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Coming to The International in April 2025

Xander Promotions
Tickets
Sat 5th Apr 2025
BeMUSEd
£14.00adv £16.00door
Following a superb gig in February of 2024, the band return to do the same again! BeMUSEd are the most authentic sounding Muse tribute in the UK, fully delivering the MUSE experience live with their powerful, complex soundscapes and stadium-filling anthems. BeMUSEd concentrate on delivering a great show while recreating the SOUND of MUSE in all its glorious complexity and depth. The experience is so good you could be forgiven for thinking you are actually at a MUSE gig, covering all the ‘hits’ and the favourites across all the albums, from the debut SHOWBIZ right up to the current SIMULATION THEORY and the upcoming WILL OF THE PEOPLE.
Tickets
Fri 11th Apr 2025
Mega Fishy Four
£7.50adv
plus The Saffs and Just A Mirror
Doors 7:00pm
Standing gig ( With some seating)
Doors 7pm Starts 7.30pm

Shrinking Vinyl presents

Join tony for his birthday blow out featuring

Mega Fishy Four
The Saffs
Just A Mirror
more TBC
Xander Promotions
Tickets
Sat 12th Apr 2025
Spandesque Ballet
£12.00adv £14.00door
Fantastic tribute band with singer who sounds like Tony Hadley backed by an extremely talented band of musicians.

Great atmosphere with audience participation encouraged! If you love 80’s bands these guys are the business!
Musician2
Tickets
Sat 19th Apr 2025
The Rollin Stoned
£14.00adv
Doors 8:00pm
Standing gig ( with limited seating)
Doors 8pm Starts 8.30pm

With a Rollin Stoned show, the costumes are shamelessly camp, gaudy and absolutely fab, the instruments genuinely vintage and the wit irreverent. However while the tongue is never far from the cheek we make sure it is never to the detriment of the music. This band is not to be confused with the grotesque parody on parody 'Stella Street'-Lite Stones bands that abound, nor a bunch of seasoned old pros, opportunistically hitched on to the “Tribute Bandwagon” for an easy ride. What clearly comes across to audiences seeing the band at work is the passion we all have for the music of what is, cliche or not, "The Greatest Rock'n'Roll Band" the world has seen.

A typical two hour show includes not only all the classic crowd pleasing hits, but is spiced with enough eclectic selections from the deeper recesses of Stones Album archives to satisfy the most demanding of “Buffs”, all performed with the same vibrantly authentic attack and raw energy that characterised the original Stones shows in their prime.
Musician2
Tickets
Sun 20th Apr 2025
Edwina Hayes
£12.00adv
plus Becky Foord
Doors 7:30pm
Seated Concert
Doors 7.30pm Starts 8pm

One of the finest female singer/songwriters this country has produced in years. Edwina brings together English folk, Americana and the rich Northern singer/songwriter tradition to create a sound that’s truly her own.

Highly accomplished, she’s toured with such notable performers as Jools Holland, Van Morrison, Nanci Griffith and Loudon Wainwright III to name just a few.

Edwina numbers Michael Parkinson and Mike Harding among her fans and the title track of her album Pour Me A Drink was covered by Nanci Griffith who calls her "the sweetest voice in England."

Her cover of the Randy Newman song Feels Like Home was featured in the Cameron Diaz film My Sister's Keeper and has since had over ten million plays on Spotify and over thirty million plays on You Tube.

Edwina's 4th album Ruby Rose was released in December 2021.

"The sweetest voice in England. A wonderful young woman, so gifted and full of song." - Nanci Griffith

"Haunting, honeyed, solo songwriter." - The Guardian

This gig is taking place at The International Garden St Leicester
Tickets
Wed 30th Apr 2025
The Mick Foster Quartet
£14.00adv £5 NUS
Doors 7:30pm
Seated concert
Doors 7.30pm Starts 8pm

Leicester Jazz House present
Mick Foster is joined by 3 top musicians from the UK jazz scene. They play a mixture of Mick’s melodic original pieces and more familiar jazz material. The quartet has proved to be popular at both modern and mainstream jazz venues. Their two albums,
'Live at The Vortex' and 'Four
Views' have received excellent reviews and have featured on national
radio.

The Mick Foster Quartet
Mick Foster - baritone, alto, soprano saxes
Dominic Ashworth - guitar
Tom Farmer - bass
Tristan Mailliot – drums

Mick Foster is a saxophonist and composer who is especially known as a soloist on the baritone saxophone. Originally from Harrogate, he studied
at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and has since worked extensively
in the fields of jazz, commercial and classical music.

Mick has appeared with many ensembles which include the big bands of
John Dankworth, Stan Sulzmann and Mike Garrick; Alan Barnes +11, The
Humphrey Lyttelton Band, Ginger Baker’s Air Force, Laura Jurd’s Human
Spirit, The London Philharmonic Orchestra and English National Opera.

Mick has recorded four albums under his own name and appears on manyalbums and film & TV soundtracks.
As a composer Mick has written for many types of ensemble. His music has been recorded and played around the world, broadcast on BBC radio and
included on exams syllabuses. Mick is known as an educator and teaches at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, Jazz School UK and the Loire Summer School.

Live at The Vortex is an album of Mick’s melodic original pieces. It was recorded at The Vortex Jazz Club, London and captures the intimacy and excitement of this venue. 
“Consider this album as a compendium of delights: each player at ease and intent. The Vortex audience clearly loved it all, as did this reviewer.

A racing certainty for my 'Top Ten of 2020' list.” Peter Vacher, Jazzwise, ****

"This is a highly satisfying journey, which operates at a high level in the art of

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