DJ Dom Whiting brings his legendary Drum & Bass On The Bike street party back to Brighton on Sunday 30th August, setting off at 14:00 from The Level. Free, open to all, and rolling right through the city.

Brighton Cocktail Festival is back from 18 to 27 September 2026 as England's biggest cocktail event, with over 50 bars, 150+ cocktails at £6, a new festival app and early-bird tickets at £15.

From the debut Beyond Boundaries festival at Stanmer Park to Comic Con at the Dome, ten days of cocktails, seafront club nights, cookery classes and everything in between. Here is your day-by-day guide to September in Brighton and Hove.

Late-night house, candlelit Vivaldi, drag cabaret, jungle takeovers and the Bank Holiday Mod Weekender. Everything worth leaving the house for this August.

Cult London burger and steak restaurant Burger and Beyond opens its first site outside the capital at 56 Ship Street in the Lanes, with a citywide scavenger hunt and 56 free meals up for grabs.

Brighton's biggest house music takeover is back on 5 September. Two headliners, two venues and one wristband across Horizon and Tide, with Beyond Chicago leading the line up.

Sussex's first football tech arena has landed at Brighton Marina. Inside Ball Park: 11 pro-standard football activities, a free-to-enter sports bar, the VAR party room and family-friendly SEND sessions.

A hidden former clay pit near East Grinstead becomes a natural woodland amphitheatre for three intimate headline shows this August. Meet the venue, the line-up and the man behind it, 40 minutes from Brighton.

The Old Market in Hove presents Feel Good this September, an eight-day season of immersive music, 360-degree audiovisual shows, folk, sound baths and deep listening running from 2 to 8 September 2026.

Europe's largest outdoor jazz festival lands at Glynde Place, just 20 minutes from Brighton, from 3 to 5 July 2026. Loyle Carner, Ezra Collective and De La Soul headline a huge weekend of jazz, soul and funk.

Rob Lamberti, the UK's number one George Michael tribute, brings Wham! and the solo hits to Central Park on Brighton Seafront on Sunday 5 July 2026. An open-air evening of Careless Whisper, Faith, Club Tropicana and more.

Brighton events brand Groove Cartel launches its Summer Series at Tide Night Club this July, three Saturday nights with secret line-ups and free entry before 12:30 am, powered by ImJustBrighton.

Brighton youth dance company Entasi brings its bold new show How to Hold an Ice Cube to Roedean Theatre on 18 July 2026, five pieces exploring identity, technology and what it means to be human. Tickets from £12.

A full day country music festival is coming to Brighton seafront on Sunday 21 June 2026, with live tributes, line dancing, rodeo bull, axe throwing and barbecue at Central Park on Madeira Drive.

Virginia Woolf's Night and Day screens at Duke of York's Picturehouse Brighton on Thursday 11 June at 7.30pm in a special advance screening hosted in partnership with the Charleston Trust. Screenwriter Justine Waddell will take part in a Q&A following the film.