Which kids’ favourites, if any, did you see live?
I was taken to:
Fireman Sam
Postman Pat
Sooty & Sweep
Button Moon
Button Moon was obviously the best one. Mr Spoons is a good lad.
glen michaels cavalcade
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Henry’s Cat, some poor bloke had to try and get auld ma ruffs to flap her arms like a chicken at one point. She wasn’t having it.
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Just Sooty iirc, though it was the same weekend I also saw Russ Abbott live so WHAT a weekend.
Remember going to see the Care Bears film around a similar time and crying because i thought the cinema flip seats were trying to eat me.
Thinking about it, all my childhood entertainment took place with my nan on perhaps the one week of my life. The rest of my childhood was just being dragged around 80s shops with a depressing orangey glow to them and taken to the houses of aging women where I’d listen to them gossip and hone my mole skills.
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I saw Rainbow live at Wembley (pretty sure my mum got me out of school to go, parenting!) and cried so much when Bungle got locked in a cage (I fucking LOVED Bungle) that an usher had to take me outside and reassure me he was going to be fine.
30 years old I was etc.
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Living in Scotland I saw The Singing Kettle loads as a kid.
I once won the best joke competition at The Sooty Show hosted by Connie Creighton at Southport Theatre, one of my proudest moments as a child
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What was the joke please?
The Singing Kettle. Hated every minute. Really can’t stand musical films or theatre to this day. Truly awful stuff.
Used to go to the panto every year at Christmas too. That was ace. Had dinner at the New City Palace too (RIP)
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Had no idea until now that this was a Scotland specific thing.
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Did you hear about the fight in the biscuit tin?
The bandit hit the yoyo with a club, tied him up with a blue ribbon and got away in a taxi
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I’ve seen them so many times, once saw them do a big outside show in Princess Street Gardens - huge in the 80s and 90s in Scotland
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saw a production of The Enormous Crocodile which i very much enjoyed
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I saw Sooty and Sweep (and Matthew Corbett) at the Davenport theatre in Stockport, back when it existed.
I also saw the chuckle brothers in a weirdly small venue in Scarborough when I was about 15 on a family holiday. I was in my metal phase and probably sat there in a Spineshank shirt looking moody at the start but actually had a great time. Good lads.
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Just The Singing Kettle with school.
Mum used to take us to the pantomime at Christmas but that stopped after she got really angry at me for being visibly bored out my fucking nut. Would obviously rather have been at home watching The Simpsons.
27 years old I was
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I didn’t go to the theatre until I was 17 to see Hamlet with a mate in an empty Y Theatre in Leicester. They used ‘Hoppipolla’ as the music when Hamlet dies…
Didn’t go to any and I’m now brutally envious of those that saw Sooty and the Chuckle Brothers
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I saw a panto of Aladdin at the Irish Centre in my hometown. That’s as close as I got and let me tell you it wasn’t close at all.
Spoilers ffs
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Went to a lot of pantomimes, mainly in Plymouth, but also in my village cause my mother, and later my sister, were/are heavily involved in them and I was in two.