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28 Days Later, Insidious, and more on at drive-in cinema inside abandoned theme park

Camelot Rises is an "unmissable experience", and tickets are available now. This article contains affiliate links.

Emily Sergeant Emily Sergeant - 18th February 2022

28 Days Later, Insidious, and The Ring are just some of the chilling films showing at the North West’s newest immersive drive-in cinema.

Northern kids of the 80s, 90s, and 00s will get the chance to revisit their youth and return to the legendary medieval-themed Camelot Theme Park in Chorley, which sadly closed for good back in 2012 and has been largely abandoned and derelict ever since.

This is an experience like no other though.

Hosted by Park N Party – the team also behind sell-out seasonal drive-in events SecretCity, ScareCity, and ChristmasCity – visitors in up to 300 cars get to park up and watch a series of horror films across 12 weeks at ‘Camelot Rises’, but only after they have survived a terrifying one-mile journey through what has been described as a “zombie-infested wasteland”.

Read more: Abandoned theme park Camelot will reopen to the public – as a zombie experience

Camelot Rises is an unmissable experience / Credit: Jason Roberts

Visitors will get to experience all the “sensations” that put them right in the middle of an apocalyptic event, as live actors and scene-setting lights and sounds will interact with people in a truly gory experience.

Think sirens, smoke, mangled bodies, and hoardes of the living dead coming for you.

If you’re brave enough to enter, then you’ll need to pass a military checkpoint as the army battle to keep control of the park, try to avoid the hordes of the undead searching for their next meal, and if you make it to what is known as the safe zone, then you’ll get to watch horror films on four of the UK’s biggest outdoor screens.

There’s also a fully licensed bar and street food vendors on site.

Northern kids of the 80s, 90s, and 00s will get the chance to revisit their youth, but not as they remember / Credit: Jason Roberts
Visitors will get to experience all the “sensations” that put them right in the middle of an apocalyptic event / Credit: Jason Roberts

Camelot Rises has currently taken over the Camelot Theme Park site in Charnock Richard, and will be running right through until 27 March 2022, with tickets priced at £50 per vehicle.

You can grab your tickets here.

Featured Image – Jason Roberts

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Bohemian FC are giving away five of their viral Oasis football shirts

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Irish football club and growing cult favourite footy fashion industry-leaders, Bohemians, recently dropped a limited edition Oasis shirt to celebrate the Live ’25 reunion tour.

Now, if you were at the Heaton Park dates or any of the comeback shows, you will likely have seen a fair few gig-goers donning the Bohemian FC x Oasis kit collab.

In fact, even if you’ve walked through Manchester city centre over the past couple of months, the chances are you passed someone wearing one of these Britpop-inspired shirts, which have quickly gone down as music culture collectables.

And while pretty much every bit of Oasis’ official adidas Originals clobber and countless other bits of merch continue to sell out, ‘The Bohs’ are offering you lucky lot the chance to cop a free kit. If you’re interested, keep reading…

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The Bohemians x Oasis collab shirt is one of our favourites of the year. (Credit: Bohemian Football Club (supplied)

For anyone unaware of the background behind this crossover, the Bohemians are a 100% fan-owned, not-for-profit organisation, who also happen to be the oldest club in the League of Ireland.

Based in Dublin, the SSE Airtricity Men’s Premier Division side has remained deeply immersed in the local community and its sporting culture throughout their history, and of late, they’ve been further infusing that heritage with their equally deep connection to the arts.

Over the past few seasons, they blended footy with the music world, releasing several exclusive and highly sought-after kits that all tie back into the club in some capacity, including shirts inspired by Bob Marley, compatriots Thin Lizzy and Fontaines D.C. (equally viral), as well as our very own Oasis. 

Liam and Noel Gallagher’s following and its Irish contingent, in particular, are as strong as they’ve ever been, so ahead of the reunion shows getting underway last month, Bohemian FC revealed their special FAI Cup shirt paying homage to the Burnage boys.

They did it in style, too…

Featuring the band’s iconic logo in the traditional blue tones of Dublin City, it went down as an instant hit among Oasis and Bohs fans alike, as well as among footy kit culture connosieurs.

Better still, all the profits from the shirt sales are being split between Bohemian FC and two key charities back in the Emerald Isle and in 0161: Music Generation Ireland and Irish Community Care Manchester, based on Stockport Road – not too far from where the Gallaghers grew up.

Now, although the Manc music legends never played Bohemians’ home stadium at Dalymount in Phibsborough, the Gallaghers remain two of the most iconic green and gold-blooded musicians ever.

Having crossed off Cardiff, Manchester, London and Edinburgh off their Live ’25 reunion tour, their Dublin double-header is up next this August, with two shows taking place at Croke Park, less than a mile from the hallowed ground.

Whether or not you’ve got tickets to see them in the ancestral homeland, or anywhere else for that matter and want to look the part, or just want to wear your colours for as long as Oasis mania lasts, you might as well throw your hat in the ring to win one of five FREE Bohs footy shirts.

As for how to enter, it’s all very simple: fill out the competition form HERE; like and share this post on X (formerly known as Twitter), and follow our Audio North music page, as well as the official @bfcdublin account on Instagram.

Oh, and tagging a friend or sharing a pic of your best Oasis memories wouldn’t hurt either.

That’s it; we didn’t want to make things complicated – this is a giveaway not only in the hopes of scoring our readers with a freebie but a charitable one that helps Irish cousins over the water and here in Manchester.

Lastly, even if you miss out and still just fancy grabbing one and doing your bit for a good cause, you can buy the Bohemians FC x Oasis shirt HERE.

Best of luck to ya, and ‘as you were x’.

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Comedy nights, run clubs, and resident parties – why The Castings is Manchester’s most social city centre neighbourhood

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Manchester is a city full of opportunity – and The Castings is the perfect place to live to experience all it has to offer.

As the bustling hub of the north – and, arguably, the UK’s ‘second’ city, depending on who you ask – Manchester has firmly cemented itself as being somewhere people of all walks of life want to live, thanks to the wealth of live music, sport, nightlife, and so much more.

And for those who want to get amongst it, one of Manchester’s newest city centre neighbourhoods, The Castings, has a social life built right in, ready for residents to make the most of.

Currently rated number one on HomeViews, it has been voted by its residents as the best place to live in the city.

And it recently celebrated its first birthday too, in one of the ways it knows best, of course – with a free party for all residents.

A glimpse into life at The Castings’ stunning lifestyle-led apartments / Credit: The Manc Group

If you were unfamiliar with The Castings until now, it’s a stunning community made up of 352 apartments to rent in Piccadilly East.

With its range of studio, one, two, and three-bedroom homes, The Castings’ design-led spaces are inspired by industrial shapes, flowing forms, and molten textures.

As well as its stunning apartments, the lifestyle-led development also features a fitness studio, high-spec gym, games room, private dining spaces, a co-working hub, and a 21st-floor rooftop terrace with panoramic views of Manchester.

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The Castings is one of Manchester’s most social city centre neighbourhoods / Credit: The Castings

It sits in the heart of Piccadilly East is a neighbourhood often touted as Manchester’s next-generation, and named by The Sunday Times as one of the UK’s best places to live and The Castings has been ‘bringing new life’ to this up-and-coming area near Manchester Piccadilly station ever since it launched it last summer.

Even though Piccadilly East – which is conveniently-adjacent to Ancoats, New Islington, and the Northern Quarter – is already home to some of Manchester’s most popular food, drink, and live entertainment venues, residents at The Castings don’t even need to leave the comfort of their own community to get involved with a wide variety of events and make some new friends along the way.

In just the year since the first residents moved into The Castings, it has hosted everything from live comedy nights to regular yoga and fitness sessions, run clubs, and seasonal resident ‘socials’.

One of the biggest highlights in The Castings’ social calendar so far has to be the recent ‘Spring Social’, which helped welcome the new season in style, complete with an ice cream van, DJs, big Jenga, and lots and lots of pizza, making it a ‘standout’ moment of the year.

If The Castings sounds like somewhere you’d love to live, then the final few apartments are still remaining, and you can head online to book a viewing now.

Find out more and book a viewing here.

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