50 Years of James Bond's Cars
Beaulieu
January - December
An exhibition of 50 iconic James Bond vehicles – the largest of its kind staged anywhere in the world – opens in January at the National Motor Museum at Beaulieu. The exhibition will run for the whole of 2012 in celebration of 50 years of James Bond movies. Bond in Motion will feature a range of vehicles that have appeared in Bond films over the years including cars, boats, motorbikes, sleds and jets. Vehicles will include the 1964 Aston Martin DB5 and the 1937 Phantom lll Rolls-Royce from Goldfinger, the Lotus Esprit S1 nicknamed ‘Wet Nellie’ from The Spy Who Loved Me, the Bede Acrostar jet flown in Octopussy, the BMW 750iL from Tomorrow Never Dies, the original Parahawk (powered parachute) featured in The World is Not Enough and the original SFX Cello Case Ski navigated by Timothy Dalton in The Living Daylights. The National Motor Museum at Beaulieu, celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2012, has a collection of more than 250 vehicles and tells the story of motoring in Britain. The collection includes racing cars, modern rally cars and the latest F1 machines, as well as world land speed record breakers and family cars from every motoring era.
Dreamboats and Petticoats
Monday 13th February 2012 - Saturday 18th February 2012
Mayflower Theatre
Inspired by the smash hit multi-million selling albums DREAMBOATS AND PETTICOATS ONE, TWO, THREE and FOUR, the West End sell out sensation DREAMBOATS AND PETTICOATS THE MUSICAL, featuring some of the greatest hit songs of the Rock ‘n’ Roll era, returns to Southampton for 2012!
Dreamboats and Petticoats The Musical features classic tracks from Roy Orbison, The Shadows, Eddie Cochran, Billy Fury, and many more, including Let’s Dance, To Know Him Is To Love Him, Shaking All Over, Bobby’s Girl, Little Town Flirt, Only Sixteen, Runaround Sue, Happy Birthday Sweet 16, Let It Be Me, Great Pretender, C’mon Everybody, Let’s Twist Again and many more hits from music’s golden era!
www.mayflower.org.uk