Cliff Moore

Kate Rusby does not pass this way very often so any folk fan worth their salt would undoubtedly have been clamouring for tickets to see her at Lighthouse.

The word ‘genial’ might have been invented for Sir Tim Rice, who was onstage at Lighthouse discussing his glittering career in musicals.

Three decades after first appearing together, Steve Knightley and Phil Beer are finally reaching the end of the road as Show of Hands – but what a long and fulfilling highway it has been.

ALTHOUGH Damian Lewis will be most familiar for his acting roles, he does have a burgeoning musical career which is slowly emerging into the light.

The books of David Walliams are ideal for stage adaptation – easy to follow, crazy characters, mild peril, mad settings and enough fart jokes to keep everyone happy.

Whimsical, quirky, eccentric, captivating, engaging, sincere, understated, bumbling, moving, charming, warm – all words that have described Rob Auton.

CAN it really be a quarter of a century since the unlikely hit movie about a group of unemployed lads in Sheffield, mostly former steel workers, who formed a male striptease act in order to make some money?

IT will be 60 years ago on July 6 that A Hard Day’s Night, The Beatles’ first film was released – with the soundtrack following three days later.

Expectations were low before this production, which was billed as one night of glam rock and featuring the biggest hits from T Rex, Mud, Slade, Bowie, Suzi Quatro, Wizzard, Sweet and many more.

You always know what to expect from Ross Noble – a full-flowing stream of consciousness, but the route that stream takes is ever-varying, tangential and easily distractable by anything that happens to be floating past.