I’m just watching Hebburn on BBC IPlayer. That was what got me into Chris in the first place. I looked him up and discovered he was doing a stand up tour and was playing fairly local to me so I went along. At the end he did a meet and greet and the first thing I said to him was ‘Alreet bonny lad?’
This immediately set off a very enthusiastic, very Geordie conversation (bear in mind we were a couple of hundred miles from the NE at this point) to the point where a local lad behind me turned to his mate and said ‘what language are they speaking?’
I also discovered that the infamous Carl lived right beside my mam and dad and in fact I had seen him around when I was home visiting them.
I’m off work sick at the minute so wanted something to cheer me up. I looked at Hebburn, remembered those good old days and thought ‘where did it all go so wrong?!’