Today we are really travelling back in time. Looking through YouTube you will find that many modern groups will cover songs orginally made famous by the Andrews Sisters, so today we shall clebrate the originals. The Andrews Sisters were an American close harmony singing group of the swing and boogie woogie eras. The group consisted […]
Star Wars Day
This particular day in the year has become known as Star Wars day after some wag noticed the similarity of the phrase ‘May the 4th Be With You’ to one of the oft repeated remarks from the Star Wars trilogy. The music for the primary feature films (which serves as the basis for the rest […]
Camille
Camille Dalmais, better known by her mononym Camille, is a French singer, songwriter and occasional actress. She was born and raised in Paris. As a teenager, she studied ballet and developed an interest in bossa nova music and American stage musicals. She attended the prestigious Lycee International de Saint Germain-en-Laye, where she obtained her baccalaureate […]
Anime Day
Anime is hand drawn and computer animation originating from Japan. In Japan and in Japanese, anime (a term derived from the English word animation) describes all animated works, regardless of style or origin. However, outside of Japan and in English, anime is colloquial for Japanese animation and refers specifically to animation produced in Japan. Animation […]
Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog
Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog is a 2008 musical comedy-drama miniseries in three acts, produced exclusively for internet distribution. Filmed and set in Los Angeles, the show tells the story of Dr. Horrible (played by Neil Patrick Harris), an aspiring supervillain; Captain Hammer (Nathan Fillion), his superheroic nemesis; and Penny (Felicia Day), a charity worker and […]
Once More With Feeling
Once More, with Feeling” is the seventh episode of the 6th season of the supernatural drama television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003) and the only one in the series performed as a musical. It was written and directed by the show’s creator, Joss Whedon, and originally aired on UPN in the United States on […]
Bernard Cribbins
Bernard Cribbins OBE, is an English actor, comedian, and singer whose career has spanned over 70 years. Cribbins made his first West End theatre appearance in 1956 at the Arts Theatre, playing the two Dromios in A Comedy of Errors, and co-starred in the first West End productions of Not Now Darling, There Goes the […]
The Manchester Passion
Manchester Passion is a television special which was broadcast by BBC Three on 14 April 2006. Created and scripted by Andy King-Dabbs and Stephen Powell as a follow-up to BBC Classical Music’s previous BBC Three special, Flashmob – The Opera, it was a contemporary retelling of the Passion of Jesus set to popular music, broadcast […]
Adult Wednesday Addams
Wednesday Addams is a fictional character created by American cartoonist Charles Addams. Addams gave her the name “Wednesday”, based on the well known nursey rhyme line, “Wednesday’s child is full of woe”. The idea for the name was supplied by the actress and poet Joan Blake, an acquaintance of Addams. The character has also appeared […]
Singing Nuns
This has become something of a phenomenon since the first nun picked up a guitar and had a hit record with Dominique in 1963, although it hasn’t always ended well. Jeanne-Paule Marie “Jeannine” Deckers, better known as Sœur Sourire (”Sister Smile”) and often called The Singing Nun in English-speaking countries, was a Belgian singer-songwriter and […]