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Soaring high: Fabulous Red Diesel

Local band, Fabulous Red Diesel are a fusion of kooky jazz and hearty soul, creating a perfect background for vocals that will make any listener melt. The band has gone from strength to strength over the past few years, offering top quality, professional, unique musicianship – and word of their ability to enchant an audience is spreading across the county and the country. Our next chance to see them is at The Rye Jazz Festival. HOT’s Zelly Restorick spoke to lead singer, Kat Lee-Ryan and Wil Lee-Ryan.

Posted 00:22 Saturday, Aug 14, 2021 In: Music & Sound Tags: Bea Gullick, Fabulous Red Diesel, Kat Lee Ryan, Rye Jazz Festival, Simon Dobell, Will Lee-Ryan

Wild feasts and foraged cocktails on the doorstep

HOT’s Erica Smith discovers the secrets of using hedgerow herbs, fruit, seeds and flowers to make wild cocktails and delicious foraged food with Sarah Watson from Wild Feast.

Posted 10:19 Friday, Aug 13, 2021 In: Food & Drink Tags: foraging, Sarah Watson, Wild Feast

This is: Message From The Ravens!

You may have heard word on the street that Hastings has given birth to a new girl band set to make it big. Sharon Rhodes wants to tell you about them in time for everyone to see them at the forthcoming St Leonards Festival – this Saturday, 14 August at 2.30pm on the main stage.

Posted 16:59 Thursday, Aug 12, 2021 In: Music & Sound

Bloom Britannia: a people’s opera for Hastings

Premiere of the new people’s opera, Bloom Britannia will take place in Hastings this autumn. Telling the story of one extraordinary day in the life of a seaside town, Bloom Britannia brings together a cast of people from the towns of Hastings, St Leonards-on-Sea and Bexhill, performing on stage alongside top professional singers and a live band. Experience a hilarious, raucous, challenging, action-packed, thrilling production celebrating the joy of singing and music to bring our communities together. HOT’s Zelly Restorick went along to the cast’s last rehearsal for the summer.

Posted 07:16 In: Music & Sound Tags: barefoot opera, Bloom Britannia, Christopher Stark, Jenny Miller, Peter Crouch, Polly Graham, Red Kite Films, Stephen Plaice

Marline Valley rally against North Queensway proposals

Around 50 people, including representatives of the Green and Conservative parties, turned up for Seachangewatch’s protest meeting against Sea Change Sussex’s plans to build speculative industrial units on its North Queensway site. Bernard McGinley was among them.

Posted 20:49 Wednesday, Aug 11, 2021 In: Home Ground Tags: 327, Andrea Needham, Bernard McGinley, Julia Hilton, LNR, Marline Wood, Queensway North, Seachange, SeaChangeWatch, Sussex Wildlife Trust

Our local mediation service

Recently, Hastings & Rother Mediation Service received some funding from The Safer Hastings Partnership, currently allocated for supporting neighbours in dispute. IF you find yourself in conflict or disagreement with a neighbour, it’s now possible to self-refer in Hastings and St Leonards. Alison Cooper, Neighbou

Posted 15:43 Friday, Aug 6, 2021 In: Grassroots Tags: Alison Cooper, Hastings and Rother Mediation Service

Nuclear war and weaponry

Currently – and hopefully not ‘inevitably forever’ – we are living in a world where some humans are – as I type these words – and now, as you read them – designing, co-creating and researching ever better ways to annihilate, harm, cause pain and suffering to fellow members of their own species. Hosting Hiroshima Day, Hastings Against War offers a reminder of the consequences and repercussions of nuclear war: just one variety of death and extinction measures manifested out of the minds and alleged genius of some members of humanity. HOT’s Zelly Restorick asks you to consider this also – and to attend the remembrance event.

Posted 13:30 Thursday, Aug 5, 2021 In: Politics Tags: Hastings Against War, Hiroshima Day

What’s HOT at the White Rock Theatre

The White Rock Theatre is re-opening its doors with an impressive range of live entertainment for the people of Hastings and beyond, writes HOT’s Paul Way-Rider. You can find details and make bookings on their website. There’s also a brand new online brochure covering shows from now until December. Here’s a look at some of the shows coming up soon and later in the year.

Posted 20:50 Wednesday, Aug 4, 2021 In: Performance Tags: The White Rock Theatre