Here’s Nick Arnold’s dreadful diary for 2010. As you can see he’s like ice-cream – NO – HE’S NOT STICKY AND MELTING – I mean people can’t get enough of him! Keep your eyeballs peeled for Horrible Happenings happening near you!
JANUARY
Horrible Science Handbook series published in large format. They look TWICE as Horrible and THREE-TIMES more fun. They are available from all good bookshops (and quite a few horrible book shops too!)
Nick writes The House of Horror – a horrible look what lurks in the dark and slimy corners of your home!
FEBRUARY
February 15 – Nick’s Horrible Science Best Bits Show rocks Pontypridd – NICK SAYS: BIG thanks to the sell-out audience – you were great!
February – November – The Horrible Science Stage Show tours the UK. Most shows start at 7 pm although there will be some performances in the afternoons. Check with theatres for details!
February 23rd – February 27th – Horrible Science Stage Show The New Theatre, Cardiff
029 2087 8889 www.newtheatrecardiff.co.uk
MARCH
The Horrible Science of Everything – published in paperback this month! It’s just as horrible – and what’s more it’s cheaper so you get more squishy bits for your money!
March 3rd – March 6th – Horrible Science Stage Show New Wimbledon Theatre, Wimbledon 0844 871 7646 www.ambassadortickets.com/New-Wimbledon-Theatre
March 8th – March 10th – Horrible Science Stage Show The Hexagon Theatre, Reading
0118 960 6060 www.readingarts.com/thehexagon
March 11th – March 13th – Horrible Science Stage Show Theatre Royal, Winchester
01962 840 440 www.theatre-royal-winchester.co.uk
March 15th – March 17th Horrible Science Stage Show Palace Theatre, Mansfield
01623 633133 www.mansfield.gov.uk/palacetheatre
March 21 – 1 pm – Nick Arnold’s Horrible Science Show at Seven Stories Newcastle. NICK SAYS: Big thanks to all of you who came to the sell-out event! I had a super time – hope you enjoyed the show too!
March 23rd – March 27th – Horrible Science Stage Show The Grand Theatre, Blackpool
01253 290190 www.blackpoolgrand.co.uk
March 26 – afternoon – Nick Arnold’s Brutte Scienze Show at the Bolibri Bologna International Children’s Bookfair, Bologna, Italy. NICK SAYS: I loved saying “CIAO!” to the crowds of Horrible Science fans!
March 27 – 6.30 pm – Nick Arnold’s Horrible Science Show at The Royal Navy Submarine Museum, Gosport, Hampshire. This was a special light-themed show that featured a visiting ghost (you can find out how to make your own ghost in Frightening Light!) NICK SAYS: It was G-G-Great G-G-Ghostly Fun!
APRIL
April 7th – April 10th – Horrible Science Stage Show Wycombe Swan Theatre, High Wycombe 01494 512000 www.wycombeswan.co.uk
April 15th – April 17th – Horrible Science Stage Show The Alhambra, Bradford
01274 432 000 www.bradford-theatres.co.uk/alhambra
April 20th – April 24th – Horrible Science Stage Show The Orchard Theatre, Dartford
01322 220000 www.orchardtheatre.co.uk
MAY
This month Nick Arnold writes a script for A Place to Dream – a film about famous writers Charles Kingsley, Rudyard Kipling and Henry Williamson. The film will be shown at the Appledore Book Festival later in the year.
Really Rotten Experiments and Quiz Book to be published in one big bulging vile volume!
May 11th – May 15th – Horrible Science Stage Show Opera House, Jersey
01534 511 115 www.jerseyoperahouse.co.uk
May 17th – Terrible Tea Party– come to the world’s first Horrible Science tea party at 3.30 pm, Pinhoe Library, Exeter, Devon. NICK SAYS:Hi to all of you who came to tea. I had a lovely afternoon!
May 18th – May 22nd – Horrible Science Stage Show The Curve Theatre, Leicester
0116 242 3595 www.curveonline.co.uk
May 27th – May 29th – Horrible Science Stage Show Plymouth Pavilions, Plymouth
0845 146 1460 www.plymouthpavilions.com NICK SAYS:I was at the show and had a horribly good time – so did everyone else!
JUNE
Nick Arnold launches programme for the Appledore Book Festival this month. Tickets will go on sale and the brochure is available from appledorebookfestival.co.uk NICK SAYS: The brochure launched on 19 June with a cool vintage car rally and a special Festival bus with brochures on board!
June 1st – June 5th – Horrible Science Stage Show Royal &Derngate, Northampton
01604 624811 www.royalandderngate.co.uk/en/Home
June 2nd – Nick Arnold opens the new and improved Ilfracombe Library, Devon with a special Horrible Science talk. NICK SAYS: I had a great time thanks to the lovely audience – thanks for your emails!
June 10th – June 12th – Horrible Science Stage Show The Sunderland Empire, Sunderland 0844 847 24 99 www.sunderlandempire.org.uk
June 15th – June 19th – Horrible Science Stage Show The Lyceum Theatre, Sheffield
0114 249 6000 www.sheffieldtheatres.co.uk
June 23rd – June 26th – Horrible Science Stage Show The Grimsby Auditorium, Grimsby
0844 847 2426 www.grimsbyauditorium.org.uk
June 26th – Nick Arnold guest star at the Super Science Day at Cramlington, Northumberland – a Horrible Science Fair with displays and experiments based on the Horrible Science books. NICK SAYS: Everyone worked incredibly hard and the displays were out of this world! A brilliant event!
June 29th – Nick Arnold is keynote speaker at a Teacher’s Conference at the Priory School, Lewes. Sussex NICK SAYS: It was great fun giving teachers the HORRIBLE treatment! Funny thing is – they enjoyed it too!
June 29th – July 3rd – Horrible Science Stage Show The New Oxford Theatre, Oxford
0844 847 1585 www.newtheatreoxford.org.uk
JULY
New editions of Suffering Scientists and Explosive Experiments are published this month so expect lots of Suffering Experiments and squishy moments in the book shops!
July 4th – Nick Arnold at the Isola delle Storie Festival at Gavoi, Sardinia – 4.30 pm. Further information www.isoladellestorie.it NICK SAYS: What an amazing experience – oodles of sunshine and hundreds of happy fans!
July 6th – July 10th – Horrible Science Stage Show The Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham
0844 847 2302 www.alexandratheatre.org.uk
July 28th – SORRY! SORRY! SORRY! to all those of you who booked to see Nick at Intech science centre, Winchester. Nick was unable to be there owing to a misunderstanding about the booking.
AUGUST
Horrible Science Annual 2011 published this month. It’s going to be BIGGER and GRUESOMER than ever (oops, I don’t think that’s a real word!)
August 5th – Nick Arnold’s Horrible Science Best Bits Show gets squishy at Newport Central Library, South Wales at 11 am. You can also catch the show at Bettws Library at 2 pm. NICK SAYS: I love helping libraries and it was FANTASBRILL to see so many of you at both Libraries!
SEPTEMBER
The Stunning Space Jigsaw Book to be published this month. Find out what happens when the sinister purple slobwobbler steals Oddblob’s blurbi-dollars and loads of foul facts about scary space!
September 12th – Nick Arnold brings The Horrible Science Best Bits Show to TechFest in Aberdeen. There’s going to be TWO shows – one in the morning and one in the afternoon so I guess it’s gonna be TWICE AS HORRIBLE! NICK SAYS: Thanks to ALL of you who came to the sell-out shows we all had a really HORRiBLE day (and loved every minute of it!) Oh yes and thanks to those horribly nice people from TECHFEST!
September 21st – September 25th – September – Horrible Science Stage Show The Grand Opera House, York 0844 847 2322 www.grandoperahouseyork.org.uk
September 25th – October 3rd – Nick Arnold directs the 4th Appledore Book Festival, Appledore, Devon. The year there’s an even bigger line-up of star authors and celebrities and writers of all sorts. The film Nick has been making will be shown on 29th September. For more details see appledorebookfestival.co.uk NICK SAYS: This has been the BIGGEST AND THE BEST FESTIVAL EVER – that’s what everyone says – the public – the authors – my cat. Actually I am not sure if my cat did say that but she’s the only one who didn’t!
OCTOBER
Horrible Science Handbooks – Sharks out this month. Join Harvey Tucker (Australia’s biggest reporter) on the ride of a life-time on the back of a hungry great white shark! Don’t forget to SNAP IT UP!
October 11th – October 20th – Horrible Science Tour of China NICK SAYS: WOW! What a brain-blowing brilliant tour. Horrible Science is the NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER in China and Tony De Saulles and I were treated like pop stars! (Luckily we weren’t asked to sing!) There were TV cameras and fans everywhere! We went to Shanghai, Zhenjiang, Shenzhen, Hangzhou and Beijing and I’d like to thank Madame Jao Ming and all the children from all the schools we visited and a BIG THANK YOU! to the Beijing Children’s Publishing House – our wonderful Chinese publishers – for looking after us so very well.
October 19th – October 23rd – Horrible Science Stage Show The Palace Theatre, Manchester 0844 847 2277 www.manchestertheatres.com/palacetheatre
October 26th – The Horrible Science Best Bits Show adds squishy bits to the Durham Book Festival. NICK SAYS: There are LOADS of HORRIBLE SCIENCE FANS in Durham – I know ‘cos I met them! Hi guys – thanks for coming to my sell out show!
NOVEMBER
November 6th – Nick Arnold does two Horrible Science events at the Folkestone Festival of Literature. NICK SAYS: This was a horribly lovely day and a chance to meet lots of lovely scientist-types and Horrible Science fans!
November 9th – November 13th – Horrible Science Stage Show The Civic Theatre, Chelmsford 01245 606 505 www.chelmsford.gov.uk
