While the mainstay of The
Triton is our food operation, we also offer various forms of
entertainment, pitched squareely at our core
customers - so expect some style, elegance, sophistication and even a
little maturity!
Each area of the Triton has its own dedicated background music system,
playing out carefully chosen tracks to appeal to our customers.
We listen very carefully to views and opinions and incorporate requests
and suggestions into the programmes of music. We have a library
of almost 70,000 items, so its likely that we have YOUR favourites
too. Weekday lunches in the bar for example we play melodies from
the 50s and 60s as thats when we run our Pensioners' Special lunches.
In the evening the music changes again to be more up to date, but still
pretty easy in style.
Our aim is that the music sets a relaxed mood, is interesting, but
never offensive. (Thats a taller order than it sounds - there is always
someone who will claim to be offended by the most innocuous
tune!). We avoid strident and beat-laden music while people are
eating but most sessions will include tracks by as diverse artistes as
Alma Cogan or AC-DC, through Perry Como, Sinatra, Streisand to ZZ TOP
and the Zombies. Niel Diamond, Van Morrison, Julie London, Peggy
Lee, Supertramp, Bob Marley, Bob Dylan, The Doors are all
heard almost daily - and we encompass most genres. Blues and Jazz are
very popular, but so too are swing, light classical, light rock and
reggae. The music we play reflects the wide diverse tastes of our
wide customer base.
In the restaurant we have an automatic baby grand piano - the
only one in Yorkshire (to date) which plays gently in the background
whilst diners are eating. The instrument can be played as a
regular piano (or as an organ) and the restaurant also hosts live
appearances by musicians from time to time.

A duo who have proved very popular is
SAX APPEAL, featuring Caz and
Jake playing a range of dinner jazz standards, smooth romantic
ballads or plain old rock'n'roll, soul and party music. The restaurant
also has a DJ Booth, where our owner Paul has been persuaded to go back
to his roots and spin a few tunes for party revellers (he was a disc
jockey and compere at several local clubs, including the Locarno
Ballroom / Tiffanys, Scamps and Baileys, before moving into
radio.

On some evenings,
once everyone has finished their meal, we have dancing on our superb
spring American Oak dance floor. In the last month this has been
to such diverse styles of music as ballroom / orchestral, rock
and roll, soul and hi-energy disco. The most popular tracks
however have been Tamla Motown, Abba and Beatles tracks - which perhaps
says something about our customers' tastes! The most requested
tracks have been The Locomotion, Young Hearts Run Free, Dancing in the
Street and Crazy.
We have also staged
performances by small ensembles and solo artistes
and plan to expand the number of sessions during 2008. Adrian
Byron
Burns did a couple of excellent sets and will be back in 2008, along
with several other artistes, including East Yorkshire's best new discovery ANDY CORNFOOT.
A schedule will be issued shortly of other entertainment which will
include themed nights. We are considering staging the following special nights:
- Blues
Bothers
Night



- Mods and soul boys
night
- Elvis
- Seventies school disco
- Blues Brothers Show
as well as comedy nights, quiz nights and other forms of entertainment
Watch these pages for 2008 dates !