Jun 26 2012

It’s Been A Busy Week…

Thought I’d drop a quick post letting you all know what’s been going on this week. It’s been rather hectic…

Having performed over 80 shows of The Comedy Of Errors at the National Theatre, our faux Romanian busking band was asked back to play for NT Connections. This is an annual festival of youth theatre which culminates at the National with ten plays performed over five days by ten different companies. So Ian Watson, Simon Parrish and I donned our tracksuits for one last hurrah and took to the streets of the Southbank (and the Cottesloe foyer..) and bothered the general public with loud shouty Romanian renditions of pop songs. It was rather good fun…

On Friday night the Nina Ferro band took over Hideaway in Streatham. This was the first time we’d played the new set live together since Nina toured it in Australia. I managed to get a few tracks filmed and posted them up on my YouTube channel. Thought I’d post my favourite one here just for you. This is Lesson Learned by Alicia Keys and John Mayer…

I’m playing at The Spice of Life in Soho tomorrow night with Nina on a gig featuring our good friend Kellie Santin who’s back from Australia for a bit. You should all come down.

And the final kids show from Lea DeLaria and Janette Mason Boom Boom’s Bow is at Hideaway this Saturday lunchtime. But fear not if you do not have children to bring along; we will be playing a proper show in the evening with our band The Dirty Martinis. Do not miss this show!! We rarely get to play as the Martinis (the next show will be at the Swanage Jazz festival in July) so it’s a great opportunity to see the full band at this fantastic venue.

Hopefully see you at a show soon 😉

ps. For those of you following the progress of the Barnardos Oldie Composers, our very own Anthony Head will be performing Marina Florence’s Cry live on This Morning tomorrow. Remember you can download the EP from iTunes and the Charity Goods website and all proceeds go to Barnardos.


Feb 27 2012

The Comedy of Errors: NT Live Alert!!

Hello folks,

Thought I’d drop a quick post in case you hadn’t yet heard the news…

We will be broadcasting our production of William Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors live to a cinema near you on March 1st (that’s this coming Thursday by the way). This is one of the National Theatre’s NT Live shows and we’re all very excited to be a part of it. It’s the first NT Live I’ve been involved with at the National. We had our first camera rehearsal last week and we have one more this week before the live broadcast on Thursday. So if you want to see me and my merry band of buskers singing pop songs in Romanian twenty foot tall at the cinema, this is your chance.

Here’s the trailer from the NT site:

Of course, there are still 22 performances left at the theatre if you want to see us in person. You can check the available dates on the NT website and book your tickets there. The show is still selling really well so don’t leave it too late! The play features a wonderful cast and stars Lenny Henry. Directed by Dominic Cooke and with a beautiful set designed by Bunny Christie, it really is a fantastic production and a joy to be involved with.

See you there…

Until next time.

Simon x