Blood Brothers

I've never been a huge fan of the theatre and certainly not of musicals, but on the premise of saying yes to everything, off we went to the Theatre Royal on Wednesday night to see Willy Russell's 'Blood Brothers'.

If you've not seen it, I won't ruin the plot for you, the first scene of the play itself does a pretty good job of that.

Like a lot of Scouse stories (Bread, Boys from the Black Stuff, this season for Everton), it starts off all sunshine and roses, only to fall into a trap of sorrow, despair and ultimate tragedy.

Linda Nolan still sounds good, although a bit 'lovie' at the end, but that bloke who played Wilmott-Brown in Eastenders hasn't half lost some weight.