Fuzzed is coming!

Well if anyone reads this they may wonder if we'd dropped the blog such has been the lack of activity over the last month or so. The reason for this is that all attentions have been solely directed at Fuzzed.tv

It's now just over a year ago we started this project and it's starting to come together and the tiny pin prick of light at the end of the tunnel is getting bigger. If your still not sure and want to know what fuzzed is read below, sponsors and media partners are being lined up as the website is almost ready for beta testing and although not finished is already a huge amount of fun to play with.

The Dev team consisting of Pete and John are doing outstanding work putting together the site and executing the outrageously demanding designs that Marc and I have been throwing at them. Hopefully in the next few weeks we'll be able to let you all loose on it to help us give it a proper test! in the meantime here is a glimpse at the new logo and front page.

A Little Culture

God only knows we are not the most cultured of types here at TwoStroke towers, I mean we try but the most cultural discussion we've had this week is... 'who on earth cancelled Studio 60 it was brilliant!' So it was a shock when we had to go to two of our friends exhibition openings on the same day, it was an arts based overload.


1st up was our old editor and general visual genius Geoff Litherland who has graced the town to sell his rather beautiful wares at Islington Art Fair (3 Torrens St, Just around the corner from Angel Tube) He is there for the next few days so go see him over the weekend if your inclined.

A quick race across town and we went to see the Lovely (as everyone seems to prefix her name) Laura Lewis's exhibition of indie / rock photography. Working for Sony BMG she has amazing access to the good, bad and ugly of the rock & roll world and her shots are quite simply stunning. The exhibition will up for the whole of Oct at a café called Al Vollo just off Brick Lane. Both are awesome and free! so go see them no excuses.

Ned Sherrin

As I'm sure everyone knows Ned Sherrin died on Monday. In my few stints working on his show Loose Ends I only worked with him a couple of times as he fell ill shortly after I started. Of all the presenters and producers I've worked with at the BBC he was the only one that left me a little awe struck.

This was the man that back in the day gave countless stars and now institutions their first jobs, who gave Sir David Frost his 1st gig! Loose Ends is recorded as live on a Saturday morning and remember him coming in at 8:30am and sitting down to honey and toast before adding the final polish his script with me nervously checking the guests that I had booked, praying to god that one of them hadn’t developed the flu and the taxi’s had picked them up. As I sat there sweating I’d catch a glance of him muttering to himself rehearsing his script, he really reminded me about what the BBC was all about, he exuded that old school classiness and eccentricity alongside a rapier wit that made him so good at everything he touched.

His list of achievements is outrageously long having produced 10 films; wrote novels, musicals and plays; he’s hosted Loose Ends for 21 years; and produced seminal television series like “That Was the Week That Was,” which was the forerunner to shows like Saturday Night Live. “TW3,” the live political review and the news-based quiz show “We Interrupt This Week.” where both formats that are now used as a gold standard around the world and have been cloned a million times. He also wrote two autobiographies, a novel, a collection of theatrical anecdotes, a dictionary of humorous quotations and was a member of the Bar! If I can pack half as much into my life I’ll be a very happy man. He was one of the last of his kind, the world of broadcasting, film, theatre and literature will be a poorer place without him.