Britain's slalom paddlers will be competing on home soil at the 2020 ECA Canoe Slalom European Championships presented by Jaffa on 15-17 May.
The Championships are taking place at Lee Valley White Water Centre on the iconic Olympic course built for the London 2012 Games. The event will present a fantastic opportunity to see the GB team in action just two months before the start of the Tokyo 2020 Games.
The event programme includes four individual classes and four team events in kayak (K) and canoe (C) - K1 men, K1 women, C1 men, and C1 women.
You're never far away from the action at Lee Valley White Water Centre. To appeal to a broad range of fans, we have three categories of tickets available.
Bloodstock Festival, set to celebrate its 20th year in 2020, have announced their first headliner. Performing an exclusive UK show, Devin Townsend is set to headline Friday on Bloodstock's Ronnie James Dio main stage. The show will be a very special set for fans.
Also newly confirmed for 2020 are Jinjer and Gloryhammer, alongside previously announced Skindred, Black Dahlia Murder, Vio-lence, Sacred Reich, Dark Tranquillity, and Butcher Babies. Bloodstock's remaining two headline acts and many more bands performing over the weekend will be announced in due course.
This year, the first ever series of Britain's Got Talent: The Champions came to our screens, and during the course of the show so far, we have seen around 45 participants from across the global Got Talent franchise get involved in the fight to be crowned winner.
The grand final takes place on 5th October. If you're loving the show so far and want a piece of the action for yourself, we're here to tell you where you can see some of the amazing contestants live across the UK!
The National Wedding Show is the UK's longest running wedding show and has been a much-loved visit for brides and grooms-to-be alike for over 20 years! The show returns this autumn with four events in London, Birmingham and Manchester so don’t miss out on the ultimate weekend of inspiration.
For the very first time at Belton the tree-tops will glisten and the gardens will shimmer and sparkle. It's definitely the most wonderful time of the year to wander beneath historic tree canopies drenched in seasonal colour and dripping with shards of light, frosty snowflakes, stars and baubles.
As you walk through a towering Tunnel of Light festooned with over 100,000 pea-lights, the mesmerising voices of the Singing Trees can be heard in the distance. There are hidden surprises too – pause alongside the mirror pool reflections and glimpse the sculptural Fire Garden as it flickers and crackles. The formal gardens spring to life with topiary trees lavishly draped in pea-lights that flicker in time to much-loved festive classics.
For the young ones in all of us there are traditional Victorian fairground rides* in the Estate Yard and don’t forget to catch a glimpse of Father Christmas and his elves. Have a holly, jolly Christmas and complete your walk under the stars with spiced cider, mulled wine or hot chocolate.
See the new trailer below and take a glimpse into the world of sparkle.
Tickets on sale - book now to avoid disappointment!
The much-anticipated winter trail returns to the world-famous Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh, now in its third year.
Along the route for 2019 you will notice exciting new installations; step into a Laser Garden where lines of light playfully bounce across the branches; enjoy the Festive Flotilla as hundreds of glowing boats gently bob on the shimmering surface and walk between larger-than-life icicles and neon spiral trees rising high into the night sky.
Returning also is the dazzling Tunnel of Light that sparkles with thousands of pea-lights and the mesmerising Scented Fire Garden. No Botanics trail would be complete without the Festive Finale at Inverleith House where brightly coloured projections dance in time to much-loved Christmas classics. Also, look out for Santa and his elves along the way.
Complete your walk under the stars with a cup of spiced cider, mulled wine or tempting treats. Alternatively, enjoy the seasonal menu on offer at the John Hope Gateway Restaurant.
Tickets are now on sale - book early to secure your preferred date!
Sound City Ipswich are excited to present their full line-up for 2019, including The Murder Capital and Novelist as headliners.
Emerging from Dublin’s post punk scene, The Murder Capital put an unexpected twist on a genre well established by the likes of Joy Division. Their debut album 'When I Have Fears' received acclaim from the NME and a five star review in The Guardian.
2018 Mercury Prize nominee Novelist is a grime MC and producer from Lewisham, South East London. He was a founding member of The Square crew and was nominated for Best Grime Act at the 2014 MOBO Awards.
Sound City Ipswich is supporting local artists: with mainstays of the local gig circuit, the Manningtree-based band Dingus Khan playing alongside Bury St Edmunds’ garage-punk rockers Gaffa Tape Sandy, Ipswich’s Bessie Turner and John Peel favourites, The Stupids.
Full Line-Up:
Novelist / The Murder Capital / Snapped Ankles / W.H. Lung / The Stupids / Emma-Jean Thackray / Wu-Lu / Happyness / Piers James / Dingus Khan / Girls Of The Internet / Gaffa Tape Sandy / Diving Station / Lex Amor / Peaness / Plastic Mermaids / Sir Was / Bessie Turner /Swimsuit Competition / Ghosts Of Men / EL-Emcee / Eloise / Conner Nunn
See Tickets has launched highly secure and non-transferable digital tickets as the next step in its ongoing commitment to combat the secondary market.
Each digital ticket features a dynamically refreshing barcode which is uniquely tied to a customer’s user account, mobile device and See Tickets app. Digital tickets will be used for the first time this week when tickets for Declan McKenna’s tour go on sale.
Rob Wilmshurst, CEO at See Tickets said: “The launch of digital tickets is a major milestone in our persistent anti-secondary market strategy as we now have a secure ticketing solution we can offer to our clients to use at any venue, on any show. We hate touts.”
Adam Webb, Campaign Manager for FanFair Alliance said: “We welcome See Tickets’ continued efforts to keep tickets in the hands of genuine customers by investing in the development of secure, anti-tout technology. It should make the ticket purchasing and venue entry process safer, faster and more consumer-friendly.”
Tickets with digital delivery options are purchased by customers as usual via seetickets.com. Once at the venue, See’s access control system will decrypt the unique barcode to allow customers entry.
See Tickets launched its own ethical resale site, Fan to Fan in 2017 with more than 35,000 tickets sold through the site since then. See has rolled out bespoke anti-secondary market initiatives for artists including Ed Sheeran and the Arctic Monkeys and developed the photo ID registration system with Glastonbury which has eliminated touting at the festival.
See Tickets’ music client list includes Glastonbury, SJM Concerts, Kilimanjaro, Universal Music Group, Alexandra Palace, One Inch Badge and Communion Music.
This week, the incredible ninth series of Taskmaster returns to our screens. Once again, the show will be offering more astonishing tasks and guaranteed hilarity from some of the finest comedians around.
This year's contestants take the form of David Baddiel, Ed Gamble, Jo Brand, Katy Wix, and Rose Matafeo, who over the next ten episodes will compete to be crowned the series winner.
Your television won't be the only place you can see some of these comedians entertain you. Many of this year's guests are heading out on stand up comedy tours, coming to a venue near you in the coming months. Check out where you can see them right here!
Mexican duo Rodrigo Y Gabriela stun audiences internationally with their unique blend of genre-fluid acoustic guitar. While their early influences are rooted in metal, their sound has transformed and evolved in the almost two decades since their formation, birthing an entrancing amalgam of traditional and modern music.
We caught up with Rodrigo ahead of their UK tour in September, about career highlights, influences, and the differing audiences they play to around the globe, far from their home country of Mexico.
Win a pair of tickets to the Sunday evening session (15 September, 5.30pm – 10pm) at Pub in the Park St. Albans worth £91 (plus booking fees)! Enter here.
Pub in the Park brings together brilliant food, live music and Michelin-starred chefs all served up in a beautiful local park, making for the ultimate pub garden unlike any other.
The pop-up pub and restaurant line-up include the likes of Tom Kerridge’s The Hand & Flowers, DylansKings Arms, Atul Kochhar’s Hawkyns, Thompson St. Albans, Tim Allen’s Flitch of Bacon and many more, each serving mouth-watering tasting dishes for you to enjoy.
Music acts will rock the main stage throughout each session, so dust off your dancing shoes as you’re in for a treat! Watch headliner Will Young and supports The Rifles, and Holloway Road.
Alongside all of this (if it isn’t enough!) there’ll be plenty of bars serving all sorts of bevs from cocktails to cold ones, chef demonstrations, tastings and plenty of shopping from artisans and lifestyle brands! Don’t miss out on the festival that everyone’s talking about and enter the competition today!
For your chance to win and full terms and conditions, simply answer the question here.
Frank Carter and the Rattlesnakes have announced their biggest headline shows to date for 2020 in Manchester, Glasgow and London’s iconic Alexandra Palace on Saturday, 15 February. They’ll start the decade off with a career-defining moment for both them and their fans. It will be nothing short of epic.
After the release of their UK top 5 charting album, ‘End of Suffering’ in May, the band have catapulted into global acclaim. This year alone they have toured the UK, America, Europe and Australia (supporting Bring Me The Horizon), spent the summer opening for Foo Fighters across key European dates, as well as embarking on a run of festival slots including Primavera Sound.
“An album of full-throttle catharsis” - Independent
Visitors will have the chance to get hands-on and learn a new creative pursuit, as well as rub shoulders with experts from the worlds of craft, wellbeing, food and gardening.
The full line-up of workshops has now been announced, and with just a month to go, we’ve hand-selected some of our favourite and most inspiring workshops taking place this year. Will we see you there?
The first Harry Potter film, Harry Potter and The Philosopher’s Stone, was released 18 years ago and most of us can probably remember going to the cinema to see it, or where we saw the iconic first instalment in a series that will forever go down in history as one of the greats.
Soon, the film will be returning to a town near you for the incredible Harry Potter and The Philosopher’s Stone™ In Concert where you can watch the film, and listen to the original score by legend John Williams, performed by the Czech National Symphony Orchestra.
In celebration, and to get you all excited for the upcoming shows, we’ve put together our ten favourite moments that we can’t wait to see on the big screen, accompanied by a live symphony orchestra.
This October, come and be a part of Bought by Many’s Great Dog Walk, where participants can choose to walk either 2k, 5k or 10k and take part in some heart pumping activities!
This is no ordinary walk – they will come across some delicious doggy diners where pooch's can rehydrate and enjoy some tasty treats, pawsome photo spots for capturing the perfect pics of owners and their best friend and more fun surprises along the route!
This is the perfect opportunity for people and their dogs to raise some money for their chosen charity all whilst having the best day out with their dog - it may be that they're walking further than they have with their pooch, or that their dog wants to raise money in a sponsored walk! Whatever their reasons - it will ultimately be because they want to support their cause. It's great for all ages and fundraising as a family or with a group of friends - furry & not so furry!
The events will be taking place in two of the most beautiful parks in the UK that will only be accessible to participants and their dog(s) – Great Dog Walk not only offers a super fun walk but also gains entry into these parks included in the ticket price!
