Hi to all, this is to remind you that tickets are still available for tonight’s traditional May Day concert in the front bar. This year we’re lucky to have probably the World’s  favourite Led Zeppelin tribute act performing, Ned Zeppelin. Ned is new to these shores (He’s never been out of Hungary before) and follows a long family line of Led Zep tribute acts that have wowed Eastern Europe in the past (His Dad Jed and Grandfather Ted were equally famous in their day). Ned was recently voted Hungary’ 98th favourite covers act and his one-man band will be playing all the many hits, and misses, of Led Zeppelin. Hungarys’ favourite DJ Shane 54 will be compering the event and his sister Nikki 54 has promised to perform some exotic dancing between songs. There’ll also be a MayDay buffet so come down and get involved people. This is your MayDay, so use it or lose it… Doors open at 6.46, tickets cost just £105.60 and tonight’s featured real ale is Hungary Like The Wolf. So see you this evening. Cindy Carmarthen, Bar Manager, The Blind Badger Pub & Venue

Hi to all, this is to remind you that tickets are still available for tonight’s St Patrick’s Day concert in the front bar. This year we’re lucky to have Truck Morrison & The Blarney Stones playing all night and no doubt through til morning. Recently voted the nations’ 224th favourite Van Morrison and Rolling Stones covers band (as voted for in The Daily Telegraph), the 22 piece band will be playing and between songs telling Irish jokes to raise money for next week’s Comic Relief. Irelands’ favourite DJ Graham Norton will be compering the event and Michael Flatley‘s sister Maddy has promised to pop by to perform the whole of Riverdance on her own whilst the band plays. There’ll also be a St Patrick’s buffet so come down and jig along. Doors open at 6.46, and tickets cost £134.50. Tonight’s featured real ale is Shane MacGowen’s Smile, and we’ve also got a few old garden gnomes (painted to look like lovely leprechauns) for sale. So see you this evening. Cindy Carmarthen, Bar Manager, The Blind Badger Pub & Venue

This joyful message is to remind you lucky people of Beckworth that tickets are still available for tomorrow night’s New Years’ Eve Hootananny bash. And as it is becoming a local tradition (and as they are the only cheap act not booked to play anywhere else on New Years’ Eve) Jesus’s favourite folk trio The Faith Tones will be performing… The God-bothering “all-female” trio, will be playing tracks from their reissued bargain-bin Christmas LP 21 Songs for Jesus’s Birthday. Doors open at 6.30, and tickets cost £65.50 which includes an all-you-can-carry-on-a-tiny-plate “finger” buffet. So join us and see the new year in with some gender-challenging religious lady singers and get lathered on the over-ordered real ale left over from last new year’s eve. Last year’s featured ale was Worzel’s Rusty Nail and we’ve a got a few old Christmas crackers to hand out to the first ten punters in “fancy dress” through the door. So see you tomorrow, or whenever News Year Eve actually is. Cindy Carmarthen, Bar Manager, The Blind Badger Pub & Venue

Hi. Are you still undecided which way to vote in tomorrow’s once in a lifetime EU referendum? Maybe you want to hear the truth about leaving or staying for yourself? Or perhaps you just want an evening’s entertainment watching two posh right-wing politicians shout loudly and borishly at each other in your local pub? Well lucky for you we’re hosting a debate tonight between two such prominent toff MPs followed by a disco, and tickets are still available on the door (£42.28 each, under 5′s free). Shouting loudly in support of thinly disguised jingoism, will be Tory MP for East Jaywick, Sir Dennis “Mungbean” Farringdon-Station OBE (Brexit). And berating him with complete falsehoods and libelous slurs will be hedge-fund manager and disgraced Tory MP for Waveney, Rory “Ra Ra Ra I Schooled With Wills and Harry” Hemel-Hemstead CBE (Remain). It is bound to be a enlightening evening if we can work out what they are saying in their stuffy accents. And probably a bloody good laugh if we can’t. Doors open at 8.46, and tonight’s featured real ale is Well Bugger Me. So see you this evening. Cindy Carmarthen, Bar Manager, The Blind Badger Pub & Venue

This is a message to all of you who like your metal very heavy and rusty, and your ale cheap and foul tasting. Today, to celebrate May Day, local metal covers bands, Bachman Turner Overdraft, Grey Sabbath, Deep Turtle, and Matt Allica will be turning our beer garden into a muddy moshpit whilst drunkards dance round an improvised Maypole. We’re also hoping headliner Eddie Van Rental will get here in time to play, he’s just waiting to see if he can get his tourbus (a moped) fixed. But if not Bachman Turner Overdraft have offered to play their set at least twice. It’s only sixteen quid on the door, first band are on at 10am, and Mayday’s featured ale at the pub is Freddie Mercury’s Tache. Warning: If you’re coming for lunch with the family it’s probably best to stay in the lounge inside! Cindy Carmarthen, Bar Manager, The Blind Badger Pub & Venue

(Above) Bachman Turner Overdraft in action at last year’s May Day. Photo taken by a drunk punter but you get the idea!

Hi to all, this is to remind you that tickets are still available for tonight’s New Years’ Eve Hootananny bash. This year we’re lucky to welcome back firm favourite’s The Faith Tones. Jesus’s number one folk troubadours, allegedly an “all-female” god-squad trio, will be playing tracks from their reissued Christmas LP and CD 21 Songs for Jesus’s Birthday, followed by prayers. Doors open at 6.30, and tickets cost £65 which includes a vegetarian hog roast, sparklers and bread & wine in a basket. For the non-wine drinkers tonight’s featured ale is Jesus Wants Me As A Sunbeam, and we’ve got a half-price sale on out of date crisps. So see you this evening to see in 2016 in some style. Cindy Carmarthen, Bar Manager, The Blind Badger Pub & Venue

Great news for all those dance fans out there as Lords A Leapin’, the Tower Of London’s crack dance squad, will be putting on a charity show in the pub this Friday. The eight strong octeganarian dance troupe will be premiering moves they’ve managed to learn from watching episodes of Strictly Come Dancing repeatedly in slowmo. The event hopes to raise awareness of gout whilst raising money for sufferers and will be compered by Strictlys own “Mr Seven” Bruno Tonioninioli, with a disco and nibbles to follow. It’s only a £11.78 on the door and this weekend’s featured ale at the pub is Seventy Not Out. It’s a must for all the family! Cindy Carmarthen, Bar Manager, The Blind Badger Pub & Venue

(Above) Beefeaters practicing their moves during a tea-break earlier today