Herbie Flowers - the Sussex-based musician renowned for his bass guitar, double-bass and tuba playing - turned 75 in style on Sunday 19 May at a special Brighton Festival Birthday Jazz Breakfast in The Spiegeltent.The show, which featured Flowers playing alongside respected jazz saxophonist Stan Sulzmann, pianist Mark…

Brighton Festival 2013’s Guest Director Michael Rosen announced the winners of the festival’s annual Peacock Poetry Prize at a special tea party at the Royal Pavilion Tea Rooms on Saturday 18 May.12 lucky finalists were invited to meet Mr Rosen, who chose the theme of this year’s competition - The Changing City.…

Special guests announced for BUG: A Fatboy Slim SpecialNorman Cook - Fatboy Slim himself - will join Skint Records' label boss Damien Harris and comedian Adam Buxton on Brighton Dome Concert Hall stage.The special BUG event, which takes place on Monday 20 May, will celebrate the amazing contribution to the art-form of…

A stunt so dangerous the even Houdini refused to attempt it will take place as part of Brighton Festival this week in Rob Drummond’s Bullet Catch.The trick, which has claimed the lives of at least twelve illusionists, assistants and spectators since its conception in 1613 - is renowned for being the most daring, death-defying…

There is no deeper or more atmospheric evocation of the German Weimar era than the German television epic Berlin Alexanderplatz so it’s entirely fitting that we have programmed it this year for Brighton Festival. Adapted from Alfred Döblin’s novel by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, the 15-and-a-half hour mini-series has…