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Neil BUCHANAN personal appointments - Find and update company information - GOV.UK". find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk . Retrieved 21 September 2021. So Buchanan went over to see what China thought of the man with the PVA. When he landed in Shanghai, four news crews had been sent to greet him. He’s still baffled. “It was like Beatlemania.” Everywhere he went, he was mobbed by children shouting “shū shu Neil!” – “uncle”, an honorific for the elders of society.

Buchanan made his television debut on a Saturday morning show called No. 73, later renamed 7T3. [3] He had attended the original audition, having met the No. 73 producers when his band Marseille appeared on Southern Television's Saturday Banana. He did not become a regular until the third series of No. 73 shown in 1983. After production ceased on 7T3 in 1988, he went on to present Motormouth, another Saturday morning children's program made by TVS alongside Gaby Roslin. Buchanan stayed with Motormouth until the show's cancellation in 1992. From 1995 to 1997, Buchanan presented the awards show The CITV Awards, which gave viewers a chance to vote on who they think should win a CITV award. The CITV series, which aired between 1990 and 2007 was widely watched by the younger generations, inspiring after school consumers to get creative with materials they could find at home. That show was No 73, which started in 1982. At first, Buchanan missed out on a leading role, beaten by a young Sandi Toksvig, but he joined as a caricaturist for the second series, and his TV career had begun. Episode 16: Ghost train (Things from a fairground) Broadcast on Wednesday 25th October 2000 on CITVIn Britain,” he says in a gently acid way, “we have plastic ballparks that we throw the kids into. In China they have creative centres into which young people can go while the parents do the boring shopping.”

He added: "I get a lot of Company Directors or CEOs saying to me, 'I'm in my job because of you'. It's so brilliant that they do that. We didn’t want to be in any way elitist,” he remembers. “When the BBC were doing their shows, it was all, ‘Go and buy a spray-paint brush.’ No! What’s in your dustbin? What’s at the bottom of your wardrobe? What’s in that waste-paper basket?We won the first ever Battle of the Bands. You could say it was the first X Factor. It was nationwide, but we only entered it to prove we were the best band in Liverpool. We wanted to beat our rivals – I think their name was Thunderboots. Buchanan was in a heavy metal band called Marseille which formed in 1976: they were part of the new wave of British heavy metal scene, releasing four albums and six singles, touring America and performing with Judas Priest, Nazareth and Whitesnake. [5] [6] [7] The band reformed in 2009 with a performance at The Cavern Club, Liverpool. [7] Television [ edit ] Neil’s big masterpiece during each episode typically involved him going to a large open area and gathering a load of old shit together to make something arty. It was usually a pile of clothes that he’d fashion into a formation that was extremely unachievable for us mere mortals. At its core, what we were being subjected to was exhibitionism. Neil needed an outlet to flourish after spending the previous twenty minutes dumbing down his capabilities for us morons trying to keep up. In 2017, Nigel Roberts, vocalist for Marseille, announced that Buchanan had stepped away from the band owing to his consultancy work for children's television. [12] Marseille The Band - Home". Marseilleonline.co.uk. Archived from the original on 31 May 2017 . Retrieved 30 March 2021.

With the creative kits aboard 160 easyJet planes flying from the UK, Neil has also provided art tutorials via easyJet's YouTube channel, which teaches kids how to draw planes and beaches. The tutorials can even be viewed at home to inspire children during half-term. The series was an immediate fixture of Children’s ITV (a strand that became CITV in 1993). Buchanan was forever being accosted by people in the street, adults and children both. (He still is today, and he still doesn’t mind.) Episode 12: Skeleton chasing girl and boy (Things from a haunted house) Broadcast on Tuesday 20th November 2001 on CITVWe should encourage kids, inspire kids to be creative. You put any kid on the first rung of the creative ladder and they will climb all the way to the top." We won that, then we won the Northern heats, then the Northern-half-of-England heats, and we ended up at Earl’s Court. And we won that. We went off with a record deal.”

Episode 6: Bumper cars (Things from the fair ground) Broadcast on Monday 12th November 2001 on CITVThe set was unusually large, but the team was limited, and Buchanan chose them all. “I didn’t take anyone from TV. I took them all from Maidstone Art College. And I wanted better artists than myself. When I was a kid, I was a red-hot Liverpool fan, and I always remember Bill Shankly saying, ‘A team is only as good as its worst player.’ So, I thought, if I’m the worst player in the team, we’re going to be s--- hot!”