'Anything can happen at the seaside': the troupe who kept Britain grinning
Tony Lidington spent 30 years with the anarchic Pierrotters. He recalls trading songs for mackerel " and lifting spirits with a little lockdown flea circus Let's start with a pierrot dangling over the waves at Brighton. "A skinhead took offence at the fact we were camping it up on Brighton Palace Pier," says Tony Lidington, whose troupe, the Pierrotters, was a mainstay of seaside performance for almost three decades.…