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I’m very sorry if you were expecting some work from me this afternoon. We had an emergency and it had to take priority.
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Alan Lane
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Alan Lane
@slunglowalan
Side kick to Davidbaby & Bolt the Dog, Co-Chair Slung Low, Creative Director at the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo
- Opera North rehearsing in club car park. Local kids come down on bikes to watch opera. Hand to god, transfixed the lot of them. So there’s that. #holbeck
- 700 plus people applied for a bar job at the club. We had to sadly turn down 698 of those applicants. Of those my favourite was the person who IMMEDIATELY replied to the rejection letter with an email that just said SLAGS. Made me howl with laughter.
- 14 of the Leeds United academy have arrived this afternoon to help tidy up the Foodbank and prepare the club for the Christmas Fayre. An extraordinary bunch of smart, switched on teenagers. Outstanding.
- Just a brilliant bit of stage management
00:00 - As I’m closing up Yoga in walks the lad who broke into our bus. I know this because our CCTV is good. “Can I use your loo?” “Yes. Through there.” He’s with 3 friends. They return. “What is this place now?” “It’s a place people come to learn stuff, tonight it’s camping & yoga”
- This week was the 20th anniversary of getting cancer. Had the morning to think on it. 20 years. That was not expected. What a gift. What luck. Always drive it like you nicked it lads.
- This lot sat at the back, distant even in a socially distant auditorium. Didn’t move the whole show and at the end one of them, almost begrudgingly, said to me “that was good that was”. Immense.
- "I'm a healthy individual, I don't take anything out of the NHS" says a man with glasses on and who came out of his mother by fucking magic
- Today is the last day of the Slung Low foodbank. 15 months. Hundreds of volunteers. Thousands of donations. Hours and hours and hours of lift and carry and load and unload. So many people spoken to in moments of crisis. And some in moments of relief. 15,000 deliveries.
- Outdoor opera at the oldest working men’s club in Britain. So basically Glyndebourne with Scampi Fries.
- The gang are in at the local school. They ask if the kids have heard of Slung Low? “Yeah we’ve seen a show there” “yeah you run the pub” Kid at the back, hand up. “You deliver my food.” Yeah we do kid.
- Today we created a new type of outdoor auditorium to share the brilliant @wrongsemble show Three to 20 invited families. Serious careful work to get here and lots of important support from partners and friends. But worth it because what a time they had pals, what a time.
