Post by curly and the model on May 26, 2014 19:36:14 GMT
We flew from Heathrow to Aberdeen early Friday morning on good old BA. Love that airline, they know all about customer care .
Collected our car, then about an hour drive down to Montrose. You can do it quicker but we took the coastal route.
Lovely day
I did try to book a hotel, but there's only a few and all booked ,so ended up in a guest house. I hope that doesn't sound snobby,
just that we have had a couple of dodgy ones. Anyway the address was, 37 The Mall, guess what it was called,,,,,,,37 The Mall.
Great looking house, I think in Scotland it is called a Manse.
Waited to get in for a few minutes, then a lady opened up, said she was just off, as "I am only the cleaner", she got us to our room
in the end and kept on saying sorry I am only the cleaner. I said to her, don't say "only". Every job is just that, and we all need each other.
That got us a smile, told us she liked rock music, so I gave her one,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,of Matthews CD's and a T shirt.
Always prepared . What did you think I was going to say??
Went off for a wander, down to the golf course where the gig was, just under a mile walk. Right on the sea ftont, really nice, should have
bought our bucket and spades.
Then up to the town centre. We thought, well we are on the coast, lets have a bit of North Sea Haddock and chips, Wish we hadn't.
Lucky not to get the squits.
About 7.30, walked down to the gig. Only Tennants Lager, one can's enough, sorry.
The support band was going down well, I think they were called ghost house, what put us off the lead singer near the end of the set,
shouted out, "come on you mother f***ers", why,????
Here we go, got down to the front all bar first row or two on the left hand side, the sun was starting to go down, but it was not that
cold.
Gotta tell you this, there were two women holding each other up, one of them kept turning around and taking the piss out of people.
People often have a go at my barnet but that's water off a ducks back. But she was just insulting others around. She needs to look
in the mirror, reminded me of a white David Dickenson, sorry that is not really me, but sometimes !!
ps. to all our world wide viewers that was not a racist remark, Dickenson is on TV and has a perma tan.
Talk about pad this out, trouble is you know what's coming next.
The Drone, which seemed longer, then on strolls the band,, hurry up Rick plug yourself in and lets get on with it, yep that's it
good old Caroline.
Francis had a little comment about the cold. My offer still stands about buying the thermals. He told the audience it was cold and said
it's alright for you jocks your used to it :dig:,,,,,oh my good gawd, a bit Arthur Daley creeping in,,, then saved it by saying we are just
southern softies,
Again the band just seem up for the gig. The crowd were just great, except for 2, and all around us were bouncing. Told it was sold out.
I got a little nudge from the lady next to me and she pointed towards the piss taker,, she had wet herself :haha: just about summed them up.
I am not saying anymore about them. A Status Quo gig is all about enjoying yourselves.
Really enjoyed the night.
Found a pub on the way back, or it found us. Had a great night, it was packed and I think we were the only English in there. Got told off by a fella
cause I was drinking Fosters and not Tennants. :lolflg:
The lady owner said she would look after us, no we never found out either. As we left, about one in the morning her husband shook our
hands and thanked us and said haste ye back. Nice people.
No autographs, but a couple of nice comments.
Next morning a bit of breakfast, the lady that owned the guest house was more intent of getting out than caring about her guests. She told
us she was on the committee for the Montrose music festival, which apart from Status Quo had another 3 days to go.
Where's me toast ?.
Nice guest house, my advice would be to the owner, you do the cleaning, and put the cleaning lady in charge.
Off to the airport, stopped off at Stonehaven for a walk.
Then home. A quick change, then a few libations at our local
Thats it till next time
Enjoy Life