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BANDS/GIGS: Tonight (Wednesday, October 27): The Freddie Smith Band - Bebington Royal British Legion (8.30pm). Details: 677-6542. Tonight: Mark Lacey - Playa$ Lounge, New Brighton. Tomorrow (Thursday, October 28): Gerry Murphy in No Direction Home Revisited' - The Swinging Arm, Church Street, Birkenhead (9pm-11pm). Thursday: Gary Murphy - The Firehouse, Hoylake. Thursday: The Key - The Cavern Pub. Friday, October 29: Insanity Beach - The Halfway House, Woodchurch Road, Prenton. Saturday, October 30: Insanity Beach - The Cat, Greasby Road, Greasby. Every third Sunday of the month: The Terry Perry 'Big Easy' Band' - Melrose Hall, Melrose Lane, Hoylake. Details: 327-1673. Every Monday: Jam night - The Clipper, Prenton Road, Birkenhead.

CLUBS/SOCIETIES: Tonight (Wednesday, October 27): Birkenhead Photographic Society presents Alfred Brown's slideshow 'Bridges and Bicycles' - Prenton Bowling Club, Prenton Road West, Birkenhead (7.30pm). Today (Wednesday, October 27): Heswall & District Council for Voluntary Service Lunch Club presents Mary Johnson's talk 'Children of Chernobyl' - Heswall Hall, Telegraph Road, Heswall (12 noon, tickets £1.40). Details: 342-6115. Every Thursday: New York/LA style salsa, cha cha, merenge and club - Lever Club, Greendale Road, Port Sunlight (7.30pm-11.30pm, all levels from 'beginners', aged 16-plus). Details: 645-3152. Every Thursday: Wallasey Caledonian Society presents Country Dancing - Harrison Hall, Harrison Drive, Wallasey (8pm). Details: 630-1599. Every Monday: Duplicate Bridge Club - C-Bed offices, 222 Liscard Road, Wallasey (7.15pm). Details: 630-5362. Every Tuesday: Duplicate Bridge Club - St Michael's Church Hall, Frankby Road, Newton (7.30pm). Details: 678-8083.

COMEDY: Friday & Saturday, October 29/30: Rawhide Comedy Club presents Jason Byrne and guests - Central Hall, Roscoe Gardens, Mount Pleasant, Liverpool. Tickets: 0870 787 1866.

CONCERTS: Friday, October 29: Wallasey Arts Council presents 'Cameo Classics' with Penelope Weedon - Grosvenor Assembly Rooms, Grosvenor Street, Liscard (7.30pm). Tickets from Usher Travel, Liscard, or at door on night. Sunday, October 31: Syd Lawrence Orchestra and singers - Floral Pavilion Theatre, Virginia Road, New Brighton (7.30pm). Tickets: 639-4360.

DOWN AT PACIFIC ROAD: Tonight (Wednesday, October 27): Flame FM on Wirral (benefit concert), 8pm. Tomorrow (Thursday, October 28): Living Colour (with support), 8pm. Friday until Sunday (October 29-31): Merseyside Model Railway exhibition (Friday: 6pm-9pm; Saturday: 10am-6pm; Sunday: 10am-5pm). Tickets for all shows from Pacific Road box, Pacific Road, Birkenhead (Tel: 647-0752).

EXHIBITIONS: Until November 7: 'Medieval Chester - Watercolours, Drawings and Prints' - Grosvenor Museum, Grosvenor Street, Chester. Until January 2005: 'A Recollection of The Argyle Theatre, Birkenhead' - Wirral Museum (former Birkenhead Town Hall, Hamilton Square, open all year Tuesday-Sunday 10am-5pm).

FOLK: Every Wednesday: Bromborough Folk Club - The Bridge Inn, Port Sunlight (8.30pm). Tomorrow (Thursday, October 28): Parkgate Folk Club presents Bob Fox - The Boathouse, Boathouse Lane, Parkgate (8.15pm). Tickets: 677-1840. Every Thursday: Magazine Folk Club - Magazine Lane, New Brighton (8.30pm). Tickets: 677-1840. Every Sunday: Folk at The Manor - The Old Manor, Withens Lane, Liscard (8.30pm). Every Monday: Farmers Folk Club - The Farmers, Hillbark Road, Greasby (9pm). Saturday, November 6: Fiddlestone (with guests Phil Chisnall and Sally Williamson) - Bebington Liberal Club, Bebington Road, New Ferry (8pm). Tickets: 334-2289.

JAZZ: Sunday nights: 'Live' Jazz with the 'O Fishel Jazz Trio' - Bar 54, Market Street, Birkenhead (musicians and singers welcome, 8pm-12 midnight). Wednesdays: New up and coming bands night - Bar 54, Market Street, Birkenhead (new bands welcome).

TRAD JAZZ: Monday nights: The Savoy Jazzmen - The Ship Inn, Market Street, Hoylake. Every Tuesday: The Parade Jazz Band - The Boathouse, Parkgate. Every Tuesday: The Peninsula Jazzmen - The Royal British Legion, Pensby Road, Heswall. Wednesday nights: The Panama Jazz Band - Upton Tennis Club, Upton. Thursday nights: The Tuxedo Jazz Band - The Old Colonial pub, Bridge Street, Birkenhead. For details, ring Wirral Jazz Friends on 336-1190.

THEATRE: Tonight (Wednesday, October 27) until Saturday (October 30): St Paul's Operatic Society presents Richard Adler and Jerry Ross's 'The Pajama Game' - Floral Pavilion, Virginia Road, New Brighton (7.30pm/2pm Saturday matinee); Tickets: 639-4360. Tonight: All Star American Wrestling Spectacular - The Liverpool Empire, Lime Street, Liverpool (7.30pm). Tickets: 0870 606 3536. Tomorrow (Thursday, October 28) until Saturday (October 30): Bebington Dramatic Society presents Helen Edmundson's 'The Clearing' - Gladstone Theatre, Greendale Road, Port Sunlight (7.30pm). Tickets: 334-4365. Thursday, October 28 until Saturday (October 30): The Crescent Players present Oscar Wilde's 'The Importance of Being Earnest' (in memory of June Davidson) - Westbourne Hall, Westbourne Road, West Kirby (7.30pm). Tickets (£4.50/£5 at the door): 625-0202. Tomorrow (Thursday, October 28) until Saturday (October 30): Bill & Ben and Andy Pandy - The Liverpool Empire (Thursday performance 4.30pm; Friday and Saturday: 10.30am/1.30pm).

To have your event mentioned in What's On, call Craig Manning on 906-3050 or e-mail cmanning@wirral-globe.co.uk