belfast 7 August 2009
Interweb thingy doing silly buggers last night so I took to me bed without telling you all about Belfast. The event was one of those days when it felt like a Saturday and that everyone was on the mitch from something else. Great atmosphere and good words bandied about by all. Then a lovely seafood dinner and home to a nice hotel with lovely sleeps. Grand altogether AND I can VAGUELY call it ‘work’ so hurrah all round.
Alexei Sayle was reading from his books and talking about writing at the event also and told a great story about ‘fame’ and how it’s a barbed thing. The actor John Simm was once in a (fab) drama called THE LAKES on tv and he was in a Liverpool club shortly after and a guy came up to him and said ‘you’re John Simm, right?’ and John Simm said ‘yes, I am’ and the guy said ‘you’re an actor, right? you were in THE LAKES?’ and John Simm said ‘yes’ and the guy said ‘SO?’ and walked off.
