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PUCK Rock Comedy

Puck is our brand new venue, where it’s cool to not drink. We’re not anti alcohol, it’s just offering an alternative for people that don’t drink or not drinking that day/night but still want to go out and laugh along with like minded folk. Turns out sober people aren’t boring, they are aware they are sober and they are aware they’re out to enjoy some comedy.

Seven Dials just went up a notch

Right on the Seven Dials roundabout where you can get to anywhere in Brighton and Hove quickly, Seven Dials has it’s own community never been a comedy night there before, our first night sold out in 48 hours.

FYI we might sell out, but we’re not sell outs. Up the sober punks!

Brighton's first non-alcohol comedy venue

Brighton has sober bars, sober club nights, now it has sober comedy. A venue for sober badasses  💅

Sunday February 2nd, Doors 5pm

5:30 It All Kicks Off 🤟

PUCK ROCK COMEDY, Click Below For Tickets

Every Show At PUCK Rock Comedy Is Recorded

PUCK Rock Comedy offers a unique experience for comedians by recording all shows with two 1080p cameras, ensuring high-quality footage is captured at every performance. Whether you want the footage or not, all shows are recorded. This eliminates the risk of hiring a camera person and later wishing they had recorded a different show. Comedians can choose which show they want footage from, providing flexibility and peace of mind that your best moments are always captured.

Address

19 Chatham Pl, Brighton BN1 3TN

But isn’t Punk dead?

Unfortunately it is now.

We’d just like to apologise to the entire Punk scenes subreddit.

If it’s any consolation, we really are extremely sorry and offer our deepest condolences that it was our coffee shop that resulted in its demise.

You can have a free coffee on us, providing you drink it outside.

PUCK Rock Comedy at first may come across as an elite anti-establishment venue soley for sober punks, we’ve decided we should state that the branding we have applied (although I’m sure you will agree is absolutely perfect for what is essentially a coffee shop), is satire.

You don’t HAVE to be Punks to perform here. Take us for example, we’re not Punks.

But what is Punk? If Punk Rock includes wannabe poets with a passion for good coffee and making tiny changes to this earth whilst we’re alive. In that case then yes. Then would be considered Punks.

Now correct me if i’m wrong, but isn’t making the world a better place through the medium of occasionally bearable poetry what punks all about?

“No” said a Punk.

Puck Cafe - by Benadick Carter

“PUCK’s like proper cool, I like them in there, the staff are nice, friendly and serve coffee, always up for a chat (within reason). A customer had a dog, forget it’s name.  The coffee has a really nice taste, way better than the co-op, deffo go there “

Click Below for an actual review of Puck by Ceri Barnes Thompson.

It’s much longer but alot easier to read.

 

Puck Cafe – by Ceri Barnes Thompson

Having thought Puck was the sum of its tiny frontage,  I quickly found out when I went to have a chat with the owners  Ralph and Zoe, that it’s actually a warren-like oasis offering what Zoe describes as “a living breathing authentic place where people feel like it’s theirs, enriching their lives”. Ralph laughs. “Yeah, just like you discovered, you just don’t know what we are till you come in”.

The musician and artist couple took it on just over two years ago, Ralph having worked there for the previous six years since arriving from north England to realise a dream of creating a space that brought together the things that they most care about – music and art.

Puck is a fully and genuinely independent café/space/gathering spot. I’m nervous to just call it a café as Zoe’s very clear that she doesn’t think of it as that – it’s also a community space where artists who she feels are under-represented in Brighton can lay their hats, exhibit work, come and have creative conversations, or for customers to just be.

Certainly it serves the most delicious cup of coffee in Brighton (so The Guardian said, and I have to agree). Having a cuppa can be an artistic act for Zoe – crucially it’s not just a transaction. Ralph agrees. They know the regulars not just by name but by their drink – think caffeinated Cheers. There’s no distinction between drink-in or take-away prices, single use paper cups are the norm there. There are porcelain cups too, but reader – this is an ‘if you know, you know’ situation – I was astonished to see hung up neatly in the kitchen the cups of around 70 local regulars who can walk in and expect to be served in their very own cup.

So why Puck? For Zoe ‘Puck’ represents the mischief of the character from Midsummer Nights Dream. She loves the role of disruptor, messing with the routine, curating as much as she can once Ralph’s morning and afternoon residence is over, thinking of ways to offer anything from Pudding Nights to Art residences and market events for the local community. Her lovely character design graces the limited edition T shirts draped over a mushroom, for example. Indeed functional mushrooms powders to add to drinks are available from Jardin Collective and savoury and sweet snacks are locally sourced too.

A “puck” is also that hard disc of grounds you get when you’ve pressed hot water through a coffee-machine. Ralph only uses locally sourced ‘Pharmacie’ single origin coffee. The limited batches mean the coffee will change, taste wise, over the weeks, but the brew you are served will always be good. For him the quality is measured in the sound of the drop, the colour and literally the feel of the drink in his hands. If he’s not happy, it’ll be discreetly disguarded and he’ll start again.

A “puck” is also the lump of plastic which is the starting point of every vinyl record – some of which are for sale in the shop upstairs. For Ralph, music is his life – he plays, writes and collects and curates music. From Pink Floyd’s Atom Heart Mother (which was his lullaby as a baby) to the monthly playlists he makes and describes as being “like sourdough starters”, it’s about suggesting new things to listen to. He curates the albums on offer for sale and knows that customers are very likely to come across something they didn’t know they’d like.

The emotional connection to music is clear. They tell the stories of life in bands and venues in the north and of the past life of Puck – a TV repair shop where the back room, now a gathering place with seats and tables and board games, was then a pirate radio station, broadcasting to the Brighton area. Music is art, coffee is art, cups are art, conversation is art, everything is connected. Spend your money in Puck. Be a Puck Pal. They’re creating a scene and I want to be in it.

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