The International Close up took place in the Horseshoe area of the winter gardens, with Rudy Coby (labman!), Arthur Trace, Marc Oberon, Michael Ammar, Latko, Obie O’Brien, Ian Keable and Eugene Burger, all performing sets around the groups.

It’s not often you get to see such a top collection of names performing, and as ever Blackpool brought the cream of the crop.

There were three sessions allowing people to see the same sets at different times during the day, as you’d expect, the quality was superb, but of course, our favorite was Rudy Coby..

..and we got the ‘booger’ reference!!