Birmingham

Birmingham Megastore 1996

God am I sad or what? No don't tell me, I was still buzzing all night, well what was left of Sunday morning anyway, after Plymouth and Warwick but then when I got up it was big anticlimax and feeling-sorry-and- depressed-for-my self time so what did I do to fix it? Yep, last minute decision to pay a visit to Tower Records in Birmingham to watch My Life Story open it, (despite slagging someone else off for having the same plan at Warwick) when will I learn?

Anyway, it was a grand day out, Gromit, jumped on a train and arrived to the sound of, well, a disco in a Supermarket really, I half expected Jarvis to come in pushing a trolley and break into Common People, but instead we got Alisha's Attic (surprisingly good actually) and Stereo Nation (unsurprisingly complete bollocks actually, but hilarious to watch...)

Then whilst waiting for My Life Story - Spotty greasy 12 year old kid with thick Brummie accent and New!!! Stereo Nation CD clutched in sweaty hand - "Oo are Moi Loif Storeee then?" Answer "the best band on the planet" "Wot doo they doo loik then?" They play pretty damn excellent songs, Next Question? "Ow many of em are there loik?" Eleven "EEYLEVUN? EEYLEVUN? Cor, they wont all fit on the stoige" etc etc Shut up brat, Clonk...

Anyway time for My Life Story and we got nearly a full set unlike the rest of the shite that afternoon (Suited and Booted, Sparkle, Kissingdom, Mr Boyd, April, Motorcade and 12 Reasons) The band were not impressed but we were, loads of technical bugger ups and sound shit and poor Kumar looking like he was going to cry (I've cut me thumb and it hurts), probably all because it was the middle of the afternoon and Danny wasnÕt drunk so nobody could function properly

BUT!!! Ruth played (hurrah!) and gave out her half of the numbers (which we got three each of as nobody else seemed to want them), only two of us to do the Baa Baa BaaÕs, and NOBODY else was singing, even Sparkle and 12 Reasons so we decided to try to liven up events by throwing shiny stars and confetti (borrowed from Warwick) all over the heads of small children in the front row, and Helen caught the whole extravaganza on video, much to Paul's amazement.

And then to top it all off the band left with us in hot pursuit (as we were getting chucked out cos we were the only other people left in the building) to thousands of screaming teenies and security and policemen and into a big white stretch limo with blacked out windows, Popstarz or what!!! No I'm not joking, actually the screaming teenies were there for the Spice Girls and the limo was provided by Tower but Coo-el! So now I really do know how it feels to be a Spice Girl...

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