Artistes of the Month
Also featured: Jeremy Vine, Sandi Toksvig
4 Poofs and a Piano
4
Poofs and a Piano are best known as the in-house band on BBC1's hugely successful
BAFTA Award winning Friday Night With Jonathan Ross. For the past seven
series they have helped introduce guests including Madonna, Paul McCartney,
Paul Newman, David Bowie, Quentin Tarrantino and Robbie Williams.
They first performed at Soho's Groucho Club in 2000 and have continued to create, write & perform their own full length shows - their 2005 National Tour Never Mind The Botox played to sell out audiences and their most recent show, Strictly Neurotic, was a hit at the 2006 Edinburgh Festival.
4 Poofs and a Piano had a debut single in 2003 which out sold Blue and Atomic Kitten! 2005 saw the release of their debut album SCREAMIN' PARTY ANTHEMS.
With their playful re-workings of show tunes, funk tunes, punk, rap and swing, 4 Poofs and a Piano have provided cabaret, after dinner entertainment, walk-ons for guest speakers and awards winners and bespoke material for corporate clients such as Microsoft, JLT Solutions, Wessex Trains and Selfridges.
"Enough panache to fill an entire jewel box"
"Innovative funny and sprinkled with genuine talent"
Jeremy
Vine
Jeremy Vine presents the new series of Panorama on BBC1 at 8:30 on Monday
evenings.
He combines this role with his programme on BBC Radio 2, The Jeremy Vine
Show for which he was awarded a Silver Sony Speech Broadcaster of the
Year Award 2006.
Jeremy hosted The Politics Show on BBC1 and two series of interviews - the first with pop stars, the second with actors - entitled Jeremy Vine Meets….again for BBC1. Jeremy hosted Page Turners, a daytime book club programme for BBC 1. Formerly he presented Newsnight on BBC 1 and was the BBC’s Political Correspondent based at Millbank. Prior to that, he was their African Correspondent based in Johannesburg.
During his time at Durham University Jeremy studied English and presented
on Metro Radio in the middle of the night. His career in journalism began
with a traineeship at the Coventry Evening Telegraph. He supports Chelsea
Football Club, avidly and is a popular choice on the corporate circuit.
Sandi Toksvig
Sandi
Toksvig is the chair of Radio 4's newsquiz and also presents the weekly
travel show "Excess Baggage" on Saturday mornings.
The daughter of a foreign correspondent, Sandi has been travelling all her life. She grew up in Europe, Africa and America, at one point the family gave their permanent address as care of the Samsonite company.
She has now settled in the UK which she has sailed around with John McCarthy and toured throughout with many shows. She has also canoed across Africa and explored other distant parts for the BBC. She has just completed travel filming for BBC ONE's Holiday programme in Palm Springs and Majorca and is about to set off to cover parts of California, Washington State and southern Spain.
In between, she writes. She has published many children's books (she was a script writer for Saturday Kids show No 73 in the 80s and was a regular contributor), two adult novels and The Gladys Society, an American travel book in which Sandi tracks down eleven girls she was close to in her New York High School days.
Her dry wit, and satirical yet not cynical manner make her a popular choice for after dinner engagements and event hosting.
"Brilliant choice, we'll be using her again"
Sandi spoke at the First Women Awards in October 2007
"Sandi was simply brilliantly..what more can I say"
Sandi hosted the IVCA Awards in March 2007
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