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Hello, guys. Hello. Gareth, be here.

I've been loving to hear your voices. It's been a long time.

Gareth should have been on tour with me earlier in the year and also at the

moment and now he's not going to be on tour with me until January February.

If he's still up for it, he may have retired. I haven't been given any dates yet.

Oh, that's good. Oh, it's January February.

You've been starting for 13th. Do you admin both of you?

We'll start doing diaries and I'm worried now that the management has removed you

and I've spoken out of tell. Well, that's probably the case.

But you can't take it back now. I consider that a formal booking.

No, I think that's fair enough. I'm prepared to stand by that.

It's a bit like breach of contract when people used to be in the old days

would propose to women and then if they changed their minds,

I think there was some sort of legal comeback that you'd promised.

And if they didn't turn up, if you were abandoned at the altar,

I believe a relative of my father's, they used to refer to it as her disappointment,

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