Tag: Cornwall
CORNWALL’S WATERGATE BAY HOSTS 40TH SURFING CHAMPIONSHIPS
The Extreme Academy, Watergate Bay will again play host to one of Europe’s longest-running surfing competitions in May. The best surfers from across the country will flock to the famous stretch of Cornish sand to compete for the title of English champion over the Spring Bank Holiday weekend of 5-7 May 2012. Now in its [...]
WIN: CORNWALL FESTIVAL OF SPORT TICKETS
Taking place from 14-16 September at St Michael’s Mount, Penzance you can expect a range of world class mass participation sporting events , live music, festival fun, beach sports and children’s activities and high quality food, the Festival of Sport promises to be a brilliant active weekend for everyone. The core sports have distances for [...]
HUB AWARDS 2011 RECOGNISE YOUNG BUSINESS STARS
Cornwall’s smartest young entrepreneurs were recognised at the Hub Awards on Thursday November 24th at the Atlantic Hotel in Newquay. The Hub Awards once again rewarded those young business people making a real difference in Cornwall and celebrated the work of companies which have quickly made their mark in the county. A panel of judges [...]
NEWTON FAULKNER HEADLINES COPPAFEEL IN CORNWALL
Newton Faulkner is to headline a charity event for breast cancer awareness group, CoppaFeel! on May 30th. Taking place at the infamous Lands End, the charity is aiming to raise awareness and lots of money for a great cause. CoppaFeel! was set up by Kristin Hallenga, who was diagnosed with secondary breast cancer at the [...]
SINGERS NEEDED FOR EDEN UNPLUGGED EXTRAVAGANZA IN CORNWALL
The Eden Project is looking for singers to take part in a large scale musical project called Unplugged, which will happen on June 3 and 4. Unplugged will be a zero carbon event, created without amplifiers and performed acoustically. It will be held all over the Outdoor Biome, taking advantage of the former clay pit’s [...]
EDEN SESSIONS CELEBRATE 10TH ANNIVERSARY WITH BIGGEST EVER GIGS
The Eden Project celebrates ten years of Sessions concerts this year with one of its strongest line-ups yet. The project will hit another musical landmark too, as the Fleet Foxes gig on July 1 will be the 50th Eden Session. Each date on the Sessions calendar sees a full day of festival-style live music and [...]
FIFTEEN RESTAURANT IN CORNWALL TURNS FIVE
Jamie Oliver’s Fifteen restaurant near Newquay, Cornwall celebrates it’s fifth birthday on Wednesday 18th May. This pioneering social enterprise on the north coast at Watergate Bay is throwing open its doors for a night of food and fun and the general public is invited to come and party. As always, the evening will showcase the [...]
DJ HYPER TO PLAY B-SIDE TRURO WITH NEW BAND HYPER
April Fool’s Day (April 1) l will see B-Side in Truro host perhaps its most excitingly eclectic line up yet when rock meets dance with a live headline slot from the internationally renowned DJ Hyper and his live band known simply as HYPER, a new project from ex Rootjoose/Rairbirds man Rob Elton with The Raise [...]
THE KILLERS FRONTMAN BRANDON FLOWERS TO PLAY EDEN SESSIONS 2011
The Killers frontman Brandon Flowers has been confirmed for the 2011 Eden Sessions at the Eden Project in Cornwall. Brandon Flowers will headline an Eden Session on July 12 and will be joined on the bill by special guests Mystery Jets. Brandon Flowers’s debut solo album, Flamingo, was released in September 2010 and charted at [...]
CORNISH PIERS HOST PARTIES FOR BRITISH TOURISM WEEK
With a long, grand and beautiful coastline worth boasting about, Cornwall is gearing up to help celebrate the 5th annual British Tourism Week, engined by ‘Party on the Pier’. The UK still has 55 seaside piers and on Saturday 12th March, 34 of these piers across the UK are joining in the celebrations, including three [...]
WELSH CHAIR OF IDRIS FINDS RESTING PLACE IN CORNWALL
After making a journey 3,000 feet up a Welsh mountain and then down again, a giant oak chair has found it’s final dwelling in The Eden Project in Cornwall. Craftsman Nick Bullen put his skills to work and created the giant chair as a thank you gift to the community of Gwynedd, North Wales, in [...]
CLAIRE NICOLSON GIGS IN THE SOUTH WEST
Surrounded by talent and success, with a well-accredited producer and brother in her midst, Claire Nicolson upholds her extraordinary talent. With her retro and quirky observations and her likeable but whimsical lyrics, the singer collaborates with yellow Hammer on her second single, “You & I”. To celebrate the single’s launch, she will be playing at [...]
THE FLAMING LIPS, THE GO! TEAM AND OK GO TO PLAY EDEN SESSION
Party makers The Flaming Lips are the latest headliner to be announced for the 2011 Eden Sessions and will play a show on June 30, with special guests The Go! Team and OK Go. The Flaming Lips are renowned for their spectacular, eccentric live shows with elaborate costumes, puppets, confetti and lead-singer Wayne Coyne’s man-sized [...]
FATBOY SLIM TO HEADLINE CORNWALL’S RELENTLESS BOARDMASTERS FESTIVAL 2011
Fatboy Slim will headline this year’s Relentless Boardmasters Festival in Newquay on Saturday August 13. Tickets for the festival, which takes place feom August 10-14, will go on sale on March 7. Organisers today revealed that the first headliner will be musical pioneer Fatboy Slim (aka Norman Cook). The Relentless Energy Drink Boardmasters in Association [...]
REVIEW: LETZ ZEP AT FALMOUTH PRINCESS PAVILION
Robert Plant famously said “I walked in, I saw me!” after watching Letz Zep, so, despite not being overly keen on tribute bands in general, I was excited to hear the band were taking the Stairway to Heaven to Falmouth’s Princess Pavillion. Like Robert Plant, I walked in and saw Led Zeppelin. I didn’t quite [...]
PRIMAL SCREAM TO PLAY SCREAMADELICA AT EDEN SESSIONS 2011
Primal Scream are bringing their classic album show. Screamadelica, to the Eden Sessions in Cornwall this year. Screamadelica Live will see the Glaswegian six-piece return to the Eden Project to play the entire album, considered to be one of the defining records of the nineties. They will be joined on the bill by indie rockers [...]
STRINGER BESSANT TO PLAY TRURO OLD GRAMMAR SCHOOL THIS WEEKEND
Tickets are still available for Stringer Bessant at Truro Old Grammar School this weekend. The gig which takes place on Friday (Feb 25) will see the former Reef members play a set of newer material. Doors open at 8pm, tickets £8. Fresh Paella will also be served outside the school in St Mary’s Street. More [...]
IT’S OFFICIAL: THE SOUTH WEST SERVES UP THE BEST BRITISH CUISINE OUTSIDE OF LONDON
The South West of England has become the hot new region to experience the best of British food, according to guidebook experts Lonely Planet. Lonely Planet’s brand new edition of Devon, Cornwall and Southwest England reveals that the region has overtaken the rest of the UK with its sublime cuisine, challenging London for the culinary [...]
THE EDEN PROJECT HOSTS BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS 2011
The Eden Project’s youth talent showcase Bright Young Things will be returning for the third year running on Saturday January 29. The show will take place across the Eden site, culminating in four hours of live music in the Mediterranean Biome from 2pm. Entrants will also be putting on dance demonstrations, displays of visual art [...]
TRIBUTE TO JOHN PEEL IN TRURO
Saturday 20 November will see a night dedicated to the memory of John Peel at Truro’s Wig & Pen featuring an eclectic line up of bands and DJ’s. Although the national John Peel Tribute day was last month it was due to the lack John Peel night within the town which prompted resident promoter of [...]
