Tony Duggan ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>I think the First Night is always full.

In my day - he said from his great age - you could only get tickets for the
first and last nights either by sending in an application for the ballot
they held, or by subscribing to (IIRC) 25+ concerts, in which case you
could choose either first or last nights to be part of your subscription.

>If the weather is anything like it is now it will be a sticky night in the
>Royal Albert Hall.

A hot night in the RAH with the tv cameras on! Tropical suit time.

>I shall relax in my favourite chair with my Chinese fan in one hand, a
>cool drink in the other, a speaker to the left, a speaker to the right
>and the TV in the middle.  If you go, David, wear a garish shirt and wave
>at a live camera so I can pick you out.

 From the 3,000 other idiots wearing garish shirts and waving at the
cameras.  Right Tony.

Deryk Barker
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