We're delighted to be announcing our 5th Brighton Rhythm & Soul Weekend which this year takes place in our new Home of Soul - THE KOKO CLUB! This year the Weekend will be stretching into a FOURTH DAY with a special afternoon session on Bank Holiday Monday featuring Soul Gems of the 1970s and 80s! Once again we'll be featuring our traditional Northern Soul Bank Holiday Blockbuster on the Sunday with an eclectic mix of DJs and this year's programme will start with the ever popular 'NORTHERN SOUL HEAVEN - an evening of those great classics and anthems. In between you'll find the ModSoul Boogaloo Party and a special evening when the Soul Clubs of Sussex unite for the very first time. Priority is given to those with a weekend ticket to cover all events although - subject to availability - tickets for individual events will be sold nearer the time.. Full details including DJs will be dripped in the coming weeks and months. Please note that capacity in this venue is limited, so we are likely to be SOLD OUT before the start of the weekend.

After the wonderful launch to the HOLD BACK THE NIGHT session at The KoKo Club recently, we were overwhelmed at the positive response and the clamour for the next event......so we're doing it again - but on a groovy Sunday afternoon! We'll be back at The KoKo where we know we are guaranteed the perfect atmosphere to listen and dance to Soul Gems from that wonderful era from 1970 through to the mid 80s. You'll hear classic cuts and forgotten treasures....and some really cutting edge stuff missed by so many on this side of the pond. You'll hear the likes of Marvin Gaye, The Trammps, The O'Jays, The Ohio Players, War, Roy Ayers and countless others that you didn't know you'd forgotten all about it. You can get out your flares, tank tops, platforms, shoulder pads etc., and put on your Big Hair or mullets with perhaps a splash of Aramis or Estee Lauder Youth Dew....you know what I'm talking about! WE'VE ALSO GOT A CRAZY, STUPID OFFER GOING DOWN which may give you a FREE afternoon out. Brighton & Hove Albion are having a very fine season - they might even win the FA Cup this year. So if you purchase your ticket before midday on Saturday, 29th March - we will refund your money IF THE SEAGULLS WIN THE FA CUP ON MAY 17th!

The Curtain Club in Brighton was not only an essential rendezvous for the city's LGBTQ community but a vital part of the city's cultural heritage too. For the best part of five decades this iconic venue was a pioneering establishment where like-minded people could meet, socialise and celebrate without fear of prejudice or discomfort....although in the earlier years, law enforcement officers were known to often make their presence felt! That though, only helped to enhance and establish the legend that The Curtain Club became. Along the way, it is also became renowned for the accompanying soundtrack to proceedings. The club's DJs often tended to veer away from the type of music typically heard in most of the city's mainstream nightspots. This was especially so in the 'disco era' when many import sounds were played particularly te records championed by the New York disco scene. As a curtain raiser to this year's Pride Weekend, we plan to stage a Curtain Club Revival Night. No one could ever replicate the unique atmosphere of the old Curtain Club but in staging a Revival Night we hope to give an essence of what the place was all about. We'll be playing many of the sounds of The Curtain Club era; we've an amazing DJ - and quite outrageous character - who will be seeing to that; and most importantly of all, we will be staging the event in the very same premises where it all happened. It is the stuff of legend for many who will no doubt have heard and wondered about the place. Hopefully, they'll get an idea of The Curtain Club's special 'magic'. It would be especially great if some of 'the old faces' surface - they can tell you all about it far better than we can! We ask that you spread the word - it would be terrible for people to miss out' - and join the Ticket Waiting List.