Whilst the Home Guard were parading at the Devonshire Park Theatre, swinging sixties fans were basking in nostalgia next door at the Congress.

Shout is a new musical based on a concept by Philip George and David Lowenstein. The storyline has Ruby (Claire Sweeney) arriving at her aunt's hairdressing salon in Peckham with two friends she met on the train.

Aunt Yvonne (Sue Pollard) introduces them to swinging London and Shout is the new women's magazine packed with information every young girl needs to know.

Morgan Large's brilliant set immediately takes you back forty years – who can forget the picture of the girl with the green face that adorned so many walls?

He also designed the costumes and many people watching must have yearned for the return of mini dresses and white PVC boots.

Claire Sweeney and Su Pollard head the strong cast who belt out the songs so familiar to all of us who lived through that magical era.

Memories of Cilla Black, Dusty Springfield and Mary Hopkin come flooding back and soon the audience were clapping away.

But this is a musical which spans generations. It was two and a half hours of pure entertainment which was enjoyed by young and old.

Judging by the enthusiasm of the Eastbourne audience it will run and run – and so it should. You come out feeling happy, feet tapping all the way home.

Did you see the show? What did you think?