An Interview with the Earl of Ealing
The Earl of Ealing How long have you been DJ for Wam Bam? I have been DJ’ing at Wam Bam since the 1st show on the 22nd October 2006! The club started on the Battersea Barge and the equipment was not really adequate. They had a single CD player, so DJ’ing involved playing a song, ejecting cd, inserting new cd, locating track, playing track. Nobody seemed to mind though. How have things changed since you started? The music policy has changed over time. I started out on the Barge with Easy Listening, Lo

Flying Without Wings (or a Safety Harness)
“Look Ma, no hands!” Well, m’dears, this week I have been having capers and adventures of an aerial theme. Yes, I wanted to see if I could fly. Over the years I’ve been involved in the magnificent world of cabaret I have seen many splendid aerial acts on hoop, trapeze, silks and rope. I find them graceful and it all looks so effortless. So the urge overtook me to have a go. The way I saw it, I had all the right qualifications for an aerial hoop. After all, no-on

Flying Without Wings (or a safety harness)
Well, m’dears, this week I have been having capers and adventures of an aerial theme. Yes, I wanted to see if I could fly. Over the years I’ve been involved in the magnificent world of cabaret I have seen many splendid aerial acts on hoop, trapeze, silks and rope. I find them graceful and it all looks so effortless. So the urge overtook me to have a go. The way I saw it, I had all the right qualifications for an aerial hoop. After all, no-one in the playground could ever ride a swing like me. How hard can it be… ? As I write this, darlings, my hands are bleeding and I am sat on a family size pack of frozen peas. My dreams of flight lead me to my ev

An Interview with Anil Desai
Anil Desai You’re famous for your fifty-two impressions routine. How long have you been doing it and what gave you the idea? I’ve only been doing it for eighteen months now, but it feels way longer than that. The idea came about when somebody asked how many impressions I could actually do, and I had gotten bored of my usual stand up routine, so I made a list – of over seventy-five names – and on the table was a deck of cards, so I put the top fifty onto the cards and tried it out one night at a comedy gig – in

An Interview with Anil Desai
Anil Desai You’re famous for your fifty-two impressions routine. How long have you been doing it and what gave you the idea? I’ve only been doing it for eighteen months now, but it feels way longer than that. The idea came about when somebody asked how many impressions I could actually do, and I had gotten bored of my usual stand up routine, so I made a list – of over seventy-five names – and on the table was a deck of cards, so I put the top fifty onto the cards and tried it out one night at a comedy gig – in