Penny writes: Beecake will be playing an accoustic session on BBC Radio Pudsey Monday the 26th of November from 6am GMT. the show will be looped throughout the day so tune in listen and give money to Children in Need. Boyd’s Beecake Helps Children in Need on the Beeb
Category: Billy Boyd
Jerry Vanderstelt was in the right place at the right time. But it wasn’t luck that landed him there, it was hard work and making his own opportunities. Today this good fortune and hard work culminate when the artist releases a lithograph celebrating “The Fellowship of the Ring,” film released in 2001.
At the San Diego Comic-Con 2001, Elijah Wood walked around the mammoth floor of convention floor drinking in the celebration of popular culture and keeping his eye out for hints of how the world might accept the movie he had worked on that was about to overwhelm popular culture, the first film in Peter Jackson’s “The Lord of the Rings.”
Not for the first time in his life, Glaswegian actor Billy Boyd is on a quest. He has already had a fair stab at adventure as Pippin the hobbit in Peter Jackson’s Lord Of The Rings trilogy but, having helped save Middle Earth, his latest mission involves guitars and chords rather than swords and hirsute hobbit feet.
Boyd is the vocalist and guitarist for up and coming four-piece band Beecake. The foursome have got gigs in the States under their belt, a headliner at King Tut’s coming up, interest from record labels and an appearance at next year’s Wickerman Festival. Happily, unlike Boyd’s previous journey, conquering the charts won’t need two hours a day in make-up. Fellowship of the guitar string
Pipkin Sweetgrass writes: Could you please run a reminder that the 2nd anniversary of Hurricane Katrina is upon us and the gulf coast is still a mess, but the Billy Boyd’s Loons Charities cookbook Recipes for Disaster is still available and all profits are still given to the Red Cross for victims of natural disaster…? [More]
Today is also Billy Boyd‘s birthday! Billy Boyd (born August 28, 1968) was born in Glasgow, Scotland. As we all know, Billy is best known for his performance as Pippin Took in The Lord of the Rings films.
Penny writes: Billy Boyd’s band Beecake is going to have yet another gig! Beecake will be appearing at “The London Gathering” on Sunday 9th September.Tickets are available from Ticketmaster via The London Gathering website: www.thelondongathering.com.