New larger, more palatial venue (15 minutes walk/5 minutes bus ride from the city centre) with over 200 beers, including foreign beers, ciders and perries.
See photos from this year's event
| Wednesday 20 January 2010 |
17:00 - 22:30 |
| Thursday 21 January 2010 |
12:00 - 22:30 |
| Friday 22 January 2010 |
12:00 - 22:30 |
| Saturday 23 January 2010 |
12:00 - 22:30 |
| Wednesday and Thursday |
£2 |
| Friday (until 16:30) and Saturday |
£3 |
| Friday (from 16:30) |
£5 |
Free entry to CAMRA members on Thursday before 16:00.
£1 discount for concessions, NUS, OAPs & forces (all with ID) on Wednesday and Thursday.
Discounts for CAMRA members.
| Saturday (pm) |
The Road Runners, with a "punk" fancy dress theme! |
The Salford Jets came to prominence in the Punk era of the late seventies with a song "Lookin at the Squares" given much airplay by Phil Sayer on Radio Piccadilly who was surprised that a band could name themselves after the City of Salford! It brought them up the local punk "pecking order" and the Greater Manchester activities of the band played an important part in Mike Sweeney getting a job with the Piccadilly radio station. They became an unofficial house band for the station. In 1979, the band progressed to the RCA record label and brought out an EP which included the infectious "Gina" that got considerable airplay by Radio 1's Mike Read. The follow up, "Who You Lookin At" was a minor chart hit.
Pivotal Jets members Diccon Hubbard and Mike Sweeney formed The Thunderbyrds in the late 80's, recording and playing 60's classics and were also the backing band for Wayne Fontana. Mike had by this time moved to London's Capital Radio where he won many awards for his shows.
Much later, in May 2008, he fronted the new 106.1 Rock Radio which has been a tremendous success and he is now firmly back in the North West. The band of Phil Watts, Phil Orme, Mike and Diccon resumed by doing acoustic gigs as the Salford Jets. The success of these led them to join forces with Dave Sharp (ex. The Alarm) to form The Roadrunners. Sharp also comes from Salford but spent several years after the Alarm folded, touring and recording in America. His music could be described as a cross between country rock and folk, between Bob Dylan and Neil Young. He particularly does Woody Guthrie songs.
More information on www.alefestival.org.uk
Please note, due to space and lay out constraints of the new venue, a children's area will
not be available at this year's festival.