Our front door bell doesn’t work. Or rather it does work but it goes off all the time – orĂ‚Â that localĂ‚Â kids are playing knock down ginger on us all day long. Either way, we have unplugged the bloody bellĂ‚Â and now rely on a note requesting a heavy knock. This happened this morning. Early doors, 7am…
Today I am meeting with Hal Cuttenden – to advance the sitcom for BBCRadio 4 that I am writing – and yet perversely,Ă‚Â Hal is somehow starring in. This is clearly an anomaly that I am subtly addressing in the writing. I am about to finish a new episode in which Hal hardly appears at all…
Sitting in my car at a service station on my way to a gig that pays the same money as it did 20 years ago I was feeling somewhat disconsolate. In show business there are jobs that we refer to as gravy gigs – namely, well paid for little effort. Voice overs are a great…
With no gig last night, at 4pm yesterday I was planning to watch the football with my boys and then have a night in. My wife was taking photographs at a local school ball and asked whether I might like to come along and help. A suggestion with a feel of an order to it….
Exciting morning for the Holland family – as Tom and his mum head in to Soho to watch a cast and crew screening of HOW I LIVE NOW – can’t imagine how exciting this must be for a 16 year old – but will ask Tom later…
All musicals have a core of dedicated fans – many of whom watch ‘their chosen’ show more than is normal,Ă‚Â at least from an economic perspective. Billy Elliot has a legion of such devotees calling themselves the Billy Elliot Forum. Over the years of Tom doing the show, I encountered many such members and never felt…
Last night my sat-nav was stolen. I could call the police – but in lightĂ‚Â of the recent news that specialist search officersĂ‚Â twice searched a loft in the hunt for an abducted teenager and failed to find her – they did on the third occassion – – this morning I am heading to halfords rather than…
Driving to a gig last night in Walthamstow at Guffaw Comedy – a club I have never played – my head was full of other stuff. I knew that I was closing – I had an idea that I was doing longer than 20 minutes and that there was a rumour that a ‘special comedy…
Nice of the producers of The Impossible to release the DVD on my birthday (yesterday).Ă‚Â It made for an exciting trip to HMV. The whole family were in tow but Tom and I went up to the counter together.Ă‚Â I half wondered if he might get recognized from the box. He didn’t. ‘I’ll get this Tom.’…
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