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Lytham Festival organisers have fired a message into space inviting UK astronaut Major Tim Peake to come and see Noel Gallagher perform his intergalactic classic.

Acoustic duo and Wonderstuff members Miles and Erica are joining the line up for this year’s Lytham Festival on the Pavilion Stage.

The usually quiet Lancashire seaside town of Lytham is to be anything but when it hosts a one-off gig celebrating 40 years of punk as part of Lytham Festival.

The Festival has expanded its music offering this year with a packed line-up across six stages throughout Lytham and runs from 1-7 August.

Bands The Dolls and Space will take to the Pavilion Stage in a musical explosion that is sure to keep the venue rocking on Wednesday 3 August.

Lytham Festival director Peter Taylor said: “Punk turned the country upside down 40 years ago when it swept the nation and we’re really looking forward to it doing the same at Lytham Festival this year.

“The Dolls offer an ear-splittingly loud sound that is guaranteed to get punk music lovers pogo-ing at the Pavilion, while many will have fond memories of Space from the 90s music scene.

“We have worked really hard this year to select an eclectic line-up for this year’s Festival that will cater to all musical tastes and we’re sure that people will love what we’ve got in store for them.”

The Dolls are an all-girl five piece whose punk credentials are second to none and are coming to Lytham as part of their 2016 Daughters of Anarchy Tour. Formed in 2014 the band, like many others, started out covering songs they loved.

Spaceformed in 1993 in Liverpool and are one of the longest running bands performing at this year’s Festival. Best known for their hits Female of the Species, Me and You Versus The World and Avenging Angels, they are no strangers to the festival scene with stacks of appearances over the years. They also famously dueted with Cerys Matthews from Catatonia with a special tribute to everyone’s favourite Welsh singer titled The Ballad of Tom Jones in 1998.

The Dolls and Space play the Pavilion Stage at Lowther Pavilion on Wednesday 3 August (£25.50).

Organisers Cuffe and Taylor have already revealed Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, Canadian rock giant Bryan Adams, The Village People, Bay City Rollers and musical theatre band Collabro are among those who will headline in the main Lytham Green Proms Arena.

A host of other artists will also will also perform throughout the Festival’s fringe events across five stages throughout the week. Highlights include London based pop-rockers Room 94 at Stage Too and Lawson at the Pavilion Stage, plus much more besides.

There will also be special outdoor film screenings of The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Labyrinth at Lytham Hall and the UK’s largest ever seaside cinema screening of Star Wars: The Force Awakens at the Lytham Green Proms Arena.

Tickets are on sale to all Lytham Festival events now and more events will be announced in the coming weeks.

The Lytham Festival Box Office will open in Lytham Piazza from Sunday June 26.

For more details about all events at Lytham Festival 2016 go to www.lythamfestival.com

Audiences will be howling in the aisles as ventriloquist and comedian Nina Conti brings a one-night show to this year’s Lytham Festival.

Digital marketing experts Get Your Mobi is celebrating its fifth anniversary by unveiling plans for expansion.

One of Lancashire’s major business success stories in recent years is set to get bigger with the company now looking to create further jobs and take its employee’s up to 100 in the next 18 months.

Get Your Mobi started life in June 2011 with just two staff, a pair of laptops and a phone.

Last year the company – led by entrepreneurs Lee Brady and Adam Blakey – moved into new state-of-the-art offices at Lancaster’s White Cross Business Park as well as opening a second office at Blackpool Business Park.

Lee said: “It has been an amazing first five years for Get Your Mobi. We started small but always had a vision for where we wanted to take the company and both myself and Adam are immensely proud we have managed to achieve that.

“But there is no resting on our laurels. We now employ close to 50 people, have thousands of happy customers and want to continue the momentum.”

Get Your Mobi offers all aspects of online solutions for businesses no matter how big or small.

Its bespoke, ultra-personal services include web design, making websites responsive to suit any platform, specialist web hosting and an array of digital marketing tools, including social media and video marketing.

The company prides itself on its personal service and is a great believer in face-to-face and telephone contact with its customers rather than an endless stream of faceless emails.

Adam added: “Our customers value our service and that has made us stand out from the crowd.

“We are a Lancashire firm, and proud of it, but our customer base stretches across the UK. Our products are cutting edge, we know our business and most importantly we take time to fully understand our customers’ businesses and match services to their needs. The results speak for themselves.

“The team we have built share our passion for innovation and making sure our customers’ needs – be they a sole trader, family business or national company – are not only met but surpassed.

”We are expanding all the time and we are now looking at creating further positions in our company over the next 18 months .”

Although statistically more than half of visitors to websites are using mobile devices, such as smart phones or tablets, more than 90% of websites are not optimised for such devices.

Get Your Mobi began by providing solutions to this issue, but has expanded its range of services way beyond web design and now offers a full range of digital business marketing tools and solutions.

Lee said: “The world of digital marketing and web design is changing all the time and so we have built a team who not only fully understand the trends and market changes but lead them.

“The most important feedback is from our customers. They give us a challenge or an issue which needs to be resolved and we develop a bespoke product to do just that. It makes this sector so interesting and hugely rewarding.

“We have loved the first five years of Get Your Mobi – we can’t wait to see where the next five years takes us.”

For more information visit www.getyourmobi.co.uk

A hundred thousand festival-goers are expected to descend on the quiet Lancashire seaside town of Lytham this summer for seven days of global names and emerging talent from the world of music.

Global superstar Joan Collins will be Joan Collins Unscripted touring the UK in a brand new one-woman show.

This all-new show for 2016 provides fans with a once in a lifetime opportunity to spend an intimate, entertaining and unforgettable evening in the company of a true Hollywood legend.

Dame Joan will visit 12 towns and cities across the UK in September and October including a not-to-be-missed night at the London Palladium on Friday September 30.

Tickets for Joan Collins Unscripted go on sale at 9am Friday February 12 and are available from www.seetickets.com or www.ticketmaster.co.uk

Actress, philanthropist and best-selling author, Dame Joan will share stories and secrets from her celebrated life and career as one of the world’s most glamorous and intriguing actresses.

Speaking about the tour Dame Joan said: “I so enjoyed my 10 years performing “One Night with Joan” all over the world that I am delighted to be doing an entirely new show. Each performance will be different so if you liked me in Salford come see me in Edinburgh…and if you don’t then stay at home and watch Corrie.”

Promoters Cuffe and Taylor by arrangement with Jonathan Shalit OBE for Cole Kitchen and Neil O’Brien Entertainment present this brand new tour for 2016.

Cuffe and Taylor Director Peter Taylor said: “Joan Collins is a global icon and we are delighted to be able to present her brand new one-woman show Joan Collins Unscripted at theatres across the UK.

“Dame Joan is a true national treasure whose amazing career was born in the golden age of Hollywood and transcends the decades through her film, television and literary work.

“As you can imagine Dame Joan has a pretty unique and engaging story to tell! Audiences are in for a special night where they will be regaled with stories from a bona fide British entertainment legend.”

Joan Collins Unscripted will see audiences enthralled as Dame Joan reveals some of the exciting stories and secrets from her long career and also includes a question and answer session with the chance to ask questions about her life and career.

Dame Joan has appeared in more than 118 feature films and TV shows, including creating the role of Alexis Carrington on Dynasty, one of the most highly rated television dramas of all time. Her novels and memoirs have sold more than 50 million copies worldwide and have been translated into 30 languages.

On stage, Dame Joan has performed on Broadway, the West End, and in national tours across the UK and North America.

Tickets for Joan Collins Unscripted go on sale at 9am Friday February 12 and are available from www.seetickets.com or www.ticketmaster.co.uk or by calling 0844 844 0444

Tour Dates: Joan Collins Unscripted

09 Sept – Northampton, Royal & Derngate

11 Sept – Southend, The Cliffs Pavilion

12 Sept – Salford, The Lowry

13 Sept – Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury

18 Sept – Norwich, Theatre Royal

19 Sept – Bury St Edmunds, The Apex

22 Sept – Guildford, G Live

24 Sept – Edinburgh, Festival Theatre

26 Sept – Birmingham, Town Hall

27 Sept – Crewe, Lyceum Theatre

30 Sept – London Palladium

03 Oct – Brighton, Theatre Royal

Legends WET WET WET are joining the bill for Tatton Park Concerts by the Lake taking place this July, adding to the already show stopping line up that is set to delight festival goers.

The Glasgow lads have an incredible back catalogue that includes four chart-topping albums and 13 Top 10 UK singles – including three number ones – making them one of the most successful bands in British pop history.

And it is today announced Wet Wet Wet will play at Tatton Park Concerts by the Lake festival on Friday 29 July 2016.

Tickets go on general sale at 9am Friday 6 May, and are available from www.ticketmaster.co.uk or by calling 0844 888 9991 .

The band replace rock legends Roxette who had to cancel their appearance while singer Marie Fredrikkson takes time off from touring for health reasons.

The Tatton Park Concerts by Lake festival is being organised by promoters Cuffe and Taylor.

Director Peter Taylor said: “Wet Wet Wet are one of the most successful British pop bands of all time. Having performed for over three decades their songs have provided a soundtrack to many people’s youth and beyond, and they sound as fresh and as vibrant today as they ever have.

“Their recent UK tour was fantastic and proved, once again, that they are an incredible live act with an almost unequalled jukebox of classic pop hits which everyone knows and loves.

“Having the boys perform at Tatton Park on Friday 29 July further enhances the fantastic line up for the three day festival. We are of course saddened that Roxette could not join us but are sure that people will be delighted with this outstanding new addition to the bill.”

Wet Wet Wet – Graeme Clark, Tommy Cunningham, Neil Mitchell and Marti Pellow – have sold in excess of 15 million singles and albums to date and have featured in the UK official singles and album charts for an immense 510 weeks.

Bursting onto the scene in 1987, the band, whose hits include, Goodnight Girl, Sweet Little Mystery, With A Little Help From My Friends and the massive Love Is All Around (which topped the charts for an incredible 15 weeks) have played to more than four million people in over 25 countries around the world.

Their recent Big Picture tour was a critical and commercial smash with packed venues across the UK and both audiences and reviewers giving the shows five star ratings.

Tickets for Wet Wet Wet’s Tatton Park Concerts by the Lake gig are priced from £45.

Tickets go on sale at 9am Friday6 May from www.ticketmaster.co.uk or by calling 0844 888 9991 .

*Anyone who purchased tickets for Roxette at Tatton Park Concerts by the Lake is able to transfer them for the Wet Wet Wet gig or alternatively can obtain a full refund by going directly through the ticket agent they booked with.

Pop punk chart toppers and Brit Award winners Busted are ready to rock the Yorkshire coast this summer.

The band – which has reformed to the delight of its army of devoted fans – will play Scarborough Open Air Theatre on Friday September 2.

Tickets will go on general sale at 9am Friday April 29 and are available from www.scarboroughopenairtheatre.com or www.ticketmaster.co.uk

Busted enjoyed unrivalled success a decade ago. The Essex boys’ whirlwind career spawned eight top three singles including the massive Year 3000, Crashed the Wedding and Thunderbirds, four number ones, two platinum-selling albums and two Brit Awards.

They split in 2005 when Charlie Simpson left to focus on his alternative rock band Fightstar.

Now all three members – Simpson, James Bourne and Matt Willis – are back, and back with a bang.

Busted’s Scarborough gig is being organised by promoters Cuffe and Taylor.

Director Peter Taylor said: “This is a major news for Busted fans everywhere – the boys are back and they are playing the Yorkshire coast this summer!

“They are one of the most successful pop groups Britain has produced in the last 20 years. There was an amazing reaction to the news they were reforming and we expect this to be a cracking night in Scarborough.

“Having promoted McBusted gigs in the last few years we know what high energy shows they were so we cannot wait to see the original Bustedline-up on stage and doing what they do best – rocking the crowd!”

Formed in 2000, Busted released two studio albums, Busted (2002) and A Present for Everyone (2003), one compilation album and one live album.

After the split, Willis and Bourne toured together with McFly as the supergroup McBusted in 2014 and 2015, which included a stunning gig at Scarborough OAT.

In November, it was revealed Busted were back after a number of successful writing sessions involving Matt, Charlie and James. A third studio album will be released later in 2016.

Matt Willis explained: “For me, there’s a huge sense of unfinished business. I think I always thought in my heart we’d do Busted again, but that it was just a matter of when and how.”

Charlie Simpson said: “Being in Busted was brilliant, and before I got bogged down with the stuff that in the end drove me crazy, it was amazing. The three of us never fell out. So I feel like I can come back and do this and have fun with it.”

And James Bourne added: “We’ve done this crazy, exciting, adventurous, scenic route back to being Busted. And now we’re here, we’re all super-re-energised.”

Tickets for Busted at Scarborough OAT are priced from £35 and go on sale at 9am Friday April 29 from www.scarboroughopenairtheatre.com or in person from the Scarborough Open Air Theatre Box Office. Tickets are also available from www.ticketmaster.co.uk

2016 Brit Award winner James Bay is to headline what promises to be a night to remember on Yorkshire’s beautiful coast this summer.

The singer-songwriter will play at Scarborough Open Air Theatre on Tuesday July 12 2016.

Tickets go on general sale at 9am Friday April 22, and are available from www.scarboroughopenairtheatre.com or www.ticketmaster.co.uk

James burst onto the music scene in late 2014 with the smash hit Hold Back The River.

His debut album, Chaos and The Calm, entered the UK charts at No.1 in March 2015 and was in the top 20 for a staggering 40 weeks, selling more than two million copies around the world.

Known as one of the most captivating and in demand live acts around, James was crowned Best British Male at the 2016 BRIT Awards and was nominated for three Grammy Awards, including Best New Act.

His Scarborough OAT gig is being organised by promoters Cuffe and Taylor.

Director Peter Taylor said: “We are delighted to announce James Bay is coming to Scarborough Open Air Theatre.

“James is without a doubt one of the most in demand artists around. He is one of the biggest breakthrough artists of the last few years, proven by his stunning number one album, international critical acclaim and his many many award accolades.

“He performed a wonderful set at last year’s Glastonbury festival and he has sold out shows across Europe, as well as two tours in the US, so this is going to a be a gig no-one will want to miss.”

James – whose hits include Let It Go, Hold Back The River, Scarsand Best Fake Smile – has collaborated live with such luminaries as Ronnie Wood, Ed Sheeran, Jack Garratt and performed alongside Justin Bieber at this year’s Brits.

Tickets for James Bay’s Scarborough OAT gig are priced from £35.

Tickets go on sale at 9am Friday April 22 from www.scarboroughopenairtheatre.com or in person from the Scarborough Open Air Theatre Box Office. Tickets are also available from www.ticketmaster.co.uk