Glimmerman Steven Seagal has taken to the stage and is currently touring the UK with his band THUNDERBOX. I said at the time of seeing the first poster for the show at our local theatre that anybody buying a ticket would be very disappointed. Lets be honest, anybody who can name their band after an English slang term for a sit-down toilet has got to be taking the piss, so it came as no surprise to read in a recent local rag that Mr. Seagal totally failed to glimmer and that the show was a total flop which resulted in a walkout by some of the audience who had paid upwards of twenty eight pounds for a ticket.
The general consensus of the walking public was that the show was pretty poor and that the sound quality was awful. A statement from the theatre concerned ends with the words:
"Like many other theatres in the UK, we booked the show in good faith on the basis of details provided by the promoter".
The promoter concerned is ORDINARY PR, who believe that Mr. Seagal and his Thunderbox had another successful evening. OF COURSE THEY DID! They walked away with a huge sum of money which most of us don't earn in a year. No wonder Mr. Seagal is quoted as "...thoroughly enjoyed the W......g Show." I think I would have enjoyed the show for the large sum of money that changed hands that night. ORDINARY PR would have regarded the show a success as well; any promoter worth his weight will have trousered at least three grand from the night.
The moral of this little story... look a bit further than the end of your nose when a big name crops up out of their known genre, especially in a small-town provincial theatre. Anybody with a big name who is worth their weight will put their reputation on a much larger stage. and take a good look at the name, please. THUNDERBOX has got S**t written all over it.
2 comments:
This is so immensely factually wrong it's made me smile! Let me guess, as an engineer you get your superior knowledge of all things you seem blogworthy from The Sun and the free Metro daily? (excuse the prejudice). Please, keep on writing, at least that way you are not out in public subjecting us to your crap first hand.
PS Ordinary PR (it's in the name) is a PR company not a promoter.
You obviously remained anonymous for a reason. You obviously can't read properly either otherwise you wouldn,t have left your comment in the first place.
P.s. Ordinary PR were employed in this instance as a promotor.
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