With the weather we’ve had this week it’s been hard to believe that it’s been half term. Normally school holidays mean rain and drizzle. It’s hard to believe but this time last year most of Wales was covered in a thick blanket of snow as we tried our best to cope with sub zero temperatures …
At the time they might not seem significant at all but as you look back on your life there are certain days and certain events that shape the rest of your life. For me it was sending a tape of some songs I’d written to John Peel at Radio 1 when I was 12 years …
Thank goodness we are half way through January already. I don’t want to wish my life away but really, January? It’s a difficult month. Earlier this week I was extolling the virtues of this year’s January weather on my early morning radio show. Walking into the office at 4.30am if felt almost spring like. ‘January …
Well its nearly all over. Christmas that is. It’s been nearly 2 weeks of chocolate for breakfast, watching 3 films before teatime and everyone asking each other what day it is. There is something special about Twixtmas, that dreamy week between Christmas and the New Year ,but now it’s back to January, talk of another …
Friday Morning – 5am after a night at the Wales Millennium Centre and 2 hours sleep I know at this time of year we all seem to be rushing around but as I sit here and think back over the past month or so I have to admit it really has been a very busy …
In my career I’ve been lucky to sing at all sorts of venues, in fact as I think about it, the more unusual venues are coming back to me. I have sung before a Welsh football game on the pitch at the Principality Stadium. I once sang on the back of a tank transporter in …
In this world of noise there is something strange and very special about observing a silence. Tomorrow at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 1th month we will remember those who have given their lives in the service of their country. I hope to start the day at the Cenotaph on the …
After the rushing around over the past few weeks with the Swansea International Festival and the Swansea Fringe this week I decided I would try to breathe a little more and to breathe a little longer than I have done of late. The trouble is, when you’ve been busy working on a massive project the …
‘Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do,’ Mark Twain As the song says ‘Regrets. I have a few…’ One of my biggest regrets about things I didn’t do dates back to the early 1990s. I should have recorded a …
Mal Pope 1st Sept Out of the 56 people who signed the American Declaration of independence 16 could trace their roots back to Wales. 5 of the first 6 presidents were also “Welsh’,. That actually doesn’t include President Jefferson Davies of the Confederacy during the Civil War. John Adams, who took over the role of …
