Interest area: Music

Everyone’s favourite stripped-back, riff-heavy garage rockers take the Future Yard stage on Wednesday 29th January 2025.

Calidcot’s-finest stop by Birkenhead for a record FOURTH time, headlining as part of Future Yard’s Independent Venue Week 2025.

Join the fun at New Brighton’s Floral Pavilion on Saturday 18 January 2025 for a fantastic party night of entertainment.

Beautiful Trauma is a high-octane live band show from start to finish. Stacy Green takes off the attitude of Pink as well as that rock chick style that everyone knows and loves so much.

A Full throttle show consisting of pulse-racing costume changes, amazing production and of course Pink’s awesome catalogue of hits!

Expect to hear: Just Like a Pill, What About Us, Please Don’t Leave Me, So What, Just Give Me a Reason, Sober, Raise Your Glass, Perfect and many more!

It’s a must-see for every Pink Fan! Book NOW to see the show on Saturday 18 January 2025 at Beautiful Trauma: Tribute to Pink – Floral Pavilion

Nathan Carter is bringing is new tour to New Brighton’s Floral Pavilion on Thursday 3 April 2025.

He has outsold the likes of Beyonce in Ireland, performed for the Pope, sold out venues across the world; and is one of the most prolific touring artists in the UK.

Now, as he releases his new album ‘Music Man’, Ireland’s top entertainer Nathan Carter has announced a brand new UK tour!

Born in Liverpool to Irish parents from County Down, Nathan Carter has released 13 studio albums and 6 live albums, with a sound that traverses pop, Irish folk, country music and timeless ballads.

With tracks such as ‘Wagon Wheel’ and ‘I Wanna Dance’ becoming huge hits, he is one of Ireland’s biggest artists, who has outsold One Direction, Pharrell Williams and Michael Bublé. He also became the first Irish country act to reach number 1 in the Irish charts in 2013 after Garth Brooks, six years before.

His new album ‘Music Man’ features 11 tracks including the hugely successful single ‘Dance With Everybody’ and the new song ‘Dear Elizabeth’.

Direct from The Royal Albert Hall, A Country Night In Nashville recreates the scene of a buzzing honky tonk in downtown Nashville.

Join us on Thursday 13 February 2025 at the Floral Pavilion in New Brighton for an evening of the perfectly captured energy and atmosphere of the home of country music.

Prepare to be transported on a musical journey through the history of Country, featuring songs from its biggest stars both past and present. Hits from Johnny Cash to Alan Jackson, Dolly to The Chicks, Willie Nelson to Kacey Musgraves, are showcased by the amazing Dominic Halpin and the Hurricanes.

With songs including Ring Of Fire, Crazy, Follow Your Arrow, It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere, Need You Now, 9-5, and The Gambler to name just a few, this incredible celebration of country music is a night not to be missed.

So get your tickets now to see the show at the Floral Pavilion in New Brighton NOW at A Country Night in Nashville – Floral Pavilion

Singer and bouzouki player Daoirí (pronounced ‘Derry’) Farrell is described by some of the biggest names in Irish folk music as one of the most important singers to come out of Ireland in recent years. Six months after releasing the album True Born Irishman Daoirí won two prestigious BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2017 for Best Newcomer and Best Traditional Track, and performed live at the awards ceremony at London’s Royal Albert Hall.

Since then he has toured Ireland, the UK, Australia and Germany, and played at festivals in the same plus Canada, Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands and more. He has also toured with the all-star Transatlantic Sessions to major venues across the UK and joined Lúnasa as guest vocalist for U.S. touring.

His fourth album, The Wedding Above In Glencree, recorded with Trevor Hutchinson of The Waterboys/Lunasa was released in 2023 and gained him a nomination as Folk Singer of the Year in Ireland’s RTÉ Radio 1 Folk Awards.

Don’t be fooled by POPtical Illusion, the playful title of John Cale’s second album in just over a year. He remains angry, still incensed by the wilful destruction that unchecked capitalists and unrepentant conmen have hoisted upon the wonders of this world and the goodness of its people. The all-absorbing POPtical Illusion reinforces the feeling of MERCY, Cale’s much-lauded 2023 album that was as inquisitive as it was fierce.

Across a career of more than six decades, Cale’s vanguard-shaping enthusiasms have shifted among ecstatic classicism and unbound rock, classic songcraft and electronic reimagination with proud restlessness. Now, he burrows into mazes of synthesizers and samples, organs and pianos with words that constitute a sort of swirling hope, a sage insistence that change is yet possible. POPtical Illusion synthesizes contrasting emotions and enthusiasms into a dozen electronic playgrounds, Cale’s magisterial voice webbing across it all with puns and insights, grievances and quips, life and some version of truth.

John Cale has always been a musician of the times, helping to usher in titanic shifts in sound and culture. Once again, on POPtical Illusion, he looks at the orchestrated turmoil of recent history, furrows his brow in disgust, and then turns on his heels toward a future, even if he — like all of the rest of us, really — doesn’t know just what he’ll find or who exactly he’ll be there.

Guitarist and composer Juan Martín plays and introduces his compositions within the forms of the great tradition of flamenco. His exquisite style is enhanced through minimal amplification to capture his very pure flamenco sound.

He has recorded 20 albums, which followed his performance in the Spanish film, Donde tu estés at 17, and has since made three films with his dance company. His success and skill led to him performing at Picasso’s 90th birthday celebrations, which in turn resulted in his groundbreaking album Picasso Portraits.

Voted into the top 3 flamenco guitarists in the world by Guitar Player USA, Juan Martín has toured the world playing concerts from Shanghai and Melbourne to New York as well as in the Montreux Jazz Festival, which included a performance alongside Miles Davis. Critics have compared his compositional talent to that of great Spanish composers Albéniz, Turina and Tárrega, and his books for learning the guitar are now translated into many languages, with his original book being referred to as ‘The Bible’ of flamenco guitar.