The Jade Musical: Goody or Baddy?

After the death of former BB star in March this year, Jade Goody is set to make a comeback on the west end from the beyond. So the question we need to ask ourselves is: Why?

Yes it is all very tragic, a young loss of life and all, but how is it that the British public as well as the English Media are so fickle? Jogging our minds back to her earlier Essex self in 2002, when she featured in the Channel 4 show, Goody became a target of ridicule in the British tabloid press for displaying a severe lack of general knowledge for a British native. Is it me or has the British public developed a severe sense of amnesia?

Not to mention the infamous racist slurs screeched at Bollywood Actress, Shilpa Shetty in 2007, resulting in an international outcry and her eviction from the show. At one point after the controversy, Goody even appeared on This Morning revealing that Social Services had been involved with dealing with her two young sons.

Now after all this, you would think she would want to keep a low profile. However, having become involved in a "vicious fight with a female partygoer at an Essex nightclub before turning her rage onto a security guard" according to the Daily Mail; reveal that Goody had other plans. Whilst, current husband, Jack Tweed pulled a similar stunt and was convicted of assault occasioning actual bodily harm for attacking a 16-year-old boy in 2006. Consequently we find ourselves pondering over how she was compared to Princess Diana as the “People’s Princess.”

Worldwide it is estimated that there are 473,000 cases of cervical cancer, and 253,500 deaths per year. How is it that this approximation was not even mentioned throughout her illness and the prime focus of the media was just of one case, Jade Goody? I found it incredibly amazing that Goody ‘did all to make her sons comfortable’ yet was happy to splash her ailment across the newspaper on a regular basis as a daily reminder.

So when I was getting my regular fix of news from my reliable source, the BBC one morning; I almost choked on my coffee to see “TV plan to find Jade musical star.” Yes, Goody has done an MJ and come back from the dead. But in Clifford’s words- “She was tabloid gold.”

In the end we shake our heads and scoff, and hope that Britain gets a grip on reality.

Why Volunteering at Festivals is the best way this Summer

It seems that we fork out too much for the big name festivals that the UK has to offer. Spending close to £300 for a weekend of mayhem, which could easily go towards a mini holiday abroad. So how do we get our money’s worth this up-coming British summer? The answer is simple: Volunteer as bar staff.

By utilizing only six hours each day, you can seriously reap the benefits of free food, free entry and free use of the clean bar toilets, instead of having to queue with masses of people for a tiny dung-scented trench hole. I think the operative word for festival volunteering is FREE, because it seriously is the best thing in life.

On top of it all, all the money goes to good causes so you can still get a warm fuzzy feeling in your stomach, despite spending a weekend of ill-mannered frivolity. Not to mention the countless amounts of people to encounter inside and outside of the Worker’s Beer Organisation; to put it tackily, it’s like one big happy family in your own clean campsite.

You may think, why should I exhaust my time working, when I could be getting intoxicated in a stifling tent? Well, as soon as you stop drinking you realise there is about 12 hours left of twiddling your thumbs, yes- all four of them- and stumped with thousands of other drunkards doing the same.

At the end of the four days, it’s easy to say ‘there is nowt left to do,’ having explored the vast fields of musicdom, and realising there is only three bands you actually wanted to see out of the several hundred acts. Whilst, being the happy face that is serving your saviour, Mr. Strongbow; it is clear to see how crowds may yearn for you and keep you busy.

So, in one word, why should we volunteer at Reading, Glastonbury and every other festival that breaks the bank? Because it’s FREE and we want to.