Coming up in March at Hampshire Cultural Trust’s West End Centre in Aldershot is a whole range of comedy, music, theatre and more. Below are some of the top picks from the Westy’s upcoming March programme.
Rob Auton (2 March) is an award-winning writer, actor and podcaster, named the "Brian Cox of Comedy" by The Guardian. The Crowd Show is a comedy/theatre/spoken word show about crowds, people and connection – suitable for anybody who has been in a crowd or wants to be in the crowd for this show. Sofie Hagen (16 March) returns to their craft of devastatingly brilliant joke-writing and storytelling and has created this collection of fat jokes and unforgettable moments that you can laugh at without feeling like s***.
Eshaan Akbar (24 March) brings his debut tour ‘The Pretender’ to the West End Centre. Whether it’s you, the person you go on a date with, your boss, or the opinion-makers on TV, we’re all pretending we know what we’re doing. We don’t. And it’s about time we all had a proper laugh about it.
Music
A March full of music at the West End Centre starts off with North Walian musician and songwriter Stephen Black AKA Sweet Baboo (4 March) as he performs live for the first time since 2018! Mike Dawes (5 March) is an English guitarist known for composing, arranging, and performing multiple parts simultaneously on one instrument. He is hailed as one of the world’s most creative modern fingerstyle guitarist with a repertoire spanning solo viral video hits alongside mainstream chart success performing with Justin Hayward from The Moody Blues.
Described as an “avant-garde musical utopia”, The Blackheart Orchestra (10 March) perform in their ‘musical space station’ of 13 instruments including guitar, bass, percussion, mandola, piano, organ, omnichord and vintage synthesisers. March also see’s the return of Westy Favourite Martin Simpson (17 March).
Set to blow you away Jekyll Wood (18 March) is sometimes Mr Wood, an acoustic songwriter dandy way with electro-folk melodies, and sometimes Mr Jekyll, a follower of more chill-rock atmospheres. His guitar quickly transforms into a multifunctional hybrid instrument, making him a prodigious human Swiss Army knife that composes, plays and loops guitars, drums, basses, keyboards, beatbox, backing vocals and lead vocals in real-time.
We Are The Ocean frontman Liam Cromby (25 March) has seen great success with the band, but that was all practice for what was to come…On the same night Lucy Farrell (25 March) brings her mesmerising songs on the human confddition, with simple tenor guitar and viola.
Last but not least Martin Turner (31 March) and his band return to the stage for another evening of classic Wishbone Ash music.
On Track (8 March) follows Kit, who’s world shrank in March of 2020. Dynamic single mother Kit's world suddenly shrinks. Staying at home to save lives means a retreat back to the role of mother and homemaker. With the walls closing in, the garage and 2 wheels become her sanctuary...
Rounding off our theatre we follow one woman’s she tells of her extraordinary journey to overcome the brutality of slavery and becoming a beacon for the British anti-slavery movement. Kuumba Nia Arts and Unlock The Chains Collective present SOLD! (29 March).
For more information about any of these events and to book tickets, please visit https://www.westendcentre.co.uk/events.