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Jasper Rees
Part 2 @bbcproms. The madness begins. Ms Derham has not switched gowns in the interval. No sign of Titchmarsh, for which we must give thanks.The "traditional" necklace of laurels for Sir Henry Wood's bust. Wonder if he'd welcome his head being polished by a pink rag.How do they pick these pieces? Apols but the Marche joyeuse did not fill this tweeter with joy. On the other hand, here's Renée plus a mike.Not many sopranos can address an audience like Renée F. America's sweetheart sings Czech stuff now: back to her rootsWhile Renée continues blowing a hole in the Read more ...
theartsdesk
JasperRees Not long now till Tony Blair faces interrogation by A Marr. GraemeAThomson and I tweeting a live reviewGraemeAThomson Nice to see they’ve scheduled it straight after Restoration Roadshow. Someone at the Beeb with a GSOH?GraemeAThomson Marr's gone with the orange tie. ProvocativeJasperRees Are you prepared to speculate about the timing of the Hague twin-bed allegations? Who wins? Who loses?GraemeAThomson I admired the directness of Hague’s statement earlier on. May make everything Blair says seem a bit evasive by comparisonJasperRees Can’t quite tell if he's really slagging off Read more ...
theartsdesk
Tony Blair has a book to flog. Andrew Marr has an interview to conduct. And theartsdesk has another TV programme to review live on Twitter.We tweeted our first review when Jonathan Ross said goodbye to the BBC. The Tony Blair Interview is on BBC Two on Wednesday at 7pm. Graeme Thomson and Jasper Rees will be watching and tweeting. Their conversation will then be posted on the site to be read in its entirety. Sign up follow to Graeme here and Jasper here in order to read their 140-character responses live.
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theartsdesk
JasperRees He can't pronounce vuvuzelaJasperRees Is this really Becks' first time? What do he and Rourke say to each other? Bloody hell, Roxy are looking a bit seniorSweetingAdam Rourke once made a TV movie about Shergar. Title role I guess.JasperRees Did they deliberately choose a Mickey Rourke clip in which he didn't say a word?SweetingAdam They've put Rourke's head on backwards.JasperRees Has Woss ever told anyone they don't look fantastic? Rourke manifestly would qualify. He looks like he just got reconstructed after a fireJasperRees He's talking through his ears. I haven't heard a Read more ...
theartsdesk
As Jonathan Ross is an incorrigible tweeter, theartsdesk has decided to review his last stand on the BBC on Twitter. Adam Sweeting and Jasper Rees will watch Friday Night with Jonathan Ross and tweet a joint review live as the programme goes out. The show begins at 10.35pm on BBC One on 16 July.In order to catch their live review live, you'll need to sign up to Twitter, if you haven't already. Follow SweetingAdam on Twitter here and JasperRees here. (NB don't confuse SweetingAdam with another Adam Sweeting on Twitter. theartsdesk Adam's avatar is a picture of his red sports car being towed Read more ...
david.cheal
Earlier this week, when the line-up for Richard Thompson’s Meltdown festival was announced, one name in particular will surely have raised a few eyebrows: Paolo Nutini. Among the appearances by serious old folkies and earnest young Wainwrights and an “evening of political song” that Thompson has planned for his stint as curator of the annual festival on London’s Southbank, a show from this young Scottish singer and songwriter seemed a bit of a lightweight choice; perhaps even a controversial one.With two hit albums to his name and a fascinating back-story – he was spotted when he made an Read more ...
josh.spero
Your browser could search a long time for philiproth.com. There are some writers, it is plain, who are not the web type. I find it hard to envision a site garnished with a picture of a smiling – scowling – Roth standing outside his Connecticut farmhouse, beckoning web traffic to read his latest blog post (“My new year’s resolutions”) or even providing a biography beyond the terse notes on his flyleaves. An author who is reclusive in life is unlikely to be prodigious online. You would not define these solely as “literary” writers, but the high priests of prose style are not often found in the Read more ...