Neighbours Night in Melbourne

Best night ever. Let me cut a long story short…

I stroll out of the restrooms and Claire is going absolutely mental and screaming jibberish in front of the whole room at me, like I was meant to understand. I look up and Dr Karl Kennedy  is looking important on the stage sorting out electric cables minding his own business. And then Claire’s screeching finally makes sense…

Dr Karl had come on stage before he was meant to as they were still setting up the bands equipment and said “Where Claire? Who’s Claire that writes the hip21 blog?” Then he carried on as some northern girl screamed I’m Claire. He said “Who saw me honking my horn today at Ramsey St?” And that is when the correct Claire lost control and the penny dropped.

DR KARL KENNEDY had read the blog we had posted that day (see below). How and why none of us knew!!!!! But he knew exactly who Claire was and as I joined in the pandamoniom we were causing at the side of the stage we desparately tried to figure out what the hell had happened.

The band began, and trust me we are not girls who do ‘gigs’ but this night was out of this world. They were absolutely fantastic. The Waiting Room took hold of the whole place and Claire and I absolutely fell in love with Dr K. We screamed and shouted and sang and had tears of happiness as our new happy place was found. Dr K even took hold of our video camara and recorded the crowd from his point of view on stage. He then looked at Claire and said HONK HONK down the microphone. Can you believe this, no? Well it truly happened.

After the band had pushed themselves to the limit, as the crowd begged for more, we had to think fast to get backstage and ask him how he knew us. People who had bought his CD queued up to meet him but we already had the CD from his appearance at Portsmouth Uni, plus there were no more left to buy. We started begging the bouncer and I mean reeeeally begging! He spoke with top dog who was in with Fletch and we held our breath. When he came out and said OK girls just this once we were so happy! We ran backstage leaping and bounding and screaming at Dr K. We also had with us photos of us with him after his Portsmouth Uni appearance so we rammed them in his lovely face and tried to figure out if he remembered us from them.

He was so brilliant! He totally listened and joined in our excitement. He signed the photos ‘2nd gig’ and let us take hundreads more of him as we grabbed and pulled him around. The bouncers got a bit shirty but Dr K was fantastic! He really is hot stuff.

Turns out he receives google mail which tells him whether his name had been entered online that day. Thank god we updated our blog before we left for the tour! Otherwise we would never have got to meet him!

Ohhhhh what a night.

If you are in Melbourne go on the Neighbours tour and Neighbours night, worth every buck.