” Shur I wanted to be the next 50 cent as well as the next man…but time has a funny way of making you turn to burgers” said jaded faded wanna be Irish pop star Milky Twiddlers last night.He was speaking in the wake of his ‘outtadaf**kingblue’ Golden Globe award for –worst song in recording history– .It’s now an anachronism of a song as it was recorded during the so called Celtic Tiger era when Ireland deluded itself it was more akin to Boston than Berlin before going on to pay bond holders billions and thus proving it was more Berlin during the Weimar Republic’s hyperinflation Fest of the 1920s
Left Berlin 1923 Right Dublin 2008
Prior to this his only claim to fame was as Eurovision 1905 song contest winner Dana’s manager ‘she smelt the money and was real real gone before I knew it ,pulled da f**king rug from under me she did …but I ain’t bitter man’
He is reticent to discuss archive footage from Ireland’s national broadcaster RTE which has emerged since his stroke of luck .Entitled -Milky Over America Tour- it appears to show him in a poor light with possible young groupies being ushered from his motel room ,a mysterious man called Michael is regularly referred to in the grainy video
‘Shur I wouldn’t mind that RTE a shower of interbred wasters of taxpayers money ya can only get in if yer gay and I don’t mean Byrne (Gay Byrne Ireland’s top Broadcaster) or related to someone dere like the f**kin Illuminati of nepotism every so often ye might get a few good knicker flashers on da news like but that’s about it.RTE tis like f**king Iraq …ya can’t get in and if when ya do ya ye can’t get out,I wouldn’t give a fiddlers fart about whatever smear campaign dere cookin’ like’
Milky Twiddlers remained tight lipped on any plans for a comeback tour.
His only comment was ‘spit on me Dicky’
Mark Manning
Is a broadcaster who’ll never get into RTE(who’d have guessed đ ) and voice over artist,
his debut novel THE MAN WHO CHASED JOGGERS Is taking Amazon Kindle by calm.
Enjoy this Trip and it is a Trip …when… voice overs become Art.The Guy and Girl next door spots may pay the bills …but where is your Artist in voice over ?
Are you piling them high and selling them cheap ? Good luck to you if that’s your Shtick.Click Click refocus …what brought you to the Microphone? was it a misguided flattery …”You really should do voice overs…you’ve a Great voice” Most of us know these days EVERYBODY has a great voice.Voice Overs Au Natural cut it and not the dickie bowed announcer guy who’s so uptight you couldn’t drive a straw up his ass with a 20 pound hammer.When Madonna seeks the muse she baths the studio in scented candles.Me …I’m no Madonna (getting into the groove let alone the stilettos is too much at my age).Nope, TWO WORDS
BEING THERE
Was the last film and curtain call of the great Peter Sellers.He played Chauncey the Gardner … a guy who didn’t try too hard and consequently was taken seriously by folk aka your clients … who’ll also take you seriously …provided you are BEING THERE.Abstract Huh ? …try this :
Oh….and schuss …it’s a secret …but hey! tell Mark Manning …and telegram!
” Many people have asked me how I can âGet into their minds with my voiceâ – this is a secret I have never divulged to anyone, but as I get older I realise more and more how much I want to leave behind, so here goes. It all started when I was in the studio making the â********â recordings. I was in a small isolation booth waiting for the engineer to get set up and ready. As it was perfectly quiet, I closed my eyes and went off into a semi-conscious state (self hypnosis – meditation – daydreaming state or whatever you wish to call it, they are after all roughly the same) and felt very peaceful. Then I heard the engineer say (through my headphones) all was ready. So I opened my eyes and started the recording session. As I was still in a deeply calm state, my mind was open. As I spoke I was beginning to âfeelâ the words and that feeling seemed to come from me to the recording. Since then I have perfected this technique. Now, as none of my recordings are scripted, indeed I have no idea what I will actually say, I only have an idea of what the recording is for; I close my eyes and imagine I am talking directly to someone who needs help with the sort of problem I am trying to help alleviate. Then I open my mind by relaxing deeply, open my mouth and let the words come out. For my type of recording this is perfect as the effect comes across in the recordings when listened to. Indeed my best seller, â*******â is often getting incredible results.The âgiftâ I have, as you put it, is more about a genuine caring for people in general, but it is also based on many years as an hypnotherapist and counsellor”
OK,so you are never going to find out where that transcript of a personal e-mail to me came from,but he wants to leave something behind and unbeknownst to him…he has.
That individual used to -take me somewhere- with his voice,consequently I was compelled to contact him,and thence that gem of wisdom for y’all.
I AM SEAN CONNERY …I AM LIAM NEESON, when I get voice over requests for same.And no… BEING THERE for every spot you get offered? no, not at all…but if you have the time for that special project you just know you can connect with.DO IT.I’m not talking acting ,I’m not as some may suggest talking though my….never mind.I’m talking virtual reality in injecting your BEING THERE in to someone’s soul…someones BEING.The video here …was not recorded on my Neumann …but I WAS that simple Arran clad bus driver on the wind swept Irish west coast being tempted by that young woman’s coming of age.Listen and Feel it,as I tilt her face and rain spatters her blouse-that’s real whale song in the background by the way. BEING THERE works really well for ACX Audio-books or where the brief requires empathy or mood. Hey what about the SEX ??? ….well Dear VO …all I’ll say is I’ve donned the Blindfold recently during reads đ
Mark Manning
Voice Over /Radio Presenter/Author …IRISH MAN.
I can be found here : https://www.markmanningmedia.com
and my debut Novel THE MAN WHO CHASED JOGGERS (what a xmas gift!) is on amazon kindle here: amzn.to/2bJ3XTEÂ
The chances are George Michael was a richer human being than most of us.But as Elvis once said ”The image is one thing…the man is another”
Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou had issues with his self creation….George Michael-
”…And even though they would get underneath that, part of them would still see me as George Michael and would always see me as George Michael.And I can’t take that.I feel a great need to be away from George Michael most of the time”
The last lines from Bare -George Michael in his own words – (1990)
On Christmas night,my 15 year old daughter had enough tact to walk into the living room and switch off the TV .Bless her -she’d heard of George’s passing on social media and knew …like a lot of you… I LOVED GEORGE MICHAEL… When she told me he’d died ,I couldn’t register it ,a quick flick to Sky News confirmed matters.I wept silently, at first,then floods weren’t long in coming – the only consolation being that my little daughter understood and cradled me as I cried… I was vaguely aware of being pleased my wife and I have raised a good young woman.A full 24 hours older than myself George Michael was a person I always had a great affinity for.I remember sunbathing one summers day in 1981 and listening to a BBC Radio 1 discussion on Wham and the Young Guns single.In 1982 those Wham boys were everywhere they represented a Make it Big mentality (remember that album?) it was OK not to be Johnny Rotten anymore,fuck austerity we’re off to Club Tropicana ! where drinks are free and Don’t Worry, you can Suntan.As a young pirate DJ I played and replayed Wham,cliche alert! George Michael was the soundtrack to our 80s hormone riddled optimistic lives.Lesson – CHOOSE LIFE celebrate your youth ,Bill Gates and Donald Trump can’t buy youth …and would probably give every dime if they could(would you?).
Lesson 2 – ”…George Michael had a maturity about him one rarely sees in someone so young…he had a great maturity about him...” – Jon Roseman,showbiz king the man behind the Careless Whisper,Young Guns and Club Tropicana videos.I was fortunate enough recently to have a good long conversation with Jon and this gem of an insight was one of many.An unashamed plug ,if you ever wanted to know the real people behind the celebrities Jon’s –From Here to… Obscurity– is a MUST buy it here http://amzn.to/2jbbJtN
George knew what he wanted from the get-go ,he may not have been too happy when he got it ,but there you go.Get some of that maturity …it’s never too late.
Lesson 3 – Business opportunity! … who will ever forget George turning what was undoubtedly the most humiliating incident in his park-life into cash(most of which went to charity)…The track – Outside – was a sucker punch to all those hypocritical right thinking sanctimonious cretins one encounters on Life’s topsy turvy journey.Lemon into Lemonade tirade,end of…
Lesson 4 – Stand by your principles even if it damages sales(which it won’t in the long run) .Watch the above video of George on BBC’s HARD-TALK .Here you see the epitomy of Articulate run circles around a middle-age establishment / company man.Whereas most of us would tell this patronizing/bullying plonker where to stick his -Hard-Talk- George eloquently parries all the hackneyed crap…he’s very I’m OK YOU’RE OK and the end result is like watching Jesus to a child.The Iraq war was wrong – George Michael was right.
Finally ,Lessons from Lyrics.George Michael wasn’t just an ass shaking designer stubble stud muffin(that’s my job đ ) .He was a beautiful ,considerate,and as we all now know, generous soul.I like people who can talk to your heart.I LOVED, AND WILL ALWAYS LOVE GEORGE MICHAEL.
Be good to yourself cos nobody else has the power to make you happy – Heal the pain-
All we have to do, now,Is take these lies and make them true somehow.All we have to see,Is that I don’t belong to you,And you don’t belong to me– Freedom
If you’re gonna do it do it right – I’m your Man
He was…and He did.
George Michael…a gift from God 1963-2016
Marko
Mark Manning Is an Irish voice over artist,broadcaster and writer and can be found at :
The Man Who Chased Joggers … That title just came to me one day …to be precise on the evening of June 13th 2012.I was going through a rough patch,in despair, I retired to my study ,I was sitting there at a loss…And.Well, from the ether came this title The Man Who Chased Joggers,in the tradition of our -American cousins- I found myself Just going with it.Thus began a 2 year 7 month on off exercise of writing the book I’m told we all have within us (and some would say -in us- is where it should stay đ )
I vaguely recalled a book from the 1970s The Complete Book of Running by the Late Jim Fixx.Now friends,in short Jim Fixx sexed up running / jogging for the masses before running (quite literally ) to his death.
And Yes my book is currently taking the world by calm and is available on Amazon Kindle here : Â http://amzn.to/2bJ3XTEÂ
but there is more to this than me selling you a book.Y’see every so often Life can appear to turn on us.In my case ,I was no longer professionally fulfilled …and at the age of 49 that ain’t a good place to be.Luckily I’d the love of a good supportive (and ever patient) spouse,I’d also two little daughters to be there for ,and I was…although that precious time was overshadowed by these wilderness years.Then in quick succession key people in my life either became gravely ill …or indeed passed away.Also in life don’t we all come across some complete assh***s ? I certainly did.As I floundered around trying to find a career I came across some real beauts …the kind who are afraid of irate clients,don’t pay invoices but are willing to blow your mind with overtures of IPOs and your share of same.Anyhu …this particular idiot wasted so much of my time,he’d been a player in the pre-bubble e-commerce era but had fallen spectacularly from grace,in short he was toast! .I’d known him before and after.One day over coffee I asked him how he dealt with all the negative fallout.”Well I went in to my garden shed and I wrote a novel” he calmly imparted.All my antennae told me this guy was …a delusional idiot,I wasn’t wrong …but to be fair he was an optimistic one,which is all part of the entrepreneur thing don’t cha know.I’m amused to see he has set himself up as a ‘turnaround expert‘ recently đ …That said, credit where it is due ,when most of us would have been cringing in shame or suicidal notions…this dude was self publishing.I ALWAYS ADMIRED HIM FOR THAT…he wrote a book.I didn’t know Voice Over work would come to my rescue ( http://bit.ly/2giWSwh) so in the interim I too wrote the book.I infused my love of 80s music ,I imagined a guy trying to reinvent himself and I created a book where NIKE meets The Commitments meets David Letterman,Jeremy Paxman,Ellen DeGeneres,Lorraine Kelly .It was therapy it was cathartic …and I wrote the book.
When it all comes to pot ,goes pear shaped and your world goes from Day-Glo to Clusterf***k WRITE THAT BOOK!
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