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Perth Now
27-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Limahl is releasing his first album in over three decades
Limahl "will be" bringing out his first album in "30 years" in 2026 or 2027. The 80s pop icon, who shot to fame as a member of the boy band Kajagoogoo and then carved out a successful music career as a solo artist, is proud of the last three singles he released - 'A Horse With No Name', a cover of rock band America's 1971 track, 'Still in Love' and 'One Wish for Christmas' - and they have motivated him to release a new LP. Limahl, 66, told "My last three singles have all - I think they've been a really good standard with really strong videos, and I feel like I can hold my head up high with those tracks, and it's actually encouraged me to do an album. "I've got some really great songs just sitting there waiting. So in '26, or '27, I will be coming back with my first album in, I don't know, 30 years." The star - whose most recent album 'Love Is Blind' was released in 1992 - spent "months" working away on his new single as he blended electronic-sounding beats with the strong songwriting from America in his rendition of 'A Horse With No Name' - which Limahl has said the song has acted as a "friend" in his life. The 'Too Shy' singer said: "I am so proud! You have no idea of the journey that the production has been through. I worked on it. I left it. I worked on it. I left it. I worked on it. I left it because, sometimes, you just get to the point where you just can't hear it anymore. "And then my sister and my partner, Steve, were both saying, 'Well, you've got to release this. You've got to release this.' "And finally, after enough space, I started working on the video. And that really emboldened me. It was so much fun trying to create an interpretation of those bonkers lyrics." Limahl took the plunge of releasing his first cover song because he wanted to "put my own stamp on it". The 'Never Ending Story' performer explained: "Well, I've always loved the journey of having this spark here. "And from nowhere. And then suddenly, in three months, I'm listening back to something that started here. And I'm going. 'Wow, wow! This is exciting.' Or, 'Oh, that's terrible! On the shelf with that!' "But you know, there is a challenge in doing a cover. And, you know, one of my favourite singers of all time, Luther Vandross. He was a great songwriter. But when he did covers, OMG, they were so good, he did a cover of Karen Carpenter's song, 'Superstar', and he brought his own stamp on it. "And that's what I've tried to do with Horse. Put my own stamp on it. initially. I thought, 'Well, I can't use a guitar, because a guitar drives the original. So I'll go. I'll sort of start electronic. I'll go contemporary electronic, and we'll see how that goes.'" Limahl's version of 'A Horse With No Name' is out now via Christopher Music.
Daily Mirror
21-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Brit shares controversial tea colour chart with only 'one right answer' for perfect shade
How strong do you have your brew? Brits love their tea, but they can be very particular about how much milk to add to get the perfect strength. Now, a colour chart has divided tea-lovers online As the nation's favourite drink, Brits take their cups of tea very seriously—from the meticulous steps of making it to the exact shade they prefer. With more than 100 million cups of tea drunk every day in the UK, we know a thing or two about making the perfect brew. However, everyone has their own preferences regarding how much milk to add and the strength of their cuppa. Milk and sugar? Builder's brew? We all like our tea to look a certain way, and there's nothing like that feeling of being handed a cuppa with the exact right colour. A controversial tea chart caused carnage among Brits, who can't seem to agree on the perfect shade. Comedian Limahl Germain no doubt knew what he set in motion when he posted a TikTok of the tea chart and claimed there was only one right answer. He started by explaining that someone had made him a cup of tea and brought him back a "number eight", which is a very milky cup of tea, which had made him question their friendship. "You can't be trusted. I asked for a cup of tea and you brought me a cup of milk. Are you alright?" Asked Limahl. According to the comedian, number one is fine in his books, because it means you don't like milk in your tea. However, he added two "doesn't make sense" because it's like you just made a mistake by adding milk in. "What is the point?" he asked. Number three is also "silly" but "fair enough", because it means you've just put a "little drop of milk in there". Annd according to Limahl, "four and five is how you should drink your tea". "I don't care what anyone says, if you have milk in your tea, that's how it should look.' Warning: the video below contains swearing. With number six the comedian says you're "crossing the line", but haven't "crossed it yet", but if someone has asked for a 'milky tea', that's what you should be bringing them. Controversially, the comedian said that if you're drinking number seven, eight or nine, "you don't like tea". As you might expect, not everyone in the comment section of the video, which has been seen more than 113k times, agreed on what the perfect shade of tea is. One person wrote: "5 is the only appropriate response. Anything else, and I know that you don't like me." However, someone else commented: "I'm a 1 can't stand milk black tea all the way." Another quipped: "5 I want. 4 I'll accept. 6 I would reluctantly drink. Anything else, needs to thrown in the persons face!" A fourth explained: "Number 2 for me - I can explain… I was off milk when I was pregnant! And you can't dip a biccy in 1 but 2 you can." Shockingly, another shared: "I used to work with a woman who use to make 9 milk FIRST then hot water then would DIP the teabag in. I'm forever appalled."
Telegraph
21-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
Comic Relief 2025, review: The weakest telethon in recent memory
It was that time of year again. Comic Relief: Funny for Money (BBC One) celebrated its 40th birthday not, as host Joel Dommett suggested, 'by getting grey hairs everywhere and contemplating Botox'. Instead it marked the milestone with the weakest schedule-filler in recent memory. Live from Salford's Media City, the backslapping luvvies were out in force. The resulting red-nosed epic sprawled across almost five hours, alternating between disappointing sketches and heart-tugging stories to get viewers digging deep. Why not exploit the country's plentiful comedic talent, rather than rely on tired repeats? Why not have it helmed by stand-ups, rather than generic rent-a-presenters? What was once must-see TV has been reduced to a shadow of its former self. No wonder ratings and donations are down. Nodding to its 1985 origins with a loose 'Back to the Eighties' theme, the telethon kicked off with a medley of period-appropriate pop acts. Kajagoogoo's Limahl, T'Pau's Carol Vorderman and Roachford busted out doddery renditions of their signature hits as if on the cruise ship circuit. Hardly catnip for younger viewers. A slow start became a painful one when the first skit saw Chabuddy G from People Just Do Nothing, aka actor Asim Chaudhry, joining the Gladiators. He gave himself the Gladiator name of 'Girth, Wind & Fire', cracked copious flatulence gags and beat Bionic in a Duel but forgot to include any actual jokes. I dread to think how many viewers switched off before festivities had barely begun. As always, plentiful BBC properties received the skit treatment. A Strictly Come Dancing spoof saw the ballroom blockbuster's professional line-up fall victim to inclusivity quotas and forced to let amateurs join its ranks. Rachel Parris and Russell Kane landed the gig and delivered a game enough routine, even if Claudia Winkleman and Craig Revel Horwood taught them a thing or two about timing. The night's comedic high point was 'Not Going Beyond Paradise', a mash-up between sitcom Not Going Out and detective drama Beyond Paradise. Starring both of actress Sally Bretton's on-screen husbands, Lee Mack and Kris Marshall, it was a playfully daft tale of doppelgängers, slapstick and cosy crime tropes. The much-hyped Oasis reunion was lampooned with Inbetweeners stars James Buckley and Joe Thomas donning bushy monobrows to portray the Gallagher brothers. Piers Morgan popped up to play the villainous, demonically cackling CEO of a certain ticketing site. Talk about typecast. It was the most heavily trailed segment but fell flat, repeatedly relying on swearing as a punchline. Munya Chawawa attempted to become Brian Cox's understudy in West End play The Score. The no-nonsense Succession star gave him short shrift, possibly exacerbated by the underpowered script. It was hard to tell how much of the ensuing awkwardness was intentional. The feeble quality of the fresh sketches was only emphasised by reruns of Comic Relief classics starring Rik Mayall, Mr Bean, French and Saunders, Smithy from Gavin & Stacey and Billy Connolly's bare bottom. Less light-hearted but equally worthy was a five-minute mini-episode of EastEnders, focusing on Phil Mitchell. In recent months, the gravel-throated hard man has been suffering from depression and psychosis. The storyline reached crisis point on the soap's 40th anniversary when he attempted suicide and was sectioned. A stagey playlet set at the mental health unit saw Phil bond with a fellow patient. Produced in collaboration with the Brandon Centre, another Comic Relief-funded charity, it was quietly powerful and sensitively handled. This was the first Red Nose Day since the departure of the charity's co-founder but Sir Lenny Henry popped up in a VT package, reflecting on the past 40 years. Catching up with some people helped by Comic Relief-funded projects in Africa, he trotted out his now-familiar catchphrase: 'Forget geography. These are your neighbours. This is your doorstep.' Highlights from celebrity charity challenges tackled over the past week included double amputee Billy Monger's Ironman triathlon in the Hawaiian heat and Radio 1 DJ Jamie 'Biscuits' Laing completing five ultra-marathons by running 150 miles from London to Salford. Laing limped on-stage to hear that he'd heroically raised more than £2m. Proceedings were steered by a tag-team of eight co-hosts. Talk about BBC over-staffing. Lined up on-stage, they looked more like an ageing chorus line than a coherent presenting team. Dommett, Rylan and Davina McCall were the pick of the bloated bunch. Musical interludes punctuated proceedings with the regularity of commercial breaks. The Sugababes wowed but were Rock Choir and Titanique really the best the bookers could do? Come the 10 O'Clock News, the action switched to BBC Two for edgier post-watershed material. Tom Allen and AJ Odudu oversaw a 'late 'n' live'-style cabaret beset by technical glitches. Pontypridd stand-up Paul Hilleard, winner of last year's BBC New Comedy Award, delivered a fitfully amusing deadpan set. This was followed by a return to the flagship channel for 40 Years Of Funny, a retrospective romp through the archives with Emma Willis and Asim Chaudhry. Comic Relief reached its 40th year with too many creaking joints and too few aching sides. This frustratingly flat spectacle might have raised millions of pounds for charitable causes. It just didn't raise many laughs.
