Here at Active You we were all very sad to hear of the deaths of both Patrick Swayze and Keith Floyd yesterday morning. Both very well-known personalities, they managed to build big fan bases in thei... [More]

This morning I was doing my usual run through the various News channels and I stumbled upon a piece of information on Yahoo! that has left me bemused to put it lightly. It appears the BBC are now org... [More]

The BBC sacked 66 years-old Arlene Phillips about 3 weeks ago and replaced her with Alesha Dixon who is 30 years-old.They then proceeded to get rid of Karen Hardy who is (horror)  39 years-old an... [More]

Here at Active You we love our music and the arrival of August got me thinking about what would be the ideal playlist to get through the English summer with my moral intact despite the bad weather.The... [More]

Jed Walters talks about the Proms in this week’s newsletter and I couldn’t not mention them in my weekly mention of the entertainment industry. He has covered pretty much the origins of... [More]

As you know, I love going to theatre and the opera and classical music concerts and recitals and so on and so forth, but I do find it turns into a rather unpleasant experience when my fellow theatre-g... [More]

Do you like musicals? I love them and I have worringly developed an interest for those BBC 1 programmes with Andrew Lloyd Webber.Last winter a group of friends and I got hooked on “I’d do... [More]

I had written this great little piece about theatre etiquette and how people who talk or use their phones during a performance are extremely irritating, but I ended up seeing Madonna live at the O2 he... [More]

These days we hear and see a lot about the infamous Amy Winehouse, her fantastic voice, her drug and now alcohol addictions and how these are ruining her talents.Let’s not forget how exactly 50 ... [More]

Island Records celebrated its 50th birthday last month with much noise, a number of parties, podcasts, photo exhibitions, the “Island Life” 6-days run of concerts and the launch of yet ano... [More]