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Yahoo
12 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Music festival cancelled after poor ticket sales
A two-day Lancashire music festival featuring Chesney Hawkes, Bewitched and Sam Ryder has been cancelled due to poor ticket sales. The stars were among the acts due to perform at the iMEP festival at Accrington Cricket Club in Lancashire on 19 and 20 September. But organisers said ticket sales "have not reached the required level" and "combined with challenges in the live music sector and hospitality sectors" the event was "no longer viable". All tickets already purchased will be refunded, they said. The event took place for the first time last year, headlined by British singer Jess Glynne. Listen to the best of BBC Radio Lancashire on BBC Sounds and follow BBC Lancashire on Facebook, X and Instagram and watch BBC North West Tonight on BBC iPlayer. Chesney Hawkes to perform at Accrington festival Kate Nash to headline Accrington festival Festival raises £10,000 for free music lessons for children International Music Event Production
Times
a day ago
- Business
- Times
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Rank 7Annual sales growth over three years 192.00%Fashion brand Dan Wilkins, 32, and Adam Morning, 38, dreamt up the idea for this fashion brand while they were both semi-professional football players with Ashton United. They started the business in Accrington in 2017, initially selling hats. Their men's athleisure now ranges from overshirts to trainers, bringing in sales of £12.5 million in the year to January. The brand recently became footwear partner with Blackburn Rovers, the football club where Wilkins had spent eight years as a young player. Explore the Sunday Times 100 — interviews, company profiles and more
BBC News
a day ago
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Accrington iMEP festival music festival cancelled after poor ticket sales
A two-day Lancashire music festival featuring Chesney Hawkes, Bewitched and Sam Ryder has been cancelled due to poor ticket stars were among the acts due to perform at the iMEP festival at Accrington Cricket Club in Lancashire on 19 and 20 organisers said ticket sales "have not reached the required level" and "combined with challenges in the live music sector and hospitality sectors" the event was "no longer viable". All tickets already purchased will be refunded, they said. The event took place for the first time last year, headlined by British singer Jess Glynne. Listen to the best of BBC Radio Lancashire on BBC Sounds and follow BBC Lancashire on Facebook, X and Instagram and watch BBC North West Tonight on BBC iPlayer.
BBC News
2 days ago
- Sport
- BBC News
Grant agrees new one-year deal at Accrington
Accrington Stanley have agreed a one-year contract extension with midfielder Conor only moved to Wham Stadium in February this season on a deal until the end of the the 30-year-old made 16 appearances and will now spend the whole of this campaign with Stanley."Conor's going to be massive going forward for us, he knows the place and the dressing room - he settled in straight away and hit the ground running," said , externalAccrington manager John Doolan.
The Independent
25-05-2025
- Sport
- The Independent
How Sunderland's talent for surprise can help them survive in the Premier League
They have been to Accrington more recently than Anfield, Cheltenham more recently than Chelsea. They played Morecambe, not Manchester United, AFC Wimbledon not Arsenal. The fixture list bore an incongruous look with Fleetwood and Burton, Rochdale and Scunthorpe. Sunderland were slumming it, the club marooned in League One for four seasons. They would happily get stuck in a division again; now that, as the chant went, they are Premier League, the return to the elite sealed in spectacular fashion at Wembley. For manager Regis Le Bris, whose players had told him earlier in the season they wanted to get promoted, 'they believed in their dream'. Captain Dan Neil demurred, arguing the way in which Sunderland went up was 'not even what dreams are made of because you wouldn't dream of something like that'. Not when Dan Ballard's 122nd-minute decider against Coventry was followed by Tommy Watson's 95th-minute Wembley winner against Sheffield United. After the dream – or the drama deemed too surreal to even figure in a dream – comes the reality. The prize for promotion involves predictions of an immediate relegation. Should he stay, the chances are that Jobe Bellingham will notice the pessimistic prognostications. 'People doubted us,' he said, after Sunderland stumbled into the play-offs with five successive defeats, only to win them. 'People say we are inexperienced but you get experience by failing and we have failed together so many times and in the end we've come good.' Experienced beyond their tender years, they are Sunderland's most successful failures for many a year. Recent history bodes badly. Sunderland's most recent Premier League campaign, with a squad with far more pedigree and a manager, in David Moyes, with a track record of top-eight finishes, yielded a mere 24 points. The last six teams to go up from the Premier League have gone straight back down, none even touching the 30-point barrier. The last play-off winners, Southampton, got a mere 12 points. Sunderland were in League One in 2021-22. They came 16th in the Championship last season. It is easy to write them off. Not necessarily correct, though. A glimpse at this season's trophy winners shows football is not inevitable; Sunderland's recent past, this year included, shows a wild unpredictability. The next step is the biggest but, like Leeds, they have the potential to be much more than a yo-yo club; if, that is, they can get a foothold in the Premier League. Ipswich could not, despite spending almost £150m; Leicester and Southampton took the combined expenditure of 2024's promoted trio past £300m with little to show for it. Sunderland will have to be smart in the transfer market. But they have been. They became a club for the ageing and the overpaid in the 2010s, dodging the drop until they became the unhappy underachievers. They have a new identity, borrowing in part from Brighton and Brentford: buy young, buy good. They had Wembley starters aged 17, 19 and 20 in the homegrown Chris Rigg, Bellingham and the scorer Eliezer Mayenda. The teenager Watson is off to Brighton but it will be instructive if promotion means Sunderland can prevent Borussia Dortmund from replenishing their stock of precocious Bellinghams. Remain in the Championship and it felt probable they would be weakened by sales. Instead, promotion will trigger a permanent deal to sign the classy Enzo Le Fee from Roma. He is one of a group who have the talent to perform at the higher level. Time will tell if promotion is well timed for the progress of Mayenda, Rigg, Romaine Mundle and Wilson Isidor. Others have underpinned the rise. The heart and soul of this team, Anthony Patterson, Dennis Cirkin, Luke O'Nien and Neil, were stalwarts of Sunderland's League One side. Some of the Ipswich players who jumped two divisions in quicker succession acquitted themselves reasonably; for most, however, it was a step too far as they went down. The probability is that Sunderland will require an injection of some experience; goals, too, as they only mustered 58 in 46 league games. That their defensive record is rather better than Ipswich and Southampton's were 12 months earlier at least offers hope they can exhibit more pragmatism and solidity. The pragmatic argument may be that even parachute payments from coming up and going back down again can be transformative. In a different era, that was what Sunderland did: their first poke at the Premier League under Peter Reid ended swiftly but, when they went up again, they promptly finished seventh. The gulf between the divisions has grown too great for a repeat. Now 17th would represent a success in an era when the fate of the promoted is to be celebrating one year and commiserating the next. But rewind 10 months and many an assumption was that Sunderland would be somewhere in mid-table, perhaps an outside bet for the play-offs if a young team gelled under a newcomer of a manager. They confounded expectations then. The challenge is to do so again.
