John Baker’s Blog

Their gig at Thorganby Village Hall last night was a sell out event.
Miranda Sykes was confident on the back of her new CD, Bliss, and gave us great late-night vocals, accompanying herself on double bass.
She doesn’t have a soaring voice, but the way she uses it is intriguing, exploring traditional jazz and cabaret forms [...]

Although originally a British-Iranian film and tv actor, Omid Djalili is now recognised as a stand-up comedian. And it was with his new show, No Agenda, that he appeared at the Grand Opera House in York, last night.
He’s intelligent, infectiously and refreshingly funny and brings with him an outsider’s view of the contemporary condition. His [...]

We were at The Shed as part of an invited audience to help Graham Fellows record a half-hour programme for Radio Four.
Fellows is a British comedian, perhaps better known to many people in his incarnation of John Shuttleworth, an aspiring singer/songwriter from Sheffield in South Yorkshire, and a bit of a nerd.
The recording for Radio [...]