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I was very sad to learn tonight that Jeremy Beadle MBE had passed away after suffering from pneumonia - that after a number of years of battling against cancer and leukaemia. As a child of the eighties I believe Beadle WAS Saturday night entertainment (well… there were only four TV channels back then so that may have helped!). Whether it was in ‘Game for a Laugh’ with Sarah Kennedy, Matthew & Henry Kelly, or later his own show ‘Beadle’s About’ in which he would play practical jokes on people by setting up fake scenarios, Saturday just wasn’t Saturday without him (or the A-Team). (more…)

After many years of musical mixing enjoyment at Brighton’s Honey Club (Guy Ornadel, Benny Benassi etc.) the curtain has finally closed for Suzie_Q and I - refused entry on the grounds that we are from Dorking. On Saturday evening we had planned to visit to hear what used to be the best house/trance in the South East, the occasion - our wedding anniversary, and after a year away from clubbing (having a baby) we really needed it! We even went to the trouble of booking an expensive room at The Grand Hotel so we could be within walking distance. After bracing the gale and rain, a bouncer resembling Eastenders’ Phil Mitchell told us ‘Sorry, you can’t come in because you’re from Dorking… and I’ve got seven in already’. To say we were taken aback would be an understatement, at first we thought he just had a Jack Dee style of humour – but no, he was serious, The Honey Club now discriminates based on where you live. (more…)