...they were really impressed with his appearance on Question Time.

He may also become a big cheese in the classical world, then.
He's keeping himself busy.

won't this be all a bit cheesey?

Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen is also joining the Classic FM roster...

oh, and theres Dave Benson Philips contribution. A 3-part series on Wagner.

accidently slip on a Courtney Love classic its ok with me !! Bad for business.

I expect James will be at this event at the Royal Albert Hall, a 'Classical Spectacular', with the main selling point being 'Incredible lights, lasers and special effects'.

At no point are the orchestra or conductor even identified.

And why? The pull of Ex-blur can't be enough, but he's all over the shop, between his cheese and everything else. I'm all for the cheese farmer schtick, but please spare us the rest. And get a decent barber to do something with that fringe.

Can't Mr.James just be content with raking the Yarg!

...that's Classic FM for you, *sniff*.

...wasn't he only on TV the other day with some programme about the dangers of cocaine??

A: When it's a vanity project and he runs out of money/interest

If they can employ Simon Bates, they'll take anyone I guess. Apparently Mark.E.Smith is lined up to a late night choral and gregorian chant show.

..a particularly nasty piece by James a couple of weeks ago, in one of the Sunday newspaper mags. I don't remember which one. He was a vegetarian for twenty years, but is now happy to pour scorn and venom on people like me, who continue to exclude meat (and dairy products) from their diet. Fair enough if he's changed his mind, that's his prerogative, but does he have to be so unpleasant about it?

Oh, and he was on University Challenge a while back. One of those novelty editions of the show here they pit ex students against each other. he was rubbish on that, too.

......Utter arsehole. No more to say, really.

his immortal foray in the heady world of rock journalism, where he interviewed Herr Bri Ferry for a rapidly-declining publication and dished up the most unremittingly arslicken prose this side of those dreadful hagiographies about 'communist' dictators.

I don't even think he touched on the Nazi clobber hoo-ha, instead concentrating on Bri's effortless sartorial elegance.
As a diabetic, I had to double up the insulin dose after that candyfloss-like confection

Why is he doing it? Because he is a tart. Next thing he'll be launching his own brand of aftershave.

...or are all of Blur eminently punchable?

In 1989, one Graham Torrington of BRMB - a once-popular radio station in Birmingham - did a series called "The A to Z of the 80s" on his drivetime show.

Reading about the planned similar feature for Alex James has crystallised my thoughts on the pointlessness of sequencing music on the basis of where the artist or composer falls in the alphabet.

As you yourself say, why? Who benefits? Will thousands of Classic FM listeners listen with extra attention on the basis that a composer whose surname begins with "E" follows one beginning with... well, I've forgotten, but you get the point.

You might as well playlist music on the basis of descending order of drummers' height.