Atomic Dandy Actor Ham Chants Damned Ballads Badly / August 8 2008
My struggling actor friend has formed a band – Hamilton Bentley and The Jesus Robots – and has just asked me to produce their first single.
‘I never imagined you as a singer, Ham,’ I laughed.
‘Wonderful, isn’t it!’ He flopped on to the leather sofa in the control room with a loud thump. ‘The idea hit [...]
Lead In My Pencil / July 27 2008
I had some oysters yesterday. Fresh and big and full of the taste of the sea.
My actor friend Hamilton Bentley paid Audrey and me a visit. He came to boast about his part as an extra in the new British film Donkey Punch. He recounted how he had asked the director for a line and [...]
Blog Off / April 20 2008
No post today, I am trying not to think.
Hamilton Bentley, my actor friend, paid me a visit last night in his new car – a twenty-year-old Lada that had so many rattles, it sounded like he was delivering a drum kit – and made me get drunk with him.
‘You should see your face,’ he told [...]
Double Glazing / December 20 2007
Audrey and I put Hamilton on the train to Manchester this morning. He spent more than an hour on the telephone to his agent after breakfast and has managed to borrow a modest flat in the city for a few months. He even has some voice-over work lined up.
He also dug deep and managed to [...]
Whisky Echo / December 19 2007
The bottle of whisky that Scottish Brian gave me a few weeks ago was polished off last night. Surprisingly, I do not have a hangover at all. I do, however, have a bad case of indigestion – whisky always does that to me, especially Jack Daniels. As I was walking Audrey this morning, I was [...]
Doc True / December 18 2007
When comedienne Catherine Tate let slip on Jonathan Ross’s Radio 2 programme the other day that the next series of Doctor Who could be the last for actor David Tennant, she was confirming something that I already knew.
Hamilton Bentley, an actor friend of mine (from the Mr Sheen ads) is acquainted with Tennant and was [...]
