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30.9.04
It was 20 years ago today...
Chig's big anniversary. It's not just Radio 1's birthday today, but today is the TWENTIETH anniversary of me coming to live in Birmingham. I can hardly believe it's been that long - I only came here for three (or four) years at Aston University, but as I still haven't yet decided what I want to do when I grow up(!), I'm still here. Wednesday 30th September 1984 was such a life-changing day for me that the date has been etched on my memory ever since. The day I left the family home. The day I moved to Birmingham. The day I started Uni. It was even the day I opened my bank account with Midland Bank (and I'm still with their successor, HSBC). More importantly though, for me at the time, it was the day that, at long last, I could start to BE GAY. That was the foremost thought on my mind that day, never mind the course. I had seen a poster on the noticeboard in the Guild of Students for the Lesbian & Gay Soc when I'd been to Aston's open day, and I wondered if I would be able to pluck up the courage to join. My optimism for a new life immediately was about to be shattered though, and Freshers' Week got off to the worst start possible, but that's a story for another day... · link
23.9.04
The Boys Of Summer
It's been a busy Summer. So many men, so little time.... And then Chig woke up, and it was Autumn. · link
22.9.04
Hello! Hello! I'm Back Again!
Yeeeeeeee-haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar!! It's working! It's bloody working! It's 21.40 and I appear to have successfully installed my new Wanadoo modem in the last ten minutes, so I am now officially back in cyberspace, on the new, super-duper home PC, and on broadband for the first time. Hurrah! It's in a different room as well, so this really does feel like a fresh start. It may be the last day of Summer today (how depressing), but the new season on World Of Chig is about to start. Not quite sure what it 'll be starting with exactly, but give me a few days to do a bit of Spring cleaning around here and all the usual rubbish will resume. With photos. Lots of photos. It's been a very photographic Summer. I must put on record my eternal gratitude to my mate Gregster, who has helped me at every stage of the way with the investigating, purchasing, building, installing and trouble-shooting of this new PC. For the meagre payment of pizzas, biscuits and the occasional DVD, he has guided this technical ignoramus through it all. I can't overstate how grateful I am. (He now wishes his own PC was as good as mine!) Thanks Gregster. Music fans, it's time to get your thinking caps on once again. Very shortly, I shall be launching a new project which will need your input. See the 50 Number Ones Project on the left sidebar for a reminder of what we did two years ago. The new project isn't a repeat of that, but it will give us something to do as the nights draw in and we await the imminent arrival of the UK's 1,000th number one single. (Nine chart-toppers to go!) See you soon. (Okay, I know that in reality no one is reading this, but if you have spotted this, do feel free to leave a comment, and then I'll know that I'm not talking into the void...) · link
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Eurovision 2011 Düsseldorf, Germany 10th, 12th, 14th May Eurovision 2008 Semi-Final 1 – Tue 20 May 01 Montenegro - Zauvijek volim te – Stefan Filipović 02 Israel – The Fire In Your Eyes (Ke’ilo Kan) – Bo'az Ma'uda 03 Estonia – Leto Svet – Kreisiraadio 04 Moldova – A Century Of Love – Geta Burlacu 05 San Marino - Complice - Miodio 06 Belgium - O Julissi - Ishtar 07 Azerbaijan – Day After Day – Elnur Hüseynov & Samir Javadzadeh 08 Slovenia – Vrag Naj Vzame – Rebeka Dremelj 09 Norway – Hold On, Be Strong – Maria Haukaas Storeng 10 Poland – For Life – Isis Gee 11 Ireland – Irelande, Douze Pointe – Dustin The Turkey 12 Andorra – Casanova – Gisela 13 Bosnia-Herzegovina – Pokušaj – Laka 14 Armenia – Qele Qele – Sirusho 15 Netherlands – Your Heart Belongs To Me – Hind 16 Finland - Missä miehet ratsastaa – Teräsbetoni 17 Romania – Pe-o Margine de Lume – Nico & Vlad Mirita 18 Russia - Dima Bilan - Believe 19 Greece – Secret Combination – Kalomira Semi-Final 2 – Thu 22 May 01 Iceland – This Is My Life – Eurobandið 02 Sweden - Hero - Charlotte Perrelli 03 Turkey – Deli – Mor ve Ötesi 04 Ukraine – Shady Lady – Ani Lorak 05 Lithuania – Nomads In The Night – Jeronimas Milius 06 Albania – Zemrën e lamë peng – Olta Boka 07 Switzerland – Era Stupendo – Paolo Meneguzzi 08 Czech Republic – Have Some Fun – Tereza Kerndlová 09 Belarus – Hasta La Vista – Ruslan Alekhno 10 Latvia – Wolves Of The Sea – Pirates Of The Sea 11 Croatia – Romanca – Kraljevi Ulice & 75 Cents 12 Bulgaria – DJ, Take Me Away – Deep Zone & Balthazar 13 Denmark – All Night Long – Simon Mathew 14 Georgia – Peace Will Come – Diana Gurtskaya 15 Hungary – Candlelight – Csézy 16 Malta – Vodka - Morena 17 Cyprus – Femme Fatale – Evdokia Kadi 18 FYR Macedonia – Let Me Love You – Tamara, Vrčak & Adrian 19 Portugal - Senhora do Mar (Negras Águas) - Vânia Fernandes Final – Sat 24 May 02 United Kingdom – Even If – Andy Abraham 04 Germany – Disappear – No Angels 19 France – Divine – Sébastien Tellier 22 Spain - Baila el Chiki Chiki - Rodolfo Chikilicuatre 23 Serbia - Oro - Jelena Tomašević ft. Bora Dugić
Chig's Gigs & stuff 2007-2008
Coming Up: 11/12 Steel City Tour: ABC, Heaven 17, The Human League - Wolves Civic Gone Down: 21/01 Sing Live! - B'ham Symphony Hall 05/02 Mika - Berkeley Square, London 13/02 Shayne Ward - Nott'm Arena 21/02 X Factor - Nott'm Arena 04/05 Scooch-Nightingale, B'ham 12/05 Hosting Eurovision night @ The Nightingale 17/05 Jason Donovan-Nott'm Royal Concert Hall 25/05 Pet Shop Boys - Wolves Civic 26/05 Liberty X - Nightingale, B'ham 27/05 Scooch & Björn Again - B'ham Pride 16/06 Muse, The Streets, Dirty Pretty Things, Rodrigo y Gabriela & Zane Lowe - Wembley Stadium 28/06 Brotherhood of Man & Buck's Fizz - Nott'm Royal Concert Hall 14/07 Sing Live! - Summer in the '60s & '70s - Royal Leamington Spa Centre 14/09 Rise - Leek Wootton Village Hall 16/09 Erasure & Onetwo - Wolves Civic 17/09 The Twang & The Priory - B'ham Carling Academy 2 (private gig - Janice Long's Radio2 show) 20/09 Turisas & Abgott - B'ham Carling Academy 2 27/09 McFly - Wolves Civic 10/11 Buck's Fizz & Futureproof (The X Factor), Nightingale, B'ham 17/11 Vengaboys & Andy Williams (The X Factor) - Nightingale, B'ham 01/12 The Human League plays Dare! - Hammersmith Apollo 10/03 Gary Numan Replicas Tour & Daggers - Wolves Wulfrun 18/03 Russell Howard, Alexandra, Brum 20+22+24/05 Eurovision Song Contest, Beograd, Srbija 10/06 Eurobeat-Almost Eurovision, B'ham Hippodrome 12/06 Yazoo - Wolves Civic 14/06-16/06 Bingham Cup, DCU, Dublin 24/06 Westlife & Hope - Nottingham Arena 07/07 Duran Duran & The Duke Spirit - NIA, B'ham 01/08 kd lang - Symphony Hall, B'ham Who is Chig? Contact me: chig at cmdh dot freeserve dot co dot uk My Wish List Front page Archive RSS feed
Chig is Nicki French's official stalker...but she doesn't seem to mind.
Chig's life can sometimes be a right pain in the balls...
Chig watches...
Dogtown, The Amazing Mrs Pritchard, Robin Hood, The X Factor, Spooks, Extras, Mock The Week, Popworld, Ideal, Deal Or No Deal, Eggheads, Hollyoaks, Never Mind The Full Stops, Doctor Who series 2 repeats on BBC3, The Bill, Match Of The Day, Ant'n'Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway. Chig has failed at two attempts to watch the whole series of Invasion, so if you have it on DVD... Chig still fancies Jesse Metcalfe... ...and Brandon Flowers, Roman Sebrle, Jonas Armstrong, Matthew Fox, Stefan Booth, Stuart Manning, Gary Lucy...
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Where I live:
Birmingham: It's Not Shit icBirmingham BBC Birmingham The Nightingale Club DV8
Interests:
Flickr gaytimes Popjustice The Official Charts Co. Launch (UK charts) British Hit Singles Aston Villa FC GFSN Eurovision 2006 Eurovision 2005 in Kyiv Popjustice Eurovision Friends Reunited Mr Gay UK
Eurovision 2007:
Official EBU Eurovision Helsinki 2007 Official DotEurovision (News) ESC Today (News) Eurovision Songs OGAE Malta Norway: Melodi Grand Prix AsianMissionToEurovision(Blog) Eurovision 2007 acts: Qualifier: Albania: Aida & Frederik Ndoci Andorra: Anonymous Austria: Eric Papilaya Belarus: Dima Koldun Belgium: The KMGs Bulgaria: Elitsa Todorova & Stoyan Yankulov Croatia: Dragonfly ft. Dado Topić Czech Republic: Kabát Cyprus: Evridiki Denmark: DQ Estonia: Gerli Padar Georgia: Sopho Khalvashi Hungary: Magdi Rúzsa Iceland: Eiríkur Hauksson Israel: Teapacks Latvia: bonaparti.lv FYR Macedonia: Karolina Gočeva Malta: Olivia Lewis Moldova: Natalia Barbu Montenegro: Stevan Faddy Netherlands: Edsilia Rombley Norway: Guri Schanke Poland: The Jet Set Portugal: Sabrina Serbia: Marija Šerifović Slovenia: Alenka Gotar Switzerland: DJ Bobo Turkey: Kenan Doğulu Final: Armenia: Hayko Bosnia-Herzegovina: Marija Šestić Finland: Hanna Pakarinen France: Les Fatals Picards Germany: Roger Cicero Greece: Sarbel Ireland: Dervish Lithuania: 4Fun Romania: Todomondo Russia: Serebro Spain: NASH Sweden: The Ark Ukraine: Verka Serduchka UK MYMU entrants Big Brovaz Brian Harvey Cyndi Hawkins & Brown Liz McClarnon Scooch(!)
Artists:
Prata Vetra (Brainstorm) Marc Almond Pet Shop Boys Scissor Sisters
Family history:
Chig is directly descended from the following families. If you have one of these surnames, we're possibly related, so feel free to get in touch: Crowe, Harborne/Harbourne, Higgins, Hutchins, O'Sullivan/Sullivan, Talliss/Tallis.
Above: My Gran with her Gran. Snitterfield, Warwickshire, c.1930.
Shameless exhibitionism:
Chig's January 1999 Gay Times article, behind the scenes filming 'Queer As Folk'
People we know:
After The Boyf B-Boy Blues Bitful Daren & Justin David Belbin Glenn Ball I'm Hip To You Loobynet Melodimen Over Your Head Poplicious Quarter Hours Reluctant Nomad Schlagerboys Simon & The City Thoughts From Fish Island Troubled Diva
Other people we like:
AceDiscoVery Come Into My World Club Contact Following Adam Diamond Geezer My Ace Life Naked Blog TheSnowInTheSummerOrSo-So Welshcake Zbornak
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