Sherlock’s Amanda detects need for new radio show
Sherlock star Amanda Abbington has turned her attention to the case of London’s missing music venues.
The actress, 42, launched a weekly radio show from The Boogaloo pub in Highgate this summer with actor Jonjo O’Neill and has built up a loyal following. The pair regularly select up-and-coming artists. Abbington said: “You don’t find places like this because they are all being turned into a Wetherspoons and made all the same.
“Emerging talents don’t get to sling around Denmark Street any more, they just go straight to big labels. We are losing the sense of London and its rock ’n’ roll image, but Boogaloo is hanging on to it.”
O’Neill, 39, whose TV credits include The Fall, said: “We do it when we can, when we aren’t filming. We don’t take ourselves seriously.
“Amanda is a music geek, if you play her an intro to any song she will know what it is. I get her to do accents and people love it.”
“I’m like a performing seal,” Abbington added. “I eat snacks constantly and no pub radio show is complete without a drink.”
The star is currently filming new Netflix drama Safe alongside Michael C Hall but said “you never leave Sherlock”.
She said: “Nothing is happening at the moment, but with Mark [Gatiss] and Stephen [Moffatt] it’s always open ended. You can get invited back even if you’ve been killed off.”
The radio show, “not ironically” called Nobody’s Listening, airs at 5pm on Mondays on boogalooradio.com.
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