Bom-Bane's is a café and performance venue founded in 2006 by Jane Bom-Bane on George Street, Brighton, UK. It has singing staff and eccentric décor.

Venue: Bom-Bane's
Town: Brighton, GB

Bom-Bane's is a café and performance venue founded in 2006 by Jane Bom-Bane on George Street, Brighton, UK. It has singing staff and eccentric décor. In 2007, Bom-Bane's won the ThreeWeeks Editors award for the best venue in the Brighton Fringe Festival. In 2012, Bom-Bane's was featured on the Canadian reality television show, World's Weirdest Restaurants. In 2016, it was highlighted on BBC Radio 3's The Verb. The small downstairs area is the main live venue, where past performers have included Nick Pynn, Kate Daisy Grant, Stewart Lee, Bridget Christie, Rich Hall, Mike Heron, Robin Williamson, Boothby Graffoe, Lorraine Bowen, Arthur Brown, Spacedog, George Egg, Joanna Neary, Foster and Gilvan, David Bramwell, Gilli Bloodaxe, Steve Hawley and Jerry Dammers. Each May, Jane Bom-Bane and her "Bom-Bane Family Players" perform a musical for the Brighton Fringe Festival that often takes place throughout the building. Each table in the upstairs dining area has a 'mechanical secret.' One tabletop imperceptibly rises, another slowly revolves, and another contains a model of Brighton's Palace Pier, with working rides. Chimes ring out when customers lift the salt cellar on one table, and another has a screen showing 1920s black and white cartoons of Aesop's Fables. The tables were mainly built by Bom-Bane and her then partner, Nick Pynn. In 2007, she told the Guardian, "We stay up late and work together. I'll be busy painting and moulding the tiny parts, he'll be fixing a circuit." On the wall outside, there was a statue of Bom-Bane, built by her brother-in-law, John Jostins, who worked on R2-D2 in The Empire Strikes Back. On the night of 1 December 2012, thieves stole the statue. Jane Bom-Bane told the Argus, "I feel like my alter ego has been snatched. It has no use or value to anyone else, but it is a part of us." With the theft unsolved, puppeteer Isobel Smith organised a collection from café regulars to raise money for a new statue. The second one, built by the artist Paul