Limos and trucking were early directions in which I expanded my first business. We had a lot of clients in the music business and I lost count of how many concerts I went to during those years: everyone from Frank Sinatra doing a European tour to Jack Bruce attempting a comeback in a small village pub. The Who, Stones, Pink Floyd, David Bowie, etc in between.
But one of my favorites has always been "Last Night Of The Proms" at which the real performers are the audience. I have been to three I think and the atmosphere is something else. Otherwise I remember a humorous singer/songwriter called Jake Thackeray who turned up to a near empty Fairfield Halls in Croydon one night. I think Jake and all the 50-odd people there expected a disaster, but he got everyone to sit front and center, and within a couple of songs we had forgotten we were in this big, empty cavern. In the end he sang for almost three hours and looked set to keep going, except the theater management told him he had to stop so they could go home
