Rockin' On Like Fury In
New Zealand 7
This is how Billy's Birthday was celebrated in New Zealand in April 2004
Moya has written a full report. Scroll to the bottom under the pictures
The Showmen Go on Robbie Robbie & the Showgirls
More of our Robbie & The Girls All Together Now Trish Moya & Their Billy
Elvis and Averil Just Teasing Baby That ain't no scarf
Elvis's biggest fan I hope these pants don't split Do I have to wear this
Here they are again Takin' care of business WoWing the crowd
Worth waiting for Under my cape Rockin' on like Fury
Too much monkey business Robbie Sarah Trish & Rachel Viva Las Vegas
Put me amongst the girls Hanky Panky Hanky Panky Panky
BILLY’S 64th BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION IN N.Z.
17th April 2004.
What a fantastic nite we had – with only 3 things going
wrong ~ we’ll get those out of the way first.
1.
Our Brian’s ‘Elvis
Glasses broke and Trish had to be called late afternoon to open her shop
(Let’s Pretend Costume Hire) to grab another pair.
2.
One of the spotlights
blew just as the show started.
3.
One of the speakers
blew just as Elvis Wotsisname appeared thru a cloud of smoke.
As usual the show was booked out for months prior to the
event and in hindsight should’ve done 2 nites and left space for dancing as
Robbie, Brian (Elvis W), the music & atmoshphere got everyone wanting to
dance and dance they did – in what little space they could find – even on
tables!
Sound check out of the way – all a.o.k. the doors opened
and it was like a New Year’s Day sale at Harrods – even tho tables had been
numbered and printed on the tickets.
Re-wind here – when Robbie & Brian were doing the sound check I was
checking the video camera before David arrived to take over. The boyz had just
got to the line in ‘I Believe’ which goes – ‘Someone will come – to
show the way’ and in walked David – carrying a white supermarket bag with
his booze in & blowing his nose.
Captured on video. Made
me laff anyway!
I just felt sorry for all the people who couldn’t get
tickets coz Robbie’s show is B®ILLYant. Everyone laffed & sang all nite.
I started the nite with my usual ‘YOO HOO” speech
– why we were here – thanked everyone for their support – dedicated the
nite to Our Brian who lost his battle with cancer – proceeds to The Hospice
– our next Billy event – N.Y. Eve when we’ll have my Little Ray Of
Sunshine to entertain us with his tribute to Billy (I can’t wait)! Finally (says Robbie) I introduced
Robbie to the stage, giving him the biggest build up I could muster – Billy Fury Fan Club member 19041940,
the one who’s wife uses his prestigeous award as a doorstop ROBBIE ROBSON. Well, little did I know Robbie had a 3
minute lead in of music prior to him appearing on stage. I thought he’d dun a
runner! Panic was setting in when….. DA-DA ~ TILL THE MOON DESERTS THE SKY – TILL
ALL THE SEAS RUN DRY – MY DARLING (Billy) I’LL ADORE YOU………
Robbie has the most amazing powerful voice (Don’t tell
him I said that – it might go to his his head and expect us all to worship
him)! He did 4 spots with some
great songs and his prowess as a comedian had everyone in fits of laffter. I bet
Billy was singing along – coz HE WAS THERE!
The boys got a treat in the shape of Robbie’s Follies in
all their feathered glory (Rhymes with Fury) and their sexy dance routine Hanky
Panky.
Robbie’s rendition of the story of Cinderella projected
spoonerism style which became Rindercella was hilarious. Time for a fag break
(another one) and after a few wines with fag in hand siddled up our Principal
and announced I was not going out of the school grounds to have this fag –
so ner! He
answered back – Well, Christ All Mucking Fighty – Gust Jo then! With then
the Chairman of the Board Of Trustees stood up with his fags and said – In
that case – I’m tumming coo! Te He! We had regular ‘fag breaks’ –
the non smokers had to talk amongst thenselves while the ‘sociable’ ones
went outside to satisfy our cravings.
Back to our seats (this is the first Billy ‘do’ I’ve
actually been able to sit and watch without having to be up on stage making a
fool of myself) and into Robbie’s tribute(s) spot to Neil Diamond, Roy Orbison,
Cliff Richard and of course OUR BILLY. Upon asking had he left anyone out and
thrusting his pelvis (hint hint), the smoke appeared and so did Elvis Wotsisname
looking so real you’d swear it was the real thing. Girls clamouring for
XXX’s and scarves as he sang his way thru 15 songs on stage and amongst the
audience. Fella’s chucking their undies at him, Moya removing her ‘Billy
Fury’ G String and handing it to him with a tag attached – Return To Sender
(!) to the embarrassment of My Rachel. That’s wot Mothers are for innit! Although I did spot her (along with
every other bugger in the venue) singing that naughty word in ‘Alice’ after
Robbie had distinctly told everyone to sing ‘Who The HECK is Alice!!!!! Robbie finished the nite filling his
lungs with helium from the balloons, sounding like a cross between Joe Pasquali
& a chipmonk singing ‘My Way’ ~ then all up waving arms to our song to Billy – You’ll
Never Walk Alone…….and as long as I have breath in my body – HE WON’T.
The show was over all too soon. I went outside to say
Ta-Ra to everyone who said ‘What a great nite ~ another success for The Billy
Fury Fan Club – WHEN’S THE NEXT ONE?