Back from the Darkness... where I've been, what I've done and why Anthony Warlow is the greatest singer on earth

I know, I know, it's been a while since I bothered updating this blog. But I've been held ransom by the legendary Anthony Warlow (who really is that handsome and charming in person! DROOL! -yeah, I got the photo, the hug and the autograph) who put in an epic performance in the last few Phantom shows in Sydney. But now that I'm back, I can share some insights! Hurrah!

I've played a few games while I was away: Legend of Zelda - Phantom Hourglass, Top Trumps - Doctor Who and XIII. But I'll start at the top.

Phantom Hourglass is brilliant. It has all the perks of a good Zelda game on a hand-held console (I recently picked up Wind-waker, stay tuned!). It's particularly good when played while listening to the concept recording for Frank Wildhorn's Jekyll and Hyde. Brilliant stuff and highly entertaining. Listen to Alive whilst playing the Cubus Sisters section onboard the Ghost Ship. Awesome stuff.

Top Trumps - Doctor Who was weird. More like a card game for a console. The upshot is that if you're a David Tennant fan (like moi, for instance), you'll be more than vicious winning back that awesome The Doctor card. There's also appearances by Martha Jones, Capt. Jack Harkness, Harriet Jones ("Yes, we know who you are") and Yvonne Hartman (the woman who set Daleks on London... yeah, stoopid!).

On to XIII. Pointless for anything but the pretty graphics. It's cell-shaded, so aesthetically it's quite nice. But it's, to search for the term, bloody useless as far as teaching a new player the controls. Those who know me well enough know that I can't stand first-person shooters, so admittedly I'm extremely biased, but in that same vein I did play Dirge of Cerberus. So I can say that I really don't like XIII. It's irritating.

As a final thought... why is Anthony Warlow the greatest singer on earth? Try singing two different parts at the same time. Jekyll and Hyde - the track is on disc two, called Confrontation. I know it's double-tracking, but one voice doing two distinctly different parts? Legend. The man is brilli-ANT. ;)