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. …
It’s good to talk…will be on BBC 5 Live later with Tony Livesey… just after midnight chatting about why text messages can never beat the art of conversation… Collette Walsh – 5 Live
Up bright and early for two slots on BBC Breakfast this morning… on with the super-smart, top psychologist Professor Geoffrey Beattie – we were talking about tackling the Monday morning blues … which according to research are creeping into our Sundays too! Great chat and tips from Prof Beattie… will post the VT asap! Collette …
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. …
Had the absolute pleasure and privilege today of brunch and several coffees with whizzkid (er, make that whizzMAN) that is Mike Little. Mike co-founded what is one of the world’s biggest web site creation tools – WordPress (indeed my own little blog centre here at www.collettewalsh.com is a WordPress site). Amazingly, he is not basking …
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 …
