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Anthony Worrall Thompson passionate about local food

We are FIVE! Windsor Farmers’ Market celebrates its fifth birthday on Saturday 6 March at its permanent location in St Leonard’s Road, Windsor.  Local restaurateur and celebrated TV chef Anthony Worrall Thompson who is a passionate advocate of local food for local people will meet shoppers and stall-holders, and cut the birthday cake.  Diane Harker who manages the market on behalf of Thames Valley Farmers' Market Co-operative says: “The last five years have flown by and the market is better than ever. More and more local people come to the market because they know they can buy genuine local produce with a known provenance.  “We’re very grateful to the Windsor & Eton Town Partnership for all they did to initiate the market and their continuing support for local producers and the local economy. St Leonard’s Road is a good site and we’re established here with other local businesses. I expect we will have a market in Peascod Street on certain occasions, but St Leonard’s Rd is ‘home turf’.”  Cllr Colin Rayner, Lead Member Highways and Streetcare and local farmer welcomes the continuing tradition of a monthly farmers’ market: “This is very much part of the Windsor shopping scene and a welcome attraction for visitors as well as a regular venue for local shoppers. It brings the countryside into Windsor and supports farmers as well as local businesses.”

Gary first came to public attention when he appeared with the BBC Big Band on television paying tribute to Vic Damone. Since then he has become a favourite performer and broadcaster with leading big bands and concert orchestras including the Syd Lawrence Orchestra, the Hallé, Royal Scottish National, City of Birmingham Symphony, the Melbourne Symphony, Adelaide Symphony, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and Ireland’s RTE orchestra. He is a regular guest of the BBC Concert Orchestra for Friday Night Is Music Night and had the honour of performing for The Prince of Wales at Buckingham Palace. As a headline act on the world’s luxury cruise liners he has visited over 50 countries. Other work includes 150 performances as Sinatra in the West End’s ‘The Rat Pack’, The Magic of Bacharach, The Legend of Sinatra (with David Jacobs), Channel 5’s Open House working alongside Donny Osmond and Burt Bacharach and BBC1’s ‘Doctor Who Christmas Special’.

After weeks in the studio, I am delighted to announce two new albums due for release in March.The Sinatra album is with Chris Dean and his orchestra, featuring a full big band throughout and strings on many tracks. It is in fact my first big band album. I’ve tried to focus on the classics without resorting to the most obvious choices. There are some stunning arrangements and particular favourites include All or Nothing At All, Brazil, They All Laughed, Please Be Kind and Where or When.
The second album is a compilation of the last three CDs recorded at Abbey Road, aptly named “Gary Williams – The Best of Abbey Road. Both should be released late March and be available by post Dress Circle and online from iTunes and all the other download sites.
Please got to Gary’s website for more information http://garywilliams.co.uk/

“Michael Bublé isn’t the only person keeping the Sinatra flame alive.” Clive Davis for The Sunday Times

“Every song he sang was word and note perfect and confirmed the belief of many in his audience, now surely his “fans”, that he is the best young singer of the Sinatra era of melodies in the country, if not the world… his presentation of all of these well-loved classics was performed with a panache which would have pleased ‘The Guv’nor’ himself.” Perfectly Frank Magazine

Just needed to drop Quinney a line and read his last email which talks about his new found fame and fortune as the Fat Controller over in Berkeley, Gloucester. If he’s a winner he’ll be on BBC1 next year as part of the European policy to reduce viewing figures so that YouTube can catch up … some deal that RBS are doing with a US digital channel after proving how great they are at asset stripping Britain!

Half joking!!

We’ve adopted a Beaver!

We met at the Sharpness Dockers Club for our meeting. Nearly all the gang was there. We were served the biggest fry up I have ever seen on a plate. Simply magnificent but not to be repeated too often. How the dockers can still work after one of those I do not know?

We’ve adopted a Beaver!

It's all good!
2009 last quarter was our busiest in many years and I just wanted to give you a brief overview before I go into more details in the following weeks.
The end of the summer witnessed the start of a film score for Tangerine Films. Composer, Gary Holder, had written a suit of music entitled ‘Scarlet Elizabeth’ and after a meeting at their offices at Pinewood film studios we began the process of converting Gary’s midi into full orchestral scores.
One of Tangerine’s clients is JCB and tangerine had already won an award for photography for JCB’s new brand film. As news was leaked about Gary’s project we then had the very exciting prospect of recording Gary’s music with the orchestra.


Multi award winning composer and producer Keith Mansfield returned to Jazzmouse in October to commence a series of recordings cataloging some of his TV themes. Keith has been responsible for the themes for Grandstand, Wimbledon and the Athletics programs not to mention Superstars (Heavy Action) which featured as the Monday night football theme in the USA for years. Keith has also recorded a few numbers for his Jazz star wife Selena Jones who still holds the record for the longest ever stint at London’s Ronnie Scott’s club.


I was delighted to be asked to once again provide sound design and front of house (FOH) engineering for Raymond Gubbay Ltd this winter. We designed the sound for both Simply Gershwin and Sound of the musicals. These two tours featured in the busy Christmas season in the UK top concert halls. I was luck enough to Engineer the Sound of the Musicals tour which featured the superb vocal talents Ruthie Henshall, James Graeme, Deborah Myers and Tim Howar with ex-phantom MD Richard Balcombe at the helm. We have already had a repeat booking in for Raymond Gubbay Ltd for 2010.

2009 concluded with a great trip to Warsaw with the BBC Big Band for two concerts with Edyta Górniak, Monika Dryl and our very  at the Sala Kongresowa on New Years Eve. A great time was had by all and I was lucky enough to fly out to engineer both concerts.

I’ll post more about these great recordings and concerts as the weeks go by but for now I hope that we all have a great 2010.
Paul aka the Jazzmouse

Just read a Tweet while watching the England v Belarus match ... Leona Lewis as attacked at her book signing... the feed came through from Mashable...

Leona Lewis Attacked in London; Issues Statement on Facebook - http://bit.ly/1T2Wwz

Mashable focus on social media tools and their usage so the fact that the story was added to Facebook is relevant but hardly a surprise... totally logical place to tell her fans as more are tuned in via Facebook than on her official site ... assumption made based on the number of comments made ... see below ...

Logic told me to go check Leona's main website via a Google search so we can see what has been reported so far...

News posted on Leona Lewis' official website
Leona was the victim of an unprovoked attack this afternoon at her book signing. The police were called immediately and medical attention has been sought. Leona is understandably shaken and apologises to the fans she was unable to meet and complete signings.
This, at the time of writing has had 17 comments added.

Went over to Leona's Facebook 650,000 friends ! Beats my 15 !! Make note to self, must think about Facebook from a business point of view...
Same message as main site but this time 313 comments !

The BBC have it well covered... poor girl... this could have massive repercussions for other book signings ... not just by Leona ...
Leona Lewis 'punched' at signing

The Mail has a picture of her ... she'll need some proper counselling after this ... I hope the bloke gets what's coming ... pratt
Leona Lewis in tears after being 'punched in the face' by a male fan at book signing
By Sara Nathan

And someone has already produced a YouTube video ... need to check their spelling ... but it does make a statement about stopping violence ...




and thanks to Wikipedia for the picture

Get well soon Leona ... don't let idiots like this bloke ruin your relationship with your fans ... get some makeup on and get right back out there signing books ... it's the only way to conquer fear ... ed

Chris Evans taking over from Terry Wogan

Terry Wogan, Chris Evans... Chris Evans, Terry Wogan...

I heard the other day that Chris is taking over form Terry … didn’t know when … turns out in the New Year and the bonus, an extra 30 minutes !!

Not sure how I feel about this… Terry is brilliant … TOGs and all …

Chris… brilliant on the Tube or whatever it was … then takes Virgin for a few quid … brilliant and well placed … but Radio 2 in the morning?

I’m not a rep anymore so it’s only the occasional show that I tune into …

The TOGs are used to a bottle of Port … Chris is more like a sparkling bottle of bubbly … I guess time will tell and there’s nothing as sure as change…

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