Name: Vintage Dance with Kals Kats
Start: 2025-09-12T19:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-09-12T23:30:00+01:00
Location: Bradford Live

Bradford Live building was finally restored and opened recently, but no dance scheduled for the beautifully restored Art Deco ballroom!! So I've talked to some Bradford old-timers and organised a 10 piece swing band to play tunes from the 1920's to the 1960's.
Kals Kats are a brilliant band who can really swing and are a very popular band on the vintage circuit, they will be playing tunes suitable for jive, stroll, lindyhop, balboa or whatever you want - just enjoy the dancefloor! They will be also be using the soul version of the band to play some great 60's Soul and Motown. Whatever type of dancing you do, there will be suitable music and it will be a fantastic night to enjoy dancing in the newly restored ballroom.
So plenty of music to experience the ballroom as it should be experienced – for dancing!
Tickets are £32 and are quite limited (as we have to have a good-sized dancefloor!! ) and are available at https://buytickets.at/vintagespotlight/1775845
Mark Memphis, who, as Mark Nicholson, was very involved in the campaign to save the building and wrote the book "The People's Palace" will be doing a short session singing songs from the 50's and 60's. Just like the old days there will be an MC, the wonderful Stevie Cruz.
Mark and myself appeared in the TV show (Hidden History – Palace of Dreams) about the building with Michael Portillo along with dancers in the ballroom – all will be there on the night to see the transformation.
I also appeared in the local film "A Bunch of Amateurs" and the wonderful star of the film, Colin, who is now 92 years old, desperately wants to see the restoration as it was in the "New Victoria" ballroom that he met his wife. So I have organised a visit for older people to come into the ballroom before the main dance and experience the live 10 piece band playing, just as they remember it (thanks to the band and the venue for agreeing). If people know of other older people who have such memories of the New Victoria then please contact me to attend this pre-dance event.