... Mounting interest rates force club giant into receivership By BRIAN ATTWOOD ALINHURST, the Midlands based club giant, has gone into administration blaming mounting interest rates for the firm's financial problems. Accountants Cork Gully have been appointed to handle the company's affairs and are searching for possible buyers. A press spokesman for the admin istrator's Birmingham office said ...

... 3Cs plan keeps Congress open THE Congress Countdown Campaign has been given the go ahead to take over the management of Cwmbran's Congress, which was scheduled to close on May 30. Torfaen borough council has accepted the 3Cs business plan to keep the Congress open. It plans to hold a series of benefit concerts throughout June, including one organised by Stan Stennett featuring rock star Rick ...

... Rambert Choreographic Workshops 1992 RIVERSIDE STUDIOS IT WAS quality of movement, more than conceptual originality, that stood out from the evening of new work by six nascent choreographers from the Rambert Dance Company. What they showed collectively was a sensitive approach towards weight, shape and rhythmic pulse, and the skills to graft their ideas on to bodies that were never less ...

... Agents go on Euro offensive By HELEN GOULD BRITISH agents are hoping to ward off a welter of restrictive red tape from Brussels with a new six-point charter which will bring the rest of the European Community in line with UK regulations. The proposals will be presented at next month's Paris assembly of the European Federation of Professionals in the Performing Arts (EFPPA), set up two years ...

... Star ruffles a few feathers ISLINGTON council has ducked out of banning a promising young actor from performing an animal act on stage. New discovery Clint, who is not an Equity member, ruffled feathers when it was announced he would appear at the Lilian Bayliss Theatre, Sadler's Wells from this week. Safety officers went quackers when they discovered that the top billed star of the former ...

... Artists warned of 'easy money' seduction scheme By BRIAN ATTWOOD CASTING agents eager to ingratiate themselves with leading entertainment agents were accused this week of coaxing young stars to leave the books of smaller firms with the promise of making the big time. Allegations were made by an enter tainment industry insider who claims the practice is getting more common as competition among ...

... Summer of Independence BETTE Midler's favourite singer and some down home Cajun music are set to put the stars and stripes into Blackpool's celebration of America's Independence Day. This year's annual Summer Ball is set for July 4 in the Empress Ballroom and topping the bill will be disco diva Jocelyn Brown whose voice was heard sampled recently on Snap's number one hit The Power. Her vocals ...

... Ballet du Rhin SADLER'S WELLS THE ARRIVAL of the unknown Ballet du Rhin has turned out to be a surprise delight, with a second programme of 20th century works complementing the earlier 18th century Fille mal gardee, and underlining the quality and versatility of the dancers. Most successful was Oscar Araiz's Carnival of the Animals, with its style of anthropomorphism, and of non sense yielding ...

... Randall vows to pay up WIMBLEDON promoter, Paul Randall, has vowed that he will bow out of the entertainment business and pay back everything he owes to angry variety artists. Randall, boss of Rainbow Entertainments, is currently embroiled in legal battles with the Musicians Union, Equity and a series of entertainers over unpaid bills. He is said to owe around £25,000 in wages to stars of ...

... Dabner relaunches club despite name wrangle By HELEN GOULD FLAMBOYANT Jazz Café creator John Dabner this week shrugged off threats of a legal fight over his relaunch of the jazz club at its former Newington Green premise. Dabner, a former English teacher who set up the Jazz Cafe six years ago, moved the venue 1 8 months ago from Newington Green to new premises in Camden owned by theatre chain, ...

... Fire destroys Sheffield Britannia By HELEN GOULD HISTORIC Sheffield music hall, the Britannia, has been destroyed by fire just weeks before it was due to be protected by city council officials. The 1 30-year-old Victorian venue, which had not operated as a theatre for almost a century, had to be demol ished following a serious fire at the West Bar site near the city centre. Sheffield planning ...

... Record sales fall amidst CD price row BELEAGUERED British record bosses, facing fierce consumer pressure to cut CD prices, are pleading poverty as latest trade figures show they are weathering a worsening slump. Statistics for the first four months of 1992 show that record sales are down five per cent compared with this time last year. The volume of both albums and singles sold is down by 1 2 ...