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HOME PAGE It is now 2025 and we have just engineered a huge expansion in our coverage of light entertainment. We have also been canvassing the opinions of our readers through a readership survey. With a few teething problems within the May edition now overcome, our A4 sized digital edition… Continue reading →

UK REVIEW Presenting niche tributes make good business for venues and artistes as, when carefully chosen and well-presented, they can attract and pull-in devotees of the genre being ‘tributed’. One example is Northern Soul, which seems to appeal across many age ranges.I joined the busy house at this Yorkshire pub… Continue reading →

THE UK CABARET CLUBLAND PAGEDuring the great Clubland days, the old chairmen of yesteryear epitomised so brilliantly by the late great comedian Colin Crompton of Wheeltappers and Shunters club fame, ruled the roost in club concert rooms. How times change! Back then there were even illuminated signs up in some… Continue reading →

, On stage A LIFE AT SEAThis month our very own Mark Ritchie writes on the entertainers who have made a life out of raising laughs at sea. Those with funny bones who venture on to the stages of the big ships must know what they are doing more than… Continue reading →