Sample Text return to Bootleg for a hometown single launch with support from Bedlam. Pay what you can on the door.
In support of their second album Lamb, King Nun bring their indie-punk sound to Bootleg Social, cited by NME as 'brutal and brilliant' and DIY as 'a sound to be reckoned with'. They have supported artists including Foo Fighters, Black Flag and Gang of Youths. Support from Retroview and The Baboon Room.
Alien Chicks are a Brixton based post-punk power trio, whose music explores a whole mix of genres including jazz, rap, bossa nova, and math rock. ‘Something special, best band of this generation’ – Carl Barât (The Libertines) ‘One of the bands at the heart of London’s DIY underbelly’ – DIY NEU ‘I really like this’ – Steve Lamacq, BBC Radio 6 Support from Flux.
Super Bowl LVIII on a giant 4m projector! Free entry event but with bronze, silver and gold packages available for reserved seating, unlimited Budweisers and hot dogs during the game.
Pay what you feel show with Audio Freeway (original project of The Deadbeats) and local blues band Optic Chiasm. All ages welcome.
County Pilots return to Bootleg following a string of impressive support slots over 2023 to headline their first Blackpool gig this February! Support from The Forensics & Ida’s Path
To celebrate Gay History month, a photographic exhibition celebrating Blackpool's LGBTQ+ history presents over 200 images from the last 40 years.
JC Robinson was Blackpool Borough’s architect in the 1920s-1940s. From schools to swimming baths, markets, memorial halls and more, JC Robinson is responsible for the design of some of the town’s most iconic buildings. Using painting, photography, sculpture, moving image, oral history and archival materials, this exhibition sees contemporary Blackpool-based practitioners and learning disabled adults returning to the site of these buildings to reveal and reinterpret their stories.
Every year the Grundy invites local Schoolchildren from across Blackpool and the Fylde coast to make new artworks for display in the gallery. This year, children from Hawes Side Academy and Woodlands School in Blackpool have worked with the Grundy’s Learning and Engagement Officer to create their own interpretation of a football club shirt. See the work alongside this year's Open Exhibition. The Grundy is also showing the sculpture, The Game, (Part II) (2015) by Joe Fletcher Orr from the Grundy Art Gallery Collection.
Showing upwards of 100 artworks in a range of artistic mediums from painting to photography and from sculpture to sound, the Grundy’s annual Open Exhibition provides a diverse and dynamic display of artworks from artists based on the Fylde Coast.