Since 2006, The Space has been holding regular arts, entertainment and media-related events in Brighton, at intimate venues. We have had many great guests, interviewed about their work, with audience Q&As. Most events had two people, usually successful and high profile, always interesting, highly insightful and often inspiring.
I, Wayne, created and organised the events and have hosted them since 2017, while being self-employed to do so. The events give much pleasure to many people. The audiences love them and gain a lot from the guests' interviews, as well as when asking their own questions in the audience Q&As. The costs are usually at least 400 per event, and there are other additional ongoing costs. The Space needs to be financially worthwhile, so it can continue, and while I have a viable income.
Guests have included these, below.
MUSIC: Fatboy Slim, Slade's Noddy Holder, Radiohead's Philip Selway, Glastonbury Festival founder Michael Eavis, Gaz Coombes of Supergrass, Skin of Skunk Anansie, producer Trevor Horn, Ana Matronic of Scissor Sisters, Badly Drawn Boy, Steve Morris of New Order, Lyricist Tim Rice, Phil Manzanera of Roxy Music, Mark Bedford of Madness, Goldie, Nitin Sawhney, Jeff Wayne (The Musical Version of The War of the Worlds), Suede's Mat Osman, Martin Fry of ABC, Nik Kershaw
FILM: Directors Mike Leigh, Alan Parker, Nic Roeg (Don't Look Now, The Man Who Fell to Earth), Mike Hodges (Get Carter, Flash Gordon), John Glen (For Your Eyes Only, Octopussy, A View to a Kill, The Living Daylights, Licence to Kill), Screenwriter William Nicholson (Gladiator, Thirteen Lives, Shadowlands), Ben Wheatley (Sightseers, Kill List, High Rise), producers Gary Kurtz (Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, The Dark Crystal), Eric Fellner (Four Weddings and a Funeral, Love Actually, Atonement), Alison Owen (Saving Mr Banks, Suffragette, Shaun of the Dead), editors Terry Rawlings (Alien, Blade Runner, Chariots of Fire), Mick Audsley (Twelve Monkeys, Interview with the Vampire, My Beautiful Laundrette), costume designers Jany Temime (Skyfall, Harry Potter, Gravity), Deborah Nadoolman Landis (Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Blues Brothers, An American Werewolf in London), visual effects supervisor Paul Franklin (The Dark Knight trilogy, Interstellar, Inception), critic Barry Norman, composer David Arnold (Casino Royale, Independence Day, Stargate)
ACTORS: Toby Jones, Zoe Wanamaker, Terence Stamp, Robert Lindsay, David Morrissey, Jane Horrocks, Paul McGann, Steven Berkoff, Maxine Peake, David Warner, David Prowse, Julian Glover, Ralph Brown, Burt Kwouk, Mark Gatiss, Colin Salmon
TELEVISION: Producers Simon Heath (Line of Duty, Bodyguard), John Lloyd (Blackadder, QI, Not the Nine o?clock News, Spitting Image), Gub Neal (Cracker, Prime Suspect), Brian Cosgrove (Danger Mouse, Count Duckula, Jamie and the Magic Torch), Philip Hinchcliffe (Doctor Who 1975-77), Jon Plowman (Absolutely Fabulous, The Office, The League of Gentlemen), Charlie Parsons (The Word, The Big Breakfast) and Tony Garnett (Cathy Come Home, This Life), Dom Joly, best known for Trigger Happy TV, presenter Gail Porter, directors SJ Clarkson (Life on Mars, Dexter, Ugly Betty, Jessica Jones), John Howard Davies (Fawlty Towers, Monty Python's Flying Circus, The Goodies), costume designer Annie Hardinge (Humans, The IT Crowd, Extras), writer Jed Mercurio (Line of Duty, Bodyguard)
OTHERS: Comedians Frank Skinner, Barry Cryer, Rhona Cameron, Josie Long, writers Michael Rosen, Charlie Higson, Ian Rankin and Miranda Sawyer, broadcaster Samira Ahmed, Clare Grogan, Bonnie Greer, Jon Ronson.