Last night I flew from Copenhagen to London Heathrow and stayed at the beautiful Sheraton Hotel, I had a lovely meal before bed and then I couldn’t sleep a wink all night, the alarm went off at 5.15am and before you knew it I was on the plane to Gibraltar, I did manage to sleep for an hour on the plane so at least that was something. We landed a tad late due to a helicopter problem at the airport, and then I was whisked off to join the Grand Princess, which was docked right next to another ship I have worked on the Crystal Serenity. I got a very nice welcome onboard and was escorted to my stateroom, the stateroom has to be the smallest room I have ever stayed in, but hey I’m new here so head down and go out there and do my very best.
It is a very nice ship and of course I new my way around as it is the same layout as P&O Ventura and Azura only much older, when this ship first came out it caused a stir all over the world as it was then the biggest ship in the world with an unusual design.
My rehearsal is in 20mins at the Princess Theatre so best I get going.
Just back from rehearsal and what a lovely bunch of people working in that theatre, the musical director Gordon has to be one of the nicest guys in the world, not only has he taken the rehearsal brilliantly he even took me down to the laundry to get my suit pressed, he didn’t have to do that, he is very much thought of on this ship and indeed with Princess, so he has connections on here, so many thanks Gordon.
The sound is big on stage so that’s good for me, my voice is getting there so I am looking forward to my show tonight at 8.30pm and 10.15pm in the 1000 seat Princess Theatre.
Yyyyyeeeeesssss! Sorry about that, but it did go very well, a full packed house and it just flew, the comedy was fluid and I enjoyed myself, but my voice is still drying out onstage about ¾ the way through? Oh well thank God I have my comedy to fall back on, shame though as no What Colour Is The Wind or Nessun Dorma. I’m back on in 35mins for a 10.15pm show.
Thank you late show people I loved it and I’m so pleased, as this was my first time on here.
Today we are at sea sailing north towards the Bay of Biscay and onto Southampton where we will be turning around and off again for Copenhagen, I feel I know Copenhagen like the back of my hand now as I’ve been back and for there loads of times this year.
I spent some time with Gary alias Manuel Martinez, he’s a great act and a top bloke, we chatted for hours today, you may have seen him on the telly, he was on Pen and Tellers Magic show with Jonathan Ross hosting, he’s a funny man too!
I’m back on tomorrow night and sharing the stage with the very talented Siobhan Phillips, another great act with a fab voice and a funny girl to boot! Please let my voice be there tomorrow night God!
Another day at sea and the weather had turned grey and it’s raining, I rang my mate Gary and we had a nice cup of Earl Grey Tea, forgot how nice that tea is. I’m on tonight so I have to sort my music and act out so see you later.
I found out how to send voice notes on my phone so sent one to Marie and she sent one back and Sam spoke on it to, it was so lovely to hear their voices, only thing is, it makes you even more homesick, oh well home soon.
I’m just through the door from the 8.30pm show and it was just so comfortable, I loved it, my voice is just hanging on in though, Siobhan Phillips stormed the opening spot, she’s a great act. I’m looking forward now to the 10.15pm show and can only hope they will be as good an audience, well actually there are no bad audiences so get on there Doyle and do your 100% best!
Tomorrow morning I have to be up ay 6.30am for the UK Border Immigration to see me with my passport so no late to bed tonight, but at least we have an hour back on the clock!
Good Morning. I was up and about by 6.15am and in front of the Immigration Officer at 7am, I decided to walk into town, the sun was shinning and the walk would do me good. Once in town I took a few photos of Southampton City Centre and all of a sudden I started to bump into old friends from P&O Cruises as Aurora and Azura was in and the RCI Independence of the Seas was in and I even bumped into the production manager Tony Smart, what a day it was lovely to see everybody Paul from the band Kool Blu, Ray the Printer, Martin the chippy, Nat Cruise Director, Hale Bars, and some of the members of the orchestra, I love that about a turnaround day in Southampton, you can’t help but keep bumping into your mates from the ships, there were 4 big ships in and that equates to 12,000 passengers not to mention all the crew. I’m off tonight so see you tomorrow.
Hello from Zeebrugge, it’s cold, wet and grey here, much the same as it is in London and of course it’s the Queens Jubilee celebrations today, what a shame about the weather not much I can say about where we are today, its just too cold to get off the ship, so a day in my little cabin. I spoke to Marie for a while and we’ve text back and for. I’m back on tonight with my rehearsal at 6.15pm and on tonight back in the beautiful Princess Theatre at 8.30pm and 10.15pm.
I so enjoyed the Queens Jubilee celebrations from the River Thames, I thought it was amazing and I felt so very proud to be British, it was such a shame the weather was so awful, it’s the same here in Zeebrugge, wet and cold and horrible.
Its time now for me to go and rehearse in the theatre for my show tonight, see you later!
Great sound onstage and Gordon the MD is so good, we have a new trumpet player and a new drummer so our rehearsal took longer than usual but turned out great in the end. I have 1hr and 15mins before Showtime!
I’m back from the 8.30pm show and once again a packed house, the crowd are a little more quiet than the crowd we had last cruise but then again this is only their 2nd night, so just finding their feet a bit I suppose, but I loved it and the good news is my voice was stronger, its still not 100% but its getting there! I have 50mins now till the next show.
I had another great show; in fact the late show went even better. So thank you all for making my first visit to Grand Princess a very nice one, thank you Billy London, Peter Tranget, Gordon and all the wonderful staff onboard this amazing ship.
It was rough seas last night all through the night and indeed all through the day today, it has only just calmed down, we reached a force 10 gale today, not very nice at all. I’m sat up in bed now watching the Jubilee Concert outside Buckingham Palace, what a line up and at least the weather has cheered up.
I travel home tomorrow from Copenhagen and do you what I can’t wait, Marie has been so down this time I have been away so I need to get home and look after her for a while, well, 3 days at least! Its not easy this show business life you know, but its what I am in, its what I always wanted to do ever since I was a little boy with dreams and fantasies about being on the stage.
Last night I flew from Copenhagen to London Heathrow and stayed at the beautiful Sheraton Hotel, I had a lovely meal before bed and then I couldn’t sleep a wink all night, the alarm went off at 5.15am and before you knew it I was on the plane to Gibraltar, I did manage to sleep for an hour on the plane so at least that was something. We landed a tad late due to a helicopter problem at the airport, and then I was whisked off to join the Grand Princess, which was docked right next to another ship I have worked on the Crystal Serenity. I got a very nice welcome onboard and was escorted to my stateroom, the stateroom has to be the smallest room I have ever stayed in, but hey I’m new here so head down and go out there and do my very best.
It is a very nice ship and of course I new my way around as it is the same layout as P&O Ventura and Azura only much older, when this ship first came out it caused a stir all over the world as it was then the biggest ship in the world with an unusual design.
My rehearsal is in 20mins at the Princess Theatre so best I get going.
Just back from rehearsal and what a lovely bunch of people working in that theatre, the musical director Gordon has to be one of the nicest guys in the world, not only has he taken the rehearsal brilliantly he even took me down to the laundry to get my suit pressed, he didn’t have to do that, he is very much thought of on this ship and indeed with Princess, so he has connections on here, so many thanks Gordon.
The sound is big on stage so that’s good for me, my voice is getting there so I am looking forward to my show tonight at 8.30pm and 10.15pm in the 1000 seat Princess Theatre.
Yyyyyeeeeesssss! Sorry about that, but it did go very well, a full packed house and it just flew, the comedy was fluid and I enjoyed myself, but my voice is still drying out onstage about ¾ the way through? Oh well thank God I have my comedy to fall back on, shame though as no What Colour Is The Wind or Nessun Dorma. I’m back on in 35mins for a 10.15pm show.
Thank you late show people I loved it and I’m so pleased, as this was my first time on here.
Today we are at sea sailing north towards the Bay of Biscay and onto Southampton where we will be turning around and off again for Copenhagen, I feel I know Copenhagen like the back of my hand now as I’ve been back and for there loads of times this year.
I spent some time with Gary alias Manuel Martinez, he’s a great act and a top bloke, we chatted for hours today, you may have seen him on the telly, he was on Pen and Tellers Magic show with Jonathan Ross hosting, he’s a funny man too!
I’m back on tomorrow night and sharing the stage with the very talented Siobhan Phillips, another great act with a fab voice and a funny girl to boot! Please let my voice be there tomorrow night God!
Another day at sea and the weather had turned grey and it’s raining, I rang my mate Gary and we had a nice cup of Earl Grey Tea, forgot how nice that tea is. I’m on tonight so I have to sort my music and act out so see you later.
I found out how to send voice notes on my phone so sent one to Marie and she sent one back and Sam spoke on it to, it was so lovely to hear their voices, only thing is, it makes you even more homesick, oh well home soon.
I’m just through the door from the 8.30pm show and it was just so comfortable, I loved it, my voice is just hanging on in though, Siobhan Phillips stormed the opening spot, she’s a great act. I’m looking forward now to the 10.15pm show and can only hope they will be as good an audience, well actually there are no bad audiences so get on there Doyle and do your 100% best!
Tomorrow morning I have to be up ay 6.30am for the UK Border Immigration to see me with my passport so no late to bed tonight, but at least we have an hour back on the clock!
Good Morning. I was up and about by 6.15am and in front of the Immigration Officer at 7am, I decided to walk into town, the sun was shinning and the walk would do me good. Once in town I took a few photos of Southampton City Centre and all of a sudden I started to bump into old friends from P&O Cruises as Aurora and Azura was in and the RCI Independence of the Seas was in and I even bumped into the production manager Tony Smart, what a day it was lovely to see everybody Paul from the band Kool Blu, Ray the Printer, Martin the chippy, Nat Cruise Director, Hale Bars, and some of the members of the orchestra, I love that about a turnaround day in Southampton, you can’t help but keep bumping into your mates from the ships, there were 4 big ships in and that equates to 12,000 passengers not to mention all the crew. I’m off tonight so see you tomorrow.
Hello from Zeebrugge, it’s cold, wet and grey here, much the same as it is in London and of course it’s the Queens Jubilee celebrations today, what a shame about the weather not much I can say about where we are today, its just too cold to get off the ship, so a day in my little cabin. I spoke to Marie for a while and we’ve text back and for. I’m back on tonight with my rehearsal at 6.15pm and on tonight back in the beautiful Princess Theatre at 8.30pm and 10.15pm.
I so enjoyed the Queens Jubilee celebrations from the River Thames, I thought it was amazing and I felt so very proud to be British, it was such a shame the weather was so awful, it’s the same here in Zeebrugge, wet and cold and horrible.
Its time now for me to go and rehearse in the theatre for my show tonight, see you later!
Great sound onstage and Gordon the MD is so good, we have a new trumpet player and a new drummer so our rehearsal took longer than usual but turned out great in the end. I have 1hr and 15mins before Showtime!
I’m back from the 8.30pm show and once again a packed house, the crowd are a little more quiet than the crowd we had last cruise but then again this is only their 2nd night, so just finding their feet a bit I suppose, but I loved it and the good news is my voice was stronger, its still not 100% but its getting there! I have 50mins now till the next show.
I had another great show; in fact the late show went even better. So thank you all for making my first visit to Grand Princess a very nice one, thank you Billy London, Peter Tranget, Gordon and all the wonderful staff onboard this amazing ship.
It was rough seas last night all through the night and indeed all through the day today, it has only just calmed down, we reached a force 10 gale today, not very nice at all. I’m sat up in bed now watching the Jubilee Concert outside Buckingham Palace, what a line up and at least the weather has cheered up.
I travel home tomorrow from Copenhagen and do you what I can’t wait, Marie has been so down this time I have been away so I need to get home and look after her for a while, well, 3 days at least! Its not easy this show business life you know, but its what I am in, its what I always wanted to do ever since I was a little boy with dreams and fantasies about being on the stage.
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