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All events that require a ticket purchase are now listed in our Flowing Spring Ticket Store, so you can either buy them online or by popping into the pub with cash.
WATCH PAST GIGS ON OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL
Whilst you're here, take a look at our Flowing Spring Gigs YouTube Channel which has a growing number of live videos we've filmed and produced
We think our summer seasons of Gigs in the Garden are truly magical. With a chilled out festival vibe, people love them and keep coming back!
Here's the list of Gigs in the Garden 2026. Click on the band to jump to the details and ticket info.
Please note, under 14s get free entry. Let us know when buying your tickets.
AUGUST
Fri 7: STEELY DAN: Stanley Dee
Sat 15: DAVID BOWIE: Moonage
Sat 22: ABBA: ABBA Stars UK
SEPTEMBER
Sat 5: CHRIS REA: Rea-Loaded
Fri 11: QUEEN: Supersonic Queen
We began our Unplugged Nights (otherwise known as Quirky Corner Unplugged) back in January 2014.
The format is simple. Anyone can come along and perform, with or without instruments but with one rule: no plugging in!
We have hosted hundreds of people of different musical genres, of different abilities and with different instruments - and some simply reciting prose and poetry. It's been wonderful.
Our Unplugged Nights usually take place in the cosy bar on the first Tuesday of every month. It's a wonderfully intimate setting with bags of support and good humour. It's called Quirky Corner Night because that's where it all started: in our Quirky Corner. But it outgrew the space within a month!
If you'd like to come along and perform, just turn up. Alternatively, you can go to the Quirky Corner facebook page and send a message to Mike Tuffery who manages the event for us.
If you wish to eat while you're here, please call us at the pub and book a table as it can get busy.
Many of you will remember Stanley Dee when they played here at Springstock in the summer of 2019. Having seen them recently in London, we just had to get them back. They know how to get the crowd up, enjoying this fine music.
Packed with top notch musicians and fronted by the highly excitable Cavan Daly, this band is highly entertaining and, of course, provides you with all the Steely Dan indulgence you could wish for.
As the band explains: "We love the music of Becker and Fagen, and it makes us happy. Audiences can tell from the way some of us bounce around on stage, and the way we all have large smiles plastered on our faces most of the time. This music is FUN!
"Which is not to say that we treat the music lightly. This stuff is hard to do well, and we pride ourselves on recreating the authentic sounds, down to the details of the amazing solos and the intricate vocal harmonies."
The band comprises:
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Our Classic Cars & Bikes Meet welcomes all classics from any era and with any number of wheels!
Just come along, bring your prized machine, enjoy a cuppa and a bacon roll and admire all the other motors on show.
April's Meet is always hugely popular so we should get a bumper turnout.
Moonage are very special. They have the best Bowie frontman with the voice and the natural look of Bowie, backed by top-notch musicians. Everything is as good as it gets.
Performing in theatres across the UK, we are priveleged to have this 7-piece band returning to The Flowing Spring for their tenth appearance.
Don't miss this. We will have a bumper crowd, a great atmosphere and a night of the finest music.
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We're delighted to have booked ABBA Stars UK, a full live band with all the singers plus keyboards, guitars, bass and drums.
So if you want to have an ABBA party with real live music, this is it!
Get your tickets now! It will be great fun!
We began our Unplugged Nights (otherwise known as Quirky Corner Unplugged) back in January 2014.
The format is simple. Anyone can come along and perform, with or without instruments but with one rule: no plugging in!
We have hosted hundreds of people of different musical genres, of different abilities and with different instruments - and some simply reciting prose and poetry. It's been wonderful.
Our Unplugged Nights usually take place in the cosy bar on the first Tuesday of every month. It's a wonderfully intimate setting with bags of support and good humour. It's called Quirky Corner Night because that's where it all started: in our Quirky Corner. But it outgrew the space within a month!
If you'd like to come along and perform, just turn up. Alternatively, you can go to the Quirky Corner facebook page and send a message to Mike Tuffery who manages the event for us.
If you wish to eat while you're here, please call us at the pub and book a table as it can get busy.
Just announced. More details coming soon
Supersonic Queen graced The Rose Stage here last summer and it was fab! The band is superb, Freddie is great fun and gets the audience thoroughly involved. It's a brilliant show that does Queen proud.
A video of the band playing Radio-Ga-Ga here last year is below.
We're excited to launch the first in a series of Originals Nights in the Acoustic Lounge, featuring three local acts that we think deserve exposure and support.
We began our Unplugged Nights (otherwise known as Quirky Corner Unplugged) back in January 2014.
The format is simple. Anyone can come along and perform, with or without instruments but with one rule: no plugging in!
We have hosted hundreds of people of different musical genres, of different abilities and with different instruments - and some simply reciting prose and poetry. It's been wonderful.
Our Unplugged Nights usually take place in the cosy bar on the first Tuesday of every month. It's a wonderfully intimate setting with bags of support and good humour. It's called Quirky Corner Night because that's where it all started: in our Quirky Corner. But it outgrew the space within a month!
If you'd like to come along and perform, just turn up. Alternatively, you can go to the Quirky Corner facebook page and send a message to Mike Tuffery who manages the event for us.
If you wish to eat while you're here, please call us at the pub and book a table as it can get busy.
Roll The Dice is a premium three-piece live band delivering powerful, energy-packed performances, outstanding musicianship and unforgettable vocals, featuring the Stevie Nicks singer from Fleetwood Mad, plus the band's drummer and a virtuoso guitarist/ bass player.
The trio plays a huge repertoire of songs from Fleetwood Mac and Stevie Nicks, and related classic acts including Peter Green Tom Petty and Chicken Shack, so there will be intimate acoustic moments, rich blues and those rock and pop singalong greats we all know and love.
The trio comprises Paula (lead singer from Fleetwood Mad), Owen (guitars and bass plus vocals) and John (drummer from Fleetwood Mad adding to the vocal harmonies).
Original songs. Top tunes. Melodies. Harmonies.
Rocket Kings played their first gig on 30th September 2016, so this gig will celebrate 10 years of the band. They are delighted to return for their fourth appearance at The Flowing Spring for this very special night. The band will be playing songs from their earliest years through their two albums and including songs from their album that they are recording this year.
There will be a few special guests, some daft banter, some space-themed activity, and, quite probably, some audience running activity . It's going to be a lot of fun and will definitely put a smile on your face!
Virtuoso Blues Man?
Sensitive Singer Songwriter?
Raucous Piano pounder?
Marky Dawson is proud to be all three.
He developed his Boogie/Rock 'n' Roll style piano playing along with his ability to interact with an audience taking requests and heckles whilst working in London pubs and clubs.
He delivers the intimacy of a jazz club, the energy of a stadium performance, and the fun of the pub. Remarkyble.
Derek Nash has been a member of the Jools Holland Rhythm and Blues Orchestra since 2004, has led Sax Appeal for over thirty years, fronts the funk/fusion band Protect the Beat, and is a member of the Ronnie Scott's Blues Explosion. He is renowned for his energetic, vibrant, passionate and charismatic performances on all four saxophones - from sonorous baritone to soaring soprano.
The quartet comprises:
- Marky Dawson - Piano/Vocals
- Derek Nash - Saxophone
- Simon Rushbrook - Bass
- Chris Chambers - Drums
The Sing-along-a-Nick trio is back!
Yes, it's time for Halloween which means a night of spooky, spine-chilling stupidity, courtesy of Nick and his band.
Expect lots of spooky-themed songs, sketches and audience interaction, just for the sheer fun of it.
We began our Unplugged Nights (otherwise known as Quirky Corner Unplugged) back in January 2014.
The format is simple. Anyone can come along and perform, with or without instruments but with one rule: no plugging in!
We have hosted hundreds of people of different musical genres, of different abilities and with different instruments - and some simply reciting prose and poetry. It's been wonderful.
Our Unplugged Nights usually take place in the cosy bar on the first Tuesday of every month. It's a wonderfully intimate setting with bags of support and good humour. It's called Quirky Corner Night because that's where it all started: in our Quirky Corner. But it outgrew the space within a month!
If you'd like to come along and perform, just turn up. Alternatively, you can go to the Quirky Corner facebook page and send a message to Mike Tuffery who manages the event for us.
If you wish to eat while you're here, please call us at the pub and book a table as it can get busy.
This hard working band from Burnley in Lancashire returns to The Flowing Spring, dedicating their music to The Jam.
Whether it is a complex song like Burning Sky or Scrape Away or a classic like Going Underground or Start, you will be blown away by their musical talent and commitment to getting things right and sounding right.
What makes Pretty Green stand out from other Jam tributes is the front man who is in his very early twenties, with his controlled aggression, guitar playing and singing, mirroring a young Paul Weller.
Covering all albums, B sides and singles, this really will be another night to remember.
Jam fans will not be disappointed.
Clad in flares, boots, and unapologetically unbuttoned shirts, Vintage Voltage channels the spirit of rock’s golden era, not as nostalgia, but as something alive, electric, and unmistakably fresh. This isn’t dress-up. It’s not parody. It’s not a museum piece. It’s a revival powered by genuine love for the music and the eras that shaped it.
Vintage Voltage isn’t simply a tribute band; it’s a travelling time machine. From the swagger of arena rock to the grit of blues-infused hard rock, they recreate the raw energy, groove and attitude that defined a generation, and deliver it with the intensity of musicians who grew up long after it first exploded.
No wigs. No fake costumes. No gimmicks. Just real musicianship, real chemistry, and real rock ’n’ roll.
We began our Unplugged Nights (otherwise known as Quirky Corner Unplugged) back in January 2014.
The format is simple. Anyone can come along and perform, with or without instruments but with one rule: no plugging in!
We have hosted hundreds of people of different musical genres, of different abilities and with different instruments - and some simply reciting prose and poetry. It's been wonderful.
Our Unplugged Nights usually take place in the cosy bar on the first Tuesday of every month. It's a wonderfully intimate setting with bags of support and good humour. It's called Quirky Corner Night because that's where it all started: in our Quirky Corner. But it outgrew the space within a month!
If you'd like to come along and perform, just turn up. Alternatively, you can go to the Quirky Corner facebook page and send a message to Mike Tuffery who manages the event for us.
If you wish to eat while you're here, please call us at the pub and book a table as it can get busy.
Every Christmas for many years the Sing-along-a-Nick trio has entertained the masses here with festive songs and silliness. We've always called it Sing-along-a-Nicktivity.
This year it's slightly different. After all, we need to keep the show as fresh as newly fallen snow.
So it is now imaginatively called The Sing-along-a-Nick Christmas Show.
We'll have lots of cheesy Christmas hits to plough through, a few traditional songs and carols and more sketches and audience participation.
So it will contain even more sacks of fun than before!!
Ticket info coming soon.
MORE DATES COMING SOON!
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