It’s been a super-busy news week but certainly the opening of the Spice Girls’ musical – Viva Forever – has been the big entertainment story of the week. I was on BBC 5 Live (Tuesday 11 December) chatting about just how culturally significant this band of five feisty girls were. Be under no illusions, while …
BT Live – Closing Ceremony Concert (12 August 2012) Could the Olympics 2012 get any better?? After what has been a fantastic festival of sport and all-round good-spiritedness… I now learn that after what was a superb Opening Ceremony (seriously, how amazing!!) that the Closing Ceremony promises to be a spectacular celebration of British creativity …
(This article was originally published on Huffington Post) One of the best bits of last week’s Olympics opening ceremony was the homage to Britain’s musical heritage. The medley included, among a whole array of musical greats, the Beatles, the Sex Pistols, T-Rex, Bowie and quite rightly, some electro synth-pop too – OMD and New Order. …
After a lot of planning, months of collating of memorabilia and of course, the transformation of the Urbis building in Manchester, I am delighted that the National Football Museum will open its doors to the public tomorrow. The presence of the museum right in the centre of the city of Manchester is a great choice. …
When I was about 17 myself and a gang of mates from Loreto College (Manchester) borrowed a builder’s blue transit van and on 27 May 1990, made the ‘pilgrimage’ to Spike Island in Widnes, to see the Stone Roses. From the hilarious journey in the back of the van (much Malibu and pineapple and other …
Tonight is a special night for our city – quite possibly the funniest, most successful and cleverest stand-up comedian of our time is in town! Jerry Seinfeld is in a league of his own and it is a huge treat for us Mancunians that he’s playing his first ever UK gigs outside of London here …
Celebs are renowned for naming their offspring weird and whacky names and these days we are somewhat dissappointed if they opt for something ordinary like Tom, instead of Zephyr-Silver! Among the off-spring of celebs to have been given rather zany names are of course the Geldof girls – Peaches, Fifi-Trixibelle and Pixie. Heavenly Hiraani Tiger …
