… that I have won tickets to go to the NME gig in Belfast on Monday night, with the View and the Automatic as headliners.

I answered a competition on Radio 1’s Northern Ireland show last night on the way home. I missed the last 20 mins of the show when the results were announced, and since my phone hadn’t rung by about 10, I assumed that I hadn’t won anything.
When I finally switched on my phone today and listened to my voice mail, I found out that much to my shock, I’d won, and I received a phone call later to confirm and to get my surname so that my name could go on the door.
So I’m all excited - I never win anything! Marion’s coming with me and we shall be taking our hats, I’d imagine. Because the hats always go to gigs. (More gigs than I do, in the case of my hideous lime-green & purple leopard-print cowboy hat, which went to see the Scissor Sisters without me.)