The Assembly, Leamington Spa, 23rd September 2010

Well todays post will be mostly about the green room! There were lots of unusual things in here to play with... as you can see from following pics.

Someone suggested this smurf was doing a rude gesture, oh no I can't possibly think that!

The best bit was this trailer parked in the green room, yes it was a big room. It used to belong to Tammy Wynette, the famous country singer. How very pink! So many mirrors too! How the blazers did they get it in there, as room was all breeze blocked up!

I'm very disappointed to not be in this pic! its such a nice one of everyone!

Not sure why the regal chairs or why the silver railings even but designer Laurence Llewelyn bowen was the guy who redesigned the venue from an old Bingo hall and Garage so maybe this is his doing?

Interior shot

The venue, cherubs! Very LL-Bowen!

The sunlight was hitting the cherubs in a very spiritual way...

View from the stage

Harriet having a relax on stage.

Oz (Oliver) in house guy who did the lights, and what a fab job he did too!!

Some pics from the show that Glenn took with my camera!

Special Lights

Met some people after the show, the names Jim and Simon are ringing a bell. I tip my hat to the lady who danced her way through the show on our left. It was a physical mix of contemporary and freestyle sqautting. She was sooooo into it, it was fab!

We really really enjoyed the gig, the crowd were great and we were on form!

toodle-oo

Frome, Somerset, 17th Sept 2010

In the morning it was like being on school camp or something, everyone fighting for use of the bathroom, boys walking around in towels, (ok school camp wasn't like that!)

The band vans parked up in a sleepy somerset village!

Chris taking in the villagey feel, which reminded Fredi of the film hot fuzz!

The old Co-op and photo shoot studio!

Patch and I went to local shop for bacon and eggs and Patch cooked up a feast!

My sister and Paul in said Kitchen that made the very nice egg / bacon sarnies!!

Photo shoot time! It was payment for staying at Charlies place.. She has a photography blog project where she takes pictures of everyone that visits her place! Here is the link to the blog, our pics won't be up there yet though, but keep checking back, it'll be worth it, just for Patchs pic!

http://ourvisitors.blogspot.com/

Trust Jeff. This was something I picked up once at an auction, My sister took it off my hands!

After photo shoot, arrived at Frome.

Et Voila, Memorial Theatre Frome.

Our saviour Paul on the left came to do the projection for us, my brother in laws, brother in law! He did a fabulous job considering he hadn't seen the show before! Chris Loar has Glandular fever, get well soon Mrs L!!!

A rare pic of Paul Woodhams smiling during the day, he's usually quite stressed at this point!!!

Having been told to smile more from someone we knew the night before, the boys took it upon themselves to go the whole hog in sound check, this was 'Money'. Jeff played the whole song in sound check with this face and lots of eyebrow action it was very funny!!

(Rock stars aren't required to smile are they? They are always too cool for school!)

Patch doing his best happy performance face, swinging the guitar too cheestastic!!

Here are our hosts for the previous night Charlie and Marc, who came to the show. Marc looks like he's poking out his tongue a bit, I should have taken a couple of pics really!

Heres is Harriet with her pal, Polly! Yes there were a couple of moments when we both answered!) I'm not used to it! Polly is usually such a rare name!

Oh and so I don't forget, Frome laid on food for us!! Good Stuff

Hi to Gary and Anna too!!!

The Orchard, Dartford 16th Sept 2010

Well off we went to Dartford, home of the tunnel! Went up the A303, so scenic route today! Went past Stonehenge, finally managed to get a shot as we went past... Still have never been, really must one day..

Here's a shot front out front during set up.. with some green lights going on.. Quite like that pattern in the middle of the screen.

The Orchard has these lights running around the auditorium, here they are in red but they change colour, it's very 50's Diner! I liked this, makes the venue a bit different to all the others we've been to!

There are many posters backstage, noticed another floyd tribute show poster up there, pah!! Here is Harry Hills defaced poster, presumably defaced by him himself?

In the Wardrobe room, where we made tea we found these tumble dryer hoses which we then used as arms. cool huh! Oh yeah Fredi had dyed her hair!!!

Us girlies backstage before we went on, Harriet Baker on the right (our Sax player depping for Ross as he's just become a dad!) We posed in this order for the three shades of hair!

We're such girls!!

Great show tonight, had a good feel on stage, and the band were happy chappies.

Here is Gary and Sue that we met.. I'm sure we've met a different Gary and Sue way way back in the blog? Manchester opera house i'm thinking... We had a little chat before they left, very jolly couple, hope they laugh when they see themselves on here! Famous now guys!

Here's me and my school pal, Paula oh the things we used to get up at school!! This is her lovely hubby Richard too. So glad that they came, she hasn't seen me sing since I was at school I think, and here's another little story for you, Paula is a big part of why I'm doing this today as she was the one who asked me to go with her to the auditions of Bugsy Malone at School when we were 12 or 13. I was very shy about speaking in class but for some reason, give me an american accent and away I went!! Didn't know I was a half way decent singer til then..Got the bug and well the rest is history.. So thanks Paula, hope you feel in someway responsible.

We then travelled over night to Somerset and stayed at my sisters place... there were blow up lilos all over the place. Quite amusing, see next blog for full story and pics!