COMEDIAN and stuntman Steve O didn’t do as well as he’d hoped at the Barnum and Bailey Clown College in Florida. There was too much clowning around apparently.Read
THE Kaiser Chiefs have come a long way since the last time they visited North Wales. Back then they were known as Parva, a period in their career when they couldn’t even dream of the success they would achieve just a few years later.Read
ONE of the most magical Disney on Ice spectacles, Princesses and Heroes, comes to Liverpool’s Echo Arena in spring giving audiences a chance to enjoy seven favourite fairytale moments in a single show. And today a lucky reader can win a family ticket to the colourful ice extravaganza.Read
ASKED to name a household object, most people come up with toilet brush or whisk – but Richard Vranch is hoping audiences at next week’s first Giddy Goat comedy festival will be a little more inventive.Read
SIR Cliff Richard has a new album, Soulicious, out next week and starts a UK tour on October 15. He is approaching his 71st birthday, but shows no signs of slowing down. Whether talking of his music or love of wine-making, the singer hailed as the Peter Pan of pop, is as enthusiastic as ever.Read
MEILIR is an artist who has found himself suited to the more unusual of venues. His heady blend of folk and deep ambience has, in the past lent itself admirably to the cavernous halls of churches throughout the country.Read
AT one time Eric Roberts seemed destined for a career as an art teacher, but a quirk of fate led him to train as a classical singer and, 35 years on, he has a worldwide reputation as the man to call on when a baritone is needed to play the great comedy roles such as Dr Barolo or Don Pasquale.Read
COMEDIAN Mark Watson likes to do as he’s told – so when his fans asked him why he’s never performed in North Wales, he duly added a date in Llandudno to his new tour.Read
THE highly acclaimed play Pitmen Painters, a true story that shows a group of miners who fall in love with painting, is coming to Clwyd Theatr Cymru.Read
THE Sound of Super Furry Animals is one that is instantly recognisable, yet persistently difficult to define. A blanket term of psychedelia does little to encompass its array of influences.Read
THE quirky, classic tale of Don Quixote and his side-kick Sancho forms the basis of the new piece being brought to Llandudno next month before heading off to India.Read
CHRISTOPHER Timothy is looking forward to performing in an Alan Ayckbourn classic in North Wales next week – it will give him a chance to sleep in the house where he grew up, and catch up with former schoolmates.Read
OF ALL the wonderful events and musical movements springing up throughout North Wales there are some that hold their heads a little higher than others. The ones that seem to have a particular mission statement or direction.Read
TRIPS to see to a Christmas panto with her family was the start of a career as an actress for Tupele Dorgu, who is swapping the cobbles of TV’s Coronation Street for North Wales and a spell as a festive Wicked Witch.Read
ALAN Ayckbourne once joked that his play Taking Steps worked on many levels – probably because it is set in a three-storey house and the author originally staged it in the round.Read
IT’S thanks to the theatre that Sean Jones missed out on a life of crime – or working as a nurse. Instead he’s made a career on the stage, and has made the role on "naughty twin" Mickey in Willy Russell’s Blood Brothers his own, for more than a decade.Read
ACTOR Roy Marsden is used to being recognised in the street, though what he’ll be called depends on the age, and background, of the person hailing him.Read
