What's on in Wigan

Reporter Sian Jones looks at events taking place in Wigan this weekend

Transcript

00:00 Hello and welcome to What's On in Wigan this week. Now the Benson Beerbong charity beer

00:08 festival returns to Aberton Rutherwink on Thursday. The event, which has over 100 drinks,

00:15 also includes food, live music and much more and will run from Thursday February 3rd until

00:21 Saturday February 3rd.

00:24 And Joe Astley is bringing his tour to Wigan this weekend. Described by XS Manchester as

00:29 Springsteen meets the Pogues, he'll take to the stage at Wigan Central on Sunday February

00:33 4th as part of his special run of acoustic and fiddled performances at intimate venues

00:39 across the UK and Ireland.

00:43 And a new play will be shown at The Edge this week on February 1st and February 2nd, Peak

00:49 Stuff, which is a brand new play by Northern playwright Billy Collins. We'll look at the

00:54 age of retail therapy, climate crisis and click and collect and how does our stuff define

00:59 us and how have we reached the peak stuff.

01:02 And finally, the Something New show, which takes place every month at Bailiff's Bar

01:07 Holdings cell on King Street West, has a prescription for a healthy dose of new somethings. This

01:14 month the casino improv host a mishmash of spoken words, poetry, improv, comedy, music,

01:20 storytelling and whatever else they can throw in the blender. And this takes place on Thursday

01:25 February 1st.