Hi again, Paul Wright here with my final personal blog from Ocean Village Two's farewell cruise. As we rehearsed the final night show it dawned on all of us in the theatre that this really was the final event we would work on together on Ocean Village Two. There was a really strange feeling between the team as we built the stage set, especially as it's a replica of the ship. The show started at 10.30pm...
It's the Gallup UK Top 100 Singles of the Year 1986 - and your chance to download a whopping 3% of them! Imagine that! 1986 being the zenith (or nadir, depending on your point of view) of my chart-pop-buying lifespan, I bought no less then thirty-eight of the songs listed below on either 7" or 12" vinyl (including the one at #2), and could still happily listen to most of them on a constant...
This year's Lord Mayor's Family Show will take place from 12 noon to 6pm on Bank Holiday Monday (25 May) in the city centre. It is a free event and there will be live entertainment on Victoria Square and in the Town Hall, together with more activities on Chamberlain Square and Centenary SquareThe line up includes live performances by Birmingham-born Steve Gibbons. The crowd will also get to