Going Out

They’ve not even come off the road yet from their October tour and Darlington’s hottest indie electro punkas We Start Fires are getting back on that tour bus for more UK dates in November.

Now in its sixth year- and still growing - the Magners Glasgow International Comedy Festival is the largest event of its kind in Europe. Taking to the stage for 18 days in March, the festival programme is side-splittingly stuffed with top national and international stand-ups, plus brand new comedy dramas, classic films, workshops and shows for the whole family.

National Geographic’s new giant-screen film “Sea Monsters 3D: A Prehistoric Adventure”, the first release to premier simultaneously across all UK IMAX cinemas and selected specialty theatres on 20 October 2007, brings to life the extraordinary marine reptiles of the dinosaur age in spectacular photo-realistic 3D.

Celebrating their 30th anniversary of Foreigner, the band, led by its founder, Mick Jones, will play a 7 date tour visiting Glasgow, Newcastle, Cardiff, Portsmouth, Wolverhampton, Manchester and London, and runs from 9 to 17 November. At all of the concerts a local school choir will be invited to join the band on stage to sing Foreigner’s classic hit ‘I Want To Know What Love Is’.

Hard Rock International are proud to announce that Glaswegian pop chart toppers Wet Wet Wet are to perform at Hard Rock Cafe’s around the UK at the end of October. They join Lil Chris, Nerina Pallot, Ross Copperman and Ghosts, all of which are playing Hard Rock Cafes this month to benefit The Caron Keating Foundation as part of the Hard Rock Rocktober series of shows.

Estampas Porteñas, Argentina’s hottest dance company come to St George’s Hall, Bradford this autumn with their sizzling show, Tango Fire on 24 October. The show - direct from Buenos Aires - features 10 sensational dancers accompanied by one of Argentina’s finest singers and a quartet of brilliant young musicians, Quatrotango.

As part of its global Rocktober spectacular, Hard Rock International is excited to announce that Lil Chris will be playing exclusively at Hard Rock London on 9 October, with all money raised from ticket sales going to The Caron Keating Foundation.

Dirty Dancing has become a cult favourite since Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey first starred in the hit 1987 film. It won critical acclaim, Golden Globes and the soundtrack topped the charts with the theme tune, (I've Had) The Time Of My Life, winning an Oscar for best original song and becoming one of the era’s most performed songs and a ubiquitous radio staple.

English National Ballet’s 2008/09 season opens with Swan into Spring, a selection of short ballets which will tour to Southampton and Bristol. Swan into Spring opens in Southampton and includes Act II from Derek Deane’s Swan Lake, Harald Lander’s Etudes and a selection of pas de deux.

Forget muddy fields, mp3 players, nightclubs or state of the art sound systems at home, a study of the in-car listening habits of 1,200 drivers by Vauxhall Motors reveals that the place Brits most like to go to indulge their personal music pleasures is their own car.