If you were so minded you could go and see Doctor Feelgood (with Nine Below Zero supporting) at Colchester Arts Centre next Friday. Or you could if it wasn’t sold out.

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The real connoisseur knows that Beefy flavour is the high end choice.

Run to You and 69, along with the Mel C-tactic When You’re Gone, are the ones most of us couldn’t resist tapping a foot to, even if Run To You starts with the worst bit of pronoun abuse since English Rose.

I think Oppenheimer was the only film I saw in a cinema this year. Quick review: plenty to enjoy but not a masterpiece.

She was in a bunch of half a dozen or so that closely followed my top picks.

i read a biography of Lewis CArroll recently. When Alice Hargreaves (nee Alice Liddell) got the telegram to say that her son had died in the WW1 trenches, the second child she lost to the war, her diary entry was […]

Have as many you like! I mentioned half a dozen and just picked one as the overall winner, so feel free to mention any others that nearly made it into your top picks.

Was he at least audible? When we saw Ian McKellen as Lear a few years back we couldn’t make out a word he, or the rest of the cast, said. That was at The Duke of York’s on St Martin’s Lane, the same theatre where […]

Nice one Bruv’!

As Figaro himself observes in LArgo al factotum everyone needs the baber, that’s what makes him so useful in all levels of society. (Translation courtesy of Wiki) Everyone asks for me. Everyone wants […]

Aigul Akhmetshina sings ‘Una voce poco fa’ from the ROH production of The Barber of Seville.

He was also a victim of domestic violence. I remember him appearing on Wogan to raise awareness of men being affected too, and the studio audience laughing at his story. That made for uncomfortable viewing.

I had an entry in the printed in the mag too. As I recall it was Chumbawumba: The sensation of driving over speed bumps faster than intended.

From the SOH Wiki page: Featured on Witness, Show of Hands’ song Roots, was released as a single in 2008 (Hands On Music). A rousing riposte to Kim Howell’s 2001 remark “the idea of listening to three Somerset […]

On a similar note, when I was going through a dreadful time with work I went to see my doctor hoping for something to help me sleep. I hadn’t slept properly in months, I was in counselling through a scheme […]

Ivana Holdyahan and Anne D’Yabudcansing sounded too exotic.

On his new podcast Richard Osman, a man who knows a bit about television, said the while the UK Traitors was very good the Australian one is a masterpiece. I haven’t seen a minute of either as I get the i […]

When I saw Steve solo at the Green Note in Camden recently he had lost his voice. As it was a small, intimate show, he didn’t cancel but turned it into an afternoon of anecdote and Q+A with a couple of songs. […]