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Music Quiz

with Quizmaster Ivan

Teams of up to 6 people – £1 per person, pay on door

To book a table, email simonh@johnpeelcentre.com

Bar open: 18:30

Starts: 20:00

Hoedown Showdown

Jericho Entertainment presents...

Throw on those cowboy hats, two step into your boots and head on down to the Hoedown Showdown!!

With country music, lip syncs, and prizes to be won, join us for a great country themed night, promoted by the successful "Big Night Out" events.

Doors: 19:30

Tickets: £16

Quiz Night

@11 Market Place

Fancy a drink and a think? Join us, and Quizmaster Ivan, every Monday at the bar 11 Market Place! Six people max per team, the winner takes the pot.

6pm-10pm

£1 per person on the door

The Lovely Eggs

With Ecto Peach + Grace Calver

For The Lovely Eggs being in a band is a way of life.  It’s about art. It’s about creativity and expression. It’s about following your own path and doing things your own way. Holly and David operate on their terms, spewing out music, records, art and television shows before piling in the van and tearing round the country to perform a load of live sold out shows. Their wild and wilful independence sets themselves apart from other bands and  despite having no management, booking agent, record label or publisher their album “IamMoron” shot to Number One in the Official UK Independent Charts and they continue to sell out shows across the country.

Doors: 19:30

Tickets: £20 Adv.

Crochet & Chess

@ 11 Market Place

Relax, have a chat, play chess or pick up your crochet! The bar is open and all levels of experience are welcome.

20:00-22:00

Free Entry

The Vinyl Lounge

A cracking night of listening, dancing and sharing your vinyl

+ your favourite guest DJ’s

Starts: 19:30

Tickets: £5

JPC Book Club

@11 Market Place

Join us at the Bar at 11 Market Place every month to meet and discuss the latest book for the JPC Book Club!

Start Time: 8pm

Free Entry

Rude & Reckless

Rude and Reckless presents...

If you fancy a top night out raising money for the East Anglian Air Ambulance Charity, please come and join us in the dance for a good cause! Please watch the video in the link below to see more about this amazing charity.

https://www.eaaa.org.uk/support-us/ian-and-wendys-story

We look forward to hosting the event!

Doors:19:30

Closes at 23:00

Tickets: £15

Record Fair

The JPC Record Fair is back with friendly vendors with around 20 tables of LPs,CDs, 12″, 7″ rare 45s and collectables. Catch live DJ's, grab a drink from our licensed bar, or pop next door to our new Cafe/bar at 11 Market Place for lunch and a coffee!

Event: 10:00-15:00

Free Entry

Musical Journeys

Cohere Arts presents...

Musical Journeys is a project for older adults and their carers produced in collaboration with Orchestras Live!.

Join us on Tuesdays From 10 June to 22 July 14:00 - 15:30 in Stowmarket at the John Peel Centre for Creative Arts.

Each workshop is filled with gentle musical fun featuring music from around the world, plus social time and refreshments. You can join us for the whole series, or drop in any time.

Sessions are dementia friendly and VI accessible.

The project is kindly supported by Babergh and Mid Suffolk District Councils, and we welcome an optional donation of up to £5 per participant per session.

New Candys

+ support

Concocted with the darkest deviant rock'n'roll ethos and distinctive melodic distortions, New Candys have established themselves as one of the most compelling bands to emerge from Italy in recent years. Founded by songwriter and singer-guitarist Fernando Nuti alongside bassist and synth player Dario Lucchesi, the lineup is completed by Emanuele Zanardo on lead guitar and backing vocals and Francesco Giacomin on drums and sampler.

Doors: 19:30

Tickets: £15 Adv./ £18 OTD

Peggy Seeger

Peggy Seeger, the grande dame of American and British Folk music, embarks on her last ever concert tour alongside her sons, Neill and Calum MacColl, in celebration of her 90th Birthday in June 2025.

Peggy has been performing for over seventy-five years and will showcase some of her best loved songs from across her extraordinary career, as well as new songs from her final album (out Spring 2025). Her songs remain uncompromising, and her wit and delivery are as sharp as ever.

Neill and Calum MacColl are superb musicians, sharing unique onstage chemistry with their mother. Expect whip-smart humour & family banter, blood harmonies and audience participation, alongside world-class musicianship.

This will be the last opportunity to hear Peggy in concert so do not miss this.

“Peggy Seeger inspires; as funny, feisty and angry as ever” The Guardian

Doors: 19:30

Tickets: £30 Adv.

Let's Bop!

Do you love to dance but no longer get a chance? Get your mojo back on the dance floor with Let’s Bop! For women 18 to 80!

Simply turn up & dance, on your own or with friends!

Event start: 19:30

Tickets: £7 Adv.

Crazy Little Sing (18)

Crazy Little Sing presents...

Crazy Little Sing Called Pub

We get it. You *CAN* sing, but only in the shower… or the car… or when you’ve had a few drinks.

Well, get out of that bathroom, leave your wheels at home, definitely DO grab those drinks at the bar & COME SING WITH US!

We don’t care if you’re a bit ropey- you’ll be led in song by someone who knows what they’re talking about. Abi Moore will (im)politely guide, cajole and, if necessary, HEAVE your voice out of you. Whether you’re a high, middle or low singer - or even if you have no idea- your voice is needed and welcomed.

We’re going to sing an epic pop/rock pub anthem and make a harmonised choir out of a bunch of total strangers. You won’t believe the sound you’ll make - and we’ll film it to prove it wasn’t just a drunken dream!

Music, drinks, laughter and random people coming together to create something amazing. You don’t need anything except your voice, your ears, and well… maybe a few drinks!

Doors: 19:00

Start time: 19:30

End time: 21:00

Tickets: from £13.20

The Whole Shebang

Our very own Whole Shebang Open Mic Night returns with another fine evening of whimsical, homegrown, organic live entertainment! Join us as a performer or an audience member; we guarantee fun either way.

Sign up by emailing events@johnpeelcentre.com with the title SHEBANG

Doors: 19:30

FREE ENTRY

Class of '79

It was a time when vinyl and cassette tapes ruled - and when the only playlist that mattered was John Peel’s. The late ’70s and early ‘80s spawned a variety of musical genres and subcultures that continue to inspire to this day. It was a time when music felt raw and real.

The untamed energy of pub rock, the gritty rebellion of punk, the experimental soundscapes of post-punk and new wave, and the catchy beats of ska and 2-Tone all drove a transformative and defining period in music history. And while the songs of those times were often built around socially conscious lyrics, there was always room for the sheer escapism of some quirky comic book punk.

The Class of ’79 - featuring Steve Crittall, Phil Thompson, Simon Bowley and Mike Lea - have all earned their stripes after many long years spent recording and touring with bands including Eddie and the Hot Rods, Rezillos, Vapours, Godfathers, Selecter, UK Subs, Ten Benson, Black Bombers, and Manchester’s Sugar Bullets.

Doors: 19:30

Tickets: £20 Adv./ £23 OTD

Northern Soul Night

4 hours of non stop Northern Soul and Motown from vinyl DJs Mark Purdy, Martin Topley, Graham Burrell, and Kevin Burrell. Join us, dance, and enjoy the music and open bar!

Limited seating available on a first come, first serve basis

Doors: 19:15

Start time: 19:30

Tickets: £8 Adv./£10 OTD

Emerge

Sometimes it's easy to miss that some of the best emerging talent is right here on your doorstep. Emerge is our local band night which gives you the opportunity to discover and enjoy up-and-coming music from your area!

Line up to be announced...

Doors: 19:30

Tickets: £5 Adv./£8 OTD (Members go free)

The Warlocks

+ support

Formed in 1999, L.A.-based group The Warlocks produce a relentless, hypnotic wall of sound that suggests a collision between classic psychedelia, Krautrock and The Velvet Underground.

Relentless international touring and the sheer power of The Warlocks gigantic live sound has built a worldwide cult following for the band that has only grown and intensified.

Doors: 19:30

Tickets: £18 Adv./£21 OTD

Foreword Festival

Foreward Festival presents...

As part of the Foreword Festival, join us at the John Peel Centre for a night of poetry and spoken word from award winning poet, battle-rapper, and Channel 4 star, Mark Grist!

Doors: 19:00

Tickets: £8 Adv.

Diving at Dawn

@ Bar 11 Market Place

As one half of indie duo The Boy Least Likely To, Pete has had an impressive 20 year career to date.

Diving At Dawn is Pete’s passion project; indie folk storytelling with an intimate yet cinematic feel. Very much a one man band, Pete plays, sings and records everything himself. Live it’s just him, his guitar and his stories.

Music starts: 20:00

Tickets: £8 Adv.

Burning Rope

With Dove & Boweevil

The three remaining members of multiple UK blues award winners Catfish, following the sad death of frontman Matt Long in October 2024, have come together with superb guitarist Alex Voysey to form a new band, Burning Rope.They will be performing the songs written for Catfish by keyboard player Paul Long and also songs he wrote for his previous band The Riotous Brothers.  The guys are also writing new material together. Join us if you can.

Doors: 19:30

Tickets: £16 Adv./£19 OTD

Connor Selby

+ support

There’s a timeless melancholic quality to Connor Selby's music. Relatable in its honesty and openness, he draws from anxiety and vulnerability but delivers it with a world-worn elegance. The sky is the limit for Selby, who, along with awards, has picked up numerous plays on BBC Radio 2. It’s easy to see why with his soulful blend of blues and his emotionally introspective songwriting, which sits alongside his impressive armoury of guitar playing.

Limited seating available on a first come, first serve basis.

Doors: 19:30

Tickets: £18 Adv./£21 OTD

The Leylines

+ support

Heart-Pounding Revelry A high-energy folk-rock band from the West Country, The Leylines mix raucous violin dynamic guitar riffs and acerbic lyrics. All of which culminate in a whirlwind show that will get heart, and mind, pounding.

 2025 marks the arrival of The Leylines’ long-awaited third

studio album, ‘Phosphenes’. Brace

yourself for an immersive listening experience that captures the soul of the band’s evolution - raw, bold, and

unforgettable.

Doors: 19:30

Tickets: £16 Adv.

Dave Pearce (18)

Right Here In Events presents...

Get ready for a host of 90s 00’s dance tracks from the likes of The Prodigy, Fatboy Slim, Gala, Sandy B, Crystal Waters, N-Trance, Ultra Nate, Livin Joy, Groove Armada, Faithless, Darude, SASH, Paul Van Dyke, The Chemical Brothers, Daft Punk and much much more, right here at The John Peel Centre!

Dave Pearce launched Dance Anthems on Radio 1 and has sold over 1 million mix compilation albums in the UK with numerous top 5 UK Chart positions. He has held residencies in Ibiza, Ministry Of Sound in London and BCM in Mallorca. He has played at all the major dance festivals including Creamfields, has been featured three times in DJ Mag’s Top 100 DJs in the world and is fresh back from supporting The Pet Shop Boys on their sold-out arenas tour.

Party the night away and re-live the best, most influential musical eras of our times, as Dave comes back to Stowmarket!!

VIP TICKETS: Includes Glass of Prosecco or Lager on arrival and one item in the cloakroom

Doors 7.15pm

Event starts 7.45pm (Last entry 9pm (prompt)

Ian McNabb

Lead singer/songwriter of The Icicle Works, Mercury-nominated solo artist McNabb (64) has made twenty-six studio albums since 1984. He has worked with Peter Buck, Jason Falkner, Crazy Horse, Ringo Starr, Waterboys, Lightning Seeds and Danny Thompson amongst others. Ian lives in Liverpool and performs solo or with a band as and when he can.

Doors: 19:30

Tickets: £20 adv.

The Milk Men

+ support

The Milk Men are one of the most popular and acclaimed blues rock bands in the UK.

Nominated for eight UK Blues Awards and British Blues Challenge finalists, and with a Number 1 blues album and single to their name, they have earned a reputation as the one of the most dynamic and enjoyable live bands on the circuit.

Doors: 19:30

Tickets: £14 Adv./£17 OTD

Hollow Souls

Gig Cartel presents...

British virtuoso blues-rock guitarist, former pro MMA fighter and hard rock frontman Kris Barras launches an exciting new musical collective that takes him back to his blues rock roots. Once the leading light of the young British blues-rock scene; he's back with a new band; Hollow Souls. 

Doors: 19:30

Tickets: £23.50 Adv.

Roving Crows

Multi-award-winning & un-missable IRISH FOLK ROCK  

Roving Crows is an Irish Folk Rock band that delivers the goods with unbounded amounts of riotous energy and banter.

This Irish four-piece band is an awe-inspiring force on stage - unstoppable and passionate. They seamlessly marry humour, provocative lyrics, traditional Irish tunes and rock to entertain and bring the listener on a ride that they won’t want to get off! They make a hell of a noise for 4 people!

Doors: 19:30

Tickets: £12 Adv.

The Wedding Present

+ support.

David Lewis Gedge and his "semi-legendary" band celebrate a special anniversary live across Ireland and the United Kingdom, stopping off at the John Peel Centre in October!

‘The boy Gedge has written some of the best love songs of the ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll’ era. You may dispute this, but I’m right and you’re wrong!’ – John Peel

Doors: 19:30

Tickets: £30 Adv.

Baskery

+ support.

The queens of banjopunk, these three Swedish sisters are back! Baskery play a combination of classic ‘roots music and Americana’ with a twist of rule breaking punk turn this much loved style of music on it’s head. Their sound oozes style and playfulness and has helped them accrue a number of plaudits and accolades.

Doors: 19:30

Tickets: £18.50 Adv.

East Town Pirates

With Khoshekh and The Psychic Pimps.

From smugglers dens along the East Suffolk coastline, through the punk dives and back bars of ye Olde Ipswich Towne they have come, armed to the teeth with infectious new tunes. East Town Pirates have been sharpening their hooks in raids on taverns and alehouses around East Anglia before taking their explosive live show on the road and laying waste to the rest of England, Ireland and France. ‘Motorhead meets The Pogues’ seems to be an apt description of the ETP sound.

Spooky-pirate themed, dress up encouraged!

Doors: 19:00

Tickets: £9 Adv./£12 OTD

The Allergies DJ Set (18)

With Sam Redmore

The duo of DJ Moneyshot and Rackabeat have been delighting dance - floors and lighting up the radio airwaves since forming The Allergies and releasing their debut album in 2016.

So, if you like crazy turntable skills, hands-in-the-air beats, all mixed up with some classy crowd rocking music, then an Allergies double-decking DJ set will be right up your street!

Doors: 19:30

Tickets: £17 Adv./£20 OTD

Heron Valley

Heron Valley is a dynamic folk band hailing from Scotland, known for their energetic performances and captivating blend of traditional and folk music with contemporary influences. The band features a powerful line up of bagpipes, fiddle, guitar, keys, bass and drums seamlessly fusing driving rhythms, intricate melodies, and heartfelt lyrics together create a sound that is both deeply rooted in tradition and refreshingly modern.

Doors:19:30

Tickets:

Sweet Female Attitude

With Garage Works

UK Garage is coming to the JPC this Autumn! We've teamed up with local promoters Garage Works to bring you a new series of UKG nights to remember.

Our first show announces the iconic Sweet Female Attitude, who will be performing hit song "Flowers", as well as loads more garage classics! Garage Works DJ's Mat P and Phono Vibes are guaranteed to keep you dancing all night long

Doors: 19:30

Start time: 20:00

Tickets: £22 Adv./£25 OTD

The Blockheads

Starting out as the band behind Ian Dury, the Blockheads are a legendary outfit that has grown in stature from the early days of the Stiff tour in 1977, right up to the present day. Backing up Ian Dury's poetic lyrics, this is the band that brought you 'Hit Me with your Rhythm Stick', 'What A Waste', 'Reasons to be Cheerful (Part 3)', and 'Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll', among many others.

Rarely off the road since the demise of Ian Dury in 2000, the Blockheads are still one of the most underrated British bands of all time, with a legion of fans of all ages.

Doors: 19:30

Start time: 20:00

Tickets: £30 Adv./ £33 OTD