... SPIRITS REJOICE LOUIS MOHOLO's South Afri can band Spirits Rejoice, fea turing Dudu Pukwana, Larry St abb ins. Gary Win do, Kenny Wheeler. Radu Malfatti. Keith Tippett, Harry Miller and singer Martha Molefe. from the cast of Ipi Tombi, are in concert at the 100 Club on October 20. Louis Moholo. Harry Miller and Keith Tippett will also be appearing with EDO. a quartet which is completed by ...

... MAKING WHOOPEE Now celebrating ten years of zany existence. BOB KERR'S WHOOPEE BAND are not only one of Britain's most unique musical attractions but have played an extraor dinary variety of gigs, from pubs to our biggest concert halls, sometimes as a support act to such stars as MANHATTAN TRANSFER and HINGE AND BRACKET, more often as a considerable attraction in their own right. Leader on ...

... MELLY When he launched himself into the jazz world over 30 years ago, following a public school education at Stowe and National Service in the Royal Navy, which he has chronicled so hilariously in Rum. Bum and Concertina, now among the DaDerback best-sellers, GEORGE MELLY probably never dreamed that in the late seventies he would not only be one of the biggest box office attractions in this ...

... KEEP MUSIC LIVE! MU's strategy for full employment By BRIAN BLAIN Secretary, Music Promotion Committee, Musicians' Union Keep Music Live--There can't be many people around the entertainment/music business who are now unaware of the Musicians' Unions' simple' slogan. Our stickers, badges and T shirts have even been seen bearing its message on Top of the Pops, a paradoxical pom! when the basic ...

... Brainstorming with the Boys RICHMOND FRINGE TELEVISION series are like stage plays in one thing at least--they show us the tips only of their icebergs. You can use the submerged nine tenths to sink any number of critical Titanics; you can also use them to make a play Andrew Davies' Brainstorming With the? Boys (it could equally well be 'barnstorming') is about one disaster-fraught weekend ...

... A Mackintosh Experience EDINBURGH THE MOST INFORMATIVE and attractive feature of A Mackintosh Experience is undoubtedly the setting. That is, if one is allowed to call the illuminated screen pictures of garden produce and flowers, of shapes and the reduction or distillation of shapes, part of the setting. At the Lyceum Little Theatre, Edinburgh, this educative tribute to an architect, whose ...

... 'A DAY FOREVER' AT THE OPEN SPACE Anne Morley-Priestman reviews Opened January 31 I'M ALL for realism in drama, but you can take it too far in the theatre, in the case of Michael Sharp's A Day Forever, the author appears to have tugged one way, the director (Madhav Sharma) in another and the designer (Jane Smith) in a third. It adds up to tedium with more longeurs than the most tentative ...

... Sticks and Bones NEW END SHIPPED home blind from the Vietnamese war, former US soldier David presents his family with a substantial problem. He no longer begins to fit into their run-of-the- mill. suburban way of life-- a fact which he loses no time in demonstrating in no uncertain anti-social terms. Kitchen-oriented mother Harriet is ill equipped to cope: junk food is her answer to every ...

... Double bill KINGSTON KINGSTON OVERGROUND had Peter Shaffer's Black Comedy working well on the opening night last week but the curtain raiser in the double bill, White Liars, was too matter of fact and lacked in expression. No doubt it will warm up. The timing of David McAlister and Lisa Evans as Brindsley and Carol Melkett was superb during the long 'dark' spell and. in the 'light' period ...

... OUR THEATRE IN THE NINETIES SECOND year stage students at Glasgow's School of Drama recently presented, at the Athenaeum Theatre a bill of excerpts from Pinero, St John Hankin, Wilde and Shaw, under the title Our Theatre in the Nineties. In Act 1 of Wilde s An Ideal Husband Patricia Ross showed an attractive stage presence and considerable vocal resource as the scheming Mrs Cheveley. Sandy ...

... Publicity conference ANOTHER in the series of publicity conferences organised by the Coun cil of Regional Theatres is to be held at the National Theatre on February 23. It will deal with design and print techniques and will include a tour of Battley Brothers (Printers) Ltd in Clapham. ...

... 23rd National Student Drama Festival COLLEGE THEATRE/CLIVE WOLFE IN VIEW of the growing list ot companies giving donations to the 23rd National Student Drama Festival, of which Granada. Thames and Anglia TV are the latest, it is entirely appropriate that contemporary concern is one of the keynotes of this year's 16 finalists in Durham (March 28 to April 2). Concern about the aftermath of a ...