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Guest Lists- Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One Before

May 16, 2007

As a reviewer of theatre and music, I am very lucky - in that I get free CDs, gig and theatre tickets in both Manchester and London. Most of the time reviewing is a joy - as you turn up - collect your tickets and in you go, pen at the ready. But there is the odd time when the old “your name is not on the list, so you are not coming in” scenario crops up. Tonight was one of them. I was reviewing ‘king of covers’ Mark Ronson at the Life Cafe tonight for the Manchester Evening News.

Getting the tickets is a long process; once you have traced who has the tickets - you have to trust that they will put you on the list. Then you reply and print off the email confirming you are on the list. You are all set, you arrive and queue in the rain, as members of the cast of Coronation Street slink past you. As you get to the front, you produce your printed email, explain what list you should be on, the company you represent and your name. Then you wait. Tonight there was envelope shuffling, list swapping, phone calls and much to-ing and fro-ing.

Then five minutes later, I spy a sorrowful glance from a bouncer and I am told (what I already knew) that I am not on the ’sacred’ list. My blood boils but it’s clear they ain’t budging, they have a list and I’m not on it. So, I return home, wet through and review-less. As for Mark Ronson, he is probably delivering a blistering set, as I type this. So, if you ever think, lucky reviewers - all these free tickets, please spare a thought - if I would have bought one tonight, I would have got in!

Stop me, stop me, oh oh stop me, stop me if you think you’ve heard this one before but…..”this is Glenn Meads reporting, sodden-wet, fed up, in need of alcohol on a wet, dull Wednesday evening!”

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