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23 Jun

Social Guide: Ten festivals within an hour of Blackpool

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Festival season is upon us and you don’t have to travel to Glastonbury to get the experience. Josie Hindle highlights 10 within an hour of Blackpool, some of them right on our doorstep, and provides you with a handy festival map. Parklife When: 10th-11th June 2023 Where: Heaton Park, Manchester What to expect: This festival is known for the varied genres and the big names that perform on multiple stages. This year Heaton Park will welcome floods of fans to see artists including the 1975, Skrillex, Gorgon City, Aitch and Rudimental. As well as the performances, there will also art…

16 Jun

Supper Club: Paradise Coast with Nerdvana

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For this week's Supper Club it's a side of pizza and fries with a main course of serious competition for Tim Christian, who heads to Paradise Coast to join Nerdvana's tabletop gaming night. On a cool evening I ventured forth into the ill-omened coastal settlement of Blackpole to keep an appointment made at a local tavern. I found the disreputable looking alleyway where I knew the tavern could be found. Pausing for a moment to turn my collar to the night air, I made my way hence to the brightly-lit and welcoming establishment, bustling and popular despite its seemingly questionable…

09 Jun

Supper Club: Michael Wan’s Wok Inn

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In his latest instalment of Supper Club, Tim Christian takes his tourist friends to a gem in Blackpool's culinary offer but regrets having over indulged the night before. It's not every food post that starts with a content warning for sexually explicit imagery, but this one does... so... there we are. Last week I wrote about bringing my online friends into my real world realm and taking them out to Common Bar & Kitchen on the Friday night of their arrival. Tacos and burritos followed by a refreshing trip round a number of the fine Blackpool drinking establishments and a…

02 Jun

Supper Club: Common Bar & Kitchen

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It may have just got a flashy new neighbour but don't overlook Common Bar & Kitchen. Tim Christian found it to be the perfect spot to take his group of visiting friends off the beaten tourist track. A lifeline for me during the lockdown of 2020 (remember that?) was regular online meetups to play controversial shooter game Call of Duty: Warzone. The initially slightly chaotic lineup for these games eventually settled down into a regular group of about four or five of us who would (virtually) get together at weekends and play and chat. The other guys in the chat…

26 May

Supper Club: Seitan Hustle

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In his latest food review Tim Christian needs to get a room with his meat free kebab My first knowledge of Seitan Hustle was a shared Instagram story for a competition to win a free takeaway, showing a picture of incomprehensible delights, colours and textures jumbled together in a mouth-watering, eye-rolling display. I was… intrigued. This post was, among others, one of the catalysts for me to start writing about food, a dawning realisation that something new and different was on offer in the local area and in Fleetwood of all places (this is not intended as a slight towards…

19 May

Supper Club: Stefani’s Pizzeria

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In this week's Supper Club restaurant review, Tim Christian tells you to believe the hype about this Neapolitan pizza joint in the heart of Blackpool – and gives us a science lesson while he's at it. I’m not a believer in divine providence, or the weave of fate, or any manner of predestination, but sometimes events align in such a manner that you must grasp the opportunity with both hands. This is especially true if that means each hand ends up with a pizza in it. Most Blackpool residents have likely heard of Stefani’s but, for those who haven’t, Stefani’s…

12 May

Supper Club: Elvin’s

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The sun is out and Tim Christian is in shorts - getting on his bike and heading to the far flung reaches of Lytham to sample some Lebanese Street food that doesn't disappoint. It was one of those spring days where the weather reaches the heady heights of double digits. The sun comes out, the death of winter is announced and all the bizarre shedding of inhibitions of the British populace in warmish weather takes place: men without shirts, families piling onto the beach and (in my case) trips out the bike. In shorts. Looking for excuses as I always…

05 May

Supper Club: Upside Down

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In his second time hosting the BSC Supper Club – a new series of food reviews – foody Tim Christian visits the cafe promising to bring coffee culture to Blackpool and finds much more besides When looking for recommendations for new and interesting places to eat in Blackpool, one of the most regular suggestions I’ve had was for the next place on my list - Upside Down on Edward Street, just off the square by St John’s Church (very quickly becoming something of a go-to area for fans of good, local food and drink). It’s also a destination I’ve seen…

28 Apr

Supper Club: The Cozy Jazz Cafe

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Foody Tim Christian finds a genuine hidden gem on Lytham Road for a low-key launch of our Supper Club – a new series of food reviews Life is full of trite and meaningless phrases but every now and again you find a great example of a phrase fulfilling its actual function and it reinvigorates that phrase beyond its tired overuse. A common one you might find when reading food reviews is “hidden gem”, which can mean anything from a food kiosk down a back alley in the Outer Hebrides to “not McDonald’s” depending on the source. In this case The…

06 Apr

What’s on: Easter Weekend

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From 25 punk bands in one venue over three days to the Twirlywoos, we round up the best in family and live entertainment across the Fylde Coast this weekend Ryland Petty Live Kid magician and Britain’s Got Talent’s semi-finalist Ryland Petty joins the house of secrets with his dad Craig Petty for an evening of amazing close-up magic and stage illusions. 5th-10th April (excluding the 8th), Russ Brown’s House of Secrets Shrek The Musical Everyone's favourite ogre Shrek is back in the hilarious stage spectacle based on the Oscar-winning smash hit film. Presented by Blackpool Operatic Players. 5-8 April, Blackpool…