Welcome to the website of
Tony Lidington & Promenade Promotions (Prom-Prom) Limited
“The art of British popular entertainment”
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This website is for booking Prom-Prom’s accessible, family-friendly acts for 2024/5… it is also a treasure-trove of vernacular entertainments, containing Dr Tony Lidington’s research outputs, publications and archives on British popular performance forms.
Tony Lidington
“… some sort of unreconstructed music hall anarchist”
– John Fox, Welfare State International & Dead Good Guides
“A national treasure…”
– the late Duke of Edinburgh
Play Video
This website is for booking Prom-Prom’s accessible, family-friendly acts for 2024/5… it is also a treasure-trove of vernacular entertainments, containing Dr Tony Lidington’s research outputs, publications and archives on British popular performance forms.
Tony Lidington
“… some sort of unreconstructed music hall anarchist”
– John Fox, Welfare State International & Dead Good Guides
“A national treasure…”
– the late Duke of Edinburgh
“Come and see the wonders of all wonders that ever the world has wondered at!” – Gustavus Katterfelto
– Wise words –
“One of the ways to avoid being beaten by the system is to laugh at it” – Peter Cook
“We don’t have a plan, so nothing can go wrong” – Spike Milligan
“This too shall pass…” from Hebrew and Sufi folklore
Latest Socials and Posts
Our Trainees have been out and about in Dawlish this week gathering stories and dancing memories from local residents. ![]()
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Don't forget to put the 25th January in your calendar for the At The Hop! celebratory event in DawliTeignbridge District CounciluDaisiD#UKSPFUKSPF
'Punch with a Twist' by Spike Bones:![]()
Come along this weekend, if you can! ![]()
Saturday 8th November at Bodmin.![]()
Sunday 9th November at Exeter Quayside.![]()
Daytime shows are family shows, the evening shows are the adult burlesque shows (booking required for the evening shows).![]()
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See you there!
Here's a link to the new chapter that I've written for Routledge, about the process of developing pierrot performances through research and practice: ![]()
'Chapter 12. Pierrots on the Prom: re-enactment, revival and in-heritage transfer in seaside performance.'![]()
www.routledge.com/.../Baston.../p/book/9781032566436![]()
If you pre-order your copy now, then it will be available for shipping from 19th December - just in time for Christmas! 😆
We are delighted to share the news that our new community project, At The Hop! has received funding from the UK Government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund and Teignbridge District Council.![]()
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'At the Hop!' is an intergenerational oral history project & community celebration about dancing in the 1950s & 1960s. ![]()
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We are employing and training local young artists to learn how to record the memories and experiences of residents at Dawlish care centres and to create a 30-minute audio programme. ![]()
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The project will conclude with a community dance event in The Strand Centre, Dawlish, on Saturday January 25th 2025 - put it in your diaries now!![]()
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@daisi @TeignbridgeDistrictCouncil
