Flashback to me last night - Right! Up at six for the video tomorrow. Best set my alarm. I'll do it in a minute...just...zzzzzzzzzzzzz.
Andy arrives at the door. I'm still asleep. He and the driver of the cab, apparently, phone the house for 10 minutes before I finally wake up.
I get ready and leave the house in under 10 minutes and feel relieved that we're dressing up today as I look like I've been rubbed up and down with a fish supper.
We head for St. Philomenas Girl School in Surrey. We're hoping for some good sunny weather. We arrive at 8am and behold it's pissing down.
Franny, Nora and Neil are already there. We take advantage of the rain, using the spare time to fine tune our schoolteachers outfits.
Franny: The epitome of English teachers in his grey suit
and hair, and ugly tank top.
Neil: Scarily convincing as a tracksuited, slicked back P.E. teacher.
Andy: Eccentric and tweedy a history teacher complete with elbow patches.
Me: Styleless and labcoated chemistry teacher with hair like a blond Hitler.
The rain lets up about 12 and we start filming but not before Hammer & Tongs, the directors, get a row from the Headmistress. She has these full grown men regressing to the age of twelve. Ahhh, the power of teachers.
The school is a beautiful red brick building. The stars of the video are 400 pupils of the school. They are made to run around time after time in convincing chaos. Then again and again they return to the order of a school photo. The girls are really polite and nice, more polite than I remember school being. I reckon it would have been very different if it had been 400 boys.
We all do our big photo pose afew times and then stop for lunch or rather stop to sign autographs.
The energy of 400 school girls is just mental. They flock around us especially when Franny sings them a bit of the song. The madness was fantastic. They didn't even care that they didn't know who we were. So from now on everything we do is going to be done in schools. Then at least it will feel like beatlemania. Or Travisteria.
Later in the afternoon, the girls all go off to start their easter holidays and it's our turn to get soaked by 'The Biggest Rain Machine in the World'.
We have to sit as still as possible while it pours down on us for two minutes. I'm sitting next to poor wee Andy, the boy was shaking so much he couldn't breathe. It was so cold I thought he was going to have a heart attack right there.
The rain stops and we think that's it but of course, we have to do it again.
The quickest video we've made so far, all done in seven hours. It should look fantastic and we all agree there's nothing wrong with eye candy. We dry off and get the winibago home.
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