MrPoppins was originally created just so as I could embed a particular video in the online forum for The Choirboys. At that time, I had recently become admin of their official forum and had also set up an unofficial Choirboys website to share videos of the boys various TV appearances that weren't included on their official website.

By the time of The Choirboys' second album, YouTube postings became more regular and after The Choirboys, MrPoppins went on to support Alex Stobbs, a gifted musician whose remarkable achievements in the face of cystic fibrosis were documented by Channel 4, and then 2008 Britain's Got Talent finalist and Carlisle Cathedral chorister Andrew Johnston.

These days it takes a lot to stir me into into action, but two of the performances (The Poppy Girls and Jack Topping) at this year's Festival Of Remembrance did just that. I am now following these two acts with interest to see how they fare.