Music

Internationally-known artists originating there include Bat for Lashes, Fatboy Slim, The Kooks, the Ordinary Boys and The Go! Team. Nightclubs include The Zap, The Volks Tavern, Ghetto, The Honey Club, Legends, The Ocean Rooms, Amsterdam, The Event, Charles Street, Funky Buddah Lounge, Audio, Revenge and Arc.Live music venues include The Brighton Dome, The Corn Exchange, The Brighton Centre, The Freebutt, The Pressure Point, Casablanca and the Komedia.

Fashion

Brighton played a part in pop music history when ABBA received a substantial boost to their early career by winning the Eurovision Song Contest at the Brighton Dome in 1974.

Find bargain designer outlet shops galore at Brighton Marina or head for high-street stores on busy Western Road. Dive into The Lanes for independent boutiques selling jewellery and designer threads. Villagey Kemptown has a clutch of second-hand book shops and the bohemian North Laine is crammed with vintage clothes and antiques, interspersed with organic cafés, trendy hairdressers and record shops.

300 shops, 37 cafes, 22 pubs, 4 theatres, 2 museums, an award winning library and probably the best selection of small independent retailers on the South coast.

Many people have tried to define the famous North Laine area of Brighton but words cannot really do justice to this cosmopolitan mix of unusual, often unique and sometimes downright wacky shops and watering holes.

Renaissance Hope & Harlequin

Traid

Caramella

Ditto Fabric



Miss Selfridge

Office

To Be Worn Again

Starfish

Oasis Antiques

Dirty Harry

Colonel Mikes

La Cantina