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... Come join Comstock COUNTRY and Western singer, John Ramone, has become the first British artist to be signed up by the top American country record com pany, Comstock, giving hope to hundreds of British artists trying to break into the US market. Ramone, who has spent 10 years promoting British country and western acts with his agency J.R.E.C, has himself had a childhood dream to break into the ...
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... Redgrave Theatre auditions for Mr Small CHILDREN'S favourites the Mr Men are the stars of a new £78,000 musical which will tour Britain this autumn. The Mr Men Musical will be premiered at Farnham's Redgrave Theatre in September, and the show's backers Ian Listen of Hiss and Boo Ltd and the Uppity Stage Company are hoping the show will open in the West End at Christmas. A spokesman for the ...
... Ayr council voteto keep the Gaietyopen by JOHN MOORE MEMBERS of Kyle and Carrick District Council have discussed in open session recent financial and attendance figures for Ayr Gaiety Theatre. I his was a practice discontinued a few years ago following protests from members of the Federation of Theatre Unions. The council accepted the critic ism then that the Gaiety was unique in being the ...
... 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 ...
... Final bows at the Talk MOIRA PETTY reports A SEA of feathers, beautiful ladies and kisses, was how producer Robert Nesbitt described the scene backstage at the Talk of the Town last Saturday as the famous nightspot prepared to take its final bows. Still shaken by the news he had heard only 48 hours earlier, but maintaining a stiff British upper lip, Nesbitt paid tribute from the stage to all ...
... Punk star Beki to take up acting PUNK STAR Beki Bondage is being given the chance to score as an actress through the enterprising scheme of a fringe theatre company. Chris Ward, founder of the Wet Paint Theatre group, has been adapting sec tions of his plays for rock music fans. The result has gone down so well with young audiences that Ward has staged fragments of his works as the support to ...
... Top sixties promoter forms new company MOIRA PETTY reports TOP NOTCH concert promoter from the sixties and seventies, Robert Paterson-the man who unleased Manilow-Mania on Europe-has resurfaced with a company for the eighties. Responsible for putting stars like Bassey, Bowie, Dylan and Stravin sky on the world's concert stages, he bowed out of active concert pro motion a couple of years ago, ...