... Bell ringing SCOTS SINGER Maggie Bell, one of the great British names of the seventies, is to appear at the Canteen in Covent Garden from June 29 to July 2. She has seldom been seen in London in recent years and never before in a club setting of this nature. ...

... 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 ...

... Royal discount pays off The Theatre Royal at Stratford East is £32.000 better off following its most successful marketing ploy to date The sum is the advanced box office taking for its pantomime The Sleeping Beauty which opens on December 14. The theatre offered a 10 per cent discount on tickets bought before October 31 and was flooded with punters. A spokesman for the Royal said that ...

... Cabaret in the Coconut Grove THE LIVERPOOL nightclub, Coconut Grove in Tuebrook is proposing to introduce cabaret. This is primarily a big disco club. With Allinsons, the cabaret club now closed, the Coconut is applying to the city licensing justices on April 12 for a liquor licence to cover their second floor accommodation. Lack of audiences and high fees demanded by performers were given as ...

... Food with footlights VldUKIAN variety revues are on their way back to a Cumbrian inn as pan of a food and footlights scheme. The plan which is claimed will be the only music hall venue in the Lake District is part of a £40,000 modernisation scheme for the White Swan Inn at Boltongate. As well as sporting conventional bar*, the pub will house a restaurant-cum- music hall and owner, Jean Rigg, ...

... Changes made is Paraphernalia BARBARA THOMSON has had to make two important changes in her jazz group Paraphernalia. Colin Dudman and Dill Katz, with five and three years service respectively, have left to concentrate on their own band 20th Century Blues and have been replaced by Bill Worrall (keyboards) and Dave Ball (bass guitar). Remaining are Barbara on saxophones and flutes, her husband ...

... US star pulls out of Sellers tour PROMOTER HENRY Sellers is licking his wounds, hiding his embarrassment and showing his annoyance at the last-minute cancellation of a tour he had lined up last week by U.S. soul star Billy Griffin, who charted strongly recently with Hold Me Tighter in the Rain. For just as Sellers was expecting GrifTin to arrive primed and ready for his opening date at ...

... Newcastle Royal asks for grants for panto NEWCASTLE THEATRE Royal is to ask for up to £65,000 in grants to stage this year's Aladdin pantomime. The request for financial assistance comes despite record box office takings from the winter's panto and more than £80,000 being made from the hire of scenery and sets. A report, to be considered by Tyne and Wear's leisure committee, says the council ...

... Friends help Bertice LONDON'S WAREHOUSE Theatre got by with a little help from Bertice Reading's friends when a bout of laryngitis stopped the bouncy jazz singer from appearing in her one-woman show there last week. During the run of Every Inch a Lady, Reading had been hosting impromptu after-show parties by inviting singing acquaintances and members of the audience to take the stage. And ...