Brian Beacom
Senior Features Writer at The Herald (Scotland)
Senior Features Writer at The Glasgow Times
Journalist, biographer and tennis player - who's striving to become mediochre.
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2 days ago |
heraldscotland.com | Brian Beacom
But why anyone would wish to go there is as much as mystery as Stonehenge. Or Coldplay. Worthy Farm is a field of discombobulated dreams, one gigantic, 1100 acre-sized earache-inducing, invariably sodden slob fest, where you can feed your face from 300 international food stalls and pay three quid for a half pint of Coke - yet the fact no website can quote the number of bars of soap/Lynx body spray sold over the weekend suggests far too few.
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6 days ago |
heraldscotland.com | Brian Beacom
Bob Golding as Morecambe, Simon Cartwright as Monkhouse and Damian Williams as Cooper (Image: free) On April 15, 1984, the watching world saw comedy legend Tommy Cooper die on stage at Her Majesty’s Theatre in London while appearing on live television. One of those viewers sitting at home in front of the telly, with his dad, was 13-year-old Damian Williams. Little did the teenager realise he’d one day appear on stage, playing the Fez-wearing star, and attracting awesome reviews.
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6 days ago |
heraldscotland.com | Brian Beacom
Liam Gallagher at the 2024 TRSNMT festival at Glasgow Green (Image: Gordon Terris) Come on, you have to admit, you like these little celebrity spats, don’t you?
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1 week ago |
heraldscotland.com | Brian Beacom
The Inquisitor, virtually a monologue in which a silent prisoner is being interrogated, was set to be produced at Glasgow’s Oran Mor theatre. But just before curtain up, the writer’s luck collapsed like cheap panto scenery. Arnott recalls: “The main actor – let’s call him ‘Actor A’ who was signed up to perform pulled out because he was offered more money for another job. So, we then recruited ‘Actor B’, but he also pulled out, and this was now just a week before rehearsal.
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1 week ago |
heraldscotland.com | Brian Beacom
Phyllis Logan as Cora Felton in Murder Most Puzzling (Image: Helen Sloan / Channel 5) It’s hard to disagree with Phyllis Logan’s feeling that the body that is TV cosy crime dramas should be taken out the back, shot through the head and buried in a shallow grave. Well, she doesn’t quite say those actual words.
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Can't you read you moronic little twat?
@jemimalevick @BrianBeacom Christ, what's that arsehole being an arsehole about now?
Out next year. Thanks for the thought.
@BrianBeacom really enjoyed the Baxter show last night. Where can I get your biography of Stanley?
Six words: Zoe Ball loses a million listeners. (see previous)