The ‘Little Lebowski’ of the North West is finally uncovered.
Local Manchester lass, Erin McKevitt, proved herself to be the ‘little Lebowski’ of the North, striking her way to the top of the leaderboard in a bowling competition in the city centre this summer.
The young talent brought out her best bowling skills as she went head to head against children from all over Greater Manchester to compete in the bowling challenge.
The ‘Kids Wall Of Fame’ competition, which was open to under 14s, was launched by Manchester’s boutique bowling alley 'Dog Bowl' on 20 July. The challenge ran for six weeks, offering kids an exciting challenge to keep them busy during the summer holidays. Entry was totally free and every child who bowled was added to the leaderboard in the hope they would find themselves in the top spot by the end of the summer.
At the end of the six weeks, Erin emerged victorious scoring an impressive 141 points to secure her place at the top of the scoreboard. She was closely followed by Eva Jaiyeola who came in at second place scoring 127 points. As well as winning the glory of being Manchester’s best kid bowler, Erin also took home a trophy, won a free meal and can now enjoy a year’s worth of free bowling!
The lucky winner said, "I'm really over the moon. I love bowling and have told all my friends about the competition at school. It's fun but I also find it relaxing at the same time, so I'm definitely going to keep it up."
Erin’s proud father, Gavin McKevitt, said: "I'm absolutely going to keep taking Erin bowling. She's got a real natural talent for it and since winning it's all she's spoken about. In the daytime Dog Bowl has a really great family atmosphere and it's somewhere different to take the kids.”
Dog Bowl welcomes families onto its lanes all year round. Children under 12 can enjoy free bowling every Monday before 7pm, even during the school holidays. A special kids menu is available, complete with burgers, wings and ice cream. Young diners can enjoy 2 courses and a soft drink for £6.50 or 3 courses and a soft drink for £8. Every day except Monday kids bowl for just £4.
The mirror ball announces biggest Halloween party yet. MANCHESTER is again set to show the world how they put the fancy in fancy dress with yet another glamorous celebrity packed Halloween night to remember.
The Halloween Spooktacular, organised by Andrew Trott-Barn and his Mirror Ball team, is back with a third event this Halloween. The party, which will this year be held at The Great Northern Warehouse in Unit 5, the space formally occupied by Beat Street’s Friday Food Fight, will again see the city’s glitterati turn out in fancy dress to raise money for Forever Manchester.
As always guests will not be allowed into the venue without fancy dress as like the previous years the Fancy Dress Police will be on the door. There will be a prize for the best dressed. Celeb guests who have partied in spooky style before have included Mirror Ball favourite Helen Flanagan and Coronation Street’s Brooke Vincent, Katie McGlynn and Lisa George.
The event will be on Saturday 31 October and tickets are available online here for £20 until 30 September.
On the same night Forever Manchester will also hold the third Halloween Lockdown which will see a selection of well known faces from Manchester will join Captain Manchester in taking on the supernatural as they are locked in one of the city’s scariest buildings only to be released only when they’ve raised donations from friends, family and contacts for Forever Manchester. Competitors will be released each hour and whisked off to the Halloween Spooktacular.
Halloween Spooktacular creator Andrew Trott-Barn said; “We do Halloween the Mancunian way and it’s definitely better than any other. I am always blown away by how much effort everyone goes to and know that this event will be no different. Each year the event has grown and we’re delighted to have been able to secure such a brilliant venue for this year’s Halloween Spooktacular. We just hope it’s haunted!”
The Mirror Ball, is a five star bash which celebrity hairdresser Andrew organises every March at the city’s favourite celebrity hangout The Lowry Hotel following his diagnosis with a brain tumour in 2010. Andrew and his team have raised over £186k for the charity since starting the event five years ago.
The Halloween Spooktacular 2015 is sponsored by Havas PR UK and The Hill Group Ltd.
Hard rock cafe presents Joanne shaw taylor, plus special guest Jim kirkpatrick and the heavy weather + out-foxed.
Celebrated British blues rock guitarist and singer-songwriter, Joanne Shaw Taylor, has announced a very special concert in association with Hard Rock Café and Real Radio XS in support of PINKTOBER and the Caron Keating Foundation.
The concert will take place at Hard Rock Manchester on Friday 2 October; tickets cost £15 with all funds raised going direct to PINKTOBER. This will be Joanne’s second performance of the day, traveling directly to Manchester after her already SOLD OUT concert at Sale Waterside Arts Centre.
Special guest is Jim Kirkpatrick and his band The Heavy Weather, Jim is best known as guitarist for Rock Band FM and Whitesnake’s Bernie Marsden.
For further information and for tickets click here
The world-famous Hard Rock brand is thinking pink in support of the 16th Annual PINKTOBERTM campaign. Throughout the month of October, guests can show their support for a cause that affects millions by visiting Hard Rock properties around the world and purchasing pink merchandise, pink drinks and pink hotel amenities. Proceeds from PINKTOBER will benefit research and awareness-driving efforts for The Caron Keating Foundation, and cafe events will benefit additional local breast cancer charities around the globe..
As the temperature cools outside, things have been heating up at Artisan as the kitchen team develop a brand new menu. With an abundance of fresh new flavours scattered throughout, guests will now have an opportunity to choose from an ample sharing plates section, a fine selection of toasty winter warmers, in addition to their ever popular range of pizzas and burgers.
Highlights include hake baked in banana leaf with coconut rice, wood fired seafood paella, wood fired piri piri chicken, slow wood roasted tomatoes with anchovy toast, chorizo with roasted garlic and cherry tomatoes and lamb kefta with mini tortillas and raita.
A variety of artists exhibit their work throughout the year at Artisan Restaurant, which is located on the first floor of Tower 12, Avenue North, Spinningfields, and the bohemian style and menu also extends to a stylish ground floor café bar. There is also a stunning private dining room available for parties, corporate events and launches.
With craft beers, earthy wines and luscious cocktail creations on offer, Artisan’s blend of bucolic values and culture aims to give visitors a feeling of inclusiveness without over familiarity.
On Saturday 12 September, Hard Rock Cafe Manchester marks its fifteenth year rockin’ the heart of the city. In celebration, Hard Rock has planned a jam-packed month featuring brilliant live music, second-to-none food offerings and competitions galore encouraging all Mancunians to join the celebrations.
Friday11 September sees birthday celebrations kick off as Hard Rock Cafe Manchester gets set to host 15 days of free, live music every night until 25 September (excluding 17 September). Music fans are being invited to come down and rock out to incredible live music by some of the finest hot new music acts in the city, which will be sure to entertain crowds during its landmark birthday month. The live music series culminates in Real XS Future Classics on the 25 September, a night dedicated to the greatest rock songs of all time. Click here for the full music schedule.
Marking Hard Rock Cafe Manchester’s official birthday on Saturday 12 September, the cafe will be opening up an hour early, at 11:00am, where for one hour only, its famous burgers will be on sale for just 15 pence! A whopping 765,000 burgers have been sold in the cafe since it opened its doors back in 2000, so this limited time burger offer, available whilst stocks last has been specially planned in honour of the ongoing popularity of the classic dish.
That’s not all, to top it all off Hard Rock Cafe Manchester is also running a competition to win the hottest tickets in town, to its star-studded birthday party on Thursday 17 September. BRIT Award-nominated rockers The Feeling will be putting on fantastic live show, sure to get everyone on their feet! The Feeling will join a host of amazing acts that have graced the Hard Rock Cafe Manchester stage throughout the years, including the likes of Feeder, Duran Duran, Rixton, Kodaline, James Blunt, Ocean Colour Scene, Bonnie Tyler, Mel C, James, Starsailor and Ben Montague to name a few.
Hard Rock Cafe Manchester opened in 2000 and has since become a hub of great live music, offering top quality American cuisine. Since then, as well as being a burger mecca, the cafe has sold more than 300,000 potato skins, a heafty 51 tonnes of ribs and 57,000 of its mouth-watering Hot Fudge Brownies. Hundreds of thousands of visitors have stepped into its Rock Shop and bought more than 50,000 ClassicHard Rock Manchester T-Shirts along with 93,000 pins.
As well as hosting over 800 live music events, the cafe has also welcomed some high profile guests including super boy band One Direction, ultimate rocker’s Noeland Liam Gallagher as well as power couple David and Victoria Beckham!
Important to Hard Rock is cafe’s commitment to supporting local charities and initiatives. Hard Rock Cafe Manchester has so far raised an outstanding £160,000 for charity over the years. The majority of which has benefited local partnerships such as Forever Manchester, The Nightingale Centre and Cash 4 Kids.
Unlike any other Hard Rock Cafe in the UK, Manchester also owns its very own beehives on the roof of The Printworks building. Home to over 320,000 bees, honey produced and packaged up in special edition jars in collaboration with local street artist Mancsy has so far raised over £1,000 for local charities.
As Hard Rock Cafe Manchester celebrates 15 years in the city, here’s to many more burgers, t-shirts, gigs and honey jars!
An application to open an as of yet unnamed cocktail back at 26 Lever Street has been lodged with the city council. Details are currently very vague indeed, but we will certainly keep our ears to the ground. _ August 2015
