Trevor Pastrami, On Fasari...!!

Giz all crashed out after a long week of One Nighters.

Pastrami & Bakersfield (read on for an explanation!) meeting on the site of where Lennon & McCartney 1st met!!

Giz on stage @ the Royal Sumphonic Hall in Birmingham.

Rachel & Dave - two friends we met randomly @ our Hotel Bar.


Giz with 3 Americans we met in Cambridge. The guy is ???, Kristin in the stripes & Andi. They were really cool. Giz had a couple fo rounds of shooters with them!!

Gavin, myself, Dan & Russ. Gav & Russ were two of our techs in Cambridge. Every photo of Gav, he's pulling the same face....?!?!

Carolina (Artistic Director), Javier (Singer), Dan, Ange, myself & Christian (Dancer) having an extended session @ the Hilton Bar in Bradford. Everything else was shut!!

The bright light is the one that I get a clap for each night - or buy the 1st round!!

Me eating a deep fried jam sandwhich.... wasn't too bad!!

Me messing around with my shadow in one of my effects during the show in Nottingham.

A stained glass window from Canterbury Cathedral.

The Tango Fire Production Crew has grown extensively since we’ve started the Regionals!! There’s a large group of us now that travel everyday in the truck… Yes, we’ve hit that part of the tour where we’re getting tired and Dan, Ange & I basically spend 16-19hrs a day in each other pockets!! Ange gets a little reprise as once we hit the venue, she get’s to hide in Wardrobe!! So our Company has grown out of delirium, aches & pains & just our general unspoken motto of “You Just Gotta Laugh”.

The current cast of characters are Lyle (me), Gareth (Dan) & Ballzetta (Ange). They’re all from the South as one day we were predicting the type of people we were going to encounter in where ever it was we were heading and it appeared to be people who had Southern US Accents…..! Myself & Dan went completely off on the wrong kind of voice!! Lyle & Gareth are slightly gay & have heavy undertones of the Community Service Guy from Family Guy.

Next up is Trevor Pastrami (me), Lionel Bakersfield (Dan) & Victoria Cockthorn (Ange). They have the classic ‘On Safari’, toffee nosed voices – lots of “What Ho” & “Smashing, smashing idea” kind of thing. They were born from Ange trying to say the word Safari & could only continue to say Fasari and well, I couldn’t let that go & Trevor Pastrami (named by Ange) was born…! Dan & I will answer our Hotel Room phones & will answer as either Trevor or Lionel expecting it to be either Pastrami or Bakersfeild on the other end – it has backfired on me once or twice….!

Richard & David Attenborough (both wild life experts!) pop in & out and describe various things we see as we drive on.

There’s a few others who make cameos every now & then but the above mob have back stories & come in to the venues with us!! Venue crew definitely think we’re nuts sometimes!!

Then we have Tim – who was our first GPS voice & now we have Sean. Tim’s voice was English & quite polite but wouldn’t repeat instructions that often & meant we had to drive crazy around roundabouts trying to follow the green line! But at least Tim was polite. We now have Sean who has a delightful Irish twang and we are convinced Sean is drunk. He repeats everything about 6 times – which can be helpful but it does get annoying!! His favourite lines are “Turn left & the turn left again”, “After 200 yards, stay left” – which we yell back at him “Don’t go right!” He LOVES the left – it’s really weird! The other day the case was closed on Seans sobriety – he was babbling on about “At de roundabout, take the tird exit. Take the exit & then……” He just left…! Nothing! Head down on the counter, nursing his pint of Guiness!! Leaving us with no idea what we had to do….! We yelled at him to wake up but Sean was down for the count. This was proven the next morning when we required his services to get out of town & his hangover kicked in! We’re driving along towards an intersection & he goes “At de roundabout, take the 2nd exit.” Um, Sean, it’s a T Intersection…. We turn left & then he started giving us more bogus directions about turning right in 300 yards when the road naturally turned to the left….!

Well, if you didn’t think I was crazy before, you definitely should now & Dan & Ange are just as certifiable as I..!! Ah touring, where one must become a little insane to remain sane!! Catch you all soon – gotta go, Pastrami just lit his pipe up & this is a no smoking room…!