Front
of Stage Productions Present...
... the second annual TWIL awards for Convention 2002
The jury have been locked in their hotel room with no contact with the outside until world they came to a unanimous decision, and after a week of much debate, argument, claim and counter claim, rubbishing of the expert witnesses and demands to see exhibit A (aka a double scotch and coke) one more time, the verdict on which we are all decided is as follows.
The "Cry For
A Shadow" award for making us blub
Haré Georgeson's "While My Guitar..." at the Solo Years concert
The "My Girl
Is Red Hot" award for inducing a 'healthy glow'
The Cavern, Tuesday
The "Stick Around
Now It May Show" award for band with most potential
British Export
The "Gotta
Be Good-looking 'Cos He's So Hard To See" award for most fanciable male on Merseyside
The 10ft high poster of Ryan Adams in Gap shop window, Whitechapel
The
"Stick A Band Aid On It" award for valour in the face of technical difficulties
Andrei (Flying Postmen) and his broken bass - Cavern Monday
The Bootleg
Bootleg Beatles award for stealing the thunder (not to mention Neil Harrison's
wig)
American English
The "Bomp Shooby
Doo Wap" award for adding all those little fan-appreciated embellishments
British Export
The "Whatever
Happened To Tuesday And So Slow" award for beating the curse of the graveyard
slot
The Overtures!!!!! (They rocked!)
The "Good Vibrations"
award for bringing the other BW to BW 2002
Ringer and their versions of "In My Room" and "Do It Again"
The "No-One
I Think Is In My Tree" award for most bizarre incident of BW 2002
Meeting some American fans that thought the Adelphi was a great hotel (never
mind my tree, they aren't even on my planet!)
"The Best Things
In Life Are Free" award for most popular monetary sum of the week
£12.50
The "Frost
on Sunday" award for audience participation
Clube Big Beatles, Convention Stage
"The Singer
Wants To Sing A Song" award for cool performances Songs...
Something/Oh Darling - Lenny Pane
Cold Turkey - American English
Tomorrow Never Knows - Australian Beatals (with didgeridoo!)
My Generation - The Flying Postmen
Baby Please Don't Go - Overtures Sets...
Clube Big Beatles
American English - Adelphi Stage
Ringer - Adelphi Stage
The "Friday
Night Arrived Without A Suitcase" award for missing the start of Beatle Week
for the first time in years!
Me
"The Word Is
... what was the word again?" for lyrical improvisation
Bob (Banned On The Run) - '20 Flight Rock', Castle St
Den (Overtures) - occasions too numerous to mention
Just about everyone - 'Come Together'
The "Mean Mister
Mustard" award for looking most like Joe Pesci
'Paul' from American English
The "Young
Ones" award for looking most like Cliff Richard
Jimmy, 1964
The "Here Comes
The Son" award for looking most like Dhani Harrison
Danny (George) from British Export
The "Come Pick
Me Up" award for looking most like Ryan (not Bryan) Adams
Sebastian, guitarist in Liverpool (the band)
The "I'm Looking
Through You" award for best disappearing act
The Adelphi sofas (where did they go?)
The "Dark Hoarse"
award for best incidence of 'Convention throat'
Jimmy 1964
The "Scouse
The Mouse" award for - erm - overexposure
Chris Tassone (hey mister, yer flyin' low!)
The "You Won't
See Me" award for the sadly missed
The Fab Faux
A Hard Night's Day and a decent pre-fame set
Prunes, grapefruit juice and rice krispies at Adelphi breakfast
Vintage Duo Jets
(first two - last one - not unrelated)
The "Get Back
To Where You Once Belonged" award for welcome return
Lenny Pane Mike Byrne on Convention stage
Banned on the Run (that Marcus bloke... sh*t hot guitarist)
Ringer on in places and at times I can get to see them
The "Sorry That
I Doubted You, I Was So Unfair" award for being more fun than I expected
Beatle Week 2002
Janine Edwards