BRIGHTON ROCKS: Where’s the late night action?
“Joogleberry Playhouse opened last summer and guarantees a fantastic night out. Upstairs they serve delicious tapas, while the cosy cabaret bar has entertainment every night.”

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“One of the most welcome recent additions to Brighton, Joogleberry Playhouse offers a unique combination of delicious food and quality entertainment and relaxed vibe with accessible results. It was opened last summer by sister and brother team Sue and Geoff Popper, who wanted to create a relaxing place for people of every age, with exceptional live performances and quirky extras, including cheeky shots of absinthe. “it’s a little more mature than a lot of places in Brighton, but we have everyone enjoying themselves from 18 year olds to eightysomethings” explains Sue. “And we appeal to all sexualities and cultures”. Because they’re not straight-down-the-line English themselves, as Sue puts it, the menu is a tapas heavy melting pot of tasty ‘big food and little food’.

Former stage manager of ‘The Lion King’ and ‘Chicago’ Geoff is also responsible for the superb décor downstairs – a streets-of-brighton set with twinkly star backdrop – appropriate for somewhere that has a cheery panto atmosphere thanks to a gregarious clientele. And just because you’re unlikely to see any chin stroking musos in the audience, it doesn’t mean that the music, from jazz to salsa, is anything less than the finest quality. Jazspel are just one example of the talent worth catching; their Brand New Heavies jazz-gospel sound returns to Joogleberry’s on May 8 and 9.

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