heart condition. Fleetwood Transport Festival, also known as Tram Sunday, has been held annually on the third Sunday of July since 1985. It is a festival of vintage vehicles highlighted by a number of historical tram-cars, which parade along Lord Street. Fleetwood Beer & Cider Festival is held in February each year and is organised by the Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre branch of CAMRA. The festival offers a choice of around 100 real ales as well as a selection of ciders and foreign beers. Music The young John Lennon spent his childhood summer holidays in Fleetwood with a cousin who lived in the town, returning to the town on 25 August 1962 when the Beatles played at the Marine Hall. Operatic tenor Alfie Boe grew up in Fleetwood and his first public performance was at the Marine Hall at the age of 14, where he worked as a stage technician. Operatic mezzo-soprano Jean Rigby was also born in Fleetwood. The best-known rock bands to feature musicians from Fleetwood are television talking head John Robb's the Membranes and Goldblade, punk band One Way System (the first signing on Cherry Red's Anagram Records), Uncle Fester/UFX, Earthling Society, who have released six critically acclaimed albums, and Kiss of the Gypsy, who were signed to Atlantic Records in the US. One Way System drummer Tommy Couch (brother of boxer Jane Couch) played drums with UK Subs for two years. and has been voted one of the top 30 best punk drummers of all time. Musicians from One Way System, UFX and Kiss of the Gypsy combined in 2011 to release a gothic psychobilly album as Boneyard Zombies and in 2014 the debut release by rock and roll garage band The Crawlin' Hex, formed by members of Earthling Society and UFX received a series of positive reviews. Another influential Fleetwood musician is folk singer Alan Bell, the founder and director of the internationally renowned Fylde Folk Festival which ran for 42 years until Bell's retirement in 2014. Bell's suite The Band in the Park won the prestigious Radio Italia prize for Broadcasting for BBC Radio Lancashire and resulted in a BBC2 Television programme devoted to Bell – Alan Bell: The Man and His Music. The festival is to be superseded in 2015 by the New Folk 'n' Roots Festival. Stuart Chatwood of Canadian rock band the Tea Party was also born in Fleetwood. Sport Fleetwood