Owen Staton

Firstly Good Luck to Billy Lyon’s who has an audition for a new Hula Hoops advert in London tomorrow. Billy was worried about it possibly affecting his artistic integrity, I said Don’t worry the bar room chair in last Friday’s Gethin Performance has already put pay to that.

I had a serious little chat with myself at 4.57 am the other morning, a Big part of me wants to shelve any plans for doing “Grave tidings” this year due to time constraints and the massive amount of stress putting on a show causes, but there is also a part of me that feels that things are just now starting to go well and I should strike while the Iron is hot and really push to get as much stuff out there as I possibly can. What do you think? Should I settle down for a life of relative peace and mediocrity or should I drive myself into an early Grave in pursuit of Fame fortune and the American dream, You decide?

On a lighter note and just to compound my stress it seems that there are forces in this world who are quite keen to know more about John Gethin. There is even a “small”calling for a book based on the story.
What form that book would take I have yet to decide. Would it be a children’s book with loads of bright colorful pictures ? or possibly something a little more adult with just a few sketches?, should I aim to get this book out this year or should I bunch it in with some other tales and myths as part of an anthology of sorts, again I just don’t know yet know, watch this space…

please let me know what you think?

Anyway I will now leave you to bask in my own indecision .

Take Care

Owen x

One True Voice?- Didn’t they win “Popstars the Rivals” along with “Girls Aloud”?.

Anyway ,this entry is called that because for the first time on this Swanky new Website this is actually me speaking, yes I am trying my hand at this blogging thing and hope to make it regular.
Firstly a massive thank you to Dai and Eleanor Edwards for sorting this site out for me, I am really grateful to you guys and really want to make it work.
If anyone is reading this (I really hope somebody is?) please visit www.giveabrick.com Its a charity that Eleanor Edwards is involved in and if you like the site please please support her by doing as the title says and “Giving a Brick” (Its a metaphorical Brick mind- I tried sending one – The postage was horrendous).
Well as its my first blog so to speak I really aught to get on and tell you what I have been doing etc. Well as you might know I am in the middle of a bit of a drawn out tour of my latest “Welsh Myths” offering called “Gethin” – we performed it on the 25th of April at Pontardawe Arts centre and it seemed to go down really well.
Gethin is playing at the Dylan Thomas theatre in Swansea on the 24th of this Month and then finishes off in Ystradgynlais on Sat the 14th of June. Please get in touch if you want tickets or have any comments about the show as I would love to hear from you.?
As for future plans , I am giving Edinburgh a miss this year as it has been a bit of a hectic time for the last few months so I am trying to give myself a little rest this summer but I am starting work on a show which I hope will be performed around October/November- Its called “Grave Tidings” – so I will let you guess what sort of theme that will have.
Anyway I am not going to write too much for this opening Blog as I am not sure if its going to work , so I don’t want to have to do it all again.
I am filming with Pobol Y Cwm this Fri so I will come back and try and be a bit more informative and entertaining after that.

Until then

Owen

Hi!
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Until next time,
Owen xx