mostly david ephgrave

Low-ranking performers like me don’t expect to look into an audience mid-show to see a banner like this. Whatever level you may be on the theatrical spectrum, you pray you'll never see this. What made it worse was they did . Chilling stuff. In September 2005, I took to the road for my first tour with the actor / musician show Buddy Holly and the Cricketers. It was a grueling affair: four months of one-nighters booked up and down the UK and Ireland with scant regard for geography, doing five or six shows a week. I was playing Buddy, which was exciting yet daunting, not least because I had to keep myself in vocal shape while spending most of my waking hours in the back of a van; not to mention all those lonely hours in the dead of the night, trying to get to sleep in another dodgy B&B. The last two shows were at The Brewhouse in Taunton on the 22 nd and 23 rd of December. This was a blessing and a curse: it was nice to end the run spending a coupl...