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Last night at The Torriano pub in Kentish Town was hell – although Frank didn’t seem too fazed about it. After the performance, I told him I’d felt like giving up again, but he gave me that Derbyshire chuckle and told me to ‘cheer up, lad’. I think I might even be winning his respect….
Thanks to Frank Blunt, I’m back to telling the bee-sting story. I’d tried it in my very first attempt at stand-up – the night we all had to perform after Logan Murray’s weekend course, on Sunday 7th October last year. Looking back at my diary, I’d been pacing up and down the Passeig Colom in…
He turned up yesterday at 10.30am. Frank Blunt, a reporter from Glossop, Derbyshire, on an assignment with May-B Productions for the making of ‘The Blunt Interviews’ – ‘STANDING UP’. I didn’t like the look of him at first. Actually, it’s not that I didn’t like the look of him – but he looked like he’d…
They’re coming to my apartment at around 7.30am this Saturday. A cameraman, a sound operator, and some documentary-filmmaker/narrator, apparently from ‘up North’ – although up North of where, I haven’t a clue. I know nothing about them, only that they’re doing a ‘fly-on-the-wall’ doc on ‘wannabe stand-ups’. I’m not even sure I’m a ‘wannabe stand-up’…
“Hugely entertaining memoir … frequently laugh-out-loud funny.” The Daily Express “Parfitt is no ordinary Englishman. His light touch and neat line in self-deprecating humour perfectly suits this entertaining urban spin on the old tale of Brits having fun under the Spanish sun.” The Sunday Times “A love letter to Madrid … brilliantly captures a truly…
Mucho Toro – Las tribulaciones de un inglés en la movida Haga clic paraLa Tormenta Blogspot Haga clic para Entrevista Londres Cervantes Haga clic para Dossier de Prensa (Editorial Almuzara) Haga clic para Entrevista en El Pais (3/10/08) Haga clic para Entrevista en Periodista Digital (17/9/08) A finales de los años ochenta, Tim Parfitt tiene que trasladarse a Madrid para…
Spain Magazine – July 2006 While most holidaymakers and settlers head for the costas, short trippers and culture vultures flock in increasing numbers to the cities, and thirst for books about these is on the rise. The subtitle of Parfitt’s tome, An Englishman’s Adventures in Madrid, makes you fear the worst. But it is the…
OK! Magazine – 25 July 2006 In the late 80s, Tim Parfitt worked for publishers Condé Nast when he was asked to head over to Madrid for a six-week stint to help launch the Spanish Vogue. But six weeks became nine years, and helping out turned into running the company. Tim has a pretty vivid…
The Daily Mirror – 21 July 2006 Discomfort was not something Tim Parfitt ever had to endure during his 10-year stay in Madrid. A Load of Bull is more a love letter to the city than a guide, and entertainingly charts an ex-pat’s experience of the glamorous side of the city. As an employee of…
The Sunday Times – 23 July 2006 ‘Looking for action’ – review by Anthony Sattin. Tim Parfitt’s A Load of Bull is presented as “an Englishman’s adventures in Madrid”, but he is no ordinary Englishman. Or rather, he has his ordinary side and, like most young men alone in the capital, he drinks too much,…