Steve Marks

Weekend Gig Guide

1st May: Steve Marks’ Weekend Gig Guide

Steve Marks’ presents his weekly Weekend Gig Guide, for a roundup of local music events happening in and around Maidstone. 

Its Maidstone Fringe Festival weekend, which means a bumper crop of live music across the County Town, the only place with all the info is right here – your WEEKEND GIG GUIDE

Is it even a Fringe Festival without David Migden & The Twisted Roots? Catch them at Drakes Cork & Cask on Sunday

Friday 1st May

Upcdownc headline the Fringe activities at the Style & Winch
  • 7pm – Drakes Cork & Cask (Bar Area) – Dark Disco
  • 7.30pm – Style & Winch – Oskar Vilcrow, 8.30pm: Glass Beings, 9.15pm: The Far Field, 10.15pm: Upcdownc
  • 7.30pm – Hazlitt Theatre – Twist and Shout: The 60’s Show
  • 8pm – Drakes Cork & Cask – The Divide, 9.15pm: Foster Children, 10.15pm: Harry Evans
  • 8pm – Oak On The Green, Bearsted – Olivia Cooper
  • 8pm – Craft Brewed – County Town Improv
  • 8pm – Royal Albion – Karaoke
  • 8pm – The Beach Bar (inside Royal Star Arcade) – Karaoke
  • 8.30pm – Early Bird, Grove Green – Resonate
  • 8.30pm – Flower Pot – Flux Capacitor
  • 8.30pm – Duke Of Marlborough – Marylebone Jelly
  • 8.30pm – Bull Inn, East Farleigh – White Horses
  • 8.30pm – Old House At Home – DJ & Karaoke
  • 8.30pm – White Horse – Amu Acoustic
  • 9.30pm – Market House – Chopstick Superparty
  • 10pm – Ovation – Freq. Fridays

Saturday 2nd May

  • 11.30am – Ballin’ – The Musical & Disney Bottomless Brunch
  • 1pm – Market House – Natalie Bouloudis, 2pm: Lupen Crook, 3pm: We Found The Wreck, 4pm: The Delta Sound, 5pm: Holly Henderson Band
  • 1.30pm – Druids Arms – Joe Cox Band, 3.30pm: Gianni Scalera & The Jury, 5.30pm: Project Bowie, 9.30pm: Tres Kings
  • 2pm – Drakes Cork & Cask – Meaka Monroe, 3pm: Smalltown Misfits, 4pm: Floor 14, 5pm: Queen Horizon, 6pm: The Measure, 7pm: The Paper Castles, 8pm: Crimson, 9pm: The Pastel Waves, 10pm: Gianni Scalera & The Jury (originals set)
  • 2pm – Royal Albion – Retroskin
  • 2.30pm – Loddington Tap – Kelly Bourne
  • 3pm – Craft Brewed – Soul Guardians
  • 4pm – Ballin’ – Alter Ego Presents UKG Bingo Bottomless Brunch
  • 4.30pm – Duke Of Marlborough – DJs G-Ranch Sounds & Johnny Reggae Jeffery
  • 7pm – Style & Winch – The Next Agenda, 8pm: Mitchell Lane, 9pm: Echoes, 10pm: Smile You S.O.B
  • 7pm – Drakes Cork & Cask (Bar Area) – & Ya Don’t Stop Vinyl DJs
  • 7pm – Thai Orchid – Reggae Nation
  • 8pm – The Beach Bar (inside Royal Star Arcade) – Karaoke
  • 8pm – Old House At Home – DJ & Karaoke
  • 8pm – Walnut Tree, Loose – The Dadgads
  • 8pm – Flower Pot – AUW, 9pm: Mr E & The Clues, 10pm: The Loud Trousers
  • 8.30pm – Coach House – The Patinas
  • 8.30pm – Bull Inn, Barming – Karaoke
  • 8.30pm – Stone Street Club – Sam Knight
  • 9pm – Duke Of Edinburgh – Leigh Highwood Band
  • 9.30pm – Market House – Bad Pandas
  • 10pm – Ovation – Elevate Saturdays
Mr. E & The Clues head to the Flower Pot tonight for Fringe Festival fun

Sunday 3rd May

Fringe Festival favourites Stacey & The Freeloaders reunite this Sunday at The Market House
  • 12pm – Craft Brewed – Improv Brunch, 3pm: Rock School, 6pm: Strings & Roses, 9pm: The Dadgads
  • 1pm (& 7pm) – Hazlitt Theatre – Duets Dance School Present Money 2 Burn
  • 1pm – Style & Winch – Maidstone Fringe Poetry Extravaganza: Jon Terranova, Barry Fentiman Hall, Jessica Mookherjee +more
  • 1.45pm – Drakes Cork & Cask – Fate The Juggler, 3pm: The Beelines, 4pm: Crying Birds, 5.15pm: Essie West, 6.40pm: David Migden & The Twisted Roots
  • 2pm – Market House – David James Rumsey Band, 3pm: One Day Elliott Acoustic, 4.15pm: Flaws, 5.30pm: The Galileo 7, 7pm: Disco Drug Store, 8.15pm: Stacey & The Freeloaders, 9.30pm: Temper Temper
  • 2pm – Butchers Block At The Bell, Bearsted – DJs Loz & Daz
  • 2pm – Ballin’ – Afrobeats N Brunch
  • 2pm – Drakes Cork & Cask (Bar Area) – The Vinyl Countdown
  • 2pm – Druids Arms – Itemize, 4pm: The Hysterics, 7.30pm: The Baker Moore Band
  • 2.30pm – Loddington Tap – Largo
  • 3pm – Flower Pot – The Lowly Strung
  • 3pm – Royal Albion – Hot Lettuce
  • 5pm – Spitfire, Kings Hill – Bad Pandas
  • 7pm – Bierkeller – Keller Does Britpop
  • 8.30pm – White Horse – Jam Night
  • 10pm – Ovation – Sunday Service

Next Week

  • Mon 2.30pm – Loddington Tap – Old School Samba
  • Mon 3pm – Walnut Tree, Loose – Hullabaloo
  • Mon 8.30pm – Rifle Volunteers – Folk Night
  • Mon 9pm – Walnut Tree – Jam Night
  • Tues 7.30pm – Hazlitt Theatre – Andy Zaltzman: The Zaltgeist
  • Tues 8.30pm – Coach House – Live Band Music Quiz
  • Tues 8.30pm – Drakes Cork & Cask – Jam Night
  • Tues 8.30pm – Flower Pot – Jam Night
  • Weds 8pm – Craft Brewed – Weekly Comedy Improv Class
  • Weds 8pm – Market House – Jam Night w/ The Paper Castles
  • Thurs 7.30pm – Hazlitt Theatre – The Simon & Garfunkel Story
Expect a Hullabaloo at the Walnut Tree in Loose on Monday
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