Author: |Posted: 11:05 am on 24/09/09
Category: Snowblog
Block yer ears. Shut yer eyes. Krishnan and I and our able friend Mara Carlyle, are in preparation for tonight’s Newsroom’s Got Talent competition (no danger of any of us winning – we’re just ensuring that we can actually appear at all at Vinopolis in the Borough Market).
It’s a contest between the BBC, Sky, al-Jazeera, ITV, Channel 4 and Uncle Tom Cobbley, in which every one of us is going to make an idiot of ourselves – wait till you see my wig! All in the cause of Leonard Cheshire Homes and Helen House Hospice.
There will be video of the performance on our website, come Friday. Beyond what you see, we’ll be performing with our band, Fourplay.
Author: |Posted: 10:07 am on 29/05/09
Category: Snowblog
The item on the rarest Dinky toy in the world on last night’s Channel 4 News gave me a pang of nostalgia as I glimpsed my beloved Dinky car transporter (not the actual one, but the model) on the right of screen in Nick Glass’s report.
When I was seven years old my mum and dad put me in for a choral scholarship to become a chorister at Winchester Cathedral. read more
Author: |Posted: 3:20 pm on 04/02/09
Category: Snowblog
I don’t often get to sing on Channel 4 News. But last night, stirred by the appearance of Alvin Stardust on the 50th anniversary of Buddy Holly’s death, I found myself doing just that.
Mr Stardust had a guitar which dated from his own encounter with the bespectacled rock legend. And the rest is replay.
