Kiss and Tell
Sophisticated satirical cabaret
A witty new Cabaret presenting a satirical look at
London Life , Sex, smoking, Celebrity, Love & Money !
"Your cabaret was brilliantly witty .....We had a superb evening." Michael Portillo, private party.
The Team
Melinda Hughes
Melinda Hughes studied at the Maastricht conservatory of Music, The Royal College of Music, London and the Brussels Opera Studio. She toured for two years as the special guest with The Andre Rieu Strauss Orchestra often appearing on televison and radio.
Opera roles include Madame Butterfly (Diva Opera, Longborough Opera & Columbia artists touring USA) The Countess, Mimi, Fiordiligi, Violetta (Central Festival Opera & European Chamber Opera) Gilda, Frasquita, Donna Anna, Pamina (Chateau La Hulpe Festival Brussels), Euridice (Cordoba) Frau Fluth (Netherlands) & Nedda in I Pagliacci touring Europe.
She has sung in concert halls all over the world, giving recitals in Holland, Germany, Spain, Italy and France. She is equally in demand as a cabaret and Jazz singer.
Melinda wrote (with Nigel Osner) and produced “From Love to Decay” -a bittersweet musical comedy that premiered at The Jermyn Street Theatre in 2002 and has appeared with her own cabaret at Pizza on the Park, The Chelsea Arts Club, many private parties as well as The Waldorf Astoria in New York.
Jeremy Limb
Jeremy read music at Queen’s College, Oxford, then studied piano at the Royal College of Music.
Since leaving the R.C.M. he has broadcast on BBC Radio 3 as part of their Young Artists’ Forum concert series; given numerous recitals round the country, and in 1997 won 1st Prize in the 18th Brant National Piano Competition. He now works as a freelance musician in various capacities – soloist, accompanist, sightreader, repetiteur (including a lot of work for English National Opera), as well as arranger and performer of all types of music including jazz/pop. He is also a writer and performer of comedy and is part of the Award winning Act "The Trap"; In this capacity he performs regularly at the Pleasance at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, he has had material used on BBC1 by Harry Enfield, has written and performed on ITV2, BBC3 and BBC Radio 4, and he was nominated for the LWT New Comedy Writing Award 1998 for his play ‘Play Wisty For Me - The Life of Peter Cook’.
Jeremy has written all the original music for "Carbon Footprints in my Jimmy Choos", "Smoker's Lament", My Guru, The architect of My Heart & "I'm a D List Celebrity".
Lloyd Evans - writer
Lloyd is a free-lance journalist and script-writer as well as the theatre critic for The Spectator.
He has written Grand Slam, currently running at The Kings Head, as well as Who's the Daddy with Toby Young (2005).
Lloyd has written comedy for BBC TV such as The Real McCoy & Meaningful Sex and for Radio 4. He has appeared as a performance poet in theaters all over the country.
In 1999 he won the UK All-comers Poetry Slam at the Cheltenham Festival.
In 2000 he was poet in residence at AOL Radio and from 2000-6 he was poetry editor of the Spectator. He is currently working on a radio documentary about Paradise Lost to be broadcast in 2008, the 400th anniversary of Milton’s birth. Lloyd co-writes the cabaret script and is a major contribution to the lyrics of our songs.
The Band
Jamie Fisher - Drums
Jamie Fisher’s professional career began at the age of 21 in UK university tribute bands. After gaining a music diploma from Merton College, he travelled for a year, joining a Brazilian Samba band, based in Sydney. Back in the UK, he joined a many bands including Regenesis, (touring UK and Europe), releasing 2 live CDs and a live DVD, Melbourne, releasing their debut album ‘Night Star’ in 2002 and recorded with jazz-rock group Sphere on their critically-acclaimed album ‘Comeuppance’.Jamie has been drummer & MD for Samantha Fox, which has taken him to The US, Russia, and Shanghai.
2004 saw Jamie co-form Santo El Diablo, an eclectic trio of moody alt-rock and folk influence. He recorded with Surrey punksters larp, featuring on their debut album ‘pop hideous’.Jamie is currently collaborating with Steve Sale (Katie Melhua’s producer/engineer) He also appears with Celloman (Ivan Hussey), bringing his unique blend classical and word music flavours to festival audiences. He also plays part-time with Bluesman Bob Hokum and his band The Guvnors, headlining the Walpole Blues festival every summer.
Andy Tolman Double Bass
Andy Tolman started his playing career in 1988 as a drummer but while he enjoyed making a massive amount of noise he found the lack of "notes" restrictive. He was also rubbish at it so he moved to bass guitar, taking up the double bass soon after. This led to Andy studying jazz at the Royal Academy of Music, graduating in 1997 with a honours degree and a bloated liver. Since then Andy has performed, recorded or shared a stage with artists as diverse as Lady Smith Black Mambaza, Kiri Te Kanawa, Micheal Buble, Stacie Orrico, P!nk and slightly bizarrely, Jamie Oliver. At present Andy is performing with The Electric Experience playing Hendrix-esque originals and The Tarantinos who are performing at many major European festivals.
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