... A storm in a car park THEATRE bosses in York are keeping close watch on a car park ing row between two local councils which could affect attendances at matinee shows. The city's Theatre Royal is caught in the middle of the dispute betwen York City Council and Ryedale District Council following the former's decision to charge Ryedale residents extra for parking in York. Ryedale says the ...

... Clampdown on seaside wreckers A GET TOUGH policy on nightclub troublemakers has been praised by Blackpool Palace Nighspot boss Martin Baird. The operations director of the re sort's biggest nightclub said he hoped the heavy sentences meted out last week were the shape of things to come rather than a one off. Seventeen men were jailed for a total of 29 years at Liverpool Crown Court for ...

... Conference BRITAIN'S first national conference on community music is being held at the Abraham Moss Centre, Manches ter on April 15 and 16. Sessions will be led by musicians from the fields of composition, electronics, vocal work and percussion, and there will be speakers on world music, sociology, community development, animateurs, music co-operatives, residencies and workshops. It is being ...

... High Court demands Eire dubs pay up FORTY-SEVEN nightclubs in Eire are to pay £250,000 in royalties which have been due for the past two years. The pay-out follows settlement of a test case brought in the Dublin High Court against the Irish Music Rights Organisation, Dublin agent of the British-based Performing Rights Society. In the test case, which involved six Dublin nightclubs, the Irish ...

... Farming out aid WHILE THOSE involved in Com ic Relief are noisily doing their bit for the poor and needy, a South Yorkshireman organised an event which raised enough money to give one person in Mozambique his own farm. Max Anton held Puppet Aid at Rotherham Arts Centre on 17 to 18 February. With little or no publicity, the event still managed to raise over £260 and now Anton wants to make this ...

... All aboard for The Tramway THE FIRST production in Glasgow's newest performance space, The Tramway (formerly a transport museum), on the city's south side, has opened. The new play Border Warfare, writ ten and directed by John McGrath, and performed by Wildcat Theatre Com pany, has opened for a four-week run. Featuring 18 actors and musicians, the show is being performed prom enade with ...

... Zap fills the gap A MAJOR redevelopment prog ramme costing almost £400,000 has meant a new venue for live enter tainment in Brighton. Just five months ago The Zap was an overcrowded seafront club until theatre architect Mark Foley designer of the Almeida, The Place and Riverside Studios in London was called in. Now it has a capacity for over 400 people. The cost of the redevelopment was funded ...

... Same time next year? AFTER the huge success of the Terry-Thomas Benefit evening at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane on April, 9 the organisers Richard Hope- Hawkins and Jack Douglas want to make it an annual event to help other Parkinson's Disease suf ferers. Douglas has already hired the London Palladium for next year's show which, it is hoped, will feature a half British and half American line ...

... Short lease of life for Dominion THE Apollo Leisure theatre chain has been awarded a short term lease on the threatened Dominion site in Tottenham Court Road. Major tenants Rank agreed to a new deal which leaves everyday running of the venue in Apollo's hands in the same week that Rank's own lease came up for renewal. The proprietor of the theatre Saveflex Ltd wants to demolish the prime West ...

... In for a dizzy spell THE DIZZY GILLESPIE United Nation All-Star Orchestra is to play one date only at the Royal Festival Hall on June 10 towards the end of a European tour. There will be two other June dates in Britain, at Edin burgh on June 2 and Bath the following night. The 15-piece band includes such notable as Flora Purim and her hus band Airto Moreira, James Moody, Slide Hampton, Steve ...

... Organising a UK tour ORGANIST Jimmy McGriff and tenor saxist Hank Crawford are front ing a quartet completed by Wayne Boyd on guitar and Vance James on drums which begins a tour at the Bierkeller, Bristol on May 18. Continuing until May 28, the tour includes dates at Brighton, the 100 Club in Oxford Street, Liverpool, the Wag in Wardour Street, Eastleigh, Manchester, Leeds, Nottingham and ...

... Buffery sows seeds THE ROYAL Shakespeare Com pany's assistant director in Strat ford, Bill Buffery, is to take over as the new artistic director of the Orchard Theatre from mid January. He will succeed Nigel Bryant, who will leave for a post with the BBC in Birmingham as a radio drama producer after five years in which saw the audience treble. A spokesman for the company said Buffery would ...