Here is a new made-up true short story which takes place 27 years ago in the summer of 1996 – a certain international football tournament has reached the semi final stage, Britpop is about to hit it’s sell-by-date and a new pop band is waiting in the wings with a
Hey there Hope all is well. Newsletter time. As I type I can report that today is my birthday. How old you ask? Well 27 years ago I turned 27. And in 27 years time I will be 81. So that makes me…..not the coolest or sexiest age. But then
Back in August 2022 I travelled up to Edinburgh Fringe with a guitar, a suitcase full of hopes and dreams and a life size cut-out of Ricky Gervais. I then spent the next 24 days performing my one man show Anoint My Head How I Failed to Make it
Last year my brother and I polished up some of our old Big Slice demos and compiled them into a 12-song compilation for posterity’s sake called Don’t Mind if I Do. The album was released on all the digital platforms, and we thought that would be that. But then we
I hope you are keeping well and your peckers are up. I thought I’d jump back on the newsletter horse, or is it a donkey? Either way, it’s been a while. This one is long, so grab a cuppa and a box of jaffa cakes (because one is never enough),
Here is a new made-up true short story for your reading pleasure about the very brief time I worked in fashion. It’s all true, apart from the bits I made up (the Kevin Bacon Footloose bit, for example), and it takes about 6 minutes to read. You can download it right
Last year my brother and I polished up some of our old Big Slice demos and compiled them into a 12-song compilation for posterity’s sake called Don’t Mind if I Do. The album was released on all the digital platforms, and we thought that would be that. But then we
Thanks to all those who came, laughed, jeered, heckled at my Anoint My Head live London show at the Museum of comedy in November. I had too much fun. And special mention to Dominique the Ninja Landlord who was in the audience and didn’t mind my terrible impersonation. Plans to
Greetings from Sydney, where this year I am spending Xmas with my family-in-law or, as they say here, ‘Chrimbo with the rellys’. It was a gruelling 24-hour flight via Qatar, and some unfortunate scheduling meant we took off just before the England v France World Cup quarter-final match. I asked
In early December we got the band back together again. That band was Big Slice. Formed out of the pointy birds ashes in 1994, we toured the Camden toilet circuit for two years during the explosion of Britpop until our Moog player buggered off to find fame and fortune with
I hope you are keeping well in these dark days. I find that plunging in cold water, ramen noodle soup and stroking my cat Muriel lets the light in. Anyhooo, in an attempt to brighten the next few minutes of your life, here is the latest Anointy newsletter, number #12
For those who couldn’t make it to Edinburgh, you can now watch the show in the comfort of your underpants… You can either dip into the songs or watch the full monty below….. First off a very early Pointy Birds track for the completists (of which there are none). It’s
Yes, tickets have just gone on sale for my one man show in London at the Museum Of Comedy on Thurs 17 November. The venue is in a repurposed crypt under St Georges Church in Bloomsbury. It’s a lovely space with a fully stocked bar, so I would love you
My Edinburgh show is getting some nice reviews… Firstly a 4 star review in the Daily Telegraph. Thank you Dominic Cavendish, you are clearly a journalist of supreme intellect, taste and sense of humour. “Carries the magnificent bravado of youth that will hold Generation X-ers and anyone nostalgically inclines in