Nights Out

Spalding Gentlemen’s Society will be open from 7pm to 9pm on Thursday (May 14) as part of National Museums at Night. Search your attic or hunt in your garage for anything you have collected, saved for years, or belonged to your granny and take it along to Broad Street to get an opinion. Admission is free, but a £2 donation ...

Not many of us have ever had a bat zip over our head, seen the ghostly figure of a barn owl quartering the fields or appreciated the variety of moths that take to the air after dark. The wildlife that comes out after the sun goes down is often overlooked because we are not naturally equipped to explore this environment. ...

Top DJ Charlie Hedges is the latest act to take to the Loaded decks. The Kiss FM DJ will be live at the Spalding nightclub on Saturday, May 23. Influencing a weekly audience of 5.6million listeners as presenter of the award-winning Kiss FM breakfast show, Charlie Hedges’ insatiable thirst for music impressively takes in every hour of the waking day, ...

A fundraising 60s night takes place on Saturday, May 2, at Pinchbeck Village Hall, from 7pm to midnight. Tickets cost £12.50, which includes a hog roast, live entertainment and a raffle. Proceeds will go to the Lincolnshire Air Ambulance.

Tickets are on sale for a spring ball in aid of Epilepsy Society. It’s at Holbeach Community Centre on Saturday, April 11. Tickets cost £30 and include a three-course meal and live band Children of the Revolution. Ball organiser Chris Douglas said: “The money raised will go towards care, support and research into new methods of treating the condition.” To ...

Former Radio 1 DJ Judge Jules is bringing his Judge Won’t Budge Tour to Spalding. The renowned DJ is next on the bill of live acts at Loaded Nightclub, appearing at the Westlode Street venue on Saturday, April 18. Judge Jules first took to the decks as a new kid on the block in the late 80s whilst studying law ...

It promises to be an unforgettable season for music aficionados of all persuasions as summer gets underway. Spalding’s South Holland Centre will kick it all off with award-winning folk singer Cara Dillon on Saturday, April 11 (tickets £19.50). If you don’t know the voice of Cara Dillon, you’re in for a treat. With music that transcends genres and crosses barriers, ...

Spalding’s Polka Dot Academy is promising its most spectacular musical yet when Joseph and The Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat opens at the South Holland Centre on Thursday (March 26). Limelight Youth Theatre students’ singing, acting and dancing will be complemented by pupils from St John The Baptist Primary School and Spalding Primary School who will perform as the show’s choir on ...

One of Spalding’s best-known bands is back at The Lincolnshire Poacher on Saturday night (March 14). For 15 years, Zebra was a regular fixture on the grass next to the pub on Flower Parade Day each May. This weekend’s event event is indoors, but promises to be a cracking night. Lead singer Kevin Arnold said: “Many of my friends from university and around town would ...

The annual bugling in of the Lincolnshire sausage takes place at The Jolly Crispin pub in Lutton on Saturday, March 21. This fundraising event is the village’s own take on the Scottish tradition of piping in the haggis for Burns Night but celebrating the Lincolnshire sausage! The event starts at 7.30pm and tickets, which must be bought in advance, cost ...

Funhouse Comedy Club South Holland Centre, Spalding Friday, March 13 Doors 7.30pm, show 8.30pm Tickets £10 Box office 01775 764777 www.funhousecomedy.co.uk   Funhouse Comedy Club is back at South Holland Centre, Spalding, tomorrow for more fun and laughter. Headlining the night is the compelling and frank Daliso Chaponda who hails from Malawi, where his father is a government minister. He ...

For many nightclubbers, the chance of bumping into their mum on the dance floor would fill them with dread. However, Loaded Nightclub is offering the chance to do just that as a Mother’s Day treat with a difference – clubbers can take their mum in for free on Saturday night. And the Westlode Street venue thinks there will be no shortage of takers for the chance to “treat their ...

Radio 1 DJ Dev will be rocking Spalding on Saturday night when he visits Loaded nightclub. Dev began on weekend early breakfast and then, after gaining significant momentum, he started on weekday early breakfast, a show he still presents today, now warming up for Nick Grimshaw. At the same time as doing early breakfast on Radio 1 Dev completed a ...

There’s an evening of family entertainment planned in Pinchbeck next month. The event at Pinchbeck Village Hall on Saturday, March 14, is being held to raise money for the hall refurbishment fund. Entertainment on the night will be provided by comedienne and vocalist A Jay and singer/songwriter Meg McPartlin. A Jay is a well travelled entertainer, having been a regular ...

A special event has been organised to raise money for two good causes. The fundraising night takes place at Spalding Consti Club on March 14 and will feature local bands A Story To Tell and One For The Road. Tickets for the event are £10 each and proceeds will go to Spalding’s Garth School and the British Heart Foundation. For ...

Guests will be shaken, not stirred, at this year’s James Bond-themed annual ball in aid of Johnson Community Hospital. This year’s Thunderball event is at Springfields Events and Conference Centre in Spalding on Saturday, July 4, and will be the final one organised by Johnson Community Hospital Ball Committee. It will once again raise money to directly support patients, visitors ...

Claire Martin, Ray Gelato & the Dave Newton Trio in Concert – A Swingin’ Affair South Holland Centre, Spalding Today (Thursday), 7.30pm Tickets £19.50/£18.50 Box Office 01775 764777 Visit www.southhollandcentre.co.uk   Friends for 30-years, multi award-winning vocalist Claire Martin OBE and legendary saxophonist and vocalist Ray Gelato have combined their love of all things “swing” and joined forces for their ...

Sandi Thom Tomorrow (Friday), 7.30pm Blackfriars Arts Centre, Boston Tickets £18.50 Box office 01206 363108 For a while most people still recalled her as the precocious next-generation talent that produced one of the defining hits of the internet age, I Wish I Was A Punk Rocker (With Flowers In My Hair), this talented singer-songwriter has come a long way in ...

An Evening of Mediumship with Psychic Tony Stockwell Wednesday, January 28, 7.30pm The Cresset, Peterborough Tickets £21 Box office 01733 265705 It’s not creepy or kooky, mysterious or spooky. It’s psychic medium Tony Stockwell demonstrating his belief that those who have passed can communicate with their loved ones. At its best, mediumship has the potential to change someone’s life and ...

Russell Watson – Up Close & Personal Wednesday, April 22, 7.30pm King’s Lynn Corn Exchange Tickets £45/£38.50 Box office 01553 764864 Classical singer Russell Watson comes to King’s Lynn in April but if you want to see his show you need to get your skates on. The first night of two is now completely sold out, but there are a ...