2018 marks half a century since the formation of YES, one of the biggest bands in the history of progressive rock. To celebrate the milestone YES will embark on a ten date UK tour next March – #YES50, featuring not only many of the band’s classic hits but performances of sides 1 and 4 and an excerpt from Side 3 of their 1973 album Tales from Topographic Oceans, which was the first Yes album to top the UK album charts. They come to the Brighton Centre on Wednesday, March 21st.
Following a sold out UK tour in 2016, Christmas Queens returns to the Brighton Centre on Tuesday, December 12 for a festive extravaganza! To celebrate the release of the stars RuPaul’s Drag Race’s new album Christmas Queens #3 arriving under your Christmas tree they will be celebrating with a night of festive drag realness hosted by everyone’s favourite judge, Michelle Visage.
MAMA MIA! is a perfectly constructed musical, with great music written by Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus, and a clever storyline constructed around the songs of ABBA by Catherine Johnson. It’s a story of young and old love. A story about strong women and the love old friends have each other. Single mother Donna Sheridan (Helen Hobson) brings up her daughter Sophie (Lucy May Barker) along on a paradise Greek Island.
Over 60 million people around the world have fallen in love with the characters, the story and the music that make MAMMA MIA! the ultimate feel-good show! Writer Catherine Johnson’s sunny, funny tale unfolds on a Greek island paradise. On the eve of her wedding, a daughter’s quest to discover the identity of her father brings three men from her mother’s past back to the island they last visited 20 years ago.
Miranda Brawn, award-winning businesswoman, banker and barrister received an honorary Doctor of Letters during the university’s summer graduation ceremonies at the Brighton Centre. Miranda, CEO of the Brawn Diversity Leadership Foundation, campaigns for an equal and diverse workforce and promotes all forms of diversity including gender, race, disability and LGBT+.
Following his triumphant set on The Other Stage at Glastonbury on Sunday July 2, the biggest UK breakout star of 2017, Rag’n’Bone Man, AKA Rory Graham, announces seven UK and Eire dates for this November including a show at the Brighton Centre on November 28.
Known for their gleefully shambolic pop hits and punk attitude, Sara Dallin, Keren Woodward and Siobhan Fahey last performed together at the BRIT Awards in 1988 – a performance of Love in the First Degree which saw the ladies flanked by a mini army of topless male dancers. Camp, you say?
A multi-award winning, West End superstar was spotted on Brighton Beach and in Pavilion Gardens this week as Joey, the life-sized, equine puppet and star of War Horse came to town to promote the arrival of the acclaimed National Theatre production, which premiers at the Brighton Centre from January 25 – February 10, 2018.
Gscene have a pair of tickets to give away for each of the X Factor Live Tour shows on Thursday 16 and Friday 17 of March, when the final eight contestants come to the Brighton Centre.
VisitBritain, the UK’s national tourist board, will host its flagship annual event ExploreGB in Brighton next week. The tourism event will take place at the Brighton Centre from March 2-3, 2017 and is estimated to be worth an additional £1m to the local economy.
