News and Reviews: 19th October 2011
18 Oct 2011.I went to two good events tonight.7pm to 9pm for the Celebrity Fastcard UK launch at
5 Cavendish Square,London W1.Nice to be back here at this elegant period building.Celebrity Fastcard has been a huge success in America with nearly 500,000 vouchers sold in the last year.
Once you purchase the voucher you log on and enter the voucher code then choose the celebrity and choice of video greeting and then send it to a phone or email.Its very simple.
Available in the UK from Mon 24 Oct 2011 from Clintons stores or online at a cost of £3.99 each.Over 25 celebs have signed up so far in the UK from the world of Music,Sports,Film and TV.
Their ambassador tv star David Hasselhoof is guest of honour tonight as he turned up in his Kitt car from Knight Rider.It caused quite a commotion as photographers started fighting and one got arrested and put in a police van and taken away.David turned up with his blonde Welsh girlfriend.
Both were nice and friendly to everyone and posed for photos and chatted.
Free drinks and canapes for everyone here tonight.
Absolute Radio dj Scott Mills was the dj for an hour.
Everyone got a nice goodie bag on the way out.
See David arrive in his Kitt car at
www.bespokebanter.com/celebrity-fastcard/ and view
www.clintonscards.co.uk/cfc to buy the vouchers.
then a short walk to the press night for Angie Le Mar "In My Shoes" at The Soho Theatre,Dean Street,London W1.
A nice cosy theatre that holds around 200 people.
A one woman show from this edgy black female comedienne.This 60 mins show featured six different characters with costume changes etc.Lots of funny bits.
It runs here until 05 November 2011.
See www.angielemar.com
17 Oct 2011.Three events today all in Covent Garden including two book launch events.
First was a signing by Black Sabbath guitar legend Tony Iommi for his autobiography "Iron Man" at FOPP,Covent Garden,London.
One of the greatest rock guitar riff masters of all time.I have seen Black Sabbath over 30 times since 1974.I would take Tony Iommi and Black Sabbath over Jimmy Page and Led Zeppelin any day of the week.
Tony was there roughly 5.30pm to 6.45pm.I paid my £12 for the book at the till.RRP is £19.99.A fairly big queue and the store and security were treating it as a pretty big deal as.
1.You could not go up to the signing area on first floor unless you bought a copy of the book first.
2.There are six security persons and store folks.
Three are by Tonys signing table as no photos with Tony and only the book will be signed.No vinyl etc.
3.Ten yards from Tony there is a guy with post it notes and he writes down your name that you want it signed to and later Tony reads and signs from this.
4.Five yards from Tony security open the book and tell you this is the only page that Tony will be signing on.
I get to shake Tonys hand and say a few mumbled words.
The book will be a good read as there is loads of stuff on rock n roll happenings,bad management deals,excess and his ups and downs with Ozzy Osbourne.A must buy for any rock fan.
Also in FOPP i bought Nick Kents book "Apathy For The Devil" for a bargain £3.Nick was one of NMEs main writers in their 1970s heyday and the book is full of his adventures with bands from that period.
Then 7pm to 9pm was the book launch for Emma Forbes "Life And Soul" at The Ivy Club,Covent Garden,London.Always nice to be in this lovely room.
Emma was a popular tv and radio broadcaster then she laid low to have kids etc.She now looks after her lifestyle website www.forbesstyle.com.Its basically a book for mums with recipes and how to host family parties and childrens parties.Free drinks and canapes here.The book retails for £20 but we all got a free copy here to take home.Holly Valance was here.
Then 10pm to 11.45pm i was the afterparty for "Crazy For You" at Jewel,Covent Garden,London.This Gershwin musical opening night was at The Novello Theatre earlier.A big crowd as always with these theatre first nights.A few faces here inc Jeffrey Archer,Maureen Lipman,Christopher Biggins,June Whitfield,Bradley Walsh,Esther Rantzen,Jamie Theakston and Su Pollard from Hi-Di-Hi.She is still as zany and lively as ever and always wears crazy outfits.
Free drinks and canapes here for all.