New Continental•South Meadow Lane•Preston•UK
Josienne Clarke and Ben Walker
Friday, 14 April 2017 - 8:00pm
Tuff Life Boogie & They Eat Culture are delighted to present an intimate seated show from BBC Folk Award winners Josienne Clarke and Ben Walker. With the release of 'Overnight' last year, Josienne Clarke and Ben Walker produced an album of wonder and depth. The classic quality of these songs, the meticulous beauty of the arrangements, the blanket-warm production and perfect pairing of exquisite vocals and virtuosic guitar is the culmination of everything these idiosyncratically talented musicians have been working towards since they first met.
Event type: Music
Saturday, 15 April 2017 - 8:00pm
The heavy, heavy monster sound of Ska Face performing the best of The Specials, Madness, The Selecter, The Beat and many, many more! Back in sunny Preston once again for two sets of classic 2 Tone and Ska hits from those cheeky Rude Boiz - Ska Face. Tickets on sale now!
Event type: Music
Riverside Vintage & Artisan Craft Market
Sunday, 16 April 2017 - 12:00pm
Riverside Vintage return to The Continental for 2017. Third Sunday every month (excluding June). Local designer-makers with the very best of vintage home-ware - and cakes!
Event type: Art and Craft | Festivals and Outdoor Events | Workshops, Talks, Classes and Groups
Monday, 17 April 2017 - 7:30pm
@PrestonGeekUp is a social event held on the 3rd Monday of every month in the Snug. Anyone is welcome, whether interested in technology, computing, or cake. Yes, cake.
Event type: Workshops, Talks, Classes and Groups
Thursday, 20 April 2017 - 7:00pm
With a personal invite from Billy Bragg to play Glastonbury, sessions on 6Music and Radio 2, a five star live review and feature in The Guardian, O’Hooley & Tidow are regarded as ‘one of British folk’s mightiest combinations’ (Mojo). Their latest album, Shadows, is the follow up to their groundbreaking album The Hum, which earned them a place in Mojo’s Top 10 Folk Albums of 2014 and a nomination for ‘Best Duo’ in last year’s BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards.
Event type: Music
Friday, 21 April 2017 - 8:00pm
Manière des Bohémiens play energetic and improvised Django Reinhardt, Stephane Grappelli influenced Gypsy Jazz and Eastern European Swing. They are the most debauched, ecstatic and downright amazing live band you will have seen for a long while.
Event type: Music
Saturday, 22 April 2017 - 8:00pm
British folk-punk for a summer's afternoon, a sound forged in festivals and bonfires, with fiddle-driven rabble rousers and songs that stir the soul. With a fiercely loyal and ever-growing fan base, The Leylines are guaranteed to have you up on your feet – and they will be having as much fun as you while they're doing it!
Event type: Music
Thursday, 27 April 2017 - 7:30pm
The musical collaboration of Michael Chapman and Ehud Banai may not seem like an obvious coupling, except for the fact that Michael Chapman has for some years now been pushing his musical envelope in all directions, embracing many genres of music, some for the first time, and Ehud Banai cut his musical teeth back in the 70’s listening to Michael Chapman, in the valley of Rosh Pina in Upper Galilee.
Event type: Music
Acid Brass afterparty with DJ Dave Haslam (Hacienda)
Friday, 28 April 2017 - 8:00pm
Tuff Life Boogie and They Eat Culture are proud to present an after-party for Jeremy Deller's Acid House brass band show taking place at The Harris Library earlier in the evening, featuring a full set from legendary Hacienda DJ Dave Haslam between 10pm and midnight.
Event type: Music
Uncle Frank (of Fun Lovin' Criminals)
Saturday, 29 April 2017 - 8:00pm
Multi-Instrumentalists Frank Benbini (one third of FUN LOVIN CRIMINALS) and Naim Cortazzi are UNCLE FRANK. Both are talented songwriters, producers and musicians that have toured the world. They're always busy creating the best kind of music... music with soul, funk, rage and love!
Event type: Music
May Day Special w/ The Nightingales, Blue Orchids, Blyth Power & more
Monday, 1 May 2017 - 2:00pm
Tuff Life Boogie and They Eat Culture have sorted out your May Day Bank Holiday Monday entertainment by putting together an eclectic all-dayer featuring some Continental old favourites and a few new faces, with advance tickets on sale at only £8 for 7 acts!
Event type: Music
Thursday, 4 May 2017 - 8:00pm
Hailing from the North West of England, The AC/DC Experience perform classics from both the Bon Scott and Brian Johnson eras such as "Highway To Hell", "Shoot To Thrill", "Back In Black", "Whole Lotta Rosie", and many, many more - The AC/DC Experience provide a live show second only to the legends themselves!
Event type: Music
Doug Perkins and the Spectaculars
Friday, 5 May 2017 - 8:00pm
A night of the finest 50's Rock and Roll and Rockabilly. A four piece band who take their inspiration from the pioneers of Rock 'n' Roll. Recreating and reinventing the unique sound of the 1950's as they emulate the greats from Presley to Perkins and Cochran to Cash.
Event type: Music
London Calling - Play the Music of The Clash
Saturday, 6 May 2017 - 8:00pm
In 2017, 40 years after the historic 'White Riot' tour, London Calling, the UK’s premier THE CLASH tribute act will be paying homage to this epic event by playing shows throughout the UK, including here at The Continental . Playing a retrospective of that legendary first album they will then go on to perform the best of the rest including all the hit singles and more.
Event type: Music
The Continental's 17th Beer & Cider Festival
Thursday, 11 May 2017 - 5:00pm
Preston’s Biggest and Best Beer Festival is BACK! Over 200 ales, ciders, craft beers, perrys and specialist kegs, live music, DJs, BBQ, and more TBA! Come and find out for yourself why our Beer Festivals are one of the most popular events in Preston.
Event type: Music | Festivals and Outdoor Events
Qujaku (JPN) / Locean / Lorentzian
Thursday, 18 May 2017 - 8:00pm
Qujaku are a heavy psychedelic four-piece from Shizouka in Japan: much admired in Japan for the intensity of their live shows, they're now ready to conquer the UK. Think heavy, noisy psychedelic garage rock with fuzzed up post-rock/shoegaze edges and you're touching on their live sound.
Event type: Music
Saturday, 20 May 2017 - 7:30pm
After selling out two back-to-back shows here over one weekend last year, The Floyd Band touch down once again at The Continental on Sat 20th May with a new show celebrating 40 years of Animals. Plus a complete performance of Dark Side of the Moon and selections from Meddle, The Division Bell, A Momentary Lapse of Reason and The Final Cut - LIVE!
Event type: Music
Riverside Vintage & Artisan Craft Market
Sunday, 21 May 2017 - 12:00pm
Riverside Vintage return to The Continental for 2017. Third Sunday every month (excluding June). Local designer-makers with the very best of vintage home-ware - and cakes!
Event type: Family | Art and Craft | Festivals and Outdoor Events
Laetitia Sadier Source Ensemble
Friday, 26 May 2017 - 7:30pm
The new combo led by legendary Stereolab vocalist Laetitia Sadier. When we hear synth lines diving, lifting and drifting, unusual guitar textures, the plucked sound of flat wound bass strings or the bottomless pulsing of bass pedals stepping out of the mix with an exquisite vibrancy, this is the sound of the Source Ensemble!
Event type: Music
White Hills / Cavalier Song / Pill Fangs
Saturday, 27 May 2017 - 8:00pm
One of the most legendary live acts in psychedelic rock today. White Hills are proponents of psychedelia as transformation. The music made by Dave W. and Ego Sensation is risky and cutting edge, rooted in dystopian futurism and hyperconscious of society's constant desire for a new and better drug.
Event type: Music
Friday, 2 June 2017 - 8:00pm
A top class and authentic tribute to the late, great Lemmy Kilmister and his band, Motörhead. Motörheadache is a three piece tribute to Lemmy's musical career with Motörhead from 1975 to 2015, but features some his solo projects with the likes of Foo Fighters and Slash. Set up by lifelong Motörhead fan Rob Campbell on Rickenbacker bass and vocal, the line-up features Neil Archer on guitar and Nic Rudd on drums.
Event type: Music
Fiona Soe Paing - Alien Lullabies
Friday, 9 June 2017 - 8:00pm
Combining off-world electronica and live vocals from Fiona Soe Paing with 3D animation from New Zealand based collaborator Zennor Alexander, ALIEN LULLABIES is an immersive live gig/cinema hybrid. "Unutterably cool, darkly alluring, fascinatingly inventive." Scotsman
Preston is Hardcore: Deviated Instinct / Warwound / Anti-System / Burning Flag / Insurgency
Sunday, 11 June 2017 - 7:00pm
PRESTON IS HARDCORE is a seismic celebration of Hardcore Punk the likes of which this town has never seen before!
Event type: Music
Rock and Roll's Greatest Failure: Otway the Movie (12A)
Tuesday, 20 June 2017 - 7:15pm
To celebrate our visit from the great man himself on Friday 23rd June we offer you OTWAY THE MOVIE! In the midst of Britain’s 70s punk revolution and after a momentous TV appearance where five and a half million viewers watched him land painfully on his testicles, Otway was high in the charts. Too bad his next HIT was 25 years later.
Friday, 23 June 2017 - 8:00pm
Rock veteran Otway dubbed himself “rock’n’roll’s greatest failure” after many unsuccessful attempts to produce a second hit single to follow his 1977 classic (Cor Baby, That’s) Really Free with Wild Willy Barrett.However, a mere quarter century later, he was back on Top of The Pops and back in the charts as a birthday present from his adoring and patient fans. Expect madcap mayhem and some scintillating stunts from a man old enough to know better…..and also to be surprised at just what a showman and musician really lies underneath the tomfoolery.
Event type: Music
Modrophenia: with The Immediates & DJ Gaz Heckman
Friday, 30 June 2017 - 8:00pm
Rated as one of the UK’s premier Mod revivalist outfits, The Immediates perform the classic British sounds of The Who and The Kinks through to Trojan and American influences from Booker T through to Nolan Porter and beyond. All delivered with conviction and uncompromising authenticity.
Event type: Music
Riverside Vintage & Artisan Craft Market
Sunday, 16 July 2017 - 12:00pm
Riverside Vintage return to The Continental for 2017. Third Sunday every month (excluding June). Local designer-makers with the very best of vintage home-ware - and cakes!
Event type: Family | Art and Craft | Festivals and Outdoor Events
Un-Peeled: The Wedding Present
Wednesday, 26 July 2017 - 8:00pm
Tuff Life Boogie and They Eat Culture are proud to present one of John Peel's very favourite acts for the latest edition of Un-Peeled, shows featuring artists who recorded sessions for the legendary DJ...
THE WEDDING PRESENT! 27TH JULY SOLD OUT - tickets available for 26th July
Event type: Music
Un-Peeled: The Wedding Present
Thursday, 27 July 2017 - 8:00pm
Tuff Life Boogie and They Eat Culture are proud to present one of John Peel's very favourite acts for the latest edition of Un-Peeled, shows featuring artists who recorded sessions for the legendary DJ...
THE WEDDING PRESENT! 27TH JULY SOLD OUT - tickets available for 26th July
Event type: Music
Saturday, 29 July 2017 - 8:00pm
Wild, repetitive, psychedelic music that denies categorisation (probably somewhere on the psych-folk/psych rock continuum). Woven Skull work up an incredible, dense head of steam from a humble set up: Guitar, Mandola and a minimal drum kit. Like it? Of course you do.
Event type: Music
Saturday, 5 August 2017 - 7:30pm
This is an amazing double-header featuring two of the finest acts to emerge from the 77 UK punk explosion, Mekons and Alternative TV, both instrumental in mapping out the path from punk to post-punk.
Event type: Music
The Varukers plus The Poly-Esters & more
Friday, 18 August 2017 - 8:00pm
Another 100 proof cult punk act comes to The Conti! The Varukers are the classic UK hardcore punk / D- Beat / UK82 band formed in '79 by vocalist Anthony 'Rat' Martin. Prepare for total anarchy!Joined by awesome all-girl punk act The Poly-Esters and one more band TBC.
Event type: Music
Riverside Vintage & Artisan Craft Market
Sunday, 20 August 2017 - 12:00pm
Riverside Vintage return to The Continental for 2017. Third Sunday every month (excluding June). Local designer-makers with the very best of vintage home-ware - and cakes!
Event type: Art and Craft | Festivals and Outdoor Events | Workshops, Talks, Classes and Groups
Riverside Vintage & Artisan Craft Market
Sunday, 17 September 2017 - 12:00pm
Riverside Vintage return to The Continental for 2017. Third Sunday every month (excluding June). Local designer-makers with the very best of vintage home-ware - and cakes!
Event type: Art and Craft | Festivals and Outdoor Events | Workshops, Talks, Classes and Groups
The Machine Rages On - A tribute to Rage Against the Machine
Saturday, 23 September 2017 - 8:00pm
The Machine Rages On is the UK's No.1 tribute to legendary US Rap Metal act RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE. Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of THAT stormin' debut LP!
Event type: Music
Mörderstein: A Tribute to Rammstein
Friday, 13 October 2017 - 8:00pm
Mörderstein have been labelled as the UK's Ultimate Rammstein tribute band by some of the people who have witnessed their live show. Six members, fully live with the attitude, determination...... and pyromania!
Event type: Music
Penetration plus The Distractions & Three Day Weekend
Friday, 10 November 2017 - 8:00pm
Tuff Life Boogie & They Eat Culture are proud to present the latest in a long line of classic punk acts at The Continental - the legendary PENETRATION! And where else could you catch them supported by cult Manchester post-punk act The Distractions
Event type: Music
Riverside Vintage & Artisan Craft Market
Sunday, 19 November 2017 - 12:00pm
Riverside Vintage return to The Continental for 2017. Third Sunday every month (excluding June). Local designer-makers with the very best of vintage home-ware - and cakes!
Event type: Art and Craft | Festivals and Outdoor Events | Workshops, Talks, Classes and Groups
Riverside Vintage & Artisan Craft Market
Sunday, 17 December 2017 - 12:00pm
Riverside Vintage return to The Continental for 2017. Third Sunday every month (excluding June). Local designer-makers with the very best of vintage home-ware - and cakes!
Event type: Art and Craft | Festivals and Outdoor Events | Workshops, Talks, Classes and Groups