Things to do in Brighton?

1. Play Pinball (though I havent quite played them all from Soho down to Brighton)
2. Brighton Music Tunnel
3. British Airways i360
4. See if Sting is still working as a bell boy
5. Shag Steph in a dark alleyway
6. Punch up with rockers on the beach (err, maybe not)

Mark L wrote:

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... I'm sure it's changed, but back then I thought it was all overpriced property and patronising arty types. 

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 Oh, I don't think it has changed at all then!  

Interesting fact (maybe).  The Brighton Dome where The Rats will be playing is where ABBA won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1974

Mark L wrote:

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Thanks to the National Lottery, Brighton Dome closed for renovation in 1999 and was officially reopened in Mar 2002 by Princess Anne with a seating capacity of 1700 but I gather if the stalls are removed, the capacity increases by around 150 with a part standing audience. The Rats should fill this? 

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1,850 is a lot outside London. Cambridge Corn Exchange is similar size yet when I went there a few years ago it wasn't full and there were a lot of reduced priced tickets.  The 850 capacity Cambridge Junction was sold out the following year.   Brighton & Hove is a bigger city, but it has numerous additional evening attractions (like 900 pubs - Dublin only has 750) for the patronising arty types. 

I think the biggest UK indoor venue played is Roundhouse in London with 3,300 capacity and the Rats didn't quite sell that out, though the 2,300 Kentish Town Forum was sold out.  Less said about the Bradbury Rats attendance at the 1,000 capacity Blackheath Halls the better...

ArrGee wrote:

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Mark L wrote:

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Thanks to the National Lottery, Brighton Dome closed for renovation in 1999 and was officially reopened in Mar 2002 by Princess Anne with a seating capacity of 1700 but I gather if the stalls are removed, the capacity increases by around 150 with a part standing audience. The Rats should fill this? 

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1,850 is a lot outside London. Cambridge Corn Exchange is similar size yet when I went there a few years ago it wasn't full and there were a lot of reduced priced tickets.  The 850 capacity Cambridge Junction was sold out the following year.   Brighton & Hove is a bigger city, but it has numerous additional evening attractions (like 900 pubs - Dublin only has 750) for the patronising arty types. 

I think the biggest UK indoor venue played is Roundhouse in London with 3,300 capacity and the Rats didn't quite sell that out, though the 2,300 Kentish Town Forum was sold out.  Less said about the Bradbury Rats attendance at the 1,000 capacity Blackheath Halls the better...

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 I suppose a lot will depend on how well the records are received. Hard to believe we will know what Trash Glam Baby is like this time next week. First new Rats single since 1985's A Hold of Me? We can't count 1994's reissue of I Don't Like Mondays or the Ratlife EP. Former not new and latter not a single. Granted the latter was new material but let's pray Trash Glam Baby is not in that general vein.