15 Minute Musical Wins!

Blimey - 15 Minute Musical has only gone and won the 2009 Writers' Guild Award for Best Radio Comedy. Get in.

You know me, I'm not one to blow my own trumpet but you can read about it here and here and here. And I shall be mentioning it at every conceivable opportunity between now and the end of time.

No doubt CD sales of the will increase dramatically - get series 3 and 4 at heavily discounted rates here.

November News and Nominations

Just about done on Horrible Histories (which is up for two BAFTAs no less), Ed and Oucho and Bamzooki - which I'm also the commentator on - all of which will hit the screens at some point over the next few months. Now starting up on eight songs for We Are Mongrels for BBC3 and finally getting round to writing my new radio series, the Music Teacher.

I think I'm about to break the eighty songs so far this year barrier. There's only so many combinations of C F and G7, you know, so that's pretty good going. Good job I learnt A minor this summer.

In other 'blow your own trumpet' news my radio 4 show 15 Minute Musical has been nominated for a 2009 Writers' Guild Award in the Radio Comedy/Light Entertainment category, which is particularly nice what with it being judged by fellow writers. All of whom I have slept with coincidentally.

January News

... and a happy new year.

I'm currently in the middle of writing songs for and appearing in David Quantick's Radio 4 show, Broken Arts - which starts going out in the highly sought-after 6.30 slot from Tuesday 13th January. Tune in if you're keen to hear Gilbert and Sullivan's triumphant return from the dead. And tune in if you're not.

I've also just written and recorded a song for a fantastic new BBC3 pilot called 'We Are Mongrels' - a show billed as the world's first urban, multi-species, adult puppet comedy. Oh yes. I wrote a R n B love song for a cat to sing to his recently removed testicles. It's a must see.

15 Minute Musical - series 5

The fifth series of my radio show 15 Minute Musical starts going out on Radio 4 on Wednesdays at 11pm from the 5th November. For six - count them - weeks. Obviously I don't expect anyone to stay up that late but should you feel the need to hear music and jokes - OFTEN AT THE SAME TIME - then please seek out the show via the BBC iplayer.

The Observer said the series 'kicks off in fine style' - which leaves only one way to go, clearly, and The Sunday Times said it was 'rather clever'. I'd have preferred 'funny' but there you go. Other previews can be found here and here.

This series features various combinations of me, Dave Lamb, Vicki Pepperdine, Mel Hudson and Jess Robinson and includes the following episodes:

5/11 - 'Washington High School Musical' - Barack Obama competes to become President of Washington High

12/11 - 'Sweary Todd' - Gordon Ramsay stars as The Demon Carver of Meat Street.

19/11 - 'We're All Going On An Olympic Odyssey' - with Boris Johnson at the wheel of a Routemaster bus.

26/11 - 'Cleggerella' - Nick Clegg's (who?) dreams come true in a makeover fairytale.

3/12 - 'Pappa Pia' - Piers Morgan searches for his real father. Turns out he's a bastard.

10/12 - 'A Christmas Gordon' - the ghosts of Prime Ministers past, present and future come knocking at Ebenezer Brown's door.

There. I've finished. If you're still reading, thank you.

15 Minute Musical on CD again

If two year old musical satire is your thing - and for God's sake why wouldn't it be? - then you'll be delighted to know the BBC have tardily released series three of my radio series 15 Minute Musical.

Buy it here. It'll perfectly complement series four that you'll have clearly already bought.

Look out for series 2 release three years late next year. I'm not joking.

15 Minute Musical on CD

While I'm in the mood for gratuitous self-promotion, why not treat yourself - and everyone you know - to the CD of the fourth series of my radio show '15 Minute Musical'.

You can buy it here

Or get one off ebay for about 8p.