Mayday! Mayday! Entertainment Incoming!

Sports

10^th-11^th May – European Rugby Union Finals Weekend – hookers descend on Newcastle in great numbers. The Challenge Cup Final and The Champions Cup Final, one day after the other, both at St. James’ Park. 

18^th May – FA Cup Final – the most famous domestic cup competition in the world comes to a close. Citizens vs Hornets – sounds like a sci-fi film, and it would take something out of this world for Watford to beat Manchester City. But this is the FA Cup, so we could be eating our words…

25^th-27^th May – EFL Playoff Finals – ‘proper football’. None of that fancy-dan Premier League stuff, even if the whole point of these games is to win a promotion. Football fans, fickle? Never!

30^th May – Cricket World Cup – cricket isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, but it’s not often England are overwhelming favourites for a World Cup, never mind in their own backyard. Should be a corker.

1^st June – Champions League Final – the only thing better than the Champions League Final is the Champions League music. Get both in Madrid on the 1^st of June.

1^st June – Gallagher Premiership Final – if union is more your thing, the Rugby Union Premiership Final also takes places on the 1^st of June.

Movies

10^th May - Pokémon: Detective Pikachu – it’s hard to understand how a film about little Japanese monsters can be ‘live-action’, but Ryan Reynolds voicing Pikachu is the best casting decision since Ryan Reynolds played Deadpool.

24^th May – Aladdin – it’s weird enough that Robin Williams won’t be in this. Add in the fact that it’s a Guy Ritchie film, who directed Snatch, and this could be a very different film to the original cartoon. Bare-knuckle genie fighting anyone?

Important Dates

24^th-26^th May – Radio 1 Big Weekend – Radio 1 bring Miley Cyrus, Foals, The 1975, Little Mix, and many, many more to Middlesbrough.

27^th May – Spring Bank Holiday – we’ve had several bank holidays recently. This is the last one for a while, so make the most of it.