Naked at the Albert Hall by Tracey Thorn

Naked at the Albert Hall by Tracey Thorn

Author:Tracey Thorn [Thorn, Tracey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780349005256
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Published: 2015-04-29T23:00:00+00:00


Now, add to that another physical limitation – as I mentioned earlier, I am asthmatic, not badly so, but enough that every winter I am susceptible to the slightest cold turning into a chesty cough, which lingers and rattles around for weeks. Touring’s not a healthy lifestyle, made up as it is of late nights, poor diet and travel that exposes you to a menacing and ever-changing cocktail of germs, so generally within a week or two I would go down with a cold. Sore throats could sometimes be sung through, but if it went to my chest, that was that, gigs cancelled. I’d be anxious and fretful about my state of health much of the time, alarmed by every tickle in the throat, every sniffle that might be the start of something. Trying to soldier on became a constant feature of touring life. Remedies offered reflected the personality and preferences of the location. In hippy San Francisco I was offered a kind of blossom tea – dried-up pods plunged into boiling water, which bloomed like tiny lilies, producing an apparently voice-saving, though pond-flavoured potion. In more pragmatic parts of the world a doctor would be summoned to administer a nameless injection, which gave enough of a boost to get me through a two-hour show. Once, a doctor came to my hotel room and decided to give me a shot of penicillin. My body chose this moment to develop its penicillin allergy, and by the time the doctor had got back into the lift I was succumbing to an anaphylactic reaction. Luckily Ben caught him before he got out of the swing doors at reception and he returned swiftly to give me a hydrocortisone injection. I don’t think I got on stage that night, but it certainly wasn’t for want of trying. Cancelling gigs cost money and goodwill, and was to be avoided whenever possible, but this meant that an atmosphere of medicalisation often attended the business of being on the road.



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