Mark Blayney
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My favourite guest all year
WYNNE EVANS, BBC RADIO WALES


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I'm the world's first (and so far only) Professor of Boney M Studies (University of Babylon). In this sample lecture I demonstrate how Boney M paid attention at school and used real-life examples from history to excellent musicological effect, until the car crash moment involving gangster Ma Baker - the meanest cat in old Chicago town, she really knew how to mow them down.

Filmed at Ignite Cardiff at the Wales Millennium Centre
                                                                                 Image (c) Tracey Paddison


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I'm also the World's First ABBA Life Coach (University of Waterloo) in which I use the Power of the 70s to help YOU change YOUR life. Financially challenged? I can help you with your money money money problems. Unlucky in love? I can get disinterested strangers to take a chance on you. For a sample consultation see the video.

Filmed at the Wimborne Literary Festival




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My Wordplay Cabaret is a smorgasbord (not as rude as it sounds) of robot train inspectors, odes to John Cooper Clarke, and a man who interrupts poetry events because he thinks they're Bible readings. Some people can have a bit of a nervous breakdown when they hear the word poetry, can't they, but don't worry, this has rude words and reluctant audience participation to make it more palatable.

'Poem written backwards' filmed at the Blysh Spiegel Tent



PicturePhoto (c) Dave Daggers
More ABBA, in which we meet Sven - legendary fifth member of the band, sacked because they didn't want to
be called SABBA. Sven is now a happy
man with his own herring farm and
the latest Volvo, but he is still bitter
about how he was abandoned many
years ago and left to fend for himself,
with only his Ikea logburner and
memories of his mother's Ryvita factory
to keep him company. A notorious hellraiser in the 70s, the 'Mashed Swede' as he was known Sven Olbeyus now reflects on his life beyond the spotlight.
 
Filmed by Dave Daggers Videogram Enterprises



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For bookings choose from the following shows:

The End of Term Shindig (featuring the Professor of Boney M Studies, plus a headmaster with an unfortunate verbal tic) - 45 minute show

World's First ABBA Life Coach - 45 minute show

The Wordplay Cabaret - 10, 20 or 45 minute version









Image (c) Natalie Ann Holborow


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