Staff @NCLairport extremely suspicious of my bag. Don't know what heinous crime they think I'll commit with a set of Northumbrian pipes...
— Kathryn Tickell (@kathryntickell) May 18, 2015Staff @NCLairport extremely suspicious of my bag. Don't know what heinous crime they think I'll commit with a set of Northumbrian pipes...
— Kathryn Tickell (@kathryntickell) May 18, 2015
I had the same problem at Ncl. They insisted on checking out the whole contents of the pipes case and I had to plead with them to let me do the reveal and not them with their ham fists. Would I have thought KT would escape such treatment though, having a famous face and a winning smile.
ReplyDeleteYou would think between Sting records and the Sage Gateshead n' all.
DeleteI wonder if Breton musicians get worse hassles. "What's in the case?" "It is a bombarde." "Clap him in irons!"
>>Don't know what heinous crime they think I'll commit with a set of Northumbrian pipes...
ReplyDeletePlay them?
That would make NPS an organized crime syndicate. I think that means they're entitled to colorful nicknames and an HBO series.
DeleteIt appears your NPS link has been killed off.
DeleteIt wasn't me.
DeleteI was going to say what John said but am too late to the party to do so.
ReplyDeleteYes, yes, it's all part of an international grassroots effort to confound Adorno's famous maxim about every work of art being an uncommitted crime.
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