality exhibition which will be on site to explore between the schedules.

Visit the Brighton International Animation Festival website for more information and keep updated by following @brightonanimation on Instagram.

For further images, information or interview requests, please contact:

Sally@dna-pr.com

Holly@dna-pr.com

Brighton International Animation Festival

Doors 10.30am // Latest Music Bar // Tickets

Brighton International Animation Festival is set to take place at Latest Music Bar on Saturday 15th and Sunday 16th April.  Taking place for the second year running, the festival is a fantastic celebration of iconic animation and showcases the best in the next generation of filmmakers – UK and International. As well as an impressive programme, this year the festival will include an exciting AR exhibit and the One Bum Cinema Club will be making an appearance. All films are subtitled with BSL interpreters at all events, making it fully accessible for deaf & hard of hearing.

2023 judge’s prestige panel includes Emmy and Oscar-nominated director Joanna Quinn, who will also be hosting her first UK retrospective at the festival for the first time in years. Barry Purves – whose work ranges from the stop motion 80s Wind in the Willows to feature films like Mars Attacks! And King Kong – will be giving a masterclass on the Sunday, and Hannah Lau Walker – a pioneer of women in the animation industry.

You can book tickets online now for the jam-packed two-day programme, including:

To Be Human – focusing on the human condition. Living with Alzheimer’s, child soldiers, body image and men’s knitting groups are just some of the topics explored in this collection of films from countries including Australia, Egypt through to UK.

The (un)Natural World – Science, the environment and creatures of the earth are the focus of this programme. Expect sea creatures, insect specialists and hot-blooded flowers in the programme from countries including Taiwan, Iran and Sri Lanka.

Wild Characters – Use of personification and exaggeration are some of the joys of designing and working with character within animation. Clocks, clowns, huge sausage dogs and Elton John all feature in this collection of films that all have a character-based focus.

This festival is also one of firsts, featuring Queer As F**K: a special curated programme of Queer Animation not seen in other animation festivals, that explores an array of contemporary queer culture from terfs and gender identity to sex positivity. BIAF will also feature No Planet B – an Augmented Reality exhibition which will be on site to explore between the schedules.

Visit the Brighton International Animation Festival website for more information and keep updated by following @brightonanimation on Instagram.

For further images, information or interview requests, please contact:

Sally@dna-pr.com

Holly@dna-pr.com

The Clause + Crystal Tides + The Dryas

Doors 7.30pm // Latest Music Bar // Tickets

The Clause are a four-piece from Birmingham who bring together the swagger of the 60s, the rolling groove of the 80s and the riotous verve and attitude of the 90s. Pearce Macca (front man), Niall Fennell (drummer) Jonny Fyffe (bassist) and Liam Deakin (guitarist) effortlessly combine huge hooks with gritty verses, indie sensibilities and rhythm and blues groove and melodies to create an altogether different beast.

The Croupiers – Northern, Rare and Classic Soul

Doors 8pm // Latest Music Bar // Tickets

A brand new group, but by no means beginners, The Croupiers are a 9 piece live Northern Soul Revue, based in Brighton, Sussex.  With a carefully curated repertoire, including all of the classics of the genre, plus some choice rarities and a sprinkling of soul classics, the band features the cream of soul and funk musicians and performers from the south of England, with a plenitude of experience playing on international stages at prestigious events, festivals and venues.

Keeping the faith and recreating all of your fave Northern tunes with a slick, authentic, high energy live show, that’s what it’s all about!
Slip on your baggies, grab your talcum powder, throw it in your bowling bag and hit that floor – Do we love love you? Indeed we do!

Support and DJs TBC

Catalyst Club Special: THE SILENCE OF SNOW: THE LIFE OF PATRICK HAMILTON

Doors 8pm // Latest Music Bar // Tickets

Mark Farrelly (Quentin Crisp: Naked Hope) presents his riveting, kinetic solo show portraying one of the great English writers of the inter-war years. Brighton author Patrick Hamilton was a dazzling success in his twenties, producing hit plays Rope (filmed by Hitchcock) and Gaslight, and classic novels Twenty Thousand Streets Under The Sky, Hangover Square and The Slaves of Solitude.
But Hamilton was also an alcoholic, whose wit became increasingly mordant as his inner and outer worlds collapsed. Covering the entire sweep of Hamilton’s turbulent life and writing, The Silence of Snow entertains and challenges in equal measure, asking audiences: why do so many of us get through life without feeling we ever truly knew another person?
This witty and engaging tribute to a great English writer is written and performed by Mark Farrelly, whose West End credits include Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? opposite Matthew Kelly. He is directed by EastEnders star Linda Marlowe.

Running time: 70 mins no interval

★★★★ “You won’t be able to take your eyes off this magnetic actor Mark Farrelly. He inhabits the character of Hamilton with a blazing fluidity”
The Times

★★★★ “Horrifyingly funny snapshot of the wit, novelist and playwright…brilliant” The Spectator

★★★★ “Farrelly’s revelatory autopsy of a cauterised heart of darkness is intimidatingly implosive: stand well close” The Reviews Hub

Melodic Hardcore 2 with Hell Can Wait, Without Love & Dozy

Doors 6pm // Latest Music Bar // Tickets

MDRNHXC are proud to announce we’ve organised this charity event raising money for the mental health charity MIND. Featuring a mixed bill of artists as who wants to see the same band all night!

As part of their WEEKEND OF MELODIC HARDCORE we have:

HELL CAN WAIT
&
WITHOUT LOVE

With support from:

DOZY

& MORE TBA

EVENT DETAILS

SUNDAY 2ND APRIL 2023
LATEST MUSIC BAR, BRIGHTON
14-17 Manchester St, Kemptown, Brighton BN2 1TF
TICKETS £6 ADVANCE / £10 ON THE DOOR

With public transport in Brighton being notoriously terrible on Sunday evenings we’ve opted to run this show a little earlier.. Doors will be at 6PM and the event will finish by 9:30PM latest!

SOCK + Gramski + Noah Sumptions

Doors 8pm // Latest Music Bar // Tickets

Tickets £10 advance.
£12 on the door.

SOCK

Sock were formed in a small town in 1990, always unpredictable and flamboyant, they reigned supreme for two years before dispersing to the four corners of the world to pursue their individual dreams. After 22 years the band reformed for a one off gig that coincided with singer Guy adopting the on-stage persona of glam rock-god Vince Venus and gaining international fame as the (unofficial) winner of Britain’s Got Talent in 2015. The rest of the band followed suit and have emerged as a group of misfit superheroes on a mission to save rock n’ roll.

Gramski

Gramski is an award winning master in the art of freestyle rap. He’s rapped everywhere from Glastonbury festival, the jungles of Panama, the Hadron Super Collider, Vietnamese nightclubs and now joins us at The Latest Music Bar. Come prepared with imaginative ideas and he’ll turn them into rap tracks for you without hesitation.

Noah Sumptions

A regular on the Brighton poetry scene, Noah Sumptions has grown from tragic teenage bedroom playwright to performing a feature set to an audience of thousands at Brighton TransPride 2022. Once lovingly told they “took the age old art of poetry and shat all over it”, Noah is here, unapologetically queer, and resolutely unafraid to dive deep into the awkward, unbearable and unspeakable parts of the human condition. Better out than in, as they say.

Sick Stuff TMA Launch Party

Doors 7pm // Latest MusicBar // Tickets £5

Tickets to Sick Stuff Tour Management Agency’s Brighton launch party at Latest Music Bar

We have a serious line up to announce for the show with some big names touring.

Meet upstairs, all bands welcome interested in touring.

Discounted tickets for bands interested in joining Sick Stuff’s Roster

Brighton International Animation Festival

Events running all day // Latest MusicBar // Tickets

Sunday Schedule

10am – 12pm

Animation Workshop
Come and learn erasure charcoal animation with artist and animation Leo Crane, director of Figuration. Everything will be provided, you just need to bring your smart phone!​

Tickets https://www.wegottickets.com/event/543188/

12.30pm

Industry Talk – Karrot Animation
We will be joined for an industry talk by Emmy award winning animation studio Karrot Animation – responsible for Sarah and Duck and recently exec producing Peppa Pig. Series producer Jamie Badminton will talk through behind the scenes of the work in their studio as well as tips for getting into the animation industry. Come with a question!

Tickets https://www.wegottickets.com/event/543191/

2pm

The Female Gaze and Q+A
In second wave feminism Laura Mulvey presented the concept of The Male Gaze. This programme subverts this and presents a selection of films either presenting the female experience or the world through the eyes of a female director. Including documentary, narrative and experimental from countries including Azerbaijan, Russia, Germany and UK.

CW – two films include reference of abuse but not depiction of

Tickets https://www.wegottickets.com/event/543193/

4pm

Global Visions and Q+A
Animation has the power to tell stories from different perspectives and reach audiences in such a special and engaging way. This collection of films presents films showcasing a global perspective – from Serbia to Australia to Chile. Both documentary and narrative films are included utilising an array of techniques from charcoal animation through to CGI.

Tickets https://www.wegottickets.com/event/543195/

6pm

Guest Festival – StopTrik International Film Festival
This special programme is brought to us by guest festival StopTrik International Film Festival based in Poland/Sloveina. It’s one of the leading stop motion festivals in Europe and will share with us this specially curated programme of the best of international stop motion animation.

Tickets https://www.wegottickets.com/event/543199/

8pm

Closing Night Gala
Long Shorts programme followed by awards ceremony. Who will win the Best UK, Best International and Best Student film?

Find out who the judges have chosen in the closing night. Followed by drinks, mingling and maybe even dancing?

Tickets https://www.wegottickets.com/event/543201/

Brighton International Animation Festival

Events running all day // Latest MusicBar // Tickets 

Saturday Programme

10am Opening feature – Strike
Featuring Q+A with director Trevor Hardy

Local studio PigBird have produced a wonderful comedy stop motion feature which is appealing to both children and adults alike

Tickets: https://www.wegottickets.com/event/543173/

12pm New Generation and Q+A

Look out for the next generation of filmmakers in this showcase of the best cutting edge of talent from both UK and International. Climate change, social media and autism are just some of the topics covered by this new generation of filmmakers, expect to see work from Hungary, Poland and Israel through to UK.

Tickets: https://www.wegottickets.com/event/543175/

2pm Puppet Stories

Puppet based stop frame animation was pioneered in the early twentieth century in the former eastern bloc countries including former Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. We can still see the influence of these pioneers today in this selection of narrative based figurative films from countries including Spain, China, USA and UK. Expect beautiful craft in both tactile and digital puppet making.

Tickets: https://www.wegottickets.com/event/543177/

4pm

Queer Contemporaries
Out of competition special programme

Although Queer Animation is a relatively young genre, there have been an array of ground breaking films by a new generation of filmmakers that have arisen in the last few years. From gender identity in Purpleboy and Cut through to early internet chat room culture in Guy 101, these films all explore a unique perspective on queer culture and queer identity. Some utilise humour and imagination, some are factual accounts of lived experiences. From all across the globe such as Hungary, Canada and Isreal and through stop motion, hand drawn or pixilation, the one thing these films have in common is an engaging account of the queer human experience.

Tickets: https://www.wegottickets.com/event/543179/

6pm

Sound and Vision and Q+A
“Don’t you sometimes wonder about sound and vision?” sang David Bowie. Yes we do Bowie! This collection showcases films that showcase a strong relationship between audio and visuals – whether it be music video, choreography, abstract visuals or more humour based pieces. Don’t expect a beginning, a middle and an end with these films, this is more of a wild ride of styles and form from figurative character based animation through to non narrative abstract.

Tickets: https://www.wegottickets.com/event/543182/

8pm

Animation Karaoke
Animation Karaoke battle! Come down join in Animation Karaoke! Old 1980’s cartoon clips will be screened at random for participants from the audience to come up and improv the voice over! Followed by drinks, mingling and maybe even dancing?

Tickets: https://www.wegottickets.com/event/543185/

DHP Presents: Anika

Doors 7:30pm // Latest MusicBar // Tickets £13.50

Anika a.k.a Annika Henderson (D/GB), born 1987 in Woking England, is a hybrid artist. The former journalist made a name for herself in the electronic music scene, with her experimental sound collages, confrontational texts and unique way of performing live solo. Her breakthrough came in 2010 with the release of the cult-hit, experimental LP, ‚Anika‘ (Stones Throw /Invada), which she recorded with Geoff Barrow and band Beak> in Bristol, a wholey unexpected and unplanned affair, which began Anika’s long and winding road into the music, film, poetry and arts scenes. Her most known song remains ‚I Go To Sleep‘, a cover of ‚The Kinks‘ 1965 classic.

She interweaves dub, post-punk, psychedelic, with shadows of dnb and a strong emphasis on the voice.

Henderson operates as a poet, composer, musician, DJ, photographer, radio host and film-maker.

Venue Booked for Private Party

Latest MusicBar is available to hire for parties, weddings, live music… As we’re a renowned live venue we do love a band for a party & can help you source entertainment including bands… For parties & private hire: bookings@thelatest.​co.uk

Venue Booked for Private Party

Latest MusicBar is available to hire for parties, weddings, live music… As we’re a renowned live venue we do love a band for a party & can help you source entertainment including bands… For parties & private hire: bookings@thelatest.​co.uk

Catalyst Club

Doors 7:30 // TICKETS

Established in 2004, The Catalyst Club is Brighton’s longest-running spoken word night and pays tribute to the old tradition of French salons. On the night three guest speakers take to the lectern to talk for fifteen minutes on a subject close to their heart. The Catalyst Club is open to anyone with a passion, no matter how bizarre or niche. Since its inception it has hosted over 700 talks that have ranged from zombie films, Marmite, the history of the Martini, the suffragettes and the Spartans to demonology, bum reading, moths and the wonderful world of slime mould. Their BBC Radio 4 special can be found here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b081jnp1

It is hosted by Dr David Bramwell. www.drbramwell.com

Cafe Scientifique

7:15 Doors // Talks from 8pm // Free

Brighton Café Scientifique is Science for the Sociable!

Informal talks of about 30-45 minutes are given by experts in the field, at a level accessible to all. After a break, the talk is followed by a question and answer session, and open discussion on the topic of the evening.

Returning after almost two years, Cafe Scientifique have been educating the masses from Latest Music Bar for years now and we’re honoured to have them back!

The Space: Interviews with Peter Tatchell and Kerry Fox (and audience Q&As)

Doors 6:45pm // Latest Musicbar // Tickets

Peter Tatchell

Peter Tatchell has been campaigning on issues of human rights, democracy, civil liberties, LGBT equality and global justice for fifty-five years. High profile people he has protested against include Robert Mugabe, Tony Blair and Mike Tyson. His campaigning has come at huge cost, having been under police surveillance, threatened with assassination and subject to countless assaults. He is the Director of the Peter Tatchell Foundation, which campaigns on human rights across the world and was voted as among the top ten “heroes of our time” by New Statesman readers. He was the subject of a 2021 Netflix documentary, Being Peter Tatchell. More on Peter and the work of his foundation can be found at www.petertatchellfoundation.org

Kerry Fox

Kerry Fox is a renowned actress from New Zealand. She gained prominence when starring in Jane Campion’s second feature, 1990’s An Angel at My Table. It won her the Best Actress Award at the New Zealand Film and Television Awards. Kerry’s most famous appearance was Danny Boyle’s first film, Shallow Grave, released in 1994. She recently appeared in The Colour Room, a Sky Cinema feature, with actors such as David Morrissey. Other films include Rare Beasts, directed by and starring Billie Piper, the acclaimed The Hanging Garden and Welcome to Sarajevo, which was directed by Michael Winterbottom. She has appeared in many TV dramas, such as Last Tango in Halifax and Silent Witness.

Out of Love

Doors 4:00pm // Latest Music Bar // Tickets £7.70

Line up:

Uzumaki

Clobber

Out of Love

For more information visit https://www.outoflovepunk.com/

Mission Impossible Soul Band

Tickets £12 // Latest Musicbar

A night of uplifting soul music for your favourite night of the week. It’s SOUL THURSDAY!!

This classic night of soul is exported from the most royal of UK towns, Windsor, where it has been a hit with soul devotees for the past 20 years. Soul and funk classics will dominate the airwaves, culminating in the main event….The MI SOUL BAND!!
Featuring the amazing Bernadette on vocal, this 8 piece band play soul, funk and northern soul classics (and underground anthems) from down the years with a relentless energy. The MI Soul Band live by the belief that live music should be fun. And when you see this band playing the music that they love, you’ll feel that fun too!

Action for Happiness

Free Entry // 6:45pm Doors

Self-described as a “movement for positive social change”, Action for Happiness is a national charity aimed at increasing basic levels of happiness through whatever means they have and is a long-term friend of Latest Music Bar. Here’s what they have to say about their mission….

We’re bringing together people from all walks of life who want to play a part in creating a happier society for everyone. For fifty years we’ve aimed relentlessly at higher incomes. But despite being much wealthier, we’re no happier than we were five decades ago. At the same time we’ve seen an increase in wider social issues, including a worrying rise in anxiety and depression in young people. It’s time for a positive change in what we mean by progress.

Steve Strong & Vogons

Doors 7:30pm // Latest MusicBar // Tickets £5/£7 OTD

Steve Strong – a one man Post/Mathrock/Trip Hop/Ambient/Shoegaze from Bristol. Steve has played festivals all over the world. Come and see one man build up a track before your very eyes – excellent live

Vogons – Mathrock from Sheffield, great guys that will make you smile.

Lets Swim, Get Swimming – happy music from local guys, great fun to listen