Brighton chat and photos: clubs, bars, recommendations and more

[RedDragon]

Opened in 1883, Volk's Electric Railway is the 'world's oldest operating electric railway'

electric railway

 

[Reno]

I remember that. Did you enter?

No, the trendy moustache I had at the time would have been laughed off the stage, considering the beardzillas that were parading around there. A mate of mine entered after growing a beard for two years especially for it. Didn't win anything though.

 

[Pingu]

further to my previous post, it is still on the south coast

you sure?

it might have gone on holiday

 

[renegadechicken]

My friend lives there, it has a great tattooist, and some wonderful restaurants, it also has some really shit ones.

 

[RedDragon]

A quiet day there today, then.

 

[ChrisFilter]

Grim.

 

[RedDragon]

They look like refugees from an apocalypse movie

 

[dessiato]

Brighton is the third best place in the world in my opinion.

 

[RedDragon]

Only the third?

 

[The Octagon]

Fatboy Slim does the cabaret there on Fridays. Chris Eubank takes on all comers on Saturdays.

I stayed in the Holiday Inn a couple of weeks ago for a work thing.

Stepped into the lift to my floor and Chris Eubank was stood there in a massive white shirt, black tie and skintight gold leggings.

He said hello and it was all I could do to not piss myself laughing.

I have poor survival instincts.

 

[silverfish]

Oooh, out there tonight,,any ideas for a couplie night out. Staying on the front

 

[rutabowa]

Oooh, out there tonight,,any ideas for a couplie night out. Staying on the front

Atomic SUplex are playing at the Prince Albert by the station.

 

[silverfish]

Atomic SUplex are playing at the Prince Albert by the station.

Gen!!! Do i get to see the helmet

 

[Psychonaut]

 

[silverfish]

Ha, excellent, game on

 

[rutabowa]

Gen!!! Do i get to see the helmet

well of course.

 

[Corax]

I've heard it's full of deviance.

 

[silverfish]

I've heard it's full of deviance.

Splendid

 

[silverfish]

Turned up and fucking missed it!!! Outside scoffing brandy now though.

Get back on stage

 

[silverfish]

Hoofin!

Portuguese iggy

 

[brogdale]

My son lives in Brighton.

Coincidentally, so does mine.

I think it was the S, S, Pebbles & S. that were the attractors.

 

[Schmetterling]

Brighton has an Albert pub Out of station then 'under' the road. Top of Trafalgar St. Got John Peedo Peel mural, plus Bankys snogging coppers.

That's been painted over now - the Peel, I mean!

 

[Agent Sparrow]

I'm not sure if it's depressing or pleasing when you read a thread about your home town, and realise that your knowledge is well out of date.

 

[Voley]

I'm not sure if it's depressing or pleasing when you read a thread about your home town, and realise that your knowledge is well out of date.

I had a similar thing when I tried to find a pub in Soho on Google Street View recently. Place had changed so much I got lost.

 

[squirmy the 2nd]

i moved from london to the outskirts of brighton in 2005. never once have i wanted to move back.

 

[Ted Striker]

I'm thinking of moving down there - it's where I went to Uni and it's always been like a second home for me.

Was talking to my Gran on the subject, and she summed it up perfectly, she said:

"Brighton, is like a tonic".

And I was all a bit stunned at how simple and apt. It really is!

 

[brogdale]

I'm thinking of moving down there - it's where I went to Uni and it's always been like a second home for me.

Was talking to my Gran on the subject, and she summed it up perfectly, she said:

"Brighton, is like a tonic".

And I was all a bit stunned at how simple and apt. It really is!

Fizzy, bitter and over-priced?

 

[RedDragon]

Is it bash Brighton month or something.

Tourists have voted Brighton the country's worst holiday resort, accusing the town of being "too trendy" and too "full of bohemians and bad art"

Guardian

One of the comments

Want to see the real Brighton? Take a wander up London Road (or Upper Lewes Road) past the Scope and Pound Stretcher shops all the while dodging the vicious packs of alcoholics enthusiastically exchanging abuse near Greggs; all this barely a five minute walk from the main railway station.
Or, shuffle like a zombie through the crowded North Laines while bitter Arts graduates from the 90s sit in their tiny shops smirking while tourists pay £40 for a t-shirt as they adjust their post-post-post ironic trilbys.
Alternatively, wander through Kemptown (incredibly compared with SF) where the first thing you will witness is the chaos outside the Morrissons. Otherwise it's the usual pseudo-trendy £4.50 a pint bars full of blokes in skinny jeans, sneering locals and confused tourists wondering why they paid in advance for their £150 a night 'boutique' hotel.
Other than this Brighton hosts the familiar and terrifying street full of paralytic and punchy stag/hen nights, endless independent shops who eschew a business plan for simply putting a 400% markup on everything they sell, house prices that would make Roman Abramovich think twice, a congestion and parking situation comparable with New York and Steve fucking Coogan. If this is your thing then enjoy.

 

[Orangesanlemons]

Resident records, the Duke of York picturehouse, the new street food fridays, the quantity & quality of pubs & venues, the Dome, the blossoming food scene, the possible regeneration of London Rd, the seafront & north laine on a weekday & the general atmosphere of slightly down-at-heel seediness: all good.

The prices, the rent, the crowding & stag/hen parties at weekends, the psycho cabbies, litter, lousy housing stock, increasing problems with homelessness, alhocolism & drug addiction, the slow decline of Western Road, hipster smugness: all bad.

I still love the place, but moved out a few months ago (sick of rents flying upwards with no end in sight).
I'd say that the city is becoming more rapidly & noticably a place of the very rich and the very poor. The last two or so years in particular.

 

[Pingu]

Brighton sucks. It's a grubby, windy town populated by a bunch of rahs and a bunch of angry white-flighters. It's overpriced and sickeningly self-satisfied.

Not that I have much of an opinion.

just revisiting this thread.

greebo was fairly spot on and this was a closeish second.

it was OK but not somewhere I want to go back to