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Latest Festival Awards Nominees Announced!

The Latest Festival Awards will be rewarding the stars of the Fringe and Festival in their awards ceremony in the Udderbelly on Monday 28th May. The ceremony, hosted by comic Jimmy Carr, celebrates the best moments in this years Brighton Festival and Fringe!

So here are the nominees, and remember, look out for the little  Fringe Star , which indicates Fringe events, being events we expect you to clap twice as hard for!

 

The Nominees...

 

Best Open House

 

The Handmade House

Six is Six, 6 Clifton Street

'Comfort Food' by Cardigan

 

Best Comedian / Comedy Show

 

 Mayday! The Musical

 Jim Jeffries

 Stuart Lee

 

Best Male Performer

 

 Taylor Mac

 Max Day - Hamlet

 Jonathan Brown - The Father Monologues

 Seth Morgan - This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen

 

Best Female Performer

 

 Jo Neary

 Maddie Bridgett

 Jenny (from the Caesar Twins)

 

Best Classical Music Act

 

Andras Schiff - Bach English Suites, Glyndebourne

Czech National Symphony Orchestra

 Yoko Ono and Julia Graham - Brahms Sonata

 

Best Music Event

 

 Brighton Beach Boys

 The Hat

 The Great Escape Festival

 

3 Weeks Editors Award

 

 White Room Theatre for Bite-Size programme

 Jane Bom-Bane and Nick Pynn

 GSOH at the Marlborough Theatre

 

Best International Act

 

 Gamarjobat - Rock 'n Roll Penguin

 The Caesar Twins

 The Ladyboys of Bangkok

 

Star of the Festival

 

 Tina C & Ida Barr

 Stephen Grant

 Nick Pynn

 

Best Children's Event

 

 Shoe Baby

Children's Parade

 Little Howard

 

Best Venue

 

 Komedia

 Marlborough

 Brighton Media Centre

 Udderbelly

 

Best Literature / Workshop Event

 

 The Poetry Brothel

 The Nightingale series of workshops

Gordon Brown

 

Best PR / promotion of event

 

 Fringe City

Streets of Brighton

 Penny Simms (Udderbelly)

The Great Escape

 

Latest 7 Award for Best Show

 

To be announced

 

 Fringe Favourite

 

To be announced

 

Visual Arts Prize

 

 Graham Carter - Serendipity

 Lou McCurdy - Buoy with Blue Fingers

 Anna Kryiakou - Home Sweet Home

 Robert Miles - Garden Birds

 

Congratulations to everyone who was nominated, and we will be bringing you the winners once the awards ceremony is over. Good luck to all concerned!

Fringe Shows win Argus Angel Awards!

 

Last week saw Hamlet become the first Fringe show to scoop one of the fantastic Argus Angel Awards. However, they seem to have opened the floodgates, as now the Fringe has been winning awards left, right, and centre. In fact, at the time of writing, the Brighton Festival Fringe has now won SIX Argus Angel Awards!

 

We've already covered Hamlet on a previous news page, but here are our other winners...

 

Count Arthur Strong with his Argus Angel Award

 

Count Arthur Strong won an award for Count Arthur Strong: The Musical? celebrated the life and times of "Doncaster's most influential and talented showman", in a 'musical?' extravaganza at the Komedia. A Fringe stalwart, Strong never fails to entertain!

 

Taylor Mac arrived on stage "dressed in red heels, orange and green fishnets and a skirt made of surgical gloves." In a show encompassing high camp, raw honesty and musical humour, Taylor Mac stunned the audience with vivid stories and ukulele-led songs, closing with the advice that "nothing's worth doing unless it makes you nervous". A true star of the Fringe!

 

Ralph Brown and Glen Richardson from the Brighton Beach Boys

 

Making a triumphant return to the Fringe, the Brighton Beach Boys recreated Pet Sounds and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band live in an incredible 15-piece line-up. As the crowd danced in the aisles to the 'All you need is Love' encore, the Brighton Beach Boys provided the ultimate soundtrack to a festival that seems to become more summery with every single day!

 

Fulborn Teversham "performed an unfettered, near genius hybrid of rock-hard free jazz and groovy trip-hop torch songs." Now you can't say fairer than that. Described by the Argus as "almost indescribably good", the award was certainly worth a thousand words!

 

Jimmy and Chris from The Poetry Brothel

 

One of the more unusual events in the Fringe this year was the Poetry Brothel, located in the Hanover Massage Parlour and offering "one-on-one poetic satisfaction" to a horde of eager punters. With a different line-up of poets every week, people looking for a good rhyme were certainly not disappointed!