http://www.thebloomsbury.com/event/run/1624

Join compere Alex Horne (http://www.alexhorne.com/), musical maestro Jay Foreman (http://www.jayforeman.co.uk/) and a selection of amazing scientists, medics and historians of medicine as they try to make sense of all the little bits of you.

Starring

Matt Wall, neurologist
Subhadra Das, museum and dead body expert
Vin Walsh, neuroscientist
Anna Maerker, medical historian

And more!

Tickets are £5 from http://www.wegottickets.com/event/150515

Doors are 7.30pm at the Wilmington Arms in Clerkenwell.

Apart from Bright Club’s own mastermind, Steve Cross; we have Steve Hall, from funny outfit We Are Klang; and Festival of the Spoken Nerd’s Steve Mould, who has promised to make it snow indoors.

It will truly be a feast of Stephens.

Get your tickets here: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/147657

And once you know you’re coming, email us (or tweet) if you want a go at our Hogmanay Karaoke with The Strawberry Band.

In an over-extended dinner party metaphor,  we present you with a smörgåsbord of science, music and comedy served up by maître d’s Joe Lycett (Chris Addison’s Show and Tell, BBC1′s Epic Win) and Steve Cross (in front of mirror with hairbrush).

To start, we’re serving up a Science Showoff special. Megan Whewell will get your stomach churning with tales of the dangers of human spaceflight and stand-up mathematician Matt Parker is bringing the pi. Louise Crane will wash it all down with a dram or two of whisky as she explores the science behind her favourite drink. Suze Kundu will be performing some ill-advised spins as she explains the forces behind pole dancing and pirouettes. Compere Steve Cross will wrap it up – but not in bacon, he’s a vegetarian.

Next up, we’ve got a platter of amuse bouches in the form of Martin Austwick’s band The Sound of the Ladies; space-enthusiast Helen Keen and We Are Klang’s Steve Hall.

For the main course: Bright Club. Joe Lycett will introduce a sumptuous feast of brains as neuroscientist Tom Manly takes the stage. Also on the plate are Jane Gregory and Jo-Ann Bichard. It’s going to be hot!

We’ve planned some palate cleansers in the main pub room. Chill out with some silent films from the best of sci-fi and try a turn on Quirky Cookies‘ Science Biscuit Factory.

Finally, a fruity delight for dessert: Charlie Pyne, aka Strawberry from sultry bass duo Strawberry and Cream will take to the stage with band in tow for hogmanay karaoke, punk rock style. And of course we couldn’t forget the cheese course: comedians and musicians including Cat Rogers aka Cream will be playing the best of the worst tunes into the early hours for your dancing delight.

See you at The Last Best Party in the world.

WHAT A BRIGHT CLUB!!!!

This month we’re laughing at noise, from sound to speech to all those extraneous things that make it harder to work out what the hell is going on out there.

Ringmaster tonight is Ed Gamble, the noisiest man we could find.

And in expert corner all of these brainboxes:

Giorgio Savini – A physicist and builder of delicate instrumentation, trying to make sense of the noise of the Universe
Mel Pinet – A speech and language scientist, who knows how we understand people when we just can’t hear them
Harry Cliff – A high-energy physicist, who stares at readings of the inifinitesmal and hopes they’re real
Jon Gallagher – a historian of English, who knows all the things normal people used to say, and what they sounded like
Sarah Morgan – an optometrist, who makes a glorious noise about the importance of eyecare
Steve Cross – Bright Club co-organiser, occasional sound engineer and music snob

And a return of the surprising and surreal Sleepy Ed Hicks on the banjo. http://www.fredwoodbear.com/

Tickets are £5, Doors are 7.30pm and it’s all at the Wilmington Arms. See you there!

Tickets from: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/145668

Pubs cost a fortune, there’s nothing good on and the music is terrible.

Not any more.

The producers of Bright Club, Science Showoff and other great shows bring you a night of hilarious brainy antics, with loads of your favourite acts from throughout 2011. We’ll have music, laughs, anarchy and we’re taking over the whole of the WIlmington Arms, which gives us a great big room to drink, chat and do terrific geeky things together.

Artists appearing include Helen Keen (Radio 4), Steve Hall (begrudgingly BBC3), Strawberry’s Hogmanay Karaoke (Green Man Festival), Steve Cross (in front of mirror with hairbrush) and loads more.

More details will appear here as we confirm acts.

WE STRONGLY ENCOURAGE YOU TO COME IN SCIENCE-THEMED FANCY DRESS!

The world’s going to end in 2012. You might as well enjoy at least one New Year’s Eve before it goes Kaboom!

Early bird tickets (before December 9th) are only £10. After that the price goes up to £15 each.

Ticket link: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/147657

For the second time Bright Club uses comedy to pick apart how science and the media get it on and make beautiful story babies. Join compere Joe Lycett (from TV’s Epic Win, Show and Tell and more) and a crew of top class scientists, amazing journalists and brilliant press officers for a night of jokes, stories, serious facts and humorous analysis. This event has been co-organised with Stempra, the science, technology, engineering and medicine public relations association, who you can read about here: http://www.stempra.org.uk

Doors: 7.30pm (half an hour earlier than in the past!)

Tickets: Ł5 from http://www.wegottickets.com/event/141588

UCL’s internationally-renowned (New York Times review, people!) variety night takes on the topic of stars in the impeccable surroundings of london’s best comedy theatre.

On the bill this time out:

The Researchers:

Lucie Green – Solar physicist, award winner and star of The Sky At Night
Jen Gupta – Astrophysicist and host of the Jodcast
Sheila Kanani – Who looks for life on Saturn’s moons
Sarah Dhanjal – Hero-worshipping archaeologist
Nic Canty – Expert on publishing celebrity tell-all books
Jason Dittmer – Geographer who brings the “…and Stripes” to this night of Stars
James Kneale – Geographer of the worlds of Science Fiction
Martin Austwick – Social Physicist

The Professionals:

Lloyd Langford – our compere, from BBC TV’s Ask Rhod Gilbert
Lucy Porter – The joke machine from Mock the Week and many other shows
Helen Keen – Who lives for jokes and space exploration
Colin Hazel – The king of the hilarious singalong
Gavin Osborn – Turning guitars into laughs
Tickets from http://www.thebloomsbury.com/event/run/1623 or call the box office on 020 7388 8822

The gig starts at 7.30 SHARP!

For this very special scientist-free gig James Sherwood moves from the musical slot to MC. He’s the captain, leading the team by example. Geniuses joining him will be:

Musical genius, concertina squeezer and complicated woman Jo Below. http://jobelow.wordpress.com/

Simon Lock, who studies how science really works.
Brendan Clarke, the philosopher who used to think that philosophy was nonsense
Henry Woudhuysen, whose latest book is the Oxford Book of the Book (almost)
Hazel Genn, an expert on legal justice
Chris Mann, who teaches history to soldiers
Liam Graham, our economics guru

They’ll be joined by a special musical guest (who we’re currently booking!).

Doors are at 8pm. Tickets cost £5 from http://www.wegottickets.com/event/136405

The gig is at the Wilmington Arms, our spiritual home.