On Monday night I attended an HP and AMD sponsored event ‘HP On the Rocks‘ with my graphic designer wife. The function was at at the Natural History Museum’s outdoor ice rink bar in London. Guest star at the event, fresh from a previous night’s singing on the X Factor results show, was Jamie ‘Afro’ Archer (right with my wife Sue).  We had a great night, and I managed to give the new Hewlett Packard DM3 laptop a test drive on Windows 7 – probably one of their better looking machines, quite dinky and funky without being flimsy, not the sort of thing I usually associate with HP at all.

Despite saying that he was a little tired (understandably having sung with Sir Paul McCartney less than 24 hours before), Jamie seemed very friendly to all and gave us an acoustic rendition of songs ranging from REM and Cold Play (Yellow) to his X Factor trademark audition song ‘Kings of Leon – Sex is on Fire‘. I managed to grab some footage of him singing the Killers – Mr Brightside (with numerous hysterical teenagers) which I’ve whacked on YouTube as below… pretty good for an artist who wasn’t even meant to be playing a guitar when he arrived and just picked it up for fun (which I managed to find out from organisers TMB Marketing and Communications). Funniest moment was being asked if I was Jamie Archer’s manager (I was suited and booted)!

Jamie Archer: Killers – Mr Brightside

Jamie Archer: Cold Play – Yellow

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