We played the final show last night at the New Diorama Theatre (Saturday 12th November 2011) in front of a lively audience. There was a quantum improvement from Thursday with most tec glitches sorted, the lads louder and rockier now that the awe of the theeayter had abated somewhat. Confidence was up all round and […]
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First night done. Tec hitches aplenty but all performed with great gusto and fun by myself and the wonderful Charles Shaar Murray and The Plague’s Marc Jefferies, rockin’ the show on guitar and bass. I’m still making last minute changes to the script which is now at the stage where I can start cutting like
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OK, this is it, guys and gals. Anna May Wong Must Die! gets its first London theatrical outing tomorrow night (Thursday 10th) at the New Diorama Theatre, followed by another on Saturday. Legendary cultural writer Charles Shaar Murray and The Plague’s Marc Jefferies will be providing live music. I’m performing the show as a “work-in-progress”
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Madam Miaow is back from St Ives … and this time it’s personal. I had a delightful time in St Ives but it was an odd one. It got off to a disastrous start with me trashing my utterly reliable X-reg Ford Focus on the A30 on a foggy Bodmin Moor, aquaplaning into the back
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First the important stuff. Last night, I finally gave my ancient punk jacket an outing after an absence of nearly 20 years. Oh, and by the way, the grand occasion was Crosstown Lightnin’s gig at the Colour House Theatre for the Abbey Mills Blues Festival. Charles Shaar Murray, Buffalo Bill Smith, Marc Jefferies and special
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“You don’t need to go to the crossroads to make a deal with the devil. The crossroads will come to you.” So says award-winning author and journalist Charles Shaar Murray of his first ever novel, The Hellhound Sample. Off we trooped to the Archway Road crossroads in north London on Wednesday for his combined book
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