to think that Steve Backshall doesn't really give a dam about kids

[creamteas]

My DC are massive Deadly Sixty fans, booked tickets on the announcement day for the Steve Backshall Tour and got front row seats. The date has been on the calendar for months.

But got an email today saying they have cancelled the performance as not enough people bought tickets. There is another performance that day, but we can?t change. DCs are devastated.

The venue is Warwick Arts Centre and it will be open for other things anyway. The stage will need to be set and taken down for the other performance that day. In other words, I can?t see that they would make a huge loss by going ahead.

AIBU to be pissed off that profits always come first.

Yes Lynette he has a website and when I opened it the page I first saw had him hanging off something (unsure what) without his top

I haven't quite recovered yet

Oooerrrr! Great website.

I now have a dilemma.

Do I cancel the plans I've made for that weekend, or pay £90 for the pleasure of Steve? He doesn't come cheep does he! But I suppose he is quality.

I'd pay, I so would

But he's not coming to my area.

I think the main problem was that it was advertised (not extensively) as not having any animals on stage. It is purely a talk and one of the great things about Steve is how he reacts to animals. I suspect that many parents thought their kids - who love Deadly 60 like our DD - would be a bit bored without the animals.

Is this a quiche? A Steve Backshall quiche?

Can I join? Watching Deadly 60 in the morning I feel I have to suppress my lust enthusiasm in order not to alarm the children, who I think have cottoned on to the fact that it's not the animals I'm getting excited about...

mmmm. something for the mums on that website eh?

rather liked the one with him and the wolf too, though i am not in the wolef quiche....

Devastated? They'll get over it.

Butkin If your DCs do want to go, don't let the lack of animals put you off. We saw Steve Backshall live on tour last year. They brought out a few animals, but tbh the bits where he was just talking and showing slides were just as interesting (for both me and DS), possibly because in a theatre there's a limit to how much SB can interact with the animals anyway.

Best bit of hte whole experience was watchign the audience though - lots of women without kids there (quite understandably) to swoon over Steve. One cornered his manager to ask if there was some kind of fan website. She was directed towards the CBBC site, but she then explained she was looking for something a bit more "adult"!!

I wounder if she meant it to sound as seedy as it came across

Probably

Um btw what's the meaning behind the quiches?

Is it very un-MN of me not to know?

:o at Deadly 60 being an Emo band.

Quiche is MNese for clique, but a nice one.

If there's a Backshall quiche, count me in.

The half-naked wrestling a fish one is a South America episode where he's trying to get hold of an arapaima. I think that's the same episode where at the end he's in the Amazon (topless) with some dolphins. Also, that may be the episode where he dives off the top deck of the boat wearing only his quite low slung trousers.

I think there were a couple of South America episodes so I might be getting them mixed up. Best to watch as many as possible both.

Thanks LetUsPray - had seen it around the boards before!

Will seek out a few South American episode then, important to how the children other countries that's the story I'm sticking to

Ah... Good ol' Steve 'oh goodness me I appear to have lost all my clothes again' Backshall.

YABVU - it isn't his decision to cancel it.

You should sue him for mental distress. Any lesser reaction would be letting your poor, devastated children down.

I also urge you to contact the local press. They'll take a photo of you being angry and devastated, possibly in front of the venue. Like this.

Jena love the kid with the ferret on his head in the angry crowd photo. Clever connection to Steve and Deadly 60.

Jenai I LOVE that apiln site, spent many happy hours there

OP YABU, snot his fault

Oh it's fabulous isn't it Rands. That and Cake Wrecks have me in tears quite regularly.

does say on website better suited to adults and kids over 8.....its an audience with type thing.

actually reading what he has done i bet he is very interesting to listen to.

and watch

wishing i had a younger child to take but i dont think i can really turn up with a 20 year old....

YABU Steve is lovely with children would make a lovely stepdad if I could somehow shake DH off

It's not his decision

Took DS1 to one of the indoor talks last year. It was fascinating. Steve was on crutches and I just kept thinking that he wouldn't be able to run very fast to escape me!