Italian Opera, Thai Curry & A Cr*p Football Team

Well, what a few days it's been! As a man who firmly believes that footballers are a bunch of ridiculously overpaid, completely talentless and inarticulate to**ers, very little has dissuaded me otherwise lately. Having watched the St. Trinian's girl's second eleven... sorry 'ten'... kick penalties like they were playing in the back yard with their neighbour's six year-old daughter, all I can say is that I'm glad there's much more to life than that pitiful waste of time! What makes me really angry is I'm sure I could have kicked the penalties better myself... and I'd have done it for a fraction of the price! Football! Thank God it's over for another four years!

Anyway, just got back from the fantastic Thai at The Travellers in Holmesfield near Sheffield... a guaranteed top meal for anyone who likes really authentic Thai food. Yep, I love Thai food... and hate football. That's me... a man with taste!

Maybe all this eating out and downing lots of cold lager (yep, that Singa's nice!) is getting me in the right (physical) shape to really appreciate opera too! Perhaps I should accelerate things and strap a pillow to my belly, don my old tuxedo (from pharmaceutical sales days!), a bow tie, wear a cummerbund and start trying to warble like a poor man's Pavarotti. Nope, I really haven't the voice for it! Unlike the wonderful Scott Davies who has recorded the vocals on the latest track to be featured on the Lyrico website.

Scott who sang in Phantom Of The Opera for 3 years, has recorded both an English and Italian version of an Opera-Ballad crossover song that I co-wrote with Glenn Tollett, founder member of The Enid. Yes, this is a slightly new direction (a bit like some of those penalties!) for me, but it has been a wonderful experience.

This evocative ballad (described by Glenn as a vocal tour de force) has been translated into Italian (under the title Fammi Innamorar'!!) and is being marketed to some of the top international classical/opera/ballad singers... you no doubt know the names! The English version is Love To Love Again. Please just click on the track titles to hear them!

More soon... when I've recovered from the embarrassment of being English! Only joking... The music's great, just shame about the football!