Bank Holiday highlights
Here's East's Top Five tips for the Bank Holiday weekend, selected from all across the region. BEIRUT Acclaimed US group Beirut play their only English gig this year at Eastbourne's Winter Garden tonight (Fri 27), with Brighton's Jacob's…
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- author: Stuart Huggett
- posted: Fri 27/08/2010 at 17:03
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Jane Andrews
Anyone who knows Jane Andrews ’ paintings might think she would be an odd duck of sorts. Twisted figures in fantasy worlds look almost like characters from a child’s nightmare. Neither dark nor troubled, Jane is an upbeat person with a…
- category: Feature
- author: Cat Neilson
- posted: Thu 15/07/2010 at 18:08
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Red Velvet Curtain Cult
Dozens of artists from the Red Velvet Curtain Cult are taking over the De La Warr Pavilion this week, for a special Random Fridays evening entitled I Believe (Tales from the Edge of Everything). The free event, co-promoted by East, will…
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- author: Stuart Huggett
- posted: Wed 10/03/2010 at 11:56
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Midori Hirano
Regular readers of East might be able to tell that we love Random Fridays at the De La Warr Pavilion . We’d been craving a high quality leftfield event for quite some time; a night of music which didn’t include the words ‘house’ or…
- category: Feature
- author: Dave Standen
- posted: Mon 02/11/2009 at 12:07
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Richard Hawley, Kings Of Convenience and more for De La Warr
Bexhill's De La Warr Pavilion has announced more big name musical acts for the autumn, led by Mercury nominee Richard Hawley, and Norwegian duo Kings Of Convenience. Richard Hawley had played guitar in The Longpigs and Pulp, before going…
- category: Feature
- author: Stuart Huggett
- posted: Tue 30/06/2009 at 13:39
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Not gone to Glasto?
It's that time of year, when thousands of festival-goers and artists (including, once again, Eastbourne's can-can troupe Les Ooh La Laas - see our previous feature here ) make their way to Somerset for the Glastonbury Festival . If, like…
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- author: Stuart Huggett
- posted: Wed 24/06/2009 at 14:44
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Wanted: Your Favourite Fish & Chips!
Fish and chips are the cornerstone of any seaside town. We love them, you love them – hell, even the seagulls love them enough to steal them right out of your hands. We here on the south coast are inundated with fish and chip restaurants…
Where Are They Now?
In the current issue of East, we highlight some of the region's hottest bands, as voted for by a panel of Industry insiders, and you the Readers. East last ran this feature back in June 2007, with a Top 25 of the area's finest. But where…
- category: Feature
- author: Stuart Huggett
- posted: Tue 05/05/2009 at 12:34
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Festival Season
With the summer festival season approaching, here's East's pick of 15 of the best in the region. Lovewood , Heathfield. May9-10. Ease into the festival season with the low-key, charitable Lovewood festival. Your £30 helps go towards…
- category: Feature
- author: Stuart Huggett
- posted: Tue 07/04/2009 at 13:23
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Hastings on brink of answer to Eastbourne's Towner
A new art gallery for Hastings has come a step closer, with the Jerwood Foundation formally submitting their planning application for a new building on The Stade. As Eastbourne looks forward to the opening of the new Towner Gallery on April…
- category: Feature
- author: Stuart Huggett
- posted: Mon 02/03/2009 at 15:07
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