3-Twatz
I must confess (or alternatively – I’m rather chuffed that…) I’d never heard of them until some time ago, when one of our long lost blogging friends, Woman in Black, featured them in one of her excellent posts. I seem to recall making a less than appreciative remark or two about them in a comment on the post; most unlike me, I know.
Following that, I looked the buggers up on both spotify and youtube, and with a wry grin and a shake of my suddenly elderly feeling head, confined them to one of the darker and smellier corners of my memory.
Anyhow, t’other day as I was giving Lovely Daughter a lift somewhere, she announced that N-dubz had turned up at her school earlier that day, as some of the third years (or whatever it is now…year 9, I think…) had won the dodgy looking buggers in a contest. Having won them, they were unsure what to do with them, and invited them to play a swift gig one lunchtime before they did the decent thing and had them put down.
Apparently the gig was a major success, and that most august of news organs, the Manchester Evening News was in attendance to take a few of their traditionally blurred photographs of the proceedings.
Lovely Daughter, being in the Upper Sixth (errr…. that’ll be Year 13…), and above such childish things as kiddie bandz was involved in making a poster that got hoisted behind the trio of Dubettes as they posed for the MEN photograper while he rubbed the obligatory sweaty thumb across his lens, and proceeded to snap away.
The poster was a tribute to the band, and proclaimed proudly “We love M-Budz”.
It’s a real shame that some unsporting editorial bugger chose not to use that photo; It would’ve made the article worthwhile.
Oh.. by the way; they decided not to have the trio put down after the gig, but instead released them into the wild.
I’m off to get my gun.
