From Perth in Scotland to Newton Abbot in Devon, there are 60 racecourses in Britain offering great facilities for functions of all descriptions and a fantastic experience for racegoers throughout the year. In Britain horseracing runs for almost 365 days a year with thousands of races taking place and there’s always a meeting going on…
The Society of Independent Brewers has drafted in a new sponsor for BeerX UK 2019, which takes place at the Exhibition Centre Liverpool from 13-14 March 2019. SIBA will team up with tech-based keg and cask specialist Kegstar for the event, the biggest trade event in the UK for beer and brewing businesses, attracting thousands…
It could be the largest gathering of Power Ranger ‘guests’ ever assembled in the UK… and it’s coming to Comic Con Liverpool in March this year. Taking place from 8-10 March, the event promises to assemble no fewer than 12 Power Rangers in the Exhibition Centre, plus two baddies from the franchise. The mighty morphin’…
On the first weekend of February Cardiff will become a blaze of pageantry as the Welsh hordes do battle with the likes of Zelda, Deadpool, Thor and Mystique to see who will be the first to get to the bar. A day after the Dragons take on Les Tricolores in Paris on the opening night…
What do you get if you cross a professional make-up artist, specialising in prosthetics, with a locations manager on productions such as the Harry Potter films and TV series Byker Grove? Answer, Britain’s hairiest culinary conquistadors… Dave Myers and Si King, aka the Hairy Bikers. Big hearted, down-to-earth cooks with a love of good food,…
When it started back in Glastonbury in 1995, people thought it wouldn’t run for 25 weeks let alone 25 years, but a quarter of a century later the Circus of Horrors is still running amok around the globe. An amazing amalgamation of bizarre and breathtaking circus acts, the “shocky horror” show pulls together a series…
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…
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…
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…
Liverpool International Music Festival celebrates its fifth birthday this year with the theme ‘Remember The Times’, a showcase of pivotal moments throughout the decades which provided the springboard for genres such as hip-hop, house and pop. The four-day celebration of new talent, big names, musical heritage and cultural diversity takes place from 20-23 July and…
