Members back dropping men-only rule in place for 193 years, after Guardian revealed details of membership list
The men-only Garrick Club has finally voted to allow women to become members, 193 years after the London institution first opened its doors.
The vote was passed with 59.98% of votes in favour at the end of a private meeting where several hundred members spent two hours debating whether to permit women to join.
Continue reading...In letter ahead of vote, signatories including Mark Knopfler say relations with female colleagues have been damaged
The musicians Sting and Mark Knopfler have co-signed a letter with leading theatre producers and actors, warning that they will be obliged to resign their memberships of the men-only Garrick Club if members refuse to approve a decision to admit women in a vote next Tuesday.
The letter, seen by the Guardian, was also signed by the actor Stephen Fry, the West End and Broadway theatre producer Karl Sydow, and Matthew Byam Shaw, an executive producer on The Crown television series and co-founder of Playful West End theatre production company.
Continue reading...‘I’ll be sad to see them go but we’ve had wonderful times together,’ says musician ahead of London auction
Mark Knopfler has said he wants to let his guitars have new adventures with new owners as he announced the sale of a collection of the instruments spanning his five-decade career.
Knopfler, who made Dire Straits one of the the biggest bands in the world, is to sell 120 of his guitars and amps at Christie’s in London in January, with 25% of the proceeds going to charity.
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