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Luton culture is diverse. Here you’ll find articles about art, music, comedy, festivals, film and much more

The Bear Club
Music

The Bear Club to close as ‘financial sword of Damocles swings overhead’

September 2, 2022 Music and arts desk 19

An internationally renowned Luton jazz and blues music nightspot is set to close, with the owner saying the “financial sword of Damocles swings overhead”. In 2019 The Bear Club was voted one of the top […]

Luton Town supporters cheer on their team
Podcasts

Podcast: Does football cost too much? 

August 25, 2022 Sportsdesk Comments Off on Podcast: Does football cost too much? 

The price of going to a football match and supporting a football team has never been higher, yet two years ago, during the Covid pandemic, you could not move without hearing the slogan ‘football is […]

Seán Grant and The Wolfgang at Castlefest 2021
Music

Seán Grant and the Wolfgang return to ‘special’ Luton after new album release

July 12, 2022 Ronny Trousers Comments Off on Seán Grant and the Wolfgang return to ‘special’ Luton after new album release

The Castle will host Seán Grant and the Wolfgang this Saturday for a special album launch show after the release of the new record, ‘333’. Released on Friday, on Luton label Vandalism Begins at Home […]

Regressive Left (L-R): Georgia Hardy, Simon Tyrie, Will Crosby
Music

Regressive Left pen record deal and unveil new single ahead of debut EP

May 12, 2022 Music and arts desk Comments Off on Regressive Left pen record deal and unveil new single ahead of debut EP

Regressive Left are back with ‘Bad Faith’ the first single from their forthcoming debut EP, their first new material of the year and their first since signing a record deal with Bad Vibrations. The DFA-flavoured […]

Luton first team coach Chris Cohen
Luton Town interviews

Podcast exclusive: History shows Hatters what will secure play-off place, insists Cohen

April 9, 2022 Sportsdesk Comments Off on Podcast exclusive: History shows Hatters what will secure play-off place, insists Cohen

Coach Chris Cohen says that ten more points from Luton’s remaining six Championship games should confirm the club’s place in the play-offs, if the last decade is anything to go by.  Only three of the […]

Harry Cornick
Luton Town news

Luton reaching Premier League would usurp Bournemouth’s story, insists Cornick

April 8, 2022 Sportsdesk Comments Off on Luton reaching Premier League would usurp Bournemouth’s story, insists Cornick

Winning promotion to the Premier League will be a bigger achievement for Luton than the first time Bournemouth did it, says Harry Cornick.  Now in his fifth season, the Town striker left the Cherries to […]

JW Paris (L-R): Aaron Forde, Gemma Clarke and Danny Collins
Music

JW Paris unleash ‘futuristic-analogue-nostalgia fuelled’ new single

March 25, 2022 Ronny Trousers Comments Off on JW Paris unleash ‘futuristic-analogue-nostalgia fuelled’ new single

JW Paris have released “futuristic-analogue-nostalgia fuelled track” ‘Electric Candle Light’ from their forthcoming debut album as they aim to write their name large across 2022.  The 90s grunge and Britpop-inspired three-piece, featuring Lutonians Danny Collins […]

Danny Young throws some shapes during Dois Padres' opening set at the Leave The Capital tour show in Bedford Esquires
Music

Dois Padres return with new single to help you to dance away the dark days down at the crossroads

March 12, 2022 Ronny Trousers 7

‘How You Gonna’ is the triumphant return of hard-hitting moonshine marauders Dois Padres as they revel in a new era of rattle ‘n’ roll with the first searing cut from their forthcoming album, ‘Comin’ In […]

Gary Sweet watches from the directors' box at Kenilworth Road with club chairman David Wilkinson
Luton Town news

Hatters chief Sweet says Luton’s new stadium still set for music venue – and a football museum

February 25, 2022 James Cunliffe 13

Gary Sweet has confirmed that a music venue is still in the plans for Luton Town’s Power Court stadium site – but additional funding will be required.  A football museum celebrating the club’s history is […]

Luton band JW Paris are one of the artists on the Project: Leave the Capital 12-inch vinyl and UK tour
Music

‘It’s never been more vital to support grassroots music,’ say vinyl collective on verge of UK tour

February 5, 2022 Ronny Trousers 4

“It’s the most important Independent Venue Week that there has ever been,” says James Cunliffe, one of the co-conspirators of a grassroots music initiative conceived in lockdown to help support music venues and independent artists, […]

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  • JW Paris.
    Music

    JW Paris drop Britpop-inspired anthem ‘with sonic nods’ to Elastica, Blur, Pulp and Oasis

    October 3, 2025 Comments Off on JW Paris drop Britpop-inspired anthem ‘with sonic nods’ to Elastica, Blur, Pulp and Oasis
    Luton’s own JW Paris are back with a brand-new single, ‘Anything’ — a shimmering, swaggering slice of 90s-inspired Britpop that captures both the nostalgia and restless energy of a British summer night. The three-piece — [...]
  • The Bricklayers' Arms
    Food and drink

    Pints and pride: YouTuber raises a glass to Luton’s pubs — and calls time on town’s critics

    September 1, 2025 Comments Off on Pints and pride: YouTuber raises a glass to Luton’s pubs — and calls time on town’s critics
    Luton is no stranger to harsh headlines. But away from a long line of column inches painting the town in an unflattering light, one seasoned pub-goer has found something very different: a town centre brimming [...]
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