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 SOLD OUT
*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

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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 

"Spectrum: Uniquely Me" is a special performance created by WordForWord Theatre, Cumbria County Council and Minerva Cumbria for Autism Week. The performance will be celebrating and exploring what its like to live with autism using real stories and interviews.
Each performance is 30 minutes long with a 15 minute Q&A afterwards.

Show times: 10am, 1.30pm, 7pm.
Free entry

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 direct from OFS

THIS IS A STANDING SHOW

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

THIS IS A STANDING SHOW

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.

Secret Affair will be performing their debut album in full to celebrate the 40th anniversary of it's release + a selection of other Secret Affair classics.
Support from Squire. 

Doors: 7.00pm

Tickets are £20.00 and are available online

THIS IS A STANDING SHOW

The Blow Monkeys are reinvigorated and re-charged and on a roll and on their way to Carlisle!

Doors 7.00pm
Show 8.00pm

Tickets £18 in advance

Available from OFS, Carlisle Old Town Hall & Online

THIS IS A STANDING SHOW

Two Fantastic Tributes. One Night of Madness with Manchester’s Heavy Hitters.

Doors: 7.30pm

Tickets are £16 in advance or £19 on the door.

In June 2018 musical comedian, Micky P. Kerr, was rocketed to stardom when he won the hearts of the nation and wowed both Simon Cowell and Andy Murray’s mum with his performances on Britain’s Got Talent. Time has passed and he’s now been brought safely back down to earth and back into his comfort zone as a Z-List Celebrity. 

Doors: 7.30pm
Show: 8.00pm

Tickets are £15 and available from OFS, The Old Town Hall and Online

April 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 

Best known as frontman of Scottish band THE VIEW, Kyle Falconer stops off at OFS as part of his Spring tour.

Doors: 7.30pm
Tickets are £15.00 and are onsale from Friday 8 February.

Former bassist with The La's and singer/guitarist with 90's hit makers Cast, John Power has also carved out a career of his own, releasing three solo albums in the Noughties. His solo work maintains the spirit of Cast songs, but also explores acoustic folk territory. He is now continuing both his solo career and touring with Cast. 

Doors: 7.30pm

Tickets £14 (£16 on the door) and are available online and direct from OFS.

**THIS SHOW IS NOW SOLD OUT**

Featured in Classic Rock, Rolling Stone, Kerrang, NME, Q, MOJO and Planet Rock magazines. UK Foo Fighters’ meteoric rise continues in 2019 with their ‘Banging on the Ceiling Tour’, a name inspired by Foo Fighters 9th studio album ‘Concrete and Gold’.

Doors 7.30pm Show 8pm

Tickets £15 in advance

Available only Online (there is a small booking fee)

Ages 14+

Set in some of the world’s funkiest nightclubs, Baby Loves Disco is a daytime dance party for parents with babies, toddlers and young children (0-6 years)

Doors 12.30pm Show 1pm

Tickets Available from OFS, Carlisle Old Town Hall & Online

Children under 3 are Free

Children over 3 are £5

Adults £6

These  days  Justin’s  not  certain  about  anything  apart  from  his  uncertainty  –  Brexit  looms,  it  appears  the  Cold  War  is  being  rebooted  and  that’s  before  we  begin  to  worry  about  what’s  happening  in  America.....closer  to  home  he’s  starting  to  feel  redundant  as  a  parent.  One  kid  is  leaving  home,  the  dog  is  getting  older  and  needs  fewer  walks,  and  the  youngest  kid  hits  thirteen  and  cancels  the  family  subscription  to  The  Beano.   

Doors: 7.00pm
Show: 7.30pm

Tickets are £14 (£5 Unwaged) and are available online