As if to celebrate the start of Astronomical Spring on Thursday Swansea Bay was at its most beautiful best. As I strode out for my daily constitutional I found myself peeling off layer after layer as the morning sun bathed my poor old pale, stale body. (For the avoidance of any confusion and the risk of any legal proceedings I must add I kept my T-Shirt on!)
Forty years ago yesterday I took on a job for which I was totally unqualified. I had had no formal training, the hours were 24 hours every day, 7 days a week. It wasn’t just demanding with my time. I’m pretty sure that if I added up all the expenses incurred over that period I have spent a small fortune. I know I’m not painting a great picture, but I have to say, with a very few exceptions, it’s all been worth it because forty years ago yesterday I became a dad!
I once found myself surprised and delighted to smell Welsh Cakes in the United Nations Building in New York. This week it was Joe’s Ice Cream in Downing Street.
On Thursday night, together with a Swansea concert party, I went to the Maggies Centre in Hammersmith. We were there as part of the annual ‘Wales in London’ Celebration which brings people from all corners of Wales to London to build links with some of the movers and shakers in the country.
This weekend sees the release of my newest EP that has been locked away in a vault for 50 years. I know it seems as if I’ve been at the centre of the longest Golden Jubilee celebrations since Queen Victoria but it’s all Elton John’s fault in a roundabout sort of way. Finally it has escaped ‘The Gus Dudgeon Sessions 1975-2025’.
Tomorrow marks a very special moment in the life of St Marys, Swansea. People from all walks of life in the region will come together with The Archbishop of Wales, the Bishop of Swansea and Brecon and Dr Rowan Williams, the former Archbishop of Canterbury to celebrate the church being given Minster status. So the big question is…what’s a Minster?
This weekend sees the launch of my new single ‘When You’re Away’, a duet with Nashville based Singer Songwriter Alyssa Bonagura. Now you might think to yourself how is ‘Mumbles Mal’ recording with a Country Queen from Tennessee and I have to say it’s quite a story…
If I’m honest it’s not the first time I’ve been asked this question. In fact, it’s not only strangers or family that ask, I quite often ask myself as well. The question? What exactly do I do?
TV and Radio studios continue to close around Wales, and I can’t help feeling it might be my fault. This week sees the closure of another, the BBC Studios in Alexandra Road.
Blue Monday is around the corner. Yes its mid-January and some days it feels like its never going to end. But believe me there is good news…spring is coming!!
