I thought I would tell you about my recent amazing day out at Lets Rock at Temple Newsome. A regular client and good friend treated us to it.I met him at the train station where he had an a mcmuffin and a coffee waiting for me….what a star!
I panicked on the way…suncream or should I say lack of it! Now we all know and you can see from my pics…I’m like Casper the friendly ghosts paler relative. I blame my Celtic blood but lets say I don’t tan. I go red, burn and then back to white. Luckily my companion had brought some plus beach mats and also a barcardi surprise in our bottles of water(!)…a litre in fact..did I say this dude was a star?
Anyway we had a tipsy and fun time in the sun. We saw Brother Beyond…meh..Jaqui Graham….good singer but not my thing…..Altered Images…Claire Grogan gotta love her..Happy Birthday!…The Real Thing…I thought they were more 70’s?!?…not my thing again…Then Jericho…real showoffs lol…the plug got pulled because they overran and the lead singer proceeded to writhe on the floor and begged to be plugged back in…..Nik Heyward…Fantastic day..it really was!Alexander O’Neal…awesome, he must be getting on a wee bit but by gum he has a voice like velvet….Nik Kershaw…really good to sing and dance to….ABC to me they were the real headliners..Martin Fry what a leg-end!Howard Jones….aw he sang the song he did at Live Aid which gave me goose bumps!Kim Wilde…looking great and how fab it was dancing as the sun went down to Kids in America and You keep me hanging on etc…lastly Banarama or should I say er 2 of them…great pop tunes and even my male friend got up and boogied to Nathan Jones and Robert De Niro…in fact he should have gone up and offered to be the third member! However you could tell Karin and Sarah really didn’t get on, they kept sniping between songs which was a real shame!
Time to pack up and go for the bus home….back sore, arse sore from sitting on the grass and feck…sunburnt shoulders and one leg for some bizarre reason!
The bus took ages but we started a singalong, stood in the dark with all the other 80’s fans…Respect by Erasure…it was magical….it was pitch black, not a breeze in the air.,,,,but strong and clear..
‘I try to discover
A little something to make me sweeter
Oh baby refrain from breaking my heart
I’m so in love with you
I’ll be forever blue
That you give me no reason
Why you’re making me work so hard’
Moments like that, the voices of hundreds of people singing back to you, stay with you always!
Back to Leeds, bursting for a piddle and and starving hungry, it was time to schlep back to Bibi towers, armed with a mucky kebab each…happy days!
And I didn’t answer my phone or any emails…sorry if I missed you that day but we all need a day away now and then even if it does give me flaky shoulders….any volunteers to rub suncream in me next year?All applications welcome 😉