Tommy Collison » Videos

Memphis

Tommy — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 23:12:16 +0000

Wonderful version of a wonderful song.

Green Day & The Simpsons

Tommy — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 21:24:41 +0000

The original is a piece of orchestral genius, but the rock version is sublime:

Murmuration

Tommy — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 09:00:00 +0000

Incredible:

Murmuration from Sophie Windsor Clive on Vimeo.

“A chance encounter and shared moment with one of natures greatest and most fleeting phenomena”

Liberty Smith and Sophie Windsor Clive unexpectedly caught a rather large murmuration on video while canoeing on the River Shannon in Ireland. A collection of starlings is called a murmuration.

Conan

Tommy — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 09:00:00 +0000

Conan O’Brien’s show started back (with much fanfare) while I was over in America, and I became quite fond of following it while I was Stateside. Watching this video brought back memories of the downright silly nature of his show:

Here, Conan plays a real-life version of the popular video game “Angry Birds”:

Edit on March 10th — they pulled the original video, so I’ve replaced it with a different, as-of-now working one.

Show-Time

Tommy — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 20:06:44 +0000

Last Friday, I took part in CentreStage Youth Theatre’s latest variety show. Our director told us to pick songs from more obscure musicals. I’ll admit I was apprehensive about it but in hindsight, it made a generic ‘night-at-the-musicals’ more interesting because the usual songs were nowhere to be found. I’m certain I speak for a lot of people, cast and audience alike, when I say that I learnt a lot of new songs and musicals from the show.

The dress-code for the night was ‘debs-ey’, so I dug out the suit I wear for weddings. It hadn’t seen the light of day for about 18 months but luckily still fitted me. As I tweeted, every time I wear a suit, I’m reminded why these occasions are rare. I’m too used to wearing jeans and converse to be able to comfortably pull off a suit.

I did one solo, The Kite from You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown. It’s a definite kids’ song, but I enjoyed doing something quite different this show.

Once again, I experienced the weird sensation of being on auto-pilot while on-stage. The song I was doing was quite fast with a lot of similar-sounding verses and I found myself tripping over them a lot in rehearsals. However, once I got on-stage, I found muscle memory kicking in and my mind freeing up.

The song is supposed to be be accompanied by some sort of kite prop but I felt that a physical prop would be too distracting. Not having a prop in the end didn’t bother me, because I enjoyed the miming aspect of the invisible kite. Because singing went on auto-pilot, I was able to devote a lot of effort to actions, facial expressions and the like, which was great.

All in all, I was pleased with how the show went; the show overall as well as my solo. It was a great experience that reminded me why I love musical theatre. :)

Genius

Tommy — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 18:30:43 +0000

Mary Poppins.. as a horror film.

My New Hero

Tommy — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 15:19:04 +0000

It’s now on my list of things to do before I die – anyone know any good cliffs nearby? The closest ones I can think of are the Cliffs of Moher but I somehow think that they’re not exactly opportune…

Something since it’s Christmas

Tommy — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 05:00:48 +0000

Josh Ritter – Good Man

Tommy — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 23:23:43 +0000

But for now…

Tommy — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:02:43 +0000

There will be a RENT post going up, but I don’t have the photos (Patrick took them, and I’m not meeting him until later). Needless to say it was completely awesome.

For now, I’d like to share with you the reason I was so annoyed at being in America this weekend; missing the floods: