“A couple of years later we booked Tom Jones. “When we started advertising, people thought they were tribute acts,” Taylor remembers. The pair booked Boyzone, Status Quo and Katherine Jenkins, and sold 10,000 tickets a night. I felt like a fraud, like promoters were a bigger thing than we were doing, but this job was outrageous. Cuffe says: “That year was less financially successful but we’d stacked everything against the company: houses, relationships. It 100% could have gone the other way.” Lionel Richie arrived by helicopter and couldn’t believe people were swimming in the North SeaĪnd they put all their money into it. “I think a lot of people just thought they’d better take us under their wing. They continued hammering the phones for acts. “Come 4pm there’d be tap dancing above us and singing lessons next door,” says Taylor. They took on staff and paid interns and ran a ticketing office from Cuffe’s mum’s dance and drama school. Taylor gave up the hotel and they signed up for a three-day proms event the following year. “We met the next day and thought: ‘Let’s just do it 10 times again.’” Dan drew a site plan and filled out spreadsheets.
I did the VAT returns and designed posters in Photoshop. We thought you just rang an act up and they’d come and do it. Taylor remembers: “We had no strategy and no money. “Turns out it’s ridiculously complicated.” We thought: ‘How hard can it be?’” says Taylor now. They found an orchestra, and a phone number for soprano Lesley Garrett, and secured her as top billing for 4,000 people picnicking on the village green. Priced out by large events firms, Cuffe and Taylor instead offered to take the project on in partnership with the council. Then, in 2010, the local council approached Taylor to evaluate tenders for a community event called the Lytham Proms. “There was a lot of slapstick, dry ice and pyrotechnics.”
“We ended up talking over the headsets and having an absolute ball,” says Cuffe of their first meeting. Photograph: Lytham festivalĬuffe was studying sound engineering while Taylor was running a hotel on the promenade and dabbling in local theatre when, in 2008, they were separately roped in to help with a charity production of the musical Copacabana at Lytham’s Lowther Pavilion, to save the venue from demolition. And I wish that every place was safe and beautiful for people of the LGBTQ+ community.Had a nice day … Stereophonics at Lytham festival, Lytham St Annes in 2019. Such support of one another and such encouraging, beautiful acceptance and peace and safety. "Being with you during Pride Month, getting to sing the words to 'You Need To Calm Down' where there are lyrics like, 'Can you just not step on his gown?' or, 'Shade never made anybody less gay,' and you guys are screaming those lyrics. One of the things that makes me feel so prideful is getting to be with you and watching you interact with each other, being so loving and so thoughtful and so caring. She said: "'I'm looking out tonight, I'm seeing so many incredible individuals who are living authentically and beautifully, and this is a safe space.
The 33-year-old musician was speaking during the Chicago, Illinois stop of her 'Eras' tour when she informed her fans that her concerts are a "safe space" for everyone. Taylor Swift kicked off Pride Month with a message of support for the LGBTQIA+ community. Taylor Swift kicks off Pride with message of support for LGBTQIA+ community
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