Saturday's Big March video Now Up.

That video I made at the recent big London March

is now up on my youtube channel, although considering

the video's content, the views are a bit slow at the

moment. Hopefully in time they'll pick up a bit.

Sometimes video's struggle to get up on youtube's

search engines. And I'm told that it's all about the

algorithms.

VIDEO HERE.

 

When Our Shirley Sang For Her Dear Life.

I've heard so much about this iconic performance by Shirley Bassey,

it's almost become the stuff of legend. And reacting to the video of the

performance is youtube reactor Adam Strong who is clearly a student

of the voice, observing how people perform. In fact I felt compelled to

keep my eye on his visible reactions while watching Dame Shirley

at the same time.

But I think you'll need headphones for this one as Adam films himself just

inches away from the tv screen using the volume from the tv itself which

kind of looks appealing in the same way that children sit so close to their

tv screen when watching cartoons.

And so this performance by Dame Shirley singing The Greatest Performance

of my Life is apparently a standout moment in her career. And it was the

final closing song from her 1976 BBC tv series. But what made her go all out,

belting it out like there was no tomorrow, as you wont see another

performance like it anywhere else.

Was she out to impress the BBC and win a contract for another Saturday

night series? If so then it worked as they offered her a new contract in 1979.

Dame Shirley is now 88 and I was shocked to see up on youtube recently (2025)

her belting out the closing bars of Diamonds Are Forever. Even at 88 her

voice is as strong as ever.

That video can be seen HERE.

ADAM STRONG'S YOUTUBE

INSTAGRAM

 

Below: Adam reacting to one of several

Michael Jackson videos.

Making Something For Almost Nothing....My Antique Bouillotte Lamp Updated

Sometimes I can't believe how I manage to knock up and create something for almost

nothing, like this Federal French style Bouillotte lamp which I put together back in 2022.

And in this top picture above you can see that I've updated it a little by placing over the

three candlesticks, which are actually three cut up bits from a wooden broomstick, and

I've placed over them three wider cut up bits from a length of white plastic one inch

plumbing piping.

And to update and highlight the black lampshade I've attached some brass eagles that I

ordered through a company using e-bay that sells U.S Presidential paraphernalia.

And yet when you look around on e-bay for these classic style Bouillotte lamps, you

can expect to pay up to £3,000 pounds or over. After all the style of these antique

artifacts date back to the French Royal period of  Louis XV. But I believe that I've

managed to put together this home made one for at least under £30:00.

Above: Gathering up all the things needed to make the Lamp back in 2022.

Original Blog post from 2022 HERE.

Below are just a few French Bouillotte Lamps I found for sale online. And as you can see the prices are quite staggering.

At Last Saturday's Big London March

Last Saturday I joined in with a million marchers in Central London for the

Unite The Kingdom March, an event I knew I had to get to having missed the

previous one, although for this one even more people turned out.

Overall the event was a very successful one apart from a few scuffles down by

the Embankment Bridge where patriotic revellers were for a while blocked

access to the central Trafalgar Square area. And I got caught up in one by

choosing to get right in there for some close up video footage, and got

knocked about in the process. But thankfully my video camera

survived the knocks.

Although I did hear of more scuffles with a small turnout of counter protestors.

And things got quite hairy when some patriots broke through Police lines in an

attempt to reach the counter protestors, as was well documented by top youtuber

Wesley Winter.

Interestingly I often get people coming up to me to say their piece to my

camera (below) believing that I must be part of the media. They're clearly

misreading the stickers I have on my video screen hood.

But it was great to see a lot of familiar street youtubers, most of who were

Live streaming the big event, something I don't do.

I'm not sure what happened to my last youtube video The London Asian Festival.

It seems to be stuck on zilch views. I don't think it's finding youtube's search engines.

So hopefully this next video will get my channel back on course. But there's still

more to edit as I filmed quite a lot.

 

Serge Gainsbourg.....Love On the Beat

Returning once again to Serge Gainsbourg, talented poet, singer, composer and film maker,

I was keen to showcase one of his performances from his 1986 Casino de Paris Concert. 

In fact there were quite a few interesting concerts and performances in Paris during the late

1980's that I've only just been discovering on youtube.

And yes, sure in 1986 he looks a little disheveled here before he's even started the performance.

And his physical decline was there for all to see. But I think his home French fans loved his Devil

may care attitude.

And so this song from The Casino de Paris is titled 'Love On the Beat' from 1985 which definitely

has that classic big sound from the 80's.

The video was kindly uploaded to youtube by

MARIO TENORIO