... Sixties acts dazzle the crowds Palladium Solid Silver 60s Show 2000 Featuring four acts from the swinging sixties, this is the 15th such annual tour, the call for which shows no sign of abating as we begin the new millennium. First were the Swinging Blue Jeans, appropriately clad in denim, giving their interpretation of three Gene Vincent numbers which made for a party atmos phere. With some ...

... Tough fight to make progress By John Martland It seemed rather appropriate that actress Frances Barber should talk about her work on Shiner, the forthcoming Michael Caine film dealing with the nasty side of the fight game, in five five-minute slots rather than one continuous programme. Each day in Work In Progress (BBC Bristol for R3, from Monday, May 8), she vividly recalled what it was ...

... Zippo's Circus Blackheath/Touring There is a familiarity about Zippo's--a sense of tradition. Clowns, trapeze, horses, jugglers--everything is there except for the tigers and elephants to remind us of days gone by. When every member of the team helps out, not only in each other's acts, but also selling prog rammes, it is hard not to wonder about the circus' financial state. In these days of TV ...

... A welcome round of nostalgia BY JOHN MARTLAND With the Millennium Dome in the news for all the wrong reasons right now, memories of an earlier structure--the Dome of Discovery--were revived in Fabulous Fifties (Music Entertainment for R2, from Tuesday, April 18). The title, of course referred to those ten extraordinary years that were, in presenter Alan Whicker's words, squeezed like a ...