It’s a small world, so they say – and I can certainly testify to that after this past weekend. A little under a year ago, an enquiry...

Just my opinion, of course, but I don’t think re-makes work. Whether that’s on television or the film, the re-working of screen classics...

Anyone who has been on the 1940s scene for a good while will almost certainly agree with me that many, almost all in fact, have changed...

Last Sunday evening found me back once again at Clifton Park Hotel in St Annes, performing to a sizeable audience, many of whom had...

Standing close to the edge of the cliff, peering over into the abyss below, I fleetingly wondered (as everyone does in this position) if...

Another event, another weekend - weather-wise - very much in keeping with this rotten, horrible summer we’ve had so far. Maybe we are set...

When you sing and entertain outdoors as much as I do during what we laughingly refer to as ‘the summer months’ in this country, you learn...

Those who know me well know that I like my football. I’m a lifelong Manchester City fan, so have seen both the good times and the bad...

Armed Forces Day, which this year for me meant an early start (yet again) and the long haul down from Lancashire to West Sussex, to a...

Having enjoyed being part of Morecambe’s event, the following day, Sunday, saw us making an early start, this time bound for Catterick...

Variety, so they say, is the spice of life. Take the weekend just gone. Two events - one on Saturday, one on Sunday - both marking Armed...

Truth be known, I’d like to get more hotel bookings. My extensive repertoire, covering as it does every era of popular music, is ideally...

With this year marking the 80th anniversary of D-Day, an event that received a good deal more media coverage than the day usually does, I...

Before it closed down for good as a hotel, every other Wednesday evening would find me entertaining at Byng House in Southport. Our route...

“Hello railroad. Is this the railroad? I want a one-way ticket down to Tennessee. I’m leaving immediately, Chattanooga here I come....

Immediately, I decided this was the perfect setting for a 1940s event, and spent a moment taking in the various displays also setting up...

Audrey was an Eastender, a proper Cockney, who it seemed loved nothing better than a good old-fashioned knees-up...