Jollees Cabaret Club
| Location | Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, England |
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| Type | Live Music, Cabaret |
| Capacity | 300 |
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Jollees is a live music and cabaret venue in Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom. The venue was reestablished in March 2016, after having closed in 1992. The original venue was opened in October 1973 and was the largest capacity cabaret venue in the UK in the 1970s. It also hosted the World Professional Darts Championship from 1979 to 1985.
The venue had previously been a restaurant and bowling alley. Construction began in late 1972, after the venue's alcohol license application had been approved, and cost £200,000. The opening night was attended by 1,600 people, including World Cup winning England international footballers Geoff Hurst and Gordon Banks.Merseybeat group The Fourmost and comedians Little and Large were the headliners. The club used a jester as its logo.
Its capacity of 1,790 made it the country's biggest cabaret venue in the 1970s. Its location in one of England's smaller cities meant that some acts were initially reluctant to appear and only did so after their peers had performed there.
The venue's hosts included the main host, comedian Mel Scholes, Ian 'Sludge' Lees and Pete Conway, the father of pop star Robbie Williams. Acts who appeared at the venue included Cliff Richard, Roy Orbison, Tommy Cooper, Norman Wisdom, Cannon and Ball, Freddie Starr, Ronnie Corbett, Cilla Black, The Barron Knights, Morecambe and Wise, Sarah Vaughan, Petula Clark, Johnny Mathis, Englebert Humperdinck, David Essex, Frankie Laine, Jack Jones, Andy Williams, The Shadows, Les Dawson, Ken Dodd, Frankie Howerd, Bernard Manning, Tommy Steele, The Three Degrees and Demis Roussos. Visitors included members of the British royal family, such as The Duke of Edinburgh and Princess Margaret.
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