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Oct 29 2008
Organisers of the bash hired drummers to entertain the guests as they arrived....
Aug 27 2008
Trading Gossip readers will recall that at the end of the last gathering, which took place at one of the swish apartments above Liverpool’s Malmaison Hotel, one lady had somehow left a garment behind. Ding dong. This latest event is being held at the newly-refurbished Bang & Olufsen showroom in Castle Street....
Jun 18 2008
As ever, they were well looked after. For £125 a head, they got to guzzle unlimited wine, nosh on chicken and potatoes, and watch the likes of Ilie Nastase, Pat Cash and Martina Hingis cavort around the courts. However, the tournament still has some way to go to match the swankiness of Liverpool jeweller Boodle’s annual tennis challenge, which started yesterday at the exclusive Stoke Park, in Buckinghamshire. Top tables are an eye-watering £250,000. Mind you, for that you are helicoptered in, enjoy gourmet dinners and vintage Champagne, receive free Wimbledon finals tickets AND get to choose from £100,000 worth of gems and trinkets. Oh, and the players include Andy Murray, Andre Agassi and Andy Roddick....
Jun 11 2008
THE chaps from the Emerald Isle do know how to throw a party, and the Liverpool office of Bank of Ireland certainly lived up to that reputation last week. Guests at the launch of their new base at 20 Chapel Street were well fed and watered with Stranford scallops, roast beef, smoked salmon and Laurent Perrier Brut Cham-pagne and the local suits laid siege to the free bar. Neither the word “credit” nor “crunch” were to be heard. Then came time for the entertainment. Punters had been promised a spot of Fab-Fourness from a tribute act known as the Mersey Beatles. But there had clearly been some con-fusion during the booking as the band that showed up were in fact local veterans, The Merseybeats. They took to the stage to the sound of that well-known Irish anthem, er, Land of Hope and Glory....
May 28 2008
The highlight of the week was An Audience with Michelle Mone, held at Colours Restaurant, in St Helens....
May 7 2008
LIVERPOOL’S London Carriageworks may have just been named the best restaurant in the North but it seems, sadly, that some of the city’s other supposed fine eateries have some work to do....
Feb 13 2008
LIVERPOOL’S Malmaison hotel marked its first birthday last week in a celebration that was a little more low key than its launch party last year, when the local liggers drank the place dry....
Oct 17 2007
IT WAS a night when men (and no doubt a few women) revelled and quaffed and then quaffed some more – with some hilarious consequences....
Sep 12 2007
LIVERPOOL’S best-known corporate financier Steve Stuart has been a busy man of late....
Aug 22 2007
GOOD old Cains Brewery is now on the radar of those sophisticated city types following its recent entrance into the stock market....
