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5.6.05
Look At Me (but don't take photos)

20.00
More often than not, at about this time on a Saturday night, I ring Upton from the Nightingale and ask to go on tonight's guest list. Tonight I have done that, but he has warned me that the act doing tonight's PA has insisted on no press photographers. If they spot any in the audience, they will apparently walk off stage. This is the first time this has happened. So I'm going out without my camera. We all know damn well that dozens of people in the crowd will have cameraphones, and it will be impossible to stop them taking photos. So, this act presumably thinks it's okay to have loads of crappy little cameraphone pics of them in circulation, but not okay to have some relatively decent shots, taken by pro and semi-pro photographers. They have even turned away TV crews who were interested in attending tonight.

So, who is this camera-shy act who doesn't need the publicity for their presumably blossoming career? I am reminded of a quote from the late, great comedian, Malcolm Hardee, who often used to say, on stage:

People say you play this venue twice in your career; once on your way up and once on the way down. It's good to be back.


Popbitch has already invited e-mails this week, to find a use for tonight's pop star, whose career will probably be deemed to be over tomorrow when their new single fails to enter in the top 15 of the UK singles chart. So, have a guess - who is it?


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