Graeme Garden's tour diary - entry #4
17/04/2007 00:30 GMT

Posted by lisa

Graeme Garden has sent the fans another update of his & Tim's adventures while on the road with The Goodies Still Rule OK! tour (thanks, Graeme!).  The tour concludes tomorrow evening with a show at Northampton's Derngate Theatre.

TOUR DIARY 17.4.2007

Tuesday April 10th: Holby was fun, just the one scene and only time for a quick hello to Ade Edmondson. 

Wednesday and a meeting with Jon Naismith, Tim and Barry to talk about new Clue ideas, and plans for the Clue Stage Tour in September.

Thursday’s Croydon show in the presence of President Lisa of GROK!  During my wasp story a whole row of latecomers filed in, so I was able to say “As we look deep into the bush, we see a family of Bellamies… moving into row B!”
After the show Peter Logan, one of our original Special Effects team came round with his family to say hello.  He lent us some of his priceless photos of work on location, some of which Tim is going to scan for the website.

On Friday Andrew Kay our Producer turned up from Australia en route to Zurich via Derby!  It was nice to see him, and have a jolly chat.  Jess and Peej were at the show and Liv from Australia was with them, with her mum, and brother Tim.  All the ladies got hugs. 

The local Fire Service was on an exercise outside the Assembly Rooms and the firemen wanted to pose for a photo with us.  Jess did the honours with the camera but [FLASH!]
“Oh no,” said Jess, “the reflective strip on your helmets has flared the picture.”
So the firemen took their helmets off.
[FLASH!]
“Oh no,” said Jess, “the reflective strip on your jackets has flared the picture.”
So the firemen took their jackets off.
[FLASH!]
“Oh no,” said Jess, “the reflective strip on your trousers has flared the picture.”
But the firemen had all run away.

Saturday and a cheerful audience in Dartford.  Afterwards we met up at last with Karen from Rockhampton who we had spoken to on the phone from Edinburgh.  She and her husband had also been at the Croydon show, straight off the plane, so too tired to say hello after!  Hugs photos etc etc.

A fantastic sunny Sunday in Eastbourne, but not a great show in the evening.  The huge 1800 seat Congress Theatre was rather thinly populated, which took some of the zing out of the atmosphere.  Tim had a couple of friends in the audience; it’s a shame he couldn’t have drummed up about a thousand more… 
As usual a nice bunch of fans at the stage door afterwards cheered us up, and a nice chap called Adrian apologised on behalf of Eastbourne for the poor turnout.

Monday April 16th in Oxford – the Sold Out signs were out for the first time!  It’s a 600-seater, but they told us they could have sold out another night as well.  The show went really well, probably the best of the tour, which was nice as my wife Emma and several friends were in the audience!  A big crowd at the stage door afterwards, and we said goodbye to Lisa who is off back to the States soon.

Only one more show left, tomorrow at Northampton.  After that I’ll be back to sum up the experience.  Thanks for reading…