Who wants to be a TV star?
Well I didn’t either and probably still won’t be but today I was contacted by someone called Sarah from BBC 2 asking if me and my extreme ironing team would want to come on a quiz called Eggheads. I don’t really know much about this quiz but this has to be the single most random event ever to happen to me,
The problem is you have to be 18 to be on the show. Hayden just makes it in but Brown is going to be a bit of a dodgy case. We also don’t have enough members to make up the full team. We might try to get Duncan to fly back from Canada for it (just for the randomness) and maybe get Steve to do it as well but he has never done extreme ironing.
Just thought I would tell you people about this.
Ordinary Boys- what can I say
What a gig what a gig, I don’t know where to start. Well I’ve had a spair ticket for it for ages and I sold it to Hammy in the end a tenner but oh well it was cash for alcohol on the night. Just after selling the ticket Brown turned up and we went to do some extreme ironing in the rain before the gig. Went to burley park and green holme mills. We climbed up the old burnt out factory to do some extreme ironing at which point Brown proceeded to drop the ironing board and smash it (Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo). I will have to fix it tomorrow.
On the train into Leeds we bumped into Emma- well I say bumped she actually came looking for us and blew off her mates. Rosie is “ill” (hahahaha watever- more like didn’t want to go and ballsed out). Anyway said goodbye to her and met up with Pedder. We then proceeded to the Leeds Met Student Union. Us “over 18’s” got special bands so we could buy drinks whilst Hammy didn’t (hahahahahahaha). They were selling the “Ordinary Boys Cocktail” (otherwise known as the “Kaiser Cocktail”) at £1 a go so we decided to get a load of them but first needed some pints. Some bar staff were selling these shots of this random drink in a test tube so we bought some of them and downed them. Brown says “I feel fine” then proceeds to projectile vomit into his pint glass with surprisingly good accuracy. Drank for a few hours then went to see Ordinary Boys.
Now the Ordinary Boys, they were fucking awesome. Me and Pedder worked our way to the front with Brown joining us after sometime. I stayed there for the whole gig and absolutely loved it. They got the crowd going and even did a Ramones cover!!!! When we were all shouting “YORKSHIRE” the lead singer got confused and thought we were shouting “YOUR SHIT”. Which he didn’t seem to like to much. Anyway gig was awesome, got my dodgy knock off t-shirt got drunk.
Found a random “Cleaning in Progress” sign on the way back to the train station but then also bumped into Jill, Jess and Jo. That was quite funny- Jill seemed to think it was hilarious that I was drunk (which I wasn’t- merely high on adrenaline). Forgot to mention that Brown and Pedder bought risslas from a tramp (yes an actual tramp) for 50p- these are the lengths drug addicts go to to get their daily fix even though it was for a spliff.
At the train station some hobo style cleaner confiscated my sign saying that it was theres and that I shouldn’t remove them. Told him it was from outside Subway but he didn’t believe me- oh well shit happens. Brown also discovered that both his lenses from his glasses had popped out and so proceeded to wear the frames of his glasses and pretended to him.
Classic line of the night was from the train driver who said down the speaker system “We will be calling at Guisely, Menston, Burley-in-Wharfedale, Ben Rhydding and this service terminates at Ilkley. For all you people who bought a ticket thankyou and for those who didn’t- this trip is for free”.
Fucking awesome night.
