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This week I've voiced a couple of awards shows (and one football match - but that's a different story), for the second of which I turned up very early due to train times. I'd much rather be early than late anyway, and it came in useful that day* because when I got the script it was, shall we say,...

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Make the most of your voice presenter

How do you make sure the person you've booked to do the talking at your event says the things you want them to?(This list is in ascending order - feel free to imagine chart rundown-type music if you want to)4. Write the words for them.Seems like a no-brainer, but if your event needs a human feel -...

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Jonathan, but more so

A thought inspired by voiceover artist Kathryn Vinclaire* talking about 'personality' in doing voiceovers.'Personality' is something we know when we encounter it but it's impossible to measure.In my particular line of live events, making it clear (without ever actually saying it!) that I'm there...

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You should do that for a living!

Quote of the week: "You should do that for a living!" - event producer upon hearing me do a VOG as a one-off (I was there to do something else).Well, what does one say - apart from "I do!".They called me 'Voice Of The Coronation' after that, I had to keep denying that it was at all glamorous...

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Expanding the options for the on-stage host

  Why you need me on your event, part umpty-seven: Expanding the options for the on-stage host. So: you're looking for an exciting, attractive, funny person to be the 'face' of your event, and you've found several possibles who tick all those boxes and well within budget. Excellent - but there's...

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A very exclusive club

Well, that was a week.I spent the previous week teasing my social media about a couple of high-profile jobs in the offing, and TBH I'm still restricted in the info I can give.So, being careful what I say: Friday I spent working on the AGM of one of the major high street banks as the 'Voice Of The...

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Random Memory #5 – Hello Possum!

I wouldn't normally do another Random Memory so soon after the last one, but this has been prompted by the weekend's sad news, it's another from my radio days (best part of forty years ago 🤔 ).The place: Broadcasting House, LeedsThe time: a weekday morning.The station: BBC Radio Leeds - in the...

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Random Memory #4 – Warhorse

*Now! Listen as I revisit my past*     Another in the random series of random memories from a lifetime of radio, TV and live events: today’s is of a very memorable moment at the Savoy in November 2014. I can be precise about the date because this awards had a theme of “Wartime”, the same...

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Why have a Voiceologist?

What's the advantage to you, as an event organiser, of having The Voiceologist in the shadows with a microphone at your conference/SKO/AGM/Awards? Let me count the ways...* Timing. If I'm reading a list of nominees for an award and one gets an especially loud cheer and applause, I can ride the...

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VOG musings

(September 2022) I’m writing this offstage left at the Aylesbury Waterside theatre, which will fill with people in about an hour for the 2022 Buckinghamshire Business Awards. Tonight’s format is pretty standard - for each award the on-stage presenter introduces a sponsor who reads a list of...

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