Luxury city centre hotel, King Street Townhouse, is hosting an exclusive black tie party to ring in the New Year on 31 December and you can be part of it.
The fancy affair on New Year’s Eve will feature a five-course menu, live performances from talented musicians and DJs, classy canapés and glasses of fizz being served at multiple points during the evening, as well as festive hot drinks, petit fours and much, much more.
Bringing an ‘Enchanted Forest’ theme to Manchester for NYE, this is your chance to get all dolled up and enter 2024 like the stylish so-and-sos that we already know you are.
Might as well sign off the year in the most spectacular fashion possible.
Credit: The Manc Group/King Street Townhouse
The dress code is strictly black tie only and if you’ve never been inside the venue before, trust us, you’ll look the part once you see inside.
As for more detail on what they’ve got in store, Electric violinist String Infusion will be kicking off the festivities on the night, before being accompanied by a saxophonist and bongo players as the evening goes on.
Amidst all the pageantry and performances, you’ll also be greeted with a glass of Laurent Perrier champagne and canapés on arrival before tucking into your luxurious meal.
The menu is plenty posh too, with choices like the guinea foul starter, a glazed duck for main, and a black forest dessert to finish off this winter-time dining experience in fine and fitting fashion
The evening gets underway from 6pm with live entertainment until 9:30pm before the DJ takes over to usher you into the New Year by tearing up tiles as you rightly should — and there will, of course, be a champagne toast at midnight before the event is due to finish around 1am.
King Street Townhouse‘s New Year’s Eve celebration is welcoming guests either for just dinner or for the party as well, with each package priced at £99 per person or £169, respectively.
You can grab your tickets HERE for single tables of up to 10 people and there is a minimum of two tickets per booking. Packages with bedrooms are also available and can be secured via our reservations team on 0161 667 0707, or over email via reservations@kingstreettownhouse.co.uk.
Read the full brochure on the perfectly bougie way to ring in the New Year at King Street Townhouse HERE. It isn’t the only exciting thing they’ve got going on there this month either:
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Hit theatre production set at a house party to visit Manchester on UK tour
Daisy Jackson
Alright then, 24 hour party people, we’ve found a theatre production you might like the sound of – it’s called The House Party, and it’s set in (you guessed it) a house party.
This smash hit production by pioneering theatre company Headlong is set to land at HOME in March as part of the arts venue’s 2025 theatre season.
It tells the tale of a wild 18th birthday party, where Christine is trying to pick up the pieces of her best friend, a newly-dumped Julie (who happens to be the birthday girl).
Themes of class, power and privilege are all explored with a raw intensity as the cast on stage plough through shots and dive head-first into a night that will change everything they know.
The House Party, which has received glowing reviews from previous showings, is filled with ‘privilege, desire and destruction’.
When it stops off in Manchester, its cast will include Bridgerton’s Sesley Hope as Christine, Synnøve Karlsen (Miss Austen, Last Night in Soho) as Julie, and Tom Lewis (Gentleman Jack, Patience) as Jon.
The ensemble of Frantic Assembly performers includes Ines Aresti, Oliver Baines, Cal Connor, Micah Corbin-Powell, Rachael Leonce, Jaheem Pinder and Jamie Randall.
The House Party is written by Laura Lomas and is a reimagining of August Strindberg’s Miss Julie for today’s generation.
It’s directed by Headlong’s artistic director Holly Race Roughan, who directed the Royal Shakespeare Company’s world premiere of David Edgar’s major new political play The New Real.
The House Party. Credit: Ikin YumThe production will be at HOME. Credit: Supplied
Movement direction will come from Frantic Assembly’s Scott Graham.
Prior to the UK tour of The House Party, Headlong celebrated its 50 year anniversary, including the hit production of A Raisin in the Sun which played nationwide.
The House Party will be at HOME in Manchester between 25 and 29 March, 2025 – you can get your tickets HERE.
Greater Manchester’s annual Repair Week is back to make you fall back in love with your stuff
Daisy Jackson
If you’re not a handy person, when something breaks, the temptation is often to abandon or bin it straight away.
But that’s just not how we’re gonna do it here in Greater Manchester any more, with the return of the annual Repair Week to help you learn valuable repair skills and save money at the same time.
Whether it’s tinkering with your bicycle, fixing up your small tech items, or having your furniture re-varnished and upcycled, there are so many places and people who are on a mission to help you fall back in love with your belongings.
There are even workshops to help you put flat-pack furniture together.
Taking place between 3 and 9 March, Repair Week will be the chance to learn skills, fix your stuff, gain repair confidence and find local fixers.
Events throughout the week (and beyond) will be hosted by community groups, businesses and plenty more.
You can sharpen knives, fix zips, and un-wobble chairs with a little hand from local repair heroes.
JillyGDesign Jewellery in Heaton Moor will fix up your sentimental and special jewellery items, while Rag Revival will help you turn unusable textiles into new creations with basic sewing skills.
There are repair cafes popping up all over Greater Manchester where you can take your belongings.
Greater Manchester’s annual Repair Week is back to make you fall back in love with your stuff. Credit: Supplied
Repair Week will highlight schemes like the Manchester Library of Things, where you can borrow the tools and equipment you need for those repair jobs at home.
During the week you’ll also be able to take a behind-the-scenes tour of the incredible Renew Hub, the UK’s biggest reuse hub, where donated items are brought back to life.
Similarly, you’ll be able to get inside the textile recycling centre run by homelessness charity Emmaus Bolton, where you can choose your own fabric from the scrap store and turn it into a very handy draught excluder to keep costs down and your heat in.
Recycle for Greater Manchester’s Repair Week will take place between 3 and 9 March, with workshops, events and resources to help you revive your belongings.
Danny Jones -
12th December 2023 
