"The Berlin wall (and the USSR) had not yet fallen; smartphones did not exist; Margaret Thatcher was still Prime minister; and we were all watching movies on VHS. But in a world of constant change, once in a while you will encounter an anomaly that seems improbably resilient in the face of the winds of change. Trevor Payne's That'll Be The Day is such an anomaly: a musical retrospective variety show which has survived in broadly the same form for an astonishing forty years."
"Trevor Payne started his career like many other youngsters in the late 1950s in a band called Medium Wave Band which won a TV talent show and became popular on the UK cabaret circuit. From there he founded a musical variety act called Fizzical and eventually created That'll Be The Day (TBTD) in 1986, an amalgamation of music and comedy sketches, which initially ran as a purely seasonal show at British holiday resorts and clubs in the mid to late 1980s."
That'll Be The Day began in 1986 as a musical retrospective variety show combining music and comedy sketches and has survived in broadly the same form for forty years. Trevor Payne started his career in the late 1950s with Medium Wave Band, later founded Fizzical, and created That'll Be The Day as an amalgamation of music and comedy. The show initially ran seasonally at British holiday resorts and clubs, secured a regular weekly slot at Butlins Minehead, and became a year-round theatre production by the mid 1990s that relentlessly toured the country. The production ran over 200 performances a year before the Covid-19 lockdown. Trevor performs in the show despite being almost eighty. Central to the cast is the interplay between Trevor and long-serving cast member Gary Anderson, who joined thirty years ago on a one-month trial.
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