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Bulletin
17.07.11.
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Saturday, 3rd September Due to the closure of the Upper Morris Street Working Men's Club, we have needed to change the venue for the Laurel and HarDay, and to keep it in Wigan, and ensure that the itinerary and organised chaos of the day remain. The new venue is the Bryn Labour Club, 311-317 Wigan Road, WN4 9SX, on the A49. A full programme for the day will be announced in due course, shortly after it has been created. Eric Woods 11th
European Convention The 11th European
Convention will be hosted in 2013 around
Hamburg by the County Hospital Tent, with
Grand Sheik Holgi Dörr at the helm.
It will be the second time that the German
oasis has run the event. Details are to
follow. Remembered Jonathan Hayward ran in the 2011 City of Manchester 10K Run on 3rd July, in memory of his parents who passed away in 2009. The Hayward family were all members of the Be Big Tent. The tent has made a donation to Cancer Research UK in their memory. Dean Carroll
Ben wed Paul Marshall sent us the above photograph of Ben Young at his recent wedding. Our congratulations go to the happy couple. Panopticon in the press The Scotsman (15.07.11.) began an article as follows: "From a modest modern theatre in Stockbridge that local activists are fighting to save, to the Glasgow edifice where Stan Laurel famously played his first gig, seven Scottish stage venues have been labelled 'at risk' on a UK register." Rebels Bob Morrison has been reading the book Silence Has an End by Ingrid Betancourt. Ingrid was a presidential candidate in Colombia when she was kidnapped by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia and was held captive from 2002 till 2008. She describes a scene when two of her captors were trying to provide a musical interlude. "And off Sombra went again in his powerful bass voice, singing false notes, ready to hit poor Milton on a whim or out of irritation. It made a hilarious show: one of them unrelentingly playing the guitar while the other sang at the top of his lungs as they both sank slowly into the mud. They looked like Laurel and Hardy." |
Leo Kirch
RIP Leo Kirch, known
to Laurel and Hardy fans for the Kirch
Group, died on 14th July. He was 84 years
old. The reclusive
Bavarian built a media group which at its
height included a thriving film rights
trading business. Kirch launched
himself on the road to success in 1956,
borrowing money from his wife's family to
buy the German rights to Fellini's La
Strada. The film was a hit and Kirch
kept buying until he had the largest film
library outside the United States,
including the Buster Keaton library,
Laurel and Hardy and the Howard Hughes/RKO
library. Kirch's empire
crumbled in 2002 following a money-losing
venture into pay television and
acquisitions that didn't pay
off. 2012 calendars For many years, Slow Dazzle has been producing Laurel and Hardy calendars in square and slimline versions. They will be offering only slimline versions for 2012. Soaked The Brats Tent has been invited to "Soak a Sheik" for charity in August. Just a jiffy A "jiffy" (as mentioned in Block-Heads) is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. |
