Tivoli Theatre, Wimborne Wimborne’s credentials as a hotbed of Americana appreciation took a giant leap forwards last night as one of bluegrass banjo’s greatest living exponents Herb Pedersen complimented the audience for remembering British folk duo Chad and Jeremy, leading lights of the original British Invasion. “They didn’t even know that in London,” he says, Read More…
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Record Store Day 2013
I can’t remember the last time I was out and about in Wimborne at seven in the morning… but Martin, Mark, Colin and most of the folks outside Square Records on Record Store Day can – it was this time last year. And before that it was the previous year. These are die-hard music fans Read More…
Sean Hughes: Life Becomes Noises
Tivoli Theatre, Wimborne Never one to pander to the expectations of an audience, Sean Hughes opens a show about the death of his father by ambling on stage dressed as a jockey who has just won the Derby. Within minutes he has co-opted a supporting cast from members of the audience and introduced a comedy Read More…
Jason Donovan 2010
It’s nearly a quarter of a century since Britain first clapped eyes on Jason Donovan, as the puppy dog-enthusiastic Scott Robinson in TV soap Neighbours. Within three years he was a major pop star, with Kylie Minogue, at that time his girlfriend both on and off screen. They were the undisputed king and queen of Read More…
Lee Mack
It’s only 20 minutes to show time and Lee Mack’s still got to do his ironing and get his suit on. Not that he’s worried – or doesn’t appear to be – backstage at the Tivoli Theatre in Wimborne where he’s about to face the second of three sell-out audiences in the last of his preview Read More…
One for the road
FROM the Russian mafia to Noel Gallagher, Pete Bell has fronted up to some seriously frightening people in his time. He’s got “messed up” with Johnny Depp in the Viper Room in Los Angeles (the club outside which actor River Phoenix collapsed and died in 1993). As a former tour manager for top acts including Read More…