On this episode I have a nice long natter with my longtime friend and ex-bandmate and school chum Alastair Sadler.

We went to secondary school together, and formed a rock'n'roll band in the second year (1978). After a few pub gigs in 1983 we broke up but by then we had formed a lifelong friendship. After school Alastair eventually moved to London, did several jobs and finally met his future wife, Felicity. At their wedding in 1994 they both stunned me by dancing salsa like a pair of professionals, and later went on to become salsa dance instructors and start the Streetbeat Salsa Co. which still teaches people how to dance to this day, even organising floating salsa cruises on the Thames, and creating his own dance known as Mambalsa (see links below). A few years back Alastair got bitten by the comedy bug after having taken a comedy class, and has performed often in London, starting his own comedy club, inventing an improv gameshow called Quillarious and taking a show to the Edinburgh Fringe a few times. He is now also a qualified and registered counsellor - in fact he'd just finished on Zoom with a client right before this interview! Oh, and he ran the 2022 Brighton Marathon and raised over £800 for the Nightingale Cancer Support Centre in Enfield where he was a volunteer counsellor.

Here's a few links to his stuff:

SALSA LINKS

https://www.streetbeat.co.uk/index.html

https://www.streetbeat.co.uk/Thames-Salsa-Cruise

https://mambalsa.blogspot.com/

COMEDY LINKS

https://www.youtube.com/c/AlastairSadler

https://quillarious.blogspot.com/

COUNSELLING

https://www.counselling-directory.org.uk/counsellors/alastair-sadler

THE NIGHTINGALE CANCER SUPPORT CENTRE

https://www.nightingalesupport.org.uk/

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