Good morning, Brighton. It’s looking like a fine Friday to finish the backend of the working week so pop off to work with a spring in your step and smile on your face… because this time next week, if you have kids, you’ll have 9 days straight of them being at home 🤯

In today’s Brighton Scoop:

• Madeira Terrace Renovation Progresses

• Brighton Fringe Tickets Fly Out The Door

• Hove Beach Park Grand Opening

What’s the Scoop

Madeira Terrace Renovation Progresses

👷🏼‍♂️ Pottering along the seafront this week, it was good to see the renovations moving along nicely opposite Sea Lanes. Although our photo paints the archetypal image of some builders at work, they were slogging away in the heat when we popped down so you can forgive them a break. Keep up the good work team! 👏

Brighton Fringe Tickets Fly Out The Door

🎭 Great to hear the best day of ticket sales since the (dare I say it) p**demic of 2020, happened this week at the Fringe. I’m sure the weather’s helped a treat and everyone seems it such a great mood, it’s a fab time to be down here. Remember to checkout What’s on and buy yourself some tickets. Support the arts.

Hove Beach Park Grand Opening

🏖️ 🛼 Hove Beach Park, the stunning new £13.7 million seafront destination, nears its official opening, much to the local community’s delight. Stretching from the King Alfred Leisure Centre to Hove Lagoon, the park has already attracted thousands of residents and visitors who have checking out the different sections as they were gradually completed. The official opening is scheduled for this Friday, May 16, featuring a ceremony with Councillor Bella Sankey, Leader of Brighton & Hove City Council, who will cut the ribbon to mark the beginning of the park's vibrant future.

To commemorate the opening, the park will host a delightful weekend filled with activities for families to enjoy. On Saturday, May 17, families can participate in an introductory bowls session from 10:30 am to 12:30 pm at the bowling green followed by a jam session on the pump track from midday to 4 pm. For those curious about padel, one of the UK's fastest-growing sports, there will be exhibition games and opportunities to chat with coaches.

The celebrations continue on Sunday, May 18, offering a skate jam at the skate plaza from 10 am to 6 pm, and a drop-in croquet session on the croquet lawn between midday and 4 pm. It’s been great to see so many people using the skate park, pump track and roller area since September 2024 when it opened and so we’re hopeful it spurs on other towns to follow in this type of investment in sport and entertainment for kids in their areas.

Weather

Friday 16/5

☀️ | 📈 23 | 📉 8 |☔️ <5% | 🌬️ NNE 9mph | 🌊 <1ft

Saturday 17/5

☀️ | 📈 20 | 📉 8 |☔️ <5% | 🌬️ ESE 7mph | 🌊 <1ft

Sunday 18/5

☀️ | 📈 19 | 📉 8 |☔️ <5% | 🌬️ SSE 8mph | 🌊 <1ft

Beautiful Brighton

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Brighton Festival & Fringe ‘25

There’s not a snowball’s chance in hell we could tackle the enormity of the schedule of events on for the Festival and Fringe this May so just follow the links below to their respective lists of the events for the most up to date info. Now chip off and find yourself something to see!

• Brighton Festival - What’s on

• Brighton Fringe - What’s on

What’s On

Friday 16/5

• Sweetfest 2025 - Various Acts | Yellow Book Bar | 2.30pm onwards

• Foraging Floristry Workshop | One Garden | 10am | Tickets

Saturday 17/5

• Paddle out protest to #endsewagepollution | West Pier | 10.30am

• Komedia Comedy Club | Komedia | 8pm | Tickets

• Sweetfest 2025 - Various Acts | Yellow Book Bar | 2.30pm onwards

• Introduction to Floristry | One Garden | 10am | Tickets

Sunday 18/5

• Brighton as it is: 1831 Historical Walk | Royal Pavillion Gardens | 1.30pm

• Directors Cut: In To Me See | Komedia | 7.30pm | Book

• Mr Pineapple Head (Fringe) | The Brunswick | 11.50am

• The Slide Show Must Go On | The Rose Hill | 7pm

• Sweetfest 2025 - Various Acts | Yellow Book Bar | 2.30pm onwards

• Yoga and Forest Bathing | One Garden | 10am | Tickets

Live Music

Friday 16/5

• The Great Escape | Madeira Drive & Multiple Venues Across Brighton | Tickets

• Slackscape (Opal Mag, Congratualtions, Cowz Slag) | Alphabet | 6pm | Free

• Escapism (Babyberserk, Francis Pig, The Sick Man of Europe) | Alphabet | 12am | Free

• Escape The Escape Late Night Party | Daltons | 10.30pm | Info

• Blazed & Confused | The Green Door Store | 11.30pm | Book

• Ain’t Nobody Soul & Disco | Maggie Mae’s | 7pm

• DJ O:BE | The Mesmerist | 8pm

• Easy Skankin x Rum n Bass Roof Terrace Party | The Mesmerist | 8pm

• The Dead Reds & Captin Dann | The Bee’s Mouth | 8pm

• Trip Western DJ | Bee’s Mouth Upstairs Bar | 9pm

• Smitherene | Black Lion | 12pm

• Nicholson | Black Lion | 11pm

• Lamb Collective: Zine Launch & Exhibition | The Brunswick | 6pm

• The Great 80s & 90s Movie Soundtrack Songbook | The Brunswick | 8pm

• Form Takeover | Folklore Rooms | 4pm

• No Friends in the Industry | Hope & Ruin | 2pm

• Dolly Dagger | The Neptune Inn | 9pm

• Fake Escape | The Rose Hill | 7pm

• Makino x SuperCharged X BassKonection | Volks | 11.30pm

• The Great Escape Weekender - Wild Family | Coqblock | 4pm

Saturday 17/5

• The Great Escape | Madeira Drive & Multiple Venues Across Brighton | Tickets

• Joy. RSVP Party | Alphabet | 3pm | Free

• Rhythem of the 90s | Concorde II | 7pm | Tickets

• Knife Bride, Tribe of Ghosts & Chvpters | Daltons | 11pm | RSVP

• It’s Still 1985 | The Green Door Store | 11.30pm | Book

• Jerron Paxton & Support | Komedia | 7.30pm | Book

• Michael Jackson Live Afternoon with David Boakes | Maggie Mae’s | 2pm | Book

• Wannabe - Back to the 90s & 00s Night | Maggie Mae’s | 9pm | Book

• Love Buzz | The Mesmerist | 9pm

• The Late Escape: SWIM + Pretty Girl (DJ) | Patterns | 11pm

• Outsider Art | Bee’s Mouth | 7.30pm

• Get in Her Ears After Party | Bee’s Mouth | 11.30pm

• Smitherene | Black Lion | 12pm

• Saturday Afternoon Jazz Jam | The Brunswick | 1pm

• The Macaroons | The Brunswick | 7pm

• The Great 80s & 90s Movie Soundtrack Songbook | The Brunswick | 8pm

• Folklore Takeover | Folklore Rooms | 12.30pm

• End of Trail Takeover | Folklore Rooms | 8.30pm

• No Friends in the Industry | Hope & Ruin | 2pm

• Smugglers Escape | Manchester Street Arts Club | 2pm

• The Jackals | The Neptune Inn | 9pm

• Fake Escape | The Rose Hill | 7pm

• Jungle Cakes - Ed Solo, JFB, Jam Thieves, Killa P, Jessi G | Volks | 11pm

• The Great Escape Weekender - The Brink Collective | Coqblock | 4pm

Sunday 18/5

• The Great Escape | Madeira Drive & Multiple Venues Across Brighton | Tickets

• Green Eye + Mestengo & Dratmandu | The Brunswick | 7.30pm

• The Great 80s & 90s Movie Soundtrack Songbook | The Brunswick | 8pm

Cheers for popping by

So long, and thanks for all the fish.