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Linda Kelly

Why not pop in for a pint at your old local, Ringo?

LINDA KELLY is hoping that Ringo Starr will be making another Sentimental Journey as well as opening Liverpool’s 08 celebrations. Read

Baltic Fleet

More than a sip ahoy as Albion’s new beer docks

SAILORS traditionally like their grog. But the brew of choice for officers and crew of the Royal Navy’s assault ship HMS Albion is not the traditional rum, but rather that of the Wapping brewery, based at the historic Baltic Fleet pub down at the Liverpool waterfront. Read

Wirral Poets Society

Living poets’ society

Mike Chapple discovers that poetry is alive and kicking in Wirral Read

Ken Dodd at the Floral Pavilion Theatre in New Brighton

Ken Dodd cancels show after surgery at Royal hospital

KEN DODD has been forced to cancel his New Year Happiness Show tonight at Birkenhead’s Pacific Road Arts Centre after being taken to Liverpool’s Royal University Hospital. Read

barber

How to survive a close shave

WITH the imminent release of Hollywood blockbuster Sweeney Todd, it may not be the best time for a barber to revive the art of shaving with a cut-throat razor. Read

THIS column has never been a fan of New Year celebrations, as it is the time when your favoured watering hole becomes swamped by Two Pint Charlies. Absent from the alehouse for the previous 364 days, they’re brimful of false bonhomie and hysterical laughter, getting ratted on just a whiff from the barmaid’s apron.

Bah, humbug, indeed. Read

nude calendar girl

It’s Beauty and the Beach ... and several Iron Men

PHOTOGRAPHER Stephanie De Leng only had 10 minutes for her shoot before she was threatened with prosecution. Read

FOR all the unfinished building work and continual civic cock-ups, the Pub Column is becoming positively up-beat about the city’s prospects in the run-up to 2008 and this Capital of Culture malarkey.

The Baltic Fleet, Wapping, Liverpool

FOR all the unfinished building work and continual civic cock-ups, the Pub Column is becoming positively up-beat about the city’s prospects in the run-up to 2008 and this Capital of Culture malarkey. Read

Why Irish eyes are smiling on Liverpool

IT WILL be no surprise to most Merseysiders, but Liverpool is the most Irish city outside the Emerald Isle, according to the coun- try’s national broadcaster Radio Telefis Eireann. Read

Squeeze

Rockers Squeeze make it a night to remember

IT WAS a night when ’80s rock fever descended on Liverpool in a wave of nostalgia. Echo and the Bunnymen, Madness and Squeeze all played sell-out concerts as part of Liverpool Music Week (also featuring Kaiser Chiefs and the Chemical Brothers) that were received with a fervour not matched since their relative hey-days. Read

Music Review: Sensational Alex Harvey Band, Carling Academy 2

IN A COLD, grey world, where musical monotony reigns and X Factor glory means all, what we’re all missing is a little bit of rock theatre. Read

Russell Brand

Can one swear on stage in front of Her Majesty?

Mike Chapple went backstage at the Empire Theatre to meet the artists preparing to entertain the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh Read

The Green Man, Vauxhall Road, Liverpool

IF YOU want to wallow in some alehouse nostalgia, dig out a copy of Freddy O’Connor’s A Pub On Every Corner. Read

Scott Gorham, right, and John Sykes in full dual lead guitar overload for Thin Lizzy

In demand rockers Thin Lizzy return to Liverpool for university gig

THIN Lizzy guitarist Scott Gorham is speaking of fallen friends. “We play as if he’s never gone away. Every night on stage, we introduce him as though he’s still here – and he still gets the biggest cheer of the night. Read

Beer festival, St Anthony of Egypt, Scotland Road

IN THE atmospheric twilight of the cold, late autumn, there are parts of this city where the mind can have tricks played upon it as though footsteps have been taken through a time portal into the streets of old Liverpool. Read

Why these groundsmen are all National treasures

Why these groundsmen are all National treasures

THEY say a woman’s work is never done – but what about the groundsmen? Those who thought that maintenance and preparation for Aintree Racecourse was limited to those weeks of early spring when the Grand National takes place should have a word with Mark Ainsley. Read

Jan Garbarek, jazz musician

Music Review: Jan Garbarek Group, Philharmonic Hall

THE great gigs just keep on coming at the Phil, which continues to bring some of the choicest musical morsels to the city for the first time. Read

TIME was when the required pint or three before seeing a performance of any kind in this city meant giving a theatre bar a very wide berth indeed.

Royal Court & Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool

TIME was when the required pint or three before seeing a performance of any kind in this city meant giving a theatre bar a very wide berth indeed. Read

Peter King, award winning Liverpool Cartoonist

Award winning cartoonist still gagging for work...

LIVERPOOL’S renowned sense of humour has helped artist Peter King to win the most coveted award for funniest Gag Cartoonist of the Year. Read

JMU research rated best in North West

LIVERPOOL John Moores University (LJMU) has been named the number one university in the North West in terms of the impact of its research. Read

Author Profile

Mike Chapple is the Liverpool Daily Post's award winning pub writer. His regular column At The Bar appears every Saturday and he is also a published author - his latest book is the enticingly-named The Great Liverpool Pub Crawl. Tel: 0151 472 2564

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