Show business Gossip Hoover This is brand new to UK Cabaret. The show business gossip hoover presents news and bits of ‘goss’ for the consumption of fellow show business professionals. Stage hypnotist Ken Webster, currently in his umpteenth Blackpool summer season at The Horseshoe Bar on Blackpool Pleasure Beach, is… Continue reading
The missus came home to find me in the scullery preparing a special candlelit gourmet meal. I was using our best china and had set elaborate place settings for two. “Oh this is a really nice surprise,” she whispered. “Too flamin’ right it is,” I replied, “I didn’t expect you… Continue reading
The Grand order of Water RatsMike Martin talks to UK Cabaret about this legendary show business brotherhood and the charitable work its illustrious members are involved in. Victorian music hall comedian Joe Elvin was a passenger in a horse drawn cart in London, while deluged in rain. The animal doing… Continue reading
Mark My WordsA word from our managing editor Mark Ritchie The title of the Sergio Leone spaghetti western The Good, The Bad and The Ugly is often applied to people or situations in popular media circles. UK Cabaret never claims to be original in terms of content and the… Continue reading
Female comedians – you mustn’t use the term comediennes nowadays – have been with us a long time. As chairman of the Manchester Music Hall Association I sometimes get enquiries, mostly about ancestors who were once “on the Halls”. A few years ago I had a call from a young… Continue reading
Barmy Albert’s wife has left him and taken his entire Bob Marley CD collection and she’s even took the satellite dish. Poor Albert. No woman, no Sky! Tom Tom have launched a new Sat Nav system especially for the over seventies. When you get where you’re going, it reminds you… Continue reading
Derren BrownMiracle Regent Theatre Stoke On Trent and touring Directed by Andy Nyman& Andrew O’Connor Produced by Michael Vine, Andrew O’Connor & Derren Brown for Vaudeville Productions Ltd. May 8thth Reviewer Mark Ritchie This is the seventh stage show presented by the ever beguiling and engaging Derren Brown. His punishing… Continue reading
BREAKING NEWS: Scottish river police have already intercepted 500 English migrants attempting to cross the tempestuous River Tweed, in overloaded and ramshackle craft. Chief Inspector Jock McTartan informed this reporter “This is the beginning of a whole new humanitarian crisis for Scotland, so it is. Who will take care of these pieces… Continue reading
ROGER REMEMBERS – The Carl Denver Trio (Carl, Kevin Neil, and Gerry Cottrell) were doubling Greasborough Social and the Scala in Doncaster, clubs about 12 miles apart, and the timing was tight. There was a very thick fog that night and no-one in the Scala, including me, expected them to turn… Continue reading
Jeremy Clarkson went over the top on Comic Relief Day. He gave the producer a red nose! Although he has been sacked from Top Gear, he will now be presenting ‘It’s A Knockout!’ I can envisage next year’s 2016 Top Gear Calendar, Clarkson and Hammond won’t appear, but May will… Continue reading
