The upstairs club at 8 Marine Parade in Brighton carries a long history as a dance venue: before 2000 the room operated as The Hungry Years, a dedicated rock club, and it later ran as Envy before reopening as Above, the nightclub on the floor over the Charles Street Tap. The space holds around 300 and hosts LGBTQ+ events, rock and alternative nights and club sessions, reached by lift as well as stairs. The Charles Street Tap below is a fixture of Brighton's Kemptown gay village, a bar and cabar.....

One of the largest churches of the nineteenth-century Gothic revival, All Saints in Hove is a Grade I listed building designed by John Loughborough Pearson in a thirteenth-century French Gothic style. Constructed from Sussex sandstone with a great roof of Sussex oak, it has been nicknamed the cathedral of the back streets and is one of the most significant churches in the city of Brighton and Hove. Building began in 1889; the nave and side aisles opened in 1891 and the eastern end was completed.....

Behind an ornate, European-Gothic facade on Dyke Road stands one of Brighton's more unusual music venues. The Grade II listed building dates from 1867, when it was designed by the architect George Somers Clarke as the Swan Downer School for poor girls, who were taught here for some seventy years before the premises passed through a long series of other uses. Since the late 1960s the building has been a fixture of Brighton nightlife, trading over the decades as Sloopy's Nitespot, Fozzie's Club a.....

Artista Cafe and Gallery is a small independent arts venue in The Lanes, the warren of narrow shopping streets in central Brighton, a short walk from the seafront and the Royal Pavilion. Part cafe-bar, part gallery, it functions chiefly as an intimate events space with a relaxed, front-room feel. Its programme is broad for its size, taking in art exhibitions, live music, theatre, poetry and storytelling, but it is best known for comedy: the venue hosts The Secret Comedy Club several nights a we.....

On Castle Square in central Brighton, this branch of the Be At One cocktail bar chain sits among the shops, cafes, and nightlife of the city centre, a short distance from the seafront and the Royal Pavilion. It runs to the group's established formula: a drink-led venue centred on cocktails and a lively party atmosphere rather than a food-focused operation. The Be At One brand began in May 1998, when bartenders Steve Locke, Leigh Miller, and Rhys Oldfield opened their first bar on Battersea Rise.....

Brighton Beach runs along the seafront of Brighton and Hove on the East Sussex coast, a broad stretch of shingle backed by the city's promenades, Regency terraces and amusements. Unlike the sandy resorts further west, it is a classic pebble beach, sloping down to the sea between timber groynes that divide it into bays and help hold the shingle in place. The beach stretches either side of Brighton Palace Pier, with Madeira Drive and the lower esplanade running along its eastern length and the Kin.....

High on the South Downs above Brighton, the city's racecourse occupies a dramatic clifftop position on Whitehawk Hill, around a mile from the coast and with sweeping views over the sea and the city. Racing here dates back to 1783, when the first organised meeting was held, giving the course more than two centuries of more or less continuous flat-racing history on the same stretch of downland. The track is one of the most distinctive in the country, an undulating, horseshoe-shaped circuit that p.....

The Caroline of Brunswick is a rock and alternative pub on Ditchling Road in Brighton, with a live performance venue upstairs. The main bar is a friendly, music-led space with a rock jukebox, a pool table, open-air seating front and rear, and regular DJ nights and rock karaoke at weekends. Above the bar, an 80-seat Upper Lounge hosts comedy, cabaret and live music in an intimate setting, and is a regular fixture of the Brighton and Edinburgh Fringe circuits, as well as film screenings and talks.....

Tucked down North Gardens, a quiet backstreet close to Brighton station, the Caxton Arms is an independent traditional pub that many locals regard as a hidden gem. Often described as the pub people never knew was there, on a road they did not know existed, it offers a friendly, characterful alternative to the busier venues around the station and city centre. The pub trades on its welcoming atmosphere, its food and its range of drinks rather than on passing footfall. The Caxton Arms first opened.....

Pitched on the shingle at Black Rock on Brighton seafront, Central Park is a large open-air pop-up venue created as a seasonal entertainment destination on the eastern stretch of Madeira Drive. Billed as an open-air beach hangout set against the city's coastline, it is a multi-purpose space combining live performance, club nights, big-screen events and food and drink, and is designed to operate over a concentrated summer season rather than as a permanent fixture. The site has been developed int.....