Chris Dickens & Andy Parfitt

Presented by Lisa Holloway, the highly acclaimed Space event returned with gusto and a powerful line-up of Oscar winning editor Chris Dickens and Controller of Radio 1, Andy Parfitt. What ensued was a clear juxtaposition of personalities, but also a convergence of determination to follow what comes naturally, demonstrating that success beyond your wildest dreams can be achieved…

The Space present Chris Dickens & Andy Parfitt: Review

• July 7th: Latest 7, by Steve Clements

"An essential event."

July's Event: Another Oscar calibre lineup

With two stellar guests, The Space is back with a bang after a little break. Well, we all need our beauty sleep, don't we?

Thursday 7th July / Komedia, Brighton

7.30pm / £8.50

Joining us on stage, we are very excited to welcome Oscar winning film editor Chris Dickens and BBC Radio 1 Controller Andy Parfitt for a unique and imtimate Q&A, Space style.

Film editor Chris Dickens’ credits include Slumdog Millionaire, for which he won an Oscar, the highly acclaimed Submarine, Shaun of the Dead, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost's comedy film Paul, Edgar Wright’s popular sitcom Spaced and The Comic Strip Presents.

BBC Radio 1 Controller Andy Parfitt has been in charge of the radio station since 1998. He is also responsible for 1Xtra, the new black music station, and the Asian Music Network.

Clare Grogan & Richard Klein

Richard Klein and Clare Grogan joined us this month for our February event in the intimate Studio Bar at Komedia. Juice Radio’s Guy Lloyd kindly stepped up to the mic, presenting the event which also marked Richard as our 100th Space guest! A truly engaging acumen of an evening transpired…

Young And The Restless
 
Researching Clare was easy. Let’s see, there’s the repeated success with 80s pop band Altered Images. Check. Then there’s her part she played in the cult 80s coming-of-age Brit-flick; Gregory’s Girl (rated 30 in the BFI Top 100 British films). Check. Most currently, there’s her second children’s book to come out of the trilogy; Tallulah and the TeenStars. Check. And to mirror her original rise to fame, you can now catch her cameo in the latest series of Skins on E4; the gritty teen-ripening drama, she plays cheeky-stop-out anti-role model mum to the main character Mini. Check.

I get it. She’s one multi-talented lady. But this dainty doll before me barely seems to have aged from what I witnessed as I journeyed through YouTube interview clips and many a pop video from yesteryear. Everything about Clare is femme. Her voice, her pint-sized stature, her cheeky nods to her band-mate husband and anecdotes about trying to meet boys as a teen, with ladylike composure sitting on stage. Bound by youth, Clare let us in on her lottery-kismet to fame, and how she originally became the sylphlike quarter of Altered Images and falling into her first attempt as a singer: “I went to an all-girls school so meeting boys wasn’t easy. [On attending her first band audition] None of the boys were brave enough to sing, so I thought being in a band, well this could be the first step into meeting boys. We didn’t do very much other than pretend we were Siouxsie and the Banshees in the hope we would pull something off – which we did! Tony was the talent and I had the ambition, you could say.”

February's event: get your ticket and wash those pinky blues away...

They're selling fast but it's not too late to get yourself a seat to the best event in Brighton!

Wednesday 2nd February, Komedia, Brighton

Clare Grogan &
Richard Klein
The Space welcomes BBC Four Controller Richard Klein and Clare Grogan, best known for her role in the 1981 film Gregory's Girl and for the 80s pop group Altered Images. This event will be hosted by Guy Lloyd.