That's just the kind of crass moneygrabbing attitude you'd expect from an accountant.

 

Having said that, we could still capitalise on the cheap return fares if we make the festival last for 5 days instead of a couple of hours, and then fly back on the 11th.

 

This could readily be achieved by getting you to spin out your "drum" solos in a John Henry Bonham style as per the 1983 event. It'll be unlistenable and excruciatingly boring but that's what people expect anyway, and it'll save us a few quid and you might get your picture in the Gazette for setting a world record.

 

We'll need to get a drum kit organised for you, though. Do you play with or without the cistern these days, and do you prefer a handle or a chain?

Interestingly I noticed a poster in Glasgow the other day advertising two formerly popular beat combos, Deep Purple and Lynyrd Skynyrd, who I believe are simply trying to ride the coat-tails of Sheep Purple and Bod Strummer and the Dun Guireaneros back to the public eye in a cynical, Tony-Hadley-sings-old-Spandau-songs-on-Reborn-in-the-USA style. Well, look where it got him.

Maybe we could book Skynyrd to play the Midges of Rock...

 

We could club together and pay for their travel and food. There can't be many of them left these days so they should be cheap - One bag of chips out of the Peel's and a bottle of thon Southren Comfort stuff from Cathy Dhall's should cover their living expenses for the night.

 

Do you think they'll mind flying Loganair?

I think 'The Skynyrd' would be too accident prone to invite. Take for instance, their late bass player, Leon Wilkinson, whilst surviving the plane crash, manages to crawl out with several broken appendages, internal bleeding etc, staggers across the swamp to a farmhouse to get help, where he is promptly shot by the redneck within, who thinks he's a burglar.

 

But Leon was probably so drunk he never felt a thing, ya awl. Yeehaa. South Harris is gonna rise again!