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…
The younger half of the duo that helped transform pop music in the 1960s, Phil Everly passed away in January 2014, but five years on the music he created with elder brother Don is still selling out theatres across the UK, with the Walk Right Back stage show about to enter it’s second year on…
Just three weeks before Northamptonshire welcome Middlesex for their first home game of the season, the club will be hosting a very different occasion when gin and rum will be the order of the day at the County Ground. Sponsored by Schweppes 1783, the venue hosts a Gin and Rum Festival on 16 March, where…
Nottinghamshire’s Thoresby Park is the setting for one of the biggest gatherings of “fake” bands seen in the UK, with The Big Fake Festival bringing 24 unreal acts together for three days of the nation’s favourite hits from 30 August to 1 September 2019. The conclusion to a summer of “Fake Festivals” across the country,…
The X Factor Live Tour 2019 begins in Nottingham this week, with the stars of the 2018 series Dalton Harris, Scarlett Lee, Anthony Russell, Danny Tetley, Acacia & Aaliyah, Brendan Murray, Shan Ako and Bella Penfold going on the road to venues across the UK and Ireland until 6 March. And if the sight of…
Award-winning drinks writers and comedy performers Ben McFarland and Tom Sandham have had a busy schedule since embarking on their bar crawl around the UK in October last year but after a break over the Christmas period they’re back on the road again later this month. As educational as it is entertaining, The Thinking Drinkers…
After a a six-year break from touring, Welsh comedian Rhod Gilbert is back on the road in 2019 with a new show, The Book of John. The tour kicks off on Saturday, 2 February, at the William Aston Hall in Wrexham and spans 52 venues over six months, with two nights at both London’s Eventim…
The theme for this year’s Braintree Real Ale Festival is “A Trip Along The Thames”, with beers sourced from along the path of the river from its source in the Cotswolds to its mouth near Southend. The event gets underway at the Bocking Arts Theatre (formally the Braintree Insitute) on Thursday, 15 June, and runs…
Thurrock Beer Festival kicks off at the Civic Hall in Grays tomorrow. Organised by South West Essex CAMRA it runs until Saturday, 10 June 2017. Opening times for the event are from noon-3pm and 6-11pm from Tuesday to Friday, and from noon-7pm on Saturday. Admission is free for the lunchtime sessions during the week, with…
