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[Arch]

Flipping through a copy of the York Press today, found this story.

http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/5006461.OAP__88__queues_two_days_for_Daniel_O___Donnell_tickets/

A small point of order. It says he queued for two days for tickets. Actually, reading the story, he put his deckchair at the door of the box office, and spent two days playing bingo and walking around Bridlington, and two nights in his camper van....

Not really queueing for two days, is it? More like "OAP, 88, goes for short holiday in Bridlington and buys Daniel O'Donnell tickets while there...."

 

[Kirstie]

DO'D...what a lovely fella, the granny's, and now it appears, the grandad's favourite.

The only big stadium gig my other half ever did (he's a sound/lighting engineer/camera op) was Daniel O'Donnell. In fact he works on his tour every year. How rock and roll is that? But he really is a lovely bloke - he buys all the crew a drink every night after the show. And one of the crew's mum is a big fan - in rehearsal DO'D let the crew record one of the songs especially as a present for her. He let the crew member whose mum it was come on stage to sing the song too. It was v sweet.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

That's probably a 'fast' news day for York too I bet!

2 days queueing for tickets to see Daniel O'Donnell - was it a queue of 1?

Nutter!



Edit - just seen Kirstie's post - gulp!

 

[Kirstie]

Even worse I am the proud owner of a Do'D Access All Areas pass. It hangs on my bed. It features a resplendent picture of Do'D reclining gracefully in a fabulously plush sweater, perfectly groomed, with a perfect smile and a wee glint in his eye.

 

[Arch]

That's probably a 'fast' news day for York too I bet!

2 days queueing for tickets to see Daniel O'Donnell - was it a queue of 1?

Nutter!



Edit - just seen Kirstie's post - gulp!

The picture with the story shows the guy with two fellow pensionable queue-ees.

It would be funny if after all that, the show was only half sold!

Still, sounds like O'Donnell is a nice bloke.

 

[rich p]

I've never heard of him Is he the new Val Doonican?

 

[Kirstie]

I've never heard of him Is he the new Val Doonican?

Pretty much, yes. Without the rocking chair and cardigans. He's a sweater guy.

 

[Fnaar]

I have a friend in Trinidad whose mum is a D O'D nutter... she's seriously addicted to him... personally I'd avail myself of the local calypso and other Caribbean riddims, but each to their own, and all that...

 

[thegrumpybiker]

I'm sure there was a one-off character in an episode of Father Ted based on Mr o'Donnell.

 

[Fnaar]

I'm sure there was a one-off character in an episode of Father Ted based on Mr o'Donnell.

Eoin McLove:

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mX6BKEo_SQM

 

[BrumJim]

The picture with the story shows the guy with two fellow pensionable queue-ees.

It would be funny if after all that, the show was only half sold!

Still, sounds like O'Donnell is a nice bloke.

Strangely (and rather worryingly) glad to hear that. I thought that the Father Ted Eoin McLove character wasn't that strongly based on him, i.e. lovely and cuddly on the outside, but a self-absorbed unpleasant oaf when the cameras are off.

 

[Sh4rkyBloke]

How bizarre. He "queues" but doesn't actually stay in the queue... and expects that because he visited the site of the queue a couple of days before anyone else was there that his place was somehow 'reserved'... very strange.

Never heard of D'oD either... sorry!

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Never heard of D'oD either... sorry!

You are a lucky man. I've had some near misses