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  It’s an award-winning year for the Octagon Bolton venue scoops Medium Business of the Year Award Octagon Chief Executive, Roddy Gauld and Chair of Board of Trustees, Darren Knight The  Octagon  are ending 2024 with a bang after being shortlisted for many esteemed award nominations over the last 12 months. The venue were winners at the  2024 Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce (GMCC) Excellence Awards  last month when they were named  Medium Business of the Year .   The  GMCC Excellence Awards  showcase and celebrate business achievements highlighting organisations, leaders and teams who have demonstrated success within their industries and communities in Greater Manchester.      The Octagon’s work on stage, its extensive national partnerships, and its work with Bolton’s communities have all been praised. In particular, the theatre has made numerous steps to improving access to the arts such as its affordable ticket scheme,...

  Kerry Godliman's new show  Bandwidth  hits the road in March 2025 Bandwidth will be coming to: Poole, Newcastle, Brighton, Plymouth, Bristol, Cardiff, Nottingham, Norwich, Chester, Salford, Northampton, Canterbury, Oxford, Watford, Glasgow, Coventry, Leeds & London   Actor, writer, podcaster, broadcaster and one of the UK’s greatest comedians, Kerry Godliman returns to the stage with her brand new show Bandwidth - which is the next stand-up instalment of the longest running sitcom in her head. Join her for all the latest storylines.    While parenting teenagers, bogged down with knicker admin and considering dealing HRT on the black market, Kerry's lost her mum bag but can’t remember what was in it as she’s outsourced her memory to her phone. Updates on wellness, influencers, robots, fashion, fermentation and small talk? This is the life of a middle aged woman who hasn't got the bandwidth for any of this.   On screen she has starred in many hits ...

MATTHEW BOURNE’S SWAN LAKE  THE LOWRY, SALFORD 19 TH TO 30 TH NOVEMBER 2024 AHEAD OF THE ANNUAL CHRISTMAS SEASON AT SADLER’S WELLS, LONDON AND A 2025 UK TOUR   Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake returns to The Lowry, Salford this week as part of its 30 th Anniversary Tour. This reinvention, danced to Tchaikovsky's musical masterpiece, caused a sensation when it premiered almost 30 years ago and I was lucky to be there. Its impact was immediate and Bourne’s Swan Lake takes flight once more in this major revival.   Thrilling, bold, witty and emotive, are only some of the adjectives already attributed to this genre-defining event which is still best known for replacing the female corps-de-ballet with a menacing male ensemble, which shattered convention. First staged at Sadler’s Wells in London in 1995, Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake took the dance theatre world by storm becoming the longest running full-length dance classic in the West End and on Broadway. It ha...

  Steel Pulse 50th Anniversary Celebration Tour Support from  The Selecter  at all 5 UK shows Steel Pulse  are back on the road in 2025 with a  50 th  Anniversary  celebration tour. The tour will take in five venues in  March 2025 , including a home town Birmingham gig, and support at all shows will come from  The Selecter:  a band also of West Midlands origins. Tickets are available now from:  https://www.aegpresents. co.uk/event/steel-pulse/   Initially founded by  David Hinds , who remains to this day, with Basil Gabbidon, and Ronald McQueen,  Steel Pulse  formed in 1975 - inspired by a love of Bob Marley & The Wailers. Whilst they would go on to support the icon on a European concert tour in 1978, they found themselves lifted with the arrival of the first wave of Punk. Musically  Steel Pulse  deliver a heavy mix of Roots and Reggae, but there was a shared ethos and energy with the Punk bands....

 Westway Sessions at the Vaudeville images  available to download here.                                                                     THE WESTWAY SESSIONS AT THE VAUDEVILLE   SIX LEADING STARS OF THE WEST END AND BROADWAY WILL PERFORM 5 EXCLUSIVE CONCERTS AT THE VAUDEVILLE THEATRE NEXT SPRING   CASSIDY JANSON IN CONCERT  – MONDAY 3 FEBRUARY A COUPLE OF SWELLS STARRING JOE STILGOE WITH LIZA PULMAN  – MONDAY 10 FEBRUARY AIMEE ATKINSON IN CONCERT  – MONDAY 17 FEBRUARY LEE MEAD THE BEST OF ME  – MONDAY 10 MARCH KERRY ELLIS QUEEN OF THE WEST END  – MONDAY 17 MARCH   Westway Music is pleased to announce details of the Westway Sessions, a series of Monday night concerts featuring six leading stars of the West End and Broadway at the Vaudeville Theatre in 2025.   West...

  COME FROM AWAY LOWRY, SALFORD TUESDAY 3 rd  DECEMBER 2024 TO SUNDAY 5 th  JANUARY 2025     Welcome to the Rock! The international hit musical  Come From Away  is landing at  Lowry, Salford  next month for a 4-week festive run – part of its first ever UK tour.   Winner of Best New Musical awards across the globe,  Come From Away  shares the incredible real-life story of the 7,000 air passengers from all over the world who were grounded in Canada during the wake of 9/11, and the small Newfoundland community that invited these ‘come from aways’ into their lives.   It runs at Lowry from  Tuesday 3 rd  December 2024 to Saturday 6 th  January 2025.   Steve Cowton, Head of Theatres at Lowry, said:  “We are thrilled to be presenting this brilliant feel-good musical this festive season. Come From Away has been a huge hit all over the World and we can’t wait to share it wi...

  Prism: Waterside Arts’ winter festival of music and light will dazzle Sale town centre for a second year this November Prism – an ambitious winter festival, powered by Waterside Arts, returns to illuminate Sale town centre in Trafford from Thursday 21 to Saturday 23 November.   Following the triumphant success of Waterside’s inaugural Prism Festival in 2023, audiences of all ages can again witness music, projection and light performance creating magical and thought-provoking experiences during this three-day festival.   Prism Light Trail , a community-led project, curated by  Things That Go On Things  in partnership with  Leeway Creative Productions , will see a series of light installations through Sale Town Centre designed by children and young people in the borough.    The Light Trail is based on an original concept by Trafford-based public artist Venessa Scott, award-winning artist Sarah Greaves and the communities of Trafford.   Simple...