Sally-part 149. WHY SHIRLEY WON'T BE GOING TO JOSH GROBAN'S CONCERT THIS YEAR !

JOSH SIGNING AUTOGRAPHS FOR EVERYONE WHO WANTED ONE A FEW YEARS AGO IN MANCHESTER ! SADLY SHIRLEY CAN'T BE SEEN GETTING HER PROGRAMME SIGNED AS SHE HAD BEEN KNOCKED TO THE GROUND AND TRAMPLED UNDERFOOT IN THE STAMPEDE TO GET TO THE MAN !

You would have to be dead not to know that ever since discovering the twenty one year old Josh Groban twelve or so years ago Shirley has read every single word written about him to date and seen him live seven times including a return trip one supposedly summery July evening from Cornwall where we were on holiday to Hampton Court Palace in London in one day to sit frozen to the bone as an Arctic blast set the entire audience and performers shivering to pieces !

It was even worse for me because I had borrowed a very early version of a digital camera from my daughter Gemma to record the show on, only to find that the primitive memory card could either take about twenty still shots or thirty seconds of video, all of which I lost when I later ignorantly pressed 'FORMAT' whilst trying to show Shirley the tiny amount I'd captured whilst actually missing the entire show because I couldn't concentrate on two things at once ! Oh ! And I was typically sat behind the biggest man in the audience who completely blocked my view !

Have you ever tried using an unfamiliar digital camera in the dark, illegally, with white fingers aching from the cold and eyes that couldn't read the tiny instructions or work out what the symbols on the screen even meant ?

We had only just driven from Newcastle the ten hours to Cornwall the very day after having driven the three hours back from Glasgow where we had seen him in concert as well !

I will do anything for my wife but this was well beyond the call of duty and only further confirmed in her mind the mistake she had made all those years ago in marrying me instead of waiting thirty more years for Josh to be born and start singing !

Well anyway, he's touring again in November this year which I read about whilst we were away a few weeks ago but as there was no way to buy a ticket at the time shirley waited the couple of days until we got home before plugging in her laptop to take a look !

Shirley called through to me devastated ! All the decent tickets for each of the three performances he was giving were gone.....Manchester, Birmingham and London !

It was true ! There was one single one left about fifty rows back in the upper gallery !

The touts had got them all !

And that Josh Groban, if you ever get to read this, is DIABOLICAL, not just for your show but for all seats at every show !

Within hours decent seats were reappearing on the web for £200 each and more !

Bought purely to make an absurd profit on and take advantage of true fans !

So we are not going aren't we not ?

Well the thing is that Josh's new album has some absolutely wonderful tracks on it which I'm certain when performed live will bring the audience to their feet as one and we (and I honestedly do include myself here !) REALLY want to be there !

So unless Josh's Tour Management agree on some more dates for which I can get tickets, my bank account is going to have to take a severe hit as some scumbag gets my hard-earned money !