Hello all!
Well, that was a long summer wasn’t it! Apologies for the lack of posts but it’s been a very full few months, mostly because of the kids being home for the holidays and various travels. However, I’m back now and catching up!
Over the last few months we’ve had the Cbeebies Big Day Out with The Furchester Hotel (I’ll post more about that another time) the launch of the Furchester Hotel Magazine, and as of yesterday the new Furchester Hotel DVD is available. I’m also very pleased to say that my Twitter feed hit well over 1000 followers!
Plenty to be getting on with!
The DVD contains 6 episodes of the TV show for your little ones to enjoy and is available at most major outlets. You can also find out about what’s going on at The Furchester Hotel Facebook page!
Over the next few weeks I’ll updating more often and adding more content.
Cheers for now!
A
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THE FURCHESTER HOTEL FACEBOOK PAGE
THE FURCHESTER HOTEL MAGAZINE FACEBOOK PAGE
THE FURCHESTER HOTEL TWITTER FEED
THE FURCHESTER HOTEL MAGAZINE TWITTER FEED
THE BBC IPLAYER (for the latest Furchester episodes)
THE FURCHESTER HOTEL YOUTUBE CHANNEL (only available in the USA)
Hello all!
The site has been a little quiet over the last few weeks as I’ve been concentrating on my Twitter account. 920 followers and rising! If you’re one of them thank you so much for your support.
I’ve not been ignoring the website though. If you take a close look at the tabs along the top you will see things have changed slightly. My CV is now a sub section under the “about” banner, which, in my head at least, makes more sense. In it’s place on the main page is a new tab entitled “interviews”.
Over the last year I have been asked to do a number of interviews due to the launch and success of The Furchester Hotel. I decided that these should be placed in a section of their own, rather than being buried in another. At the moment there are 2 interviews available but I will gradually add more over time.
The first is a chat I had with the guys at The Box Set Pod. This was the first long form interview I had ever done, I was EXTREMELY nervous. Luckily the guys were great and made me feel very relaxed. Also my love of TV and geek culture helped me along nicely. I even managed to talk about my love of John Carpenter movies, especially “Big Trouble In Little China.” Not many interviews let you do that!
The second is a great chat that I had with J.D. Hansel of the Muppet Hub website for his podcast “Eleven Point Collar.” I really enjoyed this one as I was a little more relaxed. There’s a little bit of crossover with The Box Set Pod at the start, but then we branch out into more specific chats about The Furchester, Muppet Treasure Island, Muppets Most Wanted, Newzoids and much more.
So here they are! I hope you find them entertaining and informative.
You can follow The Box Set Pod and J.D. Hansel on Twitter at @theboxsetpod and @jd11pc
Both The Box Set Pod and Eleven Point Collar are available on iTunes.
Go on!
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A
(UPDATE) Oops! I forgot something. On the right hand side of the screen you will see 4 little widgets. They are direct links to my Twitter, LinkedIn, Vimeo and SoundCloud pages.
Back in the mid to late 90’s I worked on a series of commercials for the Henson Creature Shop in Camden. This is a short behind the scenes video I found in the loft a few days ago. I’d been searching for it for ages and I feared it was lost. This transfer is taken from a second generation VHS, so the quality is a bit ropy.
It’s great to have this as a record of what we did. It was a pretty successful campaign that ran for quite a few years.
I was never that young and hairless though.
A
The Furchester Food Game has now gone live on the CBeebies website!
I had a blast recording the voice over for this in a rather chaotic and exhausting 3 hour session. It’s strange when you get to that point where the line “oh look at that great pile of cakes!” can reduce you to tears of laughter.
I love doing voice over work.
Don’t forget that there are still episodes of The Furchester available on the BBC iplayer. If you are in the USA you can get episodes on iTunes or on the Furchester YouTube channel. Links below!
A
BBC iplayer (for the latest Furchester episodes)
US Furchester YouTube Page (only available in the USA)
I’m very pleased to announce that I am becoming a part of the Wastebuster team!
Wastebuster CIC is a not-for-profit social enterprise that aims to support schools to become sustainable, to empower children to change their environment and enable children to believe that they can make a difference to their world.
The programme is designed to ‘bust’ the idea of ‘waste’ (to demonstrate how waste is a resource) and show how changes in the way we learn, live, play, work, and travel can help us live happy and healthy lives – within the resources available to us.
Part of this enterprise is a series of videos (and possible TV show) starring Captain Busta and Lieutenant Pong.
To learn more about Wastebuster and their work visit the website here.
I’m very proud to be a part of this and look forward to a fruitful partnership.
A
There is a lovely little article, about my good self, that’s popped up on The Muppet Mindset website.
For those of you who don’t already know, The Muppet Mindset is one of the top Muppet/Henson sites around. It’s an absolute treasure trove of information. It’s also run by a really nice bunch of people and has a great feel to it.
The author is Jarrod Fairclough, and it’s the first part in a series of articles on lesser known Muppeteers.
Until recently I never considered myself a “Muppeteer”, I was a puppeteer that was occasionally lucky enough to work for the Henson company.
I guess Furgus has changed all that.
It was actually my wife that pointed it out after I had finished the first block of filming on The Furchester Hotel.
“Does this mean your a Muppeteer now?” she asked.
It actually stumped me for a moment because I hadn’t really thought about it.
“Nah.” I replied.
“But it’s a completely new character, he’s Elmo’s uncle!”
“Well…. I guess!”
It’s not a title I would ever use on myself. You’ll never see me handing out business cards with “Muppeteer” on them. However, when people call me it, I can’t deny that I get a little shiver down my spine.
What an honour.
The little kid who grew up in the Kent countryside done ok.
Thanks to Jarrod for writing it, and thanks to all of you that have sent me such positive feedback after reading it.
A
