by Derek | Mar 25, 2020 | Memories, Music
I don’t have many photos of Debbie. That’s cos she filled my world in a period before we captured every single moment of our lives via smartphones; and that fact – that timing – breaks my fucking heart. I’d love a billion pointless duplications of Debbie on dropbox,...
by Derek | May 9, 2016 | Music
Yes, it’s that time of year. Tomorrow, the Eurovision Song Contest Starts. Or, as I like to think of it. The Gay Hajj. Like the Hajj, it involves going to countries you’ve never ordinarily been anywhere near, enduring hours of tedium in the hope of a religious ecstacy...
by Derek | May 2, 2016 | Music, Theatre
All-Male H.M.S. Pinafore Hackney Empire Saturday 30th April 2016 There’s a tradition, particularly in British schools, of same-sex productions of the works of W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan. Generations of boys and girls have blasted out “Three little maids,” “A...
by Derek | Dec 19, 2015 | Memories, Music, Reading, Writing
Death of a Diva is available now. To buy it, click here. You can also send it as a personalised Gift E-Book here. I write in noise. My mother used to tell anyone who cared to listen that, as a child, I was incapable of enduring silence, and that – with the arrival of...
