Arts Diary: Will Marriott

The band got in touch to supply us with details of their up-coming concert – a tribute to Jimi Hendrix – but they also supplied a slightly odd list of "interesting facts".

These included: "World Champion Formula 1 driver Damon Hill is a fan, and was spotted wearing a Hamsters

T-shirt at the Hungarian Grand Prix" and "a member of Natalie Imbruglia's band was spotted wearing one

of our T-shirts on an appearance on Graham Norton's show on Channel 4" and finally "We were recently mentioned on BBC1's Bargain Hunt programme".

The band – which takes its name from the alias used by The Sex Pistols when performing secret gigs – are at Leeds Irish Centre, on November 19.

The band added: "We'd be immensely grateful if you could mention our concert as soon as possible, as our audience tends to comprise the older rock fans who need a bit of time to organise themselves." Pleased to be of service.

Lee Evans is one of the nicest people we've met in showbiz – and it seems Yorkshire audiences love Lee too.

The comedian, who has already had to add to his planned dates at Sheffield Arena, has this week added a fourth show. Incredibly, given that the performance is almost a year away, tickets are flying out of the box office. The comedian was already performing on October 6, 7 and 8 – and will now take to the stage again on October 9. Tickets, if there are any left, can be found by calling 0114 256 5656.

The acting community of Yorkshire clearly are a lovely, supportive bunch. There were all sorts of "faces" in the audience at the premiere of The Price of Everything in Scarborough earlier this week. Popular Yorkshire actor Andrew Dunn was supported by an audience which included mother and daughter Kay Mellor and Gaynor Faye, themselves recently on stage at Hull Truck Theatre, and Hollyoaks' Stuart Manning.

The West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds must be delighted with Bill Nicholson. Not only has his play Crash received fantastic reviews, but the co-writer of Gladiator has also been very generous with his time – not only did he take part in a question and answer session last week, but he also held a masterclass that same afternoon with budding writers. Nicholson, staggeringly modest given his success (he also wrote Shadowlands) shared all sorts of stories with his audience during the masterclass – including a number of unprintable ones about the horrors of having to work in Hollywood.

Just in case you were wondering why there were zombies, assassins, vampires, grave diggers and superheroes running around Bradford last weekend, the city was taken over by 20 film crews taking part in the 48 Hour Film Challenge. Congratulations to the winning team behind the short film The Stranger, which turned the wonderful Midland Hotel into the scene of a bloodbath.

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