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I began my performing career back in the 1960s, being paid to sing at weddings and other services as a church chorister, then I learned to play the piano and guitar. I sang in school choirs in the Carmina Burana, Belshazzar’s Feast<\/em> and others, as well as appearing in school plays. I briefly played the drums in Usk and District’s Silver Band, then I went on to form and sing in two rock bands in the early 1980s, the first being\u00a0The Hell Fire Club<\/em> in my native south Wales, then\u00a0Baron Viktor and the Monsters from Hell<\/em> in London.<\/p>\n

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From 1988 to 1992, I had the principal speaking part as William of Pembroke, the Earl Marshall, in the world’s only touring mediaeval jousting tournament. I performed at the permanent base in Breamore, just outside the New Forest, and I took part in numerous gala performances around Britain.<\/p>\n

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I travelled around Europe and Scandinavia as part of the touring unit, becoming the first western knight to appear in Russia, in St Petersburg’s Olympic 87,000 seat stadium. I spent two seasons in Finland, and then another performing in Austria in 1991.<\/p>\n

After this, I spent the first half of the 1990s first as an extra, and then as an actor. I am the only person to have had two separate speaking parts on Channel 4’s The Crystal Maze,<\/em> appearing first as Lance, the Guard of the King’s Seal, in Series 5, then as the Aztec High Priest in Series 6. I had the part of the Carnival Barker in the pilot of the sequel to The Crystal Maze<\/em>, <\/em>which was called The Magic Carnival<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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I delievered a Black Mass in mediaeval Latin as the Satanic High Priest in The Unpleasant World of Penn & Teller<\/em>, and I appeared in a video for the rock band Extreme <\/em>and their single Stop the World. <\/em>I appeared as a drunken lecher in the video of Massive Attack’s song Be Thankful, <\/em>and so it goes…<\/p>\n

I appeared in commercials and series such as The Bill,\u00a0<\/em> EastEnders,<\/em> Crimewatch, Ivanhoe <\/em>and Between The Lines, <\/em>while I had the pleasure of appearing as part of the stunt team on a Casualty<\/em> Christmas special. I did much else besides, such as touring London and southern England as part of a Murder Mystery troupe, but as the records of my performances went up in flames when my home was burned down in March 2018, I’m content to leave it all there.<\/p>\n

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I began my performing career back in the 1960s, being paid to sing at weddings and other services as a church chorister, then I learned to play the piano and guitar. I sang in school choirs in the Carmina Burana, Belshazzar’s Feast and others, as well as appearing in school plays. I briefly played the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-111","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eternalidol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eternalidol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eternalidol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eternalidol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eternalidol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.eternalidol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178,"href":"https:\/\/www.eternalidol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/111\/revisions\/178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eternalidol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}