Spreading the TT Love

[przed]

I seem to be working as a one woman P.R. campaign for Take That in Canada.

I've got Ros hooked on Patience, and had her ask me to make her a mix CD for daycare with TT songs so she can spread the word in the under 6 set.

I've got one of my best mates not only listening to the band, and coming over to watch the concert DVDs, but now reading the RPS. (She read my three stories and asked for recs!)

And now I seem to have hooked the other friend who came to see X-Men with us. After I bitched about them not including Love Love in the end credits, she asked me to send her a link to the video. So I did. I also sent her links to the video of Kidz, and their performance at the Brits. She passed the Kidz link along to her steampunk/music crazy sixteen-year-old son.

And today she sent me this in an email:



Is it bad that I'm feeling inordinately pleased with myself?

And hoping that I can one day be considered ground zero for Take That's takeover of North America. Or at least Toronto. (I have especially big hopes that the sixteen-year-old will start spreading the word at his school.)

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[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

I'm all about the groovy boat floating. <--- Sentence #13,457 I never expected to type. *g*

Due to having an older mate at uni who had been one of Jane Asher's flatmates I got to meet Pete very briefly backstage at a Who concert. I almost forgot to breathe.

[przed.livejournal.com]

I got to meet Pete very briefly backstage at a Who concert.

Iz jealous. He's in the top five of my people I'd lurv to meet list. Mind you, if I ever did meet him, I'd probably forget how to breathe/talk/not act like a blithering idiot, so it's probably best that I don't.

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

I'm ashamed to admit that there may have been nervous giggling from my 19 year old self. There certainly wasn't anything approaching coherent speech although the meeting was very brief and he was very much focused on my mate who he hadn't seen in a couple of years. When Roger turned up he whipped her off her feet and spin-hugged her.

[przed.livejournal.com]

So you've met Pete and Roger and driven in a Morgan. If you weren't so lovely, I'd almost have to hate you. *g*

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

I've also met David Bowie (I couldn't even manage the nervous giggling), Phil Collins (*shrugs*) and Rufus Sewell in the company of mates who knew them, in these cases through having worked as crew for them. Again, limited conversation on my part, I was just there and they were focused on my mates.

I've had a longer chat with Anthony Hopkins while on my drama programme, helped John Rhys-Davies find the right plane at the airport and helped John Thaw, Richard Briers, Sheila Hancock and Briers' wife find where the Tetbury Woolpack races actually start so they could watch them.

I've met quite a few writers as well, from working in book shops and through workshops.

I've seen a bunch more but haven't approached them. I actually shy away from opportunities to meet celebrities as I know I'll probably either go silent or gush like an idiot. There are certain ones where I'd love the opportunity (which will never happen) to meet them in a dinner party type setting where I might actually have a chance to talk with them about their work but otherwise it just seems very awkward to me.

[przed.livejournal.com]

Wow, do you have extraordinarily connected friends, or is it just that England, being a tiny island, has more celebrities per square foot? *g*

(I'm still most jealous about Pete and Roger--well, Pete, really--but John Thaw and Rufus Sewell are pretty cool as well.)

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

It's a small island and I have film and drama degrees. A lot of my mates went in to the film and TV industries and the professional theatre.

Rufus Sewell remains the most beautiful man I've ever seen in person. Really, he's even better looking than he is on screen.

As for John Thaw, he and Richard Briers were friends for years and Thaw lived near Tetbury, as did I growing up. The Tetbury Woolpack races almost made it in to Ninety-Nine Yew Trees.