The Old Market

Head up Upper Market Street towards Hove and you'll find yourself in what's genuinely one of Brighton's most characterful performance spaces. The Old Market's got that brilliant bones thing going on—exposed brick, soaring ceilings, the kind of architecture that actually feels like something. It's the sort of place where you could catch anything from an experimental theatre piece to a stand-up set to live jazz on a Friday night, and the programming is refreshingly eclectic rather than playing it safe. The crowd's mixed, the drinks are decent, and there's a real sense that something interesting's about to happen.