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Truth & humiliation at the Millennium Stadium…

May 19th, 2009 • Peter • 0 comments • Related • Filed Under

By overwhelming demand, Harry Harvey continues the harrowing tale of the sacrifice of his Ego on the altar of XFactor.

While Women’s Beach Volleyball is my spectator sport of choice, I have also watched on television innumerable sessions of young men in shorts engaged in vigorous body contact at the Millenium Stadium, and it has always seemed to me a vast space – a verdant savannah surrounded by a mighty wall of Welsh persons in national dress of red rugby shirts, waving daffodils and leeks, and singing a lot.  But, bizarrely, the place turns out– like Her Majesty the Queen and Sylvester Stallone – to be a great deal smaller in real life than you’d imagined.

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Horror and degradation in the Millennium Stadium

May 4th, 2009 • Peter • 1 comment • Related • Filed Under

I’m sure I’ve mentioned on this blog my commitment to the pursuit of truth – fleeting and everlasting – through personal engagement. You won’t read here any commentaries delivered from the comfort and safety of my own armchair, like those of other observers who are content to sit and grumble about the horror and degradation of reality TV shows without ever experiencing them at first hand. Now that these seem to occupy half the schedules on most channels, and with all the fuss about Susan Boyle, I thought I should, on behalf of those who follow this blog, and to satisfy my own indestructible curiosity, expose myself to the potential humiliation of an audition for one of these shows. And so, being the possessor of what has kindly been described as a pleasing baritone voice, last Saturday I took myself off to auditions for the X-Factor at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff.

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