Simply Red
I meant to tell you all about Simply Red and I never did so here goesAs avid readers of this site will know, on Tuesday afternoon my employer thrust 2 tickets into my hand for Simply Red, playing at the Odyssey on the Tuesday night. Even at this notice I dropped everything as I am actually still stuck in the eighties at heart. (You will know if you too are stuck in a particular time frame if, when you look down the UK Top Twenty album list you see nothing that you actually want to buy or even download for free...)
Then later on in the afternoon another two tickets were plonked onto my desk with the words "If you can get rid of those as well that would be great"
I literally rang round everyone I thought might be interested and finally came up with Sian from the Orchestra and her boyfriend Paul (Hi Guys).
We went through the main doors with all the other MOE's and the lady at the door practically scorned us - "Oh no Sir!! You are supposed to go through the VIP door to the South Suite - out you go!! How dare you try to come through this common door" What I hadn't really realised was that these were private corporate box tickets and that drink and food were included.
Out we went feeling important and were directed to a really lavish room with my company's logo plastered all over it complete with well stocked mini bar and finger food enough and petit fours for about 10 people.
Mick Hucknall was incredible, he had a fab orchestra and band and he rocked the place - the Odyssey was completely full which doesn't happen that often.
Needless to say, the fridge emptied with astonishing ease. As the evening moved on, "Simply Red" slowly eroded into a mere side show with "Bacardi Breezer" becoming the headlining act....
Labels: Odyssey
posted by Freddy @ Thursday, October 27, 2005
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