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 the work had been dubbed … 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 entertainment industry frequents reveals its … 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 lady researcher from Granada T.V. … 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 what you’ve gone for… … 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 tour schedule must have required … 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 of Sassenach flotsam? Who will … 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 up on time. We were wrong, Heaven … 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 be in! Je Suis Clarkson! … Continue reading
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 ‘50s ands early ‘70s. Don’t … 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 to pay for everything I … Continue reading