WHAT ’ S ON
Putting Cambridge on the folk and world music map for decades, the festival returns, with Nick Mulvey as guest curator. Day tickets and weekend tickets are available. All day Cherry Hinton Hall £179 full festival cambridgelive.org.uk 1-4 AUGUST CAMBRIDGE FOLK FESTIVAL
24 AUGUST THEDRIFTERS
28 AUGUST SKUNKANANSIE
The longest-running singing group in pop still performing, The Drifters can boast some of the most memorable tunes among their 50-plus hits, including Saturday Night at the Movies , Down on the Beach Tonight , Come on Over to My Place and Up on the Roof .
Hailed as one of the most exciting live acts on the planet, Skunk Anansie emerged in the nineties with a power and energy that set them apart from Britpop, and saw them headline the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury.
7.30pm | Cambridge Corn Exchange from £30.50 | cambridgelive.org.uk
7.30pm | Cambridge Corn Exchange from £25.50 | cambridgelive.org.uk
30 AUGUST MARTINKEMP: BACK TOTHE80S PARTY
19 AUGUST INSIDEMAKINGAMURDERER 2 Hit Netflix docuseries Making a Murderer 2 centres on the wrongful conviction of Brendan Dessey. His lawyers Laura Nirider and Steven Drizin discuss coerced and false confessions, interrogation tactics and his case. 8pm | Cambridge Junction £27.50 | junction.co.uk
24-25 AUGUST CAMBRIDGE COMIC CON After 20 years and more of attending
Spandau Ballet star Martin Kemp takes to the decks, spinning all the best hits from the eighties. As well as a glittering pop career, Kemp has also
conventions around the globe, the team behind Cambridge’s first Comic Con got together to pay their own tribute to everything film, TV and comics. Weekend passes available.
enjoyed great success as an actor. 7.30pm | Cambridge Junction from £18 | junction.co.uk
11am | Cambridge Junction from £10 | junction.co.uk
31 AUGUST THEUNDERTONES The Derry group’s musical flair and lyrical
21 AUGUST RAPADEMIC
28 AUGUST SALMANRUSHDIE
invention caught the attention of John Peel in the late seventies, with Teenage Kicks his favourite song ever. The band’s set will focus on their eponymous debut album from 1979. 7pm | Cambridge Junction £25 | junction.co.uk
Back for its fifth year, in collaboration with DUSK, Rapademic collects together the best of East Anglia’s homegrown rappers, grime artists, MCs and DJs all in one place. 6.30pm | Cambridge Junction £6 | junction.co.uk
One of the most thought-provoking writers of his generation, Rushdie makes his first Cambridge Literary Festival appearance to discuss his career and latest novel, Quichotte .
6.30pm | Cambridge Union Society from £10 | cambridgelive.org.uk
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