Widnes Welcomes Pesto in a Pub!
Pesto in a Pub is coming to Widnes Monday April 30th.
Just five months after opening Pesto in a Pub at the Cabbage Hall in Tarporley, Cheshire, we are delighted to announce the opening of our second Pesto in a Pub in Farnworth, Widnes.
Now, if you’re not familiar with Farnworth we’ve got some rather fascinating historical facts for you in this weeks blog, and in the coming days we’ll be adding pics of our stunning new Pesto in a Pub!
Farnworth village can be traced back to 1180, when a chapel dedicated to St Wilifrid was founded in the centre, although the earliest documentation dates back to 1352, when Henry, Duke of Lancaster established a hallmote court (a ye olde way of saying a fancy court) for the manor of Widnes.
Farnworth is a village with a mystical history; according to folklore, in medieval times the village came under threat from a griffin – a legendary creature with the body of a lion and the head and wings of an eagle. The village blacksmith fought and killed the griffin, and was henceforth aptly dubbed ‘Bold’, which is apparently the origin of the local noble family Bold, who have a griffin incorporated in their family coat of arms.
- No griffins here…
Five-hundred or so years on the village remains griffin free, but should there be an expected griffin attack, Pesto in a Pub Widnes is the ideal place to settle down with a delicious meal and cold refreshing pint after a successful griffin slaying session.
In other Pesto news this week, we’ve got our fingers and toes crossed for Pesto Glasgow who have been nominated in the Scottish Entertainment Guide Awards in the Best New Restaurant category!
The awards take place this Sunday at Glasgow’s Thistle Hotel – we’ll announce how our Glasgow team fared on the Pesto Glasgow Facebook page on Monday – http://www.facebook.com/pestoglasgow
http://www.entertainmentguideawards.co.uk/
http://www.pestorestaurants.co.uk/pesto-in-a-pub/
Pesto Glasgow in Line for Award
Pesto Italian Restaurants Glasgow has been nominated for a top award only seven months after opening for business.
Our 300-seat restaurant is a finalist in the ‘Best New Restaurant of the Year’ category at the Scottish Entertainment Guide Awards 2012.
“We are very pleased to be in the running for such a prestigious prize,” said General Manager Francis Carr.
“The nomination says a lot about the hard work of everyone at Pesto Italian Restaurants Glasgow to make the restaurant a success with its innovative approach to Italian cuisine.
“We came ahead of 2,000 other restaurants to win a short-list place so now we eagerly await the judges’ final decision.”
Pesto Italian Restaurant Glasgow is situated in the landmark former John Smith Bookshop building in St Vincent Street after an exquisite £1 million refurbishment.
Owners, Neil and Sara hate being ripped off in restaurants that charge fancy prices but don’t deliver on the food or service so they set out to give customers great value for money through freshly cooked food in a warm relaxed atmosphere.
“Sara and I love Italian food, but just not in traditionally large portions of one dish,” said Neil. “We hit on the idea for Pesto where you can order five or six dishes between two diners and enjoy a selection of different tastes in one meal.
“We are pleased with the progress of Pesto Italian Restaurants Glasgow and, obviously, excited to be considered for this award such a short time after opening up in the city.”
The Scottish Entertainment Guide Awards 2012 awards ceremony takes place on Sunday, April 22nd in Glasgow’s Thistle Hotel. For ticket information, event enquiries and table bookings please call 0141 332 1143 / 0141 420 1333
Tasty New Chapter for Bookshop
Dinner for a group of former colleagues turned out even tastier when they booked a meal in the famous place where they used to work.
Pesto Glasgow, one of the city’s newest Italian restaurants after a £1 million refurbishment, is located in what was for over 250 years the flagship, landmark John Smith Bookshop in St Vincent Street.
The privately-owned restaurant was happy to welcome the special group of diners at the weekend and before placing their orders they were given a guided tour of their old place of work.
“We didn’t need to look up directions to the restaurant,” said Sue Bryson, who has been meeting up every six weeks for the past 12 years with her fellow John Smith Bookshop managers.
“We enjoy our get-togethers and when we learned that number 57 St Vincent Street was now a restaurant, we were intrigued and just had to make a reservation there.”
The ladies taking a walk down memory lane were Joan Douglas, Jean Long, Sharon Tornow, Christine Anderson, Sue Bryson and Gloria Miller, who still works for the company at Strathclyde University’s Jordhanill branch.
In total they can boast over a century of service with John Smith, the oldest, and still thriving, bookseller in the English-speaking world. The company, which has been awarded the Academic Bookseller of the Year Award for the past five consecutive years, now has 25 shops located in universities throughout the UK.
“It has been very tastefully changed,” said Sue. “We were pleased to get a tour of the building, too, so we appreciated that very much. It brought back happy memories.
“It was a friendly and enjoyable place to work. It was a treat to be back. We enjoyed the visit, the kind attention of all the staff and the lovely food.
“All in all, a special night. We will be back.”
Pesto, which has been open for less than six months, specialises in dishes called Piattini, meaning small plates in Italian.
The idea is that you can order five or six dishes between a couple of diners but enjoy a selection of different tastes in one meal.
Francis Carr, the restaurant’s general manager, said: “We were really pleased when we got the booking to learn of the ladies’ connection with the building through their days as book sellers.
“It was a pleasure showing them around and we’re delighted they enjoyed their visit as well as their meals. We are pleased they are planning a return visit, too.”
Mothers Day Pesto’s Picks
Mothers Day is just a few weeks off, and with that in mind Pesto’s Picks takes a look at some of the best Mothers Day entertainment on in Manchester, Liverpool and Glasgow.
The Moscow City Ballet’s adaptation of William Shakespeare’s epic tragedy Romeo and Juliet has a two-night run scheduled at the Manchester Opera House on the 15th and 16th March. A stunning combination of artistry, technique and narrative accompanied by an emotive dramatic score from the late award-winning composer Sergei Prokofiev is sure to make for an original and moving Mothers Day gift.
http://www.atgtickets.com/Moscow-City-Ballet-s-Romeo-Juliet-Tickets/172/956/#overview_tab
Now, if you’d rather go for something a little more upbeat, why not treat your dear old mum to tickets to the Glasgow International Comedy Festival?
The festival runs from the 15th March till the 1st of April at venues across the City. Our personal highlights are Loose Women panelist Jenny Eclair and Father Ted’s Ardal O’Hanlon appearing at the Citizens Theatre, March 30th and the King’s Theatre, March 29th respectively.
http://www.ticketsoup.com/tickets/jenny-eclair-old-dog-new-tricks-2012-13444/default.aspx
http://www.ticketsoup.com/tickets/ardal-ohanlon-2012-13493/default.aspx
Perhaps a little nostalgia would make the perfect Mothers Day gift, and what better way than to reminisce than a trip to the flicks to watch a modern-day classic? 80′s sci-fi romp Back to the Future returns to the big screen at Glasgow Cineworld on March 30th – this is set to be a sell-out so be sure to get tickets well in advance!
http://www.cineworld.co.uk/cinemas/28
Over in Liverpool we have something that will delight music-loving mums – International Guitar Night – the world’s premier touring guitar festival. Lulo Reindhardt (nephew of the late, great Django Reindhardt), Brian Gore and Adrian Legg, touted by slick-fingered legend Joe Satriani as “simply the best acoustic guitar player I’ve ever heard” have been wielding their axes across the globe, and March 1st sees the show come to the Liverpool Philharmonic.
http://www.visitliverpool.com/whats-on/search/international-guitar-night-p305161
Whatever you do for Mothers Day you can be sure that a delicious meal washed down with our special Mothers Day cocktail the giola Di Mardi (Mothers Joy!) will be the perfect accompaniment to a perfect day! Why not book a table at your favourite Pesto now?
Pesto’s Picks February 2012
With the Celtic Connections festival in full swing and the Glasgow Film Festival 2012 gearing up for kick-off on the 16th February, Scotland’s biggest city is certainly living up to its reputation as a hub of creative activity.
Pesto Italian Restaurants Glasgow is located right at the centre of the city on vibrant St Vincent Street, just a stone’s throw from Central Station and countless music venues, cinemas, nightclubs and theatres – the ideal place to fill up before throwing yourself into the action!
For all the mums and dads out there, this years Glasgow Film Festival has put together a special parent and baby screening; in short it’s highlights from the eight international competition programmes condensed into an hour-and-a-half long ‘film’. The selection of clips is set to remain a secret right up until the curtains open, but the folks at Glasgow Film Festival promise and “entertaining and thought-provoking drama, documentary and animation from around the world” with “no extreme content or sudden loud noises” with the lights remaining on low to allow easy movement during the screening. Tickets are a very reasonable £4 and all babies go free, but must be accompanied by an adult, obviously.
http://www.glasgowfilm.org/festival/whats_on/3624_short_stuff_parent_baby_screening
Now, this year at the Glasgow Film Festival there’s said to be festivals within festivals, which all sounds a bit Inception to us, but apparently it’s just “mini festivals within the Festival that both complement and diversify the programme as a whole”. The mini festivals are the Short Film Festival, Youth Film Festival, the Music and Film Festival and Frightfest – ooh er!
The Frightfest is brought to Glasgow Film Festival by Film4 and will premiere a massive eleven movies this year, including Crawl, War of the Dead and The Raid. The two-day-movie-marathon starts at 13:30 on Friday 24th February and ends Saturday 25th February at 23:15. All screenings are rated 18+ and are likely to put you off your tea, so if you are heading out to Frightfest be sure to stop by Pesto Italian Restaurants Glasgow for a spot of lunch first.
Heading down to the North West for February, highlights for the month include Irish superstars Snow Patrol at the Manchester Evening News Arena and the X Factor Live Tour 2012 also at the MEN.
Snow Patrol’s sixth album Fallen Empires was released on November 11th 2011 and was the band’s highest debut on the Billboard chart. Almost nine years after their commercial breakthrough album Final Straw, the band are have just started their fifth major tour with
dates scheduled across Europe, the US and Canada. The Irish lovelies will take to the MEN stage on Friday 3rd February with support from Manchester lads Everything Everything.
- Not part of Fright Fest
Last years X Factor competition was easily one of the most explosive yet, with fiery exits, band break-ups, bitchy judges, Kitty Brucknell and more Adele renditions than your average karaoke bar on a Saturday night. And all without Simon Cowell.
We reckon the X Factor Tour 2012 is not to be missed, and there are still (just a few) tickets left for their two
-day-stint at the MEN Arena on Saturday the 25th and Sunday 26th of February. If you want to treat your other half to a flamboyant Valentine’s gift tickets are £38 (inc booking fee) available from Ticketmaster.
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ghlights in Liverpool this month include a show at the Liverpool Philharmonic from Mike and the Mechanics legend Paul Carrack and a special Valentine’s screening of the Audrey Hepburn classic Breakfast at Tiffany’s.
Former Mike and the Mechanics frontman (you’d think he’d be called Mike…), Squeeze keyboardist and the voice behind Ace’s How Long and Squeeze’s Tempted and The Living Years has a reputation as a brilliant live performer. His velvety voice oozes soul and his talent as a multi-instrumentalists makes him one of the last century’s most underrated artists.
Friday 17th February from 7:30pm, tickets are available from Ticketmaster.
Truman Capote’s charming fairytale is once again brought to life this Valentines Day at the Liverpool Philharmonic. For those of you who don’t know the story, or haven’t got round to seeing it yet (really, what’s your excuse?!), young New York writer Paul Varjak (George Peppard) moves into a flat and meets the eccentric Holly Golightly (Audrey Hepburn) who has a penchant for the dramatic and leads highly glamorous social and emotional life. Holly is a party girl whose extraordinarily stylish facade masks bleak inner anguish and a hidden past. Henry Mancini’s Oscar-winning ballad ‘Moon River‘ underscores a beautifully romantic end to the 1961 classic.
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http://www.glasgowfilm.org/festival/information/festivals_within_the_festivals/gmff
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Patrol
http://www.everything-everything.co.uk/
https://twitter.com/#!/kittybrucknell
http://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/X-Factor-Live-tickets/artist/27410
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squeeze_(band)
www.mike-and-the-mechanics.co.uk
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Carrack
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truman_Capote
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakfast_at_Tiffany’s_(film)
Celtic Connections 2012
With Burns night just a few days away and the Celtic Connections festival well under way, we thought it was about time we highlighted the best of what’s on up north in Scotland’s biggest city.
This years Celtic Connections festival features some of Scotland and Irelands biggest names in the folk community as well as acts from across the globe whose music has been influenced by Celtic music. Below are the Pesto Italian Restaurants Glasgow top acts not to be missed at this year’s Celtic Connections.
Thursday 2nd February sees Belfast native Andy White take to the stage at Glasgow Art Club on Bath Street, just a few minutes walk from Pesto Italian Restaurants Glasgow. Andy garnered a worldwide following for combining folk and pop stylings with a poet’s sensibility. Working with the heavyweights of Irish music including Van Morrison and Sinead O’Connor in addition to writing with Peter Gabriel and Neil and Tim Finn, Andy has scooped Ireland’s top songwriting awards and completed several world tours.
Thursday 2nd February 8pm, The Glasgow Art Club
http://www.celticconnections.com/whatson/event/119679-Andy-White
After a lengthy break from performing, Isle-of-Skye born Anne Martin will be bringing her brand of traditional Gaelic song to Glasgow University, where Glasgow-based band Askolenn will collaborate with students and staff at the Gaelic and Celtic departments of the University.
Thursday 26th January 8pm, Glasgow University
http://www.celticconnections.com/whatson/event/119691-Ce%C3%B2l%27s-Craic-Anne-Martin-&-Friends-and-Askolenn-&-Glasgow-University
Born of a 2010 Dublin Fringe Fest commission, This Is How We Fly consists of Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh (fiddle/hardanger fiddle), Seán Mac Erlaine (bass clarinet/saxophones/electronics), Nic Gareiss (percussive dance), and Petter Berndalen (drums/percussion). Their sound melds Irish and Swedish traditional sounds with American freestyle footwork, live electronica and the occasional jazz improv. A truly unique quartet with a stage show not to be missed.
Also performing are Italian outfit Liguriani who blend fiddles with flute, bagpipes, guitars and accordions.
Saturday 21st January 7:30pm, St Andrews in the Square
http://www.celticconnections.com/whatson/event/118714-This-is-How-we-Fly-and-Liguriani
And for those of you who don’t want the party to end why not stop by Pesto Italian Restaurants Glasgow for some last minute food to refuel before a night at the Celtic Connections after show club night. The after-show nights are hosted at Apollo 23, just a five minute walk from Pesto Italian Restaurants Sin Vincent Street. The late night club ensures that there is even more music to enjoy after all the gigs are over, with line-ups never divulged before the night – the Festival Club is said to be the late-night jam session to end all jam sessions!
10pm till late, Friday 20th Jan – Sunday 5th Feb
http://www.apollo23.com/
Pesto’s Picks January 2012
The New Year is almost upon us, and with 2011 having been the second warmest year on UK records hopefully our New Year celebrations won’t be blighted by freezing temperatures and relentless rain. Or perhaps that’s just wishful thinking…
With many of us about to embark upon the mission of sticking it to a long-standing vice, enter into battle with excess Christmas weight or seek out a new career as part of our New Year’s resolutions, what better time to take your mind off all that stress-inducing good behaviour and enjoy watching someone else sweat it out for a few hours, bringing us to the first pick of the year; TNA Maximum Impact Wrestling IV at the Manchester Evening News Arena. (Friday 27th January)
According to the MEN “Wrestling legends Sting and Kurt Angle head up the roster of stars from TNA’s flagship television programme Impact Wrestling.
“TNA World Heavyweight Champion Sting will be making his first wrestling appearance in the UK for almost a decade alongside Olympic Gold Medallist Kurt Angle.
“Also starring at the Manchester event will be Gail Kim, Rob Van Dam, Beer Money, Crimson, Mickie James, Gunner, “The Phenomenal” AJ Styles, “Samoan Submission Machine” Samoa Joe, TNA Knockout Velvet Sky, Mr. Anderson, Matt Morgan, Bully Ray, Mexican American and many more.
“Speaking ahead of his Manchester visit, Sting says: “It has been too long since I’ve been back to the UK. I promise you there will be Maximum Impact in January 2012. It’s going to be Showtime!
“Fans will see lots of bodies flying through the air, broken tables, chairs everywhere. We call it professional wrestling. We call it IMPACT WRESTLING”.
Ooh er.
- Stern
Next up from the North West we have something altogether more relaxing and a little more high-brow from the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Beethoven’s Pastoral (Wednesday 11th January).
Conducted by Vasily Petrenko with Nikolai Lugansky performing Beethoven’s Overture, Prometheus, Piano Concerto No. 4 and Symphony No. 6 ‘Pastoral’ the evening is set to by truly magical, ideal for anyone wishing to wind down following the excesses of the festive season.
“One great composer: three incredible worlds. From blazing joy to blinding rage, no composer captured human emotion with more passion – or poetry – than Ludwig van Beethoven.”
Tickets range from £13 to £36, but there aren’t too many left!
Back from the 90's
Yooooooou’re gooooooorgeous! Probably words you’ve heard exchanged many times over the Christmas period if you’ve visited at least one bar with at least one over-zelous festive reveller. Well, if you’re in Glasgow this January 31st and would like to hear the song as it should be sung, britpop one-hit-wonder Babybird, or Stephen Jones as he’s less-commonly known will be performing at Glasgow’s legendary King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut.
Jones’s brand of off-beat pop will be sure to brighten up your post-christmas midweek blues, and at only £12.50 a ticket it won’t break the bank either. Support comes from the Sneaky Russians, who appear not to be Russian, but must have sneaky tendencies to have wormed their way onto the bill with their dire brand of long-deceased garage band indie-pop.
Well that’s it folks, our picks of the month for January. Next month, what with it being February and all, we’ll be doing a Valentine’s special – watch this space!
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2080355/Feeling-hot-2011-second-warmest-year-record-hottest-spring.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Angle
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Petrenko
lugansky.homestead.com/
www.babybirdmusic.me
Pesto’s Perfect Trees!
Carrie and Big. Bert and Ernie. Cookies and milk. Some things just work better together, and without a tree Christmas just doesn’t work. The festive aroma, the decorating ritual and above all, presents underneath are part of what make Christmas, er, Christmassy!
Now, with there only being one days left till the big day itself, we’d hedge our bets that some of you are still scrambling to find the time to even choose a tree, never mind get it dressed up in time for Christmas morning. This is where we’re on hand to help! Here are Pesto’s top five tips for choosing the perfect tree!
1. Size does matter. If, like most of us, every inch of living space matters the last thing you want is a monster Redwood Christmas tree eating up your lounge. If you’re struggling to squeeze in a Tesco pot-plant, steer clear of lavish big trees, however tempting! Pick the perfect space for your tree and measure it before going shopping to save yourself a world of hassle later in the day.
2. Age also matters. A recent Facebook post from a most unlucky festive relative served as an excellent reminder that choosing where you buy your tree is every bit, if not more important than the tree. The relative in question splashed out a rather decadent £75 at her local farm shop only for the tree to wilt and die within ten days. Finding out whether your local tree stockist buys in their stock weekly or if it’s one big delivery will allow you to gauge how ago the tree was cut and judge whether it’s likely to be a duffer by Christmas morning.
3. Hate hoovering? The Norway Spruce might not be the tree for you…Some trees emit that gorgeous festive aroma, others retain their needles long after they’ve adopted that delightful shade of brown. For best needle retention the Noble Fir might be best for your household, while the Norway Fir really captures that festive scent.
4. Shape matters. As most Christmas trees in commercial shops have already been stuffed into nets, it makes it nigh on impossible to guess whether the tree in question has a classic Christmas tree shape, or is in fact a Side-Show Bob bonsai nightmare. Short of ripping the net off in-store (and possibly being removed from said shop) all you can do is try to find a small platform from which to gaze down the top of the tree to assess how even the branches are. Or you could try grabbing a tree from a local seller, who tend not to net their stock.
5. Fake it. If all of the above just seems too strenuous for arguably the most time-consuming month of the year, pop into John Lewis and buy a fake. Buying a fake does have its upsides; no messy pine needles, no faffing with nets, no watering around hundreds of potential fire hazards and best of all you can shove it in the attic and drag it out next year saving you time and money in the long run. All that aside, fake trees are rather naff, and it might just take you all year to find one that looks anywhere near as pretty as a genuine festive fir.
Struggling for a last minute stocking filler? Pop into Pesto today and pick up a gift voucher!
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrie_Bradshaw
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norway_Spruce
Interview: Hanna Kerr
- Assistant Manager Hanna Kerr
Pesto Italian Restaurants Glasgow has only been open for a little over a month, but in that time assistant manager Hanna Kerr has managed to familiarize herself with a number of Pesto cocktails! We caught up with Hanna to chat Glasgow at Christmas, Ryan Gosling, the Lion King and, of course, cocktails!
How long have you been part of the Pesto team?
Two and a half months
What is the best thing about working for Pesto?
It’s a small company with interaction with the owners which makes you feel you are part of something. The team we have here are all very friendly and good at their jobs, both of which make Pesto a good place to work.
What is your favourite Pesto dish and drink?
Pizzette Capra is my favourite dish and my favourite drink is a Mojito limonata, any mojito in my book is good but with limoncello in it makes it a bit different than the usual.
What’s the funniest thing to have happened to you in the restaurant?
Coming to work on a daily basis and working with Francis, John and Hugh is pretty funny in itself as they all have great senses of humour and enjoy taking the mickey out of me too much!
Which three celebrities (dead or alive) would you invite to dinner at Pesto?
- Ryan Gosling. Handsome.
Ryan Gosling, if anyone has seen Crazy, Stupid Love they will understand why I chose him. Beyonce because I think she is amazing and I know Francis would be beside himself if she came to Pesto for dinner! Lastly, Heath Ledger as I would love to find out how he went about playing the joker and talk to him about The Dark Knight.
What inspired you to become a manager?
Restaurant work is something that I have been doing since I was 14 and it is something I am passionate about as someday in the future I hope to have my own restaurant. I was given the chance to become a manager at a very young age which I was very grateful for. Being able to teach people new things and skills and learn from managers that I work with is an inspiring thing. When the restaurant is full and has a great atmosphere, you can think to yourself I’m running this shift and it’s a great feeling.
After a meal at Pesto, what’s the best thing to do in Glasgow?
Princes Square is great at night, especially at Christmas when its all lit up, and there are nights where you can learn to dance salsa. At Christmas, round the corner in George Square there is an ice skating rink which is great fun to go to with a group of friends, maybe before a few drinks though!
What was the last show you went to and how was it?
- Oooh. That Scar is a proper nightmare.
Yesterday I went to see the Lion King 3d, the stampede was brilliant in 3d but Mufasa dying really upset me! It was fun to see how much I could embarrass my friend by singing along to the songs only to turn and see she was singing along too!
What does the next year at Pesto Italian Restaurants Glasgow hold for you?
I am looking forward to growing the business and making people in Glasgow aware of how good the food and service is here.
There it is peeps; head to Pesto for mojitos before an ice-skating sesh, or is that the other way round…? You can check out the rest of our interviews with the Pesto team on our blog and meet the team page.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Gosling
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1570728/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyonc%C3%A9_Knowles
Pesto’s Picks – Halloween Special
- Might have gone overboard on the garlic bread…
October is a funny old month; supermarket shelves are filled with Halloween “goodies” including tacky nun costumes, bizarre re imaginings of the humble Jaffa Cake (they’re green?) and, er, singing skulls.
The macabre displays of fake bloodied hands and packets of scabs next to Christmas crackers and spiced festive-spiced-nut-hamper-type-stuff is perhaps all that is unsettling about the naff Halloween tat maligning shop shelves this month.
But bemoan pagan festivals we shall not, for with Halloween comes some pretty spectacular events, from Alice Cooper spooky specials to secret parties in the dark heart of Glasgow.
First up though it’s Bolton’s very own Peter Kay at the Manchester Evening News Arena. Kay made a name for himself by twisting casually observed conversational banalities into lighthearted ‘proper northern’ humour. The Tour That Doesn’t Tour kicked off on the 27th September and will run until October 21st. Tickets for Kay’s show are scarce, so if you can’t get your hands on one, why not pop into Pesto for some garlic bread?
Next up in Manchester we have another of Bolton’s finest exports Paddy McGuinness for one night only at the MEN. Tickets for McGuinness’s debut MEN show are almost gone, so if you want to catch this one act fast!
- Actually prefers Coco Pops to live snakes
Alice Cooper has it all; boa constrictors, electric chairs, buckets of fake blood and, er, a free bus pass, cos he’s a pensioner, don’t you know? Veteran American rocker Vincent Furnier, or Alice Cooper to you and I, will be bringing his Halloween Night of Fear event to the Manchester Apollo on Sunday October 30th. Admittedly, it’s not quite Halloween, but you can bet your bottom dollar it’ll be a full-on-freak show! If you’re lucky enough to have tickets, be sure to stop in at Pesto en route for a round of Bloody Marys!
Liverpool can expect a treat from Californian firecracker (or should that be firework?) Katy Perry on October 18th as she brings her musical brand of crazy to the Echo Arena.
Now if you prefer to celebrate Halloween in secret you’d be well-advised to bag yourself tickets for the Chemikal Halloween Party, because the location is, well, secret. While this might make planning your night that little bit more troublesome (finding it without some sort of assistance will likely result in failure), it’ll certainly keep you on your toes.
Katy Perry. Probably quite high maintenance.
Now at Pesto we know all about Good Food, but if you’d like to know more and you’re in Glasgow this October why not check out the BBC Good Food Show at the SECC on the 21st of October? Alternatively if you don’t want to learn about good food just pop into Pesto and we’ll sort you out with our delicious piatinni.
Chatty man Alan Carr will be, well, standing up and, er, chatting at the SECC on the 7th and 8th October ahead of his upcoming DVDs set for release just before Christmas…how cunning.
The o2 Academy in Glasgow is set for a good ol’ knees up on the 29th October at Club Noir Halloween. If there was ever a way to get down with the pagans in style, this is it.
http://www.ents24.com/web/artist/33291/Peter_Kay.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTxL6DaOs74
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_McGuinness
http://pestorestaurants.co.uk/blog
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