Happy Birthday Sir Patrick Stewart!
16 Jul 2010 Leave a Comment
in Artists, music, Society & Culture, theatre Tags: adrian schiller, andre Previn, every good boy deserves favour, ian mckellen, macbeth, orchestra, patrick stewart, photos, stage door, theatre, tom stoppard, waiting for godot
Back in my student days I used to live behind a library which was owned by an ex-Polytechnic University. One day, library staff decided to have a spring-clean and filled a skip with lots of old books, slides, tapes and records from the 1970′s. Gleefully, I joined several other students in rummaging through the contents of the skip much to the amusement of the Security Staff.
Among the booty was this fantastic record from 1978 – ‘Every Good Boy Deserves Favour’ – a play for actors and orchestra by Tom Stoppard and André Previn. Among the cast were Patrick Stewart and Ian Mckellen.
Robin Ince – School For Gifted Children
30 Mar 2010 3 Comments
in Artists, Comedy, music, theatre Tags: Alan Moore, bloomsbury, Bridget Christie, calmness, Comedy, friendship, happiness, innocence, Jim Bob, Joanna Neary, Kevin Eldon, Robin Ince, School For Gifted Children, Stewart Lee, theatre, variety, variety show
Last night Robin Ince hosted the School For Gifted Children at the Bloomsbury Theatre at the UCL in London. It was a variety show & tell, with more fantastic artists than you could possible shake a stick at.
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
24 Feb 2010 Leave a Comment
in Artists, theatre Tags: acting, adrian schiller, asylum, campaign, crazy, drink, drive, every good boy deserves favour, imaginary, london, music, national theatre, orchestra, performance, public service annoucement, review, theatre
Collings and Herrin’s 100th (ish) Podcast
02 Feb 2010 2 Comments
in Comedy Tags: bumming, collings, collins, Comedy, herrin, herring, leicester square, london, podcast, stand-up, theatre
Last night I went to see the 100th (ish) podcast recording by Richard Herring and Andrew Collins at the Leicester Square Theatre in London. This had been their 2 year anniversary of podcasting together. The gig had sold out and people had even brought tickets to stand in the aisles. As I looked around the crowd I realised that we all looked like 18 year old college students. We might have actually ranged from 15 year old looking kids to distinguished looking 65 year old gentlemen, but somehow we still all looked and dressed like 18 year old college students.
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