Close Encounters has been attracting comic book fans to Midland Road since 2004. With a larger-than-life Batman figure standing guard outside the shop, chances are you’ll know exactly where it is. The Bedford Clanger met...
The Clanger loves a laugh, so we jumped at the chance to meet Bedford’s finest ukelele-based comedy act, The Ouse Valley Singles Club (OVSC), to discover what makes Bedford so funny.
With songs entitled Bedford Rascal,...
Cafe Society
Is it possible that anyone can love coffee and cake more than The Clanger's Coffee and Cake Correspondent? Well, yes! Meet cake-maker extraordinaire, Saffron Denton, owner of Bedford's newest cafe – Fancy! in Roff...
If you tune into tonight's final of BBC's Masterchef: The Professionals (8pm BBC2) you will witness the exceptional talents of Steve Barringer. Born in Bedford and brought up in Westoning, Steve began his culinary career...
Wanted to read last week's piece on Bedford in The Times, but either couldn't get hold of copy or haven't subscribed to Murdoch's pay wall? Well, we at the Clanger have tirelessly transcribed the piece...
Well, who knew Santa Claus was from Bedford?
Taking a rare break from his alter-ego in the Ouse Valley Singles Club, Father Christmas takes on Fearne Cotton and Holly Willoughby in the new very.co.uk advert airing...
The first Bedford Pumpkin Festival will take place at St Cuthberts Hall, Bedford. Over the weekend of Saturday 29th and Sunday 30th October there will be workshops where you can learn how to carve fantastic...
The Alternative Reality Tour - Guerrilla Comedy Siege on Bedford Castle
3pm - A rumour that Josie Long is bringing her guerrilla comedy tour to Bedford
5.45pm - The venue is announced: the little door behind the...
Guess what? There's a proper name for what we're doing here at The Bedford Clanger. You girls at the Bedford Network are part of it too (http://bedfordnetwork.wordpress.com) And@bedfordcritic. We're Citizen Journalists. Sounds pretty good, huh?
I...
by: Al Batross at Esquires
It takes an artist of reputation to fill Esquires on a Tuesday night, and Evan Dando, he of Lemonheads and extreme substance abuse fame, did just that.
At first, it felt like...
Vetiver at Bedford Civic Theatre 25/06/2011 by Jack Sharp
Arriving to find two dozen people scattered around on tables and chairs, I was a little disappointed in Bedford’s apparent apathy for a band as renowned and...
The launch of The Bedford Clanger, June 5th, 2011
They said this weekend would be hotter in England than Africa. A good day for a picnic. The sky was overcast.
Beneath the site of an ancient castle,...