Kilworth House Prom

3 Commentsby Juliette  |  July 25th, 2010  |  Domestic Diva, Latest News, Performances, Record Producing

Me relaxing in luxury at Kilworth???

Greetings from Kilworth House. Had a great concert last night (was lovely to see David and his wife in the audience cheering me on) and after a lovely whole nights sleep in hotel luxury,  I’m about to warm up for concert no.2 tonight. I feel a little guilty as when I spoke to James at about 9am this morning he said he’d been up for hours and twice in the night for the boys but it was his turn to work last weekend…

He told me he had a very strange dream where his Dad was getting really cross about the twins wrecking their house and breaking everything in it (we are visiting them next weekend and the house is for sale) so James jumped to the boys defence and pointed out that the pigs running around the kitchen were far more likely to blame. (James’ Dad keeps a couple of pigs in the garden – the plot thickens.) Then he was woken up by Arthur screaming so we don’t know More »

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Money, money, money

7 Commentsby Juliette  |  July 19th, 2010  |  Latest News, Record Producing

Those of you who don’t listen to Classic Fm may not know that Craig Ogden, the fantastic guitarist who I duetted with on Venezia, has a new album out. James and I did a couple of arrangements for it and I’m pleased to say it went
straight into the classical charts at no.1. Not that we will benefit financially by it’s sales; if you produce an album, you get points on it (and we all know that points mean prizes, or rather money in this case). However, if you do the musical arrangement you get paid a fee but nil points (to be said in the appropriate Eurovision accent). Still, it’s nice to see something we were involved with do well.

Speaking of money, we received our PRS statement today which is always exciting as you earn extra money you didn’t More »

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Nasty little critters

7 Commentsby Juliette  |  July 12th, 2010  |  Latest News, Record Producing

The lovely Port Quin in Cornwall

The start of a new week and I’m delighted to have a ‘nit-free’ family. I realise this is probably too much information but the little blighters are SO tedious to get rid of and don’t exactly help you make friends and influence people… We had a meeting with Myleene Klass last week and she has the most beautiful long flowing hair,  I do so hope she doesn’t have nits now. I’m consoling myself with the fact it’s an old wives tale they jump from head to head. More »

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First Night and Last Night of the Proms

4 Commentsby Juliette  |  July 6th, 2010  |  "First Night", Latest News, Performances, Twin news

Still waiting to see if Sizzle is going to make it into the Venice Film Festival  – we should hear next week.  To confuse matters, it isn’t Sizzle anymore. They’ve changed it to First Night – quelle surprise (or should I say quelle amélioration!)

Some good news is Proms in the Park has enquired about my availability for the Last Night of the Proms in Salford again which I feel really pleased about as I’d presumed they wouldn’t want the same soloist 3 years in a row. Fingers crossed they make a definite booking. More »

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Brian Blessed

9 Commentsby Juliette  |  June 29th, 2010  |  Domestic Diva, Latest News, Record Producing

As you can see from the picture we had Mr Blessed in the studio last week and boy oh boy, is he larger than life! The man can tell a tale or two and has some incredible stories about Everest and Mallory. The babies found him very entertaining too but think it was the beard that did it rather than the conversation. He was with us doing some voiceover work for The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme – all for free which is pretty nice of him really.

We spent an idyllic weekend in Cornwall at a family wedding in the beautiful church of St Endellion made famous by the classical music festival held there (established by the late Sir More »

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