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My weekend with Jeremy Clarkson
19th November 2008. Posted by Ruth Pipkin. Trackback
This weekend I helped Jeremy Clarkson and went back to the 80’s…
I should just point out that my 80s revival and Jeremy Clarkson were in no way related, they were two very separate events that made up my weekend.
After a few days suffering from the winter cold that seems to be going around, I woke up on Saturday morning to a phone call ‘on behalf of Jeremy Clarkson’. I did wonder if perhaps I was more ill than first thought and was starting to imagine things, but no, I really did have a phone call from the Top Gear camp. Being a huge TG fan (and secretly fancying Mr Clarkson) I knew that Jezza, Hamster and Captain Slow were in Birmingham for Top Gear Live.
So, I get a phone call to say that the trio had been out in Birmingham on Friday night – my sources tell me they went to Lasan – and I can only assume that alcohol was involved because Clarkson had the ‘brainwave’ of putting together a band for the weekend’s show. Following the infamous Top Gear of the Pops for Comic Relief in 2007, Clarkson has been looking for an opportunity to pick up his drumsticks and re-create the band. My challenge was to find someone in Birmingham to provide drums, bass guitar and electric piano for the Top Gear boys, all within an hour. I accepted my challenge and luckily I have friends in high places; a full band set-up was delivered to the NEC in time for the day’s first show.
Following the success of my challenge (and the fact that despite being ill I can never turn down a night out) I was also invited to join the Big Cat lads and ladies for 80’s night ‘Guilty Shoes’ at the Hare and Hounds, Kings Heath. I donned a Madonna-inspired outfit, complete with ankle boots, legwarmers and glitter hairspray, and off I went.
The 80s dream had to come to an end very soon as I had been invited to the final leg of Top Gear Live on Sunday evening, as a ‘thank you’ for being so wonderful. I knew that Jeremy would love me, but not sure he would have thought that glitter in my hair and a neon heart on my face was “Acceptable in the 80s”. So these had to go. I got the full VIP treatment at the show, which was absolutely amazing (especially the car football) and even got to touch the stars… before you call the police, I mean the cars!
What a weekend. I should be ill more often!