Jacey Bedford's Journal

Went all the way to Birmingham yesterday to see John Barrowman in pantomime (Robin Hood). I'm a sucker for a good panto anyway and this was truly, gloriously silly. Barrowman is such a ham, he's perfect. (And the rest of the cast were also excellent.) Plenty if innuendo, lots of good singing, some very decent dancing and a bit of ice skating, too.

The whole thing was so good humoured; I haven't laughed so much in a long time. Well worth travelling from Huddersfield to Birmingam in cold January.

Americans, it has nothing to do with mime artists. If you don't grok pantomime look here.

For klwilliams. You said you wanted to see us play a gig, and this about as close as you can come. It's the archive film from the Artisan gig at the Kennedy Centre Millennium Stage in DC December 11th 2003. They film and archive every performance - as far as I can tell, forever. It's not fancy, just a one-camera job with no editing, so what you see is what you get. It's a full hour as it happened.

Forjulesjones and other Torchwood, Doctor Who and Captain Jack fans, this is the archived concert of John Barrowman when he played the same stage in 2002. Another full hour concert. and I think it's lovely - very unaffected. I know from the way they work, this is also unedited footage, so also very real.