... The Fourmost Wakefield With a string of top ten hits to their name in the late sixties, the Liverpool-based four-piece band the Fourmost, with two original members, are still gigging heavily and providing nostalgia fans with a fast moving set of ditties. Their hour-long set is made up of renditions of their own old hits, such as A Little Lovin' and Hello Little Girl, and covers of other ...

... Thunder from Down Under Peterborough All the raw energy and candour of young Australia is here at the Key, from the moment loud rock music builds, clouds of dry ice clear, and the lightshow reveals the muscular silhouettes of this talented group of extremely fit, handsome young men. It goes without saying they all have tremendous physiques, but their friendly, good-humoured approach is what ...

... Show Toppers Paignton Show Toppers is another building block in the Torbay summer sea son. It is a modest affair at the Festival Theatre but aims high, seeking to present highlights from hit West End musicals, songs and some production numbers. Four singers, Mitchell i Armstrong, Lorraine Brown, David i Lawrence and Natalie Cleverly, rattle through excerpts from West i Side Story, Miss Saigon, ...

... London Jazz Big Band 100 Club In the mid-seventies, pianist Stan Greig formed the London Jazz Big Band. Made up of many of the best mainstream players then active, it endured for ten years. Now, Greig has revived the band and, miraculously, many key members are back on board. The band s welcome reappearance at the 100 Club (the site of its debut back in 1975) was in support of an admirably ...

... Laurie Johnson's London Big Band Barbican Hall Opportunities to see an old-fashioned big band let rip on stage are all too few and far between nowadays, but there still remains a large audience just waiting for concerts like this one at the Barbican. wi important aspect ot com poser and arranger Laurie Johnson's original concept, when he launched this band a couple of years ago, was that it ...

... Little to stick in the memory Cambridge/Touring Cambridge Footlights Revue 1997: Emotional Baggage This year's show was ambitious, with multimedia effects and a gigantic props list, which slowed everything down so that the stage was dark between items for what seemed like minutes. It was modem, with items about virtual reality, family inter action, and the writers had an Ortonesque ear for ...

... BMHS Central Conference Centre Last month's British Music Hall Society meeting kicked off to a fine start with a mixed bill of mainly variety headliners, although this might have been called the Don Smoothey Show, since he not only compered, but drew the raffle and topped the bill. Still. Smoothey is one of those great variety comics who can turn his hand to everything, regardless of the ...

... La Feria de los Cinco Sentidos BAC You have probably never seen so many tomatoes all gathered together in one place in your life. Conceived by Alicia Rios, this riotous extravaganza of food, sounds, smells and textures delivers what its title promises-a fair for the five senses. It really is great fun, esp ecially as the crowd not so much an audience as a group of roving participants loses its ...

... The Chuckle Brothers Family Fun Show Blackpool Catchphrases do not come much simpler than hellooooo, or even to me! to you!- but then the Chuckle Brothers did not get where they are today by being complex. Rotherham's surprising high flyers are a wonderful fusion of traditional music hall, time-hon- oured social club double act and likeable uncles doing their party piece for the kids. Paul ...

... A Chorus of One Oxford Street Theatre Apparently, the plan for this one- woman show starring Hilary Fisher is to tour studio theatres and art centres in the future. Seems like a good idea to me. Cavatina Productions' A Cho rus of One comes across as a genuine attempt to produce an hour or so of varied revue enter tainment, and despite the format being old-fashioned, the creative team behind ...

... Joe Brown and the Bruvvers/Mike Pender's Searchers Torquay Some of the survivors of the rock'n'roll explosion of the sixties, are still alive and well and touring in Thanks for the Memory type shows which have extended the life of old time variety stars. When Joe Brown launches into an upbeat version of Harry Champion's 'Enery the Eighth the circle is complete. The groupies of the sixties ...

... Peter Mallan and the Clydesiders Kilmarnock Best known today as a Radio Clyde presenter, Peter Mallan has also enjoyed a professional career as a tenor singer, dating back to 1959, when fate took him touring Britain's concert halls, Scotland's top theatres, and to faraway places like New York's Carnegie Hall. In this Palace show he revelled in a repertoire which included traditional Scots ...