Blues CDs recorded to support Oxfam
07-Oct-2008
A music venue is celebrating its 21st birthday by raising funds for charity with a collection of its greatest hits. Simon and Sharon Colgan, who run...
Machines & Gaming: What next for pub machines?
23-Jul-2008
The following interviews were conducted before Inspired Gaming announced the sale of its pubs division to Gamestec.Adrian Ah-Chin-KowCommercial...
Machines & gaming: What happened to the digital revolution?
23-Jul-2008
Inspired Gaming, which recently sold its pub machines division to rival Gamestec, claims to be the world's leader in server-based gaming, and pinned...
'Inspired Gaming shares tumble'
08-Jul-2008
Inspired Gaming shares plummeted yesterday after the ailing company announced plans to raise £40million through a discounted share placing. Plans...
Tuesday July 15: That's entertainment
03-Jul-2008
From a tug of war to crowning a local beauty queen, there are some great events in the offing in pubs up and down the country during Proud of Pubs...
Pubs could be left without gaming machines
03-Jul-2008
Thousands of pubs could find themselves without machines when Inspired Gaming quits the industry, the independent machines supplier's organisation...
Gaming machine review fast-tracked
26-Jun-2008
Trade bodies have welcomed the government's decision to fast-track a review of gaming machine prizes. Last week minister Gerry Sutcliffe announced...
26-Jun-2008 By John Harrington
The Government will review the level of stakes and prizes allowed at pub gaming machines one year earlier than planned. It gives hope that maximum...
Entertainment: Playing the Horn
03-Jun-2008
After 30 years of hosting live acts the Horn in St Albans, Hertfordshire, named Music Pub of the Year at the 2008 Publican Awards, staged its first...
Entertainment: Screening films
03-Jun-2008
Looking at it from behind you bar, it might seem as though staying in is the new going out, as they say. But it's by no means as simple as that. One...
Entertainment: Pub Comedy Awards
03-Jun-2008
Judging by the level of interest in the Magners Pub Comedy Awards, licensees up and down the country see hosting stand-up as something that will help...
Swigging the blues in Bath
29-May-2008
The St Christopher's Bar & Hostel in Bath has a unique following for blue Aftershock among some of its regulars, reports CGA Stategy. Apparently,...
16-May-2008 By Peter Coulson
Peter Coulson says that bookmaking is a non-starter in your pub
Gaming machines can give pubs a boost
28-Apr-2008
Gaming companies should help regenerate the pub trade, according to the head of one company in the sector.Stuart Ross, group managing director of...
It's time to rock the boat
17-Apr-2008
The future looks dark for pubs — unless the trade combines to decide how to tackle the forces ranged against it, says Phil Dixon The 12 March 2008...
Hamish Champ: It's only rock and roll, but I like it
06-Apr-2008 By Hamish Champ
Pubs used to be an essential part of the fabric of live music in this country. As doubtless some of you will know, in the 1970s boozers even spawned...
Analyst rejects gaming claims
03-Apr-2008
A City analyst has dismissed claims that the decision by Inspired Gaming to sell its pub fruit-machine division, because of falling income, has any...
Machines & Gaming: Inspired appointment
19-Mar-2008
How are your fruit machines performing? The chances are you're not going to know until somebody comes round to collect the cash, and that's the way...
Machines & Gaming: Max Box Americano
19-Mar-2008
Max Box, the company behind the multi-purpose entertainment and vending kiosks of the same name, used ATEI to launch a number of new products in...
Machines & Gaming: Media savvy
19-Mar-2008
Games Media is a relative newcomer to the pubs market - but it's armed with some big guns being a subsidiary of US giant Scientific Games and with...
Machines & Gaming: Viva Baby Vegas...
19-Mar-2008
Pioneers of the digital AWP have learned to be patient. No one doubts that digital is the future. As machine take declines the possibility of...
Back to Basics: Preventing underage drinking
18-Mar-2008
Beating the problem of serving to underage drinkers is a top priority for licensees - especially since the recently announced government plan to...
Inspired Gaming looks to exit pubs
17-Mar-2008 By Hamish Champ
Inspired Gaming, the supplier of more than 80,000 AWP machines to leisure outlets, is looking to exit the pub sector after reporting weak trading...
Music to the ears
06-Mar-2008
Jukeboxes are part of the furniture in most pubs. And new technology means customers can choose a tune without leaving their seats The humble jukebox...
Jazz Sunday lunches
01-Mar-2008
Where: the Kingsbridge Inn, Totnes, Devon ?.thekingsbridgeinn.co.uk The idea: When restaurateur Mark Annear took over at the Kingsbridge Inn in...
Fruit and quiz machines need advertising, new research reveals
23-Jan-2008
New research suggests quiz and fruit machine companies need to use advertising to change customers' perceptions and increase returns for...
Fears grow over awareness on new noise regs
17-Jan-2008 By James Wilmore
Fears are mounting over a huge lack of trade awareness over new noise regulations and the way councils will enforce them. The Control of Noise at...
Game on: computer games craze reaches pubs
10-Jan-2008
Licensee Adam Billingham stands absorbed, demonstrating a form of entertainment becoming increasingly popular in pubs. He is flailing his arms in the...
Pub quiz tax claims dismissed
16-Oct-2007
Pubs that run quizzes and karaoke nights have always paid more in tax according to the government agency that works out how businesses are taxed.The...
15-Oct-2007 By Ewan Turney
Reports that pubs could be taxed extra for running quizzes are wide of the mark. The Mail on Sunday claimed plans for the secret quiz tax is included...
Machines & Gaming: Multi-game SWPs
08-Oct-2007
Not content with plugging Deuchars IPA and Highland Park whisky, Ian Rankin¹s Rebus yarns are now giving a nod to a brand of games machine at...
Machines & Gaming: Machine monitoring
05-Oct-2007
Of course, it's good telly. But here's proof that Dragon's Den can have a hand in bringing real results in the outside world - and even have an...
Machines & Gaming: the 'infinite' jukebox
05-Oct-2007
It's been a tough summer for machine operators in the pub sector. The abysmal weather has kept customers at home and when they are at the pub the...
Machines & Gaming: The machine age
05-Oct-2007
Pub gaming is on the brink of a digital revolution. For almost 1,000 years, maybe longer, there has been a tradition of game playing and gambling in...
National Quiz gears up for launch
06-Sep-2007
The Publican's Licensees Forum in York this week was the platform for the launch of a major new quiz aimed at revolutionising entertainment in...
Complaints about antisocial noise have doubled
28-Aug-2007
The recent finding that people between 60 and 65 are drinking more than they should, earning them the rather unfair soubriquet "Saga louts", is...
18-Jul-2007 By John Harrington
Pubs will only have to pay new gaming fees when they come up for renewal, which could save the industry £750,000
Machines & gaming: the next generation
17-Jul-2007
Over the next two or three years the pub fruit machine will grow into a very different kind of animal. Each machine will have five or six different...
Machines & gaming: maximising revenue
17-Jul-2007
With research showing that the Scottish smoking ban has had a negative impact on AWP takings, licensees need to pay their machines extra attention if...
Allow live music to thrive
12-Jul-2007
Listening to an interview with Feargal Sharkey of the Live Music Forum the other day, I was reminded just how many great musicians started their...
Monday July 9: Pop the question
27-Jun-2007
Next Monday is the day we are urging you to find out exactly what your regulars and your not-so-regulars want from their local.Of course,...
21-Jun-2007 By Peter Coulson
Peter Coulson, MA legal expert, looks at the issues around gaming licences
Live Entertainment: stand-up comedy
13-Jun-2007
"It's usually funny and, when it's not, it's barbed and beautiful." So says the host of a cutting edge comedy night that has been splitting the sides...
Live Entertainment: jazz nights
13-Jun-2007
"Well, you take some skin," as Bing Crosby so pithily observed to Louis Armstrong in High Society, "and jazz begins."In fact, there's a bit more to...
Live Entertainment: karaoke
13-Jun-2007
Love it or hate it, karaoke has become an established feature of the pub entertainment scene over the past couple of decades and it doesn¹t seem...
Live Entertainment: Morris dancing
13-Jun-2007
There is something impenetrably mysterious about Morris dancing. No one quite seems to know how it started, and the way it has finished up offers few...
28 Jon Collins chief executive, CGA Strategy (21) Paul Smith chief executive, Bar Entertainment & Dance Association (new entry)
31-May-2007
Why they're on the list: Ex-BEDA boss Collins has now expanded his activities to take on a new role with CGA Strategy, a body advising a range of...
That's entertainment
23-May-2007
Let's make some noise. Pubs in England will be undergoing some seismic changes in the first weeks of July. After all the talk, all the years of...
Chris Maclean: sorry about the TV slur
19-Apr-2007 By Chris Maclean
I've had my knuckles wrapped. Quite firmly and quite deservedly. I did wrong.The blog I recently wrote about pubs in this town with televisions was...
Chris Maclean: a quiz 'cheat' scandal
28-Mar-2007 By Chris Maclean
I have no wish to create controversy but there have been allegations of cheating in the quiz league.This is the first season in which we have...
