In Town Today 7th October 2010

In Town Today Thursday 7th October 2010 by Biztalkradio on Mixcloud

So much has happened and so little time to put it together for you my listeners.

Another Opening! Another Show! The Grand Theatre, Swansea is always busy and

Swansea Women is the new musical written, directed and produced by Swansea women with Swansea actors.

Written and composed by Lyn MacKay it is based on life in Sandfields, Swansea during the forties and is based on historic accuracies. Lyn spent hours checking the details and talking with people who were around at the time.

It is the the story of 3 generations and a prequel to Swansea Girls that Lyn wrote 3 years ago.

Directed by Katherine Price, it was an experience just watching her working on the fine detail for the finale.

Produced by Nia Trussler Jones who was also in the cast along with her mother Menna and son Oliver: probably the first time 3 generations of one family have appeared at the Grand Theatre together. All have appeared in other productions and you'll know Menna from Little Britain.

 

In Town Today are proud to have interviews with others involved in this production including Richard Burman who has appeared in shows in London's West End and our much loved Kevin Johns who we'll look forward to seeing in the pantomime Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs again at the Grand Theatre.

The photo on the right shows the cast in the final rehearsal before moving into the Grand theatre. It's a great shame that so much effort isn't going to be staged again in the near future in Swansea or worse in London's est End where it would stand up against other shows there.

Now the pantomime starts at the Grand theatre on 15th December and runs on until mid January.

I was invitd to the Press Call at the Grand and interviewd the cast. Keep listening and you'll hear those interviews over the following weeks.

Whatever your age I'm sure you  can look back to a great show around Christmas. Anyone who hasn't experienced a pantomime is missing out on one of those great British traditions.

There's a great line-up again this year and you can't book early enough so why not phone the Grand Theatre and make a booking - treat the family.

Watch out for some great interviews.

Tm Kelly started painting just six years ago as a hobby and today has an extensive exhibition showing at the Grand Theatre.

The three pictures to the left are digitalised photograhs of Swansea landmarks. Can you identify them?


Tim uses all types of media, takinmg advantage of modern materials and ideas and mixing them with tradition.

 

 Andrew Penhale is a male model. He enjoys playing all Sports, especially Rugby. He has fantastic and some professional modelling experienceworking for Aussie Bum Underwear: Advertising underwear for Aussie Bum, Llan Llyr Source: Advertising Llan Llyr Source bottled water (Water originates from a source in Lampeter, Wales and is sold in hotels in L.A.), Powerade: Recently filmed an advert for Powerade Sports drink with British Lions and Wales Rugby star Shane Williams. (Due to go onto the Powerade website and waiting for images), LAB Series: Worked with Debenhams, promoting Estee Lauder, LAB Series Skincare for men range. Photographs taken by www.lifephotographywales.com and mattreardonphotography.com, Olorun and Engage: Advertising for a new up and coming Rugby Sportswear company called Engage and Olorun. Since Canterbury Euorope have gone bust, Olorun and Engage's orders for kit etc has gone through the roof! Debenhams: Catwalk modelling in a charity event in Swansea Rugby Club arranged by Debenhams Swansea using a range of different outfits that are sold with in the store.

He works with Model Click: Recently featured in the new Style Wales magazine out in South Wales representing Model Click. Swansea Life Magazine: Modelled for Swansea Life Magazine in the February issue on the Valentines feature they published with another female model. Recently shot for the Swansea Life Calendar 2011 which will be for sale in December. He had to enter a competition then be chosen by six judges from the Shoot Swansea event out of over 40 finalists.

 He is currently shooting with a cosmetics company known as: Renew U ( Health Solutions ). They have contacted me to be the face of the Men’s side of the company. Advertising the range of treatments available for Men. Swansea One Card: He is one of the faces of the new Swansea One Privileges Card that has recently been launched in Swansea, Wales.

He has worked with a range of professional photographers: (Life Photography Wales, Ajay Fotography, Christopher Barroccu Photography. LindsPics.com and mattreardonphotography.com ).

Andrew says " I am an experienced model who loves to contribute with my own ideas to a shoot / job and always give 100% so a job is finished with perfection. I am friendly, easygoing, hard working and very reliable. I am available for all types of assignments from my various areas of interest. I am very experienced, even at a professional level (with the companies i have worked with above) and enjoy advertising products. I do not mind negotiating with photographers/companies ,but generally work for pay"

In Town Today Thursday 19th August 2010

Sandra Dickinson is an American-British actress. She trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. She has often played a dumb blonde with a high-pitched voice in the UK – notably commencing in the St. Bruno TV advertisements in the early 1970s.

Her roles include:

Trillian in the television version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Sandra Dickinson said in an interview in The Making of The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy that when she heard that she had been suggested for the role of Trillian, she thought it completely mad - Sandra Dickinson was blond and fair-skinned, and in the Hitch Hiker book, Trillian is described as dark and looking "slightly Arabic". However, during the screen test, Douglas Adams was sufficiently impressed with her acting skills that when Dickinson suggested wryly, "I've got to get my Union Jack lenses in" (i.e., practice my English accent), Douglas Adams asked her to use her natural voice and accent. Dickinson later returned to the "Hitchhiker's" universe to play Tricia MacMillan in the fourth and fifth radio series produced by Above the Title for BBC Radio 4.

Emily in A Man for Emily in The Tomorrow People

Tina in the sitcom 2point4 children

A stage production of The Owl and the Pussycat, where the leads were herself and her then husband Peter Davison.

Barefoot in the Park - London stage production from 1984, again with Davison as a pair of American newlyweds adjusting to life in their new high-rise apartment.

A parallel universe version of Trillian (AKA Tricia McMillan) in the Quintessential Phase of the Hitch-Hiker's Guide radio series.

Zelda in Cover, a 1981 drama series from Thames Television, set in a recruitment and testing agency for the spy service.

Maggie in the 1996 Doctor Who BBC radio serial The Ghosts of N-Space.

Both Dickinson and then husband Peter Davison appeared together in former Doctor Who producer John Nathan-Turner's production of the holiday pantomime Cinderella in 1983.

Dickinson has also appeared in an episode of HBO's Tales from the Crypt series, also starring Malcolm McDowell as a neurotic vampire who prefers bloodbanks to actual victims.

Made a guest appearance in the BBC1 drama Casualty in February 2001, playing Debbie Hall, a tourist who arrives in Holby City Hospital with her husband, who has been stabbed by a mugger.

She has played Queen Camilla in Carlisle pantomime production of Snow White & the Seven Dwarves in 2007, and in 2008 she played Fairy Godmother at the Towngate Theatre Basildon's production of Cinderella & once again played Fairy Godmother in the Harlow Playhouse theatre production of Cinderella in 2009 alongside her now husband Mark Osmond.

Played Lady Gloria Gransford in New Tricks Season 6 episode 4 "Shadow Show" in 2009

[edit] Personal life

Dickinson was born in Washington, D.C., and grew up in Maryland. Her father, Harold S. Searles, was a psychoanalyst and her mother, Sylvia, was a nurse. In 1969, Dickinson met her first husband, Englishman Hugh Dickinson (whose surname she still uses as her stage name), moving to England with him the following year. They were married for five years. She married the English actor Peter Davison on 26 December 1978, and they were divorced in 1994. Together they composed and performed the theme tune to the 1980s children's programme Button Moon. They have a daughter, Georgia Moffett, born 25 December 1984, (who is also an actress), and a grandson, Tyler Moffett, born 27 March 2002.

Dickinson married her third husband, British actor Mark Osmond, on 16 August 2009. The wedding was filmed for a reality TV show where four couples compete to have theirs voted the best wedding; hers came third. Her grandson gave her away. The wedding took place in Shepperton, where the couple have lived since 2007. Dickinson became a British Citizen the same year, and also runs a theatre school there (which also has a base in Ealing) called the Close Up Theatre School.

Victor Spinelli was born in Cwm, Wales of Welsh and Italian heritage from a grandfather who was said to have walked from Italy to Wales to work as a coal miner. His parents, Giuseppe and Lily, owned the chip shop in Cwm, over which premises the family lived and where Spinetti was born. He was educated at Monmouth School and the Cardiff College of Music and Drama, of which he is now a fellow. Early on he was a waiter and a factory worker

He sprang to international prominence in three Beatles' films in the 1960s, A Hard Day's Night, Help! and Magical Mystery Tour. He also appeared on one of The Beatles' Christmas recordings. The best explanation for this long-running collaboration and friendship might have been provided by George Harrison, who said, "You've got to be in all our films ... if you're not in them me Mum won't come and see them—because she fancies you." But Harrison would also say, "You've got a lovely karma, Vic." Sir Paul McCartney described Spinetti as "the man who makes clouds disappear". Spinetti would later make a small appearance in the promotional video for Paul's song, 'London Town', off the 1978 album of the same name. Spinetti has appeared in more than 30 films, including Zeffirelli's The Taming of the Shrew, Under Milk Wood with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, Becket, Voyage of the Damned, The Return of the Pink Panther, Under the Cherry Moon and The Krays.

In the theatre his work in Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop produced many memorable performances including Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be (1959, by Frank Norman, with music by Lionel Bart), and Oh! What a Lovely War (1963), which transferred to New York City and for which he won a Tony Award for his main role as an obnoxious Drill Sergeant. He has appeared in the West End in The Odd Couple (as Felix); Chitty Chitty Bang Bang in the West End; as Albert Einstein in a critically lauded performance in 2005 in a new play, Albert's Boy at the Finborough Theatre in 2005 and in his own one-man show, A Very Private Diary.

One of Spinetti's most challenging theatre roles was as the principal male character in Jane Arden's radical feminist play Vagina Rex and the Gas Oven, which played to packed houses for six weeks at the Arts Lab on Drury Lane in 1969. In 1980 he directed The Biograph Girl, a musical about the silent film era, at the Phoenix Theatre. He has also appeared on Broadway in The Hostage and The Philanthropist. He has also acted with the Royal Shakespeare Company, in such roles as Lord Foppington in The Relapse and the Archbishop in Richard III.

Spinetti co-authored In His Own Write, the play with John Lennon which he also directed at the National Theatre, premiering on 18 June 1968, at the Old Vic. Spinetti and Lennon appeared together in June 1968 on BBC2's Release. During the interview, Spinetti said of the play,

"it's not really John’s childhood, it's all of ours really, isn’t it John?" John Lennon, assuming a camp voice answered "It is, we're all one Victor, we're all one aren't we. I mean 'what's going on?'" Spinetti said the play "is about the growing up of any of us; the things that helped us to be more aware".

He also directed Jesus Christ Superstar and Hair, including productions staged in Europe. His many television appearances on British TV, include Take My Wife in which he played a London-based booking agent and schemer who was forever promising his comedian client that fame was just around the corner, and the sitcom An Actor's Life For Me. In September 2008 Spinetti reprised his one-man show, A Very Private Diary, touring the UK, as A Very Private Diary ... Revisted!, telling his life story.

Between 1969 and 1970 Spinetti appeared on Thames Television, alongside Sid James, as one half of Two In Clover over two series. A sitcom about two office workers who jack it all in to become farmers, he starred in all but one of the 13 episodes. His absence in episode #3 of the second series was covered by fellow Welsh actor Richard Davies, playing Spinetti's character's brother.

In the 1970s Spinetti appeared in a series of television advertisements for McVities' (now United Biscuits) Jaffa Cakes, as "The Mad Jaffa Cake Eater", a Mexican bandit style character who sureptitiously stole and ate other people's Jaffa Cakes, prompting the catchprase "There's Orangey!" He hosted Victor's Party for Granada. More recently he voiced arch villain Texas Pete in the popular S4C animated TV series SuperTed and has narrated several Fireman Sam audiobooks. Spinetti also starred in Boobs in the Wood' with Jim Davidson, filmed for DVD in 1999.

Spinetti's poetry, notably Watchers Along the Mall (1963), and prose, have appeared in various publications. His memoir, Victor Spinetti Up Front...: His Strictly Confidential Autobiography, published in September 2006, is filled with anecdotes. In conversation with BBC Radio 2's Michael Ball, on his show broadcast on 7 September 2008, Spinetti revealed that Princess Margaret had been instrumental in securing the necessary censor permission for the first run of Oh! What A Lovely War.

In Town Today 10th June 2010

Today we had Andy Pearson, theMediamaster and Ben Cottrall the musical director of Beats and Pieces together with Anton Hunter.

Andy has been in newspapers for over 20 years and now is a PR consultant. During an interview for www.biztalkradio.co.uk I noticed a couple of beautiful books with Any's name on. So we were talking about Andy's venture of producing books and getting published.

The first book is black and white and overflowing with Welsh icons. Plainly a work of love. For anyone who has an interest in the Scarletts  then Faces of Stradey Park are a must!!

Find the band at http://www.beatsnpieces.net

And you'll find links there to their music, Facebook etc.

Show Notes for In Town Today 4th February 2010

Jason Bradley Gadget Show by MikeLeahy

So time marches relentlessly onwards. Waiting for no-one. Another day another dollar another show. So what's in store for us?

I hope you enjoyed the Show on the 28th January. It was great fun making it and talking with those great people. If you like what you've heard do let me know. Leave a comment at the bottom of this page. And if there's anything you didn't like or would want included don't be bashful let me know.You can listen again by clicking on the right of this text!!

Martin Williams talked with me for last week's show and I ran out of time so he's with us this week.

Watch out for more information about him and other guests including Tracey the Naked Blonde Writer

BREAKING NEWS:  Tracy Williams, the naked blonde writer who will be reading her book "Blackout" today. The book has now been published and you can order a copy. Click here


She will be joining me on In Town Today in the Thursday 4th February programme so put it in your diary and listen in.

Want a signed proof copy of her book? 
Just click on the above line.

http://www.thisissouthwales.co.uk/southwalesnews/Author-stripping-online-read-book/article-1720009-detail/article.html

Here's a recent interview I did with Tomas Morgan of the School of Journalism in Cardiff


Snow's affect on businesses by KatiePrescott

 Listen to this amazing Baritone singing and just giving a great performance in the Covent Garden Market Courtyard. I'll be having a conversation on this week's show. Listen in and learn about a journey of discovery

 Another student enjoying Rag Week and really throwing himself into collecting. You can read the charities on the bucket.

You may have heard of Rules Restaurant, the oldest restaurant in London. Well I spoke with Brian Silva, their well-known barman and cocktail supremo. He's also now running a new cocktail course where you can learn from the maestro himself. working at some of the greats including the Cumberland Hotel he certainly knows his stuff.


He had a wealth of stories to tell but we couldn't mention names.


And Peter Maylin has been the doorman there for over two years with experience at such top spots as the Savoy. Peter talks about Rules Restaurant with great enthusiasm and any boss would be more than pleased to have such a dedicated member of staff.


The restaurant is of another age and venison, pheasant and wild duck are amongst the most popular dishes.


I watched diners being treated like royalty and thought "This is the place for old fashioned service and opulent surroundings. Take a look at their website at http://www.rules.co.uk.

I have often talked about Pimlico lumbers, the most successful plumbers in the UK I think.  Well today  caught one of their vans and had a brief conversation with one of their staff.

Rag Week in Covent Garden Market. Listen to these guys enjoying themselves

Celebrating 50th Wedding, Golden Anniversary with a trip to London as a secret surprise organised by their children here are
Myra and Malcolm Fish and Ann and Allan Brownsword. They nlistened and sent a "Thank You" with another huge "Thanks" to their family for arranging such a great weekend.




Taybarns competion  finishes on Wednesday 3rd February at 6pm  Just text the word "comp" and your name to 07976364681.


Taybarns adjacent to ASDA.
Here's a video we made last year





Watch out for more. There is something for everyone.
Music from Terry and Seija, poetry from Ollie
 Join me at 7pm on Thursday 4th February for a full radio magazine


 

Show Notes for Thursday 28th January 2010

There is a great show lined up for you this week.

Eat as much as you can at Taybarns Restaurant by ASDA in Llansamlet, Swansea.


Better still enter the competition by Wednesday 3rd February and win a meal for 4 people. We will have two winners this week so text 07976364681 with "Comp" and your name to win. Listen to the Show

 If you are a Swansea Student get down to Taybarns any time after 8pm Sunday til Friday for all you can eat for just £4.99. Student card required.


And you silver surfers can eat well for just £3.99 before 5pm. Open from 11.30 am.


Enter the competition now.


Meanwhile why not become a follower. It's easy just click on the right . . . . . . please 
And here are places and people I've seen this week

Swansea on a cold but bright Sunday morning about eight o'clock as the slight fog lifts. oads of people about enjoying life.









 

One man and his dog below enjoying both excercise and thinking time.Yes! 






 
That is me at the top of the scaffolding. With the standard "Leahy" pose arms outwards

  Seija Knight singing on a quiet Monday morning.  I had a great conversation with her. Listen to In Town Today on Thursday. If you want to purchase her CD just click on the button below . Really great value at £10 plus postage. Watch out for more from this talented young soprano. Seija sings the following on the CD

Ave Maria - Schubert

Porgi Amor - Mozart
Stridono lassu - Leoncavallo
O sole mio - Di Capua
O mio babbino caro - Puccini
Vissi d'arte - Puccini
Si, Mi chiamano Mimi - Puccini
Oh! Quante volte - Bellini

Seija sang at Wembley Stadium

for the Russia/England 2008 Qualifier in front of 86,000, performed at the Ritz Hotel at a private party for Prince Alberty of Monaco and much more. See her website at http://www.seijaknight.com/index.htm

And listen to her on Thursday at 7pm.

What is the link with my guest on Thursday who owns Pollock's Toy Theatres shop in Covent Garden Market  and was in Coronation Street as a long standing character that we loved? I remember building one of these myself, in fact several and also with my children. Listen on Thursday at 7pm You could visit the website at http://www.pollockstoymuseum.com/index.html

Here is the link.      You'll remember Derek Wilton in Coronation Street played by Peter Barlow. We'll he spoke with me and we recorded an interview about the life and times of Toy Theatres. He owns the Benjamin Pollock Toy Shop in Covent Garden Market and is often there. Climb the stairs and you'll enter an world of toy theatres and much more. Buy a theatre and you'll get pure enjoyment in making ion up and performaing a short play. If you've got children, grandchildren or just young friends you'll see amazement in their eyes as they help you. Peter has published a book called Toy Theatres of the World which is becoming rare and valuable. Copies are available in the shop or on-line at the above website.

Paulette Pelosi was born in Cardiff but a short time later moved to her parents' home town of Swansea. She was educated at convent and grammar schools, but illness terminated 'A' levels and plans for a journalistic career. Chronic illness was often a disruptive force in her childhood and adolescence and continues to be so in adult life. In 1976 Paulette collapsed at the end of her training as a State Registered Nurse - a diagnosis of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus put a name (at last) to the previous episodes of ill-health. Within two years of diagnosis she became heavily involved in promoting knowledge about Lupus within a national charity, and went on to become Public Relations Officer for the South Wales Lupus Group (since retired). Paulette says that writing is one of many personal survival tactics. She continues to live in Swansea where she maintains a healthy sense of humour. Her Welsh and Italian roots are both highly important to her identity.

Paulette's Italian roots and the direct involvement of her father in the scandal of Italian men, many of whom had grown and had families in Wales, and who were an integral part of the community, were interned as enemies of the state . Some had sons fighting in the Britsh army. Listen to this tragic story and the memorial that is being laid in Cardiff on July 2nd this year.

Details can be found on the site at

http://www.arandorastarwales.us/Arandora_Star_Memorial_Fund_in_Wales/HOME_PAGE_1.html

Interestingly, Terry Clarke, who features each week sang his composition Aranora Star when I heard him play at the Brunswick Arms last Thursday and we hope to feature that number as soon as we can set up a recording session. Meanwhile Terry has asked if we'd play his number Maria Callas as it continues the Italian theme with both Paulette and the singing of Seija.

Maria Callas is on Night Ride to Birmingham on the Terrapin label and features Wes McGhee. Recorded in September 2004 and available from Terry. I'll try and get a Paypal button on the site. Meanwhile, I hope you enjoy Terry's music as much as I do. I'm awaiting the release of his Dylan Thomas CD which he has been working on over the last few months with Swansea poet and Dylan Thomas specialist Peter Thabit Jones
Terry says:
My first musical memories come from listening to the radio when I was a child. My mother always had the radio on in the house. My favourites  were the popular opera singers of that time such as Maria Callas, Erinco Caruso and Mario Lanza. . .  to me Maria Callas is hardcore, a blues singer almost. Her singing "Casta Diva" from Bellini's "Norma" is one of those pieces of music I return to constantly, like I do Mikes Davis "Sketches of Spain"

Donna Phillips and Dan Morgan talk about young film-makers in Swansea and their ideas they are currently working on.

The full team are featured here and we look forward to seeing their first production starting in the Spring. This will be a series of shorts that they hope to place in local, national and international competitions.

Finally Ollie will be reciting another couple of poems.

Keep listening.

See you next week

Thursday 21st January Show

PLEASE WAIT THROUGH THE FIRST 90 SECONDS OF SILENCE AS THERE IS A FAULT BEFORE THE SHOW STARTS

This is the third In Town Today Show from Swansea South Wales in the UK and about people and places with news, views, interviews and your contributions, here at intowntoday.co.uk every Thursday.

We have some great interviews for you today. The Show seemed much easier to manage last week and I‘m hoping it’ll be even better today. I’ve recorded the interviews but hope to include much more live material soon. Please bear with me.

In store for you today I’ve brought together an artist whose work can be found all over Swansea, Our own Rock & Roll king with his own number, Manhattan Blues and a most intriguing story of this  song he wrote in the States when he arrived on the day the twin towers disaster happened in 2001. There’s Ollie the Street poet who has been unwell for a week or more and we wish him a really fast recovery. I just love his material and the 2 very short poems today will get you both smiling and thinking. And there’s Jamie Denyer who by day is a plasterer based in Neath but who has made a dream come true. A dream for some local families who have a real need. His is a really inspiring story.

I was hoping to have Rob Warlow back today but I met him yesterday and we had so much to talk about that time wasn’t sufficient to record anything. But watch out for a really exciting new project I’m planning that he’ll feature in regularly. It’s the new and exciting half hour show for small business call Biz Talk Radio. I’ll let you have full details just as soon as I have them myself. He’ll be back here too, soon.

I know that we all think about our lads and lasses in the armed forces and about the terrible job they are faced with every day at the front-line, so to speak. It’s hard and we particularly support those who have been injured and their families together with those families who have lost loved ones.

So on a lighter note I’ve found a bunch of intrepid retired ex army soldiers who will be putting in a brief appearance from time to time. They include General Havock, Private Parts and today I’ll be talking to “grumpy old man” Major Disaster. There will be others that I’ll be dragging up from the depths of my imagination.

And we’ll conclude with Prab Chadha the Gadget Angel with a quick thought about a new gadget.  I did laugh when we spoke yesterday and I asked him what he wanted to speak about and he said “I put my thinking turban on!”

Zaal Restaurant are featured on the blog and have a Facebook group “Save Zaal Indian Restaurant” so please join. Just click here

This is a fine restaurant serving great food so please support them. We don’t want them to have to close.You can call in and sign the petition too.

 Jamie Denyer is a quiet man who came to the interview, bought me a coffee and  was a pleaseure to interview. In fact I didn't need to ask much. Just one question and he was so enthusiastic he just told his story.

Jamie has created ETSETH, made up of the initial letters of Enlarge the Spirit, Encourage the Heartand the stories about those whom he has helped just accentaute how successful this has been. He started giving just one day a week free to help someone in need. And having spent some time with Jamie I found him quite humble in his success. He just can't stop telling you about the difference it has made to those who he has worked for - as if he still doesn't accept that his simple gesture has had such an effect. It is obvious that this work will grow through the help of others who are giving their services free too, by local companies who are supporting Jamie with donations of free building materials and through donations from the public.

You can get involved by either working with Jamie for just one day a month, you could give goods or other services or you could make a donation, no matter how much. And I guarantee you'll feel good inside. So do it now. Simply go to Jamie's website by clicking here

There isn't a place to make a donation now but I'm sure if you check the site out in a few days there will be.

Jeff Phillips is a great artist with paintings galore. He uses a whole range of medium including iols, acrylic and water colour, but he also uses unusual materials too.

He has worked with many schools and run adult art courses too. So his involvement in the cultural side of Swansea is immense.


Watch out for more of off and put his exhibition in your diary, althoughh we will be telling you nearer the time. It's at the Grand Theatre during August. And having seen some of the exhibits alrweady I can tell you that this will be a real treat.


To see Jeff's work on-line visit his website where there is much to see and where you'll be able to purchase works too. Just click here

Just a couple of paintings to show Jeff's wide range of work and painting ability.

On 23rd November 2001 Jeff received a life long fellowship for his millennium award winning project “The Wheel”, to Spain where he delivered a series of talks to the students at the Torrevieja institute and at local schools in the Alicante Province. Using “The Wheel”, and his other paintings he have developed exciting and thought provoking environmental art workshops, working in schools with children of all ages, youth groups and adults with learning difficulties. He has worked on projects with such bodies as The Environment Centre Swansea, The Princes Trust, B.T.C.V, Mumbles Development Trust and The Mo Green Project.

He is also featured in Art Slant, the New York contemporary art website where you can see a further selection of work. Click here.

Jeff is also a partner in the Dylan Thomas Experience. He is preparing an extensive series of both water colours and oils that will be exhibited at the Grand Theatre, Swansea through August 2010 and will be making these available in limited editions.

Jeff is available for commissions of all types and in just the last few weeks as has worked on several portraits, a large stunning oil painting of the Dylan Thomas group at the BBC Studios , back-drops for a Santa Grotto and music events and designing postcards.

    Terry Clarke, back again by both personal and general demand. Great as ever.  He performs locally in pubs much for his own enjoyment as anything and that shines through in his intimate performances where he includes his own work that is often inspired by local events and certainly always by personal experiences. 

Green Voodoo was released in 2002 and here is a review:


"A weird and wonderful mix of smokey jazz, country, rock 'n' roll and ballads...with the feel of hot, sweaty US nights."
Nick Dalton Daily Express, August 2002



Terry has kindly agreed to talk more about his music and for use to use it in the Show. I'm getting a lot out of this, he is so informative.

Prab Chadha of Gadget Angel is always a welcomed guest and with his own slot on Radio Cardiff 98.7fm on Fridays at10 for an hour you can join him there by clicking here and then on listen live. Prab has been really helpful with the show and offers endless encouragement.

If you have any problems using gadgets at home or work give Prab a call and reduce your stress levels.

Ollie, our Street Poet has been unwell and we wish him a swift recovery. Love his lyrics and waiting for more. atch this space.

Watch out for the new business radio show coming to a computer near you soon at Biz Talk Radio

 

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