Aftershow News: 14th March 2003

Cheap Trick live at The Royal Albert Hall on 13 March 2003 . The aftershow in the venues backstage bar had about 80 guests but no music celebs . It lasted till midnight . All of Cheap Trick turned up and it was great to see the singer and guitarist actually walk around the room just shaking hands and saying hello and being friendly. Afterwards we used our invites from our Music Week Awards gift bag last week to visit Stringfellows .I was only there a few mins before i bumped into rock legend Lemmy from Motorhead who has just been on stage at The 100 Club with Wayne Kramers MC5 band.We chat about all those legendary Hammersmith Odeon shows and how i was at Motorheads second ever show supporting Blue Oyster Cult at Ham Odeon in the mid 1970s . He is really looking forward to the UK tour later in the year when Motorhead play Hammersmith Apollo (the Odeon ) for the first time in years. So here i am drinking Jack Daniels with Lemmy in Stringfellows with 50 girls in various states of undress purely for music research purposes you must understand . Stringfellows was superb and i really would advise anyone to go there at least once to take in the buzz of the place . Stumbled out at 3.30am when the place closed .Great night.

Posted 14th March 2003