BISH from Born on road is coming to tear Hitchin apart on Friday 5th July🔥 Grab your tickets quickly, First release sold out on day 1!

A vintage lifestyle weekend dedicated to race cars, bikes and hot rods from a bygone era. Enjoy Championship racing with the headlining Cannonball class for supercharged nitro and alcohol fuelled Altereds and Funny Cars, period correct Gasser Circus, invited historic bikes and lots more. See vehicles from Santa Pod’s illustrious history return to the strip. Plus live music, Jet Car, Show & Shine with the NSRA, Cracklefest, beer festival and much more. Camping available onsite so come for the weekend.

Homegrown is a new writing festival, showcasing local talent by staging an evening of original, 10-minute short plays, featuring local writers, directors, and actors. This festival’s theme is PRIDE and features 10 short plays inspired by this theme – including stories about LGBTQIA+ Pride, hometown pride, pride in your heritage, pride in your identity, and even what it means to be ‘too proud’. The plays were selected from over 100 submissions, via open submission and chosen by a panel of readers including Adeyinka Akinrinade (Producer & Actor, Riches, Amazon Prime, Champion, Netflix), Teresa Burns (Award-Winning Writer for Stage & Screen), Dana Hudson (Theatre Producer) Lucas Murphy (Actor, Call the Midwife, BBC). THE HOMEGROWN PLAYS 2024: 2 Consolations by Grace Clinton Directed by Sidney Belony 232 Million Years by Sophie Stemmons Directed by Lucas Murphy Gnome Anne’s Land by Deborah Heath Directed by Sam Turton Headstrong by Kat Anderson Directed by Adeyinka Akinrinade & Bruno Rebelo Kali Chaudas by Rishi Vaja Directed by Prashant Tailor Lionesses by Rebekah Taylor Directed by Rebekah Taylor Loo-ton by Natalie Cummings Directed by Shantè Campbell No Shame by Jonathan Meyers Directed by Molly Sims The Crease by Kelly Jones Directed by Eva Sampson What Will The Neighbours Think by Sam Turton Directed by Tiarnan Doherty Running time: 2 hours approx (including interval) Age Guidance: 14+

Come and join us for an evening of live music with the fabulous Twist of Rock. Rock out to this 4 piece band who will bring you all of the rock classics you could wish for! Think AC/DC, Guns N' Roses, Bon Jovi, Queen, Cher, ZZ Top, Heart, Def Leppard, Journey, Tina Turner, Joan Jett, Santana, Prince, Whitesnake, Starship, Nirvana and many many more. You do not want to miss this! Tickets £12* Over 18's. Licensed Bar Bar Food Available 7pm to 9pm Live Music and DJ Set Song Requests Available! Doors open 7pm. Show starts 7.45pm *Booking fee applies

A RACE EVENT for your diary ......... The BEDS AAA 10K race is on Friday 5th July 2024 at 7.30pm. The race will once again be the Beds County Championship 10k road race and will be run on traffic free cycle ways on a very flat course., starting and finishing in Priory Park Bedford. You can enter online at https://englandathletics.sport80.com/public/wizard/e/27620 More race information is available on the Beds AAA website at www.bedfordshireaaa.org.uk and click on Road Racing.

We are really excited to finally have an opportunity to play at this wonderful historic site. Come on down and enjoy the delicious food while you listen and sing along to our eclectic mix of classic songs. Starts at 6:30pm so don't be late!