Power Rangers giving aerial thrills at Butlins

POWER Rangers have jetted into Butlins, Minehead, as part of the holiday resort’s exclusive summer entertainment line-up.
The children’s superheroes are performing live shows high up in the centre’s giant skyline pavilion for weekend and mid-week breaks right through to September 7, and returning for the October schools half-term..
Butlins has teamed up with children’s television channel Jetix, which has more than two million young viewers a month, to bring their most popular heroes to life in the exclusive aerial show.
Power Rangers Mystic Force, probably the ‘coolest’ children’s characters on the planet, are teaming up with teen agents Totally Spies, A.T.O.M Alpha Teens on Machines, and Galactik Football, to defeat the evil Dr Y.
The show is for adults and children alike, and youngsters will also have an unique opportunity to come face-to-face with their heroes and have their photographs taken with them in exclusive ‘meet and greet’ sessions which follows each show.
One thrilled youngster is five-year-old Thomas Taylor, who says other television characters just cannot cut it for coolness alongside the dynamic Power Rangers.
Thomas said: “Out of all of the TV superheroes, Power Rangers Mystic Force are by far my favourite and I would love to meet them.”
Mike Godolphin, head of entertainment at Butlins, said: “Butlins is famous for its live entertainment and we are very excited to welcome arguably the most famous superheroes of the moment to our Butlins Resorts.”
To book a Butlins break, call 0870 162 1810 or click on http://www.butlins.com/.
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Cult band Portishead to make Christmas comeback at Butlins

BUTLINS has pulled off an entertainments coup at its Minehead resort with the announcement that cult band Portishead will be playing their first full live concert for nearly 10 years.
The British band will be the next curators and will be performing exclusively at ‘All Tomorrow's Parties, Nightmare Before Christmas’, which takes place on December 7, 8, and 9.
‘All Tomorrow's Parties’ was started in 1999 as an alternative to festivals such as Glastonbury and Reading, and previous curators have included indie bands Mogwai and Sonic Youth in the UK, and Simpsons creator Matt Groening, in the US.
Portishead said in a statement on their Myspace page: “We have always loved the All Tomorrow's Parties set up and we're happy our first shows will be there.
“It is great to have the opportunity to introduce bands we love or have influenced us.
“We have chosen a diverse collection of artists to play with us and we are really looking forward to it.”
The band said details of the All Tomorrow's Parties line up would be announced on its Myspace page and also on the website http://www.atpfestival.com/.
Portishead were pioneers of tri-hop music and their debut album Dummy won the Mercury Prize in 1995.
A follow-up album, Portishead, came out in 1997, after which little happened until an unannounced acoustic performance in Bristol in February of this hear, when they said they were close to finishing a third album on which they had been working for some years.
Details of tickets and available accommodation can be obtained via http://www.atpfestival.com/.
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