Nigel Kennedy

[CJ]

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

[Simon Ward]

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.

[Hookeysmith]

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?

[Rodders]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00st01h

Nige is sporting the Claret & Blue on the Beeb's preamble

[richard moore]

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...

[villajk]

From what I saw of the programme I loved it.

From 'toff' to 'rebel' and always his own man.

Great bloke and lovely shirts.

[steveo]

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!!

[TimTheVillain]

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 !!

[Dominic22]

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

[richard moore]

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...

[Dr Butler]

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

[richard moore]

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....

[Simon Ward]

Is it on i player? I fell asleep and missed it!

[Dr Butler]

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........

[richard moore]

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!