Give me love ...

As has rapidly become apparent I firmly believe that if you look hard enough life can give you some great stories to tell and share. This whole blog is maybe testament to that. 

Tonight we were helping out with Love Hope Strength at the Big Country gig in Manchester, and having a lovely time in doing so (a total blast). Collecting oral swobs from volunteers to go on the bone marrow donation register. A reward for doing so is early entry to the gig, hear the soundcheck, access all areas ... a bit of privilege. 

Like all things we play to our strengths; Liz was giving out leaflets at the door as the punters came in and directing them to the stall at the back of the venue to see me and the other volunteers to sign-up.

Dutifully each person who came through the door was jumped on by Mrs. T ... including the road crew ... venue staff ... touring entourage ... band members family & friends and Mark Brzezicki (the bands drummer) ... who apparently was most put out by Liz's enquiry, not being recognised, and swiftly showed her his tour pass & lanyard.

Most people would be quite embarrassed by this apparent foe parr , not Liz. She thought "...  he looked familiar, just assumed that I'd seen him at other gigs!" (true I suppose?) Liz isn't really star struck, the only time I've ever seen her go all girly & giggly was meeting Chuck Ragan, but to be honest I was the same (he's like Hugh Jackman but more rugged) It is perhaps worth mentioning that of all the bands and artists I have introduced her too Big Country are probably her favourite ... and she didn't even recognise their flaming drummer.

I had two major goals for the show, the first to personally sign-up ten people for the bone marrow register, the second to talk to Mr. B. He always appears approachable and has been friendly on previous brief encounters. Just to tell him that when I was eleven the most exciting thing I had ever heard was the drum introduction to "In A Big Country" and hearing it now takes me right back. To thank him, thought he might like this? Obviously this was somewhat negated somewhat by Liz's incident, especially as he didn't really see the funny side apparently.

Tune in on Wednesday when Liz asks Jamie Watson if he's done his RE homework???