Those crazy sock puppets (the ones that duetted with Dean Friedman) have been short-listed for some bizarre BBC talentfest that involves spending six hours in a glass box in Bristol. The Beeb describe it a bit better than that, but not much…

It seems that we will be able to watch the victims winners via streaming, if we haven’t got anything else better to do).

The man behind the Socks (Kev F) is apparently responsible for introducing zombies into the Beano, & not just any zombies, but The Bash Street Zombies! (Click on the cartoon for a large scan, found in the comments section of his MySpace.)

Anyway, despite having twenty shows coming up over the next few months, it seems that he is keen to have a side-trip over to Bristol. Give him a vote, if you think he deserves it, you can take that either way! (I think you may have to register though).

Maybe he’d like to sing Lucky Stars with Denise Marsa one day, but he’ll have to learn Dean’s part…

I see from my (very short) MySpace friends activity list that Denise Marsa (of lucky Stars fame) has been adding stuff to her music page. She spent some time in an 80s Band called The Flirts and was lead vocal on a big 1984 club hit called Helpless (You took my love).

I have to say that it passed me by back then, although in 1984 I was travelling abroad a lot and had a huge trade show stand to organise for all of the technical aspects of our products, some of which we had never seen before!

Interestingly, Denise is Ginger in this video, presumably because there was already a Blonde and a Brunette. (She is fair haired in all of her website photos. She claims to be aged 104 in her profile, which means that she must have been about eighty when she appeared with the Flirts and 74 when she sang with dean Friedman. She must have one of those portraits in her attic…

For reasons too obscure and furtive to explain here, I ended up on the Website of Borkowski, a well known Public Relations Company. They have this to say on their contacts page.

 

Borkowski seeks to elevate indolence to an art-form. The agency has aggressively pursued an employment policy that discriminates in favour of the workshy, inept, untrustworthy, dull, useless, psychotic, dysfunctional and charismatically challenged. Nobody has any relevant previous experience. Note: a list of Desert Island Discs is not a definitive guide to character, but it weeds out total tossers.

Just in case you think I’m making this up, see for yourself.