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Hello!

Welcome everybody to the Hippodrome once again for another live for the many.

It is so lovely to be surrounded by our friends.

There are super fans, there are new fans.

It's just fabulous to be here. Not least of course.

What about the people who've been dragged along?

Well, yeah. You will grow to love us, is all I can say.

It's especially good because of course you have had to wait for this, like all good things.

Happy Christmas, everyone!

And fabulously, Mick Lynch has actually let us put this one on, although he did

slightly try to put a spoke in the wheel, didn't he?

Because having shifted it to today, he then decided there was going to be a bloody train

strike.

Then there wasn't, just so that, you know, we're going to start with a bit of travel. More than a bit. Then there wasn't, just so that you know, we're going to start with a bit of travel.

Then there wasn't a train strike. And then today, for any of you who've come from the west on the train,

and Vicky, did you make it, Vicky? Great. Vicky made it. Vicky went to Swindon Station to try and get a train

and because it was a bit rainy, there weren't any

and she had to drive all the way.

I, however, went to Swindon Station and there was a train

so I came on the train, never mind Vicky.

And she even navigated all the roundabouts in Swindon.

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