Terry In Need

Last night's desperate attempts at fundraising managed to keep me up until midnight at least, which despite the rather dreadfull attempts at entertainment such as the BBC newsreaders taking on "Mamma Mia" did contain a few highlights.
One of them rather predictably would be the Strictly Come Dancing special where Terry didn't take it well losing to Tess in the special dance-off despite getting plenty of "seVEN!'s" from the judges. It's difficult not to laugh at that catchphrase now and rather interesting as it comes from Len Goodman and not Bruce himself.

I was impressed that with regards to the show's presentation they had revived the CIN theme tune used from around 1995 to replace the slightly less memorable one from last year that the guys at TV-Ark have uploaded. The rather odd thing is that both of them and the one from the early 90s were composed by David Arnold (the TV/radio composer, not the Bond composer).

It was also worth staying in Canterbury as the regional opt-out had South East Today's
Caroline Feraday (a definite eyesore) alongside the legend that is Tony Blackburn coming from DickensWorld in Chatham, a museum devoted to the author despite the fact he lived in Broadstairs.

McFly also performed what will be the single for this year's appeal and it's a lot more livelier than those that have been released in the past, especially last year's dreadful comeback by the Spice Girls which Mel C admitted was rubbish on Buzzcocks earlier this week. On that same subject, the song the boys performed was "Stay With Me" originally by the Faces and had been featured on Buzzcocks itself on Sean Hughes' final show.
For some reason however both Sean and guest Bruce Dickinson ended up making it sound like the theme from Grandstand which it bares absolutley no resemblance to.

With regards to McFly, it's difficult to keep a straight face whenever I see band member Tom performing as he bears a resemblance to Liam, one of the third year TV students, and a halls residential assistant/wannabe stud.

There was also a performance from Leon Jackson which I was rather impressed with as the tune he performed sounded very much like it was written for Matt Bianco.
I may give his album a listen as it's had quite a lot of positive comments and he's taken his own direction on the style of songs on there.

One of the other highlights was the Qi special on BBC2 where they revealed how Tarzan's famous call came about. That reminds me of a Waner Bros animation with Sylvester and Tweety called "Sandy Claws" where they're on a beach and Sylvester gets quite a lot of his fur bitten off by pirhanas and what's left of it makes him look like Tarzan.
This results in Sylvester trying to imitate the call but he ends up
sounding like Jimmy Savile instead.

I ended up going to bed after the cast of Hairspray gave a performance as it looked as if they didn't have much worth staying up for from then onwards.
The grand total turned out to be £20 million but they are hoping that overall they raise up to £37 million overall.
That's ridiculous because in the last few years Comic Relief have managed to achieve over £37 million pounds on the night itself which probably proves a few points.

As for today I'm heading back to London where myself, Mum and Dad are meeting up with their friends Celia and Alan who live in East London, and later on their friend Pauline will be meeting us at the Pizza Express jazz club in Soho to see saxophonist David Sanchezz.

Overall it should be a very enjoyable night.