Sun 23rd Oct - Lemmy and Premmy stuff
I do love my rock biography films.
Thanks to the recent ‘Back and Forth’ DVD I’ve been playing Foo Fighters stuff constantly on my iPod and subconsciously wishing I was Dave Grohl.
Busy weekend 15th/16th October
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I'm off to report on West Ham Blackpool for talkSPORT on Sat 15th Oct and then hot-footing it back to talkSPORT towers to present Football First at 9pm alongside Alvin Martin.
Then a drive home for a few hours kip before heading off to the Sunday lunchtime kick-off at The Hawthorns. West Brom/Wolves is talkSPORT's exclusive national radio commentary at midday and I'm part of the commentary team there.
Rock and Roll Stories Part 7 - Kulick and the Koh-I-Noor
It’s not often you get to meet one of your heroes, never mind act as his personal shreeve for a weekend and introduce him to the delights of the Balti. But that’s what happened when I met a total hero of mine in 1996.
Weds 28th September - Carjack-anory
It’s coming up for a decade since the most terrifying day of my life. Not a week goes by when I’m not reminded of the morning when I was carjacked/kidnapped in broad daylight in the centre of Birmingham.
The day had started like so many in 2001. I was presenting 4-7pm Drivetime at BRMB Radio with my ‘Barmy Brummies’ show, but in order to prepare all the sketches and songs we wrote every day to keep the programme fresh, it meant coming into work at around 10am to do stuff with my co-writer Sean and record it all from lunchtime into the early afternoon.
Football First on Saturday 24th Sept
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My talkSPORT Football First show will be from 9-midnight on Sat 24th Sept and this week I'll be joined by former Chief Football Writer for the News Of The World, Neil Ashton - and I'm delighted to say that Neil is back in sports journalism writing for the Daily Mail, who he left for the NOTW a couple of years ago.
Looking forward to working with him...and that's after I've been to the Emirates to see Arsenal take on Bolton, with reports into Matchday Live on talkSPORT from midday
Mon 19th Sept 2011 - Match of the Day(dream)
I have more in common with Dave Grohl than I first thought.
Not only am I a drummer who plays guitar and sings his own songs, but having watched the brilliant ‘Back & Forth’ Foo Fighters DVD documentary the other day, one of the first things he said was about the recurring dream he used to have as a kid where he’d be at a concert and the announcement comes over the PA saying “I’m afraid the gig is cancelled as the drummer tonight has broken his arm…unless there’s a drummer in the house who can play the songs…?”
7/9/11 - Gigs for Sept - Dec 2011
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As I'm now happily engaged in work for talkSPORT on Saturday nights, my gigging schedule is now solely down to helping bands out as a hired drumming hand on Friday nights.
That said I've still got 5 gigs between now and Christmas to keep me off the streets! ;o)
They are;
FRIDAY 30th SEPT - with DIZZY LIZZY at The Robin 2 Bilston, W Mids (support to Fred Zeppelin)
FRIDAY 28th OCT - with WHITESNAKE UK at Route 44, Acocks Green, B'ham
FRIDAY 4th NOV - with DIZZY LIZZY at Zoo Bar, St Helens, Merseyside
FRIDAY 25th NOV - with WHITESNAKE UK at Brookers Rock Bar, Chester
Mon Aug 29th 2011 - New stuff all round
Been a while since my last blog and a fair amount has been happening to be fair – new band, eventful holiday (I shan’t bore you with the detail on that one – suffice to say that Carry On Abroad was actually a documentary) and a new show time for me on talkSPORT.
17/8/11 Football First & Whitesnake UK news!!
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Just to let you know that I shall be drumming for WHITESNAKE UK (the tribute) at the Steelhouse Festival in Ebbw Vale on Friday 19th August. Onstage approx 6pm
Then, my Football First show on talkSPORT is back in its new Saturday evening timeslot of 9pm-Midnight - 1053/1089AM & DAB Digital...plus it's also being broadcast across the USA on the Sirius network!! Alvin Martin will be my studio guest.
July 18th 2011 - Jezza's Conversations
Jeremy Kyle is, oddly enough, someone I can call a good friend. I say oddly because you may not be aware that we worked together twice in my radio life and first time round was when he was nowhere near settling rows between warring factions of families happy to air their dirty laundry to ever-increasing audience figures.
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