Teddy Jamieson

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Kenny Anderson aka King Creosote (Image: FREE) King Creosote Albert Halls, Stirling Three stars “Was he being ironic?” the woman beside me asked. You could understand her uncertainty. After an hour of ringing, at times joyous music interspersed with comic grumbling and daft anecdotes, Kenny Anderson, aka King Creosote,had just returned to the stage to get some things off his chest. “These views are purely my own.

1 week ago | heraldscotland.com | Teddy Jamieson

Wayne Sleep at his book launch (Image: Lara Arnott,) Tuesday lunchtime and Wayne Sleep OBE, as seems only fitting, enters our Zoom call from the wings. The dancer appears in my field of vision from stage right, sits down, adjusts the laptop, starts talking and then doesn’t stop. “Doesn’t stop” seems to be his default setting.

1 week ago | heraldscotland.com | Teddy Jamieson

And so we fill our pages and TV and radio broadcasts with Americana on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, every day. On Tuesday, for example, America was front and centre for the return of Jim Al-Khalili’s The Life Scientific series on Radio 4. Dr Anthony Fauci, physician and former Chief Advisor to the President, and someone who had his own run-ins with Trump, was this week’s guest. This interview should have happened last October, Al-Khalili revealed.

2 weeks ago | heraldscotland.com | Teddy Jamieson

Cher and Nicolas Cage as Loretta Castorini and Ronny Cammareri in Moonstruck (Image: Allstar/MGM) There’s a new Nicolas Cage movie coming. I know, I know, there’s always a new Nicolas Cage movie coming. Since he made his debut in 1982 in Fast Times at Ridgemont High Cage has appeared in 117 movies according to IMDb, with another six in the works. That averages out at nearly three films a year for more than 40 years. It should be said many of them are not great.

2 weeks ago | heraldscotland.com | Teddy Jamieson

Elkie Brooks is in her ninth decade (Image: free) Gig of the Month Daryl Hall SEC Armadillo, May 17 It has long been my contention that the  best thing at Live Aid was not Queen or U2 at Wembley, but Hall & Oates in their big-haired pomp - and joined by Eddie Kendricks and David Ruffin of the Temptations, if memory serves - over in Philly.