It has been called “the Golden Age of Clubland” and I daresay it was, although I have never been able to work out just how the finances of it worked. Looking back I was staggered to discover how many “big names” I’d seen in the (mostly Yorkshire) clubs in the… Continue reading
Natalie tells us how it all began The hard work began by listening closely to the constantly playing albums while travelling in my car. I spent hours consumed by You-tube videos and other clips of Adele’s performance. I was hooked! At that time we didn’t have thousands in the bank… Continue reading
Sue Barton asks ‘can you smell nostalgia’? During the sixties and seventies there was a certain smell to a working men’s club. The pungency of old hops and fermenting yeast permeated the air, and added to this was the lingering aroma of tobacco, pipe, cigarette, cigar or roll-up. The bouquet… Continue reading
Roger Remembers. The well-known show business writer Roger Holmes writes exclusively for UK Cabaret on the subject of show business nostalgia. Clubland has always had its characters and one I recall particularly, and always with a smile, is a musician, entertainer and scourge of committee men, little George Ryder. If… Continue reading
Roger Remembers. The well-known show business writer Roger Holmes writes exclusively for UK Cabaret on the subject of nostalgia. The finest act I ever saw on the stages of my local clubs was Roland Roy and Jackie Toaduff. Theirs is a remarkable story. In the 1950’s Roland Roy was… Continue reading
Kerrie Leanord on residencies Singer and entertainer Kerrie Leonard writes for us here in UK Cabaret on the subject of what it actually takes to be part of residency type bands at home and abroad. So you think you can be a resident musician? In theory it doesn’t sound too… Continue reading
Austin Knights funny page Austin Knights. One of the UK’s top comedians make UK Cabaret readers chuckle. When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were when they were growing up. What with walking ten miles to school… Continue reading
Roger Remembers. Show business writer Roger Holmes on nostalgia. One Sunday lunchtime at the bottom of Morley Road in Doncaster two lads were kicking a ball about in the car park at Wheatley W.M.C. The steward came out. “It’s time to go home now lads, off you go’. “We… Continue reading
Ivor on the unglamorous side of entertaining Northern clubland star Ivor Hillman, who is involved in the band My Pierrot Dolls, as well as duo Cat’s Eyes and genre tribute show Echo Beach, writes on the unglamorous side of life on the road as a jobbing entertainer. We started getting… Continue reading
Roger remembers Les Booth was the driving force behind Greasborough Social Club. The story has it that he came out of the forces after the war with a vision of establishing an entertainment club in the Rotherham area. It started with a wooden hut and progressed from there. How he… Continue reading
