Random Ramblings

To one person this will mean alot.
To the rest of you, no I haven't gone bonkers.
I always was!

Some people stand in the darkness
Afraid to step into the light
Some people need to help somebody
When the edge of surrender's in sight
Don't you worry
It's gonna be alright
Cause I'm always ready
I won't let you out of my sight.
I'll be ready I'll be ready
Never you fear No don't you fear
I'll be ready
Forever and always I'm always here.
In us we all have the power
But sometimes it's so hard to see
And instinct is stronger than reason
It's just human nature to me
Don't you worry
Its gonna be alright
Cause I'm always ready I won't let you out of my sight.
I'll be ready I'll be ready Never you fear No don’t you fear I'll be ready
Forever and always
I'm always here!

Remember last year we took out Twelfth Night? It was such fun that we are going to pip that tour to the ground by taking out Shrew, Its going to be bigger bolder better than last year, with a cracking team and a fantastic original music sound track, based on Jazz and performed live by our very own musicians.
Set in the Second world war upon an an authentic bandstand we will laugh, cry and picnic till the mossies come and bite our bottoms, then put it all back in the van and drink more beer.

Please come join us...

19th-25th June South Hill Park Arts Centre, Bracknell
27th June The Hawkedon Queen, Sufolk
28th June Dovedon Hall, Suffolk
29th, 30th June, 1st, 2nd July Abbey Gard ens, Bury St. Edmunds
7th,8th July Magna Carta Arts Centre, Surrey
17th,18th July Kitley house hotel, nr Plymouth
29th July Lamport Hall, Northamptonshire, 6.30pm

We have just had the most bonkers day... great show though! We have had the pleasure of heading up the Tewkesbury arts festival, which is a fantastic oppurtunity so we were determined to make it one to remember. Because the festival is kicking off there are numerous events going on. A Live broadcast from the theatre for the BBC, Lunchtime medieval concerts, coffee mornings and of course us. In preparation for this special day the Good God of cleaning specially shampooed the carpets. Lovely and clean and sweet smelling they were still soggy at ten o'clock. Being the good company manager I am I popped out to say hello to box office and marketing and all the other unsung heroes of our industry. The Foyer (the only room in the building to escape from the shampoo demon) was ashawm with medieval music, as they were warming up there, people trying to organise somewhere dry for their coffee morning, the girls at box office bemused but coping sent me upstairs to find the marketing manager. First of all though I cam accross the BBC mob, doing a weather report standing on orange crates. as you do when the ground is soggy I guess. The lovely marketing lady had the look of 'done hysteria, now I shall just survive minute by minute by drinking warm hot tea' greated me with 'are the cast here?!' they were stuck in swindon with an ETA of 11ish. I was expecting the 'we are ten mins away' phonecall any minute. Instead I got the 'we are stuck in traffic' phonecall. "Right then" Mr. BBC said, "Its going to be you then!" as Someone ran down to find MrPhillipSnozeberry to join me in this live interview. We came out unscathed, resisted the urge to be tooo Honest and had a good giggle, however lights don't focus themselves so back we went to the stage to find the lovely medieval musicians had moved into the auditorium to rehearse. We usally work to the sountrack of baywatch, so it was a little bit of a culture shock. After lunch things calmed down, the carpet dried, the BBC people ran 2 miles for fun, the musicians I presume went off to their gig and we did our show fabulously cos we are like that. Bonkers day though!

We've been out partying and working vair hard, with no computers and mostly no civilization or washing machines, but the tour is going well, we are having fun, not enough sleep and plently of showbiz glamour etc.

Some Excellent shows, thanks to MrPhillipLoganBerry of the big fruit guild, a van that looks like a big gay explosion, just to make the tour more fun, lots and lots of interesting venues, going from no. 1 houses to sheds etc. seriously one venue we would have been pushed to get pigeon in. Twas a super hero effort but the show was ok in the end, even on half a rig and 6 subs and alot of concentration.
A sign on a Pizza shop saying free celery (really need to wear my glasses more) and a caravan being flipped over by 20 army boys on the motorway. What else.... oh yes, digs in Masfield were a bit 1984, but we coped. deffo a twilight zone venue. Today we are hurtling from billingham to swansea... Tour booking should only be given to people with atleast a D in GSCE geography.

2 weeks more of this and we are off with the shakespeare for another summer of mud and beer. Trying to get the old team together, with the addition of MrPhillipStrawberry who may regret saying yes!

To the pigeon people.... Come back soon, we miss you....

edit.... The wifi service station is playing bananarama. Long live the gays!