14/05/2019

  Due to popular demand, we are delighted to announce that comedian, choirboy and co-host of Soccer AM, Lloyd Griffith has added an additional six dates, including two at London’s Soho Theatre on 5th and 6th April 2019, to his All Rounder UK tour, which begins at The Stand Edinburgh on 29th January 2019. The tour will now take in a total of thirty dates and will conclude at Abbey Tavern, County Dublin on 25th May 2019. Tickets available now…

14/05/2019

  Follow in the footsteps of David Walliams and take on the English Channel for Heart Research UK, all from the comfort of your local pool. Forget dodging tankers and battling currents, this year Heart Research UK are asking you to take on their ‘Swim the Channel Challenge’, and conquer the English Channel in your local baths to raise money for their pioneering medical research into the prevention, treatment and cure of heart disease. Swim as an individual or a…

14/05/2019

  Your favorite Superstars from Raw and SmackDown make their way back to the United Kingdom and Ireland in May 2019 for eight WWE Live Events, plus broadcast editions of Raw and SmackDown LIVE. Tickets are available now at www.bookingsdirect.com. (For Belfast and Dublin, go to www.ticketmaster.ie.) The WWE Live U.K. tour runs from 8 May through 18 May, with installments of Raw and SmackDown LIVE broadcasting from London’s O2 Arena on 13 and 14 May, respectively. See Roman Reigns,…

14/05/2019

        Three generations of the same family and a team of superheroes were among 120 cyclists who took part in this year’s On Your Bike for Barnardo’s cycle ride. Organisers of the fundraising event were delighted with both its success and the perfect weather as the last attempt to run it in the autumn was scuppered by one of the biggest storms of the year. On Your Bike for Barnardo’s, which was founded back in 1982, had…

09/05/2019

  The new singing and dancing sensation New Jersey Nights landed at the New Theatre in Cardiff tonight. The cast of a three piece-band, 6 dancers and four male singers did an outstanding job to deliver a packed two-hour show.  The musical numbers were pieced together with segments of background information around the music industry and Frankie Valli’s life during his career, told in a fragmented sequence.  It was a surprise that there was no programme available for the performance,…

09/05/2019

  A battle of the beds will be taking place this weekend down at Cardiff Bay Barrage.   Cardiff & Vale Health Charity, the official charity of Cardiff & Vale University Health Board, will host its second Cardiff Bay Bed Push Challenge, taking place on Sunday, May 12.   Doctors, Nurses and Health Board staff will be pushing hard to be crowned winners of the bed push challenge, with prizes also for the most amount raised for Cardiff & Vale Health…

08/05/2019

  THIS YEAR a new death-defying and extreme circus is descending on the UK as part of it’s European tour. A one-of-a-kind performance, that has been five years in the making and features some of the most talented performers in the world. Merging modern and contemporary styles with extreme stunts and classic clown escapades, audiences will be amazed by the jam-packed Circus Extreme with show-stopping performances that will have you on the edge of your seat, when not falling off…

17/04/2019

Hair the Musical is now in it’s 50th Anniversary as the tour stops at New Theatre, Cardiff for five days. The show is a high energy dance filled delight.  Set in 1967, it follows the lives of a group of teenagers in an East village in New York.   The show is known for pushing against the boundaries of authority and society in 1967 and the modern offering does not disappoint.  The show tackles the issue of being drafted into the…

15/04/2019

Carl Marsh: We all know of your character Lee Nelson, even some might actually think he is a real person but what sort of experience do you want the audience leave with after seeing the show? Simon: Good question, funnier is what they will leave with. It’s part of the mini-tour, which I’m sure you know, that’s part of the Lee Nelson tour. The Serious Joker tour. I think this is something like the fourth leg of the tour. The…

15/04/2019

Carl Marsh: The opening night of your new tour is here in Cardiff, will it all be new material or are you going to throw some of the old stuff in? Ben Haenow: Yes, I think you’ve got to do some of the older stuff, but I’ve had another album out since. I’m on my second album now and I’m also doing my third, so it’s going to be a lot of the new material and a lot of that…