In the mid 1980’s, there appeared on television a series of programmes describing the mis-adventures of Trevor Chaplin (itinerant Geordie woodworker) and Jill Swinburne (English teacher and conservationist) all loosely tied together by the music of Bix Beiderbecke (the first white jazz cornet player – his music it is said ‘sounded like bullets shot from […]
22 Musicals in 12 Minutes
For the weekend I thought that it would be fun to watch these three excellent performers – Lin-Manuel Miranda, Emily Blunt and James Corden as they try to fit excerpts from 22 musicals into the space of 12 minutes. It is a joyful experience and full of amazing green screen work. It was performed just […]
Groucho Marx – Lydia
Friday has traditionally been my day off, but now that I have retired – it stil is! And therefore I like to have some fun with my music. So today we travel back to October 1939 to the release of the Marx Brothers movie ‘At The Circus’ and a classic performance of Lydia the Tattooed […]
12:01
If you have time on your hands this weekend, then can I recommend that you spend some of it with this delightful movie from 1993. Appropriately is a movie all about time, reminiscent of Groundhog Day. Barry Thomas (Jonathan Silverman) lives an unexciting life as an office worker at a science lab, where he has […]