27 January, 2025 | Blog
My daughter Lucie treated my grandson Arthur and me to a meal and great seats at the Lyceum Theatre to see the wonderful musical The Lion King. It was Arthur’s sixth birthday and my Christmas presents. Directed by Julie Taymor, this captivating reimagining of...
20 December, 2024 | Blog
Now this is how to open a show. A flashing, pulsating light show, super fit dancing girls in shiny bikinis and Tina Turner doing what only she can do. Superb staging. The whole song just whipped the audience into a frenzy from the outset. And here’s another...
19 December, 2024 | Blog
When these boys came onto the stage at a Britain’s Got Talent audition, everyone thought they were going to be ghastly but when they sang the song “Stars” from Les Miserables, everyone sat up and took notice. It’s a great performance but wait...
18 December, 2024 | Blog
I came across this on FaceBook and I was, frankly, gobsmacked! This is one of the most powerful songs in musical theatre and is usually sung by a man whose friends have all been killed in the rioting. But here it is sung by an angelic choir boy, Cormac Thompson. It is...
13 August, 2024 | Blog
Rick Parfitt Jr. (son of the famous guitarist from Status Quo) and his RPJ Band were playing at the Painshill Festival in Surrey when Rick saw a 10-year-old boy holding up a sign that said “Let me play guitar with you”. Rick invited him onto the stage and...
23 May, 2024 | Blog
In May 2006, David Gilmore of Pink Floyd fame, performed a concert at the Royal Albert Hall with bandmate Richard Wright on keyboards. He closed the show, as he always does with, arguably, the most iconic guitar solo in history, Comfortably Numb. I know I’ve...
