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04 Oct

What’s On This Weekend

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Vintage and Handmade Craft Fair A Truly Scrumptious Craft Fair returns to Blackpool's Winter Gardens this weekend after the hugely successful event in June of this year. The event is open from 10am through to 5pm on both Saturday and Sunday. Altblackpool's Fiona Jones gave us a great preview of what will be in store earlier this week. Also part of the weekend will be a wide range of Singers, Dancers and Performers. Here's a short preview of a few of the acts: Katie Ryan - Saturday 12pm Singer/Songwriter from Preston who was recently reviewed by Ark Magazine: “This girl isn’t driven by…

03 Oct

Aunty Social’s Halloween Screen

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Halloween will be a frightful affair this year with local arts organisation Aunty Social bringing you a double bill of classic horror films at their Halloween Screen in the beautiful surroundings of Blackpool Winter Gardens Pavilion. This will be a rare opportunity to see Nosferatu and Frankenstein on the big screen and in an atmospheric venue right in the heart of Blackpool. Nosferatu was released in 1922, directed by F.W. Murnau and is based on the Dracula novel. Real estate agent Hutter is dispatched to Transylvania to assist Count Orlok in the purchase of a new residence but mysterious and spooky…

02 Oct

Review: The Osmosis Machine

Blackpool Social Club1 CommentVisual Arts & Exhibitions

Supercollider Contemporary Art Projects has moved into the vacant unit at 59 Cookson Street as part of the legacy of the Blackpool Culture Shops programme, which sought to re-animate vacant units across Blackpool town centre through a series of temporary art works. Adrian Pritchard's Osmosis Machine project came about through a series of conversations and e-mails between the artist and Supercollider regarding doing a project together 'in the future'. Adrian's project has proved to be a valuable addition to the roster of exhibitions Supercollider has programmed since 2008 through both its regular and Semiconductor exhibition programmes and has been a great way to ease…

28 Sep

Album: Dischord – The Wakes

Blackpool Social Club3 CommentsMusic & Gigs

Caroline Fisher meets Discord, Blackpool’s newest Punk Band to discuss their debut album ‘The Wakes’. With Zowie on bass, her husband Dave playing guitar and Chris taking care of both the vocals and the drums, this is quite unusual set up and as it’s not so easy to juggle both heavy beats with exuberant singing, Craig (of Terror-nation) joins them as their drummer for live performances. Dischord formed in the run up to the closure and demolition of the iconic Tache Rock club. To celebrate its last night, they recorded a ‘Your Father's Moustache’ EP, 100 copies of which were given away…

27 Sep

What’s On This Weekend

Blackpool Social Club1 CommentMusic & Gigs, Visual Arts & Exhibitions

Bands at The Blue Room Saturday night at The Blue Room sees three bands from far and wide coming together for what should be a great night of live entertainment. The North, a four piece from Chesterfield will be playing their brand of 60's influenced Psychedelic Indie, Rock & Roll. Also carrying on the Psychedelic mood will be Translucid, from Stoke-On-Trent. Completeing the line up for the evening are Ballymena Pop/Rock outfit Sethway, this will be the groups final leg of their UK Tour promoting their new single 'The Constant'. The first band will be on at around 8.30pm. Bullets and Daffodils The newly…

25 Sep

One Of These Days Festival Postponed

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Organisers of One Of These Days Festival, due to take place on the 8th and 9th of December at Blackpool Winter Gardens, have made a statement on their website explaining that the event has been cancelled due to an unexpected development with the structure of the business which has left them financially unable to deliver the event this year. The full statement reads... It is with sadness that we will not be proceeding with One of These Days as planned on Dec 8/9th 2012. There was an unexpected development with the structure of the business which has left us financially…

20 Sep

What’s On This Weekend

Blackpool Social Club0 CommentsMusic & Gigs, Visual Arts & Exhibitions

Scott Bamber gives you his round up of What's On in Blackpool & The Fylde Coast this weekend! Michael Morpurgo's Farm Boy Farm Boy is the follow up to the much loved novel War Horse by Michael Morpurgo and is brought to the stage at The Grand Theatre for two nights, Sunday 23rd & Monday 24th of September. The story of a lifelong Devon farmer recalling tales of the English countryside, farm life and growing up to his visiting Grandson is brought to life by New Perspectives Theatre Group and co-produced with Scamp Theatre. For more information and tickets see Grand Theatre. Bands at The Blue Room This Saturday night at…

19 Sep

Win a framed Robin Ross print!

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Local artist Robin Ross has very kind handed over this fabulous framed print entitled "Book at Beach Time" which he produced at his studio in creative hub, The Old Rock Factory. All you need to do to be in with a chance of winning this beautiful piece is either... Like altblackpool on Facebook. Follow altblackpool on Twitter and retweet this tweet! On Facebook and Twitter? If you do both then you're twice as likely to win! We spoke to Robin back in August about his background, Sand, Sea & Spray Festival and The Old Rock Factory. As well as producing fantastic…

18 Sep

Review: Dead Good Poets at the No.5

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By Christo I suspect too many people reading this will not have encountered poetry since school, and attending a poetry reading will not be their first choice of social activity. Blackpool Dead Good Poets (BDGP) are different. Being in existence for several years, the Dead Good Poets have a strong connection with Blackpool & The Fylde College where several BDGP organisers teach or study. The group has matured enough to have won last year’s Radio Wave 'Website of the Year' award, and if you’d like a sense of who we are and what interests us, the blog (with a…

15 Sep

Knit for Victory with Inspector Norse and Aunty Social

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Duncan Hodgson finds out about all-new Swedish crime thriller, Inspector Norse, and how you can get involved in making part of the set with local community arts group, Aunty Social. Inspector Norse comes to Blackpool's Grand Theatre on Monday the 15th October 2012 and is sure to be a thrilling adventure full of mystery, and of course, yarn. The story centres around ex-pop-star recluse Freya out in her log cabin in the middle of winter and a stranger walking through the frozen wastes in a fur hat carrying a chisel. A couple of days later a body is discovered in…