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Join Suzie for this unmissable Pink Floyd tribute at The Ropetackle. I've been trying to see this amazing cover band for a couple of years now but kept missing them - and here's my chance at last!

I've booked a SEATED ticket for £20! (Standing ones are £18).
Book yours (£20 + bf) at:-
https://ropetacklecentre.co.uk/events/simply-us-them-recreating-the-sound-of-pink-floyd/

"With many of their members working as session musicians in London and the south east and performing with a diverse mix of artists nationally and worldwide, Simply Us + Them are an incredible band who faithfully capture the sound of Pink Floyd.
The band members have performed with such diverse artists as current major vocalist Raye, Sting, Joe Cocker, Elton John, Eric Clapton, Graeme Clark (wetwetwet), Tony Christie, Pee Wee Ellis, Marcella Detroit and Liberty X just to name a few.
Featuring several musicians from the band Simply Dan."

We've done a few quizzes this year in Portslade and they're great fun - so - I've booked another one! I've booked a table for 4! Last week, we managed to win the coveted 2nd to last place prize! Come and join in the fun, before we stop for the summer.

In order to claim our full table, we need to arrive between 7.15 and 7.30. Please bring scrap paper, a pen and £3 CASH for the quiz (and maybe a small torch that's not attached to your phone - lighting's sometimes a bit sparse!).
PS The food is great too - 2-4-1 nachos on Mondays, as well as a Yorkshire pudding-leftover Sunday roast special - plus about 12 varieties of home-made gelato!

This quiz is run by professional quizzers Quiz Actually, and they present a really good mix of questions and types of rounds every week. All the questions are shown on big screens throughout the pub.

This year's Brighton Fringe offering is a dramatisation of that much -loved children's classic by Louisa May Alcott, "Little Women". For the best seats, book direct with Brighton Little Theatre as normal, rather than through Brighton Fringe site - I booked B8 and B9 at the very first performance of this run, the 2.30 matinee on Sat 4th May.
https://brightonlittletheatre.ticketline.co.uk/order/tickets/13368904/little-women-brighton-little-theatre-2024-05-04-14-30-00

Hope to see you there - and why not join us later for "Chopped Liver and Onions" at the Lantern Theatre (separate event)?

"Louisa May Alcott's 1868 classic and moving 'coming of age' story is accepted as ‘revolutionary' and for many years has been one of the most widely read novels. Cunningham's faithful and exciting adaptation follows the trials and triumphs of the four March sisters, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy and their mother, 'Marmee', living in somewhat impoverished circumstances in a small Massachusetts town while their father is away during the Civil War. Loosely based on the lives of the author and her publisher, this adaptation is underpinned by important conversations between Louisa May Alcott, and Thomas Niles Jr."

If you try to arrive between 2 and 2.30, we can have a drink and a chat in the cosy bar first.
For those who haven't been to the BLT before, here are some more detailed directions - PLEASE DON'T TRUST GOOGLEMAPS TO FIND IT!!!. From Western Road, immediately opposite Primark, turn into Clarence Gardens, which leads into Clarence Square. With Flight Centre to your left, walk closely past the Cauldron pub on your right, and at the end of the pub, go down 2 steps into a little alley-way past 5 or 6 houses on your right and through a little gate at the end, into a small square yard. The door to the theatre is straight ahead of you. Walk in, up a couple of steps and down some steps into the bar, where you pick up your tickets - and we'll all be waiting for you! Phew! See you there!

Join us at this great little theatre that Teresa and I discovered at the Fringe last year. The Lantern Theatre, in the heart of Kemp Town, has a truly terrific programme of theatre for Brighton Fringe this year - and we've booked loads!! Hope you can get to some of them with us. (If you want to come to a few, and have a buddy to share with, it may even be worth you signing up for a shared Friends membership, so that you can get most of them on 241's and can escape those pesky booking fees!)

Our first visit to the Lantern Theatre this year is "Chopped Liver & Onions", a one-woman show that was a smash hit at last year's Edinburgh Fringe - and we managed to miss!!!

Book your own ticket (£12/£10) at:- https://www.brightonfringe.org/events/chopped-liver-unions/
and meet in the bar from 6.45 - show starts at 7 pm - or join us at the Brighton Little Theatre beforehand for the 2.30 matinee of "Little Women" (separate event).