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The Space is a unique, regular and intimate arts, culture and media event with guest interviewees Presenter and promoter, Wayne Imms can be contacted at wayne@the-space.uk Southern Performance And Creative Energies
"That was a thoroughly enjoyable evening in a great location! Many thanks for looking after me so well, for providing a knowledgeable and entertaining interviewer, and for finding me some new fans. It's been said before but bears repeating – Brighton Rocks!" BESTSELLING AUTHOR IAN RANKIN
Jonathan Glendening We're very grateful to this filmmaker, who is multi-skilled in the medium, including being an award-winning feature film director, an acclaimed screenwriter and an excellent editor. More on Jonathan can be seen at www.glendening.co.uk
"I cannot recommend an appearance at The Space highly enough. Nothing was too much trouble, from the delightful dinner beforehand to my fellow guest and the wonderfully informal and fun interview that followed. A lovely evening and I'd be back like a shot." ACTOR AND WRITER MARK GATISS
The Claremont We appreciate the support of The Claremont. Based in Hove, the lovely hotel has eleven generously-sized guest rooms, including three deluxe, two with luxury four-poster beds, two superior doubles, three classic doubles and three stylish singles. Further details are at www.theclaremont.eu
"The Space is a wonderful and an interesting set-up, both in terms of an interviewee or an audience member." DJ FATBOY SLIM
Reserve places online here now for the Pearce Quigley and William Nicholson event Only £24 - Please note: You won’t need a confirmation email and there are no actual physical tickets for the event. Upon making a booking, your name will be added to an attendance list (if you book additional places, a plus one or more will be added with it, depending on the amount of places booked). When entering the venue, you will be met by a Space crew member, who will check your name from the list and issue a stamp accordingly. We do not need your postal address, payment reference number or a printout of your payment receipt. There will be only be refunds if events are cancelled or if a guest becomes unavailable. This event occurs on Thurday May 7th at: Horatio's on Brighton Palace Pier, Madeira Drive, Brighton BN2 1TW Click here for directions > > > Doors 6:30pm, starts 7:30pm (approx).
OUR EVENT ON THURSDAY MAY 7TH HAS... INTERVIEWS WITH PEARCE QUIGLEY & WILLIAM NICHOLSON (AND AUDIENCE Q&As) Doors 18:30, starts 19:30, to finish at approx 22:30 (times may change slightly). At Horatio's on Brighton Palace Pier, Madeira Drive, Brighton BN2 1TW. This event is sponsored by Streets Accountants. Streets offer accountancy, tax and business advice with over thirty UK-based offices. They provide audit, wealth management and advisory services with local insight and national reach, while specialising in a number of areas, including media and entertainment. For many further details, visit www.streets.uk Pearce Quigley is an actor, best known for the highly popular BBC TV comedy dramas Small Prophets and Detectorists, both written by Mackenzie Crook. His other onscreen appearances include the crime drama Showtrial, Guy Ritchie’s Netflix series, The Gentlemen, Happiness, also starring Paul Whitehouse and Johnny Vegas, Death in Paradise, Midsomer Murders, The Thick of It, Prime Suspect 3, Queer as Folk, Inspector Morse and episodes of the sitcom Mandy. He was in nineteen episodes of Detectorists, as the character Russell, and every one of the hairdressing salon-based drama Cutting It, as Eugene Eubank. Pearce appeared in the 2018 Mike Leigh film, Peterloo, and Danny Boyle’s Millions, released in 2004. Playing the lead role of Michael in the recent broadcast of Small Prophets has given him much acclaim and recognition. He has performed in a wide range of theatre productions, such as The Seagull, Journey’s End, Shopping and Fucking, as well as many Shakespeare plays. William Nicholson is a screenwriter, playwright, novelist and a director. Probably most known for writing for the big screen, he has received nominations for five BAFTAs and two Oscars, for Shadowlands and Gladiator. The former, based on his own classic play, starred Anthony Hopkins as C.S. Lewis and Debra Winger as his wife, Joy. He also wrote the screenplays for films such as the medieval adventure First Knight, starring Sean Connery, Nell, produced and starring Jodie Foster, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, based on the subject’s autobiography, Unbroken, directed by Angeline Jolie, and Everest. Much of William’s work as a screenwriter is based on real people and true events, including 2022’s Thirteen Lives, about the rescue of a group of children trapped in a cave in Thailand. His most recent film as a director, 2019’s Hope Gap, starred Annette Benning and Bill Nighy. It was adapted from his play The Retreat from Moscow. He has also written sixteen novels, including The Wind Singer and Noble Warriors fantasy series’ and many on the theme of love.
Reserve places online here now for the Jason Watkins and Barry Ackroyd event Only £23 - Please note: You won’t need a confirmation email and there are no actual physical tickets for the event. Upon making a booking, your name will be added to an attendance list (if you book additional places, a plus one or more will be added with it, depending on the amount of places booked). When entering the venue, you will be met by a Space crew member, who will check your name from the list and issue a stamp accordingly. We do not need your postal address, payment reference number or a printout of your payment receipt. There will be only be refunds if events are cancelled or if a guest becomes unavailable. This event occurs on Thurday June 4th at: Horatio's on Brighton Palace Pier, Madeira Drive, Brighton BN2 1TW Click here for directions > > > Doors 6:30pm, starts 7:30pm (approx).
OUR EVENT ON THURSDAY JUNE 4TH HAS... INTERVIEWS WITH JASON WATKINS & BARRY ACKROYD (AND AUDIENCE Q&As) Doors 18:30, starts 19:30, to finish at approx 22:30 (times may change slightly). At Horatio's on Brighton Palace Pier, Madeira Drive, Brighton BN2 1TW. This event is sponsored by Streets Accountants. Streets offer accountancy, tax and business advice with over thirty UK-based offices. They provide audit, wealth management and advisory services with local insight and national reach, while specialising in a number of areas, including media and entertainment. For many further details, visit www.streets.uk Jason Watkins is a highly renowned actor, particularly known for a wide range of television dramas. His first television appearance was in EastEnders for eleven episodes in 1987. A year later came his first film role, as Wayne in Mike Leigh’s High Hopes. On the small screen, notable roles were in ITV’s McDonald & Dodds, from 2020 to 2024, the Channel 5 thriller Coma, Around the World in 80 Days, Taboo, Des, BBC comedies W1A and Trollied, and The Crown, as prime minister Harold Wilson. Jason memorably starred in the 2021 series of Line of Duty and was in two episodes of The Hollow Crown and Inside No.9. He played the villainous Herrick in Being Human and Plornish in Little Dorritt. Other film appearances included the Nativity trilogy and Wicked Little Letters. For the lead in ITV’s The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies, he won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actor. He is a notable theatre actor, too, and received a Best Supporting Actor Olivier Award nomination in 2001 for Servant for Two Masters. Barry Ackroyd is a leading prolific five-time BAFTA-nominated cinematographer, known for collaborating with the directors Paul Greengrass, Kathyrn Bigelow and Ken Loach. After beginning in television, he worked on the latter’s Riff- Raff, released in 1991, before more of Loach’s films, such as Land and Freedom and The Wind that Shakes the Barley. He continued working for television, including on the acclaimed dramas Hillsborough and The Lost Prince. With Paul Greengrass, Barry’s cinematography includes United 93, Captain Phillips, starring Tom Hanks, and Jason Bourne. And The Hurt Locker and A House of Dynamite saw him collaborating with Kathyrn Bigelow. He also worked on Netflix’s The Old Guard films, which starred Charlize Theron, and Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody. For more on him, visit www.barryackroyd.com As with some former ones, the guests’ appearances are subject to work commitments, which might possibly arise.
Reserve places online here now for the Fatboy Slim event Only £24 - Please note: You won’t need a confirmation email and there are no actual physical tickets for the event. Upon making a booking, your name will be added to an attendance list (if you book additional places, a plus one or more will be added with it, depending on the amount of places booked). When entering the venue, you will be met by a Space crew member, who will check your name from the list and issue a stamp accordingly. We do not need your postal address, payment reference number or a printout of your payment receipt. There will be only be refunds if events are cancelled or if a guest becomes unavailable. This event occurs on Thurday September 24th at: Horatio's on Brighton Palace Pier, Madeira Drive, Brighton BN2 1TW Click here for directions > > > Doors 6:45pm, starts 8:00pm (approx).
OUR EVENT ON THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 24TH HAS... AN INTERVIEW WITH FATBOY SLIM ABOUT HIS FIRSTS AND FAVOURITES (AND AN AUDIENCE Q&A) Doors 18:45, starts 20:00, to finish at approx 22:00 (times may change slightly). At Horatio's on Brighton Palace Pier, Madeira Drive, Brighton BN2 1TW. This event will mark thirty years since the release of Fatboy Slim’s first album, Better Living Through Chemistry, released on September 23rd, 1996. We will chat with the DJ, his real name being Norman Cook, of course, in this special interview about significant firsts in his career, from various performances and live appearances to record-breaking achievements, also some of his favourite moments and aspects, such as collaborations, remixes and about his music-making. After being part of the Housemartins during the eighties, then forming Beats International, known for Dub Be Good to Me, he was associated with artists such as Freak Power, including the song Turn On, Tune In, Cop Out, before becoming known as Fatboy Slim. Initially, he was a DJ associated with the Big Beat sound and later released the first of four studio albums, Better Living Through Chemistry. Its singles included Everybody Needs a 303 and Going Out of My Head. His next album, You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby, was a huge success, with hit songs such as Praise You and Right Here, Right Now. For the time being, as least, he no longer makes music but continues to work as a DJ all around the world.