Heroes & Villains, the Aston Villa fanzine
Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: AlexAlexCropley on May 05, 2010, 07:00:13 PM
-
On the one show now with his Villa top on.Shame that Adrian "Blimp" Chiles has done one.
-
Beat me to it Alex. Good old Nige.
-
I'd do one too, for 6m a year.
-
I'd do one too, for 6m a year.
No way ?
Adrian Childs on £6 mill a year .... has the world gone totally mad ?
Fair play if he is on that contract at ITV.
-
The irish bird didnt look at ease tonight. Probably missing giving Chiles the odd wank off..
-
Maybe we should have a sticky Nigel thread.
-
I thought it was a 6 million deal. ie 1 million a year or somthing???
-
Shes all Fat Frank nowadays. Anyway, Suzanne Verdi is the tops when it comes to gals on the TV.
-
Shes all Fat Frank nowadays. Anyway, Suzanne Verdi is the tops when it comes to gals on the TV.
Hayley McQueen is!!
-
Scraping the barrell tonight lads!:-)
-
Well, it was good to see Nige wearing hes Villa top on TV he always plugs the Villa which is a credit to him.
-
Shes all Fat Frank nowadays. Anyway, Suzanne Verdi is the tops when it comes to gals on the TV.
Oi! I saw her first!
-
He's on BBC Breakfast with his Villa shirt now... and bigging us up too.
-
He's on BBC Breakfast with his Villa shirt now... and bigging us up too.
unwashed too I suppose..fantastic *thumbs up*
-
Nige is the man, but he must stink.
-
He's on BBC Breakfast with his Villa shirt now... and bigging us up too.
unwashed too I suppose..fantastic *thumbs up*
Nigel always looks "Unwashed and somewhat slightly dazed"
-
he is a class act
-
Maybe we should have a sticky Nigel thread.
I thought you were replying to the previous post about Adrian Chiles and the Irish bird.
-
Will be seeing him at The Llangollen Music Eistedfford in July with a bit of luck.
Be a wake up call for some locals believe me
-
He's on talksport this afternoon...
Or been on...
-
He's touring later this year.
I saw him at the Symphony Hall a few years ago, he's a good laugh, a good musician ( even if not to everyone's taste) and a great Villa fan.
Wish he hadn't turned Polish ( lol) or we'd still see him at VP, not that I have ever.
-
He attends every home game that he can.
-
He attends every home game that he can.
And many away too - met him at St James last season.
-
He attends every home game that he can.
And many away too - met him at St James last season.
Fantastic stuff.
I saw that he couldn't make the LC Final as he was on tour.
-
Proper fan, not like some of the various celebs and politicians who attach themselves to football just for their own self promotion. He was at the game in hamburg.
Anybody remember his claret and blue car, it looked a right old wreck that he had just spent a day attacking with claret and blue spray cans.
-
Proper fan, not like some of the various celebs and politicians who attach themselves to football just for their own self promotion. He was at the game in hamburg.
Anybody remember his claret and blue car, it looked a right old wreck that he had just spent a day attacking with claret and blue spray cans.
Yes I remember it,looked like something off wacky races or cannonball run.i remember meeting him at an end of season awards do-must be best part of 20 years ago-top bloke,though I don`t think he was held in such high esteem then by Villa fans as he is now.Maybe he`s paid his dues.
-
Proper fan, not like some of the various celebs and politicians who attach themselves to football just for their own self promotion. He was at the game in hamburg.
Anybody remember his claret and blue car, it looked a right old wreck that he had just spent a day attacking with claret and blue spray cans.
Yes I remember it,looked like something off wacky races or cannonball run.i remember meeting him at an end of season awards do-must be best part of 20 years ago-top bloke,though I don`t think he was held in such high esteem then by Villa fans as he is now.Maybe he`s paid his dues.
BMW 3 series I seem to remember
-
He appeared at The Brits, or whatever it was then called, just before we played Oxford in the 1986 League Cup semi-final. Wearing his Villa scarf, he said that the only thing that could top the award he received was Villa getting to Wembley.
Frankly anyone who was appearing on national television in 1986 and declaring his love for Villa is a true fan: we were shit - and there was no credibility in being a football fan in any case.
-
He's on BBC Breakfast with his Villa shirt now... and bigging us up too.
unwashed too I suppose..fantastic *thumbs up*
Nigel always looks "Unwashed and somewhat slightly dazed"
...And happily slightly dazed.
-
Proper fan, not like some of the various celebs and politicians who attach themselves to football just for their own self promotion. He was at the game in hamburg.
Anybody remember his claret and blue car, it looked a right old wreck that he had just spent a day attacking with claret and blue spray cans.
Yes I remember it,looked like something off wacky races or cannonball run.i remember meeting him at an end of season awards do-must be best part of 20 years ago-top bloke,though I don`t think he was held in such high esteem then by Villa fans as he is now.Maybe he`s paid his dues.
BMW 3 series I seem to remember
Nah! It was an old shape Jag XJ6. He sits behind me at most home games. Always wears a dodgy luminous yellow ski hat
-
Proper fan, not like some of the various celebs and politicians who attach themselves to football just for their own self promotion. He was at the game in hamburg.
Anybody remember his claret and blue car, it looked a right old wreck that he had just spent a day attacking with claret and blue spray cans.
Yes I remember it,looked like something off wacky races or cannonball run.i remember meeting him at an end of season awards do-must be best part of 20 years ago-top bloke,though I don`t think he was held in such high esteem then by Villa fans as he is now.Maybe he`s paid his dues.
BMW 3 series I seem to remember
Nah! It was an old shape Jag XJ6. He sits behind me at most home games. Always wears a dodgy luminous yellow ski hat
Just goes to show how mad it was painted if people are arguing over what make of car they think it was. Someone should get him on here to tell us.
-
He had a claret and blue BMW as well as a Jag.
-
I met him a few times following the Warwick. spent a few days down at Kent one year and he stayed at the same hotel.Spent a few hours in the members bar with him and Paul smith the ex Warwick bowler.
Top top bloke.Great fun to be with.
-
Is currently causing a mild disruption in the Aston Social.
-
He sat next to us in The Bartons earlier. He seemed like a really genuine and nice guy.
-
He is.
-
A top bloke, really down to earth!
-
He sat next to us in The Bartons earlier. He seemed like a really genuine and nice guy.
(http://lh5.ggpht.com/_85iFErc4pp8/S-dPMv0no2I/AAAAAAAACHg/MKxIcfPGlpk/s400/nigel2.jpg)
-
Chatted to him yesterday, seemed like a very nice guy. I said to him that it's his fault that I support Cracovia in Poland. Apparently they shout 'Villa' at half-time.
-
He definately had a claret and blue jag - remember seeing him in it
Also remember meeting him with Alex-Alex Cropley about 20 years ago. In fact, I've still got the photo of Alex (wearing a Brian Little t shirt) and Nige.
He was a top bloke, knew his Villa. He was with his then missus, Brixie Smith who had dyed her hair claret and blue for the occasion
-
I must have been setting next to you then Barton, because he sat next to me as well............very good meal though.
-
I must have been setting next to you then Barton, because he sat next to me as well............very good meal though.
I was the thirty something bloke sat with the twenty something bloke who had a distinct family resemblence to the thirty something bloke. Nigel was sat in the corner and I had my back to the room so I guess you were just over my left shoulder.
Meal was delicious as always.
-
2 of you or 4 of you?
Pint was better than last time i went in as well.
-
He sat next to us in The Bartons earlier. He seemed like a really genuine and nice guy.
(http://lh5.ggpht.com/_85iFErc4pp8/S-dPMv0no2I/AAAAAAAACHg/MKxIcfPGlpk/s400/nigel2.jpg)
I did'nt know Alan Carr was a Villa fan as well.
-
ssshhh
new album out soon
I still think his Four Seasons is Great
-
Nigel Kennedy: Don't just sit there. Do something Polish
Sunday, 23 May 2010
Abbie Trayler-Smith
Bidden along to Nigel Kennedy's pretty, wisteria-hung cottage in St John's Wood, I find I'm not alone. Also waiting on the pavement are Kennedy's manager, his PR assistant, and a man from Reuters whose interview is scheduled to take place after mine. Ringing the bell gets no response, nor do any of his phones answer. Out jogging is the likeliest explanation, so we wait, and wait: this isn't auspicious. Eventually it turns out he's been here all along, embroiled in negotiations. Bounding down the steps and giving me a pulverising handshake, he looks the picture of health in his trademark Aston Villa shirt, explaining that he thought he'd "better wear it for the photograph".
This 53-year-old wild-child still gives himself totally to whatever he's doing, and we settle to talk amid the agreeable chaos of half-eaten sandwiches and half-drunk tea at his kitchen table, while his manager watches like a hawk. It's late afternoon, but he's still recovering from heavy-duty conviviality the night before.
At present he's doing Poland in a very big way. Having married a Polish lawyer named Agnieszka, having put together his own Polish jazz quintet, and with a house in Krakow plus a log cabin in the mountains near the Slovakian border, he's gradually become, he says with shining eyes, an honorary Polish citizen. And he now wants to give something back. When the South Bank Centre invited him to "do something Polish" to chime with this year's Chopin anniversary, he didn't hesitate: next weekend, the South Bank will become Poland in miniature.
"It's not going to be a map of Polish culture," he clarifies. "It's going to be an offering from what I've benefited from – people I've been lucky enough to work with, or hear. There's this hard work and discipline they've got, this inspiration and original way of looking at things – probably because of the socialist policy of teaching everybody equally. A toilet cleaner's kid can get as good an education as a banker's kid. But I don't know how long that will go on, the way Polish politics are going now." The jazz, klezmer, and classical luminaries who will stud "Nigel Kennedy's Polish Weekend" are in his view the pick of what his adoptive land has to offer: the classical pianist who will co-star with Nigel Kennedy's Chopin Supergroup is Janusz Olejniczak, who played the music behind the pictures in Polanski's The Pianist. On the kitchen table, beneath the debris, lie the piano scores of Chopin's Preludes and Nocturnes: he's already chosen nine "tracks" from them, and points out the beautiful "songs" he'll make from their melodic lines.
"I just want to share the good times I've had there with people over here," says Kennedy. "Everybody knows someone Polish now... there's so much more to Polish culture than plumbing and building." Then a thought occurs: "Hey – that's another exhibit we could have had! Over three days, we could have had some Polish cats building a house, right next to the fucking Thames, man." A piece of South Bank installation art? "Yeah! Build a house with no planning permission whatsoever – brilliant, man!" All he needs is the materials, I suggest. "Got that, Tel?" At which Terri Robson, the woman who officiates as his agent, tour manager, life-coach, and factotum, suddenly looks weary.
It's sometimes been suggested that the Mockney manner is a put-on, out of which he will eventually grow, but pigs will sooner fly. The polite eight-year-old with the RP accent first heard on the BBC's Town and Around in 1964 is well and truly buried, and who's to say a style seriously adopted in later life is a "fake"? With Kennedy, the style is the man. Moreover, the one accent which isn't buried from his youth is his sound on the violin. As the son and grandson of leading classical cellists, and with a piano-teacher mother, he's stayed religiously faithful to his roots, preserving the most remarkable beauty of tone, whether playing classical, klezmer, or jazz.
The centrepiece of the South Bank bash is the inaugural outing of the Nigel Kennedy Orchestra of Life, an ensemble of conservatoire-trained Polish musicians who will play Bach and Duke Ellington, without a conductor but under his leadership. He created it, he says, out of frustration at the way his attempts to induce a similarly collegial approach at the Polish Chamber Orchestra – of which he was artistic director – were foiled by bureaucracy. "These cats are technically first rate, and they're gung-ho ready to go. And in rehearsals I was like, shit, it's one and a half fucking hours after we should have finished. An orchestra in Britain or Germany wouldn't have stood for that, but these players are ready to work until they drop, or until the music is right. And there's something different about their bow-speed. With most orchestras, it's either a warm sound, or a translucent one – but these have a combination of both."
He's also going back to Vivaldi with them, partly because he still loves the composer who helped make his fortune – through his recording of The Four Seasons – and partly because he intends to push Vivaldi's music into the 21st century. He's going to bring in the keyboard player from his jazz quintet, and his jazz bassist will add an improvised line below. Sacrilege? No more so than what he did with Mozart's Violin Concerto No 4 two years ago, where one cadenza was pure jazz. It's worth remembering that a cadenza even in Mozart's day gave the soloist licence to show off: provided he stayed faithful to the spirit of the work, he could do what he liked.
But this sort of thing, when added to the swearing and spiky hair, was what aroused the ire of the die-hards, and propelled Kennedy into five years of musical self-exile. "It was definitely a crime to have become a household name and sold two million albums. Really uncool, money and notoriety. But all the artists I've liked have had some charisma, like [Friedrich] Kreisler or [Arthur] Rubinstein, or Yehudi or Isaac Stern. With them it wasn't just luck or technique. And when I was forgiven – when people got a bit kinder – was when I took my time off, and wasn't making lots of money. It's only when I quit something, that everyone likes me." Where does he place himself now? "I'd like to feel I'm still outside the classical music world, so that if I do the classical repertoire, I can do it from a different premise. I'm not going to be governed by the rules which bind most classical musicians." And the same, he says, goes for jazz: "Both worlds are conservative. You can't be really creative in either, without the style police being on your back." He has little respect for classical musicians such as Gidon Kremer and Daniel Barenboim who flaunt their cool by playing tangos: "That doesn't require any particular skill." And crossover? "Chocolate-coated stuff. It should mean something exciting, but it's normally just a classical cat playing straight over a Euro-disco beat." This man would make a refreshing critic.
Meanwhile he's got another own-brand trick up his sleeve for the Polish weekend: "Nigel Kennedy's World Cup Project: England v Poland 1973", in which film of that historic England disappointment will be projected. "I thought it would be a laugh to get a match between Poland and England, and do it as a silent film, with us improvising along." He's also hoping to get a commentator of some repute. Football – Aston Villa in particular – remains his grand passion: "All we need is 20 million for a good centre-forward. Who do you support?" When I confess that soccer isn't my thing, he's taken aback, but then says kindly: "It's not your fault. Sometimes I wish I wasn't so interested myself. It's got so corporate – captive watching, cushions on the seats, which is ridiculous because no one sits down. Like some fucking pensioners' home."
Gradually one realises that Kennedy's famous "contradictions" are not contradictions at all. As in a stick of Brighton rock, the integrity is stamped right through. It's entirely in character that the compulsive party-boy should seldom default on his 50-minute jog, or on his three hours' fiddle practice a day, and that he should also be an unashamed technophobe. He doesn't have a computer: "I've not seen it help anyone's life – it just gives them more to do. They just get more pale, more fucking bug-eyed. All I know is how to get on to the Villa website with my wife's computer."
Asked for his principal aim in life, he replies: "To keep the people round me happy." That particularly includes his son Sark, 13, whose incarceration in a boarding school prevents as much father-son bonding as Kennedy would like: "Being a parent is probably one of the most important things you can do. But we always do the last game of the season, and in summer we get a lot of time together."
But the public can rest assured that Kennedy senior will never properly grow up. He and his jazz quintet are launching their new CD next week, on which guest-artist Boy George does a passable imitation of Tom Waits. But there was a spot of argy-bargy about the title, from which EMI insisted on removing two letters. It now reads SHHH!
Nigel Kennedy's Polish Weekend, South Bank Centre, 29-31 May
The Independent (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/nigel-kennedy-dont-just-sit-there-do-something-polish-1980487.html)
-
You think he knows how to get onto this site? Nige? Nigel?
-
I was once playing football with Oasis, when Nigel K's bulldog appeared and went off with the ball.
-
Meanwhile he's got another own-brand trick up his sleeve for the Polish weekend: "Nigel Kennedy's World Cup Project: England v Poland 1973", in which film of that historic England disappointment will be projected. "I thought it would be a laugh to get a match between Poland and England, and do it as a silent film, with us improvising along."
I have tickets for this. Looking forward to it.
-
There's a piece about Kennedy in this week's Time Out. He's talking about the Polish music.
"I may be drinking out of your cup," I say sheepishly, clutching the Aston Villa coffee mug that I have been given as Nigel Kennedy makes his entrance in a baggy grey tracksuit. "Nah, mate," he says with a big grin, producing his cup of tea in another Villa mug. "In my house that's fuckin' inevitable."
" "I have never been a mad supporter of England because of this laissez faire attitude that seems to have crept into the English game. I have kind of had it with rich English footballers selling their latest books on chat shows. I am interested in Aston Villa, basically, and England never chooses Villa players unless they are absolutely desperate."
But where do his sporting loyalties lie domestically? "If Aston Villa played Krakovia, which is the team I support in Poland, then I would want Aston Villa to win because I have been watching them since I was seven years old - it is a much longer part of my life. But overall, Polish football is absolutely dreadful now; it is really shocking." "
And true enough, in the picture he is there proudly holding his Villa mug. Good man.
-
There's a piece about Kennedy in this week's Time Out. He's talking about the Polish music.
"I may be drinking out of your cup," I say sheepishly, clutching the Aston Villa coffee mug that I have been given as Nigel Kennedy makes his entrance in a baggy grey tracksuit. "Nah, mate," he says with a big grin, producing his cup of tea in another Villa mug. "In my house that's fuckin' inevitable."
" "I have never been a mad supporter of England because of this laissez faire attitude that seems to have crept into the English game. I have kind of had it with rich English footballers selling their latest books on chat shows. I am interested in Aston Villa, basically, and England never chooses Villa players unless they are absolutely desperate."
But where do his sporting loyalties lie domestically? "If Aston Villa played Krakovia, which is the team I support in Poland, then I would want Aston Villa to win because I have been watching them since I was seven years old - it is a much longer part of my life. But overall, Polish football is absolutely dreadful now; it is really shocking." "
And true enough, in the picture he is there proudly holding his Villa mug. Good man.
Good spot hilts.
-
I was once playing football with Oasis, when Nigel K's bulldog appeared and went off with the ball.
This has been on nearly a week and no one is going to pul Tim up aboput this?
TIm, in future please proceed replies liek this with a "LUVVIE ALERT". Then we can al be prepared.
-
There's no disputing his love for Villa or that he seems a good bloke but... why does he have such a ridiculous accent? Footage of him as a youngster has him talking with several plums in his mouth.
CORBLIMEYGUV'NOR.
-
He sat next to us in The Bartons earlier. He seemed like a really genuine and nice guy.
(http://lh5.ggpht.com/_85iFErc4pp8/S-dPMv0no2I/AAAAAAAACHg/MKxIcfPGlpk/s400/nigel2.jpg)
So come on then, who's who? I know Nigel obviously!
-
Jimmy Carr is on the far RHS.
-
That bloke on the left had a German Villains shirt on i think.
-
I should know the name of the guy on the left, but it escapes me right now....
-
It's our Frank in the German Villains shirt on the left.
-
I should know the name of the guy on the left, but it escapes me right now....
fella on the far left? is it disgraced former Tory MP, Jonathan Aitken?
-
Jimmy Carr is on the far RHS.
Alan Carr?
-
Would we all care about Nigel if he wasn't a Villa fan?!
-
Would we all care about Nigel if he wasn't a Villa fan?!
I doubt it. But he is. So we do.
-
Ouch! Yes.
-
(http://[URL=http://imagefra.me/view.php?img=/6/5/27/dazvillain/f_urkbucefm_c5e713b.jpg&srv=img37][img]http://img37.imagefra.me/img/img37/6/5/27/dazvillain/t_urkbucefm_c5e713b.jpg)[/URL][/img]
Not sure who looks the most pissed me or him !! ?
-
He was shocked by you wearing a sensible shirt
-
Our Nige is on The Andrew Marr Show now. In his Villa shirt. With a big Villa flag in the background. And the rest of the quintet all in Villa shirts too.
Keep The Faith and spread the word, Nigel!
EDIT: their performance will be broadcast at the end of the programme, probably around 0950 then.
-
Just seen it. Even his band are in Villa shirts - he's back on at the end of the programme.
-
Just caught the end of it. Anyone know if its repeated.
-
Just caught the end of it. Anyone know if its repeated.
Watch it on iPlayer?
-
Here (http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00stj8q/The_Andrew_Marr_Show_13_06_2010/).
-
Thanks Legion, fantastic stuff !
I actually like Andrew Marr's car, one of the very few that are supposed to appreciate in value.
-
Thanks Legion.
Nigels on 33 mins and again on 57 mins.
-
Woke up with a hangover and saw him on Marr's programme.
It made me feel a bit better, seeing all that claret and blue. I felt even better when I imagined some 'nose flicking through the channels and stumbling upon such a sight.
-
Would we all care about Nigel if he wasn't a Villa fan?!
I'd probably think at first he was a bit of a tit. Then if I investigated further I'd recognsie him as a genuine supporter and respect him for that.
-
Thanks Legion.
Nigels on 33 mins and again on 57 mins.
Thanks both.
-
There's a new series of "Imagine..." starting on the Beeb on Tuesday and the first programme is all about our Nige's Polish Adventure. BBC1, 10:35-11:25
-
There's a new series of "Imagine..." starting on the Beeb on Tuesday and the first programme is all about our Nige's Polish Adventure. BBC1, 10:35-11:25
Don't usually watch this but may tune in to see Nige.
-
Woke up with a hangover and saw him on Marr's programme.
It made me feel a bit better, seeing all that claret and blue. I felt even better when I imagined some 'nose flicking through the channels and stumbling upon such a sight.
Is Andrew Marr's show on between Jeremy Kyle and Teletubbies then?
-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00st01h
Nige is sporting the Claret & Blue on the Beeb's preamble
-
There's a new series of "Imagine..." starting on the Beeb on Tuesday and the first programme is all about our Nige's Polish Adventure. BBC1, 10:35-11:25
Don't usually watch this but may tune in to see Nige.
Fantastic stuff. Virtually every shot was of Nige in a different Villa shirt plus members of his band and the audience in the claret and blue. Amazing to see someone in a 57 Villa retro shirt in the audience at a jazz club in Krakow - which looks a beautiful city. Also old footage of Nige in the 70s in New York with a Villa scarf tied to his violin case. Made you proud to follow the Villa, what a lovely bloke and such a fantastic talent. See this programme if you can, it will make your heart smile...
-
From what I saw of the programme I loved it.
From 'toff' to 'rebel' and always his own man.
Great bloke and lovely shirts.
-
What a great show, ozzy of the classical world! what a top bloke though, nice to see an artist thats true to his word and honest to his art. no compromises just what he thinks music should be. and yes claret and blue to the core. liked his comments against to much technical music all this i'm great but its actualy a pc doing all the hard bits and nice to understand a classical musician that talks plain english so majority can understand. would love him to play in brum (if he hasn't already) and love all the differnt villa tops. does anyone remember his bmw!! home paint job in c & b!!
-
What a great show, ozzy of the classical world! what a top bloke though, nice to see an artist thats true to his word and honest to his art. no compromises just what he thinks music should be. and yes claret and blue to the core. liked his comments against to much technical music all this i'm great but its actualy a pc doing all the hard bits and nice to understand a classical musician that talks plain english so majority can understand. would love him to play in brum (if he hasn't already) and love all the differnt villa tops. does anyone remember his bmw!! home paint job in c & b!!
I saw him at the Symphony Hall about 4 years ago - he drank beer on stage and mentioned Villa at the end .... something like 'goodbye Birmingham and UP THE VILLA' .... fantastic stuff !!
-
Also watched the show and thought it was fantastic. Just highlighted the immense talent that he has. My son is a good piano player other than the language will be great for him to watch. What this shows is that like all walks of life you have to work hard. For how good he is, and we could see from the early footage that he was a child genius, he has worked and practices hard every day still to get that good.
The Love of villa was clear, and seems to be a constant through his life. Like all of us with all the shit that sometimes happens in life there are few constants, villa being one of the exceptions.
Having seen him a couple of times, what I thought was great is that he now seems happy with life. Not letting the classical critics pigeon hole him and is a true one off.
He is a great villain
-
I sat there thinking 'who would you rather have as a celebrity supporter?'. Nigel Kennedy who is villa through and through like the rest of us and has been through all the good and (mostly) not very good times, or Tim Lovejoy, DJ Spoony, Eammon Holmes and the rest of the 'johnny come lately, let's attach myself to one of the Sky 4' brigade...
-
I watched it too and thought it was great, I knew he was a very,very good violinist but the Jazz parts were superb.
my wife squeals "oh look, he likes Villa like you do"
UTV
The Doc
-
I watched it too and thought it was great, I knew he was a very,very good violinist but the Jazz parts were superb.
my wife squeals "oh look, he likes Villa like you do"
UTV
The Doc
I think he may even trump Deano's Mullet when it comes to shirts. I thought I was mad about the villa but I felt quite inadequate when I saw Nigel playing to hundreds at the South Bank with a Villa shirt with Agbonlahor on his back.
Oh and by the way, why are female classical musicians always so gorgeous? That lead violinist in his orchestra was just so lovely....
-
Is it on i player? I fell asleep and missed it!
-
I watched it too and thought it was great, I knew he was a very,very good violinist but the Jazz parts were superb.
my wife squeals "oh look, he likes Villa like you do"
UTV
The Doc
I think he may even trump Deano's Mullet when it comes to shirts. I thought I was mad about the villa but I felt quite inadequate when I saw Nigel playing to hundreds at the South Bank with a Villa shirt with Agbonlahor on his back.
Oh and by the way, why are female classical musicians always so gorgeous? That lead violinist in his orchestra was just so lovely....
Oh yes........
-
Also watched the show and thought it was fantastic. Just highlighted the immense talent that he has. My son is a good piano player other than the language will be great for him to watch. What this shows is that like all walks of life you have to work hard. For how good he is, and we could see from the early footage that he was a child genius, he has worked and practices hard every day still to get that good.
The Love of villa was clear, and seems to be a constant through his life. Like all of us with all the shit that sometimes happens in life there are few constants, villa being one of the exceptions.
Having seen him a couple of times, what I thought was great is that he now seems happy with life. Not letting the classical critics pigeon hole him and is a true one off.
He is a great villain
Bit of bad language won't do him any harm Dominic. I always remember my daughter Lucy when she was about 4, sitting on the doorstep and announcing in a big loud voice 'I can't get these fcuking shoelaces done up'....
No idea where she got that from.....ahem!
-
I tried to watch it but to be honest he makes me cringe with his 'trying out some new shit' hippy talk in a strange type of pretend cockernee accent thing, i'm sure he's a great bloke and all that but the first number he did with his band was fucking awful.
-
Apart from the fact that I like Kennedy as a person and a musician and am proud that he's a fellow Villa supporter, I love Poland and greatly enjoyed the scenes in Krakow and the Polish countryside. I was also fascinated by the jazz improvisation. A really excellent programme.
-
Apart from the fact that I like Kennedy as a person and a musician and am proud that he's a fellow Villa supporter, I love Poland and greatly enjoyed the scenes in Krakow and the Polish countryside. I was also fascinated by the jazz improvisation. A really excellent programme.
Yes indeed Frank, we thought Krakow looked gorgeous as did the countryside. I could certainly relate to Nigel's desire to get away from it all and his feelings about Tesco's et al!
-
I tried to watch it but to be honest he makes me cringe with his 'trying out some new shit' hippy talk in a strange type of pretend cockernee accent thing, i'm sure he's a great bloke and all that but the first number he did with his band was fucking awful.
I thought it flattered Nigel and showed him - and Villa - in a good light. Unlike some other programmes which have featured him and have been dive-behind-the-sofa, cringeworthy efforts, this time, apart from a few brief comments, he let the shirts and the Villa paraphenalia do the talking (Good to see Acorns getting another media airing!).
In his comments he was understated, incisive and intelligent and thankfully kept the faux hippy-speak to a minimum. As a musician he's a virtuoso and magnificent in his classical performances, but - ironically because his virtuosity means he can play anything and everything at whatever speed - I don't think he cuts it to the same extent as jazz player. Sometimes less is more Nigel!
-
jazz improvisation
Phew, missed that!
-
jazz improvisation
Phew, missed that!
NICE! Awful isn't it. I hate jazz improvisation (sorry Frank mate!). They're all great musicians I'm sure (which seems to be the whole point of it as far as I can see) but can you hum the tune 20 seconds after you've heard it? Nope. And that's presuming there is a tune in the first place....
-
Improvisation and fusion are two words that cause me great concern.
As well as the letter U and number 2.
-
Apart from the fact that I like Kennedy as a person and a musician and am proud that he's a fellow Villa supporter, I love Poland and greatly enjoyed the scenes in Krakow and the Polish countryside. I was also fascinated by the jazz improvisation. A really excellent programme.
Agree with all of that. We saw some fine jazz when we were in Krakow a few years back and I'm pretty sure the main bar they showed was one of the ones we were in. Didn't see Nige himself, though, or - more's the pity - his lovely Polish wife.