One of only a handful of places around the world to brew Trappist beer, Koningshoeven Abbey in the Dutch village of Berkel-Enschot, in Noord-Brabant, is putting the environment ahead of profit by becominhg the first brewery in western Europe to construct a plant-based water filtration system that avoids the current waste of seven litres of…
Celebrating its 10th Anniversary, the London A Cappella Festival resonates around the capital from 23-26 January 2019. Bringing an epic line-up of international headliners and vocal super-groups to the city, this year’s programme features internationally acclaimed composer and singer Laura Mvula with Europe’s finest female vocal quintet Black Voices; American pop-jazz vocal sensations M-Pact, legendary…
Live At Leeds brings the best new talent from the UK and beyond to the city for one day in May. Taking place at various venues across Leeds city centre, the festival gets underway on the first bank holiday weekend of the month… on Saturday, 4 May 2019. As with many city-based festivals, the Live…
Originally constructed in 1907, the Brooklands race track was the ‘Ascot of Motorsport’ in its heyday and the place where speed demon Sir Malcolm Campbell cut his teeth as a racing driver. Built by local landowner Hugh Locke King on 330 acres of farm and woodland on his estate at Weybridge in Surrey, it was…
Taking place across multiple venues in Brighton in May, the Great Escape Festival features a huge line-up of new music with hundreds of up-and-coming acts lined up for the city from 9-11 May 2019. A leading festival for emerging talent, the Great Escape showcases about 500 developing artists from all over the world at more…
One of the UK’s leading independent festivals for new music, Sound City returns to Liverpool for another whirlwind weekend of music from 3-5 May 2019. Renowned for its musical heritage, Liverpool radiates an energy unlike any other city in the UK and the unforgettable three-day festival captures the city’s vibrancy with some of the country’s…
The best of Nashville hits stages in London, Dublin and Glasgow for the three nights in March when Europe’s biggest country music festival, C2C: Country to Country, takes place. Inaugurated in 2013, the event brings some of the biggest names in Nashville to London, Glasgow and Dublin every spring, with Carrie Underwood, LeAnn Rimes, Tim…
A new festival heads to Manchester’s city centre in March when You Are Not Alone takes over the city on Saturday, 30 March 2019. The line-up and venues will be announced over the coming months, but a host of local favourites have already shown support for the multi-venue event in aid of charity Manchester Mind.…
Expanding on last year’s scaled-back Across the Threshold event, the 2019 Threshold Festival from 29-30 March goes back to its roots with a wider blueprint featuring grass-roots music, visual arts, performance and activities from talented people from Liverpool and further afield. Now in its ninth year, the multi-arts festival takes place across the city’s Baltic…
Ink it into your calendar, Manchester plays host to the Tattoo Tea Party from 2-3 March this year. Celebrating everything that is wonderful about the tattoo scene in the UK and Ireland, the 2019 Tattoo Tea Party will be held in EventCity, next to The Trafford Centre. The convention, now in it’s eighth year, hosts…
