Concert to be played on Blackpool Tower Headland on the Afternoon of Sunday June 24th 2012.
Wanted on the Tower Festival Headland in June
The Wanted and McFly, two of Britain’s hottest boy bands, have this morning announced a special one off concert, live and outdoors on the new Tower Festival Headland, Blackpool. Playing in the shadow of Blackpool’s iconic Tower, the concert will be a special date in the bands’ Summer diary, and ticket demand is expected to be high.
McFly are an English pop rock band who first found fame in 2004. The band consists of Thomas Fletcher (lead vocals, guitar and piano), Danny Jones (lead vocals and guitar), Dougie Poynter (backing vocals and bass guitar) and Harry Judd (drums). They were signed to the Island Records label from their 2004 launch until December 2007, before creating their own label, Super Records.The band rose to fame after fellow boyband Busted helped launch them by inviting them to tour in March 2004.
The Wanted are a British and Irish boy band based in London, England. The band consists of Max George, Siva Kaneswaran, Jay McGuiness, Tom Parker and Nathan Sykes. Their debut single, “All Time Low”, was released in July 2010 and reached number one in the United Kingdom for one week.[1] Their debut studio album, The Wanted, was released on 25 October 2010 and peaked at number four in the United Kingdom.[1] The first single from their second album, “Gold Forever”, was released in aid of “Comic Relief” and reached number three on the UK Singles Chart.[1] The band’s second number one hit, “Glad You Came”, topped the singles chart in the United Kingdom for two weeks, and in Ireland for five weeks. Their second studio album, Battleground, was released on 7 November 2011.
Tickets go on sale this Friday at 9am.Click here to be part of a the Pre Ticket Sale of a Limited Numbers which will take place from Thursday 26th January AM (Via Facebook and a Like Page)
The Tower Festival Headland which will finally open to the public in 2012 is situated opposite Blackpool’s famous tower and can house a spectacular open-air events space for up to 20,000 spectators. A new art installation entitled the ‘Comedy Carpet’ featuring comedy catchphrases etched in stone will provide a creative footpath stretching from the entrance of the tower onto the festival headland itself. A brand new Tourist Information Centre, cutting-edge wedding venue and beach café/restaurant will also be based here.
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Stormy Weather in Blackpool
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Blackpool has, like all of the UK a temperate maritime climate according to the Koppen climate classification system, translating to a limited annual temperature range, rainfall throughout the year, and high wind levels.
The absolute maximum temperature recorded at Blackpool was 33.7 °C (92.7 °F) during July 1976. The highest temperature to occur in recent years is 33.2 °C (91.8 °F) during July 2006. In a more normal summer, the warmest day will likely average 28.1 °C (82.6 °F),with slightly less than 5 days a year attaining a temperature of 25.1 °C (77.2 °F) or above.
The absolute minimum temperature stands at −15.1 °C (4.8 °F), recorded during December 1981. The lowest temperature to occur in recent years is −11.9 °C (10.6 °F) during December 2010. In a more normal winter, the coldest night averages −7.6 °C (18.3 °F).
Rainfall averages slightly less than 900mm, with over 1mm of precipitation occurring on 143 days of the year.
Climate data for Blackpool 10m asl, 1971-2000, extremes 1960-
Blackpool pleasure beach opens it gates for the first time in 2012 on Saturday 11th February with the first of its Winter Wow Weekends.
Other opening dates in February are 11th, 12th, 18th, 19th, 25th, 26th February. Gates to the park will open at 10.00am
2012 Wow Weekends
11th, 12th, 18th, 19th, 25th, 26th February
Gate Price
Online Price
Adult
£32
£16
Junior / Senior
£27
£13.50
PB Pass
£5
£2.50
On these special days, visitors can save up to £16.00 off a wristband if booked online in advance. Adult wristbands are £32 on the gate and an amazing £16.00 if booked online. Junior and senior wristbands are £27 on the gates and £13.50 if booked online.
Head to Nickelodeon Land this half term during the week from Monday 13th through until Friday 17th February. All Wristbands are just £12 when booked online granting unlimited access to Nickelodeon Land. Enjoy all 12 rides and attractions, shop in the UK’s only Nick Shop and meet and greet with famous Nickelodeon characters such as SpongeBob SquarePants and Dora the Explorer.
2012 Nickelodeon Land Half Term
13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th February
Rhod Gilbert will be playing Blackpool Opera House Next Summer on Saturday June 23rd. He is bringing his oddly named show The Man with the Flaming Battenburg Tattoo to the Lancashire seaside to enthrall what will be a sell out crowd at the Opera House Winter Gardens Blackpool. When recently asked about the eccentric title of his new show all he said was that he had allowed someone to tattoo the image of a cake upon him……!!
Rhod Gilbert and the Cat which looks like Nicholas Lyndhurst
Rhod got into professional stand up in 2002 after taking a comedy workshop course but then this was only because his then girlfriend constantly nagged him to do so. Within a few short Months Rhod had won several different talent shows and had been nominated for the Perrier newcomer award for his first sol show at the Edinburgh fringe festival. From here he has gone onto perform worldwide.
Many of his stand up routines are based around real life events and his own younger life in the (made up name) village of Llanobl, a name he invented simply to put down an English heckler at one of his early shows. Since then he has expanded on the notion and we are now led to believe that this village lies somewhere between Wrexham and Holyhead in a sort of grown up ‘Thomas the Tank Engine’ locality. Gilbert is constantly adding stories around his fictional village to his shows and has even gone so far to have a sitcom featured on BBC Radio 2 about life in Llanobl.
The last touring show which Rhod performed was entitled Rhod Gilbert and the Cat That Looked like Nicholas Lyndhurst and previewed around many UK venues before being performed at the Edinburgh Comedy Festival.
Tickets go on sale Monday 5th December 2011 from the Usual Outlets….
A brand-new attraction of the Blackpool tower is set to astound you.
Before embarking on your assent to the Blackpool Tower by, you will encounter the new 4d Cinema built into the Ironwork which makes up the base of the Tower.
Your experience amazing sights, smells and special effects as you follow one little boy’s journey all over the seaside. A real teaser of what you experience for yourself from the I simply mind blowing!
Enter the timeline corridor when you can explore some of the tower’s iconic history and brand-new development. Lookout the newly uncovered James, some of which have been covered up since the 1950s!
N ow ready for your flight, you embark on a journey to the top of Blackpool tower as you step into the lift with your very own flight attendant on hand with lots of interesting information. Once you’ve reached your destination the doors open, and your met with ceiling to floor, of uninterrupted views of Blackpool and beyond.
A truly momentous experience, you feel on top of the world certainly in Blackpool.
Wall to Wall Glass at the top of Blackpool Tower Eye
Walk of Faith on a glass floor several hundred feet up.
A dark and sinister setting is being prepared for mad monks, witches, cut-throat smugglers and marauding Vikings.These are just a few of the characters Waiting for you at the Blackpool tower dungeon.
The new cousin of the world-famous London dungeon and if younger relatives in York and Edinburgh,the Blackpool tower dungeon will borrow the best and scariest ingredients from all three.it will have new terrors, however, as it turns the clock back to the darkest chapters of Fylde and Lancashire history.
A Dastardly dark jester acts as tour guide, welcoming each group of trembling thrill seekers to a recreation of 12 century Lytham Priory and regaling them with snippets from the regions bleak plague and war-ravaged past.
Encounters will follow with a macabre plague Dr a sadistic torturer eager to share his agony including techniques in the 17th century Cromwellian inquisitor bent on on unmasking royalist sympathisers.
Survivors of the perils will then have to negotiate the baffling and spooky labyrinth of lost souls. There are wild smugglers to be avoided, Vikings boasting of their brutal conquests and, as if that were not unnerving enough, visitors and then likely to find themselves in the clutches of a witch finder general.
Like the Pendle witches before them, visitors will find a claims of innocence morning on deaf ears and will be condemned to dangle on the end of a rope on the scariest white knuckle ride the result will ever see the dreaded Extremis.
The tower dungeon together with a spectacular new observation attraction the Blackpool Eye completely stunning for the introduction feature will comprise the first phase of redevelopment and the new operators Merlin Entertainment Group who opened the attraction in time the illuminations this September.
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