A cocktail of music, comedy and ale, lots of ale, comes to Stockton at the end of February when the annual Ale and Arty Beer Festival clocks into the ARC from 28 February to 2 March. Offering more than 80 real ales, ciders and perries, the CAMRA-organised festival has a broad selection of quality beers…
It’s a new day and a new dawn for Redtooth Poker today, with the UK’s biggest pub poker league getting even bigger with the amalgamation of the Champions Poker league into the fold. With the first 13-week season of 2019 about to shuffle up and deal from tonight, more pubs than ever will be welcoming…
Featuring more than 130 UK beers as well as a wide selection of draught and bottled international ales, Bradford Beer Festival returns to Victoria Hall, Saltaire, for its 22nd successive year at the end of February. This year there will be a craft keg bar featuring innovative beers from local and regional new-wave brewers, plus…
If you’re a Welshman married to a Filipina, you’ll know that one of the things the nations share is a passion for singing. Wales may be known as the “land of song” but it’s a tag that could equally apply to the Philippines, where a large percentage of the population also have music running through…
With Anthony Joshua sitting on top of the world in the heavyweight game, Britain’s enjoying something of a purple patch in the boxing world at the moment. Joshua currently holds the WBA, IBF and WBO belts and is the man to beat in the heavyweight division but Britain also has four other world beaters in…
The Milton Keynes Brick Festival… sounds like something that might attract staff from Redrow, Persimmon or Barratt… but actually it’s more likely to appeal to their children since it is, in fact, a celebration of brightly-coloured, interlocking plastic pieces produced by a certain Danish toy producer. Featuring some out-of-this-world displays, such as an incredible large-scale…
With more than 20 real ales and ciders from Devon breweries, plus live entertainment and good food, Dartmouth Charity Beer Festival is a fun and informative event that provides an opportunity to meet local brewers and talk about beer making, whilst also raising money for two worthy causes. Organised by Dartmouth Rotary Club, the…
For four days in April, Chepstow becomes a very progressive town when Winter’s End takes over The Drill Hall with an eclectic mix of international rock theatre. Following a resounding success last year, the Winter’s End Progressive Rock Festival returns to the town in 2019 from 4-7 April. The pre-festival party on the Thursday night…
The fourth edition of Mac-Stock will be raising funds for two great causes when it gets underway at Warsop in March. The brainchild of former Mansfield man Graham Parker who started it in memory of his father Roy who lost his battle with cancer in 2013, the one-day festival raises money for Macmillan Cancer Support…
Bristol’s long association with jazz dates back to the 1950s and ’60s when a dizzying array of stars such as Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald regularly played to sell-out audiences at Colston Hall, today Bristol International Jazz and Blues Festival keeps that tradition going for four days in March. Taking place from 21-24…
