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…
If you grew up in the 1970s and ’80s the names Angelic Upstarts, Peter and the Test Tube Babies and The Members will probably mean a lot more to you than some of the new bands making waves on radio stations around the country at the moment. It was a great era for music and…
Blackpool is seeing a Revival of alternative rock in March, when some of the UK’s biggest tribute bands descend on the town for two days reliving the best sounds from the Nineties and Noughties. Following the success of the inaugural event in March last year, Revival Music Festival returns to the impressive Norbreck Castle, Blackpool,…
