After the disastrous concert at the Winter Gardens the other night I felt inspired to write an article about the Blackpool music scene.
The Winter Gardens [occasionally] hosts some very good bands, I saw the White Stripes there at an excellent gig in 2005 but we seem to lack a regularity in the appearance of these bands.
Funny how an MP can come out slagging off BAe Systems for being caught out on dodgy financial practices.
Today Fylde Tory Michael Jack MP spunked a salvo into the face of BAe after they reportedly paid off the US Department of Transport to the tune of £250m for misleading them about payments made in relation to obtaining arms contracts. It sounds like they were trying to cover up their dodgy actions and have settled out of court so that we never find out about what really happened.
Almost everyone that’s been into Blackpool has seen the ominous looking doorway to the West Coast Rock Cafe on Abingdon Street, but few that I have spoken to have actually been in.
I’m one of them. Well, okay, I had been there once before over 13 years ago. But I had a 2-for-1 voucher so I thought, last Thursday, that I’d give it another go.
I hear schools in South Shore are being booked for unknown purposes for May 6th…
Could it be… ?
It just gets worse and worse reading for UKIP members these days.
After selling its soul to a group of city traders due to bankruptcy worries, the party that started out with a different fresh outlook from the LibLabCon axis has been plunged deeper into crisis as several of its MEPs are being probed for paying UKIP staff out of their EU expenses. It has been rumoured that the odious Regional Organiser (RO), Dr Fred McGlade, is funded to the tune of £50,000 a year from EU expenses but I couldn’t possibly comment on that!
Not guilty
Three of the Conservative councillors involved in the Kensingtongate donations row have got off on technicalities, whilst Ron Bell remains in the spotlight of the Standards Board for England.
The issue, I thought, was whether they knew about the donation or not. Not so. The issue was in fact whether they knew about the donation whilst acting as a councillor.
As you may remember, Peter Callow issued a letter to all of his councillors asking them to sign if they didn’t know about the donation.
I was inspired by a thread on Live In Blackpool’s forum about good places to go to eat/drink and since I’m always wondering where might be a nice place to go I thought if I went in anywhere in town I’d do a quick review of it.
I have added a category for Blackpool Reviews so if you want you can easily bring up the reviews either myself or any of my guest authors have written.
Excellent news today, and the first thing I can say is about bloody time. I wrote JDW an email a few weeks ago and they said they were keen to open in Blackpool but were unsure of where or when.
I am a huge fan of JDW; clean friendly pubs with a nice atmosphere, friendly service, good food and ale at sensible prices. Until now we were the only big town in the North West without a JDW.
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