Ban-ban-ban-Bandanaman, Ban-ban-ban-Bandanaman, Take my hand, You got me rockin’ and a rollin’. Rockin’ and a rollin’. Bandanaman.
One of the most seminal pop bands in history, a California travel convention and the reunion of my Scottish poetry group and Edinburgh Festival faves.
It’s great when a Bandana plan comes together which is what happened when I channeled my alter ego for a Zoom meeting with my old poetry grouo.
And showcased my Beach Boys pastiche of their hit Barbara-Anne.
Because it was nearly a year ago that the Beach Boys https://www.thebeachboys.com gave me and my Travel friends a private concert at the American Travel Fair in Anaheim, California www.ipw.com.
Touching times
At the American Travel Fair in Anaheim, California http://www.ipw.com and http://www.disneyland.disney.go.com and http://www.visitcalifornia.org.
Where I rushed to the stage after lunch between convention meetings.
And the great man Mike Love touched my outreached hand… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3y44BJgkdZs
The lunchtime entertainment at IPW is always the highlight of my Travel year… http://Stair Wars.
And while the identity of some acts was closely guarded others were released with fanfare which you would do with the Beach Boys.
It is my chance to destress from the year to date and I move heaven and Earth to make myself known to the act… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09dQmeB_NgU.
Which I did in my first year in Washington DC http://www.washington.org and http://Easy DC.
When Ne-Yo threw his towel into the crowd and I stretched out to garner it to my chest.
Killer tunes
Cathy Keefe Reynolds, who looks after all the Travel journalists with the care you would would your own children (and we often behaved as such), marked the moment.
On video.
This year in Las Vegas we were promised another cracker.
Vegas baby
Only for COVID-19, who in another lifetime might be a boyband, put paid to our Las Vegas gig… http://www.lvcva.com and Strip… the light fantastic.
I’d been holding out for Vegas’s favourite sons, The Killers.
Their new album Implode the Mirage is out on Friday.
So they’ll be honed to perfection for next year’s Travel Fair.
If you can make yourself available, boys. Visit http://www.thekillersmusic.com.
