And So The Times They Are A Changing.

 The Cumberland Ex-Servicemen´s Club now gone I am now ensconced at "The 2 Seals trades and Labour Club" and I´m settling in rather nicely. Though a smaller venue than The Cumberland it has a good feel about the place and owners Nigel and Debbie are great to work for and I look forward to some happy times there.


The other Nigel from the old Cumberland Bar although now resident back in England popped over last week to tie up a few loose ends and to drag me out on the drink for 2 consecutive days (that´s a lot for me), and I almost felt like I was on me hols. (I smiled twice and bought a round).He and Yvonne have since attended the required committee meetings at the Catholic Club on Queens St. Blackpool and we can now announce that we will be doing a season of Saturday nights and Sunday afternoons throughout the illuminations there (8th September to 3rd November). So we will be up to all the usual antics with the Concert Chairman plus a few of my so called impressions and Nige on his Sax/clarinet plus some new stuff from Yvonne. I will still be working at the 2 Seals Bar throughout this time as I´ll be flitting backwards and forwards every week.

As many of you know we´ve used the Catholic Club a couple of times before as part of our reunion which incidentally goes ahead as usual 3rd, 4th and 5th August. This has grown into quite an event over the years and if you require details of this you can contact me on kevinholt41@hotmail.com (We get special rates at The Savoy Hotel).

So whether it be here in Benidorm or over there in Blackpool, - hope to see you soon. - Kev

We Sign Off At The Cumberland Ex-Servicemen´s Club Benidorm.

I would like to thank Nigel and Yvonne and all of their staff at The Cumberland bar for some truly great memories, and so too our “members”, many of whom have become personal friends along the way, as well as performers Harry Andrews and our very own Elvis, Alan Dodd too for all their sterling efforts who all came together to create something pretty special in my opinion. Never shy of going the extra mile to create something different, whether it be holding the very popular remembrance service, “A festival of Christmas Songs”, whilst raising funds for “Help For Heroes” or indulging the Concert Chairman in his strange little parallel universe, they were never shy of putting the hard graft in to make things work, and I for one enjoyed every minute.


They deserve to put their feet up now and have a bit of a rest, but not too long I hope, for this is not the end of the story. The Blackpool reunion goes ahead as usual and we are also planning beyond that to recreate some of the highlights from The Cumberland Bar during the “Sunday Afternoon Extravaganza´s” in a new venture. We´ll let you know.

These posts will continue as I´ll remain in Benidorm for the winter season´s, or at least that´s the plan, the Chairman has just secured another post at the “Two Seals” pub opposite Steptoes cabaret spot where he will no doubt continue his reign of terror.