Peter Kenny
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Laughing at hypochondriacs
I’ve always been interested in taboo subjects. One of the challenges I most enjoy in marketing is to work out how to talk to people about the thing they least want to talk about. And what do we normally do when we don’t want to discuss things? Stay silent, or laugh about it. Here’s an…
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Unpacking the Pack of 3
The Pack of 3 nights at the Marlborough at the end of August were well-attended and well-received. In fact Tarik, one of the Theatre managers, has asked for something for the fringe next year. The second night of Pack of 3 evening was better than the first. The fact that there was so much going…
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Recording Clameur
Writing this a week after the recording sessions for the CD Matt and I are putting together. We recorded the tracks in St Michael and All Angel’s church in Brighton, which was the same venue that we premiered the main piece This Concert Will Fall In Love With You in the Brighton Festival Fringe in…
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Pack of 3
The Marlborough Theatre Brighton again is the venue for my next thespy business on the 26th & 27th August. Pack of 3 will be three short plays. My Wrong and Betty the Spacegirl, plus Mark Gandey has an excellent idea for a pirate play, which is as yet unnamed. As before the three actors will…
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Amazed
So rehearsals for the Clameur CD continue apace. Last night I heard the song Clameur sung for the first time by a choir and it was an emotional moment. Matt’s music is brilliant, and to sit in a room in Brighton hearing a song with my words about Icart Point in Guernsey seemed a like…
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It’s ‘Clameur’
So Matt and I have agreed our CD will be called Clameur. This is the title of one of the choral pieces Matt based on my poem of the same name, which appeared in A Guernsey Double. Clameur means a cry or plea, and there is an ancient legal procedure still extant in Guernsey law…
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Atrial fibrillation and stroke
It is quite galling that as I mostly work commercially writing about health, that much of the stuff I do is of a confidential nature, or that you’ll only get to read it if you have a specific medical condition. However a large website I wrote earlier this year will be launched this year too.…
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My howler is a Bob moment
Like most right thinking people, David Lynch is one of my heroes. Twin Peaks is one of my favourite TV experiences, an immersive world with its own codes. In it there is a mad killer called Bob, who drives a much of the narrative, and he came about by sheer accident. The actor Eric Silva…
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Pollard & Kenny CD preparations
Beginning to get things ready for the recording of our CD. Matt has been tying musicians down to rehearsal dates, which is a tricky and difficult job. I meanwhile have been reviewing the words of This Concert Will Fall in Love With You and making a few minor tweaks. The CD will have four pieces…
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Howler
If I have learned anything from Defenders of Guernsey it is not to rush out a publication. Just before I went to bed last night I noticed a complete howler in the printed text. It is a scene where Archibald is explaining to Skelton about the geography of the channel islands. Now I could draw…
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