Excerpt from the introduction:
In this book I will be recalling the heady days of Club-land and some of the artistes I met and booked, when I was a Theatrical Agent.
Manchester could lay claim to having invented Club-land. It was around 35 years ago that people in the South first became aware that something unusual in light entertainment was happening in the North. Whilst London was still lamenting the closing of variety theatres such as Finsbury Empire, Manchester had already acquired substitutes, more exciting places where one could eat, drink, dance, play the fruit machines and have a flutter on the gambling tables. Then watch the big names in midnight cabaret spots.
- Billy Fury And The Tablets
- The Jimmy Tarbuck Story
- The Better Class Cheaper Acts
- Joe Ruggles
- Snowy White The Comedian
- Bobby Collins And The Bottles
- Deno’s Club And A Glass Floor
- Two Underated Geniuses
- New Nightclubs In Manchester
- Death Valley Gigs
- Con Artistes
- Technology In The Office
- Two More Geniuses
- Strippers And Wrestlers
- Check Out – Checker Wheel
- The Del Sol Club And Audition Nights
- Disaster For Derek
- ‘Stardom’ At Last!
- Brought Down To Earth With A Bump
- Dumped By Pat Mills
- Out Door Gala Shows
- Bolton Casino Club
- Dodgy Dress Sense
- Bernard Woolley And The ‘Am Bones
- Bolton Casino – Part Two
- Crick’s Canine Cock-Up
- Ronnie London – Extreme Agent
- The Little Theatre Rhyl
- Magical Mishaps
- My Favourite Tricks
- Derek Lever’s Comedy Routine For Dippy Duck
- Spooky Silks
- Cutting A Bank-Note In Half
- The Repeat Comedy Break-Away Tray
- Funken Ring
- The Comedy Knife Through Borrowed Coat
- Playing Cards
- Cut And Restored Necktie
- Top Ten Card Trick
- Water On The Brain
- Unbelievable
