As some of you know I've been beavering away for the last nine months on a book about Paris. I kept a journal while we were out there in September 2005 and took hundreds of pictures, and now after much blood, sweat and beers, the book is finally finished and has been released into the world ( Read more... )

The chances of anything coming from Mars may well have been a million to one, but for years it seemed as if the chances of Jeff Wayne’s seminal The War of the Worlds musical were even more remote. But still it came, to London’s prestigious Royal Albert Hall last night ( Read more... )

Well, not really, but we are going to see The War of the Worlds performed live at the Royal Albert Hall tonight, and I'm really excited about it! In fact I'm like a kid all over again, because right from the first time I heard Jeff Wayne's musical version of TWOTW back when I was eight years old I've been deeply in love with it ( Read more... )

Yesterday was great fun ( Read more... )

Last night I felt both old and envigourated. Why? Glad you asked ( Read more... )

7:47pm We turn on the TV so Jo can watch the final of Project Catwalk - no signal, so I do what NTL always recommend (and in fact IT departments the world over), I unplug it, wait 30 seconds and plug it back in ( Read more... )

So it's official - there IS going to be a Star Wars TV series, hitting our screens from a galaxy far, far away (or more likely Vancouver, Canada where it's cheaper to film) sometime towards the end of 2008 ( Read more... )

I was just sitting with a cup of strong black coffee and reading the paper when the doorbell went. (It actually does go "bing bong", twice in fact ( Read more... )

So, another few weeks have slipped by without an update. No great surprise there, but I have been busy. Honest ( Read more... )

I've just set a new record for the amount of times I've sworn at the TV. We were surfing through the 300 channels of shit that get pumped into the house these days and came across a program on MTV called 'My Super Sweet 16', and I shit you not this has to be the flimsiest of premises for a show that I've ever seen ( Read more... )