Whitley Bay

We shall see if he accepts my challenge.

[laughs] What, what you just heard was Whitley Bay, North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England's own Tigers of Pan Tang and their new one, Dark Divinity, off of their 14th and new studio album, Electrified.

It's fucking awesome.

I love it.

I mean, it was, but again, I do have sympathies because there will have been so much get me the venue director on the phone right now or running around and Ryan will have been chasing after such and such and so and so and the referees will then get involved and the coaches will be having their input and there'll be a million and one voices but I don't think we can ever ever forget the people that are paying for the tickets that are sat there we have to have some and listen there was the odd communication around you know we apologize for today's delay you know ice maintenance or something along those lines but it was dragging on it was reasonably apparent pretty quickly i'm far from a nice expert or anything freaking like it but you could tell early doors the referees are looking at this and you're thinking there's not a chance here not a chance this is uh this is happening and saw some photographs that look like concrete concrete yeah

come on we've played with lots of play to whitley bay it's fine If there's any team that can deal with dodgy ice, it's Manchester Storm.

Let's be fair.

Let's be fair.

Yeah.

We've, we've spoke about it before, about the, the teams that are sort of capable of beating one another, and you've obviously got sort of the top two in the Rockets and the Caps, and then Whitley Bay, Paisley, Kirkcaldy, and, and Aberdeen's in amongst that as well.

Yeah.

So, uh, yeah, first real test, but I must admit, it's a test that I would expect the Rockets to, to deal with, and probably I'd like to think deal with quite comfortably.

Yeah, yeah, 'cause I, I-

Not Whitby, sorry, Whitley Bay in-

Whitley Bay.

North Tyneside, yeah.

Sorry.

Yeah, yeah, no, not Whitby.

Yeah, yeah, Whitley Bay.

Less vampires.

Actually, it's really interesting because I now live nearby where my mum used to holiday.

So my mum and dad, my dad was promoted in his publishing job and he was taking over the northeast region or the northern region and he said to my mum, "It looks like we're going to have to relocate." And she said, "Oh my goodness." And the Glasgow Fair, which a lot of northerners will remember as the Glasgow fortnight in the summer, all of the Glaswegians would descend to our coastal parts and my mum used to holiday in Whitley Bay and so they said, "That was a lovely place to holiday.

Let's move there." And that was more or less it and now I live near the caravan site in Whitley Bay near the lighthouse.

We still have lots of Glaswegians visiting, and often I hear them in the local shops and stop them to say, "Are you here on the Glasgow Fortnight?" They must think I'm completely bonkers, but-

Yeah

We've got, as far as Wickham, near Newcastle's concerned, that's our furthest.

I mean, we had a couple in Whitley Bay.

Yeah.

The biggest challenge for me with that one was remembering to pay the time tunnel toll.

Well, I got the rifle.

But then suddenly, you know, what do I know? What does Dick, West Cliff and Sea, I'm from Whitley Bay, very similar backgrounds.

You know the tennis club and you play for the rugby club and the Sunday morning sherry parties that your parents give.

And now you're in a hut.