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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
Hotel Pelirocco The prestigious Hotel Pelirocco is the original boutique hotel in Brighton and is unlike any other in the UK. It has nineteen highly unique and very stylish individually themed rooms, including ones related to David Bowie, soul music and Star Wars. It's based at Regency Square, close to the town centre and the seafront. More details can be found at www.hotelpelirocco.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
Côte The support of Côte is much appreciated. There are over 80 of the excellent restaurants in the UK, including in Brighton, at Church Street, opposite the Dome. They have a wide range of delicious food, some of it French-inspired. Further details are at www.cote.co.uk
Hotel Pelirocco The prestigious Hotel Pelirocco is the original boutique hotel in Brighton and is unlike any other in the UK. It has nineteen highly unique and very stylish individually themed rooms, including ones related to David Bowie, soul music and Star Wars. It's based at Regency Square, close to the town centre and the seafront. More details can be found at www.hotelpelirocco.co.uk
Reserve places online here now for the Mike Lindup and Hugh Padgham event Only £21 - 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 Tuesday January 21st at: The Tusk Club, at The Walrus, 10 Ship Street, Brighton BN1 1AD Click here for directions > > > Doors 6:45pm, starts 7:30pm (approx).
"The Space is a wonderful and an interesting set-up, both in terms of an interviewee or an audience member." DJ FATBOY SLIM
OUR EVENT ON TUESDAY JANUARY 21ST HAS... INTERVIEWS WITH MIKE LINDUP AND HUGH PADGHAM (AND AUDIENCE Q&As) Doors 18:45, starts 19:30, to finish at approx 22:30 (times may change slightly). At The Tusk Club, at The Walrus, 10 Ship Street, Brighton BN1 1AD. MIKE LINDUP Mike Lindup is a highly renowned musician, best known as the keyboard-player, as well as a songwriter, in Level 42, which he co-founded 45 years-ago, in late 1979. The band's sound can be described as a mixture of jazz funk with pop and Mike has frequently provided falsetto vocals for harmonies and choruses. They had nine top 40 studio albums and twenty hit singles, such as Lessons in Love, Something About You, The Sun Goes Down (Living It Up) and Running in the Family. Released in 1986, Lessons in Love was their biggest single, a hit worldwide, reaching number one in Denmark, Germany and Switzerland. An acclaimed live act, Level 42 still perform all over the world. Mike started composing aged 3 and took piano lessons from the age of 6, later singing in various choirs, before graduatng at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. In 1989, while Level 42 took a year off, he recorded his first solo album, Changes, whch was released in 1990. 30 years-ago, he began to diversify, exploring different musical styles, including working with the bands Negrocan and Da Lata. Mike continued with his own solo material, releasing more albums, and rejoined Level 42 in 2006. www.mikelindup.com www.level42.com HUGH PADGHAM Hugh Padgham is one of the UK's most renowned record producers. He has played a part in the making of many of the eighties' biggest albums and singles, including for artists such as Phil Collins, Genesis, The Police and Sting, as well as David Bowie, Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush. He produced five of Collins' albums and many of his singles, including In the Air Tonight and Sussudio. For The Police, the classics Every Breath You Take, Every Little Thing She Does is Magic and Sting's Fields of Gold. Hugh produced much of Genesis' music, including the huge album Invisible Touch and earlier songs such as Mama and That's All. David Bowie's 1984 album, Tonight, which features Blue Jean and Loving the Alien, he also was the producer of. His career has also included production on output from XTC, such as for Senses Working Overtime, Human League, including Louise, Paul McCartney, producing his 1986 album, Press to Play, engineering Peter Gabriel's third album, as well as co-engineering Kate Bush's The Dreaming. Hugh later worked with McFly, producing four number one singles for the band.
Reserve places online here now for the Chris Difford and Chris Spedding event Only £21 - 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 Thursday January 16th at: The Tusk Club, at The Walrus, 10 Ship Street, Brighton BN1 1AD Click here for directions > > > Doors 6:45pm, starts 7:30pm (approx).
OUR EVENT ON THURSDAY JANUARY 16TH HAS… INTERVIEWS WITH CHRIS DIFFORD AND CHRIS SPEDDING (AND AUDIENCE Q&As) Doors 18:45, starts 19:30, to finish at approx 22:30 (times may change slightly). At The Tusk Club, at The Walrus, 10 Ship Street, Brighton BN1 1AD. CHRIS DIFFORD Chris Difford is among Britain's most respected songwriters and a musician, best known for the band Squeeze. Formed 50 years-ago, in 1974, their highly popular songs include Up the Junction, Cool for Cats and Labelled with Love and Tempted, written with main vocalist, Glenn Tilbrook. As well as his work with Squeeze, he has maintained a solo career, releasing eight solo albums, between 2003 and 2018. Chris has written lyrics for Elton John, Elvis Costello and Jools Holland, among others. Since 2014, he has been running the annual Chris Difford Songwriting Retreat, an opportunity for artists to collaborate with each other. He hosted a podcast series, I Never Thought It Would Happen, with the charity Help Musicians. 2017 saw the publication of his acclaimed autobiography, Some Fantastic Place: My Life In and Out of Squeeze. Chris has been Grammy-nominated and won two Ivor Novello awards. More on him at www.chrisdifford.com CHRIS SPEDDING Chris Spedding is a renowned guitarist and a producer, best known for his session work. An in-demand musician, he has played on countless records by a wide variety of artists, such as Nilsson, Elton John, Roxy Music, Brian Eno, such as his debut album, and Katie Melua. He was the producer of the first Sex Pistols' demos, including Pretty Vacant, later on the Never Mind the Bollocks album. Chris also featured on hits by the likes of Joan Armatrading and David Essex. He played on the original album of Jesus Christ Superstar and Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds. Chris has been on the tours of the classic album and will be in 2025. He has toured with Velvet Underground founder John Cale, the Pretenders and others. With writer and producer Mike Batt, he recorded on The Wombles' hits and featured on Mike's Bright Eyes in 1979', sung by Art Garfunkel in the Watership Down film. Chris has released fourteen studio albums and many singles, including Motor Bikin', a 1975 hit, later recorded by Billy Idol. More on Chris, including an extensive biography, at www.chrisspedding.com