Thurs 8 October | Black Water County

THIS IS A STANDING GIG (We are unable to guarantee seating)

Mashing their own brew of pop-punk and folk since 2013, the five-piece continue on their mission to provide merriment and moshing to the masses by relentlessly touring the UK and Europe. 

Drawing inspiration from their favourite punk bands growing up, matched with their long affinity to folk legends, the fusion had formed. With the driving force of drums, bass and high energy guitar, they meet unwavering banjo, mandolin and tin whistle melodies, and all stand equally on the battlefield.

The debut album ‘Taking Chances’ was released in 2017, with the sophomore album ‘Comedies and Tragedies’ being released three years later during the first lockdown of 2020. Newest release ‘The Only Life Worth Living’ came out to the masses in 2023 boasting four singles, including one featuring guest vocalist Hannah Greenwood of Creeper. All three releases were released independently and were produced and mixed by Lewis Johns of The Ranch.

To date the band’s UK festival appearances include Cropredy, WOMAD, Boomtown, Beautiful Days, Belladrum, Black Deer, Camp Bestival along with hundreds of smaller UK festivals and beyond, also venturing into Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Czech Republic and France. 

In both 2016 and 2018, Black Water County won their place on Fireball’s ‘Fuelling the Fire Tour’ supporting Less Than Jake, Flogging Molly, The Bronx and The Skints. They subsequently featured in Kerrang!’s online coverage of the tour, received an endorsement from Fireball UK and also appeared on BBC radio stations with the single ‘Rise and Fall’.

‘Ultimately though, it was Black Water County who landed themselves a place on the stage with Flogging Molly.. The Emerald Isle-influenced six piece started the first moshpit of the evening and cemented themselves as the judges’ favourite’ – Kerrang Features, Fuelling the Fire Tour

Sometimes there are gigs where you simply pinch yourself and say “I was there…”, and tonight was one of those. – Ross Ferrone, Rock Regeneration

One of the best bands in the English scene…A beautiful cacophony of distilled folkpunk bliss! – London Celtic Punks

Mayhem sprinkled with laughs and beer and of course some rollicking good tunes. – Gigs and Bands

Using the stage as their playground, hard rock folk band Black Water County chucked a massive bucket of energy at the folks in the Big Top, drenching us with their enthusiasm and huge sound. – Get Ready To Rock

Fri 9 October | Mark Thomas: 40 in Stand-Up years

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Phil McIntyre Live Ltd by arrangement with Tin Cat Entertainment proudly presents:

Mark Thomas: 40 in Stand-Up Years

What?! Mark Thomas has been ‘standing up’ for 40 years? Impossible!! But how old does that make you…? Alas it is true; one of our oldest surviving alternative comics celebrates 40 years at the mic.

So, here’s what he has done so far in numbers; performed comedy for 40 years, won 8 awards for performing, 4 for human rights work and 1 he invented for himself, made 6 series of the Mark Thomas Comedy Product (Channel 4), written 6 books and 5 play scripts, made 5 series of the Manifesto for Radio 4, made 3 Dispatches for Channel 4, sued the police (and won) 3 times, curated and authored 2 art exhibitions with artist Tracey Moberly and had 1 Guinness World Record for holding 20 protests in 24 hours.

If that’s not enough, he’s also walked 724km around the length of the Israel Wall in the West Bank, been credited with changing the law on tax avoidance, started a comedy club in Palestine with Dr Sam Beale and campaigned successfully for things like trade union recognition for cinema workers and getting multinationals to change their practices. You’re right, there’s more, but your attention is running out and we’re running out of space. So let’s just say he’s generally mucked about trying to have fun and upset the right people…which he is really, really good at.

So basically expect a taster menu of government and personal mayhem, jokes, rants and a personal state of the nation broadcast as he tries to turn ‘what the f*ck is going on’ into a cogent hour of stand-up.

★★★★★ “Once again shooting laughter-laden political bullets from the lip”

THE RECS

★★★★★ “Mark Thomas is a firebrand of a clown. The energy he brings to the room is infectious…very, very funny”

CLOWNSTER

★★★★ “The strong ratio of hard-hitting matter to gag-rich mirth is a feat that makes other stand-up look idling and irrelevant”

THE TELEGRAPH

Photo Credit – Tracey Moberly + Greg Matthews

Sat 17 October | Anyone For Tennis?

A Wimbledon line judge for 20 years, comedian Pauline Eyre is ready to spill the Pimms on tennis gossip from the fragrant royal box to the musty locker room, and why line judges are OUT!

Expect smashing stories, ace anecdotes and a 40-love letter to the game. And there’s nobody to say ‘quiet please’. She cannot be serious… can she?

“Laughs aplenty… juicy locker room secrets… naughty line judge-y anarchy…motivational joy… Nice.”  5***** Northwestend 

“What makes the hour land is the marriage of insider authority and properly honed comic timing. It’s not just a love letter to a game; it’s a blueprint for turning an obsession into a well-structured, laugh-out-loud show.”  4**** One4Review

‘She’s warm, wonderfully funny and you’ll want to be her pal’ Angela Barnes. ‘10 out of 10’ Giles Brandreth (THE Giles Brandreth!!)

Fri 13 November | A Head Full Of Coldplay

A Head Full of Coldplay deliver a fantastic show – the anthems, the lasers, confetti canons, and Xylobands, make for a superb immersive show. A true celebration of the music!

Absolute classics like Yellow, Hymn For The Weekend, Magic, Paradise and The Scientist all feature. Even Coldplay’s latest single, Feels Like I’m Falling In Love, makes the set list!

Don’t miss this unique microcosm of a stadium show for all fans of Coldplay.

“Brilliant musicians! Great Sound! Thank you so much.” – Sara Shipp

“You guys were IMMENSE.” – Raptorneet

Sat 14 November | Ninebarrow

Ninebarrow (Jon Whitley and Jay La Bouchardiere) are a multi-award-winning folk duo, who are impressing audiences across the country with their innovative and captivating take on the folk tradition. Described by Mark Radcliffe as sounding ‘like two halves of one voice’ and by Mercury Music Prize nominee Kate Rusby as ‘absolutely amazing’, Jon and Jay combine breath taking vocal harmonies and melodies, delivering original songs that are inspired and rooted in the landscape and history of the British Isles. As well as crafting unique and engaging original material, Ninebarrow also take a wide-range of traditional folk songs and rework them in their own, distinctive way.

Jon and Jay relinquished their respective full-time jobs as a teacher and GP back in 2016and took a leap of faith into the music business–a gamble that almost immediately paid off. In 2017, they were nominated for a BBC Radio 2 Folk Award: one of the highest accolades in the world of folk music and clear recognition for their outstanding harmonies, high production values, poetic lyricism and magical instrumentation.

Named after Nine Barrow Down in Dorset’s Purbeck hills, over the course of 12 years and 6 studio albums, the duo have earned themselves a quality reputation for their engaging and empathetic song writing, their imaginative reworkings of traditional songs, their deft musicianship and, most of all, their exquisite vocal harmonies.

In their latest studio album, those harmonies have been fused with more than 40 other voices from Hampshire’s Hart Voices (based in Fleet) and Surrey’s Chantry Singers (from Guildford) to create ‘The Hour of the Blackbird’, which sees 13 of Ninebarrow’s finest back catalogue songs renewed and enhanced by the soaring vocals of sopranos, altos, tenors and basses under the energetic musical directorship of Roy Rashbrook, himself a member of the choir of St. Paul’s Cathedral. Two years on from their highly praised album ‘The Colour of Night’ (‘one of the most beautiful folk albums you will hear-outstanding’-Daily Express) ’The Hour of the Blackbird’ was released to widespread critical acclaim receiving a raft of 4 and 5 star reviews in the folk and mainstream media and undoubtedly contributed to the duo being crowned ‘Best Band’ in FATEA Magazine’s 2025 Awards.

‘The Hour of the Blackbird’ takes Ninebarrow’s strong original material and weaves it into a spectacular, theatrical soundscape. It is yet another new tangent for the act whose combined love of music and walking has led to them hosting popular musical walking holidays and publishing three books of Dorset walks. Add to that their regular tours, livestreamed broadcasts and the creation of the 1000-tree Ninebarrow woodland in Dorset (as seen on BBC TV’s Countryfile) and you have some idea of the drive of this duo.

Engaging, charismatic and humorous- Ninebarrow are winning new fans wherever they go. See them live, and you’ll quickly understand why.

Sat 21 November | Focus

Following their triumphant visit in 2024, we are thrilled to welcome back Focus: the band from the 1960/70’s that just keeps giving.

Featuring Thijs Van Leer, Pierre Van Der Linden, Menno Gootjes and Udo Pannekeet, Focus return to UK and European concert stages during 2026. Fresh from a successful 2025 tour, and the 2024 release of their new studio album Focus 12, extensive European/UK touring as well as a month-long tour of the USA (alongside Asia, Martin Turner ex Wishbone Ash and Curved Air), they will traverse Europe to give their loyal fans what they always want – a good time, and timeless music.

Each song breathtakingly unique, and each performance different to the one before.

How much longer will Focus tour? We have had 50 years of this amazingly spectacular show, and Focus have achieved so much in this time span.

And now for the interesting facts of Focus:

From Polydor’s record plant closing to other bands, to press nothing but Focus for ten days to meet demand, to being a favourite of Bob Harris on The Old Grey Whistle Test, and to holding positions in the UK top ten charts in both singles and albums.

Focus have featured in the orchestra pit for Victor Spinetti’s musical Hair; have claimed a knighthood; soundtracked on a 2010 football World Cup commercial featuring Wayne Rooney; and not forgetting that Hocus Pocus was featured in the iconic car chase sequence, after the bank heist in 2017 movie Baby Driver and also featured in Disney’s Classic Trolls World Tour movie, 2020

The men of Focus are looking forward to seeing you all at their favourite venues, and a few exciting new ones too.

www.focustheband.co.uk

Sat 28 November | Total Stone Roses (Support act: Oaysis)

The UK’s BEST Stone Roses Tribute return to the stage! If you love I Am The Resurrection, Made Of Stone, Fools Gold, Waterfall, She Bangs The Drums and many more then do not miss this exclusive opportunity to hear your favourite Stone Roses anthems performed live by the UK’s finest tribute!

Support comes from Oaysis, one of the UK’s best Oasis tribute bands performing a hits packed set that’s guaranteed to be BIBLICAL! 

Standing Gig

Sat 12 December | An Evening Of Eric And Ern

The Production Garden in association with Cube Room Productions presents an evening of ERIC & ERN with Ian Ashpitel and Jonty Stephens. From the Olivier nominated duo behind the hugely celebrated critically acclaimed West End hit ERIC & LITTLE ERN.

A brilliant homage crammed full of renditions of those famous comedy sketches, that hits all the right notes! Coming to Dorchester Arts to celebrate the Centenary year of the nation’s favourite comedy legends Morecambe & Wise!

From Greig’s Piano concerto to Mr Memory, “Arsenal!” It’s a show full of Morecambe and Wise’s most loved routines, songs and sketches.

This wonderful show evokes memories of times when whole families would huddle around the telly to watch those fantastic Christmas specials.

You’ll feel you’ve experienced the real thing and been taken back to a world of sunshine and laughter.

As seen on The One show BBC1 and The Alan Titchmarsh Show ITV.

Age guidance: 8+
Running time: 1 hour and 50 minutes (including a 20 minute interval)