Man About Eastbourne...

It is with a heavy heart that I write what will be the final missive from the Man About Eastbourne blog. As many of you already know, MAE...

The MAEs like a bit of warmth and sunshine towards the end of an English winter and often head south for about a week at this time. Last...

When MAE announced in his last email to his public that he was planning a week in Dubai two regular readers (both of whom know him well...

To Lewes and the Nicolas Yonge (chamber music) Society. The Carducci Quartet (are they named after the great Italian Poet who won the...

To the Congress Theatre, Eastbourne, with high hopes, for the third concert in the London Philharmonic’s 2019/20 winter residency....

To the De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill, to watch Eddie Izzard present a “work in progress” one man show based on Charles Dickens’ novel...

The last time MAE wrote about Brighton and Hove Albion was following the Seagulls’ trip to Wembley for the FA Cup semi-final in April....

A series of quick-fire reviews necessitated in part by MAE’s inability to type following a minor hand operation, and partly through...

To Glyndebourne again for the second of this year’s Tour offerings. What a difference a week makes. Annabel Arden’s 2007 production of...

To Glyndebourne for a new production of Rigoletto, the first of three operas in this Autumn’s Glyndebourne Tour. MAE was accompanied by...

New Sussex Opera’s World Premiere Recording of Charles Villiers Stanford’s opera The Travelling Companion is now available from:...

To Bexhill-on-Sea for one of Mr. and Mrs. MAE’s regular sojourns to the De la Warr Pavilion. The main attraction on this Sunday evening...

Not particularly in these diaries, but it would be fair to say that MAE has been a little underwhelmed by some of the productions in the...

Mrs. MAE and I headed to Lewes to view an exhibition of photographs at the estimable Martyrs’ Gallery of the endangered Feibusch mural in...

To Thomas Lords’ cricket ground at St. John’s Wood for the second and third days of the inaugural Test Match between England and Ireland....

To Alfriston on a warm summer evening. Another musical joy of living in East Sussex is the annual South Downs Summer Music International...

To Glynde for the third concert of this year’s Glynde Place Concert Series. For the fifth year running Glynde Place, an attractive...

Another one of Eastbourne’s annual treats, and one with a long history. The first Wimbledon Championship took place in 1877 immediately...

To the Birley Centre for New Sussex Opera’s summer production. The NSO has been building a considerable reputation for its ground...

Man about Eastbourne first saw Nigel Kennedy, that most idiosyncratic of English violinists, at the Barbican Centre 30th August, 1984...