Is this Pint Yours?
Supping an ice cold beer in the sun - is there anything better?
I want to buy you a beer right now, what's your favorite at your local? I'm a huge fan of Asahi. Do you have a blog or a website? Are you getting a good group of regular visitors?
Well I have an offer for you that's so cool you'll want to sup it right down. If you talk about me and my website (www.mindofkennedy.co.uk) on your blog, website or else where I will get you a pint for every UK visitor you send my way. I mean it.
If you're interested in grabbing a well earned pint just for writing a little bit about my after dinner entertainment and sticking a link to my site on your blog or website then email me and we'll make that happen.
Be warned - the pint has been pulled and as it stands on the bar the head is already fizzing away - and we all know there's nothing worse than a flat pint.
email me info@mindofkennedy.co.uk with the name of your fav beer and your web address.
Kennedy
p.s. I am NOT joking - I am really going to buy you that pint!
Blackpool Baby!
Hidehi!
Back again to the blog - I was waiting to here back from the organisers of Saturday night's event in Blackpool.
I was at the Winter Gardens performing as part of the most extravagant Halloween party I have ever seen. 6 rooms all fitted out in ghostly fashion, one even had a full installation ghost train with live actors!!!
Mad. I was performing on the main stage for 600 or so people who sat nicely around those large circular banqueting tables. But this weekend I was not my usual self. Not at all in fact. For the first time in 8 years I was out there with hair that had not a single spike to it. Yes that picture really is of me, in my get-up.
In retrospect I look part drag-queen, part dead Victorian (which was the aim) but none the less it's an image I am quite pleased with and am considering putting a specialist act together with this kind of theme.
I'm excited to say that the organisers were very pleased with the show and so much so that we are going to work with me to create a bespoke performance piece for the future! How VERY exciting.
Who Would You Wear?
It's almost time to stick make-up all over you face and dress up like a creep (no offense M.J.) for Halloween. I was wondering, if you could have a mask made of ANY face at all - who or what would it be?
Looking forward to your comments. I'll post the top 10 in a week's time.
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I have the answer but do YOU have the question?
Im not known for being the run of the mill. In fact I'm the polar opposite and today I thought I'd help you bury your wee head in the sand while the economy around us continues to look like the finale of a game of Jenga.So imagine this, i've grown a beard, a long grey one. I have furry bushy eye brows the size of slugs and I sit behind a table in the local pub. From my face comes the voice of Edna Burch from Coronation Street telling you to settle down as its pub quiz.
Normal pub quiz involves me askin' a question - and you scribbing down the answers. Today is different. Below is the answer - I want to know the question. It's back to front. The funnier, stranger and more whacky the question the better.
So what question did I ask to elicit the response:
"it seemed like a good idea at the time James"
Kennedy
p.s. remember to pass it on to everyone you know - and use the links below to share it around a bit.
Credit Crunch?
Everyone I speak to is worried about this thing we keep hearing about called the Credit Crunch. Recession causes depression and the truth it is it almost entirely manufactured by the press. After all, they've been dying to have something (anything!!) to write about for years, and in between slating celebrities they have gotten their teeth in to the financial situation and are now causing most of the mess we find ourselves in.
The press say 'we're in a recession' and we stop buyin, freezing up the economy. It's a self fulfilling profficy. So what can we do? Well we've just booked up to spend much of Christmas in London, seeing shows, shopping and having a great time. THAT is what people need, they need to escape the 'real' world where the world economy rules, and submerge ourselves in glorious festivities.
So do yourself a favour, realise that right now your staff, your friends - everyone you know and meet - is feeling low, so if you want to get more out of them, give them an escape, make this year's Christmas party a special one - one that will make everyone forget about whatever the heck is going on outside.
Manchester - what happened?
What happened after the Manchester show for the CBA?Manchester Tonight
I'm off to Manchester for a performance this evening at what looks like a stunning hotel - The Midland Hotel. Back down there to perform for The Chemical Business Association and their guests.
60 minutes of me being weird and comical, then an overnight stay in the hotel. Travelling home tomorrow which I am really looking forward to.
Before I head off I'm making the last minute checks, ensuring I have everything I need and drinking a lot of tea. Good times!
Speak tomorrow!!
Whiskey for Christmas
Today I got an email from a very excited young lady who wanted to book me for the company Christmas party fr Chivas. The people who make that lovely Whiskey in Scotland will be getting the Kennedy Factor in December this year.
As you can imagine, things for Christmas '08 are really hotting up and it is getting very exciting.
In other news, recently I have been listening to a lot of Joe Vitale's audio programme The Missing Secret and once finished I'll be watching the internationally best selling DVD The Secret which features Vitale. This stuff is all about the success mind set and it is incredibly interesting thinking for sure.
This coming week I am in Manchester for the Chemical Business Organisation's annual event. They flew me out to Barcelona for their international conference and they want some more Kennedy love - so I'll be there on Wednesday.
Good times. I will try and make a video blog whilst there just to keep you in the loop.
Kennedy
p.s. it's almost hair cut time!!
What Happened Next?
Yesterday I posted a blog about my apprehension before the show for Mars in Budapest. If you haven;t read the blog and watched the video yet then this won't make much sense so go back and check it out here: Mentalist Budapest.
So I arrived at the Cotton Club, a 10 minute taxi ride away from the hotel. Just look at the picture I took of the stage. It was just stunning. One of Budapest's nicest venues for all kinds of events. I am hoping to get hold of some photographs of me actually performing and as soon as I have them I will pop them here for you to see.
So I went on stage and performed. Then the moment I arrived back at the hotel I recorded this video blog for you as promised:
Budapest Mentalist
Arriving at the Hilton West End, Budapest I was greeted and shown to my room. As you can see its your standard 5 star job. Nicely laid out and furnished in minimalist clean and modern decor.
The flight took me from my nearest airport - Newcastle, for an hour and 15mins to Amsterdam. Only 2 hours waiting in the enormous airport at Schiphol before boarding the second KLM aircraft for the two hour flight to Budapest.
I'd been up since 1:15am (as you will see I blogged before leaving home), been traveling for 7 hours by the time I reached the hotel - then decided to meet up with a friend to have a look round the local shopping centre and grab some lunch. Haim and I talked about performance for a few hours before I had to head to get ready.
The tiredness was starting to kick in and when you're tired your emotions are heightened, so whilst at the hotel getting myself ready I recorded this video blog, it might shock you, its a side of me that raises its head very rarely, and its my most open and honest blog to date.
What happened? How did it go - I'll post the next part tomorrow!
Important Announcement
I have decided that after 18 months of performing up to 8 shows a week and travelling all over Europe that I will take on only a maximum of 3 engagements each week, with immediate effect. Of course this will not affect any bookings made already, of course I will honour them.You see, if I am flying around as much as I have been in the past 18 months I am afraid that in another 18 months I will be tired and my performance will suffer - that is the last thing I want. Audiences, guests and clients deserve the best performance possible every single time so I want to safeguard that by making sure that I don't exhaust myself. Of course this means I can spend more time with my family and working on various other projects too.
Am I sick of performing? Absolutely not, I love it more than ever and it's the thing that keeps me alive, breathing and excited to wake up each and every day. That is the reason I am changing the way I do things. I want to make sure that I am still loving it next year, and not surviving on substances just to keep my eyes open and my mind fresh.
I hope you understand. Anyway, I recorded some blogs while in Budapest, they;re the most honest from-the-heart blogs to date - I'll be able to stick them up here tomorrow (I hope).
Until then, thanks for your support as usual.
Kennedy
Look at the Time
Good morning, no I am not up late, I am up early. In an hour's time I am going to be leaving home for the airport - off to Budapest, Hungary on 5:55am flight via Amsterdam. Tonight performing for those lovely people who make chocolate, Mars. I just wanted to show you the place I am performing at tonight for these guys - the room looks perfect for my kind of show! Check it out online at http://www.cottonclub.hu.
I hope to record some video blogs while out there - so long as the bags under my eyes dont make me look like a 40 year-old. Then I'll be straight on to Crete, again I hope to make at least one video blog from there to give you a little taste of the sun.
Globe Hopping
Its about to get super exciting - next week things will heat up as I jump on 2 flights to Budapest this coming Thursday (flying Newcastle to Amsterdam, then on to Budapest). After performing for the senior management of Mars at the Hilton, I'll get a night in the hotel, a 10am flight back to the UK. After just one night in my own bed (consider that I'll be landing at around 4:45pm) I have to rise early to travel to London Gatwick to catch a flight to island of Crete.
It was a bit of an ego boost to find out that Thomson Holidays have specifically contacted an agent to trace me and fly me back to entertain their high profile guests at the beautiful Sensatori resort. Which means, yes I get to show off to you about the private swimming pools, the floating bar and the 6 star accommodation.
Anyway, before that - tonight I am doing my bit for Mencap, a charity event at the Marriott Hotel, Gosforth (just outside of Newcastle Upon Tyne). It's going to be a great night, and something quite different for me in that I will be not performing on stage but up-close and personal with the guests, reading minds and influencing thoughts.
Very much looking forward to it, I'll report back on it tomorrow. Thanks for reading!
Kennedy
Dylan and Great
Yesterday was spent in York. Playing not working. Tess and I ate well, drank a little and swam around a York in the rain. We were there for Dylan Moran. The comedian was on top form at the York Opera House.It's a creeky old theatre, and on that stage Moran did make the sell out audience roar with the laughter. He talked about everything from women squirting jam in to envelopes to wanting to eat the guy at the office who steels your stapler.
Random and rageful in places, yet talking about his family and his gentle pace made him still the likable being we've grown to love. You see, I was worried that after his massive success on TV with Blackbooks and then the big screen super stardom of Run Fatboy, Run - I was afraid that he might have let the stardom and big name go to his little Irish head - but no. Like everything else, Dylan takes it in his stride and bathed in what he does best and that is performing live stand up.
If you get the chance to see Dylan Moran as he tours over the next few months I'd say do it. A great night out and you'll never find the notion of spontaneously combusting penguins so damn funny!
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