The popular afternoon of Blues returns with a Valentines Special.

Hosted by Redfish with their Soul-deep Rhythm & Blues.

Doors 3.30pm Show 4pm

Tickets £6 on the door

February's Jazz Jam.

Starts: 1.00pm 

Players: £5 // Audience Free 

Newcastle alt-rock favourites The Pale White drop by Carlisle as part of their Northern Tour. 

Doors: 7.30pm

Support from FEVA & PLAZA 

Tickets: £8.00 and are available online and directly from OFS.

Live performance is where Blue Rose Code connects strongly with their audiences, they have toured the length and breadth of the UK selling out venues wherever they go and leaving a trail of fans in their wake. Featured in festivals Celtic Connections, Edinburgh Fringe, Looe, Summer Isles, Lindisfarne, Southern Fried, Underneath The stars.

Support comes from Anne-Marie Sanderson. 

Doors: 7.00pm

Tickets: £12.00 and are available online.

Another tremendously raucous night brought by Punk Rock in Carlisle

Gimp Fist with support from State Control & The Scumbrians
This is a standing show

Doors 7pm
Show 8pm

Tickets £7 & £9 on the door

Available from OFS & Online

Powerful storytelling, captivating puppetry, beautiful design, enchanting music and a sprinkling of magic. Inspired by the touching children’s story by Oscar Wilde

Doors 1.30pm
Show 2.00pm

Tickets £7 & £5 Concession

Suitable for ages 3+

Available from OFS, Carlisle Old Town Hall & Online

As It Is – completed by frontman Patty Walters, guitarist and singer Benjamin Langford-Biss, drummer Patrick Foley and bassist Ali Testo – take the listener on a journey which delves into every aspect of arguably the most prevalent social ill of our time across their third studio album, The Great Depression.

Doors: 7.30pm

This is a standing show
Tickets are £14.00 and will be available online

THE BEST OF THE BIG BANDS is a musical history, celebrating the great bandleaders, arrangers and performers of the 20th Century and beyond. The show charts the development of big band music from its beginnings in the 20s & 30s to the current day, through landmark performances and arrangements.

Doors: 7.00pm
Show: 8.00pm

Tickets are £10 and are available from OFS and Online 

The March installment of the ever popular afternoon of  Blues. 

Hosted by Redfish with their Soul-deep Rhythm & Blues.

Doors: 3.30pm
Show: 4.00pm
Tickets £6 on the door

Victorian Theatre With Bite

Be chilled by an evening's eerie entertainment, with this original theatrical anthology of a selection of Poe's finest feats of fear-filled fiction!

Doors 7pm Show 8pm

Tickets £10 in advance

Avaialble from OFS, Carlisle Old Town & Online

Reginald D Hunter drops off at OFS Carlisle to preview his new tour show. 

“HE HAS THE AUDIENCE IN THE PALM OF HIS HAND” «««« Edinburgh Festivals Magazine

Doors: 7.30pm
Show: 8.00pm

Age Restriction: 18+

Tickets are £15.00 and are available online 

Enjoy a true Gin Festival, featuring 120 listed gins, plus a selection of new and local gins to enhance your experience.

SESSIONS
*Friday Evening: 6pm to 10.30pm
*Saturday Afternoon: 12noon to 4.30pm
*Saturday Evening: 6pm to 10.30pm

Hayseed Dixie plays hard rock and bluegrass music on electrified bluegrass instruments. The band has released 15 studio albums and played over 1,300 live dates in 31 different countries since its inception in 2000.

Support from Just Tom & Pete

Doors: 7.30pm
Tickets are £18.50 and are available from OFS and Online

Everyone’s favourite ‘guilty pleasure’ (Daily Record), stand-up comedy star, Stephen Bailey is back on tour with his brand-new show ‘Our Kid’ – a story full of Northern warmth, some working-class guilt and a bit of blue.  

Doors: 7.00pm
Show: 7.30pm

Tickets are £14.50 (£11.00 Concessions) and go onsale from 10am Friday 14 September. 

After a sellout national tour in 2017, Ed Gamble is back with another bracing flurry of idiocy. Off of Mock the Week (BBC2), The Russell Howard Hour (Sky), Comedy Central at the Comedy Store (Comedy Central). 

Doors: 7.30pm
Show: 8.00pm

Tickets are £15.00 and are available at OFS, The Old Town Hall and Online. 

March Jazz Jam.

Bring your instrument or voice and join in with Roz Sluman's Big Shoes Band at this monthly Jam Session, or simply come down and enjoy the vibe. Have a drink and lunch in a welcoming environment. 

Starts: 1.00pm 

Players: £5 // Audience Free 

Brix & the Extricated are a British post-punk band, formed in 2014 in Manchester, by ex-Fall members Brix Smith Start and Steve Hanley. 

Four of the five members were one-time members of The Fall: Songwriter, guitarist and vocalist Brix Smith, long-term Fall member Steve Hanley (bass guitar), his brother Paul Hanley (drums) and Steve Trafford (guitar and vocals). A fifth member, Irish guitarist Jason Brown completes the line-up. Though their live set initially consisted of Fall songs they had co-written, this quickly expanded to include the new material which featured on their debut album.

Doors: 7.30pm 
Tickets £15 and are available online and from OFS from Friday 1 February. 

Watford based 4-piece The Spitfires work ethic and acute social commentary has made this fiercely independent band one of the most popular underground success stories in the UK right now.

Doors 7.30pm Show 8pm

Tickets £13.50

Available from OFS, Carlisle Old Town Hall & Online

The Easter Blues Jam with Redfish.

 Doors 3.30pm Show 4pm

Tickets £6 on the door

Kiri is back with her latest and greatest show to date, Victim, Complex. Make sure you catch this unique, insightful, and utterly hilarious rising star of stand-up!

Doors: 7.00pm
Show: 8.00pm

age guidance: +16
Tickets are £12 and are available online.