I really like this advert for literacy, starring numerous British celebs reading from different books.

Word play amuses me :-)

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I'm quite a fan of song parodies, and this one has turned up in a couple of places today so I wanted to share it with you all!

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I like the original 'New York State of Mind', by Alicia Keyes, and I also love the parody done by Comedy Dave from the 'Chris Moyles Show' about North Wales. Alicia actually sang 'North Wales' as she was wrapping up her ( Read more... )

Last night we had our second of three rehearsals in Pontypridd with the 'Sing For Life' choir - made up of cancer survivors and family members of cancer survivors/victims. George was videoing us on her iPhone, and while the quality's not good the sound is brilliant ( Read more... )

You can watch this video on www.livejournal.com

The Admiral Inspire Choir from Aurora Video on Vimeo.

This is our entire performance at Cardiff's St David's Hall in April - that day when we did three staff meetings in a day, and were absolutely cream crackered by the end. You would not believe how exhausting performing those two medleys is ( Read more... )

So it occurs to me that I haven't shared with you guys the pics from last years adventures with the choir at work! Despite my horror at how badly I photograph these days, I wanted to share some with you...

( Spring 2009 )

Well, only partially. There's a quite funny advert for UK chocolate makers Cadburys, which goes as follows;

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One of our national celebrities, Ant of 'Ant & Dec' fame, did a parody with his wife which is hysterical! I can't embed it off their official website, so here's the link

Hee! :-)

I absolutely have to share this - hope the US contingent of my flist can see it!

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This is the video to '(Barry) Islands In The Stream', staring Bryn and Nessa from 'Gavin & Stacey', with cameos by Tom Jones and Robin Gibb, and it is fabulousI would like to point out that everyone except Tom Jones is exaggerating their accents - Nessa most ( Read more... )

The UK people on my flist will have seen this already, but I wanted to share it. Plus this way I can find it again if the mood takes me ;-)

This is an advert for the telephone directory service, 118 118; I've never understood why they dress up as Steve Prefontaine, but this advert is class! Especially Ray Parker Jnr's involvement.

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My parents are currently spending their Saturday evenings watching 'Last Choir Standing' on the BBC. Last night we hung around long enough to watch it ourselves and I wanted to share some examples from the two Welsh choirs - both of whom have made it to the Final next week (ACM Gospel choir, you guys got robbed...*Sympathy ( Read more... )