Tag: Billy Ocean, Irlam, music, Tony Hadley
Irlam Live: Irlam’s biggest ever festival coming this summer
Courtesy of three local event promoters from Irlam, one of the biggest outdoor festivals ever to hit Salford is on the way. Irlam Live, organised by Staged Events, will...
Salford Choral Society take on Handel’s Messiah for Christmas
Salford Choral Society will kick off festive celebrations in style with a performance of Handel’s epic ‘Messiah’. Featuring four soloists and more than...
SalfordOnline.com reaches Spain to find 1965 Eccles music mogul
The speed that SalfordOnline.com’s stories spread around the globe can be frightening at times, but just 12 hours after posting a history story on a famed Eccles...
50 years ago in Eccles: Can’t stop the Beat as Salford’s own Abbey Road studio opens
Over the past five years SalfordOnline.com has been recording the young musicians of the Beat generation who came up through Salford and Eccles bent on world domination....
Free gig in Piccadilly Gardens – ‘Take Your Love of Music to the next level’ – Sun 23 Aug
• Sunday 23 August 2015. • Bands playing 12pm — 3.30pm. • Wellington Statue, Piccadilly Gardens. If you have just received your GCSE results and you are...
Free and cheap family days out for Bank Holiday Monday
Don’t get bored on Bank Holiday Monday – there’s plenty to do out there in Salford and Manchester. Go and catch a family play Over at The Lowry Theatre...
50 years ago in Salford: Talk of the North link to ‘big-time hopefuls’ Karl’s Marals
Salford’s long association with the music biz is well recorded, but one of the most unusually-named bands tipped for success in May 1965 also had a local legend in...
50 years ago in Salford: Beat combo The Rogues tipped for the top
In May 1965 a group of young chaps from Salford and Swinton who called themselves The Rogues were intent on world domination of the musical kind. The Eccles and...
Top 5 things to do in Salford this weekend
Spring is in the air and the weather is getting a tad better, so here are our top five suggestions for things to do in Salford this weekend. As always, if you’ve...
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