Eyes And Teeth

Today I catch up with another mate, a comedy colleague I first worked with 20 years ago at Jethro’s club and when I saw him work, I thought where has this guy come from? He was hilarious and even Jethro was standing at the back of his club in tears of laughter. Since then, we have crossed paths and Tank is just a naturally funny bloke and good egg to be around. Tank tells me how he got his stage n...

Welcome to Eyes and Teeth the wonderful personality of Tonya Traylor  Tonya is a singer come ventriloquist come ventriloquist and puppet collector but its more than just a little side hobby. Tonya’s passion for protecting music hall characters who have worked with ventriloquists for decades and maybe even a century ago. Her collection went from one to over 500 figures which is the largest of all t...

Alan Fletcher Welcome back to Eyes & Teeth the Final Season… The Worlds Greatest Variety Show Today I talk to one of the longest running much loved Soap characters who for 39 years has been one of Neighbours familiar faces Dr Karl Kennedy. Alan Fletcher actor, musician, singer, photographer, pantomime performer is one of the most hardest working people on stage and in television and this begun...

Mike Doyle returns as we talk about my return to pantomime in Snow White at The New Theatre Cardiff where he looked after me more than I looked after Arthur Lager.  This was a labour of love recording in his dressing room and updating Eyes & Teeth on his fresh news including the Beautiful song Forever in Wales written by Lloyd Davies. Enjoy this episode as we get closer to my final season... W...

Welcome to Eyes & Teeth – that’s showbiz the penultimate episode of season 14. Today I talk to an award winning Comedy Magician renowned on the Magic and Cabaret circuit. We talk about Sir Ken Dodd, Blackpool Magic, Sumo wrestling, Bob Monkhouse, The Magic Castle in Los Angeles and we chat about Jimmy’s love of working as a drummer in a band as a teenager and the present day.  The hedgehog ane...

Welcome to Eyes & Teeth – That’s Showbiz the huge talents of actress Sian Reeves. I have just completed a fantastic contract in the capital city of Wales and it was a star studded Pantomime with Sports Star Gareth Thomas, Award winning Pop Star Ian ‘H’ Watkins, Comedy and Vocal sensation Mike Doyle, Jazz performer Denquar Chupak amongst others and todays guest is just incredible to watch. Sian...

Welcome to Eyes & Teeth – That’s Showbiz Today I invite a cast member from my current Snow White pantomime in Cardiff to join me and share her journey and what a journey she is having. Not just the journey through the woods being chased by a Henchman who is also an icon of Rugby (Gareth Thomas) and a wicked Queen played by one of the UK’s greatest actresses Sian Reeves and saved by Muddles who...

Welcome to Eyes & Teeth – That’s Showbiz season 14. Today I talk with a fellow Water Rat and Big Band leader Mark Porter.  Mark has been around this business from a very early age starting in Wales and taking an interest in Crooners and their music he sat back and learnt from the best by watching live on stage Andy Williams, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Paul Anka, and what he must of learned at...

Welcome to Eyes & Teeth – That’s Showbiz Renato Pires  Today a success story in the making from a young man from Portugal who has faced so many hurdles and heartbreaks along the way but it has never stopped him giving up his goals and dreams. He has such a positive outlook on life and business and wants the best for everyone he works with. He seems to use his sad past to make others lives bett...

Pete Cutler Welcome to Eyes & Teeth and today is Christmas Eve 2022 so Merry Christmas to all in these crazy times we’re experiencing. It started with Brexit, then Covid years and the crazy news just doesn’t stop which is why a little light relief in your ears is created through the medium of showbusiness as I continue my last few seasons of this podcast delving into the minds and careers of t...

Dean Winters Welcome to Eyes & Teeth, That’s Showbiz and where better to take you than Torquay and talk  about Babbacombe and its very successful summer season still going strong after many decades and one of the last surviving variety theatres running annual shows with casts of many talented folk which thanks to its Producer at Matpro Ltd Colin Matthews and his wonderful team have launched qu...

Jon Udry Welcome to Eyes & Teeth talking Variety and Showbusiness getting to know great performers behind the scenes. We literally go behind the stage door today as I talk to the brilliant Jon Udry about his Lockdown shows, Cruise Ship Life, festivals and his brand new book in which he penned his experience performing in venues beginning with the letters of the alphabet across the UK. Jon also...

Helen Ward Jackson Welcome to Eyes & Teeth – That’s Showbiz. Thank you for joining me and if its for the first time you have only missed 182 episodes of behind the scenes of Theatre, Comedy Clubs, Cruise Ships, Television and Radio Stars talking about their experiences which in turn could help along the next generation of performers by listening to our successes and mistakes along the way. Tru...

Tony Dowling… some of you will know his name and some may not. Tony was not only a successful Comedian and played dream venues along the way but he used his wisdom to start some businesses on the side. He is an inventor and that is I guess what has brought him most of his success, but he would never regret taking on one of the hardest jobs in showbusiness working the clubs and theatres across the...

Lloyd Hollett Please welcome to Eyes & Teeth a unique entertainer who can have the audience in stitches one minute and in tears the next. His style is so different to many, and I have always been flawed by his skills as a wordsmith.  If you haven’t yet seen Llyod work, then you must go out of your way to do so. He will make you smile if not howl with laughter. He personifies what this Podcast...

Welcome to the final guest on Season 13 the RATS with Roy Walker.   Roy, Water Rat, gameshow host, radio star, tv comedian, Edinburgh Festival favourite talks to me today about his early days and talent shows to when he entered New Faces TV show which launched his Comedy Stand up career which led to Catchphrase onto Carpark Catchphrase with Chris Moyles and consequently his hit Edinburgh Festival...

Kaplan Kaye Welcome to Eyes & Teeth a wonderful man… PKR Kaplan Kaye Kaplan grew up with his father Davey entertaining the world and Kaplan and his sister Melody have brought joy to audiences ever since. Melody being a Lady Ratling and Kaplan being a past King Rat. Kaplan talks about his Music writing notably Chalkdust The Brat he co Produced with Roger Kitter, a consortway production. In rece...

Welcome to Mike Martin – Scribe Rat and one of the GOWR trustees of the charity Mike made himself known to me once I joined the order and I found out much more about him once I bought a copy of his book BE LUCKY about his father and PKR George Martin the Casual Comedian. Mike recalls those days of his missing father being on the road and of course spying on the windmill theatre waiting of his dad...

Colin Spaull Welcome to Eyes & Teeth brother Water Rat the great Colin Spaull. As I head off to another Water Rats Lodge and my next guest is flying out to another Doctor Who convention to meet his fans. Colin has been a very successful and proud jobbing actor who has stayed true to his business. He has loved being on screen or on stage since he was a child actor. That transition is not always...

Welcome to Eyes & Teeth The RATS Comedian George Saunders George and I met at the Comedians Golfing Society about 15 years ago and have since become brothers in the Grand Order showbusiness charity and that is what this season is all about. Performers giving their time to raise coins for charities including children's charities and the Royal variety Charity and www.gowr.net was born in 18...

Bobbo Roberts is a Clown and Circus performer; he has worked with horses as well as a dog and a goose in his act and in recent times has taken on security at concerts in Scotland which is pandemic created. If he can help it, he would rather be out there in the circus ring or back at Edinburgh Festival doing what he knows best and loves and that’s making people happy. Bobbo grew up in a World of Ci...

Welcome to Eyes & Teeth Photographer, Water Rat John McKenzie If you recognise the name McKenzie and associate that with photographs that’s because John one for the sons of Doug McKenzie, famed photographer for the Royal Variety Performance for over 60 years, The Queen Mothers favourite photographer, Rock Stars, Movie Stars and comedians loved Doug as they did John who not only worked alongsid...

Ray Martin Welcome to Eyes & Teeth season 13. The RATS The Grand Order of Water Rats is a charitable organisation formed by entertainers in 1889 and 133 years later they found Steve Hewlett. If you delve into the history books of variety, many names from there will crop up mentioning the GOWR. Names such as Wee Georgie Wood, Little Tich, Ventriloquists Fred Russell & Peter Brough, and come...

Welcome to Eyes & Teeth Season 13 THE RATS If you are bewildered as to what the Rats are still then you can go to our website www.gowr.net for the history, past members, current members, events, museum details and how to book your visit as well as finding what we do and who we raise coins for.  My second guest in this series is Steve Barclay. We met in a nightclub in Benidorm, we were performi...

Welcome to Season 13 of Eyes & Teeth – This Season is Titled The RATS. The rats have been around since 1889 and there are never more than 200 members in the order at one time. I was member 883 and my proposer was Roy Hudd OBE and seconder was Roger De Courcey. Can you imagine sitting in lodge listening to anecdotes and laughing at fellow comedians or actors, musicians, magicians, ventriloquist...