Today I am meeting with Hal Cuttenden – to advance the sitcom for BBCRadio 4 that I am writing – and yet perversely, Hal is somehow starring in. This is clearly an anomaly that I am...
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This really happened…
Sitting in my car at a service station on my way to a gig that pays the same money as it did 20 years ago I was feeling somewhat disconsolate. In show business there are...
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No night off…
With no gig last night, at 4pm yesterday I was planning to watch the football with my boys and then have a night in. My wife was taking photographs at a local school ball and...
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Going to the cinema…
Exciting morning for the Holland family – as Tom and his mum head in to Soho to watch a cast and crew screening of HOW I LIVE NOW – can’t imagine how exciting this must...
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All musicals have a core of dedicated fans – many of whom watch ‘their chosen’ show more than is normal, at least from an economic perspective. Billy Elliot has a legion of such devotees calling themselves the Billy Elliot Forum. Over the years of Tom doing the show, I encountered many such members and never felt......
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Last night my sat-nav was stolen. I could call the police – but in light of the recent news that specialist search officers twice searched a loft in the hunt for an abducted teenager and failed to find her – they did on the third occassion - - this morning I am heading to halfords rather than......
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Driving to a gig last night in Walthamstow at Guffaw Comedy – a club I have never played – my head was full of other stuff. I knew that I was closing – I had an idea that I was doing longer than 20 minutes and that there was a rumour that a ‘special comedy......
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Nice of the producers of The Impossible to release the DVD on my birthday (yesterday). It made for an exciting trip to HMV. The whole family were in tow but Tom and I went up to the counter together. I half wondered if he might get recognized from the box. He didn’t. ‘I’ll get this Tom.’......
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Calling all readers – my latest novel is free to anyone with a knidle or a tablet or even a smart phone. I hope you enjoy it. To get the book – follow this link – https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/270620 and then plug in the following code – JU73C...
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Coming home on the tube some years ago I was given a free novel with the Evening Standard. It was a great big tome and being given away, I assumed it was rubbish. How demeaning I thought for the author? It was Larson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo… And what is good enough for......
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The Fan and the Fox