Aftershow News: 20th March 2003

The Bangles At Shepherds Bush Empire 20-Mar-2003. The aftershow party is in the venues backstage bar for about 50 guests . EMI have put £1000 free drinks tab behind the bar .All the girls in the band turn up for it and are really friendly and chatty to everyone that wants to say hello . They are all in champers mood apart from the bass player . Not many other musicians here but George Harrisons son Dhani is here . We had a nice chat with him about the George Harrison tribute show at The Royal Albert Hall in November 2002 where he proved to be a decent guitarist .The band were there a good hour or so until after midnight. Good one.The following night we were at The Royal Festival Hall for the Sparks show . After there was a crowded party for about 100 people with free drinks for a couple of hours . Only celeb i could see was one of the guys from the Adam and Joe comedy duo .The band stayed in their dressing room but their PR gave the site a 5 mins interview and chat which was really cool as Sparks were one of my fave bands in the mid 70s when i saw them a couple of times at the Hammersmith Odeon .London loves The Sparks and The Sparks love London .We even got a couple of smiles out of Ron .

Posted 20th March 2003