On Friday night I was supposed to be going on a pub crawl with my Lynder.
Then at about 10.30 that morning the haed of Voderfone marketing emailed me and asked me to come and see her. I went to her desk and she was asking me if I would host the Westlife box tonight as a "big favour" to her!! Such a drag my job. My only problem was what to do with Lynder so I asked if I could blag an extra ticket and then I would do it and they agreed! So I met Lynder to go on a pub crawl but then surprised her by announcing we were going to the Odyssey. Luckily she loves Westlife..
So here we are enjoying an impromptu concert and guzzling as much free wine into as as time would allow. I've seen these boys about three times now and I do think this was their best concert yet - but the 2 bottles of White NZ might be augmenting my views somewhat... Still you decide!!
My work has GIVEN ME (yes, given me) tickets to see DOLLY PARTON on the 30th March in the Vodafone Corporate Box!!
I know!!
So Me and Freddy will keep you updated with video's and pictures from this fabulous event in the Odyssey Arena. She has boobies that would make a nun blush!
I meant to tell you all about Simply Red and I never did so here goes
As 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....
