As I drove to meet up with Kevin Johns at Swansea Sound on Friday morning, something struck me. This was the first time I had been in the car for over a week. I had popped down to do an interview on Wednesday for Oystermouth Radio but apart from that I had not left my …
This week I took a trip down to Tenby to play a flying visit to Llanw 2019. Llanw is a week long church celebration organised by the Presbyterian Church of Wales. People had come to the conference from all around Wales and it was lovely to meet them but the people I had really wanted …
I think essentially, I’m a glass half full type of guy. Of course, I have my moments of complete and utter despair as much as the next musician, writer performer and Swansea City fan but on the whole I’m an optimist and live in hope that things will all work together for good. The past …
Madman Across the Water Review by David Collins Mal Pope has been entertaining the insomniacs and early risers of Wales for some time now. His early morning slot on BBC Radio Wales offers a gentle, pre-dawn mix of laid back tunes and off beat stories to an eclectic audience of Gasmen, Van Drivers and Amanda-the-teachers. …
Review – Mal Pope Wales Millennium Centre 29.03.19 Read More »
‘An Evening with Mal Pope’ at The Wales Millennium Centre. It’s been some time since I put a show together. Over the past few years I’ve popped in and done a couple of songs here, a story there, hosted an event somewhere else, but I haven’t had the responsibility of a whole evening for a …
Next Friday is a very important date, 29th March 2019, it’s the opening night of my tour’ An Evening With Mal Pope’. The thing is, last autumn when I booked this theatre tour I didn’t realise that my opening night at The Wales Millennium Centre would be on the same day as… Brexit. Over the past …
This has been a very odd week. Firstly, the family dynamic has definitely changed. On Monday I was driving up to London to stay at the flat my daughter shares with her husband. All of those concerned conversations we had had about traveling hundreds of miles in a car were now being repeated, but in …
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 …
