The Beat-herder Festival

The Beat-Herder & District Working Men's Social Club

 Remember 10p pints, Ford Cortinas, three day weeks and the miners strikes? No? Well neither do we but we like to party like its the 1970s at Beat-Herders very own working mens club.
For the fourh year running the WMC will be opening its doors wide to welcome you into its snuggling bussom. It has all the glamour of a 70s pit village with added real ale, silliness and glitterly blue eye shadow
We honour the age old tradition that after a hard day down the pit (or raving in the trees) a man (or woman) deserve a friendly smile, a good pint and some honest entertainment.
This year we will be holding our talent show "Beat-Herders got Talent" again, mad old nana moon will be having a sing a long, there will be bingo, and some top class talent will be performing.

 "Its like the past but better"- Sir Jimmy Saville

'On our first entry into the tent known as the Beat Herder and District Working Men’s Social Club, we’re treated to a bald club singer, Dewsbury’s finest apparently, and not only can the man sing, but he looks good in that monkey suit. We sample excellent versions of ‘Sway’ and a few Sinatra numbers and leave just as a beefy photographer in a nurse’s suit really starts to get his groove on....

'We head back to the Working Men’s Club where a man in his mid ‘30s is doing ‘70s-style bluesy keyboard wig-outs. As he does his thing, we think about how this festival really has come out of the local community, like the clubs that this tent is named in mocking honour of, as a way of coming together to celebrate and have fun.'

 Kenn Taylor Drowned in Sound  

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