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Jon was voted the ‘14th Most Influential Person in the West Midlands’ in 2008. Subsequently he has not been placed. He’s been a football referee, venetian blind maker, cellar man, and a losing Labour council candidate: “No, no chance. A complete no-hoper” said a spoilt ballot. Jon wrote and directed the first ever piece of drama performed on Twitter when he persuaded a cast including MPs and journalists to give over their timelines to perform Twitpanto. But all that is behind him.

British Seaside – Bank Holiday Bingo

By Jon Bounds Posted on May 8, 2020 Posted in Extras No Comments Tagged with bingo

Lockdown, summer in the city. You’re missing the sea, sand and, sand in your sandwiches. Play our BRITISH SEASIDE BANK HOLIDAY BINGO – how many of these have you encountered on your visits to the seaside?   After visiting all …

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Victoria peerless

By Jon Bounds Posted on April 20, 2016 Posted in news No Comments Tagged with ideaspace, Victoria wood

Our trip was not just around the country, it was through our cultural heroes and experiences too. Victoria Wood came up a lot – and not just because half-way round visiting all those piers we found out that her brother …

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Countrywide

By Jon Bounds Posted on March 25, 2016 Posted in news No Comments Tagged with radio

Did you know that after seven on a Thursday every local BBC radio station transmits a show that has the best of all of the BBC local radio stations. Radio eats itself. But don’t think about the homogenisation of British …

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Local boys made, er OK

By Jon Bounds Posted on February 22, 2016 Posted in news No Comments Tagged with BBC WM

We were on our local BBC station BBC WM’s breakfast show last week with Adrian Goldberg. You can listen here. Just interviewed the fellas behind @pierreview @bbcwm. – a cracking read pic.twitter.com/fkgBFhKrvC — Adrian Goldberg (@GoldbergAD) February 17, 2016 In …

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Pier Review’s online knobbly knees competition

By Jon Bounds Posted on February 10, 2016 Posted in news No Comments

COMPO HAS NOW CLOSED Hi-de-Hi campers, “It’s your genial camp host here, and when I say camp*…” You know at the start of Goodfellas when Henry Hill says “as far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be …

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Get ready to launch

By Jon Bounds Posted on January 20, 2016 Posted in news No Comments

Join us to celebrate the launch of a book that has been five years, fifty plus piers and two thousand miles in making. We’ll have a short reading or two, a chance to prove that you are Pier Masters in …

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Face in the hole

By Jon Bounds Posted on January 15, 2016 Posted in Uncategorized No Comments Tagged with poll

You stick your head through and get a photo taken, if there’s one thing that’s everywhere at the seaside it the sea. But also these. But they don’t have a proper name. A few questions on the internet and a …

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Watch this space – we’ve signed

By Jon Bounds Posted on April 1, 2015 Posted in news 1 Comment Tagged with Summersdale

Back in 2010 we had an idea. It began, like all good things, in a pub. The night itself is a blurred mess eroded by time and booze but Jon assures me it was my idea. I’m not so sure. …

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Help wanted

By Jon Bounds Posted on February 6, 2015 Posted in Extras 1 Comment

We never needed to put this in the newsagents window, but I thought you might like to see the advert we wrote for a driver. You can see how very unplanned we were.

Saturday Live

By Jon Bounds Posted on April 20, 2014 Posted in news No Comments Tagged with BBC, press

Listen (again) to our appearance on BBC Radio 4’s Saturday Live. We’re on right at the start and there’s plenty of seaside mentions until our main interview at about 1 hour 15 mins in. The programme also features Bruce Oldfield …

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