... Revealing the other life of 'er indoors STEVE ABSALOM reports ARTHUR DALEY, being a great frequenter of pubs and a lover of tradition and the finer arts, would heartily approve of the latest activities of Er indoors next week. It's art innit, Terry ma son, he might say, and as I've always been an ardent supporter of artistic endeavour I want you to get on yer bike to 'Enley an see that er ...

... Club hopes to click BLACKPOOL IS getting yet another nightclub Clicks. By way of a change Clicks is seen as a fun club and its aim is to capture the market currently being weaned to the fun pub atmosphere which is sweeping the resort. The venue was formerly the Nite Owl and is housed in the basement of the North Bank Hotel, North Promenade next 'o the more famous Imperial Hotel. It is ...

... High panto bookings THE PANTOMIME Dick Whittington due to open at Nottingham's Theatre Royal next Christmas has sold more than £51,000 worth of seats since bookings opened just a month ago. Theatre staff believe the show, featuring Little and Large and Julie Rogers, could sell out before it opens and could be Britain's most successful panto ever outselling Aladdin which earned Nottingham's ...

... Little Madams split PROPER Little Madams the trio which has been causing such a stir on both the folk and the alternative cabaret circuit* have announced its last date together at this year's Fylde Folk Festival in September. Tired of touring, Cathy hopes to find some solo work in clubs nearer home (Derby) and to spend some timing working on her own songs. Kim is moving to Germany, where dogs ...

... Final bows at the Talk MOIRA PETTY reports A SEA of feathers, beautiful ladies and kisses, was how producer Robert Nesbitt described the scene backstage at the Talk of the Town last Saturday as the famous nightspot prepared to take its final bows. Still shaken by the news he had heard only 48 hours earlier, but maintaining a stiff British upper lip, Nesbitt paid tribute from the stage to all ...

... Punk star Beki to take up acting PUNK STAR Beki Bondage is being given the chance to score as an actress through the enterprising scheme of a fringe theatre company. Chris Ward, founder of the Wet Paint Theatre group, has been adapting sec tions of his plays for rock music fans. The result has gone down so well with young audiences that Ward has staged fragments of his works as the support to ...

... Top sixties promoter forms new company MOIRA PETTY reports TOP NOTCH concert promoter from the sixties and seventies, Robert Paterson-the man who unleased Manilow-Mania on Europe-has resurfaced with a company for the eighties. Responsible for putting stars like Bassey, Bowie, Dylan and Stravin sky on the world's concert stages, he bowed out of active concert pro motion a couple of years ago, ...

... Marketing post for Pulleine in dance world CONTEMPORARY DANCE Trust has appointed Christopher Pulleine, formerly development officer with the Yorkshire Arts Association, as director of marketing. The new post carries overall respon sibility for the marketing, public rela tions and sponsorship activities of the different elements of the Trust, includ ing London Contemporary Dance Theatre and ...

... THF to wind-up Garter nightspot Reinvestment scheme fails MOIRA PETTY reports RUMOURS OF changes within Trusthouse Forte Leisure's cabaret division have been confirmed with the closure of another major nightspot. Six months after the sudden shutdown of the West End's Talk of the Town, the powerful hotel- owning and leisure conglomerate says it plans to wind up the Garter club, Manchester in ...

... Soothsayer Baker's invisible friend EVEN A THEATRICAL clairvoyant wasn't able to forecast the eleventh hour West End opportunity which gave him only days to stimulate public interest. According to psychic Mike Baker's calculations, he had until next spring to assemble a show for the Fortune Theatre. But when the venue's first foray into the world of thrillers with Ladies in Retirement ...

... Last week of Dance Umbrella ALMEIDA Dance Umbrella FOR ITS FINAL week in London, Dance Umbrella moved to the Almeida, where the most stimulating performer turned out to be the American soloist Dana Reitz. Part of the fascination in watching Reitz is to see the way her spare frame allows her to move with a rare harmonic completeness. She appears capable of dancing almost anything; nevertheless ...

... Bentine still serving up his brand of the ridiculous Comedian Michael Bentine actually started out as a Shakespearean actor. ANN NUGENT traces his career. WE THINK of Michael Bentine as a comedian who has endeared himself to us on stage, television and radio through his particular brand of the ridiculous (The Goons, It's A Square World, The Bumblies, The Flea Circus and so on). It s ...