Wintershall Charity Rock Concert
Slades Farm, Thornecombe Street, Bramley, Surrey  GU5 0LT  UK
Saturday from 3:30pm to midnight

The beautiful venue of Wintershall hosts another amazing charity rock concert featuring some names you are bound to recognise including, Roger Taylor, Jeff Beck, Mike + The Mechanics, Kenney Jones, Procol Harum, The Darkness, Steve Harley, Spike Edney + SAS Band and The FABBAGIRLS. This is a Black-tie event, tickets cost £100 for under 25’s and NHS staff or £150 for everyone else and must be booked before Saturday.

The Supercar Event
Dunsfold Park, GU6 8HY
Saturday and Sunday from 9am to 4:30pm

It’s not everyday that you get the opportunity to experience the sheer power and speed of a supercar racing around a race course. This two day event includes plenty to do for all the family, including supercar passenger rides around the famous Top Gear race track from £30. All proceeds will go directly to The Children’s Trust, the UK’s leading charity for children with brain injuries. Click here for entry tickets and event pricing info.

Kickback Comedy 
The Boileroom, Guildford
Saturday 7pm

Guildford’s infrequent but always hilarious comedy night is back again, the evening includes Garrett Millerick, Tom Goodliffe a mystery performer and Kickback’s resident MC, the hilariously unforgettable Debra-Jane Appelby (“…magical spontaneous quality…” Comedy Channel 4). An 18+ event – tickets cost £12.50

The Comedy of Errors
Guildford Castle
Friday and Saturday at 7.30pm

With its crazy characters, bonkers mayhem and wonderful physical set-pieces, The Comedy of Errors is a brilliantly fun introduction to Shakespeare for children and a fabulous evening’s entertainment for adults!

The performance will take audiences from an austere gallows setting at Guildford’s ancient Castle Keep to the vibrant chaos of the Ephesus market place, staged around the Victorian bandstand.

Tickets from £16.50.

Guildford Festival Craft Market
Guildford High Street
Saturday from 10am to 5.30pm

The last of the nine day festival of craftswork from all over the UK including artists, jewellers, ceramicists, line, skin care and much more – there will also be street performers on Saturday.

The Sausage Monkeys
Kokomo
Saturday from 8:30pm to 11:30pm

They’re back again with rocking live music, performing covers from as early as the 60’s to the latest contemporary hits – so sit back and listen or get up on your feet and rock the night away.

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Always the Sun Music & Arts Festival is being organised by The Boileroom and is named after the song by Guildford’s own The Stranglers. It promises to have plenty of big names and ways to get creative over the two day celebration of music and art.

Along with the above, The Stranglers’ own former vocalist Hugh Cornwell, Dub Pistols and The Allergies will also be performing along with many others on the main stage; the DIY Stage will be curated with even more musical acts to guarantee that you have something great to listen to – whether it’s music that’s totally new to you or the songs that you know word for word.

If you feel like a change from all the music, then there’s several other areas of the festival that you can visit, including All the World’s a Stage, featuring a variety of performances in comedy, street dance, theatre and more to keep you entertained.

The Outdoor Kitchen will gather several chefs such as The Great British Bake Off contestant Stu Henshall to judge the festivals own bake off; Masterchef finalist and restaurant owner Dan Britton will be showing you how to make delicious meals from the food that people often waste.

The Crafty Peacock will be the hub of all things craft, several workshops will be in place to get you stuck into yarnboming, ceramics, jewellery, painting – perfect for children and adults alike!

The Imaginarium is the place to be if you want to experience the joy of play and interaction, mad science experiments, amazing demonstrations of skill and sensory workshops to really engage your mind.

With a festival like this, it’s clear that September is a month to really look forward to – let’s hope that it catches the last of the summer sun, so that we can truly enjoy Always the Sun.

The festival will be held on September 10-11. Click here for more info and tickets.

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After Miss Julie
Yvonne Arnaud Theatre
Friday 8pm, Saturday 2.30pm and 8pm

Starring Helen George of Call the Midwife and Strictly Come Dancing fame, this theatre production is set in 1945 in an English country house, on the eve of Labour’s landslide victory at the end of the Second World War. This compelling and erotic psychological thriller is inspired by Strindberg’s 1888 masterpiece.

Tickets cost £23–£34.50.

ONE LIVE Music Festival 
Loseley Park, GU3 1HS
Saturday, gates open at 5pm and first band on at 6pm

Supervet Noel Fitzpatrick invites you to his life’s dream — The only music concert where we stand together to cure disease in animals and humans at the same time – One Love for One Planet through One Medicine. current line up includes: Star Sailor, Reef, The Feeling, Scouting for Girls, Sound of the Sirens and Sunshine Underground + more to be announced.

Kickback Comedy 
The Boileroom, Guildford
Saturday 7pm

Headlining this show we have the critical acclaimed Stephen Carlin, (“a delightfully off beat act who expertly applies twisted, convoluted logic to common-or-garden observations to produce genuinely original material…a definite tip for the top.” Chortle).

Opening the show is the very cheeky Mark Dolan, you may recognise him from the popular channel 4 show Balls of Steel, Mark has performed on the worldwide comedy circuit now for 25 years.

They also have Suzy Bennett, (Suzy is a dynamo of a comic, with a uniquely warm and chatty stage presence. She has been delighting audiences with her saucy comedy since “accidentally” reaching the finals of Jimmy Carr’s Comedy Idol on her first gig, and being asked by Jimmy to support him on his “Gag Reflex” tour).

Kickback’s resident MC is the hilariously unforgettable Debra-Jane Appelby (“…magical spontaneous quality…” Comedy Channel 4).

An 18+ event.

Sunday Assembly Guildford
The Boileroom, Guildford
Sunday 11am

Sunday Assembly started in London in January 2013 and has grown to an international community of 68 Assemblies as far apart as Glasgow and Sydney. We want to have a Sunday Assembly in every town that wants one. So why don’t we join in in Guildford? Let’s get communicating and be part of this amazing global movement!

NO JOY + SAN SCOUT + DRUG STORE REMOS 
The Boileroom, Guildford
Sunday 7pm

More Faithful is No Joy’s third full-length for Mexican Summer. Throughout the album, singer / guitarist Jasamine White-Gluz, guitarist Laura Lloyd, drummer Garland Hastings and bassist Michael Farsky (formerly of Dirty Beaches’ live band) push themselves to new peaks of intensity.

A 16+ event.

School of Strut
The Boileroom, Guildford
Sunday at midday

Grab your heels, glitter and favourite festival inspired attire and help us raise much needed funds for Guildford & Woking women’s refuge, Your Sanctuary (formerly Surrey Women’s Aid).

UK fitness expert and Headmistress of School of Strut, Zoe McNulty, will be leading a special session of her Strutology™ dance class with proceeds going to Your Sanctuary. Unleash your inner diva and strut your stuff in the name of Sisterhood.

The day long event will feature live DJ set from London’s Queen of disco, Lulu Le Vay, festival face painting, pop-up beauty and nail bar courtesy of Blossom & Jasmine, Stella & Dot jewellery, raffle and more!

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Clybourne Park
Yvonne Arnaud Theatre
Millbrook, Guildford, Surrey GU1 3UX
Thursday at 7.30pm, Friday at 8pm and Saturday at 2.30pm and 8pm

This razor-sharp satire lifts the lid on race and real estate in a fictional Chicago neighborhood. The swinging sixties are just around the corner as a black family move into a suburban white enclave, triggering all too predictable mutterings from the neighbours. Fifty years on, we return to the same house in 2009 as gentrification sets in and the roles are reversed.

Acclaimed by critics and audiences alike since its debut on Broadway in 2009, Clybourne Park has been awarded Best Play at the Olivier Awards, the Evening Standard Best Play Award, the South Bank Sky Arts Theatre Award and Critics’ Circle Best Play Award.

Tickets cost £21 to £32.50 plus booking fees. Contains very strong language, recommended for ages 16+.

Clare Teal: The Divas and Me 
Denbies Wine Estate,  London Rd, Dorking, Surrey RH5 6AA
Thursday 5 May 2016 from 8pm till 10.15pm

One of Britain’s leading female jazz singers, Clare Teal will perform with her Trio fabulous jazz standards inspired by the music of Ella Fitzgerald, Doris Day and Peggy Lee as well as some contemporary covers and new material. As her huge fan base knows, Clare brings an engaging sense of humour to her live performances, which creates a wonderful atmosphere with her audiences.

Tickets cost: adults £25, senior citizens £25, students £5, children from 7-21 years £5

Dmitry Sitkovetsky plays Bach
Holy Trinity, High Street, Guildford, Surrey, GU1 3RR
Friday 6 May 2016 from 7.30pm till 9.30pm

The acclaimed violinist, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, presents a glorious night of Bach for string trio. Dmitry is a world-renowned conductor and former soloist of the Berlin Phil and of many other leading orchestras. Kristina Blaumane, Principal Cellist of the LPO, and eminent Russian viola player Alexander Zemtsov, complete the distinguished trio that will perform Dmitry’s critically acclaimed arrangements of Bach’s Goldberg Variations and Fifteen Sinfonias.  This will be a performance of the highest order.

Tickets cost: adults £25, senior citizens £25, students £5, children from 7-21 years £5. Limited free street parking is available after 6pm on the High Street.

Big Girls Don’t Cry
G Live, London Rd, Guildford GU1 2AA
Friday at 6.30pm

During the 60s and 70s No1 hits Sherry, December 1963 (Oh What a Night), Walk Like a Man, Rag Doll and Big Girls Don’t Cry saw the Four Seasons and lead singer Frankie Valli propelled to super stardom.

Big Girls Don’t Cry authentically revives the sublime harmonies of New Jersey’s finest. It showcases Frankie’s incredible falsettos, and features solo hits that range from the exuberant – the rock’n’roll nostalgia of Grease,  to the spine-tingling show-stealers such as My Eyes Adored You.

Drawing from a repertoire that includes Let’s Hang On, Working My Way Back to You, Beggin’, Who Loves You and I’ve Got You Under My Skin you’re never more than a song away from another classic hit.  Don’t miss this critically-acclaimed spectacle.

Standard tickets cost £23 plus booking fees.

Nicola Benedetti and the London Mozart Players
St Teresa’s School, Beech Ave, Effingham, Dorking, Surrey RH5 6ST
Saturday 7 May 2016 from 7.30pm till 9.30pm

Superstar violinist Nicola Benedetti performs with the London Mozart Players under the baton of international guest conductor and viola player Maxim Rysanov.

The programme for this unmissable concert is Tchaikovsky’s Andante Cantabile, Mozart’s Violin Concerto No.5 in A major, Dobrinka Tabakova’s Suite in Old Style and Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings in C major.

Tickets cost: adults £29, senior citizens £29, students £5, children aged 7-21 years £5. There will be free parking on site.

Trinity Folk Festival
St Mary’s Church, Quarry Street, Guildford, Surrey, GU1 3UA
The Star Inn, 2 Quarry Street, Guildford, Surrey, GU1 3TY
Saturday 7 May 2016 from 1pm at St Mary’s Church and from 9pm at The Star Inn, ends at 11pm.

Trinity Folk Festival presents the best in folk, roots and acoustic music.  In 2016 they have persuaded some of their favourite acts to return, including: The Luke Jackson Trio, Greg Russell and Ciaran Algar, The Sam Kelly Trio, Ninebarrow, Talisk, Long Lankin, Mad Magdalen, Andy Butler and Rising stars from Guildford’s Academy of Contemporary Music (ACM)

The Boileroom will also be joining the festival with a Friday night gig featuring the Scottish Folk musician James Yorkston and more.

The nearest car park to the Church and The Star is Millbrook open air car park or Bedford Road Multi Storey – there is some free parking on the street after 6pm.

Ticket prices for the day are listed below.

Main Festival at St Mary’s
Adults £18, concessions £11, under 10s free, family (2+2) £50.

​Late night at the Star Inn
Adults £6, concessions £4

St Mary’s + Star Inn
Adults £22, concessions £14

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
G Live, London Rd, Guildford GU1 2AA
Saturday 7.30pm

The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra brings our 2015/16 season to a rousing conclusion with Tchaikovsky’s epic Symphony No. 5, a piece with a hauntingly slow movement and elemental finale. Conducted by Fabien Gabel, the concert will begin with Borodin’s richly colourful Prince Igor Overture and then the supremely talented Alexandra Dariescu will perform Rachmaninov’s virtuosic Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.

Tickets Cost £23 to £39.50, children and students £10 plus booking fees.

Mitch Benn
G Live, London Rd, Guildford GU1 2AA
Saturday at 8pm

“I’m a skeptic. But don’t take my word for it. Or indeed anybody’s. For anything….” this is the basic premise of Mitch’s new critically acclaimed show.  It’s a show that will make you laugh a lot and even think a bit as well as Mitch debunks myths, exposes nonsense and grapples with the very nature of knowledge itself extolling the virtues of an evidence-based approach to life… with amusing consequences and of course a few songs along the way.

The ‘Now Show’ aside, Mitch has recently co-presented with Harry Shearer BBC Radio 2’s Anatomy Of A Guitar as well as performing Mitch Benn Is The 37th Beatle and presenting Spank The Plank both for BBC Radio 4, with further work commissioned by BBC Radio 4.

Tickets cost £13 to £15 plus booking fees.

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Debra Stephenson
G Live, London Rd, Guildford GU1 2AA
Friday at 7.30pm

The star of BBC’s Dead Ringers and The Impressions Show, and ITV’s Newzoids and Coronation Street, takes to the stage for an evening of comedy, music and impressions!

Tickets cost £17.50 plus booking fees.

The All-Star Stand Up Tour 2016
G Live, London Rd, Guildford GU1 2AA
Saturday at 8pm

G Live presents four heavyweight comics in this all-star comedy tour.

Featuring double Sony Award winner and star of Mock The Week, Gary Delaney; top comedy trickster and star of BBC 1’s The Magicians, Pete Firman; Kiwi compere Jarred Christmas and, unbeaten legend, Never Mind The Buzzcocks team captain and one of Channel 4’s 100 Greatest Stand-Ups in the World, Sean Hughes.

Tickets cost £21 plus booking fees.

An Evening with Olga Bobrovnikova – hosted by The Rotary Club of Guildford
Holy Trinity Church, High Street, Guildford, Surrey, GU1 3RR
Saturday at 7.30pm

For one night only a truly magical evening with the renowned, Russian-born concert pianist Olga Bobrovnikova who will play, talk about her life, memories and music and will be joined by some interesting guests along the way.

Music by Bach through to Elgar and in between some classical and some simply popular arrangements will all be performed by this remarkable pianist.

The nearest car parks are Castle Car Park and York Road. There will be some free on street parking after 6pm. Admission for adults is £15, £7 children aged 5-18 years.

Shakespeare: Will’s Birthday Bash – Cymbeline
St Mary’s Church, Quarry Street, Guildford, GU1 3UA
Saturday at 7.30pm

In the 400th year since Shakespeare’s death, Guildford Shakespeare Company are marking the occasion with the last of their three annual events for Will’s Birthday Bash.

Celebrations come to a close this weekend with a special staged-reading of Cymbeline in the evocative St Mary’s Church. Tickets cost £14 and can be bought at the event.

Surrey Hills Sculpture Garden
Birtley Estate, Bramley, Surrey, GU5 0LB
Saturday from 11am

Guildford’s annual sculpture exhibition features sculptures from top local and UK sculptors.

All sculpture is for sale and proceeds from commissions go to the Surrey Hills Trust Fund, which supports local community projects.

Admission costs £5 for adults and includes the catalogue and unlimited re-entry to the exhibition. Under-16s enter free. The exhibition runs for the next five weeks.

Curators on our Doorstep – Exhibition at Haslemere Museum
Haslemere Museum, 78 High St, Haslemere, GU27 2LA
Saturday from 10.00am to 5pm

Members of the local community have curated this very special exhibition showcasing the Museum’s fine art collection. All the paintings on display have been selected by local people from across the community and will include a fascinating insight as to why they were chosen.

This is a unique opportunity to see some of the Museum’s outstanding fine art collection. The works on show are from the reserve collection and not normally on display to the public.

The is Museum open from Tuesday to Saturday 10am-5pm. The exhibit will be available for the next 29 days.

Bill Bailey: Limboland
G Live, London Rd, Guildford GU1 2AA
Monday and Tuesday at 8pm

After his previous sell-out tour Qualmpeddler, Bill Bailey returns to the G Live stage with his new show Limboland.

The gap between how we imagine our lives to be and how they really are is the subject of Limboland. With his trademark intelligence and sharp wit, he tells tales of finding himself in this halfway place. From his countless global travels, he recounts the hilarious saga of a disastrous family trip to Norway to see the Northern Lights. He rails against a world that doesn’t match up to our expectations and contemplates the true nature of happiness.

No Bill Bailey show would be complete without music, so Bill’s performing his version of the protest song, a heart-rending country and western ballad played on a Bible, and a fabulously downbeat version of Happy Birthday.

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Jongleurs Comedy
Jan 5, 8pm
All Tickets £7

Live stand-up comedy from one of the country’s leading clubs, Tim Fitzhigham, Dave Johns, Jess Fostekew and Marlon Davis make their way to the theatre for a night of laughter.

One Winter’s Night
Jan 8, 7pm
All Tickets £10

Come down to the theatre for an evening of eclectic, live acoustic music in aid of two wonderful charities. Listed to play at the event are musicians such as Jonas and Jane, Jim Cozens, Bemis, Harry Baker and special guests The Dirty Carols. All Profits go to St Luke’s Cancer Centre and Shooting Star Chase.

Champagne Classics
Jan 9, 7:30pm
Tickets from £22 – £25

Southern Pro Musica put on a performance to brighten your mood after the post-Christmas slump. The professional chamber musicians will be accompanied by soprano Bibi Heal, together there performances will bring some greatly loved opera classics to life.

Confusions
Jan 13 – 23
Tickets from £26.50 – £32.50

First seen in 1974, Alan Ayckbourn’s revival of his well-loved play sees human frailty laid bare, as the fragile and shambolic lives of several characters unfold into a series of darkly hilarious yet poignant moments.

Hero’s Welcome
Jan 15 – 23
Tickets from £21 – £32.50

After returning to the hometown he fled seventeen years ago, Murray and his new bride’s plan to live there in peace doesn’t last long. People he once knew soon stir up trouble and resentment; including the bride he left waiting at the altar who’s now the town’s mayor. Mystery, drama and Ayckbourn’s spot-on comedy can be found here.

Kit & McConnel: Over the Yardarm
Jan 28, 7:45pm
Tickets from £20.50 – £21.50

Old friends and long time collaborators, Kit Hesketh-Harvey and James McConnel have a wealth of experience in making audiences laugh and this show is no different. The duo’s musical comedy pokes fun at modern culture and everyday events.

Roy Hudd’s Very Own Music Hall
Jan 29, 8pm
Tickets from £20.50 – £21.50

Actor, singer and comedian Roy Hudd brings his passion and love of music halls to life. Accompanied by pianist Ian Smith, Dan Shearman’s Quartet and singer Julia Sutton, Roy takes the audience on a funny and fascinating two-hour journey of songs and comic routines on the history of music halls.

Michael Portillo – Life: A Game of Two Halves
Jan 30, 8pm
Tickets from £20.50 – £21.50

For one night only, Michael Portillo gives unique insight into his fascinating life and answers questions from the audience. Since leaving his position as a favoured leader in politics almost a decade ago, Portillo has endeared himself to the public as a historian with respect for solid workmanship and creative energy.

What Would Spock Do?
Jan 28 – 29, 8pm at the Mill Studio
All tickets £15

An uplifting comedy about love, Star Trek and learning to accept who you are, no matter what anyone else thinks. The acclaimed show makes its debut UK tour after its sell out premiere at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

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Rod Stewart, Ronnie Wood and Kenney Jones (‘The Faces’) are just a few names set to join the line-up and to top it off, the day will also offer the traditional properties of polo with the added benefit of a high array of high performance super cars on display.

‘The Faces’ will be reuniting for a short set in support of prostate cancer with other artists including Steve Harley making an appearance.

Stewart commented: ‘This year is the 40^th anniversary since “The Faces” parted ways so it’s about time we got together for a jam! Being in “The Faces” back in the day was a whirlwind of madness but my God, it was beyond brilliant. We are pleased to be able to support Prostate Cancer UK.’

Jones said ‘This is the third Rock ‘n’ Horsepower we’ve put on for Prostate Cancer UK and it’s shaping to be the biggest yet.’

There will be a variety of catering units at the event selling both hot and cold food and drinks. There are bars selling a wide range of beers, wines, spirits and soft drinks.

You may not be permitted to bring alcoholic drinks to the event, however you may bring soft drinks but please note that no glass is allowed.

Gates open at 12pm, with the polo match commencing at 2:30pm. The live music will then begin at 4:30pm.

Tickets: Adult general admission: £75 (until 31^st August – early bird special offer) – £95 (after 31^st August). Child general admission (8yrs-15yrs) £50

Under 8s go free.

Mark Bishop, Director of Fundraising at Prostate Cancer UK said:

‘What a privilege it is for us as a charity to be benefitting from this moment in rock history.’

So why not benefit also? Head along and enjoy some fabulous live music.

Find more information at: http://www.hurtwoodparkpolo.co.uk/events/rock-n-horsepower

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Fox and The Law

Having left quite an impression after taking a bite out of the Boileroom last September, Fox and the Law have been invited back to play on Saturday August 8 at 7:30pm.

They will also be joined by local folk-rock heroes ‘Red Kites’ as well as ‘Mad Elizabeth,’ a local band really starting to turn heads.

Entry is £6 on the door, but tickets are cheaper in advance. This is an 18+ event.

Monuments

Praised for their brainy yet song-orientated approach to heavy music, ‘Monuments’ bridged the progressive metal gap like few before.

Playing on Wednesday August 12 at 7pm, it’s definitely worth checking them out.

Entry is £8, this is an 18+ event.

The Bohicas

Head along to the Boileroom on Monday August 17 at 7pm to enjoy some rock roll from ‘The Bohicas.’

You must be 14+ to enter this event. Entry is £8.

Steve Conte NYC (New York Dolls)

Former New York Dolls lead guitarist Steve Conte, will be performing at the boileroom on Tuesday, August 18.

Steve’s latest record, The Steve Conte NYC album is a rock and roll classic, featuring guest performances by members of Foo fighters, Alice Cooper, Mott the Hoople, New York Dolls.

Entry to this event is £10 and is for 18+.

Street party

Join The Boileroom on Sunday August 30 to celebrate their annual street party.

Listen to some of the best in local live music with acts from our youth programme, The project, and more.

These are just a few of the many events taking place at The Boileroom throughout August. Take a look at their website for further details on the above events and to check out any more upcoming developments.

http://www.theboileroom.net/

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