[kj] Jaz's £300 phone call

[nicholas fitzpatrick]

>From the Scottish Daily Record, February 12, 2006, Sunday

Edited down by me.

>>>>HEADLINE: 12 YEARS OF CARNAGE @ THE GARAGE

LEGENDARY Glasgow venue The Garage this month celebrates 12 years of music 
and mayhem. Here, Donald MacLeod (right), owner, friend of the stars and gig 
promoter, reveals his 12 maddest memories of The Garage's history.

PRINCE

In 1994, I was offered a secret performance by Prince, below. I was told not 
to inform the media and to leave his fee in cash in a plastic bag by the 
stage - of course I told newspapers, radio, everyone. We had all been warned 
not to call him Prince (this was during his Artist Formerly Known As... 
stage). So I walked up to him, looked him right in the eye and said: "Enjoy 
the gig, wee man?"

KILLING JOKE

I told singer Jez Coleman the club started at 11 - but he was too busy 
making a call to Oz to listen. He eventually got onstage and lit 10 huge 
candles which he handed to the crowd. Problem was, the ceiling was covered 
by a huge parachute - which we had been assured was fireproof. Once guys 
started handing candles to girls sitting on their shoulders, we fought 
through the capacity crowd and blew them out. Of course they just re-lit 
them again so it was worrying. Eventually we got the band off - 35 minutes 
late. And eventually I got a pounds 300 bill for Jez's call!


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