Posts from ‘I'm not eating any of that foreign muck’
A video of me sleeping at Byron Bay.
Friday, September 17th, 2010
The lovely folk at the Byron Bay Writer’s Festival have just posted a video of one of my talks from the festival (see below for the video). It’s from the ’Family as Fodder’ panel that I did with Tony Martin, Susan Maushart and Justin Sheedy. I’m quite happy with it – people are laughing in the right places and I only said ‘um’ 27 times. And I didn’t doze off to sleep. The lovely folk at the Byron Bay Writer’s Festival have also posted a whole bunch of photos from the festival on their Facebook page. And out of all those photos there is only one of me and its a shot of me asleep on the grass. And just so you know I’m actually not asleep, but deep in thought about… (read more)
Karaoke World Tour – England
Saturday, June 27th, 2009
We’re off to England for Part Five of Brian’s Karaoke World Tour and the most visited place in all of England – Blackpool. In fact, with 120 000 holiday beds, Blackpool has more tourist beds than the whole of Portugal. What is even more amazing (and frightening) is that Blackpool attracts 11 million visitors annually, which is more than twice the number of people that visit Australia every year. And as a draw for tourists, nothing comes close to Blackpool’s Pleasure Beach (an amusement park)… (read more)