It has to be one of the most memorable names for a music festival, but its root stems from the charity gig in 2008 that first inspired it. Now into its second decade, the Cosmic Puffin Festival started out as a fund-raising event for a charity at Basildon and Thurrock Hospital that enables parents of…
Scotland’s biggest indoor electronic music festival gets underway in Edinburgh in April, when Terminal V Festival returns to the Royal Highland Centre. Taking place on Saturday, 20 April 2019, the 11-hour music extravaganza will feature a carefully curated line-up of legends and emerging international acts over multiple indoor stages in the vast warehouse complex in…
Today Wales celebrates its patron saint, St David, or Dewi Sant in Welsh, who was born between 462 and 515 AD on the south-west coast of Wales, near St Davids in Pembrokeshire. The day will be marked across the country with children dressing up in national costumes for St David’s Day concerts, while many towns…
The 29th Sussex Beer and Cider Festival takes place at Brighton Racecourse from 22-23 March 2019. With more than 150 real ales from across the UK featured, there will also be over 40 ciders and perries available, plus hot and cold food, including vegan options. This year there will be three sessions, Friday lunchtime from…
Cheshire Beer Festival returns to Chester Racecourse for a fifth time on 22-23 March, following a 16-month break that’s seen it move from a November slot in the calendar to March. For the first time the festival will be open all day on Friday and Saturday, so having paid for admission visitors will be free…
Brunel’s Old Station is the venue for the 22nd annual Bristol Beer Festival, which takes place from 21-23 March 2019. Run by the Bristol branch of CAMRA, there will be a carefully chosen selection of around 140 different real ales on sale over the course of the festival, as well as a good range of…
Featuring more than 75 beers, including a few special selections from local breweries, plus a range of ciders, perries and country wines, Coventry Beer Festival hits the city from 15-16 March this year. Taking place at Coventry Rugby Football Ground, at Butts Park Arena, just off junction seven of the city centre ring road it…
There are many ways in which Scottish culture differs from that of the rest of the British Isles, but perhaps nothing better sums up those differences than the Highland Games… Scotland’s way of celebrating its age-old artistic and athletic traditions. Some believe the games originated as a clan chieftain’s way of choosing his best bodyguards…
Mark the dates in your diaries, the Wales National Airshow returns to Swansea Bay from 6-7 July this year… with breathtaking aerobatic displays, state-of-the-art military aircraft and vintage planes soaring above the seafront. In 2018 the airshow had another brilliant year with hundreds of thousands of people descending on the city to enjoy the country’s…
Housing two rockets in a 42-metre tower, the National Space Centre in Leicester is also home to the UK’s largest domed planetarium and features six galleries crammed with space memorabilia from suits and rockets to satellites and meteorites. A museum and educational resource covering the fields of space science and astronomy, the centre is the…
