Last night I played Earth Cafe in Manchester. Private function, like. None of your riff-raff. It was a leaving do for a lovely woman called Jutika.
It started with a hitch. The audience cheered so much when I came on that I couldn't hear the backing track and I missed my cue for the opening number. I told the audience to shut up and started the number again. Sometimes you have to put people in their place or they'll get too boystrous.
I told them some stories about my life as a club singer and my ongoing spiritual journey. I even read them a bit from my new book Meat and Potato Pie For The Soul. For some reason, they seemed to treat the whole thing as one big joke.
It's tough being a spiritual guru. You pour your heart and soul out to these people and they just laugh at you. I suppose that's just how it is for great visionaries and prophets and the like.
Anyway they all enjoyed theirselves and that's the main thing. And nobody hurled missiles - which is always a bonus.
Watch this space. I'll be putting some photos and video up next week.
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Tony Canelloni is a club singer turned self-help guru. The Wigan-born entertainer had a profound spiritual experience after being hit on the head with a beer bottle. Now he wows his audiences with a pleasing blend of gags, spiritual teachings and easy-listening swing music.
For many years, Tony Canelloni has graced the social clubs of the North of England. Good looks, musical talent and perfect comic timing - Tony has none of these qualities. But he has never let that get in his way.
In 2006, Tony had a spiritual experience after being hit on the head by a flying beer bottle during one of his performances. This led him to embark on a quest for wisdom that has resulted in some profound spiritual insights, culminating in his forthcoming book Meat and Potato Pie For the Soul.
3 comments:
Hi Tony,
Sorry to hear that you played such a tough crowd. Some people just don't recognize a good thing when you stuff it down their trousers, do they? May I have a signed copy of "Meat & Potato Pie" when it hits the bookshelves?
Andy.
Hi Tony
It was a privelege to be at your gig on Thursday. I've been a fan since your Vegas tour in '71 and you've just got better and better. 'Meat and Potato Pie for the Soul'... Brilliant... Absolutly brilliant! Love the one about how to manage your pint, fag and bag of pork crackling whilst using a urinal... Is it true you're writing a sequel... 'Men Are From Wigan, Women Are From St Helens'? Keep it up Tony. We love you.
Art
oireet' cocker,
eh that's boody brilliant int' it.
Hey, you should've been on that Britains got talent thing on't telly, they'd've bloody loved thee, I'm tellin ya.
Your goin far cocker, Blackpool North Pier here we come. Get in!
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