The Day I Meet Chesney Hawkes


It all started out quite pleasant...........
	It was the morning after a raucous and 'crazy' night at the CIPFA dinner, which included a hotel mix up - shock! but we did managed to blag a treble room in the swanky Thistle Hotel Euston for £80 rather than the "regular man of da street" £180 ! Anyway, then Ivan and myself met up with his fiancé and her chief bridesmaid, for lunch before: we were going to do something cultural in London they were going to do some wedding shopping why is it plan A's never quite come off? Especially when they start off with "we will meet in the pub....." !
Like a "Frank & Trog shopping trip" *(without actually going shopping)
	HR and Ivan in the Knightsbridge pub The pub was ideal for gay/shirt-lifter watching as it was in Knightsbridge and opposite the Gucci shop (which didn't sell ex-Essex and England cricket god's memorabilia but some shite and expensive clothes !). The laydees started drinking "pints" of wine and the boys hit the ~~bedwetters~~, sorry, pints of Becks. After putting the world to rights, spotting loads of 'ashforthesque' fashion victims, a discussion with a bigoted Celtic fan about how bigoted Rangers fans were and the bar staff knowing our exact order we rolled out of the pub some 5 hours later, minus shopping and cultural excursion. "William" and Michelle show they can handle pints of red wine (note William is wearing her white pre-red-wine-throwing shirt)
Enter the Roadhouse..........
	Not quite sure how and not quite sure why, but we ended up paying £10 to get into the Roadhouse, Covent Garden. But with the added bonus that {the real} Chesney Hawkes was playing - live ! wow !! Here for your viewing pleasure is the evidence (I agree that it wouldn't stand up in the court of law but honestly it was him !) HR and Chesney Hawkes playing live, with a super-zoom of the man himself on the right That is him honest ! His had his hair cut now, remember when he used to look like this: Pre-hair cut Chesney
More evidence - i is a student again....
	Once he'd played all his "hits" and some covers including the 'Elton John' classic "Imagine", he played "The One and Only (hit i've ever had)" and thus ended a gig to revival any that I've-ever-seen-ever-anywhere-at-a-place-called-the-Roadhouse-on-a- Saturday-night-in-October and that's a fact! The last thing I needed to do in true "rock'n'roll" style was jump up on stage and steal the set list. So to provide further evidence that I was there (and to add to my collect of Fat Lady Sings (!) and Shed Seven lists) here is his set list: Do you think he was being ironic by the choice of his first song? For the true Chesney Hawkes' fans out there sadly Rocky never got played !
Legal reasons
	Sadly for legal reasons we can't show you the CCTV footage of the "lollypop" arrival, usage and disposal due to the graphic and semi-pornographic nature of these images ! Anyway a fantastic 'Leo Sayer' ended with bartering with the brothers for a 'taxi' to NW17 (wherever that maybe !) and a four in a bed romp (although this last part is a usual end to a night out in Southend !) Note also the comedy camp sign behind Michelle....

* For the non-lufbra webwatchers out there a "Frank'n'Trogg Shopping Trip" involved going to Sainsbury's shopping, popping into the Blacksmiths pub for a swift "one", getting totally legless and leaving the shopping in the pub fridge, while attempting to get home with some form of "street furniture" on your head.