The organiser has announced further details for the 2022 Hastings Fat Tuesday Music Festival, the UK’s largest Mardi Gras and the ultimate mid-winter carnival, taking place between 25 February and 1 March. The five-day, town-wide celebration will present over 350 free gigs, gatherings, parties and parades, alongside ticketed events, with internationally acclaimed artists from across the globe appearing alongside a wealth of local bands.
To celebrate its 10th anniversary, Hastings Sinfonia, along with five soloists, have arranged a Valentine Concert – Music for the Heart – consisting of many well-known pieces of music suitably full of passion. Nick Terdre reports.
In his final interview Michael Madden: painter, sculptor, restorer and environmental campaigner talks with HOT’s Chandra Masoliver about the politics of gentrification in Hastings and beyond.
Hastings Borough Council could be about to become the fifth local council in the UK to endorse the call for a Fossil Fuel Treaty – an international treaty to phase out fossil fuels (oil, coal and gas). Gabriel Carlyle from Divest East Sussex explains what this means and why it matters.
Jane Loftin explains why XR are demanding immediate action on climate change from Hastings Borough Council.
January 2022 – In which Sam Davey acquires a beach hut, remembers her childhood summers and becomes very familiar with mould removal spray.
Jazz Hastings has pulled off a major coup for its February session, which will feature the legendary Boston-based saxophonist Jerry Bergonzi, widely known around the world as ‘the saxophonists’ saxophonist’. Julian Norridge reports.
In only his third show as a solo artist, Matt James, drummer with ’90s indie rockers Gene, will showcase new songs and a few old favourites, at Jason McNiff’s Folk Sundowner on Friday 4 February, says Annie Waite.
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