Posts Tagged ‘Speakeasy’

[ December 1, 2009 9:00 pm to December 31, 2009 11:59 pm. ] With Kachings reminisent to the beginning of Pink Floyd’s 1973 hit Money, it’s time for another new years even in Brighton. Our backings with Life, Supercharged and the Slackers Convention.
£32 to go to Digital?? Two words… blow me.

Last weekend saw the return of The Blind Tiger club, Brighton’s occasional speakeasy, this time hosted at the former public records library on New Street. The weekend did not get off to a promising start when my much-anticipated plans for attendance at the Thursday night warm up sadly fell at the last hurdle, with a [...]

[ October 8, 2009 to October 11, 2009. ] What made the last event such a huge success was the anything goes attitude – the feeling that you weren’t taking part in something legit and on the radar. Dark rooms filled with casual gambling, drinking, dancing and smoking had such an appeal we succumbed to temptation on a number of occasions.

Hidden away from the commercialism of West Street, the disorganization of Morley Street and the Indie-cause-it’s-cool attitude of Marine Parade we find something totally on a different level. The Blind Tiger Club takes place every Friday and Saturday during Brighton’s Fringe festival. Loose talk. Bad habits. Gin drinking, bourbon sipping. Highballs and lowlifes. An all-night bar. Poker. Piano. Candles. Chorus girls. Cocktails.