The SPACE: Tuesday February 5th 2008
The SPACE (Southern Performance and Creative Energies), Brighton’s popular media and arts networking event, brings together the creative community, with special guest interviews. It is a great place for making contacts and connections, so, ideally, work can be made.

Our next event sees Briggy Smale welcoming our special guests from the worlds of comedy and music. Doors open 7:00pm, and we start 7:30pm, but feel free to arrive from 6:00 upstairs for food from the Joogleberry’s superb menu. Entrance £5 / £3

www.thespace.me.uk

www.joogleberry.com

Special Guests:
Barry Cryer
Barry Cryer, who is a guest not to be missed, is one of the most respected figures within British comedy, and is known as “the king of the one-liners”. He has written for some of the world's top performers, including Richard Pryor, The Two Ronnies, Morecambe and Wise, Tommy Cooper, Kenny Everett and Rory Bremner. Barry has worked with comedians such as Paul Merton and Ross Noble, and is known for Radio 4's long-running quiz show, I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue.

Guy Pratt
We also welcome leading bass player Guy Pratt, one of the most in-demand musicians in rock and pop, and he has worked with Madonna (playing bass on Like a Prayer), Pink Floyd, Kirsty MacColl, The Orb, Bryan Ferry, Michael Jackson, Rod Stewart, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Iggy Pop, David Bowie and The Pretenders. He composed the music for Simon Pegg's sitcom, Spaced, and is also a comedian and actor.

Live music/ Miss Pain
Plus, there’ll be a fantastic performance from the quirky electronic trio Miss Pain.

www.misspain.co.uk

Armitage Cistern Enterprises presents:
North Sea Radio Orchestra + Crayola Lectern
Friends Meeting House - Sunday 16th March 2008
Doors open 7pm: Curfew 9.30pm: All ages show.
Tickets £5/£4 available from Resident, Rounder
and www.wegottickets.com

North Sea Radio Orchestra are a London-based collective, led by composer Craig Fortnam. The eponymously titled debut album which came out to critical acclaim last year showcases their uniquely enchanting and otherworldly chamber music. If Sigur Ros are quintessentially Icelandic then we have the English counterpart in the NSRO whose musical beauty is comparative albeit with several twists including a chorus who sing the words of Tennyson, Hardy and Yeats to sumptuously baroque melodies with an eccentric yet soothing heart. The arrangements utilise the instrumentation of piano, organ, vibraphone, strings, oboe, bassoon, clarinet and percussion in differing combinations and with great deftness. This gig is something different for Brighton folk to taste; a group who sound like no other and whose influences take in medieval, pre-raphaelite, Victorian and 20th century, always with a distinctively contemporary feel.

No strangers to the world of avant-rock NSRO have been indispensable luminaries on the gig circuit both in past groups as well as concurrently. Their number includes William D Drake of Cardiacs fame and Kavus Torabi, also of Cardiacs and The Monsoon Bassoon.
www.myspace.com/northsearadioorchestra

Artrocker gave the NSRO a total seal of approval : "North Sea Radio, have created the most beautiful album of the year and could surely sway even the most ardent distortion-pedal freak to step back and open their minds and hearts to this."

Crayola Lectern's so-called English Channel Ensemble comprising Jon Poole and Alistair Strachan will open the proceedings shortly after 7pm.
www.crayolalectern.com