What a set up, Holy cow!

I make no excuses for another gratuitous pic of sex god Tom Daley (wearing the new Team GB kit for the 2024 Olympics that was launched yesterday)!

A much-needed weekend is almost here, and I think we need to crank up the wireless and get into the party mood that normally greets the end of another week of drudgery..! Our gang actually has a "party" afoot, as we gather once again tomorrow afternoon in the Perseverance pub near Great Ormond Street in leafy Holborn for the first "Film Club" in ages.

On the list of prospective movies on offer (we tend to bring a few then choose the ones to watch by a show of hands) is one of my all-time favourite musicals Sweet Charity, so how about this version of one of its most famous numbers by Miss Linda Clifford and - ahem - a dancing robot?!

Thank Disco It's Friday!

Linda Clifford - If My Friends Could See Me Now

Bizarre.

Have a fab weekend, dear reader!

Run away!

A familiar wave of relief envelops us, as the weekend hoves into view.

OK, the weather is utter shit, and the ever-decreasing autumnal daylight doesn't exactly lend itself to feeling in the mood for a party. But party we should - and who better to lead the festivities than Miss Linda Clifford?

But what the fuck is going on with those freaky dancers behind her..?!

Thank Disco It's Friday!

Linda Clifford - Runaway Love

Have a good one, dear reader!

Eatin' fancy chow and drinkin' fancy wine

I want one of these masks!

Hoo-fucking-rah! The weekend's almost here - at last...

John-John and I are booked for Polari at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern again tonight, so there is actually something different to look forward to for a change.

To get us in that "party spirit", let's crank up the gramophone, conjure up something - ahem - classy, fling on our batwing tops and boogie along with the lovely Linda Clifford - and Thank Disco It's Friday!!

Linda Clifford - If My Friends Could See Me Now

Have a great one, dear reader!

Nobody does it like...

Today would have been the 80th birthday of the fabulous composer, songwriter, and jazz pianist Cy Coleman.

In a career that spanned eight decades (from his debut as a child piano prodigy), Cy wrote dozens of songs and shows for some of the greats, including Lucille Ball, Frank Sinatra, Gwen Verdon, Shirley MacLaine and Tony Bennett. Among the standards Cy wrote were such wonderful songs as Witchcraft, The Best Is Yet To Come, Nobody Does It Like Me and Hey, Look Me Over.

But it was his partnership with the magnificent grande dame of American theatre Dorothy Fields that produced the masterpiece for which he is most remembered (and one of my favourite musicals ever) - Sweet Charity. Although he continued to write, produce and perform right up until his unexpected death in 2004, he could never quite match the eternal success of this classic!

Here are a few samples of the prodigious musical talent of Cy Coleman...

Sweet Charity (trailer)

Shirley MacLaine, Chita Rivera and Paula Kelly - There's Gotta Be Something Better Than This

Linda Clifford - If My Friends Could See Me Now

Dame Shirley Bassey - Nobody Does It Like Me

Tony Bennett - The Best Is Yet To Come

Read Cy Coleman's entry in the Internet Broadway Database