Pommie paul1/7/2024 My heart nearly broke right there and then. She wasn’t even watching me, however - the reams of toddlers and their carers seemed to be more the object of her attention. ![]() My whole world just slowed down dramatically, as if my whole life had been building up to this moment. The majority of mothers there were horrendous creatures, wearing the most tragically unbothered attire, lying on picnic blankets and trying to get their offspring to sit still…but then I spotted Pommy in the audience, and she stood out like a diamond in a dust pile with her blonde pigtails and floaty blue dress, curiously alone with only a clipboard and a duffle bag. I had it all planned: I’d be the new Joe Perry and me and my band mates would insouciantly take over the world with our epic tunes, the fame and the fortune would surely roll in, the drugs and the over-eager groupies hauling themselves at me…didn’t look like much chance of that dream coming true on this particular day. Playing gobbledygook songs about turtles on my grandfather’s treasured guitar to a bunch of babies who only care their cousin doesn’t get to steal any of their candyfloss is not how I saw myself working when I first decided I was going to be a rock star. In my entire thirty-one years of trying to wriggle my way into the music industry, this was the most degrading of all of my conquests. I met Pommy at a concert - a children’s concert for which I was playing at midday, with a fair ground and toddlers as young as three running around in Huggies, not one of them paying the slightest bit of attention to my song I had been forced to sing for them, The Turtle Called Larry. HIS STORY: Paul Eccles is 31 and lives in Teesside. ![]() Two ex-lovers tell us what went wrong in their relationship.
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