THIS was a brilliant evening of fabulous music, giggling, dancing and eating fish and chips.

The school hall has a really good stage, and at just the right moment Ed’s son Jack tugged on the curtains to reveal Mr Hintze in his signature red jacket and straw hat.

Ed played the grand piano, alongside his trusty TYROS3, perched on top, and did what he always does so well, entertained his varied audience with top performing and a smattering of tasteful jokes.

Ed chose real audience pleasers from his huge repertoire of Elton songs and the atmosphere was brilliant.

In the second half, fuelled with fish and encouraged by Ed’s wife Jenny, the dancing began, as Ed appeared on stage in gold lamé and rocked the school hall.

I simply can’t say enough how impressed I am with the size of Mr Hintze’s repertoire, although his enthusiasm got the better of him when his G-string snapped, mid song.

The last encore was an Elton track to dance to and so we did.