Jason Harrold Column It’s been a busy one for me; what with being Gavin Henson’s stuntman on ‘The Bachelor’ and donating my six-pack to Darryn Lyons in the Celebrity Big Brother house I’ve hardly had time for myself. But that wasn’t the difficult bit; the difficult bit was having my love handles melted down to make ‘Jedward’! After this year’s somewhat disappointing Celebrity Big Brother line-up I must be honest, I pined for George Galloway in a cat suit. Did I really just confess to that? My continuing series of “ See ‘em before it’s too late gigs“ found me traipsing out on a school night to see folk legend James Taylor at the Motorpoint Arena in Cardiff. A good few thousand people packed the house and were spellbound as the Master created an atmosphere like we were in someone’s front room. He spoke to the audience between every song, telling the story behind it and when he did sing he moved smoothly from Blues to Country and on to Ballads with a band that was tighter than a city council budget. To give the concert an intimate feel the encore was fantastic. As you know, as rule the idea is to sing at the top of one’s voice, but listening to “You’ve Got a Friend” at almost a whisper made the hair on my arms stand up. Congratulations to P.J Harvey on winning her second Mercury Music Prize with ‘Let England Shake.’ It was 10 years ago that Polly won her first Mercury gong so to be recognised again as an artist producing top quality music a
decade on proves that when it comes to awards form is temporary, class is permanent. Polly has class in buckets, she saw off the likes of Adele, Elbow and Katy B & Tinie Tempah in the process of winning the award. October is the month where we give a day of our radio station to those who have given so much more in defending our country. On the 14th October we at Real Radio are raising money for ‘Help for Heroes,’ we are devoting a whole day to raising funds for them through fund raising drives, auctions, online donations and generally having a fun day whilst supporting a really worthy cause. You can do your part to and whatever you can do would be greatly appreciated. So. if you log on to our website www.realradio.co.uk you’ll find all the details on how to help with fundraising or plan an event. I should say well done to everyone at the Bat and Ball in Pontypool who have sent texts keeping us posted on the events they ‘ve been doing for the charity. So, don’t forget the date 14th October, please do your bit and join in. Finally, if you’re a film fan ‘One Day’ is the must-see date-movie. I read the book as research for interviewing the author David Nicholls a couple of years ago. I may be running out of room here but take some tissues with you because in the end the g…………
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