August 16th
Spoke to Neil Mullarky. Neil is a founder member of the comedy store players and can be found improvising there Sundays and Wednesdays, just off Leicester Square in the company of Paul Merton, Josie Lawrence, Andy Smart, Steve Frost, Lee Simpson and others. My favourite performer of the team, however, has always been Jim Sweeny. http://www.jimsweeney.co.uk/
I’ve known Jim, on and off, for years. It was only comparatively recently though, that I discovered that his uncle played in the Jack Rounne band with my mother back in the 50’s in Ballina. Jim has been struck down with MS and I haven’t seen him in a while. Neil tells me that he still performs at the Comedy Store. They have built ramps to accommodate his wheel chair. Whilst his limbs have started to give up the ghost, his comedic brain is as sharp as ever. Even better than ever, is how Neil puts it. It was only a couple of years ago that Jim called to interview me for background of a play he was writing. It was about a band influenced by Crimson, destroyed by Punk and re-formed with a new young guitar player (does this sound familiar?). The play was called ‘Sick Transit’ and featured ‘Schizoid Man’ as it’s playout music. His recent play, ‘My MS and Me’, has also received rave reviews. He’s brilliant. Check him out
Anyway back to Neil. Neil also has a motivational Guru character called L Vaughn Spencer http://www.thesucceeder.com/
I have helped Neil creating some of the music in his shows. This is includes a version of the Hallelujah chorus. I achieved this by telling Neil to invite some friend who can sing a bit round to his house. I then recorded them singing each part whilst I recorded then onto DAT machine. I listened to a pre-recorded Backing track on a walkman and conducted them. Once they had recorded all the parts a few times I loaded all the stuff from the Dat onto my system in the studio and voila a chorus of a 100 or people singing some nonsense to the tune of the Hallelujah chorus. He wants to know if I can help create some more stuff for his comedy alter ego. Of course I can.
Spend the rest of the day editing more interviews for the site and collating all of the out takes, alternate mixes etc for the forthcoming member’s area.
In the evening Alan and Martha come round. I nip up to the brilliant 5 hot Chillies for a take away and we keep our eye on England beating Greece 4-0
Spoke to Neil Mullarky. Neil is a founder member of the comedy store players and can be found improvising there Sundays and Wednesdays, just off Leicester Square in the company of Paul Merton, Josie Lawrence, Andy Smart, Steve Frost, Lee Simpson and others. My favourite performer of the team, however, has always been Jim Sweeny. http://www.jimsweeney.co.uk/
I’ve known Jim, on and off, for years. It was only comparatively recently though, that I discovered that his uncle played in the Jack Rounne band with my mother back in the 50’s in Ballina. Jim has been struck down with MS and I haven’t seen him in a while. Neil tells me that he still performs at the Comedy Store. They have built ramps to accommodate his wheel chair. Whilst his limbs have started to give up the ghost, his comedic brain is as sharp as ever. Even better than ever, is how Neil puts it. It was only a couple of years ago that Jim called to interview me for background of a play he was writing. It was about a band influenced by Crimson, destroyed by Punk and re-formed with a new young guitar player (does this sound familiar?). The play was called ‘Sick Transit’ and featured ‘Schizoid Man’ as it’s playout music. His recent play, ‘My MS and Me’, has also received rave reviews. He’s brilliant. Check him out
Anyway back to Neil. Neil also has a motivational Guru character called L Vaughn Spencer http://www.thesucceeder.com/
I have helped Neil creating some of the music in his shows. This is includes a version of the Hallelujah chorus. I achieved this by telling Neil to invite some friend who can sing a bit round to his house. I then recorded them singing each part whilst I recorded then onto DAT machine. I listened to a pre-recorded Backing track on a walkman and conducted them. Once they had recorded all the parts a few times I loaded all the stuff from the Dat onto my system in the studio and voila a chorus of a 100 or people singing some nonsense to the tune of the Hallelujah chorus. He wants to know if I can help create some more stuff for his comedy alter ego. Of course I can.
Spend the rest of the day editing more interviews for the site and collating all of the out takes, alternate mixes etc for the forthcoming member’s area.
In the evening Alan and Martha come round. I nip up to the brilliant 5 hot Chillies for a take away and we keep our eye on England beating Greece 4-0
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