Dancing with the Primrose Hill Mob

Rhys IfansLast night my wonderful other half, C, got to have a night out on her own and went up to the ‘cool’ part of town to see a gig with a friend of hers.

But this wasn’t any ordinary gig. Oh no, it was The Peth. For those of you not quite up-to-date with their rock trivia, The Peth is a new outfit fronted by none other than Rhys Ifans and also including Super Furry Animals Dafydd Ieuan.

Ifans used to be in an early incarnation of the SFA with Ieuan, so this isn’t exactly a complete change of direction, but they’re now doing a mini tour and played an intimate little gig last night at the Hoxton Bar & Grill in Hoxton Square.

Apparently they came on at about 10pm and, according to C, Rhys Ifans is a pretty convincing front man who’s “really working the whole Mick Jagger thing”.

It would have been nice to go myself, but sadly babysitting duties meant I stayed at home. The evening took a slightly surreal turn for me, though, when I got a couple of texts at about 11.30m from C.

– Just been dancing next to Kate Moss and Sadie Frost

My reply was: ‘I don’t know what to say to that’, to which C replied:

– Just been for wee with Samantha Morton

You can’t really top that, can you?

Why smoking celebs are no role model

According to today’s news reports, doctors want film censors to be more rigorous with their certificates if actors are smoking.

Experts believe that seeing someone such as Brad Pitt or Uma Thurman smoking, for example, is likely to encourage young, impressionable kids to start smoking.

Oh cobblers! There are many reasons why kids take up smoking and probably bottom of the list is seeing Uma Thurman puff away on a cigarette in Pulp Fiction. Get real!

Why BT and Peter Jones don’t fit

BT (otherwise known as British Telecommunications) decided that Dragon’s Den entrepreneur and millionaire Peter Jones was a genius fit when they replaced Gordon Ramsay with him in their current Gremlins ad campaign.

The idea, of course, is that if Jones used BT, he’d never have a problem with his IT ever again.

All well and good, but Jones is a multi-miilionaire who flies around in private jets and helicopters. He’s not going to call up a helpline himself – he’d have a flunkey to do it for him.

Equally, I can’t believe he sits an office such as the one above, allowing someone to say “Don’t work too late,” to him as they leave.

As much as he tries to pretend otherwise, Peter Jones is a social tier and financial class above the average business user. Sorry, BT, own goal!