I came up with every idea short of stopping each person on the main street and begging them on my knees (although I am even keeping that one in reserve). Several ideas got binned early on, including ones that involved Rollerblades, swimsuits and dressing up in a rooster costume. Going down more sophisticated routes, I now have the phone numbers for the local paper, the radio station, the big businesses like the hotel, and all the places where we put the audition notices (except the town hall, of course). Luckily Mum knows just about everything there is to know on the planet and taught me how to write a press release to send in to the newspapers and media people like the radio station.‘A press release has to be very short because they don’t have much time to read things,’ Mum explained. ‘Be sure to include all the details such as the name of the band, where and when it is, and how much the tickets are. It also has to have something in it that will make it an interesting news story, not just another band putting on a show.’Mum, Adam and Dad all talked it through in detail with me at lunch time and we decided that what will interest the media is the fact that Beau is in the band and it’s to get money for his cousin, and the fact that Christophe only moved here a few weeks ago, and that Em-J’s mum works in the very place where the fire was.They were surprised that I’m not actually in the band so I told them that I prefer being behind the scenes.
