Tag archives for Hastings Fat Tuesday
Fat Tuesday Directors Announce Succession Plans
Co-founder of the Hastings Fat Tuesday (HFT) Festival, Adam Daly, has announced that he will be resigning as director later this year. So will his co-director for the last 11…
Fat Tuesday to return ‘in full form’
Organisers of the Hastings Fat Tuesday (HFT) music festival in February/March next year have announced that it will return “in its full form” following a depleted programme in 2024. There…
Fat Tuesday Youth Band Gets Permanent Home
The Hastings Fat Tuesday Youth Second Line Band, a Mardi Gras-style ensemble first launched in November 2022 for young wind and percussion players, has found a permanent home and support…
Plugging Away
HARRY HAWKINS The sky’s grey pallor and shallow pockets don’t do anything to deter me or the many others descending on Hastings Fat Tuesday’s ‘Saturday Unplugged’. Walking down High Street…
Fat Tuesday Festival Returns with Anniversary Disc
Despite the rejection of Arts Council England support, Hastings Fat Tuesday CIC (HFT) have announced that next month’s festival can and will proceed, albeit on a reduced budget. A successful…
Fat Tuesday Crowdfunder
Following the rejection by Arts Council England of their funding application for the 2024 festival reported in HIP 240, Hastings Fat Tuesday set up a crowdfunder. It’s aimed at raising…
Skinny Sunday: Hastings Local Youth Talent is on Fire
ROD WEBB is entranced by young bands of Hastings Rod WebbChimer at the Stade I first became aware of the Skinny Sunday music festival while watching the Fat Tuesday Second…
A Beautiful Chaos
Toby Barelli aka King Size Slim is a veteran of the Fat Tuesday music to explain the Hastings Fat Tuesday tour to an uninitiated musician can be quite difficult.“So, you’re…
Fat Tuesday Team get the Ball rolling for 2022
By Ben Cornwell Bringing the colour, costumes and carnival spirit of New Orleans, Hastings Fat Tuesday, the UK’s largest Mardi Gras celebration, is returning in 2022. The festival is made…
Time To Show Hastings Rocks
BEN CORNWELL discovers that Hastings’ Fat Tuesday organisers are getting involved in a raft of new events over the coming months. You remember that feeling of the bass hitting your…
Umbrella Parade and Preservation Sunday
Families and Mardis Gras revellers are invited to join the parade on 23rd February! Muster at the Stade by and the procession will then depart at midday and head to…
Music Month – 13 February – 17 March
SALLY LAMPITT REPORTS: Do you love great music? The music scene across Hastings and Rother gets hotter every year and we want to celebrate that. Music Month shines a light…