Author Archives: Richard

Budapest Café Orchestra

By Richard |

BCO play a blistering barrage of traditional folk and gypsy-flavoured music from across the Balkans and Russia, Klezmer laments, Romanian Doinas, Hungarian Czadas and their own unique re-imaginings of some of the biggest tunes ever written by the classical greats.  The Budapest Café Orchestra was established in 2009 by British composer and violinist, Christian Garrick, […]

Martyn Joseph: Winter Tour 

By Richard |

Martyn Joseph is a completely unique and mind-blowing artist. Take everything you think you know about singer songwriters and rip it up. For one man and a guitar he creates a performance with a huge far-reaching sound that is energetic, compelling, and passionate.  Be it to two hundred people or twenty thousand, he blows the […]

A Christmas Carol

By Richard |

Being a Ghost Story of Christmas The award-winning Dyad Productions, (A Room of One’s Own, I, Elizabeth, Austen’s Women, Female Gothic) who have toured their sell-out festive show Christmas Gothic since 2015, now bring their magic to Dickens’ classic and perennially relevant ghost story. It’s Christmas Eve, and the miserly misanthrope, Ebeneezer Scrooge, is about […]

Paul Sinha: Pauly Bengali

By Richard |

Acclaimed comedian, daytime TV star and global TikTok sensation, Paul Sinha is at least two of these. Paul’s last solo show was one of the best-reviewed shows at the 2022 Edinburgh Fringe with cracking praise from the press.  ‘Packed with goodies and not a moment of padding or superfluity, this is easily the funniest and most gratifying […]

Oh, Whistle

By Richard |

Two ghost stories by M R James  Performed by R M Lloyd Parry M R James is acknowledged as the master of the English Ghost Story. He first performed his supernatural tales to friends at Christmas in King’s College, Cambridge. Now Nunkie Theatre Company have brought two of these unforgettable spinechillers back to life. Oh, […]

Barbara Nice – Festive Special 

By Richard |

Lee Martin for Gag Reflex Presents Star of Britain’s Got Talent, Barbara Nice is back by popular demand with her annual festive shindig complete with raffle, tombola and mince pies. Join her in a bumper bundle selection box of seasonal fun with all the trimmings. Book early to avoid disappointment. This will make the perfect […]

Barton Rotary Variety Show

By Richard |

Rotary present an evening of comedy, drama and song showcasing the talents of everyday Barton folk.All proceeds will go to local charities.

Louise Beech

By Richard |

MEET THE AUTHOR Louise Beech is the author of nine novels and a memoir, Eighteen Seconds. Her debut, How to be Brave, was a Guardian Readers’ Pick; The Lion Tamer Who Lost shortlisted for at the Romantic Novel Awards and longlisted for the Polari Prize; Call Me Star Girl was Best magazine’s Book of the […]

Michele Stodart 

By Richard |

Caribbean-born Michele Stodart is an award-winning solo artist, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist now based in London. Best renowned as bassist, vocalist and co-songwriter of Mercury-nominated, double-platinum selling band, The Magic Numbers, with whom she continues to play and tour world-wide. Michele has always pursued her own writing alongside her band and nurtured a love for folk/Americana artists as Joni Mitchell, […]

Sam Newbould Quintet

By Richard |

“A musical mosaic of futurist ideas and indie jazz harmonies” (Windout Magazine), the Sam Newbould Quintet is an award winning five piece international line-up hailing from the UK, Spain, Israel and the Netherlands. Based in Amsterdam, the quintet won the prestigious Keep an Eye Records in 2019 and were selected artists at the InJazz Showcase […]

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