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 …
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 …
Something amazing is coming to Swansea this autumn and I really don’t want you to miss out. I want you to be the first to know about it and be the first in the queue to get your tickets. On Saturday 6th October the man described by Classic FM as being No1 in the top …
I sat on the stage of the Brangwyn Hall, dressed in the robes of a Professor, and I listened to someone else’s life flash before me. Professor Judith Hall was being eulogised by her sponsor. In short, she had help cut the rate of infant mortality in Sub Saharan Africa in half. Her work was …
There are certain events in your life that stick out in your memory, events that maybe change your world. For me one of those events took place in January 1976 at the Afan Lido. A couple of us from my church youth group had been persuaded to buy tickets for a gospel concert at the …
I’m told that a little some time ago that Bonnie Tyler was having a quiet drink with friends one evening in Mumbles. She was interrupted by someone she didn’t know. That someone walked up to her and asked her, ’Are you still singing a bit these days?’ I suppose Bonnie could have said that she …
