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Fat Poppadaddys

Fat Poppadaddys — Brighton’s Biggest & Longest-Running Student Night!🖤🍺

For over 25 years, Fat Poppadaddys has been the ultimate Monday destination for students in Brighton, bringing together Indie, Hip-Hop, and DNB in one messy, sweaty, unmissable night. With themed events every single week, no two Mondays are the same — from football shirts to Arctic Monkeys specials, pizza parties, one-hit wonders, and chaotic Indie Sleaze, Fat Poppadaddys is where the city’s students come to let go, sing loud, and make Mondays feel like the weekend.

🍺 WHEN: Every Monday

📍 WHERE: CHALK, 13 Pool Valley, Brighton

🎸 WHAT: Indie, Hip-Hop, DNB

🥃 DRINKS: £2.50 Pints (before 12:30) | 5 Bombs £5 (before 12:30) | £3.50 BuzzBallz (before 12:30) | £2.50 Single Vodka + Mix (all night) | £3.50 Double Vodka + Mix (all night)

💥 THEMES: New every week — always fresh, always chaotic, always unmissable

Fat Poppadaddys isn’t just a night out — it’s Brighton student culture, bottled into one legendary Monday. Come for the tunes. Stay for the chaos. Leave with a story.

JOIN THE STUDENT CULTURE EVERY MONDAY!

Mon 26.01

Fat Poppadaddys: REFRESHERS

Fat Poppadaddys: REFRESHERS

Mon 26.01.2026

🎉💥 FAT POPPADADDYS: REFRESHERS 💥🎉 Brighton students… you’ve missed your mates, the chaos, and the music — now it’s time to reunite on the dancefloor 😎💃🕺 This Monday, CHALK is the ultimate welcome-back party: 🎶 Sing, dance, and reconnect over the best Indie bangers 🍻 Stack up on cheap drinks deals while catching up with everyone you’ve missed 🔥 Full Fat Poppadaddys energy — the biggest, loudest, unmissable Monday of the term Bring your flat, bring your mates, bring your entire group chat — this is how you start the term right 🍾💥

🎉💥 FAT POPPADADDYS: REFRESHERS 💥🎉 Brighton students… you’ve missed your mates, the chaos, and the music — now it’s time to reunite on the dancefloor 😎💃🕺 This Monday, CHALK is the ultimate welcome-back party: 🎶 Sing, dance, and reconnect over the best Indie bangers 🍻 Stack up on cheap drinks deals while catching up with everyone you’ve missed 🔥 Full Fat Poppadaddys energy — the biggest, loudest, unmissable Monday of the term Bring your flat, bring your mates, bring your entire group chat — this is how you start the term right 🍾💥

Mon 02.02

Fat Poppadaddys: Battle of the Bands

Fat Poppadaddys: Battle of the Bands

Mon 02.02.2026

This Monday, it’s all about Indie loyalty. We’re putting the biggest bands head-to-head and letting YOU decide who takes the crown 👑🎶 Pick your favourite, rep your team, sing louder than everyone else, and help decide who comes out on top 😎💥 No sitting on the fence. No neutral ground. Just Indie bangers from your favs! Choose your band. Back your team. Only one can come out on top!🔥🎸

This Monday, it’s all about Indie loyalty. We’re putting the biggest bands head-to-head and letting YOU decide who takes the crown 👑🎶 Pick your favourite, rep your team, sing louder than everyone else, and help decide who comes out on top 😎💥 No sitting on the fence. No neutral ground. Just Indie bangers from your favs! Choose your band. Back your team. Only one can come out on top!🔥🎸

Mon 09.02

Fat Poppadaddys: Fat Pops FC

Fat Poppadaddys: Fat Pops FC

Mon 09.02.2026

⚽🍺 FAT POPS FC 🍺⚽ Football shirts on. Indie anthems up. Fat Poppadaddys goes full matchday chaos with Fat Pops FC — a night dedicated to football shirts, FIFA rivalries and shouting like it’s injury time 🍻⚽ Rock your favourite kit (retro, rogue, five-a-side, Sunday league — all accepted), grab a pint, and get involved with FIFA games, football-themed chaos and wall-to-wall Fat Pops tunes all night long 🎮🎶 Expect Indie anthems with a splash of Hip-Hop & DNB, terrace-level energy on the dancefloor, and the kind of scenes VAR could never explain. No tactics. No defence. Just vibes.

⚽🍺 FAT POPS FC 🍺⚽ Football shirts on. Indie anthems up. Fat Poppadaddys goes full matchday chaos with Fat Pops FC — a night dedicated to football shirts, FIFA rivalries and shouting like it’s injury time 🍻⚽ Rock your favourite kit (retro, rogue, five-a-side, Sunday league — all accepted), grab a pint, and get involved with FIFA games, football-themed chaos and wall-to-wall Fat Pops tunes all night long 🎮🎶 Expect Indie anthems with a splash of Hip-Hop & DNB, terrace-level energy on the dancefloor, and the kind of scenes VAR could never explain. No tactics. No defence. Just vibes.

Mon 16.02

Fat Poppadaddys: Arctic Monkeys Special

Fat Poppadaddys: Arctic Monkeys Special

Mon 16.02.2026

**CELEBRATING 20 years of “Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not”** From the first “*Anticipation has a habit to set you up…*” to shouting every word like you’re in Sheffield in 2006 — this one’s for the Arctic Monkeys faithful 🖤 We’re celebrating 20 years of Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not with a night packed full of Arctic Monkeys anthems, deep cuts, and indie classics that live in the same universe 🎶🔥 Expect I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor, When the Sun Goes Down, Fake Tales, Mardy Bum, A Certain Romance and everything in between — plus a chance to win the album on vinyl 👀💿 Put on your best early-2000s Indie fit and come scream it back with us. This house is a circus… and you’re invited 🖤

**CELEBRATING 20 years of “Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not”** From the first “*Anticipation has a habit to set you up…*” to shouting every word like you’re in Sheffield in 2006 — this one’s for the Arctic Monkeys faithful 🖤 We’re celebrating 20 years of Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not with a night packed full of Arctic Monkeys anthems, deep cuts, and indie classics that live in the same universe 🎶🔥 Expect I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor, When the Sun Goes Down, Fake Tales, Mardy Bum, A Certain Romance and everything in between — plus a chance to win the album on vinyl 👀💿 Put on your best early-2000s Indie fit and come scream it back with us. This house is a circus… and you’re invited 🖤

Mon 23.02

Fat Poppadaddys: One-Hit Wonders

Fat Poppadaddys: One-Hit Wonders

Mon 23.02.2026

🎶💥 ONE HIT WONDERS 💥🎶 Yes, there are more than you remember. No, we’re not sorry. Fat Poppadaddys presents One Hit Wonders — a night dedicated to bands who came, conquered, and disappeared… but left us with absolute bangers 🎸🔥 We’re loading the dancefloor with back-to-back Indie one-hit wonders, the songs you know every word to but couldn’t name three others by the band (and that’s fine) 😌🍻 It’s chaotic, it’s nostalgic, and there are a LOT more of these songs than you think. No filler. No skips. Just chorus after chorus you’ll pretend you forgot you loved.

🎶💥 ONE HIT WONDERS 💥🎶 Yes, there are more than you remember. No, we’re not sorry. Fat Poppadaddys presents One Hit Wonders — a night dedicated to bands who came, conquered, and disappeared… but left us with absolute bangers 🎸🔥 We’re loading the dancefloor with back-to-back Indie one-hit wonders, the songs you know every word to but couldn’t name three others by the band (and that’s fine) 😌🍻 It’s chaotic, it’s nostalgic, and there are a LOT more of these songs than you think. No filler. No skips. Just chorus after chorus you’ll pretend you forgot you loved.

Mon 02.03

Fat Poppadaddys: The 1975 Special

Fat Poppadaddys: The 1975 Special

Mon 02.03.2026

This Monday, Fat Poppadaddys is going full monochrome as we celebrate 10 YEARS of *'I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It'* 🖤✨ From Love Me to The Sound, Somebody Else, UGH!, She’s American and A Change of Heart, we’re filling the night with 1975 anthems and Indie tracks that sit perfectly in that neon, late-night world!🎶🌃 This one also doubles as a BATTLE OF THE SOCIETIES, so expect team energy, big reactions, BIG PRIZES and a dancefloor that knows every word!

This Monday, Fat Poppadaddys is going full monochrome as we celebrate 10 YEARS of *'I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It'* 🖤✨ From Love Me to The Sound, Somebody Else, UGH!, She’s American and A Change of Heart, we’re filling the night with 1975 anthems and Indie tracks that sit perfectly in that neon, late-night world!🎶🌃 This one also doubles as a BATTLE OF THE SOCIETIES, so expect team energy, big reactions, BIG PRIZES and a dancefloor that knows every word!

Mon 09.03

Fat Poppadaddys: Brit-Pop Special

Fat Poppadaddys: Brit-Pop Special

Mon 09.03.2026

🇬🇧🎸 BRITPOP SPECIAL 🎸🇬🇧 Bucket hats. Beer mats. Big tunes. We’re going full Britpop chaos for this one — celebrating the era of parkas, pints, tabloids, guitar anthems and unbelievable confidence 🍺🎸 Expect wall-to-wall Britpop classics from the biggest bands of the 90s and beyond, a dancefloor full of opinions, and that unbeatable “this is OUR song” energy 🇬🇧🔥 We’ll be giving away Fat Pops bucket hats and beer mats throughout the night, because no Britpop moment is complete without questionable fashion and a pint in hand. Don’t look back in anger. Just come to CHALK.

🇬🇧🎸 BRITPOP SPECIAL 🎸🇬🇧 Bucket hats. Beer mats. Big tunes. We’re going full Britpop chaos for this one — celebrating the era of parkas, pints, tabloids, guitar anthems and unbelievable confidence 🍺🎸 Expect wall-to-wall Britpop classics from the biggest bands of the 90s and beyond, a dancefloor full of opinions, and that unbeatable “this is OUR song” energy 🇬🇧🔥 We’ll be giving away Fat Pops bucket hats and beer mats throughout the night, because no Britpop moment is complete without questionable fashion and a pint in hand. Don’t look back in anger. Just come to CHALK.

Mon 16.03

Fat Poppadaddys: ST PATRICKS DAY!

Fat Poppadaddys: ST PATRICKS DAY!

Mon 16.03.2026

☘️🍺 ST PATRICK’S DAY SPECIAL 🍺☘️ Green fits. Big pints. Bigger energy. It wouldn’t be Paddy’s without Fat Poppadaddys turning the place green ☘️🍻 Expect shameless celebrations, flowing drinks, Irish energy everywhere you look, and a soundtrack built for shouting, jumping and absolutely not remembering the walk home 🍺🎶 Dress green. Drink pints. Lose your voice. It’s Paddy’s Day — we’re doing it properly.

☘️🍺 ST PATRICK’S DAY SPECIAL 🍺☘️ Green fits. Big pints. Bigger energy. It wouldn’t be Paddy’s without Fat Poppadaddys turning the place green ☘️🍻 Expect shameless celebrations, flowing drinks, Irish energy everywhere you look, and a soundtrack built for shouting, jumping and absolutely not remembering the walk home 🍺🎶 Dress green. Drink pints. Lose your voice. It’s Paddy’s Day — we’re doing it properly.

Mon 23.03

Fat Poppadaddys: White Lies Party

Fat Poppadaddys: White Lies Party

Mon 23.03.2026

End of term. No secrets. No regrets. ✍️🤍 The final Fat Poppadaddys of term goes full chaos with the White Lies Party — white tees, marker pens, and absolutely zero filter!🖊️ We’ll have white T-shirts and pens available, but trust us — come prepared. Write confessions, inside jokes, declarations, nonsense… whatever needs to be said before term ends 😈🎶 End-of-term anthems, emotional singalongs, and one last messy Monday before everyone disappears for Easter!

End of term. No secrets. No regrets. ✍️🤍 The final Fat Poppadaddys of term goes full chaos with the White Lies Party — white tees, marker pens, and absolutely zero filter!🖊️ We’ll have white T-shirts and pens available, but trust us — come prepared. Write confessions, inside jokes, declarations, nonsense… whatever needs to be said before term ends 😈🎶 End-of-term anthems, emotional singalongs, and one last messy Monday before everyone disappears for Easter!

Mon 30.03

Fat Poppadaddys: Indie vs Emo

Fat Poppadaddys: Indie vs Emo

Mon 30.03.2026

🖤💔 INDIE vs EMO 💔🖤 Choose your side. Defend it loudly. This is the one that causes arguments. Indie vs Emo goes head-to-head in the ultimate battle of guitars, feelings and absolute scream-alongs 🎸🔥 One minute it’s Indie anthems. The next it’s full emo chaos. Pick your team, sing louder than the other side, and help decide who really owns the dancefloor 👀🖤 We’ll be giving away band merch throughout the night, so bring the energy and rep your side properly.

🖤💔 INDIE vs EMO 💔🖤 Choose your side. Defend it loudly. This is the one that causes arguments. Indie vs Emo goes head-to-head in the ultimate battle of guitars, feelings and absolute scream-alongs 🎸🔥 One minute it’s Indie anthems. The next it’s full emo chaos. Pick your team, sing louder than the other side, and help decide who really owns the dancefloor 👀🖤 We’ll be giving away band merch throughout the night, so bring the energy and rep your side properly.