Operated by by sister company Rising Moon Productions, our dedicated events space can be used for theatre, comedy, live music, events and everything in between.
Events in March–April 2022
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Quiz Night
Quiz Night
Every Wednesday from 8pm is quiz night.
Test your Knowledge and win cash prizes! -
Quiz Night
Quiz Night
Every Wednesday from 8pm is quiz night.
Test your Knowledge and win cash prizes! -
Subdural Hematoma- Eleanor May Blackburn
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Subdural Hematoma- Eleanor May Blackburn
Subdural Hematoma is the story of several people’s journeys through a brain injury and a celebration of what lies ahead on the other side. Mixing the voices of parents with tragic and, at times, highly comedic moments- you will not know if you are supposed to laugh or cry. Hell, go ahead and do both. Follow Ellie May through the twists and turns of hospital life; will she make it to the toilet this time?
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Subdural Hematoma- Eleanor May Blackburn
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Subdural Hematoma- Eleanor May Blackburn
Subdural Hematoma is the story of several people’s journeys through a brain injury and a celebration of what lies ahead on the other side. Mixing the voices of parents with tragic and, at times, highly comedic moments- you will not know if you are supposed to laugh or cry. Hell, go ahead and do both. Follow Ellie May through the twists and turns of hospital life; will she make it to the toilet this time?
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Dave Allen...A Journey Through Life... and Death
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Dave Allen...A Journey Through Life... and Death
After its sell out run at Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre and Cathedral Quarter arts festival, Belfast. M.E.N Theatre award winner Kieran Cunningham brings the story of the acclaimed Irish comedian to the Kings Arms Salford.
Dave Allen made his name in a series of television shows in the 1970s which saw him perched on a stool, telling jokes with a whiskey and a cigarette in hand.
Credited with changing the way comedians in Britain presented their material, he railed against the political and religious establishment, often drawing upon his Catholic upbringing in Ireland.
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Dave Allen...A Journey Through Life... and Death
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Dave Allen...A Journey Through Life... and Death
After its sell out run at Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre and Cathedral Quarter arts festival, Belfast. M.E.N Theatre award winner Kieran Cunningham brings the story of the acclaimed Irish comedian to the Kings Arms Salford.
Dave Allen made his name in a series of television shows in the 1970s which saw him perched on a stool, telling jokes with a whiskey and a cigarette in hand.
Credited with changing the way comedians in Britain presented their material, he railed against the political and religious establishment, often drawing upon his Catholic upbringing in Ireland.
Quiz NightQuiz Night
Every Wednesday from 8pm is quiz night.
Test your Knowledge and win cash prizes! -
Quiz Night
Quiz Night
Every Wednesday from 8pm is quiz night.
Test your Knowledge and win cash prizes! -
The Be Positives & The Big Peach
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The Be Positives & The Big Peach
The Be Positives formed in Manchester in 2018, releasing their self titled debut album on Italy’s White Zoo Records shortly afterwards. David Sue from The Manchester Evening News said the album takes “a most gluttonous approach to musical genres, absorbing everything from glam-pop to garage-rock to lush piano balladry. Crucially, though, it’s a sound which never threatens to overwhelm the listener”. The album was placed as a runner-up for the paper’s album of the year in 2019. The band have now released their second album, ‘Everything About… The Be Positives’ through US independent label, Think Like a Key. Continuing their tradition of variance, the new record delves further into the garage rock field with the up tempo ‘I Just Want to See Her’, finds Beatles/Byrds synergy with ‘Rain & Stormy Weather’ and blues balladry with ‘Goodbye’. The album is out on CD and to stream now, with a vinyl edition soon to follow in early 2022.
The Big Peach are a mancunian pub rock outfit, who would describe their sound as toe tapping 'good-time music'. If you're ever lucky enough to witness one of their shows they will have you twisting to songs you've never heard before, but already sound like life time favourites
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Rich Hardisty SILLY BOY (WIP)
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Rich Hardisty SILLY BOY (WIP)
In his intimate debut hour “SILLY BOY” Rich Hardisty takes us on a journey through the highs and the lows of his unusual life.
Expect anecdotes and observations about mental institutions, missing dads and mania, all from his warm/inquisitive/childlike perspective.In the show Rich tries his best to convey what mental illness really looks and feels like.
But you won’t find any self pity or loathing here… this is a celebration of the beauty and silliness of it all and the interesting, hilarious and sometimes shocking things his brain is capable of doing (whether he wants it to or not.)The show culminates in a 10 minute performance piece using a projection, where Rich attempts to show what a manic episode looks and feels like inside his head.
Raw, open and honest but most importantly…FUNNY!
CREDITS:
RICH is a writer / performer who has performed in shows for C4, BBC and Netflix, has developed 2 sitcoms with channel 4, and developed projects with production companies:- Baby Cow , Spelthorne and V.A.L.
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Verbose with Cookie Love and Nikolai Duffy
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Verbose with Cookie Love and Nikolai Duffy
Manchester's award-winning spoken word event - every last Monday of the month at The King's Arms! Verbose brings a vibrant mix of spoken word and live literature from a talented bill of open mic acts and wonderful headliners. Expect poetry, prose and everything in between from a real community vibe that gladly welcomes all newcomers.
Tickets are FREE at the point of service but donation tickets are available and greatly appreciated! To apply for an open mic slot please email us at verbosemanchester@gmail.com -
Quiz Night
Quiz Night
Every Wednesday from 8pm is quiz night.
Test your Knowledge and win cash prizes! -
Verbose with Beth Calverley and Sharena Lee Satti
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Verbose with Beth Calverley and Sharena Lee Satti
Manchester's award-winning spoken word event - every last Monday of the month at The King's Arms! Verbose brings a vibrant mix of spoken word and live literature from a talented bill of open mic acts and wonderful headliners. Expect poetry, prose and everything in between from a real community vibe that gladly welcomes all newcomers.
Tickets are FREE at the point of service but donation tickets are available and greatly appreciated! To apply for an open mic slot please email us at verbosemanchester@gmail.com -
Saturday Night Special: Tim O'Connor
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Saturday Night Special: Tim O'Connor
Tim O’Connor is a Singer Songwriter based in the French Alps who grew up musically in Manchester and of Irish origins.Tim has carved his own path and built a strong reputation as an independent Singer and songwriter and live performer.A Troubadour for the 21st century with an eclectic musical melting pot of songs. (Melodic,lyrical,Folky rock n roll) a cross cultural adventurer.Tim's Music is influenced by a myriad of musical styles woven into his insightful,heartfelt contemporary yet age old sounding songs, drawing influence from The Beatles, Dylan,Van Morrison, Tom Waits, Johnny Cash and traditional Irish Music.Tim has worked with many wonderful musicians including the late great Maartin Allcock (Fairport Convention, Robert Plant, Cat Stevens) and great fiddle player Andy Dinan and together released the album "Mancunia". He regularly plays with great Flute player Paul Daly and guitarist David Thom,He has performed and recorded with Mike McGoldrick, Arty McGlynn and supported Richard Thompson, Daby Toure and Martin Stephenson among many others. Tim has performed at many clubs, theatres and festivals all over Europe in the States,Brazil and New Zealand. He has a very organic approach to music and has followed his own musical inspiration.
"Really powerful songs" Mike Harding"great songs "Steve Coogan
"Tim is a great songwriter” Maartin Allcock
Brilliant Singer Songwriter “Martin Stephenson" -
The Hunger
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The Hunger
North Yorkshire, 1986.
Megan and Deborah live alone on their farm in the Yorkshire Dales. What was once their home has now become their only refuge from an increasingly dangerous outside world. They have their farm, their food and each other.
But the appearance of a young boy quickly throws their fragile harmony into a dark, downward spiral. As the days grow warmer the pair begin to pull apart at the seams, and the cost of survival is chillingly laid bare.
Kitchen sink drama meets post-apocalyptic horror, The Hunger is an original play about morality and motherhood at the end of the world.
This play features very strong language, disordered eating, alcoholism, domestic abuse and cannibalism, as well as references to death, violence and suicide.Quiz NightQuiz Night
Every Wednesday from 8pm is quiz night.
Test your Knowledge and win cash prizes! -
Dreams of Decay
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Dreams of Decay
Dreams of Decay is a platform to showcase local DIY and experimental talent.
Presenting music performances from:Claire Welles One of Liverpool’s finest underground provocateurs. Fiercely singular in her approach to music yet with a musical nous you simply can’t teach. A long history of recording music, Claire has straddled almost every musical styling yet imbues her music with a rich melodic tendency which makes her experimental pop ease into your being over time. If you let it. https://clairewelles.bandcamp.com/
Freda Wallace Sound and performance artist working with non-musical instruments to create abrasive rhythmic scores. Described as Industrial Psychadelia. The most recent work, “Brutal Ephemeral” is a work specifically about the sewing machine and the dichotomy of the brutal but delicate. The industry and the intimacy. The women’s work (traditionally) aside the mass production of industry. https://fredawallace.livejournal.com/13560.html
ZimZum Granite dance with astrological synthesizers Experimental, industrial, techno, electronic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnEW0rmyD9I https://zimzum23.bandcamp.com/
Neon Eyes Tara and Miriam join forces as duo Neon Eyes to bring you the best selection of Italo Disco/Hi-Nrg/Cold Wave/Post Punk/New Wave and synth rarities.
Doors: 7:30pm
Tickets: £5 Advance / £7 OTD
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They Came For My Mother
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They Came For My Mother
Join us for a relaxed sharing of a new play telling the story of two women trapped together in sickness and health.
Coming round and realising she’s trapped, 'B' has nowhere to go and no one to turn to but 'A', who's more animal than human. Focusing on the two women as they’re locked in a squalid bedroom with nothing but themselves, the shadows beyond the door and the same three channels on repeat, how long before they have to face themselves and each other?
This is a funny, electrically charged look at the shit women have been dealing with for eons. Powerful and raw with elements of absurdism and bouffon clown. We see women’s glorious strength and vulnerability, their power in extraordinary circumstances to overcome stifling sexual exploitation and oppression. It looks at the control of girls and women and the intersection between trauma and addiction.
We're sharing the work at this early stage as a relaxed, script in hand performance to gauge audience responses and feedback in preparation for funding bids. We appreciate your support and feedback will be very appreciated.
**Trigger Warning** The play does deal with sensitive subject matter such as Human/sex trafficking, rape, drugs and addiction.
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A Place To Fall To Pieces
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A Place To Fall To Pieces
Show Description:You are on an island. And it is sinking. It is not a metaphor, nor is it a dream. It is the end. But how can you drown, when you haven’t a place to lay your bones? And when you don’t know where it is, how can anyone bring you home?Created and performed by folk/spoken word duo Isobel and Anna Hughes, A Place To Fall To Pieces is a search for roots, a love letter to the places we have been but never been from. With original composition, spoken word, storytelling and song, Anna and Isobel take you on a lyrical journey, through memory and magic and earth, to seek the indelible mark our country leaves on us and where the permanence of Home truly lies.
Quiz NightQuiz Night
Every Wednesday from 8pm is quiz night.
Test your Knowledge and win cash prizes! -
A Place To Fall To Pieces, Storytelling Workshop
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A Place To Fall To Pieces, Storytelling Workshop
A Free Storytelling Workshop 'Songs of Home' to accompany the show A Place to Fallto Pieces.
We will be exploring how to use folklore, place and memory to create and tell your own stories, through music and song, objects, physicality and the written and spoken word.A Place To Fall To Pieces–
A Place To Fall To Pieces
Show Description:You are on an island. And it is sinking. It is not a metaphor, nor is it a dream. It is the end. But how can you drown, when you haven’t a place to lay your bones? And when you don’t know where it is, how can anyone bring you home?Created and performed by folk/spoken word duo Isobel and Anna Hughes, A Place To Fall To Pieces is a search for roots, a love letter to the places we have been but never been from. With original composition, spoken word, storytelling and song, Anna and Isobel take you on a lyrical journey, through memory and magic and earth, to seek the indelible mark our country leaves on us and where the permanence of Home truly lies.
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Saturday Night Special: Seamus Og
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Saturday Night Special: Seamus Og
Seamus Og is an Irish singer songwriter hailing from Belfast. After releasing his first album Best Masala Tea, (2015) with double bassist Andy Patterson, they have now merged worlds with cellist, Awen Blandford and Anna McLuckie on clàrsach (harp) two very talented and established Welsh and Scottish musicians. This Manchester based quartet is a beautiful blend of instruments intertwined in rich harmonies, and stories full of heart, that will have you swept into a dream state and lingering on adventures taken, and mapping those to come.
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Ollie West & The Wildflowers
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Ollie West & The Wildflowers
Once upon a time, in March 2020, Ollie West announced a brand-new ensemble, Ollie West & The Wildflowers, who were going to take the world by storm with their new genre defying music that was grabbing the attention of national radio and fans across the country. Then, COVID happened, and that was that.
It's been a long two years for the band since then, involving several job changes, several haircuts, and a couple of quarter life crisis', but now the time has come to get back to doing what they were meant to. Armed with a brand-new sound and brand-new music, Ollie West & The Wildflowers will take the stage again at The Kings Arms' beautiful upstairs theatre. This is going to be an incredibly special night of live music with some lovely guests to be confirmed, don't miss out on tickets available now.
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The Dumb Waiter
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The Dumb Waiter
Ben and Gus have a job to do, but while they await their instructions in the basement of an abandoned cafe, strange messages are delivered via a dumb waiter.Red Brick Theatre presents Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter starring George Miller and Joseph Kippax. This one-act play is bubbling with tension, and is filled to the brim with comedic menace.
"I feel like I've been here years. We've never let him down though, have we? We've never let him down. I was thinking only the other day, Ben. We're reliable, aren't we?"
Instagram - @redbricktheatre_
Facebook - Red Brick Theatre
Twitter - @redbrick_tQuiz NightQuiz Night
Every Wednesday from 8pm is quiz night.
Test your Knowledge and win cash prizes! -
The Dumb Waiter
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The Dumb Waiter
Ben and Gus have a job to do, but while they await their instructions in the basement of an abandoned cafe, strange messages are delivered via a dumb waiter.
Red Brick Theatre presents Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter starring George Miller and Joseph Kippax. This one-act play is bubbling with tension, and is filled to the brim with comedic menace.
"I feel like I've been here years. We've never let him down though, have we? We've never let him down. I was thinking only the other day, Ben. We're reliable, aren't we?"
Instagram - @redbricktheatre_
Facebook - Red Brick Theatre
Twitter - @redbrick_t -
The Dumb Waiter
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The Dumb Waiter
Ben and Gus have a job to do, but while they await their instructions in the basement of an abandoned cafe, strange messages are delivered via a dumb waiter.
Red Brick Theatre presents Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter starring George Miller and Joseph Kippax. This one-act play is bubbling with tension, and is filled to the brim with comedic menace.
"I feel like I've been here years. We've never let him down though, have we? We've never let him down. I was thinking only the other day, Ben. We're reliable, aren't we?"
Instagram - @redbricktheatre_
Facebook - Red Brick Theatre
Twitter - @redbrick_t -
Saturday Night Special: Mark Greer & Company LIVE
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Saturday Night Special: Mark Greer & Company LIVE
Clive Mellor's hard fought skill and chutzpah have made him the go -to harmonica player for a gang of heroes of Brit -pop, he's teamed up with his amigo from The Lonesome & Penniless Cowboys, Mark Greer for this great Saturday Night Special event.
Mark learnt slide guitar from a railway guard, aged 14, this is now his instrument of choice in repertoire encompassing, country, blues, gospel and glam rock. Andy Yates' erudite and insightful songs are backed by a fierce and determined rhythm infused with a pub rock ethic. Clive and Mark also starred in Cannon and Ball the musical, written and produced by Andy Yates. Rollmopski build on a foundation of music concrete with blocks of analog electronic instrumentation fashioning an explosive but beguiling phantasmorgraphia of noise and melody
http://schmindie.co.uk/
https://youtu.be/aZSNOotVASA
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Quiz Night
Quiz Night
Every Wednesday from 8pm is quiz night.
Test your Knowledge and win cash prizes!