Man – It’s been hard to motivate myself to blog over the past month. I’ll be making weekly posts for a while until I get back into the swing of things.
I had a couple of gigs over the weekend. On Friday night I was deppinging in Guys and Dolls in Stratford for a friend of [...]

Last week was spent in the Midlands playing South Pacific with a company I’ve been with since I was 19. It’s only an amateur show but they’re a good cast and I like to catch up with the friends I’ve made there.
I’m not a big fan of the South Pacific, with gaping plot holes a [...]

I finished playing Me and My Girl a few days ago. It was nice to see the company and the guys from the pit. The funniest thing of the week were the spontaneous applause I seemed to get. Firstly for my drunken “Les Dawson-esk” playing in a scene change that got more applause the more [...]

I’m playing Me and My Girl in the midlands all this week and I can only imagine what horrors are in store. I’m not referring to the companies production, which are are always pretty good, I’m referring to past events that have taken place over the years.
Fire Alarms
In the last show there was a fire [...]

When I was 15 I played My Fair Lady at the Buxton Opera House. The regular trumpet player had deped the week out to a guy called Adam who encapsulated all the negative stereotypes of trumpet players.
He was supremely arrogant (with no reason to be), played ridiculously loud throughout the show and if I remember [...]