Parminder Nagra
Top 10 Tunes
Laaadies and Gentlemen! Tonight in the Two Paddocks Dayglo 24/7, shaking her stuff on our pulsing dance floor, exquisitely reflected a thousand times in the TP mirror ball, all the way from Alcatraz, First Class courtesy of Two Paddocks Virtual Airlines (the canapés are literally lighter than air), a surprise and a delight – the lovely and super talented Parminder Nagra. In January you will see her luminescent on Fox in Alcatraz. You know her best from Bend it Like Beckham and as the longest serving cast member in E.R. (seven years – heroic) with any luck you may have seen her in the heaps of other theatre and film she has made ... but we know her best from cocktails and vino after work. A great team member, a funny friend, a devoted mother, a fabulous actor and dammit ... a bona fide Star. Here she is, with a bunch of songs she promises will be a surprise ... All the way from Leicester via Los Angeles directly here in living colour and surround sound ... the all singing, all dancing, all outrageous ... Parminder Nagra!
Wow ... what a top 10, with all kinds of places to go that you never thought of previously. Salaam-E-Ishq if you don't know how much crazy, sexy, psychotropic, giddy, sentimental, exhilarating fun Bollywood can be here is a really good place to start. Parminder Nagra is the only other fan I know of Rachel Yamagata, apart from myself. And the late Israel Kamakawiwo'ole's version of Somewhere Over the Rainbow -- that huge man with the sweet high voice and the tiny ukulele -- almost impossible not to be moved to tears by this, especially if you have spent any time in Hawaii.
Anyway, all of us inmates of Alcatraz love working with Parminder, and all us Dayglo lot are thrilled to have her here, in 3D and completely gorgeous, a fantastic Top 10, ... give it up, with thanks and deafening applause ... for the splendid ... Parminder Nagra!