Man About Eastbourne...

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

To the Congress Theatre, Eastbourne, with high hopes, for the third concert in the London Philharmonic’s 2019/20 winter residency. Entitled “a sea change”, i...

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

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. While appreciating the...

A series of quick-fire reviews necessitated in part by MAE’s inability to type following a minor hand operation, and partly through sloth. Sunday 6th October...

To Glyndebourne again for the second of this year’s Tour offerings. What a difference a week makes. Annabel Arden’s 2007 production of L’elisir d’amore is ju...

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

New Sussex Opera’s World Premiere Recording of Charles Villiers Stanford’s opera The Travelling Companion is now available from: https://somm-recordings.com/...

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 was an appearance by ...

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 first couple of year...

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

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. Ireland were awarde...

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

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

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

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

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

One of the many pleasures of living in Eastbourne is its proximity to some of Britain’s most cherished cultural events. The Charleston Festival, held in a ma...

Friday 29th March – Notos Piano Quartet, Nicholas Yonge Society, Lewes. (****) Founded in 2007 the Notos quartet is a German Piano Quartet (that’s violin, vi...

Man about Eastbourne has long been a visitor to matinee performances of plays by touring companies locally, at the Devonshire Park Theatre, and slightly less...