Matt Callard

Dec 6, 2024 | on-magazine.co.uk | Matt Callard

By Matt Callard, December 2024It starts with a bang – literally – and ends some two and a half hours later with a shotgun wedding, streamers falling and an entire theatre on its feet dancing to the umpteenth reprise of ‘We Will Rock You’. Inbetween we get soaked by water guns, inundated with innudendo, threatened with extreme violence by a baddie called Fleshcreep (Kenny Davies) and are witness to enough fart gags to make a classful of six-year-olds roll their eyes – almost.

Sep 11, 2024 | on-magazine.co.uk | Matt Callard

By Matt Callard, September 2024For travel purposes, five is most definitely not the magic number. A hotel room that sleeps five? Sorry, you’ll need to be split over two rooms. A table for five, please? Just hold while I stick this extra chair awkwardly at the end of the table. Taxi home? No, you’ll need to order a people carrier.

Feb 29, 2024 | on-magazine.co.uk | Matt Callard

By Matt Callard, March 2024I’ve stayed in hotels, motels, hostels. I’ve tested out lodges, havens, cottages, caravans. I’ve indulged myself on cruise ships and divulged the painful truth about three-nights in a 24-hour theme park with a rollercoaster ride only a stone’s throw from the bedroom window. Once, I reviewed a “budget hotel” in Cambodia that was basically a ground sheet and a mosquito net. But, I’ve never before been to a sanctuary, not for work nor pleasure.

Oct 24, 2022 | on-magazine.co.uk | Matt Callard

Jun 12, 2022 | on-magazine.co.uk | Matt Callard