Sometimes there's nothing on at all except for acrobatics in the Shanghai centre Theatre, and then suddenly, an avalanche.

We had the Jazz Festival at the majestic Majestic Theatre. Which left m pondering the following question: why do Danish Jazz musicians all have facial hair?

Then there was the concert by the harmony band Boyz2Men at the Shanghai Stadium. We don't see too many pop western musical acts in our fair city but The Boys were a perfect choice. Shanghai people love pleasant melodies in their music and the place was packed with everybody standing and singing the songs. The sound was pretty good too considering what a cavern the stadium is.

But my favourite live event of the week was the Comedy Night at the Zoo-Baa, in which the merry Z Concept people pushed Shanghai along to a new high, or low depending on your point of view, with two stand-up comedians from London. The repartee was certainly riske for Shanghai but I particularly liked the moment when John Moloney made good-natured fun of a German gentleman wearing leather trousers who walked into the bar at just the wrong time with a number of local female friends in tow, probably on their way to Judy's Too. It couldn't have been planned better. Or maybe it was.

I see my favourite Cantonese restaurant, the Fulin Huanggong near the corner of Shaanxi Lu and Huaihai Lu has closed down. This is terrible news for everyone who loves a noisy but juicy dim-sum lunch on a weekend, but it does not come as a complete surprise. I hope it opens again soon, but at least there is still the Fulin Xuan restaurant (no relation as far as I know) not too far away on Sinan Lu, which also has the best soggy onion cake in town!!

I have been spending quite a lot of time over past week in one of the forgotten parts of town, the Bund. Yes! It's sometimes hard to believe considering all the photographs and publicity that the famous street next to the river attracts. But the only people who go to the Bund usually, of course are out-of-town visitors, or Shanghai residents who are showing visitors around.

But believe me, boys and girls, there are serious things going on down in that quarter of the city. Things which will help to shift the balance of the city's nightlife just a little more East.

Sweet, trendy restauranteur Michelle Garnaut took me for an exclusive and intimate tour or her new restaurant on the corner of the Bund and Guandong Lu. It completely took my breath away!!!

Micelle has got the whole of the ninth floor of Nissin Shipping Company building, constructed I am told in 1925. The place is a total shambles at moment or course, with workmen hammering down walls and nothing but bare concrete on the floors. But this allowed me to have one of the firstmeals served at M on the Bund -- a dust pie!!!

But this is clearly going to be a restaurant of truly international standing. The view from the wide balcony out over the buildings strung along the Bund to the left and across to Pudong on the other side for the Huangpu River is totally magical. And with global warming helping things along, it could be that Michele will be able to use the balcony pretty much all year round. She will also be able to significantly cut the electricity bills thanks to the large Kenwood advertising sign which overlooks the restaurant.

A few doors along the Bund from Michelle's Building is the old Hong Kong and Shanghai bank, the top floor of which used to be a club for the British Royal Air Force. It is said that plans are underway to make the premises into a new Shanghai American Club although there is some discussion over whether the roof of the building can be covered to create more space for club facilities.

But the really good news on the Bund is that the Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet which has occupied the downstairs section of the old Shanghai Club for the past few years has moved on. Negotiations are said to be well advanced on re-opening the Club as a private and exclusive hotel. As long as they put the old Long Bar back together, I don't mind WHAT else they do with it.

Byeeeee!!!