Never Forget

This is Pixie Lott and I predict great things are ahead for her.

She is a singer and has the voice that the 21^st Century demands of a girl singer, I.E. she has that Amy/Adele/Duffy "smoked too many cigarettes" sound.

Her first single comes out in a couple of weeks and the song is well chosen and it's easy after a couple of listens to find you're humming it. One of the producers involved on her album (out in September....yes they have her career planned out in military detail) is Daniel Bedingfield and the single does sound like his sister could be singing it. A video that looks expensive and will find itself being played on all the right channels will only underpin the music.

Today she's featured on the BBC home page (how I found her) and she has recently both appeared on Radio 1 and performed a "Saturday Session" for Dermot O'Leary on Radio 2 where she covered "Never Forget" by Take That. You can find the video here

As you can see by the photo she is very pretty and allied with her voice and music I expect to see her featured heavily in next year's Brit awards!

Down down

I'm off to St Marys this afternoon. It will be a strange afternoon. In reality our last game as a Championship team until who knows when?

I've not really been able say what I think, as to be honest, I don't know!

All I do know is that the worst place to be told you've had 10 points deducted is Portsmouth!

-- Post From my iPod

Easter

The family has been together this week-end at my Sister's house in Somerset.

Highlights included :-

The chocolate fountain being unboxed and broken in. The front lawn now has lots of chocolate in it!!

A trip to Weston to play a round of putting, which got quite tense towards the end. I came third, a 5 on the 13^th ending my hopes of lifting the "Weston Open" title in 2009. Then we sauntered down to the other end of the beach where the "Weston Eye" now dominates the sky-line. I gave Matt my camera to take on board and close to 50 photos returned on the memory stick!

On Monday after a trip to the Clarks Outlet shpping village, we de-camped to Glastonbury, which is weird and a bit scary. At no other point during the weekend did we pass anyone in full frock coat accompanying a lady in full length Edwardian dress!

Talk, talk

Football punditry is not great on the BBC, but it drops a number of levels on ITV.

Tonight we have Andy Townsend (ok ex-Saint, but wouldn't get a job on the BBC), Teddy Sherringham (dull, dull, dull. One for the female viewers is the best I can suggest) and worst of all... Joe Cole.

Now he would be playing tonight (or at least on the bench) if he wasn't injured. So what's he going to say? Hmmm..." the lads done good/tried hard/were unlucky" is the most insight you're going to get from a current member of the squad, whose mates are playing! What we need is a proper impartial pundit, hopefully a journalist to give some balance, but there's little chance of that happening. The main attribute you seem to need is to have played the game, not be able to string together an original or "whisper it" critical opinion.

That's why Baddiel & Skinner or most football podcasts are so good...no ex-players!!!