Full interview coming soon with Nigel Planer 😱

I met King Charles 111 at Lancaster Castle

Had an awesome day at Ryedale Auctions interviewing Angus from the hit TV programme that was nominated for a BAFTA award The Yorkshire Auction House

The YouTube link is here https://youtu.be/lecYAy_qhX0?si=pt-o9ukT_KH8SoFZ

INTERVIEWING QUENTIN WILLSON

My tribute to this absolute legend

I was lucky enough to be able to interview car expert Quentin Willson. Quentin was a presenter of Top Gear, Fifth Gear and Britains Worst Driver, he also got the lowest score ever on Strictly Come Dancing. I debated him on electric cars, asking him about Human Rights, added tyre wear, hydrogen cars and fire fears amongst other things see what he had to say YouTube link below.

Chris Joyce drummer Simply Red

Chris played on one of my songs link to be added soon. It was awesome working with him, his former band Simply Red have sold over an incredible 50 million albums 😱

David Harper antique expert B

David Harper antique expert Bargain Hunt &Antiques Road Trip fame

I’ve met David Harper before as you will see near the end of this page, but this time I am doing an actual programme with him. Its called ‘Good Buy’ and there is a seperate page all about it on here so have a look.

The Hairy Bikers Si King

In June 2024 I met Si King one of the Hairybikers on ‘Dave Day’ in remembrance of Dave Myers’s. It was an awesome day out and there were thousands of bikers who came to pay their respects. I met some wonderful people and Si gave me his autograph even though he looked rather hot & tired!

Here is the video, it shows people speaking with the very famous Hairy Biker and all the bikes leaving Burton in Kendal service station. There were so many bikes it took the main body of them 25 mins to leave!

The video has proved so popular it has had nearly 100k views!!!

TOPLOADER

What a awesome night seeing Toploader live in Lancaster and #dancinginthemoonlight if you want to listen to that very very famous song live the link is here: https://fb.watch/oAE6vH0PYl/

And if you are on Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C0H-bS8skDs/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Bangers and Cash

I was invited by Yesterday TV to the Bangers and Cash live event. I had a wonderful time meeting the team and seeing all the awesome classic cars 😍

Here is the video to see all the classic cars and the stars of the show on stage.

Joseph Parker & former World Champion Tyson Fury

Often seen Tyson Fury in Morecambe as thats where he lives, but this time he is with Joseph Parker:

Jodie Sloss Formula Woman winner

My interview with Jodie Sloss was held at Bowood House

Jodie Is from Oban Scotland she only got into the sport of car racing after beating 1000 entrants from around the globe to become the first Scot to win the prize of a racing driver’s seat in the UK’s 2022 GT Cup championships.

We had a great chat and she told us all about her race Porsche.

The link to the interview is below.

DEBBIE AND CAMILLE SISTER SLEDGE

I was excited to be asked to perform at Eden Music Festival with The West End Players performing a life size Punch and Judy show! I was cast as Judy. I also performed, my Michael Jackson dance, Jailhouse Rock dance and The Rich Mans Frug. I was soooooo excited when I realised Sister Sledge were performing. Mum and I read the line up and obviously started immediatly dancing around singing ‘We are family’ !!!! We were then rather disappointed when we realised we couldn’t stay to watch them as mum had to be back for work commitments. We did though get just as special treat as we got to see them sound check. We were at the far end of the festival when we heard the unmistakable sound and shot down as fast as we could.

Both ladies were lovely and I met them back stage and not only did I get an autograph they allowed me a pic also. Camille wrote a bible verse and I felt very honoured 😍

‘For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.’

Scotty Fairno all round social media star

Scotty Fairno found TikTok fame after basically fuelling his vehicles for free. He has a love of classic cars and has a large active media following on Instagram, he regularly gets over 1 million views on just one post, now thats pretty impressive! His followers sharing his passion for classic vehicles and getting covered in oil 🤣
Greta Thunbergs worst nightmare??? or is Scotty and others like him actually right and environmentally friendly? Saving old vehicles instead of manufacturing new #electricvehicles and using a waste product to run them? Have a watch and see what you think 🤔 😊 I know my views 😅 Id save every classic car in the world if I could 😍

He boasts 30 million Likes on his TikTok page and has thousands of followers on his Instagram. I caught up with him when he was helping my brother Billy remove an engine from a Volkswagen LT here’s what he had to say 😊

David Harper from Bargain Hunt & Antiques Road Trip

What an awesome interview this was with David Harper of Bargain Hunt and Antiques Road Trip fame amongst other programmes

He also valued a mask for me 😍

Richard Jupp

I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to interview the co-founder and former drummer of the multi award winning band Elbow.

Elbow was formed in 1997 in Bury, Greater Manchester. Richard gave me the choice of two venues to interview him at and I chose his studio in Stockport. He has his studio in the biggest mill I have ever seen it was humongous! He emailed me a link and said 4.30 p.m to meet up. What I hadn’t realised was there was no unit number and believe me when you see the size of the mill you need a unit number. My mother and chauffeur; the ultimate professional stated that we had to definately be there on time and helped me set up all my kit. We had back ups for everything including two stands, two mics we were prepared for all eventualities and were adament nothing could go wrong. We decided to set off very early, one as the above says to make sure we were definately not late, but two we are both keen photographers and wanted to look around the area to get some snaps.

Often we don’t google a place before we go, the reason being if you do it tends to just show the most popular places then you are drawn to them, if you go without knowledge you search for things and then often find the hidden gems that make the best pics. On arrival we turned towards the mill and it is massive, 6 floors with thousands of feet of floor space, the corriders are the width of average size rooms!

We only had an email address for contact (Early lesson learnt get a phone number) and we knew he was in a workshop teaching for the day, so couldn’t pick up his emails and we definately did not want to disturb him.

We thought he could not be too hard to find so we arrived at the address at 1.30 p.m, 3 hrs early and pottered off for some lunch. Inside the mill there is a superb vintage and antique centre with a cafe which is well worth the visit. The amount of items that they had for sale was unbelievable and my mother an avid collector of Marks and Spencers vintage Harvest kitchen ware picked up some rare plates she had not seen before. After lunch we decided to set off on our Jupp hunt, to track his whereabouts, then carry on looking around the mill safe in the knowledge that we knew where he was and return at the agreed time of 4.30 p.m.

We were to find out that spotting a Richard Jupp was like spotting a rare animal in the wild. Who ever we asked pointed us in a different direction “Ahh yes 4th floor at the end.” and “The studio, I think it’s on the second floor.” And it went on. Eventually my mother and I decided to work as a team, she would take the lift and do the 5th and 6th floors I would take the stairs and do the lower floors and basement. So I bundled her into the lift with her various bags whilst I shot off, now realising that after allowing hours of time to be there early we may be late! I eventually summoned the owner of the mill and we finally found Richard. In his recording studio was an exhausted mother slumped over her bags. She had Knocked on every recording studio door, eventually hearing the sound of drums behind one locked door she repeatedly knocked on it unbeknown to her at the time interrupting the well known band Everything Everything. She grilled the band members making sure it was the correct Richard Jupp they knew only giving in when one of the members confirned he knew him by saying he had his number and could call him. She said I was just that exhausted at that point I had to make sure they had the right Richard!

I settled down for my interview and had set out my questions that I wanted to ask. My mother who Home educates me and does just what a good parent should do, advises me about good and bad. She said that I must be prepared because I will come across people that will be difficult to interview, she showed me the iconic clip of Grace Jones and Russell Harty where she slaps him across the face. My mother remembers seeing this as when she was young she remembers Russell Harty well, as he often used to visit my Grandfathers business, a keen Antiques collector he had a shop in the Folly the house my mother grew up in in Settle.

It’s amazing how one thing links to another and Richard and I both had the same link of meeting Simon Pegg, Richard discusses this later on in the interview. He calls Simon a legend and I certainly won’t disagree with that!

Anyway I had no worries about Richard being the Grace Jones of interviewing he was an absolute joy and it became more of a chat than an interview, it felt just like going out for a coffee with a friend.

I have watched the other interviews with Richard and obviously most focus on his drumming skills and his multi award winning band. That is immensly interesting to me as I predominately play the piano but I am also now learning the drums. Thats how I came across Richard when I was googling drummers. I wanted in my interview to know a bit more about the actual person. I had so much to ask him and could of spoken for hours.

In the interview Richard covers a number of topics including confidence issues, whether he would start a new band to weetabix and his love of D.I.Y. See Richard in my interview on my youtube as you have never seen him before.

I really appreciate Richard giving me this opportunity and I thoroughly enjoyed and learnt so much from the experience. Please subscribe to my youtube to recieve notifications of further interviews with awesome and interesting stories. You don’t have to be famous, if you have an interesting story to tell just message me.