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The Space is a unique, regular and intimate arts, culture and media event with guest interviewees Presenter and promoter, Wayne Imms can be contacted at wayne@the-space.uk Southern Performance And Creative Energies
"That was a thoroughly enjoyable evening in a great location! Many thanks for looking after me so well, for providing a knowledgeable and entertaining interviewer, and for finding me some new fans. It's been said before but bears repeating – Brighton Rocks!" BESTSELLING AUTHOR IAN RANKIN
Jonathan Glendening We're very grateful to this filmmaker, who is multi-skilled in the medium, including being an award-winning feature film director, an acclaimed screenwriter and an excellent editor. More on Jonathan can be seen at www.glendening.co.uk
"I cannot recommend an appearance at The Space highly enough. Nothing was too much trouble, from the delightful dinner beforehand to my fellow guest and the wonderfully informal and fun interview that followed. A lovely evening and I'd be back like a shot." ACTOR AND WRITER MARK GATISS
The Claremont We appreciate the support of The Claremont. Based in Hove, the lovely hotel has eleven generously-sized guest rooms, including three deluxe, two with luxury four-poster beds, two superior doubles, three classic doubles and three stylish singles. Further details are at www.theclaremont.eu
"The Space is a wonderful and an interesting set-up, both in terms of an interviewee or an audience member." DJ FATBOY SLIM
Reserve places online here now for the John Simm event Only £23 - Please note: You won’t need a confirmation email and there are no actual physical tickets for the event. Upon making a booking, your name will be added to an attendance list (if you book additional places, a plus one or more will be added with it, depending on the amount of places booked). When entering the venue, you will be met by a Space crew member, who will check your name from the list and issue a stamp accordingly. We do not need your postal address, payment reference number or a printout of your payment receipt. There will be only be refunds if events are cancelled or if a guest becomes unavailable. This event occurs on Thursday December 4th at: Horatio's on Brighton Palace Pier, Madeira Drive, Brighton BN2 1TW Click here for directions > > > Doors 7pm, starts 8pm (approx).
OUR EVENT ON THURSDAY DECEMBER 4TH HAS... AN INTERVIEW WITH JOHN SIMM AND AN AUDIENCE Q&A Doors 19:00, starts 20:00, to finish at approx 22:15 (times may change slightly). At Horatio's on Brighton Palace Pier, Madeira Drive, Brighton BN2 1TW. This event is sponsored by Streets Accountants. Streets offer accountancy, tax and business advice with over thirty UK-based offices. They provide audit, wealth management and advisory services with local insight and national reach, while specialising in a number of areas, including media and entertainment. For many further details, visit www.streets.uk JOHN SIMM John Simm is among the UK's leading actors, particularly on television, and is most known for the series' Life on Mars and Grace, as the lead character, based on Peter James' novels. Doctor Who fans know him for his maniacal portrayal of the Master in seven episodes of the series, between 2007 to 2017. John has starred as the police detective Roy Grace in the Brighton-based ITV crime drama since 2021 and early onscreen appearances include Rumple of the Bailey, The Bill, Cracker and Heartbeat. His first series as a main character was the acclaimed BBC drama The Lakes, in two series', from 1997 to 1999, written by Jimmy McGovern, as was The Village, which saw him starring alongside the likes of Maxine Peake. John also prominently appaeared in the first episode of the renowned writer's Clocking Off, first broadcast 25 years-ago. A regular in its cast, Philip Glenister co-starred with him in the highly popular series Life on Mars. John played Sam Tyler, a police detective who, after a car accident, ends up in 1973. State of Play, was a BBC mini-series about corruption in the government, which saw him alongside David Morrissey, Bill Nighy and Kelly Macdonald. He is also known for the 1999 coming-of-age film Human Traffic, about relationships within a culture of drugs and clubbing. Other films include 24 Hour Party People, as the musician Bernard Sumner, and Wonderland, directed by Michael Winterbottom. For the stage, John's diverse roles have included Hamlet, Scrooge in A Christmas Carol at The Old Vic last year, Macbeth, and Lenny in Harold Pinter's The Homecoming. He received Best Actor BAFTA nominations for the series' Exile and for Life on Mars. As usual with guests, especially actors, John's appearance is subject to work commitments, due to the nature of his career. He is certainly currently available, though, on the date above. 
Reserve places online here now for the Steve Pemberton and John Lloyd event Only £23 - Please note: You won’t need a confirmation email and there are no actual physical tickets for the event. Upon making a booking, your name will be added to an attendance list (if you book additional places, a plus one or more will be added with it, depending on the amount of places booked). When entering the venue, you will be met by a Space crew member, who will check your name from the list and issue a stamp accordingly. We do not need your postal address, payment reference number or a printout of your payment receipt. There will be only be refunds if events are cancelled or if a guest becomes unavailable. This event occurs on Thursday January 15th at: Horatio's on Brighton Palace Pier, Madeira Drive, Brighton BN2 1TW Click here for directions > > > Doors 6:30pm, starts 7:30pm (approx).
OUR EVENT ON THURSDAY JANUARY 15TH HAS... INTERVIEWS WITH STEVE PEMBERTON & JOHN LLOYD (AND AUDIENCE Q&As) Doors 18:30, starts 19:30, to finish at approx 22:20 (times may change slightly). At Horatio's on Brighton Palace Pier, Madeira Drive, Brighton BN2 1TW. This event is sponsored by Streets Accountants. Streets offer accountancy, tax and business advice with over thirty UK-based offices. They provide audit, wealth management and advisory services with local insight and national reach, while specialising in a number of areas, including media and entertainment. For many further details, visit www.streets.uk STEVE PEMBERTON Steve Pemberton is best known as an actor and a writer, particularly for The League of Gentlemen and Inside No.9. His notable TV appearances also include Benidorm, Psychoville, which also starred his long-term collaborator Reece Shearsmith, Whitechapel and the first series of Happy Valley. The League of Gentlemen began as a stage act, with its team first appearing live at Brighton's Komedia in 1995, before going to BBC Radio 4. The popular and acclaimed TV series began in 1999. Inside No.9, the anthology series for the BBC, which he created, wrote and starred in with Reece Shearsmith, ran for 55 episodes from 2014 to 2024. A variety of other onscreen roles were in series' such as Worzel Gummidge, Killing Eve, Shameless, The Life and Death of Peter Sellers and the musical comedy drama Blackpool. Steve also starred in two episodes of Doctor Who in 2008. Between 2007 and 2015, he appeared in over 40 episodes of the ITV comedy Benidorm. Recently, he played Rupert Murdoch in the ITV series on tabloid phone-hacking, The Hack. Steve has performed in theatre productions such as Art, The Rocky Horror Show, as the narrator, and The Pillowman. He has won two Royal Television Society awards, a Writers' Guild of Great Britain award and four BAFTAs. JOHN LLOYD John Lloyd is a highly respected television producer, responsible for some of the most popular and successful comedy series' of the last forty-five years. From the mid-seventies, he worked in radio production at the BBC, creating shows such as The News Quiz and The News Huddlines. His friendship with Douglas Adams, the creator of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, led to John co-writing two episodes of the radio series. He went on to produce the television version, which began broadcasting in January 1981. The satirical TV sketch show Not the Nine o'clock News, from 1979, was a major success for John, which he created and co-produced. It introduced viewers to the likes of Mel Smith, Griff Rhys Jones, Pamela Stephenson and Rowan Atkinson, who later played the lead in four series' of Blackadder, also produced by John. It went on to become among the most popular TV comedies of all time, especially of the eighties. That decade also saw him producing the puppet-based ITV satire, Spitting Image. John is also known for creating and producing QI, which began in 2003.
Reserve places online here now for the Sally Lindsay and Steve White event Only £23 - Please note: You won’t need a confirmation email and there are no actual physical tickets for the event. Upon making a booking, your name will be added to an attendance list (if you book additional places, a plus one or more will be added with it, depending on the amount of places booked). When entering the venue, you will be met by a Space crew member, who will check your name from the list and issue a stamp accordingly. We do not need your postal address, payment reference number or a printout of your payment receipt. There will be only be refunds if events are cancelled or if a guest becomes unavailable. This event occurs on Wednesday February 11th at: Horatio's on Brighton Palace Pier, Madeira Drive, Brighton BN2 1TW Click here for directions > > > Doors 6:30pm, starts 7:30pm (approx).
OUR EVENT ON WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 11TH HAS... INTERVIEWS WITH SALLY LINDSAY & STEVE WHITE (AND AUDIENCE Q&As) Doors 18:30, starts 19:30, to finish at approx 22:20 (times may change slightly). At Horatio's on Brighton Palace Pier, Madeira Drive, Brighton BN2 1TW. This event is sponsored by Streets Accountants. Streets offer accountancy, tax and business advice with over thirty UK-based offices. They provide audit, wealth management and advisory services with local insight and national reach, while specialising in a number of areas, including media and entertainment. For many further details, visit www.streets.uk SALLY LINDSAY Sally Lindsay is an actress, a presenter and a producer, who gained fame in 2001 for Coronation Street, playing the popular character Shelley Unwin for five years and in some much later episodes. Other key television appearances have included the Sky comedy-drama Mount Pleasant, the acclaimed Scott & Bailey, which she co-created with Suranne Jones, and the BBC sitcom sequel Still Open All Hours, as Kath Agnew, between 2013 and 2019. Since 2021, she has starred in The Madame Blanc Mysteries, broadcast on Channel 5 and Acorn TV. Sally co-created and co-wrote the series and is a producer with her production company, Saffron Cherry. Recent years have seen her with lead roles in some drama mini-series’ and early onscreen appearances have included comedies such as The Royale Family, Phoenix Nights and Fat Friends. Theatre work has seen her playing Marilyn Monroe in Bonnie Greer’s musical Ella, Meet Marilyn and Helen in a production of A Taste of Honey. Sally has appeared as a presenter on over 100 episodes of ITV’s Loose Women and, in 2021, she presented the quiz show Tenable and, over many years, has narrated a wide range of programmes. Characters that she has provided voices for in animations include Piella Bakewell in 2008’s Wallace & Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death. STEVE WHITE Steve White is a drummer, best known for his collaborations with Paul Weller, as a member of The Style Council and on ten of the singer-songwriter’s solo albums, from his 1992 self-titled debut to Catch-Flame! released in 2006. His passion for drumming developed at a particularly young age and later gained an interest in various genres, such as jazz. With The Style Council, he performed on many hit singles, including My Ever Changing Moods, Shout to the Top!, Walls Come Tumbling Down! and Have You Ever Had it Blue. In 1985, Steve was the youngest drummer to perform at Live Aid, while performing with the band. He later played drums with The Who at the Live 8 concert in Hyde Park. After The Style Council disbanded, he worked with a wide range of other bands and musicians, including the James Taylor Quartet. Steve has played extensively with his band The Players, as well as Hague and White, a soulful project with fellow musicians Chris Hague and Joel White. As a composer, he is responsible for music for The Madame Blanc Mysteries, starring Sally Lindsay, his wife. Steve also teaches drumming, while running workshops and masterclasses, as well as still being a highly active performer. www.whiteydrums.com