Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Street, held Monday to Saturday 9:30am to 5:30pm and Sunday 10:30am to 5pm. A
more famous
flea market
is held in the parking lot of the train station, but only on
Sunday from 6am to 2pm.
Entertainment & Nightlife
Offering drama year-round is the
Theatre Royal,
New Road (
&
08700/606650
),
with pre-London shows. Bigger concerts are held at
Brighton Centre,
King's Road
(
&
01273/290131;
www.brightoncentre.co.uk), a 5,000-seat facility featuring
mainly pop-music shows.
Komedia,
44 Gardner St. (
&
01273/687171;
www.komedia.co.uk), is a venue
that hosts everything from top indie bands (British Sea Power) to the Banff Film
Festival tour, and from top comedy to Brighton Jazz Club.
The Latest Music Bar,
14 Manchester St. (
&
01273/687171;
www.thelatest.co.uk), combines the latest
in live music with party-style club nights. Pubs all over the city regularly have live
music, often free.
There are plenty of nightclubs in Brighton; some have been around for a while,
others come and go. Check
www.visitbrighton
or
www.brightonlife.com
for up-
to-date info. There's often free admission early on or midweek rising to £10, but times
and prices often vary from week to week or season to season.
Honeyclub
(
&
01273/202807;
www.thehoneyclub.co.uk), 214 King's Rd.
Arches, is a bar by day and a lively club at night, with downstairs dance floor.
Audio,
10 Marine Parade (
&
01273/606906;
www.audiobrighton.com), is another of the
places that continues to buzz, with a clutch of different, hard-hitting club nights.
Casablanca,
Middle Street (
&
01273/321817;
www.casablancajazzclub.com), is
still clubbing but with a funk-latin-jazz feel.
6
brighton's
GAY SCENE
Brighton has long been regarded as Brit-
ain's gay capital. It has the country's big-
gest gay festival (Pride, in early Aug),
and a thriving scene of bars, clubs, and
hotels. Most of the action is in the Gay
Quarter in Kemp Town, a compact strip
just off the seafront.
Dr Brighton,
16
King's Rd. (
&
01273/328765;
www.
doctorbrightons.co.uk), opposite the pier
is one of the mainstays, and has a street
party during Pride.
Legends,
31 Marine
Parade (
&
01273/624462;
www.legends
brighton.com), is one of the country's
leading gay hotels and has two venues,
Legends
cafe-bar and
The Basement
nightclub.
The Marlborough,
4 Princes St.
(
&
01273/570028
), is a richly traditional
pub opposite the Royal Pavilion with a
cabaret theatre. Of the clubs,
Revenge,
32-34 Old Steine (
&
01273/606064;
www.revenge.co.uk), is the biggest, with
lots of gay-friendly live acts from reality
TV shows such as
X Factor.
The Charles
Street Bar & Club,
8 Marine Parade
(
&
01273/624091;
www.charles-street.
com), combines a downstairs bar, which
spills onto the street, with a popular club
above. Of the hotels,
Colson House,
17
Upper Rock Gardens (www.colsonhouse.
co.uk;
&
01273/694922
), features eight
rooms themed after stars such as Marilyn
Monroe; while the
Amsterdam,
11 Marine
Parade (www.amsterdam.co.uk;
&
01273/68825
), combines a men-only
sauna, chill-out bar with sun terrace, and
decent restaurant. The official tourist
office site, www.visitbrighton.com, has a
sizable gay section while www.gscene.
com is a local site devoted to gay and
lesbian matters.
