🎉 This NYE 2025 at Esquires, Bedford we’re pleased to announce an indie love-in on the main stage, as we take you back to our own Disco 2000, with a double tribute special of Pulp’d and Blur2!

▪️AGE: 18+ only – ID required on the door

🎤 ABOUT
Each band willl be playing full sets to see in the new year in style, with Common People DJs spinning tunes throughout the night.

In Room 2, simply the finest DJ the town has to offer, MASS C will be taking you through a Party Hip Hop Beats and Pop mixtape, in his own cut and paste style. Expect some of the biggest tunes of all time, seamlessly squished together in his very own ‘Kitchen Disco’.

🎟 TICKET COST:
Tickets are £15 advance (plus booking fee) which gets you into both rooms, so you can move about the venue as you please. Group tickets available, saving you a tenner – available now at Seetickets.

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🕺 On Saturday 27th December 2025 we welcome the return of Northampton’s legendary Ska outfit The 2 Tones to Bedford, Esquires.

▪️AGES: 14+. 14s to 15s must be accompanied by an adult. No refunds will be given for incorrectly booked tickets.

ℹ️ABOUT
The 8 piece band formed in 2007 have been blowing away audiences with their unique treatment of classics from the Trojan and 2 Tone Labels mixed with a few cheeky modern classics.

If your soundtrack of life has a few of these classics in it then you are in for a good ‘moon-stomping’ night out:

Gangsters, Sally Brown, Tears of a Clown. Rat Race, Baggy Trousers, Pig Bag, Message to you Rudy, Ska Train, Town Called Malice, Red Red Wine, This Is Ska, 3 Little Birds, Nightboat to Cairo, Rat Race, Pressure Drop to name but a few.

🎟 TICKETS: £13.55 (including booking fee)
On sale now from Seetickets via the event link,  and available locally from Esquires Bar and Slide Record Shop.

ℹ️ BOOKING ENQUIRIES/CONTACT DETAILS
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🎤 A Fresh (ish) four-piece playing a selection of reggae and ska classics plus a few converted songs. Esquires welcome back Who Stung Sting to the Christmas Sunday afternoon session at Esquires! FREE ENTRY, no booking required.

Your local mainstay reggae group -  all ska and no guitar

Expect tunes by:
✨️The Specials
✨️Bob Marley Toots & the Maytals
✨️Prince Buster
✨️Bowie
✨️Harry J Allstars
✨️Dawn Penn
✨️UB40
✨️Madness
✨️Desmond Dekker
✨️Barrington Levy
✨️The Beat and many more.

Who Stung Sting are a veritable Bedfodd supergroup (ahem!)...

🎤 Bass and vocals: Mark Calder (Limelight, Sunsinger & the High Seas and solo & covers act)

🎶 Keys and vocals: Simon Gutteridge (Sunsinger & the High Seas, The Grubby Mitts, & solo covers act)

🎷Sax: Rich Jones (all round sax legend)

🥁 Drums & vocals: Chris Thatcher (Pearl Handled Revolver & solo artist)

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🎧 Get ready for a night of pure energy as we bring the heat back to Esquire Bedford on Friday 19th December 2025 with some of the finest names in the scene...

🕗 TIMES
▪️8:00pm til 2:00am (Last entry 1:00am)

🤩 Lineup
✨️Nicky Blackmarket
✨️AD HYPNO
✨️Dr Lunch
✨️HB22
✨️Lost On Mars
✨️Briggz b2b Garv
✨️4TEN  

🎟 TICKET COST:
▪️£22.25 - £27.75

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🎤 SPECIAL KINDA MADNESS is coming to Esquires, Bedford on Sat 6th December 2025.

▪️AGE: 14+ only. 14s to 15s must be accompanied by an adult. No refunds will be given for incorrectly booked tickets.

Special Kinda Madness are back at Bedford Esquires on Sat 6th December 2025 for their annual gig with their classic take on Madness and The Specials.

ABOUT
Here's the lowdown; SPECIAL KINDA MADNESS perform a truly authentic set from each band, combining the phenomenally energetic stage presence of The Specials with the wonderful iconic tunes of the Madness ‘Nutty Boys’. Playing a set from each band and producing a show that will have the audience up and dancing from the off, Special Kinda Madness will have everyone hankering after that exciting era of 2-Tone and ska.

On 21st July 1979 at the Electric Ballroom in London, the Specials played a gig with Madness, Dexy’s Midnight Runners and Selecter. That’s a gig that all 2-Tone rude boys and rude girls would die to see, and thought would never happen. The Specials and Madness on the same bill!
We know it will never happen now … but you can get the next best thing with Special Kinda Madness!

2 Bands … 2-Tone … 1 Fantastic Night!

ℹ️ EVENT DETAILS
There is no support on the night as the band play 2 sets with the running order of Specials or Madness to be decided on the night. Doors open at 8pm with the band taking to the stage for their first set around 8.30pm.

🎟 TICKET COST: £16.50

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