HAVING A BALL

Back in its days as part of the old town centre Angel Hotel, what is now the Angel Suite function room would feature polite, even discreet middle-of-the-road music at dinner-dances held by various Brigg organisations and companies. Maybe a conductor-fronted band, or a string quartet.
Today the music theme continues at the Angel, but it's very different in nature.
Youngsters from Brigg Music Club have a great time there, playing current top tunes...and a few from the past.
It's loud and raw, but great fun for those involved.
Rather than being out On Brigg Streets, they are inside - doing something constructive.
It's also a welcome booking for Brigg Town Council, which runs the function room at a loss, due to very high overheads, and could do with more regular sources of income.
Those of us who attended this week's back-to-back town council committee meetings in the 'downstairs' room at the Angel - underneath the Suite - were left in no doubt the boys and girls upstairs were having a whale of a time. For we heard every note and felt every beat.
Many of the modern tunes being blasted out were unfamiliar to our generation at the council meeting, but one or two were 'golden oldies' we knew.
And when the music club got round to The Undertones' Teenage Kicks it seemed a very apt choice. "Get teenage kicks right through the night," is the chorus.
But we have no idea who in Brigg Music Club got the honour of chanting Feargal Sharkey's most famous line.